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Barcelona are in the Copa del Rey final for the sixth year in succession after they came through their semi-final with Real Madrid with flying colours.
Jordi Alba has reiterated importance of the trophy and that the Catalans value it highly among their objectives for the season.
"We have given value to the Copa," he said. "Real Madrid wanted it; many people were focussing before the game to liven it up.
"The excuse that it's an insignificant trophy doesn't cut<|fim_middle|>ane secured an emphatic victory over Los Blancos.
"We've won by three goals, that's not easy," Alba said. "Ultimately we've won by a big margin. It's a very good result for us, it makes us stronger.
"We were the better side against a great rival, which is difficult in their stadium. They're always a complicated team and we have won in a convincing way."
Barcelona have scored seven goals in two games since having a free midweek last week.
"The results are much better," he said. "We played quite well. In the first half we didn't really turn up, but after we scored in the 50th minute, we were much better." | it. We have suffered. In general, we've been good."
Goals from Luis Suarez and an own goal from Raphael Var | 25 |
Leading telcos are well under way with their Digital Network Transformations. And for wireless carriers, 5G is a big impetus to update the entire network. Digital Network Transformation that involves the core, datacenters, applications and services, and most layers of the OSI model. Today's meeting examines the current state of Network Transformation, the available technologies, the upcoming tech, and the recent successes.
Consumers are seeking faster wireless, rich media, and low-latency, as well as new services over the network. Enterprises are looking for agile networks, intelligent edge options, and with a host of compatible services that can be offered and provisioned rapidly.
Network operators are seeking to meet those demands with Software-Defined networks that are more efficient, automated, running on virtualized systems, scalable on demand, and ultimately lower cost. Service providers need shift from selling technologies (like MPLS) and instead sell..well…services.
That's why the industry as a whole is contributing towards Digital Network Transformation. It lowers costs, improves reliability, accelerates time-to-new-services, and allows much lower<|fim_middle|>: Innovative solutions can use a Demo Table during the networking breaks. Tables are available for $500 in online registration first-come, first-served.
Attending: Registration is included in ComTech Forum membership. Non-members may register for $200. Companies active in communications innovation can learn about ComTech membership at www.comtechforum.com.
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If you are interested in annual membership, sponsoring this topic, speaking on this agenda or demoing your startup, please use the links to the right or email comtech@telecomcouncil.com. | barriers to trial of new solutions. We expect telcos to continue investing heavily in transformation, and the vendors to be building on their product offerings. Our meeting will highlight the state of the art, the state of the transformation, and what's to come.
Join ComTech Forum members and guests to discuss the state of network transformation and discover startups that are pushing the industry forward.
Monthly ComTech Forum meetings gather communications industry professionals who represent vendors, telcos, investors and startups focused on innovation. This month's meeting is a condensed 2-hour agenda with facilitated networking and introductions, interactive discussion, technology demo tables, and rapid fire startups pitches.
Speakers: ComTech Forum reviews speaker applications for this and future meetings on a rolling basis. We encourage new companies and products to submit an application.
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Why can't I find an IT services website that talks to me in a language I can comprehend? Infotech is a broad term; I'm just attempting to get my printer to work!
Typing on a tablet can be tough in the beginning but gets simpler gradually. You can utilize the speech acknowledgment capabilities of the gadget. Tap the House button 2 times, and then tap the Microphone button. Push the icon button again and you will see your words appear as text when you finish talking.
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I believe the old art of canning is on its way to lost. So I am doing my part to revive and continue it. Monday my mother taught me to can tomatoes. I am looking forward to Grandma's homemade tomato soup all winter long. Mmmm-mmmm good!
Each summer I get hoof heels.
Not exactly my foot, but a very fair representation of it.
It is an unfortunate occurrence that I have tried many times to fix. Lotion, socks, pumice... you name it, I have tried it. I recently learned a trick that could solve my problem. Stirdex. Rub it on the hoof heels, slather liberally with lotion, and then put socks on to seal in the moisture. I am on day two and already the results are phenomenal. Yay!
Not exactly my feet. But they are getting there.
I am slightly embarrassed to admit I have worse skin right now than I did as a teen.<|fim_middle|>, I think a day at the zoo is well deserved!
Just dropping by to check out your blog. Boy you seem busier than a one arm paper hanger!
I too have dry cracked heels. My nail tech said I didn't have them when I was working and that's because I always wore socks and boots. Now I live in flip flops 24/7 so I have to really work at keeping my heels looking decent. My budget only allows a pedicure once a month now that I am retired, so I switch back and forth between several products.."heel of approval" that I picked up from Bath and Body Works, "Heel Tastic" (one of those "seen it on Tv" products, it stinks but works) and "Peppermint &Tea Tree Foot Polish" from Sensaria. Also use a Pumice stone and one of those dead skin files. Everyone in Florida has cracked heels! I never walk bare footed anywhere! Not even in my house!I am currently looking into making my own homemade olive oil sugar scrub too!
Also wanted to say, don't be down in the dumps about your skin girl. God made each of us unique. Just think how boring it would be, if everyone were the same. I am 53 years old and I STILL break out. I use "Proactive" and it has worked the best for me!
My mom taught each of us girls to can. I haven't done it in years but would love to start back doing it again. It would be nice to put up the seasonal stuff for winter time.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Come see me again sometime. I will be eventually posting some of my Halloween deco's . | I don't get it. I thought my skin should have cleared up by now. I look like a greasy 13 year old who eats far too much pizza. So, as a last result, that Stridex is working double duty. Hopefully it will fix it, because no one wants to be thirteen again.
I finally got the patio cleaned off, and it is ready for dinner.
It is beautiful! I spent the whole day cleaning. I am now exhausted. Really. But it is a good kind of exhausted, you know? Lots of satisfaction of a job well done. I can now spend more time in the backyard without guilt ensuing my soul with what I needed to be doing. Guilt free back yard!
Now, however, every time I see my car port, the guilt is there. So I just close my eyes as I pass through to the backyard. I will work on the car port next week.
Jeffrey is sick. The poor guy has a low grade fever, cough and scratchy throat. Which is sad, because most likely it means at least one other person in the family will catch it, if not all. But what can you do, really?
Zoo tomorrow. Keith and I are excited. We are going to meet my sister in law and her kids. I love wearing my kids out. They will nap so well afterward. Perfect.
My feet are the same way. I've found that "Heel Balm" and Kerosel work really well too. Sometimes you can find really good coupons for them if you look too.
I hope Jeffrey feels better soon!
Loving the patio. I love, love, love eating outdoors!
As for your heels, another great thing is bag balm.
And Proactiv has made my kids very happy.
I hope Jefferey feels better... that is what I have right now as well.
Love the brick wall. That is quite charming. Thanks for the heel tip. Mine can get pretty bad...not as bad as the top but never, ever as good as the bottom picture.
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~Chanterelles: Good supply of small - medium ones from Bulgaria. Nice, yellow, clean, aromatic, perfect moisture content with an excellent aroma and flavor. Should continue coming in from Europe through August until the Oregon season starts.
~Morels: Good strong supply of "Burn Morels" , from an area,which had a forest fire last year, which makes them insect free. The "Grey Morels are starting. They have the best flavor of all morels, no insects, firm with a very good shelflife.
May be around until mid-August depending on the weather.
~Mousserons: Excellent quality and very clean. Hopefully available a couple of more weeks.
~PORCINIS: EXCELLENT. AS GOOD AS THEY GET! From our best picker . Northern California. 2-3" diameter. Split.Should be available at least 2-3 more weeks, depending on the weather.
~Ovolos: May be avilable next week. Stay tuned.
ALL OUR CULTIVATED MUSHROOMS ARE AVAILABLE WITH A GOOD SUPPLY.
~Garlic Scapes. Excellent. Certified organic. Very local (Westchester). Good availability for several more weeks.
~Ramp bulbs. Sold out until next week, when we will have new ones from Michigan. Wild.
~Nettles: Near end of season. Spotty supply. Wild.
~Fresh Green Almonds: We still have a good supply.
~Hearts of palm: Good supply yearround.
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Griffith City Council adopted the Disability Inclusion Access Plan in July 2017.
The Disability Inclusion Action Plan demonstrates Council's commitment to people with a disability on improving access to services, facilities and jobs and is also designed to change perceptions about people with a disability.
· systems and processes - making it<|fim_middle|> people with disabilities.
To advise Council on access issues relating to public events.
Meetings are held on the 4th Tuesday of every third month.
For more information contact Peta Dummett on 02 6962 8100. | easy to find information and communicate with us.
Griffith City Council has established a Disability Inclusion Access Committee to advise Council on matters relating to access and inclusion for people living with a disability in the area.
The scope of the committee is to:To advise and make recommendations to Council on matters relating to access and mobility issues with particular emphasis on issues for | 71 |
The spotlight is so intently placed on weight - how much we weigh, how many kilograms we want to lose, how fast we can lose it.<|fim_middle|> me via email to book a consultation. | But clearly this approach is failing. The vast majority of people who diet regain all the weight they originally lost, often plus some.
Despite surface appearances, temporarily getting excess weight off at any cost is not the goal. When a client, family member, or dear friend tells me she has purchased the newest diet book focusing on getting her body fat under a certain percentage in four weeks or four months, I feel she is robbed of a golden opportunity. The opportunity to look past the kilograms and the kilojoules and develop a healthy relationship to food and to her body.
The spotlight needs to refocus on our relationship to food and our bodies, rather than just the food or the physical body itself. In today's quick fix society this is not a common approach nor an easy task. But genuine alternatives to the endless diet cycle do exist.
Enter the non-diet approach, which puts the focus on wellness, not weight. It is based on the premise that if we eat to feel good and care for ourselves, then health will naturally follow. The non-diet approach is a fantastic alternative to "traditional dieting" that is balanced, realistic and respectful to ourselves and our bodies.
I've been fortunate to have been trained in the non-diet approach by leaders in the field such as Dr. Rick Kausman, Linda Bacon, and dietitians Tara MacGregor, Fiona Sutherland, and Fiona Willer. Having healed my own issues around food and body image mainly through this approach, and having witnessed immensely positive physical and psychological changes in my "non-diet" clients, I now believe that the non-diet approach is the only sensible, compassionate, and indeed effective form of weight management that exists.
Of course it is. But dieting in the sense of specific, targeted calorie or nutrient reduction can have many harmful effects. It can lead to emotional eating, yoyo dieting, bingeing, anxious exercise focused on "burning calories", and constant thoughts about food and weight. All of which are debilitating as they stop us from living rich and meaningful lives, and enjoying the things that are important to us.
In some cases, such as disease states like cancer or kidney failure, special diets may be necessary. But for general weight loss, I (as well as a groundswell of doctors, dietitians, and other health professionals) firmly believe that the traditional dieting approach can have detrimental effects. This traditional approach frequently leads to weight cycling and the body dissatisfaction, food shaming, guilt, restriction, and disappointment that go with it.
No longer can we afford to solely focus on "what" to eat, without investigating "how" we eat. As a dietitian who has studied all the "what" there is to know about nutrition, I feel the "how" is far more important than any diet plan or nutrition information panel. The "how" of eating hinges on our personal relationship to food and to our bodies.
The past 40 years of nutritional science has provided us with plenty of evidence on healthy foods to eat, much of it conflicting. There are scientists who advocate a paleo diet, and those who swear by veganism. The only thing nearly all nutritional experts can agree on is the need for increased intake of fruits and especially vegetables in our modern diet. Most people would agree that their grandmothers told them the exact same thing without spending millions of dollars on research to prove her point.
It is now time we moved beyond the "what" to eat. We need to learn and embrace "how" to eat. As the mountain of conflicting scientific evidence suggest, the specifics of "what" to eat will never be clear on an individual level.
A healthy approach includes being physically active and generally eating what your body needs. it includes enjoying a wide variety of foods, without feeling guilty, and paying attention to your body which can tell you when you are physically hungry, full or just satisfied. This is healthier than when most of your eating is triggered by psychological needs such as boredom or comfort, rather than physical hunger, or when your eating is dictated by rigid dietary rules (in the absence of medical conditions requiring such restriction).
By switching our focus from the narrow focus of simply "what" to eat, to a holistic approach which embodies the "how", and by moving from mechanistic feeding to conscious nourishing, I feel we not only change our diets for the better; we also learn more about ourselves, our values and our limiting beliefs. No healthy food guides, diet plans or portion sizes are required, just an open mind and ready heart.
At it's core, the non-diet approach reconnects you to the wisdom of your body. It presents you with the opportunity to reach and maintain a healthy body weight, and not just for a few days leading up to your 10 year high school reunion! The ability to develop a lifelong approach to healthy eating by encouraging positive attitudes, thoughts and feelings towards food and eating, is accessible to you. It is never too late to get off the yoyo dieting rollercoaster!
We were born to be strong, happy, energetic, and healthy. There is a weight that is most healthy and comfortable for each individual, and it may or may not be the same as the societal "ideal".
The non-diet approach gently reminds us of the innate ability of our bodies to attain and maintain a healthy weight. And it doesn't require counting calories, fat grams, carbohydrate grams, or eating more eggs in a day than your friends and colleagues care for.
On a broader scale, the non-diet approach fits in with many other practices we can use to rekindle our body's innate wisdom: yoga, meditation, mindful and intuitive eating, spending time connecting with the earth, learning about sustainable food systems or doing a permaculture design course. It's about deepening our relationship to food and where it comes from, not further narrowing our scope to calories and reducing foods down to their ability to burn fat or even to boost antioxidant levels. This process requires courage and a willingness to delve deeper into the unknown.
The great thing about the non-diet approach is that the deeper you scratch, the more diet and weight myths you will dispel, and the more clarity you will gain. This is the path of the warrior or warrioress, and although it requires a little more imagination and openness than your typical 30 day low-carb diet, it's a hell of a lot more fun! And the results are lasting.
Find an Accredited Practicing Dietitian (like myself or any of my wonderful mentors listed above) to introduce you to the non-diet approach. Together you can work towards eating intuitively and creating a healthy relationship with food.
The non-diet approach does not mean tossing healthy eating out the window! It's important to know about food choices that are great for long-term health. I love talking about eating for disease prevention and improving energy levels. I'm nuts about garlic and ginger, vegetables, delicious herbs and spices, healthy homemade chocolate, and good fats like nuts and avocados. But the most important thing is to first establish a healthy relationship with food, and the non-diet approach can help you achieve that.
If you're interested in learning more, contact | 1,471 |
Ulnar Nerve Entrapment occurs when the nerve is compressed on its path from the cervical spine down to the hand. Although ulnar nerve entrapment can<|fim_middle|> Treatment begins with conservative modalities such as rest, physical therapy and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications. Injection of a corticosteroid around the affected area may decrease the symptoms. In refractory situations, surgery may be necessary to release the compression. | occur anywhere along its path, the most common site of compression is at the elbow. As the ulnar nerve travels on its way down to the hand, it passes through a tunnel at the elbow called the cubital tunnel. It also passes through another muscular tunnel in the forearm called Guyons Canal. Symptoms of ulnar nerve entrapment include numbness and tingling in the 4th and 5th finger of the hand, weakness of the muscles of the hand and forearm and muscle wasting in the hand. Causes of the problem include trauma, repetitive elbow motion, diabetes, alcoholism and any problem that causes excessive fluid build-up. Diagnosis of this problem begins with a detailed history and physical exam by your doctor. X-rays are useful to look for fractures. EMG and Nerve Conduction studies are used to pinpoint the site of compression of the nerve. An MRI may be useful to look at the soft tissue and bone surrounding the elbow. Cubital Tunnel Syndrome can sometimes be confused with Golfer's Elbow or cervical disc problems and these tests are useful to determine where the problem is coming from. | 223 |
The Nigerian Equities market started the week on a positive note, extending the streak of gains in the benchmark index to the third consecutive trading day. Despite the general negative sentiments, investors still see value in some Bellwethers trading at attractive entry prices. Consequently, the All Share Index improved 0.8% to close at 25<|fim_middle|> Banking space, Sterling Bank, released its FY:2015 result today; Top line grew 6.3% to N110.2bn while PAT advanced 14.3% to N10.3bn. Similarly, the Industrial Goods index rose 1.8% against the backdrop of price appreciation in WAPCO (+2.0%) and DANGCEM (+1.8%) while the Insurance index improved 0.3%. On the flipside, the Consumer Goods index depreciated 0.8% majorly due to profit taking in NIGERIAN BREWERIES (-1.0%) and sell pressure in PZ (-5.0%). Losses in MOBIL (-5.0%) pulled the Oil & Gas index into the red, down 0.6%.
As earlier noted, sentiments in the market remain weak as seen in the market breadth (advancers/decliners ratio) which settled at 0.7x from 15 stocks that advanced against 22 stocks that declined. The gainers list was topped by UCAP (+9.4%) FIDELITY (+6.7%), GUARANTY (+4.5) and while NASCON (-5.0%), MOBIL (-5.0%) and PZ (-5.0%) led the list of laggards. As more corporate releases trickle in, we believe market performance will be driven by investors' reactions to the results even as we expect to see buying interest in companies that have declared dividend in the current earnings season. Also, we believe deliberations from the ongoing MPC meeting (21st -22nd March, 2016) will shape the mood in the market. | ,902.95 points. Bargain hunting in GUARANTY (+4.5%), ZENITH (+3.1%) and DANGCEM (+1.8%) lifted the market into the green as market capitalization rose N71.6bn to N8.9tn. Activity level in the market also strengthened as volume and value traded advanced 85.6% and 9.3% to 412.5m units and N2.1bn respectively.
Performance across sectors was mixed as all sector indices save for the Consumer and Industrial Goods indices, trended northwards. The Banking index advanced the most, gaining 2.0%, following rallies in GUARANTY (+4.5%) and ZENITH (+3.1%). Relatedly, one of the Tier-2 players in the | 175 |
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Frank Harte was a traditional Irish singer, song collector, architect and lecturer. He was born and raised in Dublin. His father Peter Harte who had moved from a farming background in Sligo owned 'The Tap' pub in Chapelizod.
Frank Harte's introduction to Irish traditional singing came, he said, from a chance listening to an itinerant who was selling ballad sheets at a fair in Boyle, County Roscommon.
"And the banshee cried when Dalton died
In the valley of Knockanure
"This is a far cry from Dublin street songs, but it was the first song I heard, sung by a travelling man, that made me aware that we had a tradition of songs telling about the joys and sorrows, the tragedies and battles of a people in a way that I found irresistible. From that first hearing I have been fascinated by the idea of the story told in song."
Frank became a great exponent of the Dublin street ballad, which he preferred to sing unaccompanied. He was widely known for his distinctive singing, his Dublin accent having a rich nasal quality complementing his often high register.
Though Irish Republican in his politics, he believed that the Irish song tradition need not be a sectarian or nationalist preserve: "The Orange song is just as valid an expression as the Fenian". He believed that songs were a key to understanding the past often saying :"those in power write the history, while those who suffer write the songs, and, given our history, we have an awful lot of songs.". Though considered a stalwart of traditional Irish singing and well aware of it, Frank did not consider himself to be a sean-nós singer.
Frank won the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil singing competition on a number of occasions and in 2003, he received the Traditional Singer of the Year award from the Irish-language television channel TG4.
Frank Harte died of a heart attack, aged 72, on 27 June 2005 and is survived by his wife Stella (née Maguire), daughters, Sinead and Orla, and his sons Darragh and Cian. His influence is still evident in singers such as Karan Casey. Frank continues to be remembered fondly in sessions and folk clubs on both sides of the Irish sea.
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Super-Resolution Microscope Can 'See' DNA
The EU Funded CELLVIEWER microscope could change the medical diagnosis.
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CELLVIEWER
A new super-resolution microscope is being developed by the EU will allow scientists to 'see' the smallest components of individual cells including DNA. The CELLVIEWER project is developing hardware and software for the powerful microscope.
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The project could spell a radical change in the way cellular systems are studied giving scientists a better understanding of biological processes. The equipment is being used in a test case that involves scientists studying the self-renewal and differentiation of individual embryonic stem cells in mice.
Nanoscale understanding could change diagnostics
These stem cells can change into other types of cells. By collecting the information at a nanoscale level, the scientist hopes to be able to develop a model that can predict which stimuli will produce which phenotype in an organism.
Eventually, the researchers will have an understanding of how single mouse embryonic stem cells maintain their 'stemness' or commit to differentiation. The project has been running for three years, and scientists have a better understanding of how embryonic stem cells develop into other types of cells.
This research could eventually be applied to regenerative medicine. The CELLVIEWER is likely to become a critical diagnostic tool for future medical purposes.
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Microscope technology improves across the board
Microscope technology is developing at both ends of the spectrum multi-million dollar projects like CELLVIEWER have the potential to change modern medicine. But microscopes at home are also having an impact. Microscope kits that attached to your smartphone are opening doors to budding scientists at home.
But they could also help improve your health. A smartphone microscope developed by Professor Yoshitomo Kobori from the University of Illinois allows men to monitor their sperm count. Want to be fathers can buy the lens that attaches to their phone.
Users then record a video of their sperm sample then send it off to a lab for analysis. The whole process reduces time and cost usually associated with visiting a doctor. Kobori says he was inspired to create the system in response to low birth rates in Japan.
He developed the system using an already existing off the shelf smartphone microscope kit. If you have a good idea for up close imagery, then check out these amazing microscope kits available from the Interesting Engineering store.
The full kit includes a low-magnification lens capable of capturing images as 120x, and a high-magnification lens that lets you view ultra-detailed structures at up to 360x.
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A Birthday (Re)Blog and Semi-Autobiography: Introducing the Futures Initiative
AUTHOR'S NOTE: By way of introduction to anyone who does not know me, here is an autobiographical blog I posted yesterday, on my birthday, on my trade author blog . It begins to explain some of the history and the principles that have led to my moving to The Graduate Center CUNY to direct the Futures Initiative.
I hope this personal essay might inspire others in our Futures Initiative Group to introduce themselves, too.
June 21, 2014: Today is my birthday. If I were bored with being an educator, I well could have taken early retirement today. I held my first job at thirteen, at Doretti's Drugstore, thirty-five hours a week, right across the street from where I attended my middle school. I looked old for my age, it was easier to slip by back then, and I worked it. I taught my first college class when I was twenty-four, right after turning in a hastily written dissertation that I thought would be my farewell ode to academic life. I did not like graduate school or academic culture very much. There you go. I didn't know how much I would love teaching and learning. Still, that's a long time as an educator. It was a decision point. Our house in Durham was just about paid off. It had been a good, long life of work. There is lots in the world I have not yet seen or done, lots I'd still love to do. And yet I love teaching and (as I've been accused in the press a time or two) I happen to love my students, now, more than I ever have. I'm suspicious of generational logics, but not of history. These kids face incredible challenges, their world is complex and so is their information, their new ways of learning and interacting, the new fears they face on the way to an education and on the way to adulthood. Yes, I stand accused: I love working with these young people. So instead of tossing in the towel, I put my hat in the ring. I let two executive search head-hunting firms know I would consider a presidency or, perhaps, a provost position. To my surprise, eight universities nominated me to be their leader.
It's humbling when people you have never met stand willing to put their future in your hands. Once before, when I was Duke University's (and the nation's, as it is said) first full-time Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, a new concept to designate a person and a role for integrating learning across all of the colleges and professional schools of a university, I was honored to have several universities, including my own, approach me about being a president. At the time, I felt I wanted to do something different, though. I was tired of central administration and I had ideas about what universities really needed to do to restructure learning for the present. I felt like my experience as Vice Provost and my own abilities and experience put me in a unique position to really get a handle on the cognitive challenges of learning in the early twenty-first century. I have spent most of my academic life as a cultural historian of technological change and my deepest intellectual love (unrequited for decades) is in the field of Artificial Intelligence. Very dormant, yet still a hobby. One of my undergraduate majors was in something we then called "quantificational logic" and that now would be, what? Machine learning, predicate logic, modeling language? A lot of chicken scratching, as we called it, in my bachelor's thesis on predication, Peirce's Thirdness, and implications for the geodesic papers just discovered in a Harvard basement (don't ask). I understand the deep under-structures of code (even though my own programming is terrible) and I understand the under-structures of institutions and of learning. Working to think through and implement Duke's relationship to new technologies was part of my charge as Vice Provost as was helping to create our program in Cognitive Neuroscience. I felt I had more to offer by immersing myself in the history and future higher education—and finding better modes for the world we live in now—than in presiding over an existing institution.
That was in about 2004. I stepped down as Vice Provost at Duke in 2006 and spent the next few years reading and writing Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn (Viking Penguin, 2011), and then embarked on a book tour that took me to about 100+ stops. I learned so much! And in 2012, back from the successful book tour, I decided to go the college president route, which I had eschewed before. I spent an intense year talking with several executive search committees, spending days and weeks and months checking one another out to see if we thought there was the right fit. In 2013, there was a real possibility, a wonderful opportunity to preside at a great, innovative public university. I was about to have my name released as one of the finalists for the position. I felt it be insulting to go through all the public exercises this particular state required of its finalists without being certain I would accept the presidency if offered.
That was when I called my friend Bill Kelly, then President of The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Before I made the decision to be publicly announced as a finalist, I wanted an insiders perspective. I asked if I could come visit him to talk about his life as the head of a fine public university that he had led with such vision and so much humanity. I knew he would help me make this life decision.
Bill asked me the question I had asked myself back in 2004: did I really want to be a university president? That is the right question. Because it is an impossibly demanding job<|fim_middle|> start July 1 as Director of the Futures Initiative, dedicated to training the next generation of college professors, working with those graduate students, with faculty and administrative colleagues, to think through the best new ways to teach and learn in the world we live in now. It has a simple and yet huge premise: that certain tools change human capacities so profoundly that we need to be retrained for the responsibilities and challenges we now have. I believe that was the case in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century, when mass printing and machine-made paper and ink provided abundant new ways of communicating and receiving ideas that did not depend on the preacher, teacher, or magistrate as an interpreter of the Bible or the psalm book that, in an earlier generation, your family might own. Compulsory public education was largely justified as a way of retraining working and middle-class people for a world that seemed both potentially unruly (all that unbridled print!) and that, because of Industrialization, depended upon the re-regulation of humanity to the demands, rhythms, and clock-time compartmentalizations of the machine. The role of literacy and education in both slavery and "wage slavery" were one side of that; in other ways, and in different arguments, so was the role of literacy and education in the rise of the middle class, corporatism, female suffrage, and democracy. Etc.
I believe that on April 22, 1993, when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public, we suddenly gained one of those remarkable and challenging new human capacities: suddenly we could think an idea and communicate that idea to anyone else in the world who happened to have access to an Internet connection, instantaneously and without an editor. It was the most rapid and far-reaching technological change in human history. By one plausible estimate, Internet usage increased 250,000 percent between April 22 and December 31 of 1993. The far-reaching challenges, possibilities, and dangers of that tool (including, in incredibly complex ways, the way it facilitated neo-liberalism's cruel economic redistributions of wealth and disruption of a sense of shared civic responsibility) seem, to me, to require a profound readjustment in the systems of higher education designed mostly between about 1865 and 1925 for the challenges of the previous Industrial, information age. In the US (and also internationally), the post-Humboldtian research university and the liberal arts are all reshaped by an apparatus in higher education every bit as rigid as Taylor's scientific labor management. And, as it turns out, Taylor was there as the first professor hired by Tuck, at Dartmouth, the first school to offer a master's degree in business, to make the connection overt.
A lot of water has passed under the higher education bridge in a hundred years but very little of the compartmentalization, standardization, credentialing, disciplinary division, and so forth that we've inherited and institutionalized with almost maniacal bureaucratic regulatory compulsion works very well for a world where (at present) anyone with an Internet connection can communicate to anyone else with an Internet connection instantaneously and without an editor. And of course in uploading all that data, we are all vulnerable in new ways–to be spied upon, commercialized, penalized, and held responsible for that communication, day or night, home or leisure, at work or at play: what do any of those divisions even mean anymore?
Someone at our local gym was amazed to discover that worms at the little fisherman's stand in Mebane, North Carolina, were raised in China. Last night, our friend Peter Limbrick told me how his brother in New Zealand is part of company that raises flowers to be shipped overnight to florists in LA or in Kyoto for traditional ikebana, naturally out of season. A, B, C, D or none of the above is a poor proxy for learning how to negotiate and thrive in and champion the innovations or challenge the injustices in this world of global worms and flowers.
So on to the Futures Initiative. I'm thriled, I'm honored, I'm excited. It couldn't have happened without Bill Kelly, without Louise Lennihan, and Chase Robinson, without all those people who voted for me in the departments and committees. Thank you, dear colleagues. And, lucky me, Bill has even let me talk him into team-teaching with me next Spring, the first course in the Futures Initiative, "Mapping the Futures of Higher Education." I'll write a bit about ideas for that later. The prospect is breathtaking. I could not be more excited.
And none of this could not have happened without Ken. What a two weeks we have had, making a halting, jumbled entrance to NY (interrupted by six days on business and then with family in Colorado). He is beginning a daunting new life as Editorial Director of Duke University Press based in New York. He's sharing management duties with his wonderful colleague Courtney Berger at Duke UP but is mostly based out of beautiful new offices in the Graduate Center but away from his respected and beloved colleagues in Durham. He'll be directing a program, Intellectual Publics, at the GC too. For the last week, we've gone to our respective offices every day, unpacking boxes, figuring out new systems, getting enrolled in this or that program, all the daunting bureaucracies and technologies of beginning. Meanwhile, my wonderful colleagues at HASTAC and the Duke part of the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, who are also staying at Duke, have been leading our latest launch of a DML Competition ("The Trust Challenge": talk about timely) and we've been communicating by Skype and Jabber and Google Docs and conference calls. We still laugh a lot on the phone. It's not the same. We're all adjusting.
It will be exciting soon. Once we get past the tedium and exhaustion of start-up and, oh, yes, preparing the interminable forms and files for a mortgage and the Coop Board. If all goes well, at the end of July we'll move into a one bedroom apartment. That's the opposite of a stretch. It's a shrink, from a Durham bungalow to a lovely but very small apartment in Gramercy Park. We got rid of so much. It wasn't nearly enough. We know that.
Fitting all that robust jumble of a past into this new life is the problem and the prospect. Daunting and thrilling, thrilling and daunting.
It's a lot. I'm glad it is the longest day of the year. We'll need every minute. It's a good way to celebrate a birthday. Very good. To the Futures!
Author photo: In my new office, with some empty shelves to fill!
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Wow, I am excited for you! I'm excited for the future of education! What a thrilling time for you to be able to pour all of your energy and enthusiasm toward a movement that means so much to you and to others. I personally, am very excited to watch you progress! I have had the same dreams of educational reform that you presented in your MOOC class. The time for change is long overdue. Thank you for your passion and your drive to bring about that change. Oh, and happy birthday!
Greetings from the Future
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Congratulations from tomorrow, where the future has already happened. I can report that it is a sunny day, and that a thousand global flowers are blooming and beautiful.
Thank you again for the FutureEd MOOC, and for the community that I found there and am still in contact with. I hope that you and your work will continue to be visible from here and from all other corners of the world.
Thank you both for these kind wishes
I'm thrilled. It is such a formidable job that I feel I cannot fail----winning, really, is listening, listening, listening. Winning is finding others, such as both of you, who have similar dreams and learning from one another. Winning is providing models that others, voluntarily, can learn from, and maybe making a movement of the willing, the eager, the excited, the energized, and those optimistic enough to think change is possible and realistic enough to realize you have to take every victory and celebrate it . . . because there's lots not to celebrate! So thank you for being part of that process already and, of course, back at you!
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Future of Graduate Education: An Open Forum | , you really shouldn't take it on unless you love it so much you are practically doing every waking hour and even in your sleep (not that there is much of that as a college president). And I am not exactly known for doing any job half way.
I told Bill that I thought I would love about half of the job of being a president. Most people think presidential fundraising would be awful but that's a part of the job I knew I would relish and be good at. At Duke, I'd worked with a genius head of development (that would be the legendary John Piva of Duke, an extraordinary man); I loved raising money for worthy programs from people who, as John believed and I came to, actually wanted their money to go to something worthwhile. On the other hand, I anticipated some parts of the president's job at a residential university (I won't say what that half includes) that I knew I might be able to do okay but that would be unappealing to me and would drain energy from the part that kept me burning brightly.
Bill asked what part that would be, what part of being a college president did I cherish most? I answered quickly, maybe too quickly: working with faculty and students to think through higher education reform, I said without hesitation. What I would love would be the opportunity of working with the smartest, most dedicated faculty and students to think through new models for just about everything: learning, teaching, disciplines, credentials, assessment, leadership, the integration of knowledge and work and the integration of knowledge and life and the integration of work and life, altogether, in a world where all those distinctions blur every time we turn on a mobile device. Being a college president would be a great platform from which to explain how much of what we do now in higher education we've inherited from systems devised mostly in the early twentieth century for the Industrial Age of that time. We now have a different way of compartmentalizing or decompartmentalizing human life than the Taylorist world for which modern education trains us. It is so important, changing higher education because K-12 cannot change until higher education does. No good middle-class parent will tamper with their child's chance at success and success still means, by and large, higher education. We are the gate keepers. We have a lot of work to do.
I confessed to Bill that I thought being a university president would be an excellent platform for presenting these ideas but what I love most about being an educator is implementing them and it is a bad president who has her hands in the guts of the beast. You have to let others work out the intricacies for their particular situation and, as a president, the one thing you can never actually understand is the "particular situation." Being president means, pretty precisely, that you lead an entire institution, you do not particularize any one situation within it except as it serves the whole.
Bill asked the next big question: if you could have any job in the world, what would it be? I said I would love to be in a position to work with real faculty and real students to make real institutional change, on the level of pedagogy first and then working towards implementing and then modeling institutional change. Bill asked at what kind of university I would want to do that: a public institution. Easy question. It's no secret that I've spent the last decade championing re-investment, as a society, in public education and the importance of affordable education to any possibility of social justice. It was at that point in our conversation, I believe, that I first used the term "crush school." I said something like, "The Graduate Center at CUNY has been my crush school ever since Eve (my dear late friend Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick) came here." Bill, of course, recruited her. He was Chair of the English Department then. It's when I first became one of his legions of admirers.
"Why don't you come here, then, and let's see if we can make it happen."
It was that simple. And not simple at all. I have enough experience in higher ed to know the vision of a central administrator, even the college president, has to go through a lot of permutations to be realized--and many such visions never are. Still, the idea was so immediately appealing that I withdrew from the presidential search at the large state university that day, from my mobile phone outside The Graduate Center. I soon notified the executive search firms that I wanted to concentrate all my energies on this tantalizing possibility and did not wish to be considered for further top executive positions.
That is a lot of faith to put in one quick conversation. But, hey! The Graduate Center is my crush school. Somehow I believed that the full unfolding, deliberative, faculty and administrative process would work for the best, one way or another, and thus was worth taking the chance. I gave my first formal job talk in twenty-five years to the Department of English. I met with many, many people. During that year, Bill went on to be Interim Chancellor of the entire CUNY system. The Provost, Chase Robinson, became Interim President of the Graduate Center. Louise Lennihan became Interim Provost. They worked to make this happen. I had doubts. That's a lot of uncertainty. Louise was amazing, reassuring, tireless. Equally, as I talked to many people, I came to realize just how unique The Graduate Center is, what a remarkable institution it is beyond the individuals I already knew. The English Department voted to make me a colleague. I was nominated to be a Distinguished Professor. The Board of Trustees will confer that title next week.
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Jalapeno Popper Deviled Eggs are a crave-able party appetizer that's perfect for everything from game day gatherings to parties and cookouts! Be sure to keep this recipe handy for an easy football food menu and don't forget Labor Day. Deviled eggs are perfect for your Labor Day Menu!
I'm a sucker for great deviled eggs. They're so poppable and delicious. I've been obsessed with deviled eggs for a few years now, and while I love the classic recipe it's the fun<|fim_middle|> refrigerate until ready to serve.
If you want to save some prep time on this recipe, you can buy peeled, hard boiled eggs at the store and use those for your recipe. Just prepare as directed.
Oh, boy, these look incredible! Love the heat!
You can never have too many deviled egg recipes.
Great tips for making deviled eggs!
Steaming the eggs instead of boiling, will rock your world! Makes even fresh eggs peel easily. I promise. 1 inch of water, steamer insert, any number of eggs, 14 mins. Done. | flavor combinations that really get me excited. One of my all-time flavor pairings is bacon and jalapeno. The salty bacon and spicy chilies go together so well! I can't really believe I've never made them into a deviled egg before, but today is the day!
Cook your eggs the day before and let them cool in the fridge overnight. Cold hard boiled eggs are 5 million times easier to peel than eggs at are still warm. I've tried them peeling eggs at every temp. Warm egg shells hang onto the egg white and you won't get a smooth peel away.
Cook your bacon in the oven. It only takes about 15 minutes and you can spend that time prepping the rest of your ingredients and smashing the egg yolks.
Use a piping bag or Ziploc bag to get the filling into the eggs. It's easier than using a spoon and you'll be able to control the amount of filling easily too.
These eggs come together really quickly once you have your ingredients prepped. Just smash your egg yolks in a bowl with a fork, add in the mayo & cream cheese for a rich flavor, add the seasonings & the jalapeno popper fixin's and you're in business! These eggs can be made a head of time and travel well. They'll be the talk of your next potluck and everyone will want the recipe.
If you liked this recipe, you'll love these other egg recipes!
Jalapeno Popper Deviled Eggs are a crave-able party bite that's perfect for everything from game day gatherings to parties and cookouts!
Cut each egg in half length-wise. Place the yolks in a medium mixing bowl and the whites on a serving platter.
Use a fork to smash the egg yolks into a crumb-like texture. Add the mayo and cream cheese to the egg yolks. Mix until combined and smooth.
Add the white wine vinegar, garlic powder, salt, and pepper to the yolks and mix to combine.
Add 3/4 of the bacon, jalapeno, and cheddar cheese to the egg yolks and mix to combine.
Transfer the egg yolk mixture to a piping bag or a Ziploc bag with one corner cut off. Pipe the filling into the egg white cavities, being sure to overfill the eggs.
Sprinkle the reserved bacon over the filling. Serve immediately or cover and | 489 |
Publicly Traded Cannabis Company Acquired Sales Corp. Reports Increased Sales and Positive Net Income in Third Quarter
Expects 4th Quarter Sales to Surpass Q3; Launching Tobacco-Free Nicotine Pouches With Partner SMPLSTC
16 nov. 2020 07h00 HE | Source : Acquired Sales Corp.
LAKE FOREST, Il, Nov. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acquired Sales Corp. (OTCQB: AQSP) (www.AcquiredSalesCorp.com) announced that it achieved third quarter net revenue and positive net income of $1,509,437 and $95,823, respectively. Third quarter net revenue exceeded second quarter net revenue by 19%, and the company expects its fourth quarter net revenue to continue to grow.
Nicholas S. Warrender, AQSP's COO and the CEO of its wholly-owned subsidiary Lifted Made, Zion, IL (www.LiftedMade.com), said, "So far this quarter, Lifted Made's sales are surging. Under Lifted Made's flagship Urb Finest Flowers brand, our delta 8 THC cartridges and gummies, CBD moon rocks, caviar cones, and our private label products are experiencing<|fim_middle|> product. Combining the strong sales, marketing and distribution of Lifted Made and SMPLSTC is a force to be reckoned with in the industry."
