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October 25th, 2018 by David Horvath
Recreational cannabis has been legal for almost a week now, and as expected the sky has not fallen. It’s almost like the crazed mania portrayed in the infamous 1936 film entitled “Reefer Madness” may have been a tad inaccurate. We are now in a transition period from dispensaries selling medical or illicit cannabis to attempting to obtain licenses to operate onside of the new Cannabis Act.
The legalization of marijuana is unfortunately not straightforward – there are overlapping pieces of legislation on the municipal level, provincial level, and federal level all attempting to regulate all aspects of the fledgling industry. On October 17, the federal government followed through on their promise and the Cannabis Act came into force. Since private business is regulated at the provincial level, British Columbia then passed the Cannabis Control and Licensing Act and the Cannabis Distribution Act. These various acts give the government some teeth to ensure illicit cannabis is not sold or produced in B.C. Because if there’s one thing that’s worse than a drug dealer in the government’s eyes, it’s a tax cheat!
What is illicit cannabis? Illicit cannabis is any cannabis sold, produced or distributed by a person prohibited from doing so under the current Cannabis Act, or any provincial Act. This includes any cannabis that was produced prior to legalization and was considered to be illegal.
People have liked calling this the “grey market” to imply that it’s “sort of legal”. Unfortunately, “sort of legal” belongs with unicorns, leprechauns, and good Hugh Grant movies under the heading of “Does Not Exist”.
In the wake of legalization, dispensaries, and other businesses that were selling cannabis produced illegally or contrary to any prior act, may feel the urge to sell their remaining stock of cannabis. We normally hesitate to give legal advice in a column but here’s some for free - in short, DO NOT DO THIS.
But these dispensaries have been around forever – what’s the government actually going to do?
Actually, potentially a lot. The Cannabis Control and Licensing Act allows for police to seize any cannabis they reasonably believe is illicit in plain view WITHOUT a warrant. Yes, you read that right – WITHOUT A WARRANT.
If the authorities believe that you have been selling, or are in possession of illicit cannabis, they are able to fine you and seize any cannabis the authorities reasonably believe to be illicit cannabis.
However, other aspects of the legislation are more permissive, and you should know your rights, what’s required of the authorities, etc.
If you’re looking to become a licensed producer or distributor of cannabis, the government may appoint inspectors to conduct inspections of your shop or place of business to ensure compliance. The inspectors authorized by the minister may demand information from you related to your possession or selling cannabis. To do so they need to provide you with notice, and the information they are seeking must be relevant to what they are looking for.
If the authorities, whether police or inspectors, find what they believe to be illicit cannabis, they are able to fine you an amount, which may equal to an amount equal to 2 times the retail value of the cannabis that is alleged to be illicit. To do so, you must be served with a notice that must indicate a contravention of a specific section of the relevant act, similar to a speeding ticket.
If the police or the inspector show up, and demand to search your store or place of business, do not panic. Ask for identification, and/or a warrant. Inspectors must carry a certificate allowing them to do their job, and must produce it upon request.
2.Do Not
Once the officer or inspector produces their credentials, cooperation is beneficial. Refusing entry or disclosure of records to the inspector could lead to them obtaining a warrant. Allow the inspection of samples and records required by the inspector.
Do not obstruct the officers, or the inspector while they are attempting to do their jobs. This means do not destroy, conceal or refuse to provide samples upon request. Further, do not provide false information or interfere in any way with the investigation. Doing so are offences in themselves and could wind up making a bad situation far worse.
First, stay calm and read over the notice they gave you. At this point you have two choices:
(1)Admission; or
(2)Seek a hearing
You will be provided with a waiver admitting to the contravention, accepting the monetary fine and waiving the opportunity for a hearing. By signing this document you cannot proceed to a hearing and must pay the fine within 30 days.
Seek a Hearing
In the event you wish to seek a hearing because the claims made against you are false and the cannabis you had is not illicit, you have 30 days from the date of the notice of the infraction to seek a hearing. The hearing is a way to ask that the fine and seizure be reconsidered.
To do this you must do the following:
-Submit the required form;
-Identify one or more grounds to reconsider; and
-Indicate your argument for reconsideration.
As I mentioned you have 30 days to do this. However, if you’ve missed the deadline, all is potentially not lost. You may ask for a time extension under special circumstances. You must indicate that injustice would result if you are unable to proceed to a hearing.
Upon reviewing your application, the director may do one or more of the following:
-reduce the fine;
-remove the penalty;
-dismiss your application;
If you win
In the event that you paid the fine, and it was decided that the penalty should be rescinded, the fine amount must be refunded to you. In the event that your cannabis was seized and it was determined it was indeed not illicit cannabis, it must be returned to you unless it has been destroyed. The Cannabis Control and Licensing Act allows the government to dispose of or destroy any illicit cannabis they confiscate. However, if you won your hearing and your cannabis was destroyed you will be compensated for it.
If you lose
If you haven’t yet paid the fine, you’ll be required to do so. However, if you believe the decision made in your case is incorrect, you may seek a court to review the decision through a judicial review, and you have 30 days to do so, after the reconsideration order is made. At that point it is absolutely beneficial to seek legal counsel as soon as possible.
The bottom line in all of this is that it’s going to be a whole lot easier to operate inside of the new legislation than outside of it. The government has stacked the deck in their favour in order to ensure that those who considered themselves a part of the “grey market” (remember – leprechauns and unicorns..) will quickly decide to join the legitimate industry. It’s an exciting industry that holds tons of opportunity for growth, but it won’t be without some growing pains along the way.
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David meet Goliath. Apple on Tuesday filed a copyright lawsuit against Polish grocery chain A.pl, a company Apple claims is copying its logo and brand icons in a direct attempt to confuse customers.
The tech giant filed the lawsuit with the Polish patent office at which time A.pl CEO Radoslaw Celinski told Reuters that Apple’s claim is “ludicrous.”
A quick look at the A.pl website reveals zero resemblance to Apple’s own logo, products, or even web design know-how. With that being said, Apple claims a previous logo led to the confusion but is not being used at the moment.
The complete lack of resemblance has led to some pretty funny online responses. One comment on Mashable reads:
“I bought a Macintosh online there and man, was I disappointed when it arrived.”
Not only does the company’s new logo look nothing like Apple’s own, the company’s original is still a fairly far cry from Apple’s.
Here’s the logo in question as presented by The Next Web:
While the above logo was taken from fresh24.pl and not A.pl, it’s likely that the original logo was close to the above shown design.
If Apple is attempting to sue any company that uses a computer generated picture of an Apple in their ads regardless of industry or design, we could end up reading about a lot more copyright lawsuits in the future.
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The Tender Knife
by Scott Dominic Carpenter
edited by Anna Prushinskaya
Occasionally, Joyland's Midwest section highlights great small presses based in the Midwest. This story is part of the collection This Jealous Earth published by MG Press, the micro-press affiliated with the journal Midwestern Gothic. More on the collection below the story.
The night before the killing, Walter plucked silverware out of the dishwasher and thunked it into the drawer. Next to the slotted tray, other utensils caught his eye—the steak knives, the paring knife, the chef’s knife, the cleaver.
“It’s like the guillotine,” Dale had told him, drawing a finger across his own throat. “Fast. Efficient. Painless. If you love ’em, that’s what you’ll do.”
Walter looked down at his hands, liver-spotted and trembling. He made a fist and held it tight. Perhaps he could be equal to this task. He’d put it off so many times. Whenever Julia talked about it, he’d feel a twinge of foreboding. Or perhaps it was a throb of angina. And then he’d bend the conversation to something else.
Tonight he had set the steaks to marinate long before she returned home from showing houses. It was the week before Christmas, but unseasonably hot, and they had dinner on the flagstone patio next to the barbecue, in the shade of the ash tree, close to the desert willow and the blooming yarrow. As they drained a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc, Julia melted from a senior realtor back into a woman—a dark-haired, still-slender, still-lovely woman.
There’d been that lilt to her voice that hinted at desire. They’d lingered over dinner, Walter refilling her glass from the sweating bottle, the air freshening as the sun sank toward the crest of the San Gabriel Mountains.
She’d given him that sly look, lowering her lids while her lips tightened.
That’s when the tail of a koi had splashed in the pond—the one Walter had dug so many years ago, lining the pit with butyl rubber, pouring the cement base and mortaring the walls. It was the centerpiece of the yard, with a stone path leading to it through the bent grass. The fish were hungry now, growing restless, calling to him.
Julia had glanced at the water, tossing her hair back and wrinkling her nose in that pretty way. Then she’d said it: “You really need to take care of it, honey.”
He’d nodded, but only because he hadn’t wanted to spoil the mood. Yes, he heard himself say, yes, he would.
And here he was now, studying cutlery in the dishwasher.
What did Dale know? What made their neighbor such an expert?
Take care of it. Such gentle-sounding words. But he knew what they meant. There were too many of the fish. Way too many. And they had grown so much over the years. The pond was nearly twelve feet long—and as deep as his grandson was tall—but it was too cramped, overrun.
As a reward for his promise they made love that night, a heaving, churning ordeal that left him both breathless and grateful, but tinged with the remorse of a bad transaction. Soon Julia drifted off, each of her whistling breaths stealing away a little more of his own slumber. He rose up on his elbow and studied his wife, her neck still soft and smooth, only faint lines by her eyes. What business did he have with this woman, almost fifteen years his junior? Maybe he should never have remarried.
Sleep was hard to come by these days for Walter, a scarce commodity, and what little he found barely deserved the name. It was like wakefulness covered by a threadbare sheet. The wine, which made him drowsy at first, left him restive. Not to mention the sex. So he rolled out of bed, went downstairs and finished cleaning up the kitchen.
When he carried dinner scraps out to the moonlit pond, the koi saw him coming. They thrashed in the water, their different-colored bodies roiling together like the tentacles of a sea monster.
Julia’s approach never made them frisky. They knew the difference.
The fish frenzied as he sprinkled chunks of food into the froth, but even then they showed deference, making room for old Gandalf, the white giant, over three feet in length, his tattered tail sweeping like the train of a majestic robe through the water. Walter lowered himself to his knees, holding out a knob of meat at the surface, and as Gandalf took it in his fleshy mouth, the two of them, man and animal, exchanged a glance.
Back inside, Walter pulled the slider closed against the night and was ambushed by his own reflection in the glass. A beefy and slack man in rumpled pajamas. Droopy eyes. Even his mustache gone snowy. He stretched his chin forward to give definition to his jaw. Yes, it was still the same man under there.
He watched a late-night show, read two magazines, started a third, his eyes skating over the pages, the words leaving only a faint residue in his mind. Vague and distant, that was the news—unrelated to life in their neighborhood, its rhythms set by mail deliveries and garbage day, trips to the grocery store and the dry cleaner. There was also the weekly phone call with his son Peter in Chicago, when he could hear the chirps of Sammy and Chloe, those rambunctious grandkids who never seemed to know what to say to him, and he didn’t know back, leaving them all to babble silly things back and forth until everyone laughed. What wouldn’t he give to see them again, to squeeze their little bodies in his arms. But they were separated by mountains and desert and more mountains, followed by plains. No, he wouldn’t do that drive again. And the doctor recommended against flying. Better for them to come to L.A. at Christmas. They’d put up a tree, a real one, pretend that it was winter, pull the stale ornaments out of the basement, with the kids running in the yard, feeding the fish, maybe jumping in Dale’s swimming pool next door, squealing, crying out to their grandpa, calling his name with their thin voices: Walter, Walter.
Walter,” the voice bleated again, louder.
He startled awake, squinting in the light. Julia towered over him, dressed for work. A sofa cushion jabbed into his back.
She shook her head, glanced at her watch. She had a showing at nine. “Did you spend the whole night down here?”
Probably? His mind was still thick. “No problem,” he said. “Don’t worry about me.” He attempted to sit up, but his back ached from the sofa. He’d try again in a minute, maybe after she left.
Julia gave him a pinched look. “Are you all right?”
He nodded.
While she fetched her purse, she talked at him. Details about shopping and laundry. Then a moment of grace: she bent down and kissed the top of his head.
On her way out she stopped, turned back, her hand on the doorframe. “Don’t forget what we talked about.” She nodded toward the patio. “Do take care of it, won’t you?”
Take care. Right.
Then she was gone. He heard the car back down the driveway, and with a groan he struggled to his feet, climbed the stairs, changed. After breakfast he swept the kitchen and watered the plants. Halfway through the morning he found himself staring at the letter opener in his hand, dropping it like a murder weapon.
He walked out to the patio and surveyed the blooming garden. Nearly Christmas, but the plants quivered with life. Nothing ever withered here.
As he approached the water, the black speckled fish, the one Sammy had named Pony, saw him first, and soon many of the koi had swarmed to the side: Orange Juice, Tiger, Measles, Cyclops, Frog. On and on. There were twenty-six of them, including Gandalf, the granddaddy of them all, aloof at the side.
Twenty-six. Too many, far too many for this pond. He’d dug it out over two decades ago, and Gandalf was the only survivor from the original batch, his color vanishing when the temperature spiked too high, which left all his companions belly up. That had been the first of three koi holocausts before Walter got the chemicals right and improved the filtration system. Then he’d gotten it under control. Many of the fish had swum in this pool for a decade or more. The population was constant—thank goodness they gobbled up their own young—but individually they kept growing and growing. A couple dozen had seemed about right, even a little skimpy, back when they were small fry. But these koi stretched longer every year, doubling in size, then tripling and quadrupling. Most were now over two feet, a couple closing in on three. And Gandalf the White, that hoary old thing, his fins and tail frayed, was longer than Walter’s outstretched arm. Walter had waited for nature to take its course, for mortality to thin the herd. But Death wasn’t interested in the koi, leaving them to swim in ever-tighter circles inside their shrinking home.
Then he’d done a little research and discovered why: these fish, they could live for decades, over a hundred years. And they would only grow larger.
He’d never told Julia about the ad he’d placed in the classifieds over a month ago, the one where he’d offered the koi up for adoption. No one had called, and in fact there were two other ads just like his own.
He’d considered letting them loose in the stream in the park. But Dale, who fished and hunted, explained how they’d perish from the shock or die slowly from parasites. It would be a cruel finish. Then he’d outlined the best way, the most responsible and humane: knock them unconscious and cut off their heads, right behind the gills. If Walter really cared about them, he’d help them go fast. He owed them that, didn’t he?
Walter had managed to keep his lip from trembling while Dale was there. Then he’d tried to forget about it. But Julia kept prodding. And now he had promised.
He found the net out in the garage, tucked by the old refrigerator where they kept the beer, next to the workbench piled high with tools and jars and rolls of tape. At the side of the pool, the fish vied with one another for the opportunity to draw close, and they glided into the net as though eager to sacrifice themselves for their fellows. Or for Walter himself—traitorous Walter, whom they expected to nourish them. The hard part was choosing who would go and who would stay. Once again the pain rose in his chest. He had no authority to make such decisions, no idea what criteria to use. He could take the oldest first, but since every fish in the pond was built to outlive him, that detail didn’t seem relevant. Size, perhaps? He could save more by removing the largest ones—maybe just four or five. But all that would do is buy a little time, stay some executions, and in two or three years he’d have to thin it again. How about color? The two gray ones were invisible against the dark bottom, and Orange Juice disappeared against the tan rock of the sides. Wasn’t the whole point to have fish you could see? It was the mottled or striped ones—fish like Tiger and Measles—that stood out the best.
Decisions, he thought. This word brought another: precision. Not to mention incision. Words of sharpness.
And Julia had left this task to him. What does it matter? she’d asked, way back when she first started to nag. They’re just fish.
What does it matter.
In the end he applied a compromise of all the principles. By turns, old ones and big ones and unmottled ones swam into the mesh, the aluminum handle of the net bowing with the weight as he lifted each one out and dumped it into a plastic tub, joining it with the others. Even then they didn’t thrash, just flicked their tails once or twice and settled in, gaping slowly, as though sucking in the warm air. They didn’t panic. It was just Walter, after all.
Old Gandalf, nearly translucent, hovered in the middle of the pool, watching the roundup. According to every measure, he too should go. If he didn’t, Julia would have something to say about it.
The net nearly buckled when he hoisted that behemoth out of the water. The fish watched as Walter lowered him into the tub and disentangled his fins from the mesh. The whiskery barbels at the sides of his mouth gave him a dour expression.
Walter rested his eyes. A fish, he told himself. Just a fish.
He started with Pony because she was smaller than the others. He wanted something manageable, a trial run. At the patio table, he’d lifted the taut, wriggling body out of the tub, gripping her tail as best he could. Stun them, that’s what Dale had said. Then they won’t feel a thing. Gritting his teeth, Walter took a deep breath, aimed and whacked Pony’s head against the flagstone, as hard as he dared. And it seemed to work: the fish stopped flopping. Walter lay Pony out on the cutting board brought from the kitchen, and he released his breath. It hadn’t been as difficult as he’d feared. Perhaps the blow to the head had already killed her. The rest would just be a formality, an insurance policy.
The knife he’d chosen was a long, slender blade with a black handle, perfect for cutting through onions and potatoes, a compromise between flex and rigidity. After holding the blade over the fish’s neck for several seconds, just behind the gills, steeling himself to be hard, to be sharp and fast, he plunged down with a sawing motion. Too late he realized the knife was the wrong choice. The scales were too strong, or his arm too weak. The blade wouldn’t cut, and then Pony woke up, a Lazarus fish risen from the dead, thrashing with such force that Walter feared he’d lose his grip. He sawed all the harder, but there was no serration to the edge, nothing to catch on the lip of the scales, and the more he pushed, the more the blade pressed into the flesh, strangling the fish more than beheading it. Walter could barely keep his eyes open, so he stopped, let go, pulled the knife away from Pony’s spotted throat only to find that the flesh didn’t spring back, that the blade had finally crushed through the scales, opening up a gash through which blood and some other liquid now oozed. Pony writhed and flailed, struggling to live, although even Walter could see that life draining away onto the cutting board.
More mysterious were the strange crescent marks on Pony’s underside, where the blade hadn’t even touched. Then he understood: he’d clamped her down so hard that his fingernails had driven into her belly. There was no going back now, not after crushing her insides. He clenched his teeth, slapping his left hand back onto the clammy skin of the fish and pinning it down, going at it with the knife, digging away, trying again to push through and finish the job. But the knife stopped against something tough, and the more Walter pushed, the harder Pony thrashed.
He let go again, gasping for breath as he raced back into the house, smearing fish blood on the handle of the slider, yanking open the drawer in the kitchen, retrieving the cleaver. A moment later he was back outside, and then—oh miracle!—Pony was gone, vanished, and for an instant Walter’s heart lightened. He’d been delivered, spared this sacrifice, as when the angel had stopped Abraham’s hand over Isaac.
But no, there she was on the flagstone under the table, where she’d landed after flipping herself off. Pony’s head leaned a bit to one side, one eye looking up. Down on his knees, Walter grabbed her again. Holding the fish, he took up the cleaver, hacking almost blindly, his vision blurred. The blade didn’t come down flat, and he sent off chips of flagstone. Or chips of Pony. On the third blow, the body went utterly rigid in Walter’s hand, then shivered and relaxed. On the fourth, the head separated from the rest, and Walter, exhausted, dropped the cleaver and fell back onto his rump. His khaki pants were smeared with red ooze. The head was detached but Pony’s mouth opened twice more, slowly.
Walter heard himself gasp, then realized he was sobbing. He wiped his face with his sleeve, then looked back at the plastic tub where seven other koi waited, yawning for air. There was no way he could do that again. No way.
“Good grief,” Julia said when he called her to report the disaster. He could tell she was stepping out of earshot of her clients. “They’re just fish, Walter,” she said, her voice half bewildered, half scolding. “Just take care of it.”
There it was again, that expression. The catch-all.
There were voices in the background. “I’m sorry, but I have to go,” she said. “I have people waiting.”
The phone clicked.
Julia would have lined the koi up like stalks of celery and cut through them all with a single swipe. But she hadn’t been the one to feed them, to care for them—not the way he had over the past twenty years.
It was the grandkids who would notice. Chloe would ask what had become of Pony or Orange Juice or Gandalf. What was he to tell her? That he’d decapitated them at the patio table?
He took a break to regroup, washing up in the bathroom, scrubbing the crusted fluids from his arms and face with a washcloth. He rinsed the spatters of fish blood from his mustache, rubbing the white whiskers, smoothing them down past the corners of his mouth. The man in the mirror looked to him like the butcher of Treblinka.
He made himself a sandwich—avoiding the cutlery drawer—and pondered his next move. The trick was to end it all quickly or painlessly. Both, if possible. No more knives. Dale had guns next door, but Walter couldn’t see himself firing a .22 into the heads of fish. After lunch, he checked on the plastic tub, hoping they might have expired on their own, but no, they lay together like giant sardines alive in a can, calmly gasping. How many hours could this go on?
He checked the internet. Yes, just like everything else, there were pages about how to kill koi. He wasn’t the first one to face this problem. Opinions varied. Most of them came down on the side of Dale’s solution: stun and cut. But a few recommended freezing, which numbed them like an anesthetic. Walter remembered a story he’d read, decades ago, in high school—a man lost in the Yukon. Supposedly it wasn’t such a bad way to go. And since fish were cold-blooded to begin with, it made sense. Didn’t it?
Out in the garage stood the old fridge, the bottom filled with beer.
He divided the koi into two garbage bags, doubled for strength, the plastic so thick he could barely tie them. Then he hauled them to the garage, each sack heavier than a load of salt. The fridge was an upright model, the freezer on top capacious and nearly empty. As he heaved in the bags, the fish wriggled and slid about, and Walter tucked in the corners of plastic before slamming the door, the magnetic strip sealing them in like the last block of a pharaoh’s tomb.
He panted, his face wet. The bags had been heavy but it wasn’t that. Something moved in the freezer and an ice cube tray clunked against the inside. Walter stared at the cement floor between his feet. Then he trudged back through the house. On the patio he hosed out the plastic tub and returned it to the garden shed. He wrapped Pony’s body parts in another bag, which he sealed with a twist-tie and set by the door. Using the spray nozzle he cleaned the flagstone of blood and oils, blasting remnants of Pony into the grass. The cutting board he threw away in the trash.
The koi pool was calm. The fish didn’t appear to mind their numbers being thinned. Nor did they shy away from him. They didn’t understand the role he had played.
It was the heat of the day, normally too hot to be out for long, but Walter felt chilled. He went upstairs and stood for a long time under the steaming water of the shower. Then he sat out on the patio in shorts and bare feet, straining to absorb all the heat the sun could offer. When he closed his eyes, he felt traces of goo and scales on his hands, little bits that hadn’t come off in the shower—but when he studied his fingers, nothing was visible.
It wasn’t even three o’clock, but Walter poured himself a whiskey. He’d earned it. After the first one he had a second, and by the end of the second a certain calm began to settle on him. He could breathe again. It was the right thing to do and he had done it. By now the fish would be slowing, their eyes dulling. He would leave them in the freezer until garbage day, when he could carry the sacks straight from the makeshift morgue to their waste disposal grave. This was the way to take care of it. It eased their passing.
The image of Sammy and Chloe flashed through Walter’s mind, then the face of their father. He took another gulp of whiskey.
A glance at his watch set him in motion. There were things to clean up before Julia got home. He put the knives in the empty dishwasher and turned the dial to sterilize. He wiped the blood off the slider handle. A new lowball of whiskey in his hand, he picked up the old net and padded barefoot down the hallway to return it to the workbench.
Stepping into the dark garage, he gasped, dropping his cocktail. The glass smashed, sending shards and whiskey over his bare feet.
There, in the middle of the cement floor, lay a long, finned figure, ghostly white. It was Gandalf. The great fish flicked his tail, slapping it against the concrete. His eyes gleamed in the low light, and his lips still opened and closed, as if he were trying to speak. Wa… wa… he seemed to mouth. Water, of course.
Unless it was something else, something nearly the same, a beckoning, a name.
As Walter’s eyes adjusted to the dimness, he saw the others—Orange Juice, Graybeard, Blacky, and more—all of them scattered across the cement as if a storm had passed through, hailing down koi. The door of the freezer stood ajar, the necks of the bags unraveled. They’d sprung themselves free.
A great energy surged inside of Walter, and he roared at the fish, a long guttural roar of frustration. What did they want from him? Couldn’t they see there wasn’t a thing he could do?
Fast—faster than he had moved in a very long time—Walter stormed to the freezer and grabbed at the bags the fish had left behind. He stuffed koi in, one after the other. Gandalf the ringleader went last. That one, the one who refused to back down, Walter rolled into a separate sack, all by himself. He packed them in the freezer, slammed the door closed. From the workbench he grabbed a roll of duct tape, fumbling to get an edge started, then wrapped a band around the freezer door, reaching it all the way around the back, one layer, then two, then three. He tore off long strips, sealing the door at the top and the bottom, binding it on the sides, not stopping until the roll was empty.
Back in the house he found that his feet were bleeding. With tweezers he plucked shards of glass from his soles, covering the red cuts with Band-Aids from the medicine cabinet. He mopped up the floor. Then he climbed up the stairs and dropped into the bedroom armchair, gazing out the window while his feet throbbed. He didn’t move until Julia came home.
That evening he made pasta with a vegetarian sauce. He set the table indoors, protesting that it was too hot to eat out back. Julia asked for a beer, but Walter convinced her to have wine instead.
He was at the sink, draining the pasta in the colander, when she asked the question.
“So,” she said as she hunted for the Parmesan in the fridge, her back to him. “Did you do it? Did you take care of it?”
He nodded. Steam rose from the mass of noodles before him, leaving a halo of mist on the windowpane. Out there by the ash tree sat the patio table, not far from the steel barbecue and the patch of blooming yarrow. Further to the left was the stone lip of the koi pond, the surface of the water still, except for the bubbles by the filter.
What bothered him more than the killing was the parting, the leave-taking. Harder to sever than flesh were all those other filaments, the invisible ties that bound him like live nerves to those he loved. He looked around from the sink. At the table Julia scrubbed a block of hard cheese against the grater. He wouldn’t tell her now. Not tonight. Tomorrow morning he’d make a call or two and get a reservation. By noon on Saturday the wheels would lift from the tarmac and he’d be rising over the mountains, headed for the plains, for the crisp cold, for the snow, for Peter and Sammy and Chloe, escaping, however briefly, from this warm land with its bubbling ponds and its lies of eternal summer.
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La fête de Jeanne d'Arc Pour la première fois, cette année Jeanne d'Arc aura, enfin, sa fête officielle. Le mois de Mai. consacré par l'Eglise à la Mère de Dieu, réunira désormais dans l'oubli complet des partis tous les bons Français autour de la plus pure incarnation de la Patrie, dans la vénération de Jeanne d'Arc. C'est le 8 mai que la Pucelle délivra Orléans. Orléans délivré, ses abords dégagés, Talbot vaincu, la route de Reims ouverte et parcourue. la ville prise, le roi consacré, toutes les clauses du pacte honteux de 1420 abolies, une vie nouvelle rendue à la royauté de saint Louis tels furent les résultats merveilleux, dus à l'intervention de l'énergique enfant venue des marches de Lorraine pour que prit fin la grande pitié qu'il y avait au royaume de France. Du roi de Bourges impuissant, pitoyable, Jeanne fit le puissant et glorieux roi de France. Le dit-on assez à nos écoliers, qu'en plus de la délivrance du pays, le règne de Charles Vli vit la reconciliation nationale et des réformes capitales. telles que l'établissement des armées permanentes et des impôts réguliers T La paix dans le royaume, la paix dans l'Eglise, Luther contenu d'avance, la France de François de Henri IV, de RiChelieu, de Louis XIV et de la Révolution rendue possible. voilà 1'oeuvre de Jeanne d'Arc. Le grand fait de la Pucelle est au jugement de Léon XIII l'événement le plus surnaturel de l'histoire et jusqu'à la consommation des siècles les peuples des deux hémisphères nous envieront notrt Jeanne. L'Eglise l'a mise sur ses autels, réalisant ainsi le vœu que Mer Pagis, l'ancien évêque de Verdun, osa le premier formuler mais la science et la philosophie la réclament aussi car elles se corrigeront, s'humaniseront, s'élargiront, rien qu'en essayant d'expliquer cette âme et de lui arracher son secret. Le relèvement, le risorgimento comme disent les Italiens, est fréquent dans nos annales. Il a été souvent dirigé par un chef fatidique, providentiel c'est Jeanne d'Arc au xvn siècle, c'est Napoléon dans la période du Consulat. L'instrument en a. été toujours la souplesse, le ressort qui caractérise notre i^ce. Aux yeux d'un Péguy, Jeanne d'Arc, c'est tout ce que nous portons en nous de jiBus inconnu à nous-mémre, de plus profond et de meilleur. Elle est la somme de nos vertus et de nos plus hautes espérances. On ije sait qu'admirer le plus, en cette' jeune aile de vingt ans qui fut charmante comme un enfant, pure comme un ange, faible comÔie une femme, forte comme un héros, de évanouissement de la sensibilité ou de l'exercice de la volonté, cette maltresse pièce de l'homme. La prière est une volonté Jeanne d'Arc priait, c'est-à-dire qu'elle vouSit Vouloir c'est pouvoir. Selon le mot de Qaude Bernard, l'homme peut plus qu'il ne sait.. Jeanne d'Arc a reforgé l'ame française de son temps et de tous les temps. On a dit, avec une grande et sage raison, qu'elle fut ïerpression de la race, qu'elle a réalisé elle 'te » même l'Ame française vivacité, éclat, gaieté, sobriété, courage. A quoi bon insister î Ce bon sens, écrit M. Hanotaux 'dans le livre que peu de temps avant la guerre l'historien de Richelieu a écrit pour tenter de rétablir, autour de cette admirable Française, l'accord de tous les Français, ce bon sens, ce courage vif, cette répartie prompte, ce coup d'œil juste, cette alacrité, cette bonne humeur, tout cela, c'est la France. Nos plus belles figures n'ont pas exprimé le « génie du lieu comme il resplendit sur le visage inspiré de cette jeune fille Ame française plus que tous les autres, parce qu'elle est femme Ce trait caractéristique, la gaieté, l'entrain éclate en elle de telle sorte que ses ennemis n'ont pu s'empêcher de le s:gnaler au procès et de le condamner expressément. Assez sots pour écrire l'article 63 Jeanne ne craint pas de parler san* respect des plus grands personnages, se permettant un ton de moquerie et de dérision. Jeanne se moquait d'eux, en effet, même sur l'échafaud. Ils la montraient du doigt Voyez donc, elle rit 1 » Cette gentille gamine de France les affole, de son rire olair. • Précisément parce qu'elle était Française, écrit encore NI. Hanotaux, Jeanne d'Arc ne voyait pas seulement la France l'esprit de propagande, inné à la race, était en elle. Elle rêvait de répandre au oin le flot d'action et de dévouement qui gonflait son coeur. Son œuvre d'abord, certes Mais après, se seraitelle arrétée là Elle avait écrit aux Hi.séiLes elle avait signalé au dut de Bourgogne l'approche des a Sarrasins En elle retentissaient toutes les plaintes de la chrétienté misérable et menacée. La paix dans le royaume, la paix dans l'Eglise, puis la grande pensée de toute la Chrétienté en péril la Croisade. Les belles âmes n'atteignent jamais la limite de leur efficacité On ne peut lire sans émotion, dans le livre de M Hanotaux, ces lignes qui ont une teinte de prophétie Si la France eût succombé, si la France fût devenue anglaise c'en était fait des pays latins, c'en était fait de la pensée et de la ievilisation méditerranéenne en tout cas, de la tradition romaine.. A cinq cents ans de distance, la tradition romaine a couru le même danger d'extinction. St, en 1914, la bataille de la Marne eût été une défaite française au lieu d'une victoire, si la France eût succombé oette fois devant les Barbares. venus de Germanie, c'en Était lait.des vertus léguées aux nations nouvelles par l'illustre traditiin d'Athènes et de Rome, La maison de Hohemzollern eût couvert de son ombre les destinées de l'Europe. La civilisation occidentale eût sombre dans les ténèbres. Si nous avons vaincu, c est parce que nous avons puisé dans l'héritage antique que Jeanne a préservé. La mission de Jeanne d'Arc dure encore elle s'accomplira indéfiniment L'espace et le temps appartiennent à celle qui fut l'annonciatrice d'une humanité libérée et meilleure. Eugène LE BRETON. DES PENSIONS PROPORTIONNELLES AUX OFFICIERS PROMUS PENDANT LA GUERRE Paris, 12 avril. Aux termes de l'article 3 de la loi du 16 avril 1920. les militaire» qui, émut hommes de troupe au 2 août 1914, ont été promus officiers pendant la guerre et ont aocompli quinze ans de services effectifs avant le octobre 1919, peuvent obtenir une pension proportionnelle s'ils en font la demande avant le 16 avril 1921. Cette penson comprend: d'Après les anciens tarifs, sur la base de il» par année de service du minimum de la pension afférente au dernier grade obtenu; b) Les majorations prévues par l'article 2 de la loi du 25 mars 1920. Si les bénéficiaires ont servi postérieurement au 30 juin :919, le complément de pension prévu par l'article 8 de la loi du 25 mars 1920 et calculée Fur la pension proportionnelle précitée. Les deux années de grade ou d'échelon de solde ne sont pas exigées. La pension est réversible sur la veuve, à condition que le mariage soit antérieur de deux années à la radiation des contrôles, ou qu'il existe un ou plusieurs enfants du mariage contracté avant la cessation des services. Ces dispositions s'appliquent aux officiers à titre tem.poraire comme aux officiers il titre définitif. Les intéressés n'ont que jusqu'au 16 avril pour faire valoir leurs droits. Passé cette date, et tant que la législation actuelle en la matière ne sera pas modifiée, ils ne pourront plus prétendre à pension proportionnelle et devront accomplir trente années de service avant de pouvoir être admis à la retraite par ancienneté de service. AU CONSEIL DES MINISTRES PARIS, 12 avril. Les ministres se sont réunis ce marîn à l'Elysée sous la présidence de M. Millerand. Le Président du Conseil a mis ses collègues au courant de la situation extérieure. M. Bonnevay. Garde des Sceaux a soumis 1 la signature du Président de la République la nomination de M. Roche, président de chambre Lyon, comme premier président de la Cour d'Appel d'Alger. Le Conseil IL ensuite procédé & l'expédition des affaires courantes. Le brigadier Célestin MARRY, le gendarme assassin (Voir l'article en deuxième page.) Les abréviations militaires tant interdites PARIS, 12 avril. On finissait par ne plus entendre goutte aux rapports et aux circulaires militaires, où la plus grande partie des substantifs et même des adjectifs n'étaient plus figurés que par des abréviations. M. Barthou vient de mettre fin à cet abus par la circulaire suivante Les abréviations par initiales livrées à L'ar. bitraire des furttaisies individuelles, ont fini par constituer un abus intolérable qui rend illisible les correspondances et les rapports. Cornme l'expérience a démontré limpossibilité d'assigner leur emploi des règles et une mesure, j'ai décidé de les interdire d'une façon absolue. Toutes lcs abréviations, sans exception. doivent donc disparaître dans les documents, correspondances et rupporls militaires. La régularité et la rapidité du service ne perdront rien à ce que le respect de la tangue française aura gagné.. » M.V.T.QJ Pardon I Mieux vaut tard que jamais 1 LES GRÈVES ANGLAISES L'ACCORD semblait possible hier mais aujourd'hui. Londres, 12 avril. La journée s'ouvre avec moins de sécurité que ceue d'hier. Le violent maniiestc de la Triple-Alliance disant que les ouvriers des chemins de fer et des transports se mettront en grève à moins que d'autres ofres dont ils puissent recommander l'acceptation soient laites aux mineurs, a entann l'optimismti manifesté dans les milieux du gouvernement. Il convient toutefois de remarquer que l'importance du manifeste en question, très violent contre le gouvernement, se trouve singulièrement atténuée par le fait que ce document lut rédigé samedi avant la trêve. Le manifeste qUalifie d'expédient odieux l'organisation de îorces volontaires et la mobilisation' des reserves pour agir contre les travailleurs, le gouvernement prenant ainsi, dit-il, la responsabilité de provoquer une guerre civile'. L'accusation dressée à tort contre le gouvernement d appeler les réserves en vue non pas de parer à la grève, mais de faire face il. un mouvement allemand sur le Rhin ajoute encore à la confusion de la situation. Cependant il ne convient pas d'exagérer l'état de choses. Les négociations se poursuivent et en réalité la solution de la question reste toujours pendante entre le gouvernement et les délégués des mineurs et des ouvriers des transports. Des délégués, ce matin, demeurent optimistes et l'on espère beaucoup des réunions de la matinée, auxquelles on croit que M. Lloyd George indiquera le consentement du gouvernement d'accorder une aide temporare financière. Le public reste confiant dans l'issue des négociations conduites par le gouvernement. Il se montre dans la matinée très sceptique à l'égard de la grève. A la dernière heure, on dit dans les milieux bien informés qu'il est possible de prévoit le résultat de la conférence d'aujourd'hui et l'on ajoute à 13 heures qu'il n'y avait pas grand optimisme. Le cabinet a tenu une réunion très tard la nuit dernière pour examiner les déclarations des deux parties. LES PROPRIETAIRES DE MINES CHEZ M.LLOYD GEORGE Paris, 12 avril Le « Temps publie la dépèche que vofcl LONDRES. 12 avril. M. Lloyd George a reçu ce matin à 11 heures 4M représentants, des propriétaires des mines. A12-h:'3O il a reçu .les délégués mineurs. Ces derniers s'étaient préalablement. rendus au siège social de la Triple-Alliancepour exposer à huis-clos à leurs collègues, des deux autres syndicats cheminots et transports, l'état exact des négociations. On sait que la menace de la grève des chemins de fer et des transports subsiste. Cette double grève pourrait -commencer ce soir à minuit si la rupture des négociations venait à se produire. A vrai dire cette éventualité parait peu probable. On parle d'une dissolution possible dans laquelle les tarifs des salaires offerts par les patrons pour les divers bassins seraient plus favorables aux mineurs. Un bureau national des salaires serait institué pour administrer les secours financiers provisoires que le gouvernement accorderait à l'industrie houillière. Le bureau serait composé par moitié de patrons et d'ouvriers. Les secours temporaires accordés par l'Etat seraient destinés à soutenir celles des mines dont l'exploitation est trop peu rémunératrice. Un Conseil de cabinet LONDRES, 12 avril. A l'issue de la conférence de ce matin entre M. Lloyd George et les propriétaires de mines, un conseil de cabinet a été convoqué immédiatement. ON OONTINUE A NOYER LES PUITS LONDRES. 12 a'vril. On signale que dans trois mines du bassin houiller du centre de l'Ecosse, les mineurs ont décidé de ne pas permettre aux ouvriers du service des pompes d'épuisement de reprendre le travail. Jusqu'ici les propriétaires n'ont pris aucune disposition pour assurer ce service. Dans un autre charbonnage de l'Ecosse, l'eau a envahi les puits et empêchera ainsi la reprise immédiate éventuelle du travail. hommes de la marine sont arrivés à Abertillery, dans le comté de Monmouthshire mais on assure que ce n'est là qu'une mesure de précaution. La grève des cheminots est retardée LOKDRES. 12 avril. La Conférence entre le premier ministre et les mineurs a duré deux heures et a pris fin à 15 h. 15 Un des chefs mineurs a informé l'Evening Standard que le gouvernement aVait nettement offert une /petite assistance financière pour certains districts houlliers, pourvu qu'un règlement intervienne préalablement. En tout cas, la grève des cheminots et des ouvriers des transports, qui devait commencer ce soir minuit, sera différée, à moins que les négociations ne soient complètement rompues. LE JAPON a plus de 77 millions d'habitants Londres, 12 avril. Des résultats définitifs du recensement au 1" octobre 1920 -lui viennent d'être publiés, il résulte que la populatien totale du Japon s'élève à 77.005.510 habitants. La population de l'ne principale à elle seule atteint 55.961.140 habitante. Ces ^ésultaU sont inférieurs d'environ deux millions au;¡ chiffres de 1918, mais cette diminution est attribuée plutôt aux méthodes défectueuses employées pour le recensement qu'à une diminution réelle de 1a population. La Commàssvcn. des réparations, qui conL tinuait son lourd travail alors même qu'on, ne parlait plus d'elle. a fixé le uu/uUjjLt de la dette de l'AlleiaauneElle ;est occupée aussi des modalités, de paiement de cette dette. Toutes les couJt)inatsun» transactionnelles ayant, échoué grdce a la mauvaise toi des débiteurs, ta Commission, des reparutions va juxuu le premier rôts a partir. du 1er mai. Atur; sera exécutée une clause e&se&liclle du traité de Versailles. L'Alleiwyue sent bien qu'elle ne pourra plut uuus payer en grimlces et que ae .:oyuellcs sanctions sont prêtes, i£Uci <jue Ut uyiiiunisc éconu-ini.ue. sur tes cti-ib>.n& de la lluhr 't peut-être aussi le cu/Urole dus marchandises aux des fleuves et dans les ports. Va-l-iillQ s'Ulclincr ? Elle a bien peu de jours devant elle mais un iwus&e le docteur SimvM vers une eutcuie avec les Alliés. La Gazette de Francfort estime que la solution du problème des répuraiions devraU èiTv. cherchée i>w une dutiuin reconstruction du Surd de ta France avec ta coUabora-ion des ouvriers allemands, o6tention jxiui l'.lllcuiiiynii. d'un créait utienuitiuiiui d'jiit, le pi 4tt scju.il mis IL la dupuiitiun dea .4lliés. « Si dans, ces deux urur. s d'idées, conclut la Gazette, un arrivait a turnvilcr des propositions prqtiqu.es, tenant coupla des objections, raisonnables de iutir vendue, la Frauce fc rendrait compte de icfiort sérieux de l'Allciwjne. Ce n'est certes pas cucoij. la soumisskJH a l'ilUluctable, c'est suivant les procedés habi.tuels, de l'AUcnumne une proposition, dilatuile. un marchandage auuveuu. Or le porteur de contraintes est en ruute et il est trop tard pour demander un sursis. Le journal La Freiheit ne peut s'empêcher de remarquer que beaucoup de temps s'est déjà écouie. « Sous nous sommes en/ennês. dans, nuire faux orgueil, dit i organe suciulistes en afjiruianl que nous ne pouvions prendre, l'initiative des négociations tant que t'un nuus appliquerait les sanctions, et vous avons vainentené placé nos espoirs en l'Amérfquc. Washington nuus a fait comyreadre flue nous dcuiuns formuler de nouvelles proiwiUom.. Il faut Un présenter ùuessuunf rne&l ̃; peu importe que ce soit Uracietusat eux AUiés ou par l'intermédiaire de Washington.. Est-il besoin ue dire, que des propositions nouvelle. seraient 'difficilement redevables ? Le débiteur de mauvaise foi n'a plus quY se soumettre. Sur les modalités de paiement, la Cuuunission des réparations a entendu tes Allemands. A cet égard des variantes peuvent être admises, mais sur le fond ii-ous (front valoir iniégralev^nt notre droit. P. 0. DOLBERT. Quelles mesures prendrons-nous contre l'Allemagne si elle se dérobe à sa créance ? Paris, 12 avril. Les jours passent et n apportent aucun changement du côté de 1 Allemagne. Notre ancienne ennemie multiplie les protestations et les lamentations. On est bien forcé d'en venir à cette constatation qu'eJle ne veut pas payer. Or un sait qu'elle le peut a. Puisqu'elle peut payer, elle paiera en argent, en nature et autrement. Elle nous versera avant Je 1er mai le solde des 20 milliards de marks-or qu'elle nous doit. A partir du 1'' mai, elle commencera à réparer Le Reich prépare de nouvelles contre-propositions. Nous répondrons par l'annonce de nouvelles sanctions. La France en a assez des proines ses toujours volées, des délais toujours a!» et de la lune -etcmeLie ne ce ÛètoU leur ue mauvaise lui qui est plus naie, munis pauvre uaus Loua les cas, que ses créanciers, et dont. cnuAjut; concession atxroit i'iiiâaieii'cu et la mauvaise volonté. Seule ou avec ses allies, la tiaiice, qui a la plus belle, la plus îoi'U: amiite uu monde. prendre l' Allemagne a la gorge, ceia est sur. La rran. c>i n'étirera pas l aruuise. Elle est il. bout (U souffle et à bout uc patience. Ou iaiii; banqueroute ou .e-vecuieil'AUt&iiagut: die na pas u autre «.noix, un sait eu qu'elle Ht, detant un uileuiiiiiie suiubiaule, eu ltfil, quand u s agissait poux elle ue vaincre ou de j>enr. ses ôJJi-es i iiiueionl. Cela, aussi, est sUr. L autre J^/ur, a la CJianiDie dus cuimnuiies, la uBpul« tKHluiiioery a iait etnaier les appaaudiaàuiiiÈUUi quanu il a adjure son gouvernement lie laue une lois pour toutes coiii^irenuiti a 1 AJleiiui.gue qu il laut qu elle paie. « L& ue lAiiuiiiaud est telle, ajouta-4U, qu'il ne ccaijprtMuX que la iwoe. t'ourquol nous arrêtons-nous au Hain l raisons avancer nos troupes eu AiiejiipajjM: et luis.>ns-leuç percevoir les iwenus s, Yoiki bien, eu elle., ce qu'il faut faire. Sans uouie les AiluiuLiids ne sérum p-'«> cuui-eins. lis cneiioiit, us recruuinorum et nous ijuaiui-erom <le barbares, il ui>us sera fiKila ue leur repundra « :>uus suivons l'exuuiipiU» que vous nous avez uoiaie eu iï(7U et da i'Jl4 à VJ1S uaus les régions occupées. Et puis, tournez-vous de grâce, le l)uri>are, c'est vous 1 ». lJas de pitié pour les tartuffes allemands. • .L'heure va suimer de jue'ttr-j en ujuvre la force que uuus .possédons, do passi-r des formules aux actes écrivait hier le geiu-i'al du oasieliiau. 11 serait qu ayuiit il la portée de notrelumu le ino>«n d'action et le rLcihe trésor qu'est le bassin de Ja Huhr, nous hesil1uns nous eu emparer. puur ooraiaienew. L'occupation actuelle oe la taçade au bassin des polis lie Duisbour^ et KuJirort, nous met cnlie ies mains uu nage précieux. Une bunne it'jjislatktfi douanière nous fournirait, à elle seule, uu instrument d'une extrême puissance. La Commission des Réparations a terminé son travail ELLE VA FORMULER SES CONCLUSIONS PARIS. 12 avril. L'audition des délégués allemands par la commission des réparations afin d'entendre leurs observations sur tels ou tels chapitres j.ï la dette allemande, a pris tin aujourd'hui. Elle durait depuis fin mars. Dans certains cas, la commission des réparations a adopte le point de vue allemand, dans d'autres, non. Hemarque curieuse si la commission des réparations, acceptant toutes les observations allemandes, avait fixe le total de la (Jette d'après les chiffres acceptés par les délègues allemands, le total eût été plus élevé que la forfait que la Conférence de Paris aVait accepté le 29 janvier dernier. Cette remarque, on s'en rend compte, n'est pas sans importance pour la discussion à laquelle pourraient donner naissance de nouvelle» onres allemandes. On sa)', que la commission des réparations doit encore, avant de Ilxer le montant de la dette allemande, étudier les observations des alliés eux-mêmes. Cette partie de sa tache n'est pas exempte de difficultés. Un exemple permettra de s'en rendre compte. La Serbie réclame de l'Allemagne pour son industrie textile une indemnité supérieure à celle que réclame la Belgique. Or chacun sait que la ville belge de Verviers fournissait du drap jusquïi l'Angleterre même. Et l'on sait quelle impôt tance avait l'industrie du lm dans la zone dévastée. Néanmoins on bon espoir que, majore tontes ces difllcultés, la commission sera. prête à temps. AU SENAT Les IraiteiÉ du personnel enseignant PARIS. M. avril. Le Sénat s'est occupé cet après-midi d'une grave question, celle des traitements du personnel enseignant. M. Philippe monte le premier à la tribune. Il déclare que la péréquation qu'on veut faire aujourd'hui est imparfaite mais il est nécessaire d'aboutir rapidement pour le peu qu'on va réaliser. Il ajoute qu'on est obligé d'entendre la voix dp paysan qui voit posée t cette question de relèvement des traitements alors que le prix des denrées baisse. Il dit qu'il s'agit d'une révision provisoire, car une revision de tous les traitements, soldes, indemnités, même parlementaires, doit être faite à bref délai. Elle s'impose pour décharger le contribuable de son lourd fardeau. Si un délai d'un an est peut-être trop court, le délai de trois ans proposé par la commission est trop long. M. Philippe demande moins de fonctionnaires Un'fonctionnaire peut assurer le travail de trois, dit-il payez-le comme depx, l'Etat fera encore un bénéfice (Très bien). D'autre part ce sera un nombre important d'hommes rendus à l'activité économique. > M. Philippe demande encore la réduction des traitements supérieurs la révision proietée doit avoir pour effet de mettre chacun il. sa place. Nous ne sommes pas, dit-tl, dans des temps faciles. Toute la France est & re3 faire avec ordre, méthode, avec une sévère c économie. Une nation digne de ce nom comr me la France n'est pas faite avec des égoïss me» exagérés, avec de petits syndicats. (Très bien et appt.) M. Victor Bérard, président de la commis sion de l'enseignement, prend la parole « La commission de renseignement a, dit-il dans ses propositions relatives au personnes enseignant, tenu tout de suite à déclare!: qu'elle ne faisait pas une œuvre définitive. Son texte ue devait avoir d'euet que pour une période maximum de trois ans. Nous avons eu toujours un vif souci d'économie. La réforme que nous vous proprosons a de graves répercussions financières, mais elle est importante pour le développement intellectuel de ce pays. L'orateur demande l'avis du ministre des Finances et du ministre de l'Instruction puhlique, Le rapporteur de la commission des finances accepte le principe mais trouve que le délai d'un an demande par M. Philip est trop court. M. CNERON ETABLIT UN PARALLELE ENTRE L'INSTITUTEUR ET LE PAYSAN M. Chéron, rapporteur général, estime que la solution transactionnelle de la commission des finances va jusqu'à l'extrême limite des possibilités. Le projet voté par la Chambra constituait toute une loi organique de l'enseignement public, il visait non seulement les traitements, mais la titularisation, le classement, l'avancement. Toutefois l'enseignement supérieur y avait été oublié. M. Cheron. II y a eu des injustices commises dans le pessé powr le traitement d«i fonctionnaires publics. La raison, c'est que sous la pression des circonstances, on a pt» cédé sans vues d'ensemble. LA SYPHILIS Le Dr Quéry vient de faire procéder au tlrage du 10* mille de bon ouvrage sur la Syphilis. Ce succès est du autant a l'apprectatiou des médecins qui a'om aucun partipris et songent avant tuut à l'intérêt de leurs malades, qu'à l'appréciation des malades eux-mêmes qui ont trouve dans le traitement Serotherapiqu* du Or Quéry, des résultats iherapt'uutjucii. que ne uunue aucune uutre méthode de traitement. L'ouvrage du Dr Uuiry est en vente à la Librairie Maloine, 21, rue de lEcole de Médocine, à Paris, et chez l'auteur, W, rue de Vaugirani, a Rads (vl=j. Le volume de 250 pages avec planches li tr., feo 13 tr. 50. • A vrai dire, la loi du 6 octcbre 1919 avait fait effort pour une péréquation ou peut douter qu'elle y ait réussi. Le montant des imminente et salaires ues agonis givtls de l'état était au l'r janvier i9lt de 1 milliard environ. Au 1*t Janvier Il est do 4 inilliuills et Il lLiLnirait tout ue même bien n'arrêter uans tetie voie suus peine de condiure le pays a ,la caiustroplie. LITS ALLOCATIONS PRECEDENTES AU PERSONNEL ENSEIGNANT On abjecte que 1rs fonctionnaires de l'enseigueuneni ont été sacriliés, qu'ils n'ont pas été ec-apris dans la loi de 1919 et on demanue pour eux une péréquation comme réparation de l'oubli ciunmis. est-ce exact que res fonctionnairos aient été oubliées dans Ja loi 1919 Je vous dâinciiirerai que c'est inexact. Je le ferai dans un intérêt linaucier et dans l'intérét de l'enseignemeju jiublif. Depuis 1914 166 améliorations de toutes sortes accordée à co personnel représentent iniUioiis pour l'enseignemicun primaire. 71 millions pour l'enseignentent secondaire, ':« mlliioiis pour l'enseiguecienl supérieur soit un total de millions. Or, une partie de ces améliorations a été réalisée on 1919. II y a eu déjà péréquation on faveur du personnel enseignait. Les traitements d'instituteurs qui devaient sjulctnent être duublés ont été finalement triplés. Après avoir produit à J'appui de cette affirmation des documents d'un caractère dé< biX, NI. Cluiron souligue que les augmentaliojis préves en faveur des membres de l'enseignement par le projet de la Chambre avaient le tort d'être définitives. Une fois incorporé» dans les traitements les relévetuent proposés n'auraient pu être supprimés ni réduit. M. Cheuon. « Or. la vie commence à ,baisser et les recet'les budgétaires fléchissent avec le prix des chose. Est-il possible dans de pareilles circonstances d'aggraver nos charges d'une manière définitive ? Nous ne corder les allocations temporaires suivantes aux instituteurs stagiaires ô(K) francs, aux titulaires. l.OCX) francs aux professeurs agrégés, 2.00l. Toutes ces allocations versées intégralement dès la promulgation de la Joi coûteront, au budget 157 millions, « SONGEZ AUX CONTRIBUABLES 1 • A l'neure où nos caui^i.ignes commencent à souffrir, où elle vendeut leurs denrées moins cher, où une crise grave sévit sur le oonmierce et l'industrie, le moment serait mal choisi puur élever d'une façon trop considérable les traitements des membres de l'enseignesneut. On a parlé de verser francs à un ménage dlnsïïtuteurs (mouvements divers;. Ce serait bien mal servir la cause àe l'enseignement laïque et de l'Université. Vous songerez à tout cela, vous songerez aux contribuables qui paient (très bien) C'est avec sa bourse que vous ferez des largcsses or, il attend de vous le rétablissement de lequilibre budgétaire. Il faut faire Ses Qhcses raisonnables. La solution proposée par la Commission des Flnanoes, d'accord avec le gouvernement, en est une. Je trous supplie de ne pas luendre des engagement auxquels la France ne pourrait pas faire honneur (Vils applaudissements). INTERVENTION DU MINISTRE DE L'INSTRUCTION PUBLIQUE Le ministre des finances s'associe ensuite é M. Chénon. Puis le ministre de l'instruction publique monte à la tribune pour donner, ditil. des explications tranches et nettes. >-e projet de la commission des finances, auquel le gouvernement a donné sun adhésion, insMue des allocations temporaires transactionnelles et forfaitaires. M. Bérard aurait voulu davantage « mais, ajoute-t-il, il n'y a qu'une cpinion du gouvernement la solidarité ministérielle implique parfois des sacrifices personnels, mais elle se confond avec un très simlile devoir de loyauté ». (Très Lu-n). M. Léon Bérard parle ensuite de l'amélioration générale de ses services, des suppressions de postes en voie de réalisatlon, de Ja difficulté de supprimer les collèges mutiles. M. Beraki). L'Etat est engagé Js-a-vis des villes et il faut que les contrats viennent à expiration c'est ce qui se produira -in 19i'i. J'étudie dès maintenant les transformations ou suppressions à faire. « Peuton faire des économies dans l'enseignement supérieur ? Sur un budget de plus de 1 milliard, l'enseignement supérieur recuit 70 72 millions. Il ne peut donc être question d'économie. Il y a à rechercher un aménagement meilleur des services. On a parlé de suppressions de Facultés. Parlons plutôt de transformations. M. Doumer. intervenait à son tour, expose le point de vue financier et parle des efforts de conciliation du gouvernement. I dépense que vous êtes invités à voter est double de celle qu'avait proposée à l'origine le gouvernement. Qui pourrait dire que le gouvernement n'a las fait son devoir ? .NI. Victor BtiuHD. A l'heure actuelle, c'est une véritable anarchie physique et morale qui règne dans nos lycées. (lù'Cs prutestations.) Les programmes de 1902 en sont la cause principale mais l'insuffisance Je la rémunération des profesefurs y contribue ausel pour sa part. (Applaudissements..) Sur quoi, on décide de continuer dcmain matin ce débat passionnant SEANCE DU MATIN LE BUDGET DES BEAUX-ARTS PiRis, 12 avril. Uans sa séance du matin le Sénat a abordé la discussion du budget des Beaux-Arts. Apris quelques paroles de M. Chastenet, rapporteur spécial, déplorant le manque de crédits et regrettant qu'on ne puisse sacrifier un peu 1'uüle à l'agréable. le Sénat passe ù l'examen des articles. Il décide la création d'un inspecteur général des arts appliqués. Il réserve le chapit.re 16 relatif au traitement ries professeurs des Beaux-Arts. Afin de remédier fi la situation flnanclère difficile dans laquelle se trouve )*Opéra, M. Gaudin de Villnlne préconise un prélèvement sur les recel I et de tous les lieux de plaisir prélèvement A verser dans tes rais*ci de l'Académie nationale de musique Pt de danse. M. Léon Bérard répond qu'il étudiera la question. 14 ministre appelle l'attention du Sénat sur le matériel du musée Gulxnet. 11 y a lA une collection de l'art religieux asiatique qui nous a valu dans le monde entier une réputation de premier ordre. La commission des finances accepte un relèvement de 4.000 francs sur ce chapitre. LA QUESTION DU MONT-SAINT-MICHEL M. Gaudin de Villaine rappelle que tous les ministres ont promis de s occuper du MontSaint-Michel et de sa consécration artistique. Mais, dit-il, les artistes cèdent trop souvent aux ingénieurs: on laisse s'aggraver l'ensablement du Mont. II y a certains travaux urgents à effectuer sinon le Mont perdra tout son caractère artistique. .NI. Lf.on Bitrunn. M. Gaudtn de Villaine a raison sur la question tout le monde est d'accord 'pour sauver le chef d'œuvie artistique et le paysage de mer. Il y ii des difilcultés financières; nous espérons les surmonter à bref délai. Plusieurs orateurs parlent de l'état déplorable dans lequel se trouvent nos châteaux historiques, fanle de crédits. Puis, à l'exception de quatre chapitres, le budget des Beaux-Arts est adopté. LA, L'ALLEMAGNE ET LES REPARATIONS c Nous contraindrons notre débiteur par toue les moyens de coercition qui son; entre nos mains. (M. Briand.) M. Sai: ;iuistre des Culou.es, di-^ote dès le u.i-u séance uu projet de joi portant nxatiuii u u.1 programme générai de mise en valeur de nos coiomes. Puis, aoi iinilieu des plus vifs applaudissements, on confère a titre posthume ia dignité de maréchal au général ualiieui. Puis la Uiambre aborde te débat sur les dépenses recouvrables sur .ies AlJemands, pensions, primes et allocations de guerre, rtgioiib iibtivïes. M. de ^astcyrye i»rasente de nouveau le bilan de l'Allemagnt. 11 qui ««lie-ci produit sur ses versements évaluations iautaisisks. La commission des réparations a ramené les chiffres des veiscmeius allemands en nature il.. milliards de inaiKS-or lour tous les alliks. Encore les évaluation» de la commission sont-elles des évaluations ma.Xiima en réalité, les versements allemands ne dépassent ,pas 3 ntilliards de marks-or. Ce sont là les ohinTes du gouvernement,, auquel la commission donne son adhésion. Encore faut-il déduire les sommes dues pour les frais d'Oi-cupatiou et les avances de Spa. Ces déductions faites, l'Allemagne, le ntai, ne nous aura pas versé un leiitime au compte geneial des réparations.dissements). L'Allemagne ne nous a dunné qu'une chose qui compte du charbon, et si ele la fait, c'est parce qu'au lendemain de l'armistice, notre etreintc la menaçait encore depuis elle a i élevé la tête et refusé de s'acquitter, alors que la France, edle, était tenue de tenir ses engagements sacrés vis-à-via de nos victimes de la guerre et de nos régions dévastées. » NOUS AVONS DEJA AVANCÉ 61 MILLIARDS A L'ALLEMAGNE Nous avons dépensé ainsi 61 milliards pour le compte de l'Allemagne 1 Ces milliards ont creusé un gouffre dans notre budget et c'est l'Allemagne qui est responsable. (Apfllaudtstem.) Cela peut-il durer ainsi ? Pouvons-nous continuer à emprunter ? Non I Les réparations qui restent a faire coûteront MU milliards reparties sur une période de dix ans, cela lait une annuité de 8 milliards à laquelle il faut ajouter 4 milliards pour les pensions et 2 milliards pour le service des emprunts. L'Allemagne n'a voulu que gagner du temps en étalant sa misère, alors que nous étions obligés d'emprunter 30 milliards par an. Il n'est pas possible que cela dure. l'eudant deux ans nous avons essayé de la manière douce cette manière a fait faillite. Nous approchons de l'échéance. Que va faire l'Allemagne 1 Qu'allons-nous faire 7 » L'orateur n'en sait rien il ne sait qu'une chose, c'est que la France veut être payée. (l'i/s applaudissent. sur dc nombreux bancs.) C: n'est plus l'heure des discussions Plusieurs députés interviennent en ce même sens. Puis M. Briand monte à la trihune, Ni. Briand, aussi énergique qu'au Sénat, mais sous une autre forme, est très bref. Il est écoulé dans un silence impressionnant et sa péroraison est très applaudie. Il dit tout d'abord que ce n'est plus l'heure des discussions sur le plus ou moins de patience que la France a mise au service de son droit, ni l'heure de mesurer les capacités de l'Allemagne. A un pays qui attend depuis deux ans, ce n'est plus des paroles qu'il faut offrir, mais des actes et des résultats. (Vifs M. Briand dit qu'il espérait ne pas être obligé d'aller jusqu'au bout dans la voie des sanctions. Mais l'Allemagne n'a rien compris 11 cet esprit de conciliation. < Notre résolution est prise, dit M. Briand. Le 1er mai l'Allemagne se trouvera en présence de toutes les violations successives du traité qu'elle a signé avec la reconnaissance de ses responsabilités le payement intégral dans l'ensemble de toutes ses facultés, l'engagement de désarmer et de punir les coupables. Le l* mal elle se trouvera en présence du. bilan de ses opérations et de ses réalisations. C'est l'heure du gendarme « Quant d nous qui avons, je t'at dit au Sénat et je le répète avec force, un titre exé. cutnfre entre les mains, l'huissier ayanf été envoyé, si le débiteur persiste se monter récalcitrant, le gendarrne sera chargé de laccompaqner. (vifs applaudissements). Il ne s'a?it pas de recommencer la guerre qui nous a été imposée. Il s'agit d'aller avec d'une main un billet valable, après que la juridiction acceptée l'a appuyé d'une sentence et d'obtenir l'exécution (Vifs appl.), et si le débiteur ne treul pas, de l'Il contraindre par toua les moyens de coercition qui sont cuire, nus mains (appl.). AI. Briand se déclare convaincu que l'accord entre nos Alliés et nous sera maintenu, car nous avons fait pour leur prouver notre bonne foi toutes les concessions imaginables aux Allemands. C'est une démonstration qu'il fallait faire. Mais notre dignité noue interdit de nous laisser berner plus longtemps. Il demande que le jugement rendu par la Commission des réparations soit exécuté énergiquement. 11 fait allusion au jugement des coupables, puis termine par cette promesse « Je le répète à la Chambre. eu accord avec not Alliés, nnus eeron» exacts au rendez-v ue.. » (Vifs applaudissements, sauf à l extrême-gauche.) Sur ces mote, la séance eet levée. Marius 1/Ouest-BcIab* «s» LE DRAME d'Argentré du Plessis LA DESOENTE DU PARQUET MILITAIRE (De notre envoyé spécial.) Argentré, le 12 avril. Le parquet du Conseil de guerre de la région devait hier se rendre a Argentre-suPlessis pour enquêter sur le terrible drame qui s'est déroute dans la soirée de dimanche. A midi trente, partaient de Bonnes vu autonwbiie, NI. le cher d'escadron Boucher, 1'Il!porteur;1 le capitaine Marqueur, représentant M. le lieutenant-colonel Maque-t, commissatire du gouvernement le lieutenant Boutet, greffter, et un adjudant. A deux neures, ils arrivaient au bourg. Nous les suivions. Argentw-du-Plessis est un gros canton situe aux contins de la Bretague et du !laine, Les rues. à l'ordinaire si paisibles, ont une animatiun tout à fait insolite. Devant la gendarmerie, des groupes stationnent ce sont des témoins arnvés sur -.on vocation et qui attenddent depuis une heure. Ils sont là en -ostume do dimanche et causant a voix basse. Près d'eux, se tie'.t le sons-lieutenant Plas, commandant l'arrondissement de Vitré. La caserne est un bâtiment à deux étages, très propre. Derrière règne une conrette ttès étroite, trornée au sud par les chambres de sûreté Le de brigade Mary, ,'assassin, est sur la potte de l'uile d'elles, Il se liait debout, les bras croises, fumant une cigarette. Ce qu'il en fumera tout le jour de cEs cigarettes, de son même air placide et innocent 1 Près de lui est le chef de brigade Le Dain. de Vitré, qui, très rouge, a l'air beaucoup plus affecté que son collègue. Dar.is la prée qui longe le jardin des gendarmes. des villageois stationnent pi.ur voir le criminel. Un y remarque nombre de gens enrubannés, car toute une noce est là qui veut profiter de l'occasion qui lui est donnée de voir quelque chose de sensationnel. Cependant, le parquet ne s'arrête pas i cette entrée de la ville, il s <»n va îsqu'à la ferme de la Porte, où repose 'e ciM>s de ia victime. En passant à Vitré, l'automobile militaire a pris M. le docteur Martinais, <.i:i h être chargé de l'autopsie. Le chef d'escadrons Bouoher et .1. le capitaine Marqueur restent pou de temps !a Forte et s'en reviennent, y laissant le f.ootenr et le lieutenant Boutet. La besogne de NI. le docteur Martinais n cst pas longue. Il n'a qu'à s'assurer de la trajectoire de la balle. L'AUTOPSIE Il est trois heures, le soleil est brûlant, c'est la ptremifire journée vraiment chaude de l'année. Devant les bâtiments de servitude, nous attendons le résultat des consultations et, au bout d'une demi-heure, nous voyons sortir l'honorable praticien. il tient en main la balle qu'il a ramassée soigneusement dans une enveloppe. Elle n'est déformée et légèrement qu'à :a pc:nte qui est un peu aplatie c'est un projectile blindé de 6 millimètres. 'Pénétrant par la tempe gauche, Il se heurta à un œ frontaJ et, après ce premier choc, dans lequel il peidit de sa force, alla se loger dans le lobe droit du cerveau L'oriflce d'entrée n'est pas exactement pratiqué à 'l'emporte-pièce. ce qui indique que le coup fut tiré de quelques mètres. AussitOt après l'autopsie, le corps fut mis en bière. et une heure après, M. le lieutenant Boulet faisait porter à la mairie le permis d'inhumer. LE LIEU DU CRIME Nous nous en revenons par la grand'route et au village ue la Buronicre, nscS îaisons une nouvelle station. En face ria la barrière blanche on remarque quelques taches de sang, de l'autre côté ue la route de (jeunes, c'esi la qu est tombe le lieuienant-colonei Fougères. Son visage, du reste, porte quelques traces des traînas pruduites dans la cnute. M. et Mme Amand Fougères ont eu beau laver le sol a la potasse, le sang demeure toujours la, fatidique. mine Foucher nous explique dans ses mondres détails la scène fatale. Elle eut lieu exactement à 4 h. 22, Le pere Fougères, frère du colonel, venait de la Porte en voiture au devant de son frère. Il avait envoyé son lits Victor jusqu'à la gare. Bientôt, il les vit venir iL lui. C'était à la hauteur de la maison des Foucher. Ceuxci du village de la Buronière, les Fougères du village de la Porte, dont les habitations sont distantes de mètres environ sont de grands amis. Jamais le colonel Fougères ne passa au cours de la guerre près d'Amand Foucher sans l'inviter a sa taole, c'était le pays a. quel grarle eût-il 1 Aussi, après la guerre, .Ainand Fouetter, qui s'était marié récemment, de dire à sa jeune femme a Tu sais, quand le colonel viendra, il laudra qu'il vienne boire un verre, et un bon verre I n L'occasion ne s'était pas encore présentée, mais voici cette fois il ne la manquerait pas. Le père Fougères a vu son fils et son frére sur la route il urrète son cheval et crie « Amand, Amand. voilà mon frère 1 » "• Arnaud n'était, pas là, mais il arrivait du bourg en bicyclette. Sur cette route menant du bourg à la Porte il y avait donc le colonel Fougères et son neveu, le brigadier Mary et le gendarme Lex.pert eu bicyclettes, Amand Foucher en bicyclette également, et enfin la femme de ce dernier tenant sa petite fille par la main. Foucher a entendu l'appel de son voisin et crie à sa femme qu'il avise « Dépêche-toi, on va rpcevoir le colonel chez nous •. Mais le brigadier et son gendarme ont dépasse le groupe à pied. Mary saute de machine et se présente à celui qu'il veut tuer. Trois phrases rapides, puis il prend son revolver. Le geste eut beau êfre prompt, tout le monde l'a vu. Victor Fougères se sauve dans la douve et filet son rhnni'nu sur les yeux pour parer Te coup. père saute à bas ;le sa cvrrinle et Accourt en criant « Ne tuez pas un si brave homme 1 • Lexpert, le gendarme si respectueux des ordres de snn brigadier, s'écrie « Cest-Il du Dieu possible » Le coup part, le colonel s'abat et au loin sur la route arrive Mme Foueher et sa petite fille. L'enfant a entendu la détonation et demande « Quest-ce que c'est maman •. La mère toute tremblante de dire Le n'est peut-être rien ma petite •. 1,'enfnnt crio pourtant et se lamente. En son petit elle a compris toute l'horreur de la scène brutale. UN 0YNI6MI DIOONOIRTANT Amand Fouoher, l'ancien poilu, eut alors une seconde dttié&Uation. 11 se dit Vais-je l'arrêter 1 Il laissa pourtant l'assassin s'en retourner, en sifflotant Le gendarme Lexpert demeurait médusé, tremblant sur ses jambes, pâle camme un mort. 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Will Iraq's Elections Have Ripple Effect?; Iraq Votes; '90- Second Pop'
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everybody. If you're just waking up, good to have you along with us today as we start out another week here on AMERICAN MORNING.
