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Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau (Slot Muskau, Muskau, 30 oktober 1785 - Slot Branitz, Cottbus, 4 februari 1871) was een Duits landschapsarchitect, reiziger, schrijver, militair en dandy.
Freie Standesherrschaft Muskau
Van zijn moeder erfde Pückler Muskau, de grootste "Freie Standesherrschaft" in Duitsland. Hij was een vermogend man en behoorde tot de groot<|fim_middle|>ow (1938)
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Leopold Schefer
Duits tuin- of landschapsarchitect
Duits schrijver
Duitse adel
Duits militair
Militair in de coalitie tegen Napoleon | ste grootgrondbezitters in Pruisen, maar gaf veel geld uit en bracht daardoor het familievermogen in gevaar.
Militaire loopbaan
De studie rechten in Leipzig, welke hij in 1801 begon, werd in 1802 afgebroken voor een militaire loopbaan tijdens de napoleontische oorlog. Hij ging in Dresden bij de cavalerie. Hij was ook kortstondig militair gouverneur van Brugge. In 1866 was hij (op 81-jarige leeftijd!) nog betrokken bij de Pruisische veldtocht tegen Oostenrijk.
Reizen
Over zijn vele reizen heeft hij geschreven onder het pseudoniem Semilasso.
Pückler als landschapsarchitect
Na afloop van de napoleontische oorlogen in 1815, verbleef Pücker een jaar in Engeland waar hij onder de indruk raakte van de Engelse landschapsarchitectuur. Dit was de aanleiding om het Fürst-Pückler-Park aan te leggen in Muskau, een heerlijkheid die hij van zijn moeder had geërfd. Hier heeft hij 30 jaar aan gewerkt, van 1815 tot de verkoop in 1845 aan Prins Willem Frederik van Oranje-Nassau.
De dagelijkse leiding was in handen van Jacob Heinrich Rehder. Hier kwam de latere landschapsarchitect Eduard Petzold als leerling in dienst. Petzold erkende dat hij veel van zijn inzichten heeft ontleend aan de prins.
Omdat Puckler zijn bezittingen in Muskau uit financiële noodzaak had moeten verkopen, verhuisde hij naar Branitz, eveneens een oud familiebezit. Hier begon hij opnieuw met de aanleg van een park waaraan hij de laatste 25 jaar van zijn leven wijdde.
Huwelijk met Lucie van Hardenberg
In 1817 huwde hij met de negen jaar oudere Lucie van Hardenberg. Voor Pückler was dit eerder een verstandshuwelijk om financiële redenen. Ondanks het feit dat het koppel harmonieus samenleefde, scheidde de prins van Lucie om te kunnen hertrouwen, maar zijn plannen gingen niet door omdat men ontdekt had dat hij het vermogen van zijn eerste vrouw had opgesoepeerd om zijn park te kunnen aanleggen. Ondanks deze stormachtige ontwikkelingen, verzoenden ze zich terug met elkaar en het stel bleef onafscheidelijk tot aan de dood van Lucie in 1858.
Parken
In Duitsland:
Fürst-Pückler-Park Bad Muskau
Fürst-Pückler-Park Branitz, Cottbus
Altenstein
Babelsbergpark
In Nederland werkte hij - na 1846 - aan de Wassenaarse landgoederen van Prins Frederik:
De Paauw
Backershagen en
Raephorst
Werk
Briefe eines Verstorbenen (4 banden, 1830-31)
Andeutungen über Landschaftsgärtnerei (1834)
Tutti Frutti (5 banden, 1834)
Semilassos vorletzter Weltgang (3 banden, 1835)
Semilasso in Afrika (5 banden, 1836)
Der Vorläufer (1838)
Jugend-Wanderungen (1835)
Südöstlicher Bildersaal (1840)
Aus Mehemed Ali's Reich (3 banden, 1844)
Die Rückkehr (3 banden, 1846-48)
Briefwechsel und Tagebücher des Fürsten Hermann von Pückler-Muskau (9 banden, 1873-76)
Liebesbriefe eines alten Kavaliers. Briefwechsel des Fürsten Pückler mit Ada von Tresk | 936 |
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University formally dedicates building in honor of longtime Trustee
News | October 26, 2020 | By Clif Lusk
Troy University has named a residence hall for President Pro-Tempore Emeritus Dr. Gerald O. Dial of Delta, AL, in recognition of the tremendous impact he has had during his many years of service to the University and the State of Alabama.
Trojan Village 400 Building will bear the name Gerald O. Dial Hall, in honor…
Troy University pays tribute to long-serving Trustee Gerald O. Dial
News | January 10, 2020 | By Andy Ellis
Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr. and Board Vice President pro-tempore Lamar P. Higgins present Trustee Gerald O. Dial with the honorary Doctor of Laws degree.
For Troy University Trustee Gerald Dial, December brought with it a pair of honors that he never dreamed he would receive.
In a span of two days, the Delta, Alabama native, who has been a member of the University Board of Trustees since 1991 including two terms as the board's President pro tempore, had a…
BCA President, CEO Britt urges TROY graduates to 'reach back and give back'
News | December 13, 2019 | By Andy Ellis
Katie Boyd Britt, the first female and the youngest ever President and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama, addresses TROY graduates on Friday.
Business Council of Alabama president and CEO Katie Boyd Britt on Friday encouraged Troy University graduates to reach back and give back.
Britt addressed the nearly 675 graduates inside Trojan Arena on Friday as the keynote speaker for the Troy Campus commencement ceremony. In total, 25 U.S. states, 3 U.S. territories and 14 countries outside…
Vance, Higgins tapped as officers for TROY Board of Trustees
News | August 5, 2019 | By Matt Clower
Pictured left to right are Gerald Dial, Chancellor Dr. Jack Hawkins, Jr., Gibson Vance, Lamar Higgins, and John Harrison.
The Troy University Board of Trustees has elected C. Gibson Vance as the board's President pro tempore and Lamar P. Higgins as Vice President pro tempore.
The new officers will succeed President pro tempore Gerald O. Dial and Vice President pro tempore John D. Harrison, who have both completed two four-year terms as officers. Both…
Dial addresses TROY graduates in Vietnam
Troy University to award degrees in Vietnam
Leaders rally in support of Rosa Parks Day in Alabama
TROY Board of Trustees extends Chancellor's contract | 573 |
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A szárazföld belsejében lévő lefolyástalan medencékben képződnek, olyan mélyedésekben, ahová a víz be tud folyni, de ki már nem. A záporpatakok vize időről időre feltölti ezeket a mélyedéseket, majd elpárolog. Az ideiglenes "tófenéken" egyre vastagodó sóréteget hagy. Némelyik sós lapály igen nagy területű és tökéletesen sík. Ezért az autóversenyzők számára ideális helyszín. Nevezetes a Nagy-sóstó Amerikában, amelynek környékén több ízben hajtottak végre gyorsasági rekord kísérleteket.
Már a római kor előtt ismeretes volt, ha mesterségesen lezárnak egy-egy tengeröblöt, akkor a lefolyástalan vízben kialakul a sólerakodás. Így időnként elégséges volt, a leengedett vízű területről a sót összesöpörni. Még az ókorban is nagy szerepe volt a sónak, mint fizetési csereeszköznek.
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The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination
Franca Carini, B. L. Tracy, S. Barabash, V. Berkovskyy, J. E. Brittain, S. Chouhan, G. Eleftheriou, M. Iosjpe, L. Monte, M. Psaltaki, J. Shen, J. Tschiersch, C. Turcanu
This paper describes modelling calculations carried out to determine the sensitivity of various rural and semi-natural environments to radionuclide contamination by 137Cs, 90Sr, and 131I released during a major nuclear accident. Depositions of 1000 Bq/m3 were assumed for each radionuclide. Four broad types of environments were considered: agricultural, forest or tundra, freshwater aquatic, and coastal marine. A number of different models were applied to each environment. The annual dose to a human population receiving most or all of its food and drinking water from a given environment was taken as a broad measure of sensitivity. The results demonstrated that environmental sensitivity was highly radionuclide specific, with 137Cs generally giving the highest doses during the first year, especially for adults, in terrestrial and freshwater pathways. However, in coastal marine environments, 131I and 239Pu were more significant. Sensitivity was time dependent with doses for the first year dominating those for the 2nd and 10th years after deposition. In agricultural environments the ingestion dose from 137Cs was higher for adults than other age groups, whereas for 90Sr and 131I, the ingestion dose was highest for infants. The dependence of sensitivity on social and economic factors such as individual living habits, food consumption preferences, and agricultural practices is discussed.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.015
Pubblicato est<|fim_middle|>ological sensitivity, Strontium-90, Cesium-137, Environmental sensitivity, Iodine-131, Plutonium-239, Radioecological sensitivity, Strontium-90",
author = "Franca Carini and Tracy, {B. L.} and S. Barabash and V. Berkovskyy and Brittain, {J. E.} and S. Chouhan and G. Eleftheriou and M. Iosjpe and L. Monte and M. Psaltaki and J. Shen and J. Tschiersch and C. Turcanu",
doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.015",
journal = "Journal of Environmental Radioactivity",
publisher = "Oxford,United Kingdom: Elsevier Science Limited",
Carini, F, Tracy, BL, Barabash, S, Berkovskyy, V, Brittain, JE, Chouhan, S, Eleftheriou, G, Iosjpe, M, Monte, L, Psaltaki, M, Shen, J, Tschiersch, J & Turcanu, C 2013, 'The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination', Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, pagg. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.015
The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination. / Carini, Franca; Tracy, B. L.; Barabash, S. et al.
In: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2013, pag. 1-8.
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N2 - This paper describes modelling calculations carried out to determine the sensitivity of various rural and semi-natural environments to radionuclide contamination by 137Cs, 90Sr, and 131I released during a major nuclear accident. Depositions of 1000 Bq/m3 were assumed for each radionuclide. Four broad types of environments were considered: agricultural, forest or tundra, freshwater aquatic, and coastal marine. A number of different models were applied to each environment. The annual dose to a human population receiving most or all of its food and drinking water from a given environment was taken as a broad measure of sensitivity. The results demonstrated that environmental sensitivity was highly radionuclide specific, with 137Cs generally giving the highest doses during the first year, especially for adults, in terrestrial and freshwater pathways. However, in coastal marine environments, 131I and 239Pu were more significant. Sensitivity was time dependent with doses for the first year dominating those for the 2nd and 10th years after deposition. In agricultural environments the ingestion dose from 137Cs was higher for adults than other age groups, whereas for 90Sr and 131I, the ingestion dose was highest for infants. The dependence of sensitivity on social and economic factors such as individual living habits, food consumption preferences, and agricultural practices is discussed.
AB - This paper describes modelling calculations carried out to determine the sensitivity of various rural and semi-natural environments to radionuclide contamination by 137Cs, 90Sr, and 131I released during a major nuclear accident. Depositions of 1000 Bq/m3 were assumed for each radionuclide. Four broad types of environments were considered: agricultural, forest or tundra, freshwater aquatic, and coastal marine. A number of different models were applied to each environment. The annual dose to a human population receiving most or all of its food and drinking water from a given environment was taken as a broad measure of sensitivity. The results demonstrated that environmental sensitivity was highly radionuclide specific, with 137Cs generally giving the highest doses during the first year, especially for adults, in terrestrial and freshwater pathways. However, in coastal marine environments, 131I and 239Pu were more significant. Sensitivity was time dependent with doses for the first year dominating those for the 2nd and 10th years after deposition. In agricultural environments the ingestion dose from 137Cs was higher for adults than other age groups, whereas for 90Sr and 131I, the ingestion dose was highest for infants. The dependence of sensitivity on social and economic factors such as individual living habits, food consumption preferences, and agricultural practices is discussed.
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Carini F, Tracy BL, Barabash S, Berkovskyy V, Brittain JE, Chouhan S et al. The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 2013;1-8. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.015 | ernamente
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Carini, F., Tracy, B. L., Barabash, S., Berkovskyy, V., Brittain, J. E., Chouhan, S., Eleftheriou, G., Iosjpe, M., Monte, L., Psaltaki, M., Shen, J., Tschiersch, J., & Turcanu, C. (2013). The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2013.02.015
Carini, Franca ; Tracy, B. L. ; Barabash, S. et al. / The sensitivity of different environments to radioactive contamination. In: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 2013 ; pagg. 1-8.
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Lillye Perez
Lillye Perez, daughter of Jenifer and David Perez, is a sophomore at Ravenwood High School and this week's Student of the Week.
She is a member of the lacrosse team and plays defense. Outside of lacrosse, she also plays soccer. In her down time, she said she enjoys spending time with her friends and family.
Perez said her biggest highlight in soccer was beating Harpeth Hall, who is the No. 1 team in the state.
She started playing lacrosse due to the influence of her family. "Everyone in my family played and I wanted to be able to experience why they loved lacrosse so much," she said.
When asked what inspires her<|fim_middle|> with her peers. She is actively engaged and attentive, which I appreciate so much!"
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Please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to Mass. Remember to dress appropriately. Among other things, keep in mind that you will be the "face" of Assumption to those coming in for worship, especially important for our guests or those new to our parish, and certainly for all parishioners. Greeters are to welcome all with warmth, humor, appreciation for their presence, etc. for those entering into our Church community. Make yourselves visible and accessible to assist and greet.
Place bulletins, if not already there, on the bulletin tables which are located at all three entrances.
Use reserve signs to save seats for yourselves, if you wish, at the back of the worship space.
Select a gift-bearing family. Instruct them what to do. Have them sign register.
Check that the 4 velvet-lined baskets and the 1 large basket are at the gift table.
Insure the plastic tamper-evident money bag is in the large basket with adhesive strip-backing ends slightly peeled back (for easier removal during Mass).
As Church becomes full, insure there are hymnals on the long tables at the back.
If there is no bread and wine on the gift table, inform the Sacristan or EM.
Greet the people as they enter. Assist people in finding a seat, if necessary.
Take your place in the reserved seats as the assembly sits for the First Reading.
While assembly sits for the Homily, count all persons, including infants, musicians, servers, presider, etc. Record on form on cabinet door in sac<|fim_middle|> them for being present at Assumption.
Assist people as needed, especially, newcomers or those inquiring about joining the parish. There are "new member" forms in the literature racks, which they may take with them or fill out immediately. Point out the wall-mounted steel box where they can place their completed form.
Following a Baptism during Mass, enlist able-bodies to move font to the back of Church.
Pick up any trash, spoiled bulletins, etc. and forgotten or lost items. Check the Church, gathering space and cry room.
Make sure all kneelers are in the upright position.
Pick up any scattered hymnals and neatly arrange the hymnals on the long table.
Close any windows that may have been opened during the service. Insure lights and fans are turned off.
See the deacon or priest if a spoiled host is collected. | risty.
When the priest and the assembly sit following the Prayers of the Faithful (Intercessions), begin taking up the collection. Two adults are needed, and children may assist. One adult will attend the left-most aisle with two velvet-lined baskets, one for the left pews and the other for the right pews, including the cry room. The other adult will attend the right-most aisle with the remaining two baskets and do the same, including any people seated in the gathering space. Place and seal all tithes into the plastic money bag and then into the large basket.
When ready, hand all to gift bearers. If there are no gift bearers, please process up with the gifts (bread, wine and tithes) following the Altar servers who gather at the back. Once the priest or deacon has arrived at the foot of the steps, process forward following the servers.
The priest or deacon will accept the wine, then the bread, and finally the tithes.
At Communion, stand at the front side aisles to start and guide flow.
After Mass, place yourselves so as not to obstruct traffic, and hand out bulletins to people while thanking | 244 |
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Donald Trump Cannot Read? The Profound Dangers of a Fixed Mindset
This past fall, I bought copies of Carol Dweck's Mindset for two of our new Learners.[1] Each of them, who spent most of their school-aged years in traditional schooling environments, demonstrated proclivities for what Dweck calls a "fixed mindset." This mindset was holding them back from taking risks that would allow them to grow intellectually and emotionally. Specifically, they would avoid engaging in learning experiences they did not feel they already had mastery over, they would shut down the moment someone else realized they did not understand something, and they would place immense value on whether others thought they were smart, popular, or attractive.
Dweck states that a fixed mindset is a fundamental belief that qualities, traits, and talents are largely unchangeable. That they are inherent, or inborn. The opposite of a fixed mindset is a "growth mindset" which is a belief in the ability to change and cultivate qualities, traits, and talents through deliberate effort and experience. And while people are not completely fixed or growth mindset oriented in every facet of life, some people tend to stand out as one or the other significantly more often than the rest. As I revisited Mindset for the benefit of our two Learners, I could not help but notice that then presidential candidate Donald Trump was a perfect fixed mindset case study.[2]
The mindset of a king
In 2015, Trump himself laid out a compelling argument for his fixed mindset orientation in an interview with Michael D'Antonio of the Los Angeles Times.[3] "I'm a big believer in natural ability," Trump said. The belief in natural ability is a cornerstone of fixed mindset thinking, and it also defies what we know about human development. He later added, "the most important thing is an innate ability." In Trump's eyes, innate ability, which one cannot control, is more important than what one has significant control over such as effort, education, and experience. It was once accepted that the best people to rule nations were royalty, the people who were preordained to lead. Befittingly, the LA Times piece was titled, "Donald Trump believes he was born to be king."
As the campaign season wore on, Trump became notorious for attacking those who questioned him, no matter who they were or how insignificant their opinion was. Trump would go on public campaigns attacking and attributing negative characteristics to the members of the news media, politicians, and celebrities who dared to critique him. Rarely did he address their arguments; he just attacked. But he also made time to attack random Twitter users who had little to no audience, calling them losers, dumb, and failures. While politicians are not necessarily known for their incredibly thick skin, the ability of people to (often gleefully) so easily get on the nerves of the future leader of the free world was remarkable. It was as if he could not possibly stand being critiqued.
Growth mindset oriented people are more willing to hear critiques; they seek them out. They more often value diversity and feel more comfortable populating their teams with contrarians who will challenge their positions. Growth mindset people facilitate and improve communications within their teams, as they see everyone, including those they disagree with, being a part of their learning process. Fixed mindset people, on the other hand, tend to surround themselves with yes men who will always agree with them. They view critiques of their beliefs or actions as attacks on their ability, competence, and intellect. And unlike growth mindset people who will try to understand the critiques of outsiders, fixed mindset people immediately label those outsiders as the enemy who must be dealt with swiftly.
We did not have to wait until the campaign season shined a light on some of Trump's more impertinent social behaviors to find evidence of a fixed mindset—the evidence was there all along. As much as Trump talked about The Art of the Deal, it seemed much of his financial success came after deals were made by way of broken contracts and non-payments to contractors for services received.[4] He has also demonstrated an eagerness to threaten lawsuits against people who upset him or get in his way, and a willingness to follow through on many of those threats.[5] Additionally, he has been accused of assaulting women multiple times, and has been caught on audio joking about assaulting women.[6]
While all of these actions should be seen as troublesome, unsavory, or unethical on a one-off basis, that Trump keeps revisiting them is what screams fixed mindset. As Jamie Loftus writes, "Throughout [Trump's] life, there are examples of his making the same mistakes, ignoring criticism, being threatened by others, and not accepting the challenge of self-examination."[7] In other words, he does not learn from experience because he does not see any value in the introspection that growth minded people use to try to improve their behavior or performance.
Fake it 'til you make it
A fixed mindset does not necessarily preclude one from success, riches, positions of influence, or fame, as Trump rising to the most powerful political position in the world shows. Already having power and privilege, as Trump did growing up, can certainly help one overcome shortcomings they are unwilling to address. What a fixed mindset does, however, is limit opportunities for success, place successes on a weak foundation that can be exposed at a later date, and it can lead fixed mindset people to engage in dangerously self-defeating behaviors.[8] By virtue of Trump being a billionaire and president of the United States, let's accept that he has had his share of successes. But now he is in the precarious position of taking on more complex challenges without the support systems that he has benefited from and grown used to.
People have often built their successes on false foundations. Success is everything in our society and it is dictated by the perception of others: getting into Harvard or Stanford, working for the right consulting or law firm, buying the right house in the right neighborhood, getting your children into Harvard or Stanford. My list starts and ends with school for a reason. School is where society is best conditioned to focus on attaining arbitrary measures of success and avoiding failure at all costs. Schools drive this lesson home early and often with gold stars, report cards, and class rankings. By the time students arrive in high school, they know that their success requires them to be perfect in class; there will be no time for experimenting and growth because a perfect GPA does not allow for it. This is why so many students cheat, and why so few students are genuinely excited to learn.
Apropos of the previous point, there is a persistent rumor that highlights how Trump the fixed mindset president may have built a false foundation and positioned himself for an inglorious downfall in a way that a growth mindset president would likely avoid. Can Trump read? David Pakman recently produced a 12-minute video laying out compelling evidence that Trump may not be able to read, and has since followed up with another video really pushing the issue.[9]
Trump not being able to read, or only being able to read at a fourth grade level, raises some serious concerns about his ability to serve as president. And not for the reasons that everyone else might suggest. Yes, reading sharpens mental acuity and provides one with the factual knowledge necessary to engage in higher order thinking.[10] And yes, not being able to read may increase the chances of someone signing off on orders they do not understand, such as when Trump appointed Steve Bannon to a seat on the National Security Council.[11] But people can still be great leaders even if they are not great readers. As an explanation for Trump's apparent difficulty reading, Kristine Moore suggests that Trump may have dyslexia or Irlen Syndrome.[12] The ranks of the most successful entrepreneurs, artists, and scientists are littered with dyslexics and people with other learning disabilities. And Winston Churchill, who had Irlen Syndrome, became a great reader, writer, and leader. But the difference between Trump and Churchill is that the former is fixed mindset oriented, and the latter was growth mindset oriented.
Because Trump places so much value on inherent abilities and talents, he does not see the need to focus on developing them. And because Trump places so much value on what others think of him, he does not want anyone to recognize that he is flawed in any way. And he likely views his inability to read as a glaring flaw that he cannot psychologically afford being exposed to the wider public. Or he convinces himself that he is too important to waste his time reading.[13] In order to overcome this deficit, Trump goes out of his way to beat his chest about how smart, intelligent, and educated he is.[14] He loves to boast about his attendance at the Wharton School, and about the education pedigrees of those in his family.[15] He wants to believe, and wants you to believe, that degrees, even those earned by family members, are a better measure of his intellectual capabilities and curiosity than the ability to read is. But he cannot afford for you to believe that he cannot read. So he fakes it.
The danger of insecurity
Insecurity in oneself is a natural outcropping of a fixed mindset, whether or not the fixed mindset people realize it. Trump comes across as excessively confident in his ability to produce great outcomes in whatever endeavors he chooses to engage in. For example, he constantly reminds people that he will "make America great again," and that only he can make America great again, despite having never served in public office before. But because he is so resistant to learn from his mistakes, or admit that he is not talented in every possible way, he fails to benefit from the tremendous growth that is available to a man with his power and privilege. This leaves him quite insecure, in spite of his seeming confidence. This is visibly apparent when he tries to read in front of others, or discusses the topic of reading.[16]
The danger of insecurity lies in the potential response to insecurity. We have already highlighted how Trump responds to criticism; he evades and attacks. He evades by denial and attempts to change the subject. Historically, he has attacked through threats, lawsuits, and public beratings. However, now he has the tools of the presidency at his disposal. And for someone who feels it is more important to fake being able to read than actually learning how to read, this is worrisome. How does someone who is not fully capable of being president on day one, as nobody is, fake competence? Trump gave us insight into how he may try in his first ten days in office. Trump's appeal to many of his supporters was that he would make America great again, whereas Obama was a failure and Clinton could only offer them more failures. In his eagerness to prove himself superior to Obama, who he called the worst president in history, he allowed his staff to convince him to approve a risky military operation in Yemen by suggesting that Obama would never be so bold.[17] That raid was a disaster, leaving both an 8-year-old child and a Navy SEAL dead.
Trump's inability to handle criticism coupled with the stresses of being president is likely to take a tremendous toll on him. Given Trump's fixed mindset, as people continue to question Trump's actions and positions, and as he fixates on their opinions through social media and cable news, his attempts to convince people of his competence and intelligence may become more and more desperate. He has already publicly questioned the integrity of the judges who presided over lawsuits against him and who blocked his executive orders, and he has threatened to destroy the career of a Texas politician who opposes asset forfeiture.[18] Would he be willing to direct federal agencies to go after political enemies? Would he be willing to punish corporations that do not show allegiance to his administration or refuse to do business with any of the<|fim_middle|> brunt of public policy decisions.
Among those who can vote, the process is still not truly democratic. Voter turnout issues aside, a vote in New Hampshire carries more weight than a vote in Wisconsin, which carries more weight than a vote in California. This is a function of the Electoral College, and clearly violates the notion of "one person, one vote." And even if all votes were equal, those who directly and heavily contribute to candidates have an outsized influence on the policy positions that those candidates take once in office.
Add on top of the undemocratic nature of these elections from the people's perspective, the two-party system that has a tight grip on the electoral process makes the notion of democracy in politics a laughable one. The parties are semi-private organizations that cater to a tiny number of powerful constituencies that are out of step with the majority of Americans, but the overwhelming majority of voters believe that they must fall in line behind one of the main party candidates on Election Day.
So what does this have to do with education? Considering that schools are a key tool used to prepare young people for engagement in society, a considerable amount. Unfortunately, the roles current students are being trained to hold in society are not nearly as idealistic as we have been led to believe. Fundamental to the purpose of schooling was a sorting function to create different classes of people, most of which were to serve at the convenience of those who controlled society. While the makeup of the people who control society has evolved, and while there is a greater possibility for mobility from the lowest classes to the controlling classes today than when the schools were created, from a functional perspective modern day schools further entrench disparities instead of serving as a great equalizer. And as noted before, inequality is incompatible with true democracy.
There is a nation-wide collection of "Democratic Schools" that argues that by creating democratic settings in the schoolhouse, where every child has as much of a say as every adult, that we can create a democratic society where the people take control of the political machine. Although we love Democratic Schools, we disagree with this hypothesis.
Democracy is not a silver bullet solution to our problems, as any black man in East Texas or any homeless man in the streets of San Francisco might be able to attest to. Democracy in its worst form allows for the minority to be abused by the majority. It is essential that an enlightened society respect the rights of all people, in spite of biases and privilege. While we agree that there is tremendous value to be gained by giving young people as much of a voice as adults in schools—promoting democracy in education does not solve the problems of the status quo, and in many ways it serves as a distraction.
So how can education get us to a better future? Three powerful ways it can move us there are (1) by promoting empathy within the populace, (2) by creating an informed, thoughtful populace that is not easily moved by false promises or dogmatic rhetoric, and (3) by allowing all members of society to believe they can improve the human condition.
First, many of the problems of our political system revolve around a fear or hatred of the other. These manifest themselves most powerfully in an anti- stance against entire communities such as black people, immigrants, Muslims, Jewish people, people with mental illness, the homeless, drug users, and people who identify as LGBTQ, among others. Politicians recognize this fear and often times play on it, promising policies that will directly harm these groups so that the bulk of voters can feel safer in the status quo.
An Emancipated Learning environment that embraces diversity of people, ages, and ideologies would directly undermine the divisions that require a lack of empathy to sustain. When people are introduced to those they are told to be scared of, they quickly recognize that we are all far more alike than we are different. Diversity brings tremendous value to our lives in terms of enrichment, creativity, and connection. The age diversity component of empathy building cannot be emphasized enough. In most schools we segregate children by age, taking away a critical opportunity for them to develop empathy by way of caring for those who are younger than them.
Second, our current political system requires a largely uniformed or apathetic populace. This may sound pessimistic, but it is easily affirmed by looking at what politicians promise and what their donors advocate, and comparing them with the decisions politicians make once in office. While society is much better off now than it was a century ago, there are still large swaths of the American populace that are marginalized or oppressed by the political and private institutions that most accept as necessary. An informed populace that also has empathy for marginalized and oppressed communities would not tolerate the current structure of society.
An Emancipated Learning environment, free of a status quo promoting standardized curriculum, and free of hierarchical structures that demand subservience, allows Learners to seek truth in their world. It allows them to question narratives that are presented to them, and to have the courage to seek out alternative explanations, or novel solutions. These people are far less likely to be moved by empty promises or exaggerated threats.
Third, our political system is tailored to appeal to the belief that we cannot improve the world around us. We are left to look for saviors who will come in and manipulate the political institutions to organize society in a way that benefits us, most often at the expense of others. It is not a system that encourages people to try to create a better society for themselves. It tells people that a vote every several years is how one performs their civic duty, while suggesting that how they spend the rest of their lives is irrelevant (except when politicians decide to alter their daily behavior for the benefit of others).
An Emancipated Learning environment would reject the notion that our value can be captured in a vote. Instead, it would remind us that we can all lead remarkable lives—lives in which we have a positive impact on the communities around us. It allows us to realize that we can be happy, healthy, and serve others so that we can all be better off. And these people are the ones who do not need to rely on the established institutions that have left them virtually powerless.
On Election Day 2016, our Learners are unable to vote on the person who is going to have an outsized impact on their lives over the next decade, for better or worse. But far more importantly, they are in an educational environment that allows them to recognize that they can transcend the limitations of electoral politics. These Learners know that they can purposefully and directly improve the human condition.
Photo: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Republican and Democratic presidential nominees (Wikipedia)
Tagged: Democratic Schools, Democracy, Education, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Emancipated Learning, Empathy
989-31-ADMIT or 989-312-3648 | Trump organizations? Would he be willing to engage in trade wars with countries that do not fall in line? Would he be willing to escalate international disagreements into military conflicts for the sake of rallying the American people around his presidency?
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
~ Hermann Göring
Trump's fixed mindset orientation is a significant barrier to his growth. Such a mindset has left him unwilling to learn from his mistakes, and unable or unwilling to read. There is no such thing as an average person, much less someone who excels in all aspects of life.[19] Many people have weaknesses, and many people have overcome challenges, just as people with dyslexia or Irlen Syndrome can and do lead remarkable lives.[20] But in order to do so, they have to be willing to seek out the resources and tools that will help them thrive, and they need to recognize that learning differences or disorders, or one's station in life, are not badges of shame. This is a hurdle Trump cannot get over. But as dangerous as his fixed mindset is to his growth, it is far more dangerous to society.
Graphic: From Carol Dweck's book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
1. Carol Dweck, Mindset
2. I am not unique in noticing Trump's fixed mindset. "The Mindset That Leads People to Be Dangerously Overconfident," Harvard Business Review; "Trump and Hillary Show Totally Opposite Success Mind-sets," New York Magazine; "This Election Comes Down to Who Has the Better Mindset," Inverse
3. "Donald Trump believes he was born to be king," Los Angeles Times
4. "Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn't pay his bills," USA Today
5. "Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee," USA Today; "The ~20 Times Trump Has Threatened To Sue Someone During This Campaign," FiveThirtyEight
6. "An Exhaustive List of the Allegations Women Have Made Against Donald Trump," New York Magazine
7. "This Election Comes Down to Who Has the Better Mindset," Inverse
8. In Mindset, Dweck highlights the ignominious fall from grace of multiple individuals, including Lee Iacocca, Al Dunlap, Kenneth Lay, and Jeffrey Skilling. She could have easily provided profiles of politicians whose fixed mindsets led to their downfall, as well.
9. "Uh-Oh: Does Donald Trump Know How to Read?," The David Pakman Show; "WOW: Trump Fails Basic Literacy Test," The David Pakman Show
10. "Schools Focus on Teaching Shallow Knowledge, But Fail," Abrome
11. "Trump and Staff Rethink Tactics After Stumbles", New York Times
12. "Can Donald Trump Read Beyond a Fourth Grade Level? [Opinion]", The Inquisitr News
13. "Donald Trump doesn't read much. Being president probably wouldn't change that," The Washington Post
14. "Donald Trump's myths about himself," Chicago Tribune; "'I'm, like, a really smart person': Donald Trump exults in outsider status," The Guardian
15. Trump's repeated references to his attendance at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, which he transferred to after two years at Fordham University, are well documented. For examples, see the sources in the prior note and in the article, "Trump flaunts Wharton degree, but his college years remain a mystery," The Daily Pennsylvanian. Trump has also been documented focusing on the intelligence of family members to suggest that he is intellectually gifted, particularly a well-respected uncle who taught at MIT. "Donald Trump's Nuclear Uncle," The New Yorker
16. "WOW: Trump Fails Basic Literacy Test," The David Pakman Show
17. "Donald Trump's staff get him to agree to policies by saying 'Obama wouldn't have done it'," The Independent
18. "Trump Says Judge's Mexican Heritage Presents 'Absolute Conflict,'" Wall Street Journal; "Trump lashes out at 'so-called judge' who temporarily blocked travel ban," The Washington Post; "Donald Trump Threatens to 'Destroy' Texas Senator," The Daily Beast
19. "Any System Designed Around the Average Person is Doomed to Fail," Abrome
20. Richard Branson has dyslexia, Temple Grandin is autistic, Mark Zuckerberg had social anxiety. The list of people who have overcome hurdles in their lives to achieve extraordinary levels of success is far too long to list out.
Tagged: Mindset, Fixed mindset, Growth mindset, Carol Dweck, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Winston Churchill, Kristin Moore, Wharton, Harvard, Stanford, Success, Jamie Loftus, The Art of the Deal, Michael D'Antonio
Election 2016: Democracy and Education
It is Election Day 2016, and as I look around at Abrome, I recognize that the people in our community who will be most impacted by this election are the ones who are too young to vote. Our Learning Coaches (the adults) each voted early, although I would be willing to bet that none of them did so enthusiastically. No matter what your political affiliation or orientation, I think most of us can agree that the 2016 election has brought out the worst in many, and that it highlights some glaring flaws in the American political system.
First and foremost, the political system is not democratic by any means. As I previously alluded to, not everyone has a say in who is elected. Children, high numbers of the infirm or mentally disabled, many homeless, most incarcerated felons, many ex-felons, residents of US territories, and foreign nationals are locked out of the process, even though they most often feel the | 1,264 |
AESOP is very pleased to congratulate the newly elected members of the Young Academics network Coordination Team: Simone TULUMELLO and Nadia CARUSO.
The members of the Young Academics Network<|fim_middle|> from the event here.
of the Charter. It will be subject to consideration at the nearest Council of Representatives meeting, which will take place in Oslo on 5th May 2012.
Schloss Cappenberg is a place of extraordinary meaning for AESOP. Here, on 24th January 1987, Klaus R. Kunzmann managed to gather a group of enthusiastic academics who decided to found a new association that would bring together European planning schools.
The Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) and the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) have launched a joint activity within the framework of the Decade of Planning: a series of lectures in 2012-2013 by well-known planners and other 'urban thinkers', both academics and practitioners. The idea is to attract not only the planning community but also a wider audience of politicians, community leaders and organizations, business and the media to promote planning as a discipline that can contribute to the quality of life, help find new tools of governance of the urban structures and function as an effective mediator between the many stakeholders. | Coordination Team elected last year: Ender PEKERandLauren UGUR, Feras HAMMAMI will remain in the YA Network CT till the elections in 2014.
AESOP is looking for the candidates willing to host AESOP Heads of Schools Meeting in 2015. The candidate has to be AESOP member institution.
Please find AESOP acknowledgements to Middle East Technical Univeristy in Ankara and Photo Galery here.
Please find brief report | 99 |
Father John Misty & Boygenius join others to raise money on Bandcamp
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Bandcamp is once again waiving its sales fee for the day, prompting some amazing releases today. Among the many artists using the platform to raise money for a good cause is<|fim_middle|> each member having selected an organization local to them: Baker's donations will go to the LGBTQ organization OUTMemphis; Bridgers' to Downtown Women's Center for homeless women in Los Angeles; Dacus' to Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Richmond for Covid-19 and community relief in the Virginia city.
Get buying some musical gems, and support some amazing causes while you're at it.
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n-eight December 18, 2020 | one of my guilty pleasures, Father John Misty, who has released a covers EP raising money for CARE Action & Ground Game LA.
Featuring songs from Leonard Cohen, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, and Link Wray, it's a beautiful collection of classics revived by Father John Misty's own style. Anthem (Leonard Cohen) was recorded by Misty over lockdown with longtime collaborator and producer Jonathan Wilson in California. The additional three covers were recorded over the past few years. One of us Cannot Be Wrong (Leonard Cohen) features a 25 piece band including drummer James Gadson and has been remixed for this release. This is the first time these recordings of Trouble and Fallin' Rain have been officially released.
Boygenius – Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus – have made three demos from their 2018 EP available digitally exclusively through Bandcamp.
The Boygenius demos will remain online for one day only, coinciding with the site's 24-hour waiver of its revenue share. Proceeds will be split between three charities, | 223 |
There is the story told of a man who sat<|fim_middle|> justice, or social action—often called hands-on-justice are the threads that are woven throughout the whole. When we work, each laboring in an area of social action, charity, community organizing, justice, research or a project we tend to see only what we are working on, rather than see our piece, our story, our chapter in the larger telling. There are a number of ways to integrate catechesis and action for justice.
The first one is to connect daily to the larger structure and community of the universal church through the daily Lectionary. The Church worldwide reads the same texts of the earlier and the New Testament, reflecting upon the whole story of God's weaving in and out of our lives, individually and as a people bound to him in a covenant of justice/compassion and truthfulness. We need to singularly read these portions of the Scripture and together, weekly, study and pore over them in a small group that draws us deeper into the larger reality of the Kingdom of God that is already among us. We need to remind one another of where we fit—and that what we are doing is not an end in itself, but a way to witness to the reality of the presence of God in our world. And we need to remember that it is our honor and privilege to be a part of this work.
Catechesis is woven through the way we work, revealing the heart of what we believe. What we do and its results matter little if we have not shared our belief with those we have worked with and those we serve. Catechesis, in Greek, means the source of the answers that a catechist asks a catechumen—and the source of all our work, relationships and hopes is our faith and its practice—being the graceful presence of Jesus the Crucified and Risen Lord in the world. No matter what we do for a living, we live in the presence of the Son of Justice and the God of compassion and truth, revealing that reality. And as Francis of Assisi was fond of saying to his brothers and sisters: You must preach the Gospel daily, incessantly, passionately, without fail; but only as a last resort use words." We are the Gospel, the Good News of God (catechesis) that the world longs to hear proclaimed in their midst. Come, let us go forth to be what we proclaim: the Good News of God. | for hours weaving at a loom. Day after day he toiled, throwing the shuttles back and forth, straightening the threads and following the details of the pattern. But he had not been the one to set the loom up, or begin this particular weaving and he had no sense of what it would look like—he saw only the pieces that he was weaving. He found the work tedious and boring and he would drift often, losing his concentration and dropping portions of the tapestry. And so one day the man who was in charge of all the weavings took him aside and took him on a tour of the weaving room—showing him all the pieces of the tapestry, as each person worked on their piece and then he showed him the whole design in its magnificence. The man was stunned and amazed—and looked immediately to see where his small piece would fit into the overall pattern. The tapestry told a story, gave a history of a people and brought the telling up to the present day so that it could continue through the weavings of others on into the future—and they would be free to change the story, add to it, and alter it as they chose. That break from his work changed everything. Now he was not just working on his small piece, he was part of a masterful and amazing piece of history, art and a communal endeavor. He no longer just toiled. Now he worked and he dreamed and he hoped for wholeness and possibilities for the future.
This story describes the relationship between catechesis and social action. We have a tendency to separate them out, and think of them as two separate realities that might impinge on each other, through chance, at certain vectors. But the Gospel is the whole story, the entire tapestry and | 363 |
1. Josh Wilson is engaging. Josh oozes stage presence and he's comfortable with his audience. It's not a showy or ego-driven concert—more like a guy performing for a crowd of new friends. Plus, he allows the audience to get involved in his show with clapping, whistling, and other sounds that adds the illusion of a live band (it's just Josh and his pedals on stage generally).
Josh is amazingly talented. And his talent just shines when Josh plays live. He makes complicated guitar fingerings look easy as he chats with the crowd and expertly uses pedals to create layers of sound. When I say he's a young Phil Keaggy, I mean it. (Though Josh would never put himself on par with Keaggy).
You want to jump on the Josh Wilson train before it leaves the station. Believe me, this guy's career is going to take off, and you're going to want to be one of the first to support this burgeoning artist, who is really coming into his own. The songs he's crafting for his next album (look for a January release) take Josh to the next level.
On-stage and off-stage, Josh is all about his audience. I watched Josh Wilson interact with his fans at his merch table, and he gave each person a warm welcome, a high five, and a personal conversation. In fact, it wasn't so much that Josh was talking to fans as making new friends.
Finally, I would have to say that Josh Wilson is one of the nicest guys I've ever met. He wants to live for God, revels in God's creation, loves people, and he loves his wife dearly—all great attributes in a guy. However, his raw talent, attention to detail in lyrics, and knowledge of the enormous burden he carries as a Christian role model make him a solid guy with a message that has depth. And he really is a great human being.
Now, of course, you need to find a Josh Wilson show so head on over to Josh's website to check out his upcoming performances. Or if you can't find a show near you, then you'll just need to book one, won't you? Shoot Josh an e-mail at booking@joshwilsononline.com.
Do you like Josh Wilson? Why else should you see him live?
Revelation Generation (RevGen) held its fifth annual two-day Labor Day Weekend extravaganza Sept. 4-5 in Frenchtown, NJ. This year's line-up was ambitious and impressive with big hitters such as Switchfoot, Jars of Clay, Relient K, Needtobreathe, Flyleaf, and MercyMe taking center stage along with other favorites such as Derek Webb, Jon Foreman (s0lo acoustic performance), BarlowGirl, Seabird, The Devil Wears Prada, and GRITS. Thirty-thousand people, five stages, good eats, and great weather–the combination made for a great day!
Beach balls of all sizes started flying during Relient K's set. I got hit on the head a few times!
Attending only the second day of festivities, here's what I discovered–The Fold (great band!), Dawn from Fireflight is super nice, Seabird is amazing live (and in conversation), BReith is a funny guy, Relient K keeps getting better and better, Jon Foreman on acoustic packed out the Nashville Tent, BarlowGirl is wild in concert (must see again!), I like Derek Webb's new album much more on acoustic!
The ever-entertaining Matt Theissen of Relient K.
Like any festival, there are degenerates who ruin the fun for everyone. I wanted to keep this positive, but Sarah got spit on by a teenager girl ("What? I wasn't spitting on you!" she protested), got kicked by rowdy college boys (who came dangerously close to kicking my precious camera), was hit on the head by a half-empty water bottle that came flying out of nowhere (no one claimed it or apologized), and dodged numerous frisbees and footballs. In fact, I was almost clubbed a few times as well. I can honestly say that some people were completely out of control–and, no, they weren't all teenagers and I don't think any of them were drunk. It was so exasperating that we didn't dare venture past the acoustic stage after dark. With a crowd that size, people don't need to throw concussion-causing objects–that's what yards and parks are for!
This is B.Reith. I met him in the merch tent. He was pretty amusing. Check him out!
Overall, the event was wonderful. The staff and volunteers were courteous, helpful, and so kind! The festival really stepped up service to the media this year, which made things much easier. And–this is almost unheard of–the shows ran almost perfectly on schedule! Good management, RevGen! I will definitely make RevGen a permanent part of my Labor Day weekend.
If you've been following me on Twitter, you know I've been talking about The Glorious Unseen [read Take 5] all week<|fim_middle|> message.
Phil Keaggy moves so fast that it's almost impossible to catch him on digital imagery. That and the lighting was poor.
Then I caught the jewel of the festival, the man I really wanted to see—Phil Keaggy. Having seen him perform once before, I knew he was not to be missed, and wow, was I right! With ease, Keaggy masterfully strums and finger picks and uses pedals and melodic loops to create a piece of music that amazes the audience. It seems that Keaggy's made close to 50 albums because he savors the opportunity to play guitar and sing. He's having such a grand time on stage, it's impossible not to join in his fun.
All in all, Revelation Generation is a good festival, whose attendance is growing every year. However, the high prices by food vendors (and the inability of attendees to bring in so much as a bottle of water) put a bit of a damper on the fun. Also, including more female and indie artists would add more flair to the festival.
By Amy Sondova While my list of favorite bands and artists grows ever longer, there is one man who has remained at the top since his solo album debut in 2003—that man is Derek Webb. She Must and Shall Go Free rocked my sensibilities about what should and should not be said in songs by a Christian singer, especially one who had been in Caedmon's Call. However, the more I listened to songs like "Wedding Dress" (which uses the word "whore") and "Beloved" and the title track, the more I thought, "I love this!" The music started a change in me.
Since 2003, Derek's other albums—I See Things Upside Down, Mockingbird, and his latest, The Ringing Bell—have been in permanent music rotation. To me, this guy is a musical genius right up there with Bob Dylan and Reese Roper (Five Iron Frenzy, Brave Saint Saturn, Roper). So naturally, I wanted to see him perform live to drink in the whole picture. But every time I planned to see Derek Webb, there was a problem—the last which caused me to fly to Atlanta just to see a sold-out show that Derek played with his wife, Sandra McCracken. OK, so I was actually there for a youth conference, but I did twist my ankle walking back to the car after learning I wouldn't see Derek yet again.
Perusing Derek Webb's website, I made a startling discovery! Derek would be playing only 40 minutes away at Calvary Church. It was a sign! My time had finally come! But I didn't believe I would really get to see him until I entered the doors of the church and heard Derek's vocals resonating from behind closed doors. Apparently, he was giving the "postmodern" church service a taste of what was to come an hour later.
Before performing "Name," Derek mentioned that the song was the closet thing he's ever had to a hit since starting his solo career. Featured on "Grey's Anatomy," the song was over a "two and a half minute montage of fornicating adulterers," explained Derek with a slight hint of sarcastic wit. The crowd laughed nervously and Derek dived into his song. Talking about everything from the upcoming election to his wife, Derek wasn't particularly loquacious, but he was charming as he picked songs on a whim.
For an hour, an audience was invited to depart from the worries of the world and get lost in songs about rethinking and reshaping the world. Derek made it sound not only believable, but encouraged that it was possible for us to help others experience God's peace (shalom) on earth.
In fact, Derek's so committed to social justice, easing the burden of the poor, and other causes, that he's joining forces with Sara Groves, Brandon Heath, Sandra McCracken, and Charlie Peacock for the Art*Music*Justice Tour this fall. For more information, visit the tour's site and make sure you get the chance to catch a show. Because as Brandon Heath said in a recent interview (read here), "Besides the fact that Derek Webb's on it, Sandra McCracken, his wife, is on it, too. That's the other reason you should go." I agree wholeheartedly.
