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M<|fim_middle|> Become A Financial Success!" and realized that I highlighted nearly the whole damn thing. Great ebook! | ONEY MOGUL: Become A Financial Success!
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I am hoping there is truth to this saying because I am stepping out of my comfort zone in a big way. I believe in being transparent with you all. I have been so anxious, | 111 |
IC<|fim_middle|> your favourite presentation at ICERI2011? | ERI2011, the 4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation was held in Madrid (Spain), on 16th, 17th and 18th of November, 2011.
George Saltsman is the Executive Director of the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning at Abilene Christian University and Instructor in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. As one of the leaders of ACU's Connected Mobile learning initiative, George works closely with faculty and administrators who are deploying and researching mobile learning within education. George is an Apple Distinguished Educator and the winner of multiple awards, including Campus Technology Innovator of the Year and The New Media Consortium's Center of Excellence award. He is co-author of An Administrators Guide to Online Education, and multiple other works focused on the integration on technology in education.
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MILL DISTRICT
Mill District names the unique business, arts, and cultural<|fim_middle|> an email. Thank you! | district on N. Water Street in Kent, Ohio. As an area filled with great coffee, art galleries, historic buildings, and friendly neighbors, the street is currently undergoing a collaborative revitalization that includes community members, local businesses, and the City of Kent. The Mill District is designed as a name to unite behind—beginning a new conversation about what the district is and has the potential to be.
The Mill District is named after the iconic Mill established by the Williams Brothers on North Water Street in 1879. With its distinct white grain elevators, the building has left an imprint on the skyline of the city. While the mill once produced hundreds of millions of pounds of flour, today it stands as a symbol of progress ready for the next era.
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The district is an area of Kent known for its tight-knit arts culture, but is also home to longstanding businesses, coffee shops, bars, and services—proving that the area can act as a foundation for diverse growth in business and arts culture. The area today is positioned to be a unique space for placemaking and thoughtful historical renovation.
N. WATER HISTORY
N. Water Street originated as an industrial district in Kent known for creativity and innovation.
N. Water Street is in the midst of a revitalization effort between the city and community.
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N. WATER BETTER BLOCK
Community Members and the City of Kent gathered on September 29, 2018 to envision a Better Block for the Mill District on N. Water Street in Kent. Visit the Better Block page to learn more about the event.
Follow along with the progress on N. Water Street.
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THE STREET TODAY
Although the street has a rich history, there now exists many vacant spaces and buildings that have potential for revitalization, as well as many traffic and public spaces that need improvement. Art galleries, coffee shops, businesses, and services thrive here, creating potential for community action and placemaking.
THE SURVEY
Currently, an online survey is being conducted to better understand the culture and vision of N. Water Street in the eyes of the business owners and community members there. Share your voice by taking the survey below.
COMMUNITY VISION CASTING
This collaborative effort kicked off the first efforts of planning and strategizing for a future Better Block event in Kent. Local business property owners and employees, KSU faculty, and community influencers joined together in a conversation with the City of Kent about the revitalization of North Water Street as part of the Mill District. Combining the voices and visions of the community, hypothetical improvements using maps of N. Water were planned.
APR 5, 2018 / THE RECORD COURIER
RENOVATION OF KENT MILL DISTRICT BUILDING MOVES AHEAD
By Diane Smith
The redevelopment of a 19th-century structure at 257 N. Water St. in Kent's Mill District will be moving forward, despite some concerns about parking spaces next to the building.
MAR 30, 2018 / THE RECORD COURIER
Kent Mill District ponders Better Blocks plan
By Bob Gaetjens
A group of stakeholders along North Water Street gathered this week to learn about the Better Blocks program, which could help them find ways to make the business district more vibrant.
Kent seeks grant to improve safety on North Water Street
Kent is seeking nearly $1 million in grant funds to make North Water Street safer. City Engineer Jim Bowling recently applied for a federal Highway Safety Grant to improve the street.
MAR 6, 2018 / THE RECORD COURIER
Kent architectural board praises North Water redevelopment project
A redevelopment of a 19th-century structure at 257 N. Water St. in Kent's Mill District area got approval from the city's architectural review board. The panel issued a "certificate of appropriateness" for the two-story building.
Renovations in store for old N. Water Street building
One of the properties in the Mill District area of North Water Street in Kent is about get a much-needed renovation, hopefully providing a catalyst for future development in the area.
OCT 14, 2017 / THE RECORD COURIER
What does future hold for iconic Kent mill?
It's been more than a year since Star of the West ceased operations in its mill on North Water Street, a site easily recognized with its grain silos prominent in the Kent's skyline.
Do you have ideas, questions, or concerns? Please contact Each + Every, a local Kent design studio, by sending us | 942 |
After more than 170 years, Saint Mary's has cultivated a wealth of traditions to mark important milestones, honor achievements and celebrate girls. Sharing<|fim_middle|> vestry works closely with Saint Mary's chaplain, who leads worship and spiritual formation programs. Our chaplain is available to the entire Saint Mary's community for pastoral care, counseling and spiritual guidance. | in these traditions connects students with the generations that came before them and gives girls the courage to make their own special mark at Saint Mary's.
Students look forward to yearly events like Sigma-Mu Day, Spirit Week, Lighting O' the Grove, Honor Week, Winter Formal, Prom, Spring Fling, Career Day and Commencement, to name just a few.
School Ring
Saint Mary's trademark black onyx school ring bears the school seal and the student's class year. It is often passed from grandmother to mother to daughter. Saint Mary's school ring unites students with an international network of Saint Mary's alumnae.
The Saint Mary's School Hymn ties students to the school's spiritual foundation. Students sing it, arm-in-arm with friends and teachers in Chapel, and carry it with them far beyond Saint Mary's gates.
Academic convocations open and close each school year. In the fall, the Academic Convocation features an impressive procession of faculty and seniors and introduces students to their teachers for the year. In the spring, the Honors Convocation recognizes and celebrates students for outstanding academic achievements.
Our Episcopal Heritage
At the heart of saint Mary's legacy is a rich Episcopal heritage, which informs the school's values, calls everyone in the community to respect the dignity of every human being and strive for justice and peach among all people. The historic Saint Mary's Chapel is the center of spiritual life on campus. A student | 291 |
Winter weather entered Logan County Sunday and remained through Monday bringing some light rain, sleet and<|fim_middle|> and no predicted precipitation until Sunday, Dec. 1.
The high Wednesday is expected to be 39 and the low is expected to be 23 under sunny conditions. The high Thursday is expected to be 49 and the lows is expected to be 26 under partly cloudy conditions. The highs Friday and Saturday are expected to be in the middle 50s with lows in the low to middle 40s under sunny to partly sunny skies. The high for Sunday is expected to be 57 and the low is expected to be 46 under cloudy conditions with a 40 percent chance of rain.
Sellers said wintry conditions are common for this time of year.
Officials with the Paris Police Department and the Logan County Sheriff's Department said there were no accidents reported in the county Sunday or Monday. Becky Bariola, superintendent of Mount Magazine State Park, said Monday there had been no accidents on the mountain and roads were "slushy."
However, other parts of the area reported some problems Sunday and Monday.
"We've had quite a few, mostly down around Sebastian and Scott counties," an official with Arkansas State Police said Sunday evening. | very cold temperatures but causing little discomfort for drivers and no reported damage.
"A wintry mix of sleet, freezing rain and snow (will come) into the overnight (Sunday) and last into much of the day (Monday)," Joe Sellers, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Tulsa, said Sunday. "There will be some minor accumulations that could result in some tricky driving conditions."
The wintry conditions resulted from a combination of weather systems that include an arctic front from the west and warm air moving out of Texas.
"The warm air is overriding the dome of cold air at the surface and that's resulting in the wintry precipitation," Sellers said.
The temperature in Paris and surrounding areas reached 35 degrees Monday. Lows were in the 20s.
"After (today), things will improve dramatically," Sellers said Monday.
The front moved out of the area late Monday and into Tuesday. After that, the forecast calls for a return to warmer weather | 195 |
Metal Gear Acid 2 est un jeu vidéo de stratégie au tour par tour développé par Kojima Productions et édité par Konami en 2006 sur PlayStation Portable.<|fim_middle|> sur PSP en France. »
Notes et références
Jeu vidéo Metal Gear
Jeu vidéo de cartes à collectionner
Jeu vidéo sorti en 2005
Jeu PlayStation Portable
Spin-off de jeu vidéo
Jeu vidéo développé au Japon | Le titre prend la forme d'un jeu de cartes basé sur l'univers de la série Metal Gear.
Description
Metal Gear Acid 2 reprend le système de jeu instauré par le premier épisode mais en corrige la plupart des défauts. La difficulté a été revue à la baisse, le rythme de jeu accéléré et les graphismes en cel-shading sont plus colorés (alors que MGA1 reprenait les graphismes de MGS2) ce qui aide à la lisibilité de l'ensemble.
Le jeu a la particularité d'être livré avec le « Solid Eye », un accessoire qui se pose au-dessus de l'écran de la PSP et permet de jouer en relief.
Le joueur incarne une nouvelle fois un certain Snake, qui se révélera ne pas être le Solid Snake des autres épisodes, ainsi qu'un nouveau personnage féminin, Venus, dans une aventure inédite, parallèle à l'histoire principale de la saga.
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« Attrayant, bien réglé mais malgré tout linéaire, Metal Gear Acid 2 est le meilleur jeu de stratégie disponible à l'heure actuelle | 270 |
The peloton threw<|fim_middle|> ORICA-GreenEDGE continued their epic arm-wrestle for stage honours, splitting a reduced field even further.
The final 5km of racing saw Ewan and teammate Jack Haig, Froome, Kennaugh, Putt and Bobridge go on the offensive and push for home. Kennaugh attempted a solo move on the sweeping bend leading to the finish line, but Ewan had the Brit's measure.
"It was such a hard headwind, by the time I'd made my attack they'd all seen it because the wind was so strong but I managed to gain a bit of time on Bobridge which is never a bad thing," explained Kennaugh. | everything at Caleb Ewan (ORICA-GreenEDGE) on the road to Moe, but the plucky young sprinter survived to claim a convincing victory in Stage 2 of the 2016 Jayco Herald Sun Tour.
Ewan could not be jettisoned over several tough climbs on the 144.2km stage and the 21-year-old sprinted to the win by over a bike length from American Tanner Putt (UnitedHealthcare) and overall Tour leader, Peter Kennaugh (Team Sky).
The 21-year-old notched his ninth win of 2016 and paid tribute to the efforts of his teammates following his victory.
"It was much tougher than the usual sprint finishes that I've been used to this summer," he said.
"On the final climb I knew [Jack] Bobridge (Trek-Segafredo) and (Peter) Kennaugh (Team Sky) were strong, they've proven that so I knew couldn't let them get a gap over the top. I fought for dear life and was able to stay with them.
"The team rode awesome today, they kept me out of trouble and kept me near the front on all the climbs.
Kennaugh finished three seconds down on Ewan for the stage but extended his lead on teammate Chris Froome (who finished fourth) by another six seconds for a total of 13 seconds heading into Stage 3 on Saturday. A strong ride from former Jayco Herald Sun Tour runner-up and 2016 Australian champion Jack Bobridge saw him move into third overall at 31 seconds after he finished just behind Froome.
"In the end I just stayed on the front and rode in. I could see that I had dropped [Jack] Bobridge and I thought it was a good chance to get bonus seconds and also extend my lead.
Froome, while admitting the day didn't quite go to plan for Team Sky, was pleased with the result, despite losing his King Of the Mountain jersey to Chris Harper (State of Matter / MAAP).
"I expected a big bunch sprint so, it was a bit more selective than that," the two-time Tour de France winner said. "It was a good day out there, the guys did a great job controlling for us. Pete in third place again, we're happy with that.
Several attempts at breakaways were thwarted in the first 40kms of racing, including an attack by Bobridge which was enough to net him maximum points at the first intermediate sprint at Yarra Junction, just ahead of Avanti IsoWhey Sports' Anthony Giacoppo and Pat Shaw.
It was only a move by Yuma Koishi (Nippo – Vini Fantini) and Harper, which was finally allowed up the road and the pair quickly opened up a five-minute advantage heading over the Cat. 3 KOM at Powelltown. That would be the biggest gap on the peloton that was dealt. Nearly 30km later heading up the Cat. 2 KOM at Noojee, known as Vespers, Harper was forced to go it alone as his breakaway companion struggled to keep the pace with their lead gradually slipping.
Back in the peloton, the KordaMentha Australian National Team handed responsibility over to Avanti IsoWhey Sports and their riders put the pressure on with a solid tempo their bid to shake Ewan and force a general classification selection to elevate their overall prospects.
By the third and final categorized climb of the day, Harper's lead over the chase had been whittled to just over two minutes and the peloton had been splintered into two front chase groups, with Ewan, Bobridge, Froome and Kennaugh and a host of Avanti riders leading the way.
Harper did well to hang on, his efforts earning him the Budget Forklifts KOM lead and the day's most aggressive prize. Eventually caught, the cat and mouse game for the finish began with New Zealand Champion Jason Christie (Kenyan Riders Downunder), 2015 KOM classification winner Cam Bayly (Attaque Team Gusto) and Neil Van Der Ploeg (Avanti IsoWhey Sports) racing a slight advantage on the peloton.
Team Sky led the chase, content to keep the trio at around a minute's advantage to the 112km mark before ORICA-GreenEDGE too took up the challenge and at the start of the 15km finishing loop around Moe, just 20 seconds of clean road remained.
Christie took that as the cue to attack Bayly and Van Der Ploeg but was quickly reeled in and with under 10km to go, Sky and | 973 |
The Common Application
Each year, more than one million students, counselors and teachers rely on The Common App to apply to college. With so much at stake, it demanded a new site and a fresh approach to college planning.
Reimagining the College Application
With more than 600 member colleges, The Common Application is critical in matching high school students to the college of their dreams. As if the process weren't stressful enough, the former Common App site was difficult to navigate and even harder to understand.<|fim_middle|> considering post-secondary education."
— Paul Mott, CEO of The Common Application
Content for Every Step of the Journey
Through in-depth research and interviews with college admission experts, our content team transformed the site into a student's virtual journey. Starting with middle school and continuing through senior year, we wrote a step-by-step guide to help students and parents prepare for college. These steps include guidance on why to consider college, and how to pay for it.
A Scholarly Search
The core mission of this site is to help high school students easily discover and apply to colleges that are right for them. So functionality needed to be intuitive and exceptionally user friendly. Our research led to a visually captivating site that enables students to search based on the college criteria they want – with the accessibility and ease-of-use they need.
A Panic-free Preview
In the past, students had to fill out their application first, before understanding the process and their options. Aside from causing anxiety, this led to a frustrating user experience. Students were forced to access the application before knowing which materials and information they would need. Our redesign changed that. With the goal of easing stress and guiding the experience, our team developed a 'How To Apply' user journey – complete with a comprehensive application dictionary.
Ignore No More
Students aren't the only ones who visit The Common Application website – and yet, critical audiences like parents and school counselors were not represented prior to this redesign. Now, through the creation of audience-specific sections and a reorganization of essential resources, everyone can rely on the new site for guidance and support.
Student Tested. Parent Approved.
To ensure that the new website would resonate with target users, we conducted a series of usability testing sessions with high school students and parents from across the US. The results speak for themselves.
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Fishing for sharks in Key West with Dream Catcher Charters.
February 27th 2017 – Its windy but the fishing is great and we do have sharks<|fim_middle|> bunch of fish and have some fun bending rods in the backcountry here off Key West. A warm up of sorts and it gives our captains time to get to know you and see what is going to trip your trigger. After we get caught up on bait we get set up on a flat or edge of a channel and let the magic start to happen. Chumming the flats with anything that bleeds we bring the sharks in from miles away. Often times, this time of the year the bigger sharks will have cobia cruising with them and we are ALWAYS ready for that fantastic opportunity for our anglers to catch a great food fish while shark fishing. Using Daiwa Saltiga Boat Rods and Saltiga lever drag reels we set the baits and wait for the sharks to come in and eat. We offer belts and proper technique advice on hook set and fighting to make sure you get the best chance possible to land your shark.
Check out our shark fishing rates to learn about costs for this adventure and options..
Here is a Link To The Products We Use On Amazon For Shark Fishing in Key West. | in the backcountry and on the flats. The forecast period has us looking at the winds being up through next week but clear skies and warm temps.
Shark fishing is really good in March for a few reasons..
During the bull shark spawn the lemon sharks do their thing as well. So that doubles the odds you will see some big boys cruising the flats like the bull shark in the shark video above. On our shark fishing charters we take you to some of the prettiest places that are infested with sharks.
For the kids we have some amazing bonnet head shark fishing all up and down the Florida Keys and Key West. We call the bonnet head shark "bonefish practice" because of the fast unpredictable runs on light tackle..
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The Shallow Water Monsters Trip.
Our shallow water monsters shark fishing charters are 4 and 6 hours long and can be incorporated with any other type of backcountry fishing charter at no additional cost. After we load the boat with some frozen starter bait. After short runs to our shark fishing grounds that take anywhere from 5 -20 minutes in our very fast bay boats. We start the day off with what we call the "circle of life" catching some jacks and blue runners to get the fresh blood going and some excellent bait fish for the sharks to come in on and attack. This is a great time to catch a | 291 |
Allow us, Carlos and Torben, to show you our city.
We relish the opportunities guiding affords to pursue varied and disparate interests, from medieval and<|fim_middle|> prices can vary depending on a number of factors (including transportation costs, specialized interests, destinations, etc.). Please e-mail us for a quote. | modern history to art and architecture to food and politics – not to mention the pleasure of meeting and engaging with people of diverse backgrounds from all over the world. With our academic training, decade-long experience, and insider/outsider point of view, we feel comfortable broaching complex and controversial issues. It is always our goal to show how remarkable and amazing a city Berlin has become, without glossing over its very dark history and the problems it continues to wrestle with today.
If you are interested in touring with us, please send us an e-mail or fill out a contact form and we will be happy to tailor a tour to your specific interests and provide all information regarding logistics and cost.
Our standard fee is 65 Euros per hour. However, | 153 |
El regne de les dones (títol original en rus, Бабье царство, Babie tsarstvo) és una novel·la breu d'Anton Txékhov de 1894.
La història es va publicar per primera vegada a la revista russa Pensament rus (Русская мысль) del 27 de gener de 1894 com un conte de Nadal. Dividit en quatre capítols, Txèkhov descriu vint-i-quatre hores en la vida de l'Anna Akímovna, una rica hereva d'origen humil que es troba en plena joventut i que pateix per no estar casada.
Durant la vida de Txèkhov, la història es va traduir a l'alemany, l'hongarès i el serbocroata.
Creació
L'historiador literari P.S. Popov creia que la història es va escriure a partir dels records de l'autor sobre la vida dels treballadors de la fàbrica que va veure a la ciutat de Voskressensk el 1883-1887. La propietària de la fàbrica de teles Ivanovo, Anna Sergeevna Tsurikova, després de la mort del seu marit Pavel Grigorievich Tsurikov, es va convertir en la propietària de la fàbrica. Anna Sergeevna es dedicava a activitats benèfiques i era fideïcomissaria de l'escola on treballava el germà d'Anton Txèkhov, Ivan. Els dies de festa, Anna Sergeevna rebia el clergat local, el cor de l'església, treballadors de la fàbrica, etc. Txèkhov coneixia el mestre S. V. Solovyov, que vivia a la fàbrica, i el va visitar.
Dels esborranys de l'obra de Txèkhov, queda clar que la història implicava en un principi una elaboració més gran. La història havia de durar més d'un dia. L'autor havia inventat el personatge de Sliva, amiga de l'Anna Akímova. Però aquest personatge no es troba en la història impresa i les línies argumentals sobre les relacions de la Sliva amb en Lisèvitx i el lacai Míxenca tampoc no es van desenvolupar.
Argument
La vigília
L'Anna Akímovna, de 25 anys, és l'hereva d'una fàbrica metal·lúrgica de més de 1.800 treballadors creada pel seu oncle Ivan Ivànitx. Amb la mort d'aquest, el seu pare, Akim Ivànitx, que havia estat un simple treballador a la mateixa fàbrica, va passar a dirigir-la i després d'ell, l'Anna en va esdevenir la propietària.
La història comença la vigília de Nadal, mentre l'Anna Akímovna escriu notes i gestiona la documentació de la fàbrica. De la datxa del bosc acaba de rebre de l'encarregat del magatzem un feix de 1.500 rubles guanyats en un plet. Avergonyida per la victòria judicial, recorda la seva procedència humil i el seu pare soldant a casa seva, en un dels barris obrers. L'Anna creu que quan vivia el seu pare hi havia més ordre a la fàbrica perquè n'havia estat treballador i sabia el que es necessitava. L'Anna però, no entén el seu negoci i de fet, tampoc li agrada i preferiria tenir una vida senzilla, casada i amb fills. Conscient de les mancances dels treballadors, i més en plenes festes de Nadal, agafa a l'atzar una de les cartes que els seus empleats li envien i decideix donar-li a l'afortunat els 1.500 rubles com a regal de Nadal.
Així, agafa el trineu de cavalls i es dirigeix a casa de Vasili Nikítx Txàlikov, un secretari provincial sense feina i malalt, amb una dona tísica i cinc filles petites. Tanmateix, després de conèixer en Txàlikov, que fa pudor a vodka i l'afalaga excessivament, l'Anna decideix donar-li només 25 rubles i dos bitllets vermells més (dos de deu rubles). És llavors quan coneix en Pímenov que és hoste dels Txàlikov. L'Anna ja el tenia vist de la fàbrica i el reconeix com un dels seus capatassos. En veure en Pímenov, que treballa a la seva fàbrica des dels 9 anys, l'Anna s'adona que donar diners als Txàlikov ha estat inútil. Sap que marit i muller es gastaran els diners en beguda. En canvi, a en Pímenov sí que li donaria els 1.500 rubles.
El matí
El matí del Nadal, l'Anna baixa al pis de sota per saludar al servei de la casa i felicitar-los el Nadal. En un ambient festiu, amenitzat amb cants i plats apetitosos, l'Anna va rebent les visites que arriben per felicitar-la i mostrar-li el seu respecte: el capellà amb el diaca de l'hospici i de l'hospital dels obrers, el sagristà, les infermeres de la Creu Roja, els nens de l'orfenat, els alumnes de l'escola de la qual és benefactora, el doctor, etc. També alguns empleats de la fàbrica venen a felicitar-la, entre les quals hi ha en Pímenov.
Mentre puja i baixa les escales de casa seva i rep els convidats, l'Anna reflexiona sobre el futur que l'espera i les dificultats de trobar un bon marit. L'Anna és conscient que els seus treballadors es comporten amb més desimboltura davant la seva tia que davant d'ella, a qui veuen com una noia estranya educada<|fim_middle|> царство (Чехов) (rus)
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Obres literàries russes | per institutrius i delicada. Tampoc no se sent còmoda amb els del pis de dalt, a la part noble, on rep els membres de l'alta societat de la província, amb qui li toca alternar ara que és rica, però que sap que la menyspreen pel seu origen. El destí mateix l'ha portat d'un ambient obrer, en què recorda sentir-s'hi còmoda i a gust, a les sumptuoses dependències en què ara viu i on se sent sola i infeliç. Recorda el seu pare i pensa que, si hagués viscut més temps, segurament l'hauria deixat casar-se amb una persona senzilla, com, per exemple, en Pímenov. De fet, potser fins i tot li hauria ordenat que es casés amb en Pímenov. I està segura que en aquest cas, la fàbrica estaria llavors en millors mans.
El dinar
Els últims d'arribar de visita són el conseller d'Estat Krilin i el famós advocat Lisèvitx. El pare de l'Anna, Akim Ivànitx, li havia ofert a Lisèvitx la plaça d'advocat de la fàbrica per un sou de 12.000 rubles. L'Anna sabia que no hi feia res de bo a la fàbrica i que, a més, amb en Nazàritx, s'embutxacaven 15.000 rubles cada cop que es venia fusta dels boscos de la seva propietat. Però les seves visites li agradaven i s'hi havia acostumat.
Així, es van seure a taula per dinar un àpat copiós amb entrants sumptuosos i diversos plats de festa. Entre plat i plat, Lisèvitx li comenta a l'Anna Akímovna les novetats literàries com Turguénev i Maupassant. Segons les seves paraules, adora Turguénev, el rapsoda de l'amor virginal i ara està segur que estima l'Anna d'una manera platònica i ideal. També insta a l'Anna a abandonar-se a la depravació i el llibertinatge tal com una dona de fin de siècle, rica i intel·ligent ha de fer.
Tanmateix, l'Anna no hi està d'acord amb aquesta concepció de l'amor i reconeix que, en ser responsable d'una fàbrica, prefereix un amor més tradicional, amb matrimoni i fills, fins i tot, un matrimoni amb un treballador com en Pímenov. L'Anna Akímovna se sent feliç i exultant per la visita. Així, quan en Lisèvitx li insinua que no li ha fet cap regal de festes, recorda els 1.500 rubles del plet i els hi acaba donant.
Vespre
El vespre l'Anna seu a la taula del menjador a sopar amb la seva tia i la resta de dones de la casa que ja s'havien estat atipant des del matí. Totes parlen de com n'és de difícil casar-se en aquesta època i, mentre juguen als reis, li proposen a l'Anna diversos homes amb els que es podria casar: nobles, comerciants i fins i tot, treballadors de la fàbrica, entre els quals en Pímenov. Entre bromes i jocs, l'Anna accepta davant la resta de dones que acabaria casant-se amb en Pímenov.
Tanmateix, quan ja torna al seu dormitori, el lacai Míxenka riu de la broma d'en Pímenov i li diu que no se l'imagina en un dinar amb en Lisèvitx i en Krilin ja que no sap ni agafar la forquilla. Per primera vegada del dia, l'Anna s'adona amb claredat que tot el que havia dit i pensat sobre en Pímenov i sobre el matrimoni amb un treballador senzill era absurd i estúpid. Encara que els somnis sobre en Pímenov eren honestos, va sentir que en Lisèvitx, i fins i tot en Krilin, li eren més propers que no pas en Pímenov.
Personatges
Anna Akímovna, l'hereva i propietària de la fàbrica de 25 anys.
Vasili Nikítx Txàlikov, un secretari provincial, sense feina i malalt, amb una dona tísica i cinc filles petites
Óssip Ílitx Pímenov, un dels capatassos de la fàbrica, d'uns trenta anys, bru, corpulent i ben fornit
Víctor Nikolaièvitx Lisèvitx, l'advocat de la fàbrica de 42 anys, ros, alt i ben plantat
Tatiana Ivànovna, la tia de l'Anna
Nazàritx, el director de la fàbrica
Maixa, la criada pèl-roja de l'Anna
Míxenca, el lacai de la casa de l'Anna
Adaptacions
El 1967 es va rodar la pel·lícula "El regne de les dones" basada en la història homònima de Txékhov i dirigida per Alekseï Saltikov.
Edicions en català
El regne de les dones, traduït del rus per Juan Gabriel Saiz i publicat el 2019 per Viena Edicions en la seva col·lecció «Petits Plaers de Viena». ISBN 978-84-949906-5-6
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Francis Ngannou's coach explains UFC departure: 'It wasn't the money'
Much has been said about "The Predator" turning down a contract that would have made him the highest-paid UFC Heavyweight ever. But, according to his coach, his issues weren't with the amount of zeros on the contract.
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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced this past weekend (Sat., Jan. 14, 2023) that Francis Ngannou was being stripped of his Heavyweight title and released by the promotion completely. And while we have heard UFC President Dana White's take on the situation, we still haven't heard Ngannou's.
That's because the former heavyweight champion has been traveling in Africa. He'll be joining our sister-site MMA Fighting's The MMA Hour show today (Tues., Jan. 17, 2023) at 1 p.m. ET to give a full account in his own words what happened that led to the departure. Until then, take a look at what his head coach at XTreme Couture, Erick Nicksick, had to say about the situation.
"I'm an optimistic guy, I thought things would get done and get done the right way, but unfortunately they didn't," Nicksick told The Schmo in a new interview. "I know Francis is going to be onto bigger and better things and I'm proud of him. I'm happy for him. He stood his ground. He knew what he wanted and he didn't budge on what he wanted so kudos to him."
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'Ngannou Would Have Fought Jones On Any Day Of The Week!'
According to Nicksick, it wasn't about the amount of money UFC was offering Ngannou. White claimed UFC's offer would have made "The Predator" the highest-paid heavyweight in UFC history.
"The money was there — that's not what moves him," Nicksick said. "It wasn't the money that was moving him, it was other things, other terms, some sticking points that he couldn't waver on. So kudos to him. This is what he wanted and that's why I love the guy."
Over the last few years, Ngannou had been very vocal about various clauses in UFC's ironclad contract that he considered exploitative, especially when you consider UFC fighters aren't considered employees, but independent contractors.
"[Boxing] was definitely something that was a sticking point for him, that he wanted the opportunity to box," Nicksick said. "I think the definition of 'independent contractor' and 'employee' was something he wasn't comfortable with. He wanted the opportunity to ... if someone came along, a higher bidder, he wanted to take that opportunity."
Ngannou has also complained about how UFC can effectively bench anyone on its roster, toll them so their contracts never run out, and generally make their lives very unpleasant if they don't agree to whatever UFC wants at any given time. All of these issues he wanted addressed in his new contract. UFC, for its part, wasn't about to open a Pandora's Box by making changes to half the standardized clauses in its<|fim_middle|> wrestle, I can put a full MMA skill set together because I like that. This is what I miss the most about MMA.'" he said. "But now if he wants to go into boxing he's going to focus on that one skillset. I think whoever comes to the table with the most amount of money, through whatever that he feels is right for him, if it's MMA or boxing he's gonna be ready for it."
While Nicksick is clearly proud of Ngannou for sticking to his guns during negotiations, he admitted losing the Jones fight hurt.
"That part's always going to bother me on the competitive side, because Jon Jones is the GOAT to me," he said. "He's No. 1 and I think Khabib is right behind him it's No. 1 and No. 1B in my opinion. So the competitor in me, yes, I'm always going to wish that we had the opportunity to put a gameplan together to execute against who I think is the best ever. So that's going to bug me, but in the end of the day, man, that opportunity might still be on the table later on down the line."
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While a deal didn't get reached, Nicksick said Ngannou had spent the recent time back at XTreme Couture training for a mixed martial arts (MMA) fight.
"When he got back in the gym and he was full healthy with the knee and he started working, he said to me, legit, 'I love the fact that I can kick, I can | 108 |
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Subway Therapy, 14th Street Station at Seventh Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas, New York City, November 13, 2016. Photo credit: Aaron Cohen.
Arcadia University Art Gallery is pleased to present Subway Therapy, a project by Brooklyn-based artist Matthew "Levee" Chavez (b. 1988). Featuring over 2,000 anonymous sticky notes posted by commuters on the walls of New York's Union Square and 14th Street/6th Avenue subway stations in the days immediately following the 2016 presidential election, the exhibition invites visitors to continue the project at Arcadia by posting their own messages on the gallery wall. The exhibition remains on view through April 2.
Each of the project's original 2,000 sticky notes are inscribed with a short message that conveys the unfiltered thoughts and feelings of New Yorkers in response to the surprising outcome of the election. The notes represent a fraction of approximately 50,000 total sticky notes that covered Union Street Station and the walls of the tunnel connecting Union Square to 7th Avenue's 14th Street Station from Nov. 9 to Dec. 16, 2016 when the Manhattan Transport Authority removed the notes with Levee's cooperation.
Despite the diversity and candor of the viewpoints represented, including notes conveying frustration and fear, the majority are distinguished by their uplifting and respectful tone and their messages of hope, unity, and tolerance. Some comment directly about the project itself, such as one that declares "This is the wall that matters!"
While extending the interactive project, to which anyone can contribute, the exhibition at Arcadia provides viewers with a chance to study the notes as a set of contemporary artifacts. The 2,000 messages are mounted on a wall of glazed bricks—original to the 1892 historic power plant that now houses the gallery—that has been exposed expressly for this presentation.
On Nov. 10, 2016, within 24 hours after the first sticky notes appeared, the New York Times called the project "a tribute to the city's diverse voices, a monument to its drive to speak out and a testament to the strength that New Yorkers, in moments of intense emotion, often draw from one another." A month later, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that 4,000 of the notes would enter the permanent collection of the New-York Historical Society where they have joined other artifacts demonstrating "spontaneous moments of crisis or exhilaration," including objects recovered from Ground Zero, archived at the institution.
Subway Therapy's outpouring of anonymous communication began nine months before Election Day as part of an ongoing public performance devised by Levee. Equipped with a portable "office" comprised of a table and two folding chairs placed against the subway wall, he initiated the project by inviting commuters to write their secrets into a book. His interest in offering forms of "spontaneous absolution" and "channeling energy into something good" led him to enacting the role of a therapist with whom passersby could share their troubles. Though not licensed as a therapist, Levee's interest in making a positive difference in people's lives, coupled by his natural ability to listen, encouraged him to develop this way of working. The name he chose for his persona as an artist invokes the restorative role of his work by referencing an embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.
The day after the election, anticipating that New Yorkers would need an outlet for their emotions, Levee set up his table in the tunnel that connects the 14th Street stations at Seventh Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas. In addition to his usual props, he brought a supply of pens and sticky notes. On the subway wall above his table he posted a sign with the simple prompt, "Express Yourself." Commuters immediately began to contribute their own messages. Encouraged by the spontaneous participation, he remained in the station until 2 a.m., heading home with over 2,000 notes he took down from the wall. He returned the next day to the same location to discover that commuters, inspired by his example, had started a similar wall of notes at Union Square Station. Within days the project had spread to commuter lines in Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and Toronto. Back in Manhattan, the tunnel of sticky notes had become a destination. Since its dismantling on Dec. 16, 2016, Levee has set up his table and notes at other locations throughout the city as part of his ongoing daily practice.
"I wanted to give people the opportunity to express something without talking about it," said Levee. "I started the project so people could have a channel to express their thoughts, feel less alone, and also become exposed to opinions different from their own. Subway Therapy is about inclusion, stress release, and peaceful expression."
Levee's project represents a hybrid form of communication, an amalgam of crowd-sourced public art, installation, and social practice. While the hand-drawn messages might resemble protest placards, their small scale and ephemeral nature circumvent vitriol, lending them a quiet intimacy appropriate to Levee's aspirations. In the age of social media, Subway Therapy offers an unexpected demonstration of the "viral" in analog form that continues to spread around the globe.
Levee will lecture about the project on March 7, at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Room of the University Commons. His talk—"I don't understand, but I will try. We need each other."— titled after one of the notes, will chronicle the evolution of Subway Therapy, address the importance of human connection in a divided sociopolitical environment, and explore what artist Allan Kaprow called the "blurring between art and life."
Born and raised in Gilroy, California, Levee worked in the fields of art and education before relocating to Brooklyn in 2015. A book about the project, titled Subway Therapy: Voices of Humanity, will be published by Bloomsbury in October 2017.
