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alfalfa health benefits - There are a number of impressive health benefits associated with alfalfa, including its ability to lower cholesterol status, improve absorption, keep center state, impede cancer, improve respiratory states, detoxify their own bodies, expedite immunity, race healing and abbreviate inflammation.
There are some risks when it comes to alfalfa, namely the toxicity that can occur when feeing fresh alfalfa buds, as it can interrupt the amino acid match in their own bodies, even beginning inflaming and lupus-like indications in animals and humen. Hence, alfalfa should be prepared properly and eaten in moderation; similarly, alfalfa uptake for sheep and other animals should be monitored or eliminated fully. That being said, alfalfa is a centred informant of nutrients that you should definitely compute into your diet! Let's take a closer look at some of the impressive health benefits of alfalfa.
Lower Cholesterol Levels: Alfalfa has shown that it has an impressive amount of dietary fiber, which is very important in the battle against cholesterol. In addition to being able to innumerable other chemical compounds, called saponins, fiber can attach to cholesterol and prevent it from locking on to arterial walls, thereby helping match "good" cholesterol status in their own bodies. This can impede the proliferation of medal, atherosclerosis, heart attack and strokes.
Reduce Inflammation: This plant was often used in the conventional care of arthritis and other inflammatory states. Passed our recent research into the nutritional task of alfalfa, this makes sense. Alfalfa owned high levels of vitamin C and vitamin B, as well as calcium and antioxidant compounds, all of which can reduce inflaming in the joints and around the body, while also strengthening the immune organisation and frustrating chronic disease and oxidative stress.
Gastrointestinal Editions: Dietary fiber is heavily relied on by the body to monitor and optimize digestive state. Dietary fiber is not only able to bulk up stool and speed up its change through the bowels, but it can also abbreviate inflaming in the gut, thus clearing up issues including indigestion, bloating, cramping, diarrhea, constipation and a bacterial inequality in the gut microflora<|fim_middle|> Heart: Potassium and iron are both found in substantial equip within alfalfa, and these benefit the heart in different ways. Potassium is a vasodilator, which helps to lower blood pressure by liberating the tension on blood vessels and arteries. Additionally, the iron contents of these buds increases red blood cell creation, thus improving flow and ensuring that the body's organ plans are properly oxygenated. This introduces less strain on the heart because the members will be demanding less blood and oxygen from an already overworked heart.
A Final Word of Warning: Due to the high-pitched contents of saponins and canavanine, unwarranted uptake of fresh alfalfa buds can have adverse effects on their own bodies. If you are pregnant or already suffered by lupus, you should not expend these buds. For others looking to make a change to their nutrient regimen, it is always a good suggestion to speak with a medical professional or a nutritionist before contributing alfalfa into the mixture. | .
Speed Healing: In its traditionally bred consumption, alfalfa buds were used to make a poultice to work on curves and injuries to persuasion faster healing and the prevention of infection. The antioxidant elements of alfalfa safeguarded the exposed orbit, while other minerals and nutrients animated blood flowing to the area and increased the rate of repair and healing. The high-pitched equip of protein in alfalfa, when ingested, is also a major enhance to emergence, growing and repair.
Immune System Boost: With a high contents of vitamin C, this sprig is an ideal booster for your immune organisation. Vitamin C not only induces the production of white blood cell, but likewise acts as an antioxidant to eliminate oxidative stress. Furthermore, B vitamins and vitamin E likewise act as metabolic regulators and antioxidant compounds throughout the body, and both of those are also found in this unassuming sprout.
Detoxify the Person: Alfalfa has been widely used around the world in the treatment of kidney states, namely due to its diuretic qualities. By stimulating more frequent urination, alfalfa provides the ability to speed up the detoxification of their own bodies, together with excess salts, obesities and water.
Prevent Cancer: Phytoestrogens are some of the most impressive chemical compounds, and they are extremely important for their own bodies in the battle against chronic illness, such as cancer and coronary congestive heart failure. These hormones essentially act as antioxidants and impede mutations in healthy cadres, thus lowering your risk of cancer. The active elements of this plant are also known to oblige well with carcinogens in their own bodies and colon, thus promoting their ouster from their own bodies before they can do any more damage.
Respiratory Health: Traditionally, alfalfa was widely used in the treatment of respiratory states, such as bronchitis, the flu and the common cold, as well as other viral and bacterial infections. Alfalfa has anti-inflammatory qualities, which formed it is helpful in giving many breathing states, such as asthma, while also strengthening the immune organisation to neutralize the underlying infections assaulting the respiratory tracts.
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On this very special day, the Lord Jesus calls you and me his friends. What joy that should bring to all of us – to be the friends of Jesus. What a precious gift friendship is. We may have many acquaintances but only a few really good friends. Jesus is truly our friend: he loves us with an infinite, merciful, and self-giving love.
The Son of God has gone to great lengths to win our friendship. He assumed our humanity, bore our burdens, and nailed them to the Cross. In our humanity, he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, giving redeemed human nature a place at the right hand of the Father<|fim_middle|>, and so do we. If we are the friends of Jesus we'll have the courage to pray over God's Word to study it, let it challenge us, and let it change us, so we may preach and bear witness to the Word with credibility and effectiveness. If we are the friends of Jesus, the Word we preach will flow into people's hearts because what we have to say to them is what we have in our hearts.
The second facet of your ministry is to serve the Church's sacramental worship – assisting in the Church's Eucharistic liturgy by proclaiming the Gospel, leading the General Intercessions, assisting at the altar, and distributing the Body and Blood of Christ. You will baptize, conduct liturgies of the Word, and preside at weddings and funerals. Indeed, for most parishioners, your role in the Church's sacramental worship will be the public face of your ministry as ordained deacons.
Here too we are to manifest the beautiful truth that Jesus has called us his friends. We do this by fulfilling our role in the Church's public prayer in such manner that we call attention to Christ and not to ourselves. God's People don't benefit from gimmicks or theatrics but rather from a prayerful and reverent execution of our roles in the liturgy that bespeak Jesus' love for his people & our love for Jesus, the Risen & Exalted One. The Church's prescriptions for celebrating the liturgy should be second nature to us so that when we are engaged in the Church's sacramental worship, we can truly focus on drawing those we serve into the mystery of Christ's love, there to experience his mercy and healing, there to be nourished and strengthened so that all of us, clergy and laity, can truly be and become missionary disciples. How important that we pray before we celebrate and while we celebrate, so that our lives may give God glory after we have celebrated.
The final component of the diaconal ministry is charity which, in the Acts of the Apostles is described as waiting on tables. Your role at the heavenly table prepares you to set an earthly table for those in need. Charity is not an appendage to your ministry but really is at its core. You proclaim the Word and minister at the altar so that you can serve the poor. And in serving the poor, you truly show yourselves to be the friends of Jesus for he told us that whatever we do for those in need we do for him. When we have recognized the face of Jesus in the poor and vulnerable then we will know that our friendship with Jesus is real.
There can be no doubt that Jesus is with us in the poor and disadvantaged – in this City of Baltimore and in all the counties that make up this local Church. You are not the only provides of charity and social services but your ministry is to help everyone in the Church to make the connection between what we believe and how we worship with our service to the poor. In a phrase, you are to practice a charity that evangelizes.
As we now enter upon the Rite of Ordination, I join with everyone here, especially your wives and your families, in praying that your friendship with the Lord will continue to deepen and that your ministry as deacons will bear the abundant fruit of God's love for the Church and for the world.
May God bless us and keep us in His love. | . And it is Jesus, not ourselves, who takes the first step in making us his friends: "It was not you who chose me but I who chose you, to go forth and bear fruit." In Baptism, the Lord has drawn near to us and has given each of us a vocation to love, a vocation that becomes specific when we have the discerning heart of a disciple.
Dear brothers so soon to be ordained: Some years ago, you and your wives embraced the Lord's call to marriage and family. The Lord blessed your love for one another and made it a living sign of his love for the Church. Your homes became a domestic church where the faith was taught, lived and passed on wholeheartedly to your children. Your homes radiated Christ's love to all, especially to the poor and needy. You participated generously in the life and mission of your parishes… always with minds and hearts open to the will of God.
After careful discernment, the Church now calls you to a new vocation, a vocation to the permanent diaconate, a vocation within a vocation, one might say. With the consent of your wives and families, you were formed for this ministry and now you are here to be ordained. It has been quite a journey for you and your family. As you take this step, I hope you are convinced that you are the friends of Jesus.
What does it mean, dear brothers, when the Lord says to you on this, your ordination day, "You are my friends"? Does it not mean that by the prayer of the Church and the laying on of my hands the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you and imprint on your inmost being a new likeness to Christ, that of Christ the Servant? Does not your friendship with Jesus take on a new dimension and depth such that you will be a sacramental sign of Christ's self-giving love?
This is both a great gift and a responsibility. The permanent change wrought in you by diaconal ordination not only authorizes you to minister as deacons but will remain as an inner conduit for the strength and grace you need to serve as Jesus did, generously and lovingly. How important that you keep this channel of grace and strength wide open through meditation, prayerful reading of Scripture, spiritual direction, and the frequent and worthy reception of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Growth in friendship with Jesus means you will fulfill your ministry not in a minimal and grudging way but in a free and wholehearted way.
What about Jeremiah's first excuse, "I know not how to speak"? This will haunt us when we're trying to write a homily after a long week at work or trying to figure out how to share the faith with people of differing cultures. When we meet with people who have left the Church or given up on God then we may find ourselves saying, "I know not how to speak!" Notice that God did not dispute Jeremiah's claim, "I know not how to speak". Instead, he made up for Jeremiah's deficiency: "See, I place my words in your mouth!" In saying this, God did not give Jeremiah an excuse to ramble in the pulpit, or to preach a canned homily or to share his private opinions with a waiting world. Jeremiah had to wrestle with God's Word and make it his own | 687 |
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Why Does Your Voice Sound Strange?
Editorial By Greg<|fim_middle|> themselves make that recording.
The reason your voice sounds different because it is different. I like the explanation Ben Hornsby, a professor of audiology at Vanderbilt University gave to Popular Science magazine. 'When you speak, the vocal folds in your throat vibrate, which causes your skin, skull and oral cavities to also vibrate, and we perceive this as sound,' he explained. 'The vibrations mix with the sound waves travelling from your mouth to your eardrum, giving your voice a quality � generally a deeper, more dignified sound � that no one else hears. When you listen through a loudspeaker or recording device, you pick up sound only through air conduction, so the sound we're used to hearing has a lower frequency from t bone vibrations, and we like that because it sounds rich and full.'
Microphones have a lot to answer for when it comes to perceived sound quality as well. First, there's what's called the 'proximity effect' which means that the closer you are to a dynamic microphone, the more your voice will sound full and rich in the bass. Shure made a fortune by exploiting this effect with its SM series microphones. Then there's the fact that modern sound reinforcement systems mean that some men appear to be able to sing at really low frequencies, but when you take the micro- phone away, you find they cannot sustain these low frequencies at the higher volume levels required if they were to sing with an unaided voice. I was reminded of this at a recent Tripod concert, which added performer Eddie Perfect to this established a capella trio. EP was using the microphone and his throat to produce incredibly low bass notes. It sounded truly impressive, but in fact was just a vocal 'trick' made possible by modern technology.
Sometimes, hi-fi retailers use similar 'tricks' to enhance the sound of their demo speakers� though they're not doing it on purpose, they will have just learned from experience that certain speakers sound better in certain positions in their demonstration room. Just as your voice will always sound better when you're singing in a bathroom, some listening rooms will favour certain bands of frequencies over others, depending on where the speaker are positioned. So if you place speakers that are being demonstrated in this spot and use music with lots of energy in those bands of frequencies that are being reinforced by the room, the speakers will sound different (usually 'warmer', and 'richer') than they would if they'd been positioned somewhere else in the same room� or perhaps when positioned incorrectly in your own listening room.
--- Greg Borrowman | Borrowman
Most people these days can recognise their own voice when it's played back to them from some recording medium because they've grown up listening to that voice on phone messages and video recordings. So it's difficult to believe that there was a time when no-one knew what they sounded like, because although audio recording has been around for more than a century, few 'ordinary' people had access to sound recorders.
I can vividly remember the first time I heard my own voice played back. 'Sandy' Stevenson, a family friend, had purchased an open-reel recorder and, during a weekend visit, demonstrated it to everyone in my family. I can't remember my exact age at the time, but I do remember denying that the voice I heard was my own, despite easily identifying the voices of my parents and my brother, which he'd recorded at exactly the same time.
Why did I not recognise my own voice? Because as everyone now knows, your voice sounds completely different when you hear it played back, compared to what you hear in 'real time' when you sing or speak. Most people complain that their voice is higher-pitched and more 'nasal', whilst others complain that their accent sounds stronger on a recording than when they're listening to | 255 |
I was born in Ireland and lived for the first six years of my life in a tiny village called Drumbeg. We moved across to England and I started school. As a child, if I wasn't reading and writing stories or at ballet lessons, I was dressing up in my mother's old ball gowns the moment I came home from school and becoming a princess, with a storyline that could last for weeks. Sad I know, but I lived totally in my imagination. And not much has changed since!
Me at 9 months
9 years old, playing a child murderess in 'The Bad Seed'
My father<|fim_middle|> 'Lovers and Players'. No champagne for me then!
Me at the launch of my first book, and newly pregnant with Harry.
After that, it felt like I was giving birth to a book and a baby every year, and after writing eight, I decided to take a break. By then, I'd moved to Ireland and back again to England, married my husband Stephen after a whirlwind six month's romance, and had a wonderful seven years being a wife and mother. To keep me sane between back-to-back episodes of Noddy, Barney and The Wiggles, I wrote three books: one domestic saga, one 'literary' book and a detective novel. One of these books, 'Helena's Secret' ('The Olive Tree' in the English language) has already been published, and I'm re-editing another one for publication at the moment. This just shows that nothing you do in life is ever wasted, although I'm still too shy to show anyone my detective story!
When Kit, my baby, started school, I decided it was time to actually think about writing another book which someone other than me would read. I always had a problem with RSI (repetitive strain injury) but more importantly, I find it impossible to sit still at a computer because I'm hyperactive and used to moving from my ballet days. So, I decided to buy a dictaphone and train myself to 'talk' the books. It was hard-going at first, partly because I felt so stupid talking to myself all day, and the kids found it hilarious that I put in the punctuation as well. However, the more I 'wrote' in this way, the easier and more natural it began to feel. After all, the art of storytelling was originally passed on by mouth, not by word. It also meant I was no longer chained to a desk so I could wander around outside, because it's nature that gives me my best thoughts.
I decided not to look at what kind of book was selling, but instead, to write a book that I would like to read with a dual timeline and set in places I know and love. 'The Orchid House' ('Hothouse Flower') was the result. I remember handing it to my agent in London and walking away thinking that if a publisher didn't buy it, I would stop writing and take a degree in psychology. I've still got the application forms sitting in a drawer in my desk. However, much to my complete amazement, I had offers from publishers within the week. The book has gone on to sell 3.5 million copies and went to #1 all over the world. I then wrote 'The Girl on the Cliff', 'The Lavender Garden' ('The Light Behind the Window') and 'The Midnight Rose', all of which became international bestsellers.
At this point, my publishers began to enquire about the eight books I'd written previously under the name Lucinda Edmonds, as they were all out of print. I had to go into my cellar and bring up the copies I'd stored down there. They were covered in spiders webs and mouse droppings and I was very nervous about sending them off. However, many of my publishers wanted to release them, so I set to work re-editing them.
Then, in the New Year of 2012, while gazing up at the night sky, I was struck with the inspiration for an ambitious multi-book series, loosely based on the legends surrounding the Seven Sisters star cluster. The books would chart the journeys of adopted sisters as they traverse the globe in search of their pasts and would feature a mysterious father called Pa Salt. And so the Seven Sisters series was born.
A Hollywood company, Raffaella Productions, have optioned 'The Seven Sisters' to turn the books into a multi-season TV series. Obviously, the process of making such a huge series will take some time, but it will be amazing one day to see Pa Salt and his daughters brought to life on screen.
When not writing, travelling or running around after my four children, I love reading books that I haven't written with a glass or two of Provençal rosé.
Me with the kids and Stephen
Lucinda unplugged - 35 Quick Q &As | travelled abroad a huge amount and wasn't often at home – he cut a mysterious figure and myself, my mother and my sister really didn't know what he did when he was away. Just like Pa Salt in The Seven Sisters stories, we would wait with anticipation for him to return, always with a gift from another exotic country for us. He was a very humble and wise man, and above anything else, taught me that whether queen or toilet cleaner, all human-beings deserved the same respect. He died unexpectedly ten years ago and I was heartbroken.
I was a bit of a nerd at school, particularly with my passion for history. I definitely wasn't in the 'popular' group as I preferred the dusty rooms at the Victoria and Albert museum to nightclubs! I was also very involved in both my ballet training and acting. My mother was an ex-actress, my grandmother, an opera singer and my great-uncle, chief lighting designer of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The theatre was in my blood.
Me as Tracey, Bomber's daughter, in Auf Wiedersehen Pet
At fourteen I went to London to full time dance and drama school. At sixteen I got a leading role in the BBC television series called 'The Story of the Treasure Seekers'. And for the next seven years, I acted professionally in theatre and TV, including playing Bomber's daughter, "Tracy Busbridge" in the iconic 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet'. I also got married to an actor I met on a DIY store television commercial! At twenty-three, I was initially diagnosed with Epstein Barr virus and found myself bed-ridden. Once again I turned to my imagination to help me through and while in bed, I wrote my first book, 'Lovers and Players'. A friend read it and passed it onto an agent and to my shock and delight, I was offered a three book contract. Typically in my dramatic life, I found out I was expecting my first child, Harry an hour before I went to the launch party for | 416 |
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Huntington University ded<|fim_middle|> is used for ceramics, sculpture and 3D design. It also houses the woodshop. The new building features overhead directional lighting and a large studio space for drawing, figure drawing and painting. There is also a photography light studio.
"We are centrally locating our students which will create a greater sense of community within the art department and foster a more creative environment," said Ken Hopper, chair of the art department and associate professor of art.
The new building was fully funded through gifts to the university. | icates Studio Art Center
FOR RELEASE: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Huntington, Ind.-The Huntington University art students now have a place to call their own as the Studio Art Center was formally dedicated during a special ceremony today, April 22.
This is the first project completed under the TOGETHER Campaign for Huntington University.
"This is an important moment in the history of our university, and a pivotal moment in our present capital campaign," Huntington University President G. Blair Dowden said. "This first phase of the campaign was designed to realize the dreams of students and faculty for additional creative space for the visual arts and art education, and the available instructional space has grown substantially thanks to the seeds of investment planted by our donors."
The Studio Art Center is comprised of two facilities for 2D and 3D art. A new 3,000-square-foot building was completed this spring adjacent to the existing annex which | 195 |
Nupur Nagpal, CHRO, Myntra
Myntra has appointed Nupur Nagpal as its chief human<|fim_middle|> for Myntra and has demonstrated product leadership across various roles in his previous stints," according to the company statement. Lalitha Ramani, after nearly two years of her association with Myntra as Chief Product Officer, has decided to pursue interests outside the organisation, the company stated.
Myntra, recently also announced the elevation of Achint Setia as the Head of Marketing.
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Nagpal will be responsible for leading the HR roadmap and has joined from Sprinklr, where she was leading the people function for JAPAC markets as VP-HR, according to a statement issued by Myntra. Prior to this, "she has been in leadership roles with Prione Group of Companies and Amazon in addition to stints with Tata Group, Virgin Mobile, WNS Global Services among others," according to the company statement.
Myntra aims to leverage the synergies of the tech and product function to get future-ready with a deep focus on such capabilities. "Krishnananda has contributed significantly to building the tech platforms and growth story | 165 |
When Jimmy Hazen called his father James in Long Island, N.Y., on Wednesday to tell him he�d won the Massachusetts Open Championship, which was held at Wellesley Country Club, his father told him to call back.
James didn�t do this because he didn�t care about his son�s win, or didn�t believe him. He did it because as of his son�s first call, there were players under par still on the course, and he didn�t want his son celebrating prematurely lest someone made a miraculous comeback.
James� trepidation was well-founded, as Baltimore�s Jeff Castle sank a 40-foot bogey putt on the par-3 17th to remain within a shot of Hazen, but Castle bogeyed the 18th, prompting Hazen to call his father a second time, a call that was more well-received.
Hazen, 28, a mini-tour veteran who now<|fim_middle|>-round 79 to finish 40th. Thorny Lea Golf Club�s John Hadges also shot a 79 to finish tied for 38th. | lives in Florida, fired a final-round, 3-under-par 67 to finish the tournament at 6-under, two shots clear of Castle, Jimmy Lytle, Plainville�s James Renner and Shrewsbury�s Scott Hawley.
It�s the second win of Hazen�s career, after winning the New York State Open in 2006. Although Hazen has no local ties, he did have a local cheering section comprised of former Southeastern Amateur winner Ryan Riley and his two children. Riley and Hazen were roommates at Sacred Heart University, and Hazen was Riley�s best man and is the godfather to his daughter Brianna.
Hazen put himself in position to win with back-to-back birdies on the par-4 11th and 12th holes. He bogeyed the par-4 14th, but birdied the par-5 15th to move to 6-under.
Hazen�s win denied Quincy�s Michael Welch the opportunity to win three tournaments in a row, after capturing titles at the Cape Cod and Vermont Opens. Welch shot a final-round 71 and finished tied for ninth with Brockton�s Matt Parziale, who also shot a 71.
Despite being off his game all three days, Welch remained in contention until his final few holes. He eagled the par-5 15th to go to 2-under for the tournament, but bogeyed the 17th and 18th to fall back to even. Welch said that he struggled to find a rhythm with his putter.
�My speed was terrible all week,� Welch said.
Parziale was 3-over through his first three holes after bogeying the par-4 second and double-bogeying the par-4 third, but he played solidly after that, making two birdies and no bogeys.
Putting also factored into the competition for low amateur, as it helped one local player and hindered another.
Brockton Country Club�s Mike Calef had always been a �look at it and hit it� putter, but recently began using alignment aids to make him more accurate. His new practice approach translated into a very steady tournament, as he shot 70 the first two days and 71 on Wednesday to finish tied for 11th, and share low amateur honors with South Hadley�s Richy Werenski. It�s the second time in three years that Calef has earned at least a tie for low amateur at the Mass. Open. He won the title outright in 2008.
�(In 2008) that was one of my first events back as an amateur (after being pro),� Calef said. �I didn�t know what to expect (back then), and I just went out there and played and that kind of happened. Once you do it once, you know what to expect.
Norwell�s Ben Spitz, a former Massachusetts Amateur champion, credited his putting with his first-round 69. Despite shooting another 69 on Wednesday to finish tied for 14th, he said he wasn�t able to regain his first-round form.
Spitz at least won the family competition, beating older brother Brian, who shot a final | 683 |
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Officials from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet have not briefed Scott Morrison on the QAnon conspiracy theory following the FBI's decision to identify the group as a potential domestic terror threat, and say they are<|fim_middle|> felt we had executed that responsibility appropriately," she said. "I'm not sure there is a broader role the department can take with this issue."
Another departmental official said all three staff employed at the prime minister's Sydney residence had security clearances.
Wong asked Foster whether the department was aware that the Twitter account had been suspended. "I was not aware of that senator," Foster replied.
Labor's Senate leader observed this was curious, given the ban had been reported by both Guardian Australia and News Corp, and "you do a fair bit of media monitoring".
"I do find that surprising," Wong said.
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By Gus Leonisky at 21 Oct 2020 - 8:43am | unaware that Twitter has suspended the account of a family friend of the prime minister.
Labor asked a series of questions in Senate estimates on Tuesday after Twitter confirmed it permanently suspended a QAnon account belonging to a family friend of the prime minister's for "engaging in coordinated harmful activity".
Before the suspension, the owner of the account, Tim Stewart, shared content associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory to his tens of thousands of followers. Stewart's wife works at Kirribilli House.
Labor's Senate leader, Penny Wong, said she wanted to pursue a line of questioning because it was in the public interest to ensure there was no "vector of influence" with Morrison given the "dangerous" suppositions of the "fringe conspiracy movement", and the FBI's concerns.
"It's about transparency," Wong said.
The department's deputy secretary, Stephanie Foster, told the hearing the only association the department had with the issue Wong was prosecuting was to "assist with the employment of a staff member for Kirribilli House".
Foster said all appropriate checks were undertaken to ensure the appointment was suitable, "including the relevant police checks".
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We had 20 people on vacation for a vow renewal and 2 boat trips planned. We did Capri and then Positano. Mario and Luigi were the Captains of the amazing boats that showed up at the doc. 10 people on each boat and there was plenty of room to layout on the front and enjoy the view. Both Mario and Luigi have a very deep knowledge of the history of the Italy and were able answer all our questions. They took us to all the best swimming places where you can see the fish swimming with you and the bottom of the sea. They found the perfect spot for us to chill and tie up the two boats to have lunch. The entire day was beyond perfect. I would highly recommend them if you are in the area.
Mamma Mia Boat Tours was the best time ever. Luigi is a great Captain and was so informative with everything. He was the perfect host on the boat with his service and expertise at all times. He sincerely made every effort to make our day at sea a memorable one. This was my second time using Mamma Mia Boat tours and highly recommend it to anyone wanting to avoid the crowds and have a personal guide to see the wonderful sights of Capri, and the Amalfi coast by boat. He will Taylor your day to all your needs. Simply the best! Thank you Luigi once again for a wonderful time. Rocco and the boys are still talking about their day at sea with you!
The full day boat tour with Mario is definitely the most memorable part of our 10-day Italy trip. Mario, the skipper, showed up with a beautiful/luxurious boat early in the morning and took 9 of us on a journey to remember forever! We had a blast on the boat while touring Amalfi Coast and Island of Capri. The view of the coastline to the blue Mediterranean sea to the crystal clear/clean water to swim in, it was just the perfect trip! Mario also stopped at the picturesque spots for us to take pictures and group pictures. Only one word to describe the entire experience - Wow!!! What an incredible experience and worth every penny spent! Highly recommended and would use Mama Mia again the next time I am visiting the area.
Thank you Ciao Andiamo for arranging this day for us! Carmine and Luigi went above and beyond expectations to provide an unforgettable day around the Amalfi coast and Capri. They took their time and showed us the most amazing sights. Our kids, ages 22, 18 | 820 |
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With this creation Rosas dedicates an evening to the American minimalist Steve Reich. Since the beginning of her career Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has developed an intens relationship with his work. Starting from the minimal – a single choreographic phrase – both De Keersmaeker and Reich succeed in creating a complex and intriguing structure by means of expanding declinations
The programme consists of 2 new creations: Eight Lines and Four organs, that are completed by repertory works: Piano Phase from Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich (1982) and Drumming – Part 1 (1997). The music is performed live bij Ictus.
Danced by and created with
Boštjan Antončič, Tale Dolven, Kosi Hidama, Kaya Kolodziejczyk, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Moya Michael, Elisaveta Penkova, Zsuzsa Rozsavölgyi, Igor Shyshko, Clinton<|fim_middle|>'Après-midi d'un faune by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
The Dark Red Research Project: A New Dance in a Different Museum
Mitten documentary to appear on DVD + Canvas broadcast
The Six Brandenburg Concertos wins the prestigious German Faust Prize
Fase at the K20 museum in Düsseldorf
Rosas & Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker are auditioning male and female dancers for repertory work.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker makes new version of Fase for the K20 museum in Düsseldorf
New version of A Choreographer's Score: Early Works
New book: A Love Supreme
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates work for EUROPALIA ROMANIA 2019
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Steve Reich, György Ligeti
Music performed live by
Ictus Ensemble: Jean-Luc Plouvier (keyboard, piano), Jean-Luc Fafchamps (keyboard, piano), Gerrit Nulens (keyboard, percussion), Georges-Elie Octors (keyboard, percussion), Géry Cambier (percussion), Miquel Bernat (percussion)
Alain Franco
Alexandre Fostier
Remon Fromont
Set and Light design Drumming
Inspired by Jan Versweyveld's original design
Tim Van Steenbergen, Dries Van Noten (Drumming), Rosas (Piano Phase)
Assisted by Anne Catherine Kunz
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It does not happen very often anymore that unreleased music from 50 years ago surfaces. And it's even more unlikely that the songs put on tape are such treasures. But that is exactly what we have here. The Morning Reign was a crowd pleasing band that played throughout the Pacific Northwest during the years between 1966 and 1972. Their journey was peppered with lots of travel, whether they were playing gigs in Crescent City or Aspen, and they also made a gaggle of trips to LA to record, or once, to film a TV appearance. Surprisingly, they have released only four 45rpm singles during their existence although they had recorded enough material for an entire album. However, the songs remained in the can.
This is the story of The Morning Reign, a band of young fellas who could have become famous and mentioned in the same breath as The Doors, Eric Burdon & WAR, and all the other music legends of the Garage-Rock era – if their songs had been released back in the day. Dive in and enjoy the sound of Morning Reign, it is truly special. We here at Perfect Toy Records are thrilled to be the label to finally release their work, and we sincerely hope that they will finally receive the worldwide appreciation they so richly deserve.
In the summer of 1966, before Ric Seaberg would be entering Willamette University In Salem, Oregon, he was slated to attend a new student "campover" orientation that would last for several days. On the very first day he met Gene Heliker, since he had seen him slingin' a guitar around the campground. It took maybe 10 minutes for them to start crooning together and from that day and for the next five years, Gene and Ric would be playing music together.
In time Gene and Ric fell in with Willamette students Craig Chastain and Doug Heatherington. The four formed the nucleus of The Morning Reign, and over the years The Reign experienced several personnel changes, closing 1970 with Gene Heliker on lead guitar and vocals, Doug "Shadow" Heatherington on bass, Craig "Cac" Chastain on rhythm guitar and vocals, Jay Steven "Little Stevie" Tate on drums and vocals, Larry Sieber on organ/keyboards, and Ric Seaberg on guitar and vocals.
They<|fim_middle|>, and writing, arranging and recording original songs.
After having been unreleased for the past 50(!) years, Perfect Toy Records is extremely proud to present these never before heard recordings by Morning Reign to a new audience. We bet you'll love this album and keep listening to it over and over again because you "Can't Get Enough Of It".
The vinyl LP comes in a heavy 1960s-style tip-on cover incl. full album download code as well as a 16 page booklet (8x8") with detailed liner notes and many unpublished photographs. | worked hard, attempting to make a go of it. For several years, with nearly non-stop gigging across the Pacific Northwest and California, even venturing as far as Aspen, Colorado, they each collected a paycheck on Monday, written by their leader and banker, Cac. During their last couple years, with the players mentioned above, they lived in Seattle and practiced almost everyday they weren't on the road, learning covers | 85 |
University of Pennsylvania astronomers<|fim_middle|> window on Walnut Street affords passers-by a visual learning experience as they see astronomers at work. | and a team of international researchers have developed the most highly-sensitive telescope of its kind to be carried by balloon. BLAST: The Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope is helping researchers understand the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies. BKP's design for the High Bay BLAST Research Laboratory provides a place for this work by providing faculty and students with a facility for research, fabrication, and telescope display. Astronomers must carefully construct the telescope in the lab, bringing it outdoors on the steel beam for calibration with the stars, before eventually sending the telescope on its balloon trip; once the telescope returns to Earth, it must be reconstructed in the laboratory before future missions. The new lab is designed to support and accentuate the astronomers' work and the cycle of research and reconstruction inherent with the telescope. The nearly cube-shaped design features a 42′ high ceiling, exposed structural steel framing, and a crane beam and glass sliding doors for moving the BLAST telescope indoors or out. A distinctive showcase | 206 |
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A public address system (PA system) is an electronic system comprising microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers, and related equipment.
It increases the apparent volume (loudness) of a human voice, musical instrument, or other acoustic sound source or recorded sound or music.
PA systems are used in any public venue that requires that an announcer, performer, etc. be sufficiently audible at a distance or over a large area.
Typical applications include sports stadiums, public transportation vehicles and facilities, and live or recorded<|fim_middle|> commonly used as part of an emergency communication system.
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A PA system may include multiple microphones or other sound sources, a mixing console to combine and modify multiple sources, and multiple amplifiers and loudspeakers for louder volume or wider distribution.
Simple PA systems are often used in small venues such as school auditoriums, churches, and small bars.
PA systems with many speakers are widely used to make announcements in public, institutional and commercial buildings and locations—such as schools, stadiums, and passenger vessels and aircraft.
Intercom systems, installed in many buildings, have both speakers throughout a building, and microphones in many rooms so occupants can respond to announcements.
PA and Intercom systems are | 133 |
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City: Ubon Ratchathani
Ubon Ratchathani is one of the northeastern provinces of Thailand. It is one of the four major cities of Isan which is rich in culture and nature. The city is on the Mun River in the south-east of the Isan region of Thailand. The distance from Bangkok is about 630 km. Neighboring provinces are Sisaket, Yasothon, and Amnat Charoen. From Ubon Ratchathani to the north and east, its borders are Salavan and Champasak of Laos, to the south is Preah Vihear of Cambodia. Ubon Ratchathani Province has a tropical wet and dry climate. Winters are dry and very warm. Temperatures rise until April, which is hot with an average daily maximum of<|fim_middle|> enmesh students in the classroom experience.
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English Language Fellow Emily Claypool coached 41 third-year Mahasarakham University students in teaching English as a foreign language, so that the university students could teach English for eight weeks to local primary students.
Students Practice Teaching "On the Road"
Fellow Samuel Kirkland took his English Education majors from Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University "on the road" to conduct an English camp. | 36.4 °C (97.5 °F). The monsoon season runs from late April–October, with heavy rain and somewhat cooler temperatures during the day, although nights remain warm. There are multiple ways to get to Ubon Ratchathani from Bangkok, including public bus from Mochit station, train from Bangkok Railway Station, and aircraft from Don Mueang international airport. For local transportation, there are many local taxis that service the area of Ubon Ratchathani province.
Host Institution: Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University
Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University is a public university which started as a teacher training college more than 100 years ago and is located in the northeastern region of Thailand. The university offers a wide variety of degrees in many disciplines of education, science, technology, health sciences, humanities, and social sciences at both undergraduate and graduate levels. At present, there is an enrollment of over 15,000. The university provides an international standard of study and research instruction. Also, it offers a wide variety of academic services for the nearby communities. The Faculty of Education caters to both undergraduate and graduate students.
The Fellow will teach undergraduate students in the Faculty of Education who are pre-service teachers of English. These courses emphasize teaching methodology, teaching techniques and practices, materials development, assessment and evaluation, syllabus design, and lesson planning.
The Fellow will provide workshops for faculty members and secondary school teachers and students on topics that are considered relevant and important for their professional language development.
The Fellow will give one-on-one English language tutoring /consultation for lecturers, English major students, and non-English major students as requested.
Secondary Duties
The Fellow may be asked to:
Facilitate training workshops for in-service teachers in the area of Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat.
Provide training and workshops for pre-service and in-service English Language teachers across Thailand.
Mentor and train Fulbright English Teaching Assistants (ETAs).
Support the English Access Microscholarship program.
English Language Fellow Gives Workshop on Active Learning
English Language Fellow Jenna Buendia's recent workshop at Burapha University in Bangsaen, Thailand was designed to equip instructors with collaborative activities and games to | 467 |
We celebrated the tenth anniversary of The Gohan Society with a spectacular gala at Sony Club on June 4, 2015. It was<|fim_middle|> methods, ingredients, and styles with top chefs in Ishikawa Prefecture.
Restaurant consultant Barry Wine ran The Quilted Giraffe, an innovative American restaurant that offered one of the first tasting menus in New York City, blending Asian ingredients, Japanese culinary techniques, and Japanese food presentation. In 1994 he created Sony's executive dining club, the space where we held our 10th Anniversary Gala.
Barry Wine has been a great friend of The Gohan Society from the very beginning, so Top Spin put together a video to say thank you!
The last video may be of particular interest to many of you as it is a photo montage of the ten-year history of The Gohan Society. Many of you have been helping The Gohan Society grow this past decade, and you may find yourself in one of the pictures!
If you prefer to view the entire evening in one complete video, we've put the segments into a playlist on our YouTube page.
The Gohan Society would not be what it is today without your support, and we thank you all for sharing this journey. Here's to many more years of culinary and cultural exchange! | a lovely evening where we presented Chef Nobu Matsuhisa and Chef David Bouley with the Washoku Ambassador Awards, introduced our four U.S.-Japan Culinary Exchange Scholarship recipients, and commemorated the designation of WASHOKU to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list.
Thanks to Chef Michael Romano, our Dinner Chairman, and our Dinner Vice Chairperson Ms. Hiroko Onoyama, we were able to share this event with restaurateurs, chefs, and foodies. We were fortunate to have Tim and Nina Zagat as our keynote speakers, and what an honor it was to have UN Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa present Chefs Nobu and Bouley with their awards.
The evening began with a reception featuring fantastic dishes by participating restaurants Bouley, Boulud Sud, Gramercy Tavern, Nobu, Sony Club Sushi Bar, Ippodo, Royce', and Lady M Confections. While sampling these foods guests participated in a silent auction for exciting prizes donated by several members of the culinary community and beyond.
Top Spin, a New York-based video production company, documented this occasion by producing high quality videos so that we can remember the Gala for years to come. We are happy to announce that the video is complete, and Top Spin has uploaded four segments to YouTube, and we'd like to share them with you here.
The primary focus of this event was to introduce the recipients of the U.S.-Japan Culinary Exchange Scholarships, which are made possible through the generous donations by supporters of The Gohan Society.
This year, Erik Battes, Joe Downey-Zayas, Damien Niotis, and Ben Pollinger will travel to Japan from August 29 through September 7 for a once-in-a-lifetime experience to exchange cooking | 359 |
Here is a partial list of Singapore stocks caught in the system's radar for this week. Still mostly from real estate. Fewer number of breakout stocks as compared to last week, probably because STI is nearing the 200MA resistance, which I see as a cross road. If the bull is strong enough, we will see a breakout rally. Otherwise, it would be a reversal and downtrend continues. Also do not forget to check out our system's performance on our main page.
Company descriptions and charts courtesy of Yahoo Finance.
Valuetronics Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, provides integrated electronics manufacturing services (EMS) in the United States, the People's Republic of China, Poland, Canada, the Netherlands, and internationally. It operates through Consumer Electronics (CE), and Industrial and Commercial Electronics (ICE) segments. The company provides EMS services to CE and ICE products covering smart lighting products, printers, temperature sensing devices, communication products, automotive products, and medical equipment.
Genting Singapore Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the development, management, and operation of integrated resort destinations in Asia. Its integrated resort destinations comprise gaming, hospitality, MICE, leisure, and entertainment facilities. The company primarily owns Resorts World Sentosa<|fim_middle|> tax or other advice as it does not take into account the investment objectives, financial situation or particular needs of any specific investor.
Investments based on the signals are subject to investment risks, including the possible loss of the principal amount invested. Share values and income therefrom may fall or rise. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future performance. Advice should be sought from a financial adviser regarding its suitability before purchasing the shares. In the event that you choose not to seek advice from a financial adviser, you should perform your own due diligence to consider whether the investments are suitable for you.