My dear friend, Jeff Greathouse, his beautiful wife, and their kids attended Alive 2008, a Christian music festivals taking place in Ohio. To read all about Jeff's take on the fest, go to his blog (Alive:Wednesday, Alive: Thursday, Festival Photos, Concert Photos). He graciously allowed me to post some of his stellar concert pics on BSW.
David Crowder with a funny looking instrument.
David Crowder and his adoring public in black and white.
…and Hawk Nelson! (Read BSW's interview with Hawk Nelson's front man, Jason Dunn here).
You can see the rest of Jeff's concert pics on his blog. If you are attending a festival this summer, please shoot me an e-mail (amy@backseatwriter.com) and tell me all about it! I definitely want to get as many pics and recaps up as possible. | . Well, here's a happy TGU member running the merch table. Sadly, I didn't get to attend their live show.
When I got to RevGen, The Fold was on the New York Stage, and they were really good. I caught up with the band later and also discovered, they are really nice guys. Unfortunately, I didn't take their picture. But I will definitely interview The Fold for Backseat Writer.
Aaron Morgan of Seabird on keys [top and bottom].
Jon Foreman performing for a packed out tent of fans [top and bottom].
Next, I checked out Jon Foreman's acoustic set in the Nashville tent, which was packed out with rabid Jon Foreman fans. He sang "The Cure For Pain" when I was taking my closer pics. I know I'm supposed to be objective as a journalist, but tears were just pouring down my face as I snapped these shots. "The Cure For Pain" seems to be an anthem for so many judging not only by my reaction, but the crowd reaction as well.
Derek Webb did a fabulous acoustic show, including some songs from his new album, Stockholm Syndrome, which just released Sept. 1. [Read BSW interview with Derek Webb].
I've been super busy lately, but I promise to let you know when I've edited/uploaded all my RevGen photos.
By Amy Sondova On Oct. 18, I had the pleasure of seeing Bebo Norman in concert for the first time. Instead of going on and on about how awesome he was, I decided to tell post a bunch of pictures. If you play his music in the background and use your imagination, it'll be just like you were there. Also, be sure to check out my interview with Bebo Norman ("Bebo Norman:: From the Ruins") and pick up his self-titled album in Drive-By Shopping. Oh, MercyMe was actually headlining the event, so here are a few photos of them as well. The lighting was a lot more vibrant for MercyMe, so they were easier to capture through the magic of photography (especially from the balcony). And I did get a picture of Bebo and me together, but that will never see the light of say. I am a professional, after all.
Bebo Norman's on the right and his friend, Gabe is on the left.
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By Amy Sondova Despite the threat of rain and the stifling humidity, crowds flocked to Revelation Generation, a Christian music festival featuring Chris Tomlin, Leeland, Kutless, As I Lay Dying, TobyMac, and Phil Keaggy among others. The annual Labor Day weekend event boasts three stages named after major cities–Nashville, New York, and Philadelphia–as well as inflatables, a large picnic area, a skate park (for professionals only), food vendors, on a large farm.
Sixpence None the Richer's Leigh Nash sings to an excited crowd.
As in all music-minded festivals, the highlight of this festival was the music itself featuring everyone from Sixpence None the Richer, Matt Wertz, and even the Newsboys. While the New York stage hosted some of the edgier bands like Norma Jean, The Myriad, and As I Lay Dying, Nashville broke it down with singer/songwriters like Phil Keaggy and Bethany Dillon. The New York Stage functioned as a happy medium with the Robbie Seay Band, Kutless, and TobyMac.
The festival's speakers included the indelible actor Stephen Baldwin, who is most famous for his roles in movies, BioDome and The Usual Suspects among others. Since becoming a Christian several years ago, Baldwin has written several books including the biographical The Unusual Suspect and his latest book, The Death and Life of Gabriel Phillips.
I missed Friday evening's entertainment, which meant forfeiting a chance to see Leeland, Chris Tomlin, and Mandisa. However, Saturday provided me with plenty of opportunities to listen, photograph, and experience the energy of some of the artists.
Matt Wertz was one of the best new talents to be found under this summer's sun.
The merch/ministry area was disappointing. Not only was the tent crowded with tons of sweaty people, but there were at least four booths featuring pro-life merchandise! It's an important message; however, it seems to be a little overdone. Besides, the commercialized Jesus junk (A Bread Crumb and Fish t-shirt anyone?), the tent had a couple of good organizations like To Write Love On Her Arms (which was surrounded by throngs of teens buying TWLOHA shirts!) The band merch tent was half-empty and hard to navigate, but I have to give the Robbie Seay Band credit for having the best table display.
Stephen Baldwin strikes a pose as I play paparazzi.
While eating lunch, I heard rumblings of Norma Jean in the distance, which was a little hard for my taste, but the guys had incredible stage presence. Finally, I had a chance to check out (and photograph) some of the artists at Revelation Generation.
Not only did I get a chance to listen to the Robbie Seay Band, Kutless, and Skillet, I had a chance to check-out Matt Wertz's live set, which was excellent. Running about the indie circuit for years, Wertz played songs from his upcoming major label release Under the Summer Sun.
Sixpence None the Richer played during Stephen Baldwin's talk, so I was conflicted. However, I managed to catch both Baldwin and Leigh Nash, much preferring Nash's ethereal vocals over Baldwin's forceful (bordering on obnoxious) | 1,186 |
The new computer monitor comes with a new Acer chip-based 3D conversion solution that turns 2D into 3D without the need for software. The display also sports passive polarized glasses that are much cheaper than active 3D glasses.
The new HR274H 3D computer display is 27 inches in size and has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 for full HD <|fim_middle|> ratio and use of active shutter 3D glasses. Brightness is 2000 ANSI lumens and there is also support for 16:9 and 4:3 ratios.
Prices for the display and projector are 599 USD and 1999 USD accordingly. | 3D content and video gaming. The 3D chip supports any video card there is and the display comes with a single pair of 3D glasses. Connectivity is done via a HDMI port.
The other debutant is the new H9500BD projector that will support 3D tech from NVIDIA. The novelty also converts from 2D to 3D automatically and has full 1080p resolution and throws an image up to 300-inches diagonally. The projector comes with DLP tech, 3D software and refreshes at 120 Hz. Other specs include 50 000:1 contrast | 137 |
When it comes to<|fim_middle|> June 6, 2018 by admin. | your home, there is no better way to ensure the safety and privacy of your property, enhance its aesthetic appeal, increase your home value, and most importantly, define the boundaries of your house, than with the installation of an aluminum fence.
Metal pool fences are the best when it comes to helping you regulate who enters the pool area and of course the sturdiness of aluminum pool fencing and gates make it the ideal choice in fencing that will not only keep the kids and pets safe and will also turn your entire pool area into a secure and private space for your family's enjoyment.
First, you will need to get a municipal order that allows you to install a fence and secondly, you are off to a good start if you already have and can safely handle a 12V drill driver kit. You will also need to order an aluminum pool fence and gate, self latching latches, hardware fittings, screwdrivers, a spirit level, a tape measure, a medium carpenters pencil, a couple of clamps, and your safety gear.
It's important that you chose and mark out where you want your fence to go in ensuring that you leave a 3 to 4-foot distance from the edges of your pool where people can move around freely.
Dig your holes for setting the posts and once you install them firmly, fill the gaps with pebbles or filler mud.
Following the diagram printed on the pack, connect the fence pieces, then hook them up to the mounting posts through the joints on the surface of the aluminum pool fencing.
Put up the self-locking gate at the extreme end of the fence ensuring that you screw in the hinges firmly to the hooks of the fence posts.
Check with the installation instruction to see that everything is in order, then sit back and enjoy your newly installed DIY aluminum pool fencing.
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Located on iconic Dolores Street, this two-level stunning condominium boasts modern + Victorian era details. Breathtaking views upon entering the living room (surrounded by floor to ceiling windows and ambient light) featuring the French doors leading to the spacious view deck. The open living room and dining area blend into<|fim_middle|>.
Photos by Open Homes Photography. | the kitchen featuring high-end appliances and a kitchen island making entertaining a wonderful experience. The main level includes: two bedrooms, walk-in laundry room. The lower level is a master ensuite sanctuary with a walk-out deck overlooking the lush garden. The ensuite bath was remodeled to include a steam shower marble tile, and beautiful cabinetry. Garage parking. Close to 24th Street, Valencia Corridor, the vibrant Mission, Tech commute, Muni, J Church, and 101/280 for commute to the Peninsula.
We can't say enough great things about Linda. Without her, we would not be living in our amazing home. She advised us on the right strategy to win the property and this only comes from her years of experience and knowledge of the markets.
More importantly, she really cared about making sure we found the right place for us. Never once did she rush us nor did her patience wane. Instead, she was a calming presence throughout the emotional and stressful journey. She kept us sane and helped us navigate through the frenzy San Francisco real estate market like a skilled and calm Jedi Master.
Even after the home purchase, she remained engaged and helped us with renovations. What agent would drop off local honey to your door step and help you pick out lighting? I only know of one!
We have purchased and sold property with other experienced and solid realtors. Hands down, Linda is in a class of her own. If you're looking for a realtor, there is no one better than Linda | 307 |
A few weeks ago, I looked at ways to upgrade early PowerPC-based Macs to make them effective gaming machines without spending an arm and a leg. Now the objective is to find good games to play on these computers.
The first PowerPC Macs marked an exciting time in Mac gaming in two ways. For one, they introduced a new line of processors which could run much more power-hungry games than ever before. As a result, many games have the PowerPC chip as a minimum requirement. Also, the newly available power enabled many older Mac games to show their true colors, especially once they had been optimized for the PowerPC chip.
To read about some games which will run on older Macs and are basically guaranteed to have near-top performance on any Power Mac, check out my articles on games for 68030s and 68040s.
The games which often show most improvement in moving from the 68K chip series to the PowerPC are action games, such as first-person shooters. Many of these games will run on 68040s and even 68030s, but they may only have smooth motion if you reduce the display to one-quarter of the screen or less. Almost all of the games that will run on the older Macs will have acceptable smoothness at full screen on nearly any Power Mac. Some good examples are Dark Forces, Duke Nukem <|fim_middle|> as a good story line. In fact, recently there has been talk by a group which is apparently planning to release a MOD for Unreal Tournament which will basically make it feel like a much updated version of Marathon. Marathon was one of the first 3D games on the Mac to be popular for network gaming, both on Power Macs and the more powerful 68K Macs.
When I took an informal survey on the 1st PowerMacs email list to see what games other users of older Power Macs were into, many indicated games from one company: Ambrosia Software>. Some of Ambrosia's more popular games include the Escape Velocity series, Ferazel's Wand, Ares, Barrack, and Apeiron, as well as their original hit, Maelstrom. Many, although not all, of their games are arcade-style games. Most of them do not actually require a PowerPC, and none currently require more than the earliest PowerPC. Almost all of Ambrosia's games are distributed as shareware, which is an added benefit since it allows you to see which ones you are interested in paying to play.
There are many older games which are well-suited to use on these Macs, and I have barely touched the tip of the iceberg. However, my primary purpose is to point out some games which become options only with the PowerPC chip. These can be found in nearly any genre. In fact, even many new games will still run on any PowerPC, provided it has enough memory and hard drive space. However, a lot of them no longer list the oldest Power Macs among their supported computers, because gameplay would be too slow for most people.
One company with a long reputation for producing quality games is Blizzard Software. They currently promote three product lines: Warcraft, Starcraft, and Diablo. Of their Mac products, only their newest, Diablo II, will not work on older Power Macs. Its predecessor, Diablo, runs well on any Power Mac. The only complaint commonly heard is that levels can take a while to load. Starcraft will also run on any Power Mac, although it may be a little jerky on the oldest models. WarCraft II is the oldest of their flagship products, and will also run well on any Power Mac. If you question how well one of their games will run on your computer, demos are available at Blizzard's site and many other sites.
One very exciting game which required a Power Mac was Descent. Descent brought a whole new dimension to 3D gaming. As one of the first games to require PowerPC, I had high expectations for Descent, and it did not fail me. While its graphics are no longer state-of-the-art, there is a patch available which will allow Descent to utilize 3D acceleration, greatly improving its looks. Although I have not tried networking the patched version with the non-patched, I expect that it would work, providing a game which could take advantage of newer hardware while still being able to be played against older computers.
Although I am sure that I have not mentioned them all, there really are not that many other good games which have the PowerPC as their cutoff. However, there are several games which will officially work on nearly any PowerPC, and will work on the slowest ones too, with some slowness but probably tolerable to most people. One of these is the classic Myth, from Bungie. Myth is somewhere between Civilization and Unreal: you command a few people but not a large nation, and not just yourself. Another is Carmageddon, whose name aptly describes it: a combination of car and armageddon. Sierra's game Caesar III also seemed to perform alright for me on a 7100/66, even though it supposedly requires 100 MHz. Generally, a good strategy in seeing which games will work well for you on your older Power Mac is to look for demos and try them. Certainly some will not work but you might be surprised how many will.
Well, that about does it for now. I have probably missed something important, so if I have, don't hesitate to email me. Other than that, enjoy these games while I finish my next project, a closer look at King of Dragon's Pass. | 3D, Wolfenstein, Doom, and one of the greatest classics of all time on the Mac, the Marathon series.
While the Marathon series is no longer cutting edge, it still retains a very strong fan base. Part of this stems from Marathon's good editing tools and networking ability, as well | 60 |
Selling a client is like discovering new territory. There's plenty of opportunity – and lots of green – stretching to the farthest horizon. But venture in the wrong direction, and the landscape becomes tricky.
Such is the case with estimating, that first step in the client relationship. Quote too high and you may lose the sale; estimate too low, and you may lose profit. So, how do you navigate this delicate road?
"Always be realistic when evaluating your operating costs," adds Mike Fitzpatrick, a 35-year industry veteran who advises franchisees as vice president of U.S. Lawns. "What are your fixed overheads? Do you have any debt?" In addition, Fitz<|fim_middle|> in Orlando, Florida. | patrick reminds business owners not to forget their own salary, a costly mistake some contractors make.
Establishing a relationship with your client will give you valuable information about their needs, including budgets. It also builds trust, laying the foundation for a good working partnership.
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Brandon Moxam is director of brand development for U.S. Lawns, based | 90 |
"Go Ape," the signs urge all the way through sleepy Aberfoyle on a slightly damp Sunday morning. It's hard to imagine the crimplened coach passengers (the only others on the main road at the time) going even a very little bit monkey.
Pondering this we – Boys One, Two and I, arrived at beautiful Forest Visitor Centre. The day was clearing and there was a whiff of coffee on the air. Lovely.
However, before I could settle down with a latte and the scenery, I found myself agreeing to supervise my sons on a "potentially dangerous activity". So what's new?
But then, we were being fitted into harnesses and shown how to clip a series of carabiners onto various things "so you don't plummet". And then we were departing, one-by-one by zip-wire to the other side of the valley. "You'll land at running speed," said the man in charge. I don't even like running at running speed.
However, zipping over the treetops was actually quite magical and the landing very soft and not even too undignified.
There followed<|fim_middle|> just did a baby course with my wee man while on holiday in Italy today and he loved it! I believe Go Ape do a course for shorter younger ones down south.
The do. Some of the other Go Apes have a junior course. It would be brilliant if they added that here as then it's a day out for the whole family.
◄ What can I say to new bloggers? | an exhilarating couple of hours of clipping, climbing, scrambling, zipping and, a couple of times, stepping out into the nothing.
Lesser spotted brothers not making faces or fighting.
You can't Go Ape unless you are over 10 and taller than this.
It does feel like flying. On the long zip wires, if you look down rather than up, you get the sensation of soaring through the trees. Very cool. Thanks to Jim for that tip.
Mum's not such a big wimp. Egged on by Boy Two it was impossible to dodge the Big Daddy Tarzan Swing. I only squealed a bit.
Bum shuffling into the abyss is easier. Striding off the edge of a lofty platform is quite hard to do, but squatting down or sitting and edging off the side less so.
Women are better designed than women. If you don't believe me, compare the expressions (and gaits) of men and women getting off a zip slide wearing a climbing harness.
The Queen Elizabeth Forest Park is lovely. Go visit, climb Ben A'an. Soak in the sights, but don't for get your midgie lotion.
A little adrenaline goes a long way. And that's the beauty of Go Ape, it's mind-focusing and challenging, but not traumatising.
Disclosure: We were invited to Go Ape to try it out and report back here, but we'll certainly be back.
Loved go ape and definitely a great area to explore! They have done a lovely walk by the lodge. We | 320 |
Home Fintech Companies CORRECTING and REPLACING Kirobo Unveils the Token Economy Powering Its DeFi Services...
CORRECTING and REPLACING Kirobo Unveils the Token Economy Powering Its DeFi Services Ecosystem
Kirobo's model relies on the community as the key driver and enabler of its decentralized network's operation
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KIROBO UNVEILS THE TOKEN ECONOMY POWERING ITS DEFI SERVICES ECOSYSTEM
Kirobo (https://www.kirobo.io/), a decentralized application developer creating a safer<|fim_middle|> under specific terms to get a compensation in KIRO that a user deposits when creating a conditional transaction. Activators must also hold some KIRO to take part in the process. Going live in Q2 2022, this model will enable Kirobo's network to function as a highly-decentralized and community-powered system where users take the lead.
In Q4 this year, the company will be expanding its tokenomics model to establish an exclusive activator community within its larger user base. While in the first stage, any user holding any amount of KIRO can work as an activator, in the next one, this offering will be limited only to those holding large amounts of the token. In another shift, the users creating a conditional transaction to use the backup or inheritance function will need to pay a network fee along with the activator deposit.
In the more immediate terms, the company introduces a tiered access policy for its Safe Transfer (https://undo.kirobo.me/) dApp that allows users to send assets to another wallet through a password-protected transfer with an "Undo" button. KIRO holders will receive perks and benefits in the dApp, broken down into four tiers to cover the needs of both retail and institutional users. The tiers are as follows:
Users holding 0 KIRO in their wallet or Liquid Vault can do up to two Safe Transfers per month and access up to five of the latest transactions on their record.
Users holding at least 3,500 KIRO can do up to 10 Safe Transfers per month, using Kirobo's password generator, and access up to 20 transactions on their history.
Users holding at least 6,500 KIRO can do up to 25 transfers per month, using the password generator, look up the last 80 transactions on their record, and get their own Address Book.
Users holding at least 10,000 KIRO get up to 40 transfers, with a higher cap possible on a case-by-case basis. They can check up to 160 transactions on their history, use the password generator and address book, and export their transaction record as a .csv spreadsheet.
"Web3 must be decentralized and community-driven, which requires a healthy incentivization mechanism," says Asaf Naim, CEO of Kirobo. "KIRO, our native token, brings just that to our own ecosystem, powering apps that make crypto and DeFi safer and more user-friendly. Crypto is the future and we want to help beginners take the first steps in getting there."
About Kirobo
Kirobo is a decentralized application developer building out a suite of services focused on Web3 security and usability. With investments from Digimax and Solana BRZ, Kirobo works to make decentralized finance as accessible and user-friendly as regular online banking. Kirobo is the proud recipient of two grants from the Israeli Innovation Authority—the only blockchain technology company to achieve this.
For more information, visit https://www.kirobo.io/
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ari@reblonde.com | infrastructure for Web3, unveils the tokenomics model powering its ecosystem of blockchain services. The model outlines the crucial role that KIRO holders will play in the network enabling its array of secure Web3 services by working as activators for conditional transactions. It also outlines the perks and benefits that holders of KIRO, Kirobo's native token, will enjoy in its decentralized applications (dApps).
Kirobo's services rely on the company's unique conditional transaction technology, which allows users to create transactions that will only be executed in a specific scenario. The conditions can include a specific time and date, a target token price, or the presence of a specific NFT in the target wallet, as well as other variables. The technology is at the core of the backup function of Kirobo's Liquid Vault (https://vault.kirobo.me/), a secure non-custodial on-chain wallet with DeFi access and NFT support. The backup function transfers ownership of the Vault to another wallet, designated by the user, if they do not access their Vault for a set period of time, as a ward against private key loss. Conditional transactions will also power the upcoming inheritance function of the Liquid Vault, spreading its assets between designated heir wallets upon activation.
The KIRO token, launched in November 2020 and capped at 2.2 billion maximum supply, works as the financial engine of Kirobo's ecosystem. Besides its use for payments within it, the token is also used to incentivise the activators in Kirobo's network, the users who trigger the conditional transactions on others' behalf. Since any smart contracts lack the ability to automatically validate that a certain condition was met without a third party, activators take care of that, executing the pseudonymous transactions | 360 |
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Art Therapy Is More Than Just Making Nice Pictures
One art therapist explains how making art can save lives.
By Priscilla Frank
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Anyone who has ever put pen to paper, crayon to coloring book, or hand to wet clay knows the healing powers<|fim_middle|> paper, there might be some resistance or hesitancy to explore feelings so the resultant images may appear tight and controlled as in a line drawing or pencil sketch. But after some trust is established in the therapeutic relationship, the art process can move towards more expressive activity, which would suggest the patient is accessing stronger emotion. Often the patient will begin experimenting with more evocative materials at that point, for example using paint or clay to express feelings like anger, shame or fear. The art therapist is knowledgeable about psychological problems and the use of various art media; the process is flexible and individually focused to support the patient to find materials and techniques that connect with the issues at hand. And as a patient becomes more open to the process and discovers more creative resources within, the art product will also change. In art therapy, there is always that creative edge that keeps the process dynamic and contributes to the process of healing.
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Paint an object from your home or office.
"The beginning draughtsman or painter should avoid drawing from photographs. This practice causes bad habits to form. <br> "To start, always draw from life -- and not necessarily a model. Simple convex objects like apples, pots, opaque bottles, or smooth rocks or seashells are tremendous subjects of study. Training the mind to see form and understand how it sees form, and the hand to represent that understanding, is the start to gaining the visual artist's tools of expression." <br> -Daniel Maidman, artist (Image: Daniel Maidman, The Red Pipes, oil on canvas, 24"x30", 2013) | embedded in such creative endeavors. More than just a pastime, art can be an escape, a stimulus, a war cry or a tranquil reprieve.
Art therapy, defined as "a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of communication," revolves around this principal of art's immense power. Open to children and adults of any background and experience, the still-evolving field explores modes of expression, understanding and healing that occur when paint touches canvas. While too many schools today run under the assumption that art is extraneous, a diversion from traditional academic subjects, art therapists know better. They know that art has the potential to change lives, and, even to save them.
Tally Tripp is the art therapy clinic director of George Washington University, specializing in individuals who have experienced trauma. Entering the field in its nascent phase, in the 1970s, Tripp was elemental in shaping the field as we know it today.
Continuing The Huffington Post's coverage of the often misunderstood field that is art therapy, and the pioneers who continue to sculpt it, we reached out to Tripp to discuss the details of her career's past and present.
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How did you become interested in art therapy? How did you learn about the field?
When I first learned about art therapy it was definitely a field in its infancy. Personally, I have always loved art making and combined that with an interest in working with people. In high school I spent summers in New York working for the Children's Aid Society with disadvantaged children in a camp program. It was there, as a counselor in the arts and crafts program, I came across one of the original art therapy journals: the Bulletin of Art Therapy (edited by Elinor Ulman and produced between 1961-1970).
For many years, that journal was the only art therapy publication available. At the same time, in 1971, Elinor Ulman and her colleague, psychologist Bernard Levy started an art therapy program at the George Washington University. Pretty quickly my goal became to study art therapy in the master's program at GW, which I did between 1978 and 1981. Now, full circle, I am a full time professor in the art therapy program at GW and the director of the GW Art Therapy Clinic.
How did art therapy look when you first immersed yourself in it?
In the late 1970s, art therapy was still an emerging profession. It was definitely an exciting time for the field as we students were taught by some of the early pioneers: Elinor Ulman, Edith Kramer and Hanna Kwiatkowska -- innovative thinkers developing clinical approaches that were based largely on intuition coupled with psychoanalytic thinking that was popular at the time. Also in those days there were few texts or research studies on art therapy to guide us, so we learned primarily by our experiences and our clinical work. As art therapy was a relatively unknown profession, we all put time and effort into spreading the word and educating others about its value.
The field is more established now, and more often than not, people have heard of art therapy and have some understanding of how it works. Art therapists now have licenses in some states as well as levels of professional credentialing and board certification. Beyond that, we have a lot of art therapy literature at our fingertips including research studies supporting the efficacy of art therapy and describing how it is utilized across many settings and populations. Art therapists can now be found in various settings -- from medical and psychiatric hospitals, to schools, geriatric facilities, community and studio settings, and in private practice.
What are your areas of interest in the field?
I have maintained a private practice in art therapy for over 30 years. My specialization is working with individuals who have experienced trauma. I find these clients are excellent candidates for art therapy precisely because the art can provide a means for expressing the inexpressible feelings that are often shut down or pushed away from consciousness in response to traumatic events. It has been exciting in the last 25 years to see that neuroscience research has validated the kind of work we do. Through brain imagery, we now know that the cognitive and executive functioning of the brain is for the most part "off line" when people are recalling their traumas, rendering them essentially "speechless." This helps explain why traditional verbal therapy is often not enough when working with trauma, and why art (imagery) and other experiential therapies are so effective.
I reached out to you in part because of Suicide Awareness Month. In your private practice do you work with many patients grappling with suicidal thoughts? What are some of the methods you practice in such circumstances?
Any therapist in private practice will have to deal with patients who are struggling with suicidal thoughts from time to time. Negative beliefs and hopelessness can render the individual helpless to combat the urge for self-harm. To work with suicidal thoughts, a clinician must first assess how developed the plan is, and, if the patient is truly in imminent danger of self-harm, hospitalization may be required. But hospitalization has its limits and is only one step.
Beyond the immediate safety needs, I work on resourcing my patients to help them develop other coping strategies so that they can better manage their feelings and find alternate responses. Some interventions might include creating a safety plan with a hierarchy of actions to take, or to come up with a list of resources that can be quickly accessed when the suicidal impulse arises, or helping with a variety of cognitive and behavioral restructuring techniques, or perhaps increasing the frequency of therapy sessions, etc. Sometimes I will recommend a soothing art activity for "homework" such as working in an art coloring book or journal, that can assist with a person feeling grounded and safe. Art can soothe anxiety and help with re-focusing attention to something more positive and less destructive than a suicidal plan.
Are most of the patients you encounter already involved in art? Are they ever skeptical?
It is true that most people think of going to an art therapist because they enjoy making art and are already involved in it somehow. But that is not the only kind of person who will benefit from art therapy.
For example, one man I worked with was also being seen in marriage therapy and was referred to me because it was determined that he needed to access more emotional depth. This man had no apparent interest in art, but agreed to see me as an experiment because art therapy had been recommended. I invited him to work on a picture of simply lines and shapes and just "see what happens." His first picture, a simple downward sloping line was created in a matter of seconds. But when we held the "picture" up and explored it from a distance, he became struck by the downward motion and then exclaimed: "This is exactly what I have been trying to describe. It looks like my mother's lap. Empty. She was never able to really hold me!" The image and description of not being held as a child became a fundamental theme in our work together. And within a few months, this patient enrolled in a painting class and began a new appreciation for art.
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Can you explain what you hope to achieve with a suicidal patient through art therapy? What changes are you looking to make?
Often the artwork will convey a suicidal feeling of hopelessness or despair long before words are consciously available. The image can provide a means for discussing feelings that are either unclear or difficult to verbalize. Art works tend to be self-referential so we work actively with the images and themes that are produced.
For example, an image of a desolate landscape might signal an empty feeling and suicidal state in the artist. While I do not interpret the image, the patient and I will work together to explore the metaphor and any personal meaning or feelings that are attached. Because the picture is something we can look at together, it gives both artist and therapist an opportunity to "do" something with it. Art therapy can empower the individual to find a solution or create a "preferable ending" in the art. It is interesting to note that creating artwork that challenges the initial feelings of hopelessness will actually affect the neural firing in the brain. The more practice a person has exploring "preferable endings" for example, the more this will result in the brain finding alternatives to self-destructive behavior. So making art can be a good practice for seeking solutions and reducing negative thoughts.
Is there a certain type of patient you think is more suited to art therapy as opposed to other therapy methods?
Anyone who is willing to explore feelings through the process of making art can benefit from art therapy. Some people will naturally be drawn to this kind of therapy -- children in particular where their natural language is through art and play.
Adolescents are also good candidates for art therapy because they may be resistant to traditional talk therapies and usually will enjoy working with art materials. I work with adults, however, and maintain that they are still children inside, as it is often an adult embodying that child state coming in to my office. The art helps bypass the defense and intellectualization inherent in verbal language. When a new (adult) patient is referred to me, I often start by asking, "Why do you think art therapy will help?" Right there, I am getting an alliance with the patient by suggesting that I believe that the experiential and creative nature of making art, in the company of an attuned art therapist, will make a difference.
What makes art therapy so powerful?
Art therapy is more than just making nice pictures. In fact, art therapy is more often a process of making ugly or messy pictures that depict a feeling state, not a final product that is all neat and tied together. Art therapy is about that creative process where the client, in the company of an art therapist, is working and re working problems via a range of fluid and variable art materials.
In private practice, I find the spontaneously created art pieces are the most meaningful and often help a person find resolution for specific traumatic experiences. The benefit occurs when the art made facilitates a sense of mastery over the problem. For example, a patient who has experienced years of abuse or neglect in childhood may be able to finally express feelings that had been avoided or pushed out of conscious awareness because they were overwhelming at the time. The images often speak more loudly than words. With the encouragement of the art therapist, difficult feelings can be expressed through making art.
The process varies widely so there is no one way to describe what happens in a session. When a person first faces a blank piece of | 2,164 |
Last night was Math Night at my school, and although I wasn't on the committee I wanted to do something in the library to show my support. Of course, I chose a book display!
On another table I provided a print out of this list so that parents could go to their local library if they chose and check some of them out. On the same table I provided information about Bedtime Math, an organization that posts a math problem on their website daily (they also have an app!) The best part about their problems is that while the set-up and background information is the same, there are three to four different questions that<|fim_middle|> book or a magazine! The equation and graph example are actually from a paper that my cousin has had published!
It is easy to make connections across the curriculum and make it fun too! | can be answered that are tiered–one is for beginning mathematicians, and the rest get increasingly more difficult. They also have a great afterschool program kit (for free!) called the Crazy 8s Club. I provided some small sheets with website information so that parents could do the daily problem at home!
You can also have a table with some fun math games to play when people stop in.
I have the special circumstance of having a cousin who is a mathematician, so I was able to create a wall display about him, his work, and how much reading there is in math! I focused on equations, graphs, and symbols, and how they each convey information that needs to be "read", just like a | 147 |
Abigail Adams.
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Abigail Adams (1744-1818) is<|fim_middle|> women's equal education and women's property rights. Adams had strong feelings about marriage and believed women should take more part in decisions rather than simply serve their husbands. Adams believed that women should educate themselves and use their intellect to manage the household affairs, as well as be a moral guide for the family.
In a letter to her husband John, March 1776, while he was in Philadelphia, Adams wrote, "Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice or Representation."
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Adams National Historical Park: https://www.nps.gov/adam/learn/historyculture/abigail-adams-1744-1818.htm
Women's Rights National Historical Park: https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/abigail-adams.htm
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massachusetts history | known for her role as First Lady during the presidency of John Adams. In addition to being the wife of the second president, she was also the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States. While the men in her life were prolific political thinkers, Abigail was knowledge about politics and gave advice to both her husband and son. She was particularly passionate about women's rights.
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Union City is located on the northern border of Branch County, about ten miles northwest of Coldwater. This is a small picturesque and historic town that functions primarily as an adjunct community to the greater Coldwater area. It has a striking turn<|fim_middle|> a city in 1866. | -of-the-century look architecturally, with well preserved downtown buildings and several Victorian style homes. A Civil War monument can be seen on the north end of the main street area in the churchyard, while a veteran's memorial along the riverbank to the south end stands to commemorate those who fought in more recent wars.
Union City was first settled by Justice Goodwin in 1833, when he built a mill here and became the first postmaster, calling it "Goodwinville." A year later, he sold several hundred acres to E. W. Morgan, who officially platted the site, renaming it from the "union" of the Coldwater and St. Joseph Rivers, which join there. It was eventually incorporated as | 148 |
Home Blog MSP Business Operations Do You Feel Like You're Working in an IT Sweatshop<|fim_middle|> automated maintenance. These are mostly scripts and tasks that can be scheduled based on date and time—or that can be triggered by a monitoring alert. Examples include scheduled defragmentation of disks and AV scans.
The second step is automation. Proactive maintenance as mentioned above relies heavily on automation, but automation goes beyond maintenance tasks. You can write scripts to do any number of things, such as disable users after a certain period of inactivity. Automation lives both in your RMM tool and your PSA tool.
PSA tools often have ticket-routing and alert-notification rules that allow you to automate those processes as well. If you do not have a coder on your team, don't worry, as there are resources online for scripts that perform many of the common tasks that IT technicians perform every day.
In the end, getting out of the "sweatshop" mentality is really just about adopting a proactive managed services model and then improving it over time with automation. Smoothing out the spikes relieves the stress—while automation can help reduce workloads and replace the most boring, repetitive tasks.
Eric Anthony is director of customer experience at SolarWinds MSP. Before joining SolarWinds, Eric ran his own managed service provider business for over six years.
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Do You Feel Like You're Working in an IT Sweatshop?
Does it sometimes feel like you're working in an IT sweat shop? If all day long you are doing the same things over and over, processing the same tickets all the time, you might be.
One of the problems with IT is there are many repetitive processes. The good news is many of these tasks can be automated. Another undesirable characteristic of an IT sweatshop is frequent crisis. The steady onslaught of repetitive tasks combined with crisis-mode situations can create an unfavorable, and often unprofitable, workplace. So the other thing to consider alongside automation is proactive maintenance.
The first step to getting out of the "sweatshop" is to minimize surprises and the accompanying spikes in workload by monitoring and maintaining your IT environment in peak condition. By deploying a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, you can keep a virtual eye on the pieces that make up your environment. Monitoring hardware for impending failures allows you to react more quickly, enabling you to schedule the work instead of dealing with it after it fails.
Furthermore, knowing your antivirus (AV) and backups are being watched by a system rather than by people can give you more confidence those systems are working as intended. When you use your professional services automation (PSA) tool to schedule work, like renewing a domain or SSL certificate, it is much less likely that you will forget and scramble to get a domain or website back up because they expired.
Even using a tool to monitor your cloud services can pay dividends by identifying exactly where the connection is failing. Monitoring is only one half of the proactive attack on crisis. The other half is | 334 |
Boston ivy is a climbing vine that adorns the exter<|fim_middle|> the level above the leaf nodes, but below the level of the leaves on the cuttings. Roots will form in three to six weeks.
Transplant the individual cuttings into the garden when the roots are about 3-inches long. Leaving them in water to grow longer may cause the roots of the cuttings in the jar to entangle and tear when you try to separate them. | iors of buildings in many parts of the world. Boston ivy is a fast grower. It can grow as much as 10 feet in a single growing season. The new leaves open up in spring a glossy bronze color, and then change to a medium green and then to a dark green. Depending on the variety, Boston ivy displays brilliant fall color in tones of yellow, orange, scarlet, crimson or wine. You can increase your supply by taking tip cuttings and rooting them in water; this is the fastest and easiest way to propagate a large number of ivy cuttings.
Take cuttings of Boston ivy in early spring, as soon as they have leafed out and the vines are putting on tender new growth.
Cut from the tips of the vines. Take cuttings that are about 6- to 8-inches long. Make the cut just below a leaf node. This is the point on the stem from which a leaf grows. Roots will form there as well. Remove the bottom two leaves on each cutting.
Fill a quart-size jar halfway with filtered, distilled or bottled water. Use clean, potable water that does not contain chlorine, because chlorine can inhibit the formation of roots.
Put 1 tsp. of granulated charcoal into the jar. It will sink to the bottom. The charcoal keeps the water "sweet" and will inhibit the growth of undesirable bacteria in the water.
Put the tip cuttings of Boston ivy into the water. Add water as needed to ensure that the denuded leaf nodes are under water. Make sure that the remaining leaves on the cuttings are above the level of the water to keep them from decaying and contaminating the rooting process.
Set the jar of cuttings on a sunny, south-facing windowsill, right next to the windowpane. Check the jar daily and add water as necessary to keep | 379 |
Originally called the Al<|fim_middle|> Biloxi Blues, also played at the theater. | vin Theatre, it was built by Alexander H. Pincus in 1927 to showcase the musical comedies of successful Broadway producers Alex Aarons and Vinton Freedley, beginning with Funny Face starring Fred Astaire.
The name of the theater was an acronym of their two first names. Designed by Herbert J. Krapp, it is one of his more elegant theaters, particularly the interior, which boasts an eighteenth-century Adameque style with plaster ornamentation reminiscent of Wedgewood pottery and a mural of a pastoral scene over the proscenium. The exterior's divided facade is also distinctive; due to additional height requirements needed to move scenery, the right side, which houses the theater, is taller than the left side. In 1977, the building was purchased by the Nederlander Organization. On June 29, 1983, the opening night of American playwright Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, the theater was renamed in his honor. In 1985, Simon's sequel, | 215 |
I've been making a butterscotch sauce for awhile, but recently I didn't have much extra butter (oh no!) and decided that I didn't want to use what I had on making the butterscotch. It's similar to a caramel sauce anyway, so I decided go ahead and actually try to make a caramel sauce<|fim_middle|>. Remove it from the heat and transfer to a glass bowl for storage. Add the vanilla and sea salt and stir together. Chill before serving. It will thicken somewhat once chilled, but still be very runny.
How do you like to serve salted caramel sauce? | instead. The result was something that was thinner and somehow more rich, despite the simpler ingredients, and just so delicious.
My favorite way to serve it is over vanilla ice cream with chopped crispy walnuts. It's a wonderful, not-too-sweet evening snack. Of course, it would be great over cinnamon rolls, any sort of vanilla or apple cake, or really anything you enjoy. Dream…and try it.
In a small saucepan, mix the water and sucanat. Then, turn it on low-medium heat and stir constantly until the sucanat is completely melted. Stop stirring and turn it down to low, and watch it carefully. It should be bubbling constantly but not too hard. With the sucanat, it caramelizes quickly, and it's hard to tell since the mixture is already dark in color. You will notice that it suddenly turns a shade darker. Watch it constantly or it will burn! As soon as you see the color darken, remove it from the heat and add the cream all at once. Stir it together and return it to the heat. The sugar won't burn now since the cream is added, and the cream won't curdle because of the high sugar content. Start boiling it again, over low-medium heat and keep watching it. It should boil lightly for about 10 minutes | 269 |
Martin is an incredible magician<|fim_middle|> are 52 more reviews to read in Martin Reed's review centre. | , not only that, he is a top guy that seemed to draw everyone towards him while doing his act. His tricks left many of us dumbfounded and our event was made exponentially better by having him there. Highly recommend for anyone looking for great, wholesome, funny entertainment!
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Martin arrived in good time and chatted through his performance with both myself and my client. He was smartly dressed and friendly. The guests were amazed at his performance - even talking about it the following day and trying to work out how he did some of his tricks. Would definitely recommend Martin for future events.
We loved the performances Martin gave and marvelled at his ability. His charming personality amused, bewildered and enchanted us. Both strolling stage acts were very professional. Hope we get another opportunity to see more from him.
Just a quick message to say how much we enjoyed Martin for my 60th Birthday Party, we kept asking him to 'do it again' and even when he repeated it...we still could not see how it worked!! Can't thank him enough, truly remarkable!
We have booked Martin for the last 3 years in a row to perform his table magic for our annual Dining Awards and it was definitely worthy of one of the awards!! Thank you very much, looking forward to next year already!
Exactly what we wanted! The close up magic around the tables was simply amazing and the comedy cabaret magic set to finish was absolutely perfect! Great fun and everyone has mentioned how entertaining Martin was. Thank you again, would definitely re-book.
I wanted to share my experience having booked Martin for our Corporate Party on Saturday...what a truly incredible Magician he was!! All of our guests were excited for Martin to perform at their table due to the reactions that they were hearing! Absolutely perfect thank you, will definitely book again!
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The Sagittarius woman is blunt, adventurous, enthusiastic, and talkative. Courting a Sagittarius woman is a whirlwind of fun and flair. It can also be quite frustrating to the suitor who isn't well-versed in the Sagittarius nature. She is courageous and ready to conquer the world and explore every inch of the globe. She can be exhausting and confusing if you don't know what you're in for. If you take the time to understand and appreciate the qualities of the Sagittarius woman, you'll stand a much better chance of capturing her heart.
The Sagittarius man is an adventurer and an explorer. He is always looking for new challenges, new intellectual pursuits, and (unfortunately) sometimes new love interests. Because the Sagittarius man loves new experiences, he can sometimes be hard to pin down in a committed relationship. If you've lost the spark with your Sagittarius man, this could very well be the reason why. But you don't have to wash your hands of him and give up.
All pure Sagittarians (November 23 to December 22) have enormous potential, but by no means all of them fulfil the promise they display in early life. This is because one of the characteristics of the sign is a happy-go-lucky attitude, a carelessness about the consequences of actions, which sometimes results<|fim_middle|> sign are born between 22nd November and 21st December. Though sometimes you may find their energy rather overwhelming, there is a lot you can learn working for a Sagittarius boss. | in the pure Sagittarian throwing away success when it is in hislher grasp. If, for example, you meet a brilliant young student who suddenly stops doing any work a few months before finals, there is a strong probability that he/she is a pure Sagittarian.
The first decan of Sagittarius is ruled by Mercury.
This decan gives much versatility and capacity for general work. More particularly it gives a good judgment, a sober mind, a quick intellect; but powers running into profusion and disorder through richness of intellect and lack of method. Troubles and bickerings in marital life may be looked for; many enemies and many conquests. The native rises in life through the exercise of his faculties, and favours the more humane studies, natural science and philosophy.
Sagittarius is the ninth sign of the Zodiac calendar and includes those born between November 22 and December 21. Idealistic, free living and fun-loving, they make for great relationships. So if you want to date a Sagittarius woman, here are a few ways to go about it.
Sagittarius rising denotes an open-minded, honest, sympathetic and generous disposition. The fate is dualistic and usually divided into two extremes of fortune and misfortune. The native is highly impressionable, though fond of liberty and independence. He is often reckless, extravagant and careless. When undeveloped he is thoughtless, erratic and rebellious, but when awakened Ire is philosophical, a lover of law and order, peaceful, and more intuitive than imitative.
Lively and outspoken, Sagittarians believe in looking at the brighter side of things. People with this Zodiac sign are born between 22nd November and 21st December. The positive mantra that informs their daily life also colors their personal relationships and opens up untold worlds for their partners. Here are a few insights into dating and loving a Sagittarius man.
Sagittarius is the ninth sign of the Zodiac calendar and includes those born between November 22nd and December 21st. Fun-loving and open-hearted, Sagittarius men and women also come with idealistic and brilliant minds – all reasons which make it great to have them on your team.
Active and outspoken, Sagittarians believe in looking at the brighter side of things. People with this Zodiac | 478 |
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Rent A Charter Bus From Edmonton And Eat Your Way Around Alberta!
Are you looking for the best Alberta steak? Or the best souvlaki, or chana masala, or maybe it's an authentic street taco you're craving. What if you could spend a couple of days eating your way around Alberta on a stress-free, luxury bus tour designed by you? Take your colleagues, friends, sports team, wedding party, or corporate group on a unique transportation adventure discovering the lakes, mountains and prairies of Alberta, with the added fun of trying locally loved cafa's and restaurants.
The quest for great little hole-in-the-wall restaurants has become an obsession for Albertans. It seems that if we are lucky enough to stumble upon a little-known gem, the first thing we do is take a picture of our food and text it to our friends. Look what I'm eating! Wish you were here!
As diverse as the Alberta landscape is, our province is also rich in dishes from many countries. Imagine the thrill of setting out early, preferably hungry, to try local favourites all around Alberta. Between towns and restaurants, you climb back on an air-conditioned, luxury bus, settle in to watch the flat screen, and focus on getting hungry before you get to the next town. Of course, you can customize your tour depending on your time and appetite. Our professional drivers let you just sit back and enjoy the scenery and the food.
We've asked locals around the province to tell us their favourite go-to cafe's and restaurants. Here are their recommendations. Grab your camera and embark on your own a-grazing race around Alberta.
Remedy cafe- This iconic local favourite specializes in homemade chai lattes, garlicky humus and smooth chana masala. In fact, the chai lattes are so well known, friends just ask, "Should we go for a Remedy? Parking is often at a premium but your driver will happily wait with the bus while you feast.
La Boule- Cruise down Whyte Ave in your luxury custom bus and turn just off the main drag to find La Boule, an authentic French patisserie which will transport you into France. Enjoy the most lemony of lemon tarts this side of Paris.
Tres Carnales- True Mexican street tacos, particularly delicious with a side of homemade taco chips and guacamole. This is the place to be for fun and great food.
If you're chartering a bus for your sports team transportation [or any type of group] and are asking why you should stop in Whitecourt, we have your answer: Mountain Pizza and Steak! A family owned business feeding Whitecourt residents for over 30 years which serves the best steak in Alberta according to our friends!
Jeffrey's Cafe in Nordic Court is a locally owned, locally sourced restaurant and catering company. Check out their Local Story for the specials made with fresh local ingredients.
Jasper Pizza Place- Renting your own luxury bus for a ski trip or sightseeing tour to Jasper just wouldn't be complete without stopping in for a wood fired pizza at Jasper Pizza Place. There are many other options on the menu and the restaurant is happy to host large groups.
Bear's Paw Bakery- Your bus driver will be happy to pick you up from the hotel in the morning and take you to this hidden gem for a strong coffee and a beautifully sticky cinnamon bun. You can even pack some hearty trail cookies or muffins for the road.
Barpa Bills- One main street back from Banff Avenue, this teeny cafe' makes a great take-away Greek meal from succulent souvlaki on pita, to crisp calamari, meals are topped with homemade tzatziki. Finish off with a honey-dripping filo pastry.
Banff Springs Hotel Lookout patio- There's no denying that this doesn't fit into the inexpensive list, however you can take the money you saved by booking your bus rental with Alberta North Transport and sip on a delicious drink while you savour the breathtaking mountain scenery. The lounge will provide blankets to help with those chilly breezes too.
