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google | A retractor assembly for positioning tissue during a surgical procedure, having two opposing arms disposed adjacent to one another and sized and configured to be urged substantially laterally away from one another during actuation of the retractor assembly into an open position, and one or more posts, each post being connected to, or integral with, and extending radially outwardly from a respective one of the opposing arms, each of the one or more posts having a length sufficient so that each of the one or more posts will extend through a respective aperture defined by a modular component to be detachably attached to the respective one of the opposing arms. Related methods of positioning tissue during surgery are also described.
This application is a continuation of co-pending and commonly-owned U.S. application Ser. No. 14/056,452, filed Oct. 17, 2013, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,161,745, which in turn is a continuation of International Patent Application No. PCT/US2012/058998, filed on Oct. 5, 2012, which claims priority to commonly owned U.S. Provisional Patent Appl. No. 61/543,535, filed on Oct. 5, 2011, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference.
This invention pertains to the technical field of medical devices, namely retractors for use in orthopedic and other surgical procedures.
Retractors and retractor assemblies are commonly used to draw back and retain tissue from a surgical site. Many retractor designs are competent at retaining open an incision, but are less useful in isolating bone or other internal target areas while dependably retracting deeper tissue below the skin and below the shallow tissues which surround the incision. Conventional retractors, even those of the self-retaining type for example, often require adjustment or manipulation by a surgical assistant when retraction and/or isolation of deeper tissues might be necessary during a surgeon's work. Thus, a need persists for refractor apparatus with improved ease of use, efficiency of design and effectiveness at tissue retraction and target isolation within the surgical field.
one or more posts, each being connected to, or integral with, and extending radially outwardly from a respective one of the opposing arms, each of the one or more posts having a length sufficient so that each of the one or more posts will extend through a respective aperture defined by a modular component to be detachably attached to the respective one of the opposing arms.
It can be preferred, in certain aspects of the invention, that at least one of the one or more posts is non-circular (e.g., square, rectangular, hexagonal, etc.) when viewed in cross-section through a longitudinal axis thereof. The retractor assembly may further comprise a plurality of posts extending from each of the opposing arms.
The retractor assembly may further comprise at least one modular component, which component defines one or more apertures, each aperture being sized and configured to mate with a respective one of the posts to thereby detachably attach the modular component to the arm from which the respective one of the posts extends. In some aspects of the invention, each aperture defined by the modular component is sized and configured to mate with the respective one of the posts so as to inhibit rotational motion of the modular component about the longitudinal axis of the respective one of the posts. The modular component further may comprise a planar member forming one or more flanges. In such cases, preferably the one or more flanges is sized to extend into the surgical field when the modular component is detachably attached to the respective one of the opposing arms and the refractor assembly is deployed in the open position during use. In one particular embodiment of the invention, the modular component comprises a Hohmann retractor.
urging the opposing arms laterally away from one another and into an open position so as to place the modular components into contact with and to position the tissue during the surgical procedure.
In at least some embodiments of the invention, the method further comprises temporarily retaining the modular components in the opened position by temporarily retaining the opposing arms in the opened position. In one particular aspect of the invention, the opposing arms are pivotally connected to one another, and together define a ratchet connection employed in temporarily retaining the opposing arms in the opened position.
These and other embodiments, features and advantages of the present invention will become even further apparent from the accompanying drawings, the following detailed description and the appended claims.
FIG. 1 is an elevated view in perspective of one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an elevated view in perspective of the embodiment of FIG. 1, shown in use to retract a surgical site on a human arm, isolating bone within that site.
FIG. 3 is an elevated view in perspective of a modular attachment in accordance with one embodiment of this invention, which attachment could be used with the retractor assembly of FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is an elevated view in perspective of another modular attachment in accordance with one embodiment of this invention, which attachment could be used with the retractor assembly of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is an elevated view in perspective of another modular attachment in accordance with one embodiment of this invention, which attachment could be used with the retractor assembly of FIG. 1.
FIG. 6 is an elevated view in perspective of another modular attachment in accordance with one embodiment of this invention, which attachment could be used with the retractor assembly of FIG. 1.
FIG. 7 is an elevated view in perspective of a portion of the retractor assembly of FIG. 1, substituting modular attachments in accordance with FIG. 4 for the Hohmann-type retractor components shown in FIG. 1.
FIG. 8 is a top view of a Hohmann-type retractor component in accordance with another embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 9 is an elevated view in perspective of a retractor assembly in accordance with yet another embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 10 is a top view of the modified Hohmann-type retractor component of the retractor assembly illustrated in FIG. 9.
Like numerical or alphabetic references identified within the several drawing figures are used to refer to like parts or components present in the illustrated objects.
With surprising simplicity, the retractor assembly of this invention, in at least one of its embodiments, enables facile retraction of tissue from a surgical field, even when an assistant is not readily available or only a single hand is free to manipulate the retractor. Select embodiments of the invention also provide the convenience of a modular configuration, permitting of variations in the components configured to be engaged by the posts extending substantially laterally from the opposing retractor arms. In this way, the same main retractor assembly of opposed arms and associated lateral posts may be mated selectively with a specific pair or set of the same or different modular components, selected as best adapted for use in the given surgical procedure at hand.
The one or more posts extend substantially laterally from the opposing retractor arms in that they may extend within the same general plane occupied by the opposing arms, or may have a longitudinal axis which is disposed at an angle relative to the general plane occupied by the opposing arms. In some embodiments of the invention, it may be desirable, for example, for each post to extend laterally and slightly upward from its associated opposing arm at an angle of, e.g., at least 5 degrees or more from a plane generally occupied by the adjacent opposing arms of the assembly. Such angular disposing of the one or more posts can serve to at least ensure the modular components of the assembly remain mated to their respective one or more post during use of the retractor assembly.
Turning now to the figures, it will be seen that a particular embodiment of this invention is illustrated by the self-retaining retractor assembly A shown in FIG. 1. Assembly A comprises two opposing retractor arms 10 and 12 disposed adjacent to one another and sized and configured to be urged substantially laterally away from one another during actuation of the refractor assembly into an open position. In the illustrated embodiment, such sizing and configuration is provided by pivotally connecting arms 10 and 12 to one another at pin 14, arms 10 and 12 forming thumb and finger loops 16 and 18, respectively, and further forming a ratchet component itself formed by a curved flange 20 defining ratchet teeth 21 and a spring-biased ratchet claw 22. Teeth 21 and claw 22 mate with one another to releasably retain arms 10 and 12 in an open position (i.e., a position which will urge the surgical field-engaging portions of the retractor arms away from one another) when loops 16 and 18 of arms 10 and 12 are brought together manually. Biasing claw 22 to release from teeth 21 when desired will free the opposing arms 10 and 12 so that they may be placed in a closed position when loops 16 and 18 are separated. At the opposing ends of arms 10 and 12, there are provided a plurality of posts 30 each being connected to, or integral with, and extending radially outwardly from a respective one of the opposing arms 10 and 12. As illustrated, one of each set of three posts 30 extending from each of arms 10 and 12 is mated with a modular component in the form of a Hohmann retractor 40 a and 40 c, respectively. Each of retractors 40 a and 40 c form at least one, and as illustrated at least two, shaped apertures 42, sized and configured to tightly mate in a lock-and-key fashion with a respect one of the posts 30. In this context, to tightly mate means that the clearance between an inner wall of at least one (and preferably each) aperture 42 and at least one lateral side of its associated post 30 is sufficiently small so as to allow for less than 15 degrees of rotation of the modular component about the longitudinal axis of the post, thereby providing a relatively snug mating of the post 30 with its respective aperture 42 to prevent retractors 40 a and 40 c excessive movement about the longitudinal axis of associated post 30, without being so snug that retractors 40 a and 40 c cannot be readily de-coupled from the associated posts 30 manually. This fit between each post and its associated modular component aperture is particularly important when the modular component is configured to detachably attach to a respective arm by mating only one aperture with one post when installed in the assembly. As illustrated in FIG. 1, the Hohmann retractors 40 a and 40 c further define a series of two or more apertures 42 in order to provide options to the user to adjust the depth or other position of the modular component attachment, in this case the retractors 40 a and 40 c. When multiple apertures are defined by the modular component(s), the apertures in a given modular component may be the same shape or different shapes.
For example, as seen in FIG. 8, in order to provide options for tilting the Hohmann retractor 60 (which is similar to retractor 40 a and 40 c of FIG. 1) laterally at different depths and at different angles from perpendicular during use, retractor 60 defines three different apertures 62, 64 and 66, and the rectangular shape of aperture 66 is longer than aperture 64, which is longer again than aperture 62, so that the user can vary the angular tilt of the retractor component by employing the appropriate aperture for a preferred angle. The longer rectangular apertures 64 and 66 permit and upper portion of refractor 60 to tilt from perpendicular laterally (as shown for retractors 40 a and 40 c in FIG. 1) at greater respective degrees as compared to aperture 62, while still providing sufficiently small lateral post clearance to prevent excessive rotational motion of retractor 60 about the longitudinal axis of post 30 when employed in the assembly of this invention. FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate alternative Hohmann retractors 80 a and 80 c, each also defining multiple shaped apertures 82 (described in greater detail below) along the length of the retractor, in order to provide options for tilting laterally at different depths and at different angles from perpendicular during use.
In FIG. 2, the assembly of FIG. 1 is illustrated in use, but with two pairs of Hohmann retractors 40 a and 40 b, and 40 c and 40 d, mated to respective posts 30. The Hohmann retractors illustrated extend into a surgical site S and extend under a bone B. Assembly A is in an open position to retain tissue T away from bone B during the procedure and to further isolate bone B. Through the use of a plurality of posts 30 and the two pair of retractors 40 a, 40 b, and 40 c, 40 d, a well-retained surgical field can be obtained with effective isolation of bone B with one manual actuation of the self-retaining retractor assembly's rachet component by manually bringing together loops 16 and 18 once the Hohmann retractors 40 a, 40 b, 40 c and 40 d are positioned into the field S and adjacent bone B.
FIG. 2 further illustrates the method of this invention, for positioning tissue during a surgical procedure. With reference to FIG. 2 and FIG. 7, it can be seen that, in practicing the method, one detachably attaches a modular component (e.g., the Hohmann retractors of FIG. 2) to each of two opposing arms 10 and 12 of the self-retaining retractor assembly, by at least mating respectively one or more apertures 42 defined by a respective one of the modular components (Hohmann retractors) with one or more posts 30, the one or more posts being connected to or integral with and extending radially outwardly from a respective one of the opposing arms 10 or 12. The method further comprises disposing at least a portion of the modular components of each of the two opposing arms 10 and 12 into the surgical field, and urging the opposing arms 10 and 12 laterally away from one another and into an open position so as to place the modular components into contact with, and to position, the tissue during the surgical procedure. Such urging is typically, but not necessarily, carried out manually by the user. The method may further comprise temporarily retaining the modular components in the opened position by temporarily retaining the opposing arms 10 and 12 in the opened position. As illustrated, this is carried out through the use of the ratchet component of the assembly and a pivoting connection of the opposing arms, but of course other means of carrying out such retention can be envisioned once the feature of this invention are known. For example, fasteners such as screws, bolts and nut configurations, and the like, or clamps or other mechanical components could be employed to controllably and temporarily retain the opposing arms in the opened position and/or vary the space between those opposing arms during use.
The present invention is modular in that alternative or additional modular components can be provided to mate with the substantially laterally extending posts of the opposed arms of the retractor assembly. Thus, for example, as seen in FIGS. 3, 4, 5 and 6, a wide variety of modular components, in addition to or as an alternative to a Hohmann refractor component, can be envisioned for use as a part of the assembly of the invention. As seen in those figures, the modular component comprises a plate 50 which forms one or more flanges 52 and defines one and one or more apertures 42, and the plate 50 can vary widely in its shape and configuration, in order to suit a particular surgical need or procedure.
FIG. 7 further illustrates another embodiment of the invention, and the mating of a modular component 50 in accordance with FIG. 3 with retractor assembly arms 10 and 12.
In another aspect of the invention illustrated with reference to FIGS. 9 and 10, there is provided a self-retaining retractor assembly B with several features similar to those of the assembly A of FIG. 1. Assembly B further provides Hohmann retractor components 80 a and 80 c which define key-hole type apertures 82 for receiving and mating with modified posts 32 which are connected to or integral with and extending radially outwardly from a respective one of the opposing arms 10 or 12. Posts 32 are each modified from the posts 30 illustrated in the assembly of FIG. 1, in that posts 32 each define an enlarged section or head at the free end, the enlarged section being sized and configured to be received through a mating portion of a respective shaped aperture 82. Once the enlarged portion of each post 32 has been received through its respective aperture 82, retractor 80 a or 80 c can be positioned so that the respective narrower portion of aperture 82 mate with the respective narrower section of post 32, as previously illustrated and described for posts 30 and aperture 42 of FIG. 2. This can reduce rotational movement of the respective Hohmann-type retractor component, while the enlarged portion of each post 32 will inhibit unintentional displacement or removal of the respective Hohmann-type retractor component from its associated post. It should be appreciated from this disclosure by those of skill in the art, that the particular shapes of the key-hole type apertures and mating posts (including the associated enlarged head portion of each) can vary from those illustrated while remaining within the spirit and scope of the invention.
As illustrated in FIG. 9, to illustrate another alternative design, assembly B further includes a pair of retention paddles, each in the form of a plurality of adjacent curved flanges 90, affixed to and extending in the same general direction from respective ends of the two opposing arms 10 and 12 of assembly B. While as illustrated the retention paddles are integral with the opposing arms, it will be appreciated that these retention elements also may be modular in design, so that either or each is configured to be readily attached and detached to its respective opposing arm.
Those of skill in the art will now appreciate that a wide variety of modular components could be sized and configured for use in the retractor assembly of this invention for use in many different types of surgical procedures. Moreover, a variety of sizes and configurations may be employed to provide a mechanism for bringing together and urging apart and retaining in place the opposing arms of the retractor assemblies of this invention, and those of skill in this art will now appreciate that the specific self-retaining mechanism illustrated in the accompanying figures is not the only configuration which could be employed to effectuate the positioning and retention of the opposing arms and associated modular components during use. Likewise, the number of apertures defined by the modular components, the number of laterally extending posts and their specific length and lateral position relative to the associated opposing arm, as well as the size and the shape and the number of modular components employed, can vary to accommodate different but desirable design criteria for a given retractor assembly of the invention, or to better facilitate retraction in a given surgical procedure. Likewise, the length of the opposing arms can be varied to increase the retraction. Due to the modular design of the assembly of this invention, various modular component attachments can be applied alone or in combination. One type can be used on one arm and a different type on the other. The design also allows for the addition or removal of the modular component attachments during surgical procedure. The modular components and other parts of the retractor assembly of this invention can be fabricated of any surgical grade material suitable for use in conventional retractor assemblies.
The foregoing description of various embodiments of the present invention are illustrative only, and are not to be construed as limiting the scope of the invention. Many varying and different embodiments of the invention not specifically detailed herein nevertheless may be envisioned easily by those of skill in the art who have the benefit of the present disclosure, and therefore the scope of the invention is properly defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof permitted as a matter of law.
wherein at least one of the one or more posts defines an enlarged portion at a free end of the post.
2. A retractor assembly according to claim 1, further comprising at least one modular component, which component defines two or more rectangular apertures along its length, each rectangular aperture being sized and configured to mate with the enlarged portion of the free end to thereby detachably attach the modular component to the arm from which the respective one of the posts extends.
3. A retractor assembly according to claim 2, wherein each rectangular aperture defined by the modular component is sized and configured also to mate with the respective one of the posts so as to inhibit rotational motion of the modular component about the longitudinal axis of the respective one of the posts.
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Luckily, Tvalavadze enjoyed her Canadian experience and has remained in this country. She joined UTM in 2012 on a teaching contract and was offered a permanent teaching position in 2017. “It’s such a friendly place,” she says.
Tvalavadze is interested in implementing different learning approaches and has designed her upper-year course on Galois Theory around inquiry-based learning.
Tvalavadze is also one of the professors teaching introductory calculus, which uses an active learning approach. Students read the relevant material prior to coming to class and the instructors begin each lecture with questions that students answer using their i-clickers.
Outside the classroom, Tvalavadze oversees two popular initiatives designed to boost interest in mathematics with assistance from current and former students – The Code Club that teaches computer coding to girls ages seven to 14, and Mathematical Circles, weekly sessions where high school students hear speakers or discuss interesting topics in mathematics as a way of encouraging them to pursue degrees in mathematics.
In addition, Tvalavadze jokes about her rewarding “second job”, raising her five-year-old daughter.
1. M. Tvalavadze and P. Vickery, A Note on Division Algebras of Dimension Four, Journal of Algebra and its Applications, Vol 16, 5, 2017 (9 pages).
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wordpress | Abboudi Abou Jaoudé amidst his Poster Collection.
An avid collector of cultural, political and war posters, Abboudi Abou Jaoudé has assembled the most substantial and significant holding in existence of vintage movie posters from Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab world, along with numerous pieces from Europe and America. During my tour of those items he has on permanent display, we discussed the posters, their designs, which genres are the most popular, and how he goes about collecting them.
Abou Jaoudé grew up in Beirut, and his father, a film aficionado, instilled his passion in his 6-year old son. After completing high school, he started working in publishing, where he is still active as owner of the Al Furat publishing house. At the same time, in the late 1970s, he decided to follow his collecting passion having realized that it was one of the only ways he could own a piece of the old movies he so loved. Abou Jaoudé went on to build a large, quirky collection of posters of international and local movies.
Collecting movie posters in the Arab world, and in Lebanon in particular, is a relatively new phenomenon, and for the longest time, no one was doing it. Even the major studios in the US and Europe did not save the posters for their own films. This situation began to change in 1977 with the release of Star Wars, when the poster for it became as iconic as the film itself. It was in that same year, in the midst of Lebanon’s war, that Abou Jaoudé started scouring the movie houses in Beirut and the country’s other cities, as well as across the rest of the Arab world. At a modest cost he was able to hire people to scout and acquire the posters as soon as they were removed from the walls or stands, and he also collected a lot of promotional ephemera about each new release. In the process he discovered, stacked in the drawers and closets of various theaters, posters dating as far back as 1933 and photographs from as early as 1929, and much of this material is now part of his collection.
The first poster he acquired was Yousef Chahine’s Rings for Sale, 1965 film about the national singer Fairouz, and his most valuable one is White Rose, 1933 by Mohammad Karim. Nowadays vintage movie posters are highly collectible, especially those for films released before 1940. Few of these early ones survived because cinema owners were obliged to send them along to the next theater showing the film, which resulted in irreversible damage. Vintage film posters were long ignored in the authoritative historical narrative of graphic design, but during the last twenty years they have been re-evaluated and are now celebrated in a plethora of books, articles, and on-line blogs analyzing their history and unique visual sensibility. In the process they have been the source of a number of surprising insights regarding some familiar films.
Arab cinema started in Egypt with a limited number of silent films dating back as early as 1896; the first full-length movie was released in 1927; and Egyptian film became a regional force with the coming of sound around 1930. Lebanon’s movie industry began in 1929 and was always heavily influenced by its Egyptian counterpart. Since 1950, however, Hollywood, I would argue, has exercised its hegemony over the global circulation of films and their associated printed material culture – from Cinecittà to Bollywood, Cairo and South America. It imposed its advertising design in the marketing of films worldwide, including such details as the number and size of the posters produced for films. The posters were generally issued in a marketing set including “one-sheet” poster portrait format (27” x 40” or 68.6 cm x 102 cm), two display aka half-sheets (22” x 28” or 55.9 cm x 71.1cm), two inserts portrait format (14” x 36” or 35.6 cm x 91.4 cm), one lobby card set (11” x 14” or 28 cm x 36 cm) also 8” × 10” (20 cm × 25 cm) before 1930, window cards (14” x 22” or 35.6 cm x 55.9 cm) and an 8-page press booklet. Bigger posters assembled from sometimes separate pieces consisted of three sheets, six sheets, or, occasionally, even twenty-four sheets, these latter being billboard size. A smaller variant of the one-sheet poster, the lobby card set, usually included a title card and eight cards depicting notable scenes from the film. This material was more widely available than the posters because theaters were allowed to add their names to the cards and keep them. Two one-sheet posters was pretty much the standard, except for blockbusters like The Wizard of Oz or Gone with the Wind – for which the studio issued three or four different poster designs.
The timing of this exhibition is propitious, as it coincides with the recent auctions throughout the year 2015 of the 196,000 posters in English owned by American collector Morris Everett Jr., which constitutes the world’s most complete collection of its kind. Abou Jaoudé picked 1979 as his cutoff, because up to that date modernism permeated design and thus movies posters and ephemera were somehow more graphically interesting than in later decades. He makes his buying choices based to some extent on design per se, but also on the actors and directors involved. He also tends to pick something that he has some visceral connection with, whether the subject matter of the film or some other aspect of it or its poster. Over the years, his interests have evolved to include Western posters, but usually only when the artwork appeals to him and is from a film that he knows and like.
Successful Lebanese movies were usually released with several different poster designs, some of which were printed in vivid, solid colors, while others were produced with the subtle shading effects of chromolithography. Their design and printing took place in either Beirut, Cairo or Italy. It is also noteworthy that Beirut in the 1960s enjoyed a freedom of expression and a minimum of censorship that led Egyptian actors to come there and act in on average of 20 locally made films per year, which also reinforced the permeability between these cities. Lebanese posters may usefully be divided into five categories: musicals featuring established singers, dancers or comics; love and romance films; adventure and science fiction films; foreign adaptations; and documentaries, along with and couple of odd pieces, such as one about a saint and another about The Broken Wings by Gibran Khalil Gibran, none other than the author of The Prophet. The love and romance category was the most popular narrative genre based on attendance and revenues as well as several socio-cultural-anthropological considerations.
It must be admitted that from a graphic design standpoint, many of these posters are not very interesting; in particular they lack arresting images. Essentially, they are kitsch represented in a wide variety of artistic styles that cost a lot of time and money to produce. They fit in with the overall trend of Hollywood posters, inasmuch as they feature a painterly or an illustrative style, a traditional centered layout, and hurriedly hand-drawn typography (which is a far cry from the precise and exquisite rendition of Arabic calligraphy used in books and innacubula). Some science fiction posters depict the stars in superhero poses – wielding huge guns and girls in tow – a filmic fantasy version of pseudo-empowerment.
Studios sometimes spent more on the posters than they spent on the films because in many cases the latter were quite mediocre or poor. One wonders if there is a significant difference in the posters designed for A and B movies? One could argue that Arabic-language movies for the greatest part – as was the case in a large number of those from Hollywood – are B movies whose lack of broad appeal obliged studios to find another angle, another way to sell the films. Thus they turned to the use of lurid, exploitative artwork. Abou Jaoudé’s collection provides the material to open a large new field of research in visual communication, in particular for a comparative study of the design paradigms which were most prominent in the various movie-producing countries and various languages in which their film were released.
Abou Jaoudé advises the new collector to buy posters and memorabilia that are within one’s budget and that one really enjoys looking at – and only those. Staying away from speculation as much as possible is, he believes, the healthy way to start. Condition is a major concern for all collectors, as posters were generally shipped to theaters flat, folded once length-wise and three times across. Thus one often has to deal with creases and losses in those areas, though obviously one should avoid as much as possible any significant damage to the most important parts of the image, like the stars’ faces. Unframed paper easily becomes brittle, yellowed, or faded. All the same, some posters are so rare that one may want to acquire them no matter what condition they are in.
relied on his expertise to create its own collection of vintage Arab film posters.
The rich material in this collection gives rise to a number of intriguing questions. Why are women systematically portrayed as objects of desire in these posters? Why do the films in the love and romance category have so many similar sounding titles? Can one argue that the imagery in Lebanese film posters displays specific Levantine cultural characteristics which differentiate it from that found in the posters of the other Middle Eastern countries? And if this is so, what are its links to the dominant visual narratives of the period – whether French, Polish, German, British, or made in Bollywood or Hollywood? The collection, together with its exhibition and book, represents an exceptional opportunity for fundamental research into and a critical evaluation of a major strand of modern Arab culture.
What an eloquent and encompassing article about Lebanese Vintage Cinema and collecting. Thank you for shedding light on such a fascinating subject.
Thank you for this eloquent and analytical article on the Lebanese Vintage Movies Posters. A delightful article indeed!
I love this article. It is not only well written but also generous in information about a range of aspects covering the thematic, technical, artistic, etc. particularities of the collection and the context in general. Judicious hints to potential research paths!!! Accrocheur, ce bel article !!!
Thanks for the great article and overview. I’m a filmmaker based in Amman working on a documentary film about Arab cinemas. I’m currently in Beirut for the week doing some preliminary research and was wondering if you knew how I could reach Mr. Abou Jaoude. I would love to share more info about my project with you over email. I hope to hear from you soon.
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wordpress | When we learned about planning back in grad school, we were told that if something is important, you need to assess it; if you don’t assess it, then it’s not important. When the Common Core Standards came out, most math teachers were very excited about the Standards of Practice. The problem was, of course, that the Standards of Practice are hard to assess. So most standardized tests that use the Common Core don’t assess them, which of course means they don’t get implemented in the same way as the content standards. The Standards of Practice are important to me (though I frame them as the Mathematical Habits of Mind), and that means I need to find a way to assess them. But I’ve never had a really good way to test them before – I was always kind of making it up as I went along. Now, though, I think I’ve hit on something now that really works.
After seeing Ashli’s video about not putting grades on papers, I stopped doing it this year – but having the grades still be there in the online gradebook wasn’t quite what I wanted to do, and it became very hard to keep track things, especially because classwork and homework were what I used to measure the Standards of Practice. This semester I gave written feedback on all the assignments that I’ve given but recorded no grades – not even in my own gradebook – the only thing I kept track of was if something was incomplete or missing.
If we decide that every assignment is a formative assessment, we can’t possibly grade it as students are learning the material. So instead each assignment is like a first draft (or second or third) and students can read the feedback that I gave and make changes in order to improve their work. Come the end of the marking period (or eventually the end of the semester) students create a portfolio of their work. They don’t need to include everything that they’ve done but rather a representative sample that shows that they apply the Standards of Practice/Habits of Mind as they work.
The portfolio has a cover sheet (shown below) that that asks them to reflect on what habits they have used in their mathematical work this semester.
They have to find evidence of their own habits in their work and write a few sentences citing that evidence. I gave suggestions of which assignments might be easier to find evidence of those habits in. And they only had to include work that they cited as evidence as part of the portfolio.
To get us started we read through the rubrics that I created for the habits and created posters of what those habits might look like when doing assignments. We have them hanging on the walls of my classroom – that way I can referr to them easily when something comes up (such as when we worked on Des-man, I tried to emphasize the tinkering nature of the process).
The first portfolios coming in have been graded and some of them were stellar and others need some work, but it was the first time and they are not really used to this whole reflective idea. But I have noticed that most of my students have started to use that vocabulary more and have become more aware of the kind of things that they are expected of them in the long-term, not just immediate math facts. I think if I start this from the beginning next year it’ll create a really great culture of thinking using the habits and the standards of practice.
Because I had different warm-up routines I wanted to try, I’m this week ending my second go at Counting Circles, and won’t be using them again until next year. But they’ve had a great run! I think the students got a lot out of them, and I experimented with them in lots of different ways, a few of which I captured as pictures, so I wanted to share them below.
I started, as with Sadie’s recommendation, with just a simple off-decade 10s, to practice the idea.
One of the earlier things I tried was do work with an open inequality – that can count by any amount they want, as long as they don’t go below 40.
Later on, we counted by monomials and, then, binomials. A fun thing that tricks them up is to swap the order of the binomial. (Commutative property!) Then see how starts adding the wrong thing together, just because they were going left to right.
Counting up with one term and down with another can take a few moments for some students.
Later, after we had done exponential functions, I tried out a geometric sequence. But I had to make sure I started low enough that we could get around the class!
Another geometric sequence was the powers of 10. I mostly wanted to make sure they could name them all! They weren’t allowed to just say digits for this one, they had to say the names.
As my last thing, today we did a quadratic counting circle. Now, we haven’t done quadratic functions yet – that starts next week. So this was somewhat of a preview. They also weren’t expecting the perfect squares – only one students noticed that in time to help them on their turn. There was a lot more collaboration on this circle because they had to refer back explicitly to what the last person did. I’ll do two more of these (triangle numbers tomorrow), and then that’s it! | 2019-04-22T09:34:51Z | https://rootsoftheequation.wordpress.com/2015/03/ | Porn | Reference | 0.228091 |
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typepad | Starting next week, the federal Department of Interior will begin to accept proposals to lease deep offshore ocean waters for renewable energy projects. The agency is holding public workshops in Seattle tomorrow and in Portland on Thursday to explain its rules. Correspondent Tom Banse has more.
Harnessing the power of ocean waves to make electricity is all the rage among Northwest politicians and conservationists. Oregon State University and the University of Washington just got a big grant to work on wave and tidal energy. Even the Presidential candidates are all for it as part of the quest for "energy independence". But the possible effects on fishing, crabbing and whales make some coastal residents uneasy. Correspondent Tom Banse reports backers of wave energy have some persuading to do.
KEYSTONE HARBOR, WA - There’s a veritable gold rush underway on Northwest waters. Developers, governments, and utilities have staked claims on the most promising wave energy and tidal power sites. This has often been a case of leap first, ask questions later. Now the questions are getting a closer look. Correspondent Tom Banse reports on what it’ll take to light your lights with the power of the tides. | 2019-04-22T00:59:52Z | https://nwpublicmedia.typepad.com/our_northwest_energy/hydro_power/ | Porn | News | 0.5789 |
tripod | Ron was my first born - born on February 5, 1967. He had brown hair and blue eyes, just like me. He was bubbly and adorable. He was the joy of my life!
I was 21 when Ron was born. He was all I thought about for the entire nine months of my pregnancy. And when he arrived; ten little fingers, ten little toes and no outward signs of anything abnormal. Actually, he was beautiful.
From birth to the age of 27, life was as normal for Ron as any other person. As a young child, he rode a big wheel, participated in scouts, served as an altar boy during church services, played in sports, and he was an excellent student. There wasn't anything in the world that held him down.
Soon after his graduation from high school, Ron began to develop his career in architecture and developed his own business in home design and building. He met a wonderful young lady, was married and gave us two beautiful granddaughters.
In the spring of 1994, at the age of 27, Ron began to experience uncontrollable tremors and twitching in his left arm. After many doctor visits and special tests, including an MRI, all tests appeared to be normal. The doctors attributed his discomforts resulted from an injury or a pinched nerve. But through the persistence of one of his physicians, he was referred to a group of physicians specializing in neurology for further testing.
After many testing procedures, we were told that Ron had been stricken with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and that his life expectancy was now only two to four years. We were also told that there was nothing we could do. There was no cure!
Since that time we have watched Ron's body steadily shrink away, but watched his attitude and spirit grow. He still remains the beautiful son that we have always loved so dearly, and continue to bless and thank God for each and every day that we still have more time to share with him.
You can't imagine what it's like to watch your child's body degenerate, but you also can't imagine God's faithfulness through it all. Yes, we do believe that God could touch and Ron's body would be whole and healthy again, and I would be spared the grief of soon losing my son. He knows how deep my hurt will be and the years I will grieve! I know God understands!
I am so thankful to be Ron's mom. His life has enriched mine, and I would go through this all over again and cherish every moment.
Please, may I ask all my visitors to say a prayer for Ron.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease, is a fatal neurological disease. ALS occurs when specific nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary movement degenerate. The loss of these motor neurons causes the muscles under their control to weaken and waste away, leading to paralysis.
Symptoms may include tripping and falling, loss of motor control in hands and arms, difficulty speaking, swallowing and/or breathing, and twitching and cramping, sometimes quite severely.
There is no cure for ALS; nor is there a proven therapy that will prevent or reverse this disorder.
If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute or two to stop and say "I love you", instead of assuming, you would know I do.
If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away.
For surely there's always tomorrow to make-up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything right.
There will always be another day to say our "I love you's", and certainly there's another chance to say our "anything I can do's"?
But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, and today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight.
For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day, that you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.
So hold your loved ones close today, whisper in their ear, tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear. Take time to say "I'm sorry," "please forgive me", "thank you" or "it's okay".
The past four years have been very hard and continue to leave us very sad. Those of you who "have traveled this path" know only too well what I mean. But the outpouring of love and concern from many friends and family members, has been most heart warming to me.
To you my dear friends, I can only say - "God bless us everyone".
The following links are provided for your convenience. They are a good source to greater knowledge of the disease.
The following links are to some of my favorite pages that have given me strength and inspiration.
Will you please help me keep Ron's candle burning by keeping him in your prayers and thoughts, and taking a moment to sign his "special" guestbook. I know he will really appreciate your kindness and it will mean so much to him.
This page is made with love from my heart and is dedicated to my son and to all the families in the world who are facing trials and tribulations in their lives.
If you wish to send me a private message - please click on my "special little angel" ... Thank You! | 2019-04-22T19:43:59Z | http://jammarie.tripod.com/index_1.html | Porn | Health | 0.666996 |
wikipedia | The larger urban zone (LUZ), or Functional Urban Area (FUA), is a measure of the population and expanse of metropolitan areas in Europe. It consists of a city and its commuting zone.
The definition was introduced in 2004 by Eurostat, the statistical agency of the European Union (EU), in agreement with the national statistics offices in the member states. Eurostat data is provided on cities in the EU, its candidate countries and EFTA countries. Several cities were excluded by definition from the 2004 list of LUZs on technical, definitional grounds, such as the coincidence of the metropolitan area with the urban zone.
The LUZ represents an attempt at a harmonised definition of the metropolitan area. Eurostat's objective was to have an area from which a significant share of the residents commute into the city, a concept known as the "functional urban region." To ensure a good data availability, Eurostat adjusts the LUZ boundaries to administrative boundaries that approximate the functional urban region.
In 2006 LUZ definitions were changed significantly, improving the comparability of LUZ definitions across different countries, and allowing for almost all cities to be included.
This is a list of larger urban zones. The Urban Audit also includes cities from EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and EU candidate countries. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) uses a similar definition of Functional Urban Area to represent population sizes of cities in OECD countries. This data is also included.
The figures in the Eurostat database are an attempt at a compromise between harmonised data for all of the European Union, and with availability of statistical data, making comparisons more accurate.
This is a list of larger urban zones by population as of 2004. The 2004 Urban Audit also includes cities from EFTA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and EU candidate countries, although the only candidate country for which there is available data is Turkey. Some cities, including Marseille, Lille, Nice, Cordoba, Badajoz, Toulon and Montpellier were excluded from the 2004 list on technical, definitional grounds, such as the coincidence of the metropolitan area with the urban zone.
^ a b c Part of the Randstad polycentric urban region consisting of the metropolitan areas of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht (982,000). The total population of the region is 7,100,000.
^ a b c Part of the polycentric urban region of Rhein-Ruhr, which has a total population of 12,190,000.
^ Position Statement on Cohesion Policy 2014–2020, EuroMETREX. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
^ "European cities – the EU-OECD functional urban area definition". Eurostat. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
^ "City statistics - Urban audit". Eurostat. 2006. Archived from the original on 6 February 2009.
^ "The shift of Eurostat to Urban Statistics". Dr. Berthold Feldmann, Eurostat. March 2006. Archived from the original on 20 September 2006.
^ a b "OEDC Populations in cities". OEDC. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
^ "Urban Audit Database". Urbanaudit.org. Archived from the original on 23 May 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011.
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^ "State of European Cities Report" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2011. | 2019-04-24T06:07:07Z | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Urban_Zone | Porn | Reference | 0.276141 |
wordpress | I seen many places developer get confused about how to use AGGREGATE function in WHERE condition with UPDATE statement. Suppose I have one table with user name and percentage. I want to update percentage if one user’s percentage sum is greater or lower than some value.
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Today I was digging Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 more and I found one amazing feature which is supported by SQL Server 2008. The feature is Sync Services for ADO.NET.
If you have many users of your application who used to roam around with lap top or palm top and don’t have constant internet connection than you can give them local copy of database, they can work with application and whenever network or internet available, they can synchronize their own local copy with main database. Isn’t it amazing feature? Yes, it is. This is just an example to make you understand about need this new service but this concept is much much bigger than what I have said.
Let us see what Microsoft is saying about this in its own words from Microsoft Website.
I have visited following few links to get an idea about this amazing service. | 2019-04-23T10:22:20Z | https://riteshshah.wordpress.com/2009/03/ | Porn | Reference | 0.428752 |
wordpress | Brief Synopsis – During a family Thanksgiving dinner party, two young girls go missing and when the police fail to find them, one of the fathers takes matters into his own hands.
My Take on it – I was interested in seeing this movie ever since I saw the trailer posted by Brock at the beginning of the summer and have now finally had that chance.
This movie was very gripping and was able to evoke a roller-coaster of emotions all within a tightly wound 2 and half hours.
