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Q: What is the integrating factor for $xdy + y(x+1)dx =0 $? I could do this with onlfy function forming method i.e. $M(x,y) dx + N(x,y) dy = d f(x,y)$
then the given equation is exact.
$$xdy + y(x<|fim_middle|>)=1\implies g(x)=x+c
$$
| +1)dx =0$$
My work,
$$⇒ xdy + xydx + ydx =0$$
$$⇒xdy + ydx +(xy)dy=0$$
$$⇒d(xy)+(xy)dy=0$$
$$⇒(1/xy)d(xy)+dy=0$$
integrating we get,
$$ln|xy| + y = C$$
but I could not find Integrating factor to do it by partial differential method.
and one extra related question," when both the partial derivatives are 0, being equal we can conclude that the equation is exact.( I just wanted to confirm for the 0 case)"
A: You can in fact do it with an integrating factor directly. Divide through by $xy$ (as you ultimately did) and you get
$$\frac1y\,dy + \left(1+\frac1x\right)\,dx = 0,$$
which is exact.
A: It's separable
$$ xdy + y(x+1)dx =0 $$
$$ \int \frac {dy}{y}=-\int \frac {(x+1)}{x}dx=-x -ln|x|+K $$
A: First note, this is a separable differential equation
$$
xy'=-y(x+1)\implies
\frac{y'}{y}=-\frac{x+1}{x}\implies \ln |y|=-\int 1+\frac{1}{x}\mathrm dx\\
\implies \ln|y|=-x-\ln|x|+C\\
\implies y(x)=Axe^{-x}
$$
where $A$ is a constant.
Second, if you are trying to solve this using integrating factors, the way I usually proceed is by guessing somewhat intelligently, usually some kind of exponential is involved.
Note that you have
$$
\partial_x(x)=1\ne \partial_y(y(x+1))=x+1
$$
so you are off by a function of $x$, that should come down from the exponential after we use the chain rule. So guess
$$
I(x,y)=e^{g(x)}
$$
and solve for $g$ by enforcing
$$
\partial_x(e^{g(x)}x)=xg'(x)e^{g(x)}+e^{g(x)}\\
= \partial_y(ye^{g(x)}(x+1))=e^{g(x)}x+e^{g(x)}\\
\implies g'(x | 538 |
Keke Wyatt Explains Why She's No Longer a Victim of Domestic Abuse
June 15th, 2016 by KRNB
Marcus Ingram/Getty ImagesFollowing a violent first marriage that resulted in her stabbing her husband, Keke Wyatt is proud to say her second marriage is full of love, and free of abuse.
"My first marriage it was one-sided and that's why I got beat on, that's<|fim_middle|> equality when she's in her grave Read More
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Wendy Williams reveals that she's crazy about new beau; shares lymphoedema diagnosis Read More | why I got cheated on, that's why I got left, abandoned, just all kinds of things because it wasn't mutual," she tells Essence. "It was one-sided. So I said I'm not doing that no more. This time I made sure that it was mutual."
After filing for divorce from Rahmat Morton in 2009, Wyatt wed Michael Jamar in 2010, and they've been happily married for six years. She has eight children, and she says Jamar's love for her kids is one of the keys to their relationship
"Any man that can raise someone else's children as their own and love them and take care of them and clean their throwup when they're sick. That's real love," she says. "If you can love my children like you love your own then I tell you what, we got a deal here. We got a lifetime deal."
Wyatt says she is grateful to Jamar for helping her cope with the family problems that have haunted her.
"I have issues from growing up and watching the relationship in my family between my parents not go so right, then I got married and it was the same type of situation," she says. "So this time I'm like, 'Mmm, Jesus. This got to be right.' So, like, me with those issues, the fact that he can help me work through those problems is love."
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Diamondbacks 13, Phillies 1
By Imstillhungry95@imstillhungry95 Aug 12, 2015, 12:24am EDT
Share<|fim_middle|> #112: 8/11 vs. Phillies | All sharing options for: Diamondbacks 13, Phillies 1
This game was over by the end, nay, the second out of the bottom of the second. The Diamondbacks scored 11 runs in that inning, and after that, nothing else really mattered. Fifteen hitters went to the plate, and Hill, Owings, Tomas, and Hellickson all got two hits. The first three of that list also scored twice, and Hellickson alone was responsible for THREE RBI. It was the first time a team had scored 11 runs in an inning this season, and the first time a Phillies pitcher had given up 11 ER since 1947, and the all-time record was 12 runs in one inning in 1938. It was also close to a record for the Diamondbacks, falling just shy of the 13 runs they put up in an inning in 2010.
Hellickson was also phenomenal, but sadly for him, it will get over shadowed by the offense. He went eight innings, and only gave up the one run, easily his best start of the year. Oh, and we're .500 again. So that happened.
Game #112: 8/11, Arizona Diamondbacks 13, Philadelphia Phillies 1
There's no way to top last night... Right??
Gameday Thread, | 296 |
Q: (C#)SendKeys.SendWait("{TAB}"); in java? In C# it's SendKeys.Send<|fim_middle|>);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
This will send TAB to the active application/window.
A: Component.transferFocus();
Or maybe you are looking for the KeyboardFocusManager focusNextComponent(...) method.
You can also use Component.dispatchEvent(...) where you create you own Tab KeyEvent.
I'm trying to send a tab key to an open notepad document
Then you would need to use the Robot class. The above approaches are for using within a Java application, not an external application.
| Wait("{TAB}");
What is that in java? (Sending the TAB keystroke) ?
I couldn't find a real answer in java and java docs didn't know what I was asking. (I'm notice at terms).
Thank youuu favorite site. =)
EDIT: I'm trying to send a tab key to an open notepad document to draw an ASCII picture and I just wanted a tab key instead of 3 spaces.
A: Have a look at the java.awt.Robot class.
It can be used to send keystrokes (simulate keyboard):
Robot robot = new Robot(); // AWTException if not supported
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
robot.delay(20 | 141 |
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Post Judgment Remedies: Judgment Liens, Garnishment, Executions, Turnover Proceedings, Receiverships under the DTPA,<|fim_middle|> to withhold further collection efforts, i.e. periodic interrogatories and depositions in aid of judgment, in exchange for monthly installments. | and "Other Stuff"
Successful collection of judgments requires the aggressive use of proper post judgment remedies having first prepared oneself with adequate discovery and asset searches. Knowing the debtor, his assets and activities, by thoroughly reviewing the client's files, visiting with the client on his knowledge of the debtor, post judgment interrogatories and depositions, information gleaned from pre-trial discovery and contacts with the debtor, skillful asset searches, and perhaps the aid of a private investigator, assists the judgment creditor in determining the proper tools for successful post judgment collection.
While many of the statutory aids discussed in the article may be available to the judgment creditor, the ultimate decision on which, if any, to use should be based on a careful cost/benefit analysis. The best remedy of all may be a post judgment payment agreement whereby the judgment creditor agrees | 165 |
Do you know your typical customer? Can<|fim_middle|> here. This form will help you get started in defining your personas. For best results interview prospects, customers and prospects to get real data. | you define their key behavioral characteristics? Putting a face on your customer with personas helps to identifying their needs and wants and is one of the best ways to optimize your inbound channels. A persona is simply a fictitious character that embodies a segment of your target audience.
Personas are a critical but often overlooked part of online marketing. Marketers tend to worry about the message, the conversion or even details like tracking. But the reality is that without properly creating and utilizing personas prior to developing your campaigns, you are often guessing as to whether you will have the desired impact on your target audience.
A good marketer knows their target audience, but technically a target audience is not the same thing as a persona. Typically within a target audience a certain demographic and their related marketing data is used to cluster a group of prospects. Key data like age, household income and prior purchases are often used to create clusters of target audience. Unfortunately, this doesn't include behavioral characteristics. Personas are the tool that you can use to answer these behavioral based questions. Coupled with related information from your target audience, you can't get a much clearer picture of who you are targeting, what issues they need to solve and how to effectively communicate.
In reality when you create a persona you are creating the missing behavioral element that enables an online marketer to be effective at finding and communicating to your selling prospects. Can you say increased marketing ROI?
You can find a Sample Personas worksheet available | 289 |
You may have heard of the term SEO, you may know it means Search Engine Optimisation – but how can you use SEO to market your business?
In this article, we'll break down all you need to know about SEO for business, without the confusing jargon.
What is SEO and do I need it for my business?
SEO is the process of optimising the content on your website to make it easier for search engines to present your pages to potential customers in search results. Search engine 'bots' scour websites to match the content of web pages to a check list of criteria to make sure they present the most relevant result to the person searching.
Knowing the criteria that they look for means you can ensure you are ticking the boxes that allow search engines to recognise your site for relevant searches, helping your business rise through the ranking system, meaning more traffic to your site and potentially – more sales.
The best place to start is to identify keywords associated with your products or services. For example, say you sell equipment for swimming pools; there will be lots of other businesses out there who sell the same thing<|fim_middle|>, rather than copying them from the manufacturer's brochure. All the other companies tend to just copy and paste item descriptions, so if you can tell the customer about that product in a slightly different way, search engines will log this as new information and rank it higher.
Once we have identified the keywords, we should use these in page metadescriptions – that's the paragraph that appears under the page title in search engine results. It's the bit you read to decide if that link is worth clicking. For more about keywords and metadescriptions, read our blog post Understanding SEO: the value behind the jargon.
What are the key SEO trends for 2019?
Internal and external links are important for SEO. You need to add links into your page content to direct people further into your website and encourage them to explore more relevant content. You also need to add links directing people to other sites which contain useful information, to show search engines you research the subject you are talking about. The most important type of link is a backlink, which links back to your site. You can link to your site from your social media channels for example. In 2019, algorithms also take into account linkless mentions, where people have referenced your brand online, without linking to your website. You can find out more about that here.
One of the most important things you can do to improve your website's SEO is to ensure it is mobile-friendly. Most of your customers will be looking at your products on a mobile phone, so it's vital that the site will work on that platform. It's even more vital now, because since March 2018, Google started the process of migrating sites to mobile-first indexing.
How do you know if your website it mobile-friendly?
If your website is difficult to navigate on mobile, if page load times are super slow or if your site is acting strangely, it's probably not been optimised for mobile. Purple Sprout offers a handy SEO audit, which will tell you all you need to know, such as what keywords are most used on your site, if the alt tag information has been correctly filled in, if meta descriptions are correct, page load times etc. This is a great place to start, and you can take the report and decide what actions need to be taken.
For more information about how Purple Sprout can help you use SEO to market your business call 01782 644 456. | , so it's not enough to just use the keyword "equipment for swimming pools", you need to narrow it down. One way to do this is to add more detail based on what you think people will be typing to search for products.
For example, you may say "UK-based supplier of affordable temperature control equipment for large swimming pools", which in a sentence could be "We are a UK-based supplier of affordable temperature control equipment for large swimming pools". You could use this on webpages featuring that sort of equipment, or in blog posts about the temperature control products you offer.
When using SEO to market your business, it is also worth noting product descriptions – try to change these a little where possible | 140 |
Come Dine with Me Next Episode Air Date
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Come Dine with Me is a popular Channel 4 television programme shown in the United Kingdom, produced by ITV Studios (formerly known as Granada) and as of 2013, Shiver Productions and first broadcast in January 2005. The show has either four or five amateur chefs competing against each other hosting a dinner party for the other contestants. Each competitor then rates the host's performance with the winner winning a £1,000 cash prize. An element of comedy is added to the show through comedian Dave Lamb, who provides a dry and "bitingly sarcastic" narration.
The format has been taken up by many other broadcasters throughout the world. (source: en.wikipedia.org)
Genres: Food
Station: Channel 4 (UK)
Status: To Be Determined
Start: 2005-01-10
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Come Dine with Me Season 38 Air Dates
S38E01 - Swansea: Anna Air Date: 19 March 2016 17:30 -
S38E02 - Swansea: Arwel Air Date: 19 March 2016 17:30 -
S38E03 - Swansea: Leon Air Date:<|fim_middle|>4 - Swansea: Jade Air Date: 19 March 2016 17:30 -
S38E05 - Preston: Lottie Air Date: 20 August 2016 15:30 -
In this brand new episode the culinary competition is in and around Preston, where the first to host is 29-year-old men's barber Lottie, affectionately known as 'Foghorn'. Lottie hopes to bob off with the £1000 prize by hosting a night of fun and flavoursome food. Her guests are family man Martin, vegan reike healer Justina and company director Anthony. With a fancy dress photo booth for entertainment, pungent pillows and a wet dog thrown in for good measure, will Lottie's dinner party bag her the prize?
S38E06 - Preston: Martin Air Date: 20 August 2016 16:00 -
In this brand new episode, second to host in Preston is support worker Martin Ainsworth, who hopes his menu of classics with a twist will go down a treat with his guests. The night starts well when men's barber Lottie is pleasantly surprised by the risky black pudding starter. Unfortunately, sales director Anthony's steak is overcooked and the chocolate brownie dessert is dry. The food's not the only thing that doesn't go down well, as vegan Justina finds the noise levels all a bit much, with the main culprit being Lottie. It's a noisy night with some passion and poetry thrown in, but will it be enough to bag Martin the £1000 prize?
S38E07 - Preston: Justina Air Date: 20 August 2016 16:35 -
In this brand new episode it's the third day of the competition, and fragrance seller Justina is hoping to wow her guests with a vegan menu. She's got a trick up her sleeve and will be performing reiki on her food to make sure she's in with a chance of winning the £1000 prize. It's an entertaining night with support worker Martin and loud Lottie in fits of giggles over Justina's demonstration of an unusual event involving an arrow that could kill a 20-foot bear. Whilst company director Anthony may not be the biggest fan of the meat-free food, he hasn't laughed so much in a long time and the atmosphere is the night's saviour.
S38E08 - Preston: Anthony Air Date: 20 August 2016 17:05 -
It's the final night in and around Preston, and the turn of confident cook, company director Anthony Smith. He's hoping his mix off finger-licking food and fine dining will bag him the £1000 prize. Will his night of celebrity comparisons, ludicrous licks and gamey games be enough to win him the prize?
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Huncote Harriers Athletic Club was founded in 1982 by a small number of local runners wishing to train for the London Marathon and became an England Athletics affiliation club. Over the years it has established itself as one of the most successful running clubs in Leicestershire.
We are a friendly group of people who all share a love of running. We currently have around 240 members of all ages and abilities and our sessions are led by one of five qualified Coaches or ten qualified Run Leaders. Our sessions generally run from Huncote and Enderby but we also organise runs from other parts of the county from time-to-time (e.g. some weekend runs at Bradgate Park, track sessions<|fim_middle|> if you have any questions please feel free to get in touch with one of the Club Officers who will do their best to answer your questions. | at Ratcliffe College, different venues for our Christmas Pub Run social).
The club takes part in the Leicestershire Road Running League, East Midlands Grand Prix Series, North Midlands Cross Country League and Derby Runner Cross Country League. We also compete in annual team events such as the Livingston Relays and the Rainbows 100 Lap Challenge at Saffron Lane Stadium and have our own internal competitions for members.
A few Harriers can also usually be found participating in the local parkruns at Braunstone Park or Victoria Park in Leicester each Saturday.
More details about the club can be found by browsing through this web site and | 126 |
<|fim_middle|> part of New Zealand's exciting and dynamic apple industry," said New Zealand Apples & Pears chief executive Alan Pollard.
New Zealand's NZ$850m apple industry is celebrating one of its best seasons this year, according to Pollard.
The review highlighted that New Zealand's industry had long relied heavily on innovation to provide it with a competitive edge given its relatively small size, export orientation and distance from major markets.
The country has popularised varieties like Gala and Fuji, pioneered the first true club variety Jazz, and developed and produced a stream of new varieties including Pacific Rose, Envy, Smitten and Koru.
The most significant measure of innovation in a country's orchards is the percentage of new varieties in production. The report highlighted that New Zealand still actively searches for newer apple varieties to remain ahead of the field. | For the fourth year in a row, New Zealand has been named as the globe's leading apple industry against 33 other major apple growing countries.
The World Apple Review made the call this week, stating that the innovations emerging from New Zealand's apple industry will increasingly impact production and marketing throughout the world.
"To earn and then retain this world leading title year on year is an outstanding achievement, and rewards everyone who is | 83 |
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Tribble, Harvey - 1 p.m., Raynes Funeral Home, Buffalo.
Williamson, Grayson - 11 a.m., Anderson Funeral Home, New Haven. | this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight. Low 28F. Winds light and variable..
Partly cloudy this evening, then becoming cloudy after midnight. Low 28F. Winds light and variable.
Metro West Calendar: Wednesday, Jan. 15-Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020
NOW Meeting: The Kanawha Valley chapter of the National Organization for Women will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the WVFREE offices, 1114 Quarrier St., Charleston. The program will be a legislative update with WVFREE, a reproductive rights coalition, and Center for Budget and Policy. The meeting is open to the public.
Kanawha Farm Bureau: Promoting agriculture in the county with information and special speakers, the Kanawha County Farm Bureau will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the West Wing of Maranatha Baptist Church, Sissonville. The group meets there on the third Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. For directions or additional information, contact Clyde Bailey at 304-776-6491.
Cincinnati Reds Caravan: The annual Cincinnati Reds Caravan is scheduled to arrive at approximately 5:30 p.m. at the Charleston Town Center's Clendenin Street Court. The Reds Caravan provides fans of all ages with the opportunity to interact with current and former players, top Minor Leaguers, broadcasters, members of the Reds' front office and mascots. The entourage will field questions and sign autographs as time allows. The appearance is free, and the Reds will raffle two tickets to the 2020 Opening Day game at 4:10 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, vs. the St. Louis Cardinals.
Clothes Closet: The Adult Sunday School class of the Fifth Avenue Church of God in South Charleston will open its clothes closet, offering good, clean clothes to those in need, from 10 a.m. until noon. Park in the lot on E Street, come in the side door and go down the stairs.
Table Tennis Tournament: The Charleston Table Tennis Club will sponsor the Harry Sands Memorial Teams Tournament during the day at the North Charleston Community Center, 2009 Seventh Ave. in Charleston. Fourteen teams from throughout the state will compete for the title of Best Team. Admission is free. For more details, contact Dale Goff at dale.goff3@gmail.com
Coin Show: The Mountain State Numismatic Society of West Virginia will host a coin show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the VFW Post headquarters, #7 Blinko Drive, Milton. Admission and parking are free. Door prizes will be given away every hour. For further information, phone 304-840-7036.
SCPL Holiday Closure: The South Charleston Public Library will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
MLK Day Service: The St. Albans Ministerial Association will host a special Martin Luther King Jr. Day church service at 7 p.m. at St. Francis Catholic Church, 1023 Sixth Ave. in St. Albans. The Rev. Roberta Hill Smith will be the keynote speaker.
House committee passes bill to reduce jail population
Details of Frontier's possible bankruptcy plans sought by Kanawha Commission
WV Senate advances bill to prohibit state from disclosing identity of some nonprofit donors
WVU basketball notebook: Slumping Mountaineer trio snaps out of it in beatdown of Texas
Funerals for Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Adkins, Kenneth - 11 a.m., Evans Funeral Home Chapel, Chapmanville.
Carney, Herman - 11 a.m., Poca United Methodist Church, Poca.
Chrislip, David - 11 a.m., Elk Funeral Home, Charleston.
Coon, Iverson - 2 p.m., Pleasant Grove Church, Reedy.
Fisher, Delmer - 1 p.m., Long and Fisher Funeral Home, Sissonville.
Frame, Joe - 2 p.m., Elk Hills Memorial Park, Big Chimney.
Gibson, Floyd - 1 p.m., Stevens & Grass Funeral Home. Malden.
Harmon-Ray, Barbara - 11 a.m., Handley Funeral Home, Danville.
Kennedy, Eva - 11 a.m., Christ Church United Methodist, Charleston.
Patton, Loretta - 1 p.m., Good Shepherd Mortuary, South Charleston.
Peters, Bobby - 2 p.m., Handley Funeral Home, Danville.
Phillips, William - 3 p.m., Hafer Funeral Home, Elkview.
Ritchie, Juanita - 8 p.m., Roush Funeral Home, Ravenswood.
Scott, Jimmie - 11 a.m., Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes.
Taylor, Kenneth - 1 p.m., Waters Funeral Chapel, Summersville | 1,055 |
Ladybird, Ladybird Fly Away Home!
Have you ever seen these funny-looking bugs around? They're black and spiny with yellow stripes.
These are actually the juvenille larvae form of the ladybird! It's hard to imagine that they're going to become something so beautiful!
Did you know that ladybirds have a similar life-cycle to a butterfly? Ladybirds lay hundreds of eggs, and when they hatch, the ladybird larvae immediately begin to feed. By the end of its three-to<|fim_middle|> after your ladybirds and you can be rest assured that they'll look after your garden. | -six-week life, the larvae may eat some 5,000 aphids. It's great news if you have ladybirds and lavae in your garden munching away.
Ladybirds are a very important part of the health and overall balance of your garden.
How about making or buying an Insect Hotel to encourage them to safely live in your garden? You may even see some other beneficial insects such as native bees! You can find some fabulous ones for sale at nurseries or online, but a tied bundle of bamboo canes, sticks, or even pinecones are a great way to get started. Hang up the hotel under the branch of a tree or to a railing and the ladybirds will begin to move in. You can attach it to a fence to keep it from blowing away in the wind. Make sure there's plenty of plant growth around so the insects can easily crawl about. Keep your insect hotel in a protected and dry place. If the rain gets in, then your visitors may drown.
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The French Flag Model
The French flag model represents how embryonic cells receive and respond to genetic information and subsequently differentiate into patterns. Created by Lewis Wolpert in the late 1960s, the model uses the French tricolor flag as visual representation to explain how embryonic cells can interpret genetic code to create the same pattern even when certain pieces of the embryo are removed. Wolpert's model has provided crucial theoretical framework for investigating universal mechanisms of pattern formation during development.
Julia Barlow Platt's Embryological Observations on Salamanders' Cartilage (1893)
In 1893, Julia Barlow Platt published her research on the origins of cartilage in the developing head of the common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) embryo. The mudpuppy is an aquatic sal<|fim_middle|>ai de Dioptrique, a semi-speculative work describing the sorts of new scientific observations that could be done using magnifying lenses. Dioptrique was published in Paris by the publishing house of Jean Anisson. The image depicts a curled up infant-like human, now referred to as a homunculus, inside the head of a sperm cell. | amander commonly used by embryologists because its large embryonic cells and nuclei are easy to see. Platt followed the paths of cells in developing mudpuppy embryos to see how embryonic cells migrated during the formation of the head. With her research, Platt challenged then current theories about germ layers, the types of cells in an early embryo that develop into adult cells.
Subject: Experiments, Theories, Processes
Germ Layers
A germ layer is a group of cells in an embryo that interact with each other as the embryo develops and contribute to the formation of all organs and tissues. All animals, except perhaps sponges, form two or three germ layers. The germ layers develop early in embryonic life, through the process of gastrulation. During gastrulation, a hollow cluster of cells called a blastula reorganizes into two primary germ layers: an inner layer, called endoderm, and an outer layer, called ectoderm.
Hartsoeker's Homunculus Sketch from Essai de Dioptrique
This embryology image is a pencil sketch by Nicolaas Hartsoeker, published as part of his 1694 French-language paper entitled Ess | 240 |
The Mind-Controlled Author
She was a fascinating person.
Due to her job, she had lived all over the world. She was intellectually curious -- teaching herself to read several foreign languages and to play intricate classical pieces on the piano. All her friends and family would attest that she was generous to a fault.
Then, a few years ago, she suddenly began to hear voices.
First she claimed they were sending her messages through the television and radio, but later said "the voices" were transmitted directly into her head. They also tormented her by shooting painful "electronic rays" all over her body, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. She said she was a victim of a government "mind control" experiment.
Her behavior became increasingly aberrant. At one point she fled the country without telling anyone, in hopes that she'd leave "the voices" behind. She returned home several days later, sadly admitting that the voices had followed her. She took to visiting lawyers' offices, trying to enlist their help in fighting the government; they'd usher her out, barely suppressing their smiles. It was especially bad for those of us who knew her. She would talk for hours about her plight. She was so convincing that, after a while, you'd think, "Well...she did work for the government all her life<|fim_middle|> cathode ray tubes. As I led him to the science stacks, I stuttered-stepped as he added, "The government is using cathode rays to monitor my behavior." If you listen to late night radio, you'll often hear people phone in and say they're being persecuted by the government, or under the control of the CIA, or hearing voices in their heads. These calls are usually quickly scuttled by the host.
I've been thinking about my old acquaintance -- as well as all the other people like her -- this week, after hearing about a woman named Candy Jones.
Candy Jones (1925-1990) was a well-known model throughout the forties and fifties. In 1972, she married a New York radio host named Long John Nebel. Long John's overnight show focused on the paranormal and conspiracy theories, much like his latter-day counterparts Art Bell and George Noory do today. Upon getting married, Candy joined Long John's show as a co-host and began to enthrall his audience with her own story of being a "mind control" victim. Her tale -- patched together from both partial memories and hypnotic regressions -- is full of intrigue, torture, and mystery. Some called it a hoax, but author Donald Bain took it seriously enough to write a book about it (THE CONTROL OF CANDY JONES, 1976) and Carla Emery's 1998 volume, SECRET, DON'T TELL : THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HYPNOTISM, devotes many pages to Candy's story.
Of course when I learned about Candy Jones, I immediately thought of the Cathode Ray Guy in the Library and my tormented acquaintance who wasted her last years writing hundreds of letters to the government about "the voices."
You're probably wondering what any of this has to do with children's books.
Well, when I was researching Candy Jones this week, I discovered that during the sixties, she wrote several young adult books about modeling and fashion. Published by Harper, her YA titles included LET'S MAKE FACES, JUST FOR TEENS, and MORE THAN BEAUTY. I've never seen any of these books, but I'm especially intrigued by her 1962 volume TIME TO GROW UP : AN AFFECTIONATE GUIDE FOR YOUNG LADIES FROM TEN TO SIXTEEN, which contains advice on etiquette and comportment for girls.
I guess I'd like to read these books just to see if any of her later "strangeness" lurks subtly within the sentences or creeps around the edge of the pages.
One thing I learned from having a personal relationship with someone who had a very similar delusion is that it eventually colors all your thoughts and memories of that person. I remember the years before my acquaintance became strange and obsessed. I remember her sending letters from exotic places such as Turkey and the Philippines. I remember books that she shared with me. I remember things she'd say and do. But now when I remember those things, I am looking for signs of incipient strangeness in her words and actions. Surely it had to be there all along.
It had to be.
Because I hate to think of the alternative: that smart, kind people like my personal acquaintance or worldly authors such as Candy Jones could live productive, fulfilling lives for many years and then -- snap! -- suddenly become obsessed with a batty belief that torments them for the rest of their years.
I don't want to believe that could happen.
Because if that could happen to them, it could happen to anyone, including you and me.
The reported incidences of stalking, by government or other groups, has been increasing exponentially with the technological advancement of surveillance equipment.
Unless you've seen it in action, yes, it's hard to believe. But when you're a first-hand witness or "victim", it's imperative to develop the mind-set to fight the intimidation.
There are Yahoo groups which have good links and information for those who are, actually, experiencing the stalking phenomenon. It's so close to the mind-control phenomenon, that whether that's true or false, it's nice to know that support groups exist.
Sounds like Brice Taylor (Sue Ford), but at least she was smart enough to write publishers instead of Congress, turning her ramblings into a cash cow
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The Two Reds Scare | ...could it possibly be true...?" But then you'd shake your head and say, "Of course it's not true!" When she saw your disbelief, she'd say in disgust, "Someday you'll find out the truth. It may not be in my lifetime, but someday the truth will come out -- and then you'll be sorry you never believed me!"
After she died, we found hundreds of legal pads containing rough drafts of demented letters she'd written to every member of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and even the President of the United States, demanding that they look into the "mind control experiments" that had made the last two decades of her life a living nightmare.
Of course she wasn't the only one who suffered from this delusion. I've come to realize it's common. Someone once came into the library where I worked and asked for information on | 181 |
The implementation of Government-Linked Company (GLC) Transformation Program 2005/0<|fim_middle|> CSR disclosure. This study gives implications to various parties such as Malaysian Government, Bursa Malaysia, Security Commission and other relevant parties in to improve CSR awareness, practices, disclosures and quality in GLCs. | 6 by government is one effort to promote Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) disclosures among its government-linked companies (GLCs). CSR issues are being stressed in the Silver Book included in the GLC Transformation Manual under the GLC Transformation Program 2005/06. It is questionable as to whether the introduction of the Silver Book really reflects goods prospects for government-linked companies to disclose their CSR, and whether there are any other factors that will influence the GLCs in Malaysia to disclose their CSR. Thus, the objective of this study is to examine whether the introduction of the Silver Book affect the CSR disclosure among Malaysian GLCs as well as to examine the determinants of CSR disclosure, focusing on the profitability, board size and board independence. Multiple linear regression analysis is being used to examine the relationship between all the independent variables and dependent variable. Findings show that there is an increasing trend in CSR disclosure among Malaysian GLCs from year 2011 until 2015. Two variables i.e. board size and board independence has been found to have a significant positive relationship with the | 219 |
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ZRF Creates Blue Mountain Networks to Deploy Fiber in Northwest
Combines operations of Gorge Networks and Eastern Oregon Telecom
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NEW YORK, April 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- ZRF Partners, a growth-oriented private equity firm, today announced the formation of Blue Mountain Networks to deploy Fiber Optic networks in the Northwest United States.
Blue Mountain Networks combined the operations of Hood River-based Gorge Networks with Hermiston-based Eastern Oregon Telecom to accelerate expansion of fiber technology to residential and small business customers. The combined company provides high-speed internet, voice and data services to residential and business customers in 29 communities in Oregon and Washington.
"Sym<|fim_middle|> fiber footprint and deliver a customer value and experience in small towns and rural communities that is better than most large cities," commented Dan Bubb, President of Gorge Networks.
Stephen Barraclough, former CEO of Burlington Telecom, a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Burlington, VT, leads Blue Mountain Networks as Executive Chairman. Gary Evans, founder and former CEO of Hiawatha Broadband Communications, a FTTH provider in Minnesota, has joined Blue Mountain Network's Board of Directors.
About ZRF Partners: ZRF Partners is a private investment firm focused on building value through operational and strategic improvements. Working side-by-side with management to drive growth through relentless operational execution and deploying transformative initiatives, ZRF's approach ensures that a company's full potential is realized. For more information visit www.zrfpartners.com.
About Gorge Networks: Gorge Networks is a leading Internet service provider in the mid-Columbia region of Oregon and Washington providing services to 17 communities in Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Skamania and Klickitat counties. For more information visit www.gorge.net.
About Eastern Oregon Telecom: EOT is a leading Internet service provider in Eastern Oregon, offering high-speed Internet and voice services to 12 communities in Umatilla, Morrow and Benton counties. For more information visit www.eotnet.com.
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"We are accelerating our fiber expansion to create "Gigabit Communities" and enable our customers to fully participate in the ever-growing digital economy, work remotely, access telemedicine and earn an online education," said Joe Franell, President of Eastern Oregon Telecom and Blue Mountain Networks.
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However, most dogs who find certain things scary can be helped to feel better.
Fearful dogs try different behaviours in response to whatever is scaring them. If the behaviour results in the scary thing going away, then the behaviour is supported and, over time, the dog displays this behaviour earlier and earlier.
Milder behaviours indicating stress include licking lips, panting, yawning, flattening ears back, restlessness or hiding. These can progress to raised hackles, baring teeth, growling, barking or snapping. Stressed dogs can become destructive, chewing the furniture or your shoes, or they may lose house training and start to toilet in the house.
Try to work out what triggers his behaviour. Once you can recognise the early signs of anxiety you can act to help. In the short term, try to avoid any triggers for fear. This will give you time to start a behavioural therapy programme. It is worth investing some money in getting help from a professional behaviourist. Your vet should be able to recommend some.
Make an appointment with your vet so that she can give your dog a full clinical examination to ensure there is no underlying medical cause for the stress, like pain. If your vet gives the all clear, you can start a desensitization plan. For example, if your dog is scared of fireworks, you can start early in the summer by playing CDs with firework noises at a very low volume. Over time, increasing the volume desensitises your dog to the noise.
It is worth considering a calming supplement for your<|fim_middle|> you are concerned about your pet's health you should always take them to see your vet. | dog. There are several available which are safe to give on a daily basis. Supplements will not make a massive difference overnight, but they can help your dog feel calmer and, in doing so, can help your dog be more receptive to desensitization techniques. They can also support new learning for your dog: dogs associate new learning with a calmer, positive experience. There are many supplements available and you should ask your vet for advice on which to use.
