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ncsu | How do I log in to databases and e-journals from off campus?
How do I pay for printing at NC State University Libraries?
How do I print via Google Cloud Print at NCSU Libraries?
How do I use OCR at D. H. Hill Library?
How do I use the Zeutschel Book Scanners?
I am getting an error screen when trying to access library resources. What should I do?
What are the options for using library computers at D. H. Hill Jr. Library for guests?
What are the options for using library computers at the D. H. Hill Library and the James. B Hunt Jr. Library for Friends of the Library, affiliates, and guests from Duke University or any of the UNC-system universities? | 2019-04-20T16:43:57Z | https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/faq/category?category=3915&page=1 | Porn | Computers | 0.988251 |
wordpress | THANK YOU to the wonderful walkingtalkers who came along to these walks. Also Flirt cafe/bar for your help, the Bournemouth Daily Echo for plugging the walks, and lots of people for tweeting madly!
Join Hattie Miles on romantically themed circular walkingtalks which start from the appropriately named Flirt cafe/bar, next door to Bournemouth Library, in the Triangle.
Walks are on Friday 13th and Sunday 15th February, both starting at 10.45am.
They reveal some of the area’s hidden secrets, explore its intriguing history and unveil romantic tales about the famous and fascinating people connected to the area.
The walk price is £6.00 (over sixties and students £5.00) no need to book, just turn up!
These are moderate walks which take approximately one-and-a-half hours and include some steps with hand-rails and a couple of gentle slopes. Do dress appropriately for the weather and wear practical shoes. You will enjoy the walk more if you are warm and comfortable!
Flirt are offering walkers 10% discount for refreshments immediately before & after the walk. Why not bring your Valentine or a friend on Sunday’s walkingtalk?
Join former Daily Echo photographer Hattie Miles on a Westbourne Walking Talk Westbourne is an area packed with interest. Whether you are a resident or a visitor you are sure to enjoy this walk which will show you some of the area’s hidden secrets and tell you about famous people connected to the area. You will find out about writers, actors, musicians, a scientist, a British prime minister and much more.
Westbourne Walking talks will take place on: Sundays 21st and 28th September at 4.00pm Price: £6.00 (over sixties and students £5.00) Meet in the arcade outside Lavish Life Café/Cinema No need to book, just turn up. Please arrive in time to start promptly. Walks will take approximately one-and-a-half to one-and-three-quarter hours. For more information see: walkingtalks.wordpress.com or contact Hattie Miles on hattiepix@gmail.com (group bookings on alternative days can be arranged) Be prepared: This is a gentle, mainly flat walk, but I would recommend wearing comfortable shoes and dressing appropriately for the weather. Public loos in Westbourne are situated in the main car park on Millburn Road – we do NOT walk past them! | 2019-04-20T00:42:10Z | https://walkingtalks.wordpress.com/tag/walking/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.467424 |
columbia | A workshop is being organized under the auspices of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP).
Provisional venues: Salt Lake City, Nephi and Snowbird, Utah, including a one-day field trip to the Canyon Range and Sevier Desert.
Abstract: Low-angle normal faults or detachments are widely regarded as playing an important role in crustal extension and the development of passive continental margins. However, no consensus exists on how to resolve the mechanical paradox implied by such faults or to account for the general absence of evidence for seismicity. Drilling to a depth of 2-4 km in the Sevier Desert basin of west-central Utah will test the extensional detachment paradigm through coring, downhole logging, biostratigraphic, isotopic and fission-track dating, magnetostratigraphy, and in situ measurement of pore pressure, permeability, fluid chemistry, temperature and stress orientation/magnitude at an example for which evidence of large normal-sense slip on a still-active detachment of particularly low dip (11°) is considered by many to be among the most convincing. Geological studies in the proposed borehole will evaluate evidence for both ductile and brittle deformation vs an unconformity at the Paleozoic-Cenozoic contact, and how the timing of sediment accumulation relates to exhumation of the footwall of the hypothesized detachment. In situ measurements will determine the conditions under which displacement may have taken place, as recently as the Holocene, consistent with the generally accepted interpretation of the geology. The purpose of the workshop is to flesh out objectives, strategies and operational details, and to develop a consensus on the location of a drill site. The most important product will be a full drilling proposal, to be submitted to ICDP in January, 2009. | 2019-04-20T17:37:47Z | https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/research/seismology-geology-tectonophysics/testing-extensional-detachment-paradigm-scientific-drilli | Porn | Science | 0.944973 |
wordpress | MSNBC Political Analyst and Air America Radio host Rachel Maddow joins Keith Olbermann to discuss the truce between John McCain and prominent right wingers. Aired 2/21/08.
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The current outsourcing and downsizing of manufacturing in the U.S. will eventually lead to fascism if past history is a dependable predictor of the future. A decrease in the contribution of a country’s manufacture to its trade balance will lead to large trade deficits causing a drop in the value of a country’s currency. When this occurs, an accompanying decrease in the living standard of its citizens will result in political unrest leading to the establishment of a political state under the control of a powerful ruling class. The U.S. is currently in experiencing the beginning stage of this process.
Post-war Germany is a good example of what occurs under these conditions. The German people’s reparations payments to the victorious Allies after World War I were unsustainable and eventually led to an unwillingness of the working classes to continue their manufacture. The proceeds of almost all their production had been going to foreigners. This discontent and “revolt” of the industrial working classes led to an essential halt in manufacturing. Without production, there were no consumption items available for purchase by foreigners or industries in which to invest. The Reich’s mark went into free-fall and hyper-inflation destroyed the wealth of the middle class.
With a poverty-stricken populace and massive unemployment, the scene was set in Germany for someone who had the will and ability to take control and reestablish prosperity. The public was rightfully interested in a return to prosperity and was unfortunately ready to accept whatever means were necessary to attain it.
Hitler and the Nazis were the means, backed by what remained of the capitalists, to control the disillusioned citizens (by force if necessary), and to restore production. They accomplished this by establishing public works programs and a resumption of manufacture accompanied by a repudiation of reparation payments. Once the Nazis assumed power there was no chance of a return to a democratic government.The history of Italy under Mussolini and Spain under Franco was similar. To control a disgruntled populace believing socialism to be their salvation, these despots were supported by the rich (as well as the church) in the suppression of the people in the presumed interests of all. All these fascist governments ruled by means of intimidation of the populace by the military or paramilitary under their immediate control. They were in turn financially backed and encouraged by the rich who were interested in maintaining social and economic control. Doesn’t this sound just a bit like the “law and order” so prized today?
The U.S. is now approaching the end of the first phase of this process, the ruination of the American working classes by the giveaway of manufacturing to foreign workers. The dollar is just beginning what will be a drastic fall in value. The middle classes will be impoverished by this process causing a political reaction. This will lead to the need for the imprisonment of ever-more citizens and an ever-increasing level of security forces both public and private. The people will demand a more socialistic government and the establishment elites in the U.S. will be frightened into the use of more severe methods of controlling the public, eventually using brute force and intimidation against their own citizens.
A familiar quote by Huey Long predicted that “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the American flag”. You can’t get there from here with a socialist government. Fascism can only be established under a democratic form of government by a gradual erosion of rule of law and respect for the rights of the citizens. The Patriot Act and Department of Homeland Security may very well be necessary but will need to be carefully monitored in the future.
In the event that these and similar legislative acts are not carefully controlled, and our production continues to move overseas, there will be no turning back. The establishment will be forced to seize more forceful control of the populace and will ultimately be unable to give it up. Well-paid police forces, both public and private, will be readily available to support them. For all practical purposes, there will be full-blown fascism in the U.S. Unless the public takes the responsibility and has the courage to forced a correction in the direction our economy, we will see fascism in our lifetimes. It will be the inheritance of our children.
Among people who call themselves “progressives,” it is common to hear George W. Bush derided as an idiot, a fool, an incompetent. In reality, “Bush is clearly the most successful president in modern history,” having stolen two elections, wrecked the Constitution and pursued wars with no end in sight – all with absolute impunity. The Democrats’ pitiful weaknesses are Bush’s strengths, the reason he prevails. Unless he is impeached, Bush’s legacy will last long beyond his term in office, since “a Democratic president will not undo what Bush has wrought” – not Obama, not Clinton. “The lack of movement politics and dependence on the hapless Democratic party have made the Bush winning streak possible and guarantee that it will continue after he leaves office.” Bush is triumphant. The “opposition” has failed.
Was BBC Andrew Gilligan’s Original Source a Senior Member of Her Majesty’s Government?
The importance of identifying Andrew Gilligan’s “original” source (for his infamous BBC Radio 4 Today programme story on the sexing up of the September 2002 dossier, which was later used to justify the UK’s, and thereby the US’s, illegal invasion of Iraq) is not immediately obvious, but we think, after painstaking research, cannot be over-emphasised.
On Sunday 20 July 2003, only two days after Kelly’s body had been found, the BBC surprised many people by breaking confidentiality (which one could reasonably argue was even more important to observe after death) and volunteering that Kelly was their “principal” source (when Kelly could no longer answer back). Most people took this to mean that Kelly was the ONLY source, when he clearly was not, indeed he was almost certainly not even the “principal” or “main” source. Crucially, the BBC did nothing to correct the almost universal misapprehension caused by their statement.
Thus the BBC (wittingly or unwittingly) assisted the Government in halting the search for the “real” source (or sources), and, in the context of Mr Toad’s references (see below) to “civil war within the Cabinet of HMG (Her Majesty’s Government)” and “USG’s (United States’s Government’s) plans to help HMG make up its mind with regard to Iraq’s WMD”, and the connection betwen the two, it is surely not difficult to appreciate the importance of halting that search (for the “real” source of Gilligan’s story).
Considerable suspicions have surrounded many aspects of the death of Dr David Kelly in July 2003, including the alleged manner of the death, its subsequent investigation, and the coverage of the whole affair in the mainstream media. Claims of murder by Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker have continued to fuel speculation of foul play. Yet, in the light of these persisting suspicions, little attention has been paid to what could be the most important question of all: if David Kelly was not the only source for Andrew Gilligan’s “sexed-up” story, as he was not, who was the original source?
On Sunday, 20 July 2003, two days after David Kelly was found dead in the woods, Richard Sambrook, Director of BBC News, named Kelly in a statement as the “principal source for both Andrew Gilligan’s report and for Susan Watts’s reports on Newsnight on 2 and 4 June”. Sambrook chose one word carefully, the word “principal”. Subsequent reports described the BBC as admitting Kelly was the “main source”. “Principal” means first or foremost, or “main”. “Principal”, or “main”, certainly does not mean the one and only source. Unfortunately, this is how the wider world came to understand the Sambrook/BBC statement.
Sambrook’s evidence to the Hutton Inquiry clearly suggests the possibility of another source. Gilligan’s infamous Radio 4 report is described in an internal report as resulting “from two separate but related information sources”. Sambrook goes on to describe the other source as more general, and as “a background of concerns”. The fact that he talks about other sources or “concerns” in the context of Gilligan’s story is important. It is surely not unreasonable to consider that out of the “background of concerns” a prime and headline-grabbing piece of information was given to Gilligan, before he had spoken to Kelly, perhaps from a disgruntled person connected with the compilation of the September 2002 dossier. At the Hutton Inquiry, Sambrook also spoke of “unattributable briefings from members of the security services” to a number of journalists at the BBC who were “expressing some unease at the way Intelligence had been presented in public”.
Did a prime piece of information come Gilligan’s way through these channels? Did Gilligan take this original source and corroborate it during his conversation with Kelly on 22 May 2003? Kelly came forward voluntarily and always claimed he did not recognise some elements of Gilligan’s story. Kelly was also sure he was not the “main source” of the story, and shortly before Kelly’s death, after Kelly had given his evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), that committee publicly concluded that Dr Kelly was not the “main source”.
Mr Gilligan: I am not aware of anything about Dr Kelly’s dealings with other journalists, how could I be?
At this point, Chidgey could have told the world about the e-mail, and that Gilligan was indeed “aware” of “dealings with other journalists”, thereby providing the committee with a new line of inquiry. Chidgey declined to pursue.
Gilligan I would respectfully submit to the Committee that anonymous source journalism does have its value and although I have tried to persuade my source to go on the record, for obvious career reasons he is unable to, and I must respect that confidence.
Why was Committee member Sir John Stanley so sure that the BBC’s source was not Dr Kelly? Because, two days earlier Kelly had gone on the record, in the fall glare of the television cameras and the wider world. So, who was the “anonymous source” who was “unable to go on the record”?
In Gilligan’s e-mail to Simpson, he says the source is someone “closely involved in compiling the document until a late stage”. Previously, he had said that the source was “one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up the dossier”. The mainstream version of events says this is David Kelly. The evidence appears to show beyond doubt that Kelly was around at a late stage, and involved in some discussions about the dossier. However there were others around at a late stage, perhaps up to seven or eight. Perhaps one of them spoke with Gilligan?
According to the BBC Conspiracy Files Dr Kelly timeline (online), on 19 September 2002, five days before the September dossier was published, “Dr Kelly takes part in an hour-long DIS meeting reviewing the draft of the dossier, in the Old War Office. Dr Brian Jones chairs the meeting with another seven or eight people present. Four pages of detailed comments were made. Entitled: “Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Dossier – Comments on Revised Draft (15 Sept 2002)”.
“Mr A”, revealed in Norman Baker’s book as Rod Godfrey, a chemical weapons expert, later told the Hutton Inquiry about 12 comments which were made by Dr Kelly. The DIS drafting suggestions were passed on to the JIO Intelligence staff. None of those suggestions mentioned the 45 minute claim.
Gilligan said he spoke to sources “inside and outside the Intelligence community” and the source was “closely involved in compiling the document until a late stage”. Perhaps, one of those ‘seven or eight’, mentioned by Dr Brian Jones, provided Gilligan with some information? Perhaps one of them had a grudge against the Government, did not approve of the “sexing-up” of the dossier?
Andrew Gilligan may have received some prime information from a source inside or outside the Intelligence services, and Dr Kelly was used to corroborate it. Any research into the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly entails encountering many sources of information. One particularly plausible scenario was described by a “Mr Toad” in his one and only post on the Guardian Talk forum website. We reprint the post below and in full. We do not consider Mr Toad’s version to be definitive, but we do conclude that it provides leads worth exploring. It outlines a version of events which could be argued was unravelling before our eyes in July 2003, but was stopped by the death of Dr David Kelly.
1998 – Mai Pederson attached to Kelly as UNSCOM translator.
1998 – Tom Mangold presents Panorama documentary revealing extensive infiltration of UNSCOM by national security services.
2000-2003 MoD becomes suspicious of Kelly’s relationship with Pederson. Begins moving Kelly towards the door marked ‘exit’, but does it quietly so as not to alarm Kelly or his friends overseas. No grading increase, retirement age reduced from 65 to 60, moved to PR role with no access to classified information.
May 2003 Gilligan interviews senior member of HMG, who makes the Campbell 45 minute claim ‘off the record’. Gilligan cannot run the story without a creditable source, so is pointed to Kelly as ‘unattributable’ MoD source. Gilligan goes to Kelly, tells him he knows the 45 minute claim is fictitious and plays the ‘name game’, then goes home and writes up his piece overnight using info from source 1 effectively attributed to Kelly. Kelly is baffled by Gilligan’s interview, but once Gilligan’s piece goes out he realises he has been set up. He writes to MoD to admit the unauthorised interview but denies he is the original source of Gilligan’s information. Kelly is called to meeting with line managers and told that orders from on high dictate that he will be the ‘fall guy’ or will lose his pension and find his relationship with Pederson plastered across the front page of the Telegraph and tv news. What Kelly did not realise was that this was a bluff. MoD were well aware of Pederson’s actual role and would never have allowed the name to come out in this way at the time. Kelly does as he’s told and goes before the parliamentary committee and ISC. This should be the end of it, except that Kelly broods on it and decides he will take steps to clear his name. Unfortunately, to do this he has to admit to the Pederson relationship. throughout the whole saga Kelly has been in close touch with Pederson, who has been reporting back to her masters. On July 17th Kelly tells Pederson he is going to leave his wife and going to the press to clear his name. Pederson reports immediately to her managers, the alarm bells go off in Washington as they believe she is about to be ‘outed’ and it’s ‘goodnight Vienna’.
The CIA did to Kelly what they did to everyone, lied to him about Iraq’s WMD. The difference is that they thought Kelly’s position as MoD bio-weapons expert would allow him to influence the policy of HMG. Here’s how it was done: Pederson was a US airforce translator working from Arabic to English. After the removal of UNSCOM from Iraq in 1998, evidence of WMD capability came from satellites and smuggled documents. These would land first on the desk of Ms Pederson and her colleagues for translation, before passing to the scientists for analysis, who then advised USG. In the case of Pederson, however, the documents did not come from Iraq, but from the CIA. Pederson ‘leaked’ fake intelligence to Kelly over an extended period, which she claimed came from smuggled Iraqi documents indicating the existence of WMD.
By 2003, Kelly was completely convinced not only of the existence of WMD in Iraq, but also believed he knew what they were and where they were. However, when Kelly attempted to go to Iraq (post invasion) to locate them, he found his was mysteriously barred. On a first occasion his official visa proved worthless and he was turned back at Kuwait. On a second occasion he found himself confined to an airbase for the duration of his stay on security grounds.There may be some evidence that shortly before his death, Kelly became aware of the nature of Pederson’s information.
full text of defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan’s original report on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme from 29 May, 2003.
From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.
Hundreds of pages of recently unsealed court records detail how kickbacks shaped the war’s largest troop support contract months before the first wave of U.S. soldiers plunged their boots into Iraqi sand.
The graft continued well beyond the 2004 congressional hearings that first called attention to it. And the massive fraud endangered the health of American soldiers even as it lined contractors’ pockets, records show.
Police are using tear gas to disperse crowds of rioting people who have been attacking embassies in Belgrade. The closed U.S. embassy building has been set on fire. The Turkish, Croatian and Bosnian legations have also come under attack. More than 30 people have been injured.
The credit storm which began in July when two Bear Stearns hedge funds were forced to liquidate, has continued to intensify and roil the markets. Last week the noose tightened around auction-rate securities,a little-known part of the market that requires short-term funding to set rates for long-term municipal bonds. The $330 billion ARS market has dried up overnight pushing up rates as high as 20% on some bonds—a new benchmark for short term debt. Auction-rate securities are now headed for extinction just like the other previously-vital parts of the structured finance paradigm. The $2 trillion market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), the multi-trillion dollar mortgage-backed securities market (MBSs) and the $1.3 asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market have all shut down draining a small ocean of capital from the financial system and pushing many of the banks and hedge funds closer to default.
The price of insuring corporate bonds has skyrocketed in the last few weeks making it more difficult for businesses to get the funding they need to expand or continue present operations. Much of this has to do with the growing uncertainty about the reliability of credit default swaps, a $45 trillion dollar market which remains virtually unregulated. Credit-default swaps are a type of financial instrument that are used to speculate on a company’s ability to repay debt. They pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities or the cash equivalent if a borrower fails to adhere to its debt agreements. When the price of CDSs increases, it means that there is greater doubt about the quality of the bond. Prices are presently soaring because the entire structured finance market—and anything connected to it—is under withering attack from the meltdown in subprime mortgages. As foreclosures continue to rise, the securities that were fashioned from subprime loans will continue to unwind destroying trillions of dollars of virtual-capital in the secondary market.
It all sounds more complicated than it really is. Imagine a 200 ft. conveyor belt with two burly workers and a mountain-sized pile of money on one end, and a towering bonfire on the other. Every time a home goes into foreclosure; the two workers stack the money that was lost on the transaction—plus all of the cash that was leveraged on the home via “securitization” and derivatives—-onto the conveyor-belt where it is fed into the fire. That is precisely what is happening right now and the amount of capital that is being consumed by the flames far exceeds the Fed’s paltry increases to the money supply or Bush’s projected $168 billion “surplus package”. Capital is being sucked out of the system faster than it can be replaced which is apparent by the sudden cramping in the financial system and a more generalized slowdown in consumer spending.
The banks are not providing anywhere near as much money for leveraged investments as they did just last year. And, when credit shrinks on a national scale–as it is—so does the economy. It’ a simple formula; less money means less economic activity, less growth, fewer jobs, tighter budgets, more pain.
The banks are in no position to be extravagant because they’re already saddled with $400 billion in MBSs and CDOs—as well as another $170 billion in private equity deals—for which there is currently no market. They’ve had to dramatically cut back on their lending because they either don’t have the resources or are facing bankruptcy in the near future.
“US banks have been quietly borrowing massive amounts of money from the Federal Reserve…$50 billion in one month”.
At the same time the banks are getting backdoor injections of liquidity from the Fed; banking giant Citigroup has been trying to off-load some of its branches so it can cover its structured investment losses. It all looks rather desperate, but scouring the planet for capital to shore up flagging balance sheets is turning out to be a full-time job for many of America’s largest investment banks. It is the only way they can stay one step ahead of the hangman.
In the last few days, gold has spiked to $950, a new high, while oil futures passed the $100 per barrel mark. The battered greenback has already taken a beating, and yet, Fed chairman Bernanke is signaling that there are more rate cuts to come. The prospect of a global run on the dollar has never been greater. Still, Bernanke will do whatever he can to resuscitate the faltering banking system, even if he destroys the currency in the process. Unfortunately, interest rates alone won’t cut it. The banks need capital; and fast. Meanwhile, the waning dollar has sent food and energy prices soaring which is leaving consumers without the discretionary income they need for anything beyond the basic necessities. As a result, retail sales are down and employers are forced to lay off workers to reduce their spending. This is all part of the self-reinforcing negative-feedback loop that begins with falling home prices and then rumbles through the broader economy. There is no chance that the economy will rebound until housing prices stabilize and the rate of foreclosures returns to normal. But that could be a long way off. With housing inventory at historic highs and mortgage applications at new lows, the economy could keep somersaulting down the stairwell for a full two years or more. Only then, will we hit rock-bottom.
The country is now headed into a deep and protracted recession. Low interest credit and financial innovation have paralyzed the credit markets while inflating a monstrous equity bubble that is wreaking havoc with the world’s financial system. The new market architecture, “structured finance” has collapsed from the stress of falling asset-values and rising defaults. Many of the banks are technically insolvent already, hopelessly mired in their own red ink. Public confidence in the nations’ financial institutions has never been lower. Monetary policy and deregulation have failed. The system is self-destructing.
But Feldstein is right; the Fed refused to perform its oversight duties because its friends in the banking industry were raking in obscene profits selling sketchy, subprime junk to gullible investors around the world. They knew about the “massive off balance-sheet positions” which allowed the banks’ to create mortgage-backed securities and CDOs without sufficient capital reserves. They knew it all; every last bit of it, which simply proves that the Federal Reserve is an organization which serves the exclusive interests of the banking establishment and their corporate brethren in the financial industry.
The spy agency reviewed rendition records late last year and discovered that in 2002 the CIA had in fact refueled two separate planes, each carrying a terror suspect, on Diego Garcia, a British island territory in the Indian Ocean.
Britain regrets that U.S. “torture flights” landed on British territory 22 Feb 2008 British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted on Thursday that two U.S. “torture flights” did land on British territory in 2002, contrary to previous reports. Miliband told the House of Commons that he was “very sorry indeed” to have to say previous denials made in “good faith” were now having to be corrected.
Miliband admits US rendition flights stopped on UK soil 21 Feb 2008 Britain acknowledged today for the first time that US planes on “extraordinary rendition” flights stopped on British soil twice. The admission came from the foreign secretary, David Miliband, who apologised to MPs for incorrect information given by his predecessor, Jack Straw, and the former prime minister Tony Blair.
The Guardian has today revealed the contents of the margin note that the Information Tribunal allowed to be removed when ordering the Foreign Office to publish the John Williams draft of the Iraq dossier.
It reveals that a senior government official or minister suggested at the time of the dossier (September 2002) that Israel had brazenly flouted the UN’s authority in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. A reference to Israel in the margins of the Williams draft is linked to an assertion in the text that Iraq is unique in this respect. It is clear that the author of the reference thought that the same charge might be levelled against Israel.
Wigan asserted that the comment would ‘seriously damage Britain’s bilateral relationship with Israel’. He stated that Israel would believe that the FCO had compared it with Saddam Hussein’s regime and that this would confirm its view that elements of the FCO are prejudiced against it.
I attended the Tribunal hearing in December and was aware that Wigan was giving evidence in secret. When the Tribunal issued its decision last month it ordered that the note should be removed from the document, which was finally published on Monday. It also kept secret its reason for doing so, although it stated that it related to the exemption under Section 27 of the Freedom of Information Act, that publication would damage international relations.
When Jack Straw, then Foreign Secretary, originally blocked my 2005 FOI request for the Williams draft, he made no mention of this exemption, relying instead on the Section 36 exemption relating to government confidentiality.
The Foreign Office has refused to say who wrote the marginal note, saying that it does not comment on leaked documents. It is clear from documents on the Hutton Inquiry website that Straw was one of a small number of people within the Foreign Office who followed the drafting of the dossier at this time. He almost certainly saw the Williams draft, which the FCO described as ‘advice to ministers’.
Labour MP Lynne Jones said: “The Government’s timid refusal to make an accurate reference to Israel’s flouting of UN authority over its WMD shows their lack of objectivity on breaches of international law, which damages our Country’s moral authority.
The document reveals how the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) successfully fought to keep secret any mention of Israel contained on the first draft of the controversial, now discredited Iraq weapons dossier. At the heart of it was nervousness at the top of government about any mention of Israel’s nuclear arsenal in an official paper accusing Iraq of flouting the UN’s authority on weapons of mass destruction.
The dossier was made public this week, but the FCO succeeded before a tribunal in having the handwritten mention of Israel kept secret.
The FCO never argued that the information would damage national security. The Guardian has seen the full text and a witness statement from a senior FCO official, who argued behind closed doors that any public mention of the candid reference would seriously damage UK/Israeli relations. In the statement, he reveals that in the past five years there have been 10 substantial incidents and 20 more minor ones relating to Israeli concerns about attitudes to their government within Whitehall.
The Information Tribunal, which adjudicates on disputes involving the Freedom of Information Act, agreed to remove the single reference to Israel when it ordered the release of the draft of the Iraqi weapons dossier written by John Williams, the FCO’s chief information officer at the time.
Along with unfavourable references to the US and Japan, the reference to Israel was written in the margin by someone commenting on the opening paragraph of the Williams draft. It was written against the claim that “no other country [apart from Iraq] has flouted the United Nations’ authority so brazenly in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction”.
Its disclosure would seriously damage the UK’s relations with Israel, Wigan said. The comparison with Saddam and the “implied accusation of a breach of the UN’s authority by Israel are potentially very serious”. It was “inevitable” that relations between the UK and Israel would suffer if the marginal note were allowed to enter the public domain, he added.
Wigan observed: “Unfortunately, there is perception already in Israel that parts of the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] are prejudiced against the country”. The note on the Williams draft dossier “would therefore confirm this pre-existing suspicion and would increase the damage”.
Writing in October last year, he noted that “criticism of Israel received a huge amount of media coverage”. The margin comment mentioning Israel would thus be given a “high profile”. Harming relations with Israel would undermine the FCO’s ability to prevent and resolve conflict “through a strong international system”. In addition, there was “an important national interest in relation to counter-terrorism”, Wigan said.
The FCO insisted on the removal of the reference to Israel after it lost a long battle to suppress the draft dossier, which was drawn up in early September 2002. It originally argued that the name of the author needed to be protected. It then said the contents of the draft dossier should be suppressed to protect the need for officials to give frank advice. The Williams document was finally released by the FCO last week, three years after it was first requested by Chris Ames, an independent researcher, who pursued his campaign in the New Statesman magazine.
Richard Thomas, the Information Commissioner, said last year that it was in the public interest that the document should be released in its entirety. The FO appealed against his ruling and took it to the Information Tribunal.
Claims in the Williams draft are similar to those in the final government Iraqi weapons dossier published in late September 2002. The Information Tribunal ordered the release of the draft, without reference to Israel, observing that it may have played a bigger role in influencing the final dossier than previously supposed. The government tried to distance itself from the Williams draft. | 2019-04-19T12:46:00Z | https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/ | Porn | Reference | 0.682105 |
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Tomorrow is Earth Day – This year’s theme is planting trees, the first of five major initiatives earthday.org is undertaking to make a significant impact towards a cleaner, healthier, more sustainable planet. As Earth Day approaches its 50th anniversary, help earthday.org reach its ambitious goal of planting 7.8 billion trees!
In addition to planting a tree (see recent blog posts about the importance of planting a tree and the proper way to do so), also consider the following.
While everyday is really earth day, make a special effort tomorrow to honor our beautiful planet.
Image and some information compiled from earthday.org.
Organic amendments vary depending on the need of the soil and the plant. For example, the soil pH may need fixing, or certain plants like roses, azaleas or tomatoes may require specific minerals. Fish, blood or bone meal, charcoal, kelp, humic acids, earthworm castings are great amendments. Or, you can simply supplement your soil with compost, or decomposed organic matter, the most important and beneficial soil amendment. Compost builds soil structure and improves drainage; it helps with water/nutrient retention and air exchange; it introduces beneficial biology; it is vital for healthy roots, and healthy roots produce healthy plants.
The social, aesthetic, and environmental benefits of trees are numerous.
Trees reduce crime in low-income urban areas.
Trees provide homes to wildlife.
Trees provide a beautiful backdrop to outdoor recreational activities.
Large and majestic trees are an important part of the community.
According to American Forests, the national urban tree deficit now stands at more than 634 million trees. Alarmingly, up to 57% of all Amazonian trees, the planet’s lungs, may already fit the criteria of being globally threatened. Unprecedented environmental stresses – warmer temperatures, changes in precipitation, increased droughts – and global trade are making trees more susceptible to insect infestation and disease and therefore more difficult to grow and flourish in today’s world.
Because trees sequester carbon and offset our carbon footprint, the amount of energy a person consumes in their day-to-day activities, it is more important than ever to plant trees. The average person produces 26 tons of CO2 per year. 6 twenty-five year old pine trees absorb 1 ton of CO2. 36 twenty-five year old maple trees absorb 1 ton of CO2.
Planting trees is a way to give back to the environment for future generations and to offset our carbon footprint. Spring is the perfect time to plant. Plant a tree for a new grandchild, in memory of a parent or a beloved pet, or to honor a special anniversary. If you have no place to plant a tree, americanforests.org will plant a tree in your name with a small donation. Makes a great gift too!
I love watching the trees take turns blooming this time of year. First the magnolia with its lovely pale pink flowers, followed by the cherries with their brighter pink and fuchsia blossoms, then the apples and their tufts of white flowers. Coming along is the golden chain tree with its delicate, dangling yellow flowers. The oaks are also flowering with their tender green leaves slowly emerging. (Did you know that all trees flower, some less conspicuously than others?) The majestic upright horse chestnut flowers are peaking and the fragrant purple lilacs are everywhere. Take a walk in your yard or around your neighborhood and appreciate the gift of trees.
Trees like humans, need preventative care to ward off disease, especially as they suffer from environmental stresses like air pollution, soil contamination and compaction, exotic invasive insect pests, temperature extremes, devastating storms and drought.
There are several organic approaches to prolong the life of a tree and maintain its good health and vigor.
Fix the soil with compost and organic supplements. Raking leaves in the fall removes vital organic matter, and toxic chemicals and high nitrogen based fertilizers deplete the soil of important nutrients. It is imperative to replenish the soil with amendments or compost. Healthy, nutrient rich soil determines how well your trees grow.
Consult a local arborist – a tree needs to be periodically inspected for structural defects, insect pests and disease.
Trees should be pruned properly and focus on removing dead, dying, diseased and broken branches.
Proper irrigation and mulching, especially in times of drought, are essential to maintain a tree’s good health.
Trees play a critical role in the health of the planet. They are not living statues – they need care and protection just like any other living thing. Please help preserve these majestic beauties.
Some information compiled from bostontreepreservation.com. | 2019-04-21T17:12:41Z | https://betsywild.wordpress.com/tag/trees/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.274768 |
american | Teju Cole is a photography critic for the New York Times Magazine. Last week, he made a special two-day appearance at AU.
How do you practice art in the 21st century? That question would likely provoke considerable disagreement. But Teju Cole’s creative depth and talent across platforms make him a contemporary model to behold. Cole has published novels, nonfiction essays, and a photography book. Media outlets have praised his innovative use of social media, and his output includes everything from art installations to Spotify playlists. He’s also a photography critic for the New York Times Magazine.
Cole made a special two-day appearance at American University on Wednesday, October 3, and Thursday, October 4. After his first presentation in the McKinley Building, Cole talked about art and activism as part of the College of Arts and Science’s Bishop McCabe Lecture Series. The sold-out, Thursday evening event took place in the Katzen Arts Center’s Abramson Family Recital Hall.
Numerous partners brought Cole to AU, including CAS, the School of Communication, the Humanities Lab, the MFA Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series, the Studio Art Program, and the Literature Department.
The event was based on his book, Known and Strange Things, with Cole sharing slides of other artists’ photos that he’s analyzed through written essays.
He discussed the built-in racial biases of the photography world, while noting how seminal artists resisted those confines. For example, Roy DeCarava depicted the lives of African Americans, and he often made the shadings of his pictures a bit darker.
He wrestled with how to depict conflict, sometimes preferring images of objects instead of the people being brutalized. He showed one photo of the blouse of a school girl who was abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria.
He mentioned the all-too-frequent ritual of seeing black lives taken. Referencing his “Death in the Browser Tab” essay, he recalled watching a video of South Carolinian Walter Scott’s death spontaneously auto-play on the New York Times homepage.
He subsequently traveled to that same South Carolina area—not to interview anyone, but to get a feel for where Scott was killed.
The photo was taken in 1960, just as the Brazilian city was becoming a major metropolis. Cole became obsessed with where exactly this rooftop was located, and he spent days in São Paulo asking people about it.
“It was just sort of maddening that I couldn’t find it, and also maddening that I cared so much. Why did it matter?” he asked. Through some photo detective work, he eventually found the building before contemplating a more profound discovery.
In dissecting the strange alchemy of the medium, he noted how it can also inspire. He was disillusioned after the 2016 presidential election, but Taryn Simon’s image of a floral arrangement helped revive his passion. Simon inventively isolated flowers that usually remain on a table beneath smiling heads of state during diplomatic summits.
“I’m very grateful to this piece, because it was just a way for me to get back to life. It kind of saved me, in a way,” he said.
Cole delved into the process of writing about these photos. One fascinating anecdote involved the now-classic photo of a Black Lives Matter protestor, standing in near-Zen tranquility, while two Robocop-looking Louisiana State Police officers approach her.
“I wanted to think about it in connection to something like ‘Tank Man,’ and just the way that individual people’s moments of tremendous courage can be captured by photography,” he recounted.
But just after he’d written a draft of the piece, a man shot and killed a few Baton Rouge police officers. The political climate shifted dramatically, and he considered whether he should reframe the piece. After arguing with his editors, he decided to keep his essay as originally written, and he just added another page.
“The duty of critical writing is to listen to the noise of the world, without being deafened by it,” he said.
Throughout the evening, Cole expressed ambivalence about how we digest daily violence. He argued that news organizations won’t photograph white people getting killed, and he called for more racial and geographic balance when showing victimization.
“If we’re committed to saying, ‘Well, it’s important, it should be seen,’ then it should be important enough that it can be seen regardless of who it is,” Cole said during the question-and-answer session.
In response to a question about a museum on genocide in Cambodia, Cole favored documenting large-scale atrocities.
Even with his discomfort, he leans toward keeping the cameras rolling and active. And near the end of the conversation, he affirmed every artist’s role in the world. | 2019-04-19T14:55:40Z | https://www.american.edu/ucm/news/20181008-Teju-Katzen.cfm | Porn | Arts | 0.751547 |
yahoo | Does anyone have any stories of hope?
Best Answer: Yes, the Bible has many stories of hope.
This country, filled as it is with hate-filled Republicans is hard on the dispossessed. I'm not religious, but I hear people say all the time that we don't need welfare cause churches and charities help EVERYONE who needs it. SO, go find a church, walk in and tell your story. You probably will have to listen to a sermon about how everything is your fault, and promise to attend the services. Good luck to you.
But you are able to get online in the middle of the night with no problem.
You've hit bottom, so to speak. Things HAVE to get better at this point. Try a homeless shelter. They should be able to put you in touch with agencies that can help you while giving you and your child a warm place to sleep.
I wish I could give you a hug right now. Do you have any job coming up, because you had to move?
Move back home. Sue the baby daddy for child support. | 2019-04-19T06:22:42Z | https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20190323045050AASGhcE | Porn | Society | 0.76833 |
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wordpress | As an endurance athlete I have a multitude of hopes and dreams – races, times, goals, expedition plans. The list can feel never ending. But one of the lessons of the journey is to learn to focus and to channel energy into each moment. One moment at a time. And so to bring a dream to reality.
I have a ‘big’ dream in 2011. To return again to The North Face Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc and to make the very best race that I have inside of me. It is a dream that will need me to reach deep inside of myself. This year I want to focus on the challenge of reaching even beyond that which I feel I can do.
There will be many steps along the way. In the words of one Chinese Proverb, “to get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping“. Every race, every training run is a step forward, something to learn from, something to build on.