Nicholas S. Warrender continued, "To accommodate this surging growth, Lifted Made continues to expand its workforce, and hopes to soon enter into a multi-year lease of a building in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with almost three times the square footage of our current space. This is the second time this year that we've expanded our footprint. The larger space will help us keep up with demand – the best is yet to come!"
William C. "Jake" Jacobs, President and CFO of AQSP, stated: "We are very encouraged by the fact that Acquired Sales Corp. has so far survived the pandemic without incurring any new debt other than governmental PPP and EID loans. Moreover, we are proud of the fact that no employees or independent contractors of Acquired Sales Corp. or Lifted Made were laid off or furloughed during the pandemic; in fact, we have added to our workforce. Nick Warrender's leadership and the extremely hard work of Lifted Made's talented team has made the difference during this extremely challenging period of time."
About Lifted Made and Acquired Sales Corp.
Lifted Made was founded in 2015 by CEO Nicholas S. Warrender. In February 2020, Lifted Made became a wholly-owned subsidiary of publicly traded Acquired Sales Corp. (OTCQB ticker symbol AQSP). Lifted Made makes many delta-8-THC and other hemp and hemp-derived products, all of which can be purchased online at www.LiftedMade.com. Acquired Sales Corp. also owns 4.99% of CBD-infused beverage and products maker Ablis Holding Company, and of craft distillers Bendistillery Inc. d/b/a Crater Lake Spirits and Bend Spirits, Inc., Bend, Oregon. For more information about Acquired Sales Corp., visit www.AcquiredSalesCorp.com.
About SmplyLifted
SmplyLifted LLC is owned equally by Lifted Made and SMPLSTC.
About SMPLSTC
Based in Orange County, California, SMPLSTC was founded in 2018 by co-owners Kenneth Gates, Conor Denman and Clayton Jones. SMPLSTC is a manufacturer and wholesaler of many CBD products sold under the SMPLSTC brand name. Since its inception, SMPLSTC has grown into a distributor and co-packer in the CBD, tobacco and nicotine spaces. For more information about SMPLSTC, please visit www.SMPLSTCBD.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements Certain statements in this document are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such information includes the growth and profitability strategies, and future products and plans of Lifted Made, SmplyLifted and Acquired Sales Corp. Such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause or contribute to the actual results of Lifted Made's, SmplyLifted's and Acquired Sales Corp.'s operations or the performance or achievements of these companies differing materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Lifted Made, SmplyLifted and Acquired Sales Corp. undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements as a result of certain other factors, including the risk factors set forth in Acquired Sales Corp.'s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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SMPLSTC | a tremendous reception from our distributors and customers. We are also developing new and exciting SKUs that are launching throughout the rest of this year and early Q1 2021 that we expect will be picked up by our existing and growing distribution channels throughout the country."
Nicholas S. Warrender added, "In addition, we expect SmplyLifted LLC, our 50-50 partnership with SMPLSTC, Orange County, CA (www.SMPLSTCBD.com), to soon begin sales of flavored tobacco-free nicotine pouches, one of the first pouches made with non-tobacco nicotine. We believe that these pouches will be disruptive in the nicotine pouch market because while many competitors market as tobacco-leaf free, we are offering a truly tobacco-free nicotine | 161 |
Restaurant Review: The Capital Grille | The Food Hussy!
I'm a sucker for a big delicious burger - so it doesn't take anybody to offer one up twice and I'm accepting! The folks at The Capital Grille invited me to check out a new burger on their menu so I was on my way!
Capital Grille is located across from<|fim_middle|> a great place for lunch.
Here's a glimpse of their lunch menu - which changes seasonally. It's a bit pricey for lunch - but it's very good - so for me it's what I call "Fancy Lunch Day"!
They started us off with a fried short rib topped with creme fraiche and caramelized onion for an amuse bouche. If you're not familiar with the term - it's a single, bite-sized hors d'oeuvre. This was tasty - of course - if it's short rib - I like it.
We sat near the bar in the indoor patio - it was pretty nice to have the shutters open. It really provides a nice view and an airy feel to your lunch.
The newest burger was the Gorgonzola & Black Truffle Wagyu Burger ($18) and was served with truffle fries. Now I have shared my disdain for truffle oil - and this was no different - at least when it came to the fries. I just don't like it - it's too strong and pungent. I'm also not the biggest fan of blue cheese and our knowledgeable server said this a burger for FANS of blue cheese.
we tried the Mushroom burger. This is the Wild Mushroom Wagyu Burger with a 15-year aged Balsamic ($18). And yes - as much as I dislike truffle oil - is how much I LOVE balsamic vinegar.
And when I said it was a big burger - I meant it. I mean - look at that thing. And the PERFECT medium rare - loaded with mushrooms and juicy with balsamic vinegar. Oh my I was in serious heaven. This is the burger to get - heaven on a plate.
Seriously - just go right now.
Then for dessert - they brought us out these tiny little Chocolate Pot de Cremes. It was perfect.
After a huge burger - you just need a few tiny bites of sweet and this hit the spot perfectly. Creamy and delicious.
Why Should You Go? It's a pricey burger for lunch - but that 15 year balsamic can't be beat. (FYI - they also have a delmonico steak with the same stuff - drooling!) Also - don't wear a white shirt to eat this burger - it's deliciously messy that way.
I also must mention the sweet tea & our server. I asked for sweet tea - they have unsweet but he said he'd make me a sweet tea. He asked if I like it like McDonalds (he read me like a book). He then mixed up a simple sugar and a pitcher of the most PERFECT sweet tea ever. So if you like sweet tea - ask them to make you some. Yum! | Rookwood in Norwood. They're well known for their steaks but it's also | 19 |
Age of Invention: Getting Into Hot Water
Lessons from the invention of the thermometer
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In last week's post on the origins of the steam engine, I noted the importance of the inverted flask experiment, versions of which had existed since at least the third century BC. By the 1610s this ancient experiment had been reinterpreted as a device capable of measuring temperature.
It's worth a quick refresher: the ancient experiment was simply to heat the base of a long-necked glass flask and place it mouth-first into a bucket of water. The heated air trapped inside the flask would bubble out, and as the remaining air cooled, the water of the bucket would rise up into the flask.
The inverted flask experiment. The air bubbles out on the left. As the remaining trapped air cools, on the right, the water rises up the flask (in fact pushed up by the pressure of the atmosphere).
The experiment was then reinterpreted as a device for measuring temperature essentially by just adding a scale from which to read the level of the water as the air trapped inside the flask expanded with heat or contracted with cold. The invention of the thermometer was thus a shockingly simple and marginal improvement.
But who was responsible for the breakthrough? And why does it matter?
I last week credited Santorio Santorio, a professor of medicine at Padua, who in 1612 published a book on Galenic medicine in which he mentioned applying the inverted flask experiment to measuring temperature. But I also noted that his priority was disputed. I didn't have the space to go into it then, but the story is a very interesting one and reveals some important truths about the process of invention.
The key problem for historians is that once everyone started talking about Santorio's device, all sorts of people immediately rushed forward to claim it as<|fim_middle|> (Johns Hopkins Press, 1966), pp.13-14
Ibid. pp.11-12
Arianna Borrelli, 'The Weatherglass And Its Observers In The Early Seventeenth Century', in Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries, ed. Claus Zittel et al. (BRILL, 2008), pp.111-13
Middleton, p.7; slightly differently worded translation in Matteo Valleriani, Galileo Engineer, vol. 269, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (Springer, 2010), p.242
Piero E. Ariotti, 'An Overlooked Autograph Letter of Galileo on the Thermometer', Annals of Science 31, no. 5 (1 September 1974), pp.457–62
Middleton, pp.6-9
Borrelli, p.108
See translation of Antonini's letter in: Valleriani, pp.227-8
Fabrizio Bigotti and David Taylor, 'The Pulsilogium Of Santorio: New Light On Technology And Measurement In Early Modern Medicine', Societate Si Politica 11, no. 2 (2017), pp.55-114
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Fascinating history. I did not know about the involvement of Galileo (coming here from Bryne Hobart's The Diff).
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Excellent. I may have a bit of a different take on the reason for near-simultaneous inventions or discoveries; then again, maybe you were just terse and meant to say the same thing as this: if a prior attention agenda is shared by many and suddenly intersects (coincides) with the advent of a new, perhaps quite small discovery or technology that can address that agenda; a lot of people are pre-primed to pluck from the new stimulus and will also encounter it. They will draw new conclusions simultaneously, even though some have never invented or discovered anything before. There's a striking example in the book "Music of the Primes" of a discovery that immediately led to all-nighter instant races to a new math advance (a further discovery re a known problem) that's now clearly inevitable. Just a matter of time, and not much time. Those races waste a lot of critically valuable resources, and advance the march of human progress by maybe a week, or just a few days no more. Exciting but pointlessly inefficient as well. And then we heap enormous prestige on whoever won what was really a pointless contest, a contest that had no significant consequence, changing humanity's history almost not at all.
In contrast other equally "obvious" (in retrospect) inventions go begging for decades or centuries. In part this is because our minds are associative; and that makes some jumps in logic very easy, and others quite difficult, sometimes for rather absurd reasons; but a lack of importance in the attention economy of that moment is a big factor too, as you say. Deep learning was bitterly scorned in academia for decades, delaying the advent of effective AI, to name just one example. ("The AI winter".) A badly misinterpreted result by Marvin and Minsky set us a long way back. I built a neural net that played tictactoe way back then, using evolution but not back propagation, but was unable to get any attention to that advance.
It follows that the most important discoveries are those that have been overlooked already, for some time. Since there's no telling how much longer it might be before those discoveries are made (if ever) this is where a great deal of our funding and emphasis as a culture ought to be going. But the opposite is true. Our academic institutions are not focused on the likely fruitless attempt to look for past errors or omissions; to the contrary everything is done to discourage revisiting "known" territory. It's a fatal flaw in our society.
It's important to convince society as a whole that even though many, many kinds of discoveries are indeed made simultaneously and in parallel; it's also true at the same time that other very important discoveries remain very low hanging fruit for long periods of time (or forever.) The individuals capable of making those discoveries, are extraordinarily valuable; but also extraordinarily scorned. Case in point: the elderly Einstein who discovered the logic consequence of quantum mechanics we now refer to as Entanglement "spooky action at a distance," but the academic herd so scorned that paper, and the author, re quantum mechanics, that his calculation was merely gainsaid until finally someone tested it, decades later, and found it was so.
1 reply by Anton Howes | their own. Or else to dismiss any notion that it was even new by pointing to how old the inverted flask experiment was.
As is the nature of many breakthroughs, it was just so obvious that nobody could fathom how it could have been missed for so long. Many didn't want to admit it. Santorio would in 1630 even concede, probably in response to someone questioning his originality, that it was indeed similar in form to the ancient device found in the works of Hero of Alexandria. But he held firm to his claim to innovation, which was in how to apply it.
What does the evidence tell us? The earliest known record of applying a gradated scale to the inverted flask experiment comes from a manuscript dated 1611 — a list of scientific marvels compiled by one Bartolomeo Telioux in Rome. He labeled it a method to "know the changes in weather in hot or cold in degrees or minutes", and even provided a detailed drawing. Yet Telioux's description seems to have totally misunderstood the device — it is back-to-front.
So it's unlikely that he was the inventor. Had he seen Santorio's device?
Telioux's 1611 depiction of a gradated inverted flask experiment
It's certainly possible. In the summer of 1612 the famous Galileo Galilei received a letter from a Venetian gentleman named Gianfrancesco Sagredo, which described Santorio's instrument having heard of it from a friend who had seen it in Padua. Given the device was so simple — just a glass flask, a bowl, some water, and an inked scale — Sagredo had immediately replicated it and improved upon it further. Over the following years he even used it to measure changes in the weather from year to year.
So clearly the news of the invention had travelled very quickly, and perhaps Telioux had even heard of the invention third-hand, by seeing a copy made by someone else entirely.
We may never know for sure, but Galileo's response to Sagredo is what has complicated matters — he claimed the invention as his own! We don't have Galileo's actual responses, but by early 1615 Sagredo was noting in his replies that "as you write to me, and as I certainly believe, you were the first author and inventor". Sagredo by then even referred to Santorio dismissively, as merely "the person who claims himself the inventor of these instruments", even deriding him for a lack of understanding of how it worked.
Many decades later, more of Galileo's disciples would also credit the invention of the thermometer to their old master, placing it to c.1592-1603.
So was Galileo the true inventor? Frankly, I find it highly unlikely. Both Galileo and his disciples had a habit of exaggerating his achievements, and I think this is one of those cases. Galileo, like many others, certainly was aware of the inverted flask experiment. The letters he received in 1612 seem to suggest as much, and there is even a letter from the 1620s by Galileo himself, in which he claims he had played around with this "trick" when at Padua c.1606.
But if Galileo did come up with the idea of using it to measure temperature, then he almost certainly failed to appreciate its potential, as his still calling the original experiment a "trick" suggests. Regardless, even if Galileo did realise its potential, he doesn't seem to have communicated it.
After all, even Sagredo — one of Galileo's close friends and a former student — first heard of the thermometer as being Santorio's. Ultimately, it was the far less famous Santorio who still managed to cause all the excitement.
But there's one more complication to the story. In the same year as the publication of Santorio's book and of Sagredo's letter, Galileo received yet another letter — this time from one Daniello Antonini in Brussels. Antonini had seen a drawing of Cornelis Drebbel's perpetual motion device, which featured so prominently in my series on the steam engine. Because Antonini was familiar with the inverted flask experiment, he correctly deduced that Drebbel's device was powered by the heating and cooling of the air trapped inside the tube (though not realising, very understandably for the time, that it would also have moved thanks to changes in atmospheric pressure). Antonini then made a linear, simplified model of his own, and presented it to Albert of Austria, the sovereign of the Hapsburg Netherlands (modern-day Belgium).
Most strikingly of all, Antonini marked his simplified model with "equally distant thick lines and their numbers in such a way that it is possible to make notes of the motion".
It sounds like Antonini independently invented a Santorio-like thermometer, and at around the same time.
But not quite. Although he noted that the cause of the motion was from hot and cold, he didn't say he used his markings to actually measure anything — they were seemingly just to better discern the movement of the liquid. Antonini even said he only made the model "on a whim". Having made his demonstration, he then apparently troubled himself with also trying to copy Drebbel's application of the rise and fall of the liquid to clockwork.
Santorio's claim, it seems, is safe. But in this lies an important lesson for all would-be inventors. The inverted flask experiment had been around for centuries, and even been understood since ancient times as being caused by hot and cold. So its application as a thermometer was extremely low-hanging fruit. The likelihood of it being interpreted as a temperature-measuring device might have increased somewhat in the mid-sixteenth century, when we find the first mentions of it being done using a glass flask rather than an opaque metal container. Yet even then, the visible rise and fall of the liquid in the open bucket, rather than the flask, could always have been noted and measured against a scale in much the same way. What Antonini's letter also shows us is that even when a scale was applied to the experiment, an ingenious person who knew their cutting-edge science like he did could still fail to appreciate the potential of what they had done.
But Santorio was different. Santorio had spent most of his career totally obsessed with measuring things in the name of medicine, and his thermometer was actually among the last of his inventions in this vein. He had already been a pioneer of the hand-held pendulum, or pulsilogium, to keep track of the human heart rate. He had already developed hygrometers to measure the humidity of the air. He had already developed devices to measure the intensity of both air and water flows. He had even already developed a special weighing chair, so that he could keep track of changes to bodyweight from eating, drinking, and excreting, and thus work out how much he and his patients would lose from unnoticed sweating.
Santorio's device to measure the effects of imperceptible sweating.
What made Santorio so different, then, is that he became aware of the inverted flask experiment while already looking for measuring devices. He was already thoroughly primed for making the connection to measuring temperature. It's the reality behind all those legendary Eureka! moments. It's not that an ordinary person sees something mundane, like a cart's wheel spinning when overturned (a legend about Hargreaves's spinning jenny), or the steam from a kettle rising (a legend about Watt's steam engine improvements), and an invention then springs fully formed into their mind. Instead, it's that people who are already actively trying to solve particular problems become reminded or aware of potential solutions. The inverted flask experiment was ancient and common. A mind actively searching for ways to measure things was not.
Those who see room for improvement where others do not — those with the improving mentality — are the people open to this kind of inspiration. Yet even if you have lots of people with the improving mentality, any particular improvement still requires someone looking for solutions to a very specific problem. Which is why such low-hanging fruit as the invention of the thermometer can take so very long to be plucked. Inventors are rare enough to begin with— certainly historically, and even today when there are more inventors alive than ever before — but each breakthrough requires at least one of these rare creatures to have chosen to work on a very specific problem, from among innumerable options. (It's also why there are so many cases of near-simultaneous invention, because it just takes two people to identify and pluck the same often low-hanging problem at the same time.)
Given the sheer size of what we haven't yet achieved, with each new invention itself being capable of further improvement and each new discovery of being applied in myriad ways, I think we can expect there to be many more low-hanging fruit still out there, waiting only for a Santorio of their own to but reach out and pluck.
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Like the English physician Robert Fludd: Luca Guariento, 'From Monochord to Weather-Glass : Musica Speculativa and Its Development in Robert Fludd's Philosophy' (PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015), pp.246-7.
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Perkins leads Virginia past UNC, 31-21
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MISSED FIELD GOALS—None. | LOTTESVILLE, Va. — Bryce Perkins doesn't think Virginia has much to celebrate just yet.
Perkins threw for three touchdowns and ran for another and the Cavaliers beat North Carolina 31-21 Saturday, keeping the Cavaliers atop the ACC's Coastal Division standings and giving them bowl eligibility for the second year in a row, a first for the program since 2005.
"We're not satisfied," the junior transfer said. "We want the Coastal."
Perkins ran for 112 yards, nearly half of that coming on a drive to open the game for the Cavaliers (6-2, 4-1 ACC), who won their third conference game in a row for the first time since 2011.
The drive was critical, coach Bronco Mendenhall said, because it set the tone for the game.
"You can't play normal defense with Bryce and so once then the defense has to adjust, then the burden shifts back to our offense to acknowledge what they've done," he said.
A year ago, when Virginia reached bowl eligibility for the first time since 2011, there was a wild celebration in the locker room. This time, it was almost a business-as-usual reaction.
"This is the expectation," wide receiver Olamide Zaccheaus said of qualifying for a bowl game. "Nobody really doubted whether we were going to win six or not. It was just what are we going to do after? I've been telling people this is not a time to (taper) off and forget how we got here."
The loss was the fourth straight for the Tar Heels (1-6, 1-4), and ended their four-game winning streak on Virginia's home field.
Coach Larry Fedora said Perkins makes things very difficult.
"He can really run and it makes you do some things that open up some things in the passing game," he said. "You have to worry about caging and containing him in a pass rush."
The Tar Heels, coming off consecutive heartbreaking losses to Virginia Tech and Syracuse, will have to win all their remaining games to make a bowl game.
"Virginia was the better team today," safety Myles Dorn said. "They don't have better talent, but they performed better today. They played with more swagger than we did. They just played with more of an itch. They were more ready."
On a day when Perkins was 18 for 27 for 217 yards, he connected for scores with Joe Reed (27 yards), Hasise Dubois (33) and Evan Butts (16). He also found Zaccheaus 10 times for 108 yards, allowing Zaccheaus to pass Billy McMullen (210) as the school's career receptions leader with 213.
The Cavaliers led 17-14 at halftime, but Perkins hit Dubois for a 33-yard score early in the third quarter and the defense limited North Carolina to two first downs and 43 yards. Perkins' 16-yard pass to Butts on the first play of the fourth quarter made it 31-14.
Michael Carter scored from a yard out for the Tar Heels with 7:53 to play, but their last possession ended with a fourth-down incompletion as Nathan Elliott struggled against more pressure and the absence of a running game. They gained just 66 yards on the ground.
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Zaccheaus has had four 100-yard receiving games this season, including a school-record 247-yard, two touchdown effort in Virginia's 45-31 victory against Ohio on Sept. 15.
"The capability has always been there, but his drive for excellence keeps accelerating to a higher level," Mendenhall said. "He's hungrier to be better. He also knows, and we've talked really bluntly, that if he doesn't play well, we don't have a great chance to win."
Zaccheaus also had a 29-yard run in the first quarter, pushing him past 500 career rushing yards, and is the only active player in the nation with 2,000 receiving and 500 rushing yards."
VIRGINIA 31, NORTH CAROLINA 21
North Carolina;7;7;0;7—21
Virginia;14;3;7;7—31
UVA—Perkins 10 run (Delaney kick), 8:13
NC—Newsome 30 pass from Elliott (F.Jones kick), 3:50
UVA—J.Reed 27 pass from Perkins (Delaney kick), :47
UVA—FG Delaney 37, 7:32
NC—C.Tucker 16 pass from Elliott (F.Jones kick), 5:01
UVA—Dubois 33 pass from Perkins (Delaney kick), 13:11
UVA—Butts 16 pass from Perkins (Delaney kick), 14:54
NC—Carter 1 run (F.Jones kick), 7:53
A—43,128.
;NC;UVA
First downs;14;23
Rushes-yards;22-66;44-208
Passing;271;217
Comp-Att-Int;22-38-0;18-27-1
Return Yards;35;24
Punts-Avg.;7-36.85;4-34.5
Fumbles-Lost;1-1;1-0
Penalties-Yards;4-19;1-5
Time of Possession;20:55;39:05
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING—North Carolina, Carter 8-42, A.Williams 7-21, J.Brown 4-7, Newsome 1-(minus 1), Elliott 2-(minus 3). Virginia, Perkins 21-112, Ellis 16-64, Zaccheaus 2-30, Kier 3-5, Kelly 1-1, (Team) 1-(minus 4).
PASSING—North Carolina, Elliott 22-38-0-271. Virginia, Perkins 18-27-1-217.
RECEIVING—North Carolina, Corrales 4-62, Newsome 3-56, C.Tucker 3-48, Ratliff-Williams 3-18, A.Williams 2-51, Carter 2-18, Bargas | 1,447 |
Pyrola minor at the "culvert" site along the Whiteface Veteran's Memorial Highway in NY. Photo provided by Jackie Donnelly 2012.
Pyrola minor, lesser wintergreen, is one of New York's rarest plant species<|fim_middle|> Young, S. 1998. Significant botanical discoveries of 1997 – compiled from information received at the New York Natural Heritage Program. NYFA Newsletter 9(1) 4-6.
(3) Miller, N. 1998. More on Pyrola minor (Pyrolaceae). NYFA Newsletter 9(3) 2-4.
(4) New York Natural Heritage Program. 2010. Biotics database. New York Natural Heritage Program. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Albany, NY. | and is considered critically imperiled. Globally, this circumboreal species is considered stable and is found in many European countries in addition to the U.S. and Canada. Pyrola minor exists at the southern-most point of its northeastern North American range in northern NY (1).
State and province conservation status of Pyrola minor. Copyright © 2014 NatureServe, 4600 N. Fairfax Dr., 7th Floor, Arlington Virginia 22203, U.S.A. All Rights Reserved.
Botanists have documented two populations in New York State, one near Wilmington Notch, and the other on Whiteface Mountain (2). Stanley J. Smith, a botany curator at the New York State Museum, recorded the Whiteface population in 1961 (3). In 1997, Steve Young of the New York Natural Heritage Program (NYNHP) relocated the population at a slightly higher elevation closer to the summit than the original location documented for the species (2, 3). This population was presumably stable (in the "hundreds") through the early 2000s according to records in the Biotics database kept by the NYNHP (4). However, the location of the population was in the ditches alongside of the Whiteface Veterans' Memorial Highway and following maintenance on the road, only 19 individuals were found in 2006 (4). The population rebounded in 2007; however, in July 2014, the number of basal rosettes decreased to approximately 70 and there were only about 9 inflorescences (personal observation).
Pyrola minor population on Whiteface Mountain in Essex County, NY based on the observation data in New York Natural History Program Biotics database (1961-2007) and personal observations in 2014.
Due to the decreased population, Steve Young asked me to attempt to propagate the species from seed to eventually plant back out on Whiteface Mountain. Through the pouring rain on 8/13, EmilyTyner, Kelly Archbold (a SUNY Plattsburgh student), and I went up Whiteface to collect Pyrola seeds and nearby native soil. Our aim was to collect the mycorrhizae along with the soil that enable the plants to germinate and get nutrients from the soil (5). One patch of P. minor is partially hidden back along a rock face and had ~ 7 fruiting stems, and the other patch by the culvert site had 2 fruiting stems. Most of the seed pods were unripe, so we only took a fraction of those which were brown or were starting to turn brown. I estimate that we took ~10% of the seed pods at the 2 sites. We then took about a half 5 gallon bucket's worth of soil from nearby the Pyrola plants without disturbing them. Finally we filled in the areas where we took soil with native soil.
Pyrola minor on the north side of the Whiteface Veteran's Memorial Highway along a rock face in NY.
Back in Plattsburgh, we placed the seed pods on a moist paper towel over night, and Kelly worked on extracting the seeds the next morning using a razor blade to open up each of the 5 chambers of the capsule. In all we planted 94 seeds in a flat filled with native soil and watered in the seeds. We will keep the seed flat moist, fairly cool, and shaded in the SUNY Plattsburgh greenhouse (5).
Pyrola minor seed capsules collected from Whiteface Mountain.
A close up of the Pyrola minor capsule and scalpel used to open each of the 5 chambers to extract the seed.
Kelly Archbold holding a portion of the "dust-like" seeds of Pyrola minor she extracted prior to planting.
Kelly Archbold in the SUNY Plattsburgh greenhouse with the flat of soil collected from Whiteface and the seeds ready to be planted.
A Pyrola minor seed on soil collected from Whiteface Mountain (4X optical magnification).
One source on propagating P. minor stated that regardless of when the seeds were sown, they tend to germinate in the spring (6). However, another source stated that germination can involve growing an underground modified stem that can survive for years before sending up a shoot (7). The most relevant advice was to "be very patient!" (6) Our hope is to plant out any seedlings in the next few years. In the best case scenario, these seedlings will help promote genetic diversity in a rebounding population following road maintenance. In any case this process will be a learning experience in attempting to propagate this species.
(1) NatureServe. 2014. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 7.1. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Available http://explorer.natureserve.org. (Accessed: August 21, 2014).
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As soon as this area is identified, they will have to choose the best location for the sewage system rodding. They will locate the largest clear out spot closest to the clog and where they can lower the cutter<|fim_middle|> to obtain a long-term service. Luckily, nowadays there are business that can undertake this operation through trench-less replacement of pipes, so that the work is done without any inconvenience to the homeowner. | head of the rodding devices, so that it needs the minimum power. Rodding machines feature different cables, power capacities and cutting heads and experience in clearing many such clogs, will allow the service technician to identify exactly what action has to be required to eliminate the obstructions from the drain in your home. They might choose to drain pipes out a drain before they begin rodding, as sometimes water can add to damage of pipelines, during rodding operations.
When the rodding operations are begun, it is continued till the cable television with the cutter head reaches a clear portion of the sewer or approximately the primary city trunk line. This distance is kept in mind, and the cutter is again drawn out and sent through again to see if other difficult spots are present and need cleaning operations. The resulting debris has then to be extracted and analyzed to identify its nature. The presence of wood may suggest tree roots and the homeowner will be asked to do something about it to prevent recurrence of the problem.
Modern pipes has a variety of tricks for keeping sewer gasses from a house. Among the most popular is the P trap. P traps are very important since drain gasses can be damaging to your health in addition to smell bad.
The P trap efficiency at trapping drain gasses is all due to its design. It begins by going strait down from the drain, then it has a p shaped bend on the bottom, and it ends with a horizontal pipeline after it curves up. This p shaped bend is indicated to trap a little water in the pipe. This water imitates a barrier, keeping any drain gasses from going into the room.
P traps are usually found in bathrooms on any drain that leads to the sewage system. This includes showers, sinks, and floor drains pipes. Toilets use a modified P trap referred to as an S trap that is indicated to make sure that wast leaves the toilet while leaving some water to block the gasses.
If you smell drain gas in a room with a P trap, it is most likely that the trap is empty of water. to check this you have to do is shine a flashlight at it. If it doesn't show back, it is empty and you ought to add some water to refill it. If this doesn't work then you might need to call a plumber to fix the P trap or another pipe.
If sewer line clogs repeat within a short time of the rodding operations, it can show other issues that may not be quickly solved by this operation. It would then be needed to diagnose the entire network, user practices and other factors that do trigger sewage system obstructions. Sometimes, it may be required to change a sewer | 542 |
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Caltech-Led Lunar Trailblazer Mission Approved to Begin Final Design and Build
After one year of preliminary design and several reviews, NASA has confirmed the Caltech-led Lunar Trailblazer mission to proceed to final design and build. Selected in June 2019 with planned flight system delivery in October 2022, the Lunar Trailblazer mission targets one of the most surprising discoveries of the decade: the presence of water on the Moon.
The mission is a collaboration led by principal investigator Bethany Ehlmann, Caltech professor of planetary science, and managed by JPL, which Caltech manages for NASA. Other key partners include spacecraft provider Lockheed Martin and the University of Oxford, which provides one of Lunar Trailblazer's two instruments.
"We're excited to pioneer NASA's use of small satellites to answer big planetary science questions," says Ehlmann. "We expect Trailblazer will hugely advance our understanding of something we don't fully understand: the water cycle on airless bodies. Given the importance of water on the Moon for future robotic and human missions, the Lunar Trailblazer mission team is excited to provide the critical basemaps that will guide this future exploration."
The relatively tiny Trailblazer satellite, which will measure just 3.5 meters in length with its solar panels fully deployed, will spend over a year orbiting the Moon at a height<|fim_middle|> and form of water on the Moon, which is not liquid but instead occurs as water ice in cold regions, as free molecules, or bound within minerals. As a NASA SIMPLEx (Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration) program selection, Lunar Trailblazer achieves critical advancements for science as a lower-budget, ride-along mission.
"Lunar Trailblazer has a talented, multi-institutional team whose collective effort resulted in a successful formulation phase and confirmation review," says Calina Seybold, the mission's project manager at JPL. "I am thrilled that the team has earned the privilege of continuing to our final design and fabrication phase."
A key partnership is with Lockheed Martin Space, based out of Denver, Colorado, which will design, integrate, and test the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft. The company brings its expertise from another SIMPLEx mission called Janus, which will explore asteroids, as well as decades of planetary missions across the solar system.
Joshua Wood, Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft manager at Lockheed Martin, says he is excited for what lies ahead: "Passing this key decision point means we have the green flag to proceed with production on the spacecraft. I'm very excited to see all the big science this compact spacecraft will surely bring back to us."
A key feature of Lunar Trailblazer is the large role for Caltech in executing the mission. In addition to Ehlmann's leadership as PI, co-investigator James Dickson, manager of the Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization, will direct the science data system. Mission operations will be run out of Caltech's IPAC, which brings long experience with space telescope science operations. Through a NASA-funded Student Collaboration Option, undergraduates from Caltech and nearby Pasadena City College are participating in mission communications and mission development, and will help staff operations. In addition to JPL, Lockheed Martin, University of Oxford, and PCC, the other key mission partners are the Applied Physics Laboratory, Brown University, Northern Arizona University, and the University of Central Florida.
"Some of the big questions about water on the Moon are: Does it vary as a function of time of day and temperature? Is it bound in rock or mobile? Why do some shadowed regions host water ice while others are empty, and how much is there at the lunar surface?" says Ehlmann. "We look forward to answering these questions with Lunar Trailblazer."
Learn more about the mission objectives, instruments, and team here: https://trailblazer.caltech.edu/
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Robert Perkins
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Cate Marvin Quotes
Real Life Quotes
Different drinks have different metaphorical weight. Wine's heady, gin is poisonous, vodka's cold, and beer is plain boring. In real life, I'm a big fan of boxed white wine, much to the dismay of my more refined friends.
— Cate Marvin
Hate Quotes
When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"
I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.
Honesty Quotes
I encourage my students to be honest in their assessment of both the published work we read and the work of their classmates. I think there's always the occasion for discussing elements of craft, whether the student's poem is terrible or quite wonderful.
I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.
Poetry Quotes
Confessional poetry is, to my mind,<|fim_middle|> and colorless.
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
Laughter Quotes
Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process has become so grueling for me over the past few years that when one of my students uses the word "inspiration" I practically shriek with laughter.
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Tupur Proverbs | more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.
I do believe that one's writing life needs to be kept separate from Po-Biz. Personally, I deal with this by not attending too many poetry readings, primarily reading dead poets or poems in translation, reading Poets & Writers only once for grant/contest information before I quickly dispose of it, and not reading Poetry Daily. Ever.
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it's fallen in love with the floor.
It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down to creating the minutiae of detail. Writing fiction requires stamina, a sense of how people's lives work, how people work toward and against one another and, above all, precision.
To Be Successful Quotes
One cannot have "success" in poetry. If I wanted to be successful, I'd have become a lawyer.
I've just always loved animals. So I've often thought that if I weren't a writer I'd work for some nonprofit organization that does something positive for animals.
Books Quotes, Cool Quotes
The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.
One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.
To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.
The fiction writer has a lot of balls to juggle. Setting, pacing, dialogue, and so on. And let's not forget: plot. That was always a hard one for me. And I always had this spastic tendency to wrap up a story before I'd seen it the whole way through, a sort of writer's pre-ejaculatory tendency: "The End!"
Student Quotes
I love teaching poetry writing. Students come into the class thinking poetry has to be one way, then leave having created pieces that are wholly original, that have - quite literally - never been made before.
My day does not truly begin until I've acquired and consumed a 32-ounce Big Gulp of diet coke from 7-Eleven. It's the Big Gulp that's important, not 7-Eleven, where I find the employees rather disagreeable.
I find the elitism and blatant provincialism of many (Manhattan-based) New Yorkers unattractive. Just as place can be an identity crutch that helps a person feel individual, place can be a crutch in poetry.
When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.
I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author.
I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.
I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear.
Place is extremely important to my work because I am always pulling landscape imagery into my poems.
Because I wake up late, my day is often short. I'm much more active in the evenings, during which I alternately read, write, needle-point, smoke, email, and despair over my decision last June to put my television and DVD player out on the street because I wasn't getting enough work done.
New York is one of those places people tend to derive a sense of identity from - as if, were to you to remove them from the City, they'd turn limp | 827 |
18.49 If you want to read John Kerry's statement on Syria in full<|fim_middle|> He says will Iran feel emboldened? Or Hizbollah?
Will they remember that the Assad regime was stopped from those weapons' current or future use or will they remember that the world stood aside and created impunity?
18.10 He says other countries are watching to see what the US response is to see if they can get away with it.
We need to ask, what is the risk of doing nothing? | , as this blog only gave you an abridged version, then you can find it here.
18.15 We know after a decade of conflict that America is tired of war, says Mr Kerry.
"Just longing for peace does not necessarily bring it about," he says. History would judge us harshly if they turned a "blind eye".
Whatever decision Barack Obama makes on Syria will bear no resemblance to Afghanistan, Iraq or Libya.
Mr Obama has been clear, and any action he takes will be limited.
"Ultimately we are committed to a diplomatic process," he says "because we know there is no ultimate military solution".
"We are deeply committed to getting there".
18.12 Kerry says they are the United States of America, a country that has always tried to live by a set of "universal values".
"It matters here if nothing is done. It matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens".
He says America should feel gratified that it is not acting alone. He refers to the Arab League, the Organisation for Islamic Cooperation, Turkey, France - "our oldest ally", Australia. He does not mention Britain.
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As compared to the popularly known Medjool or Deglet Noor variety, Barhi Date a very special and seasonal breed found available at many Middle Eastern and Mediterranean markets.
It can eaten at 3 different stages, fresh (yellow), semi-ripe (yellowish brown) and fully-ripe (brown) phase.
1. Eating at fresh stage will give you that crunch and sweetness that you will never expect in a non-ripe fruit.
2. Following by semi-ripe stage which have both crunchiness and even better sweetness than the former.
3. Fully-ripe stage will gives you the full melted soft texture, with the highest sugar content needed to make jams or dessert with it, or just as it is for the best taste.
To ripen it the correct way, simply place them in a breathable container or bag on your counter for a few days and watch each date ripen on its own time.
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin A, B6 & K, Potassium, Magnesium, Maganese, Calcium, Fiber, Copper and Iron.
This exotic egg-shaped fruit from Colombia is transparent in flesh, and unlike its normal dark-colored variety, it is 100%<|fim_middle|> and Mineral such as potassium, magnesium, copper, fiber and phosphorus.
Tarwilla as one of Australia's top persimmon brand, is reserved for only the best quality large sized fruit in terms of taste, sweetness and texture.
Seedless, sweet & non-astringent variety that can be eaten both firm (crunchy) or soft (juicy).
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin-C, Vitamin B-6, Antioxidants and Mineral such as potassium, manganese, copper and phosphorus.
While their gravity-defying shape may seem peculiar, one bite will tell you Sweet Sapphire® have an incredibly delicious, universal appeal. It's a flavour that eclipses almost any other grape.
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin-A, Vitamin C, Calcium and Iron.
Amaou, originate from the letters "Amai" (sweet), "MAui" (round), "Ookii" (large), and "Umai" (tasty/delicious). It gives off strong berry scent which enhances your taste buds, makes it mouth-watering, coupled with high juice content. It's aesthetically beautiful appearance makes it attractive and are usually used as gifts or cake decorations.
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin-A, Vitamin-C, Vitamin-E, Vitamin-K, Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc and Iron. | sweet with strong flora scent. A powerful remedy for asthma.
Now in bulk weight of 2.5kg, you will get more yummilicious flesh in an "egg" than a real egg.
*Granadillas come in 12-18pcs depending on sizes.
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin A & C, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Potassium, Phosphorous and Fiber.
A rare strawberry variety with cherry blossom-like pink color reminiscent of a white peach, only available from Saga & Kumamoto prefecture. Its low level of Anthocyanin (chemical which gives fruits their colors) due to sunlight restriction during maturing produces a light pinkish tone. It's light yet smooth juicy texture gives an excellent balance with its strong fragrance and sweetness.
*Strawberries may come in 6-12pcs depending on sizes.
Yellow Dragonfruit, Pitahaya has a thick layer of skin covered in large, fleshy bright yellow hue. Their flesh is spongy and juicy white flesh speckled with petite edible and non-sourish black seeds. Pitahaya offers more juicy texture and tropical flavor much sweeter than any red or white-flesh pitaya. They are cultivated in limited quantity and is a good remedy for constipation with its natural laxative properties.
Tip: Eat on a empty stomach in the morning and drink lots of water. This will induce better digestion and bowel circulation for detox.
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin-C, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B3, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus and Fiber.
*Custard Apples come in 7-10 pcs per box depending on sizes.
Nutrition facts: Great Source of Vitamin-C, Vitamin A, Antioxidants | 364 |
Berlin Bar in Moscow, Thilo Reich
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The architect and interior designer Thilo Reich has brought the narrative of Berlin, a city synonymous with lifestyle, to a venue in Moscow.