Rocky Mountain Flatbread Co " Ready to get on the luxury charter bus and head home after a weekend ski trip or sightseeing tour in Banff/Lake Louise? Ask your friendly driver to pull over just off the main street in Canmore for a great, homey flatbread cafe. Lunch size forno-fired pizzas are the way to go, paired with a salad. May I suggest fig and goat's cheese salad and the apple chicken pizza.
Ban Mi Thi Thi- There is simply no comparison to these Vietnamese subs. We have searched in Calgary, Red Deer and Edmonton, and even Toronto, and none have come close to its equal. Choose satay chicken, satay beef or<|fim_middle|> who owns this tiny stand is lovely and they know their stuff. It's a true Calgary legend, and if you've booked your tour bus with Alberta North Transport you can bring the food on board and enjoy it while our professional driver gets you where you need to be!
Desert Pita and Lebonese Grill- If you are craving Arabic spices, head out a to this iconic cafe Succulant shawarma or Shish Tawouk, with a side of fatoush will do the trick. You may have to go back a few times to sample all of these delicious dishes.
Jimmy's A&A grocery- In the early nineties, this corner grocery expanded into a Mediterranean deli. Try the dolmata, falafel, donair, shawarma, tabhouli, humus, baklava- oh heck, just try it all!
City Roast- Charter buses almost always stop in Gasoline Alley, but go a few minutes further and stop for a coffee and homemade scone, or perhaps a soup and sandwich on homemade bread.
Eco Cafe- If you've already got a rental bus for your group you might as well enjoy, and a worthwhile side trip off the highway will bring you to Eco Cafe at Pigeon Lake. Their mandate is Food as a Community, using locally raised, organic foods. Unique dishes are Alberta bison pastrami sandwich, Cajun spiced prawn po'boy and a Latin pulled pork torta cubano. All food is community sourced and freshly prepared. | a combo, all topped with fresh cucumber, cilantro, pickled onions and carrots on a crusty baguette. Add a little spice to your life with Thai red chili peppers. The family | 40 |
Vegetable and Bean Chili has been one of my staples for years. It isn't hard<|fim_middle|> homemade.
Heat oven to 375°. Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Mix in the jalapeño pepper and corn. Whisk the wet ingredients together in a smaller bowl. Pour all of the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients at once and mix through. Don't over stir- there should be lumps. Pour into a greased 8×8-inch baking dish. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the edges become golden and pull away from the sides of the dish.
Cool for 5 minutes on a cooling rack and serve.
Eliana LOVES both the chili and cornbread. Here she is enjoying it while my father-in-law, Steve, feeds it to her.
Ooh! What do you have for me, Grandpa Steve?
Clap, clap for that! More, please?
You make the best food for her! | to prepare, the ingredients are inexpensive to buy, it keeps well in the freezer, and a large pot of it can easily feed a crowd. It is a very low-maintenance meal to prepare, too. It can hang out, simmering on the stove unattended, for a while. Which is perfect since I spend lots of time running around after a small person and can forget about silly things like, oh the food that is cooking on the stove. I also love that I can throw in any veggies I have in the fridge that weren't used for another recipe or are just taking up space waiting to be used. The chili alone is yummy and satisfying, but pair it with some of my homemade Jalapeño Cornbread? Now you've got a tasty, healthy and super-filling meal.
In a large, lidded saucepan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add red pepper flakes and cook for 15 seconds. Add the onions, some salt and stir. Cook for 3 minutes and add the garlic and jalapeño pepper.
Stir and cook 1-2 minutes. Add the carrots, a pinch of salt and stir.
Cover and let the vegetables cook for around 5 minutes.
Add the beans and some more salt and mix together well. Cook for 1-2 minutes.
Add in the tomatoes, mix thoroughly and bring the chili to a low boil. Cook for 10 minutes.
Add in spices, stir, cover and simmer over low heat for at least 20 minutes and up to 1 hour. The chili will be yummy after 20 minutes, but if you have the time, you can leave it for up to an hour so the flavors have more time to meld. Add the corn and simmer for another few minutes just to heat the corn through.
Turn off the heat, stir, taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
Top with your favorite accompaniments.
Full disclosure: I used to make my "Homemade" Jalapeño Cornbread using the Jiffy brand mix for corn muffins. I'd follow the recipe on the box and just add some canned corn kernels and a chopped jalapeño pepper. And, just so you know, I always told people it was from the box. But lately, I've been working on my own recipe so that I know all of the ingredients—for example, I make mine with some whole wheat flour and can control the amount of sugar I put into it. So, ta-da! Here's my recipe for cornbread that is actually | 516 |
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9 January 2017 (Last Updated January 9th, 2017 18:30)
The New York State Government has entered into an agreement with energy company Entergy to shut down the 2,000MW Indian Point Energy Centre by April 2021.
Located 25 miles north of New York City, the plant has posed several threats to the safety of more than 20 million residents in the area and has proved hazardous for the region's environmental health.
Entergy has agreed to stop all operations at the plant, closing the facility's Unit 2 reactor in April 2020 and the Unit 3 reactor in April the year after. These units will close at least 13 years earlier than estimated under the anticipated federal relicensing terms.
Even after the closure, the New York state will continue to monitor the company in order to ensure safety of the residents and eliminate all risks associated with the nuclear facility.
"For 15 years, I have been deeply concerned by the continuing safety violations at Indian Point."
New York's Governor Andrew M. Cuomo said: "For 15 years, I have been deeply concerned by the continuing safety violations at Indian Point, especially given its location in the largest and most densely populated metropolitan region in the country.
"I am proud to have secured this agreement with Entergy to responsibly close the facility 14 years ahead of schedule to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
"This administration has been aggressively pursuing and incentivising the development of clean, reliable energy and the state is fully prepared to replace the power generated by the plant at a negligible cost to ratepayers."
The Indian Point plant has had a number of safety and operational issues, which include numerous leaks, faulty bolts, and fires. The densely populated location of the plant does not allow sufficient evacuation routes in case of a disaster.
For environmental and community benefits, Entergy will offer $15m in funding, while the government will provide the | 421 |
Avon Products Welcomes Luis Vazquez to its Global Sales Team
By siliconindia | Tuesday, 23 July 2019, 05:56 Hrs
One of the global leaders in cosmetics segment, Avon has appointed Luis Vazquez to its global sales team. He will be spearheading the team to ensure the growth of the company by enhancing the recruitment, retention and retention and training.
Commenting on his new role, Luis, says, "I am excited to be joining Avon at such an<|fim_middle|> help all our Representatives grow their business, whatever their earnings ambitions are".
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MobiKwik Aims Rs 1.4 Lakh Cr Revenue from Payment Gateway Business | important time in its history. I am passionate about supporting Representatives through every part of their journey and am looking forward to delivering tools and training that will support them, their teams and their customers".
Prior to Avon, Luis was recently the Vice President - Sales & Marketing at Herbalife North America. With his 11 years of experience there, he made huge impacts such as driving a double-digit sales turnaround in his North America reign. Previously, Luis also worked for both South and Central America in business development and business transformation roles. His skills include market development & expansion, strategic planning, business development and cross-functional team leadership. Prior to his long career at Herbalife, Luis also worked for GE for almost three years at the Financial Management Program.
Welcoming Luis to Avon, Miguel Fernandez, Global President, Avon, comments, "I am delighted that Luis is joining Avon in this strategically important role for the company. He will be focused on the transformation of Avon's end-to-end Representative experience and help lead the drive to effectively use data and insights. This work will mean we are able to better deliver a truly tailored approach ensuring we can effectively | 232 |
Patricia A. Broward: 1930-2019
By News Staff on February 3, 2019 in Weather
After a long illness, Patricia Adele Broward passed away at her home on January 29, 2019.
Pat was born in an isolated farmhouse in Alden, Kansas on August 22, 1930. She was delivered by the country doctor and not<|fim_middle|> Crafty Ladies, and the United Methodist Church. She had a close and strong circle of friends.
Pat enjoyed many summer camping trips, carefully planned by her son Steven, with her grandchildren. Making memories with her family was very important to Pat. She loved her grandchildren Kevin Broward and Sara Jo Ciapponi deeply and unconditionally.
Family and friends were everything to Pat, she believed life was to be lived and enjoyed. She will be greatly missed.
Our family is very grateful for the expert care, love and support she received from Rebecca Spratt, and many other kind caregivers during the last two years.
Pat is survived by her husband, children, grandchildren and brother Gary Gunter.
On behalf of her love of the Eastern Sierra and the Owens Valley donations can be made to the Eastern California Museum, 155 N. Grant St., Independence Ca. 93526
bishop, Pat Broward
Bishop Council approves Silver Peaks land purchase
Update: Warming center to open again at Mammoth High School | expected to live, yet her grandmother and her Aunt Lacassa revived her by plunging her into tubs of hot and cold water, she went on to live a long life of 88 years.
She was a raised in Southern California during the time of endless orange groves and summer camp outs on Huntington Beach. In 1949 she married Paul Broward and began to raise a family. She is survived by her children Steven Broward (Anne Marie) and Paula Ciapponi, (Robert) she is predeceased by her beloved son Kurtis Broward.
The family moved to Bishop in 1965 and Pat quickly became involved in the community through many endeavors such as the League of Women Voters, 4-H, the TriCounty Fair, | 158 |
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Hear Aussie Music Icon Paul Kelly, Chris Shiflett Talk the Kinks, Songwriting
Shiflett's 'Walking the Floor' podcast returns with<|fim_middle|> child to fire up his or her own imagination. "Let your kids be bored!"
His initial career path? Full-time writer.
A fan of Henry Miller and Jack Keruoac, Kelly initially studied to become a writer. "I was writing more prose," he remembers. Things began to change when he learned his first guitar chords at age 18. From there, he began listening to Gram Parsons, the Byrds and Neil Young, learning how to cover those musicians' songs along the way. "I was playing [cover] songs for two or three years," he remembers, "and then one day, I wrote one. . .The other writing I was doing just fell away."
Kelly is driven by one ambition: to continue writing good music.
"The next thing I wanna do is always write a good song," he tells Shiflett. "Songs hit me really hard as a kid, and they still do. I still remember 'Waterloo Sunset' by the Kinks, and it just hit me between the eyes, and I've always wanted to grab some of that power. . . [I want to] chase that feeling of being connected to something bigger than ourselves."
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Paul Kelly is the top-selling artist in Australia this week, having scored his very first chart-topping album with the release of his 23rd record, Life is Fine.
As this week's guest on Walking the Floor, he talks to podcast host Chris Shiflett about a long-running career that began in the pubs of Melbourne and grew into something international. It's the story of an Aussie Renaissance Man who's been everything from a Top 40 hitmaker to a cult favorite, and it premieres today on Rolling Stone Country, ending a month's worth of radio silence from Shiflett and his Americana podcast. Listen to the episode below, after our list of highlights.
It's been a busy decade for Kelly, who released two albums in 2016 alone.
Now in his fourth decade as an artist, Kelly still moves at a rapid clip, kicking off 2016 with the release of Seven Sonnets and a Song. Released on the 400-year anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the album found Kelly setting a string of Shakespearean sonnets to music. "He's just my favorite writer," he tells Shiflett.
Later that year, Kelly teamed up with fellow songwriter Charlie Owen for Death's Dateless Night. "We've both sung at a lot of our friends' funerals," he explains, and Death's Dateless Night takes its material from those gigs, rounding up songs that the two musicians have performed at various wakes.
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Kelly's ideal bandmate? The kind of guy who doesn't pull punches.
"I think the art of being in a good band is being able to fight with each other, and not hurt each other," says the frontman, whose discography includes nearly a dozen different bands, side projects and one-off collaborations. For Kelly, a little constructive conflict can go a long way. "The final say is mine," he says, "but I need people throwing in ideas all the time."
He doesn't always crave the spotlight. . .or the microphone.
In 2002, 14 different female artists covered Kelly's music on for the tribute album Women at the Well. 15 years later, Kelly still enjoys hearing his music performed by others. "I've always loved other singers doing my songs," he says. "More of my records now have someone else singing the songs. I don't know why I didn't think of it 30 years ago. No matter how good a singer is, it's always good to take a break. Like the Rolling Stones, where Keith would sing a lot. . .I think that's probably how I'll do my records from now on. It's good to have a little break from my own voice."
His parents forced him to take piano lessons. . . and, more than a half-century later, he's glad they wouldn't let him stop.
"We all had piano lessons as kids," he says of his upbringing in Adelaide. "It was compulsory." Now a father of three, Kelly supports the idea of mandatory lessons. "Too much choice is bad for kids, and boredom is good for kids," he insists, claiming that boredom will compel a | 785 |
Stages of change to exercise and barriers to exercise in worksite employees
Deborah A. Knieja
M.S. (Master of Science)
Department of Family, Consumer, and Nutrition Sciences
Exercise--Illinois--Elgin--Psychological aspects; Goal (Psychology)
Purpose: To measure stages of exercise among employees who set an exercise goal and did not set an exercise goal. Barriers to exercise among stages of exercise were also examined. Design: Insured employees of Sherman Health Systems that set an exercise goal and did not set an exercise goal were sent questionnaires. Subjects were asked to identify their stage of exercise, which included five statements of exercise behaviors. They were also asked to identify personal barriers to exercise from a list of seventeen barriers. The sample<|fim_middle|> exercise and barriers reported across all groups. The precontemplation and contemplation stages reported a similar number of barriers, the preparation and action groups were similar, but the maintenance group cited fewer barriers than all other groups. An ANOVA was used to determine differences of stage of exercise and barriers on each group separately. In both groups, differences were found among stage of exercise and average number of barriers. Applications: Stages of exercise may be better utilized if employees set voluntary goals to increase their level of exercise. As the stage of exercise increases, barriers seem to decrease showing that barriers appear to hinder employees who are not exercising on a regular basis. Barriers within each stage of exercise need to be addressed so that they can be overcome. Employers and health promoters should use tracking mechanisms, interventions such as time management strategies and motivation strategies, and stage specific messages to help employees increase and maintain exercise participation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [47]-49)
Knieja, Deborah A., "Stages of change to exercise and barriers to exercise in worksite employees" (2000). Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations. 5035.
v, 49 pages | size included 256 subjects, a response rate of 55%. Results: A chi-square analysis was used to determine stage of exercise between the group that set an exercise goal and the group that did not set an exercise goal. No significant differences were found in stages of exercise between the two groups. Overall, the average number of barriers to exercise in both groups was 3.62 with work obligations as the most frequently cited barrier. The average number of barriers cited for each group decreased as the stage of exercise increased. An ANOVA was performed on both groups combined to determine if those in a higher stage of exercise reported fewer barriers. A significant difference was found between the means of stage of | 142 |
SWEET AND SPICY ROASTED CHICKPEAS — Chickpeas are roasted in brown sugar and spices for a healthy, crunchy snack.
Well, the holidays are over, and it's time to start thinking about New Year's resolutions and healthier eating.
And when it comes to something to munch on between meals or for a late night snack, these Sweet and Spicy Roasted Chickpeas are one of my favorite healthy snacks.
The first time I made these, they popped all over the oven like popcorn. I experimented with cooking temperatures and methods, and have reduced the popping to a minimum.
But be warned, you may hear a few noises coming from your oven during roasting. The key is getting your chickpeas really dry before you roast them.
I like to rinse mine in a colander, and then lay them out on some paper towels to dry.
Most recipes for roasted chickpeas I've seen call for one can of chickpeas, but seriously, I would eat that many in about 10 minutes. I can hardly wait for them to cool before I start digging in!
Feel free to change up the spices to your liking. This sweet and spicy version is my favorite though.
Just make sure the chickpeas are nice and crunchy when you remove them from the oven. Otherwise they tend to go a little soft when they've cooled.
I've stored these in a Ziploc bag or covered container for a few days and they've held up well.
I've never managed to keep them around longer than that. If roasting only one can of chickpeas, you'll want to reduce the cooking time slightly.
Be sure to save this recipe for Sweet and Spicy Roasted Chickpeas to your favorite Pinterest board for later.
Chickpeas are roasted in brown sugar and spices for a healthy, crunchy snack.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Rinse and drain chickpeas; dry well on paper towels.
Place chickpeas on a lightly greased baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Remove pan from oven ad shake. Return to oven for another 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, combine seasonings and brown sugar in a small bowl.
Remove chickpeas from oven and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with spices and shake pan again to coat chickpeas with olive oil<|fim_middle|> them in the same water that they soaked in along with a bit of salt, two bay leaves and two large squashed cloves of garlic. When they come to a boil, cover and turn heat down to medium low and simmer for about an hour. Remove garlic and bay leaves. Drain in colander and refrigerate uncovered for about an hour. Helps to dry them.
This recipe is one of my favorites, and I recently made it for my boyfriend to convince him that vegan food is still delicious. He was super unsure at first, but loved it!! he actually ended up asking for the recipe so he could make it himself. Thanks for the great recipe!! | and seasonings.
Return to oven and bake chickpeas for another 10-15 minutes, or until chickpeas are browned and very crunchy.
This was delicious! I followed the recipe except for the cayenne pepper, since I didn't have any and substituted with paprika. Nice, crunchy & highly recommended.
question, my friend gave me a gallon bag of dehydrated chickpeas, how would i go about using these in this recipe?
I honestly don't know. But I think your best bet would be to rehydrate them and then follow the recipe from there.
I make my beans all the time as the canned has too much sodium. Turn your oven on to 250 degrees. I take about a pound of beans and rinse them, place them on a towel to sort. Make sure there are no rocks. Take a large oven safe pot and put enough water to cover the beans (this is a guessing game as the beans aren't in the pot but too much is better than not enough). Bring the water to a boil. place the beans in the pot and then place in the oven. Bake for 1.5 hours and then check to see if they are at the right firmness (if you have bought them in cans you know how firm they should be). And that is it. Very easy. It is important to have enough water to cover the beans during this cooking cycle. Sounds complicated but once you do it once it is easy.
I have been using dehydrated chickpeas to make this snack and it turns out so good! I would soak them overnight in water. Then pressure cook/boil them until their slightly softer. Then I would flavour them and stick them in the oven to roast 😀 works well!
Love these! I use dehydrated chickpeas. I soak them overnight in water. I then boil | 384 |
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2:30PM — LAR Studio, Collegiate Square
Chuck Ware, Landscape Architect, Urban Designer
A Search for Meaning: Working the Deep
The talk will explore an approach to planning and design that yields<|fim_middle|> and design.
landscape architecture program | meaningful and enduring outcomes. The discussion will focus, in part, on potential synergies between economic development, community development, environmental health and access to art and culture. Chuck believes that such synergies result in the most lasting and comprehensively successful work.
Chuck Ware (Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design, Virginia Tech, 1987), a former long-time Principal with Design Workshop in Denver, Park City, Los Angeles and Dubai, is currently practicing as a consultant. Chuck is educated and practices across allied disciplines: planning, urban design, landscape architecture and architecture. This work includes new towns, community master plans, urban design plans, design guidelines, transportation-oriented development, site planning and public space design.
He has been sought to lead some of the industry's most challenging projects. This work has brought him to Africa, China, South America, India, the Middle East and extensively across the United States. Recently he served as Principal Urban Designer for eleven new communities in Saudi Arabia, and also led the development of public space plans for a newly planned coastal city in Lagos, Nigeria known as Eko Atlantic.
Chuck recently published a textbook titled Landscape Architecture Documentation Standards: Principles, Guidelines and Best Practices. The book received the ASLA National Honor Award. He is currently preparing to write a book on synergies in planning | 264 |
From its free-form days in San<|fim_middle|> people, when the chips are down, who I'll talk to. With him, I don't have to pretend I'm something I'm not. That's nice. | Francisco's Mission District to the Grammy-award show with Santana's Supernatural, the cast of characters, events and collaborations blend together to create a unique style of passionate music. Features exclusive interviews, biographical profiles, over 800 photographs and a colour picture gallery. With a foreword by Carlos Santana.
Voices of Latin Rock Autism Benefit
Prompted by the publication of the book, and from small beginnings The Voices of Latin Rock music concerts in San Francisco proudly promote autism awareness having featured Carlos Santana, The original Santana band, John Santos, Booker T, Los Lobos, Sly Stone, George Clinton, El Chicano, Malo, Taj Mahal, The Doobie Brothers among others.
Directly from the Mission District in San Francisco, the explosive fusion of Latin, salsa and rock is chronicled from a writer who has followed the music and the musicians for over 30 years. The book covers the stories of prominent Latin rock bands including Santana and Malo, examining in detail the pioneering records and the ways in which both reflect a wide spectrum of Latin influences. It highlights the cast of characters and emerging period in the US during the late '60s, with all the cultural background events including the Summer of Love, Woodstock, political activism, and the record label expansion. Legendary figures such as Bill Graham, Clive Davis and the Escovedos family play crucial roles in the development of this sound.
As Latin music continues to become more mainstream, the interest in its musical roots grows. This book sheds light on these musical pioneers, and is gorgeously illustrated with over 800 B&W photos by Jim Marshall, Rudy 2 Joan Chase and others, plus artwork of dozens of rare album covers.
Voices of Latin Rock Concerts
This innovative book has resulted in a series of music concerts in San Francisco promoting autism awareness and has featured Carlos Santana, Booker T, Los Lobos, Sly Stone, George Clinton, El Chicano, Malo, Taj Mahal, the Doobie Brothers among others.
The money was raised for the Alex Speaks Autism Awareness charity foundation, the proceeds being distributed to schools supporting autism in the San Francisco Bay Area. Alex is the son of Dr Bernardo Gonzalez, a well respected member of the Latino Mission District community and a regular concert promoter with his company Latin Rock Inc.
Through his auspices and along with Jeffrey Trager, Ron Sansoe and Jim McCarthy, they set out to honour, and represent the best
in Latin/Funk/Soul and R&B artists mainly from the West Coast but with a open approach to emerging culture and music. The common denominator being the excellence, profile and longevity plus cultural import of the artists appearing at our events.
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There's now a book that chronicles the origins and development of this important music: Voices of Latin Rock. Written by music journalist Jim McCarthy in collaboration with promoter/artist manager Ron Sansoe, and designed by award-winning British graphic designer Richard Mann, it's an important addition to Rock 'n' Roll literature. That's clear as soon as you open the book and find a foreword penned by none other than Carlos Santana, the King of Latin Rock himself. Bulging with vintage photos and reproductions of album sleeves and concert posters, Voices of Latin Rock overflows with musical and cultural history, barrio ambiance, West Coast style, behind-the-scenes music industry politics, ethnic pride, nostalgia for the '70s, and men with really big hair!
Booker T, Los Lobos, Sly Stone, George Clinton, El Chicano
I'm glad this book was written, because it's a chance to take us back and bring us forward. The people in the book really opened up to Jim McCarthy and I'm not sure we would have done that for anyone else.
Jim's one of two or three | 783 |
Banana-Sweetened Paleo Breakfast Cake made with ingredients like almond flour, nut butter and no added sugar besides banana!
For all my banana loving friends<|fim_middle|>00% added chocolate chips at the list minute (I will blame the pregnancy cravings there) but after testing this a few times without any, I can assure you this cake is delicious with or without the added chocolate! I also have added in chopped pecans to spice things up, which was epic for an extra crunchy somethin' in the cake too.
I love warming up a slice of this cake and pairing it with some coconut yogurt, granola and anything else I have handy and am craving for breakfast. Or let's be real, it tastes delicious as a snack or dessert too. A solid lower sugar option for anyone who isn't eating added sugars at the moment or just wants a little something lighter but still tasty.
I use ingredients like creamy nut butter, almond flour and tapioca flour to make the cake. I also use two of my baking staples in this recipe: Simply Organic Pure Vanilla Extract and Simply Organic Cinnamon. If you are a frequent baker, there is a 99.9% chance you are also using these two gems in your baking at home. In my opinion, they are two of the most underrated ingredients when it comes to baking. I use Simply Organic's Pure Vanilla Extract, which is derived from vanilla beans grown in Madagascar (um, awesome!). It has no sugar or artificial ingredients and just adds a pure organic taste to anything you bake with it. Their organic cinnamon is one of my personal faves and addictions. It is a Vietnamese cinnamon, which has a deep and rich cinnamon-y flavor with just the right amount of sweetness. I sprinkle this on pretty much everything! Hands down my favorite spice ever. Banana + cinnamon + peanut butter is literally the best combo in the whole world.
This Banana-Sweetened Paleo Breakfast Cake is: lightly sweetened, extra moist from the ripe banana and so simple and easy to make. I hope you guys love it as much as I do!
A few of my other favorite recipes to bake with bananas: Gluten-free Chocolate Chip Banana Apple Bread, Vegan Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Banana Bread and the classic Paleo Chocolate Chip Banana Bread (nut-free).
Add in the almond flour, tapioca flour, baking powder and cinnamon and mix again until well combined and there are no clumps!
I drizzled some nut butter and melted cacao on top!
Thank you Simply Organic for sponsoring this post! It means so much to me to partner with brands I love and believe in on the blog!
Hi! I'm allergic to almonds, what other flour would u suggest?
Yum! Could you do these as muffins? | , this one is for you!
Cake for breakfast? Yup, you read that right. I made us this Banana-Sweetened Paleo Breakfast Cake and will officially be eating cake for breakfast for the foreseeable future.
This Banana-Sweetened Paleo Breakfast Cake is made with just seven ingredients and is gluten-free, grain-free and dairy-free. Plus the only added sugar comes from the natural sweetness of the ripe banana. No maple syrup, coconut sugar, nada! Yes, I 1 | 96 |
Sit back and take in the Burmese culture at The Café, overlooking the street, where afternoon<|fim_middle|> the Yangon River and the main commercial and diplomatic districts. | tea is a tradition.
Highly acclaimed as one of Southeast Asia's leading luxury hotels, and with a name synonymous with welcoming and intuitive service, the iconic Strand Yangon has been a city landmark since 1901. The hotel underwent a complete refurbishment in 2016, with all 31 suites redecorated in keeping with the Strand's legendary style and timeless elegance, while being upgraded with the latest air conditioning, sound and communications systems.
The restored Strand Grill features a colonial-style dining room and gourmet menu of Asian and International cuisine, while the informal Strand Café, which overlooks the bustle of Strand Road, is open throughout the day and features polished teak flooring and black lacquer ceiling fans, complemented by traditional Burmese antiques. The Spa at The Strand Yangon offers a comprehensive treatment menu, including a Traditional Myanmar Massage, Signature Strand Massage, and Bathing Ritual. The Strand Yangon is located on Strand Road in the heart of downtown Yangon, near | 204 |
This is how a <|fim_middle|> he spots the next up and coming social network, at which time he'll put down his brush and put on his cape.
This post originally appeared at Spoon & Tamago. | 50-year-old Spanish shoeshiner gave Japan its Twitter handle
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Johnny Strategy
Javier Castaño has worked many jobs: civil engineer, architect, graphic designer. However, after Spain's economic downturn he began polishing shoes, and does so to this day, at the Café Central de Málaga in Spain. Javier, lovingly known by the locals as a "quirky diabetic," has always been tech-savvy.
In early 2007, when Twitter was just under a year old, Javier joined the fledgling social network under the handle @xabel and was quick to develop the foresight as to what it could become. Seeing that strategically important geographic handles lay unclaimed and vulnerable, Javier tasked himself with grabbing what he could, protecting them, and safely delivering them to their rightful owners when the time came. These included @madrid, @malaga, @rome, @canada, @riodejaneiro, @NY, and @japan.
Much like website domain names, an underground market, while officially prohibited, does exist for the buying and selling of valuable twitter handles. But Javier wasn't motivated by financial gain. He merely believed, according to a Mar. 2015 interview with website What We Think that "people everywhere need to be represented by a suitable brand." He does admit to receiving small gifts for his donations though. The mayor of Rome sent him a book while the Principality of Asturias sent him an assortment of handicrafts and food.
By 2014, Javier's 7-year quest was coming to an end. He had successfully donated @Madrid, @Canada, and @Rome. But @japan was proving to be problematic. A heavy bureaucracy and language barriers weren't helping either. In 2012, Javiar managed to get in touch with Noriyuki Shikata, director of communications at the Japanese Embassy in the UK. He was about to hand over the password when, he told What We Think, "there was a change of government in Japan and everything stopped."
But Javier remained patient. "There were some attempts to pose as institutions in order to get an account, but I was pretty cautious," he told the Washington Post in Feb. 2015. After all, the @NY account had been stolen from him a while back.
Finally, on Mar. 10, 2015, the Japanese government officially took over the @japan account and began tweeting. They plan to use it as a tool for English information on Japan. So what happens for Javier, now that his journey has ended? He'll continue to shine shoes until | 561 |
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<!--<|fim_middle|> another tutorial.
-* Jason Hickey has posted a [draft of a nice book introducing OCaml](http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs134/cs134b/book.pdf).
-* FAQs for [OCaml Beginners](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/FAQ_DEBUTANT-eng.html), and [a few more](http://caml.inria.fr/resources/doc/faq/). Also FAQs for [OCaml Experts](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html). | Jeroen Fokker, The Systematic Construction of a One-combinator Basis for Lambda-Terms. Formal Aspects of Computing 4 (1992), pp. 776-780
http://people.cs.uu.nl/jeroen/article/combinat/combinat.ps -->
-* [Chris Barker's Iota and Jot]() (broken link)<p>
* [[!wikipedia Turing completeness]]<p>
-## Learning Scheme ##
-* [[!wikipedia Scheme (programming language) desc="Wikipedia overview of Scheme"]]
-* If you are new to programming or if you have the patience to work through a textbook, you should work through a textbook. Some good choices are The Little Schemer book(s) we recommended for the seminar; and also:
- + [How to Design Programs](http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/), by Matthias Felleisen, et al., which the Racket groups recommends. Whenever the book says "Scheme," you can read it as "Racket."
- Another warmly-recommended introduction available online is [Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html) This is a short introductory text that introduces common Scheme techniques.
-* If you're already a programmer and you're in more of a hurry, you could instead look at the [Quick Introduction to Racket](http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html). This tutorial provides a brief introduction to the Racket programming language by using DrRacket and one of Racket's picture-drawing libraries.
-* [An Introduction to Lambda Calculus and Scheme](http://www.jetcafe.org/~jim/lambda.html) is also aimed at programmers.
-* After any of the preceding, you could move on to [Racket Guide](http://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/index.html). This starts with a tutorial on Racket basics; then it describes the rest of the Racket language. This guide is intended for programmers who are new to Racket or new to some part of Racket. It assumes programming experience, so if you are new to programming, you should instead start with one of the textbooks listed above. This Guide describes parts of the Racket language which go beyond the learning-oriented fragments of How to Design Programs.
-* The [Complete Racket Reference Manual](http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/index.html) defines the core Racket language and describes its most prominent libraries. The Racket Guide is friendlier; though less precise and less complete.
-* The Scheme language is standardized; the various implementations of the
-language usually adhere to what's published in the current standard and add on
-different handy extensions. The first standard was published in 1975. A
-revision was published in 1978 called "The revised report on Scheme, a
-dialect of Lisp." Thereafter, revisions of the standard were titled "The
-Revised Revised Report..." and so on, or "The Revised^n Report..." for
-short. One widely implemented standard is [The
-Revised^5 Report on Scheme](http://www.schemers.org/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/),
-or R5RS, published in 1998.
-A new standard [R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs.html) was ratified
-in 2007, but this has many detractors and has not been fully accepted in the
-community. ([Libraries for R6RS](http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs-lib/r6rs-lib.html))
-* [Scheme FAQ](http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq)
-* [Scheme Requests for Implementation](http://srfi.schemers.org/) (SRFI)
-* The [Schematics Scheme Cookbook](http://schemecookbook.org/) is a collaborative effort to produce documentation and recipes for using Scheme for common tasks.
## Recursion and the Y Combinator ##
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-## Learning OCaml ##
-* [[!wikipedia Objective Caml desc="Wikipedia overview of OCaml"]]
-* [A Concise Introduction to Objective Caml](http://www.csc.villanova.edu/~dmatusze/resources/ocaml/ocaml.html)
-* Here are [two](http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~scott/pl/lectures/caml-intro.html) [other](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/stephan.html) brief overviews of OCaml, aimed at readers who already have some programming experience. Here are [two](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/exemples-eng.html) [more](http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/FAQ/qrg-eng.html), even briefer.
-* Here's a [more detailed tutorial](http://www.ocaml-tutorial.org/) for OCaml.
-* The start of the [OCaml Reference Manual](http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual003.html) has | 1,122 |
Changing the Way You Look at Food May Help You Eat Better
Written by Joni Sweet on January 7, 2019
A mindful approach can alter your eating habits and help you lose weight, researchers say.
Experts say it's more than just "calories in, calories out" when it comes to diet. Getty Images
Changing your eating habits may start with adopting a different mindset, according to a new study.
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If losing weight is your goal, this article covers 18 foods that may help support a healthy and sustainable weight loss journey, according to science.
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But here's something else that might help you hit your goals: mindful eating.
New research has found that mindfulness training may play an important role in helping people see lower numbers on their scale.
In a study published in Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism last month, researchers from the United Kingdom offered mindfulness training to 53 participants in an obesity management program.
They found that the 33 people who completed the mindfulness sessions dropped, on average, about 6 pounds more than those who chose not to take the course.
In the six months following the class, participants who completed at least three of the four mindfulness sessions lost an average of 6.6 pounds while those who attended two or fewer classes shed about 2 pounds.
The findings may show an important connection between mindset and weight loss.
"This is something people need to hear, especially as they're working on their New Year's resolutions and falling back on the same things they've always done that haven't worked," said Brad Crump, DC, health services manager at Red Mountain Resort, which offers weight-loss retreats with a focus on mindfulness. "When it comes to losing weight, there's so much focus on calories in, calories out and exercise, but another big component is our relationship with food."
Mindfulness and diet
Mindfulness is a practice that helps people develop "awareness and acceptance" of challenging experiences, along with more control over their reactions and behaviors.
While not exclusively used for weight loss, mindfulness can curb behaviors that may contribute to higher numbers on the scale, such as emotional eating, feelings of defeat, and self-criticism.
Changing your mindset around food is critical to maintaining weight loss for the long term, said Gary Foster, PhD, a psychologist, obesity investigator, and chief scientific officer at WW (formerly Weight Watchers).
He says the wellness and weight management program puts a heavy emphasis on helping participants develop a healthy mindset.
"For many people, dieting is a dramatic departure from everyday life that's onerous and difficult — like going to dieters' prison. It doesn't take a psychologist to figure out that when your sentence is over, things will go back to the way they were," Foster told Healthline.
"But if you start with both feet in your current life and think about how you can restructure it and organize your way of being and thinking, it will give you a better path to long-term success," he added.
A group effort
Participants in the most recent study learned mindfulness in a series of group sessions led by dietitians and psychologists.
Learning the practice with other people seemed to create a sense of community that may have helped participants achieve greater success with their weight-loss goals, researchers said.
Interacting with others created "a shared social identity" that helped boost self-confidence and weight management, according to the report.
"There's a psychological principle called homogeneity of purpose, which shows that if you get people unified around a single purpose, the commonality drives outcomes," said Foster. "There's a ripple effect, too — one study showed that when people joined Weight Watchers, other people in their household lost weight, even if they didn't participate."
Mixed results
While the latest study suggests that mindfulness could be an effective component of weight loss, previous research has shown mixed results.
A 2015 systematic review of 19 other reports determined that the degree to which mindfulness was responsible for significant weight loss was unclear.
On the other hand, a 2014 review of 21 other reports found that mindfulness proved to be en effective tool at changing unhealthy eating behaviors, such as binge eating and emotional eating.
Authors of last month's report say that further studies are needed to advance the topic.
Improving your health
Regardless of the relationship it has to weight loss, mindfulness can improve your health in a variety of ways.
"There's a preponderance of evidence that mindfulness helps all kinds of things, like vitality, stress relief, and confidence," said Foster. "It's consistent in the wellness journey and it pays off both on and off the scale."
Want to learn how to practice mindfulness?
Foster said the best way to learn is through a structured program, such as the three-minute introduction to meditation in the WW app, or through workshops and classes.
Crump, on the other hand, told Healthline that people can learn and practice mindfulness on their own at home.
He recommends reading Dr. Michelle May's book, "Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat," and pausing before any meal to check in with your mind and body.
"When you're considering eating, ask yourself, 'Am I hungry?', 'What are the best options available to me?', and 'What will leave me satisfied?'. Taking away the judgment on the self and food can help people find their self-worth and live a happier life," he said.
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Album Review: 'Fate' by Rodg
Across electronic dance music genres trance, house, and techno, a particular sub-genre has been gaining steam in the form of progressive. Depending on who you talk to or your own particular research, the actual definition of progressive varies. However, progressive styles feature a range of BPMs (beats per minute) from the lower 100s. Thus, it provides a chill vibe, and wide array of melodic possibilities. Rodg has become a prolific artist on the Armada roster boasting great progressive trance. The ability to create aforementioned styles within the genre provides overall variety.
'Fate' is a wonderful 18 track album that takes you on a journey through progressive melodies and beats. It is hard to pin point a particular favorite track after listening through the entire album a couple of times. However, specific tracks featured on radio shows/podcasts tend to be top of mind as singles. If you like delightful progressive styles within electronic dance music, then support 'Fate' through your favorite music portal.
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Album Review: 'Confirm Humanity' by Mark Sherry
Despite highlighting many artists and genres of music on this blog over the years of its existence, it should be quite obvious the love for trance and other various forms of electronic dance music is showcased regularly. Mark Sherry has been well revered as a producer and DJ among the best for over 20 years, and yet has never released an album...UNTIL NOW. Many revere Mr. Sherry as one of the pioneers of sub-genre Tech Trance. The hard hitting trance with elements of techno, hence the name, tech-trance, has been gaining in popularity over the years. Outburst Records & Outburst Radio have both become well known focal point throughout the trance scene proving a great legacy by Mr. Sherry.
'Confirm Humanity' is a 18 track LP album that will take you on a journey from track #1 to #18. For those unfamiliar with tech-trance, but love both techno and trance, you will love this entire journey. The sub-genre has been known for artists including Mark, releasing a track or a few tracks, thus the art of a full length album should still be celebrated. Every track has great driving beats and melodic layers while offering a fresh take than other tracks within the sub-genre. As you will notice, the collaborations with other artists throughout the album, give it that flare to entice you for more<|fim_middle|> with Yoel Lewis.
"The Last Thing" takes you on the journey you might expect from trance music. The intro slowly builds as more melodic elements are revealed, then the beats kick in, igniting more within. As you may or may not gathered with all of the trance music featured on this blog, trance music grasps at your emotions. Great job by Yoel & Jochen on this beautiful track! Please support this track where you support tracks!
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Track Review: "The Last Thing" by Yoel Lewis & Jochen Miller
When a track is so captivating, it's hard not to highlight the talent who produced it. The team at Coldharbour Recordings has been on a roll with recent releases on the label. Jochen Miller has been a juggernaut within the trance scene for years with brilliant melodies, and the same is true with this collaboration | 106 |
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These three cabinets have been refreshed and look as good as new with new stickers. This helps keep the cabinets easy to identify to the public. Take a look at the images below of the Shipston on Stour George Hotel AED, Shipston on Stour Ellen Badger AED and the Newbold on Stour AED.
Chichester Rugby Football Club
We would like to say a huge thank you and well done to Clare McCullough Tate for making Chichester Rugby Football Club HeartSafe with their new AED.
Clare said, "As a cardiac nurse specialising in heart rhythm disorders I see the devastation most days when a loved one experiences a Cardiac arrest. My own friend died aged 21 from sudden cardiac arrest so I have always been passionate about raising awareness on Sudden cardiac death. There appears to be a lack of public access defibs still in this country and I hope by doing our fundraising events that this will indeed contribute to the Defibs Save Lives Campaign."
Armscote, Warwickshire are HeartSafe
One of our local villages, Armscote, have 24/7 access to a defibrillator.
It is wonderful to see all of our local villages becoming HeatSafe through our Defibs Save Lives campaigns!
FROME – THE FIRST COMMUNITY TO INSTALL '24/7 PAD NETWORK'
The Town of Frome was delighted to receive an unsolicited accolade of being the first community in the UK to establish a 'network' of publicly available defibrillators (PAD) across its town.
Frome now has a network of 24/7 publicly available defibrillators for its community of 30,000 people which will act as a silent superhero to come to their aid in the event of that unexpected cardiac trauma - which could happen to anyone, of any age, anywhere, at anytime.
Worlds End pub, Knaresborough
A heart defibrillator has now been installed outside the Worlds End public house in Knaresborough.
The unit is in a locked and heated enclosure, with the number being held by the 999 emergency services. They give members of the public access to the automated external defibrillator (AED) should a need arise.
There had been delays to the installation of the unit as Harrogate Borough Council had initially demanded £195 for planning consent for its installation, before changing their minds that planning was not required.
If you are interested in fund raising for an AED in your area then email info@defibssavelives.org.
Billingham Synthonia Junior Football Club
Lisa Clayton has been in touch with us to announce they have placed their Seventh AED !
11 April 2015: ''Defibrillator donated this morning to Billingham Synthonia Juniors ! These guys have 10 teams with children aged between 7 and 16 year old. Thanks to you guys for continuously supporting the hearts and goals charity, together we can make Billingham and the surrounding areas better prepared for SCA (sudden cardiac arrest) and save lives by having defibs placed in as many places as we can to protect those we love x''
The Clayton family have already started planning for there next fundraiser, we would like to wish them all the luck and we look forward to hearing about the next AED placement !
If you would like to attend one of the many fundraising events the Clayton family arrange, please visit there facebook page John Clayton Fundraiser.
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Arrhythmia Alliance, The Heart Rhythm Charity, established the Defibs in Schools project in 2013. Since then, the number of schools who have invested in the campaign has grown considerably, notably in response to the government establishing a provision for these life-saving devices in schools across the UK.
AEDs do not require training and can be used by anyone to shock a person's heart back to normal rhythm if they suffer sudden cardiac arrest. When used alongside cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), they raise the chance of survival from 9% to 50% when compared to the use of CPR alone.
Patsy Moore, Year 8 Achievement Support and Pastoral Administrator at the school, said: "We have a defib trainer on site and one of the School Houses now plans to 'adopt' Arrhythmia Alliance as its chosen charity this year.
"We are more aware than most of the lifesaving difference that can be made with an AED – the school have 2 first-aid trainers on site.
"The school also offers Junior Medic Courses which help students learn lifesaving skills in a fun environment; it's a great way to learn. Student feedback has been really positive, they love developing these new skills.
"The children at the school are now looking forward to learning more about their heart and importance of a simple pulse check."
As part of their application, students and staff are due to start work on a video in which they will talk about why the school will benefit from an AED.
Trudie Lobban MBE, Arrhythmia Alliance Founder & Trustee, said: "Carterton Community College is leading the way in securing this important provision to help protect students and staff in the event of emergency.
"Sudden cardiac arrest does not discriminate against age, gender or personal fitness. Although I hope it will never be used, every member of the school must now be safe in the knowledge they have access to this lifesaving device."
Is your school HeartSafe? Email info@defibssavelives.org for further information on Arrhythmia Alliance Defibs in Schools.
Bath and Racquets Club Ltd
Bath and Racquets Club have placed an AED to make their club heart safe. We are thrilled to have worked with the Bath and Racquets Club in London.
Reading railway station
Our defib campaign ambassador Bernard Gallacher OBE joined Trudie Lobban MBE, Arrhythmia Alliance charity Founder & Trustee at Reading Station this morning.
A-A was delighted to unveil a public-access defibrillator at the site for use in the event of emergency. We donated this important device with support from property developer Bewley Homes.
Arrhythmia Alliance - Defibs Save Lives plans to partner with Bewley Homes again in future to help place many more lifesaving defibrillators at locations across Reading and Berkshire.
Listen to Jack FM radio interview with Trudie Lobban MBE
Whichford
Whichford's new pieces of lifesaving equipment have been placed under Hearts & Goals, a high profile campaign by leading UK heart rhythm charity Arrhythmia Alliance, which supports the placement of lifesaving equipment and provides CPR and AED training in communities across the UK.
Simon Wood, a Whichford resident, who has helped to raise the funds behind this life-saving equipment said: "Living where we do, in such a rural location, it can take the Ambulance Service up to half an hour to respond to an emergency call."
"This equipment will make such a difference in the event of a heart emergency, as it will be accessible to everyone. I would like to thank the Whichford & Ascott Flower Show Committee who have kindly part-funded this device and other residents in the village who have kindly donated to help make this happen."
Charters Leisure Centre
We were thrilled to hear this life-saving story, below, from Lesley Gallacher. Please get in touch on 01789 867531 if your local leisure centre or community needs an AED.
In life we tend to look to our emergency services in search of our local heroes. Rarely do we look to the person behind the desk at our local gym. Yet, on the 11th August, a group from Charters Leisure Centre stepped up and became heroes themselves, when they came to the aid of a member.
It was just after 9pm when a local man from neighbouring Camberley collapsed while he played Badminton in the sports hall. Sahil Khan, the duty manager that night, was called into action and found the gentleman unconscious and not breathing. Immediately he launched into a cycle of CPR and shocks from the onsite AED unit (automated external defibrillator), assisted by Martin Oliver, the staff assistant for the night, and the badminton players who witnessed his collapse.
A credit to the processes put in place by the emergency services, a local policeman heard what was occurring and, being close by, arrived at Charters Leisure Centre to offer his assistance while they waited for the paramedics. Taking over from Sahil, who had now been delivering cycles of CPR and shocks for over six minutes, the local policeman continued the CPR until the paramedics arrived a few minutes later.
Bob was still unconscious when he was rushed to hospital, and the staff at the Centre were thankful to hear of his later full recovery. It turns out Sahil, Martin and co had rushed to aid a man suffering a major cardiac arrest, and that without the crucial CPR and AED shocks he received prior to the ambulance arriving, he would not have survived.
Lesley Gallacher went to the club a few days later, in order to congratulate Sahil and the team and to present them with a new AED which has been kindly donated by their local councillor, Lynda Yong.
John Clayton, from Billingham, suffered a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) on 4 April 2010 whilst playing football in a charity match. Unfortunately, John did not survive the SCA and sadly passed away, leaving behind his wife, four children, parents and siblings.
Since then, John's family have come together and fundraised tirelessly through our Hearts & Goals campaign in order to place automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in communities and sports clubs.
One AED has been given to their local cricket club, Billingham Synthonia Cricket Club, where they were thrilled to recieve the life-saving equipement. A second has gone to The Oaks Lakes at Sessay in North Yorkshire, a beautiful venue which serves over 1000 anglers each week. This venue is very remote and will hence really benefit from having an AED on site in case of an emergency. The Oaks Lakes is used by the Billingham Angling club for their club matches. The third AED has been donated to the Redcar Bears Speedway track.
