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The “kamikaze” tactic, the infamous suicide bombers of imperial Japan, is a well known public fact of WWII. But kamikaze wasn’t the only suicide tactic that Japan opted for in their desperate moments. As their eventual defeat became more and more apparent, Japan basked their hopes on one naval weapon to overturn the tides of war: the Kaiten (“Turn the Heavens“), a manned, suicide torpedo that trades one operator’s life for a whole battleship.
Tokkuo no Shima (Isle of Tokkou) by Sato Shuho is a story of one Kaiten pilot, Watanabe Yuzou, from his time as a troubled enlistee with doubts about the purpose of throwing away his life, to a determined solider, a lifeless instructor that lost his purpose, and finally a man of conviction that came to a realization as to what he is dying for.
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https://ruggiablog.wordpress.com/tag/sato-shuho/
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August Derleth sent and received many Christmas cards during his career as a writing, publisher and family man. Christmas cards have become almost an anachromism in today’s world of e-mail, cell phones, and camera phones; somehow they are old fashioned, and expensive with postage charges, and international rates. I called overseas today with a flat rate of 2 cents per minute. A Christmas card would cost a minumum of $1.07 with HST! whereas with a telephone you get immediate feedback, with the give and take of social interaction. Here’s a scan of a card that the Utpatel’s sent to August Derleth in the 1940’s.
August Derleth’s scrapbook contains many different interesting items, including some woodcuts by Frank Utpatel that I have not seen before. There are two of particular note which I have entitled “The Garden of Eden” and “Auggie and Eve.” I suspect the originals were produced in the 1940s when Frank was at his best. I have censored the latter not so much because it has a single pornographic overtone, but rather to stump the pirates on the internet from appropriateing it the whole and reusing it. These illustrations would make good content for the dustjacket of Annals of Walden West. This volume is long overdue, and August was working on it, at the time of his death. Peter Ruber started to assemble short pirces for the volume in the 1990’s. I received the manuscript directly from April, in 2002, and showed it at the Walden West Festival that year, misplaced it at the Freethinker’s Hall and retrieved it once again in 2004.
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…and I wanted to give you my top 5 acts to go see this weekend!
As I’m sure you can tell, SXSW takes place in March in Austin, Texas and every single 10 day long festival there is EPIC and UNFORGETTABLE!
Thanks to amazing festival organizers, the lineup is always power-packed and never ever disappoints the thousands upon thousands of attendees!
You might just want to stay in Stubb’s all night tonight! HAHA It’s been a long while since The Ting Tings were on top of the indie pop music scene…2007-2008 to be exact when they dominated that world with “Shut Up and Let Me Go” and “That’s Not My Name”. Don’t count them out just yet!! I’ve been hearing a lot of little rumors of them coming back strong and I’m very excited for it!
I cannot even tell you how much I have promoted Tove Lo! HAHA She’s was my favorite singer-songwriter of 2014 and I simply adored her music…and I still do!! Tove is going to be performing pretty late tomorrow night, but I don’t care if you need an energy drink or an afternoon nap to make it to her show…just go to it! 😀 I’m so jealous and I cannot tell you how happy you’ll be after listening to her incredible songwriting prowess unfold before your ears…you’ll also want to be her best friend because she loves to engage the audience!! It’s a win-win!
After years of being the tour DJ for Kanye West, A-Trak is on his own now and has been making some serious airwaves in music lately! Most notably for his song that made it on a Super Bowl commercial: “Out the Speakers”. That song was of course featured in the wildly hilarious commercial for Mountain Dew where the dog and the deer danced along too! HAHA I’m really proud of A-Trak for getting his name heard and I think you should go see him!
I have to mention Sam because we actually went to Belmont for school at the same time together! She’s been establishing herself as a songwriter in Nashville and Belmont shaped her career in the music industry just like it did for me! 😀 I’m sure it must be thoroughly exciting and an honor to play SXSW and I’d love for anyone to go out and support Sam! She has a gorgeous voice and her music is very lovely!
So there you have it folks! Tweet me all you want & enjoy the music!
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1. What exactly is Finnish forest cluster?
Looking at the Finnish Forest Industries Federation website, I found this definition, which is good. One can also look at the link to see more.
2. What silvicultural practices did you observe that we should be implementing here in MN?
a) I would love to see us do more pre-commercial thinning (spacing) and cleaning in our young forests (both mixed species and pure balsam fir, jack pine). Resulting acceleration of growth to merchantable size is amazing, versus doing nothing. The opportunity is large; conceivably 50,000+ acres every year, if we consider the mixed-wood aspen/hardwood/conifer stands that arise following typical Minnesota harvests.
b) More commercial thinning–this covers a broad array from high-value hardwood management (oak system is different from maple/basswood) to spruce and pine plantations, to aspen and other mixed species. The concept is to capture the mortality and invigorate the remaining trees for more healthy growth. INTERMEDIATE TREATMENTS is one of the five focus areas that emerged from the Blandin Foundation VFVC group learning trips. This team wants to develop a white paper on the benefits of release, pre-commercial thinning, and commercial thinning that would address not only timber benefits but other benefits such as wildlife, I & D, and biodiversity. They also recommend continuing the Ecosystem Management Course, and they propose future research on the ecological and economic issues associated with intermediate treatments.
ago!” With proper modeling, fewer of these stands would slip through the cracks in large land owning organizations.
As an illustration of the problem in (2c), please see these photographs of an 80+ year old aspen/birch/balsam/spruce stand in Itasca County.
Thanks for the questions, Peter!
Senator Tom Saxhaug has wasted no time in getting to work on one of the high impact opportunities identified by participants in the VFVC’s “Seeing the Forest AND the Trees: Making the Most of Minnesota Forests” study tour project.
On October 29, Tom convened a joint hearing of a subcommittee of the Senate’s Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Budget Committee and the E-12 Education Budget Committee to bring the issues of rationalizing ownership and increasing management of Minnesota’s School Trust Fund Lands to the attention of his state legislator colleagues with authority over these lands.
Tour participants Dave Zumeta and Dave Schad and DNR State Forester Dave Epperly laid the ground for modifying management of School Trust Fund and other state lands to improve forest productivity as well as wildlife habitat and to produce more revenue both for schools and for sustainable forest management. Zumeta and Schad began to build the economic and environmental case for the recommendation they and others from the study tour’s School Trust Fund Lands Action Team have developed based on learning and insights gained through study of Canadian, Finnish, and Swedish best practices.
Setting the context for the “Dave, Dave, and Dave presentations” was a presentation by Howard Bicker, Executive Director of the State Board of Investments, on investments and return on investments of the School Trust Fund. Bicker spoke of the Board’s statutory charge to increase spendable income from these trust lands to help offset state expenditures for school aid. Legislators were particularly interested in how and where the funds had been invested, projections for how they might grow and how to calculate risk in a volatile financial environment.
Dave Epperly reported on timber sales revenue from sustainable forest management of Trust lands and how Trust lands contribute to the state’s ecological health, our forest-based economy, and our citizens’ quality of life. Dave Schad described use of site-level forest management guidelines and interdisciplinary landscape planning as essential to achieving forest productivity, wildlife habitat and recreational goals, as well as to long-term economic returns from Trust lands and other lands.
Dave Zumeta proposed increased woody biomass harvests in conjunction with increased timber sales on Trust Fund and other state lands to help meet State Forest Resource Management Plan goals. Harvest sites would include areas within the timber procurement zones of forest industries and the biofuel procurement zones of other forest industries and utilities that use woody biomass for energy, those areas with high risk of wildfire due to high fuel loads, and areas where biomass harvest would help meet wildlife and ecological restoration goals. He clarified that biomass harvesting should not be conducted on lands where such harvesting would have adverse effects on water quality, soils, wildlife habitat, or biological diversity. Following harvest, early and frequent forest thinnings should be used in stands where thinnings would help meet SFRMP management goals and maintain healthy forests. Benefits from these thinnings would include increased wood products, renewable energy,and income to the Trust.
Zumeta told the legislators that increased timber harvest on these lands would help meet the Governor’s Primary Forest Products Industry Task Force goal for increased timber harvest. Harvesting forest biomass on these lands would also help meet the legislature’s “25 by 25” (25 percent by 2025) renewable energy mandate, provide renewable energy for forest industries and utilities, reduce carbon emissions, help reduce wildfire losses, and lower the cost of state and federal wildfire suppression efforts. Zumeta said that by increasing timber harvest (including the use of intermediate harvests) and woody biomass harvest on these lands, near-term and long-term income — including income to the Trust — would be increased, all while improving forest health.
The overall positive response of the legislators and the tone of their questions (about sources of potential opposition, level of demand for woody biomass and positive effects on fire suppression) suggest that the subject has gotten the interest of the legislators positioned to make decisions on the future management of the state’s forest resources.
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https://vfvc.wordpress.com/category/forest-productivity/productivity-tour/
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For other uses, see Bree.
Bree is a city in the Flemish province of Limburg, Belgium. On January 1, 2006, Bree had a total population of 14,503. The total area is 64.96 km2 (25.08 sq mi) which gives it a population density of 223 inhabitants per square kilometre (580/sq mi). The mayor of Bree is Liesbeth van der Auwera. Bree is also known as the jewel of the Campine.
^ "Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Bree, Belgium". Weatherbase. 2011. ; retrieved November 24, 2011.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bree, Belgium.
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"Punishment, Proportionality and Jurisdictional Transfer of Adolescent " by Jeffrey Fagan, Aaron Kupchik et al.
In the past two decades, nearly every state has expanded its authority and simplified its procedures to transfer adolescent offenders from juvenile to criminal (adult) courts. As a result, the use of jurisdictional transfer has grown steadily. These developments reflect popular and political concerns that punishment in juvenile courts is too lenient for serious crimes committed by adolescents. Yet there is mixed evidence that expanded transfer authority has produced more certain or severe punishments for adolescents prosecuted in criminal courts. Some empirical studies show that adolescents transferred to criminal court are more likely to be convicted, sentenced to prison, and serve longer sentences, compared to similar cases that remain in the juvenile court. Other studies show that transferred cases receive similar sentences or receive less severe punishments. In this article, we report the results of a natural experiment comparing detention, disposition and custodial sentence lengths for matched groups of adolescents charged with serious felony offenses in juvenile or criminal courts. We report that adolescents prosecuted as adults are at a greater risk of detention and incarceration, and if incarcerated, sentenced to longer sentences than adolescents in juvenile courts. Yet the disparity between outcomes in juvenile and criminal courts is not as large as the rhetoric surrounding this issue would lead one to believe. The resilience of common law doctrine of diminished culpability of adolescents is evident in the limited effects of expanded jurisdictional transfer activity on sentencing and punishment of adolescents in criminal court. We discuss the jurisprudential and social policy implications of denying adolescents the latitude of a traditionally more rehabilitative and lenient juvenile court.
Jeffrey Fagan, Aaron Kupchik & Akiva Liberman, Punishment, Proportionality and Jurisdictional Transfer of Adolescent Offenders: A Test of the Leniency Gap Hypothesis, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 02-45 (2002).
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 at 4:44 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Who does everyone think will Qualify?
Match of the day on over there sb? a lesson in football on tonights show!
Bob you’re a loser, and clueless.
you saying the Swansea team tried today?
i am at betting yeah. how did you know?
SB – who qualifies? MU or RM?
If Man U are on their game then they’ll go through, of that I have no doubt. RM are a good side but their defence was exposed in the first leg…they aren’t invulnerable. For me Utd need to dictate the pace of the game from kick off and keep RM chasing the ball…that means in BOTH halves. If Utd score first they need to score twice more, once is not enough, they need that buffer for the later stages of the game. I hate seeing Utd sit on a lead and then try to defend it…recipe for disaster imo. Final score 2-1 Utd.
See sponge bob skint pants is still loved and using the ? Button.
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https://swearbox.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/real-madrid-v-man-utd/
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The orange or yellow masses on a mite-infested persimmon's leaves protect the mites.
2 Why Is My Persimmon Tree Yellow & Dropping Fruit?
Common and Japanese persimmon trees (Diospyros virginiana, Diospyros kaki) have much to admire. Fragrant, white or pink spring flowers, glossy green foliage changing to brilliant orange, red or yellow in fall and deliciously sweet yellow or orange fruit make them desirable additions to ornamental or kitchen gardens. Suitable for U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 and 7 through 9, respectively, they're largely resistant to pests and diseases. When a persimmon's leaves begin to curl, the cause is likely one of two pests.
If your persimmon's curled leaves have blistered tops and dimpled, orange- or yellow-spotted undersides, microscopic eriophyid mites have penetrated them to drain their cellular tissue. Female blister mites overwinter in cracks on the twigs or beneath bud scales. They emerge in spring to lay eggs. Their offspring mature and reproduce quickly, so mite populations can explode in a short time. Wind disperses the tiny pests, and confining an infestation is difficult. Fortunately, their damage is largely cosmetic.
The best option for managing blister-mite damage is to prune the most seriously damaged leaves and dispose of them in sealed plastic bags. To avoid spreading the mites, rinse your pruning tools between cuts in a solution of 1 part household bleach to 9 parts water. If the infestation is serious, spraying your tree with ready-to-use insecticidal soap in early spring may kill enough overwintering adults to minimize the damage. Spray on a calm day when no direct sun is on the tree and no rain is in the forecast. Direct the soap into the bark crevices where the mites shelter, and spray until the twigs drip. Treat your tree one week to 10 days before the buds break and again as soon as they emerge. Dress in protective clothing, closed-toe shoes, waterproof gloves, safety goggles and a hat and follow the label's application instructions when spraying.
Persimmons growing in cool, coastal areas face infestations of orange tortrix moths and their leaf-rolling caterpillars. The 1/2-inch, tan or orange female moths deposit clusters of pale-green eggs on persimmons' new twigs and leaves. Their brown-headed caterpillars have tan, yellowish-white, gray or green bodies. The caterpillars pull the margins of the leaves over themselves and stitch them closed with white webbing. They feed inside the leaves for about six weeks before spinning cocoons and pupating in their shelters. In Mediterranean climates, orange tortrix moths and their caterpillars may infest persimmons all year long.
Leafroller infestations on persimmons rarely require chemical pesticide control. An effective and enjoyable way to limit their damage is to invite braconid wasps into your garden. These tiny, black-and-yellow insects don't harm people, but their larvae are voracious leafroller predators. During their egg-laying period, the adult wasps feed on shallow-faced, nectar- and pollen-rich flowers. Attract them with colorful annual zinnias (Zinnia elegans) or with common yarrow (Achillea millefolium), perennial in USDA zones 3 through 9. If it's not invasive in your area, another good choice is another annual, daisy-flowering cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus).
Wolfe, Judy. "What Causes Curling Leaves on Persimmon Trees?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/causes-curling-leaves-persimmon-trees-104551.html. Accessed 26 April 2019.
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The Irish Catholic Church has lost "all credibility" following the abuse scandal, the head of the Anglican Church says in an interview to be broadcast Monday.
Archbishop Rowan Williams called the issue "a colossal corporate trauma" for the Catholic Church, especially in Ireland.
"An institution so deeply bound in to the life of society suddenly becoming — suddenly losing all credibility," said Williams, the head of the Church of England. "That’s not just a problem for the church, it’s a problem for everybody in Ireland, I think."
I feel that Dr. Rowan WILLIAM’S comments were quite unhelpful at a time like this. He has more than enough to do to look after his dwingling flock,as many of his followers (INCLUDING VICARS) HAVE COME OVER TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. No, priests are not afraid to go out in public with their collar on,quite the reverse.Perhaps your ignorance on the child abuse issue does not help. You must remember that 1-2% of priests were involved in this dreadful crime.
It is not the first time you have made contraversal comments without first looking at your position.
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2019-04-23T17:52:39Z
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https://episcopalian.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/archbishop-of-canterbury-rowan-williams-on-the-abuse-scandal-in-the-irish-catholic-church/
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Can High Expenses Affect Dave & Buster's (PLAY) Q3 Earnings?
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc. PLAY is scheduled to report third-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Dec 11, after the closing bell.
The company continues to bank on a unique business model that provides guests with customizable experience across four platforms, “Eat, Drink, Play and Watch.” Apart from great food or beverages, the entertainment business of Dave & Buster’s has been driving growth and is expected to have driven revenues in the fiscal third quarter.
However, a non-franchised business model makes the company susceptible to increased expenses, which are likely to have hurt its bottom line in the to-be-reported quarter.
Nonetheless, backed by a distinctive business strategy, shares of Dave & Buster have gained 27.3% over the past six months, outperforming the industry’s collective growth of 12.1%.
Let us look deeper into factors that are likely to have shaped up the company’s fiscal third quarter.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Dave & Buster’s sales in the fiscal third quarter is pegged at $274.2 million, suggesting 9.7% growth from the year-ago quarter. In the first six months of fiscal 2018, the company’s revenues increased 11.4% year over year. We expect the trend to have continued in the fiscal third quarter as well.
The company’s top-line growth strategy is to have a solid entertainment business that cushions it from the fluctuating business in the restaurant industry. Notably, amusement and other revenues accounted for 59.2% of total revenues in the second quarter of fiscal 2018 and grew 16.6% year over year. We believe the segment to have performed well in the fiscal third quarter as well.
Another top-line initiative by Dave & Buster's includes menu innovation. In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017, Dave & Buster’s appointed new vice president of Food and Beverage development in order to improve the speed of service through menu redesign and positive simplification in the kitchen area. In February, the company streamlined its menu and reduced the number of food orders by about 20%, and beverage offerings by 12% to achieve increased efficiency.
Meanwhile, Dave & Buster's continues to pursue a disciplined new store growth strategy in both new and existing markets. Management believes that it can grow the concept to more than 200 units in North America over time. In the second quarter of fiscal 2018, the company opened five stores. In fiscal 2018, it anticipates opening 14-15 stores — including two latest 17-K format stores, a combination of eight stores in new markets for D&B and the remaining located in markets where the brand is already established. With these store openings, it intends to achieve 13-14% annual unit growth rate.
Although a higher-margin business model is supposed to boost Dave & Buster’s earnings, high costs of operations remain a drag. Apart from increased labor costs, Dave & Buster’s is seeing high costs from sales-building initiatives and other operations.
In the first six months of 2018, total operating costs increased 13.6% year over year and the trend is likely to have continued in the fiscal third quarter. We believe that these high expenses will, in turn, hurt the company’s fiscal third-quarter earnings. More so because the consensus estimate pegs the quarter’s earnings at 22 cents, suggesting a 24.1% decline from the third quarter of fiscal 2017.
Our proven model does not show that Dave & Buster’s is likely to beat earnings estimates this quarter. This is because a stock needs to have both — a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) — for this to happen. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they’re reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Dave & Buster’s has an Earnings ESP of 0.00%. Although the company’s Zacks Rank #2 increases the predictive power of ESP, we need to have a positive ESP to be confident about an earnings surprise. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
Domino's DPZ reported mixed quarterly numbers for third-quarter 2018, wherein earnings $1.95 per share outpaced the consensus mark of $1.73 and increased 53.5% on a year-over-year basis.
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This journal is friends only. This entry was originally posted at https://reviews-and-ramblings.dreamwidth.org/5269948.html. If you are not friends on this journal, Please comment there using OpenID.
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This touched my heart dear Didi! I cry every time I see animal abuse, abuse to people, and forests being cut in a heartless manner, our planet destroyed…. I hope the day will come when all humanity feel love and compassion for all living creatures and see God in everyone! Thank you for this beautiful poem by Kabir!!!
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Abraham, Robert. 'Limitations on the Right of Japanese Employers to Select Employees of Their Choice Under the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation." American University International Law Review 6, no. 4 (1991): 475-526.
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BELLEVUE, Wash. (March 13, 2019) - G2, a Verisk (VRSK) business and division of Verisk Financial, announced today that it has joined forces with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) in a new strategic alliance to help consumers easily find safe online pharmacies and avoid those engaging in prohibited practices or the sale of illegal pharmaceuticals. G2 is a leading global provider of merchant risk management solutions.
"This new alliance will help acquirers, payment service providers, and payment facilitators serve pharma merchants safely and compliantly," said Dan Frechtling, president, G2. "NABP cares about the public`s health and well-being, and its verification is recognized by Visa and Mastercard."
G2`s services are used by more acquirers globally than any other merchant monitoring solution. As part of Verisk Financial, G2 is even stronger with access to proprietary risk data and technologies. NABP is the nonprofit association certified by Visa for pharmacy merchant registration. Both companies are members of the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP).
G2 and NABP will also be participating in and sponsoring the MAC Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, this March. The conference will highlight issues on risk, compliance, and security. To learn more about G2 and the NABP`s mission, please stop by their booths at the show, or contact info@g2llc.com.
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) is the impartial professional organization that supports its member state boards of pharmacy in creating uniform regulations to protect public health. Founded in 1904, NABP aims to ensure the public`s health and safety through its pharmacist competence assessment programs, license transfer and verification services, as well as through pharmacy inspection and accreditation programs. For more information, please visit www.nabp.pharmacy.
G2, a Verisk (VRSK) business and division of Verisk Financial, has been the world leader in merchant onboarding and monitoring since 2004. Every 30 seconds, clients using G2 discover suspicious activity, such as fraud, illegal medicines, illicit drugs, counterfeit, transaction laundering, and other violations. G2 clients leverage the most complete merchant risk data ever compiled for greater protection and productivity for their businesses. Risk professionals gain insights, refined by machine learning and expert analysts, along with unparalleled client service-all at enterprise scale. To learn more, visit www.g2llc.com.
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This post will show you how to form the Present Perfect Progressive. To see how to use the Present Perfect Progressive, click here.
With the Present Perfect Progressive, also called the Present Perfect Continuous, there are are two auxiliary verbs “have” or “has”, and “been” plus the main verb in its “-ing” form.
I have been studying all week.
You have been sitting at the back of the class.
She/He/It has been exercising at the gym.
They/You (plural) have been reading that book too.
I have not been studying very hard.
You have not been playing soccer these days.
She/He/It has not been raining all day.
We have not been experiencing any problems.
They/You (plural) have not been eating at home lately.
Have I been working for an hour already?
Has she/he/it been getting enough sleep?
Have we been driving in the wrong direction?
Have they/you (plural) been lying to us all this time?
We do not use contractions with short affirmative answers.
Where has she been going after school?
Why have we been skipping school?
How have they been doing?
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Here’s what I’m getting at: Your kitchen should function like a well-oiled machine. When you’re in the middle of frying, stirring, flipping, and trying to keep the kids away from the hot grease, you don’t have time to be searching for utensils. An organized kitchen saves both time and children.
This kitchen project will be separated into three different posts, each focused on one step. Today, we will tackle the planning stage.
Step 1: Make a Thorough Plan.
Since I love a dramatic, top-to-bottom makeover–maybe that explains my brief addiction to Botched–a kitchen redesign would be my ideal starting point.
And no, this doesn’t involve any power tools or sledgehammers.
Simply sit down with a pencil and paper, and sketch out a rough floorplan of your kitchen (including all the cabinets/drawers). Or if you really want to get precise, use floorplanner.com to create a free, digital floorplan.
Now, I want you to pretend like those cabinets and drawers are empty. A blank slate. It’s move-in day, and you’re starting fresh.
The important thing is that your categories cover all of your kitchen items. Be thorough; you don’t want to rework your plan later to squeeze in something you forgot.
Once you have a list of categories, it’s time to start on your cabinet designations. When figuring out where to place items, don’t make haphazard decisions. Consider the cabinet’s location, and what makes the most sense for your lifestyle. Coffee mugs/accessories in the cabinet above the Keurig? The kids’ dishes in a lower, more accessible cabinet? Utensils in a drawer next to the dishwasher for easy transfer?
Another strategy is to divide your kitchen into work stations. Assign one area for baking, another for prep work, etc. Place everything needed for a particular task in cabinets within arm’s reach of that station.
Consider placing rarely used items in upper cabinets or the top shelf of your pantry. Save the valuable real estate for the tools and dishes you need regularly.
However you decide to approach it, pencil in each cabinet’s contents on your kitchen sketch. Try grouping similar categories (e.g. my baking sheets and muffin tins or pie pans and Pyrex dishes) into the same cabinet. This may require a little erasing and rearranging until your plan comes together.
Here’s some of the thinking behind my storage decisions: I keep my porcelain dinnerware near the dishwasher so I don’t have to travel far with them. Pots and pans are kept in a lower cabinet to avoid heavy lifting. Dish towels are folded in a drawer by the sink for ease of access.
Basically, anything that avoids any unnecessary movement on my part is a win. When it comes to cooking, I don’t like to linger. I’m not a “pour a glass of wine and make an event of it” kind of chef. I’m more of a “let’s slap something edible together and get to eating” type.
Now, it seems every organizer has a different opinion about the “right way” to set up a kitchen. Some insist on storing drinking glasses by the dishwasher since you put them up one-by-one (rather than stack them like plates). Others maintain that the most convenient spot for cups is by the refrigerator.
Go with what feels right for you. I break plenty of “cardinal rules” in my kitchen. For example, many professionals recommend storing spatulas and slotted spoons in a container next to the stove. Well, my stovetop is in the center of my kitchen island, which means my utensils would likely be knocked over by a stray backpack or bags of groceries or library books or stacks of toys. (Yes, everything lands on that island for some reason). So, I keep my spatulas on a different counter, and it works just fine for me.
Don’t store spices near the stove, dishwasher, or refrigerator. Heat, light, humidity, and air can degrade the quality of your spices. Instead, keep them in cool, dark, and dry areas such as a pantry or even the freezer (in an airtight container). Here’s a comprehensive article about storing spices.
If nesting nonstick pans, take care to avoid any scratches in the coating. (Pans with chips or flakes have the potential to release toxic compounds). You might even consider placing a folded paper towel or square of nonslip grip between each pan.
And I know I’m stating the obvious, but if you have young children, store anything dangerous or breakable out of the kids’ reach (or install baby proof latches).
Next, take stock of any organizers you own. Rather than dropping a ton of money at the Container Store, try to use things already in your home to separate categories within each cabinet/drawer.
If you come up empty-handed, don’t despair. Consider it an opportunity to let your creative juices flow. Look past an item’s intended purpose. For example, give new life to your recyclables: Cut boxes down to the correct height to group spices (the ends of cereal boxes work well for this) or cooking utensils. Another idea for a cereal box: cut it at an angle (like a magazine holder) and store Tupperware lids inside. Extra credit: Cover the boxes in giftwrap, contact paper, washi tape, or scrapbook paper to pretty them up.
Take advance of your vertical space with stack shelves.
Use a Lazy Susan to group small items and allow for ease of access. If you want even more bang for your buck, try a tiered turntable to add storage space.
In case you’re wondering, those slender, white organizers are cheapies made by Mainstay. I use them everywhere–in my desk for pens and pencils, in the bathroom for toothpaste and floss, and in the kitchen for my overflow cutlery.
Thanks so much for reading! I have been enjoying your blog as well!
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Are you one of those people who spent a long time to select your hairdresser? I know you want to look good, but hair grows out if you get a bad cut. Take at least a few moments to think about the source of the food you put in your body.
Knowing your farmer is an easy way to be sure about the quality of your nutrition. You can understand how that food was raised, what methods were used, and as you prepare it yourself, take pride in how you are helping keep yourself healthy!
This entry was posted in consumer demand, education, Local food, local food stystem, nutrition and tagged health, local economy, local farms, Local Food, nutrition. Bookmark the permalink.
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Strawberry picking is amusing to most of the people and one of the best strawberry-producing farms is located in the prefecture of Chiba; in a city named Sammu.
It is not nessesary to make reservation for small group less than 20 people. Please make note that all of customer need to visit our farm following our rule “first come, first served first-come basis”. This is not only our rule, but most of fruit farm have this rule routinely.
Copyright © Weblog -Kawatsura Strawberry Farm in Chiba, Japan- All Rights Reserved.
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Intervju med spökjägaren John Fraser. | Magi, mystik och det okända!
Intervju med spökjägaren John Fraser.
It´s so great to get the chance to talk to you. I really loved your book and I recommend it to everyone. Would you describe your inspiration and why you decided to write it?
Hi to you Magic, great to talk to you as well, I came across your blog in Swedish recently about my book – and when I put it in auto translation part of it when literally translated complemented my book on its ‘smelly humour’ which gave me a laugh and made me get in contact with you . If only to find out what ‘Smelly Humour’ in Swedish actually means?
As for what inspired the book – at the time of writing there were so many around about haunted places but few if any published in the UK about Ghost Hunting itself . The USA ones that existed seemed to mainly be about equipment . One even recommended taking a Geiger Counter for Radio activity which seemed to be missing the point . So i decided to brush the cobwebs off my old notes and write something more realistic – the premise being that Ghost Hunters are like old fashioned Alchemists not fully scientific yet – but then again Isaac Newton was an alchemist before discovering gravity – so don’t totally write us off!
The second premise in the book is that Ghost Hunting is something fascinating and far more mind opening than simply sitting looking at measuring equipment when we don’t really know what a ghost is .
Hopefully the book succeeded in its aim ?
It sure does! Do you have any plans on writing more books about the paranormal in the future?
I have started writing another book concentrating on ‘Poltergeists’ those strange noisy entities that seem to have the power to move objects move or communicate by tapping and generally make a nuisance of themselves . Interesting twists here include the fact that what Eastern Europeans refer to as Vampires actually have a lot of Poltergeist type behaviour – something I discovered on my numerous visits to Transylvania Romania – but that’s another story !! The point being of course if the phenomena happens around the world , it is far more likely to be real .
The main premise of this book is that whilst its impossible to really prove or disprove the apparition type ghost which might just be hallucination – if something is thrown or moved, and trickery excluded, the long neglected poltergeist is far more easy to be shown to exist.
Now I say long neglected Poltergeist as at least in the UK I can see no major book published since the mid 1980s when Colin Wilson Published “Poltergeist – a study in destructive haunting s ” which I would very much recommend – (at least until any further book of mine is published).
Tell me what your first ghosthunter experience was like?
That I guess was the rather personal trip I took to a ruined cottage at Sandwood Bay in the North of Scotland , chosen for the fact that it was four miles from the nearest road and surrounded by marsh land – which whilst not very scientific gave me the very personal experience of being trapped in a haunted house for the night – literally . Whilst not much paranormal happened I researched the place and sent some theories to the writer Peter Underwood who invited me to join the Ghosts Club – a great old establishment founded in 1864 . From there I subsequently joined the Society of Psychical Research(SPR) – a ‘much newer’ body founded in 1882 and have been lucky enough to sit on its ruling council for about the last 10 years. So while Sandwood Bay was just really a personal dare – it did also get me involved.
What advice would you give to someone who is curious about going on ghosthunts but doesn´t know where to start?
For Swedish natives I am a bit short on advice about local Ghost hunting groups . there are however a couple of university parapsychology courses one run by Professor Adrian Parker who I know fairly well as a fellow council member of the SPR . Here is the link below .
The Ghost Club my first main organisation sends out excellent publications to its members abroad at discounted membership and has monthly meetings in London should anyone be passing through. I believe the rate is £25 which the way things are going would barely by a round of drinks in an average Swedish bar .
What is your favourite piece of ghost hunting equipment?
That thing between our ears commonly know as the brain . Any other equipment is speculative. That is not to say don’t use it but the first thing to remember is we can’t really be sure if ghosts in a paranormal sense actually exist – and if they do what they actually are. So in all cases of investigation we need to keep on our critical thinking head .
I share the view that ghosts (if we believe they are the spirits of the dead) should be no more dangerous in general than random people we meet on the street. But with that said, have you ever had an experience with the paranormal that has really frightened you? Something that has actually felt dangerous or evil?
Magic – I sadly have no special magical psychic powers and have described myself as being about as psychic as a brick. So any evil presence would probably go unnoticed by me. I have heard the odd strange footsteps sound and seen doors opening for no apparent reason but nothing that has made my hair stand on end . Saying that I do know many who have – I have recently been doing an in depth study into the case of a mother who lived in an converted prison in St Osyth Essex UK , who got so unnerved by the phenomena she actually had to move out . There are enough cases like this to take the paranormal very seriously indeed.
