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google | How to design your pipeline: shows how to determine your pipeline's structure, how to choose which transforms to apply to your data, and how to determine your input and output methods.
How to create your pipeline: explains the mechanics of using the classes in the Beam SDKs and the necessary steps needed to build a pipeline.
How to test your pipeline: presents best practices for testing your pipelines. | 2019-04-26T10:39:46Z | https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/docs/guides/beam-creating-a-pipeline | Porn | Reference | 0.258325 |
wordpress | If you’re a stalker, stop reading this now. I don’t like stalkers.
Secret Confession Time: I do like stalker-ific love stories. I’m all over dark, brooding, obsessive romance novels. I could read them Eight Days a Week.
And since I haven’t posted anything about The Beatles (a band totally worth stalking), I’m giving my list of fave unhealthy obsessions…erm, love stories with corresponding Beatles’ songs.
Wuthering Heights/ Helter Skelter: Let’s lead off with the best freakout feast of gothic fixation ever written. Emily Bronte’s generation spanning saga is full of creepy adoration. Heathcliffe’s love (or psychosis, whatever…) for Catherine is so intense, it drives him insane. The dude can’t let go of her even after she’s dead!
“When I get to the bottom, I go back to the top of the slide.
Here on Earth/Run For Your Life: In Alice Hoffman’s modern day Wuthering Heights, March Murray returns to her childhood home in Massachussetts. March is drawn like a moth to a flame to her long lost childhood sweetheart, Hollis. Hollis makes a melancholy, violent Heathcliffe. He’s as reclusive as the unabomber and as handsome as a bodice ripper coverboy. Hoffman’s wordsmith prowess adds extra value to this OCD romance.
The Thorn Birds/Girl: Who knew a love story built on a the forbidden affair between a young girl and a priest could be so steamy? If you stop and think about this book too much, the creepy factor gets to you. (C’mon, Ralph first meets Meggie when she’s almost a baby. Ick…) Even so, the plot is compelling and tragic. Read the book, then see the Richard Chamberlain/Rachel Ward three hankie mini-series.
Twilight/I Want You (She’s So Heavy): Another secret confession– I snapped up the Twilight series like a flaky, fried meth tweaker scoring a hit.
Is the writing Pulitzer worthy? No.
Are the characters believable? No.
Does Edward Cullen make a hawt vampire stalker? Yes, Oh Mylanta, YES!
Full Disclosure– I consider the Twilight series a trilogy. I loathe (nay, HATE with an all consuming passion) Breaking Dawn. Stephenie Meyer, you broke my heart with “Renesmee.” Thou art dead to me.
For a full (badly written and spoiler ridden) rant on Breaking Dawn, read my (#1 top rated!) Amazon review.
Do you like stalker love stories? If so, which are your favorites? Leave a comment and enjoy this recipe for Deep, Dark Chocolate Chocolate Cake. Chocoholics, this cake is your brand of heroin.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 by 13 (or two 9 inch round) cake pan. Stir together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a large mixing bowl. Mix in eggs, milk, oil, and vanilla. Beat on medium speed for two minutes. Add boiling water. Stir, then pour batter into pan.
Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool. Frost cake.
Melt 1/2 cup butter. Stir in 2/3 cup Hershey’s dark chocolate cocoa. Add 3 cups powdered sugar and 1/3 cup milk. Stir in 1 tbsp. vanilla. Spread on cake.
My son’s been bugging me to make some dessert – this looks like just the thing. Thanks!
Thanks, Jemi. I can’t get enough of stalker-y tales. Is that weird or what? | 2019-04-24T14:43:29Z | https://jmartinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/beatles-songstalkerific-story-mashups/ | Porn | Arts | 0.57088 |
typepad | A NEW PLACE TO REST MY HEAD.
our main inspiration for the room comes from the space above. i adore everything single thing about it. unfortunately we do not have wood floors upstairs, it's all light gray carpet up there but that's okay with us. a trip to china town is in order, i must find a similar floral lantern to replace the ugly ceiling fan that we have hanging right now. i have a similar bedspread that i have been saving for the space and we got a beautiful black and white poster to hang in the room along with a couple of other really neat pieces of art. i am excited to see it all come together.
i cannot wait to share the finished room with you all and i also can't wait to lay my head somewhere new each night. xo!
sources: sfgirlbybay. daydreamlily. here's looking at me kid. we got the vintage "i want you" sign from mighty finds. | 2019-04-22T02:03:16Z | https://bleubirdvintage.typepad.com/blog/2011/09/a-new-place-to-rest-my-head.html | Porn | Arts | 0.480289 |
american | Bracing For Impact | American Magazine | American University, Washington, D.C.
Robin Suerig Holleran's new book details the harrowing and sometimes miraculous tales of plane crash survivors. She knows exactly how they feel—after all, she's one of them.
Look up at the tiny plane streaking through the deep blue, cloudless sky above Robin Suerig Holleran's back yard and it's almost unfathomable that someone could survive if it plummeted to Earth. But sitting across the table, seemingly calmly sipping a sweating glass of lemonade, is someone who did.
"I'm very conscious of planes," says Holleran, BA/SOC '82, who regularly hears them fly over her Mendham, New Jersey, home on their way to or from Newark or New York. She always takes notice. "When we were about to hit, instead of thinking about my kids or my life . . ."
Her voice trails off as she pauses for another drink. Even now, nearly a decade after the crash, her heartbeat increases and her palms perspire whenever she recounts it.
"I've always been an agnostic. As we're going down I remember thinking, 'I guess I get to find out whether there really is a god.' That's when I became calm, almost detached, like an out-of-body experience. Watching the ground coming up, I wondered, will there be a flash of light or some other sign before I die?"
Thankfully, she'll have to wait to find out. Every day, more than 2 million passengers fly in the United States, and whether they'll admit it or not, most of them let out a little sigh of relief when the wheels of their plane hit the runway. Holleran, 54, is a member of a small fraternity of people-lucky or unlucky, depending on your disposition-whose flights ended not with a smooth landing, but with a terrifying thud, screech, burst, or bang.
In Bracing for Impact, she and coauthor Lindy Philip share their stories and those of 14 others who, whether through good fortune, fate, or divine intervention, endured a plane crash and lived to tell about it.
"It is interesting how people often comment that the accident was bad luck," says Philip, also 54, who went down in a Cessna 172 in British Columbia in 1995. "I see it differently. I was incredibly lucky to have survived such an ordeal. It's weird, but I have more faith in planes now and feel they are really safe. I realize when it's your time to go, it's your time to go. It was not my time."
Two days after Christmas in 2005, Holleran drove her three children to visit her sister near Atlanta. Soon after they arrived, her brother-in-law, Al Van Lengen, offered to take the family up for a quick joyride in his four-seat Cessna Cardinal. Following a 20-minute flight with the three kids that came and went without incident, Holleran donned a headset and climbed into the copilot seat.
The daughter of a Dutch mother born in Indonesia and a father with deep German roots, she had flown frequently throughout her life. At one point in high school she even considered becoming a pilot, an idea her father, a former Navy flight surgeon, squashed quickly.
Around dusk the weather was clear and calm as the small plane took off and darted through the air. Her children waited near the hangar.
"We were about 2,000 feet up, and all of a sudden the propeller just went 'clunk,'" she says. "It's a very bizarre sensation. It wouldn't have surprised me if every hair on my head had been standing up straight, like a cartoon character."
The roar of the engine gave way to an eerie silence as the plane began to lose altitude. Holleran wasn't crying or screaming-she was frozen with fear. Unbeknownst to the pilot and his passenger, a connecting rod in the engine had snapped, causing the pistons to malfunction. As she recalls the horror, Holleran switches liberally between the first and second person, almost as if she's describing someone else's nightmare.
"It was two or three minutes before the plane hit the ground, which doesn't sound long, but it's an eternity. You glide, but then when it loses speed and momentum it starts to go down pretty steeply. It was a terror I've never experienced in my entire life."
Yet Van Lengen, a former firing battery commander in the army, never panicked, and when he spotted an open field he purposely maneuvered the plane into an even more severe dive so he wouldn't overshoot the makeshift landing strip.
"When you're going down, it's not like you feel like you're going into the earth, it's a sensation like the earth is coming up at you. Almost like it's on a movie screen," Holleran says. "As we were getting closer to hitting, I kind of came to terms with the fact that I was going to die. I went from being terrorized to being totally calm."
When the plane slammed into the red Georgia clay on its belly, it essentially went from traveling 100 miles per hour to a dead stop in less than 60 feet. A vertebra in Holleran's back shattered; some of the bone chips missed her spine by just millimeters. When emergency medical technicians arrived, they had trouble starting an IV because her veins were beginning to collapse.
Van Lengen emerged from the crumbled plane with just bumps and bruises, but Holleran was rushed to the hospital. Oddly, she was anything but despondent.
"I was so elated for having survived, that even when the EMTs were taking care of me at the scene, to one of them-and I'm sure he thought that I had hurt my head-I said, 'Somebody needs to buy me a lottery ticket. This is the luckiest day of my life.'"
Broken and battered, but not beaten, Holleran embarked on a long journey back to health. She wore a hip-to-neck body brace for six months, underwent surgery on one of her discs, and ultimately lost a half inch of height.
"It was probably about two years until I felt like myself," she says. "My back feels better now than it ever has, but it doesn't bend very well. I feel like I'm superglued back together."
Emotionally, the accident had a profound effect. When she saw her kids, whose vantage point fortunately shielded them from the crash, it was as if she were laying eyes on them for the first time. Even though no one died in her incident, she felt a tinge of survivor's guilt. The week before her plane went down, a neighbor's teenage daughter was killed in a car accident coming home from cheerleading practice.
"It was like I dodged a bullet, and it hit her," Holleran says.
During her recovery period, she stumbled onto a Facebook group of plane crash survivors that Philip started after her own accident. The women felt a kinship, and eventually developed a plan to write a book about some of the members' experiences. The dozens of interviews they conducted often were emotionally taxing.
"There was one woman whose crash killed her uncle and her cousin," Holleran says. "I had to put [the recording] aside three times, because what she went through-I was breaking out in full-body sweats. It was that hard.
"They didn't necessarily remind me of mine, but they definitely triggered a physiological response. It's like if someone is telling a story about a place you've never been-it's hard to imagine it. But if you've been there, you know what they're talking about, so you feel it at the same time."
Bracing for Impact, which came out in October, is a fascinating but sometimes unsettling read. The tales of survival include pilots and passengers in private aircraft and commercial jets, gliders and prop planes.
Lisa Rowe survived a 1999 American Airlines crash in Little Rock, Arkansas, that left 10 people dead. Her story is enough to make any air traveler pop a Xanax before takeoff.
"The plane broke open like an egg," reads a passage from the book. "In terrible pain, Lisa could barely move. Her seatmate helped her struggle through the hole in the roof to move away from the flames that were consuming the remains of the plane. She had to step over the lifeless body of a woman pinned down by metal."
These traumas had varying impacts on those who experienced them. Some, like Philip, now have an extra drink or two before or during a flight. (Her favorite is a Caesar, a Canadian equivalent of a Bloody Mary.) Others fell into the throes of drug and alcohol addiction. Some conquered their fears and now routinely fly. Others never set foot on an airplane again.
An avid traveler, Holleran now views flying as a necessary evil-a means to an end. She's visited six continents, and this Christmas-two days before the anniversary of her crash-plans to fly to Cuba.
"I'm not comfortable on planes anymore, commercial or otherwise," she says. "I'm compulsive about looking at the weather. I'm very conscious of where the exits are. Yeah, I'm scared, but so what? I don't believe in letting things hold you back."
Statistically, flying is among the safest modes of transportation. In 2012, 440 people died in the United States as a result of general aviation accidents, compared to 33,782 on highways, according to the US Department of Transportation. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the National Transportation Safety Board reports that over the past two decades, about 95 percent of people involved in a commercial plane crash survived.
"If you take one flight a day, you would on average need to fly every day for 55,000 years before being involved in a fatal crash," MIT statistics professor Arnold Barnett told ABC News last year.
Remarkably, Holleran isn't the only one in her family to have been involved in a plane catastrophe. Her stepgrandfather died when his Pan Am flight crashed into the jungles of northern Brazil in 1952, and her father and brother each walked away from separate accidents.
"So what if the chances are 1 in 100 million?" she says, as another airplane rumbles overhead. "If you're that one, that's all that really matters." | 2019-04-24T18:44:06Z | https://www.american.edu/magazine/article/bracinig-for-impact.cfm | Porn | News | 0.172707 |
google | There can be varying levels of challenge in a game.
In this lesson students are challenged to create a game that a player brand new to Gamestar Mechanic would find challenging but fun to play.
The game must have 3 levels that increase in difficulty.
The first level must be easily beatable, but still fun.
The final level should be hard, but also beatable.
Naviron the Adventure School: features top-down, multi-level maze games.
Altair the Platformer School: features platformer spaces and lots of jumping.
Acheron the Action School: features the blasting mechanic and spaces full of enemies.
Karakuri the School of Experimentation: features complex wraparound spaces.
3. Students can work individually or in teams to create games that meet these criteria.
4. Make sure they think carefully about the title of their game, and encourage students to use the game description and intro and outro screens to give players information on how to play and beat their games, as well as to offer some narrative flavor related to their chosen schools.
1. Have each student playtest their game with at least two other students.
Are the levels too easy or too difficult for a newbie?
Are the levels increasing in difficulty in ways that express something about the district they will be played in?
Is the game beatable but still fun?
Did the students create games with new players in mind?
Did they create games that were beatable but still fun?
Did they learn about ways of determining if a game is too hard or easy for the player? | 2019-04-24T16:20:41Z | https://sites.google.com/a/elinemedia.com/gsmlearningguide/lessons-on-game-design/8-designing-challenge/8-1-level-design | Porn | Games | 0.71985 |
yahoo | According to the ED's charges in the Sterlite Biotech case, Patel was responsible for getting dummy directors for shell companies used by promoters Nitin Sandesara and Chetan Sandesara to route, divert and launder their fraudulently acquired loan funds.
Hitesh Narendra Bhai Patel, who is wanted by Indian authorities in the Rs 8,100-crore Sterling Biotech fraud case, has been arrested in Tirana, Albania. He was detained on Thursday after the Interpol issued a Red Corner Notice against him on the request of the Enforcement Directorate. The Indian agencies are now trying to extradite Patel, an US citizen, and are in touch with the Interpol and Albanian authorities to this end.
"Patel is an accused in the case and is the brother-in-law of the main accused in the case, the Sandesara brothers (Nitin and Chetan Sandesara). He is expected to be extradited to India soon," the PTI reported.
What is Sterling Biotech case?
Taking cognizance of a FIR by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had registered a bank loan fraud case against Sterling Biotech and its promoters, Nitin Sandesara and Chetan Sandesara, in October 2017. The investigative agencies had also registered prosecution complaints against the Vadodara-based pharmaceutical firm's directors including Dipti Sandesara, Rajbhushan Omprakash Dixit, Vilas Joshi, chartered accountant Hemant Hathi, former Andhra Bank director Anup Garg and some unidentified persons for cheating banks of Rs 5,000 crore.
The case filed by the ED alleged that Garg had falsified accounts to help Sterling Biotech raise loans much larger than it would have been able to otherwise. The loans were sanctioned by a consortium of banks led by Andhra Bank, and comprising UCO Bank, State Bank of India, Allahabad Bank and Bank of India.
So far, various outstanding loan accounts worth about Rs 5,000 crore have turned non-performing assets. These accounts were in the name of various Sterling Group companies, including Sterling Biotech, Sterling Port, PMT Machines, Sterling SEZ and Infrastructure, and Sterling Oil Resources. After adding interest, the total defrauded amount stands at Rs 8,100 crore.
According to the ED, Patel was responsible for getting dummy directors for shell companies used by Sandesara brothers to route, divert and launder the money. The Sandesaras used to launder money by forming shell companies, manipulating balance sheets, inflating turnovers, insider trading, etc.
They had reportedly set up more than 300 shell firms in India and abroad. These bogus companies were controlled by the Sandesaras through dummy directors, who actually were employees of Sterling Group companies.
These shell companies reported bogus transactions among themselves, and with the Sterling group of companies in order to divert loan funds and inflate turnovers to obtain further loans from banks. These loan funds were then rotated in multiple layers through the various shell firms to conceal the source of such funds.
After the case came to light, the Sandesara brothers, Chetan's wife Dipti, and their family members fled India to avoid prosecution. The ED had managed to obtain non-bailable warrants against the Sandesara brothers, Dipti Sandesara and Hitesh Patel. The agency has also moved a special court seeking fugitive tag for the absconding promoters.
The ED is also investigating various cross-border transactions undertaken by the Sterling Group. The Sandesaras have several business concerns in Mauritius, UAE, Nigeria, British Virgin Islands, Seychelles and USA, among other countries. More than 50 foreign bank accounts and several other assets and properties situated abroad, related to the Sterling Group, are also under watch.
In May last year, the ED had attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 4,700 Crores belonging to Sandesara brothers and their companies. The agency has carried out more than 50 searches at various premises in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Vadodara, Ahmedabad and Surat under the ongoing investigations.
Earlier this week, a Delhi court had allowed the ED to send extradition requests to Albania for the Sandesara brothers. Both directors of Sterling Biotech have reportedly obtained the citizenship of Albania and non-bailable warrants (NBWs) were issued against them earlier this year. Fresh NBWs have been issued and will be attached with the extradition request. | 2019-04-24T07:07:28Z | https://in.news.yahoo.com/sterling-biotech-case-hitesh-patel-105029828.html | Porn | Business | 0.771637 |
imdb | Did this have a plot? Evidently not!
An enjoyable romp; wonderfully ridiculous and totally absurd. 100% pure escapism with no intelligence whatsoever.
Apparently a guy with the body mass of a freight train and muscles in places where most people don't even have places—let alone muscles—is no match for a guy with the body mass of a carrot and a handful of sinews.
Also, the carrot guy is capable of beating every able bodied man in Thailand, even when they all attack simultaneously.
I rate 'Ong Bak 2: The Beginning' at 16.65 on the Haglee Scale, which works out as a solid 5/10 on IMDb. | 2019-04-25T06:58:49Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0785035/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.966091 |
wikipedia | The 2015–16 Russian Premier League was the 24th season of the premier football competition in Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the 14th under the current Russian Premier League name.
Zenit Saint Petersburg came into the season as defending champions of the 2014–15 season. CSKA Moscow won the title on the final day.
As in previous season, 16 teams played in the 2015–16 season. After the 2014–15 season, FC Torpedo Moscow and FC Arsenal Tula were relegated to the 2015–16 Russian National Football League. They were replaced by two clubs who qualified automatically from the 2014–15 Russian National Football League, FC Krylia Sovetov Samara and FC Anzhi Makhachkala.
The teams that finish 15th and 16th will be relegated to the FNL, while the top 2 in that league will be promoted to the Premier League for the 2016–17 season.
The 13th and 14th Premier League teams will play the 4th and 3rd FNL teams respectively in two playoff games with the winners securing Premier League spots for the 2016–17 season.
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head matches won; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Head-to-head away goals; 8) Goal difference; 9) Goals scored; 10) Away goals scored.
^ Zenit Saint Petersburg qualified for the Europa League group stage by winning the 2015–16 Russian Cup.
The draw for relegation play-offs scheduling took place on 10 May 2016.
Anzhi Makhachkala won 3–0 on aggregate and remained in the 2016–17 Russian Premier League.
Tom Tomsk won 2–1 on aggregate and were promoted to the 2016–17 Russian Premier League.
On 3 September 2015, FC Anzhi Makhachkala was banned from registering new players for debts to FC Zenit Saint Petersburg for Igor Denisov's transfer fee. Anzhi's debt was paid and the ban was lifted on 16 December 2015.
On 9 September 2015, FC Dynamo Moscow was banned from registering new players for debts to FC Zenit Saint Petersburg for Igor Denisov's and Tomáš Hubočan's transfer fees and to FC Anzhi Makhachkala for Igor Denisov's, Vladimir Gabulov's and Christopher Samba's transfer fees. On 17 November 2015, the ban was re-confirmed due to new debts to former coaching staff (Stanislav Cherchesov, Miroslav Romaschenko and Vladimir Panikov). Dynamo's debts were paid and the ban was lifted on 15 December 2015.
On 10 September 2015, FC Rostov was banned from registering new players for debts to former player Artyom Dzyuba. On 8 October 2015, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to FC Spartak Moscow for Artyom Dzyuba's transfer fee. On 29 October, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to FC Khimki for Ivan Novoseltsev's transfer fee. On 15 November 2015, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former players Anton Amelchenko and Vitali Dyakov and to FC Zenit Saint Petersburg for Pavel Mogilevets's transfer fee. On 8 December 2015, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former player Hrvoje Milić and to FC Rubin Kazan for Sardar Azmoun's transfer fee. On 11 February 2016, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to player Nemanja Nikolić. Rostov's debts were paid and the ban was lifted on 24 February 2016.
On 24 September 2015, FC Kuban Krasnodar was banned from registering new players for debts to FC Lokomotiv Moscow for Sergei Tkachyov's transfer fee. On 15 November 2015, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to FC Krylia Sovetov Samara for Anton Sosnin's transfer fee and to PFC CSKA Moscow for Svyatoslav Georgiyevsky's transfer fee. On 25 December 2015, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to former manager Leonid Kuchuk and to FC Dynamo Moscow for Stanislav Manolev's transfer free. On 21 January 2016, the ban was re-confirmed for debts to player Yevgeni Frolov. Kuban's debts were paid and the ban was lifted on 26 February 2016, 7 hours before the winter player registration window would close.
On 25 October 2015, FC Rubin Kazan was banned from registering new players for debts to former conditioning coach Yevgeni Bondarenko. Bondarenko and Rubin agreed on the debt settlement schedule and the ban was lifted on 17 February 2016.
On 8 December 2015, FC Amkar Perm was banned from registering new players for debts to former manager Slavoljub Muslin. Amkar's debt was paid and the ban was lifted on 28 January 2016.
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^ Утвержден список 33 лучших футболистов чемпионата России (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2018. | 2019-04-23T18:18:27Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Russian_Premier_League | Porn | Sports | 0.95335 |
freewebs | Description: Released in Sydney, Australia on January 30, 1994, this poster contained dozens of memorable Disney villains. They ranged from the animated features (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Beauty and the Beast), the classic shorts (Butch and Pete), and The Disney Afternoon (The Beagle Boys, Don Karnage, Duke Igthorn, and Magica De Spell) in one large view of the Haunted Mansion. Fidget was the chosen villain from The Great Mouse Detective, not Professor Ratigan. Around the border of the poster is fifty oval-shaped names of the villains. Fifty oval-shaped stickers came with the poster to place on each name of the villain. An advertisement to order the poster appeared in several issues of StoryboarD/The Art of Laughter magazine during the 90's.
Where can it be purchased: Since the poster was a very limited edition, it cannot be found anywhere unless by sheer luck at a comic convention or Disneyana show.
Characters are © to Disney. | 2019-04-20T12:33:38Z | https://www.freewebs.com/greatmousedetective/img/fiftyvillainsposter.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.845003 |
wordpress | In this episode Sam and I discuss the rules for movement and travel in D&D. You can find an explanation of this rule in the Player’s Basic Rules D&D PDF on pages 63 and 64 or in the Player’s Handbook on pages 181 and 182.
In this episode Sam and I discuss the rules for lighting and vision in D&D. You can find an explanation of these rules in the Player’s Basic Rules D&D PDF on pages 65 or in the Player’s Handbook on pages 183.
In this episode Sam and I discuss the rules for stealth with a special focus on using the skill to hide in D&D. You can find an explanation of this rule in the Player’s Basic Rules D&D PDF on page 60 or in the Player’s Handbook on page 177.
In this episode Sam Dillon and I discuss the Initiative mechanic in D&D. You can find an explanation of this rule in the Player’s Basic Rules D&D PDF on page 69 or in the Player’s Handbook on page 189. | 2019-04-22T20:24:37Z | https://worldbuilderblog.wordpress.com/tag/bonus-action/ | Porn | Games | 0.977418 |
wordpress | I’m telling you, it’s been a long summer with lots of travel, work, and other activities keeping me quite busy. So I’ve been looking forward to winding down a bit at Thanksgiving. It means I’ve made all my deadlines, I can rest for four days, and I can cook. And this is the first year I didn’t plan a menu.
What?! A planner without a plan? That’s right. And it sure is liberating. I’m no Martha Stewart, but usually I ponder Thanksgiving dinner for at least a week or so before the event. It’s my favorite holiday because of all the cooking involved. But this year, I decided to wing it.
For one thing, I could count on what’s available in the house because I knew there were a few chickens from our CSA, Mud Lake Farms, in the freezer. Plus, Bill and I just picked up our pork and lamb from Lubbers Farm. Except for our mixed quarter of beef, we are set with our meat for the year. And, I’ve been consistently cruising the Holland Farmers Market for things like squash, root vegetables, leeks, and apples–stowing them away in the garage and basement. So I knew I could throw something together from our stash. The only special trip I made (okay, I guess there has been some planning going on behind the scenes) was to The Berry Bunch, the organic cranberry farm where I picked up fresh cranberries last Thanksgiving, too.
So what was on the menu? Well, for two people, you don’t need much. Usually, I like having a large sampling of side dishes but this year it’s all about simplifying. We started off with goat and sheep cheese with flax chips, Bosc pear, and Prosecco for appetizers.
I decided upon a chicken from Mud Lake Farm, which I roasted according to Bon Appetit’s Lemon-Herb Roast Chicken (a favorite at our house!).
The only substitutions I had to make to accommodate Bill’s allergies to wheat, corn, and cow-dairy were olive oil instead of butter for the rub, and oat flour instead of all-purpose flour in the gravy.
We also tried the Potato-Celery Root Mash recipe from the December issue of Bon Appetit. I omitted the sour cream and substituted chopped shallots for horseradish, since I didn’t have any. Oh, and no butter, of course! I used olive oil instead.
We also had roasted butternut squash with leeks and sage and Red Harvest Quinoa from Betty Crocker Whole Grains. For the quinoa, I substituted Pecorino sheep’s cheese instead of Parmesan and threw in some walnuts in lieu of pine nuts since I didn’t have pine nuts on hand.
For dessert? Apple-Cranberry Crisp. You can check out my improvisations to the recipe in my previous blog post.
Was it simple? Yes. I started cooking at 3:00 and we were eating dinner by 7:00. Basic, wholesome, traditional autumn fare. Thank you, farmers, for making it so easy for us to eat good, fresh, local food.
Because I’m lucky enough to get fresh, local, organic cranberries in Holland, Michigan this time of year, I was looking for a recipe to use them in besides cranberry sauce. Bill suggested apple-cranberry crisp. And, wouldn’t you know it, there are tons of recipes on the web. I ended up choosing this one from AllRecipes.com.
I just altered a few things, such as using oat flour for all-purpose flour, safflower oil for butter, Jonathan apples for Granny Smith (since that’s what I had on hand), and walnuts for pecans (Bill’s preference in nuts).
I started with fresh local fruit: apples from the Holland Farmers Market and cranberries from The Berry Bunch.
First I mixed together the filling, then the topping.
Then I put the filling in a baking dish with the topping on top, of course.
Then I baked it at 375 F for 40 minutes.
Voila! If you have dairy allergies, try serving it with Soy Dream French Vanilla Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert. Maybe I’m just getting used to it, but I think it tastes pretty good!
I never make anything with rhubarb because most of the recipes I come across are desserts, and Bill and I really don’t eat many desserts. But rhubarb fascinates me–the color, the texture, and the fact that it’s one of the few bright red crops available right now in Michigan.
So this year I decided to make something with rhubarb.
I recently posted a vintage Rhubarb Upside Down Cake recipe from My Mother’s Recipe Box, but I’m not much of a baker, and that would have taken a lot of work to adapt the recipe for Bill’s wheat, dairy, and corn allergies. And, while I love the strawberry-rhubarb combination, strawberries aren’t available quite yet here. So I set out looking for a simple Rhubarb Crisp recipe and was happy to find one on Visser Farms’ blog. The Visser family has been a mainstay at the Holland Farmers Market for as long as I’ve been going. It’s possible they’re one of the original vendors.
Their recipe for Rhubarb Crisp is originally from the Practical Produce Cookbook. I’ve adapted the recipe to make it Bill-friendly, substituting wheat flour with oat flour and using safflower oil instead of butter. And I divided the ingredients by three since I only had two cups of rhubarb.