I think this movie works well due to the fact that it’s length is longer than most mysteries which are usually under 2 hours and therefore require the writers to divulge early on who did it in order to make the movie satisfying. This movie uses the extra time to draw out the plot and to keep the viewer guessing as to what really is going on.
The acting here is mostly carried by a truly amazing performance by Hugh Jackman, who has recently shown in Les Miserables (2012) how good of an actor he really can be. As the father of one of the missing girls, we can truly feel his pain and despair and want to agree with everything he chooses to do to find his daughter no matter the cost or consequences.
In addition to Jackman, the cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Melissa Leo and Terrance Howard. There all are good here, but their performances were nowhere near the level of Jackman.
One of the best thrillers I’ve seen in a long time.
Bottom Line – Great thriller. Very emotional on many levels and it’s amazing how this movie can invoke so many differing emotions. Highly Recommended!
Nice review. 🙂 Can’t remember if you read mine or not. If not, don’t. I wasn’t very kind. Lol! Must have been in a bad mood. 😉 To be fair, it’s not my favorite genre. | 2019-04-21T00:28:22Z | https://movierob.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/prisoners-2013/ | Porn | Reference | 0.122146 |
livejournal | Bring honor to us all.
With the announcement that Mulan is next in the line-up of being remade from animation to live-action, it has left much pondering about how well this might turn out. Obviously there are some upsides, for example the costuming will hopefully be undoubtedly be gorgeous. On the other hand, the biggest concern many are having is the casting. When it comes to stories about minorities, which happens so rarely in Hollywood as it is, casting is incredibly important and unfortunately the film industry has a history of mistaking that all Asians are interchangeable (Memoirs of a Geisha) or thinking that whitewashing is okay (The Last Airbender). Never mind that while they are clearly just remaking the Disney animated movie, the story itself was adapted from actual Chinese legend and folklore, so the cultural importance should also be reflected as well. While I'm still wary on these particular things, because it walks a fine line of cultural respect and sensitivity, I want to believe that they can pull this off without doing too much damage. Plus, Mulan is one of my all-time favorite Disney movies. Even though it's hard to top perfection, with the successes of what has been done with things like Maleficent and Cinderella, it makes me wonder what they could do with this.
In my opinion, even though I know it'll never happen, I honestly think that Ming-Na Wen could still reprise her role as Mulan in this adaptation. She may be in her fifties, but she's practically the fountain of youth incarnate and is physically fit to accomplish the task of a warrior flawlessly. See: her current role as Melinda May in Agents of Shield.
For other live-action Hua Mulan stories, there is the film Mulan: Rise of a Warrior and the drama The Legend of Hua Mulan, both Chinese produced.
They're making it from the Disney version, as part of the trend of Disney live-action film franchise that's been catching rapid popularity lately, from Maleficent and the recent Cinderella and the future Beauty and the Beast.
I would love there to be a non-Disney Mulan made for American audiences. I don't know how likely that is to happen, though. | 2019-04-25T05:58:25Z | https://rogueslayer452.livejournal.com/661925.html?thread=7880357 | Porn | Reference | 0.438847 |
livejournal | Anyone in here ever made a CD-ROM catalogue? One of my client wanting to distribute CD-ROM catalogue. I don't think creating an offline version of the (shopping-cart) website will be suitable. I am thinking of creating it in excel. Any excel expert in here? How can you pull images to be displayed (say I have all images in a folder and if i type in imagename.jpg it can retrieve images mentioned). I don't even know if this can be done in excel. Otherwise, any other suggestion? | 2019-04-19T01:23:54Z | https://webdev.livejournal.com/198567.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.891354 |
tripod | * NEVER under any circumstances edit another builder's area without their permission.
* Do not enter another builders area without their permission.
* Do not mstat/mpstat mobs in another builders area without their permission. This applies to objects and rooms as well.
* No cross area resets. (Instarooming an item from another area into yours). This is a major source of crashes.
* Check the equipstat maximums for a given class/level range and follow them.
* If you are testing a program that risks the integrity of the mud get help!
* I am an Immortal as old as life as young as the rainbow as endless as time.
* Our hands do the work of the world and reach out to touch others.
* Our ears hear the cry of mortals call throughout the world, for peace, guidance, adventure and unity.
* Our eyes search for others of our kind to aid in growth of our world.
* Our mouth utters the call to daily duty and hears prayers in every tongue.
* Our minds teach us to work together to create our world.
* Our hearts beats for every mortal, bleeds for every injury to humanity and throbs with joy at every triumph of truth.
* Our soul knows no fear but its own unworthiness.
* Our hope is for a better world in which we too exist.
* Our motto is to create the uncreatable.
* Our belief is to know that every word placed here is placed by a living breathing individual.
* Our pledge to practice being a better and nobler citizen so that others may follow our leadership. | 2019-04-22T06:17:50Z | http://summerstorme.tripod.com/id4.html | Porn | Reference | 0.214832 |
typepad | "Never give up." — Interview with Hannu Luntiala, part 2 - "Write now is good."
Thanks for this interesting interview. I am the lucky translator who has been given a grant to produce an English excerpt from Viimeiset viestit, which I hope to complete by the end of August. As soon as I heard about the book I was intrigued, and after speaking with the publisher about it, I immediately applied for a grant to support translating an excerpt.
Having just started to read the novel, I can tell you that the format works wonderfully to create a sense of acute curiosity, of peering through cracks into private mysteries.
I am interested in the English translation of "The Last Messages" by Hannu Luntiala. (Review in Foreign Policy issue July/August 2007.) My interest includes (1) text message format, (2) attitude - philosophy expressed, and (3) my son, Ted Shelton's , high esteem for the Finnish people.
Hi Lola — Thank you so much for the links! I'll post an update ASAP and I'll email you when it's live. | 2019-04-22T16:13:34Z | https://writenowisgood.typepad.com/write_now_is_good/2007/05/never_give_up_i.html | Porn | Business | 0.501821 |
wordpress | Mother’s Day is a day of gifts, cards, and dinner with mom in order to tell her how much she is appreciated. We celebrate mom on Mother’s Day. According to studies, moms get more material benefit out of Mother’s Day than dads out of Father’s Day. It is appropriate that Mother’s Day is always on a Sunday since moms and motherhood are gifts from God.
On the sixth and final day of creation, God created the most valuable part of his creation and he crowned it with his very image. We as humans were created in God’s image and were created male and female. God uniquely blessed humans for the purpose of spreading his image over creation so that his dominion would be exercised. In God’s wise design, he established childbearing and rearing as his means of establishing his glory throughout the earth. Thus motherhood is essential to God’s purpose for creation. For obvious reasons fatherhood is essential too, but motherhood is unique in that a woman alone can conceive a child within her own body, carry that child for 9 months, and then bring forth another image bearer into the world.
The depreciation of motherhood and the trend of couples putting more emphasis on other things is seen in the decline in the American birthrate. Birthrates have significantly reduced in America over the past 50+ years. As soon as someone says that it is good for a wife to have children and to give herself to childrearing that person is instantly branded a “sexist” or a “male-chauvinist.” This name calling will be followed by the comment, “a woman is more than a baby producer.” Well, I agree that there is more to women than bearing children, however I would say that there is really nothing higher from a creation standpoint. A woman can conceive and carry a child in her own body! An image of God is produced from her body! That is something that a man cannot do and it is glorious. Why would we depreciate in any way such a unique and amazing ability and gift of God?
Why would anyone downplay or even attack motherhood? One answer will suffice for a Christian and it is found in Genesis 3:15 when God says to the Serpent, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heal.” Satan has known from the beginning that his downfall would come through a mother giving birth to a child. Every child that is born reminds him that his defeat is certain. The birth of Mary’s son in Bethlehem brought judgment on his reptilian head and on all who follow him. For those of us who trust in the woman’s offspring we find blessing upon blessing. And thus we know that children are a blessing of God and thus we celebrate mothers and motherhood.
After the fall we live in a cursed creation filled with heartaches such as infertility and the death of children, and we should grieve with those who experience such loses. But let us with equal passion let everyone know that from the beginning God created them male and female and blessed them and said be fruitful and multiply. Let us show compassion to those who cannot conceive and let us with boldness speak to a world that depreciates children and let them know that children are a blessing and motherhood is something to be celebrate every day of the year and not just on Mother’s Day.
Last week as I checked my email I noticed that I had been tagged in a post by one of my parishioners. The caption of the tag was: “Mike Galdamez, what do you think?” The blog post in question was by pastor Perry Noble of New Spring Church and was titled, “The Bible Isn’t Important” (at http://www.perrynoble.com posted 12/30/2014). Well, if that title does not grab the attention of a conservative evangelical pastor/theologian I’m not sure what will.
Since this Christian brother was asking me, his pastor, a question about this blog post, I felt obligated to provide a reasoned response. This is not an arbitrary issue to this brother, since he has family and friends who attend Noble’s church. I appreciate his desire to know biblically and theologically what he should think of this pastor’s comments. I am also affected by Noble’s ministry since I minister in the same area of the world and I too know several of his parishioners. With all of this as context, I will now proceed to provide some theological thoughts on his post.
First off, Noble’s post is an exposition of his ninth conviction in his previous blog, “Ten Convictions I Have About the Church.” This conviction is as follows: “9 – Community is more important than reading the Bible. (The early church didn’t have the Bible for the first 300 years of Christianity… but they did have one another.)” Now this provocative and “edgy” wording seems to be Noble’s attempt to relate to and communicate with a younger postmodern audience. This title, “The Bible Isn’t Important,” seems simply to be a ploy to get people’s attention, since he states in the post that he does in fact “love God’s Word.” Allow me to make a quick sidenote before I get on to the keynote of the article: As a pastor I think that Noble should be more interested in being clear and precise with his words rather than trying to be provocative. I will say no more about this issue, but will now move on to the heart of Noble’s post.
My initial question is simply this, “Why does a pastor feel it necessary to place Christian community over against reading God’s Word?” Does he want his people to read the Bible less and get together with each other more? But here is another question, “What is the Christian community without the Word of God shaping that community?” Without the Christian Scriptures the community is no longer a “Christian” community. For example, the early Church “devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching” (Acts 2:42). That is, God’s community gathered for the express purpose to hear and receive the teaching of the apostles who were giving God’s people God’s revelation. During the book of Acts, the people of God had the Old Testament as their Scriptures along with the developing New Testament canon. I will come back to this thought in a moment, but let me move on to a second concern.
Yes, Noble is correct that the early church did not have the Bible (consisting of 66 books) sitting in their homes. He is also correct to say that much of the ancient world could not read. But, here is the problem. Noble makes it sound like believers depended solely on the community and not on the Bible. This is simply not true. The church has always been built upon the Scriptures! The early church gathered so regularly for the express purpose of hearing and memorizing God’s Word (Acts 17:11; 1 Tim. 4:13). Noble makes it sound like early believers did not have a “quiet time,” but in fact they did have their quiet time because they were steeped in the Word of God. In fact the early Jewish Christians would have been so steeped in the Word of God that many had significant portions memorized. Just think of how much Scripture a Jewish girl named Mary knew in order to articulate something as biblically profound as the Magnificat (Luke 1:46-55). Some biblical scholars highlight that she either quotes or alludes to passages found in Genesis, Deuteronomy, 1 and 2 Samuel, Job, Psalms, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Micah, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah. The reason why a young peasant girl was able to compose such a richly biblical hymn of praise was because she had been saturated in the Scriptures from her infancy through hearing and memorizing it in her home and synagogue (Ps. 119:11). So even though Mary and other believers in the early church were not necessarily having morning devotions out of their own copy of the Old & New Testaments, they did have their minds so filled with memorized Scripture that they were able to meditate on it day and night (Ps. 1:1-3). The Apostle Paul’s young protege, Timothy, also had his mind filled with Scripture (“the sacred writings”) from his infancy as Paul mentions in 2 Timothy 3:14-15. So again, for Noble to say that the early Christians did not have Bibles and thus did not have “quiet times” is a misrepresentation of life in the early church. It does not matter that the early church did not “read” their own copies of the Bible; they did “hear” the Bible publicly read on a daily basis and also had such vast amounts memorized that they “meditated” upon it in their morning and evening devotions. If Noble wants to replace his parishioners’ personal Bible reading with the community, then he should advocate that the community of faith gather together each day to publicly read the Bible so that they can be bathed in the hearing of it and then memorize it so that while they are apart they will be able to rehearse it in their minds and mediate on the rich truths so that they will be “like a tree planted by streams of water” (Psalm 1:2-3). Also, instead of downplaying Bible reading he ought to call his people to Bible saturation through individuals, families, and groups of believers immersing themselves continually in the Word.
(3) Noble mistakenly places community over Scripture as the foundation and builder of the church. But how does the building build itself? The church does not build itself; rather it is built by the Word of God. For Paul writes, “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets…” (Eph 2:19-20a). Paul tells us here that God’s household is built on “the foundation of the apostles and prophets;” that is to say, the Christian community is built upon the inspired writings of the Old and New Testaments. Thus the church is built on the Word of God and not on the community of God. As Protestant Reformer John Calvin wrote, “Paul testifies that the church is ‘built upon the foundation of the prophets and apostles’ (Eph. 2:20). If the teaching of the prophets and apostles is the foundation, this must have had authority before the church began to exist” (Calvin, Institutes, 1.7.2). God builds his community through His Word. This brings me back to my previous insight that the Christian community is only “Christian” because it is built upon and built by the Christian Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments (1 Tim 3:14-15).
Here Noble makes it sound like Jesus was wasting his time trying to explain the scriptures to his disciples since they just “didn’t get it.” He goes on to say that what really changed the disciples was community (i.e., by spending time with Jesus and each other). But this is simply not the case. The real reason for the change in the disciples was the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2). In fact, Jesus told them that He must leave them so that the Holy Spirit could come to them (John 16:7). And when the Spirit arrived He guided them into truth and led them to pen the New Testament (John 16:7-15). These men did not, as Noble states, “launch a revolution” because of the community. Instead, Scripture tells us they were changed by the finished work of Christ as He poured out the Holy Spirit so that they finally did “get it” (i.e., they understood the Scriptures). It was the Spirit of God bringing the Word of God that changed the disciples. Noble needs to be more careful not to misread the Bible through his misunderstanding of the difference between the disciples under the Old Covenant without the indwelling Spirit and the New Covenant with the Spirit (2 Cor. 3:1-18).
Now wait! What about the ministry of the Holy Spirit who seals, grows, and keeps believers (i.e., the perseverance of the saints)? I don’t disagree that God uses other believers in our lives to keep us persevering and growing in Christ. However, He also uses supremely his Word. But in all of this, it is God’s power that keeps us as believers. Or again Noble states, “I’ve seen people dive back into destructive habits and relationships NOT because they could not find their Bible, but because they had no one in their lives who seemed to care.” Noble’s sarcasm in saying people could “NOT find their Bible” is his way of emphasizing his central point: The community is more important than being in the Word. The real problem is not that people can’t find their Bibles, it is because they choose to keep their Bibles closed and continue to live in their sin. The thing believers need more than anything else is to keep themselves in the Word (Ps. 119:11). It is the reading of, mediating on, and preaching of the Word of God that grows and keeps believers (John 17:17; Eph 5:26). Noble says that he has seen people walk away from Christ because they didn’t have the support of Christians, however I can say as a pastor I have watched people walk away who have had plenty of Christians in their lives, yet they desired their sin more than the Word. If these people would have chosen to put themselves under the authority of God’s Word they would not have walked away. But of course the main reason people walk away from God (which Noble does not mention) is that they were never truly born again through the living and abiding Word of God (1 John 2:19; 1 Peter 1:23).
In the end, I believe I know what Perry Noble is trying to do – he wants to show how important the Christian community is to the individual Christian. However, his blog is so incoherent and unsupported with Scripture that it could easily misguide some of Christ’s little sheep. Some might come away with the thought, “Well, maybe the Bible is not as important to my life as I was once told.” Why would any pastor risk putting any such thought in the minds of his sheep? Any man who calls himself a “pastor” (i.e., shepherd) must be above reproach and careful not to mislead any sheep (Mark 9:42-50). A blog that appears so misguided makes one wonder how Noble is leading so many of God’s sheep. A shepherd, a keeper of souls, must devote himself to the “sacred writings” so that he can see the community of faith grow up into Christ. For Paul’s advice to pastor Timothy is the same advice he gives to all pastors: “…devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. … Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Tim 4:13, 16).
“I will meditate on your precepts and fix my eyes on your ways. I will delight in your statutes; I will not forget your word” (Psalm 119:15-16). | 2019-04-20T12:57:59Z | https://mikegaldamez.wordpress.com/author/mikegaldamez/ | Porn | Reference | 0.345197 |
wordpress | Okay – you should have figured out by now that when I do not post for a long time it is because the fog got too thick for me to see and I went into shut-down mode. And that is where I have been for some time now. I think it’s been about a week but it feels more like a month. I think the downward spiral started with some bad news.
I saw a notice on facebook about a friend’s friend whose son was injured in an accident. So I immediately starting praying for the family and following there updates. Much of it was so similar to our first few days in ICU…praying for a miracle and believing in spite of what we saw. I grieved with them and from the nature of the injuries I knew it would be a long road for them too. But I kept my comment positive and tried to offer comfort. The church they attend had a big prayer rally to pray for a miracle for the young man (who was about Chris’ age) and I realized I did want them to get their miracle…but I would really be mad if they did. Mad and glad!
I prayed for his recovery and hurt with his parents so much I could barely speak myself. I really understood much of what they were going through. It did not sound good and he seemed to actually have more extensive injuries than Chris had recieved…but then the young man passed away. I cried quite a bit for people I did not even know and will probably never meet.
But the parents made a statement that I could not get over. I in no way felt bad toward them as I know they were dealing with their great grief the best way that they could… and they were trying to shake off the shock. But they said, it’s better that he go on rather than living with a disability. While I did understand what they meant it sent shock waves through my heart. I went in to Chris and scooped him up from his bed and held him and cried….if he’s gone – there’s no hope….and I am not ready to give up on that yet….
I sure won’t tell you it’s been easy – and it’s not even been any easier since that moment either. And here in this heart wrenching, gut wrenching fight for my son… I’ve found myself stripped down to the basic me.(quoted from a friend in a support group)…and that’s really true. It’s like I have gone full circle in my life and all I’ve found is myself. But for me, it’s like I have found the me that everyone has tried to change all my life.
People wanted me to be more feminine, less active, have a quieter nature….don’t talk so much – don’t ask questions… and it went on until now – I really don’t care!!!
Yeah, you heard me right – I do not care anymore. I’m back to me – back to that basic – what you see is what you get lifestyle! I think it’s good… but really it doesn’t matter to me anymore if it is good or not – it’s just me! So what!!! I am learning (and it only took me 50 years) that I don’t gotta be nobody for anybody…it’s just the simply complicated me! | 2019-04-18T20:51:53Z | https://macdingolinger.wordpress.com/tag/miracle/ | Porn | Reference | 0.269782 |
wordpress | Thanks to all of our sponsors, volunteers, and participants this year! We had another great day for cycling, and were able to showcase Dayton neighborhoods while giving away a lot of cool cycling-related gear and gifts. Thanks for making each year a memorable, fun, and truly unique experience in Dayton! | 2019-04-24T03:57:03Z | https://tourdedayton.wordpress.com/past-event-photos/2014-tour-de-dayton-photos/ | Porn | Sports | 0.508286 |
wordpress | Sunday, 4/22/18 – Craft & Vendor show at the H.A. Todd Auxiliary Post. 92nd and Beloit, West Allis, WI. 9am to 3pm.
Tuesday, 7/17/18 – Ladies Night Out at the Wehr Nature Center, Franklin, WI. 5:30pm to 8:30pm.
Saturday, 11/3/18 – Holiday Craft Fair at Nathan Hale High School, 116th and Lincoln, West Allis, WI. 9am to 3pm. | 2019-04-19T09:04:19Z | https://getabeadonit.wordpress.com/calendar/ | Porn | Arts | 0.4293 |
wikipedia | ^ Hutchinson's Encyclopaedia: Torture 互联网档案馆的存檔，存档日期2009-02-07.
^ Torture - LoveToKnow 1911 互联网档案馆的存檔，存档日期2013-05-29.
^ Consequentialist reasons why torture is wrong. BBC.
^ 國際特赦組織. Torture and ill-treatment: the arguments: 1. What is torture? What is ill-treatment? What’s the difference?. （原始内容存档于2007-12-05）.
^ Bagaric, Mirko & Clarke Julie;Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The Circumstances in Which Torture Is Morally Justifiable 互联网档案馆的存檔，存档日期2008-02-09. University of San Francisco Law Review, Volume 39, Spring 2005, Number 3, pp. 581-616.
^ One third support some torture. BBC News. 19 October 2006.
^ Nooria Mehraby. Refugee Women: The Authentic Heroines 互联网档案馆的存檔，存档日期2007-08-30. | 2019-04-23T15:52:07Z | https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%85%B7%E5%88%91 | Porn | News | 0.864549 |
salon | SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal government agreed on Thursday to pay $11 million to the relatives of three women who were killed when an on-duty immigration agent ran a stop sign in 2009.
The family of Sandra Garcia, who was driving the van that was struck, and Maria Nieto, a passenger, will receive $7.2 million, the families' attorney Jim Frantz told U-T San Diego (http://bit.ly/yxR0H7).
The family of a third passenger, Patricia Reyes, will receive $3.8 million, Frantz said.
Two children survived the Dec. 29, 2009, crash at an El Centro intersection.
According to the California Highway Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cole Dotson was going more than 100 mph before he slammed into the van carrying the victims.
Dotson was part of a team following a suspected methamphetamine smuggler and did not have his vehicle's lights or sirens on at the time.
Dotson faces vehicular manslaughter charges in Imperial County, a rare instance of a federal agent facing criminal charges for on-duty conduct. He has pleaded not guilty and, at an October hearing in El Centro, was ordered to stand trial.
Dotson's lawyers want the case transferred to federal court in San Diego so he will be able to claim immunity from state criminal charges as a federal law enforcement agent. | 2019-04-24T12:07:17Z | https://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/us_govt_to_pay_11m_for_border_agents_accident/ | Porn | News | 0.910353 |
wordpress | A focus on instrumentality as a material practice can generate the conditions for recreation, industry and remediation. The result will be a synthetic landscape with new forms and programs that might further the ongoing conversation about how landscape practice can contribute solutions to contemporary economic, social, and environmental issues.
Instrumentality is a practice in which we create the landscapes we inhabit through embodied experience. As a social practice this might manifest as the bicycle and the promenade, the popup tent and a city market, or the pickup truck and the stadium tailgate party. Instrumentality as a material practice is in a slightly different vein. It is the technology- tools and techniques- that we use to engage and change the matter from which landscapes are made; the fuel torch cutting through a hvac ductwork, the dredge plying a river bottom, or the pruners we use to shape a garden hedge.
Current landscape-making embraces the social practice of instrumentality as a model for public space. Lawrence Halprin’s emphasis on movement and the bodied environment, strolling along the riverbank, or recreational sports are all accepted forms of programming for public landscapes. These are exciting and rich but they narrow the field of public landscape-making. Construction and maintenance operations are often be the most interesting aspect of a landscape- most city parks will never be more interesting than when they are being built. Lopping off this second half of instrumentalism- instrumentality as material practice- robs the user of agency and impoverishes the range of possible habitable landscapes. And with good reason.
Technical craftsmanship, complex labor and the operation of heavy machinery is often dangerous and demands a high level of expertise. Frequently this seems to necessitate strict control over a territory being manipulated. The security gates at a port entry, construction fencing, or the occasional closing of leisure parks for maintenance and repairs are some of the traditional methods for dealing with this situation. They are landscape-models: temporarily wall off and police a dangerous site, or conduct all operations within a controlled industrial zone. Any new models, especially those that would seek to wed these operations (granted, these are rather extreme material-instrumental operations) with recreational use must evolve new forms, new landscape-models, and come from a place of knowledge and respect for the technologies as well as the desires of would-be recreational users that would cohabitate a landscape.
Urban industrial canals offer an ideal test bed for the development of this new model. The range of industrial, construction, and remediation operations found on canals is exceptional- heavy construction, barge shipping, municipal solid waste disposal, and dredging to name a few. In addition, many now have large amounts of vacancy along their banks due to shifting patterns of industrial production. As such, they often become sites for urban exploration and volunteer fusion ecologies or are subject to the redevelopment pressures of the real estate cycles of the city. A focus on instrumentality as a material practice as a design process- especially that of dredging operations in canals- can generate the conditions for industry, remediation, and recreation. The result will be a synthetic landscape model offering new forms and models of public space that builds on the knowledge of current landscape practices and enriches the practice of public landscape-making in the city. | 2019-04-25T04:44:54Z | https://instrumentalism.wordpress.com/thesis/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.704861 |
wordpress | I didn’t get nervous until the sky lit up.
That’s what I saw last night the second before the power went out. The sky lit up with a bright blue flash to the east. I was in my kitchen, wondering if I had enough pots filled with water and trying not to freak out about the scary wind gusts hitting my windows, when the sky lit up in a way I’d never seen before. Kind of like a cross between lightning and an enormous searchlight. That’s when I got really scared. Because what was that? The zombie apocalypse? An alien abduction? Terrifying, yo.
The first blue flash wasn’t when the power went out. The lights were flickering and the wind was scary, so I went online for live coverage. I was looking out of my window wall. Which by the way? Is awesome to have every single day there’s not a hurricane. But when 70 mph wind gusts are slamming against those windows, you want to run and hide. It was weird because I was having an eerie feeling the power might go out after all. Con Edison had already turned out power in the evacuated Zone A (the southern tip of Manhattan and areas right near the rivers) and warned us that they would be turning out sections of lower Manhattan if flooding was imminent. Flooding can cause salt water to come in contact with the underground electrical grid, which can cause large-scale power outages.
So there I was at my window wall, looking south over 18th Street. Another blue flash lit up the eastern sky. And the power went out a second later. I can’t tell you how cool it was to see all the city lights and illuminated windows in my view go dark instantaneously. If I knew everything in my refrigerator would soon be rotting, I probably would have thought it was less cool.
In my panicked estimation, there were three possibilities for the outage. 1. The zombie apocalypse. 2. An alien abduction. 3. Con Ed turned out the power like they said they would. But no. That blue flash I saw was an explosion at the Con Ed substation.
How did I find out about the explosion? By venturing into the dark hallway of my floor with a flashlight to knock on my friend Jayne’s door. She was all hooked up with an emergency radio. They were saying that the power should be on by tomorrow.
Well, tomorrow is today. I am writing this from my friends’ place on the Upper West Side. Lower Manhattan is entirely dark. There’s no electricity at all. The subways aren’t working. My building has no running water. No heat. I did not open my refrigerator once, but am still worried about all the food I’ll have to throw out. Including several bags of Trader Joe’s Tofu Edamame Nuggets (aka my new addiction) in the freezer. Really? Could we at least spare the nuggets? You know it’s bad when the nuggets don’t make it. So I packed some stuff and hiked up to 76th Street, stopping briefly to gawk at that dangling crane.
The living is pretty sweet here on the Upper West. There are lights. There is Internet. I won’t have to read by flashlight like I did last night. There’s running water and heat. You can even flush the toilet without having to manually refill the tank! I might stay forever, Tim and Nick. Just so you guys know. Thanks for being a ray of light in the dark.
Guess what my editor messengered over? ARCs of my new book, All I Need!
You know what this means, friendly neighbors. It’s time for a giveaway. We’ll do this one over on Twitter. No worries if you don’t tweet. I’ll be doing a ginormous contest here on my blog for a chance to win more ARCs…along with an ARC of an eagerly awaited book by another Viking author…all with a special twist! So please stay tuned for that contest.
1. Follow me on Twitter.
1. All entries must be completed by Friday, November 2 at 11:11 pm.
2. Only one tweet per entrant will be counted.
3. I will announce the winner on Twitter on Monday, November 5.
4. The winner will have two days to email me (susanecolasanti[at]gmail[dot]com) their full name and mailing address. If a response is not received in time, an alternate winner will be selected.
5. The winning mailing address must be located in the United States. If you live abroad and have a contact in the States who can receive the prize for you, it can be sent to their address.
Thanks to all of you who’ve shared your enthusiasm over the cover of All I Need. And thanks to those of you who have already pre-ordered it! I’m blown away. You guys seriousy are the best.
Some of you have asked what the book is about. That is an excellent question. Here’s the book synopsis that I believe will be going on the jacket flap.
Skye wants to meet the boy who will change her life forever. Seth feels their instant connection the second he sees her. When Seth starts talking to Skye at the last beach party of the summer, it’s obvious to both of them that this is something real. But when Seth leaves for college before they exchange contact info, Skye wonders if he felt the same way she did—and if she will ever see him again. Even if they find their way back to each other, can they make a long-distance relationship work despite trust issues, ex drama, and some serious background differences?
One of the things I’m most excited about All I Need is that the story is told from alternating girl/boy perspectives. Last time I was able to pull that off was with my first book, When It Happens. Take Me There is told from three perspectives, but that’s a whole different dynamic. My original intention was to write all of my books from both the girl’s and boy’s points of view. Then I realized that telling the boy’s side would give too much away in my later books. I’m stoked to get back to my original style with All I Need.
Want more info? Here are five things you should know about All I Need. Cheers!
Guess what I just saw on Amazon? The cover of my new book, All I Need, which will be released on May 21, 2013.
All I Need is a story about soul mates, summer, and serendipity. I believe this to be the most romantic book I’ve written so far. This cover is freaking gorgeous. I adore how perfectly it captures what I’m hoping is an epic love story.
I really hope you love this cover as much as I do!
Normally I’ll read the book before seeing the movie. But in this case, reading the book will be enhanced by replaying the wonderful movie scenes behind my eyes while I’m reading. Snaps for SC. Dude! We have the same initials! This is totally a sign you will see When It Happens or Something Like Fate on the big screen soon.
2. New York! I’ll be at the New York Public Library’s main branch (476 5th Avenue) this Saturday, October 20 at 2:00 pm on a Bullying in Books panel. Please stop by and say hey if you’re in the area.
3. Not only is it Teen Read Week, but it’s Anti-Bullying Month. Justine Magazine asked me to write a letter to their readers on how to survive bullying. You can read the letter here. Justine also posted a list of books that focus on the consequences of bullying.
4. It makes me so happy when I hear from readers who have been inspired by my books enough to make positive changes in their lives. Some of you have sent me pictures of your own treasure maps, wish boxes, and inspiration for looking up. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has shared these with me. The main goal I have for my writing is to reach out to teens and help them feel less alone. When you send me feedback, it makes me even more determined to keep reaching for that goal. You rule.
Ciao for now, party people.
As most of you know, I moved to a new neighborhood here in downtown Manhattan this summer. It’s called Gramercy. I never knew how cute Gramercy was until I moved here and started exploring it. But I have been achingly familiar with Gramercy Park for many years. Not familiar with it from the inside, though.
Gramercy Park is the only private park in Manhattan. Its gates are always locked. The park has been locked this way since 1844. Those first keys were made of solid gold. Only residents who live on the perimeter of the park are granted keys. My place is like a block from the park. One block = too far away for a key.
This rule, of course, is unacceptable.
So of course The New York Times did a huge front-page article on these elusive Gramercy Park keys right when I’m trying to score a black market key on the DL. Way to blow up my spot, NYT. Whatevs. That just makes me even more determined to get one.
According to the article, there are only 383 keys to the park. They are numbered. They are coded. And they are guarded like you wouldn’t believe.
This clearly calls for a plan of Ocean’s 11 caliber.
P.S. The locks and keys are changed every year.
Oh, and P.P.S.? The keys are virtually impossible to duplicate.
Bring it on, key energy. I’ll bring the power of the Clooney.
When I was lucky enough to score an advance copy of Burn for Burn at the best rooftop party ever, I was pretty stoked. This is the first in a trilogy that promises to heat up with each new book.
Lillia, Kat and Mary are three very different girls who all want the same thing: revenge. They tell this story in distinct voices that will keep you up late reading. There are unpredictable twists. There are relationships so entwined it will make your head spin. And there is a lot of drama. Jar Island hasn’t seen action like this in the history of ever. Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian are en fuego, yo.
I can’t wait to see what happens next in this hot trilogy. Sizzle!
The entire City Love trilogy is now out in paperback! Here’s to sisterhood, self-discovery, and summer love.
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wordpress | I just returned from a business trip to Italy, my favorite country to visit. Traveling, no matter how far, is an experience, one that has many lessons we can learn from and this trip was no different.
My take away from this trip was, if you can get away with not telling the truth or making an excuse about poor service, then do it. This goes against my personal and work ethics.
As a business owner, management personnel or employee you need to be able to deliver what you advertise and not only deliver, but go up and beyond for your customers. It should not matter whether they will be return customers or not, great service should always be delivered.
If, something happens where less than what was advertised has to be delivered, then an honest explanation and apology need to be given. We all can understand that things happen especially when someone is honest with us about the situation. It is when poor service is delivered, no apology is given, and the expectation from the business is, “deal with it” that it is unacceptable and upsetting.
So, remember if you are in the customer service business and find yourself in a position where you cannot not deliver what is expected, have a back-up plan for your customer. One that explains the situation and why you cannot do anything about it, then have an ace up your sleeve that you can pull out and deliver something unexpected that will show your customers that you do care about them.
Oh dear. What a shame! There’s nothing hard about customer service – just treat others as you would want to be treated yourself. But there’s a huge gap between “should do” and “do do”. It reminds me of the restaurants that get waterfront sites. They seem to thing the view will be enough and often the food is absolutely dreadful. I just don’t understand how you can be proud of what you do and who you are when you are taking shortcuts like these. And they don’t even make sense. They never did, but with the advent of social media and online reviews now I can prove to the owners that it doesn’t make business sense. And yet here we are…..Better for the rest of us though, it makes it easier to stand out.
If they only knew the cost of not apologizing. So enormous. Great post. | 2019-04-19T20:38:20Z | https://ppm4u.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/when-poor-service-is-delivered/ | Porn | Business | 0.990481 |
blogs | twice a year i am involved together with others in running a training week called missional entrepreneurship. we seek to help people to take ideas for making the world a better place and get them to become real. students who are on our pioneer training at cms do this as a module on the diploma but lots of people do it as a standalone. here's shannon hopkins who leads the course explaining what it's all about. our next week is in november.
it's hosted at pickwell manor - steve baker who also leads the course tells that story here and why he loves the course.
and this year mark samson will also be on the team and he explores an alternative economic imagination here.
these three videos along with the brilliant eve poole all came from interviews at last years cms conversations day which was themed on missional entrepreneurship. we're excited about the one this year on future present! | 2019-04-20T14:22:10Z | https://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/2016/10/persuade-me-to-do-missional-entrepreneurship.html | Porn | Business | 0.952479 |
typepad | PSFK - Inspiration to make things better.
Thank you Wim Rampen for your blog post, and commenters for adding insights.
One of the key-premises of the “Social era” is that the power has shifted from companies to Customers. We’ve all read cases of “United Breaks guitars” and alike to prove this. We also know that Customers are more keen to follow advice from close friends, relatives and credible strangers online than from just any company representative. And there’s plenty of evidence that Customers are showrooming.
But does this all mean that the power has shifted? The more I think of it, the more I disagree. Customers, despite the social tools, mobile devices and what have you, are losing ground. And here are some reasons why.
Artists inform scientists what might be worth trying.
Engineers build what might be worth buying.
Marketers find people, offer win-win for mutual profit.
Industrialists make it affordable and cheaper - this might not work much longer.
Financiers take risks and take rewards, cyclically bubbling.
Teachers help future artists, scientists, engineers, marketers, industrialists, and more find their vision and calling. This might work.
Others create safe spaces for stillness and peace, to find personal truth. This might be worth trying.
When I was 16, I was ignorant, like most at that age (nothing new to see here, move on, go to work). Almost 40 years later, I am still ignorant, that amount of accumulated knowledge and experience not making a visible drop in the ocean of what might be knowable. Here is one drop that stood out for me.
Grateful for our forbears' lives we enjoy building on foundations they laid and clean up messes they had to leave behind. And the next generation will build the next level and do it for us.
Here we are, in the new year, and some of us choose to make resoutions. Fine if you like to, but for many it is better not to, writes Chuck Blakeman.
Instead of resolutely setting goals, I went to follow a faint calling to examine and re-discover what am I still longing for, silently, at the turn of the year. Yes, there it was, as always, noticed and celebrated rarely in the rush of getting things done.
These longings are personal, I am sure you have yours, and no, you need not look for any now, or even reveal, just as some of mine may not resonate with readers, and some other may not be good to put in public. So if you long to know what are mine, ask in private.
... is a beginner at something. | 2019-04-25T22:27:11Z | https://cocreatr.typepad.com/everyone_is_a_beginner_or/2013/01/index.html | Porn | Reference | 0.816167 |
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This looks great to me.
I bought these used without the box but only worn once :( I want these hot boots to go to a good home and hope they get more wear. Measurements: Height (sole to top) = 13” Sole = 12.3” Width (sole) = 4.25” Calf Circumference > ~ 16-17” this can be adjusted since they are Velcro sides | eBay!