The information herein, including any opinions or forecasts have been obtained from or is based on sources believed by me to be reliable, but I do not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of the same, and expressly disclaims liability for any errors or omissions. As such, any person acting upon or in reliance of these materials does so entirely at his or her own risk. Any projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or performance of countries, markets or companies are not necessarily indicative of, and may differ from, actual events or results. No warranty whatsoever is given and no liability whatsoever is accepted by me, for any loss, arising directly or indirectly, as a result of any action or omission made in reliance of any information, opinion or projection made in this presentation. | , a destination resort, which offers a casino, Adventure Cove Waterpark, S.E.A. Aquarium, Universal Studios Singapore Theme Park, MICE facilities, hotels, Michelin starred restaurants, and specialty retail outlets.
Keppel REIT was listed by way of an introduction on 28 April 2006. It is one of Asia's leading REITs with a young and large portfolio of premium Grade A commercial assets in Singapore's prime business and financial districts. Keppel REIT's objective is to generate stable income and long-term growth for Unitholders by owning and investing in a portfolio of quality income-producing commercial real estate and real estate-related assets in Singapore and pan-Asia.
Note: These stocks are part of the system's watchlist and may or may not eventually be purchased by the system due to various reasons such as risk management, market sentiments etc. Readers are advised to do their own due diligence.
Nice blog. Thanks for the info. I have been keeping watch on these stocks especially Genting.
More Observations on the Treasury Yield Curve. Fasten Your Seatbelt.
The information is provided on a general basis for information purposes only, and is not to be relied on as investment, legal, | 249 |
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Whilst the rear of this couch hints at the Chesterfield, with its rows of tufting, a tuxedo sofa has solution,<|fim_middle|>he thighs which means it'll always lend a processed atmosphere to some space.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bayou Country (1969)
Graham Reid | Sep 1, 2008 | 3 min read
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Proud Mary
Consider the landscape of rock in 1969, the year of Woodstock and flower power. The big names were Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead; Led Zeppelin had arrived with two thumping albums; there were supergroups (Blind Faith, CSN&Young) and Jimi Hendrix was channelling lightning.
Radio had moved to playing album tracks, many long and sprawling, and it wasn't uncommon for an album to have a track that took up the full 20 minute running time of a whole side of vinyl. Iron Butterfly's 17-minute In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida of the previous year had paved the way, and had been a top 30 hit in the US.
In England prog-rock bands such as Genesis were starting to make a name for themselves, David Bowie released Space Oddity, and Pink Floyd were starting to stretch out in marathon pieces.
It was a period of dark acid dreams, very long songs and Mick Jagger reading a poem by Shelley in Hyde Park as a tribute to their late guitarist and founder Brian Jones.
And into this world came a band that seemed to run counter to every known fashion: Creedence Clearwater Revival out of San Francisco who specialised in short sharp rock'n'roll radio songs, sang about the bayou and paddle steamers, and were signed to a jazz label.
The previous year they had scored a radio hit with their long version of the old rockabilly song Suzie Q lifted from their self-titled debut album, but it was with Bayou Country in '69 they established themselves.
Bayou Country - released in January and propelled into public consciousness by the hit Proud Mary - was essentially CCR's live set. It opened with the funky-rock of Born on the Bayou and closed with their boogie-out Keep on Chooglin' which stretched towards the eight-minute mark.
Between times you can hear a band that had perfected its tight sound by playing in garages and then clubs, a band that had abandoned any attempt at the British sound which had forged so many American groups of the mid 60s, and had struck out into an imagined America that singer-songwriter John Fogerty conjured up in three minute songs.
"Rock'n'roll is Southern," California-raised Fogerty has said, "and that's why I'm Southern. Because what I learned from was Southern."
Bayou Country bristles with musical ideas drawn from that Southern well, but also harks back to a rock'n'roll past which was rapidly receding and being written over by other bands in '69: CCR cover Little Richards' throat-searing rocker Good Golly Miss Molly, and Graveyard Train acknowledges bluesman Howlin' Wolf. And of course it included the as-near-as-perfect Proud Mary.
Born on the Bayou has been hailed as an early example of swamp rock and became one of many CCR signature songs
"I didn't want Bayou Country to be a concept album," said Fogerty last year, "I just wanted to be in this place, and I knew I was a a-hold of something with those songs [Proud Mary, Born on the Bayou and Bootleg] . . . That album really stated who we were, like Nirvana with Nevermind. After Bayou Country I began to feel I had the freedom, or the power, to do what I wanted to do."
Someone once said that if you can recognise a singer or guitarist from the first few seconds they will probably be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame -- and CCR were inducted in '93.
Between their peak period in the early 70s and then however the band had fallen apart in disarray and lawsuits, and for decades John Fogerty refused to play the hits that had made his name.
It would be unfair however to characterise CCR as exclusively Fogerty's vehicle because that skin-tight sound from his brother Tom (guitar), bassist Stu Cook and drummer Doug Clifford was an essential part of the group's sound and success.
"Bayou Country is my favourite Creedence album," said Cook some years ago, "because we had played those songs live and because we were still a band."
And ironically, a band that seemed to be going in exactly the opposite direction to most others in '69.
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In William's first book A MAN'S GOT TO HAVE A HOBBY he wrote about family life in the 1960s with humour, affection and honesty. WORSE THINGS HAPPEN AT SEA does the same for family life in 2000s; written by William and Sarah in a way that many Australians can relate to and enjoy. This book celebrates the wonderful, messy, haphazard things in life - bringing home babies from hospital, being a friend, a parent, son or daughter, and dog obedience classes. It's about living for twenty years in the family home, raising children there, chasing angry rabbits around the backyard, renovations that never end. It is also about understanding that sometimes you have to say goodbye; that is part of life too. Illustrated throughout with Sarah Watt's photographs of family life and beautiful but everyday objects.
Worse Things Happen at Sea is about families, suburbs and homes, friends, love and day to day life written by bestselling author William McInnes and award winning filmmaker, photographer and animator Sarah Watt.
William McInnes is established in his ability both as a columnist and author in writing pieces that celebrate life whilst encompassing the wide emotions<|fim_middle|> fine art at the Phillip Institute, Melbourne, and is an AFI award-winning filmmaker who has been working as a writer, director and producer for over twenty years. Her films have won major international awards, including at the Venice, and Toronto film festivals. Her work is represented in the permanent collection at MOMA, New York. She has recently also completed the children s picture book, 'Clem Always Could'. William and Sarah collaborated on the acclaimed film Look Both Ways. They live in Melbourne with their two children. | and situations being human can bring. His bestselling titles are 'A Man's Got To Have A Hobby', 'Cricket Kings', That'd Be Right', and 'The Making of Modern Australia'. Sarah Watt investigates the same themes in her films and writing. She studied | 53 |
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> HackathonManager is a full-service tool to run your hackathon from start to finish.
Documentation<|fim_middle|> communication as needed
7. (post-event) -- Analyze data to observe trends to act on for next year (pre-generated graphs or custom queries via SQL)
| to get you started:
- [Timeline of a hackathon](#timeline)
- [Questionnaires](questionnaires.md)
- [Messages](messages.md)
- [Bus Lists](busses.md)
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## Timeline of a hackathon
HackathonManager helps with every step along the way.
1. (many months before) -- Website goes up advertising event coming soon
2. (months before) -- Attendee applications open
3. (weeks to month before) -- Acceptance emails go out, RSVPs begin, bus sign-ups begin
4. (weeks leading up to event) -- Emails to communicate logistics as needed
5. (day-of event) -- Check-in attendees as they arrive at the venue
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Destructive Fire in 1838 Renewed<|fim_middle|>——. | Interest in the Formation of a Fire Company
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On Monday morning, February 26, [1838], about half past four in the morning, the citizens of Bloomington were roused from their sleep by the ringing of bells and cries of fire. It was soon ascertained that the fire was in the frame buildings owned by G. R. Johnson and occupied by Mr. Jonathan Legg as a store, Drs. Foster and Ballard as an office and S. T. Hardesty as a tailor shop. By the time anyone noticed the fire, it had made considerable progress. The flames spread so rapidly that it was nearly impossible to save anything. The valuable medical library of Drs. Foster and Ballard was destroyed by fire together with all the account books and notes of the county library, they being in the possession of Dr. Ballard as the treasurer.
A postcard from the early 1900s shows a horse-drawn fire engine on the way to a fire. Unfortunately, in 1838, a vehicle like this did not exist.
From these buildings the flames spread and destroyed the two-story, log house of Mrs. Batterton located nearby. The house, nearly 20 years old, was separated by a narrow alley from the large, two-story brick hotel occupied by Mr. John Hyndman. For a time it seemed likely that the hotel would be destroyed, but through the great exertions of Bloomington citizens, it was prevented from taking fire.
From the nearest estimate that can be made, the following losses were sustained: Johnson–$5,500; Legg, $2,200; Foster & Ballard, $9,000; Mrs. Batterton, $1,000; Hardesty, $100; and Hunter and Williams, $100.
Previous to this fire, there had been only one other fire of such magnitude during the past 15 years. At that time, because Bloomington had no fire company, engine, buckets or fire hooks, little could be done except to watch as flames consumed buildings and property. Soon after the fire there was interest in the formation of a fire company. With time, however, interest waned and in 1838 Bloomington was in the same predicament.
With the recent destructive fire, interest in a fire company was renewed. A decision was made to levy a tax on all improved real estate within the limits of the corporation for the purpose of funding a fire company. Additionally, citizens with considerable capital invested in goods or anything that could be destroyed by fire were encouraged to purchase insurance such as that available from J. B. Barnes of Bloomington, an authorized agent for the Indiana Mutual Fire Insurance Company.
Information for this blog was taken from the March 2, 1838, issue of the Bloomington Post (page 3) available online at https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=BP18380302&e=11-11-1918-12-11-1918–en-20-BDT-1–txt-txIN-war | 686 |
A trip to the mountains despite a heart condition?
A team of experts, led by Gianfranco Parati, cardiologist of the University of Milano-Bicocca and Head of the Department of Cardiology of the Istituto Auxologico in Milan, has sought to provide answers and recommendations for those potentially at risk. Gianfranco and esteemed colleagues have evaluated numerous studies related to the expected effects of high altitude exposure (exceeding 2,500 m above sea-level) on those individuals suffering from prevalent cardiovascular diseases. As a result of this detailed research, clinical recommendations for high altitude exposure in individuals with pre-existing cardiovascular conditions have been recently published in the renowned European Heart Journal. Also contributing to this study was Hermann Brugger, Head of the Eurac Research Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, who welcomes this rigorous scientific approach to informing clinical recommendations for the mountain environment.
"But these patients don't have to rule out a<|fim_middle|>. | hike in the mountains completely, except in the case of very serious heart diseases," explains Hermann Brugger, emergency physician at the Eurac Research Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine and President of the International Society for Mountain Medicine. "There are still lots of activities they can do, provided they follow the relevant guidelines, and in the best case scenario this activity could even lead to a general improvement in their health."
"A consultation with the doctor who is treating the patient is essential before they expose themselves to high altitudes. The doctor will assess the cardiovascular risk factors and tailor these new recommendations to the patient's overall health status. Of course, some difficulties may only manifest themselves when actually in the mountains," says Gianfranco Parati, who led the analysis.
Continuing to take the correct medication is also of fundamental importance, say Parati and Brugger. "Medications which lower blood pressure, frequently also have a diuretic effect, eliminating excess salt and water in the blood, which in turn reduces blood volume and thereby lowers blood pressure. However, caution is advisable with taking such medications while in the mountains: with increased exertion and higher rates of transpiration the body loses more fluid, and the danger of dehydration is ever present."
For patients who follow all the recommendations, a mountain hike can have a positive effect on the progress of their disease, slowing it down and in many cases halting it altogether. "A mountain hike also has a positive effect on the psychological well-being of cardiovascular patients. The knowledge that despite cardiovascular disease they have retained a degree of freedom and independence increases the patients' self-confidence and well-being," explains Brugger | 332 |
I didn't own a bible until I was 17 years old, at least not to my knowledge. That's when a lady named Sue, who happened to be my boss at the local gym, decided to give me one as a graduation gift. Sue gave me much more than a Bible. Let me explain: I worked the 5am-9am shift prior to attending my last<|fim_middle|> "much faith." Let me assure you that this doesn't imply perfection, it simply implies changing your focal point from yourself to Jesus. When our eyes are fixed upon Him, we are empowered to love as He loves, serve as He serves, and gives as He gives. I don't want to waste my life. I want to invest it. Every day, each of us have 86,400 seconds that we lose at midnight if we don't invest them. In light of the cost, I urge you to invest every second into serving those around you with all your might. You'll never regret a moment you served another. | semester of high school. Many mornings Sue would call my phone around 5:05am and whisper quietly, as if not to disturb my beauty sleep, "Josh, are you planning on coming in to work this morning?" Not only did she demonstrate extreme grace in this scenario, but when I arrived she would have a bowl of oatmeal and a bible open on the table ready to invest time and energy into feeding my body and soul. Needless to say, she served a weakhearted 17 year old young man and for some reason thought she needed to pay me for it. That is a clear a picture of the servanthood of Jesus.
Many times we think worship is simply standing at a church and lifting our hands towards God, and that is, in fact, a powerful aspect of our worship and serving the Lord. However, the worship that was offered to God in that gym from Sue's attitude as a servant towards me seems to have a special life-giving fragrance to the Lord.
Sue wrote a D.L. Moody quote in the front cover of the bible she gave me that I'll never forget: "A little faith in Jesus Christ will bring your soul to heaven, but much faith in Jesus Christ will bring heaven to your soul." I've discovered that although mustard-seed faith is sufficient to learn how to love and serve God, it takes "much faith" to learn how to love and serve our neighbors. Living a consistent life that serves others, both inside and outside the church walls, is the challenge of life with Christ. Serving and giving are twins. Both came from a place of generosity and an overflow of what's been sacrificed for us.
Up to the point that Sue entered my life, I had been simply been spending (versus investing) my life. I then chose to be baptized in Jesus Christ. I chose to invest my life into His Kingdom. This little country kid from Arkansas has seen a few things since that day. When you start investing your life into the Kingdom, Heaven comes to your soul. Joy fills your life like never before.
What has been entrusted to me?
What am I going to do with what's been entrusted to me?
Maybe it's time to move from "little faith" to | 455 |
An overpayment is any amount of Housing Benefit or<|fim_middle|>payment is payable. | Council Tax Reduction (or both) which we paid you or your landlord when you were not entitled to get it.
When overpayments occur, we look in to the reasons why and decide if we can recover the money and who we can recover it from.
You may have forgotten to tell us that your income has increased, for example, you have had a pay rise or your tax credit award or pension amount has changed.
Somebody may have moved into, or out of, your home.
You may have moved out of your home and not told us.
You may have started work or changed jobs.
If you have other adults living with you, their circumstances may have changed.
Your Income Support (IS) or Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) ended.
Even if you have told the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) about any changes, you must still tell us and not rely on anyone else to do it for you.
Fill out your Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Support application form as fully as possible so that we can work out your entitlement accurately.
If we ask you for more information, please send what we ask for without delay. Only send original documents, not photocopies.
Read your decision letter carefully. Check that the information we have based your Housing Benefit and/or Council Tax Support on is correct. If we have made a mistake, or used the wrong information, please tell us immediately.
Please tell us about any changes in your circumstances as soon as they happen.
If you have been overpaid Housing benefit we may (in some circumstances) be able to reduce the overpayment by calculating underlying entitlement to benefit.
This is not an award of benefit, but a calculation of what you would have been entitled to had the council assessed your Housing Benefit with the correct information. This happens automatically in some cases, but in other situations you have to apply to us.
You receive an increase in your income but forget to tell us until your next claim is due for review. When we assess your claim, we include the increased income from the date it changed, and you are notified how much benefit you have been overpaid. In this example you have already had your underlying entitlement calculated, because we know what your circumstances were for this period and are able to calculate the underlying entitlement automatically.
There are times when we do not know what your circumstances were. In this case, if your entitlement to income based job seekers allowance (JSA) stops, and the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) tell us that you have not been entitled to JSA for the last six months, we have to stop your Housing Benefit from that date and work out how much you have been overpaid since your JSA stopped. However, if you told us that the reason behind your JSA stopping was the fact that you had started work, we could calculate if you would still have been entitled to some Housing Benefit during the overpaid period. This is called your underlying entitlement. The underlying entitlement would then reduce the overpayment. In this situation you would have to apply to us. Any remaining balance would then be recovered in the normal way.
Please provide proof of all income, capital and circumstances during the overpaid period(s). You do not need to complete a new form for the overpaid period, but you will have to for the new benefit period.
If you do not apply for underlying entitlement, the whole of the over | 689 |
Our preventive medicine program helps keep your pets healthy by preventing future illnesses. An annual or biannual visit can help prevent diseases, nutrition issues<|fim_middle|> of you, by helping you feel comfortable while your pet receives personalized care in our Montreal and South Shore animal hospitals.
Our team takes the time to understand your needs so that we can offer your pet the most appropriate treatment, always taking your wishes into account. | , and symptoms of aging before urgent care is needed.
Your pet's dental care is not something that should be taken lightly. In fact, neglecting your pet's teeth can cause serious health problems down the line.
In order to adequately treat your pets, we need to start off by knowing what they're suffering from.
We have created this blog in order to better inform our clientele with up-to-date information.
Your Pet's Health Has Been Our Main Priority for Over 20 Years. Our mission is to make sure your pets are healthy and happy through high-quality medical care. We also strive to take care | 122 |
Well things are in full swing here at The Playhouse. I Am My Own Wife is up and running, playing to sold out crowds, and rehearsals are well underway for our next show The Importance Of Being Earnest. I have the distinct pleasure of<|fim_middle|> back. He is such a funny man to begin with, then add a dress, a very funny voice,and the rapier wit of Wilde and I am thrilled to stand to the side and watch until I am called upon to bring tea.
So, all signs are pointing to yes as Kristen, the cast, and the crew tackle this very funny play. And as far as this eye-twitching, stuttering, limping, lisping, butler is concerned, I couldn't be happier. | playing two small but very fun roles in this production. I am having quite a good time discovering these characters, finding ways to differentiate them (an eye twitch and a stutter have already been shot down; I suppose our director Kristen Coury is looking for a little subtlety). But mostly I am delighting in sitting back and watching this wonderful group of actors create their characters and discover the hilarity that still jumps right off the page of this 118 year old play.
Kristen Coury has put together an incredible cast of actors from New York and Los Angeles and they are bringing their considerable talents to bear on this play. Since I have relatively small parts, just like a butler from the Victorian era, I can stand on the edge of the room and observe the wonderful work being done. Wilde's witty dialogue is popping in their very capable hands and there are lots of laughs ringing through the rehearsal hall. Not to single anyone out, because all the work is absolutely inspiring, but watching Nick Ullett trot about in a rehearsal skirt and take on the battle-axe-of-a-roll, Lady Bracknell, is a particular joy for me. I had the pleasure of working with Nick in a repertory season at Shakespeare Santa Cruz a few years | 254 |
Willie Nelson performing in New Orleans<|fim_middle|> letter written by John Lennon that was sent to Jennings. | on April 23th, 1999.
In one of the more unusual music-related items to hit the auction block since John Lennon's tooth, Willie Nelson's trademark braids were sold to the highest bidder for $37,000. Nelson's braids were just one of over 2,000 items up for sale at an auction of the late outlaw country icon Waylon Jennings' estate. The sale was staged by Guernsey's auction house and conducted at the Museum of Musical Instruments in Jennings' native Phoenix, Arizona.
According to Reuters, the braids – snipped when Nelson still had red hair – were gifted to Jennings at a party thrown by June and Johnny Cash in 1983 to celebrate Jennings' sobriety. The buyer of Nelson's braids was not revealed. Other items at the Jennings estate auction included handwritten lyrics, Muhammad Ali boxing gloves and robe, a pair of Hank Williams' Nudie cowboy boots and a | 201 |
Telescopic springs – also known as spiral springs or spring guards – have been developed to protect against accidents and mechanical damage wherever there are rotating parts, such as spindles or shafts. They are designed to follow the motion of the machine by spring force. Some of these springs can also be retrofitted<|fim_middle|> of the springs to allow these to turn. The springs must be able to move freely and must not be fixed. The mounting sleeve and centering flange are not normally supplied with the springs. These flanges can be supplied as optional accessories.
Spring guards are easy to mount. A collar on one side and a pilot on the other are entirely sufficient. The springs must be able to move freely in them. They must not be fixed. If you wish to use a pilot and a collar, you should make allowance for the space needed. In other words, the inside diameter of the spring (D1) should in this case be chosen slightly larger, to make sure that the spring will fit over the pilot.
Telescopic springs are supplied tied down with wire. Caution: Springs are highly tensioned! Risk of injury! Be sure to follow the instructions, which are also supplied with the springs.
Dimensional Check: The spring will reach normal operating values after about 20 motion cycles. Only then is exact measurement of the inside diameter D1 (only at maximum extension) and the outside diameter D2 possible.
The springs are maintenance-free. Depending on the degree of soiling, we recommend daily or weekly cleaning, followed by the application of a thin film of oil. Special oil spray can be supplied by us. Telescopic Springs should NEVER be greased! | .
Sizes: Presently, more than 1000 different standard sizes are available. See literature for sizes.
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Intended to cover a spindle or ball screw on a machine tool. Compatible with oil.
Abrasive particles tend to find their way between the coils. Therefore, for grinding dust, we recommend a fabric bellows cover as an alternative method of protection.
Where coolants with a high water content are regularly used, we recommend telescopic springs made of stainless steel. These, however, have less spring force and can therefore not be made in all sizes.
Telescopic springs are wound differently for different mounting positions (horizontal or vertical), their extension (Lmax horizontal or Lmax vertical) depending on size. Please select the desired spring from our catalog and be sure to specify in your order whether you want H or V, so that we will make the right type of spring.
Horizontal mounting position: telescopic springs designed for horizontal use have greater overlap of coils than springs for vertical use to avoid "sagging". The larger diameter should be where most chips occur.
Vertical and diagonal mounting position: due to the high extension forces involved, these springs (which act against the force of gravity) require greater extended length than horizontal telescopic springs. The larger diameter should be at the top. This avoids dirt from falling into the coils and has a self-cleaning effect.
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The last time we encountered Ulises Conti was four years ago, with the release of a playful piano "sound alphabet" ~ one song for each letter, with a couple bonuses thrown in. On Los efimeros, he's changed his style so drastically that at first we didn't recognize him. Only after the craftsmanship is revealed ~ and the title translated ("the ephemeral ones") ~ do we start to peer beneath the disguise and glean hints of his identity. The polymorph's prior projects have included "<|fim_middle|> poem, which Conti imitates in his composition. In the hands of a lesser composer, such intelligence might come across as showy or dry; in this case, the deliberation is calm, even pensive. This feeling deepens in the "Taps"-referencing "Lies," which feels like an overcoat at a cold funeral. | soundtracks, soundwalks and concerts for an audience of one." This time around, he's produced a dramatic work for a 15-piece orchestra of French horn, harp, viola and bassoon: not a piano, bell or choir in sight. The cover is perhaps unnecessary; we know this is composed. It serves to highlight Conti's strength at the cost of any aesthetic appeal. One can judge this album by its cover.
Sustained phrases are a key to Conti's work here. Elements are introduced in turn, given their space in the sonic field, build upon build with occasional drops. Slowly, slowly, the drama develops, making its first big emotional impact in "Virelay." The title refers to a medieval style of French | 156 |
Edgar Hernandez lasted eight innings for the Tigers Thursday night.
When the game that felt endless finally ended, Martin stormed the field and tackled its hero, Kenny Salas.
With two outs and two runners on in the bottom of the 11th inning, Salas notched the walk off — scoring Bryan Aguilar off a Mission Veterans Memorial error to first base — giving the Tigers a 3-2 victory over the Patriots Thursday night at Veterans Field to open the second round of district play.
The game was tied at 1<|fim_middle|> other local action Thursday night, both Cigarroa and Nixon lost.
The fourth-place Toros(9-13, 5-4 District 31-5A) fell to Sharyland Pioneer (5-4) at Freddie Benavides Field to begin the second round. Senior ace Freddy Flores was the losing pitcher with 10 strikeouts and allowed two runs on five hits.
Genaro Cardenas led Cigarroa in the loss with a hit in three at-bats with an RBI. Julian Flores and Felipe Cervantes also recorded hits.
Late Thursday, the Mustangs (5-17-1, 0-9 District 31-5A) fell to the Roma Gladiators (3-6) 4-2 at Veterans field for their sixth straight loss. Leo Lopez went 2-for-3 with a run to lead Nixon.
LISD rivals Cigarroa and Nixon square off Monday at Veterans at 7 p.m. | through six innings, but four scoreless innings followed to set up the battle in the 11th. Mission Veterans scored a run in the top half off an RBI single to take the 2-1 lead. Then a single from Martin's Aguilar drove home the tying run in the bottom, and Salas capped it off with a walk-off grounder.
Junior Jesus Escalante went 3-for-5 to lead Martin in hits Thursday, while Salas and Abelardo Cortez added two apiece. Ricardo De La Cruz was the winning pitcher, giving up one earned run on two hits while striking out one batter in three innings of relief.
Mission Vets (3-6 District 31-5A), the reigning District 31-5A champions, routed the Tigers by 10 runs in both matchups last season — cruising to a 10-0 and 12-2 wins, respectively. But Thursday's game was a bottlenecked affair that lasted three and a half hours.
The Tigers (11-10, 4-5) had the opportunity to win in the seventh with the game tied at 1. After an error brought a Patriots' runner to first base to lead off the inning, Martin rebounded by recording a huge double play en route to a quick end to the top the inning. But it couldn't close in the bottom. Jose Gonzalez flied out to lead off for the Tigers and Mission Veterans later secured two outs on an Escalante fly to right field.
After two extra innings of jostling back and forth, the Tigers had another shot to clinch the game in the bottom of the 10th. With the Tigers in scoring position on second and third base, Villafranca couldn't convert — his fly ball to left field on a 1-2 count with two outs was caught.
The Patriots scored first Thursday night.
With the bases loaded in the third inning, Edgar Hernandez (8 IP, 6 Ks, 4 H, R)— who started the game at pitcher for Martin — walked Mission Veterans' Gio Grimaldo to score Alfonso Perez puting the visitors up 1-0.
Martin tied the game at 1 late in the bottom of the sixth inning. With two outs, senior Jason Maldonado slapped a single down the third-base line to get Kenny Salas to third. And a Patriots' mishap on an infield fly from Erick Guerrero scored Salas.
With the victory, Martin breaks its tiebreaker with the Patriots and moves up to sixth place from seventh in District 31-5A. The Tigers will next play at Rio Grande City on Monday at 6 p.m.
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Interest Story One: Royal Blind Charity Creates Video about Mindfulness
Interest Story Two: Dementia vs. Alzheimer's: Which Is It?
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Greetings to all,
I hope everyone is staying relatively cool. My neighbor, Marsh, who grew up in West Texas tells me it's "Hotter than a fur coat in Marfa." Anyone who has lived in this great state of ours knows that Texas had four seasons; drought, flood, blizzard, and twister. Sometimes they happen all happen at once. Talking about heat, the ACB Texas conference is heating up. There's still time to register so don't delay. The registration and payments are due September 10th. Register online or download the form on the ACB Texas website at http://www.acbtexas.org/2018%20Conference/2018%20conference.html
We had a great time at our annual picnic this year. You missed out on some good entertainment if you weren't there. Don<|fim_middle|> June 25, 2018
Article link: https://www.aarp.org/health/dementia/info-2018/difference-between-dementia-alzheimers.html
Doctors usually rely on observation and ruling out other factors to diagnose Alzheimer's.
The terms "dementia" and "Alzheimer's" have been around for more than a century, which means people have likely been mixing them up for that long, too. But knowing the difference is important. While Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia (accounting for an estimated 60 to 80 percent of cases), there are several other types. The second most common form, vascular dementia, has a very different cause — namely, high blood pressure. Other types of dementia include alcohol-related dementia, Parkinson's dementia and frontotemporal dementia; each has different causes as well. In addition, certain medical conditions can cause serious memory problems that resemble dementia.
A correct diagnosis means the right medicines, remedies and support. For example, knowing that you have Alzheimer's instead of another type of dementia might lead to a prescription for a cognition-enhancing drug instead of an antidepressant. Finally, you may be eligible to participate in a clinical trial for Alzheimer's if you've been specifically diagnosed with the disease.
In the simplest terms, dementia is a nonreversible decline in mental function.
It is a catchall phrase that encompasses several disorders that cause chronic memory loss, personality changes or impaired reasoning, Alzheimer's disease being just one of them, says Dan G. Blazer, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center.
To be called dementia, the disorder must be severe enough to interfere with your daily life, says Constantine George Lyketsos, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Memory and Alzheimer's Treatment Center in Baltimore.
Alzheimer's:
It is a specific disease that slowly and irreversibly destroys memory and thinking skills.
Eventually, Alzheimer's disease takes away the ability to carry out even the simplest tasks.
A cure for Alzheimer's remains elusive, although researchers have identified biological evidence of the disease: amyloid plaques and tangles in the brain. You can see them microscopically, or more recently, using a PET scan that employs a newly discovered tracer that binds to the proteins. You can also detect the presence of these proteins in cerebral spinal fluid, but that method isn't used often in the U.S.
How it's diagnosed
A doctor must find that you have two or three cognitive areas in decline.
These areas include disorientation, disorganization, language impairment and memory loss. To make that diagnosis, a doctor or neurologist typically administers several mental-skill challenges.
In the Hopkins verbal learning test, for example, you try to memorize then recall a list of 12 words — and a few similar words may be thrown in to challenge you. Another test — also used to evaluate driving skills — has you draw lines to connect a series of numbers and letters in a complicated sequence.
There's no definitive test; doctors mostly rely on observation and ruling out other possibilities.
For decades, diagnosing Alzheimer's disease has been a guessing game based on looking at a person's symptoms. A firm diagnosis was not possible until an autopsy was performed.
But that so-called guessing game, which is still used today in diagnosing the disease, is accurate between 85 and 90 percent of the time, Lyketsos says. The new PET scan can get you to 95 percent accuracy, but it's usually recommended only as a way to identify Alzheimer's in patients who have atypical symptoms.
**DACB Trivia
By Becky Collier, A Brief history of the Dallas Chapter. Compiled by Ted Harper
Answers at the end.
What year did the Dallas chapter form?
Who was the first president of the chapter?
Ronald Regan
Richard Villa
Rosanne Barr
How many times had the Dallas chapter hosted the ACB National Convention?
Location of the chapter's first official meeting?
El Fenix in Garland
Dallas Light House for the Blind
Circle Grill in Dallas
Warren Airplane hangar in Addison
Which month and year was the Big D News newsletter first published?
Officially formed in 1990
Twice, 2012 and 2015
Warren Airplane hangar in Addison. Actually the chapter has held meetings at each location.
**Technology Connor
GE's Scan-to-Cook Microwave
By Bruce Brown. Digital Trends Home Section. July 17 2018
Article link: https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/ge-smart-countertop-microwave-scan-to-cook-technology/#/2
On Wednesday, July 18, GE will begin selling an Alexa-aware countertop microwave with scan-to-cook technology. To sweeten the deal, for a limited time the company is bundling an Amazon Echo Dot with the GE Smart Countertop Microwave.
According to GE, the scan-to-cook feature will help vast numbers of consumers who never use their microwave ovens' presets, defrost, or power settings. Owners will simply use their smartphone camera to scan food packaging barcode from the GE Appliances Kitchen app. If the app recognizes the food item, it will send the correct cooking instructions to the microwave. At launch, the app will be preprogrammed with settings for more than 3,000 frozen, refrigerated, and shelf food items, with more items added over time.
"GE Appliances' research shows consumers don't use the full capabilities of their microwaves and stick to a few buttons and time cook," Shawn Stover, vice president of GE Appliances' SmartHome Solutions, said in a statement. "With our new GE microwave scan-to-cook technology, your son or daughter can head off to college and cook food with the help of their phone instead of relying on mom."
**What's Cooking:
Recipe from Christine Wasik
16 ounce Angel Food Cake (1 box)
22 ounce lemon pie filling (1 can)
Preheat oven to 350 F degrees. Line a deep 9×13 inch baking pan with parchment paper. In a large bowl, empty the contents of the box of angel food cake and to it add the lemon pie filling. Whisk it until it's well incorporated. Pour the batter in the baking pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes. I baked mine closer to 40 minutes, at 30 minutes it was not yet done. In a pinch use foil to line pan.
Editor's note: Have you been cooking? Share your favorite recipe with us.
**Chapter Meeting Location
Our chapter meets the third Saturday of every month from noon until 2:00 p.m. Currently we meet at JJ's Café located at 10233 E Northwest Hwy, Dallas, TX 75238. Phone: 214 221-4659, located in a strip mall called North Lake Center. Please be aware that the restaurant encourages you to eat in the main dining room and then move into the meeting room. Make sure you ask for your order ticket to be given directly to you when the wait staff delivers your meal. When you're done, you pay at the front. Some members have voiced concerns that this arrangement is unnecessarily complicate. Leadership is working with the restaurant to smooth everything out. Patience is required during this transition.
We are always looking for new restaurants that have meeting space. Forward your suggestions to any officer.
**Facebook
Did you know DACB has a Facebook page? Don't forget to like us on Facebook. Tell others that they can like us on Facebook for up-to-the-minute news and updates. https://www.facebook.com/dallasacb
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©2021 - Dallas Area Council of the Blind Online - Weaver Xtreme Theme | 't worry if you missed out because our Christmas part this year will be even better. Our chapter expresses its sincere appreciation to the friends of Bruce Cowart. They raised $1095 for our chapter. This donation came from the heart because Bruce Cowart was a longtime friend of theirs and a former member of our chapter. I'd really like to see more members attend our regular meetings. We've been having some great speakers lately. That's it for this time- stay cool.
Ted Harper
President, Dallas Area Council of the Blind
**News from the ACBT 2018 Spring Board Meeting
Excerpt from Notes from the Secretary. Mary Alice Gary. Texas Star 2018.
The ACBT Spring Board Meeting was held April 28, 2018. For those of you who love Austin and have been asking to have ACBT Conferences held in a central location, here's great news! Ask and you shall receive! Austin, beginning in 2019, is going to host the ACBT Conference/Convention for 3 consecutive years, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Mark your calendars, because August is the month all 3 Conferences will take place. Yes, August in Austin, beginning in 2019. The dates for 2019 are August 15 to 18, for 2020, August 27 to 30, and finally for 2021, August 26 to 29. ACBT Spring Board Meetings are to be held on the last Saturday in April during each of these years. Plan to attend for a fun time in Austin in 2019.
**ACBT 2018 Conference
The American Council of the Blind of Texas (ACBT) will hold its 40th annual Conference/Convention Thursday, September 20 through Sunday, September 23 at the Houston Marriott Westchase 2900 Briarpark Drive Houston TX 77042. Phone: (713) 978-7400 or (800) 228-9290.
The American Council of the Blind of Texas, Inc. (ACBT) and the Houston Council of the Blind, Inc. (HCB) will unite in celebration of their joint 40th anniversaries during the ACBT Conference/Convention. The theme is "Celebrating the Past and Preparing for the Future." Make hotel reservations by dialing (800) 452-5110 and provide the code "ACB" to ensure that you receive the accurate rate.
Registration forms and payments are due by September 10, 2018.
To learn more please visit www.acbtexas.org/main_index.html
**Interest Story One
Royal Blind Charity Creates Video about Mindfulness
By Paul Cardwell, Third Force News, UK, March 3 2016
Article link: http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/royal-blind-charity-creates-video-about-mindfulness
Visual impairment charity, Royal Blind has created a documentary about techniques used by the Royal Blind School in Edinburgh to help pupils deal with the stresses of everyday life. The school has created a tailored and structured program for each of its pupils which use mindfulness to help them relax. Narrated by drama teacher Aine Murphy, one of the minds behind the new program alongside mindfulness trainer Stan Godek, it explains how mindfulness has had a "big impact" on the pupils.
"Our pupils have a lot of stresses throughout the day, whether it's transitioning from one class to another, or whether something unexpected happens or they are worrying about their exams," she explains. "Sometimes these stresses get too much to manage, so mindfulness helps our young people to find strategies to be able to deal with that. Pupils are a lot more aware of breathing to calm down or using different strategies to calm down in moments of stress."
Godek, who has authored a book on the topic, Mindfulness Techniques for Children and Young People – a Practical Guide, published by Children in Scotland, based his work with the Royal Blind School last year.
He said: "Changes in the children's behavior and learning were sometimes quite dramatic and in other cases occurred slowly, over a lengthy period of time. We saw improvements in the children's understanding of themselves and why they behaved in certain ways; a lessening of anxiety levels; a better understanding of why they got angry about certain things and what to do to change this; improvements in self-esteem; increased understanding of how their behavior affects other people; increased levels of empathy and compassion for others; an increase in concentration levels, in listening skills and in the ability to pay attention in the classroom."
Mindfulness is the act of paying more attention to the present moment, to your own thoughts and feelings and your environment in order to improve your mental wellbeing. At the Royal Blind School, Murphy, Godek and teacher Caren Bryce developed a mindfulness program with an educational and psychological basis. Staff introduced materials to exercises, bringing different textures, sounds and smells such as fur, feathers, water, sand, peppermint oil, and leaves – even jelly, as an aid to story-telling and as sensory stations for pupils to quietly explore. The program also involved Tai Chi, focusing on breathing and controlled movements, outside in the school grounds where possible. It is now being furthered to develop the students' sense of empathy and compassion.
Murphy added: "Through working with Stan we've realized the importance of look at people's moods, how they control their emotions, what their emotions are, having power over themselves and also awareness of other young people – empathy."
**Interest Story Two
Dementia vs. Alzheimer's: Which Is It? How to understand the difference — and why it matter
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El Casal de Cuní és una obra del municipi d'Olot protegida com a bé cultural d'interès local.
Descripció
Està ubicat prop de la carretera d'Olot a la Canya. És de planta rectangular i teulat a dues aigües, amb els vessants vers les façanes laterals. Disposa de baixos, dos pisos i golfes. Va ser bastit amb pedra volcànica i carreus ben tallats per fer els cantoners i algunes de les obertures. Al costat de<|fim_middle|> la casa. Segons Francisco Fontfreda, autor de l'article dedicat a la capella de Nostra Senyora de l'Esperança, els senyors de Cuní varen tenir un paper important en la reconstrucció de l'ermita i sempre en tingueren cura.
Per l'estructura arquitectònica, l'actual fàbrica sembla de finals del , bastida sobre una construcció anterior.
Referències
Patrimoni monumental d'Olot
Edificis d'Olot | la casa hi ha diverses edificacions per guardar les eines del camp. A l'interior encara es conserva mobiliari d'època.
Història
No hi ha notícies històriques de | 51 |
METAL INDICATOR SPECIES, METAL TOLERANCE, METAL UPTAKE
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallophyte
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoremediation
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoextraction_process
http://hyperaccumulators.smi.uq.edu.au/collection
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.14907
https://forbes.com/could-we-be-farming-rather-than-mining-metals
https://newphytologist.org/heavy-metal-hyperaccumulators-plants-clean-up
https://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0716-078X2004000100014
Metallophytes in Latin America / Revista Chilena de Historia Natural / 2004
"…Second, metallophytes endemic to areas of well-defined soil composition have been used historically as geobotanical indicators for mineral exploration. For instance, some of these plants have extensively been used in Europe and central Africa as metal bioindicators as they can be used to delineate metalliferous substrates when prospecting for metal ores (Brooks 1998).