Do you you think it would be a good or bad thing if we ever actually got hard scientific proof that there really is an afterlife?
Who wants to live forever? I’d give it a try – so the answer is a definite yes! But I get the feeling that there’s only one way to find out for sure – so I guess I wont be finding out for a few years.
Final question just for fun: Ghost Hunting is very common in popular culture. Is there any movie / book / tv-show that you think actually gives a kind of good depiction of what a real paranormal investigation is like?
Paranormal investigation is a bit like fishing lots of waiting and then something exciting suddenly happens – many people like fishing but there has never been a film about it – the excitement anglers get is just not visual. Likewise no film has truly mirrored a real paranormal investigation . As for TV shows -in the UK Shows like ‘Most Haunted’ have made many behave like the show – rather than the other way round .
Half the fun of investigating is the research – i love tracking down witnesses that corroborate what others have said . That fascination is never going to be conveyed by any media.
Big thank you for joining me on my blog and sharing your ghostly experiences!
I hope your readers will get something from it – and if the odd bit of ‘smelly’ humour has been added so be it?
Köp hans bok HÄR och besök The Society for Psychical Research HÄR.
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2019-04-21T06:54:45Z
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SOCHI, RUSSIA (via Knitting the Blues couch): The ravthlete at Knitting the Blues enters the second week of competition a little behind in the standings. While the grey blob is completed and not part of the competition, it did hinder her ability to focus on the task at hand so the purply-pink blob, her entry into the games, has suffered. Added to that is the fact that KTB took an entire day of knitting off, just watching the time slipping by and all the time thinking that this is not what she trained for. Total procrastination. Okay, there may be a significant body of evidence that would prove that maybe she did train, good and hard and has achieved a certain mastery as a matter of fact, for any event involving procrastination and as soon as there is an Olympic event, she assures this reporter that she will go for the gold. In any case, the following day was spent away from her venue and out in the world taking care of other commitments.
Although it has been a rough start for the knitter, she has said that she is back in it to win it and hopes to make up time this week. To that end she spent a good amount of the weekend in active participation, watching Olympic Ice Hockey (go USA!) and Figure Skating. Those sports can be particularly distracting, but during other sports she seems to surge ahead on the lace blob.
"Yes, the grey blob was a lot easier to work on because, you know, garter stitch. I didn't have to look at the work and it went quickly. Knitting from lace charts that don't repeat themselves takes a little more concentration than probably would have been recommended for competition, but I've been training in lace knitting for years and can fall back on that training to get my fingers and mind in the right place competitively speaking."
There have been a few setbacks though. They involve the technical part of the event and while her choices may not have been made by all, she stands by them. The pattern she is working suggests beginning with a provisional cast on with double pointed needles, but she had circular needles to hand and went with magic-loop and made a tactical error when she worked the set up section from the written instructions instead of the charted ones. She knows from her vast experience that visual cues work better for her and this decision cost her, there were many yarn overs missed and picked up a couple of rows later. Unfortunately, this resulted in some tight and tiny holes, but she continued on.
"I'm not worried, because really. Who will notice them at all when the most adorable grand baby in the world is wrapped up in it? Makes you wonder why bother with anything fancy at all, but that is what knitters do."
Once that chart was completed she was instructed to put the knitting on a 16" circular needle, which she doesn't own and doesn't like, but the magic loop was not going well either, costing her precious seconds on the clock. In an unprecedented (not really) move KTB decided to go with two longer circular needles, a method she is very comfortable with, but she was anxious to move onto one circular needle in the round.
"What a relief when I finally got to that place! Even though I work well with the methods mentioned, they can be fiddly and I was thrilled to get onto one needle and start making up time! Pride went before the fall though and I made a huge tactical error. The two circs that I was using were different lengths and had contrasting cord colors. Let's name them RC, which carried the stitches of the first half on them and BC, which held the second half. Maybe it was a burst of adrenaline when the moment finally came, but after a few rows of knitting on the one needle I realized something was very wrong with my sled, uh, I mean knitting. I won't get into the knitty gritty of it, but after losing many minutes to trying to figure out what the heck had gone wrong and wondering why none of my usual fixes were getting my skis back on course making it right it hit me like a rogue bobsled! When I switched to one needle I worked across RC and then knitted the stitches from BC onto RC, but distraction and lack of awareness in the moment (which is what distraction IS!), I marked the beginning of the round at the half way point. No really, did you hear that? I marked the beginning of the round in the wrong spot. At the half-way around spot. So I knitted one row once around and then again half way around, beginning the next row at the half way point of the work. Had I been paying attention to my knitting and not Women's Luge I never would have made that mistake. I owe it all to my training that I was able to get back on track in the time I did, only tinking back a row was necessary, but a couple did have to go and a tink back of another half sort of in the middle of the work."
She went on to say that this, of course, happened late in the night and she stayed up later than she wanted, fixing the error and finding her footing. She has been careful to get the rest required for this vigorous event and hopes this isn't too much of a setback. After two more days of this grueling Olympic long event, she is digging deep, making good progress and should be able to catch up to the competition and back into medal contention.
"I just have to be more in the moment, less distracted by the glitter and noise of the Olympics and focused on what I know I am capable of. I just want to know that when this is all over that I've done my best, not only on this project, but in balancing it with the rest of my life. In the end it isn't about this medal, but about having appreciation for my entire journey and looking forward to life after the Ravellenics."
Tomorrow is the big day and the question that begs to be answered is this: How did a person who by and large was about to ignore the ravelry joining thing altogether end up being a team captain?
Somebody is going to pay for this (Lisa) (boxerknits on ravelry, just so y'all know).
JUST KIDDING. I'm more excited about this than I would have thought I could be, we have a small team (feel free to join), but what we lack in membership we make up in.... yarn? Yarns have been wound, project pages made, knitting needles sharpened. We're ready!
Alright. Enough of that talk. I'm starting to sound like a cheerleader. My teeth hurt from all that sweetness and light! I almost cast on this morning thinking that the opening ceremonies were tonight (Thursday), but luckily, after winding my yarn into balls and printing out my pattern I realized that nobody seemed to be casting on yet. There were no joint cheers or countdowns... Yikes! So Friday morning at 11 it is, although, I feel as if anybody started tonight they get a pass because there is actually Olympic competition that started today. I missed it though, did we win anything?
That is my Ravellenics project. I might not post much about it here, because I want there to be some surprises for Baby Beagan, but you ravelry people can keep track of my progress on the project page. (See! I told you I was ready!) I'll try to remember to take progress photos along the way.
And of course, I'm not done with the grey thing. Ugh.
Eight. Speaking of the Olympics coverage, what is up with Bob Costas' eye? Eww. I hope he isn't in one of those hotels with tea colored water that you aren't supposed to use on your face and then caught something really creepy from it and it spreads to his other eye and then down his cheeks to his lips and into his ears...... But wait. It is Bob Costas after all. I mean.... I wouldn't actually WISH anything bad on him, but let's just say I wouldn't miss him. I'd like Meredith Vieira in his spot a whole heck of a lot better!
Okay, a fly-by. Some of the women who show up during the week to knit with me and listen to me go on and on and on about swatches (I mean, seriously. You have to knit one! Sorry, but I'm gonna make you!) and sometimes learn from me wanted to participate in the Ravellenic Winter Games 2014. You know, NOT the Ravelympics (shhhh, no such thang!), but happening concurrent to the Olympic Games. That.
So with the help of Lisa aka boxerknits we have started a team that is open to anyone who might want to participate or watch and laugh cheer the Doozer Knitters on! This is serious business, people! We have a ravatar!
I made that! It's a little rough, but it'll do the trick, right? And you know what else?
We were stumped for a name until I found that video from Fraggle Rock, one of Jim Henson's best efforts ever, and it sealed the team!
So, like I said, we are open to anyone. If you were thinking of trying to get something done during the games, join us! We are the most laid back team ever. As in, do whatever you want and expect little from the captains. We'll do our best, but mostly? You might be kind of on your own, the most I can promise is that I'll be knitting, too!
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This is wheel section ripped from the coupe. The red numbers are the width for the right rear tire, the blue numbers are the width for the left rear tire. The game reads the pairs of numbers backwards; the 80 position changes attributes in small steps, the 3F position changes attributes in larger steps. Unless you want rediculously fat tires, you will probably only need to increase the 80's.
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When there was only darkness!
The Nón lá, the vietnamese rice hat. This style of hat is used primarily as protection from the sun and rain. When made of straw or matting, it can be dipped in water and worn as an impromptu evaporative-cooling device. By its diameter of 40 cm it also covers the average size of a shoulder from snakes falling out of trees. Hmm, good to know.
There may be nine million bicycles in Beijing. There may be in average two cars washed every saturday somewhere by one family in the western world. There are scooters in Vietnam. A lot! Not to express your lifestyle. Not just to cruise around. Just to let the vietnamese world spinning around. A world with wonderful people. Does this millions and millions scooters seem like a flood of anonymous vehicles? This is not about the scooters. This about the million individual stories of the people who ride it!
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Subject: Thank you so much for your blog and PDF files. That was the whole message.
So I wrote back, "You're welcome."
Again, Thank you so much, M"
Needless to say, this made my day. The link is below.
It really means a lot to me to that my stuff is helpful enough for someone to actually write and tell me so. When the first version of this essay came out, one VA therapist wrote me that her WWII combat vets had had their first good Christmas since the war! Hope my readers find it helpful too.
I also got a call a few months ago from a guy who had read my Suggested 12 Step Format for Veterans Family and Friendshttp://www.patiencepress.com/patience_press/PTSD_Help-12_Steps.html and thought it was brilliant. He called me a few days ago and the first meeting of Combat Vets Anonymous will be January 8th in Pennsylvania. I am sooo happy about that.
You know, since reading that book on the longbow, I do wonder if any soldiers of that age suffered from 'arrow shock'- Shakespeare's Falstaff might be an example.
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I’ve been finding it a frustration for a while now that the standard WordPress editor that I use seems to have an inherent dislike for Greek – saving a draft through the visual editor returns Greek text like this: ??????. Useless.
As a quick workaround for this, you can type in unicode (α β γ δ) which produces α β γ δ etc.
This is fine for the odd word, but for sentences, or even paragraphs, it’s nothing short of a big hassle, not to mention time consuming.
I’m sure there are lots of tools out there which would help you to bulk convert text, I have recently discovered Unicorn. This is a simple text editor for use with Latin, ancient Greek, and Hebrew text. It also has a integrated Latin and Greek dictionary and runs on the Windows, Mac OS X, and all varieties of Unix.
Unicorn supports keyboards for Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. You choose the keyboard you want from the menu with a Edit|Change and press the Escape key twice, the background of the editor turns Green and you can type in Greek.
1. Find a big chunk of biblical greek.
I love using The Resurgence Greek Project for looking up verses. I was able to look up 2 Cor 5:17.
To do this you highlight the greek text and click on Tools|HTML Escape Codes.
This triggers another window to pop up with 2 Cor 5:17 in Unicode.
… and there you have 2 Cor 5:17 in Greek with all the diacritical marks as per below!
If you’re viewing this post in a web browser which isn’t displaying the greek text properly, please let me know by leaving a comment below. You might first find it helpful to try and install a greek font and see if that helps. Here are a whole load for you to try.
Internet Explorer has some problems when it comes to displaying polytonic Greek Unicode text. Unfortunately users of versions 6, 5.5, or 5.01 may see little square boxes instead of accented vowels. If this bothers you, you can update your stylesheet (often called style.css) to use any of the following fonts: Palatino Linotype, Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Grande, or Gentium. The vast majority of users should have one of these fonts available!
… and then put any text you use within the “greek” class.
You may also be interested to read my post on converting betacode to koine Greek as you type.
A quick post to say how much I have been appreciating Tom Halladay’s DriveTime Devotions. He squeezes a lot of helpful stuff into 10 minutes!
Our church is currently looking at Mark and, coincidentally, Tom has just started his 10 minute devotions on the same book which compliments our reflections greatly. Tom’s devotions will take you through the Bible a book at a time, a chapter a week, listening to a ten-minute devotion each day.
Tom Holladay is a teaching pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California.
Check them out at the Saddleback Drivetime website or download the podcast directly from iTunes.
Thanks to Peter Ould I’ve been enjoying Rowan Williams’ New Year Message.
Lawrence was a Christian minister in Rome in the days when you could be arrested and executed for being a Christian 1900 years ago. When he was arrested he was told to collect all the treasures of the church to be given up to the courts. He got together all the homeless, the orphans, and the hungry that the church looked after in the city, and presented them to his judges saying ‘These are the church’s treasures’….
What would our life really be like if we really believed that our wealth, our treasure, was our fellow human beings? Religious faith points to a God who takes most seriously, and values most extravagantly, the people who often look least productive and successful. As if none of us could really be seen as ‘doing well’ if these people were secure… One of the most damning things you could say about any society is that it’s failing its children.
His reflections on advent weren’t bad either.
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My dear friends and the couple behind Chus’ Life will soon be celebrating their wedding anniversary. It seems not long ago when Tiffany called me up to tell me she just started dating and in excitement, we planned for a date so that I could meet Michael in person. I was in my senior year of college and I remember being pretty gung-ho about grilling this guy and determining whether or not he’d be a good fit for my best friend. I was ready to grill him and to nitpick at his answers because I couldn’t have just anyone date my best friend.
I think what surprised me most was that Michael wasn’t the kind of guy I was expecting him to be when he showed up. He was rather quiet and reserved in demeanor; the questions that I had prepared to ask him resulted with simple answers and to be frank, I found his answers to be a bit disappointing due to the lack of detail (or what I judged to be rather general and unspecific).
I’ve been quite distracted lately, with my thoughts scrambling all over the place and my feelings going from very high high’s to low low’s. I ponder and mull over my life until my head hurts and the ending result is still unknown. I hate to admit that my heart has been battling much discontentment, fear, and anxiety.
In a few hours, I will be flying across the Pacific Ocean to another land, to a completely different culture than what I step out into every morning here in the States. In a way, I will be going home, since I will be reunited with family members that I have missed. It’s odd that while I have spent the majority of my short life so far in California, there is still a part of me that is deeply and strongly attached to my roots in Taiwan. I seriously love that land and its people.
When I am not lazy, I am a planner by heart. I like to plan out my days in my head, from what I will be doing at 8:00 AM tomorrow, to big goals that I aim to accomplish by the end of the year. I enjoy mapping out my schedule, and sometimes when I am bored, I will jot down what I envision my day to be in one-hour increments. Or, I will create checklists of things to do because I not only love planning, but I like executing. Being idle and not having something to do, not having set plans, makes me feel uneasy and restless. Even when plans oftentimes go awry, I am usually okay as long as I have anticipated beforehand that things might not work out, or at least have thought of a couple backup scenarios that might be just as satisfactory as my original schemes.
Does this make me sound crazy?
Anyway, my point is, I like when things go accordingly to my ways. When plans fall through, especially if it was something that I really wanted to do, I know it is God’s way of sanctifying me. When the unexpected happens and I don’t foresee the changes, I have no doubt that God is teaching me to stop desiring control and to submit to His Lordship.
In fact, I am learning this lesson as I type because my plans got messed up today.
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Tesla’s cars have always shown themselves to be super safe, and the Model 3 is no exception.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the arm of the federal Department of Transportation charged with reducing the number of people killed on US roads, yesterday released the results of the crash test for the Tesla Model 3: The car earned five stars in every category.
This perfect score is a welcome ray of sunshine during a (tweet)stormy stretch for Tesla. Also yesterday, Bloomberg reported that the automaker’s supply chain manager had left the company. But it’s hardly surprising. Without an engine to work around, Tesla’s engineers can essentially make the whole front of the car a crumple zone, and having the heavy battery just inches off the ground limits the risk of rollovers. Tesla’s cars have always shown themselves to be safe. A few years ago, the Model S proved so strong, the testing equipment broke before it did. The Model X SUV put up a perfect score in its latest exam as well.
In NHTSA's frontal crash test, the car is hurled into a fixed barrier at 35 mph, simulating a head-on collision with another car. The test uses a dummy representing an adult male in the driver's seat, along with a "small-size adult female" riding shotgun, and both are evaluated for damage to the head, neck, chest, and femur.
NHTSA’s testing measures how its dummies fare in four kinds of kabooms: a head-on crash, getting T-boned by another car, sliding into a telephone pole, and rolling over at highway speeds. Interested consumers can also scope safety scores produced by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, or IIHS. The independent nonprofit has not yet released crash ratings for the Model 3, but the 2017 Model S earned top marks in most categories. It missed out on being a “top safety pick," though, after it scored an “acceptable” on the tricky small overlap front test and its headlights were rated “poor” for providing inadequate visibility, especially on curves.
Those tests assess how the car handles crashing, but new technology is making it easier than ever to avoid the crunch in the first place. That’s why NHTSA and IIHS also consider the value and performance of “active safety” features—chief among them automatic emergency braking, in which the car can sense an imminent collision and hits the brakes on its own. Here too Tesla performed well.
The side pole crash test pits the car against a 10-inch diameter pole, which it hits at 20 mph. The dummy (in this case, a "small-size adult female" wearing a seat belt, is checked for damage to the the head, chest, lower spine, abdomen, and pelvis.
On IIHS’s front crash prevention test, the Model 3 and Model S each scored six points of out six—good for a “superior” rating—after successfully avoiding collisions at both 12 and 25 mph. (IIHS runs these tests separately from its more destructive crash testing, which requires five cars for any given model.) And last month, the Highway Loss Data Institute, a sister organization of the IIHS, found that Model S sedans with crash avoidance features reported fewer claims under property damage liability coverage (by 11 percent) and bodily injury liability coverage (by 21 percent) compared with older cars without the tech. While other automakers are steadily adding these features to their cars, Tesla puts them in every vehicle it builds, standard.
The side barrier crash wallops the vehicle with a 3,015-pound barrier at 38.5 mph. The results are combined with those of the side pole test to yield an "overall side star rating."
Musk insists the feature is a life-saving one, but his go-to argument relies on a dubious statistic that fails to separate the role of automatic emergency braking in preventing crashes from that of the sorta-self-driving system. (The number comes from Tesla data that shows a 40 percent drop in airbag deployments between model year 2014 and 2016 cars, after the automaker made Autopilot available with an over-the-air software update.) And when the National Transportation Safety Board started investigating an Autopilot crash that killed a California man in March, Musk got into a public dispute with the agency, arguing that critiques of the system are dangerous, for they could convince drivers to stop using a valuable safety feature. In May, Tesla said it would start releasing quarterly Autopilot safety reports. It hasn’t yet, and Tesla did not reply to a question regarding whether it would do so. But experts say the data's just not there yet to properly assess how the feature affects safety.
Tesla’s problems, though, have never come from its actual cars. Other from the occasional quality control issue, the automaker has enjoyed consistently terrific reviews from journalists and customers. We think the Model 3 is a tech-loaded blast to drive ourselves. Same for the Model S, same for the Model X. But that’s not enough to succeed in this brutal business, in which profit margins sit in the single digits, supply chains wrap around the world, and minor bottlenecks can prove asphyxiating. But if Tesla can get past its problems—the flight of executives, the tweet-induced lawsuits, the reported federal investigations, and the questions about production capability—it’s got the goods to be a smashing success.
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Mumbai: People living with HIV/AIDS are taking on drug major GlaxoSmithKline's efforts to patent its AIDS-medicine Combivir in India.
The Manipur Network of Positive People (MNP+), under the aegis of the Indian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (INP+) has filed a pre-grant opposition to GSK's patent application at the Indian Patent office in Kolkata. The pre-grant opposition has been filed for the patient organisations by Lawyers' Collective.
Combivir is the backbone of AIDS therapy and is used in the first-line of treatment, Mr Loon Gangte, a HIV-positive person with INP+, told Business Line. GSK's patent application is being opposed on technical and health grounds, he said.
Combivir is a fixed-dose combination of two existing AIDS drugs – zidovudine and lamivudine, technically that is not a new invention, Mr Gangte said. GSK officials were not available for comment.
A pre-grant opposition allows people to oppose patent applications filed by a company. A decision on the patent is given after the Patent Controller's office hears arguments from different stakeholders. Only recently, the Patent Office in Chennai had rejected Novartis' patent on cancer drug Glivec.
Generic or copycat versions of Combivir are available in India from drug-makers such as Cipla, Ranbaxy, Aurobindo, Emcure and Strides. They are priced at about Rs 1,100 per patient, per month. These drug-makers supply to patients to other developing countries too, he said. GSK's Combivir is not available in the local market, said Ms Priti Radhakrishnan of Lawyers' Collective.
But international aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) purchases it at about $237 per patient per year compared to the cheapest generic at $182, said Ms Leena Menghaney with Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines and MSF.
Generic competition has brought down the price on Combivir-clones. If GSK gets a patent, it becomes a monopoly and could control the price, Mr Gangte said.
Though the present product-patent regime in India may allow Combivir-clones to sell provided they pay a royalty to GSK, there is a risk of a price increase. There is no clarity in the law on the royalty to be paid. Either way a price increase is on the cards, he said.
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Trump, Mueller and the lessons of history: Special prosecutors "are incapable of saving us"
Will special counsel Robert Mueller indict President Trump for any of the numerous crimes the latter has plausibly committed? Almost certainly not. Will Mueller file a report with the Justice Department -- likely meaning Trump's incoming attorney general, William Barr -- that forms the basis for impeachment? Of course we don’t know that yet, but I wouldn’t bet the ranch on that outcome. In fact, I’d be reluctant to bet five bucks that anything in Mueller’s report will change the political calculus around Trump’s presidency, or hasten his departure from office in any way.
Almost everything University of Arizona law professor Andrew Coan had to say in our Salon Talks conversation was worth hearing. Coan is the author of “Prosecuting the President: How Special Prosecutors Hold Presidents Accountable and Protect the Rule of Law,” a fascinating study of the role played by special prosecutors in America’s legal and political history that could not possibly be better timed.
I think it's become really an article of faith among liberals that if Mueller's allowed to complete his investigation he's going to produce a really damaging report. I think conservatives secretly share this belief, which is why we see them attacking Robert Mueller so relentlessly. I mean, you don't typically attempt to destroy the person that you think is about to exonerate you. But I don't think we know enough to be confident that this report will in fact be as damaging as either side assumes.
Maybe that sounds like a buzzkill to many members of the anti-Trump “resistance,” but the message of Coan’s book is remarkably clear, even in his detailed study of special prosecutors past. In the most famous example, Coan provides a detailed and highly compelling account of how Leon Jaworski, the cautious and conservative Watergate special prosecutor, brought down Richard Nixon by naming the president as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Watergate cover-up and laying out a “road map” that would likely have led to Nixon’s impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate.
Across all these examples, circumstances, laws and political climates varied immensely, but in exactly none of them did the appointed outside prosecutor ride in on a white charger, clean everything up and dispense justice to all parties. It’s always politics, meaning public scrutiny and public vigilance, that decides whether special prosecutors are allowed to do their jobs and determines what sort of justice (if any) will be dealt to high officials accused of criminal conduct or corruption. That’s certainly what will determine the outcome of the Mueller investigation as well.
There is a strong upside visible here amid the confusion, Coan believes. The fact that special prosecutor investigations continue to happen and are allowed to proceed -- including this one -- is itself a testament to the enduring strength of our visibly damaged democracy. There is no doubt, in legal or constitutional terms, that Trump has the authority to fire Robert Mueller -- or that every previous president afflicted by a special prosecutor could have dismissed that person, limited his powers or crippled his investigation.
Nixon famously fired Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor who preceded Jaworski, a decision that did not end well for the president. Trump has clearly been itching to fire Mueller since virtually the instant the latter was appointed. Trump has rid himself of numerous other officials he believed were disloyal, including the FBI director and the attorney general -- but even the most rule-breaky, norm-scorning president in our history has been convinced by aides and underlings that the political cost of cashiering a special prosecutor is simply too high.
As Coan puts it, that illustrates the fact that “the American people are still capable of doing their job.” If we ever see a Mueller report, at the end of all this, and if it ever leads to something resembling justice for a manifestly corrupt president, that will be because we insist on it.
My conversation with Andrew Coan has been lightly edited for length and clarity. You can watch the full interview embedded above.
Andrew, we may need to investigate you for possible collusion with the Senate Judiciary Committee or the office of special counsel Robert Mueller. Given that these issues are in the news, especially with William Barr up for confirmation as the next attorney general, you could not possibly have timed this better.
It was just sheer luck. I assure you.
This book is, among many other things, a fascinating history of the role of special prosecutors in American history. I assume you began writing this after Mueller had been appointed to investigate Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, right?
I did. I started writing this book last February, so I was very well aware of the special counsel's current investigation. That was a big part of my motivation.
But the past history is definitely relevant, especially the history of the Watergate investigation and special prosecutor Leon Jaworski and the history of the Bill Clinton investigation, the Lewinsky matter, and Ken Starr -- whatever he was, a special prosecutor or an independent counsel. The terminology keeps shifting, which is something you talk about in the book.
That's right. "Special prosecutor" is a generic term that refers to any kind of outside prosecutor appointed to investigate the president or his administration. "Independent counsel" is a specific term that refers to a kind of special and especially powerful special prosecutor that existed for only 20 years, between 1978 and 1998, as the result of a post-Watergate law which was then allowed to lapse after Bill Clinton's impeachment.
Largely because of the Ken Starr investigation.
Because of the Ken Starr investigation, although also because of Republican concerns about Lawrence Walsh's investigation of the Iran-Contra affair. Each side had a reason. They could demonstrate exhibit A for why the special counsel, or the independent counsel as it was then called, had grown too powerful.
Could you possibly have imagined the current situation when you started to write this book? You've obviously studied this stuff; you understood what Mueller's brief was and what he was supposed to investigate. Could you have anticipated that he was going to investigate the president of the United States as a possible Russian agent?
Well, I think that has been on the table from the very beginning of this investigation. I think it's important to emphasize that we don't know yet what he has found in that investigation or even whether that aspect of his investigation remains ongoing.
The New York Times, of course, confirmed [earlier this month] that senior officials in the FBI opened what they call a subfile, a special investigatory file, to investigate whether the president was acting either wittingly or unwittingly -- there's another important distinction -- on behalf of Russian interests when he fired FBI director James Comey. When Rod Rosenstein shortly thereafter appointed Robert Mueller as a special counsel, then Mueller inherited that investigation. We don't know, since Mueller's operation has been basically leak-proof, whether that investigation remains ongoing or exactly what it has turned up.
I think it is fair to say that it is shocking and unprecedented to think that the senior leadership of the FBI concluded that there was sufficient factual basis to at least begin an investigation on this front. That's a pretty big deal.
I don't want to come off as overly partisan here, and I know neither do you. But doesn’t that make this the most explosive of all of the special prosecutor investigations? I mean, Richard Nixon was clearly going to be impeached and probably convicted in the Senate. But look: He covered up a burglary. No one ever accused Nixon of being the agent of a foreign government, wittingly or unwittingly.
This is potentially the most explosive special prosecutor investigation in U.S. history, but we're really not going to know the answer to that question until Robert Mueller files his report with the attorney general. It seems like that that attorney general will be William Barr by the time the report is complete. Of course, then there will be a question about what Barr does with that report.
As many senators pushed him on [at last week’s confirmation hearings], under the current special counsel regulations, which date all the way back to 2000 and the post-Clinton impeachment era, the special counsel is required to file a confidential report with the attorney general at the conclusion of his investigation.
That was in part a response to the perceived excesses of Ken Starr during the Clinton investigation. Ken Starr published a thick and salacious report on the Monica Lewinsky affair. He forwarded it to the House of Representatives and did not himself make it public. But Newt Gingrich and the House Republicans at that time immediately did choose to make it public, and there were a lot of people who thought that really didn't serve the public interest. There was a lot in that report which was simply of prurient interest, rather than legitimate investigative interest.
So in response to those concerns, the current special counsel regulations, drafted by Bill Clinton's Justice Department staff, require the special counsel to submit a confidential report. Then it's up to the attorney general, who is of course accountable to the president and will face significant political pressure to release this report, to make a decision.
How do you read what Barr told the Senate committee about his intentions with regard to the Mueller report?
It's a little bit hard to parse the testimony of William Barr on this point. He definitely made some strong opening commitments to transparency. He strongly suggested that he believe that the American people need to see a credible resolution to the issues that Robert Mueller is investigating. But he also would not commit to releasing the full report and offered various caveats about what he might disclose or not disclose, both to the public and to Congress.
I think that's basically a fair characterization. He's certainly an extremely careful lawyer. He served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush and as a senior official in the Justice Department for many years before that. He is, in many ways, one of the most qualified and experienced nominees to the position of attorney general.
On the one hand, I think it would be unwise to overlook the wiggle room that he has left himself, and it will be important for the public to be vigilant, if he is eventually confirmed, to make sure that he adheres to both the spirit and the letter -- and maybe the spirit and not just the letter -- of his testimony before Congress. Because he could adhere to the literal meaning of what he said to the Senate and withhold substantial portions of the Mueller report and, in fact, exercise his supervisory powers over the investigation in various ways that would substantially hamper Robert Mueller's work. I think the hope has to be -- and public pressure will play a large role in determining whether this hope is realized -- that Barr really means what he says and that he lives up to the spirit of his remarks and not just the letter.
I've always believed that regardless of what the Constitution says or doesn't say it was extremely unlikely, bordering on impossible, that Mueller was going to indict President Trump for anything. You generally subscribe to that view as well.
That's right. There's a current Justice Department policy, first established during the Nixon administration and reaffirmed during the Clinton administration, that a sitting president may not be charged with or indicted for a crime. It's also quite clear that a president who has left office, because his term's expired or as the result of impeachment and removal by the Senate, can be charged with a crime. But as long as Trump is the sitting president, I think it is virtually inconceivable to imagine Robert Mueller indicting him for a crime.
To clarify that a bit, possible crimes committed while holding the office of the president would not be immunized once you are no longer president. Is that fair?
Well, it depends on exactly what the crime in question is. One of the things that got William Barr in hot water in the months leading up to his confirmation hearing was a controversial memo that he wrote in June of last year as a private citizen and sent to the Department of Justice, as well as the president's own personal legal team, arguing that a president cannot commit the crime of obstruction of justice when -- these are the exact words of the memo, I think -- he is "exercising the discretion vested in him in the Constitution." This would include things like firing the FBI director or ordering the FBI director to drop an investigation into national security adviser Michael Flynn for his role in possible collusion with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign.
On the views expressed in Barr's memos, the Constitution protects the president's ability to make those decisions for any reason whatever. So the president could argue that he was acting under his constitutional authority in taking those actions, if he were to be charged with obstruction of justice.
But just as a blanket matter, there is no immunity. There is no prohibition on the indictment of a sitting president for his conduct while in office, although it's never happened in American history.
One of the famous details of the Watergate scandal that always fascinated me was when Richard Nixon was named by the grand jury as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Watergate cover-up, which was the intellectual and legal compromise that Leon Jaworski and his team came up with. So the president was not directly charged with a crime, but was effectively accused of one. Now, as I learned from your book, current Justice Department regulations discourage that device and that language.
But here’s my question: Haven't we already come pretty close to that in the Michael Cohen case? Cohen has testified that when he made an illegal payment to Stormy Daniels, he was doing so at the bidding of the president of the United States. So while Donald Trump was not directly named, it strikes me that the unindicted co-conspirator in that case is perfectly obvious to all of us.
Well, the identity of the person that Michael Cohen says directed him to make the payments, referred to as “Individual 1” in the court documents, is perfectly clear. Everybody knows that is Donald Trump. But I don't think we've quite crossed the line of Trump being named as an unindicted co-conspirator. In some of the media commentary in the immediate aftermath of the sentencing memos that the Manhattan prosecutors filed, some eminent legal scholars said, yes, this is in fact amounts to the president being named an unindicted co-conspirator.