We would like to thank the Clayton family for their support and we look forward to hearing where the fourth AED will be placed!
Alveston, South Gloucestershire
After several very successful fundraising events, Alveston has becoming the latest village to install a public access AED (PAD)!
We would like to thank everyone who made this possible for their support in this campaign.
Paul Lawrie Golf Centre
Paul Lawrie Golf Centre, set within the beautiful Royal Teeside, has now proudly displayed their AED on the wall hook. They sent this, along with the photo, from their Twitter account on Sunday 20th July:
"Calling all golf clubs if you haven't already get on-board @PlayGolf4Defibs"
We would like to take this opportunity to thank Paul Lawrie Golf Centre for supporting our Bernard Gallacher Campaign and encouraging other golf clubs to also place AEDs.
Bernard Gallacher Defibrillator Campaign Awareness Day
Wrotham Heath Golf Club
Wrotham Heath Golf Club hosted a Texas Scramble Competition in order to raise awareness of Arrhythmia Alliance's Bernard Gallacher Campaign. Sixty players took part in the day and the winning team was presented with their prizes by Bernard Gallacher himself.
Wrotham Heath Golf Club has recently placed an AED in their golf club as part of this campaign. They have made sure that their members know about it and that it is visible to all.
Hazel Grove Golf Club welcomes new lifesaving device
The members of Hazel Grove Golf Club have placed a lifesaving AED in their golf club as part of the Bernard Gallacher Campaign.
The device is live and has been placed in the Clubhouse. It is accessible by all members of the golf club, as well as by the general public, and should be used in the event of sudden cardiac arrest. It has been placed as part of the Bernard Gallacher Campaign, a campaign led by Shipston-on-Stour based charity Arrhythmia Alliance that works alongside professional golfer Bernard Gallacher to raise awareness and support the placement of public-access defibrillators (AEDs) in golf clubs across Great Britain and Ireland.
AEDs do not require training and can be used by anyone to shock a person's heart back to normal rhythm if they suffer sudden cardiac arrest. When used alongside CPR, they raise the chance of survival from 9% to 50% as compared to the use of CPR alone.
Mick Jones, Captain of Hazel Grove Golf Club proudly presented the AED to Peter Simcock, President of Hazel Grove Golf Club and said: "This is a life-saving piece of equipment for which the members of Hazel Grove have, once again, sprung into action to give their support and donate funds.
"I sincerely hope we never have to use it but everyone who has contributed to this initiative should be immensely proud that their efforts could potentially - one day - save someone's life".
The Bernard Gallacher Defibrillator campaign is spearheaded by former Ryder Cup winning Captain and International Golf professional, Bernard Gallacher and his wife, Lesley. The campaign is in response to Bernard suffering a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) during a dinner reception in Aberdeen, in August 2013. Due to the prompt actions of other guests, the availability and use of an AED following his collapse, together with early-response CPR treatment at the venue, his life was saved.
Trudie Lobban MBE, Founder and CEO of Arrhythmia Alliance said: "Bernard's experience shows the life-saving difference of early CPR and use of an AED when someone collapses from SCA. We are delighted that Hazel Grove Golf Club has placed this AED and joined the campaign."
"An estimated 100,000 people in the UK die each year from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). That is more people than die from AIDS, breast cancer and lung cancer combined. CPR alone saves only 9% of victims, however using an AED and CPR can increase a person's chance of survival to more than 50%. UK Golf clubs serve more than four million people each year, but only a third currently have an AED. Our aim is for every club to have one by the end of 2014."
The first batch of public access defibrillators (AEDs) have been installed and are now available for emergency use, 24/7, for the people Frome.
AEDs do not require training and can be used by anyone to shock a person's heart back into normal rhythm if they suffer a sudden cardiac arrest. They increase the chance of someone surviving from 9% to 50% when compared to the use of CPR alone.
Frome's new pieces of lifesaving equipment have been placed under Hearts & Goals, a high profile campaign by leading UK heart rhythm charity Arrhythmia Alliance, which supports the placement of lifesaving equipment and provides CPR and AED training in communities across the UK.
The first of the units have now been commissioned at The Key Centre, Cheese and Grain, Memorial Theatre. The initiative headed by the Friends of the Hospital, will soon see up to fourteen units placed widespread at strategic locations around the Town over the coming weeks.
Friends of Frome Hospital Defibrillator Project Leader, Derek Trick says: "This cross-community initiative is being supported by the Town Council, local businesses and the various service clubs.
"Each AED unit is housed in a temperature-controlled cabinet with access controlled by the 999 emergency services. In an emergency the caller will be directed to their nearest AED unit and given a three digit code to release the ready-charged, ready to use defibrillator. Once the unit is with the patient, the user-friendly Heartsine Samaritan defibrillator will have easy-to-understand visual instructions and voice prompts, along with CPR chest pumping advice to administer until paramedics arrive on the scene. The defibrillator cannot be used incorrectly as it will only deliver a shock to the patient only if it detects it is necessary.
"Once most of the AED's are installed it is the intention of the 'Friends' to organise public awareness meetings, in conjunction with the South West Ambulance Service and the charity Arrhythmia Alliance to ensure the people have an appreciation of the defibrillator community project. Keep in mind, a cardiac arrest can happen to anyone, of any age, anywhere and at any time."
Arrhythmia Alliance Founder & Trustee, Trudie Lobban MBE, said: "Arrhythmia Alliance welcomes the support of the people of Frome in the much needed placement of public access defibrillators (also known as AEDs) for use by all in the community in the event of an emergency.
"Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone, at any time, and is the UK's biggest killer, killing more people than breast cancer, lung cancer and Aids combined. Every community should have lifesaving public-access AEDs available 24/7 ready in cases of emergency."
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Brothers Paul and Jay Hicklin joined Hearts & Goals after their father, Will, died following a sudden cardiac arrest in April 2012.
They are working hard to place lifesaving AEDs in their community.
Stretton-on-Fosse
Saturday 5 April 2014 - Stratton-on-Fosse Village Hall
Buckingham AED project
March 2014: Thank you to Geoff Shaw for keeping us posted on his AED project. You can read his account below.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a condition in which the heart stops beating suddenly and unexpectedly owing to a malfunction in the heart's electrical system. It often strikes without warning. People of all ages, fitness levels and walks of life can experience one. There are 250+ SCAs per day: this is equivalent to a jumbo jet crash every day. In the UK less than 5% of victims survive out of hospital. Prompt use of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) raises this survival rate to 9%. However the prompt use of an AED (automated external defibrillator) raises this to 50%. If an AED is used within 8 minutes, there is a very good chance of complete survival. As time increases, obviously survival rates will decrease sharply. Because they are so simple to use, they can be administered by any member of the public before the arrival of an ambulance or a first responder following the 999 call.
For a town of its size Buckingham has very few first responders on call and has no publicly accessible defibrillators.As time is of the essence in this emergency, a group of residents have now formed a charity to launch a project to facilitate the provision of publicly accessible AEDs in Buckingham and to encourage and foster new volunteers to be first responders.
Surgeries, the University, the Swan Pool and the Golf Club have these machines but we feel it is important that Buckingham has these available in places of high footfall. Winslow and Adstock have already just installed such machines in public areas. We hope to provide three in the town in the first instance.
We are delighted that Waitrose has chosen us to be one of their three community projects with the green discs for the month of April: we ask you to consider placing your disc in our box.
We are looking for more members to join this group. All we want at this stage is strong support for the idea: any individual member can choose to do as much or as little as they feel able.
Please contact Geoff Shaw on 01280 812547
The Cardiac Cup
Hearts & Goals fundraiser Adrian Hall, who himself suffered from a sudden cardiac arrest in March 2012, held a fundraising event in Summer 2013 to raise funds for AEDs across Nottinghamshire. He kindly wrote this report for us. Well done Adrian!
Whilst recovering in hospital from my sudden cardiac arrest in March 2012, my wife and I decided we would not let this affect our lives any more than it needed to and that we would turn a negative into a positive. I thought about how my life had been saved by a defibrillator and when I got out of hospital I did some research on defibs and came across Arrhythmia Alliance and their Hearts and Goals Campaign (Fabrice Muamba's chosen charity). They are trying to get as many defibs in public places across the country.
Whilst in hospital, I was told I could never play football again so had to look for other non-contact sports to play so as most of my friends were golfers I decided to take up the game. After becoming addicted to golf very quickly, I had the idea of using my new passion to do some good and came up with The Cardiac Cup. A golf event where I would invite as many people as possible to play and then their partners to an evening event where we had live music, charity auction and raffle. The day was amazing and we had 96 golfers turn up and play. The prizes were awesome, with Sytner BMW bringing a brand new Mini over as a prize for a hole in one on the 17th hole (I had to insure against this obviously!). The weather was amazing and the people at Rufford Park Golf and Country Club helped make the day run as well as it possibly could. I also had a volunteer from Rufford who gave up his day called Ben Jones who I would like to thank. The evening event was brilliant and we managed to get 180 people there who really dug deep to help raise as much as possible.
We managed to raise £6,500 in total with the day costing us £3,000 so we had £3,500 to spend on defibs. This amount meant we had enough money to buy 3 to place in public places around the area.
The first one was donated to Nottingham Climbing Centre in Basford. I heard through a friend that they had been raising money to buy one and when I spoke to Steve Frudd the manager, I could tell how much it meant to him to have one. Here I am pictured with Steve Frudd from Nottingham Climbing Centre.
The second was donated to Sherwood Forest Golf Club. I had heard a story from a friend of mine who was a member there that somebody had unfortunately died there and if the club had a defib perhaps they could have saved this unfortunate person. I am pictured again here handing the AED to Sherwood Forest GC Club Captain Richard Cooper and Lady Captain Michelle Farquar Duckmanton.
That got me thinking that if somewhere like Sherwood Forest didn't have one then perhaps other golf courses would benefit from one. The beauty of playing a round of golf is that in parts of the course on a sunny day you could be anywhere in the world but that also brings danger in that you are totally isolated. A lot of golf courses have people who are in the latter years of their lives and having a defib at the course is piece of mind for those people. I called around the local clubs and most of them, to my relief do have defibs on site. Having contacted Notts Golf Course (Hollinwell), and speaking to the course manager Martyn Bonner, I decided that is where I would donate the third defib. I am pictured here handing the AED to Notts Golf Club Captain David Tillcock.
Sytner mini kindly supplied a car for the hole in one prize.
I will be hosting the event again in 2014 anybody wanting to enter at team, sponsor a hole or simply make a donation should contact me on 07989 582725. Thank you!
Fabrice Muamba opens new heart unit
In February 2013, Hearts & Goals ambassador Fabrice Muamba opened a new cardiac unit at Queen's Hospital, Burton upon Trent.
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Fundraising event for Rosemary Remembered campaign
Laurence Kidd joined Hearts & Goals to support the placement of AEDs in communities around Ipswich and surrounding areas in memory of his mother Rosemary who sadly lost her life to sudden cardiac arrest when there was no AED on hand. He is joining his sister in this Table Top Sale on Saturday 23 November 2013 to support their campaign.
Please call Sophie on 07834 237293 for more information.
AED donated to Minsthorpe Community College, South Elmsall
Hearts & Goals fundraiser Chris Solomons was an hand at Minsthorpe Community College on Wednesday 9th October to donate a lifesaving AED to students at the school. We thank for him for his kind donation for Hearts & Goals.
Pictured: Back row L to R, Joy Taggart (Heartsine Technologies), Sharron Martin (Community Defib Trainer Yorkshire Ambulance Service), Liz Fairhurst (Vice Principle), John Gregory (Principle), Terri (Principle of the Nursery), Ben (Sports Manager), Simon (Local Police Constable)
Front row L to R, William (Student Council), Zack (Student Council), Pam and Chris Solomons, Tyler (Student Council)
Fundraiser in memory of Philip Lamin at Bexleyheath Academy
Bexleyheath pupil, Philip Lamin, tragically died aged just 16 while playing football with schoolmates at Bexleyheath Academy. Arrhythmia Alliance is now working with his teachers and schoolmates to place a life-saving public-access defibrillator on site.
In addition to a fundraiser on Sunday 22 June, students and staff are holding an open air concert on Friday 5 July at the Courtyard at Bexleyheath Academy to raise funds for Hearts & Goals.
Defibrillators launched up and down the UK during Heart Rhythm Week
Heart Rhythm Week (June 3-9) saw the launch of public-access AEDs in communities up and down the country as part of Hearts & Goals. This year Heart Rhythm Week focused on raising awareness of the lifesaving potential a bystander can make when someone suffers a sudden cardiac arrest particularly when an AED is on hand.
The town of Alcester launched a total of six new AEDs (automated external defibrillators) on the first day of Heart Rhythm Week 2013. Ann Delany and Alison Brown, from the town, pulled together the fundraising for the devices. Ann was inspired into action because a close relative suffered a sudden cardiac arrest. Midlands Today featured the news on their evening news show on BBC1.
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Paul Hicklin and his brother Jay fundraised for AEDs in memory of their dad Will. The first was launched at Bury St Edmunds fire station during Heart Rhythm Week. Will tragically died after collapsing while working on a farm. The brothers held a 24-hour dartathon and other fundraising events to raise an amazing total of more than £5,000 for Hearts & Goals.
Bexleyheath Academy
Bexleyheath pupil, Philip Lamin, tragically died aged just 16 while playing football with schoolmates. Arrhythmia Alliance donated a device to the Academy as a tribute to Philip and in recognition of fundraising work the school has done for Hearts & Goals. Head of Year 11, Tracey Boswell, said: "We don't know if an AED would have saved Philip but by having this device we now know that everyone here is protected. It is a wonderful legacy and a fitting tribute to a wonderful boy."
Portland Bill
Portland Bill Coastwatch, in Dorset, launched a public access AED at the lookout during Heart Rhythm Week. Station manager, Geoff Peters, contacted Arrhythmia Alliance determined to place one of the devices to protect the public. Geoff said: "This is quite a remote area but the lighthouse nearby gets a lot of visitors every day so the defibrillator will be there for the public as well. It is great to know the community will have this protection."
MK Channel Rowers
Members of staff at the Milton Keynes Dons Sports & Education Trust teamed up with the local Milton Keynes rowing club to row across the English Channel on Sunday 28 April and raise funds for Hearts & Goals. A life-saving public-access defibrillator will now be placed on site at the MK Dons training ground. The device will be available for use by anyone, including vistors to both the local hockey and tennis club.
Liz and Dan fundraising for Hearts & Goals
Liz, a Trainee Cardiac Physiologist with an interest in arrhythmias is fundraising for Hearts & Goals. Liz and her partner Dan will compete in the 100km Thames Path Challenge on 14-15 September 2013. Wishing you both the best of luck! You can view Liz's JustGiving page here
Auchmuty High School fundraising
Pupils and teachers at Auchmuty High School in Fife, Scotland are raising funds to place a lifesaving defibrillator at their school site.
To date they have raised £210. Mr Bird, teacher at the school has kindly provided us with a write up of their fundraising to date:
"So far we have raised a total of approx £210, purely from pupils paying to have their message painted on the ceiling of on of our corridors. Staff have also paid to have various murals painted outside their classrooms, the school is a much brighter place as a result. Next week we are having a joint fundraising week for Hearts and Goals and Comic relief, with money collected being split equally between both charities. There will be a house bake sale each day next week as well as an event in the hall on Friday 15th March, where pupils and teachers have been sponsored to have their legs waxed, hair shaved or take part in a sponsored silence. We have had a massive response from pupils, with lots of them volunteering to take part and be sponsored to raise money."
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The year 2022 has got off to a mixed start with apprehension in the minds of people on account of the lurking Omicron threat. Amidst the uncertainties, people are curious to know about their future and how things will shape up for them in this New Year.
According to Sheth, the year 2022 will bring in a lot of positivity, but at the same time, it will instil a sense of panic as well as concern as far health of some people are concerned. However, people can overcome every hurdle by staying positive and take life as it comes.
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Libra- (September 23- October 22)
Career and Finance- You will have to wait for the expected outcome in career and finance for few initial months. Seek advice from somebody wise enough to help and guide you to convert your ideas into a reality. By middle of the year, you will be recognised and rewarded and, at the same time, money will flow, bringing profits and good results. Success<|fim_middle|> year, beware of deceit and people who undermine you. Put yourself ahead in the game. You may be forced to find work by end months as there might be drop in income sources. Make practical adjustments. Things will improve. Little tough year for you so be open minded and grounded.
Health- Stress of career and finance will drain your energy. Treat yourself with kindness and don't put too much pressure on yourself. Give importance to your mental and emotional health in later months of the year. Try to keep positive outlook. You will regain your health.
Relationship- It's a tough year for you as relationship crisis is also seen .Don't fall into nasty arguments. But middle of the year will bring joy and family celebrations and stability in relationship. You will feel secure, your relationship will thrive and both will work together towards your financial goals by the end of the year.
Singles- Good things will happen and partners for those who wait till the end.
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Aquarius - (January 20-February 19)
Career and Finance- For first few months you might feel trapped in a job or a situation. Evaluate what you want and make moves accordingly. Finance will be tight. Middle of the year will bring good opportunities and promotion. Good time to make investments. Finance in positive direction, quick action and great investments will bring windfall of money in the last few months. Big change in career also indicated.
Health- Good health for you at the start of the year. By middle of the year, if your life is fast paced simplify it to maintain good health. Happy times towards the end of the year which will bring good health and vitality.
Relationship- Big financial decisions to be taken together with your partner. Also make a choice to take relationship further or not. Be honest with yourself. There will surge in energy and optimism in the relationship by middle of the year and by the end of the year you will be contended and your relationship will bring joy and happiness.
Singles have possibility of finding a loving and nurturing partner.
Pisces-(February 20-March 20)
Career and Finance- At the start of the year it's good time for new ventures and promotions. You can make extra money. By middle of the year you will feel worn out to complete your task or projects due to unexpected expenses. But in the end months that vigour and spontaneity will be back and you will be determined to fulfil your goals and take fast actions. Positive upswing in finances during the end of the year.
Health- Start of the year it indicates to release emotional baggage, if any, as it might bring health issues. Middle of the year brings good health and vitality but don't overdo things. Make your routine structured to maintain and improve your health otherwise you might feel worn out towards the end of the year.
Relationship- Starting months of the year might bring conflicts and heartbreak in your relationship. It indicates difficult situation which need to be addressed. By mid of the year great love, respect and harmony will be experienced. Towards the end months you will excel in maintaining high standards in relationships. You and your partner will be deeply connected on all levels.
Singles will seek high standards and intellectual partners.
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Health- Start any fitness regime from the beginning of the year. You will fell young and energetic. Don't give up if any health issues are arise during the middle of the year. You can do it. End of the year will bring social events and celebrations but be mindful of excessive indulgence as it might impact your health.
Relationship- The amount of commitment and dedication you put in relations will bring mutual love and help achieve goals together in the beginning months. But some struggles in life might make you feel unloved and ignored. Don't let things torn you apart. Be patient and forgiving, things will improve.
Singles socialise if you want to have a partner
Scorpio-(October 23-November 22)
Career and Finance- The New Year will usher good start for you, both in terms of career and finances. Things will go well. Middle of the year universe will force you to look for better things and take actions accordingly. Finance will be little tight. You will make through it in last few months. Good and big changes waiting for you in this year.
Health- Good health for you if followed by regular exercise and good eating habits. Give yourself much time from the start of the year. By middle of the year you will be in excellent health. Maintain work life balance to keep good health. Don't overdo things.
Relationship- Maintain open and honest communication in relationships as separation is seen. If the relationship survives this separation then long term good relations or marriage can be possible. Harmony will be there in the middle of the year. But last few months will bring huge changes which might want you to accept the truth either to move on or transform with changes to keep the relationship.
Singles change old behaviour and patterns to bring in new love. Transform yourself.
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Sagittarius -(November 23-December 21)
Career and Finance- Great start for you in the start of the year. Good opportunities in job/ career and chances of windfall of money also bright. Find gratitude for what you have and be open to opportunities around you in the middle of the year as you might feel stagnant and stuck. End months will bring great success and prosperity for you .Good year for you.
Health- Show more compassion towards yourself and your body. Seek support if needed. You will be in a positive state of health in the starting and middle part of the year. Time for great healing by the end of the year as some old energies might affect you so take healing to release it. Overall good health.
Relationship- Harmonious relations at the start of the year. By middle of the year some conflicts and drama might come up. Keep your temper under control. Allow freedom and space in relations to bring harmony. By the end of the year things will be positive.
Singles will be enjoying their freedom but give space for new love to come in your life.
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What is electricity
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Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. It is a secondary energy source because it is converted from another (primary) source of energy, such as coal, natural gas, oil, nuclear or renewable sources. Electricity can be made from either renewable or non-renewable energy sources, but it is neither renewable nor non-renewable since it is a secondary source.
Electricity has grown in technological leaps and bounds ever since 1752, when Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with a metal key tied to the string during a thunderstorm to prove that lightning was electric.
Today, it is a necessary component to our fast-moving society.
How Electricity Works
Everything we touch is made up of matter, and matter is made up of tiny "building blocks" of atoms. Within the atoms are even smaller, electrically charged particles called electrons. The movement of the electrons creates electricity. Electrons transmit an electrical charge through solid matter (such as metal) to produce an electrical current. The number of electrons<|fim_middle|>
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Energy Sustainability | moving in an electrical circuit is called "amperage," or current, measured in amps. The pressure pushing the electrons is "voltage," measured in volts. Electricity travels at the speed of light, more than 186,000 miles (299,338 kilometers) per second.
And how is electricity moved from where it is created to where people need to use it? Transformers (electric devices that move electric energy from one set of circuits to another) are used to efficiently transmit electricity over long distances. This makes it possible to supply electricity to homes and businesses located far from an electric generating plant. The electricity produced by a generator travels along cables to a transformer, which changes electricity from low voltage to high voltage. Transmission lines are used to carry the electricity to a substation. Substations have transformers that change the high-voltage electricity into lower-voltage electricity. From the substation, distribution lines carry the electricity to homes and buildings that require low-voltage electricity.
All sources of electricity must have a positive terminal and a negative terminal, and electrons will always flow from the negative to the positive through a conductor (copper wire, for example).
Lightning generates plenty of electricity. It starts as electrical charges developing inside a cloud. The positively and negatively charged atoms go to different parts of the cloud—the positive at the top, negative at the bottom. When the negatively charged atoms get too crowded, they "jump" to a different cloud or even to the ground: that "jump" causes a spark of static electricity called lightning.
Even though lightning produces electricity, it's not practical to use that electricity for our power needs. There are too many obstacles—we don't know when or where lightning will strike, how powerful each bolt will be or how to direct the surge of electricity into our electrical systems. What's more, the average lightning bolt produces about 250 kilowatt hours of electricity, but the average home uses 936 kilowatt hours of electricity every month. That means that one lightning bolt's energy could only power one home for about nine days!
Static Electricity
Have you ever reached for a metal doorknob and gotten a shock? That was static electricity at work! But how does that happen?
All matter is made up of atoms that contain protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons have a positive charge, electrons have a negative charge, and neutrons have no charge. Atoms normally have the same number of protons and electrons, and in this state, the atom is "neutral." But by rubbing things together, you can make electrons move from one atom to another, causing atoms to have a positive or negative charge. That's static electricity!
So when you walk across a carpet, electrons move from the carpet to you, giving you extra electrons. Then when you touch a doorknob, the electrons move from you to the knob—and you get a static electric shock.
History of Electricity
Electricity has grown in technological leaps and bounds ever since 1752, when Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with a metal key tied to the string during a thunderstorm to prove that lightning was electric. Today, it is a necessary component to our fast-moving society.
1752 – Benjamin Franklin flew a kite with a metal key tied to the string during a thunderstorm to prove that lightning was electric.
1800s – Italian scientist Alessandro Volta created the first electric cell battery by soaking paper in salt water, placing zinc and copper on opposite sides of the paper and examining the electric current produced in the chemical reaction.
English scientists William Nicholson and Sir Anthony Carlisle discovered that applying electric current to water produced hydrogen and oxygen gases. This process was later termed "electrolysis."
English scientist Michael Faraday discovered that an electric current could be created by passing a magnet through a copper wire.
1838 – The fuel cell effect, combining hydrogen and oxygen gases to produce water and an electric current, was discovered by Swiss chemist Christian Friedrich Schoenbein.
1876 – William Grylls Adams and Richard Evans Day discovered that selenium produces electricity when exposed to light. Although selenium solar cells fail to convert enough sunlight to power electrical equipment, they prove that a solid material can change light into electricity without heat or moving parts.
1879 – American inventor Thomas Edison produced a reliable, long-lasting electric light bulb in his laboratory.
1880 – By the end of the 1880s, small electrical stations based on Edison's designs were in a number of US cities. But each station was able to power only a few city blocks.
In the late-1800s, Nikola Tesla created the transformer to transport electricity over long distances. Tesla's inventions brought electricity to light the inside of our homes and to power industrial machines.
1882 – Thomas Edison built the first practical coal-fired electric generating station, supplying electricity to some residents of New York City using a direct current (DC) system.
1886 – About 45 water-powered electric plants were open in the US and Canada.
1887 – Heinrich Hertz discovered that ultraviolet light alters the lowest voltage capable of causing a spark to jump between two metal electrodes.
1895 – Using the newly discovered alternating current (AC) power system, George Westinghouse opened the first major power plant at Niagara Falls. This AC plant could transport electricity more than 200 miles.
Uses for Electricity
If you've ever lost power in a thunderstorm, you've probably noticed how many items in your home use electricity. But the uses for electricity go way beyond your TV—electricity is used in all kinds of useful ways, including:
Airplane and car navigation systems
Streetcars and subways
Pacemakers that help regulate people's heartbeats
Refrigerators, dishwashers and most other home appliances
Demand for Electricity
Although the current recession is expected to dampen electricity demand in the near term, electricity demand is expected to increase by 77% by 2030 (source: Energy Information Administration / International Energy Outlook 2009). This growth projection is based on population growth and increased supply to currently non-developed countries.
Electricity Around the World
According to a 2009 report by the U.N. Development Programme, 1.5 billion people—a quarter of the world's population—live without access to electricity. This problem is worst in Africa, where entire nations have no power. In 11 African countries, more than 90% of the population has no electricity. Many of these Third World countries without electricity also lack the government infrastructure needed to make nationwide electricity access a reality.
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So many students will mess up a simple integer subtraction problem like -12 - (-6), but if is say "You owe me $12, and your dad offers to take away $6 in debt, How much do you owe me?" They get it right every time.
I want these kids to begin thinking of these situations on their own. Connecting the numbers to the real world is something most students will not do without help.
Prove to me that your answer is correct.
The strategy will be different for every concept and age group. But, introducing this concept at a younger age will help students begin to think and answer the question, "Is this right?" for themselves, building confidence in themselves.
Being able to prove shows a higher level understanding of concepts and will be a valuable skill in life as well as school.
Draw a picture to help me understand the problem.
Drawing a picture or a graph, showing numbers in a different way is so powerful for kids of all ages. Being able to convert numbers into pictures connects mathematics for students. Leaving this open-ended just increases the power of the statement.
Use manipulatives | 245 |
From Dolce & Gabbana's opera and Prada techno beats to Robbie Williams performing at Emporio Armani, Milan Fashion Week offered a sparkling, colourful extravaganza. Ahead of Tuesday's closing shows, we take a look at some of next season's biggest trends.
Racing back to the 80s Apart from big hair and legwarmers, the eighties also gave us high-waisted cycling shorts. These are now making a major comeback, except that this time they're not relegated to the sports arena.
Worn with heels or chunky trainers, models running for Fila, Fendi and Cavalli paired the mid-thigh shorts with cinched jackets and belted shirts. For slightly more conservative tastes, Ferragamo and Antonio Marras have put a chic spin on their bermuda version.
Under your belt Designers have looked to an unlikely source of inspiration for one of the coming season's top trends -- the world of DY<|fim_middle|>, meanwhile, featured large cognac-coloured pockets on transparent coats or on a corset dress.
Light touch The new collections showcased innovative textiles as designers sought to push boundaries and play with high-tech materials. Emporio Armani and Fendi used breathable, micro-perforated fabrics for some of their outfits.
Chez Missoni preferred a more traditional style with delicate hand-stitched materials.
Ethnic inspiration Yves Saint-Laurent may have been the first to use ethnic elements in his work but since then numerous designers have followed suit and weaved travel memories into their collections.
Moroccan handicraft provided a key inspiration on Milan runways this week. Robert Cavalli used sequins and bobbles on shorts and tops, while Philosophy by Lorenzo Serafini flaunted caftans and scarf dresses. | I. The reinvented tool belt is the ultimate accessory for a style that's both practical and chic.
While Fendi, Tod's and Ferragamo have opted for elegant leather versions, Prada and Fila bank on a sportier nylon look. From the smartphone to lipstick, there's a pocket for everything, solving the issue of having to rummage through your bag.
Crazy for cognac Expect cognac to become a staple colour in your wardrobe next season. From light golden hues to toasted chestnut shades, it featured heavily in outfits inspired by safari, jungle and military looks in Milan this week.
Max Mara and Ferragamo went all out and dressed their models from head to toe in cognac tones. The Fendi collection | 149 |
Plenty of energy in this breakfast bowl. Seven grains (hard red<|fim_middle|> Divide the cereal into two bowls. Add some warm milk and malted barley (or maple syrup) to taste to each bowl. | wheat, oat groats, triticale, barley, rye, soft white wheat and spelt) along with some flax seed are mixed with roasted sweet potato, walnuts, nut milk and some sweetener for a delicious, hot cereal. Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery 7-Grain Cereal is a great product. Check out Wheat Montana for store locations and distributors. Bob's Red Mill has a five-grain cereal if you can't find Wheat Montana Farm and Bakery products.
Roast the sweet potato the night before to save time in the morning. Ones that are about 3 inches in diameter take about 45 minutes in a 425 degree oven. Whenever I roast sweet potatoes I usually roast a couple of extra ones to have for breakfast.
Bring the water to a boil. Add the cereal and salt and turn down the heat to medium-low. Stir to make sure that all the grains are separate. Cook for three minutes and then add the roasted sweet potato and the walnuts. Cook for another two minutes. Turn off the heat and put the lid on the pan and let rest for a couple of minutes.
This recipe makes two servings. | 237 |
Who is Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg?
Her Royal Highness Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, signed an International Call to Action to show her<|fim_middle|> the birth of Joseph Wresinski, who was the founder of ATD Quart Monde. The movement is also celebrating the 60th anniversary of its action against poverty as well as the 30th anniversary of the World Day for the Rejection of Poverty. The World Day for the Rejection of Poverty was created by Joseph Wresinski in 1987.
You can follow this Call to Action here. | support for ATD Quart Monde (or ATD Fourth World in English) on Sunday, the 12th of February. She signed it at the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg. The Palace has released three photos from the signing.
The signing was witnessed by the President ATD Quart Monde, Mrs Joëlle Christen; activist, Mrs Astrid Bremer; Vice-President ATD Quart Monde, Mrs Stephania Galantucci; and activist, Mr Christophe Jovet. Her Royal Highness signed the Call to Action after her audience with the four guests.
This appeal of the ATD Quart Monde "calls for all to build a society that takes into account the poorest and most excluded." The campaign is called "STOP PAUVRETÉ, Agir Tous pour la Dignité", and the Grand Duchess is one of the first 100 personalities who has signed the appeal. Others who have signed include former chairman of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, Jean Zermatten and former Director of UNESCO, Federico Mayor.
Sunday marked the 100th anniversary of | 229 |
Introduction to a right to repair
The meaning of 'disrepair' and 'Repair'.
Distinction between Repair and Improvements
Express contractual obligation to repair
Implied Obligation to Repair
Structure of House, Installation and Appliances
Extent of repairing obligation
Tenant's Obligations
Self-help set off against the rent
The duty to maintain the residential property in good repair falls mainly on the landlord. Where a landlord fails or refuses to carry out necessary repairs the duty may be enforceable in a number of ways.
The obligation to repair is implied by law and may also be an express term of the contract.
The duty to repair and maintain a residential property in a good repair falls mainly on the landlord unless otherwise agreed between landlord and tenant
A tenant may also be able to enforce repair rights under negligence and personal injury
The meaning of 'disrepair' and 'Repair'
The term 'disrepair' implies that at some earlier stage a property was in a better state and has since deteriorated.
Repair includes replacement or renewal of part of a house, it cannot include the rebuilding of a house that has tumbled down. But, so long as the house remains as a structure, repair imports an obligation to repair part of it that has deteriorated
An obligation to repair will be interpreted taking into account the age, character and location of a house. An old house will not have to be made as new or in a perfect state of repair.
Repair necessarily involves an element of renewal and improvement.
The distinction between repair and improvement is for the court to make in each case taking into account the value of the property, cost of repair and other relevant factors.
There are three elements to be considered in determining if work would amount to improvement or repair:
Whether the alterations went to the whole or substantially the whole of the structure or to only a subsidiary part;
Whether the effect of the alterations was to produce a building of a wholly different character from that which had been let
What was the cost of the works in relation to the previous value of the building, and what was their effect on the value and lifespan of the building?
Important Point
Putting in a damp course where none had existed before will be treated as an improvement.
An obligation to repair carries with it an obligation to re-decorate on completion of work as well
Where the obligation to repair is on the landlord it will not arise until the landlord has notice of the defect either from the tenant or otherwise. An unaware landlord will not be held liable for disrepair.
Ali is the landlord of 30, Stone Road. Natasha, the tenant never mentioned any issue with the condition of property and Ali has not visited the property for a while. Natasha cannot bring a case under disrepair against his landlord, Ali. As he is not aware of or notified by Natasha.
Where a landlord and tenant mutually agree between them an express term for repair. They will be binding on both of them.
However, the term agreed must not be excessive or must not place an extraordinary burden on tenant and the term must be reasonable. Where an express term goes beyond the normal meaning of repair the courts will enforce it against the landlord.
Where a furnished dwelling is let for immediate occupation it is an implied term that the dwelling is fit for human habitation at commencement of the tenancy
Where a tenancy agreement does not include an express term obliging the landlord to maintain common areas, entrance lobbies, lifts, rubbish chutes and lighting etc, in reasonable repair such a term is implied on the basis that tenants need to use these facilities or areas and must be kept in a reasonable state of repair. The obligation is on the landlord to maintain them reasonably and these premises must also be safe for tenants, visitors and licencees
There is an obligation on the tenant to use the dwelling in a 'tenant-like' way. Cleaning windows, unblocking sinks, turning off water on going away etc
An obligation on the landlord to repair implies an obligation on the tenant to give reasonable access to carry out repairs
The residential premises let on a low rent for a period of up to 3 years must be fit<|fim_middle|> must allow access upon given a notice to the landlord or landlord's agent to inspect the state of repair of the dwelling at a reasonable time of the day.
The tenant must allow access and all reasonable facility to carry out repairs.
Identical access rights apply to protected and statutory tenants
There is generally no right to repair in the law of tort/negligence. However, tort sometimes offers remedies to those tenants who suffer damage or injury due to the disrepair of the dwelling house.
The English courts have been reluctant to find liability in the torts of nuisance or negligence against landlords of unfurnished property other than where the injury or damage results from a design flaw and the landlords were also responsible for the design or construction of the building.
Landlords owe a general duty of care arising in regards to the design and/or construction of a building. It is the duty of a landlord to make sure that the building does not suffer from any design or construction issues, which may injure a tenant, visitor or licencee
A landlord may be liable for any injury or damage suffered by a tenant or any other person as a result of disrepair of those common parts, e.g. entrance halls/stairways/lifts etc, of a building retained by her/him under occupiers liability.
A landlord is under a duty to take such care as in all the circumstances of the case is reasonable, to see that the visitor will be reasonably safe in using the premises for the purposes for which visitor is permitted to be there…
Defective Premises Act places landlords under a duty to take reasonable care to protect any person who might reasonably be expected to be affected by any defects in the premises from any harm arising from a 'relevant' defect. A relevant defect is one which engages the landlord's obligation to repair and which is either notified to the landlord, by any means or of which the landlord should have had knowledge.
John a tenant suffered injury from carbon monoxide poisoning because of a faulty gas fire, and even though the John had not notified the landlord of the defect in the gas fire as required.
The landlord may still be held liable where he did not carry out regular maintenance of the fire and also knew that the tenant John would not carry out the regular maintenance. The landlord may be held liable for failure to take reasonable care
There are a number of civil law remedies open to the tenant of a landlord who does not meet their obligation to repair. However, these may be difficult for some, assured shorthold tenants, in particular, to pursue without risking their security of tenure (time period as a tenant)
A tenant may rely on the law to set off the cost of outstanding repairs against future rent.
Tenant is allowed to recover against a landlord for breach of an express or implied obligation to repair, where such tenant repair by his/herself
Tenant must notify the landlord about disrepair before carrying out these repairs by himself
It is also important for a tenant to deduct only the proper amount necessary to carry out the repair, by obtaining a number of quotes and using the lowest.
Where the landlord takes possession action for arrears of rent the tenant may counterclaim for disrepair
Right to Repair Scheme (Applicable to Public Sector Only)
Public Sector Secure Tenants of Local Housing Association's tenants have a have a right to have certain repairs carried out within a specified period or receive compensation. Please refer to the secure tenancies. | for human habitation at the commencement of the tenancy and throughout the tenancy.
landlords are also required:
to keep in repair the structure and exterior of the dwelling-house (including drains, gutters and external pipes)
to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for the supply of water, gas, electricity and for sanitation (including basins, sinks, baths and sanitary conveniences, but not other fixtures, fittings and appliances for making use of the supply of water, gas or electricity); and
to keep in repair and proper working order the installations in the dwelling-house for space heating and heating water.
The obligation does not arise until the landlord has notice of the defect.
An obligation to keep in good repair includes putting into good repair even where something was not in good repair at the commencement of the tenancy
Where a tenant made a counter claim in possession proceedings on rent arrears ground but had failed to notify the landlord of the defect, the landlord will not be held responsible for disrepair and it will not provide a valid defence to a tenant against possession proceedings
Certain categories of tenancy, business and agricultural tenancies, are excluded from these implied obligations on landlords
The structure of a dwelling house consists of those elements that give it it's overall appearance, stability and shape. It does not extend to the many and various ways in which a dwelling house will be fitted out, equipped, decorated and generally made habitable
Internal rendering and plasterwork have been held to constitute part of the structure of a dwelling house. However, the pathway and stairs giving access to a dwelling house are part of it's exterior
Installations include wiring, pipes, tanks, boilers, radiators and other space heating Appliances.
The obligation of repair only extends to keeping these in good mechanical order and not to lagging pipes against the eventuality of bursting in unusually cold weather
This will be determined by taking into account all of the relevant factors.
The age and character of the building,
For tenancies commencing after 15 January 1989, and
Where a dwelling house, forms only part of a building the obligation to repair extends to any part of the building in which the landlord has an estate or interest
The tenant | 455 |
The Western Sahara International Film Festival (Fi<|fim_middle|> and the Middle East.
Movies that Matter supports human rights film screenings worldwide. More information on the Movies that Matter Support Programme can be found at www.moviesthatmatter.nl/international. | Sahara) is an annual event that uses film to entertain and empower Sahrawi refugees and to raise international awareness about a forgotten crisis. From 7 to 13 October 2013, the 10th edition of the festival takes place in Dakhla, the most remote of the refugee camps in Southwestern Algeria. In close cooperation with the local NGO Polisario, FiSahara shows 28 different films on two screens. The festival also provides workshops, roundtables, cultural activities and spectacular camel races. Besides 5,000 local attendees, about 160 international visitors are expected. This year, the festival initiates a special human rights section.
The festival is supported by Movies that Matter and will be attended by Wim Brouwer, coordinator of the A Matter of ACT programme at Movies that Matter. He will give an introduction at a workshop about film and human rights advocacy in Africa | 193 |
It's all about the root. "To be solid is to face what is in front of us without flinching, to remain anchored in truth in the face of opposition, and to remain clam and secure." p.58 Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith.
Hope you're enjoying exploring the root and by<|fim_middle|> by Anodea Judith. It's a grounding flow and the first one I ever captured! Enjoy!
Over to you~ any brave soul willing to share their experience exploring the root support? What has come up for you? Any aha moments? Anyone inspired to inquire about their conception and birth? How about your first year of life? | now experimenting with some of the exercises in the book that are designed to foster awareness and healing. Here are some of the questions and issues that are associated with root support.
Do you know your truth? Are you anchored and aligned with it? Do you flow through life with ease or find it a constant struggle? Do you dream up things and think of great ideas but can't seem to bring them forth? Are you in debt? Do you lack financial resources? What is your belief about money?
Self-doubt can highjack your thoughts but will not stop you from reaching what you set out to do. Nor will anything anyone will ever say to you, when you stand on a solid foundation. I will discuss this in depth this Tuesday Feb 7th, 2017. We will meet via a FB live and for those who live locally I'll reach out with meeting details soon.
For now here's a yoga flow that can bring muladhara chakra into balance from the book Chakra Yoga | 204 |
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PSU Women's Lacrosse falls at Oneonta State
Oneonta State (NY)
Plymouth State (0-2) 3 3 6
Oneonta State (NY) (2-2) 6 9 15
G: Kelsey Cohen - 5
A: Katie Flannery - 4
Sv: Jaclyn Marry - 17
GB: 3 Players (#1, #4, #22) - 2
G: Sam Sullivan - 3
A: Megan Tingley - 2
Sv: Meg Brault - 10
GB: Kimmie Zuccaro - 3
Sullivan, Vonachen lead Panthers in setback
ONEONTA, N.Y. – SUNY Oneonta scored seven of the last eight goals of the game Tuesday afternoon to defeat Plymouth State University in its home opener, 15-6, in non-conference women's lacrosse action at Red Dragon Field.
Sophomore Kelsey Cohen (Baldwin, N.Y.) led the Oneonta attack with five goals and two assists, as the Red Dragons evened their record at 2-2.
Junior Sam Sullivan (Canton, Mass.) and senior Caroline Vonachen (Framingham, Mass.) combined for five goals and one assist for PSU, Sullivan with three goals and Vonachen with two goals and one assist. PSU drops to 0-2 on the season.
- Date: Tuesday, March 21, 2017
- Location: Oneonta, N.Y. (Red Dragon Field)
- Score: SUNY Oneonta 15, Plymouth State University 6
- Records: SUNY Oneonta (2-2); Plymouth State (0-2)
* Junior Taylor Casey (Garden City South, N.Y.) took a feed from Cohen to open the scoring 2:27 into the game. After a PSU goal by Sullivan, the Red Dragons ran off four straight to grab a 5-1 lead with 18 minutes left in the first half. Casey scored her second of the game before Cohen netted her first two goals. Freshman Kelly Clarke (East Meadow, N.Y.) capped the run with a free position goal at 18:10.
* Back-to-back goals by Kimmie<|fim_middle|> RC | BX | PH
Sat, 05/04 | Women's Lacrosse vs. Keene State W, 15-5 (Final) RC | BX
Sat, 04/27 | Women's Lacrosse at Castleton W, 13-11 (Final) RC | BX | Zuccaro (Townsend, Mass.) and Sullivan brought Plymouth State back to 5-3 with just over five minutes to go in the half. Senior Katie Flannery (Massapequa, N.Y.) buried a free position shot with 40 seconds left to give Oneonta a 6-3 halftime advantage.
* Leading 8-5 10 minutes into the second half, Oneonta scored three unanswered to extend its lead to 11-5 on goals by Flannery, Casey and Danielle McIvor (Nanuet, N.Y.).
* Sullivan scored her third goal of the game and the final goal for PSU 18:39 into the second half before the Red Dragons closed the game scoring four straight for the final margin of victory. Junior Jaime Morris (West Nyack, N.Y.) and Cohen each scored two goals in the final run.
* Sophomore goalie Jaclyn Marry (Long Beach, N.Y.) came up big with 17 saves for Oneonta including 12 in the second half. Senior Meg Brault (South Windsor, Conn.) made 10 saves for the Panthers.
* Zuccaro picked up a team-high three ground balls for PSU, while junior Megan Tingley (Natick, Mass.) grabbed five draw controls and added two assists.
* Oneonta finished the game with a 32-24 shot advantage and a 13-10 advantage in draw controls.
* Plymouth State's next scheduled game is Friday, Mar. 31, in the home opener against Castleton University, weather and field conditions permitting. Oneonta will have a quick turnaround, as they host nationally ranked Hamilton College on Thursday at 4pm.
(Courtesy of SUNY Oneonta Sports Information)
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Sat, 05/11 | Women's Lacrosse vs. New England College W, 19-3 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Sun, 05/05 | Women's Lacrosse vs. Southern Maine W, 12-7 (Final) | 465 |
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By Anna Monday January 10, 2011
NOOKcolor, the first full-colour touch screen Reader's Tablet has won the People's Choice Award at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.
Barnes & Noble announced the device won with more than 60 percent of the 5,000 votes, showing its revolutionary design and specific entertainment function appeals to the masses.
The Last Gadget Standing competition had selected 200 of the hottest new gadgets on show at CES, and the NOOKcolor was selected by a panel of experts as a top ten finalist before it won first prize.
"This recognition is further testament to the innovative product we've created that delivers the ultimate reading experience," said Jamie Iannone, Barnes & Noble president of digital products.
"It's clear that people are excited to read everything they love – books, magazines, newspapers, kids books and more."
More about NOOKcolor
NOOK is a brand of eReading products designed by Barnes & Noble, with the aim to make it as easy as possible to read whatever you want wherever you are.
With NOOK, users can access Barnes and Noble's NOOKbook Store of more than two million digital books, with the ability to enjoy these across a variety of devices.
NOOKcolor has a seven inch VividView Colour Touchscreen for easy to read viewing of your favourite titles, and if you enjoy reading a book, the NOOK 3G and NOOK WI-FI aim to mimic the experience with paper-like viewing.
eReaders on the Market
There are many different affordable eReaders on the market which can offer a similar viewing experience to the NOOKcolor.
The Sony PRS350P.CE7E-Reader for example features a touch screen with the option to change to different size fonts, and has an internal | 385 |
Practice Safe Boating this Holiday Weekend
By Randy Zellers AGFC Assistant Chief of Communications, 07/2/20 5:39 PM
LITTLE ROCK — Boating enforcement officers with the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission are working hard to keep our waters safe, and want to remind everyone to practice safe boating habits and social distancing recommendations as we head into the Independence Day holiday. They will be ramping up enforcement efforts this weekend as part of the national Operation Dry Water campaign to reduce instances of boating under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
"This year we've already seen a huge increase in people enjoying our state's waters," said Capt. Stephanie Weatherington, AGFC boating law administrator. "But many of these newcomers may be unfamiliar with some of the dangers of boating under the influence."