The architect and interior designer Thilo Reich has brought the narrative of Berlin, a city synonymous with lifestyle, to a venue in Moscow. A creative intervention that uses elements of the public space in the German capital to create an interior with definitely metropolitan traits.
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Related Articles: Thilo Reich | Even almost 30 years after the fall of the wall, Berlin still stands as a symbol of a fast-paced, cultural place with open spaces and endless nightlife. The atmosphere of Berlin is really special and it's no coincidence that bars and nightspots bearing the name of Berlin are springing up all over the world, and with that name goes the promise of transferring this really unusual experience thanks to architectural storytelling.
The architect and interior designer, Thilo Reich - whose office is based in Berlin - was commissioned by a Russian client to design a Berlin Bar in Moscow and he adopted a very particular approach. Instead of coming up with a carbon copy of one of the German capital's trendy clubs, he used the public space of Berlin, focusing specifically on the relations between Berlin and Moscow, particularly in the last century.
Reich personally took castings of pavement segments from Berlin that reference the exchange and history between Berlin and Moscow: the sidewalk in front of Café Moskau, the former demarcation line between the Russian and the American Sector (Checkpoint Charlie) and the Berlin Wall, Glienicker Brücke and the district of Charlottenburg with its traditionally large Russian population. Because they are too irregular for a dance floor, he used them as wall decorations. Diners here are treated to a full-on, all-round experience because the use of urban street elements of Berlin as the setting for the bar runs through Thilo Reich's whole design concept.
What he does is craft a narrative that picks up on traces and moments of Berlin life: for example, the lights are made up of modules of East Berlin street lights. The substructures of the brown leather benching are made of simple beer benches, once imported from southern Germany, now an integral part of Berlin's streetscape. Other details, like the hand-blown cocktail glasses that echo the diamond pattern of the tables, or a mirror made from the repurposed window frames of the former Palast der Republik - a building that stood as a symbol of former East Germany that was demolished between 2006 and 2008 - showcase the attention to detail that went into the architectural concept. Real authenticity because Thilo Reich has only used Berlin materials and products made in Berlin.
Past and present are closely interwoven in the design of the Berlin Bar in Moscow. This feeling was obtained with great attention to detail to propose an architectural narrative as realistic as possible, underscored by the large dark backlit lettering on the wall that spells out BERLIN, reminiscent of corporate advertising in the former Russian sector in Berlin.
The Berlin Bar recalls the historic ties between the two cities and in the same way celebrates the present-day Berlin, providing guests with an authentically Berlin feel, far from the golden, brightly-coloured chic style that is so often associated with Moscow's nightlife.
Christiane Bürklein
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Pontania proxima is a small exotic sawfly, approximately 3.5-5 mm long. They are shiny, black and wasp-like. They cause a gall to form on certain species of willow and this gall is more likely to be seen than the adult sawfly. They are found throughout New Zealand where ever the following willow species are found, Salix alba, Salix ×fragilis, Salix matsud<|fim_middle|> of each gall.
In mid-summer, the larva leaves the gall to drop to the ground where it pupates. A second brood emerges in late summer, and the fall larvae overwinter as pupae. Generally, there are two generations per year.
A gall cut open. The arrow points to the larva.
The galls emerge equally on both sides of the leaf.
The underside of the same leaf as the above photo. | ana.
The larvae of the Willow Redgall Sawfly are pale in colour with a dark head. They are small, reaching only 5 mm in length. Adults emerge in late spring, and females seek out suitable willows on which to lay eggs. The female inserts an egg and material that induces galling into leaf tissue where the egg hatches and the larva begin to eat the soft leaf tissue. This stimulates the leaf to produce a gall which is bean-shaped, smooth and emerges equally on both sides of the leaf. The gall may be green, red or yellow. A single larva feeds in the cavity | 125 |
The iPhone Failure In China Illustrates Apple's Latest Problem
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Why did Tim Cook and Apple fail to understand the Chinese smartphone market? Key sales targets were not reached, iPhone sales fell, and Apple was left to post a profits warning and post humbling quarterly results.
Tim Cook opens the Apple's annual product launch, Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, at company headquarters... [+] in Cupertino, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images)
Although the smartphone market in China fell overall, Apple fell further and fell faster than the baseline. While the Chinese market fell 9.7 per cent, iPhone sales fell by 19.9 percent.
Tim Cook has already laid out a number of factors that Apple consider to be drivers in the fall in sales; notably the lower carrier subsidies that increase the 'over the counter' price of the iPhone, foreign exchange rates, and the rising tensions between America and China. Cook laid these<|fim_middle|> a large-screened high-priced smartphone is not infinite - there comes a point when it is saturated and the adoption curve will fall away into a 'one for one' replacement cycle. If the new handsets are not offering significant advantages over the previous handsets (and there's not much between the iPhone X and the iPhone XS) then there will be little appetite to upgrade. Throw in Apple's iPhone Battery Exchange program that gave millions of handsets a new life courtesy of a $29 battery and the available audience for the iPhone XS and XS Max was diminished.
Apple CEO Tim Cook presents new products, including new Macbook laptops, during a special event at... [+] the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House (Photo by Timothy A Clary / AFP) (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
The Chinese smartphone market contracted in Q4 2018; the product mix in the iPhone portfolio was wrong; and Tim Cook's team failed to understand how the territory required a different approach.
How Apple course corrects for the rest of 2019, and how it addresses these points in the 2019 handsets that will surely be announced in September will be key to reversing iPhone sales. Because without the iPhone gathering new users, there's no user base to access the software and services Apple will be relying on for long-term growth.
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I am known for my strong views on mobile technology, online media, and the effect this has on the public conscious and existing businesses. I've been following this spa... | out in his letter to investors, noting that he attributed the poor Q4 numbers to the Chinese markets:
If you look at our results, our shortfall is over 100 percent from iPhone, and it's primarily in Greater China. As we look at what's going on in China, it's clear the economy began to slow there for the second half. What I believe to be the case is the trade tensions between the United States and China put additional pressure on their economy. We saw, as the quarter went on, things like traffic in our retail stores, traffic in our channel partner stores going down, the reports of the smartphone industry contracting.
I would suggest that the problem lies closer to home. The Chinese market changed in the latter half of 2018 and Tim Cook's Apple either failed to spot the changes, or ignored them in the belief that iPhone sales would be bulletproof. Three key elements failed in China. All three should have been expected and addressed before a profits warning was needed.
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It's important to realise that Apple does not have the same lock-in with iOS apps and IM through the iMessage platform in China that it has in Western territories. The real lock-in belongs to WeChat - if your phone does not have WeChat nobody is buying your phone. And as the service is cross-platform switching between Android and iOS is far less of a burden that many think it is.
That means Apple is in the same dog-fight as everyone else. Stripped of its iOS superpowers, Apple fights on a mix of raw specifications and how attractive the hardware is. And with Apple's technology and design generally being a year or two behind Chinese manufacturers, the iPhone XS family looks tired and identikit. It does not stand out.
The Chinese market loves flagships, but doesn't really do sequels or lower-priced versions of a leading handset. In that sense the iPhone X was a strong handset in 2017 - it was clearly the flagship, there was no other 'X' device and the lower-ranged iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus were easy to pass over.
That wasn't the case with the iPhone XS and XS Plus. While they were the 'latest' devices there was little to differentiate the hardware from the previous year's flagships. Just as the iPhone 5S and 6S failed to light up the Chinese market, the iPhone XS also failed.
Apple's plan was for the iPhone XR to take up the slack at a lower price point, but China's love of flagships and luxury handsets meant the XR was never going to be a major hit. If Apple is trading on prestige alone, then who would buy the lower status handset?
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By now we are all aware of massive players in the global ecommerce space… the likes of Amazon and Taobao have become very efficient when it<|fim_middle|> influx of shoppers in districts like Causeway Bay and Mong Kok? | comes to helping customers quickly acquire goods without leaving the comfort of home. Smart search algorithms and recommendations help customers find items that they didn't know they wanted but somehow feel compelling to purchase due to the sheer convenience of the transaction.
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Charli XCX bio Pop music has mutated. Where once the mainstream absorbed the underground, polishing off its rougher edges, the two now seem to be running concurrently, constantly intertwining. At the forefront of this undeniable shift is Charli XCX, a pop star in the purest form who can turn her hand to writing global smashes (Icona Pop's I Love It) while still pulling and prodding at the parameters of the genre (the Gold Panda-sampling You, the electronic cluster of Nuclear Seasons, for example). Her debut album True Romance – released last April – received rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, The Guardian and Popjustice, while her style (a sort of sartorial melange of Tank Girl and Winona Ryder circa Heathers) has been referenced by some of pop's big guns, chiefly Katy Perry. Despite having only just finished touring True Romance – including a support slot with Paramore and her own UK and US headline tours - Charli's already started working on the follow-up, heralded by the fizzing stomp of the new wave-inspired SuperLove. Released late last year and landing on the Radio 1 B-List, it helped reignite her creative juices after months on the road. "SuperLove was this really magical moment where I felt like I was re-born musically. I was like 'wow, I'm excited about music again'." Hence why she's in a rush to get the second album out. "Some of the songs on that first album have been in my life for so long now that I've been itching to make new music, basically since True Romance was released," she explains. "By the time the record came out I was like 'fuck, I'm ready now'. I know who I am now and I just want to do it again and make it better. I feel like now this is the best music I've ever made." So while she's proud of the densely-layered electropop of her debut - "The album coming out and getting so well reviewed was a middle finger to the haters, so that was cool" - and the reaction to I Love It - "It's given the people around me the confidence that I can write a hit and people know that now" - she's keen to move on. And how. "I don't want to make a synthpop record – in fact, the term synthpop makes me want to vomit," she laughs. "I just feel like everyone's expecting me to come out with this slightly electro pop record and I didn't want to do that. I want to take the completely unexpected turn otherwise it gets boring and predictable." So while SuperLove – produced by True Romance collaborator Patrik Berger – riffs on bands such as Bow Wow Wow, The Waitresses and Flying Lizard, creating a more live band feel, the as-yet-untiled album takes its influence from everything from French '60s pop to shouty rock-pop from the likes of Weezer and The Hives to the dark-tinged soaraway melodies of t.A.T.u. "It's raw pop," she says of the album. "For me on stage that's what I am; I'm not polished. I'm bored of that." With a skittish, almost childlike thirst to keep evolving as an artist ("I'm a very spontaneous person and I get bored really quickly"), Charli XCX isn't one to rest on her laurels. Nor is she the type of pop star that finds it hard to explain how her music makes her feel or, more pertinently, the colours it makes her see. "I always thought of True Romance as being purple and very lo-fi luxury in its sound," she explains, "whereas this one is raw but also still pop. It's red. Definitely red. I'm inspired by red Chanel blazers and red lipstick stains on Martini glasses. Those cherry's you get in drinks." She's on a roll now. "Very tailored suits. Like hard suits but wild. I see all those things as being red. Very sexy, spectral record in a very classy, masculine way." It's also a celebration of pop at its most bold and brash: "I feel like everything about this<|fim_middle|> you fall in love with her; she will have changed by then. "I don't like spending loads of time on things. If you have to work on an idea then don't bother with it," she shrugs, eyes glinting with a hint of mischief. "It's like when you're drunk and you say something completely honest – with songwriting, the first thing that comes out of your mouth is the most truthful thing."
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Emails were sent to Premier Agent members and Zillow customers Friday with tips on how to identify scammers. In the email, the company warns to look for websites, email addresses and phone numbers that look similar to Zillow's. Zillow never asks to give PayPal account details or make a wire transfer.
The company is asking anyone who sees a potential scam to report it to agentcare@zillowgroup.com.
In one such scam, reported by Inman last month, real estate agents receive text messages promising a lead from a buyer named "Kelly Sawyer." Clicking the link brings the agent to a bogus Zillow page with a ".info" domain name and a request for a "small advertising fee" for full contact details.
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UK council gets £6.5m funding for mine water energy scheme
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Caerau Colliery prior to its closure in<|fim_middle|>. Further 'match' funding of £2.2m has been obtained from the UK Government, the Welsh Government, Energy Systems Catapult and Bridgend County Borough Council. The council is now looking at other sources of grants. Eventually the Council hopes to extend the scheme to 1,000 homes in the area.
A large number of researchers and stakeholders have been involved in the Caerau Mine-water Heat Project including from the Welsh Government, UK Government, Wales European Funding Office, Cardiff University, BGS, Kensa, Egnida, SPECIFIC, Carreg Las, Energy Systems Catapult, Natural Resources Wales, and The Coal Authority.
"This is proving to be a fascinating research project that is deepening our understanding of subsurface geometry and the hydraulics of mine workings. This innovative, low carbon source of heat energy could help Bridgend County Borough Council meet government targets of reducing UK carbon emissions by 80% by 2050," said Hywel Thomas, Cardiff University's pro vice-chancellor for research, innovation and engagement.
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BRIDGEND COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL in Wales, UK, has been awarded £6.5m (US$9.1m) in funding by the EU for the UK's first large-scale mine water geothermal energy project.
The project will be situated in Caerau, in the borough, home to the former Caerau Colliery, which closed in 1977. Water in the mine is naturally heated by the earth and the Council is investigating the use of pumps and pipes to use the hot water to heat around 150 local homes, as well as the community's school and church.
Test drilling towards the end of 2017 found that the void at the Old Brewers site of the mine is full of water to a depth of 230 m. The British Geological Survey is now testing the water to determine its chemistry, temperature and volume. Preliminary results suggest that the water has an average temperature of 20.6oC, which is warm enough for a geothermal heating scheme to go ahead.
The full feasibility study of the Caerau Mine-water Heat Project is expected to be completed by the end of February. The council is planning an exhibition for residents of Caerau and other interested parties in a few months' time, where it will share the findings of the feasibility study. It is hoped that construction work will begin in 2020 and the first homes will be connected in winter 2021.
"Our ambition is for our nation to be a world leader in pioneering low carbon energy. This is a cutting-edge model of generating a clean source of renewable energy drawing on the legacy of our coal mining heritage. It will not only attract further investment to the area, but also addresses fuel poverty by cutting energy bills with the potential to be rolled out to Wales and beyond," said Lesley Griffiths, Bridgend Council cabinet secretary for energy, planning and rural affairs.
The total cost of the project is estimated to be around £9.4m | 430 |
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4th Fest spectators will see a difference in fireworks show, new director says | in the spring, when Horticulture Club managers met with senior design students to discuss proposals for this year's show. All of the materials for the show are donated by nurseries in and around the state, but actually acquiring them involves a fair amount of work.
"Students have to go out and pick them up, so they might be on the road for eight hours if they are picking up material in the Pittsburgh area and the southern part of the state," McGann said.
Not only is the show a chance for Horticulture Club members to interact with the public and share some of their knowledge about the art of plant cultivation, but the event also serves as a fundraiser. Everything at the show will be for sale, with proceeds going toward the club's trips and events throughout the semester.
According to McGann, "We'll have not only plants this year but we'll also have produce like apples, onions, peppers and things like that for sale."
He said that funding is just one reason why the show has been such a staple of the Penn State agriculture community.
"It gives students the opportunity to become involved in a really fun project, and it also shows their ability to plan, organize and install this pretty elaborate landscape inside the Ag Arena," he said. "When they finish on Saturday morning, they can look at this and say, 'Wow. This is really an accomplishment. We were all a part of this.' "
Penn State student Amy Hinkle unties plants bound to a truck bed in preparation for the 2008 Penn State Horticulture Show at the Snyder Agricultural Arena. CDT file photo
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Sir Ernest MacLagan Wedderburn (3 February 1884 – 3 June 1958) was a Scottish lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of Edinburgh and in the legal establishment. He held the posts of Professor of Conveyancing in the University of Edinburgh (1922–35), Deputy Keeper of the Signet (1935–54), and Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors (1936–49), the forerunner to the Law Society of Scotland, and chaired the latter 1949/50. He was also an enthusiastic amateur scientist, and first Treasurer then Vice President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Early life
Wedderburn was born in Forfar, Forfarshire in 1884, the son of Anne Oglivie and her husband (and cousin), Dr Alexander Stormonth MacLagan Wedderburn of Pearsie. He was one of 14 children, and the younger brother of Joseph Wedderburn, who became Professor of Mathematics at Princeton and conceive the Wedderburn–Etherington number and Artin–Wedderburn theorem. He was distantly related, through his father, to 18th-century Lord of Session, Peter Wedderburn, Lord Chesterhall, and to the latter's son, Lord Chancellor Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn.
He was educated at George Watson's College then studied law at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MA in 1904 and an LLB in 1907. During this period he lived with his uncle J R M Wedderburn at 3 Glencairn Crescent in Edinburgh.
From 1904 he also had practical experience in the offices of Gillespie & Paterson WS at 31 Melville Street.
He qualified as a Writer to the Signet in 1907 and then joined his uncle's firm of Carment, Wedderburn & Watson WS based at 2 Glenfinlas Street off Charlotte Square.
During World War I, he served as Meteorological Officer to GHQ. While employed with the Ordnance Committee, his aptitude for mathematics enabled him to establish a new system for calculating the allowance to be made for ballistic winds in long-range artillery shooting, which had been widely adopted by the end of the war. He was appointed Assistant Director of Experiments at the Ministry of Defence's site at Shoeburyness, Essex, was mentioned twice in despatches and awarded a military OBE.
Career
Wedderburn joined the firm of Carment, Wedderburn and Watson. The Wedderburn of the firm's name was Joseph Robert Maclagan Wedderburn (1850–1936), Ernest's paternal uncle, who in 1922 would lead the merger with Guild and Shepherd which would form Shepherd and Wedderburn, now one of Scotland's largest law firms.
Ernest practised with the firm until that merger in 1922, when he took up the post of Professor of Conveyancing in the Faculty of Law of the University of Edinburgh, in succession to Professor Mounsey. During this time he pioneered the employment of small tutorial-sized classes in his teaching, a practice which continued until instruction in drafting was removed from undergraduate studies to the Diploma in Legal Practice in 1981. He demitted the Chair in 1935, and was succeeded by Harry H. Monteath. In 1938, the University awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
Upon his retirement from the Edinburgh Chair in 1935, Wedderburn became Deputy Keeper of the Signet, the most senior member of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet. In civil actions in the Court<|fim_middle|>, and it was replaced in 1949 by a new body, the Law Society of Scotland. This body assumed the responsibility of registering all solicitors and taking cases before the new Solicitors' Discipline Tribunal, as well as charging registration fees to prevent some of the issues faced by its predecessor. Wedderburn served as Chairman of the Law Society in its first year, resigning in 1950.
Science
Although a lawyer by trade, Wedderburn had a keen interest in science. During World War I he found a new system for calculating the allowance to be made for ballistic winds in long-range artillery shooting, which had been widely adopted by the end of the war. While a student he worked, in the University's vacations, with Sir John Murray on the bathymetrical study of fresh water lochs. He continued this enthusiasm in later in life, following George Chrystal's work on seiches on the Scottish lochs.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 21 January 1907. His proposers were Sir John Murray, George Chrystal, Thomas Nicol Johnston, and William Peddie. Wedderburn won the society's Makdougall-Brisbane Prize for 1908/1910 and was an active member of the society, proposing many notable scientists for membership and serving as treasurer for ten years, from 1937 to 1947. He served as vice president from 1947 to 1950.
He was closely involved with the Scottish Meteorological Society, and published an article on its history in the November 1955 edition of the journal Weather.
Retirement and death
Wedderburn remained Deputy Keeper of the Signet throughout his tenure as Chairman of the General Council, retiring from the position in 1954. He died on 3 June 1958 at his home at 6 Succoth Gardens, in Edinburgh's West End.
Family
On 5 April 1911, he married Mary Goldie (1899-1979), eldest daughter of Rev Thomas Smith Goldie, minister of Granton. Their son, Ernest Alexander Maclagan Wedderburn, a Major in the Royal Scots, was killed on 24 December 1944, and is buried in the Ancona War Cemetery, Italy.
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Scottish solicitors | of Session, a pursuer is required to have his writ stamped with the Signet to give him authority from the Crown to serve the writ on the defender. That conferral, called "passing the Signet," was until 1976 carried out by the Signet Office, the administration of which was one of the Society's responsibilities. The office of Keeper of the Signet is held by the Lord Clerk Register (the oldest surviving of the Great Officers of State, which at the time was held by Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar) but is a purely ceremonial one, the Deputy Keeper instead being the most senior membership representative in the Society's administration.
A year later he took up the post of Chairman of the General Council of Solicitors in Scotland. This body had been established a few years before by the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1933 as the first national body for the solicitors' profession, with responsibilities for the education and training of solicitors and for enforcing standards of conduct, and its membership drawn from representatives of local faculties. Admission to practice was still controlled by these local bodies, such as the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen, Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, and in Wedderburn's case the WS Society. The Act had also established the Independent Discipline Committee, before which cases by the General Council against mischievous solicitors were to be brought.
Wedderburn was knighted in the 1942 Birthday Honours. A 1946 photographic portrait of him by the Bassano studio, taken in his capacity as Chairman of the General Council, is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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A rise in dangerous and even fatal asthma and other allergic attacks could be one of Australia's biggest health challenges from climate change.
The warning was published by the Sax Institute in the latest issue of Public Health Research & Practice, which looked at studies since 2000 relating to climate change, allergens and allergy.
It included recent research from Europe and North America that finds higher temperatures and more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will significantly boost levels of allergens in the air such as grass pollen.
At the same time, the pollen season is changing, starting earlier and going on for longer. Again, the end result is substantially more pollen in the air.
Author of the review, Associate Professor Paul Beggs, from Macquarie University's Department of Environmental Sciences, Sydney, said almost all the research about climate change's effects on allergies is from overseas.
Australia's systems for monitoring, reporting and forecasting atmospheric concentrations of allergens such as pollen were not fit for purpose.
The review notes that allergic illness is "already a very significant public health issue in Australia".
In November 2016, Melbourne experienced "the world's largest, most catastrophic epidemic thunderstorm asthma event" that caused thousands of emergency department presentations, hundreds of asthma-related hospital admissions and 10 deaths.
The odds of such extreme weather events are greatly increased with climate change, the review found.
Evidence shows that higher temperatures can also lead to increased production of fungal spores, another trigger for many susceptible people, as well as boosting indoor moisture and mould growth, which can cause allergic reactions.
"It could be argued that these impacts pose a serious climate change-human health risk to Australia and that they should therefore be among Australia's climate change-human health priorities," Associate Professor Beggs said.
"But Australia's research efforts in this area have been woefully inadequate, and much of the international research has been done in climates unlike our own, involving allergens that are not common here.
"Our allergen monitoring is equally poor, with no national, state or territory body having responsibility for the monitoring, reporting and forecasting of environmental allergens.
What monitoring exists is sparse and sporadic.
"For example, in Melbourne<|fim_middle|>, monitoring remains precarious, with all sites either unfunded or subsisting on short-term funding."
This review of climate change and allergy is one of a number of papers dealing with health and climate change in a special themed issue of Public Health Research & Practice, overseen by co-Guest Editors Anthony Capon, the inaugural Professor of Planetary Health at the University of Sydney, and Dr Carlos Corvalan, an Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney.
Other research included in the special issue were authored by Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick and Professor Andy Pitman from the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
They argued that building resilience to events such as heatwaves and drought is the best safeguard against health threats from climate change.
Another article on built environment interventions argues that landscapers, architects, urban planners and designers play a critical role in addressing the health impacts of climate change.
Associate Professor Jason Prior of the University of Technology Sydney.
A special feature on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) will be published in the February 2019 edition of CCN Magazine. | , scene of the deadly thunderstorm asthma event, allergen monitoring only occurs for three months of the year. Elsewhere in Australia | 26 |
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By Jim Mancari
(Photo courtesy Christ the King H.S.)
Fresh off victories in their diocesan title games, two local GCHSAA girls' basketball teams continued their trek through the Catholic League playoffs.
On the junior varsity level, St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, took home the 'AA' Division city championship crown with a win over Msgr. Scanlan H.S., the Bronx. The varsity team from Christ the King H.S., Middle Village, then battled to a victory over Msgr. Scanlan in the 'AA' Division city championship game.
With the win, the Lady Royals advanced to the Catholic state tournament played March 8-9. A semifinal win over St. Anthony's H.S., South Huntington, L.I., set up another matchup with Msgr. Scanlan for the state title.
Playing at the historic Rose Hill Gymnasium on the campus of Fordham University, the Bronx, Christ the King raced out to an early lead and never looked back en route to a 67-45 win to repeat as state champions.
Senior guard Khadija Demry led the way with 20 pts., while senior center Klarke Sconiers recorded a double-double with 16 pts. and 11 rebounds.
The Lady Royals will soon head to Glens Falls, N.Y., to compete in the New York State Federation Tournament to be played March 22-24 at Cool Insuring Arena.
JoAnn Arbitello-Pinnock (Photo courtesy Junior Knicks)
JoAnn Arbitello-Pinnock, the head girls' varsity basketball coach at The Mary Louis Academy, Jamaica Estates, was one of five finalists for Junior Knicks Coach of the Year Award, presented by the Hospital for Special Surgery.
Pinnock has been serving the local hoops community for almost 30 years, where she runs her own program, Positive Direct, in addition to coaching the Hilltoppers. Her biggest influence in the community is supporting fundraising efforts for The Lupus Foundation of America and developing Ladies Only mentoring sessions.
Jason Curry, the president of Big Apple Basketball, was named the recipient of the award on March 10.
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Adelanto (SoCal High Desert) New Blues Festival Coming Memorial Day Sunday
PRESENTING THE ADELANTO NEW BLUES FESTIVAL AT STATER BROS. STADIUM & HERITAGE FIELD FEATURING LEGENDARY BAND, CANNED HEAT & OTHER TOP INTERNATIONAL, HIGH DESERT SOCAL BLUES/ROOTS ACTS
Sunday, May 24, 2015 - 12 Noon to 10 p.m.
(Rain or Shine)
(ADELANTO, CA) - The Blues are coming to the SoCal High Desert in a big way with the announcement of the 1st Annual Adelanto New Blues Festival, at Stater Bros. Stadium & Heritage Field, 12000 Stadium Way, Adelanto, on Sunday, May 24 (Memorial Day Weekend). Festival takes place 12 Noon -10 p.m. Tickets $25. (General Admission); $50. (VIP) in advance, available at www.ticketreturn.com or at www.newbluesfestival.com. Kids 12 and under free with paid adult admission. Info: (562) 762-8317.
The legendary Canned Heat is the main headliner, supported by a stellar bands lineup that includes SoCal blues staples The 44's, Mighty Mojo Prophets, Boxcar 7, New Blues Revolution and the George Foster Band; as well as popular High Desert-based acts The Blue Henrys, Victor Crain West Coast Project, and DJ Parker. Other acts may be added as the Festival date approaches. Either way- it's a superb entertainment value for only $30.!
Adelanto New Blues Festival Venue: Stater Bros. Stadium & Heritage Field
With seating for almost 4,000 people, the oval-shaped Stater Bros. Stadium & Heritage Field (home of the Mavericks Class A baseball team) provides superb sight-lines and great acoustics from virtually every seat in the house. Stater Bros. Stadium is conveniently located off the I-!5 Freeway, at the intersection of 395 Freeway and Stadium Way, and is an integral part of the rapidly-growing Victor Valley metro area, whose combined cities population is approximately 450,000. Adelanto New Blues Festival concertgoers can look forward to enjoying first-class blues music in a relaxed atmosphere, with parking literally at the front gate.
Festival Headliners
One of the great blues/rock bands of the last fifty years, Canned Heat, headlines the Adelanto High Desert New Blues Festival at Mavericks Stadium in Adelanto on Sunday, May 24.
Canned Heat: Known for all-time hits "On The Road Again," "Let's Work Together" and "Going Up The Country," the seminal band first formed in 1966 and continue touring to this day. Formed in 1966, Canned Heat was formed by blues historians/record collectors Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson and Bob "The Bear" Hite. Hite took the name "Canned Heat" from a 1928 recording by Tommy Johnson. They secured their place in rock 'n' roll history with a performance at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the headlining slot at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969 ("Going<|fim_middle|> and #2 on B.B. King Bluesville Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. Johnny Main grounds his outstanding singing and guitar playing in real experience, his talents as honest as the day is long. Bassist Mike Hightower brings many years of experience to hold down the bottom end with some greasy glue. Drummer J. R. Lozano, behind his vintage Ludwig kit, is as solid as any you'll hear, calibrating rhythmic flow with alertness and intelligence. Their latest addition, harpist Jacob Huffman, adds excitement and energy in the West Coast style that he learned from his mentor, Rod Piazza. Their sophomore release is Americana (Rip Cat Records). http://www.the44sbluesband.com/.
Mighty Mojo Prophets: Formed in late 2007 by vocalist Tom "Big Son" Eliff and guitarist Mitch "Da Switch" Dow, the Long Beach-based band lays down some of the most honest, straight-ahead blues you're likely to hear. Their 2011 self-titled national debut for Rip Cat Records landed them a 2012 Blues Music Award nomination for "Best New Artist Debut." The group's follow-up effort, Flyin' Home From Memphis continues the tale with thirteen skillfully written and wonderfully performed songs. Together they've summoned a veritable bevy of musical variations beyond their adopted West Coast roots to incorporate other regional styles such as Chicago and Texas blues, Memphis soul, country blues and proto-rock 'n' roll. This collection stands out as a refreshingly original take on traditional roots styles in a sea of 'the same ol' thing'. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Mighty-Mojo-Prophets/137073739704626?fref=ts.
Boxcar 7: High-energy seven-piece group recently voted "The Best Band in Long Beach" by a city that knows jazz and blues. With a powerful horn section, a charismatic front man and a seasoned, funky rhythm section, Boxcar 7 plays the best of classic R&B, soul, blues, swing and a bit of classic rock. The nattily-attired band draw from the great music of artists including Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, BB King, Joe Cocker and many more. http://www.boxcar7.com/.
New Blues Revolution: Forging a unique, distinctive style featuring Bill Grisolia's vocals and piano and Chap Cooper's guitar, the band brings exciting showmanship to a mix of high-energy New Blues songs – deep, modern, rocky but soulful. A favorite of critics, The New Blues Revolution has received rave reviews from national trade magazines such as Cashbox and Music Connection. Critics recognize NBR's exciting talent and their extraordinary songwriting. Their song "Blue Revolution" was nominated for a Los Angeles Music Award. http://www.NewBluesRevolution.com/.
High Desert favorites, The Blue Henrys
The Blue Henrys: These High Desert favorites put their own twist on Chicago blues well-knowns such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Freddie King, Little Walter and Junior Wells, to name a few. Not only do they entertain with great arrangements of blues and rock legends; their own songwriting and arranging hits the mark in a big way - with tunes like "She's Still Lovin' Me", "Change His Mind" and "Always In My Heart" among the crowd favorites wherever they play. The addition of a small but mighty horn section enables them to explore the 'Jump Blues' sound. The fun factor is always high when The Blue Henrys kick it into gear! https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Blue-Henrys/159432964135125.
Victor Crain West Coast Project: Guitarist-vocalist Victor Crain first started playing guitar at age fourteen. Over the years, the Llano-based musician and High Desert native has played with numerous blues artists including as the late Finis Tasby, Candy Kane, Catfish Fry, Kirk Fletcher and many more. Crain - whose flamboyant guitar style has been compared to Jimi Hendrix - is also related to the late blues guitar great , Freddy King. Accompanying Crain in the West Coast Project is well-known bassist, Rick Reed.
Labels: Adelanto New Blues Festival, Canned Heat | up The Country" was adopted as the unofficial theme song for the film "Woodstock" and the Woodstock Generation). More than fifty years later and with thirty-eight albums to their credit, Canned Heat is still going strong. They've been anchored the past forty-five years by the steady hand of drummer/bandleader Adolfo "Fito" de la Parra. Joining Fito is original bassist Larry "The Mole" Taylor and new Orleans legend, Dale Spaulding on harmonica, guitar, and lead vocals. Chicago great Harvey Mandel is the regular guitarist but has been temporarily replaced by John "JP" Paulus while "The Snake" deals with his health issues. www.cannedheatmusic.com.
The 44's: Rising stars on the American blues-roots scene.
The 44's: This Los Angeles-based band is one the bright rising stars on the American blues-roots scene. The raw, rough and tough sounds generated by these four musicians during live performances demands to be heard by blues music fans worldwide. They evidence a genuine gift for creating blues in the moment, while at the same time showing loyalty to a remarkable blues-and-r&b tradition that goes back decades, from the James Harman Band and the Red Devils to storied greats like Howlin' Wolf, Albert Collins, and Muddy Waters. Their first release Boogie Disease was self-produced for $800 with the help of guitar great Kid Ramos and was quickly released on Rip Cat Records,peaking at #12 on the Living Blues radio charts | 320 |
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Saks Fifth Avenue "The Yeti Story" Holiday Window Display 2013
Store: Saks Fifth Avenue
Location: Fifth Avenue, NYC
Dresser: Spaeth Design
Saks Fifth Avenue's flagship store comes alive with the unveiling of its iconic holiday windows and the debut of its Snowflake Spectacular, a dramatic light show projected onto the façade of the building. Performing for guests this year will be Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell, singer Frankie Moreno and the Young People's Chorus of New York City led by Artistic Director Francisco Nunez, followed by an exclusive performance to "Carol of the Bells" by young dancers from the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre.
"It gives every one of us at Saks Fifth Avenue great joy to share our iconic holiday windows with the city of New York," said Richard Baker, Governor & CEO of Hudson's Bay Company, parent of Saks Fifth Avenue. "The window unveiling is the official start to the holiday season here at Saks, and I am honored to carry the tradition forward with this celebration. Everyone—from resident New Yorkers to tourists—will be dazzled by this year's display."
THE SNOWFLAKE SPECTACULAR
Saks Fifth Avenue's annual holiday light show will turn the façade of the iconic luxury retailer into a traffic-stopping festive 3D spectacle. Snowflakes, ice skaters, gifts and a Yeti all interact through a custom-built, six-projector system. Iris Worldwide has developed the dramatic light show, which utilizes state-of-the-art imaging technology to create a vivid 3D projection that maps the holiday story onto the building's exterior. After the debut, the show will continue every evening throughout the holiday season.
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For the first time ever, the six animated Fifth Avenue windows will feature the story of the legendary Yeti, who is rumored to live on the Saks Fifth Avenue roof, making snow during the holiday season. Each window depicts a scene from The Yeti Story—from the Yeti's life as an under-appreciated snowmaker in Siberia to his starring role as a true snowflake artist in New York.
An interactive window created in collaboration with MasterCard gives everyone a chance to be a part of the celebration. Beginning on the evening of the unveiling, guests who visit saks.com/snow will be able to create their own personal Yeti name and snowflake, which can be 'flicked' from a phone or tablet onto digital displays in the windows. The mobile site was created by The Science Project, featuring artwork from renowned designers Marian Bantjes and Stefan Bucher.
Another special window features a holiday Cadillac. The "Frozen Escalade" prominently features the front clip of a White Diamond 2015 Escalade—a limited edition model offered exclusively to Saks customers. The display's vehicle will have functioning LED running lamps, which appears to be embedded and breaking through a block of ice.
Other Fifth Avenue windows will feature blueprint architectural drawings of the 32 Marian Bantjes snowflakes that have become synonymous with the holidays at Saks Fifth Avenue and will serve as the backdrop to the fashion featured in this year's windows.
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Love Does Not Diminish
"Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me." — Leo Buscaglia
How do you define love or the experience of it? What is it like to experience yourself on an intimate level? I don't mean physically, but emotionally and spiritually? Some associate love with romantic feelings of butterflies in their stomach. They might talk about what they feel when thinking about their beloved.
But is love experienced through the mind, body or both? Is love a noun or a verb? How do we know if we have truly loved? What is the measure of having fully committed ourselves to love?
I do not consider myself a relationship coach by any means. I am just as inquisitive as you are. What I know is: love demands nothing of us because it is an empty vessel to be filled. This is the analogy for life itself, where love is never wasted but recirculated.
For instance, is love unconditional for you? Or does it come with requirements? What happens when those requirements are not met, do you withhold your love for another?
Is it possible to withhold the essence of who you are?
How can we stop water flowing in a river? You might say: build a damn. However, if the dam is not strong enough, the pressure of the water will find its way through or around it.
You've no doubt seen tsunamis on TV where entire villages are engulfed by water. Water is a powerful metaphor for love because it can enrich a person's life, yet it can also be destructive if it comes with conditions.
Do we need love in our lives? What does love offer us in return? Is it intimacy with ourselves or knowing others better? It was St Francis of Assisi who once said: "It is in giving that we receive." He viewed love as something to be circulated in order to permeate our life and the lives of others.
Love is like the Sun that gives of its energy and asks nothing in return because it is self-sustaining. The more we give love, the more of it we have. It begs the question: what happens when love is not reciprocated or the other person ceases to identify with love?
If love is not returned, it does not diminish the other person's capacity to give or receive it. The Sun goes down in the evening and there is darkness for twelve hours. Yet, with the break of dawn, it re-emerges bringing energy to sustain life once more. It is a cycle sewn into the fabric of life and so it is with love.
Dare To Fully Express Love
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." — Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
When another person stops loving us, it doesn't mean we are unlovable. For you cannot stop the flow of love, it will naturally find expression in another form.
Love is the antidote to fear, hatred and anger.
It is the one true constant in our lives that is bestowed upon us from conception. We are born into love and leave this life knowing love will continue to weave itself throughout the world.
The question is: have you dared to fully express love in this life? Have you given love freely and unconditionally? We ought to be like a sponge filled with water, totally wrung out when our time comes. We ought to fill our hearts with love and not withhold it for fear it won't be reciprocated.
Because every time we engage in love, it is magnified within every cell of our body. The more we give of ourselves, the more love expands within our hearts.
Knowing this, I invite you to contemplate your relationship with love over the coming days. Where are you withholding love in your life? How is this serving you? Does it bring a sense of safety, security or comfort? Are you willing to let down the barriers that impede the flow of love?
Love needn't be something expressed between two people but can reveal itself through our life's purpose, our hobbies and our attitude. If you seek more love in your life,<|fim_middle|> within you bursting with love and direct it towards something or someone. Love is a like bank account that compounds interest with each deposit made. Because if we truly want to know what it means to love, we must first experience it unreservedly while we have the chance.
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Working with CzechTourism and Budweiser Budvar, we delivered over 500 care packages and held one of the world's biggest online tourism events to bring a little joy (and beer) to those who had their trips to the Czech Republic cancelled during lockdown.
As COVID-19 brought the travel industry to a halt, with lockdowns and travel restrictions all over the world. This created one huge problem: How can we encourage travel to a destination when no one can travel?
