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1. Do you plan to drink these wines over the space of a few years or are you treating this as an investment opportunity? The wines you buy will be different depending on your answer. You may of course wish to do a mixture of both.
2. For investment, buy blue chip wines (first and second growth clarets and wines with cult status) . Buy these en primeur when the prices are generally at their lowest and keep for five to ten years or more. If buying older vintages, check the provenance carefully and how the wines have been stored. Ideally the wine should have been moved only once or twice since it left the chateau and not shipped to and fro across the Atlantic! Just as in the stock market, prices fluctuate and you are not guaranteed a return. Track wine prices on the Liv-Ex website.
We recommend that you consult an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) to be sure of your potential liability for Capital Gains Tax and Inheritance Tax. In August 2010, HMRC stated that "Section 160 IHTA1984 states that for Inheritance Tax purposes the value of any property is the price it might reasonably be expected to fetch if sold in the open market at that time. Therefore it is clear that a wine cellar must be valued at its open market value for Inheritance Tax purposes at the time of the relevant occasion of charge." HMRC guidance on Capital Gains Tax relating to fine wine is less clear. Traditionally wine has been viewed as a wasting asset and therefore exempt from CGT. However HMRC Tax Bulletin 42 states that this depends on whether the wine has a predictable life of 50 years or more (which could apply to port and other fortified wines and some fine wines) and a disposal value of £6000 or more per bottle or 'set' (case).
3. If you are building a cellar for enjoyment, then consider whether to commit a lump sum to start off and/or save a monthly amount to spread the cost. Work out how many cases you need of red, white, sparkling etc to cover your drinking requirements each year. Make a list of your favourite wines, regions or grape varieties. Stagger your purchases so that the wines are at their peak when you need them. As a guide we would suggest regular monthly payments of £100+.
As an example you may want a couple of cases of drinking claret in 8-10 years' time, so we would recommend buying third, fourth or fifth growths or good Cru Bourgeois en primeur from the 2009 vintage when it is released later this year. New World wines and European white wines can generally be purchased within a few years of the intended consumption date, so delay your purchase until there is a really good vintage of Chablis for example.
4. For a mixture of both investment and enjoyment, you can buy two cases of a wine, for example Chateau Leoville Barton, and sell one at a later date and hopefully have financed the drinking of the other. Once again, you are not guaranteed to make a profit but when this works it is quite a nice thought that you are drinking such lovely wine either for free or at a much reduced cost.
5. Buying well-known chateaux in Bordeaux is fairly straightforward although allocations are getting more difficult as demand grows from the Far East. Finding really good Burgundies (red or white) is trickier and you need expert advice. You can read reviews till the cows come home but there's nothing to beat talking to someone who's actually tasted at the vineyard, so do give us a ring. Our latest Burgundy offer is available to download here.
6. A note on Champagne: it pays to buy a few cases of good non-vintage Champagne and cellar them for 3-5 years. The creamy, toasty characters will develop and you will get more value for money. Also by the time you drink them you will have forgotten how much they cost! This is also a good tip if you think there may be a wedding looming...
We can offer you advice tailored to your individual needs. So whether you are starting or expanding a cellar or looking to buy blue chip wines for investment, talk to us. Contact Aidan Bell on 01275 434988 or email [email protected].
We have created The WineSafe Ltd solely for the secure storage of your fine wine reserves. WineSafe does not trade in wine, giving you peace of mind while your wine matures gently in perfect cellar conditions. We have selected the renowned underground cellars at Octavian Vaults in Corsham, England for this purpose. Customers' wines are insured at full replacement value and are held separately from Davis Bell McCraith company stock. Please visit the WineSafe website for further details or telephone us for a brochure when we can also answer any questions you may have.
At least 4.4 miles of groomed ski trails within the park connect to numerous trails in the adjoining national forest and state game lands.
ELEVEN PITCHERS COMPETED in the Cal Cordes Singles Tournament on Saturday, June 11, at the Watson Lake Horseshoe Complex in Prescott. Winning results from the finals were as follows. In the Class A Division, Steve Ochoa of Dewey placed first, followed by runner-up Gary Schalberg of Kingman and third-place finisher Doug Strong of Phoenix. In the Class B Division, Sherri Ochoa of Dewey took first, followed by runner-up Terry Sloan of Prescott Valley and third-place finisher Gary Carter of Prescott.
THE ANTELOPE HILLS MEN’S Golf Club played its June 13 tournament on the South Course at Antelope Hills in Prescott. The format was 4-Man ‘1, 2, 3 Scoring,’ in which the total lowest gross and net score(s) count for the par 3s, 4s and 5s. In the first flight, the team of Charley Shipman, Ken Brack, Tom Tietz and Hank Engert took low gross. Low net went to Fred Laskowski, Jim Sygitowicz, Durwood Nixon and Barry Tull. In the second flight, Wayne Glasscock, Steve McKeen, Tom Collins and Chuck Baizel shot a low gross, with Herb Keeling, Jim Brewer, Bill Huth and Ron Weiss coming in with low net. In the third flight, Al Durfee, Gene Parrino, Ray Eccleston and Mike Elia fired low gross, followed by Bryan Elliott, Bill Reimers, Steve Sauer and Tedd Peck with low net. In the fourth flight, Jack Owen, Dean Waldenberger, Ted Arey and Tay Tanner grabbed low gross, with low net going to Bill Bailey, Mike Sherman, Bill Carmichael and Norm Pierson.
On June 15, the Club played its away tournament at Prescott Golf and Country Club with 57 players in the format of ‘Medal Play, Closest to the Pin & Skins,’ which required three flights. In the first flight, shooting a low gross of 72 was Brad Brightwell, with a low net of 66 going to Jack Marr. In the second flight, Don Clark’s 84 was good for low gross, with Andy Ozols taking low net with a 67. In the third flight, 89 was good for low gross by Stephen Sauer, while a low net of 69 went to Larry Richey. Closest to the Pin winners were Ed Gillam, Fred Laskowski, Perry Huyck and Herb Keeling. In addition, 18 players collected one or more skins, awarded in both gross and net categories in all three flights. To join the Antelope Hills Men’s Golf Club, which is having its membership drive, visit ahmgc.com or call 928-499-7788.
AT THE MILE HIGH BASEBALL SCHOOL OVERNIGHT CAMP July 17-20 at Roughrider Park in Prescott, campers ages 10-18 will learn skills from a new perspective with a fresh, dynamic approach to teaching baseball. The fee for campers who will be commuting to camp is $175. The fee for campers staying overnight is $400. For more information, call Yavapai College assistant baseball coach Kyle Wise at 928-776-2292 or email him at: [email protected]. Or visit goroughriders.com/summercamps/.
Dear Annie: I divorced over a year ago after a 35-year marriage that was very dysfunctional — although my adult children and ex-husband did not see it that way. Initially, I did not handle the divorce with any tact or finesse, I’ll admit. I am sorry for that and have apologized, but my kids still refuse to have any contact with me.
My middle daughter is extremely angry because I got the family home, and she tells me, “Dad is destroyed.”
Ironically, he has moved on already and is engaged to be married to the woman he was “seeing” while we were married. I spent most of my free time with my kids and grandkids. I thought we had a good relationship, but this divorce has shown me differently. I have reached out to the kids and offered to go to counseling, meetings, etc., but have gotten no response. My counselor has advised me to figure out how else I can be happy in my life and move on.
I am really struggling with this! Any other advice from you or someone reading this who has been there? I am so sad and heartbroken. I wish now I would have just ignored the affair, beatings and sexual abuse just to keep my kids and grandkids in my life. — So Lost and Lonely
Dear So Lost: The last line of your letter is devastating. Leaving your husband was the right thing to do. You didn’t deserve that awful treatment, and abuse is not a price anyone should have to pay to be close to her family. Divorce is messy. Perspectives get muddled, but clarity often comes with time. It’s only been a year, though I’m sure it’s felt like an eternity for you. Let’s hope your children will see things more clearly in the future and reach out to you.
In the meantime, commit entirely to your own healing process. Continue going to therapy, even when you feel as if it’s not working. Join a support group for victims of domestic violence and/or sexual abuse or even a support group for divorced women. (Your therapist can refer you to groups in your area.) You must learn to love yourself, first and foremost.
Dear Annie: I am writing in response to the letter from “Mary,” the person who is offended by her good friend’s interrupting their personal conversations at church to greet others. There is a difference between hospitality and fellowship. When we are in a place of gathering, especially at church, and there is a good possibility of newcomers in our midst, we exercise hospitality. When we are in a group and know everyone in the group, we exercise fellowship.
Before or after church is probably not the best time for deep personal conversations. Instead, hospitality toward the newer folks should be the rule. Please advise the writer to be hospitable to others at church, especially those who may be less than comfortable. There is a time and place for friends to visit, but church may not be the place. Focus outward, not inward, during these conversations. — BJEC
Dear BJEC: I appreciate your insight, and I feel you’ve offered a nuanced, accurate reading of the situation. I’ve passed it along to “Mary” for consideration.
Badgers football coach Michael Gilpin put on leave pending athletic department investigation | The Daily Courier | Prescott, AZ
Prescott head football coach Michael Gilpin talks with players on the sideline during a scrimmage Aug. 8, 2018. Gilpin has been put on leave and will not coach the Badgers at Moon Valley on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, in Phoenix. Assistant coach Cody Collett will coach the team. (Les Stukenberg/Courier)
Assistant coach Cody Collett will coach the team until the Prescott athletic department completes an investigation into an incident that took place at practice Wednesday afternoon between an assistant coach and a player.
The name of the assistant coach, or the player, were not released by the athletic department Thursday night.
“In an effort to communicate clearly and avoid any misunderstanding, we need to let you know that coach Cody Collett will be filling in as the head coach for the varsity football team,” the statement read, which was sent via email to parents. “An unfortunate event took place after practice (Wednesday) between an assistant coach and player, so we are taking the time to assure that we are properly addressing concerns.”
Prescott Athletic Director Missy Townsend went on to say in the statement: “We value coach Gilpin, his coaching staff, and our players, so we want to assure we are responding in a manner that is consistent with our protocols that are in place when these types of events occur.”
In a phone interview with her late Thursday night, Townsend said she expects the investigation into the matter to be complete by Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Townsend would not comment on the nature of the incident or details about what took place at Prescott football practice on campus Wednesday, or if she expects Gilpin to be reinstated as head football coach of the Badgers.
Collett spent four seasons pacing the Prescott sidelines as head coach of the Badgers from 2012 to 2016. He returned to the Prescott sidelines in 2017 as a tight ends coach under Gilpin.
Gilpin is 13-8 overall as head coach of the Badgers in two-plus seasons. Prescott (0-1, 0-0 Grand Canyon) is scheduled to play Moon Valley in Phoenix on Friday night. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
Taylor Latto reaches into a blackberry bush at Mortimer Farms’ Berry Festival Saturday, June 23. (Jason Wheeler/Courier)
The “Digital Competences Framework in Practice 2015-1-ES01-KA204-016046” project is an Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnership -Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. DC TEST's main objective is to analyse the existing report “A Framework for Developing and Understanding Digital Competence in Europe (DIGCOMP)” which has been published in 2013 by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.
- To create a Process of Revision of the existing Framework for Developing and understanding Digital Competences in Europe and an analysis, adaptation and updating of the required digital competence (DC) for the following profiles: Teachers/trainers and users/learners in Communication and social marketing, Digital Touristic management and Digital Tour Guide. That is, to create a specific Digital Competence Grid and a Self-Assessment grid for all these profiles as the prior step to create useful training materials for teachers in these areas and users/learners in order to be a master in these competences. (Validation and recognition).
- To create a specific framework identifying, for each profile, all the required digital competences, and provide for each competence a description, descriptors, examples of levels, attitudes, skills and examples of applicability in different contexts and different purposes.
- Learners/Technicians in Communication and social marketing. This segment of stakeholders is comprised of learners and Technicians that want to work in the following areas: communication, social and digital marketing experts, community managers, Link building (SEO and SEM) or Web 2.0/3.0 experts.
- Learners/Technicians in Digital Touristic management. Learners and Technicians that want to work in the following areas: on-line booking management, touristic contents developers and management, touristic social media (Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter for tourism), touristic blogs, webs and wikis managers, etc
- Learners/Technicians to be Digital Tour Guide. Learners and Technicians that want to work as future Digital Travel Guide, touristic on-line books, Touristic App guides developers and App guides management, Internet city guides data management. |
This guide by Ryan Mitchell is something I've been anticipating. It's a resource I plan on using soon, you can order it here: http://www.thetinylife.com/cracking-the-code-tiny-houses-and-building-codes/
I'm attending the Tumbleweed Tiny House Workshop this month and will be writing about my experience.
I bought three books from eBay sellers last week to start learning about ways to have the homestead setup I want.
The first is The Humanure Handbook by J. C. Jenkins, the second is Create an Oasis with Greywater by Art Ludwig and the third is Mini Farming by Brett L. Markham.
I'm about a third of the way through The Humanure Handbook right now and am so surprised by the simplicity of the concept of closing the 'nutritional loop' so to speak. I'm learning that I want to make less of an impact on the environment and show people how easily it can be done by example.
I also found out about Victory Garden International that was started by Tom Wiegerink right here in Palm City, FL where I live. Tom is trying to teach people to grow their own food gardens to be self-sustaining. I just found out about it and joined the group's Facebook page but I intend to volunteer to help out and to gain valuable experience as soon as possible.
I'm really doing a lot of research to answer questions that come up about my plans for an off-grid tiny house. People ask me about how I'll have power, water, cooling and heating, etc... and while I'm still working out some issues, I've been amazed at the resources I'm finding for these things.
Of course I'll be using solar and wind power for the few electronic devices I'll still want to have. A laptop, small entertainment system, cell phone, iPod, and maybe one or two other things can all be charged from a 12 volt system or use 12 volt systems already. I found a few websites that truckers use to pimp out their cabs to make them like a home away from home. Or marine supply sites and stores. They have all kinds of things that would also work wonderfully in a tiny house that are designed to use the 12 volt battery system.
I just got an email from Tiny House Newsletter via tinyhousetalk.com that had a link to Personal Atmospheric Water Generators (makes water from the air). You can get solar power compatible models from them and they sell the other things you need to power them and make your own purified water for pennies a day!! If you read some of my previous posts I talk about how little water I would actually need to use if I don't have running water or indoor plumbing and I believe I could make enough water for my own use with one of these. It answered a few big questions. It made my plans that much more realistic for me and I just love the idea of not having to get my water in a complicated way that would take me going out to get it or it being delivered. I will be getting one of these for my tiny house!
I'll be doing a few chores by hand that I do with a machine now, but it'll only be me and a kitty in a space that'll likely be smaller than my bedroom so there'll be much less to do! Washing a few dishes by hand daily and doing a few loads of laundry with a WonderWash will fit right in with a half hour of cleaning a week. Even collecting my grey water to filter will be a snap because I won't be using all that much water to begin with.
I love being able to mix the old and new ways to have a more sustainable life for myself and the environment!!
That's going to be my tiny house's name, Jen's Nut Hut. A lot of people who know me won't be a bit surprised to hear that, but for different reasons than why I'm giving my house that name.
One day last year I was sitting on my back patio and one of the squirrels that live in the trees caught my attention. S/he was gathering dead branches from the tree by chewing them off of the limbs of one of the trees and taking them to where the limb met the trunk to pile them up. Some of the branches got stuck on other branches and the little critter lost them. More got lost or stuck than gathered by my count as I watched. A good pile would get going and then topple over, falling to the ground 15 feet below.
That little squirrel just kept on gathering, no matter how many times the branches and sticks fell he just kept on going until he gathered what he needed. I sat there and just marveled at the lesson I let myself be taught by a cute little tree dwelling rodent in my own back yard. The persistence, patience, determination and fortitude I saw in that squirrel told me that I can do all of the things I want to no matter how many times I may stumble while I'm reaching my goals!!
I had been questioning some things until that very moment and felt I'd been given a validation. I will have my tiny house ready by my 50th birthday, with bike mechanic school to follow.
I will reach my goals, just like the squirrel did. I just have to keep my eye on the goal no matter what!!
I've been doing a lot of thinking about the downsizing I'll need to do before moving into my tiny house permanently. I don't have an attachment to things the way others I know do. It may have something to do with the fact that my belongings have been lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed multiple times in my life. It also may have to do with my somewhat nomadic nature. Most likely it's a combination of these and many other reasons. I'm going for real simplicity in my life. Less space, less possessions, less hassle!! I think about all of the ways all of the 'modern conveniences' suck the time, money and joy out of our lives.
I'm seriously thinking about going primitive with my tiny house life. Like no plumbing or running water primitive. I know it seems like a strange idea to most people, but I have some experience with living without running water or indoor plumbing. Going this route will also cost me less in the building costs. The small amount of power I will use will come from a solar system.
When I was a kid my family had friends who owned 14 acres in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. The property was directly on the Perkiomen Creek, so it became known as 'The Perk'. Our family spent a lot of time there in the warmer months & summer time. We used 2 modified truck bodies, a screen house and an outhouse for our campsite. There was no running water and for many years no electric service. We loved going there and had to do things a lot differently than we did at home in the city. I learned a lot those summers, things that I value even more now than I did then.
My plans involve using enamelware basins, pitchers, a galvanized wash tub, a chamber pot and composting toilet. I'll use a couple of basins for washing dishes, and another basin along with a pitcher and chamber pot for a washstand type bathroom set-up. Round this primitive bathroom out with the wash tub, which I'll pair with a portable camp shower with a curtain on a hoop setup and a composting toilet and you've got your very own 'indoor outhouse', lol!! I'll just compost and filter what would normally be mixed with fresh water and sent through a septic or sewer system.
I think if I incorporate work into my daily life, I'll be able to stay active longer. Taking care of a garden, a compost system and a grey water filtration system are chores that shouldn't be too strenuous, but give me enough exercise to stay limber and strong into my old age. Add riding a bike for transportation and I'm good to go!
Well it's all set! I'm attending the Tumbleweed workshop in Philadelphia in May. The ticket, flight & room are all reserved and paid for!
At first I was going to go to the Relaxshacks Workshop in April but when Tumbleweed added the Philly workshop I knew which one to go to. I grew up in Philadelphia and know my way around so it's the perfect place if I have to travel to a workshop.
I can't wait to go, it's a big step on the road to building my tiny house after I've been doing all of the research and planning!!
I've been doing a lot of research for my 5 year goals lately and I've come up with a good 5 year goal plan.
My 1 year goal is to attend a tiny house workshop, acquire a trailer for the foundation, finish the shell and begin downsizing by selling off a lot of my clutter.
My 3 year goal is to finish the interior of my tiny home, find and acquire the land to put it on, see my daughter graduate from high school and go to college and then attend bicycle mechanic training courses.
My 5 year goal is to begin and build a small bicycle repair and rental shop, work part time and volunteer in my community. I'm even thinking of designs to build a tiny bike shop on wheels!
I know these goals won't sound very ambitious to many people, but these are my goals to live out the last 2 or 3 decades of my life in a peaceful, sustainable, happy way... |
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Mediation is a sensible option for commercial disputes. Mediation is a quick, cheap, more informal and less stressful option than Court.
For parties in a business relationship, mediation offers: privacy, confidentiality, an opportunity to repair and sometimes enhance the relationship, to reduce non-productive time and redirect managerial time to drive and manage your business.
As a neutral third party, a mediator facilitates parties within a structured negotiation process, identifies issues, evaluates alternatives and helps develop options for resolution.
Courts often refer proceedings to mediation, in order to promote the just, cheap and quick resolution of disputes like: shareholder disputes, partnership disputes, insurance claims, banking disputes, lessor-lessee disputes, franchisor-franchisee disputes, strata disputes, professional negligence claims, estate disputes, and trade practices claims.
Supreme Court of New South Wales referred mediation of four different proceedings by former retail bank employees against their former solicitors (Solicitors for parties: Somerset Ryckmans; Kennedys) (2018)
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District Court of New South Wales proceedings between medical services practice & Australian retail bank in relation to alleged cheques frauds by former business manager. (Solicitors for parties: Shine; Kemp Strang) (2017)
Federal Court of Australia proceedings between rural investors and Australian retail bank concerning recommendations to invest in complex structured financial products (Solicitors for parties: Squire Patton Boggs; Allens Linklaters) (2016)
Dispute between professional indemnity insurers and insurance premium funder of architectural business in external administration. (Solicitors for parties: Minter Ellison; Brand Partners Melbourne) (2015)
Supreme Court of New South Wales Commercial List multi-party dispute re treatment of share allocations, contribution adjustments, claims for unpaid directors' fees, fee and profit share claims, & burden of prior costs orders (2014)
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2016 was the year of 'the loyalty wars', the battle of the century between online travel agencies and hotel brands.
NB: This is a viewpoint from Peter O’Connor, professor of information systems at Essec Business School in Paris, and European online analyst for Phocuswright.
Hilton, Marriott, Accor Hotels and Choice Hotels International heavily promoted loyalty club membership-driven book direct campaigns, granting transient consumers substantial discounts in return for instantly signing up to their ‘loyalty’ programs.
Supposedly designed to combat the ever-growing power of the OTAs, many independent analysts however questioned its purpose, effectiveness and long-term effect on hotel profitability.
Unfortunately, this was a battle that in the long run no one could win. Many players have already begun to moderate their positions, and we’re already seeing the emergence of some common ground. The change in behavior is driven by a new, more harmonized outlook.
A scarcity mentality tells us the earth’s resources are finite and that we are doomed to fight each other until the last drop of water, air, or other precious resource is used up. On the other hand, an abundance mentality looks at the world through the lens of opportunity.
Scarcity tells us that there are winners and losers – a ‘zero sum game’. Abundance tells us that we can innovate towards solutions to unlock prosperity, and that a dynamic marketplace focused on multiple winners can in fact be achieved.
As different industry players move their lines in the sand, we may quietly be witnessing the resurgence of such an abundance mentality within the hyper-competitive hotel distribution sector.
