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O Ye of Little Faith
The Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool is the proud owner of the caul which belonged to Seaman James Fairclough, who was born with it in 1913. Fairclough carried the caul with him on during his naval career and was blessed for doing so - he survived two torpedo attacks.
Cauls are still actively sought by many sailors and occasionally appear on online auction sites. The Maritime Museum should pay heed to one caveat though - the caul should be buried or burnt with its owner in order for them to rest in peace.
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Biology > Human Anatomy
Mythology & Folklore > Festivities and Folklore
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Liverpool, Merseyside, UK | 03 | Updated Oct 12, 2006
A caul is the membrane that encases a foetus as it grows inside the womb. This foetal sack (or amniotic sac) is usually torn during the labour process and is peeled off and discarded after the newborn baby has been cleaned. Not a very tasteful subject for an entry, especially if you're eating your lunch.
However, when a caul covers the baby's face, it is often preserved by superstitious people. This facial caul becomes an omen of a dubious nature for both the baby and for whoever possesses the caul after it has been preserved. A caul can be preserved by drying it out or smoking it - part of its usage meant that it had to be easily worn/displayed.
Bad Omen
In the mythology of Eastern Europe it was believed that if your child was born with a caul, then it would grow up to be a vampire/werewolf. To stop this from happening the caul would be displayed prominently in the household. If a werewolf was believed to be attacking a certain area, then the caul would be tacked to the entrance of the house so that the beastie would know that the family were already cursed and thus leave them alone.
In Western Europe and the Americas, cauls were seen as a positive omen and sailors used to present them to their captain in order to protect the crew and ship from harm. It was considered extremely fortunate to enrol a sailor who was born with a caul onto your ship and such seaman were actively sought/press-ganged. The tradition is well chronicled and appears in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield:
I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of 15 guineas. Whether seagoing people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding | 406 |
The Intelligent Community: Wayne Walker, OurCalling
Posted by Robert Bell | March 6th, 2019
OurCalling (www.OurCalling.org) is a Dallas-based organization that has created an interactive<|fim_middle|> for the present and future.
About Robert Bell
Robert Bell is co-founder of the Intelligent Community Forum, where he heads its research, analysis and content development activities.
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OurCalling's app has a database of service providers for the poor, a list of resources such a clinics, food banks and rehab facilities, a calendar for volunteer opportunities, a way for individuals to report a situation where volunteers can go assist someone in need, and more. While it started in Dallas, they are currently working to expand nationally to provide information on services to homeless people all over the US.
Listen to this fascinating episode of The Intelligent Community to learn more about how OurCalling developed the app, the lessons they learned on building relationships, and their plans for what's to come with their mission.
OurCalling Founder and Executive Director Wayne Walker joined Robert Bell for this discussion. Wayne founded OurCalling in 2009 and serves as OurCalling's Executive Director and Pastor. He has his master's degree in Cross Cultural Ministry from Dallas Theological Seminary. As the founder and visionary for OurCalling, he champions and models its core cause, invites dialog and cooperates with other homeless-oriented service partners, and plans the organization's programs and strategies | 232 |
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Environmental Health New Ozone Standard Leaves Smog in the Air
March 13, 2008 The Pump Handle 3Comment
EPA has set the limit for pollution-forming ozone in the air to 75 ppb, despite the unanimous advice of the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee to set it between 60-70 ppb (more here on the health effects of ozone). This is hardly a surprise, given the Bush Administration's record. But in this case, it's apparently not enough to make a single standard insufficiently protective; administration officials have decided to take on the rulemaking requirements of the Clean Air Act. The Washington Post's Juliet Eilperin explains:
Administrator Stephen L. Johnson also said he would push Congress to rewrite the nearly 37-year-old Clean Air Act to allow regulators to take into consideration the cost and feasibility of controlling pollution when making decisions about air quality, something that is currently prohibited by the law. In 2001, the Supreme Court ruled that the government needed to base the ozone standard strictly on protecting public health, with no regard to cost. …
Documents obtained by The Washington Post indicate that White House officials chafed at the idea that they could not factor costs into the ozone rule, which requires setting one standard for protecting health and a separate one for protecting public welfare, and that the president himself intervened in the process Monday. In a March 6 memo to the EPA, Susan E. Dudley of the Office of Management and Budget questioned the need for two different ozone limits, noting that the Clean Air Act's definition of public welfare includes "effects on environmental values." The EPA's Marcus C. Peacock replied the next day that it is important to keep in mind that "EPA cannot consider costs in setting a secondary standard."
Matt Madia expounds on the two-rule issue and the White House's involvement:
While EPA's decision to set a standard of .075 ppm had been a foregone conclusion, but officials wrangled over whether to set a separate secondary standard. Under the Clean Air Act, EPA may set a secondary standard for the protection of public welfare. (The primary standard is to focus on public health.)
In the past, EPA has chosen not to set a secondary standard for ozone; but during this revision, the agency had prepared to set a more tailored, seasonal standard citing the vulnerability of certain plants sensitive to ozone's deleterious effects.
However, just days before EPA was ready to issue the new primary and secondary standards, Susan Dudley — the administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs who President Bush recess appointed last April — wrote to Johnson March 6 complaining EPA had not considered economics in proposing a new secondary standard and raising questions about the scientific justification for the decision.
Marcus Peacock, EPA's Deputy Administrator and Regulatory Policy Officer, shot back in a letter dated March 7. Peacock said EPA is prohibited from considering costs in setting the secondary standard, and that the agency had provided ample scientific rationale for its decision. An internal memo dated March 11 shows EPA was ready to ignore Dudley's complaints and set a new seasonal secondary standard for ozone.
Apparently, that's when the head honcho stepped in. According to Washington Post reporter Juliet Eilperin, "The rule's preamble indicates Bush settled the dispute March 11, saying the president concluded the secondary standard should be set 'to be identical to the new primary standard, the approach adopted when ozone standards were last promulgated.' "
The president's direct intervention in a rulemaking is rare and, in this case, damaging. The Decider at work.
He also reminds us that in the months leading up to the decision, EPA and OMB had several closed-door meetings with from the oil, auto, and electric industries.
This seems like a good time to revisit a statement from a journal of the American Thoracic Society, written when EPA was considering the new ozone standard (emphasis added):
Based on the strength of the scientific knowledge base regarding the adverse health effects of ozone air pollution, and the magnitude of public health impact such pollution has on the United States' population, especially on children, the American Thoracic Society has recommended that the EPA take action now to issue a stricter ozone standard of 0.060 ppm/8 hours. This recommendation is consistent with that of a number of other prominent expert scientific panels, including the EPA's own Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. Any action less stringent than a 0.060-ppm standard will effectively represent a failure of the EPA to fulfill its mandate under the Clean Air Act.
It seems that the EPA has indeed failed to fulfill its mandate under the Clean Air Act. And it seems that their response is to change the Act, magically transforming a failure into "success."
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3 thoughts on "New Ozone Standard Leaves Smog in the Air"
Sam E. says:
Bush is doing his best to re-make the EPA into the Extinct Protection Agency. He has deregulated everything else, and look how great that has turned out. The EPA itself is, at least at the higher levels of the agency, complicit in the crimes against the American people, the people of the world at large and all the living things of the world.
raymond bresnan says:
just another of many reasons why this country needs a new direction. rb seattle
cwazilla says:
I do belive for some reason bush in his(finite )wisdom thinks all that money he stole ah I mean made with his cronies oh I mean corprate benifactors is gonna save them from all that<|fim_middle|> gonna stop it from getting to u too when jenna or not jenna has her little hell spawn I hope it doesnt come out with mercury caused brain damage or some other ailment caused by your enviromental faliures then again the hell spawn will still be smarter than you | bad pollution that they have been dumping on the rest of us hey u idiots all the duct tape and plastic sheeting and 100 dollar bills isnt | 31 |
Last updated: November 18, 2017. My search for Route 66, #Route66, Rout 66 began early, about 4:45 AM. I woke up before the alarm. This was good because, well, there wasn't an alarm. The cell phone I use for an alarm clock went dead overnite "Searching for Service". Brekky at Micky D's in Hammond, Indiana then on West toward The Starting Point of Route 66, The Mother Road in Downtown Chicago.
"I Drove The Mother Road Route 66!".
Traveling from I-90, finding the embarkation point was easy and quick. Just set the GPS to 111 Adams and go with the flow. DownTown Chicago was pretty laid back, this being about 8 AM on a Saturday morning. The morning was lighted brilliantly by the sun. People were out walking and jogging downtown Chicago. Pretty quiet. The sign for Starting Point of the Mother Road is located at a bus stop, which is located on a "Buses Only" lane. I circled the block 3 times, each time pulling into the bus lane, stopping and getting pix of the RT 66 sign.
<|fim_middle|> to find because there was a couple staring up at it and taking pictures – my first '66ers' of the trip! They were in a white Ford pickup with NJ plates. Asking if they were going to drive the whole route, they answered that this was just a short shakedown for them. They had driven out to do about 180 miles in Illinois in preparation for driving the entire Mother Road by motorcycle next year. They tell me that a dinosaur is perched on top of a building further on – I assume they mean a few TOWNS further on. Whoops!
By the way, the spaceman goes by the moniker of 'Gemini Giant'.
Engage with the people you meet on #Route66, The Mother Road. The Main Street Of America is a long, skinny neighborhood. It's over two thousand miles long. Funny thing is, it is really a NEIGHBORHOOD – people on one end know people on the other end, know what is happening in the middle and are tuned into what is going on. Route 66 has a pulse and the way to feel it is by engaging with everyone you meet. You'd be surprised what you'll learn!
Blowin' In Marilyn's Ear With #IDroveTheMotherRoadRoute66.com. As You Can Tell, She Likes It.
Why is that tune from ZZTop goin' thru my head??
Buzze will stop at NOTHING to get to the bottom of a story for his loyal readers. He is never behind the times. As for that rumor….
the couple from NJ drove up in their pickup truck. "I must have missed something if I'm ahead of you now", I said.
I missed quite a bit, including the Sinclair Dinosaur on top of the building. "Where was it?" I asked. "In that first town we saw you". Whoops. Something to look for next time.
Remember, only 180 shopping days left until Christmas!
Don't forget to look at Page 2 for Day One on The Mother Road! | There are no hassles on #Route66. Adams is under construction just west of the sign. Just hang a left, travel a couple of blocks, hang a right, couple of blocks, hang a left and you're back on Adams, traveling West.
As you travel West, you will follow Ogden as it 'Ys' to the left. Within just a few miles, Downtown gives way to the SW 'Burbs of ChiTown. Traffic is light, very light, on this Saturday morning. I'm only a few minutes from what once was the largest city in America. Already there is a small-town feel to The Main Street Of America, Route 66.
As I drive Westward, there are more trees and greenery. Along the way I've made a switch to Joliet Rd.
is good in the city and 'burbs. I may have gotten off The Mother Road temporarily here, as for a few blocks the signage indicates "To Joliet Road West". Then I'm back on America's Main Street.
North of Joliet, Old Route 66 travelers are forced to hit the SuperSlab, I-55.
Since Ohio, I have been driving in what I call the "Thousand-Mile-Long Cornfield". After a brief detour through Chicago, I'm back in the cornfield again near Joliet.
A few miles later, I took I-55 Exit 268 to resume travel on The Mother Road.
Joliet has some interesting things, one thing being that US Route 6 travels through the town. Keep alert, there are some turns to be made in Joliet. Looking back, I wish I had spent more time here, but was in too much of a hurry to get into the 'real' Route 66 – What??? I'll spend more time in Joliet on my next trip on The Mother Road. I'll also have a better look around the Starting Point of Route 66 in Chicago. I traveled down Illinois 53 through Elwood.
My first – whoops – second – Muffler Man ever. But not my last for the day – keep reading.
Granny, what big FEET you have!
in Wilmington, Illinois was easy | 466 |
The secret to the most tender, juicy grilled chicken? Spatchcock it.
Ever come across a cooking term that leaves you reaching for the dictionary? I know I have countless times-especially when I'm rifling through the pages of my mother's vintage cookbooks. The latest technique that left me stumped was when a recipe asked me to "spatchcock the bird." I practically dropped my book. Spatch-what a bird?
Thankfully, experts in the Taste of Home Test Kitchen are here to clarify. To spatchcock-or to butterfly-a bird is to remove the backbone of a whole bird and lay it flat to cook. You can spatchcock practically any bird; think chickens, turkeys, Cornish game hens and even pigeons! Our resident food editor James Schend explains that this funny-sounding technique is one of the best ways to cook a bird. Looking for dinner right now? We've got 99 chicken dinners waiting for you.
It's quick. Because the bird is flattened, the cooking time is cut almost in half.
The bird cooks evenly. With a whole bird, the breast meat often dries out before the dark meat is done. By flattening the chicken, the legs and thighs (dark meat) will be more exposed to the heat and cook in the same time as the breast.
The skin gets nice and crispy. Since the whole bird is equally exposed to heat, every inch of its skin will evenly brown and develop that crave-worthy crispiness.
Convinced? Me too. Follow along as the Test Kitchen walks us through the easy steps for how to spatchcock chicken, then grill it up for maximum juiciness.
* While a glaze isn't mandatory for mastering this technique, we recommend brushing it onto your bird as it cooks. This will give it that mouthwatering flavor that keeps friends and family coming back for more.
In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup white wine to a boil; cook 3-4 minutes or until wine is reduced by half. Stir in 1 cup apricot preserves and 1 tablespoon stone-ground mustard. Set aside for grilling.
Place the whole chicken on a cutting board with the breast-side down. Locate the backbone along the center of the chicken. Starting at the tail (or pope's nose), use a sharp pair of kitchen shears to cut alongside the spine. Try to cut as close as you can to the backbone so you don't risk cutting any other joints. You may feel a little resistance as you cut through certain rib bones of the bird-in this case, press down on the shears with both hands.
Test Kitchen tip: If you're right-handed, it's easier to cut along the right side of the backbone. If you're a lefty, the left side of the chicken is your best bet.
Rotate chicken 180° so that the uncut side is closer to your dominant hand. Cut along the bone again and remove the backbone from the chicken.
Test Kitchen tip: Don't throw away that backbone! Place it in a resealable plastic bag and save it in the freezer for your next batch of homemade chicken stock.
Back to the bird: Flip it over so that the breast side is facing upward. With two hands (and a little bit of hulk-strength), press down firmly on the center of the bird until you hear a crack. This is the wishbone breaking! Voila. Your bird is successfully spatchcocked.
Hold up, we're not quite ready to cook just yet. See how those wings are splayed out?<|fim_middle|>'t get scorched.
Use a thermometer to tell if the chicken is ready. The thigh should read between 170-175°. Using a pair of long-handled tongs, carefully remove the bird from the grill. Be sure not to pierce the skin or you'll lose the bird's tender juiciness.
Test Kitchen tip: While it's safe to eat poultry once the meat has reached 165°, we prefer the flavor and texture of the thigh and leg meat when it's cooked between 170-175°. Learn more about food safe cooking temperatures, here.
Let the bird rest for at least 10 minutes before serving. The chicken needs to sit in order for the juices to lock into the meat. Don't fret: even after 10 minutes, it'll still be plenty warm enough to serve!
Alternatively, you can roast spatchcocked chicken in the oven. Place it on a roasting rack-or set it on top of a bed of veggies in a shallow baking pan. No need to flip. Just pop it in a 375° oven, breast-side up, until a thermometer reads 170° in its meatiest portion and 175° in the thigh. For more details, check out our step-by-step guide for how to roast chicken.
Get more grilled chicken recipes. | Give them a quick twist and tuck them underneath the body of the bird.
Test Kitchen tip: This helps keep the wingtips from burning and allows your bird to lie nice and flat.
Sprinkle the skin with kosher salt and pepper, and your chicken is good to go!
You can cook spatchcocked chicken a number of ways, but when the weather's nice, we prefer to grill ours outdoors. To prepare your grill, fire it up to indirect medium heat and grease the rack with a little oil.
Test Kitchen tip: We prefer to use hardwood charcoal for a rich, wood-fired flavor.
Let's grill! Place the chicken skin-side down over direct heat. Cover and let cook for 10-15 minutes. Take a peek. The bird should look nicely charred. However, keep a careful eye on the grill. Any fat that drips from the bird can cause the fire to flare-up.
Next, turn the chicken over (skin-side up) and move it over to indirect heat. Grill for about 30 minutes longer. If you've got a glaze ready, brush the glaze onto its skin to baste. A silicone brush works well for this. Repeat occasionally as your bird cooks.
Test Kitchen tip: If some of the bird is still hanging over the open flame, don't sweat it. The bones on the underside of the chicken will help to insulate the meat, keeping it from over-cooking. Just be sure to keep rotating it around so that a single side doesn | 309 |
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She was co-editor of Undercut magazine and has recently co-edited The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video, London (2002).
Nina Danino was Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, Camberwell College of Art, London and the Architectural Association. She is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmith's College, London.
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Unlikely Candidates Impress @ DC 101 Kerfuffle
As part of their US tour (which goes until July 20th!!), The Unlikely Candidates opened up the DC 101 Kerfuffle rock festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The group is from Texas – and you can learn more about their upcoming projects in our recent interview.
Vocalist Kyle Morris was energetic and active throughout their 45-minute set, engaging with fans and photographers throughout the show. Though the limited mobility of Morris' bandmates made interaction difficult, Brenton Carney (guitar) and Jared Hornbeek (bass) occasionally faced off in an extremely well-received riff battle – which helped highlight the impressive instrumental sections of the group's lesser-known songs. Drummer Kevin Goddard shined throughout, especially during his cymbal-heavy solo.
Big hits "Trampoline" and "Follow My Feet" had much of the crowd dancing along, and<|fim_middle|> Unlikely Candidates on the rest of their tour this summer, and look out for their EP, scheduled for release later this year!
Sara Carioscia | shouts from the expanse of fans on the lawn echoed through the pavilion in front. The audience traded bars with Morris on "Violence" and jumped along through "Your Love Could Start A War." My personal favorite was "Ringer", a catchy tune and easy sing along that built up audience involvement.
Established fans of The Unlikely Candidates were scattered through the packed festival crowd, but more remarkable were the groups of clearly new converts: people wearing t-shirts branded by the festival's headliners (Jimmy Eat World, Weezer) or other rock idols that were dancing throughout the venue, singing along with later renditions of the chorus.
The show was fantastic. The setlist included songs about love, angst, and happiness – and Morris was exceptionally entertaining. The group has a ton of potential, and we're definitely planning to keep track as they grow. Catch The | 177 |
CSH Talk by Sherry Towers: "Predicting and Preventing Extremist Violence with the Power of Quantitative and Visual Analytics"
Jan 26, 2023 | 15:00—16:00
2020 was a climacteric year in the United States, with widespread protests related to the pandemic, police violence, racial issues, and the presidential election. There was an explosion of violence associated with these protests that was often partisan in nature, and 2020 saw a dramatic rise in the participation of armed extremist groups in protests nationwide. Over the past three years I have collaborated with partners including Cure Violence Global, the Carter Center, and the Department of Homeland Security to better understand the temporal and geospatial trends in extremist and partisan violence in an effort to better direct on-the-ground<|fim_middle|>, OSINT, machine learning, high performance computing, and mathematical and computational dynamical modelling. With over 400 publications, her unique trans-disciplinary skill set enables her to examine a wide range of research questions in public health and the social sciences that are often of broad interest and importance to policy makers and the general public, including disease modelling, crime and violence risk analyses, and spread of extremist sentiments in a society. Her work in the computational social sciences has been high impactful with studies investigating how media can incite panic in a population, and how contagion may play a role in the temporal patterns observed in mass killings in the US. She is an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, and since 2007 has also been consulting for the public, private and non-profit sectors through her company, Towers Consulting, LLC.
If you would like to attend the talk, please sign-up via office@csh.ac.at
Sherry Towers will give a talk on Thursday , January 26, 2023 at 3 PM in Room 201.
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Andrea Musso, ETH Zürich » | community resources towards intervention efforts to prevent violent conflict. As I will discuss, pinpointing which communities are at highest risk of such violence involves a modelling approach informed with a wide variety of data on past protests and violence, political mobilization, socioeconomic demographics, social media data, OSINT, and data related to extremist recruitment and organizing activities. While modelling and quantitative analytics play a significant role in the process, it is critical to also include the "human intel" component, drawing upon the input of experts in partisan violence and extremism to best pinpoint areas for optimal intervention, facilitated by interactive data visualisation tools.
Dr. Sherry Towers is a data scientist with a diverse background in visual analytics, data mining, social media analytics | 143 |
Shirley and Igor Skaredoff. Photo courtesy of Save Mount Diablo
From Shanghai to San Francisco Bay, a Q&A With Igor Skaredoff
by Beth Slatkin
The son of Russian immigrants living in post-war Shanghai, Igor Skaredoff moved to California with his parents at the age of six, and has been here for most of his life. After a long career as an environmental engineer for Shell Oil, Skaredoff retired from industry and dedicated himself to advocating for the creeks and watersheds of Contra Costa County as a volunteer with the Friends of Alhambra Creek in Martinez and as chair of the Contra Costa Resource Conservation District. He also volunteers with the John Muir Association and stays involved in the civic affairs of his home town of Martinez.
When did you arrive in the Bay Area?
In 1948, on a troop ship from Shanghai. My family had been Russian refugees on the losing side of the Russian civil war (my grandfather had been a high-ranking metallurgical engineer). Both branches of the family had to leave Russia, and they ended up in Shanghai. The city had quite an expatriate community, with many English, French, and German refugees. My father worked as a longshoreman, and my mother worked as a secretary.
I guess I can trace my love for nature back to that time. Shanghai was a pretty grim place during the war. I grew up in a crowded tenement, and there were many beggars wandering the streets. But in the front yard of our building there was an acacia tree. We'd pick up the blooms dropped from the tree and sit around the fire and talk about the Russian prairies and other natural treasures of the country. It became an ideal in my mind. After the war, my mother's uncle sponsored us to come to America.
How did it feel to enter the San Francisco Bay that first time?
We crossed under the Golden Gate Bridge in the middle of the night, when it was foggy, so we didn't get to catch a glimpse of it. But in the morning we passed beneath the Bay Bridge and I looked up and saw the Key System trains that used to run on the lower deck of the bridge. It was like a beautiful dream. Then my uncle picked us up in a big black car and drove us through Golden Gate Park. It was marvelous.
Where did you go to school?
My brother and I went to the local schools. In 1959 I graduated from Washington Union High School in Centerville, one of the towns that got combined into Fremont in the '50s. Then I went to San Jose State and got a BS in chemistry. I met my wife Shirley there – we were lab partners.
Where did you go to work after getting your degree?
I worked for Shell Oil starting in 1964, and worked there for the next 35 years, mainly in environmental chemistry. During my time there the company changed for the better, and I like to think I played a small role in that.
What did you do there?
My job involved various environmental issues, including the water treatment facilities. I was involved in implementing water purification and testing procedures and training people in them. Whenever there was a problem, I was active in trying to trace it back to its source. The effluent from the refinery used to flow directly into the Bay; you could see the sheen on the water. But now the water has to be pure enough that rainbow trout can live in it.
Alhambra Creek (Nancy Yu, Ride Chronicles)
What was your first glimpse of Alhambra Creek?
When Shirley and I were first married we lived in a little apartment overlooking the ferry building at the Martinez marina for $110 a month. That was my first view of the creek. There was no park there; it was just a dumping ground. But I used to go down there sometimes and fish.
Later we rented a small house on E Street. It was bounded on two sides by the creek. In the summertime, the frogs would start singing. They'd get so loud we could hardly hear each other talk when the windows were open. Then they'd suddenly fall quiet. Little by little it would build back up and the chorus would start over again.
How did you get involved with the Friends of Alhambra Creek?
In the late 1980s Shirley saw a little article in the paper: the Friends were going to be showing slides about a hike they'd led going up the length of the creek. We started to volunteer; we did cleanups and manned booths at events.
The group's founder, Kathy Radke, had been a Martinez city council member.When she decided to run for county supervisor, she asked one of us to take over as chair of the organization. No one wanted to do that; we thought Kathy could walk on water! But Shirley said she'd do it for a year or two. That was around 1993. She's still the chair and I'm the go-fer.
What do you consider the Friends' greatest accomplishments?
Two stand out most: opening up Alhambra Creek in downtown Martinez and making it the centerpiece of the town; and developing a user's manual for the entire watershed.
Photo: Mike Lowery
Martinez used to flood all the time because the creek had been diverted and covered over so the channel wasn't big enough. Businesses would be damaged and streets would be covered with mud. This would happen 3-4 times a year. It's hard to revitalize a downtown when it floods every year. So we partnered with the city, the Water Quality Control Board, and the Department of Water Resources to open up the creek in downtown Martinez.
We started with a short-term demonstration project to show how daylighting the creek could work: We cobbled together 3-400,000 dollars and opened up the creek in the most popular parking lot in town. It brought the creek out so people could know it was there. But it continued to flood: There was a horrendous flood in 1997. So then the city took the lead and partnered with the flood control district and various engineers and found more mitigation money to incorporate greater flood control measures into the design. And the city had an election and the residents voted to tax themselves based on the risk of flooding on their properties.
This larger project<|fim_middle|> and habitat. We had 30 stakeholders, including property owners, educators, ranchers, city people, and people from the flood control district (which was the main impetus behind the plan).
The Contra Costa County Resource Conservation District (RCD) was the parent agency that helped us to produce the Watershed Plan, and it was through this experience that I got involved with them. Because we approached this in a collaborative way, all done by consensus, it was successful. This process can be painful – one stakeholder can torpedo it – but because we had ploughed through it together we had no opposition at the end.
What are some of your latest projects?
We're trying to improve the passage for salmonids where Pinole Creek passes under I-80; the fish can't get past the highway. We're putting in a channel and some step pools so they can get in there. If all goes well it will go in this year.
Pinole Creek (source: Wiki)
Are there already fish in Pinole Creek, or are you trying to coax them there?
There is a sporadic run of salmonids up the creek. Most of the reports we get are anecdotal, but they're probably steelhead. Pinole Creek does have a much more reliable source of water and more protected lands and they've documented lots of steelhead. This creek has a bit more water than Alhambra Creek – the watershed land belongs to EBMUD and they care for it.
What about Alhambra Creek? Are any fish currently living in it?
Alhambra Creek is not prime salmon habitat – it's got too much sediment. But up higher where there's more gravel and rocks, in a good wet year we could have salmon spawn. We've done two fish surveys 15 years apart, and found native stickleback and pikeminnows. And we did a project next to the adult school: In some isolated pools we found eight small rainbow trout, so they're definitely there. Even if we don't have a robust salmon run, we do have this population of native fish. And we have the beavers!
Photo by Heidi Perryman.
Do you think the legacy of John Muir's longtime residency in Martinez is a source of inspiration for the town's very active environmental community?
People do take ownership here. The national park [the John Muir National Historic Site] came about through community action. We seem to have a disproportionate number of people who want to be active in the community. We have a fair number of writers and musicians – this adds to the richness. One of the favorite participatory sports here is to go to a city council meeting.
In addition to all of your creek activities, you're also involved in local civic groups. Where else do you volunteer your time?
I also volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club in town. We did a little science experiment today. We made a battery made out of pieces of fruit that turned on a light! I love doing chemistry and making it interesting and relevant.
What inspires you personally?
I'm inspired by the word consensus.
And back in 1995 I had bypass surgery. You're living off a machine. I consider the years since then extra years. Whenever I get frustrated or angry I think, well, you're not even supposed to be here.
What's your favorite place to hike and enjoy nature in the Bay Area, and why?
One place I go a lot is Hidden Lakes park in the hills south of Highway. 4. Three little lakes built 100 years ago by a rancher. It's a city park, with double-crested cormorants, mergansers, river otters, and all kinds of birds in season passing through. We can walk there from our house. The other touchstone is Briones Regional Park. When I was transferred to Louisiana for ten years, that's where we went to say goodbye – and that's where we came when we returned. In the spring, it looks like the wildflowers are arranged at eye level for you, and we enjoy seeing bluebirds and coyotes.
>> Get Involved: Learn more about the Friends of Alhambra Creek and their hikes and restoration activities by visiting their web page (hosted at CCRCD.org) at: http://www.ccrcd.org/alhambra.html
>> Have Fun! Igor will be MC'ing the John Muir Earth Day/Birthday Celebration on Sat, April 26th at the John Muir Historic Site. Join Bay Nature and other local groups for a fun-filled day of celebration. Learn more
Beth Slatkin
Beth Slatkin is Bay Nature's marketing and outreach director.
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What Do River Otters Do When the River Runs Dry in a Drought? | extended from Green Street out to the mouth of the creek where it meets the Sacramento River. We also got funding to build a creek plaza and make it a community-focused place. It wouldn't have happened that way if we hadn't done the pilot project.
Our other big accomplishment was the watershed user's manual, which has been our blueprint for managing the watershed ever since we published it in 2003. It's a guide on how to live in a watershed – how to deal with issues like flooding, fire, | 105 |
Africa, one of the most under-served regions of the world for communications connectivity, is set to undergo a 5G cellular revolution – and virtualised 2G services, as part of the Telecom Infra Project (TIP)'s Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) are at the heart of it.
Designed to disaggregate the hardware and software aspects of a communications network, TIP's OpenRAN has been flagged as the technology which will help regions like Africa implement 5G and future technologies without leaving their citizens behind.<|fim_middle|>-in-hand with other TIP initiatives, too, including the CrowdCell project of which Lime is a partner.
Other initiatives from Lime Microsystems, including the 'app store' model developed in partnership with Canonical which allows for commoditised hardware base stations to run a variety of radio tasks with a single click, on devices all the down to the recently-announced LimeNET Micro ultra-low-cost base station platform, can also be envisioned as assisting with this rapid expansion and deployment, all without leaving behind existing users.
The full feature can be read on Africa.com now, while more information on OpenRAN is available on the TIP website. | It goes hand | 3 |
Carlos Cruz-Diez, Physichromie no 1863, 2013, mixed media, 39⅜" x 39⅜".
arlos Cruz-Diez, an inventive leader in the fields of Kinetic and Op art, has explored just about every artful possibility of vertical stripes of color. This exhibition did not include the boldly striped Dazzle Ship (2014), recently docked at Liverpool in commemoration of a World War I camouflage technique, but the ten sculptures and wall pieces on view here offered a satisfying sampling of the Venezuelan-born artist's eye-popping combinations.
The only work with moving parts was Transchromie Manipulable (1963), a double row of transparent strips of colored Plexiglas affixed to rods that extended upward from a chrome base. Passersby could set the piece in motion and rearrange overlapping colors by running their fingers<|fim_middle|> adjacent colors that seemed to produce new hues. Cruz-Diez's ability to turn broad bands of pinstripes into feathery shapes or to shift one color scheme to another in response to a viewer's changing position might be explained in scientific terms, but that is not the point. The artist's stated goal is to "launch color into space": at that, he is an enormous success.
A version of this story originally appeared in the September 2014 issue of ARTnews on page 106. | across the plastic slats.
In the Physichromies (2013), slivers of Plexiglas were inserted between painted stripes, sometimes subdivided into tapering shapes. Works called Inducción Cromática (2012 and 2013) came to life through optical blends of | 63 |
Descriptions of the event: Turnout to this event was lower than usual, due to the rain. Our table was partially under cover, but we also used the tent. $170 was raised from the sale of crafts, and several people expressed an interest in joining the Glacier Grannies.
A large group of Grannies brought their cars down for the sale, laden with useful and decorative articles. Coffee, snacks and crafts were also available. Many customers braved the rain, which increased as the morning progressed, to pick up bargains, and a total of $1648 was raised. Once again, many thanks to Lorraine W.who organized the event, all the Grannies and their partners who helped with set-up and take-down, and everyone who sold goods. No one minded getting wet in a good cause!
Thank you to Mudsharks<|fim_middle|>. The members of the first executive were asked to come forward, and were invited to share their motivations for joining the Glacier Grannies, and for memories of their time with the group.
Kate Clark spoke to the chart she had made, listing all the group's fundraisers since its inception. | for their donation of coffee.