Third, further uses for metallophytes by the mining industry have been promoted in the most recent drive towards sustainable development and responsible mine site closure in Europe and North America (Whiting et al. 2002).
On the one hand, endemic metallophytes can be used in the revegetation and restoration of former mined sites (phytostabilization), and on the other, they can be used in the clean-up of toxic metals from soils (phytoextraction) or in the phytomining of low grade ore that cannot be processed economically by other techniques (Baker et al. 1999, Tordoff et al. 2000)."
The deposition of metal-rich wastes in terrestrial environments by the metal mining industry (e.g. tailings dumps and sterile piles), has generated new habitats for potential micro-evolution and colonization of metal adapted variants of common species and for metalophytes colonization (e.g., Allen & Sheppard 1971, Baker 1984, Bush & Barret 1993, Ginocchio et al. 2002).
Abandoned and naturally recolonized old mine sites can therefore be seen not only as a liability but also a resource base of unique genetic materials. The study of these plants and their colonization behaviour and evolution observable on former mine sites has improved closure and rehabititation strategies in some mined areas of developed countries (e.g., Gunn 1995)…"
"sap turned testing paper a reddish color, indicating nickel content"
AGROMINING METALS with HYPER-ACCUMULATING PLANTS
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperaccumulator
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es506031u
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11104-012-1287-3
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-61899-9_1
https://sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/hyperaccumulation
https://nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html
Hyper-accumulating plants thrive in metallic soil that kills other vegetation, and botanists are testing the potential of phytomining
by Ian Morse / Feb. 26, 2020
"With roots that act practically like magnets, these organisms — about 700 are known — flourish in metal-rich soils that make hundreds of thousands of other plant species flee or die.
Slicing open one of these trees or running the leaves of its bush cousin through a peanut press produces a sap that oozes a neon blue-green. This "juice" is actually one-quarter nickel, far more concentrated than the ore feeding the world's nickel smelters.
"Sukaibin Sumail retrieved nickel sap from a hyperaccumulator tree in Malaysia."
The plants not only collect the soil's minerals into their bodies but seem to hoard them to "ridiculous" levels, said Alan Baker, a visiting botany professor at the University of Melbourne who has researched the relationship between plants and their soils since the 1970s. This vegetation could be the world's most efficient, solar-powered mineral smelters. What if, as a partial substitute to traditional, energy-intensive and environmentally costly mining and smelting, the world harvested nickel plants?
"the blue latex of the tree Pycnandra acuminata contains 25% nickel"
Dr. Baker and an international team of colleagues has set its sights on convincing the world the idea is more than just a fun thought experiment. On a plot of land rented from a rural village on the Malaysian side of the island of Borneo, the group has proved it at small scale. Every six to 12 months, a farmer shaves off one foot of growth from these nickel-hyper-accumulating plants and either burns or squeezes the metal out.
After a short purification, farmers could hold in their hands roughly 500 pounds of nickel citrate, potentially worth thousands of dollars on international markets. Now, as the team scales up to the world's largest trial at nearly<|fim_middle|> the UK.
In subsequent interviews, Legoale expanded on the absorption of microscopic amounts of gold in the millions of tonnes of material on the mine dumps of South Africa's gold-endowed Witwatersrand, explaining that gold is absorbed by all parts of the wheat plant except the seeds, allowing for subsequent planting of the seeds and the ensuing harvesting of the cereal as a traditional food crop once its gold-recovery job has been done.
Legoale, who has a degree in geology from University of the Free State, makes the point that phytomining also reduces the exposure of near-dump communities to dangerous chemicals like mercury.
While agromining is regarded as having the potential to provide local communities with an alternative type of agriculture on degraded lands, commercial agromining has not yet become a reality and some believe that to build the case for the minerals industry, a large-scale demonstration may be needed to identify operational risks and provide evidence of profitability.
Post-Harvest Management of Phytoremediation Technology
Interestingly, the Chamber of Mines of South Africa on Wednesday hosted the launch of the Urban Agriculture Initiative in the Johannesburg inner city. The aim of this initiative is to create a vibrant urban agricultural ecosystem by innovatively repurposing disused rooftops and making use of hydroponics and aquaponics to produce agricultural produce for Johannesburg's inner city communities, an initiative established by the Johannesburg Inner City Partnership.
Although still in its early days, a successful basil crop has been harvested and sold! Earlier this year, Chamber of Mines president Mxolisi Mgojo mooted the idea of using the vast tracts of lands around South Africa's mines for community agriculture. Precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater has already catalysed an agricultural project on the West Rand that has succeeded in selling its crops commercially."
"Manganese nodules contain so-called rare-earth minerals, which have commercial and military applications."
RARE EARTH METALS BONANZA
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element
https://bbc.com/future/the-worst-place-on-earth
https://cnet.com/rare-earths-mines-where-iphones-are-born
https://nytimes.com/2012/washington-company-is-working-to-mine-asteroids
https://vice.com/how-to-start-an-asteroid-mining-company-without-a-mine
https://gizmodo.com/mining-company-plans-to-land-on-asteroids
https://thoughtco.com/rare-earth-metals
"…Rare earth metals are actually not as rare as their name might imply. They are critical to high-performance optics and lasers, and essential to the most powerful magnets and superconductors in the world. Rare earths are simply more expensive to mine than most metals when not mined with environmentally harmful chemicals.
These metals are also traditionally not as profitable in the markets. This has made them less desirable in the past—until the world realized that China controlled much of the market. These difficulties, combined with the demand for the metals for use in high-tech applications, introduces economic and political complications that make some of the most interesting metals even more exciting for investors…"
"In the past, retrieval operations were limited to manganese nodules and metal-rich sediments around hydrothermal vents. Now, thanks to new extraction methods and processing techniques, even the low concentrations of elements found in mud layers are economically viable. Today, prospecting and undersea construction is done using fleets of automated and remote-controlled robots. Once ships or mining platforms are in place, resources are brought to the surface through hydraulic suction or continuous bucket line systems."
DEEP SEA MINERAL FARMS
https://nytimes.com/2010/science/seafloor
https://economist.com/2013/asteroid-mining
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-015-4151-1
https://juniperpublishers.com/aibm/pdf/AIBM.MS.ID.555629.pdf
https://omicsonline.org/heavy-metal-uptake-aquatic-plants-phytoremediation
https://nytimes.com/2013/mining-deep-sea-outer-space-mineral-bonanza/
Mining the Deep Sea and Outer Space for a Mineral Bonanza
by Harvey Morris / January 26, 2013
"Whatever happened to manganese nodules? As newly announced plans to mine the mineral wealth of asteroids generate a mixture of excitement and skepticism, it is worth recalling the fate of an earlier craze to exploit a potential metals bonanza somewhat closer to home. From the early 1970s, the prospect of hauling up a boundless harvest of metal rich nodules from the deepest ocean beds was touted as the answer to the world's increasing hunger for diminishing resources.
The potato-size rocks that carpet the deep seabed — commonly known as manganese nodules — also contain a mix of other elements, including copper, cobalt and nickel. Governments and private companies joined the treasure hunt as explorations were launched to determine whether projects to vacuum the nodules from miles below the ocean's surface were commercially viable.
Lockheed Martin led a consortium of companies in an effort to develop a commercial mining operation, collecting thousands of nodules from an area of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Mexico as part of an effort that would today cost more than $500 million.
Howard Hughes, the reclusive American tycoon, fueled the frenzy with the launch of the Glomar Explorer, a 618-foot ship he said was built to mine the manganese nodules. (It was, in fact, cover for a secret C.I.A. project to raise a sunken Soviet submarine.)
The potential "gold rush" was a factor that led to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea that aimed to ensure that the seabed's wealth outside territorial limits would be shared between developed and developing states. However, a collapse in the international nickel price between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s shattered the prospects of instant wealth from the billions of tons of ore that lay just beyond the limits of technology available at the time.
The lure of the manganese nodule faded from public consciousness. As an article on the University of Texas's Science and the Sea Web site stated in 2009: "A fortune is sitting at the bottom of the world's oceans. And for the foreseeable future, at least, it's likely to stay there."
Interest has been revived, however, by the increasing demand for so-called rare earth metals that are used in many modern high-tech products such as fiber optics, memory chips and liquid-crystal screens. Studies by Lockheed Martin and others have determined that seabed nodules could provide an alternative source of such metals in a market presently dominated by China.
A Chinese embargo on rare earth metal shipments in 2010 was described by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state, as a "wake-up call" for the world to find new resources. Interest in manganese nodule exploitation may have subsided since the 1970s but it never quite disappeared. In the latest initiative this month, G-TEC Sea Mineral Resources, a private Belgium company signed a 15-year contract with the International Seabed Authority to prospect the central Pacific Ocean.
The contract was backed by the Belgian government. The Jamaica-based global body, which organizes and controls exploration of the seabed beyond national territorial limits, has granted a dozen such contracts since it established its Nodule Regulations in 2000.
Three months before, it signed a similar contract with Russia for prospecting and exploring in the Atlantic Ocean. So, as nodule fever appears to be making a comeback, how about outer space? Deep Space Industries, a California-based company has just announced its plans to inspect small asteroids that pass by Earth as potential mining targets.
"Meteorites on display at Deep Space Industries, which has announced plans to mine asteroids."
That followed the announcement of plans by another company, Planetary Resources, to send an unmanned robotic mining mission to the asteroid belt, as my colleague Kirk Johnson reported from Washington State last month. The prospect of mining asteroids was a sci-fi dream of the 1970s, just around the time of the manganese nodule craze. Its revival has excited space fans, but others are skeptical about the projects.
In a down-to-earth column in The Economist entitled "Fool's Platinum?," the business magazine suggested the economic case for asteroid mining was far from obvious. "A doubling of supply from space might, for instance, exert such downward pressure on the price of platinum on Earth as to undermine the whole business case for the venture," it wrote."
https://spectrevision.net/2018/04/02/sub-lethal-impacts/
https://spectrevision.net/2016/07/21/how-to-make-gold/
https://spectrevision.net/2014/04/04/when-the-nickel-drops/
https://spectrevision.net/2013/05/24/unnatural-selection/
https://spectrevision.net/2009/09/25/bioprospecting-termites/
https://spectrevision.net/2008/11/18/i-dont-care-i-want-one/
This entry was posted in economics, interspecies, nature, science, tech and tagged bioremediation, geochemistry, greentech, robots by secret santa. Bookmark the permalink. | 50 acres, their target audience is industry. In a decade, the researchers hope that a sizable portion of insatiable consumer demand for base metals and rare minerals could be filled by the same kind of farming that produces the world's coconuts and coffee.
"nickel-rich sap being taken from a tree in Malaysia"
Phytomining, or extracting minerals from hyper-accumulating plants, cannot fully replace traditional mining techniques, Dr. Baker says. But the technology has the additional value of enabling areas with toxic soils to be made productive. Smallholding farmers could grow on metal-rich soils, and mining companies might use these plants to clean up their former mines and waste and even collect some revenue. "It's icing on the cake," Dr. Baker said. The father of modern mineral smelting, Georgius Agricola, saw this potential 500 years ago. He smelted plants in his free time.
If you knew what to look for in a leaf, he wrote in the 16th century, you could deduce which metals lay in the ground below. Rufus Chaney, an agronomist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for 47 years, invented the word "phytomining" in 1983 and with Dr. Baker helped begin the first trial in Oregon in 1996. His name is immortalized in one of the nickel-sucking plants used in the Malaysian plot. Now, after decades behind the lock and key of patents, Dr. Baker said, "the brakes are off the system."
With patents no longer an issue, the scientists hope the technology can benefit small farmers in Malaysia and Indonesia. "The hope is that we can show it off and have proof of concept and show people how it works, and that it works," added Antony van der Ent, a plant scientist at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia. His dissertation began the Malaysian project.
Nickel is a crucial element in stainless steel. Its chemical compounds are increasingly used in batteries for electric vehicles and renewable energies. It is toxic to plants, just as it is to humans in high doses. Where nickel is mined and refined, it destroys land and leaves waste. In areas where soils are naturally rich in nickel, typically in the tropics and Mediterranean basin, plants have either adapted or died off.
In New Caledonia, a New Jersey-size French territory in the South Pacific that has been a major source of nickel, botanists know of at least 65 nickel-loving plants. Such plants are the most common metal-craving vegetation; others suck up cobalt, zinc and similarly crucial metals. With new electronics spurring surging demand for rare minerals, companies are exploring as far as outer space and the bottom of the ocean. Far less explored is one of humanity's oldest technologies, the farm.
The language of literature on phytomining, or agromining, hints of a future when plant and machine live together: bio-ore, metal farm, metal crops. "Smelting plants" sounds about as incongruous as carving oxygen. Proponents of phytomining see the greatest potential in Indonesia and the Philippines, two of the world's biggest nickel ore producers, where hundreds of mines shovel topsoil into smelters.
The two countries likely harbor many nickel-hyper-accumulating plants, but research has been scant. Hyper-accumulators don't just tolerate metals; their roots crave them. To what benefit? The nickel may help the plant fight off pests, or perhaps it enables the plant to more readily take up potassium, a scarce resource, from the soil.
Regardless, there has been no need to genetically modify or selectively breed to increase the plants' nickel-philia. Nature's smelters are already as efficient as the extractive industry would want. They have the potential to remedy the mining industry's biggest problem: abandoned mines, which pollute waterways. A leftover mine, planted with hyper-accumulators, could salvage the remaining metals for additional revenue. That incentive could persuade companies to invest in rehabilitation or mine-waste cleanup.
Currently, the most common way to extract nickel for electronics requires intense energy — often derived from coal and diesel — and creates heaps of acidic waste. A typical smelter costs hundreds of millions of dollars and requires increasingly scarce ore that is at least 1.2 percent rich with nickel. In contrast, plants on a small nickel farm could be harvested every six months on land where the nickel concentration is only 0.1 percent. After two decades, the roots would struggle to find enough nickel, but the land would have been sucked dry of its toxic metals, and fertile enough to support more common crops.
"Vegetation on a small plot of land in Sabah, Malaysia, can yield hundreds of pounds of nickel citrate every 6-12 months. The researchers are now testing a larger plot of land."
That the nickel crop might be so productive and lucrative has led to fears that farmers might push for opening tropical forests for cultivation, foreshadowing another case such as palm oil, a cash crop that has devastated Borneo's native forests. But that isn't a likely outcome, the researchers said.
Areas with the most phytomining potential tend to be grassy, and few other plants are likely to grow on land selected for mineral farming. "We can grow these plants on soils where it's already been deforested," Dr. Baker said. "It's a way of putting back, rather than taking away."
PHYTOMINING GOLD
https://archimedesnz.com/phytomining
https://livescience.com/plants-grow-gold.html
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3988041/
https://iuss.org/19th-WCSS/Symposium/pdf/1593.pdf
https://omicsonline.org/postharvest-management-of-phytoremediation-technology
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0375674213000228
https://sciencing.com/advantages-disadvantages-phytomining.html
https://stockhead.com.au/these-metal-loving-plants-can-recover-battery-grade-cobalt-nickel-from-mine-waste
https://smi.uq.edu.au/plants-extracting-high-value-metals-mining-wastes
https://britishcouncil.org.za/no-ordinary-gold-digger-geologist-tshiamo-legoale
https://miningweekly.com/south-africa-should-consider-agromining
by Martin Creamer / 11th October 2017
"South Africans, who have been mining for metals for more than a century, were this week urged to farm for metals. South African-born Stephen Haggerty, a distinguished research professor of Florida International University in the US who spoke to Mining Weekly Online while in Johannesburg, outlined the work that Australians are doing in agromining and prodded South Africa to do the same.
Agromining involves the use of plants to absorb valuable metals from soils that have high metal concentrations, and then to harvest, dry and incinerate the biomas to deliver metal ore. Plants have a propensity to suck up metals.
"the metals nickel (Ni), calcium (chem: calcium Ca), cobalt (chem: cobalt co) were made visible using synchrotron radiation"
Haggerty commented to Mining Weekly Online that the same species of plant that the Swedes used in the Middle Ages to delineate the presence of copper was used centuries later to outline Central Africa's rich copperbelt.
Now, the Australians are planting these species in mined out nickel belts to suck up the remaining nickel in the soil that is beyond modern metallurgical capability. "They get nuggets of nickel metal out of it," said Haggerty – and simultaneously rehabilitate the lands.
Besides nickel recovery, Australians are also using eucalyptus trees to absorb gold in mined-out parts of the gold rush area of Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia. The eucalyptus trees have the ability preferentially to concentrate gold in the leaves and bark in high concentrations and consideration is now being given to growing eucalyptus trees in many other parts of Australia to recover gold. "Maybe we should do the same in South Africa," said Haggerty.
In April, South African geologist Tshiamo Legoale, of the small-scale mining and beneficiation division of Mintek, South Africa's State-owned mineral and metallurgical research organisation, won the FameLab South Africa competition when she reportedly captivated her audience with a riveting three-minute talk on harvesting gold from wheat crops grown on mine dumps – and then went on to be crowned the FameLab International Champion at the Cheltenham Science Festival in | 1,829 |
Congressman Josh Gottheimer Joins Congressional Pediatric and Adult Hydrocephalus Caucus
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Hydrocephalus is the leading cause of brain surgery in children.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (NJ-5) has joined the bipartisan Congressional Pediatric and Adult Hydrocephalus Caucus. The Hydrocephalus Association applauds Rep. Josh Gottheimer's support of the over one million people living with the condition.
"We must keep taking every possible step toward finding treatments and cures for life-threatening conditions and disorders. That's why I'm proud to be advocating for families who have hydrocephalus, alongside Bergen County Commissioner Steve Tanelli, whose own grandson Landon was diagnosed with hydrocephalus in utero and has had 3 brain surgeries since birth," said Rep. Josh Gottheimer. "Current treatments for hydrocephalus tend to fail and require multiple surgeries, so increases in research will go a long way for families. I am ready and willing to work with anyone to help make breakthroughs for people living with hydrocephalus in North Jersey and across the nation."
"We are grateful to Congressman Gottheimer for joining the Congressional Hydrocephalus Caucus and helping us advance research and improve the lives of the over 1 million Americans living with this condition," said Diana Gray, President and CEO of the Hydrocephalus Association. "The Caucus has been instrumental in helping the hydrocephalus community advocate for substantive changes for patients, and opening doors to new research opportunities that could result in alternative treatment options, forms of prevention, and a cure."
The Congressional Pediatric and Adult Hydrocephalus Caucus serves to inform the congressional community about the needs of those living with hydrocephalus and their families and caregivers. The Caucus also advocates for research at the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, health policy including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid, special education and rehabilitation services.
Each year, one in every 770 babies develops hydrocephalus, a complex condition marked by excess accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain. However, anyone at any time can develop hydrocephalus from a brain injury, tumor, or infection, and some people over 60 develop Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, which is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's, dementia or Parkinson's.
The primary treatment for hydrocephalus is the insertion of a device called a shunt – a small tube and a connected valve – into the brain to drain the excess cerebrospinal fluid to another part of the body. Shunts save lives, but frequently malfunction, become infected, or blocked. It is not uncommon for a person with hydrocephalus to have ten or more shunt-related brain surgeries throughout their lifetime, and some individuals will undergo more than 100 surgical procedures.
About the Hydrocephalus Association
Founded in 1983 by the parents of children with hydrocephalus, the Hydrocephalus Association (HA) is the nation's largest and most widely respected organization dedicated to hydrocephalus. Since 2009, HA has invested over $11 million in cutting-edge research, making it the largest non-profit, non-governmental funder of hydrocephalus research in the United States. The Hydrocephalus Association's mission is to find a cure for hydrocephalus and improve the lives of those impacted by the condition.
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Soca Warriors striker, Kerry Baptiste will spend four extra days on trial at Coca-Cola English Championship Division, Ipswich Town, according to Joe Public managing director, Darryl Warner. The 29-year-old Baptiste, who netted 48 goals in leading Joe Public to an historic five domestic titles last year, left here on Monday for a one-week trial at the club managed by former Ireland international Roy Keane. But the long journey seemed to have taken a toll on Baptiste, who did not feature in the reserve team's 2–1 loss to Wy<|fim_middle|>2 draw with Mexico in a Fifa World Concacaf World Cup qualifier last October, is totally focussed on impressing Ipswich boss, Keane. | combe on Wednesday due to jet lag. Warner said Baptiste did not play because he was suffering from jet lag. But the club requested that he stay a further four extra days.
Baptiste will be hoping to join fellow T&T international Carlos Edwards on a permanent basis at Ipswich. Baptiste, who was in the stands when the club battled to a 1–1 draw with Sc**thorpe, said he has been waiting 11 years for an opportunity like this and intends to make the most of it. In addition to Ipswich, Baptiste has also attracted interest from US Major League Soccer clubs, FC Dallas and Toronto FC. However, the T&T striker, who scored a pair of goals in a 2 – | 150 |
Members discuss wood-burning kiln in village limits
Cadott Village Board
What needs to be done to allow a commercial kiln within village limits? That's a question the Cadott Village Board considered during a regular meeting, Nov. 18.
Jon Bowe approached the village about potentially installing a kiln in his business, located near Dollar General. The kiln would be used to dry wood, so the wood can be used for campfire wood.
"I asked Rolly (Tichy, public works) if there would be a problem with a wood-burning kiln down there," said Bowe. "...There's really a very small chance I would end up with one."
Bowe said he is currently leaning toward a natural gaspowered kiln instead.
Merle Huhn, board member, asked how long the kiln would be continuously in operation, if it were the woodburning variety of kiln. Bowe said it would run two days at a time for a load of wood to dry, but would be reloaded soon after, for the next batch.
"Just in the winter time," said Bowe. "I don't think I'd do anything in the summer."
Bart Chapek, board member, said they looked into the ordinances and a wood-burning kiln would be considered the same as a wood stove.
"There are rules against that in the village," said Chapek.
Board president Anson Albarado said the board would consider issuing a conditional use permit if Bowe decides to pursue a wood-burning kiln.
Bowe said there were previously kilns in the building, though he did not know what fueled them.
Members noted they would probably would not have to take any action if Bowe decided to go with natural gas, but said if Bowe decides he wants a wood-burning kiln, he should bring the issue back to the board for further discussion.
In other business, members discussed proposed changes to the Code of Ordinances. The Ordinance Committee is working with Cedar Corp. to make the updates.
"Some are wrong," said Chapek. "Some will say one thing, some will say another thing."
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The ghosts of Hollywood: Oscar tour of Los Angeles shows how Tinseltown continues to celebrate its illustrious past
Deep in the bowels of the Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard is a stuffy, modestly furnished office with no windows and a false ceiling.
It is a uniquely unimpressive room, particularly when compared to the lavish splendour of the historic theatre above it.
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But it is historically relevant in its own way, especially if the topic is Hollywood ghosts. Which is why a group of international journalists were taken there on a guided tour prior to watching the musical Aladdin, riding a rickety service elevator to an area that is presumably rarely seen by the public. It used to be the private office of Howard Hughes. In 1949, he purchased what was then the 19-year-old theatre through his RKO Pictures. Hughes, of course, was the eccentric business magnate and film tycoon who eventually became the world's most famous recluse. Under his watch, the Pantages became home to the Academy Awards throughout the glittery golden years of 1950 to 1959. He died in 1976.
"There was a rumour that when they built a metro they thought that Mr. Hughes had a tunnel built between here and the Taft Building because of the whole thing about him not wanting to go outside, that he would travel underneath" explains John Sala, one of our tour guides. "They never found it. But they did find several weird passageways and they weren't sure where they went because they were all boarded up."
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Musso's was also a gathering place for writers. And not just any writers. For visiting journalists being plied with tales of Hollywood, steak tartare and Musso's famous martinis, there is a certain novelty to sitting at the same bar where F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler, Tennessee Williams, Aldous Huxley and William Faulkner wrote, proof read, and grumbled about Hollywood studios changing their work for the screen.
"The Writer's Guild was right across the street," says Musso's fourth-generation family owner Mark Eccheverria."So these writers would go to the Guild complain that studio executives were hacking their work and then come across the street to Musso's and drown their miseries in drink. It snowballed from there."
Are their ghosts still there? It depends on who you ask.
"A lot of writers come in today to absorb some of that creative energy that this bar still exudes," says Eccheverria. "You'll still see it today, people either proof-reading novels, writing their books or writing their screenplays."
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The ghosts of Hollywood: Oscar tour of Los Angeles shows how Tinseltown continues to celebrate ... | this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to sensing Mr. Hughes' spirit in the hallowed halls of the Pantages. He apparently makes his presence known in more tangible ways.
The fact that Hughes' ghost is said to haunt the Pantages is old news. It's even reported on the theatre's website. But our group gets a much more personalized tale from the tour co-captain, an engineer with a long history at Pantages who nevertheless asked that his name not be used in the article.
He is not only a believer of this ghost story, but claims to have witnessed it firsthand. It was a few years back, when he was doing a routine check on the theatre's second floor, which is where Hughes' had his private quarters.
"As I got off the elevator I looked to my left and there was a figure that had a fedora, long-coat, a very lean looking gentleman,"our tour guide says. "I said 'Nah' and took two steps and I looked back and he was still standing there and he took some steps down the hallway."
It's not the only ghost story we'll hear during our stay in Hollywood. Roughly a month before La La Land's biggest night, I was invited on an Oscar-themed tour of Los Angeles that took us to historic hotels and restaurants that still seem alive with Hollywood's illustrious past.
Some ghosts are literal, or at least believed to be. Others are more figurative. But even in some of the newer establishments that are said to attract young stars and starlets, there seems to be a healthy respect for Hollywood's golden years.
Not that every establishment is keen to play up reports of literal hauntings, of course. You would be hard-pressed to find a more historic landmark in Tinseltown than the Hollywood Roosevelt. Inside the 91-year-old hotel sits the Blossom Ballroom, which is where the first Academy Awards were held in 1929. You can still climb the lavish tile stairway where Mr. Bojangles reportedly first taught Shirley Temple how to tap dance. The 3,200 square-foot Gable Lombard Penthouse Suite is where early Hollywood power couple Clark Gable and Carole Lombard stayed for $5 a night prior to their 1939 marriage. Then there is the lovingly preserved Marilyn Suite, where blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe lived for a few years and where the group was invited to eat a delicious breakfast of fried chicken on waffles and various pastries on the suite's balcony overlooking the Tropicana Pool. Marilyn's spirit is everywhere. The room is almost completely white and there's a playful picture of her above the bed. But questions about the somewhat morbid rumours that Monroe's sad ghost haunts a mirror that used to be in the suite did not yield a lot of information (Although, curiously, rumours that actor Montgomery Clift haunts the ninth floor mumbling lines from From Here To Eternity are included in the hotel's official press material.) Apparently, Marilyn's haunted mirror still resides somewhere in the sprawling hotel.
The Marilyn Suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt. Courtesy, Hollywood Roosevelt
"I don't have much information about it but yes that's the rumour," says sales co-ordinator and tour guide, Bruno Bignozzi. "We do have some rumours that it's a haunted hotel. I've never seen anything and I'm here every day."
Not all of the tour was dedicated to old Hollywood. Among the hotspots we ate at included the Chateau Marmont. The iconic Sunset Boulevard restaurant and hotel was built in the 1920s, so is not lacking in Hollywood history in its own right. Everyone from Roman Polanski to Jim Morrison and Lana Del Rey have lived there; John Belushi died there. But it is also a hot spot for young Hollywood and a great place for star gazing, although being too obvious about it or taking pictures is definitely frowned upon. Our group's celebrity expert from Australia informed us that actress Emma Roberts — niece of Julia — was among a chattering mob of impossibly good-looking actors and models sitting across from us in the garden terrace restaurant.
Lono in Hollywood. Courtesy, LONO
But it's Lono, a newly opened hotspot on Hollywood Boulevard, that perhaps best represents a new bridge to old Hollywood. It also reportedly attracts young stars, and long lineups, to its doors. But it was inspired by the Tiki bars and culture that flourished during the Golden Age of Hollywood. Among the more interesting decor is a display case featuring replicas of the personalized bamboo chopstick holders that were kept on display for the famous regulars at Don the Beachcomber, the brainchild of former prohibition bootlegger Ernest Raymond Beaumont-Gantt that kickstarted the Tiki craze in Hollywood. Everyone from Clark Gable, to Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Joan Crawford had the personalized chopstick holders. So Lono's co-owner, blessed with the very Hollywood named Austin Melrose, sourced all the celebrities signatures online, had them transposed and wood-burned onto new bamboo holders to be put on display in the new place, which is less than three blocks away from where the original Don the Beachcomber sat. Melrose said he stayed up all night to finish the project before the doors opened in June.
Sinatra, Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Rudolph Valentino, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor, Alfred Hitchcock and just about anyone else you can think of from Hollywood's golden years also haunted the historic Musso & Frank Grill, or Musso's as it's more commonly known. The oldest restaurant in town, it began life in 1919 one door over from where it is now, which means it more or less predates Hollywood. The owners have done there best to preserve everything in the historic spot, every piece of decor that may still hold "smoke from Bogart's cigars." The red-jacketed, white-shirted wait staff, meanwhile, are happy to point out the historic details to visiting journalists: That's where Hitchcock used to sit and sip Aviation Gin; that's the table the Rolling Stones reserved whenever | 1,287 |
Washington, D.C. – American Institutes for Research (AIR) Institute Fellow Larry Hedges was recently named a recipient of the prestigious Yidan Prize for Education Research for his groundbreaking work in developing statistical methods for meta-analysis across the sciences and innovative methods of synthesizing research findings across studies.
At AIR, Dr. Hedges works on several topics in the area of statistical and research methods, including the challenges of replicating research.
Established in 2016 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Charles Chen Yidan, the Yidan Prize presents two awards each year, one in education research and the other in educational development. The Yidan Prize seeks to empower change makers in education, build a global community of education leaders, and create long-lasting, enlightening impacts on mankind as a whole. It is the world's largest education award, in terms of monetary value, with each Yidan Prize Laureate receiving a gold medal and approximately $3.9 million, which includes a $1.9 million cash prize.
Anant Argawal, CEO of edX, an online learning platform founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the 2018 Yidan Prize Laureate for Education Development. The Laureates will be honored at a ceremony in Hong Kong on December 9, 201<|fim_middle|> Policy Research Center at Northwestern's Institute for Policy Research. He has been an AIR Institute Fellow since 2014.
In addition to his work at Northwestern and AIR, Dr. Hedges is also a member of the National Board of Education Sciences and previously served as the Board's chair. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Educational Research Association. He is also a member of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, which established an annual endowed lecture in his honor. | 8.
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Why losing a dog can be harder than losing a relative or friend
Frank T. McAndrew | Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College | Via The Conversation
Recently, my wife and I went through one of the more excruciating experiences of our lives – the euthanasia of our beloved dog, Murphy. I remember making eye contact with Murphy moments before she took her last breath – she flashed me a look that was an endearing blend of confusion and the reassurance that everyone was ok because we were both by her side.
When people who have never had a dog see their dog-owning friends mourn the loss of a pet, they probably think it's all a bit of an overreaction; after all, it's "just a dog."
However, those who have loved a dog know the truth: Your own pet is never "just a dog."
Many times, I've had friends guiltily confide to me that they grieved more over the loss of a dog than over the loss of friends or relatives. Research has confirmed that for most people, the loss of a dog is, in almost every way, comparable to the loss of a human loved one. Unfortunately, there's little in our cultural playbook – no grief rituals, no obituary in the local newspaper, no religious service – to help us get through the loss of a pet, which can make us feel more than a bit embarrassed to show too much public grief over our dead dogs.
Perhaps if people realized just how strong and intense the bond is between people and their dogs, such grief would become more widely accepted. This would greatly help dog owners to integrate the death into their lives and help them move forward.
An interspecies bond like no other
For starters, dogs have had to adapt to living with humans over the past 10,000 years. And they've done it very well: They're the only animal to have evolved specifically to be our companions and friends. Anthropologist Brian Hare has developed the "Domestication Hypothesis" to explain how dogs morphed from their grey wolf ancestors into the socially skilled animals that we now interact with in very much the same way as we interact with other people.
Perhaps one reason our relationships with dogs can be even more satisfying than our human relationships is that dogs provide us with such unconditional, uncritical positive feedback. (As the old saying goes, "May I become the kind of person that my dog thinks I already am.")
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Frank T. McAndrew, Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College | people, and MRI scans show that dog brains respond to praise from their owners just as strongly as they do to food (and for some dogs, praise is an even more effective incentive than food). Dogs recognize people and can learn to interpret human emotional states from facial expression alone. Scientific studies also indicate that dogs can understand human intentions, try to help their owners and even avoid people who don't cooperate with their owners or treat them well.
Not surprisingly, humans respond positively to such unqualified affection, assistance and loyalty. Just looking at dogs can make people smile. Dog owners score higher on measures of well-being and they are happier, on average, than people who own cats or no pets at all.
Like a member of the family
Our strong attachment to dogs was subtly revealed in a recent study of "misnaming." Misnaming happens when you call someone by the wrong name, like when parents mistakenly call one of their kids by a sibling's name. It turns out that the name of the family dog also gets confused with human family members, indicating that the dog's name is being pulled from the same cognitive pool that contains other members of the family. (Curiously, the same thing rarely happens with cat names.)
It's no wonder dog owners miss them so much when they're gone.
Psychologist Julie Axelrod has pointed out that the loss of a dog is so painful because owners aren't just losing the pet. It could mean the loss of a source of unconditional love, a primary companion who provides security and comfort, and maybe even a protégé that's been mentored like a child.
According to a survey, many bereaved pet owners will even mistakenly interpret ambiguous sights and sounds as the movements, pants and whimpers of the deceased pet. This is most likely to happen shortly after the death of the pet, especially among owners who had very high levels of attachment to their pets.
While the death of a dog is horrible, dog owners have become so accustomed to the reassuring and nonjudgmental presence of their canine companions that, more often than not, they'll eventually get a new one.
So yes, I miss my dog. But I'm sure that I'll be putting myself through this ordeal again in the years to come.
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A giant of trade union solidarity who accomplished much for children, their families, and postal workers has moved on. On Friday, January 15th, 2016 Sister Jamie Kass, CUPW Child Care Coordinator, retired after 20 years of tireless work on behalf of postal worker parents and their children. While we wish her all the best in her new journey, she will be missed. She leaves behind much we can be proud of. If the measure of solidarity how much you have made a positive influence for others, Jamie scores very high. She made our union look good and carved out something very unique and special.
Jamie's leadership and tenacity in making the Child Care Fund Appendix "L" work for postal workers, is a testament to her commitment to the goals of the Fund and to postal workers, their children and to high quality, inclusive child care for all families.
Working closely with community partners, Jamie over saw the creation of the Special Needs and Moving On Projects www.specialneedsproject.ca. Today these projects support over 400 CUPW parents and their children or adult sons and daughters with disabilities. Members from 80 CUPW locals across the country access supports, web-based resource materials, newsletters and one-on-one advisor support.
Under her watch, CUPW led the way in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with the Family and Child Care Connections: Family Resource Centre and the licensing of home child care providers. With Jamie's leadership, CUPW has pioneered the way and today through the Fund supports eight child care programs and support services across the country.
And we continue to undertake vital research to help CUPW better understand and meet the needs of postal workers and their families.
Jamie would be the first to say that there is much work still to do. She would be the first to say that not one union or one union fund can build accessible, affordable and inclusive child care for every CUPW family that needs it. She would be the first to admit that only through working with other unions, advocacy groups and by getting CUPW members involved in the fight will we achieve the kind of child care system that truly supports workers to balance work and family life.
So while a great trade union sister takes her time to retire, the work of the Fund will continue. Jamie, being who she is, knew that a good period of training would be needed to assure a smooth transition. She knew we would need to have someone well versed in the Fund, the issues, the projects and to have a strong sense of the work that still needs to be done! I would like to take a moment to introduce our new Child Care Coordinator Shellie Bird.
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The present clinical trial was designed to evaluate the possible pharmacokinetic and electrocardiographic interactions of the gastroenteric prokinetic drug cinitapride with ketoconazole. The safety and tolerability of the study treatments were also evaluated. After a placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover design, 16 healthy male (n = 8) and female (n = 8) volunteers were randomized into four treatment groups of four subjects (two males and two females): cinitapride (CTP; 1 mg t.i.d.) + ketoconazole (KET; 200 mg b.i.d.), CTP + placebo (PL), PL+KET, and PL+PL. Treatments were given for 7 days with a wash<|fim_middle|> or after coadministration with ketoconazole 200 mg b.i.d., had no effect on cardiac repolarization as measured by changes in the heart rate-corrected QT interval on the surface electrocardiogram.
This study was funded by Laboratorios Almirall, S.A.
ABBREVIATIONS: MS/MS, tandem mass spectrometry; QT, duration in milliseconds from the beginning of Q wave to the end of the T wave; CTP, cinitapride; KET, ketoconazole; PL, placebo; AUCτ, area under the plasma concentration-time curve within a dosing interval; QTc, QT interval corrected for heart rate; ECG, electrocardiogram; FI, fluctuation index; RR, duration in milliseconds between two R peaks of two consecutive QRS complexes; PR, duration in milliseconds from the beginning of wave P to onset of ventricular depolarization (Q and R); QRS, duration in milliseconds of the QRS complex; QTcB, QT interval corrected by the Bazett formula (QT/RR1/2); QTcF, QT interval corrected by the Fridericia formula (QT/RR1/3); QTcL, QT linear correction model [QT + α × (1 – RR)]; QTcI, QT parabolic log/log correction model (QT/RRα); hERG, human ether-a-go-go-related gene; ANOVA, analysis of variance; CI, confidence interval; AE, adverse event. | out period of 14 days between crossover treatments. Cinitapride is rapidly absorbed after oral administration and is metabolized by the cytochrome P450 CYP3A4 and CYP2C8 isozymes. At steady state, coadministration with ketoconazole, a potent CYP3A4 inhibitor, increased mean Cmax,ss and AUCτ by 1.63- and 1.98-fold, respectively. Measurement of mean QTc interval or baseline-corrected QTc intervals on day 7 showed small increases that were due to the effects of ketoconazole alone. Comparing CTP+KET versus PL+KET, the differences between mean increases in the QTc parameters were always less than 2 ms. Finally, no outlier increase of the QTc interval versus baseline >60 ms was identified after any treatment. The study showed that cinitapride, either given alone | 194 |
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5. Add the chicken breasts back into the pan. Only cook enough to heat through, turning to thoroughly coat each breast, about 1 minute. Plate the chicken breasts in mushroom Marsala sauce, by adding the breasts first, often over pasta, then by spooning on a little extra sauce. Garnish plate with chopped fresh parsley.
Note: To reduce any health risks, make sure that chicken breasts are properly cooked with an the internal temperature of no less than 165ºF. | liberally season both sides with salt and pepper. In a shallow bowl, add the flour and lightly dredge both sides of each piece of chicken. Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. When the butter is melted and begins to foam, add the chicken breasts to the pan and sear for 3 minutes until browned, then turn over and sear the other side for another minute or two, then remove breasts from the pan and set aside in a covered dish.
