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Group Work Activity
The Time Machine Chapters 1-8
QUESTION: What does the author value or hate?
Review our reading up until now.
- Make a
list of ideas, character traits, and people that the author seems to value
or disdain in the novel.
each, discuss what part of the novel what part of the novel gives the
impression that the author values or hates these ideas, people, or traits.
In other words, find TBE + page numbers for your example.
deduce what messages, lessons, or insights into life we might infer. In
other words, what themes are illustrated by these examples? | <urn:uuid:28a1e82c-9081-4683-b096-1b1a10357460> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 572 |
House on the Hill in Plettenberg Bay 'Plett' is a comfortable family home that offers panoramic views across Lookout Beach and the lagoon all the way to Keurbooms and the mountains beyond.
The house is a family home with all the comforts that you need on holiday.
The main bedroom is en suite (bath and shower) with views across the bay, second bedroom also has views but a separate bathroom shared with bedroom 3 (bath and shower).
Bedroom 4 is slightly detached from the main house with a separate entrance and en suite bathroom (shower). This room is perfect for teenagers that stay out late!
The entire property.
Interaction with guests
I will not be there but Gloria will be, she has worked for our family for years and we know and trust her.
Other things to note
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The Quest for the Cockle Implant
Written by Maya Wasserman
National Deaf Children's Society, 2020
When deaf mermaid Angel loses one of her cockle implants, she and her sister go on an exciting adventure through the sea to find it. Using sign language to communicate, their adventure brings them face-to-face with a monstrous Merkitty.
Will they get past the squid, sharks and strangling seaweed? Will they get Angel’s cockle implant back? And will they get home in time for tea?
The Quest for the Cockle Implant is the result of a storytelling competition run by the National Deaf Children’s Society. The competition was judged by Julia Donaldson CBE and won by 9-year-old Maya Wasserman. Maya worked with a team of writers to transform her winning story into a children’s storybook, illustrated by young deaf illustrator Lucy Rogers.
The Quest for the Cockle Implant features deaf mermaid Angel, who wears two cochlear implants. The story includes British Sign Language (BSL) and deaf awareness tips. A full BSL translation of the story is available via the Signed Stories app. | <urn:uuid:eb0745ff-36b5-4357-96c1-0554ad80e47d> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,078 |
A-kasse rights for migrant workers under attack!
If you have been away for a total of one year, you will be cut off for unemployment benefits for seven years
The Danish government has come up with a proposal that workers must have stayed in Denmark or the European Economic Area (EEA) for 7 years to get unemployment security in the A-kasse. It affects immigrants from outside the European Economic Area (EEA), as well as workers who have taken work in Dubai, the United States, Canada or other countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If you have been away for a total of one year, you will be cut off for unemployment benefits for seven years and potentially also maternity and sickness benefits. Copenhagen Construction Unions in Cooperation oppose the proposal and made the following statement:
Defend the Danish model - stop the residence requirement of the A-kasse
The planned tightening of legislation with the introduction of a 7-year residence requirement to receive unemployment benefits in Denmark, is being presented as a defense of the Danish welfare society. But the proposal is a huge mistake which is both:
Discriminatory against people living and working legally in Denmark, and
Makes a long term organizational problem for the trade union movement a in relation to migrant labor.
The LO federations have rightly spent much energy to ensure proper refugee agreements. Agreements aimed at quickly bringing refugees in to the labor market and thus helping them being integrated into the danish sociarity. It is on the job that you learn the language, culture and the norms quickly. It is also on the job that you get acquainted with the Danish model. For example, the danish collective agreement that ensures one's rights at work, and the danish unemployment safety net, the A-kassen.
A good safety net is a vital part of the Danish labor market. It is a large factor in ensuring that workers dare to stand up for their rights. For example, say no to underpayment. Without access to this security, large groups in the Danish labor market will be pressured to accept underpayment and poor working conditions. Therefore, the proposal is a major step back in the fight against social dumping.
For the trade union movement, there will also be an organizational problem, as we will not be able to invite immigrant and refugee colleagues in to all of our community, which normally includes both trade unions and A-kasse.
The Danish A-kasse system is based on a good insurance policy, where people themselves have to pay and earn the right to the insurance, but the requirements must be the same for all colleagues. To introduce discrimination is a slippery slide that in time can destroy trust in a otherwise good system.
We therefore demand that the residence requirement be taken from the table in its entirety.
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EA Tiburon's Madden NFL 12 entered 6th while (cancerous plague) Zumba Fitness fell 3rd. Rugby World Cup 2011 slipped 4th while FIFA 11 dribbled 9th.
Sorry Detective Tanner but the UK chart top is reserved for Sarif security boss Jensen. Deus Ex: Human Revolution managed to keep its lead position although sales have fallen by half for the Eidos Montreal title, with Xbox 360 still selling the most.
Driver: San Francisco's share was just over half for Xbox 360. EA Sports' American Football Madden NFL 12 entered in at a respectable 6th place. Below is the UK chart all format top 20 for the week ending September 3rd. | <urn:uuid:900c154c-b4e7-4ed8-9365-3d52efe2b936> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 619 |
On the upside
Roth Capital upgraded Nanosphere (Nasdaq: NSPH) to a Buy rating.
Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI) will pay a premium of approximately $625 million in cash to acquire FX Alliance (NYSE: FX).
On the downside
Profit taking sank shares of Patriot Coal (NYSE: PCX).
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges denied accreditation for Bridgepoint Education's (NYSE: BPI) Ashford University.
FBR Capital Markets downgraded SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI) to Market Perform from Outperform.
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This eccentric new patient is a Common Poorwill, a species of nightjar and one of the few birds in the world known to undergo a hibernation-like state called torpor. They are nocturnal and forage through the night sky for moths and other insects.
This patient was recently transported to our San Francisco Bay center by Vallejo Animal Control, having been found on nearby Mare Island.
There are no visible injuries, but the bird is emaciated and was hypothermic upon intake. (Click on the player to the right to hear this bird.)
We gave this patient plenty of supportive care before transferring the poorwill to our friends and wildlife partners at Lindsay Wildlife Museum. Thanks, Lindsay!
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Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Chocolate cake 2
Chocolate cake 2. This cake is rich and very addictive. Footnotes Partner Tip; Reynolds® Aluminum foil can be used to keep food moist, cook it evenly, and make clean-up easier. Whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder.
In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. We have the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and instant espresso powder. Pour in the buttermilk, warm water, eggs, olive oil and mix. You can have Chocolate cake 2 using 16 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chocolate cake 2
- Prepare 2 cup of flour.
- Prepare 1 cup of sugar.
- You need 1/3 cup of coco powder.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of baking soda.
- You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 tbs of vanilla essence.
- You need 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
- You need 1 cup of buttermilk.
- It's 1 cup of hot coffee.
- It's of Sweet Candy's.
- It's of Frosting ingredients.
- Prepare 1 cup of whipped cream.
- You need 1 cup of icing sugar.
- Prepare 1 cup of cold milk.
- You need 1/2 tsp of purple food colour.
We would like to show you a description here but the site won't allow us. One bite and you'll see why this velvety beauty was named the best chocolate cake recipe won first prize. —Sandra Johnson, Tioga, Pennsylvania Also, if you've ever wondered why some chocolate cake recipes (like this one) call for boiling water, it's because it helps bloom the cocoa powder, giving the cake a deeper chocolate flavor. For a softer cake, you can substitute cake flour for the all-purpose flour. You will note that you may have to bake the cake just a few minutes more.
Chocolate cake 2 step by step
- Preheat your oven to 170c grease your baking pan set aside, in your large bowl combine all dry ingredients together,flour,sugar,baking powder,soda,cocoa powder whisk them slowly..
- Add eggs,buttermilk, vegetable oil,and hot coffee whisk until well combined add vanilla essence. Then palace your batter on baking pan and set on oven for baking..
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted and come out clean then set on rack allow it to cool..
- In your stand or hand mixer add whipped cream and cold milk whisk till tick then add icing sugar and keep whisking for 10-15 minutes,frosting your cake then take small amount add purple food colour and decorate your cake spread Candy's also. Enjoy.
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May 14, 2012
"No more victims" die-in & vigil [instruction card] Cambridge, Massachusetts 1978 May 27 Living Theatre Records
March 2, 2010
An engraved plate by George Cruikshank from a compilation of issues of "London Oddities or the Theatrical Cabinet", [London, Hodgson & Co., ca. 1822.]
November 10, 2008
Loie Fuller and ??? From a collection of photographs of theatrical performers by Napoleon Sarony, ca. 1870-1890.
August 7, 2008
Images of the Delsarte system of expression, popularized in the 1880s and found in the volume: The Popular Entertainer and Self-Instructor in Elocution (Chicago: Conkey, 1898) [in the collection of the Beinecke Library as part of a salesman's sample book, including Wood's Natural History for Children]
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Hugh Jackman! (Wolverine….), David Hobson, Peter Cousen
We three kings of Orient are;
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Following yonder star.
O star of wonder, star of light,
Star with royal beauty bright,
Westward leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect light.
Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never,
Over us all to reign.
Frankincense to offer have I;
Incense owns a Deity nigh;
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In Part 1 of my study on the plight of women in Israelite society, I wrote that “the status of women as persons of worth and dignity at times [is] betrayed by the social realities present in Israelite society.” In Part 2 of my study, I want to introduce how the reforms of Josiah and the book of Deuteronomy made an attempt at improving the status of women in Israelite society during the seventh century B.C.E.
The best effort to deal with the religious and social problems confronting Israelite society in the late monarchic period is found in the book of Deuteronomy. The book of Deuteronomy was an attempt at developing a special sense of social responsibility in the life of every Israelite for the poor, slaves, women, and for those in society who were underprivileged and did not enjoy the whole benefit of the law.
The book of Deuteronomy is considered by the majority of scholars to be a revision of the Book of the Covenant. The book of Deuteronomy revises old laws and introduces new ones in order to meet the needs of Israelite society in the latter half of the seventh century B.C.E.
The book of Deuteronomy is presented as an exposition of the Mosaic law revealed by Yahweh at Mount Sinai. According to the book, Moses introduced the laws of God to the new generation of Israelites in preparation for their entrance into the Promised Land. This exposition of the law was also an invitation to the people of Israel to dedicate themselves to the demands of the covenant Yahweh had established with them.
The degeneration of the religious and social life in the Northern Kingdom in the days of Amos and Hosea and the religious syncretism in Judah in the days of Manasseh promoted an abandonment of moral values and a neglect of the demands of the covenant and the ancient traditions of the nation.
In 622 B.C.E., during the renovation of the temple in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (640-609), the book of the law was found by the workers in the temple. The book found in the temple probably was an earlier version of Deuteronomy. The reading of the book affected Josiah immensely.
In a ceremony in the temple, the king invited the people to renew the covenant and to abide by the demands of the Torah of Moses. In addition to the religious reforms of the Israelite cult, there was also a reformulation of several laws to improve the plight of the destitute and the oppressed in Israelite society.
The book of Deuteronomy reflects the rise of humanism in Israel. Deuteronomy contains several new laws and many revisions of old ones dealing with the oppressed in Israel. These laws became necessary because of the changes brought by the monarchy and by the deterioration of the social structures in Israelite society.
Several aspects of the Deuteronomic reform affected women for the better. The reformulation of Mosaic laws in the days of Josiah also served to call the people who lived in the seventh century B.C.E. to hear the words of Yahweh again and to renew their commitment to the God of Israel.
The book of Deuteronomy emphasizes Israel’s experience in Egypt. Deuteronomy reintroduces the laws and demands of the God who had redeemed a people from the house of servitude in Egypt to make them a special people with a universal mission. Israel was called to be a religious community where the justice of God would be manifested to the whole world.
Among the many theological emphases of the book, three deserve attention. The first was that Yahweh, the God of Israel, loved Israel with a special love, even when the nation did not deserve his love. Now Israel had to love God with their whole being (Deuteronomy 6:5).
Second, Israel had served other gods, but now Israel had to serve Yahweh exclusively (Deuteronomy 6:4). Deuteronomy emphasizes the singularity of Yahweh in the life of Israel. Finally, the book of Deuteronomy relates obedience to God to the daily life of each member of the community. Because Israel was united to God by the demands of the covenant, each member of the community had to treat another Israelite with justice.
Israel, as God’s people, was a special people, a people separated from the other nations and as such, the daily life and the moral conduct among the members of the community had to reflect this relationship with God.
The demands of the covenant required personal integrity and social justice of each Israelite. The poor, the slaves, the orphans, the widows, and the other destitute persons in Israel became the beneficiaries of the changes introduced by the social reforms of Deuteronomy. In addition, there was a real effort to improve the status of women in Israelite society by emphasizing the dignity of women and by bringing them relief from some of the injustices allowed by older laws. This improvement of the status of Israelite women came by revision of older laws found in the Book of the Covenant and by the enactment of new laws directly affecting the lives of women in Israelite society.
In upcoming posts, I will demonstrate how the book of Deuteronomy is concerned with the oppressive situation of women in Israelite society. I will examine several laws and study how Deuteronomic laws revise and improve the laws in the book of Exodus to address some social injustices in Israelite society, especially injustices against women.
To be continued.
Studies on the Deuteronomic Concern for Women
Emeritus Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary
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As I'm finishing up my third historical mystery--The Masque of a Murderer--I found that I still had a few more things to research.
In particular, what would commoners living in 17th-century London have known of chocolate, and how might they have experienced it for the first time?
References to "chocolate" in England can first be found in the 1640s. Of course, "chocolate" as a substance had been around for several thousand years as Smithonian.com explains, originating in Mesoamerica. However, it did not find its way to Europe until the early seventeenth century, as one of the strange products imported from the New World. The word "chocolate" comes from the Aztec word "xocoatl," (or is it the Nahuatl word chocolatl?) referring to a bitter drink derived from cacao beans, with medical and health properties (for more about the etymology of the word, check out Oxford Dictionaries blog for ten facts concerning the word Chocolate... ).
By the 1650s, several discourses on the "physicks" and health properties of chocolate were in circulation in London. In 1640, "A Curious Treatise of the nature and quality of Chocolate" by Antonio Colmenero, a Spanish"Doctor in Physicke and Chirurgery, was translated into English. More significantly, Henry Stubb published the far more substantial treatise on "The Indian Nectar" in 1662.
We know too, from a collection of 1667 statutes from King Charles II that there were restrictions on who could sell chocolate: "And be it further Enacted by Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said first day of September, no person or persons shall be permitted to sell or retail any Coffée, Chocolate, Sherbet or Tea, without License first obtained and had by Order of the General Sessions of the Peace in the several and respective Counties,etc etc."
This makes me reasonably certain that chocolate would have been sold at coffee houses, for those would have been the establishments likely to acquire such a license. It is unlikely that chocolate would have been sold at taverns or alehouses, at least in early Restoration England, due to the great dispute between those who sold wine and beer, and those who sold coffee.
Chocolate might have been procured for medicinal purposes as well, although it is unclear to me--at least at this preliminary stage--whether it would have been actively prescribed by a physician. However, if the "Virtues" are to be believed (of course, that's if they are to believed), chocolate cures infertility, "ill complexion," digestive illnesses, consumption and "coughs to the lungs," "sweetens the breath," "cleaneth the teeth," "provoketh urine" and "cureth the stone." Apparently, this miracle drug also cures "the running of the reins," (the last a euphemistic biblical reference to venereal disease). Who knew?
I have to surmise a bit here, on how popular chocolate truly was in Restoration London. But I think it's reasonable to assume, especially once sugar became a more common household good, that it would have been become popular fairly quickly. (Although it's also likely that it remained in the realm of the elite and wealthy, for quite some time.) But what do you think?
England and Wales. A collection of the statutes made in the reigns of King Charles the I. and King Charles the II. with the abridgment of such as stand repealed or expired. Continued after the method of Mr. Pulton. With notes of references, one to the other, as they now stand altered, enlarged or explained. To which also are added, the titles of all the statutes and private acts of Parliament passed by their said Majesties, untill this present year, MDCLXVII. With a table directing to the principal matters of the said statutes. By Tho: Manby of Lincolns-Inn, Esq. 1667 Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) / E898
Wing / 2532:08
Life has been crazy, crazy, CRAZY busy...I've barely had any time to post. Work is, well, busy, on top of that I just finished up teaching two classes and now I'm prepping for the next quarter, and I'm still working away on Book 3--The Masque of a Murderer--due to my editor very soon.
All the while I'm trying to gear up for the launch of Book 2--From the Charred Remains--which will be released on April 22. Yikes and a half!
But it's fun to take time out to celebrate the different writing milestones. Today my first novel, A Murder at Rosamund's Gate, came out in paperback. I even signed a few copies, just for fun!
It's 72 days 'til the launch of my second novel, From the Charred Remains, and I couldn't be more excited.
Yet the process the second time around, while similar, feels a bit different. I know many authors compare launching a book to having a child, and I think the metaphor is apt. (Indeed, there was a wonderful blog, Book Pregnant, devoted to this concept, so I won't dwell on it here).
I have a better idea about what is ahead of me, and yet I don't know with certainty what to expect. I know that some of the people who read my blog are first time authors or aspiring writers, so I thought I'd just share some of my observations.
Some differences I've already noted:
Of course, there are many similarities as well. Mostly in the form of anxious questions that I try not to dwell on too much:
My post in WD appeared Sept 6, 2013
A few years ago, when I was first trying to figure out how to get my debut novel A Murder at Rosamund's Gate published, I came across Writer's Digest.
Full of advice for the fledgling writer and published author alike, Writer's Digest gave me some great insights into what I needed to do to polish my manuscript and write a compelling cover letter. (I mean, tell me it's not important to know "How to see your work through an agent or publisher's eyes?" or, "Knowing when to stop: Expectations for a satisfying ending.")
So I really appreciated the opportunity to write a guest post, "How to write historical fiction: 7 tips on accuracy and authenticity" for Writer's Digest. In this post, I talk about the tensions I've experienced as a historian-turned-novelist, while writing historical fiction. I also try to offer a few strategies that have worked for me in reconciling these tensions. Check it out!
And while you're there, try out the daily writing prompt! Although I have to giggle, because today the prompt is: "You are a local news reporter for a failing network. Your boss tells you to ramp up the news by getting “creative” and constructing your own stories. What’s the first fake news story you create and broadcast on air?"
Fake News! Totally fun! Accuracy Shmackeracy! If you do take up the challenge, will you post it here too? I'd love to see it!
Folly in Print, (London, 1667) Wing / 436:03
I had to laugh when I came across this tract by John Raymond, 17th century author of Folly in Print, or A Book of Rymes (1667).
Right away, on the first page, he lets the readers know it really isn't his fault if you don't like his book:
"Whoever buyes this Book will say,
Next, Raymond then explains to his readers that if they believe what the bookseller says (or sings, as was often the case), it's their own fault if they find they don't like the book after all.
"... in Books, where for money or exchange, we take our choice, and in our own Election please our selves;
Can you imagine if authors could still add this type of caveat emptor today? Madness!
But I'm sure there are many authors today--especially those stung by hurtful reviews--who might wish they could say something like this to their readers:
I doe not promise for my Book nor say 'tis good, but here's variety and each man (of his own pallat) is the certain judge:
You might like my book, you might not. To each her own!
But what do you think? Have you ever felt deceived about a book?
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Fans of Sherlock Holmes may be intrigued to know that the first known female sleuth in England was Anne Kidderminster (nee Holmes), a seventeenth-century widow who tracked down and brought her husband’s murderer to justice thirteen years after the crime.
To find out more, check out my guest blog over on Criminal Element, found under the excerpt of A Murder at Rosamund's Gate.
As I move along the path from "writer" to "author," I've become aware of something that's simultaneously wonderful and daunting:
PEOPLE ARE READING MY BOOK.
Of course, for the last sixteenth months or so people have been reading A Murder at Rosamund's Gate (due out April 23, 2013). My alpha reader. My beta readers. My agent. My editor, multiple times (thank you Kelley!). Copy editors. Proofreaders. Marketing people. Publicists. But now...
Readers. Reviewers. People who've won advance copies in giveaways. People I don't know, and may never know. Many seem to have enjoyed my book, although a few--well--haven't. In my day job, I spend a lot of time helping faculty find something constructive even in the most negative student comments. And I think I can learn from my readers too.
But because I can't--and probably shouldn't--address reviewers directly, I'd just like to take a moment to say thanks. Thanks to everyone who spent the time reading my book, and for writing a review. Even if my book wasn't for you, I appreciate you spending the time thinking about my book.
And if my book was for you...well, the next Lucy Campion mystery will be out next year!
Just a hundred days left until A Murder at Rosamund's Gate is released on April 23, 2013!!!
Now, I know you might well be thinking: "Um, didn't your book come out, like, a year ago? You've been talking about it for ages."
Nope. The book has just been gestating, percolating, spinning, whirling, stirring for the last eighteen months. What can I say? Publishing is a mysterious business.
A hundred days! A hundred days!
Historically, the Hundred Day mark has been a crucial signifier:
Okay, so the last 100 days before my book gets published is not quite so significant in comparison. And I'm pretty sure that the journey won't be a "do or die" march towards triumph or defeat a la Napoleon or FDR.
But given that I've been waiting my whole life for this moment... JUST A HUNDRED DAYS TO GO is an awfully exciting concept!!!
I'm excited to have historian Sam Thomas join me today to discuss his first novel, The Midwife's Tale, a historical mystery set in mid-seventeenth century York.
Sam and I connected about a year ago, when we realized that (1) we're both trained as early modern English historians; (2) we both have debut novels coming out with Minotaur Books this year; and (3) both our mysteries are set in nearly the same time period. (I'm encouraging Sam to think about doing a cross-over piece, so that his midwife can bring my Lucy Campion into the world. But I digress.)
The Official Description:
It is 1644, and Parliament’s armies have risen against the King and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebels’ hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion. One of Bridget’s friends, Esther Cooper, has been convicted of murdering her husband and sentenced to be burnt alive. Convinced that her friend is innocent, Bridget sets out to find the real killer.
Bridget joins forces with Martha Hawkins, a servant who’s far more skilled with a knife than any respectable woman ought to be. To save Esther from the stake, they must dodge rebel artillery, confront a murderous figure from Martha’s past, and capture a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. The investigation takes Bridget and Martha from the homes of the city’s most powerful families to the alleyways of its poorest neighborhoods. As they delve into the life of Esther’s murdered husband, they discover that his ostentatious Puritanism hid a deeply sinister secret life, and that far too often tyranny and treason go hand in hand.
A midwife at work
The Midwife's Tale is told through the first person perspective of Lady Bridget Hodgson, a 30-year old twice-widowed midwife and real historical figure. How much is known of the true Bridget, and how much of her personality/character did you invent? Did you ever feel constrained writing a fictionalized account of a real person?
That’s a great question! We know a fair bit about Bridget, and I include some of it here. A lot of the basics are true: She was twice widowed, first to a man named Luke Thurgood, then to Phineas Hodgson, who was the son of the Lord Mayor of the York. (And yes, Phineas seems to have been every bit the loser I portray him as.) Bridget also had a deputy named Martha, though I had to invent much more of her background.
It is also pretty clear that she was a very strong woman. She came from an ancient family and wanted people to know it. She also named all of her goddaughters (as well as her own daughter) ‘Bridget’, presumably after herself. Who does that?
I did, however, make some cuts. For my first book I had a heck of a time writing her home life, so I made her childless, though the historical Bridget was survived by two daughters. There are also rumors that she had two sons, both of whom were hanged as highwaymen, which is amazing, but I’m not sure I believe it.
Similarly, is the case at the heart of The Midwife's Tale based on a true case from the archives? How did you go about doing your research?
The case itself is entirely fictional, though a lot of the supporting characters are real.
As for the research it was a lot of digging. I stumbled across Bridget’s will when I was working on another project, and it provided dozens of names for me to chase down: friends, family, and best of all, godchildren, which allowed me to identify a handful of clients.
Once you have names, you can then dig into baptismal registers, tax records, probate documents, legal records, histories of York…it’s endless, really.
I also got very lucky that Bridget was once sued for defamation, which allowed me do dig even further into her social life and the history of her practice.
Besides being a compelling read, your story gets at some of the larger historical themes around gender, politics and religion that shaped this time period. In what ways did you consciously try to illuminate these larger trends? How did you balance the need for historical accuracy with creative license?
I consciously wanted to connect ‘big’ and ‘little’ history. The novel takes place in the midst of a rebellion against the king, so I made the crime at its heart a domestic rebellion in which a wife is accused of murdering her husband. This was a time when people were intensely concerned about maintaining order at the national and domestic levels, and I wanted to see how they would react when that order was challenged. (Oddly – or not – I do much the same thing in my historical work, favoring microhisotry, in which big stories are told through the lives of average individuals.)
In doing your research, what was one of the most interesting things you learned?
I think it was how complicated life as a midwife could be. Not only did they deliver children, they were part of the legal system, investigating crimes ranging from infanticide, to rape, to witchcraft.
It really makes midwives the perfect sleuths!
I'm taking a quick break from my blog hiatus to do an interview with up-and-coming crime fiction writer, Greg Bardsley, author of Cash Out (just released by Harper Perennial). Greg and I not only share an agent, the indomitable David Hale Smith, but also the bond of seeing our novels released more or less around the same time. (My book won't be out 'til April 2013, but who's counting?).
From the official publicity blurb:
Cash Out "is nonstop, mercilessly hilarious, no-holds-barred fiction for fans of The Hangover and Office Space—an outrageous tall tale that follows one desperate, disgruntled Silicon Valley exec through a surreal three-day scramble to cash out his stock options and leave behind his hated high-tech job before outrageous villains (and even crazier friends) completely destroy him." – Harper Perennial
What inspired "Cash Out?"
You know, as cuckoo as some elements of the book are, Cash Out was inspired by some heavier themes.