Combine rhubarb with sugar and 2 tablespoons oat flour; place in a 8×8 cake pan or baking dish.
Combine the remaining ingredients and sprinkle over rhubarb.
My friend Lois sent me a recipe, which she says came from Fannie Farmer. So I looked up the recipe for “Muffins, Berry” in my own Fannie Farmer cookbook and found it.
The dilemma, as usual, was how to make it Bill-friendly. I followed some of my usual substitution rules: When a recipe calls for milk, use rice milk. When it calls for flour, use half brown rice and half oat flour. And when it calls for butter, use palm oil.
Here’s the recipe I followed, with adaptations for people with wheat and dairy allergies.
Preheat the oven to 375. Grease a muffin pan with palm oil. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of the flour over the blueberries.
In a large bowl, mix the remaining flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.
In a small bowl, mix the egg, rice milk, and melted palm oil.
Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the liquid mixture, stirring only enough to dampen the flour.
Lightly fold in the blueberries.
Spoon batter into muffin pans, filling each cup about two-thirds full. Sprinkle each muffin with sugar.
Bake for about 20 minutes. Makes 12 muffins.
This was going to be a blog post about how I made ice cream one day. Actually, it still is about ice cream–and something a little deeper.
I love raw milk but you can only get it the old-fashioned way: whole milk with cream on top. There’s nothing better than shaking up a bottle of milk and cream, then pouring this rich, fatty, delight into a cup of dark, strong coffee. And a few months later, add on another five pounds.
Where do the warm fuzzies come into play? I’m getting there….
Next came the challenge of picking up the milk. Pick-up day was Monday and the farm is about 30 miles from where we live. In the end, Tammy’s friend picked up the milk, which I then picked up from her front porch. We got two quarts.
Do you see what’s happening here? Four people–who happen to be women–had their hands in our ice cream, so to speak (not counting the farmer who milked the cow): Tammy, the milk share owner who offered the gift; Tammy’s friend who shared and transported it; Lois, who loaned me the ice cream maker; and me, the ice cream maker.
So here’s the warm fuzzy part. It’s really touching how people within a community help each other out for even the smallest needs. Food, of course, is not trite. But Tammy did not want to waste the milk, and I didn’t want to see it wasted either. Everyone had a role in getting the milk from the cow into the form of ice cream that now sits happily in our freezer, for Bill and me to enjoy when we crave it.
I think this is how communities should operate today, instead of wondering where our food was sourced and not having a hand in getting it to our own kitchen tables.
As for the ice cream, a fifth person had a hand in its making: Bill. We spent an evening after dinner reading the instructions for Lois’ ice cream maker, mixing the ingredients for vanilla ice cream, and watching a blend of raw milk, cream, eggs, sugar, and vanilla freeze its way into a dessert Bill can enjoy.
Last Sunday, Bill and I made Wheat-Free Lavash Pizza with Sausage for dinner. Then we had pizza for dessert!
Dessert means different things to different people, of course. I don’t have as much of a sweet tooth as I do a salt craving, so I’m pretty easily satisfied with a small chunk of dark chocolate once in awhile after dinner. I know some people who like fruit for dessert, or even fruit and cheese.
That’s why I classify Bosc Pear and Carmelized Onion Pizza as dessert. With the sugar in the carmelized onions, the pizza has a touch of sweetness. And the pears and nuts go well with the onions and cheese.
To carmelize onions, saute onions them in olive oil, sugar, salt and pepper until tender.
Add balsamic vinegar and stir until blended with onions. Remove from heat.
Meanwhile, brown the bottom side of a lavash flatbread on a griddle.
Preheat broiler on low heat.
Place lavash on a baking sheet. Add onions an arrange pear slices on top.
Add nuts, drizzle with olive oil, and broil on low for approximately 2 minutes (keeping an eye on it, as oven temps vary), rotating pan after the first minute.
Cut into quarters and serve, either for lunch, dinner, appetizers, or dessert!
I happened to cruise through this month’s issue of Bon Appetit just before I went to the Holland Farmers’ Market on Saturday. What caught my eye was a dessert called Vanilla-Scented Plums and Blackberries. It’s so simple and a perfect way to take advantage of what’s in season, at least here in West Michigan.
And there at the market, I found exactly what I needed: Santa Rosa plums and fresh blackberries.
So that’s what I made for tonight’s dessert when our friends Waltraud, Jo, and Isa came for dinner.
Generally, I don’t have a vanilla bean on hand but I picked one up at G. B. Russo’s Friday afternoon. I found the easiest way to cut the bean and scrape out the seeds is with a tomato knife.
Once you cut up the plums and mix them with blackberries, sugar, and the vanilla, you just leave the mixture at room temperature for an hour until it gets juicy.
Then you can put it in the fridge to chill until you’re ready to serve dessert. Bon Appetit recommends an accompaniment of sorbet or angel food cake. We tried it with Palazzolo’s mango sorbetto, wild berry sorbetto, and Breyer’s vanilla ice cream. All of them are good choices! | 2019-04-22T17:05:00Z | https://lifeisfare.wordpress.com/category/wheat-free-corn-free-dairy-free-desserts/ | Porn | Home | 0.614441 |
wordpress | The Sun Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to the deity Surya in the Modhera village of Mehsana district, Gujarat, India. The monument is maintained by Archaeological Survey of India and does not currently offer any worship. The Modhera Sun Temple was built after 1026-27 CE during the reign of Bhima I of the Chaulukya dynasty…. | 2019-04-24T12:24:17Z | https://exploringgujarat.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Arts | 0.451416 |
tripod | Provide an environment where young players can have fun, develop individual skills and learn the game of soccer. There will be a separate league for boys and for girls. The club will make every effort to select even teams at the start of each season. The rules for the boys and the girls will be the same.
Length: 40 yards, Width: 35 yards.
The outline of the field will be lined in paint. A Goal Area will be marked with cones: three (3) yards from each goal post and three (3) yards into the field of play joined by a line of cones parallel with the goal line.
Maximum number of players on the field at one time is five (5), including the goal-keeper. Maximum number of players on the roster should not exceed eight (8). Substitutions may be made by the coach any time the ball is out of play, provided approval is first given by the referee. Each player shall play a minimum of 50% of the total playing time.
Law IV – Players Equipment.
All players must wear shin-guards. No jewelry is allowed. Footwear may be soft-cleated soccer shoes or tennis shoes.
One referee will be used. The referee will be a parent, coach, or club referee. The referee must be at least 10 years old and be at least somewhat knowledgeable of the game. All rule infractions will be briefly explained to the offending player.
No linesman used. All calls will be made by the referee.
Four (4) quarters, eight (8) minutes each. There will be a 5 minute break at half-time. There will be a 2 minute break between other quarters.
At the start of the game, the start of each quarter, and after a goal is scored, the play will be started by a kick-off from the center of the field. The team taking the kick at the start of the quarter will change each quarter. The team that concedes a goal will take the kick-off to restart the play. The opposing team players must be 5 yards from the center mark while the kick-off is in progress. The Kick-off will be allowed to go forward or backward. The ball should not be kicked to the other team.
A throw-in will be awarded when the ball goes out of play over the side-line. The throw-in is awarded to the opposing team of the player who last touched the ball. A goal-kick is awarded when the ball goes out of play over the goal-line on either side of the goals and is last touched by an attacking team player. A corner-kick is awarded when the ball goes out of play over the goal-line on either side of the goals and is last touched by a defending team player.
A goal is scored when the entire ball crosses over the entire goal-line between the goal-posts.
There will be no off-side.
All fouls will be penalized by an indirect free kick. The referee will explain the reason for the call to the player. No cautions or ejections will be issued to players.
All free kicks will be indirect. The opposing players must be least five (5) yards from the ball. No kicks will be taken by the attacking team within the defending team’s goal box. If an infraction occurs inside the goal box, the free kick will be taken from the nearest point on the goal-box line.
No penalty kicks will be taken. See Law XIII comments.
A second throw-in will be allowed if the player commits a foul on the initial attempt. The referee shall explain the proper method before allowing the player to re-throw.
Goal kick may be taken from anywhere within the goal box. Opponents must be a minimum of 5 yards away from the ball.
Opponents must be a minimum of 5 yards away from the ball. | 2019-04-23T02:58:47Z | http://harmarsoccer.tripod.com/Rules/U8_Rules.htm | Porn | Sports | 0.490157 |
de | Info: IOS is a first and third person online multiplayer soccer game that aims to be the online equivalent of great console soccer games but with a true multiplayer teamplay experience.
You can join a public game of IOS at any time during a match or you can create your own.
When you join the server you will be asked to select a team then you can select the position that you wish to play. This determines where you start on the pitch.
If that position is already taken the menu screen will not disappear, you must choose again.
Shooting aims the way you are looking, it also uses the vertical aim to affect the power in the shot.
Aiming too high and the shot will go high very quickly.
Aim low and the show will have no power. However, this can be very useful for dribbling.
Strafing at the same time you kick will bend the shot.
Passing will find the nearest player on your team in your current view and adjust the strength of kick automatically.
If the target player is moving the pass aims ahead of them.
Aim low when passing to keep the pass low.
Aim high when passing to pass in the air.
Hold the sprint button down when moving to move faster.
The sprint gauge on the bottom right of the screen shows how much sprint you have left.
When the gauge is empty you cannot sprint and you will move at normal speed.
Sprint energy is restored automatically after a set time.
Press slide tackle to tackle opponents.
You will slide and get up again automatically after a short time.
If the tackle is bad the opposition will be awarded a foul.
You may receive nothing, a yellow card or a red card.
You can switch between firstperson and thirdperson at anytime.
The game decides which player should take these.
The nominated player is placed in position.
All other players are forced back.
If the ball is not played within a time limit, the whistle blows and play can continue.
If you receive a RED CARD you will be SENT OFF into SPECTATOR mode for an amount of time.
Press ENTER to rejoin the game after being SENT OFF.
If you receive two YELLOW CARDS you will get a RED CARD.
Each time you are SENT OFF the time you have to wait to get back into the game doubles.
mp_teamlist: Sets the team names. Normally the server will pick from teams that IOS supports but it is possible to override using this command. If the team name is recognised by IOS it will use player models of the same name.
mp_keepers <0-1>: This determines whether Bot Goal Keepers should be used. The default is 1, Bot Goal Keepers On.
mp_keeperskill <0-100> : This determines how good the goal keepers are. 100=best. 0=worst. The default is 75.
mp_redcard <0-999>: This is how many seconds players should be sent off for. It doubles for every red card they receive since it is possible to receive more than one in IOS. The default is 10 seconds.
mp_timelimit (default is 30 mins) determines the real match length. In the game display the time will be scaled to 90mins. Once the match has ended the server will load the next stadium map and the players can choose new teams.
mp_roundlimit : This ends the match when this number of goals has been scored by one team. The default is 10 goals.
mp_autobalance 1 : autobalance teams on or off. This will force a player to switch sides after a goal is scored if the teams are unbalanced in number of players.
mp_offside <0-1> : disable/enable the offside rule. Default is 1 (offsides on).
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imdb | Joseph Cawthorn ... Adolph Sr.
Phillip Reed ... Adolph Jr.
Rims O'Neil: Come on, you're impossible!
Lila: How do you know? Maybe I ain't!
Predictable but amusing romantic comedy from Warner has Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man) playing a secretary who is waiting for the man she loves (Ross Alexander) to marry her but she must use another man to make him jealous. After they're finally married, both realize that the married life is harder than they thought. The story here certainly isn't anything new but the glowing charm of Stuart really makes this film a lot better than the script deserved. There's also some great character actors who add wonderful support and they include Cagney's buddy Frank McHugh as the brother-in-law, Henry Travers as the father and Ruth Donnelly as the sister. All three add some nice laughs to the film with McHugh stealing the film as the dimwitted sap. There are a couple problems with the film and one of them is Alexander who just isn't charming enough for the role. Another problem is that the film runs 63-minutes, which is too short because it leads to a major plot gap towards the end of the film. One scene the couple is happily married and then out of no where they are fighting and breaking up. This film certainly isn't a classic but if you're a fan of any of the actors then it's worth viewing once. | 2019-04-22T16:16:36Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026691/ | Porn | Arts | 0.506689 |
wikipedia | Ehrlich was born in Chernivtsi (now Chernivtsi) in the Duchy of Bukovina, at that time a province of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Ehrlich studied law in Vienna, where he taught and practised as a lawyer before returning to Czernowitz to teach at the university there, a bastion of Germanic culture at the eastern edge of the Empire.
Ehrlich's experience of the Bukovina's legal culture, where Austrian law and sharply contrasting local custom seemed to co-exist, caused him to question the hierarchical notions of law propounded by such theorists as Hans Kelsen. Ehrlich noted that legal theories that recognized law only as a sum of statutes and court decisions gave an inadequate view of the legal reality of a community. He drew a distinction between norms for decision and social norms or norms of conduct. The latter actually govern the life of a society and, under certain conditions, can justifiably be regarded in popular consciousness, if not necessarily by lawyers, as law. For example, commercial usage and custom may develop and be recognized and respected by courts of law and other agencies as having normative force and legal significance.
Ehrlich claimed that the "living law" that regulates social life may be very different from the norms for decision applied by courts, and may sometimes attract far greater cultural authority which lawyers cannot safely ignore. Norms for decision regulate only those disputes that are brought before a judicial or other tribunal. Living law is a framework for the routine structuring of social relationships. Its source is in the many different kinds of social associations in which people co-exist. Its essence is not dispute and litigation, but peace and co-operation. What counts as law depends on what kind of authority exists to give it legal significance among those it is supposed to regulate.
^ Ehrlich, E. ( 2001). Fundamental Principles of the Sociology of Law. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick.
Ерліх, Євген. Монтеск’є та соціологічна юриспруденція / Пер. з анг. і передмова С.І. Нежурбіди // Науковий вісник Чернівецького університету: Збірник наук. праць. Вип. 728: Правознавство. - Чернівці: ЧНУ, 2014. – C. 5-14.
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wordpress | All the way from Philippines, a Kenyan-born Filipino who has stayed in Singapore for 9 years where he learned to pick up the pen for lyricism. A rapper who refused to compromise his art for mainstream play has earned him numerous awards: Notably, the Singapore Streetfest ’08 & 987 FM’s National Rap Battle Championship. Introducing Kwizyne (pronounced as Cuisine). | 2019-04-18T17:09:40Z | https://jamit2010.wordpress.com/performances-acts/kwizyne-mike-rap/ | Porn | Arts | 0.983579 |
wordpress | One of the questions that comes up a lot is about tithing. There’s many times when folks ask questions about tithing and what it might mean for us.
We’re told in the Old Testament that we’re supposed to tithe 10%, and that number pops up all over the Old Testament. | 2019-04-26T16:20:43Z | https://sftos.wordpress.com/tag/money/ | Porn | Reference | 0.613472 |
wordpress | A house is not a home until it has a dog…..
Well, who will not agree this statement ? Dogs and human beings have been drawn together by working together toward a shared aim, shared values and a sense of joyous fraternity within fifteen thousand years ago. This scenario will create a thinking mind from human saying like “Hey, this kind of portion could work” toward dogs.
So, let’s welcome a dog to home! | 2019-04-25T08:30:01Z | https://petsmanic.wordpress.com/tag/home-2/ | Porn | Home | 0.906179 |
wordpress | The story of the two Paul’s.
“A few weeks ago, my younger brother and I were visiting our mother at her nursing home. During the conversation, I glanced up and saw this image of my brother (on the right) across the room. I remembered taking it and how much it reminded me at the time (as well as now) of a portrait I took of our father over 25 years ago (on the left). When I juxtapose them now, I of course see the family resemblance between them, but I also see myself in the two portraits; I see my signature photographic style. Doing impromptu portraits with available light and not fussing around with a ton of gear has become a trademark of mine and one of my favorite ways to shoot. | 2019-04-21T00:54:37Z | https://willjonesphoto.wordpress.com/2018/01/29/the-story-of-the-two-pauls/ | Porn | Reference | 0.910648 |
wordpress | I realised today that I had my days all skewiff when writing my last blog entry. I blame that damn virus!
Some fabulous things: the Christmas lights on the department stores on Oxford St, London, and the Grand Magasins, Paris. Some non-fabulous things: the crowds around the afore-mentioned department stores and on the Champs Elysee. They’re crazy!
It’s nearly new year’s eve here in Paris, and I’m finally start to feel better after a few days’ sickness. What a place to be sick, too! Love Paris on my fourth trip here – it feels so familiar and easy. This trip we’re not attempting to have every experience and see every sight – we are seeing a number of previously unseen sights including Fountainebleau (possibly tomorrow).
I havn’t written any blog entries during the holiday – havn’t had the time, and thousands of people are doing that anyway – what would another blog entry add? But I thought I’d post a few thoughts.
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wordpress | I was deeply disappointed to receive a response from RBS (Nat West) confirming closure of Princes Road and London Road branches. I made representations to RBS to say that the banks, in particular Princes Road, are an important asset to the community.
I am sorry for the delay in my response – I have been looking into whether the decision is final in both branches and I’m afraid to say the decisions will not be reversed.
We are liaising closely with local members of the community about the closures and also with customers.
We have arranged a meeting […] today to organise a meeting with representatives of the local community.
As well as writing to customers, providing literature about the alternatives and helping those who seek advice, we are also going to organise ‘Open Days’ in at least 2 branches so that customers affected by the closure can visit these local branches to see the Service Options and layout available.
As I said in my original e-mail we do not take these decisions lightly and we will do everything we can to mitigate the difficulties that arise for our customers.
I will go back to the bank and ask what action they are to take now for local customers. | 2019-04-26T00:53:18Z | https://louiseellman.wordpress.com/2013/01/18/decision-to-close-princes-road-and-london-road-nat-west-branches/ | Porn | Business | 0.987678 |
wordpress | A wall full of wonders!
Hello and welcome to the Wall of Wonders – a wall full of interesting and inspirational content scribbled all over! Wall of Wonders (WOW) is my blog & portfolio where I will focus on beautiful art, illustrations, inspirational people, interesting texts, useful tips & tutorials – quality content related to anything I find wonderful.
I’m Sarang (aka Anirudh Khanna), the author and owner of the Wall of Wonders blog. I am fascinated with art, designing, literature, and yes, technology… Apart from computers & programming, I also love to draw, paint, read, write, travel and explore!
I started WOW as my personal weblog – my online home – where I post about wonderful design, ideas and inspirations.
I have organized the posts in three major categories: General, Featured and Portfolio. The General category holds the updates about this site or the author, the Featured category contains the interesting and creative things I share on the Wall and the Portfolio category showcases all the works created by me. Posts are tagged with associated keywords to indicate the topics.
You can always contact me to send posts from your side, and if they appear good, they will be published on the Wall as Guest Posts.
This site is powered by WordPress. I would like to thank all the sources of inspiration, especially Nick La, whose great inspiring works prompted me to get up and construct something like this site. | 2019-04-25T11:55:33Z | https://wallofwonders.wordpress.com/tag/wall-of-wonders/ | Porn | Arts | 0.984994 |
wordpress | Star Spangled Girl, Janine Strange, is once again organizing a mail call to send a letter to Medal of Honor winners. Her website even provides the names of the 72 Living Medal of Honor winners. Living MOH winners span from WWII through the War in Afghanistan.
Individual participants: Write to as many Recipients as you’d like! Just make sure you put their names on the outside of each envelope.
Group participants: Please fill out the group form (scroll all the way down). We will send you an email with an assigned Recipient – or Recipients; this helps ensure all Recipients are ‘adopted’ evenly.
Here’s a list of all 72 living Medal of Honor Recipients, their names are clickable so you can learn more about them.
Please sort! If you are writing to more than one Recipient, please sort and batch them before mailing. This will help me out a lot when I am sorting the thousands of letters that are coming in. | 2019-04-23T16:54:35Z | https://equipsblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/medal-of-honor-day-march-25/ | Porn | Reference | 0.365009 |
wordpress | In Philippine liner shipping, obviously the first time of trouble was when the Pacific War erupted after Japan attacked the Philippines and the United States. Liners were requisitioned by the US on the promise that it will be replaced when the war ends. The order then was if the ship cannot reach Australia it has to be scuttled to prevent it from falling into the invader’s hands. Most of our liner fleet then was lost to scuttling and to enemy fire. Some of it were captured and were pressed into enemy service and when Japan was already losing they sank into the bottom of the sea due to US submarine and aircraft attacks.
These liners that were lost during the Pacific War were good liners and many were built in foreign shipyards just in the Commonwealth Era which means they were still new. The older ones were mainly built in the 1920’s. And they were not necessarily small. Many of the good liners before the war were in the 80-meter class (when internationally a 120-meter was already grand).
When the US replaced our lost fleet as promised the number might have been right but the quality is different. The former “FS” ships were not the equal of our former liners even in size and to be able to use those they have to be converted and refitted first as they were not really liners but basic cargo ships. “FS” meant “Freight and Supply” after all.
Former “Y” ships were also given as replacement and these were former tankers but still a handful were converted to passenger use by removing the tanks. The former “Y” ships were slightly smaller than the former “FS” ships. For the lost regional ships, the US gave as replacement the former “F” ships, both the steel-hulled and the wooden-hulled types. Former minesweepers were also given as replacement. None of them were passenger ships to begin with and so conversion and refitting still had to be done.
To replace the bigger liners, the US gave Type C1-M-AV1 , Type C1-B and Type N3 ships as replacements but those were also cargo ships and not liners and so they also have to be converted and refitted. None of all these types can match the luxury and comfort of our prewar liners. Were we shortchanged in the deal? I think the answer is obvious. We had purpose-built liners before the war and the replacement were surplus cargo ships that had no use for them anymore because the war has already ended.
The second times of trouble for Philippine shipping was the crisis decade of the 1970’s when continuous devaluation of the peso dominated the economic situation. It was the time that taking out big loans was fraught with danger since nobody can foresee when will be the next devaluation (which means in peso value the loan balloons). Because of this uncertainty and risk, the taking out of loans to order brand-new ships completely stopped. There were no more brand-new ships after the Cebu City of William Lines came out in 1972.
If the mid-1960’s was marked by acquisition of second-hand passenger-cargo ships (most were not really liners) from Europe, in the 1970’s the shipping companies were looking for right direction. Inadvertently, Sweet Lines showed the way with the acquisition of the Sweet Faith in 1970 and the Sweet Home in 1973. This started the era of fast cruiser liners in our seas. However, due to the fogs of uncertainty in the economic climate, few realized this was the new paradigm, the fast cruiser liners.
Among the liner companies, only William Lines took up the challenge early with the Cebu City. In the middle of the 1970’s, Sulpicio Lines followed suit and acquired fast cruiser liners beginning with the Don Sulpicio and Dona Ana. William Lines also kept in step by successively acquiring fast cruiser liners which were named after cities, the Manila City, Cagayan de Oro City, Ozamis City, etc.
What happened then to the other liner companies especially the other top guns? In the decade of the 1970’s, Compania Maritima was already in its death spiral but few realized it then because they were held in such high regard because they have been No. 1 for so long. Actually, there might have a death wish in them already. Compania Maritima never bought another liner after the second-hand but big Luzon in 1970 until their demise in 1984. At the same time, their ships were sinking with alarming regularity and mostly by wrecking.
Meanwhile, Aboitiz Shipping Corporation became heir to the PSNC (Philippines Steam and Navigation Company) fleet and operations. The Laurel-Langley Treaty dictated that in 1974 the Americans no longer have the right to do business here as if they are Philippine nationals (they have a right previously because of the Parity Amendment to the Philippine Constitution). But after 1974, Aboitiz Shipping Corporation did not buy a liner anymore and just relied mainly on a few small liners plus the trio of liners ordered by Everett Steamship in Japan in 1955 and the former “FS” ships they already had and the once from PSNC. These ships were already showing signs of mortality as they were already entering their fourth decade of service.
Sweet Lines, after acquiring liners that were among the biggest and the best for a decade which pulled them up in the totem pole of liners had the puzzling decision to just buy small liners in the later 1970’s. This happened in a situation when their liners from Europe were already over two decades old. In those times due to weaker metallurgy and finishing, 30 years is almost the longest service that can be expected from liners built in the 1950’s and so this means Sweet Lines has a future problem in the 1980’s. Did Sweet Lines think the 1980’s will be better?
The combined Carlos A. Gothong Lines Inc. (CAGLI) and Lorenzo Shipping Corporation, successor companies to the broken-up Carlos A. Go Thong & Co. also had the same policy decision as Sweet Lines, that is to just buy small liners (many can even be just classified as passenger-cargo ships). Meanwhile, the old Escano Lines also stopped buying ships in 1974 like Aboitiz when they acquired the small Katipunan.
All in all, from 1973, only Sulpicio Lines and William Lines acquired big, fast cruiser liners. Compania Maritima, Aboitiz Shipping Corporation, Sweet Lines, Carlos A. Gothong Lines, Lorenzo Shipping Corporation all stopped buying big liners especially the fast cruiser liners (and that type is beyond the means of minor liner shipping companies including Madrigal Shipping). Maybe one reason is the steep cost already of liners because of devaluation, maybe it was the general economic difficulties which produce conservatism in businessmen, maybe it was also procrastination and hoping the next decade will be better.
And so it was not a surprise that in the 1980’s, from a rough equality of the top companies after the break-up of Carlos A. Go Thong & Co. in 1972, the liner scene was dominated by Sulpicio Lines and William Lines because they were the only ones which bet on the new ruling paradigm, the fast cruiser liners. The other simply lost their way or maybe even their enthusiasm and were just waiting for better days.
I must admire not the depth of the pockets of the two but the Japanese agents which bet and trusted Sulpicio Lines and William Lines. I think that was the critical factor why the two kept getting fast cruiser liners even though the economic climate was not good over-all. Sulpicio Lines continuously acquired retired cruisers from RKK Lines and William Lines from Arimura Sangyo (the later “A” Line). Incidentally, both are Okinawa shipping lines. So their fast cruiser liners competed in Japan and they continued their rivalry here.
The next decade, the 1980’s, was even more difficult and it resulted in the death of so many liner companies, both major and minor. A new leading paradigm will emerge then, the RORO liners. Some majors will awaken from their stupor and try to compete again. Among them were Aboitiz Shipping Corporation and Carlos A. Gothong Lines Inc. Negros Navigation will also be among them after they also slowed down in buying cruisers (they were not in danger then because their cruisers liners were new and they had a monopoly of Bacolod port).
And that is how the chips broke in the 1970’s. Another time of trouble will happen three decades later but then that is another story worth another article. | 2019-04-26T14:20:43Z | https://psssonline.wordpress.com/tag/mv-luzon/ | Porn | News | 0.185021 |
wordpress | I was sitting at my desk, enjoying the grey sky morning, when the amazing Lora O’Brien asked the Irish Spirituality group she runs on Facebook, “What one thing you would like to learn about the Dagda?”. It was a question that my mind immediately ran away with. So many things! What archaeological evidence is there? What modern Irish practices and culture resonates with him? What title does he like the best? The list ran long and I was thoroughly enjoying the replies that the question brought up. I started to feel that contented full heartedness that just comes with the Good God. It’s a warm larger than life feeling, it settles in the rib cage and then just expands out. You feel like you could do anything. You feel like anything in the cosmos is possible. You feel like you just climbed a mountain and are looking out on the expanse of the miracle that is nature and all your eye can see. You feel like you want to be at a table full of friends enjoying good food and drink. You feel like if someone challenged your abilities right now you would take that challenge with gusto and laugh heartily. It is about now when this one realizes that she has a Good God at her shoulder, while looking at the several people all asking to know how to connect to him.
Sitting as inconspicuously as possible at my very conspicuous desk in a very standard office, I let the large comforting and uplifting feelings of the Good God wash over me as I read the responses and think more on my plans for this weekend in the woods, making a mental note to buy him a large Guinness.
I pause in my typing and general work. I didn’t hear anything, there were no sounds to hear, but I heard it all the same. The feeling on my heart increases, expands, the temperature rises. For a moment I smirk at the idea of hearts growing bigger and the physical, likely dangerous, impact on the human body. The humor is there and so is the strength, settled deep in the chest, in the bones and it has been many months since I have been honored with his presence this acutely. I consider my words, the feelings this small proposal brings up, the doubts, the excuses. None of them are fully formed thoughts and yet the Good God knows them all.