Iraq has reached a major milestone with these elections from Sunday. "The Washington Post's" Anthony Shadid is in Baghdad again today. He's going to join us in a few moments, telling us what it was like for the people that he saw voting freely for the first time. And also, he'll address, what is the biggest challenge or challenges now with the vote in the bank? So, we'll get to him in a moment.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Also this morning, even before the polls closed, administration officials were being asked: How soon can American troops leave Iraq? We're going to take you to the Pentagon to find out what military planners are doing to make that happen.
First, though, another check of the headlines with Carol Costello.
Hello. Good morning.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Good morning to all of you.
"Now in the News."
An investigation is under way northwest of Baghdad for the crew of a British military plane. Just moments ago, the British government was saying nine Air Force personnel and one soldier are missing and believed dead in the crash. A Hercules C-130 transport plane like the one shown in this video went down on Sunday.
Jury selection gets under way today in the murder trial of a boy whose lawyers say killed his grandparents while under the influence of the anti-depressant, Zoloft. Christopher Pittman (ph), now 15 years old, is being tried as an adult for the murders three years ago. The drug manufacturer, Pfizer, denies any connection between its drug and the deaths. We'll have much more on this story in our next hour.
Connecticut authorities are preparing again for the execution of serial killer Michael Ross. Last October, Ross gave up his right to appeal the death sentence. The move sparked a legal battle from his family, who tried to challenge the execution on his behalf. Ross is scheduled to receive lethal injection tonight. It's not clear if his father will try again to have it stopped. And turning to sports news. Sammy Sosa is apparently leaving Wrigley Field for good. The Cubs slugger is being traded to the Baltimore Orioles. Reports say the Cubs will pay half of Sosa's $25 million contract for this season. The deal could reach baseball commissioner Bud Selig's desk as early as today. It seems very strange, but I guess the love affair between Sammy Sosa...
O'BRIEN: It's over.
COSTELLO: That's right. It's over.
O'BRIEN: Bye-bye. And sometimes they are when money is involved, isn't it true?
O'BRIEN: Carol, thank you very much.
Let's go back to Bill.
HEMMER: All right, Soledad, this morning in Iraq, the ballots from this weekend's election are now being counted. It will likely take days before we know the results or just how many people took part in the process. Some estimates say about 60 percent of those eligible did turn out on Sunday.
Thousands of Iraqis in neighboring Syria were also taking to the polls. And many hope the election in Iraq will have a ripple effect in other parts of the Mideast.
CNN's Brent Sadler is in Damascus with more. Here's Brent.
BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Election officials on the ground here in the Syrian capital of Damascus say more than 90 percent of registered voters did actually ballot in the three days of voting here in Syria.
There are election officials, Iraqis on the ground here, saying that as far as they're concerned they see this voting process, the counting that's going on that will take several days to complete, really to be a beacon of possible change at the heart of the Middle East.
President George W. Bush has said the world is hearing the voice of freedom at the center of the Middle East. And that's what Iraqis really believe, those who have taken part in this process.
On the streets of Damascus outside one of the polling station, we saw joyous scenes of Iraqis, mostly Kurds, dressed in ceremonial costumes celebrating at the end of the three days of voting here in Syria. One Iraqi election official I spoke to earlier this day said he believed there would be a ripple effect as the result of this election, a democratic upheaval, he said, as a result of this successful electoral process, not just in Iraq but also here in Syria. Bent Sadler, CNN, Damascus.
HEMMER: Brent, thanks for that.
From Syria back to Baghdad now. Anthony Shadid of "The Washington Post" was in Iraq during yesterday's vote. A bit earlier, I talked to him about what he observed on the historic day Sunday.
ANTHONY SHADID, "THE WASHINGTON POST": I was able to visit a couple of polling stations in Sunni neighborhoods as well as mixed neighborhoods in an area known as Qarada (ph). There were moments that were remarkable for Baghdad. It probably was the most festive atmosphere in the city since the fall of Saddam Hussein in April of 2003.
Crowds surged into the streets. And, I think, as time went on, people started seeing those crowds, and they themselves decided to vote.
Turnout definitely surged as the day went on, and it even started to spill over into some Sunni areas of Baghdad that we didn't expect to see a lot of voters. In one neighborhood I was at in a place called Tunis (ph), there were hardly any voters in the early morning hours. And then as the day progressed, hundreds started showing up at the poll. By the end of the day, as many as two-thirds of residents in that neighborhood voted.
HEMMER: Anthony, you have reported on so much in that country. Do you get a sense that this was a turning point for Iraq?
SHADID: You know, what was interesting to me yesterday was how much this felt like the moment after the fall of Saddam Hussein. There was, like I said, a real festive veneer of the city.
What struck me even more was that it might have been more festive than the fall of Saddam in the sense that people themselves were making their voices heard. They weren't relying on foreigners or U.S. troops to change their country. They themselves got to give their voice.
I think what you've over the past weeks in this campaign is not a battle over platforms and not a struggle between parties. The election was, I think, more meaningful for a lot of people as a mechanism itself. They finally got to take part in a process to use rights that had long been denied to them. And the voting itself, not necessarily a vote for a party or a platform, but the voting itself was what was meaningful.
HEMMER: If we looking at the insurgents now and try and examine their strategy, who is their target now that the elections are finished? SHADID: Well, I think their targets will be similar to what the targets have been in the past. Hardly anyone in Baghdad, even despite the celebrations you saw yesterday, predicts that the insurgency is going to end anytime soon. U.S. diplomats are very clear that it may actually increase in the coming months as they seek to prove that they still have influence, they still have power in central and northern Iraq.
The insurgents have continued to target security forces. That's the lynchpin of nearly all efforts here. For U.S. withdrawal, the security forces have to be in place to bring security, which is the overwhelming demand of Iraqis. The security forces have to be in place.
Yesterday was remarkable in the sense that they were on the front line. The Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops were in the background. And, like I said, Baghdad was perhaps as safe as it's been at any time since the fall of Saddam's government in 2003.
HEMMER: Is it possible now, though, that the coalition can recruit more security forces now with this election now deemed a success?
SHADID: Well, I think these coming weeks are going to prove decisive. There was that celebration that we saw yesterday.
But what's ahead is probably a lot of wrangling between parties and the coalitions over who gets what share of the government that's going to be formed. That government is going to be under a tremendous amount of pressure to better lives in this country. It's been a pretty rough two years for most Iraqis. Crime is rampant. Gas lines stretch miles. Joblessness is rife.
For Iraqis to see a change in their lives, that government is going to have to do something about that. And that's proved very difficult so far. If it doesn't do that, we might see what we've seen in past moments or past turning points in Iraq.
What struck me over the past two years is that each moment in Iraq's history -- the fall of Saddam, for instance, the appointment of the Governing Council later that year, and then the naming of Prime Minister Allawi's government in 2004 -- at each of those moments you saw Iraqis jubilant, very optimistic, very hopeful over what was ahead. But in the weeks and the months that followed, it became dreary again. People were disappointed.
I think the government is going to face that same problem -- the government that is named is going to face that same problem in the weeks and months ahead, whether it can actually create a change and what remains a very difficult landscape here.
HEMMER: Anthony Shadid of "The Washington Post" working the story again today from his post in Baghdad -- Soledad. O'BRIEN: Well, now that the Iraqi elections are over, many wonder when U.S. troops will be pulling out and coming home. And how many will have to stay and for how long?
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked about that over the weekend.
Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr joins us this morning with details.
Hey, Barbara, good morning to you.
Well, the courage of ordinary Iraqis voting yesterday, of course, was deeply felt here at the Pentagon. But military planners are still taking a long-term view.
STARR (voice over): Even before Iraqis lined up to vote in the first democratic elections in decades, U.S. commanders were developing a post-election military strategy to deal with the expectations the insurgency will continue.
The overall goal remains: Get Iraq's 130,000 security forces capable of fighting the insurgency, possibly for years to come.
GENERAL GEORGE W. CASEY, U.S. ARMY: Right now, you have a situation where the coalition forces are in front, and the Iraqi forces, because they're just in their development, are behind. And what we want to do over the next year is reverse those positions.
STARR: To make that happen, Army commanders could keep 120,000 U.S. forces in Iraq for the next two years, if needed. U.S. military training teams will start embedding into Iraqi units, training the Iraqis from the inside.
BRIG. GENERAL MARK KIMMITT, U.S. ARMY: They need to season. They need more maturity. They need more mentoring. There will be a push to making the Iraqi security force more capable, let them take the lead in combat operations and take more of a mentoring role in the future.
STARR: If it all works, the Pentagon hopes it can bring some troops home over time. But even after the election, top officials, at least publicly, won't set a schedule.
CONDOLEEZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: We have always said that the conditions on the ground will dictate the particular mix of Iraqi forces and coalition forces. I really believe that we should not try and put artificial timetables on this. We need to finish the job.
(END VIDEOTAPE) STARR: So, Soledad, military planners are sticking with their strategy, even after the election. The election went well, but they are going to stay until the Iraqis really feel they can take over -- Soledad.
O'BRIEN: Barbara, as you well know, a C-130 military plane crashed yesterday, a British military plane. There's a report that Ansar al-Islam is now claiming responsibility. What's been the Pentagon's response to that?
STARR: This is a very interesting development, Soledad, because military officials, both U.S. and British, are emphasizing the investigation is under way. They officially say they do not know what brought down that C-130. But they are absolutely not ruling out the possibility of enemy fire, hostile fire, bringing that plane down.
Indeed, we have been told this morning there is a report from the field, from military personnel, that a fireball was seen in the sky before that plane crashed.
Now, in many crash instances, there are those types of reports. But this spot report from the field, we are told, came from military personnel. So, they are looking at all of the indicators this morning and not ruling out the prospect that enemy fire, indeed, did bring down that C-130. The investigation does continue.
O'BRIEN: Barbara Starr at the Pentagon for us this morning. Barbara, thanks -- Bill.
HEMMER: Soledad, we're going to check in with Chad Myers right now. We got a bit of a break up here in the Northeast. It's warmer. It's nice.
O'BRIEN: Well, will it be a good or a bad year for Wall Street? The writing might already be on the wall. Andy is "Minding Your Business" just ahead.
HEMMER: Also in a moment, Hilary Swank may be the darling for the Oscar in "Million Dollar Baby." Why then are audiences still shying away at the box office? One of three topics on "90-Second Pop" in a moment here.
O'BRIEN: Welcome back, everybody.
It has been a dismal month for Wall Street. Is it a predictor of things to come? Andy Serwer is "Minding Your Business" this morning.
Good morning.
It could be. They're saying it's like falling behind in the Super Bowl by two touchdowns in the first quarter what happened so far this year. Not a very pretty month, January. And today, thankfully, is the last day of the month.
Let's talk about what happened last week, because we were up last week, the first week that we were up, albeit barely. That's barely. The Dow was down 40 points on Friday. Jack is chuckling. I don't know. There is nothing to laugh at, Jack.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: We're going broke here.
SERWER: That's green ink. The futures are up very nicely this morning. A couple of reasons why. First of all, that merger activity we talked about. A lot of deals in the works. Also, Iraqi elections seemed to go pretty smoothly, and that's providing some optimism on Wall Street.
What about this January effect, though? It's kind of a mixed bag as to actually whether it works. Check out here what's happened. Now, first of all, you started 2001 and the statisticians go, well, you've got to throw that one out, because things started off well. But then we had 9/11. OK.
Then 2002, it worked. 2003, it didn't work. It just didn't work. They don't have an excuse. And then '04, it worked. And then will it work this year? But it is actually, you know, a problem when the market goes down in January, because it is a psychological thing. And also, money is supposed to be flowing into the market in January. And when it doesn't, that's not a good sign.
So, we start anew tomorrow. That's the good news.
O'BRIEN: Re-launching in February.
SERWER: Yes, indeed.
O'BRIEN: Andy, thanks.
SERWER: You're welcome.
HEMMER: Back to the "Question of the Day."
CAFFERTY: To me, if the Dow rallies, like, 900 points today, we'd be OK for January.
SERWER: Yes, I'm holding my breath.
HEMMER: And you'd be our lead story tomorrow, too, by the way.
SERWER: Good, bingo!
CAFFERTY: After it was all over, the Iraqi people delivered the message better than any foreign army or government. Millions of ordinary Iraqis turning out to reject the insurgents, the fundamentalists and those who would rule their country by force. It was a powerful message, one that exceeded the most optimistic expectations. Were they listening in places like Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia? Bet on it.
Here's the question this morning: What message do the Iraqi elections send to the Middle East?
James in Illinois: "The Iraqi elections have shown two things. First, people yearn for self-determination and assume great risk to exercise the rights of free men. Secondly, the United States will stay the course and stay committed. You have to applaud the administration for not delaying the elections."
Bob in New Orleans: "Other Middle Eastern countries are going to look at Palestine and Iraq and ask, why can't we elect our leaders? This is the beginning of a revolutionary wave."
David in Iowa writes: "Jack, hopefully the message that these elections will send is that the U.S. has no interest in ruling other countries, but that we as a people wish for them to rule themselves. If that means an Islamic republic that's contrary to our interests, then so be it. It's their country. They need to do what they want."
Bob in Washington: "OK. Everybody out of the pool. Let's go to Syria, where we can breed more insurgents. By the way, al-Zarqawi, you're fired."
And Reg in Thunder Bay, Ontario: "Can you translate na, na, na, na, na, na into Arabic?"
HEMMER: One quick thought here. On one of the other networks, I think it was ABC, the general in charge of U.S. forces up in Mosul said he was delighted to say how wrong he was with his dire predictions of the insurgents killing a lot of people on Sunday.
CAFFERTY: A lot of people in this country were pretty wrong, too. It wasn't just the generals in Iraq.
O'BRIEN: Which was good to see. Thank you, Jack.
And we'll be back in a just a moment.
O'BRIEN: How much we love that song, huh? It's so cool. Welcome back, everybody. It's time to convene our pop culture club for another edition of the critically-acclaimed "90-Second Pop." And I'm not lying about that part.
With Andy Borowitz from Jessica Shaw from "Entertainment Weekly." And Toure, CNN's pop culture correspondent.
Good morning to you.
A quick pop quiz. Which of our three popsters got engaged over the weekend?
O'BRIEN: Hello, congratulations to you, Jessica. And because of that -- because of that, you win...
JESSICA SHAW, "ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY": Because of my very un- manicured fingers, I can't show the ring.
O'BRIEN: Because of that, you win the first question, ma'am.
SHAW: Excellent!
O'BRIEN: Let's talk movies.
SHAW: Yes.
O'BRIEN: OK. Hilary Swank, big news, "Million Dollar Baby" is a shoo-in for the Oscar (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
SHAW: You know what? If you've got a creepy kid in the woods, as was in "Hide and Seek," that beats the box office no matter what any day. But "Million Dollar Baby" actually did very well. It was up 616 percent. This is a movie that was on, like, 150 screens, and this was its first week of wide release. So, it actually was a knockout, if you will.
TOURE: I mean, I understand why everyone is not rushing to see it. It's not a first date movie. It's not a teenage birthday movie. You're not getting laid after "Million Dollar Baby." Do you know what I mean?
TOURE: Well, like, it's a filmic experience that you've got to go and see.
O'BRIEN: A filmic experience?
ANDY BOROWITZ, BOROWITZREPORT.COM: Toure has been raving about this movie for the last two months. I think the only way we can read these box office returns is as a personal repudiation of Toure. I think the audience is saying enough. Enough. Stop talking about "Million Dollar Baby." We've heard enough about it.
O'BRIEN: And then let's move on. Moving on with the audience. "The Sopranos," they've got to clean it up before they can put it on a cable show. Stop! Before they put it on a cable show.
TOURE: You're throwing stuff at me already.
O'BRIEN: Because, of course, they're not going to be -- the places where they're bidding for it are not going to be able to run it uncut. It worked for "Sex and the City." People thought it might not work to clean it up, edit it out. Can it work for "The Sopranos?" TOURE: You know, if you've never seen "The Sopranos" before and you think seeing these new episodes without the nudity and the violence and the cursing, it's like if you think you've seen that and you're seeing "The Sopranos," it's like traveling to a third world country and staying in the tourist areas. Like, you're not really seeing what's really going on.
O'BRIEN: Well, OK. How about if I said this: Can you still enjoy the tourist areas when you get to that country?
BOROWITZ: Well, you know, they're good. I've seen, like, one of the re-cut episodes. And it was great. The only problem is that it was only four minutes long, but it rocked.
O'BRIEN: We laugh...
SHAW: I don't know why people don't just get the DVDs. I mean...
TOURE: Hello.
SHAW: ... I can't believe that they're being paid $2 million an episode for this. Like, that's crazy!
BOROWITZ: I'd like to re-cut some other shows, like that show "According To Jim." I'd like to cut out the scenes that have Jim Belushi in them. That would be good.
O'BRIEN: That should show is doing just fine, thank you. And this has been a tough lineup for a lot of networks. So, you shouldn't really diss them.
Let's talk a little bit about Cat Stevens.
O'BRIEN: He's back.
BOROWITZ: He's back.
O'BRIEN: You know, and I didn't realize that it was against Islamic law, in all seriousness, to put music along with singing; that you're supposed to sing, apparently, without any music accompanying you. He's sort of changing the rules on that for this album.
BOROWITZ: Right. Well, this is big news. You know, he is now touring for tsunami relief, which is a really good thing. But he had been basically in retirement from music since 1977. So, this is a big deal. The only kind of downside is I just hope this doesn't encourage the Captain & Tennille. That's the only thing I'm worried about.
O'BRIEN: Think of all of the acts that will come back.
BOROWITZ: Exactly.
O'BRIEN: We could do that. Tsunami relief is a great thing. BOROWITZ: Exactly. The guy who did "Seasons in the Sun," he's coming back.
SHAW: I think this Easter, he's trying to have a comeback, I think, first on the terrorist watch list and now this.
BOROWITZ: These are weird career moves. Does he want to save the world or destroy it? You've got to decide.
O'BRIEN: That was a weird -- I mean, where does it stand with this terrorist watch list? He was -- I mean, again, we're laughing, but...
SHAW: He will be doing a concert in the U.S. We know that.
O'BRIEN: But he was yanked off a flight, because they said he was on the terrorist watch list. He's a well-known peace activist, but he was...
O'BRIEN: ... pulled off this flight, because he...
BOROWITZ: He can still ride the peace train, however. That's fine.
O'BRIEN: Again...
TOURE: I mean...
O'BRIEN: ... but not through the borders of the United States, apparently.
TOURE: It just proves their racial profiling completely doesn't work when Yusuf Islam, who used to sing about the peace train, is getting pulled off a plane, right?
O'BRIEN: Or maybe just so we can live in a conflicted world. That's what I think. We're going to leave it there. You guys, as always, thank you very much. Congratulations to you. That's very exciting.
SHAW: Thanks.
BOROWITZ: It totally makes up for the whole Brad and Jen thing.
O'BRIEN: Exactly.
SHAW: Right. And that's why we did it.
BOROWITZ: Thank you.
O'BRIEN: Just to help out the world. Thanks, you guys -- Bill.
HEMMER: All right, well done, Jess.
SHAW: Thanks.
HEMMER: That's a weekend, huh? I'd say.
Let's get a break here. In a moment, the top stories here on AMERICAN MORNING. Also, the election is now over in Iraq. The votes are being counted. When will U.S. troops start pulling out? Some are asking that question. Others are saying, not so fast. Iraq's ambassador to the U.N. is our guest in a moment here as we continue.
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Evolutionary Practice: Brain Lapse
Jake Fried’s Hand-Drawn Experimental Animation Charts his Creative Progression
Materialising through his usual painting and drawing practice, artist Jake Fried’s “Hand-Drawn Experimental Animations” or “moving paintings”, are a spontaneous product of his long-time creative habits. Brain Lapse was hand-drawn with ink, white-out, coffee and collage.
Through his regular process of layering and reworking his pieces for weeks at a time, Jake realised that he ‘was more interested in the “evolution” of the image than any “final state”.
He is originally known for his paintings, but moved on to working on a series of moving paintings which have screened at places such as the Tate Modern, Sundance Film Festival, and on Adult Swim.
We delved deeper into Brain Lapse with Jake:
The Plus: Is there a story or idea you wish to communicate through your moving paintings?
Jake Fried:
My work is not truly narrative—the medium is the message—but for my latest piece, Brain Lapse, I knew I wanted to play with the idea of images being built-up, then torn away and reconfigured.
TP: Could you tell us more about the idea behind Brain Lapse?
This idea that everything is shifting around you. If there’s an underlying story in my work, it is a more archetypal journey—some sort of awakening or transformation.
TP: With so many images, shapes and symbols involved in your work, where does the inspiration come from?
I am as influenced/inspired by Ancient Egyptian tombs as Contemporary Painting. R Crumb’s hyper-detailed ink drawings are certainly an influence on my specific style—I would also add Philip Guston and James Ensor as major influences. And I have to mention William Kentridge as a predecessor to the kind of drawing/film work I’m exploring. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.961598813533783}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '81387', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:APHXHBPI25MKWIV2ATXHLYRZHMQX5B2E', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:44b1fef5-c2fa-405e-a359-c05488845e88>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 18, 5, 56, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '173.255.217.251', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:U3GUIYMB6ZJFCDOBR3K6ER3SPSZW26TY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:1373ca40-ef57-4c9f-9695-50c8eadbe024>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.thepluspaper.com/2014/10/23/evolutionary-practice-brain-lapse/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:eb9525ed-5bb8-499d-a2e4-3d5e437c665a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '287', 'url': 'http://www.thepluspaper.com/2014/10/23/evolutionary-practice-brain-lapse/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-26\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-149-156-229.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.24431610107421875', 'original_id': 'a690532a8b0009886ac73831cc25233e6377fd91eaff5109b822f2caa652614c'} |
Feathered Peacock Pose - Pincha Mayurasana
Feathered Peacock Pose - Pincha Mayurasana
by Sonia Sharma | July 2, 2012
About Feathered Peacock Pose
The feathered peacock pose incorporates an inversion; arm balance and back bend all in one sequence! The feathered peacock position may be quite difficult to master but once you perfect this pose, not only will you have a lot of fun practicing it but you will also realize that it was well worth all the effort. Beginners can make use of a yoga strap to tie the upper forearms together, and a yoga block to keep the elbows and hands in place. Additionally, it is advised to practice the feathered peacock pose sequence against a wall for added support, so that your body does not lose balance and collapse towards the back. Before you dive into performing the feathered peacock posture, practice the Uttanasana, Gomukhasana and Adho Mukha Svanasana as preparatory poses to warm up your muscles.
Step by Step Instructions
Let’s take a look at the guidelines for performing the feathered peacock pose!
1. Position yourself in the child’s pose (balasana).
2. Place your upper forearms on the yoga mat in front of you.
3. Now lift your heels up and shift your toes forward.
4. Then extend your legs and straighten them out as you would in the downward dog pose. Make sure that your forearms remain in their positions on the yoga mat.
5. Bring your legs forward and in one smooth movement, kick one leg up and then the other one up towards the ceiling.
6. Hold your legs in place with your feet aligned over your head. Maintain your balance as you focus on your deep breathing.
7. Hold the feathered peacock position for 30 seconds to 1 minute or for longer if you can.
Health Benefits
This demanding pose has a rich store of health benefits!
1. Stretches and strengthens the arms, shoulders and legs.
2. A great asana for stretching the chest, abdomen and neck.
3. Enhances the body’s sense of coordination and balance.
4. Helps the mind and body to relax and unwind.
5. Can cure anxiety and mild depression.
Things to Remember!
Individuals with headache, heart condition, high blood pressure, neck injuries, back or shoulder injuries should refrain from attempting the feathered peacock posture. Women who are on their menstrual cycle should avoid the feathered peacock pose.
About the Author - Sonia Sharma
I am presently functioning as a Yoga instructor for Fitness republic where I can continue feeding my yoga passion everyday in a different format through my writing and make people able to develop their personality at all levels – physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual. And yes I am always open to feedback and suggestions.
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By Amber S. Jackson
Lucky Lifer
California Women's Prison Passes Out Condoms to Inmate Population As Arrival Of "Transwomen" Causes Explosion Of Risky Sex
Exactly what makes a biologically intact male who has sex with women a 'woman?' And what are they doing in a women's prison?
Scott Wiener sponsored legislation allowing biological males into the women's prison; he has also tried to break up singe-family-home neighborhoods and is responsible for or supports most of the legislation you don't like.
UPDATE: 3 of the 4 transwomen subjects of this story are HIV positive, according to an officer at CIW. Thus, CDCR's rush to get out the condoms to the population and avoid liability. Too late. The condoms were not yet available when the sex began even though CDCR knew these 3 transwomen had HIV, and it was possible to spread through sexual intercourse. Most of the population does not know this as it is protected by Federal HIPPA legislation.
This is every bit as bad as it sounds and looks. Men are now in the women's prison's for the first time. And the worst parts of nature are taking their course...
These trans-women have been at CIW for about 2 weeks. Already, what supporters said would never happen has happened almost immediately. The transwomen have begun using their PENISES to have sex with multiple women. One has even received oral copulation on the recreation field outside in the open.
It's been announced that prison officials are making available CONDOMS to the entire population. To be specific, 3 condoms per person will be allowed to have on person. The California men's prisons have been doing this practice for decades. However, the female prisoners have never had any reason to have condoms. Until now.
Assemblyman Scott Weiner pushed through a bill making it law for men who identify as female to have the ability to transfer to women's prison. Thus causing this unthinkable situation.
Staff are rightly uncomfortable. More importantly, most of us female prisoners are uncomfortable. Some women think it's cool. Some don't care.
See, many women in prison have low self-esteem. Low self-worth and no self-respect. So these unattractive transwomen/men are having a field day having sex. Many women are vulnerable. This is like the snake in the garden.
By the way, the state has made no offer to provide pregnancy protection for women having sex with these men!
Additionally, I assume they have HIV. If they will have sex this carelessly, they were doing the same thing in the men's prisons! The one man I saw up close looked unhealthy and possibly diseased. I have little doubt these transwomen are positive for communicable diseases. Very little. This is a disgusting time to be in prison.
Most of the photos of Scott Wiener on the Internet involve him accepting an award from some special interest group
One girl in my drug class is having sex and a relationship with the one transwomen who looks like a white boy. I'm a Christian. So I'll cease contact with her forthwith, now that I know about this. You are whom you associate with. I want no part of this. I often advise other women because God gifted me with the ability to help myself and others. So, I try to do as Jesus commands. However, this is prison. I'll help someone not involved with the current transsexual scandal.
Remember Assemblyman Scott Weiner is to blame for this awful policy being passed. He pushed for the so-called transwomen to be able to live among the women's prison population. I'm not anti-transgender people. However, trans rights trample on the rights of the rest of us. Currently, a handful of transwomen are causing a disproportionate amount of problems
No good will come of this. The female prison population is not safe. More men will come here, and more problems will happen. You can bet I'll have no problem telling you all that I feel, see and hear...Stay Tuned.
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Gender Agreement in Spanish
It is easy to get confused about what is supposed to agree with what when one is first starting to learn Spanish. Today my beginning Spanish student asked me why she would say “Me llamo …” to introduce herself instead of “Me llama…” since she is a female, not a male. I explained that the –o ending in this case is a verb conjugation for the “yo” form of the verb "llamar," not a masculine ending like the –o that is at the end of adjectives like "americano" or "blanco." When we say, “Me llamo…” we are literally saying “To me, I am called…” so we have to use the “yo” form “llamo,” and the reflexive “me,” meaning “to me.” All of these grammatical terms can be a bit much for a pure beginner, so when in doubt, just remember that we say “Me llamo…” regardless of whether the speaker is male or female.
We also discussed the fact that each possessive pronouns like “my,” “your” and “our” has to agree with the noun that it modifies. For example, if the noun is feminine like "la casa," then to say “our house,” we say "nuestra casa," whether the implied “we” is a group of females, a group of males, or a group of males and females. Regardless of the speaker’s gender, the word "nuestra" has to agree with the gender of the noun that it modifies, "casa," which is feminine.
Once you get used to conjugating verbs—changing the verb endings based on who is speaking—these issues about agreement between nouns, adjectives, and personal pronouns tend to get slightly less confusing. Eventually, you may begin to feel comfortable speaking Spanish, provided you listen to spoken Spanish often enough and practice speaking it yourself every day. That is how my Spanish conversation skills were pushed over the edge into fluency: constant immersion in the language. I listened to Spanish being spoken by my husband (a native speaker), on television, at family gatherings, and on the radio, day after day after day. After about three months of this, the television programs on the Spanish channel began to make sense to me, and I could decipher more and more of what was being said. I don't mean to suggest that I somehow absorbed the language without putting in some effort. I studied unfamiliar verb conjugations, looked up words I didn't know, and asked a lot of questions. My husband was very patient, and would explain to me in Spanish until he saw the light bulb go on in my brain. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9773101806640624}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '33409', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:GZVHFCQAFR2KJ6WHDBEUUCJNCUDLJDWK', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:416341cc-760b-4df6-ba20-d06d71fd0b60>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2014, 4, 18, 4, 14, 36), 'WARC-IP-Address': '50.97.75.194', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:5FKY6QVVXOI425RDFNXY5J2MU5BO6RBM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:72b3f15f-d24b-479b-8b0e-49f57f539e4e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.wyzant.com/resources/blogs/15530/gender_agreement_in_spanish', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3f3f82ad-c9cc-4bd5-bffd-5ce86020a745>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '412', 'url': 'http://www.wyzant.com/resources/blogs/15530/gender_agreement_in_spanish', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2014-15\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for April 2014\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.20140045881271362', 'original_id': 'b430bf1cc03f44e968597f9edef2dba8a53355d1fdd9583645181c6f43d29c2c'} |
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Evelyn Williams at her 1996 exhibition, Encounters, showing the relationship between the artist and her younger self. Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian
The artist Evelyn Williams has died aged 83. Hardly a day in her working life was not spent, in part or whole, in her calm and quiet studio in Finsbury Park, north London. On her easel, a matter of weeks before her death, was an ambitious image of an effulgent ruby red flowering shrub. From her earliest drawings, vision, dream and reality combined; she characterised her work as "inner thoughts, other worlds".
She proved hard to categorise and for some the preoccupations left them cold. Maybe the band of female abstract artists who are her contemporaries have had more acceptance than her obstinate figuration. Williams should certainly be regarded, along with friends such as Paula Rego, as having forged a path for female artists. She later founded a trust in her name which has done modest but important work to support artists, particularly women, and the practice of drawing.
Evie, as she was known, was born in London, the second daughter of Jenny, a career-orientated opera singer, and Brendan Williams, a radical Welsh writer. She was packed off to AS Neill's progressive Summerhill school in Suffolk at not quite three and did not talk until she was four. She lived with an acute sense of vulnerability and in her adult life placed a tremendous value on familial love.
From the age of 15, she studied at St Martin's School of Art and then went to the Royal College of Art, working alongside the older, largely male students, many of them soldiers returning from service in the second world war. When these men started making their way in the world through such focal points as the John Moores exhibition, there, in 1961, was this pesky Evelyn Williams winning the sculpture prize with a work entered as a collage.
Her career was punctuated by shows of scale. There was a retrospective, as early as 1973, at the Whitechapel, when critics were already struggling to characterise her powerful, affecting, but for the times, not mainstream art. Her large-scale reliefs were shown at Riverside Studios in 1984 and the Out of the Forest exhibition at the Graves Gallery (1990) marked the transition away from the work on reliefs to large drawings and gradually more paintings, some of a scale comparable to the reliefs.
She permanently damaged her back working on monumental reliefs such as All Night Through (1984), now in the refectory of Murray Edwards (formerly New Hall) College, Cambridge. Exhibitions at the Mead Gallery, Coventry (1994), and at Manchester Art Gallery (1996) were marked by singular, visionary pictures.
In recent years there were exhibitions through Martin Tinney in Wales and with Agnew's and Jane England in London. These works were often intimate and startling and although the paint became thinner, the power of imagination remained true to an unfolding world of figures in interiors or passing through increasingly deserted landscapes of woods and plains. She talked of her work with self-effacement but her words provide epitaphs: "After all the attempts at movement, the pulling and pushing of forms, the agitation – here all goes still and I have a sense of relief the figure is asleep and has found rest."
Anthony Perry, her second husband, collected in a book the thoughts of people who have lived with Evie's work on their walls over the years. It is an eloquent testimony of the solace, humour and power that people found in their daily encounters with her work.
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New Delhi: India have done the right thing by recalling Rahul Dravid to the ODI fold after a gap of almost two years but the decision has also exposed the team's lack of experience in negotiating seaming conditions in England, feels former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram.
India, trailing 0-2 in a four-match Test series against England, recalled Dravid to the ODI and Twenty20 team to shore up a struggling line-up.
The 38-year-old right-hander, who last played an ODI in 2009, reacted to the "surprise" inclusion by announcing his retirement from limited-overs format at the end of the England series.
Akram said India have done the right thing as Dravid seems most adept at dealing with the conditions in England.
"Dravid's technique is very good, and on difficult wickets he comes really into his own. He is one player who can play 50 overs. India need that kind of player right now, especially after what has happened in the first two Test matches," Akram said.
"Most of the young players in the Indian team do not have much experience of playing on seaming wickets. Experience is the need of the hour. Anyway, I do not think the Indian selectors had any choice in the matter," he added.
Dravid, who has over 10,000 runs in the 50-over format, scored two hundreds in the ongoing Test series.
But Akram did not approve of the inclusion of Vinay Kumar over S Sreesanth, who is already a part of the Test squad.
"Vinay has got variety in his bowling, he is also cool-headed and I think that went in his favour. Sreesanth, on the other hand, is a wicket-taking bowler, he swings the ball quite a lot but at the same time he can be wayward.
"If I were to choose between the two, I would go for Sreesanth. It would also have done his confidence a world of good. He has got all the makings of a good bowler and he should be stuck with," Akram said.
Akram also sympathised with off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, who has been ruled out for the rest of the England tour due to a stomach injury.
"He certainly looked unfit in the both the Tests. The injury was coming for him. He has been playing for ages and some day it had to take a toll on him.
"On the seamer-friendly wickets in England, he got no spin and that made matters worse. But he is a top quality bowler and will come back hard. He has still got a lot of cricket left in him," Akram said.
Akram also advised Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to go back to the drawing board following the poor batting performances so far in the Test series.
"It's turning out to be the moment of truth for Dhoni. He has to work on his batting to overcome these seaming wickets," he said.
"Balance is key for batting and Dhoni's stance doesn't look nice and that has been his undoing. It is a learning experience and he should make the most of it," he added. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '43e1ade616d98b985734c94b9bb3136494f0e15c43382aa6d67dd0b387a6f98e'} |
Innovating for a jobless society
Ford have been building cars in Geelong for 91 years. But now their factory is quiet and their former employees are coming to terms with a new reality.
Ford factory GeelongGrowing up in Geelong, many friends worked at Ford, or Alcoa, Pilkington or any of the other allied suppliers. As each of these stopped manufacturing in Victoria's second city, employers and governments promised retraining. But where are the jobs? Factories are quickly moving to a 'lights out' operation, with no lights, no air conditioning — and no humans.
Modelling suggests nearly 5000 Geelong residents will lose their jobs to the decline in manufacturing before the end of 2017, and 200,000 nationwide. Can we find new-economy jobs for every one of them?
Futurists are divided. Around 52 per cent of respondents to a Pew Research survey point out that since the dawn of the industrial revolution we've seen that for every job replaced by machines, new jobs have been created. They see no problem with 200,000 job losses as they believe that jobs we've never thought of will open up.
But the remainder see that technology is now at a point where we're not just retraining one group of people — as weavers are replaced by the automatic loom — but where the majority of jobs will be replaced by robots. And this will happen far faster than we are prepared for.
Ray Kurzweil, futurist at Google, says in The Law of Accelerating Returns that the rate of change in technology means 'the next 20,000 years of human progress will be compressed into the next hundred'. Extrapolating, this means we will see the changes we have seen in the 250 years since the start of the industrial revolution compressed into the next 20.
With that number of displaced jobs in such a short time, we cannot replace them with jobs we cannot today imagine.
The only jobs truly safe from the coming robot revolution are pink collar jobs: the service sector, where the output of the work is humanity — rather than cars, food or computer code. While a hairdresser can be replaced by a robot, a machine cannot reassure you that the new style suits you. Coffee pods can win taste tests against baristas, but that's not the point of going to your favourite hipster cafe each morning. However there is a limit to the number of hairdressers and baristas we can find work for.
"Innovation isn't about replacing taxis with ride-sharing apps on your phone. It's not about eking out one more mega-watt from a wind turbine. Those are merely evolutionary progress. What are we planning for a society in which there is no paid work for most people?"
So maybe we need to rethink work.
Work, as we see it today, is the means by which we distribute our common wealth. 'We've wealth for toil' is not only the accepted practice, it's in the national anthem. Our current affairs programs teach us that not working is 'dole bludging' and to be without paid employment probably means you're a 'welfare cheat'. Wealth for toil, however, is a surprisingly new concept.
Before the European invasion, Indigenous Australians had no need for resumes and references. In the Middle Ages in Europe there were no unemployment figures because you either worked on the land you were born on, or for the same land-owner your parents did. We changed the way we live, survive and thrive in the past, and now it's time to do it again.
Industry itself is not going to be the answer to a post-work society. Industry exists to make money for its owners. And replacing expensive humans with cheap replaceable robots is a simple decision. If employers were going to stave off the oncoming revolution in the short term, they'd be making poor economic decisions and will, in the medium to long term, fail as their competitors produce more for less.
This means the answer needs to come from the workers — and by extension, the governments that should represent their interests.
Governments are ultimately left with two possible solutions. Currently we are entering this workless future with the Luddite approach of denial and destruction. Any attempt to think beyond 'work' is ridiculed as we desperately attempt to create work — just to maintain the status quo.
But instead, if Malcolm Turnbull wants Australia to be an innovation nation, he needs to be encouraging programs and experiments that are 'post work'. To be truly innovative means to think beyond what we currently accept. Innovation isn't about replacing taxis with ride-sharing apps on your phone. It's not about eking out one more mega-watt from a wind turbine. Those are merely evolutionary progress. What are we planning for a society in which there is no paid work for most people?
One innovative solution is known as the Universal Basic Income. This idea provides a basic income to every person, regardless of employment status. In his book Where do we go from here? Martin Luther King Jr saw guaranteed income as a way to end poverty. 'The solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.'
US economist and libertarian, Milton Freidman advocated for a minimum guaranteed income via a 'negative income tax'. Even Napoleon said we are all 'entitled by birthright to a share of the Earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of [our] existence'.
If we fail to act, if we wait for the worst before we react, we will be responding to near-universal poverty and collapsed economies. But acting requires a courage not seen in governments for at least the past few decades. It requires thinking beyond the next election cycle.
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. But I suspect our governments will not.
Rick MeashamRick Measham is an executive in the Tech industry, watching the way we work today and looking to the future. He tweets about technology and work at @divZero_. All views are his own and not necessarily those of his employer.
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I've been hearing doomsayers mouthing these luddite prophecies from "experts" all my life. And as here, it's always been about the "next" 10 or 20 years. Somehow, we're always just on the cusp! In reality, mechanization and robotization have created more huge numbers of opportunities for individuals to create wealth: the array is far more varied and finely tuned in today's capitalist society than it was before the industrial revolution. Even quadraplegics can create incomes for themselves, when they've have been dependent on charity for most of history. Human wants are infinite, human imagination is endless, and provided humans are left to freely create wealth for themselves, they will do so, to the benefit of all mankind. But one sure fire way of stopping that process dead in its tracks is to grant everyone a guaranteed income. Have a look at the aboriginal remote communities to see the disastrous effects it has on the human spirit.
HH | 07 November 2016
Great article replete with a futurist outlook. Homo Deus by Harari is a look at the future where work is no longer available because of the use of robots which will become increasingly able. A universal basic income becomes a viable alternative. It's ssential to understand the concept by reading widely. Some futurists tie this UBI to restricting working hours and opening borders. The concept has been tried already.
GAJ | 08 November 2016
"Maybe we need to rethink work" - yes, but that's not enough; a "Basic Universal Income" has got to come. It could be partially funded from the taxes that it would enable everyone to pay. But the main source of revenue should come from the profits that technological innovation enables a small section of the population to make. The essential element required in our thinking is that the profits innovators make as they do away with the need to employ people are not just the result of their own efforts. They need, and rely totally on, a society within which they are able to function. That society's contribution to the creation of their wealth must be seen to oblige them to reciprocal payments towards the support of people whose employment they have made redundant. The legislation would be hard to frame, but a new sort of social contract must be devised to suit this moment. Those who profit from a society must be charged with contributing to its maintenance. Anyhow, if innovation destroys society how can even the income of the innovators who exploit it be maintained?
Joe Castley | 08 November 2016
Come the new revolution! Revolutions are capable of disaster when introspection rules and the cause for revolution can't be relegated to the past. Workers who wish to be stuck in the past and ignore opportunity are millstones around the neck of progress and elevation of the human spirit.
john frawley | 08 November 2016
I believe Rick is right in his assessment that there will simply not be enough jobs for everyone currently being made redundant by technology. The Universal Basic Income is extremely essential in this new era. And I thank Joe for the arguments he raises as to why those making today's profits need to help provide the revenue for those many missing out. You're absolutely right Joe when you say that, "Those who profit from a society must be charged with contributing to its maintenance." Thank you Rick and Joe for pointing to a future filled with hope.
robert van zetten | 08 November 2016
I often wonder what my grandchildren will face when they grow up. As a young person in the 1950/60's the future seemed endless. It was thought that working hours would decrease and with wealth, leisure would be our future. Fast forward to when my children were my age in the '50/60's - the 1980's the future for them was quite uncertain, Paul Keating famously said; "this is the recession that we had to have" . Education was seen as the key to a good well paid job so we slaved to send them to good schools. Fortunately they all have good jobs- in the service industry with two in IT.As Rick notes the days of the 'blue collar worker' in Australia are numbered, even the so called service industries are going to the Philippines or India .How many times have you rung a call centre for one of our major banks and ended up speaking to a person with a foreign accent? Maybe the days of Governments depending in income tax to fund them are ending. A move to taxing enterprises, sadly mostly foreign owned will be urgently needed to save widespread social disruption.
