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What it all means is it is time for people in LA and the San Fernando Valley to get out of town.
All the homes in the path of the gas leak are now contaminated with radiation. It is on the roofs, on the sidewalks, the grass, the furniture in the backyards, children’s swings, sliding ponds, play toys and sand boxes outside. It has drifted INSIDE those homes via open windows.
It’s on the floor where you walk into the house, on the chairs where you sit (after it fell on your clothes outside as you walked into the house). It’s on your pillows in bed, after radiation got onto your hair outside, and on your bed sheets, from exposed body parts where radiation fell on them outside. It’s everywhere. (Source)
Y.O.Y.O. for Your’re On Your Own. The EPA won’t warn you, or call for mass evacuation. Obama AWOL. Congress…forgetaboutit…Big Oil will not allow this tragedy to be reported and effect other operations.
Folks, we are under assault from Man’s technology to kill off all life possible.
Fukishima, NOW LA ..yet no one seems to care…or even report on this, another ongoing mass tragedy affecting millions, if not billions. Methane releases are 100% more toxic to the environment than C02,and the Fresno Porter Ranch leak is now being reported to contain other deadly toxins.
And there is no end in sight. “Experts” are at a loss on how to stop the leaks and have only been making the grave problem worse…much worse for the foreseable future. If you have friends/family in the LA area, please alert them..because NO ONE ELSE WILL!
There is a Expanding NO FLY ZONE over the LA Basin because they do not want engine fuel to combust with Methane Releases! Think about that!
The rogue well is spewing huge amounts of Natural Gas and about 1.91 Curie an hour maximum of natural radioactive material in the natural gas. Not much, you think? That is about 45.95 Curies per day. It is a really, really Big leak of natural gas and the radiation it always carries. A Curie is a unit of measure used in the United States to describe very large radioactive releases easily and this is a very big radioactive release.
According to experts from the International Association for Protection from Ionizing Rays (AIPRI) in France, lethal levels of naturally-occurring radiation are coming out of the well and people will die from that radiation.
The “methane” coming out of the well is usually called Natural Gas. It normally contains “natural radioactive materials” that are made in the inside of exploding stars. They are things like Uranium 238 and Radon which have been here since the planet was formed. They are in the very dirt of the Earth and thus are in natural gas, naturally. You can’t have one without the other.
Don’t believe us? Buy your own little Geiger Counter and take some readings yourself. Folks in the area where this gas is blowing will see radiation counts exceeding 2,000 counts-per-minute. In some cases, exceeding that by many times. Then ask the California Highway Patrol what their criteria is for a “Radiation Emergency?” They’ll tell you “Any reading of 500 Counts-Per-Minute CPM or higher is considered a radiation emergency.” It’s been their protocol for years. Same thing with the LA Fire Department. Ask them. They’ll tell you
Why the public in Los Angeles is not being told this by authorities is simple to understand: They don’t want a panic on their hands and, more importantly, they don’t want business and industry to be shut down, costing jobs and billions in tax revenues to be lost.
AIPRI notes the rogue well is spewing huge amounts of Natural Gas and about 1.91 Curie an hour maximum of natural radioactive material in the natural gas. Not much, you think? That is about 45.95 Curies per day. It is a really, really big leak of natural gas and the radiation it always carries.
A Curie is a unit of measure used in the United States to describe very large radioactive releases easily and this is a very big radioactive release.
The French Becquerel is a much more human sized unit of measure for radiation. One Becquerel is one Radioactive Disintegration (Count) per Second. One Curie equals 37 Billion Becquerels or Radioactive Counts per Second. One point Seven Trillion Becquerels per day spew from the Natural Gas well. That’s a number with a bunch of Zeros – a real Fukushima-class disaster number, right here in the USA.
From Europe, AIPRI finds:
“In 80 days of viscous and gaseous fumes at a breakneck pace of 1.7 million m3 per day (1115 tons per day at a rate of 46 tons per hour escape from the underground storage), 136 million m3 Natural gas dispersed in the air could carry with them having TBq 301.24 (3,01E14 Bq) is 8.14 KCI natural radioactivity for respirable (breathable) emanation of 12.060 Million Sieverts is equivalent 2.41 million potential lethal doses by inhalation according to the same dose coefficients from the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).”
Recently, however, officials in California began to publicly acknowledge that the amount of gas spewing from the well had been dramatically under-estimated. In fact, officials now admit that THREE TIMES AS MUCH GAS has been leaking as originally thought!
Using the same analysis from the AIPRI and the ICRP but with the newest numbers as to the amount of gas leaking, AIPRI amended their report to say the following:
If the leak, as it is now admitted, is actually 3 times greater i.e. 5.1 million m3 of effluent per day (3346 tons per day), with the same content per meter cube of radon 222 the natural radionuclides contained in the underground gas would skyrocket to 30.75 MBq (3.53 mCi) per second, of 470.69 GBq (12,72 Ci) per hour, 11.30 TBq (305.31 Ci) per day for an excursion in 90 days 1.02 PBq (27,48 KCi) a dispersion of 40.7 million Sieverts representing 8.14 million lethal doses by inhalation.
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Bachmann: It’s Not an Earmark If It’s for Highways and Bridges
The first phase of the lame duck ends today. Has Congress done the heavy lifting of finding consensus on extending tax cuts, or unemployment benefits, or Medicare physician payments, or the surface transportation authorization, or the federal budget?
No. But they named a few post offices. And they re-elected their same leaders to keep on leading them. And the emboldened Republicans have made it clear they’re steering toward a ban on earmarks, a sign to the electorate that they’re going to tackle the “wasteful spending” they lambasted during the campaign. (Their effort to start by eliminating funding for NPR was quickly disposed of today.)
Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has taken a hard line against earmarks in her second term, after getting nearly $4 million in earmarks her first term. “It’s all bad, as far as I’m concerned,” she told Fox News this spring. “All this pork is bad.”
This week, she told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she wants to redefine earmarks so that they don’t include transportation earmarks. Meaning, she wants an absolute ban on earmarks, except the ones she really, really likes. “Advocating for transportation projects for one’s district, in my mind, does not equate to an earmark,” she said.
Actually, that’s exactly what an earmark is, and that’s why they’ve been so controversial. They’re one of the primary ways that the legislative branch exercises control over spending. Many lawmakers see them as indispensable, since, they assert, they know better what the needs are in their districts than federal bureaucrats in Washington.
But Bachmann says, “”I don’t believe that building roads and bridges and interchanges should be considered an earmark… There’s a big difference between funding a tea pot museum and a bridge over a vital waterway.”
Interesting choice of targets for a Tea Partier. Incidentally, the museum she’s referring to is North Carolina’s Sparta Teapot Museum, which closed its doors early this year. A few years back there was some brouhaha surrounding a half-million dollar federal grant that was approved but, in the end, not spent.
In any case, Bachmann’s carve-out for transportation earmarks is somewhat endearing – after all, it shows the importance she gives to infrastructure investment, even if she does only mention roads and bridges. But it also shows she’s committed to an old and broken system for appropriating money.
“The transport program has always been characterized by a desire to have less federal involvement,” Robert Puentes of the Brookings Institution told Streetsblog today. “And that’s what we’ve done over the last couple years, is to whittle away the federal role, and what we’re left with is 6,300 earmarks.”
Meanwhile, he says, discretionary grant programs like TIGER have been able to target programs of national and regional significance and so are actually more consistent with fiscally conservative principles than earmarks. “They adhere to the mandate these guys are coming in with,” he said. “Better spending, more targeted spending, not wasting money – it hits all these things that they, abstractly, want to do.”
Michele Bachmann’s exemption for transportation earmarks may sound crazy, Puentes says, “But that’s how a lot of folks think about the transport system.” He says people treat transportation earmarks separately, “like if a member’s requesting it, it is therefore a matter of national significance, a high priority project.”
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The Bugatti Veyron concept will be making its second public appearance this week since its debut nearly 15 years ago.
When the Veyron concept was revealed at the 1999 Tokyo Motor Show, it was promptly stashed away, until this week. It will be on display at the Salon Rétromobile in Paris, France, through the end of the week.
Known as the Veyron EB 18.4, the concept looks nearly identical to the production model that followed in 2005. But rather than the quad-turbocharged, 16-cylinder engine in the current production version, the concept packed an equally insane 18-cylinders.
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Yoko Ono has been vilified for decades as having caused the break up of The Beatles but they never really revealed what they felt about the then young Ono who became one of the boys.
Now, years after the earth-shaking break up, Paul McCartney has admitted that the band did feel uncomfortable at Yoko Ono’s constant and continued presence within the band after she got together with John Lennon in the 1960s.
“We were kind of threatened [then],” McCartney told journalist David Fricke of Rolling Stone magazine in a new interview.
“She was sitting on the amps while we were recording. Most bands couldn’t handle that. We handled it, but not amazingly well, because we were so tight.
“We weren’t sexist, but girls didn’t come to the studio – they tended to leave us to it,” said McCartney.
“When John got with Yoko, she wasn’t in the control room or to the side. It was in the middle of the four of us.”
After John broke up from his first wife Cynthia, Yoko famously started attending studio sessions for The White Album.
The Beatles released three more albums after that – Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be and in 1970, they officially split, reports Daily Mail.
Given how he felt in the past, how does McCartney feel about Ono now? These days Paul says his relationship with Yoko is “really good”, with the star even referring to the avant-garde artist and George Harrison’s widow Olivia as honorary members of the band, telling Rolling Stone; “the two girls are Beatles.”
However, McCartney admits it took some time for him to get used to Yoko’s presence.
“My big awakening was, if John loves this woman, that’s gotta be right,” he reveals. “I realised any resistance was something I had to overcome. It was a little hard at first. Gradually, we did. Now it’s like we’re mates. I like Yoko. She’s so Yoko.”
But does McCartney blame Yoko for the band’s demise?
“She certainly didn’t break the group up,” he previously told Aljazeera. “The group was breaking up and I think she attracted John so much to another way of life that he then went on to, very successfully, add a sort of second part to his career, writing things like Imagine and Give Peace a Chance. I don’t think he would have done that without Yoko.”
In 1980, John was shot by Mark Chapman and tragically died aged 40, in New York City.
At the moment, Paul is in the midst of his One On One world tour, which concludes in California, where he’ll play two Desert Trip concerts along with Neil Young, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Who and Roger Waters, this October.
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|The Scientific Program is organized into two forums: Cultural Diversity in a Global World: acknowledgment of cultural plurality and its diverse expressions; Cultural industries and Technological Changes. The first forum will feature a round table, organized by the UNESCO Regional Office in Havana with the participation of experts from Netherlands, Peru, Ecuador and Mexico.
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I caught them reading together! Elayna loves her sister and wants to be just like her. Lilia loves her too and is learning to share and help Elayna. We went out to eat for lunch today with friends. On the way home I asked Lilia something and when I looked all I saw was the balloon, I looked behind the balloon and she was asleep. Elayna was tired but does not sleep in the car at all, only her bed. I love my girls. | <urn:uuid:d66a7665-9943-4c09-b34f-c3339c5de3bb> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://asherandamy.blogspot.com/2012/03/our-morning.html | 2017-11-19T06:38:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805417.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119061756-20171119081756-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.988134 | 152 | [
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Medical devices are assets that directly affect human lives. They are considerable investments and in many cases have high maintenance costs. It is important, therefore, to have a well-planned and managed maintenance program that is able to keep the medical equipment in a health-care institution reliable, safe and available for use when it is needed for diagnostic procedures, therapy, treatments and monitoring of patients. In addition, such a programed prolongs the useful life of the equipment and minimizes the cost of equipment ownership.
Scope of the Report:
This report focuses on the Medical Equipment Maintenance in China market, to split the market based on manufacturers, Regions (Province), type and application.
Market Segment by Manufacturers, this report covers
Market Segment by Regions (Province), covering
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Chapter 2, to analyze the manufacturers of Medical Equipment Maintenance, with profile, main business, news, sales, price, revenue and market share in 2016 and 2017;
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Chapter 14, Medical Equipment Maintenance market forecast, by Regions (Province), type and application, with sales, price, revenue and growth rate forecast, from 2017 to 2022;
Chapter 15, to analyze the manufacturing cost, key raw materials and manufacturing process etc.
Chapter 16, to analyze the industrial chain, sourcing strategy and downstream end users (buyers);
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The angel capital industry is a very rational business in almost every way. We have filled the void left by the venture capital companies since 2007, assuming their former role in diligence and post-investment curation. We are now the feeder system from the accelerator networks to the venture capitalists. And, it is a role we have adapted to well. The key difference is the fact that angel groups and funds are made up of…well, angels, not limited partners. Angel groups and funds are typically member driven organizations and depend substantially on volunteer labor. This all means they are subject to cycles of operation based on the big picture lives and lifestyles of the members.
The angel capital market’s cycles are subject to different forcing factors than venture capital. And, it is critical for entrepreneurs to understand these cycles. The timing of your approach to an angel group governs when, and sometimes if, you will get capital. Remember, it can take up to six months to close an investment from most angel groups or funds. We have perfected a 60-day cycle of investment, which requires a regimented process to complete. We are not unique, but we are also not typical in this respect.
First, there is the January Rush of companies looking for capital in January. The new year typically sees a wave of great companies all looking for capital in the new funding year. There are normally so many strong options, that we can’t fill them all. And, companies that might otherwise have gotten attention, do not, simply because this is the most competitive time of the year coupled with the greatest need for entrepreneurs who have weathered the off-season in the fourth quarter. A market where lots of highly competitive companies are financially desperate is rarely good for the companies seeking capital. Desperation is rarely a effective sales tool. However, it can be good for the investors as it becomes a buyer’s market.
In fact, the entire first quarter of the year is filled, often to overflow, with the required activities of filtering through and performing diligence on the stampede of opportunities released in early January. Following the first quarter wave is the Spring Trough, which extends through the second quarter. The companies that got capital have gone off to work. Those who could not get funding have either focused on organic growth, or closed shop. We still see strong companies looking for capital in the second quarter, but few if any accelerator programs graduate cohorts in the spring. So, the second quarter typically enjoys a slower pace of operations. In other words, this is a very good time to be seeking capital.
As we enter the summer and the third quarter, we see a continuation of the quarter two pace, until late July. By this time, everyone is focused on vacations, going back to school, and the transition to fall. So, nothing gets done in August. This is the Summer Slump. It happens with predictability every year, and yet entrepreneurs still seem shocked.
As we enter the end of the third quarter, we see the uptick into the Fall Push. So, September and October are busy months where most angel groups are finalizing their investing year at the same time Accelerators are graduating cohorts. So, it again becomes a very competitive time to seek capital. The challenge with the Fall Push is the angel investment market will definitively close with a Hard Stop in mid-November (October is the last pitch window!) when everyone begins to focus on Thanksgiving, the holidays, and tax season. So, if you are not in the market for capital by August, you essentially have to wait until January. Thus, we see why there is a wave in January. The majority of companies graduating from accelerators in the summer are already in need of capital and often have to wait until January for capital and fight through the stampede.
What should you take away from this discussion? Easy:
- The first quarter is the most competitive time to be seeking angel capital.
- Starting in the middle of summer, the market takes a vacation.
- The early fall time frame sees a flood of deals from Accelerators and a push to finish the year.
- There is a hard stop in November for the rest of the year.
You should seek capital in the second quarter through early summer when the competition is not as high and investors have more time to devote to deals.
The irony of the situation is Global Entrepreneurship Week is typically in mid-November, when the investment markets are closed, investors are not even looking for new deals, and their focus is on the holidays and time with family. You will always lose if you compete with family! Then, the whole market resets in January with the inevitable rush. Many people wonder why it is so difficult to raise early stage capital. I believe it is, in part, a lack of understanding of the market cycles for angel investing.
Some companies are not fundable at any point in the year. But, if you are seeking capital, make sure you understand how the market cycles can affect your ability to compete for capital. Don’t be frustrated when you realize you missed the window for funding your company. It is not the investor’s fault if you approach at the wrong time. There are always exceptions to these “rules of thumb” if you have a top .01% company. In other words, the very most compelling deals will always get done. But, for the vast majority of companies, you are better off to bet the odds. Having said that, it is important to note that we value entrepreneurs and the hard work they do. You are the bedrock of our economy. We would not have a business without you. Don’t stop working, just understand the world we live in and how it applies to our ability to help you capture resources.
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Map of 777 West Chandler Boulevard, 3, Chandler...
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Situated in the very heart of downtown Chandler, The Fairways is conveniently located near an array of fine stores, malls and restaurants. Our intimate community is just minutes away from the San Marcos Golf Club, Sky Harbor International Airport, ASU in Tempe, Chandler Center for the Arts and the Chandler-Gilbert Community College. The Fairways offers beautiful apartment homes perfect for any lifestyle. Our apartment homes are lavish with traditional styling to provide you with the comfort and luxury. Each apartment home is bathed with natural light from well placed windows, has fully appointed kitchens, full size washers and dryers, spacious walk in closets & private balconies and patios with panoramic views. We also offer spectacular recreational amenities including two resort style swimming pools & spas, a state-of-the-art fitness center, clubhouse with billiards, a picnic area with gas barbecue grills & a childrens play area. Call or drop by today to see why The Fairways is the perfect fit for you! To learn more please email Leasing Team with Fairways or call at .
This apartment is a 2 bedroom place offered for $839/mo. The building boasts a great location in Chandler. Work out any day in the building's workout room. The unit boasts dishwasher, refrigerator, washer, and, laundry. The property features parking, laundry, pool, and, fitness center and will be available January 2, 2013.
This listing is no longer active as of November 1st, 2013.
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|First month's rent||$839|
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|Estimated Move-In Costs||$1,718|
|Move-in Date||January 2, 2013|
|Lease term||1 year|
|Posted at||March 28, 2012|
|Last updated||April 6, 2013|
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*This post was written in collaboration with HelpGoAbroad.com, a resource for travelers looking to go abroad.
Help Go Abroad
If you have the desire to travel abroad, you should probably fulfill it. A life lived ignoring that feeling will only lead to regret, but I promise you will never regret a camel safari in India, or a motorcycle tour in Colombia, or even a stroll through Yellowstone National Park. Ignoring your own passions cannot be healthy for the soul.
One of the reasons so many people choose not to listen to their own intuition telling them to go! be free! be adventurous! see the world! is fear. Fear consumes so many of our lives, to the point that we can’t even get off the couch, let alone on a plane. But fear is only a wall our society has built through the media and urban legends and second-hand stories. Fear is a cement block, meant to lock you down and keep you from moving in the direction of your dreams.
Sometimes, the fear stems from not knowing where to start, and that’s where this post comes in. There are so many websites for information, jobs, internships, blogs, etc, that one only needs to start somewhere, arm herself with the correct information, start making decisions, and then JUST JUMP INTO THE UNKNOWN.
If you’re looking to get a TEFL certificate, or teach English in Thailand or China, then my own website, Teach English: ESL is a great place to start. However, if you’re looking to go elsewhere, or you want to work abroad in a different capacity, or find a volunteer position in a sustainable development work camp, for example, or an adventure and volunteer program in Nepal, then the new HelpGoAbroad.com could be your answer. It’s a resource for anyone looking to go abroad, with job listings (meaning paid, volunteer and internship programs) as well as a blog where writers with experiences from all over the world chip in their advice to the rookies out there who are struggling to get started.
HelpGoAbroad offers the following travel options:
If you’re still in school and looking for a way to explore the world as your classroom, studying abroad is a great way to get an education in a different realm. If you want to learn another language, HelpGoAbroad has listings for language schools around the world, plus a list of institutions that make it possible for you to earn your entire degree abroad. If you’re still in high school and hoping to do a semester overseas, you can find that there too.
Whether you want to gain experience in a specific field, or just to see if working abroad is for you, check out the Internship listings to find an ample amount of resources available to you. Primarily, HelpGoAbroad has recently formed a partnership with GI2C, which is an International Internship scheme for graduate students looking to gain experience in China’s top cities, Shanghai and Beijing.
As mentioned above, you’ll find teach abroad opportunities under this category, as well as a long list of other overseas jobs, such as administration and business positions, and various travel opportunities. If you aren’t yet TEFL/TESOL certified, you can find a program that’s right for you, and then return to HelpGoAbroad to find the job of your dreams.
If the contractual commitment for the other categories scares you, or you’d just rather volunteer you time to a good cause, HelpGoAbroad is a database for opportunities to work with wildlife, bat conservation, teach English or child care, to name a few. Check out the list here.
Become a part of the community!
You can join the HelpGoAbroad community by signing up for a free account and you’ll be able to apply directly the the overseas scheme of your choice! As a member, you can also write for the HelpGoAbroad blog about your own experiences, and participate in discussions with other members and soon-to-be fellow travelers.
Imagine yourself helping out on a farm in Argentina, or washing elephants in Thailand, or interning in the world’s fastest growing nation, China. With Help Go Abroad, you can do just that. No matter what stage of life you’re in, if that pesky little voice in your head tells you your life won’t be fulfilled without taking a risk, exploring, learning about the world, then it’s time you listen. | <urn:uuid:946e41b2-0771-43f7-a17d-1ecbc0271c71> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.missadventuretravel.com/help-go-abroad-resource/ | 2017-11-20T20:52:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806225.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120203833-20171120223833-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.936445 | 945 | [
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white seaseal doll
Handmade little sea seals!
Do you know? Some sea seal babies are in white color when they were born. They will have grey thick skins after they grow up.
These seals were handmade from white cotton fabric. The face and some of the body parts were hand-stitched.
Approx 19cm in length
* You will get ONE seaseal doll in this listing.
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2017 Reloading Seminars
Learn to Reload! Whether you have reloading experience or you're just getting started, KTP has a class for you!
More and more shooting sports enthusiasts are reloading their own rifle and pistol cartridges and shotgun shells. Less expensive than buying factory loads, reloading also allows a shooter to develop more accurate loads for specific firearms. Kittery Trading Post is offering two free seminars in beginning and intermediate reloading, taught by John Trepanier of the KTP shooting sports staff.
Intro to Reloading
Introduction to Reloading is designed for people considering or just getting started in reloading their own firearm ammunition. It will cover basic tools and techniques, safety, powders and casings, how to efficiently set up and use a press, and will include plenty of time for questions. Limited to 30 attendees.
The Intermediate Reloading seminar will be "hands on" and is specifically for people looking to increase their knowledge of reloading technique, as well as those members of the public who were able to attend KTP's extremely successful Introduction to Reloading seminars. Limited to 15 attendees.
Introduction and Intermediate Reloading will be held on Tuesdays, 6–8pm in the Katahdin Seminar Room at Kittery Trading Post on Rte. 1 in Kittery, Maine. Seminars are presented as individual classes –you are welcome to attend one or all of the classes in the series. Because of the personalized nature of the instruction, students will be able to grow their skills with each class.
|Intro to Reloading||Intermediate Reloading|
|JAN||January 10||January 17|
|FEB||February 7 (cancelled)||February 21|
|MAR||March 14||March 21|
|APR||April 11||April 18|
|MAY||May 9||May 16|
|JUN||June 13||June 20|
|JUL||July 11||July 18|
|AUG||August 8||August 15|
|SEP||September 12||September 19|
These reloading seminars are free and open to the public, but will be limited to 30 attendees for the Introduction to Reloading and 15 attendees for the Intermediate class. Pre-registration is strongly encouraged.
To sign up for a reloading seminar, please email [email protected], call 888-587-6246 or sign up in person at the Customer Service Counter.
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Rajarhat (West Bengal), Dec 24 (UNI) Veteran CPI(M) leader and former Chief Minister Jyoti Basu today described BJP's win in the Gujarat elections as a ''dangerous phenomenon.'' Mr Basu made this observations while addressing CPI(M)'s district conference of North 24-Parganas here.
''I had told Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee who called on me recently in my Salt Lake residence that BJP would win over the elections and the results said so,'' Mr Basu said.
''How Congress will win?'' he asked saying that the party though ruled for a long time in the country never went against communalism.
''Neither they went against imperialism nor communalism since the age of Pundit Nehru,'' he said.
CPI (M) which had been fighting against both imperialists and communalists had failed to rise in other states of the country barring a few like West Bengal,Tripura and Kerala, Mr Basu said, adding the party had to work hard in this regard.
Mr Basu cautioned the present leaderships of the party to tackle the issues of groupism and factionalism saying that the erratic members who had been indulging in such indiscipline either be corrected or dismissed from the party.
Referring to Forward Bloc's campaigning against the Front, he said ''It was surprising that Mr Asok Ghosh and other Forward Bloc leaders who had recently met me during my indisposition, hardly talked on the issues. What they did when administration was collapsed in Nandigram,'' he asked.
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|Número de publicación||US5027294 A|
|Tipo de publicación||Concesión|
|Número de solicitud||US 07/303,604|
|Fecha de publicación||25 Jun 1991|
|Fecha de presentación||27 Ene 1989|
|Fecha de prioridad||27 Ene 1989|
|Número de publicación||07303604, 303604, US 5027294 A, US 5027294A, US-A-5027294, US5027294 A, US5027294A|
|Inventores||Saifee Fakruddin, Mark J. Foster|
|Cesionario original||Zenith Data Systems Corporation|
|Exportar cita||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Citas de patentes (9), Citada por (120), Clasificaciones (13), Eventos legales (14)|
|Enlaces externos: USPTO, Cesión de USPTO, Espacenet|
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for improved battery-power management using load-compensation monitoring of battery discharge.
The invention is particularly adapted to monitor battery-energy discharge in laptop computers with greater accuracy by compensating for most types of error-inducing variations which would otherwise cause the monitoring process to produce a false output control function with a possible loss of data. If such an erroneous control permits the battery power supply to discharge completely, the operating life of the battery can also be shortened due to a phenomenon known as polarity reversal in the first battery cell to reach zero potential.
Accordingly, this invention maximizes battery life by accurately calculating the point at which the useful charge of a battery power supply has been nearly depleted, providing a series of warnings to the user of this fact, and subsequently performing a system shutdown before complete discharge occurs. If the invention is applied to a battery power supply used by a computer, the series of warnings enable the computer operator to transfer data from a temporary memory to permanent storage in the time interval between a warning signal and computer shutdown.
A rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery stores electrical energy and makes this stored electrical energy available during discharge. The energy discharge performance characteristic may vary from one battery to another due to application-related factors, differences in the design of the cell, differences in its internal construction, and the condition of actual use of the battery. In all these cases of variable discharge performance, the nickel-cadmium battery maintains its charge (load-carrying capacity) until very near the end of its useful charge period, then discharges rapidly to a completely discharged level within a few minutes. Detecting the point at which the battery is about to discharge completely in all of the varying situations presents a formidable but important challenge, as complete discharge of a battery greatly shortens its useful life.
Traditional approaches to monitoring the rechargeable battery-energy discharge have been to either use fixed voltage levels to indicate the battery's useful charge period, or to use the rate of change of voltage (slope) as an indicator of the rate of discharge of energy. In applications, such as computer systems, these traditional approaches to battery power monitoring become impractical and unreliable because a rapidly declining rate of change of voltage often occurs long before a battery's useful output is about to be dissipated.
In particular, large negative slopes, which simulate the negative slope values that occur shortly before complete battery discharge, can be caused by 1) varying load conditions on the battery, for example, due to disk accesses, 2) cell dropout, 3) startup voltage depression, and 4) overcharge voltage depression.
A reliable battery power management system should be capable of distinguishing among the various causes of large battery discharge negative slopes and effect warnings and shutdown only in response to imminent complete battery discharge.
A first principal object of this invention is to enable an operator of a battery powered computer to have a sufficient and reliable warning that computer shutdown is imminent due to loss of battery power so that data can be transferred from temporary memory to permanent storage.
A second principal object of the invention is to maximize the useful life of a battery by improved monitoring of battery discharge so as to prevent cell reversal.
Another object is to improve the monitoring of battery discharge by compensating for certain irrelevant variations in battery output voltage which would otherwise cause a false output control function, such as premature system shutdown.
Another object is to reliably shut down a battery powered computer to remove all load before any of the cells making the battery becomes completely drained.
Another object is to provide reliable warnings that battery power is progressively becoming low.
Another object is to provide a reliable warning that a battery power supply has entered into a state of overcharge voltage depression.
The invention is designed to monitor the voltage-discharge curve of a battery cell, particularly the nickel-cadmium cell.
The ideal voltage-discharge characteristic curve (voltage vs. both capacity and run time) of a rechargeable single cell battery which is fully charged under fixed load conditions consists of three distinctly defined sections. These sections in time sequence are an initial Startup Voltage Depression (Section 1 in drawings), an intermediate Stable Section (Section 2), and a final Knee Section (Section 3).
During the startup phase, the voltage drops off rapidly for a short duration. At the end of this initial section, the voltage drops off more slowly, by entering into an intermediate relatively-flat stable section of relatively long time duration. The stable section terminates by leading into a knee section in which the voltage drops off rapidly to full discharge.
A reliable battery power management system must be able to distinguish the large negative voltage-discharge slopes which are characteristic of a Section 3 knee from similar negative slope values which may occur long before a Section 3 knee appears. Without such an ability in a battery power management system, the monitoring circuitry might erroneously respond prematurely to a large negative slope value caused by, for example, a startup voltage depression, an overcharge voltage depression, momentary application of a heavy load, poor voltage regulation, or cell dropout.
Accordingly, the structure of this invention is designed to detect and distinguish all such different negative slopes, and to respond with warnings and computer shutdown only upon the occurrence of a negative voltage-discharge slope identifying a Section 3 discharge knee, that is the knee immediately preceding complete discharge of a partially charged battery. This design objective is attained by use of a synthetic empirically-determined factor herein termed "compensation factor" (CF). The compensation factor has a dynamic changing value throughout most of the Startup Voltage Depression (Section 1) with its actual values being established by an analysis of the voltage-discharge slope values of the discharge curve specified by the battery manufacturer.
In general, the startup compensation factor value (SCF) established at computer powerup, is several times larger than the largest negative slope encountered during the initial period of the startup voltage depression. For example, the actual startup slope may be a -4 (all numerical values are arbitrarily selected throughout this specification to simplify and clarify the explanation of the underlying theory of operation) but the compensation factor is a +20.
The following preferred battery power management equation is employed in the algorithm of this invention, namely
Current CSAV=Previous Adjusted CSAV±|New SS|-CF .
The values of the term "Current CSAV" determine in general whether warnings followed by computer shutdown ensue. A numerical value is calculated for Current CSAV every 30 seconds. Current CSAV (compensated slope accumulator value) must equal or exceed +2, equal or exceed +22, and equal or exceed +56 for a first warning, a second warning and computer shutdown trigger levels to be attained, respectively. Any Current CSAV equal to or greater than +2 will start a warning counter having a time period of 180 seconds. The Current CSAV value calculated at the end of this 180 second time period determines the state of the circuitry. If the battery discharge is at the Knee Section 3 of the discharge curve, the then Current CSAV will be +2 or more. If between +2 and less than +22, a Level 1 warning will be generated. If between +22 and less than +56 a Level 2 warning will be generated; and if + 56 or over, computer shutdown will be effected.
If the computer battery supply is fully charged at computer powerup, a Level 1 warning will be generated 180 seconds after a warning counter is started after a Current CSAV of +2 and less than +22 is calculated Thereafter voltage-discharge slope samples (SS) are calculated every 30 seconds, and when the ever larger negative slopes generate a Current CSAV of between 22 and less than 56 a Level 2 warning is immediately generated. This Level 2 warning may occur at one or more integral multiples of 30 seconds after a Level 1 warning is rendered. Similarly, when the Current CSAV attains a +56 or more value, computer shutdown is immediately effected.
If after the warning level counter is started in response to a Current CSAV of +2 or more, the Current CSAV drops below a +2 at the warning counter timeout period of 180 seconds, then the circuitry is returned to its pre-warning state. The circuit requirement that the Current CSAV be at +2 or more both at the beginning and the end of a 180 second time period prevents erroneous warnings being generated in response to negative voltage-discharge slope values generated in response to the application of heavy computer loads, which produce current CSAV(s) of +2 or more for a time period of substantially less than 180 seconds, such as disk drives. However, if the Current CSAV is at +2 or more even after the 180 seconds time period but is gradually declining, which would be the case for voltage depression due to successive overcharge or cell dropout, a Level 1 warning is triggered to make the user aware of the condition. A Level 2 warning is not subsequently triggered, however, because the circuitry is returned to its prewarning state after the Current CSAV value declines below +2. Thus, false warnings of impending complete battery discharge and premature computer shutdowns are prevented.