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The ARTA/HLAC Breakfast at Clean has been moved to Room B406 to accommodate a sold<|fim_middle|> new Standards. The primary focus of the breakfast, however, is for suppliers and operators to meet and greet and enjoy a hot breakfast before hitting the show floor. | out crowd. Additional seating now available for this Fri., April 17 event starting at 7:30 a.m. Last week, registration for the ARTA/HLAC Breakfast at Clean hit 135 people — and kept rising. However, the group's assigned space only had room for 130 people.
"We don't want to turn anyone away," said ARTA President Ed McCauley. "The Clean Show staff was great about finding us a larger room, which allows another 25 people to attend." The ARTA/HLAC Breakfast at Clean is now planned in Room B406, right above the old room and one level up.
The American Reusable Textile Association (ARTA) and the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC) will host Breakfast at Clean on Fri., April 17 from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center. Attendance is open to everyone in the industry — ARTA members, nonmembers, accredited or non-accredited laundries.
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Trinity Cathedral (the second Millennium), Metekhi Church (XIII century), Old Tbilisi, Sulpher Baths (V century), Narikala Fortress (V-IV centuries), Sioni and Anchiskhati churches (VI century).
Overnight in al<|fim_middle|>. Arriving to Kutaisi. Free time.
Visiting Dadiani's Palace in Zugdidi. Visiting aincent town-fortress of Tsikhe-Goji.
One of the most beautiful highland regions of Georgia. Visiting Nikortsminda and Barakoni Temples + the splendid Lake of Pshauri. Driving back to Kutaisi.
Visit of Bodbe Monastery. Grave of Saint Nino (enlightener of Georgia).Visit of Alexander Chavchavadze's (Kakhetian Prince) Palace in Tsinandali. Wine tasting in Tsinandali. Drive to Telavi.
Leaving party & dinner at the Georgian national restaurant. Transfer to the Airport of Tbilisi for departure.
Note: Duration of the tour will be fit to your flight schedule. | pine village of Gudauri.
Visiting trinity church on the cliff of a hill with splendid view to Kazbegi glassier summit. Driving to Sno gorge, rich of natural mineral water springs and old towers.
Overnight in Kazbegi or Gudauri.
Visiting Joseph Stalin's House Museum. Trip to Uplistsikhe cave city (11-9 th century BC). Driving back to Gori. Free time.
It is rich of mineral water springs and lash forests. Lunch at outdoor restaurant or picnic. Visit of King Romanov's Palace in Likani (later, summer residence of Joseph Stalin). Dinner.
Overnight in Likani or in Borjomi.
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Q: Point on the Plane, a Triangle, and a Lower Bound of a Ratio Sum
Let $ABC$ be a triangle on the Euclidean plane. At which point $P$ on the plane does the ratio sum $\frac{PA}{BC}+\frac{PB}{CA}+\frac{PC}{AB}$ attain its minimum value? Prove also that, for any point $P$ on the plane, $$\frac{PA}{BC}+\frac{PB}{CA}+\frac{PC<|fim_middle|>AB\le BC$ and $AB\le AC$). Then we have from $(2)$: $\gamma>\alpha+\beta$ and, redefining $\vec{k}=-(\alpha\vec{i}+\beta\vec{j})/\gamma$ and taking $P=C$, equation $(1)$ still holds (because $|\vec k|<1$). In that case the requested minimum point is then $C$, that is the point opposite to the shortest side.
| }{AB} \geq \sqrt{3}\,.$$ When does the equality hold?
Source: Problem 965 from http://www.imomath.com/othercomp/Journ/ineq.pdf (Crux Problem by George Tsintifas, Thessaloniki, Greece).
EDIT: The second part of the problem has been solved in the link given in a comment below. Please attempt only the first part (i.e., finding the minimizing point).
A: As I said in my comment above, one can define: $\alpha=1/BC$, $\beta=1/AC$, $\gamma=1/AB$ so that we are required to find the point $P$ such that $\alpha PA + \beta PB + \gamma PC$ attains its minimum value. Following the method outlined here let's denote by $\vec{i}$, $\vec{j}$ and $\vec{k}$ the unit vectors along $\vec{PA}$, $\vec{PB}$ and $\vec{PC}$ respectively; if $X$ is another point, one finds:
$$
\tag{1}
\alpha PA + \beta PB + \gamma PC\le \alpha XA + \beta XB + \gamma XC
+\vec{PX}\cdot(\alpha\vec{i}+\beta\vec{j}+\gamma\vec{k}).
$$
It follows that if $\alpha\vec{i}+\beta\vec{j}+\gamma\vec{k}=0$ then $P$ is the minimum point. That condition is equivalent to $\vec{k}=-(\alpha\vec{i}+\beta\vec{j})/\gamma$ and this can be true only if
$(\alpha\vec{i}+\beta\vec{j})^2=\gamma^2$, that is if
\begin{equation}
\tag{2}
\cos(\angle APB) = \vec{i}\cdot\vec{j}={\gamma^2-\alpha^2-\beta^2\over 2\alpha\beta},
\end{equation}
which can be satisfied if the absolute value of the right hand side does not exceed $1$. In that case we also have two other analogous equations for $\cos(\angle BPC)$ and $\cos(\angle CPA)$, so we can find those three angles and locate $P$.
If, on the other hand, the absolute value of the right hand side of $(2)$ is greater than $1$, suppose $\gamma\ge\alpha$ and $\gamma\ge\beta$ (i.e. $ | 533 |
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Common Weightlifting Injuries and How to Prevent Them
Many people see the barbell involved in Olympic weightlifting and think it looks dangerous. But in fact, injuries in this sport are less frequent than in contact sports such as football and wrestling.
Still, injuries are possible with any physical activity. Fortunately, there are ways to help prevent them.
What Is Olympic Weightlifting?
Olympic weightlifting, also referred to as simply weightlifting, is a sport with two lifts: the clean and jerk, and the snatch.
The clean and jerk happens in two parts. In the clean,<|fim_middle|> to build better athletes. | athletes move a barbell from the floor to their shoulders in one fluid motion. They may drop underneath the barbell in a squat, then stand up, to receive it.
At the end of the movement, their fingertips are underneath the barbell facing toward the body and elbows point away from the body. This is the front rack position.
The second part is the jerk. Here, the athlete moves the barbell from the front rack position at the shoulders to above their head. They must lock out their arms.
In the snatch, the athlete moves the barbell from the floor to above their head in one fluid motion. Like the clean, athletes can drop under the barbell in a squat position, then stand.
The lift ends with arms locked out overhead. The athlete usually has a wide grip on the bar.
What Are Common Weightlifting Injuries?
Most injuries from weightlifting involve strains and sprains to the muscles and tendons. These areas of the body are most often affected:
The wrists, elbows, and neck are also prone to injury when weightlifting.
Injuries can be acute or chronic. Acute injuries happen suddenly, such as a ruptured tendon. Chronic injuries, on the other hand, occur slowly over time from overuse. Examples of this are rotator cuff impingement and patellar tendonitis.
How to Prevent Injury in Weightlifting
There are precautions you can take to reduce your risk of injury while weightlifting.
1. Use good technique. The Olympic lifts are highly technical. That's part of what makes them fun to learn, but it also means they take a long time to master. Have an experienced coach check your form, especially when you're first learning the lifts.
2. Warm up properly. It can be tempting to jump straight into your workout, but it's important to warm up first. This will prepare both your body — the muscles, ligaments, and tendons — and your mind for the workout ahead.
3. Work your way up slowly. There is no greater adrenaline rush than hitting a personal best. Still, be sure to add weight incrementally. This will give you more confidence and reduce your risk of getting injured.
If your form is starting to decline as the weight gets heavier, don't keep adding more. Take the time to master good form at a lighter weight before moving on. It can take a while to progress, so be patient.
4. Stay balanced. Don't neglect strengthening any part of your body. If you have weaknesses, address them. For instance, an athlete with strong quads but weak hamstrings is more prone to injury.
Working the primary muscles used in a movement is great, but it's often the smaller stabilizing muscles that keep you pain-free. In the jerk, the four muscles of the rotator cuff — supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis, and teres minor — do the stabilizing work. In the squat, it's the calves, lower back, and hamstrings.
5. Follow a well-rounded training plan. Training in weightlifting doesn't only mean working on the snatch and the clean and jerk. In addition to strength, the sport requires balance, mobility, speed, power, and coordination. Do supplemental exercises that address all these aspects.
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"Injuries Among Weightlifters and Powerlifters: A Systematic Review," British Journal of Sports Medicine. Link
"Shoulder Injuries in Olympic Weightlifting: A Systematic Review," British Journal of Medical & Health Sciences. Link
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Kevin Abstract says the message of the group's next album is, "Just enjoy what's in front of you."
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Kevin Abstract is the subject of a new GQ interview, published on Monday, in which he opens up about Brockhampton's next album, his mixed feelings on his solo material, and a new friendship with actor Shia LaBeouf.
Speaking to playwright Jeremy O. Harris, Abstract said that Brockhampton are currently working hard on new music in a shared house they've dubbed "Creative House." "We want to make a summer album," Abstract said. "Feel-good. Not too sad and like, "Oh, our life sucks," just more like, "Just enjoy what's in front of you."
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Comparing their new material to OutKast's "Hey Ya!" Abstract added: "Something we're doing is putting those type of lyrics—like this shit is trash, anxiety, depression, all that stuff—taking those type of lyrics and putting it on a song that a bunch of people could dance to or something."
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Brockhampton, Hip-Hop, Kevin Abstract | and that he does not plan to make more solo music.
"My problem was, we lost a member from our group. Close, close, close childhood friend, traumatic experience. We put out a fourth album [2018's Iridescence] after the stuff, which got us a lot of hype, [and] didn't get the reaction we wanted, so it made us take a step back and made me realize maybe the group should take a break and just live life for six months." Abstract continued: "I had already released a solo record, and maybe we could just give that to the label and that would count for a record. I did want to [put out a record], but also I was burnt-out. I should not have made an album. I think the thing that saved my record is, it was vulnerable and it's honest and it's pure. But I personally don't want to make another album."
Something Abstract was more positive about, however, were his recent group therapy sessions; an open discussion involving a variety of creative people, including Shia LaBeouf.
"Every Friday at my house, we do this thing called Friday therapy," Abstract explained. "I invite a bunch of artists from L.A., and we sit in my kitchen. It could be 40 people. One by one, we go in a circle and say what our week looked like. It's taught me a lot." Shia guides these sessions, according to Abstract, who added: "A lot of people's issues are just rooted in living alone in Los Angeles, because everybody goes to that place chasing a dream."
One other person present at a recent Friday therapy gathering was controversial social media influencer YesJulz. Abstract admitted that while her presence was divisive ("The energy was like, "Oh, fuck. She's here") he is keen to give people a chance. "I may have judged as soon as she walked in, but by the end of it I listened and I looked at her like a human being," he said. | 415 |
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A female black bear cub was venturing on Route 3 in Franklin County on July 27 when it was struck by a car, injuring her foreleg.
Luckily, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wildlife biologists and technicians later found and retrieved the cub, according to the Cornell Chronicle, Cornell University's in-house publication.
Jean Soprano, a wildlife rehabilitator, transported the bear to Cornell University Hospital for Animals for surgery. At the hospital, veterinarians mended a fracture in which the bone had split into multiple fragments.
Soprano later retrieved the cub and is taking care of it in her rehabilitation center.
"The female yearling bear is doing well," Soprano told the Chronicle. "We are monitoring her with a closed-circuit camera and are delighted at how well she is walking."
Soprano plans on releasing the cub in the spring, when she will have recovered from the injury and will be old enough to survive on her own.
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The big brown bus rolled into the Dairy Queen parking lot. Shrieks of joy from 13 elementary school age girls (and one little boy) reverberated throughout the cavernous Dodge van! A<|fim_middle|> all look out for one another. We're following the two greatest commandments found in God's Word when we love the Lord our God with all our heart and love our neighbors as ourselves.
We desire to serve the Lord here at this time and in this place as many of our neighbors do the same. Volunteer service fulfills a very important part of the day-to-day needs at Christian City, especially now that the campus has grown to hundreds of acres.
When we were here in the '70s, Red Oak Road was a dirt road to Highway 138. There were few senior patio homes, no welcome center, no apartments, no assisted living facility, no rehab or skilled nursing center, no thrift store, and no Children's Village of today—just four cottages housing the Home for Children.
Today, all of these places use volunteers on a daily basis—in some cases, the need is for someone to just give a smile, a word of encouragement, or a listening ear. You don't have to sing, play the piano, dance, or give a speech—just the giving of your time and presence is a present given in love to Christian City's residents.
My part-time work at Lester Road Christian Church (just up the hill from Christian City) keeps me busy during the week, but I still have time before our church's worship service on Sunday mornings to volunteer at Fairburn Health Care where Bob teaches Bible truths to the residents and I lead the singing. The residents are precious people and souls there, too. Precious souls are everywhere! It is my privilege to minister to God's children here at Christian City and at FHC.
A favorite volunteer ministry of mine, aided by Rae, Myrna Johnson (Life Enrichment Director) and her wonderful CNAs, is the weekly People's Club event, which was created for the spiritual, social and artistic enrichment of senior residents not only at Christian City, but also for those in the senior retirement neighborhoods that surround Christian City.
We have speakers, musicians, singers, preachers, motivational speakers, authors, public servants, and many other great folks in the People's Club lineup. For their ministry, we thank each featured speaker/entertainer for giving their time and talent for the benefit of our residents. For many Christian City residents, People's Club is a chance to gather with neighbors to socialize, be entertained and learn something!
Yes—we loved Christian City in the 1970s and we love Christian City today. We are blessed to live among residents, staff and leaders who strive to love our neighbors as God commands.
Truly, the Lord was, and still is, in this place called Christian City! | wonderful surprise visit to America's ice cream fantasy land! The girls (and one little boy) were relishing the thought of tasty treats! But then the driver swerved back onto the road that led to home; Christian City, Flint cottage. The girls (and one little boy) were crestfallen, but they knew Dad Stockmeier loved to joke with them.
God works in mysterious ways and is not shy about turning us completely around to travel in another direction to do the work He bids us to do. I was in my sixth year of public school teaching, building a solid career. My wife, Rae, our children, my parents (Bob and Jeanette), sister Janice, and brother Terry were all living in the town where I was born and raised. I had not even the smallest thought of leaving Ohio. None.
…to be somewhere else – maybe just for a while. When I look back, I see that God was turning me in the life direction that He had purposed for me since being formed in Jeanette Stockmeier's womb.
I was a "Yankee" in Georgia! A vivid memory from my first days in Georgia (Raenelle is Georgia-born and cultured, a "preacher's kid," — she really is a Georgia peach) a little guy from a nearby cottage walked up to this stranger and asked me, "Is this you-alser's house?" I knew I was in the south! I can show you the spot today, after almost 50 years, where this cute little guy asked his question! Although it took a little time for the indigenous folks and myself to fully understand each other, we all had good-natured fun with one another.
Summarizing our years as Christian City house-parents brings back many memories.
With great fondness, I remember managing the Union City "Colts" baseball team for 11 and 12-year-old boys. 1973 was an especially good year; we won the local Georgia Amateur Baseball League title! Another house parent, Clyde Moore, was the coach and one of his sons, Danny, was on the team. Danny is all grown up now and works at Christian City.
Raenelle and I grew and matured in the Lord at Christian City. Our sense of love of family expanded to include all 13 girls (and one little boy). Three of those girls were our daughters, and, the one little boy on the bus? Our tow-headed son. I remember shopping trips in the early '70s to the Richway store on Old National Highway. People did a double-take when they heard 14 children call us "Mom" and "Dad!" That was special to both of us.
While Bob was having fun teaching, I worked at Southern Bell/BellSouth and later was a deputy clerk for the Commissioner of Roads and Revenue, and even later as Assistant City Clerk in a town outside of Athens. Then, somehow, time, as it often does, sneaked up on us and we "retired" in 2011.
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End of last year I offered to help produce a school literary magazine, figuring I might be useful editing the 80<|fim_middle|> to me how to dress the mag up. Turns out the freebie Lucid doesn't have very many font choices—including no Optima or Verdana! | or so submissions. Yesterday I learned the organizers really need someone to pull the issue together, format it, give it that polished look.
Why'd they turn to me?
Roughly 120 pages of text in mixed media—photos, art, poetry, prose fiction and nonfiction up to 1,500 words—at least three languages, and three different scripts. As handed over, the table of contents is a three-page list of contributors. In alphabetical order. By first name.
The file exists in Lucidpress. Anyone familiar—tips welcome!
We don't want to run all genres in clumps, since we'd like the magazine to flow visually between short and long pieces, between image and art, etc. What else am I missing?
Now that I'm done blogging about it, I'm rolling up my sleeves and getting to work. Any tips for the amateur Lit Mag Guy can be added to the comments, emailed to me, or tweeted at @hBenEast.
*The document is set at OpenSans with 1 to 1.2 line spacing. I'm looking for ideas: Helvetica? Garamond? Other? Line spacing ideas? I'll play around, of course, but happy to learn from those with experience!
GOOD LUCK! Sounds like a lot of work but it will be awesome!
I'm sure people will be telling you: Don't Panic! My own experience in similar situations is that a couple of hours' initial white-faced panic is time well spent.
I would farm out alphabetizing the list of contributors.
Write pull quotes for long articles and separate them into sections, each with a heading in bold.
I like the Optima font. Verdana is easily legible.
Thanks. This is torturous in its own way, but after a few key decisions it's very plain | 373 |
And Then There Were Two !!
I am very good at starting projects but, sadly, not so good at finishing. That's why I have umpteen books in progress, a good size basket full of knitting projects and a draft folder with multiple posts<|fim_middle|> I can't seem to master the art of knitting off-season so that I'm garment-ready when they're needed.
I know what you mean about starting things – I have a few things on the go at the moment. Though have had a spurt of finishes lately. | sitting waiting to be finished and posted.
The work in progress I felt guiltiest about was one single solitary mitten.
I had no good reason for leaving it partnerless.
The pattern, Bella's Mittens, is lovely. Simple but very effective, very clearly written and laid out, and free to boot.
The yarn, a couple of balls of Adriafil Melodia that I had left over from a bigger project, was lovely; the perfect balance of softness, substance and fuzziness. I am so sorry that it has been discontinued.
The first mitten fitted beautifully, and yet it took me more than a year to get around to knitting it's partner.
Last weekend though I was inspired, and I pulled out the wool and needles and knitted my second mitten.
It matches perfectly and I really feel silly now for leaving it for so long.
My only small disappointment is that the cuffs turn up a little. It's nothing I can live with but I think if I knitted the pattern again I'd add in a little hem. I'm sure I will make another pair of these mittens one day. The pattern really is lovely, and it would be very easy to add or subtract a pattern repeat to change the length.
For now though I'm wondering which work in progress to pick up next, and thinking that if the stormy weather that we've had for the last few days gets any worse I might even have a chance to wear my new mittens sooner than I thought.
I think you and I are soul sisters. I love to start new things – knitting, quilting, books, cleaning and writing projects. I just hate to finish. For my knitting, it's socks. I have lots of just one sock. I got a new book that shows how to do two at a time so maybe that will be my solution – in the future. First I have lots of seconds to finish. Your mittens are quite lovely.
They're beautiful and I love the colour!
Frost here this morning. Mittens would have been very welcome, turning up cuff or no turning up cuff.
They're gorgeous and I love the colour! I also admire your having these completed way ahead of any bad weather. For some reason | 453 |
Prince Ernst August placed in a coma after too much drinking
Prince Ernst August of Hanover has been placed in a medically induced coma and is in critical condition at Clinica Delgado in Lima, Peru.
The 64-year-old head of the house of Hanover became ill on Saturday at the Pedro de Osma Museum, where his younger son's Prince Christian's post-wedding party was being held. On Friday, Prince Christian married Peruvian Alessandra de Osma. Original news stories reported that food poisoning was to blame for Prince Ernst August's admittance to<|fim_middle|>inated against the wall of the Turkish pavilion wat Expo 2000 in Hannover. Not long afterward, he checked into a private clinic which specialized in detoxification.
The day before the funeral of his father-in-law, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, Prince Ernst August was rushed to the Princess Grace hospital suffering from an attack of pancreatitis. He was lucky to survive.
"His state of health is serious and requires permanent medical care," a Monegasque statement said at the times.
After two weeks, Prince Ernst August was released from the hospital and was transferred to a clinic in Austria. Hello magazine interviewed the then 51-year-old prince at the Austrian clinic.
He was asked how his illness changed his life. "Normally one looks after others, friends and family. I didn't bother looking after myself. For 35 years, my lifestyle was more than heavy. I am now 51, and I shouldn't have behaved like a 28-year-old, though I kept doing so. But from now on, that's going to change. Only now I have realised the real danger. I could have died. And I have no wish for that to happen yet. My daughter [Alexandra] is only 5. I want to last at least another year."
Change is difficult. Prince Ernst August's desire for a healthier lifestyle did not last long. A 2009 Tatler profile describe Ernst August with a "gargantuan drinking problem."
The Prince is in the midst of a financial battle with his elder son, Hereditary Prince Ernst August, who married last July. Papa won't recognize his elder son's marriage as dynastic until the younger Prince Ernst August returns property that Papa gave him some years ago.
According to the German magazine, Bunte, Prince Ernst August was planning to use his younger son's wedding as a "PR show in the inheritance dispute with his older son," but his plan backfired.
The newly married Prince Christian left the wedding party to see his father in the hospital. His stepbrother, Pierre Casiraghi, the younger son of Prince Ernst August's estranged wife, Princess Caroline of Monaco, stayed overnight at the hospital.
Prince Ernst August's lawyer told RTL that Ernst August and several other guests "suffered food poisoning, which is not unusual in South America."
There are conflicting reports about the current condition of Prince Ernst August and it is not known if he remains in Lima or has since returned to Germany.
Posted by Marlene Eilers Koenig at Wednesday, March 21, 2018
This is so sad for his children.
jack.smith said...
Thanks God, his daughter is now an adult!!!
Jean-Luc Martel said...
Wow that's truly messed up.
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It is now clear that the Prince became ill after drinking too much alcohol. Alcohol abuse has been a serious problem for Prince Ernst August for many years.
In June 2000, the prince caused great offense when he ur | 49 |
As not all the kids got to try all the activities after the first two, I also got some groups to present back their finished projects to the rest of the kids at the end. This way they all got to see all the activities, even if they didn't all get to make all of them.
In this activity, they made a character in Scratch that reacts to compliments (by smiling) and insults (by crying). They had to write examples of compliments and insults, and use these to train a classifier.
There were a lot of ideas introduced in this activity that we'd revisit throughout the afternoon: text classification, supervised learning, what is involved in manually labelling training data, and how training a machine learning system can be quicker and easier than trying to specify rules to do the same thing.
For this first activity, they were also introduced to the idea of computers doing sentiment analysis, and recognising emotional tone in writing.
In this activity, they made a virtual assistant (something like an Amazon Alexa or Google Home) in Scratch. The aim was to be able to control virtual devices by giving commands to their virtual assistant.
They again had to train a classifier with examples of the different commands they wanted their devices to understand. But this time, this was text classification to recognise the intent rather than the sentiment.
This activity also introduced the idea of confidence thresholds. They got their virtual assistants to handle off-topic commands that had nothing to do with their devices by properly saying "I'm sorry, I don't understand".
We looked at some of the Skills in Amazon's Alexa Skills store, and talked about how they would've trained it if they had to create it themselves. The takeaway, a surprise to some of them, was that they had now tried building using the basic ML techniques behind a lot of the Skills in the store. This was particularly powerful for the kids who'd used Alexas at home before. Something that just worked like magic before was now something that they knew they could do themselves.
In this activity, they made the game Rock, Paper, Scissors in Scratch, using a webcam to take a picture of their hand to let them play against the computer.
The previous activities showed how machines could be trained to recognise text (either the meaning of it, or the emotional tone of it). In this activity, we extended this to show that computers can be trained to do image recognition. They had to train an image classifier by taking photos of their hands in different shapes.
In this activity, they taught a machine learning system to play noughts and crosses.<|fim_middle|> chance to build an image recognition system, this also introduced the idea of measuring the effectiveness of a machine learning system by comparing its performance against the performance of a person at the same task, and the reason we test using examples not included in training in holdout validation.
In this activity, they made a tourist info app. They trained a machine learning model to recommend attractions that someone on holiday should visit, based on their interests. It was a chance to show how we use machine learning for recommendations.
I then got them to introduce a new holiday attraction and intentionally bias their training towards it. They gave it a lot more training examples than for the other attractions in their app, even removing training data from the other attractions to make sure that their model ended up preferring this new attraction.
This was a chance to talk about training bias and the AI ethics questions it introduces. After seeing for themselves the impact that this had on how their tourist info app behaved, we talked about whether this was fair. We talked about whether it would've been less unfair if they'd accidentally biased the app towards the one attraction, rather than doing it on purpose. And what they thought the responsibilities that people training machine learning systems should have.
We talked about whether this would be more or less fair if the app was making recommendations to doctors about medicines to use, rather than to holiday makers about places to visit.
We packed in a lot for an afternoon, but I was pleased to see how much they all learned.
Keeping all of the kids going, particularly as they were all doing different activities at different speeds, was tiring. Plus it wasn't without hiccups… the kids did find a couple of small bugs which I'll fix this week.
None of their passwords worked at first for some reason I still haven't worked out, so I had to frantically reset them all while they waited.
Worse, it turns out that imgur (that I used to host the training images for Rock, Paper, Scissors) has an undocumented rate limiting if it thinks you are uploading images too fast, which blocked half the kids from being able to finish their training for that one activity.
But these glitches aside, I think the day worked. I hope they enjoyed it and I'm sure they learned a lot.
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This is the new revolution in the field of education. Kids are the future of the world and in order to make a big change, we should encourage the students towards machine learning. | Starting from a simple noughts and crosses game in Scratch, they had to modify it to collect training data they'd use to train their decision tree classifier.
Instead of manually writing examples to train the computer, this was collecting training data by playing a game. The game worked from the start, albeit making terrible decisions in every move. But it learned from each game so that it got better and better the more games they played. This was a chance to introduce the idea of reinforcement learning, as an alternative to manually labelling training data.
The results were mixed, mostly because of the limited time they had to train their systems. But a couple of the groups ended up with a Scratch game that actually played a decent game of noughts and crosses – not winning every game, but winning quite a few!
Apart from being a chance to talk about AI in games, this activity also let me introduce a little history: I showed a picture of "MENACE" (the Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine) created by Donald Michie in 1960, and explained how what he'd implemented using glass beads and matchboxes in the 1960s was similar to what they'd made in Scratch.
This activity was themed around the phrase "judge a book by it's cover". They trained an image classifier to recognise the type of book (e.g. children's or food & drink) by a picture of it's cover.
They made a game in Scratch that predicted the genre of a book based on it's cover, checking how it would answer compared with a person.
Aside from being another | 329 |
After visiting Ukraine 4 or 5 times previously I had already seen the most interesting cities and places of interest. All that was left was the east which is currently under a territorial dispute and Chernobyl, the site of the nuclear disaster in 1986. I'd read previously in Dom Joly's<|fim_middle|>used soviet radar system which had only just been recently opened to the public. It was about as tall as a football pitch is wide and at least 3 lengths of one long. You really couldn't imagine the scale of it without being there. The guide showed us a video in the car of him climbing to the top of it (illegally of course), crazy stuff.
Next stop was our first real taste of radiation; outside a kindergarten was a yellow and red warning sign with a radioactive symbol on it. As we went closer to the sign, the numbers on our dosimeter/Geiger counter started to rise and once passed 3 units a loud alarm sounded. These signs indicate radiation pockets which you should stay clear of. The guide then recalibrated the meter to only warn us at twice the level of that encounter. Now I don't actually know what these numbers or levels mean so I had no idea if it was really dangerous or not or was just set so to make the experience more exciting.
We carried on, turned a few corners and got our first glimpse of the reactor from a few miles away and stopped for the obligatory photo opportunity. There were 4 active reactors in the complex, some of which were still running until the year 2000. Reactors 5 and 6 were in the process of being built, but construction was stopped shortly after the accident. Everything was left in place, so you can still see the construction cranes and everything towering above those reactors exactly as they were left all those years ago.
After our dosimeters went crazy after passing the Red Forest where most of the radiation was absorbed, we found ourselves at the famous Pripyat sign. A few minutes later we entered the town and was greeted by nothing but overgrown soviet style apartment complexes. At the end of this street we came to the main town square. Quite a few of my clients told me about the game Call of Duty in which a mission is set in this city. A few weeks before, I played it to get a feeling for the place and at this moment I recognised the place and the hotel at the edge of the square where I took a sniper shot at some Russian dictator.
We entered our first big abandoned building which was a supermarket, followed by a nightclub, cinema and into a sports hall with a direct view to the one of the most well known landmarks of the area, the abandoned amusement park which was never opened. We went out the side exit and started to explore the rides some more. Particular attention was drawn to a patch of radioactive grass which the guide jokingly said must be the most photographed grass in the world. We were given free rein to explore and do whatever we wanted so I ended up with lots of photos of this ferris wheel and accompanying rides.
Back in the mini bus and the next stop was the school, we were literally walking on literacy. There were mountains of books all over the floor covering whole rooms and science equipment and desks just left abandoned as if they hadn't been touched since the area was evacuated 2 decades ago. There was one room which looked like the cafeteria in which there were hundreds of gas masks all piled in a corner. All looked very suspicious to me, why was they there in this particular place? It was the perfect photo opportunity, it just seemed almost too perfect and staged.
Our last stop in Pripyat was the Olympic sized swimming pool. Again all abandoned, broken and full of graffiti. It was really odd to experience such city knowing that all these people were only told about the disaster a few days after it happened and evacuated within a few hours. They were told they would return in a few days, so not to bring anything, but of course they never allowed to return once the full danger was realised.
After leaving Pripyat, we went to the closest point we were allowed to go to the reactor, only 200 meters away. Surprisingly this place didn't have the highest radiation we had experienced. The dosimeter previously measured a reading more than twice as high at one of the radiation pockets earlier in our tour. Next to the reactor you can see them building the new sarcophagus which is planned to be slid over the existing structure within the next few years to start the process of dismantling and removing the radioactive material which is still inside after all these years.
We took the short drive back to the town of Chernobyl where we had dinner which was safe to eat as it's apparently brought in everyday from outside the exclusion zone. It was some sort of meat with cheese and tomato and I had my first experience of buckwheat which was tasteless.
When passing the checkpoints on the way out of the zone, we had to go through a special machine which measured the radiation we had absorbed. If it was too high, they would make you stay in the zone forever and make the rest of your life there as to not pass it to other people. Only joking, but you would have to have to be decontaminated before they would let you go. Luckily nobody in our group got stopped, so all was good and we took the long drive back to Kyiv. On our return we were given a certificate that we had been and how much radiation we had had. A nice souvenir, although probably not so accurate.
Published on December 12, 2014 in Travel by Jason and tagged with Chernobyl, Danger, Featured, Nuclear, Prypiat, Prypyat, Radiation, Travel, Ukraine.
I also visited Chernobyl and the experience was extreme and amazing. After living half year in West Ukraine, visiting this place was like visiting another planet. Well, maybe indeed Planet Chernobyl. Thanks for sharing. Greetings all the way from Ouarzazate! | Dark Tourist book about his visit to this place a few years ago and it sounded quite an interesting and unusual experience. I talked to my some of my Ukrainian and Polish friends about my plans and more than a few of them suggested I shouldn't go because they didn't believe it was safe, but after doing my own research I was relatively reassured it was by the amount of visitors that go each year and a fact I read on one tour website that you receive more radiation on a 45 minute flight than you would having been on this tour for the whole day. Whether this is true, or just something that someone made up just to get more sales of their tour is another matter, but I decided all would be good and booked it by email with a travel agency in Kyiv and a western union money transfer (usually a sign something is a scam).
A few weeks later I arrived in Kyiv and on the Sunday of my first weekend I proceeded to wake up early and go to the meeting point outside the train station at 7 in the morning. I walked past the actual bus twice as I was expected a big coach to take us. On my third walk down the street looking for the tour, I saw a "Chernobyl Tour" sign in a small mini bus/people carrier. I was the first to arrive and after talking to the guide a little about what to expect and him telling me he was one of the guys that took Jeremy Clarkson and the top gear team on their filming trip to Chernobyl last year, a German guy showed up to join us. There were another 2 people scheduled to join us, but they didn't show up so I had an almost private tour with just me, the guide and this other guy.
It takes 2 hours to get to the exclusion zone in which Chernobyl is situated so after a brief coffee stop we were on our way and watched a documentary about what actually happened and the aftermath which nicely filled the time up. There are 2 checkpoints on the way, the first 30 kilometres away from the reactor and another at 10km. At the first one our passports were checked to see if we were not terrorists. I don't know how they would check this really, even though they had the passport number for a week before. It is Ukraine after all so safety isn't usually their top priority.
Once inside the zone, our first stop was an abandoned village called Zalissya in which everything is dilapidated and apparently one Babuska (old woman) still lives in this village alone and government workers clear the road every day of leaves in Autumn and snow in Winter to make sure she can walk to the main road, presumably to catch a bus into the town of Chernobyl to get supplies. I could never imagine living in such place alone, but I suppose she doesn't know anything else.
After this, we went back to the mini bus and took a left along a long narrow concrete road to see a dis | 608 |
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The Weapon Makers Part 1 in Astounding Science Fiction February 1943.
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Home \ News \ BMW Group builds new Driving Simulation Centre in Munich.
September 11th, 2018 – Munich: The BMW Group's new Driving Simulation Centre is taking shape in Munich's Milbertshofen district. In mid-August, the company began construction of the world's most advanced facility for the simulation of real-world driving situations at the FIZ Research and Innovation Centre in the north of the city. The new building provides unique possibilities for virtual testing of advanced driving assistance systems and innovative display and control concepts. This will, above all, strengthen the development expertise of the BMW Group in the field of autonomous driving. A unique feature of the facility is the high-fidelity simulator, in which longitudinal, transverse and rotational movements of a vehicle can be represented simultaneously and therefore very realistically. This allows the BMW engineers to "bring the road into the lab," in order to conduct studies just as if they were taking place in real-world road traffic. For the first time, urban driving situations – which represent a particular challenge in the context of autonomous driving – can now also be reproduced realistically, allowing vehicle responses to be constantly enhanced.
New Driving Simulation Centre is an important component of the FIZ Future masterplan.
Automated driving is one of the main technology areas which the BMW Group has designated as being of central importance in its NUMBER ONE > NEXT corporate strategy. These areas are also addressed to a significant degree by the expansion of development capacity at the FIZ. Construction of the new Driving Simulation Centre is part of the FIZ Future masterplan, which calls for the BMW Group's central development facility to grow by some 50 percent through several stages up to 2050. The foundation stone for the first phase was laid in autumn 2017 and now the start of work on the new Driving Simulation Centre marks a further stage in the project. It is being built in a central area between the Projekthaus and the Aerodynamic Test Centre. Covering a total floor area of 11,400 square metres, the facility will comprise 14 simulators and usability labs employing 157 people. BMW Group Research is planning to start work here in 2020. The investment in the new Driving Simulation Centre is estimated at around 100 million euros.
Several decades of experience in the field of driving simulation.
Advanced driving simulators have become an indispensable tool, especially for the development and testing of driving assistance systems and display and control concepts. They allow the functionality and suitability for customer use of new systems to be tested in detail<|fim_middle|>. Furthermore, the driving simulator makes it possible to act out test scenarios which occur only rarely or under unusual circumstances in real life, or which would involve risks and so could not be created for test purposes in a real-world driving environment. Conversely, findings obtained in the course of real-world road testing can be checked and validated in realistic laboratory simulation.
New Driving Simulation Centre enables more precise and efficient testing of complex systems.
The new Driving Simulation Centre is therefore ideally placed to meet the ever greater requirements arising from the growing complexity of systems for automated driving. In future, it will allow different driving situations to be reproduced in significantly greater numbers and in more detailed form. Individual aspects of a particular scenario can be varied and combined freely. This means, for example, that the configuration of a new driving assistance system can be tested under different conditions at an early stage in order to find the ideal balance between a dynamic and comfort-oriented profile before the first road test has taken place. New display and control systems can also be tested in a wide variety of situations in order to analyse the risk of the driver being distracted or the effect of visible, audible or haptic signals.
In order to establish both the functional reliability of new systems and their usability, the virtual test drives in the new Driving Simulation Centre will be conducted not only by the development engineers and professional test drivers, but also by customers on a regular basis. Analysis of their driving behaviour in the simulator and their own subsequent assessment provide important findings for the development process as it progresses. This means that, long before the first mile of actual road driving has been performed, the new Driving Simulation Centre is able to indicate clearly how well a new system will stand up to the everyday reality of a vehicle's life on the road. | while still at a very early stage of development. The driving simulator serves as a link between the functional testing of individual hardware and software components on the one hand and road testing with complete systems on the other. The BMW Group has many years of experience in using such facilities. Back in the early 1990s, static driving simulators were employed in the development of BMW cars. In order to model what happens on the road in even greater detail, the BMW Group has also operated a dynamic driving simulator since 2006. In the face of rising demands on the capacity of these facilities, a further dynamic driving simulator was installed in the BMW Group Research and Technology House in Garching in 2016.
High-dynamic and high-fidelity simulators for automated driving functions.
At the heart of the new Driving Simulation Centre are two innovative driving simulators specifically designed to meet requirements for testing highly complex automated driving systems. The new high-dynamic simulator is able to generate longitudinal and transverse acceleration forces of up to 1.0 g. It is used to test new systems and functions by replicating highly dynamic evading manoeuvres, full braking and hard acceleration. An extremely detailed rendering of real-world driving characteristics is provided by the second unit, the high-fidelity simulator: braking and accelerating while cornering, driving in roundabouts and rapid series of multiple turn-off manoeuvres can be reproduced with high precision in this simulator's almost 400-square-metre motion area. This means that, for the first time, complex urban driving situations – which present a particularly wide range of challenges for automated driving systems – can now be replicated under laboratory conditions.
The systems to be tested are fitted in a vehicle mock-up attached to a platform inside the dome of the driving simulator. Mounted on an electromechanical hexapod system, the dome can be moved both longitudinally and transversely by an electric drive while also being turned. In order to give the drivers a realistic visual experience of the simulated driving situation, the dome housing the mock-up is equipped with a projection screen. Precise synchronisation of the projected driving images with the movements of the vehicle creates a highly realistic perception of the simulated driving situation, in which the visual impressions of what is happening on the road and the longitudinal, transverse and vertical acceleration forces acting on the test person merge to create an almost flawless overall dynamic impression. The virtual test drive scenario is completed by a sound simulation which is also matched precisely to the situation portrayed.
In this way, it is possible to create test conditions which until now could only be experienced with real vehicles on the road. When seeking to optimise innovative systems, laboratory testing also has the advantage that selected driving situations can be repeated as often as required. This significantly increases the validity of the results | 567 |
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Welcome to the 3000 years of history! The history of Pula starts with the myth of the Argonauts and the search for the Golden Fleece. It was the home of the Histrians, the Romans and the Venetians. Once the central Austrian port, today it is the largest cultural and economic center of Istria. Various layers of history took part in the making of this unique town in which Roman temples defy baroque palaces, early Christian churches stand face to face to Austrian villas, and the remnants of mediaeval walls are cut through by antique town gates.