I think they overlooked one crucial fact. It's really close, and it's really damning for the president. But the sentencing memo does not address Donald Trump's state of mind, and that's a crucial element of these campaign finance offenses. It seems likely, based on the sentencing memo and on the statement that Cohen made when he pled guilty in this case, that prosecutors probably have sufficient evidence to establish that the president had a guilty state of mind and therefore did violate criminal federal campaign finance laws. But because this isn't a charging document aimed at the president, it does not directly address that question, which is likely to be the crucial one if these charges ever were to come before a court.
I note that Congressman Jerry Nadler, who's now the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has said he believes that is probably an impeachable offense, while adding that doesn’t mean Congress should impeach the president for it. There's a couple of ways to read that. One possibility is that Nadler is saying, well, let's wait and see what else there is before we go down that track, maybe something that's even more clearly impeachable is still to come. Or maybe he's just being cautious and factual: Yes, a campaign finance violation is clearly against the law, but it might not rise to the threshold of being worth trying to kick the guy out of office.
I think that's basically right. I interpret him as saying, look, this offense meets the legal threshold under the Constitution for impeaching the president. We would be acting within our constitutional authority if we impeached the president for committing this offense, if we concluded that there was a factual basis to believe that he committed it.
But the Constitution doesn't obligate the House of Representatives to impeach a president who has committed crimes and misdemeanors, or for the Senate to remove that president. It gives them the discretion. It imposes or creates a judgment call for both houses of Congress, and it's a very serious decision, one with enormous consequences for the country. I think it's probably wise for someone in Nadler's position to approach this matter cautiously, because, either way, however it comes out and whatever side you're on politically, impeachment is a wrenching process for the nation.
It's worth noting that no president has ever actually been removed from office through that mechanism. I suppose we all assume that would have happened to Nixon, but we can’t know that.
It seemed like a virtual certainty in Nixon's case. The writing really was on the wall. In the summer of 1974, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in United States v. Nixon and ordered Nixon to turn over those famous White House tapes, including the smoking gun tape which featured him ordering the CIA, through his chief of staff, to shut down the FBI's Watergate investigation, the House Judiciary Committee had already voted articles of impeachment out to the full House.
When they voted, 13 Republican members of that committee voted against impeachment. Several Republicans actually voted in favor of impeachment, which seems kind of remarkable today, but 13 voted against it, which was a majority of the Republican members of that committee. But after those tapes came out, which clearly showed Nixon trying to squash the FBI's Watergate investigation based on a bogus national security rationale, all 13 of those Republicans issued a public statement saying that they had changed their minds, that in light of this new evidence even they would have voted to impeach the president. That made it pretty clear to Nixon that he could not survive any longer, and he resigned very shortly thereafter.
It's difficult to imagine anything like that ever occurring with President Trump, isn't it?
There are some key differences between the American political landscape in 1974 and today. I think the most important is what political scientists call the hyper-polarization of American politics. This means that the American people and their elected representatives in Congress tend to see almost every issue through a partisan lens, and they see politics as a zero-sum game between the two parties. This makes it very hard both for individual voters who are trying to think about these questions and for members of Congress who have to worry about their constituents and a primary challenge in the next election, to really examine their conscience and examine the evidence and try to look at these things through a nonpartisan lens.
The other key structural change to American politics since 1974 is this populist moment that we're living through, in which the president has a direct and visceral personal relationship with a large subset of Republican voters, his base, his core constituency. This has allowed President Trump to transgress political norms that no other president could ever have gotten away with. Any Republican thinking about abandoning the president and voting for impeachment or voting to remove him from office is going to have to think about those voters.
On the other hand, what Watergate illustrates, I think, is that the American people are capable of changing their mind. When Richard Nixon was inaugurated for his second term in January of 1973, he had just won re-election by what was then the largest popular vote margin in American history. His public approval rating was 67 percent at the time of his inauguration. By the summer of 1974 when he resigned the presidency, his approval rating had fallen to 24 percent, which means, of course, that tens of millions of Republican voters had changed their mind about the president in light of the evidence unearthed by the special prosecutor.
Our political environment is very different today than it was in 1974, but I don't think we should rule out the possibility that something in Robert Mueller's report might be capable of changing the public's mind and changing Congress' mind.
How much or how carefully do you think Robert Mueller has studied the history of previous special prosecutors and the outcomes of their investigations? What lessons would you suspect he has taken from those?
Have you sent him a copy?
I have not sent him a copy. That seemed a little presumptuous to me, but I think he can find one if he’s looking for it. I think the principal lesson of this history is really not so much a lesson for Robert Mueller, although it has implications for him, but a lesson for the country, which is that special prosecutors like Robert Mueller are incapable of saving us from ourselves.
At the end of the day, whether the president is above the law is ultimately a question for the American people. I think we're having a moment like that right now -- really at this very moment, during these Barr hearings -- where public scrutiny has forced the president to nominate a basically credible attorney general candidate, and has forced that candidate to make some significant commitments on the record to allow the special counsel to complete his investigation.
As I mentioned earlier, there are certainly some reasons for concern about Barr as a nominee. Based on his testimony, he's left himself some wiggle room, as you would expect a careful lawyer to do. But I think the big takeaway from these hearings is that Barr has committed to allow Mueller to complete his work.
He has said, in response to a direct question, that he would not fire Robert Mueller without good cause, even if the president ordered him to -- that he would resign before he would take that action. That is a big deal, and I think we have gotten to this place, improbably, because the American people have been paying attention. Not all of them, of course, have been analyzing these issues through a nonpartisan lens. But enough of the American people have been paying attention that it has placed substantial pressure, even on this unorthodox, norm-smashing president, to allow these investigation to go on despite his own obvious desire to fire Robert Mueller, as far back as June of 2017.
It's really quite remarkable, when you think about it, that all this time President Trump has had the power to get rid of Robert Mueller, to squash his investigation. He is the most powerful man in the most powerful country on Earth, and yet Robert Mueller has managed to survive. The reason he's managed to survive is because even Trump knows that the political consequences of firing Robert Mueller or significantly interfering with his investigation would pose a grave threat to his presidency. That, I think, is an example, an illustration that the American people are still capable of doing their job, although there have been some really close calls and we're not out of the woods yet.
What do you think will come out of the Mueller investigation? What do you hope will come out of it?
I’m going to punt on that. It would be irresponsible to speculate on that question. But I will say that the reason we have these investigations is to find out what happened. I think that both liberals and conservatives have tended to think about this in the wrong way. I think it's become an article of faith among liberals that if Mueller's allowed to complete his investigation he's going to produce a really damaging report. I think conservatives secretly share this belief, which is why we see them attacking Robert Mueller so relentlessly. I mean, you don't typically attempt to destroy the person that you think is about to exonerate you.
But I don't think we know enough to be confident that this report will in fact be as damaging as either side assumes. There are a lot of key questions that we don't yet know the answers to. There's a huge amount of smoke here, and there seems almost certain to be some kind of fire. But exactly how big that fire is, who's involved and who started it, we really don't know yet.
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The Seattle Jazz Composer’s Ensemble presents: Composer Chat! SJCE talks with Seattle composers in their environments about music and the music making process. And we have coffee.
Following is Electric Circus (7:30 & 9pm) playing improvised grooves, samples, djing, mid-20th century pyschedlia to Halloween Cinema with an all-star band of improvisers led by Wayne Horvitz.
Two distinctive composers on the Seattle scene, clarinetist Beth Fleenor and trumpeter Samantha Boshnack, showcase their works for large ensembles in one of the city’s finest concert rooms.
B’shnorkestra will play promptly at 8:00 followed by the WE Ensemble.
B’shnorkestra is an alternative chamber orchestra featuring the compositions of trumpeter Samantha Boshnack. In August they released “Go To Orange”, their first CD release. At this show they will be playing pieces from the record as well as three new compositions. B’shnorkestra features; Joshua Kohl, Samantha Boshnack, Alex Guy, Alina To, Brianna Atwell, Maria Scherer Wilson, Daniel Mullikin, Tobi Stone, Chris Credit, Adam Kozie, Greg Campbell, Isaac Castillo, Tim Carey and Lalo Bello.
Hailed as “alternately buoyant and ponderous, transfixing and exceptional” (City Arts Magazine), Beth Fleenor’s Workshop Ensemble is a modular project that performs her chamber works. Grounded in learning and working Fleenor’s 20 Etudes for Blindfolded Musicians, WE also work in conduction and sonic meditation. Through the use of blindfolds to heighten full body listening/awareness, WE cultivate focused intention, highlighting that intention as a respected member of the ensemble, in a practice of non-visual, non-verbal empathic communication. For this performance WE will feature Michele Khazak (voice), Brian Bermudez (tenor), Chris Credit (bass clarinet), Sam Boshnack (trumpet), Naomi Seigel (trombone), Michael Owcharuk (piano), Geoff Larson (bass), Greg Campbell (percussion), Adam Kozie (drums), and Beth Fleenor (clarinet, voice, composition).
Wayne Horvitz’s “conduction” employing large ensemble plays the Earshot Jazz Festival tonight, in a double bill with an exceptionally beautiful young brass quintet: the Westerlies.
Really, any opportunity to hear Horvitz’s music is special, but hearing him compose in real time with this ensemble of stellar players can really be alchemical.
Composed as a conducted arrangement, spontaneously weaving together improvisation and written components, SILT is a meditation that seamlessly grows, climaxes, and diminishes over a 7-30 minute exploration of 8 interlocking parts.
Commissioned by the Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble and UMAMI Performance in 2012, SILT was created for music and dance to affect and trigger each other in real time, in a work that also stands alone as a sonic meditation. SILT achieves this through the use of Conduction or a form of conducted improvisation including set cells of material.
The Workshop Ensemble*, which was created to present this and other exploratory, intention based works – including practice in the Etudes for Blindfolded Ensemble – recently recorded this work as part of Jack Straw’s Artist Support Program.
After a brief talk about the blindfolded process, Conduction (Fleenor has studied & practiced various styles with numerous artists over the last decade) and other focusing agents, we will listen to SILT blindfolded and with the score.
*Workshop Ensemble (WE) are Michele Khazak (voice), Kate Olson, Brian Bermudez, Chris Credit (reeds), Sam Boshnack (trumpet), Naomi Seigel (trombone), Michael Owcharuk (piano), Geoff Larson, Evan Flory Barnes (bass), Greg Campbell (percussion/horn), Adam Kozie (drums), and Beth Fleenor (clarinet, voice, composition).
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In 1991 legislation known as the Forest Conservation Act (FCA) was passed in an attempt to preserve and protect our dwindling forests. Despite implementation of the FCA, forested areas within the Chesapeake Bay watershed continue to decline at an alarming rate. In an effort to offset this trend, Riderwood, since its beginning, has actively sought to be a good steward of the environment by preserving approximately 25% of its acreage in a natural wooded state. In addition, reforestation practices have been implemented to encourage indigenous plants and wildlife dependent on undisturbed habitat.
On February 20th, Maryland’s state legislature held hearings in an effort to strengthen the FCA. The objective of the hearings was to better preserve remaining “priority forests,” those areas of forested land covering 10 or 20 acres of contiguous growth. The proposed legislation would forbid the removal of priority forest without written justification and would require developers to preserve or plant at least an acre of trees for every acre of priority forest they cut down.
On the day of the hearings, a group of Riderwood residents, spearheaded by the Riderwood Sustainability Committee and assisted by partners at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, organized a group of passionate environmentalists to visit legislators in Annapolis and lobby their support to strengthen the FCA. Throughout the morning the group met personally with elected representatives, discussed their concerns regarding the future of the Bay’s forests, and requested the officials’ support of the proposed amendments to the FCA.
Unfortunately, the Maryland the General Assembly allowed the amended legislation to die on the final day of session. As amended, the bills had the support of the conservation community and opponents had withdrawn their opposition. Despite this setback, Riderwood’s Sustainability Committee and associated groups, such as Riderwood Residents Supporting Sustainability, will continue to advocate for state-wide laws that help preserve our environment, promote the sustainable use of the Bay’s resources, and reduce our carbon footprint.
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THAI cooking has no lack of pungent (note: this is subjective) but yummy food items. I don’t even classify durians—and especially Thai durians—within this category yet. Sator is one classic example, although the culinary use of these stinky beans is not restricted to Thais only as the Malays and Peranakans are also known to whip up superb stink-bean dishes (think prawn and petai sambal).
Another strong-smelling favourite of mine is cha-om (ชะอม) or acacia leaf. The tropical variant (Acacia pennata) of the acacia family, the leaves are commonly used in Thai, Lao and Burmese cooking. And these leaves can be quite a stink bomb indeed. When I brought them home from the market, the leaves stank up my kitchen and fridge, as though someone let off a vicious, lingering fart.
But offensive smells aside, the fresh acacia stalks mesmerised me to bits. The way Thai vendors handle their greens are often a showcase of ingenuity. For this cha-om bundle, a banana leaf was folded and wrapped around the stalk ends as a base, with a thin bamboo strip securely tied around as a clip.
However, closer inspection of these feathery bundles would reveal tiny thorns on the cha-om stems, so do exercise caution when plucking the fronds off the stems.
One of the best ways to taste the inherent goodness of this vegetable is through khai jiao cha-om (ไข่เจียวชะอม) or acacia omelette, which is very easy to make; the steps are similar to how one would cook minced pork omelette, for example.
[Recipe] Break the eggs into a bowl, add the plucked cha-om leaves and whisk the mixture. Add a pinch of salt and few drops of soya/fish sauce. Heat up some oil on the skillet on high heat, then pour in the egg mixture. Unlike typical omelettes which require a rather thin film to cook well, cha-om omelette should be rather thick and the mixture should come to a height of, say, 1/2 inch from the base. When one side of the the omelette is golden-brown, flip it over. When both sides are evenly cooked, remove the omelette from the skillet and place them on a piece of kitchen towel to absorb the excess oil. When the omelette is sufficiently cool enough, use a knife to cut them into square chunks or slices, depending on preference.
The offending smell would have disappeared by now, leaving a fragrant omelette of yellows, greens and browns. Serve the omelette on top of steamed rice, dunked into kaeng som (Thai sour curry) or dip them into naam phrik kapi (chilli dip). Whichever way it is, the omelette is guaranteed to be potent yet pleasing.
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2019-04-24T21:58:47Z
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https://xinfully.wordpress.com/category/southern-thai/
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You draw the blinds, silence the phone, and curl up in the tightest, smallest ball your aching muscles will allow. You wrap yourself in a blanket cocoon and let your body heat build around you like a bear hug. You shut your eyes and submit to the darkness, allowing the dreadful images you’ve been blocking all day to project onto the back of your eyelids, letting the words you couldn’t, shouldn’t speak echo in your ears—I’m a failure, I’m unlovable, I deserved it, I don’t deserve it, I could’ve done better.
You let the pain in your chest reach a crescendo until you’re wailing; pillow soaked, eyes swollen, lungs heaving. Your pain is poison coursing through your veins and extraction is the only antidote. So let it all out, you poor, precious darling. Let it ooze like an infected wound; let it stain like spilled wine; let it puddle on the floor amid the broken glass, what-ifs, and should-haves. I promise you this is the hardest part.
Maybe you stay here awhile. Maybe the pain comes in waves and, just as you might be steady enough to stand, the tide turns and crashes upon you with renewed intensity. Or maybe it’s just safer here for now, in your little cocoon that is both terrifyingly dark and comfortingly warm. Eventually, however, you stand. You stand because you have no other choice, because the water has finally calmed, because it always does.
With shaking legs and pounding heart you slide open the door of your dungeon and stretch your limbs like a blooming flower even though the world outside is still too menacing to bear. You strip naked, dropping pieces of clothing like a trail of breadcrumbs to the bathroom. The sudden removal of your only armor is jarring. You stand stationary in a scalding shower until your shoulders are raw and red, ruminating in the I’m-not-good-enoughs. I’m a failure, I’m unlovable, I deserved it, I don’t deserve it, I could’ve done better. You let your tears and pain mix with dirt and grime until the water turns tepid, watching the bitter concoction funnel anticlimactically down the drain. Maybe you dress afterwards, maybe you don’t.
In the days and weeks that follow, you do only what you must. Eat. Work. Sleep. Repeat. You do these things in a somnambulant haze, numb to criticism, questions, and sympathy. You see groups of people laughing on restaurant terraces, couples rubbing noses on the subway, friends posting pictures of themselves laughing and rubbing noses at parties you declined out of stubborn respect for your pain. You wonder how it’s possible to laugh and love in a world that can be so unfair. Worse, you feel anger and hatred toward the people who laugh and love, those with seemingly no understanding of your suffering.
You stew and you bark, condemn and complain. You marinate your memory of the tragedy in straight-ups and blood red wine poured with a heavy hand. You swap woes and lies with strangers at the bar. Maybe you go home with some of those strangers. Maybe you eat rich, hearty soul food in heaping portions until your belly aches. Maybe you watch hours of mindless television to stall sleep and evade silence. Whatever you do, indulge you poor, precious darling. Gather all your ammunition. You need your sustenance for what’s to come.
Because one day–in the middle of a week of sobbing, ruminating, and indulgence–you’ll wake to find a tiny flutter of hope where the pain usually resides; a little bluebird made of change waiting to take flight. Maybe you’ll take that glimmer of hope and use it to gather the trail of clothing and deconstruct the blanket cocoon in your dungeon. Maybe you won’t. Maybe some days you’ll feed your little bluebird with running or writing or painting or whatever outlet you had before the pain. And maybe some nights you’ll throw a blanket over his cage and beg him to quiet down.
You’ll do all of these things. You’ll do them until the good days outnumber the bad, until the should-haves and what-ifs turn into I-wills and I-ams. You’ll do them until you’re laughing and rubbing noses again. You’ll do them until your little bluebird is strong enough to fly; until you’re strong enough to let him. You’ll feel the hatred and anger dissipate, and maybe you’ll exercise a little more kindness toward those who snap and push, those whose suffering you don’t quite understand.
This piece by Samantha was also featured on Thought Catalog in November 2014.
I’m not sure it’s the bluebird of hope that gets most of us moving. I think it’s not being able to stand our mewling selves anymore:). Either one works!
Excellent and powerful piece of writing Samantha – and lol at Kay’s observation above 🙂 You’d wonder why humans were created with such a range of emotions which, at the outer edges, are almost impossible to control. Worse even than sorrow and the sense of failure is, I think, desperation. What depths of despair must people be in to risk their life on refugee rafts, to jump out of windows, to stowaway in the wheelhouses of jets? Great post.
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2019-04-26T04:43:46Z
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https://lucybird1.wordpress.com/2014/11/15/this-is-how-you-heal/
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My mini painting tray is possibly more badass than yours.
Some time ago, I saw an ad for a very handy looking miniature painting tray in an issue of White Dwarf, and got the brilliant idea to make one of my own out of one of the old ammo boxes in my garage.
Yes, I said ammo boxes in my garage. My in-laws used to have a gun store, and a business that sold ammunition at gun shows. A lot of the military grade ammunition comes in very sturdy containers, very often wooden boxes. Some of the deeper crates make great boxes for RPG books, and as it turns out, the shallow ones can be turned into very badass painting trays.
I lost my original tray in our house fire, but was able to grab an empty crate from the garage before we left for good. And since I recently got the initiative to start painting my Reaper Bones, I figured this would be the perfect time to put a new one together.
Experiencing a little painting tray envy? Thinking you’d like to have one of your very own? Check your local gun stores or surplus shops to see if they have any empty wooden ammo crates. Our store had so many lying around that we usually just gave them away to anyone who wanted one. To make this one, I just pulled the screws out of the bottom of one of the long sides, carefully tapped the side out, and nailed it to the top of the opposite side for a shelf. Some other crates I’ve seen do not have the dovetailed sides, so you may need to get a saw involved – and sanding all exposed surfaces is probably a good idea to avoid unwanted splinters.
The handles on the side make it easy to cart around when the family wants me to surrender the dining room table for dining or some other such nonsense. My old one had a small clamp lamp on the side, so I’m on the hunt for a replacement, as well as something to keep my brushes and files from rolling around.
And there you have it, my utterly badass painting tray, which is possibly more badass than yours. But, y’know, that’s really just a matter of opinion and stuff.
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2019-04-26T11:50:56Z
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https://quixotist.wordpress.com/2014/02/
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The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You is the sixth studio album by American musician Neko Case. It was released on September 3, 2013 under Anti Records. The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards.
All tracks written by Neko Case, except where noted.
Carl Broemel – electric guitar solo on "City Swans" and autoharp on "Afraid"
Tracyanne Campbell – vocals on "Nearly Midnight, Honolulu"
Tom Hagerman – violin and viola on "Local Girl"
Jim James – backing vocals on "Night Still Comes"
Jon Rauhouse – trombone on "Ragtime"
Marc Ribot – piano on "Afraid"
Craig Schmaucher – chimes on "Local Girl"
Chris Schultz – sonar samples on "Where Did I Leave That Fire?"
Jacob Valenzuela – trumpets on "Calling Cards" and "Ragtime"
M. Ward – electric guitar on "Night Still Comes", "Man" and "Local Girl", vocals on "Madonna of the Wasps".
Martin Wenk – trumpets on "Calling Cards" and "Ragtime"
^ "Reviews for The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You by Neko Case". Metacritic. Retrieved September 6, 2013.
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2019-04-25T01:03:51Z
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worse_Things_Get,_the_Harder_I_Fight,_the_Harder_I_Fight,_the_More_I_Love_You
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Nintendo Labo has released, and it turns out my initial misgivings of the product have been dispelled; it is an absolute delight. Join me as I break down my impressions of this new Nintendo product, as well as my children’s experiences.
Spoiler alert, if you can’t tell from the adjectives being used, I REALLY liked it.
When the Nintendo Labo was initially announced I balked at the idea of the product, unsure how cardboard was supposed to hold up to repeated uses and not really clear on who the audience was. Some of that was Nintendo’s fault, for waiting until the day of release to post the prices for replacement pieces, and for not showing off the Toy-Con Garage earlier. However, in an attempt to curb my Nintendo fanboy tendencies, and not just think everything they create is pure gold, I adjusted in the opposite direction a little too hard.
In this case though, everything you’ve come to know and love about Nintendo is on full force, and applied in such a way that it makes a brilliant overall package. First up: the packaging. The logo, the colors they choose, the designs of the cardboard itself, everything absolutely nails it with the overall aesthetic of the package. If you see this box on your store shelves it catches the eye immediately, and all of it just feels so high quality once you get your hands on it.
The packaging is incredibly well done, and the whole thing feels high quality.
The software that acts as your instruction manual, alongside various mini games that employ the Toy-Con creations you will make, has way more charm then I expected. Sure, this is Nintendo, so perhaps I should have expected clever writing and goofy jokes, but instead I was pleasantly surprised by quips during the building process; whether they were telling me “Hey, take a break, you just built a whole ocean” or making some pun filled quip about my newest build, I found my children and myself smiling throughout.
When we first opened the package we were greeted by the software itself, which allows a child to put their name on the front cover if they so wish, giving the whole thing a decidedly DIY slant right from the start. Once booting up the software it makes you familiar with the product by having you build a very simplistic piece, and showing you how to progress through the instructions.
My son is a Lego manic, and I’ve built every sort of Lego, Megablox, and other off the wall model building toy you can think of, and these are by far the most clear instructions I’ve ever used. Interacting with the screen is amazingly intuitive, either using touch or the Joy-Con itself. With touch you can rotate the model to see it from every angle as you build, go forward and back at any time (with cleverly animated options), and fast forward through the instructions by stretching out the tab at the bottom of the screen that says forward.
We preferred building using the Joy-Con because the Switch can be a little wobbly on the kickstand, so simply holding A moves forward, Y moves back, the joystick rotates the model, and holding the ZR button and A fast forwards.
Some of these models can get a little complex, but the way the instructions present themselves made it so neither I, nor my children, were ever confused by them. That on its own is a feat, as my kid’s ages are disparate, my son being twelve, and my daughter being five. The pieces pop out easily, and everything is clearly marked as to where to fold and how.
Quick, take a picture. They aren’t fighting!
There is a consistency across all of the builds on what constitutes folds, and what items you throw away that makes it extremely easy to discern. Making a product that all three of us could easily engage with together is a fantastic first step that colors the entire experience, and is consistent throughout.
Our first build was the extremely easy RC car, which takes a total of about ten minutes. Once it is built you will slot your Joy-Con controllers into each side, and then go into the play menu. Here touching the screen on either side will cause the left or right Joy-Con to vibrate on that side, moving across the table in that way. Though it is very simplistic at first, the depth continues to grow as you press the center button, and realize that the little IR camera on the Joy-Con can see far more than you might have expected.
My kids got a kick out of that feature, using it to navigate with all the lights turned off and other such shenanigans, but ultimately when you have two of anything with siblings it came to the most reasonable conclusion play could have: they had to battle. Built into the functionality of the RC Car is the ability to press a bell that starts some fight music and a timer, and when one of the cars is knocked over it sounds a large explosion.
Her victory was absolute, she celebrated with a battle cry.
While these are neat little toys the real genius comes once it encourages you to click the discover button, which introduces you to three wacky characters with pun filled names, that breakdown in an easy and fun to digest manner how the RC car works. Then as you delve deeper into the topic you find out different variations you can do, and it instantly sparked my son’s creativity in building courses. You can even put it in a self-drive mode using IR stickers, and when the camera sees the sticker, it will stop.
The RC Car is just the simplest of the builds, we also tackled the house and fishing pole, and these were far more fun for me to build considering the complexity of some of them. It was a real treat to see these things slowly come together, watch the instructions encouraging my children to ask questions, and then reward them with an end product that they built. Seeing it come to life with clever software is just the icing on the cake with these kits, it is the discovery at play that is the real treat.
The fishing pole kit cleverly uses the inserted controller’s motion sensing capabilities to recreate a fishing experience, complete with a string dangling off the front of the pole. That string could have just been attached to something in the base section, instead it is attached to a device secured with rubber bands and it provides a resistance and springback due to the way it is built. Along with the vibration, the motion sensing, seeing the real string change into a digital one, and mimic its movement, it creates an arcade like experience in your home; one you built out of cardboard.
Told you I would take you fishing someday boy!
I truly fell in love with Labo while building and playing with the house, where the use of IR stickers really kicks off, and the why and how it works really started turning gears in my children’s head. Inserting one Joy-Con into the top of the chimney, it reads movements within the house itself. The Switch screen is nestled snugly in the front of the house, so as you insert these different attachments into the house with a little creature, they pop into existence and have different functionalities. Each combo of these boxes changes the game, and leads to a whole host of rewards for the little cyber weirdo.
It was charming, mind-boggling fun, and my children learned from it. The RC Car and fishing game were simple enough they were passed over immediately when the house was built. Several times now they’ve killed the Switch battery playing with it, and it was snug enough in the house I never felt worried about them breaking my Switch.
Which leads to the only drawback of the Labo product, and really it is down to the hardware itself. Originally I built these kits using the kickstand in portable mode, but what I found was after close to two hours building it was often so drained that we didn’t have tons of time to play before plugging it in. Since you can’t charge the Switch while the kickstand is down, that means you have to lay the Switch down. However, we just started building in front of the TV instead, using the Joy-Con to progress instructions. It gets around the battery issue, and while it isn’t quite as tactile or portable, it is an option if the large screen is available.
We still have two more sets to build, which are the most difficult and complex of the five you start with. I’ve been absolutely thrilled with the way my kids have engaged with Labo, but I also found myself smiling near the entire time we played. I was charmed by the instructions in a way I didn’t expect, and constantly delighted by the way Nintendo made the entire package so incredibly accessible. With the backups for repair being so well priced, I can’t fault the construction. While my children were careful–they are still children–and it is easy to get swept up when playing. However, after repeated play none of the items are any worse for wear, and I can see them lasting for quite a long time.
This is by far my favorite build thus far.
If you have children, or you simply want to have fun with an engaging and innovative product, then you absolutely owe it to yourself to get Nintendo Labo. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this makes the Switch far more appealing for families in a way it hasn’t before, and thinking about all the amazing things that Nintendo could do with it in the future is extremely exciting. When you add in the Toy-Con garage, which allows you to do light programming for your own cardboard creations, the fun extends far beyond the five projects included in the Variety Kit. When you’ve graduated from that, you can always buy a giant robot kit, because who doesn’t want to dress up like a giant robot?
The future is bright with Nintendo Labo, and all of the jokes about Nintendo selling us cardboard turned out to be completely true, especially if that cardboard is going to be so expertly crafted into a learning and play experience that delights the young and old alike.
Your kids are super adorable! I can’t wait for mine to come in the mail already!!!
Thank you! That one with my daughter makes her look like an insane person, but she was just owning her previous victory and calling a battle cry.
Haha if I had a dollar for every time my kids looked insane in a picture. When they’ve had chocolate, I come to believe it!
Ahhh now I wish my son was older so I have an excuse to buy this!
Just say you are investing in his future!
Actually, especially with the Piano and the Motorbike, I might have bought this for myself anyway knowing what I know. One day, I will jam myself into that giant Labo robot too, for sure.
Then again, I’m a huge child anyway, so take that as what you will.
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2019-04-21T01:10:23Z
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https://homebuttongaming.wordpress.com/2018/04/23/nintendo-labo-impressions-variety-kit/
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In 1901, the Portuguese royal family embarked on a visit to the island of Madeira and Azores. The event was a great honor for the local populations but presented them with a difficult problem: how do you choose a gift for monarchs who have everything?
The Azores Terceira island offered queen Dona Amélia a new cake made with local ingredients: corn flower, raisins, sugar cane molasses, and cinnamon. The queen enjoyed it so much that the new creation became known as the Dona Amélia cake.
More than a century later, the cake continues to be popular in the Terceira island and for a good reason. We loved the Donas Amélias we tried at O Forno, a great pastry store in downtown Angra do Heroism.
The ability of royalty to inspire the delicious Donas Amélias makes us wonder whether we should restore the monarchy.
O Forno is located on Rua São João in Angra do Heroismo, Terceira, Azores, tel. 295 213 729.
I like the look of that very much indeed!
Take it along on the trip!
And there is no gluten!
When will you be sending them over?
Welllll….I’d have to get to Portugal first. Though I might find a recipe… In any case, when I send them to you I will be certain to denote that it is a gift.
Also, I will need to get over the gov. of Florida who decided he wanted to decrease the bear population and allowed people hunt bears.
Oh dear! I have such mixed feelings about hunting. Most of me hates the idea, but there’s a tiny bit of me that understands the arguments for controlled hunting, especially when I see how overrun we’ve become by foxes since hunting them was banned. But hunting bears – horrible thought!
Gluten free. Sign me up!
First I have to see if I have a recipe for it.
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2019-04-26T06:01:54Z
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https://inmysecretgarden.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/a-monarchic-cake/
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The Start Low Go Slow (SLGS) methods described in Susan & Shadow's 5 Steps To Regulation doesn't bring all cats into regulation. If you have been using this method as described, but are not satisfied with your progress toward regulation, or if your cat is reasonably regulated but you would like to improve his glucose values, it may be time to consider adding new techniques to your toolbox.
This document outlines some techniques that are used to attain these goals.
Before you commit to trying this, please review 5 Steps To Regulation, and make sure you have been following the "Start Low Go Slow" (SLGS) program as described in this document. If you have not been running a curve every week or so and adjusting the dose based on the low value of the curve, it's possible that you haven't given the method a fair chance, or that you haven't found the right dose for your cat. But if you've given it a good try and you're getting inconsistent results or too-high blood glucose, some change to the standard protocol may be helpful for you.
You should be familiar with the basic theory of how food and insulin affect blood glucose levels, and you should have a good understanding of how your cat's blood glucose responds to the food and insulin you are using.
You should be comfortable hometesting your cat's blood glucose.
You should know how to recognize and treat hypoglycemia.
You should be testing regularly for ketones in your cat's urine.
You should understand the phenomenon of Somogyi rebound, and have ruled that out as the reason your cat is not regulated to your satisfaction.