With cheers and clapping,the Glacier Grannies and their guests welcomed 23 cyclists and their support team to Bette A.'s lovely home and garden. The riders, from all over the Island, were on a fund-raising 275 kilometer ride from Campbell River to Victoria. It was an international gathering, with two riders joining the group from Los Angeles, and two guests from England.
Beautiful sunshine brought a huge crowd out for this annual event. We made the good amount of $389.70, in spite of so many other vendors selling their wares along the street.
Two tents were full of Grannies' crafts, including felted pictures and critters, AIDS Angels, children's aprons, microwave cosies, smocked dresses, fish bags, dog scarves, wine tags, luggage tags, and more. Weather always affects our sales, and this weekend it was kind to us, with sun all 3 days. $1,201.25 was raised.
Seventy-five Island Grandmothers came to the Gathering. Attendees represented nine of the eleven groups that make up the BC Islands Region of the Grandmother-to-Grandmother Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Hosted by the Comox Valley Glacier Grannies, the gathering was attended by members from Campbell River, Merville, Denman Island, Oceanside, Port Alberni, Nanaimo, Salt Spring Island and Victoria. Hornby Island and St Andrews Sidney did not send representatives.
The Theme of the Gathering was "Connect and Inspire".
The connecting began as soon as the doors opened – conversations sprung up immediately. Some reconnected with long-time acquaintances, while others made new friends.
After some songs led by Tina Filippino (Merville Grand Mothers), we began with a spokesperson from each group telling a little about their group. It was amazing to hear how other groups were formed and what each is doing.
SLF staff members Healy Thompson and Asmita Persaud shared news from the SLF. The Grandmothers Campaign is growing internationally; there are 5 groups in Australia and one in the U.K. The next Grandmothers Gathering will be in Tanzania, date to be determined. Asmita briefly explained the structure of the Foundation and how money earned by Grandmothers Groups is distributed to community-based organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa. Field workers from the SLF monitor how these funds are spent and note the changes they bring to the communities. Healy shared a touching and inspiring story from the soon-to-be-published "Grandmother's Book". Beds Without Breakfast was a popular topic, and a lively discussion followed.
There were two "breakout" sessions; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Asmita facilitated "Supporting Groups" at both time slots; Healy's topic for both was "Expressing Solidarity". Bette Axani's (CVGG) morning session dealt with using Facebook to get connected, and in the afternoon she hosted an executive roundtable discussion.
Before the day ended, attendees were encouraged to discuss (with the people near them) if they had been inspired and what inspired them. A spokesperson from each table was encouraged to share what they had discussed.
Serious parts of the day were interspersed with fun events such as singing, a skit by the Merville Grand Mothers, and the short movie "Alive and Kicking".
Food and refreshments were on-going. The Marketplace, as always, was a well-loved part of the gathering. There was excellent evidence of the creativity of Grannies and the hard work that goes into raising funds. Crafts sold by the Glacier Grannies made $669.
The day ended with us getting up to do our Flash mob "Sisters are Doing it for Themselves".
Members from several groups had been involved with the planning of this event from the beginning. They headed committees and contributed in many ways. The success of the gathering can be attributed to all.
We now look forward to the next Regional Gathering in 2019.
Barb Taylor was Master of Ceremonies for the event, backed up by a planning committee of Barb Fudge, Barb Taylor, Bette Axani, Dianne Wade, Gillian Little, Judith Hamilton, Kate Clark, Jane Sigurdson, and Colleen Black.
Barb Taylor welcomed current members, past members and long-time supporters, including Sally Gellard, and thanked the planning committee.
Barb set the stage for the founding of the Glacier Grannies by giving a short introduction to the Stephen Lewis Foundation and the start of the Grandmother to Grandmother Campaign. In honour of the founding members, she then gave a precis of the Grannies' first year – 2007 - noting who had joined at the different meetings, and the events that had been organized. Barb asked the members from that first year to stand, and reminded them that they had made over $6000 that year | 1,023 |
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The seats have been rigorously designed to supply maximum comfort while using minimal padding to take advantage of environment friendly use of the diminished cabin house within the F12berlinetta. The seats have nice lateral support, and maintain you stuck into place when you caress the corners in this machine. In addition to their support, built-in headrests give you extra assist and a sportier really feel as you drive. Even with its reduced house, a person as much as 6'4" can sit in the cabin comfortably and it holds as much as 500 liters (17.sixty five cubic-feet) of baggage with its rear bench folded down. | the Blue Water Space of Michigan and is situated nearly 50 miles northeast of Detroit. Websites to see in nearby Ontario Province embody | 26 |
Software freedom<|fim_middle|> software, which includes such works as the dotCommunist Manifesto.
The FSF has not announced a replacement for Moglen on the Board of Directors. | advocate and a major influence in the GPLv3 process Eben Moglen has resigned from the board of the Free Software Foundation.
Software freedom advocate and Columbia law professor Eben Moglen has resigned from the board of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Moglen, who has been on the board of directors for FSF since 2000, announced the news on his blog earlier this week. He will remain with the FSF and continue to offer his services as General Counsel on a pro bono basis.
Moglen has been strongly involved in the drafting of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) for FSF over the past few years. With the release of the discussion draft on March 28, he wrote "that it's time I began to think about life after GPLv3."
His future involves managing the managing the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), of which he is the founder and chairman, as well as making a return to Columbia Law School as a lecturer. He also plans to add to his collection of writings on the topics of freedom and | 224 |
Being in a nutritional balance means that you consume just the right amount of calories, macronutrients and micronutrients from your diet. In an optimal nutritional state, all of your nutritional needs are met without exceeding your caloric needs. Maintaining a stable healthy weight, having low blood cholesterol and healthy blood-pressure levels are just a few signs of being nutritionally balanced.<|fim_middle|>, http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/nutritional-balance-1898.html. 27 December 2018. | If you notice sudden weight gain or lack of energy, it may be time for you to adjust your diet.
Some of the calories you consume support your basal metabolic rate, or BMR. These calories are required for basic body functions, such as breathing, digestion and central nervous system function. When your diet is nutritionally balanced, you have enough calories to support your BMR and enough leftover to meet your daily activities. Approximately 60 to 70 percent of the total calories you consume go toward your BMR, says the National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education. If you normally consume around 1,800 calories per day, more than 1,000 of those calories are needed just to keep your body running. It is important to have a balanced diet and consume the right amount of calories so your system can function properly. The remaining calories you consume go toward supporting your daily activity level.
If you feel tired halfway through your workout, you may not be eating enough. If you are gaining weight, you might be eating too much. Either way, your diet is not balanced, and the calories you ingest do not match the calories you expend. It takes 3,500 calories from the food you eat to gain 1 pound of body weight. Losing 1 pound per week requires you to cut 500 calories from your daily diet, burn 500 calories per day or a combination of both. If you are unintentionally losing weight, have a healthy snack in the afternoon before you head to the gym. The extra 200 to 300 calories may be enough to boost your energy levels. Your diet is most likely in balance once you are able to maintain a stable weight.
Macronutrients include fat, protein and carbohydrates and are broken down for energy during digestion. A balanced diet requires you to consume just the right amount of each of these three macronutrients. According to the McKinley Health Center, 20 to 35 percent of your total calories should come from fat, 10 to 35 percent needs to come from protein and 45 to 65 percent should come from carbs. Protein and carbohydrates each provide 4 calories per gram, but fat is a concentrated source of energy that offers 9 calories per gram. Based on an 1,800-calorie diet, you need 40 to 70 grams of fat, 45 to 158 grams of protein and 202 to 293 grams of carbohydrates.
Another component of optimal nutritional balance is getting adequate amounts of micronutrients. These types of nutrients, which are vitamins and minerals, are essential for bodily functions but do not provide calories. In order for you to get all of the micronutrients you need, you must consume a variety of foods from all food groups each day. Drinking a glass of low-fat milk first thing in the morning provides a large portion of your daily calcium requirements. Having a grilled chicken breast over a bed of salad greens at lunch offers several key micronutrients, including iron, vitamin C and B vitamins. Aim to include some dairy, meat, vegetables, fruit and whole-grain foods at each meal. Split up your food groups and have a serving of fruit as a mid-morning snack, instead of eating it with breakfast.
Anne, Melodie. "What Is Nutritional Balance?" Healthy Eating | SF Gate | 703 |
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Tackling a twister
STEPHANIE DeMELLO of the Tribune's staff
The deadly tornados that ripped through parts of the South last month were a reminder tornados can happen anytime, but the peak season runs from March through June.
People "really need to take these things very seriously, as we saw from last week," said Eric Evans, emergency management specialist at University of Missouri Extension, referring to the Feb. 5 storms. "A lot of people can get killed in a very short period of time."
What to do to prepare your family for tornado season.
Know the forecast. Pay attention to what the National Weather Service and broadcasters are saying about the weather. "Typically we get several days notice of things that are coming our way," Evans said. "That should be an indicator of when" you "need to pay more close attention to weather watches and warnings coming out of the National Weather Service."
? Have a family disaster plan. Create a document that contains all the information you would need in an emergency:
? Phone number for your insurance company and a copy of your policy? Vehicle identification and license plate numbers? Names and dosages of prescriptions? Pet registration numbers? Phone number for the family doctor and vet? Information about any important documents or deposit boxes? Contact information for your point of contact
Evans recommends designating one person or family that lives outside of your ZIP code to be your point of contact. Often in disasters, it's easier to call out of the affected area then to call in, so assigning a point of contact will keep loved ones informed without overloading the affected area's circuits.
? Prepare a survival kit that can sustain you and your family for as long as five days.
? Flashlights
? Extra batteries
? Radio that doesn't require electricity (hand crank or battery operated)
? Copy of disaster plan
? Food that stores well and doesn't require a lot of preparation time (canned soups with vegetables or meat are good choices)
? High-protein foods such as peanut butter and granola bars
? Drinking water - 1 gallon per person per day
? Blankets and pillows, "especially if your safe place is in a bathroom on a main floor," Evans said. "You want to have something to cover yourself up with. Heavy blankets would be very good."
? Supplies to care for young children (formula, diapers, etc.)
? Any tools you might need, Evans said. "For example, you might want a prying tool, so you can pry your way out."
Aside from the essentials listed above, include "anything that would be of comfort to you and make yourself more comfortable to spend time in a place where you normally don't spend time, like in a basement corner," Evans said.
He suggests simple games to keep children occupied and comfort food such as hard candy.
? Decide on a safe spot to go if a storm strikes. This spot should be in the center of the building, away from exterior doors and windows and on the building's lowest floor.
"You want as much wood framing or any kind of framing around you as you possibly can," Evans said. Do not open windows.
Stay away from doors, windows and outside walls. "Those things tend to give way, and then there are debris issues," Evans said. "Tornados actually don't kill people. Flying debris is what kills people. Collapses kill people. So, we want people to understand that."
If you live in an apartment on an upper floor, Evans recommends going to an interior<|fim_middle|> create a separate kit. The kit should include a three- to five-day supply of food, water and information on any special medication they need. Consider stocking some toys or treats, too.
"The animals are going to be very important to you, and most shelters do not readily accept animals," Evans said. "If you have to evacuate, you have to know how you're going to transport them, how you're going to maintain and contain them once you get to the place that you're going." If you don't normally use a kennel, keep one handy in case you need to evacuate.
? Cover your bases. Sit down with your family and make sure everyone is clear on what to do and where to go in case of a tornado. Evans recommends revising the plan and updating the supply kit twice a year - in the spring and fall - and putting the supply kit in or near your safe spot.
When your area is alerted to a severe weather watch, "you should be checking these things," Evans said. "When you get a warning, you should be heading for that spot that's been identified as the safest spot in your type of dwelling."
Reach Stephanie DeMello at (573) 815-1727 or sdemello@tribmail.com. | hallway on the first floor. "Typical second floors are the ones that get ripped apart" he said.
? Don't forget Fluffy. Include supplies for your pets in your emergency kit, or | 40 |
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The 'Import Heat Source' object allows the import of a user defined heat source region. The location of the object is specified via the edit window. The dimension of the object is specified by the user defined data.
NOTE: If CHARGE solver is included in the simulation, it has to be set to the coupled (electro-thermal) mode.
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DOMAIN : Select the target domain. The reference geometry is the surfaces of the selected domain.
SOLID : Select the target solid. The reference geometry is the surfaces that enclose the selected volume if the solid is a 3D shape, or the surface if the solid is a 2D plane.
ALL DOMAINS: The object will be applied to all the available domains.
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DATA SET : The name of the current data that is selected.
SELECTED ATTRIBUTE : Select the target attribute from data set.
PARAMETER: Lists the name of available parameters.
SCALE FACTOR: Multiplies the dataset values by the scale factor.
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If you were on land you probably had landmarks and trails, and you also didn't move very far while you were sleeping. Local sailors knew the coastlines and could navigate that way.
On the open sea, however, things were different. If you lived on one of the Pacific Islands (for example), you learned about the currents in the<|fim_middle|> by one second that means your longitude will be off by .29 miles (at the equator). You also have to wind your spring-driven clock at about the same time each day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation is a good place to learn more about this. Time and navigation are inextricably linked together.
Nowadays we have satellite navigation to help us know where we are. These satellites contain several very precise and accurate clocks, because time and location are completely and totally inter-related in satellite navigation. | sea and the stars in the sky. With the stars in the sky you could figure out where you were when sailing from one island to another. There is plenty of available information on the early methods of navigation1, and great strides were made by Muslims2. In the Middle Ages there was a great desire to improve navigation3 and there was a great push to advance the technology between 1500-1800 as we realized that if we knew what time it was we could determine our longitude. We also shifted from using the quadrant and astrolabe4 to the sextant5. It was in the 1700s that John Harrison6 invented the Marine Chronometer, a long-sought timekeeping device to solve the problem of establishing one's East/West position (longitude)7 at sea. This is really important because if your clock is off | 177 |
Dr. Bi Puranen - Advisor
Global Polling
A globally renowned consultant and lecturer to various international organizations and corporations; Bi is the Project Director for The Nineties Report and the Global Generation Survey. In addition to being Co-founder of Frontplaces and Cleverminds; Bi is also the Principal Investigator and Executive Committee member of the World Values Survey. Formerly Project Director at the Institute of Futures Studies, Stockholm, governmental investigator on IT-issues and board member in several distinguished organizations. Professor of Futures Studies and Communication Strategies and faculty member at Theseus International Management Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France.
Dr. John Della Volpe - Advisor
Polling & Social Media
John is the Director of Polling at Harvard IOP and is one of the world's leading authorities on global sentiment, opinion and influence. He is an Eisenhower Fellow ('08), "Future Legend of Marketing" ('13) and advisor to big brands, heads of state, military generals, athletes and entertainers. A frequent contributor to MSNBC's Morning Joe and other media outlets, his first research-tech company was acquired by IPG in the late 1990s.
Dr. Michael Robbins - Advisor
Polling Methodology
Dr. Michael is the Director of the Arab Barometer and received the American Political Science Association Aaron Wildavsky Award for the Best Dissertation in the field of Religion and Politics. His work on Arab public opinion, political Islam and political parties has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Journal of Conflict Resolution and the Journal of Democracy, and his research on data fabrication has been covered by Science. He is a regular contributor to the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog and his analysis has appeared in Foreign Policy and The Conversation. Previously, he has served as a research fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a research associate at the Pew Research Center.
Juan Diez Nicolas - Advisor
Polling Expert
Juan Diez Nicolas is the current director and chair for Research in the Social Sciences and Security at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Dr. Diez-Nicolas earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid in 1967 after he had completed a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with an MA degree in Sociology.
Dr. Diez-Nicolas is the founding president for Análisis Sociológicos, Econóicos y Políticos (ASEP). He is also the founding president for (FADDIS): The Foundation for the Analysis and Dissemination of Social Surveys Data. Dr. Diez-Nicolas serves as the Vice-Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the World Values Survey.
Dr. Diez- Nicolas has impressively published 32 books and more than 250 articles and book chapters in academic journals. He has also received the Order of the Great Cross of Alfonso X the Wiseman and the recipient of the National Award in Sociology and Political Science from Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, amongst other awards and honors.
Jeries Ziadat - Co-Founder, CEO
Strategic & Management Advisory
Jeries is the chief executive officer of NAMA – Strategic Intelligence Solutions. Prior to NAMA; Jeries was the senior consulting manager at one of the region's lead consultancy agencies. Taking his decade long experience in management and financial advisory; Jeries founded NAMA to introduce innovative business support solutions to the MENA market. Under his management, NAMA continues to grow exponentially and forge relationships with key strategic partners.
Eng. Khaireddin Shukri - Advisor
Khaireddin is one of Jordan's leading agriculture experts and consults with an experience spanning over 30 years in successful agricultural projects development. Until April 2016; Mr. Shukri was the CEO of Jordan Agricultural Produce Promotion Co. (JAPPCO) and senior consultant to the King Abdullah<|fim_middle|> Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine, Georgetown University, and Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). Dr. Speckhard has been working in the field of counter-terrorism and psychology since the 1980's and has extensive experience working in Europe, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Dr. Speckhard has interviewed over 500 terrorists, their family members and supporters in various parts of the world including Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, Gaza, West Bank, Chechnya, and many countries in Western Europe. In 2007, she was responsible for designing the psychological and Islamic challenge aspects of the Detainee Rehabilitation Program in Iraq to be applied to 20,000 + detainees and 800 juveniles. She is a sought after counter-terrorism expert and has consulted to NATO, OSCE, foreign governments and to the U.S. Senate & House, Departments of State, Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, Health & Human Services, CIA and FBI and frequently appearing on CNN, BBC, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, CTV, and in Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, London Times and many other publications. She frequently lectures on subjects related to her books and research. She is the author of seven books including: Talking to Terrorists: Understanding the Psycho-Social Motivations of Militant Jihadi Terrorists, Mass Hostage Takers, Suicide Bombers and "Martyrs", Fetal Abduction: The True Story of Multiple Personalities and Murder, Bride of ISIS, and co-author of ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate, Undercover Jihadi: Inside the Toronto 18—Al Qaeda Inspired, Homegrown Terrorism in the West and Warrior Princess: A U.S. Navy SEAL's Journey to Coming out Transgender. Website: www.AnneSpeckhard.com and www.icsve.org | II Fund for Development (KFAD) agricultural development programs. Amongst his career highlights is his stewardship as Chairman of Modern Valley Farms, GM of Jordan Valley Farm Agricultural Co.
Dr. Tarek Arikat - Advisor
Dr. Tarek Arikat was Director of Operations and Specialized Projects (OSPD) at the Office of His Majesty King Abdullah II (OHM) responsible for handling and initiating key projects/directives. During his time at OHM Dr. Arikat developed HM's knowledge management system in addition to re-engineering and automating operations within HM's office. He also developed and institutionalized a tracking and performance management system for both internal and external follow-up.
Eng. Ali Obeidat - Advisor
Business & Financial Advisory
Ali Obeidat is a senior advisor at NAMA. He holds a Master degree in business administration (MBA) from Nicholls State University, Louisiana, USA, and a Bachelor degree in computer engineering from Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT). He has worked with regional and international consultancy firms on projects in Jordan, GCC, and Afghanistan. He specializes in industrial feasibility studies, due diligence, financial modelling, market and economic research and project management. He has worked on multiple projects within different industries over the past four years with budgets exceeding $1.5 Billion. He has worked in market intelligence, focus groups, market research and in-depth surveys. He is also a certified EFQM assessor in Jordan.
Mohammed Abu Dalhoum
Researcher & Analyst
Mohammed Abu Dalhoum is a researcher and analyst specialized in youth affairs and development, particularly youth deradicalization.
Mohammed is a graduate from Washington College with a degree in International Studies with a regional concentration in the Middle East. He wrote his thesis on the topic of youth deradicalization. Mohammed is also a published author and his writings include "The Life of a Writer Through the Eyes of His Son"; "The Pains of Wandering"; in addition to "Youth Deradicalization- Strengthening the Bonds. Case Study: the Jordanian Youth".
Rt. Gen. Juma Huroot - Advisor
Retired Major General Alhrout is one of Jordan's leading security and defense experts. MG Alhrout served as a UN Military Observer in Former Yugoslavia in 1993-1994, he also held the position of Military Councilor in the Jordan Embassy in Brussels from 2000-2002. Holder of various high command roles in last three copies of Eager Lion 2012-2014 and Eager Light 2014. MG Alhrout is a frequent participant in a number of seminars and conferences on strategic issues and his last role was the Head of King Abdullah II Academy for Defense Studies.
Rt. Gen. Reda Btoush - Advisor
MG (Ret) Dr. Rida Al-Btoush is one of Jordan's leading national security experts. Dr. Al-Btoush served his country in managing critical national security programs. This includes the National Center for Security and Crises Management (NCSCM) where he was entrusted with the establishment of the NCSCM. Dr. Al-Btoush also led the National Border Security Program and Directorate of Military Intelligence Transformation. This program played a pivotal role in securing Jordan borders against terrorists, weapons and explosives trafficking and smugglers during a very difficult time related to regional instability. Dr. Al- Btoush was awarded Al-Hussein Medal for Superiority Class B for the accomplishment of this project.
Rt. Gen. Awni Edwan - Advisor
Former Senator (2013 - 2016) Awni Edwan is a border security and military human resources expert. His extensive experience includes serving as the Director of Doctrine and Joint Training, Chairman of the drafting committee for defense policy, military doctrine, military strategy and joint combat doctrine for the Jordanian Armed Forces.Awni Edwan was the director of Eager Lion EX from 2011 till 2013.
Dr. Amer Al Sabaileh - Advisor
Dr. Amer is a leading political security analyst and commentator in the Middle East region. University professor and political security analyst. Amer Al Sabaileh is Secretary General of the Mediterranean-Gulf Forum. Political analyst on Middle Eastern affairs, he is a columnist with The Jordan Times and Al Arab Al Yawm and a TV commentator.
Dr. Anne Speckhard - Advisor
Radicalization and Terrorism
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. is Adjunct | 955 |
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Indian Hills water given all-clear
Local | August 15, 2012
by Kurt Hildebrand
khildebrand@recordcourier.com
After a long weekend under a boil-water order, customers of the Indian Hills General Improvement District were given the all-clear on Monday morning.
There was no sign of the bacteria that showed up in samples taken from the district's water system on Aug. 8 and prompted a state order the next day.
"Based on what we can come up with, the samples were contaminated after they were taken," District Manager John Lufrano said. "All the samples we took came back clear."
The bad sample turned up during routine monthly testing. Because tests take 24 hours, it was Thursday evening before the state issued the boil-water order.
"We normally test once a month," Lufrano said. "The tests failed in five out of the six samples. We've been taking samples the same way for 10 years."
Lufrano said plant operators ruled out the chlorine injectors as a source of the contamination.
"The<|fim_middle|> after the order was given.
Sunridge resident Marsha Marshall said she was reading the Saturday edition of the Nevada Appeal when she saw the story.
"I think what's really disturbing is that there was supposedly a reverse 911 call," she said. "Myself and my neighbor both have land lines and it did not work. This would really be significant if I were an elderly woman or someone who had very young children."
Marshall said it was the district's responsibility to put up notices to alert residents to the order.
"Indian Hills is still responsible to make sure people know about this," she said.
Lufrano said putting signs on the barriers the district has along area streets was a good idea. He said the state Bureau of Safe Drinking Water said he was in compliance with the notification rules, but that he was still getting calls from customers.
In addition to using reverse 911, the district alerted area television stations and publications, which posted the information to their websites. | checks for chlorine turned out to be as high as any of the other samples," he said. "There's no indication the water was ever contaminated."
Lufrano said the district will continue to review its procedure to determine the source of the problem.
"It was an inconvenience to our residents, and I deeply, deeply regret that," he said. "We will sit down and look what we do to test, and where we take samples."
Last year, the district had a boil-water order because the computer running the pumps burned up, and the pipes ran dry in parts of the district.
Some district residents said they didn't learn of the contamination until days | 131 |
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Mike Kuster keeps real, traditional Country Music alive and well in the 21st Century with his original music and covering the greatest Country Music in his live shows. His music earns him accolades such as Independent Music Network's Country Impact Artist of 2022 and Country Song of 2021 with "Daddy's Blue Jean Jacket", Country Music France's "Top 20 Albums of 2022", Saving Country Music's "2022 Essential Albums List", and the Balcony Show's "15 Must-Have Albums of 2022".
Mike Kuster and his band, The Catoctin Cowboys, can be found playing fairs, festivals, pubs, clubs, and private parties throughout the Mid-Atlantic and beyond. Mike's "Honky Tonk Good Timin' Show" mixes his originals with an ever changing set list of the best Country Music songs, and throwing in some surprise covers, too.
"To sing country, you have to live country, and that's what makes the music of Mike Kuster so much more meaningful. It comes with that real life, lived-in and loved aspect that you just don't get from the antiseptic and formulaic notions of big radio singles.
It's the personal and true-to-life stories that Mike Kuster puts to song that make Better Late Than Never much more than just a local project from a local singer, even if it's the local flavor of the songs that make them so resonant, sincere, and so distinctly country like country music is supposed to be. That is why local country artist Mike Kuster deserves national and international attention." - SavingCountryMusic.com
Mike Kuster grew up on a small farm in Frederick County, Maryland. He's been singing and playing music since he was a child in church and at home.
Mike started writing music in college and worked as a disc jockey in the afternoons during college. After college, he married his high school sweetheart. They settled and are raising three children in Frederick County, Maryland.
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Oh you guys, I think this hat is up there as one of my favorites. I think I'll always associate chicks with babyhood because someone bought O his very first pair of footie pajamas and they were super soft and covered in little chicks. Baby V wore them too. So they always make me smile.
Plus chicks are a good choice if you're looking for something gender neutral to make, they work for boys or girls or if you haven't found out yet!
This easy baby hat knitting pattern is knit in the round and then the adorable eggshell brim is picked up and knit at the end, don't worry, it's really easy! It's adorable in cute sunny yellow and makes the perfect springtime baby hat!
If you knit a sweet baby chick hat for your little one (or a friend) please share it with me, I love seeing what you guys make!
Using long-tail cast on, cast on 72 stitches onto your circular needles with the yellow yarn color. Join to knit in the round and knit all rows until the hat is about 5 inches long.
Holding the hat with the cast on edge facing up, (uncurl or block the stockinette<|fim_middle|> through loop, weave in this end on back side.
Using a scrap of charcoal yarn on a yarn needle, make a loose stitch for the eye that curves upward in an upside-down 'U' shape Then take three tiny little stitches through that 'U' shape and off to the side for the eyelashes. Knot and weave in on the inside of the hat.
And that's it! Your cute little chick hat is finished! You can see more of my adorable knitting patterns (including lots of other animal hats) for babies and kids HERE! Happy knitting!
The PDF printable also contains instructions for sizes 0-3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 2T+! | edge if it is curling up) pick up 72 stitches with white yarn along the cast on edge with your circular needles and join to knit in the round.
Next, to make the pointed peaks, we will work with only 8 stitches at a time. The following rows are knit flat, turning the work after each row. It helps to put the 8 live stitches on double pointed or straight needles.
Cut yarn and pull through last stitch. Weave in ends. Repeat rows 1-8 with the next 8 stitches.
Cut yarn, pull | 114 |
Last Redoubt / March 02, 2018
Not content to sit on their laurels re: the Galactic Civilization series, Stardock also has rights to the Star Control franchise (though that is being somewhat contested) and is testing out features of their upcoming Star Control: Origins:
There are 69 known moons of Jupiter.
Jupiter is the first planet we're sending Star Control's prototype ship to visit. Powered by the Darius Robotics Emdrive MK I, the prototype can get from Star Control command to Jupiter in a matter of days, rather than months. It is ironic that the prototype is powered by a drive made by Darius Robotics, given that Darius Erdmann is now gone, lost to the Lexites.
Some people have speculated that Jupiter was meant to be Sol's twin in a binary star system. In reality, Jupiter is not even close to having enough mass to be a star. You would need at least 80 Jupiters to have a chance. Jupiter was chosen as our first test because of the various types of moons that will allow for a good measure of the lander's capabilities.
The first moon we are visiting is Adrastea. It's very small. It's a Plutonic class world and was only discovered in 1979 by Voyager 2. Why this tiny world? For one thing, Plutonic class worlds are worlds that have not cleared out their orbit yet. That means that things tend to bang into them, which frequently results in some valuable minerals to be readily accessible. Secondly, it's a very safe world.
Actinium is a very strange chemical element. It's radioactive and reacts quickly with oxygen. Its presence means that there is no oxygen on the surface. Resources like Actinium are so rare on Earth that we don't really use them. But any radioactive source can be extremely valuable for space exploration when found.
Now to find a landing zone and set down one of<|fim_middle|>.
We pick up our valuable cargo and return to the orbit of Jupiter.
Go look at the pretty pictures.
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Continuing my pattern of enjoying the festivities around the All-Star Game the most, I've always loved the Home Run Derby. As a kid, when<|fim_middle|>itty-gritty ins-and-outs of dimensionality reduction and go right to the results, plugged in for this year's Home Run Derby, matchup by matchup. | I'd come home from school, the old reruns of Home Run Derby from the 1960s were on. Because I was born in 1978, I got to see a lot of players whose careers I had missed out on, like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. This was before ESPN Classic was launched and the internet was really a thing.
Recently, in a discussion, I was asked "Dan, can you predict a Home Run Derby?" My first answer was an extremely helpful "Dunno," but it got me thinking if we could predict a Home Run Derby, using both the matchups and results. We don't have a lot of data, but modeling these things always gives an interesting glimpse into the inner workings of things.
So, I found variables for the three most recent Home Run Derbys -- I'd love more years, but the formats shift a lot and I wanted to see first if Statcast data would be helpful -- and started from there. A few variables, some surprising, some not, came up as useful predictors of Derby performance. Sixteen of the 21 matchups from 2015-2017 were won by the player with the higher average exit velocity and the margin tended to be correlated with their difference in the rankings. Also helpful were things like home runs-per-ball hit, and even recent performance seemed to have more predictive value in a Derby than in real life.
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Boston At Tampa Bay One Last Time
By Gregg Burr<|fim_middle|> allowed two earned runs over six innings. Shields is just 4-6 at home this season.
Shields hasn't had much success in his career versus Boston, as he is just 4-9 against the Red Sox with a 5.25 ERA.
Dan Johnson's leadoff homer to right field in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted Tampa Bay over Boston on Saturday, 3-2. The hit made a winner out of Randy Choate (4-3), who recorded the final out in the top of the 10th.
B.J. Upton also homered and Matt Joyce knocked in a run for the Rays, who snapped a two-game slide. Tampa Bay remained tied with New York for first in the AL East after the Yankees topped the White Sox later Saturday.
"He got a pitch he could handle and he took advantage of it," Upton said of Johnson's homer.
Victor Martinez homered and David Ortiz finished with three hits for the Red Sox, who have dropped two of three. Boston fell to 5 1/2 games behind the Yankees and Rays.
Scott Atchison (2-2) took the loss after allowing the game-deciding blast.
"I was trying to go fastball in," said Atchison. "I felt like that was probably the right pitch. I haven't looked at it on video, but I think maybe it ran back over and got a little more of the plate than I wanted. But credit him (Johnson), he hit the pitch, and he hit it out."
Prior to the game, the Red Sox activated pitcher Hideki Okajima from the 15- day disabled list and optioned pitcher Michael Bowden to Triple-A Pawtucket.
The Rays have won nine of their 14 meetings with the Red Sox this season.
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(Sports Network) – A critical series between AL East rivals concludes tonight in Tampa, as the hometown Rays host the Boston Red Sox in the rubber match of a three-game set from Tropicana Field.
A pair of successful hurlers will battle this evening as Boston's John Lackey is set to face Tampa Bay's James Shields.
Lackey is 12-7 with a 4.51 ERA, and he hasn't been quite as strong as expected in his first season with the Sox. On a positive note, the veteran righty pitched extremely well on Monday, fanning 10 Mariners and allowing only two earned runs in eight innings en route to victory.
Lackey is 11-3 lifetime versus Tampa Bay with a 3.54 ERA.