False warnings and premature shutdowns are also prevented during Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1 because the large negative voltage-discharge slopes during the initial period of Section 1 are overwhelmed numerically and thus masked by a startup compensation factor (SCF) of +20. Voltage discharge slopes of over -20 are required to start generating positive Current CSAV's during this initial period rather than the typical values of -4 normally encountered.
As the negative voltage-discharge slopes decline normally in value as battery discharge progresses timewise through the voltage depression of Section 1, the startup compensation factor (SCF) of +20 is periodically reduced by 25 percent of its then current value until a fixed compensation factor (FCF) of +1 is reached. This +1 value is approximately equal to the voltage discharge slope values which appear during the terminal portion of Section 1 of the discharge curve and throughout Stable Section 2 of the discharge curve and the initial portions of Knee Section 3.
This fixed compensation factor (FCF) of +1 and the coinciding voltage-discharge slopes (SS) of between approximately -1 and zero prevent the CSAV(s) from attaining the +2 values required to start the warning counter so as to possibly start the warning and shutdown sequence.
In order that all of the structural and method features for attaining the objects of this invention may be readily understood, reference is made to the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 shows the general shape of an ideal discharge curve of a constantly-loaded nickel-cadmium cell (or a battery of such cells) in which voltage is plotted as a function of capacity (or time);
FIG. 2 shows the general shape of the discharge curve of a single nickel-cadmium cell which has undergone polarity reversal due to excessive discharge;
FIG. 3 shows the general shape of the discharge curve of a nickel-cadmium cell (or a battery of such cells) which has been subjected to long-term overcharge at elevated temperatures;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the battery discharge management circuitry of this invention;
FIG. 5 shows the general shape of the discharge curve of a nickel-cadmium cell (or a battery of such cells) which has been subjected to increased momentary loading, for example, caused by the connection of a disk drive;
FIG. 6 is a diagram of assistance which shows the manner of assembly of FIG. 6a through FIG. 6d to form the composite discharge curves of FIG. 6, and
FIG. 7 is a diagram of assistance which shows the manner of assembly of FIG. 7a through FIG. 7d to form a flow chart of the invention.
Before describing the structure and process of the preferred embodiment of the invention, a brief description of certain pertinent charge and discharge characteristics of the nickel-cadmium cell is set forth. This explanation will facilitate in understanding the invention.
The nickel-cadmium cell is used to store electrical energy, and its basic function is to make that energy available during discharge. The electrical discharge performance characteristics of a cell performing this work are voltage and capacity (the integral of current multiplied by time). The values of these two discharge parameters are functions of a number of application-related factors and this dependence is briefly described in this specification. A more detailed study of nickel-cadmium battery characteristics appear in "Nickel-Cadmium Battery" (Third Ed: 1986) published by the General Electric Company.
The general shape of the discharge curve voltage as a function of capacity (or time), is shown in FIG. 1. As noted in this Figure, after an initial Startup-Voltage Depression Section 1 the discharge voltage of the nickel-cadmium cell typically remains relatively constant during a Stable Section 2 until most of its capacity is discharged, and then drops off rather sharply during a Knee-Section 3. This curve, when adjusted by considering the effects of all the application variables, provides a complete description of the functional performance of a battery.
A principal object of this invention is to prevent cell discharge to the point of polarity reversal (FIG. 2) because of the adverse effects of polarity reversal upon battery life.
Although it may be convenient to think of multicell battery voltage in terms of mean voltage for each cell, the mathematics of the cell polarity reversal phenomenon illustrated in FIG. 2 result in a fundamental difference from this convenient and simple relationship.
When a multicell battery is discharged completely, even small differences in the actual capacity of individual cells inherently cause one cell to reach complete discharge sooner than the rest. It is the actual capacity of this lowest capacity cell, the minimum capacity cell of the battery, which thus determines the actual battery capacity.
Continuation of the discharge after this lowest capacity cell has reached zero volts will cause reversal of the terminal voltage of that cell, because the cells of the battery are connected in series. As the cell polarity is reversed beyond a negative 0.2 volts it begins to generate gas internally. Generally, in a sealed nickel-cadmium cell the electrode which is reversed first will be the nickel electrode, in which case hydrogen will be generated. The sealed nickel-cadmium cell is capable of only very slow dissipation of hydrogen gas. It also has a very limited amount of gas storage volume. Thus, frequent and/or extensive reversal will lead to elevated cell pressure sufficient to open a resealable safety vent. This is the reason for avoiding or minimizing application conditions which lead to repetitive or extensive cell reversal. Such applications may lead to venting which, if repeated and/or extensive, will eventually degrade the performance of the sealed cell.
The general shape of the cell voltage curve during discharge into polarity reversal is shown in FIG. 2. The magnitude of the negative voltage appearing on the polarity reversed cell is dependent on the discharge rate as well as cell design and manufacturing process parameters.
Many nickel-cadmium cells are designed and manufactured to resist adverse effects of cell reversal caused by the deep discharging of a multi-cell battery. Batteries of low cell count that are fully charged between cycles normally possess insufficient capacity differences to generate any significant permanent damage resulting from extending the discharge of the battery to a low end-of-discharge voltage.
The important point, relative to the detrimental effects of cell reversal, is that these are cumulative effects. They are dependent on both the depth (Ah) in reverse and the frequency of cell reversal. The depth of reversal is in turn dependent on the end-of-discharge voltage (EODV) and the actual capacity differences between the cells in the battery. The long-range detrimental effects on voltage and capacity performance increase with both these factors.
The detrimental effects of reversal are the least when the rates of discharge during the reversal ar the highest. This apparent paradox results from the fact that cells which experience terminal voltage reversal during high rate discharge still have significant amounts of charge remaining in the electrodes.
Cells exposed to overcharge for very extended periods of time, particularly at elevated cell temperatures, may develop an additional shortcoming called voltage depression (FIG. 3). This phenomenon is one in which the cell voltage is depressed approximately 150 mV below the normally expected values. This depression affects the cell output voltage and is independent of discharge rate.
This depression effect initially appears on the discharge voltage curve near the end of discharge. With extension of the overcharge time (non-discharge) of the cell, this depression progresses slowly toward the mid-point and beyond. Accompanying this effect of depression in the voltage dimension of the curve is an actual slight increase in the capacity dimension as illustrated in FIG. 3. This depressed voltage effect is an electrically reversible condition and disappears when the cell is completely discharged and charged (sometimes called conditioning). It thus appears only on the first discharge following a very extended overcharge. It will reappear if the extended overcharge is repeated.
The phenomenon which causes this depressed voltage is continuous overcharging of the active material of the electrode. The effect is erased by discharging and recharging that portion of the active material which has experienced the extensive overcharge. For this reason the depressed voltage effect in the discharged portion of the curve is erased by the very act of observing it, when the discharge is carried beyond the first knee of the depressed curve. Complete discharge, and subsequent full charge, essentially restores the curve to its normal form.
The reversibility of this effect is probably the very characteristic that gives rise to the misnomer Memory. When cells are subjected to continuous charge/overcharge, with only modest discharges (repetitive or otherwise), the reversibility of the effect actually prevents the voltage depression from occurring in that portion of the electrode active material which is cycled. The voltage depression phenomenon is, however, not erased from that portion of the electrode material which has been subjected to continuous overcharge but NOT discharged. In this situation, whenever the cell is discharged deeper than recent previous discharges and reaches the beginning of the previously uncycled material, the voltage may decrease 150 mV per cell. This misleads the observer into believing that the discharge is at the knee of the normal discharge curve and erroneously concluding that the cell remembers and, thus, delivers only the amount of capacity previously repetitively used. Instead, the phenomenon is actually related only to extended overcharging and incomplete discharging, not repetitive shallow cycling. This is because that portion of the electrode material which has experienced overcharge and not been discharged for an extended period of time slowly shifts to a more inaccessible form.
The depressed voltage effect can of course cause loss of useful capacity in those application cases where a high cutoff voltage prevents complete discharge of the minimum capacity cell in the battery. If voltage depression has occurred, complete discharge requires continuation down through the depressed knee to that voltage level which keeps all the electrode material active. An end-of-discharge voltage (EODV) on the minimum cell of, for example, 75 percent of its MPV or less will accomplish that restoration with each discharge.
A simplified block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the battery-discharge monitoring and warning circuitry of this invention, as applied to a laptop computer, is shown in FIG. 4.
The following set of definitions will facilitate an understanding of the mode of operation of the circuitry of FIG. 4:
VOLTAGE SAMPLE (VS)--is the instantaneous peak amplitude of the voltage pulse appearing at the output of the analog-to-digital converter (A/D) 12.
AVERAGED VOLTAGE SAMPLE (AVS)--is the average voltage of a series of 256 consecutive voltage samples, which is also expressed mathematically as: AVS=(VS1+VS2+VS3+. . . . . . VS256)/256.
PREVIOUS AVERAGED VOLTAGE SAMPLE (PAVS)--is the averaged voltage sample taken one AVS time period prior to a realtime AVS.
SLOPE SAMPLE (SS)--is a value proportional to the slope of the battery discharge curve where the slope is that of a straight line drawn through two consecutive AVS(s) values; and which relationship is expressed mathematically as SS=(AVS `Y`-AVS `X`)/Time Period of an AVS.
NOTE: `X` and `Y` are two consecutive AVS(s) with `X` being the PAVS and thus the first AVS in time. And as the time period of the Voltage-Sample Counter-Timer 17 is the Time Period of an AVS and is always constant throughout battery discharge, this time period can be eliminated from all calculations with the varying SS(s) being proportionally correct. A declining discharge curve has a negative slope, and an ascending discharge curve will have a positive slope.
COMPENSATION FACTOR (CF)--is a term used in determining the Compensated Slope Accumulator Value (CSAV) and it is represented by a dynamic value. The CF is adjusted throughout the Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1 of the battery discharge curve, from an initial or startup 20 CF, to a 1 CF. During Stable Section 2 and Knee Section 3, CF remains a constant 1 value. The above CF values are arbitrary values employed in this detailed description to facilitate understanding of the invention.
STARTUP COMPENSATION FACTOR (SCF)--is the CF value at startup, or 20.
FlXED COMPENSATION FACTOR (FCF)--is the constant CF value (+1) during part of Sections 1 and all of Sections 2 and 3 of the discharge curve.
COMPENSATED SLOPE ACCUMULATOR VALUE (CSAV)--is an end-result value located in RAM 13 which is the result of processing in accordance with the equation:
Current CSAV=Previous Adjusted CSAV±|New SS|-CF.
Current CSAV is a value of fundamental importance to the battery power management process as it enables the circuitry to render warning alarms and computer shutdown only in response to a battery discharge in Knee Section 3 of the normal battery discharge curve, or in response to a very large negative slope in the terminal knee portion of partially charged battery discharge curve.
NOTE 1: In the equation for CSAV, if the new SS is a negative slope, then the absolute value of New SS is added in the equation. However, if the new SS is a positive slope, then the absolute of New SS is subtracted in the equation.
NOTE 2: Previous CSAV and the New SS (New SS is the current SS) are values determined timewise at a time separation of two consecutive SS(s), which is 256 times the time period of the voltage-sample counter-timer (i.e.≃30 seconds). The CF value is that determined at the same time the New SS is calculated. Thus Current CSAV, New SS and CF are real-time values.
NOTE 3: The Previous CSAV is adjusted to zero if its value is less than zero. Accordingly, only a positive Previous CSAV contributes to the numerical value of a Current CSAV. The equation for Current CSAV may also be written and simplified as follows: Current CSAV=Previous Adjusted CSAV-New SS-CF.
STARTUP COMPENSATED SLOPE ACCUMULATOR VALUE (SCSAV)--is the CSAV at powerup of the computer, and is set to 0.
A simplified block diagram of a preferred embodiment of the battery-discharge monitoring and warning circuitry of this invention, as applied to a laptop computer, is shown in FIG. 4.
The principal components of the circuitry and their generalized functions are as follows:
Central processing unit (CPU) 10 and its associated circuitry monitor the discharge curve of battery power supply 11, and CPU 10 may also perform the usual CPU functions.
Battery 11 comprises a plurality of nickel-cadmium cells which serve as a power supply for the laptop computer.
Analog-to-digital converter (A/D) 12 converts the analog output voltage of battery 11 into a series of digital pulses which are ultimately sampled at a repetition period of ≃0.11 seconds and which establish VS values.
The VS values are averaged by CPU 10 in a group of 256 VS pulses to obtain a series of AVS values having a repetition period of 30 seconds. These AVS pulses are processed to determine SS values in accordance with the equation SS=AVS `Y`-AVS `X`.
RAM 13 contains memory sections 14, 15 and 16 which are peculiar to this invention.
Compensated slope accumulator memory section 14 is a dedicated memory section located within RAM 13 which contains the values which comprise the Previous CSAV as adjusted, the New SS used in determining the Current CSAV, and the Current CSAV.
Compensation factor (CF) memory section 15 is a dedicated memory section located within RAM 13, which contains the dynamic CF values (that is, CF as adjusted during battery discharge, and fixed (FCF) ) used in determining the Current CSAV;
Previous averaged voltage sample memory section 16 is a dedicated memory section located within RAM 13 which contains the PAVS value used in determining a SS value.
Voltage sample counter-timer 17 is a timer preset to the repetition sampling period of 0.11 seconds for the voltage pulses appearing at the output of A/D 12 so that VS measurements can be made every 0.11 seconds by CPU 10. As previously noted, these VS values are used to determine AVS values, and then using two consecutive AVS values to calculate a SS value.
Startup compensation counter 18 is a timer preset to a time period which is approximately equal to 1/16 of the time over which startup voltage depression (Section 1 of the discharge curve) occurs for the particular cells of battery 11 when fully charged. This time period is determined from the manufacturer's specifications and battery discharge curve for those cells and is used in the decrementing process of adjusting CF. Startup compensation counter 18 is restarted every fourth SS until CF equals 1.
Warning counter 19 is a timer preset to a time period over which an overcharge voltage depression (Section 2 of the discharge curve) may occur in battery 11 because of an overcharge condition or memory effect. In a typical battery powered computer this time period may be ≃6 SS repetition periods. Warning counter 19 also establishes the operate times for Warning Level 1, Warning Level 2, and Computer Shutdown occurring during Knee Section 3 of the battery-discharge curve.
Warning Level 1 (WL-1) trigger line 20 goes high to activate an alarm when the output voltage of battery 11 is reduced through discharge to a Level 1 preliminary warning point representing the approximate start of Knee Section 3 of the battery discharge curve. The warning operating point of Level 1 is a preset value WL-1 specified by the statement:
WL-1≃(absolute value of the average of all SS(s) over the initial 36% of Knee Section 3).
WL-1 ≃2 in the preferred embodiment of this invention shown in the drawings.
Warning Level 2 (WL-2) trigger line 21 goes high to activate a second alarm, which warns that computer shutdown is imminent, when the output voltage of battery 11 is further reduced through discharge to a Level 2 final warning point representing substantial entry into the rapidly-declining knee of Knee-Section 3 of the battery discharge curve. The warning operating point of Level 2is a preset value WL-2 specified by the statement:
WL-2≃(absolute value of the sum of SS(s) over the initial 81% of Knee Section 3)/2.
WL-2≃22 in the preferred embodiment of this invention shown in the drawings.
Shutdown trigger line 22 goes high at a Computer Shutdown point located on a terminal portion of the rapidly-declining knee of Knee Section 3 having a relatively large negative slope and occurring a short time interval before battery 11 would otherwise reach complete discharge. The shutdown value (SDV) is specified by the statement:
SDV≃(absolute value of the sum of the SS(s) over the last 19% of Knee Section 3).
SDV≃is approximately 56 in the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the drawings.
Read-only-memory (ROM) 23 contains all the following preset times and values:
1. Counter times
a) VS counter-timer 17≃(1 VS repetition period) which is ≃0.11 second.
b) Startup compensation counter 18≃(1/16 of Section 1 of the discharge curve).
c) Warning counter 19≃(6 SS repetition periods) which is≃180 seconds.
2. Preset values
a) Startup compensation factor (SCF)≃(1/2 absolute value of the sum of SS(s) occurring during the first 1/4 of the time period of Section 1 of the discharge curve); which is ≃+20 for a normal discharge curve in the preferred embodiment described.
b) Fixed compensation factor (FCF)≃(absolute SS value at any point on Section 2 of the discharge ×4; which is≃1 for the preferred embodiment described.
c) Startup compensated slope accumulator value (SCSAV) is 0 for the preferred embodiment described.
d) Warning Level 1 (WL-1)≃(absolute value of the average of SS(s) over the initial 36% of Knee Section 3 of a normal discharge curve); which is approximately +2 for the preferred embodiment described.
e) Warning Level 2 (WL-2)≃(absolute value of the sum of SS(s) over 81% of Knee Section 3)/2; which is approximately +22 for the preferred embodiment described.
f) Shutdown Value (SDV)≃(absolute value of the sum of the SS(s) over the last 19% of Knee Section 3); which is approximately +56 for the preferred embodiment described.
Voltage-divider and filter 24 reduces and filters the direct-current output voltage of battery 11 for suitable application to the input of A/D 12.
The operation of the battery power management circuitry of this invention shown in FIG. 4 is now described with reference to the composite flow chart of FIG. 7 (FIGS. 7a-d) and the composite battery-discharge curve of FIG. 6 (FIGS. 6a-d) (including also the alternate curve for overcharge voltage depression (FIG. 6c), the alternate insert curve for a partially charged battery (FIG. 6b), and the fragmentary discharge curve of FIG. 6d which shows the change in the discharge curve caused by a momentary increase in load).
In order to understand fully the operation of the circuitry, the detailed description is divided into the following four principal operational modes of battery discharge monitoring and management:
1) operation during discharge of a fully charged battery;
2) operation during discharge of a partially charged battery; and
3) operation during a momentarily applied increase in load.
4) operation during discharge of a battery subject to overcharge voltage depression;
The following is a summary of the alphabetic letter references used throughout the following operational description:
VS voltage sample
AVS averaged voltage sample
PAVS previous averaged voltage sample
SS slope sample
CF compensation factor
SCF startup compensation factor
FCF fixed compensation factor
CSAV compensated slope accumulator value
SCSAV startup compensated slope accumulator value
WL-1 warning level 1
WL-2 warning level 2
SDV computer shutdown value
Referring now to the flow chart of composite FIG. 7, the various preset times and values are set forth in blocks A and B. The states of the circuitry of FIG. 4, are set forth in blocks C through Z, and AA through AF.
The counter values set forth in block A are factory preset in ROM 23 so as to provide proper circuit operation for the particular nickel-cadmium cells used in battery 11. In particular, voltage sample counter-timer 17 is set to the time period to take 1 VS, or approximately 0.11 seconds; startup compensation counter 18 is set to approximately 1/16 of the time period of the Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1 of the discharge curve, or approximately 90 seconds; and warning counter 19 is set to a time period approximately or equal to 6 SS(s) times or approximately 180 seconds.
The values set forth in block B are also factory preset in ROM 23. In particular, SCF is approximately or equal to +20 for a normal discharge curve; SCSAV equals 0; FCF is approximately or equal to +1; WL-1 is approximately or equal to +2; WL-2 is approximately or equal to +22; SDV is approximately or equal to +56.
At computer power-up, CPU 10 sets all values in RAM 13 to zero.
In state C, CPU 10 takes its initial VS from battery 11. Since CPU 10 has to take 256 VS(s) (to filter voltage noise) to get a single AVS, the following sequence of operations are performed by CPU 10 to get a single AVS:
In state D, a check is made by CPU 10 to determine if 256 VS(s) have been taken.
If not, state E is entered wherein voltage sample counter-timer 17 is started and control is then passed to state F.
In state F, CPU 10 is made to wait by voltage sample counter-timer 17 for the period specified in counter-timer 17 (i.e. ≃0.11 seconds). At the end of this period, control is passed back to state C to get the next VS.
States C, D, E and F are successively repeated by CPU 10 until the 256 VS(s) are taken by CPU 10. Having obtained 256 VS(s), CPU 10 then calculates in state G an AVS in accordance with the AVS formula set forth in the "Some Basic Definitions Section". The time period for CPU 10 to calculate each AVS is approximately 30 seconds (0.11 second ×256). The first AVS is calculated 30 seconds after computer powerup.
If the AVS thus calculated is determined in state H not to be the first AVS calculated by CPU 10, then control is passed to state J. However, if the AVS is the first AVS calculated by CPU 10, and since CPU 10 has no PAVS from which to calculate the slope (SS), state I is entered. In state I, CPU 10 sets the PAVS in RAM section 16 to the first calculated AVS value. Control is then passed back to state C so that CPU 10 can calculate the next (the second) AVS.
Having calculated two successive AVS(s), CPU 10 in state J then calculates a single SS in accordance with the SS formula set forth in the "Some Basic Definitions Section". The first SS is calculated 60 seconds after computer powerup and has a value of -4.
In state K, CPU 10 determines if the SS calculated in state J is positive or negative, and upon which determination control is passed either to state L (+) or to state M (-). In state L or M, a preliminary arithmetic calculation for the quantity (Previous Adjusted CSAV±|New SS|) is made which is ultimately used to determine the Current CSAV (see the first two terms in the equation for Current CSAV appearing in the Some Basic Definitions Section). If SS is positive, then in state L CPU 10 subtracts the absolute value of SS from the Previous CSAV, which value is located in RAM section 14. If SS is negative, then in state M, CPU 10 adds the absolute value of SS to the Previous CSAV. The -4 SS produces a +4 value at state M. Control is then passed from either L or M to N.
A positive SS generally occurs only when computer load is removed from battery 11. A negative SS occurs during discharge of both a fully and partially charged battery, overcharge voltage depression, cell dropout, and application of an increased load.
In state N, CPU 10 provides compensation for the voltage depression caused by either the startup conditions (Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1), the overcharge battery condition appearing in broken line in Stable Section 2 of the discharge curve, cell dropout, or a momentarily applied heavier-load condition. This compensation is accomplished by subtracting the CF value appearing in RAM section 15 from the adjusted quantity (Previous adjusted CSAV±|New SS|) obtained from state L or M to obtain Current CSAV. At 60 seconds computer operate time, Current CSAV is -16 obtained by subtracting +20 CF value from +4.
In state 0, CPU 10 determines if the Current CSAV obtained from state N is either positive or negative. If the Current CSAV is positive then control is passed directly to state V. If the Current CSAV is negative, then this Current CSAV is set to zero by CPU 10 in state P before passing control over to state Q. The Current CSAV obtained from state N will be negative or equal to 0 if the startup voltage depression is in progress.
In state Q, CPU 10 examines the CF value to determine if Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1 is in progress. If the CF is greater than FCF (FCF is +1) then the startup voltage depression is in progress and control is then passed to state R; otherwise if less than FCF, control is passed back to state C.
In state R, CPU 10 determines if the startup compensation counter 18 is currently on--if so it passes control to state T; otherwise it starts or restarts startup compensation counter 18 in state S and then passes control to state C. Startup compensation counter 18 is started 60 seconds after computer powerup when the first SS is calculated in state J.
In state T, a check is made by CPU 10 to verify if the time preset (90 seconds) in startup compensation counter 18 has elapsed. If it has not elapsed, then control is passed to state C; otherwise the CF value is reduced by 25% of its current value in state U before passing the control back to state C. Startup compensation counter 18 provides a mechanism for masking the startup voltage depression of Section 1 caused by the application of the computer load at powerup. The time duration of 90 seconds is chosen empirically so that the CF can be decremented from its high initial value of +20 at the end of each counter 18 start and restart period by 25% of its previous value until CF attains a +1 value. This +1 value is closely approximate the transition slope of the discharge curve at the end of Section 1 and the entire portion of Section 2. Accordingly, the high initial SCF and the decremented values of CF prevent the Current CSAV from attaining the values required to produce warning levels and also computer shutdown when a normal battery discharge curve is monitored.
In state V, the startup compensation counter 18 is stopped (if previously set running during the process of reducing CF in states Q, R, S, T, U).
During a normal battery discharge process, state V is entered by CPU 10 if the Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1 has passed; otherwise, the CF is repeatedly adjusted in states Q, R, S, T, U during each startup compensation counter 18 time period until it reaches a FCF value of +1 at 16 1/2 minutes after computer powerup.
From state V onwards the task of CPU 10 is principally to accurately identify Knee Section 3 of the discharge curve by detecting increasing positive values of Current CSAV (with a threshold value of at least +2) both at the beginning and at end of the 180 second time period of the warning counter 19. To achieve this objective, the following sequence of operations are performed by CPU 10.
In state W, the Current CSAV obtained from state N is examined to determine if its value has reached the WL-1 value of +2. If so, state Y is entered; otherwise it implies to the CPU that the battery discharge is still in Stable Section 2.
If the discharge is in Stable Section 2, control is passed back to state C after assuring that warning counter 18 is stopped in state X. Also before passing control over to state C, the current AVS which was obtained from state G is saved as the PAVS in RAM section 16 and is shown in state I.
The above-mentioned process is successively repeated until the discharge reaches Knee Section 3. The circuitry preliminarily determines that Knee Section 3 has been reached by detecting a Current CSAV of +2 or more in state W and then confirmation is made at end of the warning counter period of 180 seconds if the then Current CSAV is +2 or more. The then Current CSAV at the end of the warning counter period must be between +2 and less than +22 to trigger WL-1 in state AC, or between +22 and less than +56 to trigger WL-2 in state AE skipping WL-1, or +56 or more to effect computer shutdown in state AF.
Thus, in state Y, to assure that Knee Section 3 of the discharge curve is not falsely seen by CPU 10 due to a momentarily applied load, CPU 10 waits for a time period of warning counter 18 before triggering WL-1 to the user by passing control to state AB.
In state AB, a check is made by CPU 10 to determine if the Current CSAV value is at or above WL-2 (or +22). If not WL-1 is triggered as in state AC; otherwise, control is passed to state AD.
In state AD, a check is performed by CPU 10 to determine whether the Current CSAV value has reached the SDV. If so, the system is shutdown in state AF; otherwise WL-2 is triggered in state AE indicating imminent shutdown and control is passed to C.
If control is passed to C, this implies to the CPU that usually a few additional minutes of computer user time remains after WL-2 is triggered; and the system carries on to collect the next SS to be processed to effect computer shutdown when and if the SDV of +56 is calculated as a Current CSAV.
The sequence of operations performed during the discharge of a partially charged battery is identical to those described with reference to the section entitled "The Mode of Operation During Discharge of a Fully Charged Battery", with the following three exceptions:
1) Depending upon the charged level of the battery, the CF value may or may not go through all the iterations of CF reduction in the states P, Q, R, S, T, U, until the FCF (≃1) is reached. This occurs because the Current CSAV remains positive in state 0 because of the much higher slopes (SS) than in a case of a fully charged battery.
2) Again depending upon the charged level of the battery, the stable section discharge may or may not exist. If there is a stable section, then the flow chart states C, . . . V, W, X are repetitively executed until a knee section is detected.
3) Once again depending upon the charged level of the battery the knee section of the discharge curve may be shorter than for a fully charged battery in which case the number of iterations performed by states C, . . . ., V, W, Y, AA, . . . . AD, AE may be fewer than in the case of a fully charged battery, thereby yielding shorter warning periods.
In the example of a partially charged battery discharge curve shown in the drawings, the states C, D, . . . ., 0, P, Q, R, S, T, U are executed only once as the Current CSAV, turns positive after the first iteration. As seen this discharge curve has no stable section of discharge. Immediately following a short startup voltage depression, the discharge merges into the knee section of the discharge.
In state W, the CPU detects this entry into the knee section by detecting a positive value in the Current CSAV which trips the warning counter in section Z. Very shortly afterwards WL-1 is activated in state AC and again shortly thereafter WL-2 is activated in state AE. After a very brief duration the Current CSAV reaches the SDV value and the system is shutdown in AF.
Referring to the "Circuit Values for Partially Charged Battery" shown in FIG. 6b, warning counter 19 is activated when Current CSAV reaches +3 at 150 seconds after computer powerup. (It will be recalled that warning counter 19 is started in states Y or Z whenever Current CSAV equals or exceeds a WL-1 of +2. However, a warning, either WL-1 or WL-2 is not triggered in states AC or AE, respectively, until the warning period of 6 SS times elapses (180 seconds) in order to assure that the WL-1 threshold was not caused by momentary circuit voltage variations which should be ignored.
At the end of the warning period which occurs 5 1/2 minutes after computer powerup, CPU 10 detects a Current CSAV of +19. Since a CSAV of +19 is above the WL-1 threshold and below the WL-2 threshold, WL-1 is triggered in state AC.
Since the Current CSAV(s) continue to increase in positive values after the WL-1 alarm is activated, WL-2 is triggered at 7 1/2 minutes after computer powerup when the Current CSAV at +23 first exceeds the WL-2 threshold of approximately +22. At 9 1/2 minutes after computer powerup, a Current CSAV at +63 first exceeds the SDV threshold of approximately 56 and so the computer is shut down.
In the example shown in the drawings, both the Wl-1 and the Wl-2 alarms are activated before computer shutdown because the Current CSAV(s) pass through the WL-1, WL-2 and SDV threshold values in sequence as the discharge of a partially charged battery progresses. However, if the negative SS(s) of the discharge curve for a partially charged battery increase rapidly timewise, then WL-1, or even both WL-1 and WL-2, could be skipped with the circuitry proceeding directly to shutdown.
In particular, in cases where the battery is charged for only a brief period (for example, 5 minutes), the knee section of the discharge curve is so steep negatively, that WL-2 is turned on instead of first turning on WL-1. This occurs because the Current CSAV reached the WL-2 threshold after the warning counter period by virtue of the steep negative knee section. However, if the knee section is almost absent, as is the case where the battery is fully discharged and never charged, the circuitry will reach the SDV threshold by the end of the warning counter period.
The monitoring circuitry of this invention is able to detect and ignore positive CSAV(s) which momentarily exceed a WL-1 threshold of approximately +2, or for that matter even the larger thresholds of WL-2 and SDV. These positive CSAV(s) are usually generated by momentary increases in load caused by a computer disk access or a short lived steep negative slope caused by cell dropout. Since warning counter 19 is started immediately upon the calculation of an approximately +2 Current CSAV, the circuit mechanism for activating WL-1, WL-2 and even computer shutdown is initiated. However, since it is the Current CSAV that is calculated at the end of the warning period of 180 seconds that produces the warnings of WL-1 and WL-2, and the then Current CSAV is at a value below the WL-1 threshold, no warnings are issued. Thus, the circuitry is returned to its normal state where New SS(s) are calculated which produce Current CSAV(s) having a value of zero or less.
As is seen in FIG. 6d, which shows an enlarged view of the negative "spike" produced at about 178 minutes into Stable Section 2 of the discharge curve, a SS of -3 is calculated at 178 1/2 minutes. This -3 SS value produces a Current CSAV at 178 1/2 minutes of +2, which is at the threshold for triggering warning counter 19. However, at the end of the warning counter period occurring at 181 1/2 minutes, the Current CSAV has returned to a +1 value which is below the WL-1 threshold. At 182 minutes the then current CSAV returns to a still lower zero value. Accordingly, the momentary negative spike produced by disk access produces no alarms or shutdowns.
An overcharge voltage depression is characterized by a discharge knee which is separated both timewise and capacitywise from complete battery discharge. Accordingly, useful battery capacity exists to continue computer operation until a Section 3 knee is reached. The circuitry of this invention distinguishes between the two knees-usually by returning Current CSAV to a value below +2 after a WL-1 warning is generated in the case of the overcharge voltage depression knee.
In the case of a Section 3 knee the CSAV(s) continue to build up, so that a WL-1 warning is followed by a WL-2 warning and ultimately computer shutdown.
As is shown in FIG. 6c, the knee of the particular overcharge voltage depression shown is characterized by SS values of -5 lasting for approximately ninety seconds. Thereafter, the discharge curve enters a stable section having SS(s) of -0.25.
With these values and time conditions characterizing an overcharge voltage depression knee, warning counter 19 is started at 3 minutes and 30 seconds when the Current CSAV reaches a +4 value. At the end of the warning counter time period of 180 seconds (6 minutes and 30 seconds) Current CSAV is a +9, thus triggering a WL-1 warning. This gives the computer operator notice that some type of knee has been detected. However, a WL-2 warning is never issued because the declining SS values produce a reduction in the CSAV(s). The actuation of only a single warning confirms to the operator that a Section 3 knee was not the cause of the WL-1 warning.
If the stable portion of the voltage depression curve lasts long enough, Current CSAV will ultimately go to zero.