You should be prepared to keep careful records of what you tried and how your cat responded, and to analyze them to find any patterns.
Consider the content of the diet. Cats on diets which are low in carbohydrates (around 5-10% of total calories) usually require less insulin than cats on high-carbohydrate diets. In addition, a substantial minority (around 1/3) of cats who were previously on a high-carbohydrate diet may end up not needing insulin injections if carbohydrates are restricted. There is now research indicating that Lantus (insulin glargine) may improve your cat's chances of being diet-controlled, especially if the dosing is aggressive. Caution: a low-carbohydrate diet may not be appropriate for some cats with health conditions such as chronic renal failure or pancreatitis; check with your vet to see if this diet is appropriate.
Once you become comfortable measuring your cat's blood glucose, it can be very helpful to keep track of how your cat's glucose levels respond to the food or foods that you feed him. For example, if your cat experiences food spikes, this may affect your decisions about insulin dosage.
Tight regulation. Keeping glucose as close to euglycemic (70-100 mg/dl or 4-5.6 mmol/L) as possible for as long as possible, and under 150-200 mg/dl (8.3-11.1 mmol/L) almost all of the time. This is a result, not a method in itself. This is a desirable goal for the good health of the cat, and the main obstacle to achieving it is the risk of hypoglycemia. A second obstacle is inconsistent response to a specific dose of insulin.
What it is: Giving insulin three (TID) or four (QID) times a day, usually regularly spaced.
Purpose: To create a smoother glucose curve with less distance between the pre-shot value and the glucose nadir (low point).
Who might use it: Cats who have a wide range of blood glucose values even on a very gentle insulin.
Advantages: Keeps glucose levels more stable over the course of the day.
Disadvantages: Labor intensive, requires frequent testing, more restrictive to your schedule than BID dosing, more expensive due to increased use of syringes and test strips.
What it is: Giving insulin when the cat's blood glucose goes above a certain amount after the previous dose has peaked and the blood glucose is clearly increasing, typically somewhere between 150 and 200 mg/dl (8.3-11.1 mmol/L), without regard to the clock.
Purpose: To keep glucose levels consistently in desirable ranges.
Who might use it: Cats who do not have a consistent response to insulin, and people who are attempting to achieve tight regulation with their cat.
Advantages: When the cat cooperates, blood glucose levels are kept in or near euglycemic ranges. A little more flexible than TID or QID dosing.
Disadvantages: Requires frequent testing both to determine when the previous dose of insulin is past peak, and when the blood glucose rises enough to require a new dose. May cause confusion if the previous dose did not lead to a clear glucose nadir. Potentially expensive due to increased use of test strips.
What it is: Giving small doses of fast-acting insulin (Humulin R, 70/30, or N), as an adjunct to the usual dose of long-lasting insulin (PZI, Lantus, or Levemir).
Purpose: To promote a rapid drop in blood glucose over a short period of time.
Who might use it: Cats who tend to have food spikes; cats who tend to have too-slow response to their long-lasting insulin; cats who occasionally don't seem to respond to their usual insulin; cats who are prone to adverse complications of high glucose, particularly ketones; cats who have a difficult time coming down from high numbers.
Advantages: Helps handle high glucose values swiftly and usually predictably.
Disadvantages: Requires keeping extra insulin around, may require extra syringes; frequent testing needed; risk of hypoglycemia if too much is given; may inadvertently be used when the real solution to the problem is to increase the dose of the cat's usual insulin. More expensive due to increased use of syringes and test strips.
Comment: Can be given with the regular shot, or between shots. Can be given regularly or on an as-needed basis. Dose can be varied according to blood glucose level.
Warning 1: In some cats, 1 unit of a fast-acting insulin can quickly drop their blood glucose by hundreds of points in a short period of time. It is crucial to start with miniscule doses and assess the action of the insulin by testing every hour until you have data on how much insulin you can safely give. This is a very dangerous technique if not properly used. Treat the fast-acting insulins with respect!
Warning 2: If your cat has diabetic ketoacidosis, she belongs in the care of a vet. DKA requires making sure electrolyte levels are balanced before giving insulin. Do not attempt to treat DKA at home.
What it is: Basing the insulin dose on the pre-shot value -- less insulin if the pre-shot is lower, more insulin if the pre-shot is higher.
Purpose: With usual insulin, to reduce the risk of hypoglycemia if the cat has an unusually low pre-shot glucose value. With bolus doses, to handle unusually high pre-shot values.
Who might use it: Any cat who has a low pre-shot number; users of the Dr. Hodgkins protocol; users of boosters (with the booster insulin).
Disadvantages: Reduced dose may lead to high pre-shot in next cycle for those dosing by the clock, or short duration for those using as-needed dosing.
Comment: Primary variations are: a.) having a standard dose for the cat, but giving less insulin if the pre-shot is unexpectedly low, and b.) varying the dose from one shot to the next as a general practice. Use of sliding scales may not be necessary with very slow-onset insulins, but that should be determined with data from your own cat, assuming that a reduced dose is necessary unless you collect clear evidence that it is not.
Comment: Needles are typically available in 1/2-inch and 5/16-inch lengths. For some cats, needle length has been shown to make a difference in onset and duration of insulin, possibly because the probability of inadvertently shooting into the fat layer is different.
Comment: Onset, action, and duration of insulin may be different if the injection is done at different sites. If inconsistency is a problem, you can try experimenting with injections between the shoulderblades, between the thigh and the side of the body, or at the abdomen. Do not inject into muscle: insulin injections must be subcutaneous. Injecting at the scruff of the neck is thought to lead to inconsistent absorption.
For more information on feline diabetes, check out Dr. Rebecca Price's FelineDiabetes.com (www.felinediabetes.com) and the FDMB Frequently Asked Questions List (binkyspage.tripod.com/jmpeerson/faq.html).
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It has been a year since the press conference announcing the formation of To The Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences and there is alot of summary recapping to do to get this Chronicle record caught up.
The 1st entries here will attempt to do that, but without so many of the distracting storylines and issues that many amateur journalists and researchers (like on YouTube and blogs) attempt to bring to our attention.
That public conversation Luis Elizondo wants us to start having, basicly examining the impact of ET visitation on us Sapiens, has not as yet taken hold. Despite intense media coverage for a couple of weeks after the big NY Times story on Decemver 16 2017, there are as yet no signs whatsoever of any such conversation.
Maybe when the attention-grabbing pig named Trump is removed, or resigns after a plea bargain, then maybe we will have enough O2 left in the room to begin a focus on this, together.
Right now, we have a 2015 survey of Americans by IPSOS to help us understand the current status of attitudes re: UFOs and possibility that there is, and has been, ET visitation.
While over 50% feel there are UFOs, that doesn’t mean folks necessarily think they are signs or indicators of an alien presence in our midst.
A significant plurality do, though, with 45% feeling ET visitation is a fact. It looks like about a fifth of Americans think we are alone overall while 79% do think there is life elsewhere in the universe.
Watching Tom DeLonge having to waste so much of his valuable time yesterday in addressing lazy and erroneous reporting of a $37 million TTSAAS debt, I realized that any significant recapping, beyond brief references, would be a wasteful use of this chronicle.
Instead I will focus on core and generic issues related to us adapting to or coming to terms with an extraterrestrial presence potentially existing in our sphere of existence here on this planet.
Duration:60 secondsI am a stay at home mom, who has never paid much attention to UFO’s.
Last Friday, my kids were still asleep in bed, when I awoke at 6 am. I was in the bathroom and it was completely dark outside. All the sudden I noticed a bright light shining in through a large window. The light was travelling slowly across the bathroom floor, which has 3 large windows in it. I noticed it immediately, as we live deep in the forest, far away from neighbors. Our house is located on 8 acres of forested land, and the bathroom is on the second floor.
I walked over to the window and looked up, and to my utter shock and amazement, I saw a gigantic rectangular shape moving slowly just above the tree line. The window was open, and I heard a low humming noise coming from it. I was awestruck as I tried to make sense of what I was witnessing. The craft was as large as a 747 airplane in length, as it slowly passed by. I couldn’t see any of the sides or the top as it was so low down and close to our home, less then 50 feet from the house. I could only see the bottom, which was filled with rows of red and white lights. There were 3 rows of glowing illuminated white round lights the whole length of the craft on each side, for a total of 6 rows. In between the white rows of lights were 2 rows of red glowing lights. The lights were dim, similar to car headlights pulling up in front of the house at night, but were clearly round shaped.
It was only one single craft, and due to its size and low flight above our home, it blocked out the night sky as it hovered slowly past.
I was frozen in the spot, and didn’t even think to run and try to capture the image on my phone, which wasn’t on me. At each of the four corners were red blinking lights. The shape was definitely flat and rectangular, like nothing I have ever seen in my life.
The craft glided by for about 60 long seconds, and slowly drifted out of my line of sight, over the trees. As it got further away, the lights turned to look bluish, and I could no longer see the detail of the round lights. I called my husband right away, as he had already left for work, and then I called to report it to the local police, who had not received any other calls and didn’t know how to respond.
I was very scared to witness this, and am still having a hard time coming to terms with it. I know it was much too large to be a drone of any type, and all other indications about its shape, sound, height, and movement prevent me from believing it was anything identifiable as man made.
2) to encourage disclosure of classified ufo related material.
After the revelations coming out first through the doors of the NY Times and onto countless TV news broadcast sets and into newspapers, it seemed at least a partial or beginning fulfillment of our goals had been met.
But, like noted in an earlier entry, the public conversation hasn’t started yet.
Since that is the case, we have to look at the fields of anthropology and psychology and historical studies in order to examine factors in us that suppress the start of a public conversation on this.
In an earlier entry I mentioned the analysis by “UFO Jesus” (young man named Ryan) at his popular you tube channel—thank God a sensible one.
He proposes that us sapiens as a rule are not free thinkers and require the “daddy” authority of governments worldwide releasing classified material to a greater and faster degree in order for this conversation to be jump started.
Fresh in the news is what seems to be some upcoming new revelations. Luis Elizondo and Tom DeLonge were just in Rome for a public conference presentation and TV appearance and also for private meetings with government and Vatican officials.
Am attempting to sort it out via chosen info sources on twitter.
A boo boo by Luis in his slide show, wherein he showed as real that famous lens flare photo wrongly used as a photo showing UFOs buzzing the capital bldg in DC in 1952, is causing yet another distracting stir.
TTSAAS will, for the second time in 11 months, will say “oops” and “sorry”, but undoubtedly some will waste their time and energy fixating on this.
As you can see, Ryan gets upset over these obstacles and the secrecy imposed.
Yet, it became clear to me, watching various folks try to jumpstart on social media activism efforts for disclosure, that almost no one was responding to attempts to apply public pressure for disclosure.
Maybe we should focus on the subject itself and perhaps stop wasting so much time on “coverup” issues?
Decades ago, Donald Keyhoe steered alot of ufological attention onto the question of government activity addressing UFOs, and presumably involving suppressing public awareness.
The road he paved became widened in the eighties with wild tales of deep government conspiracies and dark alliances.
All along we had all the Intel needed. But, how many have focused on taking the path pioneered by Coral and Jim Lorenzen?
The beings associated with this mystery have interacted with many people, or been seen in action by them.
PS: as predicted in an earlier entry, Luis Elizondo apologized quickly for his boo boo during a presentation in Rome.
artificial gravity inside the saucer. Rockets, they,were told, had tailed for ' space travel.
Source; Witness's letter of 9/24/56 to Donald Keyhoe.
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While investigating the murder of her fiance in Ethiopia, rookie State Department lawyer Jaqueline Quartermane becomes obsessed with a magical word square found inside an underground church guarding the tomb of the biblical Adam. Drawn into a web of esoteric intrigue, she and a roguish antiquities thief named Elymas must race an elusive and taunting mastermind to find the one relic needed to resurrect Solomon’s Temple. A trail of cabalistic clues leads them to the catacombs of Rome, the crypt below Chartres Cathedral, a Masonic shaft in Nova Scotia, a Portuguese shipwreck off Sumatra, and the caverns under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Intertwined with this modern mystery-thriller, a parallel duel is waged. The year is 1452. One of the most secretive societies in history, Portugal’s Order of Christ, is led by a reclusive visionary, Prince Henry the Navigator. He and his medieval version of NASA merged with the CIA scheme to foil their archenemies, the Inquisitor Torquemada and Queen Isabella of Castile, who plan to bring back Christ for the Last Judgment by ridding the world of Jews, heretics, and unbelievers.
Separated by half a millennium, two conspiracies to usher in the Tribulations promised by the Book of Revelation dovetail in this thriller to expose the world’s most explosive secret: The true identity of Christopher Columbus and the explorer’s connection to those now trying to spark the End of Days.
I liked Craney’s style of writing for the most part. However, I felt he had a tendency to over-dramatize the negative, especially by using unnecessary adjectives. In addition, I had a lot of issues with his portrayal of Jaq. In the beginning, she is portrayed as this pious virgin with a “Caribbean figure” and “luscious sable hair with wild Medusa curls.” If that isn’t sexist enough, she is engaged to marry a missionary who was “impressed enough with her potential for obedience” and voluntarily enrols in a Christian cult a.k.a. “rehab” just because her father-figure says so. I confess, what I know of evangelical Christians and “true believers” of any kind is heavily biased. But, if you choose to pit Muslims and Christians against each other in your story, why is the Christian made to sound rational in his piety and the Muslim a deranged lunatic, when it is understood that their faiths have largely similar origins?
In terms of historical content, it is obvious that Craney spent a great deal of time and effort researching the different events and characters that pop up in the course of the story. However, the descriptions often become long expositions and include a lot of obscure details, making them a difficult read, even though the reader knows they exist to provide context. Even the characters often rely on an archaic vocabulary to make their point, using words like ‘carnaptious’, ‘druthers’ and ‘troglodyte’, making the entire setting seem anachronistic.
Despite being based so firmly in real history, Craney never makes you forget the story’s a work of fiction with his conspiracy theories that border on the implausible. They don’t take anything away from the novel per se, and end up paving a truly epic path for the protagonists to follow. We get treated to secrets guarded by Prince Henry and the Order of the Christ, Queen Isabella’s hunt for them, the Spanish Inquisition’s lesser-known purposes, cryptographic tablets with orders passed on them, End-Time cults… all in all, things definitely worth suspending one’s disbelief for.
The balanced narration ensures that the mystery is exposed at the right pace, switching between the present and the past at the right times, with Craney revealing just enough to pique our curiosity while keeping the really jaw-dropping revelations until the climax. The way the whole thing evolves is rather reminiscent of Dan Brown’s style (or Brad Thor, as some prefer to compare), focused on keeping the mystery alive and prominent until the end, and perhaps even after that.
Overall, The Virgin of the Wind Rose is an enthralling page-turner that will keep you glued to the couch despite its flaws. It’s a largely logical and well-developed mystery and anyone who enjoys reading about globe-trotting treasure hunts will certainly love this book.
P.S. I was provided a copy by the author. The views expressed are honest and personal.
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Olaf is a two-year-old Retriever/Labrador/Mastiff mix who is a very loving fella. He gets along very well with other dogs. He’s smart and already knows basic commands like sit and to do his business outside. Olaf loves to play with tennis balls. He’s a happy-go-lucky guy that would be a wonderful addition to your family. He is neutered, up-to-date on his shots and will be microchipped. Fill out an application online or call 1-888-405-7221 or email info@cominghomerescue.org to schedule a meet and greet.
Are you snuggling on this Sunday? After a couple of days of the turkey haze, seems like a good thing to do.
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Thank you for your interest in Clergy Crate. Ordering is now open for Eastertide 2018. Sign up by 1) Filling out the form below AND 2) Paying using the appropriate link below the form.
Current pricing is $40 per crate for one mailing, $70 for two mailings, or $120 for a year (4 mailings). The four quarterly mailings will arrive approximately at 1) Lent/Eastertide 2) End of School Year 3) Beginning of School Year 4) Advent/Christmas.
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Topic, Topic, Who’s Got the Topic?
When I’m asked where I find my blog topics, I’m often at a loss for what to say. I rarely find the topics, they find me. Not only do the find me, they sneak up and whack me upside the head, they steamroll me, they ambush me, they climb in my brain and throw a party. Yes, sometimes they leave me alone, and when they do, I have to go hunting.
The uninitiated will call topics finding me “inspiration”. I call it “mostly annoying”. Usually when a topic jumps out at me, I can’t afford the distraction or I’m not in a place to do so much as write it down. By the time I am, it’s already left.
Once I have a topic, what then? I often have only a vague notion of where I think it’s going to go. Too bad it rarely works out how I think it will. In fact, most of my blog writing relies on momentum, not “inspiration”.
One of my techniques for topic-finding, when they appear to have abandoned me, is to ask friends on Facebook to give me a topic. As with improv, never say no. Take the first topic someone responds with and run with it. This is one of the advantages of an unthemed blog. The downside is it will never be an “authority” blog. I write for entertainment: mostly mine, though the growing number of ‘likes’ and ‘follows’ says other people are being entertained as well. If one day’s entry is boring or otherwise unsatisfying, the next is almost guaranteed to be a different topic, or even a different style.
I hope readers continue to enjoy and leave comments or discuss topics.
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Andy Rooney dies at age 92, CBS reports – Entertainment – Celebrities – TODAY.com.
A woman was walking along the beach when she stumbled upon a genie’s lamp. She picked it up and rubbed it. Lo-and-behold a genie appeared. The amazed woman asked if she got three wishes.
Happy Days dad Tom Bosley dies at 83 – Entertainment – Celebrities – TODAYshow.com.
Barbara Billingsley, Beaver Cleavers TV Mom, Dies – Entertainment News Story – KPHO Phoenix. Wonderful memories. R.I.P.
Francatelli was a maid to Sir Cosmo and Lady Duff-Gordon. Her account tells of how she and her mistress refused to board a lifeboat unless Sir Cosmo joined them, which he at first refused until an officer insisted. She also wrote how she and Lady Duff-Gordon were the only women on deck at the time.
“We were dropped into this boat and lowered into the sea. Just as they were lowering the boat two American gentlemen came along the deck and got in also.
“The Officers gave orders to us to row away from ship.
“There were seven sailors in the boat Lady Duff Gordon myself Sir Cosmo and the two American gentlemen. Twelve in all.
“The boat was not a lifeboat but quite a small ordinary rowing boat and not too safe,” she continued.
“We kept on rowing and stopping and rowing again I heard some talk going on all about the suction if the ship went down. I do not know who joined in the conversation.
“We were a long way off when we saw the Titanic go right up at the back and plunge down. There was an awful rumbling when she went. The [sic] came the screams and cries. I do not know how long they lasted.
“We had hardly any talk. The men spoke about God and prayers and wives. We were all in the darkness. Mr. Hengle kept on shouting Boat ahoy! and some one said There was bound to be help soon. After the ship went down all seemed very quiet for a long while.
Francatelli also wrote of warming the hands and feet of the men who were rowing the boat due to the freezing temperatures.
Following their rescue, stories circulated that Sir Duff-Gordon had bribed crewmembers to get a boat for himself, his wife and employee. Though cleared by an official inquiry, his reputation suffered. He died in 1931.
Lady Duff-Gordon, a noted fashion designer, died in 1935.
Francatelli later married hotelier Max Haering. She died in London in 1967.
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Steel has limitations as a structural material. Over long spans, it tends to buckle and fold like a cheap coat hanger. However, it is particularly effective as a reinforcement for concrete: The concrete keeps the bars from bending, while the bars keep the concrete from cracking and crumbling. The ribbed steel reinforcing bars are called "rebar" for short.
Will-supplanting, mind controlling hypnosis usually only happens in movies and other works of fiction. However, there have been a few hypnosis files that affected me quickly - seemingly even before I listened to them. These files weren't inherently better than the others, but simply more compatible. Like rebar, they offered definition while drawing support. Based on a limited sample, these rebar files had three things in common.
Compatibility with lifestyle and livelihood. The file needs to mesh with what you do. Call it an unconscious safeguard. Call it a pragmatism that is hard to fully escape.
Compatibility with the listener's identity. The file needs to mesh with who you are and how you see yourself. A wetting file that draws on an AB's sense of babyhood to reinforce the suggestions won't work as well for DLs or urophiliacs, who don't identify as babies.
Compatibility with other suggestions and files. The file needs to mesh in with all the other files that you expect to work. A cluster of suggestions that all mesh with your wants might work better than just one. However, rejecting some suggestions might cripple all of them.
If you aren't getting what you want out of hypnosis, perhaps it isn't a matter of file quality, but of file compatibility. This perspective isn't a new scientific discovery: It isn't scientific and might not even be new.
Of course, this makes finding the right file harder. If quality alone mattered, we could look for files that worked for others or cut straight to the expensive files, hoping that they were somehow better than the free files. Compatibility is a much more personal matter. Still, the search for the right files for you might be more rewarding than the endless pursuit of wrong files.
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“Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style.
This was shot in Chandigarh, the capital of the Indian state of Punjab.
Commissioned by Nehru to reflect the new nation’s modern, progressive outlook, the city was designed by the French (born Swiss) architect and urban planner, Le Corbusier, in the 1950s.
It was the first planned city in India and is known internationally for its architecture and urban design.
Those geometrical structures made of brick and boulder stone masonry exposed in its rough form produce unfinished concrete surfaces which are the real style of an epoch.
This man was bringing the human touch to the wall and it was fun to play with him and those shapes.
This is the largest of the many Open Hand sculptures that Le Corbusier created, it is a 28 meter high version and it stands in Chandigarh, the capital of the Indian state of Punjab.
A few years after the Indenpendance, Nehru commissioned the French architect and urban planner to design the city in order to reflect the new nation’s modern, progressive outlook.
The birth of this modern, youngest and vibrant city was an act of anguish and drama that took place at the time of partition of India and Pakistan.
Lahore, the historical capital of Punjab was ceded to Pakistan and Chandigarh was conceived to be a symbol of India’s freedom.
The Open Hand (La Main Ouverte) is a recurring motif in Le Corbusier’s architecture, a sign for him of “peace and reconciliation.
It is open to give and open to receive.
This man was standing under the sunlight at Nandeshwar along the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
“Him whose three places that are filled with sweetness, imperishable joy as it may list them, Who verily alone upholds the threefold, the earth, the heaven, and all living creatures.
May I attain to His well-loved mansion where men devoted to the Gods are happy.
This man was stepping down Nandeshwar Ghat towards the holy waters of the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
This picture is a kind of metaphor in order to emphasize that the area along the ghats is eulogised as Vishnu’s body.
Varanasi has 98 sacred water fronts, which are believed to form the cosmic frame linking 14 bhavana kosas of the human body.
Among 84 ghats, 5 are considered to be supremely auspicious.
These are Asi, Dashashwamedha, Manikarnika, Panchganga and Adikeshava.
These are the Panchathirthas, and are believed to be symbols of the cosmic body of Lord Vishnu; Asi at the head, Dashashwamedha at the chest, Manikarnika at the navel, Panchganga at the thighs and Adikeshava at the feet.
Manikarnika is considered to be at the center of the 5 thirthas, the navel of the universe from which blooms life.
“Poetry is the language of the soul.
This picture was shot along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
The ghats are making a music paper where the lines are holding a silent song.
Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop”.
In my daydreams the ghats take the appearance of staves ready for musical notation and this young man is a clef indicating the pitch of written notes on this poetic music paper.
Then the marigold becomes a dotted note on the line.
With a little of imagination anything is possible along the Ganges in Varanasi (Benaras).
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There has been a recent trend of ball golf courses adding disc golf holes in order to help keep smaller locally owned courses open. This is the best possible situation for the growth of disc golf.
I often discuss the positive aspects of ball golf courses and clubs. I don’t see any reason why we can’t go to manicured courses with clubhouses and pro-shops. There are several ways disc golf is superior to ball golf and there are many ways disc golf can help ball golf.
Our courses do not require the heavy maintenance that ball golf courses require. Our courses are more environmentally sound than ball golf courses. The water expenditure and the possible run off of chemicals make ball golf courses more dangerous to the environment. It also makes them far more costly to maintain.
Disc golf does pose a risk to the environment, mainly due to erosion and littler. But ball golf poses those threats and more. The partnership of disc golf and ball golf can provide to each sport the exact thing they each crave most.
Disc golfers can learn some of the etiquette and respectability that comes with playing on pay to play courses. Ball golfers can learn to relax a little.
I recently saw a very funny commercial with PGA pros talking about wearing shorts on the golf course. Ball golfers want the slightly more relaxed environment that we enjoy.
Ball golfers also want their courses to stay open despite the increasing numbers of course closures. We as disc golfers want to expand the public interest in the sport and to play on courses where there are beverage carts.
View from the tee on 17. Can you see the basket between the trees?
To that end, I joined some golf buddies at the Brooktrails Fundraiser Tournament. The tournament was held at the Brooktrails Golf Course in Willits, Ca. where the local disc golf clubs are hoping to convince the owners that a permanent disc golf course will boost attendance, generate funds, and create a community that relies on their course.
The course is spectacular. Situated under the Redwood Canopy the temperature is easily 10 degrees cooler than the surrounding area. The holes are long and challenging then tight and exciting. There is an incredible mix of shots with a couple genuine par 4s – and a couple that maybe could be par 4s.
The view from the basket on 17.
There are several highly elevated tee pads. Greens and the gorgeous creek are all out of bounds. We are in California so we play the 2 meter rule. There is almost always some shade to be had and the beverage cart came by often.
My play wasn’t particularly impressive. I was challenged by the slight elevation change and the distance of many of the holes. Mostly, the battle for my disc golf soul is in full swing with the forehand fighting with my backhand to stay my main shot.
This course definitely challenged every shot I had. I threw several escape rollers and even an emergency overhead shot. My putting game was better than I thought it would be and I scored more birdies than expected.
Thanks to Michael Bennet for working to have the course installed and organizing the event. Thanks to Derrick Robbings for organizing support and Levi Fagundes for keeping it professional. Check the web for the weekly schedule. This is a must play course if you are in the area.
great write up! Glad you had a good time. Things are looking good for permanent installation!!!!
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Before you start: Remember when you do these next two exercises to look at the shape of your eyes and lift the muscle to suit your facial features. For example if you have almond shaped eyes you will stretch more to the outside of your eye rather that lifting straight up.
Place two fingers under the middle of your eyebrow, hold the position and then close your eye and look down.
Keep holding your eyebrow up for 5 seconds and then pull your fingers up and across the direction of the forehead muscle, keeping your eye closed until you reach the edge of your hairline, and relax.
Make sure you breathe and relax your shoulders as you do the exercise.
Now have a look in the mirror and you should see a difference between the eye you have just worked and the other side!
For best results do this at least 5 times a week!
The second exercise to erase the bags under your eyes is the Eye Socket Lift.
This exercise is similar to the Eye Stretch but your finger is above your cheekbone and you have to lift the muscle all the way to above the eyebrow.
Again, remember that the skin in this area is very fine so you need to adjust the pressure of your finger to suit your skin. Try not to drag the skin but move the muscle under the skin.
Put your finger in the corner of your eye near your tear duct and breath in, as you breath out take your finger from the corner of your eye, underneath and lift the muscles to the top at the end of your eyebrow.
Repeat this 3 more times on each side.
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Is there any applications I can find to convert xhtml into a screenshot? I want php to generate a page and then to save a png image of it. Is there any way to do this?
There are free services online that will generate an image based on a website for you, but they can become pretty bogged down. If you can use a server with KDE, you can use khtml2png by calling it from the PHP script. I don’t know of any free apps that will render a webpage without an X installation.
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Sentry Foods is a grocery store chain with a total of six stores, all in Wisconsin.
Sentry Foods stores got their start in the Milwaukee area in the 1960s, being operated and supplied by the Godfrey family. In the mid-1980s, Fleming Companies, Inc., at the time a major wholesaler, bought the majority of the stores and took over supplying them. Being predominantly a wholesaler, Fleming was never a major force in the retail market, and as a result of missteps and poor financial choices, Fleming went bankrupt in 2000 and was forced to sell off the stores. Each store is now independently owned and operated. As recently as 2007, 34 stores were operated under the Sentry name, but the chain was decimated by the Great Recession.
^ Sentry Foods Locations. "Grocery Store Near Me | Sentry Foods". Retrieved 9 January 2019.
^ Plunkett Research, Ltd. (March 2007). Plunkett's Food Industry Almanac 2007: Food Industries Market Research, Statistics, Trends & Leading Companies. ISBN 9781593920685. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
This page was last edited on 10 January 2019, at 02:34 (UTC).
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To encourage class members to be true to their friends, as Jonathan and David were, and avoid being consumed by jealousy and hatred, as Saul was.
A short whiteboard animation illustrating how David was called by Samuel to be King. Explains David versus Goliath. The rise of respect for David from the people and King Saul’s hatred towards him. How David could not bring himself to kill Saul, their peace treaty, and Saul attempting to kill David again. After Saul’s self inflicted death, David becomes King and plans to build a temple.
My edited excerpts from Elder Jeffrey R Holland’s April 2012 talk “The Laborers in the Vineyard”.
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Tomorrow marks the beginning of Ramadan. Ramadan is a holy month of observances for Muslims. Ramadan encourages the faithful to fast, give alms to the poor, read selections of the Quran and recite prayers that bring Muslims into a deeper faith engagement to draw closer to Allah.
This years Ramadan comes at a time when relations between Muslims and Christians are severely strained over issues such as The Ground Zero Mosque, continued war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Palestinian/Israeli politics and the challenges of assimilating Islamic practices into the cultural traditions of secular western societies. The evidence of strain often manifests in ugly displays of intolerance and xenophobia that are exacerbated by economic duress and eagerly exploited by reactionary politicians. Religious rightists seize on the opportunity to gnash away at the racial wounds and cultural divide to arouse suspicion to advance an intolerant Falangist agenda.
We hope that people of good will welcome Ramadan in a spirit of tolerance and recognize it as an opportunity to develop a greater understanding of Islam and to build bridges with the Muslim community. Religious tolerance and the protection of the free practice of faith is a principal pillar of secular democracy. The protection of this right is the surest safeguard that personal liberty and the free expression of thought remains central to the democratic culture of the United States.
We welcome Ramadan and offer a blessing to our Muslim brothers and sisters that they grow to understand the gift that secular democracies confer on the free practice of religion. And we hope people of faith and people of conscience recognize that Ramadan is an opportunity to bring all the great faith traditions together in a deep and rich engagement guided by the light and unifying love of the Beneficent One.
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https://riskrapper.wordpress.com/tag/ground-zero-mosque/
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↑ King, Tabitha; DeFilippo, Marsha. "Stephen King.com: Biography". http://www.stephenking.com/biography.php. Retrieved on December 8, 2013.
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https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%B9%DB%8C%D9%81%D9%86_%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF
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Northwave under helmet cap - Cycle tours, touring tips and useful links; by Paul Smith.
When winter is upon us and like many I actually love nothing better than to go for a ride on a cold crisp morning wrapped up against the cold. It is common knowledge that a large percentage of body heat can be lost through the head, with many of us wearing a helmet these days keeping our head warm can pose a problem, especially as many modern helmets have large vents that have become very efficient at keeping us as cool in the summer, which of course can be the last thing needed as the season changes into the cold winter months.
With traditional thermal headwear often too thick to be of use under a helmet, a few manufacturers have introduced specifically made thin yet thermal caps to get around the problem. This North Wave Water protect under helmet cap is made with a thermal light weight breathable roubaix material, with a windproof insert at helmet vent level, as to be expected it is indeed thin enough to fit under a cycle helmet. Although visually it does appear to have thick stitching which could be an irritation in reality this is very flat, especially on the inside and as such I did not notice it at all.
The cap extends down each side just over the ears, which the helmet straps help keep neatly and comfortably in place, the roubaix material being thick enough to keep my ears lovely and warm, yet it did not muffle any outside noise. Should it turn a bit warmer the cap is thin enough that you can actually flap the sections that are over the ears up and under the inside of the helmet, with out padding it out too much.