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Since the 1980′ Eileen Schuller has been involved in editing and publication of the Dead Sea Scrolls. She was assigned a section of texts that belong to the prayers and songs category. She has contributed substantially to the official series Discoveries of the Judean Desert.
Schuller was an associate editor for the two-volume Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Oxford University Press, 2000) and for the five-volume New Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible (2006 to 2010). She is currently working on a commentary on the Hodayot for the Hermeneia series (Augsburg Fortress).
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U.S. corporations, governments and universities reported a record 516 consumer data breaches in the first nine months of this year, incidents prompted chiefly by hackers and employee theft, according to a report released today by a nonprofit group that works to prevent fraud.
The Identity Theft Resource Center, of San Diego, found that this year's data breach tally has easily eclipsed 2007's 446 incidents. At an average of 57 caches of consumer data reported lost or stolen each month, U.S. organizations are on track to divulge at least 680 breaches by the end of 2008.
About 80 percent of the breaches involved digital records, while the remainder stemmed from the loss, theft or exposure of paper-based records. A description of each incident is available in the Identity Theft Resource Center 's 2008 Breach List (PDF).
Some 30 million records on consumers have been exposed so far this year. But experts say that figure almost certainly masks a much larger problem, as there is currently no federal requirement for organizations that experience a data breach or loss to acknowledge precisely how many consumers nationwide may have been affected.
Resource center founder Linda Foley said it's not clear whether there are more breaches, if organizations are getting better at detecting them or if more organizations are simply complying with state data breach notification laws.
At least 40 states now require entities to alert consumers in their states when a data breach has placed residents' personal and financial data at risk of exposure. Yet, in nearly 42 percent of the breaches reported this year, affected entities have not divulged the total number of Americans potentially at risk from the incidents, Foley said.
Consider the breaches that the Identity Theft Resource Center tallied last year: In 2007, 446 incidents exposed more than 127 million consumer records. Yet in 40 percent of those cases, the entities that experienced the breach did not say how many records were affected nationwide. A single omission can skew the numbers dramatically. Nearly three-quarters of those 127 million records were attributable to a single data breach: that of TJX Inc., which operates T.J. Maxx stores, among others.
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These data breaches and thefts are due to a lagging business culture. I found some fresh and original thinking from the author of "IT Wars" - http://www.businessforum.com/DScott_02.html - I urge every business person and IT person, management or staff, to get hold of a copy of "I.T. Wars: Managing the Business-Technology Weave in the New Millennium." It has an excellent chapter on security, and how to scale security for any organization, any budget. It also has a plan template with all considerations. Our CEO has read this book. Our project managers are on their second reading. Our vendors are required to read it (they can borrow our copies if they don't want to purchase it). Any agencies that wish to partner with us: We ask that they read it. Do yourself a favor and read this book – BEFORE you suffer a breach. | What's more, the resource center counts breaches by contractors as a single incident, even when the breach affects a large number of the contractor's clients. For example, Bank of New York Mellon in February said it had lost backup tapes containing names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers on roughly 4.5 million Americans. Following an investigation by Connecticut authorities, the bank acknowledged that as many as 12.5 million records may have been lost. Since the institution administers investment plans for a number of companies, even people who had no direct relationship with the bank received notices from the institution that their personal data was compromised.
"We get calls all the time from people who receive a breach notice from a company they've never done business with directly," Foley said. "Companies that collect information on behalf of other organizations need to take extreme security measures because they have a lot more information at stake."
More than 36 percent of the breaches so far this year have been at U.S. businesses, while educational institutions were the second most frequent source of incidents (21 percent). Breaches attributed to the military or state and federal government declined for the third year running, down from a quarter of all breaches last year to just 16 percent in 2008.
Organizations reported that hacking (13.4 percent) and insider theft (16.5 percent) were the cause of nearly one-third of all breaches this year. Lost or stolen laptops and other digital media storage accounted for 20 percent of breaches, with another 14 percent blamed on accidental exposure, such as the posting of Social Security numbers and other data to a public Web site.
As Brian notes, the actual number is much higher as companies are not reporting the number of victims.
Yet, Stuart K. Pratt, President and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association, recently cited the ITRC study in a letter to the editor of the Orlando Sentinel as an indication that identity theft is declining.
This attempt by some, like Mr. Pratt, to mislead Americans about the continuing ID theft threat and the insecurity of information contained in government and corporate databases should not go unchallenged.
We've seen these incidents enough that I wonder how seriously security is taken. Do we know how many of these involved non-encrypted record loss? It really seems careless if these organizations aren't encrypting hard disk and record level data. They should also implement solutions that limit access to entire datasets to more of a "need to know" system (avoid "insider" data theft). Policies on laptop data (in addition to encryption) should limit (or prohibit) records unless it is legitimately needed.
"... with another 14 percent blamed on accidental exposure ..."
"... Lost or stolen laptops and other digital media storage accounted for 20 percent of breaches ..."
Hacking and insider theft cause ~ 1/3, but they can be fixed. Any progress to report on the stupidity 1/3 ?
We are only told of a fraction of the data breaches. The vast majority are unreported as they are small from a relative perspective such as a mortgage lender that loses or sells a handful of files. How do I know this? I work for a company that deals with victims.
Anyone that does not have a "Total Identity Monitoring" program in place is burying their head in the sand. Many people, in our experience, are already victims prior to the breach from which they were notified. In our experience more than 2/3 of victims were non-credit related, such as illegal aliens using their names for employment. Therefore, anyone wanting to protect themselves needs to choose a solution that monitors more than credit bureaus and does more than a consumer can | 753 |
See a Day in the Life of The Forest Stars Natalie Dormer and Taylor Kinney
There's a reason we included The Forest in our guide to the must-see movies to check out this winter: Not only is the movie inspired by the terrifying real-life mystery of the "suicide forest" in Japan, but it also features a stellar cast, including Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer and Chicago PD's Taylor Kinney. This weekend, the two were in NYC to talk about the film, and they captured their entire day for Glamour's Instagram for a behind-the-scenes look. Check it out, below! First up, Natalie shared a snap of her glam team at work: Hey Everyone! It's Natalie Dormer! I'm getting ready for a busy day promoting my new movie The Forest and I'm excited to<|fim_middle|>:
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Topicsmoviesnatalie dormertaylor kinney | give you a glimpse into my day! #instagramtakeover #theforestisreal - @nataliedormerintheforest A photo posted by Glamour Magazine (@glamourmag) on Dec 13, 2015 at 7:40am PST Meanwhile, Taylor Kinney geared up for a day of interviews: Taylor Kinney here from The Forest press day in #NYC. Getting ready to share more photos with you today. Stay tuned! #theforestisreal @theforestisreal - TK A photo posted by Glamour Magazine (@glamourmag) on Dec 13, 2015 at 8:16am PST Natalie took a second to enjoy the views
By Anna Moeslein
There's a reason we included The Forest in our guide to the must-see movies to check out this winter: Not only is the movie inspired by the terrifying real-life mystery of the "suicide forest" in Japan, but it also features a stellar cast, including Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer and Chicago PD's Taylor Kinney. This weekend, the two were in NYC to talk about the film, and they captured their entire day for Glamour's Instagram for a behind-the-scenes look. Check it out, below!
First up, Natalie shared a snap of her glam team at work:
Meanwhile, Taylor Kinney geared up for a day of interviews:
Natalie took a second to enjoy the views of the city:
Later, Taylor snapped a photo of Natalie as the two headed in to Central Park:
Taylor stopped to pose with fans for pics:
And here's Taylor enjoying the holiday decorations in NYC:
We think he can probably convince costar Natalie for that autograph. ;)
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1) "There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true." 2) "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." 3) "To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often." 4) "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." 5) "The price of greatness is responsibility." 6) "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." 7) "Never hold discussions with the monkey<|fim_middle|> victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult." 44) "When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber." 45) "Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." 46) "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it's also what it takes to sit down and listen." 47) "Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential." 48) "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack."
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Open the box is an open-ended template. It does not generate scores for a leaderboard. | when the organ grinder is in the room." 8) "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." 9) "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." 10) "Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all." 11) "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others." 12) "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." 13) "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." 14) "Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference." 15) "Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts." 16) "If you're going through hell, keep going." 17) "Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others." 18) "You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." 19) "Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." 20) "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. 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The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events." 24) "We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us." 25) "We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." 26) "What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all." 27) "There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions." 28) "There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right." 29) "In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet." 30) "Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions." 31) "It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them." 32) "The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers." 33) "In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable." 34) "All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." 35) "This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." 36) "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." 37) "All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope." 38) "The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are often no longer strong." 39) "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. 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Karl Marx, arguably one of the most influential social and political thinkers of all time, was born 200 years ago. At the height of his influence, people believing in Marxist ideology, in some form or the other, ruled in Russia (the largest landmass in the world), China (the most populous country of the world), most of Eastern Europe, some parts of Asia (the so-called CIS countries which were once parts of USSR; Vietnam, North Korea and three states in India through multi-party democratic elections) and Latin America (Cuba, Venezuela).
No doubt, the popularity of Marxist ideology has gone down even in those countries and states. I will not try to analyse the causes of this decline here.
I would only focus on a single line written by Marx (jointly with Engels) in Communist Manifesto which best summarises the most popular message of Marxism in all parts of the world. The sentence, translated in English goes like this: "Workers of the world unite, for you have nothing to lose but your chains". This clarion call to the workers of the world to unite against capitalists, the common enemy of the working class, was one of the most appealing political slogans of all time.
At the same time, this is where Marxism made the mistake in understanding the evolving reality. There are some very good reasons why all the workers of the world will not unite, in their self interest, against all the capitalists of the world. There is no such thing as homogeneous labour and capital. So, along with the conflict of interest between the wage-earning workers and the profit-earning capitalists within a firm, there exist many kinds of tensions between different types of labour and capital.
A competitive fight goes on between labour in low wage countries (such as China, India, Mexico) and labour in high wage countries (such as the US, Japan, the EU) through international trade and migration. Some workers in some countries are gaining jobs and incomes at the expense of some others.
In this game, a section of American capitalists aligns with Chinese, Indian or Mexican workers while competing with American capital producing in US with US labour in the same products (like steel, cars, cell phones, software).
So, these Chinese/Indian/Mexican workers would not unite with American workers against all American capitalists. They would welcome foreign capital coming to their countries to create jobs for them, even while bargaining better terms with foreign firms (like Apple, IBM, Microsoft, GM or GE) operating factories in China/India/Mexico. This is in addition to workers of different countries competing for the same jobs through temporary or permanent migration to other countries.
Also, workers are more concerned with what similar workers are earning in other competing firms and supervisors (next level which many of them aspire to rise to) are earning within the same firm than what the capitalists or major shareholders (like Ambanis or Tatas) earn. Workers in GM don't care about wages in Google or Facebook (since they belong to non-competing groups with totally different skills). But compensation packages of workers in Ford or Toyota do bother them. Managers, though technically wage/salary earners, find their interests more aligned with the owners of firms as their perks, bonuses and value of stock options are linked to profits of the company.
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Organised vs unorganised
In countries such as India where many organised sector employees can afford to use low paid domestic help, any mandated improvement in wages and working conditions of such unorganised workers would cut into the living standards of the organised sector workers.
Similarly, a rise in the price of, say, steel (brought about by higher import duty on steel) would benefit domestic steel workers as well as the owners of domestic steel companies but would hurt the workers and the capitalists in, say, the domestic car and appliance industries that use steel as an input. Once again, the interests of all workers (and capitalists) even within a country are not aligned in the same direction.
Even in communist Russia and China which were kept largely insulated from international trade and migration, the tensions between different classes of workers — particularly agricultural and industrial — existed. One of the purposes of collective farms (in USSR) or communes (in China) was to extract maximum surplus from agriculture (by keeping agricultural wages low by the co-called 'iron bowl' of community kitchens) to feed industrial labour. In such a situation, one cannot expect agricultural and industrial workers to unite against the capitalists which happened to be the state itself ('state capitalism').
More generally, if terms of trade (prices of agricultural goods relative to industrial goods) move against agriculture, the farmers and agricultural workers lose while industrial workers gain.
Joan Robinson, the distinguished British economist with Marxist leanings, once remarked that exploitation of workers is bad but far worse is when a worker is not exploited at all under capitalism. That means he has no job and income. In other words, an already employed worker, even at low wages, has a lot (his livelihood) to lose, not just his chains, notwithstanding the Marxist slogan.
To conclude, Marx should be given the (unintentional) credit that the fear of Marxist uprising (especially after the communist revolutions in Russia and China) has forced the capitalists and the state to improve the working conditions and the social safety net in many countries of the world. So, in a sense, Marxism has become less relevant partly because of (the success of) Marxism itself.
The writer is a former Professor of Economics, IIM, Calcutta.
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Benthic carbon mineralization in the Atlantic: a synthesis based on in situ data from the last decade
Frank Wenzhofer, Ronnie Glud
Benthic oxygen uptake rates quantified by the use of microsensors and flux chambers over a period of approx. 10 yr were compiled and used to assess the organic carbon mineralization in the central and South Atlantic (35degreesN-50degreesS). Measurements were performed in situ and in the laboratory on recovered sediment cores. In contrast to the laboratory data, both the in situ diffusive (DOU) and total oxygen uptake (TOU) decreased with increasing water depth. The data demonstrated that sediment recovery alter the O-2 microdistribution and affect the measured O-2 uptake rates. The ratio between TOU and DOU, a measure of the benthic fauna-mediated oxygen uptake, decreased from 3 to 4 in shallow and productive areas to around 1 at the deeper sites. The in situ oxygen uptake rates (both diffusive and total) also correlated with the oceanic primary production. Based on the compiled in situ measurements an empirical relation between the surface water primary production (PP, g Cm(-2)yr(-1)), water depth (z,m) and benthic mineralization deduced from the TOU and DOU was established (C-DOU=pp(0.7358)z(-0.3306) (g CM(-2)yr(-1)); C-TOU=PP(1.0466)z(-0.4922) (g CM-2 yr(-1))). These equations were extrapolated to the entire investigated area of the Atlantic. The mineralization mimicked the surface water primary production, with high consumption rates in the upwelling areas. For the entire area (Water depth greater than or equal to 1000 m) the benthic carbon mineralization was between 134 and 168 x 10(12) g C yr(-1) (from C-DOU and C-TOU, respectively), which equals 1.7-2.1% of the surface water primary production. These rates are higher than previous estimates of benthic carbon mineralization in deep-sea sediments. Integrated for the investigated area of the Atlantic the benthic fauna-mediated carbon mineralization accounted for 35 x 10(12)g Cyr(-1) (or 21% of the total mineralization rate). Using our relations to calculate the organic carbon flux through the 1000 m depth horizon revealed that between 212 and 333 x 10(-12) C yr(-1) sink below this depth horizon, of which 63% and 51% is remineralized in the sediments. Particulate organic carbon fluxes obtained from sediment trap data cannot support either the measured or extrapolated benthic mineralization. The areal distribution of the oxygen penetration depth (OPD) for the investigated a rea of the Atlantic was estimated from the relation between the in situ C-DOU and OPD measurements (OPD = 114,6968 C-DOU-0.7541 (mm)). (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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COMMUNITY OXYGEN-CONSUMPTION
EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC
PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY
CONTINENTAL-MARGIN
TIME-SERIES
DEEP-SEA SEDIMENTS
DIFFUSIVE BOUNDARY-LAYERS
PARTICULATE ORGANIC-CARBON
CALCITE DISSOLUTION
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Wenzhofer, F., & Glud, R. (2002). Benthic carbon mineralization in the Atlantic: a synthesis based on in situ data from the last decade. DEEP-SEA RES PT I, 49(7), 1255-1279. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(02)00025-0
Wenzhofer, Frank ; Glud, Ronnie. / Benthic carbon mineralization in the Atlantic : a synthesis based on in situ data from the last decade. In: DEEP-SEA RES PT I. 2002 ; Vol. 49, No. 7. pp. 1255-1279.
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Since 2004, it starts in Dětmarovice. A mountain stage is competed in Kuźnia Raciborska. The finish to the final stage is located in Orlová.
Honours
Jerseys
As of the 2013 edition:
denotes the rider leading the race overall
denotes the rider leading the Points classification
denotes the rider leading the Mountains classification
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Cycle races in the Czech Republic
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Recurring sporting events established in 1987
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I was going down the path on my 2004 crf80 and all of a sudden the bike acted like it was out of gas so i put it on reserve and that didnt help so i came home and put gas in it and still did the same thing. So i cleaned carb, cleaned the spark plug, cleaned the air filter, adusted the valves and cam chain and none of it helped. When its sitting there idling it runs fine but when i put it in gear and ride it and give it throttle it has no power. It acts like its out of gas when its not and i know for a fact<|fim_middle|> plugged pilot. It only take a few minutes to rule it out. It's always my go to first item.
What did you come up with.....................??? | that its getting gas cause i made sure. Maybe someone up here has had the same problem and can help me figure this out.
You may be loosing secondary ignition spark. I've seen ignition coils, spark plug wires, and plugs that will let spark through with no load on the engine, but twist the throttle, and the resistance goes up, and spark may go away.
Not sure, but you may have a spark plug wire end cap that screws onto the spark plug wire. It would be suspect too if there is a spark problem.
The magneto is a primary electrical signal, and generally isn't affected by heavy engine loads, but is on the list of suspects.
Your ignition module would be suspect too, but near the bottom of the list.
Everything is on the list when your diagnosing. Some near the top, and some near the bottom.
Cleaning the spark plug is fine, but if it is fouled, it can spark at low engine loads, but loose spark when you twist the throttle.
The first thing I would do is pull the pilot out and blow compressed air though it. Then hold it up to the light and make sure I can see through it. 90% of the time it gets plugged. Then, maybe if that doesn't work check plug, cap, plug wire, or ground. But, I can't over emphasize enough about the pilot.
Problem is it's idling ok............with a plugged pilot it wouldn't want (have fuel) to idle.
Very true, but I have had it happen many times where idles, then have a big bog as you roll it on. Once, it was the filter. But pretty much every other time it was the pilot. I never really gave it much thought because it always worked (90% or the time). So idk, maybe the side holes are one the sides give enough fuel to idle. But at the same time a lot of the time it just doesn't start. But good catch Al.
Which side holes are you referring to.......? Sounds like it may not be a carb problem.
May not be a carb problem, which is why I list a bunch of other things. But could be a partially | 448 |
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Adidas Shackle Shoe: Stylish Sneaker or Slavery Shout Out?
Nothing shows a company's brand management prowess better than a good, old-fashioned controversy. Over the past few months, big-time brands have used social media and online marketing to put out major media fires. This week, shoemaker and apparel giant Adidas extinguished a blaze set by a new shoe — after the public outcry that the footwear was reminiscent of slavery shackles — by pulling the product off the market. But was this a politically correct move to keep consumers happy, a savvy public relations-created controversy to get the line of shoes more press or a little bit of both?
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott is known for being cutting edge and a little bit kooky. His designs are often thought of as cartoonish, bold and whimsical. But rarely is his work thought of as polarizing or racially charged. That all changed on Monday when Adidas announced it was pulling a shoe Scott designed off the market. The JS Roundhouse Mid, as they were called, were a pair of Adidas hightops which featured a pair of plastic cuffs and chains.
A Twitter outrage quickly arose after the shoe's introduction, with many calling the sneakers "slavery shoes." The shoes were soon the hot topic among fashion bloggers and political bloggers alike, one of which decried the shoes as "a product of rappers glamorizing criminal behavior & prison for years." The stink arose when Adidas posted a picture of the shoes on the brand's Facebook page featuring the caption, "Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?" After hundreds of complaints, Adidas folded and announced it was taking the shoe off the market.
But the company stood by Scott and his creativity, saying in a statement, "the design of the JS Roundhouse Mid is nothing more than the designer Jeremy Scott's outrageous and unique take on fashion and has nothing to do with slavery." After all, Scott's other designs for the brand featured shoes with a stuffed gorilla and silver wings. Scott himself says the shackle shoes were inspired by '80s toy My Pet Monster.
Many in fashion have poo-pooed the whole controversy, while marketing peeps are rightfully asking when the last time was that anything by Adidas generated so much publicity. But readers, what do you think? Are the shackle shoes racist or just really great for PR? Sound off below!
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Copyright © 2019 Brandsplat | All rights reserved. | this week. After all, it's the first tablet of its size, and one experts say could take a big bite out of the iPad's sales. Yet news of fires and Obamacare kind of took the wind of its sails. Still, we think this branding story is worth watching. As tablet tech gets cheaper to produce, brands are bound to get more competitive — and so will the marketing.
3.) Poetic Post-Its: Brandflakes for Breakfast pointed out this great viral music video by The Family Bones early last month. It's worth the watch if you missed it because it's incredibly creative — and it's a great accidental commercial for Post-Its. Animated Post-Its express the sweet sentiment of the song while viewers are left humming the tune on their way to Staples to pick up some more of the handy slips of paper.
4.) Apps in Time of Crisis: The Colorado wildfires are undoubtedly a national disaster and a real tragedy. But as is often the case, an inventive person uses horrific events like this to help others. Colorado Springs-based programmer Robbie Trencheny came up with a web app to help track the wildfires so area residents knew where they were and how long they had before they needed to evacuate. It's always inspiring to see developers use technology to help mankind, especially in times of need.
5.) News Breaking Blogger: And finally, we'd like to tip our hat to 81-year-old Supreme Court blogger Lyle Denniston, who was the first news source to break the story of the Supreme Court's decision on the health care law. Denniston shows that blogs can actually be reliable news outlets while proving that you're never too old to create headlines.
Filed Under: Blog Content Management, Blog Marketing, Brand Engagement, Digital Engagement, Facebook Management, Facebook Marketing, Five Things You Might Have Missed, Online Brand Management, Online Marketing, Social Media Management, Twitter Management, Twitter Marketing, Video Content, Viral Marketing Tagged With: Social Media Marketing, Twitter marketing
Tweeting at Work on the Rise, New Study Says
We suspected it all along. You're on Twitter when you're supposed to be working! We are, too — but we're Twitter marketing ninjas, so it's allowed. As for you, well… you're totally busted (and totally not alone). A new study reports that Twitter use at work is on the rise, while Facebook use has dropped.
Twitter is quickly becoming the new at-work time killer of choice, according to Palo Alto Networks, a computer-security appliance firm that analyzed Internet traffic at more than 2,036 organizations around the globe between November 2011 and May 2012. Facebook, according to the study, is still the most popular social network for people to use on the job, but maybe not for much longer. Facebook use fell significantly during the six-month time period from 54 percent of total at-work social networking to 37 percent. Twitter, on the other hand, jumped from 11 percent of workday social networking use to an impressive 21 percent. Pinterest and Tumblr also pulled in respectable numbers for at-work usage.
This new study seems to be on par with what social media marketing types have seen firsthand within our industry. The at-work social media user is looking for a more casual relationship with social media and one that doesn't require all of their personal information. Knowing this, Twitter's surge in popularity makes perfect sense, since tweeting makes it easier for users and brands alike to achieve a more casual interaction. It'll be interesting to see how the modern employee's relationship with social media continues to develop.
Readers, what do you think? Is social media usage at work a big no-no? Or do you think it's inevitable, so we might as well market to them? Tell us your thoughts in the comments!
Filed Under: Twitter Management, Twitter Marketing Tagged With: Social Media Marketing, twitter for business, twitter management, Twitter marketing
The Rainbow Cookie Connection: How Oreo Rocked Facebook Marketing
We've been talking a lot about the ever-changing face of Facebook marketing in these pages. But who knew one little rainbow cookie could say so much more than we ever could. On Monday, Oreo placed a photo of a gay pride version of its top-selling cookie and within hours, it's become the summer's most-talked-about Facebook marketing campaign.
The now-famous image featured a multi-layered Oreo with the creme centers in different colors of the rainbow. The cookie appeared above the date-June 25 and the word "pride" with the caption "Proudly support love." If you were on Facebook on Monday, chances are you saw this image spread around the site at a lightening speed. This perfect example of Facebook marketing for business garnered a staggering 172,577 likes. But the real magic for Oreo happened in the comments section. What we social media marketing types pray for is engagement and the rainbow cookie got that and then some. An unfathomable 23,600 comments flooded the post. The image landed itself on the national news and the gay pride cookie was soon a hotbed for debate over marriage equality, the Bible and everything in between. The post was even shared over 50,000 times.
Talking heads debated if Oreo had a place getting involved in Gay Pride issues and blah blah blah. Oreo was really only doing what other brands like Coors and Absolute have done for years: Use the gay pride month of June to say "Hey LGBT people! If you love cookies, we love you back. You money spends the same." Brands supporting gay rights (aka human rights) is a great thing. And leave it to a social media maverick like Oreo to develop Facebook-specific campaigns to get their followers talking. We say, long live brand Facebook engagement! Hooray for love! And pass the cookies.
Filed Under: Facebook Management, Facebook Marketing, News Tagged With: Facebook for Business, Facebook marketing, Social Media Marketing
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Who Are You? Changing Your Blog Identity
By the time most of us marketers are knee-deep in a blog content management strategy, a definite blog identity has been crafted. Just yesterday, we talked about how a blog's greatest asset is the personality of both the business and the blogger. This identity is formed with a unique language rich in all the right keywords while staying true to our core beliefs as a brand. But what happens when this identity changes? Does our brand and our blog lose followers or will people stick with us through thick and thin?
We started thinking about matters of blog identity last week. Popular atheist blogger Leah Libresco shocked her readers when she announced she was converting to Christianity. Libresco has led lively discussions about atheism via her blog for faith and spirituality on the Patheos platform for the last two years. Libresco stared blogging about atheism and faith while she was dating a Catholic. But her well-worn image as an atheist blogger disappeared with one blog post.
"I was ready to admit that there were parts of Christianity and Catholicism that seemed like a pretty good match for the bits of my moral system that I was most sure of, while meanwhile my own philosophy was pretty kludged together and not particularly satisfactory," she wrote last Monday when she announced her blog would now be found on the Catholicism section on Patheos.
Libresco and her blog have made national news. CNN reports her writing receives some 5,000 views a day and the number has bumped up since the announcement.
In some ways, a journey like Libresco's is a personal one and one most corporate blog writing specialists wouldn't have to worry about. But in others, her sudden switch is exactly the kind of thing brands face all the time. From image overhauls to mass employee turnovers, companies big and small face major changes in identity on a regular basis. A writer like Libresco would be wise to start pitching her well-read journey to book publishers turning this major change into a goldmine. For brands, changing the blog identity can also be profitable. A well-thought-out blog makeover in both content and style can bring in new readers and infuse new life in your blog.
So, readers, we'll ask you: When do you know it's time for a blog makeover? And has a blogger's identity change ever turned you off as a reader? Sound off below!
Filed Under: Blog Content Management, Blog Marketing, Online Marketing Tagged With: Blog content management, blog creation
Blog Like the Big Brands: JetBlue
Many businesses are drawn to blog marketing because of its seamless and effective ability to introduce readers to a company's core values. Within a few well-written posts, readers can really get to know how a brand ticks. A good corporate blog can talk about your company's charitable causes, new safety campaigns and awards and accolades without being boring to read. This week, Blog Like the Big Brands turns its eyes on JetBlue.
The quirky airline is a beloved and trusted brand and its blog, BlueTales, stays true to that image while talking about things the company cares about. BlueTales isn't filled with juicy stories of misbehaving passengers and behind-the-scenes drama. Instead, JetBlue uses its blog to paint the picture of a brand that has a good time, is always innovating for its customers and even makes time to do right for mankind.
A recent entry entitled "JetBlue Takes Time with Tots" profiled a visit to an Orlando nursery by JetBlue pilots and crew members. Other entries talk about new services, celebrity sightings, environmental efforts and employee profiles. The style of BlueTales is the chatty, friendly and informative language the brand uses in its traditional advertising and social media marketing. The blog is clearly meant as an online magazine for both employees and customers of JetBlue who want to see what the brand's been up to.
It's a simple format that works and one that can work for you, too. Blogging so followers get to know your brand is great place to start for nearly any size company. Blog about new employees, community involvement, favorite causes and procedure changes that will help your customers. To keep it from turning dry or clinical, infuse your posts with personality and humor like JetBlue does. There's no need to overdo this kind of thing, but you don't want your words to put readers to sleep, either. Just remember the majority of the big brands we talk about in these pages got to be big by having a distinct personality; that's a trait every blogging-for-business expert can tap into.
Filed Under: Blog Content Management, Blog Marketing, Brand Engagement Tagged With: Blog Marketing, blogging for business
Twitter marketing meltdowns! Juicy blog writing plagiarism scandal! A dirty old broad selling beer! All of this and even more exclamation points in this week's edition of the Five Things You Might Have Missed!
1. Gimme Pizza: Let's Pizza, that mind-blowing fresh pizza vending machine with the gangbusters global viral video, is coming to America. News hit our shores this week that the miracle vending machine from A1 Concepts will be stateside later this year. OK, so Americans don't need yet another way to get fat. But don't pretend your inner 10-year-old isn't excited to see this magic pizza maker in person.
2. The Lehrer of His Ways: Jonah Lehrer, the author of the bestselling book Imagine: How Creativity Works, committed a blogging blunder this week when he padded a post with previously-published content. The twist? Lehrer got busted for recycling content he'd written for last October's Wall Street Journal in the June 12 edition of the New Yorker. By Tuesday afternoon, Lehrer had apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again. It's a 21st century blogging issue for sure and we doubt Lehrer is the first or last to "borrow" from himself.
3. Meet Ethel: Using a raunchy old lady to sell a microbrew from Brooklyn doesn't sound like the world's most original idea. And it's not. What's more, the company's line of comedic hooey on how this grandma got into business is as believable as a conversation with Mrs. Butterworth. Still, we've gotta give Ethel's Brew major props for great digital branding and kick ass online marketing. Since its debut earlier this month, Ethel's Brew and its randy senior citizen spokeswoman have ignited Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, and beer bloggers can't stop talking. Not bad for an 88-year-old.
4. #Donations: Politicians are just cuckoo about Twitter, so leave it to those crafty marketers to use it to get more donations! Politico reported this week that both sides of the election will be rolling out Twitter-based donation programs via the new startup Chirpify.
5. Redditors Do Right: We round out this week's fivesome with a story of how one brutal video inspired Reddit users to chip in. The now-famous video, which features a school bus monitor being violently harassed by a student, prompted Redditor Max Sidorov to start a fundraising campaign via Indiegogo. Sidorov and his cyber buddies have raised more than $200,000, a gigantic amount more than the $5,000 goal to send the woman on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. That's social media marketing we can really get behind.
Filed Under: Blog Content Management, Blog Marketing, Brand Engagement, Brandcasting, Digital Engagement, Facebook Management, Facebook Marketing, Five Things You Might Have Missed, Online Brand Management, Online Marketing, Twitter Management, Twitter Marketing, Video Content, Viral Marketing Tagged With: Blog Writing, Twitter marketing
Facebook Marketing Works. Maybe You're Just Doing it Wrong.
We can't speak for you, but we're just about exhausted by all of this "It's the end of Facebook marketing as we know it!" talk. Sure, maybe the bubble has burst on the usefulness of Facebook advertising, and maybe the demographic of Facebook users is changing. But that doesn't mean it still doesn't have its merits when it comes to being an incredibly effective marketing tool.
For example, no social network platform is better at simply being a social network than Facebook. With that one billion users mark right around the corner, Facebook is unbeatable when it comes to the sheer number of people brands can be in touch with. But what marketers are slowly discovering is that Facebook users don't want a hard sell. They want a long conversation. Recently, we've used Facebook for different clients to reach out to their audiences. Facebook is a great place to run by new products, specials and programs while getting the input of the people who already love your company. There's no other site that gives you instant access to consumers' thoughts, so why not get inside their heads and use the tool in a more thoughtful way? Research continues to show that Facebook users don't dump brands who are willing to actually talk to them. This shift back to using Like pages for brand-consumer interaction is great news for local independent businesses.
And ads, as much as they don't work for big brands on Facebook, are truly hit and miss for the little guys. Instead, small companies can drop the intense selling tactics and talk to their loyal following. But the Catch 22 with this return to conversational social media marketing is this: Instead of blasting ads that we hope users will respond to, we now need | 3,196 |
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Raising Dion does not currently have a release date. | If the Internet is good for something, it's helping indie projects and their creators get the recognition and funding they deserve. Raising Dion started off as a short video (seen below) and comic that is now set to get its on ten-episode Netflix series.
Created by Dennis Liu, the story follows Nicole, a single mother as she raises her son Dion, a young boy with a seemingly endless array of powers, like making fire, teleporting, telekinesis, and more. However, she becomes increasingly aware that people want her capture her sons for nefarious purposes. But worst of all, Dion might be his own worst enemy, showing some dark tendencies among the the goodness in his heart. His mother sees it as her job to steer him in the right direction, as well as protect him from the rest of the world.
The short appeared two years ago, followed swiftly by a comic adaptation that goes further into Nicole's backstory and how Dion came to be. Michael B. Jordan is already set with a supporting role, with Barbee as the showrunner and executive producer along with Liu, and Michael Green | 224 |
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What I Learned Working On If Beale Street Could Talk
The writer-director of the forthcoming All These Small Moments shares wisdom from being part of the art department on Barry Jenkins' latest.
By Melissa B. Miller Costanzo | January 17, 2019
Melissa B. Miller Costanzo
Melissa B. Miller Costanzo's first feature as a writer-director, All These Small Moments, starring Molly Ringwald, Brian d'Arcy James and Jemima Kirke, had its world premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and will be in select theaters from January 17 and on demand and digital HD on January 18. Working in the art department on such award winning films as Indignation, The Fighter, and Precious, she developed an eye for detail and a perspective defined by experience. Her first feature as a producer was The Tested, starring Aunjanue Ellis, which was accepted to the prestigious IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab and Emerging Narratives at IFP Film Week and took home the top prize at the American Black Film Festival.
A few months after I had watched, along with the whole nation, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway fumbling through one of the biggest kerfuffles in Oscar history, I got a call from production designer Mark Friedberg to see if I was available to be the art department coordinator on Barry Jenkins' next film, If Beale Street Could Talk. He had me at "Jenkins." Moonlight had just won Best Picture, but I had also been aware of Barry from his first film, Medicine for Melancholy, and loved the lyrical way he told a story.
Barry Jenkins is talented. But we all already know that. Barry is also a genuinely kind person. The first time I met him, he joyfully walked into the art department holding a tray of teetering coffees, offering them to us like we were old friends. It's the first thing I mention to people when they ask me how it was to work on Beale Street. But even better than the anecdote itself, was the fact that this was not an isolated incident. He did this often.
And the respect Barry showed to his colleagues played out in other ways as well. He never made me feel like I was "non-essential." He acknowledged me every time he came into the art department office and made me feel a part of things.
Barry was inclusive. I watched him listen. Like, really listen. When there would be a walk-through of a set, or discussions over a model that had been built, I'd watch him and D.P. James Laxton nod their heads and watch as Mark presented his ideas. I never saw them interrupt. When they responded, it came from a place of having taken in the information that was given to them. I never saw these guys wait to talk.