The following equation for Current CSAV is designed to improve the monitoring of the voltage discharge curve and to produce warnings and system (computer) shutdown only in response to a knee section immediately preceding complete battery discharge:
Current CSAV=Previous Adjusted CSAV±|New SS|-CF, or its equivalent
Current CSAV=Previous Adjusted CSAV-New SS-CF.
These equations introduce the terms Previous Adjusted CSAV, New SS and CF. And the circuitry embodying the algorithm for effecting the equation introduces time periods for taking a voltage sample (VS; 0.11 seconds), for taking a slope sample (SS; 30 seconds), for decrementing compensation factor (CF; 90 seconds), and for a warning period (180 seconds) the beginning and end of which a positive CSAV must be calculated at least equal to the WL-1 threshold before a warning and shutdown sequence can be initiated.
Each of the foregoing terms and times contributes to the monitoring efficiency and reliability of this invention. Although, if a loss of efficiency and reliability can be tolerated, certain steps could be eliminated from the algorithm, for example, the steps involving Previous Adjusted CSAV.
The principal concepts which underlie the above terms and times are briefly summarized as follows:
As the system is unaware of the state of the battery at system powerup, compensation factor (CF) is a mechanism used to allow the system to ignore essentially the Startup Voltage Depression-Section 1 for the fully charged battery discharge curve by overwhelming numerically the actual slope of the discharge curve represented by the slope samples (SS). In particular, an examination of the numerical values for CF range between 20 and 8 and for SS a generally constant -4 during the first 5 minutes after powerup. Accordingly, the quantity (±|New SS|-CF), or its equivalent (-New SS-CF), yields negative values each time SS is calculated which in turn do not produce a positive Current CSAV of at least +2 required to trigger warning counter 19 so as to possibly enter the warning and shutdown sequence.
The term CF having performed its principal function during the initial portion of the startup voltage depression is decremented every 120 seconds until CF reaches a fixed value of +1 (FCF=+1) for the remaining portion of the normal discharge curve. The quantity (±|New SS|-CF) thus hovers at a value near zero, and in so doing places the system during Stable Section 2 and Knee Section 3 responsive to significantly large changes in SS which may be indicative of arrival of the voltage discharge at the negative knee of Knee Section 3 immediately preceding complete battery discharge.
Thus, CF at the outset masks SS so that the circuitry is not responsive to the fairly large negative slope values during the initial voltage depression at startup; but thereafter as CF is decremented to +1 (FCF) the values of the SS(s) are significant.
With respect to a partially charged battery, while SCF and CF ranges between +20 and +15 for the first 5 minutes, the relatively large SS(s) of -18 produce a positive Current CSAV at 2 1/2 minutes after powerup thus activating warning counter 19 and leading into the warning and shutdown sequence.
Without the use of CF monitoring of the discharge curve slope, the system could not reliably distinguish between the range of voltage discharge slopes encountered during the initial startup voltage depression and those produced by the wide range of partially change batteries.
The current CSAV provides a mechanism for the CPU to accurately track the knee sections immediately preceding complete battery discharge, characterized by large negative slopes, of both fully and partially charged batteries. If the Current CSAV exceeds the WL-1 threshold value then the CPU knows that the knee section immediately preceding complete discharge is probably approached. Thereafter, upon the expiration of the warning counter time period, if the Current CSAV(s) go to the higher levels required to exceed the WL-2 and SDV thresholds, the CPU knows that complete battery discharge is immiment.
While the use of the values represented by the term Previous Adjusted CSAV may be optional in a given battery discharge management system, it serves the purpose of amplifying at an earlier time in the monitoring process the positive values of the Current CSAV. Current CSAV is a real time value acted upon immediately, and Previous Adjusted CSAV is zero and is therefore nonconsequential in the system until a positive Current CSAV is detected in state 0. The Current CSAV becomes positive during 1) Knee Section 3 of a fully charged battery discharge curve, 2) the knee portion of a partially charged battery, 3) voltage depression due to battery overcharge, 4) cell dropout, and 5) negatively directed voltage aberrations caused by disk access and other momentarily applied loads.
With the dual requirement that positive Current CSAV(s) appear at both the start and end of the warning counter time period of 180 seconds, the circuitry responds by entering into the warning and possibly the shutdown sequence for conditions 1 and 2 above but rejects condition 3, 4 and 5 because they do not produce positive Current CSAV(s) at the end of the warning counter time period.
Accordingly, an inspection of both Current CSAV and Previous Adjusted CSAV values shows that during conditions 1 and above the term Previous Adjusted CSAV contributes a large positive number to the numerical values which collectively determine Current CSAV.
It should be understood that the above described apparatus and method ar merely illustrative of the principals and structural features of this invention and modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention.
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The explosive blowout on information and assets on GTAV this month continues in a New York Times interview with Rockstar Games VP of Creative Dan Houser. While the article doesn't necessarily dive too much into the press demo of the game that the paper received (probably as a result of their hangover after their boy Obama won the election), it did, however, contain a rather interesting talk with Dan.
NY Times: What do you want people to get out of the games that you make?
Dan: Obviously, we want them to be entertained. We want them to be stimulated, questioned, amused, all of the other higher and lower things one gets from entertainment.
Michael, one of 3 main playable characters.
But what is really amazing to learn is how Dan, who is also Rockstar's head writer on games like GTA and Red Dead, avoids watching certain TV shows - so as to avoid influencing his own writing:
One of my weird disciplines is that I don’t really watch a lot of those shows, if they relate to what we do. I only watched a tiny bit of “The Sopranos.” No “Boardwalk Empire.” No “Breaking Bad.” Wherever it’s too close to crime, gangster, underbelly fiction, and it’s supercontemporary, I decided, for professional reasons, I have to avoid it.
So that squashes the rather silly theory some fans made on how GTAV draws inspiration from the latest season of Breaking Bad in its writing. Definitely make sure you read the entire interview on the NY Times website!
Also, as we mentioned earlier in the week, the online previews for GTAV will be starting this Monday, November 12th. Several publications, including IGN, will be publishing their own articles based on the same press demo that Game Informer received. From experience, over the years, a lot of them often contain new information that weren't necessarily written in other publications. So definitely stick around to see what they have to offer!
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Australia’s federal government has agreed to pay about $52.7 million to settle a class action lawsuit brought by asylum seekers who say they suffered physical and psychological harm while in detention at offshore immigration facilities on Manus Island.
ABC News reports that the payout will go to more than 1,900 asylum seekers who brought the case against the Australian government and its contractors, alleging that the Australian government violated its duty of care by placing detainees in substandard conditions on the island in Papua New Guinea between 2012 and 2016.
The lawsuit, filed by the firm Slater and Gordon, also claimed that the plaintiffs were falsely imprisoned after the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea ruled their detention illegal.
The settlement means that Manus detainees’ voices were “finally being heard,” according to a statement from the lead plaintiff of the case. Lawyers representing the asylum seekers, however, said that Canberra hasn’t admitted to any liability despite the settlement.
The total payout will include the $52.7 million in compensation plus costs, the Guardian reports, meaning the total sum could be higher than the headline figure. The settlement also means the Australian government will avoid what would have been a difficult six-month trial that would have involved evidence of alleged abuses such as murder, sexual abuse and other types of mistreatment, according to the Guardian.
Peter Dutton, Australia’s immigration and border minister, said in a statement that settling the class action suit was “a prudent outcome for Australian taxpayers,” and blamed the previous government’s border policy for running up the legal tab.
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Writing a “blog” can be sporadic when you have a message that is developing over a period of time. This particular message has been developing over a few months. But, I decided to write it now even though it is not fully developed with the hope that those of you that follow my blog will incubate it and bring it to full development.
Scripture inspiration along with the daily manna of life has birthed this message about prophetic revelation of “The World to Come” which in Hebrew, an original language of the Bible, is “Olam Ha-Ba”. This Hebrew word is also known as “the age to come”, which is the period of time following the Millennium; a time after the world is perfected under the rulership of Messiah, Jesus. So, after the 1000 year (Millennium) reign of Jesus here on earth, the Olam Ha-Ba or “World to Come” is realized. To learn more about it read Revelations chapters 20 and 21.
Let’s view the progress of the “World to Come: Olam Ha-Ba” using symbolism and prophetic insight, perhaps even revelation.
Theme: “The World to Come: Olam Ha-Ba”
Read Scripture: Revelations 20 and 21 NIV
The ushering in of the Millennium is in its pre-natal stages. Scripture Romans 8:22 says “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.”
Now, here is where the symbolism comes in. If we view the language of today or the Olam Ha-Za, Hebrew word which means “the present world”. We have descriptors of:
The Millennials – Millennials are the generation born between 1982 and sometime in the early 2000’s. A generation is typically defined as a group of people born around the same time (roughly a twenty year span) who display a common persona. When distinguishing the generation types there are:
Four archetypes (archetype is a typical example) are represented by the Silent Generation (1925-1942) as the Artist archetype, the Baby Boomers (1943-1960) as the Prophet archetype, Generation X (1961-1981) as the Nomad archetype, and Millennials (1982-200?) known as the Hero archetype. The Millennials as the Hero archetype are the focus of this blog. The millennials have the following characteristics:
- They are nurtured with increasing protection by pessimistic adults in an insecure environment. The Millennials believe their elders are overly protective because of the elder’s pessimism based on the unstable environment that is being presently experienced in the world.
- Millennials challenge the political failure of elder-led crusades, fueling a society-wide secular crisis. The Millennials believe the failure of the political system rests on their elders and because of this failure there is a crisis in society and the world they have inherited.
- Millennials establish an upbeat, constructive ethic of social discipline. The Millennials work to reshape and reconstruct a more positive society through personal social discipline aiming to right societal wrongs.
- Millennials orchestrate ever-grander secular constructions. The Millennials believe that a better world is possible, if only individuals would stand up to make a more just society by re-making the world systems.
In summary, the Millennials are an example of the archetype Heroes which are classified as “dominant and outer-fixated,” meaning that they are a dominant generation that is more concerned with the needs of society as a whole over the needs of themselves or of individuals. They won’t take “no” as answer and are convinced that their generation will not “put up” with what they consider injustices that have perpetuated through past generations and social systems.
The Millennials will “march” for justice and fight injustice whenever and wherever is appears. They will put their lives, reputations, and resources on the line to achieve through their own efforts a world and society of love for all people, removal of corrupt systems; leveling of economic enterprises; separation from fearful people and systems; and peace and harmony amongst diverse people.
Could this be the ushering in of the Millennium that is spoken about in Revelations 20 and 21? Could the actions of the Millennials be the ushering in of the Olam Ha-Ba, “The World to Come” where Jesus will come to Earth and reign for 1,000 years? Then, after the thousand years the “Judgement” (Matthew 25:31 – 46) will occur, and the “New Heaven and New Earth (Revelations 21) reveal itself? | <urn:uuid:323af9ab-e4c8-4a94-90ee-593a6c37eac1> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://proclaimthechrist.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/the-world-to-come-olam-ha-ba/ | 2017-11-23T07:00:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806736.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123050243-20171123070243-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.944553 | 979 | [
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The Metamorphosis Story
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The WBC's emeritus middleweight champion Sergio "Maravilla" Martínez (47-2-2, 26 KOs), says his comeback is possibly not going to happen on July 9 as previously reported. He says there are discussions about pushing the date back to the first or second week of August on HBO. The opponent is not official. Martinez was provided with one name so far, Peter Manfredo Jr., but says the opponent could change three or four times before the August date.
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“Abijah [was] the father of Asaph, and Asaph [was] the father of Jehoshaphat” (Matthew 1:7-8 NRSV).
Today I conclude my study of the name “Asaph” as it appears in Matthew 1:7-8.
In my last post, I mentioned that most scholars believe that the inclusion of Asaph’s name in the list of David’s descendants was an error introduced into the text by the writer of the gospel of Matthew.
I also wrote that the error introduced by the writer of Matthew into the list of the kings of Judah is consistent with similar errors of citation found elsewhere in Matthew’s gospel. As I mentioned, more than once the writer of Matthew misidentified people and quotes taken from his sources.
As an example, I cited Matthew 1:10, a text in which the writer of Matthew said that “Manasseh [was] the father of Amos, and Amos [was] the father of Josiah.” However, to say that Manasseh was the father of Amos contradicts 2 Kings 21:18 and 2 Chronicles 33:20. These two passages say that Amon succeeded his father Manasseh. Thus, it is evident that the writer of Matthew confused the name of the prophet Amos with the name of Amon, king of Judah.
Another example of incorrect citation is found in Matthew 27:9-10, where the writer attributed to Jeremiah a passage that comes primarily from Zechariah:
Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one on whom a price had been set, on whom some of the people of Israel had set a price, and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord commanded me.”
The information that the writer of Matthew attributed to Jeremiah is actually loosely based on words found in Zechariah 11:12-13 combined with the ideas suggested by Jeremiah’s purchase of the land (Jeremiah 32:6-15) and his visit to the potter (18:1-3; 19:1-13).
In Matthew 23:35 the writer of Matthew confuses the prophet Zechariah, the son of Berechiah (Zechariah 1:1) with Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada mentioned in 2 Chronicles 24:20-22:
Therefore I send you prophets, sages, and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah , whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar (NRSV).
Jesus was referring to Zechariah, a priest who was killed in the court of the temple but because the author has confused the two men with the same name, Matthew’s text is referring to the death of the prophet Zechariah.
Ed Glasscock said that Jesus was referring to the death of prophet Zechariah. However, since there is no record that the death of the prophet occurred by violence, some scholars speak of a developing tradition that identified the prophet Zechariah with the Zechariah who was killed in the temple. Leon Morris believes that Jesus is referring to Zechariah the priest and that Berechiah was the name, not of his father, but of his grandfather.
The attempts at explaining these errors of citation in Matthew are primarily based on a theological presupposition that the biblical text is inerrant. As Brown wrote: “The desire to spare Matthew an error may stem from a theory of inerrancy or from an overestimation of Matthew’s knowledge of Scripture.”
Thus, it is unlikely that the writer of Matthew deliberately used Asaph in 1:7-8 to bring wisdom and prophecy into Jesus’ lineage. To the contrary, the writer was making an effort to demonstrate that Jesus belonged to the royal family of Judah and that he was a descendant of Judah’s kings, including Asa and Amon.
The purpose of Matthew’s genealogy was to demonstrate that Jesus was the promised Messiah and that he was a descendant of David. Morris has emphasized that it was important for the writer of Matthew to demonstrate to his readers that Jesus was a son of David and a genuine king of Israel. The writer introduced David as a king in 1:6. Jesus is called the Son of David in 1:1; 9:27; 12:23; 15:22; 20:30, 31; 21:9, 15; and 22:42. Jesus is called a king in 21:5 and the King of Israel in 27:42. Jesus is also called King of the Jews in 2:2; 27:11, 29, and 37.
The genealogy of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel establishes a connection between Jesus, David, and the kings of Judah and connects Jesus with the Messianic hopes of Israel and the belief that the Messiah would come from the house of David.
There is no doubt that the writer of Matthew used the genealogy to emphasize that Jesus belonged to the royal family of Judah and that he was the fulfillment of the promise God made to the house of David. When God established his covenant with David, God promised him a dynasty (2 Samuel 7:14). The covenant also stated that after David had established his kingdom, God would adopt Solomon as his own son and would establish his kingdom forever (2 Samuel 7:12-16).
The covenant between God and David was based on divine grace and guaranteed that the succession of David’s line would continue forever. After the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C. and the end of the monarchy, God’s promise was extended to the Messianic age. The fulfillment of God’s promise to David “comes when the Word of the Son of David, who is the ‘Son of God’, makes his dwelling and ‘tabernacled’ among us” (John 1:14).
The textual evidence points to the fact that Asaph in Matthew 1:7-8 is a case of lectio difficilior potior, that is, that the more difficult reading is the correct reading and that the scribes, in their desire to harmonize the text of Matthew with the name of the Hebrew king, emended the text to Asa, the correct name of the king of Judah.
In conclusion, my study of the mention of Asaph in Matthew can be summarized as follows:
1. Asa was the son of Abijah and the father of Jehoshaphat.
2. The mention of Asaph in Matthew was an error introduced into the text by the writer of the gospel.
3. Whether the error was an accidental corruption of the text by a scribe or a deliberate or accidental confusion between Asa the king and Asaph the leader of the Levitical temple musicians, is a matter of debate.
4. The earliest and best textual tradition give strong evidence that the original reading was Asaph and not Asa.
5. The reading “Asa” in many manuscripts may be an attempt by scribes to correct the text and harmonize it with the correct name of the Judean king.
. Barachiah is the Septuagint reading.
. Ed Glasscock, Matthew: Moody Gospel Commentary (Chicago: Moody Press, 1997), 456.
. Donald A. Hagner, Matthew 14-28 (Dallas: Word Books, Publishers, 1995), 677.
. Leon Morris, The Gospel According to Matthew (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1992) 589, n. 45.
. Raymond Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (New York: Doubleday, 1993), 61.
. Morris, 24.
. “‘Son of David’ means the Messiah of Israel from royal blood;” cf. Ulrich Luz, Matthew 1-7 (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1989), 104.
. Hans W. Hertzberg, I & II Samuel (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1976), 287.
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Review Summary: Jazz fusion with Eastern pizzazz
How does the mixture of curry and a beef steak sound" Or chicken vindaloo with scones" Not too tempting I’m guessing, however this fusion between the cultural inclinations of the East and West from a musical perspective can produce some rather delicious results, as shown by the music of the Mekaal Hasan Band
Mekaal Hasan is one of Pakistan’s most revered musical figures, not only composing music for his own band and his solo work, but also producing the albums of quite a few mainstream artists. He has collaborated with legendary artists including Billy Cobham and Pete Lockett (who features on the closing track of this album) on his solo album as well as his band’s music. He is quite a busy man though unfortunately since the Pakistan music industry isn’t very receptive to music that lies pretty far from the periphery of mainstream pop and rock, artists like Mekaal Hasan, who’re inclined to compose music which is thought provoking and intends to push boundaries, don’t have the comfort of releasing their own albums regularly, and thus he has only managed to release 2 albums since the Mekaal Hasan Band’s
inception in 2001.
Musically the band blends the cultural flair of Eastern classical, as is evident from the vocals and flute with both almost completely lying in this domain, with the compositional sensibilities of jazz fusion and hard rock from the Western hemisphere. Subtle nuances of other styles are also sprinkled throughout the record adding that extra dimension to the music. This concoction is birthed thanks to the diverse influences of the members with Mekaal Hasan having been brought up listening to old jazz records and other members of the band being veterans in the Pakistani classical music scene.
is much more positive in its overall mood as compared to the band’s debut Sampooran
and while I certainly don’t mind that, I was hoping for the band to push further with the dark and experimental elements of that album, as they have on the haunting “Albaella”, and also include some guest musicians on the harmonium, tablas and sitar to name a few instruments. On the plus side the band has expanded on some of the funky elements from the previous album to great effect as is evident on “Sanwal” and “Bhagheshwari” with some absolutely great guitar playing and bass lines. There is some experimentation with effects and tones as well when it comes to the guitar and flute, with the piercing high pitched wail of the flute being very innovative and refreshing.
Familiar facets of the music that have returned include the brilliant, purely classical based, vocals of Javed Bashir, with his vocal melodies and infectious vibrato complementing the music in a sublime manner. The musicianship is still terrific, and if not better than before, with the solid rhythm section bringing the groove and laying the perfect foundation for the guitars and flutes which still adeptly play the tasty leads and unisons. I had hoped for the flute to be used more during the rhythm sections as it is used in “Andholan” and “Mahi”, as opposed to being used mainly for the solo sections.
Production and mix wise the album is a definite improvement over its predecessor with a very good balance being achieved between all the instruments without any instrument stepping on the toes of another. The album could have been mixed and mastered at a slightly higher volume to increase the impact of the music, but that’s a minor complaint as all the instruments sound so good you tend to get lost in the rich textures. Another minor gripe is that some of the melodies are repeated a tad too often in certain songs, and that can take away from the novelty of the tunes, some more progressions would have been very much welcomed.
There are pros and cons for almost every album but if the pros outweigh the cons by some margin then you can almost overlook the weaknesses and relish the encouraging aspects of the music as those are what you remember when all is said and done. The band’s follow up is expected to be released this year, with Mekaal Hasan hinting at a more aggressive direction. That sounds good to me, I hope the band treads further through unknown and challenging territories to push the envelope, as long as I get my thirst for quality fusion music quenched regularly I'll be a happy man.
2. Huns Dun
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By Sylvia Lymbery
Colloquial Italian 2 is designed to assist these desirous about self-study; established to provide you the chance to hear and skim plenty of sleek, daily Italian, it has additionally been constructed to paintings systematically on reinforcing and lengthening your grammar and vocabulary.
By Jürgen Habermas
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By Frank Schatzing
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Quest isn’t a food bank; it sells food and household items at reduced prices. It’s specifically for the low-income community. Shoppers must have a referral from a social service organization, so no “walk ins”. What a switch from the way things usually are, where the poor people are usually turned away, not the rich ones!
I have been volunteering at the 611 East Hastings Quest since August 2012. It’s like a village general store, where people hug, and coo over babies, and talk politics. The staff – Michelle, Nick and Blayne – are friendly, and know many of the shoppers by name. It’s wheelchair and scooter accessible, and we stock things on shelves they can reach. Most people like shopping. “Retail Therapy” Muriel calls it. Most of us love grabbing a “deal” – our ancient hunting instincts?
I heard Quest is “a place where you can shop with dignity” at my volunteer orientation. This fits with my opinion that food banks, soup lines, and charity are bandaid solutions, where people often feel humiliation and a sense of powerlessness.
“The bottom line is if you’re poor, you’re expected to stand in lines and take cheap, unhealthy, processed food from the charity that offers it and be grateful.” A radio show interviewed a man in a soupline; “It feels like the volunteers giving out the food have a halo around their heads. It might make the volunteers feel good about themselves, but it makes me feel terrible.”
The idea of poverty as a character defect or hunger as “bad budgeting” sets the stage for the government to withdraw supports for low-income people. If you believe that the poor should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps, you can justify cuts to public housing and social services.
“Beggars can’t be choosers” originated in 1546 before any organized state support for the poor. It means when resources are limited, you must accept even substandard gifts. It is said when you must accept an offer because it’s the only one. However, it’s more often the attitude from the one giving the hand-out – “take it and shut up, or you don’t get anything.”This makes it difficult if you have diet-related health problems like diabetes, heart disease and food allergies.
Foodbanks became widespread during the recession of the 80s. They were meant to be a temporary, emergency measure.In 1989, the Canadian Association of Food Banks included a sunset clause in its constitution, to wrap up within 3 years, once the crisis was over. But food banks became vital as governments slashed social assistance, failed to establish an adequate minimum wage, cut back on affordable housing and childcare, and dismantled the social safety net.
Robert is a “regular” who bins and eats on 50 cents, sometimes a dollar, a day. He’s gone to the Foodbank a few times, but it makes him feel terrible and guilty, and his bag was gone in 2 days. He says Quest “makes me feel more free. You can’t do that anywhere else. It helps me ‘cause I’m low income; it picks my spirit up.”
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Beats by dre: the pills
HOW IT WORKED
To get the word out about The Pill, Beats' new wireless speaker, my partner and I created a set of characters called "The Pills." Small but loud, they were a dysfunctional family of speakers, voiced by Chris Rock, Eminem and Nicki Minaj.
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I am at the end of the second year of a 3-year postdoc, and one of my colleagues recently lamented that I was going to leave soon, and she suddenly smiled, finding the bright side of my remaining year: “we still have TWO seasons of your Christmas cookies!”
As I have spent more time in my postdoc, I’ve made more friends and I now have a core group of colleagues with whom I socialize– which is fantastic– but that means an additional 4-5 people for whom I need to make holiday treats. This year, I decided to make candy. I have made caramels in the past, although they are temperamental and time-consuming to wrap. I’ve also made chocolate truffles, which are also messy and time consuming. I decided to branch out and make fudge, and this delicious toffee.
I went straight to our baking guru, David Lebovitz, and decided not to toy with his recipe, as experiments with candy can often be disastrous. It is simple, and the only special equipment you need is a candy thermometer. Otherwise, it’s a super easy and quick recipe, and the results are delicious.
As a bonus, when you chop the toffee into pieces, you get little shards of toffee, nuts, and chocolate. Don’t let them go to waste! They would be awesome as an ice cream topping or sprinkled on top of your morning yogurt.
Next year, I may substitute the almonds for pistachios. Or I’ll cut back on the almonds and add chopped dried cherries to the top. The possibilities are endless!
I have many, many excuses for my lag in posting. And some of them are good and others are lame (too much work, I have been captivated by Game of Thrones and RuPaul’s Drag Race, we’ve been searching for a new apartment)… These are all true. So at some point in the near future, we need to pack up our crazy kitchen equipment and move into another apartment, a few blocks away. There is nothing I dislike more than moving. It sucks. But our landlord is trying to sell our apartment, and all the imposition is making me irritated. I take it back– I clearly hate dealing with real estate agents and cleaning my apartment incessantly for showings and open houses more than I hate moving.
In any case, I made this sweet little treasure of a cake a few weeks ago. I have many lovely friends who now have wee babies who need birthday cakes, so I decided to make the ultimate sacrifice and test out this recipe so that my friends, who will only get so many child birthdays in which they will be able to select the cake, can use their baby’s birthday as an excuse to make this. It also was my birthday, and there’s nothing I like more than cake and ice cream together. I paired this baby with some homemade chocolate ice cream– it was heavenly.
I also wanted a recipe that was quick and easy; I spent my birthday alone (don’t cry for me; Jess and I had a lovely dinner the weekend before when she was home), so I wasn’t about to sit around making a hugely complicated cake so I could sit around and eat it by myself. I turned to my go-to guy, David Lebovitz, and he had this lovely almond cake recipe on his website.
I love almonds and I was particularly drawn to the fact that most of the work was done in a food processor. It was so quick and easy to put everything together. It’s also endlessly adaptable– you could slice the cake in half horizontally and put something awesome in the middle, like dark chocolate frosting, and then frost the whole thing, or you could serve it as is, with a little powdered sugar on top and some fresh summer fruit and a dollop of fresh whipped cream. It is such a lovely cake– not too sweet, but moist and cakey. It also keeps well.
I did my duty, mom-friends. Go forth and bake.
Hello, friends. We here in twophdsbaking-land apologize for the tardiness of our posts. As you probably know, we also have day jobs, so we tend to bake on the weekends, but these past few weeks/ weekends have been filled with lovely, wonderful things that have taken us away from the kitchen, like baby showers and out-of-town guests. By the end of this month, we’ll have attended 3 baby showers– we just finished 2 of 3. Needless to say, we’ve been spending more time playing baby shower games and eating cupcakes than baking. We are so thrilled for all of our friends and relatives who are expecting– this is a really exciting time for all of them, so we’re happy to have a respite from our oven.
However, that makes for infrequent posting. I have been percolating some ideas about peanut butter cookies, and maybe– just maybe, I will get to some soon. But I digress.
What we make in our test kitchen, we often send out to friends who are willing to eat treats. That usually means we make cookies, but I also enjoy a good cake or tart recipe, and I never get to make them because I have no reason to. Maybe I need to make more friends in our new city so that we can have them over for dinner and then they can eat copious cakes and tarts.
My work had an end-of-school year party at my boss’ house, so I decided I would try a fruit tart recipe, since our grocery stores had suddenly exploded in summer fruit. We also wanted an excuse to buy a tart pan. I love fresh apricots, so I settled on David Lebovitz’s Apricot Marzipan tart, from his book, Ready for Dessert. He said raspberries made for a good add-in, so I added them both for a little tartness and color.
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Husband: Gunther Herman MURR 1
Born: 14 FEB 1939 at: 2 Married: 10 FEB 1978 at: Dallas, Dallas, Texas Died: 10 JUL 2002 at: New York Father: Mother: Other Spouses: NOTES
Wife: Eunice Clinttina BARNUM 1
Born: ABT 1959 at: 3 Died: at: Father:Claude Elsworth BARNUM Mother:Bernice M. OSTERHOUDT Other Spouses: Ralph GEORGE Raymond SALOMAN
SOURCES 1) Research by Murr-Saloman, Eunice Clinttina Barnum 2) Social Security Death Index (SSDI) 3) Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002
A Research Guide to the Genealogy of the Barnum/Barnam/Barnham Family Worldwide
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Dr Kristy Sherwen
Kristy will help you to achieve your health goals using a range of different techniques, including Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Bach Flower remedies, nutritional supplements and dietary recommendations.
Kristy has a great passion for children and family chiropractic and believes everyone can benefit from gentle specific chiropractic care. With a passion for continual growth and learning she has gained a great understanding of what the body requires to achieve balance. This includes nourishing the body, mind and spirit along with supporting the body nutritionally to reach your true potential.
Kristy's aim is to help you reach your true potential and support you through this exciting journey!
Dr Alison Parkes (Allie)
BBioMedSci., BChiro., I.C.A.K.A., M.N.Z.C.A
Her sporting endeavors continued in Sydney with paddle boarding & playing top premier women’s grade Aussie Rules (AFL) with a dabble in fifteens rugby. Now she is back on NZ soil she has been introduced to Women’s Rugby Sevens and training with the BOP Women’s side.
Her background in health started in childhood making weird, wild and wonderful concoctions from the plants and flowers in the forest. It wasn’t until completing her premedical degree in Functional Biology at Otago University that her appreciation for using functional ancient forms of medicine (herbs, plants, flowers & wholefoods) to heal the body became her major focus. This led her to the New Zealand College of Chiropractic, with continual studies in Applied Kinesiology & Nutrition.
Presently she is completing a post graduate diploma in Microbiology with focus in fermented beverages & foods. She is passionate in helping all ages engage in optimal self- care through food, mind & body practices as well as helping individuals/athletes achieve peak performance and longevity in their chosen sport.
Allie loves living in Tauranga and is embracing all the abundant outdoor activities from surfing, paddle boarding to native forest walks. Allie looks forward to being a part of your journey in health, fitness, longevity and happiness.
meet our practice manager
Cyclone season brought us to New Zealand and lifestyle plus a desire for new opportunities saw us settle here at the end of 2001. The boys are now men and firmly settled into the New Zealand lifestyle. My husband and I have continued our paths in the chiropractic community and we love being here.
I have been a great fan of The Healing Room and started care with Jolanta many years ago. I believe the multi-dimensional approach of The Healing Room team is so important to unlocking your true potential as we are all unique in who we are and what it takes to make and keep us vibrant and well. It is wonderful to be part of an environment that promotes true wellness and I hope that I can help you on your journey to a better YOU!
Meet Our Practice Assistant
While his focus was on growing a successful chiropractic practice I was concentrating full-time on growing our three active children. I found this role both challenging and rewarding and it has given me great empathy for the demands of family life. We have both thoroughly enjoyed nurturing our young family in this beautiful, natural environment.
Over time I have broadened my view of health. I am especially drawn to the power of yoga and meditation to support emotional and mental health and the ability for chiropractic care to enable our physical bodies to operate optimally. I have been experiencing the wonder of chiropractic for nearly two decades.
As the Practice Assistant here at The Healing Room, I am looking forward to contributing to your personal journey towards optimal well-being. I am passionate about holistic health, and believe the variety of care we offer here can help each individual achieve their True Potential.
Meet Our Team Leader
After one session at her local chiropractor, she never experienced her daily, debilitating abdominal cramps again. Her head was clear, her spine felt free, and she knew she was different. It is no surprise that this nine year old, who had been in and out of medical specialists offices the past few years, walked out of her chiropractor's office knowing that chiropractic was going to be her future.
Jolanta graduated from the New Zealand College of Chiropractic in 2005 and has not stopped learning since. She has since become certified in Applied Kinesiology through the Australasian College of Applied Kinesiology. She has also completed seminars and courses in neuro emotive technique (NET), nutrition (Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine), clinical nutrition, Dr Bach's flower remedies and various chiropractic techniques including cranial release techniques.
Jolanta is passionate about what she does. She lives the lessons she teaches and is always her own first guinea pig to prove that something really works! She believes that life is about balance. A balance of stress, fun, relaxation and love. A balance of body, mind, spirit and nutrition. Our job at The Healing Room is to direct the body in removing any interference to this balance. Our bodies are complex but fascinating. It is always a pleasure and an honour to work alongside each and every one of them. | <urn:uuid:f684656c-45d4-4a18-88eb-cb741de03d17> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.thehealingroom.co.nz/Meet-Chiropractic-Kinesiologists-Team-__I.93 | 2017-11-19T10:40:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805541.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119095916-20171119115916-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.960077 | 1,082 | [
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I did NOT want to go back inside the office after my lunch break. It's much too nice outside! I'm like a whiny little kid who just wants to stay outside and play for a little bit longer. Please?!?!