For me the journey of 2011 started ‘on the run’ – literally! The 1st January 2011 I made the Annapurna 100 – an incredibly beautiful 100km trail race in Nepal. Taking advantage of a few extra days in Nepal I ‘fastpacked’ myself around the Annapurna Circuit in 5 days. It is a wonderful journey that takes you through incredible contrasts of landscape, cultures, religion and people. Being in the ‘off-season’ with far fewer trekkers made the journey doubly special for me. There was solitude, a time to think and a time just to be in the moment. Walking literally from the pre-dawn until dusk (not running in order to save myself for the next race), the journey became for me almost a ‘moving meditation’. Images to remember – from the pastoral scenes of rural mountain villages, to the windswept solitude of the Thorong La (5300m), to the wild landscapes beyond, and back to village life. Fastpacking in and of itself is a wonderful preparation for something like the UTMB. Invaluable experience of moving fast for hour after hour – long, long days on your feet. And the next race came soon – another 100km trail race – this time in Hong Kong. A whirlwind of contrast from the wilds of the mountains, to the endearing chaos of Kathmandu, to the towering skyscrapers of modern Hong Kong where I was invited to compete in the first edition of the Hong Kong 100. I was so happy and privileged to be a part of both these races and beyond that just to share the trail and the experiences with some wonderful people.
But the end of one race is just the beginning of the journey to the next. In each of these races I was the 1st lady (4th and 3rd overall, respectively). But in each there was much to learn and to take forward. Mistakes and frustrations as well as joy and success! This is the ‘game’ we are in.
Perhaps we never have a ‘perfect race’. Each and every race is unique with its own challenges and demands. But somehow if we can dig deep in there to really ‘be in ourselves’ at every moment of the race – then surely we can reach beyond what we believe possible.
Flexibility and adaptability – it is an essential part of being an athlete – whether we are racing, training or just wanting to keep moving. Weeks in the depths of an alpine winter – running on snowy trails, running on ice-hard cross country ski tracks, making friends with the treadmill, learning to spend time in the gym, out on snow shoes, ski alpinism, langlauf.
The finish line. It might be another of my favourite places during an ultra. That and so many moments during the journey, the inbetween. Because it is those moments that count. And being ‘in’ the moment?!
Whatever your journey in life – reach high, seek far and look deep – and dream. Then you can be who you are. | 2019-04-20T11:19:22Z | https://lizzyhawker.wordpress.com/2011/04/ | Porn | Sports | 0.768927 |
wordpress | Summer is finally upon me, which means bye bye layering. That doesn’t mean that I’m going to go all t shirts and shorts from now on. Just means I have to do more with less. Here is a simple outfit to stunt even on the hottest of days.
A simple denim shirt paired with jeans and a knit tie can go a long way in making an impression. If you feel that denim is too heavy a material for the heat, you can switch it up with linen shirts and cotton chinos or even seersucker, if you can get your hands on it.
Colorful contrast cuffs can make a subtle statement, but be wary of mixing up colors. I cannot, for the life of me, make a smaller knot with a knit tie.
Continuing the flashes of red down below helps finish up the outfit nicely.
Bangalore nights can get very chilly, so I always keep a jacket handy when I step out. It’s fairly easy to pair a jacket with this outfit as blue and black are colors that gel easy. | 2019-04-19T10:43:05Z | https://strangerinsuede.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/blue-is-the-warmest-color/ | Porn | Reference | 0.405457 |
typepad | An Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader and detained an additional suspect during an operation in Baghlan-e Jadid district, Baghlan province, Thursday.
The leader directed roadside bombings and suicide attacks against Afghan and coalition troops throughout the district. He is also suspected in a kidnapping plot.
The security force also found and destroyed a motorcycle with 55 pounds of homemade explosives and multiple weapons.
Pictured: file photo of "Peace Council," of which neither the Afghan Government nor Taliban want.
In Pashtun Kot district, Faryab province, an Afghan and coalition force conducted an operation to capture a Taliban leader Thursday. The leader coordinates large-scale insurgent attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in the province, supervises Taliban finances, and distributes weapons and ammunition. The security force detained several suspected insurgents. They also found and destroyed multiple weapons and hand grenades.
An Afghan and coalition security force conducted an operation to capture a Taliban leader in Maiwand district, Kandahar province, Thursday. The leader provides weapons and ammunition to insurgents throughout Kandahar province. He also directs attacks against Afghan and coalition forces in Maiwand. The security force detained multiple suspected insurgents as a result of this operation.
Finally, an Afghan and coalition security force captured a Taliban leader during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district, Helmand province, Thursday. The leader directed roadside bombings and other attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout the province. | 2019-04-24T10:03:29Z | https://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2012/03/war-in-afghanistan-news-17-march-2012.html | Porn | Reference | 0.510745 |
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Every year AthenStyle takes part in Earth Hour as part of our green initiatives aimed at conserving energy and protecting the environment. This Saturday, the 29th of March, we will be once again taking part in Earth Hour. Earth Hour is a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Earth Hour engages a massive mainstream community on a broad range of environmental issues. It was famously started as a lights-off event in Sydney, Australia in 2007. Since then it has grown to engage more than 7000 cities and towns worldwide, and the one-hour event continues to remain the key driver of the now larger movement. The event is held worldwide, encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour as a symbol for their commitment to the planet.
Earth Hour 2014 is scheduled for Saturday, March 29, from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. during participants’ local time.
Earth Hour was first held Greece in 2009 with more than 500 municipalities and towns switching off! The Greek capital of Athens, and the cities of Thessaloniki, Patras, Volos, Herakleion, Ioannina and Alexandroupoli took part. Even more landmarks and iconic buildings than ever showed their support in 2011, from the Parthenon at the Acropolis, The Greek Parliament Building, the White Tower, the bridge of Rio-Atnirio. WWF Greece is responsible for coordinating Earth Hour in Greece.
With each passing year, Earth Hour is becoming more than just an hour, more than just an action: it is becoming a movement.
This year, for Earth Hour, we ask you to amplify the hour and think about how you can make your life more sustainable after Earth Hour. One of the easiest and most impactful ways to start is to make the switch to energy efficient lighting, and taking charge of your own environmental imprint on our planet.
For just one hour at 8.30pm – turn it all off and have a warm feeling that the simple act of flicking a switch will make an enormous difference to our Earth.
No phone, no lights or no internet for a whole hour? Are you horrored thinking what you are going to do?
2. Sit outside and do some star gazing. When is the last time you looked at the stars?
3. Go for a night time walk.
4. Use torches to pull some really funny faces.
For this Earth Hour, Come to our famous Rooftop Bar and let’s have fun all together under the candle lights!
Earth Hour is not about one hour in the dark. It’s a symbolic act to get us thinking about our planet and our impact on it.
Whatever you want to do, Do It In The Dark!
The 25th March is a National Holiday in Greece. On that day, we celebrate the Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution. It was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between 1821 and 1832 against the Ottoman Empire. The slogan of the revolutionaries was “Freedom or death”.
As a result, Greece was finally recognized as an independent nation in May 1832.
It is celebrated each year with a big parade in the center of Athens, starting from Syntagma square and finishing on Panepistimiou Street.
However, the 25th of March has a double meaning for Greeks. It also the day of the Annunciation, It is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus, the Son of God, marking his Incarnation.
This year, on Tuesday 25th of March2014 there will be free admission to the Acropolis Museum from 9am to 5pm.
From The April All Museum In Athens Will Accept People From 8am to 8pm!!!!
The Athens International Tattoo Convention sets the pace of the tattoo community in Greece for the 8th consecutive year. Once more, it will attract thousands of visitors as well as some of the best Greek and foreign tattoo artists, with tattoo competitions, graffiti shows, live music, a shopping and trading area and much more!!
Those who choose our hostel as their accommodation during the Convention, will get 10% discount off our normal prices!!!
The only thing you have to do is book through our site http://www.AthenStyle.com, write as a comment that you are for the tattoo convention and leave the rest to us!!
Come to live the real tattoo experience!!
El pasado sábado organizamos en Athenstyle una fiesta brasileña, en la que servimos comida típica (Picanha con salsa de mostaza y miel, acompañada de patatas al horno y ensalada) y nuestra super bartender Anna, preparó unas Caipirinhas increibles. Durante todo el evento pudimos disfrutar de música brasileña, con la que algunos se animaron a bailar.
La fiesta empezó sobre las 9 de la noche y terminó sobre las 5 de la mañana, aunque el bar del ático se encontraba abierto desde las 5 de la tarde. No podemos menospreciar el hecho de que el evento se realizó en un lugar privilegiado por sus vistas al Partenón, el cual de noche se ilumina y dota al lugar de un color especial.
El evento fue todo un éxito y el bar estaba lleno de gente disfrutando del ambiente que ahí se concentraba. La gente interactuaba unos con otros creando el famoso ambiente de los hostales, en los que conocer gente de todas las partes del mundo, es posible.
El próximo evento que se celebrará allí arriba será una fiesta en honor a San Patricio, el 17 de Marzo, esta vez no os lo podéis perder. Tendremos muchas más ofertas que ofreceros en un ambiente cercano, cálido e irlandés. | 2019-04-26T10:31:51Z | https://athenstyle.wordpress.com/2014/03/ | Porn | Home | 0.097465 |
livejournal | So this week I thought I would pass on some links, as recently I bought a sd card for my tablet and then discovered that you can't just stick it in the tablet and have it work (NB think this depends on the device as pretty sure the one on my phone went in just fine).
I did a LOT of searching and tried a lot of apps and faffed with a lot of different things, but eventually I found that this sequence worked out.
Apols to delgaserasca, who as usual has seen this already.
DISCLAIMER: obviously there is a risk with rooting that you will kill your device, proceed at own risk etc etc.
NB Windows only recognises one partition so on Windows it will look like you've lost space - when you mount the sd card into the tablet again you'll see the whole lot.
Then it is pretty self explanatory. Technically you will be linking the apps rather than moving them (there are explanations on the interwebs of what difference this makes, but it clears space either way) so often the 'move to sd' function won't actually work.
It will also move apps to the second partition but give you the option of where to move data/caches etc. This only matters depending on the size of your sd card.
After the first one it will lock the link function until you buy (Idk if this is permanent or one a day or what, I didn't have the patience to wait it out!) but it is a good app and does exactly what you need so I think it is worth the £1.45. It can also set it up so new apps go automatically to the sd card.
This entry was originally posted at http://hestia8.dreamwidth.org/69593.html. | 2019-04-25T18:04:26Z | https://hestia8.livejournal.com/2016/02/11/ | Porn | Computers | 0.972144 |
blogs | Continued from my first post here.
The first clue was a complicated math problem that required a calculator. The answer was 39321.
The second clue was hidden in a dark corner of a dark room and required a flashlight.
The third clue was 11 feet away from the last one, which required a measuring tape. To get to this clue, they had to open a lock with the combination 39-32-1, which was the answer to the math problem in the first clue.
The fourth clue was a CD that played morse code for the word "shower." This required a morse code chart.
The fifth clue was in a locket in the shower, but was printed so tiny it required a magnifying glass to read.
The sixth clue was near the fireplace and required the use of a compass to find the location of the next clue.
The seventh clue was a locked diary which required both a key and an invisible ink decoder pen to read.
The eighth clue was in the freezer in the basement, and required a thesaurus to find the location of the next clue.
The ninth clue was hidden in an old purse in the kids' dress-up clothes.
With each clue they discovered a torn part of an old paper (which had I aged using tea and the oven), which gave them the final clue.
The "room with more letters than any other" was ours study, which has all our books in it. The "door through which only children can fit" was the access door to our crawlspace, which is about 2.5 feet tall. Inside that door, they found a small treasure box filled with candy jewelry (the most valuable kind for kids).
Here they are trying to work out a clue.
In all, the mystery took about an hour for them to solve. They needed a little help here and there (note to self, never expect home school kids to be able to unlock a combination lock, even with instructions), but for the most part, they figured it all out themselves.
Once they got the treasure, it was time for cake and ice cream. I created a magnifying glass cake based on this idea and this one, and this is what it looked like.
And here are some of the great decorations Elisa threw together.
When it was all over, Cason said "I don't want to sound mean about all the other parties you've given me, but this was the BEST BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER!"
Which, of course, made it all worthwhile!
So, we like to sometimes go all out for Cason's birthdays. This year, she wanted a Nancy Drew theme, since she's been reading the books voraciously. In our typical fasion, Elisa and I waited for creativity to "strike," which or course, it didn't really until the day before. We had some rough ideas, but the majority of this came together in an all day and all night barrage of birthday activity.
In all fairness, we got most of these ideas from other blogging moms, here and here and here and here and here.
As guests arrived on the day of the party, I took their pictures and printed out their sleuth identification badge, which was laminated and worn on a lanyard.
While all the guests were arriving, the girls cut out paper dolls I found while watching an episode of the Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries on Netflix.
We put the sleuthing kits in cute little Chinese food takeout containers that Elisa decorated.
After this, the mystery game began. I'll tell all about it in my next post.
The country was deep in debt. One political party favored a strong central government, and developed a plan to take care of the debt. Another political party favored less centralized government and developed a different plan that would reduce the debt but not increase the size or power of the federal government. The former proposal was voted down in Congress, but ultimately, in order to protect the credit-worthiness of the nation, a deal was struck between the two political parties in which the debt deal was passed in exchange for another concession.
After the American Revolution, our young nation collectively owed what amounted to roughly $4.1 Trillion in today's dollars to European nations and individual Americans. Hamilton's debt assumption plan called for the federal government to assume all the debts of the states and pay them off through selling bonds and creating various taxes and tariffs. A deal was brokered between Hamilton and Madison at the home of Thomas Jefferson, through which Hamilton's deal was pushed through Congress - with support from Madison - while Hamilton and the northern contingent allowed the site of the future U.S. Capitol to be situated along the Potomac river.
If this deal had not gone through, our young nation might have split up before the constitution was even written. Or, worse yet, Philadelphia could be our nation's capitol!
So next time you find yourself lamenting over the state of our nation, its enormous debt, and the ridiculous political negotiations that go on behind closed doors, just remind yourself that some things never change!! | 2019-04-24T14:04:23Z | https://duaneco.blogs.com/duanecoblogs/2011/08/index.html | Porn | Kids | 0.627063 |
wordpress | Andrea Yates was found “not guilty” by reason of insanity on Wednesday in her second trial for drowning her five young children in a bathtub in 2001 (see the verdict). If she is not the one who killed these kids, who then? Who is guilty of leaving those poor helpless little children in the care of this obviously sick person and how many more kids are under this sought of duress? I say duress, because children have no choice in when they should come into this world or whom should take care of them, they had no one looking out for them. Where was the husband? Where was the family? Did they not know that this woman was sick?
idk. Send her to a spa and training facility…let her relax and learn how to sew and feed ducks while tax payers take care of her for the rest of her life …WTF!
If she were a Black Woman or a Male…they would be ready to hang them…I don’t get it. | 2019-04-20T09:13:34Z | https://rawtalk.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/5-children-killednot-guilty/ | Porn | Kids | 0.9816 |
livejournal | Restless Heart - Dreams are what you wake up from.
Your palpable look seems so forlorn?
-- 11 Apr, on a whimsical note.
a whimsical note to oneself? | 2019-04-19T20:37:38Z | https://into-the-wild.livejournal.com/123530.html | Porn | Reference | 0.243281 |
wordpress | company: Web4Africa; it hasn’t still seen the light of day.
Several posts on this weblog have also fallen on deaf ears. The owner of the company has even sued me for libel. Why? because I complained about the service he provided, because I put up a weblog to document my complaints?
Well, why should I or shouldn’t I? I paid for a service at the beginning of 2009, made several complaints about everything: the service provided, technical support, customer service, etcetera, etcetera, sent over 50–mails about a ticket / the same ticket I opened the first week after payment, and up till date, Mr. David of Web4Africa has not resolved the technical issue, service was not / has not been provided and a refund of payment has not been given back to me. Honestly, this online buisness thing is more and more interesting. No wonder some people just get rich quick.
Yet he has the guts to sue me? Its quite unfortunate doing buisness with Web4Africa, isn’t it. After 7th January, I’ll consider myself fully scammed, at least until I get my refund.
This post is for posterity sake, at least so Web4Africa wont deny the domain ever existed. | 2019-04-25T12:17:57Z | https://nairabytes.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/60-days-till-the-expiration-of-www-dot-nairabytes-dot-com-update7/ | Porn | Business | 0.993312 |
wordpress | This entry was posted on Friday, March 1st, 2019 at 9:07 am and tagged with Australia, compromise, compulsory, democracy, history, majority, representation, voting and posted in politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
One of the biggest shocks I received when I moved her from OZ was that voting wasn’t compulsory … and that something ridiculous like 39% of the population on average, could be bothered. That ain’t democracy in my book.
I never heard of compulsory voting, but I’m not sure it would be a good idea in America. Americans are so contrary, there would probably be people writing in their dog’s name of George Washington of Mount Vernon, just for spite because they were forced to do something they didn’t choose to do. They’d be protesting that their civil rights were being violated by being made to participate in their own governance. It’s a weird country.
lol – we call that ‘casting a donkey vote’ because it can’t be counted, and honestly, it /is/ a legitimate option in a democracy.
I understand what you’re saying about the perception of freedom, and yes, going to hell and taking the country with you is also a legitimate choice, I just can’t understand the mindset that makes it.
I think we have very different definitions of the word ‘freedom’. In the US, it seems to revolve around the idea of ‘freedom /from/’. Here, it’s more about ‘freedom /to/’, but being free to do something always goes hand in hand with responsibility because your actions will always impinge upon someone else. Thus the idea of everyone having a ‘fair go’ is enshrined in the way we perceive ourselves.
Then again, perception rarely equates with reality.
I like the idea of it. If we’d had it in the UK, I doubt we’d be going through the Brexit mess now.
I live in the land of gerrymandering and voter suppression. I wish we had compulsory voting!
I know that Americans believe in democracy. Maybe the one good thing to come out of the current turmoil is that your electoral system may be reinvented to ensure that it never happens again.
Who’d blame you for that.Policies that are letting so many people down might be stopped with a compulsory vote.
I like the idea of non-compulsory voting, however with a proviso, if the turn-out isn’t GT 76%, they have to do it again. Costly, I know, but how much harder would they work to get actual work done to demonstrate their value?
Just my opinion – make ’em work harder, I say. Oh, and make the ‘zones’ more equitable (whatever that means, but to me it says: you get the most votes, you get to be top dog for a minute – oh, sorry, four years? How long since we’ve seen that happen?).
Seriously, you know what I’d do if I had my druthers? I’d choose political candidates the way we choose jurors – by picking names out of a hat [or the modern equivalent].
These would be people who do NOT want to be politicians, who would kick and scream and try to get out of it. But then, being stuck with the job for FOUR WHOLE YEARS, would have to roll up their sleeves and try to learn how to do it…the job that is, not how to spin lies for public consumption.
Some would be terrible at the job. Some few would be really good. Either way, they would bring an element of integrity to politics because they would not automatically be affiliated to, or beholden to, either a political philosophy or powerful interest groups.
It would be like having a whole parliament full of independents….
-sigh- I know, but I can dream, right?
In the U.S. and amazing number of people don’t vote. They complain about laws, legislators, presidents, etc. but they don’t vote. I’ve often wondered about compulsory voting. | 2019-04-20T12:16:16Z | https://acflory.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/democracy-compulsory-voting/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | Home | 0.298836 |
wordpress | Cornbread – aka Turducken preparations (cornbread stuffing).
My sister calls it corn cake because of all the sugar – and then I realised that I forgot to add sugar to this batch…oops.
A very, very easy recipe. Never tried cornbread before but I was planning on making turducken which required a cornbread stuffing so here it is.
Mix all the dry ingredients into a bowl & add the melted butter & the 3 eggs.
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Your corn bread looks so perfect and yummy 🙂 I would love this recipe. It sounds simple and easy. | 2019-04-23T03:52:46Z | https://monitormunching.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/recipe-cornbread/ | Porn | Home | 0.245896 |
wordpress | Harvesting season is always a busy time but the anticipation of taking home big juicy fruits and food makes all the effort worthwhile.
Have you toiled since January? What seeds did you sow?
Like there is time for everything, harvest time has come.The Lord of the Harvest has promised. It’s left for us to key into the season.
For everyone who has sowed relentlessly, under the sun, under the rain, during the night, keeping the faith, you shall come rejoicing, bringing your sheaves with you. Amen.
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wordpress | Recently added to the digital repository of Stanford University, is the rare album The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881).
If you don’t have the 2010 Taschen book that includes a version of this album, now’s your opportunity to see all of this hugely important work online. It comprises photographic sequences arranged from the results of Muybridge’s two working seasons at Leland Stanford’s Palo Alto farm.
Well I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s in print. With all of the Animal Locomotion plates, and the complete (previously unpublished) Attitudes of Animals in Motion album, its evidently a substantial tome!
Eadweard Muybridge, The Human and Animal Locomotion Photographs.
This resplendent book traces the life and work of Muybridge, from his early thinking about anatomy and movement to his latest photographic experiments. The complete 781 plates of Muybridge’s groundbreaking Animal Locomotion (1887) are reproduced here. In addition, Muybridge’s handmade and extremely rare first illustrated album, The Attitudes of Animals in Motion (1881) is reproduced in its entirety. A detailed chronology by British researcher Stephen Herbert throws new light on one of the most important pioneers of photography.
Hans Christian Adam studied psychology, art history and communication in Vienna. As a specialist in historical images, he has published numerous articles and books, including titles on travel and war photography. He is the author of TASCHEN’s Edward Sheriff Curtis: The North American Indian, Karl Blossfeldt, Eugene Atget: Paris and Berlin, Portrait of a City. | 2019-04-21T01:15:04Z | https://ejmuybridge.wordpress.com/tag/leland-stanford/ | Porn | Arts | 0.794338 |
google | Dynamic channel allocation in an ISDN line is implemented above a Level II link layer protocol (LAPD). The preferred embodiment comprises programming operating on a computing platform system including a communication coprocessor system. The programming includes a channel management module (CMM) and a virtual channel module (VCM) to implement dynamic channel Allocation. The modules cooperate to control bandwidth between communication partners by selective allocation and deallocation of virtual B-Channels between them in response to preassigned priorities and real time events. Voice and data channels are interrogated. Channel deallocation also takes place in response to high error rates in message transmission.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application U.S. Ser. No. 07/914,618 now abandoned, filed Jul. 17, 1992 which in turn is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Ser. No. 07/890,588, filed Jul. 13, 1992 now abandoned.
This invention relates generally to Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), and more particularly to controlling dynamic channel allocation in ISDN and to creating a virtual channel out of underlying network channels.
A digital telecommunication network can be characterized by two general features, the existence of well defined digital interfaces to Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) which are the end nodes of the network, and an interconnected switching backbone network which is capable, upon demand, of creating point-to-point connections between any two end nodes. An example of such a network architecture can be found in the ISDN specifications which have been developed by the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT). Although aspects of the invention may be relevant to other types of digital telecommunication networks, in the paragraphs below, the general features of a digital telecommunication network upon which this invention depends will be described using examples drawn from ISDN.
A complete description of the architecture of ISDN is beyond the scope of this specification. For details, and for an extensive bibliography of references of ISDN, see Stallings, ISDN, An Introduction, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1989. In general, all ISDN interfaces to customer premises equipment (CPE) can be characterized by the use of time division multiplexing at the physical layer to partition the bandwidth of a single physical link into multiple independent channels, such as the two B-Channels and the D-Channel (2B+D) found in the Basic Rate Interface (BRI) and 23 B-Channels and the D-Channel (23 B+D) or 30 B-Channels and the D-Channel (30 B+D) found in the Primary Rate interface. Broadband ISDN is an implementation of ISDN having more than 30 B-Channels.
In every form of ISDN, the D-Channel carries signalling or control data which provides control over the use of the two B-Channels in the BRI as well as user data which often is in the form of packets. These channels can be considered as independent ISDN resources available to the end user. ISDN also defines a specific data link layer and network layer protocol to be used over the D-Channel between the CPE and the Local Exchange (LE).
The B-Channel in an ISDN network is a full duplex, 64000 bit per second, synchronous user channel. There are many modes of operation for the B-Channel. The preferred embodiment of this invention is described in the environment of the BRI and is based in part on the capability of the B-Channel to carry digital data or PCM-encoded digital voice in a transparent manner across the circuit switched backbone network. The same principles can be extended to the Primary Rate Interface (PRI) and Broadband ISDN (BISDN). Before a circuit switched B-Channel can be used by end users, the channel must be connected through the ISDN. Requests for channel connection are made by the CPE to the LE using a protocol over the D-Channel. The LE routes the request through the ISDN using other protocols, until the destination LE is reached. The destination LE then issues a call connection request to the destination CPE which can accept the call. Either party to a call can disconnect the call. This action also involves relaying a series of messages over the respective D-Channels and other network activity. The ISDN network itself can also disconnect the call due to error conditions inside the network. Unlike analog telecommunication networks, the time to connect or disconnect a channel is anticipated to be very short, potentially on the order of a second.
An important characteristic of B-Channels in an ISDN is that the network is permitted to create independent paths inside the network for each circuit switched B-Channel. Thus if a CPE connects two B-Channels to another CPE, the CPE can not rely on the network to synchronize the transmissions across the two channels. A second important characteristic of B-Channels in an ISDN is that they can be used for multiple purposes, such as voice service or data service, and a BRI can support multiple devices such as a computer and a telephone.
When one considers using the data services of ISDN to connect computers, the bandwidth of a single B-Channel is a serious limitation. This is particularly true when one considers that many computer network applications are geared toward local area networks in which applications commonly achieve point-to-point communication speeds on the order of several hundred thousand bits per second or greater. Another disadvantage of the use of circuit switched B-Channels is the bursty nature of data traffic and the fact that the tariff structure for circuit switched channels is independent of the data traffic over the channel. This can lead to inefficient use of a channel resulting in excessive channel usage cost.
An additional limitation is the desire to share the ISDN interface with other devices, such as a telephone, without having to statically allocate a channel to each user of the interface. In the event of contention for channel between different users, high priority channel users should be able to preempt channels from low priority channel users. The present invention addresses these limitations and provides a method to overcome them.
Dynamic channel (bandwidth) allocation per se is not new to ISDN. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,763,321 and 4,805,167 describe techniques to accomplish channel synchronization at the physical level (bit level synchronization) by manipulating the ISDN interface frame structures (time division multiplex, or TDM, frames) to create a high data rate virtual channel. However, it is disadvantageous to carry out operations at the physical level (Level 1 of open system integration architecture, or OSI) which require manipulation of hardware. The present invention does not operate at the physical level and makes no attempt to manipulate the ISDN physical interface.
Accordingly, a broad object of the invention is to improve bandwidth utilization of ISDN.
Another object is to dynamically allocate B-Channels between ISDN communication partners in response to preassigned priorities and real time events.
Another object of the invention is to enable computer networking on ISDN while retaining support of traditional telephone services.
An additional object is to carry out automatic ISDN channel allocation in a manner that is transparent to a user.
Still another object of the invention is to carry out improved protocol for implementing dynamic bandwidth allocation in ISDN.
A further object of the invention is to carry out the aforementioned objects without manipulation of data at the physical layer.
To achieve the above and other objects, the invention provides a computer program implementation that enables a CPE device to dynamically manage the ISDN resources available to it in such a manner as to overcome the above mentioned limitations of ISDN. The invention enables ISDN to accommodate a computer network while retaining the ability to also support traditional telephony services.
One aspect of the invention carries out dynamic channel allocation in an ISDN line by monitoring events supplied to the line which indicate requests to use or release a B-Channel, evaluating channel usage priorities associated with users generating events monitored, and, based upon channel usage priorities, automatically setting up or tearing down B-Channels associated with the line. Processing takes place, in the preferred embodiment, above LAPD protocol.
In accordance with the preferred embodiment of the invention, upon a hardware platform are provided first and second program modules, a channel management module (CMM) and a virtual channel module (VCM), to implement dynamic channel allocation. The program modules cooperate to control bandwidth between communication partners by selective allocation and deallocation of virtual B-Channels between them in response to preassigned priorities and real time events. The programming may take the form of software executed by computer, or may be in the form of firmware resident on the same board in the computer as carries the ISDN communication hardware.
The first program module, CMM, monitors requests to connect and disconnect B-Channels by potential end users and the second module (VCM). The CMM is capable of signalling the VCM to force deallocation of a from a virtual channel based on a request for channel connection by a higher priority end user. The CMM signals the VCM to indicate the existence of available B-Channels when end users disconnect the channel.
The second module, VCM, provides a block oriented transport service to various computer processes which can operate over one or more B-Channels. This service operates above the data link layer and manages the multiplexing of messages across one or more data link connections which operate on a B-Channel so as to ensure properly ordered delivery of message blocks. Channels are added or deleted on a dynamic basis, without interrupting the flow of data. The service supports the allocation and deallocation of channels based on signals from the CMM. Channel deallocation also takes place in response to high error rates in message transmission.
The program modules implemented in accordance with this invention provide control logic for a CPE device to allocate and deallocate ISDN channels to a plurality of end users, i.e., local analog telephone equipment, the various processes running on the local computer system, and similar entities located remotely on the ISDN network. Implementation is based both on user specified priorities and the real time requirements of each user. The modules also support the virtualization of B-Channel resources so as to overcome the bandwidth limitations of a single B-Channel.
Still other objects and advantages of the present invention will become readily apparent to those skilled in this art from the following detailed description, wherein only the preferred embodiment of the invention is shown and described, simply by way of illustration of the best mode contemplated of carrying out the invention. As will be realized, the invention is capable of other and different embodiments, and its several details are capable of modifications in various obvious respects, all without departing from the invention. Accordingly, the drawing and description are to be regarded as illustrative in nature, and not as restrictive.
FIG. 1A is a generalized circuit diagram of the hardware platform upon which programming in accordance with the invention is implemented.
FIG. 1B is a specific example of a hardware platform of FIG. 1A within which the invention may be implemented.
FIG. 2A is a hierarchical channel control system software module diagram of a generic computer system known in the prior art and forming a part of the hardware platform shown in FIG. 1 for implementation of the invention.
FIG. 2B is a diagram of a specific prior art communication coprocessor system upon which the functions shown in prior art FIG. 2A may be carried out.
FIG. 3A is a software module diagram corresponding to FIG. 1, including additional software modules executed off-card, and comprising an aspect of the invention.
FIG. 3B is a more detailed software diagram corresponding to FIG. 1 wherein the additional software modules are executed on-card.
FIG. 4 is a message interface diagram for the additional modules shown in FIGS. 3A and 3B.
FIGS. 5A and 5B are diagrams of B-Channel state tables and priority levels maintained by the CMM.
FIG. 6 is a flow chart of programming for carrying out an aspect of the invention.
FIG. 7 is a representative view of an ISDN circuit card mounted in a computer and carrying the hardware shown schematically in FIG. 1.
FIG. 8 is a flow chart of programming for removing B-Channels from the virtual channel in response to an excessive error rate in accordance with another aspect of the invention.
FIGS. 9A and 9B is a flow chart of a routine for sending to a remote resource.
FIGS. 10A and 10B is a flow chart of a routine for receiving from a remote resource.
The preferred embodiment of the invention provides a computer-to-ISDN interface residing at customer premises equipment (CPE) and operating above Link Access Protocol D (LAPD) protocol to perform dynamic channel allocation and deallocation in response to processes occurring on the ISDN and in accordance with user priorities. In the preferred embodiment, the CPE comprises an ISDN board which contains an ISDN interface, either at the ISDN T reference point or at the U reference point, and the RJ-11 interface. The interface is implemented by programming executed by a processor that, in one example of the preferred embodiment, is mounted on at least one commercially available ISDN communications cards. In a second example, the programming is in the form of software executed by the resident computer which may, for example, comprise a personal computer that is IBM compatible.
In general, as shown in FIG. 1A, the system within which the invention is practiced is comprised of a computer system capable of supporting one or more ISDN cards 20(n) with BRI, PRI or Broadband interfaces. The ISDN cards 20(n) provide a generic system interface to a computer system, and form, in essence, an input/output (I/O) subsystem that affords message passing and signalling to permit various processes on the ISDN to communicate with each other. Furthermore, the ISDN cards 20(n) provide full capability of B-Channels and D-Channel message processing. The subsystem furthermore includes a software module which implements the user side of the ISDN D-Channel signalling protocol. This includes the data link layer, or LAPD, as specified in ISDN specification Q.921, and the network layer as specified in Q.931. The I/O subsystem supports an analog telephone, manages the conversion of analog-to-digital signals according to the ISDN standard, and interfaces to the computer system to support connection and disconnection of a voice call.
Finally, the I/O subsystem provides a data link layer protocol which can support a separate data link connection over each of the B-Channels. The data link process will have an implementation which supports full duplex operation by separate transmit and receive queues and interrupt driven thread dispatching based on the event of a message arriving to the system or a message being queued for transmission. Hence, the transmit and receive threads are non-blocking from a dispatch point of view.
8. Host interrupt on the conditions of (a) after receiving n input frames, (b) after transmitting n output frames, and (c) upon any abnormal conditions, selectable by bit mask.
For example, the hardware platform in the preferred embodiment, shown in FIG. 1B, is implemented by the commercially available Teleos B101 ISDN Communication Coprocessor System board. Implementation of the user side of the ISDN D-Channel signalling protocol is carried out by Signalling Interface Process (SIP) software found in typical ISDN cards and accompanying the Teleos B101. Mapping a Hayes AT command set to ISDN commands to connect and disconnect B-Channels is implemented by the Teleos AT/PAD process. Further details of the Teleos B101 communication coprocessor are given in the B101 PC Hardware Reference Manual (REV A), 1990, available through Teleos Communications, Incorporated.
The present invention is implemented at customer premise equipment, preferably by incorporation on at least one printed circuit board or card 20 as shown in FIG. 7, adapted to be mounted in an available slot of a personal computer PC. Although an IBM compatible computer is used in the preferred embodiment, other forms of computer can be adopted. A conventional analog telephone T is connected to the card 20 at RJ-11 plug 702. Programming used in this invention may be in the form of firmware mounted on the ISDN card or cards 20, or may be recorded on a disk D loaded into the disk drive of the computer.
The hardware platform upon which the invention is implemented in the preferred embodiment, as depicted schematically in FIG. 1B, includes an internal bus 100 supporting a microprocessor 102, preferably a 68000 type, such as a 68HC00CP12. A direct memory access (DMA) controller 104, such as an NEC uPD 71071 Controller, on the bus handles memory to memory and serial I/O to memory transfers. An HDLC controller 106, such as an NEC uPD 72001, is connected to the RAM 114. The DMA and HDLC controllers 104, 106 together operate at HDLC framing protocol, carrying out conversion of data in parallel bit format to serial bit format for supply to ACFA 110 and IPAT 112. The ACFA 110 and IPAT 112, which are commercially available ISDN chips, provide physical interfacing with the ISDN, performing framing, electrical signal conversion, and D-Channel collision detection functions. Using the RJ-11 plug shown in FIG. 7 at the rear of the coprocessor board, the ACFA 110 is interfaced to an analog telephone 126 through a CODEC 132.
The HDLC 106 controller has four channels, with one line incoming and another outgoing for each channel for full duplex operation. Logic implemented in the HDLC controller 106 identifies start and stop bits of each incoming block.
Upon receipt of a block as determined by the start and stop bit framing patterns, and following error detection using a checksum protocol indicating the block contains no errors, the HDLC controller 106 instructs the DMA controller 104 to pass the block to a selected location in a random access memory (RAM) 114 on the bus. If there is an error in the block, an error routine is executed.
Upon transmission of data, start and stop flags are applied to define a block, bit stuffing is carried out as necessary, and the block is discharged on the two B-Channels comprising the BRI. Another HDLC controller 118, operating with a DMA controller 120, carries out similar functions for the D-Channel of the ISDN line. Communication between the DMA controller 120 and the RAM 114 in the preferred embodiment is implemented using the SIP protocol of the Teleos B101 ISDN communication coprocessor board.
Also residing on bus 100 is a UART 122 forming a COM port that interfaces data bi-directionally, one block at a time, between bus 100 and a bus 124 that preferably is an ISA (AT compatible) bus, upon which resides the user's personal computer (or general computer).
Another interface to user bus 124 is a memory 128 that is shared by both busses 100 and 124. The shared memory 128 is controlled by a shared memory controller 130 divided into two blocks, one for control information and the other for utilities such as debugging. The shared memory 128 receives data at separate read/write ports in a known manner to provide service to both of the busses 100 and 124.
Each program module, described below, supports message passing interfaces to and from other processes in the system and is an event driven, dispatchable thread being run under the real time kernel.
FIG. 2A, depicting the software architecture for implementing the computing platform applies to the generic hardware platform of FIG. 1A and the Teleos-specific platform of FIG. 1B, supports the principal program modules and their interfaces resident in the system. To facilitate the dynamic bandwidth mechanism, a hierarchical channel control system is established with logical channels 30(n) at the highest layer. A logical channel as shown is made up of one or more physical channels whose aggregate bandwidth can be greater than that of a single B-Channel.
The next layer consists of physical layers 32(n), one physical channel for each V.120 (B-Channel) controlled by the software control module. Below the physical channels exists the ISDN card layer 34(m) containing information organized on an ISDN card level.
Three mechanisms are specified for dynamic altering of bandwidth assignment. First, if a logical channel is not assigned to the destination network address of data in the form of a data packet which is to be transmitted, a new logical channel is allocated, and a physical channel and ISDN phone number are attached (the ISDN card is implicitly attached since the physical channel is tied to a specific ISDN card). Second, if an SIP disconnect is either initiated or received for a B-Channel, the physical channel associated with the bandwidth is released. And third, for logical channels which initiate communications, bandwidth can be increased or decreased based on the utilization level of the logical channels.