I breathe deep letting the air fill the caverns of my expanded self. The host of self doubt, of feeling an impostor, of not being enough, remain. I am human and my psyche will always hold these scars, but I will not let them hold me back. I had not been asked to serve for some time. Not in this way. Many things had changed in the course of that time. I had wondered if I would feel this calling ever again or if that path was done.
A warm smile blooms on my lips. The path has not gone. It split off but it is as surely mine as it ever was and sometimes a Good God would walk with me. One that was deep, strong and red. One of life and death, of work and play, of love and loss, of the earth and the sky, of wisdom and of foolishness.
For him I will gladly do the good work.
Which, my readers, those of you who have come this far, means that I will be writing a series for the Dagda and posting it here. I already have been given some ideas on how to break things down, and this will really just be explanations of what I do and what has worked for me. Just one version of how this very American, Gaelic Polytheist has practiced Devotion to the Irish God known as the Dagda. Not the end all, or one true way, or how the ancestors did it. Just how I do. That being said, if anyone has questions or something they’d particularly like to know, I would love to hear them! | 2019-04-20T04:21:11Z | https://theprimalheart.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/devotional-practice-with-the-dagda/ | Porn | Reference | 0.254171 |
wordpress | Cummings, who as the ranking Democratic member had the right to ask a question, attempted to make remarks as Issa abruptly tried to cut the hearing short.
“Mr. Chairman, you cannot run a committee like this. You just cannot do this. We’re better than that as a country, we’re better than that as a committee,” Cummings said as Issa reach over Cummings to physically cut his microphone, Horrified by Issa’ s sudden approached to the Democrat who shouted before a shocked committee room of staff and onlookers.
“I’m always shocked when the ranking member seems to want to say, like a little boy whose hand has been caught in a cookie jar, ‘What hand? What cookie?’ I’ve never said it leads to the White House,” Issa said about Cummings.
Issa’s Oversight Committee has an essential role to hold those in power accountable but instead his committee has been a political sideshow for the past three years. With the disrespectful treatment of the ranking member, it’s clear Rep. Issa’s hubris has gone too far.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged assault, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressman Darrell, Cummings, Darrell Issa, Elijah Cummings ., Marcia Fudge, Rep, Speaker of the House John Boehner. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-26T05:50:27Z | https://algebraworksblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/congressman-darrell-issa-assaults-congressman-activist-elijah-cummings/ | Porn | Reference | 0.437476 |
livejournal | *If you want to use this, but don't know how to edit the code then let me know so I can help.
And it you're wondering who Jade is - that's my other lj name. I didn't feel like changing everything back to Ruyu. | 2019-04-20T06:51:17Z | https://ruyu.livejournal.com/40797.html | Porn | Reference | 0.501131 |
wordpress | Change is one of those unexpected expectations of living. You don’t always feel good about its approach, but don’t always want to retreat in its wake. You move forward because that’s all you know. It’s all you’ve gathered as a reaction to altering realities. And still, knowing and accepting this, there lies this unwillingness to adapt.
Let me tell ya something – it’s not as hard as it’s going to get if you don’t alter your thought process, if you don’t adjust your priorities, if you don’t take another route, if you don’t see further, if you don’t take action. It becomes grand spectacle when you delay the necessary nurturing to focus on the temporary fruits. | 2019-04-24T14:11:04Z | https://ileaveyoulove.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/accept-it/ | Porn | Reference | 0.244209 |
wordpress | Family Worship | Every. Day. Worship.
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wordpress | This entry was posted on February 20, 2013 at 4:34 am and is filed under Mortgage Financing. 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. | 2019-04-25T20:19:38Z | https://bdavani.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/fha-mip-rate-and-duration-changes-starting-april-1-2013-and-june-3-2013-2/ | Porn | Business | 0.71984 |
wordpress | I’ve been so busy writing for the Herald and my research assignment all winter that I haven’t had time or energy to write creatively. But other than a few twinges of guilt for leaving this blog high and dry, I haven’t been hard on myself for it. In my paid editing/interviewing assignments, I’ve been developing my writing skills (as poet Sarah Klassen reminded me), and I’ve met many book-shelving, coffee-pouring, truck-driving writers who would love a writing day job, even if it is not of the literary sort.
Whenever you dig a new well, the first thing you draw is mud. It’s all good. Anyone can survive spring in my corner of the world, as long as you have a good pair of boots. And a lot of patience. | 2019-04-26T02:45:01Z | https://angelineschellenberg.wordpress.com/tag/writing/ | Porn | News | 0.348289 |
wordpress | We went on a lot of trips, so I don’t believe regrets regarding travel would be on the list, but did you ever wish we had taken you camping or hiking? I thought about this today when Kelly mentioned the family challenge is to take the kids on fifteen hikes this year in addition to considering a camping trip out West.
I believe you all know that although Dad’s family had a camper which they used on their summer vacations, I would not ever consider taking our family camping. Dad just loves telling the story about how I considered our stay at the Yellowstone Lake Lodge as camping because we had paper bath mats and limited water pressure in the bathroom. It’s just not my thing.
As a little girl, my dad took me on hikes at the local county park, where we went off-trail to hike to the top of the mountain. He taught me to mark our path by periodically bending branches so if we got lost, we could find our way back to the trail, but we never went camping.
I do not feel as if I should include sleeping under the stars as part of my bucket list, but I don’t have as strong an aversion to hikes (although on a recent trek through the woods I spotted a snake on the paved path, so maybe I should take that back).
So the question I have is: Do you feel you missed out on a wonderful family activity because we did not go camping or hiking in the woods? In my defense, I don’t recall any of you ever asking. | 2019-04-21T01:05:34Z | https://mommysmeanderings.wordpress.com/2019/01/29/you-should-have-asked/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.725309 |
wordpress | In 2013 I wrote a year-long blog called A Year Without Craft Supplies, then started this one in 2015 as I whittled away at my enormous stash.
The rules were simple — this is the gist of it — but now that I’ve gotten rid of SO much I’m allowing myself to buy bits and pieces as required to continue to use up my stash.
Of course, this means I will never be out of craft supplies, but that wasn’t the point.
One of the best things I’ve ever decided to do is decline all the offers of any sort of craft supplies that people give me because they no longer want them, are clearing a house, etc.. I direct them to a few specific people or places I know that can use them and then its on to Cincinnati.
For 2017 we’re looking at a craft room revamp to reflect the new approach to the main crafts on which I’ve decided to focus.
Alabama Chanin style clothing making.
Gifts for people to celebrate IWOM 5-0. I don’t need any presents so my present to myself is making things I’ve always wanted to make for other people!
Then it will be back to needlework! This year marks twenty years since I started my year of study at the Royal School of Needlework and after last year’s huge project for Roslynn Chapel I am aware of how much I miss hand stitching. While the hands can manage it, that’s what I wanna do!!! | 2019-04-19T20:22:57Z | https://anotheryearwithoutcraftsupplies.wordpress.com/the-rules/ | Porn | Arts | 0.614513 |
wordpress | Wow, what an emotional roller-coaster of a read!
How To Mend a Broken Heart has been on my Netgalley list for far too long so I thought it was about time I bumped it to the top of my list. I am amazed this is a debut novel! Having said that, I knew I was in for a treat as it is published by Bookouture. They have some of the most amazing authors after all.
Anna Mansell has created the most beautifully written, heart-wrenching story here and doesn’t shy away from tackling some sensitive and difficult subjects with care and consideration, including suicide, adoption and abandonment. Not to mention the devastating feeling of having your heart trampled on by someone you loved and trusted.
Kat has just split up from her boyfriend of five years, Daniel. It was his choice to leave and Kat is understandably devastated. However, she is embarking on a promotion at work so is trying her best to focus on that. When a lady called Susan is admitted to her ward after attempting to take her own life, she has no idea where this lady’s story will lead. It will certainly help her to take her mind of missing Daniel.
Kat is an instantly likeable character, as are most of the characters in this story. Her fear of being alone forever and her self-doubt where her career is concerned makes her very real and believable. I did enjoy the banter between her and her best friend too. It was quite amusing at times. I was praying that she might give the handsome consultant a chance as he came across as one too good to turn down. Life is too short to waste it on those not worthy of our affections.
Rhys is another character I warmed to immediately and I loved his Mum. I can’t even imagine going through what they have both gone through, since losing Rhys’ brother, and my heart went out to them on more than one occasion. I imagined Rhys to be quite fit too! Hard-working and easygoing on the whole, but with the weight of the world on his shoulders. A proper decent bloke who has been dealt his fair share of heartache.
Susan is a tortured soul and I couldn’t help but feel for her. She has basically been existing for nearly 40 years, feeling unworthy of leading a fulfilled life, having to keep the most heart-breaking secret for all that time. I can only imagine! Now her parents have both passed away, she feels she has no purpose any more. That is until she has an unexpected visitor in hospital.
The story is told from the prospectives of Kat, Rhys and Susan and it flows perfectly as each chapter has the character’s name at the start. I found myself completely invested in these character’s and their stories to the point where I found myself thinking of them often when I wasn’t reading. I was hooked and couldn’t wait to find out if they all got the happy endings they deserve.
This story has made me smile a lot and cry a lot. It is so full of raw emotion which just oozes off the page. It also has it’s lighter and happier moments which make it an uplifting read overall. I have absolutely loved it!
Many thanks to the author and Bookouture for my mobi copy via Netgalley.
For more info and to buy a copy…..
Sounds like a real emotional roller-coaster of a ride. Love the ups; not so sure about the downs. | 2019-04-23T09:55:24Z | https://chataboutbooks.wordpress.com/2018/07/17/how-to-mend-a-broken-heart-by-anna-mansell-annamansell-bookouture-bookreview-netgalley/ | Porn | Health | 0.281971 |
tripod | Carl E. Southward, son of Edward & Melissa Ann (Krebs) Southward. He was born in 1905.
In 1920 (age 14), his name appears on the 1920 U.S. Census living with his parents, uncle & siblings in Eaton County, Michigan. In 1930 (age 25), his name appears on the 1930 U.S. Census under his father's household as single, living in Brookfield, Eaton County.
He married Glenna Gladys Shaver sometime around 1935. She was the daughter of Orville Clayton & Bessie Eva (Perry) Shaver.
He passed away in 1964. | 2019-04-21T02:29:00Z | http://theshavers.tripod.com/g2ch4ocsp1---carl-e.-southward.html | Porn | Reference | 0.51504 |
wordpress | Ok, do tell. How did you completely trash a database server?
This was at least fifteen years ago, so I don’t remember details. But a few things I do recall was changing the connection services so that it didn’t use IP although whatever I changed it to wasn’t enabled on the box, changing a couple of the logins for the service, I think might have modified system procedures or replace them or something. It wasn’t pretty. I was utterly clueless and completely confident. Horrifying combination. | 2019-04-25T02:54:57Z | https://scarydba.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/tagged-again-two-mistakes/ | Porn | Computers | 0.990347 |
wikipedia | Rostam and Sohrab is an opera by Loris Tjeknavorian. It is based on the story, Rostam and Sohrab in the epic Shahnameh. Its composition took 25 years. In 1963, Professor Carl Orff granted Loris Tjeknavorian a scholarship, which allowed him to reside in Salzburg and to complete his opera in Austria.
Iranian director Behrouz Gharibpour brought to stage the puppet show "Rostam and Sohrab" based on the opera composed by Loris Tjeknovarian. Rostam and Sohrab puppet opera is the first puppet opera in Iran in which the tragic story of Rostam and Sohrab was displayed. The show involves 100 marionettes and 15 puppeteers. It was first performed in Tehran’s Ferdowsi Hall in 2005. | 2019-04-22T07:13:53Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostam_and_Sohrab_%28opera%29 | Porn | Arts | 0.966038 |
livejournal | Cool. They are too cute and so easy. Best part! | 2019-04-19T12:39:12Z | https://sireesanwar.livejournal.com/1021359.html?thread=5339311 | Porn | Reference | 0.19023 |
google | This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/257,422, filed Jun. 9, 1994, now abandoned, which is continuation of application Ser. No. 08/133,237, filed Oct. 5, 1993, now abandoned, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/058,151, filed May 5, 1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,308,348, which is continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/837,183, filed Feb. 18, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,209,746 and benefit of the filing date of said earlier filed applications is claimed under 35 § U.S.C. 120.
Included in the patent literature relating to pulsatile osmotic pumps is U.S. Pat. No. 4,777,049, issued Oct. 11, 1988 to Magruder, P. R., et al. The pulsatile effect in this patent is achieved by the inclusion of a modulating agent with the beneficial agent to be delivered. The modulating agent is selected on the basis of its solubility in the delivery medium relative to the beneficial agent, and the pulsatile effect results from one of the two falling below its saturation point, causing more of the other to go into solution and thereby be released. The number of pulses one may obtain in this manner is limited, however, and it is difficult to achieve periodic pulses. The system of U.S. Pat. No. 4,723,958, issued Feb. 9, 1989 to Pope, D. G., et al. achieves the pulsatile effect by alternating layers of beneficial agent with layers of inert material. As it is being released, however, the beneficial agent emerges at a slow rate. The system of U.S. Pat. No. 4,842,867, issued Jun. 27, 1989 to Ayer, A. D., et al., is also a layered system, and is best intended for a low number of pulses. Layered systems are also disclosed by Wong, P.S.L., et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,874,388, issued Oct. 17, 1989; Wong, P.S.L., et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,957,494, issued Sep. 18, 1990; and Wong, P.S.L., et al., U.S. Pat. No. 5,023,088, issued Jun. 11, 1991.
Other literature of possible relevance to this invention are Simpson, B. E., et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,416,659, issued Nov. 22, 1983; Edwards, S., et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,867,980, issued Sep. 19, 1989; and LeFevre, R. J., et al., U.S. Pat. No. 4,997,420, issued Mar. 5, 1991. These patents disclose the use of coil springs in slow release capsules. The possible relevance of these patents will be evident from the description which follows.
In further preferred embodiments, the elastic material is not moisture-permeable, nor is any of the wall material surrounding the beneficial agent compartment over the entire range of motion of the partition. The moisture-permeable wall in these embodiments does not extend beyond the osmotic engine compartment, and moisture diffusion into the capsule will thus occur only in the osmotic engine compartment. This provides improved control over the rate at which the beneficial agent is released from the orifice since it provides a more steady rate of moisture imbibition and avoids dilution of the beneficial agent if the beneficial agent itself has moisture-imbibing properties. This also protects beneficial agents that are unstable when exposed to an aqueous environment. In constructions of this type, the functioning of the osmotically active agent is attributable in part to its location on the side of the partition away from the orifice, in conjunction with the fact that only this agent, and not the beneficial agent, is in contact with the moisture-permeable wall. As a result, the selection of the beneficial agent need not be restricted to those species which are not themselves osmotically active, and there is no need to select two agents which differ widely in water-absorptive properties. Nor is there any need to restrict the beneficial agent to those which are stable in aqueous media. Moisture-sensitive beneficial agents, such as certain proteins, peptides and hormones, may thus be delivered without being adversely affected by fluids entering the device.
The thickness of the elastic material may vary considerably, and the best thickness for each application will depend on several parameters such as, for example, the size of the device, the desired interval of time between pulses, the viscosity of the material to be delivered, the temperature of use, and the elastic characteristics of the elastic material. The particular thickness can be readily determined by a person of ordinary skill in the art without undue experimentation. In general, the elastic material may be, for example, from at least about 0.005 in (0.013 cm) to about 0.5 in (1.27 cm) in thickness, preferably from at least about 0.010 in (0.025 cm) to about 0.10 in (0.254 cm) in thickness.
For those devices which are elongated capsules, the location of the orifice in preferred embodiments of the invention is at or near the end wall of the device, and the elastic material will completely cover the orifice. In further preferred embodiments, a trough is present in the outer surface of the side wall of the capsule near the first end and encircling the capsule. The orifice is located inside the trough. The trough provides a means for seating and retaining the resilient band, which sits within the trough and covers the orifice.
Capsule 11 also includes a cap 18 at the end of the fluid-impermeable tube 13 distal from the moisture-permeable membrane cup 12. Cap 18 is shown in magnified view in FIG. 2. Cap 18 includes an orifice 19 extending from the portion of the cap that is proximate the beneficial agent compartment 14 and through the side wall of cap 18 at a point near the end wall of the cap, to provide an outlet for the beneficial agent. A rectangular cross-section trough 20 is formed in the outer surface of the cylindrical side wall of cap 18, encircling the capsule 11, with the orifice 19 located inside the trough. Although only one such orifice is shown, the trough 20 may contain two or more such orifices. A band 21 of resilient material is seated inside the trough, encircling the capsule. The band is sufficiently tight to seal the orifice, but capable of being stretched by the force of the moving partition 17 (transmitted through the beneficial agent) to separate sufficiently from the orifice to permit escape of the beneficial agent. Once the force is spent, the band once again seats against the orifice.
An alternate embodiment of the orifice and closure of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 3, which is an enlarged view of the cap end portion of a capsule substantially similar to capsule 11 but having a cap 28, which cap 28 includes multiple orifices 19 through the side wall of the cap to provide outlets for beneficial agent. Two orifices 19 are shown; however, this number is not controlling, and there may be from one to six or more orifices. A semi-circular cross-section trough 30 is formed in the outer surface of the cylindrical side wall of cap 28, with the orifices 19 located inside the trough. An O-ring 32 of resilient material is seated inside trough 30, encircling the capsule. The resilient O-ring functions in the same manner as the resilient band of FIG. 2, as described previously herein.
The coil spring 77 shown in FIG. 4 thus acts as a capacitance means. The coil spring may be substituted by any compressible material or linkage which is capable of storing energy upon compression which is later released when the compressive force is removed or overcome. Thus, capacitance means such as a compressible gas or an insert of resilient compressible closed-cell foam, or further substitutes which will readily occur to those skilled in the art, may be used in place of the spring.
The composite partition structure is discussed in greater detail in U.S. Ser. No. 07/837,183, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The beneficial agent is released from the capsule through an orifice 91 at the end of the capsule opposite that of the osmotic engine. While the spring 77 provides each pulse with a sharper profile (as indicated by a plot of quantity of agent released vs. time), the profile is rendered even sharper by the use of a resilient closure 92 over the orifice, according to the present invention. Such a closure will be forced open by the force of the spring 77 when the primary piston 73 is in motion, and will return to a closed position by its own resilient force once the protruding rib 78 of the primary piston comes to rest in one of the grooves 79. The closure thus functions as a relief valve or check valve, which not only provides quick opening and closing of the orifice to prevent beneficial agent from seeping or diffusing out between pulses, but also prevents the external medium from diffusing in.
As shown in greater detail in FIG. 5, the portion of the capsule shell 93 which encloses the drug reservoir 74 is closed at the end 94, and the orifice 91 is a small circular passage through the cylindrical side wall of the shell near the end wall. A rectangular cross-section trough 95 is formed in the outer surface of the cylindrical side wall, encircling the shell, with the orifice 91 located inside the trough. Although only one such orifice is shown, the trough 95 may contain two or more such orifices. A band 96 of resilient material is seated inside the trough, encircling the shell. The band is sufficiently tight to seal the orifice, but capable of being stretched by the force of the primary piston 73 (transmitted through the drug) to separate sufficiently from the orifice to permit escape of the drug. Once the force is spent, the band once again seats against the orifice.
Further structural and functional parameters of the capsules described above may be varied widely, and appropriate or optimal values and qualities for these parameters will vary with the particular application, such as the nature of the beneficial agent to be delivered, the type of environment into which the delivery is made, and the purpose of and desired protocol for the delivery, including the number, frequency and intensity of the pulses. The design of a system which will produce a selected delivery protocol is well within the routine skill of those experienced in controlled release systems and semi-permeable materials. These parameters are discussed in more detail in U.S. Ser. No. 07/837,183, previously incorporated herein by reference.
FIG. 4 further illustrates a feature related to the construction of the osmotic engine compartment of the capsule, which feature is included in preferred embodiments of the osmotic device. As in FIG. 1, the osmotic engine is retained in a semi-permeable membrane cup 85. The cup is surrounded by a close-fitting sleeve 86 made of rigid material and closed at the end. Both the end wall and the cylindrical side wall of the sleeve 86 have holes (not shown) arranged in a regular pattern to permit access of the surrounding medium to the membrane cup 85. The sleeve 86 prevents the membrane cup from bursting or expanding due to the increasing pressure transmitted by the spring 77 as the result of the osmotic imbibition. The sleeve may be constructed of any inert material capable of withstanding the pressure exerted by the spring at its maximum compression without significant distortion. While the composition of the sleeve may be that of a semi-permeable material, in a presently preferred embodiment, the composition is of a material which is substantially impermeable to fluids (except for the holes) One example is Lexan® polycarbonate; other examples will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art.
Preferred moisture-permeable wall materials are cellulosic materials, such as cellulose esters, cellulose ethers and cellulose ester-ethers. These and other suitable materials, as well as materials which may be included as modifiers or additives, are well known to the art. Examples are discussed in U.S. Ser. No. 07/837,183, previously incorporated herein by reference.
Examples of drugs which may be delivered by devices according to this invention include, but are not limited to, prochlorperazine edisylate, ferrous sulfate, aminocaproic acid, mecaxylamine hydrochloride, procainamide hydrochloride, amphetamine sulfate, methamphetamine hydrochloride, benzphetamine hydrochloride, isoproteronol sulfate, phenmetrazine hydrochloride, bethanechol chloride, methacholine chloride, pilocarpine hydrochloride, atropine sulfate, scopolamine bromide, isopropamide iodide, tridihexethyl chloride, phenformin hydrochloride, methylphenidate hydrochloride, theophylline cholinate, cephalexin hydrochloride, diphenidol, meclizine hydrochloride, prochlorperazine maleate, phenoxybenzamine, thiethylperazine maleate, anisindone, diphenadione erythrityl tetranitrate, digoxin, isoflurophate, acetazolamide, methazolamide, bendroflumethiazide, chlorpropamide, tolazamide, chlormadinone acetate, phenaglycodol, allopurinol, aluminum aspirin, methotrexate, acetyl sulfisoxazole, erythromycin, hydrocortisone, hydrocorticosterone acetate, cortisone acetate, dexamethasone and its derivatives such as betamethasone, triamcinolone, methyltestosterone, 17-β-estradiol, ethinyl estradiol, ethinyl estradiol 3-methyl ether, pednisolone, 17-β-hydroxyprogesterone acetate, 19-nor-progesterone, norgestrel, norethindrone, norethisterone, norethiederone, progesterone, norgesterone, norethynodrel, aspirin, indomethacin, naproxen, fenoprofen, sulindac, indoprofen, nitroglycerin, isosorbide dinitrate, propranolol, timolol, atenolol, alprenolol, cimetidine, clonidine, imipramine, levodopa, chlorpromazine, methyldopa, dihydroxyphenylalanine, theophylline, calcium gluconate, ketoprofen, ibuprofen, cephalexin, erythromycin, haloperidol, zomepirac, ferrous lactate, vincamine, diazepam, phenoxybenzamine, diltiazem, milrinone, capropril, mandol, quanbenz, hydrochlorothiazide, ranitidine, flurbiprofen, fenbufen, fluprofen, tolmetin, alclofenac, mefenamic, flufenamic, difuninal, nimodipine, nitrendipine, nisoldipine, nicardipine, felodipine, lidoflazine, tiapamil, gallopamil, amlodipine, mioflazine, lisinolpril, enalapril, enalaprilat, captopril, ramipril, famotidine, nizatidine, sucralfate, etintidine, tetratolol, minoxidil, chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, amitriptylin, and imipramine. Further examples are proteins and peptides which include, but are not limited to, insulin, colchicine, glucagon, thyroid stimulating hormone, parathyroid and pituitary hormones, calcitonin, renin, prolactin, corticotrophin, thyrotropic hormone, follicle stimulating hormone, chorionic gonadotropin, gonadotropin releasing hormone, bovine somatotropin, porcine somatotropin, oxytocin, vasopressin, GRF, prolactin, somatostatin, lypressin, pancreozymin, luteinizing hormone, LHRH, interferons, interleukins, growth hormones such as human growth hormone, bovine growth hormone and porcine growth hormone, fertility inhibitors such as the prostaglandins, fertility promoters, growth factors, and human pancreas hormone releasing factor, and analogs and derivatives of these compounds.
First, an osmotic expandable driving member is prepared by adding 7.6 kg of water and 0.4 kg of polyvinylpyrrolidone to a stainless steel container and mixing the components for 20 hours to obtain a smooth binder solution. Next, 10.0 kg of sodium Carbomer®, a sodium salt of polyacrylic acid polymer, is sized by being forced through a 0.028 in (0.07 cm) mesh screen in a fluid air mill set at 780-800 rpm speed. Next, 15.0 kg of sodium chloride is sized by being forced through a 0.028 in (0.07 cm) mesh screen in a fluid air mill set at 780-800 rpm speed.
The 10 kg of screened polymer and the 15 kg of screened sodium chloride are transferred to the granulator bowl of a fluid bed granulator, and 6.13 kg of binder solution is slowly sprayed onto the polymer and the salt in the granulator. The polymer/salt granules are formed in this manner. These resultant granules are sized through a 16-mesh screen of a Sweco Separator.
The amount of granulation from the above steps is 25.2 kg, and this is transferred to a blender. Then, magnesium stearate, a lubricant, is added in an amount equal to 1% of the total granulation including the lubricant. A total of 0.255 kg of magnesium stearate is added. All ingredients are mixed for three minutes at 10 rpm to produce a homogeneous expandable driving composition.
The composition thus formed is pressed into osmotically active tablets in a tablet press at a pressure of 500 lb to produce a round, flat-faced 50 mg tablet as an expandable driving member.
The semi-permeable second wall section that forms the compartment for the osmotically active tablet is prepared as follows. First, 3.85 kg of cellulose acetate butyrate and 1.15 kg of tributyl citrate are dry blended in a mixer for 5 minutes. This produces a polymer plasticizer blend of 77/23 ratio for the rate-controlling semi-permeable wall. The blend is then placed in an injection mold and molded into a semi-permeable membrane cup of the desired shape with an open end for receiving an expandable driving member and for mating with the forward wall section, whose preparation is as follows.
The forward wall section, which forms the compartment holding the beneficial agent, is prepared by adding 5 kg of polycarbonate (Calibre® 2000 series, Dow Chemical) to a hopper dryer and drying the polymer at 250° F. for 4 hours. The polymer thus dried is fed into the hopper of an injection mold in which the forward, impermeable, wall section is formed in the desired shape, with an open back end for mating with the semi-permeable membrane cup. The forward wall section thus formed is cylindrical, its inside wall having 42 machined triangular grooves along the length of the wall, each groove being 0.005 in (0.013 cm) deep and 0.027 in (0.069 cm) from center to center. The forward wall section also has a circumferential groove on its exterior surface at the anterior end, of rectangular cross section, as shown in FIG. 5. The groove is 0.10 in (0.254 cm) wide and 0.013 in (0.033 cm) deep. In the bottom of this groove, i.e., its cylindrical surface, and centered 0.07 in (0.178 cm) from the posterior side is a 0.015 in (0.038 cm) exit orifice. This orifice is covered by a relief valve band made from medical grade Santoprene® 281-55 or 281-64, a thermoplastic elastomer, the band having an outer diameter of 0.162 in (0.411 cm), a width of 0.10 in (0.254 cm) and a wall thickness of 0.0185 in (0.047 cm). This band is stretched over the first wall section and seated in the groove, laying flush to the outside wall of the first wall section, thereby filling the annular groove and covering the exit orifice.
The close-fitting sleeve surrounding the semi-permeable membrane cup is prepared by adding 5 kg of polycarbonate (Lexan® HP 1, General Electric) to a hopper dryer and drying the polymer at 250° F. for 4 hours. The polymer thus dried is fed into a hopper dryer of an injection molder where a single-cavity hot tip mold is used to injection mold the sleeve in the desired shape, which is 0.564 in (1.43 cm) in length with one open end for mating with the fully assembled delivery device. The internal diameter of the open end is 0.195 in (0.495 cm) and extends 0.164 in (0.417 cm) into the sleeve. At this point, the internal diameter is reduced to 0.160 in (0.406 cm), the outer diameter of the semi-permeable membrane cup. Around the smaller diameter portion of the sleeve are formed five sets of holes equally spaced longitudinally on the sleeve, the diameter of the holes being 0.0625 in (0.159 cm). There are also three holes in the closed end of the sleeve, the diameter of these holes being 0.050 in (0.127 cm).