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Located on a large plot at the heart of a<|fim_middle|> natural wood. | zone of villas on the southern perimetre of the town of Carouge, the special sculptural form of "Drize nursing home" stands in a very green environment. The large overhang indicates the main entrance which leads to the large communal room. The ground floor contains all shared activities and benefits from extensions to the garden, through two wide terraces. The two upper floors, designed to be bedrooms, are spatially linked to the communal spaces through a vertical interior courtyard bathed in light from above, a founding element of the expression of a community that must be both individual and collective. The cut-out geometry of the plane allows bedroom blocks to be distributed according to the dimensions of the portions of rectilinear facades and advantage to be taken of interruptions to install the floor's living rooms or dining rooms, whilst allowing the natural light to penetrate. The bedroom space is comfortable and designed for its occupant: large window in natural wood to frame the landscape, its ledge acting as a seat, entrance marked by an oak veneer recess and large bathroom. The volume is covered in traditional tiles with large rectangular openings for delicate frames in anodised aluminum. The inner walls are white, contrasting with the floors in | 244 |
Brian and Gina no longer live together but they have to tell the story of their first adventure, from the very first time they met, to a producer who wants to make a Hollywood blockbuster out of it. Will Gina and Brian realize they still have feelings for each other while reliving their first encounter?
Play once again as the two myth<|fim_middle|> Fans of the PC series and newcomers alike will love discovering this adventure, full of endearing characters, funny movie references and delectable dialogue. | ics heroes of the Runaway series ! For the 10th anniversary of the mythic, million-selling PC adventure game Runaway: a Road Adventure, Pendulo Studios, in association with BulkyPix, proudly presents Hidden Runaway, a brand-new episode starring Brian and Gina.
Our two heroes no longer live together -- in fact, they hate each other… but they have to tell the story of their first adventure, from the very first time they met, to a producer who wants to make a Hollywood blockbuster out of it.
Will Gina and Brian realize they still have feelings for each other while reliving their first encounter? Find out in this original hidden object game that mixes hidden object searches, casual puzzles adapted and simplified from their point n' click predecessor with special mini-games and narrative cut-scenes! | 163 |
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. | need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.
With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.
Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; Within my sword's length set him; if he 'scape, Heaven forgive him too!
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Have you noticed there is never any third act of a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
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This past week, I was lucky enough to be invited down to Sandals Emerald Bay for a meeting. The CEO, Adam Stewart, and Chairman of Sandals, Gordon "Butch" Stewart invited their top producing agents and members of the Chairman's Royal Club down to Great Exuma for a productivity meeting to help tweak some of the Sandals programs as well as give feedback and suggestions about their advertising and brochures.
Luckily, living in Florida means I'm a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Bahamas, so I accepted the invitation and booked my flights for Tuesday to Saturday. I decided to extend my stay for a few nights and bring my husband down with me so we could experience the resort as a couple, after all the work was done. Besides, I have a bunch of clients who will be traveling to Emerald Bay-- one who will be getting married-- and figured this would be the perfect opportunity to tour the resort and bring home photos for them.
I booked my last-minute flights on Friday and spent the weekend packing and arranging a sitter for our dogs. By the time Tuesday came I was excited and ready to go. We work up around 3AM to get ready and make it to the garage to park our car by the airport by 4:30AM. Then took the 5AM shuttle to the airport from the parking garage. Our flight from Tampa to Miami was at 7AM.
My Sandals and My Paradise Planner luggage tags.
Saying goodbye to Tampa for a few days.
After a quick 35 minute flight on American Airlines from Tampa to Miami, and a two hour layover, we were boarding our American Eagle flight to Great Exuma and set to arrive on the island before noon.
Waiting for our flight in Miami.
The flight was almost as short as the flight between Tampa and Miami, with only maybe 10 minutes more of air time. After about 20 minutes in the air we began to notice a difference in the water color below us. The closer we got, the more turquoise it became. At some points all you could see were miles of sand bars with no islands in sight. It was breathtaking.
The beautiful water greeted us as we landed.
When we finally landed in Great Exuma, my excitement was at it's peak. We picked up our carry on luggage from the valet who put them under the plane, and then we made our way to what I called the customs and immigration shack. It was basically the size of a small one story house. We walked in, went to one of the two desks, cleared immigration, went around the corner and cleared customs and then walked out the door.
The first thing I noticed was Jeremy Mutton, the general manager, checking guests in at the Sandals desk outside the immigration office. He was welcoming everyone and making sure they got into the correct taxis to the resort. Since it was Tuesday, and about 30 agents were arriving for the meeting tomorrow, he was filling in to help make everything go more smoothly. One of the things I love about Sandals and Beaches resorts is that even their general managers will step in and help out when needed.
We were put in a taxi and sent off to the resort. The taxi driver told us about the island and asked us where we were from. After a bit of small talk and a quick 15 minute ride, we were turning into the resort driveway. The first thing I noticed was how grand it all was. The long driveway came to a circle at the front of the lobby building where there was a beautiful water fountain and two large palm trees welcoming guests.
We pulled around under the overhang of the lobby and were greeted by (Mohamed) Satar, the butler manager. He had a big smile on his face and immediately said "Welcome, Mr and Mrs. Solomon". How he knew our names was beyond me, but we were definitely impressed. We were ushered away to a private lobby adjacent to the main lobby where all the other travel specialists were checking in. We met with Julie, my business development representative and a few other familiar faces. Then our butler, Valentino, came to collect us. Our bags had already been delivered to our room and he was going to take us to the room to check us in.
Once in the room, Valentino showed us around. We were in room 5304, the Great Exuma 1 Bedroom Honeymoon Suite [Click here to view the video walk-through]. There was a full 3 piece bathroom to our right as soon as we walked in.
To our left was a closet with an umbrella and a cooler for us to use when we went to the beach or the pool. Next to that was our in-room bar and the fully stocked mini fridge below that.
Then we walked into the main living room area. There was a couch and a chair, a table and two chairs with it, and an armoire with a TV inside it. Beyond that were sliding glass doors that opened to the small balcony where there was another table and two chairs overlooking the resort grounds and the beautiful ocean beyond the lush green palm trees.
Then to the right were a set of double doors that opened up into a separate bedroom with a king sized bed, two night tables and an armoir with a TV inside. There were two windows with plantation shutters that opened up to let light inside.
Around the corner, to the right, was a small hallway with a his and her's closet and a safe inside it and then a smaller set of double doors that opened to the 5 piece en-suite bathroom.
It was gorgeous and quiet a place to call home for a few days!
After exploring the room a little, I noticed the ice bucket with a bottle of champagne in it. Valentino opened it for us, and poured us two glasses and we sipped them while he checked us in.
It was then that I also noticed a lovely box made entirely of chocolate with a fondant rose a note thanking us for coming.
Inside the box were delicious handmade deserts that I can't even begin to describe what they were or how they were made. It took us all five days to eat all of the chocolate, but we managed!
Valentino then asked if we wanted him to unpack for us, but since we had such an early flight we preferred to take a nap, and thanked him anyway. He left us a cell phone so that we could contact him, and then he left us to relax in our beautiful suite.
Before we decided to take a nap, we walked around the resort. We were hungry after our early morning ordeal and decided to grab a bite at Barefoot By The Sea, our favorite restaurant at other Sandals properties. The food was excellent! Make sure to take a moment and try the coconut bread too. Yum!
When we finished our lunch we decided to walk down to the beach. Honestly, I knew the water at Sandals Emerald Bay was a selling feature, but never had I seen water this breathtaking. Truly, it took my breath away.
We spent a little while on the beach, catching some sun, and then decided to head back to the room for a much needed nap.
Later that afternoon, I woke up and got ready for dinner with my group. Our group dinner was at the French Restaurat, La Parisian. We arrived and had cocktails and chatted with each other while we waited for our tables to be ready (they had closed the restaurant for us). Dinner was delicious!
It was a lovely way for the CEO, Chairman, VP of Sales, VP of industry relations, and the other top Sandals team members to welcome us and thank us for coming down to the Bahamas on such short notice.
On Wednesday, I spent the entire day, from 10AM to 5:30PM, in the conference room with all the other agents who flew down, and the Sandals team members. We discussed possible changes to the Soon Come Back program and gave our thoughts and suggestions on what to do about the program and how to make it work best for the agents, our clients, and Sandals/Beaches too. Each agent had a chance to say what they thought and share their ideas.
Once everyone had a chance to speak their peace, we broke for an hour to have a delicious buffet lunch that was set up right outside the main ballroom. The private meal was delicious and gave me an opportunity to chat with Debbie-Ann White (the PR manager for Sandals and Beaches), Adam Stewart (the CEO) and Julie Stephan (my local business development manager).
Photo Adam Stewart took of our agents at lunch.
Meanwhile, outside of our meeting, my husband was enjoying Mexican Day at the Bahama Bay buffet.
So much so that he ate lunch twice!
When all was said and done, we sat back down in the ballroom and finished our second half of the meeting. Butch, the Chairman, asked us what we thought about the new Sandals and Beaches commercials and we gave him our honest feedback on them as well. We also discussed changes that may need to be made to the new brochures. In the end, all of the Sandals team was very pleased with our feedback and very eager to hold a similar meeting in the future to go over the things we didn't have time to cover in this meeting.
and CEO, Adam Stewart (3rd from the right of Butch).
After the meeting let out, I had an hour to rush back to the room, shower, and change for our group dinner at Il iClio, the Italian Restaurant. The group had private function space set up in the backroom, and we were broken up into two tables.
The Chairman and CEO ate with us and then had to leave before the main course because they have a late night flight to Jamaica for the birthday celebration of their newspaper the next day.
As soon as dinner was over, a small group of us made our way over to the Drunken Duck pub for a few drinks before calling it a night. My husband and I said goodnight to some of our dear friends who would be leaving early the next morning, and then snuck off to the beach where he surprised me by showing me the stars.
Never in my life had I seen so many stars! Even on a clear night there are plenty of stars visable from around the resort, but if you go off to the left side of the resort, past the Drunken Duck and out to where the boardwalk takes you to the beach, that is the best place for you will see them all. We saw several shooting stars and constelations. It was absolutely amazing! (*Tip: If you stay in the Coco Plum walkout suites or the Colossal Beachfront suites you'll have your own private hammock in the sand outside your patio. This is perfect for stargazers who want to lay back and look at the sky).
Breakfast the next morning was just what I needed to start my first official day of vacation. We ate at the Italian restaurant and while I had the eggs benedict (my favorite breakfast at Sandals), my husband went with his traditional favorite, the berry french toast. As usual, Sandals did not disappoint.
After breakfast we decided to lounge on the beach all day. Our butler kept busy by making dinner reservations and taking care of a few other requests we had made. It was nice to know that while we relaxed, someone else was handling all the things I'd normally have to do on vacation.
We went up to the room, filled our cooler with some water bottles and juice, and then headed down for the beach. We hadn't requested our butler to reserve us seats, but it wasn't a problem because the resort was not at full capacity so we found seats anyway and dragged them down to the waters edge. (*Note: our butler had told us to let him know when we wanted seats and where, but we were still getting used to having someone at our beck and call so we found ourselves not wanting to bother him. But if you truly want something, all you have to do is ask).
The weather was beautiful, in the upper 70's, and breezy. But<|fim_middle|> told us how much we'd be missed and how he hoped we'd return soon. We promised him we would. A few moments later he was loading our luggage into the taxi and sending us on our way to the airport.
When our plane landed from Miami and everyone had debarked, we walked out onto the tarmac and gave the valet our luggage for under the plane and then climbed the stairs and said goodbye to Great Exuma.
The airport "house" and the Bahamian flag waving goodbye to us.
When we arrived in Miami after an hour of flying time, we were herded onto a bus, taken over to the area of the terminal used for customs and immigration. It was a Saturday afternoon and it took us over an hour to get through customs and immigration and then through security again. Mainly because the woman putting people into the lines was putting everyone into the wrong lines so it created mass confusion. Also, because of the government sequester, there were less employees working the lines which made for longer wait times.
We had a two hour layover and made it to our plane with 10 minutes to spare before boarding time. But once on the plane we relaxed and enjoyed the quick 30 minutes flight from Miami back home to Tampa Bay.
Back home in Tampa Bay!
If you are a beach lover: May - October is the best time to go. The weather is warmer and the water is warmer.
If you are a golf lover: Go in the winter when it's not unbearably hot in the sun and the resort is quieter.
If you are a spa lover: Go all year round. The spa is fabulous at any time!
If you are adventurous: They say this island isn't for people who are very active, but I have to disagree. There are some incredible sea tours to take on this island. It may be quiet in the evening, but during the day there is plenty to do if you pre-book an Island Routes tour. Consider a tour of the surrounding Cays, or the 007 Thunderball tour. There is swimming with the pigs, swimming with the nurse sharks, swimming with sting rays, feeding wild iguanas, swimming in grottos, snorkeling, scuba diving, sunning yourself on sand bars in the middle of the ocean... the list goes on. If you love water then this is your paradise.
If you want rest and relaxation: Then definitely go here! You won't have a care in the world when you lock your wallet in your room safe and ignore it for the entire trip. Just have your butler pull up a chair on the beach, grab a coconut and a pina colada and ENJOY the most beautiful water you've ever seen. | the ocean water was pretty cold while we were there, so I didn't have a chance to go out and try the water sports. I noticed other people did though. In fact, the day I was in my meeting, Robert, went out on the paddle boards and said it was beautiful to be able to paddle over the crystal clear water even far from the shoreline.
Robert did talk me into going in the water at one point, but I immediately regretted it when we got out and the breeze made me feel like I had been swimming in an ice bucket. From then on we stayed out of the water and used frozen drinks to cool down if we got too hot. Next time we go, it will be in the summer when we can enjoy the ocean.
We had pizza for lunch from Dino's. While we waited for them to make the pizza we grabbed a bag of popcorn from the bar at the quiet pool and relaxed in the gardens on the little gazebo beds while listening to the fountain.
The pizza itself was great but my husband ordered it with peperoni, steak, and sausage on it and I was not a fan of that. I just wanted plain cheese but figured I'd try the meat-lover's pizza if he wanted it. I ended up picking the meat off it and giving it to him, and then gave up altogether and got shrimp skewers from the pool side BBQ instead, while he ate the rest of the pizza himself. That's the beautiful of Sandals. If you don't like something, just get something else. No extra charge. No "worries".
This was about the time that I began coming down with a cold, most likely from the flight. So I decided to go inside and lay down for a bit, but later that evening our butler brought us some snacks of cheese, crackers, and fruit. It was nice of him because we hadn't asked for it but we had been getting a little hungry and didn't want to eat too much and spoil our dinner.
We had reservations that evening at the French restaurant. Valentino came to our room and personally escorted us to dinner. That was a lovely added touch. My husband and I both ordered the filet minion, but he wanted shellfish too, so he added a lobster tail to it. They happily told him "no problem, sir". He was in heaven.
After dinner we came back to our room to find a few gifts from Valentino. The first thing we noticed was our bed was decorated with a big heart and a bunch of flowers. It looked so beautiful I briefly considered sleeping on the couch so we didn't have to ruin it.
Then we walked into the bathroom and noticed he had drawn a bubble bath for us, complete with flowers!
It was the perfect end to our third day in Paradise.
Since it was our last official day at the resort we decided to hang out on the beach again. I was feeling very sick as my cold was getting worse, so I didn't want to do much more than lay around and drink orange juice. But Robert convinced me to get some sun with him and we went down to the beach where Valentino had set up chairs for us under a palapa.
We had our cooler full of water bottles and orange and pineapple juice (for me) and while I was laying there enjoying the warm sun, Valentino surprised me again, this time with a fresh coconut!
Valentino also brought us lunch on the beach and our drinks when we wanted them. All we had to do was call him on the cell phone and he came immediately. We felt very lucky to have such a wonderfully attentive butler.
We enjoyed the rest of the day at the beach and then went to meet with Shamon Rolle, the sales manager at the resort. I had two clients visiting this property-- one in May and one in June-- and Shamon was going to take me to see their rooms so I could take photos for them. Unfortunately, one of the rooms was completely sold out so I couldn't view it, but the other room, the Palm Bay Oceanview Luxury room, was available, so we toured that one.
The concierge suite looked exactly like ours, minus the second bathroom and separate living room.
We thanked Shamon for his time and then made an appointment to meet with the wedding planner on the resort property. My clients coming down in May are having a wedding and I wanted to introduce myself and thank the wedding planner in advance for all of her help with my future, as well as my past clients.
Since the wedding planner was in a meeting we decided to hang around (literally). I worked on answering some client emails while Robert finished up getting some footage for a resort video he planned to make for me.
We had reservations that evening at the Italian restaurant, but after napping for an hour, I told Rob I just didn't feel up to dinner. So we ordered room service and stayed in for the night.
One of the best things about this resort is Cafe de Paris. It's a pastry and coffee shop that is open late at night. Since I was sick and my throat felt like it was on fire, Rob ran down and decided to get me a milkshake. It probably wasn't the best thing for me, but I'm not going to turn down a chocolate chip cookie dough milkshake. So we enjoyed our room service and our goodies from Cafe de Paris while watching TV in bed.
The last day was the saddest day. Because I had felt so sick the night before I decided to forego packing that night and waited to do it that morning. So I was up at 6AM packing my suitcase and doing double and triple checks of the room.
After we packed and put our bags outside the door, we called our butler to come get our things. Then we headed over to Bahama Bay for breakfast. It was sad sitting there and knowing we were leaving the resort today. But after breakfast we went over to the wedding lounge to meet Anna, the wedding coordinator on site. She was such a lovely person and a pleasure to meet. I knew my brides would continue to be in good hands with her.
We said goodbye to Anna in the wedding department and made our way back to the lobby to wait for our 10AM ride to the airport. The first thing we noticed were the bags sitting there waiting to go. It was a depressing sight to know that vacation was over for our small group.
Then we headed out to the open area outside the loby overlooking the pool. We decided to sit there by the water fountain and relax while we waited for our ride.
Robert wanted to bottle up every last minute of that trip.
While Rob relaxed, I walked around the main pool and took some photos of the various things we didn't have a chance to use or see during our stay.
The fire pits by the main pool.
View looking up at the lobby area from the pool.
People checking out in the lobby.
When it was time to go, we made our way out to the front of the lobby where Mohamad Satar, the butler manager that greeted us on day one, was there organizing our bags. He flashed us his signature smile and | 1,465 |
JG Finneran Associates Appoints Chebios as its Exclusive Distributor in Italy
US-based designer and manufacturer of analytical sampling products expands sales coverage in Europe
Chebios of Italy
Chebios has the expertise customers look for in a supplier
Vineland, NJ (PRWEB) June 21, 2012
J.G. Finneran Associates, a manufacturer of innovative products for the global chromatography, biotechnology and environmental research communities, has announced that it has appointed Chebios S.r.l. as its exclusive distributor in Italy. The agreement consolidates supply and support of Finneran vials and accessories in a market estimated at €15 to €16 million annually, and represents the latest move for J.G. Finneran as it continues to expand its business in Europe.
"Chebios has the expertise customers look for in a supplier," says Janet Cohen, International Sales and Marketing Manager at J.G. Finneran Associates, "These guys are extremely familiar with analytical instruments after having worked with them for years, and they know what their customers need. We want that approach to service for our products," she added.
"Part of our success comes from supplying world class products to our customers, and J.G. Finneran helps us with that," says Fausto Aldrighetti, the Chebios Marketing Director. "The other part comes from our commitment to service," he added. Chebios is recognized as a leading supplier of chromatography columns, vials, syringes, standards, reagents and gas generation equipment to laboratories throughout Italy, including the multinational pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturers. With offices in Rome, Naples, Milan and Sicily, Chebios can be reached by telephone at (+39) 06 39.080.601, or by email at chebios(at)chebios(dot)it, or on the web: http://www.chebios.it.
J.G. Finneran Associates designs, engineers and manufactures innovative glass and plastic products in facilities that comply with ISO 9001:2008 quality standards. For more information, visit http://www.jgfinneran.com or contact J.G. Finneran Associates toll-free at +1 800.552.3696 or +1 856.696.3605.
About J.G. Finneran Associates
J.G. Finneran Associates is a manufacturer and supplier of unique and innovative products for the global chromatography, biotechnology, and environmental research communities. Our products deliver reliable performance while expediting and simplifying the analysis process. J.G. Finneran Associates is the original inventor and designer of many products that are commonplace in the laboratory. These items include Snap Ring Vials, Snap Top Caps, and Limited Volume Inserts with polymer bottom springs. We provide our customers with the tools<|fim_middle|> Hoag
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Deployment another adventure
By Major Kris Gardiner
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Multi National Force and Observers
Middle East Region
Warrant Officer Class Two Jason McLeish in Egypt.
A desire to pursue travel and adventure shaped the decision of Warrant Officer Class Two Jason McLeish to join the Australian Army.
Warrant Officer McLeish said he was looking at the options of fulltime work and university after high school when he ran into Defence recruiting.
"I was keen to see more of the world and the Army looked like a perfect fit," Warrant Officer McLeish said.
"After 15 years, I'm still here, proud to serve as a career soldier."
It's a profession that<|fim_middle|> Future Operations Warrant Officer is important because of the multinational aspects of the job and the workforce.
"The importance of accurate, timely and well-planned operations can be the difference between failure and mission success."
Warrant Officer McLeish said the work was enjoyable but challenging.
"The different work requirements and language barriers between 13 nations can be tricky, but it is a workforce of highly professional, motivated individuals that form the MFO team," he said.
"You build great friendships across the force and within your own contingent."
The married father of two said the hardest part of the deployment was being away from family.
"Without a doubt you can put up without the conveniences that you have at home, but it is the time spent away from loved ones that is the most difficult adjustment," Warrant Officer McLeish said.
"It is the separation which makes you look forward to the little things like being able to interact face to face with the wife and kids.
"I'm relocating to Brisbane when I get back to Australia where I will undertake my next role as a Company Sergeant Major at the 6th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, and I'll be taking a well-earned rest to spend valuable catch-up time with my family."
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Air intelligence analyst Corporal Alisha Edwards is excited to be working on the front line of emerging technologies. | has taken him on operations across Afghanistan, Iraq and now Egypt with the Australian Contingent supporting the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) under Operation Mazurka, where he undertakes two roles.
"My main role is the Future Operations Warrant Officer planning force-level operations within the MFO," Warrant Officer McLeish said.
"Secondary to this is my role as the Training Warrant Officer for the Australian Contingent where I plan and execute all training related matters for the Australians deployed in our location."
He said his primary role was similar to his everyday job back in Australia as the Operations Warrant Officer at the 1st Recruit Training Battalion but working at force level was unlike anything he has done previously.
"In terms of operational deployments this is extremely different to my past experiences in the Middle East," he said.
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BER<|fim_middle|> would be more welcoming gave birth to the year's first caravan. | LIN (AP) — The United Nations' atomic watchdog agency said Wednesday its inspectors have been able to visit the second of two disputed sites where Iran is suspected of having stored or used undeclared nuclear material in the past.
Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in late August secured an agreement with Iran to inspect the two sites in the country, thought to date from the early 2000s.
One site was inspected shortly afterward and the Vienna-based IAEA said the second site was visited this week by inspectors who took environmental samples.
Those will now be analyzed by labs that are part of the IAEA's network, including its own facility in Seibersdorf, Austria.
No results have been announced.
World powers had been calling for IAEA access to the sites since the agency in March identified them as places where Iran possibly stored or used undeclared nuclear material, or undertook nuclear-related activities without declaring them to international observers.
Iran had been permitting IAEA inspectors in to current nuclear sites agreed upon in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, but had argued the other two sites dated from before the deal so there was no reason to grant access there.
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EL FLORIDO, Guatemala (AP) — A once large caravan of Honduran migrants that pushed its way into Guatemala last week had dissipated by Tuesday in the face of Guatemalan security forces. Small groups pressed on toward the Mexican border, while others accepted rides from authorities back to Honduras.
Many of the migrants were driven by an increasingly desperate situation in Honduras, where the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic and two major hurricanes in November have piled atop chronic poverty and gang violence. That combined with a hope that the new U.S. administration of President-elect Joe Biden | 396 |
Ann sends word of an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal (sub req'd) entitled Louis Vuitton Tries Modern Methods On Factory Lines. It's gratifying to see that LV has discovered that quality product design and craftsmanship doesn't necessarily require long lead times.
For years, high-end fashion houses like Louis Vuitton…paid far more attention to product design, craftsmanship and image than to the mechanics of keeping their stores stocked. When new designs caught on, they often sold out and the companies were often ill-prepared to speed up production and distribution.
As is often the case, after careful analysis, LV found that the greatest cause for long cycle time was waiting, the work in process was mismanaged, being held as inventory on the factory floor.
Under the new system, it takes less time to assemble bags, in part because they no longer sit around on carts waiting to be moved from one workstation to another. That enables the company to ship fresh collections to its boutiques every six weeks — more than twice as frequently as in the past, according to one Vuitton official.
Each factory had about 250 employees, and each worker specialized in one skill such as cutting leather and canvas; preparing, gluing and sewing it; making pockets and stitching the lining; and assembling the bag. Specialists worked on one batch of bags at a time. Half-completed purses would sit on carts until someone wheeled them to the next section of the assembly line. Because craftsmen were specialized, it was nearly impossible for Vuitton to quickly switch workers from one type of handbag to another.
The new system relies on cross-training, reducing the need of specialization by increasing skill levels among workers. Another key element is work organization itself, forming U-shaped cells typical of TSS strategies.
The factory floor was reorganized accordingly. Mimicking the small-team format used by Japanese electronics makers, Vuitton organized workers into groups of six to 12, depending on the complexity of the bags or wallets they are making, according to Vuitton officials and company documents. For maximum efficiency, Vuitton arranged the groups in clusters of U-shaped workstations that contain sewing machines on one<|fim_middle|> 4% to the workers who endured the implementation of the system. | side and assembly tables on the other. Workers simply pass their work around the cluster.
Implementing the lean initiative has increased product quality as well. Doesn't it always?
According to the article, returns of defective products fell by two thirds last year. The company hopes to reduce returns by another 50% next year. If you are interested in similar initiatives, read an introductory post I wrote last year on becoming a lean manufacturer.
But the point of a Louis Vuitton bag is scarcity! If you can just walk into a store any time and buy the one you want at your own convenience, then owning one becomes less special.
Maybe this will mean that LV will become more efficient and higher quality and will need to resort to just stowing their complete and perfect bags in a warehouse for two months before shipping them out.
Or maybe it will mean that the LV brand drops in prestige.
cluster manufacturing has been around for a while, no?
I think i read that Levi's tried this in their domestic plants — just before they were all shut down.
I think the old-line sewers were upset because their piece-rate (and income) fell as they were slowed down by newbies in their cluster — but that's just a recollection, not a fact and I could be wrong.
I think Land's End was also using this in their 'custom" khakis that are ordered from the catalog or internet, the pattern made by a computer, automatically cut, then cluster-made in Mexico and shipped to the customer direct — again, I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's what I recall.
I humbly disagree with comment 1. I highly doubt that the market will suddenly become flooded with authentic Louis Vuitton handbags, driving down their prestige and image, or that they would sit on excess stock to preserve their cache. This initiative is clearly resulting in an even higher quality product, and with better stocking of their stores, better customer service. It is presumeable that the more efficient production methods will have the most impact on the availability of their "classic" models, ones that you are likely to find year after year. The highly desireable bags that are introduced for a few seasons at most won't suddenly become as easy as pie to obtain; more pieces will be produced, but Arnault and others at LVMH know the importance of preserving their prestige and making consumers/customers wild for their product.
I also disagree with Alison (rare, I know). Consider how much the expense of reworking and returns is costing them. The price of LV bags is derived in part through their wasteful practices. Why should customers be compelled to pay for waste? Being lean and producing better products can only enhance the company's reputation. You need look no further than Toyota to see that.
Kathleen, yes, the better, more consistent quality is a very desirable outcome for LV. I'm not arguing against good production practices! I'm just puzzled that LV would posit keeping their products consistently available as an issue for them: if their products are not scarce, why should the price be high? What else is the point of their brand?
Amy's thought that they want to keep the classic products consistently available while maintaining mystique and scarcity around the fashion-driven items makes sense. But still, if they can double their output by simply not having to discard half their bags, will they really double their output? Or will they make and discard fewer bags and send the same number to market?
Oh, and Kathleen: this is one of the very few times I've disagreed with you, but I don't think that saving their customers money is one of LV's goals. By owning an LV bag, you signal to other people that you can afford one. If the price of the bag goes down, then this signal becomes less useful.
Somebody paying over $64k for a handbag isn't trying to save money. They are boasting that they are rich enough to buy whatever they want. They are paying a premium for exclusivity – either they are they only one who has that thing, or they have something that only the 'right people' own.
Now, LV is not Hermès. Their handbags are much less expensive at under $5,000. But still, when you're buying the LV brand you want to know that it's a brand that the right people own and can use to identify one another. The high cost is perversely what people are paying for: it's what keeps the riff-raff out.
I agree with Alison that LV would not want its prices to go down, and certainly doesn't want everyone wearing it. However, lean manufacturing still makes sense for them. If they can save 20% on their costs, there's no rule that says they have to pass that savings on to the customer. They can keep charging the same price and call that 20% profit.
Or shove that 20% margin into reserves so they are better equipped during the mean times of business.
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Sergey Lipinets overpowers Walter Castillo despite bad cut
<|fim_middle|>5. | PBC 16/07/2016
Nabeel Ahmad
It was a good night for Russian super lightweight Sergey Lipinets (10-0, 7 KOs), who fought through a deep cut over his eye to score a rousing TKO over Nicaraguan brawler Walter Castillo (26-4-1, 19 KOs) in a Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on ESPN & ESPN Deportes main event that further solidified Lipinets as a force to be reckoned with in the 140-pound weight class.
The night of fights, which emanated from Horseshoe Tunica Hotel & Casino in Tunica, Miss., marked the third PBC on ESPN & ESPN Deportes telecast in the month of July.
Lipinets made his power known early in the fight, but that did not deter Castillo from doing his best to feel out the Kazakhstan-born slugger. The action picked up in the third round as a swinging left thrown by Lipinets caused blood to pour from Castillo's mouth. Castillo began the fourth round with an offensive attack, forcing Lipinets to back up toward the ropes. Castillo continued to throw several punches, including one that caused a deep gash above Lipinets' left eye. Castillo did not relent as he aimed for the cut, the first of Lipinets' career. Despite the steady flow of blood dripping down Lipinets' face, it did not seem to bother him.
Castillo's punch output slowed down considerably as the fight wore on and Lipinets became more and more comfortable, despite the large cut above his eye. PBC on ESPN announcers Teddy Atlas and Joe Tessitore credited Lipinets' corner, led by renowned trainer Buddy McGirt, for keeping the deep cut under control. Less than one minute into the seventh round, Lipinets showed a burst of power, attacking Castillo, pressing him against the ropes, forcing Bill Clancy to wave off the fight at 2:45. At the time of the stoppage two of the judges had scored the fight even, with the third favoring Lipinets by one point.
"We knew Walter Castillo was very tough guy coming in," said Lipinets. "No one ever stopped him. No one ever even hurt him in the ring before and he was in with some solid guys. I knew he could take a punch and punch back. To be honest though, I was surprised by how good of a fighter he was.
Of his first cut as a professional, Lipinets said, "The cut bugged me for a while and I was closing my eye a bit, but I'm a warrior and I know how to take care of myself when I'm trouble.
"I have only ten fights and I just beat a guy that good. I think I did ok. This fight just took me to a completely different level in boxing. I guarantee that other guys with 20/25 fights won't be able to stay in the ring with me.
"You can say I'm a slow starter," continued Lipinets. "But if I see an opening I will take it early. I pace myself and study my opponent and then if the guy is still standing in the last half of the fight, he better run."
Castillo was unhappy with the stoppage saying, "They stopped it too early. I was still fighting. I was fine. I was not hurt. I don't know why they stopped it. I was waiting him out and about to open up. I am a veteran. If I was hurt, I would have taken a knee. How do you stop a fight without a knockdown?
"I had him fighting scared with the cut," said Castillo. "He was fighting desperate and that was his last try.
"I'm very upset. I was able to fight. It was a good fight and that ruined it. I don't mind losing but not like that. Let me go down swinging."
The telecast started out with a bang as 2012 Olympic silver medalist Tugstsogt Nyambayar (9-2, 6 KOs) of Waambartar, Mongolia sent Brooklyn's Rafael Vazquez (16-3,13 KOs) to the canvas 30 seconds into the scheduled 10-round featherweight bout with a straight right hand. Vazquez rose to his feet with ease and threw some forceful shots of his own, but went down again 30 seconds later as Nyambayar threw another powerful right.
The Mongolian warrior, who fights out of Carson, Calif., was able to finish the fight at 1:24 of the first round as he threw a left to the body followed by a right hand that saw Vazquez hitting the canvas for a third and final time.