For each logical channel, there exist high and low water marks that specify data throughput thresholds and action times for bandwidth adjustment procedures. To measure line utilization, throughput statistics are calculated once per second. If the throughput consistently exceeds the established water mark for the high water mark action time, an additional B-Channel will be assigned. If the throughput consistently does not meet the established low water mark for the low water mark action time, and multiple physical channels are currently attached to the logical channel, a B-Channel will be removed from the logical channel.
In the embodiment of FIG. 2B, using the architecture of the Teleos B101 ISDN card, an off-card PC Comm Package 210 together with UART 212 on the user bus 124 is coupled to the communication coprocessor circuit at card resident UART 214. User side ISDN D-Channel signalling protocol is carried out at the data link layer (LAPD) and at the network layer by software module 218. In the Teleos B101 coprocessor board, module 218 is implemented by SIP protocol.
AT/PAD 216 interfaces with one of the two B-Channels forming the BRI by accessing either the LAPD 1 or LAPD 2, module 220 or 222 with corresponding HDLC modules 224 or 226. These modules enable a separate data link connection over each of the B-Channels in the system. The data link process implements full duplex operation using separate transmit and receive queues and interrupt driven thread dispatching based on the event of a message arriving to the system or a message being queued from transmission. These processes are implemented in the Teleos coprocessor board as the V.120*/LAPD1 and V.120**/LAPD2 processes.
Shared memory manager module 230 directs flow of data between the shared memory 232 and the three BRI channels through interface 218 and HDLC 228 (D-Channel) and LAPD, HDLC modules 220-226 (B1- and B2-Channels).
The architecture further supports an analog telephone, managing conversion of analog to digital signals according to the ISDN standard including D-Channel signalling (SIP) protocol.
Referring to FIG. 3A, the preferred embodiment of the invention is provided as two new program modules 302 and 304 to establish channel allocation management and virtual channels of greater bandwidth than a single B-Channel. For convenience, the description of these modules is first provided with respect to any number of generic ISDN cards 20 (n), as shown in FIG. 3A, then the Teleos B101 ISDN Communication Coprocessor System as depicted in FIG. 3B wherein the new program modules are resident on a single ISDN card supporting the Teleos B101. It should be understood, however, that the concepts taught herein can be applied to any other system supporting these new program modules.
The generalized system shown in FIG. 3A, with programming resident off-card, is capable of accommodating any number of ISDN cards operating in parallel, and hence, subject to the number of cards involved, is capable of accommodating any bandwidth. For example, if the system incorporates a single ISDN card 20 having two physical B-Channels (n=2 in FIG. 2A), the system of FIG. 3A will accommodate BRIISDN. On the other hand, if the system incorporates an ISDN card 20 having 24 physical B-Channels (n=24 in FIG. 2) or a number of such cards having an aggregate of 24 channels, the system will accommodate PRIISDN (the number of physical B-Channels defined by PRI is 31 in some countries outside the United States, and hence, the number of physical channels included with ISDN cards 20 will correspond to the larger number in those countries). In the case of Broadband ISDN (BISDN), the number of physical channels accommodated by card or cards 20 (n) is greater than 31.
Referring to FIGS. 3A and 3B, module 302, the channel management module (CMM), monitors B-Channel usage and preempts the use of a B-Channel by a lower priority user when the channel is needed by a higher priority user. To accomplish this function, CMM 302 maintains a state table 502, shown symbolically in FIG. 5A, which indicates the state of each B-Channel including whether the channel is a "preemptable channel," that is, whether the channel is connected or disconnected and if connected, whether it is being used by a process that could release the channel in the event of preemption by a higher priority device. This process is carried out in the invention by Virtual Channel Process, described in more detail hereinafter, when more than one channel as part of a virtual channel is requested. The state table also records if a channel is in use as a result of preemption.
As shown in FIGS. 3A, 3B and 4, information necessary to maintain the table comes from messages sent by the signalling interface module 218 (SIP processes in the Teleos communication coprocessor) to the CMM; messages are sent each time module 218 receives a request for channel connection or disconnection. Local requests originate from a user process running on the computer via shared memory interrupt manager 230, the Virtual Channel Process via internal message passing, AT/PAD processes via UART 214, or the Teleos voice process via Analog Phone Support 221. Remote requests arrive over the D-Channel. Upon receipt of such a message, the CMM 302 updates the state table 502 to record the new state of a B-Channel.
The CMM 302 also includes a table 504, shown symbolically in FIG. 5B, which maintains priority levels P(n) for all the end users n in the system. In the event that the CMM detects contention for a B-Channel, i.e., there is a request to connect a new channel but all the channels are in use, the following additional action takes place.
Referring to the flowchart of FIG. 6, and the message interface diagram of FIG. 4, the CMM 302 first determines if a request for channel connection is received (step 600). When a request arrives, the module 302 determines whether the request is from an end user with greater priority than the users that are currently occupying the channels (step 602). If the request is from a user of equal or lower priority, the CMM takes no action and tells the signalling interface process 218 to deny the request (step 604). In the event that the request is from a higher priority user, the CMM 302 determines if a preemptable channel exists (step 606). If such a channel exists, the CMM will signal the Virtual Channel Process using the channel to logically free the channel from use (step 608), and when CMM 302 receives a signal indicating that the channel is no longer in use, step 610, the CMM will send a message to the signalling interface which will 21 cause the channel to be disconnected (step 612). In this manner a channel will be made available to the higher priority end user. An example of this occurs when the Virtual Channel Process is using both B-Channels and the end user requesting a new channel is the analog telephone.
In the event that the CMM 302 receives a message indicating that a channel has been disconnected, in step 614, the CMM determines if the channel was a preempted channel (step 616). In this case the CMM will signal the process which had the channel preempted to reconnect the channel (step 618).
The Virtual Channel Module (VCM) 304 provides the capability to dynamically combine multiple, circuit switched B-Channels into a single virtual channel which is capable of carrying a properly ordered sequence of data blocks. The VCM 304 comprises a block multiplexer/demultiplexer with buffering support to overcome the lack of synchronization across B-Channels inherent in the ISDN network. As shown in FIG. 3, VCM 304 operates in conjunction with the CMM 302 to allocate and deallocate B-Channels based on events monitored by the CMM 302. The VCM 304 has a block oriented interface to the computer processes which use block send and block receive commands via the shared memory interface 128 of the communication coprocessor circuit shown in FIG. 1. The PC computer process views the virtual channel as an ordered stream of blocks and has no knowledge of on which B-Channel the block is actually sent or received. The only indication to the computer process that the virtual channel is in use is the speed (bandwidth) available for transmission; as more channels are added or deleted, the bandwidth increases or decreases correspondingly.
The VCM 304 implements a protocol which operates as an upper sublayer of the data link layer, similar in purpose to but different in implementation from, the International Standards Organization (ISO) Multiple Link Procedure. This aspect of the invention is significant, as no processing at the physical layer, together with disadvantages associated therewith, takes place.
Component channels allocated for a virtual B-Channel have three defined states, viz., activated, deactivated, and transient states. In the deactivated state, data transfer is forbidden although control protocol exchange is not. Component channels that have been allocated but not joined to the virtual channel are initially in the deactivated state. A channel is deactivated for a sender immediately after the deactive b command, described later, has been queued for transmission. For a receiver, a channel is deactivated immediately after the command is received. Only a bi-directionally deactivated channel can be removed and physically disconnected from the virtual channel of which it was a member.
In the activated state, both data and control protocol transfer are permitted. A channel is activated to a sender only after acknowledgement of the active b command has been received. For a receiver, a channel is activated immediately following receipt of the active b command.
The transient state is defined by guarding periods before acknowledgements are received from the far-end. No user data can be sent over a channel in the transient state.
A virtual channel can be in either of two states, transient and steady. A virtual channel is transient when any component channels are transient. If no component channel is in the transient state, the Virtual Channel is in the steady state.
In a virtual channel, data received for transmission is sequentially distributed, one packet at a time, in a round-robin fashion over the channels in active state. The remote virtual channel process receives and recovers data in the same round-robin sequence.
To add and delete channels, protocol messages are exchanged by the sender and receiver which cause the virtual channel to enter the transient state. An active b command is sent to add a channel; a deactive b command is sent to delete one. When a virtual channel is in the transient state, the round-robin send and receive mechanism continues but the additional features are added. On the receive side, a trace-back timer is used to ensure that no conditions on a transient line will block the virtual channel for a long period of time. On the transmit side, if no user data is available, SYNC vB protocol messages optionally are sent on active lines to ensure that the receiver can initiate the trace-back timer whenever necessary. To avoid blocking of transmission of VC protocol over transient lines, SYNC vB may find it necessary to send on these steady lines, when no data block is available.
The trace-back timer, which is implemented by programming within the program module VCM, is based upon an algorithm that assumes that a transmission sent ultimately will be received by the receiving partner if any transmission sent later has been received. It is started at the probable logical end of receiving for recovery of time-inverted propagation of physical events. In the preferred embodiment, the trace-back timer is initiated upon reception of any logically younger block, whenever not all of the older blocks have arrived yet. If the communication partner does not respond within a predetermined amount of time, determined by the timer, the transmission is deemed to be invalid; or, the channels are inactive, newly connected channels, over which no transmissions have yet been sent by the far-end partner. The operation of the trace-back timer within the present system, depicted in the flow chart of FIG. 10, is described in detail later.
Rather than global sequence numbers, a packet generation number preferably is used and has meaning only in terms of round-robin line scanning. Thus if two channels are in use, the first two packets will be sent with a generation number of 1, the second two packets with a generation number of 2, etc. The sending and receiving processes both keep track of generation numbers and both use the same round-robin ordering so as to provide correct sequencing of packets.
The protocol commands, together with detailed format and bit definitions used for controlling and multiplexing over the virtual channel, are as follows.
0ssnnnnn: one byte as header of client's data for transmit.
101nnnnn: one byte header of one or multiple control bytes. The first control byte can further specify explicitly whether the data is global. If the header does not specify, whether the data is global depends on the address bytes which follow. No address byte for in-band operation is required, and multiple address bytes imply that the in-band line is not explicitly included. The explicit global commands have the leftmost bit on, followed by explicitly specified address bytes. If the left-most two bits are both on, the data is a broadcast and no address bytes follow. Multiple bytes are useful for off-band control. Preferably, only one byte of in-band control is employed. The leftmost third bit is reserved, and the fourth bit is for system control point specification. These are external or internal indicated by E and I respectively as follows. The last four bits define the commands of this category. At present, these are: DEACTIV Bs group: uwxlz, w bit is reserved and u defines two system points.
ACTIV Bs group: uwxOz, w bit is reserved, u the same as defined above.
ADD Bs (0X00 2), an external add command.
110nnnnn: one byte header, followed by no or multiple optional bytes. This is an acceptance acknowledgment in reply to a RQST Bs, and in-band is implied if no other bytes follow. Similar to the case in RQST Bs, the first byte which follows can further specify whether it is global. The left-most two bits have exactly the same meanings, which describe the scope of the possible additional address bytes. The left-most third bit, if on, turns the whole meaning of the response into a negative acknowledgement. The last five bits are the same as for RQST Bs.
1000000m: for virtual channel operation and format specification. This has two members, MODE rst with m=0 and MODE lbc with m=1; MODE rst defines the nnnnn five bit generation number. The mode negotiation can proceed only when all component channels are in deactivated states, or UNA will be received. If the optional attributes are not accepted, UNA will also be received. A REJ will be received if the remote end does not support or will not accept this request. In addition to this role of mode negotiations, MODE vB resets the generation number or the global sequence number for transmitter and the corresponding variable back to 0 to restart and resets the transmitter and receiver (loop) pointers back to the first component position.
10000010: Informs the far-end receiver that this end is ready.
10000011: Informs the far-end receiver that this end is not ready.
100000100: The parameters in APPENDIX I follow this for far-end negotiation.
10010000: This unnumbered positive response means acceptance in the mode negotiation. The same MODE vB packet will be sent back as bi-directional initialization, following the UA. The UA is also used for acknowledgement to flow control commands RR and RNR. It is used for acceptance acknowledgement to ATTRB vB as well as unnumbered commands.
10010100: a negative response for refusing, used similarly to UA.
10011100: as explained in the MODE vB description.
All those unnumbered are in-band, although MODE vB is for global. The "nnnnn" is a module correlation generation number assigned to each round of transmissions. The "ss" in the DATA command, which has four values 11, 10, 01 and 11, is for frame segmentation.
Programming described with reference to FIGS. 9A, B and 10A, B is provided for the two key routines in the Virtual Channel, Send-To-Remote and Receive-From Remote. Both routines are initiated when a message is received from another process in the system, as shown in FIG. 4.
This task executes when either a message arrives from another process requesting that a block of data be sent on the virtual channel (VC), or when the process itself must transmit messages due to virtual channel protocol processing, shown in FIG. 4.
1. Circular List of Transmission Lines maintained in the round-robin order of transmission.
3. VC Header Block with current generation number.
FIGS. 9A and 9B is a flow chart describing the Send-- to Remote routine in accordance with an aspect of this invention. Assume initially that a message is received to activate a de-activated channel in a virtual channel, represented by step 900. A decision is made on whether the virtual channel currently is in a steady state i.e., none of its members is in transient state (step 902). Assuming that the channel is in steady state, step 904 queries whether a data block is ready to send, i.e., a block of data has been assembled. Only when a data block is ready, step 906 adds a virtual channel header to the data block, sends the block to a current line LAPD process, and then updates the current line to the next line in round-robin fashion. When a complete round of lines has been completed (step 908), the current generation number of the virtual channel header is updated in step 910.
If step 902 determines that the virtual channel is not in a steady state condition, step 912 of the program determines whether the current line is active. If the current line is not active and activation is requested, step 918 sends a virtual channel protocol message to turn it into an active channel. If the current line is active, step 914 determines whether a data block is ready for sending. When a data block is ready, steps 920, 924 and 926 carry out block assembly by adding a virtual channel header to the block to be sent, then sending the block to the current line LAPD process, updating the line in round-robin fashion and finally updating the virtual channel header generation sequence number as in steps 906-910.
When step 914 determines that a data block is not ready to send, step 916 queries whether the transient line has any protocol to send. If there is nothing to send, it exits. If protocol is available for sending in the transient line, step 922 prepares the current line for transmission by carrying out a synchronization protocol, i.e., sending full-blocks with the virtual channel header, and then updates the current line to the next line in round-robin fashion.
Pseudo Code Corresponding to the above routine is shown in APPENDIX II.
This task executes when either a message arrives from the data link layer indicating that a new block has arrived from the Remote VC partner, or when the local Send-- To-- PC indicates that it is ready to receive another block.
1. Circular List of Message Queues kept in the round-robin order of transmission.
Protocol for receiving channel data from a remote source, in accordance with an aspect of this invention, can be better understood with reference to FIGS. 10A, B. Assume initially that a message has arrived from a remote source and receiving-it-to-PC has been requested (step 1000) . Step 1002 determines whether the virtual channel is in steady state. Assuming that the virtual channel currently is in steady state, step 1006 interrogates the queue in a round-robin sequence to determine whether it is empty. When the queue is not empty, step 1008 processes the queue in round-robin order and sends the message to the appropriate party. This sequence of steps is repeated until a complete round of lines has been finished, determined by step 1010, and then the virtual channel header receiving-expected generation sequence number is updated (step 1012).
If the virtual channel is determined in step 1002 not to be in steady state, step 1004 then checks the current-- line to determine whether it is active. When this is true, the execution goes to step 1006 as if it came from step 1002. If step 1004 determines that the current line is not active, the trace-back timer, noted previously, and which preferably is software implemented, is queried to determine whether it is triggered (step 1014). Assuming that the timer has not yet been triggered, step 1016 detects whether the current-- line is empty. Only if the current-- line is empty, and assuming also that a non-empty line currently exists, and the generation number of messages on this line is current or future, determined by step 1018, the timing by the trace-back timer is initiated. The program exits to step 1014 when either a message on the current-- line arrives, or the trace-back timer expires (step 1020).
If step 1014 determines that the trace-back timer is started and there is a message on the current-- line, or the trace-back timer expired, step 1024, the trace-back timer is aborted if it exists. If there is no message, the queue is queried on a round-robin basis, up to the line which is non-empty and from which the trace-back is departed, to determine whether it is empty (step 1028). Assuming that the queue is not empty, the line is processed in round-robin order, step 1030, and the generation number of the message is read at step 1032 to determine whether it is current. If it is current, the message is delivered to the appropriate party if data or processed if protocol (step 1034). If not, the message is discarded in step 1038 when the generation number of the message is past, or the execution simply exits (step 1036). If step 1016 determines that current-- line is not empty, step 1022 is then executed. Received generation number is checked and condition of protocol is processed, which is similar to the combined steps of 1032, 1034, 1036, and 1038.
On the other hand, if the queue on a round-robin basis is not empty, the virtual channel header generation sequence number is updated (similar to step 1012). Pseudo code corresponding to the above routine is given in APPENDIX III.
The computer program which is using the virtual channel controls the number of B-Channels which can participate in the virtual channel by sending commands to the CMM module 302 to indicate that a channel should be added to or deleted from the virtual channel. Channel allocation/deallocation can also occur based on actions by CMM 302 as described earlier. In the event that a channel is deallocated and then disconnected by the partner who was not the calling party (i.e., the partner who did not originate the virtual channel), it is advantageous to provide a mechanism to indicate to the original party that it should reestablish the channel when so requested. The virtual channel protocol supports this by using control messages to indicate to the communication partner that the preempted channel is available again.
Using the routine shown in FIG. 8, the VCM 304 deletes a B-Channel if a high line error rate is detected. A predefined threshold rate of errors in a given period of time is provided to the VCM in step 802. If the data link layer for a given B-Channel 36 reports an error rate above this threshold, determined by step 804, the VCM 304 logically removes the B-Channel from the virtual channel (step 806) and requests the CMM 302 to have the channel disconnected (step 808).
The invention described herein accordingly carries out dynamic channel allocation in an ISDN line by monitoring events supplied to the line which indicate requests to use or release a B-Channel, evaluating channel usage priorities associated with users generating events monitored, and, based upon channel usage priorities, automatically setting up or tearing down B-Channels associated with the line. Processing takes place above LAPD protocol. Upon a communication coprocessor platform are provided first and second program modules, a channel management module (CMM) and a virtual channel module (VCM), to implement dynamic channel allocation. The program modules cooperate to control bandwidth between communication partners by selective allocation and deallocation of virtual B-Channels between them in response to preassigned priorities and real time events. The CMM monitors requests to connect and disconnect B-Channels by potential end users and the VCM. The CMM is capable of signalling the VCM to force deallocation of a B-Channel from a virtual channel based on a request for channel connection by a higher priority end user. The CMM signals the VCM to indicate the existence of available B-Channels when end users disconnect the channel. The VCM provides a block oriented transport service to various computer processes which can operate over one or more B-Channels. This service operates above the data link layer and manages the multiplexing of messages across one or more data link connections which operate on a B-Channel so as to ensure properly ordered delivery of message blocks. Channels are added or deleted on a dynamic basis, without interrupting the flow of data. Channel deallocation also takes place in response to high error rates in message transmission.
In this disclosure, there is shown and described only the preferred embodiment of the invention, but, as aforementioned, it is to be understood that the invention is capable of use in various other combinations and environments and is capable of changes or modifications within the scope of the inventive concept as expressed herein.
activating a virtual B-Channel between two compatible computer processes using a circuit switched B-Channel set up in step (c), and wherein step (c) includes the steps of logically adding or deleting circuit switched channels to or from said virtual B-Channel dynamically based on bandwidth requirements by the processes, and tearing down said virtual B-Channel based upon a condition predetermined by said computer processes.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said events include set-up and tear down messages arriving to the ISDN over the D-Channel of said ISDN.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein said events further include generation of local messages by computer or other device locally attached to said interface.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said ISDN is one of a group consisting of a Basic Rate Interface (BRI), a Primary Rate Interface (PRI) and a Broadband interface (BISDN).
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said events include local events generated by an analog telephone interfaced by computer in turn interfaced to the ISDN.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said computer interface includes at least one of a shared memory component or Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART1 component, and wherein step (a) includes monitoring events generated by a computer process communicating with said shared memory or UART component of said computer interface.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) includes assigning priorities to said events, and step (c) includes allocating or deallocating B-Channels based upon bandwidth requirements of events having particular priorities.
8. The method of claim 7, including activating a virtual B-Channel between two compatible computer processes using a circuit switched B-Channel set up in step (c), and wherein said step of assigning is carried out during said step of activating.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein steps (a) and (b) are carried out only at customer premises equipment.
(d) tearing downsaid virtual B-Channel based upon a condition predetermined by said computer processes.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein step (c) includes a step of implementing a protocol between said computer processes for using all B-Channels of said virtual B-Channel while dynamically allocating or deallocating circuit switched B-Channels to or from said virtual B-Channel based upon channel bandwidth requirements by said computer processes.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein said method comprises a full duplex mode of communication, and the step of adding or deleting multiple circuit switched B-Channels into or from said ISDN into or from said virtual B-Channel is carried out as a parallel process.
wherein step (b) includes the step of automatically setting up or tearing down a circuit switched B-Channel based upon said channel bandwidth requirements of said processes.
14. The method of claim 11, wherein the step of implementing includes exchanging between said processes information sufficient to indicate that an incoming call set up request is directed to said virtual B-Channel, and allocating a circuit switched B-Channel thereto.
15. The method of claim 10, wherein step (b) is initiated by either one of said compatible computer processes.
16. The method of claim 10, wherein steps (b), (c) and (d) are initiated by the computer processes or user applications.
program means executable by said processor and operating above a LAPD protocol of Layer 2 for monitoring events supplied to the ISDN which indicate requests to use or release said virtual B-channel, evaluating channel usage priorities associated with users generating events, and based upon channel bandwidth requirements by said events and said channel usage priorities, logically adding or deleting circuit switched channels to or from said virtual B-channel.
18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said program means includes means for activating a virtual B-Channel between two compatible computer processes using a B-Channel that has been set up by said program means, and based on said bandwidth requirements and usage priorities logically adding or deleting circuit switched B channels to or from said virtual B-Channel, and tearing down said virtual B-Channel based upon a condition predetermined by said computer processes.
19. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said program means includes means for assigning priorities to said events and allocating or deallocating circuit switched B-Channels based upon bandwidth requirements of events having particular assigned priorities.
20. The apparatus of claim 17, including at least one of a shared memory component and Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) component, and wherein said program means includes means for monitoring events generated by a computer process communicating with said shared memory or UART component.
21. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein said program means comprises software loaded into and executed by said computer.
22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein said program means is implemented in the form of firmware co-resident on a card with said shared memory and UART component.
program means executable by said processor and operating above a LAPD protocol of Layer 2 for setting up between two compatible computer processes a virtual B-Channel with a circuit switched B-Channel from said ISDN, logically adding or deleting a circuit switched B-Channel into or from said ISDN into an activated virtual B-Channel, dynamically allocating or deallocating circuit switched B-Channels to or from said virtual B-Channel based upon bandwidth requirements by said computer processes, and tearing down said virtual B-Channel based upon a condition predetermined by said computer processes.
24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein said program means includes means for implementing a protocol between said computer processes for using all B-Channels of said virtual B-Channel while dynamically allocating or deallocating circuit switched B-Channels to or from said virtual B-Channel based upon channel bandwidth requirements by said computer processes.
25. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein said program means includes means for monitoring on said ISDN events that are local or remote with respect to one of said computer processes, and, in response, evaluating channel requirements of said remote or local events including automatically setting up or tearing down a B-Channel based upon said channel requirements.
26. The apparatus of claim 23, including at least one of a shared memory component and universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) component, and wherein said program means includes means for monitoring events generated by a computer process communicating with said shared memory or UART component.
27. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein said program means comprises software loaded into and executed by said computer.
28. The apparatus of claim 26, wherein said program means is implemented at least partially in the form of firmware co-resident on a card with said shared memory and UART components.
(b) a virtual channel module (VCM) responsive to information from said CMM and providing a block oriented transport service to computer processes capable of operating over one or more B-Channels for allocating or deallocating B-Channels to or from a virtual B-Channel without interrupting flow of data in said virtual B-Channel.
30. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said CMM further supplies to said VCM information on availability of a B-Channel when a user disconnects it.
31. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said CMM further supplies to said VCM information instructing deallocation of a B-Channel from said virtual B-Channel upon a request for channel connection by a user having a priority greater than the priority of a current user.
32. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said VCM includes means for detecting in a line a message transmission containing an error rate greater than a predetermined acceptable error rate, and in response, requesting deallocation of said line.
33. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said program means further includes trace-back timer means initiated at the probable logical end of a receiving for recovery of time inverted propagation of events on the ISDN.
34. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said program means further includes means for operating a channel selectively in deactivated, activated and transient states.
35. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said program means further includes means for synchronization of channels in steady state and during parallel insertion and deletion of component channels into or from a virtual channel.
36. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein said synchronization means includes means for performing simultaneous regulation of data flow between and within B-Channels.
37. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein said data regulation within B-Channels comprises regulation by generation number.
38. The apparatus of claim 36, wherein said data regulation between B-Channels comprises regulation by a round-robin protocol.
39. The apparatus of claim 38, wherein said round-robin protocol comprises regulation by a trace-back timer and data fragmentation.
40. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said program means comprises system software loaded into and executed by said personal computer.
41. The apparatus of claim 29, wherein said program means comprises firmware resident on a card mounted in said personal computer.
42. The method of claim 29, wherein B-channels forming said virtual B-channel comprise circuit-switched B-channels.
"ISDN, An Introduction", William Stollings, pp. 23-25 and 292-304.
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tripod | 12/26 Checked in with Port Captain, Migracion.
12/28 To Puntarenas by bus to check in with Aduana. They moved to Caldera.
12/29 By bus to check out marina at Jaco. It is in Bahia Herradura. No buses, no facilities, a $4 taxi ride from Jaco.
1/14 Got rudder post repaired at Taller Sammy Manley in Puntarenas. Installed coffer's dam yesterday, and rudder bearing and rudder today. 1/2 mile sail to check rudder. It works!
2/1/01 Michael and Kathleen anchored "III Sheets to the Wind" next to me and came to visit.
2/4 Luke and Fenton on "Jackfish" anchored next to me.
2/13 Visited Bushie, Aru, Micus, and Riun on "Yetagan" from South Africa. Totally beautiful people.
2/23 Demonstration sail with Jerry Purcell. Beautiful sail. No sale. 4 nm.
Sailed 54 miles, went on motor to clear Cabo Blanco. Didn't sleep all night. Beam reach Punta Judas to Cabo Blanco, 20 - 25 knots Steep seas in wind against incoming tide. "GIFT" rode it easily with just a reefed jib. Balanced. Motored to Bahia Carrillo so I can sleep.
3/8 Arrived Bahia Carillo at 1100. Papagallos 20 - 25 knots. I will wait out this wind pattern.
3/9 Left Bahia Carrillo at NOON:30 Motored to Punta Guiones under westerlies almost on the nose. Winds shifted at Punta Guiones, went on a port tack on a course of 270 degrees to 290 degrees. "GIFT" raced the sun, Saturn and Jupiter to the western horizon. They all beat me. Now "GIFT" is on balanced sails on a moonlit sea. A favorable current makes the course made good close to 305 degrees. The current is 2 knots.
3/10 Sailed all night, becalmed at times. Motored only to get around shoals. Anchored under sail at NOON o'clock in Flamingo Bay. 53 nm.
3/11 0800 Met with Jerry Purcell and Jim McKee. Costa Rica requires that seller obtain a certified copy of the title at the Costa Rican Consulate in Los Angeles. Left at 0900. Arrived Playa del Cocos at 1130. Sailed most of the way. Saw a whale, probably a Sperm Whale, off Punta Gorda. 13 nm.
3/15 Upped anchor at 0530. Left Playa del Coco on a mousy south wind. Changed sails. The fly of the working jib needs sewing. Becalmed for a while, but then WSW winds of 5 - 6 knots set in. Tracked 312 degrees. NOON: GPS 10 degrees 43.267'N 85 degrees 47.052'W Sextant 10 degrees 05..2'N 86 degrees 27.0'W I missed LAN (local apparent noon) Weather reports claim benign winds on the Caribbean side. Near Bat Islands motored for 1/2 hr, then N winds set in. It was blasting near the islands, but when clear of Little Bat Island wind was N 8 - 10 knots. "GIFT" balanced to 312 degrees. 1710 down came the Costa Rican flag, up went the Nicaraguan flag. Late evening 15 - 18 knot easterlies set in, mellowing as the night wore on.
3/16 Easterlies still with me. Weather reports look benign for the next few days. Covered 60 miles in 24 hours. Good sleep last night. 0530 3/15 - NOON 3/16 74.4 nm.
SW wind 8 - 10 knots in afternoon, becalmed 2 hours in evening. Then E winds set in.
3/17 St. Pat's Day E winds increased to 15 - 18 knots for a few hours. NOON GPS 12 degrees 06.248'N 87 degrees 04.019'W Sextant 12 degrees 24'N 86 degrees 50' W. NOON - NOON 48.7 nm.
Afternoon winds were NE and light. Spent most of the night bobbing in circles. At 0250 a little storm came through with gusts to 20 knots and light rain, After the storm it was NE winds 15 - 18 knots until about 0800 3/18.
3/18 Bouncy seas, wind shrieking in the rigging. Mellowed out by 1000. Began motoring at 1130 ti arrive at Barillas Marina in daylight hours and to beat a weater window that may close out Monday evening. 1115 N12 degrees 32.048' W 87 degrees 37.096' NOON 3/17 - 1115 3/18 41 nm. Spent the Gulf of Fonseca sailing off shore and back in mousy NW winds.
4/8/01 Left Barillas Marina 0730 in convoy with three other boats piloted by a panga from Barillas Marina. Beyond the shoals at 0945. SE wind 6 - 8 knots, increased to 10 - 12 knots for a while. Night time winds were 8 - 10 knots on the nose.
4/9 Becalmed in the morning, motored 3 hrs. NOON 13 degrees 02.046'N 89 degrees 21.003'W 0730 4/8 - NOON 4/9 64.9 nm. E wind 6 - 8 knots 1000 to noon. Wind clocked around to WNW at sundown.
4/10 Wind WNW all night. Clocked to N at 0230. Four guys in a panga stopped to talk. Winds are clocking again. N in the morning, E in the midday, W in the late afternoon and WNW in the evening and all night. NOON 13 degrees 03.451'N 89 degrees 53.132'W 34 nm. 1600 hrs. Up went the Guatemala flag. Three booby birds are perched on my bow pulpit. The booby birds figure I am harmless. They let me move about the boat without becoming alarmed. I sat next to one to adjust the tiller and touched its tailfeathers before it moved.
4/11 Mousy winds on the nose. Motored some. NOON N 13 dsegrees 12.078' 90 degrees 30.4323' W 37 nm. Now my booby crew is up to four.
4/12 Sailed N all night to close in on the shore. Abreast Puerto Quetzal at 1000. NOON to NOON 53 nm.
4/13 Winds on the nose yesterday. Motored a lot. NOON 14 degrees 01.560'N 91 degrees 40.214' W 45 nm. It is Friday! I don't want to arrive in Puerto Madero on the weekend. Tried working off shore to miss shoal water. Finally the wind died. Couldn't sail. Didn't want to motor. The water was only 53 feet deep so I anchored! It was bouncy but I had a good night's sleep.
4/14 Ghosted out of shoals on an off shore wind. A travelling wind picked up in the afternoon. NOON N 13 degrees 56.540' W 91 degrees 57.062' W 26 nm. Motored some at night.
4/15 Ghosted on off shore breeze, motored some. Becalmed. NOON 14 degrees 21.484'N 92 degrees 15.684'W 32 nm. Noon up went the Mexican flag. Actually crossed the border at 1500. Orbited all night to avoid entering harbor on a weekend.
4/16 Motored into Madero. Anchored 0930 by the Port Captain's office. N 14 degrees 42.272' W 92 degrees 24.354' 24 nm.
4/20 Friendly travelling wind S - SW 8 - 10 knots. An easterly blew all night. 0645 4/19 - NOON 4/20 79.9 nm. Travelling wind swung to a nose wind. Anchored in 56' of water. N 15 degrees 45.554' W 93 degrees 34.223' Anchor line got wrapped around the keel. Made a night dive to free it. Phospheresence had the whole job lit up like a light show!
4/21 Motored for 5 hrs. Usual SW wind set in for the afternoon. All indications are for a good crossing of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. NOON 4/20 - NOON 4/21 38 nm. Good winds.
4/22 N wind 18 - 20 knots in the morning. NOON 4/21 - NOON 4/22 73.7 nm. Easy sailing in the afternoon. Planning to arrive in Huatulco in daylight hours 4/23.
4/23 Winds died. Becalmed all night. Motored 18 miles into Huatulco. NOON 4/22 - 0826 4/23 50 nm.
4/25 Two hour sail offshore with Mundo and Jose 3 nm.
4/28 One hour with Mundo and Jose looking for wind. 2 nm.
5/6 Beautiful sail with Juan and Liz 3 nm.
5/13 Beautiful sail with Enrique LaCollet and his wife. 3nm.
5/14 Made deal with Juan Ongay and two others to sell "WIND GIFT" | 2019-04-26T10:59:39Z | http://lbucko.tripod.com/lastlog.html | Porn | Reference | 0.20157 |
wordpress | It’s been a while since I updated, but wanted to share some great news! Ellis Island’s south side hospitals were recently chosen by the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of the most endangered historic places in 2012. They asked me to go out and shoot the current state of the place, and I think I got some really telling photos. See the below links for more information (and more of my photos)!
See ’em Before They Disappear: The 11 Most Endangered Historic Places in the U.S.
I’m hoping to bring more good news about Ellis soon, and post a blog entry with even more photos than those seen here. | 2019-04-25T18:48:29Z | https://wardnine.wordpress.com/tag/nthp/ | Porn | News | 0.981725 |
wordpress | In Insol Funding Company Ltd v Cowlam ( EWHC 1822 (Ch)) Ms Cowlam and Mr Cowey began to co-habit in 1994 and had a son in 1995. They lived in a property owned by Ms Cowlam. They sold it and in 1998 they bought a new property to be the family home (‘the property’). The transfer of the property into their joint names recorded that they held it as beneficial joint tenants. They did not sign the transfer form.
The purchase of the property was funded by the proceeds of sale of Ms Cowlam’s home and by a mortgage. Initially, they each contributed to the repayment of the mortgage. Ms. Cowlam later injected further substantial capital sums into the property helping to pay off the mortgage and to finance improvement works.
In November 2001 the couple agreed that, in the light of Ms Cowlam’s greater contributions to the property, she had an 80% share and Mr Cowey had a 20% share.
Mr Cowey received GBP85,000 as a severance payment from his employers. He used this to finance his new business. He refused to use any part of it towards the property. He also made it clear that he did not intend to marry Ms Cowlam. From 2006, Ms Cowlam made nearly all of the mortgage payments. From 2007 onwards she made all of the payments.
The court had now to consider the extent of the respective beneficial interests of Ms Cowlam and Mr Cowie (since Mr Cowie’s charge was subject to an equitable charge in favour of Insol Funding Company Ltd).
The declaration in the 1998 transfer of the property to the couple would have been decisive had it been signed by the couple (). It could not have been displaced by a common intention constructive trust ( – ). It could have been affected by proprietary estoppel ().
The declaration was not enforceable, however, since it was not manifested and proved in writing signed by the parties as required by section 53(1)(b) of the Law of Property Act 1925 (cf Conveyancing and Property Ordinance, s. 5(1)(b)).
There was, however, a presumption of a beneficial joint tenancy under a common intention constructive trust given the domestic context and the fact that the title was in joint names (). There was nothing here to rebut the presumption. The presumption reflected the reality that in 1997 Ms Cowlam and Mr Cowie were a mutually committed couple ().
It is, however, possible for a common intention constructive trust to be varied where the later emergence of a different common intention can be proved.
Such a variation could be shown here. The principal evidence of this was the express agreement between the parties in 2001 that Ms Cowlam had an 80% share. The variation was confirmed by Mr Cowey’s refusal to apply the severance pay to the property and by Ms Cowlam’s assumption of sole responsibility, in fact, for the mortgage payments.
This latter fact was also the necessary detrimental reliance on the changed common intention. Detrimental reliance remains an essential element of the common intention constructive trust (). The fact that Ms Cowlam was also motivated by a concern to maintain a home for her son did not affect this conclusion ().
Ms Cowlam had an 80% beneficial share in the property. Master Bowles would have been prepared to reach the same conclusion had he relied on the principles of proprietary estoppel ( – ).
In Chan Ling Ling v Chan Ching Kit ( HKEC 1474) property was held by four siblings as tenants in common. The common intention at the time of acquisition was they would have equal shares.
The defendant argued that there was a post-acquisition variation of this common intention; the varied common intention was that the parties’ respective beneficial interests would reflect their financial contributions.
The defendant argued that the agreement to vary the original common intention should be inferred from an alleged failure of the other siblings to contribute to certain costs associated with the property.
He sought to show that he had contributed 80% of the purchase price / mortgage repayments and so had a corresponding equitable interest.
Deputy Judge Kent Yee summarised the relevant legal principles: there had to be compelling evidence of a post-acquisition variation of the common intention. The court should be slow to infer such an agreement from conduct alone ().
Even if one accepted the defendant’s version of the facts, they did not provide the necessary compelling evidence. The parties remained equal beneficial owners.
In Gallarotti v Sebastianelli ( EWCA Civ 865, CA (Eng)) G and S were friends. They had each gone to England from Italy. G and S shared rented accommodation and then bought a flat. This was a platonic arrangement. They were happy to share until they were ready to buy homes of their own.