I've observed over the years that a common mistake filmmakers can fall prey to, is to underutilize the power of design. Mark creates fluidity in his design; a visual arc. The worlds he creates are as much of a journey as the story. From watching Barry Jenkins work, I could tell how much he cared about that. That the environments he put his characters into were just as important to him as the narrative.
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Barry Jenkins and the Fearless, Heartbreaking Honesty of Moonlight | wonderful example of this in Beale Street is the Bank Street Flat set. I loved how Mark's design incorporated so much of Fonny's woodwork. Some pieces unfinished, some just starting out. They were works in progress, not dissimilar to Tish and Fonny's relationship.
In an article Mark wrote for the Art Director's Guild, he discussed wanting to connect Fonny's art to "a freer energy, to his curiosity and to his life on the streets of the city." He continued: "To that end, his art was devised as an assemblage of found objects, as well as the carving of raw wood all splattered with paint. This led to open and expressive sculptures that often found Fonny hammering together and chiseling wood, trying to find life in the materials, or create life by juxtaposing them."
That immersive way of thinking is maybe what I value most about my time watching their partnership. How Barry and Mark worked so well together to create backstory that wasn't on the page. All these layers helped to inform who the characters were and made them feel real to us.
Fonny's artist studio apartment on Banks Street from If Beale Street Could Talk (Image by Mark Friedberg)
From the art that hung in Tish's family home, to the tablecloth in Fonny's flat, each piece was layered in intent. The amount of research that went into every set and location was astounding. Any time I visited set, I felt like I had walked through a time portal. Every knick knack had its own story. The artist the film's decorator Kris Moran found to represent Fonny's art, Valerie Maynard, even knew James Baldwin when she was coming up. That was the kind of magic that surrounded this shoot.
When I made the hexagonal leap from art department to director (which I'll admit is a trajectory not explained with ease!), I found that attention to detail helped immensely when looking at things through the director's lens. The skills are not too different from one another, actually. Both are about embracing the power of visual storytelling, and the richness that can be found between the lines.
Art people say I think like a director, producers say I think like a designer. I'd say both are true. To be decisive and have a clear vision are both emblematic of the craft.
If I may add an addendum to the above, a clear vision is only advantageous if paired with an open mind. Sometimes, if you are too set in your ways, you can miss out on an opportunity to make something better. Think of a clear vision as a base. Once you have that base, you've freed yourself up to go in different directions.
So what did I learn? First and foremost, respect has a real long reach. Surround yourself with people who know more than you in their specialized field, so they can bend with you but also save you from breaking.
And, arguably, the most important, is that coffee tastes best when someone else buys it for you.
Main image: Melissa B. Miller Costanzo talks with Brian d'Arcy James on the set of All These Small Moments.
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| part_meronyms and member_meronyms in WordNet from NLTK? I've been playing around with the NLTK WordNet package but was quite confused with the different methods for Synsets.
I understand the meaning of meronym / holonyms and hypernym / hyponyms.
But in NLTK WordNet, there are part_meronyms and member_meronyms, and instance_hypernyms and hypernyms.
It seems that part_meronyms is returning the meronyms of a Synset and hypernyms is the method to use. But what's the difference? There also seems to be no documentation on the NLTK website.
A: A meronym is some component of a larger whole, that can represent the whole semantically. Since this is a vast relationship, nltk divides the meronym categories into part-representing whole(part_meronyms()), and substance-representing whole(substance_meronyms()).
tree = wn.synset('tree.n.01')
tree.part_meronyms()
>>>[Synset('burl.n.02'), Synset('crown.n.07'), Synset('limb.n.02'), Synset('stump.n.01'), Synset('trunk.n.01')]
tree.substance_meronyms()
>>>[Synset('heartwood.n.01'), Synset('sapwood.n.01')]
Hypernyms are not related to meronyms categorically. A given Synset's hypernym list contains all Synsets one depth level lower than the target Synset in the word tree.
wordnet.synsets("placental")[0].hypernyms()
>>> [Synset('mammal.n.01')]
Meronym example taken from here:
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Breville Juicers make a healthy diet not only possible but highly convenient. We can just throw in anything we want to consume inside the machine and it will serve it to us in a concentrated form. We could make a large batch in the morning and place it in a pitcher for whole day consumption. We can even take some to school or to the office. Drinking is definitely easier than eating. We are more likely to take in large volumes of oranges in liquid form than to eat the same amount without processing. It's the tediousness that gets in the way. The fiber also makes us fill full event if we haven't really had much so we stop prematurely.
We can get a pure juice of any single source but it is definitely more fun to mix and match different items to come up with exciting flavors. Play with the ingredients and their ratios to suit your taste. Drown out bitter items with more natural sweetness. Add leafy greens with apples and pears. Don't be afraid to make experiments as this is the best way to discover what works and what doesn't. You can always make a different batch if you are unhappy with the results. Try to take notes about what you did so that you can repeat the recipes you like later on.
By making your own juices at home, you are guaranteed freshness every single time. You need not worry about the ingredients unlike the ones available at the grocery store. Those are all filled with sugar, artificial food coloring, and lots of preservatives. They are not good for your health and are likely to make you fat. Stick with this healthy habit that you have complete control over. Read Breville juicer reviews to get some idea of what's available on the market.
When choosing the best drill press for a job, it helps to first know why they are often a better choice than standard hand-held drills.
Their main advantage is the mechanical advantage offered to the operator meaning that less physical effort<|fim_middle|> catering over the phone. Chipotle catering prices are on the higher side but your guests will love the quality, tastes and flavors of foods. The company takes great care in how the food ingredients are sourced. It uses only fresh ingredients without any artificial fillers or flavors. There are not too many ingredients in one dish. The basic raw ingredients let you enjoy their delectable flavors and tastes. The ingredients are sourced from the farms and not the factories. Animals are allowed to roam freely in the barn. The idea is to source ingredients in the most humanly, eco friendly and natural way. It is due to these reasons that chipotle continues to enjoy high popularity among food lovers. | is required. Secondly is the extra security provided by the clamp or vise on the table. Next is the accuracy and consistency of the drilled holes resulting from the spindle's angle being fixed relative to the table. Finally is the incorporation of powerful motors in drill presses that enables the use of larger drill bits and also the speeding up of drilling with smaller bits.
When deciding which is the best drill press for your needs, you first need to be aware of the different types available on the market and their specific uses. The three most common ones are the bench top drill press, portable drill press and small drill press.
The bench top drill press is capable of drilling very quickly and its numerous spindles makes it very user-friendly whether you are using it on plastic, wood or metal. The portable version, meanwhile, is electric and cordless — using rechargeable batteries for power. They are easily adjusted and dexterous for ideal use in difficult to get to places such as at right-angles. The small drill press is basically a miniature version of the bench-top, but it isn't incorporated with an adjustable table for the work surface.
So what do you need to consider before purchasing?
The most obvious thing is its horsepower. If you need to drill through a tough material, or just a bigger hole, greater power will improve the speed and effectiveness of the drill's performance. Also linked to this is the number of velocity speeds. Some simple jobs may require a quicker drilling speed, while other jobs may be more intricate requiring precision and slower speeds. You will also need to consider the "bit" parameters. There is no point having a drill with a short bit if you need to drill a deep hole!
Although drill presses were originally used for creating holes in metals, rest assured that they are available for all of the most common materials such as wood and plastic. Each type of drill is designed for ultimate accuracy specific to the material involved. There should be little or no guesswork involved. Just ensure that you establish the exact diameter of the hole you are creating and the type of material. Then set the depth of the hole.
With the number of options available, the best drill press for your job is easily attainable and will make a once messy and laborious job much easier.
Choosing the right type of espresso machine, whether for business or domestic use is very important. Nobody wants to regret later. To start with, check what online Automatic Espresso Machine Reviews have to say about the product or brand.
Do you wish to be making a couple of coffees daily or occasionally when a slightly larger group visits? If convenience and speed is among your top priorities, then look for an espresso machine that falls into the more automated and programmable categories. Almost all of the steps required in the brewing are automated which means you will not have to labor too much filling the coffee beans into the hopper and turning it on.
If you happen to acquire a model that's easy in terms of usage but one that is a real pain when it comes to cleaning, then after all it's not actually that convenient. Ensure you get a prior idea of what the cleaning process entails before you buy the espresso machine. Typically, the more components and features the machine comes with, the longer it is likely to take you in cleaning.
The majority of higher-end espresso models will normally have a warranty. You can use the warranty period to give you an idea about the product durability. Based on particular brand reviews, it's possible to get a clearer picture of just how long the product can be relied upon to function optimally or last.
Check Automatic Espresso Machine Reviews on what customers have said about their experiences when dealing with diverse brands whenever they needed assistance. A good thing to check is if the customers indicate that they've used the machines for many years without ever needing any assistance.
The final deciding factor, just like with any product is your budget. Espresso machines price ranges are huge. In some of the higher end models, you will be paying more for quality of materials, durability or the extra features.
Among the most critical aspects to check when looking for the right espresso machine is the brand quality. Particularly when you are parting with some good money, you want to be sure that you are buying into a trusted brand. Perhaps, if you're not too sure regarding what it takes or what you exactly want out of your espresso cup, you could always begin with a less complicated machine and upgrade later after mastering the art.
Chipotle serves Mexican inspired foods. It offers a wide range of tacos, burritos, bowls and chips. You can order from them for your party or guests. They take catering orders for 20-200 people. Your party guests will love the Mexican varieties of foods. Chipotle catering prices are somewhat on the higher side compared to what other fast food restaurants charge. However, high cost is not a big problem due to their better quality tasty foods.
There are four Chipotle catering menu options. The Two Meat Spread starts at $12 per person. The Big Spread starts at $13.50 per person. The Burritos by the Box will cost you $8.75 per person. There are two options with Chips and Salsa Spreads. The Big Chip Spread box for serving 10-15 people costs $40. The Bigger Chip Spread box that can serve 15-20 people costs $55.
In case of Two Meat Spread, you can choose two types of meats from the options of chicken, steak, barbacoa, carnitas and sofritas. This spread will include brown or white rice, pinto or black beans, and other items like sore cream, salsas and guacamole. You can create your personal favorite taco or bowl. The Big Spread lets you choose three types of Meats from the available options. You can also add fajita vegetables. If sufficient space is not available to set up the spread, use Burritos by the Box. You are free to mix and match a combination of meat and chips. It will include sore cream, green chilli salsa and guacamole. Use chips and salsa if you plan to serve a great snack to your guests. It includes chips, guacamole and hot salsa.
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Sweltering in the summer heat? Cool off with a visit to the Web gallery at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. Among its offerings are two dozen black-and-white photos of glaciers, such as curvy Barnard Glacier, Alaska, in July 1957, striped with lanes of ice and debris. The pictures, from an American Geographical Society collection of 10,000 images dating to the 1880s, are occasionally used by scientists to see how fast glaciers are growing or shrinking. Other images include satellite photos chronicling the dramatic breakup since 1995 of the Larsen B ice shelf in Antarctica—possibly a result of local climate warming—and nifty animations of sea ice waxing and waning at the two poles.
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In a tour de force for translating languages by computer, six people in six countries speaking in six tongues have carried on a spontaneous conversation electronically, without any human interpreters. On 22 July, Carnegie Mellon University scientists and colleagues from five other countries in the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR) held a video conference (via digital phone lines) to demonstrate new computer translation technology. Posing as travel agents and tourists, the scientists chatted about trips they planned to take to each other's countries—from Pittsburgh to Kyoto, for example—while computers instantly translated.
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"We want to make sure that people are communicating correctly to each other and not necessarily word by word," says Alex Waibel, director of C-STAR (http://www.c-star.org/). Currently, the technology is limited to travel, as the world's huge travel industry will probably be the main market for it, Waibel says. The software to use the system, he says, should become available within 5 years.
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Government of Alberta posts request for information to explore the possibility of using solar energy to meet half of its energy needs, replacing existing green energy contracts that are set to expire.
The government of Alberta, a province in Western Canada, has this week posted a Request for Information (RFI) to obtain advice on the feasibility of using solar energy to power 50% of government operations.
Despite being Canada's fourth-most populous province, Alberta currently has very minimal solar capacity installed, with the bulk of PV progress in the country currently centered largely on Ontario. However, with existing green energy contracts set to expire by the end of next year, ministers have eyed solar energy as a clean way to generate the 135,000 MWh of power required under the two green energy contracts.
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I read with great interest your excellent essay for today on "Integrating Classical Natural Law and Libertarian Theory." I wonder, though, whether the criticisms of Rothbard given in Carlo Lottieri's essay, which you quote, are correct.
Lottieri suggests that Murray, in contrast to Leoni, neglects the contextual nature of law. Unlike Leoni, Murray sought to devise a libertarian law code that would cover all contingencies. Precisely the opposite is the case. In his essay on pollution, he emphasizes the role of custom and precedent in applying law.
Also, Murray wrote an essay praising Leoni for his emphasis on judge-made law, as opposed to legislative law. In Rothbard's view, though, judge-made law must be evaluated by the standard of natural law, interpreted in a libertarian way. Rothbard's view expresses exactly the dependence of libertarianism on cultural conditions that you have done so much in your excellent essays to emphasize.
I always enjoy your essays. You are shedding much-needed light on difficult issues, and all of your readers are in your debt.
Is the author suggesting that Rothbard's "libertarian code" was not rooted in Aristotle and Aquinas? In the "Ethics of Liberty" Rothbard repeatedly draws inspiration from both.
ATL offered several other critiques of Lottieri's piece, along with evidence as to his statements.
ATL, I was careful to present the position as that of the author and not mine, and I appreciate that you took it this way. I think the author could have made all of the same (very valuable) arguments without the Rothbard stuff - maybe I should have done the same.
But then, I would not have received some great feedback from one of the giants in our community, pointing me to a couple of Rothbard pieces that set the record straight, if you will.
I intend to write about this in the coming days, as I feel I owe it to Murray!
There are many actions against which it is not considered appropriate to use violence, individual or organized…but few think<|fim_middle|> to work [..]" | of using violence to enjoin or combat them.
There must be some standard, some precedent, some baseline, separating the "few" who would think about using violence to enjoin such things vs. those who would not.
If ethics is a normative discipline that identifies and classifies certain sets of actions as good or evil, right or wrong, then tort or criminal law is a subset of ethics identifying certain actions as appropriate for using violence against them.
Rothbard's use of "ethics" in deriving law is inherently the use of "custom" to define law.
…the true jurist or legal philosopher has not completed his task until he sets forth what the law should be, difficult though that might be.
Begging the question – which Rothbard has seemingly already answered: through what lens, through what filter? The lens, the filter, is ethics – which derives from custom.
Thus, the Austinian jurists proclaim that the king, or sovereign, is supposed to lay down the law, and the law is purely a set of commands emanating from his will.
What is an "Austinian jurist"?
John Austin (3 March 1790 – 1 December 1859) was a noted English legal theorist who strongly influenced British and American law with his analytical approach to jurisprudence and his theory of legal positivism. In opposing traditional "natural law" approaches, Austin argued against any necessary connections between law and morality.
Even the older concept that the law should be determined by tribal or common-law judges, who are merely interpreting the custom of the tribe or society, cannot escape normative judgments basic to the theory.
Why must the rules of custom be obeyed? If tribal custom requires the murder of all people over six feet tall, must this custom be obeyed regardless?
In the Germanic tradition, law was addressed via a filter of "old and good." The oldest customs; only good customs. "Oldest" was objectively determined (as best as could be the case given the lack of – and sometimes fabricated – documentation as we would understand it today); "good" was based on some standard – and this is the critical point in answering Rothbard's question. How does Rothbard answer it?
Why cannot reason lay down a set of principles to challenge and overthrow mere custom and tradition?
There is that pesky word…reason. "Reason" allowed for slavery in pre-Christian and post-Reformation Europe; "reason" disallowed slavery in Medieval Europe. How is one to filter reason?
The normative principle I am suggesting for the law is simply this: No action should be considered illicit or illegal unless it invades, or aggresses against, the person or just property of another. Only invasive actions should be declared illegal, and combated with the full power of the law. The invasion must be concrete and physical.
He further offers examples that coincide well with the idea of custom and tradition: how to decide between the polluter and the neighbor? The answer will be found via determining who was there first. How about between the airport and the neighboring property owner? Again, who was there first? This is a perfect fit with the concept of "old" law.
Further, Rothbard offers that as knowledge changes, the law should change. If it is one day discovered that radio waves harm the physical body, then generating radio waves should be considered an aggressive act. This confirms to the idea of "good" law.
My one beef with Rothbard: he does an exemplary job of exploring the nuances of pure libertarian law applied under his view of physical violations. It reminds me of the task Walter Block has taken on: how to move one-millionth of an inch closer to the truth.
I call it a "beef" not because I necessarily disagree with any of his views. Instead, in my rather humble opinion, I believe such exercises will not bring value in application (albeit, I am certainly motivated by my personality-type). Rothbard (and Block) work very hard intellectually to reduce the amount of gray in our political relationships. I don't think this will be relevant in application. Gray is – and will be – reduced by those who participate in a given society; it will be reduced by custom and tradition.
It remains – which customs and traditions will survive and which will be allowed to die? I don't think this question will be answered one-millionth of an inch at a time – life won't wait. We have an example in the west that lasted for centuries – and remnants of which continue through this day. Custom, filtered via the old and the good, with both old and good conforming in many ways with libertarian property rights theory as described by Rothbard.
In many ways, but not all ways. For example, there were limits on the acceptable options in disposing of property: property could not be destroyed, not even by the owner. This could be due to something as sophisticated as the idea that all property belongs to God and we are merely stewards, or as simple as…life was hard and economies were relatively undeveloped and it would be considered criminal to destroy property. I don't know which…or maybe both. But this is secondary, and relatively unimportant to the main discussion.
"Good" was defined, as best as I can tell, by the intersection of the Germanic idea of "honor" and the Christian ethic. Not a bad intersection, one that caused individuals to consider the value and reason of their ancestors, the noble method of how they lived their lives, and the import of what they left for the future. Rothbard's views in this essay fit neatly within this intersection.
This post has gone long enough, and I have not yet covered the second suggested reading, in which Rothbard praises Leoni's work regarding judge-made law. This will wait for another day.
Returning to the primary subject of Rothbard's post on property rights and pollution: one cannot read this post without understanding that in every question that arises on this specific topic, Rothbard is applying the law in a manner that could be described as "old and good." It is in the best tradition of customary law.
This is good enough for me. Where I have raised some questions above regarding possible differences I might have with Rothbard, I view these as left open for my future learning. In addressing pollution, Rothbard's examination of the application of law based on property conforms quite well to the old and good law found in medieval tradition and custom.
This approach to law is well and good, but it leaves one category out.
The category of human organisation. Can a policeman legally do more than the same person as an individual?
Are we obliged to pay heed to orders coming down the hierarchy?
Do we have to give up property to support the tribe?
The king had a duty to uphold the law, not create the law.
Every noble had veto power if they could demonstrate that the king's decision was inconsistent with the old and good law.
Serfs worked several days per year for the noble (this obligation generally increased over the centuries). This was in exchange for protection. The serf did not have to stay, he could choose to live outside of protection, but it was a life likely to not end well.
"Rothbard's use of "ethics" in deriving law is inherently the use of "custom" to define law."
I believe this is correct, especially in the way Rothbard formulated libertarian ethics.
"There is that pesky word…reason. "Reason" allowed for slavery in pre-Christian and post-Reformation Europe; "reason" disallowed slavery in Medieval Europe. How is one to filter reason?"
Reason is just a tool. It can be used effectively, and it can be used poorly; it can be used to do evil, and it can be used to do good. It must be filtered by discipline.
Reason is all about argumentation and consensual agreement of how things either are or ought to be. The object of reasoning with another is to convince. Any denial of the conversation in favor of initiated force, is a denial of reason, and an embrace of aggression.
I like G.K. Chesterton's quote on logic and truth.
I think it fits nicely with logical deductions of Misesian praxeology based on the observable and irrefutable truth of human action. Rightly considered reason in the social realm, or that which is characterized by logically consistent deduction from irrefutable a priori truth), I'm convinced, will arrive at the NAP.
But that's a lot to ask from most people. Better to rely on old and good custom, the right of self determination, and decentralization of political power.
I find that "reason" works much better with people with whom I share many cultural and ethical characteristics, and does not work at all with those with whom I do not share cultural and ethical characteristics.
"But that's a lot to ask from most people. Better to rely on old and good custom, the right of self-determination, and decentralization of political power."
Precisely. The endless debates regarding the furthest corners of libertarian theory and application are a complete waste of time - 99.9% of the people will never read these, and if they do, will not understand the arguments.
Custom, self-determination, decentralization: people "get" these. We see it playing out in spades throughout the west – not exactly as a libertopia, but as custom, self-determination, decentralization.
In other words, libertarian theory applied.
In the Middle Ages there was a change from the court of arbitration (to which cases of dispute were taken by mutual consent, to conclude some dispute or some private battle, and which was in no way a permanent repository of power) to a set of stable, well defined institutions, which had the authority to intervene and which were based on political power (or at any rate were under its control). This change was accomplished in conjunction with two underlying processes. The first was the fiscalisation of the judicial system: by means of fines, confiscations, distraints, by granting expenses and all sorts of allowances, operating the judicial system became profitable; after the breakdown of the Carolingian state the judicial system became, in the hands of the nobles, not only an instrument of appropriation - a means of coercion - but a direct source of revenue; it produced an income over and above feudal rent, or rather it became an aspect of feudal rent. To be a judge was to have a source of income, it was property. Judgeships became a form of wealth which could be exchanged, circulated, which were sold or inherited as part of, or sometimes separately from, fiefs. They became an integral part of the circulation of wealth and of the feudal levy. For those who owned them they constituted rights (in addition to those of quit-rent, mortmain, tithe, tonnage, banalites, etc.); and for those who came under their jurisdiction they amounted to a kind of taxation which was not systematised but to which it was nevertheless in certain cases certainly necessary to submit. The archaic operation of the judicial system had become inverted: one could say that in earlier times justice was a right for those to whom it was applied (the right to demand justice when the disputants agreed to do so) and a duty for those who made the judgments (the obligation to exercise their prestige, their authority, their wisdom, their politico-religious power). It was to become from this point on a (lucrative) right for those in power, and a (costly) obligation for those who had to submit to it. At this point we can see the convergence with the second of the processes which I mentioned earlier: the increasing link between the judicial system and armed forc~. To replace private wars by a compulsory and lucrative judicial system, to impose a judicial system where one isat one and the same time- judge, party to the dispute and tax collector, instead of a system of deals and settlements, to impose a judicial system which secures, guarantees and increases by significant amounts the levy on the product of labour, all this implies the availability of the power of constraint. It could not be imposed without armed force: wherever a feudal lord disposed of sufficient military power to enforce his 'peace' it was possible for him to impose juridical and fiscal levies. Having become a source of income, judgeships developed in the direction of the division of private property. But supported by the force of arms they developed in the direction of its ever increasing concentration. This dual development led to the 'classical' result: when, during the fourteenth century the feudal lords . were faced with the great peasant and urban revolts, they sought the support of a centralised power, army and taxation system: and in this emergency there arose, together with the provincial High Courts, the King's Procurators, official prosecutions, legislation against beggars, vagabonds, idlers, and before long the early rudimentary forms of police and a centralised judicial system. This was an embryonic state judicial apparatus which was superimposed upon, duplicated and controlled the feudal judges and their fiscal rights, but which allowed them to continue to function.
Where the law is not customary law, it is easily turned into a mere political weapon.
This might be what you're looking for: Convivial Order (applied Natural Law).
"[..] it leads us back to a confusion of the lawful and the legal, and into a confusion of two radically distinct concepts of society. As noted already, the latter confusion is all the more likely for speakers of English (or Latin or French), who have only the word 'society' to express both concepts. Speakers of the Dutch language do not have this problem: they can easily distinguish between "een samenleving" (literally: a living-together or symbiosis) and "een maatschappij" (literally: a society or company)."
"A society-as-symbiosis (samenleving) is not some well-defined, organised group, but precisely that condition of lawful co-existence that we have been discussing all along. It is perhaps best described as the way of life of those who live as free persons among their likes. Thus, society-as-symbiosis is coextensive with objective ius or law. It is a horizontal society without hierarchical structure. It is also an inclusive society without a formal organisation based on certified membership. Anyone who accepts to live according to law is, by that fact alone, in society, anyone who does not is, by that fact alone, an outlaw, i.e; one who is outside society."
"Natural law refers to the natural, physical world of living human beings. Moreover, "law" should not, in this connection, be understood in its now-dominant sense of a command, directive, or rule (cf. the Latin lex). Instead, it is to be understood in its much more profound sense of order, especially the order or bond of conviviality that has its natural foundation in the plurality and diversity of distinct and separate persons. Thus, law is semantically related to the Latin ius, which refers to a bond arising out of solemn speech (iurare, to make a personal commitment to or covenant with another), and which presupposes the separateness and independence of persons. In that sense, law stands in opposition to the Old English orlaeg, fate, the inevitable disappearance of order, as in war."
"For reasons of clarity, I prefer to speak of the order of conviviality rather than the social order, because the English word "society" and its derivatives ("social," "sociable," "socialist," "socialisation," and the like) are highly ambiguous and tend to evoke the image of an organisation or company (Dutch: maatschappij) with a common purpose toward which all of its members are supposed | 3,258 |
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Land Ho! was a darling at the Sundance film festival, written and directed by a young tandem (Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens) who emerged from the North Carolina School of the Arts as indie upstarts a few years after that school's most notable alumnus, David Gordon Green. Green, if you'll recall, was doing naturalistic gems like George Washington and All the Real Girls before he wiped a massive poop stain out of his underwear and called it Your Highness. His early work is an obvious influence on Land Ho!, and the fruits of his later work (mostly Danny McBride collabs) helped finance it.
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Lorena is an indigenous Zapotec leader, she has not been able to finish her studies because of the lack of economic opportunities and the determinant fact of being a woman, she saw that this is was a common problem for a lot of women in her village. She sees this JWHi grant as an excellent opportunity to broaden her knowledge on several issues in a hands on way through exchange visits and following courses at other organisations.
In February 2017 Lorena participated as a volunteer in the activities of Bosque de Niebla "Las Cañadas" in Huatusco, a collective initiative of workers that has constructed an ecovillage, living from the things the collective produces in growing vegetables and raising animals in a sustainable way. Emphasis was on improving her skills on the preservation of native seeds and the improvement of selection methods. In March Lorena made an exchange visit to the Cooperativa Maya Vinic, concentrating on methods of honey and coffee production, fair commerce and seed protection. Also she collaborated in<|fim_middle|> collective "T´zunubak" that works in the area of communication aimed at promoting the participation of youth in the political life of villages.
In June Lorena wants to look into different alternatives for communitarian intervention, communitarian organization processes as well as group management activities, and workshop activities at the CESDER rural development centre. She will especially concentrate on the participation of women in aforementioned activities and processes. Finally, during September and October, Lorena intends to participate in the Colectivo de Mujeres de Matagalpa community development program. This is a huge effort to create a network of 1800 organized women in 14 municipalities and 50 communities of Nicaragua, which takes decisions through an assembly method. These assemblies develop different communitarian activities towards regional development in a sustainable way. As a volunteer with this organization Lorena will engage in activities with these groups, take part in the organization of assemblies and in the actions that these groups drive.
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In Calama we did the 10.000 km service on Christians bike which led to a few days of eating good food and mostly watching movies. Calama wouldn't really be so much to write about, except one very important fact; It's where my mom is born, so therefore it's the best city in the world!
After Calama we headed straight for San Pedro de Atacama where we did a lot of touristy things (like flamingo watching) and ate more great food.
One of the most important things we did in San Pedro was to acclimatise to the altitude. The town is at about 2400 m.s.l. That was a good starting point and we made sure to make trips to higher altitude during the days. "Go high – sleep low" is a good rule to follow and we hoped it would be sufficient preparation for Bolivias higher altitudes.
After stocking up on food, water and some Bobs (Bolivian money) we checked out from Chile in San Pedros immigration office and drove about 45 km to the nearest<|fim_middle|> met a lot of nice people. We then spent a couple of days searching for new tires for the bikes. Not an easy thing to do in Bolivia, but after a lot of driving around and help from a lot of people we managed to get two Pirelli MT 21 for our back tyres. The front is still good to go.
Next stop: La Paz and the death road! | entry point to Bolivia. There we filled in the required paperwork under the rough guidance of the immigration officer. Bolivia was dubbed "the least friendly country for tourist in the world" by the World Economic Forum. The immigration officer did lend some credibility to that claim, we could only hope it would get better.
He told us that we had to drive about 6 km to get the paperwork done for the bikes, or if there wasn't anybody there, we had to go 80 km to the next entry point. We set of straight through "Laguna Verde".
Thanks to the wonderful app ioverlander we found a nice canyon to camp in for the first night. We felt the altitude (4500 m.s.l) but got no headache, our previous acclimatisation was working!
After three days of tough riding through really beautiful landscapes we finally arrived to Uyuni.
The town itself isn't very inspiring but from here it's only a 30 minutes drive to get to the salar. We spent two days resting and then took a walk to the train cemetery.
After this we felt ready for the salar. It was…beautiful and surreal.
Felt like driving on hard snow/ice but with very good grip. White as far the eye could see We spent one night camping at Isla del Pescado. It was quite windy in the evening but around nine p.m the wind died down and we had a calm and quiet night.
In the morning we met a family that was out picking cactus fruits. They gave us a few and showed us how to eat them, sweet!
After the salar our bikes got a really nice wash (30 bobs per bike) to get rid of all the salt.
A couple of really nice burritos later and it was time to continue onward to Potosi. The way there was a really nice surprise; a very good and sinuous tarmac road through the mountains.
Potosi has a very rich (and sad) history. It's located by Cerro Rico de Potosi and is the worlds largest deposit of silver.
It has been mined since the sixteenth century under very bad conditions for the workers. It is estimated that around eight millions indigenous workers have died in the mines, as well as a lot of slaves brought in from Africa.
Today the citys narrow streets are filled with cars and pollution which makes it hard to walk around in. We took a tour to the mines which was a very humbling experience. To this day people are working under basically the same conditions as when the Spanish ruled.
Our guide Anthony, himself a former mine worker, took us to the mines and gave us (with a mix of humor and melancholy) a real insight to the lives of the mine workers and their rituals.
Nope, La Paz is not the capital of Bolivia. All the decisions are made in La Paz but the capital is still Sucre. We are not very fond of citys, specially when they are filled with cars and pollution. But if you manage to get away from the narrow streets, it offers some nice views (and zeebras).
We spent two nights in the city and went on to Cochabamba. The way there became long and rather adventurous, specially at the end.
The road took us through the mountains and the scenery was very nice. We managed to take a wrong turn which led us to some gravel roads. Luckily we realised our mistake and doubled back. The road changed from tarmac to cobblestone…and continued to be cobblestone mile after mile. Must be some kind of world record; the longest cobblestone road in the world?
Thanks to the wrong turn (and very nice scenery) we arrived at Cochabamba just as the sun where setting. A rule we try our absolute best to hold is: Never drive when it's dark. Just when it looked like we where going to make it before darkness we came upon a blockade. Arriving to Sucre we had the same experience, people blocking the roads.
There wasn't much to do but trying to weave through the people and the barricades. The people didn't seem to mind and we got directions of alternative routes. This led to a very interesting ride with two river crossings in the middle of the city! After successfully navigation around four different blockades we finally reached the inner city.
We arrived at the hostel, Hostal Las Lilas around 9.30 PM and were welcomed by a couple of happy danish guys and a very hairy dog.
It turned out to be a very very nice hostel where we | 936 |
Monday 30 April 2018 (other days)
Monday of the 5th week of Eastertide
or Saint Pius V, Pope
Pope St Pius V (1504 - 1572)
He was born near the Italian town of Alexandria, on the Adriatic, and joined the Dominicans and taught theology. He was made a bishop and fought to reform the moral laxity of the clergy. He was elected Pope in 1566. He strenuously promoted the Catholic Reformation that was started by the Council of Trent. He encouraged missionary work and reformed the liturgy. See the articles in the Catholic Encyclopaedia and Wikipedia.
Other saints: Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599-1672)
Born in Tours, France, Marie married and had a son before her husband, Claude Martin, died. He left behind a struggling business that Marie was able to make profitable before selling. Free to pursue her religious inclinations, she experienced a mystical vision on 24 March<|fim_middle|> Lavigiers, founder of the White Sisters, enshrined it in the new basilica at Algiers, where in 1876 the image was crowned. This bronze statue, very dark in colour, is known as Our Lady of Africa.
Pilgrims began to come to venerate the image where the lame, the blind, and the crippled were miraculously healed, and sailors came also to beg for protection of their long and perilous voyages. At this and other North African shrines the veneration given to Mary by Muslims is very marked. This feast commemorates the crowning of the Algiers statue.
(Apocalypse 1:17-18) ©
I saw the Son of Man, and he said to me, 'Have no fear! I am the First and the Last. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld.'
Colossians 2:9,12 ©
In Christ lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment. You have been buried with him, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead.
2 Timothy 2:8,11 ©
Remember the Good News that I carry, 'Jesus Christ risen from the dead, sprung from the race of David'. Here is a saying that you can rely on: 'If we have died with him, then we shall live with him.' | 1620, that set her on a new path of devotional intensity. After working with a Spiritual Director for many years, she decided to enter the Ursuline Convent in Tours to try her vocation. She abandoned her son to the care of her family, but the emotional pain of the separation would remain with her. Later, when her son become a monk, they corresponded candidly about their spiritual and emotional trials.
Sometime near 1638, Marie de l'Incarnation was guided by visions to go to Canada and found a convent. Marie, along with two Ursulines and Madame de la Peltrie, landed at Québec City in August 1639. They managed to found the first hospital in Canada as well as an Ursuline Congregation.
She was canonized by Pope Francis on 3 April 2014. See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.
Other saints: Our Lady, Mother of Africa
Nigeria, Southern Africa
North Africa gave the Church many saints, such as Monica and Augustine, and many important theologians. It remained Christian until the Arab invasions.
The first Christian Bishop of Algiers in modern times, Bishop Antoine-Adolphe Dupuch, was appointed in 1838 to minister to the French colonists who lived in Algeria, but felt called by God to restore Christianity to the whole population, hoping that in time it would spread from Algeria to the whole of Africa.