"I didn't know I was going to be able to put that kind of a performance on [against Rafael]," said Nyambayar. "I have 100 percent of my energy left. I don't know exactly how much power I actually have.
"I had a great camp and I was ready for whatever came my way," continued Nyambayar. "I'm very happy with the result, but I expected to win. I came in very confident. I thought it would go three or four rounds, but the opportunity to end it earlier appeared and I took it. Whoever comes my way, I'm ready. I'm on the road to be world champion and no one can stop me."
"I just got caught and I couldn't recover," said Vazquez. "He's a very strong puncher and he caught me still warming up. It happens in boxing. One of those things."
"Vazquez said to me, you've got a future world champion on your hands," said Nyambayar's renowned trainer Joe Goossen. "A guy that is going to know that best is the guy getting hit. With [Nyambayar's] reaction time and his speed, Vazquez saw and felt all of that and he came to the conclusion that Tug is going to be a world champion."
The televised bantamweight swing bout went the full six rounds as Houston-based David Perez (7-0, 3 KOs) outpointed Adan Ortiz (9-2, 8 KOs) of Guerrero, Mexico, who took the fight on five day's notice.
Perez started the fight strong, knocking down Ortiz toward the end of the first round, but the Mexican native rose from the canvas and was saved by the bell as Perez threw a barrage of punches to Ortiz's head and body. Ortiz started the second round strong and maintained a tremendous amount of heart for the remainder of the bout. Both continuously threw flurries of punches, exchanging left hooks throughout. The judges saw it in favor of Perez with scorecards reading 60-53, 59-54 and 58-5 | 1,438 |
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What is a gerund, anyway?
Originally posted on Grammar Monkeys on March 17, 2010
Last week we talked about participles, which are verbs that work like adjectives. Gerunds are also based on verbs, but they work like nouns.
Gerunds have only one form, and it looks exactly like the present participle — ending in "-ing." But you can tell a gerund is a gerund because it functions as a noun in the sentence. This means gerunds can be subjects or objects:
Cooking doesn't have to be complicated. (subject)
Everton has finally mastered braising. (direct object)
Lucinda knows everything about baking. (object of a preposition)
A gerund can have adjectives of its own:
Uniform slicing and dicing makes a successful stir-fry.
Gerunds can also be part of a whole phrase:
Properly preparing an assortment of sushi can be time-consuming.
Some cookbooks have step-by-step photos for creating fancy desserts.
Fused participles
Gerunds don't usually wind up in "dangling" situations as participles do, but there is one little picky problem area that occasionally arises.
There are sentences that work like this:
Otto's overseasoning of the sauce ruined the whole dish.
The diners love to watch the<|fim_middle|> use the possessive; sometimes it's better, or at least less awkward, to use a non-possessive noun; and sometimes the context pretty much demands a non-possessive noun, as in this sentence:
The new cook was responsible for the pie bubbling over and burning.
This is really a picky point, though, and with gerunds, you don't need to worry about errors on the scale of dangling participles.
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Generally, these constructions use a possessive in front of the gerund, called "genitive with gerund." But in some cases, called "fused participles," you'll see a non-possessive form — either a noun or an objective case pronoun — instead of a possessive. And then the gerund turns back into a participle, modifying the noun:
The diners love to watch the chef grilling their food right at their table.
In the past, some usage experts said sentences like the example above are always wrong, because there's the tiniest possibility it could be unclear.
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Newer Post"Style Is The Answer To Everything" | speaking with someone who was becoming stressed over a situation. A good thing was about to happen, it seemed as if it was all going to go smoothly, and then a very slight hiccup suggested that it was not yet in the bag, it was not yet a certain, done deal.
It was about buying a property. One had come up, they loved it, they wanted to buy it. A possible miscommunication, or a mistaken estate agent meant that the amount of money they offered was not enough, and someone else had put in an offer at the same time.
So for a day or so, this woman had a dark cloud in her mind. She felt as if she had made a mistake, let down the owner who she was representing. If only she had offered higher to try to secure the property - she could have - but she didn't - and now they might lose out.
No amount of talking to yourself tends to help. Sometimes it does, but it is rare. Trying to talk yourself out of a mood, or a madness, or a regret, or anything else, is usually based in conflict. You do not want to feel a certain way, so another side of your mind argues with the part that is creating a fuss. And the cycle repeats.
There were two main points that we touched on.
The first was to let yourself feel annoyed, or regretful, or worried, or anything else. Without even labelling it as anything, to just release the argument with yourself, or with your experience. Of course things could be said such as "Nothing has even happened yet," "You don't know what will happen," "What will be will be," - but really, you just have to stop trying to control what is going on in a rebellious or resistive mind.
2. Can You Control It With Your Mind?
"Do you think you can control this situation with your mind?"
"No," was the answer I got from her.
"Well…no. Perhaps a bit," she replied.
"How?" I asked. How did she think she could control the situation?
And that was it. From there we knew what she wanted. We knew what she was trying to achieve from the use of her mind around all of this.
"They are going now," she said, referring to her painful, obsessive thoughts.
And there was silence for a while as she allowed herself to naturally let go, without trying to let go. All it took was to see what she wanted from the situation, and whether or not these voices and feelings were helping her to get what she wanted.
"Thank you," she said after a while, and she looked completely different, like a weight was no longer pulling down on her face.
You can try the same. Be alone, be still. Let intuition come through. Look into what is troubling you, sense it energetically, and simply ask the question - is this helping me to get what I want? Noticing futility tends to weaken inner troubles, without any extra effort. Their strength was based on the belief that they were helping you.
When speaking with others to resolve issues, I can rarely ever rely on a plan or a formula. The right word or question seems to come when I am at my most empty, without relying on past sessions or conversations. If you leave a gap, power can come through. It ignites your thoughts, it does the work for you.
So many of our inner issues stay alive, because unconsciously, we believe that they are helpful. We often feel that feeling bad is a signal to the universe to change the situation into something nicer. But if you are sending out dense vibes, then how can you expect to get anything other than that?
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A review by Gerry Goddard of Cosmos & Psyche by Richard Tarnas --
Culture, Correlations & Consciousness
The expanding astrological horizon
A essay-review by Gerry Goddard of
Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View.
Viking 2005 by Richard Tarnas.
It is ironic that astrology which reveals the resonant patterns of meaning linking mind and cosmos has until now, despite its long effective practice and vast store of knowledge, failed to establish a systematic methodology and to gather a body of evidence sufficient to command the serious attention of the larger intellectual community. Astrologers are frustratingly aware of being in possession of a useful tool, like Galileo's telescope, yet repeatedly compelled to encounter the established authority's refusal to look directly at the existing evidence. But more than possessing a mere tool, astrologers know—whether or not they articulate it—that they are privy to a cosmological vision that lies beyond the myopic horizon of the strictly objective and quantitative scientific eye.
Reaching across this contemporary paradigmatic divide, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View by the eminent scholar and astrological researcher Richard Tarnas, now provides us with an empirical methodology and a richly packed store of compelling historical evidence for astrological synchrony. This solidly empirical study, rather than being quantitative and statistical,<|fim_middle|> will make it a permanent and valued reference work and source of inspiration for astrologers at every level of seriousness and expertise. And for that significant growing number of questing individuals outside astrology who are willing to read Cosmos and Psyche with an open-mind and examine its impressive and compelling evidence, a new self and a new world will open. | is a qualitative, nuanced, interpretative and richly detailed demonstration of astrological correlations throughout the course of history. Many in the astrological field who are familiar with Tarnas's seminal monograph on the planet Uranus, Prometheus the Awakener, and his eloquent and profound history of ideas, The Passion of the Western Mind, have long been anticipating this work which promises to forge beyond the cultural and cosmological boundary that has excluded astrology from the canon of established knowledge disciplines.
As it historically traces the archetypal dynamics of the collective mind in synchronic resonance with the outer planetary cycles, Tarnas's scholarly yet accessible work is both an ambitious contribution to the field of astrology itself and, beyond mere theory or subjective experience, a bold and decisive demonstration to the larger community that the cosmos which eventually 'died' through subsequent modern developments following the Copernican moment, once again reverberates with meaning. As Tarnas explains, it is the confirmation of the cosmological dimension as meaningful that provides the missing dimension of all new paradigm strategies:
Newton has been transcended, but not Copernicus....No amount of revisioning philosophy or psychology, science or religion, can forge a new world view without a radical shift at the cosmological level. As it now stands, our cosmic context does not support the attempted transformation of human vision.
Beyond endless philosophical argument, what better body of evidence could there be for the reenchantment of the cosmos than astrology?
This work promises to bridge the credibility gap, to end astrology's long eclipse, and to bring about a wider recognition of its validity. Perhaps even more importantly, through revealing the very architecture of the evolving collective psyche in resonance with a re-enchanted cosmos, Cosmos and Psyche constitutes nothing less than a call to a radically new paradigmatic orientation toward mind and cosmos, to a greater coherence beyond postmodern fragmentation, marking a profound cultural shift that is archetypally resonant to the cosmological shift that took place with the Copernican heliocentric discovery. We now stand at the threshold of a new way of understanding ourselves and our world which is both articulated and exemplified by this historically pivotal work. As an illuminating account of the collective psyche, Cosmos and Psyche brings so-called mundane astrology to another level, demonstrating the interface between the individual and the collective mind as conceived within a radically archetypal perspective that harks back to Plato and, in a more current psychological form, to Jung.
Readers of Passion will already be familiar with Tarnas's articulation of the participatory epistemology, that way of knowing in which "nature's unfolding truth emerges only with the active participation of the human mind", where psyche is a participant along with cosmos in the shaping and creation of what is. Within this psychological and philosophical framing, astrological correspondence is to be understood as the recognition by an "imaginative intelligence" of meaningful patterns formed through an "archetypally informed synchronicity", a process of knowledge which, rather than being concretely predictive, is archetypally predictive. While this work will be enriched by having read Passion, the opening chapters pick up Passion's thread, contextualizing the astrological material so that readers unfamiliar with the earlier work are introduced effectively to Tarnas's particular vision and his overarching conception of the complex streams that have constituted the ambiguous development of the modern self.
The astrological configurations that Tarnas engages in his account are basic— sufficient to the purpose of breaking free of the boundaries that unfairly continue to isolate astrology from intellectual respectability at large. In keeping with astrological consensus, the author provides a lucid yet profound introduction to the relevant astrological principles. Reaching back to the axial age (500 years BCE, the seminal period of the founding of the great religions) and largely concentrating on the modern West (Renaissance to postmodernity), this work is an explication of history in relation to the major hard aspects—conjunction, opposition and squares—of a number of outer planetary combinations and configurations (involving Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) chosen from an even larger body of research.
Through a penetrating analysis of the complex thematic character of a number of generally recognized significant historical moments and epochs, the reader witnesses how the peaks and valleys of the earthly course of human unfolding demonstrate a rhythmic concordance with the peaks and valleys of the planetary dance. Rather than concentrating on natal interpretations for conclusive evidence, the author's overiding commitment is to the explication of world transits since "there is one vast continuous chronology to look at —the ongoing biography, as it were, of the human community" which possesses a "particular historical character and cultural significance....well documented and more open to straightforward evaluation" than individual paradigm cases no matter how meaningful and compelling. But integrally woven into this richly detailed and fascinating historical account are references to relevant personal transits and to the planetarily synchronous historical contributions of numerous iconic figures who reflect and constitute the ethos of each period: Augustine, Galileo, Descartes, Shakespeare, Newton, Rousseau, Shelley, Schopenhauer, Marx, Melville, Nietzsche, Darwin, Lincoln, Whitman, James, Kafka, Freud, Joyce, Conrad, Einstein, Stravinsky, Jung, Hemingway, Chaplin, Hitler, Auden, Friedan and a host of other figures in both popular and high culture. Tarnas explores psycho-cosmic resonances not only within the social, political, cultural, artistic and scientific complexity of a particular historical period, including closer examination of several of its central players, but also across different periods of history linked through the patterns of their common astrological character be it revolutionary, creative, emancipatory, conservative or visionary—illustrating both synchronic and diachronic (across time) patterns of resonance.
The conjunctions, oppositions and squares of Uranus and Pluto correspond with those periods most intensily marked in which revolutionary upheavals and concentrations of new innovations and radical shifts occur including developments in civil rights, socialism and feminism. For example, the French revolution and the sixties are seen as especially paradigmatic, but several other periods such as the mid 1900's and the turn of the 20th century and earlier socio-political revolutionary periods are also unpacked in their full detail.
Historical times with a distinctly more conservative, reactionary, contractive and repressive character are extensively shown to correspond to the periodicities of Saturn and Pluto, the most starkly familiar to us being the 9/11 attack on the World Trade towers, the beginnings of the two world wars, the onset of the cold war and other political periods of extreme conservative reaction over the last several centuries.
Those periods clearly characterized by an expansive profusion and explosion of rich cultural and scientific breakthroughs, discoveries, new beginnings, creative brilliance, and expanded horizons are seen to correspond to the frequent periodicities of the Jupiter/Uranus cycle. Wave upon wave of illustrative examples include major person/events of the Enlightenment; scientific revelations involving Kepler and Galileo, Darwin and Wallace, Faraday, Mendel, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Freud etc.; musical events of an expansive, exuberant and Promethean character including Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, Mozart's Jupiter symphony and Beethoven's Eroica; pivotal events in the history of the attainment of freedom and political events such as the beginnings of the American and French revolutions.
The more sustained yet less frequent periods of the Uranus/Neptune rhythm are characterized by profound cultural, philosophical and artistic paradigm shifts and awakenings, yet also with elements of confusion as established belief structures are being threatened. From the Axial age to the time of Socrates to the Italian Renaissance, to the Romantic period to the first two and the last two decades of the 20th Century, we encounter the same extensive profusion of sensitively interpreted information as in the other major sections of the work. The final section of the volume situates us in the present moment and looks ahead over the coming years through an archetypally conceived set of interpretations enhanced by our understanding of the historical manifestations of the outer planetary configurations.
Despite my obvious enthusiasm for this book the question must be asked, "How could Tarnas's evidence for astrological synchrony and his overarching cosmic-psycho-spiritual vision legitimately be refuted?" In order to attempt in good faith to refute this book, one would need the scholarship necessary to argue extensively against the characterization of the essentials of a certain period or event, against the interpretations of various works of art, or against the significance of numerous discoveries. One would have to be able to demonstrate convincingly—with thousands of counter examples—either how there are in fact no real historical peaks, or that the peaks which Tarnas identifies are questionably chosen simply to fit the theory, or that in each specified period in which relevant works and events are cited that there are just as many events and works of the same essential quality that can be found equally distributed across other times bearing no astro-archetypal resonance to them. A rejection based on anything less than such a meticulous scholarly counter-argument would be cavalier and intellectually disingenuous. While I believe that this work as a whole is largely immune to refutations of this sort, intellectually honest critique and interpretative differences promoting constructive dialogue in the field are entirely appropriate and even required by a work of this magnitude.
Certain off-the-top critical responses may also be anticipated; for example, the argument that the claim to astrological multivalence and the principle of indeterminism is simply an interpretative hedge so that ultimately 'anything can mean anything', or that the orbs are so wide with such a broad historical embrace that most 'fish' can be caught in their nets. As any astrologer knows, multivalence—the multiple inflections around a common thread within any complex holistic context—simply does not allow that 'anything can mean anything'; so the first argument has no logical grounds. The second point is based on an approach to individual birth chart analysis (using narrower orbs) taken by some astrologers; but the world-transit orbs given by Tarnas have been arrived at empirically and would need to be critiqued empirically. Finally, if the larger scientistic culture, feeling its very philosophical foundation threatened, chooses without serious scholarly critique to ignore or even denigrate this work, Tarnas's Cosmos and Psyche will still endure, even if somewhat obscured in its own time, as surely as De Revolutionibus endured to seed the eventual radical shifts that would constitute the modern period.
Upon first reading this work, I felt as though I were standing before the Great Pyramid, a testimony to the Pythagorean order of the earth and heavens, every stone precisely constructed—the work of mathematician, scientist, engineer. Yet the fact that it exists, and its very meaning, are creations, not of the scientific mind, but of the mind of a visionary and poet standing in sacred awe before the dome of the sky. For astrologers, this book is an absolute "must read", belonging on the shelf with the foremost classics in the field. The research that went into this substantial volume, the cultural and historical background and the skillful eye necessary to assemble the material in order to demonstrate the cosmic/earthly dance is nothing short of staggering. Its vast store of cultural/historical/astrological information | 2,337 |
PAINTERS from United Kingdom
This page contains a list of the greatest British Painters. The pantheon dataset contains 1,421 Painters, 117 of which were born in United Kingdom. This makes United Kingdom the birth place of the 6th most number of Painters behind Germany and Netherlands.
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary British Painters of all time. This list of famous British Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of British Painters.
1. J. M. W. Turner (1775 - 1851)
With an HPI of 76.71, J. M. W. Turner is the most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 73 different languages on wikipedia.
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851), known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, to a modest lower-middle-class family. He lived in London all his life, retaining his Cockney accent and assiduously avoiding the trappings of success and fame. A child prodigy, Turner studied at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1789, enrolling when he was 14, and exhibited his first work there at 15. During this period, he also served as an architectural draftsman. He earned a steady income from commissions and sales, which due to his troubled, contrary nature, were often begrudgingly accepted. He opened his own gallery in 1804 and became professor of perspective at the academy in 1807, where he lectured until 1828. He travelled around Europe from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks. Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive, Turner was a controversial figure throughout his career. He did not marry, but fathered two daughters, Evelina (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843), by his housekeeper Sarah Danby. He became more pessimistic and morose as he got older, especially after the death of his father, when his outlook deteriorated, his gallery fell into disrepair and neglect, and his art intensified. In 1841, Turner rowed a boat into the Thames so he could not be counted as present at any property in that year's census. He lived in squalor and poor health from 1845, and died in London in 1851 aged 76. Turner is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
2. John Constable (1776 - 1837)
With an HPI of 68.98, John Constable is the 2nd most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 57 different languages.
John Constable (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".Constable's most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park (1816), Dedham Vale (1821) and The Hay Wain (1821). Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful. He became a member of the establishment after he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 52. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.
3. William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
With an HPI of 67.40, William Hogarth is the 3rd most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 68 different languages.
William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic,<|fim_middle|> could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52. By the mid-1850s, Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day, but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as a sell-out (Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement). While these and early 20th-century critics, reading art through the lens of Modernism, viewed much of his later production as wanting, this perspective has changed in recent decades, as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes and advanced tendencies in the broader late nineteenth-century art world, and can now be seen as predictive of the art world of the present. Millais's personal life has also played a significant role in his reputation. His wife Effie was formerly married to the critic John Ruskin, who had supported Millais's early work. The annulment of the Ruskin marriage and Effie's subsequent marriage to Millais have sometimes been linked to his change of style, but she became a powerful promoter of his work and they worked in concert to secure commissions and expand their social and intellectual circles.
7. Louis Wain (1860 - 1939)
With an HPI of 62.69, Louis Wain is the 7th most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 21 different languages.
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphized large-eyed cats and kittens. Later in life, he was confined to mental institutions and struggled with mental illness.
8. Leonora Carrington (1917 - 2011)
With an HPI of 60.75, Leonora Carrington is the 8th most famous British Painter. Her biography has been translated into 36 different languages.
Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.
9. Richard Hamilton (1922 - 2011)
With an HPI of 60.54, Richard Hamilton is the 9th most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 29 different languages.
Richard William Hamilton CH (24 February 1922 – 13 September 2011) was an English painter and collage artist. His 1955 exhibition Man, Machine and Motion (Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne) and his 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, are considered by critics and historians to be among the earliest works of pop art. A major retrospective of his work was at Tate Modern until May 2014.
10. William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910)
With an HPI of 60.27, William Holman Hunt is the 10th most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 46 different languages.
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximise the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.
Pantheon has 117 people classified as painters born between 1200 and 1974. Of these 117, 10 (8.55%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living painters include Bridget Riley, Lady Sarah Chatto, and Alan Lee. The most famous deceased painters include J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and William Hogarth. As of April 2022, 20 new painters have been added to Pantheon including Auguste Couder, Austin Osman Spare, and Edward Robert Hughes.
Living Painters
Lady Sarah Chatto
Alan Lee
Gerald Scarfe
Derek Riggs
Peter Doig
Deceased Painters
John Tenniel
Newly Added Painters (2022)
Auguste Couder
Austin Osman Spare
Edward Robert Hughes
Joseph Noel Paton
Frederick Sandys
Edwin Long
David Allan
Mary Moser
Overlapping Lives
Which Painters were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Painters since 1700.
Top Painters | editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects", and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".Hogarth was born in London to a lower-middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship with an engraver, but did not complete the apprenticeship. His father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts, an event that is thought to have informed William's paintings and prints with a hard edge.Influenced by French and Italian painting and engraving, Hogarth's works are mostly satirical caricatures, sometimes bawdily sexual, mostly of the first rank of realistic portraiture. They became widely popular and mass-produced via prints in his lifetime, and he was by far the most significant English artist of his generation. Charles Lamb deemed Hogarth's images to be books, filled with "the teeming, fruitful, suggestive meaning of words. Other pictures we look at; his pictures we read."
4. Thomas Gainsborough (1727 - 1788)
With an HPI of 66.04, Thomas Gainsborough is the 4th most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 61 different languages.
Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.
5. Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)
With an HPI of 65.05, Joshua Reynolds is the 5th most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 58 different languages.
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was knighted by George III in 1769.
6. John Everett Millais (1829 - 1896)
With an HPI of 64.62, John Everett Millais is the 6th most famous British Painter. His biography has been translated into 50 different languages.
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, (UK: MIL-ay, US: mil-AY; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that | 822 |
Reaching Russia–from the Netherlands
When Jan and Nel Kits began ministering in Russia in the early 1990s, they faced challenges that could be expected within a country that had been under communism for 70 years.
"We were ministering in cities where large evangelistic efforts were taking place," says Jan. "We were there to train people and churches to follow up with new believers." But the Kits noticed that many Christians, while free in their minds from the fear and bondage of communism, were not free in their hearts. "We told them they could freely talk about Christ, but if they had done that a year and a half before, they would have gone to prison." Jan said it reminded him of a Holocaust survivor who once told him, "I'm out of the concentration camp, but the concentration camp is not out of me."
"They felt guilty because they wanted to share their faith, but they couldn't do it. We wanted to help them be able to share their faith<|fim_middle|> such as the Four Spiritual Laws booklet and the Holy Spirit booklet. It wasn't long before they realized that families in Russia were being neglected, so they began an outreach to families. The issue of family would soon become the key to unlock the communist-hardened hearts of this broken country. They could conduct marriage conferences using FamilyLife's materials. For the first time in their lives, they began to see significant numbers of Russian men come to Christ.
"Russians are a very proud people," Jan explains. "Men especially. But in some cities, divorce rates were hitting 85%. The men felt that they were failing because they couldn't keep their families together. They wouldn't come to church or listen to an evangelistic presentation, but they felt the need to improve their marriage relationship. So they attended our marriage conferences, and many prayed to receive Christ."
Jan and Nel taught couples to deliver talks on marriage and to lead HomeBuilders small groups. They realized the importance of HomeBuilders groups to sustain a family ministry, so every time they conducted a marriage conference, they also offered HomeBuilders leadership training. Attendees received materials, became equipped to start groups, and learned how they could train others to do the same.
A HomeBuilders movement in Siberia happened partly by accident when an electronic field-test copy of a Russian HomeBuilders book began making its way into e-mail boxes of some key leaders in Siberia. A few people began using the materials and forwarding the files to others. Then more people gained access to the files, and the HomeBuilders ministry spread further and further. People everywhere were printing their own books and beginning HomeBuilders groups.
"We had no control over it," says Jan. "It went like wildfire throughout Siberia."
One couple they trained now lives and works in the Eastern part of Siberia, near Irkutsk. Sergey and Lena Aleev have seen remarkable results in nearby Buddhist-populated cities. Numerous Buddhists have attended the FamilyLife conferences and indicated that they prayed to receive Christ. One church in that area is made up of about 97% former Buddhists, many of whom are there as a result of FamilyLife conferences.
"Now when people introduce us, we are introduced as the trainers of so-and-so," says Jan. "And that is exactly what we want—we want the Russians to do the work. When we are finished, we disappear. Our goal is to work ourselves out of a job. People have asked me, 'Why haven't you stopped working there yet?' I say, 'I'm not working. I'm doing what I love to do,' " Jan says. | and bring people to church—which also used to be a crime."
For five years, Jan and Nel, who live in the Netherlands, traveled in and out of Russia doing evangelistic training and teaching churches to use tools | 43 |
Africa's Financial Industry Gears up for Digital Finance Africa 2022
September 12, 2022 By Business Wire
Digital Finance Africa 2<|fim_middle|> Institute), Pakistan.
Join as an attendee: Join local and international CxOs, line-of-business (LoB) executives as well as heads of innovation, technology and strategy to discuss the future of digital finance.
Join us as an exhibitor: Showcase your technology innovations, projects, and solutions. Put your organisation at the centre of this one-of-a-kind gathering. Find new partners, investors, leads, and opportunities.
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[e]: events@itnewsafrica.com | 022, the definitive annual event on technology leadership in the financial services industry returns on the 22nd of September 2022 as a brand-new hybrid event..
JOHANNESBURG, Gauteng--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 2nd annual Digital Finance Africa is set to take place on the 22nd of September 2022, at The Maslow, Sandton, South Africa. The forum is hosted by IT News Africa, under the theme; Bridging the gap between the future and the present through digital solutions.
Following a successful 2021 event, #DFAfrica22 will bring together over 200 local and international BFSI industry leaders, fintech founders, industry regulators and technology service providers, to learn about cutting-edge innovations and engage in dynamic discussions addressing how finance is being redefined by technology.
This year's Digital Finance Africa promises to be a success as it plans to address topics such as central bank digital currencies, RegTech, crypto payments, digital transformation and the cold war-like rivalry between Fintechs and banks.
Now, more than ever, we must come together and share our stories and find answers to our questions.
Key topics at the forum will include:
Why the future of financial services is digital.
How blockchain is rocking the financial world.
FinTech vs. Banks – who is winning, or is it not a competition?
How analytics beats intuition in customer service excellence.
The pitfalls of digital transformation in Finance.
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Challenges & Opportunities for the Financial Services Industry.
Is South Africa ready for a digital currency, and the legal implications thereof?
Confirmed speakers for Digital Finance Africa 2022 include:
Tracy Bolton, Chief Operating Officer at SAP.
Tamara Mkula, Business Information Security Officer at Nedbank
Abe Wakama, CEO at IT News Africa.
Shem Kakembo, Managing Director at EFCUG, Uganda.
Peter Neubauer, Chief Executive Officer at VIPASO, Austria.
Magda Milas, President at Alice in Blockchains, Croatia.
Moloti Nkune, Chief Information Officer at MICT SETA.
Michelle Beetar, Vice President and Managing Director: MEA at FICO.
Sandy Rheeder, CIO at Mukuru.
Desiree Reddy, Director at Norton Rose Fulbright.
Charles Mutigwe, Associate Professor, Business Information Systems at Western New England University, USA.
Ahmed Ali Saleemi, Chief Operating Officer at AFT (Electronic Money | 519 |
Why Conspiracy Theorists Are Convinced The Queen's Body Is Not In The Official Royal Coffin
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By Allen McDuffee/Sept. 15, 2022 12:29 pm EST
When Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 on September 8, 2022, it set into motion a series of carefully orchestrated protocols that had last been exercised when her father, King George VI, died in 1952. This time around, the British government dubbed the intricate system of handling the queen's death "Operation London Bridge." From secretive communiques to<|fim_middle|> through all that back and forth?" one Twitter user wrote, claiming the queen's body was "in mortuary somewhere"... "It's just formality for the public ... Sorry guys to disappoint."
Some worried about accidents. Others suggested having her body in the coffin made her a target for terrorism. And with 1,749 votes on a Twitter poll asking the question by one user, more than 78% of respondents believe the queen is not in the coffin. Newsweek reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment but never heard back. Perhaps that's because the allegations are so ridiculous the palace doesn't think the question is worth an answer. But conspiracy theorists might say there's no comment because the palace has been found out. | inform the royal family of the queen's death to Prince Charles' ascension to the throne, every step needed to go off without a hitch.
However, the most public part of Operation London Bridge was the transport of Queen Elizabeth's coffin. First, it had to make a six-hour journey from her Balmoral estate where she died to Edinburgh, per the BBC. The queen's coffin entered the Palace of Holyroodhouse in the Scottish capital, where it was greeted by a ceremonial guard procession with members of the royal family close behind. From there, it was flown to London where the coffin will lie in state at the Palace of Westminster for four days until her state funeral on September 19, 2022 at Westminster Abbey.
Every step of the way, mourners flooded the roadside in silence — and sometimes cheers — to pay their respects to the queen, per The Washington Post. When the doors at Westminster Hall opened for members of the public to observe the queen's coffin, thousands of visitors along the River Thames stretched three miles long, according to NBC News.
Some people have a more basic question
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The queen's coffin was constructed more than 30 years ago, Leverton & Sons, which serves as the funeral directors to the royal family, told The Times (via USA Today). The coffin, which is made from English oak and lined with lead to slow decomposition, has traveled through the Scottish countryside, into Glasgow, on multiple flights, into Buckingham Palace, and over to Westminster Hall before burial. And for all the eyes that have fallen upon that coffin, now draped in the Royal Standard, there's a more basic question, at least among some conspiracy theorists: Is Queen Elizabeth even in her coffin?
According to Newsweek, this question has been hotly debated in forums and on social media ever since images of the coffin's travels began surfacing. "Who would want to subject their deceased mum | 393 |
https://sportswire.usatoday.com/2014/02/11/sochi-olympics-john-daly-skeleton-dark-horse/
John Daly emerging as darkhorse skeleton contender
February 11, 2014 7:08 am ET
John Daly prepares to compete during the men's official skeleton training. (Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports)
By Jeff Zillgitt
USA skeleton's John Daly has emerged as darkhorse medal contender with better-than-expected training runs this week.<|fim_middle|> gold-medal favorite Martins Dukurs of Latvia and other medal favorites Tomass Dukurs of Lativa, Alexander Tretiakov of Russia and Matt Antoine of the U.S.
MORE: Pictures of awesome skeleton helmets
In the first run on Tuesday, Daly was third, behind Martins Dukurs and Germany's Alexander Kroeckel. Daly did not medal on the 2013-14 World Cup season – he finished fourth in Lake Placid – but has been among the fastest in training with a top-six finish in the four training runs. There are two more training runs on Wednesday.
"It's a medal or nothing, that's what we're going for," Daly said. | On Tuesday, he posted the fastest time (57.54) in the second training run, ahead of | 23 |
Biel-based manufacture Armin Strom has enjoyed steady growth from its admittedly small, but formidable team. We've brought you a few looks along the way, and it was no surprise to see them continuing to push themselves at this year's Basel World fair. Among other things, they showed us their new ARM13 caliber which employs the use of a micro-rotor winding system. The ARM13 lives inside<|fim_middle|> heft. Armin Strom embraces this with a robust case slightly smaller than 44mm and a serious cut of alligator skin for a strap. It all comes together nicely however, with no piece feeling out of place. What's more, these are entirely in-house built movements, with top-notch levels of finishing, and prices start just south of $15,000.
We'll be spending more time with the Armin Strom Gravity this summer, but a good first impression has certainly been made. Keep an eye out for more from this evolving manufacture. For more info, click here. | the brand's new Gravity collection, which builds on some of the aesthetic themes shown over the past years, meaning Armin Strom didn't shy away from making a strong impression.
Armin Strom's new Gravity collection is being offered in 4 flavors: Earth, Air, Water and, you guessed it, Fire. Each element is not only treated with its own color scheme and material set, but also features unique engravings in the three-quarter plate that correspond with the appropriate element. If you've been following Armin Strom, you'll know the company's namesake and founder is renowned for his skills with engraving and skeletonizing, so keeping this thread alive in the movement and dial structure is no surprise.
Speaking of dial structure, the Gravity collection continues to push Armin Strom's affinity for contemporary open dials. There are multiple levels opened up in the dials of the Gravity watches, beginning with an offset hour and minute ring and a subdial track for the seconds display. The crown-side section of the dial is cut away, revealing portions of the winding mechanism and going gear train underneath. The most dynamic element of the "under-dial" is the micro-rotor, which comes into view for the top half of its winding route. This show is usually reserved for viewing through an exhibition case back, but the Gravity embraces the movement dial-side to push the particular style of skeletonization that much further.
Strapping any of the Gravity watches to your wrist will not go unnoticed, as they do carry some | 306 |
Emo Songs List.