According to the U.S. Coast Guard's Recreational Boating Statistics from 2019, alcohol use is the leading known contributing factor in fatal boating accidents. Boating while intoxicated can be even more dangerous than driving a car while intoxicated, as most boaters have less experience operating a boat than they do operating a car. Boats don't have brakes, and slower responses to a sudden danger can be the difference between life and death.
Weatherington says the effects of alcohol also are magnified by the conditions boating creates.
"The sun, heat, wind and motion all intensify alcohol's impact on a person," Weatherington said. "Someone who could enjoy a beer or two in the air conditioning at home or in a restaurant and not feel any effects may<|fim_middle|> this, but we want to remind people to please think about the consequences of their actions. It shouldn't take a law to practice good judgment." | become impaired by the same amount of alcohol on board a boat in the summer sun."
These effects are so great, Arkansas lawmakers agreed that a conviction of boating under the influence of drugs or alcohol should carry the same weight as if someone was caught driving a land vehicle under the influence. If you are found guilty, you can have your driving privileges suspended for up to 6 months, be charged up to $1,000 and serve up to a year of jail time.
"It's a stiff penalty that can really impact your life, but it's that important," Weatherington said. "The effects of a boating accident are no less real than those of a car accident."
Weatherington says the added impact of alcohol can be a danger to passengers as well as drivers. Although not illegal, passengers who consume too much alcohol also can make poor judgments that can lead to injuries and death.
"We want people to go out and have a good time on the water, but we also want them to use good judgment," Weatherington said. "Holiday weekends can be very crowded, and there may be a lot of people out there that aren't extremely experienced at piloting a boat. More so this year than ever."
Maj. Glenn Tucker, assistant chief of the AGFC Enforcement Division, added that crowds and gatherings should probably be avoided this year because of COVID-19 concerns.
"I get it, the holidays mean getting out and enjoying time with friends, but we still need to practice social distancing, even when we're outdoors," Tucker said. "We've all seen videos and images from large on-the-water gatherings, and we've also seen some unfortunate cases where the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 was able to spread quickly as a result. It's not illegal in Arkansas to gather like | 362 |
North Carolina Representative Verla Insko was one of many visitors to the media center to participate in the interactive presentations by Helen Motta's eighth grade language arts students at Culbreth Middle School (CMS) on January 18. For five class periods throughout the day, groups of<|fim_middle|> arrived for the first period class presentations, having served as a consultant for a team that studied gerrymandering, and she praised the efforts of her interviewers' results. Other visitors included parents, Superintendent Dr. Pam Baldwin, Director of Secondary Humanities, Dr. Christy Stanley, and others from the district and CMS.
Motta introduced the assignment for Problem Based Learning (PBL) during the week after Thanksgiving break, and students brainstormed and ranked a list of current local, state and national problems. The top-ranked topics were gerrymandering, the NFL protests, the achievement gap in education, prevention of school shootings, the electoral college and the impact of climate change. "This was my first actual 'problem based learning project.' I have done many projects before, but this one was the first where I explicitly talked with students about solving actual problems," Motta said.
The displays were both eye-catching and information-packed. During each presentation, students took turns conveying highlights from their research, and then in a second round of sharing, they summarized the solutions that they had arrived at individually. In that way, a true range of opinions and responses were represented in each display, at times divergent, but always supported by evidence and facts. | students set up tri-fold displays that captured weeks of research and problem-solving, and they delivered brief informational speeches, as well as answered questions from the visitors. Rep. Insko | 36 |
We offer guided cycles with experienced local guides every Monday and Thursday starting at 11am from the cafe. Booking essential.
This tour takes you along the scenic Coast Road and over Knockatee back into Lauragh. A great way to discover local scenic spots and historical attractions in a fun and casual way.
This tour takes you further along the Beara Peninsula, over the boundary into Cork (cycle through two counties in one day). Discover stone circles and stop for a picnic by a glacial lake (picnic included in cost).
A self-guided tour map, helmets, high vis vests, water bottles and bike locks.
We have routes that will suit every level of cyclist on quiet secondary roads that take in both breath-taking scenery and places of archaeological & historical interest. We can<|fim_middle|>irers responsibility will have to be paid for. ID will be held until payment is made. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. | also provide a picnic basket containing a freshly packed lunch made in our café.
Shower facilities and changing rooms are also available for those wishing to freshen up before going on their onward journey.
If you are looking for someone to guide you on a specific route other than the ones listed, then we can arrange a tailor-made tour for you based on your interests and cycling ability. Contact us for more information.
Booking essential for all tours and bicycle hire.
Proof of ID is required for each booking (ie passport/drivers licence) and will be held for the duration of the hire and returned once all bikes and equipment are returned undamaged. You will be supplied with a bike lock – please use it if leaving bike unattended. Any loss/damage to bikes or equipment will be the h | 156 |
Tip: In most cases it is better to set up groups after the majority of users are enrolled in your course. This gives you a better idea of how many users you are organizing and how many groups you need. Setting up groups after enrollment can also ensure better distribution of users between groups.
Warning: In order for users to be enrolled in groups automatically the 'Can be auto-enrolled' option must be enabled. Contact the help desk if you are having difficulties.
A specified number of groups are created, which you can add any number of users to through the Enroll Users page.
Use the enrollment type "# of Groups - No Auto Enrollments" when you know how many groups you want to create and which users you want in each group. This option could be used when you have a teaching model that divides course participants into specific learning levels or when you want to divide users by skill or interests.
# of Groups: A specified number of groups are created.
If 'Can be auto-enrolled' is turned on, they are added using a brick laying algorithm, regardless of whether they enrolled before or after the groups were created. For example, if a class has 23 users and 5 groups, the first user is added to Group 1, the second to Group 2, etc. The sixth user returns the enrollment sequence to Group 1. Groups 1, 2, and 3 have 5 users and Groups 4 and 5 have 4 users. If a new user enrolls later, they are put in Group 4.
If 'Can be auto-enrolled' is turned off, the specified number of groups are created with no users enrolled in them. You can enroll users using the Enroll Users page.
Use the following enrollment type when you know how many groups you want to create, but want the system to place users in groups for you. This option could be used when you want group membership to be indiscriminate, or when classroom, resource, or teaching assistant availability restricts the number of groups you can have.
Groups of #: The minimum number of groups needed to place users in groups of a specified maximum size are created. More groups are created when they are needed to accommodate users.
If users are enrolled before groups are set up and 'Can be auto-enrolled'<|fim_middle|> laying algorithm. For example, if a maximum group size of 5 users is chosen for a class of 23, than 5 groups are created. The first user is added to Group 1, the second to Group 2, etc. The sixth user returns the enrollment sequence to Group 1. Groups 1, 2 and 3 have 5 users and Groups 4 and 5 have 4 users. If a new user enrolls later, they are put in Group 4.
Note: If you have Auto Enroll New Users selected and all of the existing groups have reached their maximum size, new users are added to a new group. Because there is no way to know how many new users will join, all new users are added to the same group until it is full. This is called a bucket-filling algorithm because the limits of one group must be met before another group is started.
If 'Can be auto-enrolled' is turned off belong to, the minimum number of groups needed to create groups under the specified size are created with no users enrolled in them. If no users are enrolled in the course, one group is created. You can enroll users using the Enroll Users page.
Use the following enrollment type when you know how many users you want in each group. This option could be used when you have assignments that require work to be divided between a specific number of users, or when you can only accommodate a set number of users in a lab or work area at one time.
Groups of # - Self Enrollment: The minimum number of groups needed to accommodate users in groups of a specified maximum size are created automatically. Users choose the group they want to enroll in from their My Groups page, accessible from the Classlist.
Note: If users are not already enrolled in your course, then only one group is initially created. You can use the Edit Category page to add additional groups. You might want to add additional groups even if users are already enrolled to ensure all users have options when forming groups.
# of Groups - Self Enrollment: A specified number of groups are created, which users enroll in from their My Groups page, accessible from the Classlist.
Note: If you choose the enrollment type Groups of # you might end up with a group that has only one or a few users in it. You can manually change group enrollment, including adding users to full groups, using the Enroll Users page. See Enrolling users in sections for more information.
Setup Locker Allows you to create a locker area for each group.
Setup Dropbox Allows you to create dropbox folders for each of the groups. A group can have multiple folders belonging to different categories.
Use this option when you want each group to have its own folders for submitting assignments to. This could be helpful if different users are responsible for grading different groups.
You select the Setup Forums option and create discussion forums where users can post and answer questions about the computer software.
You leave Setup Locker and Setup Dropbox cleared because you do not want users collaborating on their projects and you already have your dropbox folders organized by assignment rather than group membership.
For the Enrollment Type you select Groups of # - Self Enrollment. You set the Number of Users per group to 5 and rename each of the 6 groups after the topic the group will work on.
Since users are selecting their own groups, the Auto-Enroll New Users and Randomize users in groups options do not apply.
You select the Setup Discussion Areas option and create discussion topics for each of the groups. You associate the topics with a grade item and tell users that you expect them to communicate with each other on their progress and concerns through the Discussions tool. They receive individual grades based on their participation.
You select the Setup Locker option and encourage users to save their collaborative work in their group locker area.
You select Setup Dropbox and create separate dropbox folders for each group's Research Notes, Report, and Seminar Notes. You associate the folders with Grade Items and assign the same grade to all members of the group. | is turned on, users are added using a brick | 10 |
CLOSER are looking to appoint a Technical Manager to join our team.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the role of Technical Manager at UCL's Department of Social Science with responsibility for CLOSER Discovery; a search engine which enables researchers to search the content of eight longitudinal studies.
This extended multi-phase project focuses on metadata creation and enhancement co-ordinated across multiple institutions. It utilises DDI-3.2 as its metadata standard and will require working with external software developers. You will work closely with the UK Data Service alongside the technical oversight committee. You will maintain<|fim_middle|> developing software for the CLOSER project to enable the documentation of complex metadata extracted from longitudinal studies.
You will support users of CLOSER's software, training and advising them in its use and in the definition of guidelines and conventions. The role will be responsible for upgrading the functionality of the software if it is judged to be necessary. This will involve liaison with the CLOSER partner institutions.
The appointment is available immediately until 30th September 2019, in the first instance.
The post holder will have an MSc in a computationally based field or equivalent professional experience and significant experience of software development using C# as well as experience of modern software and database design patterns.
To apply for this vacancy, please select the 'Apply now' button the UCL job listing.
For further details about this post please email Jon Johnson (jon.johnson@ucl.ac.uk). | links with the other institutions involved in CLOSER as well as liaising with colleagues across UCL. You will be expected to work independently but also work closely with the Director to meet the goals of the overall project.
The CLOSER Technical Manager will be expected to take the lead in designing and | 60 |
The Comforts of a Hotel.
We at Royal Barracks Guest House pride ourselves on our friendly atmosphere and Southern Hospitality, and we are dedicated to extending the hospitality foremost associated with our Great City of New Orleans.
Every Suite and Room features a Queen size bed, private bath and fireplace, and private entrance to our lush courtyard. Our themed rooms are each romantically appointed with window treatments and Victorian antiques. Elegant, posh and historic, our tiny gem has all the amenities of a larger, metropolitan hotel.
There are<|fim_middle|> seeking. it's here in the Historic French Quarter - Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler! | hosts of culinary delicacies - all readily available for delivery right to your door - from the finest dining establishments both in, and surrounding, the Quarter.
If you are seeking the excitement and adventure of the French Quarter, as well as the serenity of a good night's rest, come stay with us at the Royal Barracks Guest House. Whatever you are | 71 |
Diversity permeates our everyday life and covers many dimensions, such as competence, culture, gender or economic across humans and social relations. Technology has evolved to a point where humans from diverse backgrounds, cultures, and experiences have an unprecedented ability to connect with each other. Yet technology does not in-and-by-itself provide support for developing and maintaining the social relationships that transcend geographical and cultural backgrounds.
WeNet addresses this<|fim_middle|> platform provides the technological infrastructure to set out a series of studies that will be carried within universities worldwide with diverse student populations, and with the final goal of improving students' quality of life inside and outside the academic environment. Beyond universities, WeNet's innovative paradigm impacts human interactions in general, especially those that may benefit from a collaborative approach (creative industries, medical diagnosis, ...). The WeNet consortium will develop a research infrastructure that will allow the exploitation of the project results and strengthen the European innovation eco-system in a worldwide perspective. | gap by providing a diversity-aware, machine-mediated paradigm of social relations. The goal is connecting people that can support each other, and the key is leveraging their diversity. The WeNet paradigm includes a family of computational diversity-aware models supporting human interaction. Learning models construct diversity profiles based on people's past behaviour and interactions. A diversity-aware search builds upon these profiles to connect the "right" people together. To support people's interactions, a diversity alignment mechanism lifts communication barriers to ensure that messages between humans are interpreted correctly, and a diversity-aware incentive mechanism generates incentives to motivate people to support each other. The entire paradigm is developed taking into consideration ethical guidelines. The WeNet | 133 |
Agriculture in the Classroom–Manitoba (AITC-M) has been operating since 1988. AITC-M delivers curriculum-based programs, activities and resources for teachers and their students to learn more about agriculture and the role it plays in our province. AITC-M is part of Agriculture in the Classroom-Canada, click here to find out more.
AITC-M is a non-profit, charitable organization supported by sponsors and members who share the organization's goal. Executive Director Sue Clayton works with the Board of Directors, staff, members and volunteers to develop and deliver<|fim_middle|>.
Vision: Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba Inc. will lead in the development and distribution of accurate, balanced and current information for use as education resources in school curriculum.
AITC-M has a variety of programming designed to create links between agriculture and the classroom. All our programming can be customized to meet a particular need, or we'll work with partners to develop a new program. | the programs to Manitoba schools.
AITC-M's Board of Directors is an elected board that represents a cross section of the industry. There are 15 members who exhibit a commitment and dedication to delivering an accurate, balanced and current message about agriculture. This is AITC-M's ABC principle and it is on the membership's behalf that the organization demands accountability to it.
The AITC-M organization will promote the development of critical thinking skills related to the businesses of agriculture, food, bioproducts and life sciences in all Manitoba students. In coordination with commodity and other industry related organizations, AITC-M's programming, events and services will further develop future decision-makers and entrepreneurs | 138 |
The Ormeau Gasworks is the premier business park in Belfast and is located c. 5 minutes walk from Belfast City Hall.
The Gasworks development comprises over 500,000 sq ft office space with occupiers including Deloitte, Allianz Plc, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP and Lloyds Banking Group, as well as a 4<|fim_middle|> I found on PropertyPal.com: 1St, Floor, 4 Cromac Place, The Gasworks, Belfast BT7 2JB. | star Radisson Blu Hotel and various business units.
The site provides ease of access to the city's main transport hubs of Belfast Central Station, Great Victoria Street Bus & Rail Station and the Metro bus terminus.
The subject accommodation occupies a prominent position in the Gas Office Building with dual frontage onto Ormeau Road and Cromac Quay.
The accommodation is accessed via a communal entrance lobby on the ground floor and each suite benefits from two dedicated car parking spaces.
The office suite has been fitted to an extremely high specification to include suspended ceilings, carpeted flooring, gas fired central heating, intercom buzzer system, 8 person passenger lift servicing each floor, recessed strip lighting, painted / plastered walls, part perimeter trunking and communal WC facilities on ground, first and second floors.
Check out the property | 164 |
Join us in a timeless destination, where eco-adventure, a rich<|fim_middle|> offerings. All of your meals, wellness, eco-adventure, and cultural adventures will be customized based on the preferences of our intimate group.
Wake up and revitalize your body, mind and soul with private yoga instruction followed by customized adventures including epic horse rides across the Andean Cordillera, mountain biking, hiking through the world renowned Cocora National Park home of 200 ft. Wax Palm, and soaking in hidden hot springs, only reachable by a 30 mile old jeep trail.
Ryan Jaqua. A life filled with diversity, trials, joy, and victory. Ryan seeks to bring to his students the most realized parts of his own yoga practice and life experience. With his roots in Anusara yoga he has sought out dynamic teachings and practitioners. A true student of yoga as a way of life, Ryan understands the common path tread by students dealing with the constant waves of life. He believes the practice of yoga can greatly calm the fluctuation of the mind and allows our most authentic self to surface.
If its not down past the end of the road..its not what we are looking for.
Our hillside villa is nestled a short walk along an old dirt road from the perfect Colombian mountain town of Salento. With stunning views of surrounding hillsides, you will find privacy, spaciousness, and the simple luxury of this well appointed home. The villa will come with daily maid service, a private chef, outdoor and indoor space for yoga, a cozy fire place to warm up to at night (in the rare occasion of a cold evening) and all the other creature comforts you would find in a furnished home.
We are what we eat is not just a popular slogan for Life Force Project. We understand the importance of eating balanced, nutritious, delicious and locally inspired food. Our food is one of the primary ways in which we revitalize our mind, body and soul and enjoy all the exciting activities taking place throughout out the day.
Set amid gorgeous green mountains 24km northeast of Armenia, this small town survives on coffee production, trout farming and tourists, who are drawn by its quaint streets, typical paisa architecture and its proximity to the spectacular Valle de Cocora. Founded in 1850, and it is one of the oldest towns in Quindío.
The main drag is Calle Real (Carrera 6), which is full of artesanías (local craft stalls) and restaurants. At the end of the street are stairs leading up to Alto de la Cruz, a hill topped with a cross. From here you'll see the verdant Valle de Cocora and the mountains that surround it. If the skies are clear (usually only early in the morning), you can spot the snowcapped tops of the volcanoes on the horizon.
Valle de Cocora: In a country full of beautiful landscapes, Cocora is one of the most striking. It stretches east of Salento into the lower reaches of the Los Nevados ountains and national park, with a broad green valley framed by sharp peaks. Everywhere you'll see palma de cera (wax palm), the largest palm in the world (up to 60m tall). It's Colombia's national tree. Set amid the misty green hills, they are breathtaking to behold.
Horseback riding in Salento, Colombia is something all travelers should experience during their visit to our beautiful country. The small town of Salento looks very much like an old western, cowboy town and it's not uncommon to see people still riding horses to come into town. There are several guides throughout the town that offer horseback rides of various difficulties and lengths. At some point during a walk around town there's a very high chance you will be asked if you would like to ride a horse. At La Serrana we typically work with two guides that we've found to be the best value and experience. We recommend inquiring at our front desk if you are interested in horseback riding in Salento.
Looking for a real treat…If you have more of an interest in organic coffee and food cultivation, then the Coffee Reserve Sacha Mama is a very special place where you can enjoy organic coffee while learning about organic coffee production and the Slow Food Movement (www.slowfood.com). The reserve is run by Pedro Grojales, a guru when it comes to environmental issues, both locally in Salento and worldwide. He lives entirely self-sufficiently at Sacha Mama with his family, and has been working to restore and replenish the jungle there since 2000.
Salento is a fantastic location for mountain biking in Colombia. The beautiful, little town is surrounded by lush, green mountains with scenic trails for riding a bike. Mountain biking tours will take you through hills, valleys, rivers, and tremendous vistas along the way. They includes the bike, guide, technical support, water, food (depending on the tour) and entry to any coffee fincas you may visit.
It is also possible during the full moon to take a nighttime ride by moonlight. Or you can cycle into the Valle de Cocora.
Life Force Project can help you with booking information for the best travel and flight itineraries, hotels, restaurants, and activities during your stay in Colombia. Our pick up will be at the Armenia Al Eden aripot (AXM). Direct flights to AXM can be found on Spirit Airlines as well as non-direct on United, Avianca and others from most any major city in the US. Life Force Project can help you with planning and details. For all the details and individual questions please email us at info@lifeforceproject.com. We will be sure to respond within 48 hours and supply all the information and guidance you need to make your journey exactly what you're dreaming up.
A private shuttle service to our villa in Salento will be included in your retreat package. The shuttle will leave at 4:00 PM on Feb 6 and Feb 13th. All the meet up details will be provided upon receipt of the initial trip deposit. | Colombian coffee and cowboy culture, and the magic of the Andean mountains will captivate your heart. One of few truly authentic Colombian highland settings, Salento will whisk you away.
Enjoy the privacy of our luxurious mountainside villa with stunning views of rolling green mountains and a full time private chef with locally inspired gourmet | 63 |
« What am I doing now?
One of the first questions I came up with yesterday when digging into F# was this: what does an F# type look like to C#? As a noob, that's an interesting question to me. Of course, being a noob, I had no clue about how to create a custom type. So, I asked Google what an F# type definition looked like, then massaged that until I had something that I might not completely understand, but that does show the problem at hand. I created a lame Name class that only supports a first name. Boo-yah!
For you C# heads out<|fim_middle|> filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed. | there, let's look at what the code above really is saying.
Create a new type, Name.
Name has a single constructor that takes a string.
Name has a member variable, fName, whose value can change at runtime.
Name has a public property, FName, that has a getter and a setter.
Yeah– there's a keyword called namespace that allows you to add objects to a CLR namespace. The odd bit here is that one doesn't say namespace blah =. Instead, you omit the '='. The '=' will work, but you will get a message saying that the syntax has been deprecated. With this small change in place, things look more correct to my C# eyes. The static class disappears, and that's good!
Right now, I think my focus will be on writing F# code that plays well/looks natural to C# developers. I'll keep that point of view until I see a reason to change.
This entry was posted on January 5, 2009, 10:45 pm and is | 212 |
Does Proximity to Foreign Invested Firms Stimulate Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms? Firm-level Evidence from Vietnam
Kyburz, Stephan Daniel; Nguyen, Huong Quynh (August 2016). Does Proximity to Foreign Invested Firms Stimulate Productivity Growth of Domestic Firms? Firm-level Evidence from Vietnam (SECO Working Paper Series 10/2016). Bern, Switzerland: SECO, World Trade Institute
daisy_stephan_seco_wp_10_new.pdf - Published Version
Official URL:<|fim_middle|> smallest administrative unit (ward) and compile a unique data set containing information of firms location to exploit the variation in the presence of foreign firms around each domestic firm over time. Benefiting from enhanced spatial accuracy over previous studies, our empirical results using a first differenced two-stage least squares estimator are threefold. First, they show positive local spillover effects of foreign investment on domestic firms in the same industry. The effects are strongest and highly significant within a radius of 2 km to 10 km, and they show a distinct decay pattern within 10-50 km. Second, small and unproductive firms benefit disproportionately from the presence of foreign firms in their neighborhoods. Third, manufacturing vertical spillovers are also localized while vertical spillovers from the service sector are less geographically restricted.
11 Centers of Competence > Center for Regional Economic Development (CRED)
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Economic Law > World Trade Institute
10 Strategic Research Centers > World Trade Institute
Kyburz, Stephan Daniel and Nguyen, Huong Quynh
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 380 Commerce, communications & transportation
SECO Working Paper Series
SECO, World Trade Institute
[UNSPECIFIED] Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs
[UNSPECIFIED] SECO/WTI Academic Cooperation Project
Pablo Rahul Das
SECO/WTI Academic Cooperation Project, based at the World Trade Institute of the University of Bern, Switzerland.
JEL Classification:
D22, D24, F23, O12, O14, O33, R11, R32
10.7892/boris.97931
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/97931 | ERROR: type should be string, got " https://www.wti.org/research/publications/1001/doe...\nMuch attention has been paid to foreign investment spillovers in the literature, since inward foreign direct investment is regarded as a key engine of industrial growth and technological progress. However, little clear evidence has been found with regard to the relevance of geographic proximity for spillover effects, owing to a lack of location specific information. We therefore study the spatial component of spillover effects from foreign direct investment on total factor productivity (TFP) of domestic manufacturing firms in Vietnam from 2005 to 2010. Firm level TFP is estimated by applying a semi-parametric method. We geo-reference firms by using the" | 145 |
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
by Slaght, Jonathan C.
A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 br Longlisted for the National Book Award br Winner of the PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction br A Finalist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award br Winner of the Peace Corps Worldwide Special Book Award br br A Best Book of the Year: NPR, The Wall Street Journal , Smithsonian , Minneapolis Star-Tribune , The Globe and Mail , The BirdBooker Report , Geographical, Open Letter Review br Best Nature Book of the Year: The Times (London) A terrifically exciting account of [Slaght's] time in the Russian Far East studying Blakiston's fish ..
Pink Flamingo Adults Coloring Book: Easy and Fun Coloring Page for all ages, Perfect gift for who love Flamingo
by Escobedo, Byron
A beautiful adult coloring book of flamingo designs, several type cute design Coloring book will be perfect for every one also be Best gift ever. It is perfect for all coloring book lovers br Product Details: ul li Printed single sided on bright white paper li li Perfect for all coloring mediums li li High quality paper li li Large Size format 8.5" x 11.0" pages li ul ..
A History of Oregon Ornithology: From Territorial Days to the Rise of Birding
by Contreras, Alan L. Thompson, Vjera E. Clements, Nolan M.
The study of birds was, in its early years, often driven by passionate amateurs in a localized context. A History of Oregon Ornithology takes readers from the Lewis and Clark expedition, through the professionalization of the field, and to the mid-twentieth century, focusing on how birding and related amateur field observation grew outside the realms of academia and conservation agencies. Editors Alan Contreras, Vjera Thompson, and Nolan Clements have assembled chapters exploring the differences and interplay between the amateur and professional study of birds, along with discussions of early birding societies, notable observers, and ornithological studies. T ..
A Collection of Lowcountry Birds
by Scroggy, Ron
In A Collection of Low Country Birds , Edisto Island, SC resident Ron Scroggy marvels at the splendor of the indigenous and coastal migratory bird species of the Lowcountry. Featuring striking images taken from Donnelly Wildlife Management Area, Botany Bay Heritage Preserve, Edisto Island, and surrounding areas, the book offers an up close and personal account of these wondrous creatures in their natural environment. An avid bird watcher,<|fim_middle|>ela believes that loons are the most fascinating of birds. He spent years studying loons, noting their behaviors and capturing them in photographs. Stan's research spanned major events such as migration and court ..
How to Attract Birds to Your Garden: Foods They Like, Plants They Love, Shelter They Need
by Rouse, Dan
Help your local wild birds by providing them with a safe garden environment Make a difference to your local birdlife. Help reverse the decline in bird numbers by creating a haven in which they will thrive. It's a win-win. Provide the best shelter, feeding, and nesting opportunities for them and then you can reap the rewards as they sing and entertain. No need to be an expert gardener already, or to break the bank - many of the most beneficial features can be installed easily and cheaply, and many you can build yourself or upcycle to be eco-friendly. ..
100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight
by Cavanagh, Peter
Flight is the essence of birdness.strive to illustrate the beauty and complexity of avian flight. br -- Peter Cavanagh 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight offers a vivid and varied glimpse into the world of birds. A white-tailed eagle plummeting through a Japanese sky, a brown pelican striking a silhouette against an Ecuadorian sunset, an Atlantic puffin carrying its fish dinner above the Scottish coast, or a keel-billed toucan gliding through a Costa Rican jungle canopy; readers will marvel at the splendor of birds in flight while learning the techniques to capture these gravity-defying moments from a world-class nature photographer ..
The Kirtland's Warbler: The Story of a Bird's Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It
by Rapai, William
This book looks at the Kirtland's warbler and wildlife conservation in a way that no other book has. It looks back on the history of this unique bird, examines the people and policies that kept the warbler from extinction, explores the cult of personality that surrounds it, and examines the challenges of the future--all through the eyes of the people who have acted so passionately on its behalf. The story of the Kirtland's warbler is a story of complex relationships between the bird and its environment, the humans who interact with it, and the complex government policies that affect it. And now, just when it appears that the Kirtland's warbler has recovered for ..
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
by Sax, Boria
An exquisitely illustrated journey through the complex and crucial relationship between humans and birds. Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities, and pets, to omens, muses, timekeepers, custodians, hunting companions, decorative motifs, and, most importantly, embodiments of our aspirations. Boria Sax narrates the history of our relationships with a host of bird species, including crows, owls, parrots, falcons, eagles, nightingales, hummingbirds, and many more. Along the way, Sax describes how birds' nesting has symbolized human romance, how their flight has inspired inventors throughout h ..
Loons: Treasured Symbols of the North
by Lynch, Wayne
Acclaimed wildlife photographer, Wayne Lynch, focuses on the five species of loons - the red-throated loon, the look-alike Pacific and Arctic loons, the familiar neck-laced common loon and the yellow-billed loon, the largest and rarest member of the family. While the common loon has been studied more than the other four species combined, this book will give a wider scope and reach for all five species. A perfect book for those who live in loon country and want a better understanding of the birds with which they live as well as for those who visit loon country and are eager to interpret their wilderness experience. The book is also for those who may never see ..
How Birds Live Together: Colonies and Communities in the Avian World
by Taylor, Marianne
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the ways birds cohabit Featuring dramatic and delightful wild bird colonies and communities, How Birds Live Together offers a broad overview of social living in the avian world. From long-established seabird colonies that use the same cliffs for generations to the fast-shifting dynamics of flock formation, leading wildlife writer Marianne Taylor explores the different ways birds choose to dwell together. Through fascinating text, color photos, maps, and other graphics, Taylor examines the advantages of avian sociality and social breeding. Chapters provide detailed information on diverse types of bird colonies, includi ..
Bird Love
by Jeffreys, Leila
Fine art photographer Leila Jeffreys captures the beauty and diversity of some of our most colorful and elegant feathered friends. From the exotic birds of her native Australia to those of North America, Jeffreys seems to delve into the very souls of these creatures with her stunning and evocative portraits. Jeffreys works with animal rescue and conservation groups to find subjects to photograph. Her love and compassion for her subjects is evident throughout, as she captures their personalities in her delightful portraits; Commander Skyring the Gang-Gang Cockatoo, Dexter the White-Bellied Sea Eagle, Mrs. Plume the Budgerigar, and many others are as whimsical as ..
Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
by Zickefoose, Julie
strong For fans of Wesley the Owl and The Soul of an Octopus , the story of a sick baby bird nursed back to health and into the wild by renowned writer artist Julie Zickefoose. strong When Jemima, a young orphaned blue jay, is brought to wildlife rehabilitator Julie Zickefoose, she is a virtually tailless, palm-sized bundle of gray-blue fluff. But she is starved and very sick. Julie's constant care brings her around, and as Jemima is raised for eventual release, she takes over the house and the rest of the author's summer. Shortly after release, Jemima turns up with a deadly disease. But medicating a free-flying wild bird is a challenge. When the PBS show ..
As the Condor Soars: Conserving and Restoring Oregon's Birds
by Haig, Susan M. Roby, Daniel D. Haig, Tashi A.
In the early part of this century, few dared imagine that Oregon would ever welcome back the majestic California Condor. Nobody would have predicted record numbers of Snowy Plovers on the coast. Oregon's raptors and fish-eating birds were almost decimated. Yet, thanks to the heroic efforts of Oregon's ornithologists, the birds are returning. As the Condor Soars presents a series of engaging essays about the efforts these scientists have made, and continue to make, to reduce the decline of Oregon's bird species and restore their habitats. The essays collected in As the Condor Soars focus on the role that ornithologists have played in research, management, and ..
Snowy Owl: A Visual Natural History
by Bannick, Paul
The Snowy Owl--also known as the Arctic Owl, Snowy White Owl, and White Owl--is one of the most easily identified but least understood owls in the world. Award-winning author and photographer Paul Bannick delves into the natural history of this owl species, including the latest research, providing readers with comprehensive yet accessible looks at their preferred habitat, hunting and feeding behavior, mating and nesting actions, owlets and fledglings, and more. This beautiful book follows Bannick's bestselling titles, The Owl and the Woodpecker and Owl , providing fans with another emotionally rich photographic portfolio and engaging, informative text. ..
Birds of Instagram: Extraordinary Images from Around the World
by Sibley, David Allen Sibley, David Allen
A visually rich selection of the finest bird photography from around the world, presented by renowned ornithologist David Allen Sibley and sourced from Instagram's inspiring photographer community We love birds, but they can be tricky to photograph. Enter the expert avian photographers of Instagram who are uploading astounding captures of beauty and wit to be viewed on your phone screen. Posting from all corners of the globe, this new generation of image-makers has raised the bar and then some with their technically brilliant, characterful portraits. br But on small screens, a good many subtle features are hard to take in. This book showcases Instagram's go .. | Scroggy educates readers on threatened and endangered species, while advancing the mission of wildlife conservation. Part photographic documentary, part call to action, A Collection of Low Country Birds pays homage to the extr ..
National Wildlife Federation(r) Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife, Expanded Second Edition
by Mizejewski, David
From renowned National Wildlife Federation naturalist and TV host David Mizejewski comes a new book to show you how to create a magical ecosystem right in your backyard Invite beautiful songbirds, colorful butterflies, buzzing bees and other fascinating wildlife by nurturing a wildlife habitat garden. With more than 200 high-quality photographs, lists of the best native plants to support wildlife and 17 gardening projects the whole family can enjoy, from building bird houses to creating garden ponds, Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife, Expanded Second Edition is a must-have resource for nature enthusiasts, gardeners, and animal lovers. ..
Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation
by Maclear, Kyo
A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this intimate and exuberant meditation on creativity and life--a field guide to things small and significant. When it comes to birds, Kyo Maclear isn't seeking the exotic. Rather she discovers joy in the seasonal birds that find their way into view in city parks and harbors, along eaves and on wires. In a world that values big and fast, Maclear looks to the small, the steady, the slow accumulations of knowledge, and the lulls that leave room for contemplation. A distilled, crystal-like companion to H is for Hawk , Birds Art Life celebrates the particular madness of chasing after bird ..
The Enigma of the Owl: An Illustrated Natural History
by Unwin, Mike Tipling, David Angell, Tony
A rare invitation into the mysterious lives of owls around the world, with spectacularly revealing photographs and fascinating details "This book is sure to delight any nature lover."-- Wall Street Journal "Thank you, David Tipling, for the sumptuous, endearing and terrifying photographs of these uncanny creatures. . . . And Mike Unwin's authoritative descriptions of the owl way of life are fascinating."--Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review Perhaps no other creature has so compelling a gaze as the owl. Its unblinking stare mesmerizes; its nocturnal lifestyle suggests secrets and mystery. This lavishly illustrated book celebrates owls from ev ..
by Wilson, Helen F.
A tuneful natural and cultural history of this globally renowned songbird. The robin is a small bird with a distinctive ruddy breast, at once a British national treasure and a bird with a global reputation. In this superbly illustrated account, Helen F. Wilson looks at many aspects of the cherished robin, from its status as a harbinger of seasonal change and, in the United Kingdom, an icon of Christmas, to its place in fairy tales, environmental campaigns, and scientific discovery. In moving between cultural and natural histories, Robin asks wide-ranging questions, such as how did the robin's name travel the world? Why is the robin so melancholy? Who was Co ..
Loons: The Iconic Waterbirds
Celebrate the lives of common loons with this collection of photographs and information by award-winning author and wildlife photographer Stan Tekiela. Their stunning beauty inspires us. Their haunting calls fill us with nostalgia. Loons remind us of joyful days at the lake, of time spent with family. Their arrival each spring signals the end of winter and that warmer days are ahead. Award-winning author, naturalist, and wildlife photographer Stan Teki | 760 |
Report: Grubhub considers sale as competition intensifies
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Big changes could be coming to the food delivery business, where companies have been struggling with high costs and fickle consumers.
Grubhub Inc. — the second-largest player in the U.S. market by sales — is considering putting itself up for sale, The Wall Street Journal reported late Wednesday, sending shares up almost 13%. The stock continued to climb 1% to $55.33 Thursday on the news.
Chicago-based Grubhub said it would not comment on speculation.
Grubhub, founded in 2004, was a pioneer in the sector. But since then, it's been joined by Uber Eats, DoorDash, Postmates and others. As of November, DoorDash claimed 37% of the U.S. delivery market, while Grubhub held 30%, according to Second Measure, a data analysis company. Uber Eats had 20% share.
Still, Grubhub is the leader in some key markets, including New York, Chicago and Boston.
The companies are finding that customers jump freely between services to find the best deal, making it difficult to deliver stable sales numbers. Aggressive discounting and heavy marketing costs to win new users have also taken a toll on profits.
Grubhub has also<|fim_middle|> likely buyer if Grubhub is sold, since it has the most cash. But he cautioned that U.S. regulators could oppose such a deal.
The difficult environment has given some businesses pause. In October PostMates postponed plans to become a publicly traded company, saying the conditions were not favorable.
Grubhub has said it hopes to double the number of restaurants on its platform by the end of 2020 by expanding a pilot program that included non-partnered restaurants. The company has admitted the new strategy contradicts its philosophy of delivering only for partnered restaurants and that it was not in the company's best interests long-term, but that it's an efficient way to keep current customers and lure new ones.
In August, Panera began offering delivery through Grubhub and other third parties, but it uses its own drivers. Dan Wegiel, Panera's chief growth and strategy officer, said the industry is still trying to figure out how delivery can be profitable for restaurants and delivery companies yet still appealing to consumers.
"The equilibrium of pricing and profit in this space has not found its center," he said. "Someone has to shoulder the cot of delivery, and I don't think we've settled on who that is."
Luke Mogelson, a veteran war correspondent and contributing writer for The New Yorker, captured what appears to be the "clearest" footage yet of the deadly riot at the United States Capitol earlier this month.Mogelson attended (in a journalistic capacity) President Trump's rally on Jan. 6, which preceded the pro-Trump mob's march to and breach of the capitol. He followed the rioters into the building and filmed a group that entered the empty Senate chamber. They began taking photos of documents in the room as part of a self-declared "information operation." One man said he was attempting to find something that he could "use against these scumbags," while another said he thought Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) "would want us to do this."> This video from @NewYorker is incredible. > > A man rifles through confidential Senate documents and says, "I think @tedcruz would want us to do this." pic.twitter.com/GowauKXpaq> > — Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 17, 2021In a later scene, Mogelson witnessed Jake Angeli, otherwise known as Q Shaman, sitting in Vice President Mike Pence's chair, as a lone Capitol Police officer tried unsuccessfully to get him to move. He also gathered footage from outside the Capitol, including a large crowd aggressively forcing its way into the building, as well as a man telling people around him to "start making a list, put all those names down" and "start hunting them down one by one."The New Yorker notes that although the footage was "not originally intended for publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to Mogelson's probing, illuminating" written feature. Read the full report here and watch the complete footage here.More stories from theweek.com 5 more scathing cartoons about Trump's 2nd impeachment How 'bewildered' Trump campaign aides would reportedly discreetly escape election challenge meetings The pandemic windfall
Lonnie Coffman, a Capitol protester from the backwoods of Alabama, represents the kind of threat that keeps crime fighters "up at night," a former FBI profiler said.
The white woman caught on tape getting into a physical altercation with a Black female security guard the evening before the Capitol riots lost her job at UMass Hospital. The termination occurred after her daughter went viral for exposing her identity on social media. On January 5th, Therese Duke and a group of pro-Trump protesters that included other family members were filmed harassing Ashanti Smith, a security guard working at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C.
Israel has vaccinated at least 25 percent of its population against the coronavirus so far, which leads the world and makes it "the country to country watch for herd effects from" the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, says infectious disease expert David Fishman. Recently, the case rate in Israel appears to have declined sharply, and while there could be a few reasons for that, it's possible the vaccination effort is beginning to play a role.> Israel's reproduction number appears to have declined rather sharply in recent days, with around 25% of the country vaccinated, and some additional percentage having at least partial immunity via prior infection. pic.twitter.com/sVyCYYd9dj> > — David Fisman (@DFisman) January 17, 2021One study from Clalit that was published last week reports that 14 days after receiving the first Pfizer-BioNTech shot, infection rates among 200,000 Israelis older than 60 fell 33 percent among those vaccinated compared to 200,000 from the same demographic who hadn't received a jab.At first glance, Fishman writes, that might seem disappointing since clinical trials suggested the vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. But he actually believes the 33 percent figure is "auspicious." Because vaccinated and non-vaccinated people are mingling, there could be "herd effects of immunization." In other words, when inoculated people interact with people who haven't had their shot, the latter individual may still be protected because the other person is. On a larger scale, that would drive down the number of infections among non-vaccinated people, thus shrinking the rate gap between the two groups. > Estimated vaccine efficacy is a function of relative risk of infection in the vaccinated...when there is indirect protection via herd effects, we expect efficacy estimates to decrease because the risk among unvaccinated individuals declines.> > — David Fisman (@DFisman) January 17, 2021More data needs to come in, and Fishman thinks "we'll know more" this week, but he's cautiously optimistic about how things are going.More stories from theweek.com 5 more scathing cartoons about Trump's 2nd impeachment How 'bewildered' Trump campaign aides would reportedly discreetly escape election challenge meetings The pandemic windfall
Trump administration carries out 13th and last execution
The Trump administration early on Saturday carried out its 13th federal execution since July, an unprecedented run that concluded just five days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who is an opponent of the federal death penalty.
She displayed "a round metallic object later identified as a Military Police Challenge Coin" and said she was part of law enforcement, police said.
Guatemalan security forces on Sunday used sticks and tear gas to beat back a large migrant caravan bound for the United States, just days before the advent of a new U.S. administration, which urged travelers to abandon the journey. Between 7,000 and 8,000 migrants, including families with young children, have entered Guatemala since Friday, authorities say, fleeing poverty and violence in a region hammered by the coronavirus pandemic and back-to-back hurricanes in November. A large section of the caravan clashed on a road early on Sunday with Guatemalan security officials, some 3,000 of whom had mustered by the village of Vado Hondo, about 55 km (34 miles) from the borders of Honduras and El Salvador.
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Jennifer Lopez clapped back at a commenter who accused the star of having Botox - again | been left out of some big deals. McDonald's began offering delivery through Uber Eats in 2017 but didn't add Grubhub as a partner until last fall. Chipotle has a partnership with DoorDash.
In October, Grubhub reported a third quarter profit of $1 million, down from $22.7 million in the prior year, even though its revenue rose by 30%.
At the time, GrubHub slashed its full-year revenue expectations and cautioned on competition, sending its shares tumbling 43%. In a letter to shareholders, Grubhub said customers have become "more promiscuous," using multiple delivery services.
And the services are fighting over a limited number of customers, for now. Delivery represents only about 3% of all restaurant orders, according to NPD Group, a market research firm. But that's expected to grow by double digits this year.
Consolidation has happened before in the delivery market. Grubhub merged with Seamless in 2013. DoorDash bought upscale service Caviar last spring. In Europe, rivals Takeaway.com and Just Eat are in the midst of a merger.
But Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak says more consolidation is necessary. A bigger company could optimize driver routes, rely less on discounting and make more deals with big chains, which pay lower rates.
"The runway is long, but generating cash flow in a highly competitive food delivery industry is challenging," Nowak said in a note to investors.
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'Five Goals As Sarpanch?': Candidates In Odisha Appear For Entrance Test Before Rural Polls
Shweta SengarUpdated on Feb 13, 2022, 13:25 IST
In a confidence-boosting exercise and understanding the aspirations of the candidates, residents of a tribal-dominated village in Sundergarh district in Odisha organised "oral and written<|fim_middle|> Parts': Flora Saini Recalls Her Abusive Relationship With A Producer | entrance tests" for all the sarpanch candidatesThe contestants said the exercise was conducted by the villagers of Malupada under Kutra Gram Panchayat in the district, where polling is scheduled to be held in the second phase on February 18Eight contestants for the sarpanch post turned up at the meeting and sat for the "entrance examination" that continued till 8 pm
In a confidence-boosting exercise and understanding the aspirations of the candidates, residents of a tribal-dominated village in Sundergarh district in Odisha organised "oral and written entrance tests" for all the sarpanch candidates.
The contestants said the exercise was conducted by the villagers of Malupada under Kutra Gram Panchayat in the district, where polling is scheduled to be held in the second phase on February 18.
All the nine aspirants were invited to a public meeting at a local school campus on Thursday, where they were told about the tests, a sarpanch candidate said.
Eight contestants for the sarpanch post turned up at the meeting and sat for the "entrance examination" that continued till 8 pm, he said.
Some of the test questions were the reasons for contesting the polls, five goals as a sarpanch aspirant, details of involvement in welfare activities, and information about villages and wards in the gram panchayat, another candidate said.
The results will be declared on February 17, he told PTI.
When contacted, Block Development Officer-cum-Block Election Officer, Rabinda Sethi, told PTI: "There is no official provision for this. I have heard about it, but nobody has lodged any formal complaint yet. If the matter comes up to me, we shall inquire." Over 2.79 crore voters are eligible to cast votes in the panchayat polls that will be held in five phases between February 16 and February 24. The counting of votes will take place from February 26-28.
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Universal Health Care and Renewable Energy will Save Our Economy
This is a piece about the economy and I am not an economist. It is then, an opinion piece, and I would welcome your comments on it. I have been thinking about this for quite some time.
Universal Health Care was a plank in the platform of Teddy Roosevelt in 1912, and the need to invest in clean, renewable energy has been a political football of sorts at least since the Oil Embargo of 1973. These are not new ideas. But, in the wake of the de-regulation of the banking industry, the disastrous trade agreements from NAFTA and CAFTA to the TPP, the mortgage industry meltdown and now, the revelation from the Panama Papers of how easy and de rigeur it has become for the wealthy individuals of this world to cheat their own national taxmen, our crumbling economy necessitates that bold changes be made to save our country from further economic collapse.
Economic collapse? But, but the government just said…. Yes, the government is routinely telling us that the economy is improving. It has gotten to the point where the government's proclamations echo the reports from the Front in Orwell's 1984. Charts and graphs and numbers backed by plenty of zeroes, yet the wallets and bank accounts of most middle and working class Americans continue to grow thinner. The Economy, it would seem, only applies to the wealth at the top of the mountain. We are standing here, open mouthed and waiting for the trickle down, but it ain't trickling.
(for more on Trickle Down Economics, see our prior article, Time For Some Trickle Up Economics)
Perhaps it is that we have been looking at the economy from the wrong end. Economists are well schooled, well paid folks, who often treat the rest of us as though we haven't been taught the secret handshake. The tendency is to look at the economy in vast numbers, too large for mere mortals to comprehend, and cloak all discussion in a form of econo-babble which explains little, guarantees nothing and leaves plenty of room for shrugs and head scratching later on. For real people, this is no way to understand the Economy. Looking at the Economy from the top down does us no good when we are at the bottom looking up.