Earlier I snacked on a bag of 100 calorie Sunchips. I waited until 12:20 pm to have lunch. Someone must've microwaved fish because the kitchen stunk! Anyone who knows me knows that I do NOT like seafood. I'm getting better about trying stuff, and I've even enjoyed things like ahi tuna and ceviche. However there is NO way I'll ever like the smell of stinky fish. So anyway... I scurried downstairs to use the microwave on the 1st floor and raced back up to my office, having to pass through the fish stench each time. I was too distracted to remember to photograph my meal. But it looked the same as yesterday and tasted just as yummy. Thanks again Mom!
I was going to walk towards BC's campus and the reservoir during my lunch hour. When I changed into my Nikes, and added a huge pair of Marc Jacobs sunglasses to the ensemble, I decided I looked to ridiculous to be seen in public. I power walked around the cemetery for 30 minutes and listened to fun songs on my ipod. Those Stevie Wonder tunes put a smile on my face!
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Welcome to the Pullman Office!
- WSU Child Care Resource and Referral is a community service organization dedicated to the provision and development of licensed, quality, affordable early learning environments for all families in Whitman and Asotin Counties
- We provide parents with information on evaluating child care, understanding child development and other parenting issues.
- We offer child care providers access to valuable training, and we provide support services for both new and established programs. We invite you to contact us with any questions or comments.
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Brad Benson has been weight lifting and studying fitness for the past 13 years. When Brad started his journey in 2003, he was 5’ 11” 150lbs, today Brad measures in at 6’ 2” and 230lbs and closing in on single digit body fat. Brad strives every day to learn all aspects of nutrition, weight training, and what it takes to live a healthy lifestyle. He understands the importance of preparation, hard work, and discipline. Brad finds that sharing his knowledge and helping others achieve their fitness goals, is what keeps him going, and also what drives him to be better every day. He has an extremely outgoing personality, one that is often dominant, yet fun and contagious. He is someone with natural leadership qualities and the ability to bring out the best in others. Brad was the first of his immediate family to graduate College, having received his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the Illinois Institute of Art, and has paved his own path in life by following his dreams. Brad may have a degree in art, and work professionally as a graphic artist, but he also has an obsession for the fitness industry and shares the same love for it, as he does art. He has worked alongside some of the industry’s leading supplement brands, demoing product for both MusclePharm and Dymatize. Brad has the drive to keep up to date on the latest and greatest products that hit the market and to learn what works, and what does not. He is also a very active person, not only working multiple jobs and weight training but actively playing multiple sports. Nothing in Brad’s life is ever done without being fully committed or dedicating 100% of his passion towards it, whether it is fitness, work, sports, or even just his personal hobbies. Please welcome Brad in joining the ION Athlete team, he’ll be glad to answer any questions you may have, and he can’t wait to help you achieve your goals. | <urn:uuid:e75beab7-a2b1-4e02-bfa2-6abf7c17e4e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://ionnu.com/brad-benson/ | 2017-11-21T00:59:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806309.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121002016-20171121022016-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.986085 | 405 | [
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it is hard to believe that as we approach july 4th, i've been out at the ranch for almost 6 weeks. it feels as if my sister's graduation, saying good-bye to my good friends and coworkers at northrop grumman and driving up the 5 was but yesterday.
since then, the Lord has brought me to the ranch, safely, took me through river guide training, admist 40 degree weather, meeting 100+ summer staffers, and a whole lot more! since it has been 6 weeks, i'll list the highlights.
- river guide training -- 9.0
when jonathan leduc, the one in charge of hiring the men summer staff, asked me if i wanted to get river guide training, i was hesitant. did i really want to take off from work 1 wk early and lose an additional $1k from work? after some prayer and consideration, i'm glad i made the decision to come out early.
river guide training was so memorable in itself that it was worth it! when do you ever get an opportunity to learn how to guide a raft down white water? we had 2 days of indoor instructions, then it was off to the river. by mid second day, they asked us to jump into a roaring rapid. roar!!! basically to learn and experience floating down a rapid, the to dos and not to dos. and learn how to save guests out of the rapid. keep in mind, the weather that day was raining at roughly 40+ degrees and the river was flowing! and it was cold, even with 2 wet suites on. i must say it was an experiece of a life time. we had to cut river guide training short, due to the weather conditions. last day of training, we took out at 39 degree weather with rain. we got back to the ranch for dinner and it started snowing. praise the Lord, none of us got sick and i had a blast as i was warm. i don't think everyone enjoyed it as much as i did.
also, river guiding has been so much fun! praise the Lord, that no accidents have yet to occur, however, that doesn't say much, as i've only guided 3 guest rafting trips so far, summer staff and second wind (2 days). this week will be my first week out on the river. please pray for our safey and strong girls to paddle or i'll be calling rock side a whole lot.
- low ropes -- 9.0
i've always wanted to be a low ropes facilitator. low ropes is my favorite, and as my mentor/teacher, maury carlisle, says it best, it reveals the things of the Lord. and you can facilitate low ropes in so many ways, whether it be team building, team dynamics, leadership development or spiritual, i like maury's approach and focus primarily on spiritual matters. it has been such a blessing to be used by the Lord and reaching and teaching spiritual matters to the guests.
circumstances don't make us or break us, they reveal us. please pray for me, as i get the opportunity to facilitate low ropes. there have been a few busts and its not easy to take away eye sight or the ability to talk or limbs from dad's who paid thousands of dollars for a week long camp. its even harder to ask piercing, convicting questions to dad's who's lives have been focusing on careers for the past 20 years and not on the things unseen. 2 Cor 4:18.
- ranch summer staff -- 6.5
it has been really interesting meeting the 100+ summer staff. i must say, i am out of my comfort zone for a few reasons and hence the low rating. personally, it has been one of the harder challenges this summer as i battle with loneliness and insecurity off and on.
1. i am definitely not one of the popular cats around here. that has actually been pretty revealing of my character and my sinful heart.
2. there is definitely a generation gap or a culture gap or probably a bit of both. as the summer staff range between 17 - 29 (i'm not the only 29 year old!), the mean would roughly be around 21, that's a junior in college. the youngest just graduated high school, while 85% are still in college. i don't even know what's cool for that generation... second, almost all these guys are from the south. just in terms of culture, its drastically different. i've never gone hunting before, some of these guys can name of ducks and deer like its nobody's business. what are southern girls intersted in? beats me! which leads me to my next point...
3. i definitely do not know how to conversate with girls, or at least girls in this crowd. my girlfriend in high school used to say i flirt a lot, and i'd come back with i'm just being friendly. since college, i stopped flirting or "being friendly" with girls. now i just don't know how to relate with them. fortunately, i have a God that cares for me, and will eventually provide the right girl.
none the less, i have become good friends with a few guys. pray for me, as the relationships grow deeper, that they will be long lasting and encouraging to spur each other on toward glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ. please also pray that i continue to grow in being "me".
- programs -- 8.0
i've been trained and have been working at the rodeo, high ropes course, alpine tower, odyssey course, and the lake activities. this has definitely been fun, learning how to tree lizard, belay people and communicating to guests instructions clearly.
- riding an atv -- 8.5
- serving the Lord -- 10.0
day in and day out, the work i do, directly benefits the kingdom of God. check out Heb 11:10. i am participating in kingdom work, being used by our Master, the architect and builder of the city to come.
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Palak Mutton - Lamb / Mutton and spinach recipe
Palak Mutton means Spinach mutton (goat's meat). In many countries goat's meat is more popular than the sheep.
You can use either of the meats for this recipe (although the mutton will take longer to cook).
It is best cooked in a pressure cooker. But this is not absolutely essential.
In Indian meat recipes this is a popular one. You can make it as hot or as mild, as you want.
The ingredients required are as follows
- 1 kg Lamb or mutton (cut into bite size pieces)
- 500 gm Spinach (pureed)
- 4 medium Onions (chopped or sliced)
- 3 Tbsp Ginger-Garlic (chopped or paste)
- 1-1/2 cups Yogurt
- 3 Tbsp Oil
- 3-4 green Chilies (chopped)
- 2-3 Cloves
- 1 inch Cinnamon
- 1 Bay leaf
- 2 black Cardamoms
- 2 green Cardamoms
- 2 Tsp Garam masala powder
- Salt to taste
In a deep pan heat the oil and crackle the cloves, bay leaf, cinnamon and cardamoms.Then add the onions and sauté them till they start to caramelize (become little brown).Add ginger and garlic, green chilies and cook till it all becomes light brown.
Add the lamb in batches (4-5 pieces at a time) and roast in the pan, along with the onions, till the lamb is all sealed (becomes brown on all sides).
Keep stirring to ensure nothing gets stuck to the bottom of the pan.
Now add the yogurt, a little each time and mix well to incorporate it with the lamb.
Finally add the spinach puree, salt and garam masala. Bring to a boil, then cover and simmer till the lamb is tender. If you need to add water to make the right consistency, add a little hot water.
Garnish with some fresh cream before serving. Best with Tandoori Roti/chapatti, pitta bread or naan (all Indian breads).
Palak Mutton to some other delicious meat recipes
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Joshua is a valued member of Together We Can’s volunteer staff. Volunteering at our facility is an opportunity that is extended to clients while they are in a transitional phase of their treatment and are looking to stay connected to the roots of recovery. On Wednesday January 28th, Joshua sat down and told his story in the hopes that someone somewhere would find a similarity and get inspired. The following is a true tale of desperation transformed into selfless passion.
I was fourteen years old when I first used marijuana and drank. At home my father was overworked and had to deal with his own alcoholism and drug addiction problems, while my mother suffered from mental illness. Needless to say, I needed an escape and at first I started with playing instruments until I began using drugs and drinking every day.
After I started “escaping” I didn’t want to go to school much. At fifteen I started selling drugs and moved out of my parent’s house. I was caught slapped with two trafficking charges.I lived with a drug dealer. I was consistently involved with the wrong people. I was an everyday drinker – there was no binge drinking for me.
I tried cocaine for the first time at fifteen. At first I thought – this is it? I mean, at first I didn’t like alcohol either but I let it grow on me. MDMA was an early drug of choice for me but it kept interacting with my bipolar mood swings. Cocaine didn’t have any immediately noticeable side-effects.
Fast forward and I was eighteen years old and living in Alberta while working a job. At this time I remember at one point going to the food bank to get food even though I would borrow money from my parents and was working full-time. Liquor came first, never eating. I was constantly sick because of it. I kept this up for a while until I had to move back home because I was broke. I was really depressed, but still I took a mixology course and worked at a night club for a while when drugs became truly easy to access – nearly free. I had worked my way up in the club and while the money was good, all of the abuse escalated with it.
I had some connections in Germany for a job and ended up buying a plane ticket to London. I was going to travel across Europe and end up in Germany at a nightlife job.
In the two weeks leading up to the trip, I spent all of my hard-earned money I saved up for the adventure on using. It drove me to the brink of insanity and I tried to take my own life. I think that was the point where I understood I needed help, and so I reached out finally to my mother and father for help and went and saw a drug and alcohol counsellor. I was considering treatment and they said I had to go to detox first. At this point I was consuming at least 26 ounces of hard alcohol a day and the withdrawal was brutal. After I was done detox, I chose to go to AA meetings instead of treatment but still used marijuana. Things did improve as I acquired a job doing excavation, I bought a car, new musical equipment, started a band and began playing live shows, although I was still restless and anxious.
I had over four months abstinent when I took a road trip to Vancouver spontaneously in the middle of the night. Along the way I picked up a random hitchhiker and I drank with him. It was too much of a temptation not to.
Fast forwarding even more time after returning for work in Calgary, getting loaded, and then moving to Vancouver, I was in an AA meeting one day where I met a TWC Alumni who recognized I needed help. He checked in with me every day and when I went through the terrible process of detox again – this time on my own – he assured me there was a spot waiting for me in treatment at Together We Can and a few days later I was in.
That was 296 days ago.
I no longer wake up every morning wanting to die. My parents don’t expect a phone call in the middle of the night from someone telling them their son has died. Through helping myself I have now honed the ability to help others. There is accountability in my life. What I’m doing right now in my life feels divine – it is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing and nothing has ever felt more right. I volunteer my time at TWC doing a variety of things I wouldn’t have done before. I’ve returned to school to finish what I had originally started and I became involved in my passions again. Music is the only thing that has ever felt pure or as good as helping others. It really is what drives me forward and without it I wouldn’t be alive. Every time I’m in my addiction it’s such a small part of my story, and I don’t want it to be like that. The years I spent in addiction I could have been making progress with my music, and now very week I participate like a client would in the Music Therapy Program. I love just being a part of it because it gives others the confidence to perform too.
If I had to give any newcomer a piece of advice it would be to find yourself a solid support group. Find people that can help you learn and grow and help you to live.
Together We Can has a personal commitment to respecting a client’s intimate recovery process and it is through projects such this that sharing experience, strength and hope can assist in a client’s healing process. Grief is a powerful motivating factor for many in addiction, however recovery gives people the opportunity to let go of the power it has over their emotions and decision making. Grief does not have to define you.
Personal grief counselling is one of many aspects of our program, and inspiration is found through others’ overcoming trauma and tragedy. Recovery is an ongoing healing process and should be treated with kindness, dignity, and compassion.
So you’re done treatment and, like most of us, you are now living in second stage housing or you are back at home with your family. You are feeling good about yourself and you’ve decided that it’s time to go back to work or maybe even school. Eventually you have to have that conversation with yourself and your support group. You’re eager to become busy and to do something familiar or unfamiliar that you can count on, but some people aren’t so fortunate. They either don’t have a job to go back to or maybe they haven’t had a job in a long time. Having a regular full-time job is a big deal.
Today that’s where I am at. I just turned 55 and let me tell you, it’s not so easy finding full-time work when you are my age. Even though it’s been a bit of a struggle, although I do have some work that I am getting from a friend of a friend. I am okay with that. But a bit of work here and a bit of work there, is just that… a bit of work. Looking for a full-time job is full-time work. I have to go out there and use my network of friends, my friends in recovery and put the message out there that Luke is looking for a full-time employment situation. I have to be proactive… I can’t sit at home and wait for people to call me back after I’ve dropped off a resume or had an interview. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in treatment, is that you have to be proactive! You have to do the work and so I’ve taken that approach!
It doesn’t matter where you are in your recovery there is HOPE! I see and hear about it all the time at meetings. So today I am going to talk about hope and how it has helped me.
So what is hope? Well hope for me is the expectation that things in the future will be better. Hope has become the foundation and the energy that drives me to find a way to get better and heal. It has kept me strong when I’ve encountered challenges. Hope has given me a sense of joy and peace, knowing that a better tomorrow exists for me out there. So, how do you find it? Finding hope is different for every one of us. Sometimes it comes easy, and sometimes we need to work to find it. So I’ve put together a list of some of the ways that I’ve found hope. Here are a few that have worked for me:
Listen to stories of hope: Listening to stories of hope, success and triumphs of others can help us find hope. These stories not only inspire us, but also shed some light on strategies of finding and sustaining hope even during the darkest times.
Think positive of the future: Look into the future and identify who and what’s important to you. It could be a loved one such as a child, spouse or parents. It can also be an event or something you always wanted to do. Looking positively into the future helps cultivate a purpose and direction in life.
Positive affirmations: Even Though it might seem like a simple process, positive affirmations do work. The repetition of positive affirmations leads to belief, and belief is at the heart of hope. Affirmations such as, ‘I am strong, I can overcome my challenges, I am a new person, I feel new hope and I can recover,’ rebuild a sense of self-worth and your belief that you are capable of achieving your goals. Not only do affirmations build belief, but also a confidence and a drive for change and action.
Leaning on a Higher Power: Many find hope by reaching for a Higher Power. This could be through spirituality, religion or philosophy. Reaching to a Higher Power is actually Step 2 in the 12-Step Process: “Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.” Simplified this reads as, “there is help for my problem and I believe I can address it.”
Accept your current situation: For someone it may be hard to accept that they are currently in a bad place. But the courage of acceptance is the first step in desiring a better future. Acceptance helps us realize that our current situation is not where we want to be, and helps us develop a vision of where we want to be. Without acceptance, we cannot take control of our destiny to reach a better tomorrow.
Have a realistic and meaningful plan: It is action that makes hopes come true. By the mere fact of developing a plan for a better future you will build hope. The more your plan, with firm action steps and dates, you will come to realize that your vision really is attainable.
The journey and recovery from addiction is never an easy one. No one can last long and keep fighting for recovery without hope. Hope is a very important ingredient in recovery. Finding hope and meaning, together with a solid plan, helps you move forward on your journey of recovery.
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” Desmund Tutu
So please share your experiences with us. We need them. They help make us better people.
Thanks for stopping by… Luke D
In collaboration with the Vancouver Recovery Club and local artists in recovery, on January 23 The Rush concert had the best-ever attendance and even went into overtime as the talented artists in recovery amazed the concert-goers with their dedication, inspiration and annihilation of addiction through the higher power of music and words. The Rush has continued to be a MASSIVE success!
The room at the beginning of the night was immediately jam-packed with a Friday night recovery crowd buzzing and bonding over the fact that many of their friends were given the courage to perform on stage. With TWC Alumni Basil on stage managing the microphone and artists mingling with the people before they performed, the filled room was constantly alive with fellowship and excitement. People from all walks of recovery turned out in support of the event!
TWC Alumni Jordan H. (seen in the photoblog with a Nike shirt and hat) was one such performer that took the stage and busted out some incredibly complicated rhymes and at one point even freestyled because of a soundcheck problem! This is exactly the kind of bravery and willingness that people require to stay clean and break through more social and mental barriers in their life. It was truly a spectacular act only seen at The Rush.
Together We Can offers a unique Music Therapy Program headed by Jeremy Reid and Matt Rands who facilitate and organize our clients and create opportunities JUST LIKE THIS. That’s right – The Rush performances for TWC Alumni and clients stem directly from TWC’s Music Therapy Program. For more information on how you can participate or donate to assist in the program, please Contact Us!
Thank you to the Vancouver Recovery Club for hosting the event, and also a BIG thank-you to Two Mice photographer Dominic McDowell for the priceless devotion it took to position himself to create the perfect shots he did. Visit http://www.twomice.ca/ for more of his awesome work.
A humble thank-you to the International Buddhist Society in Richmond, BC for providing a truly unrivaled spiritual service.
For more information regarding our Meditation and Mindfulness Program, please contact Jarred Blancard at Together We Can.
“A Taste of Nirvana” project aims to provide a glimpse into one of the many altruistic teachings of Together We Can Society. If you wish to support more programs such as this, contact us for more information on how you can help at 1-888-940-9854
For information about the International Buddhist Society, visit: http://www.buddhisttemple.ca/
Who: Jimmy Sandes
What: TWC Second-Stage House Manager
Clean Time: 11 1/2 months
I arrived at Together We Can on February 10th when I relapsed after five years clean. Up until that point I was directionless but I understood the principles and assistance available if I simply reached out. I found myself in treatment after years working at a different facility running similar groups, and humility was an important principle for me to practice early on to get well.
After two months in first-stage treatment, it was suggested to me that I should enter the second-stage living program. I knew that I wasn’t personally in a position to financially manage my life if I moved out on my own, and as such I took the advice they gave.
Second-Stage granted me the freedom to slowly start getting my life back on track and the ability to explore some options such as school. To attend post-secondary had been on my mind for over three years, and I was finally in a place where I could pursue this dream to its fullest extent. I am currently a full-time student at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, and in my first semester I achieved a 95% average in my classes.
As well, one of my goals was to rebuild and maintain a relationship with my family. They were integral in my sobriety before and I have successfully gained respect and trust back with them to continue the reciprocal bond we have. I found a new level of stability that I was never used to.
One of the most important things I can do as a house manager is to continuously acknowledge to my peers in the house that I am no different from them. We are all addicts living in recovery and as a result I ask them to continue to keep my accountable as I would them. To find balance in my life is to allow others to speak into it.
I came into the position of house manager under the pretence that I would be an example of experience, strength and hope. With almost a year clean again, I feel that second-stage was an imperative point in my life that I encourage everyone to follow through with to solidify their recovery. Today I am in my family’s life, meaningful relationships, sponsees, and most importantly: integrity.
Thank you, Together We Can.
At first glance, TWC Kitchen Manager Mark Oliveria fits the stereotypical profile of an individual who knows his way around a cookhouse: a stocky frame encompassing European features with a look in his eyes that govern his environment more than words ever could. These are necessary qualities for a man that holds the weight of an entire facility on his shoulders from the minute he wakes up in the morning until the time he goes home to his family.
To describe Mark as focused is an understatement. His job requires a unique type of discipline and ongoing compassion in a way that few often encounter. From seven-thirty in the morning until whenever-the-job-is-complete o’ clock at night, the kitchen and the people in it are his. At quarter after one on a quiet Thursday, however, his strict demeanour softens and the words that spill out of his mouth are the only things I pay attention to. After all, as Mark makes abundantly clear to anyone new to TWC, everyone’s story is valuable in some way or another.
Casual drinking began for me around age sixteen. I was at a party one time after practise and since all of my buddies were drinking, I decided to try it too. You never want to be that guy who doesn’t follow the leader at that age. At the time I was very serious about my sports and academics alike and the drinking at parties thing only happened once in a blue moon. Nothing progressed for me until I turned eighteen and was plagued with career-ending injuries that left me feeling alone and futile. I never really accepted that I wasn’t able to play football anymore, and it led to a series of bad decisions that, for me at the time, were beginning to become clouded with some prescription painkiller abuse. I moved out of a really positive environment living with my mom and into a cramped, stressful, dirty environment with a girlfriend I had at the time. She did a lot of drinking and I went along with that. It turned into smoking pot, as it always does eventually, and my painkiller use increased simultaneously. Drinking and using the pills eased much of the discomfort I had, both emotionally and physically. I was living in a lifestyle and encouraged it within myself to continue the way I was going because I was already doing it. There was a sick acceptance in that. Money went to booze, drugs, anything to stay on the level. Rent was second for me.
The girlfriend became pregnant and while she had a child from a previous relationship, I wanted to be there for our baby and take responsibility for supporting them. This was short-lived and actually became a cycle of trying and failing even after my son was born. It went from good intentions to, “how are we going to pick up today and maintain throughout the month?” Don’t get me wrong, though. From time to time I would somehow get a good job and support my family and my drug habit for a while, but the depression always lingered. I knew deep down this wasn’t how living the rest of my life should actually be, but the progression of my addiction came at great cost and all at once.
My son had been born healthy, but in his most important developmental years my ex-partner and I noticed he was maturing in a different way than the other children. He rarely spoke and for the longest time he would only point at things he wanted. It wasn’t until age four that I decided to explore some developmental testing, and the results came back but the diagnosis wasn’t quite clear. In 2008 when he was seven years old, I made a decision to get off the prescription pills and move from Ontario to Vancouver for work and a better life. A geographical change, looking back on it now. I was running from problems I hadn’t even begun to think about solving, and I wanted the easiest way out.
With the assistance of a doctor in Vancouver I was off the pills and thought I was really on my way out of the lifestyle. I worked a kitchen job at the time and brought my family out to live here, and with them came a new opportunity for a proper diagnosis of my son’s learning abilities. I wasn’t surprised to hear that Aspergers was what he had, but it seemed to light a flame under my motivation I had never experienced before. Good or bad at the time, I’m not sure, but it was a flame.
I had broken the relationship with his mother because of infidelity and drug abuse, while at the same time continuing to drink and take MDMA until I found cocaine through a friend of mine. I lived without consequences and looking back on it now, it still stands as one of the most shameful times in my life. I had a son who needed a father and here I was making good money, destroying my body, and making promises I couldn’t keep. I was severely depressed and deluded. Something had to change, but it wasn’t bad enough for me quite yet.
Two major experiences come to mind when I look back on my life in addiction. The first being Christmas of 2011 when I had $1200.00 in my pocket and swore to myself up an down that I would give half of it to my ex-partner to buy Christmas gifts for our son. I blew it all on using, and when I saw him over the holidays he said something that would forever change me as a father.
“I didn’t want anything for Christmas except you, dad.”
I couldn’t even give that to him. Myself, of all things, he had just wanted his father, and I denied him of that right.
The second experience was later on at the lowest point I’d ever been in my life. I was living under a bridge and remember repeating to myself that things weren’t that bad. Winters would be tough, but summers would be better. Can you believe that? It was the best I could come up with at the time. That was it for me – this was going to be my life. I had resigned myself too it. I had utterly given up.
When a homeless shelter support worker in Vancouver helped me get into Together We Can, the interactions with my son changed invariably. As the most emotionally intelligent person I know, Manny (my son’s name) said things to me like, “I’m glad you’re back dad. I’m happy you’re better now.” There was no guilt, no shaming me with what I had done to him growing up. There was an altruistic effort that I had never known in my own life, and here my son was teaching it to me.
The support worker provided me with the ideal example of one addict helping another. He didn’t need to do what he did, but I consider him a major influence on who I am today. To show that love and compassion to someone when they’re completely down and out – it’s miraculous. There was no judgement, and I have carried this attitude with me into my job at TWC for all who walk through my kitchen door.
At one time in your life, just as there was in mine, there’s going to be a spot for you in the front row of loneliness and you’re going to need someone to tell you that you’re worth it. Somebody told me that, and I’m here today because of it.
I have Manny full-time now. I have met and become engaged to a spectacular woman that understands both my situation and Manny’s, and every day I wake up incredibly astounded that there is an unconditional love exhibited from her the way I’ve needed all my life. We live in a beautiful home where, yes, I occasionally do cook!
As for my son, I really have to take a moment to brag. He excels in creativity, visualizations, and in video games and puzzles he can out-do anyone. He creates his own comic books and mold clay and is extremely self-educated. He has the ability to watch a TV show – History Channel, National Geographic, and absorb the information as if its being imprinted upon his brain permanently. I consider myself so fortunate to have a son like him. I see other parents worrying about their children getting into fights at school or staying out too late at night and getting into trouble. He lives an honest life and doesn’t believe in lying or treating people badly. If he sees something wrong he wants nothing to do with it. He has a kind soul. He’s fifteen years old right now and I can’t say enough about him and the way I learn from him each day.
My idea of progression has changed, however the definition of compassion remains the same. When I see a guy waiting to dig into a meal, maybe his first in quite a long time, that has the same empty thousand-mile stare I once had, I know what to do now. We share more than food and plates and a seat at a table. There’s an understanding there and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Most importantly, I no longer have the urge to just be a dad for my son. I want to be the best dad there is, and without being clean and sober I would have never had the opportunity.
Let’s face it everyone… recovery is a process, and you’ve probably heard that over and over again. And perhaps you’ve heard the slogan from the 12-Step tradition: “it works if you work it.” If working your program feels like you’re climbing uphill knee-deep in mud in the middle of January in some back country hike, Then you’re in some serious… doo-doo.
So let’s all start by being HONEST about our recovery. Addiction for many people is kept under wraps. That’s the only way to maintain it—to lie about it. And besides, to admit your addiction would hurt your reputation. And you don’t want to that… Or do you?
So what if I told you that being completely honest with yourself was the only way you’ll ever even begin to conquer your addiction? Part of beating your addiction is beating your pride. Let me explain. The moment you begin to say, “I can beat this addiction, and I can do it today,” isn’t the moment that you begin down the road to recovery, but rather the day that dependency on your own will power prolongs your addiction. There’s a reason the 1st step in a common 12 step program is, “We admitted we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable.”
Experts say that when someone is caught in the sea of addiction, their will power becomes “practically non-existent.” Think about the last time you had a drink or took a drug. Why did you do it? It probably wasn’t because you wanted to draw out your addiction, or keep hurting your family and friends. At the point in which an addict decides to consume an addictive substance, he or she has lost the consciousness to remember the pain that same substance brought them and their family last week—or just yesterday!
Somehow the desire for what that drug will do for you erases the long-term effect. Somehow your memory turns off, or begins to fade, and your desire for a “high,” or for a release from reality is switched on and shifted into a high gear.
I say this knowing that honesty is of the utmost importance in recovering from any addiction first-hand. Admitting that you can’t beat your problem on your own and understanding that your addiction is forcing you to live a lie are key steps an addict in treatment must take. To be honest with yourself during recovery relies upon not deceiving yourself. We should be honest with ourselves concerning our character, about how we feel, our thought process, how we carry ourselves, and how we act and behave towards varying circumstances. There are countless advantages from being honest with ourselves. In our recovery, we are better able to notice our character defects, short-comings, negative thoughts, anger, and personality flaws. When we are honest with ourselves we gain the capacity for positive change to occur. Our desire for positive change helps us to feel better about ourselves. We become more aware of our true person, enabling us to have the opportunity to make the changes necessary to grow in our recovery.
In our journey it is just as important to be honest not just to ourselves, but with our dealings with others. Why should we lie our lives away? We now have the chance to make amends, heal our past wounds, rebuild our relationships based on trust, along with many other things that would be possible if we maintain self-honesty, as well as outward honesty. An ever-increasing amount of opportunity for personal growth in our recovery awaits us as we are honest about our addiction, our addictive behaviours, and our powerlessness.
You will reap the benefits of working an honest program. By being honest, we are open to utilize the many other spiritual principles offered in the 12 Steps of recovery. I have personally learned that I must be honest regarding all aspects of my life if I am to continue along the road that leads to further personal growth, spiritual enrichment, and positive change. I am grateful to share this message, and it is my hope that we all can adopt these principles in all our affairs.
It was at the end of one of those long foggy Tuesdays in January that I sat down with TWC Counsellor Matt Rands with coffee, questions, and a few escaping yawns. Sitting across from me wearing his usual attire – a blue checkered collared shirt, black hoodie, and a focused gaze – he began to speak and I started to listen. At thirty eight years old, the words that came out of his mouth were both remnants and new beginnings but all at once an incredible view of what it meant to overcome one of the greatest of personal tragedies and to rise anew. This is a brief glimpse into his life.
How long have you been working in the field of addictions?
“Fourteen months. I began my work at Inner Visions Treatment Centre and I’ve progressed in my career to where I am today at Together We Can as a one-to-one counsellor. Simply put, I knew that I had to be at the core of the solution at all times to maintain a personal program of recovery.”
What is your main role as a counsellor?
“I assist clients in letting go of the grief and the shame they carry by acknowledging that they weren’t in control of their behavior due to their drug abuse, while still emphasizing that the responsibility to resolve and make amends for the wreckage of their past lies within only themselves. It’s a delicate line to walk, however what I believe to be one of the most crucial pillars of recovering from obsession.”
Why is this so important to you and your recovery?
“For me, the healing I sought didn’t happen until about eight months into recovery when I started to make formal amends to people. The important necessary groundwork was laid in treatment by simply being around other addicts in recovery that carried a sense of ease and comfort to them that has eluded me all my life.”
You seem to be directly referencing an experience in your own life. Where did this journey for you begin?
“There was a lot of happiness in my life long ago. I was married to a beautiful woman for three years, and seven years ago she passed away from cancer. I was a ‘functional’ alcoholic at the time, but she definitely managed to keep me in check. Losing her created numbness in my life that left me feeling dead inside and as a result I lost the ability to function outwardly as a normal human being. All of my hopes and dreams were dashed in seconds due to her passing. There was a progression in my life, but it wasn’t a healthy one. My addiction became far more formidable.”
Many addicts have their own description of a ‘bottom’ or that end-of-the-road type of experience. Was this it for you? What do you consider the ‘bottom’ to be?
“For me personally, the bottom is when I was emotionally, mentally, and spiritually admitting defeat. My way wasn’t working anymore. I ended up in Nanaimo spending my last ten bucks on a six pack of cheap beer and crying. No hope, no use, no help.”
And then what happened?
“I used the one brain cell I had left for good rather than bad. I stopped talking and began listening to a message when I had come to the realization that I was full of everything bad I had fought against my entire life. I had become a monster. Honesty used to come easily to me because of the unique and relaxed open communication I had with my wife. We shared our lives with each other easily. I knew I had it in me somewhere.”
What do you consider the most important thing an individual can do while in treatment?
“To get honest about what their life actually looks like. To get honest about who they feel they are as a person is essential to the counselling process, otherwise they are no use and true healing cannot begin. Treatment is a safe environment to do this. The delusion of reality that addiction causes is so deep that even the definition of honesty is skewed for many people. I wasn’t able to personally heal until I admitted to myself how I felt about myself. It’s that simple, but for some it is so difficult, and that’s okay. I can help with that.”
Where are you today and what do you value and take with you for tomorrow?