Hello everyone! Last night, I was sitting in my room and I suddenly felt emo . I would like to clarify that this is strange as I don't...
Last night, I was sitting in my room and I suddenly felt emo. I would like to clarify that this is strange as I don't normally feel emo. And you know, emo people quite like listening to emo music.
But because I rarely feel emo, I couldn't think of any emo songs to listen to. The emo-est song that I could think of (after 10 minutes) was "She Will Be Loved", by Maroon 5. Which was nice, but it is hard to be properly emo with only one song to listen to. Luckily, Lyon recommended that I listen to Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now".
SO, in case you people reading this are totally into all things hip-hop and constantly listen to Black and Hispanic people rap about drinking, dancing and fucking living life to the fullest, here are some emo-songs for you just in case a wave of emo engulfs you on a random Thursday night.
(Also, my emo songs are not like sappy why this boy break up with me please I am going to cry forever and not get on with my life kind of emo. These are like, emo-life-emo-general songs. If you want the crying sort of emo-songs, please find another list.)
10. Eminem Feat<|fim_middle|>You can take everything I have, You can break everything I am, Like I'm made of glass, Like I'm made of paper.
Okay this song is quite emo-inspirational. About a girl who tells someone (I'm assuming it's a guy) that "(he) can break (that she has) like (she's) made of glass" but then she rises from the ground "LIKE A SKY SCRAPER". It is nice and catchy and easy to sing, and you come out feeling like "oh my, I feel stronger already", but not strong enough to break your emo-ness so you can just skip on to the next song in your playlist. GREAT! (Y).
6. Maroon 5 Feat. Wiz Khalifa - Payphone
"I'm at a payphone trying to call home. All of my change I spent on you. Where have the times gone. Baby it's all wrong, where are the plans we made for two?"
WHERE DO YOU EVEN START RAVING ABOUT THIS SONG? Okay, first, easy to sing. And all emo songs should be easy to sing. I mean, you are already so sad and out-of-it, I see no reason why you should give yourself the additional burden of trying to sing a complicated song à la Whitney Houston. Just will make you even sadder because your voice will never sound as good as this powerhouse you are listening to.
Anyway, it has good lyrics. And the lead singer Adam Levine has a nice-emo omg sad please help voice, and that is always good. And also he is quite hot.
Also, I have come to realise that most Maroon 5 songs, like "Harder to Breathe", "She Will Be Loved", "Won't Go Home Without You", "Never Gonna Leave This Bed" and "Misery" are emo-songs and the fastest way to compile an emo-playlist is to play your Maroon 5 albums and remove "Moves like Jagger".
5. Backstreet Boys - Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
Show me the meaning of being lonely, is this the feeling I need to walk with? Tell me why I can't be there where you are. There's something missin' in my heart.
Because every emo-song playlist needs a song from a boyband from the 1990s. And this is mine.
4. The Pussycat Dolls - I Hate This Part
I don't wanna try now, all that's left's good-bye, to find a way that I can tell you - I hate this part right here
Firstly, this song is by PCD and they are hot. And there is nothing worse than seeing a devastated group of hot girls dancing in the dessert to a nice beat. But apart from that, SURELY, if you are sad, you would be hating that part of your life. So this song is a good song to sing. Very apt for sad/angry/angsty/emo moments in your life. And because it doesn't talk about love or break-up, it is applicable to people who failed their exams/hate their job/got a hangover etc. You only have to pretend that you have some memories of driving in NYC in the snow. That's about it.
3. B.o.B Feat. Hayley Williams - Airplanes
Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars? I could really use a wish right now, wish right now, wish right now.
This song is very good because when you are sad, you will surely wish for things to change/be different. And then suddenly you listen to this song and you feel like, "omg! this guy and this girl truly understands me!" And most of the song is B.o.B. rapping which most of us can't really follow and rap along. So you can spend this rapping time reflecting on how you would spend your wish, and then sing along with Haley Williams and fantasize on how good your world would be if Mr. ABC died/broke his fingers/got syphilis.
2. Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
It's a quarter after one, I'm all alone and I need you now. Said I wouldn't call but I lost all control and I need you now
Oh please this song is wonderful. I must really thank Lyon for the recommendation. i would have never thought of this song on my own.
This song gives you a specific time. And usually, waves of emo only attack individuals in the wee hours of the morning (I think). So you can feel a kind of connection to this song when you hear "quarter after one" and you can go "OMG IT'S IN THE EARLY MORNING AND I NEED A HUG TOOOO". You know, this song brings about a certain feeling of warmth and hope.
And it also talks about being drunk. Annd I really like songs with an alcoholic element in them. (Cue for Paradiso Girls' "Patron Tequila" and LMFAO's "Shots" and Jamie Foxx's "Blame It (On the Alcohol)".)
And the video also shows lonely people yearning for their partners. And most people get emo because they are lonely. So this song is good and apt.
1. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
As my memory rests, but never forgets what I lost, wake me up when september ends
HAHA. Actually to be very honest I only know one line of this song. HOWEVER, it is very signature to the 2000 - 2010 period and PLS. I am sure every one of you (when I say "every one" I mean "those who were cool in from 2000 - 2010") have used the phrase, or thought of using the phrase at least once in your life. If you haven't then surely you are a little punk/not hip enough.
Also this "wake me up when September" line is something that well, most of us wish for sometimes. Only we say things like "I wish this was over already". Must give credit to Green Day for putting a time to it and also for expressing a general sentiment in a much more creative way.
OKAY! So if you are like me and are very removed from the emo-song world, then I hope that this list will help you when that occasional emo-cloud comes floating over your head. If you are the hardcore emo type and these songs don't suit you and you feel that you need more angsty songs about self-mutilation and death and all, then perhaps it is time to see a psychiatrist and start taking some medicine.
(Psychiatrist ah, not psychologist. Psychologists can't prescribe.)
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Cool list! | . Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn, well that's alright because I like the way it hurts. Just gonna stand there and hear me cry, well, that's alright because I love the way you lie
This is a fantastic song and I love it very much. Also the video has Megan Fox and that other guy from Lost. What's his name again? Oh. Dominic Monaghan. It's about a guy and a girl in a abusive relationship and it has good phrases like "just gonna stand there and watch me burn" and "DON'T YOU HEAR SINCERITY IN MY VOICE WHEN I TALK". But it's at number ten because Eminem is a brilliant rapper and you just want to be angsty and rap along and that kinda breaks the emo-wave.
And also the video has Megan Fox in it. And she is really hot. It is hard to stay emo when you look at her.
9. Akon - Sorry, Blame It on Me
If I can't apologize for being wrong, then it's just a shame on me. I'll be the reason for your pain, and you can put the blame on me.
Quite an emo and sad song and the lyrics are quite easy to follow. Like there are a few chunks that just go like this:
You can put the blame on me
Said you can put the blame on me
It is very hard to go wrong with this. If you cannot follow this then I think you have more than one reason to be emo. Anyway, you can imagine that someone has done the wrong thing and he/she is apologising to you, or if you are the one who did something wrong then you can imagine that it's you apologising. Works both ways.
Only that it's Akon singing. So you may need to pretend that you left your wife at home with the kids while you were out partying. So maybe not so good.
8. Skylar Grey - Invisible
Even when I'm walking on a wire, Even when I set myself on fire, Why do I always feel invisible, invisible?
This song has a nice beat and is quite emo. It's by Skylar Grey who co-wrote the good "Love The Way You Lie". She was also the guest-vocals for Fort Minor's "Where'd You Go", Dr. Dre's "I Need a Doctor" and Diddy-Dirty Money's "Coming Home". ALL GOOD EMO-SONGS TO BOOT. (But are not in my top 10. Too bad.) Her voice is very good and sweet and makes you sad that she feel so sad for her (and also yourself because you are supposed to pretend you are her when you sing this song).
7. Demi Lovato - Skyscraper
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What is regenerative leadership?
September 14, 2020 / 26 Comments
The world is up for re-invention—complexity, ambiguity and uncertainty call for innovative models of leadership. We're all here to be leaders, we all need to embrace new aspects of leadership, and we all need to step into unique roles that allow our gifts and talents to shine while contributing to a life-honoring present and future. Shared leadership and purpose-driven leadership provide up-to-date paradigms aligned with current needs, which are shaped—among others—by climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, and civil unrest.
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Shared leadership is group-based. It empowers group members by giving them leadership responsibilities—individuals within a group lead each other to achieve successful outcomes. Think in these terms: two compatible heads are better than one, three compatible heads are better than two, and so on. In the Preface of their book "Shared Leadership: Reframing the hows and whys of leadership", authors Craig Pearce and Jay Conger state: "Leadership is<|fim_middle|> in the post "You don't have to be a leader" by Eva Shang, being a follower is as important as being a leader. Shared leadership can be a way of combining the two roles and using them interchangeably. I think if individuals had interchangeable positions of being leaders and followers, it would help them be more well rounded individuals with a more fluid mentality about what it means to be a leader. Shared leadership is something that could changed the world and in my opinion should be applied to all leadership positions especially in politics for a bipartisan political system.
NIYU
Samin, I definitely agree with your post. I believe being a follower is just as important as being a leader. Followers are not inferior to their leaders, and leaders are not superior to their followers. Leaders don't always have extra information or knowledge that their followers don't have access to.
Joshua Ayelazuno
The words that resonated strongly with me and which I believe sums up this informative article are those from Peter Drucker; "In times of turmoil, the danger lies not in the turmoil but in facing it with yesterday's logic". The dogmatic leadership excludes the follower and charges only the leader with the responsibilities. The followers are often left out in terms of accountability hence, the majority put in minimum efforts. The leader is a single person or a couple of people, therefore, followers should be empowered to contribute. Inclusion creates a sense of belonging and purpose, and this decentralizes the task into little chunks. The results is everyone leading their task, but towards achieving the ultimate goal. There must accountability on both sides only then can we truly practice regenerative leadership.
Janai Thomas
With the ways that we see the world is constantly (and quickly changing) I believe that it is important to constantly be changing the ways that we lead and our mindsets in order to do so; as stated in the article, it is important to keep regenerative leadership in mind. With that being said, one person cannot change the world, the approach of shared leadership is what it takes to create the necessary changes (following the purpose-driven leadership approach).
Kazi Rahman
Hi Janai,
I personally agree that as the world changes, we too must adjust to those changes, especially when in a position of leadership. However, I do wonder, would this still hold if there is a negative change? Wouldn't it be better to stick to what you already know from before the change? You also mention that one person cannot change the world, but I disagree. Whether good or bad, I feel that it is possible for one person to bring change. We can look at world leaders as an example. I think an alternative statement could be: while one person can change the world, shared leadership can help make that change easier and more effective. What do you think?
Hello Kazi,
Your outlook on whether one person can change the world or not was actually very insightful. I agree that in some circumstances, yes, one person can change the world. However, I'm not sure if I just overthink things, but wouldn't it still take a team for them to even get into the position to do so? In reference to your point about negative changes, I believe that is also something that is circumstantial. It could be good to stick to what you know in some ways, but what you know could also have landed you in a negative trend. It might then be plausible to explore new ways to move back toward a positive direction, in my opinion. | therefore not determined by positions of authority but rather by an individual's capacity to influence peers and by the needs of the team in any given moment. In addition, each member of the team brings unique perspectives, knowledge, and capabilities to the team. At different junctures in the teams' life, there are moments when these differing backgrounds characteristics provide a platform for leadership to be distributed among the team."
Purpose-driven leadership is a form of shared leadership based on the "why" and on the idea of shared purpose, as a contribution we want to make to our community or to the world, for example by solving a social and/or environmental issue. Here, the leaders' driving force is the desire to solve a specific problem so to serve the greater good. Regenerative leadership is not only purpose-driven, but also focuses on solutions that aim to a future where organizations flourish, ecosystems thrive and people come alive.
In their book "Regenerative Leadership: The DNA of life-affirming 21st century organisations", authors Giles Hutchins & Laura Storm write: "Regenerative Leadership is not yet another leadership approach that applies the very same mechanistic logic that caused our problems in the first place in seeking solutions to these problems. No, this Regenerative Leadership approach deals with today's landscape systemically. The epic challenges we face demand a wholly new way quite different from the level of thinking traditional leadership approaches have applied." A new leadership logic must embrace the understanding of the parts and the way they interplay—"Underpinning the ability for the leader to embrace both is the re-connection and re-integration of left and right hemisphere, inner and outer, masculine and feminine, human and nature."
They cite Peter Drucker: "In times of turmoil, the danger lies not in the turmoil but in facing it with yesterday's logic".
John Hardman, author of "Leading for regeneration: going beyond sustainability in business, education and community", talks in terms of a regenerative leadership framework and explains the need for the development of individual and collective consciousness to transform the culture of organizations. Indeed, on the basis of research he carried out, Hardman supports a radical change in our consciousness—change that will make possible to balance the reductionist tendency of reason in search of "a holistic understanding of who we are and of our place in the grand scheme of things."
Why is the concept of "reductionist tendency of reason" included in a discussion of what regenerative leadership is? Because, currently, we use the reductionist approach as the predominant way to make sense of the world around us. Regenerative leadership aims to combine and balance the reductionist approach with the holistic approach, therefore shifting our perception of the natural world and our place in it.
Reductionism is based on the notion that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents and the interactions of their parts. The idea of Reductionism was first introduced by Descartes in Part V of his "Discourses" of 1637, where he argued the world was like a machine, its pieces like clockwork mechanisms, and that the machine could be understood by taking its pieces apart, studying them, and then putting them back together to see the larger picture.
Under the holistic approach, complex systems are viewed as inherently irreducible, and more than the sum of their parts.
For example, a reductionistic approach to science, epitomized by molecular biology, is often contrasted with the holistic approach of systems biology. A fundamental tenet of systems biology is that cellular and organismal constituents are interconnected, so that their structure and dynamics must be examined in intact cells and organisms rather than as isolated parts.
However, molecular biology and systems biology are actually interdependent and complementary ways in which to study and make sense of complex phenomena—in other words, by "balancing" the two approaches, we can gain a better understanding of the natural world.
As Douglas Adams said, "If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision."
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Brittany Mills
Reductionism is typically used to explain a complex phenomenon in a simpler, layman form by connecting the individual parts. Author John Harden supports and encourages reductionism when it comes to regenerative leadership. Initially, in a reductionist approach, one uses the environment and certain stimuli and makes sense of it. Therefore, how we perceive these environmental stimuli influences our perspective of life, which in turn impacts our leadership. Thus, regenerative leadership wants to incorporate both the reductionist approach and the holistic approach to influence views on the world. The holistic approach is essentially taking into account all factions of a system and not merely focusing on one area.
Tatenda
What really stood out to me from this article was the breakdown of the reductionist approach verses the holistic approach. Understanding how the balance of the two leads to the desirable regenerative leadership is key. As independent as we can be or like to be its our interdependency that paves the way for success. No one has all the qualities so looking at the system as a whole and seeing how all the parts play into the success of a team is super essential. This works in with allowing people to be individuals because it's the combination of the individuals that leads to successful leadership, not just a single individual.
Kristen M
I really like the idea that every person in a group can be a leader in their own right by having influence over the others. I am so used to seeing leadership as a kind of hierarchy. It's refreshing to think of leaders on an equal level to others. Personally, I struggle to view myself as a leader because I am not in any kind of official leadership position. I don't have any special title, so how can I be a leader? I can be a leader among my peers just by speaking up and offering my thoughts and help. Anyone can be a leader in this way. I like to think that I can utilize the leadership skills that I have learned in all kinds of interactions. Leadership as a concept does not feel very personal, but it can be very personal when a person develops their own style and niche of leadership.
Kristen, I agree with you, it's nice to think that every person in a group can be a leader. I think an essential part of being a leader is also knowing when to follow. It's not always about having that title, but like the article said, it's about being able to influence those around you. In my experience in the workforce, I've found that the people with titles are able to identify the leaders within their groups and (depending on the workplace) use that for the betterment of the company. I like seeing this concept in terms of science because it allows all the people involved to contribute in a capacity they might not have thought to otherwise.
Hi Kristen, I agree with your statement that you believe that you can utilize your learned leadership skills in all types of interactions. To be a leader is not to have power over someone. I believe it is simply being an excellent team player. Take into account a football team, the quarterback is essentially the team captain and without the quarterback you cannnot have a complete team, right? Wrong, the team does not solely depend on one player but all the players: running backs, wide receivers, kickers, etc. They are all great at their positions and strive to be best at what they know best while helping out the entire team win. Another example is in the operating room, you have the surgeon, anesthesiologist, nurse, etc. Same concept. They all strive to be the best at what they can do to help out the entire team because they cannot be the best without each other. This reminds me of the article "You Do Not Have to Be a Leader" because a leader cannot be a leader without the followership. Together the leader and followers make up a team.
Furthermore, within the followers can also be subcategories of leadership to help maintain the groups' structure. For example, in large corporations, you have VPs, then project managers, regional managers, store managers, department managers, etc. All these positions are considered to be leadership positions that help make up an entire team. If they all do their part well, then the team is successful. Granted, some of these positions may be interchangeable, but the point is that in order to be a leader, you do not need to always have to highest position in office. You can still have a huge impact on individuals just being a worker but still be a strong team player.
The many variations of leaderships contribute to the foundational functions of a society and community. With the current pandemic and swift shift to a majority tech-based life, this article truly described the necessary components and adaptations that leadership must entail. With an ever-changing environment, economy, and innovations, it is imperative the leaders are able to assimilate appropriately.
To expound on this comment, regenerative leadership leverages ideas and concepts from various leadership forms and approaches. These initially include both shared leadership and a subset of shared leadership called purpose-driven leadership. The reductionist and holist approaches also include regenerative leadership. I agree with the article's statement of" A new leadership logic must embrace the understanding of the parts and the way they interplay." This seems to relate to the fundamentals of reductionism, which I also agree with in terms of leaders. I believe our perception of the world influences how we relate things together and how we conceptualize ideas.
The keyword is "regenerative." I am incredibly fond of that expression because it inspires structure amid chaos. This phrase, "regenerative thinking/leadership," allows me to have a different definition of what leadership means. To be a regenerative leader, you first need to be able to regenerate your fixed mindset, of what your preconceived notion of leadership means, into one that is balanced and accepting of diverse mindsets. The old definition should be something of the past. I believe that more people should adopt the idea of regenerative leadership because it does not limit an individual just to be a leader. Instead, it teaches the idea of being a team player in our society. Our current leadership ideology leaves us stagnant in the past, with a system that makes us a polarized society without the inclusion of all. As Peter Drucker said, the danger lies within "yesterday's logic." I found this statement very powerful because it allows for a moment of self-reflection to become better. As students, we have to take many tests, and among those tests, some will inevitably become points of failure. It is only up to us to decide to figure out a new way to become better and avoid sticking onto "yesterday's logic" by not acknowledging our shortcomings. I only tried to apply this concept to something relatable to us as students, but this concept can be applied to many aspects of our life experiences. As students, we are developing individuals within our careers of choice, but the idea of developing should not limit the way we perceive progression nor the way we aspire to lead one day.
Erik Bozard
The many forms of leadership, whether shared, purpose-driven, or regenerative provide methods to lead others in a collaboration. A group can function more efficiently by having meaningful individual input to the task at hand. Looking to one person as the sole leader may be sufficient, but the use of every unique individuals aspect to a problem is more productive and grows everyone as a leader. If the group also practices regenerative leadership on the individual level, society will benefit as well as the welfare of the planet. Regenerative leadership calls upon people to not simply look for the most cost-effective solution to problems, but take into consideration the detrimental effect it could have on the environment or climate.
Zacch
I believe at the rate at which the society is involving shared leadership is very essential to have a functional project without one dominating force or a lacking caused due to absence to leadership. When every individual sees their work as an opportunity to create something unique and not having the feeling of inferiority or lacking this can lead to more innovation and create amazing result. One of the example that comes to mind is that of the invention of the cotton machine. It was before it was told that before it became industrialized slaves were the one who came up with the innovation idea to help make work faster for them. This shows that everyone can contribute and participate to make the world a better place.
Jha'Meisheia Griffin
I loved this article because I agree with it 100%. As the world evolves, leaders must also evolve, especially this year. This has been a rough year so far with a plethora of changes happening and historical events occurring. The current pandemic we are in could ultimately be seen as a failure of leadership. During these troubling times, a fresh sense of leadership would not be a bad thing. As stated in the article, "leadership is therefore not determined by positions of authority but rather by an individual's capacity to influence peers and by the needs of the team in any given moment." I think that shared leadership would be a great change to aid our country during these troubled times during the pandemic.
Kari T
What comes to mind when I read this and about regenerative leadership is the concept of teamwork and what I've learned from teamwork. When a team works together and functions as a whole with each person in the team being a leader in their own way, then they truly form a community. If the manager leads with the concept of "his way or the highway" or he chooses the same person to lead projects, training, meetings, etc then the workplace becomes focused on only one leader. If a team shares in leading then the team learns more, becomes better functioning, becomes more productive, and develops positive morale. All of this plays into each other and becomes critical for each members success. In this situation each person grows. What comes to mind is that the growth mindset is encouraged in a team and prevents the fixed mindset from becoming ingrained in their minds.
Brene Brown summed it up well – "If we want people to fully show up, to bring their whole selves including their unarmored, whole hearts—so that we can innovate, solve problems, and serve people—we have to be vigilant about creating a culture in which people feel safe, seen, heard, and respected." Her quote makes me think of regenerative leadership.
Kari, I agree with your comment. It is essential for individuals of a group to have a voice in decision making and planning. Everyone can have a role and grow as a leader, and this will make the collective whole of the group better. It is almost like an evolving organism that adapts and grows through experience, and groups of people should be no different. It will lead to better organizations, societies, and better solutions for looming environmental issues. If everyone is a leader, than the group is responsible, not just one individual. We should all be responsible for making solutions to problems more efficient.
With the pandemic being the main thing orchestrating our daily lives it has become very clear the need for shared leadership. Both purpose driven and regenerative. How much better would things be if the federal government presented a unified front to all the states. Delegating with parameters and conditions on how they can collectively implement and share ideas to come up with a UNITED game plan.
Mark, I love this thought. Like the article mentions, regenerative leadership goes a step further to look at the future and how todays solutions will benefit others in the future. A lot of the problem solving we've done has been very reactionary. Working to solve what's wrong now. But implementing a plan that will be beneficial in a later time shows a very forward way of thinking
Uswa Jadoon
In an evergrowing and diversifying world, shared leadership needs to become normalcy. We have not been fighting coronavirus over the past few months and facing a lot of racial violence. It has become necessary that our leaders be just as diverse as their followers. This change can allow for a positive change in government policies and more acceptance in society for each other's differences and similarities. It is up to the leaders and the people to allow those leaders to come forward with a fresh perspective towards leading the people. Shared leadership comes from the people. They should hold themselves responsible for educating themselves about the diversification of the world and people in their social circle. It can create a significant impact because we will see leaders who will want to work on issues like COVID-19 and climate change, not pointless matters like race and religion.
Victoria Carlino
I really enjoyed this view on leadership. One person alone cannot lead because they only have so much to offer. They can only be good and have wisdom on so many things. Everyone has their own unique view points, ideals, and values. Leading in a group is a wonderful look a shared leadership. People can pick up the slack of what the other person may lack in. One person alone can't be responsible for leading everyone. Some people respond better to certain people than another and vise versa. One situation may call for one person's realm of knowledge and not the other. Everyone has some form of leadership in them, and it's important that we all have a chance to let that shine.
Grace Chong
Hello Victoria,
I enjoyed reading this perspective on leadership as well. I see how shared leadership can bring a more whole leadership because one leader does not have all the skills that they need. Especially during this time of isolation during a pandemic, do you think that we can use shared leadership as a way to bring our divide together? Personally, I think having a shared purpose is a good way to bring people together and work together to stop the spread, and civil unrest. Leaders from different backgrounds and cultures will allow people with the similar perspectives can connect and empathize with, and hopefully grow confidence in others to lead and change the world for the better.
Fortino Pineda Veloz
I believe the same, Grace and Victoria! As the saying goes, "Jacks of all trades, Master of none". It is vital to work synergistically to combat issues whether it is in the political sphere or the lab bench. Regenerative leadership is much like a moderator where discussion should flow freely and equally to obtain the best outcome. After all, most people usually don't disagree on the ends but mostly the means. This form of leadership as a new interpretation of a system with purpose to serve all, incorporating the opinions of reductionist and holistic concerns. However, I do wonder what the outfall is after making a decision that favors the reductionist mindset of one sector versus another. I guess if everything goes well then no one will complain haha
Laiba Khan
The world is changing and so should our ways of dealing with certain problems. What we need right now more than ever is diversity, and to acknowledge and respect other people rather than blaming a single person or race for the problems that exist today. Shared leadership can empower diversity and a group of people with contrasting views bring more to a table than a single leader who expects everyone to follow his/her commands. What we need is a set of solutions that can lead to a successful outcome. A single person cannot lead every task, the same way a CEO does not deal with marketing and administrative issues. A company is not built upon the hard work of a single person, but a team that works towards the same goal, and while there could be a single person which leads the team to success, a shared leadership ensures a diverse approach.
Samin A.
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Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF) is a member of the EGF family of proteins that in humans is encoded by the HBEGF gene.
Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF, pm 22 kDa) is a 87 amino acid glycoprotein, member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF), termed HB-EGF for his affinity with heparin. It's synthesized as a membrane-anchored mitogenic and chemotactic glycoprotein by monocytes and macrophages.
Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor* (HB-EGF, pm 22 kDa) is a 87 amino acid glycoprotein, member of the epidermal growth factor (EGF), termed HB-EGF for his affinity with heparin. It's synthesized as a membrane-anchored mitogenic and chemotactic glycoprotein by monocytes and macrophages.
• membrane-anchored protein (proHB-EGF), which is known to be a juxtacrine growth factor, composed of a signal peptide, propeptide, heparin-binding, EGF-like, juxtamembrane, transmembrane, and cytoplasmic domains.
• ProHB-EGF is cleaved at its iuxtamembrane domain by metalloproteases in a process called ectodomain shedding . Ectodomain shedding of proHB-EGF yields a soluble form of HB-EGF.
Shedding is accelerated when proHB-EGF-expressing cells are exposed to certain stress conditions.
• Upon cleavage, the HB-EGF C-terminal fragment translocates into the nucleus and induces gene expression of cyclinA and cyclinD2 by suppressing the function of PLZF and Bcl6, respectively.
• Soluble form of HB-EGF (sHB-EGF) is a potent mitogen and chemo-attractant for cells expressing its cognate ErbB receptors.
Heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor has been shown to interact with NRD1, Zinc finger and BTB domain-containing protein 16 and BAG1.
The NRD1 gene codes for the protein nardilysin, metallopeptidase of the M16 family, presents, in vitro, cleavage specificity for basic residues. Depending on the cell type, it is cytoplasmic, exported or cell surface associated. As a new receptor for heparin-binding EGF-like growth factor (HB-EGF), NRDc was recently shown to be involved in cellular migration and proliferation as HB-EGF modulator.
Zinc finger and BTB domain containing protein 16 and BAG family molecular chaperone regulator function as co-chaperone proteins in processes involving HB-EGF.
HB-EGF binding and activation of EGF receptors plays a critical role during cardiac valve tissue development and the maintenance of normal heart function in adults. During valve tissue development the interaction of HB-EGF with EGF receptors and heparan sulfate proteogylcans is essential for the prevention of malformation of valves due to enlargement. In the vascular system areas of disturbed flow show upregulation of HB-EGF with promotion of vascular lesions, atherogenesis, and hyperplasia of intimal tissue in vessels. The flow disturbance remodeling of the vascular tissues due to HB-EGF expression contributes to aortic valve disease, peripheral vascular disease, and conduit stenosis.
HB-EGF is the predominant growth factor in the epithelialization required for cutaneous wound healing. The mitogenic and migratory effects of HB-EGF on keratinocytes and fibroblasts promotes dermal repair and angiogenesis necessary for wound healing and is a major component of wound fluids. HB-EGF displays target cell specificity during the early stages of wound healing being released by macrophages, monocytes, and keratinoctyes. HB-EGF cell surface binding to heparan sulfate proteoglycans enhances mitogen promoting capabilities increasing the rate of skin wound healing, decreasing human skin graft healing times, and promotes rapid healing of ulcers, burns, and epidermal split thickness wounds.
HB-EGF is recognized as an important component for the modulation of cell activity in various biological interactions.
• Found widely distributed in cerebral neurons and neuroglia, HB-EGF induced by brain hypoxia and or ischemia subsequently stimulates neurogenesis.
• Interactions between uterine HB-EGF and epidermal growth factor receptors of blastocysts influence embryo-uterine interactions and implantation.
• Studies show HB-EGF protects intestinal stem cells and intestinal epithelial cells in necrotizing enterocolitis, a disease affecting premature newborns. Associated with a breakdown in gut barrier function, necrotizing enterocolitis may be mediated by HB-EGF effects on intestinal mucosa.
• HB-EGF expressed during skeletal muscle contraction facilitates peripheral glucose removal, glucose tolerance and uptake. The upregulation of HB-EGF with exercise may explain the moleuclar basis for the decrease in metabolic disorders such as obesity and type 2 diabetes with regular exercise.
Recent studies indicate significant HB-EGF gene expression elevation in a number of human cancers as well as cancer-derived cell lines. Evidence indicates that HB-EGF plays a significant role in the development of malignant phenotypes contributing to the metastatic and invasive behaviors of tumors.
For numerous cell types such as breast and ovarian tumor cells, human epithelial cells and keratinocytes HB-EGF is a potent mitogen resulting in evidenced upregulation of HB-EGF in such specimens. Both in vivo and in vitro studies of tumor formation in cancer dervived cell lines indicate that expression of HB-EGF is essential for tumor development.
LPA is elevated in the plasma and peritoneal fluid from patients with ovarian cancer in all stages, suggesting that it is a possible candidate for an ovarian cancer–activating factor.
In principle, LPA-induced signaling is mediated by G protein-coupled receptors, including LPA1-4, that are able to use the epidermal growth factor receptor (*EGFR*) as a downstream signaling partner in the generation of mitogenic signals, and EGFR has been recognized to play a pivotal role in the progression of ovarian cancer. In particular we know that HB-EGF is involved in this EGFR signal transactivation and that the expression of HB-EGF is attributable to tumor growth on xenografted mice using ovarian cancer cell lines.
The molecular mechanisms of EGFR signal transactivation involve processing of transmembrane growth factor precursors by metalloproteases, which have been identified as members of the ADAM (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) family of zinc-dependent proteases.
For the metalloproteases, there have been at least 34 ADAM genes described in a variety of species, in particular, ADAM 9, 10, 12, and 17 are involved in the ectodomain shedding of EGFR ligands.
The enhancement of EGFR signal transactivation mediated by EGFR ligands and the ADAM family is linked to the pathogenesis of hyperproliferative disorders, such as cancer.
To investigate which molecules involved in EGFR signal transactivation are associated with human ovarian cancer, they examined the expression of EGFR ligands and ADAM family members in patients with ovarian cancer, using real-time PCR, and analyzed the clinical significance of these molecules in ovarian cancer.
HB-EGF have eleveted affinity for EGFR, who is involved in several biochimicals changes in cells by activation of MAPK's signaling. It increase calcium level, glicolisis activation and synthesis of proteins.
It's now know that CXCL1 functions through CXCR2 to transactivate the EGFR by proteolytic cleavage of HB-EGF, leading to activation of MAPK signalling and increased proliferation of EOC cells.
The chemokine CXCL1 is elevated in plasma and ascites from patients with ovarian cancer and is a marker of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase signalling in epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) cell lines, a pathway that is commonly activated in ovarian tumours. To investigate whether CXCL1 also has functional significance in ovarian cancer, this chemokine was either down-regulated using siRNAs or over<|fim_middle|>-EGF, showed synergistic antitumor activities with paclitaxel by restoring the sensitivity to paclitaxel in ovarian cancer SKOV-3 cells. These studies suggest that an anti-HBEGF agent is expected to be effective and exert synergistic antitumor activities with chemotherapeutic agents such as paclitaxel against ovarian cancer. | expressed by transfection of CXCL1 into the EOC cell lines SKOV3 and OVCAR-3 and proliferation assessed over 7 days.
Overexpression of CXCL1 increased proliferation of ovarian cancer cells over 7 days, while down-regulation was inhibitory. Treatment of cells with recombinant CXCL1 induced epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) phosphorylation at Y1068, indicating crosstalk between the CXCL1 G-protein-coupled receptor CXCR2 and the EGFR.
CXCL1 induced proliferation was also decreased by inhibition of EGFR kinase activity and was dependent on extracellular matrix metalloproteinase-mediated release of heparin-binding EGF (*HB-EGF*). Involvement of mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK)/extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) signalling was also evident since inhibition of both Ras and MEK activity decreased CXCL1-induced proliferation.