Gavin | 08 November 2016
HH - Suffering in remote aboriginal communities is not the result of granting a guaranteed income. Rather it is part of the terrible consequences of white colonisation and the devastation of the culture of the first peoples of this country. We, the invaders, have caused the disastrous effect on their human spirit.
robert van zetten | 08 November 2016
Good idea, but please read Modern Monetary Theorist Bill Mitchell's work on basic income vs job guarantee. It can be found at , along with plenty of other food for thought. There are plenty of things that need doing in society, so I think we can rethink work and find plenty to do to improve our lives collectively and individually.
karen | 08 November 2016
That is a good article Rick. My father worked for Marfleet & Weight Engineers and they employed hundreds of workers in heavy engineering. They built the turbines for the Snowy. The dredge for Hazlewood Power station (closed last week). Gradually as tenders went to the Koreans, or Japanese, pipelines and Dam gates were lost to overseas competitors. You can buy a Ford Ranger in Thailand for $31k. Here is costs $55k. We cant compete with labor costs. The whole notion of free trade is a nonsense when you compete with Asia. It cant work and it wont work. All Toyota Commercials and Ford Commercials are made in Thailand. Fiat, the biggest car company in the world builds cars untouched by human hands. So what are Australians to do? Apr 27, 2016 - Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced all 12 of Australia's next fleet of submarines will be built in Adelaide from local steel, with France winning the hard-fought global race for the $50 billion contract. This wouldnt happen in Italy or in Japan. It wouldnt happen in the US. So why is it happening here? Our politicians cant see the wood for the trees. What Turnbull should be concentrating on is building more goals and detention centres to house the ever increasing hopelessly and permanently unemployed in this economically doomed nation or just sell all the entire infrastructure to the Chinese.
francis Armstrong | 08 November 2016
RVZ, thanks, but I disagree and so do many aboriginal leaders who see the "sit-down money" situation as a huge problem. Also the majority of aborigines are integrated into the mainstream economy, taking no sit-down money, working alongside their fellow Australians and exhibiting none of the hardships endured in the remote communities. Guaranteed income is like government foreign aid: it robs people of the incentive to look after themselves. This has been proven time and again the world over.
HH | 08 November 2016
Meaningful work is a necessary part of the human condition - making a contribution to society. Capitalism has never been able to provide that for everyone and it will get worse. The solution lies in socialism where resources are shared, hospitals, schools, aged and community care properly staffed. Public transport and housing, development of a green economy are part of a future for people. There is so much that could be done. There are so many important people- related service jobs but capitalism only provides them if a profit can be made. It will take socialism where the motive ceases to be profit and becomes people's interests and the planet.
Anna Pha | 08 November 2016
I couldn't agree more. Perhaps something in the way of a universal age pension that everyone (regardless of assets and income) receives in NZ when they turn 65. may be the way to go.
William Stockwell | 08 November 2016
OK HH, let us, for the sake of the argument, assume that you are right. Describe for us what the pattern of employment might be in Geelong in 5 years' time if only people there 'were left to freely create wealth for themselves'.
Ginger Meggs | 08 November 2016
Socialism has always failed. Even the voluntary socialism of the early Christians - perhaps the most saintly community in history - fell apart in a short time, as St Paul's letters attest. The socialism of the fervent Mayflower pilgrims led to famine within 2 years. The 20th century is littered with the failures of socialism. There is not a single successful instance of a state or central authority dictating the means of production, distribution and exchange for any length of time. Capitalism, on the other hand, has lifted billions out of poverty since the 18th century. It's obviously consonant with Christianity. Joseph and his foster-son Our Lord were carpenters, Peter a fisherman, Paul a tent-maker, Luke a doctor. Respectable capitalist occupations: all making a living - ie, a profit - from exchange.
HH | 08 November 2016
Dear HH, I think it should be pointed out that carpentry, fishing, tent-making, medicine, are all perfectly respectable and necessary occupations in a socialist environment, as well as a capitalist one. The work needs to be done, no matter what the economic/financial structure of the society. And as for societies that have operated as centrally controlled systems: for most of history many, many, states have operated as kingdoms, princedoms, or similar. Not socialist, but certainly not democratic, and not capitalist in the sense you use it either. And we should remember that, recently, in the GFC, the United States could have failed had the government not had the resources to bail out the bastions of private enterprise.
Vin Victory | 09 November 2016
Futurologists are a bit like scryers: of dubious real use. The latte set rave about many things. It is a pity they were silent on the closure of the Australian automotive industry under Abbott's watch. That is probably his worst political cockup bar none. We need to look at Germany which has never destroyed its manufacturing industry as the Anglophone world has done with such lunatic glee.
Edward Fido | 09 November 2016
VV, thanks, but, unless you have better information: Joseph and his Foster-Son, Peter and Paul, etc, were not engaging in their trades as charitable enterprises. They were running businesses. They were thus capitalists. Granted: Our Lord did not invoice the five thousand for the loaves and fishes. But that was a miraculous event. Unfortunately, socialists too often presume these to be natural occurrences.
HH | 09 November 2016
Dear HH, i guess neither of us have any real knowledge as to how Joseph managed his carpentry workshop. It is quite possible that the village worked as a co-operative. A form of socialism. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs". Or perhaps he was a hard-headed business man, and refused to supply the widow with the wooden tray she needed, because of lack of funds?
vin victory | 10 November 2016
1. The concept of UBI is to make everyone a rentier aristocrat living off a dividend from the productive capacity of the economy, like the nobles of feudal times. But, what productive capacity? Unless Australia actually trades something with the world, there will be no profitable industries the taxes on which can be used to fund a UBI that is more liveable than the dole. We still need to create jobs, even if they are only for robots who, like people, will be competing with their robot brothers and sisters overseas. 2. Is a UBI affordable? Multiplying (2011 ABS statistics) 8.4 million households by the then median income of just under $50000 is $420 billion. But the Commonwealth’s gross income in that period was just under $330 billion.
Roy Chen Yee | 12 November 2016
Amen to Rick's thinking. The reason our ( and the world's) economy is sluggish is because the spending population doesn't have the money to spend. This has resulted from the replacement of labour with capital (financing technology) and this doesn't take the responsibility of supporting the population. New ways have to be found of financing population support and UBI seems the best way to do it. Yes, it has to be financed and this means that a different tax profile is necessary. We certainly have to think outside the square because the present economics is not working. Investing capital to decrease labour input will only make the situation worse. In the past we have always had some new market we can tap, but now this is failing because globalisation has put us all in the same boat. Now there are not enough jobs to go around. UBI can also lead to greater efficiency as it would lead to a huge decrease in compliance costs of the dole, but as long as the saved money is spent in the same community it should balance out. The gain is in removing the angst in complying with the myriad of regulations of receiving the present dole.
John | 13 November 2016
Ginger Meggs: That's a good question you pose to HH. What will the 5000 unemployed in Geelong do to "freely create wealth for themselves" in five years' time? What else but go on to a pre-cursor of Universal Basic Income known anachronistically as "Job Search"? So, HH, it seems to me that the socialism that you fear (with some justification) cannot be avoided unless our society starts to reconceptualise things in line with the indicators in Rick's article.
Chris Davidson | 14 November 2016
Spot on...a prophet in our time!
Pamela Jones | 14 November 2016
(Sorry: been away.) VV: Given there's absolutely no evidence Nazareth was a socialist co-operative, and there’s strong evidence that the region as a whole functioned as a typical province of the Roman empire economically speaking, I'd say you have Buckley's trying to prove your point. But you're welcome to try! There's no disputing, though, that St Paul was a capitalist tent-maker. (Perhaps he hadn't attended enough re-education classes?) GM and CD: to put the matter in perspective: Geelong's economy was artificially boosted by subsidies to the automotive industry. This drained the economy elsewhere in Australia. So at the very least, cet. par., the economy of Australia ( including poor taxpayers) is better off for the end of a failed experiment in crony capitalism/socialism. Now, as to Geelong itself in the future: if, say, it were to be classed as a Special Economic Zone, with low to no taxes (income or company), minimum red tape for business start ups, no labour laws above and beyond the laws of contract and tort (so no minimum wage laws, etc) and no trade restrictions I have every confidence it would do as well as the plethora of Special Economic Zones that have been spreading through the world over recent decades. Of course, I can't predict precisely how the Geelongaise (?) would creatively exploit this window of wealth-creating opportunity, any more than one could have in 1950 predicted precisely how the Hong Kongese would create wealth, or what any creative person would produce precisely once they were free to create. All that is certain is that for a man or woman, economic freedom is the precondition for wealth creation and socialism is the death knell. So the 20th century has taught, ad nauseam.
HH | 14 November 2016
(Sorry: been away.) VV: Given there's absolutely no evidence Nazareth was a socialist co-operative, and there’s strong evidence that the Palestine/Judea region as a whole functioned as a typical province of the Roman empire economically speaking, I’d say the default assumption is that Joseph worked for a profit. There's no disputing, though, that St Paul was a capitalist tent-maker. (Perhaps he hadn't attended enough re-education classes?) GM and CD: to put the matter in perspective: Geelong's economy was artificially boosted by subsidies to the automotive industry. This drained the economy elsewhere in Australia and deprived poorer Australians of cheap cars. So at the very least, cet. par., the economy of Australia is better off for the end of an expensive, failed experiment in crony capitalism/socialism. Now, as to Geelong itself in the future: if Sir John James Cowperthwaite’s policy of laissez faire for Hong Kong were imposed on Geelong and its region, why wouldn’t the Hong Kong miracle that lasted for 50 or more years be repeated? Geelong has considerably more natural resources to start with (e.g. fresh water and arable land), better infrastructure than HK had in the 1950s, and wouldn’t have to cope with hundreds of thousands of penniless refugees from China and Vietnam arriving every few years as HK did. Naturally, I can’t predict exactly how that miracle would unfold, just as no one – not even brilliant free market economist - would have been able to predict precisely the industrial economic evolution of the Hong Kong economy back in 1950 (or Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, etc). Human creativity has surprising twists and turns. But I’d put a lot of money on a steady and steep growth in per capita income and low unemployment for Geelong, as was the record in HK for decades.
HH | 15 November 2016
"I’d say the default assumption is that Joseph worked for a profit." Whether or not one wishes to call him a capitalist, the word deriving from the Latin for head of livestock of which he had many, Abram, in leaving his kinship network for an uncertain atomic existence in a foreign land, with no children for most of that time, had nothing but wits and some livestock to barter and trade in a milieu where there was no state or tribal support. At the very least, that makes him a free enterpriser.
Roy Chen Yee | 15 November 2016
Excellent point, Roy.
HH | 18 November 2016
"governments that should represent their interests" Governments which represent the interests of workers! When? Where?
Sheelah Egan | 06 January 2017
Thanks for this important series on work, and this important contribution. Apart from not welcoming the robot overlords, this aged pensioner luddite wish the sentiments could be widely spread and debated.
Pamela Jones | 06 January 2017
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to ski and ski pole transport devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to ski and ski pole strap devices which aid in handling and transporting ski equipment.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Due to their elongated shape, skis and ski poles are difficult and cumbersome to handle. Many prior art ski and ski pole carrying devices have been proposed. Generally, these devices combine the skis and poles in a single unit with the skis and poles generally parallel to one another for convenient carrying.
Many of these devices employ brackets or the like to rigidly mount the skis relative to the poles. Uyeda, U.S. Pat. No. 4,588,115, is one such device. Another device of this type is Hickey, U.S. Pat. No. 4,190,182. Allen, U.S. Pat. No. 3,985,275, is also a similar device. Wichersham, U.S. Pat. No. 4,871,102, discloses a shoulder mounted device to facilitate the carrying of skis which can be strapped to an ankle once its use for carrying the skis has ended.
Hogensen, U.S. Pat. No. 3,920,166, discloses a ski carrier strap which is convertible to be used as a belt once it is no longer needed to carry the skis.
It has long been recognized in the art that fabric straps with hook and loop pile fasteners such as Velcro.RTM. are versatile and convenient for bundling and transporting skis. Coats, U.S. Pat. No. 5,160,074, discloses a ski sling which has hook and loop fastener material disposed on the end of the sling. Sage, U.S. Pat. No. 4,833,901, discloses a wrap and lock ski holding assembly which also employs a chain in association with the straps employing hook and loop fastener material. Shortridge, U.S. Pat. No. 4,553,779, discloses a relatively wide band of fabric with carrying loops. The fabric is wrapped around the skis and ski poles and held in place with hook and loop fastener material or the like. Ball U.S. Pat. No. 4,463,885, discloses a single loop ski carrier strap. Two hook and loop tabs are used to disposed the strap in a "Figure 8" arrangement around the skis and ski poles. Knauf, U.S. Pat. No. 4,114,838, discloses an elongated ski carrier which has two perpendicular tabs of hook and loop fastener material disposed on its ends. Mazzoni, U.S. Pat. No. 3,960,302, is a ski carrying strap similar to Knauf and Ball.
Most pertinent to the present invention are Rosenthal, U.S. Pat. No. 3,947,927 and Dyess, U.S. Pat. No. 4,470,528. Rosenthal discloses a strap employing two "D-rings" to form a lower loop and an upper loop which are constructed of hook and loop fastener material. The lower loop encompasses a pair of skis while the upper loop surrounds a pair of ski poles. Dyess discloses a strap which also employs a "D-ring". A section of padding material disposed between the skis is attached to the "D-ring". A length of hook and loop fastener material extends from the "D-ring" to encircle and hold a pair of skis together.
Snow skiers face several specific circumstances where a well-designed ski transport strap could prevent problems. For example, it is generally required that ski poles be unbundled from their skis in order to transport the skis on the exterior ski buses. The ski poles must be carried within by the owner for safety reasons. A storage rack is often provided at the entrance to establishments in skiing areas. Generally, these racks consist only of a set of pegs extending from a wall. To effectively use such a rack the skis need to be tightly bound
together. Similarly, skis are often stored during long periods of non-use. Therefore, if they are conveniently bundled they will take up less space. When stored they will generally be in a location where other items are stored. So, it is important that a bundling strap employing hook and loop material not have a tendency to attach itself to other fabric.
The prior art fails to disclose a ski transport strap that is sufficiently convenient for use. It is desirous to provide a ski carrying strap that would be convenient to deploy and would be easy to remove and store after use. Furthermore, it is desirous to provide a ski strap that employs a convenient material such as Velcro.RTM. or Mastex.RTM. while also protecting this material from inadvertent engagement with other fabric during transport or storage of the skis.
In particular, it is desirous to provide a ski strap that can be wrapped around a set of skis a single time without the need for feeding it through relatively narrow loops or rings. Further, the strap should provide a gripping or frictional surface which will non-destructively grip the skis in a non-slip fashion. This surface serves to avoid slippage of the straps during carrying, regardless of the angle of orientation of the skis. The strap must be convenient to handle by an individual wearing gloves.
Furthermore, it is desirous that this ski strap be convertible in such a way that the ski poles may be first removed from the skis without releasing the skis from one another. Once the straps are removed from the skis, they should be capable of being easily stowed. The straps may be wrapped and secured around an individual's leg or arm. Alternatively, they may be conveniently rolled up for stowage in a pocket or pack. The exterior of the strap exposed during use or when being worn by an individual should provide a surface for indicia. The indicia can include identification or advertising by a manufacturer or business. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '51ad8ba0cbbcd29ebafc3c64c6ae4e5e085c7a30d4d09e5aa3dfe0220df7b391'} |
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Flota Magdalena works with three different types of buses. They have two series in this. The Galaxita is a small bus which is used for higher frequencies and shorter distances. The serie Galaxia is divided into a plus and a normal serie. The serie galaxia contains toilets, tilting chairs, televisions and radio capabilities. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8997082114219666}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '33291', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:ETNBQEHYXOO25PY5ZMNTHB2BYG4IAPEN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:04c5f9c3-91a0-45c0-8311-2b5bf71ed976>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 2, 16, 17, 58, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '195.169.145.100', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NT5YK53STDFKDHABBF4WBXFFEWUQJ6HL', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:94652426-2297-4b2d-96db-5f4e9177f19e>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.colombiainfo.org/en-us/transport/bus/flotamagdalena.aspx', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:f055d18f-92d8-479b-8c50-d7889f673f0d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '91', 'url': 'http://www.colombiainfo.org/en-us/transport/bus/flotamagdalena.aspx', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-09\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-156-82-108.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.290662944316864', 'original_id': '0f2865ae8d03029e04f95caa75d4e6d7b029836ffb5aa9d6e5a85ba81b2ab6cf'} |
Hummidees, Jaybins, and Ravoons
A Lesson About Volume, Surface Area and Body Heat
How much work does a bird's body have to do to keep warm? Create your own "cubic birds" that resemble the size of some birds we already know to explore this question!
When you touch your face, you can feel the heat your body is producing leaking out into the air, or onto your hand. Your muscles and blood and organs produce the heat.
The amount of heat a warm-blooded animal produces is related to its body's volume. The bigger the body's volume, the more of these heat-producing tissues fit inside. Fur or feathers help hold heat in, but some body heat always escapes.
The amount of heat a body loses is related to its surface area--how much surface it has where heat can leak out.
The tinier something is the larger its surface area compared to its volume, and so the more heat it loses compared to the heat it produces.
The simplest way to understand this is with blocks that are one cubic inch in size.
Before you begin, help students to understand the concepts of volume and surface area. A block that is one inch on every edge has a volume of one cubic inch. The block's six sides give it a surface area of six square inches. When students understand the concept of volume and surface area, continue with the directions below.
Click on image for Cubic Inch Block pattern idea
NOTE: For the following demonstration, you can use ready-made blocks that are one cubic inch, or use our pattern to have students create 44 individual paper blocks. Or, you can simply reason through the lesson without using blocks.
1. Make (or picture) a pretend tiny cubic bird that's one cubic inch in size. We'll call it a "hummidee."
2. Put 8 of your cubic-inch blocks together to make a bigger bird block. What is its volume? (8 cubic inches) What is its surface area? (24 square inches) This medium-sized bird is your "jaybin."
3. Now put 27 blocks together to make an even bigger bird block. What is its volume? (27 cubic inches) Its surface area? (54 square inches). This big bird will be called a "ravoon."
4. Discuss and compare the amount of heat produced by each of the three birds.
How much space does each of these "birds" have for producing heat? (The hummidee produces heat in 1 cubic inch of space, the jaybin in 8 cubic inches of space, and the ravoon in 27 cubic inches of space.) Can you see how the jaybin can produce 8 times more heat than the hummidee, and the ravoon 27 times more than the hummidee? (Heat production is actually more complicated than this, but the relationships are pretty close.)
1. Talk about total surface area of heat that can be lost for each of the three birds. Ask,
• Over how many square inches of skin does the hummidee lose heat? (6 square inches)
• Over how many square inches of skin does the jaybin lose heat? (24 square inches)
2. How many times more heat does the jaybin lose than the hummidee? (Over 4 times the amount of heat)
But think about this! Because the jaybin produces 8 times as much heat as the hummidee, it keeps more of its heat inside than the hummidee does.
3. Over how many square inches of skin does that huge ravoon lose heat? (Over 54 square inches of skin) That's 9 times the amount of heat the hummidee loses. But the ravoon produces 27 times the amount of heat as the hummidee, so this big bird is still way ahead!
Hummingbird nest
Courtesy of
Dorothy Edgington
4. What strategies might tiny hummingbirds have to make more body heat--and to make the most of the body heat they DO produce? (Tiny birds need to shiver so much more than larger birds. Shivering makes their muscles do extra work to produce more heat than larger birds need. Hummingbirds also build such tiny, tight nests for a good reason. A tiny nest helps to hold in a hummer's body heat so the babies inside their eggs can warm up and develop without wasting the mother's heat and energy.)
Blue Jay
Courtesy Anne Cook
Courtesy Chan Robbins
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Friday, February 22, 2008
EfficienCity: a climate-friendly town
EfficienCity: a climate-friendly town
EfficienCity is a virtual town, but pioneering, real world communities around the UK are using similar systems. As a result, they're enjoying lower greenhouse gas emissions, a more secure energy supply, cheaper electricity and heating bills and a whole new attitude towards energy.
What is decentralised energy? Well, it's pretty much the opposite of our present, outrageously inefficient energy system, which was designed to meet the needs of a society that hadn't even heard of climate change. This centralised system is a shambles - in fact, it would be impossible to invent a less efficient way of generating energy.
The typical power plant in the UK is only 38 per cent efficient. By the time we use electricity in our homes and offices, we've lost nearly 80 per cent of the usable energy inside the fossil fuels we burn.
This is mostly because we have two separate energy systems: one for electricity, and another to heat water and buildings. It's news to some, but heat is a far bigger culprit than electricity when it comes to global warming.
For electricity, we burn fossil fuels in a few large power plants, miles away from the homes and offices they supply. Two thirds of the energy available in fossil fuels is lost in the power plant as waste heat (a by-product of electricity generation) and during transmission. Another 13 per cent is lost through inefficient use in our buildings.
For heat, we burn more fossil fuels (mostly natural gas) in boilers in our homes, offices and factories.
It's a little bit like putting radiators on the outside of your house instead of inside it; we're burning one lot of fossil fuels for electricity, and another lot for heat, but waste heat is a by-product of electricity generation. Can't we just burn one lot of fuel to generate electricity, and capture the 'waste' heat at the same time?
Combined heat and power
CHP is the heart of an efficient, decentralised energy system like EfficienCity's. It's the most efficient way possible to burn fuel because so little energy is lost as waste heat. That's how CHP plants in Denmark can reach up to 95 per cent efficiency.
If we combined the efficiencies of CHP with improved efficiencies in the home (proper insulation say, and minimum efficiency standards for appliances), we'd practically eliminate the profligate wastage of our current system.
Local renewable energy sources
But decentralised energy isn't all about CHP. There's an abundance of energy out there in our natural world, ready to be harnessed. We could be harvesting energy from the wind, the sun's rays, the ocean, underground springs and even the earth itself. According to the government, just the wind, wave and tidal resources of our windswept island could meet 40 per cent of our energy needs by 2020. In the longer term, the sky's the limit.
A flexible, scalable energy system
Unlike our conventional power plants, decentralised energy is completely scalable and flexible. You can have a tiny CHP plant in a supermarket or an enormous industrial plant like Immingham, which will soon provide as much electricity as Sizewell B. You can have a single wind turbine like the one at Manchester City's stadium or a massive wind farm like the forthcoming London Array.
Energy security
Whereas decentralised systems like EfficienCity's rely on local, diverse energy sources, our current system will soon rely mostly on imported fossil fuels.
On top of that, using hundreds of small energy generators instead of a few major ones means there's a far lower risk of system failure; it's far less likely that several small plants will fail at the same time than that one big plant will.
No more energy price hikes
Decentralised energy can also save consumers an enormous amount. Efficiency measures alone can save consumers a whopping £12 billion a year (the government's own figures) and they save more money than they cost to implement.
And of course, if the UK decoupled itself from the fossil fuel market, we'd be protecting ourselves from the massive price increases of gas, coal and oil, which will inevitably keep coming.
Reclaim the power!
Every major political party agrees that the future is decentralised. Every party, that is, except Labour, which wants to lock us into our archaic and criminally wasteful energy system with new coal and new nuclear power plants. With climate change already happening, that's precisely what we don't need.
We’ve decided to reclaim the power from the dinosaurs in Whitehall, by asking local councils to take the leap into a genuinely sustainable energy future like the one portrayed in EfficienCity.
Pioneering councils can transform the UK’s energy system. In Manchester, Eastleigh, Southampton, Woking and Birmingham, exciting schemes are already underway.
The Challenge of Sustainable Lifestyle
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“Green Economics”: Turning Mainstream Thinking on Its Head
Local Currencies in the Twenty-First Century:
Understanding Money, Building Local Economies, Renewing Community
A Conference Report
By Susan Witt and Christopher Lindstrom of the E. F. Schumacher Society
140 Jug End Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230 USA
The most sustainable economy would be one in which the goods consumed in a region are produced in the same region using local resources and local labor. Ernest Fritz Schumacher referred to such a system as “an economy of permanence.” His 1974 book Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, remains the most compelling case for building vibrant regional economies as a counterpoint to our increasing reliance on far flung global production systems.
The E. F. Schumacher Society, formed in 1980 after Schumacher’s death, is dedicated to creating and promoting the appropriate scaled economic tools that foster patterns of regional economic production and trade, benefiting small businesses and family farms, and involving consumers ever more directly with the people and land of their community. Among these tools are local currencies. During the weekend of June 25 27, 2004, the E. F. Schumacher Society convened a conference Local Currencies in the Twenty-First Century: Understanding Money, Building Local Economies, Renewing Community. Over three hundred people gathered at Bard College on the Hudson River in New York State to join what conference participant Pete Seeger called, “the best conference I ever attended.”
In today’s global economy national currencies have had the effect of centralizing ownership of wealth and of widening the gap between rich and poor--all the while undermining local communities, devastating indigenous peoples, and polluting the environment. Decentralized regional currencies are an important counterforce working to redistribute wealth more broadly while supporting unique regional identities, cultures, and communities. A local currency defines a regional trading area, favoring those small independent businesses willing to trade in the currency. Local businesses, unable to compete with the products of an increasingly predatory global economy, become strong players in resilient, regional marketplaces.
In 1972 Robert Swann worked with Ralph Borsodi, to issue a local currency in Exeter, New Hampshire, called the Constant. This experiment ended after a year due to Borsodi’s health, but Swann’s passion to responsibly issue currencies to renew local economies and local communities endured. Asked to serve as founding President of E. F. Schumacher Society, Swann applied this passion and helped shape the E. F. Schumacher Society’s work in the Berkshires with SHARE, Deli Dollars, Berkshire Farm Preserve Notes, and BerkShares. Swann died in January of 2003, before the local currency conference was conceived. However, if he had been there, he would have thanked the pioneering activists attending for their work in their own communities, encouraged them to share the sense of possibility and hope that comes from local action, and expressed his trust in a younger generation creating new, regional solutions.
From the Conference Overview
The E. F. Schumacher Society employs the term “local currencies” to refer to place-based monetary tools for building sustainable local economies. Other terms that have arisen and which were used during the conference, include “complementary currencies,” “community currencies,” and sometimes “alternative currencies.” These local currencies take many forms.
Local Bank Notes
In the 1800’s nearly all commercial banks in the United States issued their own individual currencies at the point of making “productive” loans to businesses. Typically a productive loan is made for purchase of equipment (machinery, tools, supplies) that will result in an increased availability of goods in the economy. In this way local banks determined the amount and kind of credit needed to stimulate business development in each particular region. In 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve Act, local bank money was replaced by the federal dollar issued by a coalition of private banks that make up the Federal Reserve banking system.
The Constant, issued in 1972 by the International Independence Institute, under the leadership of Ralph Borsodi and Robert Swann, circulated for a year in Exeter, New Hampshire stores as a demonstration that local bank notes, working with the not-for-profit sector, remain a contemporary option for local exchange.
In 1991, Paul Glover organized a local currency for his hometown of Ithaca, New York, that used paper notes for trade of local goods and services. The notes were denominated in hours of labor (equivalent to the average hourly wage for Ithaca or $10). To begin circulation, Hours were issued to owners of small businesses willing to accept the notes in trade for goods and services. Paul’s concept was that Hours would be backed by the future productivity of those to whom they were issued and so Hours would maintain a strong value independent of the fluctuation in federal dollars.
Over the next decade, Hours programs spread in over 50 communities throughout the United States and Canada engaging citizens in the discussion of creating their own regional monetary systems. Of these start-ups only a few are still running. Ithaca Hours continues to grow, having developed several new initiatives including a local health insurance program and exceptional collaboration with Alternatives Credit Union that offers an optional Hours account.
One factor in the attrition of Hours programs is that community groups failed to anticipate the start-up time and costs involved in promoting and sustaining a new currency issue.
Time Dollars, Time Banks (UK)
Following a long illness during which the services of others were critical to his recovery, lawyer Edgar Cahn devised a program called Time Dollars. Time Dollars are used to record the good deeds of neighbors for each other. Old, young, handicapped, and marginalized, all have some service to contribute to their community and so can earn and bank Time Dollars for occasions when they are in need. In order for Time Dollar Institutes to maintain tax-exempt status as charities, Time Dollar transactions are generally limited to what would be called "the gift economy," excluding commercial economic exchanges. Nevertheless, Time Dollars have shown to be an extraordinary tool for weaving values such as reciprocity, trust, cooperation, and what Edgar calls “co-production” in a community. Numerous Time Dollar networks are active throughout the US and the UK.
LETS (Local Economic Trading Systems)
Michael Linton founded the first LETS program in the early 1980s on Vancouver Island in Canada. LETS programs were created as a simple debit and credit system, denominated in the national currency. Consumers wishing to purchase goods or services offered through the LETS program would simply phone in a transaction to a central coordinator and their LETS account would be debited and the seller’s account credited. Producers would then spend their credits with other members in the system. The system was essentially self-regulated with members issuing their own line of credit at the point of making a purchase.
LETS programs are by far the most popular local currency systems throughout the world, spawning various adaptations. LETS development has been slow in the US, however. IRS law recognizes LETS programs as barter systems and as such requires system managers to report the total value of transactions for each individual to the Internal Revenue Service. This kind of management has proven costly and burdensome for start up systems, discouraging broad replication in this country up until this point.
Self-Financing Scrip
In 1989, after being denied a bank loan, the owner of The Deli in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, issued “Deli Dollars” as a way to finance the move from one location to another. Customers bought Deli Dollars for $8 to be redeemed for $10 worth of soup and sandwiches at a later date. It was not the first time scrip had been used as a self-financing tool for a small business, but Deli Dollars caught the attention of international media including CNN, NBC, CBS, and Tokyo TV, giving new energy to the local currency movement.
Other small businesses in Great Barrington issued their own notes to eager customers, demonstrating that citizens working together can create independent, low-cost methods of making micro-credit loans that double as a local currency.
Multiple-Store Notes/Customer Loyalty Scrip
In 1991 in Great Barrington seventy merchants worked with the Chamber of Commerce to issue BerkShares. During a six-week period, customers collected one BerkShare for every $10 spent at one of the stores. Then during a designated three-day redemption period, BerkShares could be spent as cash for store items, creating a spirit of festivity on Main Street. Again there are many variations on this simple approach in which multiple businesses reward their regular customers through discount notes.
In some areas such as Toronto, Canada, and the Salt Spring Island off of Vancouver, consumers initiate the exchange through conversion of federal notes to a local currency traded exclusively at regional stores.
Economists have long debated monetary theory, putting forth different arguments about how money should be placed in circulation. Many involved in the local currency movement are at the same time interested in alternative or complementary national and international currencies. Some of these interests were represented at the conference.
Commodity Backed Currencies
For centuries fiscal conservatives have advocated for a currency backed by something of perceived value such as gold and silver as a way to discourage the over-issue that leads to inflation. Others have suggested backing in a basket of commodities such as grains, vegetable oils, fossil fuels, and minerals. The Liberty Dollar is a contemporary private, for-profit revival of the effort to create a gold and silver backed currency.
Electronic Trading Tools
The Internet and other new technologies such as “smart cards” have opened the possibility of trading without use of traditional forms of money. Many inventive individuals are suggesting ways of linking these electronic cards, which are primarily tools to facilitate consumer credit, to businesses with defined missions, such as merchants of green products.
The majority of these applications are still on the drawing board, but their developers have imagined including aspects of customer loyalty notes and other discount benefits as incentives for consumers to join. Most are denominated in US dollars though The Terra Trade Reference Currency proposed by Bernard Lietaer is exploring an electronic trading card with transactions denominated in a basket of commodities held by global corporations.
Barter Exchange Systems
Our earliest experience of barter is the simple exchange of goods or services between two people. However there is a thriving international world of commercial barter exchanges. These systems can involve complex multiple trades. While most of these systems denominate trades in US dollars, some are introducing their own measure of exchange functioning much like a currency.
In 1934, Basel, Switzerland became headquarters to a highly successful Swiss business-to-business barter exchange system known as “WIR,” (German for “We”). Consumers are excluded from participation. Trades are denominated in WIR and businesses can “bank” credits for future transaction. Members are given discount incentives for trading within the system. System administrators are authorized to extend credit (make loans in WIR) to businesses meeting the system’s economic criteria. The WIR network is credited with stabilizing the Swiss economy.
Other barter groups rely on inventories of excess capacity, offering these inventories in trade at discounts to members. Some commercial barter groups are considering ways to expand their trade to include consumers, thereby functioning like a currency within a defined trading arena.
All of the innovative programs described during the conference grew out of a series of private and public discussions on the nature of money, its role in the economic system, and its effect on society and culture. All of the plenary and workshop presentations touched on this subject in some way; some focused on it.
We were privileged to have a number of presenters from aboard who reported on the complex of local currency programs in their regions.
The varieties of local currency programs, as outlined above, involve three very different kinds of money. One is consumer credit that facilitates the ability of individuals to purchase needed goods and services. The second is gift money recording our generosity to others. The gift economy builds very real links in a community, strengthening the social and cultural fabric and contributing to the quality of life, but does not directly enter into the creation and exchange of goods and services. The third kind of money is what is commonly known as investment capital. This is money needed for business start-ups and expansion, capital for the means of production as distinct from monthly operating costs. When Jane Jacobs, the renowned regional planner, portrayed regional currencies as an elegant tool for creation of import-replacing businesses, she had this third kind of money in mind. In the future all three forms of money will be essential to an overall strategy for building healthy local economies.
What should we expect from the local currency movement in the near term?
Certainly new innovation in consumer-credit systems--supporting “Buy Local First” programs, and providing incentives for consumers to come back to the storefronts on their Main Streets.
Greater cooperation between the highly popular Time Dollar systems and the consumer credit systems in which administrative capabilities are shared, outreach in the local community is shared, and technology is shared.
At the same time it will be essential to apply our collective creativity to the problem of how communities can issue local currencies in the form of no-interest loans to finance businesses producing goods now imported from afar.
There is much work ahead. All of those who gathered at the conference are engaged in creating solutions to the growing problems of globalization--solutions that will link us ever more directly with the people and land of our own communities. The conference was convened to honor and support this emerging era of vibrant citizen activism.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Free Online Course on Environmental Science:
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1. Unit 1: Earth's Systems
1. Chapter 1: Flow of Energy
1. Lesson 1: Introduction
2. Lesson 2: Forms of Energy
3. Lesson 3: Sources and Sinks
4. Lesson 4: Conservation of Energy
5. Lesson 5: Energy Units
2. Chapter 2: The Cycling of Matter
1. Lesson 6: Introduction
2. Lesson 7: Water Cycle
3. Lesson 8: Carbon Cycle
4. Lesson 9: Nitrogen Cycle
5. Lesson 10: Phosphorus Cycle
3. Chapter 3: The Solid Earth
1. Lesson 11: Introduction
2. Lesson 12: Earth's Formation & Structure
3. Lesson 13: Geologic Time Scale
4. Lesson 14: The Lithosphere & Plate Tectonics
5. Lesson 15: Geological Disturbances
6. Lesson 16: Rocks & the Rock Cycle
7. Lesson 17: Soil Formation
4. Chapter 4: The Atmosphere
1. Lesson 18: Introduction
2. Lesson 19: Atmospheric Structure
3. Lesson 20: Solar Radiation
4. Lesson 21: Wind
5. Lesson 22: Weather
6. Lesson 23: Precipitation
7. Lesson 24: Climate
5. Chapter 5: The Biosphere
1. Lesson 25: Introduction
2. Lesson 26: Organisms
3. Lesson 27: Population/Communities
4. Lesson 28: Ecosystems
5. Lesson 29: Biomes
6. Lesson 30: Evolution of Life
2. Unit 2: Human Population Dynamics
1. Chapter 6: History and Global Distribution
1. Lesson 31: Introduction
2. Lesson 32: Population Growth
3. Lesson 33: Population Demographics
4. Lesson 34: Patterns of Resource Use
2. Chapter 7: Carrying Capacity
1. Lesson 35: Introduction
2. Lesson 36: Effects of Technology and the Environment
3. Lesson 37: Effect of Standard of Living
3. Chapter 8: Cultural and Economic Influences
1. Lesson 38: Introduction
2. Lesson 39: Economic Factors
3. Lesson 40: Cultural Factors
3. Unit 3: Natural Resources
1. Chapter 9: Water
1. Lesson 41: Introduction
2. Lesson 42: Agricultural Water Use
3. Lesson 43: Domestic and Industrial Water Use
4. Lesson 44: Control of Water Resources
2. Chapter 10: Minerals
1. Lesson 45: Introduction
2. Lesson 46: Economic Value of Minerals
3. Lesson 47: Mineral Deposits
4. Lesson 48: Mineral Utilization
5. Lesson 49: Mineral Sufficiency and the Future
3. Chapter 11: Soils
1. Lesson 50: Introduction
2. Lesson 51: Soil Profile
3. Lesson 52: Soil Characteristics
4. Lesson 53: Soil Fertility and pH
5. Lesson 54: Soil Degradation
6. Lesson 55: Soil Conservation
4. Chapter 12: Biological
1. Lesson 56: Introduction
2. Lesson 57: Natural Areas
3. Lesson 58: Genetic Diversity
4. Lesson 59: Food Resources
5. Chapter 13: Non-renewable
1. Lesson 60: Introduction
2. Lesson 61: Coal
3. Lesson 62: Oil
4. Lesson 63: Natural Gas
5. Lesson 64: Oil Shale and Tar Sands
6. Lesson 65: Nuclear Power
6. Chapter 14: Renewable
1. Lesson 66: Introduction
2. Lesson 67: Solar Energy
3. Lesson 68: Hydroelectric Energy
4. Lesson 69: Wind Power
5. Lesson 70: Biomass Energy
6. Lesson 71: Geothermal Energy
7. Chapter 15: Land
1. Lesson 72: Introduction
2. Lesson 73: Residential and Commercial Lands
3. Lesson 74: Agricultural and Forest Lands
4. Lesson 75: Recreational and Wilderness Lands
4. Unit 4: Environmental Quality
1. Chapter 16: Air, Water, and Soil
1. Lesson 76: Introduction
2. Lesson 77: Air Pollutants
3. Lesson 78: Water Pollutants
4. Lesson 79: Soil Pollutants
2. Chapter 17: Solid Waste
1. Lesson 80: Introduction
2. Lesson 81: Sources and Types of Solid Waste
3. Lesson 82: Waste Disposal Methods
4. Lesson 83: Waste Management
3. Chapter 18: Human Health
1. Lesson 84: Introduction
2. Lesson 85: Agents
3. Lesson 86: Effects
4. Lesson 87: Relative Risks
5. Unit 5: Global Changes
1. Chapter 19: First-Order Effects
1. Lesson 88: Introduction
2. Lesson 89: Atmosphere
3. Lesson 90: Oceans
4. Lesson 91: Biota
2. Chapter 20: Higher-Order Effects
1. Lesson 92: Introduction
2. Lesson 93: Atmosphere
3. Lesson 94: Oceans
4. Lesson 95: Biota
6. Unit 6: Environment and Society
1. Chapter 21: Economic Forces
1. Lesson 96: Introduction
2. Lesson 97: External Costs
3. Lesson 98: Cost-Benefit Analyses
2. Chapter 22: Culture and Aesthetic
1. Lesson 99: Introduction
2. Lesson 100: Categorizing Countries
3. Lesson 101: Environmental Justice
4. Lesson 102: Indigenous People
3. Chapter 23: Environmental Ethics
1. Lesson 103: Introduction
2. Lesson 104: Sustainable Ethic
3. Lesson 105: Land Ethic
4. Lesson 106: Hetch Hetchy
5. Lesson 107: The Tragedy of the Commons
4. Chapter 24: Environmental Laws and Regulations
1. Lesson 108: Introduction
2. Lesson 109: Federal Laws
3. Lesson 110: State Laws
4. Lesson 111: International Treaties and Conventions
5. Chapter 25: Issues and Options
1. Lesson 112: Introduction
2. Lesson 113: Resource Use
3. Lesson 114: Restoration Ecology
4. Lesson 115: Environmental Involvement
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Ganglion cell layer
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Ganglion cell layer
Section of retina. (Ganglionic layer labeled at right, third from the top.)
Plan of retinal neurons. (Ganglionic layer labeled at left, third from the top.)
Gray's subject #225 1016
Dorlands/Elsevier l_05/12480427
The ganglion cell layer (ganglionic layer) consists of a single layer of large ganglion cells, except in the macula lutea, where there are several strata.
The cells are somewhat flask-shaped; the rounded internal surface of each resting on the stratum opticum, and sending off an axon which is prolonged into it.
From the opposite end numerous dendrites extend into the inner plexiform layer, where they branch and form flattened arborizations at different levels.
The ganglion cells vary much in size, and the dendrites of the smaller ones as a rule arborize in the inner plexiform layer as soon as they enter it; while those of the larger cells ramify close to the inner nuclear layer.
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William Shakespeare’s Birthday
Yesterday would have been William Shakespeare’s 451st birthday. He died when he was only 52 years old. Imagine how many more plays he could have written if he had lived to a ripe old age. He could not imagine that people would still be reading and performing his plays in 2015.
Will people still be reading my writing 400 years from now? What form will books take in 2415? We can’t imagine that any more than William Shakespeare could imagine his plays being on the TV or movie screens or being read on an e-reader.
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i~lo~~.-f -t -~:~a~i- ~s B~~·~ei~e~~;-~a ~ ~iari~.l ~R·r,~aaR4~?C:-i~:";sii·33 A rs;i-( ' ýt ie i { i THE GREAT RESEBj Its Wondrous RLesoures' In telligently Presented. The History of -th Bear's Paw Stampede of 1878. The Undoubted Mineral Wealth of the Sweet Grass Hills, Bear's Paw and Little Rookies. The Finest Agrioultural and Pastoral Region in Any of the Territories. "The Opening pf tie pe9srvestio Will Ma.k a~ fra in the Hii.s~o;y o ,Frrt Benton." IORT B ToN, ice ber31, 188. Erditors of the Press'' ' i much been v..wd ' . t4 about the )Bear Paw country recently that any thing more on that subj etnay seem to be superfluous. Yert th.ik mudh-re mains to be said, not only because the subject is by ng3mamns hausted, but also because muci that 'has been said is calculated to wilead. TTie Bear aw and Little Rocky ituntains (practically the same range) and the Sweet Grass 1Hills have beei known for ;Fears as a;n mer ear iring country, but up to the spring of 1878 It was considered too unsafe for prpect in Even as late as September, 1877, teel and his partner made the attempt to prspect and :we lkolled oa Birh creek. ':he INe Pereer raid of ,that year brought many old prospectors into the mountains, and what they there saw induced the fitting out of a party of prospectto in r tbe a ring of '.84 Ths party, after examfni ng $f4 ub the creeks running, out of the Br ',aw, broke up, some of them returning home, nid ~ batt ine remaining "to prospect further on. While this party were prose cuting their sea ~hfo the pveou ginet ale, another party of four menig leele's party) were prospecting on the head f Snake creek; unknown, to anybody ex wept tb.:. W. b eo ta whq hafld alp to outft thwe. Jn FJuly, .M.nk .egi came to B nto~ and eps~erted to. backers that hehad struek it, and they frthwith # !m ppew tA, ail t) whicli% oniie ohtu dumber. Th* matter wsr kept very q et;. bhut lefo ire 40plenty: o c dmpny- Mu dY i leaked. ft .a.pe :aI f( 4 Wit afowttt fefe'ede k tln Ilsg the 1o Im*i'the' niglh1t and, ~ft e& t aketh lms +e balance of the *to 4 4began. Wk h ai·ii ~dfs'~: j~'art 8~~I_ T~~ werwe eyNly disoourageW- No .doubt if left to 9urselyes the bo4ders and quicksanu would have been overco..e, but a a far greater obstacle stood in tbhl way. A regiment of infaitry (the :Sth) appeared. un the scenea,, } a ere incontinentlythustled off the reservation after a Mtay of about three weeks. A few stayed lon ger, dodging the military and the Indians, but the fact remains ,bat neither ofthe creeks upon which gold was f~b~u was ever prispected e as to determine whether they would pay or not. -. A number of leads were discovered, both gold and silver bearing, but nd time was allowed to reach .below the oroppings. Commencing at Cow creek the pros p'pt r 'y.y travel around the Bear Paw mountains and he will not find a single stream or gulch in which he cannot get a fair prospect.. 'The Sweet Grass Hills has not been pr~ected much but enough is known to convince those who have been there tha it itwill pay to prospect further.. The Bear Paw and Little Rocky mountains tollow. tl. egenaeral direction of the i4s `uri rgiva is nw hee r ret b an twenty mh1 e(from it, thus afferdihg cheap transportation for ores, bullion, tiachi.#i pi :amp supplies. To thosse Who .contemplate a raid into that country, before they can lawfully do o t .psaybe well to say that in 1878 there were about three hundred men in the hills, and te~ 18th infantry proved ply, su lit to send us home. The same regiment is there yet, and are much better fixed for quarters, suppli So much fr the mineral attraction \ which, compared with the agricultural and pastoral resources of that country, ~e,4~n my opinion, the least. For this ias or all o h r indiaa reservat ops the bt dE a has been selected. No where in this or any other territory can there be found such a vast tract of land in one body, scarcely an, acre of which cannot be utilized either by the farmer or stock raiser. /'The mluntains, which cover but .asmail portion of the reservation, is one of the finest of stock ranges I ever saw, being generally covered with grass to their summits.: Thi has been always known as the favorite feeding grounds fore il sorts of game, and stock men ~ae lteared that their cattle and sheep will seek a game country for their range M lJeftt0 tthewselves. SS.hew Blackfoot rervation ern es fr t.u.s s . land lt for grazing, aud,.agricultural purposes as all other to lar trctis ofland in Montana put o4ether, a d Is capable of sustalaing a larger population than can find place In ;h1 r of1tlt frory The Milk river valley extending from the aPaw t ttle dbky mount .ins 'andf th ' I 1 theIssuri on the south to the Milk river ridge .n the narth w*itl"ve g thbiy to foty mile able tributary. by far the }armt trmac oif agricultural land in e body to be -iS~. ,,a : her of qartz lea4-ha ve. alred. ibeen Now the mountitas re of no earthly het bp. ' hite&he ftr . or disposition in eard to the ter, had l am convinced that if Maj.r Lincoln, who by the wty has shown a epcellept disposition in regard to the matter, had fully considered this matter, his good sense wotild have suggested the 108th instead of the 109th meridianr. .. But in any event the opening of the reservation, will make an era in the history of Fort Benton. PROSPECTOR. F. C Roosevelt. This house was established in : Firt Benton in the springot '81 and has done avery large, business ever sinces The large firms dealing in general rmerchan dise were then all handling furniture. more or less, but one by one they have sold out that branch of the business T:o Mr'.Roosevelt until now he is the only hose in town that .deals in that class of goods. All kinds' of furniture, from the costly liarlor suites to the plain and unpretentious kitchen sets,; are to be fo ud .in this, large estabih;nuesnt Ta bles, +iairs, siafa, ecretaries, li braries, brackets, wall pockets, in face every thing kept in an' extensive furniture tore can be found displayed in an ele ant profusion in his .:extesive ware -ooms, Any one wishing a choice and legant parlor suite should not fail to rop in and lispect the collection found ere, as they may be sure that only fi€rt )loo goods are kept, and are sold. at rea (nable prices. A large stock of new atterns in wall paver is on hand which will be sold out cheap for cost 'price. Those in need of wall paper for the next spring's renovating will do well to secure paper from Roosevelt at once as their will not be another chance to secure it as cheap. The elegant steel engrav ings which are to be found here are choice works of art and would be an adornment to the finest parlor. Pic ture frames of afl kinds, also picture frame mouldings, are kept alwlays in stock, so that any picture can be fitted with a frame whatever its size, may be. We noticed a great many superb bar mirrors in the stock which were marked at a very low price. The choicest and costliest bedroom set&-ever brought to Montana are to be found at this furniture house. That $790 set is fine enough to grace a mansion and is well worth look ing at. Fort Benton has been nroted the last three years for being the cheapest place in Montaxa to buy furniture in. Mr. Roosevelt has been the trincipal cause of bringing about this desired tate of affhiri. Buying with goo.rxddg ent in large lots-direot from thelargest nd most reliable eastern ivWole.a.e ouses, and with cheap river freight. is furniture house i able to undersell y other establishment in Montana. PA FFI 4HOTEL -ERECTE : LASI YEAR dr R. , 1JGULEERT$ON. :t: t°i. now nearly three years sincet wroicery houe way` st b~hie tby thiie p eut-priopstorE A at , p ?1, who, It reues, did ' Ua ye t~he e 90 gmezL fq ~hedscl e att p9 trjle for .g~i~o~h~eho S~ .~MwCye ii ;wo hacttie n en -ioe i.,~ Neel; 4i ýi` $ J4 r 44r ': ~ It*~ t E:.; DOUBLf BRICK BUILDING OF T. C. POWER & BRO. ·-·j' : --- ·-- --. - Our Now Saddle House. Oine. ine most prosperous *busi ness hot 'ai:- :n Fort Benton is that of W'illiamn : atsman. He comes from Colorado and Wyoming, the greatest saddle country 'in the world, and has been in business in Helena for two years, where he was acknowledged to be the best saddler in Montana. Hia trade in Helena was second to none in the territory, and notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Glassman located in Benton last July, after the spring trade was over, the net sales for the first three months exceeded $4,000. This is certainly a fair showing for a new beginfier, and Benton may well be proud of having at last obtained a first-class saddler. The stockmen of northern Montana, too, may congrat ulate thenselves, for they need no longer send to Cheyennie or Helena for their goods. Mr. Glassman sells his goods at the same prices as rule in Cheyenne, adding freight only, and he will undoubtedly do a large business in 1884 and add extensively to his reputation. M4njor .. W. Patricki elai ims that in. hiis Is! Itri , to tihe Bear's Paw cou-ntry he discovered tile fthItIIIs gulch where SteeeIe and his compantliOis' were inur dredrtdy the Inrdiatin. He says the dig ginis are good for $50 a day to the man, which is lnot. very bad in. these degene rate days.. vegetabtes, €u'dAumtjtss etd+r·n the e te nscannedrf with the' seeal orbjct nofýU`g~ bsetig o yh They hand by Burg wiiir havei fe mtrtid belulI i a ete 1A Di i M Hsft it- ptth ,*Q "°' Wihin rs t 33u g ;has. Milt up-r l) ~~~i Buon hWugt~ y -by keeuing coe" 'l *R ,iltpI e like hs pue trade. Thi k o UC e s. now 4 long run and that goods could be s.ld at a muchlsmaller margin where the credit system was discarded anti no bad debts incurred The perceutage that is lost every year by bills that can never he collected can be givens as a premium to their cash customers by selling 1 hem goods so much cheaper. This priunciple has been strictly carried out. Ther, i no question but that a firm wt ich ad heres to this system can oiffer better in ducements to cash customers than ele which eredits Tom, Dick and Harry in discriminately, trusting to luck It ge:t their pay. Any one willing .o ia' cash for first-class groceries had better ascer tain K. & Bro.'s prices before purchasing elsewhere. A full line of standard gro ceries is kept on hand: also the best brands of canned goods of all kinds. Besides carrying a straight line of gro ceries, this firm keeps a fine stock of first-class liquors and wines. Those who wish to rep4enish their bars with choice liquors should sample the beverages sold here. The choicest brands of cigars, both domestic and imported, are kept conastantly in stock for the wholesale trade. Fdr the past five years the firm has been comfortably located in the large concrete building on upper Main street, where they are always glad to welcome-customers. Kleinsch midt Bros. buy in large quantities with ready cash, direct from the factories and Imanufac turers' agents, and in consequence can offer their customers good fresh goods at a reasonable figure. The Benton house has been for the past year under the personal management of Mr. Theodore Ftuhrken, who has the confidence of the firm and the public in 'his business qualifications. F. W. Buckmeen. If any one should now visit Fort Ben ton after being away the last four years nothing in the growth and rapid pro-. gress of the city would be more a matter of wonder and surprise than the prosper ity of this merchant. Instead of a small narrow room with h- rdly room in it to turn around the retL;ned traveler would find Bucksen's store in a brick block and in one of the finest store rooms in the city. Instead of a $200 stock of can dies and notions he would see a stock of boots and shoes, toys of all kinds, books, pictures, candies, etc., which runs in value away up in the thousands. Mr. Bucksen has brought about this change in his worldly fortune by enterprise, attention to business and habitual cour tesy, which has made him a favorite with all of his customers. One side the storero9m is devoted entirely to boots atid shoes, and a' large assortment of these indispensible articles from the most reliable houses in the eastern man ufactoring ceatres are to be found on his shelves. Boots, shoes, slippers and over shoes for both ladies and gents; and of standard make only are kept in stock. Those of sar readers who have a sweet tooth will find here the sweetest of as sorted candies, with fruit of all kinds in their seastti toys of all kinrs are to be seen in, profutsion, and It is indeed a plce that .Ze chldrtm and Chris Krin f, woul deght t..tP old high carnival; dolls of iIl Sizes, s.rts ard prices, from the eleg*nt large French wax dolls, which ecry a . sa rally Aethe live article, tobte lttly euys na#id cbirna figures. WhO8l1ose hIskl articles for household adornPint will: fi~nd l"iere' iiromnos, steel engravlngs, placques, oil paintings, ~b1aket4 wall pekf oilet Jsetas, dress 0pe sth ,An egarga tine of photo h n ug hare kept In stock ofsall vari'tte, as& pti s, silk morocco, etc. Crawda~ls buIn bloeks, with wl)eti~J~ ~ ueBee e, stea*;l boats, f"rt. n ie ,aR4 grocery e ethr sale. A good at fine utre the o and a mth .greater fiior use in 1sy, this leh were 44ece, Mon -'. | common_corpus | {'identifier': 'sn85053157_1884-01-02_1_12_1', 'collection': 'US-PD-Newspapers', 'open_type': 'Open Culture', 'license': 'Public Domain', 'date': '', 'title': 'None', 'creator': 'None', 'language': 'English', 'language_type': 'Spoken', 'word_count': '2428', 'token_count': '3692', '__index_level_0__': '37791', 'original_id': '7b583eddd76db62b48dfcbd5a0f09a5fd0e2009816e4aba4462494a0b5c6bc03'} |
Monthly Security Bulletin Webcast Q&A – December 2008
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Chat Topic: December 2008 Security Bulletin
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Q: SANS reported a 0 day not patched in MS08-073; can we anticipate another “out of band” patch if and when Microsoft confirms the vulnerability?
A: Investigations are currently underway and once we understand the vulnerability, Microsoft will take actions to protect our customers; whether it be through an out-of-band release or normal release process for security fixes
Q: Are there any plans to make MS Dynamics CRM v4 updates available via SMS 2003 ITMU catalog?
A: The latest versions of Dynamics are fully supported on Microsoft Update (MU) which provides support in SMS 2003 - but only when there is a security update, service pack or rollup for the Dynamics product.
Q: I ran the installer on MUI with Traditional Chinese language pack, but the installer, when run manually, gives an error saying that no applicable software was found.
A: Please open a support incident through Customer Service and Support (CSS) by calling +1 (866) PC-SAFETY (+1 (866) 727-2338) in the U.S. and Canada, or at your local international subsidiary at <> to help us debug this issue.
Q: Recent MBSA 2.1 scans of XP SP2 and SP3 systems are not listing MS08-037 as installed in the verified list of updates, as well as MSRT v2.5 (Dec 2008). Is this a problem with the latest
A: There is no known problem with the WSUSSCN2.CAB file and MS08-037 should be seen as potentially vulnerable IF DNS is enabled on the machine - otherwise, MBSA would be correct to report that there are no MS08-037 vulnerabilities. MS08-037 certainly applies to both Win XP SP2 and SP3, so my first concern would be to verify that it has been installed. We are not aware of any detection issues with the Cab file used by Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), so if you believe that you have identified an issue please call into support. The MSRT has been re-staged to address a False Positive (FP) issue, and this may account to this oddity.
Q: In KB957388 the Vista/server application compatibility update, it indicates that Internet Explorer has been updated to fix compatibility issues. Is there a file listing noting the changes?
A: This is not a security release, and this security experts panel isn't authoritative for non-security items, sorry.
Q: For those with the Win2000 DST Extended Hotfix Support Program are there any new releases to parallel with the KB955839 update?
Q: Why are some of the critical updates not available via Windows Update?
A: Not all older versions of software are supported on WU; please refer to the bulletin for details on this support.
Q: Why aren't the MS08-070 patches for the developer's tools (VB6, .NET, etc) available in WSUS?
A: Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003, and Visual FoxPro are "legacy" products which were not built and designed to support newer deployment channels such as MU and WSUS. The newer product versions such as Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 do support updates via MU and WSUS. We recommend customers move up to the latest version of the Visual Studio development platform in order to enjoy the features and other benefits such as updates via MU/WSUS that are available for the newer versions.
Q: Is redistributing the affected VB6 application the only way to mitigate it? Is there a patch that you can apply directly to the workstation that has the "bad" ActiveX control previously put down by an affected VB6 app?