I have a hot pair of well broken in lineman Wesco for sale on ebay. Check them out, I need to thin out the herd a little.
Should have added that these wescos are about 10.5 to 11 wide. I normally wear a 10.5 and these fit with heavy socks. See the ebay site for more info, having trouble posting pics here. | 2019-04-25T04:03:26Z | https://hotboots.com/bol/discussion/6/boots-for-sale-used-for-all-posts-and-discussions-about-sales | Porn | Shopping | 0.680099 |
wordpress | Two weeks ago, the FHA took steps to limit risk to its single-family portfolio, announcing that it will flag some loans for manual underwriting. FHA’s Chief Risk Officer Keith Becker told the WSJ just how many loans the agency thinks will be affected, adding that the FHA felt that it was appropriate to take some steps to mitigate the risks we’re seeing.
Two weeks ago, the Federal Housing Administration took steps to mitigate risks to its single-family portfolio, announcing updates to its TOTAL Mortgage Scorecard that will flag some loans for manual underwriting.
The move upset a number of lenders who feared that some of their borrowers would be shut out of FHA financing and that borrowers who began the process but no longer qualified under new guidelines would be angry.
Turns out, their fears have some merit.
An FHA official told The Wall Street Journal that approximately 40,000 to 50,000 loans a year will likely be affected, which amounts to about 4-5% to all the mortgages the FHA insures on an annual basis.
The WSJ points out that the move is a complete reversal of the agency’s 2016 decision to loosen underwriting standards, nixing an old rule that required manual underwriting for loans with credit scores below 620 and a debt-to-income ratio above 43%.
But the agency’s annual report to Congress released in November revealed risk trends that threatened to drain the program, among them a significant increase in cash-out refinances, a drop in average borrower credit score, and a jump in borrowers with high DTIs.
Requiring manual underwriting for riskier loans is intended to curb these risks, and there’s a good chance a number of borrowers will no longer qualify.
According to Becker, it’s likely that many of the loans flagged for manual underwriting won’t end up passing muster.
Deferred Student Loans for FHA Loans for a Kentucky FHA Mortgage loan approval.
FHA recently change the guidelines for getting a Kentucky mortgage loan approved with student loans. This works to your advantage versus the old guidelines.
Mortgagees must use the guidance in Mortgagee Letter (ML) 16-08 for case numbers assigned on or after June 30, 2016.
The Mortgagee must include the monthly payment shown on the credit report, loan agreement or payment statement to calculate the Borrower’s debts.
If the credit report does not include a monthly payment for the loan, the Mortgagee must use the amount of the monthly payment shown in the loan agreement or payment statement.
If the monthly payment shown on the credit report is utilized to calculate the monthly debts, no further documentation is required.
If the credit report does not include a monthly payment for the loan, or the payment reported on the credit report is greater than the payment on the loan agreement or payment statement, the Mortgagee must obtain a copy of the loan agreement or payment statement documenting the amount of the monthly payment.
If a student loan is not deferred, the debt is considered an installment loan and FHA will count the actual monthly payment for the obligation.
This includes the actual monthly payment for the obligation that is being paid under an income-based repayment plan, which may include an actual monthly payment of $0.
FHA and HUD just came out with an updated Mortgagee Letter 16-08 in regards to Deferred Student Loans for FHA Loans for a Kentucky FHA Mortgage loan approval.
Previously had to count 2% of balance against DTI, it is changed to 1% of balance against DTI. See below from the Letter.
FHA STREAMLINES REFINANCE GUIDELINES IN KENTUCKY 2015.
As you probably know, HUD has scrapped their old underwriting handbook and has re-written the whole darn thing which they will be implementing on all case numbers order on or after June 15. What they DIDN’T do was indicate which rules were CHANGED significantly from the previous handbook. We compared both the old and the new handbook and found 46 rule changes. Here are seven of them.
New Rule – Two years uninterrupted part-time income is required. Average income over prior 2 years or use 12-month average of hours at the current pay rate if the lender documents an increase in pay rate.
Old Rule – Rental income may be counted when relocating outside of reasonable commute distance for job and borrower has 25% equity.
New Rule – Rental income may be counted when relocating and the new residence is at least 100 miles from previous residence. If no history of rental income since the last tax filing, borrower must have 25% equity.
Old Rule – Gross up using tax rate evidenced on last tax return. If borrower did not filea return, use tax rate of 25%.
Old Rule – May be excluded from ratios. If manual underwrite—may be excluded if debt will not affect ability to pay the mortgage.
New Rule – May be excluded ONLY if—they have cumulative payment of less than or equal to 5% of the borrower’s gross monthly income AND the borrower may not pay the debts down to achieve this percentage.
Old Rule – If relocating for employment, borrower may obtain a second FHA loan for a new principal residence if current residence is more than a reasonable commute to new residence.
New Rule – If relocating for employment, the commuting distance between the old residence and new residence must be more than 100 miles.
EFINANCE GUIDELINES IN KENTUCKY 2015. | 2019-04-22T10:14:11Z | https://kentuckyfhaloan.wordpress.com/tag/fha-kentucky/ | Porn | News | 0.177536 |
wordpress | Still thinking it through, but moved by Rashid Johnson’s Native Sun. Two fellow Sundance Film Festival volunteers and I were able to get into a press screening. The film is still tragically relevant. I have mixed feelings about Richard Wright owing to my love for Zora Neale Hurston, but tipping my hat to a story with lasting impact. I would definitely show this in a future class.
This is my first time back at Sundance since 2009. Florida girl dealing with the temps just fine. The high will be 36 on Sunday yay!
Good Zoom meeting with my grad class today. Appreciated tensions between hearing students sort through what it means to move through space. One student said driving a car meant a certain kind of progress whereas a student from a suburb of New York City where a car is often more of a hassle had another view. Enjoyed hearing yet another student address the freedom to be had in walking to our campus library. All of these comments were in reference to the way in which women inhabit space as revealed in Lauren Elkin’s book on the flaneuse and Stephanie Camp’s study on the everyday resistance of enslaved women on plantations.
Next week, we turn to Imani Perry’s biography on Lorraine Hansberry. Talk about a storyteller. Identity is our theme. How do we find meaning in the experiences this postwar playwright and her father who successfully sued for the right to live in a white Chicago neighborhood? He’d die in Mexico, however. Like Richard Wright and other people of African descent, he sought relief from the pressures of life in America as a man of color outside of this country’s borders. Seeing as borders are often in the headlines, it will be worthwhile to see how they figure into next week’s conversation. And I do mean borders that go beyond physical space. Hansberry certainly was a woman who had to make many compromises as she walked a very fine line between what it meant to be respectable and not. There are many entry points between her experiences and those of historical actors earlier discussed in this class.
Meanwhile, students enrolled in my “American Civilization Since 1865” course will listen to two final audio lectures that also address identity. In their case, we address America’s growing identity as a influential empire at the turn of the century. Related topics include the arrival of Jim Crow and growing calls for reform in a country where some are realizing many segments of the population, including newly arriving immigrants from southern and central Europe, need assistance. This, too, poses tensions with today’s headlines.
I’ll be thinking about these issues and more as I volunteer and take in other movies, but especially turn to the New Frontier exhibits featuring experimental work that will push my thinking on an upcoming exhibit curated by students enrolled in last semester’s “Antebellum America” class. | 2019-04-21T01:03:55Z | https://sagreen1.wordpress.com/2019/01/25/sundancing/ | Porn | Reference | 0.455947 |
wikipedia | Alpha Ursae Majoris (Latinised from α Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Alpha UMa, α UMa), also called Dubhe, is, despite being designated "α" (alpha), the second-brightest object in the constellation of Ursa Major.
Alpha Ursae Majoris forms part of the Big Dipper (also known as the Plough or the Great Bear), and is the northern of the 'pointers' (or 'guards'), the two stars of Ursa Major which point towards Polaris, the North Star.
α Ursae Majoris is about 123 light years from the Sun. It is a spectroscopic binary made up of the stars α Ursae Majoris A and α Ursae Majoris B. α Ursae Majoris A is the primary star, and it is a giant star that has evolved away from the main sequence after consuming the hydrogen at its core. The secondary star, α Ursae Majoris B, is a main sequence star that has a stellar classification of F0V. It orbits at a mean separation of about 23 astronomical units (AU) and completes an orbit every 44.4 years.
There is another spectroscopic binary 8 arcminutes distant, a 7th magnitude pair showing an F8 spectral type. It is sometimes referred to as Alpha Ursae Majoris C, but is separately catalogued as HD 95638.
α Ursae Majoris has been reported to vary in brightness by about a thousandth of a magnitude. Ten radial oscillation modes have been detected, with periods between 6.4 hours and 6.4 days.
Although it is part of the constellation of Ursa Major, it is not part of the Ursa Major Moving Group of stars that have a common motion through space.
α Ursae Majoris (Latinised to Alpha Ursae Majoris) is the star system's Bayer designation.
It bore the traditional names Dubhe and Ak. Dubhe derives from the Arabic for 'bear', dubb, from the phrase ظهر الدب الاكبر żahr ad-dubb al-akbar 'the back of the Greater Bear'. The rarer Ak means 'The Eye'. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Dubhe for the star α Ursae Majoris A.
The Hindus refer to the star as Kratu, one of the Seven Rishis.
In Chinese, 北斗 Běi Dǒu, meaning Northern Dipper, refers to an asterism equivalent to the Big Dipper. Consequently, the Chinese name for Alpha Ursae Majoris itself is 北斗一 Běi Dǒu yī, (English: the First Star of Northern Dipper) and 天樞 Tiān Shū, (English: Star of Celestial Pivot).
Dubhe is the official star of the State of Utah.
Dubhe was a ship in the United States Navy. The Danish National Home Guard Navy ship MHV806 is also named Dubhe.
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^ a b Allen, R. H. (1963). Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning (Reprint ed.). New York: Dover Publications Inc. p. 438. ISBN 0-486-21079-0. Retrieved 2012-09-04. | 2019-04-24T10:09:56Z | https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A8%D9%87_(%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87)?match=en | Porn | Science | 0.332225 |
wordpress | Another 4 here too – no excuses!
Actually Em, the three longer ones can be attempted any time, and only the three shorter ones are limited to Tuesday only. The idea behind the Tuesday thing is to encourage as many members as possible to get out together on Tuesday Pendle nights.
Thanks for correcting me there Andy. Sorry about that! Perhaps I should have also mentioned the 6:30 start time too! | 2019-04-21T12:20:24Z | https://bowlandfellrunners.wordpress.com/summer-challenges-2012-pendle/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.227091 |
wordpress | Curated by cultural association 22:37 and Peninsula e.V.
Curated by cultural association 22:37 and berlinerpool.
Curated by cultural association 22:37 in collaboration with Lo Scaffale Perturbante.
INDEPENDENTS 3, ArtVerona, Verona Exhibition Centre, Verona. | 2019-04-24T01:49:48Z | https://outofplacearchive.wordpress.com/editions/ | Porn | Arts | 0.985029 |
cnn | Reporter's Note: President Obama is a great speaker, and we always make a big fuss about presidents with that skill. I’m wondering in today’s letter, however, if we should be focusing more on the skill of listening.
Larry King, as you probably know, is bringing down the curtain on his longstanding interview show here at CNN, and we’re going to miss him. The last time I saw him at one of those big dinners where you were speaking, Larry passed me in the crowd, smiled ear to ear and reached up to pat my cheek as if I were ten years old. It was charming.
Isn’t it interesting to think that someone could make such a career out of simply talking with people? Notice I said talking “with” not “to.” It’s a crucial difference. Any numbskull can natter away at someone else. Heck, just look at all these letters. Ha!
Talking “with” people, however, requires a special touch My old colleague and a man I respect terrifically, Ted Koppel, taught me one of the most important lessons of my career: The secret to good interviews lies not in talking, but in listening. | 2019-04-25T20:42:18Z | http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/05/ | Porn | News | 0.940861 |
wordpress | « Restaurants become Work Spaces!
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wordpress | Our exhibitions are organized by our in-house Curator, Connor Buchanan. Our process is to seek out project/artists/designers/curators who’s work would be dynamic in our space, engaging for our audience and that fit our mandate. We present a minimum of four visual arts exhibitions annually. To see what is coming up this year please visit our Upcoming Exhibitions page.
First: Look over the website – Does your work fit?
Second: Check our Past/Upcoming Exhibitions pages to get an idea of what has been or what will be showing in the near future – Would your work add another level to our programming?
We’ll review your work and get back to you! | 2019-04-23T17:51:57Z | https://aboutfaceyeg.wordpress.com/presentation/exhibition-curatorial/ | Porn | Arts | 0.993741 |
tripod | Muslims believe in One Almighty Creator, Who is Omnipotent, Compassionate, and Merciful. In His mercy, He sends guidance to mankind on how to properly worship Him and live our lives.
All prophets, peace be upon them all, gave guidance and instruction to their people about how to properly worship God and live their lives. Since God is One, His message has been one and the same throughout time. In essence, all prophets taught the message of Islam - to find peace in your life through submission to the One Almighty Creator -- to believe in God and to follow His guidance.
Peace be upon all of the prophets of God, and may we all learn from their teachings and follow the straight path. | 2019-04-23T02:51:58Z | http://boltwolf.tripod.com/id9.html | Porn | Reference | 0.288182 |
wordpress | The team that is handling the construction work really well and also the one who has smartly cover all the desires of buyers in the better way, Conscient Real Estate Developer provides quality space with breathtaking designs that ensures better living, their work don’t end here because lots more responsibilities is there on them and they are happy to take it.
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Other than this, why this commercial project is going to be fit like glove because it comes with plenty of location benefits and are close to IGI airport, only 20 mins from MG road, with 4 km distance from NH-8 it will make the travelling smooth and even many prominent commercial zones are within the distance, this is why it is purposefully located in sector 109, Gurgaon.
So this Conscient one is that only one place which is going to set new modern way of doing work.
Apart of this, anyone who is looking for residential space to live in with modern ambience to grab that ideal life. “Consicent Heritage Max” situated in sector 102, Gurgaon where one is free to pick either 3 or 4 BHK apartments, each of them are conceptualized with modern approach so it serves classic space to explore the life from different aspect.
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So you too need to modify your approach of buying home and get the home like which is in Conscient Heritage Max sector 102 Gurgaon, which is close to major parts of Gurgaon and even the outter places are not too far only because it comes with smooth traffic which naturally save your precious time.
Now buyers don’t have to worry when they purchase any property because they get fully furnished projects and get a complete mixture of modern features, wide space, best infrastructure and perfect location, over and all they get the ultimate space to explore all the finest things and have a beautiful journey.
Moreover, we all can easily make out that Gurgaon is one of the finest place which is developing rapidly and many major industries have chosen Gurgaon as their final destination and we can even identify that people from different cities are moving to Gurgaon because of its great connectivity and full modern features in each project. So if you are planning to shift in Gurgaon or even planning to buy a commercial space, then it is the right step for you for a lucrative return.
There is a good option for you ‘Conscient One’ which is a true commercial property and is a symbol of what a right space should be and moreover, its location in sector 109,Gurgaon from where many other essential places are within the distance, so buyers can have a smooth commuting that is anyhow important for any commercial place.
And this is an unimpeachable blend of retail, office and serviced apartments and all of them designed in the best possible way for the better usage. This sophisticated place is the mix of everything that every buyer looks for in any commercial property.
This is the place where visitors can relax, shop, eat and do many more things. On the whole, this entire place is designed in the ultimate way, so that everyone fulfill all their desires and dreams.
And according to the changing time and keeping mind all the desires and wants Concient builder has created this top class place for the multipurpose use and it’s just the right structure makes this place stand out forever. Nevertheless, Concient is known for its commitment and trust and in fact, novice buyers can also invest their money for the high return.
But to avoid any trouble buyers need to check many things before buying any property and that includes reputation of the builder, glimpse of its precious projects, check its review from the buyers, location that is something very important, compare its amenities & feature all these things together will aid you to insulate from the trap and give you the iconic commercial space. | 2019-04-25T01:49:57Z | https://indrealestates.wordpress.com/category/conscient-developer/ | Porn | Sports | 0.604286 |
wordpress | Three women have been found brutally murdered in south London, the victims only feet away from help during each sadistic attack. And the killer is getting braver. Sarah Grainger is rapidly becoming too afraid to leave her house. Once an outgoing photographer, she knows that someone is watching her. A cryptic note brings everything into terrifying focus, but it’s the chilling phone calls that take the case to another level. DI Mike Lockyer heads up the regional murder squad. With three bodies on his watch, and a killer growing in confidence, he frantically tries to find the link between these seemingly isolated incidents. What he discovers will not only test him professionally but will throw his personal life into turmoil too.
I did like the tight control that Donoghue kept on the pace and gradual unfolding of the plot, never resorting to implausible coincidence and keeping the tension high. I was slightly less sure of the development of the relationship between Lockyer and Sarah, and did raise my eyes to the heavens a little as this came to light, but both characters, carrying their own emotional baggage, were empathetic enough, and this did help overcome the slightly hackneyed nature of their personal interactions. Overall, the characterisation was very good, and Lockyer makes for a good central police character, with more importantly further room for development. He displays all of the central tenets needed by a leading character, and though not quite as charismatic as DI Tom Thorne from Mark Billingham, there are definitely sparks of interest. I’m also hoping that in any future books DS Jane Bennett has a greater part to play as I think she could well be a character to take more of a role from this initial encounter with her.
So to sum up, a more than satisfactory debut of another player in the British police procedural genre. Despite my minor quibble with one aspect of the plot, I would be more than happy to pick up another in the series, and always nice to encounter a new author. Promising stuff. | 2019-04-21T04:06:19Z | https://ravencrimereads.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/clare-donoghue-never-look-back/ | Porn | Reference | 0.403769 |
wordpress | …swings and playthings at Leyburn playground on the Shawl. …mossy stone walls and beautiful views over wensleydale. …curlews in the fields! | 2019-04-23T20:44:46Z | https://beverleyhaines.wordpress.com/2012/02/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.968271 |
wordpress | Seems it’s been forever and a day since I’ve sat myself down here at the computer and let the words come floating out as they may. Since I’ve returned to the Bay Area from Esalen, my writing has been quieter than at any other time throughout this journey. I wonder about that and while wondering, am grateful that I’m not fretting about it. Not too much anyway. What I know is that in these last eight months, I’ve tapped into the writer in me in a way I never have before. So I trust that place now, also in a way I never have before. It’s okay, I remind myself, I can take this break, let the silence in, let the full-tilt living and experiencing take front-burner, center stage rather than the stepping back, reflective focus that is required for the writing time. Oh, truth be told, I can’t say I haven’t been at all concerned or a tad worried. “Ohmigod, ohmigod, am I ever gonna write again” has floated through a few times. But as I have developed the somewhat fleeting skill, I notice the thought, I see it coming, I recognize it as a seductive habit of the mind and I send it on its way. With this one, I gave it a little chuckle or two, said “Oh, c’mon, don’t be ridiculous, I’m a writer, of course I’m gonna write again,” and welcomed it to take its leave. Which it did. If only I could do so with a few thousand other thoughts. Ahhh, well, a work in progress I am, I am. As is my writing. And I realize, too, that there is a natural contraction after a wide expansion – much as I/we may sometimes like it, there is no staying wide open all the time – check out flowers, check out the sea and the tides and the seasons – don’t believe me, just look at the natural cycles all around us to teach us a thing or two about rhythms. Oh, I mean, teach me, teach me.
Ahhh, yes, the natural cycles. Here I am in northern California, the day after the Autumnal Equinox and I can tell you, I feel autumn in the air like I haven’t in years. And that’s because it hasn’t been in the air that I’ve been in for the past many Septembers. Oh, there is a change of seasons in Hawaii – subtle as it may be – just like it’s not so dramatic here in California like it is on the East Coast. I notice leaves falling, changing colors and I notice the slant of late afternoon light with a glare that arrives at a different, sharper angle. And I notice the chill of the morning and nighttime air that tells me it’s time to find my way to warmer climes and soon.
And so I will; of course, I will. I take my leave of my beloved Bay Area in just 10 days. Something sort of panicky arises in me as I realize it’s so soon – I’m still not done with being here; part of me is still not ready to go back to the islands, while at the same time, it feels time to embrace the next step. I feel myself moving into that in-between place that is so familiar to me as a traveler, as a pilgrim. I’m still here, very much here, but I am anticipating the energetic shift of moving on to a new place. To a new place – like other places on the trip – I hadn’t expected to be the next place. But so it is. Still, I am not quite headed ‘home’. From San Francisco, I go directly to Maui, to visit my dear friend who has just moved there and to attend Maui Sufi Camp for a week with another dear friend and hopefully some new ones. We’ll be in circle, dancing and singing and chanting and camping and eating yummy food – all with the backdrop of magical Maui. Some of you regular readers (unless I’ve lost you all with my long absence) might remember Maui calling when I was somewhere on the other side of the world. Well, I’ve finally taken the call and have decided to go there directly rather than back to Puna for only a few days and then back out again. So onto Maui I go on October 4th!
It’s been causing some stress for sure, even some fear has arisen, which is not so normal for me, or certainly hasn’t been for the past years, those many months leading up to and planning this pilgrimage, being on it and of it and fully immersed in it. But it seems that something is shifting now. The full circle is coming to completion. Not yet, not quite yet, but I am aware that I am in the closing orbit of this time. And in so doing, I’m aware of what it’s like to return from a Vision Quest, recognizing that the Incorporation Phase of the process is the one that in some ways, matters most.
What do I do now with all these experiences, all that I’ve reflected on, learned, grown from?
Once it’s clear what it is, how do I manifest it?
As I’m writing these questions, I realize that I will do it the way I’ve done every other step of the process. Of life. But it feels different right now. Somehow it feels like it’s time for me to take a gargantuan leap. Yes, even bigger than all the leaps of this entire trip. A leap into an unknown, uncharted place. Not of the external world, but from the world inside of me. It’s time … I know it’s time and yet as I stand at this precipice of my own longing, my own desire, my own truth to stand up, to say that I’m ready to stand in my power in a way I never have before … damn, I feel scared. Scared? Of what? Oh, I’m not so sure it’s even fear, but what I know is true is that the Inner Critic has shown up. Truth is, I have some very clear ideas of what comes next, without necessarily clear steps on how to get there. But as I sit and ponder these plans, that voice of doubt and uncertainty is getting in my way. We’ll have to have a little conference sometime soon, as I think it’s a good idea to make friends with this voice, to hear it out and see if there are any pearls it has to offer; but then I know I need to take charge and not let it take too firm of a rooting anywhere in the vicinity of my dreams. because these dreams have been too long in coming, too long in manifesting and this is the time, I know this is the time for them to come true! Wow, that was a really long sentence – I could go back and break it into two or even three, but no, the whole thought came out just like that and so I’ll leave it that way, grammar police be damned!
Ahhh, just this short time of writing feels lovely. I’m sitting in the sun in my Tiburon home, a slight chill of a breeze wafting through every so often announcing Fall’s arrival and as is so usual when I put words on the proverbial paper, my mood has shifted, I feel more connected to self and Self; and I remember, oh, I remember how grateful I am.
Lest you imagine that my time here is just one fun moment after another – sweetness and light and all that – let me remind you, it’s me who’s talking here. I don’t do all sweetness and light! Ohyeah, I love the access to nature and the incredible beauty everywhere and the hiking and the culture and Spirit Rock and the cauldron that is the San Francisco Bay Area, an energetic field like no other I know of. And I am deeply and truly bathing in the comfort of my loving connections here – with Mary and Flea and Jim and Donna and Tho and Dom and Cathy and Jeanne and Valerie. I feel so grateful to have the time to live so geographically close once again to those I love so dearly, to deepen friendships and reconnect with family. But make no mistake, I’ve had plenty of challenges while here, too; and having those connections has made moving through them all the more possible and maybe even graceful.
I’ll have a little something to post about that part of the journey another time. For now, I’ll just say that last night I pulled a movie out of the closet from where I’m house-sitting and watched, “Must Love Dogs.” No, damn it, it wasn’t about dogs, as I expected. What it was about was precisely the part of my time here that’s been the biggest challenge, sans the perfect Hollywood ending and the perfect Hollywood body. More later. Way more.
What hasn’t particularly been a challenge, but what has been a source of deep reflection is that I turned 55 recently – whoopie, a palindrome year! My first year of legitimate senior discounts and probably some mail awaiting me from AARP. But more importantly, a time of embracing this “Second Half of Life” not with the lens of what I’ve lost from my youth, but how this time, like no other, offers opportunities for a fullness of life that beckons with possibility. Yep, it’s a big focus of my musings these days and I am eager to share more as it comes forth.
“More of us are entering the second half of our lives than at any other time in history. Our numbers are growing rapidly, and as life expectancy continues to rise, more of us will find ourselves living much longer as elders than did our parents and grandparents.
“These extra years, even decades, extend the blessing of life. Yet in many ways we are not prepared to live them fully. Our culture has lost the capacity to acknowledge and value elders the way many other cultures around the world do. We have forgotten the rites of passage that help us learn to become wise elders, actively participating in our communities and living a deep, fulfilling life. Unfortunately, our culture’s current perspective is that the second half of life offers only decline, disease, despair, and death. . . .
“Many world tales and perennial wisdoms point to eight metaphorical gates of initiation through which we must pass in order to develop fully into wise people, or elders. These gates are archetypal passageways to deepening our experience of life in our later years. They offer powerful tools to help us shift our perspective. They map a new landscape for the second half of life, grounded in multicultural traditions that honor elders. . . .
“The lessons offered at each of the eight gates rigorously prepare us for our initiation into elderhood. The Silver Gate challenges us to invite new experiences into our lives. The White Picket Gate asks us to reflect on the roles we have played earlier in life, and learn to assume the new role of elder. The Clay Gate urges us to care for and enjoy our bodies, even as we come to terms with their limitations. At the Black and White Gate we learn to deepen our relationships in more intimate and mature ways. The Rustic Gate encourages us to use our creativity to enhance our lives, contribute to our communities, and leave a lasting legacy. At the Bone Gate, we develop the courage to be authentically ourselves in the world. The Natural Gate calls us to replenish our souls in silence and in nature and to take time for reflection. When we reach the Gold Gate, we actively engage in practices of nonattachment and prepare for our passing from this world.
I’ve come up with some of my own reflections about the facets of this diamond of middle age. I’m excited to share them, again, another time. Right now, the day is calling for me to go off into it – a hike is on the horizon – as calls almost daily – as is a visit over to Berkeley for a stroll through that like-no-other city and then tonight, the closing performance of the longest running solo show in Bay Area history for which I’m hoping to procure a ticket to the sold-out performance of Not a Genuine Black Man by Brian Copeland. My skills of persuasion being what they are, I imagine I’ll find a way to squirm my way in!
Once I take my leave of all this stimulation that surrounds me here, I’ll have my quiet time of deeper reflection, more writing, and time to make some specific plans. Yes, my own personal change of seasons and time to go inward will soon be upon me. For now, I’ll drink deeply from the remaining warm and sunny days, continue to Be Here Now, let my thirst be quenched by the bountiful cornucopia that is this Bay; and trust … deeply believe and trust in myself that I have what it takes to stay present, stay focused and bring my dreams to life!
1 Response to Hey, Remember Me?
Great to read your writing again, Christina dear. Much, much love as you maneuver through these next weeks! | 2019-04-18T18:42:27Z | https://quiveringexuberance.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/hey-remember-me/ | Porn | Reference | 0.397369 |
wordpress | This morning,the school having closed down for Easter, I hired some help to clean up the garage (another job I keep postponing).The hubby’s bike and the car were taken out and while I was looking up and sorting out the things that really needed to be disposed and making a mental list,I noticed Munch cleaning Baba’s bike with a piece of cloth.She had a forlorn look on her face and her hand moved so lovingly over the parts of the bike,that I suddenly had an urge to hold her in my arms and cry.She was missing her father…its been sometime that he has been home.Her eyes had a sad look as if the bike made her remember the outings she had when baba was around.He spoils the children rotten whenever he comes home.”Baba we want to go to Big Bazaar” and baba is ready in a minute and no amount of pending homework can stop them.Whenever Munch’s eyes rest on a pair of shoes a minute longer than usual,baba picks it up oblivious that he bought her a pair just a week ago.Seven years and baba has made it a point,no matter what he is there to attend Munch’s birthday (to make up for his absence at the time of her birth).Perk doesn’t feel his absence that much since he left us when Perk was just 3 months old.One day,I was taken by surprise when while flipping through the pages of a magazine,Perk pointed to a male model and said “Mamma,look baba!”The model had exactly the same hairstyle that hubby has!At these moments,it is very hard to be brave and put up a smile and tell her “He looks like baba,darling but he is not baba.” But the little one insists it is baba and i give in.
Their father is their hero and will always be.May God give them the strength to understand that their father is different from others and for him his duty towards his country will always come first and one day they too will be proud of him and not be sad that their father cannot attend their birthdays or be their always when they perform on stage or receive their awards and accolades or play badminton with them in the evenings or take them out for a treat at Dominoz on weekends.We live our life when baba comes on leave and after he is gone we pray for his well- being and look forward to the next time he will be home.
I sing this song often to the girls when they go to bed.Its a lovely song and it goes out to you Baba.Miss you. | 2019-04-19T15:20:51Z | https://themomofangels.wordpress.com/tag/father/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.547327 |
wordpress | Pah – whateves – Its still fat free – calories don’t count on a Friday – Its Friday (whoop la!) – I’ve just burnt some ‘Flipper dippers’ – And set a tea towel on fire(?) #need wine #Pour me a big one!!! | 2019-04-19T00:34:08Z | https://bkb80schild.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/calories-on-wine-bottles-pah/ | Porn | Reference | 0.322233 |
google | §60.30b Scope and delegation of authority.
§60.33b Emission guidelines for municipal waste combustor metals, acid gases, organics, and nitrogen oxides.
§60.34b Emission guidelines for municipal waste combustor operating practices.
§60.35b Emission guidelines for municipal waste combustor operator training and certification.
§60.36b Emission guidelines for municipal waste combustor fugitive ash emissions.
§60.37b Emission guidelines for air curtain incinerators.
§60.38b Compliance and performance testing.
§60.39b Reporting and recordkeeping guidelines and compliance schedules.
Source: 60 FR 65415, Dec. 19, 1995, unless otherwise noted.
(a) This subpart contains emission guidelines and compliance schedules for the control of certain designated pollutants from certain municipal waste combustors in accordance with section 111(d) and section 129 of the Clean Air Act and subpart B of this part. The provisions in these emission guidelines apply instead of the provisions of §60.24(f) of subpart B of this part.
(6) Performance test and data reduction waivers under §608(b).
Terms used but not defined in this subpart have the meaning given them in the Clean Air Act and subparts A, B, and Eb of this part.
EPA means the Administrator of the U.S. EPA or employee of the U.S. EPA who is delegated to perform the specified task.
Municipal waste combustor plant means one or more designated facilities (as defined in §60.32b) at the same location.
Semi-suspension refuse-derived fuel-fired combustor/wet refuse-derived fuel process conversion means a combustion unit that was converted from a wet refuse-derived fuel process to a dry refuse-derived fuel process, and because of constraints in the design of the system, includes a low furnace height (less than 60 feet between the grate and the roof) and a high waste capacity-to-undergrate air zone ratio (greater than 300 tons of waste per day (tpd) fuel per each undergrate air zone).
Spreader stoker fixed floor refuse-derived fuel-fired combustor/100 percent coal capable means a spreader stoker type combustor with a fixed floor grate design that typically fires 100 percent refuse-derived fuel but is equipped to burn 100 percent coal instead of refuse-derived fuel to fulfill 100 percent steam or energy demand.
(a) The designated facility to which these guidelines apply is each municipal waste combustor unit with a combustion capacity greater than 250 tons per day of municipal solid waste for which construction was commenced on or before September 20, 1994.
(3) Keeps records of the amount of municipal solid waste fired on a daily basis.
(c) Physical or operational changes made to an existing municipal waste combustor unit primarily for the purpose of complying with emission guidelines under this subpart are not considered in determining whether the unit is a modified or reconstructed facility under subpart Ea or subpart Eb of this part.
(d) A qualifying small power production facility, as defined in section 3(17)(C) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796(17)(C)), that burns homogeneous waste (such as automotive tires or used oil, but not including refuse-derived fuel) for the production of electric energy is not subject to this subpart if the owner or operator of the facility notifies EPA of this exemption and provides data documenting that the facility qualifies for this exemption.
(e) A qualifying cogeneration facility, as defined in section 3(18)(B) of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 796(18)(B)), that burns homogeneous waste (such as automotive tires or used oil, but not including refuse-derived fuel) for the production of electric energy and steam or forms of useful energy (such as heat) that are used for industrial, commercial, heating, or cooling purposes, is not subject to this subpart if the owner or operator of the facility notifies EPA of this exemption and provides data documenting that the facility qualifies for this exemption.
(g) Any unit required to have a permit under section 3005 of the Solid Waste Disposal Act is not subject to this subpart.
(h) Any materials recovery facility (including primary or secondary smelters) that combusts waste for the primary purpose of recovering metals is not subject to this subpart.
(j) Air curtain incinerators, as defined under §60.51b of subpart Eb of this part, that meet the capacity specifications in paragraph (a) of this section, and that combust a fuel stream composed of 100 percent yard waste are exempt from all provisions of this subpart except the opacity standard under §60.37b, the testing procedures under §60.38b, and the reporting and recordkeeping provisions under §60.39b.
(k) Air curtain incinerators that meet the capacity specifications in paragraph (a) of this section and that combust municipal solid waste other than yard waste are subject to all provisions of this subpart.
(l) Pyrolysis/combustion units that are an integrated part of a plastics/rubber recycling unit (as defined in §60.51b) are not subject to this subpart if the owner or operator of the plastics/rubber recycling unit keeps records of the weight of plastics, rubber, and/or rubber tires processed on a calendar quarter basis; the weight of chemical plant feedstocks and petroleum refinery feedstocks produced and marketed on a calendar quarter basis; and the name and address of the purchaser of the feedstocks. The combustion of gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, fuel oils, residual oil, refinery gas, petroleum coke, liquified petroleum gas, propane, or butane produced by chemical plants or petroleum refineries that use feedstocks produced by plastics/rubber recycling units are not subject to this subpart.
(m) Cement kilns firing municipal solid waste are not subject to this subpart.
(n) Any affected facility meeting the applicability requirements under this section is not subject to subpart E of this part.
(a) The emission limits for municipal waste combustor metals are specified in paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(3) of this section.
(1) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for particulate matter and opacity at least as protective as the emission limits for particulate matter and opacity specified in paragraphs (a)(1)(i) through (a)(1)(iii) of this section.
(i) Before April 28, 2009, the emission limit for particulate matter contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 27 milligrams per dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen. On and after April 28, 2009, the emission limit for particulate matter contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 25 milligrams per dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(iii) The emission limit for opacity exhibited by the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 10 percent (6-minute average).
(2) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for cadmium at least as protective as the emission limits for cadmium specified in paragraphs (a)(2)(i) through (a)(2)(iv) of this section.
(i) Before April 28, 2009, the emission limit for cadmium contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 40 micrograms per dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen. On and after April 28, 2009, the emission limit for cadmium contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 35 micrograms per dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(3) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for mercury at least as protective as the emission limits specified in this paragraph. Before April 28, 2009, the emission limit for mercury contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 80 micrograms per dry standard cubic meter or 15 percent of the potential mercury emission concentration (85-percent reduction by weight), corrected to 7 percent oxygen, whichever is less stringent. On and after April 28, 2009, the emission limit for mercury contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 50 micrograms per dry standard cubic meter or 15 percent of the potential mercury emission concentration (85-percent reduction by weight), corrected to 7 percent oxygen, whichever is less stringent.
(4) For approval, a State plan shall include an emission limit for lead at least as protective as the emission limit for lead specified in this paragraph. Before April 28, 2009, the emission limit for lead contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 440 micrograms per dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen. On and after April 28, 2009, the emission limit for lead contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 400 micrograms per dry standard cubic meter, corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(b) The emission limits for municipal waste combustor acid gases, expressed as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride, are specified in paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2) of this section.
(1) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for sulfur dioxide at least as protective as the emission limits for sulfur dioxide specified in paragraphs (b)(1)(i) and (b)(1)(ii) of this section.
(i) The emission limit for sulfur dioxide contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 31 parts per million by volume or 25 percent of the potential sulfur dioxide emission concentration (75-percent reduction by weight or volume), corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), whichever is less stringent. Compliance with this emission limit is based on a 24-hour daily geometric mean.
(2) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for hydrogen chloride at least as protective as the emission limits for hydrogen chloride specified in paragraphs (b)(2)(i) and (b)(2)(ii) of this section.
(i) The emission limit for hydrogen chloride contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 31 parts per million by volume or 5 percent of the potential hydrogen chloride emission concentration (95-percent reduction by weight or volume), corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), whichever is less stringent.