At the beginning, Bishop Dupuch found it impossible to build a church because the local population was hostile to the French. He went back to France for assistance. The Sodality of Our Lady in Lyon offered to the bishop a bronze statue of the Immaculate Conception with the understanding that she would be the Protectress of both the Muslims and the natives. It was brought from France in 1840 and was entrusted to the Cistercian monks of Staueli. Later, Cardinal | 408 |
\section{Introduction}
The kinetics of vortex production in superconductors and
superfluids is one of the intriguing problems of condensed
matter physics. It is interesting not only in the field
of solid state physics but represents as well a very good
model to study topological phase transitions in cosmology and
other branches of physics \cite{zurek1}. In
the last few decades different scenarios for vortex production
in superconductors and superfluids were proposed. The most common
way to produce vortices is to increase the superfluid velocity in
order to reduce the energy barrier between homogeneous flow and
flow with vortices. This mechanism is observed in rotating
$^{3}\text{He}$ where vortex nucleation and critical velocities
are measured \cite{parts}. In 2D homogeneous superconducting films,
increasing the current leads to dynamics which are similar
to the phase slip (PS) transition in 1D \cite{ludac}. The order
parameter (OP) reaches zero along a straight line across the film
and the phase displays a $2\pi$ jump along this line. This PS
line solution \cite{Weber09} corresponds to the
deterministic and most ordered PS kinetics in 2D. The
inhomogeneity caused by current contacts leads to a qualitatively
similar picture. The OP is strongly suppressed along a straight
line across the film but it reaches zero only at two points on
this line. This pair of vortices is called kinematic vortex-antivortex
(VaV) pair \cite{andronov93}. It spreads quickly in
opposite directions along this line propagating the $2\pi$ jump of
the phase. Therefore PS occurs without formation of well defined
VaV pairs \cite{berdiyorov}.
A different scenario of vortex production was proposed by
Kibble\cite{kibble1} and Zurek\cite{zurek2} (KZ). When the sample
is quickly quenched through the critical temperature $T_c$, the
nucleation of the low temperature phase starts in different places
with uncorrelated phases of OP. Then, domains grow and start to
overlap leading to the formation of vortices. This mechanism is a
promising way to test cosmological theories in condensed matter
physics \cite{Ruutu96-98, Maniv03}. This dynamics is stochastic and
sensitive to small variations of initial conditions. On the
other hand the dependence of the vortex density on the quench time
and their spatial correlation are universal. Later, in Refs.
\cite{kibblevolovik,kopninthuneberg}, it was proposed that the
quench occurs not only due to fast temperature change but also due
to the temperature front propagation. Aranson \textit{et al.}
considered the case of a temperature quench in the presence of
external current \cite{aranson}. The new phase with zero current
grows after the quench. Therefore on the border of the quenched
region, the superfluid velocity has tangential discontinuity,
leading to vortex formation, similarly to the classical
hydrodynamic Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) instability \cite{fridman}
which is also known in superfluids \cite{Blaauwgeers02,volovikKH}.
Moreover, the KH instability suppresses the development of KZ
vortices \cite{aranson}. In this paper, kinematic VaV, KZ and KH
vortices are distinguished by their production mechanism although they
are topologically equivalent.
To demonstrate how deterministic type of dynamics becomes
stochastic, we model a superconducting film rolled on a cylinder
in an external time dependent magnetic field parallel to the
cylinder axis (Fig.1). Depending on the applied magnetic
field and the dimensions of the ring, we follow the evolution
from the deterministic PS line dynamics to the stochastic behavior
described by the KZ mechanism. In the proposed model, topological
defects are generated by the intrinsic quench induced by the
external field. The evolution towards
stochastic behavior is strongly influenced by the KH instability
which develops in the presence of inhomogeneities. To model the
inhomogeneity of the film we assume that there is a thin stripe
of superconductor along the film with a different coherence length.
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width = 40mm]{fig1.eps}
\caption{Geometry of the system : a 2D cylinder with an applied
magnetic field $\mathbf{H}$.}
\end{figure}
The thickness of the film $d$ is small $d\ll \xi\
\ll \lambda_{\text{eff}}$. Here $\xi$ is the coherence length and
$\lambda_{\text{eff}}$ is the Pearl penetration depth. Therefore
we can neglect all corrections to the external magnetic field
$\mathbf{H}$ caused by the current in the film. The radius of the
<|fim_middle|> }
\end{figure*}
With the further increase of $a$ the number of PS lines increases
and the kinetics becomes more stochastic because of the
interaction of different PS lines. As a result, straight lines are
replaced by vortex rivers which become broader and have finite
curvature (Fig.2(b)). The vortex rivers are comparable to the vortex self-organization
discussed in \cite{Aranson96} under different boundary conditions.
Along one vortex river, few vortex-antivortex pairs are
propagated. The kinetics is determined by the motion of these
pairs along the rivers and finally by their annihilation.
Importantly, the sample average of OP never reaches zero,
contrarily to the case of the large field $a>a_{c2}$. The total
number of vortices in the beginning of the process is larger than
$\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}$ (Fig.2(b)) which is also an indication of
the growing importance of chaotic behavior in the dynamics. The
values of $\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}$ are also strongly enhanced,
reaching $2\pi R/3$. The velocity of vortices along the rivers
becomes smaller which is seen from the time dependence of the
vortex number (Fig.2(d)). Nevertheless the velocity is still high
compared to the case when the OP has recovered to its equilibrium
value. The last regime $a>a_{c2}$ is presented in Fig.2(c). Here
the quench condition is satisfied and the OP decreases uniformly
until it reaches zero (Fig. 2(c)). As a result, the new phase
starts to grow uncorrelated and the vortices are created
randomly. The number of vortices is substantially larger than
$\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}$. Most of these vortices recombine rapidly.
The remaining vortices move slowly through the sample propagating
the $2\pi$ phase jump. The random dispersion of these vortices is
a fingerprint of the KZ mechanism. Indeed, $\sqrt{\bar{\delta
x^{2}}}$ reaches now $2\pi R/2$, which means that vortex
distribution is completely random. Another characteristic of the
KZ scenario is that the vortices are created while the order
parameter is very close to zero and not during the fast growth
like in the previous cases as one can see by comparing Fig. 2(a)
and (b) with Fig. 2(c). It is important to notice that the total
net vorticity is strictly equal to zero at any time in the case of
periodic boundary condition in the z direction.
For vacuum boundary conditions \cite{degennes} the
kinetics is very similar. When $a_{c1}<a<a_{c2}$ and
$\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}<10$ one or more lines with reduced OP are
formed. The difference is that the PS lines here have finite
curvature, because they start to grow from the edges of the film
and finally connect each other. Further increase of the flux,
keeping $a$ constant leads to the formation of flux rivers. The
most important difference is that not all "rivers" necessarily
connect two edges of the film. As a result some of them ended in
the middle of the film, leading to the relatively small vorticity.
These remaining vortices and antivortices propagate slowly to the
edges of the film and kinetic is determined by the slow vortex
motion. The dynamics when $a>a_{c2}$ is governed by KZ mechanism,
as in the previous case but the total net vorticity may be finite.
In the case of an inhomogeneous superconductor, the effective
coherence length is now $z$-dependent $\xi(z) = \xi/\sqrt{b(z)}$.
Therefore only the middle part of the ring may be unstable while
the other parts of the film remain in the metastable state. The
introduction of $z$-dependence of the parameters in
Eq.(\ref{tdgl1}) is designed to enhance the transverse vortex
dynamics and allows to demonstrate different mechanisms of vortex
formation. As expected, the PS dynamics starts first in the region
with stronger current and is characterized by $a$ and
$\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}$.
In the region $a_{c1}<a<a_{c2}$ and small flux
$\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}<10$ the initial stage of the kinetics is
similar to kinetics in the homogeneous film. The VaV pairs are not
well defined. However, when kinematic VaV pairs approach the low
current regions, they become well defined and are slowing down
(fig.3(a)). Therefore vortices are stabilized near the line where
the tangential velocity has discontinuity. These vortices
represent another case of KH instability in superconductors. This
instability leads to the formation of well defined vortices and
governs the kinetics of the PS. To the best of our knowledge this
is the only instability which allows vortex production in the low
flux limit.
When the flux through the ring is large $\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}>10$,
the initial fast dynamics is similar to the dynamics in the
homogeneous case until vortices reach the low current regions.
Then they become slow and well defined. As it is seen in
Fig.3(b), the vortices propagate one after another to the film
edge, demonstrating the vortex-vortex attraction even in the case
when the OP has already recovered.
The further increase of $a>a_{c2}$ leads to the quench in the
middle part of the film (Fig.1). During the quench many KZ vortices
are created. Most of them are annihilated on a very short
time scale. The rest reaches the line separating the region with
different currents. The vortices almost stop near this line. The
further dynamics is determined by the diffusion of these vortices
to the film edges. When $a$ is large enough, the KH vortices
become well defined before the recovery of the OP in the middle
part of the film and therefore the inhomogeneity suppresses the KZ
mechanism in agreement with Ref.\cite{aranson}, making kinetics
less stochastic.
Experimentally, observing such dynamics of vortices might
be a real challenge because the short characteristic times does
not allow the use of instruments with sufficient space resolution.
However, recent works \cite{Maniv03, Silhanek10} showed that
freezing the dynamics can characterize both KZ and vortex river
scenarios. Another idea is to use time resolved femtosecond
optical spectroscopy as proposed in the Ref.\cite{yusupov}.
As it is shown in the Refs.\cite{ludac,suppl} the role of
heating is not important for the proposed
geometry of the film.
We have considered the kinetics of the flux penetration to the 2D
ring. We found out that for small values of the external field $a$,
the kinetics is
deterministic and essentially 1D. Increasing the flux $\phi$ creates
kinematic vortices and even leads to a 1D quench along the PS line
which is a first step towards stochastic behavior (see Ref.\cite{suppl}). Further
increase of $a$ leads to the formation of vortex rivers, and
ultimately to the quench of the sample leading to the stochastic dynamics of KZ vortices.
The dynamics in the inhomogeneous film demonstrates that the VaV pairs are the
topological analog of the PS mechanism in 2D but this analogy is
not as straightforward as is often believed. Finally,
our calculations for a partially quenched film indicate that KH
vortices at the interface are strongly predominant.
\section{Phase diagram of the different dynamics}
We observe different dynamics in the homogeneous case, depending on the value of the magnetic vector potential $a$ and the number of flux quanta $\phi/\phi_0$ penetrating the cylinder. In order to plot a phase diagram and display the different types of dynamics, we needed to choose between multiple criteria. We found out that the stochasticity is a good approach to this problem and chose the standard deviation of the $x$ coordinate of vortices to define regions where the dynamics are comparable. The normalized standard deviation $\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}$ is shown in Fig.1 (R is the radius of the cylinder). The different regions where the standard deviation is similar are separated by lines of constant standard derivation.
\begin{itemize}
\item Part $1$ of the phase diagram corresponds to the phase slip (PS) line solution. No vortices are present and we define there $\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}=0$ because the dynamics is very ordered.
\item Part $2$ ($0<\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}\leq 0.23$) corresponds to kinematic vortices traveling on a single line.
\item Part $3$ ($0.23<\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}<0.48$) is assigned to multiple vortex rivers : stochasticity is increased by the the increasing number of rivers.
\item Part $4$ ($0.55<\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}$) corresponds to Kibble-Zurek (KZ) type dynamics which displays the highest possible stochasticity.
\item Part 5 ($0.48<\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}\leq 0.55$) represents the region where the standard deviation fails to clearly distinguish between KZ and vortex rivers. In this region, the area with low $a$ corresponds to vortex rivers and should belong to the part 3. Indeed, when the flux is increased at low $a$, the number of vortex river increases and the vortices often travel from one river to the other : their position becomes stochastic. On the opposite, at low flux, the area with high $a$ should belong to part 4.
\end{itemize}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width = 70mm]{fig1a.eps}
\caption{(Color online) Phase diagram of the possible evolution drawn from the normalized standard deviation $\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}$ of the $x$ coordinate of the vortices. We chose to define $\frac{\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}}{\pi R}=0$ when no vortices are present (Part 1). Part 1 corresponds to the PS line, part 2 the kinematic vortices, part 3 to vortex rivers and part 4 to KZ type dynamics. The part 5 represents a region where the standard deviation is not sufficient to distinguish between the dynamics. The standard deviation is plotted as a function of the vector potential $a$ and of the number of flux quanta (a) for $u=10$. $a_{c1}$ is the critical value under which dynamics are very improbable and $a_{c2}$ is the critical value over which we calculated KZ dynamics would occur. }
\end{figure}
\section{Heating}
The estimate of the heating of the cylinder may be done using Ohm's law. We consider that a part of the cylinder of area $\pi \xi^2$ for the vortex or $2\pi R \xi$ for the PS line, behaves like a normal conductor of conductivity $\sigma_n$ until its annihilation and sustains a current $J_s$ (in cgs units). The energy dissipated per unit of volume is, as in \cite{ludac}:
\begin{equation}
E=\frac{J_s^2}{\sigma_n}\tau_{\theta}=\frac{\left [\phi_0 a (1-a^2) \right ]^2}{16\pi^3 \xi^2\lambda_{\text{eff}}^2}.
\end{equation}
This energy is less than a quarter of the condensation energy $\frac{H_{c_2}^2}{16\pi\kappa^2}$. In the case of PS lines and kinematic vortices, when dynamics are fast and the areas behaving as normal conductors are small, the heat will be dissipated along the sample and through the contacts. It will not impact the dynamics. However, in the case of multiple vortex rivers or in the quenched KZ scenario, the total heating will be much larger but can be tackled by modern experimental techniques. Indeed, modern cooling methods are fast enough \cite{Maniv03}.
| film is $R > \xi$.
The time dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) equation in
dimensionless units has the form:
\begin{equation}
u(\frac{\partial\psi}{\partial t}+i\Phi \psi) =
b(z)(\psi-\psi|\psi|^{2})-(i\nabla+\mathbf{a})^{2}\psi
+\eta.\label{tdgl1}
\end{equation}
Here $\psi$ is the dimensionless complex OP, the spacial
coordinate ${\mathbf r}$ is measured in units of $\xi$ and time
is measured in units of phase relaxation time
$\tau_{\theta}=\frac{4\pi\lambda_{\text{eff}}\sigma_{n} }
{c^{2}}$, $\lambda_{\text{eff}}=\frac{\lambda^{2}}{d}$, $\lambda$
is the bulk penetration depth, $\sigma_{n}$ is the normal state
conductivity, and $c$ is the speed of light. The parameter
$u=\frac{\tau_{\psi}}{\tau_{\theta}}$ is a material dependent
parameter, where $\tau_{\psi}$ is the relaxation time of the
amplitude of the OP. According to the microscopic theory, $u$ is
ranging from $5$ to $12$ but we assume $0<u<\infty$. The vector
potential $\mathbf{a}$ is measured in units of
$\frac{\phi_{0}}{2\pi\xi}$ where $\phi_{0}$ is the flux quantum.
The function $b(z)$ models the $z$ dependence of the coherence
length $\xi(z)$. As shown in Fig.1, we chose
$\xi(z)=\xi/\sqrt{b(z)}$ and
$b(z)=1-b^{2}\vartheta(z-w/4)\vartheta(3w/4-z)$. Here $w$ is the
width of the film in units of $\xi$, $b$ parameterizes the level
of inhomogeneity of the film and $\vartheta(x)$ is the Heaviside
step function. Here we use periodic boundary conditions and the
boundary condition with vacuum \cite{degennes} at $z=0$
and $z=w$. The equation for the electrostatic potential $\Phi$,
measured in units of $\frac{\phi_{0}}{2\pi c\tau_{\theta}}$,where
$e$ is the electronic charge and $\hbar$ is the Planck constant,
reads:
\begin{equation}
\nabla^{2}\Phi=-\nabla\Bigl[
{{i}\over{2}}(\psi^{*}\nabla\psi-\psi\nabla\psi^{*})
+\mathbf{a}|\psi|^{2}\Bigr].\label{tdgl2}
\end{equation}
To model the process of vortex formation we assume that at time
$t<0$ external magnetic field is absent.
At $t=0$ the field suddenly appears and stays constant for $t>0$
i.e. tangential component of the vector potential is
$a\vartheta(t)$. We thus study the kinetics of the vortex
generation as a function of $a$ with different values of $u$.
Let us first consider the stability of the solution in the uniform
case. We linearize the TDGL Eqs.(\ref{tdgl1},\ref{tdgl2}) in small
fluctuations of OP $f(\mathbf{r},t)=\psi(\mathbf{r},t)-\psi_{0}$
and search for a solution in the form
$f(\mathbf{r},t)=\sum_{\mathbf{k}}C_{\mathbf{k}}
\exp{(i\mathbf{kr}+\lambda_{\mathbf{k}} t)}$. It is clear that the
transverse $k_{z}$ component always contributes to the stability
of the initial state. Therefore, the condition
$\lambda_{\mathbf{k}}>0$ is the same as in 1D \cite{ludac}:
$\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}
> > \frac{R}{\xi\sqrt{3}}$, where $\phi$ is the magnetic flux
through the ring at $t>0$. This condition provides a rough
estimate for the number of the expected PS events $N\sim
\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}$. It defines the first critical value of the
external field $a_{c1}=1/\sqrt{3}$. Therefore, in the low field
limit $a_{c1}\leq a \leq 1$, the dynamics will be similar to the 1D
case with very weak $z$-dependence. Well defined vortices may
appear in this region of the field if the film is inhomogeneous as
shown in Fig.1. The situation is different when the field
$a$ increases further. Dropping $k_{z}=0$, the
eigenvalues are:
\begin{eqnarray}
\lambda^{(1,2)}_{\mathbf{k}}=-\psi_{0}^{2}/2+(1
-2\psi_0^2-a^2-k^2)/u \nonumber \\ \pm \sqrt{(16\psi_0^2
a^2+\psi_0^4(u-2)^2+16k^2a^2)/4u^2} \label{decay}
\end{eqnarray}
$\lambda_{\mathbf{k}=0}=\frac{1-2
\psi_0^2-a^2}{u}-\frac{\psi_{0}^2}{2} - \sqrt{(16\psi_0^2
a^2+\psi_0^4(u-2)^2)/4u2}$ describes the decay rate of the
uniform solution. On the other hand for finite $k$,
$\lambda_{\mathbf{k}}$ is positive and characterizes the growth of
the corresponding Fourier components $C_{\mathbf{k}}$. The fastest
growth is found for $k=\frac{1}{4a} \sqrt{-16u\psi_0^2a^2-
\psi_0^4(u-2)^2+16a^4}$ and the rate is
determined by
$\lambda_{\text{max}}=\frac{1}{16ua^2}(8(u-4)\psi_0^2a^2
+16a^2+\psi_0^4(u-2)^2)$. The qualitative
difference in kinetics takes place when the decay rate of the
uniform solution becomes faster then the growth of the new phase.
This effect is similar to the quench through $T_{c}$ in the KZ
mechanism \cite{zurek1,kibble1}. We find that at
$a>a_{c2}=\sqrt{2}$, the OP is suppressed to zero and the growth
of the phase with finite $k$ is accompanied by the rapid
development of vortices. The density of vortices may be estimated
using Zurek arguments where the quench time should be replaced by
$\tau_{Q}=(a^{2}-1)^{-1}$ leading to $n\propto \tau_{Q}^{-1/2}$
\cite{zurek3}.
We simulate Eqs.(\ref{tdgl1},\ref{tdgl2}) using the fourth order
Runge-Kutta method. The spatial derivatives are evaluated using
a finite difference scheme of
second order or using a fast fourier transform algorithm depending
on the boundary conditions. The choice of the algorithm is made to
optimize the convergence and the calculation times. The
calculations are performed for the vector potential $0<a<5$ and
for the total flux $\phi$ through the ring ranging from $0$ to $50
\phi_0$.
\begin{figure*}
{\includegraphics[width=175mm]{fig2.eps}}
\caption{(Color online) Total number of vortices $v$ in the system
and the sample average
value $|\rho|$ of the OP as a function of time for
$\phi/\phi_0=20$ and $a=0.6$ (a), $a=0.8$(b) and $a=1.8$ (c).
The insets represent snapshots the amplitude of OP at
$t=700$ (a) and $t=105$ (b). For the quenched case (c),
the snapshot displays the local vorticity at $t=20$. }
\end{figure*}
We investigate the flux penetration into the homogeneous ring for
two different boundary conditions. In the case of periodic
boundary conditions we identify different regimes in accordance
with Eq.(\ref{decay}). In the small field limit $a<a_{c1}$ the
ring is in a stable state and the penetration of the magnetic flux
into the ring can only be induced by a very strong noise $\eta$ in
Eq.(\ref{tdgl1}). When $a_{c1}<a<a_{c2}$, in agreement with the
stability analysis, the PS kinetics depends on the external
magnetic field. When $\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}<10$ the kinetics is
similar to the 1D case. The transition is characterized by one or
more lines in the $z$-direction where the OP decreases to zero
(the PS line case \cite{andronov93}). These lines may appear
simultaneously or consecutively in time, depending on $u$
\cite{ludac}. As expected, the number of PS events is determined
by the ratio $\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}$. These PS lines represent the
limiting case of kinematic VaV pairs travelling with infinite
velocity.
When the flux is increased ($\frac{\phi}{\phi_0}>10$), the
kinematic vortices become clearly distinguishable. In Fig.2(a), we
present the time evolution of the average value of the OP together
with the time dependence of the number of vortices in the
sample. The kinetics is characterized by series of consecutive PS
events well separated in time (Fig.2(a)). As it was noticed
\cite{vodo07}, few VaV pairs may propagate along the same line at
the same time. PS events are produced by kinematic VaV pairs
propagating along the same line where the amplitude of OP is
reduced. Kinematic vortices can propagate in the same direction,
one after another or in opposite direction leading to annihilation
of VaV pairs and accelerating the dynamics. Contrary to
\cite{berdiyorov}, kinematic VaV pairs are formed without any
inhomogeneity in the film. At higher fluxes kinematic VaV pairs
are randomly created on the line like in the case of a "1D
quench". In the $x$ direction, the dynamics remains very ordered
with values of the standard deviation of the position of the
vortices $\sqrt{\bar{\delta x^{2}}}$ approaching $0.5\xi$.
\begin{figure*}
{\includegraphics[width=175mm]{fig3.eps}}
\caption{(Color online) Total number of vortices $v$ in the system and
the sample average value $|\rho|$ of the OP as a function
of time for $a1=0.4$, $\phi/\phi_0=5$ and $b=4$ (a); $\phi/\phi_0=20$
and $b=2.25$ (b); $\phi/\phi_0=50$ and $b=12.25$ (c). The insets
represent snapshots of the amplitude of the OP at $t=120$ (a) ;
$t=790$ and $t=830$ (b). For the quasi quenched case (c), the snapshot
displays the local vorticity at $t=112$. | 2,665 |
Greene Co. Daily World
Danner's Manners
By Patti Danner
...and so it goes.
Posted Thursday, March 14, 2019, at 4:29 PM
My all-time favorite Hoosier, even years before I became one, is author Kurt Vonnegut. He was born on November 11, 1922, and died at the age of 84 on April 11, 2007.
Vonnegut, in a writing career that spanned over 20 years<|fim_middle|>onnegut had written to date and I feasted on them all, including "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Mother Night," "Cat's Cradle," "Breakfast of Champions," "Wampeters and Granfalloons," "Slapstick," "Deadeye Dick," "Jailbird," "Galapagos," and "Bluebeard."
Vonnegut influenced my life and I am grateful for that influence.
I will end this entry with a few of my favorite quotes from Vonnegut, my hero.
"Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in a letter to Ms. Lockwood's class at Xavier High School
"The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death."
-From The Sirens of Titan
"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
-From A Man Without a Country
"If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
-Personal quote
...and my personal all-time favorite, from Slaughterhouse-Five:
Patti is a Staff Writer for the Greene County Daily World. She loves to laugh and also loves kitties. She's kind of weird but has a heart of gold. If you would like to share a story or just make a friend, she can be reached at pattippdanner@gmail.com.
One of the coolest little dudes EVER
Willis Grover Nesbitt during his days in the Navy. Also known as my dad.
The Greene County Popsicles in 2017. I did not get the memo about the Santa costumes.
The most beautiful city in the whole dang world, in my opinion. Also known as my hometown, Seattle.
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The guy I moved 2,446 miles to be with in 2001. Isn't he cute, though?
© 2019 Greene County Daily World · Linton, Indiana | , published five plays, three short stories, five works of fiction and 14 novels. His characters are unforgettable and his stories legendary.
To say he was a hero of mine is an understatement. He is, was and will always be someone I am inspired by and someone I have learned so much from.
I was first introduced to Vonnegut's books by a friend, Erik Toews (pronounced 'Tayves'). Erik was a wonderful man who marched to the beat of his own drum, to say the least. We worked together at Starbucks and he introduced me to a whole new world of music I hadn't previously known anything about. Bands like X, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Stranglers, New Order, Robyn Hitchcock, the New York Dolls and the Ramones. The music he brought me changed my life and I will always owe him a debt of gratitude.
Erik was murdered on August 19, 2000, in Tacoma, Washington by a group of eight kids who would rove around the city streets, looking for people to assault. They told police they did it because they were "bored". Before Erik, they had never killed anyone but had a track record of several other attacks on innocent people.
I called them kids, and kids they were. The oldest, Terrance Hunt, who did 28 knee-drops onto my friends face, counting out each one aloud, was 19 at the time of the attack. The youngest, the one who hit Erik repeatedly with a croquet mallet, was 11.
Erik clung to life for six days, succumbing to his injuries on August 25, 2000. He was 30 years old.
Okay, back on the Vonnegut track. Sorry, that got really dark but that's what happened.
Anyway, at one point in about 1995, Erik decided to move to New York and he was selling off his extra belongings, including a big ol' bag of books. I looooooove big ol' bags of books! He promised me I would love them and picked one off of the top of a stack.
"You have to have to have to read this one first," he said. "I will punch you square in the face if you don't read this one first." I'm not terribly fond of punches to my face, so I complied almost immediately.
That book was "The Sirens of Titan," published in 1959.
The story is basically a comedic sci-fi tale about a Martian invasion of Earth but, told by Vonnegut, it was a romp through razor-sharp wit and timeless philosophy. It will always be my favorite. I was completely, unequivocally hooked on Vonnegut from page one. I finished it and rabidly dug through my newfound bag of treasures for more, settling on "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater."
As I discovered to my utter delight, the bag contained every book V | 630 |
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MVRDV present transformation of shopping centre Part-Dieu in Lyon, France
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Gérard Collomb, the Mayor of Lyon, officially announced MVRDV's transformation of Lyon's large Part-Dieu shopping centre, the centre piece in a major renovation which includes the surrounding district.
The scheme looks to redefine the area's public space by creating terraces and gardens that step up into the retail complex. The new complex keeps the original identity of the Part-Dieu shopping centre through the re-use and revitalisation of its iconic yet run-down façade, which will 'evaporate' as it reaches the new glazed extensions that open up onto the street.
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The project houses of a mixture of commercial, leisure and newly created public space. The design restructures each side of the mall, opening up the building to the street and adding a vast public roof garden. At the same time, through re-arranging the existing programme and replacing the old car park, MVRDV has vastly increased the usable space of the building; adding an extra 32.000m2 gross lettable area as well as considerable areas of public space. The lower levels of the complex consist of retail spaces, whilst the upper levels host restaurants, parks and a cinema; as well as several half-levels of parking.
As part of a wider urban plan for the area surrounding the Part-Dieu shopping centre, the design by MVRDV focusses on integrating the building become more in its surrounding urban fabric and hopes to allow everyday life to permeate through it. The street is not only extended through the building via an east-west walkway, but<|fim_middle|> façade elements.
MVRDV won the competition to design the Lyon Part-Dieu Shopping Centre in 2013 and have since been working as a team alongside: project managers, Artelia; co-architects, SUD; Structural consultants VRD; engineering consultancy, WSP and Y Ingénierie; economist, Cyprium; and technical controllers, Socotec. During the refurbishment the centre remains open, a sophisticated phasing scheme was developed to minimize the impact on the shopping experience.
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The public realm on the street level is to be extended onto the shopping centre itself. By rearranging the rooftop technical facilities and carparks, MVRDV has created a series of large terraces and green spaces that are accessible directly from the street. "The terraces turn the vast roofs of the shopping centre into open, green space in which the public can meet and relax; a quality that is currently missing in this area." Explains MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas, "By rearranging the programme, we create an urban platform that is somewhere between tranquil park and vibrant market square, recreating an atmosphere inspired by the Lyon river side." The restaurants, bars and cinema all spill out onto the terraces but can be accessed independently to the retail facilities through covered escalators that navigate around and over the building.
In a move to enhance and improve on the existing identity of the Part-Dieu development, MVRDV will revitalise the existing façade and reproduce it over the new structure, through the gardens and even throughout the carparks. In order to maintain the identity of the shopping centre, and at the same time try to reduce the construction footprint of the building, the existing façade panels will be redistributed throughout the design. The formerly beige concrete panels will receive a dirt repellent white coating, giving the façade a prolonged refreshed look. Where extensions are added to the building, the pattern of interwoven rectangles will continue over the new envelope eventually 'evaporating' as they reach the building entrance; a physical and symbolic gesture to the new opening up of the shopping centre.
"The redevelopment of the Part-Dieu commercial center is an opening act towards the city" says Winy Maas, "The formerly enclosed and defensive block is peeled open and thus becomes a place for the public to inhabit. It becomes part of the city."
This evaporation of the façade, coupled with the redefinition of the spaces within and outside the building, looks to reconnect the Part-Dieu centre with not only its immediate surroundings, but also to the wider area of Lyon. Views are created to the Metallic Tower of Fourvière and the city's Basilica Notre Dame by opening up the façade pattern and rearranging the existing building masses. Following on with the idea of transparency and permeability throughout the scheme, glazed components cover the top level of structure, and glass openings as well as stairwells look down into the heart of the shopping centre.
This is, after Gaîté Montparnasse in Paris, the second large scale shopping centre renovation MVRDV has taken on. Both transformations open up massive introverted structures that absorb life out of the city and connect them to their urban context. MVRDV sees many of these malfunctioning giants in European city centres that need re-socialising. Part-Dieu opens up the shopping centre, adds public space yet maintains the former quality of the architecture by reusing and revitalising the existing | 676 |
Dominate Your Dashboard: Can Pandora & Spotify take over the car radio? [Music]
Posted On: 30 Sep 2011 - 8:30am
By George Lindsey
It was cloudless night; I was like 15 years old. I was sitting in my dad's Oldsmobile 88, which I driven to the top of our hill, listening to some AM radio station from Chicago. I was listening for the NEW MUSIC feature they did every Saturday Night. It was a chance to discover something I'd never heard. It was a chance to be the first, first in my group of early adapters, to know about a new song. It was 10:52pm on that crisp early autumn night and something wonderful happened. The first drumbe<|fim_middle|> all this before: - 8 track players, Cassette players, Built in plugs for IPODS in the car were all "going to kill radio." Yet, radio survives. According to the Radio Advertising Bureau, 96% of people tune in radio in a given week, roughly the same audience size as in 1970. And only 3% of total listening to radio is of the online variety. So, Radio may be hanging on to audience, but to paraphrase an old ad campaign "This isn't your father's Oldsmobile" dashboard.
As upgraded 3G/4G data streams make streaming content easier than ever, Pandora, Live365, Slacker and more recently Spotify make it easier to have an internet radio station. On each service, you tell it your favorite artist; click "like" on a few more choices and their apps flesh out a playlist/station for you. It can even identify new music for you to try. Farmer says her station "surprised me how much it picked songs that I liked, old and new". But Amanda goes on to say, "one drawback is that it can start to sound all the same, or it finds and plays new songs, that I don't like at all, so it's not perfect…yet."
How is traditional radio reacting? It has been more of a motivator than a harbinger of death for media companies like Clear Channel, where they have developed their own internet radio app, I HEART RADIO. It contains the same ease of station creation, and other features that Pandora, Spotify and others boast about.
So as this debate rages about who will be the king of music discovery and delivery. It reminds me of the Radio & MTV debate in the 80's. MTV brought more choices, more ways to discover and enjoy music. But over the next 15 years, it lost the music battle to traditional radio. MTV changed direction, opting for less music more reality. Just like that contest, there are more choices coming to your car radio, and I believe that having more choice is always a good thing. But I wonder if all this choice will be a positive or will you'll wind up with the internet radio version of "Jersey Shore" dominating your dashboard?
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Live Music Lou's Can't Miss: March 8-14 | ats of "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel came on; I was mesmerized, hypnotized and convinced that the song was just for me.
All these years later, radio is still the number one way that people discover music. If you grew up here in Louisville, bet you have a specific memory of the 80's and the first time you heard "Der Kommissar" blasting from WDJX. Recall in the 90's, when you discovered grunge on WLRS. Maybe it was more recently, the thrill of hearing for the first time Mumford and Sons or Avett Brother on WFPK. Chances are most of those music discoveries were made in your car, listening to the radio. Vehicle listening is the biggest advantage of traditional radio, it's in every car, truck and van! But that radio on your dashboard is changing and it will soon contain the internet.
Justin Massoud, in the excellent article "Internet Ready Cars" stated that in the next 6 years "Internet radio will make its way into 24 million cars via internet capable in-dash radios." You could soon listen to your personally designed internet radio station as easily as WQMF. For local internet radio junkie Amanda Farmer, she can't wait. "I am so ready for this; it's an answered prayer for a control freak like me." Amanda estimates she spends 20+ hours a week with HER Pandora internet radio station. She'd love to be able to up that listening by having it in the car. And she's not alone.
Egil Juliussen, an analyst for automotive infotainment, sees an explosion starting next year in the use of in-vehicle internet radios and apps that can stream music and content. And he's not alone; Google, Apple and Blackberry are all launching or have launched cloud based music services, a place you can store your music-videos online and stream from anywhere, anywhere like the front seat of your car. The change is coming.
Full disclosure, I host a radio show on 102.3 FM in Louisville. And I have heard | 432 |
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Prior to beginning his career in staffing, Justin worked in the children's behavioral health space. As a mental health<|fim_middle|> an avid traveler, planning to visit all 50 states, and also to travel internationally to Vietnam and Australia.
What's more social than a job search? Connect with us. | technician, he helped service a wide range of childhood mental health disorders. Bringing with him his experience within this unique aspect of healthcare, Justin transitioned into the world of behavioral health staffing. Justin has found a passion in staffing where he has now worked for almost a decade—putting people to work when they need it the most. He is proud to root for the underdog and to place people in positions they can advance within.
Justin has been recognized as Employee of the Year (2019) and received the Game Changer Award (2018) which recognizes exceptional abilities and forward-thinking ways of working.
Justin is also a skilled handyman and welcomes unique construction projects, managing a side business flipping houses. He enjoys running, fishing, and playing with Maddick, his handsome Bernese Mountain Dog. Justin is | 166 |
Major Nelson is reporting something that fans of Crytek and free to play shooters will enjoy. The closed beta period for Warface is over and the game has now entered the open beta phase. The game is available for anyone with an Xbox and<|fim_middle|> and being reactive to the needs of the mission is critical." | Live Gold membership to download right now.
The open beta is bringing the three versus modes that gamers had to play in the closed beta. There are several maps to choose form and two different co-op settings. Crytek is promising that it will be rolling out a constant stream of updates for the game.
We are all sued to seeing high-end AAA titles from Crytek like Crysis, Warface seems to be a bit more low key. I guess it would be too much to hope for a game of Crysis quality at no cost.