CXCL1-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation was inhibited by the MEK1 inhibitor PD98059; however, EGFR phosphorylation was unaffected, indicating that CXCL1 activation of MAPK signalling is downstream of the EGFR. Taken together, these data show that CXCL1 functions through CXCR2 to transactivate the EGFR by proteolytic cleavage of HB-EGF, leading to activation of MAPK signalling and increased proliferation of EOC cells.
Tumor formation by human ovarian cancer cell lines was enhanced by exogenous expression of proHB-EGF and completely blocked by proHB-EGF gene RNA interference or by CRM197, a specific HB-EGF inhibitor. It has also been shown that HB-EGF expression is significantly associated with the clinical outcome in ovarian cancer. Based on these evidences, HB-EGF is now considered to be an attractive therapeutic target in human. In this study, we developed a novel method with high sensitivity and specificity for the determination of soluble HB-EGF concentrations in human serum. In order to develop a sandwich ligand binding assay method, we chose a combination of the two antibodies; a mouse monoclonal anti-HBEGF antibody as a capture antibody and a goat polyclonal anti-HB-EGF antibody as a detection antibody. First, we developed a sandwich ELISA with horseradish peroxidase detection system using the two antibodies described above. However, no endogenous HB-EGF was detected in sera of ovarian cancer patients and healthy volunteers due to the low sensitivity. We then sensitized the method by introducing immuno-PCR, resulting in the change of lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) from 100 to 5 pg/mL.
Immuno-PCR is a method which combines the specificity of antibodies with the sensitivity of PCR. There are some previous reports on the method development of immuno-PCR.
Using our method, we quantified soluble HBEGF levels in healthy volunteers and ovarian cancer patients. As a result, we demonstrated that ovarian cancer patients showed significantly higher level of HB-EGF than healthy volunteers.
This is the report suggesting that soluble HBEGF detected by newly developed immuno-PCR system can be a clear-cut serological biomarkers for ovarian cancer.
Growth factors of the EGF family are generally not considered to be promising targets for cancer therapy because there are many growth factors that can provide growthpromoting signals redundantly, and when a sole factor is neutralized, other ligands are suspected to compensate for it. However, increasing evidence has suggested that HB-EGF is expressed predominantly among all of the growth factors of the EGF family in ovarian cancer and has a pivotal role in its progression. In addition, Yagi and colleagues recently reported that a chemotherapeutic agent, paclitaxel, induced transient ERK and Akt activation through elevated expression and ectodomain shedding of HB-EGF, resulting in the escape from apoptosis. CRM197, a nontoxic mutant of diphtheria toxin and a specific inhibitor of HB | 839 |
Maybe the feet don't seem like an important contributors to the overall health, but there is no hard-working part than the feet, when we talk about the external aspects of the body. We have to take right care of them, because the feet will prevent hip, back and knee pain.
These exercises will strengthen the feet, improve the balance and prevent the pain.
The feet just like any other body part need to have warmed up muscles before starting an exercise. This exercise is an amazing warm-up for the feet, and this can also be relaxing. Stand on the ground and bend a little in the knees. Grip the floor with<|fim_middle|>, hip or knee pain. To do this exercise, put the back to the floor and extend the leg over the head. Rotate the ankle of your extended leg for 10 counts clockwise. Rotate the ankle on your extended leg for 10 counts counterclockwise. Switch the leg and repeat.
This exercise is great for targeting the small muscles in the foot. They usually play an important role in maintaining the balance. If you strengthen these muscles, you will prevent injury.
For this exercise you need one exercise band. Sit on the floor and straighten the feet out in front of you. Then wrap the exercise band around a bedpost or sturdy chair, and then place that band on the top of the feet. In this seated position, slide back until you feel a little tension in the band. Flex the foot backwards and then hold for 5 seconds, release it and repeat this for 10 times.
This amazing exercise is so easy to do it and you can do it anywhere. You will need just one pencil or a pen. Stand in front of it and with your toes grab the pencil and elevate it. Hold it in the air for about 10 seconds and drop it. Repeat this 5 times with each foot.
All these exercises will just take you about 20 minutes. For best results, do these exercises every 2-3 days. | the toes and hold for 3 seconds. Release ant then do a set of 10 repetitions 3 times in a day.
This is not an exercise just for a ballerina. The toe walking can help you to strengthen the muscles in the toes, and also the muscles and ligaments surrounding the balls of the feet. To do this exercise you have to stand on the tiptoes and walk forward for about 20 seconds. Then rest for 10 to 15 seconds and repeat the exercise five more times. For best results, do this exercise 2 times every day.
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So much fun!!! But who are the "black face" ones? Whom do they represent?
Looks like fun! You got some great shots from the day!
Een reeks om van te snoepen!!!
Ooh, how colourful they are, and how very black! Quite a contrast to their wonderful costumes!
I'm glad you got out there for the parade - there's another bit of cultural history I've learned about Belgium.
What a fun tradition. I do enjoy reading and viewing your photos.
Just dropped by. Hope all is well with you.
Just checking in as I've been blogging again for a month or so and am now trying to figure out who else is still out here or gone. I see you've been gone from blogging for nearly a year but I can't bring<|fim_middle|> It's important!!! Thank you !!! | myself to take you off my blogroll because when I was out here I ALWAYS enjoyed your photos so much of a place that seems so far away and yet calls to me. Hope to see you again someday and I'll just drop in from time to time and peruse the old photos and catch up on what I missed while I was away myself. :) Peace.
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Beckomberga är en stadsdel i Bromma i Västerort inom Stockholms kommun.
Stadsdelen Beckomberga ligger i västra Bromma och i området låg tidigare mentalsjukhuset Beckomberga sjukhus<|fim_middle|>-172. .
Externa länkar
Storstockholms utbredning och stadsplaneidealens utveckling under 1900-talet.
SBK - Äldre bild på sjukhuset
Bilder inuti Beckomberga "Stora mans"
Beckomberga
Stadsdelar i Stockholm
Bromma stadsdelsområde | . Till stor del består stadsdelen av ett lätt kuperat område med mindre skogshöjder.
Stockholms stad köpte de båda gårdarna Beckomberga gård och Råcksta gård 1927 för 1,58 miljoner kronor. Från början var det avsett att Beckomberga då skulle bli bostadsområde, men senare ändrades planerna och Beckomberga sjukhus uppfördes åren 1929–1935. Byggnaderna uppfördes efter ritningar av Carl Westman, som var medicinalstyrelsens arkitekt. Det blev en storskalig anläggning med klassisk symmetrisk uppbyggnad, klocktorn på huvudbyggnaden och en stor park för "friluftsterapi". Det var ett för sin tid mycket påkostat sjukhusbygge, som blev ett av Europas största mentalsjukhus. För de anställda byggdes bostäder runt omkring. Under 1953-1954 byggdes de så kallade "Runda husen" i hörnet av Bällstavägen och Spångavägen, de husen ritades av arkitekt Nils Sterner. Efter en förändrad syn på vården lades sjukhuset ned 1995. De äldre byggnaderna har nu till stor del byggts om till bostäder och kompletterats med nya hus, som infogats i området. I överensstämmelse med de första planerna för Beckomberga har därmed området blivit ett renodlat bostadsområde.
Trakterna vid Beckomberga räknas som ett av de områden i Bromma, som först bebyggdes. Här fanns förutsättningar för odling redan under romersk järnålder. Gården eller byn under järnåldern låg sannolikt, enligt arkeolog Nils Ringstedt, vid norra stranden av "Storkyrksjön", som sträckte sig in i Spånga socken. Fast bebyggelse under forntiden fanns in i vikingatid.
Historik
Namnet Beckomberga betyder ungefär "de som bor vid bäcken" och är känt sedan 1300-talet.
Platsen har varit bebodd sedan 300-talet e.Kr. Stadsdelen har fått sitt namn efter den gamla byn Beckomberga, vars namn skrevs bœkneberghœ 1347 i en urkund och Beknabergha 1349. I 1539 års jordebok upptas tre gårdar. År 1414 skrevs namnet Beknaberghum, namnet anses komma från de som bor på berget vid bäcken.
Bronsåldersröse och fornlämningar
Beckomberga-Råcksta-gravfältet
Under en period på 600 år begravdes de tidigaste invånarna på det stora gårdsgravfältet Beckomberga-Råcksta, beläget på skogshöjden mellan Medelpadsgatan och Brunflogatan.
Åren 1950-1953 undersöktes det så kallade Beckomberga-Råcksta-gravfältet, beläget mitt på den gamla sockengränsen mellan Bromma och Spånga. Detta skedde i Stockholms stadsmuseums regi och innan Råcksta småstugeområde skulle byggas. Man fann att de äldsta gravar, som gick att tidsbestämma, var från de två första århundradena av vår tideräkning, det togs således i bruk under yngre romersk järnålder på 200-talet|200-talet e.Kr. Gravplatsen hade använts fram till vikingatidens början kring 800 e.Kr. Vid utgrävningarna i början av 1950-talet upptäcktes 190 gravar. Fynden bestod bland annat av glaspärlor, guldringar, spelpjäser, kammar, björnklor och ben. De visar att här bott en välmående bondebefolkning med liknande handelskontakter som övriga Europa, som utgrävningarna på Helgö vittnar om. Från vikingatidens början sker gravsättningen istället i anslutning till Råcksta Gård och det stora gravfältet Beckomberga-Råcksta tas ur bruk.
Bronsåldersröse
I skogsbrynet väster nedanför berget ligger ett bronsåldersröse (RAÄ 54). Här finns också spår av bebyggelse från äldre järnålder. Det utgrävda Beckomberga-Råcksta-gravfältet vittnar om tidig bosättning. Stockholms stadsmuseum grävde fältet i samband med att södra Spånga byggdes ut i början av 1950-talet. Rika fynd gjordes. De daterades till främst romersk järnålder, folkvandringstid och vendeltid. En grav från vikingatid grävdes. Fast bebyggelse på platsen har alltså funnits från romersk järnålder till början av vikingatiden (fram till ca 800-900-talen). Området, där Beckomberga-Råcksta gravfältet har legat, har i modern tid förts till Spånga socken. Gravfälten i Beckomberga hörde tidigare till Bromma och inkluderas därför, eftersom de i tidigare förhållanden låg i Beckombergas område. Några stensättningar i Beckomberga (RAÄ55, RAÄ 139 och RAÄ 162) kan föras till äldre järnålder och ligger i anslutning till Beckomberga sjukhusområde.
Fornlämningar
Ett stort antal fornlämningar finns på kringliggande moräntäckta bergshöjder. En röseliknande stensättning (RAÄ 161) sydväst om sjukhuset kan vara från yngre bronsålder. Ett stort gravfält (RAÄ 61) från äldre järnålder (romersk järnålder och folkvandringstid till vendeltid) utgrävdes totalt på 1950-talet. Mycket rika fynd gjordes. I området ligger flera järnåldersgravfält (RAÄ 57 och RAÄ 158) samt enstaka gravgrupper och stensättningar. Gravfält RAÄ 57 var under senare delen av järnåldern det största gravfältet i området med ett 30-tgal anläggningar och sannolika Beckombergas gårdsgravfält. Det karterades 1944. Undersökningar av Stockholms stadsmuseums arkeologiska enhet har visat, att det funnits en skålgropssten på sydsluttningen av gravfält RAÄ 57 inom Beckomberga sjukhusområde inom ett komplex av rektangulära stensättningar.
Beckomberga by
I norra delen av Beckomberga sjukhusområde och väster in på Spångavägen låg en by- och gårdstomt. Enligt en 1800-talskarta utgör området platsen för Beckomberga gamla by.
Under medeltiden bestod Beckomberga by av de tre gårdarna Södergården, Mellangården och Norrgården. I 1640 års jordebok möter man formen Bäckomberga, bäckborna, det vill säga de som bor på bäckbornas berg, enligt Jöran Sahlgren, som också säger att "byn ligger på en bergshöjd vid en bäck".
I början av 1600-talet köpte köpman Erik Larsson, adlad von der Linde (död 1636), två hemman i byn. År 1689 blev dessa två gårdar frälsehemman och de åtog sig då att hålla båtsman. Det var för Bällsta rote, som Beckomberga var skyldigt att hålla båtsmanstorp. Under 1600-talet ägdes Beckomberga av familjen Natt och Dag. En änka till framlidne båtsman Matz Beckman omnämns i ett Bromma sockenstämmoprotokoll den 15 februari 1714.
Under 1700-talet förvärvades gårdarna i Beckomberga av familjen David Stierncrona i Åkeshov, och förblev så till år 1862, då det köptes av Anders Petter Löfström, som senare grundade Sundbybergs stad.
Ännu på 1800-talet bestod Beckomberga av de tre gårdarna, Södergården, Mellangården och Norrgården. 1898 sålde Anders Petter Löfström gården till tobaksfabrikören, "snuskungen" Knut Ljunglöf. Knut Ljunglöf inköpte således gårdarna. Han byggde förvaltarbostad, statarlänga och mönsterladugård i tegel, vilka alla låg under Beckomberga sjukhusområde. Ljunglöfs ladugård blev sjukhusets målar- och snickeriverkstäder. Ljunglöf ägde också Blackebergs Gård och Vällingby Gård samt Råcksta Gård. Råcksta och Beckomberga köptes av staden 1927.
Inom sjukhusområdet finns även en milsten vid landsvägen, som är en rest av den gamla vägen från Bromma kyrka mot Vällingby.
Beckomberga båtsmanstorp
Beckomberga båtsmanstorp låg vid gamla Flystavägen, vid nuvarande Spångavägen, strax intill nuvarande Hjortronvägen och hörde under Beckomberga i stadsdelen Beckomberga.
Beckomberga höll båtsmanstorpet för Bällsta rote. Beckomberga båtsmanstorp finns upptaget i 1817 års jordebok. På "1829 års Brommakarta" ligger torpet cirka 200 meter västnordväst om Beckomberga gård, under vilket torpet låg. Båtsmanstorpet ska ha legat kvar där till mitten på 1800-talet. Det revs då, men ersattes dessförinnan av ett nytt torp väster om gården. Torpet revs omkring 1945. I husförhörsprotokoll 1824 omnämns båtsman Lars Olsson Bäck med hustru Stina Jansdotter. Den siste båtsmannen n:o 54 Anders Gustaf Eriksson Bäckman var från Munktorp. År 1867 anställdes Bäckman som båtsman för Beckomberga gård. Båtsman Anders Gustaf Bäckman bodde enligt husförslängd 1876-1880 i torpet. Han avgick 1898 vid 55 års ålder med nära 31 tjänsteår. Bäckman dog 1932, 89 år gammal, och ligger begravd på Bromma kyrkogård.
1885 började båtsmanstorpet att avvecklas. År 1898 köptes gårdarna av tobaksfabrikören Knut Ljunglöf, som lät riva de gamla gårdarna och uppföra nya hus. Stockholms stad köpte upp området av Robert Ljunglöf 1927 och införlivade det med staden.
I mitten av 1800-talet revs torpet, som ovan nämnts, men ersattes av ett nytt väster om gården. Båtsmanstorpet vid Beckomberga flyttades strax efter sekelskiftet från byplatsen in på Spångas marker, där Råcksta sjukhus nu ligger. Det torpet revs omkring 1945.
Egendomen Beckomberga
Anders Petter Löfström köpte Beckomberga 1862. "Snuskungen", grosshandlaren Knut Ljunglöf förvärvade egendomen 1898. Sumpmarker dikades ut i området. Ett brett dike grävdes från Kyrksjön till Råcksta träsk. Det går fortfarande att se diket väster om Bällstavägen. Nya hus uppfördes. Anders Petter Löfström köpte 1862 Mariehäll i Bromma, dit han flyttade med sin familj. 1864 arrenderade Löfström Sundbybergs gård och 1869 köpte han Sundbybergs gård och Duvbo. Han ägde eller arrenderade dessutom egendomarna Beckomberga, Råcksta, en gård i Flysta, delar av Huvudsta samt ett antal gårdar på andra platser i Sverige. Knut Ljunglöf inköpte 1861 stora områden i Spånga och i Blackeberg. Han lät riva Blackebergs torp och byggde ett större hus och stall samt Kvarnvikens kvarn och såg. 1890–1893 uppförde han Ljunglöfska slottet, en stor villa byggd efter ritningar av Gustaf Lindgren.
Bebyggelse
Mentalsjukhuset
Efter att området hade köpts av Stockholm stad bestämdes att ett mentalsjukhus skulle byggas där i början av 1930-talet. Beckomberga sinnessjukhus byggdes 1929–1935 av arkitekten Carl Westman, som ritade flertalet av byggnaderna på området. Den första avdelningen öppnade 1932. Som mest rymde sjukhuset 2 000 patienter. Sjukhuset var en tid Sveriges största mentalsjukhus. Området anlades med hus och park i ett symmetriskt mönster. En viktig del av patienternas behandling var skötseln av den fina parkanläggningen.
Sjukhuset lades ned 1995. Efter psykiatrireformen i mitten av 1990-talet lades sjukhuset ner, tanken var då att psykiskt sjuka skulle integreras med resten av samhället istället för att sitta på vårdinrättningar. Vissa av byggnaderna används numera till annan sjukvård, andra till friskola och de äldre sjukhusbyggnaderna har byggts om till bostäder.
Nära det gamla sjukhuset finns Bromma sjukhus, som är ett närsjukhus, en satellit till Sankt Görans sjukhus. Numera har den del av Beckomberga sjukhus som tillkom på 1970-talet, och kallades Medicinskt Centrum, bytt namn till Bromma sjukhus och inhyser annan sjukvård, främst geriatrisk vård sjukvård, som bedrivs av Stockholms sjukhem.
Nyare bebyggelse
Sedan mitten av 2000-talet började de gamla sjukhusbyggnaderna att byggas om till bostäder. Bostäder av varierande karaktär har växt upp i Beckomberga parkområde. Här finns flerfamiljshus, parhus, radhus, studentbostäder och seniorbostäder. Många av de gamla sjukhusbyggnaderna, som var ritade av arkitekt Carl Westman, har nu byggts om till studentbostäder, seniorboende, bostadsrätter och hyresrätter. Man har bevarat husens ursprungliga karaktär så mycket som möjligt. Husen ligger runt den gamla sjukhusparken, Klockhusparken, som är kvar sedan sjukhustiden. I mitten av Klockhusparken ligger en kulturminnesmärkt paviljong, Gröna huset, som under sjukhustiden hade en samlingssal och användes till olika gemensamma aktiviteter. Gröna huset ska nu bli kulturhus. Några av byggföretagen, som har projekterat ombyggnationen runt den stora parken är Riksbyggen, Besqab, Viedekke och NCC.
Klockhusparken i Beckomberga
Klockhusparken i Beckomberga är till stor del en park med gräsmattor och lövträd. Kring det gamla sjukhusområdet ligger moderna flerfamiljshus och skolor.
I Klockhusparken finns det en skulptur av konstnären Johan Petterson som heter Hästens resa (2016). Skulpturen skapades till minne av Beckombergas historia 1927-2017.
I parken finns även en Litterär skylt, Det litterära Stockholm, med citat ur Sara Stridsbergs bok Beckomberga: ode till min familj (2014). Stora delar av bokens handling utspelar sig i Beckomberga skjuhus, där författaren själv tillbringade släktvisiter som ung. Boken nominerades till Augustpriset 2014 och boken har även gjorts om till en pjäs på Dramaten (2015), där pjäsen heter Beckomberga. Skylten sattes upp i parken i augusti 2017.
Skolor
Här finns den kommunala Beckombergaskolan och friskolan Raoul Wallenbergskolan samt förskola. Beckombergaskolan är för elever i förskoleklass-åk 6 med cirka 510 elever. Raoul Wallenbergskolan ligger i en kulturskyddad byggnad. Skolan har hälften av sin undervisning på engelska. Raoul Wallenbergs skola, RWS, Bromma, startade 2006 på Beckombergavägen 316 i Beckomberga. Här finns även en förskola, Raoul Wallenbergs förskola, RWF, Bromma, som startade 2010 på Beckombergavägen 314, en F-9-skola med drygt 540 elever. Förskolan har cirka 130 barn och ligger i de kulturmärkta lokalerna i den anrika sjukhusparken.
Hösten 2012 startade Montessoriförskolan Planeten AB på Söderberga Allé 28 i Söderberga Gård. Montessoripedagogik är en pedagogik som har sin grund i Maria Montessoris observationer av barn. Den bygger på en övertygelse att barnet strävar efter att utveckla sig självt och att denna utveckling följer olika sensitiva perioder. Förskolan etablerades med syfte att ge barn en trygg start i livet genom att erbjuda en förskola med en lite mindre barngrupp, med stor personaltäthet och framför allt genom att ha Montessoripedagogiken i centrum. Montessoriförskolan Bromma Planeten vid Söderberga Allé har plats för 54 barn i åldrarna 1 till 6 år, i 4 avdelningar.
Bilder av skolorna, skolgården och förskola
Söderberga Park
Söderberga Park i nordväst bebyggdes åren 1991-1993 med flerbostadshus. Området kommer att exploateras ytterligare.
Övrig bebyggelse
Den som passerar korsningen Bällstavägen-Spångavägen lägger snabbt märke till de ovanliga "runda husen" eller cylinderformade bostadshusen. De ritades 1952 av Nils Sterner på Stockholms stads fastighetskontor och byggdes 1953-1954 som personalbostäder för sjukhuspersonalen. Längre bort ligger området Söderberga Gård som byggdes av HSB i slutet av 1980-talet.
Demografi
År 2017 hade stadsdelen cirka 5 600 invånare, varav cirka 28,9 procent med utländsk bakgrund.
Referenser
Källor
Stockholms gatunamn, 1992.
Nils Ringstedt, Brommas skyltade kulturminnen, en kulturhistorisk vägvisare, 2013, sidorna 126-127. .
Nils Ringstedt, Torpen i Bromma, Historik, lägen och lämningar, Bromma Hembygdsförenings skrift nr 3, 2010, sidorna, 27, 50-51.
Nils Ringstedt, Bromma före historien, 2008, sidorna 171 | 5,443 |
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Rating: two-point-five
The movie was shown in local cinemas on the 27th of September but because I won movie preview tickets, I was able to watch it a day earlier. How did Hae Gyo fare as the legendary courtesan?
Jin Yi is famous for her beauty and wits. Being playful, she once disguised as a man to sneak out of home but is seen through her disguise by several lustful men outside a brothel. Luckily,<|fim_middle|> considered a star and not an actor.
Hwang Jin Yi was born in 1520. She was the most famous courtesan who had wits and beauty. Her father was an aristocrat and her mother was a blind courtesan. She continued her mother's profession to accept China's cultural education, law and philosophy. She was also good in playing musical instruments, composing songs and dancing. She was popular and loved a court official's son when she was 15.
But she was the daughter of a slave so her marriage was disapproved. She later loved another aristocrat but the same happened again. She was very independent and attractive to become a symbol of Korean culture. Her pathetic life became famous novels in North and South Korea in 2002 and 2004.
This movie nearly became the first movie to be shown in North Korea. But because their requirement was strict, it could only be shown at the tourists' sites. Those who assisted at the King Gung Mountain shooting would be the first few North Koreans to watch this movie.
Before it was shown, the movie had the fortune of VIP treatment. A poster with Hae Gyo's photograph was hung at Seoul public building to attract all citizens.
It was like "Memoirs of a Geisha" combining "Robin Hood" and "Dangerous Liaisons" together. Unlike "Untold Scandal" which is enjoyable, this movie lacks the sparks. This production is messy. Maybe I had expected too much after watching 4 R(A) Japanese movies from the Japanese Movie Festival before watching this movie. (The Japanese actresses are hot and daring in their roles.)
It is a tragic drama weepie, and doesn't look like a big screen flick. Ji Tae, although okay as the manly rebel who revolts against the unjust ruling class, lacks the chemistry with Hae Gyo. He looks listless all the way. This 2h movie is a big test to my patience. It is so slow that I can predict the ending quickly.
I can't relate myself with Korean culture. That is why I often stay away from ancient Korean dramas. I didn't even enjoy "Jewel in the Palace" as I find the part of a Ming official tasting the Manchurian feast ridiculous. This movie proves no better too.
Is there a need to be a courtesan since she is a rich man's daughter? Is the ending so drastic as her mother is a slave? Unless she thinks naively that a gisaeng only needs to sing and dance to entertain men. Since Jin Yi is prepared to be a 'hooker', why present herself to be so 'honourable' to resist the beast treatments from men?! I simply don't understand this.
Why isn't the courtesan as determined as she sounds to be? She makes a great statement but never lives up to her name in this movie. I was looking to an anti-climax but sadly, this movie offers none. I find the way Jin Yi witnessing Nom Yi walking into this doom stupid. Well, even though there wasn't any handphone during the period era, she should shout to get his attention instead of fainting!!
And why can't his henchmen be resourceful enough to find ways to save him from prison since they are so capable of thefts? I simply can't stomach this.
I must admit that it is a pleasure to observe Hae Gyo's flawless skin. She tried hard to be an ancient maiden. But I don't find her seductive enough even with the thick make-up. She still looks innocent and is stingy in sexy scenes. It doesn't help with her pixie face – the director has made a wrong choice.
Sukting's ratings :
On acting : **1/2 (Scale of 5)
On story : ** (Scale of 5)
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DVD (Region 3) | Nom Yi rescues her in time. Nom Yi is her family housekeeper who is secretly in love with her. A man is captivated by Jin Yi's beauty and she writes her name on a piece of cloth to pass to him as a gift.
On her way home after a temple visit, Jin Yi notices that Nom Yi is involved in an old courtesan's funeral. Her trainer tells her that it is the custom to have loud and nice music played during the session. Later, Jin Yi learns that her engagement with her fiancé is called off. Jin Yi's maid, Yee Jin, is nearly raped by her brother and she reports this to her mother.
Her mother sighs and says that her brother is a replica of Jin Yi's father. Her father had raped her maid, who is Jin Yi's real birth mother, and impregnated her. Jin Yi's mother left the household after her birth and became a courtesan but she often comes secretly to look at her daughter from the outside. Jin Yi is brought up as a rich man's daughter but her parentage is leaked out and this ruins her engagement.
Jin Yi is devastated. She then realizes that the dead courtesan is her mother and thanks Nom Yi for his help. (This is a big loophole – his young mistress doesn't know about her past but how does he find out?) Later, the man dies and the other villagers sing a song about Jin Yi's parentage to force her to come out. Nom Yi is about to go out to beat these people with his men but she stops them. She appears and covers his coffin with a wedding gown, indicating that she is willing to marry him.
She doesn't want to be like her mother. (Soon we know how wrong she is.) There are 3 routes for Jin Yi now. One is to get on with her present status and marry an old rich man as his concubine in the future. Two is to become a slave. Three is to become a courtesan. She chooses the last one but wants to give her chastity to Nom Yi. (Hae Gyo bares her back but it is still not as steamy as I expected.) She wants men to subdue to her in the future. (But this is only empty talk.)
Nom Yi is guilt-stricken after spending the night with her. He reveals that he was the one who revealed her parentage to her fiancé's family, so that she can be with him. He never expected to bring so much sorrow to her and begs for her forgiveness. Although Jin Yi doesn't blame him, she doesn't trust anyone except him to be her procurer in the brothel she is going to. (Is she sure that she isn't blaming him? This is the worst punishment or torture for a man, isn't it?!)
Her gisaeng life starts and many other courtesans are jealous of her because of her talents and also of her background. On the first day she receives her guests, one hits her brutally and she faints when she retaliates. (How can this happen since she has been set to be a courtesan?) When the man wants to hurt her further, Nom Yi holds off the man's arm and carries her out. Overpowered by rage, he castrates the man. Nom Yi loves her too much and leaves to become a bandit. Still, he gets his friend, Ju Tong, to take care of her.
Jin Yi and Magistrate Kim play a dangerous liaisons game of luring virtuous men into vice. Kim admires her poetry talents. She refuses to sleep with Kim but agrees to seduce Magistrate Bak. Bak doesn't join the others for merry making but only reads in his room. He gets to see Jin Yi in mourning clothes and talking to Ju Tong in the garden. He can't take his eyes off her face. Later in the night, Jin Yi sets his bed. Bak can't control himself so he holds her hand to sleep with her.
The next day, Kim arranges his friends for a book gathering. All are shocked to know that he invites Jin Yi. Bak is angry when Jin Yi sends a letter to tell how she wishes to be with him. He wants to chase her away when she arrives. But she lifts her skirt and shows the handwriting that he has written before sleeping with her the last night! That puts him into shame as she wins the prize – a book she wishes to own all along. (It is the only scene that I enjoy throughout the movie.)
Kim asks her to seduce another old scholar. She goes to him at night and requests to stay over. The old man approves but Jin Yi later respects him as he shows knowledge and also has no evil designs towards her. He is a real gentleman who can see through her feelings, advising her to forget her greed and hatred.
The court's wealth is missing and Nom Yi is blamed for the theft. He returns to clear his name by discovering the heist to protest that he is framed for it. Still, Kim murders the culprits and demands for his head. The court seeks his hideout and injures him although he manages to get away. Jin Yi worries for him and tends to his wound, wanting him to get away. He escapes to an island with his men.
Jin Yi arranges Yee Jin to marry Ju Tong since they are in love. Magistrate Kim locks Ju Tong up to torture him as he finds out Nom Yi's connection with Jin Yi from another courtesan. Jin Yi sleeps with Kim for Ju Tong's release (This scene is really nothing as she only bares her shoulders and legs.) Although Kim longs for her to stay longer, she refuses. There are 3 things that Kim can't win over – the clouds, the old scholar and her.
Upon her return home, she learns that Nom Yi has just left and is going to Kim's place. She hurries there but is too late – only to see him walking through the doors, surrounded by Kim's men. (Stupid man – he should know where she is since she isn't at home. Why waste her efforts to make such a big sacrifice?!)
She faints due to shock and visits him in prison for the last time. He requests her not to witness his execution. His happiest days are spent with her. His head is hung at the gate for 3 days after the execution but she manages to bring his ashes to the high mountains to scatter them in the wind.
The movie started filming in June 2006. It took 4 years of groundwork, seven months in production and cost 10 billion won to make. The director took great pains to transfer a novel into the movie script.
But within 4 months, the television version was shown. Many compared the 2 versions. A survey with 3400 people showed that more than half thought Ha Ji Won fitted the image better. They criticized Hae Gyo for being too short. Hae Gyo was disappointed – she worked 12 years in showbiz and this was the first time that people commented on her height. It affected her so much that she cried when reading the report.
Hae Gyo explained that the focus on both versions were different so that wasn't much competition. Both actresses did not mean to compete with each other – only the newspapers wanted them to do so. Ji Won turned up for the movie preview in Seoul and even exchanged greetings with her then. Rain appeared on the shooting set to give her support. Some rumoured them to be a couple but Rain insisted that they were only good friends.
Hae Gyo described this movie different from other courtesan movies. They were not that interested in Hwang Jin Yi's beauty. They wanted to present her secretive side – her thinking. That was why the phrase for it was 'the 21st century woman living in the 16th century'.
Hae Gyo had never acted in a periodic drama before. She spent 2 years to reduce her weight, 3 months to practice the zither, dance, calligraphy and ancient gestures.
But her greatest challenge was the bed scenes. She had often given others a sweet and innocent image. But still, her intimate scenes with Yoo Ji Tae were shot with minimal crew members. It was categorized as M16 in Korean cinemas. The trailer had her saying 'I am giving you my chastity. Please treat me as a courtesan. Where can you find a man not to hug a courtesan?' This line became the talk of the town.
Nom Yi lives and dies for his love but Ji Tae says that he isn't as brave. He even finds his act unbelievable. He cannot be so loyal for love. These men simply do not know what bravery is to pursue their target blindly. He even finds the way Nom Yi fights shameful. He must be patient and have self-control to win against all odds.
The 186cm tall Ji Tae practised using the spears and sabres. He also learned archery to give a perfect performance. He only spent 3 days to complete all the fighting scenes. Even the stunts director was impressed.
Although he was the male lead, his scenes were not many. Many told him that he should not be involved in a movie which only showed his face 70% of the movie. He disagreed with this, he only wanted to act in a movie that had a good storyline. Otherwise, he would be | 1,953 |
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Victoria is a pretty city along the waterfront of Inner Harbour at the historic Fairmont Hotel and BC Legislature building and BC Royal Museum. I had been to Victoria twice before in the past 16 years, once in June and once in August to see the city in full bloom. A cool Pacific marine climate with 35 to 40 inches of rain per year is a great garden environment.
Victoria gives Amsterdam a run for the number of tulips seen in April.
My first task in Victoria was finding a market and that turned out to be about a 15 to 20 minute walk away, past Inner Harbour and down the road by the BC Legislature.