(3) For approval, a State plan shall be submitted by August 25, 1998 and shall include emission limits for sulfur dioxide and hydrogen chloride at least as protective as the emission limits specified in paragraphs (b)(3)(i) and (b)(3)(ii) of this section.
(i) The emission limit for sulfur dioxide contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 29 parts per million by volume or 25 percent of the potential sulfur dioxide emission concentration (75-percent reduction by weight or volume), corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), whichever is less stringent. Compliance with this emission limit is based on a 24-hour daily geometric mean.
(ii) The emission limit for hydrogen chloride contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility is 29 parts per million by volume or 5 percent of the potential hydrogen chloride emission concentration (95-percent reduction by weight or volume), corrected to 7 percent oxygen (dry basis), whichever is less stringent.
(c) The emission limits for municipal waste combustor organics, expressed as total mass dioxin/furan, are specified in paragraphs (c)(1) and (c)(2) of this section.
(1) For approval, a State plan shall include an emission limit for dioxin/furan contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility at least as protective as the emission limit for dioxin/furan specified in paragraphs (c)(1)(i), (c)(1)(ii), and (c)(1)(iii) of this section, as applicable.
(i) Before April 28, 2009, the emission limit for designated facilities that employ an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system is 60 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass), corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(ii) On and after April 28, 2009, the emission limit for designated facilities that employ an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system is 35 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass), corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(iii) The emission limit for designated facilities that do not employ an electrostatic precipitator-based emission control system is 30 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter (total mass), corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(d) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for nitrogen oxides at least as protective as the emission limits listed in table 1 of this subpart for designated facilities. table 1 provides emission limits for the nitrogen oxides concentration level for each type of designated facility.
(1) A State plan may allow nitrogen oxides emissions averaging as specified in paragraphs (d)(1)(i) through (d)(1)(v) of this section.
(i) The owner or operator of a municipal waste combustor plant may elect to implement a nitrogen oxides emissions averaging plan for the designated facilities that are located at that plant and that are subject to subpart Cb, except as specified in paragraphs (d)(1)(i)(A) and (d)(1)(i)(B) of this section.
(A) Municipal waste combustor units subject to subpart Ea or Eb cannot be included in the emissions averaging plan.
(B) Mass burn refractory municipal waste combustor units and other municipal waste combustor technologies not listed in paragraph (d)(1)(iii) of this section may not be included in the emissions averaging plan.
(ii) The designated facilities included in the nitrogen oxides emissions averaging plan must be identified in the initial compliance report specified in §60.59b(f) or in the annual report specified in §60.59b(g), as applicable, prior to implementing the averaging plan. The designated facilities being included in the averaging plan may be redesignated each calendar year. Partial year redesignation is allowable with State approval.
(iii) To implement the emissions averaging plan, the average daily (24-hour) nitrogen oxides emission concentration level for gases discharged from the designated facilities being included in the emissions averaging plan must be no greater than the levels specified in table 2 of this subpart. table 2 provides emission limits for the nitrogen oxides concentration level for each type of designated facility.
(iv) Under the emissions averaging plan, the average daily nitrogen oxides emissions specified in paragraph (d)(1)(iii) of this section shall be calculated using equation (1). Designated facilities that are offline shall not be included in calculating the average daily nitrogen oxides emission level.
NOX 24-hr = 24-hr daily average nitrogen oxides emission concentration level for the emissions averaging plan (parts per million by volume corrected to 7 percent oxygen).
NOX i-hr = 24-hr daily average nitrogen oxides emission concentration level for designated facility i (parts per million by volume, corrected to 7 percent oxygen), calculated according to the procedures in §60.58b(h) of this subpart.
Si = maximum demonstrated municipal waste combustor unit load for designated facility i (pounds per hour steam or feedwater flow as determined in the most recent dioxin/furan performance test).
h = total number of designated facilities being included in the daily emissions average.
(v) For any day in which any designated facility included in the emissions averaging plan is offline, the owner or operator of the municipal waste combustor plant must demonstrate compliance according to either paragraph (d)(1)(v)(A) of this section or both paragraphs (d)(1)(v)(B) and (d)(1)(v)(C) of this section.
(A) Compliance with the applicable limits specified in table 2 of this subpart shall be demonstrated using the averaging procedure specified in paragraph (d)(1)(iv) of this section for the designated facilities that are online.
(B) For each of the designated facilities included in the emissions averaging plan, the nitrogen oxides emissions on a daily average basis shall be calculated and shall be equal to or less than the maximum daily nitrogen oxides emission level achieved by that designated facility on any of the days during which the emissions averaging plan was achieved with all designated facilities online during the most recent calendar quarter. The requirements of this paragraph do not apply during the first quarter of operation under the emissions averaging plan.
(C) The average nitrogen oxides emissions (kilograms per day) calculated according to paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C)(2) of this section shall not exceed the average nitrogen oxides emissions (kilograms per day) calculated according to paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C)(1) of this section.
(1) For all days during which the emissions averaging plan was implemented and achieved and during which all designated facilities were online, the average nitrogen oxides emissions shall be calculated. The average nitrogen oxides emissions (kilograms per day) shall be calculated on a calendar year basis according to paragraphs (d)(1)(v)(C)(1)(i) through (d)(1)(v)(C)(1)(iii) of this section.
(i) For each designated facility included in the emissions averaging plan, the daily amount of nitrogen oxides emitted (kilograms per day) shall be calculated based on the hourly nitrogen oxides data required under §60.38b(a) and specified under §60.58b(h)(5) of subpart Eb of this part, the flue gas flow rate determined using table 19-1 of EPA Reference Method 19 or a State-approved method, and the hourly average steam or feedwater flow rate.
(ii) The daily total nitrogen oxides emissions shall be calculated as the sum of the daily nitrogen oxides emissions from each designated facility calculated under paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C)(1)(i) of this section.
(iii) The average nitrogen oxides emissions (kilograms per day) on a calendar year basis shall be calculated as the sum of all daily total nitrogen oxides emissions calculated under paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C)(1)(ii) of this section divided by the number of calendar days for which a daily total was calculated.
(2) For all days during which one or more of the designated facilities under the emissions averaging plan was offline, the average nitrogen oxides emissions shall be calculated. The average nitrogen oxides emissions (kilograms per day) shall be calculated on a calendar year basis according to paragraphs (d)(1)(v)(C)(2)(i) through (d)(1)(v)(C)(2)(iii) of this section.
(ii) The daily total nitrogen oxides emissions shall be calculated as the sum of the daily nitrogen oxides emissions from each designated facility calculated under paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C)(2)(i) of this section.
(iii) The average nitrogen oxides emissions (kilograms per day) on a calendar year basis shall be calculated as the sum of all daily total nitrogen oxides emissions calculated under paragraph (d)(1)(v)(C)(2)(ii) of this section divided by the number of calendar days for which a daily total was calculated.
(2) A State plan may establish a program to allow owners or operators of municipal waste combustor plants to engage in trading of nitrogen oxides emission credits. A trading program must be approved by EPA before implementation.
(3) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for nitrogen oxides from fluidized bed combustors at least as protective as the emission limits listed in paragraphs (d)(3)(i) and (d)(3)(ii) of this section.
(i) The emission limit for nitrogen oxides contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility that is a fluidized bed combustor is 180 parts per million by volume, corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(ii) If a State plan allows nitrogen oxides emissions averaging as specified in paragraphs (d)(1)(i) through (d)(1)(v) of this section, the emission limit for nitrogen oxides contained in the gases discharged to the atmosphere from a designated facility that is a fluidized bed combustor is 165 parts per million by volume, corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(a) For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for carbon monoxide at least as protective as the emission limits for carbon monoxide listed in table 3 of this subpart. table 3 provides emission limits for the carbon monoxide concentration level for each type of designated facility.
(b) For approval, a State plan shall include requirements for municipal waste combustor operating practices at least as protective as those requirements listed in §60.53b(b) and (c) of subpart Eb of this part.
For approval, a State plan shall include requirements for designated facilities for municipal waste combustor operator training and certification at least as protective as those requirements listed in §60.54b of subpart Eb of this part. The State plan shall require compliance with these requirements according to the schedule specified in §60.39b(c)(4).
For approval, a State plan shall include requirements for municipal waste combustor fugitive ash emissions at least as protective as those requirements listed in §60.55b of subpart Eb of this part.
For approval, a State plan shall include emission limits for opacity for air curtain incinerators at least as protective as those listed in §60.56b of subpart Eb of this part.
(a) For approval, a State plan shall include the performance testing methods listed in §60.58b of subpart Eb of this part, as applicable, except as provided for under §60.24(b)(2) of subpart B of this part and paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section.
(b) For approval, a State plan shall include for designated facilities the alternative performance testing schedule for dioxins/furans specified in §60.58b(g)(5)(iii) of subpart Eb of this part, as applicable, for those designated facilities that achieve a dioxin/furan emission level less than or equal to 15 nanograms per dry standard cubic meter total mass, corrected to 7 percent oxygen.
(a) For approval, a State plan shall include the reporting and recordkeeping provisions listed in §60.59b of subpart Eb of this part, as applicable, except for the siting requirements under §60.59b(a), (b)(5), and (d)(11) of subpart Eb of this part.
(b) Except as provided in paragraph (e) of this section, not later than December 19, 1996, each State in which a designated facility is located shall submit to EPA a plan to implement and enforce all provisions of this subpart except the revised April 28, 2009 emission limits in §60.33b(a), (c), and (d). Not later than April 28, 2007, each State in which a designated facility is located shall submit to EPA a plan to implement and enforce all provisions of this subpart, as amended on May 10, 2006. The submittal schedule specified in this paragraph is in accordance with section 129(b)(2) of the Clean Air Act and applies instead of the schedule provided in §60.23(a)(1) of subpart B of this part.
(c) For approval, a State plan that is submitted prior to May 10, 2006 shall include the compliance schedules specified in paragraphs (c)(1) through (c)(5) of this section.
(1) A State plan shall allow designated facilities to comply with all requirements of a State plan (or close) within 1 year after approval of the State plan, except as provided by paragraph (c)(1)(i) and (c)(1)(ii) of this section.
(i) A State plan that allows designated facilities more than 1 year but less than 3 years following the date of issuance of a revised construction or operation permit, if a permit modification is required, or more than 1 year but less than 3 years following approval of the State plan, if a permit modification is not required, shall include measurable and enforceable incremental steps of progress toward compliance. Suggested measurable and enforceable activities are specified in paragraphs (c)(1)(i)(A) through (c)(1)(i)(J) of this section.
(J) Date for initial performance test(s) of the air pollution control device(s).
(ii) A State plan that allows designated facilities more than 1 year but up to 3 years after State plan approval to close shall require a closure agreement. The closure agreement must include the date of plant closure.
(2) If the State plan requirements for a designated facility include a compliance schedule longer than 1 year after approval of the State plan in accordance with paragraph (c)(1)(i) or (c)(1)(ii) of this section, the State plan submittal (for approval) shall include performance test results for dioxin/furan emissions for each designated facility that has a compliance schedule longer than 1 year following the approval of the State plan, and the performance test results shall have been conducted during or after 1990. The performance test shall be conducted according to the procedures in §60.38b.
(4) A State plan shall require compliance with the municipal waste combustor operator training and certification requirements under §60.35b according to the schedule specified in paragraphs (c)(4)(i) through (c)(4)(iii) of this section.
(ii) For designated facilities, the State plan shall require compliance with the municipal waste combustor operator training and certification requirements specified under §60.54b (a) through (c) of subpart Eb of this part by the date 6 months after the date of startup or 12 months after State plan approval, whichever is later.
(iii) For designated facilities, the State plan shall require compliance with the requirements specified in §60.54b (d), (f), and (g) of subpart Eb of this part no later than 6 months after startup or 12 months after State plan approval, whichever is later.
(A) The requirement specified in §60.54b(d) of subpart Eb of this part does not apply to chief facility operators, shift supervisors, and control room operators who have obtained full certification from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on or before the date of State plan approval.
(B) The owner or operator of a designated facility may request that the Administrator waive the requirement specified in §60.54b(d) of subpart Eb of this part for chief facility operators, shift supervisors, and control room operators who have obtained provisional certification from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers on or before the initial date of State plan approval.
(C) The initial training requirements specified in §60.54b(f)(1) of subpart Eb of this part shall be completed no later than the date specified in paragraph (c)(4)(iii)(C)(1), (c)(4)(iii)(C)(2), or (c)(4)(iii)(C)(3), of this section whichever is later.
(3) The date prior to the day when the person assumes responsibilities affecting municipal waste combustor unit operation.
(5) A State plan shall require all designated facilities for which construction, modification, or reconstruction is commenced after June 26, 1987 to comply with the emission limit for mercury specified in §60.33b(a)(3) and the emission limit for dioxins/furans specified in §60.33b(c)(1) within 1 year following issuance of a revised construction or operation permit, if a permit modification is required, or within 1 year following approval of the State plan, whichever is later.
(d) In the event no plan for implementing the emission guidelines is approved by EPA, all designated facilities meeting the applicability requirements under §60.32b shall be in compliance with all of the guidelines, except those specified under §60.33b (a)(4), (b)(3), and (d)(3), no later than December 19, 2000.
(e) Not later than August 25, 1998, each State in which a designated facility is operating shall submit to EPA a plan to implement and enforce all provisions of this subpart specified in §60.33b(b)(3) and (d)(3) and the emission limit in paragraph (a)(4) that applies before April 28, 2009.
(f) In the event no plan for implementing the emission guidelines is approved by EPA, all designated facilities meeting the applicability requirements under §60.32b shall be in compliance with all of the guidelines, including those specified under §60.33b (a)(4), (b)(3), and (d)(3), no later than August 26, 2002.
(g) For approval, a revised State plan submitted not later than April 28, 2007 in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section, shall include compliance schedules for meeting the revised April 28, 2009 emission limits in §60.33b(a), (c), and (d) and the revised testing provisions in §60.38b(b).
(1) Compliance with the revised April 28, 2009 emission limits is required as expeditiously as practicable, but no later than April 28, 2009, except as provided in paragraph (g)(2) of this section.
(2) The owner or operator of an affected facility who is planning an extensive emission control system upgrade may petition the Administrator for a longer compliance schedule and must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Administrator the need for the additional time. If approved, the schedule may exceed the schedule in paragraph (g)(1) of this section, but cannot exceed May 10, 2011.
(h) In the event no plan for implementing the emission guidelines is approved by EPA, all designated facilities meeting the applicability requirements under §60.32b shall be in compliance with all of the guidelines, including the revised April 28, 2009 emission limits in §§60.33b(a), (b), (c), (d), an60.34b(a), and the revised testing provisions in §60.38b(b), no later than May 10, 2011.
Mass burn waterwall 205 205.
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aMass burn refractory municipal waste combustors and other MWC technologies not listed above may not be included in an emissions averaging plan.
bCorrected to 7 percent oxygen, dry basis.
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wordpress | I used to think that spring is the season when Puglia is at its best. The air, though still slightly brisk from the last gasps of winter, is somehow sweeter. The sun feels warm on the skin. The fields host a riot of new growth with a hundred shades of green manifest in every new leaf and stalk. But now we’re moving from summer languor to autumn abundance. The markets are bursting with an end-of summer avalanche of tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, melons and sweet, plump pale green grapes. In terms of beauty, autumn in the Valle d’Itria is giving spring a run for its money. And then there are the figs.
Ficus carica ‘Panachee’ or fico rigato in Italy, this fig is as stunning to look at as it is to eat.
At this time of year, fig trees dotted throughout the countryside here are almost doubled over with their bountiful loads. They drape conveniently over stone walls and into the streets, so we find it necessary to stop (repeatedly) on our bikes to sample them. The figs are hot from the sun and fairly bursting at the seams, revealing their deep scarlet flesh with almost no encouragement. If we manage, we bring them home in our bike panniers. We’ve also been madly harvesting figs from the trees that are scattered throughout our olive grove, discovering new strategies to prolong their useful lives well into the winter.
Paolo Belloni and Brian Faris examine fig trees and discuss pruning strategies at I Giardini di Pomona.
Since we are now drowning in figs, we thought we might learn more about them by visiting what is truly one of the most extraordinary local treasures anywhere. On a recent bike ride, we came upon I Giardini di Pomona, a conservatory just outside the Valle d’Itria town of Cisternino dedicated to preserving and propagating ancient and heirloom fruit trees with a particular focus on figs. Over three hundred types of figs. Figs with widely different flavor profiles, skin types, shapes, seasonality and provenance. Figs that make you feel as though you have arrived in the Garden of Eden and there aren’t any serpents anywhere.
Martine’s Pugliese pottery is both simple and elegant.
The founders and hosts, Paolo Belloni and Martine Balanza, chose this site in the dead center of the Valle d’Itria over nine years ago to continue the botanical conservation work they started in Milan. They are committed to the promotion of biodiversity through the propagation of rare, often nearly extinct fruit tree varietals. They’re also deeply committed to education, offering school visits to their orchards to provide hands-on, experiential learning to new generations in the hope that these lessons get traction in a world that seems oddly bent on limiting our options by reducing biodiversity. Cuttings and starts of these hard-to-find varietals are for sale at the garden; you can also take home your new plants in beautiful terracotta pots Martine has commissioned from nearby pottery studios. And Paolo has produced an absolutely gorgeous book, Fichi di Puglia, focused exclusively on the role of figs in history, culinary culture and the botanical world.
Paolo Belloni of I Giardini di Pomona leads us through his collection of over 300 common and hard-to-find fig cultivars.
We joined Paolo for a walk through his giardini (gardens) yesterday, trying desperately to create a taste memory for each new fig varietal we managed to eat. Since every successive fig tasted better than the one before it, we were hopeless at our task. As the sun slowly set in the early autumnal Mediterranean sky, we wandered through orchards interplanted with culinary and medicinal herbs and bordered by traditional Pugliese stone walls draped with the macchia Mediterranea (native Mediterranean flora) for which this region is known. The horizon was streaked with crimson and the breeze rustled the broad fig leaves against the trees’ gnarled trunks. The only sounds were the birds and a faraway tractor rattling through a field on its way back to the farmhouse.
Paolo Belloni has planted a lavender labyrinth with a persimmon tree from Nagasaki, Japan. Incredibly enough, this variety survived the World War II atomic bomb that devastated the city (Photo credit: http://www.blog.apulya.com).
We’re told that many of Puglia’s senior citizens think of figs as the visual representation of a poverty they’ve long left behind. After all, during the hungriest years of World War II to the even leaner post-war years, figs grew abundantly in the hills and valleys here. When there was precious little to eat, both freshly picked and sun-dried figs provided sweetness and calories all year long. Maybe that’s why Paolo and Martine’s work at the botanical conservatory, with its mission to increase varietal diversity using traditional, organic cultivation techniques, is not always well understood locally. Yet their impact is international, with ties to botanists all over the world. Their gardens represent the very best hope for local tourism that is sustainable, attracting new visitors to the Valle d’Itria year round who share their vision for a more humane future.
Paolo Belloni’s book, “Figs of Puglia,” is a visual treat full of more fig lore than you can possibly imagine.
Make sure you include I Giardini di Pomona on your Puglia itinerary when you visit. And if it happens to coincide with the height of the fig harvest, consider yourself doubly blessed. If Puglia isn’t on your immediate travel horizon, why not try some of Paolo and Martine’s fig-based recipes from your own early autumn bounty? From the simplest fig “chips” to an especially satisfying fig and almond cake, you’ll be transported to the fig orchard the minute you take a bite.
Fig chips recipe in Italian in Paolo Belloni’s “Figs of Puglia” book.
For the fig chips, choose figs that aren’t especially mature. Wash them and cut them into slices from top (stem end) to bottom. Place them on a baking sheet that has been covered with parchment. Salt them with fleur de sel and dry them in an oven set at about 175 degrees Fahrenheit for 7-8 hours. They are ready when they are nice and crispy—delightful with an aperitivo during the late summer/early autumn sunset.
For the cake, use this recipe from the New York Times. You can substitute the butter with extra virgin olive (3 Tbsp. of olive oil instead of 4 Tbsp. of butter; grease the pan with olive oil, too).
Gorgeous fig and almond cake from the New York Times (Photo credit: Karsten Morgan for the NY Times).
You might also visit Domenica Marchetti’s blog for a terrific confettura di fichi (fig jam) recipe. Authentic and addictive in one fell swoop. Finally, Rachel Roddy, a particularly evocative food writer based in Rome, offers this recipe for a fig tart from London’s River Cafe. There’s no shortage of great things to do with figs. Or you could just eat them, one after another, like we do, ever grateful for the 300-plus varieties cultivated just down the road at I Giardini di Pomona.
Deeply flavorful fig jam from cookbook author Domenica Marchetti (Photo credit: http://www.domenicacooks.com).
I love figs!! I am hoping there will still be some on our Vergemoli trees when I get there in a few weeks.
Rachel, I loved your post. It brought back (fond?) memories of being on the receiving end of so many disapproving stares while we attempted to forage with our children in tow. Oh, the fish-eyed stares directed our way, rivaling only the disapproval for our scantily-clad children (no scarves in September). You’d love Paolo and Martine, not to mention all those figs. I love each and every one of your posts–thank you for the kind words about mine.
This sounds like heaven to me. We wait all year for our figs but after two weeks they are gone. Yes, I want to visit I Giardini di Pamona!
Laura, I think you need to add at least one more day to your Puglia itinerary!
Very interesting. We have been enjoying Trader Joe’s figs. They seem especially good this year. Do you know where can we purchase a greater variety of choices than just black and green here in the states? We may have to stop reading your blog as it makes us want to visit Itria and we think at 94 and 89 we are past enduring the rigors of travel.
Jim and Paula, we have learned that there are seemingly infinite varieties of figs. Brian has identified a Lebanese man in the U.S. who is cultivating heirloom varietals, so I will ask him to share what he has learned with you. And as for travel, it’s not too late! All those great wheel chair escorts in the airports . . . . We’d love to see you here again! But don’t stop reading the blog.
Catherine in the past few days, I have eaten such perfect, warm figs from my very own, very small tree in my back yard. This tree amazes me as I planted it just last year in a container and then transplanted it into the soil in my small back yard just recently. This tree is a warrior — it’s only about 4′ tall and yet it yields the most perfect, gorgeous, yummy fruit. I wish I could remember the variety to share with you however it was grown locally to survive our Ashland winters. The fig tart you share sounds delish and I intend to spoil myself with just such a tart.
Hi Jan–When we were at I Giardini di Pomona, we were bowled over by the resilience of figs. They really do seem to want to thrive, particularly in especially warm weather (Ashland, anyone?). Are your figs the green or dark purple variety? When we were tasting figs, we were intrigued that there were so many nuanced flavors available in figs. Beyond the jammy sweetness, there were figs with an almost cinnamon-y notes. Others had a more elevated acidity, which offered a relief from the deep, dark sugary profiles. We absolutely loved the experience and are now trying to learn everything we can about the world of figs. Tell me if you like the recipes . . .
I’ve been making an olive tapenade with fresh figs inspired by a recipe I saw on Saveur’s website. Roughly equal amounts of oil-cured olives (pitted, natch) and fresh figs, add anchovies & salt-packed Pantellerian capers, chopped garlic, lemon juice & zest, extra virgin olive oil, blitz in the processor.
Oh my God, Jim. What a gorgeous recipe. We are so ready for something savory with these figs, so this tapenade has just moved to the top of the rotation. Thanks for sharing! | 2019-04-25T20:40:33Z | https://nuovastoria.wordpress.com/2013/09/04/fighissimo/ | Porn | Arts | 0.302576 |
wordpress | The series of Scholla postings are derived from a tri-weekly newspaper column in the Reading Times. The column, originally titled Scholla aus Pennsylvanisch Dietschland translates to “Echoes from Pennsylvania Dutch Country”. The title was later shortened to Scholla. The author of this column Arthur D. Graeff signed his columns bei ‘N Ewich Yaeger, which translates to “the Eternal Hunter”. His pen name is very fitting because he wrote his column from July 26, 1938 until the last article being published on the day of his death March 28, 1969. During that time our Eternal Hunter scrounged together material for over 4,800 articles. We at the Berks History Center are excited to expose new generations to writings of Arthur D. Graeff and pay tribute to his work. Due to the elapsed time since the writings of these articles, we encourage our readers to expound on the topics/ideas in Arthur’s articles.
Harry Groff making oak splints using his Schnitzelbank.
When gypsies come to you with baskets for sale the great likelihood is that the sturdy splint basket they offer were braided and woven by some Pennsylvania German craftsman who learned his trade at the bench or schnitzelbank, somewhere near the Blue Mountains. The nomadic gypsies do not weave splint baskets, or schiene karreb. Their craftsmanship does not extend beyond the manufacture of willow-wicker baskets and hampers. The construction of a splint basket calls for more time, skill and patience that the roving bands of Romany can supply.
Harry Groff, of Rehresburg, learned the art of karreb-flechte, or basket weaving from an elderly man who was his neighbor more than a generation ago. The teacher was Frank Eckert, of Bethel formerly from Cornwall, in Lebanon County. Harry Groff is no longer a young man but the knowledge of his craft will not perish with him because he has taught his two grown sons, George Groff, of Robesonia, and Albert Groff, of Bethel, how to split white oak splints, how to operate the ancient schnitzelbank and draw the schnitzelmesser, or drawer knife along a slab of white-oak timber peeling off long ribbons of wooden splints of cardboard thickness.
Schiene is the dialect term for splint and any basket constructed from splints is designated as schiene karreb, regardless of its size, shape, or purpose. Groff declares that at one time he made willow (weide) baskets, but found that the splint-type would outlast the willow by many years. The first splint basket which he made 35 years ago is still in daily use and in excellent condition. In some sections of Pennsylvania the term schiene karreb is applied only to a basket of very peculiar construction, being built with two convex compartments on either side of a middle peak. This was designed to fit the part of a horses neck just in front of the pommel of the saddle. In this way the basket could rest evenly and eggs carried in the basket would not be rolled from side to side with the swaying movement of the horse.
The selection of white-oak timber for splints calls for care and circumspection. Groff says that he cannot use the tree which stands alone. He prefers the oak whose growth was stunted by proximity to other trees in a forest. The tree that stands alone grew too fast and its timber is not tough enough for his purposes. He has tried hickory but found that it does not serve his purpose. Red-oak may serve well for chip-baskets, but only the white oak posses the virtues needed.
Neighbors bring their willow “wash baskets’ to Groff to have die henck, the handle, repaired. Without exception the craftsman replaces the broken part with a thick oaken splint, chiseled on his schnitzelbank.
Harry Groff making White oak splints.
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wordpress | April has been a great month for me. Not only did Avalon Revisited and “Dust on the Davenport” both win Readers’ Choice Awards from The Steampunk Chronicle for Best Fiction and Best Short Story, respectively, but my poem “New York Rain” won the Grand Prize at the Leander Public Library’s Poetry Contest!
With everything that’s been going on in my personal life, it’s so wonderfully validating to be honored in my professional life like this. Thanks to everyone at The Steampunk Chronicle and at the Leander Public Library, especially Doctor Q and Adrian H., again, respectively.
and it, too, was a great honor. I finally got to meet Abney Park as well as catch up with my dear friends of Airship Isabella (even played on the beach together and buried Capt. Delacru in the sand. Great fun!). Mickey & Doug, the organizers of the event, were everso charming, and I look forward to working with both of them again very soon, perhaps later this year at another FL event.
One of the highlights of the weekend was meeting and chatting with S. J. Chambers, co-author of The Steampunk Bible. Ms. Chambers interviewed me on my relationship essays and other work. The results made it into her piece for Beyond Victoriana (below), but please do read the entire article over on Beyond Victoriana.
I look forward to meeting with Ms. Chambers again at some point in the near future and sharing another margarita with her.
In the mean time, look for me at Aetherfest this coming weekend AND in the upcoming May Issue of Gearhearts, A Steampunk Glamour Revue, #3.
~ by omgrey on April 30, 2012.
You are having quite the banner April! Well done, Olivia. Hope the year continues on the upswing….
Congratulations! I hope this is a sign that many more good things will come. I look forward to the issue of Gearhearts; I love seeing familiar faces in it. | 2019-04-19T13:10:54Z | https://omgrey.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/award-winning-author-literary-chair-o-m-grey/ | Porn | Arts | 0.272269 |
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Virtual staging means using computer techniques to add 3D furniture into the photos of a vacant house. Therefore, to apply virtual staging techniques, photos of vacant houses are required. Shooting empty properties seems an easy task for professional photographers who are trained to cope with this. However, non- photographers also can take good photos themselves if they know some following tips.
Light is an indispensable factor when it comes to real estate photography. It affects a lot to the quality of the photos. With furnished houses, it might be more difficult to work with the light because it has the shadows. However, with empty houses, there is nothing except for four walls, it will be easier to control the light. When shooting, you just need to test with your camera, take photos with lights on and off. Same applies for using flash. Test your camera so you will know what works best with you. If possible, make use of natural light by opening all the windows or doors. Shooting in the morning or afternoon when the sun is not at its brightest is a good idea.
Vacant houses look smaller and less spacious than furnished houses. Therefore when shooting empty properties, try to choose an angle which gets as much of empty floor space as possible, and one or two walls without doors or openings. Remember not to take too much ceiling than floor. Ideally it’d better take at least two times as much floor as ceiling.
The purpose of Virtual Staging is making vacant houses be life-like house so that buyers can experience the place as a home instead of a piece of property. And empty rooms with four walls will work best for Virtual Staging. This is why the Living Room, Dining Room, and Master Bedroom are chosen. When shooting, remember to shoot all photos in horizontal landscape mode. Vertical portrait photos do not work well with virtual staging.
The quality and resolution of the original photos affect directly to the quality of the final Virtual Staging product. Therefore, the higher the resolution, the better the outcome. At least 800 pixels wide in “.jpg” format is recommended. Before shooting, remember to check that your camera is able to take the photo at the size and resolution that you need.
Shooting vacant houses is not too difficult. Knowing some small tips and tricks about how to shoot, you are also can make it as a professional.
As defined by Wikimedia, “Virtual staging is a type home staging. The interior design is created in graphic editors. Virtual staging is especially popular among real estate brokers, photographers and interior designers. The main goal of this kind of Visualization (computer graphics) is creating super realistic images of properties (usually for sale)”. Undoubtedly, Virtual Staging is the best approach for marketing a vacant home, offering most of the benefits of traditional staging, at just a fraction of the cost.
Due to its advantages in selling empty properties, virtual staging is becoming the first choice of many home sellers or real estate agents when it comes to selling vacant properties. Some choosing to use “do-it-yourself” virtual staging software application, some choosing to hire a professional home stager for help. Whatever choices you make, remember these following conceptions for best applying virtual staging on your home.
Virtual Staging doesn’t mean filling a space with furniture. The goal of using virtual staging is creating a space which can emotionally connect buyers with sellers. Most buyers have tendency to purchase houses which they feel familiar with as well as have an initial connection with their old house. Therefore, applying virtual staging wisely, you need to view the house under the eyes of customers, not yours. Imagine if you are buyers, which things you want to see in the house. Don’t just try to add furniture without any perspectives just for making the room occupied.
Virtual staging can create bad effect. There is a fact that if the manipulated images without the before photos are shown to home buyers they’ll be sorely disappointed if and when they visit the home. While the virtually staged images may entice them to visit, they’ll find a home they will not recognize from the images they saw, and they may just walk away. Such a scenario certainly doesn’t benefit the seller nor does it help the real estate agent working to sell the home.
Besides wonderful benefits of virtual staging, it also includes some dangers. One of them is the misrepresentation of property. Therefore when using virtual staging, agents or home buyers should be honest, don’t show an image of a home in a way that it’s not, just consider virtually staged photos as a reference for potential clients to envision the empty house.
The important of photography in real estate market is undeniable when there are a lot of research proving that buyers spend 60% of their time looking at listing photos, and only 20% each on the listing description and agent description. It doesn’t hurt to say that photos act as the bait to trap the customers. Clear photos are more convincing and carry more messages than the distorted and shabby ones. However, capturing images of the property is just the starting point and real estate photo editing techniques offer the necessary features to the image.
WHY IS REAL ESTATE PHOTO EDITING A MUST ?
When it comes to real estate photography, verticals are the norm. However, to shoot vertically is not an easy task if photographers don’t know the tricks. When shooting high buildings, the camera might be tilted up and down and as a result the photos will not be vertical.
Color plays an important role in real estate photography. Uneven color and lack of contrast can make an image look pale and gloomy. However, this problem is made by many beginner photographers. It is not only because they lack in experience, but it is also because of the weather which we can’t control.
Another factor that has significant influence on a real estate photograph is the sky. Blue sky with some big white puffy clouds will make the house more energetic. However, if you have to shoot in a cloudy day with grey sky. Then, the grey sky will destroy all the background.
These simple mistakes are very common, and we can’t avoid some of them. Therefore real estate photo editing is a must. Without post – processing, the photos won’t be perfect as photographers expect.
SHOULD PHOTOGRAPHERS EDIT BY THEMSELVES OR OUTSOURCE?
Time saving: photographers will not waste time on fixing the mistakes on the photos when using photo editing services. They can spend that time on shooting more houses or staying with their family and friends.
Perfect outcomes: professional editors who specializing in processing RAW photos will not satisfy you. They are trained to deliver the best outcomes.
Cost saving: hiring someone do for you, you will have to pay for them. However, for long term purpose, you will see that investment turn out to be worth it. Throw a sprat to catch a herring.
Customer preference: Your work is just shooting and shooting, the amount of shots need to be processed will be done by photo editors with the highest quality. The same high quality images will help you have your own style and customers will have trust on you. It is fundamental factor to attract more customers.
If you are photographers, you should consider which choice is better. Editing photos on your own is not a bad idea but it will take a lot of your time and you might be stressful if you have a huge amount of work.
Professional real estate photos have significant influence on online real estate market. They are the first things to capture clients’ attention. Therefore, realtors or a person trying to sell homes should invest more time and effort on creating the most stunning and appealing photos. If not, your business will get some troubles.
Snapping a few photos with your camera phone will help you save a little money. However, those unprofessional photos will have negative impacts on your real estate business.
Decrease the value of your house: unprofessional photos mean your photos have bad quality, bad angle shootings and bad lighting,… So if you don’t really work on it seriously, your photos can not show the best view of your property. As a result, your house’s value will be dropped down. And let’s think whether your customers want to buy it.
Extend the market time: many researchers show that professional real estate photos are able to reduce to selling time. So how about the unprofessional pictures?
On the online real estate market, most home buyers is trying their best to stand out of other competitors by creating stunning and unique photos. It is estimated that home sellers have 20 seconds to grab the buyer’s attention with a photo. If you have unprofessional photographs, definitely you can’t defeat your competitors and your selling time will be lasted for a long time.
Getting your potential customers away: Unprofessional photos means you don’t put more effort on creating them. Customers can base on those to imply that you don’t care about the house and the house might have hidden problems which make you want to sell it as soon as possible. No one want to buy a house where they can’t feel safe and comfortable. And unprofessional photographs are the clear proofs for imperfect points in your home.
Unprofessional photos are causing negative influence on your selling strategy. Therefore, investing some money to hire a professional real estate photographer is a great idea for your quick selling target. Let think out of the box, you will see you get what you paid for.
IS THIS WORTH INVESTING IN CHEAP PROPERTIES?
A good deal for any products is always the target that all the customers are looking for. However, in some circumstances, a cheap price is not always the good thing. It is also true in real estate market and buyer should have high awareness of buying properties on the cheap.
Location: Location is the most important factor in real estate. Therefore, a lower price is likely indicative of slipping property values if not an issue with the property itself. Be aware of things like crime rates, amenities, and other issues present in the area. Asking about the origin of the property to know more about the house will not a bad idea.
Hidden problems: There must be some reasons why the home seller offers the cheap price. Sometimes, the problems are hidden behind real estate photographs. Using real estate photos to sell home is the effective way to hide some unattractive points in the property and the story behind it. Therefore, it is important to investigate the property seriously, or you can have someone who can perform a thorough home inspection.
Neighborhood Values: Neighborhood is indispensable factor when buying a house. Your future house will be where you live comfortably and raise you kids. Will you want to have noisy neighbors who don’t let you any quiet time to relax after a long working day? Or will you want to have a neighbor who always have inquisitive look at your house or even you? It would be very frustrated. Therefore, keeping an eye on the surrounding will never let you down.
Here are the main factors you should keep in mind when you are offered a cheap property. It’s said that you get what you pay for, therefore, cheap thing is not always the best choice, especially in real estate market.
There is a fact that the more creative your business is, the more customers you get. It’s always true in any kind of business including real estate photography. Instead of showing traditionally the property through front photos, many realtors or home buyers are inclining to use another method to show the house, which is aerial photographs captured by drone photography equipment to get an attractive overview of a property by highlighting it in relation to its environment.
Why should choose drone photographs for your real estate photography?