In short this one size fits all cap is the simple yet perfect solution enabling us to keep warm and still use our summer cycle helmets, I have used it several times both this winter and last and I can't really find anything negative to say about it; so I won't.
You don't want to look in the mirror wearing one without a helmet!
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2019-04-20T20:38:40Z
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https://sites.google.com/site/cycletourspaulsmith/northwave-under-helmet-cap
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The famous philosopher from ancient Stageira,wrote as many as 200 treatises (of which 31 survive) on all Aspects of Life and Human Existence,from Biology and Physics to Theatre,Music, Politics and Ethics,metaphysics,poetry and zoology.
The Aristotle World Congress will be the highlight of all events to be organized worldwide in 2016 for the celebration of the “Aristotle Anniversary Year”, with the support and cooperation of the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens, of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies of the Hellenic National Commission for UNESCO.
The Congress opened with an official ceremony on May 23, 2016 followed by congress sessions that were held until May 28, 2016 in the main venue of the Aristotle University in the city of Thessaloniki as well as in ancient Stageira,the birthplace of Aristotle & in ancient Mieza, the place where the Macedonian philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
“Aristotle Today -2,400 Years Anniversary 2016” held in Heidelberg, Leuven, Padua, Paris, Helsinki, Lisbon, Notre Dame (Indiana), Moscow, Córdoba and Athens.
And me,walking on the paths of Philosophy & History Aristotle 2,400 years – Thessaloniki May 2016.
If you ever take the road down to my space,you don’t have to attend any conferences or to philosophise,you can just have a lazy walk with me around Thessaloniki,”The Bride of Thermaikos” in Central Macedonia on the shore of the Thermaic Gulf.
A modern metropolis,and the second largest city in Greece,the co-capital,as we usually call it.It was first established in 316 B.C. by Kassandros and named after his wife,Thessaloniki,who was half-sister of Alexander the Great.Thessaloniki means Victory in Thessaly.The soul of the city is everywhere around and its long history in many archaeological sites,monuments,churches and museums.
A polymath,a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher),Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy.His writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy,encompassing morality and aesthetics,logic,science,politics and metaphysics.
No one in the history of civilisation has shaped our understanding of science and natural philosophy more than the great Greek philosopher and scientist Aristotle.He exerted a profound and pervasive influence for more than two thousand years and has shaped our understanding of science and natural philosophy.
Who stood beside him closer than the rest … Dante,The Divine Comedy.
The Argo was waiting for me,she was so beautiful on the blue waters of the Thermaic Gulf.
I wanted to experience Jason’s adventures when he sailed in search of the Golden Fleece.
A Brilliant Man,built like a Tower of Steel,some believe he was Unreal.Alexander the Great,the Legendary King of Macedonia while riding his horse Bucephalus,one of the most famous horses of antiquity.
Here is the tall impressive monument of Alexander the Great,six metres high,with the marble base reaches 11 metres.The statue was made in 1973 by Evangelos Moustakas,a renowned Greek artist. It was revealed to the public in 1974.He wanted him at the water-front,I wanted him above the clouds in the Heavenly Sphere with the Stars and the Planets.
In 343 B.C., King Philip II hired the philosopher Aristotle to tutor Alexander at the Temple of the Nymphs at Meiza. Over the course of three years, Aristotle taught Alexander poetry, drama, science, politics, the meaning of Justice & the skills of Rhetoric.Alexander’s passion for learning never decayed.Seeing that Homer’s Iliad inspired Alexander to dream of becoming a heroic warrior, Aristotle created an abridged version of the tome for Alexander to carry with him on military campaigns.
The White Tower,Thessaloniki’s symbol and landmark,is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city.The present tower replaced an old Byzantine fortification of the 12th century during the Ottman Empire in order to fortify the harbour of the city.It was whitewashed after Greece gained control of the city again in 1912.
And Art under “The Umbrellas” on the new waterfront where G.Zongolopoulos put his own artistic expression,in 1997 when Thessaloniki was the Cultural Capital of Europe.
A sculpture with adaptability to times and moments following the moods of the weather.When it is raining the umbrellas become a nice shelter,when it is foggy they make their mark on the horizon and when it is sunny they play with the bright sun rays.It is 13 metres high and made of stainless steel.The Venetians had expressed their enthusiasm when the sculptor presented “The Umbrellas” at the 46th Biennale in Italy.
others were fishing,they had fun,but they didn’t sit under The Umbrellas ..
Conferences,Ruins,Byzantine churches,murals,public art,history,statues,monuments,I’ll take some more snaps and go back to the hotel to relax and have panoramic views from the balcony.
Macedonia Palace and Electra Palace were waiting to receive and attend their patrons.They are both luxurious and very popular hotels.The panoramic views over the Thermaic Gulf are fantastic.You stand on the balcony and you feel you can touch the blue waters of the Aegean sea.
The night started spreading its grey shades and shadows and the hotels were waiting to receive their patrons.
Aristotle’s bronze figure is in the square,with his own school of philosophy,known as Aristotelianism or the Peripatetic School,influenced almost all later philosophical thinking,you shall love beauty,which is the shadow of God over the Universe.
If you Aspire to Greatness,study Classics and seek Happiness only through the Cultivation of the Virtues that make a Human Life Complete.
We are thinking about visiting Thessaloniki…thanks for the inside information in this great post.
Humbled and honoured you appreciated it.Thank you for your kindness.If you ever visit Thessaloniki cultural crossroads,you’ll never regret it.A most cosmopolitan city with long and glorious history.Lot’s of museums,festivals,Art exhibitions,conferances and symposia,showing that east and west coexist.
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https://dodagrivas.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/unesco-2016-the-aristotle-anniversary-year/
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I've finally gone through all the photos in 2007 I didn't get around to editing because of college and the Puerto Rico pics. I'll be breaking this picture post into three posts, since there are so many and they have 3 basic themes. This will be the cat post, the next will be the Futurliner post and after that the etc.
In the summer time, the sun comes through the front window for approx. an hour a day. We call this hour Fairy Time, because it hits some prismatic items we have in the window and casts "fairies" for the cats to chase. Last August (?) I got a few shots of my cats wearing rainbows ^_^ The first two are Max and the third one is Hunley.
A few years back I was in a Michael's and saw some small hats for dressing up dolls. So, being me, I bought a few for the cats. Recently I took a few photos of them wearing the hats. This is the hat that fit best, so it's the shots I'm posting. Trust me, there were MANY blurry Cats Not Wanting To Be In Hats photos that were edited out. The first is Skate, then Hunley, then Max.
And here's Hunley with one of his favorite toys, Duck in a Ball.
made of catnip. It was VERY popular. Here's Hunley with it.
Max's favorite toy was his Smacky Mice, though. They rattle. Here's him carrying one in his mouth, so no one else can have it.
Knowing my tendencies to put little hats on the cats (having been drafted into helping in the past) catlyn99 also bought them a little Santa hat, which we proceeded to photo them in. First is Hunley, then Max, then Skate, all being very non-plussed about this whole hat idea.
And lastly, the bag the gifts came in still smelled like catnip, so Hunley investigates.
Oh, c'mon, if you were my cat, you'd look good in tiny little hats, too. All cats do.
Let me know if you have any questions about the book or DVD spines!
Yeah, for every 1 decent hat picture there are about 8 blurry shots.
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https://fritters.livejournal.com/334211.html
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This entry was posted on July 11, 2012 at 18:26 and is filed under experimental, QC plugins, quartz composer, software with tags generative, openGL, qc plugin. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
crash ? mmmm … can you please send me the crash report … ?
Not sure what happened, tested it out today and everything worked great. Thanks!
Thanks. Running fine for me on 10.6.
Getting some weird but good results with this in Resolume…I think it is culling the front faces. Odd.
I’m using a GL_Polygon_Offset internally, maybe that’s causing the problem, although in QC it works fine.
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https://1024d.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/_1024_city-qcplugin/
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This project investigates Interfaces between complex cognitive systems music and language in relation to other cognitive domains such as motor and social cognition.
4) Affect, mediality, and embodiment.
Recently, investigations of the biological foundations of music and language are ever-growing and require cooperation between different disciplines of cognitive science.
This interdisciplinary, or even transdisciplinary, approach integrating theoretical and empirical methods as well as computer simulation takes center stage in the current project.
Please subscribe to our mailing list to get information about our events!
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http://musikwissenschaft.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/34666.html?L=1
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Here are a few other resources for great math teaching ideas. You will find more that ideas for using literature to teach math. If you know of additional sites that should be added to the list please add a comment below.
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2019-04-22T00:41:49Z
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https://bethsmathbooks.wordpress.com/resources/
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Here’s how the tea is prepared. We dump the package of herbs into a special ceramic pot (recommended and very cheap, but also breakable—stainless steel would also do), add threel cups of water and bring it to a slow boil over a very small charcoal burning stove. For safety and because of the smoke (only for a few minutes at the beginning) and the strong aroma of the tea while it cooks, we keep the set-up in a small protected area just in back of the kitchen. (This is an area typically built into the houses here.) Over low heat, the tea reduces down to 1 cup of liquid, which is then poured into a jar and fresh water is added again for the second cooking. The second cup of tea is added to the first and when it has cooled is refrigerated. The tea can be cooked by gas or electricity as well, but it tends to cook too quickly so the tea isn’t as potent and also becomes more costly. Charcoal cooking is recommended and is very cheap.
When I’m ready to drink it, I pour it from the jar into 2 cups, one for lunch and the other, which is for dinner, is covered and returned to the frig. I need to drink it between 10 and 20 minutes after lunch and dinner each day. That seems pretty simple, but two problems developed. I have a short lunch break and am a slow eater, so time became an issue. At first, I always drank the tea fairly hot because it didn’t taste as strong that way, but many times it was too hot or became lukewarm before I got to it and therefore harder to swallow, especially when I was in a hurry. Later, I learned to drink it cold. That made life so much easier. I believe Jesus showed me this solution a month earlier, but why did it take me so long to try it cold?!
The second problem is the dinner tea. Because my schedule rarely allows me to eat early, and my relaxed frame of mind in the evening means sometimes forgetting to drink it shortly after my last bite of food, I often find myself drinking a cup of liquid so late in evening that I wake in the night for a trip to the toilet. For most people, that would be no problem, but for me, that usually means staying awake for an hour or two and thereby messing up my next day. Well, Jesus provided a solution for the first problem; I know there’s one for the second one as well.
BACH SÂM (Panax) Ginseng—It is a muscle relaxant and adaptogen (a product that increases the body’s resistance to stress), one which can to a certain extent be supported with reference to its anticarcinogenic and antioxidant properties—it appears to inhibit some characteristics associated with cancer in animal models; improves circulation; increases blood supply; revitalizes and aids recovery from weakness after illness; stimulates the body.
CHỈ XÁC (Fructus Citri Aurantii, Citrus aurantium L) Bitter orange—in traditional Chinese medicine it is always prescribed in concert with other support herbs, not in isolation.
QUA LÂU (Fructus Trichosanthes, Trichosanthes sp) Snakegourd or Kirilowii Fruit—Used to remove heat and eliminate phlegm, to alleviate chest pain, and to facilitate bowel movement.
XUYÊN BỐI MẪU (Bulbus fritillariae cirrhosae,) Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulbs (some North American species are called mission bells)—used to purge pathogenic fire, moisten the lung, resolve phlegm and relieve cough. Here are some of the other species in the same genus that are also used:• 1. Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don 2. Fritillaria unibracteata Hsiao et K. C. Hsia; 3. Fritillaria Przewalskii; 4. Fritillaria Delavayi Franch.
CÂU KỶ TỬ (Fructus Lycii., Lycium Chinense Mill) Wolfberry—commercially called goji berries—used in the treatment of kidney and liver problems. They are also used to lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure, and cleanse the blood. Goji berries have a long history of use in the treatment of eye problems, skin rashes, psoriasis, allergies, insomnia, chronic liver disease, diabetes and tuberculosis. Goji Berries are used to increase longevity and as a general health strengthening tonic.
ĐẢNG SÂM (Radix Codonopsis Pilosulae, Codonopsis pilosula–Franch). It acts on the spleen and lung channels and invigorates the spleen. It replenishes the middle-jiao energy, promotes the production of normal body fluids and nourishes the blood. It also promotes production of body fluid and blood circulation.
SƠN TRA (Fructus Crataegi, Crataegus cuneata S.et.Z) Hawthorn fruit—It acts on the spleen, stomach and liver channels; on the spleen and stomach for relieving stagnated food, strengthening the spleen and inducing appetite; on the liver channel and blood for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
ĐƠN BÌ (Cor•tex Moutan, Cortex Paeoniae Suffuticosae). Moutan (Peony) Bark—It is used for removing heat from the blood, promoting blood circulation and relieving blood stasis. The herb is mainly acting on the heart and liver channels.
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https://mygiftofcancer.wordpress.com/choosing-cancer/chapter-3-traditional-vietnamese-herbal-medicine/
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The church I recently joined is running a campaign aimed at stressing the importance of taking care of the things that God has given us. What has He given us? Time, People, Finances, Trees, Water, Electricity, etc.
1. Take a shower. By doing this, you are protecting yourself from any dirt related illnesses. You are also taking care of the welfare of those around you. In other words, thou stinketh not….
2. Plant trees. We need to sustain our environment. The rate at which we are felling trees and not replanting them is scary. If we continue with the same trend, future generations will not have clean water or regular rainfall.
3. Treat people kindly. They are part of God’s creation.
4. Reproduce and fill the earth. Enough said.
5. In your daily ‘bread earning’ activities, work as hard as you can and when you do find time to take a rest, really do take a rest.
6. Don’t misuse the money that you have. Plan it’s usage and spread it out to as many people as possible. We have so that we can give.
7. Turn off water, electricity or any other resource when it is not needed.
Hipilicious and I watched this short documentary (Please watch when you have the time) and it made so much sense, especially after learning how to take care of stuff.
So how am I going to take care of stuff?
1. I am going to wash Funz at least twice a week. This is a resource that God has given me and most of the time Funz looks like a compost heap.
2. I will ensure that I clean up dishes everyday before I sleep.
3. I will save at least 5% of my gross salary every month.
4. I will not leave water running when brushing my teeth. Same thing to when I am soaping myself in the shower.
5. I will try to sleep with the bedroom lights off for at least half the night.
6. I will look for house plants and maintain them.
7. I will think about the words I speak before saying them so that I don’t hurt people’s feelings.
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https://njenvasramblings.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/
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I and my mom are currently on our toes for the last episode of “May Bukas Pa,” and there is only one thing I’d like to say.
I don’t want it to be another tragedy like “Magnifico”, though Magnifico is a magnificent film as it is, I really really really hope Santino will live. The world needs more people like him, a beacon of hope and kindness and generosity and endless faith to the Lord.
…But all the foreshadowing of the show points to his passing.
Still going to hope, though.
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2019-04-22T14:48:32Z
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https://meriken.wordpress.com/tag/may-bukas-pa/
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Sprinkle seasoning on each drumstick on both sides. Place on baking sheet and drizzle a bit of honey on top of drumsticks. Bake at 350 for one hour. Flipping chicken once. Bake until golden brown.
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https://khaniasjournal.wordpress.com/tag/honey/
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I want you to know that as your English teacher for next year I am very excited to share this experience with you. The purpose of this letter is to propose a set of expectations for when you arrive for the first day of class.
I know from past experiences that students who select AP Literature and Composition for their senior year English credit are students of the finest caliber. It follows that reading is a regular part of your life and something you enjoy.
To that end, we are going to forgo the usual summer reading assignment, per se. In its place I am requesting that we start our course with introductory speeches about our personal reading histories.
Please prepare a talk, which will be graded according to the PS&R category of the grading matrix (a small % with few entries). Your grade will simply measure compliance and effort.
I can’t wait to hear these stories!
*Please note, you are receiving this assignment because you expressed a desire to take the course at registration. Please ensure you have been placed in the course before beginning the assignment.
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR0s0IlKhRi6OOMPAgXZ1ujA0XA34rxkU1JYsv4OMUKk7oO7mneDovxZsWCOQ2xwJrztOEB27ZfJvly/pub
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As Mom sat next to Dad in the hospital, she got up, went to the nurses’ station and grabbed her chest in pain. She was having a heart attack; they rushed her to surgery and saved her life. She was determined to hang on to be there at the end for Dad.
So I had both parents in the hospital at the same time, on two different floors — Dad had Stage 4 lymphoma. Exhaustion could not stop me from spending as much time with each of them, going back and forth, wondering what the next moment would bring.
One day in the hospital, we rolled Dad in a wheelchair up to see Mom, and the next day we rolled Mom down to see Dad. Having been married for almost 63 years, they were so happy to see each other, even if it was only for a few minutes at a time.
Read More on today’s blog at CWLauro.com and see a sweet photo and the YouTube link to a very special VIDEO of us at the hospital, as we said our goodbyes and expressed our gratitude for each other.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Cathy W. Lauro, end of life, expressing gratitude, expressing love, heart attack, hospital, inspiration, kiss, love, lymphoma, stage 4 lymphoma, The Inside Advantage. Bookmark the permalink.
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We are 6string, a team that translates Japanese fancomics for your enjoyment. ;) The fandoms will vary depending on our mood- we are fickle modcreatures!- but for now we are focusing primarily on the fandom Axis Powers Hetalia. We will take most of our sources from pixiv, but are open to requests from just about anywhere. Please don't repost them without our permission, even if you credit!
Summary: A lonely Spain reminisces about his life with Romano. Spain+Romano.
Summary: Spain and Prussia have some alone time that turns awkward after a little miscommunication. SpainxPrussia.
First off, I'd just like to say thank you very much for your support! We're so glad that so many people are interested in what we're doing, and that you all enjoyed the comics we've translated so far. ♥ Please remember, though, that we are only two poor college students who work part-time, and as much as we'd love to translate everything for you, there's only so much we can do at one time. ^^- I'd like to be able to predict... around one comic a week? Because of our fluctuating schedules we can't promise anything, but we will do our best for you guys!
Please provide us the link to the pixiv comic you would like us to scanlate, as well as one sentence that more or less describes what seems to be going on and who are the present characters (for organizational purposes).
As we are a two-man team with college lives to attend to, we ask that people limit their requests to the minimum number possible. Please consider which would be your top 3 or 4 comics you would like to see scanlated ♥ We thank everyone for their enthusiasm and their treasure chests of pixiv links. However, we must be mindful of reality: six_string_scan is simply incapable of fulfilling every single request. Thank you for your understanding!
All and any pairings/characters/themes are welcome!
Summary: Yotsuba&! parody. England visits Spain and France; Spain is not happy about it.
Summary: Spain is creepin'... Romano is not amused.
Welcome to Six-String Scanlations, a faux-scanlation group that translates Pixiv comics. We will mostly be focused on stories revolving around Spain, but we are more than happy to take requests!
artemis_elric: Artemis is an American college student who hails from the Midwest. She is majoring in International Studies and is the editor/typesetting half of the team. She met Elisa something like five years ago on deviantART and was recently able to visit her in person. It was an amazing week and the two of them solidified a great friendship. ♥ She cosplays Spain frequently, and her other fandoms include Ace Attorney, Tales of Abyss and Symphonia, FMA, Ouran, and Durarara!!
monelisa is a half-Spanish, half-Japanese college student living in the East Coast of the US, studying Computer Science as her major. She is the Japanese→English translator of 6String Scanlations, also serving as typeset checker, and secondary script editor.
Although she is not fluent in Japanese, and she has had very little formal classes with the language, she has had previous experience as an English translator & editor in a joint collaboration with pao_8d for D.Gray-man doujinshi scanlations. English is her most fluent language.
One night, on October 19, 2010, Artemis_Elric sends an original pixiv link of Impatience to MonElisa, asking for a script translation of the comic. She furthermore sends a link to The Very First Time, asking for a rough translation.
After these late-night translating, MonElisa impromptuly suggests that they "form a project" (which in 2AM language means "create a partnership") over scanlated comic strips from pixiv.net. A couple of comic strips later, they produced final goods and opened the six_string_scan community on October 24, 2010.
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https://six-string-scan.livejournal.com/?skip=10
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Positive Injury News + Thoughts on Wigan loss and PFA Nominations.
Morning to you. Feels worse than a hangover this no thanks to the loss coupled with the news on Jack Wilshere.
I’d say it’s a good thing this is just coming up otherwise it would have been a real mess of a post.
Wigan Athletic had two goals in just over a minute very early in the first half to thank for a memorable 2-1 win at the Emirates.
It which pushes them five points clear of the relegation zone while at the upper end, allows for the Sillywhites and Newcastle as well as Chelski to close up on us in the race for Champions League places.
Franco di Santo helped his former club’s cause, eventually getting the ball in the net after a precise Wigan break from a poor corner at the other end.
We hadn’t recovered from going behind when Victor Moses made light work of Sagna and his deflected cross to the box was pounced on by Jordi Gomez who made it to the ball just before Szczesny to poke home a second.
Both goals came just as Mikel Arteta was being treated on the sidelines so the sight of Aaron Ramsey replacing him soon after.
This leaves us sweating over how bad the Spaniard’s ankle injury is with resurgent Chelsea coming up for us in Saturday’s early kick-off.
Thomas Vermaelen did pull one back after 21 minutes with a good header off Tomas Rosicky’s cross and you just felt then that sure, we still got this! No we don’t got this (bear with my ebonics) as Arteta’s calming chi was sorely missed by Song, left Ramsey exposed per se and rendered our wingers wingless, Walcott especially.
Walcott was on the field? Apocalyptic! Sagna could’ve done much better, Santos missed a good scoring chance in the second half, Gervinho brought nothing after replacing Benayoun, so too the Ox when he came on for Djourou.
Then Arsène Wenger made some noise about the impressive Ali Al Habsi’s time wasting on the night. Well, we’d be elated to see Szczesny do same for us with a similar score at a place such as the Nou Camp or Old Trafford… I’m just saying.
He has deputised pretty well for Koscielny, just unfortunate to be on the losing side tonight.
Another goal and he’s certain to end the season as the league’s top scoring defender, well ahead of the likes of Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll.
He had two headers well saved by Al-Habsi either side of the goals we conceded. Just shows how differently the night could have turned out for us.
Summarily, we let ourselves down yet again as we were flat for large periods of the encounter with the exception being early in both halves.
Like at QPR, this is just a blip and there will be no need to raise ‘unnecessary dust’ about this.
Hopefully we’ll respond to this defeat just as well as we did against Man. $hitty and effectively end Chelski’s Champions League ambitions from the league end of the business, we’ll see how they fare against Barcelona either side of their visit to the Ems.
And to cap a generally bad day at the office, 20 year old Jack Wilshere tweeted last night after the game that he will miss out the rest of the season and consequently the European Championships to be held at Poland and Ukraine.
“Gutted, sad, devastated..its been a test mentally for me this season and it will continue to be tough until I am back out on the pitch.. “.
This was soon after le boss made known at the post match what we all along have feared for the lad.
“Jack will not play again this season and he will not go to the Euros, that is for sure.” said Wenger.
Wenger however reckons Wilshere could make the Team GB squad to the Olympics later this year though he would much prefer that Stuart Pearce doesn’t invite Wilshere for that, to avoid a recurrence of what has been a mentally challenging year for the midfielder.
Here’s wishing Wilshere good and timely recovery from this.
The Spaniard faces up to 3 months on the sidelines if our worst fears are confirmed. He was seen leaving the game in crutches, with his right foot in a protective mask.
If it’s any consolation, it comes late in the season. There are only 4 games left and surely we can keep our place in the top 3 in his absence.
There is some good news on the injury front for us though, with Francis Coquelin due back in training this week, while Per Mertesacker will fly back from Germany in the next two weeks, having travelled to his homeland for surgery and rehabilitation on his left ankle.
A decision is also expected this week on Abou Diaby, who has been building his fitness up in training, and is in contention to be in the squad for Saturday’s clash with Chelsea. Surely he can do better than Ramsey who has been unconvincing of late.
Captain Vantastic has been nominated alongside five others for the PFA Player of the Year award. Van Persie also is firm favourite to get the award ahead of Wayne Rooney, Sergio Agüero, Joe Hart, David Silva and I’m sorry… Scott Parker?
Why not just put Nicklas Bendtner in it then? I can feel the Dane being gutted by this ‘gesture’.
Agüero meanwhile was nominated also for the PFA Young Player of the Year seeing as he is still of age as the case here is. Our own Oxlade-Chamberlain made the shortlist as well along with Wale’s Bale, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck and Kyle Walker.
Apologies for the long post but last night’s victory left a sour taste in our mouths. What went wrong? Even Arsene doesn’t seem to have answers which is very unusual. Was it physical fatigue? Mental stress? Or just overconfidence?
Do share your thoughts with me in the comments.
Have a pleasant day nonetheless!
7 Straight Wins, We Ballin’ : The Player Ratings.
Szczesny (6) – Had little to do all game. Did well when called upon.
Djourou (7) – A few scary moments. Other than that, a credible performance.
Vermaelen (8) – Solid game. Stood up to everything the Villa attack could muster. Helped up front when he could.
Sagna (8) – Did his usual.
Gibbs (8) – Good going forward as shown by the goal, but a bit suspect in defence today. Gervinho had to bail him out a few times.
Arteta (8) – Kept things ticking in the middle, a couple of attempts on target, and got his goal with a phenomenal strike from a freekick.
Song (8) – Did his job well, guilty of holding on to the ball for too long. Amazing through pass for the second goal.
Rosicky (7.5) – Continued his resurgence with an assuring performance. A joy to see him in such good form.
Walcott (8.5) – Good performance, great first touch and wonderful composure to get his goal.
Gervinho (7) – Better performance. Looked lively, got an assist.
Van Persie (7) – Started well but could not get a goal. Cut a frustrated figure late on, he’s surely had better days.
Santos (6) – Almost gave a goal away with his first touch. Settled well in the following minutes. Great to have him back.
Ramsey (6) – Came on with a fresh pair of legs. Added more bite to the midfield.
The Ox (6) – Good cameo. Picked up from where Theo left off.
There you have it guys! 7th straight win gives us a firm grip on 3rd place.
3 points ahead of Sp*ds, 8 ahead of Chelski. Not a bad time to be a gooner, eh?
Hello good Gooners from wherever you are reading from. Been a tough couple of weeks for us, watching dear Arsenal manage to get past Leeds United between two league defeats at Fulham and Swansea, both games in which we scored first.
And now, we have those demons of Manchester visiting and memories of the early season annihilation comes to mind… can we pull a win off?
Asides, Le boss admitted to watching our 8-2 defeat again “because you have to face reality” said the Wenger.
While he believes the scoreline was an “accident” on the day, Wenger has nonetheless called for the backline to get their acts right ahead of Sunday’s crunch encounter.
“When you come back to 2-2 and then 30 seconds later it is 3-2, it is very difficult to swallow.” admitted the manager just as he expressed his surprise that we lost to Fulham and the Swans, no thanks to defensive errors and called on the defence to be improved for Manure’s visit.
Away from that, Wenger would rather not lose our favourite Russian Andrei Arshavin, who will be celebrating a third year at the club soon. The manager’s reasons being the squad worn thin by injuries coupled with his quality and admittedly, the cocky Russian’s put in good performances recently.
Finally, Wenger updated in the injury situation at the club, stating Thomas Vermaelen doesn’t look like he’ll play on Sunday as well as Thierry Henry who has a calf problem. Mikel Arteta is completely out while Bacary Sagna, Kieran Gibbs and Carl Jenkinson are a couple of weeks away with Jack Wilshere set resume full training soon after them. Quite a number of bodies we’ve got in the injury room.
That’s the bit from here so far. Don’t forget to follow us on twitter @goonermemoirs and have a great weekend, expect a preview of the big game on tomorrow.
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Gunstuff aside, what really makes The Arms Room shine....well, is it's shine. Superb lighting in both the range and the retail store, a very comfortable lounge, classy decor, furnishings and finish throughout. Click through the Photo Gallery, for more pictures than I could ever dare use in one post.
The retail prices there are a bit high, but such is the price of a first-class setting. But, the range fees are right in line with the market, and the staff are all friendly, available and helpful.
Mr. James and his son Travis set the standard in that regard. They're flat out good to, with and for their customers.
Monday nights, they shoot an "unregistered IDPA" fun shoot. I try to join 'em when I can. All IDPA rules apply, but the events aren't offically IDPA sanctioned, and the scores aren't sent up to IDPA registry. Ton of fun, this.
There are a few, select ranges out there as nice as The Arms Room. But, I'm not aware of any nicer or better.
If you're ever going to be a half-hour South of Houston..... make plans to burn a couple hours and a hundred rounds or so there. You won't regret so doing.
We actually know Mr. Tom Estep!
I've been meaning to get over there and get my CHL. Procrastinator.
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Bye, bye 2013 and hello 2014!!
I'm ready to say “so long” to 2013, not in a bad way but in the way that someone says bye to a crazy year of adjustment, acceptance, and re-adaptation.
If anyone told me that 2013 was going to be this challenging I'd never believe it. Our year started in Argentina, and we traveled for the three first months of the year out of 13 suitcases, and set out feet in four different countries, until we finally settled here. We lost our cat in the transition, we left out dog behind too. If you love your pets the way we do, you know what it means. Even when pets are not replaceable we were able to adopt two kitties: Maple and Chilli who we love to pieces.
My quilting and embroidery, my instagraming, twitting, and Facebooking had to be put aside to put my 100% into getting settled, into finding my way around this new city, and also into making acquaintances and finally making friends. From the past couple of years I realize that farther more important than paper work and unpacking is making new friends, and helping my children find theirs too. Nothing brings more comfort to our unstable months than having somebody to hold you your hand, share a meal with you, sit with and talk.
It was hard but totally worth it. I have a family that feels right at home here. I was able to make new friends and to put my heart into those relationships, I was also brave enough to say "enough" to relationships that simply wouldn't work. Yet, the little blogging and etsying I did went amazingly well. Thank you to the support of my blog friends, I was able to reach out to you and sell my first batch of hexie paper templates. I did miss being part of the on-line community, I felt how 3kitchenfairies was fading away.
Everything is alright now. We have a life! It's time to say a big THANK YOU!! to all off you involved in the process. All my friends in all the places we were, my dear family always there sending me good vibes and prayers, all the encouragement of my friends in the distance, and all the support I got from my day-to-day friends. God bless you all, having you by my side make me feel incredibly lucky. I wouldn't be able to do what I did this year without you.
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The weber may be defined in terms of Faraday's law, which relates a changing magnetic flux through a loop to the electric field around the loop. A change in flux of one weber per second will induce an electromotive force of one volt (produce an electric potential difference of one volt across two open-circuited terminals).
This SI unit is named after Wilhelm Eduard Weber. As with every International System of Units (SI) unit named for a person, the first letter of its symbol is upper case (Wb). However, when an SI unit is spelled out in English, it is treated as a common noun and should always begin with a lower case letter (weber)—except in a situation where any word in that position would be capitalized, such as at the beginning of a sentence or in material using title case.
In 1861, the British Association for the Advancement of Science (known as "The BA") established a committee under William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) to study electrical units. In a February 1902 manuscript, with handwritten notes of Oliver Heaviside, Giovanni Giorgi proposed a set of rational units of electromagnetism including the weber, noting that "the product of the volt into the second has been called the weber by the B. A."
The International Electrotechnical Commission began work on terminology in 1909 and established Technical Committee 1 in 1911, its oldest established committee, "to sanction the terms and definitions used in the different electrotechnical fields and to determine the equivalence of the terms used in the different languages."
In 1930, TC1 decided that the magnetic field strength (H) is of a different nature from the magnetic flux density (B), and took up the question of naming the units for these fields and related quantities, among them the integral of magnetic flux density.
In 1935, TC 1 recommended names for several electrical units, including the weber for the practical unit of magnetic flux (and the maxwell for the CGS unit).
Also in 1935, TC1 passed responsibility for "electric and magnetic magnitudes and units" to the new TC24. This "led eventually to the universal adoption of the Giorgi system, which unified electromagnetic units with the MKS dimensional system of units, the whole now known simply as the SI system (Système International d’unités)."