We set out to provide a brand reminder on behalf of CzechTourism to encourage rebooking at a later date and create positive conversation during a uniquely difficult time that had brought the travel industry to a standstill. We recognised a unique opportunity to work alongside Budweiser Budvar, one of Czech's most iconic brands, on a #CheersFromCzech campaign that would bring a little joy to those forced to cancel their trips to the Czech Republic. The campaign had two distinct phases:
Phase 1 - Team up with Budvar to deliver 500 'isolation care packages' to members of the public who had been forced to postpone their trips. Generate widespread user generated content using the #CheersFromCzech hashtag. www.budweiserbudvar.com/cheers-from-czech/
Phase 2 - Create one of the world's biggest virtual tourism events, bringing together over 130 travel influencers and stream on Facebook Live from the Visit Czech Republic Facebook page. www.traverse-events.com/the-big-virtual-czech-in-cheersfromczech
The campaign exceeded all expectations, reaching millions of people and driving thousands to the CzechTourism website and social media channels. Here are some of the key success stats from the campaign:
The campaign achieved a combined reach of 4,100,000+
150+ uses of the #CheersFromCzech hashtag across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram
Content created by leading travel influencers promoting the care packages, reaching an audience of 400,000+
Campaign media coverage reach was 2,605,764, including national newspapers (The Sun, The Independent), BBC news (Simon Calder), travel trade publications (Travel Daily Media, TTG) and leading beer blogs (British Guild of Beer Writers)
'The Big Virtual Czech In' Facebook Live event (run through Zoom) was attended by over 130 influencers with a combined account reach of 2,225,000+, generated 6,500+ views and reached 18,000+ people
Daily reach of the Visit Czech Republic Facebook page increased by 109% between April and May
Over a 28-day period (21st April - 19th May), the CzechTourism UK Twitter account generated 17.8k impressions (70% increase), 673 profile visits (143% increase), 432 mentions (747% increase) and 644 | 660 |
But, triple Le2Alpes winter experience proven itself to be so thrilling, that I could not help myself but to book for a summer ride there.
Just got a confirmation - a week from 16th to 23rd June just does it.
Anyone already experienced summer skiing in the morning and biking afternoons<|fim_middle|> it is open down to 2400 still is great news.
Thanks pavproch for the latest updates...Stay in touch and keep sharing gentleman. | ?
I've not done both but it sounds like a plan. Mid June is a good idea, you may still be able to ski lower down than the glacier and it will be less icy. The mountain biking looks pretty wild, a bit out of my comfort zone to be honest, have you seen some of the drop offs? Even the singles are pretty steep. I've cycled up to the glacier in the past but that was before they had any mountain bike oriented trails.
I will be there for the opening w/e with my 7 year old for our last ski day of the 2011/2012 season, weather and snow permitting.
Here we go again.... short field report: above 2400m significatly more snow than last year same time, Toura station easily skiable from above.
That's good news. I was hoping to get up last weekend but have been in the West of France for a few weeks. Maybe next weekend if I can get back on the Sunday so hearing | 210 |
Just concluded a 5 days fun at DisneyWorld, Florida, Orlando. We watched parades after parades, took fun rides, watched musicals, live shows and had great fun beyond words. It felt like a happy land with dreams coming true. So memorable.
What kept running in my mind during the days weren't really the parades, rides or shows, but how a little girl responded to the host during an interactive show. She was asked "What's the best part you like about Disneyworld?" The 4 or 5 year old look alike girl replied, "playing with my daddy!" And the crowd went, "Awww..."
I was so touched. I thought Mickey or Donald would make her best day. But nah. We know kids are usually honest. Doing rides, watching shows and meeting characters with her daddy must have made her really happy! It simply means that kids want our time, to play with them. Anytime and anywhere. That's probably the most memorable part for any childhood, to carry and bring into adulthood.
As 2012 comes near to a closure, let's take time to bond and build our family to greater heights.While blogging takes a sabbatical break (family bonding), my man, myself and two little kids wana wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Have great holiday fun!
Back next year with updates of our year end vacation. If 2<|fim_middle|> Pines cones collected now have got their scales closed, it makes good ornaments too. Perhaps with strong glue.
And now, mummy does the job of securing the cones to the wreath, ending it off with a shiny silver ribbon. Our homemade wreath, all done! Probably one of it's kind in the world. A stroll at malls and shops has wreaths with silver, golden and white pine cones. But red and green, hmmm... just us!
I love this DIY and low cost wreath. | 11212 doesn't come true. Haha.
The kids had surprise gifts from their friends!
Thank you mummies for your thoughts. It really made the kids happy.
Thank you! It's always heartwarming to be remembered in this far away land.
It's been raining the whole of last week. Outdoors are out, and so we did some indoor craft. When we shifted into our place in September, the first thing I did at the backyard was to collect pine cones! They look really pretty and a rare find in SG. September was near Christmas, and I knew my plans for these pine cones.
Pines cones collected at different season look differently. Those collect at fall have got their scales opened, which makes it easier to tie to the wreath. | 158 |
Sixties City presents a wide-ranging series of articles on all aspects of the Sixties, penned by the creator of the iconic 60s music paper Mersey Beat
Johnny Kidd was one of the leading British rock 'n' roll stars at the beginning of the Sixties. Born Frederick Heath in Willesden, north-west London, on 23rd December 1<|fim_middle|> Fab Four's 'Encyclopedia' series. He has appeared on 'Good Morning America' and has received a Gold Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
Article Bill Harry 2012 Original Graphics SixtiesCity 2012
UK web hosting by Velnet Domain names | Search Engine Submission by Haabaa website directory | Submit Express | Web Hosting Shop | 939, he formed his first group, Freddie Heath & The Nutters, during the skiffle boom. An EMI recording contract brought him his first hit with his debut record 'Please Don't Touch', which reached No.25 in the charts in 1959. By that time he'd changed his name to Johnny Kidd and dubbed his backing band The Pirates.
The group comprised Brian Gregg on bass guitar, Art Caddy on lead guitar and Clem Cattini on drums. This line-up left him in 1961 to become The Tornados.
With a touch of showbiz, Johnny capitalised on the Pirates' name, presenting a show which featured a pirate theme. He wore swashbuckling leather gear and a black eye-patch over his left eye. It was rumoured that he had originally worn the patch one night on stage after a guitar string broke and caught his eye. Joe Brown used to comment that Jack Good made Johnny wear the patch to stop him winking at the Vernons Girls!
It became a trademark and he always carried six of them, due to the fact that fans kept pinching them. When his original backing group left, he took on Cuddly Dudley's former backing band and later formed the trio which was to have some influence on heavy metal bands of the future - Mick Green on guitar, Johnny Spencer on bass and Frank Farley on drums. 'Please Don't Touch' was followed by 'You Got What It Takes', which also reached No.25. His next release, the classic 'Shakin' All Over', reached the No.1 spot. This was followed by 'Restless', also in 1960, which reached No.22. There were several other hits, which included 'A Shot Of Rhythm And Blues' and 'I'll Never Get Over You.'
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates appeared for a week at the Cavern from Monday 14th May 1962 and later topped the bill above The Beatles on Friday 10th August 1962 during the Riverboat Shuffle on the Royal Iris. In the midst of a hectic schedule of one-nighters, Johnny was killed in a car crash at Radcliffe, Lancashire on 7th October 1966. He was 26 years old.
Bill Harry attended the Liverpool College of Art with Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon and made the arrangements for Brian Epstein to visit The Cavern, where he saw The Beatles for the first time. Bill was a member of 'The Dissenters' and the founder and editor of 'Mersey Beat', the iconic weekly music newspaper that documented the early Sixties music scene in the Liverpool area and is possibly best known for being the first periodical to feature a local band called 'The Beatles'. He has worked as a high powered publicist, doing PR for acts such as Suzi Quatro, Free, The Arrows and Hot Chocolate and has managed press campaigns for record labels such as CBS, EMI, Polydor. Bill is the critically acclaimed author of a large number of books about The Beatles and the 60s era including 'The Beatles Who's Who', 'The Best Years of the Beatles' and the | 669 |
<|fim_middle|> sparkle to your wedding jewellery and we are sure you will find something to tempt you in our wedding hair accessory range. | The finishing touch for your outfit on your Wedding Day may well be what to put in your hair. We hope we can help with our wide selection of beautiful wedding hair accessories.
You will find a wide variety of bridal tiaras, some with flowers, both material and porcelain, some low, some high, but all of them stunning.
If this is not exactly what you want, we have some beautiful comb tiaras with flower and sparkling diamante designs. Alternatively you may wish for a smaller comb or two in your hair. The Little Things In Life offer a range of sparkling bridal hair accessories which includes hair pins and spirals. It is possible to wear several spirals placed strategically in the hair to give a magical effect, especially if your hair is long. All of these items are beautifully made and look stunning.
These lovely wedding hair accessories, however, are not only suitable for the bride. They also make great bridesmaids' jewellery as well, as would our smaller selection of sparkling hair accessories which include clips in the shape of butterflies, bows, heart-shaped and flower hair clips.
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I'm curled up on my couch, this cold December 31st, and thought I would share my 2013 with you. I hope you had a wonderful year!TL;DR – 2013 was an incredible year for me. I hope I<|fim_middle|> I'm excited to get started in the new year. I wish you and yours all the best. May you have a safe, warm, and happy holiday and new year. | can look back years from now, and say that 2013 was one of the most important years of my life, and that I made some important decisions that set me on a better path towards the future I want for myself. I'm excited to really get to work in 2014! (See my New Year's Resolution).
I spent all of 2013 finishing up my MBA at Louisiana Tech University (I graduate in March, 2014). I'm definitely glad I chose to continue on into the MBA program at Tech after my undergraduate studies! I think earning my MBA is an important part of starting my professional career, and I know I will always be glad I went ahead and got it sooner rather than later. I'm currently planning on going back and finishing an undergraduate degree in Accounting, and finding work as an accountant in 2014 (in addition to other plans).
In March, I had the opportunity to travel to Reno, Nevada to attend the Safari Club International Convention with my grandfather. I was blown away by the exhibits! The best part was just getting to spend time with my grandfather, who shared stories of being a doctor in Alaska, hunting game all over the world, raising my mother, aunt, and uncle, and falling in love with my wonderful grandmother who he eternally adores. I was able to write down many of his fantastic stories, and I'm planning on writing and editing a short collection of them, along with typing up his hunting journals (with the help of my mother).
In May, I moved out of my house in Ruston, Louisiana and parked my belongings in Bossier City, Louisiana at my parents' house (much to their delight, of course). 😉At the end of may, I attended my 15th (I think – I forget how many years its been) Destination Imagination Global Finals in Knoxville, Tennessee and was asked to serve as one of four Instant Challenge – International Challenge Masters (ICMs) for the next few years. I'm honored and excited to have this opportunity to get more involved with the international program! I believe in DI, and am so proud of the work we do. (SeeLADest.com & DestinationImagination.org) I hope I represent the program and our affiliate well.
In June, I did a bit of home improvement and various woodworking projects for friends, family, and Louisiana Destination Imagination. (Check out TurekBuilt to see more of my work. Much more to come!)On July 3rd, in the middle of cramming for final exams, I recieved a call from family several thousand miles away, and was asked to travel to Ketchikan, Alaska to help with maintenance and restoration on a 70+ year old apartment building, in downtown Ketchikan. I (of course) jumped at the opportunity, and dropped less interesting summer plans to fly out on standby to the Pacific Northwest. I spent the night in Portland, Oregon on July 4th with family members, and made it to Alaska after two days of travel. Upon arriving in Ketchikan, I went straight from the airport to the work site, and spent the next month doing a myriad of tasks such as scraping, brushing, grinding, washing, painting, staining, sanding, hauling, taping, caulking, chatting, singing, whistling, climbing, balancing, and many other things you might imagine someone would do while refinishing an old building. I have yet to write a comprehensive blog post about my time in Alaska, but when I do, I will edit this post to link to it! (Check out my Facebook Albums andInstagram to see some fantastic pictures of my travels and adventures this summer, and to read more).
After spending several weeks in Alaska, I flew to Boise, Idaho to visit my grandparents for a few days and unwind after my Ketchikan experience. I was stuffed with cookies, pies, halibut, salmon, and everything else you can think of! (They spoil me rotten).
Once again back in Louisiana, I packed my bags and hit the road for the longest road trip I've ever taken (5,278 miles). I drove through the great Southwest, stopping at a few interesting places on my way to California (most notably the Hoover Dam – I've already seen the Grand Canyon on a mission trip years ago). Check out my 2013 road trip facebook photo album, and more instagram pictures! I had a blast documenting the journey.
In California, I visited my brother Robert and his family (my first nephew Oliver was born in June!), and spent three weeks working with him in his woodshop and Marie's ceramic studio on their new "Lustered Walnut" product line. I have been consulting with Robert and Marie for several years, and am so pleased with their progress! I hope to work more with them in 2014, as they grow their business.
After a few weeks in southern California, I spent a day touring Los Angeles, and then headed up the beautiful west coast on Highway 1, to visit more friends in Sacremento.From there, I drove to Portland, Oregon, to Boise, Idaho, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and back down through Colorado to i40 in New Mexico and Texas, aaaall the way back to the swamplands.
This December, The family got together in Idaho and spent a wonderful, snowy Christmas with each other. We cherish the time we get to spend together, and regret that we live so far apart!Still with me? I hope so! Those were the more interesting highlights of my 2013. As you can see, I made good use of my breaks from school! I have big plans for 2014, and | 1,185 |
We walk in order left foot<|fim_middle|> the food we eat, it's a nourishment to our physical lives…Smiles and Laughter are also nourishment, spiritual strength for your soul! These simple task can be the difference between a soul living in LOVE or EVOL. | after right foot , or right foot after left foot…however you like to view it! Perspective is all that matters. Following the wind and resting in energy. Find a place that brings you peace and happiness, within that lies a blessing. Your plans are never greater than God's plan for you. When your focus is in alignment with the ultimate creator of the universe, left after right or right after left will lead you to paradise! When you don't focus on the energy and power from above, your feet tend to move backwards and not forward. When we live moving forward, we find LOVE! However, when we put that in reverse we get what we don't need… EVIL! Let's move forward and LIVE in LOVE with a SMILE and LAUGH! These things do something to our spirit and soul! Like | 166 |
Arts and Literature The Complete David Bowie ( 2011 )
by Nicholas Pegg , Language: English
The biggest edition yet – expanded and updated with 35,000 words of new materialCritically acclaimed in its previous editions, The Complete David Bowie is widely recognized as the foremost source of analysis and information on every facet of Bowie's career. The A-Z of songs and the day-by-day dateline are the most complete ever published. From the 11-year-old's skiffle performance at the 18th Bromley Scouts' Summer Camp in 1958, to the emergence of the legendary lost album Toy in 2011, The Complete David Bowie discusses and dissects every last development in rock's most fascinating career.*
* The Albums – detailed production history and analysis of every album from 1967 to the present day.* The Songs – hundreds of individual entries reveal the facts and anecdotes behind not just the famous recordings, but also the most obscure of unreleased rarities – from 'Absolute Beginners' to 'Ziggy Stardust', from 'Abdulmajid' to 'Zion'.* The Tours – set-lists and histories of every live show.* The Actor – a complete guide to Bowie's career on stage and screen.* Plus – the videos, the BBC radio sessions, the paintings, the Internet and much more.
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Biographies and Memoirs Doreen Valiente Witch ( 2016 )
by Philip Heselton , Language: English
The complete and definitive biography of one of modern witchcraft's most influential witches, written with the full support and approval of the Centre for Pagan Studies and the Doreen Valiente Foundation. Revealing previously unknown details of Doreen's life, her involvement in the earliest days of Wicca, and her incredible contributions to the revival of witchcraft and paganism, this book is drawn from first-hand testimony and the vast collection of papers Doreen left behind for future generations to explore.
Adding new insights into the unfolding story of modern witchcraft, Witch paints a fascinating portrait of this remarkable woman, from her earliest encounters with the craft, to her work with Gerald Gardner, the establishment of her own coven, and the writing of her many beloved books.
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Biographies and Memoirs The Life of Louis XVI ( 2016 )
by John Hardman , Language: English
A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulersLouis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new biography of the ill-fated monarch. Based in part on new scholarship that has emerged over the past two decades, Hardman's illuminating study describes a highly educated ruler who, though indecisive, possessed sharp political insight and a talent for foreign policy; who often saw the dangers ahead but could not or would not prevent them; and whose great misfortune was to be caught in the violent center of a major turning point in history.H
Hardman's dramatic reassessment of the reign of Louis XVI sheds a bold new light on the man, his actions, his world, and his policies, including the king's support for America's War of Independence, the intricate workings of his court, the disastrous Diamond Necklace Affair, and Louis's famous dash to Varennes.
… Books > Biographies and Memoirs > Historical > Europe > France
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Biographies and Memoirs Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial ( 2016 )
by Rabia Chaudry , Language: English
"Serial" told Only Part of the StoryIn early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and sentenced to life plus thirty years for the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee, a high school senior in Baltimore, Maryland. Syed has maintained his innocence, and Rabia Chaudry, a family friend, has always believed him. By 2013, after almost all appeals had been exhausted, Rabia contacted Sarah Koenig, a producer at "This American Life," in hopes of finding a journalist who could shed light on Adnan s story.
In 2014, Koenig's investigation turned into "Serial," a Peabody Award-winning podcast with more than 500 million international listenersBut" Serial" did not tell the whole story. In this compelling narrative, Rabia Chaudry presents new key evidence that she maintains dismantles the State's case: a potential new suspect, forensics indicating Hae was killed and kept somewhere for almost half a day, and documentation withheld by the State that destroys the cell phone evidence – among many other points – and she shows how fans of "Serial" joined a crowd-sourced investigation into a case riddled with errors and strange twists. "Adnan's Story" also shares Adnan s life in prison, and weaves in his personal reflections, including never-before-seen letters. Chaudry, who is committed to exonerating Adnan, makes it clear that justice is yet to be achieved in this much examined case."
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Biographies Butler's Saint for the Day ( 2007 )
by Alban Butler , Paul Burns , Language: English
Enrich each day with models for Christian living drawn from the authoritative 12 volume Butler's Lives of the Saints. Adapted into a single volume for daily devotional reading, Butler's Saint for the Dayfeatures the life of one saint or blessed for each day of the year. Originally published as the New Concise Edition of Butler's, this revision puts much more emphasis on 20th century figures. The selections also reflect the late John Paul II's attention to holy men and women throughout the world, especially the Americas.
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Biographies and Memoirs Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin ( 2011 )
by Jamie Doran , Piers Bizony , Language: English
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person in history to leave the Earth's atmosphere and venture into space. His flight aboard a Russian Vostok rocket lasted only 108 minutes, but at the end of it he had become the most famous man in the world. Back on the ground, his smiling face captured the hearts of millions around the globe. Film stars, politicians and pop stars from Europe to Japan, India to the United States vied with each other to shake his hand. Despite this immense fame, almost nothing is known about Gagarin or the exceptional people behind his dramatic space flight.
Starman tells for the first time Gagarin's personal odyssey from peasant to international icon, his subsequent decline as his personal life began to disintegrate under the pressures of fame, and his final disillusionment with the Russian state. President Kennedy's quest to put an American on the Moon was a direct reaction to Gagarin's achievement–yet before that successful moonshot occurred, Gagarin himself was dead, aged just thirty-four, killed in a mysterious air crash. Publicly the Soviet hierarchy mourned; privately their sighs of relief were almost audible, and the KGB report into his death remains secret. Entwined with Gagarin's history is that of the breathtaking and highly secretive Russian space program – its technological daring, its triumphs and disasters. In a gripping account, Jamie Doran and Piers Bizony reveal the astonishing world behind the scenes of the first great space spectacular, and how Gagarin's flight came frighteningly close to destruction.
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Baking Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) ( 2012 )
by Amy Thomas , Language: English
"From the New York cupcake wars to the perfect Parisian macaron, Thomas's passion is palpable, her sweet tooth, unstoppable."—Elizabeth Bard, bestselling author of Lunch in Paris Forever a girl obsessed with all things French, sweet freak Amy Thomas landed a gig as rich as the purest dark chocolate: leave Manhattan for Paris to write ad copy for Louis Vuitton. Working on the Champs-Elysees, strolling the charming streets, and exploring the best patisseries and boulangeries, Amy marveled at the magnificence of the City of Light.
But does falling in love with one city mean turning your back on another? As much as Amy adored Paris, there was part of her that felt like a humble chocolate chip cookie in a sea of pristine macarons. PARIS, MY SWEET explores how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a salted caramel souffle's rise, as intensely satisfying as molten chocolate cake, and about how the life you're meant to live doesn't always taste like the one you envisioned. Part love letter to Paris, part love letter to New York, and total devotion to all things sweet, PARIS, MY SWEET is a treasure map for anyone with a hunger for life. "Like a tasty Parisian bonbon, this book is filled with sweet surprises."—David Lebovitz, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweet Life in Paris "Amy Thomas seduces us in the same manner that Paris seduced her —one exquisite morsel at a time."—Nichole Robertson, author of Paris in Color
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Asia The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas ( 2002 )
by Mahatma Gandhi , Louis Fischer , Language: English
Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma ("great soul"), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation's own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi's writings throughout his life, The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, non-violence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known.
"Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. . . . We may ignore him at our own risk." –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With a new Preface drawn from the writings of Eknath Easwaran In the annals of spirituality certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine.
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Biographies and Memoirs Keating ( 2016 )
by Kerry O'Brien , Language: English
Paul Keating is widely credited as the chief architect of the most significant period of political and economic reform in Australia's history. Twenty years on, there is still no story from the horse's mouth of how it all came about. No autobiography. No memoir. Yet he is the supreme story-teller of politics.This book of revelations fills the gap. Kerry O'Brien, the consummate interviewer who knew all the players and lived the history, has spent many long hours with Keating, teasing out the stories, testing the memories and the assertions.W
What emerges is a treasure trove of anecdotes, insights, reflections and occasional admissions from one of the most loved and hated political leaders we have known-a man who either led or was the driving force through thirteen years of Labor government that changed the face of Australia.This is a man who as prime minister personally negotiated the sale of a quarter of the government-owned Qantas in his own office for $665 million, then delighted in watching the buyer's hand shake so much that champagne spilt down his shirtsleeve. He tells of his grave moment of doubt after making one of the riskiest calls of his political life, and how he used an acupuncturist and a television interviewer to seize the day.There are many stories of this kind. The revealing inside stories and even glimpses of insecurities that go with the wielding of power, from a man who had no fear collecting his share of enemies and ended up with more than enough, but whose parliamentary performances from 25 years ago are watched avidly on YouTube today by a generation that was either not yet born or in knee pants when he was at his peak.We'll never get an autobiography or a memoir from Keating. This is as good as it gets-funny, sweeping, angry, imaginative, mischievous, with arrogance, a glimmer of humility and more than a touch of creative madness. Keating unplugged.
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Biographies and Memoirs Innocent Spouse: A Memoir ( 2011 )
by Carol Ross Joynt , Language: English
What would you do if, just weeks after your spouse's sudden death, you found out he was keeping secrets? Big secrets. Secrets that could cost you millions of dollars—and brand you as a criminal. Innocent Spouse is an eye-opening memoir that asks a provocative and disturbing question: Is it possible to really know and trust someone, even your spouse? Carol Ross Joynt was a successful television producer in Washington, D.C. Her husband, Howard, owned Nathans, a legendary restaurant in Georgetown.
From an outsider's perspective, Carol and Howard lived a fairy-tale life—spending weekends at their Chesapeake Bay estate, rubbing shoulders with New York's and Washington's elite, and raising their beloved son, Spencer. But everything changed with Howard's sudden death when Spencer was only five years old. Like any widow, Carol was devastated because she lost the love of her life and her son's father. But soon Carol had much more to cope with than her grief and new life as a single parent. As she was forced to take over her family's legal and financial responsibilities, as well as run Howard's restaurant on her own, Carol discovered that her husband had secrets, and one of them, an almost $3 million debt to the IRS, threatened to derail her entire life. And even though Carol didn't know anything about the tax fraud—finances had always been Howard's department—no one cared. As his surviving spouse, legally, Carol was responsible. As Carol picks up the pieces of her fractured life and copes with her sadness and anger, she learns to become<|fim_middle|> even, in certain instances, anarchism. Ecology or Catastrophe is the definitive biography of Murray Bookchin, written by the person who knew him best.
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Arts and Literature Bad Boy – (Italian)
by Jim Thompson , Mondadori , Language: Italian
A tredici anni impara a fumare sigari e a sedurre fanciulle sotto la guida del nonno bestemmiatore. Qualche tempo dopo fa il fattorino d'albergo e arrotonda lo stipendio spacciando alcolici. Poi congela per il freddo e trema di paura come guardiano di un oleodotto nel West Texas. E' l'incubo degli insegnanti, frega gli uomini della mafia e per poco non si fa ammazzare da un vice sceriffo. Poi, tutto ad un tratto, diventa uno tra i migliori autori di genere americani.
Jim Thompson scrive un'autobiografia che è una rilettura critica dell'epopea americana, nonché una sorta di "Huckleberry Finn" del romanzo noir. Con uno scritto di Pino Cacucci.
Arts and Literature Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock ( 2012 )
by Jesse Jarnow , Language: English
The first biography of Yo La Tengo, the massively influential band who all but defined indie music.
Yo La Tengo has lit up the indie scene for three decades, part of an underground revolution that defied corporate music conglomerates, eschewed pop radio, and found a third way. Going behind the scenes of one of the most remarkable eras in American music history, Big Day Coming traces the patient rise of husband-and-wife team Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley, who—over three decades—helped forge a spandex-and-hairspray-free path to the global stage, selling millions of records along the way and influencing countless bands.
Using the continuously vital Yo La Tengo as a springboard, Big Day Coming uncovers the history of the legendary clubs, bands, zines, labels, record stores, college radio stations, fans, and pivotal figures that built the infrastructure of the now-prevalent indie rock world. Journalist and freeform radio DJ Jesse Jarnow draws on all-access interviews and archives for mesmerizing trip through contemporary music history told through one of its most creative and singular acts.
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Travelers and Explorers (11) | something she'd never been before: self-sufficient. Poignant, eye-opening, and at times heartbreaking, Innocent Spouse is ultimately an inspiring story of strength and newfound independence in the face of loss and betrayal.
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Australian Silent Shock: The Men Behind the Thalidomide Scandal and an Australian Family's Long Road to Justice ( 2015 )
by Michael Magazanik , Language: English
Lyn Rowe was born in Melbourne in 1962, seven months after her mother Wendy was given a new wonder drug for morning sickness called thalidomide.For fifty years the Rowe family cared for Lyn. Decades of exhausting, round-the-clock work. But then in 2011 Lyn Rowe launched a legal claim against the thalidomide companies. Against the odds, she won a multi-million-dollar settlement.Former journalist Michael Magazanik is one of the lawyers who ran Lyn's case. In Silent Shock he exposes a fifty-year cover up concerning history's most notorious drug, and details not only the damning case against manufacturers Grünenthal—whose enthusiastic promotion of their lucrative drug in the face of mounting evidence beggars belief—but also the moving story of the Rowe family.S
Spanning Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Sweden and, of course, Germany, Silent Shock is an epic account of corporate wrongdoing against a backdrop of heroic personal struggle and sacrifice.Michael Magazanik has worked as a journalist for the Age, the Australian and ABC-TV, and is now a lawyer with Slater & Gordon. He lives in Melbourne with his partner and three children.
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Australia and New Zealand Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam ( 2015 )
by Jeannine Baker , Language: English
Why do Australians know the names of Charles Bean, Alan Moorehead and Chester Wilmot, but not Agnes Macready, Anne Matheson and Lorraine Stumm?This is the hidden story of Australian and New Zealand women war reporters who fought for equality with their male colleagues and filed stories from the main conflicts of the twentieth century.In Australian Women War Reporters, Jeannine Baker provides a much-needed account of the pioneering women who reported from the biggest conflicts of the twentieth century.
Two women covered the South African War at the turn of the century, and Louise Mack witnessed the fall of Antwerp in 1914. Others such Anne Matheson, Lorraine Stumm and Kate Webb wrote about momentous events including the rise of Nazism, the liberation of the concentration camps, the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the Cold War conflicts in Korea and Southeast Asia. These women carved a path for new generations of female foreign correspondents who have built upon their legacy.Jeannine Baker deftly draws out the links between the experiences of these women and the contemporary realities faced by women journalists of war, including Monica Attard and Ginny Stein, allowing us to see both in a new light.'Jeannine Baker peels away the layers of self-protection, fear and even excitement to reveal what it is really like to be a female foreign correspondent, especially one who covers war. To bear witness is never easy. But how a woman does this is often more challenging than for her male counterparts. This book bears witness to the stories and the challenges of the many women who have ventured away from the safety of a newsroom in to the fields of turmoil to report home. It is a fascinating and confronting read written by a compassionate author, who is as curious as any foreign correspondent could possibly be.' — Monica Attard OAM, Walkley Award winning journalist and former ABC Russia correspondent
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Artists, Architects and Photographers Claude Cahun: A Sensual Politics of Photography ( 2008 )
by Gen Doy , Language: English
This is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves beyond standard postmodern approaches, instead repositioning the artist, born Lucy Schwob, in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived and seeing the photographs as part of Cahun's wider life as an artist and writer, a woman and lesbian and as a political activist in the early twentieth century.
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Americas History Lesson: A Race Odyssey ( 2008 )
by Mary R Lefkowitz , Language: English
Scarred veteran of campus conflict, Lefkowitz here recounts her arduous struggle during the 1990s to defend academic standards against politically potent mythologizers. The memoir focuses on Lefkowitz's challenge to two historical myths—one, that the ancient Greeks stole their philosophy from Egypt, and, two, that Jews masterminded the transatlantic slave trade—promulgated by Wellesley's African Studies program. Much to the author's dismay, her initial attack on the pedagogical malpractice implicit in these myths did not win her many academic allies.
Instead, Lefkowitz found herself abandoned by postmodern colleagues skeptical of all truth claims and by administrators supine in their interpretation of academic freedom. Tensions between Jewish and African American scholars—exacerbated by the very myths under debate—exposed the author to charges of racism and to virulent anti-Semitism. Though unjustly compelled to defend herself in court, Lefkowitz finally triumphed, not only vindicating her personal intellectual standards but also awakening within the academic community a renewed commitment to professional integrity. A clear-eyed look at the perils—and promise—of contemporary academic life.
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Biographies and Memoirs Dog Medicine: How My Dog Saved Me from Myself ( 2016 )
by Julie Barton , Language: English
An honest and deeply moving debut memoir about a young woman's battle with depression and how her dog saved her life"Dog Medicine simply has to be your next must-read." —Cheryl StrayedAt twenty-two, Julie Barton collapsed on her kitchen floor in Manhattan. She was one year out of college and severely depressed. Summoned by Julie's incoherent phone call, her mother raced from Ohio to New York and took her home.Haunted by troubling childhood memories, Julie continued to sink into suicidal depression.
Psychiatrists, therapists, and family tried to intervene, but nothing reached her until the day she decided to do one hopeful thing: adopt a Golden Retriever puppy she named Bunker. Dog Medicine captures the anguish of depression, the slow path to recovery, the beauty of forgiveness, and the astonishing ways animals can help heal even the most broken hearts and minds.
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Applied Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America ( 2000 )
by Gelya Frank , Language: English
This remarkable book – by turns moving, funny, and revelatory – records the relationship that developed between the women over the next twenty years. An empathic listener and participant in DeVries' life, and a scholar of the feminist and disability rights movements, Frank argues that Diane DeVries is a perfect example of an American woman coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Biographies and Memoirs The Art of the Steal: How to Protect Yourself and Your Business from Fraud, America's #1 Crime ( 2002 )
by Frank W Abagnale , Language: English
The world–famous former con artist and bestselling author of Catch Me if You Can now reveals the mind–boggling tricks of the scam trade–with advice that has made him one of America's most sought–after fraud–prevention experts. "I had as much knowledge as any man alive concerning the mechanics of forgery, check swindling, counterfeiting, and other similar crimes. Ever since I'd been released from prison, I'd often felt that if I directed this knowledge into the right channels, I could help people a great deal.
Every time I went to the store and wrote a check, I would see two or three mistakes made on the part of the clerk or cashier, mistakes that a flimflam artist would take advantage of. . . . In a certain sense, I'm still a con artist. I'm just putting down a positive con these days, as opposed to the negative con I used in the past. I've merely redirected the talents I've always possessed. I've applied the same relentless attention to working on stopping fraud that I once applied to perpetuating fraud." In Catch Me if You Can, Frank W. Abagnale recounted his youthful career as a master imposter and forger. In The Art of the Steal, Abagnale tells the remarkable story of how he parlayed his knowledge of cons and scams into a successful career as a consultant on preventing financial foul play–while showing you how to identify and outsmart perpetrators of fraud. Technology may have made it easier to track down criminals, but cyberspace has spawned a skyrocketing number of ways to commit crime–much of it untraceable. Businesses are estimated to lose an unprecedented $400 billion a year from fraud of one sort or another. If we were able to do away with fraud for just two years, we'd erase the national debt and pay Social Security for the next one hundred years. However, Abagnale has discovered that punishment for committing fraud, much less recovery of stolen funds, seldom happens: Once you're a victim, you won't get your money back. Prevention is the best form of protection. Drawn from his twenty-five years of experience as an ingenious con artist (whose check scams alone mounted to more than $2 million in stolen funds), Abagnale's The Art of the Steal provides eye-opening stories of true scams, with tips on how they can be prevented. Abagnale takes you deep inside the world and mind of the con artist, showing you just how he pulled off his scams and what you can do to avoid becoming the next victim. You'll hear the stories of notorious swindles, like the mustard squirter trick and the "rock in the box" ploy, and meet the criminals like the famous Vickers Gang who perpetrated them. You'll find out why crooks wash checks and iron credit cards and why a thief brings glue with him to the ATM. And finally, you'll learn how to recognize a bogus check or a counterfeit bill, and why you shouldn't write your grocery list on a deposit slip. A revealing look inside the predatory criminal mind from a former master of the con, The Art of the Steal is the ultimate defense against even the craftiest crook.
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Basic Sciences THE DNA DOCTOR: Candid Conversations with James D Watson ( 2007 )
by István Hargittai , Language: English
Three in-depth conversations with the Nobel laureate co-discoverer of the double helix and the first director of the Human Genome Project cover a wide range of topics, including progress in science; the scientist's role in modern life; women in science; scientific ethics; terrorism; religion; multiculturalism; and how genetics may improve human lives. Reflections by further illustrious contributors to the scientific revolution and the author's commentaries provide a glimpse into the thinking of scientists who largely determine the progress of humankind in our time.
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Atomic and Nuclear Physics Analogies in Physics and Life: A Scientific Autobiography – ( 2008 )
by Richard M Weiner , Language: English
Analogies play a fundamental role in science. To understand how and why, at a given moment, a certain analogy was used, one has to know the specific, historical circumstances under which the new idea was developed. This historical background is never presented in scientific articles and quite rarely in books.
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Biographies and Memoirs Immer wieder Dezember – (German)
by Susanne Schädlich , Language: German
"Ein Lehrbuch deutscher Nachkriegsgeschichte." Die Zeit Alles sollte anders werden, als Susanne Schädlich im Dezember 1977 die DDR verließ, da ihr Vater, der Schriftsteller Hans Joachim Schädlich, dort schon lange nicht mehr ungehindert publizieren konnte. Doch die neue Heimat war fremder als gedacht, und der lange Arm der Stasi verfolgte die Familie bis in den Westen. Dreißig Jahre später stößt Susanne Schädlich in den Akten auf eine schlimme Wahrheit und erkennt: Geschichte vergeht nicht, sie holt einen immer wieder ein.
Susanne Schädlich erzählt, wie es ist, in zwei Systemen groß zu werden und dennoch nicht dazuzugehören, von einer Generation zwischen Ost und West, die ihren Platz sucht. Und von der Erfahrung eines unglaublichen Verrats: war es doch der eigene Onkel, der im Auftrag der Stasi versuchte, ihre Familie zu zersetzen. Erweiterte Neuausgabe mit exklusivem Zusatzmetarial aus den Stasiakten.
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Arts and Literature The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son ( 2013 )
by Pat Conroy , Language: English
In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.Pat Conroy's father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son's life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, "I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for 'hate.'" As the oldest of seven children who were dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father's behavior took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg.
She was Pat's lifeline to a better world—that of books and culture. But eventually, despite repeated confrontations with his father, Pat managed to claw his way toward a life he could have only imagined as a child. Pat's great success as a writer has always been intimately linked with the exploration of his family history. While the publication of The Great Santini brought Pat much acclaim, the rift it caused with his father brought even more attention. Their long-simmering conflict burst into the open, fracturing an already battered family. But as Pat tenderly chronicles here, even the oldest of wounds can heal. In the final years of Don Conroy's life, he and his son reached a rapprochement of sorts. Quite unexpectedly, the Santini who had freely doled out physical abuse to his wife and children refocused his ire on those who had turned on Pat over the years. He defended his son's honor. The Death of Santini is at once a heart-wrenching account of personal and family struggle and a poignant lesson in how the ties of blood can both strangle and offer succor. It is an act of reckoning, an exorcism of demons, but one whose ultimate conclusion is that love can soften even the meanest of men, lending significance to one of the most-often quoted lines from Pat's bestselling novel The Prince of Tides: "In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness."
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Biographies and Memoirs Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin – 1st Edition ( 2015 )
by Janet Biehl , Language: English
Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century. The founder of the social ecology movement, Bookchin was presenting and publishing foundational ideas about issues like air and water pollution, nuclear radiation, and the dangers of fossil fuels. He was a genuinely original and prescient thinker who was grappling with problems that we still face today-and proposing solutions for them-before most people realized those problems existed.
In addition to his work in ecology, Bookchin was also a noted leftist, and he worked to create an authentic, indigenous American Left.
Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin is the first-ever biography of Murray Bookchin, written by his personal collaborator and copyeditor, Janet Biehl. From 1987-2006, Biehl edited every word that Bookchin wrote, and worked with him on numerous articles and books. She tells the story of Bookchin's life from a perspective that no one else could, providing a comprehensive biography that examines this pioneer environmentalist's life on both personal and professional levels. She uses her access to Bookchin's papers as well as extensive archival research, and draws upon nearly two decades' worth of a personal relationship with Bookchin. The book discusses the variety of philosophies and movements that Bookchin helped lead, including social ecology, assembly democracy, and | 3,998 |
10 questions for Miss Supranational Netherlands, Swelia Da Silva Antonio
10 questions for 20 jul 2021
The first Grand Slam pageant for 2021 will be Miss Supranational 2021. The finals will be in Nowy Sacz on august 21st at the Strzelecki Park Amphittheater. The 2021 edition was cancelled due to the Corona virus. Because of this virus, preparations are really hard for the international organization but so far the are doing a great job!
For the 12th time there will be a Miss Supranational crowned. For the Netherlands it will be the 10th(!) time they will be represented at this prestigious pageant.
It is Swelia Da Silva Antonio who wears the Miss Supranational crown. She was crowned at the 12 Months of Beauty online<|fim_middle|>ranational 2021. This Supra season I'm doing all that I can to convey a message of togetherness, and in the end this is all I want you to remember: be good, practice love and seek to progress every day in order to bridge the gap of social inequality in society. Together we can. All the best, yours sincerely – Miss Supranational Netherlands 20/21.
Thank you so much Swelia for your time and your great answers! We want to wish you al the best of luck in august during the international finals of its Supranational.
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Since then Swelia is preparing together with the time of 12 Months of Beauty for the international finals in the most professional way one can prepare.