In the past, such aerial pictures could only be obtained by the use of expensive methods (helicopters or aircrafts). Only a few high standing properties could afford to record such materials as costs were quite inaccessible for most professionals of the real estate market. Fortunately, nowadays, a drone is a cost-saving, wonderful, easy-to-use and accessible tool allowing to shot breathtaking pictures and other recordings from which the real estate market can take a lot of advantages.
There are drone pilots who only do aerial photography. There are normal photographers who use it as an add-on service. Who should be your partner?
If you choose your regular photographer be sure to verify certification. The specialized drone pilot will often have a better drone while the photographer will usually have better Photoshop skills. The key is to find the best of both worlds. Your best advice is to ask for a portfolio of work to verify their skillset. | 2019-04-22T18:52:40Z | https://realestatephotoediting.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Business | 0.336839 |
utoronto | Throughout the year, we offer special opportunities for campus tours, residence visits, information sessions, and extended opportunities to speak with our staff, and experiencing our campus.
Campus tours are not available when the University is closed for holidays. Click here for the University Holiday Schedule.
If you require accommodation for a disability, please contact us as early as possible (preferably a week in advance), at 905-828-5400 or by email at admissions.utm@utoronto.ca.
Residence may not always be available at the beginning or end of terms due to move-in/move-out or exam dates.
Our campus tours are primarily designed for prospective students, applicants, and admitted students (and their families/guests) to our undergraduate programs. If you are interested in our graduate programs, we invite you connect directly with the host department for more information. You are still more than welcome to join us for a campus tour!
Full directions to campus and parking information are all available available on the Directions & Parking page of our website.
Prior to attending, watch our Preparing for Your Tour video on YouTube to get up to speed on what to expect on your tour.
You can also print out our Campus Tour Resource Sheet for a list of questions you want to consider asking your tour guide.
The Student Recruitment & Admissions Office is located in Room 1270 in the Innovation Complex. Enter through the exterior north entrance of the building.
Click here for directions to our office from the St. George Shuttle Bus stop.
We sometimes host events that begin or depart from Room 108 in the Kaneff Centre. The Kaneff Centre and Innovation Complex are conjoined buildings and are one complex.
Click here for directions to KN 108 from Parking Lots 4/8.
Click here for directions to KN 108 from the MiWay bus stop.
Click here for directions to KN 108 from the St. George Shuttle Bus stop.
We ask for at least two weeks prior notice for a group tour booking in order to allow adequate time to facilitate your request. | 2019-04-21T09:08:57Z | https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/future-students/visit/campus-tours | Porn | Reference | 0.492054 |
wordpress | How YOU could help a Special Needs Parent.
As the rates of #Autism continues to skyrocket, the likely hood of you knowing someone that is a special needs parent is growing as well. Maybe you already know someone with a special needs child. Perhaps, a friend or family member.In this article, I hope to give you some simple ways that you can help the special needs parent in your life. Knowing what to say or do can be daunting for someone that doesn’t have experience with special needs parenting. This is probably where many people, with the best of intentions, get scared off. Seeing what a special needs parent goes through can be a very overwhelming experience for anyone.
It may even seem so dire that one might feel that they have nothing to offer, that could possible be of any benefit. I hope to change that by sharing a few very simple, very basic ideas, that can provide much needed relief to a special needs parent and let them know that they aren’t alone.
So, you have a friend or loved one that is a special needs parent. Do you want to offer help or support but don’t know what you could possibly do? First of all, let me thank you for showing compassion, concern and love for the special needs parent in your life. Honestly, to a special needs parent, just knowing that someone cares is really important. In fact, it’s so important, that I don’t think it can be overstated.
If you have ever wanted to offer help to a special needs parent but maybe don’t know how, this article is for you. Perhaps their situation is so difficult, you don’t know how you could possibly help. There are some things you can do to help even if they don’t seem like much.
One of the toughest parts of being a special needs parent is the feeling of isolation. Their child requires so much of their time, energy and undivided attention that they often times have little or no adult contact (aside from doctors and therapists). You could make plans to stop by for a visit. Many special needs parents will tell you that they would love to just talk to another adult. Please remember to call first as a surprise visit could just add to the stress by destabilizing or overstimulating their child.
Sometimes, by the end of the day, exhaustion is such that the thought of making dinner is simply to much. Perhaps you could also offer to bring dinner over so they have one less thing to worry about. It would be a very nice gesture and could really help take some of the load off their shoulders.Remember that their child may have special dietary or sensory needs so it would be a good idea to do some research by calling and asking what would be a good meal to prepare for them.
Things as simple as sending a card, email or text message, just to let them know you’re thinking about them could help them to find the strength to keep moving on a really bad day.
If you wanted, you could send them a gift card for groceries or maybe their favorite take-out. There is often times a tremendous financial burden associated with special needs parenting and maybe a gift card will help them provide groceries for their family, if things are tight that week.Think about making arrangements to go over and spend some time with their child (if that’s something that would work). Educating yourself about Autism of whatever else the parent is dealing with is important for something like this. Not only will educating yourself help you relate to their child, but knowing that you took the time to learn about their child’s condition would mean a great deal to any special needs parent.
As their child likely requires all their time and energy, every single day, things around the house and yard tend to take a back burner. You could help with lawn care or repairs to the house. Wash a sink load of dishes or fold the laundry.
The list of possibilities is endless really.
The most critical thing you will be doing, is showing them that they are not alone. Sometimes just knowing that their are people who love and support you, standing in your corner, can mean more then you can possibly imagine.
Please remember that you don’t have to understand anything about Autism in order to show love, compassion and support to those touched by it. | 2019-04-23T20:29:30Z | https://yourbeautifulchild.wordpress.com/tag/energy/ | Porn | Health | 0.256817 |
livejournal | Which of these userpics looks most like me?
What the hell? You don't look like any of those guys!
Which of my userpics do you prefer?
Which of these should I get rid of?
What am I missing userpic-wise? | 2019-04-25T13:45:22Z | https://speedball.livejournal.com/119131.html | Porn | Reference | 0.323634 |
wordpress | One of the sessions I attended at the Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop a few weeks ago was with Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff, best friends and authors of the book Queen of Your Own Life.
My year started with the rug being pulled out from under me, and while the shock of betrayal definitely threw me off course, in the end I realize I’ve been given a gift: the chance to pursue the things I feel like I’m supposed to be pursuing, and learning to become the human I’m supposed to be.
This is a year of change, of healing, of forgiving and being forgiven, of saying “No” to others and saying “Yes” to myself, and to demanding that people who say they love me actually treat me with respect – and, I’m realizing, learning to respect myself.
In other words, I’ve been given permission to put myself first.
But enough blathering about me.
Kathy and Cindy gave us all timers, and we did 10 minute burst of free writing using prompts. I always say that I don’t write fiction, that I don’t know how to write fiction, as if you have to have been born with some magic talent for making sh*t up. What I got out of this session? I can do anything, if I just stop thinking about how much I don’t know how to do it.
A lesson for life, in this year of discovery and change.
Kathy and Cindy gave us four elements, and the only guide was that the elements should be in whatever we wrote. I’m posting what I wrote, with almost no editing (in fact, I didn’t even fix the places I’ve spelled the names wrong), but I can see nuggets of stories that could be explored, hints of how these fictional women are becoming the queens of their own lives. | 2019-04-26T02:38:37Z | https://notesfromthefunnyfarm.wordpress.com/tag/cindy-ratzlaff/ | Porn | Science | 0.859526 |
wordpress | December | 2011 | Uniquely U Pix!
These three boys always keep me on my toes…and make some of the best expressions – you can’t help but smile!
Mad Dash to the Holidays…!
Here at the Uniquely U factory…have been super busy!! …so much so, we haven’t updated the website with these fabulous new sessions going on! Here’s a quick review…from the last few months! | 2019-04-25T16:55:52Z | https://uniquelyupix.wordpress.com/2011/12/ | Porn | News | 0.546231 |
webs | Originally from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I moved to SC in 2000. I am a PreSchool Teacher. I am also a Certified American RedCross Instructor. I do volunteer work for St. Jude, March of Dimes and Cystic Fybrosis. I am the mother of 4 sons ages 25,20,17,17. | 2019-04-21T02:12:48Z | https://cocej.webs.com/apps/profile/69917525/ | Porn | Kids | 0.723173 |
typepad | Background Reading: "And the Show Went On"
Today's (short) post is about another nonfiction book - after The Shameful Peace by Frederic Spotts, which I wrote about here - that will be of interest to those readers of my novella "Isolde 1939" who want to learn more about cultural life in Paris during the Occupation: And The Show Went On, by Alan Riding.
While General de Gaulle "above all people purveyed the healing notion that the French had been united in their resistance except for a few traitors and weaklings" (from the New York Times review), it has been known for a long time that the situation in Occupied France had many more shades of grey than what was politically correct to admit at the Libération. Riding, a former cultural correspondent for the New York Times, focuses on the shades of grey seen in cultural and intellectual Paris.
The Financial Times review provides this quote of professor, literary critic and Résistant Jean Guéhenno, included in Riding's book and which I can't resist to share with you: "The species of the man of letters is not one of the greatest of human species. Incapable of surviving for long in hiding, he would sell his soul to see his name in print." This gives you a preview of many intellectuals' attitude during the Occupation.
I didn't find the book to be a page-turner - at least not in the way I found Villa Bel Air by Rosemary Sullivan, about Varian Fry, to be a page-turner - but it is very well researched and I liked how Riding, in the words of the Guardian reviewer, "traces how [the collabos] came to be by painting an elaborate picture of the terror of the German invasion, the collapse of French morale following the first world war, the immense humiliation and fear of a defeated population." It is only by understanding why some people chose to collaborate with the invaders that we can, perhaps, prevent such behavior from happening again.The book provides a stunning picture of the compromises people make with their conscience in devotion to their art - or their name in the headlines. | 2019-04-24T20:16:08Z | https://engineered.typepad.com/writing/2013/06/background-reading-and-the-show-went-on.html | Porn | Arts | 0.837547 |
wordpress | With all respect to Alexs Pate’s inspired arguments to the contrary, rap is not poetry, and poetry is not rap. Lyrics function differently when isolated from music, which is why “Surfin’ Bird” is a great lyric and not great poetry. Yet poetry-with-music is an honorable if maligned musical tradition that connects Dada, Langston Hughes (backed by Charles Mingus), the Beats, Amiri Baraka, Gil Scott-Heron’s timeless “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” punk rock (Minutemen more than Patti Smith), slam poetry, and inevitably hip hop, wherever beats and rhymes are disconnected in a spoken way. Nobody has more persuasively claimed this vein for an African American oral and protest tradition than E.G. Bailey and his collaborators on 89.9 KMOJ-FM’s Saturday-night staple Urban Griots.
So what’s surprising about Bailey’s debut album isn’t its aural cinema—linking what sounds like a slave ship hull to the voice of Martin Luther King Jr. to field recordings of rapper Idris Goodwin (talking about blackness) and Liberian folk songs—but how great it is as music. Bailey is a reminder that Public Enemy started as radio guys, too: The Liberian-born spoken-word performer makes blindsiding funk his space for meaning, and vice versa. Working with producer Ben Durrant and M.anifest beatsmith Katrah Quey, along with a host of other gifted Twin Cities musicians and singers, Bailey crafts one dope riff after another. He makes his crisply voiced musings (“Black voices save the African man”) and those of guest Ibé Kaba (“a slave is a slave is a slave”) seem at home in the James Brown-like shimmy of the title track—well before M.anifest takes over rapping on the bonus “M.ANIFESTations Mix” (though I actually prefer the full 11-minute poetry version).
In total, Bailey spreads out only seven poems among 16 tracks (plus four alternate mixes), amid sample collage, gospel, and found audio. The results are more like Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts reinvented to signify African-ness explicitly, personally, and profoundly than like poetry set to music. But don’t sell the words short. Addressing “Afrika” and America as urgently as any African American before him, Bailey is uncommonly tender: “America, your friends are worried,” he says of the wars he can’t defend. “Am I strong enough to love you with the love you deserve?” he asks an Africa he can only visit. This album is strong enough to give that sentiment the music it deserves.
Originally posted on City Pages on 31 March 2010.
English translation of Igbo folk song at the end of the track performed by Sister Maureen Pieta.
Translated by Festus A. Ejiofor + Sister Xavier Mariet + Sister Mary Ezeanya.
Special thanks to Paschal Nwokocha + Sister Mary Ezeanya and the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (www.ihmmc.org) for helping to bring this recording to fruition. | 2019-04-19T18:32:43Z | https://egbailey.wordpress.com/tag/katrah-quey/ | Porn | Reference | 0.307005 |
uni-kl | The main focus of this dissertation is the synthesis and characterization of more recent zeolites with different pore architectures. The unique shape-selective properties of the zeolites are important in various chemical processes and the new zeolites containing novel internal pore architectures are of high interest, since they could lead to further improvement of existing processes or open the way to new applications. This dissertation is organized in the following way: The first part is focused on the synthesis of selected recent zeolites with different pore architectures and their modification to the acidic and bifunctional forms. The second part comprises the characterization of the physicochemical properties of the prepared zeolites by selected physicochemical methods, viz. powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD), N2 adsorption, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA/DTA/MS), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis) spectroscopy, atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), infrared (IR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), 27Al and 29Si magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS NMR) spectroscopy, temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), temperature-programmed desorption of pyridine (pyridine TPD) and adsorption experiments with hydrocarbon adsorptives. The third part of this work is devoted to the application of test reactions, i.e., the acid catalyzed disproportionation of ethylbenzene and the bifunctional hydroconversion of n-decane, to characterize the pore size and architecture of the prepared zeolites. They are known to be valuable tools for exploring the pore structure of zeolites. Finally, an additional test, viz. the competitive hydrogenation of 1-hexene and 2,4,4-trimethyl-1-pentene, has been applied to probe the location of noble metals in medium pore zeolite. The synthesis of the following zeolite molecular sieves was successfully performed in the frame of this thesis (they are ranked according to the largest window size in the respective structure): • 14-MR pores: UTD-1, CIT-5, SSZ-53 and IM-12 • 12-MR pores: ITQ-21 and MCM-68 • 10-MR pores: SSZ-35 and MCM-71 All of them were obtained as pure phase (except zeolite MCM-71 with a minor impurity phase that is hardly to avoid and also present in samples shown in the patent literature). The synthesis conditions are very critical with respect to the formation of the zeolite with a given structure. In this work, the recommended synthesis recipes are included. Among the 14-MR zeolites, the aluminosilicates UTD-1 (nSi/nAl = 28), CIT-5 (nSi/nAl = 116) and SSZ-53 (nSi/nAl = 55) with unidimensional extra-large pore opening formed from 14-MR rings exhibit promising catalytic properties with high thermal stability and they possess strong Brønsted-acid sites. By contrast, the germanosilicate IM-12 with a structure containing 14-MR channels intersecting with 12-MR channels is unstable toward moisture. It was found that UTD-1 and SSZ-53 zeolites are highly active catalysts for the acid catalyzed disproportionation of ethylbenzene and n-decane hydroconversion due to their high Brønsted acidity. To explore their pore structures, the applied two test reactions suggest that UTD-1, CIT-5 and SSZ-53 zeolites contain a very open pore system (12-MR or larger pore systems) because the product distributions are not hampered by too small pores. ITQ-21, a germanoaluminosilicate zeolite with a three-dimensional pore system and large spherical cages accessible through six 12-MR windows, can be synthesized with nSi/nAl ratios between 27 and >200. It possesses a large amount of Brønsted-acid sites. The aluminosilicate zeolite MCM-68 (nSi/nAl = 9) is an extremely active catalyst in the disproportionation of ethylbenzene and in the n-decane hydroconversion. This is due to the presence of a high density of strong Brønsted-acid sites in its structure. The disproportionation of ethylbenzene suggests that MCM-68 is a large pore (i.e., at least 12-MR) zeolite, in agreement with its crystallographic structure. In the hydroconversion of n-decane, the presence of tribranched and ethylbranched isomers and a high isopentane yield of 58 % in the hydrocracked products suggest the presence of large (12-MR) pores in its structure. By contrast, a relatively high value for CI* (modified constraint index) of 2.9 suggests the presence of medium (10-MR) pores in its structure. As a whole, the results are in-line with the crystallographic structure of MCM-68. SSZ-35, a 10-MR zeolite, can be synthesized in a broad range of nSi/nAl ratios between 11 and >500. This zeolite is interesting in terms of shape selectivity resulting from its unusual pore system having unidimensional channels alternating between 10-MR windows and large 18-MR cages. This thermally very stable zeolite contains both, strong Brønsted- and strong Lewis-acid sites. The disproportionation of ethylbenzene classifies SSZ-35 as a large pore zeolite. In the hydroconversion of n-decane, the suppression of bulky ethyloctanes and propylheptane clearly suggests the presence of 10-MR sections in the pore system. By contrast, the low CI* values of 1.2-2.3 and the high isopentane yields of 56-60 % in the hydrocracked products suggest that SSZ-35 also possesses larger intracystalline voids, i.e., the 18-MR cages. The results from the catalytic characterization are in good agreement with the crystallographic structure of zeolite SSZ-35. It was also found that the nSi/nAl ratio influences the crystallite size and therefore the external surface area. As a consequence, product selectivities are also influenced: The lowest nSi/nAl ratio or the smallest crystallite size sample produces larger amounts of the relatively bulky products. The formation of these products probably results from the higher conversion or they are preferentially formed on the external surface area of the catalyst. Zeolite MCM-71 (nSi/nAl = 8) possesses an extremely thermally stable structure and contains a high concentration of Brønsted-acid sites. Its structure allows for the separation of n-alkanes from branched alkanes by selective adsorption. MCM-71 exhibits unique shape-selective properties towards the product distribution in ethylbenzene disproportionation, which is different to those obtained in the medium pore SSZ-35 zeolite. All reaction parameters are fulfilled to classify MCM-71 as medium pore zeolite and this is in good agreement with its reported structure consisting of two-dimensional network of elliptical 10-MR channels and an orthogonal sinusoidal 8-MR channels. The competitive hydrogenation of 1-hexene and 2,4,4-trimethyl-1-pentene was exploited to probe that the major part of the noble metal is located inside the intracrystalline void volume of the medium pore zeolite SSZ-35. | 2019-04-20T15:13:54Z | https://kluedo.ub.uni-kl.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/all/start/0/rows/10/facetNumber_author_facet/all/institutefq/Fachbereich+Chemie/author_facetfq/Tontisirin%2C+Supak | Porn | Science | 0.222352 |
wikipedia | 팻 조(Fat Joe, 본명 Joseph Antonio Cartagena, 1970년 8월 19일 ~ )는 미국의 래퍼이다. 그는 푸에르토리칸이며, Imperial Record 소속이다. 또한 그가 독립적으로 세운 힙합레이블 Terror Squad 사장이며 뉴욕을 중심으로 래퍼들이 소속돼 있다.
1993년에 첫 발매한 앨범 Represent를 시작으로 1995년에 발매한 Jealous One's Envy까지 그는 Atlantic Record에 소속되어 있었으며, 1998년에 발매한 Don Cartagena부터 2005년에 발매한 All or Nothing까지 자신의 설립한 레이블 Terror Squad Entertainment에서 발매했다. 한때 자 룰과 함께 50 Cent와 대립했으며, 2004년 Lean Back으로 number-one hit in the summer of 2004이라는 상을 받았다.
2006년부터 Imperial Record에서 Me, Myself, & I를 내기 시작했다. 현재 The Elephant in the Room을 올해 11월에 발매할 예정이다.
이 문서는 2018년 10월 27일 (토) 13:36에 마지막으로 편집되었습니다. | 2019-04-25T20:24:49Z | https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%BB_%EC%A1%B0 | Porn | Arts | 0.844712 |
google | Restores browser behavior of navigating to previous page when pressing the Backspace key.
This extension requires permissions to inject a piece of code in all of the pages you visit. If that freaks you out, that's ok. Handing over those permissions freaks me out too.
You can choose to install this extension from source (it's very short) to make sure it's not doing anything malicious. | 2019-04-22T01:01:06Z | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backspace-to-go-back/nlffgllnjjkheddehpolbanogdeaogbc?hl=pl | Porn | Computers | 0.18114 |
yahoo | Per the terms of the bond, the redemption price was $1,025.48 on principal amount of $1,000, corresponding to about $1.5 billion. Additionally, accrued interest as of the redemption date of $32.62 per $1,000 principal amount corresponds to $48,927,083.33. Therefore, total payment made by Ecopetrol was equal to $1,058.10 per $1,000 principal amount, corresponding to $1,587,146,344.76.
With this redemption, Ecopetrol has conformed to 79% of its consolidated debt amortization payments estimated for 2019. The redemption yields financial savings for the Ecopetrol Group and enhances the company's credit. This will enable the company to increase cash flexibility to fund the Group's operations.
The redemption is in sync with Ecopetrol's 2020 business plan and complies with the company's commitment to improving credit rating and boosting shareholder returns.
Ecopetrol is an integrated energy player engaged in upstream, midstream and downstream operations. The company’s operations are concentrated primarily in Colombia. The company also conducts operations in Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Gulf Coast of the United States. The government of Colombia has 88.49% interest in Ecopetrol, making it one of the biggest state-owned energy firms in the world.
In the nation, Ecopetrol covers the largest exploration acreage with the highest domestic crude and natural gas production. Majority of the oil pipelines in Colombia are owned by Ecopetrol. This enables the company to transport massive crude volumes to the principal markets from the producing fields.
Currently, Ecopetrol sports a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
A few better-ranked players in the energy space are SunCoke Energy, Inc SXC, Shell Midstream Partners, L.P SHLX and Unit Corporation UNT. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
SunCoke acquires, owns and operates coke making as well as coal mining operations. The company delivered average positive earnings surprise of 302.6% in the last four quarters.
Headquartered in Houston, TX, Shell Midstream Partners owns, operates, develops and acquires pipelines and other midstream assets. The company is expected to witness year-over-year earnings growth of 18.7% in 2018.
Unit Corp is a diversified energy company. The company has an average positive surprise of 21.2% in the last four quarters. | 2019-04-26T06:11:14Z | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ecopetrol-ec-redeems-international-bond-144402502.html | Porn | Business | 0.955112 |
wordpress | CYPT COIN exploded today in the early hours of Apr 28th. Just one day following the live speech from the cryptocurrency creator Jeremy D Higgs, the website overloads and shuts down for several hours linking evidence to a possible small DDoS attack.
Watch the video featuring The Birch Tree Media Company CEO live from the stage of the 3rd Annual Blockchain Convention in Chicago.
The company celebrated success and establishment following the event and anticipate a bright future. Thank you to all those who came to support and attend the conference. Mine right now from any network connected device at www.cyptcoin.com.
The website and mining platform are back online and operational at the time of this posting. Security measures have been further increased and operations have resumed as normal. No data or personal information was compromised during this latest hacker attack.
The 3rd annual Blockchain Convention is coming to Chicago! Jeremy Higgs, CryptoLOOT Token creator and spokesman, is listed on the event agenda as a speaker during the event. Tickets are on sale now and the agenda for the event can be viewed here.
CYPT COIN is an ethereum blockchain token that happens to have roots in Chicago due to the nature of it’s creators. With over 1.2 million tokens in circulation in it’s very first month on non-ico inception, the token creator is excited to debut CYPT COIN to the Blockchain Convention.
Tickets are available now and can be purchased at https://www.blockchain-chicago.com/home , click here to get your tickets now.
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wordpress | Is your style traditional, classic or contemporary? You can create a floor to match your kitchen’s style, that’s also easy to clean and maintain, so it will look great for years to come. What is most important to you? Low maintenance? Easy to clean? Some materials are non porous and therefore stain resistant and easy to clean; others – not so much.
Let’s face it, kitchens are tough on floors. A variety of staining sauces, juices and condiments can spill onto the floor. Pots and knives can be dropped (these always fall point down, of course – watch your feet), causing punctures or cracks on the flooring material.
Vinyl is easy to clean and tough and it doesn’t easily rip, tear or scratch.
Natural stone materials are not all the same. Marble is very soft, easily scratched and can stain. Slate and granite are hard and nearly impervious to water, with proper sealing. They are resistant to scratches and divots, although chips and cracks can appear if a very heavy object is dropped. On the plus side, slate and granite are easily cleaned. They do need to be re-sealed periodically to keep them impervious to water and stains.
Linoleum is low maintenance and easy to care for. It is resistant to stains, and ripping or tearing.
You can get the look and feel of natural stone with a ceramic flooring, for initial less cost and less maintenance over time.
Here is a material you might not have considered; concrete. Concrete flooring is sanded, polished and sealed and makes a lasting, durable floor. The cost is low, and it can be stained to match your style and color scheme.
Wood flooring is popular in our area – the Pacific Northwest. There is some maintenance required, to keep it sealed, and it has a warm feel to it. It comes in many shades of brown-to-blond, so you have quite a choice.
You know what they say: “What is the bottom line?” Meaning money, of course. That’s why you should remodel now. A master bath remodel, kitchen remodel, or adding a well-designed powder room will add value to your home.
Of course, you will be able to enjoy updated fixtures, colors and furnishings for as long as you live in your home. Replacing worn-out and dated faucets, shower fixtures and sinks can immensely improve enjoyment of just being home.
So, speaking in specifics, what gives the biggest return on investment in the remodeling world?
Built in bench with 2 level deck in landscaped yard.
Decks have a lifespan, and if they are at or near the end of theirs, replacing a traditional single-level deck with several levels and built-in benches are winners. If your previous deck required a great deal of maintenance, have the new one built with low-maintenance materials. There are some wonderful railing options, such as cable railing and glass that allow much more light onto the deck, and do not obstruct the view.
Kitchens and bathrooms are obvious places to do either a complete remodel, or update things as you can afford to. New sinks and fixtures, new countertops, new flooring and paint are all lower-cost remodel projects, that nevertheless, add a great deal to enjoyment and value of the home.
Complete kitchen remodel, including granite countertops, custom cabinetry, and large appliances and fixtures.
Replacing cabinetry and large appliances are bigger ticket items, but are well-worth doing when you are ready.
Do you like low-flow shower heads?
Most people would probably say “Not really!” But it is nice to have lower water bills and if you could get a great shower out of a low-flow fixture, wouldn’t you jump at the chance?
Well, manufacturer’s have been competing with each other to provide the best shower with the lowest gpm’s, so today we are going to look into the state of this technology. A fairly recent development is the air-induced shower head. It pulls air into the shower head, combines it with the water, and shoots it out with greater force, due to the increased volume the air makes possible. Reviews are excellent, and this type of shower technology is available at a great spread of prices, so do your research to be sure you are getting the quality you want.
As stated, prices vary greatly, from under $100 to over $1,000, so do your research to be sure you are getting the quality you expect.
Another showerhead option you might like is the showerhead with a variety of spray patterns. One for each mood you might be in! Shower systems can also come with a hand-held shower; these can be great for bathing children and pets, no comparison intended; and is helpful for scrubbing out the shower stall, kind of like a big giant hand sprayer at the kitchen sink! You know how handy that is.
In addition to the quality of the shower head and water conservation, consider the shower stall itself for creating a great showering experience. If there is room, a larger shower such as about 4 feet by 6 feet is a great investment. Many of our higher end shower remakes include 2 or 3 tiled walls, a tiled floor and frameless glass shower walls and door, for a spa-like shower!
Tiled shower with 2 frameless glass walls/ door.
Don’t forget to provide adequate ventilation and light. A good quality bath exhaust fan, perhaps humidity controlled, would help to reduce or eliminate mold and mildew. Light, either from windows, skylights, or fixtures is important. Wall sconces and other task lights can be selected and located just right to provide the right amount of light where it is needed. | 2019-04-23T20:05:40Z | https://roseconstruction.wordpress.com/tag/kitchen-remodel/ | Porn | Home | 0.300652 |
wordpress | In a visit to our office, Somesh Basavanna, CEO of Sahaja Samrudha, got candid with us. He took us down his memory lane and we had a vicarious experience of his journey. Sahaja Samrudha is one of our partner farmer producer companies and we were thrilled to know more about it, from the CEO himself. Here’s a narrative.
Let’s start from the very beginning! Somesh is the son of a farmer and his forefathers had been into the agriculture sector as well. He completed his Class 10th from a school in Mandya district in Karnataka and pursued a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Commerce from the University of Mysore. Soon after, he was faced with options of career choices to be made. When all of his friends opted for careers in the teaching line or to work in call centres, Somesh was interested in doing something for the society. So he joined the DHAN Foundation and worked there for one and a half years. It was the Green Foundation in Bangalore where he started working with farmers.
After working for NGOs for a while, Somesh had to quit due to financial strains and decided to take up a corporate job. In the next 3 years, he worked at Aditya Birla and Reliance Communications. Now that money was not a pressing issue, he had regular sessions of introspection where he questioned his job and always pondered over the fact that he was working to make the rich richer while there were people who were getting poorer by the day.
One fine day, Somesh was attending a meeting between the members of Sahaja Samrudha when he decided that he would put down his papers and work for the people. He had been a volunteer of Sahaja since very long as he handled their finances in his free time. However, his journey from being a volunteer to the CEO is quite a fascinating one. In the afore-mentioned meeting, there were discussions on how to improve the condition of farmers and Somesh was full of ideas for the same. Within a few hours, the members offered the position of CEO to him and it was in this moment that he decided he would take it.
There were inevitable protests from family and friends. His wife and father were particularly upset and everyone advised him to not compromise on the benefits his then company was offering him. As they say, the heart wants what it wants. Somesh believed in his decision and knew that money for him was never a source of satisfaction.
It was on May 5, 2011 that he joined Sahaja as the CEO and never looked back. He has been dealing with the challenges and even had to go without salary for the initial 3 months. Over time, things started to get better. In 2013, they broke even and now Sahaja regularly distributes profits to their farmers.
It has been a long way for Somesh and he wishes that more youngsters form farmer based companies and think about the farmers of our country. He finds extreme satisfaction in his job and feels that you have succeeded if at the end of the day, you are happy and satisfied. Kudos to Somesh! | 2019-04-19T05:31:23Z | https://cropconnect.wordpress.com/2017/03/ | Porn | Business | 0.57383 |
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google | The invention relates to gas diffusion electrodes (1) for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells which are modified in such a way that the diffusion of water therein is inhibited in comparison with unmodified electrodes. Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells with the modified gas diffusion electrodes can be operated without adding water under operating conditions which are constant on average since said gas diffusion electrodes only allow the water formed during the reaction of combustion gas and oxidizer to leak out and therefore guarantee sufficient membrane moisture.
Polymer electrolyte membrane, a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell having at least one such a gas diffusion electrode and a method for operating a Polymer fuel cell.
Cathode catalyst layer is the oxidizing agent is reduced by absorbing electrons. The cations migrate through the ion exchange membrane to the cathode and react with the reduced oxidation agent, wherein, when hydrogen is used as fuel gas and oxygen as the oxidizing agent, water is produced.
The function of the gas diffusion electrode consists primarily discharging the current generated at the current collector and to allow the reaction gases diffuse to the catalytically active layers. The electrodes must therefore be electrically conductive and have a sufficient diffusivity for the reaction gases. Preferably, the electrodes should be at least in the facing areas of the membrane to be water-repellent to prevent water formed during the reaction, water floods the pores of the electrodes.
has a consequence. Therefore, it is necessary to determine during operation of the fuel cell continuously or at least at short, regular intervals, the moisture content of the membrane and possibly to supply water. This requires an additional, external humidification system, the burden on the fuel cell with additional weight and causes additional costs. Up to one third of the weight and the cost of a conventional fuel cell stack with electrodes are conditioned by the external humidification.
The object of the present invention is to provide a gas diffusion electrode and a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell having a gas diffusion electrode, which allows to maintain in continuous fuel cell operating under unchanged on the average operating conditions without addition of water to the membrane humidification sufficient membrane moisture.
Membrane humidifying water is added.
2 shows a gas diffusion electrode according to another preferred embodiment of the invention.
but also a depletion of the membrane to moisture is an electrode material is, the better the diffusion properties for the reaction gases are expected to occur more quickly if there is no external system is provided for the membrane humidification.
The invention is based on the basis that it is possible to change the effective diffusion constant of the gas diffusion electrode so that just the necessary amount of reaction gases necessary to achieve a desired current density can reach the catalyst, while the diffusion of water vapor from the catalyst layer is made much more difficult in the gas space in that drying of the membrane is avoided. Thus, the membrane retains its conductivity.
Ambient pressure at about 75 ° C, a gas diffusion electrode having a sufficiently small would the effective diffusion coefficient for water do not provide sufficient diffusion more for the reaction gases, in particular oxygen. However, an increase in air pressure makes it possible to increase the working temperature on.
The gas diffusion electrodes according to the invention can be prepared starting with conventional electrode materials. Alternatively, particularly preferred are electrodes according to the German patent application no. 195 44 323.3-45. These electrodes are made of at least one carbon fiber nonwoven fabric impregnated with soot and polytetrafluoroethylene in substantially homogenous. The production of these electrodes will be described below.
The gas diffusion electrodes according to the invention are characterized in that at the same time their effective diffusion constant for the reaction gases, in particular oxygen, is large enough and their effective diffusion constant small enough for water, on the one hand a sufficient diffusion of the reaction gas is ensured in equipped with the novel gas diffusion electrodes polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, while on the other hand, the diffusion of water vapor is so severely limited that the water balance is compensated. Therefore, the membrane remains moist.
Gas diffusion electrodes with the necessary effective diffusion constants can be obtained by different types of modification of conventional electrodes.
No. 195 44 323.3-45 applied.
As fillers solid or liquid substances are suitable which can be introduced into the pores of an electrode and remain unchanged under the operating conditions of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell substantially.
reduce little or non-porous solids as a filler, the effective diffusion constant of the electrode apparent as the porous filler materials. The filler may have any shapes, for example they may be powdery, fibrous or platelet-shaped. A particularly dense electrode structure obtained when the electrodes are pressed, in addition to filling with filling material, wherein already lower pressures preferably, about 200 to 300 bar, are sufficient.
Carbon compounds, especially Hostinert * (product of Messrs. Hoechst AG).
Catalyst layer 7 and attached to the other surface 8 layer 5 'of another material 5. The material 5 may be identical to the electrode material 2, so that the reduction of the effective diffusion constant is by simply thickening the electrode condition. Highly suitable materials are carbon black, graphite, metals and plastics, and mixtures of these materials. the layer is preferably made 5 'of carbonized or graphitized polyimide or carbonized or graphitized polyacrylonitrile expanded PTFE. The preparation may be accomplished by applying a material 5 in a finely divided form, eg. Example in the form of powder, platelets or fibers on a surface 8 of the gas diffusion layer 6 and subsequent pressing. In the pressing process, the layer 5 'consolidated from the material of 5, wherein at the interface between the diffusion layer 6 and a further layer 5' part of the material 5 may penetrate into pores of the diffusion layer. 6 The additional diffusion-inhibiting layer 5 'may be made of one material or mixtures of different materials. Particularly preferred is a layer 5 'of a pressed-on mixture of graphite and PTFE powder and a layer of metal or graphite platelets.
Layer 5 'too dense to allow sufficient diffusion of the reaction gases, for example in the case of enclosed metal plates are in the layer 5' provide openings for passage of the reaction gases.
45 g of carbon black (Vulcan XC72) are suspended in 450 ml of water and 495 ml of isopropanol. This suspension is intensively mixed with 32.17 g of an PTFE suspension (60% Hostaflonfasern in aqueous suspension). Is the resultant mixture a carbonized carbon fiber nonwoven fabric (3 mg / cm 2) evenly coated and then dried, the web at about 70 ° C. The brushing and drying is repeated twice. After the final drying, the impregnated carbon fiber fleece is sintered at 400 ° C for about 30 minutes. This gives a uniformly impregnated with Vulcan XC72 and Hostaflon carbon fiber nonwoven fabric having a mass 7.8 to 8 mg / cm 2.
The PTFE content is 30% relative to the total mass of carbon black plus PTFE. The homogeneously impregnated fabric corresponds to a gas diffusion electrode according to the German patent application 195 44 323.3-45 mark. To prepare the gas diffusion electrode of the invention four of the carbon fiber nonwoven fabrics as prepared above are superimposed and pressed at 3200 bar. The carbon fiber webs are fixedly connected together and so strongly compressed that they oppose a high resistance to the diffusion of water, but allow hydrogen and oxygen to diffuse through satisfactory good.
As starting materials three carbonized carbon fiber nonwoven fabrics are used with a mass of 3 mg / cm 2.
One of the webs is impregnated with a suspension of 30% Hostaflon (PTFE) TF5032, 7% graphite (Timcal KS75) and 63% carbon black (Vulcan XC72 Cabot) in a mixture of isopropanol and water. The final mass of the dry nonwoven fabric is 10 mg / cm 2.
The second nonwoven is impregnated with a suspension of 30% Hostaflon, 40% graphite and 30% carbon black in isopropanol and water as the suspension medium. The final mass of the dry nonwoven fabric is 16 mg / cm 2.
The third non-woven is impregnated with a suspension of 10% Hostaflon, 80% graphite and 10% carbon black in isopropanol and water as the suspension medium. The final mass of the dry nonwoven fabric is 22 mg / cm 2.