A: The updates provided with security bulletin MS08-070 correspond to the Microsoft products that redistribute these ActiveX controls. Microsoft does not provide updates for third party applications that may have redistributed these ActiveX controls and the guidance we provide for customers is to contact the vendors that developed any third party application using these controls. That being said there is a mitigation in the form of a killbit that is documented in the security bulletin and customers have the option of deploying a killbit to all desktops in the enterprise that may have any of the affected controls while they wait for the ISV or third party solution provider to provide an update for their application. The killbit may have unexpected impact on third party applications that use these controls in browser based scenarios so you should carefully analyze the possible impact on such applications before deploying a killbit.
Q: What is the difference between Windows Update and Microsoft update?
Q: Part 1.Why was MS08-076 KB952069 split between XP SP2 (WindowsXP-SP2-WindowsMedia-KB952069-x86-ENU.exe), and XP SP3 (WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB952069-x86-ENU.exe) instead of a combined binary?
Part 2: Both apply to the same products Windows Media Format 9.0, 9.5 and 11 per the KB? Please consider adding the -SP3 to the SP3 only binary if possible to reduce confusion.
A: The file versioning method for Format Runtime v9 changed for XP SP3 from XP SP2 which required separate packages to service.
A: Thank you for your feedback. We look into this for future releases
Q: The Dec 2008 V2.5 MSRT is not available via AU/MU/WU yet (MS public servers, not WSUS), and MS08-037 is not being offered to new XP SP3 builds. Are these known issues?
A: This should be fixed very shortly (next few hours)
A: All critical updates for Windows are available on Windows Update. It is important to opt-into Microsoft Update to obtain all updates for Windows and all Microsoft products - including Office, SQL Server and others.
Q: In a statement, the company said it was investigating the flaw made public by Knownsec but did not say whether it expected to patch the bug on Tuesday." Will this IE attack be addressed?
A: Microsoft is investigating new public claims of a possible vulnerability in Internet Explorer. We will take steps to determine how customers can protect themselves should we confirm the vulnerability.
Q: For MS08-070. Why are there installers for all Languages when they indicate that the update only applies to Chinese and Korean?
A: The various languages of installer reflect only the language of the installer's User Interface (UI). Any language of installer will update any language of Office.
Q: Have there been any reported issues as far as once servers are rebooted that they would not open correctly and have to remove all or one of the updates.
A: We continue to monitor post release issues, however at this time we have not confirmed or attributed server reboot problems to the updates released in this month’s security release
Q: On MS08-070, can you give us any clues/authoritative info so that we can check if we have impacted applications to go to our vendors? Some of my vendors are clueless. Should I scan my computer for those CSLIDs or something?
A: Microsoft provides an Enterprise Scan Tool (EST) for users that need a means to identify the presence of these ActiveX controls installed by a Microsoft product which redistributes these controls and some Microsoft Office products are also supported by the Office Detection Tool (ODT).
The ActiveX controls are redistributable which means third party solution providers or ISVs can include one or more of the controls in their own application and ship the control as part of that application. Microsoft cannot provide detection tools for such third party applications, but does provide guidance in the bulletin for customers that use such third party apps and for ISVs that use and redistribute these controls with their applications. Customers can detect for the presence of such controls by scanning the file system using SMS or other means to inventory the files installed on a desktop and use that as a basis to determine which ISVs might need to be contacted for updated versions of their packages.
Additionally you can scan the registry and detect the CLSIDs for these controls but that is generally only an indicator about the presence of the ActiveX control on the machine, but doesn’t provide information regarding multiple products (or versions) that might have installed the same control because with ActiveX control registration the last registered control “wins” i.e. shows up in the registry.
Q: On November 26 we had a number of non-Critical non-Security related patches released to our WSUS server from Microsoft. If these are non-critical, why are they released outside of the Patch Tuesday cycle?
A: Important updates that are not security related are targeted for days outside of our regular security bulletin release day specifically because they are not security related.
Q: Just saw the bulletin for the re-release of some older patches. Bulletins were updated but did not read them yet. Will the patches need to be re-released or were the changes "cosmetic"
A: These bulletins, MS07-017 and MS05-053, were revised to communicate the availability of an updated version of the Windows Server 2003 update package. The updates were revised to address minor issues unrelated to the stability of the update or security of the intended target systems. Customers who have already successfully applied the updates need not take any action.
Q: Can you confirm that MS08-075 does NOT affect the Windows XP add-ons Windows Desktop Search 3.01 or Windows Search 4.0?
A: Windows Search 3 and 4 for Windows XP are not affected by the issues addressed in MS08-075
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Improve Business Productivity with a VoIP Phone System
April 23, 2019
Aaron Main
Business owners or executive boards have their definitive reasons for making the final decision on a telephone system. The options available are vast, and the features can vary by a small degree from one system to another. Here are the top reasons why UK businesses are switching to VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol), which could help you to make your decision when considering a VoIP system.
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True Scalability
Unlike the traditional phone system in the corner of the office (commonly known as 'tin'), a hosted VoIP phone system has no physical presence in the workspace and also has no limits with the number of staff that you add to the system. A PBX system can be limited by the number of lines available or just by its scalability restrictions but the difference with a VoIP system is that it can have an unlimited number of users added and removed in minutes; with no technical expertise required.
Opex vs Capex
These terms are often used to explain 'paying a large figure upfront and then paying for maintenance costs' or 'paying a manageable monthly recurring figure'. Capex is the upfront payment model which generally means that your business owns the equipment. Opex is the ongoing cost with no ownership and no maintenance charges. A hosted VoIP system is the Opex route; with little to no up-front costs and a simple monthly payment plan based on the number of users and features adopted in the system.
Web Control
No technical expertise required - we mean that when it comes to VoIP! These systems are accessed using your web browser, username and password entry. It's that simple! The interfaces are user-friendly and often have a step-by-step guide to help manage users, Call Routing or recording features. VoIP is in a league of its own compared to a traditional PBX in this area. Login, make the changes and log out, or, call the engineer to book a meeting to devise a plan and schedule an action date...Which would you prefer?
Support + Updates
Businesses that run traditional PBX systems are very aware that support means calling the phone system provider and requesting an engineer slot, and that updates are avoided in case of anything going wrong. With VoIP phone systems, the support is available 24/7, but support isn't often needed as all functionality edits and amends are made from the web control portal. Updates are made behind the scenes, giving VoIP users a continual evolution of features and resilience.
Feature Rich
Some believe that the PBX features are more diverse than those in a VoIP system, but VoIP evolves with time.
The features in VoIP are vast, from CRM integration to Click-to-Call and Call Recording. It would be realistic to say that PBX has stood the test of time and that the features have met 1000's of businesses requirements, but VoIP is the future. It will grow with your business and has no limits.
If you are looking to move offices then transferring a PBX phone system is a near impossible task. To endure the stress of reconfiguring the system in a new premise is a pricey exercise and is not simple for the engineers or IT teams to oversee. Businesses often choose to install a new phone system; which is the ideal time to consider VoIP which has no physical presence. Also, if you are to move office again in the future; pick up the VoIP handsets and plug them into the new office internet connection.
Internet Resilience
The internet connection that you place the VoIP phone system on could be its weakness. You will require a fast and stable fibre connection or Leased Line. Unlike a PBX which runs on telephone ISDN or SIP line, the VoIP system is call data transported in light form through fibre connections. Fibre internet is the Openreach replacement for copper lines (by 2025); giving you a future-proof resilient internet product that has an escalated fault fix time.
This article may help sway your decision in choosing a telecoms phone system in the VoIP or PBX arena. For those 70% of businesses; the reality of selecting VoIP for their business is due to saving money, instant edits and saving changes, growing the business and staff levels, getting regular update features, hassle-free transferring of the system to a new office, and running a future-proof setup over a business grade fibre connection.
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The Difference Between an Artist and a Wanna Be!!!
I have had one too many coffees of late with people telling me that they have to get out of this job or that relationship because “they are an ‘artist’ and the situation they are in is stifling their ability to express themselves”. Somebody please give me a vomit bag! Talent does not equal art and talented people are not automatically artists. In order to call yourself an artist you have to earn that right and the way you do that is by doing what any real artist does….show the world the things that are affecting you when you feel inspired to do so.
An artists is someone who expresses what they are feeling, thinking and or observing about a situation they are experiencing or witnessing. The situation may have moved them, inspired them, angered them, whatever…..they have been affected by their experience and they choose to express that through their art. A real artist, when they have something to say, GETS OFF THEIR BUTT AND EXPRESSES WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY. They don’t wait for it to be cool, or profitable, or convenient, or trendy. They express because what they have to say about their lives is their truth and they can’t not express it. Their intention is not to make money or gain fame, but to move and provoke thought in the people that their art engages.
I am so over being asked “Can you show me how to “make it” as an independent artist?” by people that haven’t had the courage to say what they have to say. It’s not the artist in me that drives me to “make it”. It’s the business woman in me that is stimulated to “make it” and pioneer a path for other independent artists. The artist in me is not interested in the business side of things. She doesn’t need to “make it”. She’s not stimulated with money or cool shoes or amazing restaurants. The business woman in me is, and she makes no apologies for it. The artist in me only cares about stimulating conversation around the things that are affecting and moving my thoughts and feelings.
So to all you so called artists….the next time you hear yourself calling yourself an artist, please take a minute to reflect “Am I really an artist? Do I have something to say about the things that are affecting my life and am I actually saying them? Am I more focused on how to make money out of my talents than what I have to say as an artist?” After you’ve taken time to really think about these questions, ask yourself again…..”Have I really earned the right to call myself an artist?” If you’ve answered no, it doesn’t mean you never will. it just means that if you are going to call yourself an artist, you need to start bringing it!
Please comment and share your thoughts!
Lee Safar is an Independent Australian Singer/Songwriter now based in Los Angeles and building a successful music career globally. Having recently signed a major distribution deal in Japan after and being shortlisted for the Twilight Saga: New Moon Soundtrack, Lee is helping artists/bands all over the world build a global presence online gathering true fans and not hype! (to contact Lee for help on you’re social media presence in the music industry email
The Difference Between an Artist and a Wanna Be!!!
Reader Comments (14)
I feel like this post hits the bulls-eye of my life. I've always felt the urge to create, but when it comes to communicating what I have to express, I'm held up by perfectionism and by the fear of rejection.
I have to put an enormous effort into winning my fears. I'm testing myself with some busking lately, but even when I actually see that some people appreciate what I do, it still seems too hard. but it's hard to give up trying, too. it's a lifetime internal struggle.
does all that fear mean that I'm condemned?
July 29 | Unregistered Commentermarsiano
It's always seemed to me that anyone that needs to try to define themself as an "artist" means they aren't one. That's a title other people give you, not one you give yourself. Same with "guitarist" instead of "guy who plays guitar."
Essentially, Lee, your article is about being honest with yourself and, amusingly, you are honest with us at the end of the piece where you state you are helping build a 'global presence online...' etc for 'bands/artists'.
So, it's also an article is about you promoting your service (is it free?) and your music and not really about who has the right to call themselves an artist, which, truth be told, is absolutely anyone for anything. Last time I looked there were no laws in place in the UK or USA or Australia...
What peculiar strand of self-loathing and fake humble pie induces a plumber to call himself 'a guy who messes around with pipes'?
July 31 | Registered CommenterTim London
@ Tim
The kind of plumber who doesn't make a living doing it?
@Brian John Mitchell
so you wouldn't have considered Van Gogh as an artist after all, since he didn't make a living painting.
is money the real measure of your artistic value? in my opinion it's only the measure of how much you are fashionable. if you really believe in art, you don't do it for the money, you do it for yourself, because you need to do it.
I agree that 'artist' is a title that other people give to you, but I fear that in most cases it will happen too late for the artist to know it, especially if he is doing something really innovative and unfashionable. time is the only judge about the universal value of a work of art.
being asked the question "when did you realize being a genius?" Salvador Dali' once answered "I just kept telling people I was a genius, so I became one".
I wouldn't blame someone who says: "I am an artist". self assertion can help doing something so difficult.
waiting for the final judgement of time, since we probably all will be dead then, could we find a compromise during our lifetime and consider as artists those who at least try hard to be one?
August 1 | Unregistered Commentermarsiano
@ marsiano
I would consider Van Gogh an artist, however I think the idea of him proclaiming himself as an artist during his own lifetime of not selling a painting would be about as valid as a paint by numbers housewife calling herself an artist.
Here's how I believe money should (& to a certain degree does) relate to art. If someone believes something is art; they are willing to pay money for it, either directly by buying the art (or paying to attend a concert in the case of music) or indirectly through support that comes from other things like artistic foundations & local art councils.
I know some people are big on "fake it til you make it" on being artists. But that has always seemed a little bogus to me. How about you can call yourself an artist if you spend more than 40 hours a week making art, not including promotion time or driving time. Which completely means I'm not an artist more than week or two a year.
Here's a question, the last 40 years or so of his life was JD Salinger a writer?
@Brian John Mitchell
'artist' can be used as a title of honor for a remarkable work, even if it's a 'once in a lifetime', but I think that Lee Safar's article is about commitment, and commitment deserves to be honored too.
comparing Van Gogh's commitment to his art to that of some bored housewives is not too generous.
August 2 | Unregistered Commentermarsiano
My favorite part is how your bio totally undoes everything you said in the actual post. Thanks for the LULZ!!!!
August 2 | Unregistered CommenterJustin Boland
@Brian John Mitchell
Van Gogh created art.
What do you call someone who creates art?
An artist.
Perhaps the catch is in semantics, with compensation as the clarifyer - in othewr words, even the paint by numbers housewife is an artist, in a sense (I guess), but a PROFESSIONAL artist is one who makes a living at it.
Someone can be a baseball player in college, for example - just not a PROFESSIONAL baseball player.
@Justin Boland
Funny how the bios tend to do that far too often - a shame especially when enjoying the post for the most part...maybe bios should be placed at the top...
August 3 | Unregistered CommenterDg.
Some interesting comments made to the article that I wrote. Thanks to everyone for the responses so far. Glad that it stimulated so much chat! However there are a few points that I do feel that I need to address give the comments made:
@Tim London: The article was not about promoting my services. It was my expression of a frustration that I am observing about the notion that the concept of the role that an artist used to play in society has been lost. The content on my 'Dream Angel' website is completely free. It's a way of me paying it forward for the success I'm having so that other may do the same.
@Justin Boland: How does my bio undo everything that the post says? It's quite the contrary actually. My parents culture prevented me from being a musician. That is different from being an artist. When I was about to break away from that culture I left a high paying corporate job to pursue my passion for my craft and have spend most of my time since expressing the things that I find important to me. I get emails on a daily basis from fans telling me that from reading my bio, hearing my music, and discovering my Dream Angel posts that they are starting to question their own lives. Isn't that what an artist does? I fail to see how that contradicts what the post says.
My main point in the article was that there is a distinct difference between a musician, painter, potter etc and an "artist". Yes I agree, everyone has the right to call themselves an artist as long as they're engaging art that provokes something. Those who are too scared to get out there and affect other people with their opinions, in my opinion, are lacking the fundamental element of what is required to be an artist. You don't need to wait to be called an artist by others, but if you're going to call yourself an artist be clear that you will need to have something to say that has the potential to stimulate change.
@Dg I agree that an artist is someone who creates art. But creating art is different from creating a painting or a song. The difference between art, and a painting, is that it provokes, it makes a statement, it is an honest reflection of what the fuck you have to say. The point of my post is that someone creating songs to sell music and create 'cookie cutter' music isn't interested in creating art. They're interested in making money. I have no issue with that, nor do I have an issue with artists making money (I'm not a fan of the idea of a struggling artist). I do have an issue with entertainers calling themselves artists when they're not, and I have an issue with the bullshit when someone is trying to prove that they are an artist. Yes, there is a fear in expressing that art, particularly initially. But that is part of the process of sharing your message as an artist. It doesn't affect the honesty in what your creating or what you have to say.
August 5 | Unregistered CommenterLee Safar
Lee, if you are posting that you know what makes an artist and what doesn't then expect a little disagreement, especially when you're knocking my kind of art. Give me a straight down the line, auto-tuned, hook-riven, uptempo 3 minute pop song, sung by a session singer and mimed by a pretty model over the fake angst of a singer-songwriter struggling to capture that feeling he got during the sad bit of Nip And Tuck any day.
It's an impossible argument. There are no rules to being an artist - art doesn't exist as soon as it's bought or even seen. There are professional critics who's job it is to filter and sift for the industrial side of art, but their opinions only count when it comes time to sell. Some artists don't want to sell. That doesn't make them any less an artist. Some artists hack off bits of themselves or pump themselves up with chemicals, try to become 'new creatures'. Some artists spend their whole lives trying to place a few grains of sand in exactly the right place and understanding that they never will and that is their art.
My dad was an artist, when he planted flowers and veg in the garden (no he wasn't, he was a gardener - yes he was, he was a gardener and sometimes an artist).
Feel free to enjoy or hate what you like but don't tell me and the world that your tastes are for 'art' and ours are for... not-art.
My take on what you're saying is that you have a romantic ideal of what an artist is, probably one that wouldn't allow, say, a Grayson Perry into your Lower East Side Garret. And my guess is that 'struggling artist' is almost by definition, not your definition of an artist.
And if your services are free then I mis-read your website and I apologise because it's always nice to help people along.
August 5 | Registered CommenterTim London
I don't know you from Adam, so in the wilderness between our two brains, perception is reality. I'm sure you really are an interesting artist -- mostly because you're an interesting writer -- but I still recommend re-assessing your bio copy. Twilight doesn't matter unless you were actually on the soundtrack, and we've got a producer on World Around who's got a record deal in Japan -- he's turning 17 in a few months, too.
To someone who doesn't know you, your bio sure makes you sound like a wannabe. Just a heads-up. That obviously doesn't equate to any judgement about what you actually "are" because I don't know that. Just commenting on the small digital chunks of you that I can see.
"...if you're going to call yourself an artist be clear that you will need to have something to say that has the potential to stimulate change."
August 6 | Unregistered CommenterJustin Boland
@Tim, I appreciate your point and I think you, and some of the others, are misunderstanding my intended point. If you think that that I'm trying to say that some people have more of a right to express their art that others because of the validity of their art then you are mistaken. I believe that Bubblegum pop is just as valid an art form as emo rock or the most intense Van long as the artist is expressing what is honestly going on with them and presenting their truth, even if their truth is admitting that they're hiding behind their bullshit, then that is absolutely art.
Take a look at Madonna....perfect example of pop that is art. She, and her co-writers, are expressing her truth and she doesn't give a fuck if it offends people or not. All she cares is that it affects them and has them asking questions. Questions about whether they agree with what she's doing or not. Questions about how her extremist ways affects their sensibility, and what the affects of her radicalism will be on a generation. This art has people thinking. Madonna is absolutely an artist in my humbled opinion because she is telling you what she thinks. That's what make her different from an entertainer. I'm not slinging shit at entertainers. I'm just saying that there's a difference and that difference needs to be acknowledged and distinguished. I am saying that if someone is going to call themselves an artist they have to bring it. They can't be lazy about bringing it. Even if all they ever produce is one piece of art in their lifetime. They life needs to be their honesty. They have to bring it by bringing their truth because truth is the one thing you can't bullshit and there are too many people professing to be artists but not being honest. Once again, write bubble gum pop that was inspired by Nip Tuck but tell me, your audience, how that honestly made you feel. Take me there with you so that I might get affected to.
Madonna defined pop for a generation, but she still used it affect a generation. She wasn't lazy about being honest. She had something to say. She has, and still has, an opinion and she's gonna tell you what it is so that it might get you thinking about what your opinion is. She is sharing her experience with you so that it might stimulate thought in you about your life. THAT IS ART and while we may not all desire to affect the thoughts of a whole generation, consider stimulating the thoughts of the people with those gracious enough to come to your shows. If you're gonna call yourself an artist, then be an artist. If you're not, then that's fine too. Just be honest about who you are and what you are. I'm not judging anyone. I'm just asking people to check in with themselves about who they are and what they're looking to be.
@Justin, you said "To someone who doesn't know you, your bio sure makes you sound like a wannabe." and "Twilight doesn't matter unless you were actually on the soundtrack, and we've got a producer on World Around who's got a record deal in Japan -- he's turning 17 in a few months, too." I suspect the thousands of 18-35 year old female twilight fans who contacted me after reading that bio thanking me for sharing my story would disagree with you. That bio that makes me sound like a wanna be gave thousands of people all over the world inspiration to start finding a way to live their dreams. They identified with the fact that for one reason or another, they were not allowed to live their dreams, and they admired the fact that I was able to forge past those road blocks in my life to make my dreams eventuate in a very challenging industry. The other people who may not agree with you, are the independent artist that contact me on a daily basis asking for my help to show them how to make it in these changing times of the music industry. I am a self managed independent artist and have been up until now. I wrote my first song 6 years ago and released my first EP 2 years ago. Last year, MTV wrote 2 feature articles on me because I was in the running for The Twilight Saga New Moon soundtrack. The Soundtrack Examiner wrote "According to Twilight Source, artists highly likely to be on the soundtrack include Bon Iver, Radiohead, Band of Skulls and Muse. Other possible artists include Kelly Clarkson and up-and-coming Aussie singer Lee Safar. The rumor that Kings of Leon would release a song for New Moon is false." 125,000 people read that article. I know many signed artists that would kill to be mentioned in the same article as Radiohead and Muse and they wouldn't care if they didn't end up on the soundtrack. Why because the exposure show's the hard work that I've put in to make my career happen. I didn't have to pay for the publicity not did I have to sign a deal to make it happen. I may not have made it onto the soundtrack but I still got a hell of a lot out of the work I put into making it all happen and everything that I, and my new fans got out of it, does count. I honestly think you need to reassess your comment about Twilight my friend.
Which leads me to Japan. I'm not sure if you're aware or not but Japan is the second largest music market in the world, and potentially very rewarding if proven to be successful. Getting into that market is extremely difficult- ask any western artist that has tried to break it into Japan. It's not like iTunes where you just put your music up there and hope that people buy it. The Japanese have a completely different culture of music consumption. They purchase via their cell phones from mobile providers and like I said, it's tough to get on the distribution list of a reputable distributor. I happened to sign a deal with the MOST reputable for independent artists- ICJ Inc who are the exclusive distributors for MySpace Music Japan (Where most digital music is consumed in Japan). Anyway, my point is that all of this stuff counts for independent artists. Particularly in a time when the model for our industry changing on a daily basis. Your not attacking an artist when you say these things, your talking to a business woman that works her arse of to create opportunities that may one day pioneer a model for indie artists looking to take stock of the direction of their own careers. I share all my strategies with any artist that asks and while it is true that I have not yet made it, I well on the way. I just signed the deal with Japan not 4 weeks ago. We're still in the planning stage with the distribution company who are keen to work with me and my new business manager for Japan to help us penetrate the market.
When you make suggest that I'm a wanna be, you're not offending the artist in me. She has nothing to prove or justify to you. You are however offending the business woman in me who is still in the process of building this career and who is trying to be transparent with my fans and other artists in an effort to encourage others to do the same.
Anyway, I'm sure I've gone on quite enough....peace Lee!
August 9 | Unregistered CommenterLee Safar
Those are all good points but you still need to write a better bio.
You repeatedly said that I'm insulting your inner business-woman, but I really don't think that's true at all: what I've insulted is your pride. That's what you're defending.
Let's talk business: those 125,000 people...don't remember you. You were a single new name among hundreds that those readers came into contact with on that particular day. That's why publicists work so hard to get their clients everywhere at once, because it takes a lot of repetition to actually reach people -- a single impression is not enough unless it's a magazine cover, and even then...
Lee, I just want to emphasize again this is about your bio, not you, because I don't know you. I'm not saying what you "are" because I don't know that, and odds are nobody else does, either. I'm not making fun of you, just giving you blunt feedback.
Either way, you're definitely on the right path, so you'll have bigger and better things to write about soon. Cheers.
August 9 | Unregistered CommenterJustin Boland
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How to Make Pochampally Sarees?
What is art silk saree made of
A saree lover can never have enough of the glamorous Pochampally sarees. I am sure that you must have at least one of these pieces in your wardrobe. Did you ever think about the journey Pochampally travels before reaching you? Sometimes, I feel amazed by the process that converts unattractive threads into clothes. By now, you must be intrigued by the Pochampally saree-making method. So, let’s jump into knowing “how to make Pochampally sarees?”.
Making of Pochampally sarees begins with converting silk or cotton threads into warps, tying and dying them, and printing the designs on graph paper. The weavers put the yarns in desired configurations on the loom and complete weaving to produce Pochampally sarees.
What are the Raw Materials?
You must be thinking about the prerequisites you should have to start making Pochampally sarees. Like any other process, Pochampally saree-making begins with collecting raw materials. Once weavers have all of them at hand, they kickstart weaving masterpieces. A Pochampally maker needs to have the following entities beforehand.
• Cotton and Silk Threads: These yarns will make a Pochampally saree base.
• Dye Stains: You need dye stains to implement desired patterns on your Pochampally saree.
• Cycle Tubes: Weavers use cycle tubes to tie the warp yarns before dying.
Besides the above materials, a weaver requires tools and machinery like weaving loom, dyeing machine, fly shuttle warping wheel, reed, spinning machine, reeling machine, spools, and spindles to make beautiful Pochampally sarees. Once you have everything with you, it becomes easier to weave a fantastic garment from scratch, provided you know the process.
Hang on! Did the process intimidate you? Don’t worry anymore! I will share the step-by-step process to make a gorgeous Pochampally saree below. Stay tuned!
What is the First Stage of Making Sarees?
Now that you have learned all the steps in Pochampally saree weaving, a common question might be hitting your mind. Are you worried about how to start making Pochampally sarees? You must consider the first stage if it’s a yes! But what is the first stage in Pochampally weaving? Let’s take a look!
Also known as Pochampally Ikat, the Pochampally sarees begin with yarn processing. Like any other garment manufacturing process, Pochampally sarees weavers refine the warp and weft to make them ideal for the other steps. As the threads make the base of Pochampally sarees, any mistake in the first yarn processing step will ruin the show of the final product. Also, the quality of Pochampally sarees improves as threads get better in the beginner stage.
How to Make Pochampally Sarees?
The six yards of luxury holds extensive hard work beneath. Weavers spend hours and hours selecting suitable yarns and process them in the loom. A family of four weavers takes around 10 hours to produce a Pochampally saree. But, how do weavers create these pieces? Let’s take a look at the Pochampally saree weaving process stepwise.
Before anything, here’s a video for you that explains the Pochampally saree process in detail and comprehensively.
Step 1: Selecting Yarn to Get Started
The weavers select desired yarn to make a Pochampally saree. They can go with either cotton threads or silk yarns. Among silk, Mulberry, Neeru, Mogaa, and Tussar are the most preferred options to create a Pochampally silk saree.
Step 2: Innovating Saree Designs
A weaver should have innovative designs to implement on a unique Pochampally garment. So, the next step involves thinking of a saree design and collecting dyes to create them.
Step 3: Warping to Prevent Thread Breakage
The next stage is thread warping. Weavers warp Pochampally threads of 6 meters to create uniformity and ensure they do not break when weaving the saree rigorously. It’s an essential step that determines Pochampally tensile strength after manufacturing.
Step 4: Tying Warps Using Cycle Tubes
You’ve guessed it right! Our warps proceed towards the tie-dye technique next. Do you remember the designs we decided on previously? Weavers print the designs on graphs and tie the warps accordingly. They use cycle tubes to wind the warps tightly and prepare them for the dying process.
Step 5: Dyeing to Impart Colors to Pochampally Saree
Now comes the fun part, dyeing! Manufacturers boil the dye and immerse the tied warps into dyes to color the sarees. They stir the entire configuration rigorously to ensure that the colors stick to warps rigidly. Finally, they take the threads out and squeeze the extra hues responsibly.
Step 6: Untie to See Patterns
Manufacturers untie the dyed warps to find the desired patterns after drying them. They remove the cycle tubes carefully and verify the expected results. The Pochampally saree patterns are almost ready by now.
Step 7: Arranging the Yarns
The previous design graph comes to great help in arranging the yarns after the tie-dye process. Weavers refer to the pattern and configure the threads to replicate the design carefully.
Step 8: Dressing Yarns in Order
Pochampally saree manufacturers take the yarns in a bundle and join them according to the design graph. This step ensures that the threads don’t intermingle and misconfigure when conducting the weaving process.
Step 9: Subjecting to Weaving Loom
The saree base is ready and all set to go under the weaving loom. Manufacturers subject the threads under hand-driven or power looms to produce the final Pochampally saree.
Hours of consistent efforts turn into delightful outcomes! After a laborious manufacturing process, a Pochampally saree finally gets ready. The pleasant sarees depend on a weaver’s careful approach when refining the yarns and dyeing the warps. Also, it relies on the efficiency with which a manufacturer follows the design graph. With so many considerations and tons of effort, the deliverable has to be as beautiful as a Pochampally saree!
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William Hopkins
William Hopkins
February 2, 1793
Also Known For : Geologist
Birth Place : Kingston On Soar, England, United Kingdom
Died On : October 13, 1866
Zodiac Sign : Aquarius
William Hopkins Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
William Hopkins is a mathematician and geologist; he wrote Elements of Trigonometry.
Childhood And Early Life
William Hopkins was born on 2nd of February 1793, in the village of Kingston-on-Soar, Nottinghamshire. His father William Hopkins Sr. was a gentleman farmer, who would rent his land to others for a share of profit. Later the family shifted to Norfolk, William was the only child in the family.
Early Career
William Hopkins did not have extensive education as his father deemed it unimportant. He hated farming, although he was educated in the practices of the agricultural field. He married a Miss Braithwaite, but she died around 1821 When he was twenty- eight years old. During his marriage, his father rented a farm in Suffolk, but he barely made ends meet. After the death of his wife, William sold the farm to pay off his debts.
William Hopkins enrolled into St. Peter’s College (also known as Peterhouse), an affiliate of University of Cambridge. William Hopkins studied mathematics and graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1827, and was seventh in the list of first-class honors in the Mathematical Tripos. In 1830, William got his Masters Degree.
Academic Career
William Hopkins second marriage meant that he was ineligible for a fellowship. Hence William became a private tutor for students studying mathematics at the University. He soon gains the title of Senior- Wrangler, as many of his students were successful in gaining first class honors. William Hopkins was also a member of the Cambridge University Cricket Club from 1825 to 1828, where he had played in four first-class cricket matches. William wrote and published Elements of Trigonometry in 1833, a book that established his skill as a mathematician. During the same year, he developed an interest in geology, after meeting Adam Sedgwick in BarmouthWilliam Hopkins was fascinated by the structure of the earth and wrote to Cambridge Philosophical Society and the Geological Society of London. William made a deduction that the Earth was solid but was dynamic; it had cavities that contained scorching fluids that could create a pressure that moves upwards.
William Hopkins idea was at odds with another theory that the Earth was in a steady state, where it had a solid crust but contained a liquid on the inside. William also wrote about rotation of the earth, using observations to prove his theory. William Hopkins then moved on to study effects of pressure on thermal conductivity and melting points. Working with William Fairbairn and James Prescott, the trio published a paper that showed substance would have increasing melting points with increasing pressure. Later, William Hopkins dabbled in glaciology, making the observation about motion of glaciers and rocks, creating glacial erratics. His paper was disparaged by J. D. Forbes, who protected his subject fiercely. Sir William Thomson had noted that, while William’s theory about the earth was correct, his reasoning and mathematics proving it was unsound. William Hopkins was made President of the Geological Society of London in 1851 for a year and was President of the British Association in 1853.
William Hopkins was award Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1850, for his mathematical models.
Personal Life
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How to Organize a “Social Media War Room†and Rule the Internet for a Day
The concept of a social media war room is simple: You get 10 to 20 of your friends, arm them with laptops, and have them blast your message to as many Internet and media influencers as possible: the twitterati, the blogerati and the linkerati.
Adam Tratt.
The Seattle startup Giant Thinkwell used social media war room tactics to promote their "Mix-and-Match" facebook game, featuring rap legend Sir Mix-A-Lot to great success. In fact, with just a day and some 20 people, they managed to get 9% of all twitter to receive at least one tweet or message about Sir Mix-A-Lot and his game. Not only that, but they managed to increase the number of likes on Mix-A-Lot's fan page from 1,200 likes to over 21,000 likes in one day.
Since eVenues provides a marketplace for event and meeting spaces, we're always looking for stories about new ways to conduct exceptional meetings, and Giant Thinkwell's war is a remarkable example. We sat down with CEO Adam Tratt to learn just what a exactly is a social media war room and got some pointers on how to organize a war room of your own.
Identify your media targets and prepare outreach materials in advance
The most important thing for Thinkwell was to identify their media targets. They segmented media into 5 categories: "local," "tech," "gamer," "music," and "business." They identified journalists and bloggers in those categories who they thought would be interested in the story based on other things they had written.
Says Tratt: "We were looking for scale and so it was journalists and bloggers who would give us that scale." Identifying those individuals, knowing how to find them, knowing where to find them and doing what they could to build a relationship with them in advance was of utmost importance.
Obviously, contacting just a few journalists wasn't enough. As far as media outreach is concerned, "It's more impactful if you're everywhere for one day, than if you're everywhere over the course of a month," says Tratt.
Being everywhere for one day, however, takes manpower. That's where the social media war room came in to. While it takes enough time to contact the top ten gamer blogs. In order to generate some serious buzz, they needed to contact the top 200. You need enough people to man the listening and communications posts. You need to provide them with the right type of ammunition--the right messaging.
"We prepared the materials," says Tratt, "so that if you walked in cold, just as a friend of the company and said, 'put me to work' we could say: 'Here's the release. Here's the messaging. Go tell the story.'"
Here's some sample messaging material (Used for Giant Thinkwell's "Baby Gaga" game launch):
Find Creative Ways to Reach Top Influencers
"If you're a journalist you get thousands of voicemails a day from people that want to pitch you a story, so you have to break through" says Tratt.
In order to cut through the noise and reach that top tier of media influencer they made customized video messages using Sir Mix-A-Lot. Here's an example of a video they used to reach out to Joel Johnson of Kotaku:
This creative shoutout got them a mention here:
"I know it helps when you've got a Grammy winning rap icon in your corner," says Tratt, "but there are lots of things we could have done without him that may have made a dent." It's all about being creative.
Prepare the War Room
Last but not least, a war room would be nothing without the proper space. Tratt admits that they had a bit of a meltdown in the first part of the day because the room they had chosen only had a single router. They eventually had to move up to a conference room which, although it did have enough bandwidth, was a bit cramped. If he were to do a war room all over again, Tratt says he'd have "a large, open space" with lots of bandwith and as many phone lines as possible. After all, 20 people on laptops streaming audio and video is going to take a little more oomph than a regular day at the office.
As a launch effort, the social media war room was a success. The facebook game featuring Sir-Mix-Lot wasn't. The lesson learned from this was that although the outreach effort was outstanding, people weren't interested in playing the game. This only underscores the fact that even having a brilliant campaign like the social media war room won't necessarily guarantee that people will use your product. If you don't have the buzz, however, you'll never know if your product failed because the product itself wasn't good enough, or not enough people heard about it.
As you can see social media and technology doesn't replace face-to-face meetings, but rather augments them. That's what we thought, however, until we talked to Adam Loving, a developer at BigDoor, the gamification company. Adam has developed a web tool that may replace the social media war room altogether. Stay tuned for the article next week where we talk with Loving about his web tool and see about ways in which his tool does and does not replicate the social media war room dynamics.
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1. Field
The present invention relates generally to the field of communication, and more specifically, to a method and apparatus for determining a location or classifying the environment of a wireless device.
2. Background
Wireless communication technologies have seen explosive growth over the past several years. This growth has been primarily fueled by wireless services providing freedom of movement to the communicating public as opposed to being “tethered” to a hard-wired communication system. It has further been fueled by the increasing quality and speed of voice and data communications over the wireless medium, among other factors. As a result of these enhancements in the communications field, wireless communications has had, and will continue to have, a significant impact on a growing number of the communicating public.
Because a wireless communication device (e.g., a wireless telephone) is mobile, it may be desirable to determine its location within a given environment for various reasons. A Global Positioning System (GPS) is a well-known technology for providing location information to a mobile device (e.g., a GPS receiver). GPS provides coded signals that are transmitted from a satellite system to the GPS receiver, which translates these coded signals to provide a location of the receiver.
Although GPS receivers may provide location information, they suffer from several drawbacks. GPS receivers can be relatively costly, and the incorporation of such a receiver within a wireless phone, for example, can significantly increase its cost. Additionally, the circuitry of a GPS receiver incorporated in a wireless phone may undesirably increase the dimensions of the phone, thereby making the phone less compact, heavier, and more cumbersome to carry by individuals. More significantly, however, GPS satellite signals cannot typically be received within enclosed spaces, such as within an office building, for example. As a result, location determination of the wireless phone within these enclosed spaces is significantly impacted if not determinable at all.
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Bring back the death penalty in Canada: Mammoliti
- June 4th, 2012
Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti is calling for a return of the death penalty in Canada.
While the issue is a federal matter, rather than a municipal one, Mammoliti wants Canadians to start talking about reinstating capital punishment in the wake of the Eaton Centre shooting in Toronto and the bizarre “body parts” murder in Montreal allegedly committed by Luka Magnotta.
“We’ve had enough horrific stuff over the last week to last a lifetime in our minds,” Mammoliti told the Sun Monday.
Mammoliti admitted he’s just a city councillor but he’s hoping to spark the discussion in Canada.
“I think it is time for us to talk about how we deal with individuals who just don’t have any morals at all and just don’t care about the majority of society,” he said.
The Ward 7, York West councillor said he won’t ask city council to endorse a call for the feds to debate a return to capital punishment because he expects it would fail on the council floor.
Mammoliti wants the death penalty to apply to murderers, cop killers and pedophiles. He argues those committing many of these crimes don’t fear being sentenced to life in prison but would fear a death sentence.
“As a city, a province and nation, capital punishment should be something we are talking about,” Mammoliti said.
No stranger to igniting controversy, Mammoliti expects his capital punishment call will raise the ire of many.
“I expect every bleeding heart in Canada to be writing to me and telling me how awful I am for suggesting it,” he said.
But Mammoliti says he won’t back down.
“Maybe we get smart as a society and start dealing with this instead of being the bleeding hearts that we’ve been all these years and helped create these monsters by being the bleeding hearts that we are,” he said.
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1. daver says:
yeah, mammolitti, the death penalty sure keeps these things from happening in the US
stick to flagpoles and rub n tugs, you clown
2. Dave says:
Ignore him, and this idea, like all of his stupid ideas, will soon be forgotten.
3. KPD says:
Uh, this stuff is way outside buddy’s purview and job description. Why does this guy always think people give some kind of weight to his fake tough-guy opinions? Blowhard alert …
4. Hoja says:
Canada’s big problem: insufficient killing, says Gio Mammo
5. Yo Ma Ma says:
ilduchebaggoliti wants to be on death row real bad it seems
6. tina says:
um, for who? It’s always a wise move to call the people who would be opposed to your position bleeding hearts. The man has no idea how to run a city let alone take on the country. He’s a fool and I’m only saying that not because I disagree 100 percent with what he says, but because he says what he says the way a fool would say it. And he does what he does the way a fool would. Mammo the Clown. Please find another person to fill his seat come election time!
7. Tristan says:
Maybe we should bring back Capital Punishment, it would save alot on tax payers, bring a decrease in prison population and its a suitable punishment for the crime of killing another human. “an eye for an eye”
8. Missed Connection says:
— Mohandas K. Gandhi
A murderer is someone who takes an innocent life. When, inevitably, the first innocent life is taken by capital punishment, we become the murderers.
Canada doesn’t have capital punishment because of what happened in Britain. Timothy Evans was put to death for the murder of his wife and daughter. He was sent by the testimony of John Christie, the real murder. Britain stopped executions shortly afterwards, and so did Canada (last execution was 1962.)
For a more recent example: Carlos DeLuna in the U.S.
Pro-death-penalty people like to make a false dichotomy where everyone against it is a “bleeding heart” who would let criminals run free. This is a ridiculous argument. I think life sentences and hard time should be what their name says, and the justice system is too lenient in many cases. But leave the barbarism of capital punishment in the dark ages.
9. K. Young says:
Reduce crime and unemployment…hire a hangman.
10. timothy says:
not sure if this guy even has a Jurist Doctoral Degree. he looks like one of those….” I THINK ” guys.
if he really wanted discussion, he would have approached the ethics board.
11. Walter says says:
As a country, what has taken so long to bring the death penalty back; these types of crimes will continue until there is death as punishment!
Come on politicians, what are we paying you for?
12. Brenda says:
I strongly believe we need the death penalty back in Canada! If you never had a child murder or someone else in your family then maybe think before you speak. What does it say when you comment a murder get 25 years then you can get out early!! Or what about the guy who cut off someone’s head and now get to go out on a pass. Do you not see something wrong in this country? I mean come on!! When you kill someone then you should give up your life as well. I think of my child every day and the man who took her life why should he get to live?
13. JG says:
I love the idea!!! It’s too harsh until you’re loved ones are the ones cut up and shipped across the province!! I say sell lottery tickets and the winner gets to be the one to start the gas chamber, I’m sick of my taxpayer dollars going to keep these monsters in jail!!! It’s about time we got something and stopped giving them more!! If you gave me the option I’d pull the trigger and have whoever wants to watch watch, Luka, Bernardo, Rafferty and McClintic!!! Great Idea and I will be writing to my MP to bring it up!!! See what you think after its your loved ones
Daver and remember you thought it was a bad idea!!!
14. W. K. Lis says:
Hey Giorgio! Why don’t you leave City Hall and go try to win a federal riding so you can go after your proposal? After all, the US has the death penalty and their murder rate is so much lower than Canada’s…not.
15. S. Shay says:
I am totally in favour of the death penalty…bring on a huge oetition or vote and I would bet that most Canadians would agree.
16. The Eaton centre shooter turned himself in. If the shooter was facing the death penalty he wouldn’t have turned himself in and we would still have a suspect at large.
As for Magnotta, no E.U. member will extradite to death penalty jurisdictions, so he would remain in limbo facing years of extradition proceedings, only to be resolved once Germany was given assurances no death penalty would be sought in the case.
Toronto is also an annual sponsor of the international “Cities for Life” campaign to abolish capital punishment worldwide that takes place at St. James Cathedral every year on November 30, with cities all around the globe to oppose the death penalty.
(This year marks the 50th anniversary of the last execution in Canada, which took place in Toronto in 1962.)
Mammoliti should stop interjecting illogical proposals that would have done nothing but actually prevent police from being able to do their job in both these cases, where the suspect actually turned himself in, and the other was able to waive their rights to extradition proceedings because there was no capital punishment in Canada.
If we had the death penalty, it would only have obstructed the course of justice in both cases he mentions.
If Mammoliti was trying to fan the flames of public outrage over these recent high profile incidents, he failed to consider what the the implications would actually mean for the very cases he is trying to use as examples.
17. S.Fischer says:
There used to be an opportunity to have a wrongful conviction. DNA evidence has changed that. Stop wasting taxpayers money and put down the child killers, violent sexual predators and serial killers. I don’t want to pay for rehabilitation, just a needle. If you don’t agree, go home look at your child and picture someone doing the unimaginable to them like Tori Stafford, Leslie Mahaffey, Jane Kriva or Kristen French. It may not be a deterrent because the people who commit these crimes have serious deficiencies but it removes the opportunity to re offend, the parole hearings the victims have to attend and saves the taxpayers a ton of money.
18. Dave Parkinson puts it very well: the death penalty is an obstruction to justice, not an aid. Extraditing a prisoner to face a possible death penalty is not possible from the European Union. Turn yourself in to face possible execution? Unlikely either. The death penalty is a greater deterrent to turning oneself in rather than committing the offence.
Jurisdictions with the death penalty continually have higher rates of violent crime than those without. That’s because of the demeaning of human life inherent in such a system.
It is also widely recognised that the death penalty is the ultimate violation of human rights. Canada has joined the majority of the world’s countries in abandoning the death penalty. By doing so we have helped other nations leave it also. Cuba recently emptied its death row – because of pressure from other nations like Canada.
Canada cannot legally bring back the death penalty (we have ratified international legal instruments that prevent it and our Supreme Court has precedent that the death penalty is shocking to the Canadian conscience.
Some here have claimed that the death penalty would save money, yet not one US state has found that to be the case. The death penalty in fact costs many times more that of life without parole. Others claim it deters crime, yet statistical studies continually fail to show any unique deterrent value that can be attributed to executions. Others have claimed that DNA is all you need – except that not every murder case is death-eligible, that evidence can become contaminated (accidentally or deliberately), DNA may be present for a variety of reasons and we still find innocent people convicted today. Living in Toronto it should only be too apparent that Dr Charles Smith, if Canada had a death penalty, would have send many innocent parents to their death.
19. old white guy says:
it is imoral not to use the death penalty when it is proven 100% that someone is guilty of premeditated murder.
20. Jazz363611 says:
Killing people that have killed people so as to show that it is wrong to kill people seems very disjointed…
21. Mireille says:
Agree!!!! In cases like these, the death penalty should definitely been brought back. Good for you Mr. Mammoliti.
22. megatron says:
This clown Giorgio should be designing clothes and get far away from politics,, Ask our neighbors south of the border how that death penalty thing doing ,,The killing and crimes are more up than ever , This fool thinks that before PERPS go out to commit violence they stop and say ” i better not.. we have a death penalty” ..LOL,,The death penalty is nothing but FOOLS GOLD to think it acts as some deterrent,, And to make matters worse in a justice system that’s NEVER perfect – where we see people getting release on wrongful conviction.. this should really play well when things go wrong.
23. The case of Sick Kids coroner Charles Smith who botched dozens of cases and sent innocent parents and relatives to prison for nothing is case and point of how the Coroner at a reputable hospital like Sick Kids, working for the police, can effectively manipulate the evidence to convict innocent people on behalf of the crown or prosecutor. DNA evidence changes nothing, when labs are caught mishandling or faking results, and so called ‘experts’ who interpret the results for the crown to the judge and jury are later found to be incompetent liars.
Many cases have no DNA evidence and are based on false eyewitness testimony, jailhouse snitches who will say anything to get a deal, or purely circumstantial ones where the blurred facts can be few and far between.
As for the cost of rehabilitation and parole hearings, they are less expensive than the implementation of the death penalty, if you want to save money, capital punishment cost more time, resources and money than any sentence of years does. Furthermore, I’m sure victims would be more upset by constant execution dates and delays as the case worked it’s way through the system, along with the additional publicity that would ensue every new execution date announced. Inevitably your solution would significantly magnify the pain of the victims by exposing them to this over and over until the final appeals were exhausted in 20 – 25 years or so.
And again, as in the case of the Eaton centre shooter, he would never have turned himself in.
In the case of Magnotta, Canada would face years of extradition hearings from the EU because of it.
In the end the cost to taxpayers would be significantly more, and the pursuit of justice even less effective.
24. David Willis says:
For people like Luka Magnotta, it would be unfair not to have the death penalty and have premeditated murderers continuing to live their lives after ending some one else’s. What right does a murderer have to life? So long as the case is proven 100%, a murderer should also be killed, plain and simple.
How would you feel as a tax payer is someone murdered your loved one and was later released from prison after being cared for by your tax?
25. Shinto says:
There is no point in showing Sociopaths there moral misgivings by shoving your philosophy into there faces.
The Death penalty is a valid and moral when used against those with no morals or no ability to learn from there crimes.
So Dave Parkinson you are wrong.
Miss Connections you are wrong. ( the whole world will only go blind if only half of the world are criminals )
Most of the crap I see opposing death penalty are from the Bleeding hearts who are DILUTED into believing you can reform a Psychopath.
26. Shinto says:
I ment Deluded not Diluted *
And Dave not having the death penalty did not stop Luka from fleeing the country. One cannot make certain what criminals will do. These sociopaths are a drain to our nation. If you really don’t want the death penalty there should be a law were only the Bleeding hearts pay the taxes to keep them incarcerated. I will not waste a dime in your philosophical adventures.
27. S. Wolf says:
I can think of at least three fellows (Marshall, Milgaarde and Morin) who, between them, spent over 37 years in jail for murders they were later PROVEN innocent of, who might have a less flattering opinion of the death penalty. Because, if we’d still had it back then, we’d probably be standing over their graves going “Oops, sorry, our mistake.”
28. Mandy says:
I am a bleeding heart! But, I am a wire and a mother also. I think that the laws are not strict enough and repeat offending continues to happen. I think that child molesters are protected more than are children are. I am for the death penalty in severe cases. This is crazy why should I have to live in fear and fear for my children because these sick individuals. To much talking not enough action
29. Shark says:
For anyone who thinks the death penalty does not prevent crime, let me ask you this…
Name One Person, who was given the Death Penalty, and then re-offended??
Case Closed…
30. niamh says:
i think what he did is disgusting, disgusting, disgusting. he uploaded videos about the video on the 16th……days before the murder ever even took place and i think he should burn in hell but…..kill a man who killed a man —then who kills the man who killed that man?
31. John Pray says:
I find the bleeding hearts reason for not having a death penalty to be seriously lacking. In this day with DNA and other investigative tools most convicted murders are not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, they are guilty beyond any doubt. This in no longer the 1970′s or 1980′s we do not hear about the next David Milguard anymore because now it simply does not happen. To the foolish man who said we can not bring back the death penalty because of an international treaty we signed and it would be against international law, I am sorry there is no nice way to put this. YOUR WRONG, Canada is a sovern nation and what happens with in our borders and with our laws is our business not the utterly corrupt United Nations. As for the arguement that it is a violation of human rights, commiting murder is a violation of human rights. The carrying out of a sentence after a person has had a fair and just defense and yet still been found guilty is NOT a violation of human rights. By the way the UN Human Rights commission considers true life imprisonment to be a violation of human rights as well. As for EU countries will not send our criminals back to us to stand trial because they may be executed very very few run to Europe to get away from Canadian justice and I do not think we will see a steep rise in accused criminals taking it up. For those who say taking a life is wrong no matter the reason, grow up, there is a huge difference between a soldier killing an enamy soldier, or the state executing a murder, than Mr. Husbands walking into the eatons center pulling a firearm and pulling the trigger, or what Russel Williams, Paul Benardo, Peter John Peters, or Robert Picton did, Besides an execution is not even a killing in my opinion it is the carrying out of a sentence after you have been tried, convicted by a jury of your peers, and had your appeals turned down. It is the permanant removal of a violent, dangerous person from society. Prisoners who have been executed do not re-offend. A tightening of our justice system is long over due. The bleeding hearts will tell you crime is down and violent crime is really down but what year are you comparing it to Canada’s worst year for violent crime in the late 1970′s or what the crime rate in 1962 when the last execution was carried out. Canada has become a much more violent place than the Canada my parents grew up in. Then again my grand parents were part of the greatest generation that ever lived, to bad thier children (the baby boomers) turned out to be a bunch of spinless whiners. Life should meen Life, rapist should spend 10 years in prison minimum, armed robbers 15-20, child molesters life should meen life, and Cop Killers, Child Killers and Multiple Murders should Hang from the neck until DEAD and may God have mercy on their soul.
32. Brian says:
The problem with the death penalty is that if you are wrong and convict the wrong person there is no way to reverse the decision (Guy Paul Morin). The solution to the problem is make the penalty more like it is in the US. If you commit murder or some other crime make the penalty fit the crime not 6 years or 12 years. Life should be life and not in a nice “hotel”, put them in solitary confinement in the basement of a prison and let them out for 1 hour a day and maybe they will think twice about what they have done.
33. Linda says:
Death penalty works as a detterent when used effectively, meaning within 2 years-NOT 30. Anyone who equates calling for the legal return of executions for dangerous, evil, parasites in society with what some of these bastards do to their victims is a complete moron. Executing innocent men is a tired old arguement that doesn’t stand up in these times of scientific certainty. Execution should be reserved for the absolute worst of those convicted of 1ST DEGREE MURDER. Sex killers, serial killers, torture killers etc. Support wouldn’t be so high if we had true life sentences and consecutive sentencing.
34. Jim says:
Okay… facts are this:
1. Capital punishment is MORE expensive for taxpayers, not less. This is because legal costs for appeals gobble up more public money than it costs to keep someone in jail for a lifetime.
2. There is absolutely no evidence that capital punishment is a deterrent. It does not reduce the number of murders. And that makes sense. People who kill other people are not mentally stable. They don’t carefully weigh the consequences of their actions before they kill someone.
If you think murderers are let out on parole too early, then vote for stricter sentences without parole. Capital punishment is a ridiculous solution that will raise our taxes and won’t make us any safer. Big government has never found a way to make capital punishment work. It’s a failed idea, and no civilized country in the world (except the United States) still practices it.
35. PrinceLH says:
Bring it back and make sure sentence is carried out within 2 years of conviction. In the U.S. people stay on death row for 20 years. We’ve seen enough gruesome murders, the last few years, in Canada. When I think about he abducted children and the innocent being preyed on, makes it a must going forward. I don’t want to spend one cent more to keep these people fed in prison. Good Ridance to the murders of innocence!
36. danieljchristie says:
A murder is a murder, Georgio. It doesn’t matter who commits the murder -a criminal or the state. It’s all murder. So I guess what you’re telling us is you’re in favour of state-santioned murder? Take your time answering. Just once, think something through before you stick your foot in your mouth.
37. Norris says:
Judging from the comments here, the death penalty is controversial to say the least. However, contrary to at least one writer’s opinion it IS in Councillor Mammoliti’s purview to voice his concerns, as it is is for all of as, as we are doing here. The death penalty is NOT a deterrent. It does not provide closure for victims’ families, but it can server to protect us from monsters who, if ever escaped from custody, would kill again. I stand with the Councellor in his opinions for that reason. At the very least, fresh debate should be encouraged. Calling people names and being nasty doesn’t serve any purpose.
38. isabel says:
I find it funny that this guy represents ward 7 – one of the most socially burdened wards in our city. There is not enough they can do to support the population with the sociial services that they so desperately need so his solution would be to kill off his constituents. way to go idiot. Take care of your ward before you let the crap flow from your mouth – if you don’t you may not have a seat come next election.
39. just do it.... says:
The latest report from corrections Canada is that it costs the taxpayers $312 per prisoner / per day, why should we let someone like Magnotta (if convicted) get 3 meals a day when a good portion of Canadians themselves can’t afford 3 meals a day? Retire at 65, a life of honest work, and the Canada Pension Plan will fork out a maximum of $11,840.04 annually to supposedly keep you fed, clothed and sheltered. Land a bed in jail via rape, murder or any other heinous criminal act, and you’re suddenly worth $113,974 a year to the federal government. Say Magnotta is convicted with DNA evidence (so there is no doubt whatsoever), what good would it do us keeping him alive?…nothing…. Do we have anything to gain?…obviously the answer is NO…it just costs you and I money
For all of you who do not support capitol punishment, take a moment and read Brenda’s posting, if you went through what she did, you would reconsider…..
40. monib80 says:
There is no available conclusive data on using the death penalty as a deterrent for murder. If it did.. great… bonus. Some of us want to see the death penalty reinstated as a punishment. Murderers will murder regardless, just as paedophiles will rape children regardless, but 25 to life for the rape and murder of a child is an insufficient consequence to that child’s family wouldn’t you agree? It’s about making the punishment fit the crime.
In cases of absolute guilt (ie: Bernardo and Homolka) there is no doubt in my mind they deserve to die.
41. US observer says:
The conclusive data on the death penalty as a deterrent is that NO ONE WHO HAS RECEIVED THE DEATH PENALTY RE-OFFENDS as offered in a few of the entries above. This is an undeniable fact.
While we still have the death penalty option in the US the processes are clearly bloated with bureaucracy preventing it from providing the larger scale deterrent it could be if processed in a more efficient & expedient manner. Undeniably our system in the US needs allot of work.
It was also mentioned above that no large government has ever been able to make capital punishment work but that shouldn’t be construed to imply that it can’t work especially in light of all of the scientific advances in recent years notably in regards to DNA identification. There are still occasional issues with that as with most new technologies but results can also be verified independently prior to moving forward with an execution & it doesn’t take 20 years – that is the unfortunate consequence of what we have done to our processes.
The recent events involving this deviant Luka Magnotta is the driving force behind voicing these opinions; I am not familiar with the other cases included in the discussions above.
This thing, neither human nor animal, not only killed, dismembered, and even ate some of his victim, he flaunted his complete disregard for life, suffering & law globally via video on the internet then defiantly mailing the victims bits to government offices & schools to further fortify & publicize his contempt for the Canadian government, officials, laws & authority.
This disgusting deviant cannot be rehabilitated. The publicly posted videos of this criminally psychotic aberration torturing & killing animals should have been a red flag as the most commonly known precursor to human torture & killing however that said, being a victim of childhood molestation as concluded in other press releases IS NOT. Childhood molestation is neither a reason nor excuse for any of this.