The Economy is not a matter of GNP set against National Debt as reflected in a Provisional Budget subject to Line Item Veto. The Economy is the sensation that spreads up your spine just before you open your most recent credit card or heating bill. The Economy is deciding between feeding your children and paying your mortgage. The Economy is not national or global, it is intensely personal. And, in that sense, it is readily understandable to all of us. Economists? We don't need no stinkin' economists.
You see, the Economy, for the vast multitude of us, is as easy as pie. Your Economy is what you earn, plus what you have (assets), divided among what your financial obligations are. In that sense, your wealth is a pie and everything on which you need to spend that wealth are pieces of that pie, wedges if you will, of varying sizes.
I thought this article was about how universal health care and renewable energy will save our economy? It is. To see it, we need to embrace three essential ideas about our Economy.
At the core of this understanding is the first simple precept; the pie is the pie. What you have is what you have. If your income is not growing, your pie remains the same size. For many of us, if we look at our incomes in adjusted dollars, we are actually earning less than we were thirty years ago. Our pie is not getting bigger. As a result, no matter how many ways we slice it, we never end up with more pie. Unless we are doing fairly well, we seldom end up with leftovers.
Within this first aspect of understanding our Economy lie two other simple concepts, necessary vs. discretionary spending. In my view, there are five things that we have no choice but to allocate our financial resources toward:
Housing – rent or own, you need a safe place to get out of the elements
Food – we can not yet outsource eating – we have to do it ourselves
Energy – we need to heat and cool that shelter, plus get ourselves to and from work, for most of us either by car or public transportation – all of this requires energy
Health Care – for ourselves and our families, our good health goes a long way to make life worth living
Education – education is the key to making ourselves better able to increase the size of our own pie and make all other expenses easier to bear
We could argue that this is a simplistic view of our necessary spending, but there is an important unifier to these five items. Unless you own your own home or are purchasing it under a fixed rate mortgage, each of these expenses can, will, and is increasing without your ability to control it.
What we have to pay for food, energy, health care, and education has been rising steeply, for most of us, outpacing earnings. In one way of looking at it, if we considered those five items as the entire pie, we would see the wedges for food and energy increasing in size modestly, and health care and education increasing in size substantially. The wedge that we would label housing, would of necessity be getting smaller. We used to call this robbing Peter to pay Paul. When the housing bubble burst and the market crashed, it was revealed that mortgage companies had been engaged in what has come to be known as predatory lending, one aspect of which was that mortgages were being granted to people who lacked the financial resources to pay for them. That is the effect of the shrinking pie wedge. It is also the reason that the home you own will be losing value rather than gaining it, until the majority of people start to see an increase in the size of their pie.
Of course, our pie can not be cut just five ways. We have many other expenses as part of our daily lives, many of which we feel we can not do without, but which for the time being we will label as discretionary. Now, if you are reading this in your home, take a look around at all of the things that you have purchased: furniture, clothing, books, televisions, cooking utensils, cds, dvds, even your pets. The list could go on and on. All of these things are discretionary spending. For the purposes of this exercise, let us imagine five elements of discretionary spending: car maintenance, haircuts, restaurant dinners, remodeling and a new toaster.
As costs rise on our necessary expenditures, the pie changes shape and the wedges for our discretionary spending grow smaller. Every time you celebrate a birthday, your health insurance costs tick up a notch. Every time the market price for a barrel of oil rises, you pay more at the pump. Every year, the tuition at your college increases. Every time you head out to the grocery store, you wonder why the milk is getting more expensive. You can not change this world and you can also not reject this world out of hand. You inhabit this world and are committed to paying the price of it.
So the discretionary wedges get smaller. In our exercise, what does this mean? Perhaps you decide that you'll live with the dent in your front quarter panel or the long scratch along the passenger side of the car. Maybe you'll cut back on trips to the hair salon and only go every other month. Much as you'd like to, you'll opt to eat in more often and save restaurant outings for very special occasions. The deck out back will have to wait until next year. And the old toaster, well it still warms the bread, so you'll limp along with it. These are decisions each of us make every day.
But here is the second essential idea; your discretionary spending is the filling in someone else's pie. When you skip a haircut, the stylist does not get paid. That is an easy to understand, one for one transaction. When you don't go out to dinner, the restauranteur, wait staff, chef, line prep people and bus boys take a financial hit. When you hold off on building the deck, the carpenter and his helper don't get paid, and the lumber yard doesn't sell wood and screws. When you steer away from the body shop, the mechanics don't put in their hours and the replacement parts sit in stock. And when you don't buy the new toaster, the hardware store owner loses a sale and the manufacturer has one less reorder to fill.
The direct result of a growing loss of your discretionary spending is for other people in your own community to see their pies growing smaller, while their necessary expenditures continue to rise. As a result, their allotted wedges for discretionary spending shrink as well, and the ripple effect through the community and the nation spreads. In some cases, a factory that makes auto parts or toasters we'll say, the shrinkage of pie as experienced at a corporate level creates loss, which must be offset by a cutting of costs. One of the easiest costs to cut is labor, and another job is outsourced overseas. Now, that person who was making quarter panels or toasters has a pie that consists only of assets, not earnings, and it shrinks to nothing before their eyes.
Within the broader picture of the national Economy, those institutions that comprise our necessary expenditures continue to grow and, as a result, the economic forecast looks good. The health insurance industry, the fossil fuels industry, corporate agribusiness and big-education continue to gain traction. But more of the people in our communities are employed in thousands of smaller fields, which fall within the parameters of discretionary spending. There, the cuts in our discretionary pie wedges are resulting in a loss of well paying jobs or the demise of entire industries.
Whether we choose to think of it as a Local Economy with feedback loops or as an outpost in the Global Economy, it is easy to see that our own, personal Economy, is entwined with everyone else's. For our Economy to grow, others must contribute to our pie filling, as we do to theirs. And, when the wedges shift out of balance, all of our pies are subject to having a bite taken out of them.
For this reason, it is my contention that we need to shift part of our economic focus to creating universal health care and an energy system that is based on clean, renewable sources of energy. A reapportionment of pie wedge sizes will revitalize our economy.
Of course, we could make other, simpler arguments for these two items. Since we have the capability of providing fine health care to people in all stages of their lives, and since we function as a nation under the supposition that each of us is created equal, it stands to reason that each of us should by right have equal access to that fine health care (and at an equal cost). In the rest of the industrialized world, universal health care is the norm and is paid either through taxes or private health insurance, but in the latter case, the health insurance companies operate on a not-for-profit footing. The costs are substantially less than our own and the health care outcomes tend to be better because people feel more economically able to take advantage of what their systems have to offer.
Similarly, we could look at clean, renewable energy as a necessity as we own up to the reality of climate change. Carbon emissions must be cut now. Polluting of our waterways and our air must be curtailed now. Non-renewable energy is by its very definition unsustainable, yet we have already determined that energy is essential. We need a better plan.
Appeals to the morality of our energy providers and our health insurance carriers have fallen on deaf ears. They are not inclined to do what is right because it is right, not while a profit remains to be made. So, it is to our government that we must be able to turn, to do what is right because it is truly for the greater good.
Consider that by taking two of our necessary expenditures and shrinking their wedge size, all of the other wedges would have a little more breathing room, a little more room for expansion. In fact, if a universal health care system could bring the costs Americans pay for health care into line with that borne by people in other industrialized nations, that wedge of the pie would shrink to one half its current size.
Almost ten years ago, scientists in the solar energy field determined that an array of solar panels one hundred miles square (most likely in the western desert), could provide all of the energy needed by the entire country. Other industrialized nations, such as Germany, have already embraced solar technology as the energy of the future, and are putting up panels everywhere they can. Wind, water and geo-thermally produced power might even make us an exporter of clean energy. In many calculations, the United States remains the world's largest consumer of energy. As such, we could do much to curb the rate of climate change, and provide our people with an energy system whose costs would decline over time, rather than rise. Again, a wedge of the pie would first be stabilized and then it would shrink.
The result would be a more balanced pie, with leftovers. The last essential idea is simply this: economic growth depends on leftovers. This is a Demand Side, rather than a Supply Side concept. Starting from the vantage point of the consumer, rather than the provider, the leftovers are the key to growing the Economy. After all, what do you do with leftovers? You consume them. The leftover sections of our pie are unspent wealth and that wealth is what would wind up in the filling of ours and our neighbors' pies. Either by spending the money directly at the hair salon or body shop, investing it in the parts manufacturer or toaster factory, or contracting with the carpenter, the discretionary spending of those leftovers would pass through the pies of each of us, growing the size of our own pie, making the expenses we have to meet more bearable while allowing for economic stability and growth.
In the end, growth means a bigger pie for those of us who have waited too long for the trickle down. Growth, when viewed against a reduction in necessary spending, creates greater and greater degrees of discretionary spending. Greater discretionary spending (Demand) creates jobs. Growth means that the value of your home, the single largest asset that most middle and working class Americans possess, can rise again.
Universal health care and clean, renewable, sustainable energy, are essential components of our personal economy. They are a requirement, not just for the rebuilding of the wealth of the middle and working classes, but for the well being of the planet. Teddy Roosevelt saw this in 1912. The rest of us, waiting in line at gas stations in 1983, knew this day had to come. It's here.
Author John Q. PublicPosted on April 7, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags demand side economics, economics, renewable energy, universal health careLeave a comment on Universal Health Care and Renewable Energy will Save Our Economy
Time For Some Trickle Up Economics
Once we enter the general election season and its culmination in November's selection of our next President, the rhetoric will turn, as it always does, to the economy. At that point, we will be down to just two viable candidates, and it is important that the American public have the opportunity to decide from two different points of view on how best to grow that economy.
We can all see this one coming. The establishment politicians, particularly those on the right (and one Wall Street backer on the left), will call for a lessening of taxes on corporate America, because corporate leaders create jobs and Americans need jobs. Nonsense.
As they have since the Reagan era and what was then referred to as Supply Side Economics, the corporate establishment have lobbied for an ever lessening tax burden on the assumption that lower taxes on big business would allow said business to produce at greater levels, thus creating the room for a larger workforce and better pay. The wealth then, that would be consolidated in the upper echelon of corporate America, would trickle down to everyone below it. Those of us who have been running back and forth with our buckets to try to gather up this trickle, know otherwise. Trickle down economics has never worked and is built upon a basic economic fallacy.
While the establishment wants us to believe that wealth creates jobs, that jobs are created from the Supply side, nothing could be further from the truth. Jobs are created from the Demand side.
Imagine for a moment that there is a person who has grown up with a great love of history. Now, when he reaches adulthood, his real estate mogul father gifts him with a few billion spare smackeroos. This enterprising young lad decides then to go into business and, following his love of history, opens a factory producing authentic Roman War Chariots. These are the finest war chariots in the land, made of the finest materials available. His factory starts up and employs one hundred craftsmen. So far, so good for Supply side economics. There is just one problem. There is no Demand for authentic Roman War Chariots, with or without Corinthian leather appointments. He is instantly overstocked with a lifetime supply of a product no one wants, the factory has to be closed, workers laid off, and a bankruptcy filed (whew, at least there is a tax write off).
Jobs are not created by Supply, they are created by Demand. Yes, Henry Ford revolutionized American industry with the mass production of the automobile, but it was America's demand for the automobile that rationalized mass production in the first place. Had the Demand not been there, Henry Ford would be remembered as a fine craftsman of a limited line of a particular luxury item, manufactured in his three bay garage. Instead, that Demand made possible the growth of Detroit into a major economic power and put hundreds of thousands of people to work there, and millions more across the country in related fields.
Of course, like any field of endeavor into which the government steps, Supply Side Economics was further crippled by a series of horrifically bad trade agreements, starting with NAFTA and continuing today with the Trans Pacific Partnership. These deals allowed for the wealth at the top of the economic food chain to be trickled down, not to American workers, but to workers in foreign markets, because the same amount of goods could be manufactured there, that much more cheaply.
It is long past time to abandon Supply Side Economics and embrace Demand Side Economics.
Do Americans need jobs? No. Americans don't need jobs, they need good paying, meaningful jobs. They need jobs on which they can feed their families. They also need jobs which give them a sense of purpose within their communities, a sense of having an impact on their communities and on the lives of others within those communities.
Right now, the stagnation of our economy has become something of a death spiral. When consumers, the Demand side, have less money to spend, they have fewer opportunities to express Demand and influence the growth of Supply. Look at the growing job sectors in America. What are people buying? Fast food, cell phone apps and cheap housewares. When Wal-Mart is the largest employer in America, selling cut-rate junk products from third world manufacturers and paying starvation wages to part-time employees, it is easy to see that there is increasingly limited opportunity for Demand to influence Supply. Demand is struggling to make ends meet, to keep the lights on. Right now, Demand hasn't the capital to create jobs and Supply knows that its customers can only support a meaningless, low-rent service economy.
If, instead of consolidating the wealth at the top of the ladder, we spread it out among the lower rungs, the consumer would do what consumers have always done, spend that money as an expression of Demand. Then, the enterprising young lad with the Chariot backlog, could retool his factory to produce the products or deliver the services that people actually want. And, since people have different tastes and different needs, the more money that is put in the pockets of consumers, the more varied a Demand will be created. This is what led to the rise of American industry in the first place, an insatiable demand from a populace with more money to spend than was required to meet their basic needs.
So, how do we turn the tables on the economy and shift to a Demand Side economic model? Abandon the trade agreements which have consigned our workforce to meaningless jobs in a Wal-Mart paradise. Support middle and working class Americans with legislation for better wages and with a lessened tax burden, so they have more money to spend. Close tax loopholes for the large corporate concerns and put that money into creating good paying jobs which can't be outsourced (like rebuilding our infrastructure). Create incentives for American corporations to stay at home, paying American workers to build quality goods and provide quality services. Educate our young people so they can perform in better paying fields of endeavor. And yes, provide affordable health care to all Americans, so that the out of pocket costs of their health care are minimized. They will gladly allow that extra cash to burn a hole in their pockets, exercising their Demand and creating the need for an increased Supply.
This fall, we will have a choice of two candidates to lead this country. We all know the level of economic stagnation in which the middle and working classes have been struggling for close to forty years. We also know that one political party will back a nominee who will work to continue a failed system of Trickle Down Economics. We can not afford to have two nominees embracing that same nonsensical ideal.
Put the People first. Put the economy in the hands of those people. Demand will show us the new industrial models. Supply will still make money if it is smart enough to recognize the Demand. Better jobs and healthier communities will follow. And don't worry, Corporate America, the wealth will trickle up to you.
Author John Q. PublicPosted on April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags economics, general election, service economy, trade, trickle down1 Comment on Time For Some Trickle Up Economics
Want to Change the World? Get Off Your Couch and Vote!
There is an old saying that you get what you pay for. In the world of politics, that might better be said as you get the candidate that someone else has paid for. But it need not be that way. Setting aside for a moment the issues of election fraud and voter suppression that have mired this campaign season in the mud, it remains the case that we can have the candidate for whom the majority of us vote. What is very important to understand is just how few of us act to make that decision.
Most Americans who pay attention to the political world already know that our electorate has a certain notoriety for not showing up to actually vote. In our best general election tallies, barely 57% of registered voters actually make it to the polls. In the primaries, you can cut that percentage in half.
This campaign season, much of the talk in the main stream media has focused on the record turnouts on both sides of the political aisle. Coupled with images from Arizona, Massachusetts and Michigan of long lines queuing up to polling stations, the concerned viewer might think that the political revolution of 2016 is at long last drawing vast numbers of Americans into the political process. Not so. Thus far, and calculated on a state by state basis, the Republican primaries have drawn out 17.3% of all eligible voters and the Democratic primaries 11.7%. Combined then, only 29% of eligible voters from the states which have already held their primary polling have actually made it out to vote. By extension, by the time that we get around to the general election in November, less than one third of our eligible voters will have determined the candidates between whom all of us have to choose.
And this is a record year for voting! The Republicans' 17.3% represents their highest total since 1980 and the Democrats' 11.7% their highest since 1992. When many of us ask, rhetorically, "Is this the best we can do?," the answer is certainly "yes," if we rely on a small portion of the electorate to get out and do the dirty work of voting.
When we look at a candidate like Donald Trump, who is seemingly running away with the Republican nomination, he is doing so (presently) with about 34% of the 17.3% who actually come out to vote. In other words, Trump has roughly 6% of the population of eligible voters behind him and he is very likely to become the Republican nominee.
Is this an aberration of some sort? No. In 2012, Mitt Romney won 30 states, the District of Columbia and the Republican nomination with a combined total of only 9.8 million votes. That number represented a turnout of just 5.1% of the eligible voters during that cycle's primaries.
Why do so many people let so few determine whom our leaders will be? The short answer must encompass laziness and disinterest on the part of the voter. But equally significant as a cause of poor voter turnout is voter suppression. The small turnouts in our primary seasons are nothing new. So, the question becomes, how do I win with a small amount of voter support? The answer, simply enough, is to do all that you can to maximize your voters while discouraging your opponents' voters from taking part in the process.
In this cycle, it appears that the Clinton campaign, in collusion with the DNC, has done a far better job of getting their own vote out (often through early voting mail-in programs), while making it harder for Senator Sanders and Governor O'Malley to maximize their own voters. The dramatically reduced number of polling stations in Maricopa County, voters who were mysteriously re-registered as Republicans or Independents, a bomb threat to the hotline headquarters for voter issues, letters directing Washington voters to the wrong caucus sites, running out of ballots in Florida by noon time, all of these are examples of ways in which the vote was overtly suppressed.
More insidious perhaps is the suppression of the vote by the main stream media. Between endlessly proclaiming the Clinton campaign to be farther ahead in delegates than they actually are and calling the vote in Arizona with only 1% of it in, the media created a reason for people who had been standing in line for five hours to just pack it in and go home. These are textbook examples of a carefully coordinated voter suppression program. Interestingly enough, every instance of voter suppression and election fraud has served to help the same candidate. Coincidence?
But here you are, frustrated and longing to do your civic duty. You should be. While we can argue all day that the process of voting should be simple, fair and available to all eligible Americans, it is not going to be, so long as the people calling the shots remain the people calling the shots. It is incumbent upon all of us to work harder to exercise our right to vote, so that those who would suppress our vote have to work that much harder themselves. Right now, we are making it far too easy for monied interests and national committees to rig the election.
First, ignore the hype from the media and the national committees. The media is owned by corporations which share a hip pocket with the Super Pacs of the front runners and the committees themselves. They are nothing more than mouthpieces for whomever pays them the most money. They are mercenaries or, less politely, whores. The purpose of the media is to disseminate misinformation in a coordinated effort to maintain the establishment by suppressing grass roots efforts to effect change.
Second, ignore the polls. The vast majority of polling in the United States is done by telephone and the costs to do so are kept down through the use of predictive dialers and robo-callers. The problem is that it is illegal under FCC statutes to use a predictive dialer or a robotic calling device to call a cellular phone. That must still be done by hand, in a costly and time-consuming fashion. Therefore, well in excess of 90% of telephone polling is done exclusively to land lines and some 40% of our population no longer has a land line to call. That same 40% is also reflective of a younger demographic, so the polls tend to be skewed toward older voters.
Third, research the facts about the candidates. It is easier than you might think. Remember, campaign rhetoric is just that. It is a lot of sturm und drang, vague promises and idle threats. What the candidates promise is infinitely less significant than what they produce. Go to your browser and search for a candidate's name and legislative record. This will show you just what legislation that candidate has actually authored (sponsored) and what legislation of theirs has been passed into law. The latter is significant as it tends to show the candidate's ability to work across the aisle, essential to getting anything done in Washington.
Fourth, make sure you are properly registered. Try doing a search online for your county and state and voter registration. From there, you should be able to determine just how you are registered in the eyes of your state. There have been far too many instances of voter suppression by reassigning registration to the wrong party or to an Independent status in states which do not allow Independents to vote in primaries. Check that too! If you are an Independent, change your registration to reflect the party of the candidate you prefer, so that you can be sure to be able to vote in your state's primary.
It might look like more work, but if you ignore the hype and ignore the polls, you will find that you have more time to research the candidates and check on your registration.
Lastly, get out to vote. Make the time and you can make the difference. Do not let anyone convince you that your vote does not count. When the turnout is so low, each vote carries that much more weight. When John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency in 1960, he did so because he won the state of Illinois. And he won the state of Illinois by less than 9000 votes. Your vote matters. Your vote could change the world.
Remember, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Voter suppression tactics are about shutting people up and shutting them out. Exercise your right. Vote. Your voice will be heard, loud and clear.
On the 2016 Primary voting:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/08/so-far-turnout-in-this-years-primaries-rivals-2008-record/
On the JFK election:
http://stonezone.com/article.php?id=391
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 31, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags Clinton campaign, DNC, Donald Trump, primary voting, voter suppressionLeave a comment on Want to Change the World? Get Off Your Couch and Vote!
Super Delegate Math or Myth?
As the primary season continues to unfold, the DNC and their affiliated main stream media remains insistent on counting Super Delegates pledged to Hillary Clinton among her actual, earned delegates for the convention in Philadelphia this summer. And, while the social media networks are abuzz with chatter about how these Super Delegates will actually vote, what is not addressed accurately is just how they are already influencing the primary process.
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is on record, having defined the purpose of the Super Delegates as a means by which the party will not be held accountable to a "grass roots insurgency." In other words, the voting block that is the Super Delegates is there to turn the tables on the will of the voters, should that will not reflect in lock step the will of the party elders. So it is that by the outset of the primary season, the Super Delegates pledged in support of Hillary Clinton gave her the illusion of having far outdistanced her opponents and of having already started the process of running away with the election. Strategically, this remains a key component of the Clinton campaign.
However, nothing could be further from the truth. The function of the Super Delegates is twofold. First, they can serve as a tie breaker in the event that neither candidate arrives at the convention with enough delegates to win the nomination outright, and that after the second ballot and the attendant "horse trading" between the candidates, the balloting is perceived as hopelessly deadlocked. Second, they can serve the function of adding authority to the delegate totals of a winning nominee who managed to win by less than convincing numbers. Such was the case in 1984, when the Super Delegates chose Walter Mondale over Gary Hart for the nomination. Neither of the candidates had arrived with enough delegates to claim the nomination outright, but Mondale had about 500 more than Hart and the addition of the Super Delegates put him over the top and did so in a way that made his victory appear more decisive.
1984 was also the first and last time that the Super Delegates even voted in any meaningful way. In subsequent elections, the candidate either arrived with enough delegates earned in the primary balloting to claim the nomination or, horse trading after the first ballot was cast broke the deadlock and the nominee emerged. In the former instance, the Super Delegates served as a cheering section which put their weight behind the nominee, to show support for the people's choice. The latter case was exemplified in 2008 when Hillary Clinton suspended her campaign, allowing Barrack Obama to go through as the nominee. Trailing Obama in a close race, the Super Delegates could have been used to swing the election to Clinton. But, had they done so, it would have meant overturning the will of the electorate, and would certainly have had major repercussions in the general election. Instead, back room negotiations secured the Secretary of State post for Hillary and she agreed to bide her time on the presidency.
Now, in 2016, the looming presence of the Super Delegates is again suggesting that the will of the electorate may be undone at the convention. As in 2008, this would be disastrous for the Democratic party. Today, in terms of earned delegates to the convention in Philadelphia, Hillary stands at 1243 and Bernie Sanders at 980. Only 263 earned delegates separate the two candidates, with seventeen states yet to vote and a cloud hanging over the election in Arizona which may yet rain on Hillary's parade. Over two thousand delegates are still available, spread across those seventeen states, and the voting trend recently has significantly favored the Sanders campaign. There is a very strong likelihood that Senator Sanders will arrive in Philadelphia with more earned delegates than Secretary Clinton.
Will the Super Delegates overturn the will of the people and hand the nomination to Hillary Clinton? If their concern is genuinely with the general election, they will assuredly not disenfranchise half of their base. This has been a tight race so far and will quite possibly remain so. The two candidates could arrive in Philadelphia with a fairly even split of the delegates and a lot of bitterness between their two camps. But, if the Super Delegates are required to break the deadlock, they would be well advised to side with whomever arrives with the most earned delegates. If not, and if they choose Hillary as most say they will, Bernie Sanders' supporters will possibly exit the party en masse.
To arrive at that conclusion, we have to look at just who his supporters are. They represent the progressive wing of what was once a progressive party, a group of Democratic lifers who already feel that they have been abandoned by the DNC. His supporters are also Independents and their voting block will be key to the election. Independent voters now represent about 40% of the electorate and if they come to the conclusion that their votes were nullified by the DNC, their lack of a lifelong commitment to the party will manifest itself in a mass exodus. They will sit on their hands in November and look for another party entirely come 2020. His voters are also young people, the voting block which will grow and age with the party over time. If the Democrats lose them now, they may never get them back.
So why is such a fuss being made over the Super Delegates, who have not even voted yet, may never vote at all, and almost certainly would not vote to overturn the will of the electorate? The truth is that what the Super Delegates do best, is to suppress the vote. Their function is to convince the grass roots voters that their candidate hasn't a chance, to give up and just stay home. If they are successful in doing that, then the grass roots movement dies on the vine and the establishment candidate goes through without the Super Delegates ever needing to cast a deciding vote. The problem this year is those pesky progressives, independents and young people. They have had enough of establishment politics, enough of DNC posturing, and enough of Hillary Clinton's promises of incremental change. They are staying the course, staying true to Bernie Sanders, and are becoming more entrenched in their own beliefs with each successive instance of election rigging.
To date, every single instance of that rigging has benefitted Secretary Clinton. Most recently, the misadventure that was the primary in Arizona combined election fraud which forced voters to stand on line for five and six hours, with an election result which was called with only one percent of the vote in. When you have created in the mind of the voter the idea that Hillary is already within reach of the nomination due to her backing from the Super Delegates, announce that a given primary has already been decided, and force voters to choose between voting and possibly losing their jobs, it is no wonder that many voters broke from the ranks of the ballot lines and went home.
While no one can say definitively that Hillary was behind it, she is the one who benefited from it. That is enough. And, in what is perhaps the most telling aspect of the election fraud, the scope of it is rising as it becomes more obvious that the electorate is not willing to be buffaloed by the promises of the Super Delegates. This has been made abundantly clear by the protests of the voters in Arizona, who refuse to be denied their rights. They have their candidate, they followed the rules and their votes were not counted. The blame lies with the DNC and local officials who have clearly conspired to rig the process. But Sanders' supporters have remained firm and have taken to the streets. Rather than staying home, Bernie Sanders' supporters are essentially drawing a line in the sand and daring the DNC and the Super Delegates to step across it.
The Super Delegates though, remain firm in their vocal support of Hillary, even in instances where the primary results in their own states favored Sanders by over 70%. Why? It goes back to whether or not the focus is on winning the general election. It is possible (though doubtful) that the Democratic party leadership would prefer to lose the election rather than adjust their mode of operation to support a Bernie Sanders presidency. Remember, campaigns and parties run on the fuel that is money. Lots of it. Many of the Super Delegates are themselves elected officials. They will need to run for re-election, or may have aspirations of moving up the elected office ladder. This too, will require lots of money. Hillary represents the establishment, the status quo, and with that, lobbyists and Super Pacs and lots of soft money to fuel campaigns and buy media outlets. Bernie is committed to removing the influence of big money from electing our representatives to Washington. Without that big money, without the backing of the main stream media, many incumbents will soon be out of jobs.
In the end, the actions of the Super Delegates will tell us everything we need to know about the Democratic party for at least the next generation. If Bernie Sanders arrives in Philadelphia with more earned delegates than Hillary Clinton and the Super Delegates rise in support of him, it will validate and welcome the progressives, the independents and the young voters to the fold, solidify the base, and quite likely prove overwhelming to the Republican candidate. If they decide instead to pull the rug out from under Bernie and his supporters, the backlash will cripple the Democratic party, cost them the general election and, in all likelihood, cement the hold the Republicans have on the House of Representatives. Imagine what a president like Trump or Cruz might accomplish.
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 30, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags Bernie Sanders, DNC, election fraud, Hillary Clinton, super delegatesLeave a comment on Super Delegate Math or Myth?
Are We Willing to Pay the Price for Our Freedom?
As the election process inches forward, we are once again faced with allegations of election fraud and voter suppression. The primary yesterday in Arizona was an outright disgrace. A state in which one county (Maricopa) had witnessed 300,000 people come out to vote at 200 polling stations during the 2008 election cycle, was unprepared to handle the estimated 800,000 who came out yesterday to only 60 polling stations. Voters stood for five and six hours on line, only to find that once again, insufficient numbers of ballots were on hand. Once again, registered voters found that their political affiliation had mysteriously changed or that they had been dropped from voter rolls altogether. Once again, provisional ballots were handed out though it was indicated to voters that these ballots would not be counted. And the Media called the election by 10:00p.m. eastern time, with just 1% of the vote in, while voters were still lined up for blocks at 1:30a.m.
These are the same problems which plagued the primaries in Florida (where some thirteen precincts had run out of ballots by noon), North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio, Utah, Idaho, Missouri, Massachusetts, and just about every state the Clinton campaign has notched as a victory. Oddly enough, a large proportion of Hillary's supporters have been instructed to vote early, by mail, and avoid the entire precinct voting process.
But there have been instances of Republican election rigging as well, namely Ted Cruz's efforts to convince voters in Iowa that Ben Carson was dropping out of the race. Yesterday, in Mormon Utah, a Super Pac supporting Ted Cruz ran an ad featuring a nude Melania Trump with the tag-line, "Meet Melania Trump, your next First Lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday." I have absolutely no love for Donald Trump, but attacking someone's family in this manner is gutless, classless, despicable and cowardly. And whether or not it was authorized by him, Ted Cruz will have to own that characterization from here on out.
One interesting element to the dirty politics we are seeing from both sides, is that it has originated with the establishment candidates. Neither Sanders' nor Trump's campaigns have been accused of attempting to rig the elections. The DNC, on the other hand, has been complicit in nearly every effort to suppress the vote of Democrats who would largely be supporting Bernie Sanders (if Hillary's supporters have voted early and in enough numbers, you could suppress everyone on election day and almost guarantee a win for the Clintons). The RNC has openly suggested that they might need to run a third party candidate to stop Trump, and has dragged Mitt Romney out of mothballs to do their dirty work.
How should we read this? To express the conditions surrounding our current election process in their simplest terms, the Establishment on both sides is actively working to suppress the will of the people to make a change in the status quo of our government. The Establishment is utterly out of touch with the voters of this country. When Trump and Sanders began their campaigns, each was scoffed at by their respective party elders. Each was seen as something of a<|fim_middle|> the war effort, and a booming economic forecast. Think not? Remember that World War II brought this country out of the Great Depression.
If this election is bringing revolution to America, our saving grace may be that it appears we will at least have a choice. We can overhaul the engine from within or we an drive off the lot in a shiny new convertible, paid for in the misery of generations to come. If we make the peaceful revolution impossible, we might make the violent revolution inevitable.
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 17, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, political revolution, primary politicsLeave a comment on Time to Choose Your Revolution
Putting Some Perspective on Income Inequality
A number of different campaign strategies have evidenced themselves during this presidential election cycle. Among the Republicans, much, if not most of the campaigning has been focused on the need to undo everything President Obama has done, and to insult anyone who holds a different idea or who may have smaller hands than yourself. For Hillary Clinton, her primary strategy has been one of touting her years of experience, while distancing herself from what she actually said and did during those years of experience.
Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, has spent a great deal of his campaign energy on the issue of income inequality in America and its impact upon the middle and working classes of this country. He has expressed a number of plans for the country, chief among which are implementing a single payer health care system, creating a massive infrastructure rebuilding program to put many Americans back to work in meaningful jobs, and creating a program whereby our young people could go to state colleges and universities, tuition free.
Many pundits and the Clinton campaign have gone out of their way to say that Sanders' ideas are unworkable, and on the surface it is very clear that they would indeed be costly. So, as a matter of gaining some perspective on this, it is illustrative to actually break down some numbers and see how some aspect of his ideas could be made to work.
In a recent campaign video from Bernie Sanders on the nature of income inequality in America, he pointed out that the wealthiest fifteen people in America have seen their wealth increase by a combined total of $170 billion dollars in just the past two years. Let us come to a deeper understanding of that.
For starters, who are these people? According to Forbes Magazine, the wealthiest people in America are, in order: Bill Gates (Microsoft), Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway), Larry Ellison (Oracle), David & Charles Koch (energy interests), Christy, Jim, Alice and S. Robson Walton (Walmart), Michael Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sheldon Adelson (casino mogul), Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google).
Did they really see their wealth increase by $170 billion dollars? According to Statista.com, yes they did. We think of their increase in wealth, rather than in earnings, because "earnings" has the suggestion of wealth gained through work. For people in this income bracket, their money comes from many sources, most of which are outside of what we would traditionally think of as "working for a living." Essentially, their net worth as reported in 2013 was set against their net worth in 2015 and the difference was a gain of $170 billion dollars.
Now, you might think that these people pay out a tremendous percentage of their net worth in taxes, but, according to Forbes Magazine, their Fortune 400 pay on average about 22.9% of their income to the IRS. That is less than the income tax rate on a single person earning $38,250 per year (remember when Warren Buffet said that he pays less by percentage in taxes than his secretary?).
For the purposes of discussion, let us look at this in a different light altogether. First, we'll divide that $170 billion dollar figure in half and call it one year's earnings, $85 billion dollars. Then, let's imagine that we are taxing that income at a rate of 90%.
If we taxed $85 billion dollars at a 90% rate, the tax collected would be $76.5 billion and the amount retained by the wealthiest fifteen people in America would be $8.5 billion. Divide that evenly among the wealthiest fifteen and each would see a net increase in their earnings of just $565 million. That is quite a chunk of change, lost to the taxman. How would the wealthiest fifteen survive?
Well, if Bill Gates or Alice Walton or Charles Koch were to go into full on panic mode, and determine that he or she might never be able to work again, that $565 million could be stashed in one of the safest investments going, a United States Government Treasury Note. Now, these notes pay only a very modest return, but they are backed by the federal government and as safe an investment as you can get. Currently, they have a yield of 4.625% interest per year. So, if $565 million was stashed in your name in a Government T-Note, and you were to live on the interest from it, never adding another dime to your savings, what would you get per year? The answer is $26 million, 131 thousand, 250 dollars per year, every year.
Could you eke it out on $26 million a year?
The first part of putting income inequality into perspective is this. If we took from the fifteen wealthiest people in America 90% of their earnings and forced them to survive on the interest alone from the investing of the 10% left to them, they would each still earn more in a year than the overwhelming majority of Americans could dream of earning in a lifetime.
Now, what of that $76.5 billion in tax that was collected?
In a simple equation, let's assume that every penny of it was to be spent on providing free college tuition to students attending public (rather than private) state colleges and universities. In 2015, the average cost of tuition and fees to in-state students at public stage colleges and universities was $9,410 per year. The cost for same to out of state students was $23,893. If we divide the tax collected by the cost of the tuition, we get the number of students who could attend college, free of charge. In this example, those "in-state" students would number 8 million, 129 thousand, 649.
So, the second part of putting income inequality into perspective is this. If we as a nation determined that it was in the best interests of the country to educate our young people as fully as possible, so that they might take on leadership roles in business, science, medicine, education, government and the arts (!), and through their leadership, better support the rest of us as we slip into middle and old age, we could send over eight million of them per year to college, tuition free, on the taxes levied against just fifteen people.
Think that a 90% tax bracket is too high? Remember the lyric to George Harrison's song from 1966, "Taxman":
"Let me tell you how it will be, there's one for you, nineteen for me"
One for you and nineteen for me (the Taxman), is a tax rate of 95%, what the Beatles were paying in England in the mid 1960's. AND THEY STILL GOT RICH!
In fact, in the United States, the wealthiest income bracket between the years 1944 and 1963, had a tax rate which vacillated between 90% and 92%. And what was the cut-off point? Two hundred thousand dollars. So, if you earned $200,000 in 1960, your tax liability was $180,000 of it. That would leave you with just $20,000, but in 1960, $20,000 was roughly four times what an average school teacher earned per year, and three times what your average NFL star earned. In other words, you would still be very well off.
In 1964, that tax rate dropped to 77% (still on $200K and up) and then to 70% as a top tax rate on the $100K and up bracket from 1965 until 1981. In 1981, the tax rate for the wealthiest Americans dropped to 50% and it has continued to decline until today, where it stands at 39.6%. Of course, that tax rate is on W-2 reported earnings, not on dividends, and it is set against various write-offs and tax havens. This is why Forbes reports that the wealthiest four hundred people in America only pay about 23% of their earnings in taxes.
In the illustration of what taxing the wealthiest members of our society would do to provide for free tuition to public colleges, we looked at just fifteen people. Bernie Sanders refers to the top 1% of our income earners, a group of people who collectively earn more than the bottom 90% combined. If we get our priorities straight and make the wealthiest people in America pay their FAIR share (and it need not be as much as 90%), they would still be rich beyond our wildest dreams, and our country would be able to provide for its citizens and our own future.
Disregard the rhetoric; look at the candidates' records. And by all means, do the math. That is why we send you for a free public education.
The Richest People in America:
http://www.statista.com/statistics/201426/the-richest-people-in-america/
How Much the Richest People in America Make:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/31/news/economy/richest-americans/
Information on T-Bonds, T-Notes and T-Bills:
http://www.thesimpledollar.com/making-sense-of-treasury-securities-treasury-bills-notes-and-bonds/
Cost of a College Education:
http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_payarticle_tmpl.jhtml?articleId=10064
Federal Tax Rates by Year:
http://taxfoundation.org/article/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 15, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags Bernie Sanders, economics, free college tuition, income inequality, IRS tax rates, wealthiest AmericansLeave a comment on Putting Some Perspective on Income Inequality
The Role of Judgement & the Other Government
Today, I was reminded of a conversation I had had with one of my sons, when he was about seven years old.
"Dad," he said, "what is government?"
Of course, as an adult I knew that government is a very complex organism, but I tried to give the seven year old a basic understanding of it.
"Well, government is a group of people whom the rest of us choose to go to a special meeting place and work with each other to express our wishes for how to change the country and keep making it the best place it can be for us to live. And, since the rest of us don't agree all the time on what changes need to be made, we send these people, called representatives, to talk to each other, argue out the details and try to come up with solutions that benefit everyone."
"Okay. And what if we don't get what we want?"
"We can change the person whom we send to speak for us. We do that in an election, every few years."
"Okay. So Florida sends a person, and Pennsylvania sends a person, and Texas sends a person?"
"Right. Every state sends people to speak for them in the government."
"And France and England send people?"
"Well, no, the government is for the people from the fifty states and a few other places, like Puerto Rico and Guam and the Virgin Islands."
"How do England and France get what they want? I mean, from us?"
"Well, we have this part of the government, called the State Department, and their job is to work with the governments of other countries, to make friends where they can, and to make sure that American people and American businesses are safe and protected by the governments of other countries when they are living or working there."
"Okay. But we choose the people in the State Department, right?"
"Umm, no, some of the people in the State Department are there because it is a job that they were hired to do by the other people that we did send to the government. And some of the people, the leaders at the State Department, are given their jobs by the President that we elect."
"But the State Department does what we want it to do. Right?"
"That's the idea. But truthfully, we often don't really know what the State Department is doing. A lot of it is kept kind of quiet."
Thinking this way, trying to take a complex issue and boil it down to its essential components, makes you realize how onion-like our government really is. In that sense of layers upon layers, we get to vote for a President or a representative to Congress, and we are somehow led to believe that these are the people at the center of the government. It might be argued that they represent only the outermost layer. What is inside the onion, hidden at the core, are the layers of government who are appointed, hired into the mailroom and brought up through the ranks, or given a position out of nepotism or the sense of a favor owed. And it is these people, people who do not answer directly to the voters of this country, who do the bidding of the government behind the scenes, the Other Government.
Of course, they answer to the people we elect (or at least, that is the plan). But we often fail to get "progress reports" from our elected officials. And so, much of what they do, behind the scenes, is also under the radar, and not necessarily in our best interests.
Of chief concern to most of us, would be the actions of the FBI / Homeland Security and the State Department / CIA. As citizens, we want to know that our guaranteed freedoms remain guaranteed, so we want to keep tabs on the FBI and Homeland Security Departments and their surveillance of or spying into our own affairs. And it is with the State Department that we need to know that their actions are making the world safer for Americans to inhabit, both at citizens and as business people. The CIA? Well, that has become a whole 'nother kettle of fish, entirely.
In recent weeks, and particularly since the addition of Representative Tulsi Gabbard to the Bernie Sanders campaign, the issue of judgement in terms of our foreign policy has come to the fore. We have already heard from the Republican side of the aisle, in the form of Ted Cruz and Donald Trump and their plans to "carpet bomb" or "bomb the shit out of" ISIS. As an expression of foreign policy, it is direct, to say the least. It also is manifestly illegal by any and all International Conventions on war.
Recently, Donald Trump had stated that he would ramp up the use of torture as a means of leveling the playing field between us and ISIS, and that the military would follow his orders to torture prisoners and even murder the families of terrorists. They won't. The United States military swears an allegiance to the Constitution, not the President. They follow the laws of our land and the International Conventions on warfare. They do not do the President's bidding.
That is the job for "the other government." That is the job for the government which we do not get to elect, and it is the number one reason that we have to focus on the judgement of the people we do elect.
The State Department functions, in many ways, like its own government. It makes agreements with other nations and establishes laws that exist between multiple countries. It gathers information. It has the task of making the world a better place for Americans and American business. And, since the end of the Second World War, it has had its own army to act as an agent of change. That army is the CIA.
At the end of the Second World War, the CIA grew out of the old OSS and became the chief tool for gathering information and implementing "compulsory change" in our dealings outside our own borders. As an organization, it is tasked with two responsibilities, gathering intelligence and covert operations. And, since about 1953, these operations have often involved the changing of regimes in other countries. There is not enough room here to delve into too many specifics, so there is a link at the bottom of this article to a timeline of CIA operations. Suffice it to say, the United States, through its agent, the CIA, has played a large part in the changing of numerous regimes in the Caribbean, South and Central America, and the Middle East:
1953 – Iran, Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh overthrown in favor of the Shah
1954 – Guatemala, President Jacobo Arbenz forced from power
1959 – Haiti, CIA installs Papa Doc Duvalier and his private police force, the Tonton Macoutes
1960 – Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba assassinated by the CIA
1961 – Ecuador, President Jose Velasco forced to resign
1961 – Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo assassinated with CIA support
1961 – Cuba, CIA led attempt to remove Castro from power fails in Bay of Pigs disaster
1963 – South Viet Nam, puppet leader Ngo Dinh Diem, originally installed by the CIA in the late 1950's, removed and executed with CIA support
1963 – Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch overthrown and military junta installed by CIA
1964 – Brazil, President Joao Goulart, thought to be moving toward a communist style government, removed in a coup with CIA support and Humberto Castello Branco, chief of staff of the military, installed as head of government
1973 – Chile, Salvador Allende, socialist President elected in 1970 is overthrown in CIA backed coup, and General Augusto Pinochet is installed
1989 – Panama, Manuel Norriega removed from power and President Guilllermo Endara sworn in
2001 – Afghanistan, CIA works in support of US led invasion to oust the Taliban
2003 – Iraq, Saddam Hussein is ousted from power. The CIA had originally supported Hussein with arms, training and intelligence as an ally against the Iranian revolutionary regime
2011 – Libya, CIA support of rebels in Libya leads to the capture and assassination of Muammar Gaddafi, but many of the arms we delivered found their way into the hands of ISIS and other Islamic terrorist factions, culminating in the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi
2016 – Syria???
2017 – Mexico??
The general idea is that the President sends as his or her emissary, the Secretary of State, to pursue the interests of the United States in foreign locales. In recent years, John Kerry has fulfilled that function. Prior to Kerry, that job belonged to Hillary Clinton for a four year stretch under President Obama's first term. And today, Hillary Clinton is running for Obama's office.
While she can certainly lay claim to having the most foreign policy experience of any candidate, Republican or Democrat, running for President in this cycle, she can not lay claim to demonstrating particularly good judgement in that capacity. Under her watch, the efforts we had made in rebuilding the nation that is Iraq unraveled into chaos that allowed for the rise of ISIS. Her leadership in Libya provided for the arming of rebels who in may cases turned out to be the very terrorists we hoped to suppress. And now, in Syria, we are still trying to sort out the disaster that she left as she attempted to oust Assad and the influence of the Russians with him.
It is now becoming clearer that along with the support of the CIA, then-Secretary Clinton entered into an arrangement with the governments of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar to support their countries with arms and materiel, while they provided the ground forces to overthrow Assad and fight ISIS. A lot of American armaments have been moving into that often unstable and unpredictable area of the world, much to the dismay of our largest ally there, Israel, and to one of our chief adversaries in that region, Iran. One supposition is that our recent agreement in economic support of the Iranian regime, was really an overture meant to calm tensions which had arisen from our arming of its neighbors.
One of the reasons that Hillary Clinton's email scandal refuses to die is simply this; by refusing to establish a secure, government provided server for her email correspondence, Secretary Clinton created a situation in which our own government was not immediately privy to the complexity of her dealings with foreign governments. No one knows what quid pro quo may have transpired outside the realm of government business to "grease the wheels." While the Secretary was negotiating the arming of Saudi Arabia, for example, the Saudi government was contributing millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation. In total, during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State, the State Department approved $165 billion dollars in commercial arms sales to twenty countries which had all donated sizable sums to the Clinton Foundation. And sixteen of those same countries received a further $151 billion in separate deals through the Pentagon. Not too surprisingly, a number of American defense contractors, the beneficiaries monetarily of those sales, were also large donors to the Clinton Foundation. While that might just be a coincidence, it would certainly require that the left hand did not know what the right hand was doing.
Our country has a history of involvement in the world outside its own borders, going all the way back to Stephen Decatur and the Barbary Coast Pirates in 1801. Since the end of the Second World War however, much of that history has been written with the aide of the CIA, and that history is not very glorious. Nearly every instance of regime change that we have undertaken has ended disastrously and has spoken to the poor judgement of our State Department and the hubris of our own intelligence community. What we have seen from Mrs. Clinton is poor judgement on a grand scale and the lingering concerns that her office was corrupt, for sale to the highest bidder, and actively engaged in flying under the radar of her own government.