Crytek is offering up some tips on getting into the game and fighting against the players that were around for the closed beta.
Crytek said, "In Versus games it's important to be fast and make maximum use of your chosen class' abilities. For example, an Engineer can set deadly traps with claymores, and a Medic can last a long time when keeping their health and damage ratio in check."
"As for Co-op, it highly depends on the map and the difficulty on which you play; it's more about each player's individual skill set that should match with the overall tactics of the team, but being in constant communication with the team, | 242 |
The $14.8 million proposal would spur the growth of enrollment and academic programs at the College, located in the southwest part of the<|fim_middle|> Board of Visitors, as well as the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, according to a release from U.Va-Wise.
The detailed proposal comes shortly after the election of Virginia Governor-Elect Ralph Northam (D), who campaigned on a $15 million plan to expand the academic programs at U.Va.-Wise as a way to help strengthen the economies of rural parts of the state. | state.
The College Board at the University of Virginia's College at Wise met last Friday in order to discuss and further structure a $14.8 million proposal to spur the growth of enrollment and academic programs at the College, located in the southwest part of the state.
If approved and successfully implemented, the proposal would include reducing tuition, increasing student recruitment and hiring an additional 110 faculty and staff. The proposal also includes plans to implement two new undergraduate programs and achieve accreditation for the College's existing business program, as well as plans to offer graduate programs in social work, teaching and computer science.
Kathy Still, director of news and media relations at U.Va-Wise, told The Cavalier Daily that the proposal was developed by the College's senior staff and is directly linked to the College's six-year Envisioning 2020 strategic plan, which was created to create clarity for the future of the College and implement strategic and successful development efforts.
Still expressed that the proposal would cultivate further growth within an already strong relationship between the University and U.Va.-Wise.
The proposal must be approved by the University's | 229 |
We only wish they were a little gayer...." She admired the facility of her own response for not more than a minute, for, giving her a kind, blindish smile, Marion walked draggingly across the hearthrug and took up her position at the disengaged side of the fireplace and rested her elbow on the mantelpiece, even as Richard was doing at its other end.
"Don't talk to me, you little trull, or you'll drive me to tear your eyes out. Take that." With the back of her disengaged hand she struck the girl's cheek. The mob roared approval at the prospect of a fight, and though the combatants were unfairly matched some of the ruffians urged the girl to retaliate. "Go for her hair, little un," one shouted. "There's plenty of it.
Fairfax contemplated his granddaughter with serene speculation. Lady Angleby had communicated to him the results of Mrs. Betts's inquisition. At a disengaged moment he noticed a wondering pathos in Bessie's eyes, which were following Mr. Cecil Burleigh's agile movements through the intricate mazes of the Lancers' Quadrilles.
"The trouble, my very dear friend, seems to me to be that I just must." Gently she disengaged her hands, and at that moment Mrs. Green arrived with the tea. "The dearest and kindest woman in London," said<|fim_middle|> Joan. Mrs.
Imagining that it must have been wet from the quantity of water shipped over all, the carpenter disengaged the rope-yarn from the rule, drew another from the junk lying on the deck, which the seamen were working up, and then carefully proceeded to plumb the well. He hauled it up, and, looking at it for some moments aghast, exclaimed, "Seven feet of water in the hold, by God."
The general methods of wood carving resemble somewhat those of stone carving; that is to say, flat relief, round relief, and entirely disengaged figures occur in both, while in both the drill is used as a starting point in many forms of design. As with the other arts, this of carving in wood emanated from the monastery. The monk Tutilo, of St. Gall, was very gifted.
Norris and her nieces were all well pleased with its revival, and an early day was named and agreed to, provided Mr. Crawford should be disengaged: the young ladies did not forget that stipulation, and though Mrs. Norris would willingly have answered for his being so, they would neither authorise the liberty nor run the risk; and at last, on a hint from Miss Bertram, Mr.
If Chaucer's personages had disengaged themselves from Chaucer's crowd, forgotten their common goal and shrine, and after sundry magnifications become, each in his turn, the centre of some Elizabethan play, and a few years later split into their elements, and so given birth to romantic poetry, I need not reverse the cinematograph.
Her sense of duty was so strong that she endeavored to grace in person all the peculiar festivals held in her honor, and this, now the harvest season was at hand, left her with hardly a moment disengaged. | Vane with a smile to Joan. "Since the days of my callow youth Mrs. Green has watched over me like a mother. . . ." "I expect he wanted some watching too, Mrs. Green," cried | 45 |
Ornette Coleman: Breaking the mould
on 13th June 2015 Featured Article, Opinion
Jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman has died at the age of 85, Getintothis' Paul Riley celebrates his legacy.
1959 is one of the most important years in the history of Jazz. Prior to this, Jazz had been defined by its adherence to certain styles and formats, most notably bebop and big band; it was all about improvising over the patterns of popular songs. Piano was a staple instrument in most jazz outfits, and the music generally followed a number of set chord changes with traditional harmonies.
In 1959 that mould was broken. Miles Davis released the quintessential Kind of Blue and began the sessions for 1960's Sketches of Spain. Days after playing on the Kind of Blue sessions, John Coltrane began recording Jazz Steps. Charles Mingus, one of the greatest jazz double bassists, recorded Ah-Um and Blues and Roots. Dave Brubeck's revolutionary Time Out featured songs in a mind-boggling number of time signatures.
Ornette Coleman's second album is yet another on that list of essential 1959 records.
Cheekily entitled The Shape of Jazz to Come, it featured a stripped down band consisting of drums, acoustic bass, pocket trumpet and alto sax. In dropping any of the conventional chord instruments such as guitar or piano, he opened the doors to a new world of improvisation and caused a storm of controversy and criticism, but that album title proved to be prophetic, as he blazed a trail that many others were to follow.
Born in Texas, 1930, Coleman attended Fort Worth's I.M. High School. From early on in his life, he cut his teeth on blues, Mexican American and country-western music, and earned the money for his first saxophone by shining shoes.
He was heavily influenced by the bebop tradition, mastering his alto saxophone by the time he was 17. Coleman's musical approach saw him kicked out of his high school band, after a performance of Sousa's Washington Post March to which he added an impromptu bebop improvisation.
He switched<|fim_middle|>27: most read music, gigs, features and stories of the week Top 10 autumnal albums – the essential records to soundtrack your autumn | to tenor sax, at the age of 19 joined a travelling show, and later went on to tour the country playing R&B. Again, his refusal to play jazz by the rules got him into trouble.
He was assaulted by audience members at a show in Baton Rouge, who told him 'You can't play like that,' before beating him up and throwing his saxophone off a cliff.
Replacing the lost instrument, he switched back to alto sax, which became was the instrument that he was most known for. Coleman is credited with the creation of free jazz, music in which he said "no one player has the lead; anyone can come out with it at any time." He pioneered a new style of playing, and released numerous exceptional albums in his prolific career.
His music was as revolutionary as it was divisive, but it is difficult to deny its brilliance. A constant innovator, he was awarded a lifetime achievement Grammy and a MacArthur Foundation 'genius' award, not to mention a Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 album Sound Grammar.
'I didn't know you had to learn to play. I didn't know music was a style and that it had rules and stuff, I thought it was just sound. I thought you had to play to play, and I still think that. Rid yourself of repeating and rid yourself of style. Then you're free.'
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Finally, as Getintothis pays tribute to a great of the jazz world, it would be remiss of us not to also give an honourable mention to another icon. Sir Christopher Lee – more loved for Dracula, James Bond, The Wicker Man and Lord of the Rings, but he was no stranger to a bit of heavy metal.
A fond farewell to a pair of genuine legends.
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Verizon will pay a $1.35 million fine and agreed to a three-year consent decree after the Federal Communications Commission said it found the company's wireless unit violated the privacy of its users.
Verizon Wireless agreed to get consumer consent before sending data about "supercookies" from its more than 100 million users, under a settlement. The largest U.S. mobile company inserted unique tracking codes in its users traffic for advertising purposes.
Supercookies are unique, undeletable identifiers<|fim_middle|> 2010 FCC regulation on Internet transparency.
Under the agreement, consumers must opt in to allow their information to be shared outside Verizon Wireless, and have the right to "opt out" of sharing information with Verizon.
Until March 2015, Verizon Wireless consumers could not opt out of the "supercookies," but after several U.S. senators raised concerns about the practice, the company agreed to allow an opt-out.
"Consumers care about privacy and should have a say in how their personal information is used, especially when it comes to who knows what they're doing online," said FCC Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc.
The FCC plans to unveil new proposed privacy protections for broadband as soon as later this month. | inserted into web traffic to identify customers in order to deliver targeted ads from Verizon and others.
The FCC said on Monday that Verizon Wireless failed to disclose the practice from late 2012 until 2014, violating a | 47 |
The word mantra has two parts: man, which in Sanskrit means mind, and tra, which means instrument. A mantra is therefore an instrument of the mind, a powerful sound or vibration that you can use to enter a deep state of meditation.
Silently repeating a mantra as you meditate is a powerful way to enter the silence of the mind. As you repeat the mantra, it creates a mental vibration that allows the mind to experience deeper levels of awareness. The mantra then becomes increasingly abstract and indistinct, until you're finally led into the field of pure consciousness from which the vibration arose—your spirit.
These days we hear a lot of talk about the mantras used for meditation. Some people say a random word is best, others recommend the universal sound Aum or Om. But what about the mantras used in the Transcendental Stress Management technique? Are they generic or special? Secular or religious? Useless or effective? And where do they come from? These are important questions so let's find an answer for them.
The Transcendental Stress Management technique is an effortless mental procedure whereby an individual experiences increasingly quieter levels of thinking, leading to<|fim_middle|> and one of them is the mantra. As part of personal instruction each student receives a suitable thought/sound or mantra for their meditation practice. These mantras are meaningless sounds which serve as the delicate vehicle on which the mind glides through deeper, more silent levels of the thinking process. For maximum effectiveness, students are encouraged to refrain from speaking or writing down their mantra as this has a damaging and dulling effect on this highly delicate and refined meditation tool. Also, there is a limited pool of mantras that each TSM teacher draws upon to select the appropriate sound for each student. So it's entirely possible that some students could have the same mantra.
The mantra is selected by the Transcendental Stress Management teacher based on the suitability and harmonious effect it will create for each student when properly used. Also, the technique of how to use the mantra is just as crucial as the proper selection of the mantra/sound itself. It's important to note that the mantras are used for their sound quality only and have no assigned meaning. These two important aspects, suitability and meaninglessness, allow the mind to be lively but undirected at the same time, so it can sink deep within, 'transcend' thought and experience its own silent, inner nature. This is the process called 'transcending' which takes place during the Transcendental Stress Management technique.
To understand this principle more clearly lets examine the word 'flower'. A word has two aspects: the sound value and the English meaning. When we say or think the word 'flower' we automatically consider the word's meaning, its qualities and context. We might think of the color, the smell, the quantity, the location and so on and these thoughts about the flower engage and hold the mind on the surface, conscious thinking level and do not allow the mind to fathom its inner nature.
Therefore by intention and by design, the mantra used in the Transcendental Stress Management technique is a sound that has no meaning attributed to it either by the teacher or their student. At the same time it should be clear, that if a science, religion or cultural group were to assign a meaning to a mantra, in the past or future, it would still have no bearing on the use of that mantra in the instruction or practice of the Transcendental Stress Management technique. For centuries "google" has been a delightful, non-sensical sound, uttered by babies. More recently however it has been attributed a meaning; the name of a worldwide, Internet search engine. However this new adult meaning has no bearing on a baby's use of that same sound. Likewise mantras are sounds that are meaningless both to the Transcendental Stress Management teacher and the student even though other people, cultures or religions may or may not have assigned a meaning to them. To further illustrate this point let's consider the word 'flat'. In the USA this sound has a meaning associated with the shape of an object. In England however, 'flat' also refers to an apartment. Therefore, each respective culture utilizes sound and assigns meanings for their own localized purpose. Other languages, cultures and people who also use that same sound or word, are completely indifferent to the meaning assigned to that sound/word by other countries or cultures. The same is true with respect to the Transcendental Stress Management technique. It utilizes specific mantras/sounds completely irrespective of their intended meaning in other languages or cultural settings. The Transcendental Stress Management technique and the mantras/sounds it utilizes have their origin in the ancient Vedic tradition which predates all religions and cultures, including the Hindu religion.
The Vedic tradition is a universal body of complete and timeless knowledge encompassing the total field of natural law, or underlying intelligence, that governs the universe. Because the Vedas and the Vedic tradition are ancient and universal, many of its sounds, names and principals are found in many countries, cultures and religions around the world. The ancient Vedic tradition of India is the oldest continuous tradition of knowledge on earth. In 2003 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed the Vedic tradition (specifically the recitation of the Vedic hymns) a "masterpiece of intangible heritage to humanity". The TSM technique and its mantras are derived from this same Vedic tradition. Over thousands of years, the technique of Transcendental Stress Management contained in the Vedas had been misinterpreted and therefore lost its effectiveness. It was then revived in the 1940's, to its original and highly effective form, by Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, Guru Dev, who was the most recent custodian and representative of the Vedic tradition in recent history.
So we conclude therefore, that the mantras used in the Transcendental Stress Management technique not only have their roots in a timeless tradition of knowledge but that they are also simple and powerful, ancient and unique, meaningful and meaningless, all at the same time! | the experience of total silence; the source of thought, at the deepest level the mind. The technique of Transcendental Stress Management has many unique features | 31 |
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The Philosophies of Software Languages, from Java to JavaScript
Publicado en Coder stories
20 mar 2019 • 8 min
Adam Zachary Wasserman
CEO @ Neonto
In the 1990s, something new was happening: The World Wide Web had arrived and was transforming the Internet.
At first, websites were static, with limited styling and graphic design. To see an example of what a typical website looked like in the mid-1990s, take a look at C2.com: It hasn't changed since it was first created in March 1995 (and by the way, it was also the original Wiki). Although it was technically possible to have a dynamic website using the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and Perl or PHP, the user interface lacked the sophistication that most people felt was required for an application. Remember, this was also the period when personal-computer users had only just become familiar with graphic user interfaces such as Windows 95 or Macintosh and their features, which included the scrolling lists, menus, radio buttons, checkboxes, pop-ups, and all of the other rich user interface elements that we take for granted today.
However, in August 1995, Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, unveiled Oracle Webserver on stage at the Boston Macworld expo (at which this author was in attendance): It was a seminal moment in the history of the web. Ellison presented a bold vision, a reversal of the client/server model of distributed applications that were popular at the time. In the client/server model, business rules and data transformation were handled by "thick" applications on personal computers, with the server mostly dedicated to database activities. Ellison suggested that the design of applications would swing back towards the centralized model of a "mainframe" with "dumb terminals," with Oracle Webserver taking the place of the mainframe and web browsers taking the place of dumb terminals. It was a compelling and exciting vision and, as we can see in retrospect, a prophetic vision, too. Unlike Perl and PHP, Oracle's PL/SQL was a language that enterprise IT departments were familiar and comfortable with. It was also exceedingly robust.
Oracle was a company almost as trusted and established in the corporate IT world as IBM, and so its endorsement of the web, and the delivery of tools to build websites, sent a signal to the corporate world that web applications were something to be taken seriously. This indirectly led to the popularity of our next language, Java, aided by Oracle and Sun Microsystems' fervent support (along with Apple, IBM, and Netscape) of a concept they called the network computer, an inexpensive computer that would be the modern equivalent of a dumb terminal. The development of Java would prove to be an integral part of this vision.
In the early 1990s, Sun Microsystems, with its popular Unix and SPARC microprocessor-based workstations and servers, had declared war on the Microsoft Windows and Intel partnership. It hoped that the Unix-SPARC combination could be used in personal computers, a move that would increase the market (and profits) of its recently developed SPARC processor a hundredfold. It joined forces with ON Technology, the company founded by software entrepreneur Mitch Kapor, to create an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
That partnership eventually dissolved without bearing much fruit, although Sun did end up inheriting some software: A Smalltalk clone written in C that included a virtual machine, an integrated development environment (IDE), and a syntax. It was originally developed in C++, but was ultimately delivered using Objective-C, and it became the foundation for Java. Its virtual machine (VM), like all VMs, emulated an imaginary central processing unit (CPU) by converting its virtual opcodes to the real opcodes of the physical CPU it was being run on. One could write as many VMs as needed, ones that ran on IBM CPUs, ones that ran on Sun SPARC, ones that ran on Intel chips, and ones that ran on the ARM chips in your phone. Once your program had been converted into the generic opcodes of the VM, it was able to run on all of these platforms.
When Java was released in 1996, the Sun marketers made a really big deal about it, but Java was not the first language that was able to run on many platforms without a rewrite, and it was not to be the last. Long before Java, there had been ANSI C, UCSD Pascal, and, of course, Smalltalk. And now we have JavaScript, HTML, and a dozen other languages that very effectively run one source code on any platform.
At the time, a team led by the Sun programmer Patrick Naughton was targeting the market for "set-top boxes" and decided to make a consumer device, specifically a device for interactive televisions, that they tried to sell to cable-TV companies. They decided to power this box with an operating system based on the Smalltalk clone, which they code-named Oak, making it highly optimized for performance (consumer electronics do not have a lot of CPU power or memory).
Even though the set-top-box project never worked out, the software that the team designed presented a compelling use case. Designed as it was for television-set-top boxes controlled by a central authority (such as a cable-TV company), it was good at two things: Operating in a very small memory space and sending programs as objects (called Java applets) across a slow network. This is what motivated the web-browser company Netscape to officially adopt it and include a Java VM in its browser. It was actually quite a good decision, as it allowed browsers to become delivery mechanisms for small applications that communicated with larger applications on a server. It is what made web-based applications possible, because the first versions of HTML couldn't support a rich enough user interface to allow web applications to compete successfully with desktop applications.
In summary, Java's philosophy was to be lightweight (which it was at first), and to provide a rich user interface in a small applet that could be "sent down the wire" on demand. It was supported by a very large, stable company that would be around forever (or so it seemed at the time). And, unlike Smalltalk, it could be used for free. As web-based applications became the norm, adoption of Java by IT departments of large organizations increased exponentially—and, perhaps predictably, so did the language's size and complexity. Here's what the irrepressible Larry Wall, creator of Perl, had to say about it in 2011:
"Java is sort of the COBOL of the 21st century, I think. It's kind of heavyweight, verbose, and everyone loves to hate it—though not everyone will admit that. But managers kind of like it because it looks like you're getting a lot done. If 100 lines of Java code accomplish a task, then it looks like you've written 100 lines, even though, in a different language, it might only take 5 lines."
Just like Perl, Python started as a scripting language. Its author, Guido van Rossum, had the same goal as Wall: To create a language to fill the gap between shell-scripting languages and one like C, with which you could write an entire application.
Van Rossum added a few extra philosophical concerns. Famously, he wished to create it as a "batteries included" language. Today that does not seem so special, but in the late 1980s, when he first started thinking about Python, most languages were a formal specification written up as a paper and released without standard libraries. In creating Python, he wished to make sure that commonly performed operations (for a developer) could be executed with as little as one line of code. To that end, he designed Python to be extremely sparse, without the need for boilerplate, or setup, or any ritual incantations. And he planned extensive standard libraries that could be loaded as needed (to avoid bloat), to perform commonly used functions such as file or network access.
Finally, he had a strong feelings about aesthetics and readability, and consciously tried to remedy all of the sources of ugliness and ambiguity that he had experienced with Fortran, ALGOL, and the language that he had previously worked on, ABC.
Python had a slow start, and had a small (but devoted) community for many years. However, after 2004, it started to gain momentum, aided no doubt by Google's acquisition of YouTube and its subsequent adoption of Python as an "official" language, even going so far as to hire van Rossum. It is now the most popular language in the world by some measures.
Another programmer who wanted to balance functional programming with imperative programming was Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto. Like van Rossum, he wanted an updated, Perl-like language, and he was aware of Python. However, he "didn't think [Python] was a true object-oriented language" (this changed somewhat in later releases but, prior to version 2.2, Python was not truly consistently object oriented) and he "really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language."
Matsumoto's syntax was influenced by Lisp, but he did away with macros. He added objects and messaging inspired by Smalltalk, and he rounded off the whole affair with some inspiration from Perl. So it would be fair to say that the philosophy behind this language was also about filling the gap between shell-scripting languages and a language like C with one you could write an entire application with—but, this time, with objects.
Designed and developed in the mid-1990s, Ruby enjoyed a short period of tremendous popularity from 2006 to 2012, when a great number of start-ups used it, but it has since been eclipsed by Python and our next language: JavaScript.
In April 1995, Brendan Eich found himself trying to make the best out of a bad situation. He had just started working at Netscape and had been given the mission of creating a scripting language for its browser.
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EnglishFrançaisEspañolČeštinaSlovenčina | He tried to infuse the project with a specific philosophy: He started with the intention of creating a lightweight Self implementation, which is another way of saying a lightweight Smalltalk implementation, since Self originally began as a stripped-down version of Smalltalk. The philosophy therefore would have been about the same aesthetic tradition as Smalltalk: Simplicity, composability, uniformity.
However, Alan Kay, the designer of most of the early versions of Smalltalk, had been able to explore the limits of a well-defined vision with practically unrestricted time and money before sitting down to write his language in 8 days. Eich had no such luxury. In the 3 years prior to joining Netscape, he had been writing low-level micro-kernel code for a chip manufacturer that you have never heard of, rather than exploring a grand vision with few constraints. He was given 10 days to produce an entire language, and little flexibility to change it after that point. With JavaScript, he certainly achieved composability, and one could argue that it is relatively simple, however not many programmers would call it particularly uniform. Its behavior can occasionally be surprising, and programmers who write it for a living have to spend a considerable amount of time learning its peculiarities.
Shortly after JavaScript's creation, Netscape submitted it to Ecma International, which took ownership of the evolution of the language specification.
It is important to note that, although JavaScript enjoyed considerable popularity almost right from start, for many years this popularity was in a very restricted domain—it was almost exclusively used to control user-interface behavior of a web page. For example, it was often used to validate user input, such as ensuring that a numerical input was within a certain range, or that a string input had a certain format.
Use of JavaScript evolved first in 2005, when Jesse James Garrett released a white paper in which he coined the term Ajax and described a set of technologies for dynamic web pages, of which JavaScript was the backbone. It then evolved again in 2009/2010, with the creation of the node.js (by Ryan Dhal) and express.js (by TJ Holowaychuk) frameworks, which made programming "server-side" applications in JavaScript more accessible to the average programmer.
JavaScript is an interesting language, insomuch as its philosophy has been a moving target. Eich's original philosophy has arguably been superseded by Ecma's committee-led direction, which, as so often happens with committee-led developments, has ended up trying to make it all things to all people. Nevertheless, there is no denying the key position JavaScript has in the programming landscape today.
This chapter in the series covers the languages that most people use today. However, it's important not to ignore the future. In the next, and final, chapter, we will look at a few languages that are increasing in popularity and may take on a more significant role in the years to come.
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Gary Rehm was three months shy of retirement when he died on the USS Fitzgerald last Saturday. At 37, he was by far the oldest of the seven sailors who perished. According to his uncle, Rehm called the other sailors on the ship his "kids." When the ship docked stateside near his Virginia home, he invited those who were far from home to join him on holidays.
When the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container ship, Rehm said, "If my kids die, I'm going to die." By various accounts, he saved at least 20 of them. He then went down to save more and perished with six others.
Jesus said, "Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13).<|fim_middle|> his only and blameless Son, he must place his highest value on total communion with you." When I read this sentence, I noted in my journal, "Intimacy with God cost him everything, so it must be worth everything." | he sailors saved by Gary Rehm will spend the rest of their lives knowing that someone loved them enough to give his life for them. Imagine the sense of personal worth and significance such knowledge would bring.
Actually, you can know the feeling personally: "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:8). Now we have a choice: we can assess ourselves by what we do or by what God has done.
We live in a culture that measures us by our performance. Commenting on the special election in Georgia, today's Washington Post says of Republican Karen Handel, "She won, so she's a winner." You probably remember that the Cubs won last year's World Series. Do you remember the team that lost?
Sociologist Charles Horton Cooley unfortunately spoke for many of us when he stated, "I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am." But there's a better way.
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Celebrating Oktoberfest in San Diego
By Monica Garske • Published at 3:48 pm on September 27, 2014
Fall is here, which means Oktoberfest follows. In San Diego, many communities will host their own versions of the German festival that celebrates fun, food and, of course, really good beer. So, grab your stein and toast with friends in America's Finest City.
El Cajon Oktoberfest:
The Oktoberfest party began in El Cajon this weekend and continues Oct. 3 through Oct. 5 on South Mollison Avenue. Attendees can enjoy authentic German food – including bratwurst, ox-on-the-spit and pretzels – as well as beer and cocktails. This event is presented by the German American Societies of San Diego, Inc., and also boasts live music from the Bavarian band, Guggenbach-Buam, straight from Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The band will play classics like polkas, waltzes and other famous beer-drinking tunes. The fest runs from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday.
La Mesa Oktoberfest:
The annual Oktoberfest in downtown La Mesa brings a weekend-long, family-friendly street fair to the East County community featuring more than 400 local vendors, tons of food, a beer garden and live music. The party is held between Spring Street and La Mesa Boulevard, with this year's bash happening on Oct. 3 through Oct. 5 – from 10 a.m. to <|fim_middle|> family-friendly area featuring carnival acts, face painting and other fun for the kids. Local eats will include traditional Bavarian sausages, pretzels and German potato salad. A traditional polka Oktoberfest band named Papa Oom Pah Pah will headline the event and several local bands will also hit the stage. | 9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. This Oktoberfest celebration typically brings more than 186,000 revelers to La Mesa each year. Parking can be difficult, so consider parking at a nearby trolley stop such as Grossmont Center or the Lemon Grove Depot and take the Orange Line to the Spring Street Station, which is right near the fest.
Ocean Beach Oktoberfest:
The OB Oktoberfest will bring the German celebration to San Diego's beach community on Oct. 10 and Oct. 11 with live entertainment, food, crafts and a beer garden. The shindig includes lots of contests and activities: German beer tasting, a Ms. Oktoberfest competition, a stein holding event, a bratwurst eating competition and a "Sausage Toss," in which participants take turns tossing a sausage into a tub.
Carlsbad Rotary Oktoberfest:
Representing for the North County, the Carlsbad Oktoberfest will be held Oct. 4 from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Holiday Park between Tamarack Avenue and Carlsbad Village Drive off Interstate 5. Admission is free and, for those looking to feast, dinner tickets can be purchased for $12 at the door, which includes a meal catered by Carlsbad's Tip Top Meats, complete with apple strudel for dessert. Entertainment includes live music and dancing ("Chicken Dance, anyone?) as well as an Oktoberfest pumpkin patch and pumpkin decorating contest for kids, face painting and an antique fire truck. Parking is limited, but there's a free shuttle service to the fest picking up and dropping off all day at the southwest corner of Westfield's Plaza Camino Real.
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The hip, Uptown community of South Park will host its first-ever free "Parktoberfest" party on Oct. 11, from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., at the Gala Food parking lot on Grape Street. Revelers can enjoy a massive beer garden with German-style suds from local breweries like Stone and Ballast Point, as well as a | 506 |
The top network inventors of all time
A look back at the network industry's greatest inventors
Deni Connor (Network World) 03 July, 2007 15:17
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Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.
The show on which Foreman appears also inspired us to take a look back at the network industry's greatest inventors. And who knows, maybe the winner of American Inventor will someday join our list.
Inventors: Herman Andrew Affel and Lloyd Espenschied
Invention: Coaxial cable -- 1929
The story: Affel and Espenschied invented what they called the Concentric Conduction System at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1929. (OK, we could have included Alexander Graham Bell on our list, but didn't want it to be too predictable). Co<|fim_middle|> with the router hardware. He went on to co-found Sun, where he is chief scientist.
Inventors: Mark Dean and Dennis Moeller
Invention: Computer peripheral bus -- 1984
The story: Dean and Moeller created the PC Bus for attaching peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers to the personal computer. Technology genes unveiled themselves early for Dean, who built a tractor from scratch as a child; at IBM, Dean is a Fellow. Moeller also is with IBM. Without their technology, iTunes would have to be dowloaded to an iPod through a telephone connection. | axial makes it possible to carry thousands of phone calls on long-distance circuits. It was first commercially used in 1940 and a year later, AT&T used it to establish a transmission system between Minneapolis and Steven's Point, Wisconsin, that could carry 480 telephone conversations and one television program. Coaxial gave way in 1983 to fiber-optic cabling. Coaxial cable also helped LANs get off the ground
Inventors: Paul Baran and Donald Davies
Invention: Digital packet switching -- 1950s
The story: Baran, the brains behind digital packet switching, came up with a replacement for circuit-switched networks with his Packetized Ensemble Modem. Baran's work at RAND resulted in a distributed mesh network that could reconfigure itself around non-working areas. His work was in response to U.S. concerns about its defense system surviving a first strike from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In Baran's and Davies' packet switched network, communications were broken into packets that would be rejoined at their destination and nodes were interconnected to many other nodes so that data could be transmitted over alternate paths. In 1964, Baran also came up with the idea of a doorway gun detector, like those used in airports.
Inventor: Robert Metcalfe
Invention: Ethernet -- 1973
The story: Metcalfe invented the Ethernet protocol at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973. The patent was filed as Multipoint Data Communication System with Collision Detection. A quarter billion Ethernet switch ports now ship annually. Metcalfe, who founded 3Com on the heels of his invention, has gone on to fund other companies as a general partner at Polaris Venture Partners.
Inventors: Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn
Invention: TCP/IP -- 1974
The story: Cerf and Kahn designed the Internet architecture and the protocols that let computers access and use it. Known as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), the suite of protocols became the standard way to interconnect and use the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and today's modern networks. Cerf is now vice president and chief Internet evangelist at Google. Kahn is chairman of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, a nonprofit company involved in the development of the National Information Infrastructure.
Inventors: William Yeager and Andy Bechtolsheim
Invention: Multi-protocol router software and hardware --1980-1981
The story: Yeager, an engineer at Stanford University, was charged with linking the engineering and computer science networks across the campus. He developed the EtherTIP routing code. Yeager claims he permitted Len Bosack, the director of Stanford's Computer Science Department, to use the source code. Unbeknownst to Yeager, Bosak and Sandy Lerner incorporated Cisco Systems and used the router source code as the basis of the first Cisco IOS. Bechtolsheim, a Stanford Computer Science Department student, came up | 632 |
Interview with the Vampire Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2: Review
October 2, 2022 ~ Metacrone
The updated TV series adaptation of Anne Rice's novel "Interview with the Vampire" and its many sequels is finally here. I'm trying to find ways to sound like a grown up about it, but I first read the novel when I was 16 and that girl needs to gush and scream for a minute: Aaaaahh!!! It's so good!!! I love it!!! Louis and Lestat are perfect! They are the people I've always imagined and interact in the ways I envisioned when I read the books over and over. They have so much chemistry. And it's gorgeous, so lush and beautiful to listen to and watch. ❤️❤️❤️
Okay. Moving on. Now for a more adult review.
Season 1 of Interview with the<|fim_middle|> in the later novels. This is where a filmed adaptation is not the same as a book and we fans need to accept that some changes have to be made for continuity's sake and because what works in one medium doesn't necessarily work in another. Thankfully, we don't lose Louis' narration, which is such an integral part of the story. He's given a fresh perspective that allows him to recall what he felt at the time while also being more objective now that he's had extra time to process his experiences.
The setting remains in New Orleans, but the time period when Louis and Lestat meet has been updated from 1791 to 1910. Following his father's death, Louis has taken over the family's finances and has found it necessary to supplement their sugar plantation income with the more liquid cash he makes from owning brothels.
Another change the producers made is to turn the du Lac family into mixed race Creoles, living in the Jim Crow South, which limits Louis' options and adds to his existential dread. Racism doesn't end when he becomes a vampire and it becomes one of the many sources of contention between Louis and Lestat.
The first episode shows the life Louis' is living before Lestat's finds him, then follows their relationship from the first time Lestat spots Louis in the street to the night Lestat turns Louis into a vampire. Louis' human life and family and his state of mind is explored much more fully than in the book. Jacob Anderson finds just the right balance in Louis' complicated personality, letting his intelligence, humanity, humor, misery and recklessness swirl together until he's overcome by desperation bordering on insanity.
Lestat's background isn't explored as clearly, but his entire story shouldn't be told yet, since it's reserved for later books. Lestat has a love of mystery, danger, excitement and power, which all lead to him withholding information from Louis in order to control and toy with him. We do get Easter eggs and tidbits of his history here and there, enough to explain, but not excuse, his attitude and need for control. As he says, he has a cruelty that's all his own, which he loves to flaunt. But he also has a joie de vivre that Sam Reid brings to life from his first moment on screen, making his hold on Louis understandable despite his glaring flaws.
After watching the first two episodes, I'm excited to see where the rest of this season goes (and season 2, since it's already been renewed). The series seems to be maintaining the basic structure of the book but expanding and adapting it to suit the new time period and fill in gaps in the book's narrative. I wasn't sure that it was possible for anyone to manage the True Blood meets historical gothic romance novel tone of the books, but I think Rolin Jones might have done it.
Season 1 of Interview with the Vampire airs on AMC and streams on AMC+ starting 10/2/22. The finale will air 11/13/22.
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Pingback: Interview with the Vampire Season 1 Episode 1: In Throes of Increasing Wonder… Recap – Metawitches | Vampire is a 7 episode series on cable channels AMC and BBC Amercia and also streaming on AMC+. It's based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Anne Rice, with influences from the rest of The Vampire Chronicles, her universe of follow up books. The series is created and executive produced by Rolin Jones (Weeds, The Exorcist, Friday Night Lights). Anne Rice was also an executive producer until she passed away midway through production. Other executive producers include her son and frequent coauthor Christopher Rice, Mark Johnson and Alan Taylor. The show stars Jacob Anderson as Louis, Sam Reid as Lestat, Bailey Bass as Claudia and Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy.
The book and series tell the story of Louis de Pointe du Lac (my favorite vampire name EVER, so romantic), a Louisiana plantation owner who meets French vampire Lestat de Lioncourt during a difficult period in his life. They become close and eventually Lestat turns Louis into a vampire. Their relationship is volatile from the start and that doesn't change after Louis is turned, but they also find something with each other that neither has found with anyone else.
I read this book when it was first released in paperback in the 70s and never thought the romantic relationship was subtext. Instead, I always thought Louis was a stand in for Anne Rice, the way Lestat is a stand in for her husband, Stan, and Claudia is a stand in for the young daughter she lost to leukemia before writing the book. She wrote the original novel the way forbidden and many sanctioned relationships were written at the time, and still are, without putting the emphasis on sex, but rather on sensuality and romance.
There's plenty of passion in the novel without it becoming explicit. What many seem to miss is that the actual forbidden character was an adult female vampire who was Lestat's equal. Ann Rice had to wait until the 1980s and the novel's sequels to write those characters. She got her revenge with Queen of the Damned, in which her anger is so powerful and intense (and triggering for me) that I've only been able to get through the entire book once.