There are literally MULTITUDES OF US that were molested, sodomized & /or raped as children that couldn’t even conceive of the thoughts required to consider such heinous crimes. If anything I personally have devloped broader range of understanding certain behaviors with greater capacity for empathy & compassion. The abuse provided new, significant & personal understanding of the “do onto others” golden rule that has since featured predominantly in every aspect of my life over the years. I am not an exception; many develop these skills following the healing process.
These deviants need to be euthanized, preferably prior to reproducing. If the laws cannot or will not be changed this case best represents the need for assessing cases individually to determine & provide for exceptions to that law in extraordinary cases such as this.
I hope something is done because 25 years at his age leaves ample opportunity for this carnage to both resume & accelerate.
42. Donna says:
Bring Back the Death Penalty!!!!
43. kevin tugwell says:
I agree with him please bring it back. Look at all the terrible crimes that go on here in Canada and really for what?? People only do it cause they know they will get away with it so hey why not right?? I think it should be back it is the right thing to do. We can not spank our kids these days cause that is wrong. Yet I think I think if kids got a spanking NOT a BEATING they to would have more respect for rules manners and life. For adults who murder someone for no good reason should pay with their life. I mean we have become weak and doing so to much of this goes on. We have all the tools and such now days that we can get the right person so please spare me the Bull that what if they got the wrong guy. We need tougher laws now before things get more out of hand. Remember that guy who took the other guys head off on the Greyhound?? Well he almost walks free now. So what does that tell people?? Besides why put people like this in jail just to waste tax payers money and so they can come out meaner then ever. We really need to look at our laws and fix them. No we are not playing God here at all we are making it a safe place for us and our kids. In closing let me ask you this do you really want murders walking around in your Town or City when you have family and loved ones?? Sure it may not be your Town or City but it is someones.
44. Jim says:
This man is absurd, the death penalty is immoral at its very core. Statistical data from South of the border has proven that it does NOT serve as any sort of deterent and the motivator that most Pro-DP views have is the idea of retribution. This line of thinking i view as very barbaric and based on ancient and out dated an eye for an eye principles. If the government reinstates the Death Penalty I’m moving to Germany for I don’t want to continue paying tax dollars to a government that views itself above human life.
45. Peter Barrett says:
I do not care for most of the above comments..I look at the gallows as a cost saving measure…..forget many many appeals.You did it.You Pay. And sentence is carried out at an un-announced venue to discourage copy cats looking for their 15 mins of fame……I have issues with those breathing the same air as me knowing the horrific violent behavior they displayed.
I will give them the first death….the Creator can give them the second death if they so believe.
I am not looking to change peoples’ behavior..we will always kill each other..BUT a sick bastard like bernardo/holmolka and russell williams…..well…try….and I mean try VERY hard to convince me and others ,that we should pay 100K$$ per year to warehouse them…I’ll await your reply.
And Mr. George……there are a LOT of people like me that think likewise….do not be discouraged..we have listened to them…….NOW IT IS OUR TURN.
46. Adam says:
Bring it back.
Do you guys really want to pay for people like Luca Magnotta to sit in prison for the 25 years?
How about Bernardo? Do you enjoy paying for him to live out his life in prison?
For the people rambling on about the states.. Only a handful of states still carry out capital punishment. So trying to say “look how it works in the states”, you argument is invalid. Please find me stats directly from prison facilities or government institutions that state capital punishment doesn’t work, and not some independent poll done by some biased person, paper, or other form of media.
Lets talk about the Eaton Centre shooting.
Do you really think the guy responsible for getting a child shot in the head really deserves to live, all based on some street cred?
By the time anyone reaches their “teens” in this country, we ALL know murder is wrong. Why should we give special treatments to murderers?
Our laws are to lax.
Have innocent people been sentenced to death in the past? Yes. But take a look at just how far DNA evidence and other evidencing techniques have come. It’s come a LONG way since Canada’s last execution (which wasn’t a wrongful conviction).
I’d be willing to bet a lot of people would change their minds if their child was brutally murdered.
Just remember that humans will ALWAYS kill humans. We are animals just like any other in the animal kingdom.
47. Steve Paesani says:
Far as I’m concerned the US’s use or non use of the death penalty is not the reference point for wether or not the death penalty is or is not to be discussed or decided as it misses the entire point of intelligent discussion
and the kist of what is being discussed.
The fact is that without a death penalty the offending persons are incarcerated and thus housed (in some fashion), fed and clothed. The persons guarding them are provided all the things of life: food, clothing , homes, vehicules, sports equipment, recreational gear, entertainment systems etc.. etc.. etc..
The question then is not wether this or that country has or doesn’t have a death penalty.
The question then is: do you want to grow and pick crops for the prisoner? Do you want to make their clothes? Do you want to build their housing? Their beds? Do you want to support the guards and their families’ lifestyles?
And if your daughter was raped? Would you grow crops, pick them and feed the rapist of your daughter? The murderer of your son? The killer of your mother or father?
I ask because without a death penalty that is exactly what happens. No different than post conquering where ‘subjects’ would grow the crops and feed those who murdered their family members. In fact no different than today where the descendants of those conquered provide for the descendants of those who did the conquering.
Like it or not we still live in a monarchistic world that sustains the idea of not only providing for those who murdered the family members of others yet having the very families that were victims of the murder provide for the murderers.
May explain why some people would rather not discuss the subject at all.
48. Steve Paesani says:
“The rich play, the rich pay”
49. dean evenson says:
I truly believe our society would be better off and very much safer if we were to reinstate the death penaltyfor crimes such as murder but exspecially for crimes against children if a person has shown and been proven to be guilty and can’t or won’t be able to be cured ( that is such missed used term) and is unsafe to be in the public then the Goverment should be stepping up and never mind the small percentage of the People who are truly against Capitol punishment. The vote of the victims and thier loved ones should hold president. I would truly like to turn on the news and hear something normal or at least something that doesn’t leave me trembling with disgust and outright rage I have got to the point of turning my tv off at news time and only scanning the newspapers. Yes we have to protect the acccused”s right but thats what we have the Courts for and if and only when they have been found guilty beyond all doubt they should be put down like any animal that can’t be trusted, who cares then about thier rights? they forfited them by thier acts against society If we know someone is a danger to the public then it is by definition the responsibilty of the Goverment to not name them but to remove them as a threat not lock them up and have the the people shoulder the exspence of (Caring for them) Please actually listen to the everday persons opion on this matter go to the streets and homes I’m sure the votes collected would be vastly different then the polls done by the office seekers and bleeding hearts
50. Michelle says:
Do you think canada should re institute the death penalty for serious crimes? i need the length to be 150 words and a couple of reasons why or why not
Please and thank you
51. san says:
kill magnotta!!
52. Matt says:
The death penalty SHOULD be brought back because it is better than a life sentence, for example, how many murderers have killed people in prison??? Annually, 10-15% of all prisoners are murdered in prison by murders. So for people who say that if we kill the murders we are wrong, what’s better, losing ONE life or MULTIPLE. Now the death penalty should apply only to murders who, we are certain, are 100% guilty.
53. geradr says:
…um,this guy whos trying to bring back the death sentance is a murder of his on own class, he really as bad as those who take a life, hes actually talking about taking a life,who has the right,no one ad damn sure not an asshole like this guy, those who think it will cut taxes back…is it worth someones life, sadly alot would say yes, thats just what our surcity has come to, instead of of fighting for the right to act oike God try fighting for something that will help us, like fighting the FDA and the deaths they cause yearly, or help cut taxes, u make me sick As your first thought is taking another life cause inmates arnt scared of u , so lets get them in line by taking a life, no ur life should be taken u sick fuck
54. a says:
YES. WE DO. whenever a child is killed, raped. and for horrific heinious crimes. we are already overpopulated. KILL THE SCUM. they just repeat the crimes as soon as they are out. just read the news to hear how many people have killed over and over again , while out on bail even.bring back the death penalty for certain undisputable cases.
55. Why says:
56. chris says:
too people who dont believe in the death penalty try working in a prison. those people are the worse people on the planet. so many men have raped anywhere from dozens to hundreds of women and children. killed multiple people , and have no remorse for it. they feel like victims and that they shouldnt be in there at all. its also how sad it is to never really hear any of these people’s crime on the news.
57. Steve Paesani says:
Asides from any tone of opinion one way or the other Mammoliti is talking about bringing it into discussion.
The Conservative Government’s position to not discuss it is for itself and it’s members and not Canadians.
The Government simply does not have that power nor are there any laws to back anyone looking to stop Canadians from discussing it even in a public forum.
Setting all my judgements aside one way or the other I believe it needs to be discussed.
I am not alone.
58. justin says:
DNA testing makes it so all we need is a supervised lab and then of to the gas chamber with you-no more tax dollars wasted on courts or feeding or housing the guilty for a life time-of course, this is only for murder and rape cases and altho it may save money and be incredibly more accurate, we all know the government loves to hate good ideas.
59. attila says:
i think u r racist i am canadian yes im talkig 2 the americans
oh and i also think that the death penalty is good
60. Aaron says:
Whats the population in Canada just over 35 million and the population of the states more than 315 million, I’m sick of hearing the excuses “its not lowering the murder rates for them” with so many people in the states chances are there will be more sadistic people.And with out a doubt someone willing to take a life has no consideration for their own well being. By committing murder or sexually/physically assaulting an innocent, defenseless child that should wave all rights to life and especially health care. don’t make the innocent citizens pay to keep them alive in hopes that one day they can be rehabilitated and jeopardize our safety. and if your really think the majority of offenders will come turn them selves in, and the tooth fairy will start putting hundred dollar bills under all our pillows then have a conditional charge that sentences any who turn them selves in will be given a lighter sentence like castration or life in prison.
61. veronique says:
well I thought we got it back,well well whats wrong here???? we need it,who kills get killed,but leave them in jail for 6 years till they die so they get to think what they done and whats infor them in a few years to come, come on CANADA get real we need this .also laws for angone hurt or kill a cat or dog.even poor babies left in a car they say I forgot t they check for aure they leaft there babies for DEAD,as a poor animals.
whats wrong here.
62. Peter Miller says:
He is completely right in my own opinion. Pedophiles and mass murderers need capital punishment. I am so glad somebody had the backbone to say it.
63. Delilah Langtved says:
I agree with Mammoliti,, bring back capital punishment. No need to hire a hangman just ask for volunteers, I am sure there would be plenty.
64. john says:
john doe
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Dead Space
Dead Space 2: Lies Of The Past (Fan Made By CEC JAKX)
CEC JAKX August 2, 2010 User blog:CEC JAKX
DEAD SPACE 2 :Lies Of The Past
Hi There! My Name is Victor aka JAKX. I've been a fan of the dead space series for a long time now and I felt like making my own story
to be part of the series. But this is Fan made by me. I'm not all good writing stories, so there might be some mistakes.
But I really hope you like this one! I can't write the whole chapter at once on here so I'll be adding piece by piece.
This story takes place 3 months before Dead Space 2. Here is some of Chapter 1.
Everlast City From My Story
CHAPTER 1: In Paradise
Audio Log #5. Name Of User: Gregory Aimes. Date Recorded: 11/23/2511
"This is Aimes, we are currently in an unknown system. Seth won't tell me why, and I'm afraid he's up to something.
We haven't seen anything but giant rocks so far, I don't see.. what the?....... Seth! Come Here! *Approaching footsteps* "What Is It Greg?"
"Look! Is that what I think it is?" *Brief silence* "No... that can't be possible.. is that the Ishimura?!" *End Of Recording*
9/24/2511. It was a cold winter morning in Everlast city, millions of people walking its streets. One of those people, named Gregory Aimes, was just leaving a building with an envelope in his hand, which he placed in his coat as walking down the crowded streets. As he made his way through, he stopped by a market to get some coffee. The warm smell filled his nose from the aching cold. Once he got his coffee, he made his way down to a place called "Ocean Street Bank". He went inside, the place was crowded with people, for they were waiting to cash their checks.
After waiting for a good 10 minutes, Greg walked up to the clerk and placed the envelope on the granite counter. The lady took the letter and opened it, the paper inside said "CEC Employee of U.S.G Faith". The woman then looked at Greg. "I see you work for the Faith. How is it up there?" she asked warmly. "It's good, their about to leave in a week. I'm not gonna be there for this planet crack, I'm going be with my wife and kids". Greg said. "Ahh, I see, your a good man Mr.Aimes. And a very lucky one too, how many kids you have". She mentioned. "I have twins, boy and girl. They're 4 years old". Greg smiled. "Wasn't here for their birth.. was up with the Faith." He added.
"Well Mr.Aimes, I hope you have a pleasant time with your wife and kids". The woman said as she was signing the paper and attaching a Semiconductor to it. "Here you go Mr.Aimes, go to hallway 4B room 122 and there should be a man named Mr.Logan there. Give him this conductor and he will place all your money inside, ok". Greg thanked the lady and took the form and semiconductor and started to walk to hallway 4B. When he entered the Main hallway, large glass windows covered the right side of the hall, to where you can see the streets. It started to become quiet as he ventured further down the hall, he passed many halls until he came to 4B. Room 122 was the first on the right.
Greg walked in, noone was in the room but a small metal desk with a hologram computer with papers and a little machine with a small narrow opening. The walls were white and had a poster on it saying "Join Us In Paradise". He also spotted a little Marker statue right by the computer. "Mr.Logan must be a Unitologist" Greg thought. He sat down at one of the chairs in front of the desk, waiting for anyone to show up. Seconds passed, and then a voice came from behind Greg outside the room. The voice began to get closer, Greg turned around to see a man in a white suit talking on the phone with someone. He then entered the room. The man, who was Mr.Logan, saw Greg sitting down. "Hey Paul, I'm gonna have to give you a call back, I have someone waiting for me." Mr.Logan stood behind his desk listening to Paul. "Yes, I have all the forms filed and signed. Leave the package at my doorstep this evening. Alright. Goodbye Paul." Mr.Logan said while placing the phone on his desk.
"And you may be?" Mr.Logan asked warmly. "I'm Gregory Aimes, crew member on the USG Faith. I came here today to cash my check." Greg said. "Hmmm, let me look you up real quick" Mr. Logan started to type on his holo-computer looking through the names of the USG Faith. "Your a unitologist, right?" Greg asked curiously. "Indeed I am, what makes you ask me that, are you one as well?" Mr.Logan asked. "No, I'm not. I was just wondering since you have unitologist stuff in your office" Greg said. "Hmm, do you dislike unitologist Mr.Aimes?" Greg sat quiet, he really doesn't like Unitology or the people among it. He only has one friend thats a Unitologist, but hes different from the others. "No" Greg lied. "I don't". Mr.Logan nodded, continuing with his work. "Here we go, Gregory Aimes, Crew member on the USG Faith. 11 years served. Your paycheck is 200,000 dollars. I need your password." Mr.Logan said. "My password is Alyssa87234. Its my wife's name." Greg claimed. Mr.Logan entered the code and the screen showed a green icon, meaning the password was correct. "I need the conductor." Logan asked. Greg handed him the conductor and he slid it into the narrow space of the machine next to the computer. Mr.Logan then clicked "Process" on the screen and the machine started to glow blue and make a low humming sound. After a few seconds, the machine beeped and the light on it turned off. Mr.Logan took out the conductor and handed it back to Greg. "Here you go Mr.Aimes. You must've worked hard for that money" He said. "Indeed, and it almost killed me" Greg said. "Have a nice day" He said as he was leaving the room. Greg walked back down the hall to the lobby. With his money stored, he started to make his way out.
He walked back out into the cold, but this time it wasn't as bad before, since the sun is higher. As he was going down the concrete steps, something caught his eye. Across the river was the starport, and he could see planetcrackers docked at bay. One of them, was the USG Faith. It was getting ready to launch next week. Greg walked down and across the street to the railing next to the water, watching the Faith. The Faith was the second planetcracker to be built, and was a bit similar to the Ishimura. After the Ishimura's destruction, people looked at the Faith to lead the way of powering humanity into the future. Greg knows almost everyone on there, and they are like family to him. He wishes them a safe journey and a successful planetcrack. Their last planetcrack almost caused the Faith to be pulled down onto the colony from gravity tether failure, but a group down at the colony gave their lives to fix them and restore balance. After that, Greg decided to take a break and spend the next 3 years with his wife and kids. Greg looked down at the water, splashing lightly against the wall. He will miss this planetcrack, but to him, theres nothing better than seeing your wife and kids.
Greg arrived at a huge building near the river, about 50 stories high. It was mostly covered in glass windows that glistened in the suns light. It was called "HighLight Condo's". This is where Greg's wife and kids lived. Greg went inside and went to one of the elevators. He waited patiently as the numbers were dropping and then the door opened. An young man with a black business suit stepped out and continued walking. Greg stepped in and pressed the button labeled "43". The door closed and the elevator began to rise. After a minute passed Greg arrived at his floor. There was a quiet hallway with white carpet that had a weird wavy design in it. He walked down till he reached a room with the number 328. He pulled out a key and quietly opened it and went inside. The condo was quiet, the only thing Greg could hear was the faint humming sound of the air conditioner. Greg took off his coat and shoes and placed them in a closet. He then took out the Semiconductor and walked down the hallway to his room. On the way, he stopped by another room and quietly opened the door, inside he saw his two kids sleeping peacefully. He quietly closed the door and went to his room, the door was cracked open a little. He opened it and saw his wife sleeping on the bed.
Greg walked over to the other side of the room and opened the closet. Inside was his and his wifes clothes, along with boxes on shelves. Behind the boxes was a safe built into the wall. He entered the code and opened it, placing the semiconductor inside and then closing it. After he did that, he changed clothes and was wearing grey sweat pants and a t-shirt. He made his way to the bed and layed next to his wife, wrapping his arm around her waist and fell to sleep.
Hours later, Greg woke from his deep sleep. Only to find himself alone in the room. He layed there looking at the ceiling. Then got up and slowly moved his tired body to the window and slid the curtains to one side, immediatly lighting up the room, his eyes burned from the suns light. He looked outside, seeing the whole skyline of the city. After watching out the window for a few seconds, he walked out of his room into the cold hallway. He could hear a familier voice from a room down the hall. He made his way over to find his Alyssa, his wife, sitting at a holo-computer talking to an unknown person on the other line. Greg couldn't see who she was talking to.
"So do you think you two can come sometime this end of the week?" said the unknown voice of a woman.
"I'm pretty sure, I'll see if my sister can babysit the kids." said Alyssa
"Sounds great! Can't wait to see you both soon, its been forever!" said the unknown woman
"Can't wait to see you too Lexine, bye bye now." said Alyssa smiling back.
She shutted down the computer and then noticed Greg at the door as she got up from her chair.
"Good morning sweetie!" Alyssa said warmly.
"Who was that? On the computer?" Greg asked.
"Oh, that was Lexine.. Do you remember? Lexine Murdoch?" She answered
Greg hardly knew any of his wife's friends, seen some of them maybe once or twice, but never really talked to them much except for Seth, his bestfriend on the Faith that was too taking a break from planetcracking.
"No, I don't think so" Greg said
"I'm pretty sure you remember her, but anyway she's inviting us to see her at the sprawl this upcoming weekend." She mentioned
"I heard, is Delilah gonna watch the kids? And by any chance, where are they?" He asked
"I'm gonna try to talk to her about it, and She came earlier to take them to Friendship park" She said
Alyssa walked passed Greg to the living room, it had coloring books all over the ground from the kids earlier. She picked them up one by one and placed them neatly in a white ben in the corner. Right next to the ben was another but filled with toys. Greg walked over, something caught his mind. As he got closer, he saw inside the ben, a toy of the Ishimura. He slowly picked it up and looked at it. It was about the size of his hand, and on the back of it was a button that made its engines light up in different colors. Then Greg thought of something.
"Hun, where is that book full of pictures we made when we got married?" He asked
"It's in the closet with all the other junk. Why?" She asked
"I need to see something" He said as he kept staring at the toy.
Later on the day, Greg spent his time looking throught the closet for the book, which he did. It was a wide and thick black leather book that had the word "Memories" on it in silver. Greg slowly opened it up. There was seperate tabs in the book seperating pictures. One of the tabs he spotted was titled "Ishimura Trip". He turned all the pages at once to the tab. The first few pages showed Him in a shuttle arriving at the Ishimura, and then the flight deck, to the Medical deck, and then Hyrdroponics. One picture Greg came across was a picture of a younger him and an older man next to him. The man was Greg's father. He worked on the Ishimura when Greg was young, and still did when the terrorist attack came along. From the report, it said no survivors were found. This devastated Greg at the time, and what was worse is that Greg and his father lost touch with each other years before it.
There was a knock at the door now. Alyssa got up and answered it. It was Delilah and the kids. Greg's two children, Brianna and Alex. Both rushed in saying "Mommy! Mommy!" again and again. Both of them ran and hugged her around her legs, they were happy to be home.
"Thank you Delilah for bringing them home" Alyssa thanked "How was it with them?"
"It was great! Brianna and Alex met some new friends over there." Delilah said
As they both went on talking, Greg walked out and his kids were excited again to see him.
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nick-nolte-luck.jpgFor the third time in two years, a horse was injured and later euthanized during production of the HBO racetrack drama "Luck." As a result, the series has suspended any filming involving horses.
The most recent incident happened on Tuesday (March 13) according to the Associated Press. It is then that the horse, while being led to its stable at Santa Anita Park, reared and fell. The horse suffered a head injury and was later euthanized.
The American Humane Association, the organization that monitors animal welfare in film and TV productions, demanded "that all production involving horses shut down." They are also "insisting that this stoppage remain in full effect pending a complete, thorough, and comprehensive investigation."
HBO said it was "deeply saddened" by the accident. But this wasn't enough for PETA, which called on filming to stop entirely.
In a statement, PETA vice president Kathy Guillermo says, "Racing itself is dangerous enough. This is a fictional representation of something and horses are still dying, and that to me is outrageous."
"Three horses have now died and all the evidence we have gathered points to sloppy oversight, the use of unfit, injured horses, and disregard for the treatment of thoroughbreds," Guillermo adds. "We will want answers on HBO's latest casualty. Filming must stop now."
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Two Sense Short: Propane In The Ass
An old friend recently bought a Westy-- goes to show he hasn't been reading this blog...thanks, friend!
Anyway, he bought a Westy and is installing a new car stereo. I said I would give him some advice, as I just replaced the stereo in ours. He came over and before he started on the install, he wanted to show me how to work the Westy's fridge by using propane. I was pretty excited. I had heard this was impossible.
So, I stepped into the van and he went around to the side of it, turning the propane tank on. I heard a hiss. Propane was flowing.
"Does it usually sound like that?" He asked.
"Yeah, no problem."
"Does it usually smell like this?" He asked shutting the valve.
"Smell? Uh, I'm not sure."
After a bit of discussion, it turns out that propane is leaking from the valve, and has been since we've had it. That means, that all this time, all these camping trips, propane has been seeping out into our campsite and I had no clue. No idea that I could have been the spark that ignited, not only the van, Artie, and Aimee, but potentially set fire to hundreds of acres.
I went in and told Aimee about the smell. I told her about the hissing sound. She said she always smelled propane but thought nothing of it.
Thanks, love, for keeping me one-step, one lighter-strike, from death's door!
1. Lol! No laughing matter, but a post I found quite amusing.
I "saved" my cousin from being lit on fire once. He had a white, wool sweater on and was lighting a propane burner and had the gas on just a little too long. When he lit up the burner, the flame traveled up his sleeve, all around his arm and shoulders; I could literally see the smallest blue flames just dancing all over his arm. Thankfully I was there and snuffed him out before he realized anything had happened--but, unfortunately, his sweater did crisp up nicely afterward... ;)
Stay safe and happy camping. :)
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Researchers in the US have taken magnetic resonance imaging to its extreme by developing a technique to detect the spin of a single nucleus. The work opens the way to carrying out magnetic resonance measurements on single molecules, and providing a method to probe the detailed structure of complex molecules such as proteins for which current techniques are insufficiently sensitive.
It has been known for some time that certain defects in diamond, called nitrogen vacancy (NV) centres, can act as exquisitely sensitive magnetometers. An NV consists of a nitrogen atom substituting for carbon in the diamond lattice, with an associated vacancy or hole in the lattice. The NV possesses an electronic quantum spin state, and emits luminescence. The luminescence is coupled to the spin state, which in turn can be modulated by a magnetic field. So changes in luminescence intensity can be used to monitor changes in the local magnetic field.
However, NV centres reside too far below the diamond surface – around 4nm – to be able to detect the tiny magnetic fluxes caused by a single nucleus on the surface. Now, a team led by Hongkun Park and Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University has overcome this problem by taking advantage of the existence of quantum electron spin states that exist naturally on the surface of diamond. ‘Diamond has surface electron spins that are also sensitive to local magnetic fields,’ says lead author Alex Sushkov. ‘Because these are on the surface, unlike NV, they are able to detect single nuclear spins on the surface of the diamond.’
Crucially, a perturbation of these surface spins can in turn affect the magnetic field of nearby NVs. So these surface spins – termed ‘dark spins’ because they do not luminesce – can act as ‘quantum reporters’ for tiny changes in the magnetic field on the surface.
The Harvard team showed that individual protons on the surface of the diamond can be detected by dark spins, and this information relayed to the NV, which in turn can provide a luminescence read-out. ‘We think it could be possible to use this method to probe the structure of a single molecule sitting on the surface of the diamond, mapping the positions of atoms within the molecule that possess a nuclear spin,’ says Sushkov. This could yield structural information on complex molecules, such as some proteins, which cannot be obtained by current methods such as x-ray diffraction or liquid-state NMR, he says.
Commenting on the study, Malcolm Levitt, an expert on magnetic resonance at the University of Southampton in the UK, says: ‘This scheme extends the range of diamond magnetometry and brings closer the aim of obtaining NMR spectra or even MRI images of small numbers of molecules, well below the detection limit of conventional magnetic resonance technology.’ | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9e1ce614aa7f37950d46363bfc30a6606b8b0b2262f9147dc019a03386c959f3'} |
Friday, December 30, 2016
More Adventures With My Freezer
Last post I described how I managed to screw up my freezer defrost controller <link>. This is the latest chapter in that escapade.
I started up Eagle and created a board to hold a higher power relay and XBee to overcome the problems with the small relays that are generally available for Arduinos. The board got overly complicated and the cost of the various parts got to the point where it was just silly to continue. Then I got a brainstorm: why not just use a relay board as a module similar to what I did with the XBee.
I started up Eagle again and took that tactic; it worked really well --- at least on paper. Here's the schematic I came up with:
For those of you that aren't used to Eagle schematics, each of the signal lines has a name and you just match up the names to see where things hook together. It makes for a really simple looking schematic that is a bit hard to follow. The idea is that the set of plugs on the right are the pins on an Arduino, the two modules in the middle are an XBee and a relay module that is readily available all over the place:
These little boards are available for less than $5.00 and can handle motors. It should be exactly what I need for this project. Where I ran into trouble was all the parts necessary to support one of the relays. Things like buffer transistors, optoisolators, LEDs and such are a real pain to keep stock of and you can't really order just a couple. I'd have parts piled all over the place if I tried to build up everything necessary; so I took the easy way out and just mounted the relay on a board I designed along with the pins for the temperature sensor, XBee, some lights and some buttons. Basically, my new board would be a holding device for the stuff I needed for this project.
Cool huh? This is the board layout I came up with:
I added some LEDs at the front of the board so I could see that it was alive at a glance, matched holes on the board to the holes on the relay module and added a couple of buttons to control reset and defrost for testing. Heck, I even put a Saguaro cactus on it as a kind of indicator that it was designed by me.
I sent the gerber files to Seeed Fusion because I haven't used them before. About 4 weeks later the boards arrived. I say boards because you get 10 of them for the same price, but the shipping was high. To offset the shipping I included the rest of the temperature sensors I need for my house monitoring project. So, for around $38 I got ten of the defrost controller boards and ten more of the room sensor boards for later.
Here's what the boards look like:
I chose yellow because I've never messed with a yellow board before. I labeled every stinking thing because I can't ever remember where stuff goes after a few weeks of not looking at it. I also stuck the LEDs on the front of the board so they could be seen by peeking through a vent area on the freezer. My way of showing off that I modified the freezer.
Here's the board assembled:
I pulled the screw connectors for the digital signals off the board and replaced them with pins so I could plug the relay module into the board. I bent the LEDs over for that day when I actually make an enclosure for the board. I used Arduino-like pins for connecting to an Arduino, but that was a mistake. Somehow I thought I might someday mount something above this board. Notice that's not possible. Oh well, they may serve as test points some day.
Here it is mounted to the Arduino:
Yep, it's bigger than the Arduino. I considered using one of the really tiny Arduino devices and just having a board that connects the various modules together, but decided to just use what I already had. It won't matter when I get it into an enclosure because only the wires going in and the LEDs will be visible.
I powered it up and everything worked first try. Amazing. I actually got something like this to work without another hitch.
Some tricks you can use if you decide to do something like this: Print the board on paper and try the various parts on the paper. This is how I managed to get the holes for mounting the relay module in the right spot. First I measured them as close as I could, then I printed the board and put the module on top of it to be sure the holes lined up correctly; they didn't. I was a tenth of an inch off. A little moving of stuff and they lined up perfectly. I did the same thing for the pins for the digital signals to the relay module also. I used the same technique to be sure the Arduino pins lined up as well. When I got the boards in I was almost afraid to try it out for real, but it worked perfectly.
Lining up something like this is a real pain, but using the printed version of the board takes almost all of the anxiety out of the process. Another trick is to label every thing in sight. The values of the components, the direction things point, which way a diode goes in, these are the things you forget while you wait for the board to arrive. Just label them in the silk screen so you don't have to wonder what goes in that hole and which way it points.
This is the third board I've had made for one of my projects and I think I'll do more over time. It's just too easy to mess up a tiny wire from one component to another and it makes the end result very fragile. The other thing I learned is just using the inexpensive components that are available to us for projects. I could use multiple relay modules like this in a project and have a board made to mount and wire all of them making the end result pretty and easier to work with. It should make troubleshooting easier as well; I won't have to follow a wire from place to place to see what went wrong.
Now to install it and watch it work for a while. I also have to figure out what to do with the other nine boards I don't really need.
Edit: After it was installed and tested once, it failed. Seems the relay wouldn't close; it got the signal to close just fine, but the relay just wouldn't activate. I chased the problem to the power line going from the wall wart to the Arduino, and changing that cord fixed the problem.
A lot of us have encountered this problem. We get a USB cable from somewhere and they use tiny wires that can't even carry a half amp three feet; it can drive you nuts trying to troubleshoot the problem because it looks just fine until you try to drive a relay or a set of LEDs. When you try and pull power, the voltage drop through the cable shuts things down.
Anyway, it's working just fine now and the stupid cable has been labeled so I'll know next time.
1. Dave, you know of course, since you didn't label which direction the Xbee is to be inserted (unless that straight line across the headers is your orientation marker), a few months/years from now you're gonna put one in backwards :) I've had to update more than a few PCB's with a Sharpie to keep me from repeating a mistake.
1. Actually, I did ... sorta. There's a line representing one flat side and a shorter line for the sort of pointed end where the antenna is. Where I messed it up is that the short line runs right across the 4.7K resistor for the temp sensor.
I suspect I'll forget that in a year or so.
2. Keep up the great work Dave.
I just passed on your site to a guy in Australia (ForwardComputing).
I admire your enthusiasm.
I really must get to grips with Eagle, then the XY ink etch resist and drill machine. No time for crossword puzzles. This is one great hobby.
All the best from the UK
1. I (very) briefly thought about making the board myself. Naw, just send off for it.
3. Hey Dave....
Are you still there? We miss you! ..guy from TX
1. Yep, I'm still alive. I've gotten myself stuck though; started so many projects and have a literal ton of things going on around the house that I can't actually accomplish anything. I just keep wandering from one part of something to part of something else never actually accomplishing anything.
We've all been there.
One of the things I did to force me to actually finish something was I forbade myself from getting a 3D printer until I:
1) had enough reward points on my credit card to buy it.
2) finished a particular set of projects around the house.
I've got the points now and only one project left on the list, so that may happen soon.
I've been working on the big tractor on and off for months. It actually works pretty well, but the list of projects for it to do, once all the pieces work well and don't leak all over the place, is pretty long. It also has been eating up a lot of money for parts and such.
So, things like fixing the roof on the trailer, hunting down a hydraulic leak, pulling weeds from around the trees, waging war on woodpeckers, really don't make for a good blog entry...
I have managed to keep the spam off the blog though. Man that's a pain. I get several spam comments a day sometimes. Darn bots.
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Prayer Ballot
Inside of a school gymnasium, red-white-&-blue curtains hang along a string of voting booths, with some voters visible.
(written for the Presidential Election, 2016)
I walk in, as on pilgrimage.
The altar cloths are red, white, and blue
the ushers are the women
who have been running these things
who have been running everything
since before I was born.
I’m handed the ballot
like a scroll
because the questions
seem that important—
ancient and modern
of what my God and country
ask of me:
Who—for commissioner, mayor, president—
who—for district 8, ward 7, school board—
who—will do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly?
I make my mark
with at least a shred of hope
that something good will come from this.
And regardless, I remember:
the world won’t be destroyed, entirely, by this;
the world won’t be saved, entirely, by this.
Marking my vote
is like kneeling in prayer
because neither will accomplish
anything right away—
but the purpose of both
is to remind me
of my deepest hope
for the world that I’m trying to help create.
So I rise from prayer,
and turn in my ballot
and remember the who is me,
and us, and we the people—
and again I set to the task that is mine:
justice, mercy, humble service
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I have written about the Yield on Cost (YOC) metric previously in this article, and now I want to explore it further and find a way to make it more useful. YOC is the current dividend divided by the initial price paid. The main criticism of YOC is that it is based on historical data and irrelevant when comparing current yields. Basically, just because YOC is high does not mean that an investor should not switch out to a stock with a higher current yield in order to increase income.
For example, an investor who bought 100 shares of Wal-Mart (WMT) back in August of 2011 would have paid about $50 per share. WMT paid annual dividends of $1.46 at that time, making the yield at the time a respectable 2.92%. Since that time, WMT has increased in price to about $71, and now pays out $1.88 per share annually since its last dividend increase. This gives it a current yield of 2.65%, less than the initial yield when the investor purchased the shares. Critics of YOC argue that because the Yield on Cost is at 3.76% ($1.88/$50), the investor may be tempted to hold the stock instead of increasing income by replacing it with a stock currently yielding 3%.
I agree with this assessment, although I believe that it is omitting a key factor in the decision making process. Switching stocks would incur taxes on the capital appreciation, thus reducing the value of the holding (with the exception of tax-free or tax-deferred accounts). All of a sudden, the investor is left with less capital to invest in a different stock. I have recently been using a new metric that I created to help with the decision making process.
Continuing the example above, let's say the investor wanted to increase income by switching out shares of WMT for shares of Coca-Cola (KO) because it is currently yielding more at 2.9%. Since the investor's tax rate on long-term capital gains is 15%, he or she would be taxed .15 x 100 x (71-50) = $315. The value of these WMT shares that could be invested in KO would essentially decrease from $7,100 to $6,785. All of a sudden, the income stream for the two options is much closer than it would originally appear, even though KO has the higher current yield.
Here is the formula I use to determine the necessary yield so that a stock switch increases income, accounting for taxes (note that this is not applicable to tax-free accounts).
Current Yield / (1-((Current Price- Purchase Price) x Tax Rate) / Current Price)
I have called this metric YAT (Yield Adjusted for Tax), and believe it is a very relevant factor for any dividend investor's toolbox. It shows the yield required from a new stock to fully replace the lost income from a sale of old stock, and is helpful when considering capital appreciation. Let's take a look at an example of an investor who bought 100 shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) during the financial crisis in 2008, when the stock was trading at $90 per share. Despite the recent decline in price, the investor has made a significant gain, with a current share price of $441 and yield of 2.40%. The investor is tempted to increase his yield by switching to Exxon Mobil (XOM), with a yield of 2.55%. At first glance, he believes that he will increase his current income from $1080 to $1122 by converting his 100 AAPL shares to 492 shares of XOM. The investor realizes that he will have to pay a 20% tax on capital appreciation since the shares are not in any of his tax-free or tax-deferred accounts. This will cut into his capital, and decrease the number of shares he will be able to purchase. So, would it be worth it to sell AAPL for XOM? Plugging into the YAT formula, we can see the required yield to increase the dividend payments by switching out AAPL.
2.40% / (1-(($441-$90) x 20%) / $441) = 2.854%
As it turns out, switching from Apple to Exxon will not only decrease the value of the portfolio, but also reduce the income from dividends. The taxes on the sale of AAPL would be $7,020, reducing the amount of XOM purchased to 415 shares. Similarly, the annual dividend income would decrease from $1080 to $946. In this case, unless the investor felt that the dividend of AAPL was threatened or that XOM would grow its dividend at a much faster rate, it would not be advantageous to make the switch.
If the investor selects a company with a higher yield than the YAT threshold, the results will be very different. The investor chooses to sell his shares of Apple to buy stock in Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), which pays a 3.3% yield. After paying capital gains taxes, the investor can scoop up 1324 shares of MSFT. These shares will then produce $1218 in annual income, a significant increase over the annual $1080 from AAPL. This is an example of how switching to a stock yielding above the YAT can be beneficial for income.
Similar to YOC, the YAT metric also takes into account the purchase price, and increases above current yield as the stock appreciates in value. YAT identifies the threshold at which switching out one stock for another can increase dividend income, accounting for taxes. It won't increase as much as YOC will, and may not make the investor feel as good about their investment, but I find that it is much more actionable information.
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Q:
filtering webservice request with viewXml
Situation
I have a Ajax query that gets all items from my list it gets all items (1000 ish) and the query alone takes about 1.3 seconds of the total load time of 1.5 seconds.
Problem
I know this will scale up in time on the live site.(more users and items)
I have to use the following code because it gets me the taxonomy values.
So basicly my question is: can i filter the following code by multiple id's and if so how?
Thanks in advance!
Code:
$.ajax({
url: url +"/_api/web/Lists/GetByTitle('"+ listname+"')/GetItems(query=@v1)?@v1={'ViewXml':'<View><Query></Query></View>'}",
type: "POST",
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
"X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val()
},
success: function (data) {
A:
Found my Problem:
Useing type instead of Type which gave weird errors which made me believe that filtering useing this method of caml wasn't possible, because when it didn't gave errors it just ignored the filters.
There should really be better error message descriptions (Especially since I get german one's)
var caml = '<Query><Where><Eq><FieldRef Name="ID"/><Value Type="Counter">160</Value></Eq></Where></Query>';
$.ajax({
url: url +"/_api/web/Lists/GetByTitle('"+ listname+"')/GetItems(query=@v1)?@v1={'ViewXml':'<View>"+ caml +"</View>'}",
type: "POST",
headers: {
"Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",
"X-RequestDigest": $("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val()
},
success: function (data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
console.log(data);
},
error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
console.log(jqXHR);
}
});
Hope this helps someone else as wel!
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Cardiff, Wales
is the capital and largest city of Wales, and the country's commercial centre. According to Census 2001 data, Cardiff was the 14th largest settlement in the United Kingdom,[1] and the 21st largest urban area.[2] However recent local government estimates put the population of the unitary authority as 317,500.[3] The city of Cardiff is the county town of the historic county of Glamorgan (and later South Glamorgan). Cardiff is part of the Eurocities network of the largest European cities[4]. Cardiff Urban Area covers a slightly larger area, including Dinas Powys, Penarth and Radyr. more
p/s : tempat yang di lawati di Cardiff adalah Cardiff Castle, Cardiff Bay, melalui Millenium Stadium. Cantik pemandangan di Cardiff..
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is acrylamide?
Acrylamide is a naturally occurring by-product of the cooking process that forms naturally in a wide variety of foods when they are heated or cooked, including coffee, chocolate, almonds, french fries, crackers, potato chips, cereal, bread and even some fruits and vegetables. While acrylamide has been present in the human diet ever since we began cooking with fire, it was not known to be in food until 2002 when a group of Swedish scientists presented research that detected it in some baked and fried foods. Prior to the Swedish study, food was not analyzed for acrylamide because it was not an added ingredient, nor was it known to be a component of food.
Is acrylamide added to products?
No. Acrylamide forms naturally when carbohydrate-rich foods are fried, baked, grilled, toasted or roasted at high temperatures. Acrylamide forms when foods are cooked at homebag of fries and in restaurants as well as when they are made commercially. The primary way that acrylamide forms in foods is through the reaction of reducing sugars (such as glucose) with free asparagine, an amino acid found in many foods, during the browning process. Reducing sugars, asparagine, and other amino acids are all naturally present in many plant-based foods.
Why is there a concern about acrylamide?
At doses much higher than what naturally occurs in foods, acrylamide has been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals. Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the World Health Organization and most other health regulatory bodies have not determined that the presence of acrylamide in food presents a health risk to humans and do not recommend that consumers change their diets for the purpose of avoiding acrylamide. Studies are ongoing on this subject.
Additionally, industry has conducted significant research to discover and apply methods to reduce acrylamide in numerous products. As a result, acrylamide levels have been significantly reduced in many products, and efforts continue to reduce levels as low as reasonably achievable.
Is one food contributing more acrylamide than other foods to the diet?
crackers on cutting board Acrylamide has been around since mankind began cooking with fire and is present in approximately 40% of the American diet. As such, there is no single product that has been identified as the main contributor.
More importantly, the World Health Organization concluded that removing any one or two foods from the diet would not have a significant impact on overall exposure to acrylamide. That's why regulatory guidance to consumers regarding acrylamide has focused on recommending that people eat a balanced diet, choosing a variety of foods that are low in trans fat and saturated fat, and rich in high-fiber grains, fruits, and vegetables.
Furthermore, the amount of acrylamide in a particular food varies based on the natural components of raw materials and cooking conditions. Therefore, removing one food from the diet is unlikely to change overall consumption.
Which products contain acrylamide?
A wide range of carbohydrate-rich products subjected to heating and consequently the “browning Maillard reaction” - when flavors, colors, and textures are formed - generally contain acrylamide. Among the foods that develop acrylamide during the cooking process are coffee, chocolate, almonds, french fries, potato chips, cereal, crackers, bread, and even some fruits and vegetables.
What do government authorities advise regarding dietary intake of acrylamide?
cup of coffee and coffee beans Although the formation of acrylamide in cooked foods is still being studied, a number of leading government food safety authorities around the world advise consumers to eat a healthy and balanced diet, rather than eliminate certain foods.
For example, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommends that the public eat a balanced diet, choosing a variety of foods that are low in trans fat and saturated fat, and rich in high-fiber grains, fruits, and vegetables. Similarly, the World Health Organization (WHO) reinforces general advice on healthy eating, including moderating consumption of fried and fatty foods. The WHO concludes that there is not enough evidence about the amounts of acrylamide in different types of food to recommend avoiding any particular food product.
FDA and other health and scientific organizations are continuing to study acrylamide in food – how it is formed during cooking, its effect on health, and how its formation during cooking can be reduced. This research may form the basis for more specific dietary advice and/or federal regulation of specific food products in the future. FDA has explicitly stated, however, that warnings about acrylamide in food are not in the public interest at this time.
What solutions is industry implementing?
The industry's acrylamide mitigation efforts are truly global in scope. The industry has developed a special process using the enzyme, asparaginase, to mitigate acrylamide's natural formation in dough-based foods. This process has been implemented worldwide in every country that has approved the process.
In Europe, a guidance document or “Toolbox” has been developed by the European food processors' trade association (FoodDrinkEurope), in collaboration with European regulators and with input from the GMA and many of our member companies. The toolbox highlights possible ways to reduce acrylamide in different types of products. The industry follows this guidance and has implemented many of the techniques as well as others that industry discovered through its own research.
Will these changes eliminate acrylamide from all products?
bowl of potato chips and bowl of pretzels Currently, there does not appear to be a practical and effective method for completely eliminating acrylamide from many kinds of products. There is not a single solution that can be applied to all foods. Nevertheless, through research and innovation, the industry is discovering ways to reduce levels of acrylamide in many foods and continues to develop innovative ways to reduce levels even further. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '117', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9656367897987366}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14917', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:EKNXZWYGL5NQ4ODTLFEZIUU5VUPEAENW', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:d73c0fb6-5eda-4e60-9d69-4bc0df3f0450>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 9, 22, 23, 23, 10), 'WARC-IP-Address': '45.60.135.51', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MHUOGHS7DAI7QTRINHWQR7VXE3QDXPHY', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:e0b83fa2-ff98-4b66-a5f5-88bae4ddafab>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://acrylamidefacts.org/FAQs.htm', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:9e6ae108-1ab0-409c-bef8-97d6690f68d0>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '948', 'url': 'http://acrylamidefacts.org/FAQs.htm', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2018\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-138-196-149.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 0.11-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.20556801557540894', 'original_id': '02a1bd7dfa925ab3276d9854cda848af23872c7319f626e3f675ca3f02d52bb8'} |
Theoretical Bounds on Time-Domain Resolution of Multilevel Carrier-Based Digital PWM Signals Used in All-Digital Transmitters
Pulse-width modulation (PWM) has been extensively used in switched converter systems, and recently in RF applications, due to an increased interest in all-digital transmitters. These architectures employ high efficiency switched-mode power amplifiers (SMPA), where PWM is commonly used to generate the PA driving signal. However, digitally implemented PWM introduces large amount of in-band distortion, which is traditionally explained by spectral aliasing. In this paper we derive a novel closed-form time-domain expression for the output signal of a multilevel carrier-based digital PWM, driven by an arbitrary bounded input signal. We show that the spectral aliasing effects are equivalent to amplitude quantization of the PWM input signal, and give theoretical bounds on the output signal resolution for a given PWM scheme. Parameters of this quantization process are determined, and their dependence on PWM design specifications is shown. Numerical simulations in MATLAB were used to verify derived analytical expressions. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9018373489379884}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '14343', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:VMYVMZVACPMZG4OBQ4WLW6GXHHWH7USI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2cfda71b-e850-4a87-8bdc-5944eac57bf8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 11, 17, 19), 'WARC-IP-Address': '137.203.190.5', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:G3H4WYLXHI25OREOF3CV54BMT6WP2G7F', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:6549b81f-ad89-4209-99ab-959a539f9757>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-106', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:336f3ff4-ac29-431a-9f32-d4778c37245a>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '160', 'url': 'http://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-106', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-63-222-147.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.22573816776275635', 'original_id': '78fe052204bbb35672eff2c7c1c04a5522f70f821c0afc62a60467f24fefc7a6'} |
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Saint FÉLIX de CANTALICE, capucin et confesseur
École de RUBENS, Saint Félix de Cantalice,
105 X 72
(+ 1587)
Félix vit le jour à Cantalice, bourgade située au pied de l'Apennin. Dès le bas âge, il manifesta de telles marques de prédestination que ses compagnons l'avaient surnommé "le petit Saint". Ses parents, qui étaient de pauvres laboureurs, l'employèrent de bonne heure à garder les troupeaux. Cette vie allait bien à l'âme méditative de l'enfant: peu enclin aux conversations oiseuses, il recherchait les lieux solitaires, et y répétait souvent le Pater et l'Ave et les quelques formules pieuses qu'on lui avait apprises. Lorsque les autres bergers se livraient au sommeil, lui s'agenouillait devant un arbre sur l'écorce duquel il avait gravé une Croix.
À neuf ans, Félix passa au service d'un riche bourgeois qui lui confia d'abord la garde de ses troupeaux, puis le chargea du labourage de ses terres. Le jeune homme aima son nouvel emploi qui lui permettait d'assister tous les jours à la Messe avant de se rendre aux champs. Cet humble travailleur, sans instruction, qui n'avait fréquenté aucune école, avait beaucoup appris du Saint-Esprit. Comme il l'avouait plus tard, il ne connaissait que six lettres: cinq rouges et une blanche. Les cinq rouges étaient les cinq plaies du Sauveur, et la blanche était la Vierge Marie.
Dieu lui inspira d'embrasser un genre de vie plus parfait. À un parent qui lui objectait les austérités de la vie religieuse, il répondit: "Je veux être religieux tout de bon ou ne pas m'en mêler". Il alla frapper à la porte des Capucins. À la vue de ce paysan du Danube, le Père Gardien, voulant l'éprouver, lui dit: "Vous venez sans doute ici pour avoir un habit neuf et y vivre sans rien faire. Ou bien vous croyez que vous allez commander aux religieux comme vous commandiez à vos boeufs. Renoncez à ce projet et n'y pensez plus". Mais le postulant répondit à ce compliment si humblement et si sensément que le terrible Gardien l'admit sur-le-champ.
Devenu profès, le Frère Félix fut fixé au couvent de Rome avec les attributions de quêteur. Il resta quarante ans dans cet humble emploi, allant chaque jour, la besace sur le dos, pieds nus, et récitant son chapelet, quêter la subsistance de ses Frères. Les humiliations, comme les peines corporelles, étaient pour lui ses roses du Paradis; il ne craignait pas de s'appeler lui-même l'âne du couvent des Capucins. "Mais où est-il donc, votre âne? Frère Félix", lui demanda-t-on un jour. -- "C'est moi!" répondit l'humble religieux.
Dans sa vieillesse, le Cardinal protecteur de l'Ordre lui offrit de le faire décharger de ses fatigantes fonctions. "Monseigneur, répondit Félix, laissez-moi mon office de quêteur: un soldat doit mourir l'épée à la main, un âne sous sa charge, et Frère Félix sous sa besace".
La mortification allait de pair avec son esprit de pauvreté et d'humilité: il se privait même des satisfactions les plus légitimes, telles que de s'approcher du feu l'hiver. "Allons, Frère âne, disait-il à son corps, il faut que tu te réchauffes sans feu; car c'est ainsi que doivent être traitées les bêtes de somme... Loin du feu, Frère âne, loin du feu! C'est devant le feu que saint Pierre renia son Maître."
Après avoir achevé de le purifier par de douloureuses infirmités, patiemment supportées, Dieu rappela à Lui le Frère Félix, le 18 mai 1587.
J.M. Planchet, Nouvelle Vie des Saints, p. 199
Jacques Stella (1596-1657). La Rencontre de Saint Philippe de Néri et de Félix de Cantalice, 1622
Rome, Palazzo Barberini, Galleria d’Arte Antica. Photo : Sylvain Kerspern
Saint Félix de Cantalice
Capucin à Rome (✝ 1587)
Né dans une humble famille de paysans, il passa toute sa vie dans un couvent franciscain de Rome où il était connu sous le nom de "frère Deo Gratias." C'était sa réponse permanente à tous ceux qui lui donnaient l'aumône ou bien le repoussaient. Son optimisme infatigable en fit l'un des saints les plus populaires de la Ville éternelle.
À Rome, en 1587, saint Félix de Cantalice, religieux capucin, d’une austérité et d’une simplicité admirables. Pendant quarante ans, il exerça l’office de quêteur, semant autour de lui la paix et la charité.
Martyrologe romain
St. Felix of Cantalice
The influence which he speedily gained with the Roman people is an evidence of the inherent power of personalholiness over the consciences of men. He had no learning he could not even read; yet learned theologians came to consult him upon of the spiritual life and the Scriptures. Whenever he appeared in the streets ofRome vicious persons grew abased and withdrew from his sight. Sometimes Felix would stop them and earnestly exhort them to live a better life; especially did he endeavour to restrain young men. But judges and dignitariesalso at times incurred his rebuke, he was no respecter of persons when it was a matter of preventing sin. On one occasion, during a Carnival, he and St. Philip Neri organized a procession with their crucifix; then came theCapuchin friars; last came Felix leading Fra Lupo, a well-known Capuchin preacher, by a rope round his neck, to represent Our Lord led to judgment by his executioners. Arrived in the middle of the revels, the procession halted and Fra Lupo preached to the people. The Carnival, with its open vice, was broken up for that year.
St. Philip Neri had a deep affection for the Capuchin lay brother, whom he once proclaimed the greatest saintthen living in the Church. When St. Charles Borromeo sought St. Philip's aid in drawing up the constitutions of hisOblates, St. Philip took him to St. Felix as the most competent adviser in such matters. But through all, Felixkept his wonderful humility and simplicity. He was accustomed to style himself "Ass of the Capuchins". Acclaimed a Saint by the people of Rome, immediately after his death, he was beatified by Urban VIII in 1625, andcanonized by Clement XI in 1712. His body rests under an altar dedicated to him in the church of the Immaculate Conception to Rome.
Hess, Lawrence. "St. Felix of Cantalice." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 2 Apr. 2015 <>.
St. Felix of Cantalice, OFM Cap
His feast is celebrated on May 18. Felix was born at Cantalice, Italy, in 1515. His parents, Santi and Santa Porri, were farmers, struggling to make ends meet. Felix had two older brothers, Blase and Charles, and two younger brothers, Potenza and Peter Marino. The latter perished in one of the many battles between Cantalice and Rieti. When he was about 10 years old, Felix was hired out as a farmhand for the Picchi family at Cittaducale. Farmhands were rustic, "untamed" people, raised in the outdoors. Vegetarians, they learned how to survive in the wild. Their job was grueling. After a hard day's work, Felix found relaxation in wrestling. As a youngster, Felix' cousin would read to him the lives of the desert ascetics. Descriptions of their penances had enthused Felix and sparked in him a desire to imitate their austerity. Felix had a dream in which an angel directed him to go to Leonessa to join the Capuchins. In pursuit of his dream, Felix set out for Leonessa where the Capuchin local minister redirected him to the provincial vicar. Not knowing where to find him, Felix returned to work in the fields. He was not accustomed to receiving messages from angels and was even less inclined to waste his time searching for what was elusive. The angel returned a second time, telling Felix to go to the Capuchin Friary at Rieti. Again, nothing came of the trip, so Felix returned to working the land. One day, an Augustinian friar invited Felix to consider joining the Augustinians. Felix replied, "Either a Capuchin or nothing."
He persisted in his desire to become a Capuchin and presented himself at the Capuchin Friary at Cittaducale. The local minister led him into the church, before a large crucifix, asking that he pray to be enlightened. The corpus on the cross was bruised, bloodied, and disfigured. Moved by the sight, Felix experienced the depth of God's love for him. That evening, the local minister (having forgotten about Felix) returned to the chapel to pray. Felix was still there. The local minister remarked, "Son, what are you doing? Still here? You are a good person; we will accept you among us. Jesus will no longer be alone. You will help him carry the cross." Ten days later, toward the end of the autumn of 1543, the 20-year-old Felix was received. He immediately set out for Rome to present himself to the elusive provincial vicar. At the Roman friary of St. Nicholas de Portiis, Felix was received by Bernardine of Asti, who was both the Roman local minister and procurator for the Capuchin Order before the Roman Curia. Bernardine introduced Felix to Raphael of Volterra, the Capuchin Provincial Vicar of the Roman Province, who officially received Felix into the Order.
On a rainy morning in early 1544, Felix set out for the Fiuggi friary where the provincial vicar had determined his year of novitiate would be spent under the guidance of Boniface. During the harsh days of novitiate, Felix suffered debilitating fevers. The friars were considering asking him to return to secular life. As a last resort, they transferred Felix to Monte San Giovanni Campano where Felix recovered. Before the public notary, James of Mastrantonio, Felix relinquished his worldly possessions to his siblings and waived all claim to any future inheritance. He professed vows on May 18, 1545.
Lover of nature that he was, the rustic Felix had become a Capuchin hoping to be able to live the rest of his days in one of the many friaries located in secluded forests. In reality, only the first few years of his religious life were spent in such locations at Fiuggi, Monte San Giovanni, Tivoli, and Viterbo. Then, in 1547, Felix was introduced to the frenzied life of Rome. In his younger years, in imitation of the desert ascetics, Felix had vowed never again to touch bread. Ironically, his Roman assignment was to quest for bread and wine. Despite his desire for seclusion, Felix' ministry placed him in direct, daily contact with a multitude of people. Following then current Capuchin custom, Felix always made his quest barefoot, with eyes cast down. His response to every benefactor was always a humble yet confident "Thank God" ("Deo gratias"). So often was it repeated that Felix became known as "Brother Deo Gratias." Not only did Felix provide the friars with food, but he also furnished food for the hungry. He received permission from the ministers to help the needy, especially widows with many children. It is said that his begging sack was as bottomless as his heart. He never refused a request for help. Felix would dispense oil, bread, wine, and meat. When he could not provide the required aid himself, he would solicit the help of the wealthy, including church dignitaries. Felix always reminded people, benefactors and beneficiaries alike, of divine providence and urged them to give thanks to God. He would visit the sick at the friary, in private homes, at the hospitals of St. James of the Incurables, of the Holy Spirit, and of St. John Lateran. Felix spoke in simple language, exhorting the sick to trust, and to accept sickness as a graced moment.