Victoria was lovely at dusk in late April.
"I might be birdwatching," was my reply, but I really did not have much of a follow-up. Bird watching had not been on my mind.
Turned out birdwatching was something I spent hours doing on Vancouver Island. I observed more bald eagle behavior in several locations than I have ever experienced in my life where I simply stopped the car, looked around the trees and skies and spotted eagles. I saw an eagle before we arrived on Vancouver Island on the ferry.
"You should walk through Beacon Hill Park," said the Victoria woman before we boarded the ferry and she went on to describe in detail several places where I could find bird nests of owls and other species. Since I had never heard of Beacon Hill Park and I was not writing any directions, her usable intelligence for me was limited to 'visit Beacon Hill Park' while in Victoria.
And I did. The location of the Quality Inn Downtown Inner Harbour Victoria was a five minute walk to Beacon Hill Park. That hotel has a very good location at a relatively low price for Victoria hotels.
The Pacific Northwest is the land of totem poles. The<|fim_middle|> entrance of Victoria Harbour. The Beacon Hill Park website says the park history dates from 1858 when James Douglas, Governor of Vancouver Island set aside the land. In 1882 Beacon Hill Park was established from 200 acres of land. Beacon Hill Park was named after a pair of masts strategically placed on a hill to act as a beacon and navigational aid to mariners approaching Victoria's inner harbour.
Beacon Hill is named for navigational signals on a high point of the park that looks over the Juan de Fuca Strait and to the Olympic Mountains of Washington State.
The loud sound of birds led me into the woods to find the Beacon Hill Children's Farm.
Peacocks apparently wander around Beacon Hill Park during the day. All the ones I saw were in the farm area, but obviously peacocks on the roof of the farm building means they could fly over the fence.
There were several kinds of farm animals and cute goats and small horses, chickens and roosters. Many peacocks seemed content to hang about the other farm animals.
Pretty flowers are all fine and nice for city park life. I had an itching to get out of Victoria and see some big trees around Vancouver Island. Beacon Hall Park at 200 acres is about 25% of the size of Central Park.
I found myself in a place called Garry Oak Meadows. I'd never heard of a Garry Oak tree before. The park land was originally covered by Garry Oak trees.
The instant karma aspect of travel is the people you unexpectedly meet and the knowledge you gain by listening to people. Some stranger approached me at the ferry terminal and for no particular reason tells me I should go to Beacon Hill Park in Victoria.
That old adage for children, "Don't talk to strangers" does not apply to travelers. | abundance of large trees allowed great wood carvings. On the east side of the Royal British Columbia Museum are several totem poles. Beacon Hill Park is one block from the Royal BC Museum.
I didn't know what to expect and the initial trails I walked on provided no indication there was anything but hiking trails in the park.
Beacon Hill Park has an old history, but there are different versions to read. Victoria was established in 1843. Navigational beacons were placed on Beacon Hill in 1846 to mark the position of Brotchie Ledge, a submerged reef near the | 125 |
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Over the past week, In These Times spoke to nine organizations from Arizona to Georgia to Pennsylvania, each of which played a major role in turning key counties and states blue. Together, these groups showed how Black and brown communities increasingly ignored by the Democratic Party in favor of white suburbanites can defeat Trumpism by swinging entire states. Although the president managed to increase his vote share with people of color, these organizations' achievements reinforce the importance of mobilizing low-income voters with campaigns that address their material conditions.
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For decades, the Democratic Party has invested in pre-election canvassing that allows volunteers to speak directly to swing-state voters about their candidate of choice. Due to the pandemic, however, the Joe Biden campaign did not approve this kind of door-to-door outreach until October, focusing instead on television advertisements, text messages, emails and virtual events. There to pick up the slack were groups like Unite Here, which began its canvassing in the summer and completed its work without a single one of its 1700 volunteers contracting COVID-19.
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By establishing relationships with community members that will last well beyond the 2020 election, organizations like SONG Power, a grassroots effort focused on the South, offer a powerful model for base-building. "We need to be oriented toward slow and respectful work," says organizing lead Jade Brooks. "How do we combine that approach with an electoral cycle that's all about [immediate] impact? [Part of] the answer is to invest in building community-based and rooted organizations that are going to stick around…long after the elections and will invest in the leadership of Black and brown leaders who have been doing the work [rather than] consultants."
This is precisely the work SONG Power carried out with Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities in South Carolina and Georgia. Many of these people had never voted before, but outreach including the distribution of food, coats and literature helped bring them into the electoral process.
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on reservations.
OJ Semans Sr., Co-founder of Four Directions, trained and hired Native people across the country to conduct voter outreach in their communities. He estimates that volunteers registered 2,500 new voters in the Navajo Nation, which helped boost turnout and played a major role in delivering key counties to Joe Biden in Arizona. "This is one of the only elections where I've seen tribal organizations united in helping Natives get to the polls," he said. Semans is now in Georgia to train local tribe members ahead of the state's runoff elections.
While Black turnout in Georgia was up over 2016, it nonetheless represented a lower share of the electorate, and data indicates that Biden made some of his biggest gains with moderates in the Atlanta suburbs. For Brooks, this underscores the danger of drafting centrist candidates who will not address the needs of marginalized communities. The future of the Democratic Party, she contends, depends on its ability to attract voters with a bold, progressive agenda that will produce the kind of systemic change that has long been the goal of organizations like SONG Power, Mijente and the GLAHR Action Network. "This collaboration has been built over years of connection and organizing together," says Brooks. "We have the kind of trust that's only forged in struggle."
Whether or not they can deliver Democrats control of the Senate via December's runoff elections remains to be seen, but these organizations have already succeeded in ousting two local sheriffs whose deputies worked in close collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport undocumented immigrants for infractions as minor as speeding. Recounting a recent call celebrating these victories, Brooks says SONG Power members were "crying" tears of joy about the possibility of eventually ending money bail and "melting ICE." Meanwhile in North Carolina, where many undocumented communities fall under the jurisdiction of the same ICE office, groups like Siembra are knocking on doors to ensure residents know their rights in the event of retaliatory raids.
In Arizona, the past 10 years of organizing against draconian anti-immigrant policies provided the infrastructure to turn out Black, Latinx and Native American voters at a scale that proved decisive. Alexa-Rio Osaki, communications director for the progressive advocacy group Our Voice Our Vote, Arizona, has seen firsthand how these violent policies galvanized a new generation of organizers. "Accountability [means more than] going on Twitter and yelling," she observes. "Through the power of organizing, we have to show that there are consequences for being on the [wrong] side of history."
These Black and brown-led movements are now setting their sights on states where right-wing power remains entrenched. Earlier this year, SONG Power launched a "Crack Graham" campaign to unseat South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham that featured "Hoe Downs" emphasizing the joy in collective action. While the campaign was ultimately unsuccessful, organizers believe they were able to "seed the ground for a New South" by building relationships with rural Black, Latinx and queer communities.
As Trump's presidency draws to an end, the incoming Biden administration will be forced to contend with a progressive movement gaining strength and momentum across the country. One Pennsylvania is redirecting its resources toward preventing an eviction crisis, combating wage theft and ensuring workers receive their paid sick days, while members of Pennsylvania Stands Up in Lehigh County are strategizing on how to defund local police departments and cultivate progressive candidates for future elections.
While autopsies of the 2020 election have only just begun, the impact of organizations like Mijente is undeniable. So too is their importance moving forward, especially as Trump's gains with people of color have shattered the illusion that demographics are destiny. "All of these ideas of returning to what was considered regular under Obama was won through organizing," cautions the organization's senior campaign organizer, Jacinta Gonzalez. "It was won because communities fought deportation cases, fought for local and state policies and took to the streets and spoke to their elected officials."
Only time will tell whether Democrats heed her warning. But if they don't, there's an entire movement ready to hold the party's leadership to account.
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Recap: The IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2019
Last week saw the Sentinel team head to Washington, DC, for the IAPP's Global Privacy Summit 2019. For me, it was the 11th I've attended in the past 12 years — but notably the first time I've been an exhibitor, as opposed to an IAPP staffer.
I always wondered how much value exhibitors got from IAPP conferences — are people really interested in what you're selling, or do they just want the free ipad? Well, I can now attest that a lot of attendees are truly struggling to manage privacy within their organizations; and if it sounds like you can help, they're very interested. There are some shell-shocked privacy pros in this world for whom the Sentinel message of "get off the hamster wheel of compliance" resonated quite well.
I spoke with a few U.S.-based privacy pros who thought they'd squeaked by because they don't handle European data, only to find themselves firmly in the grip of CCPA and a little overwhelmed. (A "do-not-sell-my-personal-information button," really?!?) With copy-cat proposals springing up across the country and serious talk of a federal law, they're no longer feeling quite so lucky.
But there's hope on the horizon for those privacy pros: The exhibit hall was chock-a-block full of vendors eager to solve all their privacy challenges. (And yet still, so many confessions of spreadsheets and word docs!) From my layperson's view, I would say it's the most exhibitors ever at Summit — i.e., the largest exhibit hall ever at the largest privacy conference ever, held by the largest association of privacy professionals ever (the IAPP hit 50,000 members recently). Not bad. And not surprising either with the complex<|fim_middle|> pretty exciting. Having two teenage boys, her thought leadership has guided me in conversations and decisions about how to tackle the challenge of kids and social media for years. And Margaret Atwood, one of my all-time favorite authors, in the final keynote session was thought-provoking in her questions around surveillance in today's world. Another exceptional component of the conference deserving of mention is that all the keynote speakers were women. Bravo, IAPP.
The team at Sentinel is looking forward to the IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium in a few weeks. If you're going and would like to schedule a demo of our new privacy program management tool, Ethos, email Aaron Stevens.
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It's likely we'll be saying the same thing next year too, as a Research and Markets report predicts growth at a CAGR of 13.7% in the privacy management software market, meaning by 2027 it will be a $1,585.8M industry.
As usual, the IAPP put on one heck of a show. Kicking it all off with my own personal privacy hero danah boyd was | 100 |
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Since the inception of subacute care to provide comprehensive, cost-effective inpatient care that bridges the gap between the acute care setting and in-home services, units have been integrated into hospitals and nursing facilities as well as freestanding centers nationwide. At The Allendale Nursing Home, established in 1967 as the first licensed center of its kind in New Jersey, the escalating demand for subacute care prompted a renewed commitment to launch a broad renovation and service enhancement project focused on the addition of short-term care. Recently completed, the new Medicare-certified Rehabilitation Center, whose 120 beds are dually approved for short- and long-term use, now offers people of all ages an opportunity to recover more fully from an illness or surgical procedure using the latest treatment modalities. These include administration of IV therapy, moderate to intensive rehabilitative services using the most advanced exercise systems and traditional equipment, and providing complex therapeutic wound management. | for someone who has an acute illness, injury, or exacerbation of a disease process. It is goal-oriented treatment rendered immediately after, or instead of, acute hospitalization to treat one or more specific active complex medical conditions or to administer one or more technically complex treatments, in the context of a person's underlying long-term conditions and overall situation.
Although this decade-old characterization of subacute care still rings true, the service and the environment in which it is provided is evolving rapidly to meet the medical needs and lifestyle demands of a new generation of patients. Since this care level is not dependent on high-tech monitoring or complex diagnostic procedures, coordinated, multidisciplinary services concentrate on preparing the patient for a return to their home or less intensive care environment.
Based on the long-term skilled nursing care model, the subacute team is comprised of various disciplines. Individual care plans are developed in collaboration with each patient's personal physician as well as in-house medical staff; registered nurses and certified nurse aides; occupational, physical and speech therapists; and dietary and therapeutic recreation specialists. A new addition to the care team includes the appointment of an organizational ombudsman who serves as a vital resource and independent advocate for residents and their families. This team member also works collaboratively with the entire professional and nursing staff to preserve care standards and a high staff-to-resident ratio. At The Allendale Community for Mature Living, a three-tier senior living campus, each of the distinct levels of living maintains its own dedicated staff and an organizational ombudsman.
In contrast to long-term care, subacute care is outcome-oriented and designed to be therapeutic for a defined period of time. According to AHCA, the average length of stay ranges from a few days to up to three months, depending on the diagnosis. Typical conditions treated at subacute centers include joint replacement, orthopedic fractures, cardiac rehabilitation, post-chemotherapy, IV therapy, and a wide range of neurological diseases. As a result, desirable skills for subacute care professionals include a balanced mix of medical/surgical or critical | 413 |
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This is usually our Italian day. The main pasta dish is accompanied by a lettuce salad & garlic bread.
This is most commonly meat loaf with a baked potato and vegetable, but not every Thursday! Sometimes it's one of our favorites…. beef stroganoff!
Friday could be anything…… hot beef or pork sandwich, mashed potatoes & gravy with a vegetable, chicken & noodles over mashed potatoes, a vegetable and a roll, or a pork chop sandwich with fries with some kind of salad or a dessert! During Lent we do try to have a fish specials on Fridays.
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Startup Toolkit: September 2016
This month's roundup of the best hardware, software and services for your startup.
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New startups form limited liability companies (LLCs) and raise funding every day. Each startup needs a laundry list of technology to get up and running in a modern office setting. Luckily, we test plenty of new hardware, software and services in the PCMag Labs each month to figure out the products best suited for your business (so you don't have to). This month's recommended startup tools span everything from social media management and analytics tools, network monitoring tools, encryption tools and expense tracking tools to laptops, mice, scanners and more. By using the following hardware, software and services, you can arm your startup with productivity from the get-go, so you can start generating revenue instead of returning to investors in a few months to ask for more funding.
AxCrypt Premium
Encryption isn't an option anymore, it's a necessity. To ensure your file and password encryption is up to snuff, check out AxCrypt Premium. This cheap, easy-to-use encryption software handles editing of encrypted files and can secure file deletion and online password storage, and even offers public key cryptography for encrypted file sharing. AxCrypt also offers Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) cryptography, a feature held by few other tools.
Brand24
Social listening and influencer identification is core to growing your brand's social following and online marketing efforts, but a startup shouldn't be paying exorbitantly for it. For a reasonable price, Brand24 has a comprehensive set of core listening, mention tracking and influencer analytics features -- along with a clean, newly revamped user interface (UI) that includes Slack integration for better collaboration.
Certify Now
Every business needs to track expenses. Certify Now is a well-rounded expense tracking product that suits a small to midsize business (SMB) environment while marrying administrative and finance demands with a mobile user's need for end-to-end expense reporting simplicity.
Datadog is a great network monitoring and infrastructure management tool for companies looking for a real-time monitoring tool, particularly those with the analysis and development chops to get the most out of the data being captured. For a startup that wants out-of-the-box log aggregation, Datadog provides instant return on investment (ROI) with great dashboard functionality and a host of application programming interfaces (APIs).
Business intelligence (BI) is key to building a modern business strategy and making informed decisions. Microsoft Power BI has a large following and support ecosystem for an extremely powerful tool with a large selection of data sources and extensive visualizations. It's a no-brainer.
Buffer for Business
Buffer for Business has top-notch social media management and publishing capabilities, with an intuitive drag-and-drop post queue. As a startup itself,<|fim_middle|> cases of early-onset carpal tunnel syndrome because your employees' wrists will actually be in a natural position when gripping a mouse.
Visioneer RoadWarrior X3
Scanners are still a necessary expense when it comes to important business documents. The Visioneer RoadWarrior X3 is inexpensive, compact and lightweight, with a capable software suite and high speeds for a manual-feed scanner. Take whatever old scanner you're currently using out back, give it a good 'ol Office Space beatdown, and get your startup one of these bad boys.
Startup Tool of the Month
Pwnie Express Pwn Pro
Take your startup's network security seriously. The Pwnie Express Pwn Pro gives IT managers a bird's-eye view of corporate networks and a remote foothold for security management and penetration testing. It's a fantastic piece of hardware, if you're using it for the right reasons. It gives you complete network visibility, with a remote presence for centralized IT operations. Plus, it's easy to use with great network data visualizations.
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How to Transition Your Team to Remote Work | Buffer is continually adding new features and support to its product. The company recently added Instagram support to it plus expanded analytics and engagement metrics. Combined with Brand24, it's a powerful combination of social publishing and listening tools to curate and expand your startup's social brand.
Acer Chromebook 14 for Work
For the business user who needs all-day battery life and serious durability, the Acer Chromebook 14 for Work is one of the more powerful Chrome OS laptops we've seen. Its price is firmly in Windows-laptop territory, but the good-looking Chromebook delivers some flash, is powerful enough for most business tasks, and can last more than 10 hours on a single battery charge.
Evoluent VerticalMouse C Right Wired
The Evoluent VerticalMouse C Right Wired is a mouse that finally makes ergonomic sense. It's got a comfortable, ergonomic grip; a sleek chrome design, and most importantly, your startup will be dealing with fewer | 196 |
Duck Game Discussion (Nintendo Switch) [game]
Duck Game on the Switch
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Welcome to the official discussion thread for Duck Game on the Switch!
To start, please add this game to your log, add it to your collection (if applicable), and (when you are ready) rate it using the link above!
Hello. Do you have time to talk about Duck Game?
This is an amazing port of an amazing multiplayer game. It's a quacktastic 2D party fighter/shooter with tons of unique weapons which stands at the very top of the Switch multiplayer heap, along with Smash Bros. and Towerfall.
The single-player arcade challenges are more on the tutorial side, but they're still pretty engaging. And freaking BALLS HARD, if you're going for the Platinum. Like, F-Zero GX Story Mode and Blast Corps Platinum hard.
But don't buy it for the single-player. Buy it for the endless multiplayer goodness. Local is amazing, the online play works pretty well so far, and they even threw in the level creator from the PC version! All for only $12! It's like they're paying you!
In conclusion, Duck Game is currently the highest rated game on Negative World. Long may it reign!
VC titles not playable on the Gamepad screen?
Zelda shootout!
Third-parties on Wii - is there any hope, at this point?
Top 5 titles on each of the systems that you've owned?
Your zealous and possible insane recommendation intrigues me.
You lied! This isn't $12, it's $13! That's way too much!
Are there any team or co-op modes, or is it all free-for-all VS?
Duck Game is awesome, it's basically in that 2D weapons based brawler genre that Towerfall is in but I maybe like it more? Or not? I don't know, they're both awesome! The main difference here is there are way more weapon types.
Bought it the moment I saw it had released. And I'm glad to have it on a system that I actually play. Too bad it came out so late in the school year though, won't really get to play it with the students in my club much until after summer.
Online play sounds neat... definitely will check that out.
And a stage builder? Awesome!
Insane, but sincere! Sinsane.
If you ever play competitive games with others, this is a must-buy.
Everyone pick it up, so that we can play online! (And I can win<|fim_middle|>(Which sheds feathers every time it jumps. And curses when somebody steals its gun.)
@carlosrox
So is there any way to play online with friends? It seems like you can only play random people?!
@Zero That's a shame. Perhaps if you both search for a game at the same time, you'll get matched up?
Yeah, the old DS method!
I mean, you can Create a Game. I haven't checked the options, though. I just joined one.
You can create rooms but they don't seem to have anything to do with friends?!
Although the first person who joined my room was named Carlos... is that THE Carlos?!
You'd know if it's me. I'd show up online in your friends list.
@carlosrox I have tons of friends I don't even pay attention to those pop-ups much!
I usually notice it when I see it.
Wait I was wrong, you can definitely do friend games. But it's kind of like Smash where you'd have to know your friends and playing and look for them because the game won't tell you any of your friends are playing.
So we need to set this up in chat one of these days!
Speaking of Duck Game, I always ask my nephews what games they play with their friends when they come over, and they usually say that they trade-off turns in Fortnite or other single-player/online games. Maybe Rocket League once in a while. And I'm always like "Why don't you play Duck Game?? It's the greatest game of all time!!" But peer pressure is a powerful thing!
So one of them had a birthday party last weekend, and they were planning to play some games and watch a movie. They randomly decided to play a little Duck Game and then that's all they did for the whole five hours. My sister said that they were screaming and laughing the whole time. And then every single person at the party went home and bought Duck Game. It's happening, people!
(Technically, since there were six people, they should've been playing 3v3 team Towerfall on Switch, but those goblins haven't yet acknowledged Towerfall's greatness.)
Still, it was a heartwarming story! Duck Game!
I got all my nieces and nephews hooked on Towerfall and Duck Game too. Those are the ones they always want to play when we're together. I guess none of them ever got super into Smash Bros and that has a bit of a learning curve.
That's what handicaps are for! I was so proud of my nephews when they started giving their friends handicaps in games that they were more familiar with, even in games without built-in handicapping features.
I've also tried to get some younger relatives into Duck Game, and they were utterly bewildered, since they mostly played mobile games. It seemed like the first time that they had ever held a controller. | , for once!)
There's team stuff. You just have to wear the same hat! It's good for handicap matches. I always try to get my nephews to play 1v2, but neither wants to give up their favorite hat, so it always falls apart in acrimony, ending in a free-for-all...
You can mix local and online players, too. No AI, though. And no co-op. Towerfall, which is also awesome, has co-op. (And super-hype six player matches. But no online.)
How many modifiers have you unlocked? They make it pretty difficult!
I haven't even played the game yet! (On Switch I mean.) Some of us have jobs!
Hey, I work, when I feel like it!
I like ducks enough to feed them split grapes, and I like games enough to play them often. Would I like Duck Game though? I struggle with this question.
carlosrox
I almost had a heart aquack when I saw this was finally added to the store!
@Hinph
Struggle no more. If you can already appreciate the intrinsic adorableness of a duck, then how could you not be charmed by a duck... wearing a beer hat?
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Ph.D<|fim_middle|> 2,200 per month for a family of four.
When you take out health insurance, read the policy carefully to determine what it covers. Avoid companies that reserve the right to cancel a policy if you have a critical illness or reach a certain age. Most insurance policies only cover you for five years.
Food in South Africa can be a really cool experience, for the country boasts of some great delicacies. Students can indulge in food without reluctance as eating out here is pretty affordable.
While a reasonable meal may cost something around 50 rands (within Rs 300), a mid-range restaurant may cost 300 Rand (around Rs 1750) for a meal for two.
When missing Indian food, don't fret as cities like Cape Town and Durban and Johannesburg boast of some well-known Indian eating joints like Maharaja Restaurant.
A visa simply indicates that your application has been reviewed at a South African embassy, mission or consulate and that the consular officer has determined you are eligible to enter the country for a specific purpose.
The visa will allow you to travel to a South African port of entry where an immigration official will then determine if you are allowed to enter South Africa and for how long you can stay for that particular visit.
Visitors are restricted to the activity or reason for which their visas were issued.
All students who hold permanent residence outside South Africa and are not South African citizens are required to obtain a study visa upon acceptance to a South African university.
Upon receiving a visa, students are granted official permission to reside in South Africa
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Cost of Studying in South Africa: Below is the Cost of Studying in South Africa 2022 for International Student. South Africa is located in the southernmost part of the African continent. See Cost of Visa, Health and others below.
The country offers a more affordable university experience than other popular English-speaking destinations, such as the US and UK.
Tuition fees are considerably lower, and the cost of living is nearly 40% less in South Africa than in the UK. Below we have carefully researched the cost of studying in South Africa
Higher education in South Africa has greatly developed since the end of apartheid and now plays a key role in the country's status as a BRICS nation: one of five major emerging economies alongside Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
In 2004, South Africa started to extensively reform its tertiary education system, with a focus on combining high-quality teaching with equality for students.
Many smaller institutions were merged to form larger universities, giving postgraduates greater access to first-rate research facilities.
The Department of Higher Education and Training is responsible for all tertiary education in South Africa. The country's nine provinces also have their education departments.
These implement both national and local policies to suit regional student interests and needs.
There are 23 public universities in South Africa: 11 traditional universities offering theoretically oriented degrees; six universities of technology offering vocational oriented diplomas and degrees; and six comprehensive universities that offer both.
This system has been created since the year 2004 to replace the apartheid-imposed division into Afrikaans-medium white universities, liberal white universities (English medium) and historically-black universities and polytechnics.
While several private higher education institutions have been established, there is so far only one foreign university. Australia's Monash University has a campus in Johannesburg.
Most undergraduate degrees take three years, but some such as engineering, architecture, and medicine, will be longer. The academic year is divided into two semesters, running from early February to mid-June, and from mid-July to mid-December.
International students pay a minimum (R70, 000/£4,425) of the standard course fee plus an international student fee of R35, 000 (£2,213) a year (total minimum R110, 000/£6,955). Also, it is recommended that students budget for an additional R6, 000 (£380) for books and stationery.
Universities in South Africa set their tuition rates, so exact fees and policies vary from institution to institution. Students from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) member countries are eligible to pay local tuition fees.
Other international Masters students can expect tuition fees to range from R25, 000 to R70,000 (USD 1,750-4,900), depending on the university and program. Some MBAs and specialized postgraduate courses can cost up to R410, 000 (USD 28,720).
As an international student, you might also be required to pay an 'international term fee' in addition to tuition fees. This could be as much as R55, 000 (USD 3,850).
PhDs in South Africa generally follow a similar pattern to European and American programs. They focus on the candidate completing a supervised thesis that adds original research and knowledge to a field of study.
Ph.D. programs in South Africa are examined by the thesis. This is normally between 80,000 and 100,000 words.
Student accommodation is available at most South African universities, either on campus or nearby. Some will also have third-tier residences available that are solely for postgraduate and senior students.
If you live in university student housing, your accommodation can vary from a single or shared dormitory-style room to a room within a flat or house.
Prices will depend on the location and kind of accommodation, but will normally cost between R4, 000 and R5, 000 per month (USD 340-420). Utilities like electricity and water will cost around R400-800 per month on top of this (USD 34-68).
South Africa has one of the least expensive transport systems in the world, although most people use taxis. The average monthly cost for transport is as low as R500–R650 for buses and trains. Public transportation is fairly limited in South African cities.
The average cost for a one-way journey is R16. Taxis are also inexpensive and range between R60 and R120 for short journeys. You have to phone ahead and order taxis ahead of schedule, though: taxis cannot just be flagged down in the street.
The healthcare system is at odds in South Africa. Despite a recent wave of government reforms, healthcare for most South Africans is unaffordable. Yet ex-pats should take out private healthcare for the entire family.
The cost of private health insurance varies considerably. On average, healthcare insurance ranges between R 1,100 and R | 1,101 |
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Joseph Michael Anderson Sr.
January 20, 1937 — September 15, 2014
JOSEPH MICHAEL<|fim_middle|> Earth, his daughter, Patricia (Brent) Schimek of Deer River, his brother, Richard (Karen) Anderson of Blaine, his sister, Alice (Rick) Golla of Rochester, his brother, Roger (Trudy) Anderson of Delavan, 14 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.He was preceded in death by his parents, brother, Stanley Anderson, an infant sister, Margaret Anderson and infant grandchildren, Melissa Perrizo and Christopher Anderson.
To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Joseph Michael Anderson Sr., please visit our flower store. | ANDERSON, SR., age 77, of Delavan, died Monday, September 15, 2014, at his home. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday, September 22, 2014, at 11:00 AM, at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Blue Earth, with Father Peter Klein officiating. Burial will be in Rice Lake Cemetery, Delavan. Visitation time will be Sunday from 2:00 5:00 pm, at Patton Funeral Home & Cremation Service, 400 E. 14th Street in Blue Earth. Web tributes may be left at www.pattonfh.com Joe was born January 20, 1937, at Delavan Township, MN, the son of Mike and Jean (Maday) Anderson. He was raised in Delavan where he graduated from Delavan High School in 1955. He was married to Karen M. Springer on September 15, 1956 at St. Mary''s Catholic Church in Winnebago. Shortly after their wedding he entered the U.S. Air Force where he served at the Strategic Air Command near Lincoln, NE. Following his service the couple returned to Mapleton, MN where Joe worked for a farmer and soon farmed and milked cows on his own. In 1968 they moved to rural Delavan where Joe worked for Bob Johnson at Winnebago Implement and Auto for 15 years. When that shop closed Joe repaired tractors from his shop at home, specializing in International Harvester repair. He retired in 2002 for health reasons and enjoyed his large gardens that allowed him to can and pickle produce to share with family and friends. He was an avid cowboy and member of the Gopher Saddle Club and served on the Prescott Township board for several years. Joe always said his greatest accomplishment was helping raise a great family. Joe is survived by his wife, Karen Anderson of Delavan, , his daughter, Paula Jo (Dan) Schavey of Blue Earth, his daughter, Rebecca (Jon) Perrizo of Odebolt, Iowa, his son, Joe (Barb) Anderson of Blue | 469 |
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Justin Love Premieres Exclusive Hits at Private Listening Party
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The misty weather couldn't stop folks from leaving their homes to gather in efforts to hear new music from one of today's most talented singer-songwriters. Down in George's Basement at The Delancey, fans, artists, and creatives alike mix and mingle amongst one another preparing to take in Justin Love's new work. Captured by the notable faces in the crowd, Justin exchanges a few words in the audience before making his way to take center stage.
"There's a lot you have to sacrifice and do on your own to make it happen…"
It is here that Justin takes a sincere moment to thank everyone in the house and asks for celebratory participation. Glasses are raised, the background music is lowered, and people begin to gravitate towards the stage to hear more of what Justin has to say. As he thanks members of his team, the artist is joined on stage by media personal Boom Boom Knuckles (@boomboomknunckles) where the two sat for a heart-felt Q&A session. Here's a short recap of the conversation.
Boom Boom: What was something that you accomplished that you were proud of, that made you say, damn, I did that! I made that happen!
Justin Love: The grammy writing. "Focus" made a really big impact in my livelihood. Not only my career but definitely my living situation. You know as an artist, I'm not going to flex like I'm a rich motherfuc*er because I'm definitely not. I have a mother to take care of, a little brother to take care of. I have a life of my own, you feel me? It's like damn. There's a lot you have to sacrifice but do on your own in order to just make it happen. I'm definitely proud of how I
made it.
"You either feel it or you don't."
Boom Boom: What is your recording process like? How do you know you have one?
Justin Love: How do I know it's finished? That's a moment thing. I don't know, you either feel it or you don't. You really got to practice your intuition and know something is something. That's all on you. As far as my creative process, sometimes I go in there and freestyle something and something happens. Or I, what I call free mumble. I just mumble some words and some melodies. I'm probably not saying sh*t throughout the whole song. Afterward, I'll listen to what I like the most and just write as I listen. And I'll have<|fim_middle|>z Behind The Scene Video Shoot Footage | something. I just keep going until I'm done. But I make sure every time I go to the studio I'm finishing a song, the whole song. Every time I go to the studio, I have a song.
Justin and Boom Boom continue their exchange where Justin peels back layers of himself to share an honest moment with the room. Once the two are finished, the real show begins. Justin takes the mic and riffs his way into the hearts of his fans singing along to songs unfamiliar to the crowd. Excitement erupts amongst the crowd as Justin seals the deal with more exclusive listens from his upcoming project. We may not have a release date as well but be on high alert, he is coming! Feeling withdrawals? The recently released track "Sober" is enough to hold you over until then.
Listen to "Sober" below.
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By Meenu Rana
Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2019) will run Android 9 Pie and it will feature an 8-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800.
Samsung in March this year launched Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 (2019) tablet with S Pen support. Now, according to new leaks and reports, Samsung is working on a new variant of the Galaxy Tab A (2019).
This new tablet is said to come with 8-inch display and it has appeared on several certification sites. It's listing on various platforms gives away to the "Galaxy Tab A" moniker.
The Galaxy Tab A (2019) recently received Bluetooth certification which hints at its imminent launch globally. As per the listing, the tablet has five models for different regions. Out of these, four with model number SM-T295, SM-T295C, SM-T295N, and SM-T297 come with LTE support while the SM-T290 is a Wi-Fi-only model. The certification also reveals that these Galaxy Tab A (2019) models will come with Bluetooth 4.2 support.
Out of these models, on model SM-T295 has also been certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance which revealed that the tablet will come with dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and it will feature Android 9 Pie.
The Galaxy Tab A (2019) same variant i.e. SM-T295 has also been spotted on the Android Enterprise website which suggests its launch is imminent. The listing reveals that the tablet will run Android 9 Pie and it will feature an 8-inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800. The tablet might not<|fim_middle|> series laptops refreshed with latest hardware | have the S-Pen support. The device will have 2GB RAM and 32GB storage. The variant that was released in March came with 3GB RAM.
Apart from this, the tablet also appeared on the Google Play Console. As per the Device Catalog, the tablet will be powered by a Snapdragon 429 mobile platform featuring four Cortex A53 cores clocked at up to 2.0GHz. The listing also informs us that the tablet will have 8-inch display will have a resolution of 800 x 1280. The tablet will also feature a rear and a front camera with unknown sensors at the moment.
Meanwhile, there is another tablet from the company in works dubbed as Galaxy Tab Active Pro. The tablet was registered with the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union (EUIPO) which confirms that the company is working on a new rugged tablet.