Shields, who has been inconsistent to say the least, carries a 12-11 record and a 4.76 ERA into this contest. He posted his second consecutive victory on Monday, as he struck out 10 Angels and | 259 |
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Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind
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Joe E. Jeffreys is a drag historian. His drag-happy video work has been awarded funding from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Jerome Foundation and screened at museums, galleries and festivals worldwide including the Tate Modern in London, the Façade Video Festival in Bulgaria, and The Museum of Arts and Design. He has published in book anthologies, encyclopedias, the popular press and academic journals from Time Out New York and The Village Voice to The Drama Review, Theatre History Studies and Women & Performance. Jeffreys has taught theatre studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department, Purchase and Stony Brook University. He has served on the board of directors for Dirty Looks, the committee for PS 122's Ethyl Eichelberger Award and worked as dramaturg for numerous downtown and off-Broadway productions including the world premiere of Tennessee Willam's last full length play, | 328 |
Love, Death & Rare Books
By Robert Hellenga
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Chas.<|fim_middle|>Robert Hellenga was educated at the University of Michigan and Princeton University. He is a professor emeritus at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and the author of the novels The Confessions of Frances Godwin, Snakewoman of Little Egypt, The Sixteen Pleasures, The Fall of a Sparrow, Blues Lessons, Philosophy Made Simple, The Italian Lover, and the short story collection, The Truth About Death. He lives in Galesburg, Illinois. | Johnson & Sons, a venerated rare bookstore in urban Chicago, has been a family operation for three generations―grandfather, father and son. But when it comes time for Gabe Johnson to take the reins of the business, the world of books has changed, and the combination of the Internet and inner city rents forces the store to close. But instead of folding his hand, Gabe decides to risk everything he has and reopen the shop―and, in a sense restart his life―in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. Haunted his entire life by an obsession with a former lover, he finds her again only to be faced with yet another even more difficult challenge that threatens the well-being of the revival of the bookstore as well as the fate of his rekindled relationship.
It is rare, indeed, to find fiction that is both passionate and erudite; and in his previous books, Robert Hellenga brought us tales of love, learning and of loss. But now, with Love, Death & Rare Books, he celebrates an industry that has brought us the written word and his novel is a paean to the independent bookseller.
Praise for Robert Hellenga's work
The Sixteen Pleasures
Elegantly moving… Everything about the narrator and the heroine of this novel is appealing right from the first paragraph… Like her, the book is modest, resourceful, and without malice—it is high-minded and fine.
― New Yorker on The Sixteen Pleasures
The Fall of a Sparrow
Conveys a sense of certainty and ultimate truth that only the finest writing can achieve. It is an extraordinary novel.
― The Washington Post on The Fall of a Sparrow
Philosophy Made Simple
Let's add Robert Hellenga to the lists of American's most admired fiction writers… he once again has produced a novel that adds immeasurably to the pleasures of reading contemporary fiction.
― Alan Cheuse, the Chicago Tribune, on Philosophy Made Simple
Sweet and lovely. A charmingly picaresque tale.
― The New York Times on Philosophy Made Simple
Snakewoman of Little Egypt
Don't start reading this book if you've got a dinner party coming up in the next few days, or a committee meeting or a golf game. You'll be calling people up with fake excuses and feeling bad about yourself—at least that's what happened to me… A masterpiece.
― The Washington Post on Snakewoman of Little Egypt
The Confessions of Frances Godwin
The beauty of this novel and, in fact, of all of Hellenga's work, lies in the scrupulous attention he pays to those different shapes that life takes.
― Booklist on The Confessions of Frances Godwin
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Congratulations to Columbia Holeman and David Burkette<|fim_middle|>000 Cook Foundation Scholarship. | Moulder III, who have been named Jackson Academy's STAR students for the 2018-2019 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council M.B. Swayze Foundation, sponsor of the Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) program. This prestigious award is granted on the basis of academic excellence demonstrated through ACT scores and scholastic averages.
Established by the Mississippi Economic Council in 1965, the purpose of the STAR program is to recognize outstanding students and teachers in Mississippi. Each STAR student selects a STAR teacher. Columbia designated Chair of the Foreign Language Department Judy McKeigney, and Burkette chose Chair of the Science Department Sarah Shaw. These teachers made a significant contribution to Columbia and Burkette's scholastic achievements.
The students and teachers will be honored during the annual Education Celebration on April 11, 2019, at the Jackson Convention Complex in downtown Jackson. Mississippi's ALL-STAR Scholar for 2018-2019 will be named at the celebration, winning the $24, | 217 |
KOSOVO: IMPLICATIONS FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
Richard A. Best, Jr.
Specialist in National Defense
Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
NATO's successful air campaign in Kosovo reflected the use of precise intelligence for
targeting precision munitions. The campaign's goal was to destroy key Serbian targets with
minimal casualties to allied forces or civilians. At the same time the campaign clearly taxed
intelligence capabilities; it demonstrated that there are limited numbers of manned
reconnaissance aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as well as an inability to
provide real-time intelligence data to combat aircraft on a routine basis. Since future DOD
warfighting strategy is based on "high-tech" factors such as the combination of information
dominance and precision weaponry, some observers believe that Kosovo operations should
serve as a warning that difficult decisions and reallocations may be required if planned
technical advantages can be realized in future military operations. This report describes the
role of intelligence in Kosovo operations, the importance of intelligence to current and planned
military operational capabilities, and the challenges facing the U.S. Intelligence Community
in being prepared to support such operations. Special attention is given to the role of
Congress in providing intelligence resources for evolving military missions. This report will
not be updated.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) aerial operations conducted in
April-June 1999 against Serbian forces and installations (Operation Allied Force)
demonstrated that an<|fim_middle|>
assessment processes. In another section, the Committee requested a report from the
Secretary of Defense regarding requirements, plans, and resources needed to
maintain, update, modernize, restore, and expand the fleet of aircraft and related
equipment known as "Low Density, High Demand Assets." The Committee included
in this category, U-2, JSTARS, and Rivet Joint aircraft, tactical UAVs, data links, and
data fusion capabilities.
Requests for these studies reflect congressional concerns about intelligence
capabilities and a need for further information and analysis from the Executive
Branch. The Appropriations Conference Committee expressed a need for a
comprehensive plan with dollar amounts for the next ten years. Observers believe that
greater attention as well as additional resources will be devoted to reconnaissance
efforts in coming years, but choices among differing technological approaches remain
to be made. Most expect continuing roles for satellites, manned aircraft, and
UAVs—as well as other approaches—but the nature of the mix and the organizational
infrastructure tying different systems together has yet to be resolved.
Cold War-era satellites are reaching their end of their expected lifespans and are
to be replaced with larger numbers of somewhat less-capable systems beginning in
FY2003.25 However, there is significant concern in Congress that funding for new
satellites has not been matched by a commitment to ensure adequate resources and
techniques for analyzing and using the vast quantities of data acquired. In reporting
its version of the FY2000 Intelligence Authorization bill (H.R. 1555) the House
Intelligence Committee stated its belief that inadequate planning for analysis and
related functions:
... cannot best be solved solely by hiring hundreds of additional imagery analysts,
although there will probably be a need to hire and train many more than are
currently projected. A commitment to development and deployment of analytical
tools and infrastructure as well as, research into other areas or capabilities that
might cue an imagery analyst, are other areas where solutions beyond mere
personnel increases are in order.26
25 See Robert A. McDonald, "NRO's Satellite Imaging Reconnaissance: Moving from the
Cold War Threat to Post-Cold War Challenges," Defense Intelligence Journal, Summer
1999. The National Reconnaissance Office announced on September 3, 1999 that the Boeing
Company had been awarded a contract to develop and operate the new generation of imagery
26 U.S. Congress, 106th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives, Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000, H.Rept. 106-
130, Part 1, May 9, 1999, p. 13.
The availability of high-quality satellite imagery from commercial sources
continues to expand, raising questions for some Members about the need for
government systems that to some extent duplicate commercially available imagery.
In reporting the FY2000 Intelligence Authorization bill (S. 1009), the Senate
Intelligence Committee "strongly urges the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
to identify those imagery requirements that can be met by commercial provide[r]s so
that funds can be targeted for the purchase of commercial imagery."27
Beyond dealing with numbers of intelligence collection platforms, some
observers argue there needs to be a different approach to providing the intelligence
support in the types of military operations likely to occur in the next century. There
is an assumption that, given the post-Cold War international environment, the
detailed knowledge of the battlespace now technically achievable can in effect
substitute for the larger force structures (and their organization and operational styles)28
that long characterized American defense policy. Intelligence becomes an integral
part of this approach, but only if an extensive (if not global) data base is established,
and if intelligence producers can become more closely integrated into military
operations in ways that have not yet been achieved.29 Undoubtedly essential is the
creation of a much more integrated intelligence "grid" that can be directly accessed
by warfighters at national, operational, and tactical levels. Information from the grid
will be fed directly into weapons systems used at all levels of warfighting.
Direct, constant access to intelligence may, however, require even greater
changes to existing organizational practices beyond those that have already been
accomplished. Some observers argue for further consolidation of intelligence
agencies, suggesting that the distinctions between national, departmental, and tactical
systems are increasingly less valid and, accordingly, provide less justification for the
27 U.S. Congress, 106th Congress, 1st session, Senate, Select Committee on Intelligence,
Authorizing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2000 for the Intelligence Activities of the United
States Government and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System
and for Other Purposes, S.Rept. 106-48, May 11, 1999, p. 5.
28 Other observers argue, however, that such theoretical planning for future warfare may not
take into account the likelihood that the U.S. forces will be repeatedly engaged in various
forms of peace enforcement operations, rooting out technically unsophisticated, but
nonetheless dangerous, threats from terrorists groups and various criminal elements. In such
scenarios, "dominant battlefield knowledge," may not be an achievable or even a relevant
objective and a higher priority will be on human intelligence about various political or ethnic
factions.
29 Questions have recently been raised within the Air Force about the need to have better
capabilities to manage air attacks in response to the flow of incoming intelligence; and some
believe that better procedures should be established to update daily air tasking orders (ATOs),
the multi-service documents that designates specific targets for individual aircraft. See
Cordesman, p. 76; also Bryan Bender, "USAF Rethinks Targeting Process," Jane's Defence
Weekly, September 8, 1999, p. 13.
separate organizations that operate them.30 Others foresee that with weapons systems
being developed with integral links to reconnaissance sensors, service intelligence
agencies will have a larger role with their personnel becoming more fully integrated
into each service's operating forces. In any event, the long-established patterns of
separate intelligence and operational entities in each of the services are likely to be
altered significantly.
A major concern during Kosovo operations was the difficulties in coordinating
U.S. and allied air forces. It is clear that the United States has invested far more
heavily than our allies in tactical reconnaissance capabilities as well as in precision
munitions. Observers have concluded that only the British and to some extent the
French air forces could work closely in combined air operations with U.S. forces.
Given the U.S. commitment to information warfare, the gap in capabilities and tactics
may increase significantly. Secretary Cohen stated that:
We could not . . . have carried out this operation alone. A great deal of this
operation, however, rested on American capabilities. The United States conducted
virtually two-thirds of all the support sorties that were flown and half of all combat
missions. And because we were the only country with precision-guided munitions
that can operate in all weather, heavy cloud cover in the initial stages of this
campaign made it almost an exclusively American operation.
Moreover, I'd point out that not all of our allies possess the kind of
communications gear that's required to maintain total security. As a result, there
were times when our pilots had to communicate over insecure lines and that
allowed the Serbs to perhaps intercept and make use of this source of information
to compromise the effectiveness of the air campaign itself and put our pilot's lives31
unnecessarily at risk.
European NATO members continue to deploy sizable forces, but they are
structured to counter a ground attack on Alliance members. Observers suggest that
the threat of ground attack on Western Europe is at best remote for decades to come;
more likely is European involvement in peacekeeping or peacemaking operations in
various parts of the world, including, but not limited to, the fringes of Europe.
Observers—and some key NATO officials—believe that, for the same level of defense
expenditures, NATO countries could create force structures much more useful for the
probable post-Cold War environment. Further, they argue, that the innovative
technologies now adopted by the United States could be acquired by the European
NATO states. While they are not inexpensive, they are far less expensive than
maintaining large standing forces.32
30 See William A. Owens, "Intelligence in the 21st Century," Defense Intelligence Journal,
31 Remarks to the International Institute for Strategic Studies as Delivered by Secretary of
Defense William S. Cohen, Hotel del Coronado, San Diego, California, Thursday, September
9, 1999.
32 See David G. Gompert, Richard L. Kugler, and Martin C. Libicki, Mind the Gap:
Promoting A Transatlantic Revolution in Military Affairs (Washington: National Defense
University Press, 1999).
With ongoing and planned changes in U.S. forces that emphasize information
dominance and precision weapons, it will be increasingly difficult to manage combined
operations. European NATO forces, with exceptions, may be limited to support roles
while U.S. troops are directly engaged in combat operations. Observers believe that
such an imbalance may be unsettling to the American people as well as limiting overall
military capabilities.
There are not insuperable gaps between U.S. and European intelligence
collection capabilities. Indeed, European forces are already making regular use of
UAVs and manned reconnaissance aircraft and there are plans under consideration for
a European reconnaissance satellite capability. Overall collection capabilities,
however, remain significantly more limited than those of U.S. forces and there are
considerable problems of connectivity and interoperability with U.S. systems. It is not
clear, however, that European members of NATO are as yet prepared to make the
necessary investments and adjustments to ensure that they have adequate intelligence
and communications systems that are interoperable with U.S. systems. Many allies
have not, as yet, demonstrated a serious intent to implement NATO's recently
adopted Defense Capabilities Initiative that is centered around more mobile and
sustainable forces adapted to post-Cold War missions. It is in the U.S. interest to
promote greater interoperability with European NATO forces, but most observers
conclude that European acquisition of better reconnaissance capabilities and precision
munitions will take an extended period at best and is only partially subject to U.S.
influence.
The bombing campaign in Kosovo and Serbia—resulting in Serbian withdrawal
and almost no allied casualties—was a testimony to the intelligence capabilities
acquired by U.S. forces in recent years, combined with precision munitions. At the
same time, the campaign suggests that these capabilities are limited in quantity and
that should significant hostilities occur in two separate regions intelligence resources
could be inadequate. Furthermore, much remains to be done if the available
technology is to be deeply embedded in defense capabilities of the United States and
its NATO allies. Given the expectations of the public, resulting from the Kosovo and
Persian Gulf experiences, that post-Cold War hostilities can be successfully concluded
with minimal allied losses and limited collateral damage, many observers expect that
there will be an increasing emphasis on investments in intelligence technologies as well
as on the reorganization of intelligence capabilities to apply them to tactical level
warfighting. Congress has not, however, received a comprehensive plan for achieving
these desired capabilities. | air campaign largely based on precision weapons can accomplish
major military and political objectives even in the absence of a ground campaign.
Eventual Serbian withdrawal from Kosovo was achieved with almost no casualties
among friendly forces.
The prerequisite to success in NATO's air campaign was highly accurate allied,
particularly U.S., intelligence and precision weapons. The combined use of precise
intelligence and munitions to strike troop positions and stationary targets has been
described as a major component of an ongoing technological revolution that is integral
to defense planning in the post-Cold War world. Far different than the plans for
second strike nuclear capabilities and extended deterrence that characterized earlier
U.S. planning, the emphasis on precise targeting that limits friendly and non-
combatant casualties greatly increases the need to collect, analyze, and disseminate
intelligence in something approaching "real-time."
Despite a successful military outcome, however, the Kosovo campaign
demonstrates that neither the Defense Department nor the Intelligence Community is
yet fully prepared to provide the extensive intelligence support required in the military
operations envisioned for the next century. Collection assets were stretched thin;
resources had to be borrowed from other theaters. Intelligence could not in many
cases be transmitted immediately to attacking aircraft. Several instances of erroneous
bombing, including the attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, have been blamed
on faulty intelligence.
It is widely agreed that limitations in U.S. reconnaissance capabilities—especially
manned aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)—must now be addressed.
Acquisition of airborne reconnaissance platforms, as well as satellites, has been
complicated by budgetary limitations and, according to some observers, by
administrative shortcomings. Congress has expressed concern about inadequate
progress on UAV programs in particular and some argue that the failure of the
Executive Branch to present comprehensive reconnaissance plans for the entire
Defense Department has forced Congress to make necessary trade-offs. Numerous
detailed provisions in FY2000 defense and intelligence legislation deal with
reconnaissance assets. The Conference Report on the FY2000 Defense
Appropriations Act (P.L. 106-79) indicates that reconnaissance questions will be a
matter of significant concern in consideration of future defense budgets.
Kosovo also demonstrated that other NATO countries are, in large measure,
unprepared for the use of precise intelligence to support precision weaponry, even
though such capabilities might cost less than the large ground force structures
currently being maintained. This will present difficult challenges should the Alliance
become involved in further combined operations, but the U.S. has only a limited
ability to achieve the redirection of NATO defense planning.
Background .................................................... 1
The Importance of Intelligence.....................................1
Persisting Problems..............................................4
Congressional Concerns...........................................7
Future Trends.................................................10
Conclusion ................................................... 12
Operation Allied Force, the air strikes launched by the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) against Serbian targets during the period March 24th throughth
June 9 1999, was a decisive factor in gaining Serbian President Slobodan
Milosevic's agreement to withdraw his troops and security forces from Kosovo. John
Keegan, a well-respected military historian concluded, "for the first time in military
history, air forces won a war."1 During the campaign some 37,000 sorties (i.e., one
aircraft flight) were made and some 23,999 munitions were launched. In addition to
Serbian forces in Kosovo, primary targets included Serbia's integrated air defenses;
command, control, and communications systems; fighter aircraft; and ammunition and
oil production facilities. Although somewhat higher figures were released during the
course of the campaign, recent estimates indicate that there were 93 successful strikes
on tanks, 153 on armored personnel carriers, 339 on military vehicles, and 389 on
artillery and mortars. The bombing campaign did not halt the initial dispersal of
Kosovar Albanians nor did it prevent a considerable number of atrocities, but in its
final stages it resulted in Belgrade paying a heavy cost to maintain its position in
Kosovo and, undoubtedly in conjunction with Russian pressure, led to Serbia's
agreement to withdraw its forces.
The Importance of Intelligence2
The air campaign was dependent upon highly accurate and up-to-date
information on the nature and location of Serbian targets. As Secretary of Defense
Cohen testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 20, 1999:
The operation . . . highlighted the importance of intelligence, surveillance,
and reconnaissance — and the fact that the assets that provide these essential
elements of success are in short supply. It demonstrated the immense potential of
precision attack munitions to make possible military operations with an
1 John Keegan, "How We Beat Milosevic: Leave It to the Historians," Daily Telegraph, July
2 Arguably, a major intelligence failure was the erroneous assumption in the early months of
1999 that Serbian President Milosevic would capitulate after the initial two or three days of
bombing; the process of negotiations and the expectations of Serbian behavior is, however,
so interlinked with policy decisions that it is excluded from discussion in this report; see Julie
Kim, Kosovo: Review and Analysis of Policy Options, 1998-June 1999, CRS Report
RL30265, July 21, 1999.
effectiveness and accuracy undreamed of only a few years ago — and made clear3
that we must assure that we have sufficient supplies of these munitions.
The Kosovo campaign depended upon intelligence from a variety of sources.
Imagery and signals intelligence (sigint) collected by manned aircraft and unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs) were used by NATO commanders to direct attacks by allied
aircraft operating over Kosovo and Serbia. To facilitate attacks on stationary
installations (in both Kosovo and Serbia proper) video images were fused with digital
terrain elevation data provided from national satellites. This data was used to target
cruise missiles launched by submarines in the Adriatic and by B-1 bombers operating
from bases in the United States.
In the early phase of the campaign more than ninety percent of bombs and
missiles used were precision-guided; in later stages more "dumb" bombs were used
as a result of NATO's control of the air, improved weather conditions, and decreased
stocks of precision weapons.4 Even unguided weapons were, however, aimed within
precisely defined areas to strike oil refineries, ammunition storage sites, and troop
staging areas.
The effective use of intelligence in Kosovo in large measure resulted from
lessons learned in the Persian Gulf War of 1991. Desert Storm had seen national
intelligence systems successfully supporting tactical operations and the emerging
importance of precision guided weapons. The air campaign revealed many
shortcomings, however, in facilitating the rapid use of large quantities of information.
One Air Force historian described the major shortcoming as the "difficulty of melding
the U.S. Air Force planning, operations, and intelligence functions into a smoothly
functioning team" as a "potentially grave organizational flaw."5
In the aftermath of Desert Storm, the Department of Defense (DOD), with
strong congressional encouragement, set about to remedy serious organizational
flaws, enhance reconnaissance capabilities, and resolve intelligence-related limitations.
Communications links were established to allow information from satellites and other
national-level collection resources to be used to support combat operations.
Interoperability among surveillance and communications systems of the four services
and various agencies was significantly improved. Virtually all observers have
concluded that, as a result of these innovations, intelligence support in Kosovo
operations was far more timely and effective than it had been in the Persian Gulf
conflict. There were no reports that massive paper printouts had to be ferried around
by helicopter because of inadequate communications, as notoriously occurred during
Desert Storm.
3 Prepared Statement of the Honorable William S. Cohen to the Senate Armed Services
Committee Hearing on Operations in Kosovo, July 20, 1999, p. 5.
4 Anthony H. Cordesman, "The Lessons and Non-Lessons of the Air and Missile Campaign
in Kosovo," (Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, September 22,
1999), p. 21.
5 Richard G. Davis, "Strategic Bombardment in the Gulf War," in R. Cargill Hall, ed., Case
Studies in Strategic Bombardment (Washington: Air Force History and Museums Project,
1998), p. 611.
Much more profound than enhancing systems interoperability, however, has been
an ongoing effort to rethink fundamental force structure and organizational issues in
light of a new technological and geopolitical environment. A series of reviews—the
Quadrennial Defense Review, the Report of the National Defense Panel, the Defense
Reform Initiative, Joint Vision 2010—have all envisioned a defense policy based
heavily on maneuverable forces employing "information dominance" and precision
munitions to gain victory in a wide spectrum of different combat situations. DOD's
Quadrennial Defense Review of May 1997 anticipated that:
With the support of an advanced command, control, communications, computers,
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) common backbone, the
United States will be able to respond rapidly to any conflict; warfighters will be
able to dominate any situation; and day-to-day operations will be optimized with6
accurate, timely, and secure information.
Joint Vision 2010, prepared by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided a future conceptual
framework of warfare the basis of which "is found in the improved command, control,
and intelligence which can be assured by information superiority."7 It argued that in
the coming century "Commanders will be able to attack targets successively with
fewer platforms and less ordnance while achieving objectives more rapidly and with
reduced risk. Individual warfighters will be empowered as never before, with an array
of detection, targeting, and communications equipment that will greatly magnify the8
power of small units."
Far removed from the concepts of massive retaliation and extended nuclear
warfare that once characterized American defense policy, current and future planning
is dependent upon technological innovations to achieve dominant battlefield
awareness, information superiority, precision engagement, and dominant maneuver.
A major goal is to employ evolving technologies to accomplish military objectives
while minimizing noncombatant casualties and destruction of property.9 So designed,
U.S. forces are to be able to undertake successfully a full spectrum of operations from
counternarcotics to major regional conflicts with a force structure considerably
smaller and less costly than that maintained at the height of the Cold War.
6 William S. Cohen, Secretary of Defense, Quadrennial Defense Review, May 1997, p. 39.
7 Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Vision 2010: America's Military: Preparing for
Tomorrow, p. 19.
8 Ibid., p. 13.
9 In this respect, current planning harks back to the emphasis on strategic bombing that
guided Air Force planning before and during World War II. In large measure it was
limitations in weapon accuracy (along with political pressure for fast results) that led to the
resort to widespread area bombing and, subsequently, nuclear attacks. Cold War nuclear
planning also tended to blur distinctions between attacks on military or industrial targets and
the urban areas in which they were located.
Persisting Problems
Ongoing defense planning presumes the availability of dominant battlefield
awareness; but, as yet, no overall implementation plan has been established for
achieving it. The Kosovo experience, while successful in its outcome, revealed
important limitations in intelligence capabilities and demonstrated that information
dominance in an operational sense has not been realized.
Currently deployed technological capabilities could not ensure that information
available to all parts of the Intelligence Community was consistently provided to
military commanders in precise enough form for real-time targeting purposes; in some
cases, delays of several hours precluded reactive strikes. Although information can
be relayed to ground-based headquarters, in many cases it cannot be linked directly
to strike aircraft; the need to relay it from the ground stations can preclude immediate
response to ongoing enemy activity. In some cases, an inability to relay perishable10
intelligence made it impossible to prevent attacks on defenseless civilians.
Kosovo operations made it evident that current reconnaissance assets were
stretched very thinly.11 Manned reconnaissance aircraft capabilities center on U-2s,
the high-altitude aircraft originally designed for overflights of the Soviet Union in the
1950s, for imagery; Rivet Joint, Boeing 707s configured as sigint collectors; other
radar and telemetry collection platforms, and JSTARS aircraft with ground-search
radars. U-2s provided over 1300 hours of collection time, collecting according to one12
Air Force source, over 80% of the total imagery for Operation Allied Force. There
are, however, only some thirty-five U-2s in the Air Force inventory and a similar
number of qualified pilots; Kosovo operations placed major constraints on the total
force as did the need to detail pilots and support personnel from other regions.13 In
the aftermath of Kosovo, Secretary of Defense Cohen acknowledged that "we are at
a critical juncture in airborne reconnaissance."14
In Kosovo, as in Desert Storm, U.S. and allied UAVs performed admirably in
collecting imagery without risking the loss of crewmembers. Unfortunately, UAV
acquisition programs have been the source of considerable frustration in both
10 See Cordesman, p. 196.
11 For background information on reconnaissance systems, see Michael F. Miller and Richard
A. Best, Jr., Intelligence Collection Platforms: Satellites, Manned Aircraft and UAVs, CRS
Report 98-495F, May 21, 1998.
12 Gigi Whitley, "Air Force Official Praises U-2's Operation Allied Force Performance,"
Inside the Air Force, October 1, 1999, pp. 3-4.
13 SR-71 Blackbird aircraft, no longer maintained in the active inventory of the Air Force,
can overfly hostile targets with far less vulnerability than the U-2s and some argue that they
could be usefully employed in post-Cold War operations. Nonetheless, the Defense
Department opposes any move to return them to active service because of cost considerations
and crew availability.
14 Memorandum on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, July 6, 1999, reprinted in Inside the Air
Force, July 16, 1999, p. 29.
Congress and the executive branch.15 Despite an estimated $2 billion in investment
and several reorganizations, only one UAV system capable of extended operations,
the Air Force's Global Hawk, is currently being acquired and one of two Global
Hawk test vehicles crashed in March 1999. The Air Force expects to make a final
acquisition decision for Global Hawk in early FY2001, with a recently reported goal
of acquiring a "fleet" of the UAVs.16 DOD is attempting to come up with a sensor
configuration for Global Hawk that will meet most of the existing requirements
without unduly adding to expense or delaying production schedules.
Some view Global Hawks as replacements for the aging U-2s and suggest
accordingly that there is no need to upgrade existing U-2s or develop new manned
platforms. Others argue that manned reconnaissance platforms will continue to have
certain inherent advantages over UAVs. Supporters argue that they can carry a more
diverse variety of sensors and point to the advantages of allowing a pilot to maneuver
based on his own observations.17 The heavy demands currently placed on U-2s
throughout the world and the limited numbers of available UAVs suggest that manned
reconnaissance vehicles will have an important role for the foreseeable futures.
Furthermore, deployed shorter range UAVs proved vulnerable to Serbian
attacks; four of the eight Air Force Predator UAVs were lost as were four Navy
Pioneer UAVs and six or seven Army Hunter UAVs. These losses resulted in part
from the fact that UAVs flew at lower altitudes than manned aircraft. Although
UAVs are considered expendable, the lost platforms will need to be replaced with
comparable or more capable models.
Reconnaissance satellites also provided valuable information during the Kosovo
campaign. Originally designed to acquire information on Soviet missile and submarine
sites for national level decisionmaking, sigint and imagery satellites with near-real-
time communications capabilities have established an important role in providing
information to military commanders at all levels. There remain nevertheless
constraints on using satellite imagery in real-time operations.18
15 See Thomas E. Ricks and Anne Marie Squeo, "Why the Pentagon is Often Slow to Pursue
Promising New Weapons," Wall Street Journal, October 12, 1999, p. 1.
16 Frank Wolfe, "Air Force May Ask for 'Fleet' of Global Hawks in `01 Request," Defense
Daily, September 16, 1999, p. 1.
17 One other approach that has been attempted is the acquisition of reconnaissance "pods," i.e.
sensor packages that can be attached to various types of aircraft thus permitting them to serve
as reconnaissance platforms as needed. A key advantage is that they can preclude the need
for dedicated reconnaissance aircraft. Naval units operating in the Adriatic in support of
Kosovo operations included F-14 aircraft with Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Pods
(Tarps). The Marine Corps deployed three F/A-18D aircraft modified with Advanced
Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance Systems (Atars) including electro-optical camera and
infrared devices for night operations. The planes will have data links that can relay digital
imagery in real time to ground stations.
18 The Director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has pointed out that in
Operation Allied Force newly designed joint targeting workstations were used to correlate
satellite information with data derived from airborne platforms and feed targeting data directly
to strike aircraft. He noted, however, that the NRO had had to field prototypes on a rush
Many observers conclude that intelligence resources devoted to providing better
imagery and other data to tactical commanders have not kept pace with the increasing
emphasis that is being placed on the use of precision weapons. Airborne
reconnaissance platforms, in particular, have not been acquired in sufficient numbers
to support the wide variety of post-Cold War missions that may be likely. There is
a perception that given shrinking defense budgets since the late 1980s, the services
and DOD have emphasized major weapons systems and somewhat deemphasized the
systems that collect the data that is essential for their use.
Certain Kosovo operations also called into question the adequacy of intelligence
data bases for precision attacks on stationary targets as well as procedures forth
designating targets. On May 7, the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade was mistakenly
bombed as a result of a faulty database and inadequate coordination. The resulting
contretemps with Beijing has led to a realization that intelligence databases as
currently maintained are inadequate.19 The Intelligence Community has only recently
begun to lay the foundation for maintaining global databases with, for instance, efforts
to acquire civilian imagery and by launching a new space mission to create a more
detailed topographical database for most of the Earth. DCI Tenet has acknowledged
the problems surrounding this effort:
Data base maintenance is one of the basic elements of our intelligence effort, but
it is also one that has suffered in recent years as our workforce has been spread
thin. Some have suggested that this failure is the consequence of resource
shortfalls. A more fundamental problem is not the absolute level of resources, but
the application of resources at our disposal. We have diverted resources and
attention away from basic intelligence and data base maintenance to support20
current operations for too long.
basis and suggested that the services should integrate such equipment into operating
platforms. Frank Wolfe, "Hall: Joint Targeting System Sees First Use in Kosovo," Defense
Daily, July 9, 1999, pp. 2-3.
19 The attack on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade on May 7th was an especially embarrassing
intelligence failure. The intended target was the Yugoslav Federal Directorate of Supply and
Procurement, but that installation was confused by intelligence analysts with another building
located a block away. That structure in turn was actually the Chinese Embassy (even though
U.S. Government maps indicated the embassy at a former site some miles away). The
problem derived, according to testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Julynd
22, from an analyst's mislocation of the Yugoslav Supply Directorate and the absence of
subsequent evaluation to discover the error. U.S. officials who did know the accurate location
of the Chinese Embassy (which was never a target and thus not on any target list) were not
participants in the targeting review. George Tenet, "DCI Statement on the Belgrade Chinese
Embassy Bombing, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Open Hearing, 22 July
20 DCI Statement, p. 5.
Congressional Concerns
Although FY2000 authorization and appropriations legislation was under
consideration by Congress prior to the beginning of operations in Kosovo, limitations
in intelligence capabilities during Operation Allied Force resulted in budgetary
adjustments that have been reflected in report language submitted by intelligence,
armed services, and appropriations committees.