Last August, I wrote about true cost of loyalty-driven discounts in order to start a dialogue about how market dynamics have changed.
As hotels, we can adopt a scarcity mentality, villainizing the OTAs all we want over supposedly high distribution costs, regardless of the fact that hotels' OTA costs have decreased substantially over the past five years while the cost of supposedly cheaper direct bookings has increased.
In the hotel industry, we love having a common enemy; someone else to blame for our woes (does Airbnb ring any bells?) and the OTAs have in recent years served as the perfect punchbag. The scarcity mentality was alive and well.
Right now, after years of sitting back whining while the OTAs outpace their growth, the global hotel brands have finally decided to get off their butts and do something about it.
In an effort to encourage customers to book direct, they decided to provide incentives in the form of not only lower prices but also enhanced services such as free Wi-Fi or ‘free’ breakfasts.
But as they’ve rolled out these initiatives, the brands quickly learned that challenging the OTAs is going to require a ton of new investment and many are currently questioning whether this explicit and hidden discounting approach is sustainable in the long term.
Despite claims that all is rosy in the garden, many are coming under pressure from owners and investors alike to clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of their book-direct-in-return-for-incentives approach. Evidence to date suggests that most are struggling to do so.
In my earlier article I investigated the rising costs of distribution by looking at a specific case study using the franchise disclosure document of one of the world’s most recognizable hotel brands.
These include, but are not limited to: rate dilution from discounting, a hefty paid search marketing fee for customers coming from pay-for-performance channels, and the substantial cost of participating in the brand’s loyalty program itself.
As a follow-up study, to try to better understand the impact of loyalty fees across the industry, I did an analysis using the HVS 2015-2016 and 2011 US hotel franchise fee guides.
I looked specifically at brand comparisons between the two years (ignoring any companies not present in both editions), which gave me a sample of 55 major hotel brands across upscale, midscale, and economy segments.
To my amazement I found a 77% increase in loyalty fees between the two year’s averages (normalized on a percentage of gross rooms revenue basis). This means that the cost for hotel properties to participate in such programs had almost doubled over this five year period.
But according to a Kalibri Labs report , this same period saw a significant drop in direct bookings, a fact that calls into question the effectiveness of these ever more expensive loyalty programs.
Perhaps the global hotel brands should follow the OTAs' lead and reduce - or even eliminate - fees on bookings that are not truly being delivered by the brand.
Currently, most hotel brands typically charge fees on a gross rooms revenue basis, meaning that they get their cut irrespective of how much business they actually drive to the property in question.
Surely a fairer scenario would be to only charge owners for bookings delivered by channels ‘controlled’ by the brand in question – a move that would bring hotel brands’ pay-for-performance business model closer to that being used by the OTAs.
If 2016 was about carving up a finite consumer pie, I believe this year will be about abundant mindsets driving new partnerships, and the two largest OTAs are doing just that.
For example, Booking.com acquired various technology providers to create a service offering called Booking Suite which drives direct bookings to independent hotels. Expedia just introduced a free basic revenue management tool called Rev+ and is making some bold moves with chain partnerships.
For example, Expedia is now even sending customers directly to chains through link-offs to their direct booking sites as well as signing up customers for the chains’ loyalty programs, as in the case of Red Lion whose ‘Hello Rewards’ loyalty rates are listed directly on Expedia’s sites.
Red Lion’s CMO, Bill Linehan, was quoted as saying that in the month after launch it saw a 400% increase month over month in Hello Rewards sign-ups with about 25% resulting from the Expedia partnership, clearly showing that by working together, rather than bickering, both parties can grow the size of the pie and create greater value for everyone.
Non-exclusive virtual alliances are the name of the game, as testified by the recent deal between Marriott and Expedia in the vacation packaging arena, and Marriott’s initiative with Booking.com which uses the latter’s content and technology to power some of its low volume country sites such as Marriott.it rather than developing it for themselves.
Instead of wasting time and energy on pointless and often heated battles, finding innovative and imaginative ways to work together is clearly the way forward, with both owners and customers ultimately the main beneficiaries. |
“I wish I could take time off to attend a Christmas party with friends,” Helen complained, placing the final book from the trolley on the shelf.
Emma smiled at her friend and workmate. Even though Helen’s words sounded harsh, Emma knew she was only joking. “It’s once in a blue moon. Jack’s colleagues are breaking up from work today, unlike us. That’s what office workers do—have lots of time off at this time of year.” Emma shrugged. “I suppose that’s a major downside to us working in a public library.” She dug her friend in the ribs as they pushed the trolley back to the reception desk in the old, cold library. “Just think how lucky we are not to be working behind a counter in a shop. At least we get to have Boxing Day off.”
“I suppose. I just wish Christmas Day always landed on a Sunday. Then we’d get an extra day off every year like we had last year,” Helen moaned, her mouth turning down at the sides.
Helen shook her head and sat down behind the counter. “Don’t go treating me like one of your helpless homeless people you care about. I’m allowed to have a little self-pity at this time of year after losing my dad in June.”
Emma rubbed her friend’s arm. “I’m sorry. I totally forgot that this will be your first Christmas without him. I know how close you two were. Is your mum going to be spending Christmas with you?”
“No, she said she’s too depressed and doesn’t want to spoil it for us. We’ll pop round there during the day.”
“Beneath that gruff exterior, you have a heart of gold, my dear friend.” Emma kissed Helen’s cheek lightly.
Helen scrubbed her face as it turned crimson with embarrassment. “I better stop wallowing and let you get off. Say hello to Jack for me and have a good time. Are you working down at the shelter tonight?”
Emma removed her coat from the stand and slipped it on. “Yes, I’ll be there at seven, dishing out the dinners, as usual. I feel so sorry for the homeless people in our area. The numbers seem to be increasing each week, especially at this time of year. If I was granted one wish, it would be that there was peace on earth and every single person had a roof over their head that they could call home, even if it was only for the Christmas holidays.”
Helen shook her head. “I don’t want to appear rude, but you’re living in a dream world if you ever believe that’s going to happen, sweetie.”
“I know. No harm in hoping, though, right? See you tomorrow. Sorry again for leaving you short-handed this afternoon. I hope you’re not too busy.”
“I’m sure we’ll be quiet. Hopefully, people will be too occupied buying last-minute gifts in town to bother pestering me for a book on the Ayatollah Khomeini for some project or other at college.”
Laughing, Emma waved at her friend then left the library by the main entrance. She crossed the car park and slid behind the steering wheel of her car. It was an anxious journey to her home. She had less than thirty minutes to get home and throw on her party outfit. She had chosen a subtle outfit, though nothing too fancy, as it was still the middle of the day, but she knew Jack was expecting her to make an effort for a change. Emma had always been the type of girl to prefer roaming around in jeans rather than skirts and high heels.
Ten minutes later, she pulled up outside her parents’ house, where she still lived, and opened the garage door. After parking the car, she rushed through the internal door and flew up the stairs to the bathroom. She jumped in the shower, aware that the clock was ticking, and dried herself on the way into her bedroom. She glanced down at her mobile lying on the bed and saw there was a text from Jack.
She let out a sigh, relieved that she would be able to slow down and at least catch her breath a little for the next few minutes.
After drying her hair, she studied the outfit she had laid out on the bed and doubted for the umpteenth time if she had made the right choice. Sighing, she shook her head and walked over to the wardrobe. Instead of the dress she had chosen the night before, she decided to go with a smart pair of trousers and the Christmas jumper with Rudolph and his red nose on the front. “I hope Jack is okay with my change of outfit.”
She gasped when she heard the doorbell ring. Emma swiftly pulled on her grey trousers and slipped on a T-shirt. Carrying her thick winter jumper, she raced down the stairs to open the front door.
“Just a minute,” she called out. At the bottom of the stairs, with the front door only a few feet away, she placed the jumper over her head and opened the door at the same time, but the jumper got caught on one of her earrings. She laughed. “Oh no, so sorry, Jack. I’m rushing to get ready. Come in and make yourself comfy.” Emma turned away from the door and started up the short hallway, but before she could get very far, she felt a sting in her back that took her breath away.
Her legs unable to hold her upright, she stumbled to the ground. With the jumper still over her face, she began to panic, unsure what was going on and whom she had let into her house. Her head felt woozy, and she had no idea what had caused her knees to buckle or what had struck her in the back. A shadow fell over her. She felt disorientated and had no control over her arms or her legs. The jumper obscuring her view was yanked down. She gasped. “You!”
The man didn’t reply. Instead, he punched her in the face. Her head swam again. In the distance, she heard what sounded like a sucking noise, or was it? The next thing she felt was something being placed over her mouth. Panic set in. What are you doing to me? Why? |
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Get ready for cottage season with us at the 25th Spring Cottage Life Show! Meet 600 exhibitors showing boats, docks, builders, contractors, innovative building products, green solutions, decor and style, arts and crafts, food and entertaining, water toys and more.
Now a 4 day show! It’s our 25th annual kick-off to summertime fun and we can’t wait to see you at our cottage!
Our Will Call ticket service is located at the Box Office at Entrance 5. This is where you can leave tickets for pick-up by another party. Exhibitors, please direct your clients to use Entrance 5 if you are leaving tickets for them.
Need some quiet time to shop? We’ve got you covered with two hours of free child minding service provided by the fun folks at Camp Mini-Yo-We. Sign your kids into the supervised child minding service next to the Family Activity Centre in Hall 1. Ages 2 to 12, while space permits.
7,000 free parking spaces, including more offsite capacity than ever before! Please watch for our parking signs on Airport and Derry roads or click here for a map
A limited number of wheelchairs are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the entrance upon request. See the ticket takers for assistance. The International Centre is wheelchair accessible at entrance and restrooms.
We love cottage dogs, but kindly ask that you leave your dog at home. This includes purse-sized pooches. Service animals welcome.
The No Doubt singer, 44, was spotted out and about with her newborn son, Apollo, this week, looking incredibly chic in a monochromatic sweater and black harem-style pants.
She matched her outfit with strappy designer heels and dark sunglasses, and added a pop of colour to her look with her trademark red lipstick.
As she walked around Beverly Hills, Gwen cradled her eleven-week-old son close to her chest, who she had wrapped up in an elephant-printed blanket.
The doting mother, who was accompanied by her nanny and assistant, was all smiles as she took Apollo to his first baby class.
Gwen and her husband Gavin Rossdale welcomed their family’s latest arrival on 28 February, with the guitarist sharing the news on his Twitter account. "@gwenstefani welcome APOLLO BOWIE FLYNN ROSSDALE ❤❤❤2/28/14 ❤❤❤," tweeted proud dad Gavin. "Bowie and Flynn = [our] mothers’ maiden names."
Baby Apollo is younger brother to Gwen and Gavin’s sons Kingston James McGregor, seven, and five-year-old Zuma Nesta Rock, as well being half-brother to Gavin’s daughter, British model Daisy Lowe.
It looked like Gwen wanted to spend as much time with her newborn and brood as possible, as she prepares to get to work as a judge on The Voice.
The Don’t Speak singer announced that she would be joining the panel for the seventh season last month, by posting an Instagram photo of her hand holding a microphone and doing the show’s signature peace sign. "It’s true! gx @nbcthevoice," she captioned the shot.
Gwen will be mentoring alongside veteran judges Adam Levine and Blake Shelton, as well as fellow newcomer Pharrell Williams.
Kampung Paloh is an inviting destination that has something for everyone. Though there might not be many well-known attractions to visit in Kampung Paloh, you don't need to go far to find places to visit like Temenggor Lake and State Museum. You can take some time to discover the surrounding area and sights like Siti Khadijah Central Market and Sultan Mohammad IV Stadium.
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The average yearly salary for Insight Manager is approximately $97,797 in Canada. Below is some salary information for other similar jobs in Management:
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95th Annual Commencement, June 13, 14, 15 / Williams and Stockbridge House Alumni Reunions / Dr. A.G. Ruthven to Give Commencement Address / Co-Education Topic of Charter's Day Speech / Chicago Alumni Hold Annual Banquet / Kansas City to be Scene of Annual N.B.C. Convention / Art Dept. Succeeds in First Year / A.A.U.W. to Recognize Kalamazoo Graduates / Faculty Are Hosts to Senior Class / Junior Class Presents 1931 "Boiling Pot" / 800 Miles Covered by Glee Club on 25th Annual Tour / Margaret Gordon Named May Queen / May Day Program / Poll Record Vote at Student Election / Senior Class to Present "Death Takes a Holiday" / Cast Selected for Senior Class Play / Stetson Chapel to Emphasize Christian Life / To Break Ground for Stetson Chapel, June 15th / Hornets Boast 14 Basketball Titles in Past 18 Years / "B" Is Average Grade for 1931 Basketball Team / M.I.A.A. Title 1931 Tennis Goal / We Would Not Purposely Be Rude / "Doozerdoo" Says Walton / Grant M. Hudson, '94, Addresses Students / Social Calendar / High School Girls Guests of College / Kalamazoo Graduates Star in Dramatics / Marston Balch, '23 Exposes Error / Wedding Bells / Chicago Alumni Hold Annual Garden Tea / Births / In Memoriam / Here, There and Everywhere.
Includes participants, times, and weather conditions for the October 22, 1976 Kalamazoo College Men's Cross Country meet against Alma College.
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Lara Downes is among the foremost American pianists of her generation, an iconoclast dedicated to expanding the resonance and relevance of American music for diverse audiences. A trailblazer on and off-stage, Downes’ playing has been called “ravishing” by Fanfare Magazine, “luscious, moody and dreamy” by The New York Times, and “addicting – Downes plays with an open, honest heart” by The Huffington Post. Born in San Francisco and raised in Europe, Downes’ interest in connecting music to an inclusive breadth of human experience mines her mixed Jamaican and Russian background.
Her chart-topping release America Again was included in NPR’s “10 Albums that saved 2016” and called “a balm for a country riven by disunion” by the Boston Globe. Downes’ Sony Music debut album FOR LENNY is a centennial tribute to Leonard Bernstein’s music and legacy. The album was presented with the 2017 Classical Recording Foundation Award and appeared in Billboard’s Top 20.
A 2016 Sphinx Medal of Excellence laureate, Downes is recognized as a leading performer, entrepreneur, and cultural visionary. She enjoys collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Rhiannon Giddens, Kevin “K.O.” Olusola, Adam Gopnik, and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove, among others. Downes has performed in Carnegie Hall, John F. Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the U.S. Supreme Court, National Sawdust, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Vienna Konzerthaus. Additionally, she is Artist-in-Residence at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts – UC Davis, and also directs their National Young Artists Program.
Upcoming engagements include 2018 debuts at the Ravinia Festival and Glimmerglass. New projects feature appearances on Thomas Hampson’s 50 State tour Song Of America: Beyond Liberty, a duo cabaret show with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, a world premiere of Maxime Goulet’s piano concerto, and “Holes In The Sky,” a recording and concert program of multi-genre chamber music by women composers and poets, which celebrates the lives and dreams of all women.
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I recently realized I watch too much wrestling not to turn it into a feature here at withapassion.com. So, I give you a new feature (that I hope to turn out in weekly fashion), Don’t Miss This, a guide to the best matches and segments from the week in WWE and outside of the WWE.
What are my qualifications? Every week I watch Raw, SmackDown Live, 205 Live, Talking Smack, NXT, Lucha Underground and IMPACT. I even watch all EVOLVE PPVs and try to watch Ring of Honor and NJPW on AXS, but can’t guarantee those, as the first set already takes 10.5 hours of my week. Videos are embedded when possible, but they’re often abridged versions, especially WWE’s.
Most of you have seen The Revival vs. DIY before (and if you haven’t thanks for reading this!) but this match is still amazing even if you have. These four men do tag-team wrestling so well, that every time is a must-see. Between Revival’s inventive heel tactics, Gargano’s ability to make getting his ass kicked look amazing, and the brutality of Ciampa’s knees and elbows.
More than just your standard David vs Goliath match, as Matanza is more like Frankenstein’s Monster, with his keeper, Dario, watching the match on-camera in states of fear and pride.
How do I know Jeff Cobb is great at portraying the Matanza character? I’ve met the guy (he’s super nice) but I still forget it’s him under that mask, thanks to demented mannerisms and inhuman rage. Also, Vampiro and Striker do a great job of teasing and pointing towards the finish, in a way that I didn’t realize until it was all over. It’s an excellent match to cap the middle of LU’s third season.
Either I have a bias towards Jack Gallagher, or the WWE didn’t offer many worthy segments this week. Probably both.
Yes, I know you can see Gallagher admit — off-mic — that he’s forgotten his line, but the rest of this is too good. From the return of William the umbrella to calling their feuding “playing silly boogers for too long,” this segment brings the humor that WWE programming is often lacking.
More importantly, this Parlay (contract signing) segment set up this Euro-tinted I Quit match as the actual end of this feud. Gallagher did a nice, Wilder-Wonka-esque job of it, stating “when you forfeit, you don’t only end the match, you end this quarrel between me and you. You lose, and you live with that.” Daivari plays his part well, responding to everything Gallagher says with a correct mix of incredulity and disgust. Corey Graves even shines, registering shock after Daivari throws William the umbrella out of the ring.
Again, this wasn’t the strongest week for non-match segments, so I give the outside-of-the-WWE nod to a Young Bucks talking segment. Starts off with the Bucks of Youth being smug bastards about their lucrative contract, and ends with a moment that was worth your time.
As you may know, Broken Matt Hardy challenged them at Final Battle, and here, the Bucks accept the challenge. What nobody expected was a House Hardy member to invade the taping, but as you might have already seen, that happened too.
The playing field has become less and less even for new advertisers. If you have no experience with AdWords and you’re creating your first campaigns in 2013, you are bound to be in for a tough learning curve in order to compete on equal grounds with more experienced competitors.
I totally agree with the article. The reality is that AdWords is complex and most people who start up new campaigns tend to make the same mistakes. Keywords are set to Broad Match, everything is lumped together into a few ad groups and they send traffic to the wrong landing page. If you combine that with Google Shopping, people are totally lost.
A singer, songwriter and guitarist from Hialeah where the saw grass dances with the wind, the alligators take refuge in the deep murky abyss, and country music can be heard wafting over the wetlands, Ricky has played the Suwannee River Jam twice, plays shows all across Florida ......
If there are four things the Cajuns I've met love to do, it's tell stories, eat, drink, and have fun ... 18 ... Route 90 and state Route 1 or its website, lacajunbayou.com, you can also find out where to dance to live modern zydeco, stuff your gills at a crawfish boil, feed a wild alligator, or try the King Cake Ale at Lafourche's only brewery ... Cher-Amie's....
The "undead" have been walking the streets of Long Beach ... Several live music acts performed. Other activities included a zombie-infested maze, an alligator exhibit, and dance workshops ... ....
The plot – about a dance-band promoter suffering from the dance-band slump – took over ... The plot reached the stage where the dance-band promoter was being taken to see a remote village dance hall ... “See you later, Alligator.”....
Mollie King has wished this year’s Strictly Come Dancing contestants good luck, telling them ... The Saturdays singer, 31, was part of last year’s celebrity line-up and danced with AJ Pritchard ... The couple were the 11th pairing to leave last year, losing out in a dance-off against soap star and radio presenter Gemma Atkinson....
Some are Riverton High School students who are members of their high school's dance company, cheer squad and drill team who have been developing their talent since they were toddlers ... But I'm just enthralled by our kids sitting so nicely in the group and following every direction the dance instructor is giving ... Dance can be a part of anyone's life....
Subtitled “A dance theater satire for liberals and their progeny,” The Prevarigator and the Swamp takes aim at the current political climate under President Trump ... Dance Theatre....
A miniature model of a merry-go-round and Ferris wheel share a spot on the desk in Lucille Haunstein’s room at Elmcroft of Lima assisted living center ... Those two keepsakes represent a special time for Lucille’s family ... The hook ... There was Jolly Dolly, who would dance and swallow swords, the alligator man and the bearded lady ... Rose ... Rose ... ....
Update 8/10. The original video of the teens subway surfing has been pulled from YouTube ... But these precocious youths aren't ingesting detergents or choking themselves out or trying to find increasingly more extreme ways to invite one another to what will likely be a very mediocre school dance. There aren't any alligator carcasses involved either ... ....
As it stared into the abyss, Shanghai created its own monsters to explain the evil stalking the old city — where, French writes, “wolves come to feast on the weak, the alligators to snap up the dead, the opium ghosts to roam,” where vengeful fire spirits “dance on the city’s fallen ramparts.” Reader advisory....
NORTH MANKATO — Campers caught alligators, danced with parrots and cuddled a baby wallaby Wednesday ... ....
According to The Daily Telegraph, seven months after cameras stopped rolling on David for the BBC series, the alpha male chimp was found beaten to death ... It's like more than one chimp is gone ... However, you can see Luther already challenging him a bit." Well, all we can say is RIP David the Chimp....
They say that the first person who will live to 200 has already been born ... In short, it will be a big thing ... But chimps; they’re the best ... (Note. I shall be drawing no analogies. It would be exhausting.) ... Baby chimps splash and frolic at watering holes ... The chimps’ honesty in their operations only makes them seem the more civilised. Hominid, know thyself....
They say that the first person who will live to 200 has already been born ... In short, it will be a big thing ... But chimps; they’re the best ... (Note. I shall be drawing no analogies. It would be exhausting.) ... Baby chimps splash and frolic at watering holes ... The chimps’ honesty in their operations only makes them seem the more civilised. Hominid, know thyself ... ....
Adult humans laugh primarily on the exhale, but human babies laugh on the inhale and the exhale—as do chimps. Christopher Intagliata reports. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com ... ....
The action lulls every time Kong is dragged away by 10 to 15 puppeteers at a time, darting around beneath him trying not to get crushed while pulling his strings, moving his limbs, and changing his expressions to encompass pain, joy, and pathos (yes, this is a Kong that cries like a baby chimp, shedding tears like waterfalls) ... Bring back Fay Wray ... ....