It started when I began to think back on what it was like to live here on the San Francisco peninsula in the late 1990s. It was such a remarkable time. The Internet was exploding, billions of dollars were amassing, and irrational exuberance reigned. The Peninsula was ground zero for this explosion. The word, after all, was out: This was where one came to quickly acquire unimaginable wealth, extreme luxury, insane property fortunes and a bit of business immortality. This was where 25-year-olds retired. This is where Elton John performed at your corporate Christmas party, and where marching bands arrived at your doorstep to deliver job offers, where college grads with no experience started off at $100,000. Where power and money, always aphrodisiacs, now were supercharged by a prevailing sense of entitlement, forming a powerful new cocktail of narcissistic indulgence.
What kind of people did this world this attract? Read Cash Out for my take.
Regardless, the end result was that these folks pushed out longtime Bay Area residents, drove home prices into the stratosphere and forever affected the region, its pre-existing culture, its pristine landscape and even its inherent values of inclusion and tolerance. Artists' lofts were transformed into business-incubation offices, hippies were replaced by 6-foot-4 money guys with cell phones pressed against their cheeks, coastal townies are were laughed at and dismissed, longtime residents were pushed into the boonies and the remaining native Californians on the peninsula struggled to maintain not only their sense of self and place, but also their values.
This place had changed.
So I was thinking about of all of this when I met a former WD-40 public relations guy who had become one of the first one hundred employees at Google. And I found myself wondering, What would I do if I were in his shoes and could cash out?
From there, I came up with an idea for a guy who’d be just three days away from cashing out when, suddenly, all hell breaks loose and everything he values in life is at risk.
"Cash Out" is set in 2008--is that when you started to write it? How long did it take you to complete the novel?
I actually set it in 1999, but we changed the date after Cal Morgan at Harper Perennial bought the book and came up with some good reasons to advance the date to 2008. He felt the story could be more accessible for readers, considering the economic crisis that ensued that year. And he was dead-on.
I began to write Cash Out in late 2008, but really started to accelerate my work a year later. It’s hard to know how long it took to write, but my guess is it took about two years. I wrote late at night, after my wife and kids had fallen asleep. Some days I wrote at lunch, or when the family was out for an hour. Some nights I couldn’t stop, and I’d write into the very early morning. I guess you could say the first draft of Cash Out was written during a thousand stolen moments over the course of a few years.
You've got some pretty zany characters and circumstances in this novel. How much, if any, of your book is autobiographical?
In writing the book, I decided to stick with what I knew best. So in some ways, I gave my protagonist, Dan Jordan, some of my own traits and circumstances. Like me, Dan would be a speechwriter in Silicon Valley working with an array of really smart and interesting people. Like me, he’d feel tired and overworked and worried about losing himself in frothy white waters of the Valley. Like me, he’d have a wife and two boys he’d love with all his heart. And like me, he’d reexamine some of the big decisions he’d made over the years. Unlike me, he’d be days away from cashing out a fortune.
People always ask me, who inspired these other characters in the book? So let me clear up a few things and come clean about some others. ... Yes, the book does include a scene where an obnoxious fatty “upper decks” into the water basin of a toilet. But, no, I have never been on the receiving (or giving) end of one of those. ... Yes, the book does feature a man who slathers himself in cocoa butter and throws buck knives at his garage door. But no, he was not inspired by anyone in the peninsula. ... No, I have never been three days from being able to cash out. And no, I have never seen a man eat a rat on a stick in the break room. (Greg, your life is so sheltered --SC)
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Peter began playing the guitar and writing songs when he was in high school. He studied Theology and music in college, and then spent two years in seminary. After deciding that the priesthood wasn't for him, he took a part-time job as a church music director for 8 years, while performing at clubs and colleges, and writing and recording his music. In 1995, he quit his job and started touring full-time. Since then, Peter has gradually gained a dedicated, word-of-mouth following, playing shows from Minnesota to Texas, New England to California. He has nine CDs to his credit, and has sold over 70 thousand of them independently.
"Peter Mayer is a magician...(his) universe is full of metaphor and meaning, story and symbol — everything contains more than meets the eye."
-- Bill Reed, music editor, Colorado Springs Gazette
"His guitar work is breath-taking, his lyrics mind-spinning, his singing soul-soothing and his feet-on-the-ground optimism nothing short of healing."
--Marilyn Rea-Beyer, music director, WUMB Radio, Boston
"Peter Mayer makes it look easy – beautifully crafted songs that pose eternal questions -- his arrangements make it sound like there is certainly more than one man and his guitar in the XM Satellite Radio studios."
--Mary Sue Twohy, XM Radio
"He is unafraid of complicated topics and always strives to look beyond the easy sentiment...Peter does nothing less than address the very nature of our existence...Trust me, most songwriters can’t pull this off. Peter Mayer does."
--Dale Connelly, Morning Show Host, MinnesotaPublic Radio
"Mayer’s songs are crafted like shaker furniture, with no place for superfluous embellishments or throwaway lines... (his) world is bright and hopeful and the transcendent nature of his lyrics…explore the mysteries of life…Mayer’s fluid, clean, and tremendously intriguing guitar playing is topped with warm, rich vocals. This is music for the soul."
--Acoustic Guitar Magazine
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BY: Carron Stacey
WHERE: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
WHEN: 2/5/18, tour runs to 15/9/18
In 2016, Mr Humdrum and I saw The Bluetones at Shiiine On, Butlins. Maybe it was the nostalgia of my uni days, singing with my bestie to Slight Return, maybe it was the hangover from the night before dancing to Echo and the Bunnymen and The Wonder Stuff, I don’t know, but The Bluetones, supporting Shed Seven that year, were brilliant.
- Read on for reasons including the link with This Life and The Walking Dead
Mark Morriss made some comment about the audience checking their babysitters were OK and that really resonated with us. So last December, I booked tickets to see them locally. I decided to make this a surprise birthday present to Mr Humdrum, and two mates from Brighton were coming, but then it changed to a Christmas present from Mrs Humdrum Sr, then I forgot the mates were coming, doublebooked with a kettlebell exercise class and generally messed up without a sitter organised!
All came good and although we arrived just after they’d started Bluetonic (grrr), we did get there!
The Wedgewood Rooms is a sticky old-school venue and it was full of fans when we got there. Of course, we were all of a certain age – but mostly men.
Mark Morriss had lost none of his ability to work an audience. Even when his guitar strap broke, we laughed and it turned into a good segue between songs. He made comments about the great gigs they’d played back in the day at the same venue, which didn’t show much for their career projection!
I have to admit that I only know a handful of Bluetones songs, but those songs do make up some of the soundtrack to my 20s. Slight Return – an anthem to our uni days, Bluetonic recalling those hazy days in the indie disco; Solomon Bites The Worm, although released when I was at uni, just reminds me of Teachers and makes me feel all kinds of happy recalling that fabulous TV series with Egg from This Life (yes, I know he’s Rick Grimes too).
If was their last track and a classic from that time. I have to admit they sound better live, more rocky and more of a wall of sound, than on their albums. You can definitely notice a change in guitar style from the jangles of their early albums to the rockiness of later.
The audience loved them, were very generous in their love for The Bluetones, and they were very appreciative back. It doesn’t matter that there isn’t a whole load of new tracks to listen to, it’s just an evening looking back and revisiting those happy times.
And luckily for us, we get to see them again at our own Victorious Festival on August bank holiday! The Humdrums can’t wait!
- Picture via Carron. Tickets
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The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups.
The simplest and most important dashboard for early stage startups.klinger.io | Feb 24th 2014
This blogpost is part of a small series of posts that cover the basics of startup metrics. My personal goal is to help early stage startups more effectively, but also avoid repeating myself too much in mentoring programs.
If you are working on a software product in early stage of its lifecycle this series might be useful for you.
Other posts in this series.
Early Stage Startup Metrics
One of the most common pieces of advice is that in early stage you want to focus on retention. Because retention - in the end - is a function of customer happiness
retention = f(customer happiness)
It’s simple: If people are not happy with your product and/or gain no benefit by using it they will most not continue using it.
And automatically cool visualisations like retention cohort tables come to mind.
While those tables look nice and give you this nice fuzzy feeling of doing something useful with your time, they are unfortunately usually a bit useless until you get to the point of optimising on-boarding conversions of new users.
Please don’t get fancy too early.
This kind of visualisations are great when you have too many users and need to get a bird eye view. When you need to an abstraction. B2C mobile apps often have this problem already in early stage. But most SaaS companies (or companies still in beta) i worked with don’t have this problem until they reach product market fit.
20% changes with 20 customers won’t tell you much apart of the basics of standard deviation. A personal relationship to this customer will tell you his story. Keep them close.
If you treat your paying customers like percentages and meaningless numbers they will do the same with you.
The one “dashboard" i recommend almost all early stage startups is one they already have. Let’s start using it.
As long as your customer list fits on one or two pages, you should have a list of all those customers. (And i am pretty sure you already do have this in your backend)
Add activity information to this table. Core KPIs that tell their activity level (or at least their last login date). Color highlight it based on activity. And put someone in the team in charge of making sure everyone stays on green.
Seriously? That has nothing to do with metrics, or?
"That’s the kind of advice gives someone who charges money for consulting? Make him draw complex graphs or bring the pitchforks."
This dashboard so embarrassingly simple to implement, i was even scared to publish this post. But it is - and keeps being - my most common recommendation for a custom dashboard.
I don’t know about you. But I don’t necessarily need numbers. I need information i can act on. I want product insights - simple ways to use my database information to create actionable insights.
Most abstractions like graphs, retention cohorts, aarrr funnels and so on are great to aggregate information as soon as you have too much of it. Before that they just do one thing, create an abstraction layer.
For myself i found out this is even useful in a bit later stage: If you have only 0 - 100 new signups don’t hide them neither. It’s the same game on a higher level. Their first month is the one month that decides if you will keep them or not. Keep someone in charge of making them stay green.
Put one person in charge of keeping all customers on green. Most likely that person is you.
Your job as a product manager/founder is it to keep in contact with all those customers. And as soon as someone moves to orange contact them via email or skype.
Find out what’s going on. Now they are still in their decision process. Now you still can convince them to stay. Now you might even get useful information for product changes.
Churn is not happening when a user unsubscribes from your service or stops paying you. This is just when you notice it. Churn happens when a user stops using your product. You want to jump in when a customer is at risk, when he might stop using your product.
As long as you have a few dozen paying customers you can contact each one personally. There is no excuse. Don’t treat them as numbers, if you don’t want to be treated the same way.
Customer Happiness Index
If last activity of your customer doesnot mean much for your product (eg login might not mean that he found/did something) you might want to focus on deeper core activities.
Usually people create a Customer Happiness Index. A single number that combines all done activities to a sum, while giving each of those activities a weight.
By doing that you can eg. say that logins are less important to you than purchases. You can even aggregate those numbers in groups and through that see problems in certain segments of your user-base.
But to be honest, as fancy this is, i hardly ever need this.
Not until i need to aggregate those numbers. Eg show the customer happiness of a certain customer segment.
But until then - in my personal experience - i usually only see 1-3 core activities in a product. (eg in a project tool - number of projects/total, todos-closed/week, active-team-members/week) And normally i tend to simply recommend adding those numbers to the table and be done with it.
One product i want to highlight at this point is Intercom. They basically offer this as a service, but add manual and automatic messaging. Additionally they write one of the best startup product blogs out there
But as long as you need/want to save a bit of money. The table mentioned above is only a few lines of code away.
until then, get your product moving,
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But Theakston is opening in Art at the Whitehall Theatre tomorrow night. He hints that this stage outing, as a member of the twenty-fourth cast of Yasmina Reza's phenomenally successful play, is an attempt to reinvent himself following the tabloid scandal; and so, necessarily, he must emerge once more, blinking, into the greedy glare. Even though I have a lot of sympathy for him, and though I have a hunch that this is a widespread response (when I mention I am interviewing him, the universal reaction is 'poor bloke!') it is, unfortunately, impossible to sit and talk to him without wondering what he looks like tied up on a rack.
'I think it's important that this debate about what's public and what's private has come up,' he says, though one cannot imagine this is precisely the way he would have chosen to raise it. 'What are the boundaries of public interest?'
I wish I had a clear answer. I say: 'What are they?' And he doesn't know either, but he thinks the fact that he had never given an interview to OK or Hello! should have counted in his favour when he sought an injunction against The People.
The paper had photographs and a story supplied by prostitutes from the brothel he visited at 5am on 19 December last year. When the injunction he sought was not granted, Theakston offered his own version of events to the News of the World. He didn't deny he had visited the club, nor that he had engaged in 'a sex act', but argued that he was duped into it and too drunk to know what he was doing.
'If people have talked about their private lives for reasons that have benefited them, promotionally or financially, that might be different,' he tells me. 'That does seem to have counted in some of the other cases.'
Certainly, it's difficult to argue that a young man, especially one who isn't in a relationship, shouldn't have a right to keep the lurid details of his sexual interests and activities to himself. Unfortunately, what Theakston's predicament illustrates - beyond the voyeurism of our culture - is the dire emptiness of the contemporary television presenter's celebrity. When Jamie Theakston fronts an awards ceremony, or a pop programme, or a holiday show, what he's selling isn't extraordinary expertise or penetrating insight. He hasn't had years of training and acquired enviable skills. What he's selling is nice looks and a bit of personality - in his case, a bit of cool, a bit of boy-next-door-who-dates-amazing-women: Sophie Dahl, Natalie Appleton, Joely Richardson. It's not like he does anything except be himself. So when himself turns out to be slightly more complicated than at first appeared, naturally people are interested.
It's understandable that Theakston feels vulnerable at the moment, but he turns up at the posh hotel round the corner from the theatre with a PR minder. Evidently this woman sees it as her job to be boosterish even if that means humourlessly contradicting him. So when he notes that it was probably a stupid idea to do a business studies degree when he was useless at maths and economics, she cries: 'No! It's very admirable!'
Theakston looks nicely dissolute: unshaven, with rumpled hair and a scent of Silk Cut in the air all around him. He has big shiny puppy-eyes, an absurdly straight nose - said to be the most asked-for nose in plastic surgery, though he says he thinks someone must have made this up - and if he were a girl, you'd call him willowy. 'He's six foot five!' his minder coos when he goes out of the room, adding gratuitously: 'And I'm only four foot eleven, so...'
Anyway, Jamie looks set to be quite interesting about the need for a privacy law and what he sees as the increasing avidity of the tabloids, but she keeps slapping him down when he tries to talk about it. She says there are still legal arguments about the injunction, though she won't explain what these are. Jamie shrugs and says he doesn't know much about the legal situation, 'but the ironic thing is that my body of work doesn't seem to correspond to my tabloid persona. If I was hugely famous, I could understand it.'
He is hugely famous, however. He is the person who will present the Jubilee concerts (the story that the BBC had dropped him from this role following the bondage episode is unfounded, he says). He points out himself that he has presented awards ceremonies in front of 35,000 people, to television audiences of 10 million. And to argue that the flimsiness of his work makes him irrelevant is to miss the crucial point, which is that it's the flimsiness that makes him vulnerable. I ask him what makes a good presenter and he says: 'You have to be reasonably quick-witted, calm, have ugly levels of self-confidence, and be able to do that thing...' and he rubs his stomach and pats his head.
The prostitutes may have come at an awkward moment for Theakston. He made his name in children's television with Live and Kicking and consolidated it on The Priory and Top Of The Pops. It's going to be hard to wrest himself free of youth television of one sort or another, not least because of his boyish looks. But he is in his thirties now and, to have any longevity, must find a way of easing himself into more adult roles soon. There are stories that last year he was looking for a chat show. I put this to him and he shakes his head doubtfully: 'There are a lot of talented people out there doing chat shows. I can leave that for the time being.' So what's coming up? 'Probably more Top of The Pops in the summer, and the Jubilee concerts, but otherwise everything's on the back burner while I do Art.'
Could Art then be the beginning of a new trajectory in the theatre? 'Ask me again on Monday evening. So far it's everything I could have wanted it to be. If it continues to be this much fun...' He shrugs, indicating it's possible. 'I'm still trying to work out where my talent lies. That seems to have been the case for most of my life.'
Theakston had had acting offers before, mainly for sitcoms, but always resisted because he didn't want to be sneered at as the up-himself presenter who thought he could act. 'But I thought doing something like Art , which is a play I really liked, wouldn't get the same reaction.'
'He had to audition,' interrupts the PR importantly. 'Everybody gets in on their merits.'
Maybe, too, the timing was right. Whether he is any good remains to be seen - but it is not as though he has never stood beneath a proscenium arch: he was a member of the National Youth Theatre for several years from the age of 14, though, 'I never had any big roles. There was a lot of spear carrying.' He imagined originally that he'd go to drama school. 'But then I woke up one morning and I suddenly had no confidence any more.'
The feeling returned at the end of last week. 'Yesterday I'd have said I was fine - confident and ready to go,' he said when I met him. 'But today I got nervous. This is much, much worse than live TV.' We both ignore the protestations from the small woman across the table that the show is 'looking fantastic'.
Instead of drama school, Theakston joined Christie's, thinking he would like to be an auctioneer. 'I find auctions thrilling, and I suppose there's an element of theatre about it.' But he discovered to his dismay that you had to learn your stuff first. 'If you're going to sell clocks, you have to be the expert on clocks'. In the event, he didn't have time to learn about clocks, or any other artefacts, being shunted into the PR department and then made redundant. 'The bottom fell out of the market and I was surplus to requirements.'
He had left school (he went to Lancing College, the Sussex public school, and then Brighton and Hove sixth form college) with what his PR pompously calls 'an excellent academic record', and now decided to do a business degree at North London Polytechnic. This proved to be an utterly miserable three years. But towards the end of his time there, a friend, who was a secretary at GLR, got him a stint reading the traffic reports. He moved on to sports presenting on Radio Five, and hung around the BBC corridors long enough to be asked to do a music and video show on television, the O-Zone . From there he was asked to audition for Live and Kicking , which he presented with Zoe Ball for three years. 'I was absolutely terrible at the beginning. Someone showed me a clip from the very first show; it was shocking how bad I was. But somehow we made it our own and by the third series it was good, and we won a Bafta for it.'
He teamed up with Zoe Ball again for The Priory and has presented Top Of The Pops, the faintly cultish BBC Choice show Rock Profiles (also shown on BBC2), and a holiday programme with a silly gimmick called Holiday - You Call The Shots. He has a Saturday morning show on Radio 1 (trickily up against Jonathan Ross on Radio 2) and a summer cricket show on Radio 5.
He has done well enough out of all this to have bought a Grade I listed house, said to have been given to Anne of Cleves by Henry VIII, in Ditchling, East Sussex, overlooking the village green where he learnt to play cricket. His parents live nearby. They are retired now, but his mother was once a model and his father ran a computer supplies business - although 'because he doesn't take the press seriously, often he tells journalists he was a brain surgeon.'
Jamie now has to work out what to do next. Where does he see himself in five or 10 years' time? He thinks, then says: 'I really have no idea.' He says he's never had a career plan, and this seems all too appropriate. Back when Valerie Singleton presented Blue Peter, being a children's presenter looked, from the outside at least, like a vocation - not unlike being a headteacher. Today, presenting appears to be an activity without substance, requiring not much more than an ego. It is (look at Anthea Turner) a desperately fragile career.
Jamie Theakston isn't stupid, and his remark about the insignificance of his work suggests he is aware of the hideous absurdity of his situation. Perhaps he even intuits that the stories about his sexuality are somehow the concomitant of his being paid a couple of million a year and dating Joely Richardson. He seems perfectly pleasant, terribly willing to please, though it does cross my mind that for the period we are together anyone who wasn't his PR would be my new best friend. Could they have worked out this good-cop, bad-cop game beforehand, making me desperate to talk to him in order to avoid talking to her? They could even have agreed that halfway through the allotted time, she would suddenly announce that that was it, point to the Pret a Manger bag on the floor and say: 'He's got to eat his sandwiches'!
The effect of this is to reduce him to the status of a two-year-old with a couple of mummies.
Fortunately he isn't, so he overrules her. 'I don't think I give very good interviews,' he apologises at the end of our meeting. 'You know how some people say things that sound really smooth?' They practise, I tell him, meaning to be dismissive, but he frowns and says, 'maybe I should do that.' (Inevitably, the PR is busily telling us both that she thought it was really interesting).
Jamie Theakston stolidly claims that the brothel story - while obviously a hideous personal embarrassment - hasn't impacted on his career: 'Everyone has been very supportive.' Unfortunately, in the hollowed-out, over-branded and under-substanced world in which he operates, his image has inevitably shifted, and his persona is forever tinged with comedy, or sympathy, or faint ridicule. Isn't he worried that whenever his name is raised - for a chat show, say - the incident of last December will come up? 'It might,' he says. 'Yes. There's not really much I can do about it.'
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We do offer free returns for most product sold in store and that fall within our return policy window (see below).
Certain products, such as large boards, surfboards, efoils, sup's, onewheels, do not qualify for free returns. If they buyer decides to return one of the mentioned products above, they will be responsible for the shipping from our warehouse to their location and the shipping from their location back to our warehouse.
An example of a free return is as follows. The customer purchases a product for $100 and receives free shipping. The shipping costs $20 from our warehouse to the customer and we cover that shipping. The buyer decides to return their item. If the item qualifies, we will send a prepaid return label to the customer and the customer can send back their order free of charge.
An example of a product that does not qualify for a free return is as follows. The customer purchases a large board for $1000. The shipping costs $100 from our warehouse to the customer and we cover the shipping. The customer decides to return their item. Because the product does not qualify for a free return, the buyer must pay the return shipping for the product back to Session Sports. When the product is received, we will provide a refund, minus the shipping cost. In this example, the buyer would receive a $900 refund. The original $1000 minus the $100 in shipping.
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Recently, when we were writing our book Numericon, we came across what has now become one of our very favourite numbers: Graham's number. One of the reasons we love it is that this number is big. Actually, that's an understatement. Graham's number is mind-bendingly huge.
The observable Universe is big, but Graham's number is bigger. Image: ESA and the Planck Collaboration.
Our new favourite number is bigger than the age of the Universe, whether measured in years (approximately 14 billion years) or seconds (4.343x1017 seconds). It's bigger than Avogadro's number, a sizeable 6.02214129 x 1023. This is the number of hydrogen atoms in 1 gram of hydrogen, which is called a mole and is the standard unit for measuring an amount of a substance in chemistry or physics.
Graham's number is bigger the number of atoms in the observable Universe, which is thought to be between 1078 and 1082. It's bigger than the 48th Mersenne prime,
the biggest prime number we know, which has an impressive 17,425,170 digits. And it's bigger than the famous googol, 10100 (a 1 followed by 100 zeroes), which was defined in 1929 by American mathematician Edward Kasner and named by his nine-year-old nephew, Milton Sirotta. (This might sound familiar, as Google was named after this number, though they got the spelling wrong.)
Graham's number is also bigger than a googolplex, which Milton initially defined as a 1, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired, but is now commonly accepted to be 10googol=10(10100). A googleplex is significantly larger than the 48th Mersenne prime. You, or rather a computer, can write out the 48th Mersenne prime in its entirety, all 17,425,170 digits of it. But, despite the fact that I can tell you what any digit in the googolplex is (the first is a 1, the rest are all 0), no person, no computer, no civilisation will ever be able to write it out in full. This is because there is not enough room in the Universe to write down all googol+1 digits of a googolplex. As Kasner, and his colleague James Newman, said of the googolplex (in their wonderful 1940s book Mathematics and the imagination which introduced the world to these numbers): "You will get some idea of the size of this very large but finite number from the fact that there would not be enough room to write it, if you went to the farthest star, touring all the nebulae and putting down zeros every inch of the way."
Graham's number is bigger than the googolplex. It's so big, the Universe does not contain enough stuff on which to write its digits: it's literally too big to write. But this number is finite, it's also an whole number, and despite it being so mind-bogglingly huge we know it is divisible by 3 and ends in a 7.
A big party
The origins of Graham's number go back to 1928 when a brilliant young mathematician, Frank Ramsey, noticed a surprising thing when he was working on a paper about logic: complete disorder seemed to be impossible. No matter how complicated your system looks, pockets of order of any size are always guaranteed to be there if the system is large enough.
This result, which was just a small part of the particular paper he was working on, was the start of a whole new field of mathematics called Ramsey Theory. This area of maths is often explained with the example of a party. Suppose you're having a party and you want to make sure you invite a good mix of people and decide to keep track of who knows who. Suppose you draw a map of the relationships of all your friends, linking two people with a blue edge if they are friends and with a red edge if they are strangers. Then you might end up with something like this:
Now this looks pretty complicated and it would take quite a lot of information to describe who is connected by red edges and who is connected by blue edges. But if you zoom in on just Ann, Bryan and David, they are all joined by red edges. This red triangle is an example of order hiding in the messy overall network. The more ordered a system is, the simpler its description. The most ordered friendship network is one that has all the edges the same colour: that is, everyone is friends or everyone is strangers.
Ramsey discovered that no matter how much order you were looking for – whether it was three people who were all friends and strangers or twenty people who were all friends and strangers – you were guaranteed to find it as long as the system you were looking in was large enough. To guarantee yourself a group of three people who are all friends or all strangers you need a friendship network of six people: five people isn't enough as this counterexample shows.
The number of people you need to guarantee that you'll find three friends or three strangers is called the Ramsey number R(3,3). We know a few Ramsey numbers: we've seen that R(3,3)=6, and it has been proved that R(4,4), the number of people you need to guarantee you'll find four friends or four strangers, is 18. But we hit a wall very quickly. For example we don't know what R(5,5) is. We know it's somewhere between 43 and 49 but that's as close as we can get for now.