Given the disparate nature of the programs as well as the fact that many are
discussed in classified annexes to intelligence and defense authorization bills, it is
difficult to identify all the changes. However, the House Appropriations Committee
expressed concern about deficiencies that
... have been well known for some time. These include, but are not limited to:
electronic warfare aircraft and specialized jamming equipment; tactical intelligence
collection and dissemination assets (ranging from collection assets such as the U-2,
RIVET JOINT, AWACS, and JSTARS aircraft and tactical UAVs; interoperable,
secure communications and command and control, to include new data links and
data fusion capability).... The Committee has consistently supported additions
over DOD budget requests for such programs over the years. Nevertheless,
continued shortages in these and many other categories clearly posed operational
constraints during [Operation]... Allied Force. This not only impeded the regional
commands charged with prosecuting the air campaigns, but also other regional
commanders who were confronted with the physical diversion of assets from their
areas of responsibility and other unexpected resource shortfalls.21
As a result, the Committee gave special consideration to intelligence and
reconnaissance systems and provided $270 million above the Administration's budget
request to fund a variety of upgrades for tactical reconnaissance assets, including the
following major items:
Predator UAV$20 million
Global Hawk UAV25 million
Rivet Joint102 million
U-236 million
Joint Sigint Avionics17 million22
Senate Appropriations Committee actions included additional funding for Hunter
UAVs, for modifying Navy reconnaissance aircraft, improvements to the U-2s, and
precision attack targeting pods for Air Force F-16s. Other adjustments were made
by the armed services and intelligence committees. The House Armed Services
21 U.S. Congress, 106th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives, Committee on
Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations Bill, 2000, July, 1999, H.Rept. 106-
244, p. 13.
22 Ibid., pp. 25-26.
Committee, for instance, added funds for an additional JSTARS aircraft, hardware
and software upgrades of the Army's Hunter UAVs, the Air Force's Global Hawk,
and strongly recommended that the Secretary of the Navy reassess his service's
maritime patrol aircraft program. Additions by the Senate Armed Services
Committee included $138 million for extending the operational lives of Navy
reconnaissance aircraft, $60 million for re-engineing two Air Force RC-135 aircraft,
$46 million for additions to the JSTARS program, and $5 million for research into
airborne remote sensing of chemical agents. Among other actions, the House
Intelligence Committee added funds for UAVs control systems, for Global Hawk, for
Predator UAV enhancements, electo-optic framing technologies, and "a revolutionary
new spectral exploitation technology." The Senate Intelligence Committee added $31
million in Global Hawk funds, $12 million for joint sigint avionics equipment, and $9
million for upgrading the U-2's electro-optical reconnaissance system.
This illustrative and incomplete list of committee actions reflects the diversity of
intelligence and intelligence-related programs that Congress authorizes and for which
it appropriates funds. Some observers argue that the Executive Branch does not
provide a well-coordinated package of reconnaissance programs (that includes
intelligence, intelligence-related, and other systems) and, as a result, congressional
committees find it necessary to make an excessive number of judgments, cuts, add-
ons, and trade-offs among a wide variety of different proposals. These adjustments,
they further maintain, are necessarily taken in piecemeal ways. The perceived need
for congressional "micromanagement" allows inadequate opportunity to assess the
implications of funding changes to individual reconnaissance efforts on other
programs inasmuch as some reconnaissance programs are not under the jurisdiction
of either intelligence committee. Trade-offs between national and tactical systems,
e.g. between satellite collection and high-altitude UAVs, can be especially difficult to
make, given the disparate programs through which they are acquired.
The conference report (H.Rept. 106-371) accompanying the FY2000 Defense
Appropriations Act (P.L. 106-79) that was submitted in early October 1999
underlined congressional concerns with acquisition and maintenance of reconnaissance
programs in the light of operations in Kosovo. The conferees provided an additional
$15 million for Global Hawks, but expressed concern about future funding of the
program, pointedly noting that using other intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance assets "as a 'bank' from which to draw funds for the Global Hawk
program would likely not serve the best interests of the Department of Defense."23
The Committee acknowledged that the U-2 is "the premier tactical reconnaissance
asset requested by CINCs [commanders-in-chief of the regional commands] around
the world" and "was considered by many to be the 'backbone' of the airborne
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) mission in Kosovo."24
Conferees provided $10 million for U-2 cockpit and defensive system upgrades, but
expressed concern future availability of U-2 platforms and pilots. Furthermore, DOD
23 U.S. Congress, 106th Congress, 1st session, Committee of Conference, Making
Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30,
2000, and for Other Purposes, H.Rept. 106-371, October 8, 1999, pp. 237-238.
24 H.Rept. 106-371, p. 198.
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\section{Introduction}
\label{sec:intro}
Since the first experimental realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in 1995 the expansion of quantum gases, after release of the confining trap, has systematically provided crucial information on the physical properties of such systems. In Ref.~\cite{Anderson1995, Davis1995} the observation of the bimodal expansion at finite temperature actually provided crucial evidence for the occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation. Later experiments with larger numbers of atoms and stronger interaction effects have provided strong evidence for the hydrodynamic nature of the expansion~\cite{Ernst1998,Stenger1998}. The expansion of the condensate has also been employed<|fim_middle|> increase of the effective mass. The comparison with the numerical solution of the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations indicates that our hydrodynamic approach, which takes into account up to quadratic terms in the velocity field, works very well for the calculation of the density and of the spin density for short expansion times. For a Rashba spin-orbit coupled Bose gas~\cite{Wang2010,Wu2011,Ozawa2012,ZhangYP2012}, the investigation of the expansion dynamics can be carried out similarly using the corresponding hydrodynamic formalism~\cite{Stringari2017}.
\begin{acknowledgements}
We would like to thank F. Dalfovo and P. Engels for discussions and comments. This work was supported by the QUIC grant of the Horizon2020 FET program and by Provincia Autonoma di Trento.
\end{acknowledgements}
| to characterize the emergence of the superfluid to Mott insulator transition in the presence of a periodic optical lattice~\cite{Greiner2002}, the effects of localization in the presence of disorder~\cite{Roati2008}, the occurrence of Bloch oscillations~\cite{Roati2004} and a large variety of physical phenomena in both Bose and Fermi quantum gases~\cite{Pitaevskii2016}.
In many cases the condensate is in the so-called Thomas-Fermi limit, where the equation of state of uniform matter can be directly employed in the local density approximation and the mechanism of the expansion is well described using the hydrodynamic formalism of superfluids. In usual superfluids at low temperature, the hydrodynamic picture is based on the irrotationality constraint for the velocity field which takes the most famous expression ${\bf v} =(\hbar/m)\nabla \phi$ where $\phi$ is the phase of the order parameter, $\hbar$ is the reduced Plank constant and $m$ is the atomic mass. The hydrodynamic approach has proven quite useful to describe the macroscopic dynamic behavior of quantum gases, including the study of the low frequency collective oscillations~\cite{Stringari1996} and the expansion of the gas after release of the trap~\cite{Castin1996,Kagan1996,Dalfovo1997}, in excellent agreement with experiments.
The recent experimental investigation of spin-orbit coupled quantum gases has enlarged the horizon of the possible scenarios characterizing the dynamic behavior of quantum gases~\cite{Lin2011,Fu2011,Zhang2012,Ji2015,Wang2012,Cheuk2012,Qu2013,Olson2014} (for recent review articles, see~\cite{Zhai2015,Li2015}). In particular the presence of spin-orbit coupling in binary mixtures of Bose-Einstein condensates is known to affect the irrotationality constraint and the current-phase relation
${\bf j} =n (\hbar/m)\nabla \phi$ holding in usual superfluids. This is the consequence of the breaking of Galilean invariance and is at the origin of novel features exhibited by such systems, like the violation of Landau's criterion for superfluidity~\cite{Zhu2012,Zheng2013,Ozawa2012a}, the quenching of the sound velocity~\cite{Martone2012} and of the superfluid density~\cite{Zhang2016}, the emergence of diffused vorticity in the rotational flow~\cite{Stringari2017}. Experimentally a first direct evidence for the violation of the superfluid current-phase relation was given by the quenching of the frequency of the center-of-mass oscillation in harmonically trapped configurations~\cite{Zhang2012} and of the sound velocity~\cite{Ji2015}. In a very recent work \cite{Khamehchi2016} the expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of spin-orbit coupling was investigated with special focus on the plane-wave phase, where intriguing effects associated with the occurrence of negative values of the effective mass were observed.
In the present paper we investigate the expansion of a spin-orbit coupled Bose gas focusing on the single-minimum phase, where a simplified hydrodynamic description is formulated in terms of scaling variables and analytic solutions to the nonlinear equations characterizing the expansion can be obtained. We find that, for values of the Raman coupling close to phase transition between the single-minimum phase and the plane-wave phase, the expansion along the direction of spin-orbit coupling is dramatically quenched exhibiting an effective localization caused by the lowering of the superfluid flow. A typical example of quenched expansion caused by spin-orbit coupling is shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig1} where the integrated density $n(x, y)=\int n(\mathbf{r})dz$ obtained by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equations is reported for different expansion times, starting from an initially isotropic density distribution. At the phase transition, corresponding to the choice $\Omega=\Omega_\text{c}$ for the strength of the Raman coupling, the expansion is frozen along the direction of spin-orbit coupling (the vertical axis).
\begin{figure}[t!]
\centerline{
\includegraphics[width=8.6cm]{fig_2Ddensity.pdf}}
\caption{Contour plot of the total integrated density $n(x, y)$ of the expanding spin-orbit coupled condensate for (a) $\Omega=\Omega_\text{c}$ and (b) $\Omega=1.5\Omega_\text{c}$ (In each panel, the brighter the color, the higher the density). For each value of Raman coupling $\Omega$, the density profiles have been shown after an expansion time $\omega_\text{ho}t=0$, $4.7$ and $9.4$, respectively. In the top left panel we also show a length scale corresponding to $10\mu m$. The results are obtained by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equations with the spin-orbit coupling along the vertical direction. See the main text for the detailed description of the simulation parameters.}
\label{Fig1}
\end{figure}
\section{Hydrodynamic formalism}
\label{sec:hydro}
We consider the following Raman induced spin-orbit coupled single-particle Hamiltonian~\cite{Ho2011,Li2012}
\begin{equation}
H_\text{sp}=\frac{1}{2m}(p_x-\hbar k_0\sigma_z)^2 + \frac{p_y^2}{2m} + \frac{p_z^2}{2m} - \frac{\Omega}{2}\sigma_x
\label{eq:sp}
\end{equation}
where $p_\mu=-i\hbar \nabla_\mu$ ($\mu=x,y,z$) is the canonical momentum, $\hbar k_0$ is the recoil momentum and $\Omega>0$ is the Raman coupling strength. The detuning term $(\delta/2)\sigma_z$ can be set to zero with a proper choice of the frequency of the two Raman lasers. Interaction effects will be taken into account through the interaction energy $V_\text{int}=(1/2)\sum_{\alpha\beta}\int d\mathbf{r}g_{\alpha\beta}n_\alpha n_\beta$ where $n_\alpha$ is the density distribution of the $\alpha$-th component, $g_{\alpha\beta}=4\pi\hbar^2a_{\alpha\beta}/m$ are the coupling constants in different spin channels and $a_{\alpha\beta}$ the corresponding scattering lengths. For simplicity, we assume that the interspin and intraspin interaction constants are the same, i.e., $g_{11}=g_{22}=g_{12}=g$. The spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate is known to exhibit a second-order phase transition at the critical Raman coupling strength $\Omega_\text{c}=4E_\text{r}$ where $E_\text{r}=\hbar^2k_0^2/2m$ is the recoil energy. For $\Omega<\Omega_\text{c}$, the lower band of the single particle dispersion exhibits double minima at the wave vectors $\pm k_0\sqrt{1-(\Omega/\Omega_\text{c})^2}$. The condensate picks up one of them spontaneously and the resulting ground state then corresponds to a spin-polarized plane-wave phase. For $\Omega>\Omega_\text{c}$, the lower band has instead only a single minimum at zero momentum and the resulting ground state is named as single-minimum phase or zero-momentum phase which is instead spin balanced at equilibrium.
The spin-orbit Hamiltonian Eq.~(\ref{eq:sp}) is known to affect in a deep way the expression for the current operator along the $x$ direction which takes the form
\begin{equation}
{\hat j}_x=({\hat p}_x -\hbar k_0 {\hat \sigma_z})/m
\end{equation}
and, as we will explicitly discuss, causes the violation of the usual current-phase relation ${\bf j} =n (\hbar/m)\nabla \phi$.
As discussed in~\cite{Stringari2017}, the relative phase of the two components is locked for the ground state and for the low frequency dynamics. Therefore, the dynamic behavior of the spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate is described by the densities of the two components $n_\alpha$ and by their common phase $\phi$. Starting from the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and neglecting quantum pressure effects one can then derive the following equations:
\begin{eqnarray}
&& \frac{\partial n}{\partial t} + \frac{\hbar}{m}\nabla\cdot(n\nabla\phi)-\frac{\hbar k_0}{m}\nabla_x s_z=0 \label{eq:continuity} \\
&& \hbar\frac{\partial\phi}{\partial t} + \frac{\hbar^2}{2m}(\nabla\phi)^2 + gn + V_\text{ext}-\frac{\Omega}{2}\frac{n}{\sqrt{n^2-s_z^2}} = 0 \label{eq:Euler} \\
&& -\frac{\hbar^2 k_0}{m}\nabla_x \phi + \frac{\Omega}{2}\frac{s_z}{\sqrt{n^2-s_z^2}} = 0 \label{eq:spinphase}
\end{eqnarray}
where $V_\text{ext}$ is the confining harmonic potential, $n=n_1+n_2$ and $s_z=n_1-n_2$ are the total density and spin density. Note that these quantities are position- and time-dependent in the expansion dynamics. From the continuity equation~(\ref{eq:continuity}), it is natural to introduce the superfluid velocity $v_x=(\hbar/m)\nabla_x\phi-\hbar k_0s_z/(mn)$, $v_{y,z}=(\hbar/m)\nabla_{y,z}\phi$. By writing the spin density in terms of the local quasi-momentum $p_x= \hbar\nabla_x \phi$ with the help of Eq. (\ref{eq:spinphase}) one recovers the hydrodynamic formalism presented in the recent work~\cite{Khamehchi2016}, based on the inclusion of the lower branch of the single-particle spectrum.
In the following we will consider the single-minimum phase ($\Omega \ge \Omega_\text{c}$), where, at equilibrium, the system is unpolarized and its phase can be chosen equal to zero. To obtain simple analytic expressions, we assume that the spin density accumulated during the expansion is small compared to the total density, i.e., $s_z\ll n$. One can then expand the square roots in the above equations and include terms quadratic in the spin density, generalizing the linearized expressions derived in~\cite{Stringari2017}. Using Eq.~(\ref{eq:spinphase}) a useful relation between the spin density and the superfluid velocity is then obtained
\begin{equation}
\frac{s_z}{n}=\frac{2\hbar k_0}{\Omega}\frac{m^*}{m}v_x \label{eq:spindensity2}
\end{equation}
with the effective mass given by
\begin{equation}
m^*=m\left(1-\Omega_\text{c}/\Omega \right)^{-1}
\end{equation}
Using these relations, after eliminating the spin density, the above differential equations can be recast in the form
\begin{eqnarray}
&& \frac{\partial n}{\partial t} + \nabla\cdot(n\mathbf{v}) = 0 \label{eq:HD1} \\
&& m^*\frac{\partial v_x}{\partial t} + \nabla_x\left(\frac{m^*}{2}v_x^2+gn+V_\text{ext} \right) = 0 \label{eq:HD2} \\
&& m\frac{\partial v_{y,z}}{\partial t} + \nabla_{y,z}\left(\frac{m}{2}v_{y,z}^2+gn+V_\text{ext} \right) = 0
\label{eq:HD3}
\end{eqnarray}
hereafter called the equations of quadratic hydrodynamics, where we have retained only quadratic terms in the velocity field. Equations of the same form can also be derived in the plane-wave phase ($\Omega \le \Omega_\text{c}$), where the effective mass is given by $m^*=m(1-(\Omega/\Omega_\text{c})^2)^{-1}$. In the plane-wave phase the equations of quadratic hydrodynamics have however a more limited range of applicability because in this case high order terms in the velocity field become soon relevant and cause the appearance of asymmetric effects in the expansion dynamics along the direction of spin-orbit coupling, as shown in \cite{Khamehchi2016}.
\section{Expansion dynamics}
\label{sec:expansion}
Similar to the case in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, the equations~(\ref{eq:HD1})-(\ref{eq:HD3}) of quadratic hydrodynamics admit a solution of the inverted parabolic form $n(\mathbf{r}, t)=n_0(t)\left(1-x^2/R_x^2(t)-y^2/R_y^2(t)-z^2/R_z^2(t)\right)$ within the region where $n(\mathbf{r}, t)$ is positive and zero elsewhere~\cite{Castin1996,Kagan1996,Dalfovo1997}. The peak density $n_0(t)$ is determined by the normalization condition $n_0(t)=15N/[8\pi R_x(t)R_y(t)R_z(t)]$ where $N$ is the number of atoms. The Thomas-Fermi radii $R_\mu(t)$ can be written in the scaled form $R_\mu(t)=b_\mu(t)R_\mu^{(0)}$ ($\mu=x,y,z$) in terms of the dimensionless scaling parameters $b_\mu(t)$ and of the Thomas-Fermi radii $R_\mu^{(0)}$ before the expansion. The velocity field is parameterized as $v_\mu(x_\mu, t)=a_\mu(t)x_\mu$. Substituting these ansatz into the hydrodynamic equations, we find $a_\mu(t)=\dot{b}_\mu(t)/b_\mu(t)$ and, after switching off the trapping potential, the equations for the scaling parameters $b_{\mu}$ take the form
\begin{equation}
\ddot{b}_\mu(t)-\frac{\tilde{\omega}_\mu^2}{b_\mu(t)b_x(t)b_y(t)b_z(t)}=0 \; , \label{eq:Db}
\end{equation}
where $\tilde{\omega}_x=\omega_x\sqrt{m/m^*}$ and $\tilde{\omega}_{y,z}=\omega_{y,z}$. The initial conditions are determined by the properties of the system at equilibrium, thus $a_\mu(t=0)=0$ and $b_\mu(t=0)=1$. By solving the above differential equations for $b_\mu(t)$ and $a_\mu(t)$ with these initial conditions, one can obtain the density profile and the velocity field of the condensate as well as, according to Eq. (\ref{eq:spindensity2}), the spin density during the expansion. It is worth noticing that, different from the plane-wave phase, the
total density of the single-minimum phase is always symmetric in the spin-orbit coupling direction during the expansion.
Close to the critical transition point from the single-minimum phase to the plane-wave phase, $m/m^*\to 0$ and thus $\tilde{\omega}_x\to 0$. In this regime it is thus possible to write down the analytical expression~\cite{Castin1996}
\begin{eqnarray}
&& b_{y,z}(\tau) = \sqrt{1+\tau^2} \\
&& b_x(\tau) = 1+\lambda^2(\tau \arctan \tau - \ln\sqrt{1+\tau^2}) \label{bx}
\end{eqnarray}
for the solution of the hydrodynamic expansion differential Eq.~(\ref{eq:Db}),
where we have assumed initial isotropic trapping ($\omega_x=\omega_y=\omega_z\equiv \omega_\text{ho})$, yielding $\lambda = {\tilde \omega}_x/{\tilde \omega}_y=\sqrt{m/m^*}$, and introduced the dimensionless time $\tau=\omega_\text{ho}t$.
\begin{figure}[tbp]
\centerline{
\includegraphics[width=8.6cm]{fig_width.pdf}}
\caption{Scaled Thomas-Fermi radius $R_\mu(t)/R_0$ of the expanding spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate for different Raman coupling strengths (a) $\Omega=\Omega_\text{c}$ and (b) $\Omega=1.5\Omega_\text{c}$. The dashed red lines and the solid red lines are the results for $R_x(t)$ and $R_{y,z}(t)$ obtained from the hydrodynamic theory. The circles and squares in blue are the corresponding results obtained by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equations.}
\label{Fig2}
\end{figure}
Using the result $v_x =\frac{\dot{b}_x}{b_x}x$ and Eq. (\ref{bx}) we finally find that, in the limit $m/m^* \to 0$, the spin density can be simplified to
\begin{equation}
\frac{s_z}{n}= \arctan \tau \sqrt{\frac{\mu_0}{E_\text{r}}} \frac{x}{R_0}
\label{eq:largetimesz}
\end{equation}
with $\arctan \tau \to \pi/2$ for $\tau\to\infty$. In Eq.~(\ref{eq:largetimesz}), we have introduced the initial Thomas-Fermi radius $R_0=R_\mu^{(0)}$ and $\mu_0=m\omega_\text{ho}^2R_0^2/2$. Result (\ref{eq:largetimesz}) shows that, when $\Omega=\Omega_\text{c}$ the above simplified hydrodynamic approach, based on the condition $s_z\ll n$, is no longer valid for large expansion times $\tau$, unless $\mu_0$ is sufficiently small compared to $E_\text{r}$.
The hydrodynamic results, based on the solution of the scaling equations for $b_\mu(t)=R_\mu(t)/R_\mu^{(0)}$, are shown as solid and dashed red lines in Fig.~\ref{Fig2} for two different values of the Raman coupling strength $\Omega=\Omega_\text{c} $ and $\Omega=1.5 \Omega_\text{c}$. For the sake of simplicity in these calculations we have assumed initial spherical trapping (similar features are predicted also in the case of anistropic trapping). We find that the expansion along the spin-orbit coupling direction (dashed red lines in Fig.~\ref{Fig2}) is slower than the one along the other directions (solid red lines in Fig.~\ref{Fig2}) and, in particular, it is frozen at the critical transition point between the single-minimum phase and plane-wave phase, exhibiting an effective localization. The corresponding integrated density $n(x)=\int dydz n(\mathbf{r})=(15N/16R_x(t))(1-x^2/R_x^2(t))^2$ and spin density profiles obtained with the help of Eq.~(\ref{eq:spindensity2}) are instead shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig3} for two different expansion times.
\begin{figure}[t!]
\centerline{
\includegraphics[width=8.6cm]{fig_density_column.pdf}}
\caption{Plot of the total integrated density $n(x)$ and the spin density $s_z(x)$ of the expanding spin-orbit coupled condensate for (a) $\Omega=\Omega_c$ and (b) $\Omega=1.5\Omega_c$. For each value of Raman coupling, the density profiles after an expansion time $\omega_{ho}t=0$, $4.7$, and $9.4$ are shown. The solid and dashed red lines are the results obtained from the hydrodynamic theory while the blue symbols are the results obtained by numerically solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equations, respectively. In the left-bottom panel, the solid green line is a fiting function of the form $f(x)= \beta \exp(-|x/R_0|^\alpha/\lambda)$ with $\beta=9750$, $\alpha=1.17$ and $\lambda=0.6$.
}
\label{Fig3}
\end{figure}
To check the validity of the hydrodynamic approach, a full numerical calculation of the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations has been carried out under the same conditions of spherical trapping. We consider a spin-orbit coupled Bose gas with $N=1\times 10^5$ of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a spherical harmonic trap with $\omega_\text{ho}=2\pi\times 50$Hz. The Raman laser wavelength $\lambda=782$nm which determines the recoil momentum $k_0=2\pi/\lambda$ and the recoil energy $E_\text{r}$. For our simulation parameters, we have the initial Thomas-Fermi radius $R_0=8.46\mu m$ and $\mu_0/E_\text{r}\approx 0.2$. After long enough imaginary-time evolution, we prepare the condensate at the ground state for different values of Raman coupling strengths $\Omega$. Then we release the harmonic trap and observe the expansion dynamics of the condensate. The numerical results for the radii are shown by the blue symbols in Fig.~\ref{Fig2} where, in order to compare quantitatively the simulation results with the hydrodynamic predictions, we have numerically calculated the mean square root radii $w_\mu(t)=\sqrt{\langle x_\mu^2\rangle}$ and then determined $R_\mu(t)$ through the Thomas-Fermi relation $R_\mu(t)=\sqrt{7}w_\mu(t)$. The corresponding density and spin density profiles are instead reported in Fig.~\ref{Fig3}.
The agreement between the simulation and the hydrodynamic theory results is excellent for Raman coupling $\Omega=1.5\Omega_\text{c}$ at all expansion times. At the critical transition point $\Omega=\Omega_\text{c}$, we observe deviations at large expansion times, reflecting the fact that spin density is not always small compared to the total density. In particular, as shown by the simulation results in Fig.~\ref{Fig2}(a), the expansion of the condensate along the spin-orbit coupling direction at the critical transition point is not completely frozen. Furthermore, as explicitly shown in Fig.~\ref{Fig3}(a), for larger expansion times the total density cannot be longer described as an inverted parabola. This is easy to understand since during the expansion the condensate accumulates a local phase (and hence a local quasi momentum) which changes the values of the effective mass, resulting in a more complicated behavior of the density distribution. For $\Omega=\Omega_c$, the density at $\omega_\text{ho}t=9.4$ can be approximated by a function of the form $n(x)\approx \beta \exp(-|x/R_0|^\alpha/\lambda)$, reflecting an analogy with the exponential behavior observed in~\cite{Roati2008} during the expansion in the presence of localization induced by disorder.
\section{Conclusion}
\label{sec:conclusion}
In conclusion, we have studied the expansion dynamics of the spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate using a hydrodynamic formalism allowing for analytic scaling solutions. The expansion along the spin-orbit coupling direction is slowed down in a dramatic way near the critical transition point between the single-minimum phase and the plane-wave phase. The slowering is caused by the quenching of the superfluid flow corresponding to a huge | 5,525 |
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AS THE WORLD TURNS fans will once again have the opportunity to enjoy the talents of one of the soaps' longest-running vets when Eileen Fulton (Lisa) performs at Bob Egan's New Hope Cabaret in New Hope, PA, on Sunday, April <|fim_middle|> in The Ramada of New Hope, the show has a $25 music charge with a $15 food and drink minimum. For reservations or to purchase tickets, call (215) 862-5221 or visit www.BobEgansNewHope.com.
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Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on 4 of 11 counts
Enlarge / Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans, right, leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building on November 23, 2021 in San Jose, California.
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Elizabeth Holmes was convicted today of three counts of wire fraud and one count of criminal conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The jury returned its verdict after six days of deliberation.
The government's victory in this case is a rare rebuke to tech startups, which often put investors on their technological prowess and business ac<|fim_middle|>900 million on the back of claims that its proprietary tests were better, cheaper, and less invasive than the competition. Neither claim was true, and unlike many other Silicon Valley startups, patient health and safety was at stake.
Holmes was convicted of defrauding Lakeshore Capital Management (the family office of DeVoses) of $ 100 million, PFM Healthcare (a hedge fund) of $ 38 million and an LLC linked to Daniel Mosley (the former real estate lawyer Henry Kissinger) of $ 6 million. She was also convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud against Theranos investors more generally. On three charges, all alleging wire fraud against investors, the jury returned no verdict. Holmes was acquitted of all other charges, including those involving defrauding patients. She faces up to 20 years in prison.
With the guilty verdict, Holmes, the founder of the company, is the first Theranos executive to be held criminally responsible for her actions, though she may not be the last.
The very personal involvement of Holmes
Failed defense
Holmes was on trial for defrauding investors and Theranos patients. She founded the company after dropping out of Stanford University in hopes of changing the way diagnostic medical tests are performed, primarily by reducing the amount of blood needed for a single finger prick. Over the years, Holmes has raised more than $ 900 million from a range of wealthy families and individuals, most of whom had no experience of investing in biomedical startups.
Theranos, of course, never could deliver on its promise to be able to perform over 1,000 tests. In reality, that could make 12. The company's proprietary devices, first the Edison, then the MiniLab, were unreliable and had to be rigged with "null protocols" during investor demos to avoid harm. trigger alarm signals. During the trial, the jury heard how Holmes personally approved the investor presentations, including these fraudulent demos.
The court also heard how Holmes tampered with reports that Theranos wrote with the logos of various drug companies, giving the impression that the companies had endorsed the content. In fact, some contracts Theranos had with these companies expressly prohibited the startup from using their logos. That didn't stop Holmes, however, who said she was "just trying to pass on" the partnership between the two companies.
In its lawsuit against Holmes, the government called 29 witnesses, ranging from investors and lawyers to doctors and their patients. Although the testimony focused primarily on the investors as they made up the bulk of the criminal charges, the jury heard from two patients who had received questionable results from Theranos. One was a woman who was told she had tested positive for HIV when in fact she had not. The other was a pregnant woman who, in a series of Theranos tests, learned that she was having a miscarriage. As it turned out, for one of her pregnancy tests, Theranos probably misplaced a decimal point. She was going to give birth to a healthy baby.
Holmes' defense relied on blaming other people – many of whom were scientists – and allegations that she had been abused and controlled by her ex-boyfriend Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, who was director of operating in Theranos for much of its existence. Holmes claimed that she had been raped by Balwani and that he sought to control all facets of her life.
Defense lawyers, however, did not attempt to put this testimony into context and did not call Mindy Mechanic, an expert witness on intimate partner violence, to testify. It is not clear whether the defense felt that Mechanic's testimony would not be beneficial or that Holmes' presence on the stand was sufficient.
The jury apparently did not buy into Holmes 'version of Theranos' story, which differed from almost everyone else called to the stand. Holmes will return to court at a later date for sentencing. Balwani faces the same charges in a trial set to open next year.
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Belgium dusts off 1666 charter for post-Brexit fishing rights
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BRUGES, Belgium (Reuters) – Belgium may resort to a 17th century charter granted by a British king to retain fishing rights in Britain's coastal waters if London and the European Union fail to agree a trade deal by the end of this year.
With just over two months until Britain ends its transition period out of the EU, Belgium will lose access to much of the area it fishes in the North Sea if there is no deal.
However, a document in Latin issued to Flanders in July 1666 by Britain's King Charles II gives 50 Flemish fishing boats access to British waters for perpetuity.
"Knowing how Britain is attached to old habits and old laws, it may have a chance," said Jan d'Hondt, the head archivist in the port city of Bruges, as he showed the large, yellowing paper document.
Charles II signed the document as a gesture to the city that gave him refuge after his father was beheaded during England's Civil War in 1649, granting the citizens of Bruges, or "Civitas Brugensis", the right to use 50 fishing boats in British waters.
While today Belgian boats no longer sail from Bruges but from nearby Zeebrugge, the document known as the Privilege is still valid, according to Hilde Crevits, economy minister of the Belgian region of Flanders.
"ETERNAL RIGHT"
"More than half of our fishing income comes from fish caught in British waters. So if we lose access to that British water or if our quotas go too far down, it could be the death knell for our fisheries," Crevits told Reuters TV.
"As a consequence, if you have a very old document… where the king says you have the eternal right to sail with 50 boats in those coastal waters, yes then we will use that if necessary," she said.
Belgian fishermen agree. Robert Campbell, a Belgian born to an English mother, said the local fishing industry would be decimated if Britain denied access.
"Where would we have to fish then? We can't go anywhere," Campbell said, standing in front of his red and white trawler. "I have hope in that document."
Britain and the EU resumed their talks on Thursday on a post-Brexit trade deal, with fisheries among several sensitive issues still blocking the way to an agreement.
Britain has said other treaties supersede the charter, including the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which grants countries rights to their territorial waters up to 12 nautical miles and rule over economic zones up to 200 nm.
(This story has been refiled to correct typographical error in final paragraph)
(Writing by Robin Emmott, Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska, Editing by Philip Blenkinsop, Gareth Jones and David Evans)
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Congratulations to all the students from this half term who achieved an Academic Success Award. This is to recognise their outstanding academic achievement and attitude.
The awards are given by class teachers to those students who have shone in terms of working extra hard in and out of lessons, or persevering with difficult work, along with those who have exceeded their personal target grades and achieved at a high level.
Well done to all students and keep up these really high standards for the rest of the year.
The Norfolk Art & Design Competition celebrates creative student talent from Sixth Forms and colleges across Norfolk.
Shortlisted work is exhibited at Norwich University of the Arts, with a private view and awards ceremony, followed by a touring exhibition of award winning work at galleries in Kings Lynn and Great Yarmouth (dates below).
This competition is a great opportunity for students to professionally showcase their work at external venues and to enhance their portfolios.
Find out more details online at www.norfolkartdesigncompetition.com.
Congratulations to BlackOut Racing on reaching the F1 in Schools UK National Finals.