The elastomeric secondary partition or piston is prepared by injection molding Santoprene® 281-55, a thermoplastic elastomer, into a four-ribbed piston, weighing approximately 31 mg. The piston thus formed is lubricated with silicone medical fluid 1000 cs to facilitate movement of the piston inside the device.
The delivery device is assembled by first charging the subassembly comprising the semi-permeable membrane cup with two of the osmotic tablets. The lubricated secondary piston is then inserted on top of the osmotic tablets, followed by a stainless steel capacitor spring. The spring is 0.125 in (0.32 cm) long, with a diameter of 0.088 in (0.22 cm), a wire gauge of 0.012 in (0.03 cm), a spring constant of 12.71 bf/in (22.2N/cm) and a force at maximum compression of 0.901 bf (4.ON). The primary piston is placed on top of the capacitor spring. Next, the delivery device subassembly comprising the substantially fluid-impermeable forward wall member is filled with 340 mg of beneficial agent formulation at 40° C., wherein the formulation comprised 33.33 weight percent porcine somatotropin, 4.53 weight percent sodium phosphate monobasic, 28.47 weight percent water, 33.0 weight percent glycerol, and 0.67 weight percent Tween® 80. Then, the two subassemblies are joined at their open ends by partially inserting the membrane cup section into the first wall section. Finally, four drops of moisture-cured cyanoacrylate adhesive are dropped onto the remaining exposed surface, and the members are fully inserted and then twisted to form a sealed delivery device.
resilient sealing means for sealing said orifice, said resilient means being displaced from a first position sealing said orifice to a second position opening said orifice when said pressure within said enclosure, generated by said activating means, exceeds a predetermined pressure, said resilient means returning to said first position sealing said orifice when said pressure within said enclosure fails below said threshold pressure.
2. A delivery device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said resilient means for sealing said orifice is selected from elastomeric compounds.
3. A delivery device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said resilient means for sealing said orifice is selected from injection-moldable elastomeric compounds.
4. A delivery device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said activating means is selected from the group consisting of an osmotic engine, a thermal system, a mechanical system, a system dependent on vapor pressure of fluid, a system dependent on chemical or electrochemical reactions, an elastomeric system, a spring-loaded chamber or piston, and a system dependent on gravity.
5. A delivery device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said environment of use is an aqueous environment, at least a portion of said enclosure of said device is permeable to moisture, and said activating means includes an osmotic engine, said activating means within said portion of said enclosure permeable to moisture.
6. A delivery device in accordance with claim 5 which further comprises a partition, said partition movable from a first position to a second position within said interior, said partition dividing said interior into a first compartment and a second compartment, said beneficial agent in said first compartment and wherein said activating means includes at least one osmotically active agent in said second compartment, and in which said resilient means for sealing said orifice and said orifice are constructed such that continuous absorption of fluid from said aqueous environment causes said resilient means to be displaced from a first position sealing said orifice to a second position opening said orifice when said pressure within said enclosure, generated by said activating means, exceeds a predetermined pressure, said resilient means returning to said first position sealing said orifice when said pressure within said enclosure falls below said threshold pressure.
7. A delivery device in accordance with claim 1 which further comprises a capacitance means within said enclosure.
8. A delivery device in accordance with claim 1 which further comprises a density element.
a band of resilient material sealing said orifice on the exterior of said enclosure and covering said orifice, said means for resiliently sealing said orifice being sufficiently tight to seal or substantially seal said orifice but capable of being displaced from a first position sealing said orifice to a second position opening said orifice when said pressure within said enclosure, generated by said activating means, exceeds a predetermined pressure, said resilient means returning to said first position sealing said orifice when said pressure within said enclosure falls below said threshold pressure.
10. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein said means for resiliently sealing said orifice is selected from elastomeric compounds.
11. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein said means for resiliently sealing said orifice is selected from injection-moldable elastomeric compounds.
12. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein said activating mechanism is selected from the group consisting of an osmotic engine, a thermal system, a mechanical system, a system dependent on vapor pressure of fluid, a system dependent on chemical or electrochemical reactions, an elastomeric system, a spring-loaded chamber or piston, and a system dependent on gravity.
13. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein said environment of use is an aqueous environment, at least a portion of said enclosure of said device adjacent to said second end is permeable to moisture, said activating mechanism is an osmotically active agent or a mixture of osmotically active agents, and said activating mechanism is activated by allowing said device to imbibe fluid from said aqueous environment through said moisture-permeable enclosure to activate said osmotically active agent or agents.
14. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein said delivery device further comprises a capacitance means in said second compartment.
15. A method in accordance with claim 9 wherein said delivery device further comprises a density element. | 2019-04-21T00:47:16Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US5456679A/en | Porn | Reference | 0.63296 |
wordpress | To start with you should check if the company has a professional website. A professional website will help in listing all the necessary services that the irrigation company is providing including how they are being charged. Apart from that, you should also check if they have helpful information that can help you in case of any difficulty. Taking of this most of the successful irrigation companies will upload useful eBooks on their websites for your perusal. Also, you can also check the online reviews as this will help you in knowing what most of the customers are saying about their service provision. Check Clarksville irrigation now to learn more.
Apart from that, it will also be better to engage a professional company whose online and offline presence are outstanding. One way of knowing this is by checking if the company has branded uniforms and clothing that can be used in identifying their company. You can as well check the rank of the company’s website, their blog and many other things that strengthen their online presence. Make sure that you employ irrigation company that has strong online visibility as this is an indication of high-quality services.
Apart from that, you should also know how long they have been in the field. With this you will be in a position to know the experience that the company like Clarksville hardscaping has in providing irrigation services. One way of knowing this is by asking the irrigation company to provide you with their portfolio so that you can see some of the places that they have worked in previously. Also, you should also ask them to provide with the references and their contacts. You will be in a position to know the company that has handled many successful operations by checking the number of references.
Apart from that, you should confirm if the company is insured. One thing with installation of irrigation system is that it is associated with many dangers and damages. With insurance cover you will not have to worry about injuries and losses as they will make sure that they are well compensated. To be secured, you should make sure that the company you are working with is inured.
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fc2 | Under my impression,, I have no idea where it came from.. However, I believed that University in Australia starts from Feb. According to info from University of south Australia, it might be just for there particularly, but it seems my course –master in teaching- starts at July! This is a perfect timing for me, because I don’t rush to things.
Feb, -start English course there in Aus／I will have 25 weeks.
Wow wow wow… it seems just a looooong way to go.. Anyway, it gave me some more room for my time and feeling.I will be 30 in2011, so this is really starting in 30's which we always hear from everywhere!
Finally,, I'm applying one uni now.
I need to prepare, IELTS score -it's not realy at all...-, Personal statement as starting..
but finally,, Time has come, and I can't postphone any longer to get start in 2010.
I can't say I am really ready for every points,, but I have to get over anyway..
I'm almost crying now.. I wish if I can just quit my work and concentrate studying English..
I thank about my councelor who cheers me up a lot.. | 2019-04-21T13:24:29Z | http://misskapriz.blog82.fc2.com/blog-category-7.html | Porn | Reference | 0.211561 |
wordpress | Remembering things to do in the future. This would be great if I thought there was a future.
I am 74 years older than dinosaurs who skipped out at the end of the Jurassic Dynasty, So, I’m now about to give up on the end of the earth as we know it . . . the Trump-land era. What is the right word here? Era means about 25 years and that’s enough to make me wrench my hooves off. Will we survive? Will my country survive?
There’s the rub. My country was started by some guys trying to get out from under the insane rule of a king thousands of miles away. He sent soldiers with long guns and topcoats that would send a bull Into mating frenzy, which made it easy for us [well it took several years before we got the whole banana] but we ditched the king.
Now, 250 years later, we’ve come up with our own, a red-headed man [we think so, it’s hard to know whats real and what’s pasted on.] While the Brits were still roaming around our little villages and knocking out our forests, some moneyed people had an idea: Build a Wall. Throw the redcoats, pirates and Indians out. This didn’t keep the pirates out, just watch the daily stock market news to see why – OR LOOK UP THE FALL OF LEHMAN BROTHERS ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2007.
A wall does not work, except to keep people in, not out. See Berlin, the wall that was built overnight, separating families, a government trying to recovered from a deadly war, and a political system based on free people thinking or one ruled by a corrupt government. The Chinese built a wall to keep the Mongolians out, but they came anyway. The wall was built of several materials, wood, sand, concrete, to control immigration, namely the Mongolians, but all it did was to keep the Chinese people in.
There are so many things one could say about a wall . . . The Wall of Tears, for starters. The last time he mentioned the wall, he said it would be slats. That’s closer to a wall of tears, or tears over a dam. | 2019-04-19T08:33:47Z | https://outsidethbox.wordpress.com/2019/01/ | Porn | News | 0.588592 |
wordpress | Today in Intro to Mass Communication class we’ll talk about radio and popular music.
Discussion questions, some of them from Chapter 7 of Baran’s Introduction to Mass Communication textbook, are below.
1. There are 14,420 broadcast radio stations in the U.S. – 4,790 AM stations, 6,479 FM, and 3,151 non-commercial FM. The most popular radio formats are rock, country, rap/hip-hop, pop, religious, children’s, classical and jazz.
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sfgate | Where’s a Good Blue Oyster Bar in San Francisco?
SF Insider > san francisco bars > Where’s a Good Blue Oyster Bar in San Francisco?
Those on the hunt for a good blue oyster bar in San Francisco will be pleased to find Hog Island Oyster Co. This restaurant is right on the water, and it is famous for serving freshly caught mussels, oysters, clams and other shellfish daily. In keeping with the tradition of San Francisco bars, it also offers an assortment of delicious, homemade craft cocktails.
Hog Island Oyster Co. was established in 1983 as an oyster farm. It is now a premier provider of sustainably harvested shellfish for commercial entities in the Bay Area. Customers at its waterfront restaurant can sample some of its world-renowned oysters, which vary in availability depending on the day. Some blue oysters people might get to sample are indulgent Mediterranean Mussels, which range in color from deep blue to black. These oysters are known for their complex flavor and buttery meat.
As one might expect from an oyster bar, each meal at Hog Island Oyster Co. can begin with a choice of several types of oysters. The menu changes daily and might include oyster varieties such as Cold Creek, Mookie Blue and Island Creek. Customers can also start a meal with a variety of seafood-based appetizers such as beer-battered cod sliders that come with tartar sauce and a Napa cabbage slaw, and a vegetarian-friendly fried polenta appetizer accompanied by oyster mushrooms, spinach and olive tapenade.
In addition to its delicious appetizers, Hog Island Oyster Co. has a nice selection of gourmet salads. On the salad menu is a simple house salad made with mixed greens and vinaigrette and a kale Caesar salad that gets an aquatic update with the addition of fried oysters. Another delicious salad is the seasonally inspired summer corn salad made with grilled white corn, avocado and sharp Pecorino cheese. Salads can be accompanied by fries, pickled vegetables and other sides.
For the main course, Hog Island has a delicious chowder that’s made with Manila clams, vegetables, potatoes, bacon and a rich cream sauce. There is a daily special of the market fish, which is prepared in the chef’s selected style, and a choice between steamers or mussels. Customers can add pasta to their steamers to make a complete meal or a side of fries to their mussels. Other standout entrees are the Oyster Po’Boy sandwich made with fried oysters and remoulade, and the Rustic Seafood Stew, which combines fish and shellfish with a spicy herb and tomato broth.
Each day, the bar offers specialty cocktails like the Pickled Gimlet, which is a sweet and salty combination of gin, simple syrup, lime and a Hog Island pickle brine. Other cocktails the bar serves are a Waterfront Negroni, Pisco Punch and Marshall Mule. | 2019-04-21T02:59:12Z | https://sfinsider.sfgate.com/wheres-a-good-blue-oyster-bar-in-san-francisco/ | Porn | News | 0.152638 |
google | Enrollment for 2nd semester of the 2018-19 school year is closed. All students who apply from this point forward will be considered for 1st Semester enrollment for the 2019-2020 school year. After completing this application, students who apply for full-time enrollment will be emailed on next steps to attending a Drop-In Enrollment Day.
Students applying for supplemental or part-time enrollment will be emailed information regarding next steps to getting enrolled in courses for 1st Semester of the 2019-2020 school year.
In order to be successful in Denver Online High School, students must be self motivated and need to plan to spend the equivalent of a full school-day, five days a week, actively working on coursework. If the student and guardian are not disciplined and organized, or if the student requires the face-to-face interaction that a classroom provides, online learning may not be the best schooling option. Students who have a history of not being able to independently complete schoolwork in a regular school setting generally are not a good fit for an online school, which requires higher levels of self-discipline and self-motivation than traditional schools. While instructors and fellow students can provide some support, the online distance learner is expected to have internal motivation to manage his or her own learning during the course of study and have a basic grasp of Internet navigation skills. Please carefully consider whether or not online learning will be a good fit for the student before following the enrollment steps below.
-Proof of residency: Proof of residency MUST be a utility bill (ex: water bill, electricity bill, internet bill). If family does not pay any utility bills, the following are acceptable: mortgage, lease, or deed of trust.
Please see the Full Time Options Page (http://online.dpsk12.org/admission/full-time-students/full-time-enrollment-and-requirements/) or the Part Time Options Page (http://online.dpsk12.org/admission/part-time-students/part-time-enrollment-types-and-requirements/ ) for more information about specific enrollment options.
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wikipedia | Robert J. ("Bob") Davis (born 1956) is a managing partner of Highland Capital Partners. He is the former chief executive officer of Lycos, which he led since its inception and through its acquisition by Terra at the peak of the dot-com bubble.
Davis was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1956. The youngest of four, his mother died when he was 13 and his father died when he was 20 years old.
At the age of 10, Davis sold newspapers at a street corner and his sold via mail order catalogs as a teenager.
In 1979, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University, graduating with highest honors. In 1985, he received an MBA from Babson College.
In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Commercial Sciences from Bentley College. In 2000, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Northeastern University in 2000.
From January 1982 to January 1993, Davis worked for Wang Laboratories, a computer manufacturer, as Director of United States Commercial Sales and Marketing and Director of Worldwide Marketing. From January 1993 to June 1995, Davis served as Vice President of Sales at Cambex Corporation, a manufacturer of computer-related products.
Since its inception in June 1995, Davis served as the President and CEO of Lycos. His first assignment was to negotiate a licensing deal with Carnegie Mellon University.
In 1996, 9 months after Lycos was founded, he led the company to the fastest initial public offering in history. Lycos was one of the first profitable internet businesses.
As CEO of Lycos, he led the company to acquire more than a dozen websites including Wired.com, HotBot, Tripod.com, WhoWhere, Quote.com, and Matchmaker.com.
Davis led the company through its acquisition by Terra for $12.5 billion in stock in 2000. After the Terra acquisition, he served as the CEO of Terra Lycos, the combined company. Terra Lycos eventually reached 100 million users and had operations in 37 countries.
In 2001, Davis wrote a book called "Speed is Life: Street Smart Lessons from the Front Lines of Business", which was published by Currency, an imprint of Crown Publishing Group. The book focused on practical advice for operating a company. Davis donated his proceeds from the book to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
In 2001, Davis left Terra Lycos to join Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm. He has served on the boards of John Hancock Financial, Ticketmaster, Lycos, Fastclick, and Lycos Europe, as well as Children's Hospital Boston, and the Rivers School.
Technology and Global Democratization, a C-Span interview with Bob Davis on matters relating to internet commerce and regulation, July 2000.
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This disease is common among humans, dogs and cats. It develops when an animal has a deficiency of the hormone insulin or when something blocks the effect of this hormone. Insulin is essential for the cells in the body to get sugar from the blood. When an animal has diabetes mellitus, it has too much sugar in the blood and not enough sugar in the cells where it is needed as the prime energy source. The high sugar level in the blood makes the animal very thirsty and tired. The diabetic state is dangerous for the animal and must be treated with daily injections of insulin. The dog is normally treated initially at a veterinary clinic and then at home by the owner. As in people with diabetes, some other life-style changes such as change of diet often need to be performed. A diabetic dog can live a good-quality life for several years. The causes of diabetes in dogs are still unclear and probably vary among the different breeds.
This disease is due to a deficiency of the hormone thyroxin. Thyroxin normally regulates the animal’s metabolism. If a dog has a lack of thyroxin, many things in the body run more slowly. Often the dog gets fat although it eats less. Other symptoms may be tiredness, slow heart-rate, hair-loss and skin infections. The therapy is daily oral supplementation with thyroxin. An interesting aspect is that a diabetic child often gets hypothyroidism when it gets older. In dogs we don’t know yet if there is such a connection.
In the first stage we will focus on dogs with diabetes. We will collect blood and urine samples from as many diabetic PONs as possible. In order to achieve this we have an agreement with veterinary clinics nationally to help us. The project has a homepage in Swedish (http://clinic-smallanimals.slu.se/hunddiabetes), where owners and veterinarians can find information about the disease and the project. The blood samples will be used for DNA-testing and also for finding markers of autoimmune disease. In the second stage, studies of hypothyroidism is planned in order to search genetic markers.
Owners of both healthy and diabetic dogs in a few families will be contacted for further investigations. Some of them will be asked to perform a glucose tolerance test which can indicate if the dog is prone to develop diabetes.
It would not be surprising if PONs in other countries suffer from the same disease panorama. If you and your breed union are working with the same diseases and want to share your experiences, or if you as a PON-owner, breeder or veterinarian are interested in the project, don’t hesitate to contact the writer of this article.
We hope that these investigations will increase the knowledge about the diseases and also identify risk factors within the breed. This could improve the possibilities of an early correct diagnosis and appropriate treatment. If we find a genetic marker it could be an important step for making the PON breed healthier. Potentially, such a genetic marker could also be of great importance in the research about human diabetes and hypothyroidism.
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wordpress | Old school kosher dills are one of my favorite go-to snacks. They’re fresh tasting and crunchy and salty. I almost always have a big jar in the door of the fridge. This dead simple recipe was adapted from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything. Having made these countless times (almost every 2 weeks for the last 4 years which I guess puts me close to consuming about 200 pounds of these,) I’ve got this recipe and technique fairly down-pat. And once you do, you can make all sorts of interesting adaptations. I think these are as good as any deli pickle I’ve had, and dead simple to make.
There aren’t a lot of ingredients to this recipe, so choose wisely. Not all cucumbers are the same. For these, and most pickles, you need pickling or kirby cucumbers. They usually look like stubby, bumby little cucumbers. Slicing or english cucumbers just won’t cut it in this recipe. The pickling cukes stay firm and crisp once brined, the others just turn mushy. I opt for small ones, about 3 inches in length. (If you can find really really small ones forgo this recipe and make cornichons instead.) My local farmers markets have these most of the summer, and my local Whole Foods usually has them year-round, as well. This recipe calls for 2 pounds, but I never bother weighing. I just picture how many are going to fit in the jar I’m going to use.
As for the salt, I use Morton’s Kosher because that’s what most of the stores around me carry. I learned that not all salts are the same after reading Thomas Keller’s Ad Hoc at Home. If you’re using Diamond Crystal or some other brand, make the appropriate substitution. Bittman’s recipe called for more salt than I use, but I found the end results far too salty. Through trial and error, I arrived at the basic formula below.
Besides cucumbers, salt, and water, this basic recipe calls for dill and garlic as traditional flavorings, but there’s no reason not to experiment. Try some other fresh herbs like tarragon or parsley or chives for a different herbal profile. Throw in some peppercorns or red pepper flakes for some heat, or my favorite variation, jalapenos. You could add some white vinegar for a little extra sourness, though these tend to sour as they ferment, anyways. Go crazy.
It’ll take a couple of days for these to reach the right level of pickle-ness, but start trying after a day. They’ll stay good for several weeks. After a month or so, they get a little mushy, but actually the texture isn’t that dissimilar from what you might buy in a jar. But, if you’re like me, these won’t stick around for that long anyways. | 2019-04-26T13:50:55Z | https://istuffmyface.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/with-kosher-dill-pickles/ | Porn | Reference | 0.312794 |
wordpress | The Netflix original series “Black Mirror” has become one of my all time favorite shows. The series recently released its third and latest season that begins with the episode Nosedive.
“Black Mirror” can be described as a sci-fi, high-tech series that explores how some of humanity’s greatest innovations may collide with human instincts in the near future. I chose to watch the hour-long episode because of its similarities with our world’s present social media infatuation (Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, etc).
The episode begins with the lead character practicing her laughter and facial expressions in front of a high-tech mirror, apparently to finely tune her skills in courting “upvotes” or “five star” ratings of high social desirability.
Throughout the episode, transcending to higher social status, changing housing communities, making friends, renting vehicles, even the communities and stores you visit, are all functions of your rating. The higher your social rating (i.e. 3.5, 3.9, 4.6) on a five star scale, the more accessible people, events, parties, etc. are to you, and the better received by others you will be.
When your rating is too low, you may be forced to partake in deeds designed to give your social media a boost. For instance, following a breakup, one man at the office began buying smoothies for others to prevent the further collapse of his social media ratings.
At one point in the episode, Lacie – the lead character – goes through a series of negative events and struggles while traveling to a childhood friend’s wedding, leaving her with a rating of 2.8 rating that prevents her from getting a ride after her rental car breaks down. The struggles Lacie faced were due in part because of her obsession with perfecting her rating and improving it to “prime user” status.
Nosedive depicts a way of engaging with others 24/7, and every interaction with someone is followed with each individual rating the encounter.
In contrast to our society’s current heavy social media usage and the issues that arise from it, Nosedive portrays a culture that involves the use of social media intertwined with every day function.
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wordpress | « Javid to break business broadband logjam?
Go Margaret. Lets hope she can trip them up with their hype this time. Third time lucky?
To be honest even if they find a complete lack of VFM , what are they going to do ? The single supplier framework has been ratified at all levels and investigated / approved by the EU, thereby washing away all state aid regs and dismissing other solutions.
For it to appear to fail will mean a lot of prominent politicians and bodies will have to answer some very uncomfortable questions.
Ultimately as in previous public funded fiascos like this it will become a lesson unlearned and deemed a success. Remember ADSL roll out anybody?
After all who there is now going to say “well actually there are other solutions out there that are far more cost effective for many scenarios , including community driven projects. Please ignore our reports where we said there were none” ?
Lets hope it rocks the boat sufficiently to make it easier for non OR dependent providers to take legal action over state funded overbuild. Especially the overbuild that is clearly targetted , i.e. the service present has 100% take up and meets super fast criteria.
Yes Bill, sad but true.
If you want evidence of overbuild, we have found cabinets (pcp copper ones, not fibre ones) appearing in our tiny villages, closely followed by ‘fibre cabinets’ next to them. They have to take the phone lines out of the road to put in the old fashioned cabs, then bring the fibre out of the road into the fttc cabs, and all the houses already have a gigabit symmetrical community fibre already, at a far cheaper price. Definite overbuild. Yet just out of our area there are big villages with no cabs, and the BDUK process won’t help them. They will get offered satellites or bonded copper, which will entail laying more copper to them at a greater cost than fibre, just to protect the monopoly’s assets. I will keep taking photos of this superfarce, as will others. Our MP Eric Ollerenshaw is also aware of this issue within his constituency, but hasn’t been able to get the council to stop overbuilding and help the villages that the community network hasn’t reached. Apart from the ones in our build out, there are no other new cabs that we have seen. The bulk of the FTTC work has gone to semi urban areas and not the rural ones, as they don’t have cabinets to start with.
heh, i think i can trump that for overbuild madness 🙂 , OR are running FTTP to the hamlet of Hooksway in Sussex. there is 4 houses and a pub there, down a single track lane in the middle of a woods.
ALL the residents have a 30 Mbps service , 100% take up and have had since 2005 (although 16 Mbps at the start).
Of course the county council at the start of the BDUK fiasco and prior to this kept the firm line that there was NO broadband in this exchange area at all as it is one of the areas OR declared unviable for ADSL.
Once they started saying this and put it down on their application for funds, that is how it had to stay. The pre-existing service was initially ignored and then discounted as not part of their strategy.
They will be running FTTP to the other 4 villages/hamlets , widely spread apart that also feed from the same exchange, all again fully served by Kijoma with super fast.
The cost of this FTTP run must be significant as it looks to run some miles across the downs from Midhurst.
In other areas of the county people and businesses have been told they (the council) cannot spend BDUK money as “Kijoma cover their area” . Even though we have declared we cannot provide to these particular properties.
The same is happening in other parts of the county , i could show you the impressive FTTP runs around Sutton in Sussex, they have even run a lump of cables down to “Sutton end” which again is 4-5 houses , spread out .
Needless to say there is almost 100% take up there, the only property not taking up the service we provide is one owned by a Mr Gordon Owen , an ex parish council chairman and ex big cheese for cable and wireless (as he loves to keep telling people) who’s professional advice the county council have used to make their decisions.
He also happened to be behind the desk at the 2011 WSCC Broadband Summit that Ian attended and I oddly enough was not originally invited to. As I and probably Ian remember well his only purpose there was to talk rubbish about Kijoma. As he did on email to WSCC numerous times before the meeting (a FoI request unearthed these).
If this is how a county council treats a business that was formed and operates in the same county, then there isn’t much hope for outsiders.
Having watched it through for the second time, I can honestly say that as far as digital goes, this country is b0rked. Sue Owen doesn’t know a bit from a byte. Sean didn’t answer a single question. Chris is still floundering trying to pick up the pieces of this shambles. Andrew Field gave a good impression of answering, but didn’t answer owt, apart from the blunder where he said upload wasn’t important and couldn’t be delivered anyway. Satellites as predicted are the final solution. Vast profits will be made by BT. Because they have spent all the money on the easy bits, it has now made the hard bits even more impossible to reach because they have mopped up the market of low hanging fruit. I think the PAC has missed this fact. So everything we predicted would happen has happened. And because the wrong technology has been used (FTTC) the digital divide has grown ever wider. BDUK should hang their heads in shame. Councils deserved better advice, and are now having to cover themselves with BT fig leaves as they are left with no clothes. Transparency is still a joke. There is no way a council can fully check up on BT, they haven’t the resources, but BDUK will send them data. Yeah right. Total cover up of a superfarce, but history will remember this. And I hope the PAC keep on until they get to the truth of the matter. It is obvious what the next stage is going to be, more begging bowls for BT to do the hard bits. Far better to give the money to altnets and get some competition going! Also altnets do a far better job, as we have seen. Also the advertising of fibre broadband that isn’t fibre should have been mentioned. FTTC is such a sham. Disappointing event, but like I said, it’s now part of our history.
Time to move on, nice try Margaret.
Also one of the key questions dodged. PAC asked if BT knew the places by postcode where the current funding could never reach. BT said yes, then PAC said could they have them please? BT said they couldn’t give them but would give statistics by percentage for every council. What flamin good is that? ffs.
A pathetic performance by all participants grumbling about trivialities over their own Broadband instead of grilling BT.
Where was Margaret Hodge’s Rotweiller?
reminds of me of some parish councillors who asked us for service with the tagline of “get me connected and we will tell everybody how good it is, get them to sign up” etc.. Only to fall very silent once their immediate needs are met.
We have a couple like that, we see them in parish meeting minutes pushing for gaining funds/BT in their parishes , sympathising with their fellow parishioners over their broadband woes but wholly failing to mention they have 30 or 40 Mbps via a long established and available source .
I can imagine central gov people are no different when it comes to service where they live. Me me me!, then the rest can rot ..
Yes you do see a bit of that Bill, but we have some parish councillors who have worked tirelessly for their communities. We have many county councillors who have fallen for the BT hype, and assure their constituents that superfast is coming, even those on lines over 11km from exchanges. As IF. We see it all the time, they walk amongst us, and are brainwashed. We had one city councillor who refused wayleaves to the local village school for our fibre. The whole village turned out with spades and dug across a big field and a car park to divert the route to the school. I bet he doesn’t get voted in next year.
It is good you have experience of those who work tirelessly for their communities , i was wondering if they existed to be fair 🙂 . I am not saying some of the parishes around our patch are not working hard on this, but i know some are and have been single minded as to the solution to the exclusion of all others which is a shame.
I again am not blaming them neccessarily as they receive guidance from district and county councillors who push that view upon them. the parishes have to make their case as strong as possible to attract the BehemoTh !