Part of the problem is that numbers in Ramsey theory grow incredibly large very quickly. If we are looking at the relationships between three people, our network has just three edges and there are a reasonable 23 possible ways of colouring the network. For four people there are six edges and 26=64 possible colourings. But for the relationships between six people there are fifteen edges and we already have to consider an unwieldy 215=32,768 possible colourings. Mathematicians are fairly certain that R(5,5) is equal to 43 but haven't found a way to prove it. One option would be to check all the possible colourings for a network of 43 people. But each of these has 903 edges, so you'd have to check through all of the 2903 possible colourings – more colourings than there are atoms in the observable Universe!
Too big to write but not too big for Graham
Big numbers have always been a part of Ramsey theory but in 1971 mathematician Ronald Graham came up with a number that dwarfed all before it. He established an upper bound for a problem in the area that was, at the time, the biggest explicitly defined number ever published. Rather than drawing networks of the relationships between people on a flat piece of paper as we have done so far, Graham was interested in networks in which the people were sitting on the corners of a cube.
In this picture we can see that for a particular flat diagonal slice through the cube, one that contains four of the corners, all of the edges are red. But not all colourings of a three-dimensional cubes have such a single-coloured slice. Luckily, though, mathematicians also have a way of thinking of higher dimensional cubes. The higher the dimension, the more corners there are: a three-dimensional cube has 8 corners, a four-dimensional cube has 16 corners, a five-dimensional cube has 32 corners and so on. Graham wanted to know how big the dimension of the cube had to be to guarantee that a single-coloured slice exists.
Ronald Graham who gave us his beautiful number. Image: Cheryl Graham.
Graham managed to find a number that guaranteed such a slice existed for a cube of that dimension. But this number, as we mentioned earlier, was absolutely massive, so big it is too big to write within the observable Universe. Graham was, however, able to explicitly define this number using an ingenious notation called up-arrow notation that extends our common arithmetic operations of addition, multiplication and exponentiation.
We can think of multiplication as repeated addition:
3 x 3 = 3+3+3
33 = 3 x 3 x 3.
If we define the single arrow operation, ↑, to be exponentiation, so:
3↑3 = 33 = 3 x 3 x 3 = 27,
then we can define the double-arrow operation ↑↑ to be
3↑↑3 = 3↑3↑3 = 333 = 327 = 7,625,597,484,987.
We can carry on building new operations by repeating previous ones. The next would be the triple-arrow
3↑↑↑3 = 3↑↑3↑↑3 = 3↑↑(3↑↑3)=3↑↑7,625,597,484,987
a tower of powers of 3 that is 7,625,597,484,987 levels high! (See here to read about the up-arrow notation in more detail.)
The number that has come to be known as Graham's number (not the exact number that appeared in his initial paper, it is a slightly larger and slightly easier to define number that he explained to Martin Gardner shortly afterwards) is defined by using this up-arrow notation, in a cumulative process that creates power towers of threes that quickly spiral beyond any magnitudes we can imagine.
But the thing that we love about Graham's number is that this unimaginably large quantity isn't some theoretical concept: it's an exact number. We know it's a whole number, in fact it's easy to see this number is a multiple of three because of the way it is defined as a tower of powers of three. And mathematicians have learnt a lot about the processes used to define Graham's number, including the fact that once a power tower is tall enough the right-most decimal digits will eventually remain the same, no matter how matter how many more levels you add to your tower of powers. Graham's number may be too big to write, but we know it ends in seven. Mathematics has the power not only to define the unimaginable but to investigate it too.
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I drew Andromeda, cut her from paper, carved each link in her chains with blades and gilded them with paint. I set her swinging across a canvas and framed with her paper chains. Her resistance is her beauty, unrelenting and powerful, unapologetic and eternal.
2. Fireproof Hearts- Powerful women are often cast as witches, and succinctly punished and persecuted in the tradition of repression. The term “Witch,” comes from wicce, a term for a wise person and healer. Cunning women, solitary women who are able to care for themselves, have often been seen as a threat to patriarchal society, and the term used in a double edged insult and accusation. Witches were midwives, healers, visionaries, some witches were real witches and practiced their spirituality, and some were just bold women that were resistant. To resist in a time when society systemically suppresses independence and strength in women is an act of bravery.
I created this piece to celebrate resistant women. Our fireproof hearts, our beautiful and indomitable spirits, our defiance is all a beautiful display of resistance in a culture and society that fears and methodically subjugates women.
3. Queen of Cups- In tarot, the Queen of Cups is a figure that reveres all aspects of creation, loves and embraces everyone and is moved by the tragedies and beauties of life. She is a symbol of nurturing love, compassion and creation. I created this piece out of fascination and awe for the multitudes and complexities women contain and deal with. Not all women are mothers, nor are they vessels for creation. Women are often painted with the broad brush of softness, sexuality, and patient nurturing characteristics. I am drawn to the tropes women are trapped in, and the reaction from society when they do not fit into the stereotypes dealt. In this piece, the Queen of Cups fills up the frame impressively in her stature, her scale formidable and unapologetic. She delights in her own abundance, which she creates for herself. The pitcher pours into an overflowing cup: plenitude created by and for herself.
I created this piece from a digital drawing I cut into a large vinyl stencil and painted with many hues of metallic golds. The model is based on Princess Marie Georgine- who modeled famously for Bouguereau’sBirth of Venus. I have a deep interest in rescuing women from the male gaze of art history and giving them their own celebration in my work. They are celebrated for their independence and power, their ability to be both strong and soft, indomitable and vulnerable, for the overflowing cup of their individuality.
4. Catcall- In 2014 a resistant woman, Shoshana Roberts, created a video with Rob Bliss called “10 hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” which went viral. It was the kind of thing I wished I had seen when I was younger. From middle school on cat calling was a burden I experienced regularly, and was one of many unspoken things I felt resigned to accept as a girl burgeoning into a woman. There seemed no safe nor effective rebuttal that didn’t illicit more anger from the entitled men who told me to smile or worse.
Growing up there wasn’t much of public discourse on it either. That video was a light for me, that women can resist the resignation of our fate to be victimized methodically, systematically within a patriarchy.
Artists have an opportunity to hold the mirror up to society, to create work that exposes both the wild injustices and the insidious micro aggressions women face. I created this piece in honor of my experiences, which are also shared collective experiences. To show a strong female figure flanked by predatory big cats completely alone in the wild.
5. Goddess In Me- “Yeah I got boy problems, that’s the human in me/ Bling Bling, then I solve ‘em, that’s the Goddess in me.” - Lizzo, “Truth Hurts.” Lizzo’s song lyrics inspired the title for this piece, which celebrates the inner Goddess in every woman- a force of strength and resistance which has carried us through millennia of cultural, religious, and economic suppression.
I drew and cut the paper shapes that rest on the tone-on-tone pink canvas. Painted foliage frames the central figure: the outline of a self-possessed woman layered over an inner goddess with outstretched arms. Resistance is the refusal to comply with something. Every act of self love and empowerment for women is an act of resistance. In a world where women are supposed to be beautiful and meek, but not know they are beautiful and always be humble or be punished- every single act of self possession and self love is a healing gesture to the millennia of insidious and pervasive abuse women have suffered.
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College Football Pick
Nothing was all that surprising from the much-hyped Alabama-Florida State Game last Saturday. The Crimson Tide did what they always did, clamping down on the defensive side, while running the ball almost too easily against one of the better teams in the country. Now, against Fresno State, which didn’t have a win over an FBS team last year, the Tide are -43.5 point favorites at 5Dimes Sportsbook.
Fresno State beat Sacramento State last season and took down Incarnate Word 66-0 last week, its only two wins since 2015. There’s not a whole lot to take away from those Games except that the Bulldogs used two quarterbacks and also managed a trick play with their running back throwing a 65-yard touchdown. It remains to be seen how much this team has changed in Jeff Tedford’s first season as head coach and that’ll probably be the case in this one, unless they can somehow put up a fight in Alabama.
The Bulldogs actually had a good pass defense last season, but that was mostly because they were gouged on the ground by everyone and gave up close to 250 rushing yards per Game. It goes without saying, but that’s not a recipe for success against Alabama.
The Crimson Tide will undoubtedly have success in this Game no matter who gets the ball in the backfield. Bo SCarbrough, Damien Harris and quarterback Jalen Hurts should all match last week’s totals and then some when they ran for 173 yards on a good defense. But it’s a wonder if Hurts will be asked to throw more at some point as he only attempted 18 passes against the Seminoles for 96 yards.
The closest matchup Alabama had last season to this one was probably the Kent State Game in which it won 48-0. As expected, they dominated both sides of the field, but only scored seven points in the second half, none in the Fourth quarter. The worry when backing the Tide in a Game like this is that exact situation. For this Game, with a line that’s up to 43 points, there’s always the possibility either Alabama goes up 49 and lets up a late touchdown or goes up by 42 and takes its foot off the pedal. That’s the lone reason not to take the Tide in this matchup, but there will still be few people that want to touch Fresno State.
At the least, the Bulldogs have 16 returning starters with Chason Virgil in his second-year as full-time starter. If he can find stud wide out KeeSean Johnson only a couple times, that may be enough to tear a hole in the defense for a drive or two. That said, Fresno’s main goal will be to try and move the ball just a little bit on the ground through Ronnie Rivers and Josh Hokit. But finding room to run against ‘Bama is near impossible, especially for a team like Fresno State.
Taking the Bulldogs would take a leap of faith, while taking the Tide may also require some luck if they go up big in the first half. Still, it’ll be hard to find anyone going against Alabama at any point this season.
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Group portrait of Company B of the U.S. Army Training Detachment No. 4, lieutenant Orrin W. Letson commanding. During WWI, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce was focused on the instruction of young people for military service and in 1918 they contracted with the War Department to organize a training school for drafted men from Indiana and surrounding areas, a relationship without precedent. The school operated in two-month training periods, and classes were held at various institutions such as the State School for the Deaf, State School for the Blind, several high schools, and the Coliseum; a hotel was taken over for their housing. In addition to military training, the young men were instructed on how to repair wrecked automobiles and trained in other vocations such as carpentry and radiography.
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Heart of Louisiana: Alexandria’s Lee St. riot
ALEXANDRIA, La. (WVUE) - At a time when close to a half million troopers were training for World War II, a Louisiana town was ground zero for a riot, or massacre, that highlights the racial tensions of the 1940s.
Some historians believe there was a cover-up by the United States military and researchers are hunting for a possible mass grave.
Historians are searching for a long-buried secret. The possibility that black soldiers training for World War II in Louisiana were victims of a racially motivated massacre by police and the military.
“What happened that night? Where are they buried?” asks Michael Wynne.
Wynne is an amateur historian and retired law enforcement officer in Alexandria has been pushing to find those answers.
Lee Street was the center of Alexandria’s black community in 1942. And the empty lot was the site of the Ritz Theater. This is where the violence began.
“Something happened. The police and the military as well as the military police cornered off an eight block area for hours,” says Wynne.
The central part of the state was the site of Louisiana maneuvers, the largest ever training exercise for the U.S. military. Nearly half a million men were stationed at camps near Alexandria. It is believed many of the black soldiers targeted in the Lee St. violence were stationed at Camp Claiborne. Those black soldiers mostly came from northern states.
“Where they had never lived in segregation or the social etiquette that went along with how to negotiate interactions with whites. So that was completely alien to them. So, it led to conflicts anywhere they were positioned in the South,” says Dr. Doug Bristol.
Dr. Bristol is a history professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and says it appears the violence started when a black soldier stepped in front of a car driven by a white woman.
“So she called the local police officer over who of course immediately started to arrest him and other soldiers that had come out with him that night, came around and this became a police riot because one among the things they reported where police were doing things like just shooting into black barbershops. So it just became this rampage through the Lee St. area,” says Dr. Bristol.
“I didn’t set into this to make the army look bad,” says Dr. Bill Simpson. “I simply wanted to find the truth.”
Dr. Simpson is a retired professor from Pineville who began researching the incident 25 years ago.
He collected oral histories of people who dispute the military’s account that only three soldiers were seriously injured.
“The most plausible would be maybe 20 to 30 soldiers would be killed that could conceivably, I thought, be concealed,” says Dr. Simpson.
“They used to go to the movies, go to dinner with the soldiers that came into town,” says Linda Rhodes.
Rhodes remembers stories from her grandmother about Saturday nights on Lee St. in Alexandria.
“After that incident that had happened on Lee St. they didn’t see any of their soldier friends anymore,” says Rhodes.
“We’re looking at these signals here,” says Dr. David Holt. “The up and the over with. Long trails coming down.”
If a dozen more black soldiers were massacred, it’s unknown where they are buried. It’s rumored they could be in Pineville’s Holly Oak Cemetery.
“We’re definitely finding some evidence of lots of unmarked graves here,” says Dr. Holt.
Small flags mark some of those spots.
“But as far as a mass grave, at this point, I haven’t seen compelling evidence,” says Dr. Holt.
“There probably are relatives still around of the men who were killed. It was an ugly time. It was an ugly scene. It did happen. I think that would bring a degree of closure,” says Dr. Simpson.
The truth remains elusive and the search will go on to find out if black soldiers training to fight America’s enemies overseas also faced a deadly threat at home.
The City of Alexandria will be placing a historic marker along Lee St. at the site of the 1941 violence.
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For pretty much every stroke, pedal and step of the way on Sunday, Andrew Russell’s thoughts were with one very special person.
The 30-year-old Victoria resident dedicated his final appearance at the Pushor Mitchell Apple Triathlon to his terminally ill mom, Ann Russell. And he couldn’t have asked for a better result on a scorching Kelowna afternoon as Russell captured the elite Olympic distance race in one hour 56 minutes 21 seconds.
Russell moved to Victoria from Revelstoke five years ago and won his first race on the International Triathlon Union circuit in Magog, Que., last month. In that race, he out-duelled Saanich’s Matt Sharpe for first place with Sharpe finishing second. This time it was another Victoria athlete, Andrew McCartney, who
finished the 1.5 km swim, 40 km bike, and 10 km run in second place, nine seconds back of Russell. Joe Maloy of the U.S.A. was third and Sharpe was fourth.
“It’s my seventh year in the elite and to win here as close to home as possible, it’s a really special moment,” said an emotional Russell after the race.
“I really did it for my mom; she’s quite sick. And this is the end of my short-course career, so there’s no better way to finish it off.”
For the first time in five years, the Apple Triathlon didn’t serve as the Canadian championships, and was therefore without some the biggest names in Canadian triathlon. Simon Whitfield, Kirk Jones and Paula Findlay didn’t compete in Kelowna.
Still, it didn’t take any of the sheen off of the victory UVic Vikes track and field athlete Ellen Pennock’s win in the women’s elite race on Sunday.
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Arrest made in Waughtown Market armed robbery
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Police have arrested a man in connection with the robbery of a Winston-Salem business Tuesday morning.
Officers responded to the Waughtown Market, located at 67 Waughtown St., around 10:20 a.m. in reference to an armed robbery.
The store clerk told officers a man entered the store and asked to purchase a cigar. When the clerk opened the register, the suspect produced a handgun and reached over the counter, taking an undisclosed sum of currency.
After an investigation, the Winston-Salem Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division identified the suspect as Anthony Morrison, 25, of Winston-Salem.
Morrison was arrested without incident in the 700 block of North Cherry Street.
Morrison was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon and placed in the Forsyth County Jail under a $150,000 secured bond.
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Fire Mage (3.5e Class)
From D&D Wiki
|“||Fire is life, but can destroy it too.||”|
A Fire Mage is someone who burns their own soul out to burn the bodies of others. Tactically, they shine against groups of enemies, because fires spread across the battlefield like a plague.
Making a Fire Mage
Alignment: Fire is a destructive force, and a lot of Fire Mages are Chaotic. But they don't have to be.
Races: Fire Mages appear in all races.
Starting Gold: 6d6×10 gp (210 gp).
|1st||+0||+2||+0||+2||Familiar,Fire Resistance, Fire Burst, Fire Bolts, Impress Flames, Fire Magic|
|3rd||+2||+3||+1||+3||Piercing Flames, Hand of Fire|
|4th||+3||+4||+1||+4||Fire Immunity, Smokeless Flame|
|7th||+5||+5||+2||+5||Visions of Flame|
|8th||+6/+1||+6||+2||+6||Soul of Cinders, Soul Fire|
|12th||+9/+4||+8||+4||+8||Bonds of Fire|
|14th||+10/+5||+9||+4||+9||Searing Light, Ray of Light|
|15th||+11/+6/+1||+9||+5||+9||Sending, Rain of Fire|
|20th||+15/+10/+5||+12||+6||+12||One with the Flame|
Class Skills (4 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level)
Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Concentration (Con), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Profession (-), Ride (Dex), Search (Int), Spellcraft (Int), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), Knowledge Arcana (int) and Use Rope (Dex).
All of the following are class features of the Fire Mage.
Weapon and Armor Proficiency: Fire Mages are proficient with all simple weapons, as well as the whip, all martial axes, and all sizes and varieties of scimitar (including falchions). Fire Mages are proficient with light armor but not with shields of any kind, except bucklers.
Familiar ([[SED:Special Abilities Overview#ClassAbility|CA]]):A Fire Mage gets a familiar at 1st level chosen from the same lists of the Familiar lists in the PUB, pg. 52.
Fire Resistance (Ex): A Fire Mage has a Resistance to Fire equal to twice his level.
Fire Burst (Sp): As a standard action, a Fire Mage can emit a burst of flame from his body, striking all creatures and objects within 10' of his position except himself. This burst of flames inflicts 1d6 of fire damage, with an allowed Reflex Save for half (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier).
Fire Bolts (Sp): A fire mage can throw bolts of fire as an attack action. A fire bolt travels out to short range, and inflicts 1d6 of fire damage per level. A fire bolt strikes its target with a ranged touch attack.
Impress Flames (Ex): Every time a Fire Mage inflicts Fire damage on any target, whether with his class abilities or another source of fire, he inflicts an amount of extra Fire Damage equal to his class level or his Charisma modifier, whichever is higher.
Fire Magic (Ex): A Fire Mage is considered to have every spell with the Fire Descriptor on his spell list for the purpose of activating magic items.
Ignite (Sp): As a standard action, a 2nd level Fire Mage can cause any creature or object to burst into flame. A creature on fire suffers 1d6 of Fire damage per round (the Mage's Impress Flames ability applies to each round of course), and the creature can attempt to put itself out with a DC 15 Reflex save (see the DMG, p. 303). This ability can be used out to Medium range, and it always hits.
Piercing Flames (Ex): From 3rd level on, a Fire Mage ignores the first 5 points of Fire Resistance that a target has. This ability improves to 10 at level 10 and 15 at level 20.
Hand of Fire (Su): A 3rd level Fire Mage can set fire to their own body, causing them to count as armed at all times, even with unarmed attacks. The Fire Mage also causes an extra 1d6 of Fire damage with all melee attacks.
Fire Immunity (Ex): A 4th level Fire Mage is immune to Fire.
Smokeless Flame (Sp): A 4th level Fire Mage can create fires that produce no heat and do not burn. These fires can be anything from the size of a torch to a bonfire, and produce light accordingly. Each lasts until the next time the sun rises. Smokeless Flame can be created anywhere within Medium range.
Fireballs (Sp): A 5th level Fire Mage can hurl explosive fire anywhere within Long Range as a Full Round Action. This Fire explodes into a 20' radius burst and inflicts 1d6 of Fire Damage per level. All creatures within the area are entitled to a Reflex save to halve damage (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier).
Mindfire (Sp): A 6th level Fire Mage can start a Fire in a creature's mind, duplicating the effects of rage or confusion for a number of minutes equal to his Level. The victim must be within Medium Range, and is entitled to a Will Save to negate this effect (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier). This is a Mind influencing Compulsion effect.
Visions of Flame (Sp): A 7th level Fire Mage can contact other plane to communicate with the denizens of the Elemental Plane of Fire. A Fire Mage is in no danger of becoming insane or damaged by this experience.
Soul of Cinders (Sp): An 8th level Fire Mage has burnt his soul to an "Ever-Burning" ash, and is no longer susceptible to Energy Drain or Fear.
Soul Fire (Sp):At the 8th level Fire Mages may choose to burn their own lifeforce to generate flames which ignore both fire resistance and fire immunity this can be done for any spell dealing Fire Damage. The cost for the spell is 1/2 of the spells level in hit points rounded up. Entities lit on fire with Soul Fire cannot be extinguished by water or any liquids. Soul Fire does extra 5 damage to incorporeal beings and undead (if a being is both then they stack). Using Soul Fire at low hit points will incapacitate or kill the mage.
Sculpt Flames (Sp): A 9th level Fire Mage can create delicate shapes and walls made of fire. The Fire is fully shapeable, but cannot pass through more than 2 squares per level. Any creature passing through a square with fire in it suffers 1d6 of fire damage per level. A creature which is in a square that is being filled with fire is entitled to a Reflex Save (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier) to move to the nearest non-flaming square as an immediate action. These fires persist for 1 round per level. Alternately, the Fire Mage can replicate a wall of fire which persists for 1 minute per level.
Conflagration (Sp): At 10th level, a Fire Mage can surround himself with a nimbus of flames that extends for 10' in all directions from his person. All other targets in this area suffer a d10 of Fire Damage per level, but are entitled to a Reflex Save (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier). In addition, a Fire Mage can cast fire shield at will (Hot Shield only).
Beacon (Sp): An 11th level Fire Mage can create a magically permanent bonfire as a standard action. He always knows exactly where each Beacon he has created is (Even if he is on another plane) and will know if it is put out by any means.
Firewalk (Sp): At 11th level a Fire Mage can walk into any of his previously created Beacons, and appear at another Beacon of his choosing. The Fire Mage may only transport himself and any carried objects.
Bonds of Fire (Sp): A 12th level Fire Mage can craft solid fire and entrap a victim in it. The bonds will immobilize a creature which fails a Reflex Save (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier), and will entangle the creature unless it succeeds in its save by more than 5. A creature can attempt to escape by taking a Full round action to make a Strength or Escape Artist test with a DC equal to the Use Rope Skill Result of the Fire Mage. The victim suffers 20 points of Fire Damage per round, and the bonds of fire last until the victim escapes or the Fire Mage dismisses them.
Fire Clouds (Sp): As a Full Round Action, a 13th level Fire Mage can create huge billowing clouds of Fire. The Fire Clouds must be created within Long range, and persist for 3 rounds whether they are still in range or not. The cloud is shapeable, and covers at most 3 10' cubes per Level. Each round, everyone and everything inside the cloud suffers 1d6 of Fire damage per level, but is entitled to a Reflex save for half damage (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier).
Searing Light (Sp): A 14th level Fire Mage can call levels of illumination that are painful and destructive as the unmitigated baleful glare of the sun itself. All darkness within 5 miles is dispelled, and everything is illuminated. All undead suffer 10 points of damage per round. All creatures specifically vulnerable to light suffer 10 damage per round (thus, vampires suffer 20 damage per round). All creatures are Dazzled. Creatures must pass a Fortitude save (DC 10 + ½ Level + Charisma Modifier) every minute or become blind for the remainder of the effect. Creatures that are blinded when the effect ends are entitled to another Fortitude save to get their vision back, but if they fail this save the blinding is permanent. This effect lasts until the Fire Mage dismisses it or he is incapacitated.
Ray of Light (Sp): As an attack action, a 14th level Fire Mage can fire a ray of Light at any target within Short Range. It inflicts 1d6 of Light Damage per level if it hits with a Ranged Touch Attack. Undead take 10 extra damage. Creatures specifically vulnerable to Light suffer an additional 10 damage.
Sending (Sp): A 15th level Fire Mage can send a message, as the sending spell to any creature on any plane of existence with a standard action and receive a reply even if they are on different planes of existence.
Rain of Fire (Sp): At 15th level, the Fire Mage can open the skies and dump raw inferno upon all who would oppose him. The fires inflict 1d6 of Fire Damage per level, and victims are permitted a Reflex save (DC 10 + ½ level + Charisma Modifier). The Fire Mage chooses which squares are struck with fire, and the only limits to how many squares can burn is how many squares the Fire Mage can see. There are no range limits to this power save line of sight.
Incinerate(Sp): 19th level fire mages can focus their flame into an ultra hot beam after three turns of charging, any enemy hit by the beam must make a 40DC fortitude saving throw or be completely incinerated, succeeding the save they then take 4d6*level of Fire Damage. Any unnatural armour on the target (excluding fire resistant armor) is destroyed after being hit by this attack regardless of whether the wearer failed the check. Any goods that are flammable will be also incinerated.
One with the Flame (Ex):At the 20th level the Fire Mage is able to become a being of fire for ( + Charisma Modifier) once per day becoming completely incorporeal and setting any hostiles who come within 10ft ablaze. They are able to cast all their spells instantaneously while in this form with the exception of One with the Flame. If activated with Soul Fire the active time is halved but all attacks will be cast as Soul Fire attacks (without the loss of health aside from entering the state) alongside the Fire Mage being a incorporeal Soul Fire with the passive fire effect gaining the properties of Soul Fire. The Mage can still be harmed by magical attacks and energy attacks that do not deal Fire Damage. | <urn:uuid:e3b46422-2152-4fab-b821-2cb9567ee791> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 11,007 |
FutureMark’s 3D benchmarking software has certainly seen its share of controversy over the past few years. The last version saw no end of allegations, most of which revolved around nVidia and some dubious driver optimizations. FutureMark has since established a driver verification program that tries to weed out drivers that perform unacceptable optimizations, which allow the hardware to perform better on 3DMark than it would on actual games.
3DMark is meant to be a forward-looking benchmark–a synthetic test that reproduces the kind of graphics load we’ll start to see in games a year from now. It doesn’t use an actual game engine, and there’s no gameplay involved. This is all fine, as long as you realize that 3DMark05 scores don’t represent relative performance in current games, but rather the potential relative performance of future games that use similar graphics techniques.
3DMark05, like the versions before it, features several “game tests” that generate an overall 3DMark score, along with a handful of inspection tests that measure one particular aspect of a video card’s capabilities. We’ll go over them each in turn, followed by a performance review of a few of the latest video cards.