The webs are sintered for five minutes at 400 ° C, stacked and pressed at 140 ° C with 200 to 300 bar. Subsequently, a catalyst layer can be applied and the gas diffusion electrode can be combined with a polymer electrolyte membrane and another electrode to a membrane electrode assembly on the surface of the first nonwoven.
Gas diffusion electrode catalyst can be applied. It is also possible, aufzupressen an already a catalyst-carrying gas diffusion electrode on the Hostaflon graphite layer so that the Hostaflon- graphite layer is disposed between two layers of electrode material. Then, however, must be used in sintering temperatures that do not damage the catalyst.
From any conventional electrode and a polymer electrolyte membrane, a membrane electrode unit is manufactured. The cathode is deposited with a 0, 1 mm thick sheet made of nickel or stainless steel. The metal sheet has holes with 0.3 to 0.4 mm in diameter in a square grid of 1.2 mm. The surface of the cathode is thus partially covered, whereby less free surface area is available for the escape of water.
In polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, both electrodes can be designed as gas diffusion electrodes according to the invention with reduced diffusivity for water. In general, it is sufficient if one electrode, the cathode is formed according to the invention.
moisturize operating conditions. Therefore, it can be dispensed continuously attached to the fuel cell device for moistening, which saves weight and cost. Cooling can be by refrigeration equipment, as for example by provided in the bipolar plates through which water flows cooling coils or cooling plates or blown into the cathode chambers air. The direct air cooling (by dry air) is possible at least for smaller fuel cell stacks and saved compared to the water cooling, in turn, weight and cost. In addition, corrosion problems in the cooling system due to different electrical potentials can be avoided with air cooling.
So the air-cooled fuel cell stack with inventive gas diffusion electrodes are independent from an external water supply.
10 "3 to 15 x 10" 3 cm 2 / s and the effective diffusion constant for oxygen in the range of 2 x 10 "3 to 12 x 10" 3 cm 2 / s. The optimal effective diffusion constant for water and oxygen under these operating conditions amount to 7.7 x 10 "3 cm 2 / s or 5.7 x 10" 3 cm 2 / s (based on 20 ° C).
The cathode used have effective diffusion constant for water and oxygen of 7.7 x 10 3 cm 2 / s or 5.7 x 10 "3 cm 2 / s.
The lowest load point is located at 503 mA / cm 2. At 675 mA / cm 2, the diffusion inhibition affects extreme. A reduction of the air ratio to 1.5 causes the cathode temperature can be increased to about 78 ° C. However, the achievable cell voltage remains below 625 mV.
Oxygen are increased. The cell voltage is then up to more than 625 mV.
For a given effective diffusion constant, the electrodes should be as thin as possible (ie very close) to enable good heat dissipation through good thermal conductivity.
Frequency to "pulse": Intervals temporary short-circuits (. Eg about 1 sec) alternate with intervals normal fuel cell operation (for example, about 1 min.). The period of the normal operation intervals depends on the duration of the performance improvement achieved. If power drops below a desired minimum value is again short-circuited, etc.
The method of improving the performance of fuel cells by pulsed operation is independent of the selected electrode type, and may be carried out at any fuel cell.
The invention provides gas diffusion electrodes with reduced diffusion capacity for water disposal. The use of these electrodes makes it possible to operate polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells without addition of water and possibly with direct air cooling. This results in comparison to conventional fuel cell considerable savings in weight and cost.
1. Gas diffusion electrode (1) f├╝r one containing a fuel gas and an oxygen gas as the oxidizing agent to be operated polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell having an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and an interposed polymer electrolyte membrane, characterized in that they da├ƒ an effective diffusion constant f├ has ╝r water, whose value is small enough da├ƒ in a Polymer fuel cell having at least one gas diffusion electrode (1) at the middle unver├ñnderten operating conditions is not more than the reaction of fuel gas and oxidant leaking water formed.
2. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 1, characterized in that the electrode temperature at least daß 50° C, preferably 60 to 75 °C, beträgt.
3. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it daß consists of an electrode material (2), which is compacted by pressing at a pressure of 1000 to 4000 bar.
4. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 3, characterized in that the electrode material (2) daß by pressing at a pressure of 2000 to 3500 bar, is compressed.
5. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Ansprüche 1 to 4, characterized in that it daß at least in a partial region (3 ') a Füllmaterial (3) enthält that the effective diffusion constant of the electrode (1) für water reduced compared to the ungefüllten electrode.
is 6. The gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 5, characterized in that the Füllmaterial (3) daß (3 ') in a partial region, which does not limit a Oberfläche (4) of the electrode (1) becomes.
(3) ausschließlich in the diffusion layer (6).
8. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Ansprüche 5 to 7, characterized in that the Füllmaterial daß a little solid is poröser.
9. The gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 8, characterized in that the daß Füllmaterial Ruß and / or graphite and / or a metal and / or plastic.
10. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 9, characterized daß, the plastic is PTFE.
11. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Ansprüche 5 to 10, characterized in that the daß Füllmaterial in the form of powder, fibers or Plättchen present, which have been introduced as a suspension.
12. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Ansprüche 5 to 7, characterized in that the Füllmaterial daß a Flüssigkeit is.
13. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 12, characterized in that the Flüssigkeit daß a fluorine-carbon compound, preferably Hostinert * is.
14. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Ansprüche 1 to 13, characterized in that daß außerdem a layer (5 ') of at least one further material (5) is provided.
15. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 14, characterized in that the further material daß (5) Ruß and / or a metal and / or plastic.
16. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 14, characterized in that the additional material (5) daß carbonized or graphitized polyimide or carbonized or graphitized polyacrylonitrile or expanded PTFE is.
17. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 14, characterized in that daß the layer of the further material (5) consists of a aufgepreßten mixture of graphite and PTFE powder.
18. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to claim 14, characterized in that daß the layer of the other material (5) consists of metal or Graphitplättchen.
19. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Ansprüche 14 to 18, characterized in that daß the layer of the other material (5) is provided with through Öffnungen.
20. Gas diffusion electrode (1) according to one of Anspr├╝che 1 to 19, characterized in that the electrode material (2) da├ƒ enth├ñlt at least two layers of a carbon fiber nonwoven fabric, with the Ru├ƒ and PTFE, preferably homogeneous, impr├ is ñgniert.
22. A method of operating a polymer electrolyte fuel cell having an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and an intervening arrange requested polymer electrolyte membrane, characterized in that daß with no addition of water for moistening the membrane in the middle unveränderten operating conditions.
23. The method according to claim 22, characterized in that the electrode temperature at least daß 50° C, preferably 60 to 75 °C, beträgt.
24. The method of claim 22 or 23, characterized in that the cell daß während 0.01 to 20% of the operating time, preferably 4 to 10% of the operating time, is loaded in such a way, the cell voltage to a value below daß 300 mV decreases.
25. The method according to claim 24, characterized in that the cell voltage daß to a value below 150 mV decreases.
26. The method according to one of Ansprüche 22 to 25, characterized in daß least one of the electrodes is a gas diffusion electrode (1) is one of gemäß Ansprüche 1 to 19.
27. The method according to one of Ansprüche 22 to 26, characterized in that the daß Kühlung the fuel cell ausschließlich by means of air stream, preferably through the cathode space, is carried out.
28. The method according to one of Ansprüche 22 to 26, characterized in that the daß Kühlung the fuel cell is effected by a separately provided Kühleinrichtung. | 2019-04-22T11:38:12Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/WO1998039809A1/en | Porn | Science | 0.359304 |
wordpress | Who was Gloria Ray? No one knew until 1957. Gloria Ray was born on September 26, 1942, and was the daughter of Harvey C. and Julia Miller Ray. By the time Gloria was in Central high-school her father was retired from the from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and had founded the Agricultural Extension Services for African-Americans. While, Her mother was a sociologist for the state of Arkansas. Gloria Ray was a fifteen year old freshmen at Morrace Maan High-school, before she, signed herself up to interrogate an all white Central High in Montgomery, Alabama. When picked to interrogate Central High she decided to stand up for what was right and interrogate Central High, and to try to desegregate the High-school. Gloria Ray was then a part of the Little Rock Nine, the Little Rock nine were he first African-Americans to ever attend an all white school in Little Rock, Alabama. She attended Central High for one year through 1957-1958. The year she spent at Central was awful, she was harassed, called names, and was even pushed over and bumped in the hallways. Gloria Ray didn’t even get to finish her year at Central and this was because, all Little Rock High-schools were closed down to avoid interrogation from African-Americans. Gloria, and the Little Rock Nine were awarded the prestigious Spingarn in 1958, by the NAACP. So, her family moved to Kansas, City, Missouri, so she could finish High-school in a desegregated school that was also called Central High. After high-school Ray went to Illinois Institute of Technology, and got her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, and Mathematics.
Gloria Ray then went on, to be a public school teacher, and a research assistant at the University of Chicago Research Medical Center. In 1966, Gloria married Krister Kalmark, and in 1970 she joined the International Business Machine’s (IBM) Nordic Laboratory in Stockholm Sweden, where she worked as a Technical Writer and Systems Analyst. Gloria Graduated from Kungliga Patent and Registeringsverket, in Sweden as a Patent Attorney, and From 1977 to 1981 Gloria Ray worked for IBM International Patent Operations. From 1976 through 1994 she founded and was the editor of the Computers in Industry which was an international journal of computers in industry.
In 1994 went to work in the Netherlands for Philips Telecommunications in Hilversum and then went to Philips Lightning Eindhoven. Again in 1999 the Little Rock Nine were awarded, this time they were given the Nations Highest award, the Congressional Gold Medal by Bill Clinton. Gloria is now retired, and lives in the Netherlands.
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wordpress | Senator Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats often talk of making the US tax system more “fair” by imposing additional taxes on higher earners. They argue this segment of the population should be carrying a disproportionally heavier load than the rest of the populace. It’s a very calculated and clever argument: it appeals to envy and social divisions while at the same time jeopardizing only a small segment of voters. But does it have any basis in reality?
When it comes to the US tax system, the wealthy already pay an astonishingly disproportionate share of all tax revenues. Take, for example, the top two percent of all earners: this group pays an incredible 43.6% ¹ of all personal federal income taxes. Yes, you read that right: two percent carry nearly half the load.
Well, you might argue, if they make 43.6% of all income, then that seems reasonable. Not even close: the top two percent of all earners take in 24.1% of all income.
The bottom 50% of all earners contributes a mere 3.3% of all federal income taxes (while earning 13.4% of all income).
Let’s drill down a little further and look at the top five percent: Senator Obama has called on increasing the taxes on this group, and he has defined them as earning $250,000 or more per annum (since then, he’s adjusted that to $200,000 in a television ad; his running mate, Senator Joe Biden, uses $150,000). What do the numbers say about this group?
Well, Senator Biden is closer to the truth than Senator Obama: the top five percent of all earners make $137,056 a year. They currently contribute, wait for it, 57.1% of all federal income taxes. Can it truthfully be said they are not carrying their fair share?
Britain experimented with similar wealth-redistribution schemes in the ’70s: the top earners were subjected to a 90% (yes, ninety-percent!) tax rate. What happened as a result? They left. | 2019-04-21T02:46:16Z | https://westcoastsuccess.wordpress.com/tag/obama-tax-hikes/ | Porn | Reference | 0.174987 |
wordpress | Meeting with John McGrory, Fionnuala Farrell, Una Beagon, and Ted Burke to discuss teaching design.
What does a skilled designer do? How does she act? How does he know what will work?
My colleagues at Dublin Institute of Technology and I want to know.
We all have design and teaching experience. We have a feel for what good design practice looks like.
But we aim to be more precise. We want to explain this well to our students.
So a group of us — who are teaching design on the new “common first year” course that all engineering students in DIT’s four year honors engineering program are now taking — got together Wednesday morning to mull it over. Before meeting, we all read an excellent and comprehensive article by David Crismond and Robin Adams that was published in the Journal of Engineering Education. It is called The Informed Design Teaching and Learning Matrix and can be purchased from Wiley.
When we got together, we first introduced ourselves (three of us are fairly new to DIT, two are quite experienced here). Then we talked about how our three different project modules are structured.
After Ted Burke expressed interest in Crismond’s rubric, and I saw Fionnuala Farrell using techniques recommended in a paper by Crismond and Adams, I decided it was time to read the paper in full. I emailed it out to my colleagues and asked them to come discuss it.
Una Beagon is teaching bridge design. She’s a civil engineer.
John McGrory and Ted Burke are teaching RoboSumo. They are electrical and electronic engineers.
Fionnualla Farrell is a product design and manufacturing engineer. She coordinates the Energy Cube module I’ve been assisting with.
When we met, I distributed a rubric Crismond shared at the 2008 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. The rubric is very helpful for identifying and describing effective design behavior. Years ago, Dr. Crismond was gracious enough to let me include his rubric in two articles I published for educational planners and architects (Iterative Approaches to Planning and Strategizing: Learning from the Architectural Studio Model and Strategic by Design: Iterative Approaches to Educational Planning for sale by SCUP). I also integrated parts of it into a new Rubric for Assessing Epistemological Understanding of Students who are Learning Design.
The paper we read has a similar, but more elaborate rubric. Both are very helpful in defining design prowess. There’s also a version to help teachers do quick assessment of student’s design development.
I meant to publish this on Ireland by Chance, but it ended up on RoboSlam.
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wordpress | Was the rumour that Toronto offered more money but he would only leave Pittsburg on a three year deal incorrect?
That’s what Peter Gammons said on Twitter. If the Blue Jays offered more money, it couldn’t have been much more and with the exchange rate, it might’ve wound up being a wash. Clearly, Grilli wanted to stay with the Pirates if all else was equal.
When I referenced Grilli looking for work and not having a lot of options, I meant when the Pirates signed him two years ago. Now he certainly was in demand, Sheffield or no Sheffield. | 2019-04-26T16:14:26Z | https://paullebowitz.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/the-dual-edged-sword-of-hiring-gary-sheffield-as-an-agent/ | Porn | Sports | 0.522769 |
wordpress | Listen to your book group!
Are you part of a book group or maybe thinking of starting one up? Why not try something different and listen to an audiobook this month instead of reading a printed book?
Our audiobook service RBdigital, has over 1000 multi-access titles meaning unlimited people can listen at the same time.
You’ll find it a great talking point, discussing the effect that the narrator has on your understanding and enjoyment of the story.
Browse through our Excel list of multi-access audiobooks today, you’ll be spoilt for choice!
This entry was posted in Book groups, Books and reading, ebooks, Electronic resources and tagged audiobooks, Book groups, read, reading by edinburghcitylibraries. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-20T02:52:12Z | https://talesofonecity.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/listen-to-your-book-group/ | Porn | News | 0.214288 |
wordpress | I am a book nerd. There really is no flattering way to put it because I love books. I always have.
My day job entails teaching high school English, the greatest – if not wildly underpaid – job in the world. Staring down surly teenagers and convincing them to enjoy East of Eden, The Color Purple, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and Pride and Prejudice fills my cold hard heart with no small amount of joy.
I think young adult lit is wildly underrated, and I’ve discovered that I can only go two or three books without needing to dive into some really hot headboard rockin’.
Come join me as I discover books, books, and more books. | 2019-04-22T04:39:16Z | https://cupcakeonbooks.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Arts | 0.660002 |
wordpress | I have this set of dark kraft cardstock. The quality is good, but because it is so dark, I am unsure of how to put it to good use (other than as a cardbase). I thought of using some Distress Oxide Inks on them, since, having pigment property, they would show up better than other options.
Once done, I was again lost – what do I do with it?! In the end, I decided to just go with a simple card, with only the addition of a sentiment. I used Concord & 9th Cuddles & Hugs die cut, stacking the part with the kraft die cut, and adding glossy accents for the top most thinnest layer. I also added glossy accents to the hearts.
I then die cut a circle from white card base, embossed it using a circular die from Winnie & Walter Ring in the Celebration, and stamped the sentiment from Reverse Confetti Whole Lotta Happy. I then used some flowers – that I had stamped and cut god knows when – from Reverse Confetti Garden Bunch and leaves from WPlus9 Fresh Cut Flowers.
After adhering these flowers on the circular sentiment piece using liquid glue, I added foam tape behind the whole piece and mounted it on the card base.
Hello and welcome! Today I have the honor and pleasure to be present at two challenge blogs.. Its a new challenge at Seize the Birthday, and I am also Guest Designing at CAS(E) This Sketch challenge!
I used the cute little owls from Lil Inker Designs Hootie Patootie stamp set. They are just so adorable!!! I colored them using Faber Castell oil pastels, fuzzy cut them. I cut out a panel of olive green card stock using Neat & Tangled Scalloped die, which I then embossed using Spellbinders Flora embossing folder. I then foam mounted the panel over a white card base, then foam mounted the critters, clouds, balloons, and sentiment on top.
I hope you enjoyed my card. And I hope you find time to join both the challenges – they are totally fun. You can find more inspiration at the CAS(E) This Sketch blog and the Seize the Birthday blog, where we are joined by our Surprise Party Guest, Kimberly Lackenbach!
PE: Honorable Mention at CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge!!
I combined the small leaf stamps from Hero Arts Flower Garden and Simon Says Stamp Nutty Over You stamp sets. I arranged them on my acrylic block and used three shades of green inks to stamp – making a cha-cha-cha (phrase borrowed from Jennifer McGuire 😉 ) to get an ombre effect.
I also used distress oxide inks on a piece of scrap cardstock to get a green-black ombre, then die cut it using My Favorite Things Big Thanks die. To assemble, I die cut the leaf stamped panel using Neat and Tangled Scalloped die, foam mounted it on a white card base, and added the sentiment, which I had stacked three high.
Hello and welcome to my second post of the day!
A clean card using Altenew Build a Flower: Rose stamp and Bold Alphabet die and MFT Blueprints 27 for the stamped panel. | 2019-04-25T11:13:02Z | https://experimentswithcardmakingetc.wordpress.com/tag/casethissketchchallenge/ | Porn | Arts | 0.089539 |
wordpress | Prostate Cancer: Can Diet And Lifestyle Make A Difference?
September is National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, so I thought that a discussion of prostate cancer and preventative measures would be an appropriate topic to write about as the month approaches its end. As a urologist and a wellness advocate, this subject is very dear to my heart.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the USA. The burden of this disease is felt not only by those men diagnosed with this disease, but also by their partners, relatives and friends who are key elements in their emotional support system.
Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin malignancy among men in most Western populations (240,000 estimated new cases in 2011 in the U.S.), and is the second leading cause of cancer death among U.S. men (34,000 estimated deaths in 2011). To put this in perspective, heart disease causes more than 800,000 deaths per year in American men and is the leading cause of death in men with prostate cancer. Many more men die of heart disease than of prostate cancer, and even in the population of men with prostate cancer, many more men die with it than of it.
The three major risk factors for prostate cancer are age, race, and family history. The likelihood of developing prostate cancer increases with the aging process, thought to be on the basis of gradual accumulation of DNA mutations due to incremental oxidative damage (literally “rusting”) of prostate cells. With each decade of aging, the incidence of prostate cancer increases appreciably.
In terms of race, African-American men have the highest reported incidence of prostate cancer in the world, with an incidence of 1.6 times that of Caucasian men in the United States; additionally, mortality is 2.4 times higher for African American men. On a worldwide basis, the highest incidence is in North America and Scandinavia and the lowest incidence is in Asia.
Prostate cancer tends to run in families, so it is prudent for male children of those with prostate cancer to be checked on an annual basis starting at age 40 (with a PSA blood test and digital rectal exam). With respect to familial prostate cancer, risk increases according to the number of affected family members (the more affected, the higher the risk), their degree of relatedness (brother and/or father affected confer a higher risk than cousin and/or uncle), and the age at which they were diagnosed (relatives of patients diagnosed younger than 55 years old are at highest risk). Generally speaking, if you have a brother or a father with prostate cancer, your risk of developing it is doubled. If you have three family members with prostate cancer, or if the disease occurs in three generations in your family, or if two of your first-degree relatives have been diagnosed at an age younger than 55 years, then you have a good likelihood for hereditary prostate cancer, which confers a 50% risk of developing the disease.
My father, a retired urologist, was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 65 and underwent curative surgery and is currently 80 years old and thriving. For this reason, I have been very diligent in seeing my internist annually for a prostate examination and a PSA blood test. Additionally, I have been proactive in taking a medication to decrease my risk of prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is unique among solid tumors in that it exists in two forms: a latent form (evident on autopsy studies, but not causing an abnormal digital rectal exam or PSA), which is present in 60-70% of men older than 80; and a clinically evident form (causing an abnormal rectal exam or elevated PSA), which affects approximately 1 in 6 men in the United States. Overall, men have an approximately 17% chance of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and a 3% chance of dying from it. This high ratio of prostate cancer incidence to mortality suggests that a portion of the cancers are minimal or indolent, non life-threatening conditions.
Currently, most prostate cancers are detected on the basis of a PSA elevation ranging from 2.5-10 ng/ml. Widespread PSA testing has resulted in the increased diagnosis of prostate cancer and a downward stage migration to non-palpable, organ-confined cancer with a parallel reduction in deaths—as opposed to the pre-PSA era, when most cancers were detected on the basis of a palpably abnormal digital rectal exam and were at a more advanced stage at presentation.
It is very important to know that when detected early, prostate cancer is highly curable. In the USA, more than 90% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer survive at least 10 years after the diagnosis is made. Even when not discovered early, it is a very manageable condition. In general terms, prostate cancer is a relatively slow-growing process. Although most prostate cancers diagnosed at an early stage often have an indolent course, local tumor progression and metastases may certainly develop in the long term; therefore, early treatment is an important consideration for men with a general life expectancy exceeding 10 years.
Localized prostate cancer typically causes no symptoms and is typically diagnosed by a biopsy done because of a PSA elevation, an accelerated increase in the PSA over time, or an abnormal digital rectal examination. Non-palpable cancers, i.e., those picked up by virtue of a PSA elevation or accelerated PSA velocity, now account for 75% of all newly diagnosed prostate cancers. Although screening for prostate cancer remains somewhat controversial because of a lack of studies demonstrating a decrease in mortality in screened populations, the observed trends in PSA-driven detection of prostate cancer at earlier stages and declining mortality where screening is common provide strong inferential evidence that screening is beneficial.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could prevent the occurrence of prostate cancer? It certainly would make my job a whole lot easier. Unfortunately, we are not there yet—but we do know a thing or two about lifestyle measures that can be pursued to maintain health and wellness in general and to help mitigate the chances of developing prostate cancer.
When Asian men (the ethnic group that has the lowest incidence of prostate cancer) migrate to Western countries, their risk of prostate cancer increases substantially over time. So it is clear that environment plays a strong role in the genesis of prostate cancer and it is not just a simple matter of genetics.
Unquestionably, a coronary artery-clogging Western diet high in animal fat and highly processed foods and low in fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains is associated with a higher incidence of many preventable chronic health problems including cancer. A heart-healthy, colon-healthy diet is a prostate-healthy and life-healthy diet. A healthy diet combined with a healthy lifestyle, will afford us our best opportunity at minimizing heart disease, diabetes, and a host of cancers. This means weight management; the avoidance of obesity; healthy eating with abundant fruits and vegetables (chock full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and fiber) and real food as opposed to processed foods; consumption of animal fats and dairy in moderation; avoidance of tobacco and excessive alcohol; and plenty of exercise. And if we do develop prostate cancer, we will be in stellar physical shape and will heal that much better from any intervention necessary to treat the prostate cancer. Good nutrition and exercise helps in part by inhibiting oxidation and inflammation, factors that contribute not only to prostate cancer but also to conditions such as heart disease and osteoarthritis.
Michael Pollan, a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley and author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, summarized in a most succinct way the answer to the question of what humans should eat, in his seven words: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” By food, he means a nutritional substance that your grandmother would recognize as food, not a food-like highly processed substitute. Not too much is pretty obvious. A mostly plants-based diet will result in the consumption of a moderate amount of calories and plenty of fiber and anti-oxidants.
In addition to recommending a regimen of healthy eating and regular participation in exercise, there are medications that can help prevent the occurrence of prostate cancer. The presence of precursor lesions such as high grade prostate intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) many years before the onset of prostate cancer, coupled with the increasing prevalence of prostate cancer with the aging process, suggest that the process of developing cancer takes place over a protracted interval of time. In fact, it is estimated that it takes many years—often more than a decade—from the initiation of the initial mutation to the time when prostate cancer becomes clinically manifest with either a PSA elevation or an abnormal digital rectal examination. In theory, this provides the opportunity for intervention before the establishment of a cancer.
The Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial was a clinical trial that tested whether Finasteride, which induces a deficiency of the enzyme 5-alpha reductase, would prevent prostate cancer. This trial was based upon the fact that prostate cancer does not occur in the absence of testosterone and that men with a congenital absence of 5-alpha reductase (that functions to convert testosterone to the activated form, dihydro-testosterone) do not develop benign or malignant prostate growth. This 7-year study involved almost 20,000 men who were randomly assigned to Finasteride or placebo. The study was terminated 15 months early because a 25% risk reduction for prostate cancer was achieved on Finasteride. The other finding was that the prevalence of higher-grade cancers was slightly higher in the Finasteride group (6.4% vs. 5.1%); however, Finasteride is known to change the pathological appearance of the prostate in such a way as to make determination of an accurate grade difficult.
A number of years ago, I was given the disheartening news that I had sunburn on my crown! A balding pate frankly did not appeal to my sense of vanity! After topical Minoxidil (Rogaine) proved ineffective, I started taking Propecia (a.k.a. Finasteride) every morning. Lo and behold, my thinning crown filled in and ultimately I had a full re-growth of hair. When the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial report came out revealing a 25% risk reduction for prostate cancer associated with the use of Finasteride, this cinched it—particularly insofar as my father had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Finasteride is a drug that fixes my bald spot, shrinks my prostate, and helps prevent prostate cancer, for which I have a family history. It seemed like a win-win situation, a no-brainer!
Bottom line: Prostate cancer is very prevalent in men, involving one in six men in the USA. When picked up on a timely basis via screening with the digital rectal exam and blood PSA test, it is eminently treatable and has an excellent prognosis, with only 3% of deaths in the USA attributable to prostate cancer. There are both genetic and environmental factors at work in the genesis of prostate cancer. We are not in control of our genetics, but we are in command of our lifestyle. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle—including rational food choices—can help mitigate our chances of developing prostate cancer.
There are a number of psychologists whose works are relevant to our behaviors with respect to food and eating. I have selected few—Freud, Pavlov, Skinner, Csiksczentmihalyi, as well as the French author, Proust. My intent is to summarize their seminal contributions and discuss how viewing our eating behaviors through the prisms of their perspectives and philosophies can provide us with insight and understanding of not only why we eat for emotional reasons, but also to help us eliminate our inappropriate eating behaviors.
Why bother learning the philosophy of the aforementioned psychologists and authors? Many intelligent people I have spoken with tell me that they don’t really care about the psychological underpinnings of their eating behaviors, only about how they can achieve weight loss and keep it off. So how can this knowledge improve our ability to get to a healthy weight and stay there? The answer is because when we eat for the wrong reasons and emotions drive dysfunctional eating patterns, we must be cognizant of our behaviors and make every effort to understand them in order to change them. Freud’s divisions of the psyche, Pavlov’s classical conditioning, Skinner’s operant conditioning, Csiksczentmihalyi’s concept of flow, and Proust’s “Madeleine” each offer a unique framework to comprehend the basis of human behaviors, including eating. Even more importantly, these formative contributions offer insights into how to manage dysfunctional eating behaviors in order to achieve the endpoint of a healthier relationship with food, healthier eating patterns and a healthier weight.
The model of the human psyche established by Sigmund Freud divides our psyche into the ego, id and super-ego. Our ego acts in accordance with the reality principle. The domain of the ego is conscious awareness, reason and common sense. Our ego is responsible for the delicate balance between primitive drives and reality, essentially mediating between the two poles of the id and super-ego. Our ego can be thought of as the adult within. Our id operates in accordance with the pleasure principle. The domain of the id is instinctual impulses, drives and passions that demand immediate satisfaction. Our id can be thought of as the child within. Alternatively, our id can be understood in terms of the devil inside. Our super-ego serves a role as our conscience. The super-ego aims for perfection and punishes misbehavior with guilt. Alternatively, the super-ego can be construed as the angel within us.
This framework of the psyche can be helpful in analyzing eating behaviors. Our eating can be id-driven in which we seek to achieve immediate pleasure and gratification with no thought of responsibility or of the long-term effects of that indulgence, a devil-may-care attitude. By the same token, super-ego-driven eating demands careful scrutiny and deliberation about any food item that is consumed, with great consideration given to mindful eating for the purpose of satisfying hunger and maintaining health. Any transgression from the super-ego’s tight rein and control over eating behavior would result in guilt, the avoidance of which motivates angelic eating patterns. Ego-driven eating is the compromise between these two polar extremes. This is human eating behavior practiced by many of the one-third of the population that maintain a healthy weight—generally sensible, but with occasional excursions into id domain and super- ego domain that allow us to tip over into over-indulgent eating and then right ourselves.
Although some of us display primarily ego-driven eating with forays into id-driven eating that are checked by our super-ego drives, many of us are id-predominant and a few of us are super-ego predominant. Those who do most of their eating based upon sheer instinct, with immediate-gratification-seeking consumption with no thought given to long-term consequences, are likely to be overweight or obese. Conversely, those whose eating style is tightly controlled and carefully measured, with the utmost of mindfulness applied to food choices and eating behavior, are unlikely to be overweight or obese. Super-ego driven eating is not necessarily a healthy behavior—it can be extreme just as id-driven eating is—and its obsessive nature can lead to problems such as anorexia.
Another name for id-driven eating is promiscuous eating. This wanton, impulsive and reckless eating behavior can cause or contribute to obesity. A realistic goal to counteract id-driven promiscuous eating is to employ a mindful eating strategy in order to achieve balance and moderation—not obsessive mindfulness, simply a judicious amount of attention and awareness applied to our eating. We do not need to be angels at all moments—we simply need to be mindful of when and why the devil is influencing our behavior—be aware of it, think about it, understand it—and then either avoid the behavior, intervene by stopping before it gets out of hand or, if we must succumb, substituting a healthy alternative for an unhealthy indulgence. In other words, when our eating is id-driven, we should strive to recognize what is going on through mindfulness, and then turn on the super-ego to get us back on track to ego-driven eating.
Ivan Pavlov was a Russian physician, physiologist and psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in medicine. He is best known for describing classical conditioning, summarized as follows: meat causes dogs to salivate, an instinctual reaction called an unconditioned response. Pavlov used a metronome to call his dogs to their meaty meal and, after a few cycles of repetition, the dogs began to salivate on the basis of just the sound of the metronome. The reaction to the metronome is called a conditioned response, since it is a learned behavior.
Human beings are not all that different from Pavlov’s dogs. Many foods literally elicit a “mouth watering” unconditioned response and certain specific contexts and environments can exact a conditioned response in the absence of the specific food item. This can certainly help explain the foraging for food that many of us pursue coincident with the television getting turned on. The same phenomenon happens in many movie theatres where accessory eating occurs as a result of the collusion of classical conditioning and opportunistic, temptation, and social forces. A similar situation happens to many of us as we enter our homes and head into the kitchen where all the food-associated context clues—the refrigerator, pantry, kitchen table, cookie jar, etc.—trigger our desire to eat via the classical conditioning pathway. The importance of classical conditioning vis-à-vis eating is that food-associated context cues can elicit a conditioned response that can trigger eating and drive overeating, weight gain and obesity.
A solution to eating driven by classical conditioning is to try to override it via mindfulness. When context is the initial drive to partake, the indulgence will not occur until the impulse becomes an action. When the television goes on and we get that strong urge to munch, in spite of not being hungry and perhaps just having finished a satisfying dinner, there are a number of solutions. We are intelligent and highly evolved cognitively, and we can and should be aware of the situation at hand. Before transforming the notion into an action, we can exercise a thought process to try to quell the conditioned response. That process might be musing about the folly of eating when not hungry, consideration of obesity, heart disease, clothes not fitting, flab around the waistline, etc. Our mindfulness and cognitive powers can override urges and reflexes—you might call this a mindful de-conditioning of a conditioned response. Alternatively, we can succumb to the conditioned response, but eat only a small portion of the item we desire, or even better, swap our craving from its intended source to a healthy, colorful, crunchy, natural substitute such as fruit or veggies. Not only can we de-condition a conditioned response, but we also can actually re-condition ourselves to have a yearning for something healthy when we are exposed to context clues. Another possibility is to exchange the act of eating for an alternative activity such as exercising. An example of this is my post-work routine: after a day at the office, when I enter my house through the kitchen, I have conditioned myself to think of heading down to the basement to work out in lieu of staying in the kitchen and snacking.
As a behavioral psychologist, B.F. Skinner believed that behavior could be explained on the basis of external and observable causes, and not by internal motivations. Operant conditioning is a means of learning governed by rewards and punishments meted out for the performance of certain behaviors. Behavioral change or learning occurs as associations are made between a given behavior and a consequence for that behavior. In operant conditioning, the promise or possibility of reward causes an increase in the behavior and the imposition of punishment causes a decrease of the behavior.
How does this relate to eating issues? For many of us, food functions to placate our state of emotional un-wellness. Comfort food consumption soothes our souls and drives continued comfort food consumption. I’m really stressed and beaten up from a horrible day at work, so two large pieces of seven-layer chocolate cake are going to do the trick. I deserve it. The problem is that this consumption is a behavior that begs repeating the next time the negative emotion surfaces. So, as the behavior gets reinforced again and again, a behavioral pattern gets established and over time, it gets more and more difficult to break. Additionally, food can serve as a reward for certain behaviors—I did this, so I deserve that kind of logic. I passed the exam, so I deserve a hot fudge ice cream sundae. So food serves a role in an entire range of emotional circumstances—to tranquilize and mollify a negative state, or, just as likely, to reward a positive state.
How do we combat the reward effect provided by the consumption of food to help calm our frazzled or heightened emotions? We must use Skinner’s behavioral schema and think about the reward in negative terms—by mindful consideration of the long-term negative consequences of the continued behavioral pattern (being overweight, obese, diabetic, etc.) vs. the short-term reward/gain. Instead of a re- ward (present), we need to think presence of mind. The seeming reward is, in fact, a punishment to our long-term physical and emotional well being and serves only as a short term palliation that also functions to further perpetuate the cycle. Remember, in operant conditioning the promise or possibility of reward causes an increase in the behavior and punishment causes a decrease of the behavior. So, we are applying mindfulness to Skinnerian logic to think of emotional eating in terms of punishment to cause a decrease in the behavior. If mindfulness and intellectualization are insufficient to stem the emotional or reward eating, alternatively, consumption of just a taste (portion control) of the comfort food or reward is one possibility, and another is swapping out the reward for a healthier substitute, like exercising.
Mihaly Csiksczentmihalyi is a psychologist who has written about the concept of flow—a zen-like, heightened state of intention, concentration and complete mental engagement. This condition of full immersion in the activity at hand puts us in the zone where there are no distractions, time seemingly is arrested, our performance is optimal and a sense of fulfillment is derived. Achieving this state of flow requires focused attention and awareness, and pursuits including yoga, meditation and martial arts can help direct us into the flow groove.
To what extent flow can be cultivated is uncertain, although engaging in the aforementioned activities can definitely improve our abilities to become more mindful, which is a solid step towards achieving flow. It would seem that achieving the state of flow is equivalent to the ultimate state of mindfulness, uber-mindfulness, if you will. Mindfulness, awareness and attempts to achieve flow are powerful weapons when brought to the food and eating arena. With laser-focused mindfulness, dysfunctional eating patterns become more obvious and solutions more readily employed.
Marcel Proust was a French author who is known for his novel Remembrance of Things Past, in which it is revealed how the act of eating a madeleine pastry enables the narrator to evoke powerful memories with astonishing clarity and richness. Mere words cannot do justice to the remarkably vivid memories elicited and rekindled by the sight, smell and taste of this pastry, so the reader is referred to Proust’s novel.
My personal “Proustian Madeleine” is a peach. When I grasp a fuzzy peach in my hand and draw it up to my face and breathe in deeply to take in the sweet aroma, I am immediately transported to the backyard of my grandparents’ house. I am about ten years old and it is the peak of summer, the sun is high in the sky on an intensely blue-skied, cloudless day and verdant grass and shrubs surround my grandmother and me. Their neighbors have a grand old peach tree whose branches hang over into my grandparents’ backyard. Many of the peaches are ripe and the air is redolent with the perfume of peaches ready to be eaten. I reach up and pick a big, perfectly round, pink and orange colored, downy, fragrant fruit. I bite into the succulent peach, close my eyes and the juice trickles down my face. When I open my eyes, my grandmother is smiling at my delight.