The producers' real challenge in adapting the first novel is the change in tone in the universes of novels that came later. As in the TV series, the first novel is told in the first person in the form of an interview given in 1973 by the vampire Louis to journalist Daniel Molloy. Molloy is in his twenties in the book. The series has cleverly updated the present day of the show to 2022 by including the original interview as canon, but tweaking its outcome.
Instead of publishing the interview and seeking out other vampires, in the series Molloy became frightened and botched the original interview. He was also so stoned that he doesn't remember it- or so he says. I suspect there could be some dissociation involved as well, since Louis bit him and the supernatural can be difficult to accept as reality. Or so I hear. 😉
Nearly 50 years later, Molloy is nearing the end of his journalism career, his health is failing and his marriages have ended in divorce. Louis is also in a different place- specifically, an expensive penthouse in Dubai, customized to his needs. The events of Interview with the Vampire take place when both Louis and Lestat are going through rough patches in their lives and they are both alone and depressed. These shared feelings of despair and self-destructiveness bring them together to form a permanent but tempestuous bond.
They also turn Louis into an unreliable narrator in the book.
This is clear even within the novel, if one reads closely. Louis isn't quite as passive or innocent as he'd like to believe. He tends to lie to himself and skim over details that would reflect badly on him. (But don't get me wrong- I have been in love with Louis him since I was 16. Lestat is the evil villain here and I will believe that until my dying breath, no matter how many books and series retcon the truth. Team Louis 4Ever😉) In the book, Lestat is going through a difficult time for his own reasons, and he's a monster at the best of times, but it's also true that his charm, bravery and generosity don't come through the way they do in later books.
The TV series, which will hopefully continue past the first novel, needs to stay true to the spirit of the original but also incorporate Louis and Lestat's full personalities, as filled out | 945 |
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Here's What Fund Flows Can Tell Us About the Market Cycle
By Joel Litman
The start of a new year is often a time to reflect on big-picture things, like your investing portfolio…
For decades, the "60/40" portfolio model has been a popular structure. This "one size fits all" portfolio has an allocation of 60% equities and 40% bonds.
The goal of the portfolio is to diversify across the economy and various asset classes. Bonds tend to be less volatile than equities… and during times of market volatility, they'll keep performance from spiking in either direction. They also offer a bit of interest income.
<|fim_middle|> At market tops, passive portfolio rebalancers will often be sellers. At the market bottoms, active investors will likely be big sellers as capital is pulled out of funds.
Looking at equity fund flows over the past decade confirms this trend…
Two of the biggest outflows took place when active investors were skittish. However, the market shot up higher soon after both instances.
In December 2018, active investors were concerned about the trade war with China, rising interest rates, whether the Trump administration's tax cuts were inflating companies' earnings, and whether the country was about to tip into a recession.
Additionally, last March also saw a large outflow. Investors were worried about the pandemic causing waves of companies to fail and economies dipping into deep recessions.
Looking back, both of these events were signs of capitulation. When active investors panic and bail out, it's a sign of a market bottom and can give investors the confidence to buy the dip.
At the same time, the major selling in August and September as the market was rallying might have been a sign it was only a short-term top. The fact that selling rallied indicates it was just programmatic trading to keep that 60/40 portfolio steady, as opposed to investors panicking.
It also signals that active investors weren't piling into the market to offset those 60/40 rebalancers. This could be a sign of euphoria… and reason to be concerned about the market.
However, the market is moving higher because fundamentals justify the climb. Its ability to move higher even while fund flows are rebalancing away from it highlights the strength of the market's tailwinds and should give investors comfort to continue to ride the rally.
Joel Litman
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Protected by copyright laws of the United States and international treaties. This website may only be used pursuant to the subscription agreement and any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including on the world wide web), in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Altimetry. | Although the 60/40 portfolio has performed satisfactorily since its inception, plenty of financial professionals have deemed it dead.
Some investors are concerned that the structure isn't able to generate high enough returns. This is in large part due to perception that the large bond allocation will drag down the portfolio's overall returns – bond yields have been declining and are far lower than in the 1980s and 1990s, when the 60/40 structure was at peak popularity.
Additionally, some investing professionals are turned off by the correlation between bonds and stocks. Macroeconomic conditions and company fundamentals affect both bonds and stocks… But as interest rates get closer and closer to zero, bonds and stocks start acting more alike.
Because of this, during periods of panic, the two asset classes move in tandem – defeating the purpose of the diversified portfolio approach. During the initial market panic in March, prices for both tumbled amidst fears about growth and liquidity.
Yet many retail investors and institutions still employ the strategy. And with good reason, as the structure's negatives appear to be greatly exaggerated…
The 60/40 portfolio performed well last year. It had a higher return than the global hedge-fund index and was in line with the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 Index. This simple framework isn't as bad as it's made out to be.
And yet, keep in mind that the overall structure can be customized based on the user…
Here at Altimetry, we believe in a slightly altered approach.
We think the 60/40 portfolio method should be optimized for when the investor needs to access their funds. The actual structure we espouse – what we call the "Timetable Investor framework" – is a bit more nuanced… but put simply, for those who don't need short-term access to most of their money, an 80/20 allocation may make more sense. For others who need to access more of their funds sooner, the ideal portfolio might be 30/70.
Nonetheless, the 60/40 portfolio has shown resiliency and it continues to have a strong pull on the institutional investing community.
The 60/40 portfolio is so widespread that it can even affect broad market returns…
Many institutions need to rebalance their portfolios monthly to keep a correct allocation. If equities had a great month, investors need to sell stocks and buy bonds to sustain their desired allocation. This means the 60/40 institutional portfolio tends to sell into strength.
At the same time, due to human nature, actively managed portfolios often sell when stocks are cratering. After all, someone has to be selling when stocks or bonds are dropping to cause them to fall in price.
Due to these patterns, equity fund flows can help tell where market tops and bottoms are.
Equity fund flows measure the net inflow or outflow into equities. Folks might assume institutional investors are able to time the market and sell high and buy low.
However, this is rarely the case. A variety of factors affect the stock market – politics, interest rates, investor sentiment, and a plethora of other events can cause volatility.
Because of this, we suggest looking at a mosaic of data to understand the market.
Past patterns in volume and stock price can be one of those tools to help us gain insights. | 691 |
Kenneth Dixon Jr Booked with Burglary - St. John Sheriff's Dept.
On Friday, June 26, 2015, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office deputies booked Kenneth Dixon Jr., 35, of St. Rose for the January burglary of a residence on West Eighth Street in Reserve. Investigators sent evidence collected from the crime scene to the Louisiana State Police Crime Laboratory for analysis. Based on the examination results, detectives identified Dixon as a suspect for the burglary and obtained a judicial court ordered arrest warrant.
Kenn<|fim_middle|>. He remains in custody in lieu of a $16,500.00 bond. Dixon was arrested thirteen times in St. John the Baptist Parish since November 2002. | eth Dixon Jr. was transferred from the St. Charles Parish Nelson Coleman Corrections Facility to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sherman Walker Correctional Center and booked with simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling, simple criminal damage to property, violation of probation/parole, and on a fugitive warrant for Jefferson Parish | 61 |
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For better or worse, over the past fifty years, tastes in Argentina have veered between two poles: Bordeaux and the Napa Valley. However, slowly but surely other areas of the world have been establishing their own parameters. Burgundy has become a beacon for Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and cold areas while the Rhône Valley and the Mediterranean coast are being seen as models for different styles of wine made in sunnier areas.
Over the past decade in fact, the Mediterranean world, a hub of cultural exchange as the great Fernand Braudel described it in his classic history, has become a rich source of inspiration for producers from the Southern cone whose terroirs are quite different from the cold climate and calcium soils of Burgundy. Southern Rhône and the AOCs on the southern coast such as Bandol have proved to be treasure troves of new ideas for Argentinian producers. Times never stop changing: the Bordeaux-Napa hegemony is seeing itself challenged by other regions and styles.
It's all down to the light: mediterranean grapes
The Mediterranean has a couple of major similarities to Argentinian terroirs: sunlight and thermal range. Put plainly, northern Rhône is a 3 on the Winkler scale, while southern part is 4, just like the lower Uco Valley and Luján de Cuyo respectively.
'When you think about it,' says Alejandro Sejanovich, who bottles a Garnacaha in Salta that has turned thinking about wines from the Calchaquí Valley upside down, 'we have more in common with those areas than Bordeaux and Burgundy.' And yet up until recently varietal models were based on those two regions almost exclusively. That is now about to change.
In fact, in the Uco Valley and the East of Mendoza several iconic Mediterranean grape varieties have either been around for decades or are being planted now. In addition to Moscatel, Syrah and Viognier, which have always been a part of the country's wine heritage, Garnacha, Mourvedre, Carignan, Marsanne and Rousanne, along with Italian varieties such as Greco Nero and Cordisco, have been planted in the last ten years. 'They're well suited to these conditions and have been for centuries,' says Fernando Buscema, Director of the Catena Institute of Wine, who is looking very closely into the potential for Garnacha, one of the most famous Mediterranean grape varieties.
In all, 485 hectares have been planted of the varieties mentioned, of which Greco Nero represents 345 and Cordisco 80, but while only a few hectares have been set aside for the others, the results are promising. In the harsh sun of western Argentina, grape vines used to high temperatures and a lot of solar radiation are at an advantage compared to the traditional Burgundy and Bordeaux varieties.
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'We're beginning to understand the virtues of our terroirs,' says Mariana Onofri, whose project has been pioneering some of these varieties in Lavalle, to the north of Mendoza, especially Carignan and Mourvedre which have already reached the market.
The key is that in addition to adapting well, they also allow winemakers to offer new styles of wine. Pablo Durigutti makes Cordisco for Proyecto Las Compuertas: 'I was seduced by the balance between fruit, freshness and herbs, which you can achieve here at low levels of alcohol.' The profile isn't dissimilar to the wines of Etna.
Meanwhile, some Mourvedres are looking to echo the concentrated, juicy profile one finds on the Côte d'Azur. 'That's what I love about this variety: it's ripe but preserves the freshness,' says Cristian Moore who makes it in the Corazón de Sol line as a part of a GSM with grapes from Los Chacayes. The real leaders of the movement, however, are Ver Sacrum. They paved the way for these varieties, especially a GSM made along the same lines.
However, Garnacha is the most advanced thus far. With 25 hectares grown in warm and slightly colder climates, there are currently a dozen versions on the market.
Setting aside the low number of hectares and relatively few bottles currently available, the really interesting aspect of the Mediterranean grape varieties in Argentina is that it is offering new styles of wine made by an avant garde group of producers. It'll take a while before we see them occupying a major share of producers' output but, like all trends in the history of winemaking, it's only a matter of time.
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Governors Ball reveals 2016 lineup: Kanye West, The Strokes, Beck to headline
The Killers, M83, HAIM, Robyn, Eagles of Death Metal, more also set to play NYC festival<|fim_middle|> 5th at Randall's Island Park.
Three past Governors Ball headliners return to lead this year's lineup. Three years ago, Kanye West previewed Yeezus with a headlining performance for the ages at Gov Ball. Now, as he gears up to release his next record, the Chicago MC will again look to the festival as a platform to showcase his new music.
The Strokes, who themselves are working on a new album, return two short years later for another headlining set. Also at the top of the bill is Beck, who played the festival in 2012 and now finds himself sharing a stage with Kanye for the first time since the infamous 2015 Grammys incident.
Other notable acts include The Killers, M83, HAIM, Robyn, Death Cab For Cutie, Father John Misty, and CHVRCHES. Governors Ball 2016 will also feature Eagles of Death Metal, marking the band's first confirmed US performance since the Paris terror attacks last November.
The lineup is rounded out by the likes of Jamie xx, Miguel, Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram), De La Soul, Vince Staples, Purity Ring, Bloc Party, Miike Snow, Courtney Barnett, Bat For Lashes, Gary Clark Jr., Action Bronson, Vic Mensa, Joe Bada$$, Against Me!, FIDLAR, Thundercat, Torres, and Bully.
Check out the official lineup poster, which was designed by Kanye's creative agency DONDA, below. Or, see the full lineup at Festival Outlook.
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An order of the *Lycopsida containing one extant genus, Selaginella, the 700 or so species of which are mainly tropical in distribution. In gross morphology Selaginella resembles Lycopodium (see Lycopodiales) except that it has ligulate leaves and the sporophylls are always grouped in strobili. The leaves are usually inserted spirally but in some species they are arranged in four ranks, the upper two consisting of small leaves adpressed to<|fim_middle|> selaginellas are distinguished by their trabeculate endodermis, which consists of filamentous cells that traverse a continuous cavity between the cortex and the pericycle, so suspending the stele in the centre of the stem. The strobili bear both mega- and microsporangia and produce the largest megaspores of any spore-producing plant. The megaspore contains a large food supply, which enables the female gametophyte to develop independently of external food sources. The microspore develops into an extremely reduced male gametophyte consisting of a prothallial cell and an antheridium, which produces many biflagellate antherozoids. Fertilization relies on a megaspore and microspore being in close proximity and a film of water is needed for the antherozoids to swim to the egg cell of the archegonium. Occasionally fertilization occurs before the megaspore is shed from the parent.
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Market Update: Prices Drop as Crypto Sentiment Enters the Fear Zone
Cryptocurrency markets fell hard on August 21 following the $700 price drop bitcoin core (BTC) saw during the early morning trading sessions. Most digital assets have lost 2-8% in value as the overall market valuation of all 2,000+ coins has plunged to $263 billion. Crypto price movements have been following a trend of strong volatility, having been turbulent for several weeks.
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During the last few days, digital currency markets have been meandering sideways and prices have been less volatile. On Sunday,… read more.
Market Update: Bears Claw Crypto Prices Below Long-Term Support
Digital currency prices plummeted on Tuesday, as cryptocurrency markets lost billions during the morning trading sessions, New York time. BTC… read more. | of other digital assets dropped significantly on Wednesday. At the time of publication, there's been around $59 billion worth of daily trades happening between the most popular coins. BTC holds the top position and commands 69% of the $263 billion dollar market cap. At the moment, BTC is hovering at around $10,124 per coin and has an overall market valuation of about $181 billion. The top fiat currencies traded with BTC on Wednesday include JPY and USD and tether (USDT) captures more than 66% of all BTC trades. BTC has lost 5.8% over the last 24 hours and 2% in the last seven days.
The second highest valued market cap belongs to ethereum (ETH) where each coin is being swapped for $185 per coin. ETH is down 5.8% today and there's $7.4 billion in global ETH trades. Following ETH is ripple (XRP) which has seen the least volatility over the last few weeks. One XRP is trading for $0.26 and markets are down 3.3% today and 4.9% for the week. Lastly, litecoin (LTC) commands the fifth-largest valuation and each LTC is trading for $72. LTC has dropped only 3.5% today but lost more than 8% this week.
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) still holds the fourth position and each BCH is trading for $299. BCH has an overall market cap of around $5.3 billion and about $1.39 billion in trade volumes. Today BCH is down more than 5% and over 8% over the last seven days. Daily transactions (txn) this Wednesday have been around 43,000 and BCH has had an average of about 40K txn every day since April. BCH is the sixth most traded digital asset on August 21, just below EOS and above XRP. Tether (USDT) captures around 58% of all BCH trades which is followed by BTC (22.5%), USD (8.4%), ETH (6%), and KRW (2.5%).
The Verdict: Short-Term Crypto Sentiment Shows Extreme Fear While Long-Term Believers Are Still Cheerful
Despite the falling prices, traders and crypto enthusiasts on social media are still optimistic about digital currency markets and BTC prices. Popular Twitter trader Jacob Canfield says the charts look like a "pretty classic rising wedge that hit resistance." "First support zone didn't hold up price at all — Ideal buy zone $8900-$9100 if we can get there," Canfield concluded on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Mark Mobius, the founder of Mobius Capital Partners, told the press this week that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are "psycho currencies." "I call them psycho currencies because it's a matter of faith whether you believe in bitcoin or any of the other cyber-currencies," Mobius explained during an interview.
"[The crypto surge] began with the European Central Bank and was followed swiftly by a U-turn into interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve," Henny Sender said this week.
Meanwhile, traditional markets like stocks and bonds have been just as shaky and some people believe that institutional and retail investors are hedging macro risks with digital currencies. The Financial Times' chief correspondent Henny Sender wrote a column for the Nikkei Asian Review which suggests central banks are pushing investors toward cryptocurrencies. "Central banks drive demand for bitcoin by devaluing their currencies," the reporter detailed. "Cryptocurrency, wildly popular in China, is now a safe-haven asset." Sender's editorial continued:
Central banks have played a big role in driving this latest rally in crypto. That is because they have adopted policies which amount to competitive currency devaluations in the name of reflating their economies, in response to protectionist policies as the trade war leads to slower growth everywhere.
Today the current Fear & Greed Index is an 11, which points to "extreme fear" in regard to the crypto community's emotions and sentiments.
For now, BTC, ETH, BCH and the rest of the top digital currencies are feeling the pressure of weak hands, day-trading scalpers, and short-sellers. Even with a large number of optimistic hopium huffers on crypto Twitter, people are uncertain of what will happen next according to sentiment data. The current Crypto Fear & Greed Index, which analyzes the emotions and sentiments from different sources and crunches them into one simple number, is low today. At press time, the Fear & Greed Index for BTC and other popular digital assets rests at "extreme fear" or #11. The index was in "fear" (39) yesterday, where it has spent the entire month.
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Activity recognition has primarily addressed the identification of either actions or well-defined interactions among objects in a scene. In this work, we extend the scope to the study of workflow monitoring. In<|fim_middle|> methods on sequences from medical procedures performed in a mock-up operating room. The sequences follow a complex workflow, containing various alternatives. | a workflow, ordered groups of activities (phases) with different durations take place in a constrained environment and create temporal patterns across the workflow instances. We address the problem of recognizing phases, based on exemplary recordings. We propose to use Workflow-HMMs, a form of HMMs augmented with phase probability variables that model the complete workflow process. This model takes into account the full temporal context which improves on-line recognition of the phases, especially in case of partial labeling. Targeted applications are workflow monitoring in hospitals and factories, where common action recognition approaches are difficult to apply. To avoid interfering with the normal workflow, we capture the activity of a room with a multiple-camera system. Additionally, we propose to rely on real-time low-level features (3D motion flow) to maintain a generic approach. We demonstrate our | 163 |
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Asus is one of the most active players in the IT market. He offers a varied range of products, including laptops and desktops computers, on which this survey has focused.
Asus takes his name from Pegasus (yes, the winged horse of Greek mythology himself),<|fim_middle|> insights revealed by this survey, and that will enable us to adapt our offers. | because he yearns for the same strength and taste for adventure to better meet all the innovation challenges that will cross his path.
And challenges, there are plenty of them! Competition is fierce in the computing industry and consumers needs are often too generalized: in this context, surviving is a daily struggle. Hence the need for Asus to thoroughly investigate its market to position himself against his competitors.
The stakes are high: how to better understand two very specific main targets, high school and college students, as well as their behavior to distinguish their needs and evolution, and determine what kind of products to offer to each.
Habits of use, choice criteria, brands perception are some of the many | 136 |
FDA accepts Teva's biosimilar filgrastim BLA, Amgen not
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The US FDA has accepted Teva's application to sell a biosimilar version of Amgen's Neupogen (filgrastim), although the biotech giant is working to block the move in court.
XM02, a granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), is designed to treat severe neutropenia, a haematological disorder characterised by an abnormally low number of white blood cells. If approved, the drug would be marketed under the name Neutroval by US pharma company Hospira, which in 2009 acquired worldwide rights to the new version in a deal that also saw it gain manufacturing capacity for filgrastim and pegfilgrastim - a long-acting version of the drug marketed by Amgen as Neulasta. The worldwide market for Neulasta and Neupogen currently stands at more than US$2 billion.
Teva has simply filed for approval of XM02 using a traditional application route via a Biologics License Application (BLA) with supporting clinical data. Despite Teva's strategy, Amgen has filed a patent infringement claim in the US Federal Court against Teva trying to block the move. Teva has sought a declaration from the same court that its product does not infringe Am<|fim_middle|>asta (pegfilgrastim), Amgen's longer-acting version of the drug, and US biosimilar competition will not likely have a major impact. "If you look to Europe, the impact on the market has not been that great with under 5% for the year," he said.
Thomas Gryta, As Teva Continues Push For Biosimilar, Amgen Moves To Block It. Dow Jones Newswires. 2010 February 3.
Bill Berkrot. UPDATE 1-FDA to review Teva biosimilar of Amgen's Neupogen. Reuters. 2010 February 2.
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"We have confidence in and stand behind the patent protection that we have been awarded for our innovative product," Amgen spokesman Mr David Polk said. A Teva spokeswoman declined to comment beyond a press release detailing the FDA's acceptance.
Neupogen, which is used to prevent infections in patients receiving chemotherapy, brought Amgen US sales of US$901 million in 2009. The main European patents on Neupogen expired in 2006, allowing the sale of biosimilars, but Amgen has US patents covering the drug until 2013, according to regulatory filings. Teva already sells a biosimilar version of Neupogen in Europe, called TevaGrastim, which is the same drug as XM02. The company originally submitted the marketing application to the FDA in November 2009 and has proposed the US brand name as Neutroval.
Teva's FDA submission includes results from five studies of the drug. For traditional generics drugmakers must show they have the same active ingredient and the same action as the brand-name version, which allows them to rely on the original clinical trial results and avoid having to pay for new trials. If approved, Teva's product would be a branded generic, meaning that it is not substitutable, and would have to be actively by Teva.
"It may or may not be the type of pathway we are going to see in the future, but for most of these biological products, we are assuming that clinical studies will be necessary," said analyst Mr Ken Cacciatore with Cowen & Co. The launch of the drug – though not assured – would likely be closely watched as a test case to see how such branded biosimilars are adopted in the US market.
"It is not a foregone conclusion that we are going to see that Neupogen product launch in the US before 2013," said Mr Michael Aberman, Biotech Analyst at Credit Suisse. Furthermore, he noted that Neupogen has continued to lose market share to Neul | 426 |
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The Bourgeois Virtues - Ethics for an Age of Commerce
For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the<|fim_middle|> Barbara Ehrenreich - overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism's critics with astonishing erudition and range of reference.Applying a new tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, Van Gogh, and, of course, economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life's work. "The Bourgeois Virtues" is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism - and surprising entertainment as well.
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Av förlag: University of Chicago Press | philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie," and David Brooks' "bobos" all have been, and still are, framed as responsible for everything from financial and moral poverty to world wars and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre N. McCloskey's "The Bourgeois Virtues", a magnum opus offering a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities - from Plato to | 128 |
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Easter is just a couple of weeks away and this cute little chick is ready to send Easter greetings<|fim_middle|> was posted in Cards, Easter. Bookmark the permalink. | to those special people!
He's from the Bringing Booty Back set by Unity Stamp Company.
I stamped him with brown ink on white card stock and colored the image with Copic markers. I used My Favorite Things Die-namics Single Stitch Line Circle Frames die to cut the circle for the chick. Then I lightly sponged the background with blue ink to create the sky.
I used the same My Favorite Things Die-namics Single Stitch Line Circle Frames die to cut the pink frame. To assemble the card, attach a pink ribbon to a strip of patterned paper and attach the paper to a green card. Attach the pink circle frame to the card. Attach the stamped chick to the card with foam tape. Stamp "Happy Easter" (stamp is an older one from A Muse Studio) with brown ink.
This little chick is so versatile! You can see how I used him for a birthday card here.
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The Melbourne University Chinese Theatre Group's production of The Physicists, directed by Shan Huang and Bauhinia Lam, presents a satirical view on the dangers of scientific development. Relying on subtitles in theatre was a new experience for me, and yet the charisma and strength of the cast ensured an entertaining and involving production.
On the whole, the production was entertaining, with strong performances and a tight and entertaining second act. The first act, however, seemed to lack the same pace and consistency that the second act brought. In general, the first acts of plays can suffer from this, tasked with setting the foundations of the plot and characters. In this case, however, some dialogue seemed to lack energy, and at times the exuberance of the acting was melodramatic, rather than satirical. Despite this, the second act undoubtedly rescued the play. Energy spiked, and the intentions and purpose of the play and characters became clear. Though I relied on projected subtitles to follow the play, the energy and charm of the cast managed to bridge this language gap, and ensured that the production remained entertaining and involving.
The performances were solid, with good comic<|fim_middle|> more relevant now than ever. While choosing to set the play in its original time period is a valid directorial choice, I do feel the production missed an opportunity to demonstrate the play's relevance to the present day.
Overall, MUCTG presented a solid and entertaining rendition of The Physicists. While the choice to set the play in its original time period possibly prevented the play from being as relevant as it could have been, the strength of the cast and the tightness of the second act ensured the production was entertaining and enjoyable.
MUCTG's production of The Physicists ran at the Open Stage Theatre from May 19th – 21st. | timing and animation. The melodrama of the acting contributed to the satiric feel of the play. The dynamics between characters were particularly strong, and indeed the best performances occurred when groups of characters played off each other. Yuan Lu, Clarence Xie and Chang Su, as Newton, Möbius and Einstein respectively, gave particularly strong performances. The trio's dynamics, especially in the play's second act, were entertaining and comedic, and increased the audience's investment in the characters. Alicia Li and Peng Peng, as Priest and Mrs Rose respectively, must also be mentioned for their comedic timing. Through the careful balance of melodrama and humour, their performances revitalised the first act of the play.
The set design – a romantically decorated psychiatrist's office, which becomes stripped back and bare in the second act – was solid. It was no doubt a conservative and somewhat pedestrian interpretation of the set, but nonetheless managed to convey the themes of the play well. Similarly, the costume design, whilst conventional, clearly identified and reflected each character. However, as a play satirising the dangers of scientific advancement, The Physicists is, in a way, | 232 |
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Woolworth<|fim_middle|> Foodbank then makes available to people needing food relief.
Woolworths' contribution to the campaign included a donation of products, in-store and media support, PR as well as internal communications speaking to Woolworths' team members on the issue of food insecurity in the community.
Woolworths started working with Foodbank in 2002, and since that time has become Foodbank's most generous retailer partner, donating more than 15 million kilograms of food and groceries. | s supports the Foodbank Shop & Share campaign
Woolworths and fifteen of Australia's top brands came together in July to support the Foodbank Shop & Share campaign.
Customers had the opportunity to trigger a one-for-one donation each time they purchased a nominated product at Woolworths stores, resulting in more than a million additional food items being made available for distribution to people in need.
The Shop & Share campaign helped boost the supply of staple products, which | 92 |
Skokovi u vodu su natjecateljski sport u kojem je cilj skakača što efektnije, uz prezentaciju akrobatskih gimnastičkih elemenata tijekom skoka, skočiti u vodu s povišenog mjesta. Skokovi u vodu su standardni olimpijski sport iako se često izvode i kao rekreacijska zabava na prirodnim ili umjetnim kupalištima.
Discipline
Dvije su osnovne discipline skokova u vodu: skokovi s odskočne daske te skokovi s tornja. Skokovi s odskočne daske izvode se s elastične daske koja prilikom odraza daje dodatni impuls skakaču čime se postiže viši i energičniji skok. Skokovi s daske se izvode s visina od 1 do 3 metra od vodene površine. Toranj je čvrsto, najčešće betonsko ili drveno odskočište, na visini od 5 do 10 metara iznad vodene površine. Standard<|fim_middle|>jenjuje i sinkronizam oba skoka.
Dmitrij Sautin je najuspješniji skakač u vodu s osam olimpijskih medalja.
Pravila natjecanja
Natjecatelji izvede unaprijed dogovoreni broj skokova, kod muških između 6 i 11, dok kod djevojaka između 5 i 10 skokova. Skakač unaprijed mora prijaviti vrstu skoka koji će izvesti, a svaki skok ima unaprijed određen faktor težine. Taj se faktor određuje na osnovu težine i broja elemenata koji se izvode, primjerice vrsta početnog stava, broj okreta i vijaka, način ulaska u vodu, itd. Skokove ocjenjuju suci na sljedeći način: za svaku fazu skoka sudac ima na raspolaganju po tri boda (odraz, let, ulazak u vodu) te još jedan dodatni bod za ukupni dojam i korekciju. Tada se taj zbroj množi s faktorom težine skoka. Rezulati za sve skokove se zbrajaju, i pobjednik je onaj skakač ili skakačica koji ima najveći konačni zbroj.
Natjecanje se izvodi na strogo propisanim skakalištima, na kojima mora biti, osim odgovarajućeg tornja, i bazen propisanih dimenzija, od kojih je posebno važna dubina vode.
Slobodni skokovi
Osim stroge olimpijske forme skokova u vodu skokovi se izvode na gotovo svim prirodnim i umjetnim kupalištima kao vid zabave. Posebno su atraktivni skokovi s visokih, najčešće na moru, stijena i litica. Postoje i natjecanja u skokovima u vodu sa stijena i platformi od preko 20 metara!
Važno je reći da su skokovi u vodu, posebno s većih visina, relativno opasna aktivnost i preporučljivo je da ih izvode samo spremni i iskusni skakači. Potencijalna opasnost od krivog ulaska u vodu može dovesti do ozbiljnih, pa čak i fatalnih ozljeda. Udarac u vodu prilikom skoka s veće visine skakača može ozlijediti ali i ošamutiti te prijeti opasnost od utapljanja. Također je opasno skakati na nepoznatom terenu, gdje nije provjerena dubina vode, gdje nije osiguran dovoljan prostor u vodi za skok, itd.
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Natjecanje se izvodi u muškoj i ženskoj konkurenciji. Na Olimpijskim igrama u Sydneyu 2000 uvedena je i disciplina sinkroniziranih skokova, gdje dva natjecatelja iz iste momčadi izvode istovremeno identičan skok, te se osim težine elemenata i kvalitete izvedbe oc | 130 |
Today, Brandon and I celebrate twenty years of marriage. I've spent more of my life with this man than I did without him.
Most days it doesn't seem possible; it feels as if it's just been a few years since I was a nineteen-year-old bride, walking down the aisle of a Kentucky church with my whole future ahead of me.
But then there are other days.
Recently, I was shopping for a dress to wear on an anniversary trip we are preparing to take. I liked the idea of wearing a white dress to signify the celebration of our twenty years of marriage. As I looked through dresses, I came across several that were beautiful and I thought to myself about how pretty they would be on a young bride… but not on me.
It occurred to me in that moment that I didn't feel like a "bride" anymore.
Brandon often refers to me as his bride.
It's a sweet term of endearment, and yet it didn't feel like it "fit" anymore. And I stood there feeling every moment of these twenty years weighing heavily upon me. A whole lot of life has happened in these two decades.
Then, within seconds, those sad heavy feelings took shape into something powerful and beautiful.
I'm not his young bride anymore, I'm so much more.
Twenty years ago, I loved him because he was sweet and kind and because he was crazy about me.
Twenty years ago, I walked down that aisle to the dream of living married life with very little difficulty and lots of comfort.
Twenty years ago, I was a girl determined to get her way and live the life she wanted.
But now… Well now, I am the girl he has fought for. I am the girl that he has chosen every single day for twenty years. I am the girl who has learned to love this man in great sorrow, difficulty, and with a future unknown. I've learned that my way and my plans are shallow and empty, but God's way has grown our love, our faithfulness, and the grace we show for each other over and over again.
During these last two decades, we've known great joy through the births of Ella, Sam, and Drew.
We've experienced what it means to<|fim_middle|>Today, I get to celebrate being his bride… and so much more. | truly do life with friends who love our family so well. We've worked hard and we've seen dreams come true. We've tasted the goodness of God through his church and we've had the sacred privilege of witnessing the gospel transform lives as we've planted Grace Hills.
We've also known great sorrow in the loss of two babies, and through infertility. We've hurt each other deeply and we've been wounded by the world. We've struggled and felt confusion over what the next steps should be, and we've felt genuine fear about our marriage and about our future.
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YORKSHIRE YOUNG ACHIEVERS FOUNDATION BOOST FOR YOUNG CARERS
The Carers' Resource Events and Fundraising Co-ordinator Anne Wells and Yorkshire Young Achievers Foundation Trustee Sonia Jones spread the message that young carers need support
An after-school club for young carers in the Harrogate district has been given a boost with a grant from the Yorkshire Young Achievers Foundation.
The UTime club is run by the Harrogate Young Carers for 11 to 18-year-olds whose lives are affected by having a parent or sibling with a physical or mental illness, a disability or an addiction to drugs or alcohol. UTime offers activities and sports and a meal to the youngsters while its staff are experienced in mentoring vulnerable young people, supporting them with their studies.
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Yorkshire Young Achievers Foundation Trustee Sonia Jones said: "The Foundation exists to support young people across Yorkshire, whether in achieving their full potential or, as in this case, in improving life for them, so we are delighted to be helping such a useful service."
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UTime club is eliminating all barrier of stress and anxiety in the path of education and it is really helping those students whose house circumstances are not even better. Previously, I have donated a handsome amount as a charity to this club. | help the charity to fund the club which provides a safe, relaxing and fun environment for the youngsters after school, while giving staff an opportunity to offer additional support where needed.
The Carers' Resource Events and Fundraising Co-ordinator Anne Wells said: "Sometimes we are the only people that these teenagers can turn to for advice and support. When their young lives are very hard, coming to one of our clubs, which are held fortnightly in term time, is one of the very few constant and reliable routines | 102 |
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International Women's Day: celebrating women in business
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To mark International Women's Day taking place on Sunday, we take a look back at some of the inspirational women who have graced Hult's campuses in recent years. From the founder of one of the world's biggest media sites, to India's self-made Biotech queen, and our own alumni making waves with social entrepreneurial ventures – we celebrate women in business and just some of their amazing achievements.
Arianna Huffington – Founder, The Huffington Post Media Group
Arianna Huffington joined us in Boston to share her experiences of revolutionizing the way we consume news, and how she is redefining success to mean health and happiness, not just wealth. Something that should resonate even more with women pursuing careers at the top of their profession, as Arianna pointed out: "Women in stressful jobs have a 40% greater risk of heart disease and a 60% greater risk of diabetes."
<|fim_middle|> and International Negotiations, is hosting a webinar on March 25th on 'Women's Leadership Trends for 2015'. She is a thought leader on women in business and regular columnist at The Huffington Post. The webinar will touch on how to make the most of the women's leadership trends for 2015, how to leverage the strengths of both men and women to work more effectively, and finding best practices in communicating.
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"I'm calling for a third women's revolution. The first one was to give us the vote, the second one was to give us access to all jobs and the top of every field, the third one is going to be for women to say: 'we don't just want to be on top of the world – we want to change the world.' Because the way the world is right now is not working – it's not working for women, it's not working for men, and it's not working for polar bears." [Tweet "Women don't just want to be on top of the world – we want to change the world."]