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Microsoft Office Tutorials and References
In Depth Information
Add a Macro to a Module
Add a Macro
to a Module
If you have a macro that you want to create or
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macro to a module in the VBA Editor.
As you become familiar with manipulating
Excel using VBA, you will likely come up with
many ways to simplify complex tasks and
automate routine and repetitive chores using
macros. To implement these macros, you need
to type your code into an existing module in
the VBA Editor.
Similarly, you may run across a macro that you
want to use for your own work, either as it is
or by modifying the code to suit your needs.
You can either transcribe these macros into a
module on your system, or better yet, copy the
macros and then paste them into a module.
1 Start the VBA Editor.
Note: For more information, see
the section, “Open the VBA Editor.”
2 Double-click the module
into which you want to
add the macro.
If you prefer to add your
code to a new module,
you can click Insert and
then click Module,
Excel opens the module
3 Position the cursor where
you want to start the new
Note: You must add the new macro
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4. iTunes GiftCards. There is nothing better than a fantastic playlist to get a girl going! And, it’s super easy to drop $20 in five minutes or less on iTunes. My newest favorites are Switchfoot, Glee soundtrack, Daughtry, and Lifehouse.
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BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN – The government has announced further easing of COVID-19 control measures, raising the limit of people at public and social gatherings from 100 to 200 people at a time.
During a press briefing on Thursday, health minister YB Dato Seri Setia Dr Hj Mohammad Isham Hj Jaafar said more social distancing measures will be relaxed from August 17 as the coronavirus outbreak has been brought under control in Brunei.
The country has not detected any domestic transmission of COVID-19 for over three months but reported an imported case last Friday, bringing the national tally to 142.
YB Dato Dr Hj Mohd Isham said Brunei will reduce the cost of nasal swab testing to $350 for foreign nationals who have been granted permission to enter the country beginning August 14.
The government previously imposed a $1,000 fee on inbound foreigners for the COVID-19 test.
On top of paying for the test, foreign arrivals will be required to bear accommodation expenses as part of the two-week mandatory isolation at designated health monitoring centres.
The health ministry has administered 45,835 tests to date, accounting for nearly 10 percent of the population.
Brunei has been gradually loosening coronavirus curbs since May 16 when the first phase of its de-escalation plan kicked in.
Buffets can return at eateries; children allowed to enter cinemas
The home affairs minister said buffets will be permitted at all eateries from August 17 but diners cannot serve themselves.
Only restaurant employees who wear protective face masks can serve food to the patrons, said YB Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia (Dr) Hj Abu Bakar Hj Apong, one of four cabinet ministers who attended the press briefing.
There is no capacity limit for dine-in at restaurants, cafés and food courts since the fourth phase of de-escalation plan took effect.
Cinemas will proceed to the third stage of reopening on August 17, operating at 80 percent of its full capacity compared to 60 percent in the second phase.
Cinemagoers must be kept one seat apart but family members can sit together. The age limit has also been lifted at cinemas.
In the second phase of easing coronavirus restrictions, indoor and outdoor playgrounds as well as game arcades can operate at 60 percent of their normal capacity.
Special needs, childcare facilities to resume full operations
Special needs centres and childcare facilities will be able to resume full operations next Monday as part of the fourth phase of de-escalation plan, said the minister of culture, youth and sports.
YB Major General (R) Dato Paduka Seri Hj Aminuddin Ihsan Pehin Orang Kaya Saiful Mulok Dato Seri Paduka Hj Abidin said children of all ages can return to childcare centres, except those who display flu symptoms such as fever or are at high risk of developing a severe infection.
Special needs centres are also open to all, excluding those with chronic diseases.
Museums, exhibition galleries and public libraries will also move to the final stage of reopening, hosting a maximum number of 100 people at a time as opposed to the previous 70 people.
For senior citizen centres, attendance is capped at 80 percent at a specific time – an increase from 60 percent.
Under the third phase of de-escalation plan, swimming pools are allowed to operate every day with no age restrictions and can accommodate 80 percent of its total capacity.
Visitors of swimming pools can use the facilities up to two hours a day.
The ministry has also increased the number of people allowed to train for team sports from 10 to 15 people.
Organised sports or competitive matches are still banned.
YB Major General (R) Dato Hj Aminuddin said 289,096 people have visited sports facilities since the start of reopening in May, including gyms, golf courses, bowling centres and swimming pools.
Public transport to run at full capacity; practical driving tests restart soon
Starting August 17, buses and water taxis can run at full capacity.
Transport and infocommunications minister YB Dato Seri Setia Abd Mutalib Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Setia Dato Paduka Hj Mohd Yusof said bus drivers should not accept passengers if the bus has exceeded its maximum seating capacity.
Passengers must wear face masks on buses and scan the BruHealth QR code before boarding. Only passengers with green and yellow BruHealth codes can get on the bus.
Transport operators are required to ensure cleanliness at all times, including disinfecting seats and providing life jackets for water taxi passengers.
The minister further said more practical driving test examiners will be appointed and the Training and Driving Test Circuit Complex in Kg Sungai Akar will speed up practical driving tests to address the backlog of students who are on the waiting list.
The practical driving tests will return to a normal schedule at the end of August to early September, he added.
Driving schools have been allowed to hold classes at their normal capacity since July 27.
The reopening of internet cafes remain in the third level of de-escalation plan but the ministry has revised its safety guidelines, including limiting the number of visitors to 90 percent of total capacity and ensuring physical distancing of at least a metre apart.
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Once Upon the Realms
The Lady of Mysteries, the Mother of All Magic, Our Lady of Spells
Greater Power of Elysium, NG
Domain: Eronia / Dweomerheart
Symbol: A circle of nine stars, with a red mist rising toward (or flowing from) its center or a circle of seven blue-white stars, or (older) a single blue-white star
Mystra is the goddess of magic and with that the god of possibilities, which makes her arguably the most powerful deity in Faerûn. She is said to have taught the first spellcaster of the Realms, and to have enabled many of the races to use magic. She is most venerated by wizards and those who use magic or magical items in their daily use. Mystra provides and tends the Weave, the conduit to enable mortal spellcasters and magical crafters to safely access the raw force that is magic. | <urn:uuid:ce89c049-d25c-4d0d-a92b-ee4aabef4463> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 799 |
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A publisher with rights to some of the rapper's songs accuses Spotify of willful infringement to the tune of potentially billions of dollars in damages.
A Nashville Federal judge has denied Spotify’s request to move the copyright infringement case brought by Eight Mile Style, a publisher with rights to some of Eminem’s songs, to New York. Judge Aleta Trauger ruled April 2 that Spotify’s sufficient contacts within the state of Tennessee, such as their Nashville-based office and listeners in the state who have accessed Eminem’s songs, are sufficient to keep the case in the state.
“The court has no doubt that litigation this case in Spotify’s home district would be easier for Spotify,” wrote Trauger in her opinion. “The Middle District of Tennessee has an interest in ensuring that copyright rights are observed within its border. Although there may be some hardships related to litigating in this district rather than Spotify’s home district…those hardships are not so great as to make jurisdiction unreasonable.”
Eminem’s Publisher Eight Mile Style and Martin Affiliated, two Michigan-based companies that own and control a catalog of Eminem’s musical compositions, filed a lawsuit against Spotify in federal court in Nashville on Aug. 21, 2019, accusing the company of willful copyright infringement by reproducing “Lose Yourself” and about 250 of the rapper’s songs on its service to the tune of potentially billions of dollars in damages. The suit also targeted the Music Modernization Act, a federal law enacted last October that was intended to make life easier for tech companies and to get songwriters paid, for denying the Eminem-affiliated companies their due process property rights.
The initial complaint against Spotify filed by attorney Richard Busch, a Nashville attorney who won the “Blurred Lines” case for Marvin Gaye’s heirs, alleges that Spotify made Eminem’s songs available to their listeners without obtaining valid licenses.
On Sept 25, Spotify, a New York-based company incorporated in Delaware and wholly owned by a Swedish corporate parent, filed court papers seeking to have the case moved to New York. Spotify argued the case should be heard in the state because that is where its licensing personnel, as well as many senior executives and employee witnesses the company would expect to be involved in this litigation, are based.
While Spotify executive vp Anna Ludstrom admitted that the company has maintained a Nashville office since 2016, she said in court papers that none of the executives in that office are responsible for mechanical licensing on the platform. Spotify also did not dispute that there were listeners in Tennessee that accessed Eminem’s music on the streaming service.
Ultimately, Trauger ruled that transferring the case to New York would inconvenience Eminem’s publishers.
“Every instance of litigation … has to be based somewhere, and the plaintiffs’ selection of the Middle District of Tennessee is sufficiently appropriate to avoid transfer,” said the judge in her decision.
Busch tells Billboard he is pleased with the judge’s decision.
“Spotify basically argued that it could only be sued in New York for alleged copyright infringement throughout the United States,” he said. “The court rightfully and easily rejected that argument. We now look forward to litigating this case on the merits.”
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Syria waits for Israeli response on boundaries
Syria has prepared a paper defining the boundaries of the occupied Golan Heights and was waiting for an Israeli reply through Turkish mediators, sources familiar with the talks were quoted as saying on Tuesday. According to Reuters, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad recently told Western officials that Damascus wants Israel to take a clear position on the territorial problem between the two countries.
The Syrian document sets the boundaries with reference to six geographical points, the sources told Reuters. "The president was clear that Syria wants to know the Israeli view about what constitutes occupied Syrian territory before progress could be made," one of the sources said.
"According to Syrian thinking, Israeli agreement on the six points could help seal a peace deal next year. But Israel may not be able to provide a response any time soon, when it is in such political turmoil," a second source said.
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Window Fitters Wath-upon-Dearne South Yorkshire (S63): Specialist local window fitters in the Wath-upon-Dearne area can assist you with any window replacements, conservatory installations and glazing requirements around the home.
When you have bought off-the-shelf windows and doors from your local building suppliers, a window fitter's skills will be invaluable for the installation process. As opposed to taking the usual route of using one of the popular double glazing companies, you can look around for the best deals on DIY outlet windows, doors and perhaps even conservatories, if that's what floats your boat. This will enable you to still get a professional installation, but instead of shelling out large chain double glazing brand prices, your local Wath-upon-Dearne window fitter will get the whole thing done more cheaply.
Armed with all the specialist safety equipment and tools, a first class Wath-upon-Dearne window fitter will make sure your replacement and installation is accomplished smoothly and without issues. When you receive a job quote, it might reference a "fitter's mate", who will commonly be needed to assist with the installation and any heavy lifting.
To give you a fair idea of the overall cost of the installation, you should be looking to get at least three different quotations, and these should be in black and white. You must also ensure that the removal and disposal of any old window panels, broken glass, door frames and builders rubble, is contained in the job quote. This could be something of a shock when it is suddenly sprung on you after the installation is done, and not been higlighted in the initial quote.
If you're aware that any of your friends or close neighbours have had installation work done by window fitters in Wath-upon-Dearne recently, you could always ask their advice. It is also worth confirming the accreditations and professional memberships of and company or independent window fitter you are looking to hire for the project. For any window fitters in Wath-upon-Dearne, a CSCS card is the absolute minimum qualification they can show. This shows that your handpicked window fitter has the recognised qualifications, skills and training in their particular trade (CSCS stands for Construction Skills Certification Scheme).
Any work that's completed is covered by the regulating association if your window fitter is a registered member of either CERTass (Certificate and Self Assessment) or FENSA. Consequently, you're eligible for assistance in case of any disagreement or issue during and following your project.
Set up by the Glass and Glazing Federation to provide assistance and promote training and support to glazing companies, FENSA has more than 9,000 members. If there is an argument or disagreement, they provide a process of mediation between the homeowner and installer. Certass is a UKAS approved Certification Scheme that appraises companies and individual contractors expertise against specified standards.
Both schemes are UKAS (the United Kingdom Accreditation Service) endorsed and provide you with safeguards for your insurances and deposits above and beyond any particular company policies and guarantees. For this reason, it is recommended that you pick a window fitter in Wath-upon-Dearne who is a member of one of these 2 recognised trade bodies.
Before providing you with a precise quotation, the window fitter will have to do an on-site survey which will involve measuring any windows or doors that need installing or replacing. Always check the finer details on the estimate for any percentage error; around 10% of the price given is an acceptable margin of error for some window fitting companies. When you've agreed on a price and a date for work to commence, it's not advisable to pay more than 10% as a deposit upfront.
You will need the window fitter to double check the measurements, if you're buying your own doors or windows, to guarantee that they are the right dimensions to perfectly fit into the existing gaps. According to your frame sizes and requirements, and taking wood as an example, your Wath-upon-Dearne window fitter might be able to construct custom-made frames to complement your design and style of house. A specialist window fitter in Wath-upon-Dearne may be able to get a good deal on the windows or doors you wish to purchase by means of their contacts and trade accounts.
Using hand and power tools, and assisted by the fitters mate, your window fitter will first of all prepare the work area and then safely and securely take out any doors, old glazing and associated frames. Then the new windows or doors will be firmly fixed into position, after checking that they're square and true, and then sealant can be applied to keep out any moisture and draughts.
To get a more personal working relationship throughout your project, you could try using the services of a smaller, family operated business or independent window fitter in Wath-upon-Dearne. Locating online reviews and testimonials on independent local window fitters is not hard, and they are inclined to deliver the best possible products and services to retain their good reputations with the homeowners in their area.
Smaller, family businesses often pay more attention to detail and offer a more amicable approach than the bigger window fitting companies. This sort of attitude can make a huge difference when you are when you are considering people to complete your glazing project. Rather than having to deal with a national or even international call centre, when you've got some kind of problem with the work, it's reassuring to know that with a local business, someone that you know is invariably just a short phone call away.
Hiring an independent window fitter in Wath-upon-Dearne, often means that you'll see the same person from quotation, through to the completion of the project. When compared with the huge double glazing conglomerates, this unbroken chain of contact allows you an exclusive and personal service that cannot be matched elsewhere. To ensure that any queries or questions you might have are answered promptly and in a courteous and professional manner, you will have a familiar face at hand consistently during your installation project.
No job is too big or too small for your local window fitters in Wath-upon-Dearne, from chipped window panes to whole home replacement windows, readying an existing window in a bathroom or kitchen for the installation of an extraction fan, or uPVC door re-aligning due to warping, anything at all is achievable. Perhaps your loft or attic is ideal for generating an extra living area. A window fitter will expertly install a Velux window to flood your newly created living space with warm, natural light while keeping the elements out.
Wath-upon-Dearne window and door fitters can also be employed to install microchip cat flaps, assemble porches around external doors, mend broken glazing on any shed or outbuilding, and install stained glass windows for a unique styling to your house. No matter what sort of glazing project you have, there's a local Wath-upon-Dearne window fitter available to tackle the task.
A window fitter isn't restricted to replacing and installing double glazing, doors and conservatories, but could also be brought in to put up a glazed curtain wall (glass curtains) to increase natural light and bring some outdoor space into your interior area. Most often seen on commercial and office buildings, glazed curtain walls are made out of a seamless blend of wooden, steel or uPVC frames and glass. Glazed curtain walls and glass curtains have grown increasingly more fashionable in modern homes in Wath-upon-Dearne, mainly because of their visual appeal, energy saving attributes and plentitude of natural light, and a reliable window fitter will be able to install these in your property, and offer guidance on how to get the maximum benefit from such a project.
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Window fitting work can be done in Wath-upon-Dearne and also nearby in: Bolton-upon-Dearne, Old Denaby, Mexborough, Brampton Bierlow, Thrybergh, Swinton, Brampton, Parkgate, Adwick-upon-Dearne, Elsecar, Wentworth, Kilnhurst, Rawmarsh, Wombwell, Hemingfield, as well as in these postcodes S63 6HD, S63 3FY, S63 6JJ, S63 6GF, S63 5DB, S63 3EL, S63 6JZ, S63 3EG, S63 6HN, S63 3EZ. Local Wath-upon-Dearne window installers will most likely have the telephone dialling code 01709 and the postcode S63.
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Attributed by Jared McCallister
Published in New York Daily News
Separated by more than 900 miles in 1968, striking New York City sanitation workers were brought closer to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-supported black sanitation workers strike in Memphis — through both coincidence and concern for their Southern colleagues.
While the New York workers had wage concerns and other issues during their 1968 strike, their black counterparts in Memphis were enduring truly hellish and deadly working conditions and systemic racism daily.
And some New York sanitation union members even joined King and others by marching in Memphis for the beleaguered black sanitation workers.
What the Memphis workers were seeking by striking in 1963 was coincidentally reflected in the title of the 2009 Kevin Rice book about New York City’s Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, Teamsters, Local 831 called “Dignity and Respect.”
Nearly 40 years after the 1968 strikes, a connection of concern was again evident when New York sanitation union leaders pushed to recognize the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday as a paid holiday for its workers.
“I’m the only union that received this holiday without giving up a holiday,” said Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association, Teamsters Local 831, proudly looking back on the achievement after negotiations with the city.
In 2008, the sanitation union members were the only uniformed city workers to get Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day off as a paid holiday without giving up another paid holiday to get it.
Nespoli – who starts his typical day in the wee hours of the morning, just like the thousands of workers he represents – championed the MLK paid holiday effort for sanitation workers.
His membership, nicknamed “New York’s Strongest,” works year-round to make all of New York City “new” every day by collecting tons of garbage and recyclables.
Every work day, Nespoli is at his desk in the union local’s lower Manhattan offices, talking on the phone and holding meetings, while always prepared to travel to meet with his members in the streets.
He is now also chairman of the Municipal labor Committee, which represents 100 municipal unions; vice president of International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Joint Council 16 in New York City and a Central Labor Committee vice president.
In 2007, with the support of local’s membership, he sought to add Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to the union’s list of paid days off due to respect for the late civil rights leader’s efforts in general – and specifically for King’s support for the historic 1968 Memphis strike by black sanitation workers.
King’s show of support for the Memphis strikers sadly ended on April 4, 1968, when he was shot death at the city’s Lorraine Motel by an assassin.
At first glance, it seems possible that the black workers in the 1968 Memphis strike were inspired by the highly publicized work-stopping labor action in New York a week earlier, considering the large volume of news broadcasted from the media capital of the world.
But Nespoli – a man of conviction and commitment with a proven record of going the extra mile for his members – wasn’t going to assume connections between the two labor actions.
“I decided to take two of my sanitation business agents with me to Memphis, Tenn. I wanted to know more,” he said.
During sit-down with veterans of Memphis strike, Nespoli asked whether the New York strike inspired the black workers to hit the picket line in 1968. Their answer was: “No.”
“Did that strike up there have any effect on you? Nepoli asked at the Memphis strike veterans. “They told me no – it had no bearing at all,” said one former Memphis sanitation worker, revealing the hellish work conditions that did spark the strike.
“First of all, they didn’t have uniforms. They had regular clothes, and they had to go in the back of the houses in Memphis, Tenn., take the garbage cans from the back of the houses,” Nespoli said, recalling what Memphis workers shared. “There were sanitation workers that were going to the back of the houses, and people were shooting at them.”
Also, the 1968, black Memphis workers were not issued gloves or provided a place to shower after working with refuse all day.
“I said, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’ They said, ‘No! This is how our job was down here.’”
Nespoli was shocked by the next revelation: the primary reason for the 1968 Southern strike was the deaths of two black sanitation workers who were crushed to death in a garbage compacter.
The incident was described in “Why We Need the ‘I AM 2018’ Moment of Silence: Remembering Echol Cole and Robert Walker,” writer Michael Honey’s 2018 tribute to the two workers killed, which was posted on the AFL-CIO.org website.
“As crew chief, Willie Crain drove the loaded garbage packer along Colonial Street, he heard the hydraulic ram go into action, apparently set off by an electrical malfunction,” read the article. “He pulled the truck over to the curb immediately, but the ram was already jamming Cole and Walker back into the compactor. The men were crushed like so much garbage.”
“That’s when they [the Memphis sanitation workers] said, ‘Enough is enough,’ and that’s when they went on strike,” said Nespoli. After returning from Memphis, Nespoli said, he responded to some New York sanitation workers complaining about their working conditions, saying, “I’m not saying you don’t work hard; I’m just saying there are jobs out there a lot tougher than what we have,” he said, thinking about the racial strife and the dangerous working conditions workers in Memphis faced.
Nespoli said he discovered that some New York sanitation workers “actually went down to Memphis, Tenn., and marched with Dr. King,” revealing another N.Y.C.-Memphis connection.
“I have to thank Mayor Bloomberg for recognizing the fact that it was necessary that this workforce have this holiday,” Nespoli said, adding that he “had to give up some money” to the city to gain the additional holiday, but union members felt it was worth it.
“Well, the mayor sat down [with us], and it just shows labor and management working together ¨ and we got it done,” Nespoli added.
“And that’s how we got it [the MLK Jr. Day holiday]. I didn’t get it for nothing. But people – representing the various segments of Local 831 such as the Irish, the Italians, Germans, the Polish, Hispanics and the Asians – came up to me and said, ‘That’s very good,’ referring to the union’s successful recognition of the MLK holiday. | <urn:uuid:f7e66790-3d45-4654-8630-ae8dd31cee79> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,528 |
Child's remains found in mom's car 10 years after he was last seen
CHESAPEAKE, Va. — When a Virginia State Police trooper pulled over Tonya Slaton, 44, of Richmond, on Interstate 64 earlier this month, he found a black trash bag in the trunk that contained human remains, according to an affidavit obtained by WTVR CBS 6.
Friday, Virginia State Police confirmed the remains were that of Slaton's biological son Quincy Jamar Davis.
According to the search warrants, one investigator believed "the victim's death was likely the result of some homicidal action."
Police said that they really need people to come forward with information about Quincy from the 2004 era, when he was in 7th grade in Virginia Beach.
"We really want people to come forward with any information, what could be a small detail to someone could be really important to investigators," said Virginian State Police spokesman Sgt. Vick at the press conference Friday. "We would appreciate any assistance."
The cause and manner of death are under investigation. Police would not say when he died, but confirmed the last anyone had heard from Quincy was around 2004. At that time, his mother did have a residence at the beach.
No missing persons report was ever filed for Quincy. Right now, VSP cannot say if Davis' father or other family members have been contacted.
Anybody who has had contact with Quincy in the 2004 era is asked to come forward – if you went to school with him, if you lived in the neighborhood with him, please contact Virginia State Police at 757-424-680.
"Give us a footprint from before 2004 of his whereabouts, anything that can help us kind of put together that footprint," said Vick.
The traffic stop
Police initially pulled Slaton over on Interstate 64 in Hampton for driving with expired tags. A subsequent inquiry revealed the car "was not registered in Virginia and the license plates on the vehicle were not found on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles," according to the affidavit.
The trooper began impounding the vehicle and while taking inventory, discovered a black trash bag in the trunk, according to the court papers. There was a strong odor of rotting flesh permeating from the bag, the paperwork indicated. The body was double-bagged and sealed with duct tape.
Slaton allegedly threw some clothes on top of the bag, and told the trooper the bag contained just clothes. The trooper also noticed a large white stain located on the floorboard behind the driver's seat.
"When questioned, [she] explained that she spilled some bleach," according to the affidavit.
Slaton was charged with concealment of a dead body and is being held at the City of Hampton Jail without bond.
State police said that further charges against Slaton are pending.
Who is Tonya Slaton?
Slaton's landlord on Foushee Street told WTVR CBS 6 that Slaton had been a tenant for two years. She described Slaton as a happy, friendly person with a bubbly personality. She said Slaton was late on her rent one month, but took a second job to make the payment. Residents in the apartment building declined to discuss the case or Slaton, citing requests from state police investigators that they not talk to the media.
According to court documents and other sources, Slaton worked full-time at Integrative Health in Glen Allen, as a front desk manager. Previously, the spine and disc clinic was located in Midlothian.
Court and news records showed Slaton had been in serious trouble before. In October 2007, Hampton Police were looking for her and her black Mustang after she fired four shots through her boyfriend's front door. She had become angry when he tried to break up with her and went and got a gun out of her car, saying "neither one of them were going to leave alive," according to a report about the affidavit in that case.
The boyfriend escaped by climbing out of a window, cutting himself.
Slaton eventually turned herself in and wound up serving the better part of four years of a 15-year sentence for shooting into an occupied dwelling and attempted maiming.
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Pilot-scale manufacturing is a valuable precursor to full-scale production. It ensures a cost-effective approach to research and development (R&D), scale-up, and eventual commercial production of key drug compounds. Generally, pilot manufacturing is preceded by kilo lab process chemistry results. Kilo labs and pilot-scale plants are both similar in scale and batch mechanisms, with the names sometimes used interchangeably, however their specifications are dependent on their application from lab-to-lab. For some labs, both are used to enable greater process testing using non-cGMP kilo labs whilst maintaining large-scale cGMP compliant manufacturing with pilot-scale manufacturing.
Process development in the pharmaceutical industry is extremely complex and fraught with regulatory oversight. Drug pipelines must be robust to ensure that only the highest quality final products are released to markets, which requires absolute care through the numerous interlinked manufacturing processes. If process chemists don’t spot potential problems at the earliest possible stage, it can lead to high costs down the line. Pilot plants and kilo labs ease the burden of transitioning lab-scale synthesis to the large scale.
What Exactly is Pilot Scale Process Chemistry?
A pilot-scale lab intersects many chemical engineering projects between early-phase development and pilot-scale manufacturing. The outset of R&D for new cosmetics, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and other speciality chemicals involves lab-based investigations. Organic chemistry specialists spend time at the benchtop attempting to synthesise tiny amounts of candidate molecules from small initial reactant volumes, whether these are potential chemical building blocks or novel active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), which is ideal for initial testing and screening.
Unfortunately, these meticulous approaches to process chemistry don’t translate well when larger quantities of the product are required. Scaling up from the benchtop to the plant can lead to significant alterations in the molecule’s safety impurity profiles and can have a demonstrable effect on yields.