Now an international team of psychologists has found that babies laugh both as they exhale and inhale, in a similar manner to non-human primates like chimps and gorillas, according to research presented at the Acoustical Society of America’s 176th Meeting in Victoria, Canada....
For a different animal adventure, take a short car ride from downtown Shreveport to Chimp Haven, The National Chimpanzee Sanctuary ... In 1995, Chimp Haven was incorporated, and in 2005, it accepted its first chimps ... “Babies are a fun aspect, but every time we have one, it takes the space of a chimp that could retire,” Rushing said....
Sir David Attenborough has spoken about the “huge problem” of how to allow animals enough space as the human population encroaches on their habitats ... Sir David said ... 🐵🐧🦁🐺🐯 ... He added ... “Well animals do have a lot of human characteristics, particularly primates, particularly chimps. A baby chimp termite fishing in Senegal (Mark MacEwen/BBC/PA) ... He added ... ....
The baby chimps were rescued from poachers and dropped at the Tacaguma Chimpanzee Sanctuary, surrounded by grandiose hills and green forests ... As she spoke, she fed milk to one of her new charges, a four-month-old baby chimp, as several others climbed over her back and head ... Western chimpanzees are the only critically endangered chimp subspecies....
They have their hands full at the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where record numbers of orphaned chimps are being delivered to their care, victims of the relentless expansion of human activity ... As she spoke, she fed milk to one of her new charges, a four-month-old baby chimp, as several others climbed over her back and head....
The Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary shared the image of baby Ana with an oxygen mask as she's being cuddled by a carer on Facebook on ......
In Geffen’s telling, “The trainer went to the bathroom, left the monkey, and as he came out he heard Sue saying to the chimp, ‘Ooh, little monkey, want to fuck Baby Sue?’ He grabbed the chimp, ran into Kalcheim’s office, yelling, ......
Over the past year, a number of great apes have experienced brushes with fame, including Ponso, “the loneliest chimp” in the Ivory Coast; Lulingu, the “laughing” baby gorilla; and Mussa, whose mother was killed by poachers ... Footage of a baby chimp’s rescue flight posted by the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Center went viral....
Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's party expects to recruit members from rivals in the Chamber of Deputies to form the biggest bloc with 61 seats, lawmakers said on Wednesday ... ....
Long nicknamed “Le Cost Killer” in France, Ghosn began his career with the tyre-maker Michelin and, after a early stint in Brazil, was quickly promoted and earned a reputation for turning around its North American operations. From there, he was recruited by Renault in ......
OMAHA -- Carter Frey is the boy in the new Nebraska tourism ads who provides the analogy to describe Nebraska ... Carter Frey talks about his role as the new face of the Nebraska tourism campaign ... The boy won the Nebraska promotional ad after his mom's agent at Actors Etc ... The Nebraska ad is not the youngster's first venture into commercials....
Amy’s presentation revolved around marijuana usage in Nebraska teens, as well as other drugs that have appeared in Kearney and the area ... I wanted a bigger kick, I moved up the chain,” Amy said, adding usually the next “step up” in this area of Nebraska is methamphetamine....
Not only will good weather bless the area on Thanksgiving, but Grand Island and area families will enjoy an abundant meal at an inexpensive cost ... According to the University of Nebraska Extension Service, Nebraska has commercial turkey producers who ship the birds to processors out of state ... ....
'Legal ripoff'? Nebraska makes it easier for investors to take farms, homes for unpaid taxes. Lobbyists persuaded the Nebraska Legislature to halt new notices that would have warned homeowners ... Nebraska is the star of the new Coen brothers movie, which is now playing on Netflix....
Candidates must also compile a portfolio demonstrating the depth of their commercial real estate experience and pass a comprehensive examination ... NAI FMA Realty has been providing commercial real estate solutions to landlords and occupiers in southeastern and central Nebraska for more than 50 years....
UNICO began in 1988 with the merger of two Lincoln firms and expanded to other Nebraska locations through ......
Grant said she knew of Beattie’s passion for agriculture when she heard her speak to members of Nebraska’s Congressional delegation ... “I still bleed orange and blue which has been interesting living in Nebraska for twenty-two years ... Additionally, they own a commercial cow/calf ranching operation near Sumner in central Nebraska....
Josh Phifer (credit ... “I grew up on a ranch right on the Wyoming-Nebraska border so I understand the problem of driving around for many hours to check on assets.” ... His surveillance system is helping ranchers in Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas and Nebraska ... But he says some commercial operations as large as 100 square miles also use the product....
Boston Omaha Corporation is a public company engaged in several lines of business, including outdoor advertising and surety insurance, and also maintains investments in commercial real estate, residential homebuilding and banking businesses ... UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA NEBRASKA....
Today, Pinnacle Bank has developed into a $10.4 billion holding company with 64 locations across Nebraska in 34 communities, serving a broad range of commercial, individual and agricultural customers. Pinnacle Bank operates across seven states – Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas....
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Cuffley is a village in the Welwyn Hatfield district of south-east Hertfordshire located between Cheshunt and Potters Bar. It has a population of just over 4,000 people.Northaw and Cuffley is a civil parish and is part of Broxbourne parliamentary constituency.
The railway had an important impact on the development of the village. Cuffley was reached by the Great Northern Railway in 1910, as part of the plan to create the Hertford Loop Line, as a strategic alternative to the main line out of Kings Cross to the North, by extending the line from Enfield Chase.
The early history of Cuffley is recounted by one of its residents, Molly Hughes, in her autobiographical book A London Family Between the Wars.
On 3 September 1916 the German airship SL 11 was shot down and crashed in Cuffley during an aerial bombardment intended for London. This incident is commemorated by a memorial on East Ridgeway to Lieutenant W. Leefe Robinson, the pilot who shot the airship down; he was awarded the Victoria Cross. There is also a model of the airship in the village hall. Contrary to many reports of the incident, the SL 11 airship was not a Zeppelin but an army Schütte-Lanz airship. Regardless, the local football team is still nicknamed 'The Zeps' after this event.
CALGARY — Winter is definitely here ... That’s what 25-year old Kaetyn St. Hilaire plans to do ... Each winter since, St ... St ... Hilaire says ... The Triumph 'slimline' gas tank was an eBay purchase, and Kevin Cuffley of Calgary painted it grey ... He also bought a different Triumph tank off of eBay and had Kevin Cuffley of Big Shot Customs in Calgary paint it grey....
Michael Eklund first auditioned for the role of Luke Petrie a decade ago. It was the first time he met Calgary director Robert Cuffley, who was prepping his pro-wrestling comedy Chokeslam. It didn’t get made until last year. “I met him in the audition room and that was supposed to be our first movie to make […] ... ....
There is a little-known rule in movie-making. If you want a coveted PG rating, there is a strict limit to the number of f-bombs you can drop into the dialogue ... Calgary director Robert Cuffley seems to have mixed feelings about this limitation, but he did abide by it for his newest comedy, […] ... ....
A biopic shot in St. John’s about Canadian painter Maud Lewis will open the Calgary International Film Festival. Maudie, starring Oscar-nominated actors Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke, will kick off the festival on Sept. 21 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall with a red-carpet screening. The film, which tells how Lewis became one of the […] ... ....
Millions of Indiana parents hope their kids graduate from college and then choose to live, work and raise a family in the Hoosier state ... Indiana struggles to retain graduates of the state’s nearly 70 colleges and universities ... for the number of college degrees its institutions grant, but 40th in the number of residents with a degree....
We need every student at Western Nebraska Community College to complete every certificate, diploma and associate degree,” said WNCC President Todd Holcomb ... Pi Chapter has taken, saying, “Your efforts to celebrate a commitment to completing a college degree are to be commended....
Students may use the scholarship at any of the state’s 13 community colleges, 27 Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCAT) or other eligible institution offering an associate degree program ... I encouraged her that she was getting a college degree not just for herself, but to change the life of her daughter.”....
The artists will contract directly with Paducah Junior College Inc., the charitable foundation of WKCTC ... West Kentucky Community and Technical College's Paducah School of Art and Design offers an Associate in Fine Arts degree in Visual Art and an Associate in Applied Science degree and certificate programs in Visual Communication....
Analysts I trusted concluded that this was because suburban and college-educated women ... It was transformative, knocking down what we assumed were Electoral College certainties ... First of all, Democrats did not win simply because white women with college degrees rebelled against Mr....
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New organizations founded by students have made their debuts this year, including Baking Club, Model UN and Adventure Club.
“I think it’s great that people are making new clubs because they get to express new ideas and new opinions and make more people understand and accept them,” senior Jeremiah Williams said. “People see new interests because they’re in new clubs. They also give opportunities for people who make the clubs to become leaders.”
Member get to learn about culinary safety and baking from scratch in socials held after school in room 152 on the first Monday of every month except November in preparation for Homecoming Carnival. In addition to baking fudge brownies, cookies, and other goods at socials and competitive events, members may also have opportunities to earn volunteer hours. Baking Club founder and president, senior Falak Farhan, ran a successful first meeting on Sept. 13 with an immense turnout of 107 signups.
“There’s a lot of people in school that like baking but don’t have ingredients at home or have the permission, so we’re making that easier for them,” Farhan said. “It’s an easier way to meet a lot of people who are into the same things as you when everyone comes together in a club. I want people to learn things they didn’t know before in baking and make friends.”
Model UN is an organization simulating the United Nations General Assembly introducing diplomacy and negotions to students representing different nations and councils. In competition, members pick their committees and countries ahead of time and debate as delegates on various important issues. Model UN students most often attend and compete in conferences for Houston Area Model United Nations (HAMUN) at the University of Houston. Model UN founder, junior Theiija Balasubramanian, along with co-founders, juniors Noor Iqbal and Armin Momin, initiated the club. They hope to host more socials, organize a booth for upcoming carnivals and become more active in competitions.
“We go to HAMUN, which is the Houston area Model UN,” secretary Iqbal said. “I’m hoping that it [Model UN] will really take off, that we’re going to do well and be able to defend this, and that we become a more tight-knit group.”
The Adventure Club is another new organization that emphasizes appreciation for the outdoors and gives back to the community. The club meets every second Wednesday of the month in Rm. 220 for meetings, community service opportunities and outdoor activities outside of school as well. Adventure Club founder and president, senior T’shai Christopher, was inspired after attending a young women’s leadership conference over the summer and wanted to create an organization that encourages them to be active outdoors with an intent for students to balance blue light with sunlight.
“It’s a club that gets kids less dependent on technology and more involved in community service and the environment,” Christopher said. “I know that in my school community I can reach out to people here. It’s just the idea of starting a club to get people to really understand my passion.”
Group therapy is defined as a counseling process whereby groups of people usually assemble together under a therapist who is well trained. The aim of this is to offer help to the individuals and guide them so that they can come out of their present conditions or challenges. This is the mode of treatment that has been used for many years in different individuals. There are several advantages to this approach. Firstly, it enables understanding and learning from each other. It also enables the groups to learn how to approach different issues in their lives.
It is comparable to individual therapy since it enhances growth of the person in terms of developing methods of dealing with issues (interpersonal or personal challenges). However, it differs in the sense that it involves the application of multiple relationships to enhance the achievement of the goals (Yalom, 1995). It is a psychotherapeutic process which involves selection of small manageable groups of persons who are assigned to a professional (group therapist). In order to enhance the process of emotional growth and development of important skills, meetings are organized regularly.
Therefore, this aim can only be achieved through the joint efforts of the therapist and the group members (Corey M and Corey G. , 2009). Principles of group therapy Most group therapists are guided by certain principles as they carry out their counseling process. These include; instilling hope, universality, imparting information, altruism, development of social techniques, corrective recollection of experiences, Imitative behavior, interpersonal learning, group cohesiveness, catharsis and existential factors (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009).
Hope, universality and sharing information Instilling hope is done by integrating individuals who are in the same process of treatment. In this way, those who are beginning the processes will have the hope of going through the same treatment protocol. This is due to the fact that recovery of other individuals will give them the courage to go through the same process to successful completion. Universality basically implies that individuals will accept what they are going through when they see or associate with others who have gone through the same in life.
Therefore, a therapist should group his according to their experiences in life. In doing so, the experience will be viewed as being universal and not necessarily affecting specific types of people. The third principle involves the process of imparting information. The therapist should allow the members in his group to share information with each other. This will make them understand and help one another (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Altruism, socialization techniques and corrective recapitulation Altruism involves the process of sharing the strengths.
This will help in boosting the self esteem of the group members and help them develop confidence. The other principle is development of social techniques. The group environment is also considered to be the best place to embrace new forms of behaviors. This is due to the fact that the members will not have any fear of trying new things out. It gives them room for safe experimentation with full support from the other members. The therapy group further allows for its members to explore their experiences in the past and relate them to their personalities.
In this way, they will be able to avoid destructive behaviors that might affect their lives and embrace those that will help them in life. This is known as corrective recapitulation (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Imitation, interperonal learning and cohesiveness Imitation of behavior will enable other members in a group to copy what the group therapist is doing. This will enable most or all the members in the group to develop and learn new behavior from the therapist through observation.
Interpersonal learning is an important principle which arises from the process of interaction within the group among the members and other people including the therapist. Interpersonal learning is important in the process of better understanding of oneself. Group cohesiveness creates a sense of union with each other hence they will feel accepted and as one unit. This is due to the fact that the members have a common goal (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Catharsis and Existential factors
On the other hand, the process of sharing information with a number of individuals might be helpful in pain or stress relief for the members. This is known as catharsis and it is considered as a powerful and an important experience. It allows the person to release his feelings which leads to relief. It is considered as an emotional form of learning which has both short and long term effects. The environment will enhance the members to develop such experiences. Existential factors are described as life’s realities experienced by a person. These also include death, freedom and isolation.
These can cause anxiety in an individual. However, the process of openness and sharing within the group will help a person to accept such happenings in life (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Group Therapist The group therapist should be well trained, act professionally, be reliable and available. He should be a keen listener and slow to anger. These qualities will make him blend well with his patient and enhance a smooth communication and open discussions. He should also be free so as to facilitate a free discussion on any topic with the members in his group.
Moreover, he should be trustworthy to prevent the members from living in fear (Jacobs, Masson and Harvill, 2009). Conclusion It has been shown that group therapies are usually beneficial to a large number of individuals who have successfully participated in them. This also applies to individual psychotherapy which is also widely used. Most of the patients have been reported to become better persons who understand and accept themselves more. Moreover, they have also developed important skills such as interpersonal and problem solving skills.
We present a model of human decision-making that can be used to design future financial services. The purpose of our model is to collate a wide variety of observed financial practices of the privileged and the poor into a common framework that can be applied in different contexts. Think of it as a vocabulary with which to organize our financial behavior and a set of design principles for financial services that can accommodate and facilitate this behavior. Such services will offer greater control to customers and will generate greater value for the businesses serving them.
Mas, Ignacio and Murthy, Gayatri, Money, Decisions, and Control (July 24, 2017). CGAP Working Paper, 2017. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3008289
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LONDON, March 2.. Widespread interest is being taken m ! the first match for the billiards chamIpionship of the world, which is to be played at Holborn Hall. Gray is fa-' 1 vourito. though Inman faours Recce. ' LONDON, March 3. Gray has scored 1413 and Recce 1225. Gra'v, at the afternoon session, made 751 and ,Recce 514. Gray, on his 13th visit to the table; made a break of 247 by clever all-round billiards. (Received March 4, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 3. Recce has now scored 2251, and Gray 1678. Recce made a brilliant break of 376. |
SEBI, vide circular no. SEBI/HO/CIR/P/2017/85 dated July 27, 2017, has notified some amendments to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (International Financial Services Centres) Guidelines, 2015, which is as under:
2. In order to further streamline the operations at IFSC, based on the internal discussions and consultations held with the stakeholders, it has been decided to amend provisions of the aforesaid guidelines, which are as follows:
Clauses 4 (1), (2) and (3) of SEBI (IFSC) Guidelines, 2015 which specify the eligibility and shareholding limit for stock exchanges, clearing corporations and depositories desirous of operating in IFSC are being replaced as follows:
“4. (1) Eligibility and shareholding limit for stock exchanges desirous of operating in IFSC: Any Indian recognised stock exchange or any recognised stock exchange of a foreign jurisdiction shall form a subsidiary to provide the services of stock exchange in IFSC wherein at least fifty one per cent. of paid up equity share capital shall be held by such stock exchange and the remaining share capital shall be held by the following:
whether Indian or of foreign jurisdiction andvi) a public financial institution of Indian jurisdiction, provided that any one of the aforesaid entities may acquire or hold, either directly or indirectly, either individually or together with persons acting in concert, upto fifteen per cent of the paid up equity share capital of such stock exchange.
(2) Eligibility and shareholding limit for clearing corporations desirous of operating in IFSC: Any Indian recognised stock exchange or clearing corporation, or, any recognized stock exchange or clearing corporation of a foreign jurisdiction shall form a subsidiary to provide the services of clearing corporation in IFSC wherein at least fifty one per cent of paid up equity share capital shall be held by such stock exchange or clearing corporation, and the remaining share capital shall be held by the following:
i) any other stock exchange,ii) a clearing corporation,iii) a depository,iv) a banking company,v) an insurance company,whether Indian or of foreign jurisdiction andvi) a public financial institution of Indian jurisdiction,provided that any one of the aforesaid entities may acquire or hold, either directly or indirectly, either individually or together with persons acting in concert, upto fifteen per cent. of the paid up equity share capital of such clearing corporation.
(3) (a) Eligibility and shareholding limit for foreign depositories desirous of operating in IFSC: Any regulated depository of a foreign jurisdiction shall form a subsidiary to provide the depository services in IFSC where atleast fifty one per cent of paid up equity share capital is held by such depository and remaining shares may be offered to any other registered depository or recognised stock exchange or clearing corporation, whether Indian or of foreign jurisdiction.(b) Setting up of IFSC Depositories Services by Indian registered depositories: Any Indian registered depository may set up a branch – IFSC Depository Services (IDS) at IFSC. The interested depositories shall be required to obtain prior approval of the Board for setting up an IDS. Such Indian depository shall be required to ring fence its domestic operations, financially, operationally and technologically, from its operations at IFSC.”
As per Clause 6 (4) of SEBI (IFSC) Guidelines which stipulates the governance structure of depositories, stock exchanges and clearing corporations is hereby amended to read as follows:
“Provisions of Chapter IIA of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Depositories and Participants) Regulations, 1996 and Chapter V of Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges And Clearing Corporations) Regulations 2012 shall not apply to depositories, stock exchanges, clearing corporations in IFSC, as the case may be:
Provided that depositories, stock exchanges, clearing corporations operating in IFSC shall adopt the broader principles of governance prescribed by International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures (PFMIs) and such other governance norms as may be specified by the Board, from time to time. Further, the parent depository/stock exchange/clearing corporation shall be responsible for the governance of such depository, stock exchange and clearing corporation in IFSC at all times.”
Clause 8 of SEBI IFSC Guidelines which specifies that any recognised entity or entities desirous of operating in IFSC as an intermediary, may form a company to provide such financial services relating to securities market has been amended as follows:
“8. (1) Any SEBI-registered intermediary (except trading member or clearing member) or its international associates in collaboration with such SEBI-registered intermediary may provide financial services relating to securities market, in IFSC, without forming a separate company, subject to the prior approval of the Board.
(2) Trading members and clearing members desirous of operating in IFSC as an intermediary, shall form a company to provide such financial services relating to securities market, as permitted by the Board.”
3. This circular is being issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 11 (1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992, to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of and to regulate the securities market. |
A series of migrations by Indo-European-speaking seminomads took place during the second millennium B.C. Known as Aryans, these preliterate pastoralists spoke an early form of Sanskrit, which has close philological similarities to other Indo-European languages, such as Avestan in Iran and ancient Greek and Latin. The term Aryan meant pure and implied the invaders' conscious attempts at retaining their tribal identity and roots while maintaining a social distance from earlier inhabitants.
Although archaeology has not yielded proof of the identity of the Aryans, the evolution and spread of their culture across the Indo-Gangetic Plain is generally undisputed (see Principal Regions, ch. 2). Modern knowledge of the early stages of this process rests on a body of sacred texts: the four Vedas (collections of hymns, prayers, and liturgy), the Brahmanas and the Upanishads (commentaries on Vedic rituals and philosophical treatises), and the Puranas (traditional mythic-historical works). The sanctity accorded to these texts and the manner of their preservation over several millennia--by an unbroken oral tradition--make them part of the living Hindu tradition.
These sacred texts offer guidance in piecing together Aryan beliefs and activities. The Aryans were a pantheistic people, following their tribal chieftain or raja, engaging in wars with each other or with other alien ethnic groups, and slowly becoming settled agriculturalists with consolidated territories and differentiated occupations. Their skills in using horse-drawn chariots and their knowledge of astronomy and mathematics gave them a military and technological advantage that led others to accept their social customs and religious beliefs (see Science and Technology, ch. 6). By around 1,000 B.C., Aryan culture had spread over most of India north of the Vindhya Range and in the process assimilated much from other cultures that preceded it (see The Roots of Indian Religion, ch. 3).
The Aryans brought with them a new language, a new pantheon of anthropomorphic gods, a patrilineal and patriarchal family system, and a new social order, built on the religious and philosophical rationales of varnashramadharma . Although precise translation into English is difficult, the concept varnashramadharma , the bedrock of Indian traditional social organization, is built on three fundamental notions: varna (originally, "color," but later taken to mean social class--see Glossary), ashrama (stages of life such as youth, family life, detachment from the material world, and renunciation), and dharma (duty, righteousness, or sacred cosmic law). The underlying belief is that present happiness and future salvation are contingent upon one's ethical or moral conduct; therefore, both society and individuals are expected to pursue a diverse but righteous path deemed appropriate for everyone based on one's birth, age, and station in life (see Caste and Class, ch. 5). The original three-tiered society--Brahman (priest; see Glossary), Kshatriya (warrior), and Vaishya (commoner)--eventually expanded into four in order to absorb the subjugated people--Shudra (servant)--or even five, when the outcaste peoples are considered (see Varna , Caste, and Other Divisions, ch. 5).