Already noticed by many pageant watchers as one to watch and therefore we are even more proud to be able to give you the 10 answers, Swelia answered to our 10 questions.
Who is Swelia Da Silva Antonio?
I'm a 24-year-old living in The Hague – the Netherlands. Dutch and Angolan in identity, as I'm a first generation migrant who moved from Angola at the age of two together with my family. Overall I'm a studious person and right now I'm finishing a premaster in public administration, after which I will pursue a Master's degree in governance of migration and diversity. This also indicates my ambitious character as I'm always looking for the next challenge. Aside from this, I'm an optimistic person who enjoys the company of her loved ones. I'm socially inclined in the sense that I have an intrinsic will to help people and society as a whole. That said, I'm proud to take on the role of Ambassador for Education at an organization called Black Ladies Talk and to be part of team 12 Months of Beauty as Miss Supranational 20/21.
You were crowned in an online pageant as Miss Supranational Netherlands during the Covid 19 pandemic with challenges. What was the most memorable challenge for you?
For me, the most memorable challenge was the styling challenge whereby the participants showed their sense of style and finished with a final look. I had put effort to show my personality and the work I do reflected in my outfits. For the final look, I aimed at presenting myself as a true contender for the crown. Guess what – it worked, I won the challenge and later in the competition the crown I dreamed of!
What did you learn about yourself from it?
The styling challenge in particular triggered my perfectionism, because I needed learn on the spot how to trust the creative process in the production of a look, photos, videos etc. It helped me to train this need to perfect my work and it taught me to be less controlling over situations. The biggest take away was to be grateful for what I can do and deliver, instead of being upset about what I could have done.
Social media play a big role in modern day pageantry. How do you use social media in your preparations for Miss Supranational to promote yourself and the pageant?
I started participating in beauty pageants because of my aspiration to contribute to society. I try my very best to share my message of unity and empowerment to overcome challenges posed by intersectionality. In this, I believe it's imperative to present myself as a representative of people and a spokesperson to address this social issue. Aside from this, I bring in entertainment value to my followers with my personality, a lot of interaction and showcasing appealing visuals. It's a combination of for example photos, short clips, accompanying texts etc.
Beauty pageants are still considered old fashioned and outdated. What does a modern beauty pageant looks like in your eyes?
I truly believe that perception plays a part in a person's view towards things. For me, beauty pageants are a party in the global network of civil society due to their vast reach. It has shifted towards a social platform whereby the delegates have the opportunity to express their stance on certain issues, as well as to bring about change to situations. Beauty pageants encourage and enable women of all fields and backgrounds to take up space, weather it be on- or offline. In this, it hasn't lost the entertainment value and glamorous aspects which make the world of pageantry appealing to extravaganza.
You created your own platform in the online pageant of 12 Months of Beauty. What can you tell us about it, and why do you think your platform can make a difference?
Through my platform I'm able to address issues having to do with intersectionality in education, social (in)justice and human rights. What differentiates my platform is that it contributes to the betterment of our global society by taking on projects in the aforementioned high impact areas. This is done combining the openness and approachability of beauty pageants with the more serious work of actual changemaking. As an expert by experience and the possession of erudite knowledge, I believe that with me on the task, positive change is bound to happen.
What's the biggest misconception people have about you, and how do you deal with that?
Very often I'm underrated, which leads people to disbelieve I could do great things in life. From my perspective this doesn't necessarily have to do with me. I say this, because I've proven wrong many times but it continues to happen. A plausible reason is that rooted in intersectionality and subsequently not seeing examples of good practice of the similar kind. Being the first certain functions means that I mostly have to figure things out myself, but I rely on professionals who have become my mentors, people I consider highly and my intuition. All that I do, I try to move from a place of love.
What does supranational mean to you?
The concept of supranationalism means sovereign entities voluntarily transfer authority to an overarching organisation to bring all single entities together in unity. Translated to the context of the Miss Supranational beauty pageant, I regard supranational as the first person among equals. The one who represents, leads and vouches for the assembly of all the single entities in the interest of the group. It's a way to bring togetherness by bridging the gap between our personal wants and advancing the group in its totality.
What are you going to tell the other contestants of Miss Supranational about the Netherlands, something you are really proud of?
In the Netherlands we have over 180 different nationalities spread over a population of 17 million who live in relative peace. It's a country that is known to be tolerant and is progressing to be also accepting. I believe it's a great exemplar to other nations and I'm most proud to further push this reputation with my aspiration to break with intersectionality in education. Also, we have one of the best diary products in the world; the cheese is world class believe me!
What would you tell young people about participating in a beauty pageant?
Youngsters, beauty pageants are a unique way to develop oneself. The lessons I learned, opportunities I got and people I got to know, I wouldn't trade for anything in this life. If you're looking for a challenge that will bring you many advantages, you should seriously consider beauty pageants. It won't be easy, yet absolutely worth it.
If you have a message for all your fans around the world, what would that be?
A tremendous thank you for your interest in me and my journey towards the Blue Crown of Miss Sup | 1,409 |
Yerba Mate (pronounced YUR-ba MAH-tay) is a small tree related to the holly plant, native to the subtropical highlands of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina where it is considered the national beverage. The light green leaves of this organic tea from South America yield an earthy, vegetative brew with a distinct herbal quality that can almost be characterized as minty. The leaves of this mate are dried by blowing hot air over them<|fim_middle|> is harvested with machinery, in autumn and winter it is harvested by hand.
"I always take mate when traveling and love sharing with others. The silicone yerba mate gourds we sell are indestructible and it's often easier than making coffee!"
"This was so interesting to drink! I knew it didn't have normal caffeine, but I certainly did feel that "zing" after one cup. It wasn't a caffeine buzz, but something equally invigorating without the hyper-ness you can sometimes feel after a cup of joe."
"Unlike many herbs, yerba mate can be infused in either hot or cold water."
"Yerba mate is a nice alternative for someone looking to substitute green tea with another caffeinated beverage"
Yerba Mate is traditionally considered to be "the drink of the gods" by South American people. Yerba mate contains matteine, which is similar to caffeine, but is described as creating a slightly different caffeine "buzz" when consumed. It contains antioxidants, and one study found yerba mate to contain acids that are potentially beneficial in fighting cancer cells and other inflammatory diseases. Yerba mate also contains several bioactive compounds including vitamin C, B1 and B2, polyphenols, amino acids and minerals.
For more information about the health benefits of Yerba Mate and other types of herbs, and for direct sources of the above information, check out our Health Benefits of Herbal Tea page!
Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguariensis) is a small tree native to the subtropical highlands of Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. In much of South America, leaves of this plant are infused in water in a dried calabaza gourd and sipped through a filtered straw, called a "bombilla." This healthful brew is considered "the drink of the gods" by many indigenous peoples in South America, and is a staple in the diets of many South American cattlemen, or "gauchos," being a food product that can stand up to the rigors of life on the range. So prevalent is the consumption of yerba mate in South America, that mate bars are as widespread as coffee shops in the US. Traditionally, mate is often shared among close friends and family. The gourd and bombilla are passed around and around, refilling from time to time, in an act celebrating companionship. | instead of the more traditional method of drying over burning wood. This new "smokeless" or "unsmoked" technique enhances the vegetal quality and lends a very light smoky flavor to the brew.
Please note: yerba mate contains a natural compound similar to caffeine (called matteine) and is legendary for helping to alleviate fatigue and stress and promoting mental clarity, but it should not be consumed by individuals wanting to avoid caffeine.
Misiones is one of 23 provinces in Argentina, located in the northeastern corner on the Misiones plateau, situated next to southern Brazil. The iron-rich soil is reddish in color (similar to soil in Yunnan, China) and promotes excellent Yerba mate production. The province draws water from three big rivers including the Paraná, Uruguay and Iguazú. The spectacular waterfalls of the Iguazú River are world famous. Our yerba mate is grown on a family farm established in 1984 in San Ignacio that prides itself on its green farming practices including replanting native trees in the area. In spring and summer the mate | 230 |
The rooms are in ground floor level and in the 2 floors. The building's ground floor hosts the reception, the restaurant and bar. There is also a unique resting & quiet area, where a magnificent fountain dominates. On the ground floor there are<|fim_middle|> with disabilities. There is a place to host pets. (Pets are not allowed into the hotel). The hotel also offers free transfer to the beach by their van, free of charge. The sunbeds and umbrellas on the beach are on extra charge. There is a comfortable parking area in the hotel's adjacent area, with two spaces for people with disabilities and 1,000m for buses nearby.
Distance to Airport Makedonia Apt (85 KM) Beach (120 Meters) Town center Katerini (6 KM) Hotel checkin from: 14:00 Hotel check .. | situated 10 comfortable suites with the private pools, two of those are deluxe. On the first and second floor there are specially designed rooms for families & standard double rooms. All rooms offer balcony, A/C, satellite TV, telephone, Wi-fi internet, fridge, safe box and hairdryer. There are two rooms in the ground floor for the people | 72 |
Evaluating the impact of health system strengthening on HIV and sexual risk behaviors in Nigeria
George I. Eluwa, Population Council
Sylvia Adebajo, Population Council
Omokhudu Idogho
Oluwole Fajemisin
Jennifer Anyanti
Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi
Background: We evaluated the impact of health system strengthening (HSS) on HIV prevalence and sexual risk behaviors in Nigeria. Design: Impact of HSS was evaluated in a cross-sectional analysis using 2 rounds of HIV biobehavioral surveys. Logistic regression<|fim_middle|> sexual risk behaviors. There seems to be progress in mitigating the burden of HIV by the reduction of HIV-related risk behaviors through HSS. Thus, HSS intervention needs to be sustained and replicated to achieve a wider impact and coverage.
Eluwa, George I., Sylvia Adebajo, Omokhudu Idogho, Oluwole Fajemisin, Jennifer Anyanti, and Babatunde A. O. Ahonsi. 2015. "Evaluating the impact of health system strengthening on HIV and sexual risk behaviors in Nigeria," Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 70(1): 67–74.
10.1097/QAI.0000000000000701 | was used to assess the impact of the HSS program on HIV and risk behaviors. Setting: Study was conducted between 2007 and 2012 in 16 states in Nigeria. Subjects: Using a multistage selection criterion for households, a total of 4856 and 11,712 respondents were surveyed in 2007 and 2012, respectively. Intervention: HSS for state agencies for the control of AIDS was conducted in 7 states. Results: Overall change in HIV prevalence between 2007 and 2012 was 6·3% vs. 5·3% (P = 0·113) and 3·0% vs. 5·1% (P < 0·001) in the HSS and non-HSS states, respectively. When controlled for age, gender, HSS intervention, location (rural vs. urban), and year (2007 vs. 2012), respondents in the HSS states were less likely to have acquired HIV (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 0.78; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.63 to 0.96), more likely to have comprehensive HIV knowledge (AOR: 1.28; 95% CI: 1.06 to 1.54), and to use a condom consistently in the past 3 months with boy/girlfriends (AOR: 1.35; 95% CI: 1.03 to 1.79). Conclusions: HIV prevalence decreased in HSS states between 2007 and 2012. Respondents in HSS states were more likely to have lower HIV prevalence and reduced | 385 |
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311 ~ The Tabernacle ~ Atlanta, GA ~ 7/24-25/2014
Review by Cliff Lummus, Photos by Lucas Armstrong
There are three constants in an ever-changing world that the people of Atlanta can look forward to every summer: sunny skies, Braves baseball, and 311.
Rolling in fresh off a set at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 311 changed things up for their Atlanta fans quite a bit for their summer tour.
Over 90 percent of 311's Atlanta concerts in the past decade have been at Aaron's Amphitheater at Lakewood. For the 2014 tour, 311 dropped the humid, summer sundown setting of a 19,000 occupancy, sprawling, generic venue sellout for two packed-house back-to-back nights on Thursday and Friday at The Tabernacle, one of Atlanta's most intimate and distinctive concert venues. With a scant capacity of 2,600, tickets for either show were a hot commodity, with the Friday date selling out several weeks in advance and Thursday following quickly.
The lucky 311 faithful that were able to snag tickets for<|fim_middle|> a surprise private Lady Gaga concert next door at Centennial Olympic Park.
Once parked and out of the madness, fans were rewarded with a much breezier, less-humid wait outside. The line formed denser and even quicker than Thursday, with a thick rope of fans anxious to see what night two held in store.
On stage at 9:00 on the dot, the band wasted no time hitting hard with the amped-up opener "Don't Stay Home," which had the floor heaving and balconies bouncing from minute one. From the outset, this was not the energy level expected of a 20-plus-year-old band on their fourth consecutive night of performing. The pace was quick, firing from one song straight into another throughout the night.
Whereas Thursday had many more flowing, mellow songs ("Amber," "Love Song," etc.), Friday reached back to much of the earlier hard-rocking 311 that swelled the live audiences of the '90s. A third of the 24-song Friday show set were lifted straight from Music, Grassroots and 311 (aka the blue album).
For the fans that showed up for their first chance to hear the new releases live, 311 didn't disappoint. Seven of the 22-song Thursday playlist came from Stereolithic, the band's most recent offering that was released on 311 Day (March 11th). Combined with the Friday set, the band played the 15-song album in its entirety.
Speaking of the Friday combination, fans that were lucky enough to get passes for both nights were not short-changed. The shows each night were neither abbreviated nor repeated. In fact, the only song replayed on both nights was "Applied Science," setting up the drum solos, with Chad Sexton using the opening of the Friday solo to cue an impromptu Braves tomahawk chant. The Thursday and Friday night shows combined for 45 different songs spanning every 311 album before the crowd finally let the band off stage. It was four hours of music not to have been missed.
The Summer tour picks back up on Sunday at the Soul Kitchen Music Hall in Mobile, Alabama before heading west to close out July with three straight performances in Texas.
Loved it as usual, both nights! 311 can't live without 🙂
Sydnie Mayers on August 1, 2014 at 8:01 am Reply
Great work on the writing & photos! Thanks. The Tab looks amazing by the way.
g pain on August 1, 2014 at 9:57 am Reply | either date got the chance to swap their usual mile-away lawn space for the up-close-and-personal experience that is The Tabernacle.
On Thursday, a healthy line of fans formed early in the front of the red brick converted church, clamoring for both a spot at the front of the line and any place out of the mid-afternoon sun.
By early evening, the crowd had swelled around the corner of Luckie Street and around the block. Despite the heat, the crowd was upbeat and passed the time swapping stories of past shows and wish lists for the night's setlist. Once inside the three-level, stack-balconied building, the floor and upper balcony were quick to fill.
The only thing more varied than 311's set lists are their opening acts. Past artists to share the stage in Atlanta run the gamut of hip-hop, rock, and reggae including The Offspring, The Wailers, Snoop Dogg, English Beat, and G Love & Special Sauce. For the 2014 tour, 311 added a new category by having DJ Soulman warm up the crowd with a fun mix of custom beats over new and classic tunes crossing several genres. More than the stereotypical "press play and then try to look busy", DJ Soulman also served as emcee for the night, keeping the crowd fired up before 311 took the stage.
With nowhere for the sound to go, the enthusiastic crowd erupted as 311 came on. The Thursday show was live-streamed for free on Yahoo Screen, and for the larger mass audience, 311 pulled out a peppered mix of several of their better-known hits ("Beautiful Disaster" as the opener, "Do You Right," "Amber," "All Mixed Up" and "Love Song") before closing out with as pitch-perfect and hard-rocking a version of "Down" as the band has played in years as an encore.
Though the venue changed up for this tour, there were plenty of familiar sights for 311 fans including the always-impressive Chad Sexton drum solo and the all-band standing drum performance woven seamlessly into "Applied Science." There were also new gems worked in, most notably the smooth, near-virtuosic bass solo by fan-favorite P-Nut on his lit-neck five-string.
Friday night, fans had to fight a little harder for their right to party on the way to the show. Downtown Atlanta around the Tabernacle was a sea of activity. In addition to the usual torture that is Atlanta Friday rush-hour traffic, incoming 311 fans had to contend with dueling Israel/Palestine rallies on Marietta Street and | 552 |
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Because ATFP is a policy, educational and advocacy group, much of its most important work is done discreetly and behind-the-scenes. Typically, when we have had an impact on policy making or framing, we cannot make any such accomplishments public. To do so would be the surest means to limiting future access and influence. This work involves low-key, high-impact engagement with officials, other experts, leading journalists and others who make and shape American policy. However, the cumulative impact of these necessarily discrete labors can be clearly seen in the attendance of a virtual "Who's Who" of the Washington policy community and diplomatic corps involved in matters related to Palestine at our annual galas, the caliber of our keynote speakers, the extraordinarily distinguished honorary host committees for the galas, and the testimonials listed elsewhere in this set of answers to FAQs.
A large part of ATFP's work involves public activity. The organization hosts and cohosts numerous significant events in Washington, and its staff participates as speakers in the highest level international forums, academic institutions, think tank and research organizations, and other conferences, seminars and public events. ATFP staff are also heavily engaged with the media, frequently writing commentaries and longer essays for major publications, and serving as a source for major journalists. Indeed, ATFP has moved beyond simply serving as a source for information and opinions into a position in which it frequently helps shape the core conceptualizations of major articles before they are written. ATFP staff are also frequent guests on major American, Arab and international broadcast programs and engage in robust public advocacy and debate in multiple media and various forums.
Another core aspect of ATFP's advocacy for Palestine is its coalition-building efforts. ATFP strongly believes that a major national, and indeed international, constituency for peace based on the creation of a Palestinian state will be required to achieve this essential goal. Therefore ATFP is consistently attempting to reach out to the widest range of potential constituent organizations and individuals to try to build such a coalition and working partnerships. The Task Force not only seeks to build relationships with other advocacy groups, think tanks and academic institutions, but also with Arab-American, Muslim, Christian, peace-activist and, crucially, a wide spectrum of Jewish-American organizations. ATFP believes that all those who support the realization of a two-state solution should put all other or past differences aside and work together to achieve this essential goal. Reaching out to the broadest possible range of potential allies in the quest for peace is a key aspect of how ATFP pursues its mission.
ATFP has also sought to pursue this by building strong working relations with other governments and officials outside of the United States, in particular in the Palestinian leadership, the rest of the Arab world, Israel and Europe. This process is also involved building ties to former, and potentially future, officials and those who helped shape the policy conversation and framing process in those societies.
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Just this past week I was reading a newsletter from another congregation and noticed the sermon title was something like "Why It Matters to Our Church for<|fim_middle|> is not that we totally ignore all the conclusions and answers ever arrived at and written down, it is simply that answers from the past are not the final arbiter of truth among us.
This is what we mean by Freedom of Conscience. Each person's way of accessing that which is holy is as unique as a fingerprint. There is not a "right way" to do it. Instead, each person has her or his way to do it. This commitment to the individual freedom of conscience was present in Channing and Murray as well as Ballou, Emerson and Parker, and me and you. This commitment to the individual freedom of conscience is present as a thread since our beginning, at our foundation. And this commitment to the individual freedom of conscience is balanced by a commitment to being in a community together. We are a community of individual seekers, covenanted to walk together. We are a community of opinionated, authority-averse, do-it-yourself-ers – yes! But we are walking together.
As we vote and prioritize the various goals for improving our space, we want a bigger room here and a second room of this type there, it is important to keep in mind the purpose of our work, the foundation upon which we build. Remembering this will clarify what we choose to do. Without the clarity we will surely try to fit everything in that seems like a good idea. Without clarity we will surely try to make as many rooms as possible into multi-purpose rooms just in case. And there is nothing inherently wrong with multi-purpose space. But if we dabble in forty different things, we might miss the opportunity to be good at any of them. If we over focus on multi-purpose, we might lose sight of the main purpose.
Whose house is this? It is our house, together; and for all those who would join us in the search for what is good and true in life. It is our laboratory and gallery, our respite and sanctuary, "the cradle for our dreams and the workshop of our common endeavor." This congregation exists to help people deepen and connect through worship, study, service, and fellowship. May we challenge each suggested change to fit with our main purpose. May the changes we plan to make, strengthen our ability to fulfill that purpose. | the Pittsburgh Steelers to Win." The blurb under it said, "This title was given to us by the winner of our annual service auction who paid a significant amount of money for the honor of titling the sermon. So, yes, in a manner of speaking, we are for sale." Our UUCB Serendipity Auction is coming up next weekend, Saturday May 6th. I hope you have tickets; it promises to be a wonderful event. I will be offering a sermon topic again this coming year. Notice I am not simply offering the sermon title for you to bid on, but the opportunity to develop with me the topic for the sermon.
And so this morning, you receive the fruits of the conversation I had with last year's highest bidder, Jeff Legget, who paid good money to select the topic and even suggested the title for us, "Whose House Is It, Anyway?" Jeff's premise, (which is not far from Rick Warren's premise from this morning's reading,) is that thoughtful reflection on our foundation will lead to clarity as we consider current congregational matters. As Warren states in his book, "A clear purpose not only defines what we do, it defines what we don't do." (p87) It offers clarity.
I don't think it is a coincidence that Jeff Legget chose the image of a house as a metaphor to talk about our foundational purpose. He didn't suggest the title "What is the foundation of our church?" or "How do we address our desire to do it all, which puts us at cross-purposes?" either of which would have separated the concept he was reaching for. As someone who is relatively new to Unitarian Universalism and one of the key people involved with the Aesthetics committee, Jeff is watching to see how we sort through the decisions to change, improve, and make additions our space. It often appears at first impression for many people that a Unitarian Universalist congregation is a group of individuals without a common defining center. The unifying pieces are not obvious to most newcomers, and I sometimes suspect they are not so obvious to longer-time members as well. Jeff is watching to see how this diverse cluster of individuals comes together for the good of the community. He has some ideas about how it could work, but wants to see how we make the decisions, how we deal with our passion, how we engage the process, how we wrestle with the various priorities.
So, as we consider specific changes to our building and grounds, we could stand to keep fresh the basic reason or reasons why we have this space at all. As we consider what steps to take next into our future, we could stand to look back and see again the trajectory along which we have been traveling. As we consider these ideas for improving our house, we could stand to take a moment and ask, 'Whose house is this?' And in so considering we could find the clarity needed to move forward.
I had to redo my bathroom floor last year. The tiles on the floor when I moved in were the large ceramic kind that usually go on walls. Indeed, our thought is they were wall tiles, not designed to bare weight like a floor tile would. So they cracked. Several tiles, particularly those around the tub had cracks throughout. Well, tearing them out was fun, but then I saw that along tub under those tiles the floor was wet. So I had to tear that layer up too and go back to the store to learn about what material is needed for each layer of floor. Thankfully the wet and rot did not reach all the way down to the last level. The base sub-floor was still a solid foundation. So I then lay down new floorboard, leveling mix, waterproofing skin, and finally linoleum tiles. I thought it would take me a weekend when I started. It took a weekend just to tear out the wet and ruined flooring! It was almost a month before I was finished and we could use the bathroom again. And even then I had to go back and scrap up my first attempt at caulking along the tub and toilet so I could re-caulk.
Home improvement projects have a way of taking over a life. Now, I hope you are not surprised by the fact while I was on my hands and knees in the bathroom I noticed this would make a good metaphor for the congregation at some point. Noticing some cracks in the surface, rooting down and discovering the problem is deeper than originally conceived, digging all the way down to the solid foundation, slowly building back up step by careful step. Returning a short time later to check-up and adjust. I wasn't sure if it would be a metaphor for personal relationships or for church life, and it turns out to be the latter.
The cracks on our surface in this analogy would be whatever has motivated us to consider changing things. Perhaps they are not 'cracks' in the negative sense of the word as though some problems have come up. Instead I would say what has motivated us to consider changing things is the Long Range Planning process coupled with the fresh paint on the walls. It has gotten us started, sparked our interest to discover what we want and what we can do. Now, it feels too close to be using a building analogy to describe the process of making changes to the building, but that's what I'm doing.
So then, what is our foundation? Certainly it is there in the stories of our history. History is important. Where we have been, who we have been defines who we now are and in many ways determines who we can become. Who we used to be will never change; it will never not be who we have been. So it is good to be well aware of that, it is good to re-examine our foundation from time to time while in the midst of new growth. I see the value in what Jeff is asking, but it is a challenge.
Trouble is – we don't have an easily definable foundation to examine. We don't have an eightfold path or transcripts from the revelatory dreams of the prophet. We don't have One person or One book or One belief that we recognize at our foundation. Iconoclasm and rebellion from the past is a common theme in our histories.
William Ellery Channing, the recognized founder of Unitarianism in America, spoke out against central doctrines of Christianity: the doctrines of the trinity, the divinity of Jesus, and human nature. He said that God was one, not three-in-one. He strongly and rationally contended that Jesus was human, human only, and in no way a part of the godhead. He fiercely challenged the belief that humans are basically depraved, flawed creatures; insisting instead that we are basically good. He based his rebellion on his reasoned study of scripture and the proof evident through the miracles. Within a generation Ralph Waldo Emerson and Theodore Parker had brought sweeping reforms that altered the understanding of the miracles and of the bible as a proof-text, thus removing them from the central place they had held at the foundation of the Unitarianism.
Similarly, in Universalism John Murray's radical concepts of God's love lead him to speak out against the popular Christian doctrine of eternal damnation. Murray's message of universal salvation was in direct contrast with the popular preaching of the day. Within a generation Hosea Ballou (whose birthday is also April 30th,) offered a dramatic corrective to Murray's message that now seems like a nuance to us. Murray's message focused on doing away with the "eternal" aspect of eternal damnation yet still allowed that there would need to be, for cleansing purposes, limited punishment. Ballou's message focused on both the "eternal" part and the "damnation" part insisting that there would be no punishment in the afterlife, limited or otherwise. The implications of such a belief cut to the heart of Christianity because if all are automatically saved by God's love, what was the purpose of Jesus' death? Was Jesus even necessary beyond as an example? And are we to expect people to be good for nothing, now that the afterlife contained no element of punishment as a motivation?
It almost seems that to be Unitarian Universalist is to rebel against the core elements of the foundation! What are the basic fundamentals of Unitarian Universalism? To Shake the foundations? To rebel against the foundations! But of course, that is not it. The ground we stand on is the ground of truth; any rebellion in which we participate is done in the name of truth. The foundation of our tradition is the search for truth and meaning. In earlier days it was called the freedom of conscience. In biblical times, it was the smashing of false idols.
The religious conscience is the inner knowing that we all have. It is similar to intuition. A commitment to the freedom of conscience is a commitment to allow each person to articulate for themselves what is ultimately true and meaningful. This does not mean it is just a theological free for all. We do not believe in whatever we want, we believe as we must. We believe as our conscience demands. It | 1,854 |
Rarity, fragmentation, and the scale dependence of extinction risk in desert fishes
W.F. Fagan, C. Aumann, C.M. Kennedy, P.J. Unmack
Attributes of a species' spatial distribution, such as the number of occurrences and the spatial distribution of those occurrences, can affect extinction risk. Extinction risk, however, is scale dependent, and it is unclear how scale dependency affects linkages between species' distributions and extinction risk. Here, we evaluate the relationships between number of occurrences, distributional fragmentation, and extinction risk for a diverse assemblage of desert fishes across multiple spatial scales. We used the SONFISHES biodiversity database, which details occurrence patterns of 25 native fishes to contrast the species' historical distributions with their much‐reduced modern distributions. Defining occurrences (and losses to extinction) at each of five scales (5, 25, 100, 500, and 2500 km of stream reach), we found that range fragmentation was a stronger predictor of extinction risk than the number of occurrences for all scales of analysis. Furthermore, we detected scale dependence in the strength of the predictive relationship between fragmentation and extinction, with loss of occurrences at intermediate scales (∼100 km of stream reach) being most closely tied to range fragmentation. Importantly, our results proved insensitive to our definition of the historical and modern periods. These findings highlight the value of multiscale analyses to investigations of extinction in species assemblages.
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Fagan, W. F., Aumann, C., Kennedy, C. M., & Unmack, P. J. (2005). Rarity, fragmentation, and the scale dependence of extinction risk in desert fishes. Ecology, 86(1), 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1890/04-0491
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An independent consultant will investigate why Lake County election judges were unable to properly transmit voting results electronically after polls closed Tuesday, officials said.
The county clerk's office successfully relied on a backup plan to get votes from 161 polling places to the county government center in Waukegan, but results were tabulated and posted on the clerk's Web site hours later than usual.
That caused some late-night consternation for politicians awaiting results in their races and quite a bit of frustration and disappointment for Clerk Willard Helander.
On Wednesday, Helander praised the county's 2,300 election judges for properly following their training and ensuring votes were counted by 11 p.m. Election Day. But she also demanded answers to a problem that made her office the subject of media reports.
"You have to have explanations," Helander said. "You have to rule things out."
Neither Helander nor Lake County Administrator Barry Burton could pinpoint the cause of the malfunction that kept vote-tabulation machines at polling places across the county Tuesday night from connecting to the county<|fim_middle|> Issues
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They usually do so through telephone lines at the polling places.
Workers at some of the county's transfer stations 13 centers that collect voting equipment, ballots and other materials from polling places couldn't connect to the county headquarters, either, Helander said.
The problem was discovered shortly after 6 p.m., nearly an hour before polls closed, Helander said.
When they're trained, election judges are instructed to drive the vote-tabulation machines from a polling place to the nearest transfer station if they can't connect to the county building, Helander said. Although some called to report the problem, that's what most of the judges did automatically Tuesday night, Helander said.
"That's why we (had final results) before midnight," Helander said. "They all did a good job."
At the transfer stations, the voting data was transferred from the tabulators to laptop computers. Those laptops one at each station were taken to the county building, where the votes were uploaded into the county computers, Helander said.
Once there, the results were quickly broadcast on the county's LCTV cable station and its Web site. Until it was publicized, the data in the tabulators and the laptop computers was secure and secret, Burton and Helander insisted.
Even though the results were broadcast later than initially planned, Helander was pleased the county's count was completed earlier than many others in the area, including Cook County, McHenry and Chicago.
Now, officials want to determine what happened. Although a firm hasn't been hired yet, Burton hopes an information-technology consultant will start investigating the problem this week.
"We have to make sure we get crystal clear answers," Helander said.
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We Braved It All
By Peerzada Ashiq, *Kashmir first Rock band has Sufi poetry on Blues* - Hindustan Times - Srinagar, India; Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Kashmir first Rock band has Sufi poetry on Blues
Born and brought up in difficult and violent years of the past two<|fim_middle|>
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Reborn in Translation | decades, four boys have come together in Kashmir for first Rock band to sing philosophical Sufi poetry and hum people's day to day sufferings.
Named 'Dying Breed', the valley-based band had people on toes on Sunday evening at Srinagar's Sangarmaal shopping complex. The band sung from famous poetic verses of Sheikh-ul- Aalam on Blues with on-stage improvisation.
"It was not easy to form a band in place like Kashmir. From social to economic pressures, we braved it all," said 23-year-old guitarist Muiz.
Though the final shape of the band took place in the middle of 2011, it was during schooldays of 2005-2006 that three friends Muiz, Zohaib and Maajid would hum and jig secretly in their rooms and dreamt of making it big in music.
"I used to play guitar and sing psychedelic music all day long in my room. My parents sent me to an engineering college outside the state," said Muiz.
The three friends, however, met again in Srinagar after pursuing different courses for three years only to come up with the valley's first Rock compact disc album with four songs, which was released on Sunday evening. John Khankashi, a drummer, joined the trio last year to complete the band to produce new music.
'Dying Breed' is passionate about Psychedelic, Blues and Rock. "The band believes in experimentation which may or may not fall into a specific genre," said Maajid.
Influenced by bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane and Nirvana, Maajid -the lead vocalist- said he wants to sing about everyday life of the valley.
"Our music will have nature and love in it. From traffic jams to day to day issues to Sufi poetry, we will sing for people's hearts," said Maajid.
The band is aiming at connecting youth with their roots. "This kind of Sufi music will help new generation to identify with the past and its literature," said Kashmir's known playwright Aarshad Mushtaq, who is among rare supporters to the initiative.
All early twenties, the band members are deeply influenced by verses of spirituality-driven poetry of Wahab Khar, Sheikh-ul-Alam and Lal Ded.
Maajid said he will not run away from here just because there is bedlam or the opportunities are fewer. "We may not have had a political stance but we were always clear that our first album will come out from here. We have done our work. Now, we are waiting," said Maajid.
The band has decided not to preach any ideology. "We are not missionaries. We want to feel normal. We should not be expected to be a political band because we are from Kashmir," they said.
[Picture: Map of Kashmir showing disputed territory. Photo: Wiki.]
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CHICAGO – The North<|fim_middle|> even stronger business partners. This new relationship is a win-win for the members of both associations," commented Kevin Gammonley, NBMDA executive vice president.
Future aspects of the developing partnership will focus on exposing NBMDA members to trends impacting the fabricator community and educating fabricators on the expanding value proposition associated with strong distributor partners. | American Building Material Distribution Association (NBMDA) and the International Surface Fabricators Association (ISFA) have formed a partnership designed to enhance communication and collaboration between the two industry trade associations. Its objective is to improve training opportunities available to surface fabricators by leveraging the local relationships and logistics of their distributor suppliers.
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The charming Old City's colorful markets, beautiful elephants and golden temples set against mystic mountains and rivers make Chiang Mai unforgettable.
Vast and verdant mountains, vibrant hill tribes and old-world charm set the scenery for Chiang Mai. Once the capital of Lanna Kingdom, this Thai city remains one of the most beloved destinations of the country.
Each neighborhood of Chiang Mai has its own distinct personality<|fim_middle|> Old City, colorful markets, beautiful elephants and golden temples set against mystic mountains and rivers make this destination unforgettable. Memories of Chiang Mai will remain with me and my family forever. | . No two are alike, yet they harmoniously sit side by side – with adventures waiting to unfold.
We arrived at Chiang Mai and checked into Le Meridien hotel, where we were welcomed by a sumptuous Thai dinner. We slept soundly that night but the city was wide awake. The hotel was on Changklan road, right at the heart of the old city of Chiang Mai.
We were a stone's throw away from Tha Pae Gate and Warorot Market. Downtown Chiang Mai is a place of bustling streets, shop houses, cafés and massage shops. Here, old meets new. Millions of residents and visitors come and go yet Chiang Mai remains as it has been for decades. The heart of Chiang Mai continues to beat, flow and flourish.
Fringing the Old City is the Night Bazaar, where one can find anything from elephant pants to woven bags and shurikens. Merchant stalls stretch as far as the eye can see, winding through the streets like streams. Shopping here was a different type of adventure — scouring through stores to find the perfect piece, then haggling down the prices.
A stark contrast with the busy streets of the Night Market is the peaceful Riverside. Despite being the largest city in Northern Thailand, Chiang Mai's riverside has retained a laid-back feel. Instead of five star hotels, the banks are lined with affordable eateries and live music bars frequented by tourists and locals alike.
Here, you can get to know the city by walking along the banks of Mae Ping where you will see fishermen, street food vendors and the colorful fruit and textiles of the Warorot market.
I woke up the next morning and opened my window to perfect weather, much cooler than the rest of Thailand, and sweeping views of Doi Suthep mountain. We were thrilled to find our very own local transportation waiting for us – open air jeepneys that would take us to the top of the mountain.
It was a very relaxing ride and I quietly wished that the weather in Manila could be this cool. We explored the Hmong Hilltribe Village where we got lost in colorful shops filled with beautiful handicrafts like bags, hats and pants. The wild colors and patterns on all these products were a perfect reflection of the vibrant, happy culture they had up here.
Entrance to Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Temple.
We then visited Wat Phra That Doi Suthep temple, one of the most holy Buddhist sites in Thailand. It was breathtaking, a masterpiece of gilded gold set against a fantastic natural backdrop. The temple was built on Doi Suthep, a regal mountain that towers over the city. For this reason, many consider the best view of Chiang Mai to be from the temple.
Doi Suthep and the neighboring peaks Doi Pui and Doi Buakha, and the surrounding forests make up one of Thailand's National Parks. The mountains are cloaked in thick forestry, with majestic waterfalls and diverse wildlife hidden throughout like secret treasures.
Following our high altitude adventure, we visited MaeTaeng Elephant Park where we got up close to beautiful elephants. We were traveling with two adventurous toddlers, Pablo and Annika, who were looking forward to seeing the elephants more than anything else on the trip. It was such a treat for them to feed, hug and watch the incredible Asian elephants.
The golden stupa of Wat Phra That Doi Suthep Temple.
The MaeTang Elephant Park also hosts a free elephant clinic that treats sick and wounded elephants in the area. Before the park was opened in 1996, an elephant would have to board a truck for a three-hour journey to the Government Elephant hospital in Lampang. This caused a lot of additional stress for the elephants.
To raise funds for the clinic, the park also sold elephant artwork. We were lucky enough to see two young, talented elephants, Suda and TW, create these masterpieces before our very eyes. We watched in amazement as they grasped the paintbrushes firmly with their trunks and artfully stroke paint onto the canvas.
The resulting artworks were unbelievable. Suda painted two elephants playing underneath a tree in autumn while TW painted large trees with pink and yellow leaves. These could easily be mistaken for regular art from a gallery, not art painted by baby elephants.
Our last activity in Chiang Mai was the highlight of our tour. We boarded the bus and traveled to a quaint suburb just outside the city center. We arrived at the gate of an old home, with beautiful landscaping and flowers all around the gate.
You would think that this was just an ordinary residence but upon entering the gates, we were welcomed by rows of cooking stations, dozens of them, and fully equipped classroom-kitchens complete with their own army of chefs.
This was Thai Farm Cooking School, where visitors could learn how to prepare authentic dishes like Tom Yum Soup, Curry and Pad Thai. The cooking school, owned by Sompon Nabnian, offers one-day beginner courses for hungry visitors like us, and longer, more advanced courses for foreigners looking to set up a Thai restaurant.
The family that cooks together, eats together: Mike Constantino, Pablo Constantino, Christel Boncan-Constantino, Mark Dayrit, Matthew Dayrit, Alexandra Dayrit, author Christine Dayrit, Thai Farm Cooking School owner Sompon Nabnian, Samantha Dayrit, Yvonne Dayrit, Chef Garnet, Nikki Boncan-Buensalido, Mike Mina, Jaqui Boncan, Alex Tan, Carin Romualdez, Mylene Dayrit, Jason Buensalido, Vince Soliven, Michelle Soliven and Benny Soliven.
Anything involving food was always a hit to our foodie family. Here, we had some of the best food of our entire trip. And we had been dining in some of the fanciest hotels in the city.
Our cooking instructor chef Garnet was a fabulous teacher. She was an engaging educator, serious entertainer and Miss Universe fan, with a killer Catriona Gray slow-mo twirl impression.
The food stole the show. We learned the elements of Thai taste — it must be sweet, sour, salty, bitter and spicy. Then we proceeded to experience these through a gastronomic adventureFirst, we learned how to make fish cakes. Garnet demonstrated how to cut and mix the various ingredients to form the perfect patties. We then proceeded to our individual kitchen stations to make our own dishes.
Elephants at MaeTang Elephant Camp prepare to enthrall the audience with their antics.
Next, we tried our hand at making our own spicy-sour Tom Yum soup. The ingredients were fresh and simple — lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime leaves lend their distinct flavors to the dish, which also has lots of Thai chilies, mushrooms, tomatoes, onion and chicken.