Kilo lab and pilot scale process chemistry allows users to develop those initial results into scalable synthetic routes. It is so-called because kilo labs can produce kilogram (kg) quantities of target ingredients by mimicking plant conditions.
How Early Phase Process Chemistry Works
The working principles of a kilo lab are pretty simple: they deploy batch system reactions with large glass vessels to produce more significant quantities of material than is typically possible in the lab. Although systems vary, pilot-scale lab reactors typically cover vessel sizes from 50 L up to 100 L.
The critical benefit of kilo lab and pilot-scale process chemistry is their ability to provide crucial information about important aspects of a target compound which may underlie its economic viability. In simple terms: pilot-scale manufacturing saves time and resources while allowing for investigations into manufacturing variables which reduces waste, ultimately achieving the maximum efficiency of the large-scale reaction.
Critical Benefits of Pilot Scale Process Chemistry
- Save time and money: By exploring the scalability of candidate materials through pilot-scale manufacturing, you can assess whether scaling up is even possible. If you determine viability, the pilot plant can help you optimise development, so transfer to the industrial plant is as efficient as possible.
- Non cGMP pilot-scale labs also exist, but are less common—remember to check your compliance requirements!
- Batch production possibilities: Pilot scale process chemistry enables you to produce advanced, pre-clinical compounds and speciality chemicals at the kilogram scale.
- High degrees of flexibility: Flexibility is central to pilot plant functionality; reactors can typically accommodate a range of complex chemical reactions and are usually configured for a degree of
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Optimizing Information in the Herd: Guinea Pigs, Profit and Welfare
Herding arises when an agent's private informationis swamped by public information in what Jackson and Kalai (1997) call a recurring game. The agent will fail to reveal his own information and will follow the actions of his predecessor and, as a result, useful information is lost, which might have highlighted a better choice for later decision-makers. This paper evaluates the strategy of forcing a sub-set of agents to make their decision early from the perspective of a social planner, and a firm with a valuable or valueless procuct. Promotional activity by firms can be explained as an attemps to overcome the herd externality and maximize sales.
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- Sushil Bikhchandani & David Hirshleifer & Ivo Welch, 2010.
"A theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom and cultural change as informational Cascades,"
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- Bikhchandani, Sushil & Hirshleifer, David & Welch, Ivo, 1992. "A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change in Informational Cascades," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 100(5), pages 992-1026, October.
- Abhijit V. Banerjee, 1992. "A Simple Model of Herd Behavior," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 107(3), pages 797-817.
- Matthew Jackson & Ehud Kalai, 1995.
"Social Learning in Recurring Games,"
1138, Northwestern University, Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and Management Science.
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This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
The common custom is to print the breakfast and supper bills in advance, perhaps a thousand at a time, and endeavor to have every dish that is named each morning or else mark it off. Where the hotel keepers and stewards are progressive and the additional expense of printing is not an obstacle a newly corrected bill is printed for every meal and a smaller list is sufficient, there always being something fresh to expect. Comparatively few of those who have had experience with the dinner bill and its daily changes have had much practice in changing the breakfast and supper lists, and many will find it hard to think of new dishes to change with, and for their convenience a list of suitable dishes is given in the pages following these example bills.
Fruit in Season Oat Meal Cracked Wheat Grits.
Fried or Broiled Fresh Fish.
Ham Bacon Calves' Liver Tripe.
Ham Sirloin Steak, with Brown Gravy.
Calves* Liver, with Salt Pork Corned Beef Hash.
Hamburg Steak Mush Sausage.
Mutton Kidneys Tripe.
Fried Boiled Poached.
Corned Beef Boiled Ham.
French Fried Stewed in Cream Lyonaise Boiled Saute.
French, Vienna, Cream.
Maple White Rock.
New Orleans Molasses.
Breakfast, 7-11. Dinner, 1-4. Supper, 6-0.
Breakfast, 7:30-11. Dinner, 1:30-4. Supper, 6-9.
Breakfast, 7. Dinner, 1. Supper, 6
The first is from a hotel that prints a new supper bill every evening, but has this, its breakfast bill, stationary. Any hotel keeper or steward who may be in the act of choosing a form of bill for a new hotel or other beginning will find use for all the particulars of headings, hours for meals, notices and all such particulars which are much better shown than written about.
Wheat Flakes Oat Meal Wheaten Grits.
Salt Mackerel Fish Balls.
Broiled or Fried Fresh Fish.
Ham Rasher of Bacon Tripe.
Stewed or Fried Pigs' Feet Stewed Kidneys.
Smoked Beef with Eggs or Cream.
Boiled Fried Scrambled Poached on Toast.
Omelets, plain, with Cheese, Parsley and Jelly.
Baked Hashed with Cream French Fried.
Corn Muffins Graham Bread French Rolls Toast Plain Bread.
Oolong and English Breakfast Tea Coffee Chocolate Cocoa.
Breakfast 7 to 9. Dinner 1 to 3. Supper 6 to 8.
Breakfast 7. Dinner 12:30. Supper 5:30.
An extra charge for dishes ordered not on the Bill of Fare.
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Incidence of hearing loss increases with age. Approximately one-third of people ages 65 to 74, and almost half of those 75 and older, suffer from some degree of hearing loss.
Contributing factors include genetic predisposition, exposure to noise, and the effects of diabetes and kidney disease.
Now a study published in the December 2013 issue of “The Journal of the American Medical Association” has found that an enlarged waist and high body mass index are also linked to greater risk of hearing loss.
Body mass index (BMI), a ratio of a person’s weight to height, is often used to indicate if a person is overweight or obese.
For instance, a BMI between 25 and 30 is consistent with being overweight, and anything over 30 is considered obesity.
Data from a 20-year longitudinal study of more than 68,000 women indicated that those with a BMI in the overweight range had an 8 percent higher risk for hearing loss — and the risk increased further as BMI went up.
Subjects with a BMI above 40 had a 19 percent greater risk for hearing loss.
Such associations may be caused by impaired blood flow to the inner ear, which can be improved through moderate exercise.
Although we can’t reverse aging or remove a genetic predisposition to hearing loss, we do have control over how much we exercise, which is good news to hear.
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Residents of the Amazon region of South America contend with a number of health threats - from mosquito-borne diseases to difficulty accessing doctors and healthcare facilities in such a vast area. This podcast helps explore some of the health issues in the region and what's being done to address them. Created: 4/9/2009 by Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Date Released: 4/9/2009. Series Name: Emerging Infectious Diseases.
[Announcer] This podcast is presented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC — safer, healthier people.
[Ted Pestorius] Hello. I'm Ted Pestorius, and I’m speaking by phone today with João Bosco Siqueira Jr., an adjunct professor at the Federal University of Goias, Brazil, and Advisor to the Health Surveillance Secretariat at the Brazilian Ministry of Health. Today, we’re talking about a commentary paper in the April 2009 issue of CDC's journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases. The April issue has a special focus on health issues in the Amazon region of South America and the article we’re discussing today provides a glimpse into some of the infectious diseases that threaten the health of residents of the Amazon region.
So, Dr. Siqueira thanks for taking the time to talk with us.
[Dr. Siqueira] Hello, Ted; it’s a pleasure to be here.
[Ted Pestorius] Let’s start by having you describe some of the physical characteristics of the Amazon Basin region and how they play into public health issues.
[Joao Siqueira] Well, Ted, the South American rainforest of the Amazon is the largest in the world. It covers more than 8.2 million square kilometers and it’s a dense tropical forest. This basin is basically located in Brazil, around 54 percent of it, but it also stretches into Peru and several other countries. And it’s like a mosaic of biomes, highly diverse ecosystems including over 180 districts of land systems. Over 30 million people live in the Amazon region, but the population density is really low – lower than five inhabitants per square kilometer and, in the Brazilian Amazon alone, over 6 million people live in traditional, mostly rural, societies and in an area as large as this, access to healthcare systems and services and to trained medical professionals is really hard. Vector-borne and mycobacterial diseases still constitute a public health problem in the area.
[Ted Pestorius] That’s an impressive region to cover. What are some of the conditions that contribute to the burden of disease in the Amazon region?
[Joao Siqueira] Well there are actually several factors that affect the population’s health in this area. We have, for instance, this whole geographic area, very large, access to health services – it’s not easy for some of the populations in the area. We also have a very common problem that’s related to natural resources extraction. For several times we have seen gold mining activities in areas that belong to the Amazon Indian population and basically this population is very susceptible to infectious diseases. So it also poses a high risk for these populations.
[Ted Pestorius] What are some examples of diseases that pose these specific problems and, more specifically, what’s being done to address them?
[Joao Siqueira] We can see that malaria is a very big problem in this area but we also have yellow fever, dengue fever in the urban areas of the region, leptospirosis, typhoid fever, and viral hepatitis is also a big problem for this area. In the case of yellow fever, the whole Amazon region has a high coverage for yellow fever vaccine, which is pretty good, but for other diseases like malaria a huge effort has been done through time to decrease the transmission. But it’s a huge effort, especially nowadays when the population is moving to the cities and the outskirts of the cities in this area, in the Amazon region, sometimes it’s right in the border with the forest. So it poses a lot of new challenges to disease control and prevention.
[Ted Pestorius] It sounds like it would. Are you taking specific actions at this point in time to combat some of those challenges?
[Joao Siqueira] Well, several international initiatives to prevent transmission of these endemic diseases have been taking place. For Chagas disease, for instance, we have an international institute for Chagas disease surveillance and prevention in the Amazon region
It was officially launched by PAHO (editor’s note: The Pan American Health Organization) and WHO (editor’s note: the World Health Organization) in 2004 and included the ministries of health from several countries and it’s basically focusing training malaria control personnel to also work with Chagas disease control so we can use an already ongoing surveillance system to improve actions for other diseases instead of creating new systems.
[Ted Pestorius] That sounds very logical. Are there other strategies that may work besides coordinating surveillance systems?
[Joao Siqueira] Yeah. Basically it’s very, very important to understand and have a clear diagnosis of what’s happening in each of these areas. In such a large area, it’s very common to find different scenarios and different challenges. Malaria prevention has improved a lot by doing this. They are mainly focusing on small areas to identify the challenges and the risks for the population and then addressing them accordingly. We have been monitoring resistance to drugs in the area, especially for malaria and this has been showing great results for us, especially for Brazil. In the past couple of years, malaria transmission has reduced impressively.
[Ted Pestorius] That’s wonderful news.
[Joao Siqueira] Yeah. Another very important problem for this area are arboviruses. It’s very common to see cases of dengue fever, especially in the urban areas of the Amazon region. It poses a huge challenge for us, too; especially in Brazil. Throughout the country right now, we are observing a shift in disease severity towards children, but it has started earlier in the Amazon region, as a sign for the whole country of what could come next. Other arboviruses are common in the region and sometimes they are very tricky to do a correct diagnosis because the clinical outcome is very similar to other viruses. So we have Oropouche, Mayaro, and they look, the clinical outcomes look a lot like dengue fever which is more common in the region.
[Ted Pestorius] Dr. Siqueira, you’ve mentioned malaria as being a very significant issue within the region. Do you have specific strategies and activities oriented towards preventing malarial infection?
[Joao Siqueira] This is a great question, Ted. To prevent malaria transmission in an area as large as this, we need to understand what’s going on in different regions. We need actions that are focused toward specific populations and this is what’s been going on in the Amazon region right now. We’re trying to have a clearer picture of malaria transmission in the outskirts of the largest cities where the border with the forest is not that clear. And we also have a network for monitoring the resistance to malaria treatment drugs and it’s an initiative by the Pan American Health Organization and it’s supported with resources from the United States Agency for International Development and also with the support from the ministry of health from several countries in the area.
[Ted Pestorius] That sounds very, very complex and sounds like you have your work cut out for you. I’d like to thank you for taking so much time to discuss these issues with us, Dr. Siqueira.
[Joao Siqueira] My pleasure.
[Ted Pestorius] We’ve been talking today by telephone about health concerns in the Amazon region and a paper that appears in the April 2009 issue of CDC's journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases. You can see the whole article online at www.cdc.gov/eid. If you’d like to comment on our podcast, please send us an email to email@example.com. That’s eideditor – all one word - at cdc.gov. For Emerging Infectious Diseases, I’m Ted Pestorius. Thanks for listening and have a healthy day.
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Bitcoins! Bitcoins! Bitcoins! and Bitcoins!
It seems you cannot evade this phenomenon if you’re online. From Facebook to Twitter, from LinkedIn to articles in WIRED magazine, Bitcoin is all the rage!
As I decided to write this short blog article on Bitcoins, there is so much information that is coming out, that I am literally having a hard time keeping up with it, and have amended this post to include newer sources of information.
Information presented here is for anyone to read and understand what Bitcoins are. I have provided a long list of references at the bottom of the article to read more, should you so desire. As with all information / financial advice, please do read and consult with other before investing.
In the past couple of days, my Inbox has been inundated with emails from friends & family and more importantly people on my social media timeline asking me about Bitcoins. Of late, with Bitcoins breaking US$ 1,000 barrier per coin, now everyone is wondering if they missed the boat in investing (consider this, it was a few measly Dollars per BTC in January of 2013).
It seems everyone is interested to know about this digital currency phenomenon that is being talked about extensively on the net. A lot of questions have been asked. Is this a scam? Is it worth buying Bitcoins now? Will the price go up? Shall I invest in Bitcoins? How do I mine Bitcoins? Who controls it? Shall I invest my savings into it? etc.
There is literally so much information being published on Bitcoin by the minute, it is almost impossible to keep up. Needless to say, information overload comes easy.
In brief: Bitcoin is cryptocurrency. Without going into the details, think of it as a currency, made electronically, with some kind of a cryptic or secret formula. Its analogous to paper currency that has many in-built markings, so no one counterfeits them.
The currency exists on the Internet (because of it being digital in nature), not outside of it.
No country, or bank or regulator or person controls this currency.
They may own pieces of it, but no one person or authority has ownership rights over Bitcoin. Its open-source.
Think of Bitcoin as a fiat currency. Except in this case, there is no government, the government are the people of the Internet. The netizens. You and I. We.
There are some ground rules with this currency that are extremely important, and the most important ones can be summarized below:
- Only 21 Million Bitcoins will ever be created. Once the number has reached 21 Million, no more Bitcoins will be made and hence, inflation is kept out.
- The smallest unit of a Bitcoin is called a Satoshi – which is a 100 Millionth of a Bitcoin, or 0.00000001
- It was developed by a person(s) we do not know much about called Satoshi Nakamoto
- The code and source of Bitcoin is open, so we know what the software/system is capable of and everyone generally agrees there is no malicious component in it.
- Bitcoins can obtained either by mining or buying them from an exchange or being sent to you.
- To make your physical world connect with the Bitcoin world, you have to have currency exchanges to either Buy Bitcoins (using some specific currencies) or Sell your Bitcoins and obtain the currencies supported by the exchanges (usually, USD, JPY, GBP, Euro, etc.)
- There are a couple of popular exchanges from where you can buy Bitcoins: Mtgox, Bitstamp, BTC-e and BTC China (as of 29th of November these are the major exchanges).
- You can also buy Bitcoins via local meetups (in-person meetups held in many cities). Page on Localbitcoins a great resource to find who can Buy/Sell Bitcoins in your city.
- Bitcoin transactions are anonymous. Its like Swiss banking. You only have a number. You have no clue who is behind that number. Payments are made to that number only.
- Each and every transaction made on the Bitcoin system is recorded. So there is a general ledger worldwide that keeps track of all Bitcoin transactions, in particular this ledger is being maintained by Blockchain.
- Transactions are irreversible. Once a transaction is made, it cannot be reversed. Period. Only way to reverse the transaction is for the receiver to pay you back via another transaction.
- Transactions are nearly instant, it takes a few minutes for ledgers worldwide to confirm your transaction. So if you are in the business where immediate confirmation is required, you might want to wait a few minutes before other ledgers start confirming your transactions. Usually companies like Bitpay will wait for 6 transactions confirmations before they say A-Okay. It all varies, but like I cited, transaction ledgers are transparent and sometimes it takes a few minutes to update. See below image for how a sample looks like.
and below shows transaction confirmations.
- Bitcoins are stored in Wallets. Lose the wallet, you lose you money. If you opt for a wallet online, and the site gets compromised and your money from your wallet is stolen. Its gone. There is no insurance for this.
- Wallets storage is to be taken very seriously. Since the money is digital in nature, there will be a vast ecosystem of criminals who will try everything to hack into your machine or phish for your wallet information.
- More and more businesses and people are starting to accept Bitcoins now. Of particular note is a company called BitPay that makes it extremely easy for you to accept Bitcoins on your website.
- Two great sources to get real-time market information on Bitcoins are: Bitcoin Charts and Bitcoinity
Bitcoin Market Cap
The 29th of November 2013 was a historic day for Bitcoins, today, 1BTC nearly matched the price of Gold. Now that’s something for a digital currency!
Before you really dive into the world of Bitcoins, please note, that this is real money you are playing with. Read up as much as you can on the subject matter before venturing on to play with it. Be very wary of scammers. Since the money is digital in nature, it can be stolen very easily.
Never ever deal with a newbie offering you to sell and/or trade Bitcoins. Never.
You will see a lot of people claiming they have been doing bitcoins for months now, etc. remember every single transaction on the bitcoin system can be verified from the wallet ID, so use the resource at Blockchain to ensure that you are dealing with a genuine party.
Again, be alert and be sensible. Remember the old saying, a fool and his money are easily parted. Don’t be the fool.
Bitcoin ATMs starting to go live, here is one that is in Canada: World’s First Bitcoin ATM goes live in Vancouver.
So here are some important bullets for people wanting to know everything about Bitcoins:
- Bitcoin is a digital currency
- It is abbreviated as BTC
- Just like the old days, when Gold and Silver had to be mined from the mountains and rivers, Bitcoin is also mined, albeit digitally.
- The mining is digital in nature. Don’t wonder too much about it, just think of it as your computer crunching number (that is mining).
- Only so many Bitcoins can be mined and released into the overall Bitcoin ecosystem per day.
- The more computing power that comes in to mine, the more harder it becomes for more Bitcoins to be produced (not an accurate statement, but think of it as a built-in resistance to being duped by large amounts of computing power) so that influence is minimized.
- No one person can influence the system
- It has been designed so that there is no single source or headquarters or association that controls it.
- That’s right, no one controls Bitcoin.
- Its software is open-source
- There are 10,000s of Bitcoin nodes running in the world.
- It is Peer-to-Peer in nature. Just like your Bit-torrents. There is no one controlling it.
- The money supply is limited, i.e. there will only be 21 Million Bitcoins mined. No more.
- Because the money supply is limited, no one can just print (or mine) more Bitcoins and introduce inflation.
- No Government, Association, Body, Person, Group, etc. controls Bitcoins.
- Slowly and surely, quite a few websites (businesses) have started accepting Bitcoins as a payment method.
- Bitcoin transactions are guaranteed and non-reversible, i.e. if you pay someone with Bitcoins you cannot reverse the transaction. That money is as good as gone to the other person. This is particularly important for businesses who want to sell products/services without the fear of looming chargebacks.
- There are only four methods of obtaining Bitcoins:
- You would need a Bitcoin Wallet to get started with Bitcoins.
- Right now a little over 11 Million Bitcoins have been mined (remember, mining ceases when 21 Million Bitcoins have been mined)
- The current market value of these 11 Million Bitcoins is a little more than $14 Billion (as of 29th November 2013).
- No one knows for sure who invented Bitcoins. The author’s name is Satoshi Nakamoto. No one knows who he is. Most people believe this is a pseudonym and there are more people behind the creation of Bitcoin.
- If you want to mine Bitcoins, do note, your best bet is to use ASIC hardware, here is a great list of all the popular Bitcoin Mining Hardware.
- Bitcoin Foundation – A body that is promoting Bitcoin usage (do remember its not an organization that controls Bitcoin, no one does)
- Great resource for Bitcoin news is: Bitcoin News, Prices, Charts, Guides & Analysis – CoinDesk
Here are some great introductory videos regarding Bitcoins:
- Bitcoin Wallet Wiki
- Strong Coin
- Choose Your (Bitcoin) Wallet
- Things you need to know about your Wallet
- Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin Wallet Options
- Multibit Wallet
- Blockchain Bitcoin Wallet
Trade / Exchanges
Here are some of the famous exchanges where Bitcoins are traded:
- Coinbase – the simplest way to buy, use, and accept Bitcoin
- BitMit – Online Auction Site to Buy/Sell stuff paid with Bitcoins
- SpendBitCoins – Turn your Bitcoins into gift cards from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes and many more
- BitcoinCodes – Get gift codes for services like XBoxLive, PSN or iTunes instantly online
- Start Bit Coin: Beginners Guide to Mining Bitcoins
- Tech Crunch: How to mine Bitcoins
- Pooled Mining
- Bitcoin Mining
- Introduction to Bitcoin Mining (PDF Book, Free download)
- WeUseCoins: Bitcoin Mining Guide
Bitcoin Article (How to get started)
- LifeHacker: What is Bitcoin and what can I do with it?
- WeUseCoins: How to get started with Bitcoins
- Quora: How does Bitcoin work in layman’s terms?
- Myths about Bitcoins
- Bitcoin Beginner (PDF Books for Sale, very cheap and very good read)
Organizations / Forums / Portals
- BitCoinTalk (Forum)
- WeUseCoins (Portal)
- Bitcoin Foundation – Not to be mistaken to to be confused as an organization or any body that owns or rules over Bitcoin. This is just a foundation made by a couple of people involved in Bitcoin.
The World of Bitcoin According to Google
What are Bitcoins and How Do They Avoid Taxes
How a Bitcoin Transaction Works (Click to Enlarge)
The Anatomy of a Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Wiki
- Bitcoin Magazine: Bitcoin 101
- BitPay – Accept Bitcoins on your website: https://bitpay.com
- Tech Crunch: Bitcoins and the end of money
- Guardian: What are they, and how do they work?
- Quora: Do you know anyone who has become a US Dollar Millionaire due to early investing and/or mining in Bitcoin?
- Bitcoin Trading Signals
- The Bitcoin Trader
- CoinDesk – A Bitcoin online portal.
- BitcoinTalk – New to Bitcoin? Start Here (really good source to discuss Bitcoins)
- Accept Bitcoin on your website with a Widget: Coin Widget
- Bitcoinity (Markets)
- Slate Magazine: Will Bitcoins Make Me Rich?
- Jon Bringhurst: How does bitcoin work?
- BlockChain.info (Bitcoin Market Statistics)
- Economist: How does Bitcoin work?
- Satoshi Nakamoto: What bounty would be needed to determine Satoshi Nakamoto’s identity?
- Bitcoin: What’s to stop me from buying bitcoin at Coinbase/BitPay and selling it at a higher price on Coinbase once it catches up to Mt. Gox?
- Bitcoin: Why is Litecoin growing at an even faster rate than Bitcoin?
- Swiss Banking: What are the advantages of using Bitcoin versus a Swiss bank account?
- Bitcoin: If I’m bullish on digital currencies should I mine or buy?
- Litecoin, The Silver To Bitcoin’s Gold Shoots Up Past $30. by Brian Roemmele on Accepting Payment Cards
- Bitcoin: What are some interesting facts about Bitcoin?
- Bitcoin: Is there any fundamental floor or ceiling to bitcoin price in the long term? If so, what would those be?
- Guess Who Just Moved To Position Number 5 In Payments. by Brian Roemmele on Accepting Payment Cards
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Building on the core works of The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine presents a poignant outline of the phases of maturity and the most commonly predictable experiences men can expect from women as they progress through various stages of life.
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Well, it’s been about a year in the making, but the print version of my second book is now available on the Createspace store and will be distributed through Amazon in the next 3-5 business days. If you prefer the digital format the Kindle version is also available now on Amazon.
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I’d like to thank all my regular readers and commenters. It was your input and insight, and the questions we put to each other that made this book possible. I’m often asked why I’ve never moderated the comments on Rational Male, this book is why. I’d also like to personally thank Sam Botta for doing the forward and helping with promotion of my work.
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Rio Chargres, Panama
24 March 2007 | Lat 09 19'N, Long 80 00'W
Greetings from Silkie. We have made progress South since our report of February 2007. At that time, we were on the Rio Dulce, at Mario's Marina, having an easy time living the marina life complete with a pretty good marina restaurant, reasonable prices, access to "town," that being Fronteras, Guatemala, where fresh vegetables are available as is transportation to other places. We were awaiting a package from the States which contained aluminum end pieces for the two top Harken batt cars which attach the top of the mailsail to the mast, one of which had broken. Being in the hurry that we Americans are famous for, we were frustrated that the package had not arrived in Fronteras but was still in Guatemala City and we had no confidence that it would be delivered in Fronteras any time soon so we did the obvious: we haired a taxi and drove the three hours to the Fed Ex office in Guatemala City. Shall we say, it was an expensive trip but well worth it as we did extract our package from Fed Ex , had an interesting ride there and back (surviving intact) and ate lunch at a McDonalds in G. City. Why McDonald's you ask??? Because I wanted to see if a Big Mac in Central America is like a Big Mac in Washington, NC. Well. It isn't. They have taken all the "zing" out of the "special sauce" and it was bland and uninteresting. Don't say I didn't warn you. Now having the necessary materials at hand, we made the repair with surprising little difficulty considering that our mainsail is VERY HEAVY and we had to detach it from each and every batt car before we could replace the damaged one. On February 24 we refueled at the Esso Station in Fronteras (diesel about $2.85/gal) and proceeded down the Rio to Livingston for checkout. Our next destination was the Bay Islands of Honduras, specifically the eastern island, Guanaja. The overnight trip, as is usual for this leg, was directly into the wind and the seas were very confused so we stopped in French Harbor, Roatan (the middle of the three Bay Islands) for an overnight rest and left early the next morning for Guanaja, the most easterly of the Bay Islands. While we were in French Harbor we found that we had to pay $3 to leave our dink at the Roatan Yacht Club dingy dock (not so last year). We later learned that a few days after we left the owner of the yacht club restaurant was murdered. So goes life in the islands.