The F1 in Schools™ STEM Challenge UK National Finals will showcase high flying talent, with 48 student teams competing for the F1 in Schools UK Champions title and a place at the World Finals later this year. The event being held from 11 – 12 March at Airbus' West Factory in Broughton, Flintshire where wings for the company's entire family of commercial aircraft are manufactured, will celebrate the best young minds and engineering flair.
Winning student teams from regional finals around the country will race their bespoke designs of miniature Formula 1 cars on the Official F1 in Schools 20 metre track, present their business plans, display their engineering designs and showcase their work to a panel of industry and engineering experts. The two-day competition tests their F1 car designs to the limit on track, as well as the students supporting work with a busy timetable of judging sessions.
We launched our new behaviour and reward policy in September 2019.
This week, the first students were rewarded for receiving 90 achievement points in the academic year, by joining me for the Head Teacher's breakfast. It was a lovely opportunity to chat to the students about their learning and experiences at the school. They were all thrilled to be invited to the breakfast, though I think one or two were disappointed it wasn't a full English!
We had a very productive and popular first Geography revision session after school yesterday on Tropical Rainforests.
Here are some ideas for the coming week about how Geography students can revise this topic.
Revision Guide to support Yr11s in their revision and preparation for the summer exams. This booklet covers our top tips for revision, revision technique ideas for students to try and revision 'Dos and Don'ts'.
For revision to be successful it also needs to be organised carefully. Attached are two alternative revision timetable templates and instructions to use. Students should plan their revision, managing their time and making sure that all subjects are covered. This plan can include nights off and breaks as well. Students should try to follow it closely and get into the habit of ' a little and often' as an approach.
Finally students sometimes don't always know the best approach for certain subjects when it comes to revision, or they just don't know how to start. Attached is a document called 'How best to revise in...' which is an outline per subject of the 3 or 4 top tips specific to revision in each subject. The best idea is to start with a simple technique like 'read, cover, recall' and see if that works best for you.
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Our two Senior Designated Professionals for safeguarding<|fim_middle|> but there is a wealth of information to be found in our numerous twitter feeds. Below we have listed the individual accounts and link to them. | including Child Protection are Ms Wood, Head of Academy and Mrs Nicklin, Acting Deputy Head.
Here at Sprowston Community Academy we have so much to offer and celebrate within the school. We post a number of articles on the school website | 48 |
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Cyclic loading on granular packings and amorphous media leads to a transition from reversible<|fim_middle|> oscillation frequency on the reversible-irreversible transition. | elastic behavior to an irreversible plasticity. In the present study, we investigate the effect of oscillatory shear on polycrystalline and amorphous colloidal solids by performing molecular dynamics simulations. Our results show that close to the transition, both systems exhibit enhanced particle mobility, hysteresis, and rheological loss of rigidity. However, the rheological response shows a sharper transition in the case of the polycrystalline sample as compared to the amorphous solid. In the polycrystalline system, we see the disappearance of disclinations, which leads to the formation of a monocrystalline system, whereas the amorphous system hardly shows any ordering. After the threshold strain amplitude, as we increase the strain amplitude both systems get fluid. In addition to that, particle displacements are more homogeneous in the case of polycrystalline systems as compared to the amorphous solid, mainly when the strain amplitude is larger than the threshold value. We do not see any effect of | 212 |
Getting Business Credit – A business person's guide to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) , which protects businesses against discrimination when applying for commercial credit.
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Grants from the federal government are only available to non-commercial organizations, such as non-profits and educational institutions in areas such as, medicine, education, scientific research and technology development. The federal government also provides grants to state and local governments to assist them with economic development.
Some business grants are available through state and local programs, non-profit organizations and other groups. For example, some states provide grants for expanding child care centers; creating energy efficient technology; and developing marketing campaigns for tourism. These grants are not necessarily free money, and usually require the recipient to match funds or combine the grant with other forms of financing such as a loan.
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Employers' Guide to Purchasing Treasury Bonds – Tools to help employers provide information about U.S. Savings Bonds to their employees. | and local governments in an effort to expand and enhance small business technical and financial assistance. Other federal grant programs generally support non-profit organizations, and state and local governments and are not given directly to small businesses. A list of Federal Grant programs can be found on SBA's web site at: SBA Federal Grant Resources.
Unfortunately, some unscrupulous operators sell manuals, workshops and other materials on how to obtain "free money." To find out how to avoid these scams, see the Federal Trade Commission's article about wealth building scams.
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This consumer guide to getting and keeping health insurance includes guidance for small business employers and self-employed individuals. Produced by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute.
Search for information about insurance companies before you buy. Complied from state government department of insurance, this database includes information on complaints filed by consumers, financial information, and whether or not the company is licensed by the state.
MyBizhomepage – a free web-based service that provides and other information to help small and emerging businesses run more smoothly and profitably.
We've all seen the headlines: "Millions in free government money for your business." Late-night infomercials and Internet advertisements promise grants to start or expand a business. Sound too good to be true? It is.
The federal government does not provide grants for starting and | 317 |
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Looking north, Timber Gap visible.
Small Lake #3, still mostly snowbound, looking south. Elevation here is about 9900 feet ASL. | , element: the upper end of the Mineral King road, parked where the old road-end store used to be. Timber Gap in background.
Looking south to Farewell Gap from Eagle Lake trailhead.
East Fork Kaweah River, near Eagle Lakes trailhead; river was flowing cold, full, and fast! Farewell Gap (overexposed) in distance.
MK Pack Station, waiting for summer.
Late-afternoon clouds; towering thunderhead were to east. Road by Faculty Flat was wet, so rain had fallen earlier.
Bridge over stream near Tufa Falls on Eagle Lake trail.
Cascade coming down from Tufa Falls. Noisy!
Looking north to Timber Gap, from near Eagle Lake trailhead.
Cooking dinner at walk-in campsite #38, Cold Springs campground. Sticks and charcoal are fuel for stove. Punjabi Choli and tuna, mmmmm!
Strolling up the final mile of the MK road, looking east.
Sawtooth Peak to the east of MK valley. The hike to the top (12,343 feet) is just short of a 5000 feet elevation gain from this point.
East Fork Kaweah River, with lots of snow-melt. View is to southeast, from road.
Looking south to Farewell Gap, from just south of the Eagle Lake trailhead.
Brrr! Winter had not yet finished its retreat from the higher elevations.
This photo and the following two are of Crystal Creek descending from Crystal Lakes, as seen when looking east from the Eagle Lake trail.
A closer view of Crystal Creek. It was really booming quite audibly from this distance.
Telephoto shot of Crystal Creek falls, which had quite-visible spray garlands.
Looking back to north towards Timber Gap, from middle section of Eagle Lake trail after it forks off from the White Chief trail.
Moist and plush moss with sprouting plants, alongside the trail.
This photo shows how recently the rapidly-dwindling snow had melted back from the moss and sprouting greenery.
View to west towards vicinity of Eagle Lake, near the junction with the Mosquito Lakes trail.
Looking southeast towards Franklin Creek drainage area.
Looking east. The lighter-colored peak is Sawtooth; the darker pinnacle to the right is Mineral Peak.
Sawtooth Peak and Mineral Peak, with Crystal Lakes drainage on right, taken from unforested spot near saddle crest of Miner's Ridge.
Looking down from the north shore area of the lowest Mosquito Lake. Camping is not allowed next to the lake, but there are some legal sites about 1/4 mile away.
Mosquito Lake #1, from north side looking south.
Looking west, on north shore of Mosquito Lake #1.
It was a very calm day and there was little wind.
I decided to walk around the east side of Lake #1 and then ascend the south side of its bowl. This view looks north.
Water was bubbling up from the flat ground at this spot; a still photograph does not do it justice. Damn good water - and cold!
Looking south up the Mosquito Lakes drainage, from the vicinity of the small pond at about 9800 feet shown on the 7.5 quad. Everything was very soggy.
Looking north, Timber Gap in distance.
Looking up the trunk of the subject in the previous photo.
Here's what the trail looked like just below Lake #2; notice trail blaze on tree. Trail is to the right side of photo, covered in water and then partially obscured by snow.
Mosquito Lake #2 (WL 9586T on topo), looking to southwest. Calm day.
Looking south, Lake #2, with lake outlet in middleground | 756 |
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Our doors are open to you here at our Dover hotel, a place which strives to offer the perfect harmony between personalized service and an authentic space to relax. Our curated rooms are decorated with touches of maritime décor and contemporary details for comfort. Start each morning with our fresh complimentary breakfast made with local goods and choose to dine inside or on our gorgeous patio, one of the many beautiful gathering spaces on site.
Dover is not only a great starting point for year-round adventures in New England, but it is easily reached by all modes of transportation – a recognized center for commercial activity in southeastern New Hampshire.
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The challenge was to communicate the idea of 'senior living' that did not feel at ALL like senior living! Most seniors who are ready for the kind of lifestyle offered at Wellpoint don't want to think of themselves as 'seniors' at all. Our task was to appeal to that attitude by building excitement around something entirely new and different.
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Wellpoint launches in early 2022, but the results are already evident. Our portrayal of the Wellpoint brand was used in garnering a medical partnership with Cerner, which elevated the stature of the Wellpoint project considerably. Advance press has been overwhelmingly positive, and the upcoming community has ignited great anticipation by both consumers and industry leaders, alike.
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With the mobile gaming segment attracting so much attention lately, it's no wonder that the number of developers builds up faster than ever before; after all, those games don't create themselves. Just like any other development-related field, though, mobile game development gets a lot easier if you have the right tools at hand. If you're a mobile game developer on the lookout for the perfect tools to help you get the job done, you're right on the spot; this article will present some of the best tools for mobile game development.
Marmalade is one of the most feature-rich software development kits you can find. You can use it to create games or applications for a large variety of platforms such as iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows Mobile and even Microsoft Windows. What makes Marmalade a good pick is that it incorporates everything into a single package – it comes with a low-level C API that allows you to access the main functions of the device, and a C++ API that's designed to integrate perfectly with other APIs. The result is that you only need to write the main code once and then, using the appropriate API, adapt it to the platform you want. Objective C is also supported in Marmalade Juice, one of the supplements available for the Marmalade SDK.
Recognizing the potential of mobile gaming development, Autodesk created a special version of their flagship modeling software Maya to accommodate the needs of mobile game developers. Autodesk Maya LT is a full-featured 3D modeling program that allows you to create and animate your characters with a very high level of accuracy. The software is perfectly adequate for indie game development, but it is not limited to this genre.
Unlike Marmalade, Autodesk Maya LT is not a complete suite, meaning that you will need to use additional tools in order to have your game ready for the spotlight, but the program does handle a lot of aspects such as modeling, rendering, rigging, keyframing, lighting and so on. The program is well optimized and feature-packed, being capable of exporting into a variety of formats, ready to be imported in game engines such as Unity, Unreal Engine or CryEngine.
The Unreal Engine is widely known from the PC gaming segment, being the game engine that sits at the base of a lot of successful games. Unreal Engine found its way into the mobile development segment too, providing a robust and feature-rich engine for 3D games.There is also a full development kit, the Unreal Development Kit (or UDK for short) that allows for a full development process. UDK is available for free, but if you want to sell the game you just created, you will have to pay a one-time fee of $99 and 25% of royalty if the revenues from your game go above $50,000.
You can't really talk about mobile game development without mentioning Unity, one of the most powerful engines of the moment. What makes Unity really stand out is its portability, the game engine being optimized to run on a wide variety of<|fim_middle|> PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox One and others. Perhaps one of the most attractive features for game developers is the fact that Unity-based games can also run in browsers and integrate with the Facebook API, which is an absolute gold mine considering the level of exposure it can provide.
Unity comes in two flavors – standard, which offers a basic set of tools and features (which are enough to create games, though), and a Pro version that includes all the complex options you need to create a true masterpiece. The best part is that the basic version is free if your company featured revenue of less than $100,000 the previous year. If you don't meet the requirements for the free version, you can also the Pro version for free for 1 month, after which you'll be prompted to buy a license for a one-time fee of $1500or a contract of minimum of 12-month, at a price of $75per month for the Unity Pro without any add-ons. If you require add-ons, be ready to pull out another $75 per month. It may sound expensive at first, but on the long run, it's a small price to pay for one of the best mobile gaming development tools out there. | platforms. The content created with Unity can be compiled for Windows machines, OS X machines, Android devices, iOS devices, | 24 |
Frances works alongside Tony and Franziska in the Food, Dairy, Pharmaceutical and Scientific sectors. She has been involved with recruitment for several years, mainly in the industrial and construction industries. Frances' core strength is being able to bring people of different backgrounds together and get the best out of them. Frances successfully balances her recruitment work with running a business – her own swim school – in which she acts as a mentor to people of all ages. As a recruiter, Frances translates this knowledge and experience into her interactions with both<|fim_middle|>-rate recruitment consultant. She has recruited for a wide variety of roles across New Zealand's Food, Dairy, Scientific and Pharmaceutical sectors and has established a quality rapport with many exceptional clients and candidates nationwide.
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It's a key feature for any surface inspection system that operates on plastic film. If included as part of a machine vision system for<|fim_middle|> It's almost impossible to produce gel free plastic. The system must keep a moving average of how many gels of each class are within a given area. The user will have set limits on how many different types of gels are allowed. It may be OK to have 10 medium gels if alone, but if you add 100 small gels then the alarm may need to be triggered. A well-presented gel counting solution will allow the user to set alarm decisions on as many of these scenarios that the user deems necessary. If the limit is exceeded, an application alarm can be triggered. Application alarms can then be connected to physical I/0 outputs to drive field devices.
Gel counting is a desirable capability but it is important to understand that often the role of defect detection and monitoring process variations can become blurred. Vision systems used for surface inspection must have a system that allows alarms to be triggered only on key parameters. To learn more about gel counting contact OneBoxVision now. | plastic inspection, it will allow an extruder determine quality .
Why do you need it? Gels are transparent and plastic film is also transparent. It's key to direct the light so that a gel can be seen. The trade-off is that common defects can be difficult to distinguish from very large gels.
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Antibodies produced from seropositive, can form the basis of treatment of HIV
A powerful mixture of antibodies fighting against the AIDS virus attack pulls strong form of the virus in monkeys and then " hold off " weeks , Reuters reported , citing a research team of the U.S. government , led by researchers at Harvard University . Experts have presented findings from two studies in this direction in the journal " Nature "
Researchers found that the rare antibodies produced by 10 to 20 percent of people with HIV, such as to counteract many of the strains of the virus. Such antibodies adhere to those areas of the virus, which are critically important to him, and which are monitored in any strain of HIV. And are attached to the virus , the antibodies do unable to infect other cells.
In the past decade, scientists have tried to develop a vaccine that can cause the body to produce this type of specific antibodies to HIV , but it was quite difficult.
Scientists describe the above antibodies as Ferraris antibody indicates Dr. Dan Baruch , a professor at the Medical College of Harvard University , participated in the research.
For the purpose of both research scientists experienced antibodies on monkeys of the species rhesus infected monkey version of HIV. Rare antibodies were collected from HIV -infected people were then grown in large quantities in the laboratory and were infused in large doses to monkeys. Researchers tested various combinations of antibodies in 35 monkeys. Best working antibody called PGT 121 . Alone or with other antibodies , it gives great results.
Generally antibodies reduced the virus to very low levels in 16 to 18 monkeys within seven days, and this effect was maintained for up to three months. In three animals carry the virus, but in small quantities after treatment he did not reappear.
The effect of the antibodies to be tested on humans. Furthermore, it has not been studied in combination with antiretroviral drugs, which are the standard anti-HIV drugs, used by many thousands of patients in order to control the virus.
According to scientists, however, the combination of antibodies with antiretroviral drugs would make sense because the two treatments have different mechanisms of action. Antiretroviral drugs only attack the mechanism of HIV virus to create copies, while antibodies can directly attack the particles of the virus in blood and in cells that are infected with the virus.
It is not clear whether the antibodies can attack the dormant HIV cells that are hidden in the body and allow the virus to reappear when treatment is discontinued.
Avian Influenza Virus Detection Using Smell
New research from the Monell Chemical Senses Center and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reveals how diseases can modify animal odors in subtle ways. In a recent study published in the public access journal PLOS ONE, scientists examined how infection with avian influenza (AIV) alters fecal odors in mallards.
Using both behavioral and chemical methods, the findings reveal that AIV can be detected based on odor changes in infected birds.
"The fact that a distinctive fecal odor is emitted from infected ducks suggests that avian influenza infection in mallards may be 'advertised' to other members of the population," notes Bruce Kimball, PhD, a research chemist with the USDA National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) stationed at the Monell Center. "Whether this chemical communication benefits non-infected birds by warning them to stay away from sick ducks or if it benefits the pathogen by increasing the attractiveness of the infected individual to other birds, is unknown."
In the study, laboratory mice were trained to discriminate between feces from AIV-infected and non-infected ducks, indicating a change in odor. Chemical analysis then identified the chemical compounds associated with the odor changes as acetoin and 1-octen-3-ol.
The same compounds also have been identified as potential biomarkers for diagnosing gastrointestinal diseases in humans. Kimball and colleagues hypothesize that metabolites resulting from viral infection interact in concert with bacteria in the gastro-intestinal system of ducks to produce "odor signatures" indicating presence of the AI virus.
"Avian influenzas are typically asymptomatic in ducks and waterfowl. Infection in these species can only be diagnosed by directly detecting the virus, requiring capture of birds and collection of swab samples. Our results suggest that rapid and simple detection of influenzas in waterfowl populations may be possible through exploiting this odor change phenomenon," said Monell behavioral biologist Gary Beauchamp, PhD, also an author on the paper.
Future work will assess whether odor changes can be used for surveillance of AIV in waterfowl. In particular, researchers are interested in whether the odor change is specific to the AIV pathogen or if it is merely a general response to a variety of pathogens normally found in birds. Other studies will explore communicative functions of the AIV odor to gain greater understanding of how odors can shape social behavior in wildlife populations.
Also contributing to the research, which was funded by the National Wildlife Research Center, were Kunio Yamazaki and Maryanne Opiekun of Monell and Richard Bowen and Jack Muth from Colorado State University. Dr. Yamazaki, who actively contributed to the design and realization of this work, died in April 2103.
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Pandoravirus: Missing Link Discovered Between Viruses and Cells
With the discovery of Mimivirus ten years ago and, more recently, Megavirus chilensis, researchers thought they had reached the farthest corners of the viral world in terms of size and genetic complexity. With a diameter in the region of a micrometer and a genome incorporating more than 1,100 genes, these giant viruses, which infect amoebas of the Acanthamoeba genus, had already largely encroached on areas previously thought to be the exclusive domain of bacteria. For the sake of comparison, common viruses such as the influenza or AIDS viruses only contain around ten genes each.
In the article published in Science, the researchers announced they had discovered two new giant viruses:
- Pandoravirus salinus, on the coast of Chile;
- Pandoravirus dulcis, in a freshwater pond in Melbourne, Australia.
Detailed analysis has shown that these first two Pandoraviruses have virtually nothing in common with previously characterized giant viruses. What's more, only a very small percentage (6%) of proteins encoded byPandoravirus salinus are similar to those already identified in other viruses or cellular organisms. With a genome of this size,Pandoravirus salinus has just demonstrated that viruses can be more complex than some eukaryotic cells. Another unusual feature of Pandoraviruses is that they have no gene allowing them to build a protein like the capsid protein, which is the basic building block of traditional viruses.
Despite all these novel properties, Pandoraviruses display the essential characteristics of other viruses in that they contain no ribosome, produce no energy and do not divide.
This groundbreaking research included an analysis of thePandoravirus salinus proteome, which proved that the proteins making it up are consistent with those predicted by the virus' genome sequence. Pandoraviruses thus use the universal genetic code shared by all living organisms on the planet.
This shows just how much more there is to learn regarding microscopic biodiversity as soon as new environments are considered. The simultaneous discovery of two specimens of this new virus family in sediments located 15,000 km apart indicates that Pandoraviruses, which were completely unknown until now, are very likely not rare.
It definitively bridges the gap between viruses and cells -- a gap that was proclaimed as dogma at the very outset of modern virology back in the 1950s.
It also suggests that cell life could have emerged with a far greater variety of pre-cellular forms than those conventionally considered, as the new giant virus has almost no equivalent among the three recognized domains of cellular life, namely eukaryota (or eukaryotes), eubacteria, and archaea.
Better Protein Creation May Be Secret of Longevity for the World's Longest-Living Rodent
Naked mole rats have what any animal would want. They live long lives—about 30 years—and stay healthy until the very end. Now biologists at the University of Rochester have new insights into the animal's longevity—better-constructed proteins.
Proteins are involved in nearly all functions of an animal cell, and consequently, are essential to all organisms. But before proteins can do their job, they must fold into the appropriate shapes that allow them to connect to and interact with other structures in the cell. In a paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov describe their discovery of the process in naked mole rats that leads to virtually perfect proteins.
"While this is basic research," said Gorbunova, "we hope our findings encourage further studies on better protein synthesis."
Their work focused on naked mole rat ribosomes—the site of protein creation in the animal's cells—and began by happenstance. Gorbunova and Seluanov were working with ribosome RNA (rRNA) when they made a discovery. After applying a dye to a sample, they studied it under ultraviolet light only to find three dark bands—representing concentrations of different rRNA molecules—not the two bands that are characteristic of all other animals, suggesting that there is a "hidden break" in the naked mole rat rRNA. Since rRNA is an essential part of the protein-creation mechanism, the two biologists decided to see if the broken rRNA affects the quality of naked mole rat proteins.
Ribosome RNA strands act as scaffolds on the ribosome, a protein synthesis machine. Changing the shape of the scaffold can have a profound effect on the organization of the ribosome parts.
Gorbunova and Seluanov discovered that the naked mole rat's rRNA scaffold is indeed unique. The rRNA strands split at two specific locations and discard the intervening segment. Instead of floating off on their own, the two remaining pieces from each strand stay close to each other and act as a scaffold on which ribosomal proteins are assembled to create a functional ribosome—a molecular machine that puts amino acids together to create proteins. And the results are impressive.
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A University of Colorado Cancer Center study published today in the journal Cancershows that the current criteria used to match lung cancers with the drug crizotinib may miss some patients who could benefit from the drug. The findings suggest that doctors should look closer at borderline or atypical ALK-negative cases, and could widen the population of lung cancer patients offered treatment with crizotinib or other ALK-inhibitor drugs.
ALK stands for anaplastic lymphoma kinase, a gene that is turned off in most adult tissues in the body, but which can be re-activated to cause cancer when it is fused with another nearby gene. The original and still most widely-used test for ALK-positive lung cancer was co-developed by Leila Garcia, PhD, director of the Cytogenetics Core Resource at the University of Colorado Cancer Center. The test uses the technique known as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) to test for the fusion of the ALK gene with another gene that turns ALK back on, allowing it to drive some lung cancers. When a cancer is ALK positive it can be very effectively treated with crizotinib, a targeted anti-ALK drug.
"The test is fairly definitive -- either a cell is ALK positive or not using the criteria we initially implemented. However, what is less certain is the exact percentage of ALK-positive cells required to label an entire tumor as ALK-positive. Is there an exact threshold of ALK-positive cells that will make a patient respond to crizotinib or other ALK inhibitors?" Garcia says.
"Since the beginning we have looked at the cells in a tumor and if 15 percent or more of these cells show the changes classically associated with an ALK rearrangement, we classify that tumor as ALK-positive and offer treatment with crizotinib," says Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and director of the thoracic oncology clinical program at University of Colorado Hospital.
Previous studies indicated that this 15-percent point fell in a clear gap between tumors that were obviously ALK-positive and tumors that were obviously ALK-negative, making it an attractive threshold.
"But what this study shows is that when you look not at tens, but hundreds of cases, tumors clearly exist that come right up to the 15-percent cutoff point," Camidge says.
Another possible gray area is when a gene rearrangement occurs but is very complex -- like shuffling cards rather than just cutting the deck. In this situation the typical separated dot pattern indicative of ALK rearrangement may not be present, but instead doublets or triplets of single or un-separated dots may exist. This atypical cellular footprint can tell an expert that, while officially ALK-negative, the cancer has made some changes in the region of the ALK gene that could still make the cancer sensitive to ALK-inhibitor drugs.
"We believe these data suggest that such borderline and atypical negative cases deserve a closer look, perhaps with new kinds of diagnostic tests," Says Camidge.
The current study tested 1426 samples of non-small cell lung cancer, which included 174 officially positive for an ALK rearrangement and 1252 that were officially negative. Of the ALK-negative tumors, 121 had greater than 10 percent ALK-positivity, but were still below the 15 percent needed to classify the overall tumor as ALK-positive. This means that 8.5 percent of non-small cell lung cancers were "borderline" negative. In the study, 1-2 percent also showed atypical-negative patterns, a group that may also benefit from a closer re-evaluation of their ALK status.
Early in 2013, serendipity provided a chance to test whether at least one of the Colorado team's hypotheses were correct. In a case described in an upcoming article in the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Dr. Shengxiang Ren from the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital describes a patient who traveled halfway across the world for a second opinion at the University of Colorado, where much of the research leading to ALK-targeted drugs has taken place.
"We were thrilled this patient had sought out an opinion from one of the leading centers in lung cancer and could not have been happier with the collaboration that developed," Ren says.
The patient was originally classified ALK-negative using the standard FISH assay. However, Dr. Garcia recognized that an atypical negative pattern was present. One way of looking closer at ALK uses the technique of immunohistochemistry (IHC), which looks directly for the protein the aberrant ALK gene creates. Using an IHC assay for ALK conducted within the laboratory of Fred R. Hirsch, MD, PhD, associate director for international programs at the CU Cancer Center, the team quickly confirmed that the patient's tumor was making the ALK protein and should really be considered ALK-positive. Another test called RT-PCR conducted in Shanghai on the same specimen looked at the ALK gene in a third way, confirming the presence of messages coming from the gene that were telling the cell to make the abnormal protein.
"Amazingly, crizotinib was being licensed in China the following week and so we simply wrote the patient a prescription and sent him back to Dr. Ren in Shanghai, where his latest scans show he is responding beautifully to the drug," Camidge says. "All of the early work on ALK positive lung cancer has really helped to clarify what can be achieved by personalized medicine, but we have to keep pushing the envelope to maximize this approach in routine cancer care. For ALK-positive lung cancer, basically our goal now is to make sure that everyone who could benefit from an ALK inhibitor gets an ALK inhibitor."
The CU Cancer Center's Thoracic Oncology Program is world renowned for its pioneering treatment of lung cancer. The program includes a multidisciplinary team of specialists and subspecialists working together to establish the best treatment plan for each patient. Advanced molecular profiling of a patient's tumor, combined with an extensive array of standard and experimental treatments available through clinical trials has led to major advances in patient outcomes in the last few years.
The program's one-year survival rates for advanced lung cancer consistently run twice as high as the national average. The survival rates at five years run four times higher than the national average. Additionally, the Center's new Remote Second Opinion Program now offers access to program experts for patients who prefer not to travel.
Antibodies from sharks may be effective against breast cancer
According to researchers, they prevent the growth of cancer cells
A new type of therapy can help to effectively treat breast cancer, reported biologists from the University of Aberdeen. It's about the application of the specific type of antibody IgNAR (immunoglobulin new antigen receptor), which are found in cartilage fish - such as sharks. According to researchers unique antibody can prevent the growth of cancer cells.
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"This is important because proteins with no aberrations help the body to function more efficiently," said Seluanov.
The next step for the biologists is to split mouse rRNA in the same way to see if it would lead to improved protein creation.
The two biologists hope their work will eventually result in pharmaceutical treatments that modulate protein synthesis in humans, though any medical solution is a long way off.
The world's first vaccine against smoking was created
The world's first vaccine against smoking has been developed by the company "Selecta (RUS)." Expected in 2018 they arrived at pharmacies, said the site "newsru."
According to Russian scientists, a subsidiary of the large U.S. holding company, it is a means of stimulating the production of antibodies that block nicotine in the blood. To provoke an immune response against the tobacco.
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Hey guys! I guess I stretched my "maternity leave" a little longer than I expected. My baby girl is two months old now and it's has been the craziest but also the most beautiful two months of my life. I've been trying to keep things as normal as possible - I get out of the house every day, even if it's just to get coffee, I still don't wear sweatpants outside, no matter how exhausted/lazy I feel, I'm pretty diligent in maintaining a manicure (because there's nothing that says "deterioration" more than chipped nail polish) and I still bake cakes occasionally, just to remind myself that I'm still capable of much more than just changing diapers. But I would be a big fat liar if I told you that not much has changed since I had my baby, because it pretty much turned my life upside down... but I wouldn't have it any other way.
Generally, I'm a girl who likes to think she has her life together. I moved from Hungary to Italy when I was just 19 years old and got married at 21. In these past few years I travelled a lot, I moved houses several times, I've learnt to cook, to speak Italian and to be in a marriage (which is definitely not an innate skill, you guys) and so many other things I would have never thought I would be able to do, like producing short films or living out of a suitcase for 3 months at a time. But nothing prepared me for caring for a wonderful tiny human being who depends on me for literally everything 24/7.
My schedule pretty much revolves around her needs, but since she does me the favor of actually sleeping at night (a miracle, from what I've gathered), I don't really mind going to bed at 10 pm instead of 3 am, so I can sleep a decent stretch of time while she sleeps. Also, I spend most of my time feeding her, since I'm determined to exclusively breastfeed, even if the pain borders on unbearable on some days. I haven't managed to get myself to the gym yet, because who wants to sweat on the elliptical when you can sit on the couch eating cake "because you need 500 extra calories a day to breastfeed". But all things aside, having my daughter is most amazing thing that has ever happened to me and I'm so grateful for every moment I get to spend with her - as cliché<|fim_middle|> preoccupare minimamente per la linea, sei una donna bellissima e stai sempre bene!
Welcome back Anett!!! E... congratulazioni, non vedo l'ora di vedere la tua principessa!!!!
Welcome back is understandable you have the hardest job ever and you trying to balance everything do not stress before you know it will be a breeze for you so enjoy your little princess.
Welcome back, you can do it because you're Supergirl!
Welcome back hun. Wow you have gone through so many changes. It can be very challenging balancing life but I know you can do it. Looking forward to your next post.
Welcome back and congrats! So happy to read your updates!
Sono contenta di sentire che tutto sommato le cose stanno andando bene, poi è chiaro che ora tutto il tuo mondo ruoti intorno alla piccolina, credo sia normale!
bentornata cara!!! un bacione a entrambe!!
è nata la bimba finalmente, ora riposati e soprattutto goditi questi primi momenti bellissimi e irripetibili!!
Welcome back! Can't wait to see what new adventures and memories you will share with us.
Bentornata!!!Mille auguri a te e al tuo tesoro!!!
Welcome and good day pretty!!
Curiosissima di vedere la piccolina e bentornata a te!
Sarai sicuramente uno splendore, non ho dubbi!!
What an amazing time for you. Please don't apologise for not being around. Motherhood sounds like a phenomenal adventure for you. Enjoy it as much as you can!
Welcome back! Very nice post!
Lovely post dear! Wish you all the best!
Siempre es lindo tenerte de vuelta querida y linda amiga. Saludos desde El Blog de Boris Estebitan.
Bentornsta di cuore tesoro bello!
ti stavo aspettando! non vedo l'ora di rivederti, intanto in bocca al lupo per tutto!
Welcome back! You are so lucky your baby sleeps through the night. Mine woke up twice each night. i was really lucky my mom was with me to help. Its not an easy journey but it is so worth it. Hahaha to wearing black.
Welcome back Anett. All these sound so exciting. 50 shades of black totally works, ;). You have your cute lil one and that's much more important. My kids stole my heart and I am not complaining. Enjoy sleeping through the night again now that she does.
Bentornata Anett, e congratulazioni! I primi mesi sono incredibilmente impegnativi, ma ti sento positiva e propositiva, sei ammirevole! Un grande abbraccio tesoro!!
Buon fine settimana a te e alla tua bimba che sarà bellissima!!!
I am glad to hear an update from you. I can only imagine how busy you are and reading your post I understand. Glad that you love being a mom. Take all the time you need to get back to blogging as the most important thing is to take care of your sweet baby!
Congrats! I'm so happy for you. You are blessed with your baby girl. Hope to see you around from now on.