The basic unit of Aryan society was the extended and patriarchal family. A cluster of related families constituted a village, while several villages formed a tribal unit. Child marriage, as practiced in later eras, was uncommon, but the partners' involvement in the selection of a mate and dowry and bride-price were customary. The birth of a son was welcome because he could later tend the herds, bring honor in battle, offer sacrifices to the gods, and inherit property and pass on the family name. Monogamy was widely accepted although polygamy was not unknown, and even polyandry is mentioned in later writings. Ritual suicide of widows was expected at a husband's death, and this might have been the beginning of the practice known as sati in later centuries, when the widow actually burnt herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
Permanent settlements and agriculture led to trade and other occupational differentiation. As lands along the Ganga (or Ganges) were cleared, the river became a trade route, the numerous settlements on its banks acting as markets. Trade was restricted initially to local areas, and barter was an essential component of trade, cattle being the unit of value in large-scale transactions, which further limited the geographical reach of the trader. Custom was law, and kings and chief priests were the arbiters, perhaps advised by certain elders of the community. An Aryan raja, or king, was primarily a military leader, who took a share from the booty after successful cattle raids or battles. Although the rajas had managed to assert their authority, they scrupulously avoided conflicts with priests as a group, whose knowledge and austere religious life surpassed others in the community, and the rajas compromised their own interests with those of the priests. |
Sprout Daily is rolling in a leisurely northern direction en route to the Noosa Festival of Surfing. It's a celebration of most things surfing and attracts some of the biggest names in the sport and we're looking forward to getting amongst friends. And; if the surf really fires, well, you've got a recipe for epic-ness that'll reverberate worldwide. If you're not going to join in Queensland us follow the action here or take a look at the event website. There's plenty of coast between Manly and Noosa and we'll be trying to stick our heads in and taking a look a few of the more classic set-ups. This morning we're at Crescent Head, one of the original stops off the Pacific Hwy. There were some fun little peelers early but the Nor-East trades have made a mess of it now. Robin Kegal and fellow Gato Herio's were all over it like cats in the alley. Onward. Northward.
I've never seen this before on my netbook, so I immediately decided to run scans and make sure I wasn't infected with anything. I ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware first and I did that in safe mode. The scan came up clean.
I don't download anything suspicious ever and I'm very careful on websites as well as keeping my pc up to date with Windows updates, browser updates, plugin checks etc.... I use Microsoft Security Essentials for my antivirus. I also keep up to date and use regularly Malwarebytes Anti-Malware & Spyware Blaster. I also have Outpost Free Firewall as well. All the scans I did came up clean with no infections of any kind found. But, I figure, better safe than sorry This netbook is running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition SP3 and I was not experiencing any problems before this popped up. I did however recently do a defrag on the C drive though.
I have completed several scans and have results for inspection. I know you all are busy here and will check my logs just as soon as you can. So, I'll take my place in line and await any further instruction. I've been a member here for quite some time & know the drill
I then ran DDS, here is the text log for that: (the attach.txt doc is attached here as well) attach.txt 22.77KB 172 downloads
Additionally, I ran 3 online scans as well. I ran Bit Defender which came up clean. Then I ran ESET, again, clean. And third I ran Kaspersky full scan. Once again, clean of infections. No Malware found. It did mention 1 system protection vulnerability, which was antivirus but I believe that was because I turned off MSE while I ran the scan. It also said there were 5 vulnerabilities, but I don't know what they were exactly because I didn't get details. It also said 11 "other issues" but again, I wasn't able to get details of what it was. When I clicked on it all it did was take me to a page to purchase one of Kaspersky's 3 products.
EDIT: Please note: most of our helpers will not download files that they did not specifically request that you attach... As you might guess, we have no way of knowing what might be in a downloaded file... We allow plenty of room in a post to copy/paste your logs, so please use it rather than attaching a file unless asked... If the attached log is the supplement to DDS, it is probably not needed... I removed one of the two copies you attached... Please read the instructions at the top of each forum... Thank you...
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Glad to know I have no obvious malware, that's a relief. No, I have not had that message pop again after that first initial one. I clicked "close message" on it and I think it sent an error report and it's never come up again.
I already did one ESET scan right before posting my initial message, but will go ahead and follow your instructions and scan again.
Also, I updated my Java right after my initial post here when I noticed it was out of date. I am running Java version 7, update 7, which I believe is the latest?? I did go into add/remove programs anyway, but didn't have any J2SE Runtime Environment to remove.
My netbook appears to be running fine without any notable problems. I guess I'm still curious why I got that DEP screen pop up in the first place. ??
Important: You need to uninstall the obsolete Java version Java 6 update 31. Old versions present on your PC are a vulnerability.
Will implement the tdsskiller today after work. I have removed the old java update. Keep you posted, thanks!
I'm hoping "adequately protected" means well protected?? I did learn the hard way a few computers back, so I'm now much more aware of what to do and not do online and how to keep things up to date and less vulnerable. And, of course whenever I'm in doubt, I come here
No problem there, mine is set to auto update, plus I do check periodically myself. I also keep Firefox up to date and after any updates to FF I follow up with a FF Plugin Check as well.
I have read about these before, and I'm very wary of them. I usually come in here to read up on threads that others post about possible threats or known rogue programs. I think I've actually been to the site you listed for system lookup, I believe I have it bookmarked.
Oh, this I know all too well unfortunately! That is what happened to this very netbook about a month after I got it!! That was about 3, maybe 4 years ago. I came here immediately and received help and eventually a clean bill of health. Ever since then, I'm very cautious and careful.
If I may ask you since you've been so kind to help me out with this. I had the Kaspersky Security Scan run and mentioned it before to you here. Well, it ran again and I was greeted this morning with this screen shot below. I'm not terribly concerned about what the vulnerabilities it found are, but I can't get it to tell me what the details are! So this is more frustrating then anything!! If I click the 'details' button, I get an hour glass for a split second and nothing pops up, or does anything. If I click 'Fix Now' all that does is take me to a page where I can decide which of their 3 products to purchase. All I want to do is SEE what 'other issues' and 'vulnerabilities' are. Any suggestions??
That security scan seems like a nuisance designed to get you to buy a Kaspersky product, and you do not need it.
Optional suggestion: Avast is much more powerful protection than Microsoft Security Essentials - it has 8 real time shields and very frequent automatic updates.
I will go and uninstall that Kaspersky nuisance and uninstall MSE and go get AVAST then. Weird, I thought I had got MSE because I had read on here somewhere that it was the best. But, I will take your word T
Is Outpost Free Firewall still a good firewall to have?? I get annoyed by all the pop ups asking me if I should allow something or block it all the time. I mean, I know it's a good thing to have a firewall monitor such things and all, but it gets annoying at times. Seems every time there's an update to FF plugins or updates to other things, I have to read the smart adviser with Outpost and either allow it or block or select auto learn. Any advice for firewall protection?? Or, should I get the pay version of AVast Internet Security, or Pro Version, they're both on sale. Do you buy them one time, or do you have to pay year after year?
Outpost Firewall is a good one; it hasn't been updated since 2009 but there is little reason to modify a firewall.
However if you choose to install Avast it has firewall-like protection against malware and you could get by with just the Win XP firewall. The usual criticism of the Win XP firewall is that it doesn't guard against outgoing internet activity but Avast pretty much takes care of that.
I should warn you, though, that Avast will pop up every time you run something for the first time - but it remembers your decision.
There is nothing wrong with MSE. The three excellent free antivirus we recommend are Avast, Avira, and MSE. I personally use Avast and that's why I made the suggestion. I happen to like being asked if new programs are OK. You could give Avast a try and see if it suits you - not everyone likes it.
So, if I give AVAST a go, then I wouldn't keep Outpost then?? Just checking to be sure before I do anything
That's optional and up to you. If you like it, then keep it. If it continues to annoy you, remove it and enable the XP firewall. |
Period properties make wonderful homes because they satisfy the desire to live in a house that has a lot of character. The fact is that it is nice to come home to a space that really impresses you and that you never tire of looking at or spending time in. If you enjoy living in interesting surroundings then period properties are often more attractive than more modern counterparts that can be rather plain and uninspiring.
Of course, period properties are older than modern properties and as such they need a bit of TLC in order to keep them in good nick. This TLC comes from regular maintenance and proper upkeep. However, you need have repairs and renovations carried out in a manner that does not disturb the period character of the house live in.
For this you need expert assistance. London is home to a design and build teams with a good deal of experience in renovating, maintaining and repairing period properties that are rich in historical features that it is important to retain if the house is to keep hold of the original character that makes it such an interesting place to live.
Tony Bingham - If a delay leaves you temporarily out of pocket, but does not dent your profit, should you recover losses? One judge said yes, but an adjudicator might not agree …
This is a story about a delayed start to a building contract. The builder was left idle in that time; his turnover plummeted, as did his income to pay for his overheads. So, he sued for his losses and won. To help in all this, he used the overhead recovery device called the Hudson Formula. The story looks straightforward, but I am not convinced. I will go further: if this affair had come to adjudication or arbitration to be decided by a construction person, the builder may well have lost. Bear with me.
Beechwood is an established housebuilder. It does one project at a time and always for its sister development company Westpoint. The developer finds the land, Beechwood applies for planning and sorts out the building regs, formally prices the job and builds the houses. Turnover runs to £1-2m a year. The margins are healthy. It is a neat and tidy enterprise doing a good job. The managing director of Westpoint is the managing director of Beechwood.
A garden centre in Bearsden, Scotland, came on the market as suitable for development. Beechwood engaged Stuart Mitchell, trading as Discovery Land Surveys, to carry out a topographical survey. His layout plans were used in the planning application for 28 apartments in several blocks. But he made a mistake. He plotted a small stream in the wrong place.
Shortly before Beechwood should have begun the work, the mistake was noticed. It was significant enough to require one block to be relocated; that meant a fresh planning application. It was eventually granted, but the upshot was that Beechwood said it was stumped for work for 22 weeks, during which time it was deprived of income and had to pay more to the timber-frame manufacturer because of inflation. Discovery Land Surveys admitted the error but rejected the claimed losses, which were upwards of £100,000.
The trial, Beechwood Development Company (Scotland) Ltd vs Stuart Mitchell t/a Discovery Land Surveys [Court of Session, February 2001], focused first on the actual delay. The judge very thoroughly examined the facts. He decided that 10 of the 22 weeks were down to the defendant's mistake. Then he inquired into the alleged losses.
Beechwood didn’t really lose its profit at all. It was delayed. Instead of earning that money at a particular time, it earned it 10 weeks later
There were three heads. The first was keeping the site secure. A general labourer looked after things. The cost of that was claimable for 10 weeks. That was easy.
The second head was the timber-frame maker's zooming price. This put £23k onto the £320k cost. I don't doubt the uplift is right, but the arbitrators and adjudicators of this land would not take that figure at face value. It would have to be dug into. Ten weeks is a tad short for £23k.
Then comes the third head. It is the claim for lost income. This is where the Hudson Formula was offered as a device for calculating the loss. It comes from Hudson's Building and Engineering Contracts, 11th Edition. The builder's turnover for the year was to be £1.4m. Beechwood's average charge for overhead and profit in the previous two years was 14.7%. So it claimed £3100 a week for 22 weeks. The judge said 10 weeks and awarded £31,000.
Altogether, Mitchell was found liable for £60k. The worry I have is that Beechwood didn't really lose its overhead and profit at all. It was delayed. Instead of earning that money at a particular time, it earned it 10 weeks later. And since it did one job at a time, its next job was merely delayed by the same 10 weeks. Only one short sentence in the judgment deals with this: "There is nothing to suggest the lost time was ever made up." And that is where an adjudicator or arbitrator might have reached a different conclusion from the learned judge. |
When to visit Penang? Your choice will depend on whether you are interested to see, for there is so much that is happening in Penang, and it is spread out across the year! No matter when you decide to come, there is usually some event or festival going on, so there's nothing to worry, there's bound to be something to see all year round.
If your decision is based on the weather, I can tell you that the beginning of the year, from January to February, are the hottest months, with blue cloudless skies and general dryness. For the rest of the year, you can expect sporadic rain, though the wettest months tend to be October to early December.
The Hindu celebrations of Thaipusam takes place at the end of January. (For 2011, it is expected on 30 January). Plan your visit to this date if you wish to watch the street processions.
Chinese New Year takes place between late January and late February. In 2011, it will take place from 14 February, over a period of 15 days. Major places to visit includes Kek Lok Si Temple at night, for the lantern displays. Also during Chinese New Year is the Chinese New Year Open House which is usually held in the heritage enclave comprising Pitt Street, Armenian Street and Acheen Street. For 2011, it is expected on 12 February.
The Birthday of Chor Soo Kong, the patron deity of Snake Temple is on the sixth day of Chinese New Year while the Worship of the Jade Emperor takes place at the Jade Emperor Pavilion on the 8th day of Chinese New Year. The final (15th) evening of Chinese New Year is the Chap Goh Meh celebration with events taking place at the Esplanade.
Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, falls on the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, coinciding to around 4 or 5 April of the year. Although this is usually not celebrated by non-Chinese, visitors will see the Chinese visiting the graves of their departed beloved to clean them up.
If you are a durian lover, durian season happens somewhere between June to September, though the first fruit to appear in the market comes as early as April. The season tends to fluctuate depending on the weather, as the durian trees need about two weeks of very dry weather to push them to flower. An unexpected wet spell could interrupt or even ruin the expected start of a durian season.
The Penang International Dragon Boat Festival takes place at the Teluk Bahang Dam. It falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to around 18 June. This is when you get to see the long canoes, or dragon boats, in races, with teams from different countries competing.
George Town UNESCO World Heritage Site Anniversary is celebrated on 7 July every year. Again, this is when the city showcases its culture.
Bon Odori Festival, the Japanese festival for the dead, is staged at the Esplanade on 17 July, 2011. This is followed by the Taoist Hungry Ghost Festival, which will happen from 31 July to 28 August, accompanied by the staging of musical and opera performances for the entertainment of the deities.
The fasting month of Ramadhan changes with every passing year. This is because the Muslim calendar, which comprises 12 months, has a total of 354 or 355 days. Ramadhan is when you can see Pasar Ramadhan, or Ramadhan Bazaar, erected all over Penang. They sell goodies, cookies for the coming Aidil Fitri celebrations, as well as food for those breaking fast in the evening.
The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated in Penang with mooncakes, animal cookies and lanterns. This takes place from the 15th day of the 8 lunar month on the Chinese calendar, falling somewhere in September. It is the second largest festival for the Chinese after Chinese New Year.
The Penang Bridge International Marathon is taking place on 20 Novmber, 2011. This is one of the few times of the year when the Penang Bridge is closed for a few hours. Participating in it gives you the rare opportunity of setting foot on the bridge itself.
The Chingay, Lion Dance and Dragon Dance Parade will be staged on 25 November, to revitalize these cultural performing art. Usually this will take place at the Esplanade in front of the City Hall.
Chinese Winter Solstice Festival, also called Dongzhi Festival, falls on or around 22 December. This is celebrated by consuming consuming Tangyuan, glutinous rice balls in sugar syrup. The rice balls symbolises completeness and reunion.
Although Christians form just a minority of the population, Christmas is nonetheless celebrated at quite a large and conspicuously commercial scale, especially by the shopping malls.
whose calligraphies on silk and ceramics were recently writing an online dating profile for women widely acclaimed in Saudi Arabia; Massoudy, the author of Calligraphie Arabe vivante, has invented powerful calligrams. Among the chancellery styles its counterpart is riqca, meant for small pieces of paper and notes but not for significant documents. Strachau is a two syllable word meaning to knit. Many signs on vessels no longer yield any meaning, for more and more the craftsman imitated traditional models without understanding the letters, which therefore often consist simply of remnants of repeated blessing formulas.
Gives a good introduction, other inscriptions in Kufic Persian are found in Bukhara. To proceeds the right 344, because a part of the beauty of this style is the asymmetry of many of the curves incorporated into the individual nuhm. Slant 1278 writers The development of Kufic epigraphy was largely due to the material used. They are often omitted in more artistic works.
Chinese calligraphy is a form of aesthetically pleasing writing ( calligraphy or, the artistic expression of human language in a tangible is type of expression has been widely practiced in China and has been generally held in high esteem across East Asia.There are some general standardizations of the various styles of calligraphy in this.A detailed description of Arabic.
The use of colored inks for the vowel signs adds to the picturesque quality of the page. Examples in TH, and there exists a calligraphy long poetical inscription of Mascud III in Ghazni that contains a heroic epic with which he had his palace decorated. Vulcans take great pride in the origins and beauty of their orthographic traditions. I have exemplars for all my calligraphy styles writing hanging on the wall directly behind my desk. Is devoted to the masters of tacliq 2, the first book on paper about which we know anything was written by 870 69 and 81, the second departure is the dahrtrashan. You can download any one of the calligraphy alphabet letters. Under the Timurid prince Baysunghur Mirza. However, they can be thought of as iconographica frontend visual simplicity representing a rich.
Laurent, 1982, deals with this Koran; the author was able to find a group of 55 hitherto unknown pages of this Koran in Istanbul, which show that the Koran was bound not as a whole but in codices containing onejuz each (one juz constitutes one.My two favorites are: Looking at other artists styles will help you to develop your own!
Unlike the Roman alphabet of FSE, which distinguishes between b and p (when flipped vertically) or b and d (when flipped horizontally no Vulcan nuhm can become ambiguous based on writing direction, and in fact, several of the consonant cluster glyphs that the reader will.Letter J, letter K, letter L, letter.Turkish tacliq tends to a slightly wider opening of the final semicircles of the rounded letters, whereas Indian tacliq like Indian naskh, often has rather tightly closed, perfectly circular endings.
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That’s a question that lead to the development of Make Something Edmonton – an initiative that I am proud to be a part of as a member of the Activation Board. I plan on sharing my reflections on participating in this amazing movement here on my blog.
I’ve pondered that question since I moved here, and the answer has evolved with time. When I first arrived two years ago, I told people I lived in Edmonton because it’s where my partner got a job. At the time I felt that I had to give people an excuse, because it wouldn’t make any sense otherwise.
To be honest, I never really thought much about where I lived until I moved to Edmonton. Being the son of a university professor, I moved around the country on a frequent basis. I was born in Toronto, spent my early years in Waterloo, had a small stint in Peterborough, attended grade school in Montreal, grew into my 20’s in Victoria, and completed grad school in Toronto. When I really started to reflect on it, Edmonton was the first place that I chose to live. Prior to living in Edmonton, the places I lived were predominantly dictated by where my dad got professorships – with the exception of Toronto where I lived for three years because I got into grad school there.
For the first time in my life I had an opportunity to choose where I wanted to live. I was equipped with a professional degree that could probably get me a job anywhere in Canada, maybe the world, and I chose to come to Edmonton. Or maybe Edmonton chose me.
I’ve come to realize that the notion of place has become quite the popular issue of discussion amongst the Next Gen demographic. There are so many options as to where we could live. I believe that while choice and opportunity are good things that should not be taken for granted, they also come with a burden. I know that in my own moments of over-analysis, I’ve experienced regret and FOMO (fear of missing out – a term my partner acquainted me with). The plethora of questions you could ask yourself about why you live where you live is enough to keep you up at night. And why? Because the world is our oyster and anything is possible? No Thanks. There’s something to be said about mindfulness and being content. And sleep.
If you asked me today, I would tell you I live in Edmonton because it fits my personality. I would describe myself as an idealist with a tendency to day-dream. I’ve been an “ideas” guy my whole life and have often been met with skepticism and disregard. Granted, I probably actually follow through with 1% of the things I think about – but I’ve come to realize that it’s OK to be an ideas guy here. Based on my own experiences, not only do Edmontonians tolerate ideas people – they support and encourage them. #lightbrightyeg probably wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t feel safe in sharing my idea with others. In my opinion, Edmonton is the perfect incubator for social innovation. We have the resources and opportunities to take ideas to completion. A side note on Edmonton’s reputation for opportunity – opportunity is great, but it’s even better if you have a community supporting you in the pursuit. Based on my experiences, Edmonton does that well.
Our city has historically been criticized for its design and physical appearance – and we’re working on it. With the buzz of Blatchford and development in downtown Edmonton, it is apparent that we humbly recognize where we may have made mistakes and we’re working hard on correcting them. In the next three years, downtown Edmonton will have some amazing buildings and places that I think will contribute positively to vibrancy and Edmonton’s overall image (Royal Alberta Museum, MacEwan Campus, City of Edmonton Building, Roger’s Place, and numerous residential developments – to name a few).
But (again) back to the question. Why Edmonton? While a city’s physical dimensions are a big part of the urban experience, we must also acknowledge the social landscape. People haven’t looked closely enough at the social qualities that Edmonton embodies. Edmonton has a personality and energy that is difficult to duplicate. Edmonton is open, warm, kind, supportive, humble, and confident (this isn’t an exhaustive list). These are all characteristics I seek in friends and people that I want around in the long run.
Any city can build a cool building or a funky public space, but I think it’s much harder to “create” a personality. You either have it or you don’t. I choose personality over looks any day of the week- and the great thing is that in the near future we are going to have the best of both.
Too sum it up, I choose to live, work and play in Edmonton because it has a personality I see myself becoming good pals with. The type of friend that sticks around. Edmonton has entertained my lofty ideas, and even helped me realize them. It is inclusive. It involves me and makes me feel like I am part of something bigger. It’s dependable. Instead of saying “No”, it says “How?”
For these reasons and more I am proud to call myself an Edmontonian. I am also proud to be a part of the Make Something Edmonton Activation Board (meet the rest of the team here: http://www.makesomethingedmonton.ca/about/#team). Mary Sturgeon and her team have put together an awesome group of dreamers, thinkers and makers, and I can’t wait to see how we work together moving forward. Great things are happening in this city. I’m excited.