And then, you will come across the Amphitheatre, revealing itself to you in all its beauty. This is one of the best preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world, the most significant monument in Pula! Arena, the place where gladiators faced lions, used to be able<|fim_middle|>varner-express.hr ID CODE : HR-AB-52-040177056
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Still, there is more. The Austrian Pula, with its numerous gorgeous historicist buildings surrounding the port and the historical nucleus, waits for your arrival. Wherever you go, you will see that the town's rich history and culture make a perfect scenography for supreme musical and dramatic spectacles. Concerts, operas, ballet, theatrical performances, film festivals – this is only a small part of what Pula has to offer.
Only some 10 km north of Pula, you can enjoy the loveliness of picturesque Istrian small towns Vodnjan and Fažana. Stone houses and grandiose church-towers reflect the peacefulness of the times past. Looking at the sea, you will see the Brijuni islands. In this unique national park, exceptional historical monuments make peace with the cultivated landscape rich with flora and fauna from all over the world.
If you go some 10 km south of Pula, you will come across a beautiful peaceful bay with archipelago of islets and the picturesque small town of Medulin. Due to its perfectly clear sea, its rich offer and pleasant climate, Medulin is one of the most desirable tourist destinations when it comes to family vacation. On the other side of the Medulin bay, Pomer and Premantura are settled. Once homes of fishermen and farmers, today they are tourist places, gates through which you can reach the most southern part of Istria, Kamenjak Cape, a nature reserve and one of those wonders that only nature can create. Do visit this gentle wilderness!
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The Motorola MicroTAC is a cellular phone first manufactured as an analog version in 1989. GSM-compatible and TDMA/Dual-Mode versions were introduced in 1994. The MicroTAC introduced a new "flip" design, where the "mouthpiece" folded over the keypad, although on later production the "mouthpiece" was actually located in the base of the phone, along with the ringer. This set the standard and became the model for modern flip phones today. Its predecessor was the much larger Motorola DynaTAC and it was succeeded by the Motorola StarTAC in 1996. "TAC" was an abbreviation of "Total Area Coverage" in all three models.
Model history
MicroTAC 9800X
The MicroTAC, released by Motorola on April 25, 1989, was the smallest and lightest phone available at the time. Upon its release, it made headlines across the world. The phone was released as the "MicroTAC Pocket Cellular Telephone." The first MicroTACs were known as the Motorola 9800X, a continuation of the numerical name Motorola gave their phones in the 1980s. The MicroTAC was designed to fit into a shirt pocket. These very rare phones featured a black plastic housing and a red 8-character dot-matrix LED display, which was able to show more information than the display of its predecessor, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X. However, dot-matrix displays of the time were still quite limited by today's standards. The inside of the flip piece had the "Motorola" logo on a diagonal, above thin blue diagonal lines. The badge on the front flip had a raised metallic Motorola logo, and "Micro T.A.C" in small blue letters above the display. The "micro" sized phone measured as long as over long when open and weighed in with the slim battery. The phone incorporated a built-in alpha-numeric phone book as one of the many standard features. A numerically organized menu allowed the user to select options for phone operations. Some of the many options included security codes, two phone number operations, a charge rate and currency calculator, secretarial memory scratchpads, hands-free operation, keypad tones, memory protection, phone number and name storage, as well as cellular system operation options.
In addition to the standard 12-button keypad, the MicroTAC had buttons for Power, Function, Name/Menu, End, Send, Clear, Store, and Recall. The left side of the phone featured two buttons for adjusting the volume up and down. While in alpha mode, the volume buttons toggled between upper-case and lower-case text. The model sold for between U.S. $2,495 and U.S. $3,495, and was produced into the early 1990s before being replaced by newer versions.
Several variants of the 9800X existed, most notably models that featured a 10-character alpha-numeric liquid crystal display (LCD), which had a green backlight. These uncommon variants were made for the Norwegian Storno and Italian SIP networks in the early 1990s. The Storno variants operated on NMT-450 and the SIP models were of the ETACS/RTMS-450 Dual Band. They kept the "MicroTAC" Blue logo on the screen, the same black housing, but had different metallic badges in addition to the LCD.
The original models can be distinguished by their elongated antenna base, white-translucent keys and gray keypad background. Accessories for the phone included car, desktop and overnight travel chargers, installed hands-free car kits, leather cases, and a selection of batteries. The slimmest battery then available was the Slim and Slim Extended (Life), followed by the Standard, XT, and Talk-Pak XT batteries. The Talk-Pak XT and XT used Nickel Metal-Hydride while the others used Nickel Cadmium. A Lithium Ion battery was introduced in 1994.
The early 9800X-era MicroTACs were the only phones to have the microphone and ringer in the mouthpiece. These components were moved to the main phone body in all other models.
Digital Personal Communicator
In 1989, the Digital Personal Communicator, or DPC, was introduced as a lower cost alternative to the 9800X. Light or dark gray in color, the phone featured a green or orange 7-character segment LED display. It closely resembled the 9800x in terms of the keypad design and background and the main body. Early DPCs of the 9800X-era featured the elongated antenna base, round-top side grips, and white-on-gray keypad. Later versions (most likely after 1991) lost the 9800X-specific physical features, but kept the same basic form. Bone white models were also available as special editions to cellular providers in the US. An upscale version of the DPC, known as the MicroTAC 950, or the MicroTAC Alpha in later years featured an 8-character green or orange dot-matrix LED display and the return of the alpha-numeric phonebook. The Alpha phones were "upscale" in that they had more user-programmable options. Also, Alpha phones featured the side grip arrow keys. Soon, an "affordable" DPC 550 came to the market. Almost identical to the Digital Personal Communicator, the DPC 550 featured little with the most basic of operations.
MicroTAC Lite and the Ultra Lite
On August 6, 1991, the MicroTAC Lite was introduced at . The Lite was the lightest phone available, continuing the record of the 9800X. It was basically a slimmer version of the Alpha. Another model, the Lite XL, was released around this time. It had a single-line green LED display and three Memory Location keys added. The Lite was quickly followed by the MicroTAC Ultra Lite. This phone was lighter and had longer battery life. In 1992, a new phone was released, the Ultra-Lite, which weighed , again holding the new record for the lightest phone available. This was due to it being the first phone that utilized NiMH batteries, although replacement batteries were often NiCDs because NiMHs were very expensive. The Ultra Lite was also the first phone with a vibrating ringer.
MicroTAC Classic
In 1991, Motorola released the MicroTAC Classic which resembled the 1989 model, weighing in at . Several changes were carried over from the MicroTAC Lite: the antenna base was shortened, the red LED display was dropped for a 10-character LCD display, and the keys were changed from white to black. The phone was available on the ETACS network. There was a single-band GSM model available in the UK that took credit-card sized SIM cards. The Classic had the same "Motorola" over blue diagonal lines on the inside of the flip, but lost the metallic front badge and blue lettering.
MicroTAC II
In 1991, the MicroTAC Lite was simultaneously released in some markets (including Asia) as the MicroTAC II. Several models were produced in different versions for different networks, including AMPS, ETACS, NMT, and JTACS. Some of these models (presumably the newer ones) share volume buttons and a rubber side grip with the later Ultra Lite model.
The phones shipped with either a green backlit single-line LCD or a red<|fim_middle|>TAC. The phone was still relatively commonplace into the early 2000s. However, due to its large size and weight, many owners of the phone upgraded to smaller models like the StarTAC.
CipherTAC
The CipherTAC was a spin-off of the MicroTAC series, running on the CDMA network. It offered unrecoverable, encrypted communication and was purpose-built in 1998 for the Secretary of State (then Madeleine Albright) and other officials. It was not made available for mainstream use. The fate of these units is currently unknown; presumably most of them would have been destroyed for security reasons but at least one example survives as a museum exhibit.
Design-wise, the CipherTAC took after the Elite VIP.
Clone models
The MicroTAC body was also used as the base model for the Motorola TeleTAC and the Flare series. The TeleTAC and Flare phones used the same core body, antenna, screen, keypad, and batteries, but lacked the flip-lid cover. The MicroTAC 650E lost the flip and Memory Location keys and gained arrow keys to become the Profile 300E. This Profile 300e phone was also called Metro1, the model on the sticker was S7956A and featured a 2.5mm headset jack.8942899421
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VIP models
Many MicroTAC models were available with the upscale VIP option. VIP phones were black with gold lettering, had a dark orange dot-matrix LED display (only 9800X models had a true red display) and additional menu features. Lites, Ultra-Lites, Lite IIs, Lite XLs, Elites, and Alphas were all available as VIP phones.
Model list
1989
MicroTAC 9800X (AMPS/ETACS/NMT/JTAC)
Digital Personal Communicator (AMPS/ETACS)
1990
MicroTAC 9800X S.I.P. (ETACS/RTMS-450)
MicroTAC 950 (AMPS)
1991
MicroTAC Classic (ETACS/NMT/GSM 900)
MicroTAC Lite (AMPS)
MicroTAC Lite VIP (AMPS)
MicroTAC II (ETACS)
1992
MicroTAC II Platinum (ETACS)
MicroTAC Alpha (AMPS)
MicroTAC DPC 550 (AMPS)
MicroTAC Alpha VIP (AMPS)
MicroTAC Ultra-Lite (AMPS)
MicroTAC Ultra-Lite VIP (AMPS)
1993
MicroTAC Lite XL (AMPS)
MicroTAC Pro (ETACS)
1994
Micro DIGITAL (TDMA/AMPS)
Micro Digital Lite (TDMA/AMPS)
MicroTAC Elite (NAMPS)
MicroTAC Elite VIP (NAMPS)
MicroTAC Digital Elite (TDMA/NAMPS)
MicroTAC International 5080 (GSM 900)
MicroTAC International 5200 (GSM 900)
MicroTAC International 7200 (GSM 900)
1995
MicroTAC Piper (AMPS)
DPC 650 (AMPS)
MicroTAC 650 E (AMPS)
MicroTAC International 7500 (GSM 900)
MicroTAC International 8200 (GSM 900)
1996
MicroTAC International 8400 (GSM 900)
MicroTAC International 8700 (GSM 900)
1997
MicroTAC Select 3000e (GSM 1900)
MicroTAC Select 6000e (GSM 1900)
MicroTAC 725 (CDMA)
MicroTAC International 8900 (GSM 900/1800)
1998
MicroTAC 8200 (AMPS)
See also
Motorola StarTAC
Communicator (Star Trek)
Grillo telephone
Clamshell design
References
External links
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Motorola's New MicroTAC Lite
Motorola Introduces Ultra-Lite
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MicroTAC Elite
1994 saw the introduction of the MicroTAC Elite and the "International" series, the then smallest and light-weight model available at the time. It weighed in at a mere with the slim battery. The Elite was a function of NAMPS technology from 1993. The Elite was also produced in a rare MicroTAC Elite VIP (pictured), which had a black housing, gold lettering, and an orange LED display, over the ordinary Elite, which had a gray housing, a green LED display, and white lettering. The Elite series was a feature-packed phone and retailed for around $600. The phone included a first-ever two line display, for a total of 14 dot-matrix characters. There were also separate LED indicator meters for signal strength and battery, as well as a Menu Icon Display. The phone's software offered advanced menu features, and each category, when accessed, was indicated with green icons at the bottom of the display. Categories included Phone Book, Timers, Security, Tone Control, Phone Options, and Answering Machine / Messaging. This was the first mobile phone to have a built-in, recordable answering machine. It was also the first mobile phone to use a Lithium-Ion battery.
International GSM
A series of GSM models was produced beginning in 1994, mostly in the UK, such as the International 5200, International 7500, and the International 8400, all running on the GSM 900 network. Many of these models are functionally identical but feature cosmetic differences or software upgrades.
The International 8700, released in 1996, was fitted as a removable handset in the earliest Jaguar XK8 and Jaguar XKR luxury sports coupes and convertibles, and selected BMW models up to the end of 1998.
With design underpinnings from the 8700, the dual-band International 8800 and 8900 (also known as the DB890) models were launched in 1997 and 1998 respectively. At the time of its launch, the International 8800 was the first mobile to work on both GSM 900 and 1800 bands. The International 8800 was rebadged for the Orange network as the Orange mr601 model.
The success of their analogue microTAC handset blinded Motorola to the implications of the emerging GSM standard. This allowed Nokia to secure a competitive advantage with the Nokia 1011 that was released in 1992, a full two years ahead of the GSM version of the MicroTAC. This left only their Motorola International 3200 "brick" in the GSM market to compete with the Nokia 1011. Many in the industry regard this as the turning point in an industrial cellular landscape that Motorola had historically controlled.
US digital models
Several digital models were produced for the US markets. One was the short-lived Micro DIGITAL model that operated on the AMPS and TDMA networks, and was similar in appearance to the Alpha model. The MicroTAC Lite was also available for the TDMA network. The other was the MicroTAC Select 6000e, with a design based on the International 8700. The Select models had large-format backlit LCDs, similar to those found on the MicroTAC 3000e and A725, which operated on CDMA networks.
MicroTAC 650/650E and decline
In 1996, the diminutive Motorola StarTAC was released, which provided fierce competition for MicroTAC. The phone received a redesign in 1996, with a more rounded case and thinner flip-lid. Two Memory Location keys were added to the phone. Base models were known as the DPC 650, which kept the 550's display. A more expensive model, the MicroTAC DPC 650E received the StarTAC 3000's 10-character LED display with separate battery and signal meters. It weighed . Like the StarTAC, the MicroTAC 650E ("E" for Enhanced Features) received some feature upgrades, such as selectable ringer styles, but lost the alpha-numeric phonebook. The 650E was available in gray or black. The 650E was one of the better selling models in the US, along with the Elite and DPC 550. The MicroTAC was produced up until 1998, when sales declined with the increasing popularity of the Star | 1,001 |
Q:<|fim_middle|>(all ignored files)
| git: how to tell if a file or folder is committed versus ignored? In Git, how do I tell if a file or folder is committed versus ignored?
That is, I have a folder in the current directory and I don't know if it's been committed, or, if there's a .gitignore somewhere that is ignoring the folder. When I do 'git status' the folder is not listed in any sections.
Secondly, if the folder has been committed, is there an easy way to tell which of its files are committed? For example:
folder contains:
- 0001.csv
- 0002.csv
- ...
- 2000.csv
And I want to list which files have been committed, and which have been ignored.
A: I think you're looking for git status --ignored
A: Are you looking for
git status --ignored
?
That will show a result that looks like:
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add ..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory)
(all added / modified)
Ignored files:
(use "git add -f ..." to include in what will be committed)
| 258 |
Real value is not money. Real value is fulfilment. Fulfilment is from realising potential, achieving understanding, having ideas, contributing and producing, learning and growing.
Fulfilment is a factor of realisation, understanding, ideas, contribution and productivity, learning and growth. All of this is enabled and permitted by the principle of no harm.
A good economy enables contributions. It is sustainable, not sabotaged by speculation. Its reward is not a steady rate of return (or wild riches), but fulfil<|fim_middle|> is not the key factor of importance; harm to people's ability to realise potential and find fulfilment is.
A common purpose economy is not only politically democratic, but also organisationally, in businesses and bureaucracies. It is an economy with equal opportunity to contribute, where financial inequities are reduced so they do not constrict opportunities.
Another measure of success in constructing an economy that enables fulfilment is the level of the shared base income. This can be measured by valuing the direct (monetary) and indirect components (free education, universal health care) that comprise it, and comparing this to similar measures in other nations. | ment through the realisation of potential, through people enabled to make their best contributions.
In the same vein, real costs are not financial in the real economy, they are human. These are the hidden but also often blatant costs people pay when they are unable to realise their potential, find fulfilment and contribute. This is the real cost. Financial cost | 70 |
7 Entrepreneur Movies that Every Business Owner Should See
Sion Phillpott
As the innumerable array of books and podcasts on the subject demonstrate, entrepreneurs are not short of real-life lessons, insights and guides.
Sometimes, however, the best takeaways can be found in fictional form – especially when Hollywood is involved. To prove it, we've compiled a list of seven films that every aspiring business owner should watch, from real-life biopics to guerilla documentaries.
The Best Movies for Entrepreneurs
Inspiring, practical and often thought-provoking, these films will undoubtedly make you reflect, no matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey, so get the popcorn ready and start taking notes.
Here are our picks:
1. The Founder (2016)
With a strong focus on the ownership wrangling that defined McDonald's' early years, you could be forgiven for thinking that The Founder is simply a Social Network for the fast food industry. At its heart, though, this 2016 offering is less corporate drama and more character study, highlighting the dedication, persistence and, indeed, ruthlessness that is often needed to succeed in business.
The titular founder in question is Ray Kroc, a struggling 1950s door-to-door salesman who stumbles upon the original McDonald's restaurant – and with it, an opportunity to find his own fortune by franchising it. Based on Kroc's real-life autobiography, it pulls no punches; the man himself is not a particularly likeable or moral operator, remarking at one point that "contracts are like hearts – they're made to be broken". It does, however, illustrate how running a business can turn ugly when it reaches a certain size, as well as how single-mindedness and perseverance are the secrets to winning – no matter how ugly the victory.
Now, I know what you're thinking. How the heck does a 52-year-old, over-the-hill milkshake machine salesman build a fast food empire with 16,000 restaurants, in 50 states, in 5 foreign countries, with an annual revenue in the neighborhood of $700m? One word: persistence. Nothing in this world can take the place of good old persistence. Talent won't. Nothing's more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius won't. Unrecognized genius is practically a cliché. Education won't. Why the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all powerful.
Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton)
2. The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
While most of the films on this list depict entrepreneurial success, The Inventor, a 2-hour HBO special first aired in 2019, is a fascinating insight into what happens when things go horribly wrong.
Produced and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, it details the spectacular downfall of Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes, and her company Theranos. Having attracted over $90m in venture capital during the late 2000s, the company's technologies and practices were found to be fraudulent, resulting in<|fim_middle|> sense of happiness, purchasing a small food truck and travelling the length of the country with his young son.
While some may find the story a little too saccharine, it nevertheless illustrates that, for many people, professional and personal fulfilment comes from going it alone and having the freedom to do what we love. This is a valuable reminder to not just aspiring business owners, but those further down the line who may have forgotten precisely why they took that entrepreneurial plunge in the first place.
I may not do everything great in my life, but I'm good at this. I manage to touch people's lives with what I do.
Carl Casper (Jon Favreau)
4. The Startup Kids (2012)
The Startup Kids
Crafted by two Icelandic entrepreneurs, Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir, The Startup Kids is an exploration of the entrepreneurial mindset and lifestyle, structured through a series of interviews with real-life startup founders.
Funded entirely by Kickstarter, the film features thoughts and insights from successful tech entrepreneurs such as Drew Houston (Dropbox), Zach Klein (Vimeo) and Alexander Ljung (SoundCloud), as well as numerous venture capitalists, investors and industry insiders. Unsurprisingly, there is a wealth of inspiration, advice and – importantly – warning to be found in among the 55-minute running time, with Halldorsdottir herself remarking that the documentary is intended to motivate and enlighten aspiring young entrepreneurs.
I don't know why anybody thinks that startups are all rainbows and sunshine.
Leah Culver, founder of Grove
5. Office Space (1999)
A satirical and somewhat fantastical take on the sheer boredom and inanity of the corporate workplace, Office Space is a walking, talking 90-minute reminder of why you left the nine-to-five behind. There's more to Mike Judge's cult classic than soulless bosses and violently dismantled photocopiers, though; for business owners, Gary Cole's Bill Lumbergh is a masterclass in how not to manage your people.
While humiliating, degrading and undermining your workforce might not result in them hatching a plan to steal from you (or, worse, burn your office down), the film does illustrate how talented but disengaged employees are bad for business. If you're not paying attention to morale, then there's a good chance that you're creating exactly the kind of working environment parodied here, which should be a frightening thought in itself.
The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy; it's that I just don't care. It's a problem of motivation, all right? If I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?
Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston)
6. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Notwithstanding the graphic decadence and debauchery on offer in Martin Scorsese's 2013 masterpiece, The Wolf of Wall Street is a worthy watch for aspiring entrepreneurs for one iconic reason: "sell me this pen".
In this one almost throwaway exchange, Jon Bernthal's Brad succinctly identifies the difference between a natural entrepreneur and the hundreds of hopeful (but hopeless) average Joes who just don't understand the basic business tenet of supply and demand. It's a humorous scene but one that perfectly illustrates the sales-oriented mindset of a successful entrepreneur.
Despite the extremely skewed moral compass of Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort, there are even some inspiring lessons to take away, too. As Belfort tells his fanatically loyal workers, "the only thing standing between you and your goal is the bulls**t story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it" – a pearl of wisdom that every aspiring business owner should contemplate.
The name of the game – moving the money from the client's pocket to your pocket.
Mark Hanna (Matthew McConaughey)
7. The Intern (2015)
In the annals of cinema history, there have been some truly great mentors: sages of truly timeless wisdom, such as Yoda, Mr Miyagi or Morpheus. But unless you're training to fight evil Sith lords, neighbourhood bullies or rogue post-apocalyptic robots, it's difficult to place the importance of mentorship in a startup context – unless, that is, you've seen The Intern.
Focusing on the relationship between Anne Hathaway's stressed-out entrepreneur and Robert De Niro's retirement-averse titular intern, the film slowly but gradually illustrates the benefit of having an experienced mentor behind you. It also touches on many of the challenges that a small startup typically faces, and how having a steady hand to advise you can loosen the weight of running a company. If nothing else, The Intern has a lot of smart things to say about the modern workplace, a lot of which is still relevant in 2020.
Mark Zuckerberg never brought in a CEO - and he was a teenager!
Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway)
If you're still looking for more great movie recommendations, then why not take at our list of the best leadership films, too - or, if you prefer your entertainment in chunks, the best business TV shows?
In the meantime, what other movies about entrepreneurs would you recommend? Let us know your picks in the comments below. | the dissolution of the company (Holmes and her former COO, Ramesh Balwani, are set to stand trial in 2020, with both facing up to 20 years in prison).
Through expert and insider testimonies, the film paints a picture of Homes' wannabe visionary style – particularly her preoccupation with branding, marketing and media over actual product development (Holmes is regularly seen wearing a black turtleneck in imitation of her idol, Steve Jobs). In the end, though, The Inventor is about more than a narcissist with noble but flawed vision; it is a warning to entrepreneurs everywhere – and indeed Silicon Valley as a whole – that you should never believe your own hype, especially at the expense of the truth.
Stories have emotions that data doesn't, and emotions get people to do all kinds of things – good and bad.
Dan Ariely, behavioural economist
3. Chef (2014)
Written, directed by and starring Jon Favreau, Chef is a less cynical insight into entrepreneurship, yet it still manages to tap effectively into the frustration that many workers feel in their nine-to-five job.
Favreau's Carl Casper is a successful and prestigious chef pigeon-holed into serving mediocre fare, before a public argument with a food critic results in the collapse of his professional career. Naturally, Casper then proceeds to "find" his true | 284 |
March is kind of a crazy month at my school. It seems like there's always something going on, like first day ceremonies, student elections and placement tests. Today's distraction was Open Class. Back in the states it's called Open House and the parents come up to the school at night time. Here it's a little different. All parents are invited to school during the day. There was a ceremony in the auditorium at 10:00am. I was required to attend because all of the new teachers were introduced. I sat while all of the full time teachers were announced, then the<|fim_middle|>pat.com. Bookmark the permalink. | contracted teachers were introduced. My friend and co-worker, JuHye, cued me when it was time for me to stand. I bowed as the principal called my name and said a little bit about me. Afterwards, I asked JuHye what he told the parents about me and she said that he told them that I am the new native English teacher and I graduated from the University of Texas. Hmm… Close enough? I told her that he basically told them that I'm cooler than I really am. I thought it was funny.
On Wednesdays I usually teach 5 classes, but because of the Open Classes I only really taught one class today. I taught at 9am and then at 10am I had the Meet the New Teachers thing. My co-teacher taught that class alone, but I made it back in time to play the game with the class. Third and fourth period classes were cancelled because the students had to stay in homeroom for the Open Class. The parents are allowed to stay and watch the students while they are in class. I thought I was going to teach again at fourth period, but I just found out that it's cancelled too. The students get to go home after lunch so I don't teach fifth period either. I don't have a computer in my new office so I don't have anything to do. It's going to be a long day!
Earlier I asked my main co-teacher if she was going to wear green tomorrow for St. Patrick's Day and she had no clue what I was talking about. After I explained it to her she said I should teach the students about it tomorrow. So I get 15 minutes to explain St. Paddy's Day to the 5th graders tomorrow. Should be fun!
I think tonight will be fun. The teachers are all pretty nice. I'll post all about it tomorrow night.
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Ableton has announced some new products, scheduled to be released before the end of 2007: Ableton 7, some new add-on instruments, and Ableton Suite.
Ableton<|fim_middle|> engine including 64-bit mix summing, new and improved devices with side-chaining capability, better MIDI timing and hardware integration.
Live 7 also brings some of the most requested features like Time Signature Changes, Video Export, Easier Automation, Tempo Nudge, and REX Support.
A new Drum Rack streamlines beat production via an easy drag-and-drop interface and offers native sliced audio and REX file support.
Ableton Live 7 is currently in beta stage. If you are a registered Live 6 user you can check to see if there are any beta serial numbers available to you here.
The download version of Ableton 7 will cost EUR 419/USD 499, and a boxed version (includes the Essential Instrument Collection 2) will be EUR 499/USD 599.
Note: All users who unlock their Live 6 or Live 6 Upgrade between October 1, 2007 and January 31, 2008 will get a free download upgrade to Ableton Live 7, plus attractive instrument bundle offers at release date.
The new add-on instruments are the result of Ableton's collaboration with leading industry partners (AAS, SONiVOX and Chocolate Audio).
The palette covers physically modeled electric pianos, analog synthesizers and string instruments as well as multi-mic/multi-layer sampled acoustic drums, drum machines, orchestral strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion. The instruments integrate tightly with Live, both in terms of workflow and resource management.
Each of these software instruments will cost EUR 129/USD 159.
Ableton Suite combines Ableton Live 7 with Ableton instruments in a comprehensive bundle at a great discount.
Several upgrade offers are available as well.
Visit Ableton for more detailed information on all these new products. | Live 7 renews the core of Live, with enhancements to the audio | 15 |
"Lawyer for the Dog," by Lee Robinson. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $24.99.
It wasn't exactly the ending I envisioned, but this fun-filled Southern-based novel is a clever and amusing portrayal of a middle-aged attorney Sarah Baynard and Sherman, a miniature schnauzer that suddenly becomes the conduit for every relationship in her life.
The author, who practiced law for more than 20 years in Charleston, S.C., the site of the action here, develops the central characters skillfully and with plenty of persona. Some tantalize, some teeter, always with psychological gymnastics.
The book centers around Baynard's former husband, Joe, a judge, asking her to do him a favor and serve as Sherman's guardian ad litem in a hotly contested divorce case between a wealthy long-married man and woman who are odds as to who should get custody of their beloved dog.
This is new turf for Baynard, a public<|fim_middle|> idea of how Robinson had it finishing. Didn't happen.
"Lawyer for the Dog" is smart and frothy, soberly reflective and packed with spirited realism amidst a carnival of characters. | defender and family lawyer who has represented murderers, burglars and drug dealers. Add to that she doesn't own a dog and has no desire to, since her plate is full caring for her elderly mother suffering from Alzheimer's and a crowded load of cases.
Accepting this challenge means Baynard must query both the husband and wife in regard to each's relationship with Sherman and why he/she should retain custody going forward. Add to that the others she must interview before eventually making a recommendation on Sherman's behalf.
This prompts new pathways, a colorful mosaic of characters and even a budding relationship for Baynard with Sherman's veterinarian. Throughout the procedure, Baynard takes possession of Sherman and a somewhat predictable bond begins emerging between the two.
As the story flows breezily down the homestretch amidst plenty of brief punchy slices of life, I had a preconceived | 173 |
"Who is your
future twin?"
"Creating a space for the people to dance."
- San Francisco Chronicle
Future Twin is the moniker for generative musician and multi-media artist Jean Jeanie. She is a multi-instrumentalist, composer<|fim_middle|> pop. Deli Magazine calls it "soul-gayz."
"Music for the front-lines, in a time when the word revolution is alternatively mocked, pimped, played-out and ignored, Jean Jeanie makes it like another world is still possible. She evokes just about everything great in the pantheon of rock-and-roll. Patti Smith's poetics, the art-drenched cool of St. Vincent and X-Ray Specs. The harmonies of the Wilson Sisters. The gospel according to Saints Strummer, Near and Makeba.
Her songs and voice seem to stop time, bend it, transport us to when and where you feel music creates insurrection. Where love matters like nothing else. A time when gender doesn't come packaged with pain. A place beyond cynicism where visions of the apocalypse are replaced by the politics of the imagination.
It's hard to be certain if she's right, looking out at the planet Future Twin currently calls home. But as long as there is music this good to be found in between the cracks, there is hope for redemption."
On stage and in the studio, Jean Jeanie performs rogue/solo, navigating vocals and multiple electronic and traditional instruments; other times she activates a cadre of musician collaborators. She currently performs most often on the West Coast with Kelyn, a luminary professional guitarist from Texas, currently residing in San Francisco. She records with a small collective internationally, including Alexey Turanov (Oakland via Russia), Mike E.G. (Brooklyn via SF), and Miles DeIaco (Berlin via SF). She has performed and toured with La Femme, the Black Lips, Black Angels, Heartless Bastards, Thee Oh Sees, Lightning Bolt and Two Gallants.
- Excerpts written by James Tracy, author of "Dispatches Against Displacement," "Hillbilly Nationalists," and "Urban Race Rebels."
RECORDINGS & MUSIC VIDEOS:
Suffer No Fools LP, TBA**
"Back 2 Hell" Music Video, TBA**
"Back 2 Hell" Single, Fall 2019
"Calling All the Lost Boys" Single 2018
"Mary" Music Video & Single 2017
"Head Like A Halo" Music Video & Single 2017
"Hope" Music Video & Single 2017
"Are You Rested Enough Yet" Music Video & Single 2016
Wavelength Sovereignty LP 2015**
"We're Here" Music Video & Single 2014
Chillality EP 2014
Situation EP 2012
Resist 7" 2012
**not yet released
© 2021 by FUTURE TWIN | , singer and dancer. She describes her sound as avant | 11 |
Using the vacuum gauge, it is possible to receive the information on a condition of the engine and to elicit the fact of infringement of serviceability of functioning of the power supply system, damage of a<|fim_middle|> If the engine is in a normal state, indications fall almost to zero, then increase approximately on 130 mm Hg above norm and again decrease to former values at stable turns of idling. If indications are restored slowly and pass through a maximum after closing throttle заслонки, probably, piston rings are damaged. The long delay testifies to possible infringement of passableness of system of release. | lining of a head of cylinders, piston rings, valves and so forth Unfortunately, vacuum gauge indications can be easily incorrectly interpreted, therefore the analysis of the given measurements should be made taking into account the results of checks of the engine which are carried out by other methods.
At check are important both absolute values of indications of the vacuum gauge, and speed of their change.
Connect the vacuum gauge to the inlet pipeline. Start the engine and warm up it to normal working temperature.
Low stable indications of the vacuum gauge can specify in the fact of destruction of a lining between the inlet pipeline and the case of a throttle, damage of a vacuum hose, infringement of installation of the moments ignitions/phases timing.
If vacuum gauge indications are astable (arrow fluctuations) take place and are underestimated concerning norm on 80 - 200 mm Hg, it is necessary to check up a condition of a lining of the inlet pipeline near to an entrance aperture. The probability of failure of a corresponding injector is not excluded also.
Constant falling of indications on 50 - 100 mm hg concerning stable value in high degree of probability specifies in damage of valves, - measure компрессионное pressure in cylinders.
Irregular falling of indications can speak about valve jamming, or failure in ignition.
If indications quickly fluctuate with amplitude about 100 mm Hg at stable turns of idling, and on an exit of system of release takes place strong дымообразование, it is necessary to check up a condition of directing plugs of valves.
Fast fluctuations of indications at increase in turns of idling, can be the certificate of damage of a lining of the inlet pipeline and-or a head of cylinders, easings клапанных springs of valves, a burn-out of plates of valves, and also failures in ignition.
Insignificant fluctuations in a range of 25 mm are hg usually connected with failures in ignition system.
If indications strongly fluctuate, probably, damage of a lining of a head of cylinders, or walls actually the cylinder takes place.
Slow movement of an arrow in a wide range of values, is told about a contamination by system of operated ventilation картера (PCV), damage of a lining of the inlet pipeline, or a lining between the case throttle заслонки and the pipeline.
Check up, indications of the vacuum gauge after sharp and full opening throttle заслонки and its return to a starting position are how fast restored. | 502 |
This crostini caters to both versions of myself. The domestic diva gets some bizarre project to cross off her cooking bucket list; the couch potato needs only to stand upright long enough to assemble the crostini and pour a glass of Chardonnay. It's a great starter for an elaborate meal, ensuring you don't get kitchen burnout by dessert. It also makes a good lunch on days when you don't feel like making lunch. Not that we speak from experience or anything.
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Next, toast the hazelnuts in a small frying pan over medium heat. Toss frequently until fragrant. Remove from heat and set aside.
Finally, assemble the crostini by spreading some ricotta on each slice of toast. Place 2-3 pear slices on top and transfer to serving plate. Drizzle with honey and top with toasted hazelnuts.
My ricotta recipe comes from Julia of Fat Girl Trapped in a Skinny Body, who reported ricotta success using only 1% milk. The consistency was on par with the grocery store tub, but I could definitely taste hints of lemon in the homemade version. (It was great on the crostini, however!) Julia posted wonderful pictures and more thorough instructions in her recipe, so I highly encourage you to visit her site before jumping in.
Heat milk and salt in a medium saucepan, stirring constantly to prevent scalding. When milk reaches 190°, remove from heat and add lemon juice. Stir briefly to combine. Set aside for 5 minutes, allowing the curds to form. Drain ricotta by pouring through a cheesecloth secured over a large bowl. Drain two hours, then refrigerate. | , prepare the toast. Preheat your oven to the broil setting. Place slices of bread on a large baking sheet and toast 1-3 minutes on each side, until barely golden. Remove from oven and cool completely | 45 |
You are here: Home / Front Page News / Roger Federer Wins 10th Basel Crown<|fim_middle|> Federer, Swiss Indoors Basel, tennis, tennis news | for 103rd Title
Roger Federer Wins 10th Basel Crown for 103rd Title
ATP Tour (October 27, 2019) Roger Federer lifted his 10th Basel trophy on Sunday, defeating #NextGenATP Aussie Alex de Minaur 6-2, 6-2 to triumph at the Swiss Indoors Basel.
This is just the second tournament at which Federer has claimed 10 crowns, joining Halle. The 38-year-old has won his home ATP 500 in his past five appearances, improving to 75-9 at the tournament where he was once a ball boy. He has now won 24 consecutive matches at St. Jakobshalle Basel.
"I think I played a great match. It was a tough opener, in the beginning, the first five games, we had some great rallies. I never looked back," Federer said. "I was great on the offense, made very few unforced errors and came up with the big shots and served well when I had to.
"I thought Alex played a great tournament as well, and I think we both can be very happy. But what a moment for me to win my 10th here in my hometown of Basel."
[1] R. Federer (SUI) d [WC] A. de Minaur (AUS) 62 62
[4] J. Rojer (NED) / H. Tecau (ROU) d T. Fritz (USA) / R. Opelka (USA) 75 63
Filed Under: Front Page News, tennis news Tagged With: Alex De Minaur, Roger | 366 |
Coelho wraps up EOS season with second 2WD win
Bruno Coelho has wrapped the 2WD racing of EOS Season #8 with his second win in the category. Having dominated qualifying and the opening A-Main on the championship's first visit to the Austrian ERT Steyregg track, the Xray driver would bring on an extra workload with an error filled A2 that forced things to go to A3. With main rival Joona Haatanen, winner of A2, having a bad start to A3 it looked like Coelho's race was going to be easier but a mistake by the EOS Poland winner would let Champion Michal Orlowski to hit the front. In this order the overall result would favour Haatanen, thanks to the Team Associated driver<|fim_middle|>al would win because then it would have been a win for me. Anyway it is my first time to finish second in the EOS so I am happy with that'. Travelling to Austria without his father this weekend and with team-mate Neil Cragg unable to attend because of British Championship commitments, the teenager concluded, 'I am happy that I'm alone here and the car works good'. Overall Haatanen ends the season 3rd overall in the points losing out on second to Coelho who was runner-up thanks to the only TQ of his campaign which he claimed today.ù
'I'm super happy. I think it is almost 5-years since I had my last EOS podium', was Honigl's reaction to his third overall. The former 2WD race winner admitted he was starting to think his podium days were over, 'I'm really happy because I didn't think it would happen again'. Rating the track as being one of his all time favourites, when asked about 4WD the Austrian replied, 'I think 4WD will be harder but let's see, we will see even more crashes in 4WD'.
Summing up his 2WD result, Orlowski said, 'we finally found what we were looking for at the end of qualifying which was a bit late'. He added, 'we didn't start well but at the end we had the pace to win so I'm happy with that but I made too many mistakes in all the finals'. For this weekend we prepare a lot for 4WD. I would've liked to win 2WD but you can't be at the top all the time. I'm excited for 4WD. It is supposed to be wet and I quite like that. Last year at the season finale I finished 4th in 2WD and won 4WD so I am confident for tomorrow'.
https://eos.redrc.net/2019/06/coelho-wraps-up-eos-season-with-2wd-second-win/ | having a faster A2 winning time but Orlowski couldn't hold on and handed the lead back with a mistake three laps later. Unfortunately for Orlowski the error also cost him a podium to cap off his title winning campaign, with Hupo Honigl filling the final step to return to the EOS podium after a long absence.
'It was a tough final but luckily and fortunately I was able to take it home', was Coelho's thoughts on A3. His 5th 2WD EOS career win he continued, 'we worked good in practice, took all four qualifiers so to not take the final would have been cruel. It can happen though, so I'm super happy for sure'. He added, 'we are using a prototype car we are working on for the Worlds and today all the Xray's in the final showed we are working in the correct way'.
Commenting his A3 performance, Haatanen said, 'I had a mistake on the first lap when I hit the pipe and then everyone hit me. I was hoping Mich | 214 |
What's your organization's digital IQ?
IT is consuming an increasing amount of an enterprise's resources, from new applications to boosting network security. Yet, as every CIO knows, some organizations use information technology better than others.
PricewaterhouseCooper thinks good companies can be differentiated from the pack by what it calls their Digital IQ — how well companies understand the value of technology and weave it into the fabric of their organization.
In its recently-released sixth annual Digital IQ survey the consulting firm says<|fim_middle|> mining cybersecurity, consumer mobile apps and social media are on their radar. | it discovered five corporate behaviours that separated successful organizations from also-rans. Business that had a strong digital IQ were 2.2 times more likely to be top performers in revenue growth, profitability and innovation.
The CEO actively champions digital initiatives to achieve strategy. Eighty-one per cent of top performers described their chief executive or senior business leader this way.
The CIO and CMO have a strong working relationship. Seventy per cent of top performing companies said these two C-level execs had very strong or strong collaboration.
They are more likely to look outside the company for applying emerging technologies in new ways to solve business problems.