Our trip east from Roatan to Guanaja (about 30 miles) was still into the wind but uneventful and we anchored in The Bight, the same place where we had stayed a very pleasant two + weeks last year. This year, the boat crowd was mostly monohulls and they seemed not interested in us "whole boat' people but we did have a pleasant time with two cats, one of whom we saw again in Bocas, down the line a ways. Our progress towards Panama was delayed a bit by weather, with strong E, then N winds in the anchorage and the accompanying high seas followed by a unusual wind from the west that lasted at least 36 hours, a phenomena that occurs occasionally after a cold front passes through. Two boats left Guanaja the day the cold front was to come through, despite warnings from other cruisers there, and within about 10 miles turned back when one of them developed a crack in the hull and was taking on water (high seas may do that to you). The second boat accompanied the first to a bay on the mainland and they took shelter there. We heard later that the damaged boat made it to La Ceiba and was undergoing repairs. The next day a mono and a cat left going east. The mono returned after making no progress in four hours but the cat got successfully to the next stop, the Vivorillos . Five of us (four monos and us) left the third day and whereas the other four stopped in The Vivorillos , we continued on to Bocas del Toro, Panama, three overnights later.
It was very nice to see Bocas again. Last year we spent a few weeks there at the Bocas Marina and it was there that we made the decision to sell Morning Star and buy a cat. Bocas is booming. New construction. Land prices going through the roof. The possibility of a 3000 gal/hr water desalination plant going in. Maybe a little cleaner trash-wise then before. We visited again with Camryka and Bold Venture, friends we met last year. It was great to see them again. Mary and Carl/Camryka have bought a hectare of land in Dolphin Bay (about 10 miles from Bocas by water only) and are building a dock and house there. What a gorgeous view they will have! We toured the chocolate farm just down the bay from their land and saw what a beautiful place you can have if you work really hard at it. Then a first for us: we actually left the boat and traveled by plane and then taxi, to Boquete, a small town in the mountains on the south side of the continental divide. Cool, delightful air, beautiful mountains, coffee coffee coffee all around, trees you would not believe including groves of giant eucalyptus and colorful flowers (especially bougainvilleas) everywhere. We took: a coffee tour (plantation, coffee processing plant, roasting plant) that was very informative (do you know that Panama produces some of the best coffee in the world?); a mountain tour by truck through the coffee plantations and the vegetable farms; a Tree Trek outing which included a drive up a steep mountain in a four wheel (or was it a six wheel) drive vehicle straining all the way, then zipping down a succession of thirteen cables from one giant tree across the valley to another giant tree. Lots of gringos moving there and to other parts of Panama, encouraged by the climate, the cost of living and the enticements of the Panama government which offers tax and other incentives. Check it out.
After 13 days in Bocas the itch to move got to us and we set out for Colon and the Panama Canal via the small island of Escudo de Veraguas (where we stayed for three hours, made a $20 "contribution" to the local chief, got our anchor chain stuck around a small coral head, got unstuck after John dove on it and figured out how to move the boat to get us free), then overnight to the Rio Chagres, just seven miles short of Colon and the Canal. So here we are, anchored a few miles up the Rio Chagres beside a delightful English couple in their 49 ft Najad and it is so quiet, so peaceful. The only sounds are the roar (yes roar) of howler monkeys and calls of birds. There are supposed to be crocs around here but neither we nor our neighbors have seen any yet. This river dead ends a few miles further on at the dam which holds back Lake Gatun and makes the lake water available for the operation of the Canal. We are on the very river that at one time was the pathway for the thousands who went from the eastern US to the gold fields of California via boat to this river, then overland on the Panama Railroad, then by boat to California. And before that, this was the pathway for Peruvian gold on its way from South America to Spain. Lots of history here. Those people were made of sterner stuff then I. I'm only glad that I can read about it and did not have to live it. Thank you very much.
So from here we will go to Shelter Bay Marina, located across the shipping lanes from Colon, there will be joined by our friends the Mazers, then through the Canal. We will let you all know when we expect to do that and tell you how to see this happen on web cam. Please keep your fingers crossed for our safe passage through the Canal, the probability of which is fairly high but not certain.
Till next time.
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According to The New York Times, Obama plans to begin addressing the immigration issue this year.
Immigrants who are long-time residents but lack legal status “have to have some mechanism over time to get out of the shadows.”
Funny. It was just a few days ago, after the North Korean missile launch, that Obama said, "Rules must be binding; violations must be punished; words must mean something."
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Anencephaly is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the cephalic (head) end of the neural tube fails to close, usually between the 23rd and 26th day of pregnancy, resulting in the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp. Infants with this disorder are born without a forebrain, the largest part of the brain consisting mainly of the cerebral hemispheres (which include the isocortex, which is responsible for higher level cognition, i.e., thinking). The remaining brain tissue is often exposed - not covered by bone or skin.
Infants born with anencephaly are usually blind, deaf, unconscious, and unable to feel pain. Although some individuals with anencephaly may be born with a rudimentary brainstem, which controls autonomic and regulatory function, the lack of a functioning cerebrum permanently rules out the possibility of ever gaining consciousness. Reflex actions such as breathing and responses to sound or touch may occur. The disorder is one of the most common disorders of the fetal central nervous system.
Anencephaly can often be diagnosed before birth through an ultrasound examination. The maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP screening) and detailed fetal ultrasound can be useful for screening for neural tube defects such as spina bifida or anencephaly. There are many false diagnoses for anencephaly, as it is not a common diagnosis, often confused with exencephaly or microcephaly. Also, sometimes a false prognosis stating that an anencephalic baby can live for years is given, but this cannot occur because the brain is open, meaning that infection sets in rapidly. The anencephalic brain is also usually very disorganised on a cellular level.
There is no cure or standard treatment for anencephaly and the prognosis for affected individuals is poor. Most anencephalic babies do not survive birth, accounting for 55% of non-aborted cases. If the infant is not stillborn, then he or she will usually die within a few hours or days after birth from cardiorespiratory arrest.
In almost all cases anencephalic infants are not aggressively resuscitated since there is no chance of the infant ever achieving a conscious existence. Instead, the usual clinical practice is to offer hydration, nutrition and comfort measures and to "let nature take its course". Artificial ventilation, surgery (to fix any co-existing congenital defects), and drug therapy (such as antibiotics) are usually regarded as futile efforts. Some clinicians and medical ethicists even view the provision of nutrition and hydration as medically futile, arguing that euthanasia is morally and clinically appropriate in such cases.
Rate of occurrenceEdit
In the United States, approximately 1,000 to 2,000 babies are born with anencephaly each year. Female babies are more likely to be affected by the disorder. About 95% of women who learn that they will have an anencephalic baby choose to have an abortion. [How to reference and link to summary or text]
The cause of anencephaly is unknown. Neural tube defects do not follow direct patterns of heredity. Studies show that a woman who has had one child with a neural tube defect such as anencephaly, has about a 3% risk to have another child with a neural tube defect. This risk can be reduced to about 1% if the woman takes high dose (4mg/day) of folic acid before and during pregnancy.
It is known that women taking certain medication for epilepsy and women with insulin dependent diabetes have a higher chance of having a child with a neural tube defect. Genetic counseling is usually offered to women at a higher risk of having a child with a neural tube defect to discuss available testing.
Recent studies have shown that the addition of folic acid to the diet of women of child-bearing age may significantly reduce, although not eliminate, the incidence of neural tube defects. Therefore, it is recommended that all women of child-bearing age consume 0.4 mg of folic acid daily, especially those attempting to conceive or who may possibly conceive. It is not advisable to wait until pregnancy has begun, since by the time a woman knows she is pregnant, the critical time for the formation of a neural tube defect has usually already passed. A physician may prescribe even higher dosages of folic acid (4 mg/day) for women who have had a previous pregnancy with a neural tube defect.
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- Anencephaly, 3D
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Benzodiazepine drugs are used to treat a variety of physical and psychological ailments in the United States. As central nervous system depressants, benzodiazepines are known for their muscle-relaxing and anxiety-relieving characteristics.
These medications have useful medical properties and are usually a fairly safe treatment for anxiety. However, the calming properties that make benzos such important medical tools also make them highly addictive and potentially dangerous in some cases.
Intentional abuse of prescription benzodiazepines is fairly uncommon in the general population. Some people combine the medication with alcohol, opioids or illicit drugs to increase its effects, but this can lead to dangerous or even fatal outcomes due to central nervous system depression. Benzo abuse on its own also heightens the risk of dangerous effects, including dependence, addiction and overdose. Additionally, people who misuse benzodiazepines also have a higher risk for developing cognitive problems over the long term.
Benzodiazepine overdose fatalities in Florida are a significant problem, with the most common culprit being alprazolam (Xanax).
Benzodiazepines are commonly prescribed and abused drugs in Florida. Statistics about benzo use in the Sunshine State include:
Benzodiazepines are a class of medications that affect the central nervous system to ease the symptoms of a variety of medical conditions. Overall, benzodiazepines are similar in how they affect the brain. However, different types contain different potencies, durations of action and receptor site attractions. This explains why some benzodiazepines work better than others in treating particular conditions.
Commonly prescribed medications within the benzodiazepines drug category include Valium and Xanax, which are some of the most commonly prescribed anti-anxiety medications in the United States. Physicians may prescribe a benzodiazepine for medical conditions like:
Some people take benzos without a prescription to experience sedating and calming effects, which is considered drug abuse. Benzodiazepines have also been used as date rape drugs. They have the ability to distinctly impair and even eliminate functions that would allow someone to resist sexual aggression or assault. The drug is usually added to alcohol-containing drinks in powder or liquid forms and can be hard to taste.
All benzodiazepines have certain characteristics in common; for example, they are all central nervous system depressants and Schedule IV controlled substances. However, each drug has certain factors that make it unique among other benzodiazepines.
|Route of administration|
Orally disintegrating tablets
|Peak effect||Within one to two hours||Within one to four hours||Within 1.5 hours||Within two hours||Several hours||Within 1.6 hours|
|Duration of action||Up to 11 hours||Up to 12 hours||Varies||Varies||Varies||Varies|
|Half-life||Up to 16 hours for long-acting tablets, up to 12.5 hours for other formulations||Up to 50 hours||Up to 50 hours||Up to 20 hours||Up to 30 hours||Up to eight hours|
Benzodiazepines are classified as Schedule IV controlled substances, meaning they carry the risk of abuse, dependence and addiction. Further, these drugs have been chronically abused for decades and cause thousands of drug overdoses each year.
At normal, prescribed doses, benzodiazepines relieve anxiety and sleep problems for people with diagnosed medical conditions. Benzos are usually well-tolerated medications with a few mild side effects, such as drowsiness or dizziness. These side effects may be much more pronounced with increased doses.
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A description of west side story on romeo and juliet in new york
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West side story & romeo and juliet started thinking about the immigration of puerto rican's into new york city during the 50's, and bam, there it was: romeo, the shows next phase 12 west side romeo and juliet and and 20. Set in new york city, west side story (the 1961 update of romeo and juliet) won 10 academy awards, including those for best picture, best supporting actress (rita moreno), best supporting actor (george chakiris) and best director (robert wise and jerome robbins. Irving shulman's west side story is a novelization of the famous musical by the the story centers around two rival gangs fighting for dominance of new york city's upper west side shulman's novel tells a tragic story that has strong affinities with shakespeare's romeo and juliet. Modern day romeo and juliet, about a west side boy who falls in love with a puerto rican girl amidst a gang war won 10 oscars, including one for bernstein-sondheim score and best picture. Two perennial classics--william shakespeare's romeo and juliet and the broadway musical west side story and the other among immigrant families of new york's west side, both tell the story this single volume containing the scripts of both west side story and its source, romeo and. Essay on west side story compared to romeo and juliet west side story written by arthur laurents is actually a the source of violence in romeo and juliet and west side story is the ever-present hatred between families and between follows the adventure and triumph in new york. West side story 1961 ‧ drama film/thriller ‧ 2h 33m rated g winner of ten academy awards, including best picture, this electrifying musical sets the ageless tragedy of romeo and juliet against a backdrop of gang warfare in 1950s new york. | <urn:uuid:d4686040-a641-45d1-8e81-d606eac9ad8c> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 7,528 |
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If you are looking for a low maintenance yard this home certainly has one. You will find a small yard with not a lot of upkeep. The home does enjoy a nice view of Learned Pond which is right across the street.
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The second floor features three good size bedrooms and a full bath. All of the bedrooms have hardwood floors and decent closet place. The bath room has been updated with newer tile flooring and features a tiled five foot tub/shower combination.
In total there are 6 rooms, three bedrooms and 1 full bath. The total gross living area of this Framingham home is about 1200 square feet. There is a 1 car detached garage. The lot is .06 acres. The Real Estate taxes for 2012 are $3388.00.
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February must have been Put the Boot into Edward Said Month at The Australian.
The charge was led by foreign editor Greg (Jerusalem Prize) Sheridan:
"No intellectual in Western life has had a more doleful influence than that champion of frauds, Edward Said. His animating idea was that all Western scholarship on the Orient, by which he meant the Arab world, was a kind of false consciousness, trapped in a narrative of colonialism and Western superiority. The silliness of the idea has led to its reverse, a kind of reflexive idealising of 'the other', so Arab despots, extremists and millenarian mass murderers are imbued in many progressive circles of the West with all kinds of qualities of wisdom and kindness which they singularly do not possess." (Dictator's useful idiots happy to take his money: Gaddafi is the most absurd example of a monster adored by his ignorant fan club, 24/2/11)
Mere days later, The Australian's turgid trollumnist, David Burchell, weighed in:
"Nowadays the late American literary critic Edward Said passes for a moral authority on the historical relations of the Arab and Western worlds... Like his soulmate Noam Chomsky, Said presented a political perspective of almost child-like simplicity: the West, in its domineering ignorance, was forever doomed to 'other' the Orient, and to treat it as its inferior, even while Said and his disciples blissfully 'othered' the Middle East themselves, as a sepulchre of Arab suffering, in a mirror-image of those they deplored. Said's acolytes are probably less familiar with the articles he wrote over many years for the Egyptian state press* - articles devoid of the criticism of any existing Arab government; (least of all Mubarak's); and which reduce all the problems of the Arab world to the actions of those two familiar pantomime villains, the US and Israel... You can search Said's articles in vain for the words now on the lips of young people across the region: democracy, freedom, women's rights. Instead, like earlier colonialist bromides they are souvenirs of pure social and political reaction." (Libyans failed by Left orientalism, 28/2/11)
You can search Said's articles in vain... Oh, really? We are talking about the same Edward Said, right? You should have contacted me, David. I could have saved you all that trouble and lent you my copy of Said's collection of essays (including those published in Al-Ahram), From Oslo to Iraq & the Roadmap (2004), in which you'd have found such passages as:
"Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is too dependent on the $2 billion in annual US aid for him so much as to demur at US policy. Like the others, he needs the United States to protect him from his people far too much for him to oppose Clinton and his peacemaking team of former Israeli lobby officials. Meanwhile the sense of Arab anger, humiliation, and frustration continues to build up, whether because the regimes are so undemocratic and unpopular or because all the basic elements of human life - employment, income, nutrition, health, education, infrastructure, transportation, environment - have so fallen beneath tolerable limits that only appeals to Islam and generalized expressions of outrage will do, instead of a sense of citizenship and participatory democracy. This bodes ill for the future, the Arabs' as well as Israel's... Moreover, the old frameworks that survived the cold war have slowly crumbled as the Arab leaderships have aged, without viable successors in sight. Egypt's Mubarak has refused even to appoint a vice-president, Arafat has no clear successor, and as in the case either of Iraq's and Syria's 'democratic socialist' Ba'ath republics or Jordan's kingdom, the rulers' sons have taken or will take over with the merest fig leaf of legitimacy to cover their dynastic autocracy." (London Review of Books, 14/12/00; republished in From Oslo... , pp 7-8)
"Neither a constitution nor an election process has any real meaning if such suspensions of law and justice can take place with the relative acquiescence of an entire people, especially the intellectuals. What I mean is not just that we don't have democracy, but that at bottom we seem to have refused the very concept itself. I became dramatically aware of this 8 years ago when, after a lecture I gave in London in which I criticized the Arab governments for their abuse of human freedoms, I was summoned by an Arab ambassador to apologize for my remarks. When I refused even to speak to the man, a friend interceded and arranged for me to have tea with the offended ambassador at my friend's house. What transpired was profoundly revealing. When I repeated my comments, the ambassador lost his temper (he happened also to be a member of the ruling party) and told me in no uncertain terms that, as far as he and his regime were concerned, democracy was little more than AIDS, pornography and chaos. 'We don't want that', he kept repeating with almost insensate rage." (Al-Ahram, July 19-25, 2001, republished in From Oslo..., pp 80-81)
Edward Said wrote in his 1978 classic, Orientalism:
"The modern Orientalist was, in his view, a hero rescuing the Orient from the obscurity, alienation, and strangeness which he himself had properly distinguished." (p 121)
He must have seen Burchell coming:
"[A]bout how to create such a country, beyond toppling statues and setting fire to police stations, [young Libyans] have been left almost totally in the dark - partly through the agency of their own rulers, and partly by us."
However, just in case Burchell is thinking of taking up the White Man's burden and rushing off to Libya to tutor these "half-devil & half-child" natives on what to do after they've toppled Qaddafi's statues and torched his police stations, maybe someone should tell him that "Hafiz Ghoga, the spokesman for the newly formed National Libyan Council in the rebel-controlled eastern city of Benghazi, said 'foreign intervention' would not be welcome. The rest of Libya will be liberated by the people... and Gaddafi's security forces will be eliminated by the people of Libya', Ghoga said at a news conference." (Libyan rebels say they don't want foreign intervention, Will Rahn, dailycaller.com, 27/2/11)
[* Forget the Egyptian press, I've been fascinated by Burchell's apparent familiarity with the entire Egyptian media ever since he admitted to "scouring" it for "lonely coracles of sanity in a vast ocean of paranoia." See my 2/2/11 post Burchell Buffs the Banana.] | <urn:uuid:29e1959c-bcd3-446f-a618-3763990cb58f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,452 |
The ca. 1845 Enoch Rittenhouse Home at RittenhouseTown is a small but architecturally important Greek Revival structure. Built between 1840 and 1850, the building boasts unusually ornate interior moldings and trim that belie its seemingly simple exterior.
The history of the Enoch Rittenhouse Home mirrors the history of the early industrial village nestled in the valley of the Paper Mill Run known since the early 18th century as RittenhouseTown. While no document survives proving who lived in the Enoch Rittenhouse Home at the time it was built in ca. 1845, Charles Benner Rittenhouse, son of Isaac, and Charles’ wife, Matilda Purdy, presumably lived in the Enoch Rittenhouse Home for some time. Their children, Isaac, William, George, twins Lizzie and Ella, and Thomas were all born in the building between 1864 and 1876. Charles died in 1891 and in 1892, Matilda and some of her family including her youngest child, Thomas Purdy Rittenhouse, moved away from RittenhouseTown and settled on Kingsley Street in nearby Blue Bell Hill. In that same year, 1892, Matilda’s daughter, Lizzie married William Charles Schulz and moved to Roxborough. William and Lizzie’s child, Ella Rittenhouse Schulz, who was named after Lizzie’s twin sister, Ella, married Siebert Cohen. Their daughter is Jane Elizabeth Cohen. Thomas Purdy Rittenhouse, son of Charles and Matilda, married Ida Wilhelm. Their son, Albert Wilhelm Rittenhouse married Irma Farrow and their daughters are Christine Rittenhouse Russell and Alice Rittenhouse Miller. Thomas Purdy Rittenhouse and Ida Wilhelm Rittenhouse’s son, Thomas Purdy Rittenhouse, Jr. married Irma Farrow’s sister, Eva, & their daughter is Carol Rittenhouse Diehl and her brother, Thomas Purdy Rittenhouse III.
The family of Charles Benner Rittenhouse and Matilda Purdy were the last of the Rittenhouse families to leave the village. A series of real estate transactions transferred this property and others in the village to the City of Philadelphia and the land and buildings were incorporated into Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. The Enoch Rittenhouse Home and others served as residences for City employees until Friends of Historic RittenhouseTown stepped in to preserve and protect the surviving five Rittenhouse structures beginning in 1984. The Enoch Rittenhouse Home was carefully restored in 2003 by Friends of Historic RittenhouseTown.
Due to the generosity of the Jane Elizabeth Cohen Foundation, we have recently been able to relocate the Historic RittenhouseTown Visitor Center, Administrative Offices and Gift Shop to the Enoch Rittenhouse Home. As part of this work, we have recreated the Front Parlor to look as it might have in the late 1800’s.
The Parlor is dedicated to Jane’s mother, Ella Rittenhouse Cohen and her grandmother, Elizabeth Rittenhouse Schultz. The room will serve as a repository for artifacts donated by members of the Rittenhouse family. This spring we will restore the exterior of the structure with the Foundation’s support.
The Enoch Rittenhouse Home houses Historic RittenhouseTown's Visitor Center, gift shop and Administrative Offices as well as a restored ca. 1850 Parlor. Nearly 1,000 school age children visit each year. They make paper using the same tools and techniques as the Rittenhouse family, prepare a colonial recipe in the ca. 1725 Bake House, tour the new David Rittenhouse Exhibit and learn what life was like for children living in the village in the 18th century. | <urn:uuid:e3c98acd-e1c8-4700-87d2-3666f0c8f399> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,454 |
Nectar is a sugar -rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries or nectarines , either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries , which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists , which in turn provide herbivore protection. Common nectar-consuming pollinators include mosquitoes , hoverflies , wasps , bees , butterflies and moths , hummingbirds , honeyeaters and bats. Nectar plays a crucial role in the foraging economics and evolution of nectar-eating species; for example, nectar foraging behavior is largely responsible for the divergent evolution of the African honey bee, A. Nectar is an economically important substance as it is the sugar source for honey. It is also useful in agriculture and horticulture because the adult stages of some predatory insects feed on nectar. For example, a number of parasitoid wasps e.
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Nectar , sweet viscous secretion from the nectaries , or glands, in plant blossoms, stems, and leaves. Nectar is mainly a watery solution of the sugars fructose , glucose , and sucrose but also contains traces of proteins, salts, acids, and essential oils. Sugar content varies from 3 to 80 percent, depending upon such factors as plant species and soil and air conditions. The production of nectar as a food reward for animals is a classic example of coevolution. Nectar in flowers serves chiefly to attract pollinators, such as fruit-eating bats , hummingbirds , sunbirds , and insects. Nectaries are usually located at the base of the flower stamens , which draw animal visitors into contact with the pollen to be transferred. | <urn:uuid:8d114b8e-adc6-465d-8f69-a6516e8488ec> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,241 |
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014
In an effort to expand our scope of service to the community, the Coalition for Teens Helping Teens, Polished Pearls Leadership Seminars for Teen Girls, and the A Perfect Swing Foundation partnered with the Housing Authority of Kingstree for its annual back to school celebration and supply giveaway.
The event was held on Saturday, August 9, at the Frierson Homes Community Center. Approximately 150 students were equipped with book bags, composition tablets, paper, pens, pencils, erasers, crayons, markers, calculators, hand sanitizer, and clear zip lock bags.
In addition to the school supplies, the participants enjoyed games and lunch. All of these organizations understand the importance of ensuring that our youth have an opportunity to be successful and it starts with having the proper supplies.
The one unique thing about the partner organizations is that their CEO/founders are all natives of Kingstree and actively give back to the community that gave to them growing up. Charyl Epps-Nornoo, Ashaunta Epps, and Josa Epps-McIntosh are all graduates of Kingstree Senior High School. Class of 1991, 1993, and 1981 respectively.
Prior community events include the back to school celebration and supply giveaway 2013, Celebration of Girls, A Perfect Swing Golf and networking weekend trip for the youth to the Legends Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach and various leadership seminars held throughout the year.
The Coalition For Teens Helping Teens, Incorporated, which is a nonprofit organization that has put teen development at the core of its purpose. Realizing that so many teens have the potential to accomplish so much, they have focused their efforts on motivating and boosting the personal drive of our youth.
Its mission is to help teens recognize their inner strengths and develop a heightened sense of self-awareness such that they embrace education with an inspired will to contribute and lead in their communities.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Yoram Cohen, the former head of the Shin Bet security service, to listen to the telephone conversations of then-IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and then-Mossad chief Tamir Pardo sometime in the early months of Cohen's tenure, prominent Israeli journalist Ilana Dayan reported on Thursday on the investigative television show "Uvda." The Prime Minister's Office denied the report, saying: “Netanyahu never asked to listen to the chief of staff and the head of the Mossad. This is an utter lie.”
According to the report, Netanyahu asked Cohen to make use of the Shin Bet's capabilities in order to monitor a series of senior officials, including Gantz and Pardo, including through listening to their telephone calls. The program quoted sources in the Defense Ministry who said Cohen was “rattled” by the request and rejected it, explaining that the Shin Bet is not supposed to take such radical steps toward those at the top of the other security organizations.
“I do not want to believe that in Israel, which is a democratic state, the prime minister is asking the Shin Bet to tap the chief of staff or me,” Pardo said in an interview. He added: "Wiretapping is the greatest possible [sign of] lack of trust. I never asked to wiretap any of my employees in the Mossad. Never. It never even crossed my mind. In my view, that's outside the rules of the game.” According to Pardo, “this illustrates a lack of trust. It's the worst possible thing. If I had known something like that, the right thing for me to have done would have been to stand up and say, this isn't my game.”
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In an interview with "Uvda," Pardo said that he and Netanyahu met three times before his appointment for talks on the “continuum between loyalty and trustworthiness.”