“Relationships are the most important things in my life. I didn’t know what I had until it was gone and they are now the only things that carry purpose for me. In my recovery, my sponsor is an incredible individual whose passion for recovery is all encompassing. He ‘walks the walk and talks the talk’ as they’d say. He’s there to counsel me when needed and draws a distinct line between us that maintains sponsor-sponsee relations rather than friends. As a result of this however, I consider him to be one of my closest friends. This is a long way from where I once was.”
Any resolutions for 2015?
“Every day is a new year for me and every day I wake up, start over, and try to do a little better. Sometimes I fail and sometimes I don’t, but both are able to teach me something. That’s redemption.”
With a nod and a handshake, Matt and I both stand up from the table and we end the formalities. It’s nearly the end of the work day and there is still coffee to be had and notes to be written. I thank him for his time and experience and he turns the corner to return to his desk where he writes tasks for tomorrow; a day where healing will begin again with a story, compassion, and a desire to stay clean. | <urn:uuid:c0b7105a-6a2c-43ae-a091-176c9f4365ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://twcvancouver.org/2015/01/ | 2017-11-22T14:47:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806609.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122141600-20171122161600-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.980572 | 7,436 | [
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With Oculus Rift out in the wild at long last, Facebook is giving us our first look at its design for a 360 video camera.
When Facebook dropped billions on Oculus, you better believe that the company meant to own the virtual reality future as a whole—not just the hardware headset. This means of course creating an entire platform for the development of virtual reality and 360 video. And so here’s the last missing piece of the puzzle: A Camera. With it, Facebook has what’s refereed to as an end-to-end solution for 360 video. You can can use Facebook to shoot the video, use Facebook software to process the video, and later, you can use Facebook, via the website or the Rift headset to play it back. This is very similar to what Google did last year with its Jump platform, which include its own gnarly 360 camera designs, processing software, and playback mediums (Cardboard and YouTube).
The new camera looks sleek and futuristic from the photos, but it’s an open source design so presumably the ideas people come up with might look something different. At its core, it’s very similar to designs that we’ve seen from everybody from Nokia to Lytro to Jaunt: Its an array of many cameras arranged such that the images from each can be stitched together into a spherical image. In this case, it’s a 17 camera rig: 14 cameras around in a ring, one fisheye pointing up, and two fisheyes pointing down.
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The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
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How to solve Google's Rubik's Cube doodle
How many times have you wanted to throw a Rubik's Cube against the wall in frustration? Less than 43 trillion times? That means there is probably a Rubik's Cube solution you haven't tried yet. Here are a few methods, as well as some ways Google is letting those not inclined to puzzles in on the fun.
“Rubik's Cube” and “frustration” are often words found in the same sentence.
The rainbow-colored geometric model invented by Hungarian sculptor Erno Rubik has reportedly teased one out of every eight people on the planet, and is one of the best-selling toys of all time. Now Google has brought the challenge online with a doodle that celebrates the Cube’s 519 quintillion permutations (on May 19 – get it?), as well as the 40th anniversary of the invention of the Cube.
“Released to the public in the 1980s, [the Rubik’s Cube] quickly became an international obsession, bigger than hairspray and breakdancing combined,” writes Richard The, a designer at Google and self-proclaimed child of the 1980s, on Google’s blog. “But the Rubik’s Cube is more than just a toy; it’s a puzzle waiting to be solved and a question waiting to be answered.”
All in all, there are more than 43 trillion ways to solve a Rubik’s Cube, though some methods are utilized more than others. Business Insider’s Sara Silverstein took on the challenge in a recent article, and found it is best to start by creating a “white cross” (a cross shape on one face using the white color), then solving the first layer, middle layer, top corners, then top layer edges (see her pattern examples here). RubiksCube.info’s Victor Ortega and Josef Jelinek lay out Ortega’s method, which recommends starting by orienting the top and bottom corners. For those interested in timed “speedcubing” (the current world record is 5.5 seconds), many swear by the Fridrich method, in which the cuber starts with any color cross then solves the first and second layer at the same time, therefore cutting down on the necessary turns.
Though the Google Doodle isn’t physical, Google provided some keyboard shortcuts that allow you to position the cube and squares in every necessary direction.
Still stumped? Google gets it. Mr. The says this was one of its most technically challenging doodles to create thus far, but also one that inspired extra spin-off applications that honor the cube beyond the puzzle.
You can find these at the Chrome Cube Lab, which houses applications designed specifically for the digital Rubik’s Cube. There is the 808Cube and SynthCube that let you remix beats and tunes played on different squares; the TypeCube, which lets you write a message that scrambles and solves itself when shared; and the ImageCube that scrambles your images or GIFs on the squares of a sharable cube.
Want to create more puzzles inspired by the Rubik’s Cube? Google also made the code of its cube open source, allowing anyone to create his or her own scrambled experiment. After all, an inquiring mind is exactly what Mr. Rubik hoped to inspire.
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The popular US retailer GameStop posted a packshot for Assassin's Creed DS that revealed some very important information to us. We know that it's going to be called Assassin's Creed: Altair's Chronicles and that it'll cover events from before the console versions of Assassin's Creed.
Players will be able to pull off amazing acrobatic moves, explore a fully 3D-rendered medieval world, master sword fights, use stealth assassinations, combo attacks and use a wide variety of weapons. You'll also be able to use your style to interrogate informers and pickpocket precious items from the crowd.
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KLEENEZE distributors in the Advertiser region have donated more than £3,000 worth of toys to Barnardo’s, thanks to the generosity of their customers.
Team leader Andy Brown said eight distributors took part, from Buckingham, Winslow, Brackley, Towcester and Bicester.
Team members gave their regular customers the option of purchasing a toy from the catalogue to donate to the charity.
Then the distributors ploughed their 20 per cent commission on the purchases into buying more toys to donate.
A total of £3,642 worth of toys have been delivered to Barnardo’s regional office, to be distributed to children in Bucks, Oxon and Northants.
Mr Brown said: “We want to show our customers what we’ve done and thank them for their generosity and help.”
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I'm tired. That's nothing new. I workout constantly, work hard and am almost always on the go. I prefer it that way. Living life at full throttle 80% of the time makes me happy. And feeling tired from hard workouts is part of the game.
But this is something more. I'm not just tired. I'm worn out. Exhausted. I can feel it in every movement of daily life. I've been approaching my workouts for the last few weeks with trepidation, asking myself what it's going to take to pull me through. I'm drinking 1-2 cups of caffeinated coffee a day (I used to only drink decaf), usually before a workout in the hopes of "reving up." I'm not sleeping well. My concentration isn't there.
I've been pushing too hard for too long. I need a break. Mark Sisson of Mark's Daily Apple refers to it as a "Deload Week" and describes it like this:
A deload week is a “take it easy” week. It’s a break from training hard and training often, and scheduling a deload week is often how hard-charging athletes and weight lifters (a notorious bunch who never want to take a break) force themselves to recover from their pursuits. Exercise, you see, especially effective, intense, hard exercise, requires that we recover. It’s just like any injury, wound, illness, or stressor faced by our body. We have to recover before we can get stronger. In fact, you don’t get stronger from the act of lifting weights. You get stronger by recovering from the act of lifting weights.
Mark suggests taking a deload week every 6 weeks. I'll be happy to get in one a year.
I'm going to finish out this week's workouts with a long run on Saturday and then finito. I'll get plenty of small movements in from packing and unpacking as we make the move to Greensboro. I'm going to make time for walks and maybe some gentle evening yoga. Or not. I may do as little movement as possible. What I won't be doing is Crossfit, Bodypump, tempo runs, biking, barre class, power yoga or anything that even remotely resembles a push-up.
It's a sign of how truly tired I am that instead of being anxious about taking a week off, I'm feeling a huge surge of relief. I don't have to lift anything heavy for a week - whoo-hoo!!
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As predicted, poor conditions all day yesterday on the north shore because of the sideon wind.
I'll keep using the photos from those couple of epic days as long as the photogs keep posting them. This is Tyler Larronde in a photo by One More Foto.
Below are the three buoys at 6am.
I put a red line on all of them when the swell was 2f and as you can see it seems that the travelling time was correctly forecasted, but, if one wants to be super precise, they actually weren't.
Those 2f that passed under the NW buoy around 5-6am yesterday got smaller by the time they got to Waimea and Maui. How much smaller we don't know exactly and so we can't exactly measure the travelling time.
But I'm pretty happy to just observe and state that it took 12h for the Maui buoy to get to those same 2f level. Which is actually more useful for our practical means of knowing when and where to go surf.
Just remember that if a NW swell peaks at X feet at the NW buoy, you will never see those same X feet at the Maui buoy, because they are going to be less than that, but you can still use the travelling times table to guess when the swell is going to peak in Maui.
In this particular case, those 2f kept building up to 8.7f 14s at 6am, and we can expect the swell to have a similar rise throughout all day here locally and by sunset time it should be pretty big.
BTW, the original 2f were at 17s and a little bit from a NNW direction (before turning more NW later in the day), so my rule of thumb applied beautifully: 12h at 16s, 16h at 12s. CANNOT BE too precise in these things, a vast margin of approximation has to be considered. Don't book plane tickets based on this stuff...
And also BTW, I looked at Hookipa at sunset and it was tiny. If that was 2f 17s, it was sure very different from the 2f 16s that provided well overhead waves two days ago. I still haven't quite figured out what happened then. I probably never will.
So, swell on the rise all day, but still not big enough to start the contest at Honolua.
Notice also the short period component that will make things look pretty messy and ugly, together with the wind shown in the MC2km map at noon below.
Wind map shows a solid fetch from the storm we've been monitoring in the past few days, that is the one that will send the big weekend swell.
On nov 21st, I posted what the GFS model predicted the same map to be (which I repost below), and you can see it's pretty damn close. When there's a storm that is pretty deep and strong, a 5 days ahead forecast is usually reliable.
PS. Just in case someone was wondering if "forecasted" is the correct past tens of to forecast:
Both forecast and forecasted are widely used as the past tense and past participle of the verb forecast, but the uninflected form is more common. In 21st-century English it prevails by a large margin, but not by such a large margin that anyone should consider forecasted wrong.
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June 22, 2011
Because It Should Exist: 1966 Topps #424 Reds Rookies (May/Brezhnev)
In classic Topps fashion, Brezhnev is pictured here after making the team in the previous two years. Lee May turned out to be pretty good, too.
Because It Should Exist
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Story of a family of 12, who live in an historic home in a small town, and try to adhere to the philosophy "Blessed are the flexible for we shall not be bent out of shape."
I. and J. on J's 16th birthday.
I cannot believe how much your kids have grown! Gorgeous!! TIme flies.
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Saturday, 14 July 2007
Hell 4 Lethva!
Straight outta JD sport
My Adidas RUN DMC 1982 Def Jam
In celebration of my new “kicks” this week I’ve brought you a slab of old skool from RUN DMC. I know, I know but they didn’t write a track called “My Reebok”. I’m afraid I never moved on from this sort of hip hop, it still sounds great. The more recent stuff like Kanye West etc leaves me a bit cold. Run and the Boyz however kick harder than a mule!
As I said, I got some new trainers this week, without being too much of a bloke they are the same as the last pair I had (This is all a bit Gilbert and George is it) and they are also the same as the one before that! They are Reebok classics (in black). I like them for various reasons chief among them is they are simple and not flashy, don’t have complicated soles but aren’t painfully “old skool” either. The fetish of the trainer is a sad recent phenomenon, the same magazines and TV shows that coo over some tiresome “B-boys” 60 pairs of box fresh Nike, would no doubt sneer at a homely thimble collection. The difference between the 2 groups obsessions is minimal particularly as some trainer collectors (they probably call themselves “Sole Bruvas”) never wear their prizes.
Sadly the V&A and the BBC condones this addiction!. Whilst I’m in Grumpy old man mode googling “pump collection” gets you to lots of lovely steam engines hurrah!
I’ve always steered away from being a la mode, in fact I was only very briefly fashionable in this respect when the Face’s “must haves of June ‘97” was the same pair of New Balance I’d bought, I even got them from their proscribed shop in Neal st the shame. I think on the whole you should always base decisions in life in this and most other areas on the maxim “what would Westwood do?” and do the opposite!
The other pleasing thing about Reebok Classics is that they are in the top 3 favourite trainers of criminals. Along with Nike, Reeboks are the Trainer that Scene of Crime Officers have to print after burglaries the most. I don’t think sadly they have any advantages for “breaking and entering” other than being well made with good grip. One thing the survey didn’t look at was, were these shoes the most stolen trainers as well, I think they probably are. | <urn:uuid:88c35c8d-b500-4eb6-8d29-5e4bda245d7e> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://living4pleasurealone.blogspot.com/2007/07/hell-4-lethva.html | 2017-11-18T17:51:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805008.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118171235-20171118191235-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.969534 | 576 | [
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A 14-year old boy is in hospital with serious head and facial injuries after collision between a car and a bicycle.
Police were called around 8.20pm on Saturday September 17 following reports of an accident on Dam Wood Lane in Scarisbrick.
The 14-year-old boy from Ormskirk was cycling across the road when he was struck by a silver Vauxhall Corsa. He suffered serious head and facial injuries and was transported to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital for treatment.
The driver of the car, a 57-year-old man from Southport, was not injured during the collision.
Dam Wood Lane was closed for more than three hours while accident investigators attended the scene.
Sgt John Jennings-Wharton, of Lancashire Police, said: “We are appealing for information after a road collision in Scarisbrick.
“A 14-year-old boy has suffered serious injuries and we are keen to establish exactly what happened.
“If you saw either the cyclist or Corsa prior to the collision, please contact us.”
Anyone with information can contact police on 101 quoting log reference 1499 of September 17.
This is the second incident on Dam Wood Lane this month.
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Friday, 18 December 2009
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
I am well known for being blonde. Despite having a three A Levels and a 2.1 degree in Linguistics I routinely produce incredibly stupid remakes and even stupider actions.
This one seems to take the biscuit:
Last week S and I had a roast chicken. I decided to keep the bones and make a homemade chicken stock a la the domestic goddess I strive to be.
So I did, I painstakingly chopped various vegetables and then boiled them up with the chicken bones, I carefully seasoned with salt and pepper then with rosemary, parsley and thyme. I lovingly skimmed the mixture then left it to simmer, checking every 15 minutes or so, reskimming it every half hour.
Finally, after four hours, it was ready, it was clear in colour with a slight amber tint, just like Jamie Oliver said it would be.
I carefully carried the pan to the side, got out my sieve and drained the mix. Down the sink.
Dumbfounded I stared at my sieve full of bones and soggy vegetables, blinking back the tears while my delicious stock happily made its way through the drain.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
I want to hate this advert - I really do. I want to loathe it and make witty comments about them choking on their duck rolls and chocolate coated strawberries.
But I can't. I just can't.
It's like hating the class dunce: he's probably trying his heart out and he'd never be cruel or unkind to anyone. Simply, it's not his fault he's thick as soup. When you get Coleen Nolan and Jason Donovan - two people who haven't been famous for over 100 years - representing your brand singing "What a swell party this is" very badly, you can hardly be accused of any meanness.
Donovan sounds like he's never actually held a note in his life and Nolan has surely only been selected as the jolly, big-bosomed, yo-yoing replacement for the hapless Kerry Katona.
Iceland seems to have made a virtue out of being cheap and cheerful - or cheap and nasty if you take into account their inexpensive frozen fodder (I'm sorry, £5 for an entire platter of prawns!!) - and that's exactly what this advert is: The thick kid in the class.
All the high tech, popular kids would look down at it, the I-phone advert would sneer at it; the American Airlines advert would look down its nose at it; and Peter Jones would kick it as he skated past on his stupid shopping trolly.
But it's so hopeless I can't find it in my heart to hate it.
Friday, 4 December 2009
My gangsta name (favourite chocolate bar and favourite cookie): Caramel Chocolate Chip
My detective name (favourite color and favourite animal): Pink Tiger [Detective deshmective, that's a rad name all around]
My Star Wars name (first three letters of first name and first two letters of surname then the word 'of' then a medication you are on): Livke of Vitamin C [I'm not technically 'on' Vitamin C, but it's the only thing I take with any regularity]
My superhero name (2nd favourite colour and favourite drink with 'The' in front): The Green Water [yeah, the bad guys would be totally intimidated by someone named The Green Water?]
My Racing Car Driver name (first names of your grandfathers): Leslie Gordon [That is an AWESOME racing car driver name]
My stripper name [I've always needed one of those] (name of your favourite perfume/cologne and your favourite sweets): Miss Sixty Starburst
My witness-protection name (mother's and father's middle names): Ann [my dad is middlenameless, come to think of it, Ann is a pretty great witness protection name.]
Thursday, 3 December 2009
Recently I was talking to friends about moral issues (oh yes people, it is going to be one of those posts – but it is a VERY important one so shut up and read on!), I shared one of my most thought provoking issues. It is an issue I battle with constantly, having known of it for a long time but being unable to commit to fighting it fully. I was fired up about it and my friends caught fire as well, fairly quickly.
What followed was a months-long delving into some of the saddest stories you'll ever hear.
In third-world countries, where advertising code standards are loosely or not-at-all observed, formula companies exploit the ignorance and desperation of women. Doctors and nurses are paid commissions to hand out samples of baby formula and press new mothers to use it in place of breast milk. They tell them that formula is better for their babies than their breast milk could ever be, that, if they loved their babies, they would buy the expensive formula packs. The women either buy completely into the wretched idea that formula is superior to what their bodies produce, or they use the samples just long enough that their own breast milk dries up. And then they're stuck, dependent on expensive powdered formula.
We found pictures of babies who starved to death because their mothers couldn't afford enough of the pricey formula and diluted it. Other babies became sick after being fed formula mixed with bad water, or drinking from unsterilized bottles. One woman who had twins was told her body would only produce enough breast milk for one baby, so she fed the other formula. The breastfed baby thrived; the formula-fed baby starved.
Admittedly I'm fairly easy to rile, but there are few things in my life that have sickened or angered me more than this. The ONE THING these mamas can do for their babies is being taken from them.
The scariest statistic: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.3 million babies who die annually because of nutrition and health issues would NOT die if their mothers exclusively breastfed them to the age of 6 months and continued to breastfeed thereafter.
Dead babies, people. Dead babies can't be ignored.
So I have joined the boycott of one of the leading offenders, Nestlé. As much as I love Shreddies and Toffee Crisps, I love women and babies more. It would be fabby fantastic if you joined me - it's not asking much to pass over the Buxton water (yep, Nestlé own them) and get the Evian or the Malvern instead, is it?
Although I give you all plenty of credit to understand this without me saying it, I will clarify that this isn't a hate-on-all-formula campaign we're waging. Formula has its place. It is the best substitute for breast milk that exists, and when used safely, cleanly, and as directed, it does not kill babies. Babies are killed by disease and malnutrition. Babies are killed when women who can't afford formula and/or do not have access to clean water are convinced by greedy, shameless people not to trust their own bodies.
And that is something I cannot and will not endorse.
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With surprise many of us received a statement singed by the staff of Hellenic Observatory at the LSE. From 1996 the Hellenic Observatory has been a hub for research on Contemporary Greece. Funded in part by the Greek State, the institution has over the years received senior and early career Greek academics. It has also, rather problematically, invited senior politicians of one persuasion more than another, to give public talks and, conversely, members of its staff have in many cases worked closely with past Greek governments.
Despite its many public activities this is the first time in recent years – perhaps even the first time in its history – that the staff of the institution, through its staffers, feel the obligation to intervene publicly with a statement ‘on the Situation in Greece’, urging the hundreds, if not thousands of members on its mailing list – amongst them many Greek students – to vote ‘YES’ in the impending referendum.
Some might ask whether it is permissible for an institution whose role is to ‘promote the multidisciplinary study of contemporary Greek politics, economy and society’ to see itself as a propagandist for a political cause. We do not, indeed, believe that research institutions should be isolated from politics. Thankfully, many institutions in the UK have intervened by fostering events aiming to throw light to the profound and devastating humanitarian crisis in Greece over the last six years. Only, now, and while responses can differ, The Hellenic Observatory, with the banks closed and the country blackmailed, decided to take a stance that distorts the very question of the impeding referendum and aids misinformation across a wide range of academics, students and policy makers.
Let us be clear: Sunday’s referendum is not about Greece’s currency. It is not formally stated to be so to start with. For us, at least, its outcome will not jeopardise Greece’s position in the EU. A ‘NO’ vote is not an anti-European vote. We expected that an institution aiming to promote the research and production of knowledge in contemporary Greece would do better than merely reiterate a distortion of the very question set before the Greek people.
Angie Voela, University of East London
Stathis Kouvelakis, King’s College London
Vassilis Fouskas, University of East London
Maria Aristodemou, Birkbeck College, University of London
Ntina Tzouvala, University of Durham
Costas Douzinas, Birkbeck College, University of London
Maria Drakopoulou, University of Kent
Antonis Tzanakopoulos, University of Oxford
Alexander Kazamias, University of Coventry
Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck College, University of London
Julia Chryssostalis, University of Westminster
Thanos Zartaloudis, University of Kent
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Why am I talking about the Fall Equinox when it already took place a week and a half ago? Because the Sun moving into Libra is the midpoint of the year astrologically and it marks a turning point in the cycle bringing our focus from self to others, reminding us that we are not alone, we do indeed need each other! The Sun returning to Libra each year allows us to tend to our partnerships, perhaps even to nurture new relationships. And the coming together of the Sun and Moon in Libra define a more concentrated focus for the next month.
Today's New Moon in Libra, occurring at 8:34pm, is the best time for planting seeds of new beginnings in partnership, both with self and others. I like to think about things during the darkest days of the lunar cycle and make my "wishlist" sometime during the 24 hours surrounding the New Moon, just before or on the day of the new moon. Then, just as the thinnest edge of the crescent moon begins to show itself a day or two later, I am ready to bring awareness to those things I need to do to move towards fulfilling that list. Planting seeds in the dark can be scary because we don't know what will grow, but as the light increases we can see the shoots and really work hard to nurture that new growth.
With the Sun in Libra, there are usually plenty of opportunities for
socializing and getting outside of the self to mingle and get to know
others' and their ideas and what they have to offer. If you're someone who likes to be alone but wants to be in a relationship, the seeds to plant need to include how you can change your routine or your habits to meet others halfway. Have you been asked by friends to attend an event or come to dinner but you turned it down because you're uncomfortable in situations where you will meet new people? That's exactly what you need to do - push yourself a bit and talk or listen and get to know who else is interested in similar things. If you're not meeting people where you are, you need to go out where they are and that might involve getting out of one's comfort zone!
If you are feeling stagnant and always see the same people over and over, perhaps it's time to join a class, go to a community gathering or eat out at a new restaurant. Whatever you do, make sure you say hello to someone new and maybe engage in a bit of conversation, otherwise you're just keeping to yourself again. Listening is a great way to get to know a new person, then you can ask simple questions, like how long have you lived here?, or what interests you about this author? Be prepared to answer a few questions about yourself as well. Whatever interests you have, others have them too... and you can find ways to connect if you reach out during the next two weeks as the Moon cycle builds up.
New beginnings need to be tended to in order to flourish and grow and Libra reminds us that it's all about give and take. Balance and harmony are Libra's keywords and while some couples and partnerships make it look easy, it usually isn't. We don't just jump into
relationships, we have to get to know the other person. New starts in a stagnant relationship require both parties to come to the table and put in effort,
just as finding inner peace requires honesty with the self to let go of those thoughts or memories of the past that keep us unbalanced. Creating harmony and beauty in our environment doesn't just happen - it has to begin with you, then go out to include others.
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A half-decade ago, as California’s economy was being hammered by a severe recession and the state budget was awash in red ink, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators created a blue-ribbon commission to study revenue “volatility” and recommend ways to offset it.
The state had experienced wild swings of revenue for years, and its politicians, including Schwarzenegger, had compounded their effects by overspending periodic windfalls, only to see serious deficits when revenues later declined.
Creation of the “Commission on the 21st Century Economy” was an implicit admission that politicians, on their own, were incapable of curbing that irresponsible tendency.
However, the commission, headed by wealthy businessman Gerald Parsky, divided into two camps.
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One, headed by Parsky, advocated changes in the tax system to reduce volatility – reducing the very high proportion of taxes paid by a few wealthy Californians whose incomes were especially volatile, and placing more load onto middle-income taxpayers.
The other, more liberal faction said that such tax changes would be unfair to the nonwealthy. It advocated, instead, mitigating the effects of volatility, if not volatility itself, by diverting windfalls into reserves that could then be tapped to avoid deficits when revenues dropped.
The Parsky faction’s remedy prevailed in the final report, but it was immediately filed away and forgotten.
The state continued to deal with deficits until Gov. Jerry Brown persuaded voters to close them by raising sales taxes a little bit and income taxes on the wealthy by a lot – thus increasing the likelihood of more severe volatility if, and when, the economy once again dips.
So if California isn’t going to reform its tax system, as rejection of the Parsky commission report and the subsequent income tax hike imply, will it heed the advice of the commission’s minority about reserves?
California appears to be on the verge of another major surge in revenues, partially from the 2012 hike and partially from an improving economy. Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor sees an annual surplus approaching $6 billion by the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year and nearly $10 billion by 2017-18, barring another downturn. Brown’s bean-counters aren’t disagreeing.
Taylor says it’s an opportunity to create “a strong reserve” to cushion the impacts of future downturns, as well as pay off debts that were run up during the deficit years and close shortfalls in pension and retiree health care obligations. Brown implies that he wants to pursue a cautious course as well.
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“I cannot believe that I have gone from a size 14 to a size 10 in a month! The combination of audios, online bootcamp videos and Facebook group have enabled me to overhaul my lifestyle and get to a place where I’m a better version of myself – a version I wished I’d found earlier! Can’t wait to keep going and the satisfaction of fitting into my old pair of jeans is just an added bonus. I hadn’t fully appreciated how much food and lifestyle choices as well as exercise would have such a positive effect so quickly. I would recommend to anybody!”
“I am truly never the type of person to post bikini photos, but I just tried mine on for going on holiday on Sunday and for the first time in as long as I can remember I don’t hate how my tummy looks! This is off the back of two tummy attacks. Not that I doubted it but wow, thanks Janey, it really works! Thanks for helping me not dread stepping out in a bikini.” Rachel S
“The tummy attack was amazing – great combination of exercise and food management. I really enjoyed it…and it works!” Survey Monkey response
“Ok I soooo wasn’t going to do this! But I had been taking regular photos over the last two TA’s but never sat down to compare them. I had noticed some differences but am really surprised at the before and afters.
Especially as I have just been at a 2 day wedding that sent me way off track. So I thought I would share too to say thank you Janey!
A little effort from me despite challenges of summer holidays and great instruction and motivation from Janey can really make a difference.” Sarah Smith
“Hi Janey and team, I just wanted to say thank you for such an amazing month. I’ve seen your online bootcamps advertised for years but never done them as couldn’t see how they might work for me. I was always one of those people who needed someone there telling me what to do, or so I thought. How wrong I was! Having just completed the Tummy ATTACK, I’ve never felt so great. I loved how simple it was to fit in around everything, I thoroughly enjoyed the program and I wish I had done it sooner. I cannot reccomend it enough. I didn’t use the Facebook group, although I dipped in at the end to see what all the fuss was about and I’ll definitely use it next time! For now, I’m jetting off on my holidays for a couple of weeks and never been in such great shape, or felt so good about myself – the audios have given me much more body confidence as I approach 50 too! So thank you and if anyone is reading this unsure of whether to take the plunge, just do it, you won’t regret it!” Louise B July bootcamper
“I am so happy I have done the TA boot camp…. For many reasons…. The changes I have made have really changed me for the better and I feel like it is something I will be able to stick to everyday moving forward. I have obviously cut down on my fizz intake, but what I had forgotten to mention is I had got into a habit of drinking a couple of glasses of wine a night, sometimes the bottle…. I have found doing this TA it is all about changing habits and mine have been my fizz, wine evenings and choc hit in the morning, these have all now stopped or being managed. I have enjoyed a small glass of wine with dinner tonight, which normally would have been the bottle due to the sunshine and I enjoyed it more knowing it was my one guilt tonight and me raising it to myself on my client of the week award!” Jennifer, Secret Facebook post
“Hi girls, been meaning to write this for ages. The Tummy attack program was the ideal way to kickstart after Christmas. I’m definitely someone who needs motivation and you feel like you have a personal trainer 24/7. The daily audios were so inspiring, I used to listen to them on my way home from the school run and then I was ready to crack on once I got home with exercise. Sometimes I would listen twice as they are packed with such positive messages. I loved the videos, found it very easy to upload & watch them on my computer in the kitchen. You don’t need props, just your trainers so it’s easy to get on with it without making excuses. If you travel (as I did), it’s easy to watch on an iPad for example- I did one video in a hotel room in Madrid! Its all over fairly quickly and once finished you feel such achievement. The fact that they are two like minded people, (rather than these vids with “perfect” people, with “perfect” bodies in their “perfect” gym kit who never seem to break a sweat!! – no offense ladies, you both look fab but I did enjoy that you were also sweating it! honestly I felt like I was exercising with friends in a lovely English garden with the birds singing in the background! it’s fun and there is plenty of variety so you never get bored. There are also different levels depending on your fitness. The forum is very useful and it’s great to share stories and keep each other motivated. There is so much information to help you achieve your goal I really can’t recommend it enough. I also did Janey’s FMME program which was a life changer. In the month I was really pleased with the results, I got rid of excess weight I had been carrying and I’m going to keep referring back to the videos and audios throughout this year, that is the beauty. Thank you, Janey and team x” Harriet C
I have loved the programme, if I’m honest I didn’t think I’d be able to stick to it but the combination of the motivational emails and the short sharp exercise has been the perfect balance for me. I’ve totally changed shape particularly my legs and at the last measure (middle of last week) had lost 2 inches off my love handles which is AMAZING and everything just fits better plus I’m back into exercise for the first time pre kids and feeling much better for it! 10/10 from me!!!
“The TA videos are more challenging than those from any of Janeys other online courses! The daily messages keep you on track and the forum helps share the successes, failures and who he’s about sore muscles :-)” Becca P
“I have really enjoyed this programme and although the main aim is getting diet and core fitness sorted, it has given me headspace and some time to pay attention to myself more generally. I am on the way to being fitter, healthier and I’m pretty sure, happier too. Thank you” Survey Monkey response
“I have done two Tummy ATTACKS back to back, as well as some extra running and spinning and I’m just about back to my pre-pregnancy size and shape now, yaw! I’m really pleased with the results I’ve got in a couple of months and the secret Facebook group is so motivational. Love that I can get my exercise done in 30 mins a day and fit around my three children. Great programme!” Amber L
“I have been doing Fit for a Princess for a year, but took the plunge to do the online Tummy ATTACK in January and it’s been amazing! I couldn’t understand why people would want to do outdoor and online bootcamps but having experiences both alongside each other I can’t recommend it enough! The Tummy ATTACK helped me with food, lifestyle and mindset as well as boost my fitness levels beyond anything I thought and I’ve been astounded to see how much my core strength has improved. I’ve got more out of my FFAP classes as a result and I’ve totally changed shape because I really focused on my nutrition. For me, the flexibility of being able to do the online workouts at home around my kids if I couldn’t get to a FFAP class for whatever reason has been invaluable. I love the fact I get to keep everything for life too and have some great workouts at my finger tips, I think 6 hours’ worth! I love Fit for a Princess, but the addition of Tummy ATTACK has completely re-motivated me! It’s made me want to go to more classes, push myself more, become stronger, more body and health aware and for £69 I think it is incredible value. Thanks Janey & the MTE/FFAP team for providing such great things for women.” Anon email
“I was very dubious about signing up for the Tummy ATTACK in January as I’d never done an online bootcamp before, but I’ve absolutely loved it. I was worried about it being 28 days long, but it flew by and as the testimonials I’d read have said, it really is an enjoyable experience! The daily audios, were so good and I can’t believe how different I felt about myself. I loved the TA recipes, the online video workouts were hard, but manageable and it was great to see my fitness levels improve in just a few weeks and my jeans are so much looser. I loved Janey and Gemma being on the forum each day and I looked forward to our motivational quote of the day – always perfectly timed and I can’t wait to do it again!”.