Felix' reputation as a healer of peoples' ills spread. He would often bless the sick with a crucifix and they would be healed. At other times, he would give away some of the alms he had collected, which, in turn, became channels of healing. Felix healed Constance, the mother of the Cardinal Bishop of Orvieto, Peter Crescenzi, by bathing her eyes with wine he had received as an alms. Similarly, at the hospital of St. John, a patient was healed instantaneously after Felix had given him some donated wine. Friends began to tease Felix saying, "Brother Felix, when I get sick, bring me a little of your wine!" Felix exhorted everyone in his rustic Sabine dialect, always using the informal form of address. He treated every individual with the greatest respect, whether giving alms or receiving them. Felix was a person who had difficulty saying "no," and benefactors knew this. If someone asked for something, Felix always provided.
His upbringing prevented him from putting on airs. A person's social or ecclesiastical position notwithstanding, Felix would directly (and unceremoniously) confront those in need of conversion. Stories of Felix' life read like incidents out of the Fioreffi. One day, Felix, seeking food for the poor, knocked at the door of a lawyer who was immersed in reading a legal treatise. The lawyer, indignant over the intrusion, made it known that he was involved in something far more important than any trivial affair in which the brother was involved. Felix's eyes filled with tears and he asked, "Is there perhaps some law more important than God's?" The lawyer soon abandoned his law career to pursue a life of ministry in the church. On another occasion, Felix confronted the illustrious lawyer, Bernardine Biscia, by placing a crucifix on top of some legal tomes Biscia was perusing. Felix pointed to the Crucified One and said, "Look, Sir Bernardine, all these books were made for you to better understand him."
Felix normally spoke little outside the friary. Even within the friary, what he had to say was more often than not an exhortation for others to give good example. His style was frank and direct. He might tell someone, "I want to correct you." He often reminded Capuchin preachers, "Preach in order to convert people, not to make a name for yourself." At times, he would quote Brother Giles' quip: "Bo, bo, bo, assai dico e poco fo!" ("Tsk, tsk, tsk, a lot of talk, but no action.") To Cardinal Julius Anthony Santori, the Capuchin cardinal protector, Felix once said: "My lord cardinal, you were designated to protect us, not to interfere with matters that pertain to the superiors of the Order." He advised the future Sixtus V, "When you become pope, be pope for the glory of God and the good of the church. Otherwise, it would be better for you to remain a simple friar." The same pope would occasionally encounter Felix questing and would ask for a piece of bread. One day, Felix gave him a piece of stale black bread and remarked to the Franciscan pope, "Excuse me, Holy Father, but you're still a friar."
For his personal devotion and meditation, Felix memorized prayers and liturgical and biblical texts. Despite being illiterate, Felix prayed from the heart and occupied his mind with spiritual reflections. Whether he was walking the streets of Rome, in his cell or in chapel, he was absorbed in contemplation. He would recall the words of the gospel for inspiration. After everyone else had gone to bed, Felix would spend long hours before the Blessed Sacrament entrusting to God's care the people he had met in the course of the day.
He had a curiosity about subjects of which he had no formal education. Often he would seek counsel from the famous Spanish priest, Alphonse Lupo. Felix was a personal friend of Philip Neri and an acquaintance of Charles Borromeo. Felix recognized that authentic holiness was both enlightened and enlightening. Thus, by seeking the advice of knowledgeable people, the "saint of the streets of Rome" was enabled in turn to advise or admonish the people who sought counsel from him.
Felix was an institution for two generations of Roman youth. Youngsters would affectionately call him "Papa," causing some raised eyebrows among those who were unfamiliar with the esteem in which the Capuchin was held. People brought their cares immediately to Felix for help. Even before going to the doctor, they would call on Felix. He would go to their side, kneel, and say an "Our Father" and a "Hail Mary," and then return to the friary confident that providence would take care of the rest. At other times, Felix would exhort the sick to acceptance, saying, "Heaven, heaven," or, "Allow yourself to go to paradise." Felix had an intense fondness for mothers and babies. He would always take a moment to dedicate the infants and to teach the young to repeat, "Jesus, Jesus," or, "Deo gratias." Felix had a talent for spontaneously creating and singing spiritual hymns. People would often ask him to sing. His devotion to the Virgin Mary was not apparent, except in these free verse songs and from the testimony of Alphonse Lupo who knew Felix well. Felix carried out his ministry until just days before his death. Cardinal Santori had offered to use his influence to have the elderly Felix relieved of the difficult task of questing, but Felix refused.
On April 30, 1587, Felix fell ill. He knew he was about to die. To the friars he remarked, "This little ass has dropped; it will not rise again." With Urban of Prato at his bedside, Felix raised his hands and his face became resplendent. Urban asked him what was happening and Felix responded, "I see the Virgin Mary surrounded by a throng of angels." As the local minister was bringing Eucharist as Viaticum, Felix began to sing, "O Sacrum Convivium." He died on May 18, 1587. Felix' remains are enshrined in the Capuchin church of the Immaculate Conception on Rome's exclusive via Veneto.
Sixtus V was determined to proceed to canonization, by Roman acclamation if necessary, but the process was not concluded. After Sixtus V died, the momentum of the process dissipated. Finally, on October 1, 1625, Urban VIII beatified Felix and Clement XI canonized him on May 22, 1712, the first Capuchin to be so honored.
St. Felix of Cantalice
"And let us refer all good to the most high and supreme lord God, and acknowledge that every good is His, and thank Him for everything, [He] from Whom all good things come. And may He, the Highest and Supreme, Who alone is true God, have and be given and receive every honor and reverence, every praise and blessing, every thanks and glory, for every good is His, He Who alone is good. And when we see or hear an evil [person] speak or act or blaspheme God, let us speak well and act well and praise God (cf. Rm 12:21), Who is blessed forever (Romans 1:25)" (St. Francis, Rule of 1221, Ch. 17).
Bartolomeo Gennari. La Vierge Marie et l’Enfant Jésus avec Saint Félix de Cantalice,
1644, huile sur toile, 230 X 158
Saint Felix of Cantalice
Feast Day – May 18
In 1515, in the Italian village of Cantalice, in the beautiful valley of Rieti, Saint Felix of Cantalice was born of humble but pious peasants. As a boy he tended cattle, and later he became a farm laborer. Being so much amid God's free nature, his heart was attracted to God, who graciously ministers to us human beings He has daily before his eyes.
The hard work did not make Saint Felix of Cantalice coarse and worldly-minded, as sometimes happens, but he was gentle and kind towards everyone. When he came home at night all tired out, he still spent much time in his little room engaged in prayer, to which for that matter he applied himself also while at work. It grieved him that he could not attend holy Mass on weekdays. He would indeed have gladly consecrated his whole life to the service of God, but he could see no way of carrying out his desire until one day an accident showed him the way.
Saint Felix had to break to the plow a team of young oxen that were very wild. The oxen shied, and when Felix tried to stop them, they ran him down, dragging the sharp plowshare across his body. Peasants ran to the scene, certain that they would find the man dead, but Felix arose unharmed, with only his jacket rent, though he went straight to his employer and begged to be released from his service. The little he possessed he gave to the poor, and went to the nearest Capuchin convent, where he humbly begged for admission. After careful trial, his request was granted.
Now Saint Felix of Cantalice felt like one newly born, as if heaven itself had opened to him. It was the year 1543, and Felix was 28 years old. But in his novitiate he was yet to experience the burden and the struggles of this earthly life. The devil attacked him with violent temptations of all kinds. He was also seized with a lingering illness, which made it appear that he was unfit for convent life. But patience, steadfast self-control, prayer, and candor toward his superiors helped him secure admission to the vows, which he took with great delight.
Soon afterwards he was sent to the Capuchin convent at Rome, where, because of his genuine piety and friendly manner, he was appointed to the task of gathering alms, which he did for all the next 42 years until his death. With his provision sack slung over his shoulder, he went about so humbly and reserved in manner that he edified everybody. When he received an alms, he had so cordial a way of saying Deo Gratias - thanks be to God - that the people called him Brother Deo Gratias.
As soon as Saint Felix of Cantalice got back to the convent and delivered the provisions, he found his way to church. There he first said a prayer for the benefactors, then he poured out his heart in devotion especially before the Blessed Sacrament and at the altar of our Lady. He also passed many hours of the night there, and one time the Mother of God placed the Divine Child in the arms of the overjoyed Felix.
Saint Felix of Cantalice was most conscientious in observing every detail of his role and vows. He did not wait for the orders of his superiors; a mere hint from them was enough. Although always in touch with the world, he kept careful guard over his chastity in every word and look, that Pope Paul V said he was a saint in body and soul.
Poverty was his favorite virtue. Since his holy father St Francis forbade his friars to accept money in any form, Saint Felix of Cantalice could not be prevailed upon to accept it under any circumstances. How pleasing his spirit was to God was to be proved in a remarkable way. Once on leaving a house, Felix slung his sack over his shoulder, but felt it weigh so heavily that it almost crushed him. He searched the sack and found a coin which someone had secretly slipped into it. He threw it away in disgust, and cheerfully and easily took up his sack again.
Almighty God granted Saint Felix extraordinary graces. Many sick persons he restored to health with the Sign of the Cross. A dead child he gave back alive to its mother. In the most puzzling cases he was able to give helpful advice. Honored by the great and lowly, he considered himself the most wretched of men, but earned so much more merits with God.
Finally, the day arrived when St Felix of Cantalice was to gather the board of his merits. He died with a cheerful countenance while catching sight of the Mother of God, who invited him to the joys of Paradise. It was on the feast of Pentecost, May 18, 1587. Pope Urban VIII beatified him, while Pope Clement XI inscribed him in the register of the saints in 1709.
Felix of Cantalice, OFM Cap. (RM)
Born in Cantalice near Rieti, Apulia, Italy, in 1513; died in Rome in 1587; canonized in 1712 (or 1709 or 1724)--the first Capuchin friar to attain this honor. Born to peasant farmers, Saint Felix began life as a farm laborer and shepherd. After a narrow escape from death at age 30, when bulls charged him while he was ploughing, he joined the Capuchins at Città Ducale in Rome as a lay brother.
From 1545 until his death 42 years later, he begged the daily alms for the friary and also pocketed insults to which he invariably responded, "thanks be to God." He made his rounds barefoot and dressed in a shirt of mail studded with spikes. A legend says that one stormy night, while making his usual rounds to collect food for the friary, a radiant child appeared to him, gave him a loaf of bread, and then, with a benediction, vanished.
Felix never learned to read. He said that he knew only five red letters--the five wounds of Christ. Nevertheless, learned theologians came to him for counsel. Often he could help them find solutions because he had the gift of reading hearts. Others of evil conscience avoided him because he would remonstrate with those in most need of conversion.
He was a friend of Saint Charles Borromeo and an intimate of Saint Philip Neri. In response to the excesses of the Roman carnival, Felix and Philip Neri conceived a unique procession. The Oratorians marched with the cross in front, followed by the Capuchins. At the tail was Saint Felix leading Fra Lupo, a well- known Capuchin preacher, by a cord around his neck to represent Jesus as he was led before Pilate. When the procession reached the center of the festival gathering, Fra Lupo gave such an impressive sermon against vicious living that the carnival dispersed.
Felix was given the nickname of Brother "Deo Gratias" because that was his habitual ejaculation.
The saint had a special love of children. He gathered them around himself and sang to them improvised song, which they then popularized. Benefactors called him into their homes; in thanks he would sing to them and give them advice. His characteristic virtue was spiritual joy--I think I like this saint a lot. The day after his death, Pope Sixtus V demanded a report of Felix's life so that he could beatify him. The entire city flocked to the church to say farewell to their beloved beggar friar. So many people crowded into the church that some died in the press of the crowd and another exit had to be created to relief it. When Felix's body was exhumed later, it was found to be incorrupt. Many miracles are recorded at his shrine (Attwater, Attwater2, Benedictines, Coulson, Schamoni, Tabor).
In art, Saint Felix is an old Capuchin embracing the Christ-Child. The picture may include (1) the Christ-Child putting a loaf into his wallet; (2) the words Deo Gratias near him; or (3) SS. Philip Neri and/or Charles Borromeo (Roeder). He may also be simply a Capuchin carring a beggar's wallet (Tabor).
Saint Philip Neri asked the painter Giuseppe de Cesari for a picture of Saint Felix. One day when the saint came for his alms, Cesari detained him and sketched a portrait while they talked without letting Felix know what he was doing. On the back of the little wooden tablet, the artist wrote a few lines and sent the picture to Saint Philip. The extant image, kept in the Gallery of Prince Gaëtani in Rome, shows a sweet, old man with down-like hair, a full white beard, and long bumpy Roman nose (Schamoni).
May 21
St. Felix of Cantalicio, Confessor
From the acts of his beatification, and from his life written by F. John Baptist of Perugia. See Papebroke ad 18 Maij. t. 4, p. 203
A.D. 1587.
ST. FELIX was born of poor but virtuous parents, at Cantalicio, near Citta Ducale in the Ecclesiastical State, in 1513. For his extraordinary piety he was from his infancy surnamed the saint. At the time when in his childhood he kept cattle, and when afterwards he followed tillage and husbandry work, he was careful to sanctify his labour by a perfect spirit of penance. He accompanied all his actions with devout prayer, so as even then to lead the life rather of a hermit than of a country labourer. He watched during part of the night in holy meditation, and to his painful life he added the austerity of rigorous abstinence and fasting. He contrived, without prejudice to his work, every day to hear mass, and he declined the ordinary amusements of those of his age. Oft in the fields, when he had drove his cattle into some solitary pasture, he would pray for several hours together at the foot of some tree before a cross which with his knife he had cut in the bark. At twelve years of age his father put him out to service, in quality first of shepherd and afterwards of husbandman, in the family of Mark Tully Pichi, a virtuous gentleman who lived at Citta Ducale. In his tender years, before the faculties of his mind were sufficiently opened to qualify him for deep reflection and long meditation, his prayer chiefly consisted of the Our Father, Hail Mary, Creed, Glory be to the Father, &c., especially of certain petitions of the Lord’s Prayer, which he seemed almost never to cease repeating in the fields with wonderful devotion. He was yet young, when he learned to habituate himself to the practice of holy meditation during his labour, and he soon attained to the perfection of heavenly contemplation, whereby the fire of divine affections is readily kindled in the heart by the least thought on God, as touchwood catches the flame; whereas holy meditation calls in the succour of reasoning drawn from the truths of faith, to excite ardent affections of virtue in the soul. It is a mistake to imagine that this exercise requires learning or sublime thoughts. Pious meditation is not a dry philosophical speculation. It chiefly consists in the affections of the will, and in profound sentiments of adoration, praise, compunction, humility, and other virtues. To be capable of this exercise, it is enough that a person has an understanding to know God, and a heart capable of feeling the power of his love. The most ignorant man can repeat often to God that he desires earnestly to love him, and always to glorify his holy name; he can bewail his ingratitude and sins, confess his weakness, and implore the divine pity and succour. To do this well, the most essential dispositions are humility and simplicity of heart; and to this holy art there is no greater enemy than that worldly science which swells the mind with secret self-sufficiency and pride. Even in a religious house this gift may be often denied to many who are distinguished by their learning or dignities, 1 whilst an illiterate fervent lay-brother, who by perfect humility, obedience, and self-denial, has crucified in his heart all self-love and inordinate attachments to creatures, finds wings continually to soar to God by high contemplation. Even in the world, our saint, whilst he followed the plough, attained this gift. The tractableness and instinct of the beasts, the painfulness of his labour, the barrenness of the earth accursed by sin, the vanity of the world, the blindness of sinners, the sight of the heavens, the obedience of all nature, the beauty of the verdant fields, the watered lawns, and hanging forests, every object served to raise his heart to the praise of his Creator, or excite him to deplore in his sight his own spiritual miseries, and his distance from him. In God, in himself, and in all creatures round about him, he found a perpetual fund of pious thoughts and affections; but the sufferings of our Divine Redeemer were the most tender object of his devotions; and he was never weary in contemplating that great mystery, nor in paying to his loving Saviour the homages of adoration, love and thanksgiving, renewing always the most perfect dedication of himself to his service. He was most humble, charitable, meek, and always cheerful. He spoke little, shunned the company of those whose conduct appeared irregular, abhorred all murmurs, complaints and impatience. No injury or insult could provoke him to anger; and if any one reviled him, he was wont to say with an engaging sweetness: “I pray God you may become a saint.” The servant of God found all the means of perfect sanctification in his condition in the world; but God was pleased, for his greater advancement, to call him to a penitential religious state; to which grace two accidents contributed to dispose him. As he was one day driving the plough, at the sight of his master who came up dressed in black, the young oxen started and dragged the plough over his body; yet he received no hurt. Gratitude for this merciful deliverance inspired him with an ardent desire of consecrating himself to the divine service; and by hearing soon after the lives of some of the ancient fathers of the desert read at his master’s house, he became extremely desirous to imitate them.
The state of a lay-brother among the Capuchin friars seemed to him best to suit his design. He, therefore, petitioned for the habit, and was admitted to it at Citta Ducale. The guardian when he gave him the habit, showed him a crucifix, explained to him what our Saviour had suffered for us, and in what manner we ought to imitate him by a life of humiliation and self-denial. At that moving sight Felix burst into a flood of tears, and felt in his breast a vehement desire of bearing in himself, by the mortification of the flesh, the image of the sufferings of that Man-God, by which he might resemble his crucified master, and subdue in himself the old man. He performed his novitiate at Anticoli, and appeared already filled with the perfect spirit of his Order, especially with a sincere love of poverty, humiliations, and the cross. He often cast himself at the feet of his master of novices, earnestly begging him to double his penances and mortifications, and to treat him with greater harshness and severity than the rest, who, he said, were more docile, and naturally more inclined to virtue. By this holy hatred and contempt of himself, he laid the foundation of so eminent a degree of sanctity that his fellow-religious usually called him the saint. He was thirty years of age when he made his solemn vows in 1545; four years after which he was settled in the convent of his Order in Rome, and appointed quester, whose office is to collect the daily alms for the subsistence of the community. This office requires a person of eminent virtue and prudence, and already perfect in the spirit of his Order, who may be able to resist that of the world, which is that of covetousness and dissipation, capitally contrary to his strictest obligations. 2 But the frequent occasions of humiliation, contempt, and suffering which attended this action, afford occasions for the exercise of penance, humility, patience, meekness, and other virtues. In this circumstance Felix thought himself most happy; for no ambitious man is more greedy of honours than Felix appeared to be of contempt, which out of sincere humility he looked upon as his due. His recollection suffered no interruption. He never spoke unless obliged by necessity, and then in very few words, and with an edifying prudence and humility. He walked with his eyes cast down, but his heart was always raised to God by prayer. No objects seemed to turn his mind from heavenly things, because he restrained his eyes from curiosity or vanity, and considered God and his will in everything. He was much delighted with acts of praise, adoration, and thanksgiving; and he often repeated to others the words Deo gratias, inviting them to join with him in thanking God for all things. With the leave of his superiors, who placed an entire confidence in his piety and discretion, he assisted the poor abundantly out of the alms which he gathered. He visited the sick with the most tender charity, and sucked himself their most loathsome ulcers. He admonished sinners, and exhorted all to piety, especially dying persons, with a most moving unction and prudence. St. Philip Neri often conversed with him, being wonderfully delighted with that excellent spirit of humility and piety which he discovered in his soul, and in his whole deportment. When St. Charles Borromeo had sent the rules which he had drawn up for his Oblates at Milan to St. Philip Neri, begging him to revise them, St. Philip excused himself and referred the book to our poor lay-brother. St. Felix declined the commission, alleging that he was an illiterate person. But being commanded in obedience to hear the rules read to him, to speak to every part, and direct what he thought best to be altered, he obeyed; and some things of great moment he advised to be expunged as too difficult, with which St. Charles complied, expressing his admiration at our humble saint’s heavenly discretion. 3
He always preserved his purity unspotted both in mind and body, guarding it by the strictest watchfulness over his senses, especially his eyes; and he never looked any woman in the face. He walked always barefoot, even without sandals, and chastised his body with incredible austerities; he wore a shirt of iron links and plates studded with rough spikes: and when he could do it without too remarkable a singularity, he fasted on bread and water: on the three last days in Lent he ate nothing at all. He privately used to pick out of the basket the crusts left by the other religious for his own dinner. He watched a great part of the nights in prayer, allowing himself only two or three hours for sleep, which he usually took on his knees, leaning his head against a faggot, or lying down on the boards, or on twigs. At the least sign given him by any superior, he was always ready to do whatever was ordered him. He always called himself the ass or beast of burden to serve the community, and regarded himself as one who was not to be ranked among the religious brethren. He thought himself unworthy even to converse with them; and on that account, when with them he spoke very little. If any one contradicted him in indifferent things, he readily acquiesced in what they said, and was silent. When he ate alone and thought no one saw him, he practised excessive austerities; but when he dined in company with others, he endeavoured ordinarily to shun any singularity that could be taken notice of. It was his study to conceal from others as much as possible all heavenly favours which he received, and to avoid whatever might give them a good opinion of him. He disguised his mortifications under various pretences, and excused his going without sandals, saying he walked more easily without them, but suppressed the inconveniences he felt in that mortification. In serving at mass he was sometimes so overpowered by the abundance of his tears, and transported in ecstasies of divine love, that he was not able to answer the priest. The fire of divine love which burned in his breast made him often sing short spiritual canticles, which it also inspired him to compose in a plain simple style, but full of heavenly sentiments. In singing them he was often seen quite ravished and absorbed in God. He had the most ardent devotion to the passion of Christ, and in meditating on it usually watered the ground with abundant tears. The habitual union of his heart with God made him often not perceive others near him, and sometimes he did not know who had been his companion abroad. When a certain brother in religion asked him how he could preserve so perfect a recollection amidst the variety of objects which he met in his office abroad, he answered: “Why, brother, every creature in the world will raise our hearts to God if we look upon it with a good eye.” The extraordinary raptures with which he was often favoured in prayer are not to be expressed by words. He performed the office of the brother quester for his community in Rome forty years. When he was grown old, the cardinal protector, who loved him exceedingly for his extraordinary virtue, told his superiors that they ought now to ease him of that burden. But Felix begged that he might be shown no indulgence, lest by receiving earthly favours he should be deprived of those which are heavenly; for the soul grows more sluggish if the body be too much cherished. Being seventy-two years old, he foretold his death to several companions, and to certain persons who lay dying. He soon after fell sick of a fever, and was comforted by a vision of the Blessed Virgin, accompanied with many holy angels. Shortly after this favour, he, in great spiritual joy, expired on the 18th of May, 1587. Many miracles were juridically approved, and St. Felix was beatified by Urban VIII. in 1625, and canonized by Clement XI. in 1721, though the bull of his canonization was only published by Benedict XIII. in 1724. 4 His body remains in the church of his Order in Rome.
St. Felix, though little in the eyes of the world and in his own, was great before God. The poverty of a Lazarus, abandoned by all, but suffering with patience, resignation, and humility, is something far more glorious and more desirable than the most glittering sceptres. God will condemn the renowned exploits of those false divinities of the earth who have filled the world with the sound of their name; but he crowns the least desire of an humble heart employed in loving him. A person who lives in the world is bound to make all his actions perfect sacrifices to God, and purity of intention converts the works of any secular calling into the works of God. But this can only be formed and maintained in a life in which a constant spirit of piety animates the soul, and a considerable time is reserved for exercises of interior devotion. Let no man take sanctuary in purity of intention who suffers the works of his secular profession, much less company or pleasures, to engross his soul, and entirely to usurp his time. A life of business, and still more a life of pleasure, entangle and ensnare the mind, and leave in it a peculiar relish which is incompatible with pure heavenly desires, and a value for those maxims of the gospel wherein true heavenly wisdom consists, or with a serious constant application to the mortification of self-love and the passions.
Note 1. See Boudon, Règne de Dieu dans l’Ame, c. 1. [back]
Note 2. See on this F. Dijon, Capuchin friar, Tr. des Oblig. des Relig. t. 2. [back]
Note 3. See the life of St. Philip Neri, printed at Venice in 1727. Also Saxius, Annot. in S. Caroli, hom. 120, t. 4, p. 229. [back]
Note 4. Bullar. Roman, t. 13. p. 89. [back]
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Episode 1: To the Moon > Translation Projects
Resources for "To the Moon" translation projects (updated to DMK XP 4.9.1)
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To the Moon dialogue file (plain text)
TtM v1.2, DMK XP v4.9.1
TtM split dialogue translation spreadsheet (Google Docs)
The link is a read-only template. If you want a sharable copy for your translation team, please contact me with your Google-ID and I'll set up a copy for you.
Dialogue file generated with DreaMaker XP v4.9.1.
DreaMaker XP 4.9.1
Before reimporting, make sure your dialogue.txt is of UTF-8 encoding, or special characters like umlauts will not show up on the game! Advanced text editors like Editpad Lite or Notepad++ can do the conversion for you.
If you need a developer version of TtM for playtesting purposes, please contact Reives directly.
I have a bunch of questions, maybe the answers will be in the longplays you mentionned, but I don't know what those are.
So is this final, can we just translate the text (the spreadsheet is an awesome idea) and it will easily be imported back to the game?
I'm not home so I can't test, but what about the "\.", are those forced line changes?
Is there a maximum number of characters per line?
And what, three lines per text box?
And what about the text boxes finally? Do they "scroll" arrow appears automatically in-game when character limit is reached?
Do we have a maximum number of characters that fits in a single text box?
So eeeh yeah.
I'm no expert in this engine - what I've gathered so far:
Ther font used is not fixed, so there is no fixed limit in characters per line.
Trial and error or "prerendering" in Photoshop.
About those longplays - when I take from translating and actually replay TtM.
But maybe another friendly person with Fraps/Camstudio and a YouTube account could provide those?
This already helps a lot.
Unfixed, does it means that the more characters per line, the smaller the font?
--- Quote from: lambdacore on November 08, 2011, 12:44:05 PM ---Thanks!
This already helps a lot.
--- End quote ---
Unfixed size means you can squeeze for example 10 "l" in a line, but only 7 "a" because "a" takes more space than "l".
To Reives:
Is there anyway we can test our translation directly?
I think you would not want to release your RPGMaker project file for the game, but could you send us a bare bones stripped version that allows us to test balloon boxes?
Also, i believe we need some directions from highup, for example:
- How do we treat names?
- How much freedom do we have in translating special cases like puns or anything else that is language-related?
- Do we need to compress dialogue, or can we expand the ballons (and if so, how)?
- How do we test the translation?
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Working with UTF8 Encoded strings in iOS
I designed a digital audio dock for a major client. The dock accepts both 30-Pin apple devices and Lightning-connector apple devices, in other words almost all iPods, iPhones and iPads. The dock has a network interface so that it can connect to, and be controlled by, other devices, such as another iOS device. The device can get track metadata, playlists and track lists from the dock.
During testing we noticed that on occasion the track name, artist name or album name would not display correctly. For example, the soundtrack album from the film “Les Misérables” would show as “Les Mis√©tables”.
This is because the device providing the meta data is using the UTF-8 encoding mechanism to encode special characters, i.e. those outside of the usual 8-bit ascii character set.
In our code we had were receiving the 8-bit string and encoding it to an NSString like this:
_strDockAlbum = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",pContents];
where pContents was a pointer to the 8-bit data buffer.
To resolve the issue was simple, thanks to the stringWithUTF8String method of the NSString class.
The code now looks like this:
_strDockAlbum = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:pContents];
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What gives flames their tongue-like shapes?
When you strike a match, you get a flame of burning gases. Vaporized fuel from the match mixes with air and produces heat by a chemical reaction. Flames get their “tongue-like” shapes from the way these gases move and interact under earthly gravity.
Picture it this way. Near the match head, a column of hot gas is created. This column is fairly wide – wider than the match itself. Hot gases have more energy than colder gases and can more easily shake off the tug of gravity. So the column of hot gas starts to rise – and it rises faster and faster. Since the amount of gas is constant, as it rises faster, the column is stretched thinner.
A similar thing happens when you put your thumb over the end of a garden hose. You make the water stream narrower, so the water travels faster. The result for a flame is a wide column near the match, and a thin column higher up – in other words, a teardrop shape. But flames flicker, and their shapes are constantly changing. The motion of gases near a flame is chaotic. These gases expand, rise, and swirl through each other. If you look at a flame’s shadow, you can actually see these swirling hot gases rising even outside the region of the flame.
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Weblog entry #7 for rkd
The DebConf registration process
Posted by rkd on Mon 30 Aug 2010 at 07:25
The DebConf registration team has the hard job of coordinating accommodation, food, and payments for hundreds of people.
There are two major dates here: the sponsored registration deadline, and the reconfirmation deadline. There is also the date of opening registration, but that's usually more a matter of "how soon can we?" than "when should we?"
The sponsored registration deadline (April 15 for DC10) is the deadline for requesting sponsored accommodation, food, or travel. This allows us to figure out how much we'll have to pay for attendees - attendees who register after this point should pay enough to cover their own costs.
The reconfirmation deadline (June 10th for DC10) is used as a ping for attendees, particularly the sponsored ones. Attendees must reconfirm they will attend, so that we don't waste money reserving more food/rooms than we will have people using them. This deadline usually depends on the date we must give firm numbers to our accommodations.
Historically, registration hasn't ever closed, anyone can come, just if you register too late you won't necessarily get any free stuff (and definitely no free food/accommodation). The deadline for food and accommodation themselves has been based on the logistics of the conference itself - DC9, when we ran out of physical rooms for accommodation, and DC10, when we had to give firm housing numbers to Columbia. Food has tended to be easier as caterers could take updates on shorter notice, usually the day before.
DebConf8 began a system where attendees could pay a registration fee if they desired. This was encouraged, for example, for attendees whom could get this fee reimbursed by their company, but was not required nor encouraged of sponsored attendees. DC8-9 had two classes of fees: Professional, covering the actual costs, and Corporate, covering about double of professional and for companies or registrants whom could provide extra financial support for DebConf. DebConf10 added an extra layer of "pay per day" on top of this.
It's up to the registration team to pin down attendee numbers as early as possible, as this is usually the biggest cost. DebConf provides food and accommodations to a huge number of people, but the numbers are constantly changing. It's hard to know how many people will drop out at the last minute. It's hard to know how many people will actually pay a corporate or professional fee, as opposed to mistakingly selecting it when they'd rather something else. Our registration system can't support all the little intricacies of how much an attendee will cost us, or pay us. Without knowing how many people will attend, how can we accurately get the right number of meals and right number of rooms? Sponsored people may always choose to not eat some meals with us, possibly saving us money there. How many people with travel sponsorship will actually request their full reimbursement?
The registration system, Pentabarf, is used to track attendance numbers, but it isn't completely reliable. Not everyone in it will attend all days, and most people who aren't staying with us don't have accurate dates of attendance. Thus, it can only be used as estimates, not for all decisions.
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At the Mountains of Madness/Source/Chapter 7
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Of the life of the Old Ones, both under the sea and after part of them migrated to land, volumes could be written. Those in shallow water had continued the fullest use of the eyes at the ends of their five main head tentacles, and had practiced the arts of sculpture and of writing in quite the usual way—the writing accomplished with a stylus on waterproof waxen surfaces. Those lower down in the ocean depths, though they used a curious phosphorescent organism to furnish light, pieced out their vision with obscure special senses operating through the prismatic cilia on their heads—senses which rendered all the Old Ones partly independent of light in emergencies. Their forms of sculpture and writing had changed curiously during the descent, embodying certain apparently chemical coating processes—probably to secure phosphorescence—which the bas-reliefs could not make clear to us. The beings moved in the sea partly by swimming—using the lateral crinoid arms—and partly by wriggling with the lower tier of tentacles containing the pseudo-feet. Occasionally they accomplished long swoops with the auxiliary use of two or more sets of their fan-like folding wings. On land they locally used the pseudofeet, but now and then flew to great heights or over long distances with their wings. The many slender tentacles into which the crinoid arms branched were infinitely delicate, flexible, strong, and accurate in muscular-nervous coordination—ensuring the utmost skill and dexterity in all artistic and other manual operations.
The toughness of the things was almost incredible. Even the terrific pressure of the deepest sea-bottoms appeared powerless to harm them. Very few seemed to die at all except by violence, and their burial-places were very limited. The fact that they covered their vertically inhumed dead with five-pointed inscribed mounds set up thoughts in Danforth and me which made a fresh pause and recuperation necessary after the sculptures revealed it. The beings multiplied by means of spores—like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected—but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize. The young matured swiftly, and received an education evidently beyond any standard we can imagine. The prevailing intellectual and aesthetic life was highly evolved, and produced a tenaciously enduring set of customs and institutions which I shall describe more fully in my coming monograph. These varied slightly according to sea or land residence, but had the same foundations and essentials.
Though able, like vegetables, to derive nourishment from inorganic substances, they vastly preferred organic and especially animal food. They ate uncooked marine life under the sea, but cooked their viands on land. They hunted game and raised meat herds—slaughtering with sharp weapons whose odd marks on certain fossil bones our expedition had noted. They resisted all ordinary temperatures marvelously, and in their natural state could live in water down to freezing. When the great chill of the Pleistocene drew on, however—nearly a million years ago—the land dwellers had to resort to special measures, including artificial heating—until at last the deadly cold appears to have driven them back into the sea. For their prehistoric flights through cosmic space, legend said, they absorbed certain chemicals and became almost independent of eating, breathing, or heat conditions—but by the time of the great cold they had lost track of the method. In any case they could not have prolonged the artificial state indefinitely without harm.
Being non-pairing and semi-vegetable in structure, the Old Ones had no biological basis for the family phase of mammal life, but seemed to organize large households on the principles of comfortable space-utility and—as we deduced from the pictured occupations and diversions of co-dwellers—congenial mental association. In furnishing their homes they kept everything in the center of the huge rooms, leaving all the wall spaces free for decorative treatment. Lighting, in the case of the land inhabitants, was accomplished by a device probably electro-chemical in nature. Both on land and under water they used curious tables, chairs and couches like cylindrical frames—for they rested and slept upright with folded-down tentacles—and racks for hinged sets of dotted surfaces forming their books.
With the upheaval of new land in the South Pacific tremendous events began. Some of the marine cities were hopelessly shattered, yet that was not the worst misfortune. Another race—a land race of beings shaped like octopi and probably corresponding to fabulous pre-human spawn of Cthulhu—soon began filtering down from cosmic infinity and precipitated a -monstrous war which for a time drove the Old Ones wholly back to the sea—a colossal blow in view of the increasing land settlements. Later peace was made, and the new lands were given to the Cthulhu spawn whilst the Old Ones held the sea and the older lands. New land cities were founded—the greatest of them in the antarctic, for this region of first arrival was sacred. From then on, as before, the antarctic remained the center of the Old Ones' civilization, and all the cities built there by the Cthulhu spawn were blotted out. Then suddenly the lands of the Pacific sank again, taking with them the frightful stone city of R'lyeh and all the cosmic octopi, so that the Old Ones were again supreme on the planet except for one shadowy fear about which they did not like to speak. At a rather later age their cities dotted all the land and water areas of the globe—hence the recommendation in my coming monograph that some archaeologist make systematic borings with Pabodie's type of apparatus in certain widely separated regions.
During the Jurassic Age the Old Ones met fresh adversity in the form of a new invasion from outer space—this time by half-fungous, half-crustacean creatures—creatures undoubtedly the same as those figuring in certain whispered hill legends of the north, and remembered in the Himalayas as the Mi-Go, or abominable Snow-Men. To fight these beings the Old Ones attempted, for the first time since their terrene advent, to sally forth again into the planetary ether; but, despite all traditional preparations, found it no longer possible to leave the earth's atmosphere. Whatever the old secret of interstellar travel had been, it was now definitely lost to the race. In the end the Mi-Go drove the Old Ones out of all the northern lands, though they were powerless to disturb those in the sea. Little by little the slow retreat of the elder race to their original antarctic habitat was beginning.
The changing state of the world through long geologic ages appeared with startling vividness in many of the sculptured maps and scenes. In certain cases existing science will require revision, while in other cases its bold deductions are magnificently confirmed. As I have said, the hypothesis of Taylor, Wegener, and Joly that all the continents are fragments of an original antarctic land mass which cracked from centrifugal force and drifted apart over a technically viscous lower surface—an hypothesis suggested by such things as the complementary outlines of Africa and South America, and the way the great mountain chains are rolled and shoved up—receives striking support from this uncanny source.
Maps evidently showing the Carboniferous world of an hundred million or more years ago displayed significant rifts and chasms destined later to separate Africa from the once continuous realms of Europe (then the Valusia of primal legend), Asia, the Americas, and the antarctic continent. Other charts—and most significantly one in connection with the founding fifty million years ago of the vast dead city around us—showed all the present continents well differentiated. And in the latest discoverable specimen—dating perhaps from the Pliocene Age—the approximate world of today appeared quite clearly despite the linkage of Alaska with Siberia, of North America with Europe through Greenland, and of South America with the antarctic continent through Graham Land. In the Carboniferous map the whole globe—ocean floor and rifted land mass alike—bore symbols of the Old Ones' vast stone cities, but in the later charts the gradual recession toward the antarctic became very plain. The final Pliocene specimen showed no land cities except on the antarctic continent and the tip of South America, nor any ocean cities north of the fiftieth parallel of South Latitude. Knowledge and interest in the northern world, save for a study of coast-lines probably made during long exploration flights on those fan-like membranous wings, had evidently declined to zero among the Old Ones.
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tagSci-Fi & FantasyFeldare Tales: High Society Ch. 05
Feldare Tales: High Society Ch. 05
" " ‘ ' Crissa sat on the bed she normally shared with Wenn and watched the younger Peris disrobe. "You seemed to manage very well, considering your lack of experience," she said.
A rather keen smile came to Peris' lips. "It was easier to do than I thought it would be," she said. "That they were strangers seemed to actually help. I cared little what they might think of me later."
The young sorceress gave her a slow nod. "I find it so, myself," she said.
"I was amazed at how - well - how feral you became," said Peris, sitting beside Crissa, on Wenn's side of the bed. "Is being taken by a man truly so pleasurable?"
"Yes," said Crissa, "at least it is to me."
"I envy you, then," said the younger girl, her eyes looking down at her legs and her palms, resting on her thighs. "I would experience such if I could."
Crissa snuffed out the candle that lit the room dimly and slithered into the coverlets of the bed. "Your station has many benefits, but comes at a price," she said.
Peris nuzzled into the blankets as well, the room already slightly chilled with the fall night cooling fast. "I doubt that it's worth so much," she said into the darkened chamber. Her voice conveyed a deep sadness that seemed to go far beyond a simple desire for pleasure.
The sorceress reached out a mind and touched Peris'. There lay a frightened and tearful child, or so it felt. She slid over a bit and reached out, pulling Peris, unresisting, to her, and held the girl to herself. Peris' mind did not fall to lustful thought, but took comfort in the touch and the two drifted into slumber.
- - - - - - - - - -
Master Marrat was in the kitchen the following morning as Crissa came down to perform her daily chores. "Good morrow," he said as she entered the kitchen.
"Master Marrat?" she said, blinking. "I thought you were sequestering yourself in the library."
He chuckled. "A man must eat," he said, showing her a bowl of lumpy oatmeal.
"You should have awakened me to make a proper breakfast," she complained, dragging out the pan and other cookware to begin a ‘real' breakfast, as she called it.
Marrat's face turned down, and his expression fell. "I thought you might refuse," he said. She saw, for the first time, a sign of how much this bothered him, and how much he cared for what she thought of him.
She clucked at him. "I would never, master," she said. "This is still your home, and I am still your apprentice."
He smiled, a soft smile, which warmed her heart with the implied gratitude in it. "You're kind to an old man," he said.
Crissa deposited a brief kiss onto his bald pate and took the abominable oatmeal from his hands. Peris walked in, still stretching, wearing one of Wenn's tunics, and, apparently, little else.
When she beheld Marrat sitting at the table, she blushed and turned to flee back up the stairs. "Stay, Peris," said Crissa, brandishing a spatula at her. "Master Marrat has seen more women in a state of more undress than you, girl."
Marrat chuckled. "That's true, but don't embarrass the lass," he said.
Peris' eyes set in a somewhat determined look. "I'm not embarrassed," she said, despite the blush rising in her cheeks, and sat at the table. "Do you need help?" she asked Crissa.
Crissa shook her head. "Offer again afterward, when the dishes need scrubbing," she said, smiling over her shoulder.
"You two were out late last night," said Marrat. "I trust you used the evening to your profit?"
"Of course," said Crissa. "We seduced some men and frolicked until the wee hours."
Peris' blush deepened to crimson and she averted her eyes from the old, alert eyes of the wizard.
"Master Marrat," started Crissa, "why did you send for a barrister from so far away as Morrovale?"
"Time," he replied. "I wanted to give you as much time as possible before he would arrive, and the trial must start within two days of that day."
She blinked at him. "You did it to give me more time?" she asked.
"Yes," he said. "Well, that, and the fact that I thought you would want the best."
Crissa nodded slowly and stirred the simmering eggs in the pan idly. The smell of cooking food filled the kitchen and Peris' belly emitted a deep, rolling rumble.
"Just you hold on," said Crissa, teasing the girl.
The meal went smoothly, and both Crissa and Marrat avoided the topic of the trial as they ate. Soon, though, Marrat took leave for himself and hobbled back to the library. Crissa and Peris were left to clean up the remains of breakfast.
"What shall we do this day?" asked Peris, up to her elbows in the washbasin.
Crissa dried a plate and sat it on its shelf. "We try to visit Kenett," she said.
"They aren't going to just let us into the asylum," said Peris, giving her a somewhat condescending look.
Crissa's look in return was almost utterly devoid of emotion. "I would think, after last night, you know locked places are no obstacle to pretty women." Then her face burst into a florid smile.
"Again?" asked Peris, a shocked expression on her face. "You're determined to break my resolve, aren't you?"
The sorceress thought for a long moment. "Yes," she said.
"Then why not just use your powers?" asked Peris, still not displeased by the conversation, despite the purported importance of her virginity.
Crissa leaned over and kissed the younger girl's brow. "It is more pleasurable to convince you to break your own will," she said. "I wish to hear no excuses that I toyed with your mind to turn you into a wanton harlot like myself."
The sorceress was forced to step back a pace as another wave of lust flew forth from Peris and over her, and about her. "You must really stop that," said Crissa, sighing and picking up another plate. "It's rather overwhelming."
Peris grinned wickedly at her. "If you can play at things, why can I not?" she asked, and the lustful feelings ended as if a door were slammed shut against a strong wind.
Crissa blinked at her. "You can ignite your lust and snuff it like so?" she asked, snapping her fingers.
"Sure," agreed Peris, turning from the sudsy water. "Can you not?" she asked.
"No," replied the sorceress, eyeing the shorter girl dubiously. Peris now wore an enigmatic smile on her full lips, and she cast sidelong glances at Crissa. "I see not only I can toy with other folks' minds."
- - - - - - - - - -
Wenn sat in his cell, alone. A single candle lit it, replaced from time to time after one would go out. The room felt worse than it seemed. It was just a dry, square room, three paces to a side. However, it felt like a closet to him. He could feel the malevolence to magic that the whole room held. This was a wizard's oubliette, and he could not magic his way out of it.
Two guards opened the door and one stood to the side, holding the wizardsbane in white knuckles while the other sat a wooden tray of food down on the little table. "I was told to pass you word that your barrister arrives in two days," he said, giving Wenn a hateful look.
Wenn, still sitting on the bed, looked at him. "A warded room, and a wizardsbane in hand, and yet you still hate me?" he asked. "What did I do to you?"
The guard stood up and puffed out his chest. "You're a man who was given everything by life," said the guard. "Yet, it was not enough to have powers other men don't, you had to use them toward dark ends."
Wenn blinked at the guard and stood. "I've never used my powers toward an end darker than pleasuring a girl."
The guard with the wizardsbane chuckled. "Damn cruel thing to do to the rest of us, isn't it?" he said. "Those lasses will be hard pressed to enjoy a normal man's touch when a wizard's had his way with her."
Wenn shook his head. "Believe me or no," he said, "I didn't kill that whelp, though it was probably a boon to mankind that he's dead."
"Talk like that won't help your case any, son," said the wizardsbane wielder. "You should be a bit more circumspect with that tongue. Stick to pleasuring women with it and leave judgement to those qualified to do so."
"How will I be judged?" asked Wenn.
"As a wizard," the tray-bearer said, making it sound almost like an insult, "you're entitled to a peerage trial. Only the One knows why."
"Peerage trial?" asked Wenn. "As in noblemen will stand in my jury?"
"Aye, son," replied the guard, "and it's a damn shame, they rather resent when one of their own gets done in."
Wenn's mood fell further, which said much. He sat heavily on the bed. "Damn," he muttered.
The guard who had brought the food said. "Don't you fret none, I'm sure whatever they choose it'll be quick." He walked out, chuckling and tapping the one carrying the wizardsbane on the shoulder, which turned and followed him out, as well. They slammed the door shut behind them and Wenn listened to their voices retreating down the hall.
Wenn sighed. He had tried now a dozen times to perform some magic, any magic, and so far, it all failed to even begin to form. The room seemed to taunt his very attempts.
- - - - - - - - - -
Peris tied the short elven skirt about her waist. "You own many fine clothes, Crissa," she observed peering past the golden-haired sorceress. "I thought apprentices were unpaid."
Crissa giggled at her. "I do odd jobs about the town for money," she replied. "When people need a bull to mount, or a cow to remain docile, or a prize stud horse needs coaxing to do his business."
The young noblewoman laughed too. "A useful ability, then, no?" she asked.
"Very," said Crissa. "I once used it on an older couple who wished a night of fiery passion, they paid handsomely for the pleasure it gave them."
Peris was giving her an odd look. "You can have any man you desire, can't you?" she asked.
"Yes," said Crissa, though she did not seem to be bragging, "or woman. Or make any man love any woman or whatever combination you can dream of." She turned toward the younger girl. "No, I've never given a human a lust for an animal, either, though I warrant I could."
Peris clapped her mouth shut, leaving her next question unasked.
Night had once again settled on Norboro and the lamplighters were going about their trade. A thin fog was settling upon the town, and seemed to be thickening as the river that bisected Norboro fed more moisture to the mixture. By the time the young women left the house of Marrat, the streetlights were merely glowing disks of lit fog with a bright pinpoint of light in the center that reached only a few feet into the thick, swirling mists.
"I hate fog," said Peris as she clutched her thin cloak about her slender shoulders.
Crissa sniffed the air. "I like the smells it brings," she said.
Peris looked at the taller girl. "It smells of the river," she said.
"Yes," said Crissa, "a natural scent. Not cooking, not smoke, not dung, but a smell of the world."
They walked in silence for a while as they crossed to the northernmost part of the city. Long ago, a wealthy merchant, whose son was undeniably insane, had built the asylum. It was run now, by the city itself, and supported with taxed moneys.
The building itself was threatening, a tall, narrow structure, it resembled a fortress more than a place of healing. Tiny slits of windows, ostensibly to keep the inmates in the building than to provide cover from outside. Crissa noted the similarities between this and the guard building from the night previous.
The brown stones of the building did little to make it seem less somber and sinister. Time and dark mosses had aged it, turning it nearly black over the years since it was built.
Around the building was a high fence of stone, with pointed spears atop it. This wall was built of the same, dark stone and seemed to be intent upon keeping out unwanted eyes.
Crissa and Peris neared the building and Crissa reached out with her mind, feeling the place. She recoiled, stopping her steady pace and gasping. "What a horrible place that is," she said in a quiet voice. "People are in there who deserve freedom."
"I have heard some are kept thus," said Peris. "A friend of my family was put in such a place. It served as prison without a trial to show guilt in some deed."
The sorceress nodded. "Kenett doesn't need to be here," she said. "He's not unwell, he's terrified, I feel him." Her eyes looked distant, unfocused.
The wrought iron gate was unmanned, it's metal bars seemed hostile and subtly twisted as they emerged from the fog. "How do we seduce our way past this?" asked Peris.
Crissa produced a short rod of wood. Runes were carven down its length, spiraling up the wood, then inset with silver traceries. It was, perhaps, the length of her forearm and an inch wide, smooth and polished, with a silver-capped tip. She touched it to the large, heavy locking plate of the gate, where the key would go.
There was an audible snap as the lock mechanism shattered and bits of metal clinked onto the cobbles below it. The rod disappeared into Crissa's cloak as suddenly as it had appeared.
"I thought we weren't to use magics?" asked Peris, eyeing the destroyed lock.
Crissa shrugged. "They will never know it was magic," she said. "They will simply know the lock was broken." She pushed on the gate. It opened with a screech, wide enough for the two young women to enter. It squealed out into the dense fog as Crissa closed it.
"Handy little wand, that," said Peris.
"It's Wenn's," said Crissa. "It is the first magic item he crafted after Marrat taught him enchantment."
They were nearing the large, towering building. Again, they came to a locked door. Crissa had seen that the staff left at night, leaving the inmates to their own devices, usually chained in their cells, though some of the calmer ones were simply locked in their chambers.
The wand appeared again and the lock on the side door broke into dozens of ruined parts. Better maintained than the gate, the door opened without comment and the two girls slipped into the darkened room beyond.
Crissa spoke a word in a foreign tongue, and the wand began to glow with a pale blue light, dimly illuminating the little storage room in which they found themselves.
They crossed the cluttered room, stacked high with barrels and boxes, food and drink for the pitiable creatures housed in the asylum. The inner door was unsecured and opened into a corridor. Narrow, punitive doors lined the opposite wall of the long hallway, and both girls jumped when a pained scream emerged from the doorway opposite the storage room's wider doorway.
An eye glared out of the cell at them from the doorway, behind a heavy oaken door that rattled as whoever was inside tried to pull it open. "Pretty girls," a guttural voice said from behind that door, "Eat them, yes," he added, to their discomfort. "Till they're gone, gone, gone!" he squealed. The eye widened to almost a circle.
"He is on the third floor," said Crissa, nodding toward a staircase next to the storage room they just left.
Peris watched the doorway cautiously as they passed into the hall and started moving down it. They passed another door, this one unlocked and open. A young man sat in the room, a candle flickering on a desk in the corner. He turned to regard the two young women.
Something was odd about his motions, but Peris couldn't tell just what. She stood in the doorway, almost frozen, as the young man turned. He had a beautiful, innocent face. On the desk rested a journal, from what she could tell. He laid down a quill, setting it onto the ink-stained desk.
"Hello," he said quietly, and softly.
Peris' heart was thudding in her chest. "H. Hello," she finally replied as Crissa slid up beside her.
His face instantly turned to an expression of hate and disgust. "Witch!" he screamed, his chair falling over as he lunged toward the doorway with animal ferocity. As he came at the door, his fingers curled into claws and his teeth were bared, as if they were fangs.
There was a collar about his neck. When the chain joining that collar to the wall went taut his body flew out from under him, his feet barely leaving the room as he fell to the floor with a whomp. He quickly clambered to his feet, pulling on the chain like a rabid guard dog.
"They told me you would come, witch, and that you would kill me in my sleep," he screamed out. "Well, I'm too smart for you, bitch. I didn't sleep, haven't slept in weeks." He let out a high, tittering laugh as he pulled on the chain steadily. Trickles of blood flowed from around the metal collar where the edge of the ring bit into the soft flesh of his throat.
Their backs hugging the wall, the two girls sidestepped down the hall, trying very hard to stay out of the young man's reach. "I'll kill you witch, just you'll see!"
There were answering cries from up and down the corridor, mad ululations from both directions, randomly spoken words, and flung curses.
Crissa started up the stairs, and Peris peered back toward the open door, and could still see the young, handsome man peering around the corner of the doorway with intense, feral eyes. "Kill the witch," he whispered, "she deceives." Peris then turned and followed up the stairs. The words he spoke at the last were different from other words. They seemed cast of rubber, for they bounced about her skull, full of random echoes and odd reverberations.
The stairs carried them all the way to the third floor, the topmost floor. They passed the second floor without emerging from the stairwell and drew no attention to themselves as they moved upward. They could still hear the young man, two storeys down, screaming about the witch, his chains rattling.
"What do you suppose that was?" asked Peris.
Crissa looked at her with sad eyes. "One like me, a gifted person," she said. "But one whom the gift did not give the strength to fight it's fires. He could see me, and my gift, but as his damaged him, he assumes that it damages my mind."
Peris left her thoughts at that unspoken. However, Crissa's inability to be monogamous, and willingness to give her body to men at whim crossed into her mind. She wondered if the gifts had not marked Crissa more deeply than she knew.
They moved down the corridor in near silence, trying to not make any more noise than they must. "I can feel Kenett," whispered Crissa, "he is near."
Peris moved across the hall and approached the stained door opposite them. She had to step on her tiptoes to peer through the little window in the door. It was darkened in the room, without even a window to let in outside light.
Crissa's hand shot out and grabbed her upper arm, yanking her violently away from the door just before something slammed into it and two fingers shot out of the little window, long nails, grimy with filth, clawed at the air where her eye had just been. "Come back, little girl," a woman's voice called. "You have such pretty eyes, let me have them."
There was a look of horrified revulsion on Crissa's face as she pulled Peris down the hall toward the next door. "I felt her anger and desire just before she lunged at you," she said. "They rest quiet until something wakens their insanity, then it explodes." She shook her head, her long, golden hair glinting in the blue-white light. "It hurts my head to feel it do that."
"Lets hope that Kenett isn't like that, then," said Peris, still eyeing the digits clawing through the door's window.
Crissa nodded in agreement. They moved down a few more doors quietly, and then Crissa said, "Here."
They both eyed the door and the long steel bolt holding it shut. Crissa, taller than Peris, crossed the hall and said, into the little window, "Kenett?"
There was silence for a moment, then a small voice on the other side. "Yes?" he asked.
Crissa heard the rattling of chains beyond the door and decided he was shackled in the room. She slid back the bolt with a dull rasp and pulled the door open. The light from her rod illuminated a wedge into the room. Sitting against the far wall of the chamber, only six feet across was a huddled shape, cringing from the light.
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INSKEEP: Some of his friends didn't go to college. Some, like Margerum, graduated with six figures of student debt, which he's trying to pay back as a music teacher. Now, we invited folks in our live audience to write down on these cards here what economic concerns you see and the biggest stack was - well, as Ashley Montagne (ph) put it, student loans - giant bold-faced letters, exclamation point. If you wrote student loans, would you let people hear you right now. Who said that out here? No, just applaud, whatever you want to do...
INSKEEP: ...Or boo. You can boo if you want to do that. Our political editor Domenico Montanaro is still with us. Domenico, how big an issue have college costs been in the campaign?
DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Well, look, it's the top issue for millennial voters certainly. I mean, the cost of college and student loans have skyrocketed over the last two decades. It's an issue that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton hotly debated, these birth-to-death issues and caring-for issues are things that are bread-and-butter Democratic issues. Hillary Clinton has a detailed plan on how she wants to try to make college more affordable. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has talked about being critical of the federal government profiting off of student loans. He'd rather have private banks do that, and he wants to eliminate the Department of Education, which grants Pell Grants. And that, you know, could favor more of those students who, you know, after they graduate, make more money.
INSKEEP: Now, since you said birth-to-death issues, let's hear another Levittown resident, Kristen McClellan (ph), who's executive director of an assisted living community.
KRISTEN MCCLELLAN: My struggle with just helping people in my situation is whether or not they have the funds. Our industry is entirely private pay. So it's not something the Medicare pays for. It's not something the Medicaid pays for. You know, you either have the money or you don't. And we're starting to hit the end of the era that had all that old money and had all those great stocks and bonds and into the early, you know, the early baby boomers.
INSKEEP: And they don't have...
MCCLELLAN: They have nothing.
INSKEEP: Because pensions have been eroding for several decades now and people are now retiring who maybe spent their pension during the recession or something like that.
Some of you in this room also put retirement costs as a major economic concern. And Marion Orr is with us. He's with Brown University here in Providence. How's the squeeze on pensions affect this region where the cost of living is so high?
MARION ORR: Well, the issue has been a big issue here in Rhode Island, in particular around public sector retirees and their pensions. In fact, our current governor was the former treasurer, and she became very popular because she pushed a pension reform that saved pensions but also cut cost-of-living adjustments.
INSKEEP: Oh, OK, so people have less money. Now that's really relevant here because we also heard - as we traveled around from Jersey City, N.J., there we met Sam Roy (ph). She's an immigrant of Indian descent, married and a mother of one.
SAM ROY: Health care - yes, that's my number one issue with health care 'cause when I was unemployed I tried to get Obamacare and it was still a lot because, you know, I work with a lot of individuals that are impoverished. So they do get Medicaid and Medicare pays for everything but what about the middle class 'cause I'm working now. And then I pay a premium, then I have to pay a co-pay on top of that and a deductible. So it's a lot.