Whomever becomes the next President of the United States is going to appoint his or her own Secretary of State and that person is going to do the bidding of the American government and by extension, the American public in the world of foreign affairs. That President and that Secretary of State needs to exemplify sound judgement in order for this country to repair its relationships with much of the rest of the world. As voters, we need to think not only of the government that we will elect, but also of the other government which our elected officials will install at the heart of the onion. We can always vote out a President if we feel we have made a mistake in our judgement. But mistakes in his or her judgement can haunt this nation for generations.
Hillary Clinton's Foreign Policy Disasters:
http://observer.com/2016/03/its-time-to-talk-about-hillarys-foreign-policy-faux-pas/
Arms deals and the Clinton Foundation:
http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-foundation-donors-got-weapons-deals-hillary-clintons-state-department-1934187
Timeline of CIA operations:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5348804
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 13, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags CIA, email scandal, foreign policy, government organization, Hillary Clinton, political judgement, Secretary of StateLeave a comment on The Role of Judgement & the Other Government | joke. But Sanders and Trump are engaged with their base; they know their supporters. Each, for his own reasons, reflects the will of the voting makeup of his party. And now, the Establishment finds itself with only one card left to play; make sure that those votes don't count.
Like him or not, Donald Trump is bringing voters out of the woodwork. His rallies are enormous and his supporters passionate (for all of the wrong reasons, I would add). The other night, Sanders held a rally in Washington State which drew 35,000 people. Hillary, meanwhile, held her "rally" in a living room where attendees paid $27,000 apiece to get in and $50,000 if they wanted to meet and speak with her. This is not lost on the American voting public.
Middle and working class people in America may not really be able to comprehend just how much money $170 billion dollars in increased earnings by the top fifteen people in America is, but we know when we are getting screwed. We know that when Washington tells us the economy is improving, it isn't improving for us. Our wallets are still just as empty. Our credit cards still carry large balances. Our bank accounts still have no buffer. Our jobs pay less, our health care costs more. Our retirement savings won't be enough and a trip to the hospital could be one cost too much. We may be able to remember a past full of promise, but we now fear that our children will have no future.
"At least," we may have thought, "we still have a voice." We have been taught since we first entered school that the greatness of America lies in the process by which we, the people, elect representatives to speak on our behalf in Washington and in the State Assemblies. Each November, we learned, the people get to vote so that the government represents our needs, our desires and our principles. That, we now must concede, was a lie.
The middle and working class people of this country did not arrive here overnight. We can now look back on nearly half a century of legislation which has allowed corporate America to line its pockets while sending our jobs and our futures overseas, legislation that keeps us in debt to big health care corporations when the rest of the industrialized world provides better health care as a right to its people. We have been dragged into twenty odd years of endless and pointless war, run up a national debt that is somewhere in the vicinity of nineteen trillion dollars, and found that a large chunk of the debt for which we are responsible, is held by the Chinese. The people on both sides of the aisle, playing politics in Washington, have doomed at least once generation of us to penury. And now, the RNC and the DNC have informed us that we no longer even have a voice of complaint in the process. Our votes, if it looks like they will cause injury to the Establishment, don't count.
In the title of this article, the question was asked, "Are we willing to pay the price for our freedom?" We often hear that our nation's soldiers have paid that price for us, guaranteeing with their lives the freedoms which we enjoy. But now we have to ask whether we are free at all. One need not feel the bars to be trapped in a cage. When limitations are placed on our abilities to grow as a society or as individuals within it, we are not free. When a corrupt economic system keeps the vast majority of us enslaved to the next paycheck, we are not free. And when our political leadership looks us in the eye and says that our voices do not matter, we are not free.
It is now nearly forty eight years since the summer of 1968, two generations, a single life lived almost to its mid-line. It was in 1968 that the people, for one brief, shining moment, found their voice. The assassination of JFK in 1963 marked the first time that the majority of American people believed that their own government could not be trusted. By 1968, with the war raging in southeast Asia and middle and working class American kids being drafted and sent to fight for nothing more than the nightly body count, that voice rose as one to shout down the Establishment.
While the respective parties gave us establishment candidates in the form of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the grass roots gave rise to Eugene McCarthy and, later in the campaign, Robert Kennedy. McCarthy's early primary lead chased incumbent president Lyndon Johnson out of the race and lured RFK in. In time, the voice of the young people in America, desperate to end the war and to heal the wounds at home between white and black Americans, coalesced behind RFK. McCarthy's ill advised remarks on opting for a Communist coalition in Vietnam and relocating black youth out of urban areas to quell urban problems ultimately doomed his campaign.
So, with the Doors' song, "Five to One" as a backdrop, the young people of this country began to see that it was true that "they have the guns but we've got the numbers." And politics, after all, is a numbers game. Everything was coming together for a political revolution. And then it was gone. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in Memphis on April 4th and RFK was assassinated in Los Angeles two months later. By late August and the Democratic convention in Chicago, the sense that the fix was in was palpable. During the primaries, some 80% of the votes cast were in favor of anti-war candidates, but at the convention, the DNC pushed Hubert Humphrey through, despite the fact that he had not entered a single primary. The "riots in the streets" to which Donald Trump alluded last week when considering what might happen if he is denied the nomination, were exactly what played out in Chicago.
In hindsight, 1968 saw this country on the verge of a massive political shift, away from establishment politics, away from a war that no one outside of government wanted, away from hatred and divisiveness at home. The chance was there and the voting public seemed ready to seize it. But the promise went unfulfilled. Now, nearly half a century later, the chance has once again arisen. This time. however, it is not a "lone nut gun-man" who has his crosshairs on our opportunity. It is the establishment itself, bold as brass.
Perhaps it takes a leader like RFK or maybe Bernie Sanders, to galvanize the people of our republic behind an image of all that is good about us, an image of the potential for greatness that still lies in America. Or, could it be that Donald Trump has revealed something about ourselves that we have kept hidden, but which could once again push us to the top of the world stage? Truly, those leaders come along only once in a lifetime. So the question is reframed, "Are we willing to pay the price for our freedom to elect the leadership we choose for ourselves?" If the people put their support behind a candidate whom the parties seek to undo, are we willing to destroy the parties in return?
This journal does not endorse Donald Trump. Other articles here have in no uncertain terms pointed out just how bad a choice he would be for the country. But if Hillary Clinton is to get the nomination, are we, the people, willing to pay the price of electing her and continuing the ownership of this country by the ruling class? If the supporters of Bernie Sanders "sit on their hands" in protest, refusing to vote for a candidate who is the antithesis of all that they believe, Trump will win, regardless of what the Republican party does to stop him. The next four years will be disastrous, for trade, for human rights, for maintaining allegiances throughout the world. But should we elect Clinton, the very first order of business for the DNC will be to make sure that no grass roots candidate ever again threatens the party's plan. The next Bernie Sanders, maybe fifty years from now, will have it that much harder.
Do we resign ourselves to business as usual or do we break the machine and build anew?
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. George Carlin used to say about the relationship between the working people of this country and the owners of the country (and of our government) that, "it is a big club and you and I ain't in it." The old Fram Oil Filter ad warned us that, "you can pay me now or pay me later." If we don't stop the cycle of selling our freedom now, we consign our children and our grandchildren to the debtor's prison of paying later. Thirty pieces of silver now could damn us for generations to come. I, for one, am not willing to pay that price.
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 23, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Context, Politics, Quick HitterTags dirty tricks, DNC, election fraud, political revolution, voter suppressionLeave a comment on Are We Willing to Pay the Price for Our Freedom?
Too Late to Stop the Runaway Train?
Over the course of the last two weeks, the political conversation among Republican party elders and increasingly, within the same Media which has helped to create the Monster, has turned to trying to find a way to keep Donald Trump from becoming our next president. To many of us, the thought that he might actually have a chance at doing so seems ludicrous. Here is a man with no experience of government, a self-proclaimed master of business with at least four bankruptcies to his credit and a string of failed business ventures which range from comical to con-artist. If ever there was a candidate ripped straight from the pages of a Superman comic, this is it.
But alas, it is we who have been proven wrong, as the Trump Train continues to gain steam. You see, we have committed the cardinal sin of believing that somehow, the election process will run on logic and reason. It doesn't. It never has. The fuel of elections is raw emotion, visceral gut reaction. In life, we don't love and trust people from our head; we love and trust from our heart and our gut. And the election process is nothing, if not a love fest.
One look at Trump's supporters should be enough to tell us. They are not interested in taking the time to hash out the details of his platform; he hasn't got any. His campaign is swagger, bluster, braggadocio, histrionics and self-aggrandizement in the extreme. Every other day it's "pin the blame on the foreigner" or "when are we gonna get sick of all this winning?" I have personally witnessed high school pep rallies with a better articulated game plan.
But the Republicans don't get it. In desperation, they sent out Mitt Romney, first runner up as most boring man in North America, to strike dead this fire-breathing town dragon. To say he failed to do so does not adequately paint the pile of ashes Trump and his supporters made of ol' Mitt. Next, Marco Rubio threw himself on his sword, overthinking the game and asking his supporters in Ohio to vote for John Kasich. His supporters everywhere probably saw that Marco's investment in the election was not 100% and they promptly lost him his home state of Florida. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out. Now, Ted Cruz and John Kasich are squaring off against each other, each claiming that for the betterment of the party, the other should step aside.
All of this plays right into the hands of Trump and his followers. Every time the establishment makes a failed run at derailing his express, they confirm at a gut level, at a heart level, that they fear Trump because he is the strongest candidate, because he has the truest message, because he will make America great again. This is the same Republican party which has taught the far right to fear that the government is coming for them, that the invasion of Texas by the US military is imminent, that the Supreme Court is coming for their weapons and will confiscate their bibles, that a Kenyan muslim has usurped our government with plans to overthrow the country and instill Sharia law. Well fellas, you reap what you sow.
Let us be real. Ted Cruz has all the appeal of a tooth extraction without the Novocain. John Kasich's homespun vitality plays well with the flannel shirt crowd, but the establishment Republicans are more of an Armani suit group and Trump's followers don't wear shirts; the bib overalls show off the White Power tattoos to greater advantage. Neither of these guys is going to galvanize enough of the party faithful to overtake the Trumpster.
Now, it appears that Rod Serling is staging a chess match from the heart of the Twilight Zone. The party suggests that if they can get to a brokered convention, the delegates will be free to vote for a candidate of party choosing. Trump counters with a riots in the streets threat. The party probingly hints that they might have to run a third party candidate of their own. Trump's smirk emerges like the Cheshire Cat as he instructs his acolytes, "see how the establishment works to undermine the will of the people, my people." This may go down in history as the first Reality Presidential Election, with Kim Kardashian installed as the next Secretary of Status.
So, what will it take to put the brakes on the Trump Train? For stop it, we must. If you haven't been living under the neighbor's porch and have an IQ somewhere north of litmus paper, you know that this guy is bad news. What he lacks in a legislative record on which to run, he makes up for in a record of dim-witted get rich(er) quick schemes ranging from steaks and vodka, to a crashed airline business, a bogus school for wannabe real estate moguls and a casino empire that has run out of money on four separate occasions. For Christ's sake, he's a game show and beauty pageant host. Wink Martindale has an equal claim to the Presidency.
In one sense, the Republican elders are right. If they can somehow drag this to the convention without the obligation of naming Trump the winner, arcane rules of the nomination process can be dusted off and a nominee, maybe someone who has not yet even thrown a hat into the ring, could be crowned heir apparent to Ronald Reagan or perhaps, Zachary Taylor. But this is a Friday Night Football and Jeopardy kind of crowd. The way they see it, whomever has the most points at the end of regulation time, wins. The risk for the Republicans is that they could save the country (from Trump) and fracture the GOP in the process. And this would not be Socrates knocking back a goblet of hemlock; this would be Jim Jones ladling up the Kool-Aid.
It is possible that a third-party, independent candidate could be run with the backing of a Super-Pac and keep enough votes from Trump in the general to either lose the election to a Democrat or stall it in the Electoral College. That would send the decision to the Speaker of the House, Republican Paul Ryan.
On the surface, it would appear that a split ticket from the Republican side would send the Democrat through, but there are no guarantees here. It is already becoming clear that a large portion of the Democratic base will not support Hillary Clinton, should she become the nominee. With allegations of voter fraud emerging from Florida, North Carolina and Illinois, and a DNC which has overtly been attempting to rig the primary process, many true liberals are feeling disenfranchised. In a three way race, they might just stay home.
So, unless a true Republican could be induced to take a dive for the party, it would have to be another outsider running on the third party ticket and that would possibly put Ryan in a quandary. If he named the Democrat as president, he would remove from the Republican party any license to play the victim at the hands of those Democrats. If he selected the Third-Party candidate, the faithful would proclaim that the fix was in, and the party would be faced with rebuilding its base for the next decade. And if he played the Trump card, he would not only risk the American economy, judicial system, a new war in the Middle East and deteriorating relationships with allies across the Western World, he would risk the Republican party becoming a global laughing stock, witnessed as the newest incarnation of a Papa Doc Duvalier led banana republic.
For these reasons and perhaps a few more, the Republican elders are more likely to do nothing, and continue to let the string play out. "Perhaps," they may think, "this train is still going to wreck and boy, we wouldn't want to miss that!" If they can make it to a brokered convention, they will have to wet a finger and see just how hard the political wind is blowing.
They may determine that there is no choice but to let Trump run. They may take him into a back room and make him an offer he can't refuse; while his ego is immense, his love of money and the sense that he made a great deal might leave him open to an old-fashioned bribe to step aside. Give him a huge cash settlement and make him ambassador to Monaco.
Or, they may wet the middle finger, test the wind with it and name Cruz or Kasich as their man with the plan. If there are riots in the streets, well, it is only Cleveland. Who'd notice?
Ultimately, if they choose to let this nation's voters decide, the odds are that Trump will take the nomination and will be run against the Democratic nominee. That is allowing this race to be run right down to the wire. They could instruct the Super Pacs and Republican office holders to sit on their hands and let Trump play this game with his own money. But he seems to have plenty of it.
Then, it comes down to the Democratic candidate. As I see it, Hillary is the Lou Costello to Trump's Bud Abbott. They were made for each other as they were made for entertaining, reality TV. She is a large target with a string of scandals, a paltry legislative record, a history of failures as Secretary of State, lingering doubts about her honesty and the lurking and leering shadow of her womanizing better half. All of Trump's inadequacies as leadership material will have to be set against her on the record lies, obfuscations, legalese, flip-flops and her track record of not being able to work across party lines (let alone within her own party). In a tragi-comic sense, she makes him look, if not good, acceptable. And of course, this is a popularity contest. This is emotion and gut. People love a winner. And people don't like Hillary.
The only way to save this country, and the Republican Party by extension, from the disaster that would be a Donald Trump presidency, may be to stack him up against Bernie Sanders. Sanders has the record of achievement that Trump lacks. Sanders speaks to the heart of the American population from inside. He is one of us. There are no scandals surrounding Sanders. There are no flip-flops, no moral lapses, no equivocations or inconsistencies of political vision. The socialist tag has not done him any harm. His actions speak volumes to his integrity. Like Trump, Bernie Sanders can't be bought. But unlike Trump, he is doing this with our money, given gladly by a population that loves the man and trusts the message. Trump's style of attack will not find its mark with Sanders. Instead, Trump will be forced to actually debate Sanders on real issues, and will be shown to be the fool that he truly is. When the American voter makes an emotional decision here, it will be between everyone's favorite grandfather and their belligerent, drunken uncle.
But there is a price to be paid by the Democratic party as well, and they may not be prepared to meet it. The DNC has backed Hillary because Hillary represents business as usual. Her election ensures the continued funding from Wall Street, the backing of lobbyists attached to the health insurance and big-pharmaceutical industries, and the quick death of a grass roots movement that might toss out long standing Democratic House and Senate members in favor of new blood who would work with a President Sanders to revive the middle and working classes. The oligarchy is not prepared for a life in exile, and they fear that Sanders might be punching that ticket. As the DNC carefully pointed out in explaining the role of their Super Delegates, the Democratic Party does not belong to the people, it belongs to the folks who know better, the elder statesmen of the party, the oligarchs themselves.
Come November, should Trump become the next President of the United States, history will forever blame the Republicans. But those of us who live through it, will remember that the Democrats, through the actions of the DNC, were absolutely complicit.
Author John Q. PublicPosted on March 19, 2016 April 5, 2016 Categories Politics, Quick HitterTags Bernie Sanders, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Republican primary, RNC, Ted CruzLeave a comment on Too Late to Stop the Runaway Train?
Time to Choose Your Revolution
In the wake of the most recent "Super Tuesday," it is time to consider that a revolution may yet be coming to America. The races are not over, by any stretch, but one thing that we have clearly seen is that among all of the candidates who have thrown hats into the ring this election cycle, two have garnered more attention and enthusiasm than any other, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. And, while the two are vastly different as men, as political figures, and as representatives of particular economic classes in our society, there is one constant between them. Each is calling for a revolution.
In Sanders' case, he is calling for a political revolution which involves more and more people becoming involved in the political process, such that the leaders we elect better reflect the desires of the broader base of the population and will work together to point our country in a new direction. His is a revolution based on leveling the playing field for all of us, so that no one economic strata of our society foots the bill for everyone else. Instead, his desire is for the wealthiest members of our society to pay their fair share, for our country to guarantee as a right, decent health care to all Americans, for the greed that has taken over corporate America and Wall Street to be tempered so that working people have a chance to own a decent standard of living, for us to look to the future and provide all of our children the opportunity to become the best and brightest that they can be, because we will be relying on them to take over for us. And he is calling for a nation that has given its young men and women to two decades of purposeless war to finally, give peace a chance.
Trump is calling for a very different kind of revolution. His is based on the idea that our enemies are already in the process of taking over our country from within and without, with the solution that we need to send our immigrant populations home, deny aid to refugees who might be coming instead to attack us, force our economic will upon the world in the form of "great deals" which would strengthen our economy against those of China and third world nations, and secure our borders with a wall which would be visible from space. He points to outsiders and says, "They hate us." He wants to "bomb the shit out of" our enemies abroad and enter into a database all of the ones at home who might be conspiring against us.
One revolution is about including people in the process and one is about excluding anyone who does not think like him and his. These two candidates have consistently drawn larger crowds than all of the others. That alone speaks to an understanding among our people that some manner of change must come.
What merits this revolution? What is different this cycle or has mysteriously managed to focus all of our attention on something we previously had ignored?
Bernie Sanders points to the rigged system and there has been ample evidence of it. Since the passage of Citizen's United and the legislated understanding that "corporations are people," the rise and overt nature of the Super Pacs has become abundantly clear. Aside from Sanders and Trump, all of the other candidates receive their funding in large part from Super Pacs, organizations of wealthy individuals and corporations who choose candidates to support based on their willingness to endorse the agendas of those individuals and corporations. There is an old story about Henry Ford, who once said that people could "have a Model T in any color they wanted, as long as it was black." As voters, we have come to see that we can vote for any candidate we choose, we just weren't the ones choosing who ran in the first place.
We have also seen that the mainstream media has attempted to shut out Sanders and his campaign in favor of Hillary the Inevitable and the ever entertaining media darling, Donald Trump. Understanding that 90% of the main stream media in America is owned by six enormous corporations, which lobby and own their own candidates, makes it easy to understand why they want nothing to do with a candidate who can not be bought. And, even the DNC itself, has shown that it is part of that same rigged system, organizing debates to run at times when the fewest number of people would be watching, shutting out voters from the process by arriving without sufficient number of ballots, and disregarding President Obama's own expressed desire to keep Wall Street money from buying Democratic candidates. When the DNC looks us in the eye and tells us that their Super Delegates exist to make sure that the party is not subject to the will of voters choosing a grass roots candidate, we know the fix is in.
For his part, Trump has asserted time and again that he is self-funding and cannot be bought. Instead, he exemplifies the section of our society doing the buying. He is a classic, self-styled "power broker," able to cite the law and rationalize why he is not to be bound by it. Rather than come to a fuller understanding of the principles at the heart of our system of government, he deals in expedient and entirely whimsical reasons to thumb our collective noses at those values. His ignorance shall be our strength. His defiant scowl, reason enough. As the world bows to Donald Trump, so shall it bow to America. I am reminded of a line from an old episode of the Firesign Theater, "All for one and all for one. Let's hear it for me!"
But the foundations of this revolution run far deeper.
What we have come to understand about America since the start of this election cycle is deeply troubling. Where we once thought of our government as sitting at the top of our society, perched like Olympus atop the mountain, we have now come to see that the government is not at the summit of our nation. That is the playground of the wealthiest people and institutions in the country, the same ones who buy the candidates and the elections themselves. Instead, the government serves as a buffer between them and us. The laws are passed to benefit them, to benefit big corporations and big money, to insure that they become bigger still. And in just the same way that a corporation shields, in a legal sense, the owners from the threat of loss due to lawsuit, the government shields them from us. We can replace the government, but we can not replace them or their influence on our nation.
Karl Marx once called religion, "the opiate of the masses," and John Lennon sang that "they'll keep you doped on religion and sex and TV." What we have come to see is that on certain fundamental levels, nothing in our country ever changes. Bones are thrown our way, to be sure. The Affordable Care Act promises that we will all be able to purchase health insurance. But just like something called a Smart phone, it is neither smart nor affordable.
More often than not, those who own and run the country find ways to pit us against each other. The rise for example, of evangelical christianity to a point where some 25% of the country's population identifies itself as evangelical, directly corresponds to the time frame over which this country has become so polarized that Republicans and Democrats have become the Hatfields and the McCoys. Through a calculated fear mongering aimed at an element of the religious right, evangelicals have been taught to believe that they are under attack from all sides. Their understandable response has been to rise up in opposition of this perceived threat. And that keeps everyone's attention focused like Don Quixote on dragons that are not really there at all.
The endless battle over issues like abortion rights, gay marriage, gun control, corporate taxation, the role of the bible in our government and judicial system, even the birthplace and citizenship of the president, are all issues designed to divide us. Like a magician's sleight of hand, they serve the purpose of distracting our eyes from the real issues. Today, our magicians are all in politics. And what is politics but the art of convincing people that you are saying one thing, when in reality you are saying something completely different?
The still recent and lingering (despite what Washington tells us) recession has illustrated what the real issue is; in America, the very wealthy are becoming more and more so, while the rest of us slip a little further down the slope with each year. When the wealthiest fifteen individuals in the country have seen their earnings grow by $170 billion dollars in two years, and the wealthiest 1% of the country controls more wealth than the bottom 90%, all while they pay a lower percentage of their income in taxes than your average secretary, one must see that there is something fundamentally unjust in our system. When the richest nation on the planet sees 40% of its population with no savings, living hand to mouth on the edge of poverty, worried that the next rise in health insurance or the cost of energy, might be the straw that breaks the camel's back, something is fundamentally unjust in our system. And when our politicians stare stone-faced at us and say that providing health care as a right to our people or free college tuition to our students, is impossible, despite the fact that much of the industrialized world does exactly that, something is fundamentally unjust in our system.
After all, is ours not a system of justice? For so long, we have been taught that ours is not a democracy (where the mob can rule), ours is a republic, where there are laws which bind everyone, high and low. Prove it. The truth has become all to obvious; there is a class of people in this country who are above the law. As Bernie Sanders pointed out, of the people on Wall Street who destroyed our economy, stole the retirement savings of countless Americans, and bankrupted cities to the point where they could not pay their retired workers the pensions they had bought and paid for, not a one went to jail. Not a one was even indicted.
And well we remember that even on the off chance that a scum bag like Marc Rich could be charged or convicted, the system, in the form of then President Bill Clinton, would pardon him and absolve him of his crime. When Hillary Clinton laughs at the camera and tells you that she will never be indicted, you can believe her. It matters not that there is or is not evidence against her that would merit an indictment. What matters is that like Achilles, she has been dipped in the River Styx by the ruling class, and is nearly impervious.
But Sanders and Trump each know her Achilles' heel.
And so a revolution may yet be coming to America.
Where establishment candidates like Clinton and Cruz are content to blame each other's party, whilst wrapped in the flag or clutching their bibles, Sanders and Trump, like the majority of the voting public, know that the apple doesn't rot far from the tree. The system is broken, perhaps hopelessly so, and the engine of government needs to be completely overhauled or even replaced.
It is then up to us to decide. Which revolution shall we choose?
Bernie Sanders has been careful to say, "I can't do this alone." He needs the help of all of us, joining in the political process. He understands the gridlock that is Washington and just how easy it would be for the Republicans to block his efforts as they have blocked President Obama's. But there is a difference this time around. It just so happens that 88% of the House of Representatives is up for re-election this year. If the grass roots movement is really paying attention, the chance is there for us to throw the bastards out, and make a real change, from within. It will be hard, for certain, but if it is truly the will of the people, and the people choose to stand together, it can be done. Unless, of course, the DNC does not print enough ballots, or the Super Pacs run enough smear campaigns.
Then, we might be left with Trump. Why it has taken so long for him to terrify the Republican party, I do not know. But terrify them, he has. Today, there is even talk of running an independent candidate against Trump in the general election. It would not be because that candidate might win; it is simply because that candidate might split the ticket and cause both to lose. Many Republicans would rather see Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in office, than to endure a Trump revolution.
It has been very interesting to me to see all of the comparisons of Trump to Adolph Hitler. It is easy to make them, based on his attacks on minorities, outsiders and a particular religious group. His posturing and scowl may owe more to Mussolini, but the comparison to Hitler is certainly warranted. What worries me more is the style of his revolution. In some ways, it has a greater resemblance to that of the Bolsheviks.
When the Bolsheviks overthrew the Czar and took control of Imperial Russia, they had before them the task of bringing the revolution to all corners of the empire. So, while they could easily have exiled the Czar and his family to any one of a number of european countries (the royal families were all inter-related by birth or marriage), they chose instead to line them up against a wall and have them shot. Years later, they acknowledged that this was done for one simple reason. After the execution, there would be no turning back.
Trump's rhetoric is increasingly backing him and his adherents into a corner. The cult of Donald Trump allows for no errors of judgement, no statements of remorse, no admission of fallibility. Any such event could topple him like a house of cards. Instead, his revolution is targeted specifically at those who can not defend themselves. His followers have been groomed for a generation to believe that they are already under attack and they have armed themselves to the teeth to defend their god, their freedom and their guns.
Would Trump do something to advance the agenda of his revolution from which there could be no return? If it was good for business, he just might. He just might start a third world war with the Islamic world, because our country would then be mobilized into full industrial productivity, full employment for | 7,295 |
PACHI urges communities to form cholera discussion groups
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Parent Aid Child Initiative (PACHI) has urged communities which were affected by cholera in Lilongwe to form groups that will enhance information sharing on cholera and other health issues that the communities are likely to face.
Pachi's Laura Munthali: Areas need to be prevented from cholera
PACHI, a nongovernmental organization working hand in hand with UNICEF, has so far in Lilongwe visited area 36, Kawuma, Mchita Njilu, Mtand<|fim_middle|> engage other relevant stakeholders," said Munthali.
The project coordinator said after their investigations on cholera issues, it was noted that six areas in Lilongwe District were mostly affected which was also a threat to other neighbouring areas.
As such, she said the decision was made to reach out to all the affected areas in order to provide a platform of free flow of information as regards the same.
According to Munthali, one of the key challenges is high rate of existence of communal toilets.
"PACHI, in cooperation with UNICEF, found out that most of the communities have small land which makes it more difficult to build toilets.
"As such, there is also high usage of communal toilets, which is a risk to people's health conditions," she said, adding this was an area the cholera discussion groups could decide on how best to address.
Speaking in an interview won behalf of the senior chiefs, Senior Chief Kalumbu said he was happy that PACHI visited the areas after noticing the cholera issues that affected the areas during the rainy season.
"Wells in most of the areas brought a threat to people's lives because they are located less than five metres away from the toilets due to small land.
"The only source of water in the areas are boreholes, which after investigations revealed that water from the boreholes is not safe due to contamination with the toilet wastes," said Kalumbu.
In his remarks, Group Village Head Mitengo said the village was only relying on the water that UNICEF has been bringing for them twice a day, though the water is not enough to accommodate all the villagers.
"UNICEF decided to bring water to the area which has been beneficial to the areas. The only problem is that the water supply is not enough for the villagers since everyone is expected to fetch one bucket when the truck comes," said Group Mitengo.
He urged PACHI to help the areas fight cholera disease so that from 2019, the areas should be free from it.
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Speaking at Mitengo, PACHI project coordinator, Laura Munthali, said PACHI decided to form the groups to provide a platform for information sharing amongst the communities.
"The groups will help the villagers to discuss issues that affect them and see the way to solve them as a group.
"In cases when they fail to provide solutions for particular problems, they then should address those to PACHI where we should be able to help them or | 101 |
My lips were stained emergency orange
We're delighted to present this week's Recommended Reading, "A Good Deuce." Guest editor Rob Spillman of Tin House says this short story — set in the "lower-class world of emotionally stunted teens, a bleak yet vibrant land a million miles away from the shiny, happy America of TV and advertising" — blew him away. It's not hard to see why:
"I was on my second bag of doritos and my lips were stained emergency orange when my best friend, Phillip, said he knew a bar in Hallelujah Junction that didn't card, and maybe we should go there. We had been sitting in my living room for eighteen or nineteen hours watching Robert Redford movies, where Redford had gone from square-jawed, muscled, and rugged to looking like a blanched piece of beef jerky, and we had watched it go from dark to light to dark again through the break in the curtains. The coroner had wheeled my mother out all those hours ago and my grandma Hannah had stalked down the sidewalk with her fists closed and locked at her side, insisting that a dead body had every right to stay in the house for as long as the family wanted it there."
— From "A Good Deuce" by Jodi Angel
Editor's Note — Rob Spillman:
Two years ago at the Tomales Bay Writers' Workshop, north of San Francisco, I went to a reading with Tin House favorites Ron Carlson and Dorothy Allison, both of whom we<|fim_middle|> jacket adding to her overall vibe of "Why'd you drag me out of the biker bar to make me tell you this story?" Afterward, I took the story out of Angel's hands to see if it was as good on the page as it was in the ether. It was. And is. Later, she told me she wrote the story in one sitting, only a few days before, because she needed something new to read. Angel works stories over in her head, sometimes for months at a time, without writing down a single word, then, when she can't take it anymore, gets it all down. "A Good Deuce" needed hardly any edits or copy edits. Her "first draft" was nearly flawless.
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Nov 27 - Electric Literature Read | 've published multiple times… Another author was sandwiched in between whom I had never heard of — Jodi Angel. Carlson and Allison are both astonishing, captivating readers, yet Angel somehow upstaged them both with her reading of "A Good Deuce," her story of a rural California teen dealing with the aftermath of a mother's overdose… I was blown away.
But I wondered if it was only her delivery — deadpan, direct, through a veil of dark hair hanging over her face, her leather | 109 |
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Why Unprecedented Numbers Are Deciding to Retire Early: Can You Afford to Quit Too?
The pandemic has changed the way many of us think about our time and it suddenly feels like the whole country — young and old — is contemplating retirement or a shift in their approach to work.
It might be an understatement to say that the year in quarantine was really hard for some — in big and small ways. However, many are finding a silver lining in the form of a new mindset toward time and money that may promise a better way of life. For some, that means an immediate and complete retirement. Others are transitioning to a different type of work.
Huge numbers of people are leaving their jobs
People are leaving work in unprecedented numbers. The labor department reported that a record 4 million people quit their jobs in April 2021 alone.
Some are leaving for better work or a higher-paying gig. Others are seeking to gain more control over their time, a new way of life, flexibility, and more happiness.
Many are reconsidering the meaning of work.
Can you afford to quit? Use the NewRetirement Planner to rethink your future plans. See if you have enough to quit now. Or, run scenarios for spending a little less, downsizing, moving abroad, or let the tool help you discover another solution to get more control over your time.
Beyond money: Two reasons many are rethinking work
Burnout and a new mindset are two reasons people are exploring a new approach to work.
Burnout:
From doctors and nurses caring for Covid patients to grocery store workers who helped keep us all fed, some workers experienced extreme stress throughout the pandemic. And, the research suggests that those are among the people most likely to be seeking a new way of working.
A new approach:
However, the biggest sector leaving the workplace or switching jobs are restaurant and hotel workers — many of whom were furloughed or worked fewer hours throughout the pandemic. Some of these workers found flexibility and a new mindset with regard to work during the pandemic.
And, even those who were able to work from home are also rethinking their 9–5. With high vaccination rates, it is possible for many people to return to the office, but occupancy rates for many businesses remain low.
Many people like working at home. According to Gallup, 45% of full-time workers in the U.S. are still working remotely. And, surveys show that most people really like working from home. In fact, 86% of those working remotely say they would be interested in continuing to do so after the pandemic.
Is time now considered more valuable than money?
Tsedal Neely, a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere, told NPR: "We have changed. Work has changed. The way we think about time and space has changed. Workers now crave the flexibility given to them in the pandemic — which had previously been unattainable."
Your time is what you trade for money when you are working. And<|fim_middle|> relocate to less expensive areas with lifestyle options that are more compatible with interests.
6. How much do they really need to quit or retire
This is not necessarily the million-dollar question. People can find future financial security for much less.
How much you need is entirely based on your current assets, future spending and a flexible approach to whatever may happen in the years ahead.
The NewRetirement Planner is the best way to figure out how much you need to quit now or sometime in the future. No other retirement planning tool offers as many options for solving the puzzle of how much you need. Run scenarios for spending a little less, transitioning to another career, downsizing, moving abroad, or — let the powerful artificial intelligence suggest another solution that will give you more control and balance over your time.
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3 Okinawan Secrets to a Long Life: 1) Ikigai 2) Moai 3) Hara Hachi Bu — Huh?
Some might believe that the hokey pokey really is what it is all about. Yoga and mindfulness mavens chant "om" as a long and happy life mantra. Others sing super cali fragilistic expealidocious and, "if said loud enough," will at least sound precocious. However, the residents of the Japanese island of Okinawa have other words… | , work income is what you give up when you gain time at retirement.
It seems now that people may be trying to find more balance between the two.
Time is what you gain when you leave work or retire
Americans have been notoriously bad at balancing the trade-off between time and money. While we are no longer the most overworked country in the world, we are in at least the top 10.
Popular wisdom has always tried to set us straight:
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannnot get more time. — Jim Rohn
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. — Carl Sandburg
Time is money. Waste it now. Pay for it later. — Benjamin Franklin
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not. — Benjamin Franklin
6 big work-life decisions people are considering post-pandemic
1. What is the value and importance of your time?
This question can be tricky. There is the:
Money you are paid.
Nonmonetary value you derive from both paid and non-paid activities.
Eefficiencies (and inefficiencies) of both how you earn money and how you spend time. (Is a frugal habit worth the amount of time it takes you, for example?)
How you want to be spending your time.
Your financial and emotional needs.
2. Are you safe and comfortable at work?
The pandemic has caused many people to question the safety of their work. But, this is not necessarily a new phenomenon. As we age, work can sometimes become more perilous — triggering decisions to retire early — at least from certain types of jobs.
It is important to consider if your current work is compatible with your safety and comfort.
3. Is your work compatible with your purpose in life?
This is a big question.
It is perfectly acceptable to work for money — nothing at all wrong with that, especially if you can derive meaning and purpose outside of work. However, the pandemic is causing people to seek more meaningful work.
Ikigai translates from Japanese to "reason to live." Ikigai is the intersection of what you love, what you are good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for.
What is your ikigai?
4. With whom do you want to be spending time?
Spending quality time with family and friends was a massive casualty during the pandemic.
So, many are now trying to find ways to spend more time with those they love and finding work that enables more focus on relationships.
5. Are you living where you want to be?
Remote work has enabled people to eliminate commutes and | 605 |
Art Show with Salma Arastu
Sufi Women Luncheon with Salma Arastu November 19, 2011
On Saturday, November 19, 2011, the Sufi Women Organization sponsored a luncheon featuring world renown artist and author Salma Arastu. Salma was born and educated in India; she was born into the Sindhi and Hindu tradition and later embraced Islam through her marriage. In addition to being a prolific painter for more than 30 years, Salma has also authored several works of free verse poetry and short stories in her native Hindi. Her latest book, published in 2008 in English is titled "The Lyrical Line" and has more than 100 images of her works from the last 10 years.
Salma gave a riveting talk and presentation on the topic of Rumi, whose poetry has inspired her to create the most beautiful expressions of art. Salma displayed several of her Rumi inspired paintings and also gave a power point presentation featuring both Rumi poetry and pictures of her paintings; she described her artistic journey with great passion.
One attendee described her experience of the luncheon in the following way: "The most magnificent thing was the artist, her joy and the fact that she can express how she feels through her paintings; it moves me to tears. Just look at these paintings! During her presentation, you could just see how this art comes out of her; she's not just sitting there figuring out what to do. She gets her inspiration and puts it on paper and is able to also verbally express it."
Attendees enjoyed a delicious lunch, followed by the presentation by Salma Arastu. Another attendee captured the day well when she said: "I was so impressed by the presentation today. Salma Arastu came to speak at a lunch a few years ago and it is just amazing to<|fim_middle|>ufism, a nonprofit organization affiliated with the United Nations. Established in 1993, SWO's humanitarian goals include women's rights, education, and social equity.
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078 – Noa Kageyama on Building a Personally Fulfilling Business
Today's guest got an early start as a violinist studying with none other than THE Dr. Suzuki – founder of the Suzuki method. Everything was on track for his performance career when he took a class at Juilliard that exposed him to sports performance psychology and the trajectory of his career shifted.
Today he's sharing the startup story of his blog, The Bulletproof Musician. He talks about how he thought he had run out of content ideas after the first month of writing, but has managed to keep finding interesting things to share more than 10 years later. Today the blog has expanded into a variety of work and now serves as his primary source of income.
Here's my conversation with Noa:
Andrea: Hi Noa. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much for being here today. Can you introduce yourself and tell us what you do?
Noa: Sure. My name is Noa Kageyama. I am a violinist turned performance psychologist. I'd say that I'm now a retired violinist. I haven't played in maybe 15 to 20 years at this point. But what I do mostly involves teaching musicians and other performing artists how to use all of the research and sports psychology to handle nerves a little more effectively and perform more up to everyone's potential under pressure on stage when it matters.
Andrea: And people might know you from your blog and other outlets. Can you talk to us about how you have made a name for yourself in this field?
Noa: Sure. I started this blog in 2009 and it wasn't even called the Bulletproof Musician back then. It had a bunch of hyphens in it and it's really like version one of me trying to do something online back when it wasn't common to be doing that. And eventually, it ended up turning into this blog called The Bulletproof Musician and then I started writing things and putting it online back in July of 2009. July 8 of 2009 was the first thing that went up.
Andrea: That's my first day.
Noa: Oh, no kidding.
Andrea: Great day to start a blog.
Noa: Yes. And I was relatively consistent about writing the first month and then it was sporadic for a little while and it really didn't become a regular weekly thing until maybe like 2010-2011. It took me a little while to build it up but yeah, I didn't really know what it would turn into or what exactly I was trying to do but I saw that there were some other people blogging and they were using it as a way to help people and provide useful information or advice but also as a way to get clients and opportunities to do presentations and so forth and I was like "Oh, that will be kind of nice and I don't really know anything about marketing or how to get my name out there and I don't mind writing things that people might find useful so let me try to listen.
So I read some other blogs about that kind of thing and I read some books and I remember I was in the basement, the piano room. My wife is a pianist and she was practicing and I was on my laptop trying to figure out WordPress and had it like put together some sort of a home designed logo type of thing for the header and how to make that happen and she was like "Shouldn't you be working or maybe trying to get a client" or something like that. This is like in the early days when I didn't really have anything organized in my life and I was like "No, this is what people do I think." And so she was sort of shaking her head and said, "Okay, have fun playing on your laptop." And so we still remember that and kind of look back on it as one of those moments where we couldn't know what we're getting into but it was kind of the start of something interesting and fun.
Andrea: Yeah, well it has come a long way since that. And how about the field of performance psychology, I mean, you talked about you're taking like sports things. Was anyone really applying sports psychology or sports performance psychology to music at that time or was that kind of your own addition to the field?
Noa: No, like this was certainly going on but I think quietly because there wasn't– I mean, the internet existed obviously but it wasn't quite as widespread as it is now and ubiquitous and like the iPhone didn't exist yet and so forth. So Don Greene was the person who I first met who was really specializing more in applying sports psychology to musicians and he was teaching this class at Juilliard that I took when I was a student there and that's how I was introduced to this field called sports psychology which I wasn't aware of either.
And then as I started doing more digging it turns out there are other people who have been kind of pushing for a more general or universal application of sports psychology research to other domains. So Kate Hayes is another sports psychologist who is based in Toronto who had been writing books and papers and chapters and so forth on performing arts in particular and how sports psychology could be useful there. So it's definitely happening. I just wasn't aware of it and I don't think a lot of other people were aware of it either.
Andrea: And the class that you took at Juilliard was actually sports psychology? They didn't try to make it music-related even?
Noa: So I guess back then the division of the American Psychological Association that is devoted to this kind of thing was its division of sports and exercise psychology I believe it was and now Kate Hayes is actually one of the people that was involved in pushing for a more general title. It's something now more like sport exercise and performance psychology. So they have incorporated performance into the kind of umbrella of what it is. And I think the reason why it's generally known as sports psychology even though it's all kind of the same is that there's generally a lot more money to study athletics than it is to study musicians. So unfortunately, it is very applicable, I mean, to me it is. There is a little bit of translation required but even amongst different sports like you have to find a way to translate things that work for divers or to tennis players or Formula One racers. I mean, there are certainly many differences between the sports to say there are between instruments and like singing versus piano versus instrumentals. So yeah, I find that actually part of what makes it fun because then you get to kind of find ways of translating it in ways that are meaningful and useful to different people.
Andrea: So you started this blog and was it– what was your vision for it at the time? Was it to get clients in this field? Tell us about your vision.
Noa: It wasn't a very clearly defined vision which is let me start doing this and see if it helps me get some attention that might lead to some clients. I think one of the things that helped me push myself to continue to do it is the thought that with nothing else, maybe someday if I force myself to write regularly that will turn into a material that I could turn into a book perhaps. That was kind of in the back of my head. Maybe that will be some motivation for the future.
Andrea: Can you describe what all is encompassed by your business today?
Noa: Now it still is largely centered around the blog, I mean, weekly posts. Once a month I now do an interview with someone in the music field or research field or athletic field, but all the other weeks are articles that are based off of studies that I find that seemed intriguing to me and potentially useful and applicable to musicians and teachers. Maybe a couple of years ago I started just recording the idea of those things in addition to the monthly interviews and turned it into kind of a hybrid podcast sort of thing. So now there's the podcast and there also used to be just one online course but now there are a few different things starting to pop up that are devoted to essentially learning how to develop these mental skills that athletes had been using for many, many years and musicians, I think, are increasingly starting to use as well.
Andrea: You know you talked about how at the beginning, like you're really motivated that first month to keep writing and then it kind of waned as sometimes these things do. Looking back over the last because you've been at this now a decade, have there been moments that you noticed points of breakthrough like "Oh, I got to this point. It took a year to get to this point and then I had this breakthrough," or maybe just times when it seemed like it was maybe easier than others but your consistent work throughout the year was laying the groundwork for that?
Noa: Yeah, I think part of what was difficult in the early going is after I wrote for a month and I wrote like four articles and I wasn't sure to write about anymore. I was like "How am I going to do this? I feel like I've written about everything," that like 4,000 words later I think I'm done. And obviously that wasn't the case but it took me a while to figure out what my structure was, not just even in terms of writing but what my process would be and figuring out what to write about and so forth. So that probably took a couple of years, I mean, if you look back at the progression of the writing that I did, you can definitely see things evolve. I actually took dates off from the very beginning because I didn't want people to feel like this was specific to a particular time and hopefully find things and see that they're still relevant months or years later. So there is a secret page that's not published or linked anywhere where people can go and actually kind of walk through from the very beginning like with the day and month and so forth. That's Bulletproofmusician.com/archive, so like from an educational perspective just to see like how crappy things kind of were in the beginning and can kind of see where things started to look a little bit more like they look now and it didn't happen very quickly. It took kind of a while. That's why it's not like a publicly published linked page but it's not hidden or anything like that. I just haven't told many people.
Andrea: There are times when I noticed this in my own businesses where it seems like it's a slog for a while like it's just work, work, work, work, work and no reward seeming to come from that work, and then all of a sudden I'll hit a point where it feels easy but it's really all that work I've been doing is just paying off. But can you remember any significant moments and like when they happened along the last decade?
Noa: Yeah. So I think the main one, honestly, is when I started having what felt like a more meaningful number of people actually reading. I didn't even track it at first. I didn't know how to so I just wrote stuff and I was like "Huh, this is weird." It's like I'm writing stuff, putting it out into the internet and I have no idea if anyone is reading it or not. I didn't have any social share buttons or anything like that. I just feel like this doesn't feel particularly meaningful. Maybe nobody is reading it other than my wife and my parents so then I started tracking things. And then I think of a lot of the early traffic was just like search engine bots like just crawling the internet so they weren't real people and so I was like "Huh, that's kind of a bummer."
And then, I think finally one day I found that there was an actual person reading the blog like from Kansas or something. I was like "Oh, it's like a real person. Look, how cool is that?" and then I didn't even have an email list or anything at that time. I was just using RSS feeds if anyone even remembers that. And so when I started an email list people actually subscribed. I was like "Oh" and this is so like PPLs like who are these people? So I like put their email address into the Google search to find out if they're real people or not and if there was ever like an edu address I was like, "Oh, that's cool," like it's a student or it's a teacher and I get excited.
So yeah, after I got past that initial like kind of stalker mentality, then I stopped looking because inevitably people start unsubscribing, right, and that kind of hurts because I worked so hard. So maybe the first thing was having a real person reading and then having real subscribers. And then the next moment I think was when I had the first article go viral like it actually got a significant amount of attention and this was one of the very first things I've written and like two years later someone shares it on Facebook and everyone starts reading it and liking it and that goes a little bit crazy and it's still the number one article on the blog to this day even.
Andrea: What is the article?
Noa: It's "How many hours a day should you practice?"
Andrea: I wonder if that was my introduction to your blog.
Noa: So that was probably like the last– I think that sort of like turning 21 like that's like the last really big huge thing maybe because increasingly over the years, actually, I've gotten much better at not even bothering to look at how many people are subscribing every week. No reminder who was subscribing, let alone who's unsubscribing. A normal Sunday for me is like 60, 70, 80 people unsubscribing to say "I don't want to hear from you anymore" and it doesn't feel like nothing but it's like "Okay, that's normal," like you've decided that this is not right for you. So I get it like you can go off and find whatever it is actually more right for you and I won't worry about it so much.