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Officiating the dedication service was the Chief Elder of Asimeuri Association, Pr Felix Holo. The program ended with the cutting of ribbon by Hon Rick Hou, Chief Elder Asimeuri, Provincial representative and Land Owner representative to officially declare the launching of construction work for Phase II.
Meanwhile, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Rural Development (MRD) Allan Daonga congratulated SMC for the achievement.
He said improving socio-economic wellbeing of our rural dwellers and making sure they meaningfully participated in such social and economic development is crucial as the vision of the ministry (MRD) states and that is to ensure, "All rural Solomon Islanders become meaningfully participated in development activities to improve their social and economic livelihood."
PS Daonga acknowledged the continuous active commitment of SMC MP and his project team and officers in establishing such infrastructure development in the constituency that would certainly enable rural people to access government services as well as provide more economic opportunities.
SMC Road Infrastructure Project began with land consultations & mobilization, public awareness and promotion in 2012. Technical work including road surveys, scoping, designs, costing, and procurement of road machineries started from 2015 to 2016 with actual construction work started in mid-2017 with the Trans Cross Road from Matangasi to Tawaro.
To date the total cost of the road project from 2015 to 2021 is more than $18 million. The project was funded under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). The funding agencies include Solomon Islands Government (SIG), People's Republic of China (PRC) and the former Solomon Islands donor partner/agency, the Republic of China (ROC).
Source: MRD & SMCO Joint Press Release | Constituency Launches Phase 2 of its Road Infrastructure Program
Hon. Hou said the primary objective of the road infrastructure program has been achieved. "Today the communities of Tetele, Ou'oumatawa, Tapa'atewa, Ruru'uhe, Rorongo and Likimaea have direct road access to Matangasi Port. Now you can reach the Sea Port and Afio Government Station within 30 minutes".
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Wednesday, 12 January 2022 15:33 PM
The Small Malaita Constituency (SMC) has successfully launched the Phase II of its Road Infrastructure Program on 3rd January 2022 at Rorongo, thanks to the active involvement of the local Member of Parliament for Small Malaita Constituency, Hon. Rick Nelson Houenipwela.
Constituency Development Officer (CDO) Terry Brown said the event was witnessed by the Member of Parliament for SMC Hon. Rick Hou, the Senior Administration Officer (SAO), Mr David Mane representing Malaita Province, chiefs, church leaders, heads of landowning groups and hundreds of constituents from the Asimae and Asimeuri Wards particularly from the nearby Iola including Korutalaupeine, Korutalaumweimwei, Kalapea, Louatowa-Haitataimwane and Ueniusupeine.
Mr Brown said the launching ceremony began with the escorting of Hon. Rick Hou, MP and other invited guests by the Rorongo Women's band, adding the first part of the program included a short church service followed by speeches and feasting.
He added that Hon. Rick Hou, MP was the Guest of Honour of the launching and dedication program.
In his keynote address Hon. Hou, MP stated that the primary goal of the SMC development plan is to improve the socio-economic wellbeing of the rural people by providing access to government service and to provide the enabling environment for more economic opportunities.
He further highlighted that once phase II is completed people from Asimeuri Ward in the eastern side of the island will also access government services. "Today also marks another milestone – we are embarking on Phase II of the Road Program. When completed, all communities between Walande and Roone will be connected with Matangasi Port and Afio Admin Center. This will further enhance achieving our primary goal – to provide access to services. So we have every reason to celebrate this day", Hon. Hou said.
CDO Brown said the second part of launching was the main highlight of the program that is, the dedication and blessing of machineries and the project team which took place at Rorongo Field where phase 1 | 563 |
Il dado, il filo, la chiave, l'anello, lo specchio, il bottone e la sfera sono cose semp<|fim_middle|>. Integrated readings, interspersed with commentary, guide students in their understanding of the topics, while critical thinking activities challenge students to go beyond their reading and explore the connections philosophy has on their everyday lives. Full-color visuals bring topics to life, and writing examples give students a foundation for their own philosophical exploration.
This book is an invitation to the life of philosophy in the United States, as Emerson once lived it and as Stanley Cavell now lives it–in all its topographical ambiguity.
Graciela De Pierris presents a novel interpretation of the relationship between skepticism and naturalism in Hume's epistemology, and a new appraisal of Hume's place within early modern thought. Whereas a dominant trend in recent Hume scholarship maintains that there are no skeptical arguments concerning causation and induction in Book I, Part III of the Treatise, Graciela De Pierris presents a detailed reading of the skeptical argument she finds there and how this argument initiates a train of skeptical reasoning that begins in Part III and culminates in Part IV.
This reasoning is framed by Hume's version of the modern theory of ideas developed by Descartes and Locke. The skeptical implications of this theory, however, do not arise, as in traditional interpretations of Hume's skepticism, from the 'veil of perception.' They arise from Hume's elaboration of a presentational-phenomenological model of ultimate evidence, according to which there is always a justificatory gap between what is or has been immediately presented to the mind and any ideas that go beyond it. This happens, paradigmatically, in the causal-inductive inference, and, as De Pierris argues, in demonstrative inference as well. Yet, in spite of his firm commitment to radical skepticism, Hume also accepts the naturalistic standpoint of science and common life, and he does so, on the novel interpretation presented here, because of an equally firm commitment to Newtonian science in general and the Newtonian inductive method in particular. Hume defends the Newtonian method (against the mechanical philosophy) while simultaneously rejecting all attempts (including those of the Newtonians) to find a place for the supernatural within our understanding of nature.
In letters from 1798, Kant claims to have discovered a "gap" in the Critical philosophy that requires effecting a "transition from the metaphysical foundations of natural science to physics"; unfortunately, Kant does not make clear exactly what this gap is or how the transition is supposed to fill the gap. To resolve these issues, Hall draws on the Opus Postumum, arguing that Kant's transition project can solve certain perennial problems with the Critical philosophy. This volume provides a powerful alternative to all current interpretations of the Opus Postumum, arguing that Kant's transition project is best seen as the post-Critical culmination of his Critical philosophy. Hall carefully examines the deep connections between the Opus Postumum and the view Kant develops in the Critique of Pure Reason, to suggest that properly understanding the post-Critical Kant will significantly revise our view of Kant's Critical period.
e., it entails p). Such an account of perceptual knowledge poses a radical challenge to contemporary epistemology, since by the lights of standard views in epistemology this proposal is simply incoherent. Pritchard's aim in Epistemological Disjunctivism is to show that this proposal is theoretically viable (i.e., that it does not succumb to the problems that it appears to face), and also to demonstrate that this is an account of perceptual knowledge which we would want to endorse if it were available on account of its tremendous theoretical potential. In particular, he argues that epistemological disjunctivism offers a way through the impasse between epistemic externalism and internalism, and also provides the foundation for a distinctive response to the problem of radical scepticism.
Attempts to understand various aspects of the empirical world often rely on modelling processes that involve a reconstruction of systems under investigation. Typically the reconstruction uses mathematical frameworks like gauge theory and renormalization group methods, but more recently simulations also have become an indispensable tool for investigation.This book is a philosophical examination of techniques and assumptions related to modelling and simulation with the goal of showing how these abstract descriptions can contribute to our understanding of the physical world.
In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at the center of this generative process.For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Those in the rational empiricist tradition―Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs―assert that language is a tool that human beings developed to encode and communicate information.
In The Language Animal, Taylor explains that this view neglects the crucial role language plays in shaping the very thought it purports to express. Language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning and fundamentally shapes human experience. The human linguistic capacity is not something we innately possess. We first learn language from others, and, inducted into the shared practice of speech, our individual selves emerge out of the conversation.Taylor expands the thinking of the German Romantics Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt into a theory of linguistic holism. Language is intellectual, but it is also enacted in artistic portrayals, gestures, tones of voice, metaphors, and the shifts of emphasis and attitude that accompany speech. Human language recognizes no boundary between mind and body. In illuminating the full capacity of "the language animal," Taylor sheds light on the very question of what it is to be a human being.
According to the cognitive penetrability hypothesis, our beliefs, desires, and possibly our emotions literally affect how we see the world. This book elucidates the nature of the cognitive penetrability and impenetrability hypotheses, assesses their plausibility, and explores their philosophical consequences. It connects the topic's multiple strands (the psychological findings, computationalist background, epistemological consequences of cognitive architecture, and recent philosophical developments) at a time when the outcome of many philosophical debates depends on knowing whether and how cognitive states can influence perception.
All sixteen chapters were written especially for the book. The first chapters provide methodological and conceptual clarification of the topic and give an account of the relations between penetrability, encapsulation, modularity, and cross-modal interactions in perception. Assessments of psychological and neuroscientific evidence for cognitive penetration are given by several chapters. Most of the contributions analyse the impact of cognitive penetrability and impenetrability on specific philosophical topics: high-level perceptual contents, the epistemological consequences of penetration, nonconceptual content, the phenomenology of late perception, metacognitive feelings, and action. The book includes a comprehensive introduction which explains the history of the debate, its key technical concepts (informational encapsulation, early and late vision, the perception-cognition distinction, hard-wired perceptual processing, perceptual learning, theory-ladenness), and the debate's relevance to current topics in the philosophy of mind and perception, epistemology, and philosophy of psychology.
What if there were no objective facts, no objective truth, only our belief in them? What if our consciousness itself is an unconscious invention, constructed out of logic and language? In this thought-provoking volume, Lynn Segal describes how the ideas of Heinz von Foerster compel us to explore the question "Do we discover the world or do we invent it?". He suggests that we must first know how we think before we can claim knowledge of the world. While Constructivism may seem relevant only to those in the cognitive sciences, it is, in fact, highly relevant to everyone.
Paradoxically, grasping the limits of our own understanding can free us to live more creative and meaningful personal and professional lives.
The unique collaborative effort of a professor of English and a professor of philosophy, Current Issues and Enduring Questions is an extensive resource for teaching argument, persuasive writing, and rigorous critical thinking. This extraordinarily versatile text and reader continues to address current student interests and trends in argument, research, and writing.Its comprehensive coverage of classic and contemporary approaches to argument includes Aristotelian, Toulmin, and a range of alternative views, including a new chapter on analyzing and writing about arguments in popular culture.
Readings on contemporary controversies (including student loan debt, locavorism, and the boundaries of online privacy) and classical philosophical questions (such as How free is the will of the individual?) are sure to spark student interest and lively discussion and writing, and new e-Pages take advantage of what the Web can do by including videos, speeches, film trailers, and other multimodal arguments. | lici che incontriamo quotidianamente, ma di cui spesso ci dimentichiamo, perché la cultura contemporanea sempre più si lascia ammaliare dalla complessità dei sistemi e dalla leggerezza delle realtà virtuali. Questo saggio, facendo il controcanto alle cinque Lezioni americane di Italo Calvino, esamina come le "cose semplici" di fatto spesso dimostrino la loro importanza nella semplicità, nella lentezza, nella pesantezza, nella singolarità, nella stessa invisibilità.
Ma la loro "consistenza" – questa appunto avrebbe dovuto essere la sesta Lezione – risiede appunto nel fatto che la loro forza, simbolica e reale sta proprio nel fatto che sono cose concrete, che tutti possiamo toccare, anche quando assumono un significato metaforico. I sette oggetti semplici avrebbero potuto essere accompagnati da molti altri esemplari, ma questo libro deve rimanere soprattutto uno stimolo affinché si possa ricuperare una maggiore attenzione alla concretezza delle cose, che non è solo importante quando sono riposte nelle vetrine di un museo di cultura materiale, ma perché sono parte di noi. Letteratura e tecnica, arte e filosofia, musica e cronaca, ogni giorno dimostrano come queste "cose" siano le vere protagoniste di quella che i francesi chiamano civilization: l'Anello del Nibelungo, il Bottone di Pushkin, e il "dado brunelleschiano" sono soltanto alcuni esempi di come queste "cose" abbiano trovato un posto d'onore nella storia. E questo è un libro in cui si raccontano tante storie, come le fiabe che introducono le nostre cose, per farci entrare nel loro mondo accompagnati dalla fantasia.
M.F. Burnyeat taught for 14 years in the Philosophy Department of University College London, then for 18 years in the Classics Faculty at Cambridge, 12 of them as the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy, before migrating to Oxford in 1996 to become a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at All Souls College. The studies, articles and reviews collected in these two volumes of Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy were all written, and all but two published, before that decisive change.
Whether designed for a scholarly audience or for a wider public, they range from the Presocratics to Augustine, from Descartes and Bishop Berkeley to Wittgenstein and G.E. Moore. Their subject-matter falls under four main headings: Part I on Logic and Dialectic, Part II on Scepticism Ancient and Modern, Part III on Knowledge, Part IV on Philosophy and the Good Life. The title 'Explorations' well expresses Burnyeat's ability to discover new aspects of familiar texts, new ways of solving old problems. In his hands the history of philosophy becomes itself a philosophical activity.
In his attempt to give an answer to the question of what constitutes real knowledge, Kant steers a middle course between empiricism and rationalism. True "knowledge" refers to a given empirical reality, but "true" knowledge has to be understood as necessary as well, and so consequently, must be a priori. Both demands can only be reconciled if synthetic a priori judgments are possible. To ground this possibility, Kant develops his transcendental logic. In Frege s program of providing a logicistic basis for true knowledge the same problem is at issue: his logicist solution places the quantifier into the position of the basic element connected to the truth of a proposition.
As the basic element of a theory of logic, it refers at the same time to something in reality. Mo czanow argues that Frege s program fails because it does not pay sufficient attention to Kant s transcendental logic. Frege interprets synthetic a priori judgments as ultimately analytic, and thus falls back onto a Leibnizian rationalism, thereby ignoring Kant s middle course. Under the title of the "transcendental analytic of quantification" Mo czanow discusses Frege s concept of quantification. For Frege, the proper analysis of number words and the categories of quantity raises problems which can only be solved, according to Mo czanow, with the help of Kant s transcendental logic. Mo czanow s book thus deserves its places in the series "Critical Studies in German Idealism" because it provides a further elaboration of Kant s transcendental logic by bringing it into conversation with contemporary logic. The result is a new conception of the nature of quantification which speaks to our time."
Philosophical Propositions is a fresh, up to date, and reliable introduction to philosophical problems. It takes seriously the need for philosophy to deal with definitive and statable propositions, such as God, certainty, time, personal identity, the mind/body problem, free will and determinism, and the meaning of life.
Metaphysicians should pay attention to quantum mechanics. Why? Not because it provides definitive answers to many metaphysical questions-the theory itself is remarkably silent on the nature of the physical world, and the various interpretations of the theory on offer present conflicting ontological pictures. Rather, quantum mechanics is essential to the metaphysician because it reshapes standard metaphysical debates and opens up unforeseen new metaphysical possibilities. Even if quantum mechanics provides few clear answers, there are good reasons to think that any adequate understanding of the quantum world will result in a radical reshaping of our classical world-view in some way or other.
Whatever the world is like at the atomic scale, it is almost certainly not the swarm of particles pushed around by forces that is often presupposed. This book guides readers through the theory of quantum mechanics and its implications for metaphysics in a clear and accessible way. The theory and its various interpretations are presented with a minimum of technicality. The consequences of these interpretations for metaphysical debates concerning realism, indeterminacy, causation, determinism, holism, and individuality (among other topics) are explored in detail, stressing the novel form that the debates take given the empirical facts in the quantum domain. While quantum mechanics may not deliver unconditional pronouncements on these issues, the range of possibilities consistent with our knowledge of the empirical world is relatively small-and each possibility is metaphysically revisionary in some way. This book will appeal to researchers, students, and anybody else interested in how science informs our world-view.
Dieses Referenzwerk vermittelt einen repräsentativen und verläßlichen Überblick über die antike, mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche Geschichte des philosophischen Begriffs der Wahrheit. Ein ähnlich umfassendes und zugleich nicht nur für Fachphilosophen, sondern auch für Interessierte und Studierende anderer Fachbereiche konzipiertes Werk zur Geschichte dieses zentralen philosophischen Begriffs gibt es bislang noch nicht.
In Epicurean Meteorology Frederik Bakker discusses the meteorology as laid out by Epicurus (341-270 BCE) and Lucretius (1st century BCE), offering an updated and qualified account of Epicurean meteorology.
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Some Clippers keeping eye on standings, some are not
Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin, center, has the ball knocked out of his hands by Charlotte Hornets forward Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (14), with forward Marvin Williams (2) looking on during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Tuesday, March 17, 2015. The Clippers won 99-92. (AP Photo<|fim_middle|> singing — and rain | /Alex Gallardo)
The regular season is winding down in the NBA. For Clippers fans, it's time to start thinking about where the Clippers might finish in the Western Conference standings and which team they might play in the first round of the playoffs.
As for the players, depending on which one you talk to, they are either trying to ignore the standings or just the opposite.
"We've been doing it for a little while," said forward Matt Barnes, when asked if the team is paying attention to them. "You know, the West is so crazy. We're going to finish anywhere from sixth to two or three.
"So to us, obviously, we'd like to get homecourt. But we know that the teams we could possibly play, we've already beaten. So we're confident right now."
The Clippers entered their game Friday against the Washington Wizards with a record of 44-25 and tied for fifth-place with the Dallas Mavericks with just 13 games left in the regular season.
The Clippers need to finish in the top four in order to secure homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs. But Chris Paul swears he's not looking at that race.
"No, I mean, as long as we keep winning, everything will take care of itself, you know what I mean?" he said at the morning shootaround. "So I don't know everybody's record and whatnot in the West because we're just trying to make sure we're playing the right way."
Hamilton re-signed
The Clippers on Friday announced the re-signing of swingman Jordan Hamilton for the rest of the season.
Hamilton finished the second of his two 10-day contracts Monday and was expected to be re-signed then. But a high ankle sprain prevented that from happening. He was released with the idea that should his ankle improve, he would then be brought back.
Hamilton has played in eight games for the Clippers and started twice. He's averaging 4.0 points, 1.4 rebounds and 0.3 assists in 9.6 minutes per game.
Hamilton, of Los Angeles, was playing with the Reno Bighorns of the NBA Development League when the Clippers first signed him.
Coach Doc Rivers likes Hamilton's tools on offense, but he wants him to be a more stout defender.
"You've gotta seize the moment and just do everything that the coaches want me to do and work extra hard and show these guys I can play," Hamilton said before tipoff. "They want me to get better on the defensive end and that's what I'm doing."
Missing Crawford
Sixth-man Jamal Crawford missed his ninth consecutive game Friday with a right calf strain. Not only have his clutch play and 16.4 points per game been missed, so has his personality.
"It's tough because he's such a great teammate," said Barnes, who played Friday after missing the previous two games with a sore hamstring. "We miss his spirit and his energy. It's been tough, but we know he's playing through a tough injury right now. We're supporting him and the key for him is just to be ready for the playoffs.
"The regular season, it kind of is what it is for us, and we're going to need our sixth-man in the playoffs."
Rivers still isn't sure when Crawford will return.
"There's no timeline," he said. "I think he's feeling a lot better, from what I hear, over the past couple of days."
House of Note photo brings back musical memories
Bill, Emerald Bowens duo makes Masters track meet a family affair
Another former Redlands High School teacher arrested for alleged sexual misconduct with underage students
For 'Singin' in the Rain' at the Redlands Bowl, there will be | 764 |
Believe it or not the dandel<|fim_middle|> that are full of fiber, vitamins and minerals that are great for you!
Combine dandelions, tomatoes, onion, olives and chickpeas in a bowl. In another bowl whisk Hummus lemon juice, olive oil, and salt together.
Sauté onions and garlic until translucent. Add cabbage and cook for 30 minutes until cabbage is soft.
Meanwhile soak dandelion green in a bowl of water, fish them out, and repeat with clean water until you don't find any dirt on the bottom of the bowl. Clean them thoroughly checking for insect infestation. Actually bugs do not like bitter leaves it is very rare to find insects in dandelion! Steam dandelion green until wilted about 5 minutes.
Add the greens to the pot. Cook them until they're quite soft. Salt the greens to taste. Use good salt if you have it—I like unrefined sea salt.
Chop a bunch of garlic. How much depends on how much you like garlic.
Stir in the sliced red pepper; allow to cook another 5 minutes. Serve over a bed of rice, pasta or mashed potatoes, or as is.
Mix all salad ingredients and coat with the dressing. | ions growing in our lawns are actually very healthy and can be prepared in many delicious recipes.
Its leaves are often used to add flavour to salads, sandwiches, and teas. The roots can be found in some coffee substitutes and the flowers are used to make certain wines.
The older the leaf (as in the second, third year) the more bitter they will be. Mixed with other vegetables in a salad they are extremely nutritious.
Older leaves can be cooked in a mixed vegetables combo when they become milder. Early greens have a better flavor than those gathered later in the season.
If you're going to be eating fresh greens it's better to gather them before the flowers appear. Otherwise the greens are apt to be bitter. Very young greens can be added fresh to salads, but they can also be cooked in much the same way as collards or mustard greens.
Before cooking with dandelions I often give them a quick boil, for 3-5 minutes until the spines are tender. It helps to neutralize any bitterness they might have. Simply trim the root end, and toss them into a pot of boiling, salted water.
After a few minutes drain them into a colander and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process. Don't be shy to pluck the dandelion greens from your backyard.
Here are some dandelion recipes | 275 |
For the second year in a row, the Hurricane of Harmony Chorus from Gaither High School in Tampa was named Audience Favorite and earned a SUPERIOR rating in Friday's Next Generation Barbershop Junior Chorus Invitational at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville.
The mixed-voice barbershop chorus won the hearts of the audience with selections from the musical "The Greatest Showman," with impeccable singing and high-energy choreography.
Gaither's outstanding music program, directed by Debbie Cleveland, was recognized earlier in the week, when their women's foursome Singing Double earned second place in the junior quartet division.
The Presenter's Award went to the Wildcat Chord Ringers, a group of elementary and<|fim_middle|> school singers from Quinton Township, New Jersey. Earlier in the week, their fellows The Quin-Tones captured the junior quartet championship.
Now in its twelfth year, the Invitational featured nearly 900 young singers in 17 choruses from across North America, including men's choruses, women's choruses and mixed-voice choruses, all singing in the barbershop style. The event was presented by the Barbershop Harmony Society and underwritten by generous donors through Harmony Foundation International. | middle | 1 |
Q: What is the best RESTful uri for a resource's tags Say you have a resource of recipes and a recipe can have tags. Then you want to get a list of all tags used across all recipes, what would the URI be?
/recipes/tags
Seems like it might work but it breaks the convention of not pointing to a specific id such as:
/recipes/1/tags
You could also just use:
/tags
But I only want tags for recipes not any other resource. So would I use query params,<|fim_middle|>Then you have to decide if you want to support a linked resource like this
/tags/eggs/recipes/1
Recipe details
Which would still be the same thing as
/recipes/1
It's acceptable to link them -- just might get confusing if recipe/2 doesn't have any eggs in it and you try to access it using /tags/eggs/recipes/2
| such as:
/tags?type-recipes
And FTR, tags are only used for recipes not any other resource, so it seems misleading to use the query param since it would never be anything but recipes
A: Filters are tricky -- especially when your filter is also a resource.
You are correct that /recipes/tags is problematic. You go from a path variable of /resouce/{resouceId} to /resource/{filter} which can open a whole word of pain.
So for your first example go for something like
/recipes?tags={tags to filter on}
Returns a list of Recipes based on the tag
The problem is you don't have any lookup method for what acceptable tags are. I would expect /tags to return a list of tags and then consume it like this
/tags
Returns a list of all tags
/tags/{tagID}
Returns meta data about the specific tag (what the tag is used for, which is superfluous in this case if you only have recipe tags, but it is more flexible)
/tags/{tagID}/recipes
Returns a list of recipes associated with that ID.
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Boston v. Philly: the long view
By William Hughes
The Patriots are the popular pick among the Sun's staff pickers, but it's not unanimous.
In 1723, Benjamin Franklin, having spent his first 17 years in Boston, set out for Philadelphia to begin a new life. In those days ambitious and talented young Americans made their way to the thriving city much as today they flock to Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
Ever since Franklin's time the two cities have been taking each other's measure. And they have long invited comparison by historians and cultural observers.
While Boston and Philly were hardly in direct competition in politics or finance, both played vital roles in the founding and defining of America. Each owed its origin to a persecuted religious sect.
Later, Boston had its Tea Party, Bunker Hill, Paul Revere, Sam Adams and John Adams. In the 19th century, Boston was home to the so-called American Renaissance. And in the years leading up to the Civil War, the city was a hotbed of abolitionism.
As for Philadelphia, it could claim the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell and, of course, Ben Franklin. Both places were attractive destinations for working-class immigrants from Europe.
One can find other grounds for comparison.
As early as the colonial period, Philly and Boston were economic hubs. Both placed a premium on education. No other 18th-century American city could match the museums, libraries and learned societies of Philadelphia and Boston.
Over time, however, the two places grew in different directions and at a different pace.
An original tea chest from 1773 at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum. (Steven Senne / Associated Press)
Henry Adams, writing of America as it was in 1800, observed that Boston was the Bristol of America, while Philadelphia was our London. Adams rated Philadelphia higher in music, painting, science, architecture and theater. Boston excelled in theology and literature.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry James, a sort of Bostonian, returned from England to survey the American scene, which to him consisted mainly of the leading cities of our eastern seaboard. Naturally, Boston and Philadelphia were on his itinerary. He set Philadelphia's "comprehensive flatness" and straight lines against the hills and "old-world crookedness" of the New England city. He found Boston bristling with commercial energy. Philadelphia, he noted with approval, did not bristle; it was placid. Philly was "a place of consanguinity." Boston, on the other hand, was not a place at all, but "a state of mind."
At a more mundane level, late-20th-century Boston had become, in the words of historian Thomas H. O'Connor, a city of a city of "bohemians and bosses." Philadelphia, too, had its bosses (think of Boies Penrose), but preferred to be known as "The City of Brotherly Love," even as the appellation grew increasingly irrelevant, even something of a cruel joke.
Deep in Ravens country, Baltimore's Patriots and Eagles bars prep for big Super Bowl crowds — and even bigger win
In a region mostly dedicated to the Ravens, many transplants have made these bars another home away from home. Like the fans, the establishments have been counting down the days until kickoff, while making extra preparations for what will likely be one of their busiest Sundays of 2018.
By Wesley Case
Feb 01, 2018 | 10:00 AM
Nowadays when one links Boston and Philly it usually has something to do with professional sports. Super Bowl LII is only the most current instance of a long-standing narrative.
It was in 1947 that I got caught up in the whole thing. In my 10th year I became a fan of the Philadelphia Phillies. (It's turned out to be a lifelong affliction.) The Phillies back then were a ragtag collection of aging castaways who habitually finished last in the eight-team National League. Boston had two major league teams back then: The National League Braves won a pennant in 1948 (those were the days of "Spahn, Sain and pray for rain"), while the American League Red Sox, featuring All Stars Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio (Joe<|fim_middle|> Culture of Liberalism and the Challenge of Television." | 's little brother), were in 1947 reigning American League champions. Naturally Philly fans envied and sometimes reviled their Boston counterparts. In recent years inter-league play has made the Phillies and Red Sox occasional opponents, but more intense rivalries developed in the two other major sports.
Think back to the era when Wilt Chamberlain starred for the 76ers and Bill Russell was at the heart of the Celtics' NBA dynasty. There was no greater rivalry in professional sports. Even after Russell and Chamberlain retired, both teams were perennial playoff participants.
And though they compete in different conferences, the Boston and Philly football teams have a competitive history. The New England Patriots have defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in seven of their 13 meetings, including Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005.
Whether speaking of culture or sports, Philadelphia and Boston have a historic connection. The rivalry continues and intensifies on Super Bowl Sunday. Perhaps, as with young Ben Franklin, the Lombardy Trophy will find a home in Philly.
William Hughes (bill.hughes.37@verizon.net) is the author of "James Agee, Omnibus, and 'Mister Lincoln': The | 241 |
Hovea apiculata A.Cunn. ex G.Don
Hovea apiculata A.Cunn. ex G.Don APNI*
Description: Shrub up to 3 m tall. Indumentum of branchlets, petiole, stipules, pedicel, abaxial surfaces of bract and bracteoles and external surface of calyx dense, white to grey, sometimes light brown, sometimes rusty brown at apices<|fim_middle|> (2001) Eastern Australian Hovea (Brongniartieae-Fabaceae). Australian Systematic Botany, Vol 14, pp. 59-61. | of branchlets, stipules, calyx, bract and bracteoles, hairs coiled, sometimes scattered, straighter hairs shortly emerging.
Leaves narrow-oblong to lorate, very narrow-elliptic or lanceolate, 3–9 cm long, 5–15 mm wide (juvenile leaves to 11 cm long and to 22 mm wide), flat to weakly arched each side of a recessed midrib, base rounded to acute, margins flat to slightly recurved, apex truncate to acute, mucro short; upper surface with white to tan or orange-tan coiled hairs. Stipules narrow-ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, petiole 4–9 mm long.
Inflorescences usually racemose, rachis to 30 mm long, 4–12-flowered, sometimes a proportion of inflorescences reduced to clusters, 2- or 3-flowered. Flowers with orbicular to narrow-ovate bracts, 0.8–2.8 mm long; bracteoles ovate to lanceolate, 0.8–2.5 mm long; calyx 3.5–5.5 mm long; tube 2–3 mm long. Standard 7–11 mm long, 8–15 mm wide, claw 1.8–2.5 mm long, limb pinkish-mauve, flare green-yellow, 1.5 mm wide, bordered by a zone of deep mauve; wing 5–7 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, claw 1.5–2 mm long; keel 4–5 mm long, 1.8–2.5 mm wide, claw 1.5–2 mm long.
Pod obliquely orbicular in profile, c. 10–15 mm long, 10–13 mm deep, sessile, external surface completely obscured by light brown curled hairs, internal surface moderately densely hairy. Seeds ellipsoid, 5–6 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, dark olive-brown, aril oblong, 3.8 mm long, 1.2–2 mm.
Flowering: Flowers in July–September. Fruit matures in October–December.
Distribution and occurrence: Occurs in north-eastern NSW it occurs inland, from the NSW-Queensland border south to Dubbo. In south-eastern Queensland from Expedition Range National Park south-east to Boondooma homestead and, disjunctly, just north of the Queensland-NSW border on Jibbinbah Mountain.
Grows in sandy soils and on granite and sandstone outcrops in forest and woodland.
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS, CWS, NWP
Text by Louisa Murray
Taxon concept: I.R. Thompson | 612 |
I'm Lori Thoman, Marketing Coordinator here at Superior Graphics. Our President, (John Ehrenberger) is supposed to be our Chief Blogger. After writing a whopping TWO blog posts, John promoted me (no increase in pay) to Guest Blogger this week. Thanks.
I thought it would be helpful to talk about our marketing process for any of you that might have to come up with marketing ideas from time to time.
This post features our new marketing piece for one of our target markets, quick-serve restaurants. These customers use a ton of graphics and need kitting and fulfillment direct-to-store, so it's a perfect fit for us. But how to get their attention? It has to be different enough that it will compel potential customers to keep it…or remember our name at the very least. Okay, go.
Where to begin? Well, I have a few things at my disposal here. One thing is the fabulous HP Indigo Printer, which can print on all kinds of cool media. We also have the Zund cutter which can cut all shapes and sizes. We wanted a flat piece that could be mailed easily and be cost effective. But what would be "different"?
Introducing the FLAT TACO! Yes, even flatter than the world's tastiest flat taco – I'm looking at you, Jack-In-The-Box.
This has proven to be invaluable when coming up with an idea and getting the creative juices flowing. I include in "Listen to Others" surfing the internet (Pinterest and others) and just looking at ideas. What looks cool? Original? Can we produce this with the resources that we have? Also, I found that talking to my co-workers was amazingly helpful. For example, our taco piece was actually Leila Martin's (our Purchasing Manager/Project Manager/Company Nurse) original concept. I loved her idea, so I was able to tweak it and make it workable for what we needed to do. But a word of caution here: everyone has a different opinion when it comes to "ideas". Be careful to sort through the sea of opinions carefully and don't lose your vision.
Okay, this is when the going got tough. In my head, it prints and cuts perfectly and is shipped with no problem whatsoever. I soon found out that there are a million things that can (and will) go wrong when coming up with a "different" piece. It takes a lot of back and forth, and back again…and patience.
You've pushed through the design phase. Now, all you have to do is sit back, relax and wait for the pieces to fall on your desk,<|fim_middle|> restaurant near you. It's a fun, colorful piece that grabs the attention of anyone who receives it. Different? Eye-catching? It definitely does the job and, as a bonus, really makes you want a taco!
No Replies to "Delicious Marketing " | right? Not always. It helps if you are specific as to materials and special instructions needed to make the finished piece. Also, make sure that the latest version and only the latest is the one saved and to be printed. You have to "follow" the piece through production and make sure it's going as planned every step of the way, making adjustments as you go.