INSKEEP: Here's where this is relevant, Marion Orr. We have a situation where she is a state employee - the state of New Jersey - and they're raising the health care costs for state employees and talking about squeezing things more and squeezing the pensions as well. Now, in Jersey City, we also met Frida Jones (ph) who was in a park contemplating the Manhattan skylines - gorgeous. She is middle class, but as a divorced mom, she often hasn't felt that way.
FRIDA JONES: And I work but it is almost like I was the working poor because, you know, a lot of things that I would have wanted, you know, my kids to do cost - OK, you know, after care costs, transportation costs. And, you know, for - I think I make a pretty decent, you know, salary.
INSKEEP: What do you do for a living?
JONES: Well, I work for Verizon...
JONES: ...But even with that.
INSKEEP: Domenico Montanaro, our political editor, are we hearing the kinds of frustrations that have driven this presidential campaign?
MONTANARO: You certainly are, and it's coming down to a lot between blue-collar jobs and professionalization. And as you noted, for all the evidence - the economic evidence that we're no longer in a recession - unemployment lowest since the late 1990s - people are still struggling especially because wages have flatlined.
INSKEEP: That's NPR's Domenico Montanaro. We also heard from Marion Orr of Brown University, the view from the Northeast, and we're about to hear once again from Pedrito Martinez here to take us out.
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Diabetic Woman Lost All Her Teeth After Skipping Her Insulin Meds to Stay Thin
Some people go through a lot of lengths just to be thin, from skipping meals, to going on fad diets and juice cleanses, to exercising more hours than usual.
For Australian beauty therapist, Skye Simpson, it was deliberately missing out on her insulin injections for her Type 1 diabetes in order to lose a staggering amount of weight – as much as 60 pounds (27 kgs.) in half a year – and maintain an almost stick-thin figure.
But her weight loss hack backfired, and she started losing her teeth!
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Source: Caters
To make matters worse, clumps of her beautiful blonde hair starting falling out, and she began having vision problems.
It all started when Skye, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 7, received a compliment when she lost some weight after having recovered from a variety of flu.
The compliment made her question her attractiveness, and she began thinking of herself as fat and ugly, despite weighing a normal 160 pounds (73 kgs.) for her 5 foot 7 inch frame.
Unwilling to give up her favorite foods and take time to exercise, Skye began skipping out on her insulin injections to lose weight.
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Source: (AP)
At first it was only one injection a day, but Skye became caught up in her weight loss addiction and soon she did away with her insulin altogether.
She became so slender that she eventually weighed only 98 pounds (7 kgs.)!
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However, skipping her insulin had several side effects. Skye became weak and lethargic, and clumps of her hair started falling out.
Skye’s weight loss due to deliberately missing her insulin injections is known as an eating disorder called diabulimia. Despite the life-threatening risks of avoiding the necessary medication for a chronic illness, diabulimia sufferers intentionally avoid their doses in a bid to lose weight.
After several hospital episodes, she was left with a weak immunity and severely infected gums, and this was when she realized she needed help.
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Eighteen months ago, Skye began psychotherapy treatments, and she is slowly recovering from diabulimia, having regained 44 pounds to fill out her frame.
Skye Simpson today.
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Skye, who recently turned 30, now wears a full set of false teeth, has bald patches on her head from hair loss, can’t see properly, and suffers a sensitivity to certain foods, all for the sake of her earlier goal of attaining a coveted size 6.
Skye is lucky she had the support of family and friends to help her recover. How many other diabetics out there also suffer from diabulimia, but have no one to turn to for help?
H/T: New York Post
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MVC; Arbitrary routing path levels and parameters
I'm working on an (oh no, not another) MVC framework in PHP, primarily for education, but also fun and profit.
Anyways, I'm having some trouble with my Router, specifically routing to the correct paths, with the correct parameters. Right now, I'm looking at a router that (using __autoload()) allows for arbitrarily long routing paths:
"path/to/controller/action"
"also/a/path/to/a/controller/action"
Routing starts at the application directory, and the routing path is essentially parallel with the file system path:
"/framework/application/path/to/controller.class.php" => "action()"
class Path_To_Controller{
public function action(){}
}
"/framework/application/also/a/path/to/a/controller.class.php" => "action()"
class Also_A_Path_To_A_Controller{
public function action(){}
}
This will allow for module configuration files to be available at varying levels of the application file system. The problem is of course, when we introduce routing path parameters, it becomes difficult differentiating where the routing path ends and the path parameters begin:
"path/to/controller/action/key1/param1/key2/param2"
Will obviously be looking for the file:
"/framework/application/path/to/controller/action/key1/param1/key2.class.php"
=> 'param2()'
//no class or method by this name can be found
This ain't good. Now this smells like a design issue of course, but I'm certain there must be a clean way to circumvent this problem.
My initial thoughts were to test each level of the routing path for directory/file existence.
If it hits 1+ directories followed by a file, additional path components are an action followed by parameters.
If it hits 1+ directories and no file is found, 404 it.
However, this is still susceptible to erroneously finding files. Sure this can be alleviated by stricter naming conventions and reserving certain words, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.
I don't know if this is the best approach. Has anyone solved such an issue in an elegant manner?
A:
Well, to answer my own question with my own suggestion:
// split routePath and set base path
$routeParts = explode('/', $routePath);
$classPath = 'Flooid/Application';
do{
// append part to path and check if file exists
$classPath .= '/' . array_shift($routeParts);
if(is_file(FLOOID_PATH_BASE . '/' . $classPath . '.class.php')){
// transform to class name and check if method exists
$className = str_replace('/', '_', $classPath);
if(method_exists($className, $action = array_shift($routeParts))){
// build param key => value array
do{
$routeParams[current($routeParts)] = next($routeParts);
}while(next($routeParts));
// controller instance with params passed to __construct and break
$controller = new $className($routeParams);
break;
}
}
}while(!empty($routeParts));
// if controller exists call action else 404
if(isset($controller)){
$controller->{$action}();
}else{
throw new Flooid_System_ResponseException(404);
}
My autoloader is about as basic as it gets:
function __autoload($className){
require_once FLOOID_PATH_BASE . '/' . str_replace('_', '/', $className) . '.class.php';
}
This works, surprisingly well. I've yet to implement certain checks, like ensuring that the requested controller in fact extends from my Flooid_System_ControllerAbstract, but for the time being, this is what I'm running with.
Regardless, I feel this approach could benefit from critique, if not a full blown overhaul.
I've since revised this approach, though it ultimately performs the same functionality. Instead of instantiating the controller, it passes back the controller class name, method name, and parameter array. The guts of it all are in getVerifiedRouteData(), verifyRouteParts() and createParamArray(). I'm thinking I want to refactor or revamp this class though. I'm looking for insight on where I can optimize readability and usability.:
class Flooid_Core_Router {
protected $_routeTable = array();
public function getRouteTable() {
return !empty($this->_routeTable)
? $this->_routeTable
: null;
}
public function setRouteTable(Array $routeTable, $mergeTables = true) {
$this->_routeTable = $mergeTables
? array_merge($this->_routeTable, $routeTable)
: $routeTable;
return $this;
}
public function getRouteRule($routeFrom) {
return isset($this->_routeTable[$routeFrom])
? $this->_routeTable[$routeFrom]
: null;
}
public function setRouteRule($routeFrom, $routeTo, Array $routeParams = null) {
$this->_routeTable[$routeFrom] = is_null($routeParams)
? $routeTo
: array($routeTo, $routeParams);
return $this;
}
public function unsetRouteRule($routeFrom) {
if(isset($this->_routeTable[$routeFrom])){
unset($this->_routeTable[$routeFrom]);
}
return $this;
}
public function getResolvedRoutePath($routePath, $strict = false) {
// iterate table
foreach($this->_routeTable as $routeFrom => $routeData){
// if advanced rule
if(is_array($routeData)){
// build rule
list($routeTo, $routeParams) = each($routeData);
foreach($routeParams as $paramName => $paramRule){
$routeFrom = str_replace("{{$paramName}}", "(?<{$paramName}>{$paramRule})", $routeFrom);
}
// if !advanced rule
}else{
// set rule
$routeTo = $routeData;
}
// if path matches rule
if(preg_match("#^{$routeFrom}$#Di", $routePath, $paramMatch)){
// check for and iterate rule param matches
if(is_array($paramMatch)){
foreach($paramMatch as $paramKey => $paramValue){
$routeTo = str_replace("{{$paramName}}", $paramValue, $routeTo);
}
}
// return resolved path
return $routeTo;
}
}
// if !strict return original path
return !$strict
? $routePath
: false;
}
public function createParamArray(Array $routeParts) {
$params = array();
if(!empty($routeParts)){
// iterate indexed array, use odd elements as keys
do{
$params[current($routeParts)] = next($routeParts);
}while(next($routeParts));
}
return $params;
}
public function verifyRouteParts($className, $methodName) {
if(!is_subclass_of($className, 'Flooid_Core_Controller_Abstract')){
return false;
}
if(!method_exists($className, $methodName)){
return false;
}
return true;
}
public function getVerfiedRouteData($routePath) {
$classParts = $routeParts = explode('/', $routePath);
// iterate class parts
do{
// get parts
$classPath = 'Flooid/Application/' . implode('/', $classParts);
$className = str_replace('/', '_', $classPath);
$methodName = isset($routeParts[count($classParts)]);
// if verified parts
if(is_file(FLOOID_PATH_BASE . '/' . $classPath . '.class.php') && $this->verifyRouteParts($className, $methodName)){
// return data array on verified
return array(
'className'
=> $className,
'methodName'
=> $methodName,
'params'
=> $this->createParamArray(array_slice($routeParts, count($classParts) + 1)),
);
}
// if !verified parts, slide back class/method/params
$classParts = array_slice($classParts, 0, count($classParts) - 1);
}while(!empty($classParts));
// return false on not verified
return false;
}
}
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Offa Bank Robbery: Suspects Reveal How Police Forced Them To Implicate Saraki
One of the five suspects involved in the Offa bank robbery in April 2018 has told the trial judge that he gave his statement under duress and not voluntarily.
The trial of the suspects continued on Friday at the State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
When they appeared before Justice Halimah Salman on Friday, the suspects told the court how their confessional statements were obtained by the police.
The first suspect, Ayoade Akinnibosun, in his testimony, explained that he was tortured and shot in two legs, alleging that the police asked him to implicate the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, but he refused.
Akinnibosun claimed that five men were shot dead in his presence and that of other suspects, in order to force them to do the bidding of the police.
He alleged that he was forced to sleep on the spot where the men were killed, adding that his hands and legs were tied for days.
The suspect also told the trial judge that six hefty stones were placed on his back and denied food for nearly one week while he was being tortured.
He said they were kept inside the generator room at Police Headquarters Abuja while a dismissed police officer, identified as Michael Adiukwu, was brought to identify them if they were part of the robbery gang.
According to Akinnibosun, the man denied knowing them and was shot dead on the spot.
Afterwards, he said he was shown an already written statement which he was asked to sign and agreed to do so for fear of being killed.
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The suspect insisted that whatever he said during the parade of the press conference was written for him to memorise and confess to the public.
He claimed that the police warned him not to implicate them that the statement was made under duress.
Channels TV reports that Akinnibosun told the trial judge that he was given a four-page statement to sign but he could not because his fingers were not functioning due to torture.
He said one of his fingers was placed on the documents for thumb printing and his request to read and go through the statement was turned down.
After giving his testimony, the suspect was cross-examined by the prosecution counsel.
Meanwhile, the defence counsel, Mathias Emeribe, asked for a further medical checkup to determine if the wounds Akinnibosun sustained were truly from gunshots.
Justice Salman, however, turned down the request until proper trial.
The second accused, Ibikunle Ogunleye, was thereafter called to the dock and he corroborated the first accused, Akinnibosun’s testimony of how he was tortured and how Michael Adiukwu was killed
In his testimony, the third accused person Abraham Adeola also repeated the same process of how they were tortured both at the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (F-SARS) office in Ilorin and Abuja.
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People always lament the decline of those quaint mom-and-pop stores as big chains like Target and Wal-Mart dominate the holidays with impossible-to-beat price margins and robust online sites that spare you the ordeal of interpersonal communication.
But here's something no one considers: What if mom-and-pop are total lunatics? What if the mere act of stepping foot in their store endangers you? What if that little, locally owned store is where the Christmas Spirit goes to die? At least in Costco you're safe. There are witnesses.
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Judging by these local TV ads, such small businesses (ones that the Grinch himself may call "a bit over the top") do exist. Which calls to mind a platitude that mom always reminds me of around the holidays: Better to get a lump of coal than a lead-painted tea set. (Mom likes her eggnog.)
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Some notable facts:
1.) This place is so big, you could easily get lost in there.
2.) Arlene and Charlie can find you anywhere you may try to hide.
3.) Charlie has no qualms about throwing shit at you.
4.) This is how the terrorists win.
Memorable quote: "Not if I spot you first!"
Crazy Gideon's
Clearly someone forgot to tell Gideon that the "crazy" portion of the name is supposed to refer to the store's irrationally low prices, not actual psychotic rage.
Memorable quote: "Hurry before I change my mind!" (About what, killing me with a television set?)
Norton Furniture
According to this commercial, here are the reasons you should shop at Norton Furniture:
1.) They'll give you credit even if you don't know what credit is.
2.) You can count on the fact that the owner's name is Mark.
3.) Giant tuxedoed frogs often relax there.
4.) Except when concealed men with hedge clippers go on the attack.
Memorable quote: "Now, seriously. If you can't get credit in my store," (coffee break) "you can't get credit anywhere."
Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage
In the beginning, he actually makes some good points. (He's right, I'm not going to use that old printer!) But then there's the whole "being intoxicated" thing, which is usually funny -- except when I'm paying you to hold my stuff. Which you then joke about destroying. And that offer to stash my weed? Awfully generous, but I'm going to go somewhere where "BODIES (ALIVE OR DEAD)" isn't on the price sheet.
Memorable quote: "Do you know how big a bus is?"
Silas Deane Pawn Shop
Here's the problem with this ad: If you're doing an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation, why? And no. If that's how you actually talk, just stop. Stop talking. Stick with print. Billboards. Internet banners. I know what you're thinking: But how can I go wrong with a slogan like "Get down here now; get down here now"? That's how.
Memorable quote: "What are you doing? Arghh!"
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Prednisone or Prednisolone
Prednisone is used for a wide variety of conditions in both dogs and cats. It may be used in emergency situations including, anaphylactic reactions, spinal cord trauma, and many forms of shock. It is used in the management and treatment of immune mediated disease such as immune mediated hemolytic anemia, or thombocytopenia; many CNS disorders; some neoplasia; dermatologic diseases; allergic reactions such as asthma, hives, and itching; inflammatory orthopedic diseases; endocrine disorders including Addison’s; respiratory disease with an inflammatory component, inflammatory bowel diseases, and many other conditions.
Side Effects
Side effects from long term use seen in dogs may include frequent and increased urination, increased water consumption, increased appetite, GI disturbance, weight gain, GI ulceration, pancreatitis, lipidemia, elevated liver enzymes, diabetes mellitus, muscle wasting, and possible behavioural changes.
Frequent and increased urination, increased water consumption, increased appetite may be seen in dogs even on short-term therapy.
Although cats are less likely to develop side effects than dogs, occasionally frequent and increased urination, increased water consumption, increased appetite, weight gain, GI disturbances, and behavioural changes occur.
Corticosteroids can cause or worsen gastric ulcers.
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It is Camry LE 1994. The motorized antenna doesn't go down all the way when I turn off the engine. How can I replace it?
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Is it mounted in the front or rear fender? – mikes Sep 16 '13 at 20:10
It is mounted in the read fender. – Omar Shehab Sep 16 '13 at 20:12
you may wish to try lubricating the antenna first if you have not already. Various sources recommend either powdered graphite, silicone spray, or paste wax. Avoid anything "wet" like a traditional oil as it can attract dust and gum up the works. – mac Sep 17 '13 at 15:46
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greases from machinery and equipment, used or leftover paints containing heavy metals or organic solvents, used or spent lead-acid batteries, used explosive tool cartridge.The responsible person (engineer or supervisor) shall determine the volume of concrete, in addition to determining the last balance area, to be used before placing an order. A material wastage control form shall be attached while ordering concrete.The responsible person (engineer or supervisor) shall ensure that the quantity of rebar delivered is in conformance with the order. Sub-contractors shall use cut and bent rebar on site as far as practicable.Shelter must be erected at site for safe storage of pre-packed cement by prevention of direct contact with sunlight or rain water. The responsible person (supervisor) shall be responsible for monitoring the quantity ordered and delivered on site.The responsible person (ECO or SO) shall record waste disposal, and maintain and update the waste register at each project. Wastes such as steel, concrete, or wood shall be recycled for minimization of waste disposal. The responsible person (ECO, SO, HS, SS) shall inform the PM or PIC if any irregularities such as mixing of wastes are discovered.The responsible person (PM or PIC) shall initiate EHS non-conformance, corrective and preventive action, and other necessary action for prevention of recurrence when there is failure in reduction of materials.The responsible person (QS) shall review and update the material quantity schedule based on project progress, and forward the revised material quantity schedule to the concerned personnel for monitoring.Metal formwork that can be re-used for several projects shall be used. Formwork shall be supported by aluminium I beams and steel rectangular hollow sections instead of timber sections. Precast pre-tensioned slab or hollow core slab shall be used as an integral slab system that also acts as a formwork system.The responsible person (PM) shall | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '1', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.8897271752357483}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '43332', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:LGVPJRDRXFNWKCUPWEBULPUSV35JOM3R', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:a7e7dc21-48d9-4624-a68f-86566617b7c3>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 27, 11, 6, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '64.20.62.252', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:NZWRBI3CDXQCSG6DEMCVCQMMFOVPB7UV', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ae9e8589-4b93-4c4f-a6b4-de7ba374518b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://lensontwelve.com/green-and-gracious/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:796b8041-66d3-49a3-a4b4-8c3da7de02bc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '293', 'url': 'http://lensontwelve.com/green-and-gracious/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-40\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-103.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.17 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.11564743518829346', 'original_id': '18dbf5dfa10bbbe7bf1de8c684217be09bfff34b896be3dcc22f85b588807482'} |
How To Convert Retail Space To A Warehouse
According to the reports of the global industrial real estate firm CBRE, since 2016, 7.9 million square feet of retail space has been converted into 10.9 million square feet of new industrial space. This involves 24 retail-to-industrial projects ranging from Baltimore to Southern California. This is a good way to increase the value of industrial usage when retail concepts are no longer supported.
Such an idea was once considered a pipe dream but due to the success of the eCommerce industry, this concept is now a reality. If the retail space is large enough, you can convert a section of it into a warehouse and the other part into a manufacturing unit, cleanroom, etc. This will reduce the cost of transportation for storing of manufactured goods. Given below are some steps you can take to convert retail space to a warehouse -
1. Get approval from authorities
Before moving forward with such a big business change, it is necessary to clear all the legal procedures. Otherwise, it can create major complications in the future or even land you in legal trouble that can cost you money and other resources.
So, before moving forward with your project, discuss every detail about the property with the current owners to avoid falling into legal loopholes. Acquire the necessary paperwork needed and go through all the proper channels such as the city zoning board to get all the approvals you need.
To take things further, talk with the building neighbors, tenants, and other retail businesses in the area to make sure they don’t have any problem with your operation.
2. Inspect the existing layout of the retail space
The layout of different retail properties can vary a lot. Some of these layouts may not suit your needs. For eg, a narrow passageway can create problems for incoming shipments and poor architectural choices such as a fountain in the middle of the store can restrict movement and waste space.
Big-box retail stores generally have a large inventory capacity and large loading bays. So, such retail spaces are ideal.
3. Design the space to suit your needs
A good warehouse should have spacious aisleways and a high ceiling. However, it is not possible to acquire such a retail space. So, it is necessary to convert the space according to your requirements. Your warehouse must have wire shelving as it allows easier access to products, i.e there is no need to use forklifts or ladders.
You should buy wire shelving in Malaysia from a company that has a good reputation. Also, if you plan to add a cleanroom beside your warehouse, you need to buy equipment such as cleanroom workbench, cleanroom stool, etc.
4. Decide the delivery options
Big retail stores are generally located in richly populated areas or city centers as their aim is to attract as many customers as possible. This means they also have good connectivity to road networks for transportation. If the property is connected to multiple road networks, you can choose to deliver goods via different road networks depending on the delivery location.
5. Repurpose the dock for faster shipping and receiving of products
Warehouses require a large docking area. This is also a requirement for large retail stores. So, usually, you won’t have any problem with the dock space. However, you have to utilize the dock more effectively for checking in new products and making new products ready for delivery faster.
This can be done by setting up workstations at the dock. Wire shelving, cleanroom stools, and cleanroom benches can make it easier for the workers to work more efficiently.
Getting proper equipment such as wire shelving in Malaysia is not difficult. However, the quality of the products should be good to ensure smooth operation. For more information, visit our website.
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Strategies for a Positive Point of View {Guest Post}
lifeoffthedlist_ Strategies for a Positive Point of View
Strategies for a Positive Point of View
Our attitude determines so much about our daily lives. Much of what we accomplish throughout the day and how we feel about what we've accomplished depends on how positive we are feeling. Our thoughts and emotions affect every aspect of our life. It seems today that so much of our daily life is consumed by speed and stress, that it can be difficult to maintain a positive and uplifted mood. However, there are a lot of things to be gained from slowing down, stepping back, and maintaining a positive outlook on your life. As cliché as it may sound, positive thinking is the key to success and happiness. Maintaining a positive overall point of view can be a huge challenge in today's world. These three things can help keep you positive throughout each and every day. Our lives are stressful and busy, it is important to find ways to slow down and be positive.
Help Others Out
The simple act of helping others helps us to feel joy. There is a certain amount of perspective we can gain from recognizing someone in need in ways that we can help. Whether you are volunteering your time or simply acting when you see someone in need in your everyday situation, these positive actions help to make us more positive people. While oftentimes a positive mindset is discussed in the opposite order—if we think positively, positive things will happen—the equation works both ways. If you do positive things, you will think positively. Offer to help a neighbor with their groceries, volunteer your time at a homeless shelter, or lead a children's sports group. Any of these things can help you remain optimistic and positive in your daily endeavors.
Get Back to the Basics
Take a step back and slow down your day every now and then. Find something that can reconnect you with the basics in life. Take a bath, read, walk your dog, listen to your favorite band. Slow down just long enough to realize all of the great things you can do with your time. Some of the simplest things are the ones that provide us with the most pleasure and positivity. If you are constantly racing around doing things you don't necessarily like or even realize you do like, you're going to develop a negative outlook on your days. The constant go of our modern lives can be deadening in many ways. Slow the pace and learn to appreciate the things you enjoy. Relaxation is an important step in maintaining a positive point of view on your life and the things around you.
Listen to Your Inner Voice
This is one of the most important aspects of remaining positive in your efforts and actions throughout your days. Your inner voice is an aspect of yourself that likely goes unnoticed too often. Many of us suffer from a negative inner voice. If our heads are constantly telling us something that is negative, it will be extremely difficult to remain positive or even happy. First, you have to listen and recognize your own inner voice. What are you saying in your head? How are the phrases worded? If you notice that you are constantly thinking and saying things in a negative way, work to alter your inner voice. Change those negative thoughts into positive ones. If you are able to train your inner voice to create positive things, you will be able to remain positive more easily. The trick is listening.
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Leadership Forms
Scout's lead themselves, but they do not come trained. In our troop every position has a mentor that the scout can turn to for guidance. As part of the process there needs to be guidelines as to what is expected of the scout in each leadership role. The forms below are used by the scout and his guide to evaluate their progress. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9836686849594116}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '176687', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:5EKN3OAS7WYWZEVZNKK3CUV76LRGXNSJ', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:f5d3d41a-cca8-4aa8-9de5-05a910ecefe6>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 28, 8, 17, 22), 'WARC-IP-Address': '172.217.1.211', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:KLDH6GSLEZ6J4SVRFWQZK64V4N6LKRI7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:149ef425-3212-43b5-acd7-e0007f1a13c6>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.troop617.us/forms-guides/leadership-forms', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:b1f0853a-363e-4e25-a584-e262200adcd6>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '64', 'url': 'https://www.troop617.us/forms-guides/leadership-forms', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-142\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.027231156826019287', 'original_id': '5a881de62399c37d25a1dc708fdb033f376f899e878f8085ba8b3d3936322d0a'} |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates, in general, to seals for cans, and, more particularly, to a disposable seal for the rim of paint cans.
2. Relevant Background
Liquid coating materials such as paint, varnish, adhesives and the like are commonly distributed in resealable cans that hold substantially uniform quantity. This method of distribution is intended to enable the end user to use only a portion of the can's contents for a particular project, then reseal the cans to prevent evaporation of the water or solvent carrier. In practice, the ability to reuse the can's contents and the time period over which the contents remain usable is greatly dependent on the ability of the end user to effectively reseal the can.
End users may paint with a brush dipped directly in the can or pour the can contents into another container or apparatus such as a sprayer or rolling pan. Dipping a brush directly into the paint can and then wiping the brush against the side of the can or pouring paint from the can results in messy paint drippings. Importantly, such common use results in the groove portion at the top of the can becoming filled with paint. If the groove is filled with paint, the paint will splatter when the can lid is replaced causing even more paint to drip down the sides of the can and onto whatever surface supports the can. When dried in the groove, the paint diminishes the integrity of the groove, making it difficult to secure a tight seal with the lid. Loose seals cause the water or solvent carriers in the can to evaporate rendering the paint unsuitable for use. Moreover, when the lid is replaced with paint in the rim, the lid will stick to the wet paint, thereby making it difficult or impossible to re-open the can for the next use.
To improve the end-user's ability to seal the can it is desirable to protect the groove or rim in the top of the paint can so that the lid of the can will be securely replaced after use. Protecting the rim eliminates mess and preserves the contents of the can for long periods of time. There are a number of prior inventions that seek to provide protection of the can rim with covers that are expensive and complicated in use and manufacture. However, painting is an inherently simple task that is best practiced with tools and accessories that are simple to use and inexpensive. A need exists for a paint rim seal that is inexpensive yet easy to use while simplifying the end-user's tasks.
To enable a user to dip a paint brush directly into the can previous can rim seals have been manufactured with a slot to guide the brush. This arrangement requires a good aim and patience to dip the brush while the cover is engaged and fail to simplify the painter's task. Other designs enable the user to pour paint from the can with the cover in place by providing pouring spouts on the cover. These spouts are comparatively expensive to the end-user with the intent that the end-user will reuse the cover. Can rim protectors by design become covered with paint and reusable designs require cleaning before storage for reuse. What is needed is an easy to use paint can rim seal that minimizes clean-up time and effort. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '9d1cbb400b45aafce1cf85d4f734ac815fe62f3b3cba78ea3cf66e1b025911d6'} |
Nasal and sinus cancerOverview
You're more at risk of nasal and sinus cancer if you're a man, you work with certain substances (such as wood dust or certain metals) or you smoke.
Page last reviewed: 28/09/2018
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العلاقات الباكستانية الفيجية هي العلاقات الثنائية التي تجمع بين باكستان وفيجي.
مقارنة بين البلدين
هذه مقارنة عامة ومرجعية للدولتين:
منظمات دولية مشتركة
يشترك البلدان في عضوية مجموعة من المنظمات الدولية، منها:
وصلات خارجية
موقع وزارة الخارجية الباكستانية
موقع وزارة الخارجية الفيجية
مراجع
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KISDlectures are part of the KISD study curriculum. The lectures are public events and provide students and the public with an overall topic for each semester, for example “Speed” (winter term 15/16) or “Desire”(summer term 2016). Subsequently, each area of expertise and the respective KISD professors will elaborate on this topic and contribute to it by a KISDlecture. These take place in the semester on Wednesdays at 5.30 pm in the KISD lecture hall. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9256208539009094}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '31389', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2CDMN2SLBY3XVCMYRE7E2USJEIXJ32CX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:1391afc5-341a-4d04-81b5-717672723cdb>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2017, 9, 21, 12, 16, 55), 'WARC-IP-Address': '139.6.141.9', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:6GZG6XQOYXEBI3CSYHR73MMEVZHCJLI5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:ca14b041-7f36-4bc9-a538-62e207e90588>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://kisd.de/en/termine/kategorie/lectures-en/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:3ff500c6-cdb3-440b-85df-96a7a85f718c>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '72', 'url': 'https://kisd.de/en/termine/kategorie/lectures-en/', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-227-30-111.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-39\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2017\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.7817605137825012', 'original_id': '06b5bf08c7092a368c43bf14de69bf100f6b3687e9a5d7a24b4fcd876501ad67'} |
Three Major Influences: Toscanini, Herford and Szell
GP: In your book that has been written about you, ‘Dear People’ by Joseph A. Mussulman, he says in the book you had three people that really influenced your life early on: Arturo Toscanini, and a gentleman, Julius Herford, if that’s the correct pronunciation. Tell us about Julius.
RS: Well now those are people who came along after I had begun to work with Fred Waring and certainly they were. We ought to add that third name and the third one probably would be George Szell. I think those are the ones that at least I feel are the most important, Toscanini and Szell and Herford.
Julius Herford
[Julius] Herford was a refugee from Hitler's Germany and came to the United States, escaped through France and then through some of the Caribbean Islands and found his way up into New York. And I met him because Lukas Foss, who was a young, brilliant young composer at that time, had studied piano with Julius, if my information is correct, both in Berlin and in Paris for a short while. And Lukas brought him to my attention, and he had almost nothing else to do at that time, and I'd just won a Guggenheim Fellowship which had some significant dollars attached to it. And I was able substantially just to say, Julius, come teach me. Here’s the prize money. And I substantially lived in his house. I used to sleep overnight more frequently than not, and studied with him some 60 or 70 hours a week, because I simply had had very little music education at that time. The great thing about it - there were two wonderful things about it.
The first was his particular genius, and that was that he understood form in music. Music is analyzable and it’s constructed, and it has rules and regulations. But he understood form in music as really the sort of - instead of the sort of dry bones - the heartbeat and the blood of music. And he was able to teach that in a fashion that I don’t think anybody else in his time taught. So that it was not dry musicological research and analysis, but it was just warm living music.
And the second fortuitous thing was that I was - by that time I had started the Collegiate Chorale, and I was engaged in performing the major choral orchestral repertoire: the Missa Solemnis, and theB Minor Mass, and the St. Matthew Passion andthe St. John Passion, and Christmas Oratorio and such, and so in a sense, these were the scoresthat I was studying. And during those years, I never studied a piece of music which I wasn't performing. So It was hours and hours of study at night and hours and hours of rehearsal or performance in the day. And it was so completely removed from the sort of conservatory situation which substantially gives you all study and no time for performance. And so, by the unique combination of his genius and my lack of education, but my being placed in positions where I had to be performing, it was a very, very practical and very quick education.
GP: The two people that really, I guess, put you in the spotlight were Arturo Toscanini and George Szell. What are some of the memories of the legendary Toscanini?
Arturo Toscanini
RS: I suppose they didn’t put me so much in the spot light, as they dragged me into theirs, because the light was obviously on them. The thing about Toscanini is I guess that the stories of his temper are not so exactly exaggerated but they seldom take into consideration that the saving factor was always that he never felt sorry for himself. That is to say, he never felt betrayed by his musicians. He felt that the composer was betrayed. And the second part of that was that his anger was childlike and soon gone and quickly gone. And so people never really felt sort of bitter about him but they loved him either for or in spite of it and forgave him almost immediately.
GP: Was he a hard person to work with?
RS: An absolutely simple and sweet person to work for, at least in our experience with him. I can remember the first time I went to study - I was performing the B - the Ninth Symphony with him, of Beethoven, and I was preparing the chorus, that is, and I went to him to ask him about what tempi was he going to use here and what sort of dynamics did he want there about how was this transition going to be made. And he said, You know, Mr. Shaw. And here I was 22 or 23 at the time. And he said, You know, I’ve never had a good performance of this work. He says , frequently the chorus doesn’t’ get it right, and the soloists are almost - cause It’s so tough for the soloists - the soloists are almost always bad, and the orchestra is frequently sort of scrappyand scattered, and he says, and I've never been able to conduct this piece. And so he was extraordinarily modest. He certainly was an authority, authoritative figure. And when he stepped in front of the orchestra, he had it so thoroughly in his head that it was difficult for him to brook any interference whatsoever.
The other sort of sad thing about it was in the later years, it was so thoroughly in his head that frequently, I felt that he didn't hear quite what was going on, not because he’d lost his hearing, but because his attention – I mean I’m talking about the last very last sort of months of his conducting life - his attention was so thoroughly upon the dream in his mind that he actually didn’t hear what was going on so much in the orchestra anymore.
GP: You have one of the associates with the late George Szell here with you now in Atlanta, Louis Lane.
RS: Yeah.
GP: Take us back to those days, cause I’m a native of Ohio and when I growing up, that was the orchestra everybody talked about in Ohio, even though Cincinnati had a modest orchestra at the time with Max Rudolph and people like that. But George Szell was a legend, and you were involved with him in the early 50s and you actually were in Cleveland.
George Szell
RS: He asked me to come there. I suppose it was 52 or 53 and I was with him for 13 years. And the first year, Greg, I actually conducted - though a good many of them were youth concerts and such - I actually conducted 80 concerts with the Cleveland orchestra. Szell - I guess I met George Szell actually at a Toscanini rehearsal. Szell admired Toscanini enormously and admired his adherence to the score rather than to his own personal feeling about the score and Toscanini’s trying to get out of the way of the music instead of have the music sort of filtered through his own personality and sohe shared that with Szell. But Szell - I guess the differences were, while Toscanini would sort of see the light at the end of the tunnel and just sort of run towards it, Szell would pick things apart, and he found his interpretative qualities in the most detailed analysis of balances. I mean, this particular chord would have one instrument playing forte and another one piano and third one playing mezzo piano and so on. And so Szell found his, sort of built up the piece, little block by block. And Toscanini just sort of shined - shone a light on it and there it was.
GP: Was Cleveland, Ohio, an unnatural place to have a cultural center like that, did you feel?
RS: No, no, because you see Cleveland already had. For instance, any place in the United States where there’s been great wealth for a long time - Cleveland had a great museum as Chicago has a fabulous - I mean the greatest collection of French painting in the world. And so Cleveland already had a reasonably good tradition before Szell crowned it with his own musical discipline. And there was no doubt that Szell also was a tyrant, and the thing that saved him was that he was harder on himself than he was on anybody else. And also, he was not interested in it, that is to say, for his own glory. He was interested in discipline because that was the way music should be played. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9885082244873048}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '36708', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M4OAXHEPBLDCTGG52EH2EAWHGRPB75MN', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:9b0ede17-1bc2-4ca9-a45a-2936b4923163>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2018, 4, 19, 9, 33, 30), 'WARC-IP-Address': '198.49.23.144', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YM34DPNFGEA3YVQBP72VWERIZATFN6TZ', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:960f3a88-1794-4b67-a80c-b86c0747a138>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://robertshaw.website/new-page-38', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:ad1b4c96-5116-4a09-aee4-19779e1f2b5b>', 'WARC-Truncated': 'length'}", 'previous_word_count': '1413', 'url': 'http://robertshaw.website/new-page-38', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-45-105-213.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2018-17\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2018\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.0399930477142334', 'original_id': '07425369d2a65256b2b2c3345a6856f6184d797513d227f06511b5945c8256d8'} |
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Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Scrabble image of the word “law” Source: CQF- Avocat,
On September 18th of this year, we lost an iconic Supreme Court Justice to metastatic cancer of the pancreas. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a strong-willed and successful woman who fought against gender discrimination and was a force to be reckoned with in the court. Her strength in the face of adversity inspired many people. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was definitely one of the most influential political and cultural figures of her time.
Ginsburg served for 27 years on the Supreme Court and managed to become one of its most prominent members. She was the second female justice there, and this, along with her fight for gender equality, was a big turning point in history. Appointed by Bill Clinton, the judge went above and beyond with her duties, strongly voicing her ideas on gender equality, rights of workers, and the separation of the church and the state. Ginsburg was incredibly important in the U.S. Supreme Court, and her role here was by far one of the most influential to society.
This contribution of hers ties into another one of her accomplishments: fighting against gender discrimination. During her time on the nation’s highest court, Ginsburg fought particularly hard for gender equality, always ready to state her opinions on the matter. She became a feminist icon, standing up for womens’ rights starting in the 1970’s. One by one, the woman removed and opposed laws that treated women differently from men, and eventually created a whole revolution. One example of this was the United States v. Virginia case in 1996, where she got the Virginia Military Institute to admit women as well. Ginsburg was most definitely a powerful woman, stopping at nothing to get equality for people no matter their gender.
Another thing to note is that the justice was exceptionally diligent throughout her entire career. Ginsburg did not miss even a day of her oral arguments, despite going through chemotherapy, colon cancer, and even the death of her husband. She flourished in the face of adversity, tackling academics, personal struggles, and discrimination with her head held high. Ginsburg addressed issues, especially gender discrimination, in a slow and calculated manner, attacking specific areas instead of making huge limitations. Anyone can see how hard she worked to stand up for what she believed in, and just how big of a deal she really was.
One could argue that because she was not the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, her actions were not unique and monumental. However, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Although Sandra Day O’ Connor was amazing in her own right, being the key swing vote in many important cases and the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court, Ginsburg’s impact was just as, if not more, significant as O’ Connor’s. Ginsburg was an unwavering horse, becoming a political and cultural icon for people of all ages. She left a legacy seemingly more prominent to younger generations than O’ Connor’s.
One may also be inclined to believe that many people stood up for feminism, so her support wasn’t different from anyone else’s, as it is a rather popular opinion nowadays. In spite of that, the difference she made in the community cannot be disregarded by anyone. Ginsburg actively took a part in, not just disagreeing with gender discrimination, but publicly standing up for equality, and then proceeding to slowly break down these barriers between men and women. The judge didn’t just share this opinion, she did something about it, and that made her possibly one of the best, most noteworthy feminists of all time.
Although some may be inclined to believe that Ginsburg’s accomplishments were not as special or unique as people make them out to be, you cannot deny that she has indeed had a large impact on society. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become a cultural and political icon for many people, especially those who face gender discrimination. Her diligent work in the Supreme Court was inspiring and even life-changing for some. Ginsburg will forever remain an important figure in our history, and will stay in our thoughts and hearts. We will always remember her. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '25', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9772616028785706}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '126805', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:BCL2NQIV7VBNHGQYHRNIN6C66NVLB3UX', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0e1d7dfc-5cfa-4f33-a569-5124a85a9bf7>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 2, 27, 9, 48, 15), 'WARC-IP-Address': '96.30.2.14', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'application/xhtml+xml', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:VWZP3E6Q43ND3WRSIJPHSXZRGQ4IEOE3', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:9bd2a931-b7ab-4534-9b2b-c4ae5b6be13c>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://cen10news.com/9635/editorial-opinion/tribute-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:299459aa-5404-48f2-beaf-b7c2c8688334>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '699', 'url': 'https://cen10news.com/9635/editorial-opinion/tribute-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-10\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for February/March 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-119.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.1168743371963501', 'original_id': 'f4f5a8a600cf0cf3e9f73bfedf964d3075e8fd33387816c5250ec3ad70899627'} |
After the Night by Rachel Dax
We welcome Sunny to the C-Spot Reviews team!
This was an interesting book to read at this point in history. It is set in 1960 in Berkshire, England, and chronicles the lives of two women, one a seasoned prison guard and the other a young nurse who takes a job in the sanatorium at the same prison. They find themselves falling in love despite the fact that it is strictly against prison rules, as well as societal norms.
When the two women first meet, Officer Jean MacFarlane is a guard at Deepdown Prison and is very popular among the inmates and prison staff because of her compassionate and fair way of treating everyone. What she doesn’t think anyone else knows is that she is brokenhearted over the death of Mary, her would-be lover. Mary had been a death-row inmate – another taboo relationship, even though it was never physically acted upon.
Nurse Leah Webster takes the position at Deepdown because it’s a better paying job than the one she had at the local hospital. She’s trying to make extra money to help her soon-to-be husband with the down payment on a flat. She still lives with her parents and is engaged, somewhat reluctantly, to Bill, a man who very much meets her parents’ approval.
Leah is oddly drawn to Jean, something that is a source of confusion and dismay for Leah, especially when she learns that Jean is likely ‘perverted’ or an ‘invert’. Leah has a difficult time reconciling the Jean she knows to be a wonderful person, with the idea that Jean could be the vile creature that she expects homosexuals to be.
But, the more Leah gets to know Jean, the more she realizes that she is falling in love with her, and she has absolutely no control over it. The coming out process for Leah is extremely difficult and her parents react on complete opposite ends of the spectrum. Her father, while not happy about it, is more accepting and loving, while her mother is just evil and hate-filled.
Many things that happen in the book deal directly with homophobia and we meet some pretty despicable people. On the flip side of that, Jean and Leah find allies in some surprising people and places. The supporting characters are an interesting lot and they each have a unique role that fits into the overall story. There are also a few twists and turns to keep you guessing as the story progresses to its satisfying conclusion.
One thing that bothered me in the book, besides a few typos and grammatical errors, was the author’s continual use of the words ‘pervert’, ‘invert’, and the idea (from some of the characters) that being a lesbian was nothing less of a vile, horrible life that one should do anything to avoid. Maybe that’s really what it was like in 1960, but I found it rather jarring to read. Then again, maybe that was the point.
Reading this story gave me some perspective on how far the gay and lesbian community has come, but also how far we still have to go. Given the current political climate and the pending US Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage, I found it interesting that the question that plagued Leah in 1960 still remains today. If two people love each other, why shouldn’t they be together?
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1. Thanks for the review, Sunny! I’ve heard, and read, those terms numerous times in various shows and books dealing with homosexuality during the 50s & 60s. They definitely aren’t warm and fuzzy words.
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An individual who may appear both cold-hearted and robotic to forms of human love, inparticular mush. They usually will only fall for other romatics. Their most hated film is usually Gone With The Wind or Casablanca.
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Theresa May’s plans to bring back grammar schools in England have run into immediate opposition from a number of senior Tories, who have indicated that they may vote down the controversial reforms along with Labour and the SNP.
The prime minister set out her vision for a “great meritocracy” on Friday, arguing that social mobility could be better achieved by more grammars and forcing private schools to help the state sector in return for keeping their tax breaks. Announcing the most substantial shakeup of the education system for decades, May insisted that it was not a return to the “binary system” of old because there would be efforts to make sure that all schools are successful.
However, the plans quickly came under attack from a group of rebel Tories, Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, trade unions, teaching organisations and the chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, who argued against dividing children by academic ability at age 11.
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Nicky Morgan, education secretary under David Cameron until July, branded the plans “wrong”, arguing that they were at best a distraction and at worst “risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform”.
May will undoubtedly have a battle to get the proposals through the House of Lords, where the Conservatives have no majority, as opposition peers will have few qualms about blocking a proposal that was not in the Tory election manifesto.
But it also became clear on Friday that she could have trouble passing the proposals in the House of Commons as well, where her government has a working majority of 17. No 10 will have to call in sceptical Tory MPs for meetings on Monday.
May would probably have a clear Conservative majority in the Commons against Labour and the Lib Dems if the SNP kept to its convention by abstaining on the legislation because it relates to England only. However, Carol Monaghan, the SNP education spokesman in Westminster, would not rule out taking part in the vote, saying the party was “fundamentally opposed to any system that encourages educational inequality and selection”.
“We will closely examine any proposals brought to the House of Commons to identify any potential impact on Scotland’s budget, but if and when that happens, Theresa May will have to spend some time persuading her own backbenchers that is the right way forward given the widespread concern already being expressed,” she said.
The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said his party would “form alliances in order to try to block this proposal” in both the Commons and the Lords.
The opposition from a small but growing band of Conservative backbenchers means May is already coming under pressure to scale back the proposals, which would see parents or other groups able to open a selective free school or existing state-funded schools create new grammars or convert.
May's grammar school plans 'put six years of educational progress at risk' Read more
There are at least seven Conservative MPs who have publicly signalled that they are not yet convinced of the case for expansion of grammars: Morgan, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston, Ben Howlett, Mark Pritchard, Robin Walker and Neil Carmichael.
The scale of any revolt is likely to depend on how much political capital May is willing to expend on placating the rebels and whether other potential high-profile opponents of grammars such as Michael Gove, George Osborne and even Cameron get involved in the debate.
Morgan made clear her disquiet in a Facebook post, saying that she welcomed the aims of creating a more meritocratic society and encouraging greater collaboration between universities, state schools and the private sector. But, she added: “I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap, and at worse risks actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.
“Instead of pursuing greater selection, I would urge the government to build on the reforms of the last government and to reaffirm the focus outlined in the Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper on tackling areas of entrenched academic underperformance.”
Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, warned on Friday that the UK could “fail as a nation” if there was a system where only the top 15%-20% of pupils get a superior education.
Lindsey Macmillan, an expert on social mobility and education at University College London, questioned whether May’s goal of a meritocratic society could be achieved by the return of grammars. “Selection by ability increases educational and earnings inequality far more than selection by house prices,” Macmillan said. “While top earners from grammar areas earn 10% more than those from similar comprehensive areas, low earners from grammar areas earn 35% less than low earners from similar comprehensive areas.”
However, Sir Peter Lampl, the founder and chair of the Sutton Trust, which campaigns to improve social mobility, gave May’s plans a cautious welcome if current flaws in selection at 11 could be addressed as she promised. “The government should ensure that existing grammar schools get it right before opening more grammar schools,” Lampl said.
May’s speech also included details of a requirement for universities in England to open or sponsor a state school in order to charge higher tuition fees – a decision that left many in the university sector baffled. Oxford University has previously ruled out creating a school, arguing that it could be too popular with parents and so very difficult to get into, although Cambridge University has set up a primary school in the north-west of the city.
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But Maddalaine Ansell, the chief executive of the University Alliance, which represents the sector, warned: “We should also remember the key debate here is about selection in the secondary system – if implemented, this might well make the task of widening access to higher education much harder, and the case for allowing it is unconvincing.”
May defended the plans for more grammar schools by highlighting potential measures to mitigate the risk that children from poorer backgrounds are relegated to “sink schools” as selection is expanded.
Options in a paper expected to be published on Monday will include forcing new selective schools to take a minimum proportion of pupils from lower-income households, requiring them to establish non-selective free schools or requiring them to sponsor an existing underperforming academy.
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The specific Aims of the Nathan Shock Center (NSC) at the University of Michigan (UM) are to: (i) facilitate and stimulate research programs in the cellular and molecular biology of aging; (ii) encourage the career development of biogerontologists, particularly junior faculty and enrich the training environment for trainees; (iii) attract established UM faculty who are not working in biogerontology to initiate studies in this area; and (iv) utilize resources to develop collaborative relationships with other NSCs and with other universities world-wide. These aims will be achieved through the following initiatives: (i) an Administration/Leadership Core (Faulkner) with a Steering Committee; (ii) Research Development Core (Miller) that supports workshops, pilot grants, and transitional salary support for junior faculty; (iii) five research resource cores; Mutant and Transgenic Rodent Core (Moalli), Cellular Imaging Core (Carlson), Contractility Core (Faulkner), Molecular Spectroscopy and Imaging Core (Gafni),, and Gene Expression Profiling Core (Miller); (iv) an annual meeting of all UM NSC investigators to provide direct input to the Director and the Steering Committee; and (v) an External Advisory Committee. During the 4 years of NIA support, the NSC has done much to facilitate and stimulate research on aging since the participants have grown from 22 scientists all at the UM to 47 scientists at the UM and 29 scientists at USA and foreign universities. The NSC at UM has also developed several joint programs with the NSC at UTHSC at San Antonio. In 1999-2000, the externally funded research on aging was 85 grants from NIA (55), NIH (8), and other sources (2) for a total direct costs of $21 for a total direct costs of $21,023,978. For NSC scientists at the UM, the number of NIA grants have increased from 9 to 24, the grants on aging from all sources from 19 to 35, and the program projects from one to three. The 76 NSC scientists are investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms of aging through multi-disciplinary research in a dozen or more diverse research themes. The NSC at the UM are from twelve basic science disciplines. The senior scientists provide a high level of leadership to the NSC through directing cores, serving on the Steering and other committees, directing conferences and workshops, mentoring junior faculty and trainees, and organizing multi-disciplinary collaborative research groups. The NSC has enhanced the quality and quantity of research in the basic biology of aging for senior and junior scientists and trainees at UM and at other universities world-wide. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '703885344b5441287b67c97d456c3dcb3d80a1a8b55c4fd48f9a4d3478561a1e'} |
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Guest Editor's Introduction: Dynamic Power Management of Electronic Systems
Enrico Macii, Politecnico di Torino
Pages: pp. 6-9
An Electronic System usually contains heterogenous components that may be active at different times. In other words, component activity is event-driven. A simple, yet effective approach to reduce the power dissipated by the system consists of disabling (or reducing the performance of) the components when they are inactive (or partially unexploited). Dynamic power management (DPM) is a design methodology that allows power-down (or slow-down) of system components to provide requested services and performance levels with minimum power consumption.
A component of an event-driven computing system can be modeled through a finite state machine that, in the simplest case, has two states: active and idle. When the component is idle, it can be shut down by lowering its power supply or by turning off its clock; this can drastically reduce power dissipation.
The simplest DPM policies are time-out-based. A component is put in its power-down mode only T time units after its finite state machine model has entered the idle state. It is assumed there is a high chance for the component to continue to be idle after having been in the idle state for at least T time units.
Time-out policies can be inefficient for three reasons. First, the assumption that if the component is idle for more than T time units it will continue to be so may not be true in many cases. Second, whenever the component enters the idle state, it stays powered for at least T time units, wasting a considerable amount of power during that period. Third, speed and power degradations caused by shutdowns performed at inappropriate times are not taken into account. In fact, it should be kept in mind that the transition from power-down to fully functional mode has an overhead. It takes some time to bring the system up to speed, and it may also take more power than the average, steady-state power.
To overcome time-out-based policy limitations, more complex strategies have been developed. Predictive, adaptive, and stochastic strategies are a few examples of effective policies. These strategies are based on complex mathematical models and all try to exploit the past history of active and idle intervals to predict the next idle period's length, deciding whether it is convenient to power down a system component.
Beside component idleness, component underutilization can also be successfully exploited to limit power consumption. For example, if a processing unit operating at full speed requires less time to complete a given task than the actual performance constraint, execution time (and thus power) can be reduced by making the processor run slower. This can be achieved by either reducing the clock frequency, or lowering the supply voltage, or both, provided that hardware and software enable this type of operation. In all cases, substantial power savings are obtained with no performance penalty. Policies for dynamic clock and voltage control are of increasing popularity in electronic products that feature DPM capabilities.
In addition to policy development, several other issues must be considered when implementing DPM in practice. These include
• the need for models of power-managed systems,
• the choice of an implementation style for a power manager that must guarantee accuracy in measuring interarrival times and service times for the system components,
• flexibility in monitoring multiple components,
• low perturbation, and
• marginal impact on component usage.
Also key is the style choice for monitoring component activity; options here are offline, in which the system dumps event traces for later analysis; and online, in which event traces are analyzed while the system is running, and statistics related to component usage are constantly updated.
DPM is, by far, the most successful approach to power optimization that has found wide usage in real-life cases. Transmeta's Crusoe processor is a representative application example of DPM in practice. For this reason, many researchers have recently made a substantial effort to develop innovative DPM solutions. This special issue will review the most advanced and promising contributions to various aspects of DPM in electronic systems.
We start by giving an industrial perspective of the applicability of DPM in real environments. In particular, two major portable electronics market players, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, present their own experiences of what has been achieved so far and what open problems and challenges require further investigation.
A total of six contributed papers are included in this special issue. The opening article provides a classification of existing DPM policies, discusses each approach's pros and cons, and quantitatively compares their power savings, performance penalties, and resource requirements. A practical example of implementing DPM on a laptop computer running Microsoft Windows 2000 closes the article.
The second contribution addresses the problem of intratask voltage scheduling. In particular, it presents an algorithm for automatically assigning voltages to different basic blocks of programs with hard real-time constraints. Code transformations are applied at compile time, although the inserted voltage-scaling instructions can require dynamic (that is runtime) information in deciding the proper voltage value at each point in time. The proposed algorithm's validation has been carried out on a program implementing MPEG-4 video decoding.
Intertask supply-voltage scheduling is the third article's subject. The authors survey static and dynamic scheduling techniques for assigning voltages to tasks of a real-time application with tight performance constraints. They then compare these techniques experimentally to highlight various algorithms' advantages and drawbacks.
The fourth article discusses the application of DPM techniques within asynchronous processors. These techniques range from simple circuit design solutions to architectural design features; some are peculiar to asynchronous environments, while others are equally applicable in the synchronous domain. The authors use the Amulet family of processors to illustrate the proposed techniques.
The fifth article introduces the concept of battery-driven DPM, which seeks to enhance battery life by automatically adapting the discharge rate and current profiles required by a digital application to the battery's state of charge. The authors compare the performance of several battery-oriented DPM policies for a portable, digital audio recorder.
Finally, the last article presents an application example of DPM in the context of microelectromechanical systems. More specifically, they introduce modeling and power optimization techniques based on DPM for massively distributed wireless microsensor networks and provide experimental benchmark data.
Up to now, only the simplest forms of DPM have been used. However, as shown by the research work collected in this special issue, the spectrum of opportunities fitting the DPM paradigm is huge. Integration of prototypes and academic proposals into a variety of real-life products should be expected to happen soon.
Dynamic Power Management at Hewlett-Packard
TajanaSimunicHewlett-Packard LaboratoriesMarkSmithHewlett-Packard Laboratories
Hewlett-Packard products span many different types of computing devices, ranging from sub-personal digital assistants, such as calculators, through PDAs, laptops, desktops, servers and their networks, home appliances, and home networks. Energy consumption has become one primary concern because of the need for longer battery life in portable devices and environmental concerns related to desktops and servers.
Thanks to its effectiveness and flexibility, dynamic power management is one technique HP portable products rely upon to reduce system power. Among the available DPM policies, the most common and simple, yet less efficient, are the time-out-based ones. Predictive policies increase achievable savings by forcing a transition to a low-power state as soon as a component becomes idle only if the predictor estimates that the idle period will last long enough. Both time-out and predictive policies are heuristic, and thus do not guarantee optimal results.
In contrast, policies derived from stochastic models can guarantee optimal results. They use distributions to describe the times between arrivals of service requests, the length of time for a device to service a request, and the time the device takes to transition between its power states. The system model for stochastic optimization can be described either with memoryless distributions (exponential or geometric) or with general distributions, the latter being the most effective. 1 Power savings range from two- to fivefold when implemented on the SmartBadge portable device, a laptop hard-disk, and a wireless local area network (WLAN) card. 2
DPM implementation in real systems has several issues that still need to be resolved. A critical problem is the lack of operating system support for power management. ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) has enabled a standard interface for power management in systems running Windows 2000. 3 For devices such as sub-PDAs, which deploy small-footprint embedded OSs, there is little or no OS support for DPM. An additional problem is that not all hardware components in a device support controllable power states. For example, a WLAN card interface typically has none. A consequence is that the PDA has an eight-hour battery life without the WLAN, but this figure drops to little more than two hours with WLAN use. Even with systems that have full OS and hardware support for power management, it would help to have smart applications that inform the power manager of their energy needs. In this way, the power manager, together with the OS, can schedule processes to maximize idle times and thus enable larger energy savings.
The last area where power management has large potential savings is at the level of networked home appliances and servers. In such systems, the gateway should actively participate in appliance power management. The electricity cost for just one PC-class processor with storage elements can be as much as $140 US per year when operating 24 hours per day. Since homes may have many such appliances, the yearly operating cost could become significant. Allowing remote power activation control using a networked mechanism such as a gateway or advanced network interface can save significant energy while maintaining 24-hour connected functionality.
ReferencesT.SimunicL.BeniniandG.De Micheli"Dynamic Power Management for Portable Systems,"Proc. 6th Int'l Conf. Mobile Computing and Networking,ACM,Boston, Mass.,2000,pp. 11-19.G.Q.MaguireM.SmithandH.W. PeterBeadle"SmartBadges: A Wearable Computer and Communication System,"6th Int'l Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign,ACM,Boston, Mass.,1998.Intel/Microsoft/Toshiba"Advanced Configuration and Power Interface Specification,"
Dynamic Power Management at Compaq
Lawrence S.BrakmoWestern Research Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corp.Keith I.FarkasWestern Research Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corp.William R.HamburgenWestern Research Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corp.Marc A.ViredazWestern Research Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corp.Deborah A.WallachWestern Research Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corp.