They use an integrated approach to IT transformation – a wide range of technologies including cloud, data | 143 |
When coming to Portugal you simply have to visit Sintra. The town, castles and gardens are beautiful and definitely not to be missed. In 1995 the entire area has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. But the town of Sintra is pretty small, the streets are even smaller and with the many tourists visiting it can feel a bit overwhelming trying to get to where you want to be. And where is that? There are many different castles and gardens, how do you know which one to visit? In this Ultimate Guide to Sintra's Castles and Gardens we will tell you everything about different points of interest in Sintra. We even give the best insider tips we've gathered over the years, so you can make an informed decision on<|fim_middle|>ena you can combine the two castles easily for a day trip. They are very different from each other. After visiting the castles you can walk up to Cruz Alta, the High Cross, and get an amazing view of the entire area, including both Palácio da Pena and Castelo dos Mouros.
You can take a tuk tuk from town, but it's more fun to walk the 'caminho do Castelo dos Mouros'. This is a steep but quiet pathway of about 2km, starting in the center of Sintra and leading up to the castle.
It is almost like Quinta da Regaleira was designed by a kid with a lot of fantasy. It's really fun to walk around this park, with it's little secret paths that lead you through tiny stairs, a pond with stepping stones and several caves and wells. The park was built between 1904 and 1910, in the last days of the Portuguese monarchy. The romantic property belonged to the Viscondessa da Regaleira, and was later enlarged by millionaire Monteiro. His vast fortune earned him the nickname of Monteiro dos Milhões, (Moneybags Monteiro).
The park can get crowded in the high season, so if you want to see the park with not too many other people, we advise to visit it between November and March. In spring time the park is at it's greenest and the flowers are in bloom.
For a rainy or misty day a visit to Quinta da Regaleira is probably one of the nicest things to do. Because even when it's raining, this complex of little paths and caves is wonderful to explore. Gloomy weather can add mystery and charm to this place. And inside the caves and under the big trees, you will at least be dry.
Off all the castles and gardens mentioned in this blog, this is definitely the easiest to get to from Sintra town. You can also walk here in 35 minutes from the bus station Portela just outside of Sintra, or get a tuk tuk.
Our personal favorite is the park and palace of Monserrate. Because this palace is just outside of Sintra, the main tourist crowds never go here. It is like the hidden gem of Sintra and truly worth visiting.
There is not a bad time to visit Monserrate, mainly because it is one of the least touristic places in Sintra. So you can just go any time and enjoy it with not too many other people. However, the park, and especially the rose garden, is at it's best in spring. They do maintain the park really well, so all plants looks very healthy year round.
Really take your time to walk around the garden. If you are into succulents and cacti, don't miss the Mexican garden. The inside of the palace is also definitely worth a visit. You can walk around every room and gawk at the eye for detail that was used in decorating the walls and ceilings. Enjoy the tranquil terrace with view from the frontside of the palace.
You can only get here by car, so make sure you rent one. There is a free parking area. When coming from Olá Onda in Ericeira, the route to Monserrate is already an attraction by itself. Tiny streets will lead you along the north side of Sintra, which offers a great view to the town and it's castles in the hills.
Rent a car and drive to Sintra. During the high season you do not want to drive into the center of town because it gets extremely busy. Make sure to check where to park outside of the center beforehand. Options are at the Portela busstation or the neighbouring town São Pedro de Penaferrim. Ask us for tips if you're staying at Olá Onda. During the low season you can find enough parking space around the center of town and walk to wherever you want to go. From Ericeira it is a 40 minute drive.
From Ericeira you can take the bus to Sintra. The bus station in Ericeira is a 10 minute walk from Olá Onda. The bus will take you in 50 minutes to Portela Station, just outside of Sintra. Find the timetable here. | where to go and experience Sintra at it's best.
The most famous castle of Sintra is without a doubt Palácio da Pena. This colorful Disney-like castle sits on a hill 450 meters above the city of Sintra. So you can imagine views are amazing. It was built between 1842 and 1854 after King Ferdinand II decided this should be the place for a summer residence for the Portuguese royal family. And it sure does look like a nice location for a holiday.
The best time to visit Palácio da Pena would be on a clear day, so you can experience the great views from this mountaintop. Being the most popular castle of Sintra, it can be very busy here. Come early or visit between November and March. Visiting during winter is the best time to avoid the main tourist crowds.
If you are not interested in the inside of the castle, you can also just buy a ticket for the outside and save almost 50% on your ticket price. In stead of going to the main entrance of the palace, go to the botanical garden a bit down the hill and walk up through the garden. This way you can peacefully walk up the hill while enjoying the beautiful garden with a hidden greenhouse and little creeks, while avoiding the main tourist crowds.
Park your car somewhere outside of Sintra and take a tuk tuk to the entrance of the botanical garden. Walk up from there. If you are feeling sportive, you can also rent a mountainbike and bike up the hill. Or, if you're in for a climb, or you can walk up there from Sintra town.
From Palácio da Pena you can already see this medieval castle on the hill next to you. Castelo dos Mouros, Castle of the Moors, dates back to the 10th century. This means that the castle is more than a thousand years old! It was built by the Moors and the wall is over 450 meters long. On a clear day the view is breathtaking.
Same as for Palácio da Pena, the best time to visit Castelo dos Mouros would be on a clear day. Early in the morning or outside of the high season you will encounter less tourists.
Because it's very close to Palácio da P | 478 |
Israel Trip 2013
B'nai Israel Confirmation Israel trip 2016
Good morning!! After a long flight and seeing the gorgeous view of the city of Jerusalem we have a 6:30 am wake up call. Come get ready and eat your delicious breakfast, or in my case, some cereal and bread. Then it's off to the old city. First stop: the western wall tunnels. It was amazing to learn the history behind the western wall and the landscape and geography of the holy city of Jerusalem. Afterwards, off to the western wall! It was such an emotional and amazing experience. I'm so glad that I have the opportunity to be on this wonderful trip. And the fun didn't stop there, afterwards it was off to the City of David.
We changed into swimsuits and headed for the aqueduct and learned about the history of the old City of David, which was VERY interesting. Next up: water tunnels. The water tunnels were so exciting and such a great adventure. Walking through the aqueduct tunnels with the water was an amazing experience. At first the water immediately went up to our lower backs, or at least it did for me because everyone else is taller, and then it lowered to just above our ankles. The water may have been freezing but it felt so nice and refreshing after a long couple hours in the sun. Seeing the differences in how the tunnels were put together was mind blowing to see another form of architecture that's different than our modern architecture back home. This trip is definitely everything I imagined it would be and its only Day 1. Oh, and my new favorite word thanks to our tour guide and Ben Yaffe: SABABA!! I'm so excited for the rest of this trip and to explore Israel. Masada, we're coming for you next!!!
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Oh, and I had my first successful conversation in Hebrew today!!!!
Now, some helpful and funny phrases from Lexi Hendel:
-"What's a kaba?"-tour guide
-"Uh it's obviously corn on the kaba!!!"-Lexi Hendel
-"What language do munks speak out of curiousity?"
-"Don't they speak Munkian?"-Lexi Hendel
Day 1 Part 2
As an added surprise our tour guide, Yair, along with Cantor Lichterman and bus driver, Alex, brought us to an Arab market. The market reminded me of a flee market, it had many products, and lots of food. The first thing I bought at the market was an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) sweatshirt. I also got one for my brother, Josh. Soon after that we went to the shuk. The shuk is a Jewish market. At the shuk we had falafel for lunch, which everyone else said was amazing. Then after lunch, more shopping!! There was such a wide variety of products to choose from! I got a new case for my phone that looks like a bird with little ears or feathers at the top. After the shuk, it's back to the Rabin Hostel for down time. During the down time everyone just hung out together. After our down time it's off to dinner! For dinner we got to choose from a variety of foods such as: spaghetti, hot dogs, a salad bar, chicken schnitzel, rice, and rotisserie chicken. The dinner was very filling and delicious.
After dinner there was a meeting with Cantor Lichterman about the plans for tomorrow!! We have to get up at 2:00am to go to Masada!! So far Israel is all I thought it would be, plus more!! Well, I'm off to bed!! See you at 2:00am Masada!!! Good night!!
Jamie Sherman
Some notes about our tour guide Yair:
-he plays guitar
-he's 31 years old
-he was born in Israel but his mother was born in Chicago, Illinois and is of Italian and Libyan origin!!
-he loves to surf
-he was in the Israeli army
-but most importantly he knows so much and has so much to teach us about Israel!!
We started off the day by going to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum. Before we entered the museum, we went down a ramp that led us down to the museum doors, which represented to me that we were going to a dark time in history. The hallways in the museum zig zagged at an incline. There were pictures of before, during, and after the Holocaust. Many artifacts were behind enclosed glass cases, such as the pajamas they wore in the concentration camps. Videos were shown throughout each section about survivors telling about their personal story.
Going to Yad Vashem was emotional for me as it was for all of us because my great grandparents perished in the Holocaust, but my grandparents were Holocaust survivors. Before we went out of the museum, I saw a picture that caught my eye. It showed survivors standing together in Israel in their concentration camp clothes holding the Israeli flag. Cantor Lichterman told us a story about how he found out about his sister that he never knew about. Once we reached the end of the museum, we went up a ramp and it was a great relief for me as a Jew to see the beautiful scenery of modern rebuilt Jerusalem as our Jewish capital.
Lila Goldman
After a long, scenic drive after the museum, we arrived at a gas station. We all had a healthy, if bad, lunch. There we met our archelogical guide, after a shot drive to the site we climbed off the buss into the blazing sun. Our sweaty exhausting walk ended at a cover where a cool breeze was coming from the ground. The guide then took us down into the ancient man made cave system to a breath of relief from all the hot kids. When we stopped in a spacious room in the cave the guide explained that this room was used to raise pigeons. After claiming out our eyes were met with the scorching sun after a dark cave, with the sun glancing off Mr. Kripeis head. We then walked to a different site where the guide explained that we would be digging for artifacts, at which point Ian's eyes lit up. We spent a good thirty minuets scraping at the ground, pulling out pottery, charcoal, and even some bones. Then we carried buckets of dirt up to the surface where we sifted for smaller things at which point we found even more bones. Our day ended with us getting to pick out pieces of pottery that they didn't need and each one of us getting a acheological dig certificate.
-Margaret Roberts
On shabbat morning, we walked to the Italian Synagogue which was right down the street. The synagogue was gorgeous. It was originally built in Italy in the 17th century. It stayed as a functioning synagogue until about 1900 when it was closed but was maintained in Italy until it was moved to Jerusalem in the early 1950s. It is the same way as it was when it was built. My favorite part is the ark, which was intricate and painted gold. It is a Orthodox synagogue so the women had to go high up on the balcony so they were separated from the men, and had to peer out from shutters like 400 years ago.
The tunes used at the service were very different from the tunes all of us are used to. For most of the service, we all just listened. Jeremy had the opportunity to do the Levi Aliyah after I passed it up because I thought the gabbai was asking "Are you leaving?" rather than "Are you Levi?" We left the service and were very moved by the experience.
-Asher Kripke
Following our service at the Italian synagogue, we went to eat a picnic lunch in the Garden of Liberty (which happens to have a replica of the Liberty Bell). On the menu for this meal was a delicious box lunch featuring Cantor Lichterman's favorite food, chicken schnitzel. In the park, we also played soccer and climbed dragon sculptures — "traditional" Israeli activities. There were lots of other people in the park; we met Israeli families and even witnessed pictures before an Ethiopian wedding.
After the park, we began a journey through thousands of years of history. Our tour guide Yair explained how, through five thousand years of history, there has only been two times (before 1948) that an autonomous Jewish state existed in the land of Israel. This occurred under the dynasties of King David and the Maccabbees. Otherwise, Yair explained, Israel was under the control of various empires. This was a great history lesson because it demonstrated how amazing it is that we live in a time where an independent Israel exists that Jews can visit and live in. It was a powerful reminder of how lucky we are.
Then, on the walk back to the hotel, we passed by — but did not enter — the historic King David Hotel. Previously, it was the home of the British police headquarters and the recipient of Israeli resistance fighter bombs in the short period between the end of World War 2 and 1948. Tragically, over a hundred people were killed, British and Israeli soldiers alike. Today, it is now a five star hotel. It also happens to be where chaperone Matt stayed when he visited Israel decades ago (its biggest accomplishment).
After a few hours of rest at the hotel, we went to the Kotel to celebrate Shavuot. There, we encountered a very crowded area with Jews from all over the country and all over the world. There were people from all different sects of Judaism, whether ultra orthodox or teenagers from Toledo. We held a short service outside the wall, then split into men and women and visited the wall itself. We were able to touch the wall and make a personal prayer, which was an incredible experience. We ended the day on this holy note, having had a once in a lifetime experience celebrating a holiday at the holiest place in Judaism.
– Nathan Podolsky
Day five started out with another relieving late wake-up. At 8:00, Jeremy, Sam, and I got out of bed ready to start the day. We went down to the lobby and met outside to get ready to walk to Shavuot services. When we arrived to the Great Synagogue, it was modern and beautiful! When we walked into services, a young boy was at the bimah! It was interesting to see a child leading services, even though it was only for a little while. After that, the, Megillah of Ruth was read. However, it was fairly inaudible due to the fact that it was an Orthodox synagogue, in which case there was no microphone despite the large size of the sanctuary. Further on in the service, we read the Ten Commandments. We stood up for this, which was interesting. Being in this shul was quite different than the Italian shul we had gone to yesterday. This shul was much larger, they had an amazing cantor, (not as good as Cantor Lichterman of course), and a choir supplemented the cantor during most of the prayers. As a music lover, I enjoyed listening to that. After services were over, we looked at one of the largest mezuzah collections in the world, of which one of the most famous is the mezuzah of Rabbi Nachman of Braslav, which was carved from a remnant of wood from the original magnificent chair he sat in more than 200 years ago in his synagogue around 1800, which was dismantled and sent to Israel to be preserved. Rabbi Nachman was one of the greatest Chasidic rabbis and also the great grandson of the founder of the Chasidic movement. This mezuzah was particularly simple compared to the others.
Changing topic now, when we left the shul, we headed back to the hotel. We had previously been informed that the day was far too<|fim_middle|> ago when she needed a mohel for her grandson. We had reconnected last year when she attended a concert and scholar in residence program I did there. It was emotional to see her here in the middle of Prague – I told her we were going to the Conservative synagogue Friday night so she came too and said how much she enjoyed hearing me singing there…a long way from Arizona…
Second small world coincidence – the manager of our boat which by the way is gorgeous, brand new one month old – is a Hungarian who spent 14 years in Cape Town and married a South African and lived about 12 blocks from my mother in a city of 4 million!
OFF TO DINNER
On the boat you dare not miss a meal –
it's a religious ritual –
Shouldn't be a problem – I am religious and I know ritual, right?
Wrong – these buffets are chaos –
you can't find an entrance to the line –
have to push your way in –
like they're going to run out of food?
It extends round and round – like a wedding ring – no beginning no end
Like a merrygoround.
All 181 people on board attack simultaneously…
my African background should come in handy, that animal instinct of the jungle –
see a target? See food. Haven't eaten in an hour. Attack! attack! Claw your way Cantor
come on don't be shy…
thought I'd go in the reverse order but even starting with dessert doesn't help –
the line extends beyond that too.
Might as well just wait it out
but by then everyone at your table's all done and you're left holding the bag…
Tomorrow morning there will be breakfast, won't there?
Vienna is an incredible city! I think it would be appropriate to say though, that it has lost its heart as a result of the events of the Holocaust. Before World War II, almost 10 percent of Vienna was Jewish, approximately 180,000 Jews: half of the doctors were Jewish, three-quarters of the banks, two-thirds of the movie houses, 85 percent of the lawyers, and 100 percent of the scrap metal dealers just for example. Many famous Jews came from or were active in Vienna, like Theodore Herzel, author Stefan Zweig, Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schonberg, Johann Strauss, Josef Schmidt[famous tenor/my father visited him in his home in Vienna in 1938 together with Cantor Moshe Koussevitsky] and Gustav Mahler. Jews made an extraordinary contribution to Vienna's cultural and intellectual life. The Jewish writer Sweig said that 90 percent of what Viennese are proud of, is attributable to Jews. Today, there is a strong resurgence, perhaps as many as 20,000 Jews with more than 10 synagogues.
Our bus entered the Ringstrasse, which incorporates within it many of Vienna's famous and historical buildings. Before the war, many Jews lived on the Ringstrasse. In fact, there is currently an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in Vienna called Ringstrasse-A Jewish Boulevard.
We passed the magnificent opera house, to which I went back later in the day during our free time, but unfortunately, I missed the tours. I was in awe of the many magnificent buildings that we saw. I am a postcard collector, and although I am a good photographer, I still collect postcards of significant architectural. I bought several dozen postcards of magnificent Viennese buildings, which I a gleefully adding to my collection as prized acquisitions.
MAIN SYNAGOGUE
We visited the one remaining synagogue from the pre-Holocaust period- the almost two-hundred year old orthodox Seitenstettengasse Temple. It is beautiful, round, with two galleries for women. The roof is painted blue like the sky with stars, giving it an awry and eternal sense. For me, this synagogue filled me with a sense of awe: it is where one of the greatest cantors of all time served for 56 years- Salamon Sulzer, much of whose music influenced heavily the Ashkenazi synagogue. I stood with awe at the Bima, where Sulzer helped shape synagogue music for half a century and where today, I am glad to report the style of services led by their Israeli Hazzan, choir and Rabbi, helping to perpetuate this grand tradition.
The are three major Jewish landmarks besides the synagogue that I visited: In the Juadenpaltz is a stock Holocaust memorial in the shape of books of a library that have been turned inside out. Behind this memorial is one of two Jewish museums in Vienna. I visited both. In this museum, underground, there are excavations of an ancient synagogue that once stood in this Jewish area. At the other Jewish museum, among many interesting artifacts, is Theodore Herzel's bicycle.
Having gotten tired of pasta and grilled salmon on our boat nightly, I decided to skip boat dinner and go to a nearby Israeli-style Viennese restaurant called Bahur-Tov, which means in Hebrew "good boy". I had a nice chat with owner who is from Eastern Russia, but spent a lot of time in Israel. I ordered Schnitzel. I must say, it was possibly the best I have ever had in recent memory- certainly the largest- the portion was massive. As the owner brought me my order, he said "I doubt you will be able to finish this". He also pilled on as many french fries as would fit without falling off the side of the plate. It was also garnished with salad. I did not see any point in leaving half of it when I was already full and taking the rest to go for the boat. What would I do with it then? Eat it cold? So I finished it. It was worth it!
BRATISLAVA-SLOVAKIA
This city, also known as Pressburg, has always been of interest to me, ever since I was a young lad. One of the Rabbis who served with my father in his synagogue in Cape Town, Eugene Duschinsky, one of the most impressive Rabbis I have ever met- brilliant erudite, intellectual, learnered in Talmud and seemingly everything else, had studied at the famous Yeshiva of Pressburg to which Rabbinic students all over the world used to flock before the War. The buildings that housed the Yeshiva are no longer standing. We visited the one remaining synagogue, which has upstairs in the women's balcony a museum almost single handedly created by an impressive young man, Dr. Maros Borsky who has great passion for his community. The synagogue is well maintained, but not used during the winter months, as it is too expensive and too large. It actually officially opens after the date of our visit, but Dr. Borsky kindly obliged us by opening up and spending a huge amount of time with us.
CHATAM SOFER MEMORIAL
Later that day, our cruise had arranged home hospitality with Slovakians in the area. I opted instead to visit one of Jewish Europes most famous landmarks- the burial site and remnant of an ancient Jewish cemetery, which contains the sanitarian tomb of the great Rabbi Moshe Schrbier, known as the Chatam Sofer. It is remarkable how this enclosed cemetery was created during the communist era with the help of large donations from Jews in New York and other places. It was done as a result of urban renewal, and was necessary to preserve this deteriorating Jewish site. Architects and engineers from all over the world come to see this impressive preservation site. The Jewish community employs a full-time person who oversees the cemetery and opens up for visitors and pilgrims. Dr. Borsky arranged for my visit, and within a 15 minute, simple, short, ten dollar taxi ride, I was there. Since it is very near the Denube embankment, I took a brisk walk along the water back to our boat which was conveniently docked a mere twenty minutes away.
Ever since I was a child and was raised with a deep appreciation for classical music, I became aware of Mozart. Therefore, Salzburg was always on my consciousness as the city most associated with Mozart. So when our tour offered the opportunity as an add-on, I was first online to sign up. Of course, Salzburg is also associated with the Sound of Music. Salzburg is considered one of the most beautiful places in Austria and was recently included in the official list of 100 places to visit before you die.
We went on a walking tour of the old historical part of the city, including the magnificent Mirabell Gardens from which there is a magnificent view of the great Hohensalzburg Fortress.
Crossing the famous Salzach River over one of Salzburg's beautiful bridges, we walked the bustling streets to Mozart's birthplace.
While everyone was enjoying lunch and some free time, I snuck out and went on one of my typical long hikes to the other side of town to find the one small Shul that still exists for the very small Jewish community that is left in Salzburg. It was about a half hour brisk walk but well worth it, because as I mentioned elsewhere in this blog, I do not visit Europe unless I find something Jewish to do there. The Shul is a reconstruction of the modest Shul that existed there before the War when it was destroyed.
Although Salzburg never had a big Jewish community like Vienna, Budapest, and some of the other places we visited, I should point out that while hiking the narrow streets of the old town to Mozart's birthplace, we passed Judengasse where the original Jewish ghetto once existed.
For those who have an interest in Hollywood, no visit to Salzburg is complete without seeing some of the sites associated with the movie The Sound of Music. While we did not have time to see most of them, we did see the Pavilion in Hellbrunn where Von Trapp proposed to Maria.
Budapest the capital of Hungary is also one of the great Jewish communities of Jewish history. Today, the Jewish community numbers close to 100,000 despite the events of World War II and is one of the largest in Europe. Arriving on boat by the Denube, everyone gathered on the open upper deck of the boat to zoom in on taking photos of the magnificent parliament building, perhaps the most significant architectural landmark of Budapest, visible from miles away.
As we went on a bus tour of some of the best sites of Budapest, we passed the beautiful Opera House, and I resolved to return as soon as I had free time to try to take a tour, and not to make the same mistake as happened in Vienna, where by the time I got to Vienna's famous Opera House, I missed the last tour. Free time is often spent spontaneously as one tries to find your way around, often winging it, hiking, or grabbing public transportation of taxies, whatever works. I returned to the parliament to try to take a tour, but it was closed for a NATO conference, and security barred my entry.
On Friday night, I invited members of our group to join me for services at Budapest's Great Synagogue known as the Dohany Street Synagogue. It is the largest in Europe, and the second largest in the world. Its two onion domes are a landmark of Budapest, visible from far away. For those who like synagogues, visiting this Shul is an experience like no other. For those who have visited great churches and cathedrals around the world, you might say that this Synagogue is Cathedral-like. While Judaism has many significant synagogue structures, there are few of this grandeur or majesty. I have been privileged to visit synagogues in St. Petersburg, Russia, and Florence, Italy, which are compatible in majesty, but this one is much larger. For example, there are two balconies for women, so that it accommodates almost as many women as men. Most of the year, they do not use it because it is too big. They use the smaller but still beautiful Hereos Temple, on the grounds right next to it. I was gratified to notice that included in the plethora or tourist memorabilia that one sees all over Budapest, anything architectural- including great buildings of Budapest, also depicts the Great Synagogue amongst Budapest's other great buildings like the Opera House, St. Stephen's Basilica, many Art Nouveau buildings.
Members of our group were exhausted, as we were nearing the end of our tour, and they were worried that by the time we returned from services, dinner would be over. So I went alone, and I am thrilled that I did. The synagogue is neither Orthodox nor Conservative nor Reform, it is a unique Hungarian variation called Neolog. It is somewhere between Conservative and Orthodox- men and women are separated but there is no partition (the balconies are only used when there are very large crowds); only men sing in the choir, and an organ is used on Shabbat and holidays, but it is played by a non-Jew.
There were only about 75 people there on Friday night, in a sanctuary that seats over 3,000. Sitting across the aisle from me was a lovely, attractive young French Jewish lady from Paris. I noticed she was crying, I asked her if I could help. She told me she was there to say Kaddish for her father, whose Yahrzeit it was. She had recently lost her husband, and I felt badly that I could invite her to join us for Friday night dinner on the boat, so that she would not have to be alone on Shabbat. One cannot bring guests onto the boat as the boat was full. This lady was a senator in the European Parliament.
I asked someone why there was such a small crowd, and they answered that there are over 20 active synagogues all over Budapest, and people have many choices where to attend services. Some prefer smaller, more intimate places.
The service was very traditional with many familiar melodies. As in several other European countries, the Nusach (traditional melody motifs) included more major keys than East-European synagogues use under the influence of central-European synagogues (German, Austrian, etc.). Having grown up Orthodox, I thought the grand organ would bother me and be church-like; but frankly, it fit in and blended with the cantor and the choir. The combination of the organ, the acoustics, and the placement of the choir above the arch, below the curved ceiling, compounded together to make the choir sound like there were at least thirty voices. In actuality, there probably were ten or less singers. I left before Kiddush to get back the the boat in time for dinner, but pledged to return for Shabbat morning. At dinner, I regaled members of our group with stories of this most unique experience I would not want to miss for anything. I teased Jerry Russell who is our Synagogue Gabbi, that I had signed him up to be Gabbi next morning, and that he needed to be fit, because traversing the 3,000 seat sanctuary to hand out honors on Shabbat morning, would probably cause him to cover a mile or two in so doing. We still joke about this.
On Shabbat morning, there were about 50 people present. It was somewhat depressing. I am not sure why they use this building when such a small crowd gets obviously lost. The service was similar to Friday night, very traditional, some familiar melodies etc. Again I did not stay for Kiddush as much as I wanted to, as I had to many places I wanted to go on my agenda, and since it was Shabbat, I preferred to walk. The rest of that afternoon, which was free time for our group, I walked many miles following my map and saw fascinating places such as the Opera House, Gresham Palace, which is now the Four Seasons Hotel, with its magnificent lobby and stunning wroth-iron and stain-glass decorations and ceiling, and the amazing Museum of Applied Arts designed by the architect Lechner, the founder of Hungarian Art Nouveau.
In our hotel lobby, I noticed amongst tourist brochures that there was an interesting concert taking place in a palatial theatre. A few members of our group immediately signed up, and we were treated to a fabulous concert by the Danube Symphony, including a special instrument called a Cimbalom. It looks a bit like a console panel, with exposed strings like a harp, played with drum sticks covered with what looked like hair or string. The concert was a real treat. The orchestra was surprisingly large, maybe 40-50 players, including music associated with the area with composers like Berlioz, Bartok, Haydn, Lehar, Liszt, Kodaly, and of course Strauss. This is the first time I had seen or heard the Cimbalom.
In front of the parliament is one of the most moving memorials for Jews and all people, The Shoes On The Danube Memorial. It is dedicated to the thousands of Jews who were murdered right there, fell into the bloody river and froze. There are 60 pairs of rusted shoes sculpted of iron including children's shoes. It is jarring. It cannot be missed as it is right in front of Parliament. Both the Hebrew and Hungarian plaques refer only to victims and not Jews.
On Sunday, we did our Jewish tour. Fortunately, most sites are in one area, beginning with the Great Synagogue, the beautiful restored Orthodox Kazinczy Synagogue which was one of the first heated buildings in the world, the ducts still visible from the floor, and the Rumbach Moorish Octagonal Synagogue, which tragically is not restored and is not used as a Synagogue any more.
On the grounds of the Great Synagogue are the Jewish Museum, the emotive Tree of Life, the Hereos Temple, and the Raoul Wallenberg Park, even though everything was closed together, we did a huge amount of walking and standing, and I was gratified by our group enduring this marathon as I was throughout our entire hour and entire trip, which was ambitious, extensive, and exhausting.
A fitting climax and conclusion to this amazing trip was our closing Kosher dinner at the lovely Carmel Restaurant in the Jewish area. I highlight of the dinner, besides the food was a guest appearance by Karyn Posner-Mullen who is the counselor for Public Affairs at the US Embassy in Budapest. She is an avid activist on behalf of Judaism and does incredible work both as a representative of the US, and as a Jew. Her stories of being a Jew in this part of the world were riveting. I urged her if she had the inclination to come to our Synagogue as a guest speaker, and I believe this would be an amazing program if she is ever able to come.
This was a highlight of an amazing two-week adventure into thousands of years of Euopean-Jewish history, and a fitting conclusion. Next morning, we all returned worn-out to Toledo with stories, anecdotes, pictures, memorabilia, videos, which we hope to share at a reunion at the end of the summer of 2015. We all returned enriched and inspired by what we observed- from a Jewish perspective, the resilience of our People, who time and again have bounced back and rebuilt lives and communities in the direst circumstances as observed in the above communities.
Prague ancient Jewish Cemetery
Cantor Lichterman at the grave of the Great Rabbi of Prague known as the Maharal from 1600
Salzburg, Austria, birthplace of Mozart
Mozart's birthplace
Synagogue in Salzburg, Austria
The Maizel Synagogue Prague, Czech Republic
The oldest synagogue in the world in constant use The Altneu Synagogue in Prague, Czech Republic
Posted on May 22, 2015 by cantorlichterman
CBITOLEDO MISSION TO EUROPE MAY 2015
Some concluding thoughts from our amazing June 2013 Israel Confirmation trip
Its been 2 days since we returned home from Israel. I am up most of the night as my mind and body think its day and during the day they think its night! This has been a most exhilirating 8 days. I was privileged to lead 17 of our Confirmation students and 2 adult chaperones who joined me on the trip of a lifetime.
No doubt each of us especially the children, all but 2 visiting Israel for the 1st time, have come back changed Jewishly in the most positive way forever. Many want to return soon to visit, study…many rated the trip 11 on a scale of 1 – 10 and though its possible their answers were tainted by my posing the question directly to them face to face, I am getting feedback that this is their genuine feeling.
Monday June 17th at our final farewell dinner at Tel Aviv's wonderful Maganda restaurant, I asked each participant to say 1 nice thing they enjoyed on the trip about the person sitting next to them, seating having been random as they entered the restaurant. What emerged from this exercise was a revelation, for example 1 participant said about their neighbor that they had known him all their life since preschool and never said a word to them in all these years, now they realized what a great person he was and wanted to be friends, hang out etc. Our whole group bonded into a tight family, a great by-product of the trip, besides a deeper understanding of their Judaism and appreciation of Israel.
I would like to cite last weekend as an example of the wealth and intensity of our students' experiences: in a matter of 3 short days they were exposed to what most Jews don't experience their entire lives:-
Friday morning we laid tefilin at the Kotel, put prayer notes in the Wall, explored the excavations and walked the narrow stoned streets of the Old City where our greatest sages poured forth pearls of Torah and Talmudic brilliance.
Friday night at sunset we joined the throngs again at the Kotel. We held our own service away from the Wall so boys and girls could join together equally, as the Kotel is segregated in Orthodox tradition. Then we joined 100s of Israeli soldiers dancing euphorically to Am Yisrael Chai! There must have been 10,000 Jews from the most ardent to secular there, plus some non-Jews who came to witness this miracle of Israeli and Jewish rebirth.
Saturday we attended the service at the Italian Sephardic Synagogue which houses a 400 year old ark and furniture from the former synagogue in Conegliano Veneto near Venice, which was sent to Jerusalem in 1951. I wanted the students to observe a service so different from ours, we did not recognize a single melody and some words and customs are also different.
Then for contrast we attended the nearby Ashkenazic Great Synagogue, known for its splendor, its hazzanut and choir. After the service their executive director, a dear friend of mine Rabbi Zev Lanton explained the symbolism of the synagogue to our group and pointed out the magnificent historical mezuzah collection.
We had a sumptuous picnic lunch at the beautiful Hapaamon Park by the Windmill and toured historical sights like the King David Hotel and architecturally significant YMCA building.
Sunday we hiked the snake path up Matsada and learnt the amazing history of this last bastion holdout against the Romans, followed by a float in the Dead Sea and camel rides and dinner at Abraham's Tent which recreated life at the time of Abraham.
Monday morning Yad Vashem, a solemn tour of the Holocaust Museum, ending in our own ceremony during which I shared stories and articles about my parents and sister who were in the Shoah, to personalize it for our group.
An hour later we were at the shores of the Mediterranean at old Jaffa and modern Tel Aviv where we witnessed Ben Gurion's declaration of independence at Independence Hall. The guide dramatically illustrated that after World War II everyone had a place to go home to except the displaced Jewish refugees of Europe. Now we do.
From the Kotel to Matsada, from Yad Vashem to Israel's Declaration of Independence, our group experienced the lows and highs of 4000 years of Jewish history and modern Israel's dynamic miracle. We all want to return now!
Here are some memorable associations from our trip:- (inside jokes)
Bari – would you switch seats with me? Always nice
Ben – our blog guru kicked out of 3 stores in the shuk for overeager bargaining
Daniel – hay what's up Mindel? Anyone have some scissors?
Deena – tell me if you see a walking stick for my Dad's stupid collection! Back to the Ahava store
Emma – Israeli lookalike blended well with local population
Jennie – I can take care of myself, I burn easily
Jolie – perpetual smile
Jonathan – got spat on in the shuk for saying shabbat shalom to wrong religion
Josh Brody – Dad can I shower in your room, Sababa? Where does he put all that food?
Josh Sherman – 1st one up Matsada (under 21 minutes), went up to find Molly but she wasn't there
Kayla – ayfoh hasheirutim? No never mind
Kyle – # 1, salty diet, cool shades
Lauren – conscience of the group
Morgan – aka Mindel, always polite, considerate, Brody's cushion
Nathan – Mr Nice Guy
Noah – great speech about Ilan at farewell dinner, time to call/text Ann
Sari – I gotta keep an eye on my mom
Security at front desk – I don't do toilet paper
Jill – a decent shower and some fries with it – prefers Dead Sea to Agron Hostel
Stuart – is it cocktail hour?
Ilan our guide – shuttup! They'll catch up.
Alex our driver – take your feeeet off my seats!!
Hazzan – number off – stick together – curfew at midnight – time to daven, let's put on tefilin – listen up – you guys are great!
Favorite expressions, words, names etc…
fizzybubbly, Mindel, Vered, can we switch Ilan for Rose? WHERE'S MOLLY? Been replaced by Rose at the olive oil factory.
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Welcome – Beruchim Haba'im
Posted on February 9, 2012 by cantorlichterman
I'd like to welcome you to my blog which has been inaugurated in time for my trip to Israel February 2012 to participate in a Toledo Jewish Federation Congregational Leadership Mission under the auspices of The Jewish Agency Partnership 2Gether.
I hope to report as often as possible about the trip from our region, the Western Galilee and anywhere else the trip takes us. So check back on this blog for updates and news and some photos. I am an avid photographer so as soon as I have the opportunity I will share pictures for your interest and enjoyment.
I am most grateful to the Federation for this opportunity, particularly since its been way too long since the last time I was in Israel and I am anxious to see the progress Israel has made since I was last there as well as to experience 1st hand programs of the Partnership and meet panim el panim with some of the wonderful people who make this all possible.
My Synagogue Congregation B'nai Israel, Sylvania, Ohio | hot for a long hike, and we ended up getting about 5 hours of free time, the largest chunk of the day we have gotten for free time so far! To fill the time, everybody came together to either play card games such as euchere, ERS, and BS, which was tons of fun. It was wonderful to have this much free time before our evening activities.
-Quinn Murphy
Day 5: Part 2
In the evening, we left for a walk. We walked through the Armenian, Christian and Muslim quarters on our winding way through the old city. We passed many other Jews walking throughout the city. We eventually made our way to the tomb of King David in the Jewish quarter. This spot is extremely holy for Christians and Muslims as well as Jews. There were many Chasidim celebrating Shavuot around the building that stands above the tomb. We then made our way to an outdoor mall not too far from our hotel. On our way throughout the mall, we passed buildings that were made of old stone bricks. Each brick was labeled. We then found out that these buildings, which predate modern Israel, were disassembled, piece by piece, labeled, then reassembled a few years ago within the mall. We spent about an hour and a half in the mall. We got ice cream, and shopped. The confirmation class found the gift that will be presented to the congregation upon our return. It was very interesting to see shops that we recognized from the U.S., such as Nike and american Eagle, right next to stores that sold judaica.
Hello, and welcome back to the next edition of your favorite blog brought to you by your favorite duo, Miranda Hupp and Lexi Hendel. (Please hold your applause until the end) We would like to start from the beginning… We are not talking Adam and Eve but like 12:01AM, June 13, 2016. It all started in the Jersulem Tower hotel, we were all snuggled up in our comfy crusty bed when we were very rudely awoken by drunk partying Israelis just outside our hotel windows. You could only imagine how salty and frustrated we were because we were obviously trying to get a "good nights rest." Eventually we fell back asleep in our nice crusty beds and were soon awoken once again by the obnoxious loud wake up call. Even though Lexi and I were not in the same room, we both answered the same way, with a spot on Indian accent and then promptly hanging up the phone and going back to bed. We all got up out of bed eventually and made our way downstairs for the… Interesting…. Breakfast choices.
After our breakfast we waddled out to the bus, never been happier to see it considering we have been walking everywhere since Friday. On our way to the aqueducts we made a stop to a historical statue of the famous menorah infront of the Knesset, Israels parliament, which held a myriad of different meanings and inscriptions including a famous sentence from the prophet Zachariah which amazingly is from my bat mitzvah. (Shoutout to Lexi's Bat Mitzvah.)
Then we got on the bus again and drove to the ancient Roman aqueducts. Depending on your height, the aqueduct reached different points on ones body. For example if you are short like Miranda, Maddie, Carolyn, and the Shermans then the water went all the way up to mid stomach and we were swimming. However if you are tall like Sam or Alexa, then the water went up to the knees. One of the best memories at the aqueduct was Emmie screaming because a crab almost touched her, then Carolyn slipped and the crab fell on Asher's foot. Overall the aqueduct was a blast.
We then got on the bus again and went to the ride donkeys and make our own pita in a replica of an ancient Israeli village. I would just like to add that Alexa and Miranda's donkey named Vanilla was a mile behind the group the entire time… And Lexi and Maddie's was always in first. (Lexi and Maddie are going to the national donkey competition!…)
Then we went shopping in the accent holy city of Tsfat way in the North of Israel in the Galilee and bought some souvenirs to take home with us. Upon arrival an old lady came up to Miranda and slapped her on the arm for an unknown reason. Most the girls bought jewelry and shirts and the boys bought gifts for their mothers or in Asher and Nathan's case, Star of David underpants. We then made our way out of the twisty ally's and the same angry old lady started cursing at Lexi, again for an unknown reasons. We then got back on the bus and drove to the Kibbutz. Maddie and Miranda came up with a new system called pre sleep because Emmie has a differing opinion on bedtime. At the Kibbutz we ate a delicious meal and enjoyed some quality time with our friends. A gorgeous location on beautiful Lake Kineret.
We would like to leave you with some memories and inside jokes we have made throughout the trip, most in which you will not understand until we come back.. But that's okay..
1. Jewsus Christ whatta doin!?
2. Haha shut up margie its not funny..
3. More or less…
4. Wait, July's a month??
5. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!
6. I would like file a complaint
7. "Psst Miranda why is there two pumpkins behind us"
8. *leaves the apple juice in the room* *happy dance*
9. That nose blow sounded like a machine gun
10. TAKE IT AWAY MARGIE!!!!!
Much love, lexi and miranda
Day 7/8 last day!!