The title was in S’s name. G and S had an express agreement that they would be equal beneficial owners. This agreement was conditional on G contributing more than S to the mortgage repayments since S made a larger contribution than G to the down payment.
G did make some contributions but did not pay as much as S did towards the mortgage; the disparity was significant. The conditional element of the express agreement was not satisfied.
The friends fell out and G sought a declaration as to the extent of his beneficial interest. Arden LJ gave the only full judgment; the other members of the English Court of Appeal were content to agree with her.
The terms of the express agreement showed that ‘the parties were concerned that their ultimate shares in the Flat should, broadly speaking, represent their contributions to it’ (). ‘[T]he inference to be made from the parties’ course of conduct was that they intended that their financial contributions should be taken into account but not that there should be any precise accounting’ (). S had a 75% beneficial interest and G had 25%. | 2019-04-18T14:59:38Z | https://hklandlaw.wordpress.com/category/common-intention-constructive-trust/ | Porn | Reference | 0.592828 |
wordpress | Erosion and rising tides made the property worthless. We bought it for a song and, for a time, lived like kings. Citing senility our children cried foul and came after the inheritance in a midnight raid, prompting a daring scuba flight into obscurity and, ultimately, legend.
In the final moments there was doubt. He steeled himself. Life had been a chore and Rachel wasn’t coming back. This wasn’t even a unique place to jump.
On the way down a tiny light came on: Exit.
Who would ever see such a thing unless in freefall?
None of Victor’s kids wished to be saddled with the property – grim, prone to subsidence and perpetual reminder of a mirth-free childhood. Let it be forgotten with the old tyrant.
But alas, the last will and testament was clear, as were the sizeable debts that had been left behind.
…Until they realised the log-flume potential. | 2019-04-21T08:53:56Z | https://martincororan.wordpress.com/2018/05/ | Porn | Reference | 0.251945 |
sfgate | 'Eddie the Terrible' has a face that just says trouble.
Do you really want to share the couch with this critter?
If walking your dog sounds like a post-apocalyptic adventure, Eddie is your man!
When Humane Society in Silicon Valley had a troublesome dog named Eddie up for adoption, they didn’t sugarcoat it. Instead of touting Eddie’s virtues, they wrote a want ad called “A Full Disclosure Blog: Three Reasons You DON’T Want To Adopt Eddie The Terrible.” And it is as funny as it is effective.
If you love a challenge, are looking for the dog of a lifetime and think you can handle the thirteen pounds of terror that is Eddie, we won’t stop you.
Elizabeth Laverty, volunteer photographer/videographer at the Humane Society, even put together a slasher flick-themed video to fully illustrate Eddie’s reign of terror.
Predictably, this creative campaign worked. Eddie the Terrible has been adopted, hopefully by a family with lots of naughty dog experience.
If you’re interested in giving a pet a forever home, the Humane Society in Silicon Valley has plenty of non-Eddie options. You can check them out here. | 2019-04-26T04:39:52Z | https://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/12/16/humane-society-posts-hilarious-ad-for-terrible-dog/ | Porn | Society | 0.620293 |
rambler | ...we do nothing personally to recognize the role of our friends.
...it’s easy to send e-mail message once a year to thank your friend.
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I support Jeff’s idea because we do nothing to recognize the role of our friends in our lives. Friends and friendship are very important for people and are for always. I think, it’s easy to send an e-mail message once a year to thank your friend for all that he / she does for you every moment. There must be a day we’ll think about and remember all our friends. | 2019-04-22T02:05:16Z | https://class.rambler.ru/temy-gdz/unit-3-123-gdz-angliyskiy-yazyk-enjoy-english-7-klass-biboletova-podderzhivaete-li-vy-ideyu-dzhefa-71730.htm | Porn | Reference | 0.195399 |
livejournal | I learned something new about London last night. Simply standing at the curb at the bus stop with an expectant look on one's face is not enough to convince the bus to stop. One must actively wave down the bus, at least after hours. I discovered this as I stood in the rain waiting for 45 minutes late last night.
This is apparently also true in Fort Lauderdale. Bastards.
It's occasionally true in Boston, for that matter. | 2019-04-19T01:12:49Z | https://spwebdesign.livejournal.com/333205.html?thread=1020565 | Porn | News | 0.312982 |
wordpress | One of the things which has always struck me when I’ve visited the Royal Pavilion in the past is how much I end up coveting some of the gorgeous things in there.
Many of you will understand the feeling if you’ve visited any Open Houses during the Festival. While it’s great to look at the art, many of us like to have a nose round other people’s houses and dream.
I decided to create a Pinterest board of some of the things I’d love to have in my own house from the Royal Pavilion. If you haven’t come across it yet, Pinterest is a social media platform which allows you to post images onto digital ‘pinboards’ to share with your followers. It is a great way to display lovely pictures of gorgeous things such as fashion, interior design and obviously, kittens.
Taking pictures in the Royal Pavilion is absolutely banned. And here’s why. There are some pieces which belong to the Queen – the Royal Collection. You’re not allowed to take photos of these pieces and publish them without permission from Buck House. If you do, you’ll be tried for treason. (Only joking.) That’s why there are signs all over the Pavilion warning you not to take photos.
In my extremely privileged position as Blogger-in-Residence, I was given permission to take photos – as long as they were not of the Royal Collection.
Last week, I headed off to there, with my pass and the agreement of the security team who keep a close eye on the priceless artefacts in our beautiful palace.
What I hadn’t bargained for was the Great General Public with their fierce adherence to rules. All the way around as I zoomed in on my dream vases and longed-for Regency tables, people huffed and puffed at me with disapproval.
Some people said under their breath but very loudly as they passed;”I thought there was NO PHOTOGRAPHY in here” and glared at me. Others just glared and tutted. One man jovially warned me I was going to get in trouble and that I’d better watch out. A teenager, a foreign student accosted me and told me I was breaking the rules. He did at least calm down when I showed him my official badge and told him I was working and had permission.
I have to admit, it challenged me. I’m not a natural rebel and I found it excruciating in a very English way. The absolute worst bit was when I ducked under a rope to get a better angle and set off a VERY LOUD alarm.
“What are you doing? You’re not allowed to take pictures,” bellowed an older grey-haired gentleman.
“I’m sorry,” I apologised. “I’m allowed to, I work here,” I said.
“Then you should know better!” he replied.
Anyway, now I’ve got over my embarrassment, I’ve decided we should take it as a good thing that people are so protective of our heritage and are prepared to speak out to safeguard it.
And so here’s my Pinterest board, Things from the Royal Pavilion I’d love in my home. There is plenty here to inspire you if you love interior design, luxurious colours and Chinese inspired design. I’ll be adding things to the RP&M Pinterest board during my time as Blogger-in-Residence.
If you’ve played around with Murder in the Manor, you will know that it features eight rooms from Preston Manor. Other than the stories that bring them to life, the rooms are empty. But look around the Morning Room, and you may catch a glimpse of a mysterious figure reflected in a mirror.
Although Preston Manor has a reputation as a haunted house, and there has been at least one ‘ghost’ accidentally caught on camera, there is nothing supernatural about this image. The figure is Richard Sams of Say Digital, who conducted the panoramic photography that is used on the website. As the mirror was an unavoidable feature of the room, he has captured his own reflection while shooting. Moreover, if you explore the room further you can find a second image of Richard — look behind you when you enter the room.
Of course, Richard is not the first photographer to be caught by a mirror. In early 1915, Brighton photographer AH Fry suffered a similar problem while recording the Royal Pavilion’s use as an Indian Military Hospital during World War One.
Fry wasn’t directly captured on this occasion, but if you look closely at the mirror on the far wall you can see two military figures who were presumably accompanying the photographer.
What’s striking about these small accidents is how they reveal the context in which a photograph was taken. Photographs often present themselves as objective windows on the world, but for any photograph to be made a whole series of personal decisions and actions needs to be taken. Understanding how a photograph came to be taken can often shift our appreciation of what it tells us.
Fry’s photograph of the Red Drawing Room is a good example of this. Taken as a whole it shows the benevolent care given by the British Empire to its wounded Indian troops: the luxurious decoration of the room, the neat sheets, and the white doctor on hand for his patients. But the reflection in the mirror reminds us that the photographer is accompanied by two military minders, and that this image is produced for strategic ends: principally to maintain Indian loyalty to the British cause.
But the best example we hold of a photographer caught by his own camera is this spirit photograph from 1886. Purporting to show a shrouded ghostly hand that has mysteriously appeared on a portrait of an elderly woman, close examination reveals the arm and neckline of the living person faking the scene. A copy of this photograph is presently on display in a small exhibition on spirit photography at Preston Manor, and I wrote a short piece about it back in 2010.
As far as I’m aware, the Morning Room is the only area of Murder in the Manor in which Richard can be glimpsed. But if you spot the photographer or any anomalies elsewhere on the site, do let us know in the comments below. | 2019-04-21T06:50:02Z | https://rpmcollections.wordpress.com/tag/photography-2/ | Porn | Society | 0.51069 |
wordpress | if you’re into whimsical dream-pop, tamaryn tender new signs is for you. thanks to mess + noise, you can stream it HERE.
tender new signs is out october 19th via mexican summer/cooperative.
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google | The Feis Report is used by the NAFC for Feis Registration. It is the responsibility of the Feis Chairperson to submit the Feis Registration within 2 months of the last feis (to avoid a late fee) and before 6 months of their future reserved date.
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livejournal | 14, mostly because I was in book group for a while and therefore had to read books like #3 #4 #16 #21 #24 #27 #76 and a few others.
I'm uninterested in any such list that fails to have Niall Griffiths in it. I became more uninterested when I saw which books were in places 1 & 3.
It's a bit hard to argue that they didn't define the 00s, however less than impressive the writing was. I've not heard of Niall Griffiths.
Well -- they defined the 00s in the same way that McDonalds define fast food, or Stella Artois defines sports pubs. Doesn't mean I want anything to do with any of them.
Griffiths -- the closest comparison is probably Irvine Welsh, but Griffiths's work has a more mythic, more literary, and far deeper content to it.
95 (it was a Christmas gift), 93, 88, 52, 42, 20, 16, 8.
I've read quite a few of those, getting on for half I think -- some for the same reason as thefon, others just because they sounded interesting.
Can I just say though how brilliant Anthea Bell is. To span the whole range of translation from WG Sebald to Asterix is dead impressive. | 2019-04-25T20:21:46Z | https://gbsteve.livejournal.com/426578.html | Porn | Reference | 0.183435 |
wikipedia | It's a Great Life is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and written by Al Boasberg and Willard Mack. The film stars Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Lawrence Gray, Jed Prouty and Benny Rubin. The film was released on December 6, 1929, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Babe (Vivian Duncan) and Casey (Rosetta Duncan) Hogan are sisters and work in the department store Mandelbaum & Weill in the music sheet department. Once a year there is a big department store show, in which employees act. Babe Hogan in love with the piano player of the music sheet department James Dean (Lawrence Gray) is the younger sister and her older sister Casey is looking very much after her. When the act of Jimmy and Babe doesn't seem to work out she improvises on the stage rescuing the situation, but also starting a new career for the three of them, as a producer was in the audience and liked them. Unfortunately Casey and Jimmy are antagonists in the trio, so one day they split, when Babe and Jimmy tell Casey they would get married. While Casey tries to get along as a Single Act in small Vaudeville stages, Babe and Jimmy have not a bit of success as the duo Dean and Hogan. Moreover Babe gets a bad cold ending in delirium, so that Jimmy finally puts away his pride and go and see Casey. Meanwhile old colleague David Parker (Jed Prouty) has come to ask Casey to marry him and go with him to Paris that night, as he is appointed Manager of the Paris branch of the store. Casey can't believe that somebody loves her and accepts, but Jimmy convinces her, that Babe is going to die if she doesn't see her sister. The marriage with Parker is off and the three are reunited dreaming to have a big successful show.
^ "It's a Great Life (1929) - Overview - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
^ "It's a Great Life". AFI. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
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livejournal | Day. Oh. - Ramblings of Mad Shutterbug & the Border Collie Bros.
A bit stiff and sore last evening, after all that maneuvering of the posing block to mount the casters to make it easier to move. Succeeded, it's easier to move. Stiff. Sore. Hot soaking tub helped with that.
Worked on some photographs today. Uploaded to a specialty site, will continue the working uploads over the next couple days so I can make a posting here.
Herself is home from SCA and Iron Chef Trimaris. The 'secret ingredient' this year (provided by the organisers) was... goat. Old goat. Tough, old goat. Tough, old goat with a lot of bone. Got made into stew for the most part, but Herself both wowed and weirded out the judges by quite correctly preparing brains and eyes.
Hm, somehow zombie goat just... doesn't do it for me.
Last year we assisted with culling a scrapie positive sheep herd.
Brains are possibly the one thing I *wont* eat.
PETA is going to hijaack this post for advertising.
I learned not to volunteer as a judge in any kind of edibles last time I was doing the brewing competition at Warlord. This just makes me certain I was right to learn that.
No, no, no. It's pronounced "Braaaay-nes". Gotta get that throat warble in. | 2019-04-24T14:49:56Z | https://madshutterbug.livejournal.com/373541.html | Porn | News | 0.363292 |
livejournal | Attempted to add Support Categories tonight, and when I went back to check everything the option "Internal Comment/Action" had dropped off the list of Reply Types.
Anyone else ever have this happen? Seems kinda weird having it drop off after I add a Category? | 2019-04-21T10:24:07Z | https://lj-everywhere.livejournal.com/198504.html | Porn | Reference | 0.458189 |
flickr | Our CEO used to be the head honcho at WB, and his prints can be found outside Mann's Chinese Theater.
Even though this picture is copyrighted "(c) All rights reserved", this picture was shamelessly stolen by Kara Swisher, without any credit. Just because this picture is public for viewing, it does not mean it's public for the taking. One would assume that someone who claims to work in the digital media would know the difference, but apparently not. She later apologized to the public (and to Mitch, who also had a photo stolen), but never credited me. A linkback is not giving credit, as any hack will tell you. | 2019-04-24T02:28:26Z | https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajays/408538886/ | Porn | Business | 0.432583 |
imdb | "Laughs" offers something that's been sorely lacking for years on both broadcast and cable channels: An opportunity to watch up-and-coming comics who may not have made it big yet but still have tremendous talent. It's lively and fast-paced, chock full of short, funny clips from dozens of different comedians at various comedy clubs across the country. Plus, it's not all straight white guys telling jokes, which is almost always the case on Comedy Central. Rather, there's a diversity of gender, ethnicity, age and type. This show is perfect late-night viewing, especially if you've got some friends over. I hope Fox keeps the show on and does a better job of promoting it, because it deserves to have a wider audience. | 2019-04-23T10:39:05Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3902002/ | Porn | Society | 0.229053 |
wordpress | Each Sim is Named a Hair Colour, and each row has a shutter colour. This may help you with navigation and knowing where you left off when visiting the event, or sharing information with others. All logo boards at the front of each store is named with the Hair Store name, if you have hover-tips active in your viewer settings, this will allow you to mouse over boards to see which is which if textures are slower to rez.
Each sim is divided in half and visibility removed, this means that you will be able to see the sim but not any other avatar on the opposite side. This helps with lag and how much you have to render, so do not panic if you land and cannot find your friends, they are just on the other side of that division. This is also the case at the sim crossings, this helps more so when cam shopping across sims. We have two addition sims for cam shopping, shown in the top left and right of the map.
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Ridiculous amount of lag. Takes to long to shop and not fun. Same ting every year. Lagging bad with only 38.
Thank you so much for putting all these hair styles here so that I could quickly view them all without wasting time going booth-to-booth at the Hair Faire.
Hi, you are welcome, I do hope you give a lot of them a second look though, I ended up finding styles that looked so different on than they did in the image, in a positive way, much to my delight 🙂 enjoy the fair. | 2019-04-23T02:44:12Z | https://hairfair.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/hair-fair-2017-sims-slurls/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.95046 |
wikipedia | "Side order" redirects here. For the 2009 Christian film, see Side Order.
When used as an adjective qualifying the name of a dish, the term "side" usually refers to a smaller portion served as a side dish, rather than a larger, main dish-sized serving. For example, a "side salad" usually served in a small bowl or salad plate, in contrast to a large dinner-plate-sized entrée salad.
Some restaurants offer a limited selection of side dishes which are included with the price of the entrée as a combination meal. In contrast, sometimes side dishes are ordered separately from an a la carte menu. The term may or may not imply that the dish can only be ordered with other food.
French fries are a common side dish served at fast-food restaurants and other American cuisine restaurants. In response to criticism about the high fat and calorie content of French fries, some fast-food chains have recently begun to offer other side dishes, such as salads, as substitutes for the standard French fries with their combination meals.
The related phrase on the side may be synonymous with "side dish" – as in "French fries on the side" – or may refer to a complimentary sauce or condiment served in a separate dish. For example, a diner may request a salad be served with its dressing "on the side".
^ "Side dish." (definition.) Merriam-webster.com. Accessed August 2011.
Greene, Janet; et al. (1982). Putting Food By. Stephen Greene Press. ISBN 0-8289-0468-5. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
Family Living: Simply Delicious Side Dishes. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
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wordpress | We are always so excited to share the testimonies we receive from our loan families. It also brings such joy to our hearts to be able to put faces to the names, and we pray you experience this same joy too.
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Phillip, Charrissa & their BEAUTIFUL family!
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It was so exciting to open up the Sunday paper and see a colorful, vibrant spread of pictures of one of our ABBA Fund families! The title of the article was “Plenty of Love to Give” and how true that statement is when it comes to this family!
In 2009, Jimmy and Gayla Renslow adopted their daughter Zuri from an orphanage in Uganda when she was 10 months old. The Renslows’ attend The Church at 5:14 in Greensboro, NC which is an ABBA Fund church partner. What a joy to have helped this body of Christ establish an adoption assistance fund and to see these beautiful children come home to their forever families! Today, we are happy to share that the entire family (Mac, Boe, Leia, Gayla, Zuri and Jimmy) is currently in Uganda finalizing the adoption of their son, Zeke! Please pray for this family as we await their safe arrival back in America in mid-August.
One thing we love is that not only did this article provide an opportunity for the community to hear of a local family’s adoption testimony, but it was also a chance to inform others about the country of Uganda and transracial adoption. The article higlighted that out of the 28.5 million people living in Uganda, 2.3 million are orphans and nearly half have lost thier parents because of AIDS (Source: goodsheapheardsfold.org).
The Renslows are active in helping families interested in adopting from Uganda by being a resource to them. They started the “Out of Uganda” fellowship group which aims to “intentially build a community of African Americans – Ugandan Americans – who support each other. ” This group continues to be a blessing to many families.
It’s always heartwarming to hear the testimony of how God lead a couple to respond to the call of defending the fatherless. And to then see the beautiful faces of children of God that have come home to their forever families – well it’s enough to make us weep with joy!
The words “Look Who’s Blooming” were written on the back of this picture. We look forward to seeing how these children continue each day growing spiritually by increasing their knowledge and understanding of God’s Word, praciting Christ-like qualities and each day increasing in their faith and trust in God. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 11:1, , “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.” Jesus Christ is the ultimate example of what it truly means to be spiritual. Amen!
My wife and I were eager to respond to the call to care for the orphan. We spent about year thinking, praying, and meditating on the reality that we ourselves were once orphans when God welcomed us into the most glorious family that ever was and will ever be. We who had no father now have a Father because God made us sons through Christ. This blew us out of the water! But, there was still this earthy situation related to money. We had no idea how we would get this paid for.
After we decided to adopt from Ethiopia and got initial paperwork in, like home study, etc, we were pretty much scratching our heads trying to figure out where $30,000 would come from. I went to an adoption conference called “Adopted for Life.” During one of the break out sessions I heard Jason Kovacs talk about encouraging stories of how Abba Fund helped loads of families. He encouraged us all by saying all God wanted was a willing heart and an open family and that God would take care of the rest. We were in!
Abba Fund really made our heart’s desires come true. The process was simple and fast, with every unnecessary hoop taken out of the picture. Besides, any couple going through the adoption process needs extra stress and hoops to jump through, right? 😉 God does hear the cry of the orphan and used Abba Fund to help us bring Levi and Sophia home on December 18th 2010.
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indiana | The Toro-Semliki climate is dry, particularly in comparison to sites where chimpanzees are found (Figure 14). Only Mount Assirik is drier than Semliki, though rainfall at Budongo, to the north of Semliki, is also quite low.
Historically, Toro-Semliki has had two distinct rainy and dry seasons; rainy seasons are March-May and August-November and dry seasons are June to July and December through February. Recently the distinction between dry and wet seasons has been less pronounced.
From the 1950s through the 70s rainfall at Semliki varied between 700 and 1300 mm (Pratt & Gwynne, 1977); SCP records for 1998 and 1999 were similar to earlier figures (Figure 15), at around 1200 mm, but recently rainfall increased, now averaging 1389 mm. Th entire Western Great Rift appears to have grown wetter (Plumptre, 2011).
Semliki is hot and humid. Daily maximum temperatures average 34 °C, and the mean daily minimum is 20 °C. Of chimpanzee study sites, only Assirik is hotter (Hunt and McGrew, 2002). Relative humidity daily maxima average 95% in the wet season and 92% in the dry season (Hunt et al., 1999).
Climate is strongly influenced by Lake Albert, but is also influenced by three other separate air masses (Verner and Jenik, 1978), that of the Rwenzori Mountains, the uplands to the east of the reserve, and the air mass associated with the Congolese rainforest to the west. The temperature of the lake is less variable than the air and soil, so that as the temperature drops at night, the warmer air over the lake rises, creating a prevailing wind toward the lake, or northeast. In the day the lake is typically cooler than surrounding areas, creating a prevailing wind away from the lake, or southwest (Verner and Jenik, 1978). | 2019-04-26T06:09:40Z | http://www.indiana.edu/~semliki/Climate.shtml | Porn | Science | 0.927413 |
wordpress | There are headhunting tribes documented in many countries around the world – Taiwan, New Zealand, India and also Malaysia. In Malaysia, the headhunting tribe is known as Iban or sea dayaks (sea people). Most Ibans are from Sarawak, located on the island of Borneo.
There were many reasons for why the Ibans mounted headhunting expeditions – avenging theft or murder, being the dominant reason. Another equally important reason the Iban men headhunted was that the Iban women showed a preference for a man who’s able to give proof of his bravery by killing one of the enemy. In this instance, I suppose, the enemy’s head was more valuable to the woman being courted, than a bunch of roses!
Once upon a time, a young man loved a maiden, but she refused to marry him until he had brought to her some proof of what he was able to do. He went out hunting and killed a deer, and brought it to her, but still she would have nothing to say to him. He went again into the jungle, and, to show his courage fought and killed an orangutan, and brought it home as proof of his courage; but still she turned away from him. Then, in anger and disappointment, he rushed out and killed the first man he saw, and, throwing the victim’s head at the maiden’s feet, he blamed her for the crime she had led him to commit. To his surprise, she smiled on him, and said to him that at least, he had brought her a worthy gift, and she was ready to marry him.
Of course, headhunting is no longer being practiced by the Ibans (As far as I’m aware) as it was banned by Sir James Brooke, the first White Rajah of Sarawak, in the 1800s. So, the Iban women had to settle for receiving something else other than heads, I suppose.
A long time ago, my father told me that our family has kept the heads of our enemies, heads that were cut by my ancestors. I’ve never seen them as the heads are in my father’s longhouse which is deep in the interior of Sarawak. Undoubtedly, I’m curious about these “heirlooms”. I’m also curious as to how many of these heads were used to win the hand of Iban maidens in the family.
Oh wow! What a fascinating post! Thanks so much for sharing that. Hopefully one day you’ll get to see those “heirlooms”. The history behind it is very interesting!
Wow, this surprised me! I wouldn’t had married that man, never.
This brings back memories of my Introduction to Anthropology course in college. The Professor Vinson Sutlive wrote a book entitled The Iban of Sarawak and referred to the people frequently in his lectures. He also told deliciously horrid puns.
Yes, the world is a big place and despite technology, we still are unaware of a great many things!
Great post! What a fascinating and educational read.
Thank you! Writing these posts have been educational for me too!
Definitely a heady post! 😉 It would be really interesting to see the heirlooms! And find out the history of each one.
A heady post hehe You’re right. I doubt if there’s anyone left to be able to give the history of each of the heirlooms as our history are mostly passed down through spoken tales or songs, not written.
That’s fascinating — thanks for sharing!
Hehe happy to introduce our culture to you!
That said, fascinating post and look into a culture’s past practice.
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wordpress | This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 at 10:00 am and tagged with 2 Timothy, 2012, Approved, Bible Verses, Daily Scripture, Daily Verse, Gods Word, Postaday, Right Way, Teaching, Truth, Wrong Way and posted in Daily Verse. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Great post, for me the defining factor is context of scripture or rightly dividing as you quoted.It’s like the old and the new testament – law and grace the conflict of this modern age our do we live by then both?
Yes it’s very true, rightly dividing the word of truth is so important and understanding that O.T. was living under the law of God given to man through Moses, the holy spirit came an went during this time – then the N.T. is about grace and the fulfilling of the law through Jesus Christ and we were given to commands (1) to love God with are our heart, mind, soul, and strength (2) to love one another as we love ourselves (because love fulfills the law as seen in Romans 13:8-10) If we Love God with everything we got and we Love one another and try to outdo each other in honor, we would not murder, covet, or etc… out bother so therefore by Love we fulfill all the laws (10 commandments etc). Great question and great post! Thank you and God Bless!
God bless you. A much needed verse and good food for the soul.
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wikipedia | Lorrie Goulet (born August 17, 1925) is an American sculptor and painter, known primarily for her direct carving of stone and wood, and for works which often celebrate women, families and cultures.
Goulet's works include philosophical and educational writings and books, and poetry. Goulet was educated at Black Mountain College from 1943 to 1944 and taught at the Art Students League of New York. She continues to create art, publish her writings, and teach in her studio in Chelsea, New York.
Goulet's arts studies began when at age seven she met Aimee Voorhees at the Inwood Pottery Studio in 1932 and continued working with Voorhees for four formative years. Shortly thereafter, her family moved to Los Angeles, California, where she continued her education. In 1940 she became an apprentice to Jean Rose, a ceramicist in Southern California.
In the autumn of 1943, Goulet entered Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where she studied painting and drawing with Josef Albers and weaving with Annie Albers. In the summer of 1944, she met Jose de Creeft, a visiting sculptor and instructor, and in November 1944, Goulet and de Creeft were married. Two years later, they acquired a farm in Hoosick Falls, New York, where they worked part of each year until 1968, and gave birth to artist Donna Maria de Creeft.
Goulet's first solo exhibition was in New York, in 1948. Her work has been represented in group shows since 1948, among them, a number of Annual Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in the fine arts pavilion of the New York World's Fair of 1964/1965. Kennedy Galleries in New York began presenting her work in 1971, with regular solo exhibitions through to 1986. In 1998, she had a solo exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. entitled Fifty Years of Making Sculpture. Her work continues to be presented by David Findlay Jr. Gallery, in solo and group exhibitions, and the Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples, Florida.
Goulet's first position as a teacher of sculpture was with the Museum of Modern Art's Peoples Center, New York, in 1957, and she also began teaching privately in that year. From 1961 to 1975 she was on the faculty of The New School, New York, and began teaching at the Art Students League of New York starting in 1981 until 2004. CBS Television aired twenty-three program segments featuring Goulet's teaching, with demonstrations for children for a program called "Around the Corner" sponsored by the New York City Board of Education. These programs were aired between 1964 and 1968.
Her works are presented in museums, institutions and galleries including The Whitney Museum of American Art, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Academy of Design, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Corcoran Gallery, the Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art in NYC, The Kennedy Galleries in NYC, The Harmon Meek Gallery in Naples and Florida.
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wordpress | There were nine new planning applications for Church, Katesgrove, Redlands and Whitley wards this week. They may be discussed at one of the next Reading Borough Council planning applications committees.
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tripod | The children of the CDC worked with my friend Don this week !( Don the Potter) Don Bradford presently teaches at Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York, and Thompson Park Creative Arts Center, Lincroft, New Jersey. He is also an artist in the classroom for Project Impact, Arts in Education Foundation, traveling to schools throughout New Jersey bringing lectures, demonstrations,and hands-on workshops to both students and teachers.
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Our group explored the magic of migration and the cultural and bio diversity that Miss Hope,Miss Humerya and Squeaky experienced in California with the Monarch Teacher Network..
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*Please send your child with a thermos,a set of untensils and reusable food storage containers.We will no longer be using or providing plastic untensils and cups.
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wordpress | Bit obvious really and quite self promoting. Was surprised when I logged onto Credit Union site to find a photo of me at the Pageant.
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wordpress | Drill and practice is commonly used in the classroom today in our district. It is a simple way for teachers to say they are integrating technology into the classroom. Teachers are not required to learn a new skill or knowledge when using this type of software with their students. It is a directed form of teaching as it requires students to answer a question and the student will receive generic feedback based on their answer. An advantage of using drill and skill activities with students is is builds fluency and competency in all subjects. It can be effectively used when a student needs to master a preset skill for high level questions or studying for an upcoming test.
Tutorials are another directed teaching strategy used but the software basically becomes the teacher. Students learn the content and complete activities needed to master the topics through the self-paced instructional program. Students received feedback based on the instructional activities they complete in the instructional program that basically replaces the teacher. This can be beneficial to students in general because they learn at different paces and levels, therefore they are able to move at their own speed. The advantage of using tutorials in the classroom is that it allows teachers who are wanting to “Flip” or “Blend” their classroom. The instructional videos are the online features completed at home or during the instructional day. The teacher can build in face to face time to meet with small groups or individuals during work time.
Simulations are interactive models that show either real or imaginary demonstrations. Simulations can replace the idea of real experiments or demonstrations completed in the classroom. Advantages to using simulations is it eliminates the prep work for teachers, the extra information that may not be pertinent to the demonstration allowing the students to focus on the concept being taught. However, one could also argue that simulations can skew a person’s understanding because it does only show one perspective or outcome. Simulations can be used as a “hook” into a new unit or used as an option if a field trip is not part of a budget. Depending on the instructional strategy used by the teacher, simulations can be considered directed teaching, students will be learning the content through the use of the program. It can also be viewed as a constructivist approach to teaching if students are required to use information in a constructive manner.
Instructional games have similar features as the drill and practice programs previously discussed. These software programs are often used for students to work on basic skills or fact recall on specific topics. Instructional games have the added features of rules that need to be address with the students and can have simulation activities embedded in them. Advantages of using these programs is it can be viewed as a fun interactive way for students to have fun while learning or studying for an upcoming exam. Instructional games can be structured for a directed teaching strategy or in a constructivist approach, depending on how it is used with the students.
Problem Solving Software offers the students a constructivist and self directed approach to learning how to solve problems. Most programs offers scaffolded approaches so students are practicing at their own pace. However, some programs offer some collaborative opportunities for students to work in small groups. With an interactive approach to learning how to solve problems, students often have a variety of solutions to one problem and can often be related to real life scenarios. Advantages to using problem solving activities in the classroom is the real life component it has for students. It allows students to have a better understanding of what impact/outcome their choice would have in their real life. | 2019-04-25T06:49:04Z | https://nicholeallmann.wordpress.com/tag/software-tools/ | Porn | Games | 0.450122 |
wordpress | Intonation can be defined as the rise and fall of the pitch of the voice over a group of words, usually called a ‘tone unit’. A tone unit is a group of words (but can be a single word) under one single intonation contour. Tone units are combined to form paratones or ‘phonological paragraphs’. The phonological paragraph is similar to the paragraph that we observe in written language. It is assumed that when a (expert) speaker delivers a monologue in the form of an oral presentation, they break their talk up into paragraphs and these paragraphs are demarcated chiefly by pausing, discourse markers and intonation.
Paragraphs are normally closed with falling intonation, a slowing of speech and sometimes laryngealisation (or creaky voice). The start of the subsequent paragraph is marked usually with a pause and a high pitch. See example here PDF Document.
What terms and phrases do teachers use when discussing intonation?
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yahoo | As the mercury rises and we inch closer to the open of training camps, our resident fantasy football sickos, Brad Evans and Liz Loza, will profile their favorite booms/busts of every NFL team. Today’s topic: The Ravens of Charm City.
After a snooze-inducing 2017, the Ravens have spent the offseason retooling their offensive weapons. So, which player has the most BOOM (return on investment) potential this fall?
Brad – MICHAEL CRABTREE. If Crabtree were a condiment, he would most certainly be a spicy brown mustard. When consumed, ideally on any variety of tubed meat, the overlooked seasoning provides a robust kick. For fantasy purposes, the wide receiver generates a similar reaction.
Crabtree is perpetually underrated. During his days by the Bay he routinely outperformed his ADP, functioning as one of the game’s deadliest red-zone weapons. In four of his past six seasons, he finished No. 21 or better in fantasy points per game in .5 PPR leagues. Over that stretch he also ranked highly in contested catch rate (WR11 in 2016) and end-zone target share (WR2 in 2017). For a quarterback, Joe Flacco, who struggled mightily converting inside the 20 last season (QB31 in RZ cmp%), he’s precisely what the doctor ordered.
Without much competition for looks, particularly on the opponent’s side of the field, Crabtree is more than capable of an 80-catch, 900-yard, 7-9 TD campaign in his Ravens debut. He’s a bargain at his 68.7 ADP (WR30).
Liz – WILLIE SNEAD. Entering 2017, expectations were high for Snead, especially after Brandin Cooks’ departure from the Saints. But a three-game suspension, followed by a persistent hamstring injury, kept the third-year receiver off the field and allowed other players to earn larger roles.
But that doesn’t negate Snead’s ability or talent. Let’s not forget that he posted a 72-895-4 stat line in 2016, demonstrating sticky mitts (catch rate of 69.2 percent) and dominating after the catch (373 yards). Given the Ravens’ lack of pass-catching weapons, Snead figures to get fed. He’s not a prime red zone target, but in PPR friendly formats he could easily see 95 targets on the season.
On the flipside, which player should owners avoid like an outdoor poke stand on a 102 degree day?
Liz – JOHN BROWN. I’ve been a long-time Smokey apologist, but after starting just 11 games over two seasons, it’s hard to imagine him making a major impact in 2018… even on the talent-shallow Ravens. Despite flashing in his sophomore outing, Brown’s receptions, yards, and TD totals have dwindled in back-to-back years. In fact, Brown’s 2015 production outshines his 2016 and 2017 output combined. At this point, it’s tough to believe in a blazer who can no longer blaze (under 100 yards after the catch in 2016 and 2017).
Brad – ALEX COLLINS. After getting thrown to the wolves by Seattle, Collins turned in a breakout 2017 in a second lease on life with the Ravens. Running behind a bottom-10 run-blocking line, he compiled numbers worthy of an RB17 standing in .5 PPR. Whether looking at surface (4.59 ypc) or advanced measurements (top-10 in yards created, total evaded tackles, breakaway run% and YAC per attempt), he thoroughly impressed.
However, I’m reticent he’s truly an RB2 in 12-team leagues as his 52.7 ADP (RB24) suggests. Last year, Collins contributed minimally in the pass game (23 receptions) and, oddly, averaged only 1.9 red-zone touches per game. He should lead the team in workload, but with Kenneth Dixon and Buck Allen very much in the mix, repeating what he achieved a season ago seems far fetched. Don’t overspend.
John Harbaugh has declared that Joe Flacco is the team’s quarterback, but he’s also admitted the team is in the “lab” devising immediate plans for dynamic rookie Lamar Jackson. BELIEVE or MAKE BELIEVE: Jackson replaces Flacco for the last month of the season, effectively ending the Blue Hen’s tenure in the blue crab capital.
Brad – BELIEVE. According to Google Trends, the most searched question in Maryland since 2004: “Is Joe Flacco elite?” The answer: Whether in fantasy or reality, he’s average at best.
There’s a paradigm shift underway in Baltimore. Fans, and likely the Ravens front office, realize the once invincible Flacco is very vulnerable, a sleepy producer whose primary and secondary numbers dipped dramatically last year. What’s most appalling? He hasn’t sniffed 7.0 yards per attempt in a season since 2014. The organization desperately needs a jolt which is why Jackson was selected at No. 32 overall.
Mark it down, the former Heisman winner will overtake Flacco at some point during the double-digit weeks. He’s too athletic. He’s too explosive. He’s too damn exciting. During OTAs, Jackson provided onlookers a sneak peek of what’s to come, dazzling coaches with red-zone strikes and extraordinary running talents. If the Ravens, who currently sport an 8 over/under line on season wins, slough through to Thanksgiving, a changing of the guard is a very possible.
Liz – MAKE BELIEVE. As Matt Waldman of the Rookie Scouting Portfolio pointed out on a recent episode of the X’s and Y’s Podcast, Jackson has sky-high dynasty and keeper potential. However, in redraft, he’s a hold. Flacco’s current deal with the Ravens lasts through 2021, but at 33-years-old and after averaging a YPA of under 7.0 for three consecutive seasons, Ozzie & Co. appear to have grown impatient. The franchise could free up $18.5 million in cap space were they to release the former Blue Hen in 2019. Still, this year belongs to the vet.
After all, RG3 is the team’s backup. And it’s foolish to think they didn’t bring him in to groom Jackson. (Though let’s all hope that Robert Griffin refrains from teaching the rookie how to slide.) The fragility of mobile QBs does not appear lost on the Raven’s organization. Applying pressure to Flacco while providing the Louisville product with reps and allowing him to develop via specialty plays is a win-win for Baltimore… even if it’s a bummer for enthusiastic fantasy fans. | 2019-04-20T01:10:38Z | https://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy-football-boomsbusts-2018-baltimore-ravens-043853233.html | Porn | Sports | 0.677475 |
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wordpress | The great thing about parables is that they appear to shake you out of your conventional thought patterns and give you a chance to see the familiar in a different light. However, at the same time the catch with the parables is, to quote Louis Pasteur in a different context, “chance only favours the prepared mind”.