We then learned how to make Thai chicken curry with coconut cream and potatoes. The best part was that we each got to choose our level of chili. I grasped this opportunity to make mine really hot with six atomic Thai chilies in one little bowl.
Chef Garnet taught us how to make our own Pad Thai, one of the most popular street food dishes. I was surprised how quickly it was made, stirring all the ingredients together until the dish was done in mere minutes. The fresh noodles and ingredients made this dish far superior to anything you could order in a restaurant.
Dhara Devi Chiang Mai, one of my favorite places to stay in Chiang Mai.
Finally, we watched chef Garnet make the piece de resistance — mango sticky rice. She stirred coconut milk and coconut cream into a huge pot of rice as our entire group cheered her on. She was astonished by our wild reaction to the sticky rice. I'm sure she must have thought we were crazy but we just really love our sticky rice. Let me tell you, it was the best I have ever tasted – sticky, chewy and super creamy with rich coconut flavor. It was the perfect way to end our sweet Chiang Mai trip.
The cool mountain air, fantastic food and shopping will make Chiang Mai a destination to keep returning to over and over. The charming | 1,689 |
No Return For VDS, Urges De Gea To Come Good
Date:7th February 2012 at 11:07am
Edwin van der Sar has urged David De Gea to stand up to the rigours of the Premier League and fulfil his talent.
De Gea was brought in during the summer as a replacement for the retired van der Sar, but has enjoyed mixed fortunes so far this season. Sharing the #1 spot<|fim_middle|>."
Having seen Paul Scholes return last season, the Dutch stopper also took the time to dispelled any notion of a comeback.
"I was at Carrington and he (Scholes) was watching a training session and I said, 'So, how do you like it?'.
"He said, 'Not really. I miss it'. He was still there doing his work as an assistant coach with the reserve team so it was probably a little bit easier to get back in.
"I got a few text messages from friends saying, 'What about you?'
"I'm quite happy at the moment. There's no doubt in my mind." | with Anders Lindegaard, the young Spaniard was dropped following a weak display against Blackburn but has recently found himself back in the team.
On Sunday he was again the talk of the town following brilliant saves from a Juan Mata freekick and a Gary Cahill effort and now his predecessor has urged him to stand up to the pressure of the Premier League and of being United's number 1:
"It's always difficult if you're coming into a new club and new league, especially the English one. It's a very demanding one, can be a very tough one.
"He has to deal with that. They paid a lot of money for him and he has to come through that | 136 |
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Summer seasons in Batman can be scorching! All of us know<|fim_middle|> of experience in the industry as well as successfully done hundreds of air conditioning service Batman for commercial, industrial and domestic units. We offer unbiased advice for free that would save you money and decrease your down time. You can be certain that your air conditioner systems are running at their best with us on the job. | just how difficult it is to sleep, work, or play while you're experiencing in the sweltering heat. No person intends to breathe thick, hot air in their very own house. If you stay in Batman, call us for prompt and reliable cooling repair service.
Our highly experienced service professionals will ensure your AC unit is performing at peak performance. We will promptly and precisely identify and fix any faults with your system and offer maintenance contracts and recommendations in order to help you decrease your energy usage.
There are several signs that your a/c system will should be repaired. If you see weird noises or smells coming from your system it will need to be repaired. This could be an indication that mold and mildew is expanding in the ventilation or that parts have gotten loose. Another indication that your unit isn't really functioning correctly is drastically minimized air flow. You could check this by switching on your Air Conditioner system and putting your hand near the vent. If the air flow isn't as strong as you remember this might imply you should get your system repaired.
Our home Air Conditioner repair Batman service technicians can take a look at your A/C system to see what repairs need to be made. From there, we'll suggest new parts and replace any component that is triggering your system to break. We could make sure your A/C kicks on when you need it to in order to keep maximum convenience and fresh air. We've worked with many different air conditioner units throughout the years, and also we're confident in our ability to find you a service.
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When you decide to deal with us, you can be certain that you will get the most professional and cost efficient air conditioning maintenance solutions Batman has to offer. Thanks to our excellent services our customers can unwind, knowing that all precautions have actually been taken to maintain their air conditioner system operating at their absolute best. When you want the very best care for your ac system, you could contact us at any time for more information about what we have to offer.
With comprehensive experience in both residential and commercial jobs, we can deal with all your immediate repairs and/or scheduled maintenance work. No job is big or too small. We can deal with you to offer a personalized, cost effective maintenance contract to meet your air conditioner servicing requirements. You can be guaranteed of our dedication to professionalism and trust, integrity, safety, high quality workmanship and the environment!
We work with a range of makes and model air conditioner units as well both split and ducted systems. No matter whether you need one a/c system installed or hundreds for your commercial or industrial complex. We are ready and available to service all your air conditioning needs.
Numerous HVAC business in Batman only service or install one brand because it is much easier on their team to just learn about one system. This means that you can pick in between updating older systems that are functioning fine or letting your existing system go without maintenance until a serious problem arises. Luckily for you, we service and repair most brand names so you could give us a call no matter what your problem is.
Our quick service is what we are known for, and our professional, lasting results are what keep our clients coming back. Our company believe in making your HVAC system function the way it should with little work on your part.
Our service technicians have years | 728 |
New Bedford Police arrest two city men on gun and drug charges.
Police say the arrests<|fim_middle|>-old Christopher Rivera was charged with carrying a loaded gun, carrying and unlicensed weapon, conspiracy to violate drug laws, assault on a police officer, threat to commit a crime, and resisting arrest. | were made early Sunday morning after police were responding to a report of shots fired in the area of Rivet Street and Acushnet Avenue. Police spotted a blue Mitsubishi in the area that drove off as officers approached it.
Police eventually stopped the car, with the two occupants taking off on foot. One of the men was seen throwing something away as he ran. The two men were caught and arrested, and police later retrieved a loaded 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun.
20-year-old Samuel Santana was charged with possession with intent to distribute a Class B drug, drunk driving, resisting arrest, and failure to stop for police.
25-year | 130 |
And it's gonna be good.
Saturday was opening day at Brownstone<|fim_middle|> it in the form of a question."
We walked around the campus, bought a cap at the bookstore, then hopped in our convertible and headed back to NYC.
Okay, one more shot. Then and Now. Eerie sitting there feeling like I was just sitting in that same spot a few years ago, then pondering all that's happened over the past 25 years. | Park, an old rock-quarry-turned-waterpark in Connecticut.
Jo was invited, but she said I should spend the day with my boys. I think she was afraid of ziplining from the cliffs.
But we'll go with her story.
Sunday we all had brunch at the 79th Street Boat Basin. It was a bit cold for shorts and t-shirts, but we survived.
Last night we all went to see "Deadpool 2" in Lincoln Square. It was nice to spend an evening together. We ate too much buttered popcorn; I reminded them that it's good for you, because it prepares your body for heart disease.
Today we slept late, then got bagels from Orwasher's, brought them home and had brunch in our dining room. This afternoon I went for a 3-mile run in Central Park, then Samuel and I took Bailey to the pet store for treats.
It's 10:45 pm. I'm lying on the living room sofa congratulating myself on my great taste in Art Deco throw pillows. Samuel is two feet away from me playing a VR game. Ethan is at the dining room table doing homework. Bailey is asleep on the floor, exhausted from his pet store excitement.
The beginning of summer is like the beginning of life, with its promise of new possibilities. I have a nice life. I love my boys. I love Jo. I have been an optimist since the day I became a father, and I see no reason to change now.
A year ago I was posting Stevie Nicks break-up songs. Today I'm gonna go with something lighter.
We jumped in our hot, red, rented convertible and cruised up the Merritt to New Haven, arriving fashionably late for the picnic lunch.
We took our seats at a table of older people, and I introduced her to my classmates.
According to Jo, I'm the hottest guy in my class. FYI.
After lunch we roamed the halls of the business school, noting that every classroom, lounge, and hallway is named for a donor. I suggested that we make a donation in return for naming rights to a room.
Jo suggested the Todd Tarpley Comfort Station (gift of Todd Tarpley, class of '93).
Here's Jo at the lectern.
"You. In the fifth row. What is the answer?"
"What is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act."
"Correct. You don't need to phrase | 504 |
A river town steeped in<|fim_middle|> marked the start of four years of frontier warfare in Ohio, which only stopped when General Anthony Wayne and the Indian tribes signed the Treaty of Greenville in 1795. The site is operated by the Ohio Historical Society.
Stockport Mill Inn
The historic Stockport Mill is the last remaining mill on the Muskingum River. And now it's a one-of-a-kind inn and restaurant. A mill has operated on this site since 1842. Construction began on the current structure in 1906. Its milling equipment was operated by electricity generated by turbines harnessing the power of the Muskingum River.
Stockport Mill Country Inn - Restaurant on the Dam
Restaurant Hours:
Friday and Saturday: 5 - 9 PM
Sunday Buffet: Noon - 4 PM
Reservations Required.
CJ's Family Restaurant
CJ's Family Restaurant in Stockport OH has been serving the public for many years. A favorite among locals and visitors alike they serve the best home cooking you would ever want. From Burgers and Fry's to Open Faced Roast Beef Sandwiches with mashed potatoes and gravy with your choice of side. Prices are really low and the food is really good. Oh, and by the way they treat you like family. There is always a large assortment of homemade pies available and a Flavor burst Ice Cream machine that injects assorted flavors into your cones such as Blue Goo, Cotton Candy, Cinnamon, and others. There is something on the menu for everyone. | history
The historic Stockport Mill is the last remaining mill on the Muskingum River. And now it's a one-of-a-kind inn and restaurant.
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Luke Chute Camping
Heck Harkins Community Center
Big Bottom Memorial State Park
Following the American Revolution, the new Federal government, in need of operating funds, sold millions of acres of western lands to land companies. One such company, the Ohio Company of Associates, brought settlement to Marietta in 1788. Two years later, despite warnings of Native American hostility, an association of 36 Company members moved north from Marietta to settle "Big Bottom," a large area of level land on the east side of the Muskingum River. The settlers were acquainted with Native American warfare, but even so, built an unprotected outpost. They did not complete the blockhouse, put pickets around it, or post a sentry. On January 2, 1791, a war party of 25 Delaware and Wyandot Indians from the north attacked the unsuspecting settlers, killing nine men, one woman, and two children. War raged throughout the Ohio Country until August 1794 when the tribes were defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The Big Bottom massacre | 270 |
Bookbug Week is a great time to celebrate our National Bookbug Programme and there's something for everyone! Our theme this year is Bookbug's Big Adventure and there are hundreds of FREE special events taking place all over Scotland. Find your local Bookbug Session and special events here.
The flagship event is happening on Monday 20 May at Vogrie Country Park in Midlothian from 10am-4pm and we're getting very excited<|fim_middle|>, who designed all of the Bookbug Week artwork (including the picture above), is also doing an exclusive event in Perth and Kinross on Tuesday May 21. Congratulations to Perth and Kinross' Bookbug Co-ordinators who were the lucky winners of that special event!
Visit the Bookbug Week event page to download songs and rhymes, a copy of the rhyme mat and a list of adventure themed books.
Follow us on Facebook to enter the daily competition to win three Cate James picture books.
Bookbug Week is always an exciting week. We know everyone will have fun participating in the activities in their local authority. Join Bookbug and go on a big adventure – you never know what you'll discover! | . Get ready to go on a big adventure: Midlothian Ranger Service will be helping us explore the great outdoors. There will be lots of Bookbug Sessions throughout the day, as well as face painting, balloon making, bubble-blowing and plenty more fun and games. We're looking forward to seeing you there! We're also delighted that Catherine Rayner will be doing some live drawings and reading her lovely book, Solomon Crocodile. All the event details are here.
Cate James | 99 |
Joan E. Kennedy
Somerset Hills Memorial Park
95 Mount Airy Road
Obituary of Joan E. Kennedy
Joan E. Kennedy, age 89, passed away on Sunday, August 7, 2022, at Brandywine Assisted Living at Middlebrook Crossing<|fim_middle|>, NJ 08807. | in Bridgewater, a day before her 90th birthday. Born in Elizabeth, Joan grew up in Linden, where she graduated from Linden High School in 1950. Shortly after her marriage to James Kennedy on April 26, 1953, they moved to Winfield Park, and in 1963, they moved to Bridgewater, where they raised their family.
Joan began her career as an office manager, first at the Watchung View Inn and later at P.M. Systems in Somerville, where she worked for over 20 years.
Joan was a former member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Somerville.
Joan was an avid reader and a member of the Bridgewater Book Club. She enjoyed playing bridge with her friends and knitting. Joan was the member and past president of the Martinsville Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. She was also a member of the Bridgewater Woman's Club.
Traveling was a large part of her life with her husband. They traveled to 49 countries in 6 continents.
Joan is predeceased by her loving husband of 67 years, James A. Kennedy, in 2020.
She is survived by three sons: Robert J. and Michelle; Ronald A. and his wife Susan; and Richard F. and his wife Barbara; six grandchildren: Briana (David), Michelle, Jillian, Patrick, Kaitlyn, and Sean. Joan is also survived by her brother William Meekings and his wife, Brenda.
A visitation will be held on Friday, August 12, 2022, from 5 to 8 pm at Higgins Home for Funerals, 752 Mountain Blvd., Watchung, NJ 07069. A graveside service will be on Saturday at Somerset Hills Memorial Park, 95 Mt. Airy Rd., Basking Ridge, NJ, at 11 am.
Memorial donations may be made in her loving memory to the Bridgewater Woman's Club, P.O. Box 6071, Bridgewater | 433 |
Winter is all about snuggling up with a hot drink by the fire under a blanket. I love hot chocolate, but the sugary versions full of melted chocolate normally leave me feeling a little bit sick afterwards! So I've come up with a version that is free from refined sugar, is super delicious, and is full of superfoods so it's actually nutritious. I personally think it tastes better than the sugary version and is very nourishing during the colder months because of the additional spices I've added. It can be made vegan friendly and dairy free by using a milk of your choice – I used almond milk for mine.
The main ingredient is raw cacao powder, which is the purest form of chocolate you can consume. It's unsweetened, and hasn't undergone all the processing that we find in normal chocolate<|fim_middle|> been using turmeric to prevent serious health conditions such as heart disease and cancer.
Turmeric is commonly used in cooking as a spice to add to curries and soups. If you haven't cooked with turmeric before, I'd recommend starting with less turmeric and building up to the full amount so that you get used to the taste.
Place all ingredients into a blender or food processor and mix until the liquid is combined and frothy.
Warm in a saucepan over the stove for 1 – 2 minutes and pour into mugs. You can use a milk frother to create a foamy texture if you like. | , meaning it's packed with antioxidants (the things that are believed to help prevent ageing, cancer and all other sorts of diseases), and is also high in magnesium and calcium. It can also act as a natural mood elevator and anti-depressant – so can hopefully help those suffering from the winter blues.
Combine all the ingredients into a saucepan and heat over a low heat.
Once the mixture starts to boil turn of the heat and pour into mugs. If you have a milk frother you can use this to create a foamy top.
Turmeric is slowly becoming the nation's favourite health food. Last year, the Guardian even named the turmeric latte (also known as Golden Milk) as our '2016 drink of choice'. Not only is this drink super warming and caffeine free (yet tastes a bit like a chai latte), it has tons of nutritious benefits. It's full of antioxidants and has been proven to act as an anti-inflammatory. This is due to the curcumin compound that is found in turmeric. In fact, in Ayurvedic medicine, practitioners have | 223 |
As you know that appetizers are especially for party lovers. If you invite your friends at home party. Then you can make the appetizers at home. Because it is so easy to make in your home kitchen. So, you can make easy appetizers for a crowd. It has two reasons to make at your own hand. The first one is that the restaurant or hotel is not near to your home. Hence, you can make food in your home kitchen. The second reason is that your family members or friends don't like the hotel foods. That's why you have to need the special recipes to make appetizers at home. Everyone loves this food and also wants to make it with their own hand. With this people want to eat healthy and good food. Because they know that the healthy food gives them a healthy life.
In this article, we help you with many ideas and tips to cook in the home<|fim_middle|>, crumbling meat. In the over medium-high heat until beef is no longer pink, 6-8 minutes. Hence, add the cook 1 minute longer. Drain. Add next five ingredients; bring to a boil. Add lentils and water. So, reduce the heat and simmer, covered, until lentils are soft, about 1 hour, stirring often. Add water if the mixture seems too dry.
All these recipes are just for your ease. So, you can make it easy in your home kitchen. You can make it so tasty and everyone will like it. So, in this article, you can learn to make about the "easy appetizers for a crowd". All the recipes are so easy and easy to make. Hence, you have no need to booking a hotel for a party. So, you can arrange it in your home. So, decorate your home with lights and make a perfect party environment. Then cooking with your hand and make a tasty appetizer. Enjoy it to eat and stay blessed. | kitchen with ease. Also, we give you the idea of dishes with their recipes. Also, gives you tricks to make all the dishes easily. So, you can follow all the instructions, ideas or tips and try it to make at your home. We hope you will make it so tasty.
It makes with the vegetables and fruits. As you know that vegans are healthier for everyone. Hence, we eat them with many dishes. Avocado is a unique fruit. It has powerful health benefits. All the vitamins are best for our health. Hence, people want to make dishes with avocado. So, here we make avocado salsa that is the easy appetizers for a crowd. We tell you all the ingredients and directions to make it.
First, you can combine corn, olives, red pepper and onion in the bowl.
Then in another bowl, mix the other all the ingredients.
Now pour over corn mixture; toss to coat. Refrigerate, covered, overnight.
This is so yummiest dish for the potato lovers. Because it makes with potatoes and other natural ingredients. As you know that natural food has a lot of vitamins that can give you good health.
In an oven, heat 2 tablespoons oil over medium-high heat. Now beef with salt and pepper; brown in batches, adding oil. Add onion and sweet potatoes to pan. Cook, stirring until onion is light golden brown.
Similarly, puree tomatoes and their juices in a blender. Then place thyme and rosemary on a double thickness of cheesecloth. Gather corners of cloth to enclose herbs. So, tie securely with string.
Add herb bag, tomatoes, and broth. Now reduce the heat simmer, covered, until meat and potatoes are tender, about 1 hour.
Now you add green beans, corn, chocolate, and coffee, stirring until well blended. All is done and your dish is ready to eat.
The beef and lentil chili is the yummiest dish for the party lovers. This dish also includes in the tasty appetizers. Also, you can make it easy with your hand. So, follow the entire recipe and make it in your home kitchen with ease.
In the oven, cook ground beef and onion | 446 |
Favorites from California: Sleeping in, Whole Paycheck, Goodwill Hunting, Trader Joe's, running the Iron Horse, time poolside, Plearn Thai, Urban Ore, Bon Iver @<|fim_middle|> opening performance by Megafaun.
"Whenever I go on a trip I think about the homes I've had and I remember how little has changed about what comforts me." | the Fox, Sideboard, great conversations, Ben & Jerry's at 3a, and so many other wonderful memories with sweet Bubs. I love vacationing with the Twinner!
Best find while Goodwill Hunting: $2 autographed copy of Brian Andreas' book, "Mostly True." (of StoreyPeople).
Bubs spinning more 'For Emma' on the wheel.
I've had this little guy since my sophomore year of high school. We call him Old Faithful.
Me (while baking vegan oatmeal cranberry cookies): Bubs, do you have a whisk? Bubs: What's a whisk? long pause ... Me: Hmm ... right. You're vegan and you probably don't think much about eggs. How bout a fork?
Coffee crawl. The Twinner roasts for Pac Bay Coffee Co. in Walnut Creek, CA. Kindof awesome.
You know you're at Bub's when this is your only option for toothpaste.
Bon Iver @ The Fox Theater in Oakland.
A great | 209 |
serpentwithfeet Announces London Show
New single 'Receipts' is out now...
Robin Murray
Robin Murray /
serpentwithfeet will play a one off London show this summer.
The Brooklyn experimental musician is set to play End Of The Road festival<|fim_middle|>eks and a true view into our world as the fun and games unfold.
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LIZZI's 'Try' Is A Sparse Piece Of Slowburn Neo-Soul
Reports: AC/DC To Release New Album, Tour In 2020 | in September, and will now combine this with a visit to the capital.
serpentwithfeet will play London's newly opened EartH venue, an arts space in East London rapidly making a name for itself due to its forward thinking booking.
The news comes as the North American artist shares new single 'Receipts', an attempt to respond to the spatial dislocation caused by a move to Los Angeles.
Ty Dolla $ign appears on the track, something that sums up serpentwithfeet's "mystified" attitude towards Los Angeles.
He explains: "I began writing 'Receipts' when I first moved to Los Angeles last summer," says serpentwithfeet. "I was and still am mystified by the city - the mountains, the men, the hummingbirds."
"I played an early demo for Ty Dolla $ign and he asked to join me on the track. This song carries a lot of weight for me because it's a snapshot of two brothers rhapsodising about unforeseen romance. Ty is a huge part of my LA story so 'Receipts' feels like a perfect document."
Tune in now.
Catch serpentwithfeet at London's EartH venue on September 3rd.
Join us on Vero, as we get under the skin of global cultural happenings. Follow Clash Magazine as we skip merrily between clubs, concerts, interviews and photo shoots. Get backstage sneak pe | 291 |
Bogen B50-16 Turntable User Manual Also B50-16X. Includes a Tech Bulletin G2 BOGB5016-UM 6 total pages (1 intentionally blank) consisting of (1) double-side printed 11in x 17in sheet and (1) single-side printed 8.5in x 11in sheet with no additional<|fim_middle|>-100A. Overall quality is Very Good. Normally folded and mailed in ordinary business envelope. | covers or binding. Overall quality is Very Good. Normally folded and mailed in ordinary business envelope.
Bogen C35C PA Amp Service Manual Also C60C, C100C G3 BOGC35C-SM 6 total pages, constructed as the original, card stock covers, neatly assembled with 5 staples and fiber reinforced taped spine. Models covered: C35C, C60C, C100C. Overall quality is Very Good to Excellent.
Bogen RM-350A Receiver User Manual Schematic included. Due to the nature of the original as provided by Bogen, we do not bind with side stapling and taped spine as we normally do. We have a PDF file of this manual that seems to be a different version with some additional content. If you request, we will send it to you with no additional charge. G4 BOGRM350A-SM 18 total pages (6 intentionally blank) including (3) 11in x 17in schematic inserts, constructed as (3) double-side printed 8.5in x 11in sheets, corner stapled with no additional covers or binding. Schematic page in the original contains print that is too small to read. We include an enlarged version on (1) 11in x 17in page and another enlarged version spanning (2) 11in x 17in pages to greatly improve readability. Overall quality is Good.
Bogen RP230 Receiver Service item (non-OEM version) Schematic S1 BOGRP230-SO 4 total pages (2 intentionally blank) consisting of (1) single-side printed 11in x 17in sheet with no additional covers or binding. Overall quality is Very Good. Normally folded and mailed in ordinary business envelope.
Bogen TPU-35A Amplifer User Also TPU-60A, TPU-100A. Designed to connect to PBX system. Installation Instructions. Includes schematic. G2 BOGTPU35A-SM 4 total pages, double-side printed on 11in x 17in stock, center folded, no additional covers or binding. Models covered: TPU-35A, TPU-60A, TPU | 485 |
4 Good Reasons You Shouldn't Quit the Job You Think You Hate
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Oftentimes, sacrifice is the name of the game, especially when it comes to career advancement and positioning. Even the best of the best leaders and CEOs have had to bite the bullet at one point in their careers, enduring short-term struggles and discomfort for the long-term gains.
If you're frustrated with your current professional position or job, here are four good reasons to stick it out:
Grit: It seems like the logical thing to do when you're not happy somewhere is to leave, right? However, in a TED Talk, Angela Duckworth, a psychologist who studies achievement, attributes success to a trait she calls grit. She defined grit as passion and persistence for very long-term goals, having stamina, sticking with your future day-in-and-day-out–not just for the week or month, but for years,<|fim_middle|>ire, E!Online, Brazen Careerist, CBS News, and Arise TV. | and working really hard to making that future a reality.
Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint. It is being able to persevere in situations that are less than ideal on the path to success. A big part of grit is being able to stick with a job you hate. In most cases if you're not happy, I think it is a good idea to find a way out. However, when it comes to careers, I believe that patience is a virtue. In most situations, you'll find that you have more to gain by sticking through it than quitting.
Read more at Brazen Careerist …
Janell Hazelwood
Janell Hazelwood is associate managing editor at Black Enterprise, managing content across core areas of Money, Career, Small Business and Technology. She is also a featured blogger with My Two Cents, providing insights on branding, millennial career development, employment trends and leadership. She was previously a content producer and copy editor for Black Enterprise magazine, working across several editorial sections. The Hampton University graduate got her start in the newspaper industry, having worked for companies including The New York Times and Scripps Howard News Service. Her works and insights have appeared on The Huffington Post, MadameNo | 249 |
Thinking about where to spend your summer 2017 holiday? There are so many destinations, so many things to consider, and so many luxurious facilities to choose from. So why choose Kos Island for summer 2017?
The answer is simple; Kos is magnificent! This island combines everything you are looking for a perfect holiday experience<|fim_middle|>017 holiday!
Then comes the culture; scattered all around Kos Island you will find evidence of its rich history in ancient towns, temples such as the Asklipeion and churches, in Roman mansions like Casa Romana and other sites, such as the Odeon and the medieval castles of Neratzia, Palio Pyli and Antimacheia. Combined with the serenity of the nature of Kos, these sites make your holiday all the more interesting. | , a summery adventure of the Greek isles that leaves nothing to the imagination. Here, luxurious accommodation meets the endless beauty of the Aegean Sea, the rich history of the Greek region and the carefreeness that accompanies a relaxing vacation in a gorgeous place.
Start from the beaches; Kos Island is surrounded by miles and miles of sandy beaches and crystalline waters. The sea, the sun and the sands come together in a fascinating blend so beautiful and inviting that makes them simply irresistible. Add to the mix amazing water sports facilities, beach bars, restaurants and every modern convenience you can think of and you get the beaches of Kos, beaches you'll love so much you'll wish the days lasted longer – and you'll be so happy you chose Kos Island for your summer 2 | 158 |
Come, Sing, Enjoy, Go Crazy and Relive that Era you want to Go Back to- Cornucopia Re-union Party | T.I.C.
If you were part of the hysteria called Cornucopia (India's first ever Musical talent show (1992-1997) then this is where you want to be. It was launch pad for many famous singers like Parikrama, Gaurav kapoor, Euphoria, Raghav Sachar, Gaurav Kapoor,Anamika and many more.
Event Information: One of the most awaited music competitions of those days, Cornucopia won many hearts and paved way for the Musical stars looking ahead for a brighter future. To revive those beautiful memories, a reunion event has been organized by Cornucopia organizer where they are bringing all the Cornucopia lovers at one place. There will be kar<|fim_middle|> successfully delivered more than 16,000 projects. | aoke session by Manish Gunthey, food, drinks and lots of fun.
RSVP : INR 1000 per person which includes Food and unlimited drinks.
The Innuendo Communication (T.I.C) an event management firm has more than 23 years of experience in international events, weddings, live communications and experiential marketing. It has pan India presence and representation offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dubai, North Africa and Malta-located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea as well as reaches out to the most sought after destinations in Southern Europe, North Africa, Middle East & South East Asia. The company stands on the pillars of excellence, exuberance and experience is regarded as one of the pioneers of Event Management Industry. With the presence of more than two decades in the industry, TIC today act as one stop solution provider for all Event management solution. We have | 181 |
The very fortifications that spent centuries keeping people out are now one of the main attractions<|fim_middle|> the footsteps of historic highwaymen. It boasts of romantic bridges over serene rivers, the highest waterfall in Northern Ireland, and a plethora of native flora and fauna.
Want to find out more? Start your Derry adventure with P&O Ferries today by travelling via our Cairnryan to Larne ferry crossing. | of Derry, the ancient walled city on the western border of Northern Ireland. Its strategic location has seen it face its fair share of tribulations in the past, playing a central role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, the Irish War of Independence and the Troubles.
Today, Derry harnesses its rich and turbulent history in the vibrant murals, architecture and statues that mark the city streets. This transformation was officially recognised when Derry was named UK City of Culture 2013. Discover this unique destination full of character – read on for some fantastic things to do in Derry.
Discover the unforgettable city of Derry by traveling with P&O Ferries. Start planning your own Irish adventure today.
While legally named Londonderry, in Ireland the city is usually referred to as Derry. This has been the case since at least the mid-seventeenth century – just after the city's famous fortifications were built to protect against invasion.
Derry is the only remaining walled city in Ireland, and one of the very finest in Europe. Take a walk along the 1.5km footpath surrounding the circumference of the walls and you can see how the original city's renaissance layout has been preserved for centuries.
Just inside the walls, the Tower Museum tells the stories of the region's history – complete with an open-air viewing platform offering views over the inner city and the River Foyle so you can see where it all happened.
One of the best ways to understand the Troubles in Ireland is to look for the vivid and poignant murals that appear throughout the city.
Walking through Derry, you can follow a trail between the images, stopping at the plaques that tell the story behind each, or you can hire a local tour guide to receive a moving retelling of the events.
Art and design is a fundamental part of the city now, with local artists and architects using visual methods to educate and inspire. Opened in 2011, the Peace Bridge crosses the River Foyle, and connects the two historically divided sides. The walkway is a beautiful spot for taking a stroll, and a cycle path makes it the ideal place for setting off on a morning ride.
Tucked away from the main street just off the Derry side of the Peace Bridge, the Craft Village is a collection of boutique shops selling handmade gifts, perfect for browsing creations by local artists.
With its coastal location, Derry has a diverse array of stunning natural landscapes found under half an hour's drive from its centre. Seven miles northwest of the city walls you'll find the iconic Grianan of Aileach, a hilltop fort just outside the border in County Donegal and one of the royal sites of Gaelic Ireland.
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The site was originally laid out as part of the Gunter Estate in the 1880s. It was part of the former Court Fields once within the Earl's Court Manor estate, later owned by the Gunter family.The Gunters had made their money selling confectionery and had begun to acquire land in the area from the latter part of the C18th; James Gunter had become a partner of successful Italian pastrycook Domenico Negri, whose business at 7 Berkeley Square was established in 1757 and soon became prosperous. James began investing his money in land in the then rural area around Brompton Lane (now Old Brompton Road), including a house to the north, Earls Court House, where the family lived. When his son Robert inherited the business on his death in 1819 the land holding was considerable. But although some plots had been let for building by the mid 1840s, 73 of the estate's c.81 acres remained undeveloped and leased to farmers and market gardeners. From the late 1840s Robert Gunter began to develop the estate lands, beginning with The Boltons and moving north and east with large houses and terraces. His sons James and Robert continued to develop the estate following his death in 1852. George Godwin was appointed estate surveyor in 1848. By then, Godwin, who was local to Kensington, already had useful experience as District Surveyor for South Islington, and had erected one or two houses on Fulham Road with his father, also an architect or builder. As estate surveyor Godwin was responsible for the overall street layout and amenities, and overseeing the work undertaken by the contractors and developers who leased the building plots. In 1859 Robert Gunter leased the west side of The Boltons to John Spicer (d.1883) of Pimlico, who went on to take on many other leases on the estate in the 1860s and 1870s to become one of its principal developers.
Bina Gardens was built in 1883. In 1928 the garden enclosure was owned by R G Gunter and leased on a peppercorn rent to Mr G J Spicer, the lease expiring in 1983. Spicer, solicitor and son of John Spicer, had similar leases from the Gunter family for the garden enclosures of Bolton Gardens, Bramham Gardens, Collingham Gardens, Gledhow Gardens and Wetherby Gardens (q.q.v.). The gardens were for the use of lessees of Nos. 1-12 (inclusive) and 14-30 (even) Bina Gardens, 18-27 (inclusive) Gledhow Gardens and Nos. 23, 24 and 25 Wetherby Gardens, who paid a rent for upkeep. In that year it was described as 'A rectangular area flanked on two adjoining sides by roads and on the other two sides by the rear or sides of buildings. Surrounded by privet hedge. | 773 |
"I'd put it in line with one of my best years in F1"
Driver performance analysis: Daniil Kvyat
28th January 2020, 12:12 28th January 2020, 13:21 | Written by Keith Collantine
Is there any path for Daniil Kvyat which leads back to the Red Bull seat he lost almost four years ago?
Last year was a clear opportunity. At mid-season Red Bull again dispensed with one of its drivers – this time Pierre Gasly, but Kvyat was passed over for the drive in favour of his team mate Alexander Albon.
This was notwithstanding the fact Kvyat had recently scored third place for Toro Rosso in the German Grand Prix, which was only the team's second podium finish in its history.
The way he tells it, Kvyat isn't too bothered about being overlooked by Red Bull. Asked in Singapore whether he was disappointed to have missed out on a possible promotion he said "not really."
"I do my work," Kvyat continued. "Whatever work they give me, I do. They give me work at Toro Rosso I will do my job at Toro Rosso as good as possible. They give me a job somewhere else I'll try to do my job as good as possible somewhere else."
But he did take satisfaction from his 2019 campaign, which he described as one of his best to date.
Qualifying: Lap time
The lower the lines, the better the driver performed
Kvyat's qualifying performances fluctuated rather too much for someone whose first team mate was a total newcomer to F1, who was then replaced at mid-season by someone who hadn't driven the Toro Rosso all year. He also found it hard to pull his best sector times together on his flying lap – something he only managed twice all year.
Race: Start versus finish
Kvyat scored an unexpected third place in Germany
Although Kvyat mustered 10 points finishes over the course of the year, most of these came in the lower reaches of the points. The conspicuous exception was Hockenheim.
There Kvyat spent much of the rain-hit race running behind team mate Albon. However when the track finally began to dry in the latter stages he spied his opportunity and switched to slicks, jumping ahead of those who were more conservatively-minded. He then took second off Lance Stroll, another driver who'd made the same gamble, but couldn't stop Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari taking it from him. He nearly got the place back on the final lap, however.
There were a handful of<|fim_middle|>-daniel-ricciardo-at-red-bull
So all in all he really did not bad and more points in 2015 was a good result.
TrickyMario7654
Kvyat only beat Ricciardo in 2015 because he had better luck in terms of reliability:
https://f1metrics.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/2015-model-based-driver-rankings/
Look how many points Riccardo lost due to DNFs!
Mashiat (@mashiat)
@seth-space From the very article you linked:
The final points table did not accurately reflect on reality. Kvyat was not the best or the quickest driver of the two over the course of the year—Ricciardo was.
Which sums it up really. Kvyat was lucky to have beaten Ricciardo on points that year, and was never really at his level. And he didn't really improve in the first four races of 2016 in that regard.
Good to see Kvyatt is a real teamplayer it seems.
No quite performing as his talent promised in his starting year. But nevertheless a driver with still some untapped potential and some rookie mistakes.
In Monza it was an oil leak not a Power Unit Problem..
Aleš Norský (@gpfacts)
I like him and he could be pretty good, but he has not done enough last year. Sure, 37 points and a podium looks like great season for STR driver, but the other side of the garage scored 48 points and equaled the podium. Kvyat is an intelligent guy and I don't really understand why he still sees his future with Red Bull. There is little doubt that if anybody else (younger) comes into Dr. Marko's peripheral vision, Daniil is out of that seat in a snap…even in a middle of season. He should look elsewhere if he wants to be in F1 long time.
Wellbalanced
Kvyat only has a seat in F1 (Torro Rosso/Alpha whatever it is) unless and until Marko decides he doesn't- which is surely not going beyond 1-2 more years.
I'm not sure how being outscored by drivers with less combined years in F1 than you have is good going forward.
Facetious (@peartree)
Really? We're still doing this..dreaming.
Cristiano Ferreira
This guy needs to leave Red Bull territory ASAP if he still wants to be part of the grid in the future. He will be the first one to get the axe once the next Vettel or Verstappen appears under Marko's radar.
Maybe Haas, Renault (if RIC decides to leave) or Sauber (if Kimi decides to leave) are good places for him.
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"I think the team has always performed very well," Kvyat reflected. "Since the beginning of the year it was quite consistently in the points and always taking the opportunities quite well. With strategy, taking the points which weren't even there, to still get them was very crucial sometimes."
Kvyat's departure from Red Bull followed a few unfortunate high-profile incidents. He caused a few too many collisions last season as well, leading to a series of penalties in China, Mexico and the USA, which he invariably disagreed with. Two of those cost him further points finishes.
Race: Share of points
Race: Results versus other drivers
Tenth place to Gasly's second in Brazil was a disappointment
Taken as a whole, Kvyat was out-scored over the course of 2019 by the two different drivers who occupied the second Toro Rosso. He finds himself in a kind of awkward middle ground: a Red Bull promotion passed him by, but he has become the longest-serving driver of their "kindergarten" squad.
This can partly be put down to hope on Red Bull's part that Albon might turn out to be another Max Verstappen, partly down to there being no F1-grade youngsters in the Junior Team ready to take Kvyat's place, and partly down to Kvyat continuing to show just enough potential to keep them interested.
"I feel very satisfied, to be honest," he said during a press conference late last year. "I would put it in line with one of my best years in F1 so I'm pretty happy."
Late in the season another opportunity to break free of the midfield and score a big result passed him by. But about this, too, Kvyat was quite phlegmatic.
"Some races go your way, some races don't go your way, but this is how our midfield works. It's very tight and some small mistake can cost you some opportunities like myself in Brazil for example. I definitely lost a very big opportunity there which luckily Pierre, for the team, managed to take.
"But these are the parts of our sport that we all know. I think this year I have been a lot more better driver than my last years in F1."
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Posted on 28th January 2020, 12:12 28th January 2020, 13:21 Author Keith CollantineCategories 2019 F1 season articles, 2019 F1 season review, F1 StatisticsTags daniil kvyat, F1, formula 1, formula one
15 comments on ""I'd put it in line with one of my best years in F1""
DAllein (@)
It is sad, when people don't see (or refuse to see) their true level of performance.
Mario Karts (which is now officially re-branded from Formula E) is waiting for him with open arms!
Kvyat 2019 – your average midfield drivers wo is decent, but no superstar without dropping into "uhg, please drop him" territory
Funily, he still has more podiums than Hulkenberg (and one of them was in a midgrid team)
MacLeod (@macleod)
29th January 2020, 8:00
But the Hulk has Pole positions in a midfield team…
NewVerstappenFan (@jureo)
Hard to judge F1 drivers. Kvyat is a fine example, at times he was faster than DR, then was dropped in favor of generational talent Verstappen.
Hierarchies start to develop from there. You have old guard Hamilton, conquerer of east, west, north and south, then there are disruptors – aiming for his throne: Verstappen and Leclerc. Then there is old champion Vettel, fallen from grace but still holding some silver of old speed.
Where do you put midfield drivers like Kvyat? All of them are really good drivers, in their early 20's who dedicated their life to the sport and are now growing up fixing up their life.
Hamilton was not this good 10 years ago, well that's where those boys are at, they are not this good, but competition is this good.
Kvyat now, having found out he is not a pure #1 in the world, is taking his day one race at a time, doing his job to the best of his ability, not overdoing his talent, yet achieving what is possible.