They are also advised to discourage the take up of alternative solutions as this will reduce the demand head count for the chosen one, so to speak. Solidarity in the quest ! or something..
The net result is many parishes go without for many years while the people are constantly re-assured that the BT plan will come to fruition.
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THIRD FANTASY VOLUME: WHERE TO BEGIN?
As I plan for the third volume of my fantasy volume, I find myself in an interesting position. The third fantasy volume is intended to depict an emperor’s life and reign from start to finish. However, I cannot decide whether to go David Copperfield and start the day the emperor is born and go from there or start from when the emperor is first crowned. What do you think? Because I like to promote democracy amongst my readers from time to time, I will put this decision to a vote. What kind of beginning do you want to read? Please let me know.
The Palace of Versailles was a large chateau constructed by Louis XIV to serve as the new capital seat of the French royal family after they moved from Paris to Versailles. Louis invited the entire aristocracy to the Palace to participate in extravagant events to keep an eye on them. I have seen photographs of the Palace on the Internet and it is a beautiful and glorious manor full of all the pomp and luxury fit for a king. Due to this, I am thinking of drawing inspiration from the Palace of Versailles for a new castle in my fantasy series.
One of the most interesting kings in European history would be King Louis XIV of France also known as the Sun King. Louis was the longest reigning monarch in all of European history due to the fact that he ruled France for over 72 years and 110 days since he was four years old. He successfully established an absolute rule for the French monarchy that lasted until the French Revolution three-quarters of a century after his death. One of the ways he established absolute monarchy was constructing the Palace of Versailles and invited the entire aristocracy inside for extravagant celebrations. However, these celebrations were a facade so that Louis could keep a close eye on his vassals and constantly keep them in line. In addition to a long and absolute reign, Louis was also a prolific womanizer who sired 22 children (6 legitimate). Two of his illegitimate sons he made into Counts and the Grand Admiral of France at an early age, one at two-years-old and one at five-years-old. Most kings would have left their illegitimate children in the streets, but Louis XIV was different because he took good care of ALL his children, legitimate and illegitimate alike, by giving them lands, wealth, and titles of their own. For the main character in the third volume of my fantasy trilogy, I will be drawing inspiration from Louis XIV.
While watching Westworld, I noticed that the androids were not allowed to harm the human guests, but the human guests could do whatever they wanted to the androids. Because of this, the humans were given a golden opportunity to release their inner darkness while venturing into the park. For example, Ed Harris’s character started out as a good-natured, soft-spoken, and mild-mannered man, but after visiting the park for thirty years, he became a far darker person and a hardened survivor of countless skirmishes. With this in mind, I wonder what would become of me if I went to such a theme park. Even though I am generally a good person, I have always known that I have a darkness in me that must never see the light of day. If I had the opportunity of letting my demons off the leash like in Westworld, I highly doubt I will ever be the same person again and I may not be able to cage the beast again. In the original Westworld film, there was a Medieval World and that would be the park in which I would be right at home. It would also be the best place to gain REAL inspiration for my fantasy books. The reason for this is because up until now I have only gained rudimentary information and experience. With a place like Westworld, I will actually get to LIVE the medieval lifestyle and be exposed to the savage world that breeds savage people I learned so much about.
In Numen the Slayer, there is a colossal monstrous bear called the Graega. I named it the Graega because “Graega” is one of the Anglo-Saxon words for “gray”. Due to its status as a monster, I decided to give the Graega the same feel as Grendel in Beowulf. When standing at full height, the Graega is over ten feet tall and weighs over three tons. Its fur is ash-gray mixed with bone white. Its jowls are large and enclose powerful jaws filled with crooked and crushing teeth. One of its eyes is dead and its broad back has the scars and broken spears and arrows it acquired from countless battles with every warrior and hunter who was bold enough to face it. Its arms and legs are as thick as tree trunks while its paws are tipped with curved claws as big as meat hooks. The Graega’s roar is deep and guttural like a damned soul screaming for salvation. For a decade, the Graega was the scourge of the northern borders of Umbran, terrorizing every village and Welt settlement and killing every creature in sight like a demon of death. At some point, Numen and his companions encounter the Graega on their journey and have to deal with it.
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wordpress | You can buy this book here, and the film of it here.
I deliberately haven’t watched the film yet, as I was busy finishing the book. Sometimes the film isn’t as good as the book, and if you watch it first, it means you’re not free to imagine it better.
Anyway, I just need to say that this book is EPIC. It’s really exciting, there’s a new disaster or challenge every few pages, and loads of cliffhangers (like when he accidentally has too much hydrogen and makes the whole Hab into a bomb!). It’s really fascinating seeing how he does all the problem solving and getting out of difficult situations.
This book is also epic because of the way it’s written. It’s all his personal diary, so it’s as if you’re in his head, experiencing it all with him. He can tell you what he did, but also how he feels, all the time. I like how he’s sort of making a log for other people to read, and sort of making it just for himself, to make himself feel less alone, and also so that if he dies his story can still be told. I’m wondering how they get the film to do all this, and whether it will be as good as in the book.
This book is easy to read, and fast-paced. It would suit people at secondary school, or adults, and anyone who likes science fiction, or survival stories, would enjoy it. | 2019-04-20T19:04:34Z | https://wisdomofdaniel.wordpress.com/the-martian-by-andy-weir/ | Porn | Science | 0.345352 |
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We will spend no more than 15 minutes looking at some features of WordPress.com, and then we will each create a WordPress.com site, utilizing themes, pages, and widgets to create blogs, e-portfolios, course sites, or whatever you can imagine. Bring material and ideas about how you might use this technology—professional materials for your own portfolio; course content for a supplemental course site; topic ideas and links for a blog (your own or one for students).
Digital storytelling is the use of digital tools to tell a story, although that term “story” has been broadened to include both informative and research-based stories. We will look at a variety of samples, resources, and tools you or your students can use to create digital storytelling projects or assignments, as well as at the implications of such projects in developing digital visual literacy.
These workshops are no longer offered, as faculty interest was exhausted after the first few tries, and the school let go of its land in Second Life.
The first in a series of three workshops designed to give faculty experience in using Second Life for teaching. One cannot teach in the SL environment without the basic skills of navigation and communicating. We will practice the basics of navigating and using basic SL tools at the Ohio Learning Network (OLN) Bootcamp in Second Life. Attendees must already have a Second Life account before the workshop. There is a document of pre-workshop requirements and instructions distributed a week before the session.
One prominent feature of Second Life is the opportunity to create objects, such as interactive game-based tasks/quests, art, conceptual representations, or replications of real life objects and buildings. We will practice using the Second Life building tools to create a few basic objects on Tri-C’s land in Second Life. Attendees must already have a Second Life account before the workshop, and should be able to navigate fairly well.
Second Life has several features that create opportunities for teaching. It is social, creative, immersive, and global. We will examine these qualities to brainstorm for teaching ideas, and then visit a few spots in Second Life where some innovative teaching experiences are taking place. If you would like to visit the SL spots with me virtually, you must already have an account in Second Life, an avatar, and a login.
An overview of such sites as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr in terms of building your Personal Learning Network (PLN) and using with students in and outside the classroom. *Currently, I include just Twitter and LinkedIn in this workshop, but the purpose of building the PLN is the same.
We will create and participate in an online discussion using Voicethread, a “mixer” tool that allows the creator to combine text, image, audio, and video into a presentation that is open to comments from public visitors or private groups. Many faculty across the nation are using Voicethread for discussion boards to create a more intimate environment for online students.
Using Google Sites, PBWorks, Zoho, and Wikispaces as examples, we will look at how to set up a wiki and at some ways to use a wiki for student interaction and collaboration, as a supplement to your Bb site, or as a complete web site of your own. Eventually, this workshop focused on Google Sites only. *Currently, I limit this workshop to Google Sites.
Using PBWorks, we will look at how to set up a wiki and at some ways to use a wiki for student interaction and collaboration, as a supplement to your Bb site, or as a complete web site of your own. *This workshop is no longer offered.
This discussion and hands-on workshop on re-thinking presentation design will look at a few good resources/approaches to designing better PowerPoint presentations, and then practice using the online Prezi tool to create non-linear presentations. Please bring or be able to access any images, media, or documents you might use in a presentation, including YouTube videos.
Using the free software XMind in this hands-on workshop, we will view a demonstration and then work to create individual map graphics saved as image files to be used in your courses. Learning how to create mind maps will give faculty a new tool for representing concepts and organizing information visually.
This workshop requires attendees to bring whatever mobile devices they have–smart phones, tablets, phablets, e-readers. With no specic agenda, we will brainstorm and practice uses for multiple devices that you and your students may bring to the classroom.
An informal workshop, we will look at a few ebook software applications, and turn some content into files you can open on your mobile device or reader. All the software we look at is free and installed in the AEC. Come to the workshop to explore or to work with your own documents and files.
Learn the basics of these free software applications for creating audio files that can be attached to or embedded in a variety of ways, as narration or just as simple audio recordings. Audacity is installed on our computers. SoundCloud is web-based or mobile software that requires a free account.
Looking at such tools as Pinterest, Storify, Scoop.it, Paper.li, and Learni.st, we will discuss the concept of content curation and look at how it can be used in student assignments, as final projects or for collecting resources for research. Attendees need to have an account in at least one tool.
This is a hands-on workshop focused on adding sound to a Prezi. Attendees should already have a Prezi account and some familiarity with Prezi. Attendees should have a built Prezi or an idea of a Prezi to work with. You may bring MP3 files or create some in the workshop with Audacity.
I have offered some of these workshops more than once, and a few only once. Whenever I revise a workshop, it is because of how it was received the first time. You never know that what makes sense to you will make sense to an audience of faculty from varied fields. Occasionally, questions lead me away from my intended script, but I don’t see that as a problem. I’m fine with moving in the direction the attendees prefer.
Two of these workshops have not been offered yet. One sadly arrived with no registrants, and the second one will be offered this fall for the first time. | 2019-04-23T16:32:36Z | https://pittmanportfolio.wordpress.com/instructionaltechnology/original-workshops/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.148454 |
wordpress | When we’re not at the pool or a park or meeting a friend for lunch, there’s a lot of this going on.
Can we talk about how much I need something like this myself? Grown-ups are not immune to the need for a retreat, and we are wise to do this for our kids.
And in case you ever wondered who lives in the picture-perfect rooms you find in Pottery Barn or Ballard, now you know. It’s Gary and Elaine.
Nothin’ like some yummy grilled chicken and fruit. And Bok Choi from our CSA.
Now look at mine. I just can’t get enough of these. Old. Spice. Commercials.
Also, I had a very involved dream about Sherman recently. He got thrown (by Anja) off a very large waterfall and we went to all sorts of lengths to rescue him, including talking to some people about filtering all the water out of the river until we could find him.
why her drawing came home from Sunday School this way. Maybe if the lesson had had something to do with the crucifixion. But it didn’t. Wouldn’t it be interesting to take a walk inside their minds? | 2019-04-22T14:28:54Z | https://minnesotamom.wordpress.com/2010/07/ | Porn | Kids | 0.556646 |
wordpress | Recent studies reveal a steep growth curve in the e-commerce sector across the world with a remarkable transformation shown in the trend of shopping and trading. The 2015 statistics show that 42% (3.2 billion) people across the world are using the internet with the US being the highest user of internet, around 84% of the total users followed by China(642 million) 22% of the total and then India (350 million), 19% of the total. India is young with 50% of the population below the age level of 25 and more than 60% below age group 35.
It is to be noted that a paradigm shift of population from the rural to urban areas in order to pursue career is leading to rapid urbanization, transformation in the standard of living and an increase in the level of household income due to the foreign investments . There is enhancement in the technology dependency as young brains are highly responsive to technological changes, as a consequence to the rise in the penetration of internet and smart phones. The discounted, thus affordable data card plans offered by big telecoms, the emergence of local vendors for internet supply is the icing on the cake.
Another notable observation is that the shopping pattern of India if compared to China and rest of the world is significantly different. We have seen that Indians have always preferred shopping with family and have considered it as the best way to spend time with family. A land with diversified culture with many special occasions likely weddings, pujas have successfully restored the traffic to shopping. The recent changes in the usage pattern towards smartphones and internet is driving more traffic to online shopping. By now, it can be evidently established when it comes to seeking opportunity of growth in e-commerce, Young India can be one of your hot choices.
China seems ruling the dynasty of SME with a count of 50 million enterprises followed by India with 40 million SMEs keeping a tight focus on retail industry. Although the figures are appealing nevertheless, contribution to the economy remains low. Studies show that 40% of the Indian workforce are employed by the SMEs but the contribution to the economy in India is only 17% because a big chunk of the SME retailers still have business plan that lacks strategy, infrastructure and technical knowhow.
This situation gives away a window of opportunity to A2Zapps to launch its very own ecommerce platform under a new brand- MobifyStore (MoS), a catalyst to the existing growth pattern driving the SME retailers to another level. MoS, the one stop solution to the merchants, can boost your existing retail business and it also promises to be by your and take you to another level of success The Do-It-Yourself platform enables merchants to quickly build an e-commerce website and native mobile app for their store in the most cost effective manner. | 2019-04-26T04:37:02Z | https://a2zapps.wordpress.com/2015/10/10/contemprorizing-e-commerce-in-indian-context/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.513444 |
wordpress | One of the largest natural resources on earth is also one of its most threatened. Take a moment today – World Oceans Day – to reflect on the myriad services oceans provide us, and how our daily lives in turn affect these waters.
Take a walk along your local beach and pick up trash – marine debris is a major threat to the fish, birds and mammals of coastal and marine waters.
When boating, avoid anchoring, dragging, and propeller wash near submerged aquatic vegetation like eelgrass – these fragile ecosystems are highly productive critical habitat and major engines of carbon sequestration.
When fishing catch and release, use single barbless hooks (or pinch the barb with pliers) – minimizing injury to and handling time of fish helps maintain healthy stocks.
When visiting the beach, stay off the dunes and salt marsh grasses – these are critical habitat areas as well as buffers to the erosive action of waves and rising seas.
When shopping for seafood, ask for sustainably caught fish or join a community supported fishery – many of the world’s fisheries are over-fished and some fish farming methods impair coastal water quality.
If you have unused prescription or over-the-counter medications, dispose of them properly or seek out a drug take-back initiative in your area – pharmaceuticals released to the environment travel through groundwater and can persist in drinking water supplies or have adverse effects on aquatic life.
Limit or eliminate use of fertilizers on your yard – nitrates and phosphates from fertilizers get into estuaries via runoff and groundwater, causing algae blooms and low oxygen levels.
Walk, bike or carpool to work, school and extra-curricular activities as much as possible – oceans are a global carbon sink, but as they reach saturation they are acidifying and putting undue stress on marine life.
Take a walk along your local beach with Rachel Carson’s “The Edge of the Sea” in tow – it’s one of our favorites!
If you’re from an inland area, ask yourself how your life is tied to the ocean. What products do you use or consume that are from the ocean? How and where do your daily actions affect coastal and marine systems? Take a look at the map – you’re bound to be connected to an ocean somehow!
Happy World Oceans Day, from all of us at Woods Hole Group!
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wordpress | Don’t let any irritant interfere with your living, your Life, fully!
Smile and feel your anger slink away!
Most of us get irritated with the small stuff. And it is how we deal with the small stuff that defines how we deal with the big stuff in our lives. Small stuff are the everyday irritants __ a flat tyre, a delayed flight, your smart phone or your computer hanging, an endless, boring, listless meeting, someone jumping the queue in which you are standing! All of these, and several more, punctuate our daily lives with alarming frequency. And each time we lose our temper or even feel irritated, we are losing that many more seconds, minutes, hours and days of our Life to stuff that won’t matter at all in the long run!
Yesterday, a young, talented musician taught me an important lesson in how to deal with such small stuff. We were at a Carnatic music concert by the gifted artiste, whom The Hindu calls, Junior M Balamuralikrishna (so that he is not confused with the maestro and Padma Vibhushan awardee who goes by the same name). He was outstanding. I don’t follow the nuances of Carnatic music the way connoisseurs do, but I do know that there is a thing called concert etiquette. This, I believe, is to be normally adhered to by both organizers and audiences. Yesterday’s concert was organized to celebrate the 30th wedding anniversary of a couple we know very well. So, even as the concert was on, several late comers, walked up to the couple seated in the front row to greet them. Flowers were given, hugs were exchanged and wishes showered. Clearly the occasion’s spirit dwarfed the concert brilliance. Impolitely so too. Yet the artiste, Junior Balamuralikrishna, went on singing. What intrigued me was that he smiled each time he found the activity in front of him distractive or disturbing. I found it strange the first few times that he did it. So I thought it to be a coincidence. But, as I started to observe him closely, I discovered that there was a pattern to his smiling. He sang, I assume, flawlessly, immersed in his own joy of being able to create such divine music. And he smiled only when he felt disturbed or, if I have read his mind correctly, when he was irritated. As the concert progressed, something even more bizarre happened. The audio system at the venue acted up and at regular intervals started to give a shrill, shocking feedback through its speakers. I am sure any other artiste would have lost it for the number times this happened. But Junior Balamuralikrishna simply smiled each time, still singing! Then someone insensitively, perhaps inadvertently too, dropped a stainless steel tumbler. The tumbler landed on the ground a few times, before someone grabbed it, and in that time it was such a jarring interruption. Everyone in the audience turned in the direction of the sound. But not Junior Balamuralikrishna. His smile only got wider and I could see the wonder in his eyes! He went on singing. But if I could have read his smile this time, it was saying: “Wow! Now, that’s interesting!” It was a beautiful, humbling and educative experience to watch this young man systematically turn sources of intense irritation into sources of amusement, wonder and amazement.
The lesson for me was simple: don’t ever let any irritant interfere with your living, your Life, fully! And there’s a simple way to define an irritant, the small stuff, and differentiate it from a problem or a challenge. I think it was ‘Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff’ author Richard Carlson who said that an irritant very simply is stuff that you will not remember at all a year from now. When you employ this criteria, more than 80 % of stuff that irritate you, bug you, bother you, worry you and clutter your mindspace, will fall in that IGNORE and SMILE bucket. Learn to smile at them rather than be enslaved by them! Only then will you live a fuller, meaningful and trouble-free Life! Besides, when you learn to smile at these daily irritants, your ability to deal with the remaining 20 % __ Life’s really big challenges__goes up phenomenally. (There’s way to deal with the big stuff too in Life. But that’s matter for another post, another day!) Even so, it surely makes sense using your available energy in fixing the big stuff in Life than frittering it all away on non-meaningful, unproductive things! Doesn’t it?
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wordpress | I’ve been seeing a lot of people lately talking about how stereotypical the roles Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart play. They say that Tiffany Haddish is the stereotype of the loud mouth, ghetto black woman and Kevin Hart is the stereotype of the emasculated black man.
Although I agree with people who say this, I also think it comes off as a little hypocritical. I think so because the vast majority of the popular black comedians, male or female, have made their careers based off of some stereotype. They’re nothing more than a modern day minstrel show!
Eddie Murphy, Martin Lawrence, and many, many others have emasculated themselves and played stereotypical roles of black women in tons of movies and TV shows.
Bernie Mac played the stereotypical role of the big, scary black man.
Even Katt Williams has played stereotypical roles. Friday After Next is a huge example. He played the role of an emasculated black man. He also played the role of a pimp. And we all know there’s nothing to glorify about pimps! And he disrespected a black woman all throughout the whole movie. Where are the people to call that out?
There are so many black comedians who have played stereotypical roles in Hollywood, yet no one is dissecting their comedy skits and movies and talking about how bad it is for the black image. When this is called out, people’s excuses for it is because they are “legends”.
If you’re going to call someone out for something, keep the same energy when it comes to others! Don’t pick and choose who to call out when they’re all doing the same thing. At that point, not only do you look like a hypocrite, you expose yourself for not really caring about black stereotypical roles being played. You just want an excuse to talk down about someone because you don’t like them. Just say you don’t like Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish and move on! Don’t make the excuse that it’s “because they play stereotypical roles that make black people look bad” as the reason you don’t like them. We have to stop being blinded by big names and turning a blind eye to what they do, then turn into a lynch mob for someone just because their status isn’t as big.
Also, I believe that calling out Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, or any black comedian, for that matter, for playing these roles is a little misguided. I think we need to start calling out Hollywood for this. Why do they keep pushing these roles on our people? I feel like some people are too afraid to call out Hollywood for the shady things they do.
If Hollywood isn’t going to stop pushing these roles on our people, I think it’s about time (it’s BEEN time!) we create an alternative for our people to go to so they won’t have to do that because, let’s be real. No one is going to turn down all that money Hollywood offers because a role is “stereotypical”, especially if they need it. I’ve heard many people say Tiffany Haddish was homeless before her big break. I hear this about many stars in Hollywood. A lot of them were broke or homeless before their big break. Maybe some people will turn down a role because it’s stereotypical. But Hollywood will always find someone who will take it.
We need our own media where our people can still get paid nicely without selling out like this. Also, these people have to be willing to support it if someone does start to create a media for us that doesn’t depict us in a bad light. People can’t be so eager to sell out and leave behind an opportunity for us to have something of our own, then complain about us not having any good roles to play. We as the audience need to support it as well. Let’s stop supporting comedians who play these types of roles and give our support to more deserving comics. | 2019-04-23T06:20:52Z | https://mysparkingthoughts.wordpress.com/tag/martin-lawrence/ | Porn | Society | 0.168512 |
wordpress | It is called CHARLI-2 (Cognitive Humanoid Autonomous Robot with Learning Intelligence–Version 2).
Charlie was developed by Virginia Tech’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa).
Charlie can do things like walk, turn, kick, and gesture–he is agile and coordinated–and as you can see can even dance and also play soccer!
One of the things that makes CHARLI special is his stabilization technology–where it can orient itself using sensors such as gyroscopes.
According to Wired Magazine (19 October 2012), The Office of Naval Research has provided a grant of $3.5M to CHARLI’s creator to develop a nextgen robot called the Autonomous Shipboard Humanoid (ASH) to work aboard Navy ships in the future and interact with humans.
CHARLI won the Time Magazine “2011 Best Invention of the Year” as well as the Louis Vuitton Best Humanoid Award.
While the CHARLI robots still move relatively slowly, are a little awkward, and are almost in a child-like “I dunno state,” we are definitely making exciting progress toward the iRobot of the future–and I can’t wait till we get there.
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tripod | God Is Love.-"God is love" (1 John 4:16). His nature, His law, is love. It ever has been; it ever will be. "The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity" (Isaiah 57:15), whose "ways are everlasting" (Habakkuk 3:6), changeth not. With Him "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17).
The history of the great conflict between good and evil, from the time it first began in heaven to the final overthrow of rebellion and the total eradication of sin, is also a demonstration of God's unchanging love.-Patriarchs and Prophets, 33 (1890).
"God is love" is written upon every opening bud, upon every spire of springing grass. The lovely birds making the air vocal with their happy songs, the delicately tinted flowers in their perfection perfuming the air, the lofty trees of the forest with their rich foliage of living green-all testify to the tender, fatherly care of our God and to His desire to make His children happy.-Steps to Christ, 9, 10 (1892).
Commandments Based on Principle of Love.-The precepts of the Decalogue are adapted to all mankind, and they were given for the instruction and government of all. Ten precepts, brief, comprehensive, and authoritative, cover the duty of man to God and to his fellowman; and all [are] based upon the great fundamental principle of love.-Patriarchs and Prophets, 305 (1890).
Jesus and the Law of Sympathetic Love.-The law of God was changeless in its character, and therefore Christ gave Himself a sacrifice in behalf of fallen man, and Adam lost Eden and was placed with all his posterity upon probation.
God's Love a Living Spring.-The love of God is something more than a mere negation; it is a positive and active principle, a living spring, ever flowing to bless others. If the love of Christ dwells in us, we shall not only cherish no hatred toward our fellows, but we shall seek in every way to manifest love toward them.-Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 58 (1896).
Universe Expresses God's Love.-Would that everyone could rightly estimate the precious gift our heavenly Father has made to our world. The disciples felt that they could not express the love of Christ. They could only say, "Herein is love." The entire universe gives expression to this love and to God's unbounded benevolence.
God might have sent His Son into the world to condemn the world. But amazing grace! Christ came to save, not to destroy. The apostles never touched this theme without their hearts glowing with the inspiration of the matchless love of the Saviour. The apostle John cannot find words to express his feelings. He exclaims, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not" (1 John 3:1). How much the Father loved us we can never compute. There is no standard with which to compare it.-Lt 27, 1901.
Satan Responsible for Conception of a Harsh, Stern God.-Satan led men to conceive of God as a being whose chief attribute is stern justice-one who is a severe judge, a harsh, exacting creditor. He pictured the Creator as a being who is watching with jealous eye to discern the errors and mistakes of men that He may visit judgments upon them. It was to remove this dark shadow, by revealing to the world the infinite love of God, that Jesus came to live among men.-Steps to Christ, 11 (1892).
Love Between the Father and the Son a Type.-However much a shepherd may love his sheep, he loves his sons and daughters more. Jesus is not only our shepherd; He is our "everlasting Father." And He says, "I know Mine own, and Mine own know Me, even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father" (John 10:14, RV). What a statement is this!-the only-begotten Son, He who is in the bosom of the Father, He whom God has declared to be "the man that is my fellow" (Zechariah 13:7)-the communion between Him and the eternal God is taken to represent the communion between Christ and His children on the earth!-The Desire of Ages, 483 (1898).
God loves the followers of Christ as He loves His only-begotten Son.-MS 67, 1894.
Christ's Love Is a Vitalizing, Healing Energy.-The love which Christ diffuses through the whole being is a vitalizing power. Every vital part-the brain, the heart, the nerves-it touches with healing. By it the highest energies of the being are roused to activity. It frees the soul from the guilt and sorrow, the anxiety and care, that crush the life-forces. With it come serenity and composure. It implants in the soul joy that nothing earthly can destroy-joy in the Holy Spirit-health-giving, life-giving joy.-The Ministry of Healing, 115 (1905).
Reviewing God's Love.-Thank God for the bright pictures which He has presented to us. Let us group together the blessed assurances of His love that we may look upon them continually: The Son of God leaving His Father's throne, clothing His divinity with humanity, that He might rescue man from the power of Satan; His triumph in our behalf, opening heaven to men, revealing to human vision the presence chamber where the Deity unveils His glory; the fallen race uplifted from the pit of ruin into which sin had plunged it, and brought again into connection with the infinite God, and having endured the divine test through faith in our Redeemer, clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and exalted to His throne-these are the pictures which God would have us contemplate.-Steps to Christ, 118 (1892).
Love Makes Our Heaven.-It is the love of Christ that makes our heaven. But when we seek to tell of this love, language fails us. We think of His life on earth, of His sacrifice for us; we think of His work in heaven as our advocate, of the mansions He is preparing for those who love Him; and we can but exclaim, "Oh, the heights and depths of the love of Christ!" As we linger beneath the cross, we gain a faint conception of the love of God, and we say, "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 John 4:10). But in our contemplation of Christ, we are only lingering round the edge of a love that is measureless. His love is like a vast ocean, without bottom or shore.-The Review and Herald, May 6, 1902.
God's Love Infinite, Exhaustless.-All the paternal love which has come down from generation to generation through the channel of human hearts, all the springs of tenderness which have opened in the souls of men, are but as a tiny rill to the boundless ocean when compared with the infinite, exhaustless love of God. Tongue cannot utter it; pen cannot portray it. You may meditate upon it every day of your life; you may search the Scriptures diligently in order to understand it; you may summon every power and capability that God has given you, in the endeavor to comprehend the love and compassion of the heavenly Father; and yet there is an infinity beyond. You may study that love for ages; yet you can never fully comprehend the length and the breadth, the depth and the height, of the love of God in giving His Son to die for the world. Eternity itself can never fully reveal it. Yet as we study the Bible and meditate upon the life of Christ and the plan of redemption, these great themes will open to our understanding more and more.-Testimonies for the Church 5:740 (1889).
God's Love Progressive.-The years of eternity, as they roll, will bring richer and still more glorious revelations of God and of Christ. As knowledge is progressive, so will love, reverence, and happiness increase. The more men learn of God, the greater will be their admiration of His character.-The Great Controversy, 678 (1911). | 2019-04-25T21:42:09Z | http://mindcharacterandpersonality1.tripod.com/HTM/MindCharacterAndPersonality1-27.html | Porn | Reference | 0.283422 |
yahoo | SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a five percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend from $0.20 to $0.21 per share payable on the company’s common stock. The dividend is payable on June 13, 2019 to shareholders of record as of May 23, 2019.