To this day, peaches evoke so many rich and vivid memories— times when there were no worries or responsibilities; my long since deceased, beloved grandmother; the warmth of summer; being out- doors on an idyllic day; nature; bliss. I am convinced that one of the reasons I love peaches, aside from the joy that they provide on face value, is their ability to allow me to revisit powerful memories and associations. In essence, I have a deep-seated form of conditioned response to peaches. My conditioned response of sorts is also an operant reward—a positive memory—from the thought process stirred up. This cheerful and upbeat conditioned response and operant reward will certainly drive me to continue to seek out peaches in particular, certainly a healthy indulgence. And I suppose that if it were a madeleine, a doughnut, or cheesecake that was the food item that evoked such happy memories, then I would be driven to eat them as opposed to my healthier indulgence.
Perhaps on a subconscious level, we are driven to eat food items that evoke in us a Proustian madeleine-type response and this may help explain in some way our propensity towards certain foods, whether they be healthy or not. Possibly, this may be a factor in the over-indulgence of certain food items that contribute to the American overweight and obesity epidemic. The Proustian response is such a formidable and compelling force that, if the food item that elicits the response is unhealthy, I am not sure that there is any simple solution. And if our positive Proustian moments are associated with healthy foods, we are most fortunate indeed.
Excerpted from Promiscuous Eating: Understanding and Ending Our Self-Destructive Relationship With Food.
With the occurrence of my birthday this past week and lots of birthdays of family members this month, I have been thinking about longevity, the aging process, and why—for so many of us—there is a glaring discrepancy between how old we are and how old we look.
Our collective longevity has improved dramatically over the past few centuries. The 19th century was the Century of Hygiene (improved public health and sanitation saved more lives than any other cause), the 20th century was the Century of Medicine (vaccines, antibiotics, transfusions, chemotherapy, etc., helped contribute to longevity), and the 21st century will be the Century of Healthy Lifestyles—whereby longevity will be increased by reducing risky behaviors and making positive changes with regards to exercise and nutrition.
Aging is an inevitable occurrence, but how we age is within our control to a significant extent. We have it within our own power to maintain health, vitality, and quality longevity—to walk with a spring in our steps and to feel energized and content. Aging is, of course, a 100% fatal proposition, and the best recommendation to push the limit of it is to first do no harm by avoiding malignant behaviors. So the first general rule is active omission—avoid doing bad—do not eat excessively, stay away from harmful substances such as fast food, tobacco and drugs, be moderate when it comes to such things as alcohol and ultra-violet light exposure, minimize stress, etc. The second recommendation to push the limit of aging is active commission—do good—eat properly, exercise vigorously, get enough sleep, seek preventative maintenance, respect yourself, invest in yourself, engage in the fitness and health lifestyle, live well!
Chronological age refers to how old you actually are (in years, months, days, etc.); physiological age refers to your functional age, the age at which your organ systems and other body parts are functioning. There can be a great disconnect between chronological and functional ages—one can have a chronological age of 40 and a functional age of 30; or alternatively, someone may chronologically be age 40, yet have a functional age of 60. This disparity basically comes down to genetics and lifestyle. A desirable goal is to maintain a functional age that is as young as possible.
Sadly, many people seek and ultimately obtain financial wealth at the expense of their health, not realizing the fact stated so clearly by poet/author Ralph Waldo Emerson:“the first wealth is health.” Without health, having financial wealth is absolutely meaningless!
We do our best to save for retirement, although with our current economic crisis—high unemployment, slow gain in wages for those fortunate to be employed, falling house prices, our national debt burden and the strong possibility of a double-dip recession—it has become much more of a struggle to do so. We earmark money for Individual Retirement Accounts and 401K plans, annuities, and other similar retirement vehicles that allow us to sock away resources in investments for the future. Some day, we will no longer be working and will need to tap our savings to live. And hopefully, we will be living for many years after retirement.
Diversify. Deposit into your account all different forms of fitness investments, including aerobic and endurance activities, weight training, core, flexibility exercises, etc…. include lots of variety in your portfolio. Shake it up a bit. I personally like cycling, tennis, golf (always walking the course, if possible), yoga, Pilates, P90x, etc.—by doing something different every day you don’t give yourself an opportunity to get bored and you get the benefit of working different areas of your body and different aspects of fitness.
As another birthday rapidly approaches, I wax philosophical about the aging process. I will soon be 56, a not insignificant number of years now being well behind me. The numbers do not lie, but the feeling is surreal in quality—how is this possible? I still look reasonable young (although the grays are coming in but good), and feel great, particularly invigorated at this particular moment after a two-hour bike ride with my wife on our tandem hybrid in preparation for the upcoming Bergen Bike Tour fundraiser.
The aging process is insidious. The years creep by, seemingly slowly at first; then, ever so gradually, the wheel of time starts to crank faster and faster with greater and greater momentum, until the weeks and months roll past at a dizzying and frightening warp speed. Before you know it, you are 50 years old and are at the summit of the mountain, looking down at the back face or, for you golfers out there, you’re on the back nine.
The older you get, the faster the perception of the passage of time gets. When I was a child, a single summer seemed to represent an eternity; now, in midlife, the summers blur by at a rate that challenges my sanity. Family events that are scheduled on the calendar for a few years from now seem to approach at an uncomfortably rapid pace and, suddenly, are here. Part of this may be explained on a strictly mathematical basis—for a five-year-old, one year represents 20% of his or her life, whereas for a 50- year-old, it represents a mere 2%.
The lightness of being is an additional factor facilitating the perception of the rapid passage of time—we float around the planet consumed by a variety of roles that we play, always in a hurry, constantly on the move, existing without giving a great deal of thought to actual existence—as a result, existence seems to lose its substance, weight, meaning, and time framework. We are so consumed by our numerous mundane daily destinations, working, traveling, living in our oftentimes insular circles, that we are remiss in attending to the real journey, the true process, life in its entirety. Our pursuit of a productive and busy career does not necessarily lend itself to the awareness of time: time consciousness, if you will. We are all ever increasingly focused on our day-to-day activities, too caught up in maintaining our routines to take notice of the hours, weeks, and years speeding by. It is a Zen precept that life is to be found in the present moment, and not the future. Lack of focus on the here and now with too much attention to the next moment can be a factor in the perception of time passing at warp speed.
Stop for just a second or two to fully understand the notion that our time is truly limited, that the clock is ticking away relentlessly. So what is one to do in the face of this seemingly harsh reality? The only thing you can do is try to appreciate every moment, put your best effort into every endeavor, and relish the journey because the inevitable destination for ALL of us is exactly the same. This is essentially an expansion of Tony Horton’s “BRING IT” concept (regarding exercise) to life in general.
Our driving force and passion—spirit and vitality, if you will, is something that we are born with and generally never changes with the aging process. No joke! I’m, at my essence, just a 55-year-old kid with the same mental attitude, energy, and life force that I have had since childhood. When my twelve-year-old daughter inquisitively seeks advice from me, I answer her questions as best I can, but secretly feel like I am party to a grand charade— I am really an imposter—a poseur—a child in a man’s body, and at any time my duplicity will be unmasked. I honestly do not feel any different than I did when I was eighteen. The flame of joie-de-vivre, or lack thereof, that we are imbued with does not die or change as we age. Too many of us harbor a misconception that physical aging is associated with aging of mind and attitude. WRONG!! Questioning my own ninety-year-old grandfather, a Russian immigrant who was employed as a Brooklyn “seltzer man,” about this confirmed my already sneaking suspicions about this stability of passion. He conveyed to me that our drive, enthusiasm, and spirit are truly independent of chronological age.
“Never abandon the spirited fire of spontaneous, determined inspiration that sparks dreams into majestic conclusions, marvelous deeds, and spectacular endings.” Bernard Ficarra, M.D.
“You are old when you lose the capacity to dream and be creative.” Shlomo Raz, M.D.
Bottom line: Time races on, seemingly faster and faster. So eat well, stay fit, take good care of yourself, live well, be well, treat yourself well and enjoy what life has to offer. As the cliché states, this is not a dress rehearsal nor is there a second act so…carpe diem (seize the day).
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imdb | Two people overcome ups and downs in their lives to find true romance and make dreams come true at Incheon International Airport.
A lawyer in her thirties coming out of a long relationship decides to regain her figure and health after meeting a renowned personal trainer who obsesses with leading a healthy lifestyle after suffering a serious injury in his childhood.
Lee Da Il is a private investigator. Jung Yeo Wool becomes his assistant to solve a mystery related to her younger sibling's death. They work together to solve other mysterious crimes.
The series tells the 12 year love story of two people with completely opposite personality.
It is a lighter hearted spy thriller with lots of camaraderie and fun. It is hilarious watching how a network of ahjummas can beat the spies at their game. There's a little romance thrown in but the story is much more about the love in the community and how they all support each other. Son Ji Sub is his always very cool self but absolutely enchanting interacting with the Joon- Joon twins who he babysits as a cover. Highly recommended as an entertaining series. | 2019-04-18T13:16:51Z | https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0008591092/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.347009 |
wordpress | I recently discovered coconut flour and am exploring ways to use it. Coconut flour is very in high fiber, low in fat and is naturally sweet. I am very happy to find another healthy gluten-free flour to add to my repertoire! I am not usually a fan of coconut but the flour is very mild.
I made these muffins with ingredients on hand and the result was surprisingly good. Even my daughter liked them–she noted the flavor was like banana bread but the consistency was different. And so goes gluten-free baking. For this recipe you can also use three bananas instead of the one sweet potato and chocolate chips instead of raisins.
These are great with scrambled eggs or a snack you can grab on the go. | 2019-04-24T08:39:59Z | https://cookingintuitive.wordpress.com/tag/muffins/ | Porn | Kids | 0.759442 |
wordpress | The more competitive runners led the pack, while the recreational participants leisurely followed behind. Top: Matt Thomson (#107), 38, center, of Gig Harbor, won all age groups with a time of 21:28. James Noble (#113),10, right, of Gig Harbor, at the starting line. Noble finished 34th overall with a time of 34:55.
This was a family affair and a chance to spend a Saturday morning at the picturesque 360 Trails Park.
The second Summer Fun Run and Kids Dash at 360 Trails Park on the Key Peninsula Saturday offered something for just about everyone.
More than a hundred runners, children and Key Pen Parks volunteers gathered on a dusty clearing in what used to be Washington Department of Natural Resources land.
It was a perfect day for a run: The sun was shining brightly and no trace of rain was in the forecast. Tents put up by race sponsors offered food and drink. There was even a tub full of soap suds next to the Costco tent for the children to blow bubbles. Games of catch with Stick-Ums Velcro balls and mitts were breaking out all over the clearing. Two big speakers by the starting line pumped out dance music, giving the event a festival atmosphere.
The youngsters had their event as well — the Kids Dash.
Chase Didway, 7, played catch with a friend while waiting for the Kids Dash event.
This was going to be fun and Key Pen Parks Recreational Coordinator Jess Smeall was making sure it was for good reasons.
Alice Curry, 12, from the Burley Christian School, enjoyed making bubbles by the tub of soap suds.
The park, 360 Trails, is nestled in wooded hills just off State Route 302, a few miles south of the Purdy Sand Spit. The 360-acre park ( “That is what its named for,” Smeall said with a laugh.) is a network of dirt trails that used to be managed by the DNR. Signs for timber sales can still be seen around the park.
The children cheered on their parents as they came down the finish line.
Or, know that it even existed, as Troy Milles, of Tacoma, said, while he warmed up for the run.
Milles said he used to live on a small farm south of the Key Center. He still comes around, coordinating “Skate Night” at the Key Peninsula Civic Center.
“I’m definitely coming back (to the park),” he added, giving the park his personal endorsement.
And with the hoot of a horn, dozens of runners and walkers — young and old — took off for the trails. The more serious competitors led the pack while the recreational participants leisurely followed behind.
But this was not all fun and games.
The 360 Trails Park was a beautiful backdrop to Kelly Egge’s determination to come back from a horrific accident and fulfill her college dream.
Egge finished strong, first among the women and second overall.
Kelly Egge, 19, of the Key Peninsula, was running to win.
Egge ran a strong race — finishing first among the women and second overall. She wanted the win. Not just because she likes the competition, but because for Egge this was a blessing.
“I shouldn’t be here,” she said.
A couple of years ago, Egge was in a horrific car crash — not knowing if she would walk again, let alone live.
With this race she hopes to build on her dream of going to college on scholarship. She said she will be attending Everett Community College in the fall.
“They have a great coach,” she adds.
Perhaps with his coaching and her hard work, she said, she will catch the eye of someone at the university level.
In the end, to most people at the park, this was a chance to be outside with family. Eric Price-Paul, of the Key Peninsula, brought his four young children to spend half their Saturday here.
Eric Price-Paul, of the Key Peninsula, enjoying a Saturday with his children at the 360 Trails Park.
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wordpress | Article by Turner Bird Cox.
Syndicated from Thin Red Line News.
Cigarette smokers will have to pay much higher premiums for health care under the Affordable Health Care for America Act (a.k.a., «Obama-Care»), and may become the main focus of Obama-Care’s «End of Life Care Panels» (a.k.a., «Death Panels») to put a majority of smokers on anti-depressants or SSRIs. First, cigarette smokers will be given higher Obama-Care premiums which will give the doctor an opportunity to prescribe anti-depressants or SSRIs. Anti-Depressants or SSRIs change the chemistry of your brain and can have side-effects if you stop taking them. The idea is to never take them.
The questions are, how many cigarette smokers will quit and how many seek medical help, and how many cigarette smokers will resort to anti-depressants as they quit smoking? The FDA has developed an acronym called (SAD), or «Seasonal Affective Disorder,» and now prescribe anti-depressants for people experiencing depression when the seasons change. The FDA is looking for any way possible to prescribe every person an anti-depressant.
Furthermore, cigarette smokers will have to prove that they have quit smoking. A simple hair test can show signs of smoking up to 90 days; in some cases as much as up to a year.
Finally, you cannot own a gun because you have used anti-depressants and are mentally unstable. Obama-Care will apply the same concepts to any «unhealthy» item such as soda, alcohol, and marijuana. The government will tell you what you can and can’t eat while forcing you to pay for it.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE POPE? A THOUSAND THINGS.
I’m liking the new Pope Francis. Formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, he chose his papal name in honour of San Francesco d’Assisi). He’s no liberal (none of that gay marriage nonsense) and Pope Francis lays out vision of ‘poor church’ working for the people.
But his views on recreational drug use are anachronistic to say the least.
Archbishop of Buenos Aires Jorge Mario Bergoglio criticized yesterday the bill that aims to legalize drugs for personal consumption, which is sponsored by the ruling Victory Front and backed by the Radical Civic Union and the Broad Progressive Front. Bergoglio, who headed the traditional mass and procession of Corpus Christi in Plaza de Mayo, warned young people about the intentions of those who sell illegal drugs.
‘Don’t trust the merchants of death,’ said the archbishop as he delivered a speech to the people who took part in the youth march that anticipates the Corpus Christi celebration.
‘Some people dedicate their life to corrupt others, don’t let them trick you, no matter if they promise you a thousand things,’ insisted Bergoglio.
The cardinal also condemned the lawmakers’ who agreed to debate the initiative.
Currently a draft bill is being debated by the Committee for the Prevention of Drug Addiction and the Criminal Law Committee. Last week Supreme Court Justice Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni backed the initiative when he was invited to give a talk.
Let’s not look to the Vatican for startling new drug law reform initiatives.
This is an extremely unconstitutional and tyrannical act.
This is a document that authorizes the Executive branch (the President) to immediately and indefinitely detain anyone — including US Citizens on US soil — on whim. Authorization from congress is not required. Aside from being a clearly tyrannical development of boundless executive power, it also violates the Fifth and Sixth Amendments by violating the right to due process, and the ban against cruel and unusual punishment. Furthermore, arresting or assassinating people on foreign soil is an act of war — per Section 8 of the Constitution, war can only be conducted under a declaration of war, and war can only be declared with explicit approval from congress. The document also authorizes the use of Reservists during times of emergency, which abuses Posse Comitatus.
This is a highly disturbing development.
The ACLU criticizes that this bill flies in the face of Barrack Obama’s promise to close the Guantanimo Bay prison, and enables the military to indefinitely detain non-combatants.
US Senator Rand Paul has harshly criticized this bill for allowing for indefinite military detention.
She also points out that Congress did little to improve the bill.
Activist Post points out that the NDAA flies in the face of federal court rulings. | 2019-04-21T08:23:45Z | https://rasskazivats.wordpress.com/tag/liberal/ | Porn | News | 0.643256 |
wordpress | You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘VMware’ tag.
VMware Server 2.0 — Finally!
Previously I was running VMware Server 1.0.6 on this system but now that VMware has released Server 2.0 I wanted to take another look at it. While the download is big (570MB) it certainly is not too bad and the install went flawlessly. The Server 2.0 detected the 1.0.6 software on the machine, uninstalled it (but kept the settings) and then installed Server 2.0 and configured it using the settings from the 1.0.6 version. All in all, within about 10 minutes I was back up and running. I like the look of the new interface as well — reminds me very much of the clean look of ESXi…and the best part is that it runs in IE8 Beta 2 (well, almost). To login I simply point the browser to the host system port 8333 as shown.
Once you login the amount of information at your fingertips is great.
The option on the left opens up a new VMRC window as a separate window. The box on the right opens the VMRC in full screen mode (which you can then reduce to a regular sized window). Not sure what the benefit of the two options are but it’s there if you need it. Once the machine starts up you can have multiple VMRC windows running just like you have with ESXi.
All in all, I’m quite impressed with VMware Server 2.0. I plan on playing with it for quite a while and will consider whether I will migrate this host server over to VMware ESXi 3.5. Given the small footprint of ESXi (both in terms of disk as well as memory) it may well be the way to go in the long run. I’ll review my ESXi experience in an upcoming post as well as my Hyper-V experience as well. | 2019-04-18T22:42:20Z | https://idubrawsky.wordpress.com/tag/vmware/ | Porn | Computers | 0.611156 |
wordpress | My closer-in landing map shows my proximity to the state line, the Iroquois R, and the town of Brook. Note that I am proudly using features of my newly-installed StreetAtlas 2013 Plus software – the labels and measurements (although, the measurement from the town to the river obliterates the name “Brook”).
Obviously, I landed in the Iroquois R watershed (3rd hit); on to the Kankakee R (4th hit); to the Illinois R (16th hit); to the MM (779th hit).
What a hassle I had landing! Why, you may ask. First, some background: as you know, Dan (but other readers may not), when the Excel spreadsheet (that I created) selects a random lat/long (i.e., my landing location), it does so using a huge rectangle that includes all of the lower 48. Well, such a rectangle also includes big chunks of the Atlantic Ocean (mostly to the south), the northern Gulf of Mexico, northern Mexico (including Baja and the Gulf of California), the Pacific Ocean (mainly off the coast of CA) and south east Canada (east of the Great Lakes). Well, these non-lower 48 landings (I call them “try agains”) happen fairly frequently. By the way, I also include Great Lakes landings as try agains.
Twelve try agains in a row! Of course, since I keep track of all things landing, I keep track of try agains. It turns out that during my 1978 landings so far, I’ve had 1402 try agains. Doing the math: 1402/(1402+1978) = about 41.5% of the time I fire up my Excel spreadsheet, I land outside of the lower 48.
The odds of doing this are less than the odds of getting 12 heads in a row when flipping a coin! Doing some more math: the odds of getting 12 heads in a row is one in 2 to the 12th power, or one in 4,096. The odds of getting 12 try agains in a row? Get this . . . one in 2.41 (i.e., 1/0.415) to the 12th power . . . drum roll please . . . or one in 38,550!!!!
For people who got bleary-eyed and couldn’t read the last paragraph, let me repeat: the odds of getting 12 try agains in a row is one in 38,550!!!
“Now there were two creeks of about the same size two or three miles south of the settlement (that) would help with the selection of the name. I have no desire to excite the minds of people of Brook and have them make pilgrimages to see those two dirty little creeks, but if you look closely at them you can see the origin of the name of the town of Brook.” –Aaron Lyons 1901, from And They Named Her Brook.
Wow. The title of the book is And They Named Her Brook. So, it seems that this naming process was pretty important to Aaron, eh?
As you can see, it’s no jump-across (or easily ride your horse across) little stream. This is a real river!! OK, OK, so there are a couple of little streams south of the river, but give me a break! No one in their right mind would name a town after a couple of insignificant streams (called “ditches” by StreetAtlas) located on the far side of a river!!
Wait a second, I need to calm down, take a deep breath before I get too worked up. Maybe I should do a little more research . . .
OK, OK, I think I get it. A careful reading of the history section states that “the first courthouse of the original Benton-Jasper-Newton County was located two miles south of Brook.” This was back in 1839. So, maybe a little settlement grew up around the courthouse, near a couple of brooks, and they named it Brook. The actual town of Brook (in its current location) wasn’t actually formed until 1866; maybe by then, the dreamed-of town by the old courthouse was long gone (or at least inconsequential). So maybe the town fathers figured they’d transfer the informal name of the area around the old courthouse to the new town . . .
(Notice yet another StreetAtlas 2013 feature – I can make the streams stand out as heavy black lines . . .). If the courthouse location is correct, the two brooks mentioned by Aaron Lyons are likely the two branches of Hunter Ditch that join together nearby.
So anyway, I think that Mr. Lyons’ quote is a little misleading and could use a little explanation. A Landing A Day respectively suggests that the Town of Brook revise their history section, to make it clearer how the town got its name. I may not be the only one who read those words and was more than a little baffled . . .
As you can see, Hess Witch Hazel Cream was manufactured right here in good ol’ Brook. The ad is aimed at all of the kid glove wearers with chapped hands who really don’t like that pesky gummy film . . .
Dan – After 4 OSers in a row, the LG smiled upon me, as I landed in an eastern USer . . . IN; 14/20; 4/10; 2; 166.5.
For those of you who are paying close attention, today’s landing is the first time my new rule (about 4/10+ vs. 4/10-) made a difference. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Start with “About Landing,” and then check out my February 11th, Cibola, Arizona post.
Moving right along . . . I landed in a first-time-ever string of three named ditches. Oh, so I’ve had many named ditches before, but never three of them. Only once before did I have as many as two named ditches . . .
So, the three ditches? I landed in the Talley Ditch watershed; on to the Morrison Ditch; on to the Montgomery Ditch. Then, for the second time, I landed in the Iroquois R watershed (2nd hit); on to the Kankakee (3rd hit); on to the Illinois (14th hit); on to the MM.
The Fraternal Order of Knights of Pythias and its members are dedicated to the cause of universal peace. Pythians are pledged to the promotion of understanding among men of good will as the surest means of attaining Universal Peace.
President Abraham Lincoln had applied to be a member but was not able to be initiated because of his assassination.
Of much greater interest to me is the fact that there is an ancient meteor crater known as the Kentland crater. Wow. It doesn’t get much cooler for a geologist. Evidently, the area was quarried back in the 1880s, and eventually some geologists were poking around and noticed a bunch of very strange things that one wouldn’t expect in and amongst the flat sedimentary strata of Indiana, like steeply-dipping (tilted) bedrock.
Geologists know that the impact occurred no earlier than 97 million years ago, but they’ve been having trouble coming up with a more accurate age, much less a reasonable youngest age (besides sometimes before the relatively recent glacial epoch).
How about that!! My landing was in the crater, almost right in the middle!!
To show how common (or rare, depending on your perspective) impact craters are, here’s a map showing a bunch of them in the U.S. Kentland is #29.
Steve with a shatter cone on a visit to the Kentland impact structure in Indiana. Shatter cones are caused by the shock of a meteorite impact and are usually found near the center of large impact structures. The Kentland crater is no more than 97 million years old. Now heavily eroded and being worked as a quarry, the crater originally measured approximately eight miles in diameter.
Steve is the author of the book “Killer Rocks from Outer Space.” Click here to go to his website.
Earl Park is a town located in Richland township, Benton County Indiana. Founded in 1872, the community was named for Adams Earl, landowner and developer. Current population approximately 500. Elevation 798 ft.
I, for one, am happy to know the town’s elevation.
Here’s a circa 1900 picture of the Earl Park jail (aka “calaboose.”) Nasty looking place, eh? It turns out “calaboose” is a Lousiana Cajun version of the Spanish word calabozo, or dungeon.
And here’s a street scene with a handsome couple in a handsome hansom. Oh, all right, so it’s not a hansom (a hansom has only two wheels). I just couldn’t resist.
Her plane crash in Texas occurred on the same day the Titanic sank.
Her brother John was a pilot who was killed in a crash in 1910; Matilde’s parents made her promise to give up flying. She vowed that her flight in Wichita Falls (the one that crashed) would be her last (and it was).
She defied a ban on Sunday flying, and was chased across the Long Island countryside by the police, who arrested her. She was released with no charges by a sympathetic judge who declared that flying a plane on Sunday was no worse than driving a car on Sunday. | 2019-04-20T05:13:42Z | https://landingaday.wordpress.com/tag/iroquois-river/ | Porn | Reference | 0.215096 |
wordpress | David Cook’s Official Site: Launched!
David Cook has launched his official website!
Cook’s wish to connect with his fans through his site came through – the official site allows fans to sign up and create their own profile and meet with other fans all over the world. So in short it’s like a MySpace in a fansite. Hehe!
Check out the site and sign up!
What do you think of the site? Leave comments!
I think there are some technical problems with many of us receiving our passwords to log in. Unless you have a common email address like yahoo or gmail, many of us are not receiving the passwords via email AND there is no link to let anyone know. So, if anyone knows some way we could let someone know that would be great. Thanks.
I keep trying to get a password and just can’t get one emailed to me. any suggestions?
From what I’ve heard from most people who can’t get the passwords, they don’t use major email sites such as Gmail and Yahoo! or Hotmail, like Vivian pointed out. So I guess you have to sign up with these websites to obtain your password! | 2019-04-20T11:24:10Z | https://greenbande.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/david-cooks-official-site-launched/ | Porn | Computers | 0.386514 |
tripod | This was the first pre-season game (besides the one against the Austrian team) for the 1998-99 season. Hopefully this one will be much better than the last.
Tucker didn't do much of anything. He wore the captain's C in place of Mikael Renberg, who didn't play. It was a nice little surprise.
The Lightning won the game and guess who got the game winner? John Cullen. It was great to see. | 2019-04-19T13:07:13Z | http://tucker16.tripod.com/games/91898.html | Porn | Sports | 0.65441 |
wordpress | A BA in Philosophy, a lifelong pedantry over the English language, an MA in ELT, a CV that spans about ten different countries and an established career as a published writer have all combined the roles of educator and communicator. I’m keeping my hand in teaching English although avoiding the typical language school set up, but I’m concentrating on writing with Graded Readers The Tomorrow Mirror , As Other See Us, Rain rain go away!, Queen Arthur, one of four fictionalised histories (mine is Antony & Cleopatra) in Famous Couples and an adaptation of Dr Who: Borrowed Time as well as Collins English for Life: Speaking and a romance novel set in the world of ELT, Love Lessons.
As Academic Consultant, Centre Director and Academic Manager with Bede’s summer school, I had a six year love affair with all things summer school and something round which I pretty much scheduled the rest of the year. I ran the Academic Side of the programme which meant putting myself directly in the firing line for a British Council inspection in 2013. That took Bede’s from nowhere to 5th best summer school in the UK with 10 out of 15 points of excellence, most of the new ones academic related.
That expertise I can cast wider and consulted for Absolutely English in the UK ahead of their British Council inspection in 2018, overhauling their syllabus based on my unique flexible syllabus approach. This gained them an extra “Strength” in the “Course design and implementation” categories and upgraded “Learning materials” to “Strength” compared with 2014. I specialise in schools who are starting out, looking to expand or with upcoming British Council inspections to contend with.
See published articles and fiction for a range of publications including Cosmo, Quartz, Mental Floss, Parents Magazine here.
Article about boarding school run summer schools for EL Gazette, April 2014. Various articles in Modern English Teacher and ET Pro.
Content/copy-writing for the Fintech, luxury travel and automation industries.
Flash fiction (creative non fiction really) about Reclaiming Istanbul from a controlling Turkish boyfriend on The Casket of Fictional Delights, July 2014.
Short story on Litro Over The Edge, my first ever “literary” piece.
IATEFL Online 2015 about Graded Readers and the “Where are the women in ELT?‘ talk with Russell Mayne.
Conference talks at IATEFL 2015, Innovate ELT (2016 & upcoming 2019), Society of Authors (2018) and MawSIG PCE IATEFL (2019). Areas of interested: Writing Graded Readers, Gender Equality in ELT.
Thanks! You don’t have to look too hard to find the other book! | 2019-04-20T15:24:12Z | https://simpleenglishuk.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Arts | 0.701652 |
livejournal | Author Notes: Othersideverse, but most definitely an AU.
Set sometime after OYL and before Robin #150 and TT #36.
It started as a snippet, but evil people put ideas in my head, and I ended up posting five different snippets in about 24 hours. It's actually a fic, but I didn't realize it until I was told, and by then it was too late.
Kids' Game. PG13, AU with a *big* A.
Mary: I wonder if eventually the timeline will be so mashed that they were all thirteen at the same time.
In conclusion: none of this is my fault.
ETA: Anybody would want to beta the whole thing? I know, horses and barn doors, but still. | 2019-04-19T22:37:07Z | https://users.livejournal.com/--marcelo/tag/jason%20fic | Porn | Kids | 0.913428 |
wordpress | This is why stuff like Lady Blackbird and con demos can work really well with minimal Setting – the immediate Situation and Character are already clicked together to work this combo. As it stands now, most rpgs use really in-depth Setting to try to provoke and inspire groups to design good Situation and Character.
Although a lot of 90’s game design started doing a good job with that (one thing Whitewolf excelled at- using splats both for conflict and to epitomize ideals and thematic stances), the payoff of the setup is in play- what the character chooses and faces and becomes.
If the game which you are playing isn’t set up to accept those choices and changes, eventually players stop bothering even trying to have their characters have meaningful changes.
It atrophies and falls away, much like Vincent’s comment on decoupled mechanics and fiction. All the cries about “How do I make my players create ‘good’ characters?” is moot if the gameplay doesn’t allow those characters to be expressed.
Anyway, just make sure when you’re putting together settings, to include both the fictional source of conflict AND hooks for players to develop characters with motivations and ideals about that conflict. And when it comes time to play, make sure everyone at the table has that going on with their characters.
ETA: I’ve started to develop a tool to help groups coordinate play: The Same Page Tool.
It’s really easy to reliably have fun role-playing…when you ignore the 30-odd years of “common wisdom” in the hobby, and instead, embrace the idea of how games have worked throughout history throughout the world.
See The Roots of the Big Problems for context.
Games work on a very simple principle- a group of people agree to a set of common rules.
Much of the problems in the hobby are rooted in failing this fundamental concept.
Imagine if you sat down with your friends to play “Cards”… one of you is playing Poker, another is playing Hearts, and the last person is playing Go Fish.
You’re all playing cards, right?
It’s not going to work. No one is going to get the game they want. The problem is that no one agreed to a common set of rules and no one is organized with each other. The common group activity that makes anything a game, doesn’t exist.
You don’t see this with cards because everyone understands you have to be playing the same game for it to work.
But you see that in roleplaying all the time.
“OH GOD POWERGAMERS.” Wait. That’s like going, “OH GOD GO FISH” at a Poker table. It’s a discussion that shouldn’t even have to happen- someone wants a different game – why are they playing this game with you? If you agreed on the game, there shouldn’t be problems with people trying to do different things than what was agreed to.
But for roleplaying, the key problem is a majority of the rules sets aren’t actually games. They give you rules to put scores to characters, resolve some fictional events but no larger picture. It’s like having numbers, faces and suits on cards- useful tools, but doesn’t actually organize what makes the game. What are the roles of the players? What is the goal of play? What is the intended play experience?
Start with a game that has rules that do ONE THING.
Just like every other type of game in the history of humanity, this has been a proven method.
A game that explains what players can and cannot do, what the goal of play is – whether it’s beat up monsters and get treasure or tell a tragedy of pride and downfall. How do you create scenes? What kind of conflict makes sense? What do players DO with their characters?
Complete and focused rules become a meeting point for a common set of understanding. It also means that players can decide right here, and right now, if they want to play this game or not.
Most of your “problem players” are just people who want to play a different game and are either under the illusion that you were playing a different game to begin with, or that different games could be mixed.
Now for the second part. If you’ve clarified what the game is, and how it works, the other part of this is the social agreement about playing.
Games work because the people playing want to play this game. Implicit in this agreement is that we’re all actually interested in this game, we want it to work, we want it to be fun. It’s really easy because we’re all working together to make it happen.
If my friends are playing Poker and I want to play Hearts, I have two choices: Play Poker and get whatever I get from it, or play with them another time when my mood and their game matches.
What isn’t a functional choice is for me to play half-assed, or worse, sabotage the game. It’s also not ok for me to suddenly start trying to play Hearts in the middle of their game. That’s me breaking the agreement to play the game in the first place.
On the flip side, if I was told we’re going to play Hearts and suddenly we’re playing Poker, the agreement about what game we’re playing got broken going the other way.
At the core of both of these behaviors is a lack of trust.
“I don’t trust you enough to tell you how I feel about what I find fun” and “I don’t trust you enough to tell you the truth to make your own decisions about what you find fun”.
That’s a terrible place from which to try to build any activity of fun. For it all being “just a game” that’s a lot of distrust and dishonesty.
If you can’t honestly talk about the game, something is wrong.
Fun is reliably had when people are doing what they want to do- not because they’re tolerating it to please their friends, not because they’re secretly hoping for another activity, not because someone else is trying to “show” or “convince” them.
You cannot make anyone, including yourself, like something they do not like.
Human nature is such that we operate on the assumption of an implicit agreement- a social contract, whether or not we actually sat down and discussed things. Regardless whether the group sat down and started “trying to play cards”, or actually agreed to a set of terms, when those expectations are broken, the feeling is betrayal, and eventually, complete distrust with repeated violations of those expectations.
Trying to hide the rules, not talk about the issue, or lying about how people feel or how the game works doesn’t fix the problem – at that point it feels like betrayal because it is.
The initial agreement can only be held if people can honestly talk about how they feel the expectations are, or are not, being met. Hence the need for a clear, complete set of rules.
Part of agreeing to any activity is an idea of how much you’re committing to it. Are we playing 6 sessions? I can think about my work and personal life and schedule to make that happen. I can gauge my own interest and see if I’m willing to commit that.
Establish and agree to a set time period.
Again, as I spoke about above, you have to give an idea to make a meaningful expectation for people to make decisions and negotiate with.
Use a complete set of rules that do one thing.
Honest agreement about those rules.
That viewpoint toward “play my character” is what I was referencing with the problematic term “traditional.” I’ll try to summarize it as follows, based on my own experiences.
– Play optimally concerning character survival. The game system is perfectly capable of killing your character, and at least some GMs are invested in making this happen or in not doing anything to prevent it.
– Play optimally concerning your own ego. The GM is very invested in making his story happen, and if your character needs to be overly gullible or stupid for the story to work (often the case), then the GM will take him over and make him that way, making you look stupid and basically stripping you, personally, of social and creative power at the table. Such a GM is not a player-killer like the ones I mentioned in #1, but in some ways, he’s worse!
a. Come up with as colorful a concept as possible, preferably somewhat irrational, so that you can carry out the following safety-measures from “in character” and blame the character for “making” you role-play in this way.
b. Safety-measure – treat all GM characters as hostile, treacherous, and of no emotional importance whatsoever.
c. Safety-measure – avoid rolling the dice or otherwise engaging in the resolution mechanics as much as possible.
I had never really tied “wacky inappropriate character” to the defensive behaviors but it makes sense.
It’s also tied deeply to something I’ve been thinking a lot about- the kind of dysfunction that comes from a group that doesn’t agree to a common set of rules.
The GM that takes away player power over their characters is nearly always breaking agreement and the players who react defensively are already showing they didn’t have any faith in that agreement, whether or not the GM has violated the social contract.
You are currently browsing the Deeper in the Game blog archives for December, 2009. | 2019-04-25T00:40:52Z | https://bankuei.wordpress.com/2009/12/ | Porn | Games | 0.348007 |
wordpress | WARNING! Takeout Makeover! Save money and the calories by making these fun tasty appetizers! My boyfriend made these for 4th of July! Easy to make, kid friendly, and a healthier alternative than buying at a Chinese restaurant! You buy all the ingredients for under 10 bucks! Just an FYI- you can find the won ton wrappers at any food store located in the frozen food international section!
2. Mix together crab, cream cheese, curry powder, ginger, Worcestershire Sauce and scallions. Then place dollops in won ton wrappers. Fold over ends of the won ton wrappers over the mixture. Bake ten minutes until won ton wrappers are lightly brown.
3. Serve hot with garnished scallions. Can dip in sweet and sour sauce or duck sauce if you want. | 2019-04-22T15:03:59Z | https://darlingtondish.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/baked-crab-rangoons/ | Porn | Health | 0.706569 |
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wordpress | big up to the collective! me and my firm (architecture and design) from Copenhagen would love to be part of it!