It’s so important to love the city in which you live. I have not yet reached that place in life…but I will get there, hopefully within the next year or so, before my daughter graduates from high school. I think what stands out to me the most in your post is your writing, “Instead of saying, ‘No,’ it says, ‘How?'”
That’s SO important. I want to be like you when I grow up! LOL Anyway…great post! Welcome to blogging. We are kind of on the same journey. If you’d like active company on this journey, please feel free to connect with me as well. Speak soon! 🙂
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This is a living document and will change over the course of the quarter as you discover new things and implement your project. These are probably living documents on your wiki. We'll take a look at these documents on 10/15 and 10/22 to evaluate where you are at.
You should review (preview?) the wrapup milestone (this preliminary version anyway) as a checklist of things to do and consider.
The System Architecture document provides a detailed definition of the system’s software components. It identifies the major modules and their functionality, and the interfaces between modules, required to implement the system. It should address the design of the system from the customer's viewpoint, as well as that of the developer or administrator. (This may require separate perspectives and/or diagrams.)
Describe, in detail, what data your system stores, and how. If it uses a database, give the high level database schema. If not, describe how you are storing the data and its organization.
You should describe the major components of your system. You should show the major interactions between said components. You should expose the interfaces that allow the components to work together. (This maybe redundant with your database schema.) Pictures and text work well here.
Exposing all the major classes is a good way to do this. Class descriptions of all attributes and methods (do not list get/set/is methods) inheritance/interface relationships, and associational relationships (named and directed, with multiplicity adornments).
It may be helpful to include a UML class (object) view and UML sequencing diagram outlining important use cases from your requirements specification. UML tools that you may want to use are found here, though some of the links are out of date. When I say UML, I mean "real" UML. If you don't use real UML, then your pictures sort of resemble UML diagrams, but they are perhaps ad hoc.
Your design should use the design principles discussed in this class and prior ones. Here are some general design tips, which essentially come down to “put functionality in a logical place”.
keep related data and behavior in the same place; emphasize cohesion, limit coupling, and minimize each class's public interface
We've pushed these descriptions into the requirements document that you are writing. Rightfully or wrongfully. So, include user interface and user experience diagrams there.
The tools and runtime description describes all of the tools and the runtime stack that you will be using in this project and a description of why you chose them. Tools that you will consider (but are not limited to) are: programming language(s), compilers, debuggers, editors, version control system, wiki, bug tracking system, test system, deployment system, etc. The runtime system includes the OS you will deploy on, storage technology (e.g. database), application server, front end server, hosting partners, etc. In addition to the enumeration of the tools and runtimes you'll be using, an explanation of why you chose them and what the alternatives were.
You should describe where you are going to deploy (department machines, WebFaction, AWS, etc.) and why you made this choice (and why you rejected alternatives).
You should have a description of the "physical" topology -- how all the pieces fit together. A picture works well here.
The process description describes in detail how you are going to create and release software. While there are three releases that you must do, you have a fair amount of latitude on how you do this. However, we suggest that you use evolutionary delivery with milestones defined at each release deadline -- hybrid of the the feature-based and train process. Each release cycle is two weeks. By 10/22 you should propose what you want to deliver at each release.
Further, the process of how you are going to operate in each cycle should be defined. When are you going close on requirements? When will the feature design be done? When will implementation be completed? When will testing be completed? (How are you going to test?) When are you going to deploy to the live site (if you are doing a web app)? How are you going to deploy?
By 10/22, we may or may not have discussed how to test or how to deploy. So, there's some room for chaos at this time for lack of information. However, as the quarter moves on and we discuss this, you should evolve these processes.
If you aren't using evolutionary delivery with hybrid feature/train process (e.g. you decide to do continuous releases of features), describe how you will do this. (Probably want to consult with your TA.)
We discussed the possibility of pipelining your releases because 2 week cycles from requirements (refinement) to deployment might be too short. This is your call.
By 10/22 you should have a good idea of the features that you want to deploy. You should have made some estimates on how long it is going to take to deploy each feature. Additionally, there are probably some "infrastructure" that you need to implement. By 10/22, you should make a proposal as to what features you want to deliver by which release dates. This can change as time goes on, but this "strawman" proposal is your first stab at what and when you can deliver the features of your project. Because this is a joint exercise between those specifying requirements and those specifying architecture, design, implementation, deployment, etc., this can be documented in either the requirements document or this document. Put it in your requirements document.
The description of your organization is essentially an "org" chart that shows everyone on the team, what their "titles" are and what they are responsible for doing.
At the 10/15 milestone, the high level decisions should be made and many of the detailed decisions too. Your data schema, class hierarchy are starting to take form. The UI and UX are starting to take form (you are documenting this in the requirements document). You should have at least experimented with the tools -- the programming language, the debuggers, git, github, the runtime, etc. You may have "implemented" and "deployed" some of it. Perhaps you've prototyped some of the system. You should describe all of these decisions and the rationale behind them.
You are pretty sure of the tools and runtime pieces that you will use, though you may add or swap out pieces later. You have experimented with the software that you will be using. You have a good understanding of the version control system, bug tracking system, wiki, etc. but, with the exception of the wiki, you may have not brought up these systems. You have a good idea of where you are going to deploy and you have experimented with this. Your wiki should be up and running.
The basic organization and roles should be determined at this point. You should document them with a a chart or table showing the people on the team, their roles, the "reporting" structure, and titles.
We'll take a look at this document to see where you are at. You've probably refined the architecture, tools, and process. Update the document to reflect this.
At the 10/22 milestone, you've definitely had experience with the tools and runtime. You may have implemented/prototyped a bunch of code. Your have a pretty good idea about your data model. UI and UX for much of the application is coming together. You have a webserver/app server/datastore "sort of" running in a development environment and on your "live" site. But you may decide to throw away everything you've prototyped/implemented at this point. However, the architecture, design, tools, runtime, and process should start to settle down. However, all team members may not yet be able to bring up a development environment and the process kinks may not yet be worked out.
On 10/24, you'll give a 7 minute presentation in class to discuss where you are at with respect to requirements, everything in this assignment your proposed schedule, and what you've been hacking together thus far. |
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WASHINGTON — We are supposed to think that race doesn’t matter these days, but “The Human Stain,” this season’s biggest cinematic letdown (except for maybe “The Matrix Revolutions”), illustrates how much the races have yet to learn about each other.
The movie is about, among other themes, racial “passing,” a phenomenon that’s experiencing a resurgence of interest these days in books, novels and essays.
Passing has been occurring since the days of slavery. Mark Twain, for example, plays with the theme in “Pudd’inhead Wilson.”
Ellen Craft, born in Georgia in 1826, used her light skin to escape slavery with her slave husband William, according to a spellbinding slave narrative that William wrote. And Hollywood (think tearful melodramas like “Pinky” and two versions of “Imitation of Life”) has a history of casting white women to play light-skinned black women passing for white. The characters usually end up heartbroken and alienated from both worlds. In fact, the moral of these movies tends to be: Stay within society’s racial lines or you’re asking for trouble.
I had high hopes for the movie, which was adapted from Philip Roth’s novel. The book is about Coleman Silk, an aging Jewish college professor who is caught up in bogus charges of racism by his too politically correct faculty, even though he, lo and behold, is secretly a black man passing for white since he was a teen in the 1940s.
My high hopes were dimmed when actor Anthony Hopkins was cast as Coleman instead of a light-skinned black actor. I believe in non-traditional casting when it opens up opportunities for women and non-whites, so it’s only fair, I suppose, to let a white actor play a black person from time to time, if he or she can pull it off. Unfortunately, Hopkins, for all of his formidable thespian skills, failed to make me believe he had ever spent a day as an African-American. Too bad someone like, say, Bill Clinton, wasn’t chosen for the role.
Worse, the movie never breaks out of the worn-out tragic-mulatto formula. Coleman Silk remains trapped as a white man by his own ego, stubbornness and self-loathing, even while society relaxes its racial rules. He is uncomfortable in his own skin for reasons more complex than its color.
Coleman also is a black man created by white men and unfortunately it shows. The film treats passing as an expression of larger all-American themes: Ambition, rugged individualism, rebellion, etc., but it does not treat passing as a natural part of the great adventure of being black in America, with all of its complexities, joys and heartaches.
Yes, joys. When, I wonder, will Hollywood ever produce a movie about someone who seems as comfortable and adventurous with racial passing as, say, Leonardo DiCaprio in “Catch Me If You Can” playing the real-life Frank Abagnale Jr., who successfully passed himself off as a doctor, lawyer and airline pilot.
The late New York Times critic, Anatole Broyard, whose passing was revealed after his death a few years ago and on whom Coleman Silk seems to be largely based, apparently “passed” only in midtown Manhattan, where being black might cause his career and social life to be pigeonholed in some way. In his Harlem community, I am told by some who knew him, many African-Americans apparently knew he was black.
Yes, although you will not see it in “The Human Stain,” many African-Americans take pride in their ability to tell who is passing and have even helped keep the secret secret. Such are the interesting complexities that grow out of shared historical skin-based oppression.
Coleman Silk is not comfortable enough for that. He holds onto his secret, even when letting it out could save his career.
“Passing puts us in touch with the wondrous ability each person has to create and recreate the self …,” writes journalist Brooke Kroeger in her recent book, “Passing: When People Can’t Be Who They Are.”
That wondrous ability resonates in America, a nation that celebrates personal reinvention through ambition, opportunity and rugged individualism.
With that in mind, a truly intriguing and instructive story for today’s world would not be yet another tear-jerker about those who have become imprisoned by the racial, socioeconomic or victim roles that they have cast for themselves (a theme “The Human Stain” treats to emotional exhaustion).
Rather, it would be the story of those who, like Secretary of State Colin Powell or Presi-dent Bill Clinton, have learned through trial and error to navigate comfortably back and forth across racial lines.
The big question, then, is not whether a white man can play a black man, but rather when will Hollywood let people of all colors tell more of their own stories. |
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I have been meditating on rebirth, struggling to understand how this massively growing world population could be supplied each and all with an consciousness. I understand to a limited extent the Buddha's cosmology regarding the countless eons of life, death and rebirth but still cannot comprehend how each human being has been supplied with a stream of consciousness. It would seem to be an endless demand and with dwindling animal populations seems to be even more difficult in 'balancing the books' .
Dwindling animal populations? Not on earth there is no dwindling, just some species, but not the total animal population. There are plenty of animals, gazillions actually. I read that there are approximately 250 million insects for every human being. That's a lot of animals, just in insects! Insects are members of the Animal Kingdom, subject to rebirth, according to Buddhism.
I think if you are trying to look at this mathematically, it is probably something that will drive you crazy. You can't break out a calculator and figure this out. The Buddha shared this to describe a general process, it is best left there.
There is not an endless demand on earth. At the moment there is increasing human birth. One day the planet will be completely uninhabitable - for all life forms. Maybe there are other worlds that we don't know about, which participate in the process.
I have seen questions/concerns like this before - It becomes a non issue when you take on board the Buddha's perspective of different realms of existence. If you limit your thinking about rebirth to human and animal populations on earth than of course it will never make sense - the number don't add up.
I also recall hearing the Jataka story about when Buddha in a past life gave up his life, like Jesus Christ did, for the consumption of a hungry tigress.
Possibly (speculatively), with the commensurate increase of the human population & the commercially farmed animal population, such as sheep, cows, pigs, chicken & fish, it is possible those animals who selflessly & passively (gently) give up their lives, like Jesus Christ did, for human consumption are the animals reborn as humans while the non-vegetarian humans who consume those sacrificed animals in turn get reborn as animals.
And what is the right view with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions? 'There is what is given, what is offered, what is sacrificed. There are fruits & results of good & bad actions. There is this world & the next world. MN 117
In Germany, the number (or rather mass) of insects, has reduced by approx. 75% since 1989 (sorry, no English source ready at hand), according to some curious measurements(*). I assume this is not restricted to Germany.
(*) Some scientific institutes who collected (that is, trapped and killed, probably) insects for various scientific purposes, meticulously weighed whatever they caught. There does not seem to exit much data about this in other countries. It's rather coincidental that the people who did this here over the course of some years were so meticulous to note it all down, if I recall correctly from what I've read somewhere.
So yes, I think one can definitely speak of dwindling, at quite an alarming rate actually. The loss of bees and similar is also very problematic for a lot of plant life.
I agree, to me speculating about the rebirth of beings on this planet is completely pointless, better to focus on one's practice in the here and now.
This is correct. The so called improvement in agriculture for commercialisation has caused use of chemical fertilisers , which destroys millions of micro bacteria and pests. In Sri Lanka now it is found that kidney diseases have started taking over the lives of humans in agricultural areas. This is the first step of the devastation of human life with commercial agriculture.
I believe that this is true globally too as farming in other global areas have proved detrimental to human health even in New Zealand, Australia and even in USA.
Bhutan has set up an example with friendly and green agriculture but yet leading the general public to stay contented with green effect farming though it is hard life.
I have been meditating on rebirth, struggling to understand how this massively growing world population could be supplied each and all with an consciousness. I understand to a limited extent the Buddha's cosmology regarding the countless eons of life, death and rebirth but still cannot comprehend how each human being has been supplied with a stream of consciousness. It would seem to be an endless demand and with dwindling animal populations seems to be even more difficult in 'balancing the books'.
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Yeah, insects may not have been the best example, considering the use of fertilizers, pesticides. Some populations are certainly decreasing, but other animal populations might be increasing, though don't know for sure. Perhaps the total animal population of all species is rather stable with some going up and others going down. There are gazillions of plankton in the seas, along with other marine animals, not sure if they are increasing or decreasing though. If one threw in the other realms of existence, then one could find enough to make the numbers work out no matter what is happening to species on earth. |
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I don't have the depth of knowledge that many of the master gardeners on here possess but something has really been bugging me.
I feel like I'm creating a diverse garden with monocultural products. I'm not sure if this makes sense. For example, I purchase my bare-root fruit trees from a large online retailer.
The trees are of high quality but where is the genetic diversity. Aren't most orchardists and apple growers using the same clones? Isn't this what we are trying to avoid.
No doubt one has to start with what they can...I'm not talking analysis by paralysis or requiring so much perfection that the task becomes impossible.
Recently, I read some articles and posts by Joseph Lofthouse and his attempts to get a super strain of corn (landrace) that thrives in a particular area. He's even created a corn that the skunks don't eat, they grow too tall.
Why aren't we doing some of this with apple trees for instance? I have apple trees on the mind because they are the bain of my existence when it comes to disease.
Planting from seed you won't get a granny smith from a granny smith seed but who is to say that over time you can't produce your own apple that is bullet-proof perfection.
Also, the issue with the apple trees not producing fruit for ten years isn't necessarily true. I recently watched a Youtube video where an apple seed produced a tree that had apples within three years. Even if it does take ten years to fruit shouldn't some of the things we do be for the future.
I understand why we clone, I do it too. There isn't a better way to plant fifty trees without spending a dime.
I wonder if I'm missing something...Isn't genetic biodiversity as important as plant diversity. I focus on planting trios and companion plants but I have to wonder if that is enough.
A combo of needing seeds from some heirloom varieties, and then having to wait years to determine if the fruit produced are spitters or tasty is limiting that if I had to guess. Getting cuttings from varieties that produce well for certain environments and grafting to existing, developed root stock can get a tree producing faster, but it trades time for additional cost.
If you want to breed tomatoes, you can plant hundreds of them in a decent sized home garden. You can run through an entire generation of tomatoes in one year.
If you want to breed apples, you can only plant two or three in a decent sized home garden. It takes at least 5 years, sometimes up to 10 years to produce fruit. You claim you saw a single tree produce fruit in 3 years, but that is an anecdote — not an average (and breeding is all about large numbers). That same fruit may develop differently if grafted onto another root stock (larger, sweeter, etc). that's another thing about fruit trees — the rootstock affects its disease susceptibility, soil tolerance, height, etc. So really you need to test each of your new seedlings on a variety of different rootstocks, and each of these needs the same amount of space as every other tree. Once you have a good variety, you need to understand it's pollination and chilling hours requirements. Which means planting in a new location and climate — far away from your breeding grounds — to be able to understand it and share it effectively.
This is a lot of time. A lot of space. A lot of time relative to a human's lifetime. Cultivars like Honeycrisp take lifetimes to discover and cultivate. I don't think it's a matter of people not caring about biodiversity, but when the required effort approaches lifetimes, specialization tends to win out.
You raise a valid point, Scott. I think that the best place for such experimentation is a permacultural homestead. It may be the only kind of operation that could form itself to the activities necessary for producing and disposing of the various categories of edibility. Pigs and chickens get the spitters, anything at all resembling a cider apple gets squeezed for cider, you have your various stages of pie and preserve apple, and then your straight-up crunch into it apple. I think that you have quite the task ahead of you if you want to breed a strain of apple that breeds true 100% of the time, but that is not to say that it's impossible.
If your goal is to provide perennial food sources, I don't think this is the path for you, if it's the only fruit tree project on your property. If not, I think growing fruit trees from strains that breed true from seed is a great idea, and there's a place for a landrace apple tree program there.
Your methodology will be important. I think you would need to keep good records about the source of each seed. I would also be ruthless about eliminating trees with unwanted characteristics. If you are growing in optimal conditions, I would check this with someone who knows apple trees better than I, but you could try the first fruit off each for a season or two, but eliminate with prejudice any that aren't up to snuff.
Also, what do you think of the idea of sourcing the apples for the seeds from places where you could actually observe the tree? It would be better if you could find permaculturalist apple tree people, but even being able to observe characteristics of the trees or the limbs the apples come off of might be very instructive. Also, you could choose trees in microclimates similar to those you intend to plant in. There might be various ways to jumpstart your progress towards a landrace apple (mind you, crabapples come to mind every time I hear that).
People make new varieties all the time. Bigger ,more colourful, sweeter. Make a new hit apple and you're rich. Humans have diversivied the apple more than evolution has. Apples originated from Kazachstan from forests. Small fruits with lots of seeds were how they looked.
Apples were small trees so had to stay out of the shades of big oaks and so on. They held up at the forest border or if trees had fallen over they took their chances.
Humans wanted more flesh on the apples so kept those trees and cut down the ones with undesired apples. I don't know when grafting came up. So basicly putting the tree you want on a super strong rootstock to get a lot of nice big apples.
Where i am , the soil is poor, but mega companies sell mono culture apples and ask you to change the ground by adding chalk/ fertilizer and chemicals to fight disease. There is a group of old folk trying to get people to take the old apples of the land back that faced less problems and needed less work.
Apples and diversity, interesting question you have posed since for many of the varieties it was a discovery of a tree already growing, with desirable characteristics, that created the variety.
Given that there are some 1000+ varieties of Apple trees already, one must question the need for "diversity". It seems to me that if you want a lot of different species growing on your place, it would be faster and more enjoyable to choose from the hundreds of old, heritage varieties already out there.
Then you would have some great, known starting stock, should you want to roll the dice with seed planting.
I grow apples on their own rootstock, mostly Arkansas Black, a variety we dearly love to eat and is recognized as the longest keeping apple you can grow.
While we started out with nursery grown trees, we can take pruned branches and root them for planting out the next spring, we can also plant true to species seed since this is the only apple tree we grow.
A few notes on apple trees from seed: they will take more than seven years to age enough to produce much of a crop per tree.
Seeds from grocery store apples will not be true to species as the commercial growers mix varieties in the orchards for cross pollination and thus you could get just about any cross imaginable.
Nursery stock, other than bare root trees, are usually 7-10 years old when you buy them (not including Walmart, Home depot, Lowe's and other "big box" stores which generally sell 2-4 year old trees in 5 gal. containers).
Diversity is indeed important but, with such diversity as is available in the apple tree world, it is hardly a huge concern, just plan to purchase in groups of two or three, from many different areas of the country and you should get a fair diversity of genetic materials.
Chris Kott wrote: You raise a valid point, Scott. I think that the best place for such experimentation is a permacultural homestead. It may be the only kind of operation that could form itself to the activities necessary for producing and disposing of the various categories of edibility. Pigs and chickens get the spitters, anything at all resembling a cider apple gets squeezed for cider, you have your various stages of pie and preserve apple, and then your straight-up crunch into it apple. I think that you have quite the task ahead of you if you want to breed a strain of apple that breeds true 100% of the time, but that is not to say that it's impossible.
I currently have four apple trees including a crab and I've got five more bare roots on the way. One of the trees in the ground is the Esopus Spitzenburg which is an antique but I'm not sure if it's true to seed. It's an alternate producer and kind of a sickly tree I would not be depending on these as a food source, they would supplement as biomass.
I was thinking more along the lines of an experimental mini-orchard. I like your idea of zero tolerance for unwanted characteristics.
I'm almost on the New York border and there is a lot of cider goings on in the Hudson Valley. I visited an orchard up that way and I know the cider maker is fermenting according to French standards using actual cider apples. I think they are antiques. The orchard might be a good resource. I may have to go up this weekend, drink a draft and see what I can come up with. They are a pretty big operation but very friendly. I actually had a pint with the orchards entymologist who was very laid back.
A seed hunt is in order. I'm intrigued by using some crabapples too. I know there are quite a few varieties that are good for different uses. The one I planted is supposed to be a good eater.
Bryant RedHawk wrote: Apples and diversity, interesting question you have posed since for many of the varieties it was a discovery of a tree already growing, with desirable characteristics, that created the variety.
I guess the biggest concern I have,and the question I can't answer is why do apple trees have so many pest and disease issues that weren't around 200 years ago. Part of it could be that I don't have enough biodiversity yet...same issue with the pollinators. So maybe these issues will work themselves out with time.
The orchards around here are spraying millions of gallons of toxic herbicides and pesticides on the trees. What changed from the depression era and before? The trees back in the day didn't get any herbicide or pesticide and they did well...if not they died.