In 1938, TC24 "recommended as a connecting link [from mechanical to electrical units] the permeability of free space with the value of µ0 = 4π×10−7 H/m. This group also recognized that any one of the practical units already in use (ohm, ampere, volt, henry, farad, coulomb, and weber), could equally serve as the fourth fundamental unit. "After consultation, the ampere was adopted as the fourth unit of the Giorgi system in Paris in 1950."
^ "CIPM, 1946: Resolution 2 / Definitions of Electrical Units". International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM) Resolutions. International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). 1946. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
^ Frary, Mark. "In the beginning...The world of electricity: 1820-1904". International Electrotechnical Commission. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ Giorgi, Giovanni (February 1902). "Rational Units of Electromagnetism" (Manuscript with handwritten notes by Oliver Heaviside). p. 9. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
^ "Strategic Policy Statement, IEC Technical Committee on Terminology" (PDF). International Electrotechnical Commission. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-04. Retrieved 2008-04-29.
^ "IEC Technical Committee 1". International Electrotechnical Commission. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
^ a b c d "The role of the IEC / Work on quantities and units". History of the SI. International Electrotechnical Commission. Archived from the original on 25 Sep 2013. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
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^ a b Ruppert, Louis (1956). Brief History of the International Electrotechnical Commission (PDF). International Electrotechnical Commission. p. 5. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
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Thank goodness we live in a world of endless and unlimited resources. If it weren’t for that, I might be worried about the way we are treating the earth. Man, if I were to suddenly find out that the populations humans recklessly destroy were unable to immediately regenerate, I think that would be a very inconvenient truth.
This Monday, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the international body that sets annual tuna fishing limits, announced a reduction in the fishing quota of the Bluefin Tuna. However, most scientists agree that the reduction does not go far enough to save bluefin tuna from near extinction. The EU, US and Japan have decided to limit the 2010 catch quotas to 13,500 tons. Catches were lowered from 28,500 tons to 22,000 this year. Scientists say that is still 7,000 tons over what they would advise.
A single bluefin tuna can sell for $100,000 and is traditionally used for sashimi. Overall, it’s a billion dollar global business that is driven by an appetite for tuna, especially in Japan. The bluefin population is less than a fifth of what it was in the 1970s, making it one of the most threatened fish in the sea. Illegal overharvesting is the main cause of the bluefin’s sharp population decline. Many scientists urged the ICCAT to accept nothing less than a fishing quota of zero, however the commission has never reduced the allowable catch by as much as scientists recommended (See the blog post written last year regarding this very issue.) Now many fear the species is inevitably headed toward extinction.
Fish Feel Pain; Now What?
So, if fish feel pain, does that change things?
Maybe a few pescatarians might reconsider their position, but those looking to continue justifying their dietary choices tend to respond with the question – What about plants, do they feel pain? Touche, so become a Jain. More power to you if you have that kind of discipline and are lucky enough to live in an environment that’s still healthy enough to sustain you. Or can transcend geopolitical borders to follow migratory seasonal harvests, but few on this planet hold such golden passports.
So if that’s too difficult, then consider what’s necessary. From what I understand, homo sapiens have (one of) the most diverse diets on this planet (we can consume a greater variety of things than most other species for our energy and subsistence). And supposedly we have consciousness, civilization and free(ish) will. So, I can choose what to subsist off of….and I know that I can obtain my sustenance – vitamins, proteins, all that good stuff – from a solely flora-based diet. Not true of a fauna-based diet. Oftentimes, it is also possible to harvest from plants in a way that you can’t from animals, i.e. you can take parts without killing the whole. Many of those parts would separate of their own means anyway, maybe to nourish the Earth….or maybe to nourish me.
Either way, plant or animal, food needs to be rethought….we are over 6.7 billion mouths to feed and growing. Malthus bodes mal….
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Before I go into the types of cavy food, I advice you not to buy in bulk unless you have lots of cavies. The bag of pellets should not last more than 2 months. If it does, not only will it be less fresh but you run the risk of it turning mouldy too. I experienced this when I bought two 5 lb bags of pellets. The first bag was fine but the second wasn't. The darn pellets had become damp & were "fused" together in 1 solid lump. They eventually turned mouldy. Fortunately I saw it in time & dumped them.
Cavy feed can be grouped under 2 main groups: pellets & mixes. Pellets as the name suggests are nothing but pellets. Mixes on the other hand usually contain many ingredients like pellets, corn flakes, seeds, nuts, dehydrated vegetables, etc. Mixes are regarded by many people to be a bad choice. This is because they are high in fat & the nuts could be choking hazards especially if they're un-hulled. Mixes usually also contain artificial colours & due to the presence of high fat ingredients like nuts, preservatives are required.
I strongly recommend using pellets because they are healthier than mixes. Of course there are different brands & some are better than others. Oxbow is the best although a bit more costly. There are some things you should take note of before deciding on the brand of pellets.
"You would not feed an adult dog or cat a puppy or kitten food, so why do we feed guinea pigs the same diet their whole life? The answer may be that it is not economically feasible for a large pet food company to manufacture a special maintenance diet for small animals."
"The higher levels of proteins, carbohydrates, and calcium found in most guinea pig feeds on the market are not healthy for the adult pig, leading to obesity and possible shortening of the life span."
"Undiagnosed ileus (blockages of the digestive tract due to gut slowdown problems) is commonly seen in guinea pigs on low fiber diets. Many times pet owners do not notice the signs associated with gastrointestinal slowdown until it is too late and the animal has died. Diets that incorporate high levels of indigestible fiber, in the form of hay, promote increased gut motility and thereby prevent this gut slowdown."
"Obesity in guinea pigs can lead to other health problems such as heart and liver disease. Typical guinea pig feeds on the market contain high levels of fat, commonly over 3% and as high as 5%. These feeds contain corn, oats and other grains that are designed to appeal to the consumer, but also raise the starch and energy content. When fed free choice, obesity can occur, which not only leads to the previously mentioned health problems, but can also prevent coprography, which is necessary to maintain a healthy microbial population in the hindgut."
"Enteritis, intestinal inflammation associated with toxin production, is a problem commonly associated with diets that contain high levels of energy (starch and glucose). A low fiber, high starch diet promotes gut hypomotility and changes the intestinal environmental pH which allows pathogens (bad bacteria) to produce toxins that can kill a guinea pig. Feeds high in grains contain high levels of carbohydrates which are digested in the cecum and can lead to Enteritis."
"Urolithiasis (bladder stones) is being seen in more and more guinea pigs and although many are secondary to urinary tract infections, a certain percentage of stones are caused by an imbalance of calcium and phosphorus in the diet. Forage feed, the natural diet for a wild guinea pig, has a higher calcium to phosphorus ratio. Grains have the inverse relationship and contain more phosphorus than calcium. Research has proven that diets that contain an inverse ratio of calcium and phosphorus can cause stones and soft tissue calcifications. The relationship of Vitamin D and magnesium are also contributing factors in this problem."
All the above info are from Oxbow's website & more can be found at this page on Oxbow's website. Needless to say, Oxbow's pellets will greatly reduce the chances of your cavies suffering from any of the above mentioned health problems. So if you can afford it, I strongly recommend Oxbow pellets!
Here's an example of cavy mixes above on the left, while the one on the right is pellets. I strongly recommend pellets & I use Oxbow Cavy Cuisine. Now there are 2 sub-categories of pellets: alfalfa based & timothy hay based. Timothy pellets are more costly & in S'pore so far the only brand that has timothy pellets is Oxbow. All other brands sell only alfalfa based pellets. For cavies 8 months & younger, alfalfa pellets are okay. But too much alfalfa can cause problems for older cavies & hence it is recommended to provide timothy pellets instead.
As far as cavy pellets are concerned, the recommended minimum fibre content is 25% while the maximum fibre content is 28%. As far as fat goes, most pellets have between 3 to 5% fat which isn't great. Naturally the less fat there is the better. Feeding a high energy, high calcium & high protein diet to an adult cavy can lead to obesity & even death. However growing cavies need more protein for muscle development & more calcium for bone development.
Even though timothy based pellets are recommended for cavies 8 months & older, it all depends on your finances since they cost more than alfalfa based ones. However a high fibre, low starch & low fat feed is a definite must, regardless of whether the pellets are alfafa or timothy based. For younger cavies, more calcium & protein. The direct opposite for cavies 8 months & older.
So what happens if your cavies are 8 months & older but you can't afford timothy pellets? Well alfalfa pellets are ok but make sure you DO NOT give alfalfa everyday. Alfalfa pellets with timothy, orchard grass or oat hay is fine but alfalfa pellets with alfalfa is a big no no for mature cavies! In fact alfalfa should be used only as a treat. A small handful once a month will do.
Some people give only hay, only cavy feed or only vegetables & I discourage this. Your cavy should be given pellets, hay, vegetables & fruits for it be have a well balanced diet. And don't forget an ample supply of clean water.
If you're currently feeding mix & wish to change to pellets, do so slowly. The same applies when you're changing from alfalfa pellets to timothy ones. Mix some new feed with the old one. Slowly reduce the amount of old feed while increasing the amount of new ones, until your Cavy is eventually on the new feed. Never change the food suddenly. This applies for hay too. Do not suddenly switch from 1 type of food to another. Do it gradually. A 7 to 10 day transitional period is best regardless of whether you're switching feed or hay.
Cavies, unlike rabbits, are unable to manufacture their own vitamin C & hence need food that is vitaminc C enriched. Never feed hamster, rabbit or chinchilla food to your cavies. Always stick to those that are specifically for cavies only. I don't even trust those that say "rabbit & guinea pig". Needless to say I think food labelled "for all small animals" is totally horse crap! First of all, other animals' food may lack certain vitamins or nutrients cavies need. Secondly, some chemicals which are fine for other small animals may be toxic to cavies.
If you've emptied an entire packet of cavy food before, you'd notice quite a bit of food dust. These can cause our fuzzy pals to sneeze so you should remove as much as possible. In addition, cavies don't eat food dust & it will block the supply of food from a small food hopper. I scoop a handful of pellets & pour it from hand to hand several times. As I'm doing this, food dust will end up in my hands & I junk them & continue pouring the pellets from hand to hand, until there's no more food dust & its just pellets moving between my hands. Be sure to look at the food while you're scooping it out, just in case there are any foreign objects mixed in there.
Lastly, some people ration the amount of pellets given to their cavies & feed them only at certain times. I feel that in most cases this isn't necessary. You can just leave the food hopper or bowl (although I prefer a hopper for hygiene reasons) in the cage & let your cavies eat as & when they want to.
It is necessary to ration only if you notice your furball eats non stop & is getting fat. Then it might be time to control their intake, but you should discuss it with an experienced breeder or vet rather than experiment. Most cavies seem to know how to control their intake so leaving the hopper in there at all times should be fine.
Always practise "first in first out" when dealing with food be it pellets or mix. The longer the food is exposed to air, the faster the vitamin C will be destroyed. It will also become stale faster & there may even be worms or other insects. Therefore don't just scoop new pellets on top of the old ones. Instead remove the old pellets, pour in new ones & lastly dump the old pellets on top of the old ones. This way your cavies will eat the old pellets first.
When you scoop out the old pellets, this is a good time to remove food dust which should be quite plentiful by this time. By doing so, you can also check for worms & other nasties that may have found their way into the hopper or bowl.
Many brands of cavy feed be it pellets or mixes contain preservatives. So far the only brands that I know of that DO NOT contain chemical preservatives are Oxbow, Hagen, 8 in 1 & Mazuri. Usually if the feed contains animal fat, animal byproducts or if the feed is a mix, it will contain preservatives. There are many types of preservatives with Ethoxyquin, BHT & BHA being the most commonly used. Kaytee, Hartz and L & M are some brands that definitely contain preservatives, Ethoxyquin to be precise. Certain brands like Brown's & Vitakraft for e.g. do not mention if preservatives are used.
However just 'cos Ethoxyquin or BHA isn't reflected in the ingredient list, doesn't mean the feed is preservative free. One reason is a lesser known preservative (e.g. propionic acid) could be used & you may not be familiar with it & may not know it is actually a preservative. Another reason is in certain countries it is not compulsary to include preservatives in the ingredient list. So just 'cos its not reflected on the ingredient list doesn't mean its not used. Only way to confirm is contact the feed's manufacturer.
I am not going into a discussion about each type of preservative since I am not an expert in this field. However on the internet there have been several discussions on whether preservatives, especially Ethoxyquin are safe for pets. Ethoxyquin is lethal to humans & even though we are very different from cavies, I often wonder if something lethal to us is lethal to cavies too.
If the cavy feed you use contains Ethoxyquin or some other equally "harmful" preservative, I believe you have reason to be concerned. After all your cavies eat the cavy feed daily. Assuming your cavy is 3 year old, it would've eaten 3 years' worth of Ethoxyquin. Is that enough to be harmful? It sure sounds bad! More info about Ethoxyquin on my "Medical" sub-page.
I am not about to take any risks which is why I only use Oxbow pellets which are preservative & artificial colouring free. Many more advantages of Oxbow pellets on my "Brands of Cavy Feed" sub-page. Some treats I use do contain preservatives but since treats are only given occasionally, I'm not too worried about them. But even then I make it a point to avoid treats that contain Ethoxyquin.
So should you avoid all brands that contain chemical preservatives? Its really very subjective but I recommend you do. As far as possible, try feeding your cavies only items preserved with natural preservatives like vitamin C or E.
Pellets that come in ziplock bags does help but if moisture gets into the bag, the air tight feature of ziplock bags will not help much. Firstly, make sure the pellets are totally dry. If you use hands to scoop pellets, put on gloves. If your pellets don't come in ziplock bags I advise you to transfer the pellets to ziplock bags. A small box doesn't cost that much & can be re-used. Just make sure there are no holes or else its time to replace the bags.
Sachets of silica gel can help in absorbing moisture. Just make sure they don't spring a leak & contaminate the pellets. Also, there is a limit to how much moisture they can absorb, so don't expect a sachet to last for a whole year! Oxbow pellets used to come with these sachets so I saved them & still use them. I believe you should be able to buy them from hardware or camera stores too. As long as you try your best to ensure the pellets & ziplock bag are dry, and the ziplock bag is as free of air as possible, the chances of mouldy pellets is quite slim.
Okay so your preventive measure didn't work & your pellets have gone mouldy. Upon discovering mouldy pellets, the first thing to do is chuck them out pronto. Mouldy food is the easiest way to kill a cavy! Then make sure you wash the hopper/bowl. Or at the very least give it a good wipe with a damp cloth followed by a dry cloth. Next, check the rest of the pellets you've kept in the bag or container. If they're mouldy, junk them! If not, you can use them but keep an eye on them. If they start turning mouldy too, junk the entire bag of it!
So assuming your entire supply of pellets is mouldy & has been junked, obviously you'd need to replenish it. But what if the same type of food isn't available? Well you can try your best & look everywhere but if its really out of stock, then the next best thing to do is get a brand similar to what you used to use. For e.g. if Oxbow Cavy Cuisine isn't available, you could try Oxbow Cavy Performance or if that too isn't available then perhaps Hagen cavy pellets. However you should try to switch back to their old brand as soon as possible.
At no time should you continue using the mouldy pellets. That is asking for trouble 'cos your cavies are sure to be sick! I know its a waste to junk a $16 bag of pellets, but isn't that better than having a sick or dead cavy? There is no way of telling whether the pellets are mouldy before you buy them, unless it comes in transparent plastic packs like Kaytee. So if the bag is opaque like Oxbow's, what you could do is give it a shake. Make sure the pellets are loose. If they are clumped together, it means they are damp. And dampness is sure to lead to mould growth.
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Sollh (pronounciation: sōl, as in soul) 1. a website about teenagers, run by a teenager, for teenagers 2. an acronym for "so let's live happily"
Stress management – Life is not just about your body. It is also about your mind.
Healthy diet – You are what you eat. If you eat junk food, what are you?
Exercise – Exercise can be fun. I’m not joking.
I had a great experience interviewing my middle school gym teacher, Mrs. Zimmerman. Here’s what I asked her.
Me: Why did you decide to become a PE teacher?
Mrs. Zimmerman: I was a classics major for 2 1/2 years in college and I had to take a health science class, but I wasn’t into it. The teacher was phenomenal, and he inspired me to become a health science major.
M: What exercises do you think teens should do?
Z: I think that any activity teens like, like dancing, karate, or a sport. Then exercise becomes fun.
M: How often should teens exercise?
Z: I would say at least 3 times a week, but if the exercise is fun, I hope it would become a lifestyle.
M: What are the benefits of exercise?
Z: They are endless. We can talk for hours. Exercise makes our lives longer (not definitely, it seems that.) It makes daily tasks easier, because your heart and lungs are better. For example walking up stairs, and doing chores.
M: What would you advise teens in today’s world?
Z: You have to find what makes you happy. You have to be open to all experiences. Teens should be lifelong learners.
There you have it guys! She is an awesome gym teacher.
Comment below! What do you think?
This weekly challenge is inspired by my interview with Mrs. Booth, a dietician. Take a mini candy fast. Don't eat your favorite candy this week. Comment here.
Feeling down? Remember that you are special and nobody can change that. Be awesome, and don't forget that I'll always be there for you. Good luck!
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Media efforts to bludgeon the public into believing the human-caused warming claims of the IPCC have largely failed. The ever-increasing alarm that is put forward is surely a response to the lack of success in scaring people, rather than any reflection of actual facts on the ground (or in the air). In short, media hype has led to climate fatigue.
Public interest in “climate change” peaked in March 2007 as Al Gore and “An Inconvenient Truth” basked in the glow of an Academy Award win, but faded away ever since, The GWPF reports.
As the COP24 conference on climate change wrapped up last week in Poland without any major developments, downward-trending levels of interest in the subject have raised the question of whether the public and media have become weary of discussing it.
The timeline below [see link] shows the average percentage of airtime (as measured in 15-second intervals) on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, combined by year, from June 2009 to present that mentioned either “climate change” or “global warming” (using data from the GDELT Project’s processing of the Internet Archive’s Television News Archive).
The immense media coverage of the 2009 Copenhagen conference is starkly clear, as is the steady increase in coverage over President Obama’s fourth through seventh years in office, culminating in the 2015 Paris accord.
President Trump’s withdrawal from the agreement last year brought the fourth highest television coverage of the past decade. In contrast, the lack of major developments this year led to 2018 having the second lowest coverage.
Only in the USA.Which is not the world though many Americans do unconsciously assume the two are the same. Here in Oz it is the hot button issue. along with power costs.
Only in the USA? Humm? Inn the USA, we only hear the world is dying, and only man is causing it. We don’t get the other arguements, the ipcc error margins, equal to the program, the other factors, like more accurate measurements, changing locations of machines that measure the inputs, changed data, you know, all the correction factors. That disprove it is all man caused, or why global warming is bad. Pollution is bad, but global warming? Fewer people die of global warming. More people are fed with global warming, that’s bad? I believe the priority is wrong, we have to be on the lookout for cooling, that’s a problem. Ice means no food. Even the chineese chicken, and the princton burger need plant stuff to be produced.
I think they have now got to the third stage of the saying ‘you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’ and there are going to be a lot of angry people when they realise they have been taken for fools. It will not be pleasant for the green members of the UN Church of Climatology.
the massive amount of money wasted by the quangos and their pimps in the media and the Imams of the Climate Caliphate in academia is going to be talked about as more eye popping than the Piltdown Man scam once the public FINALLY realizes the emperor has no clothes.
In the meantime, just sit back and make fun of the Warmists on the web. Just post, “CO2 is plant food,” and stand back. ha ha ha. To keep it going, periodically toss in references to Scafetta, John Coleman, and Nikolov and Zeller.
Yet more climate lunacy – not blocked by the US.
Under the new rules approved at COP 24 the less developed countries will be allowed to build their fantasy case for compensation in detail. It was agreed that each member nation would prepare as part of its “Transparency Framework” detailed loss and damage calculations based on adverse weather events during the year. The obvious purpose of these calculations is to claim compensation from the developed countries for these losses and damages.
oldbrew, I think the answer to that one is simple, ‘prove it’.
Any country that tries to say they have been damaged by global warming should need to prove their claim with actual figures or be laughed out of court. It will show up the scam for what it is – a scam, and end up with more people realising they have been taken for fools.
provided the Polar Field Precursor Relationship holds.
There have been about 10% fewer ‘spotless’ days this year than in 2008 or 2009 (i.e. the last solar cycle minimum).
So the latest COP is transparently setting up the stage for the lynching of the West. Indpite of the misplaced optimism that nothing was done, much damage was in fact done.
This COP is terrible news for all except the climate extremists..
For the 3rd world, yet another rationale to support kleptocracy.
For the West, yet another step towards the gallows of crippling taxes- or worse- to sustain the climate consensus parasites.
For the people of the world, yet more Trillions in opportunity costs.
The quality of the “transparent claims” was summed up best in all of its dangerous madness by Monty Python.
The UN climate regime is broken and dangerous. End it now.
Or it will end us.
The flow of “given global warming, . . .” papers has not subsided.
Look, they got Sandra Bullock to play in a movie in which her space vessel is bombarded by space debris. Can’t happen. I did the calculations regarding the amount of space surrounding the Earth upwards of so many miles to where she would have been. The chances of being hit were so small that there wasn’t really one. But the movie is setting up a new, uneducated society to grow up believing we can pollute space. Why? There’s an agenda. And we can really teach the kids about the real facts. Why? There’s an agenda. If you think long and hard about this, you’ll come to understand.
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As I channel surfed one night, I passed by this year’s NBA draft on ESPN. I stopped and watched a while, feeling a new curiosity and empathy about the lives of the young men in the spotlight. That was because a few weeks earlier, I had read Foul Trouble, a young adult novel by John Feinstein that should be required reading for any basketball fan.
Foul Trouble is the story of Terrell Jamerson, a late-blooming high school phenom headed into his final season. The narrator is Danny Wilcox, Terrell’s best friend, and a pretty fine player himself. As the point guard who feeds Terrell passes and the son of the coach who is trying to protect the somewhat naive Terrell from the scavengers that would like to attach themselves to his rising star, Danny feels a lot of responsibility for his friend’s success. It’s a big burden to add to his own hopes of a scholarship at a smaller school, and Danny has a quick wit and a quicker temper, which means his attempts at protection often end in confrontation.
The book follows the pair through a gauntlet of crooked summer camps, self-serving media outlets, arrogant competitors, corrupt athletic gear salesmen, out-of-control boosters, and most of all, a series of recruiters and coaches who each have a different way of circumventing the rules that are supposed to govern the passage of a high school star into the college ranks. Feinstein clearly knows this turf, and by the time he’s done with his tale, the reader has a new appreciation for just how much pressure can be put on a top recruit. Along the way there are gifts, girls, faux friends galore, families ruined by greed, and all matter of temptations that Danny and Terrell must navigate.
Sports fans will love this story, but even if you’re only a casual fan like me, the drama of the novel will keep you turning pages quickly. When you’re done, head for almost any of Feinstein’s nonfiction sports titles. They’re plentiful, covering many different sports, but with special focus on golf, baseball, and basketball. He’s a dependable writer, and you’re unlikely to go wrong, no matter which of his titles you select.
Looking at the cover of The System, you see a striking image of college football – an enormous stadium filled with cheering crowds awaiting the contest to begin on that emerald green field. As you zoom in on that field, that crowd, that contest, the reality gets dirtier and dirtier, until it seems that field is the Astroturf covering the edge of an open grave. Benedict and Keteyian have climbed into that grave, and The System is the report they’ve sent back.
Football has long been the hallmark of college education in the United States. It is the rare institution of higher learning that doesn’t field a team. At the top of that pyramid, where iconic names like Notre Dame, Alabama, and Oregon reside, football is a big part of the college experience, and a successful program can seemingly make or break a school. And it shows in enrollments, donations, and construction.
Benedict and Keteyian seemingly had complete access to every aspect of the schools they covered. Meetings between coaches and players, athletic directors and boosters, students and inquisitors, victors and victims are recounted in incredible detail. And every detail seemed to come down to money.
The contrasts are staggering: a booster can give $185 million to support an entire program, but a player can be sanctioned for a $3.07 (yes, that’s three dollars and seven cents) accidental overpayment on a summer job. Coaches are routinely the highest paid state employees (even before the product endorsement deals and speaking engagements) when teachers, cops, and librarians are losing their jobs and pensions. T-shirts, jerseys, hats, and memorabilia bring millions in revenues, while student athletes supposedly earn nothing. An athlete accused of criminal activity can get legal advice from top-tier law firms, while their victims must rely on poorly paid prosecutors, and face threats and shaming for jeopardizing the program. And over it all is the mantle of the NCAA, which screams about teams offering cream cheese on bagels but misses the flagrant violations of their arcane regulations.
The authors present each chapter as a story in and of itself, but the overall narrative is connected by the story of Mike Leach, the coach who created the stellar program at Texas Tech, but was fired for his tactics in disciplining a weak player. After an extended absence from football, he was hired by Washington State University, where he once again laid the foundations of a successful program, but also underwent another abuse investigation, in which he was exonerated. From the coach recruitment process to the creation of a team, through the discovery and recruitment of players to the relationship with the school administration, readers see Leach in every aspect of his professional life. We even get a glimpse of the difficulties Leach’s wife Sharon faces as a coach’s wife.
Even for people who don’t care anything about football (and I count myself among their number), The System is a penetrating look at a dominant part of American culture. Whatever you feel about the game, you are sure to come away rethinking your position. There’s a lot that needs to be scrapped, some things that can be fixed, and some profound positives that deserve highlighting. Let’s hope real change can come from the discussion The System ought to start.
This week’s posts are written by staff from the Circulation Services Division. Today’s review is written by Alan.
The 15 years following the end of World War II are considered by many to be one of baseball’s golden eras. Attendance skyrocketed, great players returned from the war, the leagues were integrated, no other professional sport seriously competed for the affection of sports lovers, and television brought the game into millions of households. This same time brought forth the birth of a new development – the literary novel about baseball. Before, baseball writing consisted of newspaper reports and sports columns, inspirational sports novels for boys, and colorful and entertaining short stories about characters who inhabited baseball land.
The first, and to many still the best, literary novel is The Natural by Bernard Malamud, which appeared in 1952. It was the 38-year-old author’s first published novel. On one level it is the story of the ups and downs of the sensational rookie season of Roy Hobbs, a superb natural athlete, who enters the big leagues at the age of 35. On another level the book is a commentary on the American dream – or more specifically on the dark side of that dream. Roy Hobbs wants to live that dream, but he has failed to obtain it, through a combination of bad luck, bad choices, and an inability to understand how the game of life is played. He has a gargantuan appetite (literally and figuratively) for life, but he does not know how to live it. He is alone within himself, wary and distrustful of others, standoffish, and incapable of true affection – in short, not a people person, a team-mate, not a team player. There is a sort of redemption at the end of the novel when he realizes that he has learned nothing from his past life, and that he has to suffer again. The question left hanging and unanswered is whether he is, indeed, capable of learning from his past and putting his suffering to good use.
In 1984 The Natural was made into a movie starring Robert Redford. The movie emphasized the mythic aspects of baseball at the expense of character development and granted Roy Hobbs the bucolic and idyllic resolution and ending that he wished for in the book but that Malamud denied him on the printed page.
Two other literary novels about baseball worth mentioning appeared just a few years after The Natural. Both were written by Mark Harris – The Southpaw (1953) and Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), which was adapted first for television and then in 1973 for the movies. These books are concerned with the human aspects of the characters that inhabit the pages, not the profounder issues that concerned Malamud.
Check the WRL catalog for The Natural.
I’ve become accustomed to a certain kind of contemporary story about high school and college sports. It involves programs where wealthy donors court spoiled players and break school and NCAA rules with impunity, where a jaded professional attitude infects even young players and every resource is put into creating stars. There are good and bad examples of this story, but it’s getting a bit familiar. In the end, I feel a little jaded after reading about another collection of athletes with disproportionately high opinions of themselves.
Muck City isn’t like those stories. It’s about Glades Central High School and a few other neighboring schools around Belle Glade, Florida, a place that is legendary for the athletes it produces on a regular basis (28 NFL players to date), but where there is no money to pour into the team. Belle Glade is a broken sugar town, a place where poverty, drugs, AIDS, violence, broken families, and unemployment are the rule, not the exception. Almost none of the players on the team have two-parent families. While Glades Central often wins or compete for state championships, its players are often in ragtag uniforms, drinking pickle juice on the sideline where other teams drink Gatorade, still playing both ways because the team can’t afford to travel a big squad.
Yes, the recruiters are after the Belle Glade kids, but Mealer’s book shows a squad driven as much by desperation as by fame. Football will be the only way out for most of these kids. Everyone in the community seems to have an opinion about how the team should be run, not just because they are sports-obsessed, but because the team is one of the few bright spots in a bleak place.
Mealer was given good access to the team and he uses it to good advantage, but focuses on half a dozen main characters. Quarterback Mario Rowley is a minor talent hiding major injuries, but through sheer force of will he competes for a college scholarship and to ease the memory of his dead parents. Jonteria Williams is a cheerleader trying to do something nobody at Glades Central does, make a better future through academics instead of football. Other players rise to the occasion, surprising their coaches and themselves, while at least one major talent falls prey to too much attention and not enough work ethic. Coach Jessie Hester, a former NFL player with his own demons, is trying to keep the team together while fending off a thousand second guesses and pressure to win at all cost.
And while other sports stories can turn into repetitive accounts of one game after another, leading inexorably to the big game that you know from the start the team will win, Mealer’s book is more about life, about what sports can solve and what they cannot solve. About the many tragedies that can befall those who live in the world’s forgotten places and the hard-won triumphs that occasionally can be scratched out. Yes, there are plenty of game accounts, but the real game here is life. That’s what makes Muck City a book not just for football fans, but for anyone who cares about the human drama.
I am the first to flee at the sight of blood. As such, I don’t watch boxing and I quickly switch the channel when watching football if the station decides there is a need to show slow motion replays of a player’s injury from EVERY ANGLE. But for whatever reason, I can stomach violence in graphic novels, as the images can be processed as art by my brain, conveniently disconnected from reality.
Browsing our shelves, I picked up a copy of Heart but almost put it back again when I realized that the story revolved around an MMA (mixed-martial arts) fighter. I ended up holding on to the volume, deciding that since I had been in a reading rut recently, something so far out of my normal comfort zone might be just what I needed.
The story throws you right into the middle of the octagon at the beginning of a fight between Oren “Rooster” Redmond and Mike “The Hooligan” Murphy. Glaring and tattooed with muscles tensed, they square off with the cheers, jeers, and bloodlust of the crowd in a roar around them. The story is narrated by Oren, and he baldly presents his adrenaline and bravado as well as his mistakes as he takes us through his journey from slightly overweight office worker to trained fighter. He’s inspired by his older brother, who started out as a college wrestler and progressed to MMA after graduation. From the drudgery of his data entry job, Oren enters a life that finally allows him to live life on his own terms.
It’s Oren’s honesty about how his fighting career progresses that really pulls the reader into the story. He’s not trying to fool anyone, not even himself. His frankness and honesty are refreshing yet surprising, since MMA promotion isn’t known for being austere or unembellished. Oren wryly confesses to prior unkind thoughts about “guys who wore too-tight t-shirts with shiny, metallic crap written on ‘em” before he entered and embraced the culture.
Heart is an engaging and powerful read. I would recommend it to sports fans, readers of graphic novels in general, or any reader who loves stories where the human element transcends the environment.
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Mag is a junior majoring in Law and Public Policy. She wants to not only study the ways that legal institutions create and change policy; but also, the ways that individuals, groups, social justice movements and more shape legal institutions and policy. Furthermore, she’s exploring different forms of conservation practices and aims to transform the face, practice and future of conservation through diversifying the field. She recognizes that social justice and diversity issues are intertwined in every aspect of life and are needed in order to change make societal changes. Mag hopes to have a career in public service, diplomacy and advocacy and being a commissioned Foreign Service Officer of the United States.