Bentornata!! Goditi la tua piccola ora, questi momenti non ritornano!
Congratulations on your baby girl!!! Don't worry things will get easier with the baby as she gets older I promise! | as that might sound.
As far as fashion is concerned, my new style can best be described as "50 shades of black". Because ain't nobody got time for matching different colors... But this blog might just be the motivation I need to get back to dressing like a normal person. I hope you bare with me through this crazy and wonderful phase of my life.
Have a great week my friends and see you in a few days!
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2013 looks like it is going to be a bumper year for sweet chestnuts, which generally benefit from a hard frost the year before and with the winds this week there are<|fim_middle|>mg in a 30g serving of raw nuts. This will deteriorate with cooking or storage but they are still a good source. Ground chestnuts have a GI score of 54 making them a good for diabetics and provide about 2g of fibre in a 30g serving – similar to a piece of whole meal bread. Chestnuts are gluten free and chestnut flour is useful in gluten free cooking.
Although due to their high water content the amount of vitamins and minerals appears lower than other nuts, chestnuts do contain good levels of potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, selenium, Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, panthotenic acid and folate as well as a number of active phytonutrients. | loads of the spiky cased nuts on the ground ready to be picked up. They are best picked up soon after falling and while the case is still green. Any white / unripe nuts soon ripen when they are brought inside. Damp chestnuts go mouldy quickly and will have a slightly musty taste. Sweet Chestnut Trees grow all over the UK and are regularly found in old deciduous woodland and mixed woods. You can see pictures of what you are looking for under chestnut or sweet chestnut on wikipedia.
Once you have the chestnuts, it is worth picking them over carefully to check for any holes or cracks, discarding any that are not perfect. If you want to keep the chestnuts for roasting then it is good to keep them hanging in onion bags or old tights to allowing the air to circulate around them and stoping getting damp. If you are going to use the chestnuts for cooking, it is best to blanch, peel and freeze them. Peeling chestnuts is time consuming but I find the best method is to pierce each chestnut with a 5mm cut on the flat side and then put in boiling water, bring back to the boil for five minutes until soft and then drain. Many recipes now tell you to soak in cold water for 3minutes but actually the inner skin is much easier to peel off when hot. Its up to you but the outer shell comes off easily but the inner film, which varies in colour from cream to brown, takes more time and if the chestnuts are too soft they can crumble. I try and boil them in small batches and then wrap them in a dish cloth whilst I peel them to keep them warm. Roast chestnuts can be eaten warm straight from the oven or fire. To roast chestnuts most people recommend cutting a small cross in the flat side of the chestnut but a slit will do. They can then either be put into the oven (~200C) or onto an open fire until the insides are soft and the skin starts to curl back.
Combine nuts, sugar and water in a small saucepan and bring to the boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 25-35 minutes until the majority of the liquid is evaporated. Remove pan from the heat and add the vanilla. Take out the chestnuts reserving the liquid and transfer to a food processor. Blend until smooth. Add back the syrup/liquid slowly until you get to the desired consistency. Allow to cool.
Combine all the ingredients in a small sauce pan. The liquid should just cover the chestnuts if not add a little more. Simmer the chestnuts until soft, about 10-20 minutes. Watch them as milk can quickly boil over the side of a pan. Take out the chestnuts reserving the liquid and transfer to a food processor. Blend until smooth. Add back the reserved liquid until you get the desired consistency. Allow to cool.
Nutritionally chestnuts are very different from other nuts and are more like starchy vegetables or whole grains. Unlike other nuts they are low in both total and saturated fats with around 2g of fat per 100g and most of this being either monounsaturated or Omega-3. They are lower calorie than other nuts giving around 240calories per 100g. They are the only nut that contains vitamin C with about 12 | 702 |
4 Things to Know about The Last Champion, the Inspiring Family Film about Second Chances
John Wright is a quiet and pensive ex-Olympian who can't let go of his past.
An all-state wrestler in high school and an All-American in college, John was poised to become one of the greatest wrestlers in history when he claimed Olympic gold as a young man, only to have his medal stripped following a drug test.
That was years ago, but John still hasn't forgiven himself. In fact, he's rarely visited the small town that made him famous.
But his mother recently died, and John now must return to his hometown to sort through her belongings and to tend to her ranch.
It's a visit that will force John to confront his mistakes and the people who never forgave him. Not surprisingly, it's a visit that John dreads.
The new film The Last Champion (PG), now on home video, follows Wright as he faces his past mistakes while searching for a new purpose in life. Eventually, he encounters an old romantic interest, Elizabeth, and is given the opportunity to coach the high school wrestling team. Yet John soon faces an ethical dilemma that tests his values.
Will he find redemption in his old town?
The film stars Cole Hauser (Yellowstone) as Wright, Annika Marks (Waco) as Elizabeth, Peter Onorati (This Is Us) as a high school coach, and Hallie Todd (Lizzy McGuire) as a wrestler's parent.
Here are four things you should know about the film:
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1. It's Faith-Focused
The Last Champion isn't a faith-based film in the same genre as Courageous or War Room, but it nevertheless has more faith content than most films. John's friend, Elizabeth, is the daughter of a minister (Pastor Barnes) who reaches out to him when others in the community are rejecting him. On one occasion – Christmas morning – Pastor Barnes and Elizabeth take John a gift basket. On another occasion, John and Pastor Barnes sit alone in the church sanctuary, discussing the past and the future. Together, the father-daughter duo are the feet and hands of Christ that John so desperately needs.
This faith-focused plot culminates when John, Pastor Barnes and dozens of church members gather in the sanctuary to discuss how they can assist three children whose mother abandoned them.
Still, the faith content isn't overt. The faith themes are strong enough to attract fans of faith-based movies – but not so strong that it will repel moviegoers who rarely watch such films.
2. It's One of the Best Family Films of the Year
The Last Champion originally was scheduled to be released in theaters before the pandemic forced filmmakers to send it straight to home video. That's a win for fans of family-friendly movies, because it's one of the best titles in that genre for 2020.
Hauser is outstanding in the lead role. Onorati, Sean H. Scully (who plays a wrestler), Marks and Todd are also impressive. The cast doesn't have a weak link.
The Last Champion is a gritty, uplifting film with an entertaining and original plot that<|fim_middle|> seem realistic. The wrestling action is intense. The crowd scenes appear legit, too. This realism is aided by a broadcasting crew that includes legendary Iowa coach Dan Gable, Olympic champion Randy Lewis and wrestling broadcaster Jason Bryant. Together, they explain the rules of wrestling for those of us who are novices. (And if you hate sports: The wrestling action only involves the final minutes of the film.)
The film's director was a high school wrestler.
"He was very passionate about the sport," Todd told Crosswalk, referencing Withrow. "He'd always wanted to do a movie that depicted wrestling the way he experienced it."
For families needing a pick-me-up story, The Last Champion is worth a watch.
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The Last Champion is rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and a brief scene of violence. (Content warnings: A teenage boy is beaten up and bloodied in the middle of a street at night. Coarse language includes OMG, 2; and a--, 2. The film includes no sexuality.)
Entertainment rating: 4 out of 5.
Family-friendly rating: 4 out of 5.
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Todd co-wrote it with her husband, Glenn Withrow. He directed it.
"We started brainstorming this at the very end of 2011. And we wrote it in 2012," Todd told Crosswalk. "... We were very drawn to doing an inspirational drama – something that could lift people's spirits and provide a hopeful message."
The movie's message, Todd said, is timely.
"Everybody is kind of broken right now," she said. "This is a movie about community, and forgiveness and love. It's a message for the time."
3. It Promotes Second Chances
The Last Champion is one of the year's most uplifting because it promotes a redemptive message everyone can embrace. All of us need a second chance. All of us are sinners in need of God's grace and mercy.
Years after being stripped of a gold medal during an international scandal, John returns to the small town he embarrassed. And while a few people still haven't forgiven him, most have moved on. Eventually, John realizes he must learn to leave the past in the past and stop living life with regret.
"Suffering the consequences of your actions doesn't mean that your life is through," the pastor tells him. "God forgives."
John learns to live life with a new purpose that involves coaching boys' wrestling. He also discovers love.
The average moviegoer likely has not suffered such a high-profile scandal, but everyone has made mistakes they regret. Further, everyone likely has a "John" in their life – that is, someone who is always regretting the past and needs to hear encouragement and to learn about God's love.
4. Its Sports Scenes Are Some of the Best-Ever
Sports films are abundant, but few of them capture the joy, surprise, intensity and exuberance that takes place in real-life sports. Unfortunately, the sports scenes in most sports films – even the scenes in the big-budget Disney movies – seem fake.
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One of the unexpected jewels of the Finger Lakes region of New York is the Rockwell Museum of Western<|fim_middle|>well Museum of Western Art hosts a variety of educational and cultural events and is an integral part of the Finger Lakes wine region. The museum is open all year and admission is free for children age 19 and under. A free shuttle bus runs every fifteen minutes between historic downtown Corning and the museum. The Rockwell Museum Trading Post is open to the public and offers a wide variety of books, music, pottery and stationery, including a magnificent collection of silver and turquoise jewelry hand-crafted by Native Americans.
Like the scenery of the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York, the art in this museum is stunning, and you can travel across the country over hundreds of years without ever leaving the building. A visit to the Rockwell Museum of Western Art is the best and easiest way to immerse yourself in the spirit and drama of the Old West.
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The idea of the Old West is romantic and iconic, and the art in this museum is a reflection of these times and places. Of course the Westward Expansion began in the East, so the story begins at home. The top floor of the museum is dedicated to the two primary images of the West: Cowboys and Native Americans. Other galleries include tributes to the majestic buffalo, the prairie lands, Manifest Destiny and the great explorations of the West. Each gallery and every display is a showcase for the Western movement as well as its land, animals and people.
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More than 200 artists are featured in the museum, including such well known Western artists as Frederic Remington, N.C. Wyeth, Charles Marion Russell, William Robinson Leigh and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. The museum regularly features new and exciting special exhibitions in addition to its regular displays of traditional and contemporary art, sculptures, landscape paintings and other significant works and objects which represent the Western exploration of America.
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How do you know if you are on the right path financially or not? There are so many metrics and benchmarks to consider; income, net worth, home equity, spending, investment balances and on and on.
In fact, there is so much data at your disposal these days you can easily get lost in the thicket. If you do, you run the real risk of focusing on the wrong things. And if you do that you could miss the really important stuff and thereby waste a lot of time and a lot of money. Who needs that? Nobody.
So how do you know if you are on track or not? Fortunately, it's not all that difficult. In fact, it's really simple. I divide this exercise into those things you need to track monthly<|fim_middle|>, your goals and how other competing investments did. It could be time to make a change - but it can be costly to move too quickly. Evaluate your investment approach carefully over an extended period before making a big shift.
It's also helpful to track your net worth. But again, this is a little less important on a monthly basis. Keep in mind that net worth is just a compilation of what you can control (spending and savings) together with what I have limited control over (asset values).
It's smart to check yourself and live your financial life on purpose. You do that by first crafting a good solid plan and then make sure you implement it by carefully tracking your average monthly spending and making sure you save the required amount each month. Then, periodically, look at the big picture and make sure you are managing your assets in the best possible way. | and those things you need to track less frequently.
Every month you should know how much you spend to support yourself and your family. I don't care if you are a college student or a retiree. If you want to be free of financial worry and know that you are doing OK, you need to know what you spend on average to live. And the only way to calculate your monthly average is to track the monthly amount and feed that into the calculation.
If you want to track everything you spend money on you can do that. It might help you cut expenses if that's what you need to do. But what's most important is to track what it costs you to live on average each month and make sure you are living within your means. As I've discussed several times before, this is not a very time consuming exercise and well worth it.
But without knowing what it costs you to live you can't estimate what it's going to cost you to live in the future. And if you can't estimate what it will cost you to live in the future you have no idea if you are saving or investing enough in order to afford that life.
So if you want to know if you are on track, start by recording your average spending amigos.
The other crucial bit of information you need is your monthly saving and investing amount. Presumably, you've run a financial plan and know how much you need to save in order to achieve your goals. Track how much you save and invest (including retirement plan contributions) each month. If you are hitting your goal, great. If not, find out why. If you need to cut spending in order to reach your objective you may decide to do that. If you determine that you aren't able to save the amount your plan calls for, re-run the plan and come up with an alternative scenario. Either way, track the amount you actually put away each month.
Spending and savings are the two crucial items you need to track every month. Enough said.
It's important to look at your assets at different times to confirm that your current holdings are most appropriate. Consider your home value first. It's smart to compare your current home values, costs and appreciation rates to alternative areas.
But this isn't something you do every month. It depends on your situation of course, but if you think this through even once every couple of years, you're probably ahead of the curve.
It's also important to review your investment statements and account values. But even if your investments drop in value or fail to grow at the rate you expected, it doesn't mean it's time to cash in.
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The Ramdaan is more than halfway done, and I am quite wistful at this beautiful time coming to an end. I really love the heightened spiritual awareness, not just my own, but of everyone around me. It's so beautiful to see all Muslims make an effort to be better, in increased recitation and supplication to our creator. I really feel like I've been in a Ramadaan bubble, and having the kids home to share it with has made it so much more rewarding. We have more time for discussion and debate, they can spend more time in worship without the crazy school schedule interfering.
This last week will be less World Cup focused (which had to fit into their Ramdaan routine hehe) and more on getting ready for school- back to the daily grind indeed!
I have noticed recently that Maxi dresses with sleeves are more easily available, it's definitely a growing trend<|fim_middle|>ree Sale about two months ago. I love a good bargain, and I picked this dress up for a steal. The fabric is great with an elasticated waist, so it has a soft flow and fits well. I paired it with a denim vest and sparkly bronze Country Road pumps. | , and oh so easy for a modest fashionista. Long sleeved maxis were already in most stores abroad during last year and I have been patiently awaiting it to hit our stores this Winter. However, the cut, style, fabric and print all need to be just right so that you don't look frumpy. With the right accessories one can make it look trendy and on point.
Today's outfit includes a long sleeve striped maxi I bought on a Sp | 92 |
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Man, is there ever a lot to do in North Carolina
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Tuesday, I had one of the more exhausting times I've had in 20 years of covering outdoor adventure — and I was in an air-conditioned building. At a catered affair.
The affair was a media event sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Tourism, a gathering of tourism promotion types from around the state and the people they hoped would write about them. People such as myself.
Immediately upon walking in<|fim_middle|> hiking groups in North Carolina in Charlotte, the Triad, the Triangle and Western North Carolina, and in Charlottesville and Virginia Beach in Virginia., with a combined membership of more than 8,200. Emphasis for each group is on local hikes; about once a month we try to do a combined hike, either in the mountains, the Uwharrie National Forest or at one of the larger state parks in the Piedmont.
Find out what hikes we have coming up, what hikes we've done and sign up for the GetHiking! Meetup nearest you, by visiting:
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GetHiking! Virginia Beach | the door of the Contemporary Art Museum — CAM for short — in downtown Raleigh I was met by my old buddy, Suzanne Brown. Suzanne and I worked together for years in the Features Department of The News & Observer, Suz overseeing everything entertainment, me doing my outdoors thing. In 2008, we were both part of a massive newsroom exodus. I landed here, Suz at Tourism, a job that suits her as she wasted little time getting my attention.
"Do you know about the Southeast Coast Saltwater Paddle Trail?" she asked.
I didn't, but I didn't feel too bad upon learning that the trail is a work in progress, a proposed — though some of it exists — paddle trail running from Virginia south through the Carolinas and Georgia, where it will meet with the existing 1,515-mile Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail. A kind of Appalachian Trail for paddlers.
"Cool!" I said.
"What about Jetpacks?" she wanted to know.
"And what about telephones with TV screens and flying cars?" I said.
No, she said, you can now rent a JetPak on the Outer Banks.
Then, in a Graduatesque nod to the Next Big Thing, she leaned in and whispered "Zip Lines."
Cycling the Roanoke Canal Trail.
"Have you been to ZipQuest in Fayetteville? It's a two-and-a-half-hour canopy tour that takes you over the largest waterfall in the eastern U.S."
A zipline over the highest waterfall in the East — in Fayetteville? I started edging away.
"You can also fly a Wright Brothers glider!" she yelled, chasing me down the hall.
The madness continued inside the main hall.
At the Halifax County booth, Lori Medlin, president and CEO of the county's convention and visitors bureau asked if I'd been to the Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck. Hike 5 miles at this 18-acre preserve, take pictures of more than 170 bird species from around the world. "There's even a treehouse. And it's handicap-accessible!"
"You like trails?" she continued. "The 7-mile-long Roanoke Canal Trail in Roanoke Rapids is pretty popular."
Lori shared a table with Claire Phillips, director of marketing and public relations for the Pinehurst/Southern Pines/Aberdeen Area. I expected to hear something about golf. "We have an extensive greenway system," she said.
Tubing at Hawksnest.
I found myself at the Fayetteville table, expecting to hear more about the zipline to outer space. And I did, but I also learned that Fayetteville is also home to the biggest indoor climbing gym in the state, The Climbing Place, with 18,000 square feet of climbing surface, 40,000 holds and 60 top ropes.
I learned that Chowan County has more than 300 miles of mapped paddle trails, that Washington has a Sunrise Yoga Paddle service as well as a Wine and Cheese Paddle, and that Edenton rents canoes and kayaks out of its harbor.
I learned from Craig Distl that since the Hawksnest Resort near Boone abandoned skiing and snowboarding a few years back it's gone tubing and zipline crazy. And I learned that while they still ski and ride at Ski Beech, the highest ski area in the East, they've also opened the Emerald Outback, an 8-mile mountain bike trail network.
I learned that the Biltmore in Asheville is getting its own marathon and that a mountaintop-to-mountaintop zipline is being planned at Navitat north of Asheville.
Mountain biking at Beech Mountain.
Farther west, I learned from Charles Conner with the Nantahala Outdoor Center that the NOC is about more than just really fast moving water. Survival, for instance.
"We've got a Survival School that shows you how to survive 72 hours in the wild," he said, adding, "Seventy-two hours — that's about how long most people stay lost." The ones who end up getting found, that is.
By the time I'd worked my way to the westernmost part of the state, I was pooped. But not too pooped to visit the craft beer booth, where Win Bassett was more than happy to fill my sampler cup with the handiwork of North Carolina's 65 craft breweries (or at least the 65 that belong to NC Brewing). Fullsteam Brewery's Summer Basil was particularly tasty.
A handful of booths remained, but — holy cow! — I'd just been across North Carolina on everything from a zipline to a JetPak to the Wright Brothers glider.
I needed a nap.
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Thanks for all these ideas — great for future weekend roadtrips.
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Thanks for the shout-out!
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Our program includes eight weekly guided hikes, with tips on how to fit cross-training activity into your life between hikes. We can do hikes before work (a great way to get the juices flowing for the workday ahead) or after work (a nice way to wind down) or on the weekend.
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Hiking regularly, or making a hike a part of your regular exercise regimen, can have a dramatic impact on your physical and mental health. It's something nearly everyone can do, and it's a lifelong activity, something you can do long after your body has said no to more aggressive outdoor pursuits.
Hiking reduces your chances of heart disease.
Hiking on a regular basis can lower your blood pressure by 4 to 10 points.
A frequent walk in the woods can help reduce your chances of getting diabetes. If you already have the disease, hiking, combined with a proper diet, can reduce or even eliminate the need for insulin therapy.
As a weight-bearing exercise, hiking can help stave off osteoporosis.
A regular exercise program centered around hiking, coupled with a sound diet, can help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Depending upon your pace and other factors, you can burn up to 500 calories per hour hiking.
A walk in the woods can clear your head — and that's not us talking, that's your endorphins, according to recent studies. It's also effective at reducing stress and relieving anxiety.
Hiking improves muscle fitness.
Hiking lower your risk of high cholesterol and triglycerides.
Hiking can lower your risk of colon and breast cancer.
After a good hike you'll sleep better.
Sources: American Heart Association, Diabetes Institute, WebMD.com, University of Southern California, American Cancer Society, National Sleep Foundation.
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Betting on the Super Bowl is such a big deal that even places like zoos get in on the action. In Salt Lake City, Utah, Tuah the orangutan selected the Carolina Panthers to beat the Denver Broncos.
More than 110 million Americans are expected to watch the Carolina Panthers play the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday. Among those watching will be millions of people who have placed at least some money on some part of the game —from office pools to which teams wins the coin toss to how much cleavage Beyoncé will reveal at halftime. The Los Angeles Times reported that the American Gaming Association estimates people will wager at least $4.2 billion on the game.
UCLA Newsroom interviewed Dr. Timothy Fong, a psychiatrist and director of the UCLA Gambling Studies program which is part of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, about why people gamble on sports and big events like the Super Bowl.
What are the clinical reasons why people gamble?
People gamble for many reasons — the most obvious one is to make money, but there are others that stand out, including gambling for entertainment, competition, escape or to relieve boredom. Similar to alcohol or drugs, many gamblers start because gambling either made them feel normal or made them feel euphoric.
What makes betting on big events like the Super Bowl so alluring for gamblers? Even for non-gamblers who participate in office pools around sport events or even the Oscars?
The Super Bowl is the single most, wagered-upon sporting event in the world because, in part, the day has become a spectacle and a cultural holiday. With so much attention drawn to the event, gambling becomes a natural part of the day and parties to keep the "action" going. Gamblers see the Super Bowl as the final betting opportunity for the football season and seek to close out the betting season on a high note. The Super Bowl also happens to be an event for which oddsmakers create numerous betting propositions (e.g., betting on the coin toss) that, when publicized, generates a lot more "buzz" about the game.
For non-football fans and non-gamblers, betting on the Super Bowl occurs because it's a community event, an opportunity to keep interested in the game and the outcome. It is a five-hour, national escape where gambling can make parties and gatherings more interesting and entertaining.
Can participating in activities like office pools around the Super Bowl or the NCAA tournament function as a "gateway drug" for gambling?
There is no evidence that office-pool gambling will trigger or unleash a gambling addiction, formerly known as gambling disorder. People do not become addicted to gambling overnight, and single bets with peers, friends and coworkers usually are not large or risky wagers that create significant harm if lost. For those who already have a pre-existing gambling disorder, participation in office pools for money does represent a potential for relapse or could signal a return to more harmful gambling behaviors.
Where does sports betting rank in terms of popularity compared to other forms of gambling, for example, in casinos or lotteries?
Sports betting comes in a variety of forms in the United States, including wagering at casino sportsbooks, playing office pools or fantasy sports (daily and season<|fim_middle|>What are misperceptions people have about gambling and the odds?
One of the psychological draws to gambling is the natural human drive to control future events and to believe that one can turn uncertainty into certainty. Psychologically, people want to believe that they can "beat the odds," which would mean that they have special skills or are preordained to win. The odds in all forms of gambling remain static and fixed, but people will employ any number of superstitions or betting systems in an attempt to defy these odds. As an example, the gambler's fallacy is the mistaken belief that, if something happens more frequently than normal during some period, it will happen less frequently in the future (e.g., "black has come up five times in a row, therefore red is due to come up."). This fallacy holds for social gamblers as well as those with gambling addiction.
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10/28/2015 Combating depression is UCLA's second Grand Challenge | long). Sports betting is legally available in far fewer states than casinos and lotteries, but it's a popular form of gambling. In Nevada, where sportsbooks are legal, approximately $4 billion is wagered annually. Although this is an enormous number, sports betting generates a very small percentage, approximately 1 to 2 percent, of the total gaming revenue of casinos.
Among the different sports people can bet on, is football the most popular with gamblers?
In the United States, college and professional football is consistently the most popular sport bet on. Nearly 40 percent of the total amount of money wagered in Las Vegas sportsbooks is on football — a trend that has held over the last 20 years.
Why is betting on something like fantasy football perceived as more socially acceptable than other forms of gambling?
Fantasy football has been around for the last 15 years and was born as a household game played among friends and family. However, fantasy football has not been regulated like other forms of gambling, which gives an aura that it's not gambling and is something different. As fantasy football grew in popularity over the last 15 years, it retained a sense of acceptability and approvability because it was not managed by traditional gambling operators. Nor was it regulated by the state, and many leagues played for fun and pride, not money.
Does betting on sports have the same potential to lead to a gambling addiction as playing table games at casinos, which would seem to have more immediate gratification for winners?
Any form of gambling can lead to the development of gambling addiction. Some research has suggested that slot machines and video poker machines might be more risky in developing gambling addiction, but this has not been confirmed. Sports betting can lead to gambling disorder just as quickly or intensely as table games, in part, because of the sheer number of betting opportunities that exist in casinos and online.
What are the signs that someone's gambling is becoming a problem?
Gambling addiction is characterized by continued gambling despite harmful consequences. There are many different possible warning signs that gambling has become a problem, with the most common ones being lying about gambling, not being able to stop or control gambling, spending excessive amounts of time gambling and being preoccupied by gambling. For anyone seeking a consultation or an expert opinion about whether gambling is becoming a problem, California has a no-cost, statewide treatment program that can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER.
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Kathleen Edwards' fifth CD, Voyageur, makes me feel like I'm flying. And that's probably one of the reasons it was short-listed for the Polaris Prize.
With an unadorned voice sometimes reminiscent of a boy soprano, Edwards's lyrical melodies glimmer over a wash of acoustic and electric mid-ranges, and deep, pulsing rock drum beats and bass. Her impressive collection of sounds, including guitars, vibraphone, synth, organ, violin, rhodes (yum!), and choir, among others, can seem oversaturated at times, but the powerful beats provide a foundation that keeps the lyrical melodies and atmospheric arrangements driving forward.
What I really<|fim_middle|>/Comedian," and the slower songs like "House Full of Empty Rooms," and "Pink Champagne." The effect of louder lead vocals creates an intimacy between performer and listener. Perhaps it is the opposite effect that the uber-blended sound was meant to achieve? Still, I think an effect is not worth completely obscuring the words.
What I love about this line is the sense of space created by paralleling the forest floor (macro) and palms of hands (micro) as equally possible places to land. This collapsing and expanding of space, through words and music, is most fascinating about Voyageur. I'm reminded of Rae Spoon, a musician who's journeyed from classic folk/country toward a more nuanced, electronic sound. Like Spoon, Edwards has also ventured from her previous folk-rock territory. I hope on her next album we'll hear music that is comfortable in its new body, with a fully realized synthesis of thoughtful – audible – lyrics. | like about this album is the nonstop, sustained sounds of the choir-like vocalizations, synth, organ and other instruments of that syrupy potential. These sounds shimmer above the song like ethereal connective tissue, giving me a sense of lift and expansion. Edwards's lead vocals are sometimes joined in octaves by other voices or instruments, enhancing this sense of space. It's like the sonic equivalent of an aerial view. I can't help but think of sprawling wild landscapes and big skies – of voyaging.
As I listened, I wished I could understand more of the lyrics. Edwards has a choir-like vocal technique, which makes little of consonants or dipthongs, instead favouring the wide-open vowels. This sound contrasts well with the flurry of instruments around the singer, but sometimes also makes lyrics difficult to discern. But the mixing is primarily to blame for this. Edwards's lead vocals are often faded to the level of back-up vocals. There are some songs where the mix puts the leads up front, such as "Chameleon | 209 |
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The annual end-of-the-year awards party and dinner will be held at the Pope Marine Building at 6pm on Thursday 11/15 at 6pm. As in the past it will be a potluck dinner – please bring a main and a side dish to share. Beer and wine will be available and there will be a slideshow. This is always a fun event that provides an opportunity for each crew to relive their victories and decry their losses, to retell the stores of crashes and near misses, and to get excited for the new season starting in the spring of 2019.
The Pope Marine Building is located on the dock at the corner of Water and Madison Streets in Port Townsend (near the Cotton Building where the party was last year).
Steve, Stig, Simon, and John dominated the regatta with four firsts, three seconds, and one fourth place finish. And in late breaking news Magic Bus has been declared the third place winner. They tied with Invader in points and there was some confusion as to the tie breaking criteria, which as now been cleared up.
It was an excellent two days of racing with better than predicted winds and good weather (after the fog burned off).
Labor Day will see the west coast Thunderbird fleet back in Port Townsend Bay for a fabulous two days of racing. Don't miss out. Sign up, and get the Notice of Race, on-line at the Regatta Network page for the event.
The Port Townsend Yacht Club is sponsoring a boat parade and blessing of the fleet to celebrate the start of the boating season. Everyone is invited to participate. The parade begins around noon at city dock. You can find all the details at their web site.
And don't forget that leg one of the Port to Port race is this Saturday as well, starting at 2:30 (not 2:00). So you could join in the parade then race to Port Ludlow!
Admiral Ship Supply has donated $500 to help pay for the costs associated with maintaining PTSA's race marks. Race mark maintenance is one of our biggest expenses so this donation is especially appreciated. When you shop at Admiral please let them know you appreciate the donation.
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An Excerpt from Letters from the Other Side of Silence
by Joseph Little
Here's the truth: Something happened on that volcano in Guatemala. I'm just not sure what.
Steve was in the lead, talking with two teachers from Canada. I was trailing behind, nursing a bad knee. Yes, Steve was in the lead and I was trailing behind and then it happened.
The volcano in question was Pacaya, that black monster of the western highlands known for its dramatic displays of lava, which surge against prediction and against a landscape so austere it rivals the moon. We found Pacaya in Steve's guidebook one Easter weekend. Something about punishing switchbacks and menacing rivers of lava over which folks could roast marshmallows (and they did), and we were in. It all seemed so sensible from the sturdy haven of our friend's summer cottage, Merlot in hand.
Somewhere around 8,000 feet, that all changed. The lush trees that lined our path gave way to shards of basalt, then rock, then long slopes of rubble that climbed into the sky. What few trees remained were arthritic and bent, their charred branches calligraphic against the bright Mayan sky. Soon there was no path, only a windswept ascent that stratified everyone by ability. We would turn a corner, and strange new vistas would appear: jagged fissures in the earth two yards long, coils of braided rock, and waves, waves of lava having long been cooled, blackened, their motion frozen in time. "Pahoehoes," they call them, these cases of rock becoming liquid becoming solid again. Stray dogs in need of warmth sought the company of the fissures, natural manhole covers that vented sulphur and steam from beneath the earth's crust.
After our final turn, I felt the heat of the lava a few seconds before I saw it. After an hour's hike, it was more than a little disappointing—a small vein of red oozing from a titanic wall of black rock (punishing switchbacks, yes, but a river of hellfire this was not)—until I witnessed the wall itself swell and glow, breathing in ways my Midwestern eyes couldn't reckon. At first, I thought it was just the heat shimmering off the wall, the way a paved road can make the summer horizon dance, but then it cracked. Cracked, I tell you, after centuries, maybe millennia of indifference to the world. The wall cracked and began to crumble, spewing impermanence everywhere as it dismantled itself boulder by fiery boulder until nothing remained but a sea of orange suede.
It was too much for me, all that cracking and dismantling. Nearby noises, Steve's banter with the Canadians, the guide's "vamos! vamos!": It all retreated into the distance. And then, with no warning, it happened: My syntax simply departed, leaving my words to float in the atmosphere like dust. My rationality, drifting out there among the birds. Soon enough, the words themselves scattered and dissolved, leaving me to experience the world without categories, without reference. Ever tried to take a math test while falling into a lake while sleeping? Well, it was just like that.
I know what you're thinking. No, I wasn't high up there on Pacaya. I wasn't low. I wasn't looking for an experience to transform my life into something special. Stripped of language, I simply slipped beneath it all—and by it all, I suppose I mean my mind—to a place where even fundamental distinctions were no longer clear, like the difference between you and me, right from left, now and not-now. And though mighty and positive, it was also a place of purgation, an evisceration of the psyche, you might say. Truth be told, I want to use the word cosmic here because cosmic it was: an encounter with a God mysterious, though not the God of Michelangelo's making, not ol' Greybeard from my youth. No, it was an imageless God up there on that mountain, a cosmic Whole, an intimate presence that made all things One.
I don't remember the hike down or much of the flight home, but when I got there, I threw out 30 books I knew I'd never read. I've since thrown out 30 more. I took art off my walls. I cut my hair. I trimmed my fingernails and cleaned my car. I canceled Netflix. I no longer enjoy martinis. Let me say that again: I no longer enjoy martinis. I focus more on people and less on my perception of their perception of me. I used to think the circle was the perfect form. Now I only like circles when I imagine them collapsing on themselves, realizing their ultimate point form. If a circle's just going to hang around being a circle, it's wasting space I figure. The world doesn't need another lazy abstraction.