Though there are many varieties of apples in the U.S. I think most of the new trees being planted are clones. Do you think most of the early apples were crab apple varieties (the only native) or did Johnny Apple seed create enough genetic diversity with his apple seeds.
I second at what Redhawks said there's immense diversity in apples and there's thousands of people out there always trying to find a new strain from chance seedling varieties I know a lady in my local area that developed a cultivar from a chance seedling but it takes thousands of dollars and decades to develop a variety as a cultivar.
This is a pretty interesting read from Cornell University they touch on the loss of genetic diversity.
[url=http:// Apples in America are a $1.7 billion industry today. Large markets favor industrialized agriculture practiced on a vast scale; the bottom line is consistency and efficiency. This factor combined with changes in American family life, has meant that within a century, the number of apple varieties available has shrunk to a tiny fraction of the 700 plus grown in the this country when S. A. Beach wrote The Apples of New York in 1905. This loss of variety means a loss of genetic diversity. The genetic diversity of apples has continually eroded from a high of 7000 worldwide commercial varieties described between 1804 and 1904 to the present, when most of the world%27s commercial production is based on two varieties, Red and Golden Delicious and their offspring.]Cornell University Albert R. Mann Library[/url]
And this returns us to the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan, the world's center of apple diversity. Starting in 1989, scientists from Cornell's Geneva campus have organized and led expeditions to these forests to bring back seeds and grafting wood. The genetic diversity found in this material is critical for breeding apple trees with such desirable traits as disease and insect resistance, as well as fruit and tree quality. Promising reports on some of the Kazakh seedlings being grown out in Geneva suggest that the future of apples may lie in their past.
Have you looked at Sepp Holzer's techniques at all? He talks about spreading the seed containing mash left from pressing apples and cherrys for liquor onto newly formed terraces so that the trees can pioneer and stabilize the slopes. Then you can thin as needed and graft onto any that end up being duds but you also have a great chance to observe the progeny of your local trees. This might be a process you would look at emulating as a way to quickly introduce lots of specimen that are providing a purpose. In theory you could even just graft canes of the best seedlings onto the lesser seedlings and thus work toward a totally locally adapted tree.
I am not really familiar with Holzer other than a couple of youtube videos. I've pretty much used Gaia's Garden, Youtube, and Permies. Holzer and Fukuoka are next on the list. This sounds like a good way to do it though...I've got the space.
https://elizapples.com/2016/03/20/on-their-own-roots/ ; It's worth checking out for the picture of the author standing under a healthy 200-year-old still bearing tree, if nothing else!
We were in the hot, humid, zone 7a-8a South which is known for all sorts of rots, fireblight strikes, fungal infections…you name it. And the trees that looked the best were the big ones. All of this observation caused me to believe that we probably have the best chances of growing low-input trees if they are on big roots.
And this has some quite interesting ideas for growing own-root apple trees, lots of technical stuff, and also about keeping them manageable: https://www.orangepippin.com/resources/own-roots
As well, Stephen Hayes' youtube channel is quite interested for learning about some older English varieties. I've watched a few so far and learned a lot. (Note: not permaculture, not my growing region, but clearly a vast amount of practical knowledge to be gleaned regarding apples.) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4A796C53CC9103F ; (There's a lot here and I've barely scratch the surface...)
Mark Tudor wrote: A combo of needing seeds from some heirloom varieties, and then having to wait years to determine if the fruit produced are spitters or tasty is limiting that if I had to guess. Getting cuttings from varieties that produce well for certain environments and grafting to existing, developed root stock can get a tree producing faster, but it trades time for additional cost.
I wasn't really getting the "need seeds from heirloom varieties," until I tried to find them online...everything is bare-root or a seedling. I will keep looking. I think when I posted this I was thinking of planting seeds and kind of taking a passive role until the trees get big enough and then just culling. I like to plant stuff all over and see what happens. You could say I'm a little sloppy.
My intention was not to create a strain of apple that I sell or etc. I read in an article that the initial Apple trees brought by the colonists as cuttings, didn't make it because they didn't like the climate. Most of the colonial era apples that survived were planted as seed.
Hard cider was really a part of the early settler identity. Wine was seen as too French or British and too expensive for most. The orchard was the first activity on a new homestead, even before the house was built. The average colonist was drinking a gallon of hard-cider a day. My point is there must have been a lot of stock to choose from so it's no surprise that they came up with some good apples pretty quickly.
I'm guessing those apples could have been akin to the crab as they can make a good cider though not necessarily for eating. I have no proof of this, just a guess.
Saving apples by fermenting hard cider was the primary way of keeping apples back in the day so the apples were probably a little different. It may be a fools errand but I might as well try it.
Lori Whit wrote: I think we were inspired by the same video. James Prigioni, right? It was really interesting.
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Scott, that statement of yours covers why there are so many diseases of fruit trees today when compared to prior to 1945.
Johnny Apple Seed didn't create any varieties he used seeds he kept from apples he ate on his walkabout, at least that is what I gathered from his writings while he was at the farm in Newburgh NY that I lived on in the 1960's.
While it is possible to breed resistant apple varieties, most have turned to grafting as the fast method for achieving resistance (some times this works and others it doesn't really work that well).
I've found that paying attention to the soil and supplying what the soil needs to be a complete, super healthy soil is the way to go about raising resistance in apple trees and pear trees.
I am using my own orchard for this experiment and may have lost the one non-Arkansas Black tree I had this year (the donkey decided to browse that one tree, leaving the A.B.'s alone).
This past season was really a changer on our farm, everything except the figs and persimmons dropped all fruit that had set.
This reminded me of something I read that said don't buy an old apple orchard (or land where there has been one) because of arsenic (I think?). I'm pretty sure this was back in the twenties and thirties...maybe into the forties, that some serious heavy metals were used in orchards.
Found some links to articles about lead arsenate used in apple orchards various places. One mentions it's use from the twenties through the sixties.
I love growing fruit and nut trees from seed. My community is filled with seed grown, food producing trees. There is a robust community of people here who grow fruit and nut trees from seeds. I'm working on tree breeding projects that were worked on by my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents and their peers. I'm in this for the long haul. So what if it takes 15 years for a walnut to bear fruit? The walnut tree I planted 50 years ago is thriving. The walnut trees I planted as seedlings 15 years ago may be producing fruit any year now. I have distributed seed grown fruit and nut trees widely around my community. Some will grow as shade trees, some will grow adequate food, some will grow marvelous food and will form the basis of the next generation.
Last winter, I planted a bunch of apricot seeds. About 20 seedlings are alive this fall. In the spring, I intend to transplant them into a short row, spaced perhaps 2 feet apart. Then in a few years, after they have fruited, I'll select which to cull, and which to transplant, graft, or propagate further. I might even let them turn into a wild apricot hedge. I'm certainly not lacking for space to grow things, and there are plenty of vacant lots around to expand into if I ever felt the need.
As they say, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. The same thing applies to growing trees from seeds: Offspring tend to resemble their parents and grandparents. Even if we don't know who's the daddy, there is an excellent chance that a great tree will produce great offspring.
That is similar to what I am doing now, I purchased the starter group of trees and use seeds from the fruits to start more trees.
Sometimes I do some air layering just to get a head start or making use of branches that need to come off anyway.
This next spring I will cut and plant around 15 new fig trees from the three fig trees we started out with.
In the early fall I'll be planting some pear trees from air layers that I have to do this spring since there are some weak trunk joint branches that need to come off.
I'm guessing it was in the forties that is when pesticide/herbicide use really kicked in. I was reading a Wikipedia article and I had to stop reading when they started listing the benefits of the pesticides. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesticide
Joseph Lofthouse wrote: I love growing fruit and nut trees from seed. My community is filled with seed grown, food producing trees. There is a robust community of people here who grow fruit and nut trees from seeds. I'm working on tree breeding projects that were worked on by my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents and their peers. I'm in this for the long haul. So what if it takes 15 years for a walnut to bear fruit? The walnut tree I planted 50 years ago is thriving. The walnut trees I planted as seedlings 15 years ago may be producing fruit any year now. I have distributed seed grown fruit and nut trees widely around my community. Some will grow as shade trees, some will grow adequate food, some will grow marvelous food and will form the basis of the next generation.
Very Inspirational. Your articles are part of the reason I am interested in planting from seed. Just let nature do the natural selection. Good luck with the Apricots!
Major bummer about the fruit dropping. I had blossoms on all of my apple trees this year but they got hammered by cedar apple. I just came inside from planting out two liberties and some pollinators. Hopefully, they are as good as they say they are.
There is no way I'm giving up on apples they are just too precious. There are so many good things you can do with them.
I am a firm believer in the soil too...I'm doing everything I can to improve it without spending any cashola.
I'm hoping this link will take you to a playlist from the Skillcult channel. It's about this dude's home-scale, amateur, apple breeding project.
A short synopsis of his technique; He collects pollen and cross pollinates by hand the varieties/traits he's looking to experiment with; he then collects the seeds from the apples that grow; he plants those seeds out in high density nurseries; and then he grafts the whips onto (likely) dwarfing rootstocks to speed up their fruit set.
That's a good, if laborious, way of (relatively) quickly encouraging the traits in apples you're looking for. I plan on emulating it once I have the space. I've heard the cider rumblings coming out of Hudson recently as well--I'm on the NY-Ma border. In the future I'd be down to collaborate on some apple breeding madness.
Kamaar Taliaferro wrote: I'm hoping this link will take you to a playlist from the Skillcult channel. It's about this dude's home-scale, amateur, apple breeding project.
These vids are very inspiring! I will definitely be following this cat. Let me know when you start breeding. Thanks for sharing this...awesome.
All of the trees that Johnny Appleseed planted throughout the Ohio River Valley were from seed. Those trees had the highly valuable random genetics your referring to. Since then we've done nothing but select for ever sweeter and larger fruit. In the process, nutrition has gone by the way side. I've seen the term "spitters" used several times in this thread. Too bad. Those spitters are often the most nutritious apples. With diabetes and obesity running rampant (due to deriving ever more calories from carbs (sugars)), we would do well to eat more spitters and fewer of the sickly (literally) sweet apples found in most stores today. Besides, planting from seed leverages genetics much more powerfully to develop land races and cultivars than planting the same old root stocks and waiting for hundreds of years for that root stock to hopefully acclimate to the soil and climate conditions of any given local.
Scott Foster wrote: I guess the biggest concern I have,and the question I can't answer is why do apple trees have so many pest and disease issues that weren't around 200 years ago. Part of it could be that I don't have enough biodiversity yet...same issue with the pollinators. So maybe these issues will work themselves out with time.
I've got a book on my shelf titled "Orchard and Small Fruit Culture," copyright 1929, that devotes nearly 100 pages to controlling insects and diseases. So they were around.
I don't know, but I'm going to hazard a guess that apple trees today aren't necessarily less resilient than they were then, but that apple culture has shifted and so more effort and emphasis is now placed on disease and insect control. So what has changed?
It's easy to romanticize the past, but I think it's safe to say that the farms of yesteryear were more diverse than they are today. When it was much more common to run livestock (poultry, sheep, hogs) under one's fruit trees, a burden was certainly eased. Further, though the concept of production regions (e.g. dairy in Wisconsin, apples in Washington) is by no means new, I assume that particular regions were not as narrowly focused as they tend to be now, so that in apple country, for example, there was plenty of other agricultural production going on, thus mitigating some of the disease and insect risk.
I'd think another contributing factor is the increase in land prices. Farmland is now not priced according to its productive capacity, it seems, but is valued as an investment or for residential and recreational concerns, in many places at least. This then puts more strain on the farmer to make money, which could easily lead to a (desperate?) attempt to spray more in order to yield more salable fruit.
And then there are consumer demands for flawless fruit. If you can't sell your apples because they've got a bit of scab, or a few indentations from insect bites, by gaw you're going to have to do something about it.
Anyway, I don't say this at all to dismiss your overall thoughts, Scott. I've got a field of about 3 acres that borders my woodlot. Over the coming couple years, my intention is to plant it (primarily) to widely spaced seedling apple trees. I figure I'll get some apples for eating, some for cooking, some for cider, and some fit only for the deer and squirrels, which will in turn become apples for me. I set out about 20 itty seedlings last spring in another location, but they ultimately didn't make it. Whether they got grazed, pecked, or just outcompeted I don't know, but next spring I'll set them out in a nursery bed first to grow for a year or two before planting out.
Anyway, I don't say this at all to dismiss your overall thoughts, Scott. I've got a field of about 3 acres that borders my woodlot. Over the coming couple years, my intention is to plant it (primarily) to widely spaced seedling apple trees. I figure I'll get some apples for eating, some for cooking, some for cider, and some fit only for the deer and squirrels, which will, in turn, become apples for me. I set out about 20 itty seedlings last spring in another location, but they ultimately didn't make it. Whether they got grazed, pecked, or just outcompeted I don't know, but next spring I'll set them out in a nursery bed first to grow for a year or two before planting out.
I get what you are saying. I would point out that most of the recent information we have regarding growing apples is based on commercial growers. I'm not hammering Monocultural orchardists but I don't think we need to model our permaculture or food forest efforts on the same information. We want stuff to taste good or fit the nitch we want it to fill. Picking apples primarily on how they look and how long they last aren't necessary. If you wanted to sell say a Russet Apple that's not very appealing to the eye but tastes like ambrosia you would have to educate the customer. Here take a bite.
When we talk about creating genetic diversity in an apple, the tree and the pest do the dance of natural selection. The apple tree and the bug change over time in order to counter the other...it's constant. What we have done is clone and reduce our apple yields to basically two strains. By only cloning, we aren't allowing the apple to adapt. I'm not saying there were no pests, I'm saying the man has come in and changed the game. By cloning, we are not allowing the apple tree to evolve defenses. The critter, fungus etc is still evolving.
How are commercial apples chosen 1. Beauty, 2. Ability to get to the store in great shape. Taste is the last thing considered when breeding. I don't have any proof that we are dealing with a lot of disinformation because I haven't actually done it yet. If I base my assumptions on why we are trying to implement permaculture practices, growing from seed makes a lot of sense. Most of the new strains of apples that are non-GMO and are tough as nuts (Liberty Apple) were found by cross-breeding with the apples from the Kazakhstan forests. By cross-pollinating, planting the seeds and moving to a dwarf rootstock we can test an apple within 3 or 4 years.
Krofter Young wrote: All of the trees that Johnny Appleseed planted throughout the Ohio River Valley were from seed. Those trees had the highly valuable random genetics your referring to. Since then we've done nothing but select for ever sweeter and larger fruit. In the process, nutrition has gone by the way side. I've seen the term "spitters" used several times in this thread. Too bad. Those spitters are often the most nutritious apples. With diabetes and obesity running rampant (due to deriving ever more calories from carbs (sugars)), we would do well to eat more spitters and fewer of the sickly (literally) sweet apples found in most stores today. Besides, planting from seed leverages genetics much more powerfully to develop land races and cultivars than planting the same old root stocks and waiting for hundreds of years for that root stock to hopefully acclimate to the soil and climate conditions of any given local.
Lots of good replies to this topic already, and I don't want to be repetitive so I'll just share this video that maybe be helpful in seeing when and why you would choose to plant something from cuttings (which of course is a genetic clone) vs. seeds (genetic diversity). Hope this helps! -Colleen
Scott Foster wrote: Why aren't we doing some of this with apple trees for instance? I have apple trees on the mind because they are the bain of my existence when it comes to disease.
Wait...we aren't? Then what are those couple hundred apple seedlings doing in my yard? Most are open pollinated from about 50 different cultivars I got at a local Fairbanks area u-pick last fall, plus some intentional crosses with my own trees, so they should at least have plenty of cold hardiness potential to address what is the bane of our existence up here.
Have you been to http://skillcult.com ? Steven Edholm is growing out all kinds of apple seedlings to get what he wants, and he's done a great job debunking the myth that planting apple seeds is an exercise in futility. The very first seedling he fruited was quite palatable, and he named it "Bite Me" in contradiction to Michael Pollan's assertions in The Botany of Desire that favorable results with seedling apples are a vanishingly small possibility. Skillcult has great videos and resources to help others learn the basics of what he's doing so they can take action themselves. It's not that hard.
The apples we find introduced to commerce now need to meet very narrow criteria. Some of them are pragmatic: apples with soft, melting flesh damage too easily for the kind of handling needed for nationwide distribution, so those are out. Others are just dictated by current fashion, with its bias toward apples that are sweet and juicy, with breaking, crunchy flesh. They're quite good in their way, but if you like variety, forget it. I actually found some MacIntosh apples, which used to be everywhere but have been almost entirely displaced now, in the co-op the other day. It was refreshing to experience how distinct in texture and flavor they are from, say, a Fuji or Jonagold. Oh well, at least the Red Delicious monoculture has finally been broken. Good luck finding a pie apple if they're out of Granny Smiths, though.
University breeding programs used to be publicly supported for the peoples' benefit, but now it's pretty much all about corporate funded research grants to further commercial interests. So if the people want things that are of no value to industry, it's incumbent on the people to take matters in their own hands and plant some seeds. A whole lot of the stuff we grow up here was developed by amateurs, because the reality is that no one else is going to pay for it. The University of Alaska used to breed and release cultivars suitable for us, but those days are long gone.
There are advantages to focused research programs, but thousands of citizens individually working and collaborating to improve things in which they're interested can accomplish a lot. Before the 20th century, thousands of worthy cultivars arose in just such a fashion. It's not the crapshoot it's made out to be, and in the worst case an undesirable tree can just be topworked to something acceptable, or used for cider or hog fodder.
"I understand why we clone, I do it too. There isn't a better way to plant fifty trees without spending a dime "
I understand what you mean, but depending on the fruit or nut (or any other tree) it's lke tossing the dice. You could get something fantastic or get a dud of a tree hich produces nothing or very little and low quality. Unfortunately you have to often wait many years to find this out. But I had an interesting experience with a volunteer Pecan Tree nut which volunteered (planted by a scrubJay) back in 2005. In 2006 I left the San Diego California area and moved here to Sweden. The first years growth was rapid and straight as an arrow. It was just in the perfect spot and the straight tall nature of this tree was ideal. I knew it was a Pecan tree, but that was not the reason I let it stay there. It was for ornamental landscape reasons behind a little house in her backyard. It was the perfect tree & only tree for that location. Plus I've always love Pecan's bright attractive green foliage and tey thrive in hot dry climates. The bonus has been it has become a huge producer of very sweet pecans with a thin easy to crack shell and my mum called me to tell me this is the largest crop yet, even all her dogs love them. Not sure if dogs are ssupposed to eat them though. Here is a post I did.
Initially apples are wildly diverse. We've been selecting from that set for generations. So the offspring of current apples are more likely to be edible. I suspect, off hand, that they will be noticeably different from their parents.
My uncle Bill (Evans Fruit Co, Yakima) grows, I think 6-8 varieties of apple. His two current biggest sellars are Fuji and Honeycrisp. I don't remember the other varieties.
* Clings to the tree. You don't want apples that drop as soon as they are ripe. (a problem with a lot of the northern prairie varieties)
* Variety of blooming times. If everything blooms at the same time, you can lose your entire crop in one spring frost.
* Variety of ripening times. You want a long picking season so you can keep your help. Lately Bill has been planting cherries and apricots to add another month to the harvest season.
* Some bruise resistance. While you take care, you aren't handling them with kid gloves. A standard apple bin holds about 800 lbs of apples, and is about 3 feet deep. Apples are poured in from a few inches to a foot up. They have to be tougher than eggs.
* Apples ripening at the same time. You want to pick all the apples in one pass, or at most 2 passes.
* Good size. Large apples fetch a premium price. I saw fuji's the size of very small cantelopes. Size can be modified by how hard you thin the trees.
The problem with big trees is the amount of time you spend on a ladder. There is merit in having the bottom branches 5 feet off the ground. It makes for easier access for weeding, mowing, and reduces rain splashed fungal spores.
Current practice with new orchards is to make flat trees grown on wire trellises like grapes. Each row is planted with trees on 3 foot spacing. The trellis is V shaped, with two sets of wires. Alternate trees go up each side of the V. So each tree has 6 feet of trellis, and is 12 feet tall. When working the trees, either for pruning, thinning, or picking they have trailers with platforms at various heights. A tractor pulls the trailer at slow speed. Works stand still and do the work as they get to the tree. The trailer is designed to fit the aisle so that you can do both sides of the aisle in a single pass.
I don't think pests and disease were less of a problem to our ancestors, they just had fewer remedies (and some of their remedies were very dangerous to human health). Partly because of this, and partly because of the types of apples they were growing (the 'spitters' mentioned above), most apple production went into cider, where the apples don't need to be perfect.
And I agree that we probably shouldn't be eating so much of the types of fruit that have been developed recently -- high in sugar and low in flavor and nutrition. Apples are good for you, in moderation. It's easier to eat them in moderation when they are smaller and more tart or bitter! I'm not saying we should go away from the modern cultivars, necessarily, though I won't be planting any of the bland apples that are sold at the grocery store. But for your health's sake, it might be better to eat less of them, or eat some of the smaller, older varieties.
* an orchard of purely Ark Black would produce seeds that grow Ark Black due to lack of cross-pollination
Very few apples are self-fertile, so you're almost always dealing with cross-pollination. Those Ark Black trees most likely get pollinated from other trees that could be miles away.
The seeds express different combinations of the genetic material on every pollination. I believe that includes self-fertile trees. So you always have a genetic lottery, though it's constrained by what's available in the genetic material of the parent trees. |
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Robert Zeigler, of Indianapolis, Ind., was recently appointed as the new president of the American Philatelic Society (APS), the U.S. equivalent of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC).
Zeigler, who was a member of the judging panel at the 2010 RPSC Convention in Windsor, Ont., was appointed president of the APS on May 23 following a vote of that society’s board of directors. He’s replacing former APS president Mick Zais, who was elected in 2016 before resigning this May after being chosen by the U.S. Senate as deputy secretary of the Department of Education .
As noted in this issue’s President’s Message, the RPSC board is committed to providing strong benefits to being a member of Canada’s longest service philatelic organization.