“I told him: 'I was the subordinate of your brother. Yoni chose me to be next to him more than once, but also the last time. He trusted me faithfully,” Pardo said. When asked what Netanyahu said in response, Pardo said: “He didn't answer, but he appointed me.” According to Pardo, the two discussed everything. “I had no problem having an in-depth conversation with him," he said. “He never cut me off.”
The Prime Minister's Office told "Uvda": “The claim that the prime minister asked the head of the Shin Bet to listen in on the chief of staff and the head of the Mossad is completely unfounded. This is a total distortion of systemic efforts that are made from time to time to maintain information security regarding sensitive matters of paramound importance to Israel's security. The decision of what means to use and against who is in the hands of the authorized officials.”
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He was given a three-month jail term, suspended for 12 meses, and was ordered to pay £10,000 compensation
Glen Newton, 55, was spotted on CCTV wearing a balaclava pouring the fertiliser across the green on the third hole of Woolley Park Golf Club in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
He was chased off by the owner and groundskeeper, Leeds Crown Crown Court heard.
Newton, a former miner, had “issues” with the club owners that led to the termination of his membership in 2020, the court was told.
Charlotte Noddings, prosecuting, said Newton had clashed with the owners over his behaviour towards club staff and that no other members wished to play golf with him.
Sobre 19 abril, the groundskeeper spotted a masked man on the green on the club’s CCTV, and quickly jumped into his car to reach the golf course a few hundred metres away.
Newton tried to run off but slipped into the path of the vehicle, causing a collision.
The groundskeeper then got out and chased him on foot, catching up with him and managing to rip the balaclava from his head while filming him on his phone.
Newton was later arrested and admitted what he had done, the court heard.
He pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage, but he did dispute the repair costs presented by the golf club, which came to £15,837.
The judge, Recorder Dafydd Enoch QC, dismissed his claims and described him as a “difficult member” who had simply “made a nuisance of himself and went too far”.
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A Look At Singapore's First Locally Brewed Hard Seltzer (AKA Alcoholic Flavoured Water)
STORY: Diane Lam
30 November 2022
So you want something to drink. Wine gives you a headache, beer has too many calories, and you’re not ready to spring for a $25 cocktail. And hard lemonade? You haven’t been able to drink those consequence-free since you were in university.
And since you’re constantly sweaty and dehydrated in Singapore, you ALSO want something refreshing.
Joe Barratt, founder of local independent brewery Trouble Brewing, knows your pain. Which is why he and his business partner, Barnaby Murdoch, have unveiled Joe’s Singapore Seltzer, Singapore’s first locally-produced hard seltzer.
But what is hard seltzer, you ask? Trouble Brewing’s website describes the product as alcoholic sparkling water, which is basically what it tasted like when we sampled a few bottles at the launch event last month. With just 94 calories, and available in lime, grapefruit, and peach, Joe’s Singapore Seltzer provides a refreshing and low-cal alternative to the light beers we’re so used to throwing back after chowing down on chicken rice.
Despite its description, a hard seltzer is so much more than just fizzy water with a kick. (“We don’t just get water and then add a base alcohol to it, we brew it from a hundred percent organic Blue Weber Agave that we brought in from Mexico,” Joe explained, when we spoke with him over Zoom.)
It took Joe and Barnaby three years to release this beverage line, and while the drink might look simple, getting it into the market certainly was not.
Here’s what else you should know about Singapore’s first hard seltzer:
1. It’s not the bottled equivalent of a gin & tonic
We asked Joe to explain the difference between a club soda, tonic water, seltzer, and the like in layman’s terms.
“Club soda is basically just water infused with carbon dioxide and mineral salts give it a slightly salty flavour. That’s why it’s often used with cleaning products.
Tonic water is in kind of a different category, obviously still drunken with gin a lot, and it’s got added sugar in and quinine for that bit of bittersweet flavour. It’s also got calories because of that added sugar.
Sparkling water is carbonated pure water, and then seltzer is different in that it doesn’t contain any added minerals. So it’s got a much cleaner sort of taste profile than most of the others. Then we’ve come in with a hard seltzer that’s basically alcoholic water (laughs).”
2. The team encountered hurdle after hurdle trying to release Joe’s Singapore Seltzer
Joe and Barnaby were inspired to brew a hard seltzer locally after trying overseas equivalents like White Claw, a popular hard seltzer from the US and Canada. “We managed to get our hands on some (hard seltzer) and we liked the profile and felt that it really fit Singapore, in that it is something refreshing and very easy to drink, a bit of a healthier option as well, as people are getting more health-conscious.”
The team had just gotten some focus groups going when COVID hit, meaning they could no longer run events for tastings. As if that weren’t hard enough, they ran into legal difficulties.
“We discovered that we couldn’t actually legally brew it in Singapore because under its brewing rules, it’s got to be a malt-based beer. We had to get a distillery license despite the fact that it's not a distilled product.
So it was like another year-and-a-half-long journey of getting the license sorted and behind the scenes, there was also a lot more product development trialling different bulk-based sugars. We were experimenting with all these different yeasts as well.
At some point, I was just like, you know, why are we working so hard to make Singapore's first? Why don't we just get it made somewhere else? I said, 'This is turning into such a mission!' But I'm very glad that we stuck with it. We were happy with the product a year ago, but the product today is already miles better than that. Barnaby kept his brewing the whole way through even once we were experimenting with different things. And eventually we ended up with the one that we've got today.”
3. Joe didn’t intend to name the drink after himself – his friends did that for him
“When you get to the point of putting the brand together, and so many of your friends have seen you battling with this for so long and trying to get it to the point where you can bring it to market, they take to the habit of calling it ‘Joe’s Seltzer’ anway. And I was like, is that bad? Is that really bad to call it after me? But we played around with it and we tried some testing, and we thought, yeah, this is it. And we went with it.”
4. More flavours could be coming our way
While Joe and the team tested eight or nine different flavours with focus groups, they eventually decided to stick with three, which were derived from a Paris flavour house’s natural distillates.
“We definitely want to do some more exotic flavours over time. We’ve run focus groups where some had lemongrass and pineapple sorts of flavours. Some people loved it, but some people didn’t. But the lime, the grapefruit, and the peach were the ones that the most amount of people really enjoyed. We didn’t want to launch with flavours that could be a little more divisive, but over time we’ll start bringing those out. And the world’s our oyster on that front as well.
5. A tip from Joe: Try having it with char kway teow
Where it works quite well is if you're eating a more heavy meal. Having a seltzer just kind of cuts through that. If you're having a curry, maybe you don't really want to have a beer with it that often because it can make you feel a bit bloated. And that's where a seltzer can work quite nicely because it's the same as basically having a sparkling water next to your food. Or (having it with) a kway teow. I had it the other day with chicken rice as well. It's a very versatile drink!
Joe’s Seltzer retails at a promotional price of $96.00 for a case (24 bottles) with the option for a mixed case to try each flavour.
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When they need money to keep running or make long-term investments, governments, companies, and financial institutions will turn to the capital market. Because they are becoming more important, most people now agree that the capital markets are the main source of energy for the whole economy. One of the three most popular types of assets that are traded on the capital markets are money market securities. Continue reading to become an expert in features of money market and learn everything you can about it. To learn about the latest research on structure of indian money market topic, read this recent article.
India’s money market helps companies, the government, and private investors get short-term loans. By taking part in the money market, creditors can put their idle funds to work in ways that will make them money. On the money market, related assets like Treasuries, Commercial Paper, Certificates of Deposit, Bills of Exchange, and Promissory Notes trade with each other.
Features of Money Market
Investors like the money market because it lets them put their money to work while still being able to use it right away. This is a big draw for these investors. Treasury notes are a good investment choice for people who don’t like taking risks and need to keep their stock liquid. Here is an overview of features of money market with a detailed explanation for your convenience.
Acceptance by Bank
A “Banker’s Acceptance” is a financial instrument that was made by a third party in the name of the bank. The author must give the holder of the instrument the stated amount of money between 30 and 180 calendar days after the date the instrument was issued. Because a commercial bank guarantees the repayment, using the financial tool is risk-free.
Certificates of deposit are a type of financial asset that can give out by financial institutions like banks and credit unions. They promise that you will always get back what you put into the business. The difference between a Certificate of Deposit and a Fixed Deposit is the maximum amount of capital that can put into the account. The first kind of visa give to people who pay a lot of money, usually more than one lakh rupees or multiples of that amount.
Certificates of deposit are more popular with businesses than with people who want to park their extra money for a short time and make interest on it. This is because the minimum investment amount is only a few hundred dollars. Financial institutions usually give out certificates of deposit with terms that range from seven days to one year. CDs with maturity dates between one and three years may sell by other banks.
The Reserve Bank of India is in charge of running and managing the country’s banks and money. Even though RB has some effect on the much bigger organized sector, its actions don’t have much of an impact on the much smaller unregulated sector. Because the organized sector is so much bigger than the rest of the market, the RB’s regulatory moves could have a big effect on how the whole market works.
People with average purchasing power can’t use money markets because they only take orders for big amounts. Because of this, these goods are traded by a wide range of institutional investors, such as banks and dealers who need short-term financing.
High Flow of Cash
Because these funds don’t mature for another year, buyers can get their money right away. The fact that these funds have a past of giving investors consistent returns in a short amount of time is another reason why so many people see them as good alternatives to currency. Also, institutions looking for short-term loans or investments will find that trading money market products is easy and offers a lot of liquidity.
Money markets are different from capital markets in that they deal with a wide range of financial products. Some of the differences between these financial assets are their maturity dates, their debt structures, their credit risk profiles, and their currencies. People think that taking part in the money market is a great way to spread out their investments.
Money market instruments are usually given at a discount compared to their face value. This means that investors can get a good idea of how much money they will get when the instrument matures. If the information is provided this way, it will be much easier for people to choose the financial tool that fits their goals and time frames.
One of the best ways to put it to work is to put it in one of these financial instruments. Due to the high creditworthiness of their issuers and the reliability of their payments, money market assets have a low risk of losing money.
Most deals on the world’s financial markets are done in person, not online. When you buy on the money market, you must use authorized representatives and meet in person. When someone buys a money market instrument, they get a real certificate in the mail. This is the features of money market.
The money market is meant to make large-scale deals easier and possible. So, retail buyers with enough money can invest directly in money markets. Individuals can also buy shares of debt mutual funds that invest in money markets to get exposure to this market. Institutional buyers can also put their money into money market mutual funds to gain access to the money markets.
Repurchase Agreements, also called “buybacks” for short, are legally binding contracts between two parties in which one party sells a security to the other party with the intention that the security will be repurchased at a later date. A “sell-buy” trade is another name for this kind of deal.
The buyer and seller will agree on the interest rate and the time and price at which the seller will buy the security from the buyer. Repo rate: Buyer charges seller interest for permission to buy a security, defining the cost of borrowing in financial markets. For urgent cash needs, repossession allows sellers to exchange seized goods for immediate funds. There is a good chance that the buyer can improve their present financial situation.
Treasury Bills, also called T-Bills, are made by the Reserve Bank of India on behalf of the Central Government. The government uses the money from these papers to pay for its work. The longest time they can sell is one year. Investors can now choose to buy T-Bills that will mature in 91 days, 182 days, or a year. This gives them more options. When they are first sold, Treasury Bills sell for less than their face value. When the investment do, the original amount invested will give back to the donor. Return on investment, or ROI, is how much the original value is more than the par value. Backed by the Indian government, these investments offer a secure and reliable option for short-term fixed-income opportunities.
Instruments of Trade
Commercial Papers, or “CPs,” are short-term promissory notes helping businesses quickly secure funds for immediate bill payments. Because these companies have such high credit scores, they can issue commercial papers without any kind of collateral. Instead, the creditworthiness of the issuing company serves as security for the financial instrument.
To what Extent does the Money Market Affect the Economy?
The money market vitalizes the economy, providing a platform for businesses to invest surplus cash or issue short-term debt.
Quality of Credit is What?
Creditworthiness hinges on the issuer’s commitment to repay both interest and principal, influencing a financial instrument’s reliability for investors. Indian credit rating firms assess issuers’ financial stability, gauging their ability to maintain fiscal health. CRISIL and ICRA are just two of these organizations.
Who Oversees India’s Financial Markets?
The Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India actively oversee the Indian money market.
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To be able to lift, push, and pull without injuring your shoulders, you must have powerful shoulders. It is necessary to work multiple muscles from various angles in order to build shoulder strength. In many exercises and everyday activities, the front of your shoulder — specifically, the anterior deltoid — has a tendency to be slightly dominant. Examples include raising your arms in front of you and pressing activities such as the bench press, which both require the anterior deltoid to function properly. This is targeting about rear delt exercises and its usefulness for your shoulder muscles.
It Is Equally Vital To Strengthen The Middle And Posterior Deltoids. A movement that involves bringing your arm backward while walking or pulling a lawn mower cord is performed by the middle deltoid, while the posterior deltoid extends your humerus behind you is performed by the posterior deltoid.
The posterior deltoid is also involved in externally rotating your shoulders, which is what you do when you rotate your hands out to produce the “I don’t know” sign.
These muscles all work together to keep your shoulders stable while performing everyday tasks such as carrying large supermarket bags with your arms down at your sides or lifting big objects. The posterior deltoids, on the other hand, can be difficult to target in the gym.
These six exercises will assist you in building rear deltoid strength as well as total shoulder strength. Try including a handful of these exercises into your normal strength-training sessions once a week.
1. Single-Arm Bent-Over Row.
This move is best performed on days when you are working on your shoulders and lower back muscles. This multi-joint activity, which can help you increase posterior deltoid strength, should be performed towards the end of your back day.
Dumbbells and a bench are required for this activity.
A number of muscles were worked, including the rear deltoids, the back, the biceps, and the transverse abdominals
How To Do Single-Arm Bent-Over Row:
- Placing your left knee and left hand on the bench will help to stabilize you. Maintain the straightness of your left elbow.
- Extend your right leg slightly beyond you, keeping your foot firmly planted on the floor as a point of stability. Maintain a flat back and a neutral spinal column.
- Hold a medium-to-heavy dumbbell in your right hand, with your arm reaching down to the floor below the dumbbell.
- Make a 90-degree bend in your right elbow, bringing it up and back until your upper arm is approximately in line with your lower chest.
- At the very top of the exercise, squeeze your shoulder blades together tightly.
- Lower the weight slowly and deliberately.
- For 10–12 reps on one side, switch to the other arm before repeating the process. Work your way up to three sets.
Tip Of The Day:
During the exercise, try to keep your trunk steady and avoid rotating your spine. If you are unable to keep your trunk stable, either reduce the weight or stop the session and rest for a few minutes before continuing.
2. Standing Bend-Over Lateral Rise
When performing a long-arm lateral movement, begin with a smaller weight to avoid injury. As your strength increases, you can progress to a heavier weight.
It is possible to injure yourself when you begin a move like this with a large weight. But don’t be concerned; lifting smaller weights will still be a safe technique to increase your strength.
The following equipment is required: a pair of light to medium dumbbells
The following muscles were worked: posterior deltoids, middle deltoids, rhomboids, and middle trapezius.
How To Do Standing Bend-Over Lateral Rise:
- Holding a pair of dumbbells with your palms facing each other is a good way to start.
- Start by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart, gently bending your knees, and bending forward at the hips while maintaining a straight back. Weights should be held together below your chest, with your elbows relaxed and the weights close together.
- As if you were spreading your wings, raise your arms up and out to the sides until they’re parallel to the floor.
- At the apex of the exercise, squeeze your shoulder blades together.
- Lifting the weights back to the starting position should be done slowly and carefully.
- The weights should be light enough that you can do 10–12 reps with them. Work your way up to 2–3 sets.
Tip Of The Day:
Throughout the exercise, make an effort to keep your head in line with your trunk.
3. Cable Machine High Pull With Ropes.
Using this technique to vary your shoulder workout is a wonderful method to keep things interesting, but it does necessitate the use of some gym equipment. It is possible to effectively target your deltoids in a way that they are not accustomed to by altering the angles of your muscle training. This will aid you in your efforts to acquire strength.
It is necessary to have the following equipment: a cable machine with a double-handed rope attachment
The following muscles were worked: the rear and middle deltoids, the trapezius, and the rhomboids.
How To Do It:
- Face the cable machine, with your feet hip-width apart and your back to it.
- Adjust the cable attachment to a height that is approximately chest height, and then attach the rope handle to the cable attachment.
- Take a step back so that your arms are stretching out in front of you and stand with your feet hip-width apart.
- You should be drawing the ropes toward you, pulling them apart as you go. Your elbows should be kept up high in order to target those deltoids more effectively.
- To return to the beginning posture, slowly and deliberately extend your elbows out to the side.
- The weight should be light enough that you can do 10–12 reps with it. Work your way up to 2–3 sets.
- Keeping your elbows bent 45–90 degrees away from your sides while pulling the rope apart and toward your chest is a good technique.
- If you suffer pain or stiffness while your elbows are 90 degrees away from your sides (parallel to your shoulders), drop them to a position that is comfortable for you to avoid further discomfort.
- Keep your head up and your gaze straight ahead, and keep your body tall so that you don’t arch your back while you’re walking.
- A resistance band can also be used to complete this exercise, which should be placed in front of your body.
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4. Rear Deltoid Machine.
At your local gym, you may actually find an equipment that is specifically designed to work the posterior deltoid muscles. This makes it quite simple to safely and effectively isolate specific muscles in a demanding manner.
The following equipment is required: rear deltoid machine
The muscles that were exercised were the back deltoids, middle trapezius, and rhomboids.
How To Do Rear Deltoid Machine:
- Place your feet on the pad and sit on the machine. You’ll appear to be sitting on it backwards, but for the sake of this exercise, you’re perfectly positioned. Raising or lowering the seat height so that the handlebars in front of you are level with your shoulders is a good idea.
- Holding the handles in either a palms-down or palms-facing-each-other position, press your arms back, maintaining them as straight or slightly bent as possible.
- Try to clench your shoulder blades together as if they were a set of elevator doors.
- Keep your hands in this position for 2 seconds, then return to the beginning position with your hands in front of your body. This should be done gently and with control.
- Perform 10–12 reps.
Tip For You:
Keep your chest pressed against the pad and avoid arching your back too much.
5. Assisted Pull-up.
Despite the fact that pullups are a very effective training movement, the majority of people lack the upper body power to complete one without assistance. While performing this exercise, you will be working not only your posterior deltoids but also your lats, trapezius, and biceps.
The following equipment is required: an assisted pullup machine.
The muscles that were exercised were the latissimus dorsi, deltoids, middle and lower trapezius, and biceps.
How to Do Assisted Pull-up :
- Make necessary adjustments to the weight deduction on the machine’s side. Decide on the appropriate quantity and set it.
- Climb onto the knee pad and push it down until it is low enough for you to rest both knees on it comfortably. Your knees should be hip-width apart when you sit down.
- The outer handles should be held over your head, with your palms facing away from the center.
- Make a lowering motion with your arms and return to the beginning position.
- Pull your body up until your chin is level with or above the handles on either side of the handles.
- Hold the position for a few seconds, and then slowly drop yourself to the ground with precision. Maintain your shoulder blades’ engagement at all times. They should be pressed both back and down on the table.
- Start with 6–8 repetitions and work your way up to 10–12 repetitions.
Pro-Tips Include The Following:
- Begin with a weight that is small enough to make the exercise hard but still allowing you to execute the movement correctly and with good form at the same time.
- If you are able to complete any reps without the aid (while maintaining proper form), you can begin without the support and graduate to utilizing it when you are unable to accomplish any more reps without the assistance.
6. Side-Lying External Rotation.
It is the goal of this exercise to emphasize the external rotation motion that the rear deltoid muscle does. As well, it works on some of the muscles in the rotator cuff (infraspinatus and teres minor).
Equipment required: a towel and a dumbbell.
The following muscles were worked: the rear deltoid, the rotator cuff, the middle trapezius, and the rhomboids.
How To Do Side-Lying External Rotation :
- Lie down on your side with a light dumbbell in your hand.
- Lie your upper arm on your side and bend one of your elbows 90 degrees to the side. You can use a towel roll to support your broad shoulders by placing it between your upper arm and your torso.
- Adjust the position of your arm on your torso to the greatest extent possible without allowing your upper arm to drift away from your body. For 1–2 seconds, hold the position, and then slowly lower it back to the beginning position. Perform 10–12 reps.
Pro-Tips Include The Following:
- Maintain your upper arm’s resting position against your body and allow it to revolve like a door hinge.
- Maintain your body’s stability and avoid rotating your torso backwards. Instead of trying to acquire greater movement from your torso, work with the range of motion that is already accessible in your shoulders.
The Bottom Line
The posterior, or rear, deltoids are significant shoulder muscles that are involved in a variety of pulling activities, as well as shoulder stabilization and protection. It is logical to strengthen them in order to maintain healthy shoulder mobility.
Prior to beginning any workout plan, it is recommended that you consult with a healthcare expert before beginning these activities. A certified trainer should also be involved in order to ensure that you are utilizing the machines securely and to your advantage.
For those who want to build their shoulders in a balanced manner, including these maneuvers in their regular shoulder workouts will assist to counteract the heavier, front-loaded actions that are commonly seen in other standard gym exercises. | <urn:uuid:92ec4de7-0b55-4dbe-a3e9-637dcb5afa31> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 11,453 |
Wang Guowei and A Dream of Red Mansions
Wang Guowei’s 王國維 (1887-1927) understanding of the idea of tragedy was inspired by two German philosophers—Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. It is generally held that the pessimistic philosophy of Schopenhauer plays a fundamental role in Wang’s borrowing from Western philosophers. Wang Guowei’s Hongloumeng Pinglun 紅樓夢評論 (Commentaries on A Dream of Red Mansions, 1904) shows that in fact he was closer to Nietzsche than to Schopenhauer. This paper focuses on the article and the idea of “tragedy” in the context of Wang Guowei, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Although Commentaries on A Dream of Red Mansions was based on Schopenhauer’s idea, it is in fact alienated from Schopenhauer’s philosophy in the sense that it represents the double movement back into his own cultural sensibility—renjian qinghuai人間情懷 (feeling for this world). The double movement occurred in the case of using Nietzsche too, not as alienation, but as bringing in. Nietzsche’s “spirit of tragedy” was brought into Chinese culture based on Wang’s own strong initiative. Wang’s conscious closeness to Nietzsche is also an uncompleted mission since his Confucian principles are against Nietzsche’s abrupt departure from his tradition. This misunderstanding and misinterpretation shows well the true face of cross-culture communication at the beginning of 20th century, especially when we consider the development of Chinese aesthetic modernity.
California State Polytechnic University
He, J. (2018). Wang Guowei and A dream of red mansions. Journal of East-West Thought, 8(4), 59-78.
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Chrysler is the most product poor of all the U.S. automakers at this point in the game. The company is clinging to life after narrowly escaping death with the help of Italy’s Fiat. In the automotive business, however, product is king. And boy is Chrysler lacking in that department.
Our colleagues at Autoweek recently reported on Chrysler’s frantic efforts to update its lineup in an attempt to stay competitive. Autoweek indicated one such update, slated for the first quarter of this year, was for the chassis cab versions of the Ram pickup. Chrysler released some details late last year regarding the updates it has planned for the Ram chassis cab models.
Chrysler indicated the Ram chassis cab models would see a number of improved standard features including the following. The standard manual transmission grows to six speeds. The models will have an increased GVWR (13,000 lbs. from 12,500 lbs. on 3500 diesel model). They will also have “…an Electronic Vehicle Information Center (EVIC) integrated into the instrument cluster, four upfitter switches, and an increased alternator size on the diesel model (180-amps). The Ram chassis cab models will also sport automatic headlamps, an upgraded HEMI engine, and interior updates including second-row headrests, rear heating, ventilation and air conditioning ducts.
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To successfully treat and prevent recurrence of fatty liver we need to understand and — if possible — remove the underlying causes and risk factors. We need to ask: "What else is going on inside the body that might allow fatty liver to develop?"
Accurate diagnosis of the factors behind fatty liver consists of three steps:
Have you been diagnosed with fatty liver?
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→ No, my liver was confirmed to be normal
→ Yes, I have mild fatty liver
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Malnutrition can result in an enlarged fatty liver, which can result in ascites.
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Applied DNA Sciences is boosting its partnership with 3SI Security Systems, adding its SigNature DNA to 3SI’s Thinpac smoke and dye cash protection systems, already in use in over 130,000 locations worldwide.
Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences will roll out a broader use for its SigNature DNA anti-counterfeiting technology in Paris. The new platform allows SigNature DNA’s botanical DNA to be implanted on to a wide range of textile, apparel and accessory products, including wool yarns, polyester thread, cashmere yarns, fabric selvedge and woven and nonwoven labels. [...]
Using the SigNature DNA system, SMT will mark each of its products with botanical DNA that cannot be replicated, but can be checked for authenticity using Applied DNA tools.
Ten criminals from the United Kingdom have received jail sentences totaling 53 years after being linked to multiple heists using anti-counterfeiting technology from Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences. The criminals were involved in eight cash-in-transit crimes, stealing more than £100,000 from vans in four London suburbs between January and June of 2011. The criminals used [...]
Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences has launched a new QR code-inspired DNA tracking tool that allows individuals to authenticate products using their mobile devices. The tool, known as digitalDNA, takes Applied DNA’s SigNature DNA product – encrypting products with a unique strand of botanical DNA to prevent counterfeiting – and puts the authentication process in [...]
by John Callegari Published: January 17, 2012
Tags: anti-counterfeiting, Applied DNA Sciences, College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, Long Island, Ronkonkoma, SigNature DNA, University at Albany
Applied DNA Sciences has struck a strategic partnership with the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering – a joint venture that will help the Stony Brook-based company’s authentication technology penetrate every aspect of the microchip manufacturing chain. By combining Applied DNA’s SigNature DNA technology with research and development at CNSE’s Albany NanoTech [...]