And here we are firstly with this horrible multiple murder in Christchurch, a pleasant if battered city which turned out to have an unexpectedly rotten part to it and secondly the much worse disaster in Southern Africa particularly in Mozamique and Zimbabwe. This storm has brought more flooding and damage than that part of the world has experienced in the last few hundred years and victims on a huge scale and international assistance is urgently required. So we turn to this weeks lectionary and we find Jesus telling a strange story about the fig tree which seems to suggest a way…a conditional way of dealing to rot and disaster, not so much by pretending the problem isn’t there – but rather calling for urgent action. This action needed while there is yet time.
The story is deceptively simple.
The landowner comes across the fig tree which is failing to produce.
He tells the gardener – get rid of it. The gardener says in effect. “Not just yet. We will give it one more opportunity. We will loosen the soil around it – add some fertilizer then after a year if it still fails to produce, then we will get rid of it, for if it still fails to produce the fruit it is designed to produce, it has no purpose for continued life”.
So what is that all about? I guess we might wonder if his listeners are expected to cast Jesus himself as the gardener. Is Jesus saying he comes and finds the fig tree which is not being the fruit tree it was intended to be. At least the analogy appears straightforward enough.
Many of us have talents atrophied through disuse. Sometimes these talents are the critical talents that might give perspective and meaning to our lives. Even if we are not great speakers or musicians, perhaps we have the talent for thinking and caring. Just as different fruit trees produce different fruit we don’t expect a fig tree to produce peaches – but just as if the potential to produce figs is there in the genetic makeup of the fig tree – our value to the community and world will be in developing what we have as our potential.
So at one level Jesus is just saying, if we look at our lives and see the wholesome fruits of our lives are not evident, we may still have another chance to put things right before we run out of chances…. BUT if we are hearing Jesus right we only have limited time. If we do nothing, the axe will fall.
Well that is fine as far as it goes, but if we read the story with care we start to notice a few clues that suggest Jesus was not talking about judgment in a heaven or hell context – and nor was he teaching that our lives would be longer and happy as long as we did the right things religion wise.
It seems quite likely that here in part Jesus may have been trying to remind his listeners – that sooner or later we need to be able to face up to what our lives and communities have really become. Or if you like reflecting on what is needed by a reordering of life’s values, which if attended to is a way of being ready.
Remember also how Jesus came to be telling the story in the first place.
In one sense he is dealing with an age-old game. Disaster has paid a visit. And here comes the first standard question. Were the victims partly responsible for their own misfortune? And the paraphrase of Jesus’ answer?…..
“Absolutely not but if you don’t repent, you won’t cope with the next disaster”. And in case we too want to be part of the blame game, remember in Christchurch it wasn’t the victims but rather the general population who allowed the skin heads and white supremacists to share their messages of hate and propaganda about undesirable Muslims. More to the point it didn’t help if the sort of people who heard others talking prejudice decided to do nothing.
At this distance of time and space, in the parable we cannot be certain that those bring the news of Pilate’s latest outrage might have been deliberately trying to wind Jesus up to get him to commit himself to a political response. Certainly two of his disciples, Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot were known to have zealot and Nationalistic sympathies. I can imagine them being surprised and even a little disturbed by Jesus’ odd little parable told in response.
The Temple scene certainly points to an uncomfortable situation developing between the Jews and their Roman conquerors. Some Galileans had been in the Temple and Pontius Pilate had apparently deliberately interfered with their temple ceremonies by having his soldiers burst in and slaughter them, and as if this was not enough he then mixes their blood with the blood of the sacrificed animals, thereby trampling the sensibilities of the general populace by showing his contempt for their religion.
The contemporary historian Josephus has recorded a number of Pilate’s actions which show this was quite in keeping with the sorts of ways he used to subjugate the population. Josephus reminds us for example that Pilate once stole the Temple money to pay for an aqueduct, then, dealt with the ensuing riot by having his soldiers use torture and public execution to crush the inevitable local uprising.
Jesus’ example of the tower collapse has a contemporary ring to it. Buildings, even today do fail, and just as the case whenever there is a substantial disaster, there will always be those who claim that it must have God’s will – perhaps punishing wrong doers. Remember back to the Christchurch Earthquakes when there were letters to the paper claiming that it was God’s punishment as a consequence of the poor morality of the people of Christchurch – blaming as I remember, the prostitutes in Manchester Street being allowed to ply their trade – not to mention an apparently liberal dean of Christchurch cathedral!
Jesus is ahead of this situation. He reminded his hearers that they should not think for one moment that the victims in Siloam were responsible for their fate… any more today that Muslims at worship in Christchurch were responsible for a deranged man bursting in with a semi-automatic. Or any more than flood or Tsunami victims have somehow offended God. Remember the disaster might simply follow the laws of nature, but the freedom part comes when a comparatively wealthy population like that in New Zealand has to decide if their politicians should be encouraged to offer aid to disaster victims overseas.
Prejudice is not simply a matter of a right wing nationalist wanting to gun down a three year old boy and other innocent people in a mosque– it is also ordinary people failing to notice those who arrive in our community without friends. Surely it is up to us to be making the first moves for friendship.
So what did you think when Jesus was saying that everybody needed to look at themselves as being in need of repentance. All, he said – which presumably means the Roman tyrants, the terrorists and the common people caught up in situations not of their making…..all – need repentance – and what it more – repentance before it is too late.
Jesus of course has a well deserved reputation of making astute observations. He clearly understood that people putting their faith in traditions and even the ancient stones of their most sacred buildings would not be enough to protect them from the gathering storm. But for all of us, sooner or later, the dark clouds will gather.
Although I agree we should be reminded of the ever-present threats of disaster, I do have one problem with the wording of the litany…especially when it says “Good Lord deliver us” Storms, fires, wars and famine are not new.” That is why peace making matters. That is why water supplies are critical. That is why the hurricane shelters must be built. And frankly if we know these things – why ask God to deliver us from the danger.
Now I know it is traditional to pray and expect God will answer, but I am coming to believe that at the very least, as with all intercessory prayers, this prayer should awaken our conscience to do something as part of the answer.
If we do not wish for famine, we must plan our food store – and of course food stores for those less able to fend for themselves. Disasters happen throughout the world as they have done through history and as they will continue to do. Our Rotary club for example helps in a small way by preparing disaster kits called shelter boxes which are deployed when hurricanes and Tsunamis hit the low lying Pacific Islands. Is this not part of the answer to such prayers? Notice at least the litany does not, and indeed cannot ask, that we be delivered from death, but notice the prayer does ask to be delivered from dying unprepared.
For me, prayer has little meaning unless I am prepared to allow myself to become involved in its answer. So in terms of avoiding dying unprepared, some of this preparation is simply planning. Will I have “donor” recorded on my driver’s licence? Will I organize for money to be set aside for my funeral? Is my will clear and easily accessible? And I guess from Jesus words this morning – part of the preparation for death must involve repentance of our own short-comings.
So given that life is finite, and often unexpectedly fragile, as we start to realise Lent is not simply a religious exercise but includes our preparation for Easter, why not look again at the way we have chosen to live?
The story of the fig tree contains some basic truths. Many of us do not bear the fruit in our lives we would like to bear. Check! Negative perhaps, but true nevertheless. But don’t forget another of these truths is positive. There may still be time to turn our lives around. Why not make this a feature of our season of Lent?
This entry was posted in Progressive Sermons, Sermons and tagged Christchurch Shootings, disaster relief, Fig Tree parable, Lent, Pilate, prejudice. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-20T23:04:11Z | https://billpeddie.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/lectionary-sermon-for-lent-3-c-24-march-2019-on-luke-13-1-9/ | Porn | Arts | 0.233724 |
wikipedia | This person's surname is Perez de Tagle.
Perez de Tagle in 2008.
Anna Maria Francesca Perez de Tagle (born December 23, 1990) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Ashley Dewitt on Hannah Montana and Ella Pador on Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. She also played Miracle Ross on Cake and was in the 2009 film Fame, in which she starred as Joy Moy. She also went on tour with the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato (Jonas Brothers Live in Concert). In November 2011, she began starring on Broadway in the Godspell revival at the Circle in the Square theater in New York City.
Perez de Tagle was born in San Francisco, California, and is of Filipino descent.
She got engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Scott Kline, on November 11, 2018.
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2008 Higglytown Heroes Safety Patrol Member Hero (voice) Episode: "Wayne's Toasty Invention / Spell It Safe"
2013 Baby Daddy Jenna Episode: "The Slump"
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^ a b c "Disney Fil-Am star headed for big time", by Ricardo F. Lo, July 01, 2008, The Philippine Star.
^ Angeles, Steve (November 12, 2018). "Actress Anna Maria Perez de Tagle engaged". Balitang America. Retrieved January 4, 2019. | 2019-04-21T01:05:17Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Maria_Perez_de_Tagl%C3%A9 | Porn | Reference | 0.442592 |
wordpress | Every so often life throws you a curveball. Something that comes out of nowhere to seriously mess things up.
And occasionally that “something” that knocked you down is followed by “something else” that gives you a good kicking while you are trying to get up.
Luckily that doesn’t happen very often, thank God. (Other Deities may be available).
But, at the risk of sounding like the Labour party at the 1997 election, just remember that Things Can Only Get Better.
…….you can’t demand to see life’s manager and complain.
You could make lemonade, of course. Or start looking for someone with the gin and have a party!
Sometimes it’s the small things in life that can turn a bad situation around.
You just need to look for the “gin” to add to your “lemon”. (Other drinks are available).
A couple of weeks ago I was saying to my son how I had an ever growing “bucket list” of places to visit and things to do. Unfortunately, due to a couple of curve-balls, these big plans had temporarily been put on hold.
He asked what would be my idea of a perfect day. What if I could choose anything?
And suddenly it was the small things that mattered.
Not visiting the Taj Mahal or seeing the Northern Lights, although both are on my bucket list.
Not white water rafting in the smoky mountains or hot air ballooning – I’ve done both of those already.
No, it was having my family around my big oak dining table playing board games.
And that’s just what happened this weekend. The kids came home for Sunday Dinner. A roast with all the trimmings. Then we played board games together. Perfect. | 2019-04-19T06:43:21Z | https://cityadventurers.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/keep-looking-for-the-gin-to-go-with-your-lemon/ | Porn | Games | 0.408882 |
salon | The long arm of the law may soon make an entrance into the unfolding scandal involving Chris Christie and lane closures on the George Washington Bridge.
According to a report from the New York Times, federal prosecutors in New Jersey are planning "a preliminary inquiry" into the scandal.
A source with knowledge of the plans said that the United States attorney for New Jersey, Paul J. Fishman, would announce the investigation on Thursday morning.
The decision to open an inquiry came after the matter was referred to the office by the inspector general for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the bridge, the source said. | 2019-04-26T16:02:03Z | https://www.salon.com/2014/01/09/report_u_s_attorney_to_open_inquiry_into_christie_bridge_scandal/ | Porn | News | 0.870624 |
wordpress | P.G. Wodehouse is best known for his contribution to literature, as a novelist and short story writer, but for much of his long career, Wodehouse spread his writing efforts widely, in fields as diverse as journalism, musical theatre, and Hollywood screen writing.
One of Wodehouse’s early associations (circa 1901 -1910) was as a contributor, and later editor, of The Globe‘s By The Way column. Apart from a By The Way Book (1908), his work on that column has never before been collected – until earlier this year, when group of Wodehouse experts formed the P. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project. This massive undertaking is an exciting new development of great interest to Wodehouse readers who wish to delve deeper into the seemingly endless output of this prolific writer.
Frances Donaldson gives this example (which I rather like) from the By The Way Book (which Wodehouse called an ‘awful production’) in her biography.
*Lipton, who founded Lipton tea, was also famous as a yachtsman in his day.
While Wodehouse’s work for the Globe may not have been the best writing of his career, Wodehouse fans eagerly await to see what will be unearthed by theP. G. Wodehouse Globe Reclamation Project –and any new insights they might provide into the work we are already familiar with.
It is a terrific undertaking, and Wodehouse fans are indebted to the members of this group who have devoted hours of their time to unearthing new nuggets of Wodehousian delight for our enjoyment. You can follow their exploits via the excellent Madame Eulalie website, which has been another much appreciated resource for Wodehouse lovers for some years.
How wonderful it is to be a Wodehouse fan.
Thanks for the lovely article, Jen! P.G. was always modest or self-deprecating about his work when speaking for publication (Against the code to brag). Re: the the Usborne quote, remember he was writing to a writer who was interviewing him for a book and I’m sure he intended for that line to be quoted. It was part of the benign image he wanted to project to fans. I do think he did write some slosh – the limericks in Books of To-day, the boilerplate “turnovers” for the Globe, and a few other dashed things, but overwhelmingly the early newspaper and magazine material is remarkably up to snuff and bursting with his inimitable style and wit. A more telling remark was one he made to Jasen: “The curious thing about those early days is that in spite of the blizzard of rejection slips, I had the most complete confidence in myself. I knew I was good.” I think that’s a more accurate description about how he really felt about those days than quotes he manufactured for other writers to use.
It is very kind of you to comment on my piece John. I agree (and ought to have mentioned) that we can’t take Wodehouse at his own modest word, especially when it comes to evaluating his own work.
It is easy to understand the view of the older Wodehouse, who by the 1950s was a widely acknowledged master of his craft. He would naturally be inclined to cast a critical eye over his earlier work. I can relate to that feeling. I recently unearthed some of my own early writing, which I thought was genius at the time, but makes for painfully bad reading now.
The difference is of course that even the young Wodehouse was a gifted and amusing writer, and that whatever his own assessment of this period might be, it remains of great interest to us – his fans and readers. Your project is such an exciting one and I am greatly honoured that you have taken the time to comment.
It is good the know that efforts are being maid to unearth some of his earlier works. One looks forward to such buried gems with a keen sense of anticipation.
Absolutely. I am frothing with excitement. | 2019-04-25T13:54:42Z | https://honoriaplum.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/wodehouse-by-the-way/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | Reference | 0.079757 |
wordpress | We are an informal friendly gathering of professional creative practitioners from different art forms that meet once a month to share and extend our practice.
Originally written by Kate Foster and myself for ecoartscotland the following blog gives an overview of work we have been doing around Land Use.
Some of the really central challenges for artists working with land use issues are highlighted by Kate Foster and Claire Pençak including the discipline and practice specific languages used by environmental scientists and land managers as well as the dominance of Geographical Information Systems technologies. Kate Foster and Claire Pençak’s projects demonstrate some of the best approaches that can be learnt from the past 60 years of ecoart and the longer history of art.
Read them aloud to really taste the waters. | 2019-04-19T23:13:19Z | https://clairepencak.wordpress.com/author/tabularasadance/ | Porn | Arts | 0.992923 |
wordpress | It was a very exciting morning in Y4NW as the replies from our friends in Rwanda arrived! Most of our children had a letter addressed to them from their new penpal and we had so much fun reading them; finding out about their favourite hobbies, foods and subjects.
We had to cancel what we were meant to be doing in literacy to write our replies. It was amazing to hear from children living so far away and find we have so much in common!
I must say a special thank you to my friend Petra, who made this link happen, we can’t wait to hear back!
How long is a longship?
Well we now know, having measured out life size drawings of the Viking boats on the yard this morning! We braved wind and even a little bit of rain to mark out 28 metre long longships using tape measures and chalk. Here’s a few pictures of the children hard at work.
Can you work out how many times you would fit into a longship if you were lying head to toe?
Before Christmas Y4NW wrote letters to students at a school in Rwanda, Africa. They were delivered a few weeks ago by my friend Petra, who works in the north of the country. The children were very excited to hear about life in England and have now written back! The letters were posted yesterday, I can’t wait to read them!
If you want to join the dance in town, along with hundreds of others, meet at the Peace Gardens at 12.30 on Saturday 14th February!
Well done to all the Y4 children who started swimming lessons today! Lots of our children had never been in a pool before; they were so brave to get into the water and have a splash around today. Well done and don’t forget your swimmers every Tuesday from now on!
I just want to say what a lot of effort you are putting into your learning! Again lots of children with no mistakes in Maths and lots of children with 100% in spellings (pictured). Keep it up!
The Y4 teachers were lucky enough to have a sneak preview of some of the activities we’ll be doing at Thornbridge today! We had a go at the low ropes course and walked through the fields to Ashford. We had a whale of a time and can’t wait for our residential in March!
Here are a few sneaky action photos of Miss Holman, Mrs Kirby and Jodi in action – can you guess who was behind the camera?! | 2019-04-23T02:48:24Z | https://y4wcm.wordpress.com/2015/02/ | Porn | Kids | 0.325669 |
wordpress | too loud in you now silent mind.
I’m afraid there’s no physical escape.
how the blood slows in your veins.
I know how it feels my friend.
I’ve held many like you before.
I question if you wanted this.
an inferno of iridescent light?
burning you till your frozen inside and out.
of pain in our love.
too perfect to be truth.
like the petals of youth.
music with each painful verse.
sweeter her fragile singing voice.
no longer feel a thing. | 2019-04-23T21:50:34Z | https://kathrynsblogcreative.wordpress.com/page/2/ | Porn | Arts | 0.844582 |
livejournal | Memo to self - Rob: At your service.
no more nights out on the town with your co-workers. You're not used anymore to spending all night in a club drinking too much. And besides, your female co-workers are all at least 8 years younger.
no more spending money for the next two weeks. Save for EF. I know you bought the flatpanel monitor, but that's IT! Learn to control your shopping urges.
no more stalling your personal financial paperwork.
get a mugshot to the office for your savingscard. Free entrance to rollercoasterpark included. You know you want it.
"And besides, your female co-workers are all at least 8 years younger."
And hmm, shopping. @__@ Hope the hangover won't hit you tomorrow. | 2019-04-24T15:55:18Z | https://rob-d.livejournal.com/113978.html?thread=259130 | Porn | Shopping | 0.490979 |
wordpress | Mark your calenders! This years annual Central Coast Oyster Festival will be held between October 18-19th, 2013, in Morro Bay.
Live Art, Entertainment & Education accompany this event in one of the most unique, beautiful, creative settings the Central Coast has ever seen. With art event installations from The Do LaB and SpinCycle the atmosphere created wowed the attendees and this year has such a great response expected attendance will be well over 6000. This year the The Central Coast Oyster Festival is also bringing a new fundraiser tradition to benefit OPTIONS Family of Services. Many local bands like TROPO and Neon Russell will be playing and over 20 gourmet food vendors will be featured. This event is definitely one you won’t want to miss. Buy a VIP ticket and get your own Butler to serve you food and beverages throughout the festival. In addition all participants will be able to lounge on Butlerz Events high end furnishings as part of their experience. We hope to see you there!
The ocean is a plethora of neverending mysteries. Read on to discover some of its surprising facts.
1. 99% of all living space exists exclusively under the ocean, and 50-80% of all life on earth dwells in the sea. This means that we as human beings have hardly seen the massive matter our planet contains!
2. The highest tides in the world are located at the Bay of Fundy. They range from about 50-70 feet daily. In a period of 12 hours, approximately 115 billion tons of water flow in and out every day.
3. The largest recorded tsunami was in Alaska and measured 60 m (approx. 180 ft.) above sea level.
4. There are more artifacts located in the ocean than there are in all of the museums on the plant combined.
5. The longest mountain range and volcano range exist under the ocean.
6. A fully grown blue whale weighs between 150-170 tons and is the largest known animal to ever exist on our planet. To get an idea, that is equal to more than 50 fully grown elephants.
7. 95% of the earth’s oceans has been unexplored by man. As of today, we have better maps of how Mars looks than the ocean floor.
8. Half of the entire world population lives within 60 miles of a coastline. Since the beach is a favorable spot and weather is more mild, people like to be closer to the coast.
9. The Mid-Ocean Range is the longest mountain range on earth. It is 40,400 miles long underwater and stretches the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic. Put in perspective, it is 4 times longer than the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined.
10. 50% of the entire United States lies underwater. We as human beings are unconscious of the extraordinary amount of landmass that lies below our level of awareness.
On December 22, 1941, the Montebello of San Luis Obispo prepared itself for its voyage back to the western coast. The crew members loaded over 78,000 barrels of oil which was meant to be supplied to the war effort. Unfortunately, that ship never reached its destination. Not too long after it had set sail, Japanese invaders had successfully torpedoed the ship and its cargo would become forever lost at sea. Captain Ekstrom yelled orders to stand to by the lifeboats and abandon ship. Quickly many of the crewmembers did as they were told and hurried to escape. Luckily in the aftermath of it all, the captain was successful in saving everyone in the 38-member crew. However, as the years passed the Montebello would come to elicit more problems than the local community would expect. Decades later in 1996 when the Montebello was rediscovered, scientists had rediscovered the ship along with its 78,000 barrels of crude oil. Although carefully intact, they figured out that if any of the barrels ever began to leak, it would cause a serious threat to the surrounding wildlife and San Luis Obispo community. California assemblyman Sam Blakeslee contacted the Unified Command led by the U.S. Coast Guard and California Department of Fish to conduct further testing to determine if there was a substantial oil threat. After a few years of research and experiments they finally concluded in 2012 that the ship would pose no harm and decided to leave it intact as it is. The U.S. coast guard along with the Department of Fish still say that the continual checkup on the Montebello must be implicated every so often to prevent future hazards from arriving.
Mini Day-Trip at the Beach!
Planning a mini day trip to the beach with your family during spring break can be a great time to bond and have some fun!
Start off the day by making sandcastles. The mornings are best for this activity because the wet sand stretches farther from the shoreline, meaning you do not have to make several trips to the water’s edge to get your ammunition. The foggy air that still lingers in the early day also allows the sand castle to be easily molded.
Once you get a group together, start making different figures like castles or tunnels. Holding mini competitions between your friends to see who can make the best sand structure can be extremely fun. If you want to inspire your friends with some awesome sand castle structures, we recommend watching Sand Masters. This show will definitely put them in sand castle mode!
Once the day starts warming up, grill some dogs and enjoy your sandcastle art on the beach. Freshly cooked hot dogs along with a cool potato salad side makes the perfect beach lunch and is easy enough to cook so that you don’t have to worry about spending extensive time preparing a delicious meal.
After a relaxing lunch, get out your sports gear and play some volleyball! With the right group setting, volleyball can be an enjoyable activity that gets everyone actively involved. Whether you decide to play competitively or just toss the ball around, this game creates a good stimulating change from the lazy atmosphere of the beach.
After settling down from a good game, take some time to just relax and hang out on the beach. Gazing at the sunset or making a bonfire while watching the waves is great way to end the day and leave with a peaceful mind.
And that sums our mini-day trip idea for the beach. Hope you enjoyed it and please comment/blog your thoughts!
Spending the day at the beach can make you hungrier more often than you realize.
To get the most out of your day, bringing snacks with a lot of carbohydrates or protein will sustain your energy so you won’t have to worry about giving out midday. While you can always buy food from the concession stands, it often isn’t the best choice since it is expensive.
Almonds, peanuts, pretzels, goldfish, m&m’s, and popcorn. Making your own unique trail mix can be fun and tasty. This combination of trail mix is a unique and personal favorite and tingles every sense of your tongue. Balance healthy snacks with tasty snacks so you can satisfy your cravings every so often while you’re playing in the sand.
A typical chicken or turkey sandwich has 14 grams of protein. Wrap a slice on a piece of bread to make an easy and efficient snack that will give you long term energy.
Banana slices, strawberries, mango, grapes. Expelling a lot of energy at the beach can easily make your mouth dry, so staying hydrated is important. Fruits have roughly 50-80% water and are high in potassium.
Chill them in the cooler and they’ll stay fresh all day.
There are certain power bars that are very nutritional, while others are actually a detriment to your body. According to Jenna Holt, an expert on nutrition, Kind Blueberry Pecan and Quest Coconut Cashew are said to be some of the healthiest power bars, while Luna and Cliffe are the worst.
Simplicity is such a wonderful thing. Cheese is full of protein and is practical for a beach environment since it is convenient to pack. Bringing individual slices minimizes the amount of sand that could potentially get in your food. You can slide them in your chicken sandwich. | 2019-04-26T06:31:33Z | https://beachbutlerz.wordpress.com/tag/central-coast/ | Porn | Science | 0.444849 |
wordpress | It is a wonderful time of year to be thankful and give thanks to the people and things that mean mean the most to you. On Tuesday, November 29, you have the opportunity to show your thanks to Circle City Curling Club. November 29 is #GivingTuesday, an annual event to kick off the charitable season, when many focus … More Giving Tuesday!
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tripod | The 0.59-carat diamond known as the Rob Red after its owner, Mr. Robert Bogel, is an extremely rare and unique collector's item. It was presumably found in one of the alluvial (i.e. ancient river) deposits located within the remote interior of Brazil.
The most famous Brazilian red diamond (also the most famous red diamond, period) is a 0.95-carat round brilliant known as the Hancock Red, named after Mr. Warren Hancock, a notable colored diamond connoisseur, who began collecting these rarities in the early 1950s until his death in 1981 at the age of 65. While he also owned several other notable colored diamonds it was his 0.95-carat red stone that made news when it was sold at Christie's in 1987 for $880,000. A 5.05-carat red diamond known as the De Young Red resides in the Smithsonian Institute. This diamond is quite large but has a brown overtone. Brownish-red diamonds notably more common than ruby-like pure reds.
As a unique coincidence, Mr. Robert Bogel who is an astute dealer of colored diamonds in New York City for more than 30 years had spent many of his early years in the various diamond mining districts throughout Brazil searching for rough colored diamonds, is now reunited with a fragment of the past.
"The Rob Red Diamond is the most saturated and purest red diamond measured visually and instrumentally to date in the world," says Stephen Hofer, the renowned gemologist, color scientist, and author of Collecting and Classifying Fancy Color Diamonds. Hofer reports that the 0.59-carat pear-shape Rob Red deserves the title of Fancy Intense Red, exceeding the purity and saturation of red in the famous Hancock Red Diamond.
One interesting note reguarding the Hancock Red Diamond is that the recorded strength of color for the stone, which is Fancy Purplish-Red, was the highest level ever recorded for a natural red diamond. Since that time, a handful of other pure red or purplish-red diamonds have come to light—the Moussaieff Red, for example—but all have received color grades of simply Fancy, rather than the more saturated Fancy Intense. This was all prior to the measurements of the 0.59-carat stone shown above. Hence the Rob Red is the most saturated red diamond ever recorded with a modern instrument. This diamond is also quite unique because it is relatively free of inclusions, being VS1 clarity, hence it is one of the 'cleanest' red diamonds in existence.
After careful examination by other diamond experts, this stone has the potential to be labled by the world's colored diamond collectors and connoissures as the most important red diamond in the world. | 2019-04-18T16:21:08Z | http://famousdiamonds.tripod.com/robreddiamond.html | Porn | Science | 0.260578 |
typepad | Q. How is George feeling these days?
A. Whenever I ask my dad how he is feeling he always says the same thing, no matter what: "So so." Translation: "I've been better... and I've been worse." He's a stoic guy, to say the least. To look at him, he doesn't look that different from before his diagnosis. Yes, he still has hair though it is thinner, and he still looks fit and healthy but, like his hair, he is thinner than before, especially in his arms and legs (chemo does a number on muscle mass). His color is good but some of that is from the chemo glow (one tends to look a little tan during treatment). But in terms of how he is feeling, most of his symptoms are either direct side-effects from the chemo, or side-effects of the the drugs to combat the side-effects of the chemo. Some of these he battles every day, some are more acute in the week following chemo: Nausea, fatigue, mouth sores, hiccups, heartburn, minimal appetite, sleeplessness. The one symptom he battles that seems specific to the cancer is a persistent belly pain. Some days it is worse than other days, but it is a near-constant companion now. This is a change in the last couple of weeks. Before it would come and go, tending to be more painful during the treatment weeks.
He is not bedridden. He's still very active: Watering Christmas and apple trees, cleaning the pool, battling gofers, tending bees, etc. He just does these things a bit more slowly, and with more breaks and some naps sprinkled in.
Q. How much chemo has he had?
A. Last week, George had his sixth round of Folfirinox (combo of three chemo drugs). These are the big guns when it comes to chemo for pancreatic cancer. The best they've got right now. It is rough, though, and some people are not strong enough for it. This regiment is 3 days of chemo (1 day in the infusion center, and 2 days at home), and then 11 days off. Every 14 days he's in the chemo lounge. One thing we learned: Monday is crazy busy in the infusion center, so we recently switched to Tuesdays. When I was going through chemo I learned about lidocain cream to help ease the pain of accessing the port, and that when they flush the port you get the taste of the saline in your mouth -- so sucking on a hard candy at the end of treatment is very helpful (especially since that saline squirt can kick off a cycle of nausea coming like that at the end of loading up on chemo). It's been nice sharing these tricks with my dad.
Q. How much chemo will he have?
A. There is no end date set. Because he's stage IV, he'll have continuous chemo until 1) the cancer no longer responds (i.e stops being stable or shrinking), or 2) the cons to George's health/quality of life out-weigh the benefits.
Q. What about surgery or radiation?
As for radiation, it isn't always used in fighting pancreatic cancer because in order for radiation to work, there must be oxygen in the mass(s). Pancreatic cancer is incredibly dense with very little oxygen present. Doctors and patients use it on a case-by-case basis. In George's situation, his doctors have opted against using it.
Q. How often are the masses monitored?
A. Approximately every 3 months George will have a PET scan. He's had two so far. The next one is coming up in September. The last one showed the masses to be responding to the chemo. While they had not shrunk as we'd hoped, they were at least stable -- and no new masses were found.
I asked George if there was anything he'd add to this, anything he wanted people to know. He said simply, Thank you for all the support! I second that: Cancer fighting can be very lonely, both for patients and caregivers. It helps to know so many people are thinking about him and our family as we go through this.
I remember three little vignettes in the Learning to Drive chapter of my teen years, all featuring my dad. I drove a lot with my mom, too, but I prefered having my dad as a teacher. He was always calm.
Fashion: Dad said, "Always wear sensible shoes and your sunglasses." Up to this point sunglasses had been singularly a fashion accessory, not a precaution against blindness, and I deliberately did not own "sensible" shoes (unless we were talking about combat boots).
Embarrassment: The time I stopped at a stop sign on the slightest of hills and promptly panicked when the car behind me appeared to pull up to nearly kissing my bumper. Fearing I'd roll back into this car when I simultaneously operated all three foot pedals, I made/begged my dad go out and explain to the driver that they had to go around me. Mercifully they did. I busied myself with something on the passenger seat to avoid eye-contact with them. My dad and I sightly vow to never speak of this again.
Late Nights: Driving home after dark after night classes at the Jr. College. Earlier in the day I would have been dropped off for classes and then later, after working all day at IBM, and going home for dinner, my dad would come all the way back down the mountain to retrieve me. I'd then slide behind the wheel and drive the 15 miles back up the winding, dark highway so I could get some driving practice in. Often he'd doze off as we drove. I'm sure we talked but mostly I remember him being tired after a day that had begun before dawn. As he slept, I'd practice shifting gears so smoothly it was almost imperceptible -- just as he'd challenged me to do. More than once he'd suddenly jerk awake and lunge for the steering wheel, thinking he'd fallen asleep while driving. I've got it, Dad, it's ok. I've got it.
I've got it, Dad, it's ok. I've got it. | 2019-04-24T12:56:45Z | https://aprilandjoseph.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/07/?asset_id=6a00d8341d81eb53ef01a511e28097970c | Porn | Home | 0.555494 |
wordpress | Would you pick up a stick of Dynamite with a short lit fuse? You could I suppose, but it wouldn’t be a good idea. Would you go up to every stray dog on the street and try to pet it? You could, but again – not a good idea.
I MISS THE DAYS when any road trip involved stopping along the way to enjoy all of the wonderful Roadside Attractions. When I was a kid my Dad would pull off the road so we could “ooh” and “ahh” at the Rattlesnake Farm and the World’s Largest Ball of Twine or to stop for a snack at the café that boasted 72 flavors of ice cream.
These days there aren’t as many of those reasons to stop along the way. To find such interesting sights you have to tune into the vibes along the highway and keep your eyes peeled. That is what we’ve been doing while on the road.
TRAVEL IS ADVENTURE! OK, I’M COOL WITH THAT – UP TO A POINT. Once that point is reached it ceases to be adventure and becomes a serious pain in the Gluteus Maximus.
Tuesday and Wednesday were travel, and I guess, a bit of high adventure. But on Friday and Saturday it all became a pain in my Levi’s.
Friday Morning: I came out to the Toyota to transport my wife, the lovely and officially present, Dawn, and friends Carol and Martin, to a meeting where I was blissfully not needed. En route a sensor light came on telling me that I had a tire in need of air. We took a short detour to a nearby gas station and, for a buck we got the offending tire nice and plump again.
Come Saturday morning I took a peek at the car and I could see the tire in question was looking flabby again. It was time to have the tire repaired or replaced.
LAST YEAR WAS A TIME OF TRAVEL FOR US. Our seven weeks in Ireland was followed by about 10 days in Detroit, then a week in Texas. That was all squeezed into the period from early April to early July.
This year promises to be more sedate, but hardly comatose. We’ve already done one trip to Texas with another booked for Mid-July. In between there will be another 10 day sojourn, this time to Georgia near Atlanta. After that the calendar looks empty as far as travel is concerned – until the Holidays late in the year.
SOMETIMES YOU SEE OR HEAR SOMETHING THAT JUST TICKLES YOUR RIBS and makes you laugh out loud. I’m not talking about hearing a comedian on TV, but something that comes out of somebody’s clever imagination. Something that you weren’t expecting that reaches out and hits the proverbial nail right on the head. I had one of those yesterday morning. A friend posted a comment on Facebook that hit me as so unusual, so out of literal context, but so right in its imagery that it stopped me in my tracks.
The general context was a discussion about a person’s irrational (read cuckoo) thinking about things when my friend posted this picture.
WE ARE DOWN IN TEXAS FOR A SHORT VISIT. Not only is that a good thing in and of itself, but the weather is certainly better than up north – no snow and I’m actually going around clad in the season’s first outings for my Hawaiian shirts. I look like a tourist.
Another difference, whether we travel to Texas, Ireland, or wherever is local television. Local television outside of your major markets is where you can see careers beginning, careers flourishing, and careers ending – sometimes all within the span of a few days.
FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS (AT LEAST) WE’VE HAD A MAJOR CHANGE take place in our television viewing habits. I think that this change has come about because of two things; Online services such as Netflix and Hulu among a number of others have begun to air some new and very creative programming. Just about everyone else has been wallowing in a Political Stew that has been tasteless, without any real meat, and triggering my gag reflex.
So, we were faced with a choice: Enjoy some new and excellent programs or endure sphincter clenching broadcast venom.
Not a difficult decision – let someone else watch all the stuff with zombies.
I DO LOVE BEING MILDLY SURPRISED by the actions of people. Sometimes those surprise actions are not good, but on most days they are downright delightful.
The other day I had the opportunity or the need, depending on your point of view, to be a passenger in a Customer Service Van. The driver was the kind of fellow you don’t soon forget.
My guess is that he was a native son of some place in the hills south of the old Mason-Dixon Line, or as we used to call that part of the South, “Pennsyltucky.” His accent was thick enough that you would need a chainsaw to cut it through. His language was filled with the ultra colorful language of the hills. Imagine the reality of what the old TV show “Hee-Haw” tried and failed to recreate.
IF THERE IS ONE THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT IRELAND it’s that it is an island. No matter how lost you may become it is undeniable that if you come to the ocean it is time to turn around. Trying to go further can only have bad consequences or the need to learn another language on short notice.
I WAS EXPECTING A PIÑATA shaped like a shamrock. Or maybe a sheep – or even a potato, but the perfect image for Cinco de Mayo in Ireland seems to be this.
While St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated around the world, including Mexico, with parades and festivals, Cinco de Mayo doesn’t get much play in Ireland. While the Diaspora planted Irish souls in almost every country on earth, the cross pollination of Mexicans into Ireland has never reached major numbers.
ONE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE, among the multitude I must admit, is one that can be both embarrassing, along with the potential for getting my head kicked in.
I have the habit, unconscious though it may be, of slipping into whatever accent I hear around me. It’s a sort of a Zelig thing (Old Woody Allen movie, look it up). If I am conversing with someone from Louisiana it will take me just a few minutes before I find myself starting to talk like someone straight out of the bayou.
If I was on the other end of that conversation I would think that this fool (me) was either making fun of me or just plain nuts. I am not trying to make fun of anyone and, well – let’s not go there, OK? | 2019-04-24T20:05:52Z | https://johnkraft.wordpress.com/category/accents/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.112589 |
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Marcella also serves on a wide variety of for-profit and nonprofit boards, including EP Technology, developer and licensor of non-thermal plasma to solve problems in healthcare and biological sciences; Case Western Reserve University’s Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, which advances the scholarship and practice of flourishing enterprise; American Jewish World Service, which is dedicated to ending poverty and realizing human rights in the developing world; and Hannah Senesh Community Day School. Marcella also actively engages in nurturing vibrant Jewish life in her local communities. She holds a Stanford MBA and a BA from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs. Marcella, along with her husband, three sons and daughter, resides in Brooklyn, NY; Akron, OH; and Chautauqua, NY. | 2019-04-25T07:46:51Z | https://lkflt.wordpress.com/board-and-staff/marcella-kanfer-rolnick/ | Porn | Business | 0.744465 |
salon | The American right wing loves to hate Big Government, but does size matter? Perhaps the problem is not Big Government, but Dumb Government, Inefficient Government or even Corrupt, Sold-Out, or Inept Government. The recent bombshell Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, dropped – that rice contains dangerous levels of arsenic – illustrates how good, effective government can save lives by keeping deadly toxins out of the food supply whereas our federal bureaucracy (aided, abetted and cajoled by industry) has instead let us down.