The quarterly cash dividend is a key component of Applied’s capital allocation strategy. In the first quarter of fiscal 2019, the company returned $942 million to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases. The company had approximately $3.6 billion remaining in its share buyback authorization at the end of the period.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including those regarding our current view of our industries and strategic position, and other statements that are not historical facts. These statements and their underlying assumptions are subject to risks and uncertainties and are not guarantees of future performance. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements include, without limitation: the level of demand for our products; global economic and industry conditions; consumer demand for electronic products; the demand for semiconductors; customers’ technology and capacity requirements; the introduction of new and innovative technologies, and the timing of technology transitions; our ability to develop, deliver and support new products and technologies; the concentrated nature of our customer base; our ability to expand our current markets, increase market share and develop new markets; market acceptance of existing and newly developed products; our ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights in key technologies; our ability to achieve the objectives of operational and strategic initiatives, align our resources and cost structure with business conditions, and attract, motivate and retain key employees; the variability of operating expenses and results among products and segments, and our ability to accurately forecast future results, market conditions, customer requirements and business needs; and other risks and uncertainties described in our SEC filings, including our most recent Forms 10-Q and 8-K. All forward-looking statements are based on management’s current estimates, projections and assumptions, and we assume no obligation to update them.
Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Our expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. At Applied Materials, our innovations make possible the technology shaping the future. Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com. | 2019-04-23T12:18:13Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/applied-materials-increases-cash-dividend-123000314.html | Porn | Business | 0.723217 |
columbia | Columbia University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) Certificate provides college graduates who did not major in environmental biology the kind of academic experience that highly competitive graduate programs require, and is also useful for those interested in a career change.
This program is primarily designed to be part-time, with students completing the certificate in four to eight terms (including summers). If started in the summer term, the program can be completed in three intensive terms (one calendar year) on a full-time or near full-time basis.
A limited number of competitive research grants are available for admitted students that can provide up to $1,000 per student for independent lab or field research. Proposals for these grants, which are subject to review by a departmental committee, are evaluated on their research merit, tractability, and educational benefit to the student.
New York City-based institutions, including EcoHealth Alliance, the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Botanical Garden, offer research opportunities in affiliation with the E3B program.
The curriculum develops competency in the core sciences related to environmental biology – chemistry, biology, earth sciences, statistics, and conservation biology. Students will also take two advanced classes in ecology, evolution, organismal biology, or environmental policy.
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livejournal | So, after about 2,5 months of non-stop overtime I'm more or less a wrung out rag now that the holidays are here. Luckily I'm starting a new job come February, so the stress will be reduced soon.
I've actually been preeeeetty close to burn out, which has been 0 fun. Thus it will take me a while to catch up with everything online that I'm behind on, seeing as the least hint of stress currently leaves me an exhausted heap of emotions. Luckily I didn't completely hit the wall, so these stress related shutdowns should stop as soon as I've had a bit of a rest.
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blogs | District Judge O'Connor on Sunday paved the way for an appeal of his decision declaring all of ACA constitutionally invalid, issuing a Final Judgment on Count I in accordance with FRCP 54(b) and a separate Order of a Stay and Partial Final Judgment pending appeal. The latter document gives reasons for certifying partial final judgment and for granting the stay. As to the latter, the court goes to great lengths to explain why the intervenor-defendant states are unlikely to succeed on the merits on appeal, reiterating its standing, merits, and severability analyses from the original order, but concluding that the equities favor a stay.
As has been the case all along, Judge O'Connor continues to make jurisdictional errors.
Jonathan Adler has a good takedown of the expanded standing analysis, in which Judge O'Connor continues to find injury from the existence of a law absent any risk that the law could be enforced against the plaintiffs. The court relies on the correct principle that a person need not violate a law to have standing, but ignores that those cases required the plaintiff to show at least a genuine threat that the law would be enforced against him and that some penalty would result. He insists that no case requires an assessment of whether the plaintiff is injured by "disregarding" the law. It is true that courts do not put it in those terms, but that is implicit in the requirement of a threat of enforcement, which is triggered by someone disregarding the law.
O'Connor relies on Steffel v. Thompson, in which standing derived from Steffel's stated intention to resume handbilling and the express threat of the police to arrest him for trespassing (as they had his friend) if he did so. He also relies on Clements v. Fashing, in which the plaintiffs (challenging a state law that deemed candidacy for one office as resignation of an existing office) did not announce their candidacy for office, because that announcement would be deemed a resignation. That is, the plaintiffs in both cases would be subject to some mechanism for enforcing the law and it was that enforcement mechanism that caused the injury. In no case did the court find injury based on a statutory obligation that provided for no means of enforcement and no consequences.
O'Connor also tried to get cute, noting that "Chief Justice Marshall never asked whether William Marbury would be injured if he ignored the law and began serving as a justice of the peace without an official commission from James Madison." But that is because Marshall recognized that had Marbury done so, court personnel would have ignored him, not given him a courtroom in which to work, not carried out his orders, and perhaps asked the the Marshals physically remove him from the premises. All of which reflects the enforcement of the challenged law.
Two additional thoughts on standing. First, in a prior post, Adler analogizes the mandate-with-no-penalty to 4 U.S.C. § 8, which provides that "no disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America" and enumerates what civilians and civilian groups cannot do with the flag. Obviously, the law is unenforceable under Texas v. Johnson. But we never get there, because the U.S. Code provides no mechanism for enforcement and imposes no penalties for failing to follow those rules. No court would accord standing to a plaintiff who argues "I want to use the flag as a covering for a ceiling (prohibited by § 4(f)), but I am refraining from doing so because I do not want to break the law," because the plaintiff would suffer no enforcement and sanction for using the flag to cover the ceiling.
Second, standing was established in part because the ban, even if not enforced to keep these plaintiffs out of the United States, sent a message of religious exclusion and made them feel less than full members of the community because of their religion. Some critics of those decisions derided this as "snowflake standing"--the plaintiffs feel bad and are hurt in their delicate snowflake sensibilities. But that does not sound much different than what the plaintiffs are arguing here-they will feel bad (their delicate sensibilities undone) if they have to act contrary to what the written law, otherwise unenforceable, requires them to do.
The point of these orders was to pave the way for immediate review of the declaratory judgment. All parties had asked for certification of interlocutory review under § 1292(b), but Judge O'Connor instead certified a final judgment on one-but-less-than-all claims. But on the Con Law listserv, Marty Lederman identified a problem--it is not clear that the court finally resolved even one claim. The plaintiffs asked for a declaration that the mandate is invalid and a permanent injunction prohibiting implementation or enforcement of ACA; the court granted the former, but never addressed or reached a conclusion as to the latter remedy. A judgment, even on one claim, may not be final if remedial issues remain on that count.
Another commenter on the listserv suggested two possible outs. One would be to deem the certification of finality as the denial of the injunction. A second would be to treat the improper Rule 54(b) certification as a § 1292(b) certification and proceed that way. Otherwise, the court would have to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction and send the case back to the district court to enter the injunction (thereby creating appellate jurisdiction under § 1292(a)(1)) or to certify under § 1292(b).
One question is why Judge O'Connor proceeded this way, since the parties all requested a § 1292(b) certification and not a 54(b) certification. One thought is that he did not want to certify that there could be "substantial ground for difference of opinion" as to constitutional validity or severability. O'Connor has gone to great rhetorical lengths in all of his opinions and orders to make this seem like an obvious, not-at-all-close case with one obvious result, in which defendants can prevail only by demanding that courts acts in an invalid, unlawful, illegitimate, impermissible activist way. Section 1292(b) would require Judge O'Connor to declare that it might be possible for a court, acting in a legitimate way, to reach a different conclusion. That he does not want to certify.
The Ninth Circuit accepted the district court's § 1292(b) certification in the climate-change litigation, paving the way for review of the denial of motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim, lack of standing, and other bases. This after a series of failed attempts by the government to get the Ninth Circuit or SCOTUS to grant mandamus, stay the case, or provide other relief. Dissenting, Judge Friedland suggested that the district court did not genuinely believe the requirements of § 1292(b) were met and did not "so state," especially as to whether immediate review would "materially advance the ultimate termination of the litigation," and the the district court was strong-armed by the government's repeated attempts to bypass normal litigation procedures.
The thing that has bothered me all along is I do not see how the first prong of § 1292(b) is satisfied--that the interlocutory "order involves a controlling question of law," which should be limited to purely legal questions such as the meaning of a law, not to questions of application of known law to fact. The court found that plaintiffs have standing and that the plaintiffs stated a claim, accepting as sufficiently pleaded a creative application of the state-created danger theory of substantive due process. Standing is not purely legal--the requirements of standing are well-known, the issue here is whether they were satisfied. Perhaps the allowance of the state-created danger theory would qualify. But then what about the non-legal issues? dDoes everything else (such as standing) go with it on pendent appellate jurisdiction? Is the standing question "inextricably intertwined" with the constitutional question over which the court of appeals has jurisdiction?
Meanwhile, all sides are urging the district court in the ACA litigation to certify its decision under § 1292(b). This reads as a more appropriate case for interloctuory review, as the court decided an obvious question of law as to the constitutional validity of the individual mandate and the severability of the rest of the statute. And then does the standing decision (which should be the appropriate basis for getting rid of this case) similarly go along for the ride on pendent jurisdiction?
An area of seeming confusion for courts is the collision between Younger abstention and lack of jurisdiction under Rooker-Feldman. The doctrines are similar, as they both limit the power of federal courts to interfere with state adjudicative proceedings. In theory, the line is sharp--RF prohibits actions that formally or functionally ask the federal court to review the state decision, while Younger prohibits federal courts from halting ongoing state proceedings. In practice, they seem to run into one another, especially when courts use Younger as the basis for dismissing challenges to non-final state orders.
This seems wrong on several levels.
First, the point of Younger is to eliminate federal interference with state proceedings; that interference remains after the state proceeding ends, if the federal action seeks to undermine or undo the results of that state proceeding. This is the point of Wooley v. Maynard (the "Live Free or Die" license plate case). Maynard had been convicted of traffic offenses three times for covering the motto on his plate; all three proceedings were over. The Court held the federal suit not Younger-barred only because he did not challenge or affect the results or consequences of those prior convictions and sentences; he sought only to prevent future enforcement of the law against him. The implication is that had Maynard sought to undo the past convictions, Younger would have barred the action. This federal action seeks to do what Maynard did not--invalidate the result of the state proceeding; that seems inconsistent with "Our Federalism."
Second, even if Younger does not bar the federal action, Rooker-Feldman should. The plaintiff challenges the order of a state court suspending him from the practice of law and a federal judgment in his favor would declare that order as erroneous. In fact, attorney discipline is one of the most common situations for RF. And there is no "state court lacked jurisdiction" exception to RF.* The Tenth Circuit may have wanted to punt that issue to the district court. But this action should not go forward.
[*] In any event, I would argue that the plaintiff's argument as to the state proceeding is not that the state courts lacked jurisdiction, but that state law (attorney regs) does not apply to him because he is not barred in Colorado. That is a merits challenge to the reach of state law, not a jurisdictional challenge to the power of the court.
During the winter break, I always find myself with more time than usual for pleasure reading. My usual fare is relatively light and escapist. But, based on a recommendation, I recently picked up The Woman at the Washington Zoo. The Woman at the Washington Zoo is a collection of writings by Marjorie Williams. Williams made a name for herself writing political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair. The book contains several of those profiles, as well as more personal essays about parenthood, the death of her mother, and her own battle with cancer.
Even though I finished the book a week ago, it has really stuck with me. The profiles provide a fascinating glimpse into the political world of the late 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Although many of the names and events were familiar to me, as someone who graduated from law school in 2002, I found the inside-the-beltway chatter about these people and events to be a great revelation. I didn’t pay any attention to politics until the 2000 election, and so my understanding of the political landscape from the 1980s and 90s is limited and based mostly on present day sources. But the current view of that landscape is quite different than the contemporaneous view.
For example, Williams remarks, essentially in passing, that people in Washington did not think highly of Ronald Reagan’s presidency; they worried that he was beholden to the far-right and that he was a passive player in the White House. That does not match up at all with the description of Reagan that one encounters in modern public discussions. Reagan is one of many examples. The essay on Barbara and George Bush was also surprising, as the picture that it painted of the 41st President was not particularly consistent with the many profiles about him that appeared in the wake of his recent death.
Of these political writings, I found William’s essay about Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal to be the most thoughtful. Williams frames her essay by asking why feminists are unwilling to criticize Clinton for his affair with an intern---a question that has gained new prominence in light of the #metoo movement. Although the essay was clearly written at the time of the scandal, the perspective that Williams brings to the question is so fresh that it could have been written today.
Not to ruin the ending—but it gets sad at the end. As I mentioned above, Williams was diagnosed with cancer, and she ultimately died. The book was edited and published after her death by her husband, Timothy Noah, who is an editor at Politico. Normally, I don’t like to read anything that is particularly sad. I don’t like sad movies or television shows either---I like my pleasure reading and watching to serve as a light-hearted diversion from everyday life. But William’s brings the same thoughtfulness and perspective to her essays about her illness as she does to her essays about politics: She is writing about cancer, but she is also writing about life, family, and ideas.
Anyway, as I said, the book left a mark. And so I thought I’d share.
On Thursday, I did an interview with Brian L. Frye (Kentucky) for his Ipse Dixit Podcast on my new book on the infield fly rule. It was a fun conversation.
Baseball historian (and paralegal) Richard Hershberger for the fall 2018 issue of SABR's Baseball Research Journal argues that the infield fly rule developed from the difficulty of defining and determining when an infielder had caught the ball. He traces the 20-year evolution of the definition of catch, including the development and use of a "momentarily held" standard for only infield-fly situations (the batter is out if the infielder "momentarily held" the batted ball). This marked an "expansion" of when the batter is out, removing for baserunners, umpires, and infielders confusion over when the ball was caught and thus over whether they were forced to run. The ultimate Infield Fly Rule took this to its logical conclusion, but rendering the batter out no matter if, how, or how long the infielder touched the ball.
I am sorry this paper was not out while I was writing the book; I would have enjoyed discussing and responding to it in the book.
One of the things that kept CoOp going toward the end, as the commenters there noted appreciatively, was all the hard work of Gerard Magliocca. In that spirit, I should note on this, the first occasion on which I have blogged in months, that everyone at Prawfs is hugely indebted to Howard Wasserman, our de facto senior partner, who continues to blog with frequency and energy and bears a disproportionate amount of the burden of administrative work as well as providing content. My thanks are accompanied by a mea culpa and a vow that I will post reasonably regularly during the spring semester--not good news for anyone in particular, to be sure, but certainly a token of gratitude to Howard and a recognition of my obligation to him and the blog (and to Dan).
Howard has also been responsible for bringing on board many of our guests, and to them and to him again we are grateful. One of the characteristics of Prawfs has always been that it is in part about being a law professor, and especially, in its early days, about being a young or junior law professor. I loathe the term "pre-tenured," which is indicative of problems with the tenure system and of excessive politeness and its effects on the English language, and prefer the old-fashioned "untenured." That is what most of us here were in the early days of Prawfs, and our excitement about this ridiculously fun and rewarding job and the need to discover things about it as we went contributed to our writing about these things. (In my case, there was the added view that every activity, including law and legal teaching, is as much a sociological, institutional, and economic as an intellectual endeavor and should always be examined in that light, from both an internal and an external perspective.) Years ago, I was reminded recently, I joked that eventually our discussions of law teaching would turn into posts about, say, lumbago and law teaching. Given that we are now more senior, our guests keep us fresh and remind us of the questions that occur to all of us as we start out in teaching. I hope those questions extend beyond placement angst and gossip about when journals are taking submissions and the like, and include teaching especially. I'm grateful to our continuing flow of guests both for their writing on particular serious topics and for reminding us of our pre-"get off my lawn" experiences as teachers and scholars, and to Howard for bringing them on board. People who are interested in spending a few weeks here, to discuss a particular project, legal question, or aspect of life as a law professor, are welcome to contact Howard or any of the rest of us. So are folks who used to belong to now-moribund blogs and would like to have the chance to still blog occasionally.
Howard's post and the interesting comments there discuss some reasons for CoOp's demise and general changes in legal blogging, including what Howard calls "the broader migration of this sort of legal writing to Twitter and Facebook." I would amend that to just Twitter, since I think people are using Facebook less. Although some questions were raised about Howard's statement, I think he's right. Indeed, although I hate Twitter, I post on it more than I do on the blog these days. Since I don't care much about having a "social impact" or something of the sort and would rather not have a large readership on Twitter--it seems to me more often to have a negative than a positive influence on those who do--the fact that I write more there certainly doesn't have to do with a desire for influence. And my overlong writing is perfectly ill-suited for Twitter. So why Twitter rather than the blog, both on my part and for legal writers using social media in general? A few thoughts follow.
First, as Howard notes, some blogs are still very active and some of those seem still to be widely read, although it may be that blogs like Take Care (which I don't read) and the people who write there have more influence through Twitter than directly through the blog. And a couple blogs are still mainstays. The legal academy and people interested in new legal scholarship still benefit immensely from Larry Solum's Legal Theory Blog in particular. (One aspect of that blog that is noticed less often but is more necessary these days is its weekly book recommendation, which is vital in an age in which there are more books by law professors but fewer notices and reviews in law journals. The St. John's Law and Religion Forum is also great on this and quite catholic in its book recommendations.) But it does seem to be the case that bloggers are less active and blogs are read less routinely.
Some of this comes down to exhaustion and other such factors. I wrote about this and other influences on long-term blogging in a post some time ago. I won't repeat all I wrote there. I will note a couple of things, though. The bloggers who remain most active and can keep it up over years are often those who have a particular topic they are moved to write about, either something directly in their field or a personal hobby-horse or both. Generalists find it harder to keep it up long term; and although we all have our hobby-horses, some of us don't want to ride them too often and repetitively. There is still good reason to read and write specialist blogs, and it's harder to dig deeply into those issues as easily on Twitter, even if the blog post becomes more of an occasion for linking and then talking about it on Twitter. Those who aggregate, like Larry (although he clearly puts work into reading as well as aggregating pieces), and those who have a particular topic or hobby-horse that is an ongoing passion, will find it easier to keep going over the long haul and may find that not all of their needs are satisfied on Twitter. For those of us who, as I said in the earlier blog post, also want to write about the positive aspects of the first two Star Trek reboot movies and the dreadful nature of the third, or about (this semester's amateur fascinations for me) jazz, jazz history, jazz drumming, the great Steven Wilson, Epictetus and esoterica and Confucius, it's easier to do so on media like Facebook (or Twitter, although my sense is that for the writers I'm thinking about this happens less often there, to my regret, because people are still thinking about something like their "brand" and also because wider audiences and the culture of the medium may make one-off twits, especially jokes, more perilous on Twitter; I save most of my humor, which is not perfectly safe or reverent, for Facebook, where my "friends" are used to my sense of humor and tend both to enjoy and to understand and discount it, and even there I occasionally trim my list of "friends" with that in mind).
Some writers no doubt want to have "influence," and specifically influence in what we might call the political world rather than the academic world. If that is one's goal, it's understandable that one would spend more time on Twitter. Some of those writers are honest brokers and gain reputations for being reliable and fair. Others, it seems to me, have large numbers of followers despite the fact that--or, really, because--they are highly partial, partisan, and sometimes overly emotional writers on Twitter. They satisfy some general readers' need for solidarity and to have their priors reinforced and ready-made arguments for their cause supplied. In some or many cases, general readers may believe that because these arguments come from academics or experts, they are reliable and authoritative, although others in the field might suggest otherwise. This is not the place--I mean, who wants to read a long blog post?--to discuss arguments about academics' professional or ethical duties on Twitter, if any such duties exist. I think they do. But in any event, one can always rest on the notion that there are irreducible moral or ethical obligations on everyone's part, and perhaps especially on the part of "experts," that attach to everything they do and certainly to their public and political statements and interactions, whether we think of them as having anything to do with academic ethics or not. If one seeks influence by trading on authority, if it's not a fair and honest trade it can reasonably be seen as questionable behavior. For those who value integrity and care above propaganda or sophistry, nothing trumps one's fundamental moral and ethical obligations of honesty, fairness, candor, nuance, and so on. I feel sure that given today's coin of the realm, Richard Rich would have found a way to get a blue checkmark on Twitter, and that one could have raised the same questions about this that Thomas More asked about Rich's being made Attorney General for Wales. For myself, I worry that I have too many followers on Twitter as it is, although gaining a large number is never going to be an actual problem for me.
For me, at least, the reason I am more likely to post something on Twitter than on the blog is a somewhat perilous combination of ease and immediacy. The Twitter platform makes it easier to write something quickly and put it up instantly. Even a multi-twit post, which most of mine are, is easier to knock out from one's phone while walking the dog. I don't write blog posts on my phone, so I need to pull out a laptop or sit at my desk to write a blog post. The Typepad platform is perfectly friendly, and no doubt so is its app, but to write a blog post that is not a simple one-sentence link ("Interesting." "Highly recommended." "Hmm." "Problematic!") takes at least a little time and effort. And for those of us who favor an endless number of caveats and nuances and a parade of commas, dashes, parentheses, and semicolons, it takes still more time. Twitter feels easier, more immediate, and less consequential--although, as many have learned, in our polarized, combative, and punitive culture the last is certainly untrue. The very fact that you are reacting (it is indeed frequently a reaction) to the news of the day makes it easier to feel that little turns on your tweet, that it's a grain of sand on the beach, and that you need not (and cannot, given character limits) say much and can always post again, or simply let your earlier twit fade into obscurity, when it turns out that the story was more complicated than the first take suggested.
One might say something similar about reading it. Although I have an aversion to Twitter, I find it easy and addictive to turn to when walking the dog, even when I bring a book along, as I generally do, and even though I generally only read the Twitter pages of 3-5 people rather than plunging through the entire swamp. My spending more time there as a writer than I do on the blog, and spending some time there as a reader (although I spend time on my diminished number of go-to blogs), thus has less to do with the fact that the conversation has "migrated" there or the amount of content there, although those are contributing factors, and more to do with the ease of access and its suitability to short-term reading and reaction. And I might add something about emotion and about the outrageous story or anecdote of the day (or hour). Whatever your predilections and prejudices, you can more quickly and easily find some item there--fourth-place candidate in obscure local primary race says horrible thing, single unimportant professor at unknown university speaks outrageously or is treated outrageously, major gas planet loses rings, president of large and powerful country animadverts excitedly or boasts idiotically, etc.--to pique your interest and stoke your outrage. Since blogs are generally more selective and less immediate and emotional, you'll find fewer such links there. Twitter is a much better place to excite one's feelings that the world has collapsed, that you are losing your side of the culture war, or whatever else gives you a form of immediate pleasure or sensation.
Despite all this there are, of course, useful aspects to Twitter and useful writers or threads there. Many of them, in fact, although unless one is highly selective and resists the baked-in addictive qualities of that medium and the many temptations to lose oneself in trivia and outrage, they are harder to find or more easily outweighed by all the trash and ephemera. I intend neither to bury Twitter (quite) or to praise it. But given some of the factors above, along with things like the large potential audience (for those who care about this), the sensation or illusion that it is read more frequently and avidly, the number of serious people on it (whether they behave like genuinely serious people on it or not), and the sense of engagement it exudes, it's understandable that it's often easier and more tempting to turn to that medium than to a blog. Especially for those of us who are not hobby-horse riders or fear becoming hobby-horse riders, it's easier to get some thought off one's chest quickly by using Twitter. The same impulse might fade and die by the time one got around to opening a computer and drafting a blog post (which is almost certainly a point in favor of blogging).
People who insist on the value of things like immediacy, audience, currency, letting no news slip by without comment, "engagement," and other such factors will find much to like about that platform. They will find less to like about blogs, which may have seemed immediate once upon a time but, like the difference between having both morning and afternoon editions of newspapers and having access to a 24-hour news channel, now seem slower and more antiquated by comparison. And the network effects--the smaller number of people writing regularly on blogs and the larger number of people twitting regularly--will encourage more migration. Such is life.
But, as most of what I've written above suggests, these things also have costs and perils. Virtually everything I have described as a possible virtue of Twitter is quite obviously also a potential vice. It is not an especially healthy culture or discourse. The relentless focus on the immediate makes a decent perspective on what is real news and what is trivia or ephemera unlikely, and outrage or similar emotional responses the usual and often disproportionate response to everything. It's far from clear that keeping up to date on the news is an absolute good, especially when it is measured in intervals of seconds, minutes, and hours rather than days, weeks, and years. In general I learn more that is useful about the contemporary world by reading Epictetus or Dostoevsky than by reading about some event that happened seconds ago. The number of news stories devoted to reprinting Twitter debates (stories that are cheap and easy to produce and guaranteed to find readers) rather than, say, careful investigative reporting (expensive, time-consuming, demands more expert and thus more expensive reporters, not guaranteed to result in a lot of content or much readership) encourages stenography and pot-stirring rather than serious reporting, and is one more example of the way in which both technology and the desperate urge to stay alive in an inhospitable environment have harmed journalism rather than enlivening it. Nor is it necessarily good even for serious writers and thinkers who take advantage of Twitter, and/or law professors and other academics. The desire for general "influence" is understandable but not a clear positive good for academics. That desire may encourage the political rather than the expert and disinterested character of academics' public writing. And, as I've suggested elsewhere, we should consider the possibility that despite the insistence that one's scholarship and one's public and political activities are separate and unrelated or are pursued in different ways, one's twitting may affect or infect one's actual scholarship and/or its perception.
One could go on about Twitter's potential vices and their relationship to vices or sicknesses in our general culture. None of this is surprising. There are very few unalloyed and unqualified enthusiasts about Twitter. Even most of those who think the platform as such is epiphenomenal and not much related to its content or to the culture (I disagree), or who think it is much more of a good than a bad thing, or think that criticisms of Twitter easily tend toward exaggeration or hysteria (possibly true) readily acknowledge its faults. Somewhat more interesting to me is how many people, whether critics or fans of Twitter, think and worry about contemporaneity, "relevancy," and especially immediacy itself and their downsides. But that question is hardly unknown either. And although I have not seen all the responses I would like--in particular, major and somewhat conservative changes in institutional print journalism--clearly the rise of various platforms like Medium and other sites for longer-form writing by various writers suggests a recognition of these problems and some attempt to balance them with other forms of communication.
I offer no prescriptions or predictions. I think blogs have faded and will continue to do so, that they will not necessarily die, and that there is still definite value in them. That's especially true of the more subject-specific blogs but also of mixed blogs like this one. I think the migration to Twitter will continue, whether I like it or not. Even though doing so rests completely in my own hands, I suspect that even when I know or think that some piece of writing is better suited to this medium than to Twitter, and even if I conclude that Twitter is awful and harmful, that (unless I quit it altogether) I will still turn to it to post rather than to the blog, at least unless I devote meaningful and consecutive time to blogging (which might be better spent, not twitting, but doing more scholarly writing or other useful activities) and avoid absolutely the temptation of short takes and immediate reactions--a temptation that is part of what makes Twitter successful, addictive, and arguably deforming of individual and social character. But there's still a place for what we do here too. I hope to do more of it next year. In the meantime, my condolences to CoOp and my thanks to Howard for his role here at Prawfs.
Good analysis from Nicholas Bagley (Michigan) about the standing problems for the two individual plaintiffs in the ACA litigation. A few additional thoughts.
• This illustrates how enforcement is the trigger for constitutional litigation, not the existence of a constitutionally defective law. An invalid legal obligation that will not be enforced cannot be the subject of litigation. An invalid legal obligation that will be enforced through a tax penalty of $ 0 is, functionally, a legal obligation that cannot be enforced. It still would be better if we discussed this as a question of merits and not jurisdictional thresholds. If these plaintiffs are not injured because the law cannot be enforced against them in any way, then their substantive constitutional rights are not being violated.
• The plaintiffs' argument that they are injured because they believe following the law is the right thing to do (even when that law is not enforceable) is the flip side of requiring government officials to act lawfully or refrain from acting unlawfully (e.g., reservists in Congress, non-natural born citizens serving as President). Neither is a basis for standing.