A small business in Stony Brook was the lynchpin in bringing down a major drug ring in the United Kingdom. Irrefutable evidence courtesy of Applied DNA Sciences’ SigNature DNA technology helped implicate 11 “professional criminals” with possessing more than $400,000 in cocaine, heroin, marijuana and other drugs. The criminals were sentenced to a total of [...]
Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences’ SigNature DNA technology traveled overseas this week, being utilized and promoted by a United Kingdom textile company as a way to combat counterfeiting. The Huddersfield Textile Centre of Excellence, a longtime Applied DNA partner, is showcasing anti-counterfeiting measures it created for the world-renowned Yorkshire wools, using the SigNature DNA technology. [...]
Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences is lending its security measures to a different type of security company. Applied DNA recently entered into a long-term supply agreement with Europe-based 3SI Security Systems to provide its SigNature DNA marking system to the company’s currency protection security systems, used in cash boxes and ATMs. The DNA component will [...]
On the heels of securing a roughly $1 million contract from U.S. Department of Defense, Stony Brook-based Applied DNA Sciences announced it has agreed to partner with C.F. Martin & Co. to implement its SigNature DNA technology in the acoustic guitars made by the Pennsylvania-based company. Applied DNA’s technology will add a level of security [...] | <urn:uuid:77d5483e-7491-4752-b3e1-6a7ffc098833> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,640 |
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Scott Adams told us what would happen to Trump last year:
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Late in the movie going year comes this interesting mix of World War Z stirred in with Battle Los Angeles with a sprinkle of The Raid for extra spice. Redcon-1 creates a tale very similar to 28 Weeks Later, with Zombie Hordes carrying a virus which spreads through blood and bites, and the world’s military is brought in to try to rectify the problem. The film comes packed with great moments of interpersonal drama and really good, fast and hard kicking fight scenes which is where this film is at it’s best. It also has a good leading cast with special mention for its leads in Oris Erhuero and Mark Strange, who create amazing chemistry as they butt heads and fight as one. The only problem is the plot, which I do not understand one bit: It’s so mixed up, it’s all over the place, and as the film reaches it’s believed crescendo it throws yet more spanners in the already broken mix which just leaves a sour taste which drains your mind for the rest of the film! It’s a constant battle as you try to understand everyone else’s motives at key points which don’t make the least bit sense and the film doesn’t really attempt to rectify them, they just happen. The last half of the film is just this slow boil of overcooked narrative which makes you fidget in your seat as you are no longer grabbed. Action is where this film thrives and it’s worth seeing to see those moments, but the ending is like a slowed down attempt to milk an epic end battle between all sides: for crying out loud, Speed it up! It’s worth seeing for its fights and it’s drama in the first half as well as it’s interesting military characters; but don’t expect much from the whole experience. | <urn:uuid:770e0deb-232a-4ed2-b7a6-5e4d773eeb14> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,666 |
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Do you feel that sometimes your circumstances or feelings are running you? Do you feel like you don’t have a choice about how you feel? While I do believe there is a point at which one has gone down the “rabbit hole” to the point where it’s a lot harder to get out, I do think there is an amazing unutilized tool each of us possesses: the superpower of our emotions.
Being as it is the month of America’s Independence Day, it seemed apropos to write a little bit about independence and freedom, albeit sans the political slant. I personally, like to look at the big picture and life-enhancing philosophies of concepts and notions. Most of us are aware of Webster’s sense of the words independence and freedom, so I’d like to look at it from a different vantage.
This photo was taken on one of my many hikes in the hills—and I just fell in love with it. As I was hiking through nothing but grass, I spotted one single flower. Not anywhere around that day, nor since, have I seen another. Its splendor seemed amplified with its brilliant purple hue, naked stem, piercing upwards through the green grass into the blue skies. Sometimes we feel as though we are the only ones, yet we fail to notice the beauty in this—the deep knowing that where there is one, there might grow to be more. And, in the moment that we are but solitary, we can shine in such brilliance that the world has yet to see.
This past weekend I flew to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. to attend a Buddhist Psychology Seminar with renowned meditation teacher, psychologist, and author Jack Kornfield. Although Jack and I go back a number of years, I always find new takeaways and ever-important reminders of the important things in life. To me, that’s what mediation and (loosely) Buddhism means, to become centered, reminded, and grounded in the essence of who we all are.
There are many different personality and trait surveys available—yet one major oversight of most of these assessments is that they fail to define emotive qualities that span your entire way of being. Determining your character strengths in comparison, is to find out the basis of how you optimally operate and how you utilize and implement all your other skills and traits. Further, most look to assessments to find out what the best job they could be placed in would be, but seldom do people survey themselves to find out what parts of them, when cultivated, will lead to more fulfillment and happiness regardless of where they utilize them (key: once discovered, use them in every area of your life).
Positive Psychology is based on the idea that 40% of your happiness comes from Intentional Activity: that is, your actions, thoughts, beliefs and attitudes—all of which are malleable—and, in your control. I believe people think certain thoughts many times over, they subsequently have a feeling associated with the thought, and it then turns into a belief they think to be the true. In not much time, these “truths” set up the way we think of others, our world, and ourselves.
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Many times people will ask me the “secret” to positivity. It’s of no surprise that there aren’t any secrets… but there are a few practices that studies have shown that positive and optimistic people have in common—none of which more strongly so than the seemingly simple practice of giving thanks.
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind.” Buddha’s quote is ageless, and one of the main tenets of transformative work. There is so much in these few words: freedom, choice, empowerment, responsibility, inspiration, change, and wisdom. | <urn:uuid:3213b1e4-c0ae-48d3-9cb6-1201f1a25a5b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,877 |
Co-edited with Philip Oldenburg
Asia Society and ME Sharpe, 2005
Hardback (ISBN-13: 978-0765615923)
Paper (ISBN-13: 978-0765615930)
Since 2001, India has gained new attention as an emerging world power with a rapidly growing economy, a world-class science and technology sector, and a huge English-speaking labor pool. After a period of escalating tension with neighbor Pakistan, wide-ranging peace talks are underway. Within India, there is an unprecedented mood of optimism about the future. At the same time, the nation wrestles with difficult questions about the place of secularism in society, the role it sees for itself globally and within Asia, and the reality that millions of Indians still live at the subsistence level.
This volume of India Briefing examines India’s changing fortunes through chapters that cover the economy, the twists and turns of domestic politics, labor in the large informal sector, the cultural roots of Hindu nationalism, the foreign relations rollercoaster, the business of Bollywood, and a special chapter on the range of new resources about India available on the web.
1. Introduction. India Briefing: Takeoff at Last?, Alyssa Ayres and Philip K. Oldenburg; 2. Politics: The BJP Falls from Power, Niraja Gopal Jayal; 3. Indian Economy: New Pathways to Growth and Development, Isher Judge Ahluwalia; 4. India’s International Relations: The Search for Stability, Space, and Strength, Amitabh Mattoo; 5. The Cultural Background of Hindutva, Richard H. Davis; 6. Work and Wealth, Renana Jhabvala; 7. The Business of Bollywood, Manjeet Kripalani; 8. Downloading India: A Guide to Online Resources, Mary Rader; 9. A Chronology, Irawati Parnerkar
“The useful eleventh volume of Asia Society’s India Briefing series, edited by Ayres and Oldenburg, provides backing for India’s newfound, and cautious, optimism. The contributors provide an excellent update on the shifting coalitions in India’s party politics and solid analysis of India’s economic reforms.”
“…a substantial analysis and balanced perspective of India–devoid of exaggeration but nourished with substance and blended by the rigours of analysis and sophistication. Indeed, this volume is an excellent rendition of India.”
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International & Strategic Affairs, Vol.27, #3
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The play takes place entirely at a recently converted country guest house called Monkswell Manor, which is about 30 miles outside of London. The Manor is being run by a young married couple called the Ralstons. Four guests then arrive at the Manor. There's an outrageously camp, flamboyant man called Christopher Wren. There's a demanding woman called Mrs Boyle. There's a nice man who's recently retired from the army called Major Metcalf. There's a mysterious woman called Miss Casewell who seems to have had a deeply unhappy childhood, and a man from Italy called Mr Paravicini. As you'd expect from an Agatha Christie work, all of these guests has a secret and no-one is quite what they seem. This includes the Ralstons. Everyone then becomes snowed-in at Monskwell Manor because of a huge snow storm that is battering the south of England. However, a police officer called Detective Sergeant Trotter is able to get to the Manor on skis. He announces that there's been a murder in London and that he believes the murderer is planning to kill two people at the Manor, as an act of revenge for a famous child abuse case.
I thought most of the actors in the play were really good. The standouts for me were Bob Saul as Sergeant Trotter, Elizabeth Power as Mrs Boyle (the only actor in this production who'd been in The Mousetrap before) and Steven France as Mr Wren. Even Bruno Langley was decent in this! I couldn't stand him in Doctor Who but that's probably my dislike of his character Adam coming through! The only actors who weren't so good in this play were Karl Howman as Mr Paravicini and Jemma Walker as Mollie Ralston. Howman was funny but his Italian accent was a bit, er, all over the place! He was able to get away with that though because the character was supposed to be duplicitous and possibly in disguise. Jemma Walker was by no means horrible but she was a bit over-the-top in places.
The play also had some really good costumes and excellent lighting. The set was great. There's only one set for the entire play but it's a really good set! I recommend The Mousetrap. I can't see it being a play that I'd want to see over and over again but it's good fun and enjoyable. | <urn:uuid:842f56b0-e1e6-4339-9895-dd4bb72edb4f> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,189 |
This is a wonderful cake and it's very easy to make. It's mind blowing right out of the oven, so to really impress someone, serve it while it's still warm. It's much more aromatic and lighter that way, and the chocolate is still a little gooey.
1 cup plus 3 tablespoons SUGAR
1 cup WALNUT HALVES, toasted
2 tablespoons UNSALTED BUTTER
4 large EGGS, separated
1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons CONFECTIONERS' SUGAR
2 ounces MILK CHOCLATE, melted and cooled
Pinch of SALT
- Preheat the oven to 325˚F. Butter a 10-inch cake pan. Line a baking sheet with buttered parchment paper.
- Prepare the praline: Sprinkle a quarter cup of the sugar in an even layer in a heavy skillet. Cook over medium heat, without stirring, until it melts and turns into an amber caramel (swirl the pan if it colors unevenly), about five minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and add the walnuts and butter (stand back, the caramel may sputter), stirring with a wooden spoon. Continue to cook until any hard bits of the caramel melt. Spread the nuts on the prepared baking sheet to cool.
- Transfer the nuts to a food processor and pulse until coarsely ground. Set the nuts aside.
- Whisk the egg yolks and confectioners' sugar together in a bowl, and stir in the melted chocolate. Set it aside.
- Place the edd whites in a clean bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and beat at a medium speed until foamy. Sprinkle half a cup of the remaining sugar and the salt over the egg whites and beat on high speed until soft peaks form. Gradually sprinkle in the remaining seven tablespoons of sugar and beat until stiff slossy peaks form.
- Whisk a little of the egg white mixture into the chocolate mixture. Then gently fold the remaining whites into the chocolate. Fold in the walnuts.
- Scrape the batter into the prepared cake pan and bake until the cake is golden brown on top but still moist inside, about 45 minutes. Let it cool a few minutes in the pan then serve. | <urn:uuid:d1022655-5d0a-40e9-ad90-581dc9ca8316> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,954 |
In Okinawa, Public Hall means not only the building but also the community organization which has a power to practically govern the community, There's only one in Taketomi Island, but there are dozens of Public Hall in a big islands like Iriomote Island and Ishigaki Island. In that case, it is also written "shima."
Taketomi Island is the island formed by the growth of the coral reef, and is 9.2 km around in circumference. Though it has been a number of troubles and pressure occurred from outside the island, Tehdhunhito(inhabitants of Taketomi Island) has managed to help each other in the circle of the Public Hall and to discuss the issues that were all worth doing. Many people wonder how it is possible to manage peacefully in such a small island. It has been possible because of the motivation of the inhabitants and the great ability of the leaders. It was necessary to realize what was the most important matters to focus on in each time in a place where it was impossible to escape.
Its principle comes from the saying of Nishitoh, the great man lived in the island 500 years ago, "Wisdom and
Collaboration are Essential." This means that it is essential and thoughtful for everyone to collaborate each other.
The word "utsugumi" meaning "to collaborate" is the fundamental idea of Taketomi Island. However, it doesn't
mean to have too soft relationships because of a small population.
There are three communities in the island and their competition is quite outstanding. Their determination to compete(not conflict) with other communities is incredibly remarkable. They use their "zunbun," the knowledge,
to develop themselves. Though there are such competitions, they have collaborated under the "utsugumi" mind once something has decided and come to an agreement among them.
The good example is the election of the director of Public Hall. The director sometimes has to protect the future of the island by fighting against the town, prefecture, or even nation. The director is indeed a CEO of the island. His term is one year, with no chance of reelected, but it requires a heavy responsibility to select the very person in three communities in each term. There is no way to select a shameful person so that elders and people in the island collaborate to educate the future candidate of the director in the next generation.
There's a Public Hall rules for its management. 12 Public Hall officers are chosen from the communities, and director and executives execute the management. The major work of executives is to execute the festival and events held about 20 times a year. On March 31st every year, the general meeting is held with every officer attended.
The communities in Taketomi Island is designated as a National Important Architects of Preservation Area. This also is the result of the countless effort of Tehdhunhito(inhabitants of Taketomi Island). The main reason of the designation is not only its scenery, but also the existence of "Taketomi Island Carter" of five principles: such as, "Never sell, never pollute, never confuse, never destroy, and make a good use." Every word has a history. Today, one-third of the population is not native islanders. Thanks to the Public Hall with every single person on the island participated, the red-tile-roof houses and stone walls, which are said to be the original scenery of Okinawa, have been beautifully preserved. Cleaning the white star-sand paths every morning has been a habitual routine for more than 200 years.
Bad habits are to be abolished and good habits are to be inherited to the next generations. That is our wish to live with the island.
Taketomi Yugafu-kan all right reserved.
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Watching wildlife comes high on the list of favourite activities for most eco-friendly kids – and it’s often a hit with their parents too. There’s no better way to encourage a few native species to come into your own backyard than by rolling out a bit of a red carpet for them in the garden.
Wildlife gardening has grown enormously in popularity over recent years, but it isn’t just a case of abandoning a dark, forgotten corner and allowing it to go completely rampant; like other aspects of gardening, it calls for a bit of thought. The good news is, however, that you don’t need to have vast amounts of space to get started and some of the most valuable wildlife habitats are to be found in very small plots. With some careful planning the littlest patio, balcony or even a window box can be turned into a wildlife haven and it doesn’t have to be anything elaborate; just a few simple ideas will get the ball rolling in next to no time.
Off To A Flying Start!
Birds are probably the easiest creatures to encourage into your garden and best of all, there’s no shortage of ready-made items to be found in garden centres and pet shops to get you off to a great start. Buy one or two suitable nesting boxes and a bird feeder – or make your own if you prefer – fix them in appropriate locations and you’re away! There’s plenty of information available on this site and elsewhere to help you pick the right kinds of things to buy and once you start feeding and watching the birds in your own garden, you’ll be surprised how addictive it can become. Add a birdbath – or just an old, shallow bowl – and keep it topped up with fresh water and you should soon be seeing the birds visiting your garden in their droves.
Insects and their kin are another group that will quickly make use of any suitable surroundings you create for them and, on the whole, they aren’t too difficult to accommodate. Provide a few logs and a pile or two of leaves and you’ll soon be rewarded with a small zoo of mini-beasts as all manner of beetles, spiders, woodlice and centipedes move in. Slugs and snails will like them too – though they obviously won’t get quite such a welcome from keen gardeners! They do, however, form favourite items on a number of other creatures’ menus – including frogs, toads, hedgehogs and many kinds of birds – so they definitely have their place in the wildlife corner, however much of a pest they are elsewhere in the garden.
Your wildlife corner can also attract a range of beneficial insects, which either help control pests or are important for pollination. Amongst this noble band of bugs are the bees, ladybirds and lacewings – and there are lots of designs of homes that can be bought, or made, that are ideal to encourage these useful creatures to stay.
Finish off by planting a few nectar-rich flowers – something which can be done very successfully in a container or window box if that’s all the space you have available – and you’ll be guaranteed a stream of visiting bees and butterflies throughout the summer.
Add A Pond
Adding even a small pond to your wildlife area will bring big benefits to wildlife and attract a whole new range of creatures. Again, it doesn’t have to be huge, expensive or elaborate. There are plenty of pre-formed shapes to buy and even a simple water-filled barrel or container will allow you to grow a few of our native water plants and watch some of Britain’s aquatic animals going about their lives. There’s nothing quite like pond-dipping in your own pond!
If an actual pond isn’t appropriate – and many parents understandably aren’t keen if there are very young children in the family – then a bog garden can be a useful half-way house. It will enable a range of marginal and moisture loving plants to be grown and give many kinds of damp-loving animals a home, without any risk of tragedy.
Don’t Forget The Flowers
When we start talking about wildlife gardens, the wonderful variety of British wildflowers can sometimes get overlooked as we focus on all the birds, badgers and beetles. There are plenty of wildflower seed mixes available from various specialist suppliers and many garden centres have them too, so creating a swathe of wild plants as a backdrop for your corner is easy to do. Even something as simple as choosing a few native shrubs or trees can make a big difference to the value of your garden as a wildlife habitat, so it’s definitely something to bear in mind.
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Clark Kent prefers the Daily Planet.
Jake Lindsey, well, he likes the library.
Either way, both are pretty super in their other life.
For Lindsey, the other life is in an octagon, caged with walls of metal chain-link fence where he’s been nothing short of super as a mixed martial arts fighter.
“That’s kind of how it is,” said Lindsey, who’s worked at the Manhattan Public Library for nine years, earning the nickname “The Librarian.” “I’m a laidback, nice guy, not real aggressive and because of that, a lot of people are surprised when they find out that I do MMA.
“I like to play video games, I work at the local library and I’m really polite and quiet, and everyone’s like, ‘oh, what else do you do?’ I’m like, ‘I punch people in the face for money.’”
And Lindsey is good at it too. Fighting out of Manhattan’s Combative Sports Center, the 155-pounder in the lightweight division, is 8-0 as a professional fighter and eying a possible move to the UFC — the pinnacle level of the sport. And for what’s its worth, the 27-year-old Lindsey didn’t lose as an amateur either, going 9-0 before turning pro.
“Jake is very special,” said Joe “The Nose” Wilk, a fellow professional fighter who owns CSC and trains Lindsey. “He’s a video game dork, who just happens to be the best fighter I’ve ever met.”
That’s saying something too, because Wilk is a very accomplished fighter in his own right — compiling a 17-8 professional record in the octagon and working as a certified hand-to-hand combat instructor for the U.S. Military, as a civilian.
“He can go as far as he wants to go,” Wilk said of Lindsey. “I’ve trained all over the world with more famous people than I could name, and Jake is as talented as anyone I’ve ever trained with. He’s at a point now where it’s more of an issue finding him a challenge. We need to go to the UFC.
“When you’re a 7-0 kid and you take a fight on short notice against another 7-0 kid from a more popular gym and you see what happened, then its time.”
That fight, on June 7 at Fort Riley, was against Zach Freeman, another fighter who was considered to be on the fast track with Lindsey for the UFC. Lindsey needed just two-and-half-minutes to dispose of Freeman, earning $4,000 and winning the fight on strikes with referee stoppage.
“I kind of fished him — I’m super-relaxed and loose and they get used to me having my hands down and moving, not going really fast,” said Lindsey, who was born and raised in Manhattan. “Then I switched the speed up — that punch I caught him with, I turned it on for two seconds and it clipped him.
“He was really good, but I mean, I’m doing something right.”
Lindsey’s been doing a lot right in MMA since he started fighting six years ago. Introduced to the sport by watching the Pride Fighting Championships on TV, a Japanese mixed martial arts organization, Lindsey decided he wanted to taste the same glory his favorite fighters experienced after victories in the octagon.
“I fell in love with the drama of it, the intensity of it,” he said. “When somebody would win, the music, it was so awesome, especially if your favorite guy would win, no different than a little kid and his favorite football team.”
So, naturally, Lindsey turned to YouTube to begin his training process. Soaking up everything he could from Internet videos and punching sessions with tackling dummies on Manhattan High’s football practice fields, Lindsey decided it was time for a real fight.
“I called up a promoter because I heard about a show in Junction City on the radio,” he said. “I was like, ‘I’m just going to get in there and do it.’ I had no real training at all. The promoter asked me if I had ever trained before, and I was like ‘nope.’
“He wanted to help me out, so he told me to go to a gym and he gave me Joe’s number. The rest is history.”
Lindsey didn’t play sports in high school, “unless football video games count,” he said.
“I ran from cops a little bit — that’s the only intense workout or exercise I got, just running around, causing some trouble and having a good time,” he added. “I never did anything athletic.”
Yet Lindsey seems to be natural in the octagon, starting with his first-ever amateur fight against “some guy named Arthur Torres.”
“He was nicknamed Looney Tunes or something stupid like that — he came out from California,” Lindsey said.
Lindsey had two days notice for the event in Wichita when Wilk called and asked if he wanted to fight.
“I was just sitting at home watching TV,” Lindsey said. “I couldn’t wait to actually fight, but what got me into it in the first place was the glory of it, wanting to be like that guy, the superstar status of it. But my first amateur, I was so nervous that I lost sight of that stuff pretty quick. I just didn’t want to get my (butt) kicked. I was super-nervous.”
It didn’t show.
“He threw a haymaker, the crappiest punch, I ducked under, took him down and choked him out in 25 seconds,” Lindsey said.
Now a perfect 17-0 as an amateur and professional, Lindsey is looking to become the first Kansan to join the UFC, the top level a fighter can reach in MMA. Getting to the UFC is difficult, because after all, you have to win at all the other levels first — and do it against quality opponents — just hoping to get scouted and eventually signed.
“I fought a lot of guys people didn’t want to fight, like Bobby Cooper in my first pro fight,” said Lindsey, who trains twice a day five or six days a week when he’s preparing for a fight. “He’s really tough and people didn’t want to fight him. It’s about not turning down fights and fighting tough guys. You can beat 11 guys who suck, but they’re going to look at it and be like, ‘oh, he beat a guy was 0-4.’”
It’s that mentality that Wilk said makes Lindsey great.
“I don’t mean this as an insult at all, but Jake is just dumb enough to be as great as he is,” said Wilk, who also fights at 155 pounds. “He’s missing that fear component in his brain — it doesn’t matter who’s standing across from him. He fights the same way and to the best of his ability when he needs to the most — that’s really the key.”
But with every win, it’s easy to see how the pressure can begin to mount for “The Librarian,” who says he’s never really been injured during a fight.
“Everybody, my family, they’re like ‘Jake’s a killer, he’s going to kill this guy,’” Lindsey said. “And I might still think that myself, in my head, ‘yeah, I’m going to get this guy.’ But still, everyone’s piling on, like my fourth or fifth pro fight I was kind of getting bored with it. Everyone was like, ‘oh, you’re going to get to the UFC, you’re so good. Everyone kept telling and telling and telling me that.
“I never thought about it actually, but around that time I started to think about how disappointed everyone will be if I lose. I know they’re still going to love me, but it’s like your parents when they say, ‘I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.’ That’s so much worse.
“At this point now, I think I’m over that pressure. Everyone loses eventually. If I lose, I lose. I just don’t want to get my (butt) whooped. That’s my goal, to not get toolboxed, because there are a lot of tough guys out there.”
Wilk said Lindsey handles the pressure as well as anyone he knows.
“Is there pressure? There always is, I mean, its two men fist-fighting in the middle of a steel cage,” he said. “But if he’s nervous, he’s got me fooled.”
Just like Clark Kent.
“I’d rather be Wolverine, by the way,” Lindsey said. “I think Superman is a wuss.” | <urn:uuid:e8b04546-bf28-4c14-9674-8c19e32a6e76> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 7,465 |
Like the Postal Service, but can’t stand Gibbard’s syrupy lyrics? Wish Dntel’s production was more filled out, a la The Avalanches? You’ll like Girlsareshort, a(nother) Canadian group on Upper Class Records that rocks a lot of socks.
Trax: “Florida Pines” (my personal favorite) and “Osaka,” from 2003’s earlynorthamerican.
Also, I think I’m due for a little Favorite Albums of All-Time re-evaluation. I’ve been listening to Bacharach & Costello’s Painted From Memory on repeat this week, and if that’s not my favorite album of all-time I don’t know what to say. Um…embarrassing lists from high school, coming soon. | <urn:uuid:a530fb7e-54e9-463f-9f50-0f2c5a12948c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 615 |
The Carmel Mission was founded in 1770 - so, the earliest so far on this tour. It is still a parish church and is the only California mission to have its original bell tower. It is also holds a very special place in our lives for the perfect intimacy of the acoustic, our long history there, and our annual Christmas concerts which are always a highlight of that season. ( This year they'll be at 6 and 8.30 on December 21.Usually sold out, so book now!) The lovely courtyard garden of the Carmel offers people a tranquil passage on their way into the sanctuary, and was a perfect setting for LAB, which gathered a very appreciative audience. While we rehearsed inside, they started by singing to the people waiting outside the locked gate, sang the first arrivals in, and then established themselves mid-way between the gate and the church to enthusiastic applause. We thank them for all the driving and singing they've been doing as part of this special LAB session, 6.5.
We felt our usual bond with our faithful audience here who seemed to love the music of Salazar and Sumaya. | <urn:uuid:c50a4963-8df5-4883-92f7-44172fb7175c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,080 |
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1. How many wheel rotations will your robot need to travel 17 cm?
2. Estimate (guess) how many wheel rotations will your robot need to travel 51 cm?
3. Use your estimated number to program your robot.
How far did it travel?
4. Setting your wheel rotations to 1 makes the robot travel 17 cm.
How can you make it travel half that distance, and how far does it travel then?
5. Fill in the table.
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