A friend of mine, Aqueene Simran from LA got me hip to your event this weekend. I’m really sad that I didn’t hear about it sooner. I would have loved to be involved and display my craft. Please keep me in mind for any future events. I am a single mother and am all about the hustle.
I will be in CA for the Summer, I will be back in September. Please keep me in mind for any events during that time. I love what y’all represent and would be more than glad to get involved!
PS. Good luck this Saturday! I’m sure it’s going to be a great turnout!
let me know if y’all have any events in September. i’d like to vend/// or even teach a jewelry 101 workshop.
I just read about you in the Latina issue- eXciTing stuff. I live in San Diego and love that you guys are about Art and Social Justice. Love it. Really, my friends and I are all about it too, and spread from the Bay to SD…so if you ever decide you want to come out here for a workshop retreat or something- I would love to be involved! | 2019-04-25T18:28:38Z | https://theyounity.wordpress.com/the-collective/ | Porn | Arts | 0.987513 |
sfgate | 2004-03-18 04:00:00 PDT Brussels -- The chances of a settlement between Microsoft and European antitrust regulators have dimmed significantly. Mario Monti, Europe's antitrust chief, is demanding further concessions from Microsoft as the price for a settlement, people close to the talks said Wednesday.
Monti met briefly with Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, Wednesday morning after spending four hours with him and Microsoft chief lawyer Brad Smith on Tuesday, a person close to the talks said, adding that they parted without reaching any agreement.
Another meeting between Monti and Ballmer is unlikely, the source said.
If no settlement is reached between now and Wednesday, the European Commission is expected to adopt a ruling that finds Microsoft to be an abusive monopolist. The commission's order would force Microsoft to offer two versions of its Windows operating system in Europe: one with Microsoft's music and video software and one with Media Player stripped out of the operating system and sold separately.
The ruling also will order Microsoft to license more secret code in Windows to allow rivals to build software that works smoothly with Windows, and it will fine Microsoft between $100 million and $1 billion.
To avert such a ruling, Monti is asking Microsoft to sign general commitments not to distort competition by bundling peripheral software programs into Windows in the future.
"Such a legal undertaking could simulate the effect of a precedent- setting legal ruling," said a Brussels lawyer close to the talks, adding that after making such a commitment in writing, Microsoft could be challenged on its motives for bundling other software into Windows.
In addition to Media Player, Microsoft also bundles its Instant Messenger Service and Outlook Express e-mail program into Windows. It is also planning to bundle a search engine, which would compete with Google, later this year.
Microsoft declined to comment on Monti's terms for a settlement. A company spokesman said efforts to reach a settlement are continuing. The commission also declined to comment on what Monti is seeking from a settlement.
Monti met with his team of antitrust officials Wednesday afternoon informing them of the tough stance he is adopting with Microsoft ahead of the ruling on Wednesday.
One person present said the commissioner looked very confident. "The support from the advisory committee meeting on Monday meant a lot to him," the person said, referring to a meeting of top regulators from the European Union's 15-member nations. Some of the national regulators at that meeting had urged Monti not to duck away from setting a legal precedent, the person said.
"Some of them said the ruling could be tougher," the person said. "It looks like that's what Monti thinks, too."
The bundling question is a major obstacle for the settlement talks. Microsoft argues that adding functions like Media Player to Windows is what computer users want and has based much of its business model around developing Windows in this way. It has also argued that to remove Media Player would harm Windows.
The commission, as well as rival softwaremakers, have argued that bundling programs like Media Player into Windows is anticompetitive, because it puts rival music and video players such as Real Networks' RealOne Player and Apple's QuickTime at a disadvantage.
The second strand of the European Commission's case, on licensing Windows code, is expected to be easier to resolve, but people close to the talks said Wednesday that this issue has also not yet been resolved. | 2019-04-21T01:15:54Z | https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Microsoft-settlement-hits-wall-European-2806123.php | Porn | Reference | 0.109512 |
wordpress | Hey guys! Today I want to share with you all two things. One, my progress on getting closer to 99+ faves on my Flickr photos. And two, a nifty little script that I found online that allows you to see who isn’t following you on Flickr, but that you are following.
2. be with my Second Life peers (before I was using photobucket).
Back then people used Flickr pretty much the way it was intended – to showcase their photos. I didn’t really care about views or faves. But it was nice when I got a couple of faves, along with some comments.
Later that month was when I started linking my photos to Flickr as an attempt to increase my views, because I think by then people were starting to pay attention to Flickr. Plus, I didn’t have to use up space on my blog by hosting the photo. Sometimes what I do is to have one main photo on Flickr, and then upload the other photos to WordPress.
I think this photo was the first one to get 30 faves without a meme or other blogger challenge supporting it. I like it because it’s a pure fashion piece with a plain background.
How did I get to 80+ faves? Well, the one with the most faves (the cigarettes one) I added to 163 groups. Crazy, right? And for that particular photo, I went back and added it to more groups as I found them through other Flickr members. Some people have added them to over 200 groups. I’ll tell you – it’s tricky at times to pay attention to where to add your photos. If I don’t remember whether it’s feasible to add my photo to a group, I won’t add it. Others will, and it may not be relevant. So don’t get yourself banned from a Flickr group because you are adding your photos to the wrong groups.
I think the most important thing in getting faves and views is finding active people on Flickr. Not so much as whether they have an account on Flickr and regularly upload pictures, but those who take the time to view and fave pictures. Of course, you in turn should do the same, and leave comments as you see fit as well.
From my observations, I think it’s easier to get 99+ faves if you have at least 3k active people following you. with that said, sometimes when you follow someone back, that person unfollows you. So you may not know who isn’t following you. Why is knowing this important?
According to these two Flickr forum posts,the maximum number of non-reciprocal contacts that you can have is 3,000. So once you follow around 4-5k people, this could very well have an impact on how many more people you can follow. Yet, Flickr does not give us a feasible way of knowing who is not following us.
ETA: I did see another forum post that stated that Flickr raised the limit to 100,00 non-reciprocal contacts. But considering that people were still showing concern even with that high of a limit, I decided to keep the first statement that I made.
I did some research online, and came across this Flickr post. It mentions a Greasemonkey script for this purpose, but that no longer worked. In the post, Thomas Leuthard (creator of the script) gives the updated version for everyone to use. I am happy to say when I downloaded Greasemonkey and installed the updated script, that it works (in Firefox)! On the original post, Thomas said that the script did not work in Chrome. I have not seen any confirmation that the updated script is compatible with Chrome, so let me know in comments whether it works or not. Also, read Thomas’ e-book about Flickr – there is a wealth of information that can benefit anyone.
I am not saying to unfollow everyone who does not follow you. I have a number of content creators as Flickr contacts who do not follow me, as well as some talented photographers. But at least now you have some control over how many non-reciprocal contacts you have. Also, you have a way to get rid of people who only follow you to get followed, and then automatically remove you.
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Interesting observations. I’ve started putting my pics on Flickr to save blog space as well. I’d never realized that some people play the follow/unfollow game to get followers themselves. I’m still looking for a way to view the photos from the groups I follow without having to click through every single group. If I can’t find one soon, I’m not sure that following groups makes any sense to me, since I rarely (if ever) have the time to visit each group.
Good luck on getting to your fav goals!
Before I had installed the script, I had added a number of people who I had not gotten to in the last couple of months. The next day I saw that a couple of people had removed me. I have heard of people doing that, but seeing is believing lol.
And it’s true – when you are in so many groups, it’s hard to be able to give time to each and every group. There should be a few main groups that people can submit items to I think.
You’re supposed to be able to make an RSS feed for the groups you follow, but I’ve never gotten it to actually work.
Not sure if that will be of any use, though.
Checked it out – it IS what I was looking for, but the link is no longer any good for the pipe. So, guess I’m back to searching.
Great article. And I didn’t know about people unfollowing just to get more followers. Good to know! I’m going to test the script asap!
When I make several posts a day, I upload the pic from one of the posts first and few hours later I send the other ones (remember what I said about only one pic being chosen by flickr to appear on the main page of your followers…).
Oh – that is a nice picture! And I see what you mean with the other one. Yes, depending on how others have their settings, most will see either one photo or five photos at a time. I have seen that when I upload many photos at a time (e.g. if I cover a fashion show), the first few and the last few photos get the most views.
I don’t think I’m much of a collage person either, but I haven’t practiced it enough to completely count it out. Some people make wonderful collages, and it helps if you are blogging nails, jewelry, shoes, or anything that requires you to see detail. | 2019-04-25T11:01:15Z | https://monisworldsl.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/the-journey-to-getting-99-faves-on-flickr/ | Porn | Reference | 0.187225 |
typepad | Here are some steps to carve and serve a turkey. I recommend cooking a turkey using my Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday Turkey Recipe. This method is derived from Alton Brown’s method of carving a turkey in his Good Eats "Romancing the Bird" episode.
Place the turkey onto a serving platter or large cutting board.
I like to fully cut up my turkey ahead of time and serve a plate of turkey meat that is separated into dark and white turkey meat. This allows me to eat with everyone else, instead of having to carve the turkey at the beginning.
Alternately, you can also start carving the turkey at the table and then move into the kitchen to finish cutting the turkey.
If you want to initially carve the turkey at the table, place the turkey onto a large serving plate breast side up.
Using an electric knife or chef’s knife, place the knife parallel to the table and make a cut at the bottom of the chicken breast at close to the wing as you can going straight inward towards the ribs and gently curve up the side of the wish bone.
Now placing your knife perpendicular to the table, slice off thin slices of turkey breast meat and place onto a serving plate. As you knife reaches the cut that you made when the knife was parallel to the table, the slices will fall off. Use a fork or meat cutting glove to catch the slices as you cut them. Carve only enough meat at the table for a first serving for everyone. Then move the turkey to the kitchen to finish the process.
Cut off one of the turkey leg drum sticks.
Using one hand gently hold the turkey leg away from the turkey. Holding a knife in the other hand, cut the skin and meat between the turkey leg and the rest of the turkey until you reach the joint. Cut into the joint and then using your hand press down on the leg and pop the joint, then continue cutting through the joint and the leg will come off. You can serve the drumstick or leg whole or I like to use a paring knife to cut the meat off of the drumstick. Using my hands, I also pull off any part of the meat on the drumstick that cannot be easily cut off. If carving at the table, leave the drumstick whole for now and just slice the thigh meat parallel to the bone using a chef’s knife or electric knife.
Using an electric knife or chef’s knife, slice the meat off of the thigh part of the turkey. Place the knife parallel to the bone of the thigh and slice the meat off of the thigh.
Once back into the kitchen or if you just carve the entire turkey ahead of time in the kitchen, you can carve the remainder of the turkey.
Remove the other turkey leg drumstick and the other thigh.
Cut the turkey leg drumstick and thigh into pieces using a chef’s knife or electric and paring knife and pull remaining meat off of the turkey leg drumstick and thigh using your hands, and place onto a serving platter.
Cut off the other turkey breast. Using an electric knife or chef’s knife, place the knife parallel to the table and make a cut at the bottom of the chicken breast at close to the wing as you can going straight inward towards the ribs and gently curve up the side of the wish bone. Now placing your knife perpendicular to the table, and make 1 slice back toward the rib and slice off the entire turkey breast and place it onto a cutting board.
Now using a paring knife and your hands, carefully remove the remaining meat off of the turkey and place onto a serving plate. It usually takes me about 45 minutes to completely cut up and pull off the turkey meat. That is why I like to have the turkey completely cut before the meal is served.
This turkey is moist and delicious. If you are using a frozen turkey, place the turkey in the refrigerator for about 4 days before you plan to cook it in order to thaw it out. Make the brine for the turkey the night before you cook the turkey. Leave enough time for the brine to cool. The turkey should sit in the brine for 6 hours so leave yourself enough time for the turkey to soak either the night before you cook the turkey or soak it early the morning your are cooking the turkey. This recipe was derived from Alton Brown’s Good Eats Roast Turkey recipe.
To view the entire recipe click on Thanksgiving and Christmas Holiday Turkey Recipe. To view the gravy which I make with this turkey, click on Turkey Gravy Recipe. The Creamy Mashed Potatoes and the Tart Cranberry Dipping Sauce go well with the recipe also.
German Spaetzle is a German pasta that is usually served with Sauerbraten or other German meats that have some sort of gravy or sauce. It has the slightest hint of nutmeg. I always serve mine with my German Sauerbraten and German Pretzel Rolls and German Apple Strudel. To see the recipe for German Spaetzle click on German Spaetzle Recipe. | 2019-04-19T21:11:48Z | https://betweenthepagesblog.typepad.com/between-the-pages-blog/2009/11/index.html | Porn | Reference | 0.179799 |
utoronto | ICCIT faculty advise students, serve on dissertation committees, and conduct research with PhD students in all of the ICCIT’s primary areas of specialization – Communication, Culture, Information and Technology. This page highlights the research specializations of our faculty, the ongoing careers of PhD students and Postdoctoral fellows who have worked with our faculty, and projects current PhD students are conducting in conjunction with our faculty.
Our faculty specialize in a range of research areas related to digital media. Areas of strength include: digital culture, technology studies, social data analytics, political economy of information, new media and society, mobile media, media and cultural work, digital labour, journalism, feminist media theory, haptics, human computer interaction, game culture, media theory, media history, social networks, digital inclusion, and social movements.
Below, you will also find more information regarding how to apply to the relevant University of Toronto PhD programs our faculty are affiliated with, notably the Faculty of Information/iSchool and Computer Science.
ICCIT faculty listed below have graduate appointments at the Faculty of Information (iSchool) at the University of Toronto St. George Campus. Our faculty teach courses, conduct research, and supervise students in the iSchool and Computer Science Department PhD programs.
Jeffrey Boase, Associate Professor — Mediated Communication, Social Networks, Digital Trace Data, New Media and Society, Mobile Communication, Research Methods.
Tero Karppi, Assitant Professor - Critical/cultural studies of social media platforms; affect theory; non-human theories; computational culture.
Rhonda McEwen, Associate Professor – Cognitive Effects of Media; Tactile Interfaces; Tablet Communication; Cognitive Informatics; Mobile Media; Social and New Media; Device Mediation; Virtual Reality.
Cosmin Munteanu, Assistant Professor – Digital Marginalization/Digital inclusion; Usability; Social Isolation; Usable Privacy and Security; Ethics in Techno-centric Fieldwork; Under-represented User Groups; Mobiles and Wearable Interaction; Intelligent and Natural User Interfaces.
Jeremy Packer, Associate Professor – Media History; Mobility Studies; Military and Autonomous Technologies; Media Theory; Cultural Studies.
Sarah Sharma, Associate Professor – Feminist Technology; Media and Temporality; Media Theory; Technology and Labour; Cultural Studies.
Here is a partial list of previous PhD students who have done research with our faculty or had their dissertation advised by our faculty either at the University of Toronto or another university.
Guang Ying Mo (PhD, 2016). Postdoctoral researcher, E-Rhythms Project, ICCIT and iSchool.
Grant Bollmer (PhD 2011). Associate Professor in Communication at North Carolina State University, USA.
Miranda Brady (PhD 2007). Associate Professor in Communication Studies and co-director of the Centre for Indigenous Research, Culture, Language and Education at Carleton University, Canada.
Kalen Churcher (PhD 2008). Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Wilkes University, USA.
Carrie Demmans Epp (PhD 2016). Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Adam Dubé (Post Doc 2015). Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Canada.
Tsahi (Zack) Hayat (PhD, 2014). Faculty at The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.
Calum Matheson (PhD, 2014). Assistant Professor in Communication at University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Alex Monea (PhD, 2016). Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities at George Mason University, USA.
Shayne Pepper (PhD, 2011). Assistant Professor in Communication, Media & Theatre at Northeastern Illinois University, USA.
Joshua Reeves (PhD, 2013). Assistant Professor in New Media Communications at Oregon State University, USA.
Adam Rottinghaus (PhD, 2016). Assistant Professor in Communication at University of Tampa, USA.
Dawn Shepherd (PhD, 2012). Assistant Professor in English at Boise State University, USA.
Daniel Sutko (PhD, 2013). Assistant Professor in Communication at California State University-Fullerton, USA.
Mike Tissenbaum (PhD, 2015). Research Scientist with App Inventor, MIT, USA.
Armond Towns (PhD, 2015). Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at The University of Denver, USA.
How to apply for PhD Studies ?
Interested applicants are welcome to contact faculty members to discuss potential doctoral topics. | 2019-04-25T11:48:39Z | https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/phd-studies | Porn | Computers | 0.372773 |
msn | © Provided by Independent Digital News & Media Limited Humans have a hidden “sixth sense” similar to that of many animals which can detect magnetic fields, allowing them to find their way around, scientists say.
A natural “compass” in the brain may have helped our nomadic ancestors to navigate without getting lost, and it still operates at a subconscious level, the researchers believe.
The study offers some of the best evidence to date that humans can sense Earth’s magnetic field, just as migrating birds, sea turtles, butterflies and fish do.
It was led by Dr. Joe Kirschvink at the California Institute of Technology, who has been searching for this magnetic “sixth sense” in humans for some years.
© Getty His team conducted experiments in which more than 30 volunteers were exposed to moving Earth-strength magnetic fields.
They sat in a “cage” that blocked out interfering electromagnetic fields, and electric current was run through coils to mimic the Earth’s magnetic field.
The direction of the field was then rotated.
Electrical brain recordings showed a subtle response even though none of the participants could tell when they were subjected to the changing magnetic fields.
“Our results indicate that human brains are indeed collecting and selectively processing directional input from magnetic field receptors,” the scientists wrote in the journal eNeuro.
The researchers concluded: “Given the known presence of highly evolved geomagnetic navigation systems across the animal kingdom, it is perhaps not surprising that we might retain at least some functioning components, especially given the nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle of our not-too-distant ancestors. | 2019-04-18T14:50:10Z | http://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/techandscience/humans-have-sixth-sense-that-can-feel-earths-magnetic-field-like-animals-do-study-suggests/ar-BBUWPZX?li=BBr8OIS | Porn | Science | 0.919974 |
wordpress | That was an interesting day!!!
I went to bed early last night. Not a normal thing for me. The last thing I remember was looking at my FB page at about 11.00 (early for me) and noticing that a friend was in the square enjoying the evening street music. I contemplated getting dressed to go and find her but that’s the last I remember……that is until 3 am when I woke with a feeling something was wrong. I picked up my phone and saw with horror that my friend had posted an urgent “help me”plea only half an hour after I had gone to sleep. That was 4 hours ago. I read her posts and started to panic. She had a freak accident and had been taken to hospital , having posted that her hotel room looked like a murder scene). Alone and scared, unable to speak Spanish, she had to wait in the triage area while they checked her insurance etc and she was haemorrhaging all over the place. Eventually she was seen to and sent outside to find a taxi back to her hotel.
I figured she would be asleep, so I waited till dawn and sent her a message saying I was coming to help her. I knew where she was staying.
I grabbed a book that I had in my bag and also some foot massage cream, went to the supermarket and got her some water, bananas and chocolate, but in a city of thousands of people I bumped into Angela and then Tony! What are the odds of that?! Anyway, I eventually got to Patti and helped her out. We sat chatting for ages, discovered we are both wanting to get to Barcelona on the same day, so booked air fares and we will go together on Monday. She has been ordered to lay down all day, but we went downstairs and had a fabbo gourmet lunch. I left her feeling heaps better, just knowing she has someone nearby more than anything. It must have been terrifying and I was just lucky that I was around the corner, but I can’t help thinking… if only!
Funnily enough, this popped up on my page today. How apt!
as you may have seen from my FB page, I also had the sad news that one of the ladies I recently took on my Portugues Camino had died very suddenly! She was a beautiful person. The one that “already had it” in my recent blog. A gentle calming personality, full of joy and appreciation for life and her hilarious one-liners always made us all laugh. She seemed the fittest of us all and never complained. Her muscly legs were not those of a woman of a certain age, but more like that of an athlete , and she was telling me that she even loved skydiving. Can’t believe it!!!! We are all in shock. Apparently she loved the Camino so much, she had already organized to walk another one next year.
So, I have had a really interesting but sad day today. When I left Patti, I felt the need to meditate and be on my own. I wandered over to the park behind the end of the Frances Camino and sat at the highest point overlooking Santiago. I let the sun warm my face and gazed up at the sky, grateful for all that I have and all I have experienced in life, made very aware today that you don’t know how long you are here for.
I was there for ages and sat with a young uni student called Carmen, and took some photos of the sun setting behind the cathedral.
Thank you so much for enriching us with this heartfelt page. With out hearts open the world embraces us.
With OUR hearts open the world embraces us. | 2019-04-19T22:36:44Z | https://margcaffyn.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/omg-2/ | Porn | News | 0.75289 |
wordpress | Are your Teeth Sensitive? What makes them sensitive?
When the activities like brushing, flossing and eating or drinking something hot or frozen triggers sharp and temporary pain in your tooth or teeth , it is known as tooth sensitivity .The problem of tooth sensitivity arises, when your gums recede back thus exposing the surface beneath called dentin. Dentin has thousands of tiny tubes which lead to fluid filled nerves. Due to exposed dentin, these nerves get easily stimulated and trigger temporary pain in your tooth or teeth, when you eat or drink something hot or cold, touch your teeth or expose them to cold air.
Why do you experience this tooth malady?
Wear and tear of your tooth enamel due to brushing too hard or brushing your teeth with a hard bristled tooth brush.
Eating too much of acidic foods can erode your tooth enamel and expose the dentin, thus leading to tooth sensitivity.
Gum diseases or gingivitis result in inflamed and sore gums and also in receded gums thus exposing the roots of gums.
Using too much mouthwash to keep your breath fresh or minty may lead to sore mouth and may turn your teeth sensitive.
Grinding or clinching your teeth may wear down your tooth enamel and expose the dentin.
If your teeth are broken or chipped, they get filled with bacteria. These bacteria enter the pulp causing pain and inflammation.
Using too much of tooth whitening products and toothpastes with bleaching solutions can lead to teeth sensitivity.
Your age can also be a determinant factor. Tooth sensitivity is maximum at the age of 25 and 30.
Frequent tooth cleaning, root planning, crown replacement and tooth restorations to keep your smile pearly white can lead to tooth sensitivity.
The building-up of plaque at the root surfaces can lead to tooth sensitivity.
If your fillings get weakened or fractured and bacteria accumulate in theses cracked fillings, this leads to acid – formulation and enamel breakdown.
Contact Dr. Bikram Singh DMD for any of your tooth related problems. Our diligent and compassionate dentists will not only resolve your present problem but also educate you for the future.
If toothache is due to cavity, dentists may fill the cavity or extract your tooth.
If loose or broken filling is causing the problem, the dentist may put new filling in the place after clearing out the decayed or the broken one.
Root canal treatment may be suggested for treating the infected gums.
Pain medicines or antibiotics may be prescribed to speed up healing.
Treatment of TMJ may involve surgery, stress minimizing techniques and mouth guard to check the tooth grinding.
To lessen the pain and inflammation associated with toothache, Phototherapy with cold laser may be used.
Contact Dr. Bikram Singh DMD for the professional and state-of-art treatment of acute and chronic dental problems. We not only provide treatment for the current ailments but also educate you by providing oral hygiene instructions that help you to check the recurrence of dental problems.
What do we mean by Dentin Hypersensitivity?
Do you feel an electric stinging sensation when you eat ice cream or drink iced tea; bite down on a chocolate bar or gulp some hot soup? There are the chances that you have “Dentin Hypersensitivity or Sensitive Teeth.” When you have sensitive teeth, actions such as; flossing, eating, drinking, brushing etc. cause sharp pain in your teeth. Various reasons ranging from trauma to dental disease can cause sensitive teeth. People falling in the age group of 20 to 50 are more prone to this condition.
What are the causes of Dentin Hypersensitivity?
Gradual exposure of the dentine, the softer part of your tooth lying just beneath the tooth enamel; causes Dentin Hypersensitivity. Dentine consists of the fluid filled nerve fibers and this fluid moves due to drinking or eating hot or cold foods, thus leading to sharp or discomforting pain in the tooth or teeth.
What are the treatments suggested to treat Dentin Hypersensitivity?
Brush your teeth with desensitizing toothpaste, as it helps to relieve pain by filling the channels in the dentin.
Clear the plaque, a gummy white substance which irritates your teeth; by brushing twice and flossing at least once in a day.
Use a soft bristled tooth brush and as well apply less pressure while brushing.
Avoid chewing tobacco, most commonly known as dip or snuff. As tobacco along with causing oral cancer also recedes the gums, thus leading to sensitivity.
Refrain yourself from consuming excess acidic foods.
Avoid clenching your teeth. Ask for a mouth guard from your dentist for night time.
Apart from above mentioned ways, regularly consult your dentist and follow his advice and recommendations to treat your sensitive teeth.
Contact Dr. Bikram Singh D.M.D. for any of yours tooth related problems. We use state of the art techniques and equipment to provide our patients with best possible solutions for their dental problems. | 2019-04-25T14:07:18Z | https://carydentist.wordpress.com/tag/tooth-sensitivity/ | Porn | Health | 0.712523 |
wikipedia | Bwamba orthobunyavirus (BWAV) belongs to the genus Orthobunyavirus and the order Bunyavirales RNA viruses. BWAV is present in large parts of Africa, endemic in Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. It is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites and results in a brief benign generalised infection with headache, skin rash, diarrhea and joint pain and lasts 4–5 days. The animal reservoir of the virus includes birds, monkeys and donkeys.
Bwamba orthobunyavirus has a negative sense single stranded RNA (ssRNA) genome, and so is classified as a class V virus under the Baltimore classification system. The genome is segmented into three pieces, Large (L), Medium (M) and Small (S), which have a combined length of approximately 12,000nt. The S RNA encodes a nucleocapsid and non structural proteins, the M RNA encodes envelope glycoproteins and a non structural membrane polypeptide and the L RNA encodes an RNA dependent RNA polymerase. The segmented RNAs are surrounded by nucleocapsid proteins that form a Ribonucleoprotein complex, that associates with RNA dependent RNA polymerase. The complex is surrounded by a lipid layer, into which the nuclear complex interacts. Finally the particle is membrane bound, spherical, and in total is approximately 100 nm in diameter.
Once inside a host cell cytoplasm, the genomic RNA’s are transcribed into mRNA’s by the associated RNA polymerase. From these transcripts, the host machinery is used for translation into viral proteins. The S segment is slightly different from the rest as it is ambisense, meaning genes run in both the positive and negative directions. To enable correct translation of the proteins, a second round of transcription has to occur.
To replicate the genome, transcription occurs to produce a replicative intermediate, which is then itself transcribed into new RNA genomes, with the aid of the RNA polymerases produced from the gene expression.
In 1937, Bwamba fever was first recognized as a clinical illness among construction workers building a road to Bwamba County, Western Uganda, present day Bundibugyo District. Bwamba fever is present in large parts of Africa and antibodies of the virus have been found ‘as far south as the Republic of South Africa and as far north westwards as Gambia’. Bwamba fever is endemic in several African countries, including Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, where the virus was initially discovered. The distribution of the virus tends to be underestimated because the symptoms are relatively mild and are often mistaken for malaria.
Bwamba orthobunyavirus is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites. The main anthropophilic vectors are Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus.
The animal reservoir includes birds, monkeys and donkeys, which have been found to possess antibodies to Bwamba virus.
Bwamba fever presents itself as a severe, but benign generalised infection of short duration, usually only lasting four to five days. Symptoms include fever, headache, arthralgia, and local as well as generalised pain. No fatalities have been recorded so far. "Exanthem is nearly always present and is frequently associated with meningeal involvement. [...] Intestinal tract involvement, especially diarrhea, is also seen. Some patients may also develop a body rash", as reported by the Uganda Virus Research Institute, who also discovered the disease in the 1940s.
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Lutwama, J. J.; Rwaguma, E. B.; Nawanga, P. L.; Mukuye, A. (2002). "Isolations of Bwamba virus from south central Uganda and north eastern Tanzania". African Health Sciences. 2 (1): 24–28. PMC 2141559. PMID 12789111.
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This page was last edited on 4 February 2019, at 18:54 (UTC). | 2019-04-18T10:42:10Z | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bwamba_Fever | Porn | Science | 0.722515 |
wordpress | Back in October I thought that I would die a happy man if I never had to hear another album of female harmonic folk ever again; as I was being bombarded with Sisters, Cousins, friends and lovers all singing the same twee songs over and over again.
OK I’m exaggerating; but you can’t squeeze a fag paper between the Pierces, Secrets, Chapin’s and (my actual favourites) the Bowman’s et al.
But sitting here today Madison Violet has suddenly appeared like a ray of sunshine on a rainy day.
Les Cooper’s production is as smooth as a baby’s bottom and you can hear every palpitation in the girl’s voices and every note from their all-star backing band and the harmonies…..well; they are to die for!
For once a female duo actually has a range to their songs and the songs themselves are all well crafted and memorable – a trick very few others have managed this year.
Colour in Grey sent my legs to mush as the girls sound like warm honey as they tell a broken-hearted tale over some beautiful bottle neck guitar.
Then of course there is the heartfelt Come As You Are which starts with a Neil Young influenced harmonica before either Brenley or Lisa (I don’t know who) pours her heart out as she sees the end to a relationship approaching all too clearly.
The album is book-ended by two wonderful songs that will both go into my Top 100 on my MP3 – opener If I Could Love You starts with some quiet piano that leads into a beautiful song about a dying relationship that just oozes Radio play. Then there is the album closer – Christy Ellen Francis.
I’d been playing the CD in the car and was obviously enjoying it until this final track hit me like a brick. It’s that good I had to play it 5 times in succession and by the end I had tears in my eyes.
What’s so good about it you ask? I don’t really know, but Christy Ellen Francis is a 100 year old widowed Mother of 16 and the song is a love song from an adoring Grandchild and is simply beautiful. | 2019-04-25T20:00:16Z | https://rockingmagpie.wordpress.com/cd-reviews-2014/madison-violet-the-good-in-goodbye-2011/ | Porn | News | 0.217229 |
wordpress | Me and the TC were in San Francisco over the weekend. We took a stroll under the Golden Gate Bridge in the fog.
My impressions? Bleak, booming, bulky, brrr.
Search for the Star Stones, by André Norton. A paperback volume combining two books: The Zero Stone, and Uncharted Stars. This worm loves a good Sci Fi yarn!
Always have warm clothing with you when in San Francisco, even in summer time.
The TC, bless her cotton socks, paid a flying visit to San Francisco yesterday. It was a trifle wet. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge faded poetically into the drizzle.
This is the blog of Mark Wordsworm, the travelling worm. I’m a 25-year-old bookmark and can proudly boast my own Hallmark serial number, 95 HBM 80-1. You’ll probably want to read all about me and my Travelling Companion (the TC) .
Me and the TC are back in San Francisco for a flying visit. The TC is working here for a week, so this worm has tagged along as usual, keeping her book warm and generally looking after her. Today, Sunday, is her only day off on this trip. So we all got in to a Smart Car and drove over the Bay Bridge, to see what happens outside San Francisco.
My impressions? Oakland and Berkeley are worth the drive, if you have time on your hands, if only to see the Bay Bridge and the view of SFO from the other side.
Smart Cars are larger inside than you may think.
Pakwan restaurant, corner of O’Farrel and Jones streets, San Francisco. Quite outstanding. See photos and words below.
Gone Tomorrow, by Lee Child. The TC hasn’t had much time for reading, so I’m still stuck in the same book as when I wrote my previous post. No matter. I’m quite attached to the book!
The Pakwan restaurant is on the corner of O’Farrel and Jones streets, San Francisco. It offers “Pakistani-Indian authentic cuisine”. The space itself is not all that impressive, but the food is simply delicious. The price is very reasonable too.
The TC got it into her head to drive an open-top Mustang down Highway 1, the coastal route from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Actually, it was the TC-once-removed who put this idea into the TC’s head. Reluctantly I have to report that the TC got a bit carried away with the whole experience and left me cooped up in her bag much of the time. I didn’t even have the chance to get cozy with the pony (that’s what we aficionados call a Mustang) although I had been eagerly anticipating that photo opportunity.
Still, the TC did give me an airing every now and then, so I can report some highlights of the trip.
My impressions? The drive to Los Angeles is just beautiful. LA is a dump. Drive on by.
If you can, spend a few days on the drive. There’s much to do and see.
Here’s another tip from a wise worm: Invest in a GPS. Don’t rely on your TC. If she’s anything like mine, you’ll get lost and end up seeing the, ahem, interesting parts of town. En route from Santa Barbara to Santa Monica, we encountered Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Sod Farm.
Lucia Lodge Restaurant, perched on a cliff overlooking the ocean at the southern edge of Big Sur.
Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa, 400 Cannery Row, Monterey. Even the TC, bless her cotton socks, deserves a touch of luxury every now and then. But be warned, it’s pricey.
Moonlit Cage, by Linda Holeman. Highly recommended. This worm felt homesick when the TC finished reading The Linnet Bird, by the same author, so I’m glad to be ensconced in another of Linda’s works.
Further along the road, you can get up close and personal with more elephant seals.
Malibu is luxury with a road running through it. Can’t visit your neighbours, for fear of getting run over when you cross the road. Can’t get anywhere without a car. As we approached from the north the TC chirped, “I could live here!” Then Malibu went on and on and on and this worm is pretty sure she changed her mind. Not that the TC would admit such a thing, of course.
A few days ago, me and the TC climbed up to Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill and saw the frescoes on the walls of the tower.
Later the same day, we had tea at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. This little restaurant introduced fortune cookies to the United States. There’s even a claim that fortune cookies were invented by Makoto Hagiwara, caretaker of the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco.
The fortune cookies and the frescoes are at opposite ends of town, so why write about them in one blog post? Purely for the sake of the alliteration. I could claim a philosophical juxtaposition of commerce and art, or of kitch and realism. But no, it’s the allure of the alliteration. That’s assonance, man.
Treat yourself to a chocolate. If you’ve never had a Hershie Bar, they’re worth trying.
Managing Writers, A Real World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation, by Richard L. Hamilton.
Tantalising? The explanation’s in the book.
My fortune cookie says “You are next in line for promotion in your firm”. Look out, all worms, here I come!
Coit Tower was built in 1933 with money donated by Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Artists painted the frescoes and were paid as part of the Federal Government’s New Deal to help artists during the Great Depression.
The grimmer side of life is there in the painting too. A man has been run over by a car. Also, look closely in the first picture and you’ll see that someone is picking the pocket of the man in a white coat checking his watch.
Me and the TC are off to Seattle. Where it rains.
Me and the TC took a trip on a San Francisco cable car. That was the most fun you can have outside a book!
We’ve also ventured onto buses and trams and various other forms of transport. You know what? Everyone chats to everyone in San Francisco.
My impressions? Public transport reveals San Francisco as a friendly city full of cheerful, or if not cheerful then vociferously expressive, people.
Even the gripman on the cable car had a big smile for the TC. Check out the photograph below. Gripmen are a fascinating breed.
Another tip: City blocks in San Francisco are long. Don’t try to walk too many of them.
Zazie, a French bistro in Cole Valley. The food is divine. The TC had braised steak Marseillaise. It was so tender it fell apart at the touch of a fork.
A very well organised book with plenty of information for a bookworm to get his teeth into.
Behind the gripman you can see the impressive array of levers he has to manipulate. He is the dude who makes the car grab or release the cable. He also has to judge the gaps across intersections, where the cable does not run. And he has to watch out for unaware motorists and pedestrians and other mere mortals who don’t know just how out-of-control a cable car can be.
Bus seats are roomy, unlike in Sydney where the TC can be heard to complain that other passengers sit on her rather than next to her. This worm is feeling magnanimous today, so here’s another tip. (This is the third one in a single blog post. Feel privileged!) To request a stop, you pull the cable that runs along above the windows. It’s not an emergency cord.
Me and the TC have been in San Francisco for a couple of days now. Yesterday we encountered the World Famous Bushman. When he’s not lurking behind a bush, he goes by the name of David Johnson.
My impressions? This Bushman dude knows where it’s at. Dollars roll in.
Photos and a video below.
Oscar Wilde is said to have said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” It’s neither summer nor winter here right now, but it is cold. And very windy. I tremble in trepidation whenever the TC waves me around in search of the perfect photographic pose. If you happen to spot me blowing willy-nilly through the Californian streets, please catch me and put me into a good book.
Yep, still the same book. The TC has not had much time for reading recently. This makes for a restful life for me, except when I’m hauled out for the occasional celebrity photo shoot.
The World Famous Bushman skulks behind his branches on Fisherman’s Wharf. Every now and then, he leaps out and scares the unsuspecting passers-by. Funnily enough, they don’t even notice the circle of other tourists around the Bushman, waiting with drawn cameras to film the scare.
Would you believe that the TC paid him $5 for a photograph and a gag? From the comfort of my book buried in her bag, I heard her engage him in conversation. Uh-oh, thinks me, here we go. He asked her where she came from.
That’s when she handed over the $5. Bushman dude, you rock! | 2019-04-24T06:53:59Z | https://travellingworm.wordpress.com/category/san-francisco/ | Porn | Business | 0.092577 |
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