Where, I ask you, where will this profound sense of economy lead? All I can come up with is "my vanishing, my vanishing." That's what I'd say if I were a betting man.
Letters from the Other Side of Silence
In Letters from the Other Side of Silence, Joseph Little chronicles his search for a meaningful life after slipping into a mystical state atop Pacaya, an active volcano in Guatemala. The journey takes him to a reclusive Russian mystic meditating in the Himalayas, an American theologian in St. Louis who helps him turn the quest inward, and eventually to an Agent Orange orphanage in Vietnam, where Little begins to realize the wholeness of a life that balances the inner fire of wordless prayer with the satisfaction of serving others.
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Mar 12, 2015 News | has been called a must-read for Beatles fans of all ages across the globe. And now she will be bringing her book, Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World, to the 51st Fest for Beatles Fans, in Rye Brook, NY on March 20-22, 2015.
Candy Leonard will be giving presentations and appearing in various panel discussions throughout the weekend. She will be discussing Beatleness and taking questions in a presentation on Friday night, and on Sunday she will participate in a Beatleness Q&A with Beatlefan magazine Executive Editor Al Sussman. She will also be participating the Author's Panel Discussion on Friday evening and the 'She's A Woman…Historian' on Saturday evening to discuss the influence of women on the Beatles.
When not giving presentations, Candy will be in the marketplace meeting and greeting fans, answering questions and signing books. She will be available for media interviews.
Candy Leonard is a sociologist and first-generation Beatle fan. She spent years researching and interviewing other first generation fans for her book, Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World. (http://www.amazon.com/Beatleness-Beatles-Their-Remade-Wor...) Beatleness is a unique analysis of how the Beatles' constant presence between 1964 and 1970 transformed the childhood and adolescence of millions of baby boomers who then transformed the culture.
Candy has also done research on the impact of popular culture on gender relations and family life. She's a qualitative research consultant to the healthcare and entertainment industries, and blogs about Beatles, boomers, and health at the Huffington Post. To schedule an interview with Candy contact Jennifer Vanderslice at MoonG | 360 |
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Close up view of Johnny Cash Autograph. John R. "Johnny" Cash was born February 26, 1932 – died September 12, 2003. Johnny Cash was an American singer-songwriter, actor, and author, who has been called one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Although he is primarily remembered as a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll—especially early in his career—as well as blues, folk, and gospel. Late in his career, Cash covered songs by several rock artists, among them the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails and the synthpop band Depeche Mode.
Close up view of Buck Owen Autograph. Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. was born August 12, 1929 – died March 25<|fim_middle|>ograph. Porter Wayne Wagoner was born August 12, 1927 – died October 28, 2007. Porter Wagoner was a popular American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour. He introduced a young Dolly Parton on his long-running television show, and they were a well-known duet team throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. Known as Mr. Grand Ole Opry, Wagoner charted 81 singles; and is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII è il primo album solista di Rick Wakeman, tastierista del gruppo progressive inglese Yes.
Pubblicato nel gennaio 1973 dalla A&M Records, The Six Wives è un concept album strumentale composto da 6 brani (uno per ciascuna delle "sei mogli di Enrico VIII"). Sull'album appaiono anche gli altri strumentisti<|fim_middle|>za: batteria (3)
Mike Egan: chitarra (1-2-5-6)
Steve Howe: chitarra (1)
Les Hurdle: basso (1-5)
Dave Lambert: chitarra (3)
Laura Lee: cori (5)
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Barry St.John: cori (1)
Chris Squire: basso (1)
Liza Strike: cori (1-5)
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Voci correlate
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Live at Hampton Court Palace''
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Concept album | delle due principali formazioni degli Yes dell'inizio anni settanta: (Howe, Bruford, Squire e White). In questa opera prima, Wakeman si esibisce in tutti gli stili che costituiscono il suo notevole repertorio, dal rock con contaminazioni classiche alla fuga à la Bach su organo a canne. L'album è certamente, a tutt'oggi, uno dei più famosi momenti della prolifica carriera solista di Wakeman, ed è inoltre uno dei dischi più innovativi e importanti dell'intera produzione progressive, in quanto è il primo album interamente strumentale incentrato sulle tastiere. Estratti dai sei brani di questo celebre album furono spesso riproposti anche ai concerti degli Yes (per esempio, essi appaiono in Excerpts from the Six Wives of Henry VIII nell'album live più celebre del gruppo, Yessongs).
Nel 2009 è stato pubblicato l'album The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Live at Hampton Court Palace, versione dal vivo dell'omonimo album tenutasi all'Hampton Court Palace nello stesso anno.
Brani
1. Catherine of Aragon (3:45)
2. Anne of Cleves (7:50)
3. Catherine Howard (6:36)
4. Jane Seymour (4:44)
5. Anne Boleyn 'The Day Thou Gavest Lord Hath Ended''' (6:31)
6. Catherine Parr (7:00)
Musicisti
Rick Wakeman: pianoforte, organo, clavicembalo, sintetizzatore, mellotron
Bill Bruford: batteria (1-5)
Ray Cooper: percussioni
David Cousins: banjo elettrico (3)
Chas Cronk: basso (3)
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This round, nominally the 11<|fim_middle|> as expected. But Maeleine Edlund was, unlike earlier in the season, faultless in front of goal and Kristianstad only managed fairly few and short attacks. | th but that is true only for half of the teams, saw the return of several key players. Göteborg's Lotta Schelin played the first half against Hammarby, Umeå's Hanna Ljungberg got a few minutes at the end of their Kristianstad match and AIK's Laura Kalmari made a stellar comeback from maternity leave (she gave birth to a girl March 8), scoring the winner for her team. Unfortunately, this round was also (I'm just presuming here, but it looked like I have good reasons for it) the end of the season for Malmö's Malin Levenstad who was stretchered off the field in great pain. Knee ligaments is my guess and from the looks of it a severe injury.
Attendance was overall pitiful, perhaps somewhat depending on the scheduling. Normal kick-off for weekend games is 4 pm. But since Sweden's men played Spain in the Euros (bummer, btw) at 6 pm, all games had earlier starts. Most of them at 1 pm with plenty of time to get to a TV set after the match, Bälinge curiously enough at 2, while the cocky Kristianstad club set kick-of for 3 pm, probably arguing that you really don't want to watch TV4's annoying pre-game show anyway, do you? Since they had Umeå guesting, they had the only match that managed to attract any kind of attendance, even if it was a bit smaller than they had for their match against Malmö.
AIK, without their Australians de Vanna and Gill (on national team duty in Korea), relied on a strong midfield, a tough defense and a couple of chips over Malmö's reserve keeper Stephanie Öhrström. The match was not particulary well played, but AIK managed to destroy Malmö's midfield game with Mäkinen and Ekblom often winning over Lundin and Stefansdottir. They had more problems in the attack, with Sjölund's goal - a long shot that caught Malmö's keeper too far from the goalline - as their only real scoring opportunity in the first half. Malmö equalised almost immediately with a nice Sjögran finish from a Melis assist, but had problems creating much more. Particulary so in the second half, where AIK began to dominate. After Malin Levenstad's very unfortunate knee injury 15 minutes from end, Malmö seemed distressed and unfocused and Laura Kalmari could show that she still remembers where the goal is.
Kalmari, who had a few minutes against Djurgården in the Swedish Cup-match last Wednesday, said that she only came to the match to fill out the bench. She has only been training with the team for three weeks and hadn't planned to be ready for real matches until after the Olympics.
Relegation line-dancer Sunnanå almost got a valuable point witrh them from Linköping, first taking the lead and then keeping the game tied until only ten minutes remained. Linköping kept possession, but were mostly slow and too complicated in their attacks until in-form Kosovare Asllani came on after 60 minutes and shaked things up.
Linköping started without national team defender Sara Larsson, who stayed at home with a fever, and after half an hour their other Sweden defender Lotta Rohlin had to leave the field with a light concussion. Sunnanå were missing Rebecca Smith, on national team duty for New Zealand in Korea.
A strange match. Göteborg had most of the possession and played really good looking football in the first half. But Hammarby scored on every single one of their first half chances. Lotta Schelin played, as planned, the first 45 but it was visible that she hasn't been on the field for several months and only been in full training for less than two weeks. In the second half Göteborg also managed to create real scoring opportunities, but only Sara Lindén managed to convert, thus staying at the top of the goalscorers league.
With only three draws to show for themseklves in 9 matches, Bälinge were of course big underdogs in this match. But they were standing up well against Djurgården and in the first half even showed signs of a decent attack. Djurgården dominated of course, but Alexandra Höglund took her team to the lead after scoring on a rebound from an Emma Lindqvist free-kick. The longer the match went, the more the guests took over, but Bälinge were rather successful in pushing Djurgården's attacks to the wings, having Spilger and Andersson heading away the high crosses. Bälinge finally had to give up an equaliser, but were still satisfied with the match.
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"I don't like to say that it was just another day at the job", said Umeå's coach Andrée Jeglertz, "but today we were just doing what we had to. Nothing more". The team seemed a bit slow and uninspired and didn't manage to challenge Kristianstad's goal as often | 1,090 |
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Sexual violence is a serious problem in Quebec: the limited data collected on the subject each year clearly demonstrates the seriousness of this issue. Unfortunately, universities are no exception. Like many other social environments, universities reproduce the same dynamics and norms found throughout Quebec society. University campuses are also characterized as being more or less closed social environments, with all of the attendant advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that the respect<|fim_middle|> the social actors composing it. It's also easier to observe, quantify, analyze, and control such norms. Nonetheless, it goes without saying that enacting a culture change requires a long-term commitment.
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Biology used to be about plants, animals and insects, but five great revolutions have changed the way that scientists think about life: the invention of the microscope, the systematic classification of the planet's living creatures<|fim_middle|> when attention shifted to what genes do in an organism, the true depth of the problem of life became ever more apparent. Listing the proteins that make up a cat does not tell us everything we want to know about cats.
A creature's genome is fundamental to its form and behaviour, but the information in the genome no more tells us everything about the creature than a list of components tells us how to build furniture from a flat-pack. What matters is how those components are used, the processes that they undergo in a living creature. And the best tool we possess for finding out what processes do is mathematics.
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For most of recorded history, poverty reflected God's will. The poor were always with us. They were not inherently immoral, dangerous, or different. They were not to be shunned, feared, or avoided. In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a harsh new idea of poverty and poor people as different and inferior began to replace this ancient biblical view.
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We must learn to "fly" biology… | , evolution, the discovery of the gene and the structure of DNA. Now, a sixth is on its way – mathematics.
Maths has played a leading role in the physical sciences for centuries, but in the life sciences it was little more than a bit player, a routine tool for analysing data. However, it is moving towards centre stage, providing new understanding of the complex processes of life.
The ideas involved are varied and novel; they range from pattern formation to chaos theory. They are helping us to understand not just what life is made from, but how it works, on every scale from molecules to the entire planet – and possibly beyond.
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I love fruit. I could eat it all day long – guilt free, might I add – and there aren't too many fruits I don't like. Sweet and juicy, refreshing. Fruit is definitely one of God's gifts to us (I can only imagine how good it tasted in the Garden). But I do not like vegetables. As a matter of fact, most of the vegetables I like probably aren't really vegetables at all. They are really more of a starch, but they grow out of the ground, so I feel like they classify as a vegetable. I mean, I have to have something to work with here.
This really makes me think about my life. When others see my life and how I treat them, is it sweet and refreshing or does it seem more like something your mom is forcing you to eat so you can get up from the table?
And just like walking is an outward action designed for others to see, so is bearing fruit. In many ways, that fruit becomes the evidence that we are working and walking with the Lord. If we are not bearing good fruit, then we are not walking with God. I mean, just go back to some of my favorite verses, John 15. What does it say will happen to the branches that don't bear fruit? They will be cut off and thrown into the fire. It tells us the same thing in Matthew 3:10. (And I don't think the saying we will be thrown into the fire is just a metaphor, if you know what I mean…) If we go back to our focus scriptures for this month, Colossians 1:10 says "so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;" If we are walking with God and we are pleasing Him, then we are bearing good fruit.
First, our fruit is bore through our attitude.
Galatians 5:22 says, "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness and self-control." Did you notice something? Yep, all these have to do with our attitude. And again in Ephesians 4:2-3 we are told, " Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace." Again, this is all about attitude. I know – I probably have some readers out there rolling their eyes – at school I have been called salty, savage, and fiesty, just to name a few. Having a patient, gentle, maybe even humble, attitude is not exactly what I am known for. So I have room for improvement, just like you do. We probably all have weak areas we noticed in the two lists above. Make those a prayer priority. Ask God to show you moments when your fruit starts to sour through your attitude. He will. And we can recognize those moments more easily and then prune that branch.
But to help our attitude, we have got to control our thoughts.
Our attitude is the outward evidence of our inward thoughts. When the scripture tells us to promote unity, but we have spent the morning pining over how we don't like how a particular person does something, then we are not exactly promoting unity with our thoughts or our attitude. I know those thoughts are going to pop up (the devil won't let us off that easy), but when they do, we need to immediately bounce them right out of our mind. Don't let those thoughts find a resting spot in you brain. Get rid of them and then your attitude will improve as well.
If you look earlier on in Galatians 5, before the famous "fruit of the spirit" verse, Paul tells his readers, "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other…" With our thoughts<|fim_middle|> to.
Like it or not, we bear fruit. Sometimes good, sweet, fulfilling fruit and sometimes bitter, sour, rotten fruit, but either way, we are bearing… In order to ensure we bare more good fruit than bad, we have to practice daily. We need to make this a priority. Prayer. Bible study. Walking with the Lord. Bearing good fruit. These are things that bring us joy and fulfillment in life so this is where our focus needs to lie. This is where we need to be practicing, because this is what will make the difference. One day at a time. | and attitude, it is a choice. We choose to walk in the Spirit and reflect the attributes of God himself or we choose to allow the desires of the flesh to rule our minds and look like the rest of the world. I know human nature says we are supposed to stand up for ourselves, we should let others know just what we think, just what they are doing wrong, but is that the desire of Spirit or the desire of the flesh? Is that the way we move on to bearing good fruit or is that a way we feed our own selfish flesh? And really, which of those actions leaves us with the peace of God? Which of those actions leaves us feeling sweet and refreshed, really?
Then, of course, our fruit is bore through our actions.
Yes, attitude and actions go hand in hand, but sometimes we do need to act in the right way in order influence our attitude. You know the whole "fake it 'til you make it" philosophy. I know it may sound hypocritical when we don't really feel like demonstrating the love of Christ, but we force ourselves to anyway. Faking those kinds of actions and emotions may seem wrong, but that is just the devil trying to give us one more excuse not to bear good fruit. I bet God would much rather us be serving out of obligation than not at all, and especially not because we didn't feel like it. God has used our prideful, lazy, selfish human hearts before to do great things, and he will do it again. If we are out serving others, bearing good fruit, then he will soften us. He will open our eyes and hearts. He will change us and give us that love and desire to bear good fruit.
And according the scripture in Colossians, bearing good fruit is a by product of walking with the Lord. So focus on your walk, and the fruit will grow, and I bet it will begin to grow in ways that we couldn't stop even if we wanted | 401 |
The Ellerslie Campus is a peaceful, set apart setting with a beautiful view of the Rocky Mountains. The buildings are situated next to a sparkling lake, offering daily glimpses of the magnificent Colorado sunsets. Many of our dorm rooms have views of the mountains, and there is a quiet stillness over the entire campus—refreshingly separated from the hustle and bustle of city life, but with nearly every "big city convenience" a short two-to-ten minute drive away.
Windsor, Colorado, is a charming city of 15,000 people, nestled within the "Front Range Corridor," which runs along I-25 at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains. One of the crowning features of this quiet bedroom community is the bicycle trail that winds through town, around Windsor Lake, along the Poudre River, and then on to Greeley and Fort Collins.
Loveland and Fort Collins are each 10 minutes away and are larger cities with modern shopping, hospitals, and city-life. Denver is a 45-minute drive away, and our closest airport is Denver International—about one hour away from the Ellerslie campus.
Windsor is a one-hour drive from many of Colorado's most popular locations, such as Rocky Mountain National Park. This world-renowned natural wonderland is frequented by tourists from around the world and its terrain varies from majestic mountain<|fim_middle|> than bitterly cold. All around, Colorado weather is among the best four-season climates anywhere. We hope you will enjoy it as much as we do! | peaks (over 60 of which are at least 12,000 feet), forests, and mountain tundra. The park, which is spread across 265,000 acres, offers 359 miles of trails, 150 lakes, and 450 miles of streams. Highway 34 runs from I-25 (two exits south of the Windsor exit) through Estes Park and on through the park. It's a great place to visit during your stay at Ellerslie, as are the many other mountain towns within driving distance, such as Keystone, Winter Park, and Copper Mountain. If you attend Ellerslie during the winter, some of the best skiing in the world is a two-hour drive away.
Colorado boasts 300 days of sunshine a year, with a pleasant climate during all seasons. Summers are warm and dry—the average temperature is in the eighties and only occasionally rises above ninety. Spring and fall in Colorado usually boast near-perfect weather and plenty of sunshine, though early spring can bring a fair amount of wind. Winters are mild to moderate, with temperatures ranging from the low thirties to mid fifty's. It's unusual for winter temperatures to drop into the single-digits, but it's always possible! Some winters bring a significant amount of snow, but with the constant sunshine it usually melts within two to four days, and we have many winter days that are pleasantly sunny and crisp, rather | 304 |
How to set up Amazon Instant Video on the Nintendo Wii
Amazon Instant Video is now available for Nintendo Wii console users. We'll show you<|fim_middle|> because it only supports SD (480p) video. Still, for those who currently own a Wii and want to watch Amazon Instant Video, especially Prime Video subscribers, the app is a welcome addition.
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After expanding their streaming video service to the iPhone and iPod touch devices just a month ago, Amazon announced yesterday that their Instant Video service is now available on the Nintendo Wii. Here's how to set up the new app on your Wii:
Step 1: Go to the Wii Shop Channel on your Internet-connected Wii.
Step 2: Download the Amazon Instant Video app.
Step 3: Launch the Amazon Instant Video app from your Wii.
Step 4: Select "Register Your Device" and make a note of the code that appears.
Step 5: Go to the Amazon Instant Video device registration page from your computer and enter the code that was displayed on your Wii, then complete the device registration.
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Step 6: Your Wii should now display a note saying that your Wii was successfully linked to your Amazon account. Click "Continue" and the app should now display videos for you to stream.
That's it. Keep in mind that the video quality from the Wii, even if you have it connected to an HDTV, won't look quite as good as, say, a Roku or Xbox 360, | 282 |
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BMW Films Return: The Escape in the 2017 5 Series
By Andy Cooper on October 24,<|fim_middle|>9, Sun 23 Oct, 2016
Only took two and a half years!
bigsigh replied at 22:17, Sun 23 Oct, 2016
that was super (Y)
chris_b replied at 22:26, Sun 23 Oct, 2016
I actually thought it wasn't a patch on the old ones but now theyve commissioned that here's hoping for a new M5 movie soon !
Paul RS replied at 22:28, Sun 23 Oct, 2016
Some big names involved in that!
| Some big names involved in that!
Not compared to the last really, 15 years ago. You riding your bike back then again lol
| Not compared to the last really, 15 years ago. You riding your bike back then again lol
It's a bigger name cast and director by far than the last one lol Car isn't as good though.
Cooper replied at 23:27, Sun 23 Oct, 2016
The car sounds awful but this was and still is the coolest thing BMW has ever done. One of my favourite directors on point too. When's the next one?
I don't think they've said Andy but defo hoping for an M5 one. I'll keep an eye on the site BMW Films – The Escape
Brennan replied at 23:50, Sun 23 Oct, 2016
That was fantastic but what was the point of it other than show off the new 5? Lol
| That was fantastic but what was the point of it other than show off the new 5? Lol
No point, just a cool thing to do which is what BMW used to do regularly years ago
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BMW make a spectacular comeback to their BMW Films series that first appeared on the web in 2001's the Hire series. Clive Owen returns as the venerable driver, with District 9 director Neill Blomkamp in the directors chair. The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal takes on the badass antagonist role along with Dakota Fanning.
The star of the show is of course intended to be the new G30 BMW 5 series, here in 540 guise. We all agree that it looks fantastic but just doesn't sound great at all, although this is almost an insignificant complaint as the film is just stunning.
So, is there more to come? Time will tell. The world of marketing has moved on since the pre-facebook days of the first BMW Films. They were game changing back in 2001, but I think they are as great for the brand and audience today. More please, BMW.
Andy Cooper
Andy is the founding member of RMS, and when he's not following motoring events around the UK and Ireland he can be found on the track (sideways, having competed in top level drifting for a decade), or of course he'll be on the forum.
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Zeus (em grego antigo: Ζεύς; transl. Zeús; em grego moderno: Δίας, transl. Días) é o pai dos deuses (πατὴρ ἀνδρῶν τε θεῶν τε, patēr andrōn te theōn te), que exercia a autoridade sobre os deuses olímpicos na antiga religião grega. É o deus dos céus, raios, relâmpago que mantêm a ordem e justiça na mitologia grega. Seu equivalente romano é Júpiter, enquanto seu equivalente etrusco é Tinia; alguns autores estabeleceram seu equivalente hindu como sendo Indra.
Filho do titã Cronos e de Reia, Zeus é o mais novo de seus irmãos; na maior parte das tradições é casado, primeiro com Métis, gerando a deusa Atena e, depois, com Hera, embora no oráculo de Dodona, sua esposa seja Dione, com quem, de acordo com a Ilíada, ele teria gerado Afrodite. É conhecido por suas aventuras eróticas, que frequentemente resultavam em descendentes divinos e heroicos, como Atena, Apolo e Ártemis, Hermes, Perséfone (com Deméter), Dioniso, Perseu, Héracles, Helena de Troia, Minos, e as Musas (de Mnemosine); com Hera, teria tido Ares, Ênio, Ilítia, Éris, Hebe e Hefesto.
Como ressaltou o acadêmico alemão Walter Burkert em seu livro Religião Grega, "mesmo os deuses que não são filhos naturais de Zeus dirigem-se a ele como Pai, e todos os deuses se põem de pé diante de sua presença." Para os gregos, era o Rei dos Deuses, que supervisionava o universo. Nas palavras do geógrafo antigo Pausânias, "que Zeus é rei nos céus é um dito comum a todos os homens." Na Teogonia, de Hesíodo, Zeus é responsável por delegar a cada um dos deuses suas devidas funções. Nos Hinos Homéricos ele é referido como o "chefe dos deuses".
Seus símbolos são o raio, a águia, o touro e o carvalho. Além de sua clara herança indo-europeia, sua clássica descrição como "ajuntador de nuvens" também deriva certos traços iconográficos das culturas do Antigo Oriente Médio, tais como o cetro. Zeus frequentemente foi representado pelos antigos artistas gregos em duas poses diferentes: numa, em pé, apoiado para a frente, empunhando um raio na altura de sua mão direita, erguida; na outra sentado, numa pose majestosa. Havia muitas estátuas erguidas em sua honra, das quais a mais magnífica era a sua estátua em Olímpia, uma das sete maravilhas do mundo antigo. Originalmente, os Jogos Olímpicos eram realizados em sua honra.
Etimologia
Em grego, o nome do deus é Ζεύς, Zeús, (nominativo : Ζεύς, Zeús; vocativo : Ζεῦ, Zeû; acusativo: Δία, Día; genitivo: Διός, Diós; dativo: Διί, Dií). Na Civilização Minoica, Zeus não era cultuado pela população geral, mas apenas em pequenos cultos minoritários que o viam como um semideus que acabara sendo morto. Os primeiros registros de seu nome estão no grego micênico, nas formas di-we e di-wo, escritas no silabário Linear B.
Zeus, referido poeticamente pelo vocativo Zeu pater ("Ó, pai Zeus"), é uma continuação de *Di̯ēus, o deus proto-indo-europeu do céu diurno, também chamado de *Dyeus ph2tēr ("Pai Céu"). Este mesmo deus é conhecido por este nome em sânscrito (Dyaus/Dyaus Pita), latim (Júpiter, de Iuppiter, do vocativo proto-indo-europeu *dyeu-ph2tēr), que é derivado da forma básica *dyeu- ("brilhar", e em seus diversos derivados - "céu", "deus"). Já na mitologia germânica o paralelo pode ser encontrado em *Tīwaz > alto germânico antigo Ziu, nórdico antigo Týr, enquanto o latim também apresenta as formas deus, dīvus e Dis (uma variação de dīves), do substantivo relacionado *deiwos. Para os gregos e romanos, o deus do céu também era o deus supremo. Zeus é a única divindade do panteão olímpico cujo nome tem uma etimologia tão evidentemente indo-europeia.
Epítetos e títulos
Zeus desempenhava um papel dominante, presidindo sobre o panteão olímpico da Grécia Antiga. Foi pai de muitos heróis, e fazia parte de diversos cultos locais. Embora o "ajuntador de nuvens" homérico fosse um deus do céu e do trovão, como seus equivalentes orientais, também era o supremo artefato cultural; de certa maneira, era a encarnação das crenças religiosas gregas, e o arquétipo da divindade grega.
No neoplatonismo, a figura de Zeus familiar à mitologia grega é associada ao Demiurgo, ou Mente (nous) Divina. Especificamente dentro da obra de Plotino, Enéadas, e na Teologia Platônica, de Proclo.
Além dos epítetos locais, que simplesmente designavam que a divindade havia feito algo em determinado lugar, os epítetos ou títulos aplicados a Zeus enfatizavam diferentes aspectos de sua ampla autoridade:
Zeus Olímpio, enfatizava a realeza de Zeus e seu domínio sobre os deuses, bem como sua presença específica no Festival Pan-Helênico de Olímpia.
Zeus Pan-Helênio ("Zeus de todos os Helenos"), a quem o célebre templo de Éaco em Egina foi dedicado.
Zeus Xênio, Filóxeno ou Hóspites: Zeus que era o padroeiro da hospitalidade e dos convidados, pronto para vingar qualquer mal cometido a um estrangeiro.
Zeus Órquio: Zeus protetor dos juramentos. Mentirosos que haviam sido expostos eram forçados a dedicar uma estátua a Zeus, muitas vezes no santuário de Olímpia.
Zeus Agoreu: Zeus que cuidava dos negócios na ágora e punia os comerciantes desonestos.
Zeus Egíoco: Zeus que portava a égide, com a qual ele infundia o terror nos ímpios e em seus inimigos. Outros autores derivaram este epíteto de αἴξ ("cabra") e οχή, interpretando-o como uma alusão à lenda segundo a qual Zeus teria sido amamentado por Amalteia.
Entre outros nomes e epítetos dados a Zeus estão:
Zeus Meilíquio (Meilichios, "facilmente acessível"): Zeus assimilou um daimon ctônico arcaico, propiciado em Atenas, o Meilíquio.
Zeus Taleu (Zeus Tallaios, "Zeus solar"): o Zeus que era cultuado em Creta.
Zeus Labrando (Labrandos): venerado na Cária, seu local de culto era em Labraunda, e era representado empunhando um machado de ponta dupla (lábris). Estava associado ao deus hurrita do céu e da tempestade, Texube.
Zeus Nao (Naos) e Zeus Búleo (Bouleus): formas de Zeus cultuadas em Dodona, o oráculo mais antigo. Alguns autores acreditam que os nomes de seus sacerdotes, os selos, teriam dado origem ao nome de helenos, dado ao povo grego desde a Antiguidade.
Zeus Cássio: o Zeus de monte Acra, vale de montanhas entre a Síria e Turquia.
Zeus Itômio ou Itomeu (Ithomatas): o Zeus do monte Itome, na Messênia.
Zeus Astrápeo (Astrapios, "relampejante")
Zeus Brôncio ou Bronteu ("trovejante")
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Nascimento de Zeus e seus irmãos
Cronos teve diversos filhos com Reia: Héstia, Deméter, Hera, Hades e Posídon, porém engoliu-os (menos Posídon, Hades e Hera) assim que nasceram, após ouvir de Gaia e Urano que ele estava destinado a ser deposto por seu filho,<|fim_middle|> obras de Evêmero não sobreviveram aos dias de hoje, porém foram mencionadas por autores cristãos posteriores.
Zeus Liceu
O epíteto Zeus Liceu (Zeus Lykaios, "Zeus-lobo") era atribuído a Zeus apenas quando associado ao festival arcaico das Liceias, na localidade de Liceia, nas encostas do Monte Liceu, o pico mais alto da Arcádia. Zeus tinha uma associação apenas formal com os rituais e mitos deste rito de passagem que envolviam a ameaça antiga de canibalismo e a possibilidade de uma transformação em licantropo para os efebos que dele participavam. Nas proximidades da antiga pilha de cinzas sobre a qual eram efetuados os sacrifícios, se encontrava um recinto proibido no qual, supostamente, nenhuma sombra jamais era projetada.
De acordo com Platão, um clã específico se reuniria na montanha para fazer um sacrifício a Zeus Liceu, a cada nove anos, e uma pequena quantidade de entranhas humanas era acrescentada às entranhas do animal sacrificado; aquele que consumisse o pedaço de carne humana supostamente se transformaria num lobo, e voltaria à forma humana apenas se não voltasse a consumir carne humana até o fim do próximo ciclo de nove anos. Haviam jogos associados com o festival das Liceias, que foram interrompidos no com a urbanização da Arcádia (Megalópole); lá, o principal templo era dedicado a Zeus Liceu.
Apolo também tinha uma antiga forma lupina, Apolo Liceu (Apollo Lycaeus), venerado em Atenas no Liceu (Lykeion), célebre por ser um dos locais frequentados por Aristóteles, onde ele costumava lecionar.
Outros cultos
Embora a etimologia indique que Zeus era originalmente um deus celestial, diversas cidades gregas prestavam homenagem a uma versão local de Zeus, que vivia sob a terra. Os atenienses e sicilianos cultuavam Zeus Melíquio (Zeus Meilichios, "bondoso" ou "melífluo"), enquanto outras cidades tinham Zeus Ctônio (Zeus Chthonios, "terreno"), Zeus Catactônio (Zeus Katachthonios, "sob a terra") e Zeus Plúteo (Zeus Plousios, "trazedor de riquezas"). Estas divindades podiam ser representadas nas artes plásticas na forma de serpentes, ou em forma humana, ou até mesmo como ambas, na mesma imagem. Também recebiam oferendas da carne de animais negros sacrificados em poços no solo, da mesma forma como era feito para divindades ctônicas, como Perséfone e Deméter, ou como as homenagens dedicadas aos heróis em suas sepulturas - enquanto os deuses olímpicos costumavam receber vítimas brancas, sacrificadas em altares elevados.
Em alguns casos, as cidades não determinavam com precisão se o daimon a quem eles estavam dedicando o sacrifício era um herói ou um Zeus subterrâneo; assim, o santuário de Lebadeia, na Beócia, pertencia tanto ao herói Trofônio quanto ao Zeus Trofônio (Zeus Trophonius, "aquele que nutre"), de acordo com a versão apresentada por Pausânias ou Estrabão. O herói Anfiarau era cultuado como Zeus Anfiarau (Zeus Amphiaraus), em Oropo, nos arredores de Tebas, e os espartanos tinham até mesmo um santuáriio dedicado a Zeus Agamemnon.
Cultos não-pan-helênicos
Além dos títulos e conceitos pan-helênicos mencionados acima, diversos cultos locais mantinham suas próprias ideias idiossincráticas sobre o rei dos deuses e homens. Com o epíteto de Zeus Etneu (Zeus Aetnaeus), era venerado no Monte Etna, onde existia uma estátua sua, e era realizado um festival chamado de Etnéia em sua homenagem. Outros exemplos é o Zeus Ênio ou Enésio (Zeus Aeneius ou Aenesius), forma com a qual era venerado na ilha de Cefalônia, onde existia um templo dedicado a si no monte Eno.
Oráculos
Embora a maior parte dos oráculos fossem dedicados a Apolo, a heróis, ou a diversas deusas, como Têmis, alguns oráculos foram dedicados a Zeus.