Modern portable systems have many parameters that affect power consumption. For example, speaker volume, liquid crystal display (LCD) backlight intensity, microprocessor power savings modes, clock speed, supply voltage, number of active memory banks, and wireless-link output power can all be varied. To minimize energy consumption, a clear understanding of how varying system parameters will affect the energy required for a given task is needed. We believe that the best approach is to provide computers with the ability to continuously measure their own power consumption and to optimize energy use in real time.
There is a simple relationship between some parameters and overall power consumption. For example, power consumption monotonically increases with backlight intensity, without regard to other system parameters, therefore the backlight is easy to manage. Other parameters, however, can couple in unintuitive ways. The interaction of clock speeds and low-power processor modes is of particular interest.
The Itsy, designed at Compaq's Palo Alto research laboratories, is a high-performance, low-power, pocket computer, capable of running traditional desktop applications. 1 We characterized Itsy's average power consumption for various processor modes (run, idle, and sleep) while running several applications. Decreasing the clock frequency from 206 to 59 MHz while the system is mostly idle cuts power by 30 percent. When playing an audio file, however, the same frequency reduction only saved 10 percent, because the power dissipated by the speaker is independent of clock frequency.
The behavior running the Digital Equipment Corp. DECtalk text-to-speech application is subtler. At 74 MHz, the processor runs continuously, and all cycles are dedicated to speech synthesis. At 206 MHz, there are periods where the processor is in idle mode. However, the power consumption in both cases is nearly identical. The clock speed, static power dissipation in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuits, and the energy cost of memory accesses, all play a role in this interesting result. Varying the processor core voltage adds yet another dimension: For the DECtalk example, we can save an additional 10 percent at 74 MHz. Our results further suggest that even in single application usage scenarios, there are cases where running at the highest clock speed followed by sleep mode periods will give the lowest average power consumption.
The situation becomes even more complex when a unit can offload computation to a remote server using a radio link. There is a trade-off between the power cost of radio operation and the power savings of remote computation that varies with application, transport medium, transmission distance, and even available bandwidth. Quality-of-service considerations and external server performance further complicate the optimization process.
Fine-grained power measurements let system software construct a static model that can be used to optimize energy use. For a fixed application set, such as an embedded system, these measurements could be taken using external lab instruments. However, for a changing application set, built-in power monitoring facilities, such as those provided in the recent Itsy versions, are necessary. They also allow an even more aggressive scenario: to have the system continuously probe and model the effect of parameter variations and perform local-energy optimization in real time. Also, it's easier to build a system that could vary quality-of service or fidelity to match a fixed battery endurance requirement. All are avenues of potentially fruitful research.
ReferencesJ.F.Bartlettet al.,"The Itsy Pocket Computer,"research report 2000/6, Western Research Laboratories, Compaq Computer Corp.,Palo Alto, Calif.,2000.
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Enrico Macii is an associate professor of computer engineering at Politecnico di Torino. His research interests include several computer-aided design of integrated circuits and systems aspects, with particular emphasis on synthesis, optimization, and formal verification. Macii has a DrEng in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a DrSc in computer science from Universita diTorino.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Giant Eagle 5150 recap
I signed up for Giant Eagle for a couple of reasons:
1) They were the only ones who responded to my emails about an entry (among others like the Philly Tri)
2) I would get to visit Ohio, where I have never been
3) It seemed like a good first pro race; competitive yet also not ridiculously competitive
4) the Behmes live in Ohio
5) A race sponsored by a grocery store chain is never a bad idea
So on Thursday afternoon I packed up the man-van and headed Northwest-ish for the 8hr drive to Troy, Ohio. The drive was uneventful, despite the van struggling up some of the climbs in West Virginia. Traffic was bad at times so I arrived at the Behme residence after a bit more than a third of a day.
The next couple of days passed smoothly and on Saturday afternoon we drove to Columbus to pick up our packets and attend the pro meeting. The main things encountered in the pro meeting were "obey the stagger rule" and "while it isn't a rule, we would encourage you all as professionals to not dolphin dive the swim," (the water was extremely shallow on the inbound portion of the rectangle) both things I figured wouldn't be too difficult to follow...
The swim course
Long story short, we grabbed dinner with friend and MarkyV athlete Ben Meer (who we stayed with that night, thanks Ben!) and headed to bed, psyched (not) for an early morning (race start for me at 6:30).
Race morning downed bright and too-early and we drove up to the race site where John dropped Carrie and I off for the start of our race. The swim was a two-loop rectangle, the bike was an extremely flat (net downhill?) point to point course into Columbus and the run was an out and back through the city.
I lined up with the other pros (near the back) before the gun went off...
Swim 1500m in ?
I have no idea what my swim time was because they didn't post the splits of us that DNF'd and I don't wear a watch so I have a general idea of what my swim time was based on other athletes but nothing specific and I don't like to guess.
The swim started on the beach and everyone sprinted into the water. I lagged behind a bit as I didn't want to get caught in the maelstrom that was the main pack. That being said, I was still sucked along quite nicely by the wash of 20+ dudes swimming as hard as they could. Once we all turned left after the first buoy it began stringing out a little bit and I gradually lost contact with the main group. I also experienced a mild anxiety issue so had to "collect myself" for a second or two before continuing on, which further distanced me from those in front. The next lap and a half were uneventful and went by smoothly before being caught by the main group of women just before the end. I came out of the water right behind them and ran up the beach into transition.
T1 in ?
I ran to my bike and since I was the only pro who didn't clip in their shoes beforehand I put on my shoes and headed out on my bike. Relatively smooth, but not as fast as it could have been...
Bike 40k in 55:40 (unofficially, according to my power file)
I passed the pack of women pretty quickly (thank goodness... no offense ladies) and continued through the first 5k of the race at a nice effort level. The first 1/4 to 1/3 of the bike is pretty rolling and a net uphill away from the lake. I caught the lead women pretty soon and could see some guys off in the distance and began to gain hope that I may not actually be as crappy as I thought I was. I put my head down and pushed, passing several guys, a couple of whom stayed with me through the end of the bike. The course was pretty poorly marked and relatively poorly marshaled, as a car turned in front of me at one point forcing me to grab a pretty good handful of brakes. The only markings were taped turn signals on the ground which, at 25-35mph, were not easy to see and react to but we all had the same issues so it was no big deal. In the last 1/2 mile of the course I turned left as a policeman seemed to be waving me in that direction but unfortunately the subsequent yelling "wrong way!!" made me realize that I had, in fact, turned incorrectly. I quickly got back on course but not before two other guys followed me down the wrong path. I felt bad, but couldn't do anything about it. I came into T2 quickly and hopped off the bike with smoothness.
T2 in ?
I had a really quick T2 and headed out well ahead of the two US Pro Tri guys with whom I had come into T2.
Run ? in ?
I headed out on the run at a very high rate of speed, feeling pretty stellar. My legs felt nice and loose and my pace reflected it. John and Ben took a picture or two and yelled some encouragement as I climbed the only "major" incline on the course. The run wound its way through downtown briefly before crossing the river and jumping onto a path along the river. I carried on smoothly before eventually reaching a dead end. I realized with some sadness that something was wrong. I turned around and ran backwards before encountering Jim and Ryan of USPT and asked if they had seen a turn, which they had not. We ran back to the dead end just so they could be sure before turning around and running back where we had come. We realized we had missed a u-turn (or near u-turn) that would have taken us back up onto the road and across the river again. We all ended up running back to the finish line and turning in our chips...
Alas, these things happen. While it's certainly my responsibility to know the course and the fault was entirely mine, I've never raced an event that was as poorly signed as this one. Both on the bike and the run, the markings were simply taped arrows on the ground. I was the only one who had multiple issues so maybe it's just something I need to be more aware of in the future but it is a little frustrating.
I certainly was in no position to come in top 5 (I'm unsure if I would have been top 10, it would have taken a pretty phenomenal run split) so it's not as though I missed out on money but with the way my run legs were feeling I'd like to have had them vindicated by a good split. I'm happy the DNF was a result of a mistake and had nothing to do with my fitness level. It also was encouraging to realize that I CAN be competitive at these types of races (olympic, non-draft). Certainly not with the top guys but I think a top 10 at a 5150 is not out of the question. It'd have to be a perfect race, but I'm excited about the prospect...
On another note, just because I feel like I have to vent, I witnessed some pretty poor sportsmanship at this race. It's incredibly coincidental that I am the one that witnessed this, but seeing a fellow competitor (and NC resident) incorrectly run the course and hop over into the finish chute (cutting off some of the last bit of the run) and yet not have a DQ is frustrating. I believe it was an honest mistake, but to accept any kind of award or slot (to Hy-Vee, as this race was a qualifier) is very poor form. I did not run the correct course. If I had wanted an official finish time, I would have ran back to where I went off course and then run the whole course correctly. I would not have simply adjusted MY run course.
Anyway, maybe there's some explanation of which I am not aware. All I know is what I saw and see in the results.
Next week is my third year at Stumpy Creek International, which will be a hotly contested race for the top 5 spots so I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes!
1 comment:
Bill Davis said...
So many random thoughts.
1. Sorry about your DNF.
2. Congrats on not wearing a watch. That's another step in the right direction.
3. That will teach you to consider Ohio as a sporting destination.
4. It really isn't a "man-van." It's a minivan.
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A Sudden Dose of Spinoffs. A Good Thing or a Sense of Foreboding Comearound? November 20, 2013 by
Despite their often disparaged reputation, television spin-off series are not always scoffing and low quality affairs. Buffy the Vampire Slayer birthed a favorite Angel, while with a bumpy first season managed to garner its own gradually; Cheers gave way to Frasier and Happy Days cultivated two great shows Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy. Not to mention some entertainment like Daria are technically spinoffs based off of a spinoffs but are on point.
That being said, news of a beloved series planning to branch out into a completely different property has me on edge continuously. Hearing news about the prequel series, 'Better Call Saul' centered around Breaking Bad's Saul Goodman before he became Walter Whites' lawyer got me thinking. Sure, I love Saul just as much as anybody but he's not just a supporting character - he's also the "comic relief" on a decidedly serious program. This in turn would indicate that presumably the tone, style and length altogether will be removed from its predecessor. It's a particular transition that actually doesn't seem quite bad when you think about it. But the question is, would you want significant themes incorporated into a spinoff that reflect those of it is original inspiration? Surely some semblance of that are or should be reasons for spinoffs.
One of my favorite feel good sitcoms How I Met Your Mother has now transitioned an official show How I Met Your Dad set to pilot fall of 2014. The first episodes script will be written by Emily Spivey (Up All Night) as well as HIMYM original creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays.
How I Met Your Dad will feature an entirely new cast of characters with the mother set to continue the premise of the previous series. Being in the same universe, it's obvious to see a possible crossover as the show hypothetically will follow the same timeline as HIMYM. It's difficult to argue with CBSs choice to greenlight such a project when their most monumental TV show comes to a close. The biggest positive to HIMYM was based incredibly on the castings effortless chemistry, so it still remains to be seen if the comedic stamp can remain and continue to lure fans with new leads. Of course, the creators behind How I Met Your Dad are both talented and so closely related to the original production that a sense of continuity between the two will be guaranteed.
Buuuzzzttt!!! Wrong, first mistake! It SHOULD be called "How I Met Your Father".
However Neil Patrick Harris and Colbie Smulders are arguably bigger draws than Josh Randor (Ted) himself. This is where I believe the new series will suffer greatly from a lack of Barney Stinson and risk appearing to “chase the dragon” if it tries to recreate him. Considering that CBS is in full meltdown it's not something far off.
I was concerned about the new series, The Originals starring the cynical Klaus from The Vampire Diaries at first - but the man has enough depth of character and charisma to gravitate his own series. While the story is fast, it's balanced and works. The tone has changed yet still feels like the universe is the same, it's dark and mature where TWD is about the coming of age and the goodness in people. However with an immense amount of great actors/actresses moving towards that show it inevitably leaves Vampire Diaries with a popularity drop. How does sacrificing in any way your original show startup make the Vampire Diaries mythos-culture better? There's a jump of unpredictability that can go both ways. It may be great now but can they truly keep the tempo of both shows?
Keep in mind the confirmations of "Girl Meets World" and a "Walking Dead" addition into the mix - there becomes a blur of when enough is enough and what truly means original narrative.
This is more of a discussional piece above all else. With so many spinoffs heading our way, it's obvious that some are bound to fail. Can spinoffs be considered original concepts now? Is the fact that there are so many spinoffs a good or bad thing?
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If you give a Lady Empress a cookie... - Assassinita's Asskicking ProfileNovember 12, 2013 by
Okay! Okay! I give, I give, I saw a field of flowers!
'Ello MyIGN. You guys should probably know mwuah already since I'm such an egotistical person with a heart of gold like that. Anyways the lovely CristaCookie tagged me to my total and utter surprise - so major kudos and huggles to her. There has been a lot of introductions happening around as of late (however great or annoying that may be) so I guess I was bound to get infected. I admit I had this finished a long time ago, I just was too lazy to press the publish button. I recall two other people tagging me as well...
Also big walloping thank you to Jose for the idea and just about everything else. One of the nicest dudes I know and has had the privileged of meeting here. I only have a great immense amount of love for him, so follow this man. Even till the ends of the earth! EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU. And no pictures of me-self this time, but you'll see me in Nicki's Rapidfire someday.
Warning: Random - unedited version hence a lot of rambling that isn't necessary.
This cute lil bugger is my treasure of a little brother, King. He's the sweetest most adorable thing ever. Given our age gap, I sometimes view him as my own child and I try to spend as much time with him as I possibly can. Life's too short.You can't beat this cuteness Ponkilo!
About Me
Real name: Mary Ann
Nicknames: Nita, Anita, Sayeda Warda, Tehzee, Tobey, Tiny Whyi-nii, Lady Devil, Madam, Ice Princess, Empress and all those other nicknames, you lovely people come up with.
Age: A tad bit crazy.
From: Alberta, Canada
Username: Assassinita
Reason behind username: It's simply an obvious mix between my nickname Nita and my personal affinity for Assassins Creed. Nothing too subtle.
Pet Peeves:
People that continuously argue with you even when they know that they are wrong.
People that can't accept others for who they are.
People that are too negative and don't try to cultivate a level of happiness for themselves. It drags other people down.
People that like to point out others faults without knowing their own.
Men that think their biceps are the reason why the earth is still spinning. Damn, I like your hips okay!
Women that get offended when you tell them that you're not necessarily a "feminist." I am for the rights of all. Beejeezus!
Gossip in the workplace, super annoying.
Girls that say ALL men with facial hair are ugly...not true. :P
"It's a state of mind."
"Have some strength of character!"
" -it's only how much you make of it."
"Touch me again and I cry ambiguous racism!"
" *insert comment here*, eh?" (Because I write as I speak.)
"Never too young, never too old until you can't laugh."
My Gaming
Gaming background: Started with some major ass-kicking with the Fighter game-genre, arcading and PS1, PS2. Never considered myself a gamer until I actually bought a PS3 with my own money, more so out of curiosity at the start of it all. I had already played a decent amount on the DS and PC, but yeah gaming was never my main interest until recently so I had been playing a good deal before concluding it as a part of myself.
Top 5 games:
Red Dead Redemption, Metal Gear Solid 3, Fire Emblem 7: Blazing Sword, Assassins Creed II and a tie between Kingdom Hearts II/ King of Fighters 2000.
Favorite genre: Action/Adventure though my guilty pleasure is definitely something strategic or puzzle based.
Current consoles:
• Soon to have PS4
• PS3
• PS Vita
• PC
• DS
• PSP
• Gameboy Advance SP
• PS2
• PS1
• GBA
• GBA SP
Favorite Console:
Has to be my PS3, it's my baby.
Favorite Game Series: Assassins Creed, Fire Emblem, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken, Persona, King of Fighters, Kingdom Hearts and Uncharted. Favorite Game Story: Telltales' The Walking Dead definitely pulled the heartstrings and is extremely engaging. Everything from the graphics to the choices really sets the tone for the storytelling. If not that than Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones, each and every character propels the story forward through insight to their lives and the music only amplifies the dire situations within the grueling plot. You can't help but care for all of them as if you are right in the war with them.
Favorite Game Everyone Should Play: Red Dead Redemption, bottom line is that there isn't a game that flawlessly preforms and amplifies the concept of a self-made man despite the tribulations that come to him and the fact that all he inevitably wants is peace for his family.
Favorite Multiplayer: I've never been much of a multiplayer person given the fact that I usually don't have time for it but I really enjoyed it in Assassins Creed: Revelations and the first Uncharted.
Favorite Gaming Addiction: Peggle, Bejeweled and Zoo Tycoon.
Favorite Gameplay: Mass Effect 2
• PSN - CyberPrimaE
Video game crush:
Altair from Assassins Creed.
Fran from Final Fantasy XII.
Hobbies: Gaming, Temporary Body Tattooing, Writing, Reading, Drawing/Painting, Listening to Music, Dancing, Horseback Riding, Hiking, Swimming, Cooking and of couse, Hockey. I'm pretty sure I'm missing something else but either way I'm always keeping myself busy. Also if spending time with my sisters and youngest brother is considered a hobby then I'll add that. They keep me happy, don't know what I'd do without them. Not that my other siblings don't, but they're special.
Traveling: I love exploring different countries and have been to a few places that I'll never forget because the memories are something I treasure very deeply. I think it's crucial for people to travel, it's a relaxing and learning experience - it truly opens your mind up to many different things. One of my best memories till this day was going cross-country driving from my city all the way to Toronto by car with my older brother. Just three more hours and we could have gone to Montreal but instead we swooped down to North Carolina.
I also go back "home" to Indonesia where half of my family still lives, if you haven't been I will steadily recommend that you do. You have the beach and right beside it, the mountains and the rainforests. Absolutely beautiful. Plus there is the skywalk, which is a glass staircase that goes straight into the sky where you can get an aerial view of the landscape and return back by hand-gliding, parachuting or just walking back down the stairs. If you want to ride Elephants than I recommend Bali as the place to go.
I also lived in Egypt for a good 5 months and a 1/2, some of the happiest moments of my life to be honest and my favorite place I have been to so far. I was only supposed to be there for a month but the time magically stretched. I couldn't get enough of the people and the cheap T-Bone/Rib-eye steaks. Actually standing in front of the pyramids and going in just completely humbles you. The Nile is also a sight to behold. I vividly remember my last day there crying and laughing at the same time because it was the first time I ever saw it rain and getting drenched in a hot shower was a touching goodbye.
Japan was another spot that I must go back to. Basically hung around Tokyo and towns beside because I didn't have enough time to adventure elsewhere. The culture there still has it's imprint but holds the perfect infusion of modern. There is literally a restaurant themed of everything under the sun, I completely recommend the Capcom one - if only for the experience. I got lost but it was amazingly fun to talk to people with body language and the basic Japanese phrases that I knew. I want to go back to Yokohama and Okikawa for sure.
Other places I hope to go to in the future is Italy, Turkey, France and I could go on and on but I'll leave it at that.
Favorite food: Any Spicy dish of Chicken. Lamb Steaks.
Favorite drink:
Cream Soda or Chai Tea.
Favorite dessert:
Good 'ole Cheesecake. Or Chocolate Lava Cakes.
Favorite movies: I should really hate this question, there are just too many to mention! The Last of The Mohicans, Emerald Forest, Braveheart, Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, Primal Fear, The Mad Max Trilogy, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Murder In The First, Wolf, White Squall, Edward Scissor-hands, Corpse Bride, Fist of Fury, Return of the Dragon, The Crow, Thinner, Unforgiven, Gran Torino, Gladiator, 13th Warrior, Jurassic Park, Man Without a Face, The Avengers, Men in Black, Avatar, Dances With Wolves, Ferris Bullers' Day Off, Beauty and The Beast, The Road to El Darado, Aladdin, Tangled, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, ETC.
Favorite shows: Spartacus, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, LOST, Law and Order, Bones, Firefly, The Vampire Diaries, Scandal, Misfits, Murdoch Mysteries, Arctic Air, How I Met Your Mother, Hannibal, Prison Break, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Voice, Dexter, Castle, Beast Wars, the whole Power Ranger Series, The Practice, Into the West, The Waltons, Happy Days, Maverick, Bonanza, etc. Still need to take up Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy. I'm currently watching Sleepy Hollow and I'm really enjoying it.
Favorite Anime/Cartoons: Samurai Champloo, Eureka Seven, AIR, Kanon, One Piece, Avatar The Last Airbender, Martin Mysteries, Digimon Series, Yu-Gi-Oh series, Gintama, Deathnote, Inuyasha, Tiger and Bunny, Metabots, Skip Beat, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Bleach, Hajime no Ippo, Eyeshield 21, Trigun, Ruroni Kenshin, Berserk, etc.
Favorite music:
I listen to at least something from every genre, I could fill up a whole book so whatever.
Slipknot, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson, Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Limp Bizkit, AFI, Korn, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, Fallout Boy, Coldrain, Simple Plan, Micheal Jackson, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, U Roy, I Roy, The Lone Ranger, Simon and Garfunkel, Passenger, Rob Thomas, Matchbox Twenty, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, The Police, Air Supply, Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Janet Jackson, Phil Collins, The Beatles, CCR, John Denver, Eminem, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Crystal Kay, Beyonce, Ciara, Nicki Minaj, Marianas' Trench, Hedley, The Wanted, Nancy Ajram, Tarkan, Don Omar, Milk and Honey, Ebit G. Ade, BIG BANG, Maximum the Hormone, FLOW, OneOKRock, Uverworld, etc.
Favorite books/ comics:
The 1001 Arabian Nights, Sherlock Holmes Series, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Odyssey, Dracula, A Song of Ice and Fire, Spawn Comics, The Darkness, X-Men, Thor, Batman, Bounce, Assassins Creed: The Fall.
Favorite MyIGN event: Any sort of flashmob wall-party hosted by Lunastark. Love ya girly.
Favorite blog: I honestly don't have a favorite. :/ But it would be hard to ignore the meaning 'That Pinnacle Point...' holds for myself.
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Everyone and Leafeaterxx.
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Perspective: Supporting Female Shepard in CinemaAugust 12, 2013 by
I remember when the Mass Effect movie was officially announced by Bioware way back in May 24th, 2010 and where the project stands now is still in the early stages of development with no director or actors cast. The mystery in limbo is gradually eating away at me despite the fact that I am in no way excited for this production at all and I have remind myself that the creation of Pacific Rim took 7 years. Mass Effect is a huge game franchise that I believe many will have divided opinions on in terms of how the storytelling and pacing should affect its transition into cinema. And while nothing of recent has been confirmed the only attribute that is set in stone is the fact that the Shepard we're going to be following will be male.
When I first heard this it honestly didn't bother me, but now in retrospect it currently reminds me of the rejection publishers made to the lead character, Nillin of Remember Me. All simply based on the fact of her gender.
And now it dawned on me. Cinema politics can be just as complicated and messy as videogame politics, if not more so. A subtle point of discrimination is usually an even more dangerous one than a blatantly open statement, because you can't see it yet it's underlying in meaning. That being said I'm not accusing them of such but it does bring a few questions to mind.
Repetition in Movie Marketing
It's no revelation that this generations endorsement for movie consumerism relies heavily on the concept of sequels and name branding. It's an issue that can be taken in both positive and negative lights.
Seriously? Thor, Hawkeye you realize that no one gives a fuck right?
The association of continual added spectacles has lead to the molding of a rather mosaic landscape of worthwhile movies that all rely on mass doses of escapism. Most of which will be or already are - processed into facets of sequels or additions of some form.
The biggest example of success when it comes to such strategies is the surge of Marvel films that all have the power to stand on their own merit but ultimately converge to create 'The Avengers' as a point of reference. Marvels' concept of fleshing out a world is much different as that it supersedes the idea of sequels.
What I like to call the term, 'Rebranding' has also become a popular task in the post-modern world which seems to be coming back with a vengeance in the near future. The cultural movie icons referring to likes of classic personages such as, Predators, Terminators and even Jurassic Park dinosaurs are scheduled to make a return. Whether we truly want them or not is besides the point. The expectancy that such situations are bound to happen is what should be dully noted. It's an occurrence that has already happened and history tends to repeats itself.
Regardless, these movies are all continuing to be made due to their story, popularity, high grossing income and a loyal fanbase - while others have been weeded out. This generation is actually a generation that has embraced the ideology of sequelism because it has finally achieved fruit for many. One that I at many a times happen to be inclined to agree and I can look no further than my excitement for Thor: The Dark World.
There's the prevalent Marvel Universe, unexpected Star Trek franchise, rebirthing of DC cinema, a Planet filled with Apes, looming Avatar sequels, rambunctious Expendables, continuous Fast and Furious, tactfully extorted Star Wars, more random rampages from Machete and the flagship, Pirates of the Caribbean.
I've come to accept that sequels will continue and without a doubt many are excellent. But getting to the root topic what do all these titles have in common?
The Woman in the Background
None of these titles represent a sole female lead. And for all the success that Marvel truly is, the woman 'Black Widow' is a character that has never had a true movie representation of her own. To be fair Natasha Romanova is an inspiringly layered character and by far one of my favorite female figures in Marvel history; it's unfortunate that she has had her debut as someone on the side and continues to do so with her presence to come in Captain America: The Winter Solider. She not only she represents a woman who can fight but also is the perfect figure when it comes to representing the morally ambiguous area of grey that separates her from the rest of the Avengers. Such attributes are intriguing and should not go to waste.
The iconic heroine figure Uhara of Star Trek, who is amazingly brought to life by Zoe Saldana has now become nothing more than the romantic catalyst for Spock. It meant a lot to me when she was voted as Number. 1 most popular female character in regards to science fiction and fantasy entertainment in 2012. Being a completely die-hard fan of hers' I felt the lack of individuality and sophistication to her within the sequel. To say I was simply disappointed would be a great understatement.
Neytiri possibly follows into this category, and though she is independent, isn't controlled by the men of her tribe, teaches Jake to see things the way she does, is in touch with her natural surroundings, hunts, kills, and fends for herself without the assistance of men. Her relation to keeping to character for the sequel doesn't look so bright. It can't be ignored that she does represent the stereotypical role of 'Lover of the Hero who just happens to have gone Native.’
That being said on the flip side, what main heroines do we have?
The Women Front, Center and... What?
Well, the first protagonist to come to mind would instantaneously be Alice from the Resident Evil movies for all the wrong reasons. There hasn’t been a single movie I liked except for two but even then, she represents a narrative with too many plot holes to count. Not only do they butcher the lore of the games, but they also own the rights to so many ideas within the zombie genre that frankly goes to pathetic waste. With all that being said, I do respect Milla Jovovich and I’m mildly interested with her inclusion to the third round of Expendables. Though I guess she has this dreadfully horrible series to thank for that.
And then the time before Twilight, ‘Underworld’s Selene played by Kate Beckinsale. Throughout the whole series, she was probably the only character I found not to be miscast in some point or form. There’s a lack of character development but her icy composure and kickassery is played well in the first movie. However there’s nothing of improvement after that and even worse she simply becomes the character arch type of ‘hot girl in leather suit’ with stories that equate to nothing or are just complete bullshit. In fact there are so many problems with it as simply a series that you can even compare these two cinematic messes in their likeness.
Alice?!... Oh, it's you Selene. Sorry, I didn't realize you weren't the only one stuck in a freezer naked.
The only interesting aspect to the films, other than its odd dance around its love interest in absentia, are its retro qualities -- these days, all the other werewolves and vampires seem to be too busy trying to date gloomy-eyed teenagers with buck teeth instead of clashing in tastefully grimy underground lairs with claws and double-fisted guns.
So to make my point very clear, there hasn’t been a movie series with a consistently awesome female protagonist that holds it’s own.
What does this have to do Mass Effect?
First off this has absolutely nothing to do with being against John Shepard in comparison to Femshep because essentially they are the same person. The greatest attribute to the Mass Effect trilogy was that, romantic options aside the powerful story always stayed true in one form.
And given, IF the movie plays well to absorbing the amount of depth within the story of Mass Effect and hones it, this could have very well been the chance for a female lead to take action and become a positive addition to the world of cinema. Because while hypothetically speaking, say there is a possibility of Femshep being portrayed as having a romance within the movie, it automatically takes a stage down because she’s the main character. For any of you that I've had the privilege of having this discussion with - As I’ve said time and again, if you depict your female characters, no matter how empowered, as only talking to men and not other women, it reinforces the notion that women’s lives revolve around men. Even when women possess agency and intelligence and a budding career, Star Trek Into Darkness for example perpetuates the trope that women are not complete or whole unless they’re helping a man, looking sexy for a man, or a man stands at their side.
Mass Effect is a narrative that's just as character driven as it's blood pumping. With Femshep automatically associating herself with her colleagues it's obvious that she'll be interacting with other women with different personalities and ambitions (ex. Ashley, Jack, Miranda, Tali, etc); while still pertaining to the fact that she interacts with men just as much.
Summer after summer, Hollywood shoves us with many (white and heterosexual) male lead action films. The same message is being sent: girls can’t and don’t live adventures, they’re just sidekicks and love interests. This is so sad. Little diversity is one big problem in Hollywood and in games that remains consistent.
Hypothetically speaking, if a Mass Effect movie were to become a success with a female character, - with the proper writers to build a concise trilogy – it would definitely mean something to see a recurring face on screen that’s of my gender. One who succeeds in spearheading a whole new opportunity for women in lead roles in relation to adventurous/action movies. Having female Shepard would stand out. I don’t know why studio bosses have zero balls to try and make a different action film. Has the likes of Ellen Ripley been all but forgotten?
Bustin' a cap in yo' ass since before yo' even knew ya had one! Suckaaa~!
We have so much diversity in the world and when this diversity is not shown on the media, we’ve got a problem. Most leads of action films are male, white and heterosexual. This is ridiculous. We have black people, we have women, we have gays, bisexuals, pansexuals. Why can’t a hero be a black girl, for example? Or an Asian man?
I think we, as human beings, are always trying to improve our world and our society. We’re not going to improve the world by not taking risks and not changing what we think is wrong. I think the lack of diversity in western media is wrong. Let’s try to change it and not simply saying “the world is like this. The guys from the studios don’t wanna take risks”. If everyone thought “the world is like this”, the world would never change.
But to boil it all down for my part, even though I am a huge fan of the Mass Effect franchise, I don’t know if I will be able to bring myself to see the film. It’s a simple business decision to make movie Shepard male rather than female. They’re taking the “safest” route and at some point I have to take a step back and say that I can’t blame them and heck, if a Mass Effect movie actually manages to be quality it would be a triumph even with a bog standard straight white American male. And while I still persist that the world should change its views, Mass Effect is a series so close to my heart I would rather not see it ruined and would prefer for them to try my wishes on something else. Having Morgan Davis Foehl (Click, I Announce You Chuck & Larry) confirmed as screenwriter is already a disaster waiting to happen.
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Pacific Rim - Monstrously What? July 24, 2013 by
As the world gets more and more complicated each and every day so does the translation and means of entertainment in order to keep up with the complexities of setting the bar even higher to appease audiences. There's an urgency in the movie industry that has suddenly exploded to give us interconnecting movies (Marvel Movies) and 3-D shot splendor (Avatar), one can only expect things to get more complex and engaging to satisfy the ever evolving human mind.
Pacific Rim doesn't play to this. Call it reverse psychology if you will but Pacific Rim keeps to its strengths by making the story direct and concise. Reminding us that there are many times where simpler is better. In a sense our expectation for complexities is more of an unconscious effort more than anything else, and this movie actually pulled me back. Hinting me of the times when I was a child where the story was laid out for you and you simply sat back to enjoyed the show.
What starts out with a shaky beginning takes a turn for greatness once the gears start moving. Pacific Rim captivates a broad audience simply by the fact that it's set in a time where the world has to come together to fight for the greater good. Del Toro pays great dedication to both the monster movie genre and Japans' infamous Mech entertainment that warms my inner anime self. I immensely enjoyed that they incorporated languages no matter how lightly touched upon it was, be it Russian, Chinese or Japanese.
There's a sense of embodiment to the characters despite how transparent they are, it's seamless and works well. At sometimes the side characters shine more than the protagonist and in ways pays homage in on itself. The whole cast is likeable despite how wacky and weird they may seem. The influences of Del Toro's character types are not far behind and are a treat to behold. The humor is 'laugh out loud' and very charmingly subtle at times. The fact that there must be two people to operate a Jeager is interesting and good because it doesn't give the protagonist the continual feeling of isolation since he always has another character to be his foil, who in this case is Mako. The romance between Raleigh and Mako is innocent and not completely shoved in your face like other movies and in ways it represents more a start of a friendship though there is obvious attraction. It's tactfully placed where it doesn't feel completely lost on the audience yet it never becomes a main focus.
The action is unbelievably addicting and proves to satiate my thirst with non-stop brawling. The additions made for the Jeagers themselves are fun and individualize each machine as it's own persona. The technical flare of Gothic and Japanese themes are not removed and for anyone familiar with such things will enjoy it more than most. The fights were cheesy in all it's glory and many would find these scenes to easily become their favorite parts to the movie and very well understandably. The monsters have great designs something that should be mentioned without a single doubt, the people who worked on them deserve more than just a pat on the back. Even at the end of the movie it still leaves you wanting more action in the best way possible.
Ironically for myself, the most powerful moments have absolutely nothing to do with big hulking machines as I originally expected but the humanization of all the characters. To see what I mean look no further than Idris Elbas' character, Stacker Pentecost. Idris never ceases to amaze me how he can truly become any of his characters at will without it ever feeling like he's being "himself." In a world that no one should ever take seriously, Stacker pulls the heartstrings by being a true leader and father figure effortlessly. Idris Elba truly spearheads the whole show and should be commemorated for it.
As an action flick, from the get go it never stops or slows down. Besides being an extremely entertaining, good old fashioned monster flick, "Pacific Rim" is a tribute to the strength of international cinema, involving artists and production teams from every part of the globe; stretching it's availability for all audiences no matter what age. And as I imagined it, has become an international hit. Further more the 3 main leads Hunnam, Elba and Rinko Kikuchi preform a great performance with unbelievably FANTASTIC chemistry. With the feel, humor and attributes of a great director, Pacific Rim is a true Guillermo del Toro staple.
My rating: 8.7/10
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How and why to make books with your little reader
Julia Graeper // Aug 23, 2017
How and why to make books with your little reader
We do a lot of storytelling in my house, and find ways to bring reading into our everyday lives outside of bedtime read-alouds. Earlier this summer, I wrote about how we're using storytelling to get ready for kindergarten (we did the same to manage preK nerves)—we make up first-day-of-school stories to work out her hopes, fears and expectations around a new school. We also look for opportunities to do some reading as we go about our day, so that I can help my daughter understand that reading happens all the time, not just with books. That's why we stop to read signs that catch her eye.
When she turned five back in May, we gave her a book-making kit, which came with three, small, bound books with blank pages, and a set of markers. She was able to make up her own story, create a cover, practice her writing, and draw her own illustrations.
After we quickly ran through the three books that came in the kit, she realized that she could just fold a bunch of paper, ask us to staple it (the binding) and make her own books. She's gotten really into this, and it's been a fun way to practice reading, writing and storytelling. Also, like many parents, I always intend to write down the funny stuff she says, and I mostly forget to. It's frustrating. But these books give me a a little time capsule glimpse into her mind.
For example, earlier this summer she made a book for my sister-in-law's baby shower, which she entitled Parts of the Human Body. It began as an anatomy book, because she wanted to teach my sister-in-law about major organs such as lungs, the heart and the brain. But as she worked, it evolved into a baby-rearing advice book ("always weigh the baby").
She conceived the topic of the book, did some of the writing, all of the drawings, and dictated to my husband for sections that were too long to accomodate her giant handwriting. It was a sweet project that made my mama-heart feel so full, but also gave her an opportunity to practice reading and writing, and also do some higher-level conceptual thinking. Not bad for the summer time!
Book-making is a nice project that you can adapt for any attention span, skill level or interest. And it's fun!
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Ranieri didn't lose dressing room - Leicester City caretaker
Leicester City caretaker boss Craig Shakespeare has denied a player revolt led to the sacking of Claudio Ranieri.
BBC Sport understands some players were summoned to meet the chairman after the 2-1 loss to Sevilla and Ranieri's fate was sealed by the negative reaction.
The Italian was sacked by Leicester on Thursday nine months after leading the club to the Premier League title.
"There was a lot of frustration because of the results, but he had not lost the dressing room," Shakespeare said.
"A lot of the talk of unrest has been speculation. I've not had one problem with the players.
"I always feel sorry when people lose their jobs. My relationship with Claudio has been fine all along.
"I spoke to him last night and he thanked me for my support throughout. It was not brief and we exchanged views. A lot of what we said will stay private."
Five things we'll miss about Claudio Ranieri
Leicester are 17th in the Premier League, one point above the relegation zone, with 13 matches left and are out of the FA Cup after losing 1-0 to Millwall in the fifth round.
Despite losing 2-1 to Sevilla in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 tie, they could yet reach the quarter-finals. The second leg is on 14 March.
Shakespeare, who will take charge of Monday's home league match against Liverpool, admitted he felt like a "pantomime villain" having been asked to face the media after Ranieri's "very sad" exit, but added the decision "must be respected".
"Whether I think it's right or not is irrelevant," he added.
"We all know in football people lose their jobs because of results - and the results haven't been good enough. He will get the utmost respect in terms of what he has achieved with this club."
Leicester started last season as 5,000-1 outsiders for the title, having almost been relegated the season before.
Former Leicester, Everton and England striker Gary Lineker described his hometown team's achievement as "the biggest sporting shock of my lifetime".
The remarkable title win saw Ranieri named best men's coach at Fifa's awards in January, and top coach at the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year awards in December.
Claudio Ranieri: Gary Lineker says Leicester got sacking wrong
Analysis
BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy:
The chairman and vice chairman had become increasingly concerned by the players' alienation from Ranieri this season over a variety of issues.
Elimination from the FA Cup at Millwall and the flattering scoreline in Seville hardened the hearts of the influential members of the dressing room.
So Ranieri was sacked by Director of Football, Jon Rudkin, yesterday afternoon when they flew back to the Midlands.
The favourite to replace him is Roberto Mancini, but at the moment it's understood he hasn't been sounded out by Leicester, nor is he particularly interested.
Judging by Shakespeare's assured performance at today's press conference, he wouldn't be fazed at the prospect of running the show for the final 13 matches of this season.
He was alongside Nigel Pearson two years ago when Leicester staged a remarkable escape from relegation. He's a highly capable, experienced coach, very popular with influential figures in the dressing-room.
Shakespeare is clinging to the 'it's just about Monday v Liverpool' mantra. but he seems at ease with any further challenges.
'Brexit, Trump and Ranieri' - managers' reaction
Jose Mourinho wrote on Instagram on Thursday: "Champion of England and Fifa manager of the year, sacked. That's the new football. Claudio, keep smiling. Nobody can delete the history you wrote."
Speaking on Friday, the Manchester United boss described his post as "my little homage to somebody that wrote the most beautiful history in the Premier League".
Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho wore a shirt with the initials 'CR' - Claudio Ranieri
"He deserves to have Leicester's stadium named after him," the Portuguese added.
"It's a decision that has everyone in football united and is very difficult to accept. I was sacked as a champion, a giant negative as I thought - but it's peanuts compared to Claudio."
Former Manchester City boss Roberto Mancini, the bookmakers' early favourite to replace Ranieri, posted on social media: external-link "I am sorry for my friend Ranieri. He will remain in the history of @LCFC, in the heart of Leicester fans and all football lovers."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said: "Am I surprised that things like this can happen? No. It is not only football.
"For me there have been a few strange decisions in 2016-17. Brexit, Trump, Ranieri. I have no idea why Leicester did this. Everyone could see the situation in the league, the situation in the Champions League - which we are not in.
"He is a really special person in this business, a really nice guy. I met him before when he visited me at Dortmund and we had a nice talk. He is a wonderful person."
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte said: "I'm very sad, but this is our job. He is a friend, a good man and a good manager. He reached a dream to win the title. I am disappointed as a friend and a coach."
And when asked about reports of the players having a role in Ranieri's sacking, he added: "I don't like to follow this type of story, it's a lack of respect. If this happened, it means the club is poor, with no power. It's not right that players can control your destiny as a manager."
Roma coach Luciano Spalletti said: "It's inexplicable, there is no recognition. He was the one who created this chemistry in the team and the locker room that made it possible to win the championship.
"When you win a title ahead of Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea, if you have a little dignity, you even accept to be relegated without touching anything.
The headline on Friday's La Gazetta dello Sport reads: 'Ungrateful English'
"It should be such a joy to have won that the following year you can accept to be relegated. It's always us (managers) who leave. Have you ever seen a president, an official or a player sacked before the end of the season?"
Aston Villa manager Steve Bruce said: "We understand as managers now that we are the whipping boys. I'm scratching my head, like everyone else is, asking myself how someone who delivered the finest achievement in football last year, could now be sacked. We're talking about Leicester here.
Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said: "I was shocked at Claudio Ranieri's sacking. He's real gentleman and a positive person. But it doesn't taint Claudio's story and he will always be remembered for that historic achievement."
Sunderland manager David Moyes: "It's a disappointing day for managers all round the world, I'm really sad for Claudio.
"It made me think how lucky I was to go 11 years at Everton and how few people get to do that.
"A lot of clubs often decide to sack the manager so it has an impact on the players. I'm hoping it doesn't have an impact, and that it helps us - maybe they're a little bit rudderless at the moment and it might actually help us."
'Coaching profession undermined' - Other reaction
Richard Bevan, chief executive of the League Managers' Association, said: "A manager's lifespan is probably now about a year. It's baffling, and morally wrong.
"He delivered the holy grail to the football club and nine months later he's been sacked from his job.
"It's a very brutal game but certainly the timing of this is a surprise and disbelief and it's undermined the coaching profession."
Eddie Jones, the head coach of England's rugby union team, said: "When we first got together one of the things we talked about was Leicester City and what they went through last season, what we could learn from it.
"I must admit I felt a bit sick last night hearing the news because he's such a great, honourable guy and he's done a fantastic job." | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'd0653e3257d5c9d4f9945edc05627cf33f3b1d03fdcc861470a0262907748945'} |
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Embedding a Professional Practice Model Across a System.
Professional practice models (PPMs) are an integral part of any organization on the Magnet® journey, whether initial designation or redesignation. Through the journey, the PPM should become embedded within the nursing culture. Leadership at multiple levels is crucial to ensure successful adoption and implementation. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'dcebb45c4a3e3fb07d13f2d83711ea08dbdc35ab3677bcf3db9d6aafb710e09d'} |
market success = life success ???
Discussion in 'Psychology' started by marketsurfer, Feb 18, 2003.
1. marketsurfer
marketsurfer Sponsor
the state of mind required to constantly extract profits from the market seems to be diametrically opposed to "real" life. are you able to turn this 'state of mind" off when the market closes for day ? OR does it extract a toll on the other aspects of your life ??
just wondering,
2. do not have a life besides trading ....
its sort of sad ...
sometimes I wonder about it all myself too
I think I am going outside now to play in the 2 feet of snow :)
3. F. d'Anconia
F. d'Anconia Guest
to all of life's problems is readily found in sound trading practice.
It is simply disattachment and nothing more.
Pain in the markets is only as you perceive it, as is pain in life.
Same for euphoria.................
all attachment is suffering.
and........everything is relative.
Imagine if you will that the opposite side of every trade is someone out there (a real live person given to fear and greed just like you). And this zero sum game is going on between the two of you. When you short, they buy from you and when you buy, they sell to you. Prices move up and down and you are happy when they are sad and they are happy when you are sad.
Now just imagine that you are a third person watching this ridiculous vascillation of emotion. You feel nothing because you aren't in the position of the other two. Yet nothing is different. Prices go up and prices go down. But the third person perceives things very differently, or rather doesn't perceive anything, either negative or positive about the price action.
And (IMHO) I think that's essentially the trick. To really believe (and not just say) that no market is bad (just different). And also; in daytrading at least, to have no real bias past your immediate timeframe. To have a longer term bias is really just your ego attached to its opinion.
regards, Surf.
4. TGregg
LMAO! That is absolutely hilarious. Did you even bother to open the book from where your handle came?
I can imagine some other quotes like that:
or how about:
Or mebbe:
5. One way to approach it practically is to say to yourself: 'Let me watch myself do this trade'. This puts you in a position of an observer and not that of a participant, or at least into a superposition of an observer and a participant. The more observer is in this superposition the better.
6. Tgregg, I think you misunderstand his above post and you seem to unfortunately to be living in the illusion of attachment that the poster describes. Don't worry, though, most of the world does and they will continue to engage in all their wars, crusades, causes, etc.
This is basic Zen he is talking about and saying everything is relative in no way advocates what you quoted; at least thats how I read it.
7. TGregg
You value your assumptions, and thus you find trouble seeing what is.
Francisco d'Anconia is a character from Ayn Rand's book, Atlas Shrugged. In the book the character makes a long speech, and part of that speech argues quite strongly against the idea that "everything is relative" or (better stated) "There are no absolutes". (My favorite argument against nonabsolutes is "I'll put a bullet in your head and let's see if you are absolutely dead" :D ) Rand's philosophy (perfectly embodied in d'Anconia and a fundamental part of the novel) is called Objectivism and is very, very antiZen. Very. Diametrically opposed, even.
For F. d'Anconia to say that "everything is relative" is a direct contradiction of what that character was. That would be the same as somebody with the handle of J. Carter (from well-known peacenik Jimmy Carter) saying it's high time to use nuclear weapons on everybody in sight. Or Alan Greenspan arguing for more debt. Or Popeye, giving his girl away to his worst enemy.
It's not about Zen, or whether F. d'Anconia is right or wrong. It's about a contradiction.
Edit: Forgot to add, it's also about the possiblity that F. d'Anconia choose his handle without an understanding of that character, and without the same belief that character has.
9. TGregg
I never knew where the $ symbol came from until I read Rand.
10. driving range....asked them to chill so I could hit 65 balls after a lesson .....they were not thrilled about it but never the less hung back and relaxed.....after 15 minutes a 60 or so yr. old dude walked up to me and said ...."those are the most well behaved kids ive seen in a long time" I responded "thanks for the kind words....those kids are all my wife and i care about"
driving home I thought to myself........hanging with the kids every day.......thats what its all about
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Learn how to create self-fulfilling prophecies using the law of appreciation and attraction.
The universe is full of mysteries. Over the centuries, people have tried to unravel them by delving into themselves, or taking a personal spiritual journey to discover the hidden wonders and gain wisdom.
Whereas others have delved outwards, using science and language to reflect on the mysteries and gain knowledge about the working of the universe.
However, as we know, science and engineering both have their limits set by what the human mind is willing to perceive as factual and so does not cater to laws that are observed only intuitively.
The famous inventor Nikola Tesla understood these shortcomings when he said:
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”
So, today, we will introduce you to three mystical and powerful laws. These are:
Law of Appreciation Law of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Law of Attraction
The Law of Appreciation
All of us have experienced this in our lives: that appreciation builds, expands, and eventually happily spills into every area of our lives. Appreciation creates harmony whereas lack of appreciation simply directs us inwards towards self-consciousness, self-depreciation, and eventually self-abandonment and destruction.
In simple words, the Law of Appreciation is this: appreciation is an attractive force; indifference, and depreciation of what you have is a repulsive force.
So, the question is, how grateful are you for what you have in life?
Let’s rephrase that: “Do you know what you should be and can be grateful for in your life?”
Generally, most of us have allowed ourselves to be so consumed by daily events and we forget to realize, acknowledge, and appreciate the things that we should be grateful for.
As a result, we often miss the positive things in our lives, allowing negativity to cloud our thoughts and perceptions.
However, by being grateful for something, and by showing our appreciation for what we have, we open up the space where we experience it in abundance. We feel content and happy with what we have, and hence become synced with the abundance the universe has to offer.
Hence, the more you appreciate something, the more you will start to have of it.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Your beliefs and perceptions about yourself and the world around you, create your reality.
Sociologists call this the Pygmalion Effect, and have discovered how our regular perception, imagination, and hopes not just impact, but also create our future.
Think of all the things you say and communicate about yourself and about your life either directly to yourself or indirectly with the people around you.
These thoughts affect your behavior and how others perceive you, which in turn causes them to respond to you in a certain manner, which in turn reinforces your belief about yourself, your present life, and future.
This insight is summated under the Law of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy — that the simple expectation of events or behavior that you want to materialize, can actually cause them to happen!
Although it will not be true at that time, nor come to materialize immediately, your beliefs initiate the processes and create the opportunities that make your beliefs come true.
Hence, your beliefs, when consistently communicated, become self-fulfilling prophecies.
BUT REMEMBER, self-fulfilling prophecies work both ways.
Positive beliefs will initiate and create a positive reality, whereas beliefs stemming from a negative mind will cause your life to revolve around negative events.
The Law of Attraction
According to the law of self-fulfilling prophecies, your thoughts and beliefs about yourself are already creating your future. Hence, just by rethinking the stories you are telling yourself about yourself, you can directly affect your future.
The Law of Appreciation, on the other hand, informs us of the simplest method of breaking out of the cycle of negative thoughts and consequent actions: start appreciating the small stuff in life.
What happens when you combine both? Answer: The Law of Attraction.
This is the law that states that when you direct your thoughts towards anything positive and constructive, you tap into the unlimited positive energy present in the universe.
And that when those thoughts are not cluttered or drained by wandering and negative thoughts, they become focused, powerful, and capable of attracting the goodness you seek in life.
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'So grateful:' Injured Bronco hockey player glad he's alive, works on recovery
CALGARY — Ryan Straschnitzki is involved in the toughest game of his life.
It was his choice to undertake twice daily physiotherapy sessions at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.
"It's tough, but it's worth it for sure," said Straschnitzki in an interview with The Canadian Press from his hospital bed. "I'm better. Physio's getting better. I'm feeling a lot better. Everything's healing perfectly — I've still got some soreness and what not."
Recently he was learning to move himself from his wheelchair to a bed during physio with the use of a slide board. It took a long time.
He also worked at turning over on his side. That involved locking his hands together and rocking back and forth. He finally achieved it, but there was a look of pain on his face and he immediately grabbed his shoulder.
"So many upper body injuries. It's kind of amazing that my body was able to survive and I could get out of that alive. I'm just so grateful."
The April 6 collision between the team's bus and a tractor-trailer at a rural intersection in Saskatchewan is still being investigated. The Broncos were on their way to a playoff game. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured. RCMP have only said the truck was in the intersection when the crash occurred.
"There's all sorts of mixed emotions really — anger could be one of those. It's kind of tough to talk about sometimes. It's not all the time, but it's once in a while."
Straschnitzki keeps in touch with his teammates through online group chats. During the interview, his cellphone dinged steadily as he received more and more texts.
He said his friend Jacob Wasserman, the team's goaltender, is also paralyzed, but from the navel down. Both are interested in playing sledge hockey once their recovery is complete.
Straschnitzki spends his day in rehab and with video games. Giant containers of potato chips and beef jerky are close at hand.
He's had a lot of visitors, including Canadian wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen
"He's a really great guy and really inspirational for sure," Straschnitzki said.
"He told me there's more to a person than their legs ... you don't let it get you down and you get up and do something about it. You just keep pushing through."
One of Straschnitzki's aims is to walk again.
"That's the big goal in mind. If I can be able to push myself and do that ... then that proves it to everyone. I've heard some news which is pretty tragic, but doctors have always been wrong before," he said.
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Via Appia "Regina Viarum"
Via Appia "Regina Viarum" is part of the Tentative list of Italy in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.
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Via Appia "Regina Viarum" (T) by Hubert Scharnagl
The Via Appia was the first and one of the most important road systems built by the ancient Romans. I'm not sure whether Italy will ever submit this tentative site for inscription, if so, certainly the entire road network will be included. During our trip to Rome in November 2013, we visited the Via Appia Antica, a 16 km long section of the ancient road starting at the Porta San Sebastiano. Actually we wanted to visit only the Catacombs of Callixtus, but the weather was warm and sunny, so we decided to rent bicycles and to explore a stretch of the ancient road. There is a tourist information (Via Appia Antica 58), where we rented the bikes and picked up a map showing the monuments along the road, the bus 118 (from metro Circo Massimo) stops in front of the tourist information.
The first section of the Via Appia is a busy street, the scenic part begins at the church of San Sebastiano. From there, the car traffic is restricted to residents. We enjoyed our bicycle ride, you have to drive slowly, because there are bumpy cobblestones throughout or you have to use the green strip along the road. We rented mountain bikes, a good decision. There is still the ancient paving in some sections, you can see the deep grooves from the wheels of the heavy waggons (photo).
In ancient Rome, it was forbidden to bury the dead in the city, so the tombs were built along the main roads outside the city walls. The remains are often just overgrown ruins or single grave stones with ornaments and reliefs. But there are also larger buildings, like the Tomb of Caecilia Metella or the Villa dei Quintili. Elsewhere these monuments would be top tourist attractions, but in Rome they are nothing exceptional. The special charm of the Via Appia Antica is that it is like an open-air museum, a long row of tombs, mausoleums and grave stones in different shapes and sizes. We turned after about 12 km at the crossing with the Via di Fioranello.
Finally, we visited the Catacomb of Callixtus, they are considered the most important in Rome, mainly because it contains also the tombs of several popes from the 2nd to 4th century. It is a huge labyrinth of underground tunnels on several levels. Some graves are decorated with biblical scenes and early Christian symbols such as the fish or the dove with an olive branch. The guided tour (approximately 45 minutes) goes through a part of the complex, including the Crypt of the Popes.
The Via Appia is a worthwhile trip, if you have some time left and want to escape the busy city centre.
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First off, a bit of background:
This is my 3rd batch of homebrew so I am new to this. I'm using the following: Morgan's Golden Saaz Pilsner can of goo, Fermentis Saflager s-23 yeast and a brew booster (Dextrose, malt and corn syrup).
After 2 weeks there was still no bubbling in the airlock so I decided that the yeast must have died and I pitched a 2nd round of yeast and while doing so I noticed a thin rim of krausen on the side of the fermenter. 3 days later there is still no bubbling in the airlock.
I finally realized I should check the specific gravity and noticed it had gone from 1035 down to 1010.
My plan is to bottle a 6 pack and rack the rest off then see how the bottled brew turns out before investing the time in bottling the whole lot.
So, my question(s) is this:
What will the 2nd round of yeast do to this batch? Is it salvageable or should I not waste time with bottling?
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The second round of yeast will just add a yeasty flavor to the beer if it doesn't flocculate out much. But the change in flavor will be negligible.
Depending on the temperature you were fermenting at all the fermentation could have happened when you weren't paying attention. If the beer was warm going from 1035 to 1010 overnight is very likely.
FWIW, I'd just bottle the whole batch. And pay close attention to the amount of priming sugar you use.
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Occasionally your airlock won't bubble, for a variety of reasons. Brewing Buckets (or "Ale Pales") are notorious for having leaky gaskets where the airlock plugs in. However, this by itself is really not a problem, its just a little bothersome when you expect to see the airlock bubbling away and nothing is happening. Since you added new yeast that needs to settle out, I'd let it sit another 2-3 weeks, then bottle the whole thing. It'll be fine. – Graham Aug 10 '11 at 13:13
Great answers, thanks guys. I'll let it sit for 2 weeks, add some finings then bottle it that weekend. – WT_W Aug 10 '11 at 22:47
If you have another vessel, like a carboy, I'd rack the beer into secondary for a week or two to really let the yeast settle out. Since it has nothing to eat it will drop out just like your first pitch did. Having the beer in a transparent vessel will help you see when it's clear enough for bottling.
Shouldn't be a problem at all. In no way could this ruin the beer. At worst it just needs a bit of extra waiting time for the extra yeast to drop out. It won't leave behind any by-products, since the yeast isn't metabolizing.
I'm a firm proponent of NEVER throwing away beer, especially if you're new to brewing. I dumped my first few batches due to "problems" which I now know weren't problems at all. Even weird-tasting beer can transform into great beer after months in the bottle.
Only oozing bacterial infections will make me chuck a batch now. Everything else I bottle and at worst stick it away to check back on it in 3, 6, 9 or 12 months! :)
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Funnily enough, this batch is being made to replace the previous batch which got infected and has since been thrown away (floating gunk in the bottles and some kind of organism growing on the side of the bottles) – WT_W Aug 12 '11 at 4:41
No matter what you decide to do -- bottle now or later -- the yeast will settle once you bottle and refrigerate. 1010 is a good target final gravity for the style, although 1035 seems a bit low.
No worries, though! I agree with the others to not toss the batch. Even if it's somehow not drinkable (which is pretty hard to do), there are a lot of ways to make good use out of a borderline drinkable batch, such as a bit pot full of beer brats!
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