“I couldn’t do the programme as fully as I had hoped – life!!! BUT I have kept going and just signed up for a repeat because it’s been so good for me and even though I haven’t done it intensely, I can feel and others can see the difference. On top of that, the tummy analysis in particular has helped me to think I can get more in control of more of my health and life and given me impetus to come off the pill and other medication that I am currently taking – with support and slowly and carefully but I know I will do it now. It feels like Janey and the team are doing it alongside me and I have got a lot of moral support from that.” Secret Facebook Group post
I thought the programme was absolutely fantastic. Having done your food management course it was good to refresh myself on all of the good eating principles. However, I have to confess I haven’t been massively strict on the diet (I still adhere to most Food Management principles and have a juice each morning), as I’m weaning my son and between batch cooking for him and keeping my husband happy, something had to give! But, I followed the exercise programme religiously and did everyday. What I love is the balance of your programme, as on a day when I thought I simply can’t do this, you had scheduled a core workout or a different type of cardio…you are very attuned to female bodies. The icing on the cake was on one morning when I said to my husband I needed him to come and make me do it and he did the video with me, but he was absolutely knackered and I could do the plank for longer than him, classic! He said he was incredibly impressed that I’d managed to do the programme as he really didn’t think I had been doing anything so challenging!
I just want to say a massive congrats on running such a great course, it helped me regain my fitness after having my baby and I now try and do at least 3 of your fitness videos a week and I am feeling so good.
Thank you, I have already recommended it to lots of other people
I cannot believe at how great I feel after just three weeks, I’m loving the flexibility of the exercises and at only 30 minute long the workouts are so easy to fit into my busy day juggling 3 kids and work! G Murphy
“I have lost 6 lbs, 4 inches round my tummy and dropped a dress size in just 21 days! I can’t wait for the final week and to do it all over again!”
“Why did not know about the Tummy ATTACK water sooner… a new habit I will have for life!” Secret Facebook Group post
“I love the workout videos, they are long enough to hurt, but short enough to fit in with my busy family/work/ lifestyle. I have downloaded them to my i-pad so I was able to take them away at the weekend and I can’t believe I get to keep all the resources for life!”
Being an older woman who’s never been much into exercise, I was a little scared to say the least of starting this programme, but I was so surprised at how easy it is to follow. Janey and Gemma are so relaxed on the videos and it’s a great feeling to know that they are ‘normal’ too. I loved doing them in the comfort of my own home where no one can see me sweat! Although I’ve found the videos hard, they are very manageable when I take them at my own level. I will definitely being signing up for the next program and hopefully get to levels 2 and 3 on the videos! I’ve also found the daily tummy inspirational sections especially useful and it has been great to see women of all ages and sizes covered on them!
I absolutely love the daily emails and look forward to them each day, it’s been so interesting to hear Janey’s view point on various tummies and bodies and it’s helped improve my body image tenfold. I’ve loved the contrast of being inspired to look your best and being encouraged to really push yourself, yet to also be realistic and enjoy your body journey. I’d recommend this program to everyone! Survey Monkey response
“I signed up to this program to improve my fitness and health levels and focus on really trying to tone up my stomach. Getting started was super simple; no equipment is needed apart from a workout mat. The videos are challenging but with two or more levels, you can mix and match between them to suit your fitness levels. Added to this the daily emails with inspiring audios and information all add up to a holistic approach to getting truly fit and healthy. After just 10 days my tummy has never looked smaller, my tummy is really shrinking and there is no overhang and the lines are less visible. I can’t wait to take my weekly pic on Monday and I can’t wait to see my results by the end of the month” Facebook post
“The recipe book is amazing, the daily audios are amazing, the videos are amazing, the flexibility is amazing and the daily emails have surpassed my expectations. Incredible program Janey, you’ve done it again, only better!” Survey Monkey response
“Love how easy it was to get started, I was on holiday right up to the weekend before it began and all I needed to organise was an online shop using the recipe book/approved foods! Love the tone of the videos, not too Sargent Major but still motivational (and funny!) Already seeing results after 1 week which has really made me go for it in week 2”
“Loving the flexibility of the videos so I can combine with my normal exercise routine”
“I’m on day 11 of the Tummy Attack and it’s already showing some great results. I’ve done several of Janey’s online courses before but this one works much better for me time and kid wise! All that’s required of me is to 1) follow Janey’s key food principles which she makes super-simple with heaps of recipe suggestions and swop tips 2) to commit to eating well every day and take one day at a time 3) to follow the online videos which are AMAZING! The cardio or core workouts are just 25 minutes long and actually work the whole body too and 4) I don’t need to leave the house and I can supplement with any other exercise I choose, or not, it’s up to me. I’m finding it even easier this time because I don’t have to arrange childcare and I only need to find a window of 30 minutes away from the kids – that’s just one episode of Barbie Dreamhouse! After 10 days my skin is glowing, my eyes are bright, white and clear and I’ve moved down two notches now on my belt. People are already commenting on how much better I look but what’s more important to me is how much better I feel. I’d recommend this course to everyone. Emma G the TA smasher!
“The thought-provoking, body image-boosting and stress-busting audios are amazing. Janey’s also put loads into the daily emails, there is so much fab content but it’s completely manageable. I’ve loved everyday so far, thanks Janey & team!” Survey Monkey response
“I’ve done all of Janey’s 28 day online fitness programs but I’ve got to say this is the best by far!” Survey Monkey response
“Love all the body analysis and mindset in the daily audios and love that there are so many stress management / feel good tips, I feel like a different person in just 10 days, can’t wait to do it again” Survey Monkey response
“I will never know life again without the Tummy ATTACK water! It’s brilliant, I have it every day and I’m sure it’s the reason why I’ve lost 5cm round my waist in just 10 days!” Survey Monkey response
“I love the fact the videos incorporate the cardio side this year and that you can do it in just 35 minutes a day” Survey Monkey response
“My husband is doing the Tummy ATTACK bootcamp with me, he’s lost 7 lbs. already and is addicted to the TA water! He’s run 7 marathons but has found the core videos really challenging. We’re working out together most days and the daily audios have really made a difference to our mindsets”
“Loving the programme! – In less than a week I have dropped 2 inches from my stomach and nearly 3 off my hips. I’m also sleeping better and my skin has really cleared. Usually when you get dramatic results, some sort of deprivation is involved but the program is manageable and takes a holistic approach. It’s ridiculously easy to follow too – you can listen to the audios and squeeze in the videos wherever you go which makes things a lot easier to stick to. Most importantly though I love that Janey keeps it real whatever your goal is – whether it’s getting a six pack or blitzing a wine waist she doesn’t promise quick fixes but gives you the tools to get where you want to go. Amazing xx” Forum post
“I can’t say this enough – I am LOVING this programme!”
“I think this program is such good value for money. I Particularly like the repeat rate idea, I have already signed up for the next one!”
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The news that the Motorola is a vast improvement in the tablet market when compared to the iPad was certainly good news for Verizon. However, when we learned that consumers would have to part with their new device for 6 days for the 4G/LTE upgrade it seemed like a bitter pill to swallow. Thankfully one guy might be able to put a smile back on you face, as he has rooted his Motorola Xoom, and a working recovery is to come.
My Brain Hurts has been explaining how the Xoom comes rooted right out of the box, the reason being is the fact that the new Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb device has Fastboot support. The only thing that was needed was to compile a new kernel, which as some of you might already know was not an easy task.
The reason for this was the fact that it was not available, Harmony kernel was the first thing to try, but that did not work. Thankfully after some persistence Koushik Dutta was able to create a working recovery, which allowed for a root and finally a Superuser.
Nothing works at the moment, as the SD card slot does not function, but that will come at a later date. My Brain Hurts offers full instructions to root your Motorola Xoom tablet, but remember that you need to install fastboot on your computer first. Let us hope that ROM Manager support does not take too long, but there are ways around this.
For those of you who are about to take possession of the new Xoom, then you might want to visit how2moto YouTube channel. These videos are very informative in how they explain everything you need to know about the new Honeycomb tablet.
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Asanga managed with great dexterity to reconcile the two opposing systems by placing a number of Saivite gods cr devils, both male and female, in the inferior heavens of the then prevalent Buddhism, and by representing them as worshippers and supporters of the Buddha and of Avalokitesvara.
This man was born of a Saivite family about 1825, but in early manhood grew dissatisfied with idolworship. He undertook many pilgrimages and studied the Vedic philosophy in the hope of solving the old problem of the Buddha, - how to alleviate human misery and attain final liberation.
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After a decent Indian food dinner I decided to walk back to my hotel. I stopped at the Royal Palace of Brussels. Then strolled around the Parc de Bruxelles and then past the Chamber of Representatives, which is on the other side of the park.
This Thanksgiving I'm thankful for wild yeast and traditional brewing techniques. I'm at my brewing Graceland: Cantillon Brewery in Brussels, Belgium.
Amsterdam is exceedingly pretty when the sun comes out. Almost makes you forget about the rainy days.
Went to the Vasa Museum today. 390 years ago the Dutch guys built a very pretty - but very terribly engineered - boat. It literally sunk 1000 meters after being launched. They raised it about 50 years ago. They sprayed it with waxy goo (like in your chap stick) for 17 years straight to replace the water and preserve the wood. It's 98% complete.
Snowed about 6"overnight in Stockholm. It's wet snow and got super slick super fast. Pretty, though. Usually I go skiing on my birthday, not this year. Snow will have to suffice
Went on a photo expedition tonight to Monteliusvägen - it's a 500 meter long overlook of the city, a short 20 minute walk from where I'm staying.
This afternoon I took the bus over to the Kaknästornet, a 155 meter tall TV & Radio transmission tower east of Stockholm. You can take an elevator up to the 30th floor and look out over the city. It was a struggle to get there. I first got on the #69 bus going the wrong direction (apparently the buses going in opposite directions passed the exact same bus stop at the same time), and then I totally passed my stop because I was an idiot and was futzing with my phone. Regardless, I made it - buses & trains run ridiculously often in this town.
I went up to the upper observation deck to catch a photo from the outside only to find out that there are these goddamn bars you have to look through. So I went down into the lower observation deck and had to shoot through glass. This excursion was an exercise in patience.
One last night in Abisko to try to catch the #AuroraBorealis. My photography guide told me about a short hike up to a hill just south of town called Stor-Nabben. I scoped it out during the very short day yesterday and decided it was worth a shot tonight. Right now it's cloudy but the starry sky is supposed to slowly reveal itself over the next 4 hours. My fingers are crossed and hopefully I'll be able to capture some magic again tonight.
This is a bucket list sort of an adventure for me. Going 5500 miles away from home to a tiny town of a few hundred, 200 kilometers North of the Arctic Circle. Thankfully the solar wind cooperated a few nights and I was able to achieve something I'd only ever dreamt about.
The only thing I really wish I had was someone to share in these adventures. I'm used to traveling alone but ultimately it's not the way I'd like to live outt the rest of my life. It's tough seeing all these couples sharing these precious moments with each other, knowing that I'm going to be 39 in a few days and I've largely been single my whole life. Then again I think about being dumped on 2 different vacations over the years, and suddenly realize that it's ok to be doing what I want and when I want to.
Just as tonight's Aurora would be the icing on the cake of an already very successful trip, I'll try to remain hopeful that the skies of my own romantic life will clear up and I can find someone to go on future adventures with.
Hello from the Rombak Fjord near Narvik, Norway! Took a sightseeing trip today. My 1st fjord. The water on the shore was so clear but the wind was whipping waves on the water.
I went down to Lake Torneträsk in Abisko, Sweden last night and shot a series of 175 long exposure photos (20 seconds) from 2:30am-3:30am. It was very windy and the aurora was really just sort of the "baseline" variety: dim but noticeable. I took shelter next to a large boxy houseboat-looking thing, set the camera up and started my Intervalometer (that triggers the shutter after a specified number of seconds). I put all the photos together into a another timelapse. The resulting video is nicer-looking than it was to stand out in the howling wind. I love the satellites that pass overhead, including the one at the very end that (presumably) perfectly reflects the sun from the other side of the world.
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President Barack Obama is talking with business leaders today at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The two sides are hope to bridge gaps on hotly debated topics, including health care and financial regulations.
AOL announced this morning its $315 million purchase of the left-leaning news site The Huffington Post. Jeremy Hobson speaks with Henry Blodget, CEO of Business Insider, about what this buyout means for AOL, The Huffington Post, and their future together.
President Ronald Reagan's economic legacy was built on lower taxes and smaller government spending -- the foundation of Republican ideals today. On what would've been Reagan's 100th birthday, Steve Chiotakis speaks with Fortune magazine's Allan Sloan about Reaganomics and the former president's impact on today's economic climate.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's new immigration rules could cap the number of people from outside Europe who can settle in the country, but the Financial Times newspaper reports the rules could also create a fast track for wealthy immigrants to move to the U.K. Christopher Werth has more.
AOL's still looking to shake its dial-up image from the nineties and move into 2011. The company hopes the purchase of The Huffington Post -- and its new network of hyper-local news sites -- will help the company into the realm of media and entertainment. David Gura explains.
Egypt's banks have opened after a week of closures. But Egypt still faces massive poverty, rising food prices, and high unemployment. The same troubles are present in Tunisia -- where a new transitional government is working to address the country's serious economic problems. From Tunisia, Sabri Ben-Achour reports.
News happens while you sleep. Marketplace Morning Report gives you a head start on the day. Throughout the morning, host David Brancaccio shares the latest on markets, money, jobs and innovation, providing the context you need to make the smartest decisions. And from London, host Anu Anand presents Marketplace Morning Report from BBC World Service to bring you up to speed as the global economy shifts. It's the world perspective you need, from two trusted sources. | <urn:uuid:ca85d546-a967-4592-aa6f-a8c9a75841af> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/marketplace-morning-report-monday-february-7-2011?date=2013-05 | 2017-11-25T00:33:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809160.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124234011-20171125014011-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.941559 | 429 | [
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Finally after 108 years the little team with the big heart has won the World Series. The Chicago Cubs played their hearts out to win Major League Baseball’s most coveted accolades clinching the World Series with a score of 8 Cubs and 7 Cleveland.
All of Chicago is going wild and celebrating the long awaited win for the Northside team that could!! The team’s MVP Ben Zobrist said “the team has always stuck together” as he was awarded a new car sponsored by Chevrolet.
EarHustle411 as well as the people of Chicago were rooting for the team and it still true that prayers really do get answered
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Sacred Heart falls to Bryant, has another chance to win title today
Updated 12:47 am, Sunday, May 26, 2013
Lakewood, N.J. -- The Sacred Heart baseball team had a chance to win its third straight NEC championship Saturday afternoon. It gets a second chance to do so today.
The Pioneers fell to Bryant 6-3 at FirstEnergy Park on Saturday. Sacred Heart (34-23) and Bryant (43-16-1) will play again Sunday at noon in a winner-take-all finale for the conference title and a chance to play in the NCAA tournament.
Sacred Heart had their chances against Bryant on Saturday, leaving 13 men on base. Sophomore Jeff Stoddard took the loss, allowing six runs in 52/3 innings.
SHU took a 1-0 lead in the third inning. Senior shortstop John Murphy (Seymour), who had walked, came around to score from second base on a Jesus Medina chopper that was misplayed by Bryant shortstop Dan Muscatello.
Bryant rallied to take the lead 3-1 in the fifth inning on a two-run triple by Jordan Mountford and an RBI sac fly to center by A.J. Zarozny.
In the sixth inning, Bryant poured it on with a two-out rally. Five consecutive singles yielded three more runs, making it 6-1.
Dan Perez (Seymour, CT) had an run-scoring single in the seventh, when the Pioneers scored twice. Perez had three hits in the game.
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Gr 6 Up—The second installment of the "Ms. Marvel" series picks up with boisterous Kamala Khan continuing her hunt for Jersey City's newest villain, The Inventor. She stumbles upon a suspicious sewer drain that leads her to deadly robots, giant alligators, her hero Wolverine, and none other than the nemesis himself—a cockatiel-human hybrid, genetically cloned from Thomas Edison's DNA. Kamala also discovers that her newly acquired powers are far from a fluke and that she might be superhuman after all, thanks to some more familiar faces in the Marvel Universe. In a disturbing final standoff, the source of The Inventor's "clean energy" is revealed, leading our heroine to realize that her generation needs a voice now more than ever. Packed with just as much action, snark, and plot twists as its predecessor, this second entry might be even more enjoyable than the first, as it begins to tackle the fraught concept of "the new generation," and whether technology keeps teens plugged into the world, or tuned out. Wyatt and Alphona's vibrant and textured artwork complements Kamala's brave, yet compassionate nature, while perfectly showcasing her "elastic" talents. VERDICT Fans of Ms. Marvel will not be disappointed in this exciting continuation. A worthy addition to any library's comic collection.—Ashleigh Williams, School Library
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DigitalClone Live 2.0 now contains Prognostic models to extend the life of GE 1.5 wind turbines
Buffalo, NY -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/29/2014 --Sentient Science announced today the release of DigitalClone Live 2.0. The software is a computational tool and condition-based monitoring service that helps companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components in design, testing, procurements and service.
DigitalClone Live was extended to meet the needs of the GE 1.5 owner operators in North America to understand the life and health of their assets and to know the impact of both up-rating their wind turbines or the impact on asset life after up-tower replacement of gearbox components.
DigitalClone Live 2.0 delivers a more modern navigation and user experience allowing the customer better predictive health management and control over their assets. The newest release includes responsive capabilities for an improved viewing experience and enhanced asset reporting allowing the customer to adjust and create specific reports unique to their needs. At the system level, the user is now able to represent and simulate in DigitalClone Live the life extension impact of an up-tower part replacement or the impact of up-rating on asset life and health.
“We created DigitalClone Live 2.0 as a response to customer’s requests for additional OEM gearbox systems to be added to the DigitalClone Live service. We are in the process of adding the various GE 1.5 gearbox configurations, and Mitsubishi, Vestas and Gamesa wind turbines. Other OEMs will follow on the Version 2.0 platform in 2015”, said Ward Thomas, President of Sentient Science.
In the new version, features have also been added that allow for more flexibility in utilizing prognostic data. The alert center now offers the capability to track each individual alert and action taken as a result, providing the user with an enhanced and up-to-date understanding of the assets health. The life setting control now allows the user to optimize different health reports to understand the life of a wind turbine asset or the entire fleet depending on varying operating conditions.
In DigitalClone Live 2.0 there was a large focus on making the health and alert levels more involved. To accomplish this, the health level of the asset went from a scale of 12-48 months remaining life to a scale of 45 days to 60 months remaining life. Sentient Science has fused their sensor diagnostics into their prognostic models, which now provides customers with more detailed life predictions for short-term operational failure or long-term asset management.
“All of the upgrades and additions to DigitalClone Live 2.0 are aimed at helping our customers extend the life of their fielded assets. By providing them with the most enhanced tools to improve asset life, they will have assets that will run in the field at the lowest operational cost.” continued Thomas.
About Sentient Science
Sentient Science, headquartered in Buffalo, NY, is the leading company providing prognostic technology and services that extend the remaining useful life of mechanical systems. Since 2011, Sentient provides technology to predict how cracks initiate in materials and how those cracks grow under real operating conditions. Today, this technology is offered commercially as computational tools and condition-based monitoring services to help companies predict and extend the life and performance of critical components in design, testing, procurement, and service. By interfacing prognostic models through networks to fielded assets for Prognostic Health Management (PHM), Sentient Science supports what GE and others now call the Industrial Internet. Since 2013, Sentient has contracted to provide prognostic and life extension services to over 4,000 wind turbine assets in North America. | <urn:uuid:28e9d4fe-aef2-4572-9cc6-526cc6cd1d11> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/sentient-science-begins-distribution-of-digitalclone-live-20-to-predict-and-extend-the-life-of-mechanical-systems-557772.htm | 2017-11-19T14:27:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805649.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119134146-20171119154146-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.924727 | 759 | [
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Cooking and blogging my way through the best cookbook of all time!
I have several blog posts in the hopper as well as announcing the winner of the contest--everything will be updated by Sunday.
This is a repost from the TJOTJOC Facebook page (become a fan!).
I totally stole this idea from Carol Porter (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Porter/187387317960673), who had her fans vote for a 1949 edition of TJOC recipe that she would make. I thought "Great idea!". So which of these would you like to see me make? Have you made any of these?
You can vote three recipes: one sweet, one savory category 1, and one savory category 2.
Either vote here or on the FB page. PLEASE VOTE!
Voting will close March 19th at midnight and I will make all three recipes within the next two weeks.
Savory category 1:
1. Chicken pot pie (p. 103). I've never made a pot pie from scratch, it seems intimidating.
2. Jellied tomato soup (p. 127). Or any of the other jellied soups. It seems so gross!
3. Corn dogs (p.185). I love corn dogs. Scared to make them though.
4. Eggs in a nest (p. 199). Eggs in mashed potatoes--weird.
5. Mousaaka (p. 274). Something I eat at Greek restaurants and something I've never considered trying to make.
Savory category 2:
1.Vanilla coconut shrimp (p.388). Sounds like a terrible combination.
2. Thai fish cakes (p.410). This recipe could be awful, could be delicious.
3. Sesame chicken (p. 432). A guilty pleasure at the most Americanized Chinese restaurants.
4. Pork braised in milk (p. 501). Odd.
5. Puttanesca sauce (p. 564). Streetwalker's sauce!
1. Oatmeal cake (p. 721). It says it has a loyal following.
2. Madeleines (p. 739). I actually have a madeleine pan now!
3. Ginger thins (p. 770). This recipe says it makes 300 tiny cookies.
4. Butter pecan ice cream (p. 833). It might be time to make ice cream.
5. Curried apricot chutney (p. 950). Interesting, right?
Hi Jessica,I like this idea!So for savory choice one, I like Chicken Pot Pie, but I think I'll vote for the Jellied Tomato Soup - I'm interested in how that one turns out.Savory choice two, I vote for the pork braised in milk. I love braised meat and this sounds interesting.For the sweet choice, they all look good, but I will vote for the Ginger Thins.Looking forward to see how it all goes!~Kay :-)
1: Jellied tomato soup. Sorry but it sounds interesting!2: Vanilla coconut shrimp - can't imagine how it tastes together.3: Go the icecream! I once made cherry icecream and it was delicious.
hey fellow Coherent!my picks:-Eggs in a basket because that seems odd...-Vanilla Coconut Shrimp because I make a coconut shrimp curry and would be interested in this variation...-Not really a sweets person, but Curried apricot chutney sounds exotic-Ash
jellied tomato soup...vanilla coconut shrimpcurried apricot chutney (probably good with the shrimp!)
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Not everybody likes living in exile, yet it could bring out the best in the exiled. Professor Obiwu Iwuanyanwu, director of the writing centre at the Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, is making the most of a sad reality in the US. Before his present appointment, Obiwu taught at the University of Jos and Syracuse University, USA.
He has published two books, Rituals of the Sun (1992), a collection of poems, and Igbos of Northern Nigeria (1996), the pioneer book on Igbo diasporaic studies. He has also published many stories and critical articles, including “Achebe’s Poetic Drive” and “The History of Nigerian Literature, 1772-2006,” both in 2006.
Economic impoverishment made it difficult for him to continue his doctoral studies with any seriousness in Nigeria. So, he had no other choice than to abandon Nigeria to become an economic exile in a foreign land at the age of thirty-five. “I solemnly regret that Nigeria has given me absolutely nothing but an insistent pain from my childhood experience of kwashiorkor in mid-twentieth century,” he tells Sunday Sun online from Ohio, USA.
Unlike what many of us think here in Nigeria, the experience of exile has its perennial irritations. But, in the United States, such socio-cultural inconveniences pale into insignificance when compared with professional opportunities that reward hard work and excellence, says Obiwu. For instance, in 2006, he was appointed a member representing all coaches in the national program advisory committee of the Honda Campus All-Star Challenge. On April 18, 2007, the Greene County Board of Commissioners honoured him with a “Resolution” recognition, which is passed into law in the State of Ohio.
The Xenia Daily Gazette newspaper also honoured him with its front page “Applause” award of May 1, 2007. He has just been appointed a member of the labour force and education committee of the Greene County Department of Development. “In comparative terms, such honours are definitely rare in the life of a normal Nigerian university academic,” Obiwu declares.
How could the teaching of creative writing enhance literature? The enormous resources that the American university system invests in writing and creative writing programmes, he says, indicate the society’s value for the skill and art of writing generally.
One of his former students at the University of Jos, Helon Habila, distinguished himself as a journalist in Nigeria before he became an accomplished international writer. Chris Abani, one of the most prolific and accomplished young writers in the world today, came out of the same English and literary programme as him under the tutelage of Professors Ben Obumselu and Michael J. C. Echeruo at Imo State University, Uturu.
Both Abani and Habila now teach creative writing in the American university system. Obiwu is impressed that two of the most eminent young global writers today, Chimamanda Adichie and Uzodinma Iweala, studied creative writing at John Hopkins University and Harvard University, respectively; and E.C. Osondu, who is shortlisted in the 2007 Caine Prize, has recently completed his studies at the prestigious Syracuse University creative writing programme, which go to show that they have all benefited from American writing programmes.
Says Obiwu, “The possibility that creative writing will become a full-fledged programme in Nigerian universities is even more urgent with all the recent outcries against the entrenchment of poor writing skills among a vast majority of young, homegrown Nigerian writers. The standard of Nigerian writing at home has been on a rapid slide for many years now.”
Recently, he defended the poet, Tanure Ojaide, when some of his colleagues pilloried his position on new Nigerian poetry. What informed his position?
Obiwu replies, “I was opposed to the unscholarly verbiage or unguarded caustic language of Ojaide’s much younger opponents. Literary discourse neither precludes nor occludes aesthetic distance or linguistic decency.
Much of what passes for literary critique among many a Nigerian commentator is unnecessary self-assured ego-tripping and excessive verbal abuse. Such rhetorical debasement of discourse was pioneered in Nigerian and, indeed, African critical aesthetics by the Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, and entrenched as a tradition by Chinweizu and Femi Osofisan. The Senegalese, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and the South African, Lewis Nkosi, have variously expressed their displeasure in relation to the discourse of Soyinka.”
The poet, Omohon Ebodaghe, in a recent interview with Sunday Sun, lamented the “sterile cultural motifs” in African poetry. As a poet, does he think African poetry lacks a form, like European and American poetry, as he said? Or, what does he think are the distinctive features of African poetry, form-wise? He responds, “As the Igbo say, the firewood in a country cooks food for the people.
I don’t know, nor would I claim to understand, what is meant by ‘sterile cultural motif’ in African literature. Every national literature has its history; every generation of writers has its geopolitical locale and audience. Christopher Okigbo still remains the most seductive of all Nigerian and African poets till this day, as fresh and as relevant as William Shakespeare has ever been.
“On the one hand, politics and economics will remain prominent features of literary creation in Africa as long as the continent continues to be mired in the economic and political mercenary of the like of Olusegun Obasanjo.
On the other, if snowflakes and the rose flower are not ‘sterile cultural motifs’ in the Anglo-American poetry, why would palm-tree and the harmatan be any different for Nigerian poetry? Has the metaphor of witchcraft which Shakespeare celebrated in seventeenth century English drama not made a triumphant return in twenty-first century English fiction of J. K. Rowling and Helen Oyeyemi? Good writing will always shine through every cultural motif; and cultural motifs will always be ‘sterile’ in all bad writing,” he contends.
Obiwu is currently editing an anthology of Biafran war literature entitled Biafran Babes. Sunday Sun enquires on what accounts for the recent enthusiasm in the Biafran story in Nigerian literary thirty-seven years after the civil war ended. Obiwu replies, “The archetypal unconscious and telepathy work in mysterious ways in human experience.
All the efforts of Nigeria’s political demagogues to stifle the Igbo heart have fallen flat on their faces. The resurgent dominance of Biafran motif in contemporary Nigerian literature is a historical lesson on the irrepressibility of the human spirit. Biafra has survived the tragic machinations of such blood brethren and champions of genocide as Benjamin Adekunle, Obafemi Awolowo, Bola Ige, Aminu Kano, and Hassan Usman Katsina.
“To write is an act of fate. Writing institutionalizes the self, and the pen is a symbolic arrow thrust through the ugly heart of the father of the horde. Would an Awolowo, or a Hassan Katsina, have suffered a second heart attack were he to have witnessed the global celebrations of such a majestic Biafran testament as Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun and such a sweeping Nigerian burlesque as Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation? The Biafran Babes anthology is a creative testimony to the insistence of memory over forgetfulness, persistence of love over hate, and the perpetuation of life over death.
“That the intimidating narratives are a product of the best of Biafra’s children – who are also among the very best of younger Nigerian writers – demonstrates that what is repressed in the unconscious of the parent reemerges in the spirit of the child. This is the signifying telepathy that runs through the work of Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, Faith Adiele, Afam Akeh, John Dureke, Chielozona Eze, Uzodinma Iweala, Dulue Mbachu, Okey Ndibe, Olu Oguibe, Ike Okonta, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, E. C. Osondu, and Chika Unigwe.”
Does he think we have a crisis of confidence in African literary criticism, especially concerning the quality of output of new critics, as suggested by some veteran critics? Are the new critics faceless? Is their impact felt in Nigerian literary scholarship? Obiwu doesn’t subscribe to the view on the decline in literary criticism among his generation. “I honestly don’t know about any crisis of confidence among emerging critics of African literature,” he says, adding that he has only “read snippets of undigested views by a few journalistic commentators who don’t seem to know any better.”
Continuing, he says, “It would appear that many of us are still committed to literary kings and king-makers, without discernible key-makers to chart the path of critical resurgimento. I believe that the more my studies are available to Nigerian and African audiences, the more my critical thrust in literary history and comparative theory will become manifest. The late Ezenwa-Ohaeto was unrivalled in the originality and breath of his critical productions. Amanze Akpuda and E. E. Sule are two of the most hardworking literary scholars in contemporary Nigeria, and there are quite a few theoretical path-breakers now working abroad.
“Much of the criticism against the critical practice of younger Nigerian scholars, particularly in the Nigerian media, comes from the same person, Professor Charles Nnolim. The more I read his unrelenting attacks the more it appears to me as if he is pandering to the adulation of his Nigerian lecture circuit. I will not pick any quarrel with him because, as the external examiner of my Masters thesis, he has earned his place as a master. Beyond that, however, I have not read any concrete postulation in any one of his lectures to justify his attacks. It doesn’t say much for his current intellectual awareness for him to claim that younger Nigerian scholars could not penetrate or get published in international journals.
“It calls to question his presence of mind for him to claim that Professors Echeruo, Emenyonu, and Obiechina have given up literary scholarship. Echeruo and Obiechina have established internationally recognized critical schools and traditions in African literature. Echeruo’s theory of exile and white Diaspora in Africa has been adopted as standard praxis by the highest echelon of the South African government. Nnolim may as well devote more energy to crystallizing the critical tradition that he constructs or purveys.”
Obiwu isn’t one of those who lament the dearth of substance in new Nigerian writing. This informs his position that “Nigerian writing has rediscovered its wavering glory” and why he cannot be too critical of much of new Nigerian writing. “I am totally sold to the work of Chris Abani, Chimamanda Adichie, Helon Habila, Uzodinma Iweala, Chielozona Eze, and Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu. I am intrigued by the poetry of Idzia Ahmad, Chiedu Ezeanah, Uche Nduka, Obi Nwakanma, Olu Oguibe, Sola Osofisan, and more recently Ahmed Maiwada, Obemata, and Tolu Ogunlesi,” he announces proudly. | <urn:uuid:c1a6aff8-fbfb-4b6d-9079-1b604b4ef72c> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.africanwriter.com/i-regret-nigeria-has-given-me-nothing-but-insistent-pain-from-childhood-obiwu/ | 2017-11-20T09:40:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805977.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120090419-20171120110419-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.952464 | 2,526 | [
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traumatic event. These events can include experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening situation such as a car accident, medical emergency or wartime violence.
People with PTSD are plagued by disrupted sleep or disturbing dreams, high levels of anxiety and stress, and lowered resiliency towards the unavoidable stressors in life. They are also much more likely to develop an addiction as they attempt to self-medicate with mind-altering substances. By treating the underlying trauma of PTSD, we can also help treat addictive behaviors. Harmony’s staff is trained in trauma-sensitive and responsive techniques to provide a safe environment for clients with PTSD. Harmony Heals can approach PTSD with several methods of therapy that are researched and known to help alleviate PTSD symptoms, such as EMDR, DBT, Hypnotherapy, Neurofeedback, etc. | <urn:uuid:ac0052ea-0d34-45dc-a013-8d18695b3bc1> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.harmonyheals.com/index.php/ptsd-therapy/ | 2017-11-21T04:08:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806316.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121040104-20171121060104-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.961865 | 194 | [
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Alex V. Cook - Author, Journalist, Critic, Teacher
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
chicken stew and crawfish pie, Bergeron's Boudin & Cajun Meats, Port Allen, LA
Now that was a good lunch plan my coworker Matt had! Chicken stew plate lunch and a crawfish pie on the side, both better than you think, with drink, for $11. Matt also had a boudin ball, but I know when to say when. | <urn:uuid:f092e13f-0e5d-4117-ab6d-5b4f9ee9af24> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://alexvcook.blogspot.com/2009/11/chicken-stew-and-crawfish-pie-bergeron.html | 2017-11-21T22:47:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806438.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121223707-20171122003707-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.944499 | 104 | [
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The system I'm assembling resembles iXsystem's FreeNAS mini. The main difference is that I went with the Supermicro motherboard instead of the ASRock motherboard. I'll compare the two motherboards later and/or in a separate blog post. However, I'll summarize my decision as The ASRock is better if you are going for a pure storage (NAS) box. I went with the Supermicro as a better general purpose system with USB 3.0 ports and 4 x GbE ports.