Andrea: Yeah so just like your level of care over what the meaning is of people unsubscribing is over the years.
Noa: Right and I just really try to focus more if this is something that I believe in that I think is meaningful and useful and hopefully someone will find beneficial and their teaching and their performing and their practicing and kind of satisfy myself of the kind of internal locus of evaluation as a psychologist would say.
Andrea: When did you realize that Bulletproof Musician could be its own business like you've got courses, you have speaking engagements, all of these sorts of things. When did that seem like a viable option?
Noa: It took quite a while. I was looking back at some past history of emails and so forth to try to remind myself what the process or journey looks like and I did write this ebook maybe in 2010 that about a year and I was like "You know what? Let me see if I can write something that people might find useful that I could sell," and I think it might have been priced like $19 or something so like I could get a pizza on this place down the street and it's like really cool when somebody actually bought it and I was like "Oh, that's a real person buying pizza from me," in such a way like I can get a pizza for the family and now it's kind of exciting.
And then when I got my first email from someone who have bought that who's really thankful and grateful and found it really useful, that was like even better. It's like "Oh, cool." This is some stranger whose life I was able to make some tiny difference and without ever having met them or done things in a normal way like we normally have to teach somebody live in person in our geographic area in order to be helpful and I thought that was pretty cool. But even that, it was like I'd get pizza money once a week or once every couple of weeks and that wasn't kind of pay the rent or electricity or anything so I wasn't sure about that and it was maybe [unclear 15:40] when I started teaching class at Julliard and starts developing all this material and I remember sitting in the hallway because that's where my desk and office was in our one-bedroom apartment and here I can talk to my wife who was in the kitchen close enough to my "office" and I was like "You know, I've seen people do these online courses," and this is before the days when like Teachable or when all these actual things existed. It was I don't know exactly how people were doing it. It was like a zipped file full of videos and PDFs and audio files I think. I was like, I mean, I have all this material but I'm teaching my students and they seemed to like it okay like what would happen if I put this online.
And I was asking because it was like this is going to take a lot of time and energy and I could see it being kind of all-consuming like I don't know if it's going to be worth it at the end of the day like is anyone going to buy this thing and she didn't have any answer either but I was like "You know what? I'll just do it. I'll try it," and I was thinking "Oh you know I'll get it done over the summer," and of course it took way more time than that. It ended up being like nine months of I'd be waking up at 5:00 in the morning to record while the kids were still sleeping so you can hear them in the background and work on other stuff and into the wee hours of the night. All this said, I did eventually put it out there and in that first month obviously launches are a little bit different where there is a lot more excitement and then it kind of stabilizes to normal but after the launch, I think I made enough that we're able to pay rent with just that on that first month and so I was like I don't see this being sustainable like this at all but that was pretty awesome and maybe there is something here. And it wasn't sustainable at that level but it did result in recurring sales and it was interesting. It took a while for the sales to be enough to regularly pay rent like it might have taken a few years even to get to that point but there was consistent growth.
I think it wasn't like a moment where I was like "Oh this is a business, this is a thing." It was like a long growing up period of several years. It was like "Is this a thing? Is this not a thing?" Okay, I just can't trust it like it goes up and down like is this going to ever get somewhere? It was very ambiguous for quite a long time before I started getting some promise like "Okay, I can more or less trust and I'm still like there's a part of me that's not sure but there are enough years now. I can look back at the rear view mirror to feel a little bit more secure and then more and more people are doing it and more people have been saying that this is kind of how these things work that have a little more confidence and trusting that this is actually a thing.
Andrea: So now, is Bulletproof Musician part of your financial plan personally like it's something you rely on or is it extra? How do you see it?
Noa: This has now become like everything that is a part of Bulletproof whether it's courses or speaking like workshops, individual clients, like that's the primary source of income for me at this point and the teaching that I do and some of those other things are more like not extra like it's all really necessary but like that's not the primary revenue stream. At one point I had an administrative position and I had other more full-time reliable things like health insurance and so forth, but increasingly, I feel fortunate that this has enabled to allow me to do more of this kind of work essentially because this is the sort of thing that I get excited about and I enjoy doing and that it's also sustainable financially is kind of fine.
Andrea: That raised up a really good point too just about supporting the people whose material you appreciate like buying the books or things like that or the compositions because it does make it so possible for someone to do it to spend more time on it.
Noa: Yeah, I mean, this is a personal thing like there are certain plug-ins or not so much service because there is I think always a membership model but you know how that is like whether that's a theme or whether it's a plug-in that does this specialized thing in your blog instead of it being a one-time fee, increasingly people are moving to this membership model. At first I was really kind of annoyed because that wasn't typical and usually you pay $20 or $50 and you get this plug-in and updates forever is kind of the expectation but then they started moving to now it's like $20 a year or $10 a year or something and it kind of rubbed me the wrong way but I started to appreciate it and looking at it. Yeah, that enables a person to continue to work on that particular plug-in and make sure that it tracks with past updates and other things that are happening in the business and so forth. Now I don't resent it so much. I will gladly pay the $20 a year or the $4 a month to make sure I'm able to have this function on my website.
Andrea: Yeah, it's really nice because you can say I rely on this plug-in or this little tool to run my business and by me paying that $20 a year it lets someone rely on their business to support them and continue working, yeah, so over the years, what kinds of financial investments have you made in your business? Are there plug-ins or are there any other big or small financial investments you've made?
Noa: Yeah, I mean, obviously computer and I don't like waiting around for my computer to do things for me so I definitely, even if it's painful at the time I've invested in RAM for instance, like I will max it up at around and yeah, like there have been some things like the mic that I'm using now and so forth. I think primarily, though, what I've invested in was kind of interesting for me to think about this because I guess I have thought of it as investments but I have a different connotation with it but I've certainly invested a lot of training and courses and things to try to learn the business side of things a little bit more. And most of my investments that I think and then like recurring software or online related things like higher quality WordPress themes. I used to use free things or cheaper themes that I would have to spend hours to CSS the crap out of them and make it work and going through the gazillions of Google fonts that are free, to find ones that go well together. So I spent a lot of time I think doing that sort of thing until I was like, you know what? I'm just going to buy something that when I use it and I look at it it makes me happy and it's been so worth it like premium plug-ins instead of trying to hack the free ones to work. And even with hosting and mailing list services I've kind of sucked it up and just run for the pricier but more reliable, faster ones with backups and staging sites and so forth and that's like I can't go back now, even like web fonts and so forth instead of trying to find nice-looking Google fonts.
Andrea: Yeah, valuing things that save you time. Were there any investments that you made that you later regretted?
Noa: I mean I could probably think of some if I tried hard. Honestly, though, I've made so many mistakes and screwed up so many things that I feel like that's just part of the learning experience if I try a theme that ends up being a complete waste of time. Part of it I think too is I just enjoy messing around with all of the stuff so even if it makes things worse in the short term and I have to go in a different direction, I still enjoy it like I would gladly do that kind of thing all the time. So to me I guess it doesn't feel like a bad decision or waste, just a little frustrating at the time but I still enjoy the process of experimenting with it.
Andrea: How about anything that you may be resisted investing in when you talk of WordPress themes that once you finally did take the plunge like "Oh, I should have got this years ago"?
Noa: Probably all the things that I've paid for like I always try to get away with, whether it's open source software or something like I just try to– there's also part of me that's a little bit contrarian so like if everyone is using this thing even though they say it's nice but there's this other like kind of funky, it's sort of like when everyone was using Zoom I was like well there's this open-source kind of thing called Jitsi Meet that nobody uses but a few people I've heard talk about and it has these benefits because the Codec is this or that. There's a part of me that's like I got to find a way to make this better, but then ultimately, sometimes the thing that everyone is using is better or the thing that people say is better is better and so, yeah, anytime I think I've finally went for something that makes things easy I was like, "Yeah, I should have just," but then again I'm still going to do the same thing like the next thing that comes along I'll try to find some alternative version and maybe see if that works better and then eventually kind of fall in line with the thing that I should have done first.
Andrea: I know exactly what that's like. What are some of the things that have really helped move the needle on your business, helping it grow or getting the word out<|fim_middle|> TikTok accounts, offer summer camps and group lessons, host extravagant concerts or recitals, you know what I'm talking about. There's almost an assumption that because you can, you should. And, you know, I say "entrepreneurial types" like they're other people. But if you're listening to this podcast, it's likely YOU are the entrepreneurial type in your own life. And it can be really hard to turn off that voice when it comes from inside your own head.
One of the things I really appreciate about Noa is his thoughtful, measured approach. He doesn't immediately throw himself into doing everything and I think this serves him really well as a solo entrepreneur.
Rather than attempting to do everything, he chooses those things that will be sustainable in terms of his energy, motivation, and interest.
I wrote down what Noa said about evaluating new projects because I thought it was so great. He asks himself: "Is this something I believe in? That I think is meaningful and useful? And hopefully someone will find beneficial in their teaching or performing or practicing?" And then he said that he tries to satisfy himself with an "internal locus of evaluation."
How freeing does that sound???
Besides helping to maintain sanity, I think having an internal sense of conviction that what we're doing is personally meaningful, valuable and worthwhile is also critical for persevering through some of the harder stages of entrepreneurship, like when we're just starting out and don't always have results to show for our work AND even later on in the life of our business when we have to make a decision that might not be popular.
It's clear, Noa has a really strong sense of his personal interests and goals, but at the same time, he doesn't close himself off to suggestions and feedback.
It was interesting to hear him talk about how he's approaching the teacher certification program. It sounds like he has a great group of trusted business colleagues that helpfully challenge him to pursue things that might be outside his comfort zone. This kind of support is invaluable!
Even still, when it comes to the actual implementation, Noa does his own processing to reconcile the group's recommendations with what he finds personally meaningful and sustainable for his business.
I think this unfrantic, long-term perspective has helped Noa avoid the burnout that so many entrepreneurs face and build a very well-respected business.
I guess it should come as no surprise that someone who has dedicated his career to helping others perform at their best is also paying attention to how he can best perform as an entrepreneur.
One of my hopes for this podcast is that it isn't too prescriptive…
One of my hopes with the conversations in this podcast is that they demonstrate the vast array of what a business can look like and give you the confidence or the permission to pursue your own vision for your entrepreneurial career, and not be held captive by all the things someone else is telling you you "should" be doing.
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Noa: I wish I knew that a little bit better. It used to be clear to me what was leading to what, I mean, for instance that first moment where someone shared something on Facebook, I'm pretty sure I know exactly who it was, I know when it happened like I knew a little bit more about it then but nowadays, I don't quite understand, not that I ever really did, but it's harder for me to figure out what is happening with Facebook or Twitter or like I don't know how to track what is actually happening as much as I used to. I don't know how the algorithm is doing things and making certain things appear and other things not and I think in the early going it's a little bit easy for me to have like a strategy for getting the word out and one of the things I use to do even which was recommended and I believe it was in this book called Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk, I'm sure a lot of people listening to this are familiar with. He said one of the strategies that can be helpful is to just be present in other people's blogs. Just leave comments that are helpful. Don't ever reference your own thing that you wrote about it but like link to other people's like just be a resource in other people's preference as well. And obviously, when you do that, you leave your websites associated with your name and email address and so when people read your post it's like, "Oh, that was a really helpful article on some other random site that this person shared. This person seems knowledgeable. I wonder what this website that they have is all about," I mean, because that's how I used to find a lot of sites that I was interested in following and that's sort of one of the key strategies that seemed to be initially most helpful and within the needle. Nowadays, I think it's a lot, it's clear to me and I think a lot of it is more like word of mouth, forwarding emails to friends that they might get in their Inbox and things that are a little bit harder for me to track so I should probably know a little bit more if I really wanted to move the needle but that hasn't, for whatever reason, better or worse than top of mind that they're present so.
Andrea: And then, you've added things over the years like you started the blog and you've got the podcast now. How have you thought about incorporating those new things, whether it's a course or a book or expanding, how do you think about and make those decisions?
Noa: Part of it has been kind of organic just like that course. The podcast happened because I had an eye injury a couple of years ago and I couldn't really see for a while and so reading was kind of tough and I felt this sort of internal pressure to keep creating things. It's on a weekly basis and so the only way I could really do that, given my limited time was to interview people, to talk to people and just kind of put that up. And so that happened and at the same time I was kind of stuck a bit like just listening to podcasts because I couldn't read. I don't really like to watch TV and so one of the podcasts that I was kind of aware for a while but haven't listened to regularly was the Savvy Psychologist I think it was called. She's now become a friend and a part of this Mastermind group and we meet every month to chat about business-type things and pass ideas out together and so forth, but her podcast format was the first time when I saw someone do basically a read aloud version of what they had already written and then sprinkling in actual interviews with other people intermittently as I go. I didn't know you could do that. I could do that. So that was one of the podcasts in its current formats started because if it was something where it had to be interviews every week, I don't feel like that would have been sustainable for me and so I wouldn't have done it but that was like an organic thing that happened that would have helped me move in that direction.
And then, being part of this Mastermind group I think has been part of it too like we're all kind of pushing each other and increasingly as you'd gotten to know each other we know where we tend to hesitate like things that we could do but we don't because we feel insecure or we feel like a little bit of an impostor or we're just worried what the response will be or like you know, we all have all these different insecurities and so forth so we started to get to know each other and we push each other a little bit to challenge our beliefs and insecurities and so forth. Some of the things that have started happening more in the last couple of years have been a result of that group, seeing what they're doing and then, you know, from struggling with something they'll say "Well, have you thought about this?" or "What if you try this?" and at first I'm like "Yeah, I don't want to do that," but then I think "Okay, you guys are right." "You guys are smart." I should probably at least entertain the idea and then it might grow into something slightly different but still kind of continues to help move me forward.
Andrea: Is there anything right now that you're willing to share that you know you probably should do but maybe you're holding yourself back?
Noa: Yeah, this has been pushed to the backburner for years, really, because one of the best ideas has come from people who send me an email or people I run into who said "Have you thought about this?" or "Could you do this?" and one of them was the idea of like a Teacher Certification Program where they would basically go through a lengthier process of learning some of these skills that I teach my own classes or my own students and kind of help their Life Coaching Certification Programs or Teacher Certification Programs and so forth. Back about a few years ago that's something that is starting to move a little bit more into one of the front burners.
Andrea: Yeah, that sounds interesting. I noticed that one of your courses on your site right now is a "Pay what you can" model or a "Pay what you want" model. Is this something you've done before? Is this an experiment that you're trying for the first time?
Noa: Yeah, that was totally an experiment. That's a good example. I'd totally forgotten about that. So that came about because I got an email from somebody who wished that there was some tiny bite-sized not course but just like a little bite-sized kind of how do I put this in a practice during the week kind of thing. You know this has been a reader who has been a reader for years and wanted to support me in some way but didn't want to buy the course because I wasn't relevant to them and so they kind of asked, "Would you ever consider doing something like this." And it wasn't exactly what ended up happening but it was an idea that kind of prompted this idea in my own head so I was like, "Let's try this out" and initially my idea was what if I came up with like an actionable packet like a 5-paged or 3-paged something every week associated with the post that I wrote, which also forced me to practice making sure that things that are ready about were actionable and potentially maybe it find its way into workshops or classes and the course and so forth. So everything ends up being part of the equation in my head and so it's like it would be a good challenge for me.
And so I tried that out and it was an interesting experiment and I've kept it up and people continued to find it useful but it turned out that that was not sustainable for me. It's really difficult for me to think of how can I make this actionable in a 6-day plan kind of way, like I can make something actionable in a general way. We'll consider trying this but to make it worth paying the money for where it's like, okay on Monday do this, on Tuesday do this, on Wednesday do this, that was actually more challenging than I expected given the time constraint of the week so I ended up stopping that after a little bit.
Andrea: So just generating that much content in an actionable way was the unsustainable part?
Noa: Yeah, yeah, and because that's really kind of one of my metrics is probably not the right word but I'm really big on does this feel sustainable to me because if it doesn't feel sustainable to me in terms of motivation or energy or time, I know that I need to find a better way so I need to prioritize my time on things that do feel sustainable otherwise I'm going to burn out.
Andrea: What have you learned from the pricing part of it like how have people paid for it versus what you thought it was worth and what have you learned there?
Noa: Well it's interesting to look at the range and also the average number and I think I like that it's a pay what you want so that people can, regardless of their level of interest or their particular financial situation, they're able to feel comfortable, kind of like when you're checking out you don't necessarily think too hard about whether you're going to buy, you know, as a kid it's like you see all these interesting looking stuff at the checkout. They compared something too much about it because it's like 50 cents or a dollar or something and it doesn't break the bank too much one way or the other so I like that part of it. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it honestly at this point because I do like it being a little bite-sized chunk but pricing is, again, one of those personal areas of fear and doubt and insecurity. So yeah, I don't have a great answer for what the future holds for that.
Andrea: Yeah, I appreciate the experiment because it takes some guts to just do that, and then as we wrap up, are there any books that have a strong influence on you as an entrepreneur?
Noa: Yeah, I mean, certainly I think maybe one of the first ones I read was Crushing It by Gary Vaynerchuk and it's been years since I looked at that so I suspect it's all very relevant but it's been a while so I don't remember. He's written other things since and I think they're definitely much more relevant to right now. Anything by Seth Godin, I think Seth Godin was certainly the first person, I mean, a book like Permission Marketing that was written I think in the '90s but it's even more relevant now because I think you can see how things really have shifted. The idea of being instead of interrupting people that try to sell them things, the idea is to engage in marketing more as an education type of process where you try to teach people that the frustrations that they have in the practice room it's not them, it's not a talent thing, it's not something that they can't work on or experiment with they get better and so as people start to learn that they are capable of more than they might give themselves credit for, they become empowered and more curious and more engaged and more enthusiastic about trying new things and at some point they might ask you for help and they agree on what to try and how to do it and so forth, and that kind of focus on marketing as education as opposed to selling things to people and trying to convince them that you're awesome. The education part mean a lot more so that was really helpful to me in moving in this sort of direction.
And beyond books, I think, there are some websites that were certainly very helpful and continue to be actually. I don't read Copyblogger anymore or haven't lately but that was one of the first websites that I think I didn't know what copywriting meant and so learning how to write for basically writing in such a way that it prompts people to take action. That was a whole new thing for me and Copyblogger was hugely influential I think. Also IttyBiz, that's still one of my go-to resources for understanding how to do marketing in a non-icky, gross kind of way and the person who started that has passed it on to somebody else but in a lot of the same materials are there and the tone is kind of the same. The person who founded it, she used to have a real potty mouth and would use a lot of maybe rated R words. I just love that these people are themselves fully online, so IttyBiz is another site that I found pretty helpful. And then Psychotactics is another one of the first sites that I bought some training from and read way back even maybe in 2009 and 2010.
Andrea: Okay. And you have a really fantastic website. Have you done or continued to do all that yourself?
Noa: Yeah, I mean, I just enjoyed doing it and so it's been a learning process but also fun.
Andrea: Yeah, it's very clean and focused and so it speaks highly of these places of influence for you. And what are your goals for the coming year?
Noa: I am hoping to make some progress on this idea of a Teacher Certification Course, I mean, I have a lot of kind of personal insecurities about the audacity of such a thing but yeah, my group is pushing me to consider it and I've gotten more requests for that sort of thing and so I just have to find out what is going to make sense to me like what am I going to feel strongly about and feel good about and feel provides some really useful value to teachers who want to be able to teach courses on their own or share things with their students and kind of supplement their training in ways that I don't think any of us could have imagined 20-30 years ago, so that's kind of a big goal but that's the thing that I'm trying to make sure happens this year.
Andrea: I'm sure that listeners who are just ready to jump in as soon as you release that. And where can listeners get in touch with you and follow along with your work?
Noa: BulletproofMusician.com is probably the place to start but BulletproofMusician.com/subscribe will get you on to the list and the first thing that will happen is you'll get a link to a PDF I believe if you sign up through there but also, you'll get signed up for this one day for five days kind of course which will walk you through some things which do a pretty good job, I think, of illustrating the kind of thing that you'll find on the site, little exercises every day, little things to try in your practice that help you not only practice better and learn more and have more of it stick from day to day but also be able to execute under pressure a little bit more like you want.
Andrea: Alright, Noa thank you so much for taking us through your journey and just sharing some of the things you've learned along the way and some of the challenges you faced. I really appreciate it.
Noa: Yeah, my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
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CUT – The stereotypical entrepreneur If you've spent any time around entrepreneurially-minded people, you know that they tend to be a high energy bunch. This is great when it comes to putting new ideas into action, but the stories of burnout from trying to do "ALL THE THINGS" are all too common.
If you've spent any time around entrepreneurial types, you might be familiar with the feeling of pressure to DO ALL THE THINGS. Specifically what those "things" are varies depending on the business, but the pressure is the same: you need to keep up a blog, YouTube channel, Instagram and | 3,281 |
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Power(point) to the people with Dave Gorman as he prepares for Liverpool date
Comedian brings his trademark mastery of the computer programme to his Philharmonic Hall show in December
Comedian Dave Gorman who is bringing his Dave Gorman Gets Straight to the Point* (*The PowerPoint) tour to the Philharmonic Hall
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THERE was a week not so very long ago where comedian Dave Gorman appeared to be making a bid for world domination.
"It appeared to be a really successful Machiavellian scheme to try and dominate," he laughs. "Whereas it was just a complete coincidence that all these three things landed at the same time."
As coincidences go, it's a good one – the release of his new book, the screening of his new TV series, and the preparation for a major new tour of the UK, his first for three years.
Somebody up there is obviously a Gorman fan.
"The book deal was done before the first series was commissioned," Dave says. "And I had to start working on it the minute the first series finished, or we wouldn't have been able to do it at all.
"Then the tour was scheduled before the second series was commissioned. And then you're in a position where it turns out they're all being born at the same moment."
We're catching up, ostensibly to talk about the tour, Dave Gorman Gets Straight to the Point* (*The PowerPoint), coming to the Philharmonic Hall for a sold out show in December.
But it would be rude not to at least touch on the other parts of his 'triple threat' autumn.
The TV series, Modern Life is Goodish, showcases the 43-year-old's blend of stand-up and documentary comedy, offering a new take on things we generally take for granted – spam e-mails, government e-petitions, and 'greatest' hits albums for example.
It also utilises his trademark mastery of PowerPoint. But more of that later.
"When I'm on tour, that time on stage is the most enjoyable hour-and-a-bit of the day. I know friends who throw up before every show, and I think God, if that happened to me I'd just quit."
The new book, Dave Gorman: Too Much Information, meanwhile, will be a siren call to many of us who are of, shall we say, a certain age.
Like the rest of the world, Dave admits he's addicted to technology and the Internet. But he just wants us all to occasionally stop and<|fim_middle|> Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds – and Liverpool.
It helps that he's been a Red since childhood, something he describes as "a source of great joy".
Then again, a couple of tours ago he was taken to Goodison to see Everton play West Brom.
"It was a great game," Dave recalls, "but the guy who took me had so much fun with me. I had to do interviews with their football channel."
Dave Gorman Gets Straight to the Point* (*The PowerPoint) is at the Philharmonic Hall on December 8.
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"We're the last generation that can remember life before this, and now this," he points out. "We're straddling these two worlds. My nephews and nieces don't have any knowledge of life before the Internet.
"I was talking to one of my nieces and she didn't believe me that I'd lived with a black and white television. She thought nobody had a black and white television after 1940, and I was teasing her.
"She genuinely asked me if I had black and white Internet as well!"
Of course Dave relies on technology as an integral part of both his TV and live work, albeit the comparatively lo-fi technology of PowerPoint.
It allows him to reference all kinds of information and topics, some of which his audience may be familiar with and some of which they will never have seen before.
The show follows on from his 2011 PowerPoint Presentation tour, but will be all-new material not seen before on stage or TV.
After three years of writing and telly work, he's relishing being back on the road.
"I was at a family wedding," he reveals, "and one of my aunties asked did I get nervous? And I said no actually, I get excited, I really enjoy the time on stage.
Meanwhile Stafford-born Dave admits "a real fondness for the proper big Northern cities" like | 286 |
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Guests can enjoy a fusion of a la carte international flavours and speciality dishes, as well as snacks, accompanied by a fine wine list.
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Those with a sweet tooth will love the pattisserie cafe which serves fresh pastries and coffees, and the chocolatier which offers handmade Callebaut Chocolate varieties. desserts and a beverage service.
The hotel has 18 bars, each with its own unique style so there will be something to suit all ages and tastes.
Select from seven outdoor pools, including dedicated kids' and adults' pool, in addition to two indoor swimming pools.
Relax in the cabanas, which pepper the 300 metres of private sandy beach on the golden Mediterranean shores. Alternatively, take a stroll along the jetty and admire the panoramic sea views.
Maxxi Land features fun activities for all ages, complete with a fully-equipped smiling babies section for one to three year olds, a Mini Club for four to seven years, junior club for guests aged 8 to 12 years and an exclusive Teenager Club with Laser Tag, Pool, Pinball and PlayStation.
Children can also use the dedicated children's pool, enjoy a mini disco, cinema, playground and tailored fun and educational activities.
Especially designed for younger guests, children can choose from their favourite foods and healthy snacks in a warm and friendly restaurant.
Indulge in 3,000 square metres of pure rest and relaxation as you sample an array of treatments and massages, including Hammams, skin rejuvenation and full body massages. Take a dip in the indoor pool or relax in the Turkish bath, sauna and steam room to ease yourself into holiday mode.
Children can make a splash with a variety of exciting, child-friendly rides, slides and water fountains as parents supervise from the nearby pool area.
Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort is home to the legendary Montgomerie Maxx Royale 18-hole golf course. Designed by golf legend Colin Montgomerie it offers stunning views of the sea and parkland.
Sample a plethora of water based activities at the Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort, from parasailing to catamarans, and water skiing to surfing, canoeing and wind surfing. There is something for everyone as you enjoy the Turkish sunshine.
Nestled on Turkey's sun-kissed Mediterranean Coast, the Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort enjoys an enviable location on its own 300 metre private sandy beach. Belek is regarded as the Beverley Hills of the Turkish Riviera and attracts an international crowd to its picture postcard shores.
Upmarket hotels and swish eateries are sprinkled along the beachfront, and beyond the beach are world class golf courses. There are eight golf courses to choose, while for a slice of history you can head to Belek town centre and stroll within the Roman city walls.
Maxx Royal Belek Golf Resort is 30 minutes from Antalya Airport.
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second time visiting and maxx royal hasn't failed us, the resort is top class from food to daily activities by the animation team. there is something for everyone. definitely will be visiting again soon. the entertainment on a daily basis was amazing. the kids love this place.
" Maxx Royal-The best hotel in Antalya!
Apart from the many amenities, great food, luxurious rooms, continuous entertainment.. the excellent service stands out the most.. worth mentioning is the fact that we were due to check out of the hotel on the morning of the 20th April and fly out of Antalya on a late night flight.. as an arrival was due to check into our room, we were duly checked out but out assistants Aelita and Oksana, made sure that they accommodate our family by allowing us the opportunity to spend the entire day at Maxx and even went the extra mile to arrange For another room for us at no extra charge.. just to ensure our family was comfortable during our last hours at the hotel and even though there was no duty on them to do so Additionally, all the staff a super friendly.. but visit the azure 24 restaurant..one particular waiter stands out there, he goes by the name Rahimi Onscan.. brilliant service. | two bathrooms with showers, a dressing area and two balconies, one of which has a Jacuzzi®.
Terrace Laguna Family Suites are also located within the family suite block and measure 100m². They consist of two bedrooms, one bathroom with shower, one bathroom with Jacuzzi® shower, dressing room, sitting area, terrace and have views and direct access to the pool terrace.
Family Suites Land View are located within the main building and measure 100m². They feature two bedrooms, one bathroom with Jacuzzi® bathtub or Jacuzzi® shower, one bathroom with shower, sitting area, dressing area and balcony.
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Using the cardboard template of my Gare du Nord facade, and three plastic trees, I sketched out a possible street plan to match<|fim_middle|> right thing.
Does want to want mean the same as want to enjoy?
Unfortunately, domestic duties are beckoning so will now have to stop these musings. Will tidy them up tomorrow, I hope. | the above.
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There are no doubt many categories of intercessionary prayer eg when there is drought, asking God for rain.
The category I'm interested in is when we ask God to help us to do the right thing.
In the New Testament, Romans VII, Paul discusses the issue of our wanting to do the right thing.
Stage 1: determining what is the right thing to do.
Stage 2: wanting to do it.
Stage 3: having the strength of will to do it.
Clearly, the concept of "wanting" needs some examination.
Does "wanting" to do something entail "enjoying" doing it.
I don't want to go swimming because I don't enjoy it.
But, I wish that I did enjoy it.
In otherwords, I want to want to go swimming.
And, I want to want to do the | 205 |
Home New Mexico History Historical Churches San Francisco de Asís Church
San Francisco de Asís Church
Spanish settlers established small communities in the Taos valley, south of Taos Pueblo, after the Spanish reconquest of the region in 1692. Ranchos de Taos, established in 1725, was the first location in the Taos Valley resettled by the Spaniards. It is an appealing area for farming and ranching. There are two reliable sources of water, the Rio Chiquito and Rio Grande del Rancho. A network of acequias run like veins through the community, distributing water from the rivers to nearby fields of wheat and corn.
By the 1760s, Ranchos de Taos was a well-established village comprised of Spanish families, Genizaros, a band of Jicarilla Apache, as well as a few residents from nearby Taos Pueblo. However, Comanche raids in the 1760s and 1770s intensified, with village men killed. In August, 1760 Comanche raiders kidnapped sixty village women and children. The settlers were forced to abandon their fields, taking shelter at Taos Pueblo, where the communities collaborated to defend themselves against the mutual threat of raiding parties.
Settlers cautiously returned to their fields when the raids subsided in frequency and intensity. They rebuilt their community with enhanced defense in mind. For example, the rooftops of the buildings combined with strategically placed towers provided defensible positions. They built living and storage quarters in long rows surrounding an open, 2-acre plaza used to secure the community's livestock during raids. Additionally, they constructed tall adobe walls to fortify the plaza, with a secured entry gate. The added defenses allowed<|fim_middle|> building to preserve it.
Visitors are welcome to watch a documentary about the painting and view it in the light and the dark for $3/person. All proceeds go to church maintenance and upkeep.
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60 St Francis Plaza
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Directions: San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church, a National Historic Landmark, is located at 60 St Francis Plaza in Ranchos de Taos, NM on NM 68 four miles southwest of Taos.
The church is open Monday through Saturday from 9 AM – 4 PM
5 PM Mass – Saturdays; 8 AM Mass (Spanish); 10 AM Mass (English) on Sundays
6:45 AM Communion Services Mondays & Tuesdays, 6:45 AM Mass on Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays.
Monday thru Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM (Closed for Lunch, 12:30-1 PM)
Sat & Sun, 9 AM to 4 PM (Closed for Lunch, 12:30-1 PM)
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The World Heritage Society recognized Taos Pueblo as one of the most significant historical cultural landmarks in the world in 1992.
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https://youtu.be/9Fk6eyHPfj8 | the community to prosper, becoming the largest Spanish settlement in the Taos valley by 1780.
The centerpiece of Ranchos de Taos is the San Francisco de Asís church, a beautiful example of Spanish Colonial architecture. Of the original churches built in the Taos area, it is the only one that is still intact and actively serving a congregation. The parish includes the outlying "Capillas" of Nuestra Señora de San Juan de los Lagos in Talpa, Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Llano Quemado, and San Isidro Labrador in Los Cordovas.
Completed in 1815, construction on the formidable adobe edifice began in 1772. The church doubled as a temple of worship and a formidable fortress. Treasures of the Spanish Colonial period are preserved inside, including two hand-carved and hand-painted reredos (altar screens).
The distinctive architecture, particularly the massive "beehive" shaped buttresses in the back, made the church iconic. It has served as a compelling muse for countless artists and photographers over the years, including Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams. The Taos Chamber of Commerce claims the building is "one of the most photographed and painted churches in the world". I have no idea if this is true. Who counts these things? Regardless, Congress recognized San Francisco de Asís as a National Historic Landmark in 1970. It is also designated as a World Heritage church.
San Francisco de Asís version of Adobe Pro. Members of the community gather for two weeks every spring to re-mud the exterior of the church and the walls.
The Enjarre
San Francisco de Asís has undergone numerous additions, remodels, and renovations over the centuries, most recently in 1850, 1916, 1933, and 1967. Shops, trading posts, galleries, and restaurants have replaced the old barracks, living quarters, and stables.
The remodel in 1967 was extensive. They replaced the roof, vigas, doors, and most of the original corbels with copies of the originals. They preserved the original sanctuary woodwork. However, when they tried to protect the walls and exterior with hard plaster, it trapped moisture, damaging the underlying adobe bricks. Fortunately, the community united to protect their beloved church. They resumed the labor intensive tradition of "The Enjarre", aka "the mudding." Mudding involves applying a new layer of mud (sand/clay) mixed with straw to the entire structure and the walls. The annual adobe facelift is a two week labor of love in June, a renewal of the church and the community. Forty to sixty people participating every day.
The Mystery Painting | The Shadows of the Cross
The Parish Hall, north of the church, houses an 18th century oil painting by Canadian artist Henri Ault, The Shadow of the Cross, aka The Mystery Painting. The 8-foot painting depicts Jesus standing on the banks of the Sea of Galilee. However, the enigmatic painting changes in the dark, glowing mysteriously, with shadows and silhouettes appearing in the background, including a large cross and a ship in the distance.
The luminescent painting was exhibited worldwide at the turn of the 20th century, including at the 1904 World Fair in St. Louis. A wealthy parishioner purchased the painting and donated it to the church in 1948. Though it was originally displayed inside the church, they relocated it to a controlled environment in a separate | 752 |
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Titled Book Box, it helps children from zero to five years learn to love books and reading, while engaged in a play-based experience.
"I'm delighted to see this at Ormeau Community Centre,'' said Acting Mayor Donna Gates.
Book Box is a dedicated early years' space at Ormeau, featuring both a book-lending and play-based learning environment.
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Are Your People Growing as Your Company Grows?
Hiring good people is never easy, and it appears to be getting even more difficult: With the economy picking up speed, small businesses now say that finding the right employees has emerged as the number one challenge to their continued expansion. That's the first time in a decade that hiring has been identified as the top barrier to growth, according to the 2016 American Express Open Small Business Monitor.
Even if you have great employees today, a related challenge is helping them develop their skills as the company grows and operations become more complex. Sometimes even the founder of the company may find that his or her skillset isn't what it needs to be.
A trio of successful entrepreneurs addressed the many interrelated challenges of hiring, retaining, and developing employees at "Power to the Small," a panel discussion sponsored by Windstream, a provider of advanced network communications and technology solutions.
There was general agreement that one key is to hire people based on their ability to develop and grow alongside with the company. One way to do that, suggests Toa Green, founder of Crank and Boom Craft Ice Cream, is to hire people based not<|fim_middle|>. The jumping-off point in our company is receptionist. If you're the best receptionist, you won't stay a receptionist for long because you'll get a higher-level job."
One employee who came to Big Ass Solutions as an intern less than a decade ago now leads a $70 million division, and another who started as a temp in manufacturing is now in charge of quality control on a product line.
But the ability to switch to new positions isn't limited to junior employees. Smith hired an experienced writer who later told him she wanted to work in the company's blossoming international operation instead. As much as possible, Smith avoids hiring external candidates for senior positions, preferring instead to develop current employees, because they understand the company's culture. "When you hire people who have worked for larger companies," Smith says, "they're used to being in silos and being constrained. They don't think outside the box."
Entrepreneurs also need to be open to their own deficiencies as their company grows, according to Michael Tetterton, CEO of Creative Lodging Solutions, which helps companies save time and money on hotel reservations, hotel invoice consolidation, and travel programs.
Often that is an issue of time rather than ability. He recalls that he and his CFO initially took joint responsibility for a key task: conducting client reviews. But they each had so much on their plate that they never got around to it. Finally, they gave the job to another worker who, Tetterton says, handled it much better than either he or his CFO would have.
"Giving up control is tough when you're a Type A individual," he says. "But I've surrounded myself with good people, people I trust with my life. They're very open about coming to me and saying, 'You're doing this well, but you don't do this well.'"
He adds by being open to his own shortcomings, he's made his company stronger--and created opportunities for other employees to expand their roles and make bigger contributions to the company's success. | only on the specific skills and experiences they can bring to the job, but also on their creativity and long-term goals. So she designed a job application that includes questions such as "What is your dream job?" and "What are your hobbies/passions?"
"People with big dreams and strong passions tend to be the most successful in our company," Green says. "They know how to work hard for something. I like to paint the picture for our team that their time with us, at least for most of them, is a path to something else."
Carey Smith, CEO of Big Ass Solutions, a maker of fans and related ventilation equipment, believes in hiring people for their curiosity and sense of humor, because he believes those traits are strongly associated with flexibility and initiative. His employees, who often come to the company straight out of high school, rotate across different positions, an approach he says has worked out well.
"They don't know what they're good at until they work at something for a while," he says. "I also believe in hiring people for their next job | 215 |
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Aircraft of Iberia airlines with the fans of Costa Rica was received in Kurumoch
Kurumoch international airport (part of Airports of Regions Holding) has received the first flight of Iberia airlines, the national carrier of Spain. The wide-body Airbus-330-200, performing a flight from Madrid to Samara, landed at Kurumoch at 20.00. By tradition, the new airline was welcomed by a water arch on the apron. Iberia has brought 283 passengers and 4.5 tons of baggage to support the Costa Rica national team which will play in the first match of the 2018 World Cup in Samara together with the national team<|fim_middle|> and land in Kurumoch every 11.5 minutes | of Serbia.
Iberia is one of the oldest airlines in Europe, and began flying in 1927. The route network has about 90 directions. There are 131 aircraft (including regional and cargo ones) in the carrier's fleet. In 2016, Iberia was named the most punctual airline. It had not performed flights to Samara until that time. Iberia is a member of Oneworld, an aviation alliance.
Servicing of the Airbus-330-200 type aircraft at Samara airport became possible after the renovation and commissioning of the second runway in December 2017. Runway-2 is 3,001 meters long and 45 meters wide, with PCN (Pavement Classification Number) of 82/R/C/X/T; the runway is paved with asphalt concrete. These characteristics of Runway-2 make it possible to serve practically all modern long-range aircraft.
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Business|Writer's Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking
Writer's Cramp: In the E-Reader Era, a Book a Year Is Slacking
For years, it was a schedule as predictable as a calendar: novelists who specialized in mysteries, thrillers and romance would write one book a year, output that was considered not only sufficient, but productive.
But the e-book age has accelerated the metabolism of book publishing. Authors are now pulling the literary equivalent of a double shift, churning out short stories, novellas or even an extra full-length book each year.
They are trying to satisfy impatient readers who have become used to downloading any e-book they want at the touch of a button, and the publishers who are nudging them toward greater productivity in the belief that the more their authors' names are out in public, the bigger stars they will become.
"It used to be that once a year was a big deal," said Lisa Scottoline, a best-selling author of thrillers. "You could saturate the market. But today the culture is a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it."
The push for more material comes as publishers and booksellers are desperately looking for ways to hold onto readers being lured by other forms of entertainment, much of it available nonstop and almost instantaneously. Television shows are rushed online only hours after they are originally broadcast, and some movies are offered on demand at home before they have left theaters. In this environment, publishers say, producing one a book a year, and nothing else, is just not enough.
At the same time, the Internet has allowed readers to enjoy a more intimate relationship with their favorite authors, whom they now expect to be accessible online via blogs, Q. and A.'s on Twitter and updates on Facebook.
Some of the extra work is being pushed by authors themselves, who are easing their own fears that if they stay out of the fickle book market too long, they might be forgotten.
Ms. Scottoline has increased her output from one book a year to two, which she accomplishes with a brutal writing schedule: 2,000 words a day, seven days a week, usually "starting at 9 a.m. and going until Colbert," she said.
The British thriller writer Lee Child, who created the indelible character Jack Reacher, is now supplementing his hardcover books with short stories that are published in digital-only format, an increasingly popular strategy to drum up attention for the coming publication of a novel.
Mr. Child's first story, a 40-page exploration of Reacher as a teenager, was released last August, several weeks before his latest novel came out in print. On the advice of his publisher, he is planning to write another digital-only short story this summer.
"Everybody's doing a little more," said Mr. Child, who is published by Delacorte Press, part of Random House. "It seems like we're all running faster to stay in the same place."
Even John Grisham is working overtime. Mr. Grisham, who used to write one book each year, now does an additional series aimed at middle-grade readers, the popular "Theodore Boone" novels that are published annually.
The author Lisa Scottoline, who writes thrillers, has increased her yearly output from one book to two because, she said, "the culture is<|fim_middle|> Advances are typically not part of the bargain, and the works are priced so low (usually $0.99 or $1.99) that they don't produce much revenue, even if they take several weeks or months to write.
But some authors said that even though they are beginning to accept them as one of the necessary requirements of book marketing, they still find them taxing to produce.
"I have been known to be a little grumpy on the subject sometimes," said Steve Berry, a popular thriller writer who writes short stories that are released between books. "It does sap away some of your energy. You don't ever want to get into a situation where your worth is being judged by the amount of your productivity." | a great big hungry maw, and you have to feed it."Credit...Ryan Collerd for The New York Times
Publishers say that a carefully released short story, timed six to eight weeks before a big hardcover comes out, can entice new readers who might be willing to pay 99 cents for a story but reluctant to spend $14 for a new e-book or $26 for a hardcover.
That can translate into higher preorder sales for the novel and even a lift in sales of older books by the author, which are easily accessible as e-book impulse purchases for consumers with Nooks or Kindles.
Jennifer Enderlin, the associate publisher of St. Martin's Paperbacks, said the strategy had worked for many of her authors, who saw a big uptick in hardcover sales, book over book, once they started releasing more work.
"I almost feel sorry for authors these days with how much publishers are asking of them," Ms. Enderlin said. "We always say, 'How about a little novella that we can sell for 99 cents?' "
That has replaced a carefully plotted print publication system, when readers waited eagerly for the yearly release of a favorite author's novel. At that rate, publishers reasoned, readers would never be overwhelmed by content.
Today's readers seem incapable of being overwhelmed.
Scott Schiefelbein, a lawyer in Portland, Ore., wrote an enthusiastic review last month on Amazon.com of "Second Son," a short story by Mr. Child that Mr. Schiefelbein read after buying his latest novel, "The Affair," on his Kindle.
There is "no limit" to the number of Mr. Child's books he would buy, Mr. Schiefelbein said.
"I'll give basically anything he writes a chance," he said. "With my favorite authors, I always want to read more from them."
Some of the biggest authors have become so productive that they are nearly an impossible act to follow. Airport bookstores these days can feature not just one stack of James Patterson books, but an entire rack of them, sometimes more than six titles at a time. Mr. Patterson produced 12 books last year, aided on some titles by co-writers. He will publish 13 this year.
"A lot of publishers and authors have looked at what James Patterson is doing and realized, 'I may not be able to publish nine books a year, but certainly I can do two,' " said Brian Tart, the publisher of Dutton, an imprint of Penguin. "They were able to grow him and grow the readership using that strategy."
(The new expectations do not apply to literary novelists like Jeffrey Eugenides and Jonathan Franzen, who can publish a new novel approximately every decade and still count on plenty of high-profile book reviews to promote it.)
Publishers also believe that Salinger-like reclusiveness, which once created an aura of intrigue around an author, is not a viable option in the age of interconnectivity. "Particularly now with social media, authors are constantly in contact with their fans in a way that they never were before," said Liate Stehlik, the publisher of William Morrow, Avon and Voyager, imprints of HarperCollins. "Now it seems to make more sense to have your author out in the media consciousness as much as you can."
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Record-breaking weekend was a test that proved Briana Williams is exactly where she should be, says coach
By Leighton Levy June 0<|fim_middle|> have put my entire life into this, my savings, my reputation, absolutely everything. It's taken 200% of my all to get here," Alexander said.
Like so many, Alexander admits to being a fan of cult classic Cool Runnings, the now immortal story that paid tribute to the appearance of the team at the 1988 Calgary Games.
"Had it not been for that movie and my friends making jokes about me being like Cool Runnings I don't think this plan would have been concocted," Alexander said.
He hopes at the very least to be an inspiration.
"I don't want to take anything away from the people who started from the age of two.
"My story is all about participation and hopefully inspiring the next generation of Jamaican children to start earlier than 32."
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Briana Williams' four races over two days last weekend was a test, one that she passed with flying colours notwithstanding a minor slip of along the way.
Williams, 19, who broke her national U20 record twice between Sunday and Monday night, ran times of 11.19 and 11.01 on Sunday at the JAC Summer Open in Jacksonville, Florida. The 11.01 lowered her national u20 record of 11.02 set in Albuquerque, New Mexico in June 2019.
The record would last just over 24 hours as on Monday night at the American Track League's Duval County Challenge inside Hodges Stadium in Jacksonville, she ran a wind-aided 10.97 and then a wind-legal 10.98 to lower the record once more.
Her coach, Ato Boldon, was pleased with everything, except Monday's poor start, that his young charge delivered over the two days and declared afterwards that she is right where he wanted her to be four weeks from Jamaica's National Championships to select a team to the Olympic Games in July.
"I liked the fact that she competed but it's just strange for me to not see Briana react well to the gun. She didn't react normally to the gun and then she panicked a little bit and stood up out of her drive phase," he said.
"It tells me that where I thought she should be, is where she is. That was 10.87, she lost about a tenth with not having a normal Briana start."
Looking at the bigger picture, Boldon said Williams proved that she is ready to handle multiple rounds of competition, circumstances she will face at the national championships at the end of June and at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, should she get there.
"The most important thing about this weekend is that this young lady ran 11.19, 11.01, 10.97 and 10.98 so her body can handle the work, she is ready for rounds. This was more a workout than anything else because I purposely wanted to push her," he said.
"We will back off this week and get her ready for the last couple of races and then get her ready for trials."
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Alexander secures historic qualification to Winter Olympics - athlete will be first to represent Jamaica in skiing
Former DJ Benjamin Alexander will become the first man to represent Jamaica, in skiing, at the Winter Olympics after qualifying for the Games last week.
Alexander will make his debut in the men's giant slalom and qualified for the event after finishing seventh at the Cape Verde National Ski Championships on January 12.
Born to a Jamaican father and English mother, the athlete, now 38, did not take up the sport until 5 years ago while on a visit to Canada. Now he will number among a handful of Jamaicans, 14 to be exact, that have made an appearance at the Games. The journey was anything but simple.
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