Something Riciardo also has to deal with, as does Perez, and many before them. Being excellent but not quite Hamilton level.
And some like Vettel have an even tougher mountain to climb. Having fallen from WDC level down to just being excellent, that is a tough mental battle, that he is loosing currently.
Kvyat seems to have put the worst behind him and can now achieve his potential and improve forward.
MEGATRON M12 (@megatron)
Kvyat was never faster than Riccardo
sethje (@seth-space)
He beat Ricciardo in 2015 with a lot less experience.
For a complete story look here:
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2615700-formula-1-2016-head-to-head-daniil-kvyat-vs | 1,309 |
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JONATHAN ALPERT is the former CFO of Beefeaters, Inc. (dba Petrapport), world Gourmet Marketing LLC (dba sensible Portions), and Apple & eve LLC, as well as, his having led JA & Associates. He is a member of the board of directors of the New Jersey chapter of Financial Executives International (FEI) and is involved in other finance executive and business organizations. Alpert recently appeared in a CFO studio interview hosted by Andrew Zezas.
What's going on with private equity?
Jonathan Alpert: there's an enormous amount of activity that started late last year and has
continued on to this year. After 2008-2009, when these companies raised billions of dollars and then couldn't and wouldn't invest them, activities picked up enormously. They're buying companies, selling companies, and competing against strategic buyers; and the market has picked up enormously.
Are there any sectors that are particularly hotter than others?
The obvious sector is technology and the internet; we all read every day about Facebook, Myspace, Xanga, and the little technology companies—everyone is playing there. But in consumer products, there has always been activity. There was activity in 2008-2009. It was a bit more difficult, but there was activity there; that has picked up, and there are lots of transactions. There is a lot of selling, a lot of buying. Private equity firms have kept their portfolios on the sidelines. They are now selling and going after new companies; there's a great deal of activity.
That's exciting because we always hear about tech bubbles doing this, but you've said that consistently, even through the down economy, consumer products are being bought and sold.
Let's stay in that vein and focus on mid-cap companies, publicly-held, privately-held, entrepreneurial-owned companies, and private equity-owned companies. Operationally and strategically, how are they different today on a company level?
On a company level, entrepreneurial and mid-cap, privately-owned companies all operate with small teams, and are cross-functional, trying to drive growth. The publicly-owned company has a broader time horizon—they can afford to wait next year. A private equity company is on a short lease. They have a three-to-five-year time horizon. They have narrowly focused finance objectives. They've got potential debt, covenants, and restrictions. They're racing down the road, but it's a lot narrower for private companies. A public company has financial objectives and the outside world looking at them. That's a whole unique spotlight, and it takes the focus off different things and keeps the company driving, but it's driving toward the bottom line.
But at the end of the tunnel, at the end of the road, the final objective may not necessarily be as well defined as for a private equity company.
Let's talk about the role of the CFO. You've got three companies that run differently. I've got to believe the skills required and the expertise and role of CFO in each of those verticals is vastly different.
Absolutely. Let's take the role of the CFO in public companies—that's not the easiest job, but it's the easiest to describe. A public company finance team has got reporting requirements, SEC requirements, heavy budget requirements, and accounting functions. Therefore, the CFO is much more focused on the financial function than the whole body, the whole enterprise. In a mid-cap company or a private entrepreneurial company, the CFO has to be a jack-of-all-trades, a master of many.
A master of many?
The CFO has to rely on his own network to supplement his own team and the company team because he's operating in a small environment, and it's very much a close team environment. The finance guy has got to work with sales, marketing, operations, logistics, and human resources. He's working with a team, building a team, and working on bringing a company to the next level. There's a financial component to all the sales decisions and marketing decisions, and the finance guy has to be proactive there, not only saying, "This is what we can afford to do" or "No, you can't do that." He's working with his team on ways to do whatever it is within the company's financial constraints. He has to have his fingers in every piece of the pie.
It sounds like in the privately-held and the private equity held companies, the finance executive is so diverse that he or she is probably like a COO rather than a publicly held CFO. The focus is much narrower and probably not as exciting.
You've always demonstrated the belief that finance and marketing should be aligned. Help me understand how that all works.
At the end of the day, revenue is the growth driver. The finance guy is responsible for making sure it's profitable revenue, but at the end of the day it's revenue. And how do you gain revenue? The guys on the frontline are your sales team and your marketing team. The finance guy has got to support that team. He's got to be a player in there; he's got to understand it. I was fortunate in my career to move from
finance to marketing. And I went out on the road with my sales guys and presented marketing and sales plans to liquor salesmen at 8 o'clock in the morning in a little room in a warehouse in Memphis, Tennessee. Once you've done that, you know what your guys are doing on the frontline, and that makes you sensitive to helping them seize opportunities: "say 'yes,' and say 'yes' this way." Also, you need to keep them within the focus and the guidelines of the company, but make them look like the heroes they need to be in order to drive the bottom line and grow the company.
I've heard you use an analogy about skeet shooting and sales and finance.
In an environment, a CFO is, in a lot of ways, like the armor of the company. In skeet shooting, you've got your sales, marketing, and CEO out there with the shotguns and the rifles, taking aim at the targets. You've got someone there loading the weapons, selecting the proper ammunition. You've got another team player shooting the disc, and that group has got to function as a coordinated team so when the disc goes up, everybody's tracking that disc and the rifle is going to discharge, and you're going to hit the target. Then you move on, and you're ready for the next opportunity. It's a key role, but the CFO has got to know how to shoot the gun. He's got to know what his team is thinking. He's got to feed them the information and ammunition needed to hit that target.
So the salesman and the CEO are the shooters. And the CFO is what you called the armor, or the person who is loading the gun with the right tools and the right ammunition.
What should a CFO be thinking about and doing on behalf of his or her company, so the company can achieve success?
The core financial function or the core reporting is information. Information is power. Information is only power if you get it in the hands of the user. If the finance guy is a full member of all the other aspects of the enterprise and is a respected member, that means he's earned his way up on those teams. He's feeding them information, and he's seizing opportunities.
He's an active participant.
The CFO is helping to drive sales and making sure those sales are profitable. He's putting the ammunition on the frontline. He's in the trenches with his troops ensuring the informational flow; and in between the investors and the operational team—that's how the CFO is going to be successful. The CFO has to be a full member of the team and drive the growth and the profitability that the team needs. He has to be a team player.
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A strong financial foundation is of critical importance for either a growing or a struggling business. Every successful company needs an active CFO. During an economic crisis, with positive cash flow more difficult to obtain, a CFO needs to put himself even more in the center of the business strategy.
In today's world, most CEOs expect that their CFO gets beyond offering input, but instead gets involved in every key decision, is proactive in challenging the business strategy; and, importantly, must display a forward- and outward-looking attitude instead of offering backward and inward-looking views, like many finance professionals are used to doing.
While strategy is important, a core responsibility of the CFO remains ensuring that the financial version of the truth is heard and understood. This often results in having to find ways to trim expectations in a manner that does not bring the business to a halt, and not being the one who simply says no all the time.
—Gunther Mertens
CFO at a Glance:
How do you hope your colleagues describe you?
Gunther Mertens: Principled, pragmatic, collaborative.
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Traveling and getting to know new places.
If you weren't a successful CFO, what type of career might you have pursued?
Private equity, mergers, and acquisitions.
What's the worst and best part of being a CFO?
The best part of being a CFO is that you have the best positioned function within a company to understand how the business is really doing. In addition to understanding the numbers, you are able to help with the strategic decisions. I see not really a bad side to being a CFO other than perhaps when things go bad the CFO is often blamed.
What are your plans for retirement?
I have not really given it a lot of thought yet. As retirement—probably it will be another 25 years before I get there. If pressed for an answer, I would say I want to work hard until retirement and retire to a vacation home in the Caribbean.
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Fans of the tropical butterflies at Portsmouth's natural<|fim_middle|> not have to contribute after all. | history museum are being asked to help fund their new home.
A new butterfly enclosure is being built at Cumberland House Museum, following demolition of the old one, with the new building is due to open this summer.
Residents and visitors now have the opportunity to contribute to the project, through an online crowdfunding campaign to raise more than £40,000.
The money would help create a great experience for visitors, using tropical plants and water features. It would also help make the museum garden into a haven for British butterflies, using nectar-rich plants to attract them.
Portsmouth City Council, which runs the museum, has launched a Butterfly House Project fundraising page on the Spacehive website.
Project manager Rod McLean said: "The council has already allocated £130,000 towards the new butterfly house, and work is under way. To make the enclosure as impressive as possible for visitors, and to help us attract native species to the garden, we're asking the public for some extra funds.
"So many families have loved coming to the butterfly house over the years, and we're sure they'll want to make sure the new one provides the richest experience possible."
The fundraising campaign has been kick-started by fresh produce importer Fyffes, which has pledged £800, and the Tesco Bags of Help scheme, which has pledged £5,000.
To succeed, the campaign has to reach its goal of £41,685 pledged by 8 July this year. If the total is not reached, then those who have pledged money will | 320 |
We recently caught up with Derya "Dez" Nagle of the band Good Tiger. In this video, he gives us a rundown of his compact but hefty guitar setup, featuring an H9 Max and Space going through a Mastermind pedalboard controller.
First off, we want to say thanks for neglecting to 'unsubscribe<|fim_middle|> friends at our new booth 4633 in Hall D, where we will have live demos of our soon-to-be-released flagship, the H9000, along with our effects pedals, our new H9 Control Android app, plug-ins and Eurorack delay.
Sarah Lipstate helps us launch an a new monthly interview feature where we talk tech with imaginative guitar pedal users.
In just a few days, we'll be on the road to Nashville for Summer NAMM! This year, we'll be unveiling a new plug-in and conducting demos of our upcoming eurorack module. We will also be giving away a limited edition Copper H9 Max. Even if you're not at the show, you'll be able to enter the contest via our website beginning July 13th. If you're in Nashville between July 13th - 15th, stop by our booth #1135 at the Music City Center or join us every night for the Mothertone Mother of All Hangs afterparty at Big Shots.
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A new method for splitting audio into two separate streams - transient and tonal. These two streams can then be independently processed, manipulated and generally messed with. Then these components can then be recombined to produce a new sound. | ' from our newsletter for yet another year. And, of course, thanks for your support. As we welcome 2019 (anno MMXIX), we thought we'd share some non-product related memories of 2018 (anno MMXVIII).
In 1979, Tony Agnello had a vision. Up to that point, effect units were dedicated to a single function. There were EQs, compressors, limiters, pitch changers, flangers and phasers, but no box was powerful enough to handle more than a single, simple function. Tony saw the potential of a Digital Signal Processing box that could do much, much more.
We recently caught up with Nashville based guitarist, songwriter and producer Stu Garrard. As the former guitarist of British band Delirious?, Stu G doesn't mess around when it comes to pedals. He took some time from his busy schedule, which includes working on a new documentary film called A View From The Hill, to talk with us about his current live setup (which includes 2 H9s!).
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Media Matters, Local Edition
In the will-journalism-take-democracy-down-with-it files, Mike has a really interesting report on advertorial worming its way into local news here over at The Riff. To whit:
A few weeks ago, my friend Amy Shelf got a call from San Francisco's KRON 4, a former NBC affiliate, now independent, that bills itself "the Bay Area's News Station." The caller, a polite young woman, wanted to set up a meeting with Amy to talk about opportunities for her to appear on the air and speak about legal issues—Amy is a lawyer.
Was the caller a news producer? Not exactly. She wanted Amy to pay $1,000, presumably per month, to star in a five-minute monthly segment. Amy consulted her moral compass. "I was like, 'I think that's totally unethical,'" she tells me later, recalling the conversation. "And she said, 'Well, it looks like the news.' And I said, 'That's exactly what makes it unethical!'"
KRON's sales rep quickly added that the paid segments were identified as such, but Amy still wasn't buying. Proper disclosure, of course, would make the<|fim_middle|> there. And once you do, perhaps you'll consider supporting journalism that reports to you. Just sayin'. | whole thing just a bit less slimy. So I went online and viewed some of the segments in question. There was plenty to be concerned about.
You have to read the rest of his report to find out how bad it is out | 47 |
Heroes' Haven
By Ethan Sacks • August 27th, 2012
"If they can make it there, they'll make it anywhere."
In this paraphrased line from "New York, New York," Frank Sinatra summed up the role the Big Apple has played for superheroes across comic book history. (Sinatra was possibly himself a mutant with those freakish blue eyes.) After all, the vast majority of tall buildings a hero might leap in a single bound are located in New York City – or at least based on a real-life counterpart.
For the record, Peter Parker is a Mets fan and Wolverine lives and dies – and is then regenerated – with the Yankees.
<|fim_middle|> of the World | Long before it became Marvel Comics, Timely Comics' Captain America got his start as the spindly Steve Rogers on the lower East Side of Manhattan; Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger put the Caped Crusader in the alleys and dark-lit backstreets of New York City, before National Publications (later to become DC) opted for a move to fictional Gotham; Fox Comics' Blue Beetle was the son of an NYPD cop.
Then Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and the rest of the Marvel crew unleashed a comic book store shelf full of super-powered New Yorkers in the early '60s. Spider-Man hails from Forest Hills, Queens, while the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building got its mail delivered to 42nd Street and Madison Avenue, ensuring that Galactus, Doctor Doom and Mole Man were regular unwelcome visitors to Manhattan.
Another 42nd Street local (from an era long before Times Square looked like Disneyland), Luke Cage plied his trade as a hero for hire above a run-down movie theater that only played westerns; not too far away, Daredevil patrolled Hell's Kitchen. Even Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters had its campus – complete with cutting-edge jet under the swimming pool – just a short commute into suburban Westchester.
Lee and Kirby also dropped the Avengers mansion on Fifth Avenue and 70th Street in Manhattan, home of the real-life Frick Collection. Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum can be found at a Bleecker Street address where Roy Thomas used to live in the 1960s in real life, according to The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City. (For the record, Peter Parker is a Mets fan and Wolverine lives and dies – and is then regenerated – with the Yankees).
"I set almost all my superhero stories in New York because that's where I lived and I was comfortable having incidents occur in places I knew," says Stan Lee in an email. "No Gotham City or Metropolis for me!"
But even Gotham City and Metropolis have always just been "New York stand-ins," says Danny Fingeroth, author of Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society. They were just given fictional names with the rationale that kids around the country would feel less excluded if the settings for Superman and Batman's adventures were more generic, he says.
There's more: Before DC rebooted its universe with the New 52, J. Michael Straczynski had Wonder Woman living in New York City. Both Richard Donner's Superman and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises were also shot in NYC, as the Big Apple is a good stand-in for both Metropolis and Gotham.
"It was very gratifying to go to, as you said, the spiritual home of Gotham and get that on screen," Nolan told Unwinnable in July.
There's no major secret origin story behind all of this: the city has been the center of comic book publishing from the days when Famous Funnies ushered in a new medium in 1933. The companies were all here, giving a chance for the Will Eisners, Joe Simons, Jack Kirbys and Joe Kuberts to escape their Depression-era hardscrabble lives and make a mark on history.
"I was about 11 years old, living in East New York in Brooklyn, and for a nickel I was able to go down into Manhattan on Canal Street where MLJ [Magazines] was located and I knocked on a door. I put together some sketches using my bags from my father's butcher store," Joe Kubert told me a few weeks before his death. "And they were the kindest, nicest guys in the world. They gave me pencils, paper, brushes."
"About a year later, I was about 12, and I was able to sell my first piece of work," Kubert continued. "And believe me it wasn't because I was any good, it just filled up five pages of a 64-page magazine that they could afford to throw away."
As an American Jew frustrated about the headlines coming out of Nazi Germany in early 1941, Joe Simon dreamed up the idea for his and Jack Kirby's signature creation, Captain America, while riding a bus down Fifth Avenue. These days, the biggest name artists and writers in the business are spread all over the globe, but New York City remains entrenched in comic book lore – it's hard to imagine Spider-Man ever leaving Aunt May behind for a new life in Duluth.
"I think just as in novels and movies, the New York of the comics was this imagined place where dreams could come true, the symbolic representation of the best and worst of America and of humanity," says Fingeroth, who is also vice president of educational programs at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in New York.
"The New York of the comics served the same purpose as the New York that Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers danced across and in which Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney fought for survival," he says. "New York was and is the ultimate fictional backdrop against which to play out the drama of modern urban civilization."
Sinatra couldn't have sung it better himself.
Ethan Sacks doesn't have a secret NYC identity @ethanjsacks.
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Evaluating interventions to promote patient involvement in decision-making: By what criteria should effectiveness be judged?
V.A. Entwistle, A.J. Sowden, I.S. Watt
Applied Health Sciences
Interventions to inform patients about health care options and<|fim_middle|>.
JO - Journal of Health Services Research & Policy
JF - Journal of Health Services Research & Policy | to involve them in decisions about their care are now widely advocated. The question of which criteria should be used to judge the effectiveness of such interventions has, however, received little attention. The provision of research-based information about health care effectiveness to patients and the promotion of greater patient involvement in health care decision-making are likely to have a complex range of effects on: the information provided to patients; patients' acquisition of skills; patients' knowledge and emotions; how decisions are made; the quality of decisions; professional-patient relationships; the use of health care; the health of patients; satisfaction; and the organisation and cost of health services. Opinions about which effects are most important and how they should be measured and valued will be influenced by a variety of factors, including: the rationales and motives underlying interest in patient involvement in decision-making; the forms of patient involvement envisaged; and the types of interventions being considered. In the context of health care systems which aim primarily to improve health status and well-being, health outcomes should take priority over process variables such as decision-making behaviours and patients' knowledge.
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Entwistle, V. A., Sowden, A. J., & Watt, I. S. (1998). Evaluating interventions to promote patient involvement in decision-making: By what criteria should effectiveness be judged? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy, 3(2), 100-107.
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Matt Warman<|fim_middle|> its busy holiday seasons.
Commenting on the news Matt said "I'm really pleased that in their successful bid Abellio has acknowledged something myself and my constituents have been well aware of for a long time: that is the urgent need for better and more frequent services between Boston and Skegness. It is great to see a commitment has been made to increase the number of seats on peak journeys on the Nottingham to Skegness line.
It will also be welcome news to many of my constituents who make regular use of the East Midlands line that free Wi-Fi will be made available throughout the franchise on trains and at stations. | MP has welcomed the proposed developments from Abellio as the new operator of the East Midlands Railway franchise. Announced as the successful bidder on 10th April, Abellio will introduce brand-new trains, smart-ticketing, more seats and a more comfortable and reliable service for passengers.
The new operator will provide new trains that include charging points and WiFi, as well as an improved timetable and the recognition that Skegness needs more frequent services during | 91 |
Chris from Rosa Mystica and Jenny from The Catholic Nerd Blog have begun an engagement blog...... Let's Just Elope Already .
Mary, Mother of Jesus and our Mother, who does protect your faithful in difficult times and who showed yourself to be Mother of St. Philip Neri and his disciples, we who are gathered around your miraculous image ask you humbly to obtain for us from your Son the Spirit of Life; let us pass unharmed in the presence of the ancient tempter; protect us from material and spiritual evils; let us journey toward our heavely home with burning hearts, and following our father, Philip, may we always conserve within us a love for the Eucharist and filial trust in you.
We most especially entrust to you the Church in Rome, in order that is may be respendent with the light of the Risen Christ; protect the Pope, the bishops, the priests, religious men and women and all the holy people of God, and help us so that, following your example, we may respond swiftly and generously to the word of the Lord. Amen.
If you are wondering what the 'image' mentioned in the prayer is, click here.
on male-female relations as exemplified by Tom Bombadil and Goldberry, with the estrangement of the Ents and Entwives discussed as counterpoint, here.
that Western society really is going to you-know-where in a handbasket. Link obtained from Kairos.
With Paul's own mantle blest."
The Venerable had a great devotion to all the Fathers, but it seems that St. Athanasius was his favorite. He translated treatises by the saint, and also referred to him in other works. When one of the Venerable's nephews was born on a May 2nd, he was thrilled, and begged his sister and her husband to name the baby Athanasius.
I should have added Fr. Bryce Sibley's A Saintly Salmagundi a while ago. And I was just sent notice of a new blog called The Southfarthing Soapbox. Now, how could I possibly resist a blog with that title ?
especially the 'short and stout' part !
all. Keep up the good work!
UPDATE: I removed the picture part, since it wasn't working anyway.
Thanks to Gregg the Obscure for the link.
blogged about C.S. Lewis and the Professor.
is today. There is information on Our Lord's adoptive father here .
Prayer for all workers are appropriate today, and prayers for all those seeking employment (including your humble scribe) would be appreciated.
The mini-balrogs are multiplying. These are misspellings of Tolkienean words, found in fanfiction or other Tolkien-related articles posted on the web. The enterprising lady known as "Camilla Sandman" has taken to collecting these, and the list that I linked to above is hers.
Some are understandable as being simple typos. ("Esel", "Thédred", "Denthor"). However, I look at many of them, and simply shake my head. "Kazadoom" ? "Theodorin" ? "Periguin" ? "Marroiodiac" ? What are these people thinking ?
I do admit, one new one did crack me up- a possible home for all mini-balrogs- "Muddle-urth" !
was kind enough to post about my little rant yesterday, and to add some links as well.
<|fim_middle|> on the Feast, and on the Divine Mercy devotions, here.
Lane Core has links to sermons by the Venerable Newman for the continuing Easter season here. | at this picture I came across over at Tolkien Online .
Am I becoming contagious ?
Now if this keeps spreading, maybe a critical mass of Venerable Newman awareness will be reached soon. Then millions of prayers for his canonization will soar heavenward, miracle reports will flood in, several will be confirmed, and he will be proclaimed a saint forthwith.
is today. There is information on her here. It is also the feast of St. Peter Martyr, O.P. . Congratulations to all the Dominicans out there on the feasts of these two great saints of their order.
Does anyone know what happened in the case ? Does the American legal system have a position on the ancient Catholic practice of venerating relics ? I believe that giving out relics, third-class ones particularly, is often a part of a canonization cause. ( I once found a card with a third-class relic of "Blessed Martin de Porres" tucked into a volume I had purchased at a Catholic used-book store. ) Do any of the Catholic lawyers out there have the answers ?
Of course, living in Pittsburgh, home of St. Anthony's Chapel , I have a certain fondness for this practice many find so "P.O.D.", as Fr. Sibley would put it. The Pittsburgh Oratory has three first-class relics of St. Philip Neri, including one which is simultaneously a second-class relic of Pope St. Pius X . They also have a first-class relic of Venerable Newman (hair), and three second-class relics of him (two letters and one of his cassocks).
As for what the Venerable himself thought of relics, click here , and here .
is today. There is information | 346 |
Every Friday, I come up with a card for As You See It Challenges and this week is no exception.
The only image that was large enough to work was Corner Garden stamp set and I have been dying to try my Blendies on that one. I wanted to use fall colours. Don't even attempt this card if you have limited time. It takes forever to colour it using the Blendies, but it was fun. You just have to patiently work away at it.
I wanted to slice it into 3/4" x 4" slices but I realized that I would have a lot of tiny unattached pieces if I did that. I also wanted to have different coloured background on the slices to match the sketch. So I fussy cut all around the edges of the stamped and coloured image (Another step requiring infinite patience - and I'm not saying I have that. 'Nuff said!). I applied adhesive to the back of the image and glued down five 3/4" x 4" strips of different coloured cardstock to the back. Then I cut between the strips of cardstock for the 5 panels you see here. The colours I used were Crushed Curry, Calypso Coral, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla and Pumpkin Pie, though you can't see much of that one since the bottom of the image is pretty solid.
The five panels were glued onto the card base. I added the top and bottom first, then centered the middle Cherry Cobbler panel between them. Then I centered the second and fourth panels in the middle of the first and third and the third and fifth. Have I confused you yet? It just makes it easier to make sure everything is evenly spaced when you do it like that and you avoid having to measure everything.
The sentiment is from Really Good Greetings and I stamped it with Cherry Cobbler ink on Very Vanilla and used the 2 1<|fim_middle|> an accent.
This is a gorgeous fall card. Love this. | /2" Circle punch to punch it out. I added some Crushed Curry Chevron Ribbon as | 19 |
Artificial Intelligence is now beating us at shooter games
Last updated on July 6th,<|fim_middle|> different concepts more effective — though in this case, teaching bots how to get better at shooting people might not be the most soothing of applications. | 2018 at 12:41 pm by Mihai Andrei
Another week, another game that's taken away from us. After the classics chess and Go succumbed to AIs, a current favorite in computer games — Dota2 — was mastered by machines just a week ago. Now, computer scientists reported that AIs are kicking butt at yet another popular computer game: Quake III.
Screenshot from Quake III.
If you like games where you go out and shoot stuff, then you're probably familiar with the Quake series. If not, the premise is pretty simple — you roam around a map, you pick up guns, and you shoot your opponents before they shoot you. Rinse and repeat, it's simplistic but highly addictive.
As it's been done in previous similar efforts, the machine algorithm (stemming from DeepMind, a Google subsidiary) isn't given much information on how to play the game — it's left to its own devices, to figure out strategies on how to win. But DeepMind's engineers added a twist: they trained a total of 30 agents with different playstyles to introduce a "diversity" of play styles.
So how does the AI learn how to play? By playing a lot — a LOT. In this case, it took nearly half a million games, each lasting about 5 minute, to get the AI to its current level. The robots did not only learn how to play, but they devised the same strategies that human players typically use. A new map was generated procedurally for each game, to make sure that the AIs don't develop strategies that work on a single map.
Also, programmers didn't give them any numerical information, they had to learn to play just by "looking" at the screen, similar to how a human player would.
It's worth noting that the stripped-down version of Quake III that the bots learned is much simpler than Dota2, for instance.
A graph showing the Elo (skill) rating of various players. The "FTW" agents are DeepMinds. Credit: DeepMind
To test the skill of the newly trained AIs, DeepMind hosted a contest: two-player teams of bots, humans, and a mixture of bots and humans squared off. The bot-only teams were the most successful, winning 74% of the time. However, the more bots researchers added in the team, the worse the team fared, indicating that they lack a specific understanding of team play.
Of course, the purpose of these AIs is not to beat us at out favorite games and take the fun out of everything (even though things sure seem that way sometimes). The goal is to design new ways to teach AIs | 558 |
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\section{Introduction}
\subsection{Distributions of Selmer Ranks}
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over a number field $K$ and let $\Sel_2(E/K)$ be its 2-Selmer group (see Section \ref{bg} for its definition). We define the \textbf{2-Selmer rank of $E/K$}, denoted $d_2(E/K)$, by \begin{equation*}d_2(E/K) = \dimF \Sel_2(E/K) - \dimF E(K)[2].\end{equation*}
In 1994, Heath-Brown proved that the 2-Selmer ranks of all of the quadratic twists of the congruent number curve $E/\Q$ given by $y^2 = x^3 - x$ had a particularly nice distribution. In particular, he showed that there are explicits constants $\alpha_0, \alpha_1, \alpha_2, \ldots$ summing to one such that \begin{equation*}\lim_{X \rightarrow \infty}\frac{|\{ d \text{ squarefree } |d| < X : d_2(E^d/\Q) = r \} |}{|\{ d \text{ squarefree } |d| < X \}|} = \alpha_r\end{equation*} for every $r \in \Z^{\ge 0}$, where $E^d$ is the quadratic twist of $E$ by $d$ \cite{HB}. This result was extended by Swinnerton-Dyer and Kane to all elliptic curves $E$ over $\Q$ with $E(\Q)[2] \simeq \Zt \times \Zt$ that do not have a cyclic 4-isogeny defined over $K$ \cite{Kane}, \cite{SD}.
A similar result was obtained by Klagsbrun, Mazur, and Rubin for elliptic curves $E$ over a general number field $K$ with $\Gal(K(E[2])/K) \simeq \mathcal{S}_3$, where squarefree $d$ are replaced by quadratic characters of $K$ and a suitable ordering of all such characters is taken \cite{KMR2}.
In this work we show that this type of result does not hold when $E(K)[2] \simeq \Zt$. In particular, we prove the following:
\begin{theorem}\label{mainthm} For $d \in \mathcal{O}_K$, let $\chi_d$ be the quadratic character of $K$ that cuts out the extension $K(\sqrt{d})$ and define $$C(K, X):=\{\chi_d: |\mathbf{N}_{K/\Q} d |< X\}.$$
Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over $K$ with $E(K)[2] \simeq \Z/2\Z$ that does not have a cyclic isogeny defined over $K(E[2])$. Then for any fixed $r$, \begin{equation*}\liminf_{X\rightarrow \infty}\frac{ \left | \{ \chi \in C(K, X) : d_2(E^\chi/K) \ge r \} \right | }{|C(K, X)|} \ge \frac{1}{2}\end{equation*} where $E^\chi$ is the quadratic twist of $E$ by any $d \in \mathcal{O}_K$ with $\chi_d = \chi$.
\end{theorem}
In particular, this shows that there is not a distribution function on 2-Selmer ranks within the quadratic twist family of $E$.
Theorem \ref{mainthm} is an easy consequence of the following result.
\begin{theorem}\label{Tconverge} Let $E$ be an elliptic curve defined over $K$ with $E(K)[2] \simeq \Z/2\Z$ that does not have a cyclic isogeny defined over $K(E[2])$. Then the normalized distribution \begin{equation*}\displaystyle \frac{P_r(\T(E/E^\prime), X)}{\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \log \log X}}\end{equation*} converges weakly to the Gaussian distribution \begin{equation*}G(z) = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}} \int_{-\infty}^{z} \! e^\frac{-w^2}{2} \, \mathrm{d}w,\end{equation*} where \begin{equation*} P_r(\T(E/E^\prime), X) = \displaystyle{ \frac{ |\{\chi \in C(K, X) : \ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi}) \le r \}| }{|C(K, X)|} }\end{equation*} for $X \in \R^+$, $r \in \Z^{\ge 0}$, and $\T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ as defined in Section \ref{bg}.
\end{theorem}
In turn, Theorem \ref{Tconverge} follows from a variant of the Erd{\H o}s-Kac theorem for quadratic characters of number fields. Let $C(K)$ denote the set of all quadratic characters of $K$. For any $\chi \in C(K)$, we can associate a unique squarefree ideal $D_\chi$ to $\chi$ by taking $D_\chi$ to be the squarefree part of the ideal $\langle d \rangle$, where $d$ is any element of $\mathcal{O}_K$ such that $\chi_d = \chi$. We say that a function $f$ on the ideals of $\mathcal{O}_K$ is \textbf{additive} if $f(\mathfrak{a} \mathfrak{a}^\prime) = f(\mathfrak{a}) + f(\mathfrak{a}^\prime)$ whenever the ideals $\mathfrak{a}$ and $\mathfrak{a}^\prime$ are relatively prime; we define $f(\chi)$ for $\chi\in C(K)$ to be $f(D_\chi)$.
To an additive function $f$, we attach quantities $\mu_f(X)$ and $\sigma_f(X)$, defined to be
\[
\mu_f(X) := \sum_{\N\mathfrak{p} < X} \frac{f(\mathfrak{p})}{\N\mathfrak{p}}, \,\,\,\, \sigma_f(X):=\left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p} < X} \frac{f(\mathfrak{p})^2}{\N\mathfrak{p}}\right)^{1/2},
\]
and we prove the following.
\begin{theorem}\label{EKthm}
Suppose that $f$ is an additive function such that $0\leq f(\mathfrak{p})\leq 1$ for every prime $\mathfrak{p}$. If $\sigma_f(X)\to\infty$ as $X\to\infty$, then
\[
\lim_{X\to\infty} \frac{ | \left \{ \chi\in C(K, X) : f(\chi)-\mu_f(X) \leq z \cdot \sigma_f(X) \right \}|}{ |C(K, X)|} = G(z),
\]
\end{theorem}
In the special case where $K = \Q$, Theorem \ref{mainthm} follows from results recently obtained by Xiong about the distribution of $\dimF \Sel_\phi(E/\Q)$ in quadratic twist families \cite{X}. We are able to obtain results over general number fields by applying different methods to the coarser question about the distribution of $\ord_2 T(E/E^\prime)$ in twist families (see Theorem \ref{Tconverge}).
\begin{remark}
The methods in the paper can easily be adapted to studying cubic twists of the $j$-invariant 0 curve $y^2 = x^3 + k$ for any number field $K$ with $K(\sqrt{k}, \sqrt{-3})/K$ biquadratic. In that case, Theorem \ref{mainthm} holds with 2-Selmer rank replaced by 3-Selmer rank and quadratic characters replaced by cubic characters.
\end{remark}
\subsection{Layout}
We begin in Section \ref{bg} by recalling the definitions of the 2-Selmer group and the Selmer groups associated with a 2-isogeny $\phi$ and presenting some of the connections between them. In Section \ref{twistplace}, we examine the behavior of the local conditions for the $\phi$-Selmer group under quadratic twist and show how that quantity $\T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ can be related to the value $f(\chi)$ of an additive function $f$ on $C(K)$. Theorem \ref{EKthm} is proved in Section \ref{pfEKthm} and we conclude with the proofs of Theorems \ref{mainthm} and \ref{Tconverge} in Section \ref{pfofmain}.
\subsection*{Acknowledgement}
The first author would like to express his thanks to Karl Rubin for his helpful comments and suggestions, to Ken Kramer for a series of valuable discussions, and to Michael Rael and Josiah Sugarman for helpful conversations regarding the Erd{\H o}s-Kac theorem. The first author was supported by NSF grants DMS-0457481, DMS-0757807, and DMS-0838210.
\section{Selmer Groups}\label{bg}
We begin by recalling the definition of the 2-Selmer group. If $E$ is an elliptic curve defined over a field $K$, then $E(K)/2E(K)$ maps into $H^1(K, E[2])$ via the Kummer map. The following diagram commutes for every place $v$ of $K$, where $\delta$ is the Kummer map.
\begin{center}\leavevmode
\begin{xy} \xymatrix
E(K)/2E(K) \ar[d] \ar[r]^{\delta} & H^1(K, E[2]) \ar[d]^{Res_v} \\
E(K_v)/2E(K_v) \ar[r]^{\delta} & H^1(K_v, E[2]) }
\end{xy}\end{center}
We define a distinguished local subgroup $H^1_f(K_v, E[2]) \subset H^1(K_v, E[2])$ as the image $\delta \left ( E(K_v)/2E(K_v) \right ) \subset H^1(K_v, E[2])$ for each place $v$ of $K$ and we define the \textbf{2-Selmer group} of $E/K$, denoted $\Sel_2(E/K)$, by \begin{equation*}\Sel_2(E/K) = \ker \left ( H^1(K, E[2]) \xrightarrow{\sum res_v} \bigoplus_{v\text{ of } K} H^1(K_v, E[2])/H^1_f(K_v, E[2]) \right ).\end{equation*}
The $2$-Selmer group is a finite dimensional $\F_2$-vector space that sits inside the exact sequence of $\F_2$-vector spaces \begin{equation*}0\rightarrow E(K)/2E(K) \rightarrow \Sel_2(E/K) \rightarrow \Sha(E/K)[2] \rightarrow 0\end{equation*} where $\Sha(E/K)$ is the Tate-Shafaravich group of $E$.
If $E(K)$ has a single point of order two, then there is a two-isogeny $\phi:E \rightarrow E^\prime$ between $E$ and $E^\prime$ with kernel $C = E(K)[2]$. This isogeny gives rise to two Selmer groups.
We have a short exact sequence of $G_K$ modules \begin{equation} 0 \rightarrow C \rightarrow E(\overline{K}) \xrightarrow{\phi} E^\prime(\overline{K}) \rightarrow 0\end{equation} which gives rise to a long exact sequence of cohomology groups \begin{equation*}0 \rightarrow C \rightarrow E(K) \xrightarrow{\phi} E^\prime(K) \xrightarrow{\delta} H^1(K, C) \rightarrow H^1(K, E) \rightarrow H^1(K, E^\prime) \ldots\end{equation*} The map $\delta$ is given by $\delta(Q)(\sigma)= \sigma(R) - R$ where $R$ is any point on $E(\overline{K})$ with $\phi(R) = Q$.
This sequence remains exact when we replace $K$ by its completion $K_v$ at any place $v$, which gives rise to the following commutative diagram.
\begin{center}\leavevmode
\begin{xy} \xymatrix
E^\prime(K)/\phi(E(K)) \ar[d] \ar[r]^\delta & H^1(K, C) \ar[d]^{Res_v} \\
E^\prime(K_v)/\phi(E(K_v)) \ar[r]^\delta & H^1(K_v, C) }
\end{xy}\end{center}
In a manner similar to how we defined the 2-Selmer group, we define distinguished local subgroups $H^1_\phi(K_v, C)\subset H^1(K_v, C)$ as the image of $E^\prime(K_v)/\phi(E(K_v))$ under $\delta$ for each place $v$ of $K$. We define the \textbf{$\mathbf \phi$-Selmer group of $\mathbf E$}, denoted $\Sel_\phi(E/K)$ as \begin{equation*}\Sel_\phi(E/K) = \ker \left ( H^1(K, C) \xrightarrow{\sum res_v} \bigoplus_{v \text{ of } K} H^1(K_v, C)/H^1_\phi(K_v, C) \right ).\end{equation*}
The isogeny $\phi$ on $E$ gives gives rise to a dual isogeny $\hat \phi$ on $E^\prime$ with kernel $C^\prime = \phi(E[2])$. Exchanging the roles of $(E, C, \phi)$ and $(E^\prime, C^\prime, \hat \phi)$ in the above defines the $\mathbf{\hat \phi}$\textbf{-Selmer group}, $\Sel_\hatphi(E^\prime/K)$, as a subgroup of $H^1(K, C^\prime)$. The groups $\Sel_\phi(E/K)$ and $\Sel_\hatphi(E^\prime/K)$ are finite dimensional $\Ftwo$-vector spaces and we can compare the sizes of the $\phi$-Selmer group, the $\hat \phi$-Selmer group, and the 2-Selmer group using the following two theorems.
\begin{theorem}\label{gss}The $\phi$-Selmer group, the $\hat \phi$-Selmer group, and the 2-Selmer group sit inside the exact sequence \begin{equation}0 \rightarrow E^\prime(K)[2]/\phi(E(K)[2]) \rightarrow \Sel_\phi(E/K) \rightarrow \Sel_2(E/K) \xrightarrow{\phi}\Sel_\hatphi(E^\prime/K).\end{equation}
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
This is a well known diagram chase. See Lemma 2 in \cite{FG} for example.
\end{proof}
The \textbf{Tamagawa ratio} $\T(E/E^\prime)$ defined as $\mathcal{T}(E/E^\prime) = \frac{ \big | \Sel_\phi(E/K) \big |}{\big |\Sel_{\hat \phi}(E^\prime/K)\big |}$ gives a second relationship between the $\Ftwo$-dimensions of $\Sel_\phi(E/K)$ and $\Sel_\hatphi(E^\prime/K)$.
\begin{theorem}[Cassels]\label{prodform2}
The Tamagawa ratio $\mathcal{T}(E/E^\prime)$ is given by \begin{equation*}\mathcal{T}(E/E^\prime) = \prod_{v\text{ of } K}\frac{\left | H^1_\phi(K_v, C)\right |}{2}.\end{equation*}
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
This is a combination of Theorem 1.1 and equations (1.22) and (3.4) in \cite{Cassels8}.