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Until in any other case noted, any books I evaluation on this blog I’ve both bought or borrowed from the library, and I don’t obtain any compensation (financial or in-form) for the reviews. Gambling dependancy is a harmful cycle that progresses if not understood or addressed. Despair and shame are frequent with senior gamblers who feel they need to be capable of management their playing or who are becoming alienated from household as a consequence of arguments about playing.
These steps are supplied by Liz Karter, an dependancy therapist and expert in downside playing. Legal consultants predicted that sports activities leagues and gamers’ unions, as well as dozens of states, will seek a cut of the revenue from expanded sports playing.
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I have never had any interest in rowing. But my uncle, whose recommendation I read this off, was a rower and is now a rowing coach. I can easily see why the story of the rowing crew from Washington, nine working class boys trying to work and study and live in the 1930s, whose big ambitions took them to Hitler’s 1936 Olympics in Berlin appealed to my uncle. I didn’t expect it to have such an affect on me.
Was going to take a cool photo of this book at the beach, but …. I forgot. So here it is framed by my laptop while I’m studying instead.
It is impossible not to be moved by the story of Denis Avey, the man who broke into Auschwitz. A British POW in the second world war, it has taken him 70 years to tell his story. He recognised that it was important for his story to be told and I agree with him.
The title, ‘The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz’, is somewhat misleading but it does not make Avey’s story any less incredible. While a POW, Avey worked alongside the Jewish who were prisoners in Auschwitz III Monowitz. This is not ‘the’ Auschwitz where the mass murders through gassing occurred, although it wasn’t far from there, this is where they housed those fit enough to labour for the German war effort – until of course they were worked to death. On two occasions, Avey swapped places with a Jewish man named Hans, putting his own life at risk so that Hans could have a decent feed and a sleep where he wasn’t in fear of at any moment suddenly being put to death. I think it amazing that Hans would swap back the next day, knowing what it was he had to go back to. The British POWs weren’t treated well, but it was better than the Jewish men were treated.
As well as being the story of Avey’s swap with Hans, this also the story of Avey’s chance meeting with another Jewish man named Ernst, who had a sister relocated through the Kindertransport to England. What followed had me in tears on the train.
I worry that stories like Denis Avey’s, like Hans’ and Ernst’s, will fade as time goes on and we progress further and further from the days of World War II. I think it is so important that we do not forget what happened during the time, lest it happen again.
I have read The Diary of a Young Girl a couple of times now, and every time I can feel the tension building more and more as I get closer and closer to the end. The diary entries end abruptly with 20 pages left in my copy (the afterword) – I was still not ready for it.
Reading Anne Frank’s diary is such a personal experience. She doesn’t hold back, of course never thinking that her diary would pass through the hands of millions of people one day, is unswervingly honest and the reader is entirely encompassed in her world. The reader sees Anne’s hopes and dreams, her trials and little triumphs, her good days and her bad. It is the war, from the point of view of a teenage girl who is locked away in an annexe for two years without stepping outdoors until the Gestapo come for her and her family, for the simple crime of being Jewish.
This diary is so important as a historical document, as are all the stories that came out of the war. It is evidence of a father’s love and devotion to his family and their memory, it tells the story of ordinary people swept up in a war they didn’t ask for. It shows how people fight to keep one another safe in those hard times. There are many heroes in this story.
I cannot read this diary without being moved to tears every single time. I think the publication of this diary has done a whole lot of good in the world as it is now, and I hope it will continue to.
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BOSTON - Several former athletic coaches and others accused of participating in the college admissions cheating and bribery scandal pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges Monday.
The developments here in federal court came nearly two weeks after prosecutors announced charges resulting from an investigation of an alleged plot to compromise the admissions process at several prominent universities.
Monday's appearances were part of the first wave of legal proceedings to result from what investigators call Operation Varsity Blues, with more court appearances - involving wealthy executives and celebrities - to come this week and next. The mastermind, college consultant William "Rick" Singer, has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and conspiracy counts of racketeering, money laundering and fraud. He is scheduled to be sentenced in June.
Twelve defendants came to U.S. District Court Monday afternoon to answer the racketeering conspiracy charges. They appeared in groups of three before Magistrate Judge Page Kelley in a brisk sequence lasting about an hour. All entered not guilty pleas.
Among the first three to show was Gordon Ernst, a former Georgetown men's and women's tennis coach, who recently resigned as women's tennis coach at the University of Rhode Island. Prosecutors allege that Ernst received more than $2.7 million in bribes from Singer from 2012 to 2018 during his tenure at Georgetown. In exchange, prosecutors say, Ernst designated at least 12 applicants as tennis recruits, including some who did not play competitively - an action that facilitated their admission to the highly selective Jesuit university in Washington, D.C.
Ferguson, the Wake Forest coach, is on administrative leave while he fights the accusation of wrongdoing. Prosecutors allege that Singer sent Ferguson $100,000 in 2017 - including $40,000 for the Wake Forest women's volleyball program and $50,000 for a private camp the coach controlled. In exchange, authorities allege, Ferguson designated one of Singer's clients as a volleyball recruit. Shaun Clarke, an attorney for Ferguson, said his client will clear his name.
Separately Monday, the Education Department wrote the presidents of eight universities tied to the admissions scandal requesting information to determine if their schools broke any rules associated with federal student aid programs, in what the agency termed a "preliminary investigation." The requests for information follow a statement on March 13 by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that said she would look into the matter.
"The allegations made and evidence cited by the Department of Justice raise questions about whether your institution is fully meeting its obligations" under federal education law and regulations, an agency official wrote. The letter, first reported by Politico, was sent to Yale University, Wake Forest University, the University of San Diego, Stanford University, Georgetown University, the University of Texas, the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles. The list was confirmed by a person familiar with the investigation.
Anderson reported from Washington. The Washington Post's Laura Meckler in Washington contributed to this report.
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Ordjobb is a company located just outside of Stockholm, Sweden, which is active in language and IT services. The company is run by me, Helena Hoppe, and I've been working with both language and IT for several years. That's why I can help you with what you need. Click the above tabs to find out more.
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Yes, I know today is not the 25th, call me an overachiever. Before I begin blogging I think a few things about the site and my post should be pointed out to keep things in context and to respond to the questions and comments I have been getting.
Why only rap/hip hop concerts?
I will go to various shows, the majority, not all, will be rap/hip-hop because that is the music that I like and I am buying the tix. Also, it makes more sense to compare similar acts.
Why doesn’t the blog have its own twitter/IG?
Once people are following the blog I will add that stuff, it’s not easy to maintain multiple accounts on social networks.
How do you find out about shows?
Google duh. Also, twitter, blogs, live nation, ticketmaster and eventbrite emails. If you find out about some before me, let me know.
I put the categories I will be rating so if the artist does well in those categories it is a good show to me. An easier question to answer is what makes a concert bad and for that I have a long list for but will just name some of the top things that I dislike. Too many unnecessary people on stage, background track and performer not in sync, no change in song to include audience, bad sound, artist with weak or no stage presence and also an overlooked thing is song choice; people go to concerts to hear the random tracks on the album they like not just the singles or songs with videos and some artist leave those gems off the set list.
Layout is kind of blank.
I know I am working on it, options are limited until I pay more, should change as the post count goes up.
Thanks for all the feedback, I will try to continually improve the site and I will always be taking questions and suggestions.
Look out for tomorrow’s post.
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Telematics as a vetting tool in car-sharing fleets explored by Siegfried Mortkowitz.
New mobility services are creating new relationships between drivers and vehicles, and potentially between car owners and their vehicles. The rise of who peer-to-peer (P2P) car-sharing has enabled owners to leverage the times their vehicles are idle by allowing strangers to rent them for short periods of time.
In P2P relationships, the most important commodity is trust: the car owner must believe that the person who will drive the car is competent and reliable. Benoit Tournier, director, marketing and business development, at Sierra Wireless, regards this as an excellent opportunity to exploit telematics technology and UBI driving data to make the experience more transparent for the car owner of and less expensive for the driver.
New website for nexyad "we save lives"
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I know Mrs. Moon. Not particularly well. We’ve sat across from each other at dinners, talked while we walked around a con, and so forth. She’s a very nice lady. We differ on many political issues.
She wrote a blog post this year about the proposed mosque at ground zero. I thought it was well written, thoughtful, and I largely agreed with it.
Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Elizabeth Moon was disinvited as Guest Of Honor from WisCon because of the contents of that post. She is being described as a bigot and a racist. In a shallow search of the internet the negative response to her post was vociferous and ill-informed. By that I mean that the vigor of those decrying her words seemed inversely proportional to how well they understood what she’d actually said in the post itself.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. For decades now ideologues have been preying on individuals who can’t be troubled to fully understand any given issue. If the soundbite doesn’t make you feel warm and fuzzy, like a kindly revolutionary, well, you must be against that. If the soundbite doesn’t resonate with your own fears, give you a sense of belonging to the in-group, well, you must be against that. Carry on, wave your placard, dump your trash on the ground for the workers to pick up.
Mrs. Moon’s post was largely a call to active citizenship, to responsibility, to personal accountability. A democratic republic cannot function properly if the citizens are worried only about themselves. The well-being of the group, the nation, the country, must figure largely into a good citizen’s responsibility equation. Mrs. Moon is well entitled to make that statement having served in the Marine Corps among a great many other things. Presumably she did at least a few good things that got her the Guest of Honor invitation to WisCon in the first place.
Part of being a good citizen here in the United States is a willingness to openly consider ideas that may be different from your own. Discuss them on their merits. Examine your own ideas in their light to see if, perhaps, you can learn something. It is the mark of intellectual cowardice and dishonesty to refuse to examine, refuse to discuss, refuse even to entertain, ideas that may be different from your own.
I’m looking at you WisCon.
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In the fall of 1789, on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales, a dense, persistent fog enshrouds the village of Ingleton. Shadowed spirits hide in the mist and bedevil the townsfolk, heralding a tragedy that has befallen one of their own.
Edmond continues to search for Alexandra, his fiancée, who disappeared the same night that the mist set upon their town. Presumed dead by all others, he visits Alexandra’s empty grave, desperate for any hint of what has become of her. Weary from the sleepless nights on his quest, no longer able to stay awake, Edmond falls into a dream before her headstone and there obtains clues from Alexandra as to her whereabouts.
Haunted all the while by a malevolent spirit, Edmond follows the trail that Alexandra left for him and enters the underworld, only to learn that he has been there before, and in fact, quite often. But more, he discovers how he is to blame for Alexandra’s disappearance.
A dark literary novel rich in imagery, Discussion of a Decent Dream unearths the consequences of a child’s decision to surrender his heart in exchange for unholy power and transcendent knowledge.
Discussion of a Decent Dream is a Finalist in Britain’s Wishing Self Book Awards in the Adult category.
We ignored the portent that crept into the countryside the day she disappeared. But in the weeks that followed, with no answers as to what had befallen her, with no assurance that she still lived, we came to understand, and most saw the worst in the blanket of mist that stopped time and shut us out from the rest of the world.
I had just turned twenty-one the summer of 1789 when Alexandra went missing. And after all our fruitless searching, in need of some direction, I snuck, under the cover of night, into the yard where her parents had laid their sorrow to rest. Falling to my knees before the stone of her empty grave I spoke with reverence, not for the hallowed ground, but for the call that brought me, as though somehow she could hear me.
E. Curtis draws on personal experiences of the otherworldly for his writing. Through dreams, visions, and waking encounters, his exposure to darkness has motivated him to detail what he has come to know of the preternatural. While a few short pieces have been published on an online literary magazine, Discussion of a Decent Dream is his first novel.
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Almost to the finish line of my FIRST 5K!
Pre-tri…no nerves, let’s get going!
And the swim begins! Just seeing this picture gives me butterflies.
Infinite thanks to my cheering squad!
5K with Mom & James…knee injury, schmee injury!
Love this hike, and the view makes it even more rewarding. It’s incredible!
Just a little bit farther!
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The Above Picture is of the 2 of us, Terri Clarke, and Mandi Goudie (left to right). We chose it because it was taken New Years Eve when we were both soooo drunk that neither one of us can remember it being taken.
In case you're wondering about the title to our site, antigonowhere, is actually the quaint little town of antigonish, nova scotia-where we attend school.
Our experiences here at St. Francis Xavier University have been life changing, and unforgettable. The friends we have made will be with us for a lifetime. They truly are some of the most wonderful people we have ever known.
Chillis, the rez we live in, couldn't be any better. Especially since we're attached to the best brother house anyone could ever ask for. The MacNeil boys are the nicest, hottest guys around!!
Well, HOPE YOU ENJOY OUR PAGE!!!!!
Click on the pic of us in Corner Brook for pics from home!
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The last time I was in Jerusalem was 2008. Before then I was in Jerusalem at least every other year. The place I hang out when I am in Jerusalem is the Shalom Hartman Institute in the neighborhood of Talbiyeh. What I did for 10 days was study under the rubric of the Hartman’s Rabbinic Torah Study Institute, an annual gathering of over 150 rabbis from all over the world. Rabbi David Hartman, Alav Hashalom, was the founder of the Institute. in 1974 while I was on my junior year abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem from UC Berkeley, I took his Jewish Philosophy class. His passionate and incisive lectures on Jewish thought and philosophy was the most memorable experience of that year. A Hartman opened up the world of Maimonides to a twenty year old and moved me to choose the rabbinate. He imparted the vitality of Jewish tradition showing how Maimonides, in particular, was not only relevant to our times, but was required study to understand religion and human thought. Hartman also had the unique ability to bring the legacy of Jewish thought to bear on the reality of a modern Israel and of Judaism in the post Holocaust world.
I returned to study with Rabbi Hartman as a young rabbi in the mid-80s at his newly established institute on Rachel Imeinu in the German Colony. I was drawn back to the Institute year after year to study with him and the assemblage of great scholars who gathered around him. The Institute grew and grew and now inhabits a beautiful and bustling campus in Talbiyeh in Jerusalem. It was a joy for me to return to the Institute and resume my studies there after all too long an absence.
Rabbi Hartman and the Institute opened to me a way of learning and thinking that has had a decisive impact on my life. Hartman had the unique ability to convey the debates of past ages and to show how the conversation continues in our own time. Judah Halevy and Moses Maimonides continued to argue in his classroom and at his institute. Rabbi Hillel and Rabbi Shammai brought their ancient disputations in those halls. These debates also foreshadowed new Mahlokot-debates emerging in Israeli society and in the Diaspora. David Hartman engaged in them fearlessly and enabled us to enter them and be transformed.
This summer our topic was Tzedek Umishpat, justice and righteousness. These are two central ideas in Jewish religion and culture. But the long history of their presence in Jewish literature requires looking at how these two concepts appear across Jewish thought and history. Scholars delved into the use of these concepts within the Bible, in the Talmud and Midrash, in the Medieval philosophical and mystical traditions, and through the eyes of modern Israeli poets and writers. These studies were not limited to the study hall, but were augmented by trips around the country that enabled us to see how social issues were being played out in Israeli society.
One thing is guaranteed at the Hartman Institute. There is no whitewashing. There is no political correctness. There is disagreement; sometimes it is sharp. There is no Jewish idea or figure who is left free of scrutiny or critical reflection. The Institute models Jewish public discourse and overcomes the shouting match that wounds so much of contemporary Jewish communal life in the Diaspora and in Israel. The Institute’s focus on fostering civil conversation and listening on Israel and other difficult topics was particularly timely in the wake of the emerging controversy over the Comprehensive Agreement with Iran. All this was in the background while we plunged into the texts.
I will drop a few names of the scholars we studied with in the hope that you will seek out their writings or watch their presentations at the Hartman website. Ruth Calderon, Melila Hellner, Micah Goodman, Yehuda Kurtzer, Moshe Halbertal, Israel Knoll, Rachel Korazin, and Donniel Hartman gave compelling presentations on the meaning of justice and righteousness in Judaism, often with strikingly critical and counter intuitive insights about how these concepts were understood at different times in our history.
One recurring theme of many of the lectures was the observation about the easy corruptibility of religious institutions and practices. Worship of God falls into magic. Ritual meticulousness supersedes ethical awareness. The term tzedek umishpat, justice and righteousness, is deeply influenced by the prophetic critique of the misuse of Jewish power and religion. This corruptibility is on vivid display in 1 Samuel, chapters 1-4 which describes the ascent of Samuel the Prophet and the decline of the priestly leadership in Shiloh. Centuries later Jeremiah the Prophet, will go back to these incidents during the time of Samuel to describe how powerful religious institutions such as the Temple in Jerusalem slide into corruption and endanger the whole community. One role of the concepts of tzedek umishpat is to help Jewish generations see failures of continuity and the demands of renewal and regeneration of Jewish culture and religion.
One insight I gained was that the role of the Rabbi is not so much to be an advocate for religion, but to carefully observe and point out when beloved religious traditions and practices lose connection to their original foundational meanings. A rabbi functions as a sentry for his or her generation to preserve the centrality of justice and righteousness at the heart of the Torah.
It is now 40 years since I studied with David Hartman in Jerusalem. In my adult life I have had the privilege of witnessing the momentous debates about the meaning of the establishment of the 3rd Jewish commonwealth. Someone this summer made an apt observation about the historical significance of the gathering of rabbis and scholars at the Institute.
After the Second Temple was destroyed in 70CE Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai gathered the surviving rabbis in the village of Yavneh to grapple with the meaning of Judaism without Jerusalem. After the Six Day War in 1967 a scholar by the name of Rabbi David Hartman gathered rabbis to grapple with the meaning of Judaism with Jerusalem.
The excitement and intensity of being at the Hartman Institute is to grasp this historical continuity of three thousand years and to understand and confront the challenges of our own generation. It has been a great privilege to participate in this endeavor and be a witness to history.
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What’s more appropriate than playing V:TES on Easter?
We start with a four player game.
Ah, Talbot’s Chainsaw decks. Brandon brings out Ferryman. Gary steals Ferryman. Brandon’s ready region is a disaster. David brings out Tariq, who gets skill cards, Atonement, sent to torpor, and Graverobbed.
That does save David from losing Tariq to my Form of Corruption. I have Army of Rats, Anarch Revolt, Smiling Jack in play while Gary has a Famed vampire in torpor and I play a few Extortions to make things difficult for both David and Brandon. Brandon does send my Nadima to torpor with Talbot’s as I manage my blocks badly. She gets eaten. Army, Revolt, Smiling, Fame all get cleared. With infinite time, I would sweep as David had no ready region left to speak of and Brandon had been surviving on virtually no pool with almost no library. Gary had less library than I did and I brought another Nadima out to go with Horrock with Raven Spy and Mirembe.
Maybe I should play more webdecks – this one was one I found that I cut down to 80 cards because I hadn’t played Gangrel with Serpentis in a while, though my intent was to play a more bleedy deck.
Brandon plays first turn Information Highway and just runs over the table. It’s sort of amusing, sort of sad that first turn Information Highway is still such a brutal play. With no vote defense, Brandon just kept KRCing forward, and I didn’t have nearly enough intercept to block forward, plus David stole my first gun for some reason.
I play first turn Information Highway. Turn two John Dee, turn three Claudio. I can’t draw into any blood management, so I’m sitting around with two full 9-caps for much of the time. I wonder if I can just play with them, as that would be funny. When I do draw Villeins, Brandon Suddens them both.
I thought Andy would hate my TWD, as he often hates them. This one is so dumb, though, that he thought it was hilarious, even using Angra Mainyu’s stealth ability to steal Powerbase: Montreal. He overblocks forward, and I bleed him out, with David on the ropes. I try to bleed David out and get Archoned and John Dee doesn’t have Obfuscate, so I get ousted. Brandon finishes off David.
I bring three guys with FOR/Obf out and get bled for 16 in two Etrius actions. David manages to hang on forever with his mighty Carlton and whatever, though Etrius spending lots of blood on stuff helped immensely. Andy brings out lots of vampires but has inconsistent bleed. He draws a lot of masters while I watch. Eventually Andy ousts Brandon and wins the endgame.
Yet again, I neither write down rules questions we have nor do I write down deck ideas that come to me while I play. The reality is is that there are many, many possibilities for decks. Sure, most of them are going to be sucky decks or decks that are just worse than other decks, but, if all people wanted to do was win playing games, they should find some nice two-player games with a healthy competitive environment. Even two-player CCGs aren’t really all about winning but about the massive variety that CCGs have that most other games don’t.
I also feel like I should play some stuff I’ve played before but haven’t played in a long time. There’s a nostalgia factor. There’s also building the same deck with newer cards. Baali of the Name is a goofy deck that would never occur to people since the infernal rule got changed and since Path of Evil Revelations got printed. But, I’ve already written up an updated version of Weapon Not Found that doesn’t run five Ashes to Ashes. Etc.
As to why I haven’t posted in a while, starting a new job has something to do with that. Have to adjust to a new schedule. I have opinions on RPG experiences recently (I even played an HoR3 mod for the first time since Gen Con!), but I don’t feel strongly enough about them to get something down on e-paper.
You are currently browsing the ICLee's Gaming Blog blog archives for the day Thursday, April 9th, 2015.
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This past week, we’ve felt stronger, inspired that teachers in West Virginia are struggling collectively, with dignity and without bowing to the union bureaucrats or cops, for their future and the future of the children they teach. The teachers are fighting for all of us, demonstrating the power of solidarity to push back against the relentless cuts to living standards threatening us all. Now it’s up to the rest of us to make sure they don’t fight alone by spreading the struggle. We hung this banner during rush hour as a small contribution to that process.
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It is hell, it is hell in my soul.
And scatter this doom from my soul.
There is hope and relief for my soul.
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How Desperate are You for Change?
I’ve been involved in healing ministry for the past 20 plus years. It’s been mainly spiritual and emotional, but also supernatural physical healing as well. I’ve learned a lot about healing and about people over those years. In regards to people, I’ve come to realize that we are all very stubborn and resistant to change. I say we, as I’m including myself, as well. We are resistant to change because change requires work, and we also tend to be mostly lazy.
I saw this time and again with people who said they wanted to be free from traumas and various bondages they were in. Yet they were often unwilling to let go of the sin, the lies they believed, or the grievances they had that gave place to the bondages. The effort required to renew their minds seemed overwhelming, so rather than pushing through, they chose to give up. In truth, we usually want a quick fix to get us out of our pain. It is also true that we make time for the things that are important to us. Those who did get healed and free were desperate enough to do whatever it took to get there.
Over the past few months, the Lord has been greatly impressing upon my heart the area of health and nutrition. I see it as an extension of the healing ministry I’ve been a part of; another facet of the diamond, so to speak. Scripture says our bodies are fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14) and it is true! Science and the medical industry are continually learning new things about the incredible ways our bodies work and what they are capable of. In this early stage of my new journey, I am more in awe every day of God’s magnificent design, seen in the human body.
I am also learning that so much of our quality of life is determined by our diet. Stress and anxiety also play a big role in affecting our health. I see and hear so many people talk of how tired they are, or how sick they’ve been. They go on about this medicine they’re taking and the side effects they’re dealing with, how much weight they need to lose, chronic pain they’ve had, and a host of other issues. It’s sad to say the least. But the good news is, it doesn’t always have to be that way. We can help turn our health around by making better choices in how we eat, sleep, and exercise. learning new ways to alleviate as much stress and anxiety from our lives will also help.
Which brings us back to what I said at the beginning – we humans are mostly resistant to change because we are lazy and don’t want to do the work required. So we go on in our dysfunction, be it spiritual, emotional, or physical, and take on a victim identity. The really sad part is that we choose that because it is familiar and comfortable, even if it is slowly killing us! It is easier to blame everything and everyone, than to take responsibility for our health and our lives, and do something different.
I want to say that I know not everyone or every situation falls into this category. There are always exceptions to the rule. There are times when every possible option is explored and still there are no answers. I am in no way meaning to discount anyone’s suffering. We do live in a fallen world, and therefore, bad, unexplainable things, sometime happen to good people, people who are desperate for healing. No one but God has all the answers. I am speaking to, and hoping to challenge, those of us who can do something about our situation. We can change our diet, how we handle stress, how much we exercise, etc., if we really want to.
I don’t know your situation or where you stand, but for me, I am ready to make some changes. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I am desperate enough to do whatever it takes – how about you?
Posted on August 7, 2016 Categories Christian life, HealingTags anxiety, healing, health, ministry, pain, sicknessLeave a comment on How Desperate are You for Change?
Burnout is a topic that comes up often in conversations, especially when one is involved in ministry. I read and hear stories, almost daily it seems, of pastors and leaders who succumb to various sins, often because of burnout. These include sexual immorality, quitting the ministry, substance abuse, financial dishonesty, divorce, and even suicide. It not only affects the leader and his or her family; the ripples go out far and wide, affecting group/church members and their families.
Pressures from within and without often lead to this state of burnout. Outside pressures can include the needs, demands, and expectations of those within the group or congregation we lead. In addition, there are the needs of the family, which are often neglected because of the above. Personal needs, including time with God, are often last on the list of things to do. When given into, these pressures become a recipe for disaster and certain burnout.
Then there are the pressures within. Legitimate human needs, such as affirmation, validation, acceptance, and love can drive us unwittingly to perform and to prioritize people pleasing above pleasing God, taking care of ourselves, and our families. These needs can make it difficult to set healthy boundaries and say “no” to people when necessary. This behavior, over time, leads to resentment, anger, and bitterness because people cannot meet those needs, not even the ones who love us the most. This behavior, in turn, will lead to burnout.
Often, healing and deliverance are needed to bring the wholeness that enables us to resist these pressures, and thus, burnout. Issues such as unmet needs from childhood, lack of identity or purpose, absence of one or both parents, abuse, rejection, or abandonment by parents or others, etc., must be resolved – they don’t just go away. Whether we realize it or not, we live, and minister, out of these areas of wounding and the lies we believe as a result. Consequently, we reproduce what we are, for we can only give to others what we have within.
Burnout can be avoided if we receive healing and resolution to our own personal issues, learn to make quality time with God our first priority, and spending time with family above time spent in ministry. Learning to get enough rest, eat healthy, and exercise are also important to maintain our own physical, mental, and even spiritual strength. Though this may sound difficult for some, it is possible, by God’s grace. Jesus wants a whole, healthy bride, which must start with whole, healthy leaders.
Have you struggled with burnout? Did you overcome it, and if so, how? Please share your comments.
One of the most amazing and misunderstood realities of the Christian life to me, is prayer. Having been a part of various prayer ministries over the past twenty plus years, I’ve seen a lot— some good, some not so good.
It is interesting that prayer is the only thing the disciples asked Jesus to teach them about. Not how to do miracles, or how to raise the dead, heal the sick, or cast out demons; they wanted to know how to pray. They observed Jesus often withdrawing from the crowds to be alone with His Father, or getting up before dawn to seek His face. (Luke 5:16; Mark 1:35) They witnessed the miracles that flowed from Him effortlessly throughout His short ministry. The times He seemed to know what His opponents were thinking captured their attention. (Luke 5:22; 6:8) They became frustrated when He cast out a demon they were unable to. (Mark 9:17-29) His teachings, full of wisdom and authority, unlike the religious leaders, made them realize He had something they didn’t. (Matt. 7:29) Eventually, they put two and two together and rightly concluded; His secret must be His prayer life.
Jesus demonstrated perfectly what a life of prayer and submission to the Father should look like. Several times He declared, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” (John 5:19) He received specific instructions during the times He spent alone with His Father, and then obeyed what He saw or was told. Those intimate times produced a union of heart, mind, and spirit between Father and Son which resulted in Jesus’ perfect obedience and a life of fruitfulness. He later illustrated this spiritual union using an analogy from the natural realm— the grapevine and its branches. (John 15:1-8) Just as He could do nothing apart from His Father, so He said we could do nothing apart from Him. (v. 5) He clearly demonstrated that intimacy through prayer was the key to His success in ministry.
God never changes and neither does His Word. What was true for Jesus 2,000 years ago is true for us today. We too, must spend intimate time with our Father so that we may receive specific instructions, and grace to obey Him. He has chosen us and desires that we bear much fruit for His glory. (John 15:16) But He wants us to do so from the place of intimacy, where fruitfulness flows effortlessly, with no straining or striving. He even warns us about the perils of relying solely on our giftings, rather than intimacy with Him. (Matt. 7:21-23) Our first calling is to know Him intimately, for when we do, everything else will fall into place.
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I am soooo happy, I am all done with my finals!! I feel so light and fluffy now.
Well, not much else going on... gonna go for a walk at Redondo with Jessica. yea, exercise!
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With a billion cars on the road today expected to double in the next 20 years, a new vehicle company Eggasus has been selected as a finalist in the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge sponsored by Rabobank.
Chico, California (PRWEB) June 21, 2012– With a billion cars on the road today expected to double in the next 20 years, a new vehicle company Eggasus has been selected as a finalist in the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge sponsored by Rabobank. The Eggasus egg-shaped vehicle is designed to address exploding traffic congestion, parking shortages, extreme air and noise pollution.
On June 21st, the brightest minds in California located outside the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and San Diego will gather at the Sierra Nevada Brewery in Chico, CA to showcase their best innovations and compete for the “Most Innovative Product of the Year.” Eggasus was established to introduce a flashy, single-passenger vehicle with zero emissions and an eye catching, out-of-this-world design. The egg-shaped Eggasus expresses a paradigm shift for easy transport around campuses and dense urban areas. Learn more about the competition at http://www.innovate-northstate.com.
Eggasus is designed to move a single passenger quietly and safely from place to place or building to building in a comfortable all-weather enclosure. Under its egg-shaped shell is a three wheeled, trike styled electric vehicle (EV), equipped with an electric hub motor in the front wheel, enclosed cab, tinted windows, ergonomically comfortable seat, and instrument display panel. Stable and agile in tight spaces, Eggasus also offers zero tailpipe emissions, low-pollution, high-efficiency and quiet operation.
Designers of Eggasus say it will have three main uses: A) Urban travel; B) Intra-campus transportation; and C) Mobile advertising billboard. Eggasus also addresses efficient travel in rainy weather, often a deterrent for bicycles or scooters.
The reason for Eggasus is to simplify transportation in dense urban areas. Many times smaller than an SUV, Eggasus is more parking-friendly fitting half a dozen to a normal parking spot. Cities are getting bigger and denser; it is estimated that by 2030, 6 out of every 10 people will live in a city, and by 2050 this proportion will increase to 7 out of 10 people. People are seeking out more efficient forms of transportation. Motorcycle registrations are up in the USA with scooters up 12% in 2011 according to Motorcycle Industry Council. More than 200 million motorcycles are now in use worldwide.
Improving urban transportation takes so much time, energy, resources and politics, it is almost a classic chicken-egg scenario; which comes first? In this case the egg comes first. By offering an immediate solution, Eggasus breaks the deadlock. USA TODAY recently wrote about cars of the future writing, “They’ll be smaller, safer, smarter.” An egg-shaped vehicle may be just what they meant.
The new vehicle is planned for initial production this year and Eggasus is taking orders through social venture funding site Indegio.com. The price for a pre-production Eggasus will be $5,000 a piece. Cheaper by the dozen, of course, you can place a pre-order, sign up as a dealer with a dozen or more ‘eggs,’ purchase a kit, or simply a ‘shell’ at http://www.indiegogo.com/eggasus?a=654077. The Eggasus official website is http://www.eggasus.com.
Our mission to create a vehicle for the future today with zero emission, an eye-catching, out-of-this-world design, to move you quietly from place to place or building to building in comfortable all-weather enclosure.
This entry was posted in Press Release, Uncategorized and tagged advertising, billboard, car, challenge, eggasus, electric, ev, innovation, ipa, mobile, motorcycle, nevada, scooter, sierra, trike, vehicle. Bookmark the permalink.
There are so many options out there that I’m completely overwhelmed .. Any tips? Kudos!
Fox News: Is the Eggasus electric vehicle the future of transporation?