To celebrate our last full night, we had a huge bonfire with s'mores, an accordion player, birthday cake for Asher (the actual day) and Emmie (last week), and guitar playing by our tour guide. It was a great night, except it's already hot in Israel. Therefore, you could not get within 4 feet of the fire without feeling extreme heat. Overall, it was a great night and a great ending to our stay at the kibbutz.
The next morning, we woke up early and packed our bag for the last time on this trip. Then, we traveled to a school in the Partnership region with Toledo, where we met with kids just like us. It was extremely fun to hang out with them and learn about their daily life. Brian and Nathan's speech about being Jewish in America and Toledo was pretty great too. Later, we made pita and sang songs together. We ended the visit with a beautiful group picture, where we all "dabbed."
Submitted by: Alexa Bader
In the afternoon, we went to the Ayalon Institute (Kibbutzim Hill) where between 1945 and 1948, 40 plus members joined for protection and establish d a kibbutz after the Holocaust in Europe. To protect Israel and to help it become a state, the Haganah became the core of the Israeli Defense Force. Britain controlled the area at the time, but the members of the Ha'Tzofim Aleph group and Ta'as corps had other ideas. The main reason for creating the Kibbutz was to educate the kibbutz children enough so they could go to university and succeed after their ancestors were bogged down by the Holocaust.
But the underground was much more important to the members of the Kibbutz, even though some giraffes (kibbutz members that weren't involved in producing bullets) were unaware of the secret. The Haganah needed ammunition and Ha'Tzofim Aleph and Ta'as could help the cause. Both groups built an illegal underground bullet factory, the size of an underground tennis court, to aid in the production of bullets for the Haganah. There was one entrance to the underground under the bakery and another under the laundry, both used to disguise the noise of the bullet production. The most impressive part was that the Kibbutz gave every impression of a regular kibbutz with regular communal meetings and practices, while still running an underground factory. Not to mention the factory produced 2,250,000 bullets with 0 casualties and 0 discoveries. There was one close call with a British train crashing 100 meters away from the Kibbutz, putting the members under the microscope. However, they were let off the hook because of their extreme helpfulness and willingness to help British victims. Also, the kibbutz had a special visitor, a Holocaust survivor who as slave labor for Nazis was forced to manufacture bullets for them in a similar facility and she remarked on the contrast in the work they did – she to destroy (Jewish) legend, they to defend and build Jewish life. She recalled the significance of that specific factory we visited. "Without this factory, we may not have won our independence", which delineates the significance of our visit perfectly.
Next we went to the markets of Jaffa to go power shopping for the final time. Included was a nice view on the beach of Tel-Aviv overlooking the sky view of the city and the magnificent view of the Mediterranean Sea. I bought a nice $13 shirt from an Israeli chain, Castro, while other peers bought local T-shirts and apparel.
Next we had a fancy dinner at Maganda, a famous Yemenite restaurant where we toasted to a wonderful trip and reminisced about our best memories on the trip. Yair, our guide, even pitched into the conversation by saying his favorite thing about each of us and received a well deserved standing ovation. Cantor thanked all of us for being such a wonderful group and thawed Alison and Matt our chaperones for their great help while Matt thanked the Cantor for all his work in making the trip so great. We finished saying our highlights of the trip and headed to Ben Gurion airport in Tel-Aviv, where we said an emotional goodbye to Yair and Israel while hoping to return again soon.
Submitted by Brian Glasser
Chaperone thoughts on the trip
I was extremely excited about this trip, but was a bit nervous not knowing most of the kids very well. I truly came to love them all during this experience. Watching them experience Israel and learn her history and beauty was awe inspiring. One of my jobs was to bring up the rear when we walked anywhere to make sure we did not lose anyone. I am blessed to have these memories which I will always treasure:
– Alexa Bader had such a positive attitude, even on the days we were exhausted. I must have heard her say, "this is fun!" at least 5 times during different activities. Her positivity was contagious!!!!
-Emmie Brody was always smiling and she gave me plenty of hugs. She was often slightly over-caffeinated according to her roommates. I think she surprised herself with how much walking she did.
– Jeremy Davis was one of the most engaged kids in participating with the tour guide. He could one day be a history professor. He also enjoys talking smack when he beats me at euchre. But who won the last game 10-1?
– Lexy Hendel was very funny. She entertained the girls a lot with her accents and humor. Because the Hendels live in Findlay, she probably had the least interaction with the others prior to this trip. It was moving to see the kids relationship with her fully blossom.
– Brian Glasser had a constant smile on his face that made me think he was up to something. He is extremely smart, well-spoken and a great big brother. He spoke beautifully to the school kids in our partnership region.
– Carolyn Glasser is so sweet to all of the kids. Her relationship with Brian reminds me of my sister's relationship with me when we were that age. She would often drop back to the back of the group to talk with me when walking places. I love her independence!!
– Miranda Hupp is a fairly picky eater who did not really love the Israeli food options. Therefore, she was the most appreciative when we received special pizza meals. She is a magnet to the other kids, they all love her. She also conquered her fear of cable cars.
– Nathan Podolsky wins the award for best sense of humor. He always made sure our guide equated all distances in terms of football fields so we could understand better. He taught the Israeli kids how to dab. Kol ha kavod!
– Lila Goldman had never flown on a plane before and I am sure was nervous about being that far from home. She not only survived, but thrived. She loved being with the kids and I am so glad she was part of this trip. She even sang for all of us at the bonfire by the beach.
-Sam Richards always had a smile on his face and could be one of the nicest kids I have ever met. He was our tech guru helping out with blog posts and never complaining. He probably had the toughest time in the tunnels because of his height, but I know of no head injuries.
– Margaret Roberts and I had a chance to bond on this trip. She loves to share her interests in comics, music, and television. She loved the stray cats in Israel and I had to keep her from bringing one home to her mom.
– Maddie Smith also had never flown before. She is so sweet and always smiling even when she was dead tired. She really bonded with the other girls. She admitted to me she missed her dad's cooking.
– Quinn Murphy is so expressive and was one of the most enthusiastic kids when he found an activity or food he liked. He loved the waterfall at Ein Gedi. He loved the food at our final night dinner and was a joy to have on the trip.
– Ian Mahoney was enthralled by the art, architecture, archaeology, and history. He was so interesting to talk to and get his take on what moved him. He was blown away by the ark at the Italian Synagogue. He is an excellent euchre player too.
– Jamie (Lizzy) Sherman was a joy to have with us. She sat up front on the bus and participated with Yair, our tour guide. She did everything and was so emotional leaving Israel. It showed me how much she must have loved the entire experience.
– Asher Kripke. Getting to go to Israel with my son was emotional, and I often found myself tearing up. At the top of Masada, we davened as we both wore talit given to us by our grandparents. Alison captured a picture of him showing me how to wrap tefelim. He is mensch who I am proud to call my son.
– chaperoning with Alison and Ivor was a pleasure. Ivor has such passion for music, for Israel, for the Jewish people and for these kids. He helped plan a great trip, along with our travel agent Michelle, and Kim Brody. He infused stories to make the history relatable while knowing when to pull back and let the kids chill out. Alison was a calming and motherly figure to the kids. It was not easy for her to make the sacrifice to be away from her family, we were so lucky she made the tough decision to come with us.
– Thank you to everyone who played a part in making this trip possible including my grandparents, of blessed memory. I went to Israel 35 years ago for the first time as a Bar Mitzvah present from my grandparents. I am so thankful to have the honor and pleasure of chaperoning a trip named for them and to experience many of the same things 35 years later with kids from B'nai Israel. Both Israel and B'nai Israel were special to Sherwin and Naomi and to me as well.
Matt Kripke
HAZZAN IVOR LICHTERMAN
By the time you read this, it will be a few weeks since our group of 19 returned from our Israel Confirmation trip. We spent 8 days plus 2 days traveling from June 6 – 16. This is the 4th CBI Confirmation Israel trip to date, from which 54 students and several adults have benefitted.
Many of you have undoubtedly heard about the trip, read my blog which each participant contributed towards, and seen photos which fortunately in today's cyber and digital world are so easy to share. Needless to say it was an amazing adventure! I am sure it has inspired all participants as it has in the past, and we shall have the opportunity in the near future to hear from them first hand as they report back to you.
We traversed Israel at a frenzied pace, keeping the students stimulated and ceasingly occupied from dawn till late at night. Not surprising they had no time to get into any trouble! They are doubtless catching up on some much needed and deserved sleep as I write this now.
We traversed the heights of the Golan at the north-east Syrian border, to the hostile north-western Lebanese border, where we observed Hezbollah encampments up the hill literally less than a mile away. There we were hosted by a group of handsome Israeli soldiers not much older than our students, whose families originated from all over the world. They protect Israel 24/7, and we gave them gifts donated by our Federation and snacks.
To the south we muddied ourselves and floated in the depths of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth. We ascended Masada at 5:30 AM before daybreak while it was cool enough, and observed the sun rise to a typically hot over 100 degree Israeli summer's day. But Josh Sherman's record 19 minute climb up the snake path to the crest of Masada, remains intact from our trip 3 years ago, as we took the easy way up. Cowards! Even I was not huffing and puffing up the gradual (as opposed to steep) ascent, despite daily falafel and chicken schnitzel consumption, with a comfortable cable car descent!
We bussed, hiked, crawled, dug, climbed, schlepped, waded, swam and davened our way all over Israel, often filling our days with 4 or 5 different and contrasting activities and adventures.
We walked the ancient excavations of the old city of Jerusalem, placed prayers in the Kotel and davened there several times. On the subject of davening, we visited 3 different shuls in Jerusalem that I had selected for contrasting Shabbat and Shavuot services, somewhat different from what we do at B'nai. The highlight may well have been the 400 year old Italian shul where Jeremy Davis belted out the Levi Aliyah in a manner that made us all proud, the echoes of which are still reverberating in our ears!
There is story attached to the Aliyah that is notable: Asher Kripke (also a Levi) mistook the gabbai's mixed-accented 'are you a Levi' question for 'are you leaving?' and answering 'no' Jeremy got it by default! Jeremy you owe Asher! On Friday night we attended the only Orthodox synagogue in the world that has a woman Cantor who chants from behind the mechitza – the women's section, the bimah being half in the mens and half in the women's section with a curtain splitting it.
We put on tefilin at 3 incredible destinations – the Kotel, Masada, and Lake Kineret at the Sea of Galilee, where we also incidentally observed many Christian groups pilgrimaging in Israel. At our hotel at the Kineret was a large Menonite Amish contingent.
Many coincidences occurred in Israel during our trip, from which our students experienced an ever shrinking world and just how small Israel actually is. For example, Miranda Hupp, wearing a Miami of Ohio University shirt on one of our plane rides, met a Miami U student on the plane who knew her brother Noah (who was on our previous CBI trip) from the Glee Club and remarked to her on his beautiful voice. Another example, at a gas station outside our archeological dig, while eating lunch we ran into a couple from my previous synagogue in Arizona, whom I haven't seen in many years as they had moved away. Seeing them and their now adult children was a joy. Or at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem where there were perhaps some 1000 people for Shavuot services, we sat right next to the Cantor who succeeded me in Stamford, Ct. 25 years ago…Israel is indeed a small country!
A highlight of the trip (of which there were many) was when I invited Yaakov Friedman (formerly Zhiang of China then Toledo) who made Aliyah to Israel a year ago, to visit with us and speak to our students. He drove with his lovely wife and 3 beautiful young daughters for an hour and a half to meet with us. At first he was hesitant, saying he had no idea what to say. But once he began, he had me in tears, and our students, as tired as they all were from a full day of activities and travel, were mesmerized by his family's on going Jewish journey, what they have gone through to become Jewish, live in Israel and gain acceptance.
This dream come true trip has without doubt enhanced our students' positive view of Israel, and their understanding of Judaism, as well as their knowledge of the centrality of Israel and Jerusalem in our lives. Our amazing guide Yair (whom some wanted to put in a suitcase and smuggle to Toledo) did much for our appreciation of Israel today, as well as throughout Jewish history.
The memories will be with us forever! I am deeply appreciative to all who made this trip possible. It is truly a beracha that we at CBI are one of very few synagogues in the world that are able to provide an almost free trip to so many of our students as a benefit of membership. I am truly grateful to the 2 wonderful chaperones Matt Kripke and Alison Sherman who were right there beside me at all times, to keep our students safe and ensure the best possible experience!
CBI Toledo Europe Mission 2015
Posted on June 4, 2015 by cantorlichterman
CBI JEWISH MISSION TO EUROPE MAY 5 – 18, 2015
I have been working with Lee and Gail Kwait for over a year now to put together this eagerly anticipated Jewish heritage mission to Europe. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and time and making connections to pull something like this off and trying to satisfy a divergent group each of whom has different needs and interests is complicated to say the least. But the Kwaits and I led a mission to South Africa recently which was fantastically successful so on request from people who heard about the South African tour we decided to offer this followup. There are several repeat participants on this mission from our last trip.
It's been a few days already since we departed Toledo for Europe. Except for a little free time here & there it's been exhausting so I have had no time to blog unfortunately. When we finally check in at night from long days, as exhausted as I am I work on planning the next day and researching the Jewish components so often I don't get to sleep till late at night, then the next day I am usually first so I can make sure along with our other tour leaders that everyone is where they are supposed to be…
As a fan of architecture and history Prague in the Czech Republic is a dream. Unscathed and not bombed during World War II everything is intact though over 40 years of Communist rule brought some neglect but it's been restored to its former glory as one of the most beautiful and great cities of the world with intact buildings dating back as much as 800 years.
Similarly much of the Jewish heritage is also intact making it a great treasure though the reason is sinister and chilling as the Nazis planned Prague's Jewish area as 'The Museum To The Extinct Jewish Race!' Consequently they have the largest Judaica collection in the world and many magnificent synagogues within close proximity to each other. This is very different to for example Poland particularly Warsaw which was a Jewish community many times larger than Prague (350,000 vs 58000 Jews) and Germany where almost everything was destroyed and obliterated.
HIGHLIGHTS TO DATE
The 3 experiences that stand out most in my mind are our visit to Terezin Ghetto/Concentration Camp, the many shuls we visited and Friday night shabbat service followed by dinner which I will now describe in more detail. I have visited Auschwitz Birkenau twice for missions so when I mentioned to my mother we were going to Terezin she said compared to the death camps where she and my father were interred in the war, "Terezin was a picnic!"
Although this jarring remark by mother is very realistic I would say that going to any place where our People were concentrated for the eventual purpose of destruction, is an equally sickening and sobering experience. I actually was not planning to go to Terezin and thought I would stay with those of our group who did not want to go and we'd do some fun sightseeing. But when 18 of 19 members of our group signed up to go, I wasn't go to leave them as I am the spiritual leader of our group so I prepared an appropriate service to conclude our visit, as one cannot leave a place like Terezin without some "separation" and spiritual upliftment.
TEREZIN
The sick thing about this sad place is that it's an old Czech fortress town from which the local general population was expelled to create a "holding" place, a temporary transit point for Jews from the area till its inmates could be transferred to their next "destination" often Auschwitz or other such places, most resulting in death.
I will not report any more on this visit except to say that after 5 grueling hours there, the climax occurred at the end. This was due to careful planning by our excellent guide Luba, a young Jew from the Ukraine who heads Precious Legacy Tours, and myself. I asked her for an appropriate place where we could do our short ceremony I planned for the conclusion and she said she had the perfect place.
About 20 years ago a tiny hidden secret synagogue was found there with beautiful painted biblical quotes of inspiration such as beseeching God to hear our prayers, and Stars of David painted on the walls. It was a secret shul. So we did our readings and chants there including Kaddish, poems by the children of Terezin, and concluding with Hatikvah. I was impressed everyone remembered to bring the service I had Includes in the packs each person had received from me for the trip with all kinds of pertinent materials and articles on all the places on our itinerary etc.
I had texted my wife Jan to tell her we were going to Terezin. Jan who was supposed to go on the trip but had to cancel due to family emergency, texted me an inspirational note I shared with our group during the service, which mentioned that our son Mayron who is a surgical resident in Michigan had just received some prestigious medical awards, and she added, " they tried to kill your lineage…so as much as they tried to get rid of us we are excelling and achieving!"
Everyone in our group cheered and clapped, it was a deeply emotional moment for us all, specially for me who lost 100s of relatives in the war and a half sister aged 4. As Lee Kwait read the poem I Never Saw Another Butterfly written by a young boy in Terezin who perished, he could hardly finish reading, we were all choked up…but left with the words ringing in our ears of Hatikvah "lih'yot am chofshi b'artseinu….to be a free people in our land…"
PS we have just crossed the border by bus from the Czech Republic into Germany as I write this!!
THE JEWISH AREA OF PRAGUE
Concentrated in one small area of Prague where the Jewish ghetto once was, are an ancient Jewish cemetery as well as 6 impressive synagogues and a beautiful building of the Chevrah Kadisha – the Jewish Burial Society which played a vital social services and Tsedaka role in the community. In addition a little further away is the magnificent Jerusalem Synagogue which was not on our tour as its too far but I went there in the morning during free time and am sure glad as its magnificent. It is still in use as are several others although the community is tiny compared to pre-war, a few 1000.
Described in local literature as 'the most beautiful synagogue in Europe' is the Spanish Synagogue so called because of its magnificent Moorish architecture. It is very reminiscent of Florence Italy's synagogue though much smaller but both rank amongst the most beautiful in the world without question. We took lots of photos outside too by the weird statue of Franzen Kafka, the famed Jewish writer about whom Prague jokes 'everyone's heard of him no one has read him.' This saying we learnt from our tour guide from Precious Legacy Tours Luba who was outstanding and deserves special mention as having a good make makes a huge difference on tour.
Also awe inspiring is the Alt-Neu Shul, the oldest in the world in constant use (except during the Second World War) dating from 1270, yes just imagine standing in this holy space where over 750 years our People have continuously davened to Hashem!! By the ark is the 400 year old seat of the great legendary saintly tsadik Rabbi Judah Loew known as The Maharal, So integral is he to Prague history that a statue attributed to him stands in front of city hall. Next to the Altneu Shul is the Jewish town hall with its famous Hebrew clock.
The cemetery close by has 1000s of graves on top of each other as they ran out of room, including the Maharal's grave.
PINKAS SYNAGOGUE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL
On all the walls of this Shul are inscribed the names of every Jew from Czechoslovakia who perished in the Shoah some 78000 names filling every corner of every wall including lobby, corridors etc. Other than names the building is deliberately and starkly bare except for an outline of ark & bimah..it is as powerful as visiting Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. I am so glad our group had the following experience described in my next paragraphs after exiting this memorial…
SHABBAT SERVICE IN PRAGUE
We concluded our Jewish experience here with an amazing coincidental climax by returning to the Spanish Shul for Friday night service followed by kosher shabbat dinner at the Solomon Restaurant. We had no idea what to expect at the service ~ I had contacted them and they said they were expecting 1 other group but when we arrived there weren't many seats. I asked if they could bring out more and they said they thought it would be enough as at that point there were some 50 people which was all they were expecting but the crowd just kept growing with mostly young people and growing till there were some 150 or so packed in and they ran out of chairs and siddurim. We started 20 minutes late. It was a typical Conservative service very similar to Reform so our group were familiar with and able to follow the service and sing along and men and women sat together.
A RARE HONOR
I introduced my group to the service leader who was a regular congregant from Ukraine (I don't know if they have a Rabbi or Hazzan) and he asked me to sing the various Kaddish prayers which I was glad to oblige as singing there is a hugely emotional experience and honor.
The acoustics were fantastic and I could hear my voice reverberating off the arches of the magnificent structure. When the leader asked people where they were from we were happily amazed to find some young Jews knowledgeable of the service singing at the tops of their voices filling this great Shul with davening from all over Eastern Europe including Warsaw Poland where my family is from, Rumania etc.
DEATH TO LIFE
Keeping the flame of Judaism alive in these places where it almost disappeared is a real kiddush Hashem – a sanctification of God's name. What a contrast to the ghostly walls of the bare Pinkas Shul we had beheld a mere hour before..the young people's voices still ringing in my ears Lecha Dodi – Come my beloved…let us greet the shabbat queen…and these young people live where? In Israel? No! In America? No! In Poland, in Rumania, Hungary, Czech…Ezekiel's dry bones coming to life vision!
Dinner at the Solomon was delicious – traditional Jewish chicken soup, beef over cholent etc but more inviting than heimishe cousine was joining with the group next to us of French Jews as we sang together with great ruach zemirot and Israeli songs and I grabbed one of them & we danced ecstatically at the joy of bringing together Jews with from all over the world in this great place once called by some 'the museum of the extinct Jewish race…!!
First stop here was Regensburg, a beautiful historical college town well preserved of centuries of history dating back to Rome. I only felt it worthwhile to do these countries so associated with Jewish suffering if we were going to do experience something positively Jewish so I set out during free time to find the Shul which I did with no problem, bumping into Joanne Rubin and Leah Connor exploring the town, whom I took along to find the Shul that was nearby.
It was locked of course, no security. There were 4 call buttons on the gate. I pressed them continually never being one to give up quickly. As Joanne and Leah began to leave a woman's voice answered. I identified ourselves and our mission and soon the front door opened and a custodian opened for us. We explored the whole Jewish center and took photos. It is in the building that before the War housed the community offices. This survived though the Shul part of the complex burnt down on Kristalnacht. There is a new center which they are going to enlarge as it is too small to accommodate the reemergent community now numbering 1000 with the influx of Russian Jews as all over Germany.
Later as our whole group toured the town, we saw 2 sights of Jewish interest – Oskar Schindler's home and a Holocaust memorial on the sight of a former ancient synagogue which was revealed recently through excavations. The memorial is by an Israeli sculptor and in the place where the ark stood is a stone with the Hebrew word mizrach – meaning 'east' carved, symbolizing the direction of Jerusalem but also meaning to shine as in light shining, the intent being for people to dwell in harmony. It was Sunday, the weather was perfect and the memorial was filled with many young people relaxing and enjoying the bright sunshine…I wonder if they grasp the significance of that once holy place or the word mizrach?.
When I told our group about the Shul some wanted to see it so I took them before retiring to the boat to depart Regensburg.
Two amazing coincidences – in Prague we stopped in the old town for lunch at a small local cafe when a woman jumped up and yelled 'IVOR' – it was Judy Gatchell from my former synagogue in Tucson whom I met 15 years | 7,458 |
Pandora, a popular radio platform that plays music based on users' personal taste, recently opened a new sales office in Boston, Massachusetts. The office interior was designed by design firm Fusion Design Consultants Inc.
"Pandora Media's new sales office in downtown Boston demonstrates our expertise in digital media workplaces. Fusion Design Consultants Inc. provided complete design services for Pandora Media's local office, including interior design, graphic branding and furniture specifications. The program mainly called for open work space<|fim_middle|> city to be seen. One of the design features Fusion Design Consultants Inc. created are built in window seats located around the perimeter windows. These serve as a place for employees to collaborate with their team, and even utilize the writable plywood surfaces. It was very important to the client to show city pride and portray concepts of music in a high-energy space designed to motivate the company's sales team. One of the ways Fusion Design Consultants Inc. conveyed Boston's rich musical history was designing private meeting rooms, dubbed "sound studios" a nod to the music industry, that provide an escape from the music streaming throughout the open office space. The larger meeting rooms are named after Boston music venues such as Great Woods, The Garden and Fenway and have corresponding super-graphics on the wall. Other music themed design details include a custom light fixture that resembles guitar strings and floating musical notes. Music lyrics, super graphics, modern furniture and a contemporary color palette assimilate and compliment the firm's corporate branding strategy".
Design: Fusion Design Consultants Inc. | , with more private meeting and call rooms for employee interactions or private conversations. By situating all the workstations on the interior perimeter of the space we allowed natural light to fill the office and stunning views of the | 42 |
UChicago Science of Learning Center seeks to remove walls between research and practice
By Susan Keaton
Understanding how people learn, and developing real-world learning tools—especially for children from high-poverty communities, who tend to underperform in school—is the goal of the new University of Chicago Science of Learning Center. The overarching goal of the center is to bring cutting-edge research findings to bear on learning problems.
The UChicago Science of Learning Center, which formally debuted Nov. 16, supports interdisciplinary team research on learning, drawing on expertise from across the University, said Susan C. Levine, the Rebecca Anne Boylan Professor of Education and Society, and the center's faculty director. The center also strives to increase collaborations between researchers and practitioners and to support educational outreach efforts at the University, she said.
Interactions between researchers and educators are key as the center focuses on "useful and usable research" to understand and improve the learning throughout a learner's lifetime, said Lisa Rosen, the UChicago Science of Learning Center's executive director.
Researchers need to tap into the expertise of practitioners to make their work more applicable to real-world learning problems, she explained, just as practitioners who work to enhance students' learning can benefit from evidence-based research findings on why certain techniques work or how they can be improved or expanded.
"People are really hungry to get out of their regular silos and be able to talk together," Rosen said.
An appetite for collaboration was evident when 400 educators, researchers and community members attended the center's inaugural lecture to hear University of Pennsylvania Prof. Angela Duckworth describe her groundbreaking research on "grit," the tendency to pursue challenging goals over years with perseverance and passion.
Panelists Camille Farrington, senior research associate at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research; Elizabeth Kirby, Chicago Public Schools; and Charles Payne, the Frank P. Hixson Distinguished Service Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, responded to Duckworth's presentation. The diversity of perspectives on the panel mirrored the center's goals of connecting research with practice and fostering collaboration and exchange among diverse education-related entities.
Levine said, researchers need to understand pressing educational issues and the challenges of implementing well-researched learning tools in real-world educational settings.
"Classrooms are messier, noisier" than controlled studies carried out in the lab, she said. Teachers work with a wide range of students with different developmental needs, different learning styles and different levels of family support. Through the Science of Learning Center, learning tools could be tested through lab research, taken into classrooms for real-life field testing, then returned to the lab for refinement before becoming widely used in the classroom, or incorporated into curricula, she said.
The UChicago Science of Learning Center plans to increase educational outreach efforts and make them more effective, with the goal of creating a training ground for new education professionals, who would learn to meld practice and research.
The center focuses on understanding the cognitive dimensions of learning and how children develop attitudes toward learning, as both of these factors are strong predictors of positive learning outcomes. Ultimately, increasing understanding of the learning process and of learners themselves is the center's focus, Levine said.
"Learners are active contributors to their own learning trajectories, and teachers and parents need to engage their interests and talents, as well as find ways to get them interested in important topics that may not be as appealing to them," she said.
The University has a long history of applying groundbreaking research to teaching through the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and the Urban Education Institute, which operates the four University of Chicago Charter School campuses. The UChicago Science of Learning Center will collaborative with both entities.
For example, the University's Big Ideas Generator and the Urban Network have contributed seed funding to create the UChicago Science of Learning Network, which convenes monthly conversations among University researchers, school- and district-level leaders, and classroom teachers with different areas of expertise. The Urban Education Institute is co-sponsoring this effort. Encouraging collaborations among various research efforts under the center's leadership will allow for more systematic inquiry and development of interventions, Rosen said.
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The center also will assess strategies that can help throughout the learner's lifetime. Students who don't get early interventions need help keeping up with their peers, as do any pupils who lose ground along the way for whatever reason. Programs already under way through the center, such as the Successful Pathways from School to Work initiative, are producing knowledge that can help improve students' transition to college or the working world.
Families and caregivers need tools to help their children, and making those tools accessible, especially to people in underserved communities, is a challenge the center will tackle.
"It's a hard problem, but we can't just say it's impossible," Levine said. "We have to look at finding ways."
Levine and Rosen said they are open to new ideas, methods and techniques for the center's work. For example, Levine recently met with developers at the Chicago Toy & Game Fair, who are experts in making products that appeal to youngsters. Levine hopes collaborations between the center and toy developers will ensue, resulting in products that both engage learners and support important aspects of learning.
"We want to hear what others want to do and explore, and to provide a venue where researchers and practitioners can share their expertise," Levine said.
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On 6th March 2019 we held<|fim_middle|> have received an offer from Captain Krankypants (Trace Dann) to deliver a talk about Living and Surviving PTSD and Depression.
This was a personal, entertaining, emotional talk, which our staff, members and volunteers found the experience to be all of the above, but also, funny, thought provoking and for some very reassuring and comforting, and more importantly aware of mental health issues.
Two members of Bridge staff delivered a short presentation on the impact of substance misuse and how it affects the brains capacity to function, in relation to thoughts, feelings, reactions, emotions and responses. The presentation also highlighted the in-house activities currently, regularly on offer at Bridge, which promotes wellbeing, and includes Auricular Acupuncture, guided meditation and reflexology.
Approximately 70 people attended, and the feed-back has been very positive. | a Recovery Event at Bridge with the emphasis on mental health, this was in preparation for Mental Health Awareness Week 13th - 19th May 2019.
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Send flowers to the Taylor family. | Sam Taylor, age 68, husband of Tina (Holland) Taylor of London, Kentucky passed away Sunday, August 1, 2021 at his residence. He was the father of Dorothy Hannah Taylor, Cody Dalton Taylor, Troy Samuel Taylor and wife Summer all of London, Kentucky, and Wesleigh Douglas Taylor and husband Danny Combs of East Bernstadt, Kentucky; the brother of Lillian Gregory and husband Estill of London, Kentucky and Johnny Roy Taylor and wife Betty of Lily, Kentucky. He was also blessed with two grandchildren, Isabella Finley and Ryder Taylor. He was preceded in death by his son, Brian David Taylor; by his parents, Sam Troy Taylor, Sr. and Maggie Hannah (Ivy) Taylor; by his brother, Walter Homer Taylor. Funeral services for Sam Taylor will be conducted Friday, August 6, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. at East London Holiness Church with Rev. Bobby Holland, Rev. Jerry Holland, Rev. Jerry McKinley Holland, and Rev. Danny Holland officiating. Burial will follow at Taylor Cemetery in Blackwater, Kentucky. The family of Sam Taylor will receive friends at East London Holiness Church from 12:00 noon until the time of service on Friday. Serving as pallbearers will be family and friends. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to London Funeral Home toward funeral expense. London Funeral Home is in charge of all arrangements.
Sam Taylor, age 68, husband of Tina (Holland) Taylor of London, Kentucky passed away Sunday, August 1, 2021 at his residence. He was the father of Dorothy Hannah Taylor, Cody Dalton Taylor, Troy Samuel Taylor and wife Summer all of London, Kentucky,... View O | 369 |
This article covers the basics of Natural User Interfaces (NUI). More articles about NUI are available here.
There is a quiet revolution happening in the world of computer interaction and it is all centered with how we interface with them. With the advent of more powerful CPUs, we now have the capability to reinvent how we interact with our machines. This trend will lead to an explosion of efficacy in interaction with the machines we daily. It has the potential to completely tear down the dichotomy between what we consider the real world and what we call the<|fim_middle|> no bigger than a pack of gum. While playing with this device myself, I was impressed with how intuitive it felt to interact with the computer with my hands. There was almost no learning curve to using this device; you simply reach your hands in and start manipulating the content.
Probably the most well-known NUI device on the market. The Microsoft Kinect is a full-body NUI device capable of facial tracking and full-body tracking. It can actually track up to 6 bodies simultaneously. They also give you access to the low-level APIs, giving rise to some awesome new uses for the device. This app, for example, used the changes in facial temperatures detected via the Kinect's infrared sensor, to infer the user's heart rate.
The Intel RealSense is not necessarily a device, but a technology stack offered by Intel. In it are several NUI devices that is a cross between the Kinect and the Leap Motion. It can do facial tracking, body tracking, and hand tracking. Additionally, it can be used for object detection, and digital 3D scanning. Furthermore, it can be used by drones for object avoidance.
This nascent field is just at the inflection point of becoming a major industry. Big hitters like Microsoft and Intel are already in the game, and even Elon Musk is getting in. Look for natural user interfaces to become a huge influence in our lives. | digital world. It will come to redefine how we interact with our machines on a fundamental level.
As an example, here I am using the Leap Motion controller to manipulate a block in 3D.
The evolution of user interfaces. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
The interface between man and general computing machines have gone through three main stages. With each stage comes a shift to a more intuitive method of interacting with machines.
With the advent of the mouse, the screen became for than a terminal that would simply display data. It became something that was a little more intuitive. The screen became a navigable 2-dimensional plane. Because our brains exist in a physical world, it understands navigating 2- and 3-dimensional spaces on a much more fundamental level.
The GUI relied on metaphors for interacting with on-screen content or objects. The 'desktop' and 'drag' for example, being metaphors for a visual interface that ultimately was translated back into the strict codified language of the computer.
Finally, we come to natural user interfaces. The goal of NUI is to render the user interface effectively invisible. This is done by teaching machines to see us and understand our gesture and intent. This allows for a flatter learning curve in that the interaction seems like the right thing to do. For example, in the video I posted above, if you want to move an object, you simply pinch it and move it. If you want to scale in a direction, you pinch the handle and lift it up.
In conclusion of this article, I thought I might share with you some of the exciting new NUI technologies that are available on the market today. Note that this list is by no means exhaustive. Please feel free to reach out to me with any new ones that I might have missed.
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Meet the young artist injecting the house/techno scene with fresh new energy
Words: Kevin Kang
After making his debut four years ago, Mall Grab has been injecting the house scene with fresh and cool energy. The artist's moniker comes from the skateboard lingo mall grab, which an unconventional way to hold the skateboard by the trucks, something that is usually frowned upon by many skateboarders due to its impracticality. Like his name suggests, his music, too, is quite different from the norm. From adding vintage textures that resembles listening to an old LP that you dug up from the attic to sampling multiple hip-hop as well as grime numbers, the artist's soundscapes are laden with fresh touches that are rarely found in the works of his counterparts.
While hailing from the same country that produced giants such as Flume and Chet Faker, Mall Grab, a.k.a, Jordan Alexander, started his musical career in Newcastle, Australia—which is not the most trendy place for electronic music. However, Jordan's music quickly gained popularity thanks to various channels on the Internet including YouTube and Soundcloud. The young artist's tracks were introduced via notable house music channels such as Slav and hurfyd, and he has also released multiple EPs and singles under burgeoning dance music labels Shall Not Fade and Hot Haus Recs.
I would say that "eclectic" and "fresh" are probably the most accurate terms as far as describing Mall Grab's music in two words. From the very dawn of his career, the artist has been mixing an array of styles that covers lo-fi, disco, old school, techno, and more behind the decks all around the world. Recently, Mall Grab has been venturing outside the boundaries of the house genre, gracing us with series of heavily techno-infused albums through his own label LFT. From the 4 track EP titled 'Moogie' that he released with another Australian export Nite Fleit, to his more recent works including 'Growing Pains' and 'Strangers', the dance music extraordinaire has been racking up some serious techno bangers—which was why, in my opinion, it felt so natural to see him at Faust, one of the most original techno clubs in Seoul.
It was late December, and the holiday spirits were in full swing. The streets of Itaewon were already bustling with college students and office workers celebrating the last days of 2019. Worried that there would be another painfully long line like the last time when Jeff Mills came to Faust, I hurriedly made my way over to the venue. I was in luck: after waiting in a short line, I entered its doors around 1. Faust was already filled up with intense energy and there were surprisingly a lot of people, even considering the fact that there was a Boiler Room party on the same day and Herrensauna party the day before. A resident DJ at Faust, DJ Damie was spinning behind the decks, charming the crowd with her unique energy laden with with both warm and cold feels. As a supporting act, the DJ surely showed her capabilities as a pro DJ—managing to make the crowd dance whilst keeping the energy levels under control.
After an hour of incredible warm-up set by Damie, it was finally time for the best part of the night. As the time grew closer to 2, we saw more people moving into the venue. While we were bopping to the thumping four-to-the-floor kicks, a friendly face appeared behind the decks. Everyone cheered as the young producer/DJ with his skater-esque hair took over, who then started to drop massive techno bangers, blowing everyone's mind from the very beginning. The artists' set clearly embodied his sonic universe, one that is characterized by his fresh, creative takes on techno music. Old school rave infused soundscapes and savage kicks pierced our eardrums, while catchy samples breathed life into the minimal arrangements.
It was not just the superb selection of songs that made his performance the highlight of the night; the artist also graced us with countless numbers of his original tracks and edits. From the earworm track '?' that features samples taken from grime artist Wiley's 'And Again' to the bass-packed numbers such as 'Temperature Rising' and 'Growing Pains', Mall Grab's set was filled with his own energy. And if that wasn't enough, the DJ also entertained the crowd with his unreleased tracks including 'Sheer Fuck Offness' and 'Sunflower'. Mall Grab flooded the speakers with his hard-hitting gems, and he kept the intense energy going for the entire two hours of his set.
Like what they say in the comments on YouTube, it might be true that Mall Grab is "growing into a techno demon". If you've been a fan of his former lo-fi albums or funky numbers like 'Pool Party Music', you might have mixed feelings about his new works. However, what I could tell you is that his recent venture into techno has led him to produce one of the freshest tracks, and this prolific artist still has so many unreleased gems—most of which he plays at during his sets around the world—a lot more to come from the young artist. Stay tuned.
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Sunday night I ordered my groceries from FreshDirect for the first time ever. I've been wanting to try it out and they sent me a 25%-off-my-groceries coupon and I had literally run out of food entirely. I have to make something really clear before I continue. Grocery shopping is a huge deal for me. Huge. Deal. I am incredibly OCD about my food, from buying it to cooking it to eating it. Ironically, when I cook I don't ever follow recipes, but that's not the point. Normally, I go grocery shopping about once every month (admittedly far too infrequently). When I do go, though, I have a very specific list. In categories. And I carry a pen to cross things off as soon as I put each item in my basket. My roommate offered to go with my<|fim_middle|> got this delivery) that Monday night her chef-brother cooked 2lbs of lamb for dinner…and it fed SIX people. Right.
Five. Pounds. Of CHICKEN! Do you have any idea how much that is? You probably do, because everyone I talked to had an idea of how much that was except for me apparently because I ordered it without a second thought.
As I told my friends about this (and as I am typing it out), their reactions were all very similar (as I imagine yours to be), causing me to tell you this: I GET IT NOW. "Now" being the operative word. As soon as those boxes arrived, I got it. As I spent the next hour+ cutting, wrapping-in-foil, and putting away this excessive amount of meat, I got it. As I spend the next month+ thawing chicken, fish, and turkey burgers and not going grocery shopping, I will continue to get it.
And believe me, when I finally manage to consume these EIGHT POUNDS of meat, I will walk down the block, cross the street, and go to the damn grocery store. | one time (she was bored, I'm entertaining) and I warned her that it might take a while. I wasn't sure she wouldn't be beyond freaked out when she saw how weird I am when I set foot in a grocery store.
Yeah. So you can imagine where this is going.
The FreshDirect Man buzzed at exactly 8:32 and as I stood in the door waiting for him to arrive at my doorstep (third-floor-walk-up), I heard him grunting. I didn't order that much stuff, did I? He presented me with four (four?!) boxes of groceries and basically ran away. Luckily, one box simply had a carton of eggs, so my fears of over-buying subsided. Then the bottom box gave me a near heart attack. What the hell is in there? It was seriously seven pounds. Or something close. Heavy. For groceries. For one girl. I opened it up and my online-grocery-shopping blunders became painfully clear.