\end{proof}
Stepping back, we observe that if $\T(E/E^\prime) \ge 2^{r+2}$ , then $d_\phi(E/K) \ge r+2$, and therefore by Theorem \ref{gss}, $d_2(E/K) \ge r$. (If $E$ does not have a cyclic 4-isogeny defined over $K$ then we can in fact show that $\T(E/E^\prime) \ge 2^r$ implies that $d_2(E/K) \ge r$, but this is entirely unnecessary for our purposes.)
\section{Local Conditions at Twisted Places}\label{twistplace}
For the remainder of this paper, we will let $E$ be an elliptic curve with $E(K)[2] \simeq \Zt$ and let $\phi:E\rightarrow E^\prime$ be the isogeny with kernel $C=E(K)[2]$
If $\p \nmid 2$ is a prime where $E$ has good reduction, then $H^1_\phi(K_\p, C)$ is a 1-dimensional $\F_2$-subspace of $H^1(K_\p, C)$ equal to the unramified local subgroup $H^1_u(K_\p, C)$. If such a $\p$ is ramified in the extension $F/K$ cut out by a character $\chi$, then the twisted curve $E^\chi$ will have bad reduction at $\p$. The following lemma addresses the size of $H^1_\phi(K_\p, C^\chi)$.
\begin{lemma}\label{localconds}
Suppose $\p \nmid 2$ is a prime where $E$ has good reduction and $\p$ is ramified in the extension $F/K$ cut out by $\chi$.
\begin{enumerate}[(i)]
\item If $E(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt \simeq E^\prime(K_\p)[2]$, then $\dimF H^1_\phi(K_\p, C^\chi) = 1$.
\item If $E(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt \times \Zt \simeq E^\prime(K_\p)[2]$, then $\dimF H^1_\phi(K_\p, C^\chi) = 1$.
\item If $E(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt$ and $E^\prime(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt \times \Zt$, then $\dimF H^1_\phi(K_\p, C^\chi) = 2$.
\item If $E(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt \times \Zt$ and $E^\prime(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt$, then $\dimF H^1_\phi(K_\p, C^\chi) = 0$.
\end{enumerate}
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
From Lemma 3.7 in \cite{K}, we have
\[
E^{\prime \chi}(K_\p)[2^\infty]/\phi( E^\chi(K_\p)[2^\infty]) = E^{\prime \chi}(K_\p)[2]/\phi( E^\chi(K_\p)[2]).
\]
All four results then follow immediately.
\end{proof}
\begin{remark}\label{remleg}
Suppose that $\Delta$ and $\Delta^\prime$ are discriminants of any integral models of $E$ and $E^\prime$ respectively. The condition that $E(K_\p)[2] \simeq \Zt$ ( resp. $E^\prime(K_\p)[2]\simeq \Zt$) is equivalent to the condition that $\Delta$ (resp. $\Delta^\prime$) is not a square in $K_\p$. Which case of Lemma \ref{localconds} we are is therefore determined by the Legendre symbols $\left ( \frac{\Delta}{\p} \right )$ and $\left( \frac{\Delta^\prime}{\p} \right )$.
\end{remark}
We use Theorem \ref{prodform2} and Lemma \ref{localconds} to relate $\ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ to the value $g(\chi)$ of an additive function $g$ on $C(K)$ defined as follows: For $\chi \in C(K)$ cutting out $F/K$, let \begin{equation}\label{gdef} g(\chi) = \sum_{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{\p \text{ ramified in } F/K}{\p \nmid 2\Delta \infty}} \frac{ \left ( \frac{\Delta^\prime}{\p} \right ) - \left( \frac{\Delta}{\p} \right ) }{2}\end{equation} That is, $g(\chi)$ roughly counts the difference between the number of primes ramified in $F/K$ where condition $(iii)$ of Proposition \ref{localconds} is satisfied and the number of primes ramified in $F/K$ where condition $(iv)$ is satisfied. We then have the following:
\begin{proposition}\label{TT}
The order of $2$ in the Tamagawa ratio $\T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ is given by \begin{equation*}\ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi}) = g(\chi) + \sum_{v |2\Delta\infty} \left ( \dimF H^1_\phi(K_v, C^\chi) - 1 \right ).\end{equation*}
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
By Thereom \ref{prodform2}, $\ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ is given by \begin{equation*}\displaystyle{ \ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi}) = \sum_{v |2\Delta\Delta_{F/K}\infty} \left ( \dimF H^1_\phi(K_v, C^d) - 1 \right ),}\end{equation*} where $\Delta_{F/K}$ is the relative discriminant of the extension $F/K$ cut out by $\chi$. By Remark \ref{remleg}, Lemma \ref{localconds} gives us that \begin{equation*}\dimF H^1_\phi(K_\p, C^\chi) - 1 = \frac{ \left ( \frac{\Delta^\prime}{\p} \right ) - \left( \frac{\Delta}{\p} \right ) }{2}\end{equation*} for places $\p \mid \Delta_{F/K}$ with $\p\nmid 2\Delta\infty$ and the result follows.
\end{proof}
\section{The Erd{\H o}s-Kac Theorem For Quadratic Characters}\label{pfEKthm}
Because the sum $$ \sum_{v |2\Delta\infty} \left ( \dimF H^1_\phi(K_v, C^\chi) - 1 \right )$$ can be bounded uniformly for a fixed elliptic curve, Proposition \ref{TT} suggests that we should study the distribution of the additive function $g(\chi)$ in order to understand the distribution of $\T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ as $\chi$ varies.
When $f:\mathbb{N} \rightarrow \C$ is an additive function on the integers, then under mild hypotheses, the classical Erd{\H o}s-Kac Theorem tells us that the distribution of $f$ on natural numbers less than $X$ approaches a normal distribution with mean $\mu(X)$ and variance $\sigma^2(X)$ as $X \rightarrow \infty$, where $\mu(X)$ and $\sigma(X)$ are the rational analogues of $\mu_f(X)$ and $\sigma_f(X)$ defined in the introduction. Theorem \ref{EKthm} is the statement that the same type of result holds for additive functions on quadratic characters of a number field.
We begin by observing that if $\chi_{d_1}=\chi_{d_2}$, then, if $(d_1)=\mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{b}_1^2$ and $(d_2)=\mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{b}_2^2$, $\mathfrak{b}_1$ and $\mathfrak{b}_2$ lie in the same ideal class of $\mathcal{O}_K$. Conversely, if $\mathfrak{b}_1$ and $\mathfrak{b}_2$ lie in the same class, then $\chi_{d_1}=\chi_{\varepsilon d_2}$ for some $\varepsilon\in\mathcal{O}_K^\times$. Thus, we see that elements of $C(K, X)$ correspond to triples $(\mathfrak{b},\mathfrak{a},\varepsilon)$ with $\mathfrak{b}$ a representative of its ideal class of minimal norm, $\mathfrak{a}$ a squarefree ideal of norm $\N\mathfrak{a} <X/\N\mathfrak{b}^2$ such that $\mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{b}^2$ is principal, and $\varepsilon$ an element of $\mathcal{O}_K^\times/(\mathcal{O}_K^\times)^2$. From this discussion, it is apparent, for a prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}$ and a fixed choice $\mathfrak{b}_0$ of $\mathfrak{b}$, that
\begin{eqnarray*}
\lim_{X\to\infty} \frac{|\left \{\chi\in C(K,X) \leftrightarrow (\mathfrak{b}_0,\mathfrak{a},\varepsilon) : \mathfrak{p}\!\mid\!\mathfrak{a} \right \} |}{|C(K,X)|}
&=& \mathrm{Pr}(\mathfrak{p}\!\mid\!\mathfrak{a} : \mathfrak{a} \text{ is squarefree}, \mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{b}_0^2 \text{ is principal}) \\
&=& \frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1},
\end{eqnarray*}
whence, ranging over all $\chi$, the probablity that $\mathfrak{p}\mid\mathfrak{a}$ is $\frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1}$.
Thus, treating the events $\mathfrak{p}_1\mid\mathfrak{a}$ and $\mathfrak{p}_2\mid\mathfrak{a}$ as independent, we might predict that
\[
\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|} \sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} f(\chi) \approx \tilde{\mu}_f(X),
\]
where
\begin{eqnarray*}
\tilde{\mu}_f(X)
&:=& \sum_{\N\mathfrak{p} < X} \frac{f(\mathfrak{p})}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1} \\
&=& \mu_f(X) + O(1).
\end{eqnarray*}
In fact, this prediction is true, which we establish using the method of moments, following the blueprint of Granville and Soundararajan \cite{GS}. This requires the following technical result about the function $g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi)$, defined to be
\[
g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi) := \left\{ \begin{array}{ll}
f(\mathfrak{p})\left(1-\frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1}\right) & \text{if } \mathfrak{p}\mid\mathfrak{a}, \text{ and} \\
f(\mathfrak{p})\left(- \frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1}\right) & \text{if } \mathfrak{p}\nmid\mathfrak{a}.
\end{array}\right.
\]
\begin{theorem}
\label{thm:additive}
With notation as above, uniformly for $k\leq \sigma_f(z)^{2/3}$, we have that
\[
\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|}\sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi)\right)^k = c_k \sigma_f(z)^k\left(1+O\left(\frac{k^3}{\sigma_f(z)^2}\right)\right)+O\left(X^{\lambda-1} 3^k \pi_K(z)^k\right)
\]
if $k$ is even, and
\[
\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|}\sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi)\right)^k \ll c_k \sigma_f(z)^{k-1} k^{3/2} + X^{\lambda-1} 3^k \pi_K(z)^k
\]
if $k$ is odd. Here, $c_k=\Gamma(k+1)/2^{k/2}\Gamma(\frac{k}{2}+1)$ and $\lambda<1$ depends only on the degree of $K$.
\end{theorem}
The proof of Theorem \ref{thm:additive} relies upon a result about the distribution of squarefree ideals. To this end, given ideals $\mathfrak{c}$ and $\mathfrak{q}$ and squarefree $\mathfrak{d}\mid\mathfrak{q}$, define $N^{\mathrm{sf}}(X;\mathfrak{c},\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{d})$ to be the number of squarefree ideals $\mathfrak{a}$ of norm up to $X$ in the same class as $\mathfrak{c}$ and such that $(\mathfrak{a},\mathfrak{q})=\mathfrak{d}$. We then have:
\begin{lemma}
\label{lem:dist}
With notation as above, we have that
\[
N^{\mathrm{sf}}(X;\mathfrak{c},\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{d}) = \frac{1}{|\mathrm{Cl}(K)|}\frac{\mathrm{res}_{s=1}\zeta_K(s)}{\zeta_K(2)} \phi(\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{d}) X + O(X^\lambda 3^{\omega(\mathfrak{q})}),
\]
where $\lambda=\frac{\deg K-1}{\deg K+1}$ if $\deg K \geq 3$ and $\lambda=1/2$ otherwise, $\omega(\mathfrak{q})$ denotes the number of distinct primes dividing $\mathfrak{q}$, and
\[
\phi(\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{d}) = \prod_{\mathfrak{p}\mid\mathfrak{d}} \frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1} \prod_{\mathfrak{p}\mid\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{p}\nmid\mathfrak{d}} \frac{\N\mathfrak{p}}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1}.
\]
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
This follows from elementary considerations and the classical estimate
\[
\sum_{\begin{subarray}{c} \N\mathfrak{a} < X \\ \mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{c}^{-1} \text{ prin.} \end{subarray}} 1 = \frac{1}{|\mathrm{Cl}(K)|}\mathrm{res}_{s=1}\zeta_K(s)\cdot X + O(X^{\frac{\deg K-1}{\deg K+1}}).
\]
\end{proof}
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{thm:additive}]
For any ideal $\mathfrak{q}$, define $g_\mathfrak{q}(\chi):=\prod_{\mathfrak{p}^\alpha \mid\mid \mathfrak{q}}g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi)^\alpha$. We then have that
\begin{eqnarray*}
\sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi)\right)^k
&=& \left|\mathcal{O}_K^\times/(\mathcal{O}_K^\times)^2\right| \cdot \sum_{\mathfrak{b}} \sideset{}{^\prime}\sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}\N\mathfrak{a}<\frac{X}{\N\mathfrak{b}^2} \\ \mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{b}^2\, \text{prin.} \end{subarray}} \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\mathfrak{a})\right)^k \\
&=& \left|\mathcal{O}_K^\times/(\mathcal{O}_K^\times)^2\right| \cdot \sum_{\mathfrak{b}} \sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}_1,\dots,\N\mathfrak{p}_k < z} \sideset{}{^\prime}\sum_{\begin{subarray}{c}\N\mathfrak{a}<\frac{X}{\N\mathfrak{b}^2} \\ \mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{b}^2\, \text{principal} \end{subarray}} g_{\mathfrak{p}_1\dots\mathfrak{p}_k}(\math<|fim_middle|> this shows that for any $\epsilon > 0$, \begin{equation*}\displaystyle{ \frac{ |\{\chi \in C(K, X) : d_2 (E^\chi/K) \ge r \}| }{|C(K, X)|} } \ge \frac{1}{2} - \epsilon\end{equation*} for sufficiently large $X$
\end{proof}
| frak{a}),
\end{eqnarray*}
where, as expected, the summation over $\mathfrak{b}$ is taken to be over representatives of minimal norm for each ideal class and the prime on the summation over $\mathfrak{a}$ indicates it is to be taken over squarefree ideals. Given an ideal $\mathfrak{c}$, we now consider for any $\mathfrak{q}$ the more general summation
\begin{eqnarray*}
\sideset{}{^\prime}\sum_{\begin{subarray}{c} \N\mathfrak{a}<Y \\ \mathfrak{a}\mathfrak{c}^{-1} \,\text{principal} \end{subarray}} g_\mathfrak{q}(\mathfrak{a})
&=& \sum_{\mathfrak{d}\mid \sqrt{\mathfrak{q}}} g_\mathfrak{q}(\mathfrak{d}) N^{\mathrm{sf}}(Y;\mathfrak{c},\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{d}) \\
&=& \frac{Y}{|\mathrm{Cl}(K)|} \frac{\mathrm{res}_{s=1}\zeta_K(s)}{\zeta_K(2)} \sum_{\mathfrak{d}\mid \sqrt{\mathfrak{q}}} g_\mathfrak{q}(\mathfrak{d})\phi(\mathfrak{q},\mathfrak{d}) + O\left(Y^{\lambda}3^{\omega(\mathfrak{q})}\sum_{\mathfrak{d}\mid \sqrt{\mathfrak{q}}} |g_\mathfrak{q}(\mathfrak{d})| \right), \\
&=:& \frac{Y}{|\mathrm{Cl}(K)|} \frac{\mathrm{res}_{s=1}\zeta_K(s)}{\zeta_K(2)} G(\mathfrak{q}) + O\left(Y^\lambda 3^{\omega(\mathfrak{q})}\right),
\end{eqnarray*}
say, where $\sqrt{\mathfrak{q}}=\prod_{\mathfrak{p}\mid\mathfrak{q}}\mathfrak{p}$. We note that $G(\mathfrak{q})$ is multiplicative, and is given by
\[
G(\mathfrak{q}) = \prod_{\mathfrak{p}^\alpha\mid\mid \mathfrak{q}} \frac{f(\mathfrak{p})^\alpha}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1} \left( \left(1-\frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1}\right)^\alpha + \N\mathfrak{p} \cdot \left(-\frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1}\right)^\alpha \right).
\]
Thus, $G(\mathfrak{q})=0$ unless each $\alpha$ is at least two, i.e. $\mathfrak{q}$ is square-full.
Returning to the original problem, we find that
\begin{eqnarray*}
\sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\chi)\right)^k
&=& c(K)\cdot X \sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}_1,\dots,\N\mathfrak{p}_k<z}G(\mathfrak{p}_1\dots\mathfrak{p}_k) + O\left(X^{\lambda}3^k\pi_K(z)^k\right),
\end{eqnarray*}
where $\pi_K(z):=\#\{\mathfrak{p} : \N\mathfrak{p}<z\}$ and
\[
c(K):=\left| \mathcal{O}_K^\times/(\mathcal{O}_K^\times)^2 \right| \frac{1}{|\mathrm{Cl}(K)|} \frac{\mathrm{res}_{s=1}\zeta_K(s)}{\zeta_K(2)} \sum_{\mathfrak{b}} \frac{1}{\N\mathfrak{b}^2}.
\]
Noting that the above discussion also proves that $|C(K, X)| = c(K)\cdot X + O(X^{\lambda})$, the goal is to estimate the summation over $\mathfrak{p}_1,\dots,\mathfrak{p}_k$. Since $G(\mathfrak{q})=0$ unless $\mathfrak{q}$ is square-full, we have that
\[
\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}_1,\dots,\N\mathfrak{p}_k<z}G(\mathfrak{p}_1\dots\mathfrak{p}_k) = \sum_{s\leq k/2} \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c} \alpha_1+\dots+\alpha_s=k, \\ \text{each }\alpha_i\geq 2 \end{subarray}} \frac{k!}{\alpha_1!\dots\alpha_s!} \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c} \mathfrak{p}_1 < \dots < \mathfrak{p}_s \\ \N\mathfrak{p}_s < z \end{subarray}} G(\mathfrak{p}_1^{\alpha_1}\dots\mathfrak{p}_s^{\alpha_s}),
\]
where $\mathfrak{p}<\mathfrak{p}^\prime$ is determined by a norm-compatible linear ordering on the prime ideals of $\mathcal{O}_K$. We note that, since $G(\mathfrak{p}^\alpha) \leq \frac{f(\mathfrak{p})^2}{N\mathfrak{p}}$, the inner summation contributes no more than $O(\sigma_f(z)^{2s})$, which will be an error term unless $s=\frac{k}{2}$; the dependence of this error on $k$ can be sussed out exactly as in Granville and Soundararajan's work. In fact, the handling of the main term, arising when $k$ is even and $s=\frac{k}{2}$, is also essentially the same. In particular, the inner summation is equal to
\begin{eqnarray*}
\frac{1}{(\frac{k}{2})!} \sum_{\begin{subarray}{c} \N\mathfrak{p}_1,\dots,\N\mathfrak{p}_{\frac{k}{2}}<z \\ \mathrm{distinct} \end{subarray}} G(\mathfrak{p}_1^2\dots\mathfrak{p}_{\frac{k}{2}}^2)
&=& \frac{1}{(\frac{k}{2})!} \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} G(\mathfrak{p}^2) + O(\log\log k) \right)^{k/2} \\
&=& \frac{1}{(\frac{k}{2})!} \left(\sigma_f(z)^2+O(\log\log k)\right)^{k/2}.
\end{eqnarray*}
This yields Theorem \ref{thm:additive}.
\end{proof}
We are now ready to prove Theorem \ref{EKthm}.
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{EKthm}]
Recall that we wish to show that the quantity
\[
\frac{f(\chi)-\mu_f(X)}{\sigma_f(X)}, \,\, \chi\in C(K,X),
\]
is normally distributed as $X\to\infty$. As remarked above, we will do so using the method of moments. In particular, we have that
\begin{eqnarray*}
\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|} \sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)}\!\!\!\!\!\! \left(f(\chi)-\mu_f(X)\right)^k\!\!\!\!
&=& \!\!\!\!\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|} \sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)}\!\! \left(\sum_{\mathfrak{p}\mid\mathfrak{a}}f(\mathfrak{p})-\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<X} \frac{f(\mathfrak{p})}{\N\mathfrak{p}+1} + O(1) \right)^k \\
&=& \!\!\!\! \frac{1}{|C(K,X)|} \sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)}\!\! \left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\mathfrak{a}) + O\left(\frac{\log X}{\log z} \right) \right)^k.
\end{eqnarray*}
Considering the error term in Theorem \ref{thm:additive}, we take $z=X^{\frac{1-\lambda}{k}}$. With this choice, the inner summation becomes
\[\left(\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\mathfrak{a}) \right)^k+O\left(\sum_{j=0}^{k-1} k^j \left|\sum_{\N\mathfrak{p}<z} g_\mathfrak{p}(\mathfrak{a}) \right|^{k-j}\right),\]
hence Theorem \ref{thm:additive}, the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, and the fact that $\sigma_f(z)=\sigma_f(X)+O(\log k)$ yield that
\[
\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|} \sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} \left(f(\chi)-\mu_f(X)\right)^k = c_k \sigma_f(X)^k\left(1 + O\left( \frac{k^{3/2}}{\sigma_f(X)}\right)\right)
\]
if $k$ is even, and
\[
\frac{1}{|C(K,X)|} \sum_{\chi\in C(K,X)} \left(f(\chi)-\mu_f(X)\right)^k \ll c_k \sigma_f(X)^{k-1} k^{3/2}
\]
if $k$ is odd. This proves the theorem.
\end{proof}
\section{Proof of Main Theorems}\label{pfofmain}
In order to apply Theorem \ref{EKthm} to the additive function $g(\chi)$ defined in (\ref{gdef}), we need to evaluate the quantities $\mu_g(X)$ and $\sigma_g(X)$. We begin with the following
\begin{proposition}\label{sumprop}
Let $c \in K^\times$ be non-square. Then \begin{equation*}\sum_{\N\p \le X}\frac{1 +\left (\frac{c}{\p} \right ) }{\mathbf{N}\p} = \log \log X + O(1).\end{equation*}
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
This is a consequence of the prime ideal theorem and the fact that the Hecke $L$-function attached to the non-trivial character of $\mathrm{Gal}(K(\sqrt{c})/K)$ is analytic and non-vanishing on the line $\Re(s)=1$.
\end{proof}
We now decompose $\mu_g(X)$ as \begin{equation*}\mu_g(X) = \frac{1}{2}\sum_{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{\mathbf{N}\p < X}{p \nmid 2\Delta \infty}}\frac{1 +\left (\frac{\Delta^\prime}{\p} \right ) }{\mathbf{N}\p} - \frac{1}{2}\sum_{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{\mathbf{N}\p < X}{\p \nmid 2\Delta \infty}}\frac{1 +\left (\frac{\Delta}{\p} \right ) }{\mathbf{N}\p},\end{equation*} and it immediately follows from Proposition \ref{sumprop} that $\mu_g(X) = O(1)$. We also rewrite $\sigma_g(X)$ as \begin{equation*}\sigma_g(X) =\left ( \displaystyle{ \sum_{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{\mathbf{N} \p \le X, \p \nmid 2\Delta\infty }{ \left (\frac{\Delta}{\p} \right ) \ne \left ( \frac{\Delta^\prime}{\p} \right )} }\frac{1}{\mathbf{N} \p}} \right )^{1/2} =\left (\frac{1}{2}\displaystyle{ \sum_{\genfrac{}{}{0pt}{}{\mathbf{N}\p \le X}{\p \nmid 2\Delta\infty }}\frac{1 - \left (\frac{\Delta\Delta^\prime}{\p} \right ) }{\mathbf{N} \p}} \right )^{1/2}.\end{equation*}
In order to apply Proposition \ref{sumprop} to $\sigma_g(X)$, we therefore need $\Delta\Delta^\prime$ to be non-square in $K$. This will be the case when $E$ does not have a cyclic 4-isogeny defined over $K(E[2])$.
\begin{proposition}\label{charac}
If $E$ is an elliptic curve with $E(K)[2] \simeq \Zt$ that does not have a cyclic 4-isogeny defined over $K(E[2])$, then $\Delta\Delta^\prime \not \in (K^\times)^2$
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
Let $Q^\prime \in E^\prime[2] - C^\prime$, $C = \langle P \rangle$, and take $Q \in E[4]$ with $\phi(Q) = Q^\prime$. Since $Q^\prime \in E^\prime(K)[2] - C^\prime$, and both $\phi \circ \hatphi = [2]_{E^\prime}$ and $\hatphi \circ \phi = [2]_{E}$, it follows that $2Q = \hatphi(Q^\prime) = P.$ Let $M = K(E[2])$. Since $E$ has no cyclic 4-isogeny defined over $M$, there exists $\sigma \in G_M$ such that $\sigma(Q) \not \in \langle Q \rangle = \left \{0 , Q, P, Q + P \right \}.$ In particular, since $\phi^{-1}(Q^\prime) \subset \langle Q \rangle$, we get that $\phi(\sigma(Q)) \ne Q^\prime$. We then get that \begin{equation*}\sigma(Q^\prime) = \sigma(\phi(Q)) = \phi(\sigma(Q)) \ne Q^\prime,\end{equation*} showing that $Q^\prime$ is not defined over $M$, and therefore that $K(E^\prime[2]) \not \subset M$. It then follows that $K(E[2])$ and $K(E^\prime[2])$ are disjoint quadratic extensions of $K$ and that $E^\prime(K)[2] \simeq \Zt$. As $K(E[2])$ and $K(E^\prime[2])$ are given by $K(\sqrt{\Delta})$ and $K(\sqrt{\Delta^\prime})$ respectively, it follows that $\Delta\Delta^\prime \not \in (K^\times)^2$.
\end{proof}
By Proposition \ref{sumprop}, we therefore get that $\sigma_g(X) = \sqrt{\frac{1}{2}\log \log X}+ O(1)$ whenever $E$ does not have a cyclic 4-isogeny defined over $K(E[2])$.
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{Tconverge}]
Applying Theorem \ref{EKthm} to $g(\chi)$, we get that \begin{equation}\label{limeq} \lim_{X\to\infty} \frac{ \left | \left \{ \chi\in C(K, X) : g(\chi) - O(1) \leq z \left (\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \log \log X} + O(1) \right ) \right \} \right |}{ |C(K,X)|} = G(z) \end{equation} for every $z \in \R$. By Proposition \ref{TT}, there is some contant $C$, independent of $\chi$, such that $|g(\chi) - \ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})| < C$, so in fact (\ref{limeq}) holds with $g(\chi)$ replaced by $\ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi})$ and the result follows.
\end{proof}
\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem \ref{mainthm}]
By Theorem \ref{Tconverge}, \begin{equation*}\lim_{X \rightarrow \infty} \displaystyle{ \frac{ |\{\chi \in C(K,X) : \ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi}) \ge r \}| }{|C(K, X)|} } = \frac{1}{2}\end{equation*} for any fixed $r \ge 0$. As $d_2(E^\chi/K) \ge \ord_2 \T(E^\chi/E^{\prime \chi}) - 2$, | 4,055 |
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In good news for the Club, Hackney Ladies were featured in the Harlequins match programme for Big Game 11, held last Saturday at Twickenham, the home of English rugby no less. Coach Steve Wagstaff, with his 12 years of experience at Harlequins, was asked to lift the lid on the incredible progress in women's rugby at the Club. Fair play to Steve, who represented us well!
There was a full house of 80,000 in attendance, so let's hope a few readers will know more about who we are, and what we're about as a result!
Harlequins supports grassroots rugby at every opportunity through the brilliant unsung work of many community coaches across the south east of England. A lot of that work is largely unseen or done on top of their roles at the Club.
Today, at our biggest event of the season, we take the opportunity to showcase the efforts of Steve Wagstaff, a DPP and EPDG coach with the Academy for the last 12 years and his upwardly mobile Hackney Ladies squad over in East London.
Most supporters will have a gilded memory of when they first came into contact with our sport and began a lifelong love affair with rugby.
That cast iron foundation could have been your first match as a spectator as a child, or the first time you picked up a ball to play this the toughest but most rewarding of sporting pursuits.
The common denominator is rugby's infectious ability to create memories and friends for a lifetime.
Those foundations take<|fim_middle|> I've been part of it for 12 years.
"We were able to use the changing facilities at Surrey Sports Park, one of our Welsh girls was there with Jamie Roberts, which might have been the highlight of her life!
The inspiration has worked. The 'Gladies' were promoted last season and now sit second to Sutton & Epsom in NC1 with the development group pushing for a league start - they dispatched a plucky Reading Abbey 49-0 just prior to Christmas in what we could describe as monsoon conditions, had it been warmer. As it was it was good old fashioned British fare. Miserable, but smiles abounded regardless, like at every game.
One player, a local 17 year-old is now involved in the England development programme, several have played at county level, but Wagstaff is swift to re-iterate that although that pathway is tangible and actively pursued by Hackney for any player with promise, it's the club, the friendships and experiences that are every bit as invaluable as caps and cups.
"There are so many of the ladies who now have an opportunity to play rugby which they never would have got anywhere else. It's an open, encouraging environment where serious sport is encouraged as well as participation," he says.
"We have so many communities merging together in an inner city area. It's reflected in our ladies team. We have people from different jobs, races, religions, creeds, colours, whatever. They all merge into one successful team, they come together, help each other out.
"There is a clear pathway there. It's a lot easier because there is a smaller playing pool at the moment, that may change in 10 years' time, but there is a push towards getting women into elite rugby at the Tyrrells level.
"If we had someone that Karen or Gary thought were good enough for the Quins firsts, we would drive them down to play and more than happily cheer her on!
"The obvious one is Kyle Sinckler! I had him at Ealing as well - along with Jack Clifford. | time and effort to establish. Among the many worthy and excellent men and women spreading the good word in our game is Steve Wagstaff, a stalwart of the Harlequins Academy Elite Player Development Group (EPDG) and DPP programmes for 12 years who has taken charge of Hackney Ladies (and latterly men) over the past 18 months to stupendous effect.
Although records reveal that rugby has been played in the East London borough since 1879, the Hackney club was founded officially in 1963 as an old boys' outfit for the local Woodberry Downs comprehensive school. Far from being an exclusive blazer and tie affair, the club opened its doors to one and all - anyone who has spent any time in the borough will know that trying to effect any notion of rugby union's past elitism would have not been credible to start with. It has never been a part of Hackney RFC.
Facing extinction in 2004 and fielding only one senior side, the committee were proactive, determined and passionate - exploding perceptions of a "posh sport" in a borough beset by poverty and social challenges and absolutely a football heartland where Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham shirts dominate, sprinkled with the requisite Chelsea, Liverpool and rejuvenated Manchester United these days.
The story goes that the local MP needed some convincing that the club wasn't just an Oxbridge old boys set-up, an island in a very different social storm, such was rugby's alienation in the local consciousness. To her credit, she came, she saw and was completely convinced otherwise.
In 2010, they founded the 'Gladies' to add to their three (now four) regular men's sides and youth section (the Bulls). Women's rugby was a natural evolution for a club committed to a noble ethos - "fellowship is life" - but in recent years, under Wagstaff's very capable eye, Hackney are making waves.
"It's one of the most satisfying aspects of my career so far," says the experienced coach, formerly DOR at Barking, Westcombe Park and Assistant Coach at Ealing Trailfinders under current supremo Ben Ward when the side were promoted to the Championship.
"Personally, having been around rugby all my life, women's rugby is the fastest growing aspect of the sport I've ever seen.
"We literally get people walking up to training almost every week, some of whom have never played before, but some of whom have played Dubai Sevens, or even at the likes of Bristol - they gravitate towards it because of the atmosphere the committee have engendered.
"It makes my life really easy. It's fostering an environment where I don't have to go looking for players, they come to us.
"When a new player arrives, they are buddied up, looked after, made to feel welcome, the captain makes sure that she's got all their details at the first session. We get them on the pitch as soon as possible, it doesn't matter if they've never played before.
"We give them the basic skills and get them out there to see what happens, because they learn by playing - but maybe not immediately in a league game! To see the improvement is so satisfying.
Wagstaff is a rugby lifer, having played here and in Australia to a fine standard, refereed up to level 6 and made his living juggling police duties and his sporting passion (rather like Karen Findlay). Son Taine now plays and coaches in New Zealand, like father, like son - "I think his mum is a fan of Taine Randell!" quips his proud dad.
As a regular supporter on the muddy touchline at Spring Hill Park, readers can be assured that we're not talking about pristine facilities here, everything you see is driven by an intoxicating mutual respect, comradeship and love of the game. My daughter plays, my dog is now the team mascot. And the team are entirely representative of the borough badge they proudly bear - come one, come all, you are welcome.
"The facilities we've got are fairly bare bones but what we have is a burgeoning, successful women's team in a football heartland which is supported by association with Quins, yes, but also through their own hard work. It's fantastic," says Wagstaff.
"One of the keys to Hackney's success is that they are self-reliant - they don't rely on anything, they make it happen themselves.
"We've gone from being a social, turn-up side to a competitive team who when they lose, self-reflect and really learn from it. It was refreshing to arrive to an environment where there was a constant thirst for improvement, not just turning up. It took a while, but I saw it happen in front of me.
"I thought it would be good to expose them to the environment of a top Tyrrells and Gallagher Premiership club. I've known Gary Street and Karen Findlay for years so I got in touch with them.
"They agreed, completely off their own back, that we could go over there before a development game against Worcester and have a session then watch the game afterwards. I thought they might do a quick 15-20 minute bespoke session for us but Gary, Karen, a couple of other coaches and all the S&C guys gave us a proper session and the girls responded.
"We had 27 turn up on a cold Sunday morning and it was a fantastic experience for them. They made us feel so at home - that's what Quins is all about. I knew they would because | 1,142 |
June 16, 2012 The Observatory in Santa Ana & Out Da House Productions unexpectedly brought one of the livest and most successful hip hop events to ever hit Orange County, Back To Basics. The venue filled with loyal hip hop fans, fascinated by raw lines, dope beats, and culture. The line-up consisting of Souls<|fim_middle|> with a "R.I.P." to the west coast crooner, hit-maker, and legend- Nate Dogg. Everyone gave an outcry of acclaim and respect.
Meanwhile, all throughout the night the Constellation room sported a line-up of artists with a more eclectic, raw, and experimental sound. KC Coats, MC A&A, the Ghetto Zoo, and Parallel crew all graced the Out Da House stage in the Constellation room alongside main acts Roc C & Oh No, and Kool Keith.
Thank you to all the artist who made Day 1 of Back to Basics 3 a memorable one for the fans, and to all the fans who came out and helped us make history once again in the name of Hip Hop. | of Mischief, Planet Asia, Strong Arm Steady, Fashawn, Zion I, Evidence, People Under The Stairs, and The Visionaries among others. The outcome? Well, here we are three years later, wrapping up a successful weekend with the third annual Back To Basics Hip Hop festival, and it's safe to say that like fine wine it only gets better as the years pass.
Out Da House Productions in conjunction with the Observatory OC once again lined up a emcee-studded roster for our annual Back To Basics. This year, bringing you a two-day sold out event with some of your favorite rhyme-spitters and knowledge droppers: Pharoahe Monch, Souls Of Mischief, Oh No & Roc C, Blackalicious, Aesop Rock, Brother Ali, Raekwon, Sick Jacken, Murs, and Immortal Technique to name a few. Not only were we in celebration of our Back To Basics third year run, but also celebrating the 7 year Out Da House anniversary- so you know we put out for hip hop fans in a major way this time around!
Brother Ali, Dag Savage, Planet Asia, Blackalicious, Talib Kweli, People Under The Stairs, Tha Liks, and MURS, were the big names on our Observatory main room stage on day 1 (6/21). Doors opened at 4pm and the show began promptly by 5.
First up, to get the crowd ready and pumped was Surkle of Sound dropping ill liners like "How you gangsta? When you ain't even bangin' in my deck".
Local young talent Sage One took second on stage. Now, don't knock the supporting act slot, because this young 21 year old has quite a fan base, enough wisdom and rhyme scheme on deck than your average hip hop opening act. Sage stepped on stage as though class had just been dismissed, backpack and all, but it was just getting started as he took to the mic and began to spit 16s- generating a large amount of acclamation from the crowd. It's really no surprise why Sage boasts the #2 spot on OC Weekly's recent Top Ten Rappers in OC.
Drewid Of SI rocked third also exciting the crowd with lots of energy and a dope set where he incorporated the b-boy element of the culture.
Main act Dag Savage took over the stage at about 6:30pm for the real fun, but something seemed off key on the deejay platform- Exile was missing. While Exile was away on tour in Europe, Johaz rocked the Back To Basics stage and the crowd with positive, and spiritual style. "Make You Feel That Way" had the entire crowd elevated on words and sound.
A quick turnaround came when Tha Liks completely turned the building into a party. E-swift, J-Ro, & Tash had the crowd jumping with singles from albums 21 And Over, Coast II Coast, Likwidation, X.O. Expereince, and Firewater. The "hip hop drunkies" did what they do best- and that's turn the party out! They ended their set with "The Flute Song (LaLaLa)" leaving the crowd in a frenzy.
Talib Kweli was another crowd favorite as the East Coast native brought his conscious lyricism to the mic. He performed tracks off his extensive solo catalog, as well as collaborative projects with Mos Def (Black Star) and Hi-Tek (Reflection Eternal). My personal favorite, as I'm sure is one of yours as well, and most memorable moment every time Talib rocks a stage, is the performance of "Get By". There's just something about that track that evokes change, optimism, and a second look at your life.
Another one of our Back to Basics veteran acts, People Under The Stairs, brought another amazing performance to Back To Basics for the third time in a row. Y'all already know how it goes- Double K & Thes One put on quite a show! The two-man act pours out all their energy on that stage filling each and every single one in that room. The highlight of their set, as always, is when the lights dim low and those strings begin to sound off "Ta-Ra-Ta-Ta-Ta". Yeah, that's that "San Francisco Knights"- the dim venue illuminates with lighters creating the most serene atmosphere.
Brother Ali had the entire main room packed throughout his set. It was evident many hip hop enthusiasts were in attendance to see the Rhymesayer. Executing rhymes about life, love, struggle, government theory, and humanism. It was such a honor to have Brother Ali on our stage this year not only as the phenomenal lyricist that he is but as the self-aware man as he dropped jewels of wisdom all through out the performance.
And finally, our headliner on this years Back To Basics main stage was the underground hip hop icon of the past decade. You can't speak on underground hip hop without mentioning this man at least once, or twice within the discussion. From the Living Legends to Felt, to Guerilla Unions Independent Paid Dues festival, and every underground independent hip hop artist to ever grace that and the Rock the Bells festival stages is in some way in alignment with this man right here- MURS.
Never being afraid to experiment, Murs began his set by first performing with his new group MURSDAY! consisting of Strange Music band MAYDAY! and himself. Now, let me tell y'all, I'm not too fond of the rock scene, with a few exceptions here and there, but MURSDAY! is most definitely something I dug the sound of. MAYDAY brings two emcees, Bernz and Wreckonize, adding Murs to the mix they create an even more energized and fine fusion of alternative rock with a urban-rap twist.
Following the MURSDAY! performance Murs went on to do a solo set which many of us were anticipating the entire night. Murs has thrived in this underground scene for his storytelling and life-and-love experience rhymes. His music ranges from experimental fun and goofy to heavily sample driven and heartfelt.
He performed "Bad Man", "Silly Girl", "Yesterday & Today", "H-U-S-T-L-E", "I Used To Love Her (Again)"- we went crazy off those 9th Wonder productions. "The Breakup Song" and "Remember to Forget" hit close to heart for many. Murs didn't overlook the Felt (Murs & Slug) favorite "Dirty Girl" which had all the "linda cochinas" singing along. But the most memorable moment of his set was when he and his DJ harmonized Warren G's "Regulators" and at the end Murs gave a big shout out | 1,414 |
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