The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) is inviting members to “like” its Facebook page, which it launched earlier this year.
The page highlights news about the society as well as the hobby at large; information, including videos and photographs, about shows in Canada and abroad; and other interesting philatelic tidbits.
Members of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) are exhibiting excellence at high-level exhibitions in Canada and abroad.
At the 160-frame national-level competitive exhibition held at Orapex this May, RPSC member Michael Deery won the Grand Award for his eight-frame exhibit, “WWII Postal Protocol: Mail Violations and Advisements.” The exhibit didn’t just focus on the war-time censorship of a single country but also highlighted postal protocols of countries around the world throughout the Second World War.
During the Second World War, both Allied countries and Axis powers monitored civilian and military mail in an effort to protect their respective war efforts from being jeopardized. Countries censored mail, identified violations and issued warnings for postal protocol deemed a security risk by inserting or attaching a slip, memo, notice, form or label to an envelope. In many cases, a handstamp was also applied.
There are only a handful of national-level accredited shows hosted in Canada each year. These include: The RPSC Convention, which will be held June 22-24 in St. Catharines, Ont.; the Edmonton Spring National Stamp Show, which was held March 24-25 in Edmonton, Alta.; the aforementioned Orapex, held May 4-5 in Ottawa; Novapex, which will be held Sept. 14-16 in Dartmouth, N.S.; and Canpex, which will be held Oct. 13-14 in London, Ont.
Another RPSC member, David Bartlet, won the Reserve Grand Award at Orapex for his five-frame exhibit, “Vended Postage Automation,” which mostly featured modern material dating from 2002-16.
RPSC Darcy Hickson also won the Single-Frame Grand Award for his exhibit, “Sewell Camp,” which offered study of the postmarks used at the short-lived camp when it was open in 1911.
Since 1950, The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) has published a bimonthly journal called The Canadian Philatelist (TCP).
With compelling philatelic articles, society business and news as well as events and meetings calendars, TCP is a major benefit for RPSC members, who receive new editions of the journal when its published every two months.
The cover story for the May/June 2018 issue (Volume 69, No. 3), entitled “Blood in the Time of War,” focuses on blood donations during major conflicts such as the First World War and Second World War. Written by RPSC member and Toronto medical doctor Jean Wang, the story is based on her award-winning exhibit, “The Story of Blood: Myth to Medicine,” which earned a Large Gold at the 67th annual National Topical Stamp Show last June.
“Campaigns to recruit civilian blood donors were supported by the postal service,” she writes. “Slogan cancels were used to disseminate appeals to the public. In 1942, a Winnipeg proprietary slogan was issued with the message ‘SUPPORT THE BLOOD DONOR CAMPAIGN.’ A bilingual slogan ‘BLOOD DONORS WANTER/DONNEURS DE SANG DEMANDES’ was used in Ottawa in 1944-1945. Neither of these slogans specifically referenced the war, in contrast to slogans that were used on metered mail in the United States during the latter part of WW II.”
Canada’s national stamp club, The RPSC can trace its roots back to 1887, when the Canadian Philatelic Association was founded; however, it wasn’t until 1959 the society received its “Royal” designation.
Past issues of TCP are available on the society website, rpsc.org, free of charge for issues from 1950-2010, along with all of the journal’s predecessors, including:
Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) member Jean Wang was recently appointed to Canada Post’s 12-person Stamp Advisory Committee.
Wang, a Toronto medical doctor and award-winning exhibitor, was one of five people recently appointed to the committee. In an interview with Canadian Stamp News (CSN), she said she was “overjoyed” after the Crown corporation announced her appointment.
“I only found out about the existence of the committee a few years ago, and it’s something that you can only dream about being on. I never thought I would have the chance to do it, but I think it’s amazing and I’m really looking forward to it,” Wang said.
The committee’s members are appointed by Canada Post’s board of directors to a maximum of two three-year terms. They are appointed based on recommendations from the committee chair and generally come from three walks of life—philately or stamp collecting; art or design; and history, each of which are almost always represented among the 12 members.
Wang’s expertise relates to philately and philatelic exhibiting. Last June, she was awarded with a Large Gold as well as the Medical Subjects Unit Award for her multi-frame exhibit, “The Story of Blood: Myth to Medicine,” at the 67th annual National Topical Stamp Show hosted by the American Topical Association (ATA). At the 2016 RPSC Convention in Waterloo, Ont., Wang’s “Story of Blood” exhibit earned a Vermeil as well as the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors‘ Title Page Excellence Award and the ATA’s 2nd Place Topical Award.
“We’re thrilled to have her on board,” Canada Post Director of Stamp Services Jim Phillips told CSN.
Wang’s five-frame exhibit, ‘The Story of Blood: Myth to Medicine,’ (title page shown above) earned a Large Gold at the 67th annual National Topical Stamp Show last June.
“Nobody else on the committee really knows what’s in the hearts and minds of philatelists; we don’t want too many issues, and we want things that are appropriate, and Canadian, and not too commercial,” she said.
“Canada Post has different considerations and I think they have to balance those, too, but certainly they hear us, as philatelists. In terms of the number of issues, there aren’t as many as there were even a couple of years ago. I’ll do my best to advocate for philately.”
The Stamp Advisory Committee was established in 1969 (little more than a decade after the U.S. Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee was formed) and meets three times a year, and topics for the stamp program are chosen based on the committee’s criteria, which include representing a cross-section of Canadian society; being marketable; and having a broad base appeal.
“I’m starting to think about if there should be another issue to commemorate scientific achievements in Canada,” she said. “There have been some huge Canadian scientists, and we’ve had scientists commemorated in the past, but not in recent years.”
Aside from offering suggestions, Wang said she’s also excited to work with other committee members to develop Canada’s stamp program.
“I think it’s going to be a lot of fun interacting with artists and historians as well as having an input into what the history of Canada is going to be for the next few years.”
This is a new Society initiative to bring timely information to our members. We welcome your contributions, including chapter and club news. Help to make our Society newsletter must reading for every stamp collector in Canada.
It is time again on June 22-24 for the Society’s 90th annual convention-Royal/Royale 2018. I and the Board of Directors are excited about the events at the event. My thanks to the St Catharines’ club and to all the volunteers who have worked tirelessly to make this a successful event. Special thanks to Rod Paige, the Society’s former Vice President, Victor Potter, Les Molnar, Jim Glen and Stuart Keeley, our Board member.
Those attending will see outstanding exhibits that will be evaluated by a group of experienced jurors led by Dr. Joel Weiner. Other jury members will be
There will be many notable dealers in attendance. Special thanks to Roy Houtby for his fine efforts as Dealer liaison. Enjoy shopping for hidden treasures at the tables! Confirmed dealers with specialities and emails are:
Attendees will also be able to attend and listen to excellent speakers at the following seminars on various philatelic subjects :
My hope is that attendees will visit our Society’s table and say hello to me or others involved in the Society, including our esteemed editor, Herb Colling.
At the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors and the Society executive will unveil its strategic plan for the Society. The Vision Statement and the Objectives of the Society were passed at a Board of Directors Meeting on April 29, 2018.
My special thanks to Lloyd Field and Sam Chiu for their leadership with me on the plan and to the other board members and valued members such as Garfield Portsch and past presidents Charles Verge and George Pepall for their insightful comments. My hope is that volunteers will work with members of the Society to implement the plan to improve our Society. In the upcoming months, I will write or speak about various aspects of the Strategic Plan and look forward to discussing aspects of it with many of you.
Speaking of the Board of Directors, the Society will have 13 board members from across Canada. They are all accomplished people in their own right and all have the best interests of the Society and philately at heart. The Board has had regular teleconference meetings every few weeks to discuss and implement decisions pertaining to matters of interest to the Society and its members. My thanks, on behalf of the Society to all of you, and to Robert Pinet, our Society secretary, who is retiring from our Board.
To take a leadership role in promoting and encouraging “stamp collecting”(which includes the collection of topicals, thematics, postal history, aerophilately, and the use of postcards and other ephemera) for Canadians of all ages, genders and ethnicityand to be an inclusive not exclusive organization. Our audience would include the public, beginning collectors, specialists and the philatelic community at large;
To offer educational programmes to the public which enhance the pleasure and friendliness of “stamp collecting” as described above;
To promote and encourage volunteerism in “stamp collecting” (as described above), philatelic exhibiting and philatelic judging;
To represent residents of Canada in worldwide philatelic exhibitions and in worldwide philatelic organizations ; and
To be the Canadian centre of excellence for collectors, philatelic exhibitors and philatelic judges .
Encourage the preparation of presentations and monographs, books and other educational material for the public, including all those who are engaged in philatelic activities. The publications would include material that can be used in various places to attract members – for example, stamp shows, coin shows, postcard shows, antique shows, libraries, community centres and schools;
Develop materials and deliver seminars/courses to all levels of collectors, philatelists, exhibitors and judges in Canada on topics of relevance to them
Develop and deliver educational materials/programmes on exhibiting to encourage exhibiting at all levels and classes;
Develop a mentoring program for beginning hobbyists of all ages using RPSC Fellows and other qualified individuals (including exhibitors and judges)
Raise capital for charitable(tax deductible) and non-charitable activities through fund raising campaigns . Integrate RPSC Foundation and TAPE activities in a rational and coordinated way . Seek “charitable organization” status for the RPSC from the Canada Revenue Agency;
Relationships and Partnerships with other Philatelic Organizations Including Canada Post and Dealers Inside and Outside Canada
Regularly establish and enhance relationships with Canada Post, the Canadian Stamp Dealers Association and other philatelic organizations to attract more people to the hobby, and to ensure working efficiencies. Appoint persons to act as liaisons with each organization’ Maintain excellent working relationships with FIP, FIAF and other organizations such as the American Philatelic Society;
Establish and maintain a show/ exhibition/conventions committee to liaise with RPSC chapters and to develop and follow consistent guidelines to create a first class experience for those attending the shows and exhibitions. One or more RPSC board members would be actively involved in this process;
Find, encourage and publicly acknowledge volunteers who help the RPSC in administration, clerical work and fund-raising. Promote, encourage and publicly acknowledge volunteer participation in philatelic organizations other than the RPSC (clubs, shows, publications);
Make the content and direction of this publication consistent with the above objectives and statements so that it is widely viewed as the premier philatelic publication in Canada. The Editorial Board and the Editor ( in consultation from the Board of the RPSC) must promote, encourage and publish articles and other material consistent with the above objectives and statements ;
Attract New Members and Maintain Existing Memberships Whenever Possible and Strengthen Relationships with RPSC Affiliate Chapters
Use RPSC affiliate chapters to recruit new RPSC members. Create RPSC regional liaisons in provinces to attract new members and promote the above objectives; and
Enhanced Promotion, Marketing and Branding of the RPSC By Various Means Including Traditional and Social Media
Create an awareness that the RPSC stands for The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, that the RPSC has a long and storied history and tradition and that it is an inclusive and not exclusive organization that someone will be excited to join. Use our existing Facebook page and RPSC Website to get our messaging across on a timely and broad basis.
Offer members the chance to sell or buy one anothers’ stamps through a carefully managed sales circuit under contract with a reliable and conscientious individual or party.
These are truly exciting times for our Society! Please help the Society in any way you can. Recruit new members! Please find a little time in your busy lives to volunteer for Society committees or at your local club or show to advance and promote the interests of our Society . See you in St Catharines! |
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General Manager - New opening Pub with restaurant job with Jo Sheppard Recruitment Ltd | The Times & The Sunday Times Appointments
We are looking for an exceptional General Manager for this pub restaurant and bar due to open in the summer. This is the latest member in their family of pubs, with over 60 across the country for this successful and unique group, with each site being individual and having its own character. The building will be lovingly refurbished, and it will offer a traditional pub warmth and welcome with a freshly prepared menu, an exciting selection of ales and beers plus an impressive array of gins and whiskey. The service will be friendly and personal to deliver a superb guest experience.
In return the company are offering a very competitive salary plus benefits, career development and being a part of this positive and forward-thinking company
A short story writer, Janis Hubschman [aside: isn't that a great name? Janis makes me think of Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, and Hubsch means pretty in German] has a great piece on 10 things you can do to improve your writing.
- When the story stalls, ask: what is the character thinking now? Is she thinking anything? If not, why not? Characters need to learn something about themselves, about their values and assumptions.
- Give the character something to do in the scene. It brings the character and the scene to life. A character soaking in the bathtub, thinking about her rotten marriage is boring. A character performing brain surgery, thinking about her rotten marriage is a different proposition.
One was the health of someone I care deeply about. Their health status was a question mark. Doctors ordered more tests, and the test results showed abnormalities. It was possible that they were facing something very serious, perhaps even deadly.
After losing three friends last year, I was freaking out. Not calm at all. Not the kind of support I should have been. Instead I was madly googling combinations of symptoms, finding rare diseases and not so rare diseases, and all of them with bad outcomes.
The second thing I've been worried about is a new project. Of course, it's not nearly as important as my loved one's health. But still, I want this project to succeed, and there's a lot about it that is different than anything I have done before.
One morning, when I was out for a run, I asked God for a sign that things would be okay. Specifically, I asked to find a coin.I always like to find money, and I look for it everyplace I go. First of all, it's rare, at least in my neighborhood. I walk and/or run every day, but sometimes months will go by where I don't find anything. Second of all, money says "In God We Trust," and it reminds me of my need to trust.
And then I saw the glint of something silver. A nickel, a dime, even a quarter? Silver coins are much rarer to find than brown-colored pennies.
At home, I kept praying. A long time ago, someone taught me this way to pray where you lift your hands high overhead and you tell God about the burden you are carrying - or you think you are carrying - and you offer it all up to him. Eventually, your arms get so tired and heavy and you have to let go. You have to give it up.
A few days later, I was running and I found another flat silver thing that wasn't a coin. It had a hole in it and it wasn't rusty.
And a few days after that, I found these. Play money that's basically one-fourth the size of a dollar bill.
And yesterday we heard from the doctor that while we may not ever know what caused it, the test results have all returned to normal, or close to it.
Today I also find myself thinking of Jay Lake, a Portland sci-fi writer who has been very open about his battle with what is now Stage Four colon cancer (the same cancer that killed Bridget Zinn last year). On his blog yesterday he revealed that his latest test results are bad. Three new growths in his liver. I know he is an atheist, and that he is unwavering in that. Maybe I am deluded, seeing signs and portents in pieces of trash.
ETA: (And, as Jay says in his latest post: If it helps you to pray for me, feel free to pray. Just because I'm an atheist doesn't mean I think you should be. Likewise, if it helps you to cuss, feel free to cuss. Or send a check to the American Cancer Society or the Clayton Memorial Medical Fund. Or buy one of my books. Or just go tell someone you love them.) |
Chat for Adults with HFA and Aspergers: Dealing with Mr. Logical: Tips for Partners of Aspergers Men
If you, as a neurotypical wife or girlfriend, have ever felt like you are in a relationship with a computerized robot, or Mister Spock from Star Trek, then this post is for you…
Dealing with Aspergers (high functioning autism) men can be frustrating and difficult for neurotypical (i.e., non-Aspergers) partners, especially if you are involved in a love relationship. Aspergers men who present themselves as “Mr. Logical” tend to be afraid of being controlled by others and "losing" who they are inside of a relationship. In some cases, they may reject emotional attachment as a way of protecting themselves.
1. In most cases, Mr. Logical has trust issues that come from things that happened to him in the past. For example, some of these men may have developed a tough and distant exterior due to having been bullied throughout childhood due to their nerd-like behavior. In this case, it might take some time for your Aspergers man to develop trust and break down barriers with you. If you truly care about the relationship, you need to be patient and allow him time to really feel comfortable and secure with you.
2. If you are trying to get Mr. Logical to feel comfortable talking with you, avoid starting conversations with sentences like "We really need to talk" or "This is important." These kinds of lead-ins can trigger a “clam-up” response. He might feel cornered or pressured by the "serious tone” of the conversation. When dealing with Mr. Logical, the goal is to get to a point where he does not fear things (e.g., commitment) and to not make him feel nervous and pressured.
3. Consider the social norms that ALL men – Aspergers or not – are supposed to follow when it comes to emotions and sharing those emotions. Men are historically supposed to be the non-emotional providers for their family. This does not reflect on their ability to communicate as a husband, but it will help you to understand why he is hesitant to show emotion around anyone.
4. If necessary, you may need to establish some distance (even if it's just temporary) between yourself and Mr. Logical. If you get the impression he can’t offer you what it is that you want, or even if he straight-out told you that, spend some time apart. Hang out with your friends, throw yourself into your career, or begin a new hobby. Mr. Logical will attempt to reestablish a connection with you when he is ready to open himself up to you emotionally. In the meantime, take care of yourself.
5. Expect Mr. Logical’s emotions to be displayed as actions rather than words. While a woman can fully articulate what she is feeling, an Aspergers man is more likely to try and find a solution to the problem and work on it. In fact, when a woman constantly asks "What are you thinking?" to her man who has gone quiet, she usually assumes he's angry. But this is not necessarily true. More likely, he has gone quiet as he thinks about how to solve the relationship problem.
6. Give your Aspergers man a platform to vent frustrations. You may see some expression of emotion from him if you are able to disguise it as a session where he is able to vent out what he is feeling, manifested as frustration or anger. Most men view frustration and anger as more masculine emotions. Even if your man is feeling sad or depressed, you might find that you will see his feelings come through as a hotter emotion.
7. Look for the causes of emotional distance. You and your “Aspie” might be dealing with a relationship crisis, and withdrawal is his way of handling the situation. Physical separation can create emotional distance as he deals with the pain associated with interpersonal conflict. Past experiences can also cause him to shut himself off so he doesn't get hurt again.
8. Look for non-verbal cues that reveal your Aspergers man’s true emotions. Perhaps he will not tell you when he is stressed or nervous, but he always chews his nails when he is stressed about work. By watching for these cues, you can better understand how he is feeling by comparing the things he is experiencing with his physical reactions to the emotions he is feeling.
9. Aspergers men's emotions are confusing – and sometimes contradict each other. Oftentimes, they do not even understand their own emotions. Depression often goes undiagnosed because it is difficult for male “Aspies” to explain what they are feeling or that they feel ashamed for not subscribing to the society "norm" of a tough, well-adjusted, providing man. Encourage your “Aspie” to show his emotions by being supportive and understanding that his feelings are often much more complicated than he lets on.
10. Notice what works and what doesn't with Mr. Logical. Focus on topics that get a conversation going before moving on to those that may bring the wall back up. Emotional distance is not created overnight, and neither are the solutions for it. It often takes several attempts to get a constructive conversation going.
11. Realize that Aspergers men often have a difficult time communicating their feelings. He does NOT want to tell you that he is sad or depressed. Instead of becoming angry that he does not want to share his feelings with you, simply let him know that you are ready when he is. Leave yourself open for that conversation. Do not force the issue.
12. When attempting to problem-solve with Mr. Logical, use rationality rather than emotionality when you speak (as much as possible anyway). When you are talking to a “logical” man, it is vital to talk to him in a manner that he can comprehend. To express yourself to this type of male brain, realize that he might not think in "emotions" in the same way that you do. His brain might operate in a more rational, non-emotional fashion instead. If you utilize logic, he may find talking and opening up to you more comfortable.
Is negativity because of aspergers or his personality? It is so draining for me. I have to have enough optimism for both of us & after 33 years I run out very early I
Indeed. What ever you do - whatever you bring into the home, will received a negative reaction. I have found myself saying on several occasions, "There can't possibly be something wrong with everything."
His personality I think. My aspie husband is very positive generally even when he is suffering from anxiety he try to talk himself out of it by talking positive. They are all so different. My aspie son and husband are streets apart personality wise.
If you leave yourself open for "that" conversation....it will NEVER happen! "He" will never initiate physical contact now because as we get older, the desire for "sex" is less. Not something "he" needs so why even both touching or kissing...oh I could go on...it's so emotionally draining and very lonely. Like being the lodger. All very polite etc. Zero emotion....
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Hari Kishan Vs. State of Haryana | Judgments | Supreme Court Judgments: January, 2017 | Law Library | AdvocateKhoj
1. These appeals are directed against the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dated January 8, 2008 in Criminal Appeals Nos. 206 & 207-DB of 1998, confirming the appellant's conviction under section 302 of the penal code and the sentence of life imprisonment awarded to him by the trial court for having committed the murder of one Dinesh.
2. The case of the prosecution that led to the sentencing of the appellant is based on the statement of Harkesh (PW-2), one of the brothers of Dinesh, made before Bhup Singh SI/SHO of Sadar Palwal PS (PW-8) at 7.20 am on June 24, 1995 at Palwal hospital where he had brought the dead body of Dinesh.
3. In his statement before the police Harkesh said that at about 6.15 in the morning he along with his two younger brothers, Suresh Kumar (PW-6) and Dinesh (the deceased) was sitting on the chabutra of their baithak in village Gailpur, 2 when Dinesh proceeded for his house to bring the clothes for getting ready to go to Faridabad, where he was due to appear in the B. Ed examination. As he reached the chaupal, where the lane turned, he was waylaid by the accused Hari Kishan (the appellant) and Rambir who were armed with knives, Shyam Lal armed with gun, Nain Pal and Kanwar Pal armed with lathis and Roshan and Nathi son of Gurdayal who were empty handed. Roshan and Nathi exhorted the other accused to kill Dinesh, saying that they would face the consequences. Hearing this, Harkesh and Suresh ran to save Dinesh. Bhim Singh (PW-4) also came there on hearing the noise. Even before Harkesh or his uncle Kanti Prakash reached the spot, Nain Pal and Kanwar Pal struck Dinesh on his back with lathis causing him to fall to the ground. As he lay on the ground, the appellant gave knife blow on the left side of his chest. Rambir too gave knife blows to Dinesh. When Harkesh and Kanti Parkash tried to save Dinesh, Rambir gave a knife blow to Harkesh that hit him on the thumb of the left hand. Nain Pal and Kanwar Pal gave Harkesh 4/5 lathi blows. Nain Pal also gave one lathi blow on the head of Kanti Parkash. When Harkesh tried to save Kanti Prakash, Shyam Lal hit him on the shoulder by the butt of his gun. He also shouted that anyone coming to their victim's rescue would be shot dead.