In short: you don’t want this in your food.
“When you're talking about a carcinogen [like arsenic], there is no safe level,” Consumers Union’s senior scientist Michael Hansen explains. Instead of eliminating all risk, one looks at carcinogens in terms of levels of risk. For example, Consumers Union provides a table explaining how much rice one can eat to achieve a 1 in 1,000 lifetime risk of cancer. The federal government does not limit the amount of arsenic allowed in food, so Consumers Union based its standard on the EPA’s initial recommendation for arsenic limits in drinking water (five parts per billion).
In fact, the drinking water standard – which is now set at 10 parts per billion (ppb) – is a fine place to begin the story of how government, industry and arsenic fit together. Arsenic is a naturally occurring element, but the U.S. has increased the amount of arsenic in our environment and our farmland over the past century by using 1.6 million tons of it in agricultural and industrial uses. About half of that amount has been used since the mid-1960s.
Once in the environment, arsenic – a chemical element and a heavy metal – does not break down and go away as do some toxins. Once so much arsenic was sprayed on farms, it was in the environment for good – and it could find its way into our food and water. U.S. limits on arsenic in drinking water were set at 50 ppb in 1942, before arsenic was classified as a carcinogen. But a 1999 report by the National Academy of Sciences showed that this level failed to protect Americans from an unacceptably high risk of cancer.
The EPA then proposed lowering the limit for arsenic from 50 ppb to just 5 ppb in 2000. Industry complained, and the Clinton-era EPA settled upon lowering the limit to just 10 ppb instead. Once George W. Bush took office, he initially attempted to block the change, thus keeping the World War II-era limit of 50 ppb. By November 2001, the Bush administration gave in to allowing the 10 ppb limit to go forward. Even still, Sen. Barbara Boxer noted that this 10 ppb limit would allow three times as much cancer risk as the EPA’s usual goal.
Arsenic in food deserves some special concern, and yet there are no regulations limiting it. In addition to arsenic used in industry that finds its way onto farms, there is arsenic used in agriculture that the farmers themselves bring to their farms, a practice almost dating back to the Civil War.
Long before the days of DDT, the first synthetic pesticides were arsenicals. An arsenical paint pigment called Paris green was first used against Colorado potato beetles in 1867. Even then, arsenic’s deadly toxicity was well known – Will Allen tells in his book, The War on Bugs, how farmers lost cattle after they ate potato plants treated with Paris green. Other arsenic pesticides, London purple and lead arsenic, soon followed Paris green onto the market. By the 1930s, “well over a hundred million people in the United States suffered from mild to severe arsenic and lead poisoning,” writes Allen.
Yet the end of arsenic as a favored pesticide did not come from government – it came from nature and from the chemical companies. As pests evolved resistance to arsenical pesticides and as chemical companies supplanted arsenicals with newer products, arsenicals fell out of favor. Only then did the government begin canceling some of the registrations of arsenical pesticides.
And yet, even after arsenicals were displaced by other pesticides for most uses, half of the arsenic used in the U.S. has been in the last half century. Recent uses of arsenic fall into two categories: livestock drugs and pesticides.
Until recently, the arsenical livestock drugs roxarsone, nitarsone, carbarsone and arsanilic acid were all used in chickens, turkeys and swine. Roxarsone was widely used for disease prevention, weight gain, feed efficiency and improved pigmentation in chickens from 1944 until it was voluntarily removed from the market by Pfizer in 2011 following the revelation that chickens fed roxarsone had inorganic arsenic in their livers. The latter three are all still legal, regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.
As pesticides, many arsenicals were phased out over the years, but some uses remain. In 2006, the EPA attempted to essentially ban the remaining uses of organic arsenicals, because "following application, these pesticides convert over time to a more toxic form in soil, inorganic arsenic, and potentially contaminate drinking water through soil runoff." Following outcry from industry, EPA backed away from its initial decision.
All organic arsenicals except one herbicide, monosodium methanearsonate (MSMA), were banned as of 2009. After that time, MSMA could still be used on sod farms, golf courses and highway rights of way until the end of 2013. After that, only one remaining us of any organic arsenical would be permitted: MSMA on cotton.
As luck would have it, the six rice-growing states are among the top cotton-growing states: Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas top the list, with California, Louisiana and Missouri each growing significant cotton acreage as well. Rice is so susceptible to taking up arsenic because it is often grown in fields flooded with water. In fact, a 2008 study found that growers can reduce the amount of total and inorganic arsenic in rice by growing it under “aerobic” (not flooded) conditions. And yet the same states that grow rice are also the cotton-growing states where MSMA is still used.
So why does the EPA still allow MSMA on cotton if arsenicals are so bad that they are banned on absolutely everything else? Two words: Palmer amaranth. Despite years of warnings, biotech and chemical companies and cotton growers have created the perfect weed. Palmer amaranth has evolved resistance to both ALS inhibitor herbicides and to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup, and one plant can produce half a million seeds.
Weeds commonly evolve resistance to ALS inhibitors, much more so than for any other class of herbicides. But resistance to glyphosate was almost unheard of before Monsanto first introduced its Roundup Ready genetically engineered crops to the market in 1996. Glyphosate use shot up, giving weeds the evolutionary force needed to develop resistance. Nowhere was this truer than on fields that rotated between two Roundup Ready crops, soybeans and cotton.
Glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth first turned up in GE soybeans and cotton in Georgia in 2005 and before long it was documented across the U.S. including in the rice-growing states of Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, and California. In some case, resistance to both types of herbicides was found in the same Palmer amaranth plant. The weed has caused growers to turn to more toxic herbicides, hand-weeding, and even entirely abandoning their fields.
One last direct outlet for arsenic into agricultural lands comes from sewage sludge. Under current EPA regulations, sewage sludge containing 41 parts per million – 41,000 parts per billion – total arsenic can be applied to agricultural land and even sold to consumers for home garden and lawn use. (Full disclosure: I recently worked on the Center for Media & Democracy’s sewage sludge campaign, which opposed the use of sewage sludge in agriculture.) Under existing law, farmers can apply sewage sludge containing up to 41 kilograms of arsenic per hectare of land.
Consumers Union recently sent and published three letters, one to the EPA, one to the FDA and one to the USDA, asking them to rectify all of the problems named in this article so that no more arsenic finds its way into U.S. farms and so that standards are set for how much arsenic is allowed into our food supply. They also commend Congress for introducing the R.I.C.E. Act (Reducing Food-Based Inorganic and Organic Compounds Exposure Act) and they advocate its speedy passage (which is not likely in the current politically charged environment).
When citizens reflect on the size of their government, surely most would agree that it ought to be “big” enough to keep arsenic out of the food supply. But the comedy of errors between three different agencies that allowed so much arsenic onto our farms and then our dinner tables is exactly the sort of disaster that causes voters to throw up their hands and wish the government would go away altogether. Yet, if Hansen is correct, the incompetence shown in this case was not a matter of bureaucratic ineptness but one of industry’s capture over the agencies charged with regulating it. Voters going to the polls need to recognize the problem. Instead of voting for candidates who vow to get government out of our lives we should be voting for leaders willing to take a stand against undue corporate influence. | 2019-04-22T04:41:37Z | https://www.salon.com/2012/10/08/arsenic_its_whats_for_dinner/ | Porn | Health | 0.581777 |
yahoo | It's only a month until everyone's back in the classroom. Time to start shopping!
Labour Day will be here before we know it, and while more than 50 per cent of Canadians are looking forward to getting back to a routine, more than one-third say expenses are their top stressor when it comes to back-to-school shopping.
That’s according to a recent Ebates.ca poll, which also found that 45 per cent of Canadians spend between $100 and $200 per child, and nearly 25 per cent are spending more than that.
Blame the steep costs on the modern era: electronics are at the top of most parents’ shopping lists. Today’s young learners are plugged in, and it’s costing their parents. Twenty-seven per cent of Canadians bought tablets for their kids, while 21 per cent had to cough up money for a computer.
Good old-fashioned items like pens, pencils, erasers and notepads are still must-haves, but unlike decades past so are things like headphones, chargers and USB drives. As a result, back-to-school spending keeps going up and up.
In the U.S., total back to school spending has increased by 55 per cent in the last 10 years, reaching US$27.3 billion this year.
Shoppers there are spending an average of US$674 per household this year compared with US$630 last year.
Parents say they will spend an average $235.39 on clothing, $204.06 on electronics, $126.35 on shoes, and $107.76 on supplies like notebooks, backpacks, and lunchboxes this year.
Compare those figures to a decade ago: $228.14 on clothing, $114.38 on electronics, $98.34 on shoes, and $86.22 on other supplies.
Spending is so big, in fact, that the back-to-school shopping season is second only to the winter holiday shopping season.
With so many other demands on parents’ pocketbooks, it’s a good idea to hit the mall for school supplies with a few strategies to keep costs down.
That’s especially true for electronics: while some kids might have all the latest gear and gadgets, laptops may not actually be required. Get the facts from your child’s teacher before you make a big purchase.
Once you’ve determined an amount you have to work with, get your kids involved in spending and shopping decisions.
And before you head out, dig around your own home first. Unless your kids are just starting kindergarten, there’s a good chance you’ll have plenty of supplies left over from years past.
Pencils, pens, eraser, binders, paints, markers and crayons don’t have to come in new packages year after year.
For electronics, get siblings to share, and ask around: are any relatives looking to upgrade their computer and willing to donate you their old one or sell it to you for a bargain?
If all the expenses are causing intense stress, consider starting to plan now for the year ahead.
“Draw a schedule or use a spreadsheet with each of the months of the year and list all the activities, equipment, school fees you anticipate for each child for the year ahead,” Mandelcorn says. “Total it all up and divide by your pay cheque frequency. Set up a free savings account, nickname it ‘Kids Activities’ and setup a recurring transfer to this account every payday. | 2019-04-21T12:53:03Z | https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/worried-about-expensive-back-to-school-shopping--you-re-not-alone-183628032.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.844716 |
wikipedia | Bavent is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Baventais or Baventaises.
Bavent is located on the northern edge of the Caen plain some 8 km north-east of Caen and 6 km south-west of Cabourg. Access to the commune is by the D513 road from Varaville in the north-east which passes through the commune just north of the village and contues south-west to Hérouvillette. Access to the village is by the D236 which comes from Amfreville in the north-west. The D224 branches from the D513 in the commune and goes west to the village and continues to Goustranville. The D95A goes north from the village to Gonneville-en-Auge while the D95 goes south to Troarn. The D37B branches from the D513 in the west of the commune and goes north to Bréville-les-Monts. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Chateau de Beneauville, Chef-de-Rue, Les Harnots, Grand Plain, La Ritachere, Le Prieure, La Petite Bruyere, Roncheville, and Robehomme. The commune is mostly farmland except for a large forest in the south.
At 1845 hectares, the commune is the largest in the canton of Cabourg. Its highest point (66 m) is located in the west near a place called La Grande Bruyère. Its lowest point (2 m) is at the exit of the Dives from the commune.
Due to its proximity to the sea, Bavent enjoys an oceanic climate. The nearest weather station is 19 km away at Caen-Carpiquet.
The Dives river forms the south-eastern border of the commune as it flows north-east to join the ocean at Houlgate. The Divette rises in the commune and flows north to join the Dives. The Douet du Moulin du Pre rises in the commune and flows north-east to join the Divette north of Varaville. The Saint-Laurent stream flows from the south through the commune and continues to join the Divette just north of the commune. The Ruisseau du Bois de Bavent forms part of the southern border of the commune.
Bavent is attested in the forms: Bavent in 1059, Badvento in 1063, and Batvent in 1066.
Dauzat and Rostaing suggest bat vent meaning "a place where the wind blows"
René Lepelley makes a similar hypothesis: that of an old mill whose "sails are blown by the wind". There is fact a mill at Sénoville (Manche), called La Masse de Bavent.
Ernest Nègre proposes an explanation of Bavent from a German anthroponym Badvin.
It is also possible to suggest the Celtic name -ent- Latinized to -entu (m) which is also found in Douvrend (Dovrent in the 12th century) preceded by an unknown element in the absence of an older form. The same suffix has been identified in Nogent (Novientum, from novio meaning "new") and Drevant (Derventum from Dervo meaning "oak", cf. Breton derv also meaning "oak").
The name is homophonic with Bavans (Bavens 11th century, the name of a German man Bavo with the Germanic suffix -ingen Romanized to -ingos).
Robehomme is attested in the forms: Raimberti Hulmus in 1083, Rambertihulmus in 1149, and Robbehomme in 1190.
The first element Robe- comes from the German anthroponym Raimbert. The second element -hommen is widespread in Normandy in this form with the hiatus (the h is aspirated): Le Homme (not l'homme cf. Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme). This is a toponymic appellative derived from Old Norse holmr meaning "island" or "meadow at the edge of the water". It also took the forms Houlme and Hom. Moreover there is a hamlet of Hom at Robehomme.
There is also a personal name associated with a Norse appellative topt giving -tot as in Raimbertot at Cauville-sur-Mer (Seine-Maritime).
Bavent appears as Bavent on the 1750 Cassini Map and as Baven on the 1790 version.
Robehomme appears as Robehomme on the 1750 Cassini Map and as Robe homme on the 1790 version.
In 1974 the commune of Bavent (984 inhabitants in 1968) merged with Robehomme (122 inhabitants in 1954).
Argent, a bendlet Gules charged with 4 Bavent pottery pieces of Or (a pot with 2 handles, a jug, a vase, and a flared collar pot) in bend between: in chief 3 jonquil flowers the same* set in orle, in base a heron contourned the same beaked and legged in Sable; in chief Or charged with an inscription in capitals BAVENT, at sinister Gules two lions passant guardant of Or one over the other.
These arms do not respect the Rule of tincture and are therefore faulty.
Stoke Canon (United Kingdom) since 1983.
The Terreal Group has a tile production plant in the commune.
The Mesnil pottery of Bavent manufactures finials of Faience. It holds an Enterprise label of living heritage and its expertise is included in the inventory of intangible cultural heritage in France.
The Manoir Venoix (17th century). In 1944 the mansion had significant damage and was renovated in 1948 with some additions and changes.
The Pavilion of Pottery (1842).
The Château of Béneauville Park The Chateau contains a Clock (16th century) which is registered as an historical object.
The Church of Saint Hilaire (12th century, much altered in the 19th century).
The Bavent Football Club has a soccer team in the district division.
^ a b c d Ernest Nègre, General Toponymy of France, Librairie Droz, 1990, Vol II, 676 pages, p. 829 & 974, ISBN 9782600001335 (in French).
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wordpress | After days of snow, hail, wind and grey skies, at last there was a fine day, and people appeared to celebrate, walking in the Hirsel. This swan had come right up to the bank near the benches, where a family was gathered, the swan probably sensing a titbit from them. When it saw me it hissed, maybe it was the camera it didn’t like, or maybe it was just me looming up at it, and it not liking the cut of my jib.
The oval window looks out right along the garden, which is only just beginning to flourish, in this cold Spring that has lasted deep into April. Snow is forecast for June. In the meantime, from the outside the oval window shines blue with reflected sky. | 2019-04-21T01:12:52Z | https://caralockhartsmith.wordpress.com/2013/04/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.534851 |
wordpress | Reblogged from via Aromatherapy Oils Treat Headaches, Earache, Toothache | Suite101.com.
Aromatherapy uses essential oils such as lavender for treating headaches, German chamomile for earache and clove oil for toothache.
Essential oils have been used in the practice of aromatherapy for hundreds of years, while the use of oils to treat health problems goes back as far as Biblical times. When various aches and pains find you reaching for the medicine cabinet, it is well worth considering using aromatherapy for a natural approach to pain relief.
Avoid sticking anything in the ear, as this may simply worsen any possible infection. If symptoms persist or worsen, it is important to always seek medical advice from the family doctor.
While any toothache or gum irritation will likely require a trip to the dentist, when one is on holiday or unable to get an emergency appointment, there are essential oils which may help with the pain. One particular essential oil, known as clove oil, according to Harding (2008), is used within dentistry to provide antiseptic pain relief. Clove oil is not only a powerful disinfectant, but also is a natural form of analgesic.
Another aromatherapy treatment for toothache, as identified by Farrer-Halls (2005) involves applying a hot compress to the outside of the face, near the affected area. Two forms of essential oils, namely Roman chamomile and German chamomile oil are recommended for this purpose.
As highlighted above, aromatherapy may be used to treat a whole range of aches and pains, in addition to mental stress, anxiety, depression and poor immunity. Headaches and earache respond well to lavender compress, while toothache treatment involves using clove and chamomile essential oils.
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wordpress | Fr William Casey of the Fathers of Mercy recently preached a retreat in Bloomington, Indiana. Below are his three homilies. All three are excellent, but the one on “Christian Bravery” really drove me to prayer. If I am burdened with fear and anxiety from having passed the 6-month mark of my unemployment, what would I be like in the face of the type of persecution Fr Casey describes? Lord, help me to attain that perfect love for you that will cast out all fear!
Today, for example, the liturgy invites us to reflect on the famous Parable of the Good Samaritan (cf. Lk 10: 25-37), which introduces us into the heart of the Gospel message: love for God and love for neighbour. But the person speaking to Jesus asks: who is my neighbour? And the Lord answers by reversing the question and showing through the account of the Good Samaritan that each one of us must make himself close to every person he meets: “Go and do likewise” (Lk 10: 37).
Love is therefore the “heart” of Christian life; indeed, love alone, awakened in us by the Holy Spirit, makes us Christ’s witnesses.
4. Jesus Christ once told a parable which I should like to recall at this time. This parable is known even among those of you who do not share the Christian faith. It is a parable which appeals to the hearts of all people of good will, not only to the followers of Christ; it is the parable of the Good Samaritan.
The Gospel of Luke records the parable, telling how a man had been robbed, beaten and left beside the road half dead. According to the Gospel account, “a Samaritan who was journeying along came on him and was moved to pity at the sight. He approached him and dressed his wounds, pouring in oil and wine. He then hoisted him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, where he cared for him. The next day he took out two silver pieces and gave them to the innkeeper with the request : Look after him, and if there is any further expense I will repay you on my way back”.
The Good Samaritan does not mind that he might be criticized for helping someone whο has “traditionally” been considered his enemy. And he does not ask him any questions : where he comes from, why he is there, where he is going. He asks no questions at all. Very simply the Good Samaritan sees the injured person in need, and he spontaneously helps him up, takes him to an inn, and sees that he receives all he needs to get well again. This is charity ! A charity which makes no exception because of the other person’s ethnic origin, religious allegiance or political preference, no exceptions whatsoever ; a charity which sees the person as a brother or sister in need and seeks only one thing : to be of immediate assistance, to be a neighbor.
May this same charity motivate all of us who live in a world approaching the end of the second millennium ! May it inspire all of us to have compassion for the millions of refugees whο cry out for our help!
Michelle and I join with Christians here and around the world in marking Ash Wednesday. This is a day of both reflection and joy, a time to ponder the meaning of repentance and restoration. As we enter Lent, we join millions in renewing our faith and remembering our commitment to love and serve one another.
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wordpress | The badgers are struggling on through with the lack of water. The side stream has been dry since May and the large, back stream is now very low.
Along with lots of other badger watchers all over the country who look out for their nearby setts, we have been taking water and food down to our badgers.
After topping up the water bowls and spreading food around on the woodland floor, I settled down behind a tree to wait for the first sign that the badgers are emerging.
The wood is humid, I can almost feel the air pressing against me and within the first few minutes my T-shirt is starting to stick to my back.
Insects buzz lazily from plant to plant but other than that the wood is strangely silent. A scratching noise indicates a badger is awake. Through the silent air the sound carries, I’m particularly aware of how much noise I make just adjusting my feet or moving my camera.
A black nose appears, sniffing the air, cautiously one of the badger cubs takes a couple of tentative steps out, this is Bob. He is the shyest of the two cubs and will scatter of at the slightest noise.
Meanwhile ‘Bit’ the smaller cub is braver and comes trotting out from under the brambles. The noise of the second cub appearing sends Bob back down the tunnel.
My mum wrote a piece on her Instagram account on how different these two cubs are.
When you spend time with a particular clan it becomes quite easy to tell individuals apart. These are this years cubs, already you can see Bob on the right has a stockier face, the spot may or may not disappear, the tiny scar above the spot matches his mums scar on her face, he is much more timid than his sister even though he is much bigger. He looks more like a bear the way his ears are positioned.
‘Bit’ on the left has a longer, thinner face. She has a white patch on her left hip and one just above her tail. She acts much bolder than Bob and is always the first one to appear in the evening. She is much more inquisitive and will stand on her hind legs to reach up to the blackberries.
Out of one of the main entrances an adult badger appeared and trotted off in the direction of the meadow, Bee followed. Bob and Bit snuffled off down towards the back half of the sett, so I decided it was time to leave and head for home.
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Great post and photographs. Well done for getting this close to Badgers.
Glad to know that there are clearly other people thinking about how wildlife is coping in the extended heat. Great work with documenting these glorious badgers as they emerge, cubs n’all!
Thanks Alex, will have a look through.
I have still only seen a badger once!
Excellent post. Leaving water out for wildlife is so important when it is really dry.
That’s a fabulous picture of you with the badger Alex, gorgeous light, it looks magical.
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wordpress | As the month of March wraps up, so does the Real Food Challenge, at least here on Not Dabbling. Hopefully you will all continue to replace fake food with more real foods in your diet throughout the year and join us again next March. Throughout the rest of this year we’re going to take some time each month to focus on another area in our lives where we can make changes to Real item. We’ve been compiling a list, but would love to hear your input on things you’d love for us to write and share our experiences about.
Real Beauty: how and why to detox your beauty routine, tips and recipe for making some of your own items and our personal favorite chemical free products. If you wouldn’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin!
Real Exercise: how to get out of the gym and get some REAL exercise!
Real Cultures: the health benefits of eating cultured items, how to make yogurt, kefir, sourdough and other fermented foods.
Real Things: how to live without plastics and the harmful chemicals it leeches into your food, personal care products and the environment.
What areas of your life do you want to get back to REAL and you’d love for us to cover during the coming year?
If you’re especially knowledgeable in any of these areas let us know, we’d love to have you write a guest post during that month.
I can also be found at Chiot’s Run where I blog daily about gardening, cooking, local eating, beekeeping, and all kinds of stuff. You can also find me at Ethel Gloves, Simple, Green, Frugal, Co-op, and you can follow me on Twitter.
We felt like it was high time for a giveaway for our Real Food Challenge partners, so we asked those involved to tell us how they were doing on Saturday’s post.
I’m so not one of “those” girls. I scoff at mini skirts, would prefer work shoes to high heels, and was the girl that made boys cry when I liked them. In high school and college wearing Doc Martins with a dress was fancy. What can I say, I was a misguided youth lacking a father figure while growing up. My mother had to fill both roles and was pretty much a feminist. I was raised believing I could do everything a man could do and better.
The last 14 years has been about finding balance between that feminist and femininity. Especially the last 7 years while raising a daughter. I refused pink baby clothes, all while explaining that my bald-headed baby was a girl. Oh! but this girl wants to dress up in costume like a princess, have tea parties, help me garden and cook, and she’s just at that age where pink and peach and flowers and puppies and kittens are all so cute and enticing and … cute.
So while I’m here, at age 36, still figuring out my own personal flaws (with all due respect and no fault for my wonderful Mom) as well as society’s, I have figured out that I love some aspects of girly-girl-ness. I’m learning that men really can do as much as women – and just as good sometimes! Sometimes I even wear a dress with high heels.
But only on the most special occasions … like weddings and tea parties with my daughter.
Mix wet ingredients together, add salt, then add to flour and whisk lightly. Allow to rest for 10 minutes.
In the meantime, prepare your filling. An excellent substitute is sweetened cream cheese. Chill in refrigerator until later.
Warm a small, non-stick pan on medium to medium-high. Put a dab of oil in the pan then wipe out with a dry, clean cloth.
Pour about 1/4 cup mixture in pan and swirl around to cover pan. The first crepe is always the test. It should be relatively thin. You may need to add a little more water or flour to adjust the consistency. Before the crepe sets up, add a generous Tbsp of your flower buds to the wet batter. When the edges of the crepe easily come free, it’s time to flip. Crepes should not be brown and crispy, you just want them to set up and be tender.
Cook all crepes before you begin to fill them.
To finish the crepe, put the flower side down, add a bit of your cream mixture down the center and fold about 1/3 of the crepe over the mixture. Fold the rest of the crepe over to keep the cream inside. It looks a bit like a fancy enchilada! Top with a dollop of cream and some fresh fruit or jam like elderberry then enjoy with your favorite dress up partner for some tea.
My family, in typical American fashion, brings together numerous food heritages: Greek, Chinese, Hungarian, Polish, Swedish. If you’re not an adventurous eater in my family, you’re in trouble. Here’s stir fry the way the Cantonese make it (as taught me in college by my husband).
Start the rice first; a narrow heavy saucepan works best. The water should be about a finger joint deeper than the rice no matter what pot you use (I like a heavy 1-quart aluminum saucepan; this will cook up to 2 cups of rice). Somewhere there is bound to be a proper recipe with a ratio (maybe on the rice bag?), but that’s how Bill taught me to eyeball it. Bring it to a full boil uncovered, then turn the flame way down and steam it covered for about 20 minutes. Take it off the flame when it’s done, even if you’re not done with the veggies yet. Leave the cover on.
A wok is best, but you can also make stir fry in a standard frying pan; you’ll just have to be careful to keep the ingredients in motion, as frying pans don’t heat as evenly as a wok.
Cook the vegetables according to texture—those you want softest go in first, crunchy goes in last. I always start with the onion because I like them very well cooked. Sauté until they’ve just started to go translucent, then start working your way up to the ones you want al dente, typically brightly colored vegetables like green beans, bell pepper, broccoli. Nuts last. You can also wait until here to put the tofu in for the first time. Don’t use more than 3-4 different vegetables as it disturbs the feng shui of the dish (not kidding). Put the meat/tofu back in at this point.
Here’s the step that you never get from the recipes, but all my Chinese friends and relatives do this. For a sauce thoroughly mix the corn starch, water and soy sauce in a measuring cup (make sure the corn starch is completely dissolved); if you use any of the spices add them here, sparingly. You don’t want too much spice in a stir fry, as the vegetables should provide the sensual point of the dish. Slowly pour this into the vegetable mix, stirring constantly as it will immediately thicken into a creamy sauce; add more water if it gets too sticky. If you have any left over tea sitting around in a pot, you can use it to thin the sauce. For some reason I never make tea specifically for this purpose, but I suppose you could.
Serve with the rice. Use chopsticks, it’s time you learned.
While gardening with children is a boom industry, gardening with teens and even more with young adults is rare, at least in the working class and affluent neighborhoods that I’m in (there are lots of urban gardening projects for young people in inner cities). Hipster Supported Agriculture is my private little corner of the food movement. I work at rounding up teens through twentysomethings to do gardening and cooking.
This happens both in my own garden and through the Peterson Garden Project, a community garden and seed-to-table education program in Chicago. Last week we started planning and preparing for this year’s projects. At Mather High School, the biology teacher is leading a Service Learning (Community Service) group in seed starting– they’ve started more than 1,000 plants as a joint fundraiser for their club and the Peterson Garden Project. On Thursday I went to assess the progress, bring them some more seeds (generously donated by Renee’s Garden and Territorial Seeds) and to talk to them about winter sowing.
On Wednesday, I met with a working group from an organization that helps troubled teens. They have four group homes near Peterson Garden, and the kids from the program will be tending some plots for their own use and some for donations to food pantries. The exciting new aspect of the program this year is that they will be working with a nutritionist from Cooking Matters and a professional chef, who will help plan the garden and will work with the kids to prepare the food they grow.
As we were working through goals, plans, and philosophy, talking about the difficulties of working with these kids and how to engage them in the project, it occurred to me first that gardening is a wonderful metaphor for life, and then that in fact, it’s not a metaphor at all, but life itself. The non-gardeners around the table were very concerned about motivation, goals and buy-in, but I know what will happen once those young men and women see a seedling sprout from a seed that they put in the ground.
Like every gardener I’ve ever met they will be struck by the miracle. The first time they eat a meal from food they grew themselves they will understand. They will not need it explained to them.
Last year I was struck by the engagement, humor and searing intelligence of one of the girls in the pilot program–in another context this was a college-bound kid breezing through school. Her intellect was both apparent and heartbreaking, because she was a 15-year pregnant black orphan. It broke my heart. And then I heard, in this meeting, of how she was driving past the garden recently and excitedly pointed it out to her companion–“there it is! That’s the garden where we grew our meals!” Maybe not so heartbreaking after all.
Hipster Supported Agriculture is rather tongue-in-cheek. I named it that to poke fun at my own uber-cool children. But in reality it’s not really funny. It’s how we’ll save the world. Or at least our little corner of it.
Today we’ll be giving away an assortment of heirloom seeds from Seed Savers Exchange to one of our lucky readers! Be sure to post your Real Food Challenge progress at the end of the post. We’ll use a random number generator to choose the winner – only one entry per household please!
Now that things have calmed down here, I have again been able to focus on the Real Food Challenge completely. I’ve felt that I haven’t been able to put my heart into it as much as I’ve wanted between having Mom stay with us for two weeks, then staying with her for a week. So, here at Unearthing this Life I’ve been back to making enough bread, baking pitas, cooking tortillas, beans, and soaking grains. We even got around to making yogurt cheese, which the Kid ate up in two days!
Since spring has officially arrived, we’ve been picking wild greens and blossoms including chickweed, dandelions, violets, and redbud blossoms. Hubby’s not too keen on the bitterness of some of the wild foods, but the Kid loves them. We just have to teach her to look before she picks and to avoid, um, animal potty spots! We’ve also had the first few asparagus spears pop up in addition to some leftover kale from winter’s garden.
Finally, we live less than five miles from an organic farm/CSA that allows us to choose how many veggies we want to purchase. I love that we’re not locked into a box of goods considering how much I garden. Thursday I picked up a bag of carrots that wintered over, some rutabagas, and some spinach. I’m loving the fresh veggies!
Here at Chiot’s Run the week has been hectic as usual. The weather was very nice at the beginning of the week and we were able to get out and start work on our new plot of land that will become a large vegetable plot. For me, early spring is a time when the excitement of eating fresh from the garden vegetables starts to grow. I dream of delicious fresh peas as I plant them around their supports. I think about juicy red tomatoes in August when I start sorting through my seeds. Eating healthy real food isn’t a challenge for me during these time, my body craves lots of fresh greens at the end of a long dark winter. This week we enjoyed a lot of freshly harvested weeds from the yard, mostly bitter cress and dandelion. Garlic mustard is just starting to emerge and will start to make up a large part of our salads. There’s something so wonderful about harvesting things you didn’t sow.
Since it’s citrus season we’ve been enjoying lots of it. One of my lovely blog readers sent me a box of beautiful lemons from his tree and we’ve been enjoying lemon scones, lemon bars and lemon pound cake. I also make some lemon sugar and lemon salt along with a some frozen lemon juice to preserve the taste for this coming summer. I plan on making a batch or two of lemon syrup that I can use to make lemonade during the long hot days working in the new garden this summer. We’re finishing off the last of the grapefruit from the huge box I purchased back in February and I have a few Meyer lemons hanging on in the basement pantry.
Our main focus of the Real Food Challenge was our pets and getting them on to Real Whole Food from local sources. The dog is loving her new diet, she gobbles up her portions readily every morning and evening. The outdoor cats are also loving their new diet of local chicken and vegetables, which they supplement with mice, chipmunks, birds, and other things they catch in the garden and the garage. Miss Mama has slimmed down considerably from the photo above after being put on Real Food. She’s one of our garage cats, a feral mama that moved her kittens into our garage this past summer. One of our indoor cats is enjoying the new diet, but our two oldest cats are still holding out. It’s been a few days since the kibble ran out and they haven’t eaten a thing (besides some dried catmint I sprinkled on the floor for them). One of these days they’ll get hungry enough to eat the new food, I’m just wondering how long it will be. All-in-all, our Real Food challenge has been going well.
Overall, the Real Food Challenge was more challenging for us this year than it was last year. For one thing, last year it was new, and was filling me with the soul of righteousness (Testify, Sister! Praise the Lord and Micheal Pollan, not necessarily in that order!) This year Real Food had become almost routine, and as with any routine, you tend to slip around it. So I found myself falling into the HFCS miasma via Hershey bars a little more often than I’d like.
The other difficulty was our insane March schedule. Between my musican-husband’s rehearsal and performance calendar, car-sharing with my daughter and my own late teaching nights, I found myself able to plan and cook only a couple of nights a week. My head is brimming with ideas for late-winter meals from the ever-diminishing larder, but my reality is leftovers.
But my main focus this year, on inspiring young adults to explore Real Food, has been inspiring to me as well. I taught my daughter Nga Jee a traditional family favorite. She’ll be here on Sunday to help with the garden, introduce me to her boyfriend, and cook a vegetarian lasagna (the boyfriend is here as forced labor– I need someone to help put up the rabbit fencing, and I figure he can’t refuse since he has to impress me!) I also got started on my summer Hipster Supported Agriculture projects; more about that in my regular post on Monday. But the best personal satisfaction I got was when Nga Jee, not a particularly politically-motivated individual, chose Real Food and sustainable agriculture as the topic for a college research paper. She’s been reading everything from USDA reports to literature from Weston A. Price, and is feeling a little bit of the righteousness herself. I think if I was not so committed to this, the topic would not have occurred to her.
Thus the small pebbles that each of us throws in the pond creates ripples that, I hope, change the world.
This week has been the most challenging yet for us at Tanglewood Farm. We began the week in Chicago, and I’m sure if we lived there we would be able to find resources for real food with no problems. Unfortunately, we aren’t very familiar with the area so we were eating out with friends and I was left trying to find foods that leaned towards real in restaurants that seemed to be completely unfamiliar with the concept. Ah well.
By Monday night we were back home and settled in to a week of busy preparation for several happenings scheduled throughout the week. We were able to enjoy flaxseed/raspberry yogurt smoothies for breakfasts, and a few mixed greens salads topped with a simple local goat cheese for lunches. Wednesday was a book signing for my comic-book-creating-husband, so we did eat out this week but when we did we were able to find simple, real foods from a local restaurant.
My greatest real-food endeavor this week was the horse show I ran. I coordinate at least five horse shows a year for the barn where I work. My husband runs concessions (what a guy!) while I run show office an d while it makes for a stressful day it’s totally worth it to see my students, and the folks who trailer their horses in to the show, learning to show their horses in a fun and laid back environment. I don’t know whose idea it was to put me in charge of buying concessions to sell, but I have been working over the last two years or so to make the horse show menus as real-food-saturated as possible.
This weekend was the first show of the year so we were very disorganized, but we did manage to sell all natural, grassfed beef hot dogs with no nitrates on whole wheat buns (with no artificial sweeteners!), potato chips in which the ingredients were simply potatoes, sunflower oil and sea salt, little baggies of trail mix, free trade organic coffee with cane sugar and stevia as sweeteners and local cream rather than chemical creamer, bottled water in biodegradable bottles and canned soda with natural sugars. In addition to this we also sold big-name candy bars which is always a sticking point. Horse show attendees love to buy candy and sweets because their days are long, exhausting and stressful. In the future I hope to substitute the big-name candies with organic chocolate covered pretzels and other simple-to-make sweets that I can pull off a few days before the show without them going stale. It will be a challenge, but last year Michigan changed their food-sales laws and it is now legal to sell baked goods (and other “cottage foods”) to the public without procuring the use of a commercial kitchen, so despite the added stress of having to bake before a horse show, at least it won’t be illegal!
I admit that last night after the horse show we crashed both physically and morally into a dinner of carry out with nary a real food to be found. It’s relapses like these, and the adverse reactions afterward (“Ugh, I don’t feel good.”), that remind me how important real foods are to us on many levels. You just have to chip away bit-by-bit at old habits until you’re left with new habits, or even a new lifestyle!
How has your week of the Real Food Challenge been?
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typepad | Mario is going to love his new room. I love your armoire,very pretty.
It really looks and sounds like you are nesting big time!!! Doesn't feel great when things are organized? I did some cleaning this week myself, we had that kind of weather perfect for cleaning and organizing. Take care Andrea.
Mario is going to love his new room. He is a lucky little man.
Seems like your room will be pretty special too!
I love the armoire! Very pretty. Doesn't it just feel good to get everything organized? Such a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. Yay!
Nesting...you are making everything ready and just beautiful! I love your new armoire, and also the Bi Plane, that is such a fun piece. I know all of you will enjoy being together in your sweet home.
Love Mario's bedding and that plane.... oh my!
And the armoire... holy smokes! That is beautiful!
that is some bag collection you have got going there! The armoire, lovely, just lovely!
I love the armoire and my son will want that plane in his room, it looks great!
Just wanted to add that I have received a lovely package of a millinery clad bonnet from you all wrapped up beautifully with ribbon and a lovely lollypop too. So apt - it arrived on my birthday. Thank you.
I have been looking for airplane bedding for forever! where did you find yours? I LOVE it!
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wordpress | Today, I present to you the recipe for a Gujarati snack that goes by the name of Safed Dhokla (literally ‘white dhokla‘ in the local language).