- Supermicro AISAi-2750F Motherboard
- Supermicro Chassis and 250W Power supply 721TQ-250B
- 16 GB: 2 x 8 GB Crucial SO-DIMM with ECC
Case and Power SupplyOne of the most difficult decisions was trying to find a good case and power supply. There is a lot of poorly designed cases. There aren't many reviews for mini-ITX NAS-style cases. Through the reviews that are available I found one good choice which is also the same case that iXsystems uses for the FreeNAS Mini, the Ablecom CS-M50. Unfortunately the Ablecom isn't sold in the US directly. It is primarily sold to OEMs in large quantities. I stumbled around for a while until a kind person clued me in that Supermicro sells the Ablecom CS-M50 as the Superchassis 721TQ-250B. It is even linked from the page for the A1SAi-2750F motherboard and I didn't notice it or assumed it would be yet another crap case.
The summary is the Ablecom CS-M50, aka Superchassis 721TQ-250B is a very nice case with real hot swap drive support. The most detailed reviews are actually for the FreeNAS Mini. You can also find some reviews searching for the Ablecom CS-M50.
The one problem so far is that the front panel USB ports are USB 2.0. The A1SAi motherboard has header connectors for USB 3.0, which use a different style header connector. Currently, I've got no front panel USB ports. I've emailed Supermicro support.
Other People's BuildsHere are some of the sources that I used in making my decisions:
- My FreeNAS Build with The Supermicro A1SAi-i2750f (reddit, billakay)
- /My FreeNAS Build with Supermicro A1SAi-2750F (FreeNAS Forum)
- Determine what combination of hypervisors and operating system
- Linux Host + VirtualBox
- Linux Host + KVM
- VMware ESXi
- FreeNAS native FreeBSD
- Solve Front Panel USB port connectivity problem:
- Ideally there is a board from Ablecom, Supermicro or someone else that will give me USB 3.0 front panel ports.
- Alternatively, an adapter cable that gives me USB 2.0 ports would be preferred.
Things I've Learned
- The Supermicro 721TQ-250B case is the same as the Ablecom CS-M50 and is available at retail in the US.
- The AST2400 IPMI BMC controller with fully integrated keyboard, video, and mouse, iKVM is very nice. I could have configured the system out of the box without ever attaching a monitor to.
- The Supermicro/AST default Username and Password for IPMI is UPPER CASE and CASE SENSITIVE. I mistakenly thought I couldn't access the BMC until I configured it through the BIOS. The whole problem was the the default username and password were both all upper case.
- As a result, the system is INSECURE out of the box. Change your IPMI/BMC username and password from the default as soon as possible.
- IPMIView from Supermicro/AST is pretty nice. It is a standalone Java Application. However the web browser interface is just as good or better for a single system.
- The BIOS watchdog feature causes the system to be reset every 5 minutes. Nothing is logged to the event log. Don't set it, at least until you understand how to use it. I think the Linux kernel is setting the hardware watchdog.
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I went for a walk - a really long walk - for the first time in several weeks. I had been going with the ladies in the neighborhood, but when school started we sort of stopped. One of the other ladies was dealing with family issues and well, we just seemed to let it drop off.
This morning was a good walk. Even with two kids in tow (they had the day off) we did really well. As the kids rode bikes, my friend and I kept walking. We walked past the middle school, into the gated community, down the road and pass the barking dog that just goes crazy no matter who passes, up to the railroad tracks, then back down the road again. Before we knew it we were heading down the next lane that made the walk even longer then anticipated. I was not going to let my aching slow me down. I knew I was going to hurt at the end of the walk. I think we did a good 3.5 walk this morning.
Yep - feeling the pain a little bit. Even if I am working out, this pain is a good pain. Not only did I get in a good walk, but I got to vent about my week - and it is only 1/2 over.
Two rejections this week - more applications going out - trying my best to be a good Mom, but this week is very trying.
Really looking forward to a girls weekend away. Get to see Mer, spend sometime with my little sis ---- let's see what the rest of the week holds.
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Its been 11 days since Surgery and I am no better. In fact, without being dramatic, I'm a lot worse. The swelling after surgery fueled the already damaged tendons in the back of my knee. Now everything hurts. My calf, my hammy, and my popliteus tendon are all screaming at me. I am trying to pull a Jens Voigt by screaming back at them to shut up but its not working. There is another underlying problem that I cannot get to the bottom of. Obviously there is the messed up pelvis and the leg length discrepancy but thats been part of my current make up for years. Another issue could be all the biking. I have not addressed all the biomechanical issues I have while riding the bike, rather I just use pain as a guide. Nothing hurts riding, everything hurts running. Right now after some treatments I should feel improvement. And yet all I feel is more pain and inflammation. I am seeing Dr. McKeon tomorrow but its in the hands of physiotherapy now. Being an orthopedic surgeon his job is to go in and look around. He said my tear was not bad and that the knee itself is in good shape. That means the tendinosis is worse than I thought and I am in for a long PT journey. I'm really trying to stay positive but over the last few days I've lost some hope. Being around running can be very difficult at times. Not that I'd change it but I can see why certain individuals I know have become bitter towards the sport. It does not reward on an even plane. Lots of luck is required. Some of the most talented and hardworking people I know get let down by their bodies while some of the most selfish runners I know (not to mention the drug cheats I don't know) seem to thrive. I don't believe in Karma so I shouldn't focus on this aspect of life but right now I am. Tomorrow I'll wake up and I won't be in a downer mood and I'll fight hard and stay positive, I'll be motivated to fix this knee. Until tomorrow all I have is some wonderful music to listen to, a healthy bag of ice, and an almost full heart.
Speaking of good music. I've been on a techno kick lately. All weekend I listened to minimal and very melodic electronic music. Its been a joy. A friend recommended the artist Oneohtrix Point Never, an ambient electronic music producer from Brooklyn who before Saturday I'd never heard of. His music is stunning. Despite me referring to him as ambient, the music is much more original than that. Synths and strings layered so deep and shrouded in random vocals. The opener is a big chaotic and terrifying but then the album reaches an equilibrium and truly takes me on a journey. My favorite song is below.
Peace and Much Love, | <urn:uuid:d18c54b9-f979-4f99-a673-c28eb4a4c37f> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://kelrock.blogspot.com/2011/01/were-not-scaremongering-this-is-really.html | 2017-11-22T18:15:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806620.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122175744-20171122195744-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.978315 | 584 | [
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John Ruskin, the only child of John James Ruskin (1785–1864), a sherry importer, and Margaret Cock (1781–1871), was born on 8th February 1819, at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square, London. In 1823 the Ruskin family moved to a semi-detached house with a large garden at 28 Herne Hill, Herne Hill. His father was chief partner in firm of Ruskin, Telford, and Domecq, that imported and distributed sherry and other wines.
Ruskin was educated by his parents, with the help of private tutors, until the age of fourteen. His father encouraged a love of Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. His mother was a devout Christian. Every morning, from the age of three, his mother made him read from the Bible and learn passages by heart. According to Robert Hewison: "Ruskin's certainty in the rightness of his views and independence from received opinion - his critics might say his dogmatism - is attributable to his mother's cast of mind. Yet the conflict between his father's expressive desire and his mother's cautious restraint was to undermine his apparent confidence throughout his life... The puritanism of his religion was in conflict with the sensual appeal of much of the art that he was to study, and inhibited the enjoyment of his own body. " Ruskin gives an unfinished account of his childhood in Praeterita (1885), but most historians consider it untrustworthy. In 1828 he was joined from Perth by his cousin Mary Richardson, whose mother had died.
In 1833 he spent his mornings at a day school run by the Revd Thomas Dale of St Matthew's Chapel, a Church of England establishment in Denmark Hill. In 1836 he attended lectures at King's College, where Dale had become the first professor of English literature. In October of that year he enrolled at Christ Church. At Oxford University he wrote a series of essays linking architecture and nature for Loudon's Architectural Magazine.
Ruskin was an extremely shy man and made few friends at university. However, he did develop good relationships with two fellow students, Charles Thomas Newton and Henry Acland. Ruskin spent most of his time reading books and writing and in 1839 won the Newdigate Poetry Competition. Ruskin had the pleasure of meeting one of his heroes, William Wordsworth, when presented with the prize.
Ruskin had developed an adolescent passion for the daughter of his father's partner, Pedro Domecq. Adèle, was the subject of much of Ruskin's youthful poetry. She was only fifteen when he first fell in love with her and was devastated when he learned of her engagement. In April 1840, shortly after Adèle's marriage, Ruskin suffered a mental breakdown. After two years of rest he returned to Oxford University where he achieved the unusual distinction of an honorary double fourth, taking his MA in October 1843.
Ruskin took a keen interest in art and at university gained a reputation as a skilled water-colourist. He wrote that he had "a sensual faculty of pleasure in sight, as far as I know unparalleled." Robert Hewison has argued: "Ruskin's perceptual sensibility, and his ability to deploy it both as a draughtsman and a visual analyst, marks him out from his more book-bound peers... although his drawings would justify the appellation, he never considered himself an artist, emphasizing always that he drew in order to gain certain facts, and he exhibited rarely. None the less, Ruskin's drawings are a remarkable achievement, both as a record of his mind, and as works of great beauty. His ability visually to depict architecture and landscape was matched by his genius for the verbal description of works of art."
Ruskin developed a great passion for the work of J. M. W. Turner. Soon after graduating he met Turner and began purchasing his work. In 1842 Ruskin and his father became patrons as well as collectors, when Turner's dealer Thomas Griffith included them in an invitation to Turner's circle of patrons to commission finished watercolours based on preliminary sketches. Later that year Ruskin read a newspaper review of that year's Royal Academy Exhibition, attacking Turner's contributions. Ruskin was furious and wrote that he was "determined to write a pamphlet and blow the critics out of the water".
Ruskin's father offered to support him financially in this venture and he eventually decided to write a series of books on modern art. The first volume of Modern Painters: their Superiority in the Art of Landscape Painting to the Ancient Masters, appeared in 1843. Ruskin wrote that "There is a moral as well as material truth - a truth of impression as well as of form - of thought as well as of matter." The author of John Ruskin (2007) has explained: "Such truths depended on a clarity of perception that was free of the pictorial conventions of the seventeenth-century Italian and Dutch masters who set the norm for received taste in landscape painting... Ruskin substituted a different way of seeing, that of the geologist and botanist, deploying the accuracy of observation encouraged by the classificatory sciences that did not conflict with natural theology."
In the book, Ruskin boldly proclaimed "the superiority of the modern painters to the old ones" and eulogized about the work of his great hero, J. M. W. Turner. The art critic, Patrick Conner, has pointed out: "Ruskin was scathing in his analysis of many of the established masters of the seventeenth-century painting, but won respect nevertheless for his acute observation of nature and for his lyrical evocations of Turner's art." After reading the book, Charlotte Bronte wrote: "I feel now as if I had been walking blindfold - this book seems to give me eyes." Ruskin also received support from William Wordsworth and Elizabeth Gaskell, who claimed that Ruskin was "no ordinary man". However, Ruskin's challenge to an aesthetic orthodoxy derived from Sir Joshua Reynolds drew strong disapproval from John Eagles in Blackwood's Magazine (October 1843) and from George Darley in The Athenaeum (February 1844).
In 1845 Ruskin spent time in Italy studying the work of the fourteenth and fifteenth-century artists of Pisa, Florence and Venice. It was these artists, together with Fra Angelico and Jacopo Tintoretto, who were the heroes of the second volume of Modern Painters (1846). Ruskin attempted to show that truthful perception of nature led to an experience of beauty that was also an apprehension of God. Ruskin divided beauty into two categories, "vital" and "typical’. According to Robert Hewison: "Vital beauty, in accordance with natural theology, expresses God's purpose in the harmonious creation of the world and its creatures, including man. Typical beauty, in accordance with evangelical typology, expresses the immanence of God in the natural world through the presence of ‘types’ to which man responds as beautiful. These types are qualities rather than things: infinity, unity, repose, purity, and symmetry. They are associated with divine qualities and can be found in nature and in art, but though abstract themselves, they have a real presence that it is the artist's duty truthfully to represent. Through his mother's training and the sermons he heard every Sunday, Ruskin had absorbed the evangelical practice of treating objects as both real and symbolic at the same time, a key critical practice that remained a feature of his writings throughout his life." Virginia Woolf later argued: "The style in which page after page of Modern Painters is written takes our breath away. We find ourselves marvelling at the words, as if all the fountains of the English language had been set playing in the sunlight for our pleasure, but it seems scarcely fitting to ask what meaning they have for us."
Ruskin met Effie Gray in October, 1847. He fell in love with the nineteen year-old and on his return to London, he wrote to George Gray asking to marry his daughter. Ruskin's parents raised no objections to the marriage, but preparations for the wedding in the following year were marred by Gray's near bankruptcy as a result of railway speculation. The wedding took place at Bowerswell House on 10th April 1848.
Effie later wrote to her father explaining that her marriage had not been consummated. "He alleged various reasons, hatred to children, religious motives, a desire to preserve my beauty, and, finally this last year he told me his true reason... that he had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was, and that the reason he did not make me his wife was because he was disgusted with my person the first evening 10th April." Robert Hewison has argued: "This has been interpreted as meaning that Ruskin was equally innocent, especially in the matter of female pubic hair, but this seems unlikely, as he had seen erotic images belonging to fellow undergraduates at Oxford. There is also speculation that Effie's menstrual cycle interfered with consummation, which is plausible but not provable."
Ruskin admitted that he loved Effie passionately when he met her for the first time in 1840. After they were married he wistfully told her that "the sight of you, in your girlish beauty, which I might have had." As Suzanne Fagence Cooper, the author of The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais (2012) has pointed out: "John Ruskin loved young girls, innocents on the verge of womanhood. He became enchanted with twelve-year-old Effie when she visited Herne Hill in the late summer of 1840. The next time he saw her, John Ruskin felt she was 'very graceful but had lost something of her good looks'. After he had won her hand in 1847 and she was still only nineteen... Effie was too old to be truly desirable."
After returning from their honeymoon they lived at Denmark Hill and at a rented house at 31 Park Street, Mayfair. During this period John Ruskin was working on his book, The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Published in May 1849, the book was illustrated with fourteen plates drawn and etched by him. Ruskin attempted to draw the attention of the public to the merits of pre-Renaissance Italian architecture, and thereby broaden the scope of the Gothic Revival in Britain.
Effie Ruskin was unhappy with the state of her marriage and in February 1849, she returned to her parents in Perth and did not see her husband for nine months. In September Ruskin somewhat reluctantly travelled north to collect her. Three weeks later they set out for Venice. On their return to London their social and intellectual circle began to grow. This included Charles Eastlake, president of the Royal Academy and director of the National Gallery, and Frederick Denison Maurice, the leader of the Christian Socialist movement. Another friend was the poet, Coventry Patmore, who introduced him to members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB).
In 1851 Ruskin published the first volume of The Stones of Venice. According to the art historian, Patrick Conner: "These books exerted a fundamental influence on Victorian attitudes to architecture... Ruskin... exemplified his conception that a work of art reflects the personality of its creator - and in the case of architecture, a collective personality or age-spirit, whose growth, health and decay could be traced even in the smallest details of architectural decoration."
On the 7th May, 1851, The Times accused three members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Charles Allston Collins of “addicting themselves to a monkish style”, having a “morbid infatuation” and indulging in “monkish follies”. Finally, the works are dismissed as un-English, “with no real claim to figure in any decent collection of English painting.” Six days later John Ruskin had a letter published in the newspaper, where he came to the defence of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In another letter published on 30th May, Ruskin claimed that PRB “may, as they gain experience, lay in our land the foundations of a school of art nobler than has been seen for three hundred years”.
Ruskin now published a pamphlet entitled, Pre-Raphaelitism (1851). He argued that the advice he had given in the first volume of Modern Painters had “at last been carried out, to the very letter, by a group of young men who... have been assailed with the most scurrilous abuse... from the public press.” Aoife Leahy has argued: "Ruskin’s defences had now taken a new and decidedly evangelical tone. He had formed friendships with the Pre-Raphaelite artists on the basis of his letters to The Times and, just as significantly, he had been personally harassed by members of the public for his views."
John Ruskin became a close friend of John Everett Millais and agreed that Effie Ruskin should pose as the freed Jacobite prisoner's wife, in the painting, The Order of Release, 1746 (1853). Later that year Ruskin invited Millais and William Holman Hunt to go on holiday with them to Scotland. Hunt refused but Millais accepted the offer. In July they stayed in a rented cottage near Stirling. During their stay, Millais began painting portraits of Effie and Ruskin.
In November, Ruskin went on to lecture in Edinburgh whereas Millais returned to London. He had fallen in love with Effie and they continued to see each other over the next few months. On 25th April 1854 Ruskin accompanied his wife to King's Cross railway station to see her off on a visit to her parents in Scotland. That evening Ruskin was served with a legal citation at Denmark Hill, claiming the nullity of the marriage.
A medical examination confirmed Effie's virginity, but in a legal deposition that was not introduced in court, John Ruskin stated: "I can prove my virility at once." Robert Hewison has pointed out: "This was never put to the test, but it seems likely that Ruskin was referring to masturbation." He also told a male friend that he had been capable of consummating his marriage, but that he had not loved Effie sufficiently to want to do so." Following an undefended hearing in the ecclesiastical commissary court of Surrey on 15th July, the marriage was annulled on the grounds that "the said John Ruskin was incapable of consummating the same by reason of incurable impotency".
Ruskin wrote a letter to John Everett Millais stating that he wanted to remain friends. Millais replied: "I can scarcely see how you conceive it possible that I can desire to continue on terms of intimacy with you". Millais married Effie on 3rd July, 1855 and over the next few years she gave birth to eight children.
Ruskin was greatly influenced by the work of Thomas Carlyle. He agreed with his criticisms of the industrial revolution and in The Stones of Venice: Volume II (1853) Ruskin argued that the working man had been reduced to the condition of a machine: "We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that it divided; but the men; - divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day; but if we could only see with what crystal sand their points were polished, - sand of human soul, much to be magnified before it can be discerned for what it is - we should think that there might be some loss in it also. And the great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages. And all the evil to which that cry is urging our myriads can be met only in one way: not by teaching nor preaching, for to teach them is but to show them their misery, and to preach at them, if we do nothing more than preach, is to mock at it. It can only be met by a right understanding, on the part of all classes, of what kinds of labour are good for men, raising them, and making them happy; by a determined sacrifice of such convenience or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labour." William Morris later recalled: "To some of us when we first read it, now many years ago, it seemed to point out a new road on which the world should travel".
Ruskin gave a series of lectures on J. M. W. Turner, Gothic Architecture and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in Edinburgh in 1853. The Edinburgh Guardian reported: "Mr Ruskin has light sand-coloured hair; his face is more red than pale; the mouth well cut, with a good deal of decision in its curve, though somewhat wanting in sustained dignity and strength; an aquiline nose; his forehead by no means broad or massive, but the brows full and well bound together; the eye we could not see… Mr Ruskin's elocution is peculiar; he has a difficulty in sounding the letter ‘r’; but it is not this we now refer to, it is the peculiar tone in the rising and falling of his voice at measured intervals, in a way scarcely ever heard except in the public lection of the service appointed to be read in churches. These are the two things with which, perhaps, you are most surprised, - his dress and his manner of speaking, - both of which (the white waistcoat notwithstanding) are eminently clerical."
Despite his dispute with John Everett Millais, Ruskin continued to support the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1854 Ruskin wrote to The Times, praising the latest work of William Holman Hunt. This included The Light of the World (5th May) and The Awakening Conscience (25th May). Ruskin also pointed out the abilities of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He also bought and commissioned drawings from Rossetti and his mistress, Elizabeth Siddal. Ruskin also encouraged his American friend Charles Eliot Norton, to buy Rossetti's paintings.
The art critic, Patrick Conner, has argued that Ruskin's writings inspired artists such as William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: "Ruskin... proved an inspiration to William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, whose enthusiasm carried Pre-Raphaelite principles into many branches of the decorative arts. They inherited from Ruskin a hostility to classical and Renaissance culture which extended to the arts and design of their own time. Ruskin and his followers believed that the nineteenth century was still afflicted by a demand for mass-production... They opposed themselves to mechanized production, meaningless ornament and anonymous architecture of cast iron and plate glass."
Ruskin became interested in socialism. Between 1854 and 1858 he taught at the Working Men's College that had been founded by Frederick Denison Maurice, Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes in London. In his lectures Ruskin denounced greed as the main principle guiding English life. In books such as Unto the Last (1862) Essays on Political Economy (1862) and Time and Tide (1867), Ruskin argued against competition and self-interest and advocated a form of Christian Socialism.
In January 1858 Ruskin met John La Touche, a wealthy Irish banker. He became a regular visitor to La Touche's home in London and got to know his wife Maria and daughter, Rose La Touche. In his autobiography, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life (1885), Ruskin wrote about his first meeting with Rose: "On presently the drawing room door opened, and Rosie came in, quietly taking stock of me with her blue eyes as she walked across the room; gave me her hand, as a good dog gives its paw, and then stood a little back. Nine years old, on 3rd January, 1858, thus now rising towards ten; neither tall nor short for her age; a little stiff in her way of standing. The eyes rather deep blue at that time, and fuller and softer than afterwards. Lips perfectly lovely in profile;--a little too wide, and hard in edge, seen in front; the rest of the features what a fair, well-bred Irish girl's usually are; the hair, perhaps, more graceful in short curl around the forehead, and softer than one sees often, in the close-bound tresses above the neck."
Ruskin gave Rose drawing lessons. Ruskin wrote letters to Rose and he kept her replies "wrapped in gold leaf, tucked inside his waistcoat, close to his heart." According to Ruskin's biographer, Robert Hewison: "By the autumn of 1861 Ruskin felt deeply drawn towards Rose, but that October she fell ill for the first time from the psychosomatic disorder (possibly the as yet unrecognized condition anorexia nervosa)... Ruskin's preference for daughter over mother may have caused some tension... He did not see Rose between the spring of 1862 and December 1865, though Mrs La Touche did not break off contact. Rose had further bouts of illness in 1862 and 1863. Like other men of his class and culture... Ruskin enjoyed the company of young girls... It was their purity that attracted him; any sexual feelings were sublimated in the playful relationship of master and pupil that characterized his letters to several female correspondents."
Ruskin's father died on 3rd March 1864. His inheritance was £157,000, pictures worth at least £10,000, and property in the form of houses and land. Ruskin believed it was wrong to be a socialist and rich and he donated a great deal of his money to causes such as the St George's Guild in Paddington, the Whitelands College in Chelsea and the John Ruskin School in Camberwell.
In January, 1866, Ruskin, aged forty-six, proposed marriage to nineteen year old, Rose La Touche. She did not reject Ruskin but asked him to wait for three years. John La Touche and his wife were opposed to the marriage and Ruskin was only able to communicate with Rosa by using intermediaries, such as George MacDonald, Georgiana Cowper and Joan Agnew.
On 7th January, 1870, Ruskin met Rose accidentally at the Royal Academy. Rose, who was now 23 years old, began to see Ruskin on a regular basis. John and Maria La Touche became increasingly concerned about the possibility that her daughter might marry Ruskin. In October, 1870, Marie wrote to Effie Millais seeking evidence of Ruskin's impotence in order to stop the marriage. Effie confirmed this and stated that Ruskin was "utterly incapable of making a woman happy". She added that "he is quite unnatural... and his conduct to me was impure in the highest degree." She ended her letter by saying, "My nervous system was so shaken that I never will recover, but I hope your daughter will be saved."
John Everett Millais became concerned about the impact that this correspondence was having on his wife. He wrote to Rose's parents begging them to leave his wife alone. He insisted that "the facts are known to the world, solemnly sworn in God's house" and asked why this "indelicate enquiry necessary". Millais then went on to argue that Ruskin's "conduct was simply infamous, and to this day my wife suffers from the suppressed misery she endured with him." Millais feared that a consummated marriage with Rose would render the previous grounds for annulment void, and would make his marriage to Effie bigamous.
In July 1871 Rose La Touche broke off her relationship with Ruskin. Shocked by the news, he suffered a mental breakdown while staying Matlock Bath in Derbyshire. Rosa's health was also deteriorating. In an effort to help her recover, they gave permission for Ruskin to visit her at their estate in Harristown, County Kildare. In January 1875, she returned to London, but extremely ill, and Ruskin saw her for the last time on 15th February, before she was taken to Dublin in April. Rose died on 25th May, aged twenty-seven. Suzanne Fagence Cooper, the author of The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, Ruskin and Millais (2012), has pointed out that "she died of anorexia, or brain fever, or a broken heart, depending on which account you believe". Ruskin later wrote: "Rose, in heart, was with me always, and all I did was for her sake."
In 1871 Ruskin began publication of Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. He wrote: "Whose fault is it, you cloth-makers, that any English child is in rags? Whose fault is it, you shoemakers, that the street harlots mince in high-heeled shoes and your own babies paddle bare-foot in the street slime? Whose fault is it you bronzed husbandmen, that through all your furrowed England, children are dying of famine?" Ruskin blamed the capitalist system for these problems. Between 1871 and 1878 it was issued in monthly parts. Ruskin intended the work to be a "continual challenger to the supporters of and apologists for a capitalist economy". It was Ruskin's socialist writing that influenced trade unionists and political activists such as Tom Mann and Ben Tillett.
Ruskin suffered a complete mental breakdown in February 1878. He later wrote to a friend, Charles Eliot Norton: "Mere overwork or worry, might have soon ended me, but it would not have driven me crazy. I went crazy about St Ursula and the other saints." It has been noted that "Ruskin's delusions during his first attack of what has been characterized as either manic depression or paranoid schizophrenia." Ruskin retreated to his home at Brantwood, across the lake from the village of Coniston.
Despite several bouts of mental illness, Ruskin was able to complete The Art of England in 1884. This was followed by The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century (1885). He also began work on his autobiography, Præterita: Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life. His biographer, Robert Hewison, has commented: "Praeterita is a delightful work, a rewriting of Ruskin's life that makes it unreliable as a source of biographical fact, yet an accurate portrait of the author's mind. That it remained unfinished shows that the contradictions of that mind never achieved their desired synthesis, though this version is the best that could be achieved, and makes it a significant work of literature, most especially in his Wordsworthian evocation of the power of nature on the growth of a young mind. The conscious manipulation of memory had been intended to be therapeutic, but there were memories and hurts that could not be suppressed, and as Ruskin struggled to bring them out he found himself fighting a double battle: to retain his sanity, and to control the composition of the work."
At the end of July 1885, just as the first two sections of Præterita describing his family background and early childhood appeared, Ruskin had a fourth, longer, and more severe attack of madness. He attempted to finish his autobiography but had only reached 1858, the year when he met Rose La Touche, when he was forced to abandon the project after suffering another serious breakdown. He gradually retreated into silence, saying little, and writing few letters.
John Ruskin died of influenza on 20th January, 1900.
We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that it divided; but the men: - Divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail. Now it is a good and desirable thing, truly, to make many pins in a day; but if we could only see with what crystal sand their points were polished, - sand of human soul, much to be magnified before it can be discerned for what it is - we should think that there might be some loss in it also. And the great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, - that we manufacture everything there except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages. And all the evil to which that cry is urging our myriads can be met only in one way: not by teaching nor preaching, for to teach them is but to show them their misery, and to preach at them, if we do nothing more than preach, is to mock at it. It can only be met by a right understanding, on the part of all classes, of what kinds of labour are good for men, raising them, and making them happy; by a determined sacrifice of such convenience or beauty, or cheapness as is to be got only by the degradation of the workman; and by equally determined demand for the products and results of healthy and ennobling labour.
Political economy (the economy of a State, or its citizens) consists simply in the production, preservation, and distribution, at fittest time and place, of useful or pleasurable things. The farmer who cuts his hay at the right time; the shipwright who drives his bolts well home in sound wood; the builder who lays good bricks in well-tempered mortar; the housewife who takes care of her furniture in the parlour, and guards against all waste in her kitchen; and the singer who rightly disciplines, and never overstrains her voice, are all political economists in the true and final sense: adding continually to the riches and well-being of the nation to which they belong.
But mercantile economy, the economy of 'merces' or of 'pay,' signifies the accumulation, in the hands of individuals, of legal or moral claims upon, or power over, the labour of others; every such claim implying precisely as much poverty and debt on one side, as it implies riches or right on the other.
If, in the exchange, one man is able to give what cost him little labour for what has cost the other much, he 'acquires' a certain quantity of the produce of the other's labour. And precisely what he acquires, the other loses. In mercantile language, the person who thus acquires is commonly said to have 'made a profit'; and I believe that many of our merchants are seriously under the impression that it is possible for everybody, somehow, to make a profit in this manner. Whereas, by the unfortunate constitution of the world we live in, the laws both of matter and motion have quite rigorously forbidden universal acquisition of this kind. Profit, by exchange. Whenever material gain follows exchange, for every plus there is a precisely equal minus.
Unhappily for the progress of the science of Political Economy, the plus quantities, or - if I may be allowed to coin an awkward plural - the pluses, make a very positive and venerable appearance in the world, so that everyone is eager to learn the science which produces results so magnificent; whereas the minuses have, on the other hand, a tendency to retire into back streets, and other places of shade, - or even to get themselves wholly and finally put out of sight in graves: which renders the algebra of this science peculiar, and difficulty legible; a large number of its negative signs being written by the account-keeper in a kind of red ink, which starvation thins, and makes strangely pale, or even quite invisible ink, for the present.
Trade Unions of England - Trade Armies of Christendom, what's the roll-call of you, and what part or lot have you, hitherto, in this Holy Christian Land of your Fathers? Whose is the wealth of the world but yours? Whose is the virtue? Do you mean to go on for ever, leaving your wealth to be consumed by the idle and your virtue to be mocked by the vile?
The wealth of the world is yours; even your common rant and rabble of economists tell you that: "no wealth without industry." Who robs you of it, then, or beguiles you? Whose fault is it, you cloth-makers, that any English child is in rags? Whose fault is it, you shoemakers, that the street harlots mince in high-heeled shoes and your own babies paddle bare-foot in the street slime? Whose fault is it you bronzed husbandmen, that through all your furrowed England, children are dying of famine?
On presently the drawing room door opened, and Rosie came in, quietly taking stock of me with her blue eyes as she walked across the room; gave me her hand, as a good dog gives its paw, and then stood a little back. Nine years old, on 3rd January, 1858, thus now rising towards ten; neither tall nor short for her age; a little stiff in her way of standing. The eyes rather deep blue at that time, and fuller and softer than afterwards. Lips perfectly lovely in profile;--a little too wide, and hard in edge, seen in front; the rest of the features what a fair, well-bred Irish girl's usually are; the hair, perhaps, more graceful in short curl around the forehead, and softer than one sees often, in the close-bound tresses above the neck.
The style in which page after page of Modern Painters is written takes our breath away. We find ourselves marvelling at the words, as if all the fountains of the English language had been set playing in the sunlight for our pleasure, but it seems scarcely fitting to ask what meaning they have for us. After a time, falling into a passion with this indolent pleasure-loving temper in his readers, Ruskin checked his fountains, and curbed his speech to the very spirited, free and almost colloquial English in which Fors Clavigera and Praeterita are written. In these changes, and in the restless play of his mind upon one subject after another, there is something, we scarcely know how to define it, of the wealthy and cultivated amateur, full of fire and generosity and brilliance, who would give all he possesses of wealth and brilliance to be taken seriously, but who is fated to remain for ever an outsider.