The delicious marketing taco was born and is being sent to a quick serve | 89 |
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For Moses it was probably a typical day: up early to avoid the high heat of the day; same sheep; same extensive pasture; he was content with the routine. Totally predictable. And, then in a flash, nothing would ever be predictable again. A bush spontaneously bursts into flames. A voice from the fire calls him by name. And there he is, standing barefoot on Holy Ground and being summoned by the Almighty to a very different life.
I don't envy Moses one bit. I like the predictable. The more routine, the better. Nor would I want to meet up with the Divine in visions like Ezekiel, dry bones coming to life. Holy ground for the prophets was always high drama. Just give me candlelight, soft sacred music, and stained glass.
Holy ground. What is it? Where is it? A translation note. Holy ground comes from the Latin sacer meaning sacred and sacred comes from the Greek hagia meaning holy. Let's agree they are the same and reserve the Lord for the one we worship and serve when we are on Holy Ground.
<|fim_middle|> a beautiful flowering plant that has thrived for years. It becomes necessary for it to be transplanted. We know that the roots are going to suffer transplant shock at first. But, we will find that if the new soil is carefully prepared and if the plant is conscientiously nurtured, it will regain its vigor. We may even begin to see perhaps some new blossoms where they were not previously seen.
In the words of the psalmist, Look unto the hills from which our help comes.
Oh, and keep you shoes on. We are about to strike out on the journey of a lifetime. | The need to focus on Holy Ground seems more and more urgent as time speeds toward huge change for us. We will either be staying for a few years at 4 East Henrietta Rd (but owned by someone else) or re-locating to a brand new address. For me (and I am quite certain for many of you) it may feel as if we are standing on shifting, not Holy, ground. Then again, there are others who are more than anxious to get this building off our backs and launch into a new form of ministry without the "churchy" connections. It will be our strength if we continue to listen carefully to each other.
Let's give ear to the emotional disruption that some feel. Intellectually, we know that God hasn't set up housekeeping at 4 east Henrietta Rd. However, we do feel deeply that God has been experienced in the life events that have been celebrated within these walls. The baptisms (Marirose Dempsey, Luke Updegraff, Arram, etc). The marriages (the Rickners, the Sixby's, Suarez and Preston). The memorial services (too many of them lately). (Harriet Babcock and all the saints who came before us, Ray and JoAnne King, Fran Forrest, Betty Elliot, Marion). The potluck suppers (with at least 4 tuna casseroles). The choir numbering in the 30's. Ernestine Fischer finishing her organ playing days with a blaze of glory with Widor's Toccata.
Of course, we are deeply attached to this place. It is where we have loved and been loved. Such could be the definition of Holy Ground.
Our situation reminds me of that of another faith community who were forced to live countries away from where their homeland. Listen to the lament of the Israelites: By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows we hung our harps. How could we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? Psalm137.
A good question. Let me suggest that we look for Holy Ground in places we may not have walked before. Foreign land, you might say, yet close to home: Wherever justice is done, wholeness restored, and community established, that is where Holy Ground is.
Let's ask a few people where Holy Ground has been for them. We won't ask Moses, however. That was tried once. Our 43rd president, G.W., was waiting for connection in the Atlanta when he noticed a man who looked just like Moses. Barefoot, long white hair, flowing robe, carrying some heavy stones. This person who looked like Moses was simply staring straight ahead as if looking for something. Well, G. W., excited, call to him: Moses! Moses! The man did not respond. He tried again: Moses. Moses! Again, no response. Finally, G. W. was getting perturbed. He shouted MOSES, why don't you speak to me? Moses replied: the last time I spoke to a bush I was wandering around in the desert for 40 years.
Let's ask Sister Barbara Moore who at one time ministered to prisoners. Her ministry was to help them adjust to life outside and to find community. Holy Ground from behind bars and into community.
Let's ask Kenneth Sager, social studies high school teacher in Appleton Wisconsin. His Holy Ground was found in his classroom where he helped a young teen who had been abused at home. He could barely speak and had little self –confidence. Mr. Sager helped him find his voice and start a journey back to wholeness.
Let's finally ask Thomas Ferraro. When he was a young man helping out at a food cupboard, he became acutely aware of the widespread hunger in Rochester. The injustice of it. He set out to do something about it. Started by appealing to the CEO's of Thomas's English Muffins. Got them to fill a school bus with English muffins to distribute to food cupboards and soup kitchens. Today, the organization he founded has 500 volunteers. Foodlink today distributes thousands of pounds of food annually. As an advocate for the hungry, Tom found Holy Ground in an old school bus. Justice in action!
Does finding and establishing other Holy Grounds heal the sadness of leaving this place? I'd say no. Not right away. There is not even a balm in Gilead that could quickly do that. But it may remind us that the acts of our faith: justice; wholeness; the building of community, favors no one place. The ground may feel as if it is shifting under us, but God is our bedrock. Always has been. Always will be. He is our God and we are his people. It's an ageless covenant. Can't be broken as long as we follow in the Way of the One we have chosen to serve.
I like to think of this congregation as | 1,024 |
'Tested' Filmmaker To Discuss Social, Education Issues at UA
Activist and filmmaker Curtis Chin will screen his education and equality documentary Tested Monday, Feb.<|fim_middle|>. Kevin M. Kocot, UA assistant professor in biological sciences and curator of invertebrate zoology in the Alabama Museum of Natural History. | 29 at The University of Alabama.
UA's Paul Jones Gallery of Art to Unveil 'Black is Beautiful' Exhibit
University of Alabama students have curated an art exhibition that responds to stereotypical portrayals of African-Americans.
UA Adapted Athletics Receives $3 Million Gift
The University of Alabama announced today a $3 million gift commitment from Michael and Kathy Mouron, of Mountain Brook, to help fund a $10 million facility for adapted student-athletes.
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UA Business Students Partner with Healthcare Business Solutions on Project
The University of Alabama's Business Analytics Lab at the Culverhouse College of Commerce recently completed its first business analytics study for Healthcare Business Solutions, one of its partner companies.
UA Journalism Student Wins Scripps Howard Award
A University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences student, Matthew Wilson, was named a winner of a Scripps Howard Foundation collegiate reporting competition.
Church, UA Art Department Team to Host "Empty Bowls"
More than 100 ceramic bowls will come out of the firing kilns of University of Alabama ceramics instructor Wade MacDonald's class in the coming week. Colored and glazed, the bowls will be donated to University Presbyterian Church's "Empty Bowls 2016" fundraiser for the hungry Feb. 26.
UA Matters: Helping Children Connect with Nature
The University of Alabama's Dr. Caroline Boxmeyer offers some ideas that may help connect your child with nature.
UA's Moundville Park Resumes 'Saturday in the Park' March 5
Prehistoric mica work, ancient hunting and fishing techniques and Southeastern pottery are a few of programs featured during Saturday in the Park at The University of Alabama's Moundville Archaeological Park.
Student-Cadets at UA Receive Air Force Reserve Officer Corps Scholarships
A number of student-cadets at The University of Alabama were recently awarded scholarships from the Air Force Reserve Officer Corps.
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New Delhi: Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), met the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today.
Ms. Lagarde complimented the Government on the focused way in which it has been working to revive the economy. The results of this are visible and India's growth rate has crossed 7.5%, she said, adding that it is the bright spot<|fim_middle|> is to create jobs, have inclusive growth, and focus on development of backward regions in Eastern and North-Eastern India. This region is rich in natural and human resources and we need to capitalize on this. The priority is on all fronts – agriculture, manufacturing and services, he added.
The Prime Minister also emphasized the need to have greater representation for Indians at the higher level of IMF, particularly at the Deputy MD level. | in the global economy. She expressed hope that India would continue on this growth path.
The Prime Minister thanked Ms. Lagarde for her words. He stressed the importance of having a clear direction and focus. He said reforms are not restricted to legislation alone, and implementation and direction are equally important. He said that his focus, while promoting growth, | 69 |
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are a true tropical paradise, a tiny dot in the remote Indian ocean. Engulfed in pre-historic looking palm trees and saturated with sunlight, the islands are made up of two coral reefs that form an atoll. Caressed by<|fim_middle|>wear is made from.
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Home Island to meet and experience the culture of the local 'Aussie' Cocos Malay people.
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For an authentic island lifestyle experience, stay at Cocos Village Bungalows or for larger groups rent a beachfront Air Bnb on West Island.
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A visit to The Big Barge Art Centre, where artist Emma creates unique installation pieces by recycling flotsam and lost objects that wash up on the island's shores. Similar flotsom isused in the recycled ECONYL® fabric our recycled Tigerlily bikinis and swim | 179 |
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Executive Vice President, Rob Reed added, "Advantage Memory has always adhered to a strict quality assurance policy in designing, manufacturing and testing our products. We were able to obtain our ISO 9001 certification relatively quickly as we already had a comprehensive process in place."
Founded in 1988, Advantage Memory Corporation is a global manufacturer of memory products. Advantage designs and manufactures over 3,000 products including generic, proprietary, workstation, PC card and flash memory. All Advantage memory products are backed by a lifetime warranty and 24-hour product replacement. For more information, visit Advantage Memory's web site at www.advantagememory.com or contact the representatives above. | 9001 Certification (certificate number FM 40674) for the design, manufacturing and marketing of computer memory products. Advantage Memory received certification after their first audit by British Standards Institution, one of the most renowned registrars and the first international standards body.
"We are very proud to have our quality system approved by ISO standards," said John Harriman, President of Advantage Memory. "This is a key step in ensuring our manufacturing facility adheres to the highest standards in product quality and performance, and will be instrumental in increasing our support of our channel, OEM and contract manufacturing partners."
ISO 9001 is the most comprehensive of the ISO 9000 quality management standards as it includes both product and design process controls. The standard is recognized worldwide as the leading quality management standard. One of the key benefits of the implementation is that Advantage's product defect rate is now consistently below 1%, one of the lowest in the industry.
"Advantage Memory's quality system was built around the philosophy of improving quality in every reasonable way, ISO 9000 certification was always a secondary goal | 225 |
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New York, NY, September 5, 2014 — Audio professionals and gaming aficionados of all types will want to be present to hear acclaimed game audio director and composer Marty O'Donnell (Halo series, others) deliver the Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture at the 137<|fim_middle|> by Heyser, widely known for his ability to communicate new and complex technical ideas with great clarity and patience. The Heyser Series is an endowment for lectures that bring to AES conventions eminent individuals in audio engineering and related fields.
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O'Donnell, who received a Bachelor of Music Composition from Wheaton College Conservatory and a Masters of Music Composition from USC, started an original music and audio production company with Michael Salvatori in the 1980s. From their studio in Chicago, O'Donnell and Salvatori wrote and produced music and audio for hundreds of TV and radio commercials, as well as movie scores. In 1997, they began working on games and did the audio design for Cyan's Riven: The Sequel to Myst, and all the music and audio for Bungie's Myth: The Fallen Lords. Marty joined Bungie as full-time Audio Director in May of 2000, ten days before they were purchased by Microsoft, and subsequently wrote and produced award-winning music and audio for the Halo series. In 2007 he helped establish Bungie as an independent game company and built an audio team to work on the upcoming game Destiny. Recently, in collaboration with Salvatori and Sir Paul McCartney, he completed an orchestral/choral suite titled Music of the Spheres. In April of 2014, he started his own company, Marty O'Donnell Music. Throughout all of these endeavors, he's brought a unique perspective to audio in a wide range of media, something that he'll share with attendees at the lecture.
The Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lecture series was established in May 1999 by the AES Technical Council, the Board of Governors and the Richard Heyser Scholarship Fund to honor the extensive contribution to the Society | 546 |
🙂 A waterfall splashes down the side of "the Canadian Rockies" in EPCOT. But, hey – what's that up there on that ledge?
Wow, it's shoes! Did someone go swimming, perhaps? Or did some Rocky Mountain hiker drop them from on high? Or maybe this is the handiwork of some rather high-spirited Walt Disney World guests. I doubt I'll ever find out! My friend Deb first spotted them, and then I confirmed it with my 10x optical zoom. Fun stuff<|fim_middle|> is about zero. My other thought is that they were from a worker scrubbing the rocks, but then why would he leave them behind?
Cool captures! Gotta love the zoom.
Ha, ha, ha, ha. It must have been a joke. He, he, he, he.
Btw: Since first visit: Hello from Norway – Nice to meet you!
Looks almost as if someone went swimming headfirst and never came up, except that it appears so shallow. Funny.
I'm with you Emily and Kathryn. 😉 shhhh….
I know this secret… Gotta love guests… Lol. | !
wow! I love the first photo, the shape is awesome, thanks for sharing..
I'll bet the Disney crew has those shoes gone by now! Disney parks are always such clean places.
Wow…did you check for a body? I'm joking. Interesting picture. A hiker would NEED his shoes in that terrain. You could right..could be a joke..still..
How funny! I've never noticed them …I wonder if they are a prop or real and the owner got whisked away by the Goof Troop before he could get them back on!
i think those are mine LOL I'm from Canada and I'm glad you visited.
Howdy Tink…you are so lucky to be able to visit Disneyworld so much. Those shoes are a mystery. Nice job on the post.
Knowing Disney, I believe these shoes are part of the props…notice the positioning of the soles. If you look, you will find features like this all over the parks. When my boys were younger, we used to have contests to see who could find unusual props in all the parks. I've been visiting Disney World since the first summer it opened…and I still enjoy it! Of course, living only an hour away…and with the FL resident discounts, it's a great place to spend the day. Great photo!
How funny. And great eyes to spot them! I love Epcot, after the Animal Kingdom it's my favorite part of Disney. Happy Outdoor Wednesday.
I sure wish I had that waterfall in my garden!
You started my day with a big smile. I never would have noticed the shoes had you not caught them on camera. The exhibit is lovely. I hope you are having a wonderful day.
I bet they are some sort of prop as well. Looks like quite a toss from where you are standing…the odds of getting them to land just perfectly | 380 |
Over the years, Portuguese based Australian dressage rider Sarah Warne has shared her equestrian journey with the dressage world through her "Classical Training" articles on Eurodressage. Warne has now gathered her best articles in the book "Classical Training for the Good of the Partnership."
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Aimed for the everyday rider and the rider who wants to maintain the classical principles in the competition arena, this book is set out so equestrian athletes can quickly access a current theme to refresh their memory on | 60 |
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Can the Bible inspire the modern philanthropist?
Maria D'Anselmi
What hath Scripture to do with philanthropy? A recent Center for Civil Society webinar asked how the Bible can inform your philanthropy today.
What is charity according to the Bible? And, what are we to make of the many Biblical warnings about wealth?
The Center for Civil Society recently hosted a webinar—with Jack Fowler, director of the Center, along with Mary Pope Osborne, acclaimed author of the Magic Treehouse series, Rusty Reno, editor of First Things magazine, and Jeremy Beer, principal partner at American Philanthropic—to address these questions.
Charitable giving, our panelists emphasized, is not only for the material benefit of the recipient, but also for the spiritual<|fim_middle|> Christian charity in the Beatitudes "blessed are the poor in spirit."
Regardless of your net worth in this world, cultivating a spirit of poverty, a sense that your wealth is a gift to be stewarded rather than possessed—and that giving is an opportunity to draw closer to, and learn from your neighbors—can move you to a Biblical sense of charity.
This will improve your giving and, more than likely, your spiritual life.
You can watch the webinar recording here, and register for future Center For Civil Society webinars and events here.
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302.635.7354119 N. High St., West Chester, PA 19380 | enrichment of the giver. This insight is at the heart of a "Biblical understanding" of charity. By understanding the Biblical significance of charity, philanthropists can not only avoid the pitfalls of wealth but become closer to the people they serve and ultimately become closer to God.
An engaging and illuminating conversation, here are four primary themes they covered that any of us—major philanthropist or average giver—can learn from.
ONE: THE BIBLICAL ROOTS OF CHARITY
We can often take our understanding of charity for granted, as if this is just the way people are. But when we gain some historical context, we can see the historical achievement and uniqueness of Christian charity.
If we rewind 2000 years, before the coming of Christ, we find that Jews understood charity quite differently from the ancient Romans, who felt no obligation to the poor. For the Romans, the poor were socially invisible. Wealthy Romans gave to the public to display their magnanimity—and always with an expectation of receiving honor and glory in return. We see and sometimes criticize this sort of giving today, but in the ancient Roman world, it was normal and expected.
But the Jews, in contrast, felt a responsibility to help the suffering and disadvantaged. Sin they knew, creates debts with God, and by helping those in need, they could store up treasure in heaven. The Jews, moreover, felt solidarity with the afflicted, remembering their suffering as former slaves in Egypt.
Our modern view of charity in the United States, importantly, is inherited through the Judeo-Christian tradition. The obligation to the poor that began in Judaism is only intensified in Christianity through the self-giving of Jesus Christ, who tells his followers, "Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me."
There is a strong continuity between Judaism and Christianity, but the latter takes the significance of charity a step further and, as Reno states, "ties charity up with salvation very tightly." It is no wonder that people of faith give more on average than those without faith, as they understand their eternal destination depends on how they treat their neighbor. As missionary Jim Eliot wrote: "he who is no fool gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose."
TWO: CHARITY FOR THE GIVER'S SAKE
This Christian view of charity as salvific frees the philanthropist from giving just because they are rich and others are not. This is due, in no small part, to the fact that the Christian giver understands their wealth not as their own but as God's. Ultimately, they are stewards, not possessors, of their wealth.
Beer notes that believing wealth is a gift from God has a powerful effect on the giver, and this belief is evident not in what Christian philanthropists say, but in the way they give. Namely, a willingness to renounce a level of control in the outcomes of their giving, trusting to God and the nonprofit leaders who will use their gift well. This attitude runs counter to root-cause giving and "effective altruism," both distorted offshoots of a Christian worldview that has been stripped of belief in Christ. Here, the poor provide an opportunity for those who are better off to grow in virtue—an occasion for them to act out of love and service, without grasping concern for how "transformative" their giving is.
THREE: "I HATE PEOPLE INDIVIDUALLY, BUT I LOVE MANKIND"
The Bible is full of warnings about the temptations and pitfalls of wealth. The camel through the eye of the needle, the parable of the rich young man, the list goes on. But the primary injunction is not against being wealthy, but against the sin of avarice, the greed afflicting the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge who, despite his piles of money, is threadbare and spiritually impoverished.
In a less obvious way, avarice can present itself in the hearts of many philanthropists who "generously" distribute their wealth but maintain investor-like expectations of "ROI" and "impact." Reno cautions: "The danger of wealth is to believe in it, to believe its promise. That if you have enough money, you can control the future, that you can insulate yourself from everything that might be bad in life."
Charity has a way of breaking the chains of wealth. By giving without thought to "investment," by relinquishing control, those with means can achieve a healthy detachment from their money through their philanthropy—mitigating against both pride and avarice.
The Bible does not ask us to change the world or to get at the "root causes" of an issue. "Giving in the bible is about what charity does to the giver much more than it is for that to whom something is given," added Beer. "It's hard for us to get our minds around that."
But when we do, our philanthropic goals change. They become healthier, more realistic, and probably more effective. Beer continues: "Eradicating poverty is an ideological dream. The goal of eradicating poverty is very different than serving the poor."
FOUR: THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE
"God loves a cheerful giver," says Osborne, who exemplifies the Christian view of charity in her own giving. "If you're not having joy in giving there's something wrong. That's why it's so fun to give locally."
How does the Bible inspire her? Osborne likes to highlight an often-overlooked character in the parable of the Good Samaritan: the innkeeper to whom the wounded man is entrusted by the Samaritan. "I'm looking for good innkeepers. That's how I've guided my own giving for years. Every source I give to, I know the person who runs it."
By focusing on local charity, philanthropists can form a relationship of trust with those receiving their gifts and can encounter Christ in those they help. Instead of distant check-writing, philanthropists should view themselves as stewards of God's goodness, a view that transforms philanthropy into true self-giving, which is itself an invaluable gift.
PUTTING WEALTH TO WORK—FOR YOURSELF AND OTHERS
Wealth is not a bad thing. Indeed, it provides an opportunity to do great good in the world. While the temptations and pitfalls of wealth are inescapable, in the New Testament Christ offers up a guide for those seeking to embody | 1,330 |
A NEW AND LARGER PUBLIC<|fim_middle|> is expected to continue through August. | facility housing the CLUI Los Angeles office is currently being prepared at the Venice Boulevard location, and is scheduled to open by September, 2000. The new, 1800 square-foot facility will have a separate function room for exhibits and events, as well as improved access to research resources, including the library and archive.
The Center has been searching for a larger space in Los Angeles for years, at various times considering a former Nike missile launching complex and an oil company property to house the office and exhibit site. It was finally remembered that "there was no place like home," and the CLUI is now in a partnership with the Museum of Jurassic Technology, located adjacent to the CLUI, striving towards the purchase of the complex that houses the two organizations.
While fundraising continues, generous gifts have been made by private foundations and individuals to secure the down payment on the property and to begin renovations on the CLUI space. The former tenant in the space now being reclaimed by the CLUI moved out at the end of their lease in April, and a CLUI Work Party was held the first weekend in May, whereupon a volunteer army cleaned out the new space in an enthusiastic spasm of productive energy that lasted for five days. Work rebuilding the space | 254 |
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The Large Hadron Collider has successfully collided two beams at the highest energy ever for a particle accelerator, allowing scientists at Cern to begin their research into new physics.
Shortly after 1pm on Tuesday in Geneva, the LHC reached 3.5 tera-electron volts (TeV) per proton beam, after Cern fixed two glitches that had held up the experiment. The two beams were then successfully collided to produce experimental data at 7 TeV.
"This means major excitement," said Oliver Buchmueller, who organises physics searches at the CMS detector. "Today, we've entered a new era in particle physics."
All four of the detectors in the LHC successfully detected collisions, said Buchmueller. The detectors, found at different points around the 27km LHC circuit under the French-Swiss border, are Atlas, CMS, LHCb and Alice.
Buchmueller said the next step is for Cern to run the LHC continuously for up to two years to gather and exploit data for a range of physics researches.
Scientists will begin by finding known particles as a run-up to starting a systematic search for the Higgs boson, a hypothetical scalar elementary particle also known as the 'God particle', Cern said in a statement. Research will also cover antimatter, dark matter, the possible presence of extra dimensions, and other fundamental physics.
Physicists will begin by increasing the intensity of the beams. On Tuesday, the detectors were picking up 20-30 events per second, due to the number of bunches of protons being fired at each other. On Tuesday, two bunches of protons were being fired at each other, but this total will increase by steps — up to 2,700 bunches, said Buchmueller.
Buchmueller is one of the scientists at Cern involved in the search for dark matter and for super-symmetry. Dark matter effectively could weakly interact with other forms of matter, he said, adding that an energy of 3.5 TeV per beam may be enough to study dark matter.
Cern, which is funded by EU members among other countries, had been working towards the 3.5 TeV goal for years, said Steve Myers, director for accelerators and technology at the European organisation.
"We're all very relieved, totally excited," said Myers. "I was confident, but there's many a slip twixt cup and lip | 563 |
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Google passed a pair of mile markers on the road to real-time search this week, debuting the much-hyped Twitter integration for both consumers and enterprise users.
The No. 1 search engine had put the world on notice that real-time results were coming to its flagship Google.com site, holding an event on Monday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to show members of the mediawhat the feature would look like. But it had been unclear how soon Twitter streams, social media posts and news headlines would arrive on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).
Now, they're here. But it's not just the consumer Web that's in line for Google's real-time makeover. The company is also now making the feature available on the Google Search Appliance, Google's enterprise search tool that indexes documents, databases, intran<|fim_middle|> with a spate of social hubs like Facebook, MySpace and FriendFeed to import status updates and other content from those sites into its real-time search feature.
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"Social information is important for businesses," Cyrus Mistry, Google's product manager for enterprise search, wrote in a blog post. "Employees searching for information needed to do their jobs benefit from real-time news, too."
For GSA users, the integration appears within search results' Related Web Results section, which presents a list of real-time data from Google.com alongside internal company information. Admins will be able to disable the feature if they wish.
"Customers have told us that placing Web results next to intranet ones often allows employees to think differently about a particular topic and approach it in new ways," Mistry said. "By integrating enterprise search with more of the information that exists in the cloud, like tweets, employees can more easily leverage the wisdom of the crowd."
On the public Google.com, searches for a hot topic in the news like, say, "Tiger Woods" or "climate change," display a box marked "latest results" toward the top of the page, with a scrolling list of continuously updated links to new posts on the topic from around the Web.
Google had announced its Twitter integration in October, just hours after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) put out word that it had struck a similar deal for its own Bing search engine. Then on Monday, Google announced partnerships | 267 |
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Oddly enough, I did not find Miss Krystle because of her music. I came across her other content, while researching info on starting Autonomy Talent. Because, not only is she an exceptionally talented musician, who owns her own record label, but she is also an entertainment attorney. So if you want to stay up to date on the business of music, tune in to her weekly sow on her YouTube channel, Top Music Attorney.
You will be able to hear more about Miss Krystle, and her background, next week when her interview episode airs, but for now, let's dig into the 3 songs for this week.
These tracks, and all the tracks featured in these episodes, can be enjoyed on the Indie Artist Spotlight Spotify Playlist
The following descriptions came directly from Miss Krytsle:
"Save Yourself: This song was the first real step in my transition into AGGROPOP (Aggressive Pop) music, and it was one of the first songs that really started making waves on social media. It has a very pop/rock vibe about it, and is one of my all-time favorites!
Dangerous Daughters: This is probably one of the more emotional and personal songs off the upcoming album (also titled Dangerous Daughters). I particularly love the "ahhhhs" in the beginning of the song.
Angels In The Valley: There is such an extreme contrast between the parts in this song, and it perfectly merges EDM and electronic rock together. I really like the distortion and gritty feel of this track.
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Printed Landscape
Colin Sackett
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Encounters with the uncanny are often in lamp-lit rooms or darkened hollows; abandoned shop fronts, the back room of an antiques centre, a late-night walk through the zoo. They are moments in which we can hear our own heartbeats louder than the too-whit of the owls or the harumph of a motorway. They are the almost-places populated, among whatever other entities are there, by the feeling that something is not exactly real – the anxiety of our own falseness projected into the world.
As a child I was obsessed with these 'false' places: Westworld and cardboard cut-out oasis villages; Scooby-doo villains' abandoned amusement parks; Local Hero and Brigadoon and those Twilight Zone episodes in which everyone but our protagonist is in on something mildly sinister. My Dungeons & Dragons campaigns inevitably ended with the hapless squad discovering that the town they'd been 'rescuing' was, in fact, populated by cutthroats and brigands perpetrating a most theatrical crime.
Colin Sackett seems to be obsessed with similar things, with a major distinction. While the uncanny places you and I understand are three-dimensional – whether imagined or encountered, they are places a person can walk through or mannequins one can touch. Sackett's are on the printed page. Not words describing a place, but the marks on the page itself.
In Printed landscapes – an anthology, of a sort, of certain types of Sackett's printed work over the past quarter-century – he does a masterful job of confusing print and place in a way that evokes that uncanny feeling of almost. Take, for example, his 'overprintings' of London maps: maps of South London and Surrey printed atop one another, rendered unusable by usual map standards. Or his 'Aggregate' – the topographical abbreviations associated with an anomalous Croydon wild-land, typed over and over on each other, generating page-depth to a place usually represented by the flatness of its mapping. These maps are a reminder of the futility of cartography as a means to rendering place: what can a few symbols and lines on a page tell us of the impossibility of truly knowing a place? Are we, in fact, setting ourselves up for failure when we arrive somewhere believing our maps?
Many of Sackett's interests might be thought of as The Beauty of the Limitations of Humans Describing the Land In Print. I'm particularly fond of the instances in which he removes by several decimal points our connection to the land itself: illegible Yellow Pages tear-outs listing 'Farmers' by the hundreds; a map of a location by its structures' phone numbers, with everything else removed; most strangely beautiful of all, a collection of grower's cards that once came attached to bunches of watercress – the English countryside's version of 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn'.
In fact, perhaps one thing the traditional 'uncanny landscape' and Sackett's post-modern, printed ones have in common is the collection. Assemblages of objects, ideas, airs and follies, particularly when encountered without human company, become facsimiles of life: having spent key years of my life working the hidden, employee-only stacks of a public library or digging (several times, literally) in the unfiled and abandoned rooms of record shops, I can speak from experience that the almost-life of these collections reveals things about oneself that we should confront but can be forgiven for not wanting to confront.
Printed landscape is a collection – of previously published pieces of writing and artwork and curation – and it is done in a now-familiar Uniformbooks style: alphabetical, regardless of how out-of-context this renders the pieces. Which succeeds fantastically here, separating similar works while finding previously unnoticed kindred between others. We are left mapless – or, perhaps more accurately, in need of new maps and of 'making the filaments of a new compass', as Haniel Long put it.
The heartland of the English uncanny landscape is in the ne'er-world of the Essex-Suffolk border – in Constable Country – where we make real the imaginings on paper of one man's imperfect notes and ideal memories, and it is unsurprising that such a location makes for the simplest declaration of the author's intent.
Sackett's series 'Illus.' – fittingly, right in the middle of Printed landscape – includes a reproduction of one of Constable's 1813 sketchbook, the strangeness of which Sackett reveals in his wonderful, brief, descriptive style. A page of a notebook<|fim_middle|> space and time by increasingly difficult distances, 'his own hand now passing on unbeknown'.
Printed landscape and plenty more wonders from Colin Sackett's Uniformbooks imprint are available from his website.
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Mama Quilla of Mama Killa was de maangodin van de Inca's. Haar broer of man was de zonnegod Inti. Viracocha was haar vader. De aardgodin Mama Ocllo wordt als haar dochter beschouwd. De Incamythologie zegt dat uit Mama Quilla de eerste Incakeizer, de Sapa Inca, Manco Capac, voortkwam. Mama Quilla was ook verantwoordelijk voor het verstrijken van de tijd.
De belangrijkste vrouw van de Sapa Inca, Qoya genaamd, vertegenwoordigde de maangodin op aarde. In de late keizertijd en ten tijde van de Spaanse verovering was ze tevens de zuster van de Sapa Inca. Zij zorgde ervoor dat de rituele activiteiten in Cuzco overeenstemden met de maancyclus.
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Contracts for a difference, CFD is an interesting investing opportunity in the stock markets. A contract for difference is as simple as it sounds. There is a buyer and seller who set-up a contract in during the beginning of the trade and the person makes money depending on the price of the stock during the closing trade.
Contracts for difference are prevalent in many countries like Russia, Singapore and some European countries like France and Australia as well. But in the United States they are highly regulated as they are considered Swaps and they come under a particular law that needs to be followed.
A trade is done with a CFD provider and this is how it works.
Step 1: You decide on a stock for example, Facebook at the price of $108.
Step 4: Say hypothetically Facebook's share price at the end of the day goes to $118.
The above is a simple example of how the price movements during a day can get you a profit or a loss. If in the above example, if the Facebook stock went down then you would have made a loss.
One of the biggest pros of CFD's is Dividends. You can actually get paid the dividend provided by the company. CFD's are aimed at taking the benefits of all the stocks without actual ownership, this means getting paid dividends.
CFD's aren't restricted to only stocks, but Indices, mutual funds, currencies and commodities. This gives traders the chance to play to their strengths and take advantage of the price differences.
CFD's can be pretty risky and that is why it's always a good sign to be able to stop your losses. Brokers offer this option to CFD trader's to cut their losses. This is probably the most important option for a CFD trader.
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CFD's are ultimately not fundamentally strong Investments. They are not what you would call Investments that'll be bought by the likes of 'Warren Buffet'. This means you cannot build for the future with Investments like CFD's.
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CFD's give an extra option for the Risk averse who want to experiment with more risky asset classes and gives them an opportunity to make them a lot of money within a short span of time. A good Investor always diversifies and they diversify their Investment styles as well to understand the other side.
Disclaimer : Just like most Investment advice, it is better to do research on the different asset classes yourself and it is better to put in a small amount of money to start off, so that you do not burn your hands.
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Previous articleHow to Invest Gold in Singapore this 2018? | D's are almost like loans given to traders by the brokers. This means an Interest has to be paid when the trade is extended by more than a day. This is quite a big con because CFD trades are mostly small margins because of the price differences that are not huge between opening and closing. This added cost can eat on the profits or add on to the losses.
How can CFD help in diversity of Investment?
CFD's can be a perfect investment for the serious Investor. Let me explain.
A good Investor is the one who follows Buffet's principles of Fundamental Investing and focuses on a few stocks. But this can sometimes be a limited approach. Most people have tendencies to trade and a great way to use a portion of their money could be to trade CFD's.
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