This is one of the types of Dhokla commonly made in Gujarat, using idli batter. If you have idli batter on hand, it is a breeze to prepare these dhokla. They taste absolutely lovely, and are a highly nutritious snack to boot. Since they are steam-cooked, very little oil goes into them, making them perfect for weight-watchers. Safed Dhokla is a completely plant-based, vegan dish. In itself, this is a gluten-free dish as well.
The Safed Dhokla I have presented here is the most basic style – tempered with just mustard seeds and fresh coriander. At the end of my post, I have suggested a few different variations to the Safed Dhokla that you can try out, so you get a different-tasting snack every time you make it!
Check out the recipe, just in on my blog!
Would you like to know about a tangy, super refreshing drink that would be just perfect for the hot summer days that seem to be reigning the country right now? Yes? What if I tell you such a drink can be made in a very healthy way, and would require just a few minutes of your time to make at home? Sounds too far-fetched? Not at all!
Here’s presenting to you – Imli Ka Amlana, a summer-special beverage from the hot and arid land of Rajasthan. Traditionally made with tamarind pulp and sugar, this drink is a mix of tangy and sweet, spiced mildly. The Indian spices that go into it make this extremely flavourful, at the same time aiding one’s digestion as well. It is a yummy way to get all the health benefits that tamarind possesses into one’s system, I would say!
If you are looking for an easy-peasy, healthy and delish accompaniment for your meals this summer, this Gajar Mula Beet No Sambharo is it!
‘Sambharo‘ is the Gujarati version of a stir-fry, or a warm salad of sorts. It can be prepared using a variety of vegetables, and is super simple to prepare. The sambharo commonly makes an appearance as a part of the Gujarati thali, or is served alongside local snacks like fafda, thepla, khaman and dhokla.
This Gajar Mula Beet No Sambharo is made using the root vegetables of carrot, radish and beetroot. The very simple stir-fry that this is, it takes bare minutes to put together. Very little oil goes into it, the veggies cooked just enough to retain their crunch. The carrot, radish and beetroot meld together beautifully to create a delicious whole. What more can you ask for from a dish?
Check out the recipe, just in on my photo blog!
Today, I present to you the recipe for Moraiya Ni Khichdi or Samai Arisi Khichdi, a Gujarati dish made using barnyard millet (moraiyo or moriyo in Gujarati, samai arisi in Tamil, sama ke chawal in Hindi).
A Gujarati friend of mine taught me how to make this delectable confection, many years ago, with potatoes and peanuts added to it for flavour, scented by ginger and green chillies, coriander and curry leaves, soured with curd. The Gujaratis refer to this dish as ‘Farali Khichdi‘, i.e. khichdi that can be eaten during fasting. I’m sure you will love this khichdi too, fast or no fast!
Check out the recipe for Moraiya Ni Khichdi, just in on my blog!
Best wishes for Sri Rama Navami!
Today, I present to you the recipe for Pasi Parippu Kosumalli, a simple South Indian-style lentil salad. This mildly spiced salad is extremely delicious and healthy, and is a breeze to put together. A dish that is traditionally prepared in Tamilian households on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami, this cooling salad is just perfect to beat the summer heat that is soaring by the day.
Check out the recipe, just in on my other blog!
It is Sri Rama Navami this weekend, the birthday of God Rama. In Tamilian households, this occasion is marked by the preparation of Neer More (literally, ‘watered-down buttermilk’ in Tamil), Panakam (a mildly spiced beverage prepared with jaggery water), and Kosumalli (a salad made using split moong daal).
Today, I present to you a recipe for Neer More that is different from the usual. This is not your regular South Indian-style spiced buttermilk, but one infused with kaffir lime and chilli. This version is just as delicious, just as cooling as the traditional one, and is equally simple to prepare. Do try out this new Spiced Buttermilk Recipe this summer!
Check out the recipe for Neer More with a difference, just in on my photo blog.
If you, like me, have been scared of baking and want to break that barrier, this is the recipe you must be trying out. It’s so simple, really, so tough to mess up. Soft, fluffy, cute cupcakes will be your reward.
Aloor Dum is perhaps one of the best-known foods from the Bengali cuisine, apart from the gorgeous sweets of course. The special way the Bengalis have of cooking potatoes – spicy, with a sweetish tinge to them – has bowled over many, including me.
Today, I present to you the recipe for Niramish Aloor Dum (literally ‘no-meat dum aloo‘ in Bengali), in other words an entirely vegetarian sabzi. Since this dish is typically prepared for Pujo and other religious occasions, it is made vegetarian, without the use of even onion or garlic.
This is my take on the Niramish Aloor Dum, a pressure-cooker version that gets cooked in a jiffy but tastes every bit as scrumptious as the traditional version.
Today, I present to you a Healthy Thai Carrot Salad!
You know those days when you are dying to eat something lovely, but know you just cannot do unhealthy? This is definitely the kind of salad you should try out on such days! It makes for a wonderfully refreshing mid-morning or evening snack, or a lovely accompaniment to lunch or dinner.
Like most Thai dishes, this one too is a beautiful medley of flavours. Every single ingredient that goes into it lends a pronounced flavour and texture to the salad, making it sweet and salty and spicy and sour all at once.
This is a vegetarian version of the typical Thai Carrot Salad Recipe, sans the fish sauce or oyster sauce, vegan and gluten-free as well. This is an absolutely zero-oil salad! I have also tried to make it as healthy as possible, using wholesome ingredients and a healthy sweetener. It is super easy to make as well!
Check out the recipe, just in on my photo blog.
Have you heard of a dish called Bai?
For the uninitiated, Bai is a kind of soup that hails from the exotic north-eastern state of Mizoram. The state boasts of a number of indigenous leafy greens, many of which are unheard of outside – and several of these greens go into the Bai. Whatever vegetables are in season also find their way into the Bai. Some Rajah chillies (aka Bhut Jholokia or Ghost Pepper) and fermented mustard – both commonly used ingredients in Mizo kitchens – also form a part of this soup. If it is being served to non-vegetarians, pork sauce is also added. Very simple to prepare and very nutritious, bai is something you will typically find cooked across Mizo households.
Today, I present to you the recipe for Cauliflower Stalk Bai – bai made with the stalks of cauliflower – yes, you read that right! This is a vegetarian Mizoram Bai Recipe, which I have made with ingredients commonly available where I live.
Check out the vegetarian Cauliflower Stalk Bai recipe, just in on my blog! | 2019-04-24T12:20:51Z | https://thegalnxtdoor.wordpress.com/category/foodie-times/ | Porn | Health | 0.623184 |
wordpress | During the course of their careers many archivists will have the opportunity to work at different repositories with archive collections that cover a variety of subjects.
However none appear to be so distinctly opposite than the collections I have worked with in the last 12 months.
Whilst studying for my course in Archives and Records Management at Liverpool University I was required to complete a two-week cataloguing placement at an archive repository. In January I came to work at the Working Class Movement Library tasked with beginning to catalogue the papers of the Communist Party of Britain. As users and supporters of the Library will know the archives collections here include records of trade unions and working class politics, protest and campaigning.
Before starting my course I worked as an Archive Assistant at the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The Archives Centre is primarily known for holding the papers of Sir Winston Churchill but also collects. In the course of my job I was able to work with and explore many of the collections held at the Centre including the papers of Margaret Thatcher.
So it’s been rather a remarkable change to go from working with the archive of Conservative Prime Minister Mrs Thatcher to exploring the papers of the Communist Party. And my surroundings have changed too from working around portraits of Churchill and Thatcher to busts of Lenin and trade union banners!
Of course as an archivist my job is to help catalogue and preserve the papers under my care whatever their nature, and as a lover of British history I have found it just as fascinating to be around the unique history held at the Library as I did working with the eminent collections at Churchill College.
This entry was posted on January 20, 2014 at 3:54 pm and is filed under Collections. Tagged: Communist Party of Britain, politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | 2019-04-21T02:36:50Z | https://wcmlibrary.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/from-right-to-left-a-training-archivists-journey/ | Porn | Arts | 0.250971 |
skynet | The kingdom of Shrivijaya is first mentioned in the writings of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim I-ching, who visited it in 671 after a voyage of less than 20 days from Canton. He was on the first stage of his journey to the great teaching centre of Nalanda in northeastern India. The ruler of Shrivijaya assisted I-ching on his journey. Archaeological surveys undertaken since the late 1970s immediately to the west of Palembang city--an area now being overtaken by suburban development--have revealed such a quantity of materials as to make it practically certain that this was Shrivijaya's heartland in the 7th and subsequent three centuries. Surface remains of more than a thousand shards of Chinese ceramics, two-thirds of which are datable from the 8th to the 10th century, have been recovered from several sites. Shards from the 11th to the 14th century found elsewhere in the neighbourhood may represent shifts of political and commercial activity in the Palembang area. Shards found on nearby Seguntang Hill (Bukit Seguntang), on the other hand, span all these centuries. A piece of Romano-Indian rouletted ware, attributable to the early centuries AD, has been dug up in Palembang near the river; the same ware has been found in Java near Jakarta. Moreover, new stone statues have been found, and the sheer bulk of Buddhist and Hindu statuary now recovered from the Musi River basin has suggested to at least one art historian that the basin must have contained the site of a polity near the sea that enjoyed considerable international contacts. Only Palembang suggests itself as the site in question. Finally, stupa remains have been unearthed at the foot of Seguntang Hill. These discoveries reinforce the textual evidence that Palembang was the heartland of this empire. | 2019-04-18T11:08:40Z | http://users.skynet.be/network.indonesia/ni4001c3.htm | Porn | Arts | 0.949723 |
typepad | As you may have heard, Apple dropped the price of the iPhone by $200. This move wasn't appreciated by the Apple loyalist who purchases the phone at full price ($600). Apple's stock dropped by a few bucks, as some investors wondered if the price drop was an indicator of weak sales. We had an extensive discussion about in class yesterday. Charles Hall, a professor at VCU Adcenter, was quoted as saying that the $200 was a cool tax for getting the iPone 70+ days before the price drop. Within 24 hours, Apple offered a $100 store credit to everyone who bought the phone at full price. Within 48 hours they announced the number of units that they have sold thus far to alleviate investors. When a "crisis" happens, brands must react fast and fair. Apple did just that. It's going to hurt a little, but they'll be alright. One million units have been sold to date. Most of these buyers paid the cool tax. | 2019-04-26T12:07:53Z | https://adcentered.typepad.com/adcentered/2007/09/apple-the-cool-.html?cid=6a00d83451eb9d69e2016768af266e970b | Porn | Shopping | 0.5496 |
wordpress | Have you ever wondered how quadcopters, which are multi-rotor manage to fly? This is all down to a flight controller sending commands to little devices called ESC, or Electronic Speed Controller. The process of doing so starts with the aircraft’s flight controller which receives the pilots remote control, then translates them into digital commands which it sends to the ESC. The ESC in turn control one motor.
There are several types of ESC protocol and ESC firmware available for quadcopter. The 4in1 ESC integrate all 4 ESC needed for a quadcopter in a single board. It definitely does help wiring simplicity.
One example of a high end 4in1 ESC is the Helifar XRAPTOR 4in1 ESC. A top notch build quality from Helifar running BLHeli_32 firmware, easy to work with, and performance is just impeccable!
The Helifar 4in1 Xraptor has impressive figures of 40A in each of its 4 ESCs, when most habitual ESCs in drones are 25 or 30A with an input voltage of 2 to 4S.
BLHeli is an ESC firmware, and BLHeli_32 is the 3rd generation after BLHeli and BLHeli_S. BLHeli_32 is written for ESC‘s that utilize 32-bit MCU (STM32F0 Cortex-M0 at 48MHz), is a rewrite of open source BLHeli and BLHeli_S that runs on 8-bit processors like Atmel or Silabs ESC’s.
The previous BLHeli and BLHeli_S are open source, however the developers have decided to close source the new 32bit firmware. Their names might maintain the same prefix, but we were told BLHeli_32 has been created from scratch.
Powerful 4-in-1 ESC with BLHELI-32 firmware natively supports ESC telemetry function, allow configuring from FC using DShot commands.
Support Dshot 1200 in default out from the factory.
Support Oneshot42, Oneshot125, Multishot, Dshot150, Dshot300 and Dshot600.
Suitable for more than 180mm wheelbase frames, E.g 180mm 200mm 210mm 220mm 230mm, etc.
The current sensor allows you to view the data’s returns of working current.
Engine-style metal cooling plate, dissipating heat of MOS transistors, with higher heat dissipation efficiency.
470uF capacitor, controller cable and high quality XT60 connector included.
It’s easier to wire, there’s only one heavy gauge power input. No power distribution board needed.
Only one BEC, no worry of weight from the additional circuits.
Due ESC to the center of your airframe you may run out of room in small setups. | 2019-04-24T10:46:37Z | https://dronegarageblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/helifar-xraptor-4in1-esc-combo-running-blheli_32/ | Porn | Science | 0.732922 |
wordpress | It was a short flight from Trondheim to Stockholm. From the plane you could see the rocky fjords of Norway transition to the forested hills of Sweden. We landed, grabbed our backpacks, and headed from the airport into town. It was time for more couch-surfing, but the old-fashioned kind.
We had met our friend Karolina in Buenos Aires, Argentina over 4 years ago (Mandy and I worked there for one month as medical students, Karolina was on vacation), now our paths would finally cross again. When we first told Karolina the dates we would be in Stockholm, we were sad to find out that she had her own vacation plans. “Don’t worry,” she replied, “I’ll leave you the keys to my place, make yourselves at home, and we will come back a few days early to see you!”.
Step #1. Catch the bus to central station.
No problem. And we even ran into a friend of Mandy’s from high school, Jen, on the way. Bonus points.
Step #2. Transfer to the Subway and take the Red Line to Hornstull.
I purchased two “red” tickets from the machine. After checking with an attendant to see how long the tickets were good for, I discovered “red” tickets are actually “reduced price” which we didn’t qualify for. We would have to buy new tickets — or, we could try and quickly sneak past the officer at the turnstile. We chose the latter option, handed him our tickets and sped through. Double bonus points.
Step #3. Exit at Hornstull, the address is: **************** , Number 1.
I consulted the map. After orienting ourselves (twice), with one wrong turn down a side street, we found her apartment building. Lose points :(.
Step #4, We stood outside and I scanned my notes: the building code is ****.
I entered the combination and waited. Nothing happened. Mandy looked at me worriedly as I tried again. On the second attempt, we heard the lock click. We pushed the door open — we were inside.
Step #5. The apartment is on the fourth floor, the key is hidden in a ***** ***** that’s hidden in a stroller.
We opened the door to a super-trendy, but cozy apartment. Getting in was actually the hardest part. The lock was stiff and the spare key didn’t fit well. Finally, on the third attempt the key turned.
Karolina’s apartment was the ideal base for lazy days in one of Europe’s trendiest cities. The place felt so much like home that we put away our tourist pants for a bit. We slept in, explored the neighborhood, and hung out in the local coffee shops (the apartment was in “SoFo”, the coolest neighborhood of ultra-cool Stockholm) and RELAXED — which we were discovering is a necessary component to an around-the-world trip. Traveling, as opposed to vacationing, can be exhausting. The novelty of each new experience puts your brain to work…hard…all. day. long. The thought of putting our backpacks down for a few days brought a smile to our faces.
lunch at Cafe Vurma, a coffee shop in the neighborhood.
Slowing it down in Stockholm was perfect. It’s a laid back city on the water that feels smaller than it actually is. In the evenings, we relaxed in the apartment as the breeze carried in live music from the bars down below. We drifted off to sleep, enjoying a mini-vacation from our travels.
This entry was posted in Sweden (Stockholm) and tagged apartment, around the world trip, cozy, relax, scavenger hunt, stockholm by chris. Bookmark the permalink.
Beautiful apartment!! 🙂 Was it really modern-styled there in Stockholm?
The restaurant seems so chic/modern both at the same time!
glad you liked the post:) swedes are very style-conscious and they’re good at it too. it can be modern, hipster, retro, it just depends on the place. Most of the spots we hung out, primarily in the SoFo district, were a perfect combination of cool and eclectic, but still casual.
Thanks so much for sharing! I’ll be keeping up with you!
SoFo is short for “South of Folkungagatan” (gatan means street), it’s a spin-off of SoHo. It is supposedly one of the younger, trendier areas in central Stockholm. | 2019-04-21T12:46:03Z | https://twoandahalfbackpacks.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/welcome-to-stockholm/ | Porn | Reference | 0.123879 |
wikipedia | Ludum Dare (LD) (Classical Latin: [ˈluːdũː ˈdarɛ], meaning 'to give a game', formerly Ludum Dare 48 (LD48), also referenced as LDJAM) is an accelerated video game development competition. It was founded by Geoff Howland and was first held in April 2002. It is currently run by Mike Kasprzak, who has been part of the team since the very beginning. Participants are required to create a video game that fits within a given theme in two or three days. A unique feature of this competition is that participants often release a time-lapse video of the development of their game.
Ludum Dare was originally only an Internet forum. The first competition—often referred to as "Ludum Dare Zero"—was held in April 2002, with 18 participants. Its popularity turned the focus towards the competitions rather than the forum. The time limit was subsequently increased to 48 hours, because 24 hours were decided to be too few. Since 2011 the competition has seen significant annual increases in numbers of game submissions, partly owing to the public awareness of Minecraft designer Markus Persson, who has participated seven times.
Until 2014, the event was very informal as the Ludum Dare team worked on it in their spare time. Due to the increasing number of contestants, long-time organizer Mike Kasprzak announced in September 2014 that he would attempt at setting up a business model allowing him to work full-time on the project. Charging for Ludum Dare is however "out of question", and money is currently exclusively raised through donations.
During Ludum Dare 35 in April 2016, an announcement acknowledged various issues regarding the game jam's rating system. In particular, it explained that some users had attempted to artificially boost their game ratings with alternate accounts. As a consequence of this problem, future Ludum Dare events were indefinitely cancelled pending a replacement website being constructed for hosting the game jam. This led to a community backlash, and the game jam in August 2016 went ahead regardless, organized by website administrator and long-time community member sorceress. In respect of the complaints previously raised, the community decided by referendum to forego the game rating phase after the game jam. So uniquely, there were no winners for that one event.
Currently, Ludum Dare is held two times a year. In the week preceding each competition suggested themes are subject to votes by prospective participants. A theme is subsequently announced before participants are given 48 hours to create a video game (although board games or similar are accepted) that fits within it. All game code and content must be created during the competition and by a single person, and source code is encouraged to be included. During the event many participants record multiple screenshots of the development of their game to later produce a time-lapse video. In addition, many broadcast a live video stream, particularly since April 2013, when a widget showing Ludum Dare video streams hosted on Twitch was added to the Ludum Dare website. After the end of the competition participants are given three weeks to play and rate other submitted games to determine the winners. There are no physical or cash prizes, but each participant retains full ownership of their game—some have achieved financial success after developing their initial submission.
As of the 18th edition of the competition, which was held in August 2010, a more relaxed version called the "Jam" was introduced. The Jam, which allows development teams, private source code and an extended development time of 72 hours, takes place concurrently with the solo competition.
A smaller competition called "Mini Ludum Dare" is held during months without a Ludum Dare. These are each hosted by a veteran participant who is free to decide the theme within which the games must fit. The rules are generally the same as in Ludum Dare, but the 48-hour limitation is usually ignored in favor of late participation.
Every October Ludum Dare hosts the October Challenge, which challenges people to "Finish a game, take it to market, and earn $1". Participants have 31 days to upload a link to their game to the website. The event is not competitive and is just a small event to encourage game development from people who do not make money from their games regularly.
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wordpress | Frankly, there is nothing worse. Your only consolation is that HUGE number of other people also have achy and painful knees and we can all feel miserable together. No, I know, that doesn’t really help you when it is sore, does it? They say misery loves company. Yeah, I never thought that either!
As we talked about yesterday, there are usually 3 ways you get joint pain, and knees are no exception. There is sudden injury, inflammation and wear and tear. The knee is particularly prone to pain and trouble, because a sudden slip or a fall over can cause or contribute to all of the above, and lets face it, it is a joint which is heavily worked, day in and day out. Skiers and joggers are both very susceptible to injuries. Skiers, if they hit a bump at the wrong angle, can sometimes get knees which pop out. Ouch. Joggers can get something called chondromalacia patella – which is the wearing down of the cartilage behind the kneecap. Basically this happens if their running mileage has increased dramatically in a short period of time. This pain tends to be worse when you stand, climb stairs, or bend to pick something up from the floor.
But knees are fickle things. Occasionally pain can result purely because of the way you walk. If you walk out of alignment, or your ankle twists, then walking with your toes turned inward or outward can cause undue wear on the knee and make the tendons and the ligaments to get inflamed and hurt. A lot.
So how can you stop the pain? Ice packs are great on knees. If you don’t have an ice pack, then a bag of frozen peas in a tea towel also works. Elevate the knee, put it on for 10 minutes and then take it off. Do this 4 times a day and the swelling (and therefore some of the pain) will come down.
As we said yesterday, do not be a hero. Take Ibuprofen for the inflammation. If the over-the-counter stuff is not doing the trick, go to the doctor and get prescription strength. Just make sure you don’t take Ibuprofen on an empty stomach. The side effects of that can be really horrible.
if the knee feels a little wobbly, then getting a knee brace from the pharmacy or sports shop might help matters. They can help for three reasons – 1) the brace keeps the knee where it should be, which means the brain can adjust for any twists or unexpected movements; 2) a brace compresses a swollen knee and helps distribute the weight that the joint bears and 3) the brace keeps the muscles around the knee warm, which prevents further injury.
A clue to some unexplained knee pain might lie in the wear on your shoes. If the soles of your shoes wear unevenly, then it could mean that there is stress being placed on your knee and that could mean it will begin to hurt for no apparent reason. Get some arch support insoles in your shoes. Dr Scholl is a good place to start, as they are not exorbitantly expensive and work a treat. If your kneed pain still doesn’t disappear, then maybe you need to go to the Doctor and get it looked out.
What if a little person hurts their knee? My reference book of choice this month, “Home Remedies from a Country Doctor” suggests that you wrap it up in a bulky bandage. This will restrict the movement of the joint, helping it to heal as little ones can be awfully restless, even with a poorly joint, and the bulk of a bandage will enforce rest.
Another good tip is to make sure you have operational thigh muscles. Apparently, well developed thighs mean that the knees will stay where they should do. Doing squats is a good way of developing sturdy thighs, though in my experience they usually highlight painful knees rather effectively as well!
This entry was posted in Exercise, Health Topics, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo and tagged bandages, Exercise, ibuprofen, icepacks, insoles, jogging, joints, knees, misery, NaBloPoMo, NaBloWriMo, Pain, skiing, squats on November 14, 2014 by viridianherbalist.
I have been doing a lot of research about Life Coaching. I must admit that when I first started studying, I was not at all sure about this aspect of my qualification. I thought it was going to be a lot of bluster and faff and really rather useless. To my surprise, I have absolutely loved it, gained a great deal from reading around the topic and in fact, I can quite see it becoming most of my work when Viridian Herbalist goes live.
While I have been doing my research online, I have found various methodologies of coaching to think about, and I want to share one with you today, because it makes so much sense to me.
The essence of life coaching is to help people achieve their goals. There is every likelihood that the client will have issues in one area of their life which is putting up some kind of obstacle between where they are and where they want to be. Sometimes the client will have a clear understanding of where that obstacle might be (and it might not just be one… it could be a whole obstacle course!) but on other occasions, they might not even know what they want out of life at all. So, Life coaches tend to have their own differing ways of assessing their clients requirements and getting to a solution.
One such methodology I have found is that of a cart’s wheel. I love this analogy. If you have a wonky wheel, then moving forward is going to be incredibly difficult. Each part of the wheel looks at a different aspect of life. It has 12 spokes, and each of these spokes correspond to something different. On the chart I found we have nutrition, exercise, stress mastery, relationships, finances, work, play, health care, environment, life purpose, self esteem and finally spirituality. And right at the centre is the hub of it all, self care.
If you think about it, all of those areas mentioned above need to be balanced and addressed to have a happy and healthy life. If any of them are out of balance, then you are going to feel a little off and you won’t be able to achieve whatever it is you want to. The most important of these though, is the centre of the wheel, the self care. It is like being on an air plane where they say in the safety talk to put your own oxygen mask on before helping others to do the same. You need to take care of yourself to make sure you can take care of anyone who depends on you.
As a life coach, I would see my role as to initially see where my client is in terms of balance on this wheel. I would suspect that most people will be higher in some areas than in others. Getting that balance right is going to be key to the happiness of the client and the eventual achievement of their goals. But I suspect, more often that not, I will be providing blinding glimpses of the obvious. Sometimes you need a person outside of your life to show you a direction and what you need to do.
I can not think of anything more rewarding than that!
This entry was posted in Life Coaching, Personal Management and tagged environment, Exercise, finances, health care, life coaching, life purpose, Nutrition, play, relationship, self care, self esteem, spirituality, stress mastery, Viridian Herbalist, wheel, work on June 4, 2014 by viridianherbalist.
I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s blog, and here is today’s, picking up where we left off.
So, we did the first five yesterday and today we are tackling the last five.
Less words, More Action. You can take this in two different ways. Yes, it could mean getting your bahookie off the couch and doing some exercise, not matter how little or how short a time you can manage. I think it could also mean keeping your word as well. If you actually live up to what you have promised others, how good does that make you feel? The endorphin kick you receive from both gives you a similar feeling. So, lets do this!
Less Greed, More Giving. That Movie in the 80’s with the line “Greed is good” was soooo wrong. Greed is NOT good. It is not good for the community, the world or the individual. I might be swimming against the tide here, but if we all just gave a little of ourselves, time or companionship not necessarily money, our world would be a much better place.
Less Worry, More Sleep. Did you know that more than 75% of the conditions which General Practitioners treat regularly, are due to stress? Although humans do need some stress/worry to motivate them to do something, having the body’s flight or flight response on the go 24/7 is not healthy. I have seen (and experienced) the damage it can do, and it is just not worth it. Sleep is a great remedy. There really is very little better than a good, deep, restorative sleep. It is when the body repairs itself. Sadly, I don’t get much of it myself due to insomnia and a very odd cicadian rhythm. But I try, every night to sleep soundly and for at least 8 hours.
Less Driving, More Walking. Not only will the environment benefit from less exhaust fumes, you will also benefit. Not just from the exercise, but also from being in nature/out of a confined space. It gives your brain a bit of space. I often come back from a brisk walk with the dog having had a great idea for a blog post, or an idea for what to cook for dinner. Breathing fresh air is a great stress reliever as well.
Less Anger, More Laughter. Anger is corrosive and can cause so much damage to the body. Often, holistic healers find that the blockages to people getting better are down to repressed anger or down to people being angry about things in other areas of their lives. Anger is not good. Getting cross also represses your immune system. Laughter however, truly is the best medicine. it boosts your immune system, bathes your brain in Oxytocin and other feel good hormones. Who hasn’t felt good after watching that hilarious comedy, or laughing hysterically at something someone said? Its obvious.
So, today, my prescription is for you to go and either take a walk in some fresh air, find something you can give away to someone who really needs it, have a fabulous afternoon nap, and watch the film which never fails to make you laugh. Or, better yet, do all of them!
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wordpress | The new album by music artist Karisa Kay, called “Somebody To Love” I was actually blown away. From the start of the album the song called “Three Truths and A Lie” and Karisa nails it. The song has great lyrical content and I really thought that Karisa has a sound that is really good. Her voice is distinctive and an almost Tanya Tucker sounding but remains to be her own sound. The next song called “Three Fingers Down” Karisa has a sound that is clear and vivid as her lyrics she has a real life story to tell you and with this song she Kicks and allows you to really feel what she’s telling you. With the next song called “Too Much Blood In My Alcohol System” where this song has a feel of raucus and really showcases her style that have flavor & gust. This particular song I really felt the kicks and punches but they were gentle since Karisa has “Too Much Blood in her Alcohol System” “Somebody To Love” a great song a slow down the tempo and once again a story telling side of Karisa that really makes her musicality great. music artists like this are my favorites to write reviews on cause I write from my heart and so do they. “I hope She Leaves You” Karisa really shows her emotional feelings about the person who must have hurt her that she sings and she speaks right to the issue, with no holds barred and nothing holding back. Once gain real life story telling, awesome. With the next song called “That’s not Me” It seems as if Karisa has a theme to this record where sing consistently sings about her life & her surroundings and what a really emotionally charged collection of songs on this superb album by Karisa. “Mommy I Broke my Heart” Karisa sings about her feelings throughout and this song really reflects this and leaves Karisa vulnerable but that makes a true honesty in her music. These songs I listened to for the last hour or so were really well received and Karisa is one of those artists that touch your heart with her compelling lyrics and musicality. “Don’t Fall In Love” I hear the consistent theme to her style and I feel that Karisa really has a sound that needs to be heard and in all the songs she sings on this album continue her lifes’ story. “This Is Me” Karisa really has the command of the country ballad where this is probably my favorites on the album and Karisa has a smooth sound and this song has “Hit” all over it. “Morning Sure Comes Early” Karisa ramps up her musicality with this song and this song rings a real good message and tells a superb story, and at times I had a tear or two, this song has the sounds that provoked emotions from me and Karisa and wonderful vocal arrangements are superb and most enjoyable. “Twelve Pack” Karisa is amazing where she sings throughout this wonderfully produced and amazingly sung and written, where her emotions throughout are raw and at the surface on every song, and this song is a perfect example of this. “The Love You Leave Behind” now this song along with the whole album are a truly real life experience and incredibly honest and real. Karisa brings in that real feel to her music and her lyrics reflect her incredible way of bringing her messages to you with her wonderful and soothing vocals. This song is a ready to go on the radio, now. kind of song and Karisa has the ability to express this with her inflections throughout her music and as she sings each song. The last song on this tremendously polished and very fine album is called ‘I Wish My Heart Would Break Enough” and once again the Karisas’ honesty shines through and through with every song on this superb album. I thank Karisa for her tremendous friendship & her awesome music. I hope to hear her music on the radio soon. | 2019-04-20T21:16:08Z | https://soundwaveone.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/real-and-true-feelings/ | Porn | Arts | 0.721541 |
wordpress | Sanat Kumara, or Raj, as he prefers, is known in the Bible as “the Ancient of days.” He is Earth’s Planetary Logos.
Steve begins the interview by asking Raj about Pope Francis. Raj explains the Pope Francis is overlighted by St. Francis of Assisi. St. Francis has not taken over the Pope’s body as a walk-in. An example that I give is that while Jesus conducted his ministry on Earth, he was overlighted by the Universal Christ Spirit.
Pope Francis, overlighted by St. Francis, has agreed at the Soul level to take on the responsibility of cleaning up the Church. Though Pope Francis is very humble, Raj says he has a spine of steel.
The selection of Pope Francis is a major change signifying the Ascension Process. Catholic or not, we all need to watch as Pope Francis works with St. Francis of Assisi in cleaning up the scandals that have plagued the Church for centuries.
Raj continues the interview by discussing the process of ascension. A very thought provoking hour!
Regarding Sanat Kumara’s Contribution to Planet Earth.
Earth had descended so low that the Council of Heaven debated allowing it to disintegrate. Sanat volunteered to leave his home planet of Venus and his twin flame, Lady Master Venus, and come to Earth to save it. The story follows.
SOMETHING OF ENORMOUS SIGNIFICANCE IS SHORTLY TO COME INTO VIEW.
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YOUR AWAKENING WILL ALLOW YOU TO INTERACT FULLY WITH ALL OF CREATION.
We are all one – there is no separation. Your human perception of individuality is caused by the severely limited state of consciousness that you experience, and this makes it extremely difficult for you to perceive very much at all. As individuals, you engage in apparently separate disciplines, areas of interest, of study, of entertainment, of activity, etc. which further emphasize your sense of separation and hide from you the all-encompassing oneness that is your original and eternal state of existence. Your awakening will remove those severe limitations, allowing you to interact fully with all of creation and to offer all your diverse skills and talents to enhance God’s ongoing creative enterprise, in which all participate gloriously and harmoniously.
Because of your presently limited state of consciousness, you have only a very slight awareness of your skills and talents as you use them to earn your living or to entertain yourselves, but you are all extremely talented and creative beings, and this will become apparent and will delight you when the illusion dissolves and you are once more able to access the infinite knowledge of the divine realms. To fully partner with God in your creative endeavors is, and always has been, your destiny, and you are shortly to engage with it.
Your destiny is your natural state, the state in which God created you as eternal beings always at one with Him. You have never left it; it just seems that you have, and your present ongoing life experience is a distraction – an extremely powerful and enticing one – with which you engage continuously through your bodies and all their senses. Yes, your bodies are powerful, distracting attention-grabbers, and that includes your thought processes and emotions; and it is very difficult for you to withdraw your focus from them for very long because they always seem to have needs requiring your attention – food, drink, exercise, sleep, entertainment, worry, competing, winning, etc.
Meditation, quiet relaxation, feeling the earth, the trees, enjoying the beauty of a view or the sunset can help you reach a “non-ordinary” state of consciousness, where the pressures of living in a body can be greatly reduced to the extent that you can become momentarily unaware of it. When that happens, you experience a sense of sublime peace. Most of you have at some time had an experience like this, and you never forget it. For some it is very intense, for others just an extremely peaceful release from the stress of daily living, but it is unforgettable. It is a veiled glimpse of Reality that you would love to experience more frequently and easily, and yet it seems to elude you no matter how hard you try to re-experience it. And of course the trick is not to try, and that too is very difficult. Once experienced, you cannot help yearning for it and looking for it whenever you think that you are close to that inner place in which it occurred.
But of course a non-ordinary state of consciousness is really an extremely ordinary state! It is just that because of the distractions of the illusion it is very rarely experienced. The illusion is an all-encompassing environment that demands your constant attention. The thing is that you do not have to respond to those demands. It is incumbent on you to be aware of them, but then you must decide whether or not to comply with them. That is what free will is all about.
Far too frequently your ego succeeds in convincing you that as you live in this world it would be foolish, even insane, not to cooperate with it fully – you need to earn your living, sort out your relationships, attend to your children, keep your body in good shape, take out health insurance, not make yourself look a total idiot by trying to be honest in a dishonest world – and its reasoning seems so reasonable. But, deep within yourselves you sense that something about this reasoning is seriously amiss — and you are correct.
Everyone experiences dissatisfaction with human existence, and yet you often reason that that is the human condition. But that does not ease your dissatisfaction. You may bury it as you actively work very hard at playing out the hand that you have been dealt. Nevertheless, deep within you there is a sense of anxiety, a sense that you are missing out on something, that there must “please God!” be more to life than this endless struggle to survive. Others do not seem to suffer from this angst, so you dare not discuss it with anyone, and you just soldier on.
That inner yearning is your divine wake-up call. It is not a psychotic threat to your sanity. But because you all experience life as separated, individual, you cannot see how others feel, and you worry that you are horribly different from all those basically normal people you see all around you. And when you see someone trapped in some sort of addiction, or homeless on the streets, it confirms for you that the world is a very dangerous place and that you must conform or sink. So you keep your angst to yourselves, as a closely guarded secret.
Yes, some of you may enter psychotherapy in the hope of achieving some kind of relief, but you are also aware of people who have spent years in therapy with no obviously beneficial results – they just keep changing therapists – unless they are lucky enough to find someone who is open to deeper discussions of their issues and who will look at them from a spiritual standpoint.
So that angst, that dissatisfaction, is your intuition attempting to make contact with you by distracting you from the distractions of the illusion. It feels like an inner conflict between “shoulds,” as part of you feels honor bound to do them and part of you wants freedom from doing them. It is very confusing for you.
Keep reminding yourselves that these feelings are to encourage you to spend time quietly, alone, without distractions (phone, TV, children, spouses), when you make a point of not focusing on the anxieties and worries of daily life (it can help to play some soothing music quietly in the background), and just let go! Maybe you will weep, maybe you will laugh, or maybe nothing will apparently occur, but by allowing yourself that time, and by thus honoring yourself, even if only for five minutes during the day, you will strengthen your self-esteem, your God-given right to be yourself (after all, who else can you be?), and in those minutes your heart will open to accept the constantly offered gift of God’s Love for you – and you will feel it as a moment of peace or of self-validation.
You owe yourself that personal, private space every day, because it is where you can find the peace and the stillness you need to strengthen your ability to hold the Light and allow it to burn ever more brightly within you. You are all bright jewels, piercing through the gloom and despondency of the illusion, and showing the way towards awakening. This is your duty and your joy as the divine way-showers that you are, and by making time for yourselves daily, you will experience that joy and know you are on your path doing precisely what you incarnated to do.
Others may well try to dissuade you from offering love, compassion, and honesty indiscriminately in every situation. But you know, deep within yourselves, that this is your path, and that just by living it and demonstrating it you are changing the whole world!
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Humanity has been most successfully impregnated with God’s divine Love. The seed was always there, and now the nourishing rain of the divine energy field encircling the Earth is bringing it enthusiastically to life. It has lain dormant for a long time – although it has occasionally been tempted to respond to God’s constant outpouring of Love – because humanity was not ready for the enormous shift in perspective necessary for it to flourish. That has all changed, and the constant nourishment it is receiving from that divine energy field, to which is added humanity’s own intense desire to awaken, has sparked an irreversible chain of events that will culminate in your awakening.
From our vantage point in the spiritual realms the view is amazingly beautiful. The brightness of the field of Love enveloping you all is stunning! So much progress has been made in such a short time, compared to the eons during which the illusion held you fast in its thrall, when Reality was hidden from you by the fog of chaos and confusion, prompting your sense of separation which soon enveloped you completely, and cutting off all memories of who you were and where you came from.