Oráculo de Dodona
O culto a Zeus em Dodona, no Epiro, onde existem evidências de atividades religiosas desde o , estava centrado num carvalho sagrado. Quando a Odisseia foi composta (por volta de ), a adivinhação era feita ali por sacerdotes descalços, conhecidos como selos (selloi), que observavam o movimento e os ruídos feitos pelas folhas e galhos da árvore com o vento. Quando Heródoto escreveu sobre Dodona, séculos depois, sacerdotisas chamadas de pelêiades ("pombas") haviam substituído os antigos sacerdotes.
A consorte de Zeus em Dodona não era Hera, porém sim a deusa Dione - cujo nome é uma forma feminina de "Zeus". Seu status como uma das titãs indica que ela pode ter sido uma divindade pré-helênica mais poderosa, e talvez a ocupante original daquele oráculo.
Oráculo de Siuá
O oráculo de Ámon no oásis de Siuá, situado na região do deserto da Líbia, no Egito, não se encontrava dentro dos confins do mundo grego antes da época de Alexandre, o Grande, porém já pairava sobre o imaginário grego durante o período arcaico. Heródoto menciona consultas com o oráculo de Zeus Amom em seus relatos das Guerras Médicas. Zeus Amom era especialmente cultuado em Esparta, onde existia um templo dedicado a ele na época da Guerra do Peloponeso.
Após a viagem de Alexandre, o Grande ao deserto, para consultar-se com o oráculo em Siuá, este passou a figurar no imaginário helenístico, especialmente com a figura da sibila líbica.
Zeus e deuses estrangeiros
Zeus foi identificado com o deus romano Júpiter, e associado no imaginário sincrético clássico (ver interpretatio graeca) com diversas outras divindades, tais como o egípcio Amom e o etrusco Tinia. Juntamente com Dioniso, absorveu o papel do principal deus frígio Sabázio. O governante sírio Antíoco Epifânio IV ergueu uma estátua de Zeus Olímpio no templo judaico em Jerusalém; os judeus helenizados referiam-se a esta estátua como Baal Shamen ("Senhor do Céu").
Alguns mitólogos comparativos modernos também o alinharam com a divindade hindu Indra.
Na cultura moderna
Representações de Zeus na forma de um touro, a forma que ele assumiu quando estuprou Europa, podem ser vistas na moeda grega de dois euros e na carta de identidade britânica. Mary Beard, professora de Estudos Clássicos na Universidade de Cambridge, criticou o fato, descrevendo-o como uma "aparente celebração do estupro."
No cinema e na televisão, Zeus foi interpretado por diversos atores:
Niall MacGinnis - na minissérie Jason and the Argonauts de 1963;
Laurence Olivier - no filme Clash of the Titans de [981;
Claudio Cassinelli - no filme Hercules de 1983 e na sequência The Adventures of Hercules de 1985;
Anthony Quinn - nos filmes e na série de televisão Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, da década de 1990;
Jack Grimes - na animação The Amazing Feats of Young Hercules de 1997;
Rip Torn - na animação da Disney Hercules de 1997;
Corey Burton - na série animada da Disney Hercules: The Animated Series de 1998;
Angus MacFadyen, na refilmagem Jason and the Argonauts de 2000;
Liam Neeson na refilmagem de Clash of the Titans de 2010]e na sequência Wrath of the Titans de 2012;
Sean Bean no filme Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief de 2010;
Luke Evans - no filme Immortals de 2011;
John Novak - na série de televisão Supernatural, no episódio 8x16 de 2013;
David Hoflin - na série de televisão Once Upon a Time, no episódio 5x21 de 2016;
Jason O'Mara - na série animada Blood of Zeus de 2020.
Zeus ainda aparece nos jogos eletrônicos Altered Beast e na franquia God of War, e como personagem recorrente nos quadrinhos, tanto da Marvel como da DC Comics.
Bibliografia
Burkert, Walter, (1977) 1985. Greek Religion, especialmente III.ii.1 (Harvard University Press)
Cook, Arthur Bernard, Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion, 3 volumes (1914–1925). Nova Iorque, Bibilo & Tannen: 1964.
Volume 1: Zeus, God of the Bright Sky, Biblo-Moser, 1 de junho de 1964, ISBN 0-8196-0148-9
Volume 2: Zeus, God of the Dark Sky (Thunder and Lightning), Biblo-Moser, 1 de junho de 1964, ISBN 0-8196-0156-X
Volume 3: Zeus, God of the Dark Sky (earthquakes, clouds, wind, dew, rain, meteorites) Druon, Maurice, The Memoirs of Zeus, 1964, Charles Scribner's and Sons. (trad. para o inglês de Humphrey Hare)
Farnell, Lewis Richard, Cults of the Greek States 5 vols. Oxford; Clarendon 1896–1909.
Farnell, Lewis Richard, Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality, 1921.
Graves, Robert; The Greek Myths, Penguin Books Ltd. (ed. de 1960)
Mitford,William, The History of Greece, 1784. Cf. v.1, capítulo II, Religion of the Early Greeks
Moore, Clifford H., The Religious Thought of the Greeks, 1916.
Nilsson, Martin P., Greek Popular Religion, 1940.
Nilsson, Martin P., History of Greek Religion, 1949.
Rohde, Erwin, Psyche: The Cult of Souls and Belief in Immortality among the Greeks, 1925.
Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870, Ancientlibrary.com, William Smith, Dictionary: "Zeus" Ancientlibrary.com
Ligações externas
Zeus - Greek Mythology Link
Zeus - Theoi Project
Culto de Zeus - Theoi Project
Foto: Pagãos homenageiam Zeus em antigo templo de Atenas - National Geographic''
Deidades do céu e clima | da mesma maneira que ele havia deposto seu próprio pai - um oráculo do qual Reia tomou conhecimento e pôde evitar.
Quando Zeus estava prestes a nascer, Reia procurou Gaia e concebeu um plano para salvá-lo, para que Cronos fosse punido por suas ações contra Urano e seus próprios filhos. Reia deu à luz Zeus na ilha de Creta, e entregou a Cronos uma pedra enrolada em roupas de bebê, que ele prontamente engoliu.
Infância
Reia teria escondido Zeus numa caverna dos montes Dícti, em Creta. De acordo com as diversas versões da história, ele teria sido criado:
por Gaia;
por uma cabra chamada Amalteia, enquanto um pelotão de curetes — soldados ou deuses menores — dançavam, gritavam e batiam suas lanças contra seus escudos para que Cronos não ouvisse o choro do bebê (ver cornucópia);
por uma cabra chamada Aix (que pertencia à ninfa Amalteia), e da pele dela Zeus fez a Égide;
por uma ninfa chamada Adamanteia. Como Cronos era senhor da Terra, dos céus e do mar, ela o escondeu pendurado por uma corda de uma árvore, de modo que ele, não estando nem na terra, nem no céu e nem no mar, teria ficado invisível para seu pai;
por uma ninfa chamada Cinosura, e como agradecimento, Zeus a teria colocado em meio às estrelas.
por Melissa, que o amamentou com leite de cabra e mel.
Rei dos deuses
Após chegar à idade adulta, Zeus forçou Cronos a vomitar primeiro a pedra que lhe havia sido dada em seu lugar - em Pito, sob os vales do monte Parnaso, como um sinal para os mortais: o Ônfalo, "umbigo" - e em seguida seus irmãos, de acordo com a ordem em que haviam sido engolidos. Em algumas versões, Métis deu a Cronos um emético para forçá-lo a vomitar os bebês, enquanto noutra o próprio Zeus teria aberto com um corte a barriga de Cronos. Em seguida, Zeus libertou os irmãos de Crono, os gigantes, os hecatônquiros e os ciclopes, que estavam aprisionados num calabouço no Tártaro, após matar Campe, o monstro que os vigiava.
Para mostrar seu agradecimento, os ciclopes lhe presentearam com o trovão e o raio, que haviam sido escondidos anteriormente por Gaia. Zeus então, juntamente com seus irmãos e irmãs, os gigantes, hecatônquiros e ciclopes, depuseram Cronos e os outros titãs, durante a batalha conhecida como Titanomaquia. Os titãs, após serem derrotados, foram despachados para o Tártaro, enquanto um deles, Atlas, foi condenado a segurar permanentemente o céu.
Após a batalha contra os titãs, Zeus dividiu o mundo com seus irmãos mais velhos, Posidão e Hades: Zeus ficou com o céu e o ar, Posidão com as águas e Hades com o mundo dos mortos (o mundo inferior). A antiga Terra, Gaia, não podia ser dividida, e portanto ficou para todos os três, de acordo com suas habilidades - o que explica porque Posidão era o "sacudidor da terra" (o deus dos terremotos), e Hades ficava com os humanos que morreram (ver Pentos).
Gaia, no entanto, não aprovou a maneira com que Zeus tratou os titãs, seus filhos; logo após assumir o trono como rei dos deuses, Zeus teve de combater outros filhos de Gaia: o monstro Tifão e a Equidna. Zeus derrotou Tifão, aprisionando-o sob o monte Etna, porém poupou a vida de Equidna e seus filhos.
Zeus e Hera
Zeus era irmão e consorte de Hera. Com ela teve três filhos: Ares, Hebe e Hefesto, embora alguns relatos afirmem que Hera tê-los-ia tido sozinha. Algumas versões também descrevem Ilítia e Éris como filhas do casal. As conquistas amorosas de Zeus, no entanto, entre ninfas e as mitológicas progenitoras mortais das dinastias helênicas são célebres. A mitografia olímpica lhe credita com uniões com Leto, Deméter, Dione e Maia. Entre as mortais com quem ele teria se relacionado estavam Sêmele, Io, Europa e Leda e o jovem menino Ganímedes, porém Zeus o presenteou com a eterna juventude e imortalidade.
Diversos mitos mencionam o sofrimento de Hera com o ciúme gerado por estas conquistas amorosas, e a descrevem como uma inimiga consistente das amantes de Zeus e de seus filhos. Por algum tempo uma ninfa chamada Eco foi encarregada de distrair Hera falando incessantemente, afastando assim sua atenção dos casos amorosos de seu marido; quando Hera descobriu o estratagema, condenou Eco a repetir permanentemente as palavras de outras pessoas.
Consorte e filhos
Os principais mitos relacionados a Zeus são sobre sua vida amorosa e enorme descendência:
Descendentes divinos
Descendentes semi-divinos e mortais
1Os gregos alegavam tanto que as moiras eram filhas de Zeus e da titânide Têmis quanto de seres primordiais como o Caos, Nix ou Ananque.
2As graças eram consideradas filhas de Zeus e Eurínome, porém também foram citadas como filhas de Dioniso, ou de Hélio e da náidade Egle.
3Alguns relatos contam que Ares, Hebe e Hefesto teriam nascido partenogeneticamente.
4De acordo com uma versão, Atena teria nascido por meio de partenogênese.
5Helena de Troia seria filha de Leda ou Nêmesis.
* De acordo com Hesíodo e outros autores, Afrodite seria filha de Urano e Tálassa, sendo tia de Zeus.
Cultos
Cultos pan-helênicos
O principal centro de culto de Zeus, para onde todos os gregos se dirigiam quando queriam prestar homenagem ao seu principal deus, era Olímpia. A cada quatro anos realizava-se um festival, cujo ponto máximo eram os célebres Jogos Olímpicos. Havia na cidade um altar a Zeus, feito não de pedra mas sim de cinzas, obtidas a partir dos restos de sacrifícios animais realizados ali ao longo de séculos.
Fora dos santuários que se encontravam nas principais pólis, não havia uma maneira específica de culto a Zeus partilhada por todo o mundo grego. A maior parte dos títulos listados abaixo, por exemplo, podiam ser encontrados em numerosos templos gregos da Ásia Menor à Sicília. Certos rituais eram igualmente comuns: o sacrifício de um animal de cor branca sobre um altar elevado, por exemplo.
Zeus Velcano
Com apenas uma exceção, os gregos eram unânimes em reconhecer o local de nascimento de Zeus como sendo a ilha de Creta. A Civilização Minoica contribuiu com diversos aspectos essenciais da religião grega antiga: "através de cem canais a antiga civilização se esvaziou na nova", observou o historiador americano Will Durant, e o Zeus cretense manteve suas feições jovens originais. Velcano (Velchanos), versão helenizada do nome minoico do filho local de uma deusa-mãe, "uma divindade pequena e inferior que assumiu os papéis de filho e consorte", foi adotado como um epíteto para Zeus, cujo culto espalhou-se para diversos outros locais.
Em Creta, Zeus era venerado em diversas cavernas (em Cnossos, Ida e Palecastro). Durante o período helenístico um pequeno santuário dedicado a Zeus Velcano foi fundado nas proximidades da cidade moderna de Aghia Triada, sobre as ruínas de um antigo palácio minoico. Moedas do período originárias de Festo mostram a forma com a qual o deus era cultuado: um jovem sentado entre os galhos de uma árvore, com um galo sobre seus joelhos. Noutras moedas cretenses Velcano foi representado na forma de uma águia, e era associado com uma deusa que celebrava um casamento místico. Inscrições em Gortina e Lito registraram um festival referido como Velcânia (Velchania), o que mostra quanto seu culto ainda era difundido na Creta helenística.
As histórias de Minos e Epimênides sugerem que estas cavernas haviam sido usadas anteriormente para adivinhações incubatórias por reis e sacerdotes. A ambientação dramática da peça Leis, de Platão, se passa ao longo de uma rota de peregrinação a um destes sítios, enfatizando o conhecimento cretense arcaico. Na arte da ilha, Zeus era representado como um jovem de cabelos longos, e não como, no resto da Grécia, um adulto maduro; a ele eram entoados hinos que o descreviam como ho megas kouros, "o grande jovem". Estatuetas de marfim do "Garoto Divino" foram desenterradas nas proximidades do Labirinto de Cnossos, por Arthur Evans. Juntamente com os curetes (kouretes), um grupo de dançarinos extáticos armados, ele presidia sobre os rituais secretos e rigorosos de treinamento atlético-militar da paideia cretense.
O mito da morte do Zeus cretense, encontrado em diversos sítios montanhosos, porém mencionado apenas numa fonte comparativamente tardia - Calímaco - juntamente com a afirmação do gramático Antonino Liberal de que um fogo se acendia anualmente na caverna onde o jovem havia nascido e que ele havia compartilhado com um mítico enxame de abelhas, sugere que Velcano teria sido uma divindade anual associada à vegetação. O autor helenístico Evêmero aparentemente teria proposto uma teoria segundo a qual Zeus teria sido um grande rei de Creta, e que, postumamente, sua glória teria o transformado aos poucos numa divindade. As | 2,598 |
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December 2016 marked the<|fim_middle|> written content to the audio recordings of the interviews, and make the entire audio and written corpus available to students and scholars in an integrated form.
The interviews contain a wealth of comments about Jewish culture and history from a place and time that is largely out of our reach today. Bringing the LCAAJ archive into the digital environment will increase exponentially its value to historians of Jewish Studies and European history, linguists, anthropologists, and students and teachers of Yiddish.
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) is one of the top five academic research library systems in North America. The collections include over 12 million volumes, over 160,000 journals and serials, as well as extensive electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, maps, and graphic and audio-visual materials. The services and collections are organized into 21 libraries and various academic technology centers, including affiliates. CUL/IS employs more than 450 professional and support staff. The website of the Libraries is the gateway to its services and resources: library.columbia.edu.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged digital, LCAAJ, linguistics, Primary Sources, Yiddish on May 8, 2015 by Michelle.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Elections, Hebrew language, Israel, Primary Sources on March 13, 2015 by Michelle. | end of a three year project to catalog Columbia's rare Hebraica and Judaica collections. While Columbia has been collecting Judaica since its inception (with a donation from Kings' College founder Samuel Johnson that included his Hebrew-Latin Psalms), many of the books were left uncataloged due to lack of expertise and Hebrew knowledge among the Library staff over the centuries.
This was rectified with the creation of the Norman E. Alexander Library in 2010. The NEA Library hired three successive students from 2013 to 2016: Kelila Kahane (BC '14), Hannah Vaitsblit (BC '16), and Avinoam Stillman (CC '17). The students were trained in copy cataloging (that is, the identification of pre-existing records that matched the books they analyzed) and copy specific cataloging. The students examined the shelves that included Judaica, book by book, and checked CLIO to see if there were any electronic records for the books. If not, they created a record for the books and added copy specific information (unusual bindings, owners' marks, bookplates, etc.). It was this project that identified a book in Columbia's holdings formerly owned by Isaac Newton, and many other significant previous owners were identified as well.
The project included both Hebraica non-Hebrew Judaica, but the work done is best exemplified with the Hebrew imprints: We have over 2,200 books containing Hebrew printed from the invention of moveable type until 1800 at Columbia. By the end of the project, over 1,000 records had been added or significantly updated to describe copy specific information, such as owners' signatures, to the records.
A detailed family history of Guiseppe Almanzi, whose collection we received as part of a gift from Temple Emanu-el in 1892.
Some work remains, such as the creation of a detailed catalog record for Columbia's 22 volumes of the Bomberg Talmud, but that should be completed by the end of the Spring semester.
Many, many thanks to the great work of Kelila, Hannah, and Avinoam – thanks to them, our "hidden" collection of Judaica imprint is no longer hidden, but is now completely open for scholarly use!
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Primary Sources, Rare_Books, RBML, The_People_In_The_Books on January 3, 2017 by Michelle.
Columbia's printed Judaica collection is composed of many different books, each with their own story to tell. Unfortunately, however, only about 1/3 of our books were actually in our online catalog. To rectify this, we hired Hannah Vaitsblit, a Barnard student who has been carefully checking every Judaica book in our rare stacks to make sure that they are cataloged and thus accessible and known to any potential users. One of the things that Hannah has excelled at is marking instances of provenance, that is, notes indicating ownership of the book throughout its existence. One of the books that Hannah found was a Latin copy of Josephus's De Bello Judaica (Wars of the Jews), printed in Cologne in 1559. Hannah indicated the presence of the bookplate shown here, noting the presence of the "Philosophemur" shield as well as the Case information below it as she entered the record for the book into CLIO.
The record was discovered by Newton scholar Professor Stephen Snobelen, who contacted us asking for more information about the book. He asked us if there was an indicator of "A3-21," which was the classmark for this book in the Musgrave library (one of the libraries that owned Newton's books).
After Isaac Newton's death, John Huggins, his neighbor, purchased the library for £300. (His bookplate can be seen peeking out underneath the "Philosophemur" plate.) The collection went from Huggins to his son Charles, and from Charles Huggins to James Musgrave, whose bookplate is seen above, with the family motto, "Philosophemur." The library remained in the Musgrave family for generations, moving with them in 1778 to Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire, where the new classmarks were added in ink (on the bottom of the plate). The library was partially sold at auction in 1920, when it is likely that this book entered the market, ultimately ending up at Columbia in 1922.
You can read the stories of some other discoveries of Newton books at the Huntington Library (Mede's Works), at the King's C ollege Library (interestingly, a Hebrew lexicon), at the University of Michigan's library, and at Cardiff University.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Josephus, Latin, Newton_Isaac, Primary Sources, Rare_Books on June 15, 2015 by Michelle.
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) has received an award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize field notes and linguistic surveys from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) archive.
The LCAAJ archive is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish studies that can shed much valuable light on language, ethnography, literature, folklore and music, anthropology, linguistics, Germanic and Slavic studies, and aspects of Central and East European history. The archive consists of over 600 interviews conducted between 1959 and 1972 with native speakers of Yiddish during a long-range comparative study to document the effects of physical, linguistic, and cultural channels and barriers on the geographic fragmentation of the Jewish and diverse non-Jewish populations that coexisted in Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. The LCAAJ project collected its interviews at essentially the last moment, when a diverse body of native speakers was still alive, aiming to address both the challenge of an endangered linguistic and cultural legacy, and the special potential that Yiddish provides for studying language and cultural contact and change.
The two-year project funded by NEH will digitize approximately 140,000 pages of interview answer sheets that contain data from the interviews, carry out optical character recognition (OCR) and mark-up to enable their content to be searched and manipulated, and will make all the digitized content freely available to scholars on the Internet on a Columbia website. This source for historical, literary, or anthropological research, and for the study of languages in contact, and the evolution and differentiation of language communities, will then be available to a worldwide community of scholars.
The written materials accompany more than 5,700 hours of recorded interviews that CUL/IS has already digitized through generous support from NEH, private foundations, the New York State Conservation/Preservation Program, and EYDES (Evidence of Yiddish Documented in European Societies, a project of the German Förderverein für Jiddische Sprache und Kultur), through which the audio is publicly available. The long-term goal is to eventually link the | 1,507 |
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Théodule Tellier (né le à Abbeville - mort dans la nuit du 3 au ) était un imprimeur français vivant à Amiens. Il a été le chef imprimeur de la Maison Yvert et l'associé de Louis Yvert dans la réalisation du catalogue de timbres Yvert et Tellier de 1895 à 1913.
Biographie
En 1879, Tellier est engagé dans l'imprimerie d'Henry Yvert, rédacteur en chef du journal légitimiste L'Écho de la Somme et propriétaire d'une imprimerie florissante à Amiens. Il gravit les échelons jusqu'à devenir chef imprimeur.
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Décès en mars 1922
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Décès à 66 ans | atelier typographique, puis toute l'imprimerie en 1889.
Passionné de timbres-poste depuis la découverte dans les années 1870 des timbres d'Alsace-Lorraine, il imprime avec soin L'Écho de la timbrologie, bulletin créé par Edmond Frémy de Douai. En 1890, quand Frémy malade se résigne à abandonner son bulletin, Tellier le reprend. Or, les lecteurs collectionneurs réclament du matériel pour les aider à collectionner : un album pour ranger tous les timbres connus, un catalogue, un service de vente par correspondance de timbres.
En 1895, Tellier fait découvrir la philatélie à Louis Yvert qui ne veut plus écrire dans L'Écho de la Somme car il ne partage pas les idées conservatrices de ses lecteurs. Les deux associés réalisent en un an un catalogue exhaustif de timbres qui paraît en et qui est nommé Catalogue prix-courant de timbres-poste par Yvert et Tellier. Dans le même temps, des albums préimprimés sont également publiés.
Le succès du catalogue et du matériel de collection assure la pérennité de l'entreprise Yvert et Tellier. Louis Yvert en profite pour voyager en Europe tout en restant en contact avec Théodule Tellier qui assure le bon fonctionnement de l'imprimerie.
Mais, la mort de son petit-fils mine Tellier qui décide de se retirer des affaires et vend ses parts à Louis Yvert le . Il se retire un temps dans une ferme au hameau de Fort-Manoir, près d'Amiens. Malade, il doit retourner vivre dans la ville où il meurt dans la nuit du 3 au . Il est inhumé au cimetière Saint-Acheul (ancien) à Amiens.
Par amitié et bien que Tellier n'ait plus de lien juridique avec le catalogue, Louis Yvert décide dès 1913 que le catalogue continuera de s'appeler Yvert et Tellier.
Bibliographie
Yvert et Tellier : cent ans d'histoire, éd. Yvert et Tellier, 1996.
Louis Yvert, Théodule Tellier, nécrologie parue dans L'Écho de la timbrologie du .
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Naissance | 578 |
Arriving in Krakentown with their enemies in hot pursuit, Zenobia doesn't know how they can even hope to win. Being terrified brings forth an undeniable truth: she loves Ariq and will do whatever it takes to stand by him.
I'm assuming that if you're reading this, you've read the first 7 parts (but not necessarily this part, so no spoilers for that here).
And finally, we get to the end! I must confess that, though I'm writing this review a couple of weeks after that for part 7, I wasn't able to wait quite as long as I'd planned in between installments. Part 7 left things at quite an intriguing point, and after some 4 days, I gave in.
I don't want to give too much away here. Suffice it to say that we get our final confrontation here, and it's fantastic. It's a clever, if still dangerous, plan and the execution made complete sense. It was also incredibly cinematic. There was a point where I was sitting there open-mouthed, as some truly awesome (in the formal sense of the word) scenes played out in my mind.
And the romance. Ahhhh! We're almost there when<|fim_middle|>, I found real life interfering much more with my reading rhythm with a serial format than it would have with a regular novel.
Would I try the format again soon? Yes, but my position hasn't changed much from before I started this. I'd said I'd try a serial if it was by a trusted author and not simply a regular book chopped into roughly equal parts, and that hasn't changed. | we start this, but the final step, the final acceptance of each other here, it was really sweet. I closed the book with a happy sigh.
So, I loved the story itself, but a big element with this one was how well the serial format would work for me. In the end, the results were mixed.
On the positive side, I liked the pause for thought in between installments. I actually did find myself thinking about the story in those periods, and the story might have felt fresher each time because of them. The catching up was seamless, with each installment starting with a letter from Zenobia to her brother that was much more than "...and this is what's happened in the last few days." I loved those, they were lovely. There were also some really unobtrusive bits during the text itself. That all worked beautifully, and I wouldn't expect it to be clunky (or even noticeable) for those who are planning to read the book in one go when it comes out later in the year. I also never got annoyed by being left hanging, mainly because I wasn't. The breaks came at places which felt like natural stopping points. There would be unresolved overall things, but each part felt self-contained and we'd get small resolutions in each. It felt like a well-done television series, in that respect.
On the negative side it's all about the mechanics. Reading one installment a week requires you to be in the right mood for that kind of story every week. Much as I love Meljean's books, sometimes I'm in the mood for adventure romance, sometimes I'm not. Also, I would obviously read other stuff in between episodes and would normally be in the middle of another book when the next part came out. Mostly I'd happily put that down for a couple of hours to read the new episode of The Kraken King, but sometimes I didn't want to. That's what happened when I was on holiday in Italy. I'd just started The Goblin King on the flight there. That is a fantastic book which I just didn't want to put down. I didn't have much time to read anyway, but when I did, The Goblin King it was. So yeah, in summary | 454 |
Recent Discoveries
The average British Jazz musician earns a living by being so many different bands that recognition of the other musicians must sometimes be a problem. As the saxophonist launches into a solo, the bass player's quizzical expression is not a comment on his performance – he's just trying to remember whether they've met before. Things can very easily get confused. Over a couple of pints after the gig, the Alan Wharton Quartet suddenly realise, amidst much backslapping, that they are the Bill Brunskill Quintet minus old whatsisname. This may seem a weird system to outsiders but it keeps the musicians on their toes. On one occasion a chance conversation between members of the Leon Cheade Sextet revealed that three of them were married to the same woman. How they laughed! Mutual recognition is not a problem for In Cahoots, as they have been playing together for nearly ten years now. Band leader Phil Miller (guitar) and drummer Pip Pyle are unlikely to forget each other's names having grown up together, then spent the best part of two decades in the back of transit vans with their bands Delivery, Hatfield & the North and National Health. Sax player Elton Dean (whose name Elton John once borrowed but never gave back) has been with the band since its inception, Fred Baker (bass) since 1988 and newcomer Jim Dvorak (trumpet) avoids any recognition problems by sensibly adopting the surname of the bloke who wrote the New World Symphony. 1993 sees the quintet reunited (Hey! didn't we used to be In Cahoots?) In a Paris studio for their fifth album, the ironically titled "Recent Discoveries". Under the sympathic guidance of producer Gerard L'homme the band sound confident and relaxed, the stiff introdu<|fim_middle|> a dreamy, brooding strings and bass opening to a full blown, quasi-funk number with a memorably noble theme. Another great bit of writing and another nice album from this seasoned (occasionally pickled) bunch who are still evolving after all these years.
Download Album – 82 MB | ctions of the past long gone. For the first time there is no keyboard player but Phil's MIDI guitar plugs any gaps in the sound. As usual, Miller's compositions form the mainstay of the album but there are two pieces by other members, Elton Dean's neatly written "Riffy" and Fred Baker's cheerful L.A. tinged "The Opener" (which of course is placed third). Dvorak and Dean (Hey! didn't we used to be a successful ice skating partnership?) have developed an uncanny understanding, handling Miller's difficult lead lines with precision and panache. Having whipped through a few such with aplomb on "Trick of the Light" both take exhilarating solos urged on by the bustling rhythm section. Phil pays homage to his producer on the energetic "Chez Gege but on the evidence of this track Gerard's house must be a very odd place indeed with Phil's mad rhythm guitar and the melody turning curious corners. If you have ever dreamed of standing on a beach in flowing white robes at midnight. illuminated by the full moon while clouds scud overhead, the quiet music you thought you were hearing was probably Phil Miller's "Tide". a beautiful ballad which ebbs and flows like its title. "Breadhead", the track which follows, features Phil on MIDI guitar, triggering bell-like electric piano sounds with a tune reminiscent of Mike Ratledge's compositions on early soft machine albums. Highlight of the album is the title track "Recent Discoveries" which develops from | 310 |
Marco Polo's Kitchen Insight presents, Penne al Romano. From the Lazio region of Italy, Romano Sauce is a careful composition of organic vine ripened tomatoes lovingly simmered with fresh basil, fresh whole milk mozzarella cheese, and imported sharp Parmesan Cheese with fresh Penne pasta.
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Three of Long Island's finest restaurants (Brasserie Americana, Marco Polo's and Super's Cafe) battle over the championship title. Each team must create an appetizer, a main course, a dessert and a specialty drink. Nearly 200 invited guests will taste the chefs' creations and vote.
The winning kitchen will receive $3,000, the Champion Trophy and coveted bragging rights. | chef as he creates this dish with fresh ingredients. This item is available on our lunch and dinner menus.
Welcome to Marco Polo's Kitchen Insight. If you enjoy cooking or love to east great food, this video will satisfy your curiosity on how our Executive Chef creates his delicious dishes.
Lobster Seafood with Fettuccine Alfredo pasta is one of our Chef's favorites. It all starts with the freshest ingredients. Watch the Chef Sautee the lobster, scallops and shrimp in olive oil with and his special seasonings. The chef makes his special homemade Alfredo sauce, adds the Fettucine pasta and then prepares the entire dish live on camera.
Watch interviews with the Chefs of three of Long Island's finest restaurants (Brasserie Americana, Marco Polo's and Super's Cafe) who will battle over the championship title. Find out what inspired them to become successful chefs and why they want to win.
Only the best will rise to the to the top. The Chefs at three fine restaurants on Long Island battle over the championship title. Each team must create three courses a specialty drink. Nearly 200 invited guests will taste the chefs' creations and cast | 241 |
The second-largest public pension scheme in the US, with $132.5 billion under management, may follow the lead of Dutch funds.
(April 8, 2010) — This week, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) will begin exploring microfinance, which they hope will decrease volatility and provide diversification.
"CalSTRS will not only be able to invest in an opportunity that could potentially help meet its financial goal, but also assist economically-active poor demographic located in developing countries," said the fund in a staff report presented to the Investment Committee today.
CalSTRS is following the lead of Dutch funds like ABP and PGGM that have funneled assets to microfinance investment vehicles. In recent news, ABP, a Netherlands-based pension fund, announced that it has committed $30 million to Grassroots Capital's Global Microfinance Equity Fund (GMEF).
"In much of the developing world, financial services need to be made available and improved in order to enable the economically poor to keep pace with economic growth," the report on CalSTRS' Web site said. While microfinance loans are estimated to reach $300 billion, supply is at only $38 billion.
The California pension fund can get exposure to microfinance via a direct investment in a microfinance institution (MFI), private equity investment in a microfinance institution, public equities or bonds, and specialized microfinance investment vehicle, Global Pensions<|fim_middle|> risk from emerging markets, where a significant amount of microfinance activity takes place.
Separately, the fund is looking to hire a hedge fund consultant to assist the system in selecting, monitoring and assessing an expected $200 million in global macro strategies, Business Wire reported. CalSTRS staff will work with the consultant to select three to six hedge fund managers. According to data provider Hedge Fund Research, global macro funds lost an average of 1.72% in the first quarter. | reported.
The pension scheme, which suffered a 25% drop in the value in its investments last year and is now faced with a soaring deficit, said that microfinance represents new opportunities and challenges for institutional investors. The fund outlined a number of concerns for investors considering an allocation to the asset class: 1) size of investment, 2) transparency, 3) limited track record, as few fund managers have significant experience in microfinance portfolio management during a downturn, and 4) | 100 |
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