• I have not seen any good argument that the 20+ States have standing. But the court skirted that question through the "one good plaintiff" rule--because someone had standing, the case could proceed without having to consider anyone else's standing. Update: In a companion piece, Bagley doubts that the 20 states have standing, which should mean the court cannot enjoin the Administration from enforcing the law as to him; in Bagley's words, the judge has "tied his own hands."
• Standing and jurisdiction have always been dicey in the ACA litigation; this case represents the latest and weakest effort. I wonder if the Fifth Circuit (or SCOTUS if it gets that far) will use that as the basis to get rid of this case, without having to touch the bizarre merits.
• Bagley describes standing doctrine as "near and dear to the hearts of the conservative legal establishment," so that even conservative judges on the Fifth Circuit (and Roberts and Kavanaugh on SCOTUS) will be unlikely to allow this sort of case to go forward. But the doctrine developed when the conservative legal establishment was trying to stop environmentalists from preserving the Nile crocodile, lawyers from challenging unwarranted surveillance of their foreign clients, and atheists from challenging states' creative ways to give government funds to parochial schools. This is the ideological drift of standing--the doctrine may not be so near and dear when it prevents "two guys from Texas" from taking down the nation's health-care system.
Sam Bray (as always) beat me to exploring the remedy issues in the district court's declaration on the constitutional invalidity of all of DACA. The court declared ACA invalid in its entirety, but declined to issue an injunction and provided only a declaratory judgment. Here is the wind-up to the post, with which I entirely concur.
In analyzing the effect of the declaratory judgment, then, there are two mistakes to avoid. One is saying the government can ignore it because it's "only" a declaratory judgment. That is incorrect; it is a real judgment, and unless stayed by the district court or an appellate court it deserves the adherence accorded to any other judicial judgment. The other is saying the government is bound to follow the judgment with respect to everyone, party or not. In effect, we would be treating the remedy as a "national declaratory judgment." That, too, is incorrect. To give such a remedy is beyond the judicial power.
I also want to flag this language from Marty Lederman's post: "[C]ontrary to almost every media account you've read in the past few hours (come on, New York Times!) Judge O'Connor did not "strike down" the "entire Affordable Care Act" (something he lacks the power to do, in any event) . . ." A federal court cannot erase or eliminate or remove a statute, so it would be wonderful if that term could be removed from the lexicon.
Update: The other procedural/remedial issue is what happens next. The court granted what it called partial summary judgment on one claim (or one issue in one claim) and entered a declaratory judgment, but no injunction (although that is what the first count of the complaint requested). But it is not clear what is appealable here and how. There is no injunction, so § 1292(a) is not in play. Section 2201 says a "declaration shall have the force and effect of a final judgment or decree and shall be reviewable as such," but the view among limited cases is that this assumes the decision is otherwise-final in the sense of disassociating the district court from the case and leaving it nothing to do but execute the judgment. With other claims remaining in the case, this D/J is not final. An appeal would seem to require certification under § 1292(b) or Rule 54(b).
Then there is a question of who can appeal. The United States agrees with the plaintiff states' basic constitutional argument about the zeroed-out penalty and that some provisions are not severable, so it is unlikely to appeal that; it disagrees with severability as to the rest of ACA, so it may appeal that. But what about the core constitutional issues? States were allowed to intervene to defend the parts of the law that DOJ would not, but under Hollingsworth an intervenor that would not be subject to the force of the order would not have standing to appeal. The House likely will intervene come January 3 and would have standing under Windsor, but that would be too late to appeal for § 1292(b), which requires appeal within ten days of certification. Maybe DOJ will appeal the declaration as a whole, then limit its legal arguments, with the states again intervening in the Fifth Circuit to pick up the slack.
The ever-harrowed Ninth Circuit tapped the brakes slightly on district courts issuing universal injunctions. In affirming on the merits an injunction barring enforcement of religious opt-out rules from the contraception mandate in an action brought by five states, the court held that the district court abused its discretion in having the injunction extend beyond the plaintiffs.
The court hit a few important notes. It emphasized that universality is generally disfavored and especially disfavored absent class certification. It highlighted the problems with universal injunctions, including the loss of percolation of issues, the effects on non-plaintiffs, and the risks of forum shopping. And it applied the "complete relief" principle to conclude that a particularized injunction gives states complete relief from the economic harms the opt-out rule would impose on them. That other states may suffer similar harms did not affect the plaintiff states.
The court made clear that universal injunctions are not prohibited, but must be limited to cases in which broad relief is necessary. And it said the issue (as with an earlier case rejecting universality as to sanctuary cities) was a failure to develop the record as to other states, suggesting that building a better record may justify universality.
But the court grappled with the scope question, a step back from recent hints from that court that universal injunctions were becoming the default, at least in certain cases.
Are politically motivated crimes by racists hate crimes?
James Alex Fields, Jr., who drove his car into a crowd of people in Charlottesville and killed counter-protester Heather Heyer, was convicted on Friday of first-degree murder, along with eight counts of malicious wounding. Sentencing begins Monday.
Fields also faces multiple federal hate-crime charges under § 249 for causing death or bodily injury because of the "actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin of any person" and under § 245 for using force to interfere with person's enjoyment of protected activities on the basis of race.
My question: How is what he did a racially motivated hate crime? The one person killed was white, as were many of the people injured. The DOJ press release announcing the indictment (from June) described Fields driving into a "racially and ethnically diverse crowd," seeming to suggest that Fields was targeting African-Americans and a group of people affiliated with African-Americans. But did he target that group because of their race (or the race of some of them)? Or did he target them because they were counter-protesters holding certain beliefs about racial, religious, and ethnic equality? The latter is not covered by either § 249 or § 245. And it would seem to stretch "perceived race" to cover people who are not part of some group but support rights and equality for that group.
At best, this crime seems politically motivated--Fields appears to be a racist and he picked victims who disagree with his positions. But is that a race-base hate crime?
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wordpress | Anne-F Jacques creates microscopic worlds of whirring machines, steampunk flea circuses of motorized sonics birthed from her collection of mechanical discs and wheels (‘rotating surfaces’), meticulously calibrated and often adjusted with weights or blocks to interfere with their natural balance. The busy vibrations of her work may prompt comparisons with those artists who delight in the random machinations of wind-up toys and other electrical devices, but Jacques’ omniscience marks out her aesthetic as fundamentally different to those hands-off operators. As this clip from Oxford’s Audiograft festival shows, Jacques is always present, setting the parameters and keeping a close eye on how things are developing. That said, perfection is not a goal. For all the focus on powered rotation, a typical Jacques release relishes in the erratic rhythms of the off-centred disc or the spin and clonk of the unbalanced wheel. For listeners, too, this imperfection is addictive. We become attuned to the elongated see-saws and pockmarked undulations of her soundscapes in the same way as we’re lulled to sleep by the rumbles and jolts of a long train ride.
Mind you, anyone expecting a cutesy soundtrack of artisanal bumps and chuffs, like some sound art version of a British model village, will be elbowed out of their complacency by the impassive grind of Welcome, Electricians, Jacques’ recent solo outing on the on the new Dinzu Artefacts imprint.
Split into two 10-minute tracks, Welcome, Electricians opens up Jacques’ usual sound world of rustles and chugs to painful abrasions and piecing drones. The sonic detailing is fantastic, with the juxtaposition of tempos and timbres evoking images of a mechanical dystopia even as our ears are seduced by the grumble and grind. Side A’s slow, tooth-furring scrape and slathering, metallic hisses establish a hostile ambience that even a bucolic final passage of woody gallop can’t quite allay. Indeed, any sense of security we feel once that stuttering clop has restarted on side B is well and truly blasted away by the electrical drone that cuts in almost immediately, its sternness corralling a bed of hyperactive jitters into a claustrophobic bubble of panicked jostles.
In comparison, 2014’s Some Asperities seems positively pastoral. These three slices of close-mic’d rolling and tumbling bring Jacques’ obsession with rhythmic clunk and grind into fine-grained clarity, like a clockwork reproduction of an eighteenth-century steam pump viewed through a magnifying glass, the grunts and puffs of its industrial process reduced to archaic whirrs whose only purpose is their own distraction. But for all this quirky machine-without-a-use spectacle, the beauty of Some Asperities is in its warped inefficiency. The woody splatters, tactile scrapes and crunching heaves of Continuous Sliding give the impression of some ancient device that’s just about on its last legs, almost every part patched up and repaired several times, running through its final batches before being dismantled, the physicality of its lopsided contortions strangely sensual to our ears. The old ones are the best, after all.
Given the hermetic nature of her aesthetic, Jacques’ collaborations with other artists are often surprisingly effective. Fuyu, her linkup with Takuji Naka on Beartown Records from the end of 2016, magnifies the wrought miniatures of her solo work into teeming, widescreen soundscapes, adding mysterious hooting groans and unspooling tape squeal to the usual spindle-mounted shenanigans. Here, moments of calm ambience are punctuated by sudden slurred burps, bronchial growls and echoing pipe clanks, as what sounds like a fanbelt made from sandpaper turns grouchily in the background. At one point, gentle sploshes of water form a backdrop for eerie, siren-like moos, a pleasant trip out on the lake interrupted by mutant cows. The whole thing has a woozy, hallucinatory atmosphere, with taped voices slowed to an unintelligible blur, tetchy huffs of white noise and ominous background hums combining to spooky effect. A highlight is a recurring kinetic scratch, an earworm that brings to mind a marble rolling through a surreal, never-ending game of Ker-Plunk as a confused Grizzly gets extremely pissed off trying to make sense of the instructions.
If Fuyu was all about friction, pitting its protagonists against each other to produce a rag-bag of combustibles, Tooth Car, a record of two meetings with Tim Olive during a US Tour in November 2015, puts integration to the fore.
It’s aggressive all right, although the ever-present repetitions that churn unsteadily in the background add an appropriate note of sinister mesmerism. The second track, this time from Boston, is more subdued, with some great scraggy inhales reminiscent of an ancient sleeping housecat early on. A sleek motorik reduction, seasoned by irregular mewls and warbles, quickly transforms into a queasy, pulsing lurch that would be charming if it weren’t for the gloomy low-end cloud surrounding it. It’s as suffocating as the hour before a summer storm, but here the promised downpour never occurs and things tail off with a satisfyingly serpentine whimper. | 2019-04-20T21:23:57Z | https://weneednoswords.wordpress.com/2017/03/06/anne-f-jacques/ | Porn | Arts | 0.149877 |
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wordpress | Although the Atlantic League schedule is balanced with each team playing the other seven 20 times for a 140 game schedule, the divisions are still necessary to seed the postseason. This season, the early season schedule has been heavy on inter-division play, which the Freedom Division (York, Sugar Land, Somerset and Lancaster) have dominated.
Somewhat stunningly, out of these 10 series, the Liberty Division only won one of them, Camden’s triumph over Lancaster last weekend. Prior to, the Liberty’s best result had been Bridgeport and Southern Maryland earning splits with York.
Johan Limonta’s grand slam to left field sailed over the picnic tents and onto the clubhouse roof at Sovereign Bank Stadium on Tuesday night, for the long-awaited first home run of the season for the Revs.
Six games into the season, York finally hit its first home run. Johan Limonta destroyed a Gaby Hernandez pitch to left field with the bases loaded, and it nearly left the entire facility. It’s the latest into the season the Revolution has hit their first home run, but it’s not the first time the first homer of the year was a grand slam. That distinction goes to Matt Esquivel, who hit a grand slam in the first inning of the second game of the 2009 season at Bridgeport in a 12-8 loss.
Corey Thurman went eight innings Tuesday night, allowing just three hits, two earned runs and two walks while striking out five, evening his record at 1-1. It was the 53rd win for Thurman in a York uniform, placing him just nine behind Lincoln Mikkelsen for second place on the all-time Atlantic League list. While Mikkelsen could very well be in his sights this season, Thurman is at least two more solid seasons away from catching Tim Cain for the all-time league wins mark, which stands at 74. Considering Thurman notched 13 victories in 2011, and 14 last year, he could keep a slightly slower pace and still do it if he continues to pitch as well as he has early this season and next.
It took about a week to finalize, but left-handed reliever Rommie Lewis has finally joined the Revolution in time for their first roadtrip of the season. The 6’6″ southpaw pitched for Bridgeport last season, and reached the Majors with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2010 and 2011. Lewis is the fifth former Bluefish on the current York roster, joining fellow relief pitchers Julio DePaula and Juan Rincon and infielders Wilson Batista and Andres Perez.
Lewis excelled out of Bridgeport’s bullpen last season, posting a 2.05 ERA with seven saves in 47 appearances and 52.2 innings pitched. He had a strikeout to walk ratio better than 4:1, fanning 45 while walking just 11. In 2011 he made six appearances out of the Blue Jays bullpen, and got into 14 games with Toronto a season prior in 2010. In 10 professional seasons, Lewis has accumulated 48 minor league saves, 25 of which came in 2002 at Class A Delmarva in Baltimore’s system. He was originally drafted in the fourth round by the Orioles in 2001.
Although the Revolution released three pitchers and placed another on the inactive list following camp to break with 25, they are now taking full advantage of the Atlantic League rule that allows teams to carry 27 active players until June 1. On that date, all rosters must be trimmed to 25 if they aren’t already for the remainder of the season. For now though, there will be no subtractions off the roster with the addition of Lewis.
On Saturday the Revolution signed left-hander Dustin Pease to their bullpen, and it will be his second tour of duty in York. After appearing in 54 games with Wichita in 2010 and posting a 2.45 ERA with 64 strikeouts and a 6-1 record, Pease joined York upon the conclusion of the American Association season and appeared in eight regular season games with the Revs. He was with the club as they captured the 2010 Atlantic League Championship.
The Baltimore native pitched collegiately not far from the Charm City or York, at Division I Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland from 2004-2007. He was solid the last two seasons in the San Diego Padres organization with a 3.18 ERA in 55 games at A-Advanced Lake Elsinore in the California League in 2011, and a 3.94 in 52 games at Double-A San Antonio in the Texas League last season. Pease continued to post impressive strikeout totals, fanning 66 in 2011 and 56 in 2012.
Due to Atlantic League rules allowing 27 active players to be carried on rosters until June 1, no players were released by York with the addition of Pease. The Revolution roster will stay at 26 for the time being.
Although Atlantic League rules permit teams to carry 27 active players until June 1, the Revolution has trimmed it’s roster to 25 to begin the season, 13 pitchers and 12 position players. That means no position players in camp with the team were let go. Three pitchers were released: Lefties Wade Korpi and Joe Testa, along with right-hander Nick Schumacher. Pedro Liriano, who was absent from camp due to VISA complications traveling from the Dominican Republic, has been placed on the inactive list. The Revolution retain his rights, and he still may be on the roster this season. But he won’t start the season with York.
The Revolution will likely bring in a 14th pitcher in a relief role during the first week of the season. When this deal is finalized we’ll have it here, but for now it appears no one will be released when that happens and the roster will remain at 26 until the next transaction.
York’s starting rotation for the most part is clear: Corey Thurman, Brett Tomko, Chris Cody and Nick Green. While Matt Fox was/is slated to be a starter, he is building his arm up slowly coming off injury. It looks like Kris Regas may be the fifth starter in a temporary role until Fox is ready. But Fox is healthy and will likely come out of the bullpen in the meantime.
Of the 25 players, 13 have Major League experience: Pitchers Julio DePaula, Matt Fox, Josh Judy, Juan Rincon, Corey Thurman, Brett Tomko and Michael Wuertz, infielders Andy Gonzalez, Andy Marte, and Eric Patterson and outfielders Jeff Fiorentino, Tyler Graham and Jason Repko. | 2019-04-19T11:18:55Z | https://blogtoblogchamps.wordpress.com/2013/04/ | Porn | Sports | 0.720572 |
wordpress | And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yes, truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey.
Where does Hertzberg of Bloomberg News derive this statistic when the primary source of housing information for the Greater Toronto Area declares an across the board 6.2% precipitous monthly decline on an average basis, and a 6.6% decline on a median basis?
It appears that Hertzberg of Bloomberg News acquired his statistics from a different source just as the market has reversed or whenever it befits his agenda. For in some prior reports of GTA house prices, his stats are taken from the TREB reports as in the average price of 920,971 for April, a 0.5% increase from March. But for March and May, Hertzberg swaps over to information provided by the Canadian Real Estate Association. (Home price increases in March were reported as 4.6% by the TREB, and 6.2 by the CREA.) If any consistency can be detected whatsoever in his method of reporting, it is in putting forth a best face on any given situation; a hallmark more of the corporate shills on CNBC than that of a genuine journalist who serves the good of his audience.
In the end, these dual sources for Toronto prices will roughly correspond. However, the deliberated inconsistency in the immediate, (even if the reporter technically covers his behind by citing the source), serves to demonstrate what manner of man Hertzberg is, and adds to the general discredit of his profession. This becomes particularly pertinent when Hertzberg’s Bloomberg article is published by Toronto’s National Post before a local audience who largely know of the recent frenzy and tumult in the housing market.
The Implosion of the Elephant . . .
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ncsu | *Saying its insurance won’t cover an estimated $100 million in settlements of lawsuits against priests accused of sexually abusing children, the Boston diocese of the Roman Catholic Church plans to sell property, borrow money and ask wealthy donors for contributions but not to use money from its $300 million fund drive, the biggest ever by a U.S. diocese, The New York Times reported March 13.
*Financier and philanthropist George Soros, who has given more than $4 billion to charities since 1994, says private philanthropy alone can’t solve the world’s poverty, education and health problems, and $80 billion to $120 billion in government foreign aid – twice the current level – is needed by 2015, The Wall Street Journal reported March 14.
*The American Red Cross has used only 60 percent of the $933.2 million in the Liberty Fund for victims of Sept. 11, and is being criticized for its relief efforts, The Dallas Morning News reported March 11. The nonprofit group wants to hold $300 million for future disasters.
*President Bush is asking members of his cabinet to develop ways for their agencies to support his volunteer plan, Reuters reported March 12.
*A survey by the Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy at the University of Southern California found nonprofit groups in the Bay Area received nearly half of all foundation grants given in the state, even though the region is home to only one-third of the state’s foundations, the San Francisco Chronicle reported March 8.
*UCLA, in the midst of the biggest capital campaign ever by a public university, has increased its goal to $2.4 billion from $1.6 billion — which it raised six months ahead of schedule — and extended the campaign until 2005.
*The Inspector General of Washington, D.C., will audit community development groups that have failed to revitalize D.C. neighborhoods, despite receiving $100 million in public loans and grants over the past 10 years, The Washington Post reported March 9.
*Daniel and Jan Lewis of Miami gave $10 million to The Cleveland Orchestra, the largest donation to the group by an individual or couple, the Naples Daily News reported March 11. Of the total, $8 million will be used as the lead gift for the orchestra’s five-year plan to increase its endowment.
*Howard University aims to raise $250 million in its first capital campaign ever, with the funds to be used for scholarships, teacher research and for new buildings, The Washington Post reported March 14. The university has received $50 million, including $2.5 million from AOL Time Warner and $2 million from the Ford Motor Corporation.
*The Philadelphia Health Care Trust, in a deal with the University of Pennsylvania, will establish a $100 million endowment to support patient-care, research and educational programs for Penn Medicine, the governing body of the health system of the university, The Business Journal reported March 13. | 2019-04-25T21:57:58Z | https://pj.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2002/03/12/53041/ | Porn | Reference | 0.12421 |
wordpress | Big unknowns: what is consciousness?
What does it mean to be “you”?
Is a bee conscious? What about a monocellular organism? Surely humans are special?
How do we think about ourselves, how can we be thinking about our thinking and behaviour (metacognition) and how is all that possible given the structure of our brains?
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wordpress | I can’t hold back any longer. I have to weigh in on the Ontario government’s neonicotinoid ban. I’m not interested in arguing the issue. I’m also not here to debate whether our agricultural industry is or isn’t doing enough to protect bees (or butterflies, birds, worms, water, etc.). The declining health of pollinators is a fact, and it concerns me. If it doesn’t concern you, it should because there isn’t perhaps a creature on earth more critical to human survival than the honeybee.
What perplexes me about this is how it has been handled by our government. Change is inevitable in every aspect of our lives; our businesses, industries, and societies must all change. Our human nature is to resist change, even when we know it’s inevitable. So, the true test of any leader is their ability to manage through change, articulating its urgency in a fashion that creates understanding and builds support for a vision of a better future. Stakeholders must feel empowered, which requires inclusion in the process and recognition of activities that move the initiative forward either as planned or through innovation. This recipe for successful change management has been widely accepted in the business community for 30 years now, since first being published by Harvard Business School’s John P. Kotter after observing hundreds of companies attempt to reinvent themselves. Through just about every step of this process our government has failed so far. If any business or organization attempted to push through changes in the fashion the government has employed, it would fail miserably and without question. There is no buy-in from key stakeholders, no trust or open communication and certainly no leadership.
Without a doubt, any successful change effort needs key leaders to be onside. Kotter sometimes refers to this as the “powerful coalition” because it includes individuals from diverse backgrounds who are trusted and credible among their peers. Successful transformations depend on this group, because their expertise and guidance ensures more effective communication and influences others to get on board faster. As recent as one year ago, this coalition existed. Farmers and the entire crop production sector, from seed companies to equipment manufacturers, understood the urgency of the situation and were committed to finding a solution to improve pollinator health. There was shared ownership up until the June 12, 2014 election. Either things weren’t moving fast enough for Glen Murray, the Minister of the Environment and Climate Change or perhaps he just has a “bee in his bonnet” (pun intended) with farmers, because following the election, collaboration seemed to break down. Surprise announcements, short deadlines and refusal to address farmers’ concerns further fractured the strained relationship farmers had with the urban-based Liberal government. No longer was there a coalition of stakeholders seeking solutions, rather the Minister, with the help of the Ontario Beekeepers Association and The Sierra Club, was now prescribing changes to agriculture instead.
In his work, Kotter observes “skipping steps creates the illusion of speed and never produces a satisfying result.” Along these lines, the government might pass legislation they can record as a milestone, but will they have succeeded in reducing pollinator deaths? Certainly, they have succeeded in creating more red tape, a drain on already exhausted taxpayer dollars. Collectively, the resources spent on posturing and debating, without so much a mention of solutions, is a waste of everyone’s money – tax payers’ and farmers’. Had the government never cut out their key collaborators, the farmers, it could have been altogether avoided and we could be talking about solutions today, instead of regulation and protests.
The fact is, pollinator health is just one of many environmental issues with which farmers share concerns with other Canadians. There is common ground on which we can work together with government and nonprofit interests to find solutions. An inclusive approach could accomplish far more protecting our environment and improving agriculture sustainability. Wouldn’t this be far easier than arguing over agendas? It might even drive some innovation and growth out of Ontario’s largest economic sector. To me, that sounds like something that could even win some votes.
Extremely well written. A balanced and insightful observation on this issue and what is yet to come. Thanks. Jim Campbell, AGRIS Co-operative Ltd.
There are three sides to every story. GFO needs to be held to account for some of this mess. My understanding is some comments were made to the Premier while she was Ag minister that were ill considered and positioned GFO as uncooperative on the neonic issue. GFO then refused to participate in the consultation process set out by the Minister and supported by the Premier’s mandate letter. GFO has bungled this issue to the point where they’ve burned all credibility with the Minister’s office.
I was not aware of any comments made to the Premier, so I appreciate your comment, Harry and I believe you are totally fair in making it. The way in which our industry interacts with the government needs to change. Unfortunately, I think we’ve grown too accustomed to flying under the radar and letting others be our voice. I hope this served as a lesson for both farmers and the groups we employ to represent us that we need to step up and be more engaged in what is happening.
It doesn’t change the fact that striving to work together would accomplish more. There is certainly room here for the government as I’ve expressed. In my opinion, there is a lesson here for producers and GFO that the rules of the game have changes. We can’t let others be our voice anymore, which we’ve kind of grown accustomed too. We need to take a more active role in these discussions, understand the issues and their impact on us. GFO’s role is to represent farmers of Ontario. I assume they are doing that. I think many farmers consider them to be leaders though also so they will take messaging cues from GFO too. I agree that boycotting the consultation process was a mistake. When you’re not at the table, it’s impossible to be heard. However, I think farmers were already feeling alienated from the process at that point. | 2019-04-21T09:00:50Z | https://savvyfarmgirl.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/how-to-change-an-industry-or-not/ | Porn | Health | 0.524825 |
wordpress | Sing joyfully to God, all the earth: serve ye the Lord with gladness. Come in before his presence with exceeding great joy. Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Go ye into his gates with praise, into his courts with hymns: and give glory to him. Praise ye his name: For the Lord is sweet, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth to generation and generation.
As I hinted at the end of last year and keep posting about, various coincidences and events mark 2017 as a special year. Celestial events that started at the end of 2016 reach their conclusion on September 23rd – next Saturday.
I know that people are always predicting the end of the world, and your eyes are probably rolling round in their sockets right now, but what if this time they’re on the right track? If these celestial events are actually the prophesied events in the Book of Revelation then the next few months or years could be rocky to say the least. If you’re interested, there’s a wiki here about it. If you’re not interested then just remember that if all hell breaks loose after Saturday then you might want to re-assess your position. Mind you, you might not have Internet access at that point… A church might then be a better place to find the information you will need.
I was ten years old and due to leave my primary school for secondary school. This was the only thing I couldn’t bear to leave behind (since my friends were all coming to secondary school too). Ironic, don’t you think, that it’s a hymn book? Already feeling a victim of God’s sublime sense of humour, I just noticed, as I was taking this photo, that the Scripture reading is the one the priest chose for my baptism last year.
As you can see in the photo I didn’t choose a pristine copy. This was not a spur-of-the-moment theft, this was pre-meditated larceny. As in “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak, the custodian of this book may very well have let me have it if I had asked, seeing my desperate need, but I didn’t ask. I chose the most raggedy copy I could find, reasoning that the school ought to replace it anyway. In this way it didn’t feel like theft. I was doing the school a favour in fact!
And why couldn’t I bear to part with this book? It wasn’t the scripture. It was just that I couldn’t imagine leaving behind the songs. I’ve always had a deep love of music, and I was always trying to learn to play different instruments. As a ten-year-old though, all I had access to was a recorder (which used to be the standard instrument in Welsh schools, as the tin whistle is here in Ireland) and my own voice. Unfortunately, I don’t have a particularly good singing voice and I was also terribly shy. When I played recorder on the school stage I would mime because I was too nervous to play properly. I even mimed in the school choir when we competed in the Urdd Eisteddfod. But that didn’t stop me playing in private. Often when I sang, and later when I played my electronic keyboard, it would move me to tears. It connected me to some higher reality, something I was missing in my life, something which I now suspect was of the heavenly variety.
Two of my favourite Welsh songs are about singing. There’s “Calon Lan” which I’ve featured on my blog before, and there’s what I’ve always called “Canaf yn y bore” (see photo below). My Welsh is incredibly rusty so I’m using Google Translate here. It seems to think the first verse means “I sing in the morning for your care, through the dark walnut. You have seen me.” but I’m pretty sure that’s wrong. 😀 It’s definitely about singing in the morning anyway.
Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. For in his hand are all the ends of the earth: and the heights of the mountains are his. For the sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
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wordpress | The issue of Moral Decline has become a chief concern of many in the United States. All things considered, it wouldn’t be difficult to grasp why this problem has begun to blossom. Elevated unemployment rates, the fear that the American Dream no longer exist, and the uncertainty of the future of this Country have instilled a pessimistic attitude in many constituents. With this in mind we can better understand that the fear of lacking resources that allow upward mobility in American society has encouraged deviant behavior. By using examples such as the concept of social stratification and religious principles, I endeavor to illustrate how moral decay has managed to penetrate our society.
Being that we live in a world of images, we as observers have no choice but to access the images of those around us. When we see a man in a finely tailored suit, the assumption that that individual has a high paying job immediately comes to mind. Since we live in a society where a person’s occupation defines that individual, we must come to the conclusion that those with the highest salaries obtain the most attention and respect in our communities. This respect may come from the hard work and long hours that such jobs require. However, this was not the case for Nevin Shapiro, a Florida businessman who was charged for conducting a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme which involved sixty victims. The term for a crime such as this is white collar crime which is characterized by “complex, sophisticated, and relatively technical actions” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2010 para.3). According to the FBI, “from January 2005 through November 2009, according to the criminal complaint filed in federal court in New Jersey (where one of his victims resides), Shapiro raised more than $880 million from his investors” (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2010 para.3). Believing that they were giving their money to a man that would create a profit in return, the victims were hoping for the resources that allow the mobility Shapiro had seemingly experienced. Knowing this, Shapiro used the scheme to gain millions.