That fog is dissolving, and already glimpses of Reality are appearing, as integrity, honesty, and transparency start to replace the dissemblance and corruption with which your worldly affairs have been conducted for so long. The old order is crumbling all around you, despite the frantic efforts of those it supports to prevent this from happening, and its demise cannot much longer be prevented. Clement conditions, in which you will live and thrive, will soon be upon you, and you will find that the time during which you have been waiting and hoping for this has been exceptionally well-spent.
An environment in which you can thrive and flourish has long been prepared for you; all that remained was for you to embrace it whole-heartedly. And that is what you are now in the process of doing, as you work to release all the unforgiving attitudes and behaviors that have kept you very firmly anchored in the illusion.
Reality — the environment towards which you are heading — is Love: a place of peace, harmony, creativity, acceptance, inclusiveness, and cooperation, in which nothing unloving could ever exist, because there is nothing else. Anything unloving is illusory and serves only to hide from your view the wonder of God’s divine and all-encompassing Reality. Because it is illusory, all you have to do is release it, by refusing to play any of the games it attempts to entice you into – fear, anger, judgment, blame, righteousness, victimhood, hate, envy – which are all illusory but nevertheless very damaging concepts that only confuse and distract you from the joy and bliss of living.
The illusion is your own collective invention and it is not of God. You built it to prove to yourselves that you had no need of God. And look where it has landed you. You did a great job! It is so convincing, that to you it seems absolutely real — so real that enormous numbers of you believe that it is all that exists, and that is the spiritual realms that are illusory.
Your sciences – physics, engineering, mathematics, medicine (pharmacological, surgical, preventative, psychiatric), psychology, etc. – have, for the most part, wholly denied the possibility of anything existing that cannot be measured and sensed through your bodily senses, or through any extensions to those senses, such as microscopes, telescopes, and various other electronic and electrical devices that merely enhance the physical faculties of the human body.
Now, however, it is becoming increasingly apparent to those who are willing to be aware that this picture of reality is really quite inadequate, that there most definitely are realms other than the ones to which you have become accustomed to experiencing physically, and that cannot be measured by your scientific instruments.
This is a tremendous step forward for you. It means that it is no longer frowned upon to investigate the spiritual realms, although mainstream science still has some problems with this. Once, any scientist who publicly admitted to investigating the possibility of a reality beyond the physical one was promptly disowned and ostracized. That is changing, and those who have the courage to expand their areas of study and investigation beyond the restrictive fields of which mainstream science approves are finally being heard.
This growing acceptance by mainstream science of the reality of the spiritual realms is part of humanity’s awakening process. Many people require science to endorse new concepts and beliefs by declaring them scientifically proven before they will accept them. This new and successful scholarly research into spirituality is assisting them to make the necessary changes in their personal beliefs, so that they can embrace spirituality and accept into their hearts the energy of the divine Love field that constantly surrounds you all.
This is truly a wonderful time to be experiencing life on the Earth plane because all the planning that has been leading up to this moment is coming to fruition, and you will all be present to take part in this extraordinary and momentous event.
Life is tricky for some of you, as the moment for humanity’s grand awakening approaches. All the personal issues that you have neglected or denied are breaking into your conscious awareness, quite forcibly if necessary, and it can be very unsettling. All you have to do is allow them to present themselves to you. You do not have to do anything with them or about them; they hold an energy that needs to be released because it is causing blockages in your energy fields. Just observe them, experience the feelings they bring up for you — and just observe. They may sit with you for quite a while, possibly being rather painful, but if you allow them, they will pass, leaving you feeling somewhat renewed or freed.
This is a time of enormous change in the way humans deal with one another — change that is essential for you to embrace as you prepare to awaken from the nightmare of violence, conflict, suffering, and betrayal that has been endemic on Earth for millennia. Your true nature is Love, because it was from Love that you were created, but your earthly experience has been far removed from that because of the distrust that separation has encouraged and nurtured.
The change that is required is for you to see, acknowledge, and then release those attitudes that have served you so ill. Wherever you choose to cast your gaze you can see the enormous damage that these attitudes have been, and still are, causing all over the world, and you can also see how totally ineffective have been your attempts to alter those situations and bring in peace, whether it be in your own families or between nations, when you “declare war on” the issues that you believe need to be addressed. Declaring war on a situation, issue, or problem is to make a decision that others are wrong, you (or “your side”) is right, and that “they” need to be taught a lesson, which will force them into line. And how many lessons has humanity attempted to teach itself over the eons, and with what success?
Humanity has collectively decided to change its attitudes and behaviors, and as a result the divine energies pouring down on the planet are intensifying so that you have the strength to “walk your talk” despite the ridicule and contempt that those who hold the reins, and who claim to be wiser and more intelligent, shower on your efforts. They cannot succeed, for it is they who lack wisdom and intelligence and who continue to believe that their righteous and inflexible outlook will win the day. They are riding for a fall, and it will not be long in coming.
You, the enlightened ones, insofar as you have finally realized to what a sorry state your old ways have brought you, must accept that the people who have designed, planned, and perpetrated these corrupt and heartless practices are themselves, just like you, beloved children of God. It is therefore incumbent upon you to lay aside any desires to condemn and punish them, and to ensure that any attempt at reprisals against them is contained. Everyone who has ever inhabited the earth plane has at some point behaved atrociously – no one is without stain of sin.
Now, with God’s Love flooding the planet, the way forward is through Love, compassion, understanding and forgiveness. Anything else just hurls you back into the morass from which you are so successfully climbing out. It may well be difficult for you to engage completely with these new enlightened ways, but is essential for the awakening process. Knowing this, be the calm, the peace, the compassion, and the Love that your Father has instilled in you. Break the patterns of the old order, and joyfully usher in the new Golden Age for which you have all been longing. | 2019-04-25T20:18:21Z | https://pathwaytoascension.wordpress.com/category/ascended-masters-teachings/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.104531 |
wordpress | In 2010 I started quilting after I purchased a Kaffe Fassett book and before I was finished with my first quilt I was hooked. My quilting over the last eight years has evolved, and my love of hand applique and embroidery has taken over most of my quilting.
I will be sharing my quilts with you and doing an introduction to wool applique the way I have found that works the best to accommodate lots of embellishment stitching.
Coming South on I-5 take the Kincaid exist in Mt. Vernon. (Exit 226) At the base of the exit turn left onto Kincaid which will take you under the freeway and up the hill. Turn right at South 13th. The church is across the street from Hillcrest Park. Come in the side door into the fellowship hall.
Admission for NQC members is paid for with membership. $7 for non-members guests.
NOTE: There is no host for this meeting. Members should consider bringing items for the auffle, as well as finger food. If you can help set up chairs, make coffee and arrange tables, come at 8:30 a.m. | 2019-04-18T18:44:41Z | https://northwestquiltconnection.wordpress.com/2018/08/18/september-2018-meeting/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.844691 |
livejournal | The Lost Objects entities have been playing with my brain lately.
I found my "you're home free" letter from the IRS ... thirty minutes after I posted off the check to my tax guy without it.
My cell phone went missing for a couple days. It was low battery and had run out so I couldn't call it to find out.
And I put on my blue jeans on Friday to find $200 in cash in the pocket. I had been a bit tapped out for cash, to the point where I raided my bridge toll fund for Farmer's Market money.
It's somewhat offset by the fact that a valuable necklace slipped off my neck somewhere between my bedroom and 11th and Oak in Oakland. On the one hand, it's probably as much as I deserve for wearing a Tommy Singer choker to a ball game. On the other, I really liked it. I was remarkably fussed at the time (esp. since traffic jams in Chinatown were fixing to make me late for the ballgame) but am philosophical about it now.
I've baked a cake and given it away, and will be keeping my St. Anthony of Padua card in my purse. I'm not obsessing over getting a new necklace, which considering my shop-a-holic tendencies in the recent past, is a Good Thing.
Is the baking of a cake and giving it away an offerig to St. Anthony? I hadn't heard that one before.
I am informed that St. Anthony deals in cold hard cash. I will be making a donation to the Mission San Miguel quake repair fund.
I'm sorry about the necklace. Could it be in your car? Mine is filled with little places things can slip into, especially between the front console and the driver's seat. I'll cross my fingers for you.
Yea! for the letter, the cash, and the power supply cord. Good news! | 2019-04-25T07:43:55Z | https://berkeleyfarm.livejournal.com/84368.html | Porn | News | 0.627057 |
wordpress | So…my sister and I are officially on for the Cross-Country Move Adventure, 2014 Edition. The last edition took place back in 2005, when I moved from Vermont to Fort Collins, Colorado, and involved a tightly packed, highly un-hip minivan and two Siamese cats. This year’s version will not include the cats, so (by way of a proper handicap to even things out) it will take place in a very small lima-bean-colored Volkswagen New Beetle. I’m meeting my sister in Wisconsin at my brother’s wedding (another brother is riding with her that far), and we’ll continue out to Washington State from there.
With this coming up in the near future, I’ve been doing a lot of reminiscing about the past.
The minivan’s odometer rolled past 100,000 the day we set out, on a crisp early April day. As we headed down the hill into town, the row of 9’s caught my eye, and–wanting to savor the moment–we pulled into the empty parking lot at Pettyco Junction just off Route 18 in Saint Johnsbury, and drove in circles for…well, let’s just say it took a lot longer than anticipated to flip over. Goodness knows what any passersby thought of us. And goodness knows what the poor cats thought of this situation.
Many of the most memorable happenings on that trip had to do with the cats. They were pretty good passengers for the most part, but with a quirk or two each. Halvah, for example, would ride on the floor behind the driver’s seat, so long as there was music playing. Vocal music, at that–instrumentals would not do. If the music stopped, she’d start howling in protest. And we had very little music with us. We listened to the radio some of the time, but for a very long stretch through Nebraska and Wyoming, there *were* no radio stations. I think we played the same two CDs (Clint Black, and the Everly Brothers–everything else was packed under a zillion pounds of boxes) for about seven hundred miles, punctuated here and there by protesting yowls whenever we decided to toggle from one CD to the other and Halvah was left with silence for THIRTY WHOLE SECONDS.
And then there was Tam. He was fine in the car, pretty much just drowsed in the back on some folded clothing, no trouble at all. Except. The first night we stopped along the way, Margaret and I were both so exhausted we went to bed early, but soon discovered Tam had been saving up his energy all day. As soon as the lights went out, he turned into the Energizer Siamese. He used us as human trampolines. He ran laps around the room. He climbed up in back of the high-mounted TV (I have pictures of this feat somewhere, to prove it). And throughout all this, he kept up a running dialog, as only a Siamese can.
After that first night, we made a point of playing fetch with the little brat (yes, he retrieves–sometimes) for a good long time every evening when we stopped, so everyone could sleep.
We went through New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio (where, without the aid of GPS, we ended up headed back *east* in rush hour traffic on the outskirts of Columbus, which was NOT FUN). We drove through Indiana, along the Michigan border, and passed through Illinois. We drove through Iowa, where the land flattened out and faraway towns looked like objects viewed across a tabletop. We drove through Nebraska, and a empty corner of Wyoming, where if we set the radio to scan, it continued scanning forever. We stopped at a McDonald’s there, and complete strangers, apparently eager for any outside contact, asked us our life stories and life plans: a bit startling to a couple of gals from Vermont, where sometimes it takes a generation or two to fit in and be acknowledged…..
And finally, with the Rockies to guide us, we arrived in Fort Collins, and met up with my friend and new roommate, who had already been patiently dealing with boxes of my books arriving on her doorstep. Oh, the relief of having a stopping point!
It was a blast of a trip, for the most part. And I couldn’t have asked for a better traveling companion. It’ll be interesting to see what memories come out of this new trip, and what new challenges we have to meet. We’re older, yes, but are we wiser? Only time will tell. | 2019-04-25T12:58:57Z | https://enoughicecream.wordpress.com/category/travel/ | Porn | Reference | 0.235292 |
wordpress | To write a history of Godolphin since the publication of the Bicentenary Book in 1926 is not simply to continue a story. ‘The era before 1926 belongs to the age when girls’ public schools were new phenomena. They were presided over by a number of distinguished women – of whom Miss Douglas was not the least – who were pioneers and crusaders. They were building up their schools as communities dedicated to new ideals, each school with its own particular ethos and individuality, and it may fairly be said that the nineteen-twenties saw the fulfillment of these hopes for girls’ education. The Godolphin Bicentenary celebrations in 1926 were in that context more than just the marking of an anniversary in the history of the School itself, although the participants might not have recognised that fact at the time.
It seems incredible that it is fifty years since Godolphin held up the London traffic as it made its way to Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the School. It was in the following summer that it proudly marched through the streets of Salisbury joining in a procession celebrating the 700th anniversary of the granting of its Charter to the City.
The Bicentenary year was marked by many fresh developments in the School’s history. It saw the publication of the first number of the Magazine under the joint editorship of the School committee and that of O.G.A. It saw too, the moving of School House from the main building to the first house in the snicket. The removal of the House led to other changes. Four new form-rooms appeared, two in place of the old dormitories. The form-room next to the studio was transformed into a light, spacious craftroom, and the Prayer-room, now the Chapel, was moved to a larger quieter site over the old fiction library on the North staircase. The new gym was finished, its floor properly designed for running and marching and so ending the days when these, executed on the highly polished floor of the Hall, were reduced to balancing acts. Perhaps the best change of all was that of the old School House sitting-room into a library; up till then there had only been a collection of reference books partly housed inaccessibly in the Staffroom and partly scattered through the various form rooms. Now they were all gathered together by Miss Noakes and displayed on the beautiful oak shelving which was her own gift.
It was now that it was decided to hold Commemoration alternately in Salisbury and in London. The change proved to be of great value. Many, who could never spare the time nor travel the necessary distance for a whole week-end in Salisbury could easily afford a few hours in London. The meeting in the Abbey and the laying of the wreath on the memorial stone of our foundress have helped to keep her memory and the great debt of gratitude that we owe her. Her great gift to us has also been recorded in the Godolphin Book, the publication of which in 1928 was the next important event in Godolphin’s history. It was edited by Miss Douglas and Miss Ash and tells the story of the school and of all its activities between the years 1726 and 1926.
In 1930 we heard of the death of Miss Andrews, who was Headmistress before Miss Douglas, and was also an Old Girl. Until she died on the morning of her 87th birthday she retained her deep affection for and intense interest in Godolphin. It was in this year that Miss Douglas opened a new house in the snicket that was to bear her own name. This house is now re-named Jerred and the name Douglas transferred to one of the new Houses.
In the summer term of 1931 the doctors decided that Miss Ash must have special treatment for the aggravated form of arthritis from which she had suffered for some time, and so she went to a famous Austrian doctor for this and Miss Noakes went abroad with her. The School was very fortunate in having Miss Westlake, a well known friend, who had been both games-mistress and a house-mistress at Godolphin, to look after them for the rest of term. Some outstanding and unusual honours won by Godolphins of this period should be mentioned here. Mary Cartwright was one of the very few women to become a fellow of the Royal Society, and afterwards she became Mistress of Girton. Theodora Turner was appointed Matron of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, and Dorothy Pearse (Spicer) was the first woman in the world to hold the four Engineering Diplomas of the Air Force. We are also proud to remember that Dorothy Sayers was at Godolphin.
In the autumn of 1931, in Methuen garden, a Domestic Science Room, fully equipped to provide a thorough training in housecraft was opened by Lady Hulse. It was to be called the Hulse Room in honour of this governor, who had been the first woman on the City council and later its first Lady Mayor. This year, too, saw the advent of an electric kiln for the firing of pottery in the Craft Room.
By the spring term of 1934 the library had been extended. During the holidays the room that had housed the Museum had been thrown into it, the two rooms being connected by a beautifully designed archway, and this enlargement had been shelved and furnished in keeping with the rest. We were very sad to lose our Librarian and Second Mistress, Miss Noakes, who retired the next term. It was most disappointing that Miss Ash had to miss the beginning of her last term. Miss Noakes came to deputise until her return.
On St. Valentine’s Day, 1935, Bishop Donaldson came to present to Miss Ash from the School, the Staff and the O.G.A. a portrait of herself. In spite of our sorrow at the approaching parting it could only be a glad occasion. Marcia Matthews, president of the O.G.A. and Headmistress of St. Mary’s School Caine, then thanked Miss Ash for all she had done for the School, and the portrait, painted by Arthur Connor, was unveiled. At the end of the term we said Goodbye to this our Headmistress and friend of fifteen years, a friend to whom the School owes a great debt of gratitude for her wisdom coupled with a warm human understanding, her scholarship and marked literary gifts, her humility and courage, but above all for a firm and living faith, which gave her a sweet serenity of spirit that found expression in loving reasonableness and kindly consideration for others.
In the summer term we welcomed our new Headmistress, Miss D. M. M. Edwards-Rees, until then Head of the Duchess’ School, Alnwick. She brought to her work exceptional gifts of mind and heart, and she will be remembered by those who were at Godolphin in those pre-war years as a woman of imagination, sympathy and understanding. Her literary gifts and her wide ranging talents found expression in a number of books. Among her services to the School were the steps she took to introduce the Burnham Scale. She also appointed Miss Dunford as the first Careers Mistress and, in 1938, created a School Council composed of the Headmistress, Staff, School and House prefects, games captains and representatives of each form.
The year 1936 was a sad one for in it occurred the death of King George V, Bishop Donaldson and our Dean, Bishop Randalph. Most of the School attended the Memorial Service for the King in the Cathedral. There was, however, one bright spot. On a cold day with snow on the ground, but with sunshine and a blue sky, Miss Ash came to open the new Science block, now known as the Ash Building.
This was the Coronation year of King George VI, to celebrate which the School had an extra holiday. At the end of the year Hamilton lost its Housemistresses, both of whom seemed so much a part of the School – Miss Derriman who taught us so much more of life and literature than we learnt from the Classics, and Miss Falwasser who in her quiet way made the Kindergarten such a happy place. An Old Godolphin, Helen Poynton, came to be House-mistress of Hamilton. | 2019-04-26T05:54:47Z | https://thegodolphinbook.wordpress.com/1926-1940/ | Porn | Arts | 0.358878 |
wordpress | When I was a child, my favorite time of the week was Saturday morning. We kids would rise early, tiptoe down the stairs and race to throw our pillow across the arms to our dad’s worn easy chair. For the next few hours, our lives belonged to the heroes of Saturday morning TV.
Using my pillow for a saddle, I rode along with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. From them I learned that people ate apple pie and coffee for breakfast and that the good guys did indeed wear white hats. Roy was polite and upstanding, and although he occasionally threw punches or drew his gun, his freshly ironed shirt never came untucked and his crescent eyes never lost their smile. Roy was accompanied by his amazing horse Trigger and his wife Dale, who rode her faithful mare, Buttermilk. Not to be deterred by fringed skirts and perfectly coiffed hair, Dale Evans kept up with the boys without sacrificing a bit of her femininity. I never doubted for a moment that the American cowgirl could do anything that the American cowboy could do.
Out of the western blue came Sky King and his niece Penny. Penny flew a Cessna. By herself. And she was a teenager, which is, of course, what every little girl aspires to become. I wanted to wear a cowboy hat and pony tail and fly the Songbird like Penny did. From my back yard, any overhead plane became the Songbird and each time I swore that Sky and Penny dipped their wings to say hello.
Saturday morning television encouraged my sense of adventure and fed my thirst for excitement. It also introduced me to foods never allowed in my mother’s kitchen. Drakes Cakes were suspended in air while melted chocolate mysteriously dripped from the sky, covering the surface in a delectable cocoa confection. Nabisco Wheat Honeys and Rice Honeys held intricate plastic Whee Ball games- free, of course! The Cheerios Kid had “go power” and FlavR Straws were magic straws. I craved cream-filled Hostess Snowballs and Chef Boy-R-Dee, instead of the home made raisin oatmeal cookies and beef stew that graced our table. To me, nothing would be so exciting as to indulge in the sugar laden treats that were advertised on Saturday morning TV.
By the time my kids were old enough to discover Saturday morning TV, cowboys were replaced by Power Rangers and Felix had disappeared, leaving room for Care Bears. Like my mother, I would shoo them outside when I tired of hearing “Pleeeeeeeease, Mom, can you buy me a Power Blow Super Soaker Water Squirt Gun?” and I made beef and vegetable soup from scratch instead of serving SpaghettiOs. But when I glanced outside and watched Elizabeth use a Perfection game as a time bomb and throw herself through the air like MacGyver when the “bomb” went off, I knew the torch had been passed.
Autumn officially begins next week, but for me, it started yesterday, when the temperatures fell and I needed a sweater to stay warm throughout the day. Although I’ve spent fall in other parts of the country, nothing matches the beauty of New England, when the apples ripen and verdant trees turn russet and gold. This happens quickly. In September, tree tops show splashes of color here and there, but within a few weeks, the hills become a patchwork quilt of saffron, copper and crimson. The fragrant breezes of summer are replaced by October’s chill spiced by the faint scent of rotting leaves and wood smoke. Lazy afternoons on the beach are replaced by planting mums and replacing worn weather stripping.
As a child, I loved fall’s crisp blue skies and brilliant sunlight. It was a time to pull on woolen skirts and knee socks, to fold away shorts and swim suits, and stow bicycles and lawn chairs. My sisters and I conspired about Halloween, planning elaborate costumes and Trick-or-Treat pranks. School was in full swing, and we scuffed through the fallen maple leaves by the church steps on the way home from the bus stop, our arms laden with earmarked books and notes we passed during math class. In fall, crayons still had points, new shoes still shined and teachers hadn’t begun to yell when they got frustrated with noisy children. Although the calendar year was beginning to wane, the reopening of school made it a time for new beginnings and fresh starts.
When I was a teenager, autumn evenings were often filled helping my mother can pickles, jam, and vegetables from our back yard garden. We stood side by side in the kitchen, slicing and chopping, filling Ball jars, and bathing them in a bubbling pot of water. It was the perfect setting for long talks about school, boys, our dreams, our faith. From cook books I learned how to preserve food and stock pantry shelves, but from my mother, I learned to preserves relationships and stock one’s heart with love and laughter.
During the fall of 1982 I was newly pregnant with my daughter Abigail. The honking of Canada geese as they flew across a nearby pond heralded a new era of my life. As is the case with most first-trimester mothers, I experienced several weeks of morning sickness. In October, my husband took a week’s vacation to replace the roof of our little house, and I would listen to the banging of his hammer while I fought the bile that rose in my throat. At last the roof was completed, with the exception of the shingle caps for the peak. As Paul climbed the ladder under the sinking sun, rain clouds gathered overhead. When the last of the twilight sky turned to black, it began to shower. Paul was desperately trying to hammer the caps in place, but was unable to see. Ignoring my queasy stomach and the fact that heights made me dizzy, I shakily climbed the ladder and sat on the roof to hold the flashlight. We straddled the roof, raindrops dripping down our necks, until the last of the cap was in place. I looked at my husband’s fingers, bandaged and bleeding from when the hammer missed its mark. He flashed me a grin. We had done it- the roof was complete- and our house would be a warm nest for our expected little one. To this day, when the October skies turn gray and I hear the faint honking of Canada geese, I remember that happy day, when determination triumphed over circumstances, and love prevailed over fear.
Now, as summer pales and the nights leave heavy dew on the car windshield, I fight against feelings of loss and nostalgia that threaten to leave me unmotivated and despondent. No longer do I have school or canning or a new baby to anticipate. The coming of fall marks the end of summer. It is time to haul my beach chair and umbrella to the attic, to scrub windows that will soon be latched against the cold New Hampshire winds, and to wash the cedar from wooly sweaters. No more lazy Sunday afternoons drowsing on the beach. No more humming of fans and tall glasses of lemonade. No more long legged children who leave wet towels on the beds and unlaced sneakers on the floor.
I sigh and shake my head- no pity parties for me. There is applesauce to be made, and Christmas pajamas to sew. The sky is a brilliant blue and puffy white clouds part to reveal a golden sun. It’s time to say goodbye to summer and greet fall with open arms.
I had wanted to learn to golf for a couple of years. It seemed like a game I could enjoy- one where the competition can be fierce, but doesn’t have to be. A game that people can play as kids, but continue well beyond the age of retirement. And most of all, a game that requires no running.
In July, I went with my brother Eric and his wife, Colleen when they played nine holes of golf at a course near their home. Because I don’t golf, I drove the cart, which, by the way, is loads of fun. I watched them play, noticing how calm and peaceful the course was, and thought how much I would like to learn this game.
1. It looks much easier than it is.
2. If it is true that only the mediocre are always at their best, golf is one game where the average “good” player is always at his or her best. So don’t worry if you aren’t very good. Very, very few players really are.
3. Sometimes, seeing the Canada Geese along the water hazard on the 5th hole is more rewarding than the game itself.
4. When you see people squatting, studying a green for a left or right break, when they’re done, they probably still don’t have any real clue as to which way the green breaks.
5. How men score: One in the woods, two out of bounds, three in the lateral water hazard, four on the green, and three putts for a five.
6. How women score: I know the highest I can take on a hole is an 8, but I think I got a 12. I’m not sure though. Between the penalty strokes and the whiffs, I lost count.
7. Cell phones have no place on a golf course, except in an emergency.
8. Don’t take too seriously the helpful tips from others in the foursome about how to correct your swing errors. If they knew, they’d be teaching pros, and they’d hit the ball better than they do.
9. If a teaching pro comes up behind you and puts his arms around you to “help show you how to swing,” he’s trying to pick you up if you’re a woman. If you’re a man, he’s gay.
10. Beer will not improve your game, but it does help to make it more relaxing sometimes.
1. Gerry is correct- it does look a lot easier than it is.
3. If there is water, my golf ball will find it.
4. For some people, golf is a serious game. For me, it is an opportunity to give my brother, my sister-in-law, and everyone else on the course a hearty laugh. Or rather, several hearty laughs. Especially those guys whom we allowed to play through, since it took me so long to get my ball to the green.
5. There is a lot to think about when golfing: How to lock my left elbow, but keep my right one bent. How to plant my left foot but lift my right during the swing. How to keep my eye on the ball, even when I fan the stroke. Oh, and how to remember how many ^&*()&*()_++_)_ strokes it took to get to the %^&*I(O)P_&**ing green.
6.. The sound of the ball dropping into the cup is extremely satisfying.
8. Spending time outside with two of the people I love most in this world outweighs any embarrassment, although, I’m not sure they feel the same way.
9. I knew I was in trouble when the clubs weren’t even in the car and I started planning for the next time.
10. Two (yes, kids, two) glasses of sangria during dinner afterward didn’t improve my swing, but they sure went down easy.
“Your children are not your children.” This was a lot easier to subscribe to when I was a theoretical parent. When I was a young woman, I believed that I would raise my children to be independent. To have minds of their own. To be free spirits who lunged toward life with unfailing bravery, never looking to the side, never looking back. Then parenthood happened, and I realized that kids don’t always make good decisions.
I should have known this by personal experience. When I was in fifth grade, my parents brought me and my siblings to a local shoe store to buy new school shoes. With eight children who grew faster than mold on bread, I can only imagine what a financial drain and monumental task this must have been. I always wondered why Pete, the store owner with the raspy voice seemed harried when the whole lot of us filed into the store, sat in the red leather chairs and removed our shoes. He patiently measured each foot, laced each shoe, and placed it on our feet, making sure there was a thumb width from the top of our toe to the end of the shoe. Then he had us walk up and down the rug to make sure they didn’t slip in the back or pinch our toes. One by one, he and his wife Doris would wait on each child until we were all laced and buckled into shiny new shoes, begging my mother to wear them home.
My practical mother always selected shoes made to last longer than they would fit, with rugged soles and sturdy stitching, but on this particular trip a pair of shiny black oxfords caught my eye. They were much more delicate than the shoes I usually wore, and the soles were glued on, creating a smaller, more feminine silhouette. I immediately fell in love with them and pointed them out to my mother. To my dismay, she shook her head and explained that the shoes I had chosen were not made to last and I would need to pick a pair from the selection that Doris held up for me to admire.
This was not a message I wanted to hear. I loved those shoes. I hated the others that smiling Doris nudged closer to my face. And so the battle began. I whined. I sulked. I protested that the other shoes hurt my feet. I dug my knee socked heels in so hard that my mother did something she rarely did. She caved. However, the concession came with a warning. If the shoes fell apart, a replacement would not be provided. I cared not one bit, but danced home in victory, my shiny black oxfords on my feet. I was thrilled, but only for a few weeks.
As my mother predicted, the shoes did not last long. Within a month, my white socks could be seen peeking out from the hole between the soles and the upper. And true to the warning, I had to wear torn shoes for the remainder of the season, because there was no money to replace them. The embarrassment of wearing torn shoes to school far outweighed the disappointment of having to choose a more practical option.
I didn’t realize it then, but now I know how wise my mother was to know that sometimes kids have to make their own decisions- good or bad. She knew that the best lessons are learned by living them and that experiencing a few bumps along the way is all part of the Master’s plan.
I, on the other hand, struggle with this concept. I have to fight the urge to protect my loved ones from the consequences of their actions. I want them to always make the right choices- to opt for what will be good for them in the long run. I don’t want them to make costly mistakes. I don’t want their cheeks to burn from embarrassment. I don’t want them to feel the sting of their errors.
But it’s not about what I want. It is about what they need. They need to live their lives and make their own decisions, right or wrong. They need the freedom to choose and they need to be allowed to make mistakes.
Like Gibran said, we are not the arrows. We are the bows. So, reluctantly, sadly, I draw back the bow and let the arrows fly. And although tears roll down my cheeks and splash on my feet, I know it is right. Because it is not my life and they are not my children. | 2019-04-21T01:00:17Z | https://gstoutimore.wordpress.com/2010/09/ | Porn | Kids | 0.687602 |
wordpress | Since there was no such term as Hindu before 19th century, Liberals argue that before 19th century Hindus never perceive themselves as a part of single pan Indian religion & Hinduism is infact not the most ancient but the most modern & artificial religion of the world!
This tradition started by Harihara and Bukka raya was carried forward by all the mighty emperors of Vijayanagar including Krishnadeva Raya who proudly proclaimed themselves as “Hindu Raya Suratrana”.
It is hard to say the exact meaning of the title. Liberals further claim that word Hindu here was used in political sense & not in religious sense. In other words, word “Hindu” in those inscription simply means Indian and not someone belonging to Hindu faith.
But even if we take their argument into account it makes it abundantly clear that Vijayanagar emperors were clearly trying to distinguish themselves as Indians in contrast to the neighbouring Muslim rulers whom they perceived as foreigner/ non Indians ruling India.
Another important reference comes from the Gaudiya Vaishnava literature of Bengal where word “Hindu” appears frequently, many a times with clear aim to distinguish it from Muslim. Here’s the sample of some words that appear in medieval Gaudiya Vaishnava literature.
One of the most important verse mentioning the word Hindu in pre British era is from Chaitanya Charitamrita where Chaitanya Mahaprabhu while refuting the Muslim Qazi states that no Hindu indulges in cow killing because it is clearly prohibited by Vedas.
This verse by Chaitanya makes three things very much clear 1) There was Hindu identity long before the 19th century. 2) Vedas were accepted as prime authority by all Hindus. 3) Govadh was (& is) strictly prohibited for Hindus.
Reason why Gaudiya Vaishnavites had to consciously invoke their Hindu identity was that they were living in a time dominated by bigoted jihadi rulers which clearly becomes apparent from same scriptures.
It is but irony that Bhadralok from the same Bengal today would make mockery of someone if he/she asserts the same thing as Chaitanya proudly proclaimed couple of hundred years ago!
But Bengali Hindus weren’t the only one. Around the same time period in 15th century in neighbouring Mithila KAvi kovil Vidyapati had the same compulsion to show how Hindus are completely different from Muslims while complaining about their atrocities.
Another reference comes from MArathi Bhakta Kavi Eknath (1553 – 1599) who penned down the work called Hindu Turk Samvad (Dialogue between Hindu and Muslim). Turk/Turushka was how Hindus referred to Muslims at that time). An excerpt from the book.
Katsu Kaishu’s understanding of why Hindus lost to the mlecchas.
Mahmud Balkhi’s description of worship at Mathura. 17th Century. | 2019-04-25T18:37:11Z | https://saffronsurfer.wordpress.com/category/hindu/ | Porn | Reference | 0.656033 |
wordpress | Annabelle pressed her back against the cold and damp brick-wall, closed her eyes, and attempted to regulate her breathing. The more she tried to be still and quiet, the more her body trembled and her breath wheezed out in long, hard huffs. She could hear the car approaching, and she pressed even tighter against the wall, hiding in the shadow of a ventilation duct that curved and twisted, seeming to slither up the side of the large office building. In a low, breathy whisper she prayed the car would pass the alley without slowing.
If he stopped, Annabelle would be trapped.
The narrow alley was only a small slice into the massive body of the towering city, and at the end, another brick wall loomed twenty stories above her. A row of rusted and beaten dumpsters that looked like they might once have been blue gaped at her, their lids propped open by overflowing trash. The only light came from the orange glow of the street lamps that cast a triangular pattern down the center of the pavement. As the car reached the gaping mouth of the alley and Annabelle held her breath, something wet and furry skittered across the top of her open-toed shoes. Squealing loudly, Annabelle rapped the back of her head on the wall as she lurched forward out of the shadows and into the narrow slice of light. She quickly slammed her body back against the brick surface and stifled a cry as she willed herself to disappear into the rough wall. Did he see her? Hear her? She could hear the car idling at the mouth of the alley, and she had just about decided to try scrambling up the ventilation duct when the towncar pulled away.
Not sure how much time had passed – it felt like an hour but was probably only three or four minutes – Annabelle slowly made her way to the opening of the alley. Her slim frame was still trembling, and the back of her pencil skirt and suit jacket were wet. She silently thanked herself for choosing her black suit and prayed the dirt and whatever else she had picked up from the wall didn’t show up on the dark fabric. The bun she had twisted her dark brown hair into that morning was showing signs of wear. Stray strands were escaping and fleeing in various directions, and her small, elfin face was pale and covered by a sheen of sweat.
Heart still thundering, Annabelle cautiously peered around the corner and down the street. Her eyes were wild as they scanned the rows of cars parked along the curb. She saw nothing but a boneyard of steel and concrete, deserted and cold, and the image gave her a brief chill. But the town-car was gone. After a brief internal debate, she shrugged out of her suit jacket and stuffed it into the briefcase that held her laptop and the real estate brochures for the apartments she had shown earlier that afternoon. She freed her escaping hair from the confines of the messy bun and shook it out until it obediently fell into place. As far as disguises went, it was the best she could do.
Annabelle slowly emerged from the alley like a chastised dog, head down, shoulders hunched, and her eyes darting back and forth as she quickly made her way to the corner of Second Avenue and Main Street. Beyond that point, there would be more people, more open shops and bars, and she would only be two blocks from her apartment.
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yahoo | As air quality remained "severe" in New Delhi, an installation depicting human lungs " unveiled six days ago outside Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Rajender Nagar " turned completely black on Friday.
The installation was set up on 3 November to raise awareness about the impact of air pollution on healthy lungs in the national capital.
The initiative was taken up by the hospital and NGOs Jhatkaa.org, Help Delhi Breathe, and Lung Care Foundation. In a statement, the hospital had said that the lungs have been fixed with white HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filters, which arrest very fine particles effectively.
Speaking to News18, Arvind Kumar of the Lung Care Foundation said the organisers had thought it would take at least a month and a half for the lungs to get dark. "But the lungs changed colour in just 24 hours. On Day 6, the lungs have become completely black," he was quoted as saying.
Jhatkaa.org's Shikha Kumar told News18 that the display of the pair of artificial lungs was a part of a project in which they installed such lungs in several other cities. Once the lungs had darkened due to the pollution levels, the NGO sent bits of the lungs to various politicians as well as pollution control boards of all states of the country. She said that so far, only two states had responded to their initiative.
Despite a Supreme Court directive limiting the bursting of crackers to only two hours, a report by research group Urban Emissions said that close to 50 lakh kilograms of firecrackers were burst in Delhi on the day of Diwali. This was the same amount of firecrackers burst in 2017, and it equates to 1,50,000 kilograms of mass of PM2.5 (particles in the air with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres).
On the morning after Diwali, Delhi recorded its worst air quality of the year with the pollution level entering the "severe-plus emergency" category. | 2019-04-20T21:14:21Z | https://in.news.yahoo.com/delhi-pollution-pair-clean-artificial-143100019.html | Porn | Health | 0.79298 |
google | In a fun yet disciplined learning environment students are introduced to three different dance forms. Students develop dance skills such as coordination, balance, rhythm, strength and agility. This combination movement class will joyfully explore art through movement while developing musicality, basic loco-motor skills, channeling energy, stimulating imagination and promoting creativity.
Students learn the fundamentals of ballet, tap and tumbling techniques– strengthen bodies, while gaining flexibility and agility. This combination class is great way to introduce young movers to a variety of dance forms.
This new combination class introduces students to the fundamentals of both ballet and jazz techniques. This is a great precursor to our jazz and ballet classes.
This new combination class introduces students to the fundamentals of both tap and jazz techniques. This is a great precursor to our jazz and tap classes.
This new combination class introduces students to the fundamentals of both tumbling and rhythmic gymnastic with a focus on strengthening and stretching. This is a great precursor to our tumbling and rhythmic gymnastics classes.
Boys: Shorts, fitted t-shirt tucked in –NO STREET CLOTHES. | 2019-04-20T04:00:45Z | https://sites.google.com/movementcenter.org/2017update/classes/combination-classes | Porn | Kids | 0.604074 |
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