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. Poets may not be "the unacknowledged legislators of the world"; but Ruskin, like Rousseau, changed the world by a vision which has the intensity and innocence of poetry. | <urn:uuid:9b3937d8-7236-4b80-bd6d-3ffe188229b6> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://spartacus-educational.com/Jruskin.htm | 2017-11-22T18:07:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806620.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122175744-20171122195744-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.980847 | 7,549 | [
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"I was a little nervous at first going on a retreat with a group only knowing 1 or 2 people, however Wade has an amazing gift of connecting complete strangers and creating a true Sangha or community. He is a true divine spirit with his passionate heart and understanding of individuals' needs. He has taught me to embrace who I am and where I am in my life, to realize it's the essence of self love. Wade, I can not thank you enough and look forward to many more retreats with you."
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I wrote this in 2008. I find it as relevant now as it was then.
‘Life is a journey’; what an understatement that seems to be. In and out of our lives come people who will inevitably change our entire demeanor; our entire existence as we know it. Albeit positive or negative, who we meet and the issues with which we deal alter us most profoundly. As ageless as time comes love; it speaks volumes to us in loud, dramatic screams and at times in sweet, erotic whispers. The choices we make are generally set in stone as it is in human nature; never willing to change, never willing to falter; we are creatures of habit, pride, responsibility, and nobility.
We find ourselves drawn to remaining true to ourselves as well as our decisions. In an instant, our world can change, forcing us to reevaluate our previous actions and often times – our own selves. At which point do we understand that our decisions, if true to our soul, are ultimately right? At which point do you find yourself along the way and learn to live more selfishly and less self sacrificing? It’s the point when we find someone else who alters us so entirely, so permanently that we realize we would give our own life as we know it to spend an eternity with them just to make them smile; this is that point that we let go of our former self. Someone whose love is so intense that we find it difficult to breathe without it, difficult to see the light of the sun without the others presence. This love defines you.
From the wonderful words of William Shakespeare comes the truth in all our lives: The sun itself sees not til heaven clears. Not fate, not destiny but instead love and decision – this is what drives us and this is from what our decisions should be made. We hold our fate in the palm of our hands, able to turn it, exchange it, or embrace it. We are the masters of our own fate in order to aptly make reason of our destiny. We are the owners of our own soul, able to share this with whom we choose. Logic and reason no longer play havoc on our minds when love is present. Love is not just a feeling that lives in our metaphoric heart; it’s a choice to give yourself over completely.
Know that if the love you have is true, all decisions based from it will undoubtedly be the correct path. Love is natural, it should never be difficult or reluctant, it should never be hard to keep or something on which needs constant work. Cars need work, love needs only to be given and returned. If indeed it is true to our soul – it finds us, alters us, and never leaves us; hence logic and reason disappearing completely. When two souls join as one nothing else can matter and nothing can stand in the way. Love freely, be guarded less, embrace your happiness and care not who else this affects. Life is a journey? No, life is a series of short stories until we find the one who writes the never ending novel. | <urn:uuid:9276f3f0-9e36-4fc9-a859-b532df32ae71> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://insomnisveritas.net/2011/10/27/life-is-a-journey/ | 2017-11-22T18:19:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806620.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122175744-20171122195744-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.962487 | 626 | [
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Fox & Friends Weekend wants to make it clear: Neither the show nor Fox News Channel are in favor of internment camps, an on-air clarification necessitated after two guests uttered the words this morning in discussions of the London terror attacks. (See clip below).
“Earlier on the show,” said co-host Clayton Morris, “we had a couple of guests mention the word internment, the idea of internment camps as a possible solution to this. I think I made it well-known my feeling on that, which I find reprehensible, but on behalf of the network, I think all of us here find that idea reprehensible here at Fox News Channel.”
The statement came after guest Katie Hopkins, a Daily Mail columnist, said in part that British Prime Minister Theresa May had yet to “tell us what we need to hear,” i.e., “That tomorrow 3,000 people on the watch list are going to be rounded up,” and “650 jihadis” are “going to be incarcerated and deported…”
Earlier in the show, Brexit leader Nigel Farage noted that terror incidents like yesterday’s serve to increase suggestions of internment.
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My lifelong dream, the goal for which I've long yearned and pined, has always been to eat like a teenage boy and not gain weight. Unfortunately, I was not born that way. I have never been able to look at a pumpkin pie without imagining what it would be like to eat the whole thing at one sitting, just me, the pie, a fork, and good dollop of whipped cream.
Alas, it is not to be. As much as I love food, I've always had to cut myself off before things get out of hand... and then run several miles to try to work off whatever damage I did before the cut off. Even still, I'm still more soft than lean.
According to the common wisdom, it should be a blessing that I can write my fantasies, that I can live them vicariously through my invented characters. But I'm working right now to write a fourteen year old male speaker, and I gotta say, if I'm doing this right, if I'm fully imagining my character and his experience, all it does is make me hungry.
There's a metaphor there somewhere. Something about artistic hunger. Something about striving. Something about intensifying unfulfillable desire through language.
Lately, I've been wanting to buy some work by Jess Walter, whose story in the latest Best American Short Stories absolutely blew me away. I feel like this is a writer I always should have known. He's from Spokane, for goodness sake! How could I have not always been reading his work? I want to start making up for that right now, but MAN. Where to start? I'm scrolling through his novels, and the dude has been prolific.
Staring at the list of his books has made me hungry in a different way. Hungry to write, to revise, to finish and start again. That, at least, is a hunger I can satisfy by writing. May we all stay hungry, my friends. | <urn:uuid:8434299f-61a7-43af-ab0d-090ec5df9abc> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://siangriffiths.blogspot.com/2013/04/why-i-cant-and-can-live-my-dreams.html | 2017-11-24T07:32:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807146.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124070019-20171124090019-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.987444 | 402 | [
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You know it's going to be a bumpy ride when the saddle fitter looks your horse over and goes 'oh dear, he reminds me of my horse and the reason I became a saddle fitter'. Theo's magnificent shoulders lead to a broader and longer then average wither. Behind those are the dips that were trying to fill in, followed by a back that is completely flat. It never comes back up, which is why a curvy tree rocks on him. Even my magical Passier Precision that fits everything isn't suited to him because the panels lift up in the back. TBs typically have a curve at the back of the saddle, but mi papi takes after the draft side in this area.
He's filled in behind the shoulder since this picture was taken and it's made his back even flatter.
All of this is pretty common fare in the dressage world, so that fitting should be easier. He needs a saddle for a flat backed horse. Done. In the jumping world, however, things are a bit more challenging. This is my shopping list from the saddle fitter as I venture back into the saddle shops to find a better fit.
Can you hear my bank account sobbing? I can.
When's the last time I had a close contact with a 3" rear gusset? Never. All older saddles are out for being too curvy, since TBs were all the rage. French trees are generally out since they're typically curvy. My Wintec is out for being too curvy. She was able to pull some of the wool out where it was over stuffed in the panels at the waist and swapped me to a medium gullet, which improved the balance and significantly improved the weight bearing area on the panels. The panels under the waist were so over stuffed that it was almost like it bridged. All of the weight rested on a thin line rather than the whole panel. It still rocks a bit, but saddle pads have us as close as we're going to get. I'm going to be using the Wintec as a fill in until the new saddle is located, then I'll sell it off to recoop some of my losses. It will fit other horses better now that it's been fixed up.
Fun fact about Wintecs, for anyone considering buying one: Flocked does not mean what you think it means. When the saddle fitter got it open, she found that the flocking was stuffed into little cases that are shaped like CAIR panels. They basically take the same little panels and stuff them with synthetic wool instead of plastic bags of air. The saddle had three separate cases of flocking in each panel, leaving the exact same pressure spot potential as the CAIR system and cancelling out the entire reason I wanted it flocked. It also makes the saddle very difficult to adjust by a saddle fitter. The panels are overstuffed and harder than you would expect. I expect the stiffness is because the flocking is in those little cases and can't shift around like it's supposed to. So not at all pleased to discover that 'flocked' with Wintecs doesn't mean what you think it means. Also, having a saddle fitter adjust your flocked saddle voids your warranty. Fun fun.
After the last grid lesson on Saturday, neither me nor mi papi wants to go back to jumping in the dressage saddle. Trainer A is doing grid work with us where she changes the heights of the verticals with each pass. Theo is having to sit on his butt and focus to make it work when all of a sudden the center vertical goes from 2' to 3' and the distances are short. Staying out of his way while this is going on is a challenge and if we were doing that in a saddle with a high pommel and cantle? I'd probably be straddling an ice pack right now. We're both better off with a saddle that's less than perfect, but at least suited for the job. I still have his dressage saddle that was fitted to him for flat days and I'm hoping to get something more appropriate on him quickly.
Don't tell anyone, but I'm looking at getting a promotion at work. I may be celebrating with a new jump saddle.
Also, quick plug for Kate Howe at Shedrick Saddlery. She was fantastic to work with and very reasonable in what was possible and what she recommended. | <urn:uuid:006b356b-a3e5-4e83-a917-4cd20eeef855> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://thoughtfulequestrian.blogspot.com/2015/06/ | 2017-11-24T07:27:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807146.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124070019-20171124090019-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.986965 | 913 | [
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Mumbai Food: Savour oriental fare at Fort's newest Chinese eatery
Say hello to Haka, a brand new Chinese restaurant in Mumbai’s bustling Fort area. The menu offers diners a wide variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian options
Korean Rice: Dynamic Prawns
Say hello to Haka, a brand new Chinese restaurant in the city's bustling Fort area.
The menu offers diners a wide variety of vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. It includes Chicken & Prawns Shumai, Dynamic Prawns (fried prawns in a creamy, sweet-spicy sauce), and stir-fried Mongolian Chicken. The menu also borrows dishes from China's neighbours, such as Thai Curry, and Korean Rice. The reasonable pricing makes Haka a good lunch pick for working professionals.
The interiors of the 1,000 sqft space are modern and feature interesting artwork. One wall is adorned with Chinese murals, while oak rods descend from the ceiling in a dramatic fashion. There is also a private dining area and a bar.
AT: 3&3A, Palikiwala Building, 296, Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, Fort.
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Well, hear it is...Easter Sunday, which has unfortunately become a commercial holiday. Sure bunnies and chickies and lambies are cute and adorable, but that is not the real meaning behind the holy day. My family is religious, so we were up at 6:30 this morning to go to church. It was a very easy and soothing mass.
It was rather interesting, though, because during communion(when people go forward to receive the body and blood of Christ, bread and wine), we hear a loud crash of glass striking the stone tiled floor. I look behind me a bit, and a lady is shocked and stunned with her mini bottle of wine shattered and the red wine quickly staining and spreading on the floor. I did not hear it, but my mom said that she said "the 's' word" two times because she was so shocked. I felt so bad for her. i wanted to walk up and hug her.
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I haven’t posted in a little while because we were dealing with a rather unpleasant sewer main problem, rendering us rather homeless… so we moved back into the trailer… and then it happened in the trailer… and then we moved back home and just dealt with having to poop nomadically. Showering sporadically, and brushing our teeth in the sinks of strangers.. its been a kind of trying couple of weeks.
But now, we are HOUSE SITTING! LIKE ROYALTY! Pooping whenever, WHEREVER! Well not wherever, mostly just the same spot. But its like complete freedom. One of our coworkers is in Cuba with his family for the next 3 weeks so we are taking care of Frankie, the cat. She is mental. Right now she is trying to crawl inside CBs backpack to live forever inside.
This house is an old salt box, and its very relaxing to hang out in so far. Its very quiet in here, just crackling fire and a very low hum of the refrigerator. It makes me wonder why our house was always so loud all the time.. The floors are giving us slivers in our feet but I really like the olivey-brown colour of them. The ceilings are about 8 feet tall downstairs, and 6′ 5″ upstairs. CB has to duck through all the doorways. You would think that would be claustrophobic, but its so comfy. Like a sunny hobbit house.
I love that all the window sills are covered in sea glass and bits of driftwood and treasures.
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Blue glass with light shining through it is lovely
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This is taken while Im doing some laundry, peeking out at the neighbors like a creep.
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Film: The Bridge on the River Kwai
Format: DVD from DeKalb Public Library on little bitty bedroom television.
While there are plenty of great war movies out there, World War II gets the lion’s share of really great ones. Sure there are a couple of American Revolutionary War films worth watching, some classic World War I films, a number of great Vietnam films, even a very good one from the Crimean War, but if you start listing great war movies, my guess is that half or more will concern themselves with the years between 1939 and 1945.
When it comes to World War II movies, there are two specific categories that seem to be relatively popular. The first is prison movies, and indeed, many of the great WWII films are based at least in part on prison life. Von Ryan’s Express, The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, and Stalag 17 all take place entirely or in large part inside a military prison. The other that seems extraordinarily popular is the “secret mission” film. Shining Through, Saving Private Ryan, The Guns of Navarone, and Where Eagles Dare fall into this broad category. Today’s film, The Bridge on the River Kwai, involves both prisons and secret missions.
We begin in a prison camp in Thailand where Commander Shears (William Holden) and an associate are burying another prisoner who has died from beriberi. They watch as a large group of British soldiers enter the camp whistling the "Colonel Bogey March." You may not know it by this name, but when you were a kid, you probably sang lyrics to it that went like this:
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The British contingent is lead by Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), who is the epitome of a British officer. The camp commandant, Colonel Saito(Sessue Hayakawa), instructs the new prisoners on the realities of life at the camp. There are no wires, there is no fence, there are no watchtowers. These things aren’t needed, because anyone who tries to escape will be killed by something far worse in the jungle. He also tells the group that in the morning, everyone will begin working on the bridge that the camp has been charged to build. Nicholson reminds Saito that officers are prohibited from doing manual labor.
The next morning, all hell breaks loose. Nicholson refuses to order his officers to work, and we have a stand-off between Saito and Nicholson. Saito refrains from shooting the officers on the advice of the British medical officer, Major Clipton (James Donald). Instead, he leaves them to stand at attention in the tropical heat. At the end of the day, the officers are placed in a small hut as punishment, while Nicholson is placed in a metal box to sweat it out.
What happens next is a contest of wills. Nicholson refuses to budge, maintaining his dignity as best he can in the iron box, doing his best to walk ramrod straight when he is called out for meetings. Saito tells him that if the bridge isn’t built in time, he (Saito) will be forced to commit suicide. Nicholson remains unmoved, and eventually, on the brink of death himself, gets Saito to relent. At this point, Nicholson takes over the construction of the bridge and turns it into a British operation, taking the construction seriously. His goal, noble as it seems at first, is to regain and then retain the morale of his men—to keep them soldiers instead of slaves. The bridge is his means to do this, and rather than create a temporary rail bridge, he plans to build one that will last for hundreds of years.
In the meantime, Shears escapes, and is shot in the attempt. Wounded, he makes it back to friendly lines, where he tells the British authorities about the rail bridge, Nicholson, and Colonel Saito. The British hatch a scheme to destroy the bridge, and they want Shears to go with them. This team, lead by a Major Warden (Jack Hawkins) needs Shears, and has the way to get him to go with them. It seems that Shears really isn’t Shears. When his ship sank, he came ashore with Commander Shears, but Shears was killed. The William Holden character traded uniforms with the dead Shears in the hopes of better treatment. He uses this as a way to get out of the mission, but discovers that the British already know the ruse, and he’s stuck.
And that’s really the movie here. One guy wants to get a bridge built; another group wants to bring the bridge down. But as with any great movie, there’s much more at stake here than a simple bridge. This movie is about duty. What does it mean to fulfill one’s duty, and how does anyone truly know what his duty is? Where does duty stop and madness begin? Is attempting to keep his men British soldiers in essence committing treason by building a bridge for the Japanese?
All of these questions are asked in the course of the film, and as with most great works of art, the answer isn’t given. It’s left to the viewer to determine the value and impact of Nicholson’s, Saito’s, Warden’s and Shears’s actions and the results of those actions. Each acts from a sense of duty, and each is compelled to his actions by something greater than himself. Warden is particularly interesting here, although I cannot be specific without giving away the ending.
The Bridge on the River Kwai stands as a great movie not because the story is so noteworthy, but because the theme is so excellently addressed. It’s just as worth watching now as when it was created. It’s just as powerful, just as moving, and just as great.
Why to watch The Bridge on the River Kwai: Like most WWII prison movies, a great and intense film, and a brilliant character study.
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Manila has been flooding for hundreds of years yet we never learn from the past.
Floods do not respect political boundaries and will flow from one city to the next yet we continue to address flooding (as well as all other urban problems) within the confines of individual LGUs. It does not make sense.
It’s raining season once again and we face the yearly problem of flooding in Metro Manila. I keep getting calls from broadcast media asking for interviews about the problem, its historical origins and urban redevelopment solutions. Giving these interviews I feel like a broken record enumerating the reasons for floods in the metropolis, so I figure it would be good just to list them once and for all.
This list may not contain all the reasons but these, in my opinion, are the major ones:
1. It floods because it rains; the rains and the typhoons that bring them have increased in magnitude. Yes, it’s climate change. To deny this is futile. It’s here now and it makes all historical flood levels, well, history. The paths of typhoons have also become unpredictable (not that we have enough weather men to predict them — many of our good ones have left for better-paying jobs overseas). Typhoons now cross parts of the archipelago that did not use to have them regularly and so people are caught unprepared. Despite these changes in patterns, Metro Manila still gets dumped with rain, especially since its total area, and population in this area, is equivalent to or larger than most provinces and many regions in the country.
2. It floods because of population and urbanization. Metro Manila has a population of 12 million and counting. Urbanization, specifically urban sprawl is a manifestation of all these millions living together and needing houses, buildings, roads, parking lots and infrastructure. All these cover ground that used to be open and able to absorb much of the storm water that fell on the metropolis. In our lifetimes we’ve seen fringes of the metropolis gobbled up and transformed from cogon and rice fields to thousands of subdivisions, hundreds of shops and malls, hectares of paved-over parking lots, dozens of business districts. All this hard covering serves to channel all the storm water much faster into an already inadequate drainage system designed when the reality was much more open land and much less rain. The open ground before served to mitigate the volume of rain that flowed into these drains, esteros and our rivers. We also had more plant cover and trees in the metropolis to help sop up all this water.
3. It floods because the rain comes down from denuded uplands. Metro Manila floods come from elevated surrounding regions, all the way up to the Sierra Madres. There, we have lost almost all of our original forest cover from illegal logging. All this forest cover lost makes millions of hectares of upland a bald watershed that flows freely into the metropolis. This situation is repeated around almost all major urban areas in the country. The source is upstream and this is where solutions should start, although it is among the longest-term solutions. We need to recover our forest cover to reduce the amount of rain that floods our low-level metropolis.
4. Metro Manila is not only low but it is sinking. Ground water extraction due to deep wells is causing major areas of the metropolis to sink. The north section of CAMANAVA and the southern cities from Pasay onwards have sunk from a foot to over a meter and this has made those areas more vulnerable to floods and storm surges. Scientists have pointed to the fact that this flattening has increased the reach of storm surges from the seaside to as much as 20 kilometers inland. So we get it from both ends in a perfect storm — from the mountains and from the sea. The ground is also sinking due to the weight of all that concrete, buildings and infrastructure mentioned in reason no. 2 above.
5. It floods because we have less drainage than before. Reports have it that we have lost almost half of our metropolitan esteros and canals. We used to have over 40 kilometers of them and now we only have about 20. Many have been lost to development, disappearing without a trace (now it regularly floods where they used to be of course).
6. It floods because many of those esteros, canals and waterways of our metropolis we have left are chock-full of informal settlers. Because there are no alternatives for low-income mass housing, desperate people settle in desperate areas. These settlements have little by way of solid waste management and sewers. All these go to the waterways, filling many of them so solid that dogs can cross over them. And we wonder why it floods. Many of these drainage ways and easements were identified in the several master plans made for Manila and Quezon City. Planners had allocated as much as 50 meters of space on either side of these but greed set in and these easements disappeared and what little was left are now our favelas teeming with millions.
7. It floods because the main flood control system started in the ’70s was never completed. The Manggahan floodway was only one half of the picture. It was meant to channel floodwater into Laguna Bay. The lake was meant only as a holding area and the excess water was to have been flushed from there to Manila Bay via the Parañaque spillway. That spillway was never built. To build it now would cause trillions and urban sprawl has seen its path covered with more millions of people and thousands of structures.
8. It floods because what little left of our drains and flood control infrastructure is ill-maintained.Reaching many of them is a problem because of informal settlements. Overlapping jurisdictions of local and national agencies conspire to dissipate responsibility and funding for this vital task of ensuring our drains are unclogged and free. It’s just like homeowners not cleaning their gutters of debris before a rainy season. When the typhoons come, the gutters overflow.
9. It floods because urban development is unplanned and unfettered. Mega-developments that see clusters of 30 to 40-storey towers on retail podiums surrounded by hectares of parking cause havoc in districts planned with drainage infrastructure meant for low-density development. Because there is a lack of planning context (actually a lack of any planning at all), all drainage, road and traffic infrastructure is useless to carry the additional load — that’s why most flooded areas are also traffic-clogged.
10. The final reason it floods in this short list (and there are many other reasons) is politics. Metro Manila is made up of 16 cities and one town (Pateros). Floods do not respect political boundaries and will flow from one city to the next yet we continue to address flooding (as well as all other urban problems) within the confines of individual LGUs. It does not make sense. Politics also conspires to keep informal settlers where they are because they represent votes.
The overlapping jurisdictions is also exacerbated by another layer — that of national government and yet a third layer, that of the MMDA. The ultimate fourth layer of discord is the fact that the source of floods is beyond the political jurisdiction of Metro Manila and in the hands of the provinces around it. Any sustainable solution to flooding must be at this regional context and the assumption that, within the metropolis, governance is rationalized to address this one big problem as one effort, not the effort of 17 government units, the MMDA and national agencies. Politics has divided and conquered us… and it is also drowning us in yearly and constant floods. | <urn:uuid:05fa0055-bddd-4948-8612-dc28a5892091> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://eirywave.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-reasons-it-floods-in-manila-could.html | 2017-11-18T21:37:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805049.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118210145-20171118230145-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.96755 | 1,576 | [
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Movie: Inside the Forbidden City
- Release Date: October 01, 2005
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The iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF (EWW) is positioned to close this week flat or with a modest loss.
That lags the 2.3% gained by the iShares Latin American 40 ETF (ILF) , which features an almost 28% weight to Mexico. EWW’s lethargy is disappointing considering that earlier this week Moody’s raised Mexico’s credit rating to A3, or upper medium investment grade. Mexico is Latin America’s second-largest economy behind Brazil. [Moody's Upgrades Mexico to A Status]
Mexican stocks have supporters, including J.P. Morgan. The bank believes the Moody’s upgrade could be constructive for the Mexican peso.
J.P. Morgan highlighted 10 Mexican stocks that could benefit from lower borrowing rates that come with the country’s higher credit rating, Barron’s reported. That group Wal-Mart’s Mexican unit Walmex, Mexchem (MEXCHEM-MX), Grupo Mexico (GMEXICOB-MX), Coca-Cola FEMSA (KOF), SANMEX (SANMEXB-MX), Femsa (FMX), Gap (PAC), FIBRAMQ (FIBRAMQ12-MX), Banorte (GFNORTEO-MX) and AC (AC-MX).
Assuming J.P. Morgan’s outlook is correct, that should prove to be good news for the $2.5 billion EWW. Femsa, Banorte, Walmex and Grupo Mexico are top-10 holdings in EWW combining for nearly a quarter of the ETF’s weight.
Mexchem, Coca-Cola Femsa and AC combine for another 4.3% of EWW’s weight.
Although Mexico has been highlighted as a possible beneficiary of improving economic data in the U.S., EWW has betrayed the faith of investors viewing the country as one of the more conservatively positioned developing markets. Additionally, EWW has been a laggard relative to U.S. stocks, dispelling the notion that stocks in the two countries share a tight correlation. Last year while the S&P 500 surged, EWW traded slightly lower. [Problems for the Mexico ETF]
Interestingly, Mexico is one of just Latin American countries to have an “A” credit rating of any level. Chile is the other. Year-to-date, the iShares MSCI Chile Capped ETF (ECH) is the second-worst non-leveraged ETF.
iShares MSCI Mexico Capped ETF
ETF Trends editorial team contributed to this post. Tom Lydon’s clients own shares of ILF.
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So Thursday started off with cranky kids, an awesome neighbor to watch one of those cranky kids, and another happy run with my girls in Ramstein. I was early, eager and looking forward to a nice 4 miles with 3 other’s in my group. After some some military wife chatting with a fellow ‘Wisconsin Wife’, we all set out to conquer the cold. The shins were feeling a bit achy and my ankle was hurting for some reason, but I figured once I hit the 2 mile mark, I would be good to go…
Yeah….not so much! We got to the mile and a half point and I needed to walk for a minute. I was not out of breath, tired or dragging….I was hurting! I figured a little bit of ‘shaking it out’ might help. I rolled the ankle around, flexed it and just tried to get some good range of motion on a few steps and then we started back up again. The pain did not go away. I felt like I couldn’t get a step in without feeling a pain behind my outer ankle bone.
I kept going to the 2 mile mark, turned around and trucked it very slowly with Jeannette, who slowed down in order to accompany me. I was half limping, half running, half power walking (I guess that should be 1/3 of each). We made it to the 3 mile mark, and I was DONE! It was raining, I was in serious pain and I don’t like holding people back. I did not want them waiting for me, so I told them to go ahead and I tried to get some strength from David Guetta to get me back to my car. The real strength came from these awesome women, though! They came back COUNTLESS times to check on me, join me, and be sure I was okay! That is why I love running with these girls…total support!
We planned to go get a coffee at the Brit Café after our run, but by the time I got to the base (after driving the standard), I was in so much pain that I had to pass it up. I wanted to go right to the hospital but after going to Eric’s work and telling him about my foot, I realized I needed to wait for the Hub to come home and watch the boys. Sadly, that took until after 5pm….did I mention we ran at 9am! Luckily my neighbor came to the ER with me so I was not sitting by myself. Un-luckily (yes, I am an English teacher and I know that is not a word) the douche behind the counter didn’t input my info correctly so everyone got through, except me. After a confrontation, where I ‘ruffled some feathers’, as my father would say, I got through and put as the priority for my troubles. Luckily, it is not serious…Peroneal Tendonitis…basically, I sprained my Peroneal Tendon.
Un-luckily (again, I know), I have to take at least a week off from my training/running and rehab the tendon. This is hard for me, because I cannot sit still. Ever. Seriously, not ever. I want to train, I want to be on the go, I don’t like missing my runs, I don’t like feeling like I am missing out or falling behind. However, I know that I am only going to make it worse but rushing it, so I will wait until I can actually walk normal before trying to run. Besides, I know that my lovely mentor out here would have my ass on a platter….see, Lisa…I listen sometimes!! I am hoping to strengthen up my weak areas and get back out there slowly to avoid any other injuries…here is the plan:
Hopefully I look as cool as the people in the pictures when I do these exercises! So, no runs to post this week…but, I am hoping to get back out by Monday and taker ‘er slow…maybe start off with a mile and a half and then go from there! Wish me luck!!!! | <urn:uuid:2e3c7d98-14c4-41c5-a89d-3859208ec8c9> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://groffsgirl.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/peroneal-what/ | 2017-11-20T11:41:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806030.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120111550-20171120131550-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.980608 | 867 | [
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Hello Morgan! Greetings from Red Bluff, California! The Golden State enjoys a reputation as one of our country’s most liberal places, but I do not think the people responsible for propagating that reputation have spent much time here. On the one hand you have San Francisco and Los Angeles and et cetera, but on the other hand you have pretty much the rest of the state, which ranges from mixed-bag to Palin-esque (in terms of both attitude and policy preferences). It’s a big, weird, politically schizophrenic state.
Red Bluff lies somewhere between mixed-bag to just-right-of-mixed-bag, or at least that’s the sense I get. I’m not sure why I’m going on about this, other than that I drew my proposed California state mascot and I guess felt compelled to explain it using information that I assume you already know.
But here I am in the state that gave us Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, gay rights, and a world-renowned state university system.
I like Red Bluff. Or at least I like substantial aspects of life in Red Bluff. I like that it’s not a big city, I like the hills and oak trees that surround the Sacramento Valley, I like the proximity to the mountains, and I like the hot, dry summers and cool, rainy winters. Over on the coast the culture is I think what you’d get if you could put Ken Kesey and all the characters from his book Sometimes a Great Notion into a superpersonality supercollider. Over here it’s more like Jonh Steinbeck and pre-sobriety Johnny Cash raised a child together and it turned out to be Red Bluff.
The more I write, the more I think I really like Red Bluff best when I’m just passing through.
I spent a couple days down here at my aunt and uncle’s place after taking about a week to travel north from San Francisco along the coast and then through the mountains. I had the staples removed from my legs back in Santa Rosa, and I had the remaining stitches removed from my legs a couple days ago thanks to the help of a family friend. The “examination table” for the procedure was the La-Z-Boy recliner in my aunt’s living room. I think I got better health care here in Red Bluff than I did on any of my follow-up visits in Santa Rosa.
Hello, Morgan! It’s now mid-afternoon and I’m about thirty miles north of Red Bluff. Redding is warm and sunny and the air coming into town was hazy with the smoke of forest fires burning to the east. The fires are big, and Red Bluff was a little hazy this morning, but this is really something.
I’m sitting at a picnic table above the Sacramento River, looking at the Sundial Bridge, a pedestrian/bike bridge designed by a guy named Santiago Calatrava, who I don’t think was super well-known when he designed this bridge, but has since become Mr. Hot Stuff. He designed the transportation hub for the new World Trade Center site, and … I don’t know, also a bunch of other stuff. The point is, Redding was into Santiago Calatrava before he was cool, which I guess means the Redding city planners are architectural hipsters.
I watched a short-ish documentary about the bridge on Netflix. From what I remember it seems like the bridge was a controversial project whose construction was a hard-fought victory. I think it’s a good-looking bridge. In fact I would probably describe it as funky, but that’s mostly because I’m listening to a funk mix on my headphones, which engenders positive feelings and a tendency to describe things I like as funky. (Conversely, when I listen to the Democracy Now! podcast, I feel depressed about the world and have a tendency to identify things I think are undemocratic.)
So, here I am in Redding, listening to 1970s funk and enjoying the warm weather and campfire-scented air. And I’m eating cherry tomatoes from my uncle’s garden, with a side of dry-roasted peanuts. I think peanuts and tomatoes have a brain-clearing effect, because after yammering about funk music and a footbridge I don’t know what to write about next. In fact, I must have paused for a good five or ten minutes before writing that last sentence, just staring at the river.
Okay. Golly, I’ve eaten a lot of peanuts and spent a lot of time staring at the river. I don’t know why this place is called Turtle Bay. It’s clearly a river, not a bay.
Later today I drive north toward Oregon. My friend Tom is getting married in Portland on Saturday, and I want to be there for the shindig. It’s essentially a de facto college reunion for me. After that I’ll be orbiting Portland for a while, I expect, trying to draw out the summer, camping and doing what hiking I can.
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Re: bokken strike style
A lot depends on why you're moving that piece of wood through the air, neh?
If you're trying to use it like a sword as in an edge weapon intended to cut stuff, well, it does impose some restrictions on use. Not the least of which is doing things that won't damage your blade, doing things that will actually cut stuff, doing things that will actually cut through stuff.
But that said, there's lots of reasons to swing that piece of wood. And they get complicated really quickly.
Most I've seen swinging bokken in Aikido would at best knock a cutting target off the stand if not also damage the blade and mount. Heck, many I see in Aikido have no idea of maai and would be dead before they ever even started to move. A lot of disarms I see start off with the person so bloody close they should have been perforated from repeated thrusts.
But again, all that said, that doesn't mean there aren't all sorts of valuable lesson to be learned by all sorts of styles of practice.
So if you're actually thinking you're doing swordsmanship as in what would work with a real blade, well, now we get in to a much more restrictive and sometimes rather contentious discussion. If we're talking about learning really cool stuff about mechanics, movement, connection, etc., well, hell, all bets are off. Have fun and experiment.
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Growing up I have had three labrador retrievers. At home I dog sit for many families in my neighborhood. I am also a member of PROUD (Puppy Raisers if UD), which is on UD's campus where I dog sit dogs that will become seeing eye dogs one day! I love being in PROUD because I know that I am making a difference in someone's life In high school I was in a club called ASPIN ... | <urn:uuid:58524698-7b07-47a8-a540-83443e1e4ce2> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.rover.com/members/maddie-c-certified-seeing-eye-puppy-sitter/?service_type=drop-in&start_date=&end_date=&refer=search | 2017-11-22T02:14:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806447.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122012409-20171122032409-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.96857 | 101 | [
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