The question that we must ask is why would a man wish to cause so much destruction to the lives of those that trusted him to work in their best interest? According to University of Missouri-St. Louis college professor Robert Keel, “most white collar criminals are motivated by economic difficulty and greed” (Keel, 2008) In relation to this thesis on moral decline, the kinship between this statement and the fear of lacking resources meet. In American society the gap between the rich and the poor continues to expand. This thought instills fear in any hard working human being that wishes to prosper in this land of opportunity. With this fear, an urge to act causes any worker to do what they must to insure themselves that their family will not go without. However, the claims makers that protest the moral decline in America would suggest that this behavior will only become a conflagration in our society.
“Business fraud is as familiar in their business context as are street crimes in poor communities” (Keel, 2008). In American society, we as constituents invest much into the idea of “hard work”. This idea gives a glint of hope to the worker at the bottom of the totem pole within her or his company. The low wage worker hopes that the sight of sweat and hard toil will appear pleasing in the eyes of the employer and result in a promotion that will bring forth a pay increase. But what if after years of attempts the worker never receives a wage that allows him to live a life of comfort? American sociologist Robert Merton has presented the term innovation in respect to the idea of his Strain Theory. In his theory, Merton conveys that the use of innovation involves “unconventional means to achieve a conventional goal” (Macionis 170) In the case of the low wage worker, the innovation could be theft. Most often, those that embrace the idea of innovation live in communities where there are very few opportunities to ameliorate themselves. One may ask why a poor person would commit a serious crime since he or she will not able to afford high priced lawyers. The rebuttal to that question would more than likely be “if you have nothing to lose, the risk is worth the reward.” When comparing the actions of Shapiro and the low wage worker, one could conclude that deviance can be viewed as a filtering process. When the “have-nots” observe the deviant acts of those that appear to be living off of the fat of the land, they too will consider demoralizing themselves with hopes that they will be in a better position to enjoy the feast associated with a luxurious life. However, the observer must remember that those who utilize innovation are the lower rung of society. The significance of this reveals itself in the criminal justice system. Once the courts reprimand the lower class individual who attempts to use unconventional means to achieve success, the society that they return to will place the stigma of “lower class deviant” on them which will make amelioration even harder to obtain.
In Thomas Hobbes essay The Leviathan (1651), the English philosopher writes that without security other than themselves, men will live a life that is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” (Hobbes, para 9) When thinking of a political scandal such as Watergate, the constituents living in today’s American society may condemn Hobbes’ assessment. Yes, refulgence does emit itself as well, but when one uses his or her sociological imagination, it’s difficult to say that the US economy touches everyone in the same way. I feel that any sentient human being would read Hobbes’ statement as a warning to embrace a system where we feel secure beneath legislatures. However, ever though laws are enforced the population as a whole will not abide by those laws. There are various reasons for a person to invest themselves in behavior that society feels is morally wrong. A young girl may have an abortion because she feels that she isn’t ready to provide for a child. A man may decide not to attend church because he feels that prayer does little to improve the conditions of the world. A teenager may rob from a store because his mother and father do not earn enough money to provide him with adequate shoes. Certainly the religious community would condemn the idea of abandoning what is considered morally right to pursue the glittering image of a better life. But the question is what does it take to prevent a person from going astray? Is prison or a life of damnation (as some Christians may deem it) worth the price we pay in order to achieve amelioration? To align the statement to my thesis on the growth of moral decline in America, we could refer back to the paragraph above regarding the hard working employee that finally decides to use innovation mentioned in Merton’s Strain Theory. What if the employee was a regular member of his church and knew that stealing was morally wrong, but also knew that his or her family needed bread to eat that night? Clearly his religious views would persuade him to not steal the much needed item, but when thinking of hungry children awaiting him or her at home, a difficult decision would ultimately have to be made. Quite possibly, the members of his or her church would counsel the poor wretch, but over the past few years, researchers have found that church attendance has declined in our society, adding on to the problem of moral decline.
In an article by Dr. Richard J. Krejcir titled Statistic and Reason for Church Decline, he presents the reader with the percentage of those in America that regularly attend church service. In the section of his essay title More Startling Data, Krejcir notes that“20.5% of Americans frequently attended church in 1995. This number decreased to 19% in 1999, and 18.0% in 2002” (Krejcir). In the same section, Krejcir writes that “Perhaps, the “so called” Evangelists who are seen on TV, living lavish lifestyles while preaching a message that does not conform to how the average person lives or one based on biblical precepts have disillusioned many people” (Krejcir) Again, the idea of images comes into play here. The sight of those with resources being analyzed by those with little to none plays a huge part in the psyche of American culture. Multi-billionaire Bill Gates has been quoted of saying “Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” Such a statement could encourage a person down on his or her luck to seek personal growth elsewhere than a church sanctuary. Not to treat Gates’ statement as the impetus for moral decline and the evidence of Americans abandoning church, but when a man with such prestige in our culture makes a statement such as this, certainly there will be those that listen.
According to the theologian St. Augustine, “There is no Salvation outside of the Church”. Some claims makers would say this is the problem. Being that we live in a society that feeds off of competition, it’s an arduous task to place religious principles in every decision that we make. What it boils down to it is that there are those that live by the philosophy of “It’s you or me” to carry them throughout their lives. Although this thought may allow the thinker to feel secure and safe in an unremorseful world, it would be difficult to say that this thought doesn’t also settle a feeling of uneasiness inside of us all as well. Here, a dilemma occurs. The problem is whether or not we ought to insure our station in the world through wrong doing, or go about the entire process with a sense of integrity which may not achieve the results of decadent behavior. The question that we must ask ourselves is during a time of hardship, which choice is worth the outcome?
In today’s information society, no one would argue that the education enables a child to acquire the tools that are necessary to succeed in world. But like the world around them, competitions exist in high school class rooms as well. These competitions include best looking, best dress, but in reference to my thesis, best grades. On the homepage of EducationPortal.com, the reader is given the percentage of cheating in America’s classrooms through the past years. “Back in 1940, only 20 percent of college students admitted to cheating during their academic careers. Today, that number has increased to 75 to 98 percent” (education-portal.com). Clearly this conduct occurs due to everyone’s desire to get ahead in a society where financial progress can be stagnant. Since no one wishes to sink into the depths of poverty, the emphasis to do what it takes to separate ourselves from the pack has taken root in high school classroom. Some may look at this as real world lessons stimulating the young population at the right time, but the claims makers would say that this activity only solidifies the decay of the world in the years to come. “’The evidence is that a willingness to cheat has become the norm and that parents, teachers, coaches and even religious educators have not been able to stem the tide,’ says Michael Josephson, Josephson Institute of Ethics president” (education-portal.com). What does it mean when the authoritarian figures in the life of a teenager are unable to hinder the individual from cheating? Has the concept of doing what right abandoned our society, and if so, how do we get it back? With the economy in the horrific condition that it is in now, maybe the question is can we get it back.
The motif that I’ve endeavored to place in each section is that the resources that enable upward mobility in our society have influenced the deviant acts that are narrated. From the Ponzi scheme carried through by the business man living in Florida to cheating students in high school class rooms, the ongoing theme in each section is a growing fear of falling behind. We could say lets just hope that the youth turn a blind to what is morally wrong, but there does not appear to be a successful method to assure that they will make choices that are acceptably. Each shred of information indicates that the desire for resources that will provide capital is great, so great that at times the means that a person chooses to acquire them becomes devious. Another thought to ponder is whether those that carry out these acts consider them to be deviant or a means of survival in an unforgiving society.
Macionis, John J. Social Problems. New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc., 2008. | 2019-04-19T20:55:09Z | https://amendmentvcu.wordpress.com/2015/08/15/allures-of-playing-in-the-muck/ | Porn | Society | 0.689564 |
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wordpress | As much as I love tech and enjoy using it may it never get the better of me especially in developing deep and lasting relationships. No one on his death bed was heard to have wished for another hour with his MacBook.
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wordpress | Last Monday my Event Marketing class had the opportunity to attend an etiquette seminar, Dine Like a Diplomat, at the beautiful Faculty Club, University of Toronto. The Faculty Club is a beautiful ivy-covered building, situated near Spadina Avenue in Toronto, Ontario. Built in the early 19th century, the Faculty Club is used as a social centre for the University of Toronto community (particularly faculty and alumni). The venue can also be booked for private events such as weddings, meetings and afternoon tea.
Our etiquette course was on the fine art of dining. Before attending this seminar I had never given dining etiquette much thought. Growing up I was taught basic table manners: keep your elbows off the table, chew with your mouth closed, don’t slouch and keep your cell phone off the table. With these basic table manners etched into my mind, I was sure that this etiquette seminar would be a breeze. I mean really… what more do you need to know than “keep your elbows off the table”?
It can take up to 21 days of practice to get into the habit of developing and maintain good dining room etiquette.
You must always wait for the host or hostess to start.
Never reach over the table to grab something. Always ask politely.
Always excuse yourself when you need to get up from the table. Exit your chair to the right side, push your chair in and leave your napkin folded (neatly) on the back of your chair.
You never want to be the first or the last person to finish.
The knife sits in the right hand and the fork in the left. Never “saw” your knife back and forth to cut the food. Also, always keep the tines of the fork face down when eating.
Always sit and walk straight. Imagine there is a string attached to your head that is being pulled upwards. This visual will serve as a reminder to always maintain a good posture.
Always, always, always keep your cellphone OFF the table.
During out seminar we able to practice what we were taught over a scrumptious three-course dinner. We started off with a delicious autumn soup, followed our main entrée, roasted chicken, mashed potatoes and grilled vegetables. For dessert we were served a delectable cinnamon peach parfait.
Overall, I found the etiquette seminar very informative. I was surprised by all of the little things you have to remember when dining out in a formal setting. While it might take a bit of practice, table manners can help or hinder your chances of getting a job in the future, especially if your job interview is done over dinner. Outside of the dining world, good manners are always important. Always be kind, courteous and confident. The way you treat others and how you present yourself can really impact your professional image.
Fourty brave students set sail on a week-long adventure of getting to know each other and learning a bit about the world of Event Marketing. Navigating the world of events isn’t easy, but we were lucky enough to hear from seasoned marketing professionals in the industry during Orientation Week. | 2019-04-25T12:01:14Z | https://chantalpenrose.wordpress.com/tag/sea150/ | Porn | Business | 0.426025 |
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wikipedia | The 3rd Fleet (第三艦隊, Dai-san Kantai) was a fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), which was created, and subsequently disbanded on six separate occasions and revived on five separate occasions.
First established on 28 December 1903, the 3rd Fleet was created by the Imperial General Headquarters as an administrative unit to manage vessels considered obsolete for front-line combat service. These vessels were used primarily for training and for coastal patrol duties. The 3rd Fleet came under the aegis of the Combined Fleet for the duration of the Russo-Japanese War from March 1904. Although initially derided as a "dinosaur fleet", the 3rd fleet proved invaluable at the Battle of Tsushima and the Invasion of Sakhalin. It was disbanded on 20 December 1905.
The 3rd Fleet was revived on 24 December 1908 as an expeditionary force during the Chinese Republican Revolution, to safeguard Japanese interests (civilians and property) on the Chinese mainland and (if necessary) to conduct emergency evacuation. It was nicknamed the "South China Fleet" after its chief area of envisioned activity was the South China Sea. Its cruisers patrolled the Yangtze River and other large rivers in China, and its headquarters was in the Japanese concession in Shanghai. It was disbanded on 25 December 1915.
The 3rd Fleet was reconstituted on the same day as the dissolution of the "South China Fleet", initially to act as a training force to supplement Japan's contribution to the World War I under the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. When the Russian Revolution was proclaimed by the communist forces in Russia, the mission of the 3rd Fleet was changed to that of patrols of the Russian sea coast for the Siberian Intervention by Japanese ground forces in support of anti-Bolshevik forces. The 3rd Fleet was disbanded on 1 December 1922, and many of its vessels were scrapped almost immediately under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.
The 3rd Fleet was again raised on 2 February 1938 as part of Japan's emergency buildup of forces after the Shanghai Incident. The buildup took the form of three separate expeditionary fleets, consisting primarily of cruisers and gunboats to patrol the Chinese coast and major riverways and to support the landings of Japanese ground forces. With the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, the 3rd Fleet came under the aegis of the China Area Fleet. It was disbanded on 15 November 1939; however, some of the organizational and command structures for ground forces under the First China Expeditionary Fleet remained in place until August 1943.
The 3rd Fleet was recreated once again on 10 April 1941 with the additional designation "Southern Expeditionary Fleet" for the specific task of invading the Philippine islands. At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, its headquarters was in Palau and its mission expanded to include the invasions of Java, Borneo and other islands of the Netherlands East Indies. It was superseded by the 2nd Southern Expeditionary Fleet under the aegis of the Southwest Area Fleet on 10 March 1942.
The sixth (and final) incarnation of the 3rd Fleet was formed on 14 July 1942 immediately after the disastrous Battle of Midway as an aircraft carrier task force modeled after similar units in the United States Navy. It was centered on the new aircraft carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku. It played an important role during the Pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Santa Cruz, in which the American aircraft carrier Hornet was sunk, but at the cost of many of the best air crews in the Japanese Navy.
After March 1944, the 3rd Fleet was basically merged with the 2nd Fleet, and suffered through the disastrous Battle of the Philippine Sea, losing 3 of its aircraft carriers, including the newly commissioned Taihō and over 350 carrier planes.
In October 1944, the 3rd Fleet was designated the "Northern Force" in a three-force plan to defeat the Allied invasion of the Japanese-held Philippines. The 3rd Fleet carriers were divested of all but 108 aircraft and sent to lure the American-led fleet away from protecting the troop landing ships. On 25–26 October, facing a large force that included ten USN carriers, with 600–1,000 aircraft, 3rd Fleet lost 4 aircraft carriers, one light cruiser and one destroyer at the Battle off Cape Engaño. The 3rd Fleet effectively ceased to exist, and was officially disbanded on 15 December 1944.
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wordpress | Update: Benny’s Fast Break has closed.
Bennet’s might be gone and Bar Rosso in its place, but you can’t keep a good hot dog down, or is it you can’t keep a bad hot dog down? Either way, Benny’s Fast Break remains an awesome little shop, owned by NBA ref Bennett Salvatore. Last summer we stopped by one night and saw the man, himself, in all his glory, talking with his staff and customers. You got the feeling that he cared about his staff, the people who ate at his spot, and was just a nice guy. Maybe not all the NBA players thought so with a whistle blow here, a hand gesture there, but I don’t know if they’ve ever had his burgers, fries, dogs, and shakes. If they haven’t, that’s a foul.
I had a nice and thick strawberry milkshake. The ice cream they used was great, giving the shake a strong strawberry taste. Kristien’s root beer float was also darn good. Once again, they did things right and give a nice big scoop of vanilla ice cream atop the float. Isn’t it a major bummer when you get a root beer float and you have two little scoops of ice cream that are eaten up in four bites? Yeah, not here at Benny’s Fast Break.
I ordered the cajun fries. Hafta say, we’re big fans of these fries. Shoestring, cut nice and thin, crispy on the outside, but still soft in the middle. The cajun seasoning added a nice spice and kick to them. So good (gasp) I didn’t need ketchup. Kristien had the cheese fries, smothered in ample amounts of cheese, which she loved. Next time we’re going to try the sweet potato fries and especially the mac & cheese bites. Holla.
The Touch Down, er, Three Pointer.
Breaking down the court, we went for the game. We both had burgers and I had a dog, a very special dog. Kristien had your everyday cheese burger, stacked with lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, ketchup, and mayo. But, it was more than everyday…it was a good, solid burger. A bit juicier than Burgers, Shakes & Fries and just a few notches below Filling Station Company. I had Special Burger #5, smothered in a subdued provolone, A-1 steak sauce, mushrooms, and grilled onions. At first, we were skeptical about the provolone in there, but it worked very well and wasn’t overpowering at all. I had asked for medium-rare, but got a well done burger, so that was a bit disappointing, but there was still good flavor in that burger.
Finishing up, I had Special Dog #1. They split this dog down the middle, then grill ‘um up. Right down the middle they throw in crispy bits of bacon, cheddar cheese (I 86’d it), and a spicy chipotle sauce. If you are an Omnomivore, then you might remember my aversion and extreme hatred of everything mayo. Well, the sauce had mayo in it, but you know what…it was actually very good. It was smooth, creamy, and had a slight smoky taste to it. The dog was good, but could have been grilled more to get more flavor and get a nice crispy skin.
Despite these two fouls, Benny’s Fast Break lands tons of great shots and won’t put a major hole in your pocket. The menu has lots of options to suit any kind of taste and you can even eat outside on some benches on those nice summer nights. So, if your mouth has been dribbling as you read and saw the pictures, get yo’ self down to Benny’s Fast Break. Also, come by Tuesdays for $1 hot dogs and even breakfast starting at 6 am. Seriously, better hope that Takeru Kobayashi doesn’t show up. | 2019-04-26T02:10:57Z | https://omnomct.wordpress.com/tag/omnomavore/ | Porn | Sports | 0.51813 |
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wordpress | A good book is like a journey, for the reader as well as the writer, and some journeys take longer than others: I just made it to the end of one that took me fifteen years to complete. This book is Milorad Pavic’s Dictionary of the Khazars, but before I talk about it here, I need to explain why I find novels like this so fascinating. According to the Norwegian scholar Espen J. Aareseth, there are two kinds of literature: ergodic, which places nontrivial demands on the reader in assembling or traversing the text, and nonergodic, which asks nothing more of the reader than “eye movement and the periodic or arbitrary turning of pages.” Aarseth defines the former term rather narrowly, but for me, it refers to books that constantly remind you of your process as a reader, often by forcing you to regularly turn pages in both directions. And not surprisingly, such works tend to cast a certain spell over compulsive readers who may not be able to finish them, including me.
As a result, I’ve always been drawn to this sort of story, perhaps because my own fiction is so relentlessly linear. The trouble is that such novels often promise more than they’re finally able to deliver, once all the pieces have been put into place. House of Leaves, for instance, does a terrifying job of hinting at some unspeakable horror lying in wait for readers who can make it all the way through—it’s the only book of the past decade that gave me nightmares—but it ultimately disintegrates before our eyes. Cloud Atlas, as I’ve noted before, is a brilliant piece of writing and imagination, but it finally comes off as a set of nested novelettes with only occasional stabs at larger meaning. Until recently, the only ergodic novel I’d read that really lived up to its promise was Nabokov’s Pale Fire, which does exactly what such a novel ought to do: implicate the reader, inextricably, in the process of its own creation, until it seems less like a book than a place we’ve gone to visit and can never quite escape.
Which brings me to Dictionary of the Khazars. I bought this novel by the Serbian poet Milorad Pavic more than fifteen years ago, intrigued both by its design, which is among the most beautiful I’ve ever seen in a novel, and its unique structure: it’s arranged as a dictionary, or rather three parallel dictionaries, the entries of which can be read in any order, either by following cross-references or simply browsing at random. In the years that followed, I often leafed through the book, to the point where I know certain entries extremely well, but never read more than a third of the material, mostly because it was hard to keep track of how much I had remaining. And while I never forgot it, I don’t think I would have finished it if I hadn’t recently become interested in the historical Khazars themselves, as part of the novel I’m currently trying to write. On a whim, then, along with the more factual sources I was reading, I decided to give Pavic another try, on the off chance he could provide me with some useful ideas.
And what I discovered, much to my astonishment, is that this is one of the few novels of its kind that really lives up to its promise. Dictionary of the Khazars constantly hints at a greater pattern that will be visible to readers who finish the entire book, and amazingly enough, it delivers—when you’ve read the last few pages, the full picture locks into place, and the effect is shattering and unforgettable. The result makes House of Leaves or Cloud Atlas seem half-baked by comparison, and the difference is less one of inspiration than of pure craft: Pavic, who died several years ago, is just as inventive and fanciful as his ergodic peers, but if the book’s individual entries reflect a maddening poetic imagination, its overall structure is ruthlessly logical. (Note that the order of the entries isn’t entirely random: at least one crucial entry and the book’s second appendix aren’t cross-referenced anywhere else, which subtly ensures that the reader will approach them last.) It’s nothing less than one of the best modern novels I’ve read in a long time. And it only took me fifteen years to get here. | 2019-04-21T14:54:43Z | https://nevalalee.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/the-mystery-of-the-khazars/ | Porn | Sports | 0.114052 |
wordpress | Gunther makes a cameo appearance in The Secret Kingdom. This performance became part of our routine whenever it was time to feed the dog.
It’s fascinating how people never seemed to notice that Gunther was missing a leg.
Since Dalmatians are not very common, and Gunther was tremendously friendly, we were often approached by a variety of strangers wanting to get a closer look.
Once, while sitting outside at a coffee shop, a man approached and asked if it was okay to pet Gunther.
This gentleman crouched down to where Gunther was sitting and smiled. He stayed there for several minutes, talking and petting my happy dog.
When he stood up to leave… Gunther took a couple of hopping steps toward him.
“He’s missing a whole leg.” I explained.
The man did a double-take.
Maybe he was distracted by all the spots.
Or maybe he suddenly understood how love is truly blind.
I never noticed Gunther’s missing leg, either.
To this day, four-legged dogs look really weird to me.. | 2019-04-25T05:51:05Z | https://secretkingdombook.wordpress.com/tag/gunther/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.110368 |
cnn | Savvy investors are buying into whiskey, a market that promises whopping returns.
Tired of investing in stocks and bonds? Try buying a more liquid asset -- whiskey!
Since the first whiskey index was formed six years ago, top single malts have risen in value by more than 660% -- easily beating the performance of stock markets and other assets. In January, a single bottle of Macallan "M" scotch sold for a record $628,205 at auction.
"Whiskey as an investment is being driven by an escalating international demand, combined with an ever-decreasing supply of rare and aged single malt," said the Whisky Corporation's Stephen Notman.
Whiskey is a spirit made from a grain -- corn, rice, barley -- that's mashed, distilled, and then aged in oak barrels. Some whiskey evaporates through the barrel while aging -- called the "angel's share." There's often not very much left when they're aged for longer periods of time, which is why older whiskeys are more rare and valuable.
For example, a bottle of 1937 Glenfiddich scotch, aged for 64 years, sold for £46,000 ($72,000) at a Christie's auction in 2012. Only about 60 bottles were originally produced.
Experts are convinced that this limited stock of older, rare whiskeys means the market is in for steep, continued growth.
Like many other investments, investing in whiskey starts with building a strong portfolio, said Whisky Dog's Nicholas Pollacchi, an investment adviser.
"It's not an exact science," he said. "You're looking for rarity ... [and] it's about the exact bottle you're buying."
While well-known brands can also boost a portfolio, "it's not necessarily [about] spending ... a lot of money, but making sure you understand what's valuable."
And of course investors have to be careful not to drink away the investment -- Pollacchi recommends buying two bottles if possible, one for your investment portfolio, and one to drink.
Investors can also buy into the world's only whiskey investment fund, launched earlier this year and managed out of Hong Kong.
The fund's portfolio includes more than 3,000 bottles, primarily from Scotland and Japan. Fund managers have already raised $4 million and expect to raise another $6 million by the end of this year, and plan to pay annual dividends from profits of bottles sold.
"Our strategy involves focusing on icon brands, silent stills -- which are distilleries that have shut down -- limited edition selections, and top international whiskeys," said Rickesh Kishnani, who manages the fund. "We will be buying and selling whiskeys continuously each year, so it is an active trading fund, not a long-term buy and hold fund."
And while whiskey investing is open to anybody, it's not exactly the cheapest asset to acquire. Kishnani's fund requires a minimum $250,000 investment, while some private investment collections are worth millions.
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tripod | IT is no treaty in itself, nor is it a guarantee of amity. Yet, the joint declaration on the future of Northern Ireland, issued last fortnight by British Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Albert Reynolds, raised hopes of an end to the conflict over the province.
The December 15 "framework for peace" outlined proposals to end the violence in Ulster and settle the political fate of the Protestant-majority region, to which the Constitution of the Catholic-majority Republic of Ireland makes territorial claims. Both sides went that biblical extra mile in their quest for permanent peace. Major said that his Government would support whatever a majority there decided--even a reunification with the south, an improbable eventuality. He also offered to open "exploratory" talks with Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Catholic-backed Irish Republican Army, if the latter halted its campaign against British rule. In turn, Reynolds reassured northeners, particularly the nine lakh Protestants, they would be treated fairly in a united Ireland. | 2019-04-23T02:34:39Z | http://venky2000.tripod.com/ulsterhope.html | Porn | News | 0.556761 |
wordpress | Calling all Mummies and Preschoolers! Tomorrow night is our annual Mummies Tea. The Tea starts at 6:00 and will end at 7:15. It is a “come and go” event but make sure to stop in your child’s classroom at their scheduled time to enjoy a little presentation! Halloween costumes are welcome!
Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school next week Sept27-Oct. 1st! Proceeds from the book fair will benefit the EEC’s library of books. Parents are welcome to come in and look around at drop off or pick up time. The book fair will also be open on Wednesday, September 29th at the Meet and Greet/BBQ. We hope you will stop in and check out our book fair. We will have lots of books just perfect for preschool children. Reading books is a wonderful way to spend time with your child and enhance their learning experiences. | 2019-04-23T20:19:58Z | https://holycrosseec.wordpress.com/tag/school-event/ | Porn | Kids | 0.81834 |
wordpress | Hope you kept your pants on long enough to write this blog entry. Somehow.
Let me tell you something. You are so right. SO right. The twiliht franchise better thank their lucky handsome stars he was a part of their cast because Kristen Stewart is hell bent on ruining the movies. | 2019-04-22T07:01:27Z | https://lemonpepper.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/a-few-things-6/ | Porn | Arts | 0.488347 |
tripod | Ft. Scott - A very important fort where patrols were sent from to help with the war effort. Border Ruffins operated along the Missouri Kansas border. The Army tried to keep them from entering Kansas to raid near by towns and farms. | 2019-04-24T01:54:00Z | http://jguerns.tripod.com/wel2Kspage36.html | Porn | Reference | 0.546408 |
newgrounds | This wasn't originally intended for AntiClockday/Pirate day, but given the ending I decided to hold off submitting this until now.
Simply put, I start a new Flash Project and I do so by pasting an old SBC .fla file, and it continues from there.
Enjoy this minute and forty four second animation!
If only working with Flash was this engaging. Also, context back then makes it better, lmao.
An educational movie telling a semi-fictional history of the CCs origins!
Tails and Amy explore the worlds of Pokémon and Megaman, what fun! | 2019-04-23T08:31:53Z | https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/334885 | Porn | Reference | 0.744264 |
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wordpress | Just a quick reminder that Jackie from Unit 5 Tithebarn Workshops has the opening evening for her latest exhibition tonight at the Wheat Paddock Barn Gallery in Freshford.
Good luck to Jackie and Liz tonight and for the coming week from the Workshops team!
This entry was tagged art exhibitions in wiltshire, art of experimentation, Jacqueline Byrne, tithebarn workshops, Wheat Paddock Barn Gallery. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T10:17:47Z | https://tithebarnworkshops.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/art-exhibition/ | Porn | Arts | 0.94414 |
livejournal | Did I mention that painting ceilings is hard on the shoulders? I also have blisters on my palms. And one on my lip from molten cheese, but that's unrelated to the painting.
About ready to head into town, go to the dump with a load of trash, shower, set up some EMG printing and go to North Pole and get my card rack from karen's storage.
Must first take fresh trash bag out to outhouse, drink another glass of water, and fuzzle the cat.
The house is very, very white. I love it.
WOW! that looks great! I love the cut-out one the stairwell. Very modern.
Did I ever tell you that my aunt and uncle built their own house? I remember when it was being built, andI've got a ton of respect for you. It's looking so cool!
Awww, cute! I just love black kitties, and I love the name Velcro, it's so funny! One of my cat loves to chew on those plastic things that you find around the top of a sour cream container. He loves how it crinkles, too!
Did you burn your lip biting into a cheese toastie? That's how I did mine.
Velcro looks like she knew she was doing something naughty - that's what Ozzie looks like when he's up on the bench licking plates. | 2019-04-22T08:36:11Z | https://ellenmillion.livejournal.com/276724.html | Porn | Home | 0.235376 |
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