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw – Chairperson and MD, Biocon
Having gone from a determined 25 year-old entrepreneur to India's most successful self-made woman, the story Kiran Mazumdar Shaw told at our Dubai campus was truly inspiring. With no background in business, from a starting point of USD200 in capital, and working out of her garage – she went on to build a one of the largest biotech companies in Asia, with a 7,000-plus globally recognized team, which is listed as a billion-dollar market cap company.
Her meteoric rise is even more remarkable considering she never intended to start her own business:
"I never planned to be an entrepreneur, I wanted to become a brewmaster but I was told that as a woman I didn't have a place in this industry. Then a chance encounter with an Irish entrepreneur led me to set up my own company. I was determined to show the people that didn't think I could manage a brewery that I could in fact run an entire company."
Peggy Liu – Chairperson of JUCCCE (Joint U.S.-China Collaboration on Clean Energy)
Peggy Liu was TIME magazine's "Hero of the Environment" in 2008, and was named one of China's top 50 innovative business leaders by China Business News Weekly in 2012. In her speech at our Shanghai campus, Peggy said that she sees a shift today towards a 'purpose economy' – an economy in which doing something meaningful will be the main driver. As Peggy says: "Today it's not just about jobs, it's about how we can have passion in our jobs."
Dedicating ten years of her life to volunteer as the Chairperson of JUCCCE and help bring about a greener China in which sustainability takes priority, Peggy demonstrates the great heights that passion and integrity can take you to. [Tweet "Today it's not just about jobs, it's about how we can have passion in our jobs."]
Robin Chase – Founder and former CEO, Zipcar
Serial entrepreneur, and founder of the world's largest car sharing company, Zipcar, Robin Chase has repeatedly shown how technology can be used to completely reinvent an industry. Speaking at our San Francisco campus, Robin showed how tech-driven businesses can transform our lifestyles, and in turn, the world. But how did she turn that vision into a reality? As she said:
"Through a lot of hard work! There is a nice expression that I once heard: 'Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.' It is said that success is 1% down to inspiration and 99% down to execution." [Tweet "Success is 1% down to inspiration and 99% down to execution."]
Christine Souffrant – Founder, Vendedy, and Hult alumnus
Christine Souffrant graduated from Hult's Master of International Business program in 2014. In the same year, her social enterprise, Vendedy, was selected by the Clinton Global Initiative as a Poverty Alleviation Commitment, and partnered with IBM to scale the technology across 150 countries.
Using an online platform and mobile technology to enable street vendors and artisans anywhere in the world to sell their products globally, Vendedy was born out of Christine's own experiences growing up and selling products on the streets of New York with her artisan mother.
Having used her time at Hult in Dubai to build a truly global network of peers and influencers, Christine has gone on to take the world of social entrepreneurship by storm.
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David's Creed ministers to students and churches
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OBU music ensemble David's Creed provides students with hands-on ministry experience.
"David's Creed is an auditioned student worship band that is charged with going out, with helping lead worship through music, namely through chapel services on Wednesdays," assistant professor of music and worship leadership and director of David's Creed Dr. Stephen Sims said."And they're also charged with going out into churches across the state."
This assistance includes not only leading worship songs – primarily in the form of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) – but also praying, reading Scripture and giving testimonies.
"There are two main focuses: to lead worship through song in Chapel services here on campus and to also lead worship through song in churches across the state, in an effort both to promote OBU, but also in an effort to make more of Christ," Sims said.
David's Creed selects music from a variety of sources. Choices from Hillsong Worship and Bethel Worship as well as modern arrangements of contemporary hymns are all part of David's Creed's repertoire.
"We do a lot of cover songs," he said.
However, the group occasionally plays their own original settings of tradition pieces.
"One of our students took the older hymn 'At Calvary' and rearranged it and put basically some new skin on it," Sims said.
"So [he] put a whole new spin, a whole new set of music on it; rearranged the melody and everything; kept pretty much the same text, but updated the music."
David's Creed played the new arrangement publicly several times last year.
"It was very well accepted and very well received by the student body," he said. "They led it in Chapel service one time and it seemed like the students caught onto it real fast. And we used [the song arrangement] at another church and the folks said that they liked the way that this music was more sing-able."
This semester David's Creed consists of Jordan Richardson, vocals and acoustic guitar; Morgan Randol, vocals; Cooper Fierro, electric guitar; Spencer Seeley, keyboard; Jarrett Richardson, drums; and Courtland Clark, bass guitar.
The group's members vary from year to year and sometimes even semester to semester.
Sims uses an audition process to choose the musicians. Another student music ensemble 519 Collective holds its auditions in collaboration with David's Creed since the groups are similar in type but different in genre and musical approach.
"Usually towards the end of the summer, Prof. Pierce [director of 519 Collective] and I will pick a date and send out an email announcement to the student body," Sims said.
Vocalists form the majority of the students auditioning, so vocalists audition through a digital recording, before the final contestants are chosen to audition in person alongside the auditioning instrumentalists.
"We prefer audio and a visual recording," Sims said, "So we can see them singing."
Pierce and Sims make their choices for vocalists and instrumentalist early in the Fall semester.
"Maybe by the first day of class, we'll have our final vocal and instrumental auditions. And that's where the students actually come in. We'll see them in person," Sims said.
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Yet David's Creed is more than just passing an audition and joining a group.
"I would tell students considering auditioning to just use the gifts God has given them for his glory, and to put it all in his hands," David's Creed vocalist Morgan Randol said. "Let him let his work be done, no matter what the results are right now! His will and glory above all else."
The group centers around Christ's glory, and provides students with an opportunity to practice Christian leadership skills.
"They're going to be trained and cared for in a way that trains them to be worship leaders through music, in a setting where there's going to be a lot of oversight through the university," Sims said.
Leading worship allows students to minister to others through their musical skills.
"I hope [those who hear David's Creed] are impacted with a greater sense of who God is, of who Christ is," Sims said.
This goal of outreach and ministry led to the group's creation in 2006-2007.
"The idea had been around for a while," professor of church music and founder of David's Creed Dr. Lee Hinson said. "A lot of schools in the country had contemporary bands, but they tended to be associated with spiritual life or something outside the music department. I decided that we needed a representation like that in Oklahoma for Oklahoma Baptist University."
Forming the group allowed OBU to grow its relationship with individual churches.
"We wanted to reconnect," Hinson said. "So, I thought, 'let's use this group'."
The group's name originates from discussion with the early members of the group.
"We were sitting in room 142 in Raley Chapel and kicking names around," Hinson said. "[A student] said, well you know we want to be worshipers after God's own heart; David's was a man after God's own heart you know, well, what about 'David's Creed'? And the name just took hold that night and I remember that it went up the line [of administration…] and it stuck."
A few years after founding the group Hinson handed over directing the group to Dr. Casey Gerber who later passed the group on to Assist. Prof. Justin Pierce.
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Sherry Ellms: Strengthening Our Resilience in a Time of Uncertainty
The newest episode of our podcast, Mindful U, is out on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, and Fireside now! We are excited to announce this week's episode features Associate Professor Sherry Ellms, MA, Core Faculty in Naropa's Environmental Studies, Resilient Leadership, and Ecopsychology programs.
How are we defining the self? Are we all getting into the real depths of the lie that we are separate, that we're separate entities? Sherry Ellms' students get to explore that separateness and realize that we've always been part of Earth. Consider this analogy: if you cut off my arms I will live. If you cut off my legs I will live. But, if you cut off my air, I will die. How can one say that my limbs are more a part of me than the air? We really are completely interdependent with all of life, and with all of Earth. If we have an enlightened sense of self; if it's an ecological self, then taking care of the earth is like enlightened self-interest. It's not being selfish, because we are connected with everything.
Full transcript below.
Sherry Ellms is an Associate Professor at Naropa University and the Faculty Lead at the Joanna Macy Center. Her interests lie in exploring the wisdom of the natural world and what it can teach us in these challenging time. She is investigating the effects of the loss of natural darkness and the increase of artificial light on the human psyche, physical health, wildlife, and spiritual connection to ourselves and the cosmos. Her other pursuit is to expand and adapt the ways that the Work That Reconnects (Joanna Macy's seminal teachings) can bring a shift in paradigm to how we address the social justice and environmental issues which are inseparable. Ellms explains, "The thread through all of this includes how contemplative practices can inform and strengthen our resiliency."
Sherry Ellms and Mindful U podcast host, David DeVine.
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Sherry Ellms
"Strengthening our Resilience in a time of Uncertainty"
Hello. And welcome to Mindful U at Naropa. A podcast presented by Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
I'm your host, David Devine. And it's a pleasure to welcome you. Joining the best of Eastern and Western educational traditions – Naropa is the birth place of the modern mindfulness movement.
Hello. Today, I'd like to welcome Sherry Ellms to the podcast. Sherry is a professor here at Naropa teaching in the Environmental Studies department and also the Masters of Resilient Leadership Program and she is also the faculty lead for the Joanna Macy Center at Naropa.
So, welcome to the podcast.
SHERRY:
How are you doing today?
Awesome. So, what's kind of fun is we've been trying to get a podcast with you for a while now. And finally, you email me saying you're free. And it's just super excited to speak with you today.
So, I'm excited to be here.
Yeah, great. I was curious what did you want to talk about today? I know you had a couple things and I just wanted like give you the floor.
Yeah, well thank you. It can change actually from moment to moment. But I have to say waking up in the world today I'm just really aware of the difficult challenges we have that are going on environmentally, politically, socially. So, really one of the things I wanted to talk about was how can we thrive when things really seem to be falling apart?
Yeah, what a great topic right. Just to thrive.
Yeah, more than just sort of sustaining what we have — can we actually thrive? And you know, I work with students who come in to our classes and they really want to be here, and they're energized, but there's sometimes a very underlying feeling of — despair might be too strong a word.
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Yeah totally.
And I guess that's why I've really been taken with the work of Joanna Macy. And the work that reconnects because what she's talking about is how can we reconnect with our true self. How can we reconnect with our natural way of being? So, what has been uplifting for me in my own personal life has been my deep appreciation and connection to the natural world.
And that started from a very early age. I feel fortunate that I had parents who really appreciated nature, but I was really aware as I grew older — came of age in the 70s — it was very exciting times. And there was a lot going on. Vietnam War was going on. There was a lot of energy happening and I was very much involved with all of that. And at the same time at some point I saw the aggression that was happening within the anti-war movement and that there were a lot of people who were being as aggressive and negative towards each other as those that we thought were doing us — doing the wrong thing.
You know, so that really led me on a more of a spiritual journey, but it also led me back to my backpacking days in the mountains. And so somehow, I could go up to the top of the mountain and look down on the city of Los Angeles and get a literal perspective, but also a different perspective too that there was something underlying all of our differences — that really sustained me.
So, that blends in with my connection to a spiritual path and the natural world. And now that I've become more involved with my own spiritual path of largely Buddhist, but other traditions too. But a lot of my path has been seeing nature as a spiritual path. And I'm finding that in the students I've worked with here at Naropa and so many of us that when you get down to the roots of what's behind a lot of their desire for some kind of awakening and being awake — it has many times a connection to the natural world. So, one of the classes that I teach — the students go on a residential weekend up into the mountains and they spend one day. We do a solo walk — we call it a medicine walk from dawn to dusk — where with intention and ritual they explore what is coming up for them right now. What is their authentic self? What is their true nature? And they come back even just with one day — with so much confidence and understanding and trust in their true self. And that is so easily lost in this society today — we — you really lose touch with our basic essence.
Yeah, it's such a unique classroom experience to go out in the woods and go on a so-called medicine walk for your soul or your pursuits of becoming a whole person. There's a lot in there — like what sort of things come up for the students when they come back? Like what do they speak of? What do they find? Do they heal like family traumas? Do they heal deeper connections with nature?
You know it's the kind of thing that's so fundamental — they may not come back specifically with saying well now I'm going to do this. Well, now I understand that, but they do come back with their faces are different. They're relaxed. They have confidence. And I think that's the more — they have confidence in who they are. They have more trust in themselves and they aren't so worried about what the next thing is because they've touched some very deep root within themselves that no one else can touch. It's their authentic self, truly. And so, it puts things in a larger context. So, you know that's where I think some of the teachings of Joanna Macy really come in because some of the things that she talks about — in many traditions too it's not certainly just Joanna Macy but is how are we defining self. Are we getting into the real depths of the lie that we are separate? That were separate entities. And they get to explore that separateness and realize that we've always been part of Earth. We came from Earth. So, I sometimes like to give the analogy if you cut off my arms I will live. If you cut off my legs I will live. If you cut off my air I will die. How can you say that my limbs are more a part of me than the air? So, we really are completely interdependent with all of life. And the earth is alive. So, if we have an enlightened sense of who we are — if it's an ecological self then taking care of the earth is like enlightened self-interest. It's not being selfish — because are connected with everything.
Yeah, it's like we are a product of the earth and we aren't to be taking products from the earth.
Yeah, Joanna Macy talks about the industrial growth society and that is a society that consumes — sees the world as something that we can consume — where he can dump things rather than —
Yeah, we commodify the natural environment.
Right, yeah, we are commodifying air and water now.
What a weird place to be in — in humanity where we quantify and commodify products in which — that are natural to our environment.
We're like creating this thing called money to trade things that are already here.
And we're trying to satisfy our non-material needs with material needs. How much do we need and how do we know what we want? And those are questions that Thoreau asked many years ago. But there was much less technology than now. But I ask myself and I ask students that same question — how do we know what we want and how much do we need?
Yeah and the thing is — is no one's going to answer that question for you but yourself. And I feel like when your students go on the nature walk — some of that question presents itself. And maybe some of it is answered and or a path is shown of directions to go to explore that question.
Absolutely. I actually have an exercise I do with them with looking at everything in their closet and writing it all down and coming in and we talk about it and what are the things that distract you. And certainly, in this age — in the past —
Is this just your physical closet or your emotional closet?
Well, one is connected with the other because they realize what they're attached to, what they're not and there's no judgment. Some things you want to hold onto a little bit longer because they have significance and other things what am I doing with this. What is a distraction? What is actually making me come alive? You know the world is not a problem to be solved, but it's more of a mystery to be explored.
That's more fun, right? There is so much more out there. So just a quick question for you — can you explain to the listener who is Joanna Macy and maybe a little bit about her work because I'm just unsure if everyone out there knows who the person is.
Thank you and I do make assumptions. Someone who's been so important to you — how could not everybody know about her, but she is a remarkable woman — sometimes referred to as an eco-philosopher. She's a Buddhist scholar and has a doctorate in Buddhist scholarship and she's also been an environmental activist her whole adult life. She will be 90 in this upcoming May she hasn't stopped and she's — we have been very blessed at Naropa for her to come to us many times and teach here. And what we do with this center — I mean the three things we're particularly interested in that she wants us to be interested in at Naropa is the work that reconnects that I'll talk a little bit more about. And also, nuclear guardianship.
She has been concerned about the global situation and nuclear guardianship for many, many years.
And what that refers to is the actual cleaning up, management use of nuclear waste, nuclear products. Anything that deals with environmental degradation.
Yes, and nuclear weapons. And she just spoke this past year because I think it's the — it was the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and we are the only country in the world that has ever used a nuclear bomb that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. So, this has been one of four major things. And the other two is what we would call liberation Dharma or Buddha scholarship and just the whole liberation theology in its power. But her root teachings really are the work that connects, and it's called, "Coming Back to Life." And so, she has a model that I've found very useful because she's talking about our transformation. How can we go from an industrial growth society to a life sustaining society? And the industrial growth society has been rooted in this country — in consumerism in this country. It's based on racisms, social injustice and we have a history of that — that we sometimes don't want to acknowledge. And recognizing that this country has — there were people here before the Europeans came. So, we only somewhat have a history of violence. And so, how can we work with our history?
So, our growth society — this has gotten us to where we are. And isn't that good.
And where we are in unraveling. It doesn't seem to be working. I mean it doesn't seem sustainable.
It doesn't seem like the path that is going to nurture the future to be empowered to make moves to live a sustainable life.
Well we see it falling apart, right now.
Yeah, like right in front of us. And we're slowly to move it.
Yeah and so the life sustaining society — she's saying people tend to tell themselves yes, we can do this sort of business as usual — we'll be OK. And the other story is exactly what you're saying — the great unraveling and that can become its own story of boy did you hear about such and such on the news. Well, you haven't heard anything because what about so and so and you can just see the social disintegration, the number of people who no longer have a land because of the climate change, islands are disappearing. The glaciers aren't going to come back. You know some things are irreversible. And they're going downhill. So, it's very, very easy to get into some kind of despair or else just want to tune out.
I felt super despaired when I was like mid 20s. I just felt so hopeless and not sure what to do and where to go. And I just had this very depressing moment. But then you know you kind of come out of it like — well, you can just sit in that moment for a really long time or you like actually go do something. I think what scares individuals is like what is it for them to do? What suits how they want to go about adding to the plan or adding to the sustainability of the earth? Such small steps.
Industrial growth society is the great unraveling, but then she says that's — there's a third way. What she calls the Great Turning? And that's not the last word. So, her whole root teaching — she's been teaching for her whole adult life — is to address exactly what you're bringing up. What the work that reconnects.
One of the things she — she just says, giving up is not an option. LAUGHING
She is so good. She knows how to cut through.
But we have to go into it. We can't move away from it. She also says, the heart that breaks open can hold the whole universe. So, it's like being willing to go into the — into the challenge, into the darkness and see what is alive and not be afraid. We can't be afraid of the dark.
You're going in no matter what.
So, you might as well go in.
Well, yeah. Or it can feel like it's happening to you or you can actually be moving with it. And it can actually be inspiration. What she sometimes says that I really like is that with this incredible uncertainty we have politically now — environmentally — she said, we are so lucky to be alive at this time because when things are that uncertain there's the possibility for us to do something. Because we don't know how it's going to turn out.
And whenever we do, we don't know what is going to turn out. So, in the work that reconnects what she calls the spiral and has four stages that I have found very useful in my own personal life that you can take in terms of your own path of awareness within yourself, but you can also see it as an external way of how to relate to the world around you. Because inner and outer — it's inseparable.
It really is. So, the spiral begins with gratitude. And she sometimes has talked about gratitude as a revolutionary act. If you can find gratitude in the absolute worst circumstances — society doesn't particularly want us to do that. You know it's —
Or teach us.
Right, yes, so even just a momentary thing you can find something to be grateful for and that's touching into the part of your humanness that you share with all of people. And that is the ground. I don't think it's any spiritual tradition that doesn't have gratitude as a very fundamental part of what brings life and aliveness to people. And of course, there's an inner and outer to that. And then the second part is honoring the pain — what she calls honoring the pain. I sometimes talk about it as just feeling the pain. So, there's a lot of — that happens. It's counterintuitive to want to feel your own pain. You know if something's not working in your life, but most dharmic teachings say actually we have to feel the pain. If we can't turn away — we distract ourselves all the time with screens, digitals, drugs whatever.
There's no way we can learn if we just step away from it. And it's not fun to deal with your pain. And I think that's what scares people about it is they don't want to have to confront something that is hurting them. But there's less hurt within — it's like showing up in the dark like you're saying.
Yeah. And it's also — when you honor that — and you also are honoring other people's pain too. It's hard to just stay aware just by yourself — when you start becoming more aware and feeling your own pain it naturally emanates out how you feel about other people. So, you might feel differently when you hear something on the news about another refugee boat being capsized. Or how many people are now burning up in this fire that happened in Northern California that is still going on. And so, there's a natural — people say my heart goes out to them. Well that's because you're feeling your own heart. If you couldn't feel your own heart you wouldn't feel the pain of those other people. And that's what keeps our humanness alive and gives what she would call active hope. And so, then the third part of that is after the honoring of the pain — is seeing with new eyes because what happens is you experience — your suffering is not separate from someone else's suffering. There's a commonality — a common humanness and you have more of ability to see it from another person's point of view.
They're shifting your perspective.
You really are shifting — you're seeing with new eyes. And you're feeling that. And suddenly things affect you in a different way. So, the fourth part is going forth — you're going forth now not thinking I'm going to get those bad guys. And we all go there. I'm not saying we don't, but in fact, oh, we are all suffering. Climate change is affecting every one of us. These wildfires are affecting all of us. And how can we move forward in some sort of common human way together as a community of people and not just be so bent on stopping the bad guys? We are all in this together. We really are.
Yeah, it's super Buddhist. Like it's so Buddhist and I really like it. It starts with the self. You can't go out there and save the environment — if you don't love yourself.
I mean maybe you can act like it for a bit. But there is an internal environment that needs tending to before the external environment, but everything needs tending to.
And it's interesting too — what I'm happy about is that there's more and more actual very legitimate research being done on the importance of what is happening with so much depression going on — anxiety and people not knowing what to do with it. And there's more and more research going on that our reconnection with where we came from — which is nature is having profound effects. One of the books that really affected me was, Last Child in the Woods. Lou's book on nature deficit disorder and he's not — not a psychologist, but others have named a thing now called environmental melancholy. Where there have been psychologists who've really done studies — and she was working with her clients and clients who were actually interested in the environment and so forth. And they would talk about how much despair they were feeling and what we do was we pathology. And we think there's something wrong with our feeling that another rain forest has been burned down. And so, we think it's our problem — when in fact it isn't. And there's been more studies shown — I think it's another book out that I've been reading is, "The Nature Fix" and that's really showing studies — not only does being in nature help with the more obvious things — obviously people can have a sense of well-being, low stress and feeling relaxed, but they're actually showing that effects person's cognitive ability and their ability to be creative.
So, there's another book out that — "Nature on the Brain" that is really showing very dramatic effects when people spend a certain amount of time in nature in terms of their health, blood pressure, but also their psychological and emotional well-being.
Wow. Can I make one up real quick?
Natural postpartum syndrome. LAUGHING.
Natural — say that again.
Natural postpartum syndrome. So, it's like we are birthed from nature. We just have this like anxiety that we aren't connected anymore, but we've never been connected. So, our umbilical cord is still — we've almost like to cut it ourselves. We're like going through the world trying to figure ourselves out and realizing like our mother, our teacher has been here the whole time and she's kind of like what's going on you guys.
Yeah, it's kind of like — it's an existential kind of question that we are from a non-dual point of view. Yes, we are all completely one and yet we are in this relative body for this period of time. And, how do we navigate and stay in touch with our non-dual experience of where we came from and yet move through the relative world. So, that's why I think her work in Buddhism and many spiritual traditions are so important. Thich Nhat Hanh and his notion of interbeing. He wants to start a new word in our dictionary and enter our because we can't be in isolation. And that gets into you know quantum physics. No, we aren't — we are not — we are not separate entities.
Yeah. Wow. I have this weird feeling where it's like science is now discovering what indigenous people knew all along.
Well that's what I was going to say just right now too. Gregory Cajete is a Native American educator who's written a book, "Native Science: Natural Laws of Independence." Melodoma Somei(?) who's actually been at Naropa before — from the Gauri tradition of Africa. And there's no real world for sacred because all has seen is sacred. And so, they don't understand — you know what we're saying. Indigenous people who have been brought up that way. There's no separation. They are the earth. And so, that's why it does feel like we have to we relearn so many things that Indigenous people have learned for so long. And that's why I think it's so important for us who did not maybe grow up in an indigenous way or not have that to get into the natural world and immersion ways and there's more and more opportunities for people to do that because then they can make their own connection to the earth into nature and don't feel that they have to be coming from a particular background or culture. But say yes you are a human being so therefore you did come from the earth you did not come from Mars. LAUGHING
It's all something we share together. Wow, ok. So, you're making me think — it feels like this work has a transpersonal or like holistic approach where it's both an internal and an external sort of engagement. And I'm curious like what is the importance of tending to the internal spirit and also to the external spirit — the natural spirit? Why is that so important for both of them to work together than if you were to just be internally spiritual and not work with nature? Or you just with that nature and you're not tending to the internal.
Yeah that's a really good point because you see that playing out in a lot of different places. I mean this may not be exactly addressing what you're saying, but there's so many people these days — more and more who are getting very ecologically environmentally conscious and into the climate change and so forth. They may have to get into the whole other thing of burn out. And so, I'm thinking that — Paul Hawkins talks about that — who wrote, "Blessed Unrest" among other things and he talks about that blessed unrest as we should feel some sort of discomfort or unrest because things aren't the way they should be.
Urgency.
But it's blessed in the sense that yes it can also inspire us to see what we need to do. And I remember him when he talked once here in Boulder maybe 10 years ago and saying where do we start. How do we know what to do? And his answer was very interesting because he said, we're just preaching — someone said we're just preaching to the choir. And he said, the choir needs to get stronger and louder. And so that's — that's ok.
The choir still needs a practice.
Yes, and also, he said go towards the pain. Go towards the fear. And he meant that I think internally yes, ok. Because as long as we're projecting out some kind of negativity that's what's going to happen. So, we have to actually make a deep relationship and caring about ourselves and that naturally is going to spill into others. So, I've done a thing on personal sustainability with quote unquote activists. And they're recognizing that their joy in what they wanted to do has to do with their connection to nature, but they've lost touch with that. So, there's more and more agencies and organizations who are saying yes, we have to make sure that we are remembering where we came from and why we're doing this.
We are more resilient than we could ever imagine. And when we come together as a choir and we sing our voices — we can say the things that need to be said — with compassion and with love and with force. With an empowered movement moving forward and getting stuff done — you know it's imperative.
That's why it's so important for people to share whatever's going on with them with other people. And I mean the internal — certainly the external of all the things that have been studied in terms of collaboration and leadership and how to work together. But, on an inner level too I found it really important for people just sharing their innermost connection to nature. And I've seen this in students where they — they haven't been given maybe permission to talk about their strong connection to the squirrel in their backyard. Or what it feels like to see a sunflower bloom and so forth. And when we can share those stories it strengthens the part of our brain that needs resourcing. You know it's our — the negative emotions and the negative feelings are like Velcro. And the good feelings are like Teflon. It's our brain has not evolved to take in some of these more powerful things. So, we can literally resource a part of our neural system by really paying attention to these positive things and not just saying, oh that's a nice sunset or blah blah blah. But actually, being with it, feeling it, and sharing it with someone else makes it become more installed you could say in that part of you, you know.
Who doesn't like a dope sunset?
Right. But sometimes don't you walk right by and you didn't pay attention. Yes, something else is going on. You've got to get someplace quickly, and you don't notice it.
Yes, when was the last time you just stared at the stars. I'm curious like do people still look up any more?
You're getting into my other favorite topic.
Oh yeah?
Which is, I've done a presentation at Bioneers for the past two years called, "The Joy and Importance of Being in the Dark: How Light Can Blind Us and Fear Can Enlighten Us. Because there is a whole dark sky association where they're trying to preserve the night skies. They're saying like 50 percent of the people will never see the Milky Way. And what does it mean when you can't see the stars? I think it's Thomas Barry talked about it as being a loss of the soul.
Losing your celestial connections and realizing the vast infinite-ness of everything.
And so, we light up our streets. We become afraid of the dark. We have gated communities and lights all over the place and that exacerbates the whole thing and it also diminishes the dark places that exist. The lights of Las Vegas pollute eight national parks.
The positive thing is there's a lot of movement for dark skies. Many national parks now call themselves — IDA Certified — International Dark Skies — so that —
What? Yes, that's the thing.
It is absolutely — in towns and cities can become dark skies. There's one town in Colorado — Westcliff that has been designated as a dark sky town. And Fort Collins supposedly is about to be.
That's awesome. What's interesting is there's actually no need for us to pollute the sky with light — when we have the technology to still have lights, but not pollute the sky with the lights. Without blocking our vision of the Milky Way or the stars.
There's a huge technology going on — if you just get lights downward — sloping downwards so they don't glare up. So, this is a major technology that has gone around. There's one — there's one building in Boulder that has really paid attention to that and that's actually the city hall and some towns have been better than others. If you go by like some of the used car lots and so forth, they're just brilliantly full of light. And so that is lighting up the sky. So, there's other ways you can light. They've shown like if you have downward facing light you see contrast and you are actually safer. If it's glared light. It's like a flashlight — someone's holding a flashlight you can't see. If you turn it away, you actually can see the person in the shadows.
I like blinding ourselves and the sky.
Yeah, and then there's health issues for people who work the night shift — their life cycles get off balance. And there's correlation for cancer for women who work the night shift. So, there's a lot of health issues that happened because we're not being able to experience the darkness.
Wow OK. We're rounding off our time at the moment.
I got off on a tangent.
Oh, I love it though. Tangents are great. Let's be honest. So, I was just curious is there anything else that you just wanted to say and wrap up with any last important things that you just want to offer us?
Well you know I love this poem by Rilke or this little quote —
We love poems, please.
If we could surrender to earth's intelligence, we could rise up rooted, like trees.
Whoa. So, we need to plant our seeds of intelligence. Make sure we water them.
Yeah, and just listen. I think listen — nature has the answers. Permaculture is about that. Listen and observe what nature does.
Nature is loud. It's always talking.
It's also teaching us constantly how to adapt. It really is.
I guess we're just trying to learn how to adapt to this new relationship that we've been so disconnected from.
Yeah, I'm encouraged actually because all of the wilderness programs and deep immersion things that are happening for people who have been incarcerated or people who are veterans, period. Women who have been abused. They have found how healing it is for them to go into programs where you have an immersion in nature — because it's non-judgemental and they feel healed. So, those kinds of programs are really blossoming everywhere.
Wow is it really fun that think about how nature is non-judgemental.
It will always accept you.
It will always except you and won't always be gentle. Fire can burn us, and fire can keep us warm. But it's not judgmental and that's been some of my most profound experiences. For me personally I would say even more than long meditation retreats have been the times I've been in nature alone in context with community.
Yes. Oh my gosh thank you so much for sharing with us today. It's just so fun to talk about how everything is — just has like a healing component and I love your perspective and I love that you're doing the work here. I've actually had the pleasure of interviewing Joanna Macy a couple of times and the woman is powerful. She's doing some really great work and you're kind of like here holding that torch and teaching at Naropa and letting the kids know that there is always hope and there is nature to like hold hands with.
Well, thank you. Its delightful to be talking to somebody who's so in sync with what we're talking about. So yeah.
So, I'd like to say thank you to Sherry Ellms who is a professor here at Naropa teaching in the Environmental Studies department and also the Masters of Resilient Leadership program and then she is also the faculty lead for the Joanna Macy Center here at Naropa. So, thank you again.
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Die Evangelische Friedenskirche in Heddesdorf, einem Stadtteil der großen kreisangehörigen Stadt Neuwied in Rheinland-Pfalz, ist ein evangelischer Sakralbau aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.
Geschichte und Ausstattung
Von den Ursprüngen bis zum Neubau
Der Vorgängerbau der heutigen Kirche entstand vermutlich um 960 und wurde im Mittelalter mehrfach umgebaut und erweitert. Die Kirche war ursprünglich römisch-katholisch und wurde 1517 im Zuge der Reformation evangelisch.
Da die Kirche im Laufe der Jahrhunderte baufällig und für die Kirchengemeinde zu klein geworden war, wurde sie 1842 mit Ausnahme des romanischen Turmstumpfes abgerissen und durch einen Neubau im klassizistischen Stil ersetzt. Die Grundsteinlegung fand am 2<|fim_middle|>underts wurde die Kirche zweimal renoviert, 1872 und 1893. Der Turm wurde 1909/1910 um ein Arkadengeschoss und einen neuen Turmhelm erhöht.
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg erlitt die Bausubstanz der Kirche nur relativ geringe Schäden, dennoch erwies sich 1960 eine umfassende Erneuerung des Gotteshauses als dringend erforderlich. Der Innenraum wurde komplett umgestaltet. Hierbei wurden unter anderem folgende Veränderungen vorgenommen:
Die Seitenemporen wurden entfernt, dafür wurde die Hauptempore in Richtung Altar verlängert.
Die Orgelempore wurde vergrößert.
Die Kanzel wurde abgebaut, modernisiert und in den vorderen Bereich des Altarraums gestellt.
Der alte Holzaltar wurde durch einen roten Marmoraltar ersetzt und das Chorgestühl komplett entfernt.
In das alte Taufbecken wurde ein kelchförmiger ebenfalls aus rotem Marmor gefertigter Taufstein eingearbeitet.
Die roten Sandsteinplatten des Bodenbelags wurden durch Kunststeinplatten ersetzt.
Zum ersten Mal in ihrer Geschichte erhielt die Kirche eine Sakristei.
Bei zwei weiteren Renovierungen im 20. Jahrhundert bekam das Gebäude 1991 einen farbigen anstelle des früheren weißen Außenanstrichs sowie 1993 eine Innenrenovierung mit einer Deckenisolierung. Ein Holzboden mit Schiffsparkett ersetzte den Kunststoffboden. Die Kanzel wurde abgebaut und durch ein Lesepult ersetzt.
Kirchenfenster
Die Kirchenfenster im Altarraum zeigen Darstellungen der vier Evangelisten Matthäus, Markus, Lukas und Johannes.
Orgel
Die erste Orgel stammt von der Orgelbaufirma Walcker in Ludwigsburg. 1964 erhielt die Kirche eine neue Orgel aus der Orgelbauwerkstatt Johannes Klais Orgelbau. Sie besitzt 22 Register, verteilt auf zwei Manuale und Pedal.
Glocken
Der Glockenstuhl beherbergt drei Glocken. Die älteste und größte ist die "Marienglocke" von 1347, die mittlere die "Sturm- und Feuerglocke" von 1680 und die kleinste die "Sankt-Kastor-Glocke" von 1450. Jede der drei Glocken trägt eine Inschrift.
Inschriften
"Marienglocke": Im Jahre des Herrn 1347 zu Michaelis goss ich diese Glocke zu Ehren Marias. O König des Ruhmes, komme mit heiligem Frieden. (Übersetzung aus dem Lateinischen)
"Sturm- und Feuerglocke": Unter Aufsicht des hochwürdigen Herrn Dahlhausen, Inspektor und Pfarrer, sowie des Andreas Söhn, Schultheiß, des Johannes Fimmel, Adolph Biber, Caspar und Hans Adam Backes, Synodschöffen hat mich Maria Lorenz Wickrath im Jahre 1680 gegossen. (Übersetzung aus dem Lateinischen)
"Sankt-Kastor-Glocke": Zu Ehren des heiligen Castor läute ich; Meister Johann Wall goss mich! (Übersetzung aus dem Niederdeutschen)
Literatur
Klaus Richter: Neuwied am Rhein, gegründet 1653. Die Geschichte der Stadt im Spiegel ihrer Architektur. Koblenz 2003.
Hanns-Martin Stoll: Festschrift 150 Jahre Heddesdorfer Kirche, Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Neuwied-Heddesdorf. Neuwied 1994.
Weblinks
Fotos der Evangelischen Friedenskirche Heddesdorf aus kirchenentdecken.com, abgerufen am 15. September 2021
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Gemeinde Website der Evangelischen Kirchengemeinde Neuwied, abgerufen am 15. September 2021
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Neuwied
Neuwied
Erbaut in den 1840er Jahren
Glasmalerei des 19. Jahrhunderts (Christentum)
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Renovierungen und Umbauten
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Keeping Gandhiji alive
October 1, 2012 July 30, 2014 Anindita Das 0 Comment
Veteran Gandhian Natwar Thakkar has adopted Nagaland as his home and is striving to keep Gandhiji's ideals alive. Anindita Das chats with him on the relevance of Bapuji and more….