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I live on the Central Coast – a series of dormitory suburbs north of Sydney. The CBD is just over 100k (62 miles) away from this northern end. It’s about 2 hours by train if the trains aren’t delayed, and with a 20 minute car run to the station included in that time. If the F3 isn’t choked with crashes, bushfires, or traffic, it’s about 90 minutes at the 110k limit on the Newcastle-Sydney Freeway.
It’s a strip of land squashed between the rolling Pacific Ocean and the inland Dividing Range. Just inland are chains of picturesque lakes studded with pretty islands. The hinterland is full of fat farmlets and ‘substantial properties’ – mansions on a few acres that sell for millions.
Everywhere, there are empty second houses owned by people who don’t have time to visit them, while locals can barely afford to rent. At the most, these second homes are tenanted on long weekends.
One house in our street is literally inhabited for four days twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, though the last year, they only made it at Easter. This year, they came on a long weekend too, and as they have noisy dogs and children who think screaming is acceptable, we’re hoping it’s a momentary aberration.
This was a holiday place in the south and along the coastline, and a coal mining area in the north – with rural endeavours along the rest of it. The only people who lived here were those who made a living off tourists, or worked in the coal mines. The mines are mostly closed now, or automated.
Not far away, driving down the desirability of absolute lakefront, is the power station, its high chimneys marking the sky for miles around, but invisible from our little pocket of lake and sky, which cups us like a blue bowl. No smoke in the sky, they filter out ‘visible’ smoke. Usually the only stains in our sky are the nicotine stain of Sydney to the south.
Looking southeast over the Tuggerah Lakes to the coast, from Munmorah Power Station's twin stacks. Just glad prevailing winds blow from me to thee. Budgewoi is top left of this pic.
Like any fringe metropolitan area, more than just city-dwellers looking for cheap real estate wash up here. The junkies, the alcoholics, the abused and their abusers. The crazy, the crazed, and the crying inside.Those who need medical care in the capital, but can’t afford to live near a decent hospital.
Our street is a cross between retirees, upwardly mobile and ordinary working people, and society’s leftovers. I’m actually leftovers, the Underclass, but i pretend to be polite and middle-class – amazing what you can do with a posh speaking voice.
The house across the road, cut into two flats, attracts the Underclass. When i first came here, there was a beer-bellied 30’s guy upstairs, and a younger guy with gaol-house tattoos downstairs.
Bazz was skinny, covered in blue ink, but with a big smile, his long hair in a mullet. We met when he came over to help get the fridge up the stairs. He’d seen us struggling from across the road. It’s the sort of first meeting you give a person a lot of credit for, a really nice gesture, and we appreciated it.
Mr Whatsit and I had little contact with any of our neighbours – i don’t really want to get to know them, had too many crazy ones. There were occasional loans of battery chargers by us, help with carrying things inside from him, basic good neighbourly stuff.
Mr Whatsit was helping Bazz with his car. When reading the battery’s install date, it came out that Bazz was completely illiterate, and couldn’t read numbers either. It was only ten in the morning, but he was already drinking bourbon and coke. A young man on his way down.
Then his girlfriend moved in. A tall, slim, very pretty girl, Mandy spoke to me once, her eyes downcast when Bazz spoke over her. We tried to steer clear of them – we could see Bazz was wired too tight.
Like most of us who end up in abusive relationships, Mandy was probably on a rescue mission which had gone horribly wrong. The fights started. You could hardly hear her, just him shouting and screaming, getting in his car and doing burnouts in the street, driving off like a madman, screeching back into the driveway, more yelling.
Neighbours called the cops, as did we, but it went on, for months and months. Sometimes you could hear Mandy, a little high-pitched voice, or hear her sobbing. He didn’t hit her, at least as far as we knew, but it was abuse of a different kind.
Their ground-floor flat was barely habitable. Bazz had three goofy, friendly Staffordshire Terrier crosses, kept fish, tanks and tanks of them, and wasn’t the best fishkeeper – the tanks were often discoloured.
Then there was the mess from three dogs, carpeting the back yard. The smell reached out if you went past the front of the house.
Bazz and Mandy were both about early to mid 20’s. I went over one day, i can’t even remember why. I was talking to Bazz, and he was telling me how they were moving to Sydney. They had an offer of somewhere to live and he’d be able to get work.
A woman came round the corner of the house, looking to be about mid-forties and not ageing well. Very thin and hard-faced. She smiled, i recognised the smile, and assumed it was Mandy’s Mum come to help with the moving.
We said hello and shook, and Bazz said, “You remember Mandy?” Of course i did, but i couldn’t see her in the woman looking at me. It was less than a year since the first time i’d seen her.
I pretended to recognise her, managed not to look shocked, finished the conversation and went back across the road. To my unsmelly house. Once my sinuses stopped complaining, i realised they were both on something nasty – amphetamines of some kind, most probably.
Part of me wanted to help, particularly Mandy – i could see myself in her.
I know there was nothing i could have said, nothing i could have done. Nobody could have told me, when i was young and in love, that i was in a bad place with a man who was wrong for me in almost every way, or that the drug i was taking was messing with my perceptions, and destroying me.
Meanwhile, the house across the road emptied out. The guy who lived upstairs never came back after a court date, and Bazz and Mandy took off to the Big Smoke in his 80’s vintage Holden Commodore.
Pair of kids on an adventure. Dogs in the back, friends helping move the furniture with some hired trailers.
At first, the street seemed quiet without them, then a man who claimed he had been a medic in Vietnam, plus another woman and her pregnant daughter, moved in upstairs.
With three people in there, it was so crowded that the fights were just like before. A deaf guy with a weakness for brunettes lived downstairs where Bazz and Mandy used to be.
I have Bazz’s phone number, he has mine. When i next clean out my phone, i think i’ll delete Bazz’s.
No sense in holding on to the dead.
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Locked in a health-care debate that is claiming much of his energy, President Obama acknowledged Monday that a push to overhaul the U.S. immigration system would have to wait until 2010.
Obama suggested it would be too ambitious to aim for a bill addressing such concerns as illegal immigration before the end of the year, at a time when he will be confronting "a pretty big stack of bills."
Speaking at the end of a two-day summit meeting of North American leaders in Guadalajara, Mexico, Obama said his administration was meeting with lawmakers to try to come up with an immigration plan that would have bipartisan support. "When we come back next year ... we should be in a position to start acting."
As a candidate, Obama said in July 2008 that he would make immigration "a top priority in my first year as president." But the economic crisis and realities of governing have forced him to re-examine how best to roll out his agenda.
"I think we'd be smarter to move on it this year," said Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, an advocacy group.
"There's a real hunger on the part of the American public to make sure immigrants are legal, are working toward citizenship, are paying their taxes and not being used by bad-actor employers to undercut honest employers."
Obama said he was confident that he ultimately would prevail in providing a road to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the United States. But previewing the expected struggle to get such a bill passed, he said illegal-immigration foes would put up stout resistance.
"Now, am I going to be able to snap my fingers and get this done?" said Obama, speaking on a stage alongside Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. "No."
"This is going to be difficult; it's going to require bipartisan cooperation. There are going to be demagogues out there who try to suggest that any form of pathway for legalization for those who are already in the United States is unacceptable."
He added: "But ultimately, I think the American people want fairness."
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Back in 1995, my first job at Apple was as a Product Marketing Manager for OpenDoc.
“OpenDoc” was a terrible name for an interesting technology. Instead of requiring developers to write huge applications that had to do many things (for instance, any credible word processor needs not just editing features but spell checking, tables, embeddable photos, etc.) the OpenDoc concept was that developers could just write the one piece they were best at, then let end-users mix and match all of the little pieces of functionality together as they wished.
It wasn’t an original idea; in fact, it’s exactly the same sort of thing that had been in Microsoft Office for years, allowing users to embed Excel spreadsheets inside of Word documents. But Microsoft controlled that technology, and for some reason, someone felt the need for an open alternative that other software vendors could embrace. Hence was born OpenDoc, both the technology and the consortium, consisting primarily of Apple, IBM, and WordPerfect, all companies that didn’t like Microsoft very much. All poured loads of money into the initiative. (The only software project at Apple that was bigger than OpenDoc was Copland.) It’s almost difficult now trying to recall why this technology was considered so fundamental to these companies’ strategies, but you have to remember that this was before the web took off, and what was important to everyone was the application layer…not the Internet.
Beyond developing the technology as a sort of “gift” to Mac developers (whether they perceived it as a gift is a separate discussion), there was a thought floating around the halls of Apple that, hey, we’re plunging a ton of money into OpenDoc, there must be some way we can leverage it in the operating system. The OpenDoc team was really into this idea, not just because it made them feel good that somebody was using their code, but because it meant that OpenDoc would be a required installation in future Mac OS releases. (Having your technology pre-installed with the OS is a big deal for third-party developers, because if it isn’t already on the system they’re not as keen on adopting it. Of course, the OS group resists adding new things because of increased complexity and memory footprint–more on this later.) For the reasons just outlined, the OS team’s excitement around OpenDoc was…more muted. And it was my assigned task to get that OS team to adopt OpenDoc in a big way.
Despite what the title “Product Marketing Manager” may imply, no one worked for me. As a product manager at Apple, your job was to go around to the various development arms of your assigned technology–engineering, quality assurance, human interface–and make sure they were doing things in a way that was conducive to making your technology appealing to customers. At gatherings when different product groups got together (say, the weekly Copland team meetings), you were the flag-bearer for your technology. That I was under-qualified for this task should have been obvious to me at the time, but it wasn’t. Though I was plenty technical enough to talk with Apple engineers, I lacked the confidence to really engage them head-on. Most importantly, I didn’t have the strategic insight that would have let me realize that maybe Apple wasn’t doing the right thing by pursuing OpenDoc so aggressively.
The Copland team was wary of OpenDoc. I looked at those people as bad guys at the time, but in reality they were right to be afraid. It’s hard to remember now, but back in 1996 memory (as in RAM) was a big issue. The average Mac had about 2 megabytes of memory. OpenDoc wouldn’t run on a machine with less than 4 megs, and realistically, 8 megs was probably what you wanted. That wasn’t the only issue. The OpenDoc human interface team had taken it upon themselves to correct the perceived flaws of the Mac as a modal, application-centric user experience, and instead adopted a document-centric model for OpenDoc apps. This played itself out in many ways, some not-so-important (the “File” menu became the “Document” menu, and the “Quit” command disappeared), others more so. It was a noble and interesting idea, but in retrospect it was a reach, not important to the real goals of OpenDoc, and it scared a lot of people including the developers we were trying to woo.
OpenDoc didn’t succeed. (I guess I have an affinity for stillborn technologies.) It didn’t create a new economy around tiny bits of application code, and the document-centric model was never allowed to bloom as we had hoped, to the point where it would differentiate the Mac user experience. The tragedy of this is that OpenDoc had many of Apple’s best engineers, and they–and many of our third-party developers–truly loved the technology and put their all into it. It didn’t matter. Everyone’s interest drifted to the web, and most of the folks working on OpenDoc went to Sun to work on Java; after my marketing team of six people dwindled down to just me, I left to start a Java tools company with a friend. There are lots of reasons for OpenDoc’s failure, but ultimately it comes down to the fundamental question of why Apple was developing this technology when no-one in the company really wanted it. The OS group had mixed feelings, but ultimately didn’t care. Most folks at Claris, Apple’s application group, didn’t want it at all, seeing it as an enabler for competition to Claris’s office suite product, ClarisWorks.
One of the smarter people in product marketing at the time was Vito Salvaggio, in charge of Copland product marketing. I remember giving a presentation to him one time, describing a core set of parts–text editing, image viewing, etc.–that would form a base set of functionality that developers could count on being bundled with the OS. I’m paraphrasing here, but I remember him asking, “who’s going to use the text editor when it has so little functionality?” In response, I quoted the Apple dictum that was ubiquitous at the time: we couldn’t have the text editor do more, because then it would be a full-featured text editor that would compete with our developers. (We had so few developers supporting the Mac as it was…how could we afford to put them out of business?) Yet Vito–and I can’t overstate how radical this was at the time–didn’t buy this reasoning. “Microsoft competes against their developers,” he told me. “They’re successful. Their developers are successful. And they’re kicking our asses. Why shouldn’t we be competing against our developers?” And it dawned on me: he was right. And he wasn’t just right, he was so right that it just completely slapped me in the face that everything we had been doing was wrong. Apple was so worried about stepping on its developers’ toes that it resisted any attempts to add useful functionality to Mac OS. It wasn’t the kind of company that could succesfully develop a technology like OpenDoc. That’s when I knew that OpenDoc would fail.
There aren’t any stats I’m aware of that conclude how many Macs have been purchased because of iPhoto, iMovie, and the like, but I can tell you that when I recommend the purchase of a Mac to someone, they’re the reason I do it. For the first time since MacWrite and MacPaint, the Mac actually does something out of the box.
Unless you have application groups who want to create functionality to run on your OS, it’s one hundred times harder to figure out what you’re supposed to be doing with your OS. Without those application groups telling us they needed–or didn’t need–OpenDoc, we were flying blind. (Witness the pathetic track record of other Mac OS technologies at the time to realize just how dead-on the phrase “flying blind” is: Copland, QuickDraw GX, QuickDraw 3D, Apple Guide, PowerTalk, CyberDog. All abject failures, despite their technical prowess.) This isn’t a problem that exists at Microsoft (at least, it certainly isn’t evident.) The Office group needed a component architecture, so they wrote one. They needed it integrated into the OS to support things like Publish/Subscribe, etc., and to leverage it into Explorer…it happened. The OS gets exactly the technology it needs because the application groups know exactly what they want. No one has to guess.
There’s no shortage of reasons why Steve Jobs has made Apple a success, but this is certainly one of the more important ones: he isn’t afraid of stomping on Mac developers in pursuit of what he believes the Macintosh should be. They may complain, but in all honesty, they’re better for it. And so is the Mac community.
As a Mac developer back in the days of OpenDoc, one issue with adoption was that the programming model was such a radical departure from classic Macintosh development. Not just the programming language (C++ was still pretty new), but the way you had to develop things.
It’s been 9 years, so we still have 11 to go, but I fear I’ve been wrong all these years, since I’ve yet to see the level of componentization I expected. It may just be that the Software leaders have too much invested in the existing paradigm.
As for the other failed technologies, I wasted far too much of my life on PowerTalk (aka AOCE). This was an amazing idea with an absolutely terrible implementation and even worse documentation. Pieces of similar technologies exist (like JMS), but none with the end-user perspective.
I worked in the Advanced Technology Group at Apple in the summer of 1995, and I actually built one of the only functioning OpenDoc parts. I use the term functioning loosely, since the development environment and frameworks were so twitchy nothing was really production quality.
I agree with your comment on the OpenDoc UI folks fighting old battles, and trying to move to a document-centric interface. Very theoretical gain, and it was too subtle for users to appreciate, even assuming it was correct.
The difference between components and services gets pretty subtle, once everything can communicate and exchange data. With XML, SOAP, AJAX, etc. today, people are building highly component-based software, but definitely not in the model that OLE & OpenDoc would have had us.
This post really takes me back – I remember the how fanatical the CyberDog fans were at the time!
In 1994, I went to an IBM developer’s conference and saw OpenDoc for the first time. I was stunned by its utility.
While I couldn’t see, at the time, how it would be really useful for consumers, I was mesmerized by the power and potential for line of business applications. The idea that you could just drag together different OpenDoc objects to create an entirely new business application was an epiphany.
For example, take your accounting application and just drag in a different company’s costing object and another’s salesforce automation object and have them seamlessly communicate, was a systems implementation dream come true. And here we are ~20 years later and there isn’t ANYTHING CLOSE to that future IBM/Apple implicitly promised and I envisioned.
What is really sad is that the overhead needed by the OpenDoc environment would have been a moot point if it was released as little as 10 years later (though perhaps it would have bloated up through poorer programming practices, it’s amazing how programming on underpowered computers improves your app’s computing efficiency). I’m out of work right now, but still dream of kind of functionality.
Another area the concept could be used is in an “OpenDoc-like” online game. Imagine hundreds of vendors creating game apps (maybe even as simple as a weapon) that could be dragged into the game to give you that weapon’s functionality (at least as much as the particular game would allow (a laser sword that would do specified damage on particular objects (e.g. walls, doors, monsters) in both sci-fi and fantasy games, but do it differently, based on what is allowed by the rules of the world)). the same “weapon-app” could use OpenDoc’s interface to work on totally unrelated games. This would allow for truly organic worlds. You could create a new weapons by dragging, say, a new battery pack onto an existing laser gun that would increase its damage an life span. While that world may eventually “devolve” into chaos through cumulative damage, it would be a blast while it lasted. Then again, perhaps different planets/dimensions would eventually become uninhabitable and have to be abandoned, only to have “nature” later bring it back, similar, but evolutionarily different.
Oh, so much potential, but (very apparently) was way, Way, WAY before it’s time!
Cyberdog was terrific, although that had little to do with it being comprised of OpenDoc parts, at least in use. Oh, being OpenDoc parts meant that you could do wacky things like create a document containing multiple resizable views of live web pages plus your email in-box, which made for a great demo (and it was cool how the web pages would scale in their entirety), but ultimately CyberDog was just a really slick set of Internet tools — email, web browser, FTP. Plus it was fun to use. Then again, probably no apps I have ever used are as completely fun to use as the current suite of iApps, so if OpenDoc had to die (and it did) in order to enable apps such as iWeb, Keynote and Pages etc. to appear, so be it. No one cries for the Mac user.
One thing that isn’t mentioned here is the Bento (?) file format, which supported versioning, and displaying component data in a way that degraded nicely if the viewer’s computer didn’t have a suitable component (an example – hypothetical probably because nothing was ever quite finished – was that a document with a 3D model embedded in it would still display a simple picture on a computer without a 3d viewer). I guess the application independent document format lives on somewhat in XML.
The guy who wrote the specification for Bento left Apple shortly after OpenDoc was canned, and I think he started writing a open sequal called IronDoc. I wonder what he moved on to eventually?
Bento is the container format for Avid’s “open” media format for interchange (OMFI).
So it’s been in continuous use since 1994 (by people making loads of money), and still ships with an Apple product (Final Cut Pro).
I know it didn’t happen in this order, but trying to comprehend OMFI earlier this century, Bento just looked like the final layer of obfuscation Avid put on to make the open format comprehensible only to them.
The administration interface for AppleShareIP 6 was an OpenDoc application. The new document-centric paradigm for the interface manifested itself in an application that tended to crash frequently and that ignored making things easy for the user (drag-and-drop between users and groups was very broken for the first releases).
It’s great to hear of OpenDoc; I was an enthusiastic user. I used Cyberdog a few months ago, because Mail handling a particular enclosure. The Dog did it perfectly.
I bought every openDoc part I could find.
but then, I still use my Newton.
Speaking as a non-developer, it seems to me that OS X has done a pretty good job of chopping functional bits out into the OS that developers can then use like building blocks. As someone whose job is based around the written word, I can tell you that I appreciate the standard and high-quality text editing and typography tools that are built right into the OS. Option-escape word completion from within a browser is just great. From what I understand, the Core APIs and so forth are a developer’s dream.
It’s the developers, though, not the users who assemble the building blocks. Users aren’t coders and we prefer problems to be solved magically for us. Does anyone really use Automater?
Good to see that you’re still kicking, Greg! My experience with OpenDoc started in 1993. The Center for Research in Math and Science Education in San Diego had an NSF grant to develop physics simulators for use in high school physics classes. They needed an inexpensive text editor in which to write the curriculum. I described a wonderful new technology in development at Apple that would allow them to run their simulators in situ (within the editor). Not long afterward, an acquaintance introduced me to Physicon Ltd of Moscow, Russia and I incorporated MetaMind Software to develop the text editor shell, called Dock’Em. Physicon wrote 5 physics simulators under OpenDoc; I wrote a 6th (Force and Motion). We started selling in August 1994 and as everyone knows, Jobs cancelled OpenDoc in March 1995. OpenDoc still works in OS 9.2.2 under Panther on the PowerPC. I use them still in my high school Physics classes.
I developed and taught Apple Developer University’s OpenDoc seminar.
I saw OpenDoc a bit differently.
(2) Writing simple components wasn’t too bad, but writing a component that could embed other components was next to impossible.
(3) ODF came too late in the game and, while in some ways was needed, also made “parts” too big and slow to work on then current machines.
(4) Debugging was a nightmare. SOM was a nightmare.
Some pieces of OpenDoc were well thought out, but others were never thought out at all. Apple used to tell everyone how you could have a ‘spell checker’ part, for example, even though there was no way to do a functional (non-visual) part.
The sad thing is that OpenDoc would be almost trivial in Cocoa and Mac OS X what with bundles for document files (simple i/o instead of Bento), introspective GUI elements, standard encoding and decoding of objects, background threads, and Quartz for graphics.
2 Gigs of memory and 2GHz machines wouldn’t have hurt either.
CyberDog was great, but I was never sure if OpenDoc really helped it at all.
OpenDoc was not canceled by Jobs in 1995. Jobs hadn’t returned to Apple at that time. The demise of OpenDoc more or less came when Apple laid off virtually the entire team in March 1997.
David McCusker did not write the Bento spec. He certainly was the engineer working on it and he was developing an urgently needed successor to Bento that came too late to make a difference. I believe the Bento spec was written by Jed Harris, but I’m not completely certain.
In the ten years since the end of the project, I’ve been aware of two “reinventions” of OpenDoc, independently, as far as I’m aware. One of these was at Adobe. Both concerned complex documents with component-like objects that operated on some content within the document. Neither came to anything. Maybe someday.
In the days of OpenDoc, I was a support person for Macs at the campus I work at. (I was also did some minor apps for NeXTSTEP on the side).
OpenDoc was an interesting idea, but despite all the fervent evangelism I heard for it, I was never convinced that the design had a real solution for different users having many different components, written by different people, with a variety of version-skew problems. Sure, the user could choose between 10 different versions of “the graph component”, but how would that actually work in the real world? Consider a campus setting, with different people choosing different components, and inevitably running different versions of the components they did have in common, and yet having to share documents across all those computers. To me, OpenDoc seemed like it would be one huge nightmare. Yes, I heard all the propaganda about how great it would be, but the proponents never showed how version-skew problems would magically disappear with “components” compared to “applications”. And OpenDoc promised it would deliver lots and lots of components, so it needed to have a real solution to those version-skew issues.
It also seemed extremely obvious to me that one of the main attractions of OpenDoc (as far as the proponents were concerned) was that it would allow developers to break the stranglehold of Microsoft Office. That’s a great idea — assuming you can get Microsoft to buy into it. But why would Microsoft *ever* build an OpenDoc version of MS-Office? And if MS-Office was never going to use these OpenDoc components, and MS-Office already had a stranglehold on the “office app suite” market, then OpenDoc could never hope to break that stranglehold.
Also, as a programmer, it seemed to me that C++ was a really bad language to be designing something this flexible. C++ is a plausible choice if you’re trying to code for speed, but not if you’re trying to code for mix-and-match components across multiple versions and written by many different developers.
So it seemed to me that the ‘Services’ model of NextSTEP (and now MacOS 10) provided some of the nice “small component” flexibility that OpenDoc wanted to deliver, but did so in a much more manageable manner. Yes, it is much less ambitious, but that’s why it is easier to implement a reliable result.
I saw OpenDoc for the first time on WWDC ’94 and was surprised how fragile it was – one click on the wrong spot and it would crash.
However I think the concept was great and at the time I imagined collections of components replacing the monolithic applications from Microsoft, Quark & Adobe.
Also I have not heard any other explanation that holds water. Because it was picking up in terms of popularity and support in the time before it was pulled and I clearly remember quite some very surprised (and angry) reactions, so it was clearly not dormant.
That the project was canned because the consortium did not manage to resolve the technical problems around the file specifications, as a guy from upper management told me recently, I find somewhat hard to believe.
It’s call HTML 5, CSS 3 and JS. Very complex, multimedia documents can be created within an open environment.
I believe OpenDoc would only work if most of the components (all the core ones) were OpenSource so everyone would be able to use them.
The only other way for it to work may be if each component had a viewer that was free, but this would be more complicated.
Something like OpenDoc could happen within the OpenOffice project. Does anyone know enough about ODF to know whether it would support this?
No, the components don’t necessarily need to be open as long as the (component) file formats are. The idea being that however complex a document may be, it is still made from basic building blocks, like text, images, movies, drawings, sounds, etc.
In an OpenDoc document, you could separately access each of these building blocks with a piece of software of your own choice for viewing or/and editing. That’s precisely the threat it presents to monolithic applications.
Hi Greg! Love your style and your talent. Please check out my website, it was created to promote a two-sided poster I produced for the San Luis Obispo Railroad Museum. I am working on several projects that you might be able to help me with. Project One is a visual book about Disneyland rail history in Frontierland. See “Rainbow Ridge” on my website for the prototype book cover.
Separate from my book effort is a Disneyland poster project I am doing just for fun (it’s something to put on my wall). I wanted to have a poster for each of the 12 attractions I worked at Disneyland but there were no posters for the Adventureland and Frontierland shooting galleries. Ditto for the old Fantasyland Theater which ran Disney cartoons. I have started some work on these poster ideas but I am a designer, not an artist. I will be happy to share my design elements if you would like to art direct some new posters. The finished posters would be your property. Or we can talk about another deal. At this point I want to establish some kind of creative relationship with a very talented guy, I am sure your art can help with one or more of my book projects.
How would you compare Google’s recently announced Wave with OpenDoc?
There is one thing, that is even more “OpenDoc-ish” than Wave..Google’s mobile OS, Android. Application can publish “intents” that get intercepted by third party software which actually executes them. It is great feature that gives Android a lot of flexibility and I think it position it well in the “battle” against iPhone.
Bento really needs a lot of work.
If anybody want to contribute, with code or ideas, please post on the forum.
Seems like we’re at a time where something like OpenDoc could make a comeback.
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When it comes to private eying, Harry’s a real wiz.
Mind you, this ain’t your grandpa’s Chicago — it’s an “alternate” Chicago where magic is real, even if only a few actually believe in it. And Harry’s no genial magician pulling rabbits out of a hat or plucking candy from the ears of wide-eyed children. Nope, he’s a rather irascible grump who regularly gives the magical establishment indigestion. But he is the only wizard listed in the Chicago phone book.
Harry services include “Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice,” and he offers “Reasonable Rates.” But he’s also picky about what he will and will not do. So don’t come knocking on his door for “love potions, endless purses, parties or other entertainment” — any self-respecting wizard/private eye’s gotta draw the line somewhere.
The series has proven to be quite popular, drawing fans of both the mystery and fantasy genres, so it wasn’t too much of a surprise to hear that the Sci-Fi Channel even aired a television series in 2007, with Paul Blackthorne as Harry. The series only lasted a season, but the books have continued to hit the bestseller lists ever since, and may have helped spark renewed interest in Glen Cook’s similarly themed Garrett series.
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Graphic novel collection of 2008 four-issue mini-series.
Fool Moon (Part One) | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Ghoul Goblin | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Graphic novel collection of the mini-series.
War Cry | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Down Town | Buy this book | Kindle it!
Wild Card | Buy this book | Kindle it!
The author’s official web site, where you can discuss Harry and buy assorted merchandise.
Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith. Thanks to Ingrid Gabriel in Vienna for the lead.
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2019-04-19T00:24:34Z
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The purpose of this blog and the associated actions do not only concern one particular law or political treaty. It is more about revealing and explaining a process, which has been going on for at least a decade, while increasingly affecting our civil and enlightened self-conception .
ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) is just the point where we decided to no longer sit and wait since the development of the security policy of the last eleven years is alarming. In order to describe the necessity of our actions and the explosiveness of the issue, we decided to put together a collection of articles from popular media concerning the topic.
We listed a few renewals, which set alarming standards and could interfere with the freedom of our future lives.
An open society should have the right and the opportunity to be informed in order to become aware of its actual development. Democratic control cannot succeed without a public and fundamental discussion characterizing our ongoing political system and its consequences for the future society.
Following the links you will find a time-line, chronologically documenting the most important juridical stages and putting the actual situation in a historical context. By describing the symbiotic connection between the particular events and their impact on the next ten to fifteen years, the time-line shows a greater picture of the complexity of the process.
Please take some time to look around. Do your own research, talk to friends and relatives, ask your teachers and professors. Always keep in mind how fast the last ten years went by, what happened, what has become possible and think about what will soon or once become possible. Reflect your personal experiences, especially those born between 1980 and 1990 should remember the time before the digital breakthrough: A time without cable television, without cell phones, internet or computers.
We have to admit that the generation before 1980 was also a part of this change, such as those after 1990 born into the beginning of a digitized world. But no generation experienced the immediacy of the change like the generation of the 1980s.
They are therefore capable of a proficient and skeptic view, enabling an understanding of the situation instead of just being present during the process.
Looking at the speed of the fundamental renewals, development and processes including the concentration and the long-term consequences, there is only a little amount of time and space left to resist the status quo sustained by the mainstream-media.
The ignorance of their reason of being, questioning current developments, is enabled by the fact that themselves are not aware of the current lack of information.
Everyone of us has his or her political interests. For some it is world peace, for some the environment and industry and for some others it may be the social divergence or human rights.
To a lot of us the internet policy is a foreign, new and maybe even uninteresting issue, especially as a new and undefined political area. But the development of the internet politics will soon affect every part of our public and private lives, leaving no area untouched.
While keeping the society uninformed about the upcoming restrictions and how they could affect the people’s lives, new laws and measures are being imposed by our governments.
Their overall impact can only be revised in retrospective. An almost impossible challenge we do not want to face.
If one realizes the consequences of current development for the personal life, one may feel overwhelmed. If all the recent changes are just the beginning, where will we stand in fifteen years? What will we tell those wanting answers to their questions? How will we look back at our lost decade?
No matter what topic you may be interested in, this concerns you too.
Decisions affecting upcoming generations are being made by people who are not aware of the impact to our lives, especially regarding the fact that they will be absent when the laws and measures add up to a fully functioning control system.
We, as European citizens of our time have the possibilities to demand our right to discuss and be part of political decisions. But above all we have the right to exhaust our possibilities and prevent the worst case: having to realize we wasted our possibilities when it is too late.
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2019-04-19T01:23:18Z
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At LifeCoach4God, David P. Craig has posted an article originally written by Alva J. McClain (1888-1968), former President of Grace Theological Seminary, about the nature of the kingdom of God in the period of Acts and throughout the present age. McClain argued that Jesus is not now actually king, but that his kingdom was “an immediate possibility, depending on the attitude of the nation of Israel.” But I think McClain has misrepresented what the Scriptures teach on this subject.
The teachings of E. W. Bullinger, and similar doctrines of Mid-Acts Dispensationalism, (M.A.D.) (e.g., Sir Robert Anderson), were the subject of an in-depth study by H. A. Ironside, available here.
The essential meaning of the passage, therefore, is that the restoration of the kingdom of David was to be connected with the spiritual conquest of the Gentiles.
Lyn Leahz posted an article on Idealists, Preterists, And Futurists written by dispensationalist Jack Kelley. In the article Kelley expressed his opinions on the comments by James in Acts 15:13-18 on a prophecy found in Amos 9:11, about the tabernacle of David. James applied the prophecy to the church.
Many preachers who support dispensationalism try to discredit the idea that Jesus Christ is reigning in the present age, upon the throne of David. But if Jesus is not the promised king who reigns on the throne of David forever, how could Peter say he is the Messiah? If he is not the king of Israel, how can he be the Christ?
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2019-04-22T23:55:06Z
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https://creationconcept.wordpress.com/category/book-of-acts/
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She's so hot and dresses like me...I love Katie.
oh yes, I adore her sense of fashion as well! She's just SO adorable and hot!!!
yeah, I'ven't been big on the posting and commenting lately! :-/ Life's just... not so much fun right now. But I hope better times are coming.
that guy in the middle looks familiar??!!
It's Ashton Holmes. But I dont know him.
Aw, these are so cute. I love Katie!
I cant agree more! She's simply awesome!!!
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2019-04-23T10:44:44Z
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