I bought chicken, fish and ground turkey as my protein (and yeah, I keep track of that stuff). The ground turkey was pretty standard, maybe a bit less than a pound. What I expected. I made it into 11 turkey burgers and froze them (I'm very excited about this). Then I got to the fish. When I ordered it, I assumed I normally bought 1lb. This fish came in 2lbs or up, so I figured, Hey, what's a bit extra? Uh, not quite, moron. Apparently, I normally buy about 1/4lb of fish. This time I bought TWO POUNDS. That is 8 times the amount I've ever bought. Best-Friend-in-Chicago told me last night (after I | 365 |
LOCATION SOBRANTE CA
Established Series
Rev. JHR<|fim_middle|>ase, andesite, or basalt. Rock outcrops are common. The climate is moist subhumid with warm dry summers and cool moist winters. Mean annual precipitation is 15 to 50 inches. Mean annual temperature is about 56 to 60 degrees F; average January temperature about 45 degrees F; and average July temperature about 76 degrees F. Frost-free season is about 200 to 270 days, but may be as few as 140 in Lake Co.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the Argonaut, Auburn and Boomer soils and the competing Rescue soils. Argonaut soils have more than 35 percent clay in the argillic horizon. Auburn soils have a lithic contact within a depth of 20 inches in part of each pedon. Boomer soils are in cooler sites with a mean soil temperature of less than 59 degrees F.
DRAINAGE AND PERMEABILITY: Well drained; low to very high runoff; moderate permeability.
USE AND VEGETATION: Used mainly for range, some areas are used for irrigated hay and pasture and dry land crops. The native vegetation is oak-grass and forbs with some scattered perennial grasses.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Coast Range mountains and foothills of the Sierra Nevada Range in California. The series is of moderate extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Davis, California
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Contra Costa County, California, 1935.
REMARKS: The activity class was added to the classification in January of 2003. Competing series were not checked at that time. - ET
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SOBRANTE SERIES
The Sobrante series consists of moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in material weathered from basic igneous and metamorphic rocks. These soils are on foothills and have slopes of 2 to 75 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 32 inches and the mean annual temperature is about 60 degrees F.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, thermic Mollic Haploxeralfs
TYPICAL PEDON: Sobrante silt loam, rangeland. (Colors are for dry soil unless otherwise noted.)
A--0 to 5 inches; reddish brown (5YR 5/4) silt loam, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) moist; massive; slightly hard and hard, friable, slightly sticky and slightly plastic; many very fine roots; common very fine and medium tubular and interstitial pores; moderately acid (pH 6.0); clear smooth boundary. (4 to 9 inches thick)
Bt1--5 to 11 inches; yellowish red (5YR 4/6) silt loam, yellowish red (5YR 3/6) moist; weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine roots; many very fine and fine tubular pores; few thin clay films in pores; slightly acid (pH 6.3); clear smooth boundary. (5 to 10 inches thick)
Bt2--11 to 24 inches; yellowish red (5YR 5/6) light clay loam, dark red (2.5YR 3/6) moist; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, sticky and slightly plastic; common very fine roots; common very fine, many fine and medium tubular pores; many thin clay films in pores and on peds; slightly acid (pH 6.3); clear wavy boundary. (11 to 18 inches thick)
Cr--24 to 30 inches; soft well-weathered basic schist, slightly acid (pH 6.5). (0 to 6 inches thick)
R--30 to 34 inches; hard basic schist with pockets of slightly weathered schist.
TYPE LOCATION: El Dorado County, California; 2.5 miles south of Shingle Springs, 200 feet west of French Creek Road, 200 feet south of the N 1/4 corner of sec. 19, T. 9 N., R. 10 E.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Depth to a lithic contact ranges from 20 to 40 inches and is variable over short distances. The soils between depths of about 5 to 15 inches are usually moist but become dry in all parts in May or early June and remain dry until October to mid-November. Coarse fragments throughout the profile range from about 3 to 30 percent with the largest amount usually in the uppermost and lowermost horizons. The mean annual soil temperature is 59 degrees to 66 degrees F. The soil is slightly or moderately acid throughout.
The A horizon has dry colors of 7.5YR 5/2, 5/4, 5/6, 5/8, 4/4; 5YR 5/3, 5/4 and moist colors of 7.5YR 2/4, 3/2, 3/4; 5YR 3/3 or 3/4. Moist colors of 2/4, 3/2, and 3/3 are usually to a depth of 5 inches or less. It is silt loam, loam or gravelly loam with 10 to 25 percent clay. Organic matter ranges from 3 to 7 percent in the upper few inches and from 1.5 to 3 percent at 5 inches.
The Bt horizon has dry colors of 2.5YR 5/6, 5/8; 5YR 5/8, 5/6, 4/6, 4/4, 3/4, 3/6; or 7.5YR 5/6 and moist colors of 2.5YR 3/6, 4/6, 4/8; 5YR 3/4, 4/4, 3/6; or 7.5YR 3/4. It is loam, silt loam, clay loam, silty clay loam, gravelly loam or gravelly clay loam with 25 to 35 percent clay and with a 4 to 15 percent (absolute) increase over the A horizon. Base saturation ranges from 70 to 90 percent.
Some pedons lack a Cr horizon above the lithic contact.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Academy, Burchell, Cajalco, Coarsegold, Honn, Jacinto, Modesto, Olashes, Perkins, Pleasanton, Rescue, Sobay, Trimmer and Whitney series. Academy, Burchell, Coarsegold, Honn, Jacinto, Modesto, Perkins, Pleasanton and Rescue and Sobay soils lack a lithic contact above depth of 40 inches. Cajalco, Trimmer and Whitney soils have a paralithic rather than a lithic contact.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Sobrante soils are on foothills and have slopes of 2 to 75 percent. Elevation ranges from 125 to 3,500 feet. They formed in material weathered from basic igneous and metamorphic rocks, mainly amphibolite schist, diab | 1,262 |
According to the Michigan Farmers Market Association, the number of farmers markets in the state has exploded in recent years, numbering more than 300 today.
In addition to connecting communities to fresh, farm-grown food, farmers markets often serve as community hubs, offering up a wealth of health and wellness benefits, services and educational programming.
We know that this is barely scratching the surface. What's your favorite market that we missed?
This post was originally published on June 9, 2014 and updated to reflect<|fim_middle|> by adding kids crafts and a kid's produce club to the market! my 3 old year daughter loves it!
I love Blocks Farm Market located on Eureka rd at Middlebelt. Open in May for flowers then July thru October they are the BEST!! | suggestions from our readers.
The Bank Street farmers market in Kalamazoo!!
Harbor Springs Farmer's Market is my favorite & I am anxious for summer & all the wonderful local products I will find there !!
Harbor Springs farmer's Market is the best!
Just north of Ionia, this family owned 2nd generation farm starts everything by seed and plants by hand on fields. Sarah makes the best apple fritters around. Everything is homegrown and homemade in their farm market.
Big Rapids has a wonderful farmer's market for such a small town.
Harbor Springs Farmers Market is wonderful. Wednesdays and Saturdays through the summer. It has a great small town feel, located right on the main street.
when is the market open and where in Mt Clemens?
Hi Lynda! The Mt. Clemens Farmers Market is currently open on Friday and Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Starting in July, the market will also be open on Wednesday afternoons from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The farmers market is located at 141 North River Road. For more information, you can visit the market's website: http://www.mountclemensfarmersmarket.com. Thanks!
Farmington is top shelf!!! Great vibe, all Michigan, festive, fun and welcoming. You can easily spend an hour or two hanging out!
We love our Canton Farmer's Market! Its open on Sundays from 9am to 1pm. They have been making it more family friendly, | 313 |
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In <|fim_middle|> century shows the death of the horse and buggy, milkmen, party-line operators, cassette tape recorders, typewriters and dial-up internet, just to name a few.
Many of those items seemed like they were here to stay. And even though they were replaced by something else, people who knew them often felt a twinge of sadness to see them go (except maybe for dial-up). Here are 10 other 20th-century staples that seem to be on their way our — or at least won't be so widespread in the future.
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How Fish and Chips Became England's National Dish | 2011, San Francisco became the first city to ban unsolicited distribution of the Yellow Pages phone book. The directory has gone from necessity to nuisance in about a century. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Those of us of a certain age certainly remember searching for phone numbers in the telephone book. Every year, a big white one (residential) and a yellow one (business) would land on your doorstep. You'd quickly page through the white one to check that your name, address and phone number were in the book without mistakes, because how else would people find you? Telephone books are now obsolete, replaced by smartphones and the internet. But who would have ever dreamed of a world without phonebooks? Or landlines, for that matter, just called "telephones" back then.
Of course, obsolescence is a fact of life. Innumerable things have disappeared over the centuries as humans continue to evolve and advance. A quick glance at the last | 194 |
Leasehold improvements have different depreciation rules depending on whether you are working with U.S. tax basis financial reporting or U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) financial reporting<|fim_middle|> Prior to that year, the depreciation term was 39 years. The 15-year rule is not permanent and must be reauthorized every year. The depreciation term is fixed regardless of the actual useful life of the leasehold improvement or the remaining term of the lease.
For GAAP financial reporting, improvements to leaseholds can be capitalized or expensed depending on the dollar amount of the improvement. Companies set a capitalization limit, an internal accounting standard determined by management that sets the threshold amount above which an item is capitalized instead of expensed. If the amount does not exceed the capitalization limit, the leasehold improvement is expensed in the period in which it is incurred. If, however, the cost exceeds the capitalization limit, the company capitalizes and amortizes it.
A capitalized leasehold improvement under GAAP is amortized over the lesser of the remaining useful life or the remaining term of the lease. Useful life is determined based on management estimates. Additionally, the remaining term of the lease can include extensions so long as they are foreseeable and reasonably assured of happening. If the building is subsequently purchased, the lease ceases to be in effect, and the leasehold improvement would be amortized over the remaining useful life of the building. | . For tax purposes, leasehold improvements are eligible to be depreciated over 15 years.
The 15-year rule was enacted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2004. | 43 |
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Church & Dwight shares plummet 5.8% after Q2 profit beat, revenue miss
Published: Aug. 3, 2017 at 8:01 a.m. ET
Emma Court
Church & Dwight Co. CHD, +1.39% shares slid 5.8% in premarket trade Thursday after the company reported a second-quarter profit beat and revenue miss, noting discounting was affecting growth. Earnings for the latest quarter declined to $72.9 million, or 29 cents per share, from $111.6 million, or 43 cents per share in the year-earlier period. The latest results included a 12 cent charge for a previously announced U.K. pension settlement that exceeded outlook. Adjusted earnings-per-share were 41 cents, above the FactSet consensus of 39 cents. Revenue rose to $898 million from $877 million, below the FactSet consensus of $904 million. Church & Dwight manufactures household and personal care products such as detergents, cat litter and condoms. Categories are growing slower than expected because of discounting, Church & Dwight Chief Executive Matthew Farrell said, with couponing and promotional investments affecting consumer domestic sales and gross margins. The company expects 201<|fim_middle|> above guidance of $1.75 to $1.77 per share that was given in May. Church & Dwight affirmed 2017 adjusted EPS guidance of $1.92 per share. Church & Dwight shares have risen 8.2% over the last three months, compared with a 3.8% rise in the S&P 500 SPX, -1.89%.
The global semiconductor shortage, sparked by pandemic-influenced demand spikes, reportedly led to a near-sellout of 2022 chip supply before the year even started, but investors and analysts are concerned the end of the party is already within sight.
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Barron's: Cathie Wood Is Expecting a 'Bloodbath' in This Segment of the Market | 7 EPS of $1.79 per share, | 11 |
Vinati yesterday crossed Rs960. It was discovered at 64 levels about 5.5 years ago (Aug<|fim_middle|> I discussed about Paper Products. It is another long term bet.
Please feel free to invite anyone that you feel would benefit from the discussions. | 2011). Now it is a 15 bagger (with dividend 19 bagger). The benefits of holding quality companies.
I have made my quantity FOC (Free of Cost).
Working on a new script. Let's see if I can identify a good company at reasonable valuations which could give reasonable returns. Let's be in touch.
Writing after a long gap. Vinati Organics was today close to Rs700. It is a 11 bggger in 5.5 years (Aug 2011). It gives good dividend as well and has given more than Rs15 dividend per share from 2011 till date.
Enjoy the fruits of long-term holding.
Disc.: Holding Vinati. This is not a recommendation.
Vinati Organics is a gem. I identified this stock at around 64 levels sometime in Aug 2011.
The stock today touched 218 and going strong. This is a return of, including dividend, 250%.
Professional management, worldwide leadership position in its segment, strong financial performance, dividend paying, high promoters stake, no pledging, low debt, cheap valuations and a history of performance coupled with right expansion moves made this company an attractive investment opportunity.
Later some of you bought @100 or so when I discussed this and I hope they enjoyed the ride.
We met with Pune Equity Group on Jan 4th and | 300 |
It's January, and we have to ask, have you kept your New Year's resolution? If you're like most people, your resolution is related to staying healthy – eating better, exercising more, losing weight and getting more sleep.
But being like most people also means you probably are not keeping your resolution. Statistics show that many of us drop our annual promise to stay healthy by February, and that only a tiny fraction of us actually hold on throughout the year.
Don't feel bad if you've already given up. We don't believe that staying healthy should – or can be – a 12-month goal. We believe, instead, it should be a way of life. That's why we focus on helping people live healthier and happier lives. Not to lose 20 pounds one year and gain it all back the next, and certainly not to start a diet for one month, and then feel like a failure for quitting by the next.
As this year started, we began reflecting on what it means to promote health and wellness – not for a month or 12, but for a lifetime. So, we'd like to share some of our views here.
We believe there are few quick fixes when it comes to health. Instead, living better takes a holistic yet individualized approach. We must recognize first that our mind and body work together, and that they both also respond to the outside world.
We also believe there's no single way to improve health; many methods should be used in concert. Adopting tried-and-true lifestyle changes such as eating fruits and vegetables regularly and getting frequent physical activity are critical to good health. But so are using techniques to improve mental health, like practicing meditation, mindfulness and even relaxation with the help of aromatic oils. Taking advantage of homeopathic and natural medicines can be beneficial, too.
As health care providers, we've also learned to adapt. Variety is, after all, the spice of life. That's why we're excited about new tools and approaches available to improve people's lives, such as advances in nutrition and nutritional counseling, the growth of genetic testing and research, the study and sharing of folk and traditional remedies of other cultures. And, perhaps most important, the greater awareness of individualized medicine.
While individualized medicine has become a kind of buzzword in recent years, it is actually as old an idea as it is a good one. It's why we got into pharmacy compounding in the first place. Compounding, at its core, is a type of individualized medicine. Instead of giving the same pill to every person with a prescription, compounding makes drugs precisely catered to a person's needs. If a patient can't swallow a pill, it can be turned into a liquid, lozenge, or even a cream. Dosages can be made in a particular strength to suit a patient's needs. For those with allergies, inactive ingredients like dyes, binding agents or fillers can be replaced or eliminated.
Unfortunately, as science is bringing advances to help us live better, medicine is a big business, and big companies have come to define care. This can further promote a singular care approach for the masses, not because it's better but because it's more efficient and, ultimately, profitable. And because our health care system is based in a free market economy, profitability can sometimes eclipse care.
Here in the New Year, focus on what is best for you, and get the guidance you need to achieve it. Work with practitioners and dietitians who spend the time to know you as an individual. It is easy to fall through the cracks of mainstream, "one-size-fits-some" medicine.
Find someone that you can trust to look at the whole picture, taking into account necessary medications and your normal diet and supplements, and who will help you navigate your path to your optimal health. This is the core belief of functional medicine. The path is usually not direct, and can be bumpy as you begin, but routine follow-up can keep you on course as you begin the journey to your optimal health.
So, as this New Year is underway, we implore you not to consider a one-time resolution, but reflect on how to live a better life.
Gary Kracoff has a degree<|fim_middle|>@naturalcompounder.com or call 781-893-3870. | in naturopathic medicine and is a registered pharmacist and John Walczyk is a compounding pharmacist at Johnson Compounding & Wellness in Waltham, Mass. For more information, visit www.naturalcompounder.com. Readers with questions about natural or homeopathic medicine, compounded medications, or health in general can e-mail gary | 69 |
The Daytrippers és una pel·lícula estat<|fim_middle|>ícules de temàtica LGBT dels Estats Units
Pel·lícules dramàtiques del 1996 | unidenco-canadenca escrita i dirigida per Greg Mottola i estrenada el 1996. Està protagonitzada per Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci, Anne Meara, Parker Posey i Liev Schreiber.
Argument
Eliza, una jove casada, fa la neteja a la seva cambra i descobreix una carta adreçada al seu marit, Louis, que podria ser d'una amant. Desconcertada, va a demanar consell a la seva família. Tots tenen una interpretació diferent i, descobrint la veritat sobre Louis, es descobreixen ells mateixos.
Repartiment
Stanley Tucci: Louis D'Amico
Hope Davis: Eliza Malone D'Amico
Pat McNamara: Jim Malone
Anne Meara: Rita Malone
Liev Schreiber: Carl Petrovic
Campbell Scott: Eddie Masler
Marcia Gay Harden: Libby
Douglas McGrath: Chap
Referències
Pel·lícules de comèdia dramàtica del 1996
Pel·lícules dels Estats Units del 1996
Pel·lícules de temàtica LGBT del Canadà
Pel·l | 284 |
Tiny Diner is top Small Business Revolution story
Brian Martucci | Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Creative Economy, Emerging Technologies, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Green Jobs, Nightlife, Strong Local Economy, Sustainability
Kim Bartmann's Tiny Diner has just been honored as the country's top "Small Business Revolution" story by Deluxe, a business services company based in the Twin Cities' northern suburbs. The South Minneapolis restaurant was the first stop on Deluxe's nationwide Small Business Revolution tour, which will profile 100 U.S. companies during the coming months in honor of Deluxe's 100th anniversary.
Small Business Revolution was initiated in response to what Deluxe sees as the country's increasingly impersonal, digitized economy; a place where conducting anonymous online transactions is often easier than seeking out independent, brick-and-mortar businesses owned by our friends and neighbors.
"We're less likely to know who we're buying from," according to Deluxe's Small Business Revolution website. "We're exchanging data instead of sharing experiences. In too many places, the magic and the meaning [of doing business] have begun to fade."
According to Deluxe, Small Business Revolution taps "award-winning independent filmmakers and photographers to honor" businesses that "create something more personal, more local, more meaningful for all of us."
Bartmann's participation required a couple of phone interviews and a "fairly long day of shooting," Bartmann says<|fim_middle|>o's Italian-style sandwich shop at the corner of Hennepin and 4th St. SE in Minneapolis. Opening in a former Subway, the limited-seating restaurant features a fast-casual Italian menu in a diner ...
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"I was thrilled to be approached," she says. Bartmann owns Tiny Diner and seven other restaurants across the Twin Cities. "I'm interested in taking part in anything that promotes small business here." She found her way onto Deluxe's radar, she says, because she's a prominent booster for the Twin Cities Metro Independent Business Alliance, a key small business organization.
Deluxe immediately bought into "the pretty powerful little project we have here," says Bartmann. Tiny Diner is "engaging sustainable food production in a real way," she says, "thinking through how we can close the loop in the traditionally wasteful restaurant industry."
As a diner that offers food at a moderate price point and caters to a regular, neighborhood-centric crowd, says Bartmann, Tiny Diner has an even greater responsibility to be sustainable than high-end "destination" restaurants.
Case in point: Tiny Diner's patio-top solar setup is "the largest visible solar array" in the Twin Cities, she said, as all larger arrays are on high roofs or hidden behind greenery. Despite the array's size, Bartmann offset about 90 percent of its cost through various state and federal rebates.
Bartmann is justifiably proud of Tiny Diner's food, too. "Our challenge is to think about how we can make typical diner food, like hash browns, better," she says. "You can go and eat at a lot of restaurants, but you're not always being fed."
After Tiny Diner, the Small Business Revolution tour hit The Shed Fitness and Bogart's Donuts, both also in Minneapolis. The tour heads south to Kansas next, though Deluxe is still accepting nominations for businesses to be featured in the tour's later stages, regardless of location.
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An Irish software start-up has joined forces with Clare County Council to aid lifeguard operations by using drones for automated beach patrols; this is the first time drone technology has been used in such a way in Ireland.
DroneSAR, developers of a new drone search and rescue app, are bringing their expertise to facilitate lifeguards to deploy drones as their first response to monitor those in distress.
DroneSAR's flight-planning software allows drones to scan large areas from above, reduce risk to search and rescue personnel, shorten search times, and ultimately save lives.
The new partnership will see lifeguards in Spanish Point beach equipped with the state of the art drone technology and the DroneSAR software.
DroneSAR are to provide the drones while drone instructors from the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) will supervise the flights in the early stages.
Clare McGrath, Water Safety Development Officer, Clare County Council, said: "Our lifeguards are tasked with quick response times and do so over large distances. Fast detection is crucial in the Drowning Chain of Survival.
"DroneSAR's flight management technology, will deliver key operational advantages for our counties beach lifeguard operations by enabling them to quickly search for missing, injured or get<|fim_middle|> these trials will bring to the world of beach patrols," he said. | early notification of people in distress. Any piece of equipment that will allow a quicker dispatch time for ambulances, medical assistance and increased beach patrols will be a huge advantage," she said.
A live-video downlink will allow the search pattern of each drone to be monitored by the lifeguard from the lifeguard hut. The Water Safety Development Officer can use the live browser secure link to remotely monitor search progress from any computer or laptop.
Oisin McGrath, DroneSAR CEO, said: "Lifeguard teams using DroneSAR will now be able to monitor live footage from the furthest reaches of their patrol areas, with instant access to call emergency services should the need arise. Drones can now be viewed as airborne lifeguards who cover large amounts of ground quickly and easily.
"As a past beach lifeguard, I am extremely excited about the endless possibilities that | 175 |
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: The bar to pay attention to.
When I opened the door of Banshee, the newest restaurant in East Atlanta Village, I thought I had immediately solved the mystery of its name. Banshees, you may recall from your Halloween studies, are female spirits from Irish folklore who show up screaming and crying when someone is about to die. Well, nobody in sight was dying, but the restaurant was so noisy that a friend and I put our name on the list and ran out the door to listen to the restful sounds of traffic. We waited about 20 minutes and then decided to go elsewhere. But I returned a few days later for Sunday brunch. It was comparatively empty, all was quiet, and the food was fabulously fit for the living.
Three of Banshee's owners are former employees of the Ford Fry empire: Nolan Wynn, Faielle Stocco, and Peter Chvala. A fourth, Katie McDonald, is the former manager of the Wrecking Bar Brewpub. Elizabeth Ingram, noted for her dramatic design at the Golden Eagle, has created a stylish space that employs pops of royal blue to enliven the otherwise sedate brick and cement walls, big windows, hardwood floors, and a wood-slat ceiling. The most dramatic feature is the wall of blue velvet curtains that separates the dining room from the bar, which is backed by a stenciled mural of abstracted owls in blue, gold, and turquoise.
Wynn's menu is brief and seasonal. Dishes are grouped under the headings Begin (apps), Continue (entrees), Growing Now (seasonal sides), and Finish (dessert). These labels of course reflect the ubiquitous trend of confusing diners about portions. For example, Banshee's brunch includes a Wagyu beef salad in its Continue group, but it's in the Begin group at dinner for the same price ($14). Whatever! You should feel perfectly fine here (and elsewhere) to order any dish on the menu to share at any time during your meal.
So, at brunch, two of us ordered three items from the Continue group and one from the Begin group and shared all of them. It was left to us to divide them, no serving spoons provided. My favorite dish was a beautiful play on the classic iceberg wedge with blue cheese dressing. The wedges were somehow arranged like a cake layer that was<|fim_middle|>, served with caramel sauce.
The booths here all seem to have different hours, different phone numbers, and, of course, different specialties. All booths are closed Sundays and Mondays. You can't buy a banh mi after 3 p.m. Consult the We Suki Suki website for details. You can, by the way, easily concoct a vegetarian or vegan meal here, especially at Mushi Ni. Our table neighbors gilded the lily by smuggling in a bottle of vegan ranch dressing. Why veganize a cliché that needs to die?
GOTTA GO TO GATO: Regional Mexican food is the specialty of the latest weekend pop-up at Gato in Candler Park. The restaurant hosted the wildly popular Talat Market for about a year, and its chef has moved on to open his own restaurant. Now, Gato owner/chef Nicholas Stinson is taking over the kitchen himself with his own pop-up, Gato Nights.
I dined there on its first night and found the food mainly good, with a few glitches that have doubtlessly been worked out by now. My favorite was a sous-vide chicken set on the grill until brown and a bit crispy. Its flavors ranged from chipotle to a "burnt jalapeno powder." I also liked the roasted, caramelized pork chunks in a complex green mole, served with orange, achiote-tinged tortillas.
The changing menu is quite limited, and you're going to encounter that confusion about apps and entrees here too. So just plan to share everything. Also expect a wait. Hours are 6-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday.
SOUTHWEST ASIAN KICK: Fried chicken with peanut butter and Sriracha sandwich. Photo by Cliff Bostock.
A SMALL REQUEST: Stop serving food on Styrofoam. Even if you're using the variety that is supposedly biodegradable, it's horrible to drag the usual plastic fork and knife across the squeaky surface. It's even more horrible to bite into the stuff while you take a sip of coffee. And while you're ditching that polymer poison, consider going all Starbucksy and banning plastic straws too. If you've got to use them, throw them in the recycling bin. | frosted with a gorgonzola dressing. On top were slices of grilled plums and candied beets, crumbled cashews, and sprigs of dill. If you're worried that the dressing is too heavy, don't. The toppings were bittersweet.
My next fave was a fried chicken sandwich with a distinctly Southeast Asian kick. From the shape and color of the meat, we presumed it was a breast — a remarkably moist, juicy breast in a crunchy coating. Our servers told us it was actually a boneless thigh. We didn't argue because our mouths were too busy devouring the sandwich, made with a sesame bun lightly smeared with a blend of peanut butter and Sriracha. Pickled carrots garnished the chicken. Yes, alright, it was a thigh.
CLASSIC ICEBERG WEDGE: Frosted with a gorgonzola dressing, slices of grilled plums, candied beets, crumbled cashews, and sprigs of dill. Photo by Cliff Bostock.
The one dish we ordered from the Begin section of the menu was a fig tartine. I never say no to figs, one of my favorite addictive substances. These were fresh, sliced, and placed atop some thin pastry spread with mascarpone. Then they were drizzled with coffee-tinged caramel sauce and scattered with some bits of apparently candied hazelnuts. Honestly, the pastry needed to be a bit heavier to accommodate the slippery textures, which turned fork use into a balancing act. I'm not sure I'd actually call this a tartine.
My least favorite dish was the heartiest — a carbonara so full of fennel sausage and sage gremolata that every other flavor and texture, including the noodles, disappeared. I have to say I think this was a purely personal reaction, given that my fairly discerning companion devoured two thirds of the dish with the zeal of a Trump Republican chewing up the truth.
I finally did inquire how the name Banshee came about. I had two guesses. One was that Chef Wynn had come to like high-decibel cooking during his stint at No. 246, seriously ranked one of the noisiest restaurants in the Metro area. My other guess was that the name paid homage to the partying patrons of My Sister's Room, the legendary lesbian bar that used to occupy the space. But a staff member — likely one of the owners — told a sweeter story. She and her three co-owners, longtime friends, had been talking about opening their own restaurant for years. They finally decided to defy their wailing, bansheelike fears and make a move. They did the right thing!
THE HEARTY ONE: Carbonara with fennel sausage and sage gremolata over noodles. Photo by Cliff Bostock.
Banshee's prices are higher than the typical restaurant in the neighborhood, but well worth it. It's also likely to end up ranking as a very popular bar. I don't drink, so I can't tell you anything germane, except that my companion enjoyed his tequila-based cocktail with a name, Stately Hag, that seems calculated to please a banshee. The restaurant is open late, midnight and beyond, as are several other places in the neighborhood. East Atlanta Village has been famous as a late-night hangout for restaurant employees since 2011 when Angus Brown (now deceased) and Nhan Le opened the renowned Octopus Bar inside nearby So Ba. Like some others, Banshee will offer a late-night menu. Finally, you need to know the restaurant only seats about 60 people, including the bar, and reservations are taken.
MANY WORLDS, ONE PLACE: So, where did my friend and I go when we fled the noise at Banshee? To We Suki Suki, of course. This self-styled "Global Grub Collective" is a chaotic, narrow, dirt-cheap food hall that is an antidote to the sometimes oppressively fashionable Krog Street and Ponce City markets. It's not even on the Beltline!
We Suki Suki had its start about five years ago when Quynh Trinh, known as "Q," opened a tiny shop to sell banh mi, classic Vietnamese sub-style sandwiches, and pho, the noodle soup that has become a national craze. A year or so later, she expanded into the neighboring space and, ever since, it's been home to an ever-changing collective of four or five international food booths. It's the kind of place that would give Donald Trump a heart attack. All that immigrant food and not a Big Mac in sight! Nor a gold faucet!
THE HEARTY ONEFIG TARTINE: With coffee-tinged caramel sauce, and bits of candied hazelnuts. Photo by Cliff Bostock.
My friend and I both feasted on a spicy chicken ramen from Lifting Noodle. Authentic ramen, of course, is as popular as pho these days, and this is seriously one of the best I've sampled recently. We also shared a ridiculous quantity of snacks from the pan-Asian Mushi Ni, including a miraculously rich Malaysian roti roll overstuffed with duck confit; fried cauliflower; a bun stuffed with barbecued pork; and a crepe stuffed with something like Nutella | 1,106 |
The Great Hittite Trail Part 2: Ankara
The Anitkabir - an incredible monument at the heart of Turkey's capital.
Despite many visits to Turkey, this was my first proper foray across the country's interior, and it began on the high speed train from Istanbul's Karikoy region (the part on the Asian side of the city). We whizzed through the outer suburbs of the city and soon we were in a green, hilly paradise. It brought to mind Seton Lloyd's description of the Turkish landmass:
"Anatolia is like an open left hand, palm upturned, with the thumb curled inwards to represent the Taurus Mountains in the southeast. The palm represents the central plateau and the heel of the hand the eastern massif, and the fingers the diminishing ranges which extend westward to find their echo in the islands of the Aegean"
A terrain map of Turkey. Can you see the 'open left hand' pattern Seton Lloyd spoke of? Once you do, you'll never forget it! The train route from Istanbul to Ankara is marked out in red.
Hittite Lands, here we come!
Speeding towards Ankara on the train, we were traversing the land of valleys and rivers - the 'fingers' of Lloyd's useful mnemonic. With every mile we travelled, we were also climbing - because<|fim_middle|>. A lovely way to round up the Ankara leg of the trip. Next up... Hattusa, the heart of the Hittite Empire!
Ankara Travel Tips
My map of all hotels, sights and travel connections
It's notably cheaper to eat and stay here. As much as half the price of Istanbul.
Unlike Istanbul there are less English-speakers here, so have your guide book and/or Google Translate open and ready.
It can be quite cool here at nights, even in the summer, so it's an idea to have a hoodie/zipper or something to keep you comfortable when exploring or eating out in the evening.
A full gallery of my visit to Ankara is available here on Facebook (Like and follow, please!)
Read 'The Great Hititte Trail' Part 3:
Hattusa, The Ancient Hittite Capital. >>
Empires of Bronze: Son of Ishtar is available now in eBook, paperback and audiobook formats, | we were headed towards that central plateau, a rugged land ranging from 2,000-10,000 feet above sea level... the heartland of the Hittite Empire.
The green valleys of northwestern Turkey - the fingers of Seton Lloyd's 'open left hand'.
I settled back, popped in my earphones to listen to an H.G. Wells audiobook (War of the Worlds) and drank in the views of the wooded hills, river vales and hazy summer sky. Having paid a whole 36 Turkish Lira (roughly £4.50) for this 4 hour train trip, I had in my backpack a bottle of water and a rather uninspiring pretzel. After all, this was economy class, so you have to bring your own grub, right?
Wrong! The trolley chap came along and started loading food onto my table: fruit juice, fresh bread, dried apricots, olives, salad, cheeses, cakes, coffee... a veritable feast - all complimentary with the economy service. I'm not sure he understood why I started gibbering in gratitude, but thankful I was and I munched away for the next hour of the trip.
Free scran! Well it felt like it anyway. You'd pay £4.50 for a coffee and a biscuit on British trains. Here, you get your ticket and all of this for the same price!
As we gradually ascended onto the inner plateau, I was reminded of another traveller's description of the changing landscape. Gertrude Bell, writer and archaeologist said:
"Before me stretch wide plains, corn-growing where rainfall and springs permit, often enough barren save for a dry scrub of aromatic herbs, or flecked with shining miles of saline deposit; naked ranges of mountains stand sentinel over this expanse"
Very evocative! I really did feel like I was entering a different land - cooler (still sweltering though) higher and differently shaped. And the city of Ankara itself is very different to Istanbul. Smaller - just the 5 million people here! - and with a very different vibe. It isn't as 'pretty' as Istanbul, but it does have its own type of ascetic beauty. Spread across the wide open hills and plains like a defiant outpost it more accurately personifies Turkey as a country.
The very different terrain of the inner plateau.
Ankara Castle, originally constructed by the Byzantine Emperor Constans II in the 7th century AD.
Another bonus is that the prices here are vastly cheaper than in Istanbul. After arriving in central Ankara, I enjoyed a lunch of tasty doner kebab and cold coke which cost less than 2 quid, and the '2017 hotel' (breakfast included) cost £20 per night - good value for a traveller on a budget.
First, I had to visit the Anitkabir - an iconic structure that defines modern Turkey, and has Hittite connections. I'll let my YouTube vid explain:
And it was a pleasant surprise to find Hittite lion statues lining the approach to the monument.
But the main reason I was here in Ankara was for its famed Museum of Anatolian Civilizations - an absolute treasure trove of history, with exhibits ranging from the stone age, the Hittite period and all the way through to Byzantine times.
I wasn't sure just how much Hittite stuff I would find here. What if the Hittite collection amounted to no more than a few bits and pieces? So I was absolutely thrilled to see, on my approach, this giant replica of a Hittite totem (known as a huwasi)... as well as some other rather light-hearted Hittite references...
A replica of a huwasi statue from Alaca Höyük - a city possibly known in the Hittite era as 'Arinna'
A Hittite warrior - possibly a Mesedi (royal guard) - showing me the way to the toilets :)
Inside the museum was even better. Laid out in successive epochs, starting with the paleolithic era, it beautifully tells Anatolia's story with a selection of glass-case artefacts, interactive big screens and tableau recreations of ancient homes. I could actually 'see' Hittite culture emerging into history, especially with the variety of sun disc artefacts dating from the late 3rd/early 2nd millenium BC. The sun disc would go on to become a Hittite royal symbol by around 1600 BC.
An early Anatolian (pre-Hittite) sun disc.
Then I came to the Hittite section proper. The first thing that struck me was the number of tablets. Beautiful and majestic things. Whole and undamaged unlike the Kadesh treaty. There was even one incredible bronze slab, laced with chains, authored by King Tudhaliya IV, son of our hero, Hattu.
Is this not a breathtaking piece? This intact bronze tablet was discovered near Hattusa's Sphinx Gate. The tablet details a treaty between King Tudhaliya IV and Kurunta, King of Tarhuntassa (a Hittite sub-kingdom).
Another intact tablet (this time clay), unearthed at Hattusa. There is something absolutely captivating about these pieces - splashes of the distant past captured on clay for over 3,000 years! The tablet is etched with a script known as Cuneiform A - so called because the scribes who wrote it used a small wedge (cuneus in latin) to make the marks in the clay.
A veritable library of history: hundreds of tablets on display - and many thousands more have been excavated.
And how beautiful is this: one clay tablet, still partially wrapped in its clay 'envelope' - which is itself marked along the bottom with heiroglyphs from a cylinder seal.
The mark mde by a Hittite royal stamp seal. The Hittite King (the Labarna) would press his seal into the soft clay to 'sign' important tablets before they were baked hard. Note the mix of cuneiform a-script around the edges of the seal-marking, and the hieroglyphs in the centre. This is why we know it is a royal seal, as only Hittite Kings were allowed to use script and glyphs. The hieroglyphs show a winged sun disc. Below each wing tip we see the great king symbol. The tall triangle represents an ordinary king, and the kidney-shape on top makes it a 'great' king. Also... this seal probably belonged to a certain King Urhi-Teshub...
There were statues of the sacred twin Hittite bulls too - Serris and Hurris. There were drinking vessels, seals, brooches, rather detailed wedding night manuals* painted in the sides of vases. The world that had existed in my head until now was real, tangible... right before my eyes.
*I'll leave the details to your imagination :)
These two bulls are Serris and Hurris. Tarhunda, Hittite God of Thunder, would walk on these creatures' backs.
Hittite axe heads and matching smiths' moulds, tridents, millstones and more.
The multitude of Hittite animal-shaped vessels that have been unearthed. Lions and eagles seem to have been particular favourites. Also notice near the centre of the photo the upturned boots - a model of typical Hittite footwear.
A bronze handled sword with an iron blade. A very interesting find and one that stokes the old 'did the Hittites use iron weapons' debate.
And then there were the architectural pieces. Great monoliths carved with the figures of Hittite Gods. Orthostats (stone slabs that once clad Hittite walls and gates) engraved with scenes of ancient legends such as Gilgamesh, or depictions of marching Hittite warriors, More lions, griffins and winged bulls too. I happily snapped away with my camera, all the while thinking just how close the next stop of my adventure was. Hattusa, capital of the Hittites, where many of these treasures came from, was but a few hours away ;)
Orthostats (stone cladding from city walls) showing Hittite - possibly neo-Hittite - royal guards marching.
More incredible orthostats from the city of Aslantepe ("Lion Hill"): a scene of libation to the gods. Tarhunda, God of the Storm, leads a procession of deities on the right, while a Hittie King pours wine into a vessel on the left, and a bull is sacrificed behind him.
Winged griffin-demons from the walls of Carchemish (Gargamis in Empires of Bronze).
A nice selection of literature in the museum shop. I picked up a copy of "Anatolia: on the trail of the Hittite Civilization" (in the middle), as it included a perfect guide to a walking visit around Hattusa... the next leg of my adventure! I also left a pile of Empires of Bronze bookmarks with the staff here :)
But first, a little bit of Roman research...
Before heading to Hattusa, I had to see what other historical gems I could spot here in Ankara. In this respect, a stroll into downtown Ankara is well worth it if you have the time. I found the Column of Julian the Apostate, the Temple of Augustus and the Great Baths of Caracalla (infuriatingly closed minutes before I arrived, but I still managed to get a few shots through the fence).
Market day! Ankara's back streets are packed with bargains. Even better, it's less touristy than Istanbul so you don't get hassled and can browse in peace.
The column of Julian 'the Apostate', the 4th century AD Roman Emperor who almost returned the empire to pagan worship.
Me larking around at the foot of the column (quite chirpy after a super strength Turkish coffee).
A nice panoramic from the mount of the Temple of Augustus.
The surviving 1st century AD walls of the Temple of Augustus, with the abutting pink and white stonework of the later mosque. Famously, the wall sof this place have one of the best-surviving inscriptions of Emperor Augustus' work "Res Gestae" ("things I did") in both Greek and Latin.
The lonely ruins of Emperor Caracalla's Great Bathhouse.
A Roman tombstone in the bathhouse grounds.
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