How and when did you develop an interest in the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi?
I was born in 1932. India's last major struggle started on the August 9, 1942 and it is known as Quit India Movement. I was then ten years old child. The movement remained active for more than two years. Entire country was surcharged with spirit of nationalism. Mahatma Gandhi was treated by people as the greatest leader of our country. Whenever he happened to pass by a particular spot people used to throng around him in large numbers to get a glimpse of the great man and derive great satisfaction of having seen the Mahatma. The influence of Gandhi in my life became evident from that stage.
You have made Nagaland your second home. Can you tell us how and why did you decide to come to Nagaland?
I would like to describe Nagaland not as my second home but as my adopted home. I arrived in the year 1955 at Chuchuyimlang, the village where the ashram is located. It was the impact of nationalism and my reverence for Mahatma Gandhi which brought me to Nagaland.
After completion of my matriculation, I decided not to pursue my academic career further but to become a full time voluntary social worker of Gandhian stream. I looked around for a mentor to guide me to such a life. Fortunately I came in contact with Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar who was one of the closest associates of Mahatma Gandhi who worked with him right from the time Gandhiji established his ashram at Ahmedabad. I met Kakasaheb in the year 1951 and he accepted my request to accept me as his student inmate. I stayed with him, worked with him, went around different parts of the country and observed his activities from close quarters.
In those days one theme about which he used to frequently speak in public meetings was about guarding our national frontiers. According to him the frontiers can best be guarded by the inhabitants of the frontier land itself. But there is a need for cultivating emotional integration between the inhabitants of our frontiers and rest of the country. According to him such an objective can best be achieved through rendering voluntary service to our brethren of our borderland selflessly with full dedication.
I was attracted to the mission of cultivating emotional integration between the inhabitants of the border land and those from rest of the country and reached Chuchuyimlang in 1955 as already mentioned above.
Can you narrate your first experiences when you landed in Nagaland?
Let me explain here that in the year 1955 there was no state of Nagaland as we know it today. It was a district of Assam and was known as Naga Hills District. It was in the year 1963 that the separate state of Nagaland came into being. A division of erstwhile NEFA (present-day Arunachal Pradesh) known as Tuensang frontier division was joined with Naga Hills District when it became a state. Our ashram is located in the Mokokchung district of present day Nagaland and Mokokchung division of erstwhile Naga Hills District. It is inhabited by one of the Naga tribes known as Ao Nagas.
The nearest railway station to Mokokchung is known as Amguri and a road connecting Amguri with the headquarters of the sub-division Mokokchung was newly excavated. It was all kuccha road. The bridges of the road were constructed out of jungle wood. There was no bus service there. Moreover not many people travelled between Mokokchung and Amguri. If I remember correctly there were a couple of new jeeps in Mokokchung, one belonging to the sub divisional officer (SDO) of Mokokchung and another belonging to Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO). There were however a few individually owned jeeps and small trucks of Dodge make which were the remnants of Second World War.
Shillong was the capital of Assam. So I first went to Shillong. From there I travelled up to Jorhat in the company of a college student on vacation, who had volunteered to help me to settle down. We had to stay at Jorhat for two days searching for any vehicle which may be going towards Chuchuyimlang. My companion fortunately met a shopkeeper of Chuchuyimlang who had come to Jorhat to collect goods for his shop. He was kind enough to provide us lift in his jeep, of course on payment. We thus travelled by this old jeep up to Chuchuyimlang. It was drizzling throughout our journey. A misty day and our jeep moved at a very slow speed because of the condition of the road. Visibility was also less than normal. One immemorable sight of that day is the existence of thick jungles on both sides of the road. Some of the trees of that jungle were unusually big and must be some hundred years old. I also recall gibbon's howling in the thick bushes. The distance between Jorhat and Chuchuyimlang is 115 kilometers.
On reaching Chuchuyimlang we stopped near the shopkeeper's shop cum residence. The hired accommodation which was selected for us was almost opposite to shopkeeper's house. It was a quiet almost lonely place with hardly any movement of people around. However, when we reached, a small crowd of 8 to 10 persons assembled around our jeep out of curiosity. These were the most important settlers of this place, which was known as Chuchuyimlang compound with the headmaster and the assistant headmaster of the Government ME School. The drizzling was still continuing, mist was also present and all quiet and silent. But then the people who had assembled helped us to take our baggage to the hired house selected for us.
This is my first experience after landing at Chuchuyimlang. If I narrate more experiences of my initial days, it will require much longer space. Let me confine myself to this first experience.
Have you discovered something new in Nagaland? Where do the ideals of non-violence fit into Nagaland, a state which has witnessed one of the oldest insurgencies of the world?
One thing which I discovered within a few days of my stay at Chuchuyimlang in Nagaland was that, the village was completely self reliant on its primary requirements of food, clothing and shelter. The staple food of Nagas was rice and the entire requirement of rice was grown by the villagers in their own village. As far as clothing was concern, the Nagas dressed scantily and the entire requirement of cloth was woven by Naga women within their own village. In fact, every woman learnt weaving from their childhood. As cooking was done in every house, the weaving was also conducted in every house. The loom they use is called loin looms and the weaving in loin loom is still prevalent in almost all villages. The weaving these days has remained confined more or less to traditional shawls and skirts mainly used by women. As far as the shelters are concerned, the Nagas build their houses out of the locally available material within the outskirts of their village, which consists of bamboo, thatched or palm leaves for roofing and jungle posts for the framework of the house. I do remember that in 1955 not a single grain of rice was procured from outside the village. This self sufficiency of the village was no doubt, a new experience for me because I came to Nagaland from urban area where people procured their requirements through payments from shops. Things have changed fast due to various reasons and the self sufficiency of the Naga villages is a thing of the past.
As far as the question of non-violence in Nagaland, let us remember that the use of non-violence by masses was first conducted in the entire world by India under the leadership by Mahatma Gandhi. Non violence as an essential qualification for personal salvation was preached by Buddha and Mahaveer. Even Hindu saints promoted non-violence but practicing non-violence on mass scale to fulfill a socio-political objective had never been tried on mass scale in the past. Hence, the practice and acceptance of non-violence by society as a whole is a new phenomenon for the entire mankind. The Nagas have lived through centuries in the midst of violence. The system of head hunting of Nagas is centuries old. Hence, the validity of non-violence will become intelligible to the Nagas in course of time. This is bound to happen as the entire world is accepting non-violence as a higher stage in human progress or civilization. This awareness is demonstrated by humanity by accepting Mahatma Gandhi's birthday as the universal day of non-violence. I may just add here, for information, that the village of Chuchuyimlang and Nagaland Gandhi Ashram jointly observed the first universal day of non-violence at Chu-chuyimlang village on a grand scale. The students of computer institute next door presented an impressive skit on Gandhi' teachings which was highly admired by the audience. Later on the same skit was repeated at district headquarters in Mokokchung on Independence Day and also at an important meeting attended by the Chief Minister of Nagaland.
The insurgency in Nagaland is the oldest as you have rightly mentioned in your question. However, in this case also futility of the practice of violence is gradually being realized by common men mainly. It will not be a matter of surprise, if we find the some sections of the militants also coming to realize the futility of continuous violence in Nagaland.
Your wife is also a keen Gandhian. Can you please tell us about her life and work?
My wife, Lentina, was the first Naga girl from her village, Merangkong, to have passed class sixth exam and to have joined the High school at Mokokchung at a distance of sixty kilometers from her village. Since there was no public transport system on those days, this distance used to be covered on foot. As she was studying in high school, her elder brother who was a teacher of Assamese language, came in contact with one of the first functionaries of Assam branch of Kasturba Gandhi memorial trust and he was instrumental in sending his sister to Sarania Ashram at Gauhati. She underwent the training at Sarania Ashram as a gram sevika as well as got herself qualified as trained midwife. Thus, she is also the first Naga person to be trained as a Gandhian social worker. On completion of her training, she was posted at Chu-chuyimlang. A few months after, I had reached there. We met there for the first time and decided to become partners for life. Unknowingly more than five decades have passed since our first meeting.
My wife has been most important support in carrying on in the midst of difficult circumstances. She has been a very good advisor to me in understanding regarding local traditions, customs and social culture. She has also been a most valuable colleague in various activities as well as in the general management of the Ashram.
What kind of work does the Nagaland Gandhi Ashram do? What kind of hurdles did you face in the beginning?
The main objectives of Nagaland Gandhi Ashram are as follows—
To promote National and emotional integration through voluntary service on Gandhian lines
To conduct activities and programmes for the welfare and all round development of the people of Nagaland and the North East India.
The kind of activities that Ashram has conducted so far can be explained as follows-
To conduct trials in different socio-economic development activities and programmes.
To aim at cultivating harmonious and healthy human relationships.
Attempt at generating a climate of peace, harmony, and goodwill for all.
In order to fulfill above aims, following activities were tried by the Ashram-
Deputing youth for training as Hindi teachers and as electrical wiremen at Wardha and Delhi respectively.
Vocational training for school drop outs and physically challenged.
Khadi and village Industries.
Running a small dairy on an experimental basis.
Trials of introducing nontraditional agricultural crops.
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Do you think Gandhiji's ideals in today's world are impractical and utopian? Do you think Gandhiji's ideals and teachings are relevant in today's world? Has Mahatma Gandhi been reduced to a mere poster boy?
Is love (which also means non-violence), selfless service, compassion for fellow human beings, refusal to surrender before injustice and wishing well being of all, in other words, wishing good of all is relevant then Gandhi and Gandhian ideals are also relevant.
Gandhian ideals are relevant not only in today's world but they are relevant for all times to come.
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Medical aid: conducting outpatient clinic and holding occasional medical relief camps.
Developing a small library with books on Gandhiana, Indian history and culture, land and people of North East India, cottage industries etc.
Promotion of goodwill, harmony and understanding between Nagas and the rest of the country through personal contacts, observing national days, and organizing meetings, conferences etc.
Holding seminars to cultivate better understanding about special features of the North East and the problems peculiar to the region.
All the Khadi and Village Industries programmes were undertaken with the support from Khadi and Village Industries Commission. This work was pioneering in nature. The programmes attempted were:
Running of seven Khadi and village Industries sales outlet.
Bee-keeping centers in different parts of Nagaland.
Power driven oil Ghanis at Chu-chuyimlang.
Experimental unit to produce Gur and Kanndsari at Chu-chuyimlang.
Carpentry and black smithy unit.
Out of all the activities mentioned above, the propagation of modern bee keeping was most rewarding as it is now practiced in all parts of Nagaland. The Ashram is the pioneer in this field.
Would it be proper to call you a bridge between the Naga people and the rest of India?
I run a bi-monthly journal named as ISHANI. In my introduction of the journal, the concluding sentence is, "Ishani is aimed at rendering service to the North-East and the rest of the country by being a communication bridge between the two regions. We seek goodwill, support, co-operation from our well wishers,". My personal aspiration is also the same as mentioned in the concluding sentence of my introduction in Ishani mentioned above.
What do you think is the cause of the feeling of alienation and isolation among the people of the region? Do you think the Gandhian ideals can mitigate many of these misgiving?
To put it in one word, the main cause of alienation is the ignorance. I mean the ignorance about the complex nature of the North Eastern region. Another reason is the encouraging militancy by the neighbors with hostile feeling towards India. Persons with clear understanding of Gandhian ideals can certainly help in mitigating the misgivings.
Have you managed to develop a new generation of Gandhians in Nagaland who can take over the mantle after you?
I cannot say that I have succeeded in developing a new generation of Gandhians in Nagaland, but I can say in all humility that I and my work have been able to scatter seeds of goodwill in the hearts of few at least.
Do you consider yourself successful?
I did not work with the target of achieving success. My effort has been to silently serve the people with the best of my ability. However, the answer to this question can only be given by the future generation of the Nagas.
Do you think the Internet is a new avataar of the spinning wheel? Do you think online forums like Gandhitopia can help take Gandhiji's ideals to the youth?
The comparison between internet and the spinning wheel is incorrect. However, I do believe that the internet has the potential of spreading good messages and good work in a major way. You have given an example of one online forum 'g | 665 |
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DAY 2 | Sunday, April 24, 2022
Arrive in Frankfurt at 7:05am, and transfer to your connecting flight. Depart Frankfurt at 9:50am on Lufthansa flight #978 to Dublin. Arrive in Dublin at 10:55am. Welcome to Ireland!
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Your Irish visit begins with a drive through the beautiful landscape of County Clare, where you'll visit Bunratty Castle & Folk Park, an open-air museum set on 26-acres with interactive exhibits. Once the lavish home of medieval nobility, Bunratty now functions as a "living" reproduction of a 19th-century village.
After visiting the park, walk to Bunratty Castle, one of the most complete and authentically restored medieval castles in Ireland. Built-in 1425 and plundered on many occasions, it was restored in 1954 to its former medieval splendor with furnishings and tapestries capturing the times' mood and style.
Proceed to the hotel to check in and refresh before dinner. Rehearsal can be arranged upon request.
Celebrate the kick-off of the St. Catherine's Choir tour with a welcome dinner at Bunratty Medieval Banquet. This festive occasion includes a delicious meal and entertainment, including a selection of Irish medieval and traditional songs and instrumental music by eleven entertainers. Later, settle in for a good night's rest at the hotel.
DAY 3 | Monday, April 25, 2022
Wake up to your first day in Ireland! Enjoy breakfast in the hotel dining room.
Today, you'll travel through the Burren Region. This unique setting is a Karst limestone region and national park, where you will see rare flora and picturesque villages that were abandoned during the famine period.
Stop and explore the Burren's most famous site, the spectacular and majestic Cliffs of Moher. Here you'll have a chance to walk along the scenic paths that line the upper rim of the cliffs. Take in the breathtaking views of the Atlantic Ocean that lies, at the cliff's highest point, 702 feet below! Tour the on-site museum and enjoy a snack at the café.
Following your visit, continue on to Galway City to enjoy free time for lunch and personal exploration.
Galway is a delight with its narrow streets, old stone and wooden shop fronts, lively restaurants, and busy pubs. The city has attracted a bohemian crowd of musicians and artists, which add much to this exciting town's character. Stroll the quaint, narrow streets lined with stone and wooden storefronts—which carefully preserve the charming atmosphere of old-world Ireland
A group dinner accompanied by live Irish music is planned for this evening in Galway. Catchy tunes, cheerful dancing, and hearty sing-a-longs are guaranteed!
At the end of this exciting day of sightseeing, return to the hotel.
DAY 4 | Tuesday, April 26, 2022
After breakfast, check out of your Shannon hotel and depart on your motorcoach, traveling north towards Belfast.
En route, stop in Armagh, the county town of County Armagh, and a city in Northern Ireland. The city is noted primarily as the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland—the seat of the Archbishops of Armagh, the Primates of All Ireland for both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of Ireland. Here, sing for mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral before taking some time to stroll through the town.
Continue on to Belfast, transfer to your centrally-located hotel. Start your stay in Belfast with a visit to the Titanic Exhibition of Belfast, a monument to Belfast's maritime heritage located on the site of the former Harland & Wolff shipyard in the city's Titanic Quarter, where the RMS Titanic was built. The Experience takes you through nine galleries, using innovative and interactive techniques to tell the story of the Titanic, from her conception in the early 1900s through her construction and launch to her famous maiden voyage and tragic end.
Enjoy a free evening for dinner on your own in Belfast tonight—enjoy this opportunity to experience Belfast's rising food scene, which is being bolstered by the abundance of world-class local artisanal produce, grass-fed beef, and fresh seafood pulled from the clean, pure local waters.
This evening enjoy a spooky guided tour of Crumlin Road Gaol—colloquially referred to as the Crum—a former prison known as Europe's Alcatraz. Built between 1843 and 1845, the Crum was one of the most advanced prisons of its day at the time of its construction. Originally built to hold between 500 and 550 prisoners, it was the first prison in Ireland to be built according to "The Separate System," intended to separate prisoners from each other with no communication between them. The first inmates arrived in chains in 1846 and included men, women, and children.
DAY 5 | Wednesday, April 27, 2022
This morning, travel across the North Channel by ferry to Cairnryan, Scotland. After approximately two hours on the ship, arrive in Scotland, and transfer to Edinburgh, the capital city.
Your first order of business upon arrival in Edinburgh will be to tour the famous Edinburgh Castle. This historic fortress dominates the skyline of Scotland's capital city. Archeologists have determined that the rock on which the castle is set (known as Castle Rock) was inhabited as early as 1000 BC. Over the centuries, the castle has been held by Scots and Englishmen, Catholics and Protestants, soldiers and royalty. View the Scottish crown jewels and the Stone of Scone, used to crown the Scottish kings before the Royal Families were merged in the 1600s. See the Citadel on the highest point surrounded by cannons and The National War Memorial honoring Scottish regiments who served in World War 1. The oldest surviving part of the complex is tiny St. Margaret's Chapel; the only building spared when the castle was razed in 1313 by Scots determined not to surrender it to English foes.
Descend from Castle Rock into the city and check in to your hotel. Dinner tonight will be served to the group at the Spirit of Scotland, where you'll enjoy a great selection of quality Scottish food and a lively presentation of traditional Scottish song and dance.
DAY 6 | Thursday, April 28, 2022
After breakfast, head to the Palace of Holyroodhouse, located at the end of Edinburgh's Royal Mile, opposite Edinburgh Castle. Since the 16th century, Holyrood has served as the principal residence of the Kings and Queens of Scotland, and it now remains the official residence of the British Monarch in Scotland. Tour the Palace, where you'll see the 16th-century apartments of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the State Apartments, still used for official and state entertaining. As you explore the palace together, your guide will reveal details of the history of the palace itself, whose walls embrace the history of the Scottish church and state; the royal family, including Mary Queen of Scots; and Scotland's rich military legacy.
After your morning visit, perform a lunchtime concert in beautiful St. Giles Cathedral*. St. Giles has a long history as a church of music as well as a fantastic organ. Following your performance, enjoy a final free afternoon and evening in Edinburgh.
DAY 7 | Friday, April 29, 2022
After breakfast in the hotel, check out and load your luggage onto the motor coach—travel northbound for Inverness, the Scottish Highlands' largest city and cultural capital. Stop en route in Perth, located on the banks of the River Tay. Stretch your legs in this early capital city, where the royal Scottish court was once located.
Follow the river north until you arrive in Inverness, a compact, cosmopolitan city with a beautifully preserved Old Town. You'll discover the 19th-century Inverness Cathedral and an indoor Victorian Market, a lovely destination to shop for food, clothing, and crafts.
Check in to your hotel before meeting with a choir to prepare for this evening's Friendship Concert. Share the stage with these local musicians, and be sure to get their recommendations for restaurants for dinner tonight. Perhaps some of your hosts will even join you for dinner on your own.
After breakfast, depart Inverness for a full-day excursion into the wild, beautiful Scottish Highlands.
Visit Cawdor Castle, set amid gardens and built around a 15th-century tower house. Although the name of Cawdor connects the castle to Shakespeare's Macbeth, in which three witches foretell that the titular lord, Thane of Glamis, would become Thane of Cawdor and King hereafter. However, Cawdor Castle didn't exist during Macbeth or Duncan's lifetimes, who were alive in the 11th-century.
Continue to Loch Ness, where you'll take a cruise on this large, deep freshwater lake, located 53 feet above sea level. Most famous as the cryptozoological Loch Ness Monster's possible home, Loch Ness is the second largest Scottish loch by surface area but the largest by volume in the British Isles due to its great depth. Enjoy a relaxing trip amongst breath-taking vistas encompassing both the highlands' natural beauty and the striking Fort Augustus Abbey.
Return to Inverness and enjoy dinner arranged for the group at a local pub.
DAY 9 | Sunday, May 1, 2022
After breakfast in the hotel dining room, depart Inverness traveling south on your motorcoach bound for the city of Glasgow.
En route, stop to visit Loch Lomond, located in the Trossachs National Park. The Loch's eastern shore is crisscrossed with footpaths and cycle trails that traverse craggy Ben Lomond mountain and the smaller Conic Hill. You'll stop on the West Bank, however, and stretch your legs on the Luss Heritage Path, a gentle trail that will afford beautiful views of the Loch and lead you to the village of Luss, with its pretty stone cottages and a lakeside pier. Enjoy some time to explore this charming village, have some lunch, and take plenty of photos before continuing on to Glasgow.
Located on the River Clyde, the city of Glasgow is famed for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture. Check in to your hotel upon arrival and explore the city with your tour manager prior to gathering for a festive farewell dinner, which will allow you to share favorite memories of your tour with your fellow travelers.
DAY 10 | Monday, May 2, 2022
Heartfelt goodbyes are exchanged at the airport and your group is sent off with a fond "Thank you for connecting our world through your music. Until we meet again!"
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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 11
As we head over (what is hopefully) the halfway hump, a new player has entered the arena...
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Having been to Rimini, I can attest to the bewildering flatness of the Emilia Romangna region. This is going to be a fast finish and it's going to need a fast man. I'm loathe to go for Sagan twice in two days and despite his scintillating form, it's tricky to look past the flying Frenchman. Surely another one in the bank for Démare?
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Sagan? Seriously? That was one hell of a way to get the monkey of his back, hats off to the great man.
Stage 11 is one for the fast men, weird that it should be the first, easy sprint of the race. As expected, most of the team are on Démare. With three stage wins, and a brilliant lead out, he's the out and out favourite for this one. Nick is hoping for a surprise, but Bjerg will be on lead out duty for Gaviria, he won't get any freedom.
Emilio enters the murky world of cycling prediction; his maiden pick is Sagan. Will I go easy on him? Of course not! Well Emilio, I'm not quite sure what planet you're on, but Sagan hasn't won a full sprint for a very long time. After today's efforts, his legs will be lacking in the finish. Back in your box.
Will I go bold? No, I'll go for a winner. Stage number four for Arnaud Démare.
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And boy, did we enjoy it yesterday.
For all that Miles predicted Peter Sagan to take the win, our man in Kent would be the first to admit that wasn't the way he expected the Bora rider to take it. The three-time world champion day spent all day in the break before riding his colleagues off the wheel in a last gasp attack that few, at the time, thought he could make stick. It required him to put out an average of 440 watts - that's a lot of watts - for 20 minutes but make it stick he did. 460 days after the last of his 113 wins he claimed his 114th. And it might have been the most impressive of the lot.
Stage 11 looks a little more straightforward and surely a bit more predictable, but we've said that before, haven't we?
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Peter Sagan - Bora-Hansgrohe
When Peter Sagan begins to win, normally, he carries on winning. Maybe, hopefully, this is the case. Italians like him, and he seems to like Italians back.
Arnaud Démare - Groupama-FDJ
It's a tricky one. Michael Matthews leaving means another team with no incentive to keep it together for a sprint. But while Groupama-FDJ stood down yesterday and lost the battle to Sagan, they may yet win the points jersey war.
As a 1-star difficulty day according to the Giro website and with the last little climb nearly 30km from the finish, stage 11 looks to be almost certainly a sprinter's stage. Of course, this is shaping up to be a pretty unpredictable Giro. For the race into Rimini, the technical finish will likely be the biggest concern with several corners to negotiate in the last 4km of the stage, and a big 180° turn within the final kilometer. Luckily it looks like it'll be dry in Rimini tomorrow. So long as we don't have any more nasty covid surprises, I see no reason to take my money off Démare. This would be his 4th stage of the Giro, which would be a pretty impressive haul by anyone's standards. Both Viviani and Gaviria should be up there with him, but haven't been in danger of winning a stage before now. It's just hard to see anyone getting the better of Démare, especially since he still has a strong team entirely united behind him.
Mikkel Bjerg - UAE Team Emirates
Because it would be boring if we all went for Démare, wouldn't it? The Giro is looking increasingly like the anti-Tour. Not just because the organisers are - "allegedly" - rather more casual when it comes to COVID precautions than their French cousins, but also because it seems to be set up to serve time trialists more than any Tour in about a decade. On top of the whopping THREE official contre le montres, testers have taken to winning road stages as well. First Ganna, then Dowsett, who's next? I'm saying Mikkel Bjerg.
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Restaurant Design – Pedrali and Ristorante Ezio Gritti, Italy
Pedrali Press / Danica Maricic, Editor-in-Chief
The furniture of the Italian company in the new<|fim_middle|> even more classy by Kado, framing a breathtaking view of the surrounding landscape, Ara Lounge seats, designed by Jorge Pensi, and Intrigo, designed by Marco Pocci and Claudio Dondoli, together with Fabbrico and Ikon tables by Pio and Tito Toso, which all contribute to making an outdoor dinner or a tasting an unforgettable design and culinary experience.
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Once again, Pedrali, an Italian company producing contemporary furniture for public spaces and homes, promotes haute cuisine and its masters, aiming at the enhancement of Italian excellence. The furniture of the company, embracing the 100% Made in Italy production philosophy, contributes to designing "Ristorante Ezio Gritti", owned by the chef himself and situated in Piazza Vittorio Veneto in the heart of Bergamo, even more refined.
For many years, Ezio Gritti has been the protagonist in the kitchen of the historic restaurant in Via Solata, in Città Alta, with whom he obtained the Michelin star in 2005. After a working visit to Bali, Indonesia, Gritti could not resist the call of his homeland. The restaurant of the chef from Bergamo is characterized by an elegant and urban chic design style, furnished with the furniture of Pedrali, which creates a warm and welcoming restaurant design.
A modern, refined and at the same time cozy restaurant, where Malmö chairs, designed by Cazzaniga Mandelli Pagliarulo, presented in a black version, and Arki-table, with a white metal structure and a double top of contrasting colors, highlight the clean restaurant design: every detail relies on the concepts of simplicity, aesthetics and a strong link with the surrounding territory, expressing the chef's philosophy at best.
The large prints of the old fair in Bergamo, which frame the walls of the central room, set an atmosphere which invites to feel not only culinary but also sensory emotions, while the three-dimensional tiles bathed by light at the entrance, create a minimal design decoration. In this context, the furniture of the Italian company exalts the combination of excellence between restaurant design and the tradition of the best Italian cuisine, as a key for the enhancement of Made in Italy at an international level.
The elegant outdoor terrace is made | 395 |
Deciding Her Faete
Beyond the Veil, 2
Series in Reading Order
Chasing Faete
Bound to their Faete
Catching Faete
Fighting Faete
"There are two things I love when reading any book.
1.) Strong characters
2) Plot twists / surprises
Sarah Marsh, Elena Kincaid, and Maia Dylan delivered on both. I."
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"I loved that the focus of this story by Ms. Dylan, Ms. Marsh and Ms. Kincaid focused on the action. April and her men did not fight the insta-love which allowed for us to learn more about this world and its dangers. I thoroughly enjoyed this quick read and look forward to where these ladies will take us next."
Redz World<|fim_middle|>inched at the harshness of his tone. "I'm the one who failed you. Not the other way around."
"How can you say that? It was me Kheelan was after all this time. Not you. He took Dee and God knows how many others, all to get to me. Oh God, Dee! Have they found her yet?"
"No," Donovan said quietly. "But we will. I swear it."
"He'll just keep coming for me." She reached out and placed her hand on Jason's cheek. "I felt so helpless when you were in that cell. I can't bear the thought of him hurting you like that again." She turned to Donovan and put her other hand on his cheek. "And it's not only Jason's screams I dreamt about. Sometimes it was you I pictured Kheelan torturing. I'd rather die than to ever let him get his hands on either of you. Not when I can prevent it." She took a deep steady breath. Her words would not fail her this time. "You both have to let me go."
"Fuck that!" Jason growled. Before she even had time to blink, she found herself tossed on the bed. Her hands were held above her head by Donovan while Jason fiercely, unyieldingly took her mouth in a fiery kiss. She returned it with the same fervor, unable to help herself.
April had no time to think, to collect her thoughts, for as soon as Jason released her lips, Donovan took his place. He released the grip he had on her wrists, but instead of pushing him away, she wrapped her hands around his neck and pulled him closer to her. She'd only had a brief taste of him when he came to rescue her from the dungeons, so this felt like their first real kiss. She found her resolve quickly fading because she sensed their pain at the thought of her leaving them. She knew she didn't have the strength to walk away from them on her own, and it seemed that neither of her stubborn men was willing to let her go.
When Donovan ended their kiss, he looked deeply into her eyes and cradled her face. Like that first night with Jason, she felt as if he could see the inside of her soul. He wasn't repulsed by her or angry. Instead, he looked at her with longing and adoration.
"That's not the way this works, my angel. Whatever happens to one of us, happens to all three."
"And we would chase you to the ends of the Earth, April," Jason added. "So don't even think about running from us."
She felt hope flaring inside of her once again. She understood now. She would never stop fighting for Donovan and Jason either. She remembered Jason telling her in the limo that he didn't care what or who she was, but still, she had to be sure. "You don't care that I am Fae like Kheelan?"
"Not all Fae are monsters," Donovan replied. "Just like not all shifters are good. You had the misfortune of meeting some pretty nasty ones, but I believe you also met Erica."
"Who?" Then it hit her. "The woman in the dungeons with me?"
Donovan nodded. "A healer, like you, something very rare and sought after amongst the Fae. She's also the True Queen and now sits on the Fae throne, and she is one of the strongest, bravest women I know, second to you. She and her mates were gracious enough to forgive me for what I did to them. So was Jason."
"What did you do?"
Donovan explained how he had assisted Erica in her cause to face Aelfric alone, once again because of Kheelan, who had threatened to kill her and Jason and left Donovan with very little choice. April wasn't the least bit surprised that Donovan did the right thing immediately after, and she couldn't blame him for his choice. She saw him as nothing less than a brave man, who loved and protected fiercely. She told him so.
"Thank you, angel."
"You give me too much credit, brother," Jason said. "I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing as you."
"I want him to hurt so badly," April said through gritted teeth. "He murdered my parents, and he and my father…"
Maybe there had been something good in Kheelan once if her father had loved him, but she could see nothing but darkness in his soul as he stood looming above her, delighting in her pain.
"Tell us what happened, April," Jason gently prodded.
She nodded. Jason and Donovan were her mates. They deserved to know it all, so she told them everything he had done to her, how he and Frederych had tried to pull her powers from her. They both tried to hide their pained expressions, but she saw them and instantly regretted telling them that part. She moved on to the conversation she had had with Kheelan about what she had learned about her parents, including the fact that she possessed some wolf genes. She swatted them away as they both surreptitiously tried to sniff her during her storytelling. Throughout all of it, though, she only saw compassion in their eyes for what she had lost and anger at how she had suffered—or perhaps it was more like murderous rage.
In any case, it made her feel closer to Jason and Donovan, free, with no secrets left between them. She knew who she was now and so did they, but none of it mattered or changed the fact that they belonged to each other.
After she had told them her story, they had all just quietly lay together, her snuggled in between Jason and Donovan, but after a little while of silent reflection, something in the air had changed. An undeniable electric charge had started to pulse between April and her men.
"Let us show you how much we want you, angel." Donovan nuzzled her ear as he spoke.
"Yes," she whispered, closing her eyes, prompting Donovan to continue with his assault on her ear. He licked her inner shell then proceeded to torment her ear with soft bites and kisses, eliciting a few successive moans from her. He moved onto to delivering the same attention to her neck while Jason's warm hands caressed her bare legs.
Donovan cupped her face. She opened up her eyes for a brief moment and saw him hovering over her. His lips quirked in an adorable sly smile before he pressed them to hers. He kissed her softly at first, their tongues barely touching, but when she hugged him to her tightly, he deepened the kiss, moaning into her mouth. His hand cupped her breast over the thick sweatshirt, but she felt it searing into her skin as if she had been wearing nothing at all.
She felt Jason shift in between her legs. His hands roamed up her thighs, and under her shirt, stopping at her hips. He placed his forehead on her lower stomach. "Do you have any idea how difficult it has been lying here, not touching you, knowing you had nothing underneath this sweatshirt?" His voice, muffled by said shirt, sounded strained.
Donovan hummed in agreement and moved on to kissing her neck. She nudged him a little so that he could give her room to sit up. She then lifted her hands in the air. It didn't take long for them to catch her meaning. Donovan peeled off the sweatshirt from her body, slowly revealing every naked inch of her to their gaze. |
"This is a story in and of itself, although it does lead nicely onto the next book. This is turning out to be a wonderful series, and definitely recommended by me."
Archaeolibrarian
Jason and Donovan took a huge risk when they left their pack with the hope of finding their mate. April is everything the brothers have ever dreamt of, but she's even more special than they can imagine.
The battle between their enemies on the other side of The Veil comes at the worst possible time, just when Jason and Donovan have something precious to lose.
April always knew she was a little different. She spent most of her life trying to forget the fact, but when her instincts tell her to pack up everything and move to an entirely different country, she can't help but listen...and then a handsome stranger comes to her rescue one night.
The force of her connection with Jason and his brother Donovan pierces her soul. But will April be able to accept the truth of her real heritage and embrace it in time to find her happy ending?
All rights reserved, Evernight Publishing.
When she stepped out of the bathroom, Donovan and Jason were waiting for her in the bedroom. Donovan sat at the edge of the king-sized bed while Jason looked at her from the armchair next to it. She didn't miss the fact that they both ogled her bare legs as she stepped closer to them. She felt her entire body heat up from the intensity of their stares.
"I like the way my shirt looks on you, angel." Donovan's voice was low and husky. He got up suddenly from the bed to stand in front of her. "Talk to us, April. Please."
"How could the two of you still possibly want me?" April's words came out rushed and strangled. She closed her eyes, swallowing the rest of the speech she had prepared for them as if her vocal cords stubbornly refused to say goodbye to them.
"Cut that shit out, April," Jason bellowed before he, too, stood before her. She fl | 416 |
E3 2017: Age of Empires Definitive Edition Remasters the Classic RTS
The game is having everything redone as part of the game's 20th anniversary.
John Keefer
Microsoft has revealed that it is working on Age of Empires Definitive Edition for Windows 10 PC as part of a celebration of the game's 20th anniversary.
According to the trailer shown at the PC Gaming Show, the 1997 classic is getting a rerecorded soundtrack, remastered 4K UHD graphics, new zoom levels, and improved gameplay. Creative Director Adam Isgreen said that now RTS fans can experience it without the CD-ROM, and everything has been carefully redone, including a modernized<|fim_middle|> for Age of Empires Definitive Edition, but players can sign up for the multiplayer beta, which will happen later this year. More information is expected at GamesCom later this year.
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John Keefer posted a new article, E3 2017: Age of Empires Definitive Edition Remasters the Classic RTS
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synthe6
What's the Xbox Live multiplayer thing? Paid multiplayer?
k1ld0r
"Creative Director Adam Isgreen said that now RTS fans can experience it without the CD-ROM"
good to know, lol...
thetangent
Oh man, that looks SWEET! I can't wait to experience that game again. | UI. The multiplayer has also been redone for Xbox Live, with many of the current multiplayer features added.
The is no official release date yet | 29 |
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