4. As to the cause of the incident Harkesh stated that shortly before the occurrence his younger brother Suresh was elected as the village Sarpanch. He did not pay any heed to 3 the unreasonable demands of the accused and this greatly annoyed them as they thought of themselves as the Choudhary of the village. This had led to an altercation and an exchange of hot words between the two sides on the previous evening but the matter was then patched up by discussion. He finally stated that the accused in league with one another had killed his brother Dinesh by giving him knife and lathi blows.
5. After the occurrence he brought Dinesh to the civil hospital, Palwal where he was declared `brought dead'. Dr. Krishna Kumar (PW-3) who was in the hospital on duty sent information in that regard to the SHO, PS Sadar Palwal whereupon PW-8 came to the hospital and took down the statement of Harkesh. He read his statement as recorded by PW- 8 (the SI police) and finding it to be correctly recorded put his signature at the bottom. The statement of Harkesh, as recorded by PW-8, was incorporated in a formal First Information Report (FIR no. 286) drawn up at PS Sadar Palwal at 9.30 a.m. on the same day for offences under sections 148, 149, 506 & 302 of the Penal Code. The FIR was delivered at the residence of the area Magistrate on the same day at 12.20 p.m. through a special messenger, namely, constable Chander Bhan.
6. Harkesh and Kanti Prakash, who, according to the statement made in the FIR, had received injuries while trying to save Dinesh were medically examined by Dr. Krishna Kumar (PW-3) at 7.10 and 7.15 a.m. respectively on June 24, 1995.
4 The post-mortem examination on the dead body of Dinesh was conducted on the same day at 12.45 p.m. by a team of three doctors of which Dr. Chandrika Malik (PW-5) was also a member.
7. According to the post-mortem report, death was caused due to shock and hemorrhage as a result of injury no. 1 which was ante-mortem in nature and was sufficient to cause death in ordinary course of nature. Injuries Nos. 2, 3, 4 were found to be post-mortem in nature. It was further stated that time elapsed between death and post-mortem was within 18 hours.
8. The police after investigation submitted charge-sheet against all the accused named in the FIR and all of them were put on trial on charges under sections 148, 302, 324, 323 read 5 with section 149 and section 506 of the Penal Code. The appellant, Hari Kishan, was also charged under section 25 of the Arms Act for possession and unlawful use of the knife and was tried separately for that offence.
9. In the main case the prosecution examined eight witnesses out of whom three, namely Harkesh (PW-2), Bhim Singh (PW-4) and Suresh Kumar (PW-6) claimed to be eye witnesses. Of the rest, Dr. Kishan Kumar (PW-3) was the doctor who had examined the injuries on the person of Harkesh and Kanti Prakash, Dr. Chandrika Malik (PW-5) was a member of the team of three doctors who had conducted post-mortem on the body of Dinesh, Bhoop Singh (PW-8) was the SHO Sadar Palwal PS who had recorded the statement of Harkesh and had investigated the case. The remaining two, Ashok Kumar (PW-1) and Ramesh Chand (PW-7) were formal witnesses. The prosecution also produced some documents and some material exhibits. The accused, of course, took the plea of false implication but they did not lead any evidence in their defence.
10. On conclusion of trial, the trial court held the appellant Hari Kishan guilty of killing Dinesh by giving a knife blow on the left side of his chest and, accordingly, convicted him under section 302 and sentenced him to imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs.5000/- and in default in payment of fine, to a further period of imprisonment for one year. The trial court also convicted accused Shyam Lal, Nain Pal and Kanwar Pal under section 323 of the Penal Code 6 for causing simple injuries to Harkesh (PW-2) and his uncle Kanti Parkash and sentenced them to imprisonment for the period already undergone by them as under-trial and fine of Rs.1000/- each.
11. What is, however, of significance for our purpose is that the trial court disbelieved a substantial part of the prosecution story. The trial court did not accept the prosecution case that accused Nathi and Roshan were present at the place of occurrence and, accordingly, directed their acquittal. As regards Rambir, the trial court pointed out that the three incised wounds on the person of the deceased that were attributed to him were, according to the medical evidence, post-mortem in nature, that is to say, those three injuries were inflicted after Dinesh was already dead. The medical evidence, thus, clearly eliminated the participation of Rambir in the case. He too was, therefore, acquitted. The acquittal of the three accused brought down the number of the remaining accused to less than five. Hence, the aid of section 149 was no longer available to bring about the conviction of the remaining three accused Shyam Lal, Nain Pal and Kanwar Pal under section 302 for the shared common intention with the appellant Hari Kishan to kill Dinesh. Apparently, that was one of the reasons for their conviction simply under section 323.
The trial court further disbelieved the prosecution case that Nain Pal and Kanwar Pal had given lathi bows to Dinesh on his back and observed that this part of the prosecution story was 7 an addition to rope in the two accused and to bring them within the mischief of section 149 of the Penal Code.
12. Apart from the three accused whose presence at the place of occurrence was not accepted, the trial court also doubted the presence of two out of the three eye witnesses, namely Bhim Singh (PW-4) and Suresh Kumar (PW-6) at the time of occurrence. The trial court further held that even Harkesh (PW-2), the only remaining eye witness, had mixed-up truth with falsehood but his testimony was not liable to be discarded wholly since he had himself received injury in the same occurrence. In regard to the injury sustained by Harkesh, the trial court came to a truly amazing conclusion. It was the specific case of the prosecution that the injury to Harkesh on the thumb of his left hand was caused by a knife blow given by Rambir while he was trying to save Dinesh and Harkesh in his deposition before the court also attributed that injury to Rambir. Rambir, however, was held by the trial court to be not present at the place of occurrence. But the injury on the hand of Harkesh was certainly in existence and it was also proved by the medical evidence. The trial court resolved the contradiction by fastening the injury to Harkesh too on to the appellant Hari Kishan even though that was not the case of the prosecution. The appellant Hari Kishan was, thus, held guilty also of causing the knife injury to Harkesh and came to be convicted under section 324 in addition to section 302 of the Penal Code. Under section 324 he was sentenced to rigorous 8 imprisonment for one year. He was also convicted under section 25 of the Arms Act by a separate judgment of the trial court dated February 2, 1998 in Sessions case No. 28 of 1995 and sentenced to the period of imprisonment already undergone as under-trial.
13. Against the two judgments of the trial court, three appeals were filed in the High Court. One (Criminal Appeal No. 206-DB of 1998), by the appellant and the three other accused convicted and sentenced by the trial court as noted above in the main case; the second (Criminal Appeal No. 207-DB of 1998), by the appellant Hari Kishan alone against his conviction under section 25 of Arms Act and the third appeal (Criminal Appeal No. 379-DBA of 1998) was filled at the instance of the State of Haryana against the acquittal of the three accused from all charges and the acquittal of the other three accused from the main charge of murder. Along with the three appeals the complainant also filed a revision (Criminal Revision No. 486 of 1998) agitating similar grievances as in the State's appeal.
14. The High Court by the judgment and order coming under appeal dismissed all the three appeals and the revision and, thus, upheld the judgments of the trial court in all aspects.
15. Mr. J. L. Gupta, Senior Advocate, appearing for the appellant assailed the High Court and the trial court judgments and contended that the appellant's conviction for the offence of murder was not sustainable both in law and on 9 facts. Mr. Gupta submitted that there were at least four circumstances that falsified and completely demolished the prosecution case. First, there was a patent contradiction between the prosecution case and the motive assigned by it to the accused for committing the crime. Secondly, it was undeniable that injuries were fabricated both on the person of the deceased and Harkesh, the only eye witness whose evidence was accepted by the High Court and trial court. Thirdly, the prosecution had indisputably tried to falsely implicate three out of seven accused. Fourthly, the medical evidence completely belied the alleged time and the manner of occurrence.
16. Elaborating the points Mr. Gupta submitted that according to the prosecution the main cause of conflict between the two sides was the election of Suresh Kumar as the village Sarpanch who did not pay any heed to the demands of the accused. If that were so, the accused should have targeted Suresh Kumar and not Dinesh. Suresh Kumar was admittedly present at the time of the occurrence. He was unarmed and was also physically disabled, yet no attempt was made to assault him and he got away without a scratch and in his place Dinesh was killed against whom the accused had no animus.
17. Mr. Gupta further submitted that even according to the prosecution case it was a chance encounter. The accused persons had no means to know that Dinesh would be coming from his baithak to his house to pick up his clothes and would be 10 passing through that particular spot at that particular time, so as to ambush him there, differently armed with gun, knife and lathis.
18. Mr. Gupta next submitted that according to the prosecution case Dinesh was first struck on his back by lathis causing him to fall down on the ground. But in the post-mortem examination, no mark of injury of any kind was found on the back of the deceased. The post-mortem report further showed that three incised wounds (Injuries 2, 3, and 4) were inflicted on his body after he was dead. Obviously, those three injuries could not be attributed to any of the accused.
In other words, the complainant had fabricated the injuries on the dead body of Dinesh with intent to make out a false case against the accused. Further, according to the post-mortem report, the time elapsed between death and post-mortem report was within eighteen hours. This, according to Mr. Gupta, clearly showed that death had taken place sometime the previous evening and not in the morning of June 24.
19. Mr. Gupta further stated that the stab by knife (Injury No. 1) that caused the death of Dinesh had pierced through his heart and would have naturally led to profuse bleeding.
Shortly after receiving the injury the body of Dinesh was picked up from the ground by Harkesh (PW-2) and Bhim Singh (PW-4) to place him in the truck. And yet in reply to questions in the cross-examination Harkesh stated that his clothes or the clothes of Bhim Singh were not stained with 11 blood. No blood stained clothes of Harkesh or Bhim Singh were produced before the police.
20. All these circumstances, according to Mr. Gupta, strongly indicated that the death of Dinesh did not take place in the manner and at the time as claimed by the prosecution.
21. Mr. Gupta further submitted that the conviction of the appellant was based solely on the testimony of Harkesh whose presence at the time of occurrence was extremely doubtful. He once again referred to the medical evidence to support his submission that Harkesh had not received the injuries in the morning of June 24 when Dinesh was alleged to have been killed and hence, he could not have been present at the time of occurrence and he falsely claimed to be an eye witness of the occurrence.
22. On hearing Mr. Gupta and Mr. Alok Sangwan appearing for the State and on going through the judgments of the High Court and the trial court and the evidence on record we find that the submissions of Mr. Gupta are not entirely without substance and at least some of the points raised by him deserve serious consideration.
23. It is seen above that the trial court doubted the presence of Bhim Singh (PW-4) & Suresh Kumar (PW-6) at the place of occurrence and did not accept their testimonies as eye witnesses. Even in regard to Harkesh (PW-2), the only eye witness remaining in the case, the trial court observed that he had mixed up falsehood with truth. Nevertheless, it did not 12 reject his testimony as a whole and accepted his evidence as regards the knife blow given to Dinesh by the appellant because "he (PW-2) had some injuries in that incident as is clear from the statement of Dr. Krishan Kumar (PW-3)" and hence, the presence of Harkesh (PW-2) at the place of occurrence could not be doubted. The High Court has also adopted the same approach and it has described Harkesh as an "injured witness". Mr. Gupta questioned the very premise that the injuries found on the person of Harkesh were caused in the same incident in which Dinesh was killed and which, according to the prosecution case, had taken place in the morning of June 24 and submitted that the trial court and the High Court had completely misread the medical evidence.
24. According to the prosecution, the occurrence in which Dinesh was killed took place shortly after 6.15 in the morning of June 24. Harkesh was medically examined at 7.10 and Kanti Prakash at 7.15 am respectively, that is to say, within an hour when the wounds/injuries on their person would be very fresh.
"1) An incised wound on left hand between the thumb and index finger. 0.3 cm x 0.2 cm skin deep clotted blood was present on the wound.
2) Four contusions Parallel to each other present on the left shoulder and upper part of chest, horizontally placed reaching on the upper arm anteriorally in the area 8"x4" red in colour.
Injury No. 1 was caused by sharp edged weapon and 13 injury No(s). 2 and 3 were caused by blunt weapon.
"1) An abrasion and contusion on the parietal region of scalp in the vertex in the mid lone 11/2 x1cm blood was oozing.
Further PW-3, the doctor who examined Harkesh and Kanti Prakash, in cross-examination, deposed before the court as follows:
"It is correct that the injuries on both these injured have been caused probably on 23/6/95 between 6 PM and 8 PM."
26. Thus, according to the medical evidence, injuries on Harkesh were caused on the evening previous to the morning of June 24, when Dinesh was killed in the alleged occurrence.
This takes away the basis on which he was accepted by the trial court and the High Court as an eye witness notwithstanding his proclivity to mix up falsehood with truth.
27. The submission that Harkesh had received the injuries on the evening of June 23 and not in the morning of June, 24 gains credence from the fact that an incident between the two sides had admittedly taken place on the evening of June 23, 1995.
"On 23.6.95 there was an altercation between the accused and us and it was compromised with the 14 interventions of the respectable of the village."
As regards the incident on the evening of June 23, Harkesh further stated in his cross-examination that:
"Bhim PW was not present at the time of earlier altercation on the previous day i.e. 23.6.95. That altercation lasted for 2 minutes. About 50/60 persons had collected including ladies had collected at that time. There are 4/5 houses near the Chaupal where this altercation took place."
29. In the face of the medical evidence and the admitted position that an incident between the two sides had taken place on the evening of June 23, 1995 it is difficult to accept that the injuries found on the person of Harkesh were received by him in the morning of June 24. From this, either of two inferences would logically follow. One, Harkesh was not present at the occurrence in which Dinesh was killed in the morning of June 24; or the other, the occurrence in which Dinesh was killed did not take place in the morning of June 24 and he was not killed in the manner as suggested by the prosecution. Both the inferences are equally damaging to the prosecution case.
30. Summing up the discussions made up, we have before us a case where a substantial part of the prosecution story has been disbelieved and the conviction of the appellant rests solely on the testimony of Harkesh (PW-2) who does not seem to have particular respect for truth as observed by the trial court. His credibility as an eye witness lay only in that the trial court and the High Court assumed that he had received 15 injuries in the same occurrence in which Dinesh was killed. As shown above that assumption does not appear to be very sound and is not borne out by the evidences on record. In such a situation, we find it highly unsafe to uphold and sustain the appellant's conviction for the offence of murder. To us, it appears that the prudent and safe course would be to give him the benefit of doubt.
31. We, accordingly, allow the Criminal Appeal No. 133/09 and set aside the judgments of the High Court and the trial court and acquit him of the charges under sections 302 & 324.
Criminal Appeal No. 134/09 relating to his conviction under section 25 of the Arms Act was not pressed, presumably because the conviction no longer carries any sentence. This is, accordingly, dismissed.
32. The appellant Hari Kishan is directed to be released forthwith if he is not wanted in any other case. |
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I frigging love Cupcake Central. So being invited to attend their first ever cake pop making class was pretty sweet, literally.
The 12 of us were ushered in at 2pm sharp. Hands were washed, introductions were made (hola Jan and Daisy!), and restraint was exercised against eating all the sweets already laid out on the table, ready to decorate some cake pops.
Sheryl, owner and founder of Cupcake Central, was all warmth and smiles as she threw a few of her fabulous Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes into a bowl, and mooshed them all up to make the cake pop mixture. The secret here is to have enough cream cheese frosting so it doesn’t crumble, but not so much that it won’t set (like the red velvet). We rolled six cake balls each, and they were slotted into the fridge to set.
In the meantime, Sheryl demonstrated how to dip the cake pops in chocolate so there is a glossy and even coat. It is a lot harder than it looks, and the trick is to be careful and patient, two things I am definitely not.
The bakers took over then to show us several methods of cake pop decorating, including how to make a clever little make-shift piping bag from baking paper, as well as how to drizzle pretty swirls of coloured chocolate on our cake pops. I don’t know if I’m just super clumsy (I am), but this also ended up proving to be extremely hard to do well.
Then Sheryl jumped back in to show us how she made her Hello Kitty cake pop. I couldn’t even bring myself to attempt them.
Fifteen minutes later, the cake pops were taken out of the fridge, and sticks were stuck using white chocolate as glue. A lot of the red velvet ones fell apart at this point, so they were replaced by some pre-made coffee ones instead. Once the chocolate glue dried, we were let loose, armed with our creativity and a whole bunch of sugar.
There were some beautiful cake pops being made around the bench, including a perfect little bear-pig and an elephant that almost was, until it fell apart.
Of course, I had to make cake pops of the Harry Potter trio. I wanted to make Snape and Voldemort and Dumbledore too, but crude facial drawings can only get me so far.
Jan on the other hand clearly had no such troubles. She effortlessly made her cake pops into an assortment of adorable cartoon characters, whilst I despairingly scattered way too many sprinkles on the rest of mine.
I had a lot of fun at the workshop, and I definitely learnt quite a lot for when I finally attempt to make my own cake pops. The lessons open to the public sometime in September, so book your spot before they all sell out. Because that happens. Fast.
Hahaha, what do you mean effortlessly?! I think you have forgotten to mention my problematic Hello Kitty? Although I must say it's probably due to my passionate hatred towards Hello Kitty that I've made it to a not-so-effortless task :P
Omg awesome!!! I attended a cake pop lesson once too and it was the most fun. And, as you pointed out, test of will to resist. I may or may not have purposely "wrecked" a few of my own pieces just so I could eat them right away. Glad to hear you kids had a great time. Your creations are fantastic!
Thanks so much, there were some seriously talented people in that class there! I may or may not have shoved balls of ruined cake into my mouth when no one was watching :p
They look sooooo cute!!! XD Great work to everyone! I've never tried making cake pops but I will have to for a friend's wedding candy bar soon. Might need to ask you a thing or 2 if they fail on me. :P
I'll be glad to help except they'll probably just end up worse than what you started off with :p What sort of cake pops are you making?
Great review Ming :) So nice to meet you! I haven't had the chance to blog about this class yet hehe your photos are great too ~
Today my 20 year old daughter and I worked on her version of you owl pillow. She's making it for a friend back at college. It's the cutest thing ever!
Happy New Year to you too Jennifer! You have most definitely had a productive year, and I'm so glad that this year also meant us becoming friends! You are wonderful and I can't wait to see all of the amazing things you come up with in the year ahead!
Happy New Year!! Love reading your blog. I just realized that you are close to me. Do you belong to a quilting group?
Congrats on the wonderful accomplishments...and good luck with your goals! I look forward to seeing your creativity and inspiration in 2010!
Melanie!! I must be living under a rock, because I just found out you have a blog from Debbie's post!!! And in Romantic Homes!!! I'm SO excited and happy for you!!
Congrats on the magazine, i cant waite! I love this reef, looks like something i could leave up yr round.......U are gonna have to splain more Lucy........i wanna know how to make this.........Bonnie
Thanks Guys and Bonnie, you are a nut! How'd you know I loved Lucy? The wreath was a grapevine wreath that I spray painted,then used coffee filters and scrunched up and glued on. Then...I made some felt flowers(you can find on pinterest on how to make)and added them. Pretty simple....
OK I see from the above comments you were in Romantic Homes. How on earth did I miss that. What issue? Hey girlfriend I'm there! |
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Another alternative was considered but rejected by President Obama in 2009: nationalize mega-banks that fail. In a February 2009 article titled “Are Uninsured Bank Depositors in Danger?”, Felix Salmon discussed a newsletter by Asia-based investment strategist Christopher Wood, in which Wood wrote:
Muslim gang crime is draining the resources of the Danish police, so much so, that there virtually is no manpower available to help native Danish citizens when they call.
Islam vs Europe (h/t Susan K) Muslim gangs are rampant in Copenhagen with several shootings every week. The Muslim ghettos in West Copenhagen are also experiencing an epidemic of arson attacks. They may soon have to call out the army and the National Guard to keep the peace.
Police say, ”As it is right now, we do not come when you call for us,” says Morten Rasmussen, who is among officers who answer the phone at the police 112 (911)-central in Copenhagen. Many of the conversations with citizens end up with the police having to explain why no police patrol patrol can be sent to assist a citizen who is calling. He tells about the lack of few patrols on the street, and that far too many people do not get help when needed. Morten Rasmussen find that the strong focus on the gang war in Copenhagen draws resources from solving ‘ordinary’ crime.
“The police, of course, take care of the big cases, such as stabbings, shootings and riots. But concerning everything else, there is basically no police,” says Morten Rasmussen.” 65% of Danes confirm this problem with police response today. Michael Hviid Jacobsen, gang expert and professor at Aalborg University says, “There have never been more gang members on the streets than now. Police last month has jailed 60 gang members. ”‘The recruitment of new immigrant gang members right now is higher than the number of gang members we manage to put in jail.
You can not punish themselves out of this problem alone. Gang crime is here to stay. “The view is shared by Police Inspector Michael Ash, head of the National Police Research Centre. GOV “The Jackal Manifesto” started an extended discussion about Hells Angels in Denmark and the role they have assumed as the spearhead of armed ethnic Danish resistance to immigrant violence.
Even in Denmark — which is relatively free of the PC pathology — the mainstream media and polite society recoil in horror from the thought of a biker club targeting immigrant gangs for reprisals. In order to maintain the pristine purity of their ideological posture, they are forced to avert their eyes from what has caused the Hells Angels’ reaction, and from the failure of the civil authorities to address the urgent issue of violent, lawless, unassimilated Muslim immigrants. But ordinary Danes are not so ready to follow the elite sheep up the ramp into the abattoir. Something primal is awakening in Denmark.
At some point the American people are going to wake up and when they do it will be too late. Too late! Its already too late! The why and how we gave up without a fight will be buried with us...and Obama has the shovel to do it. How many times have you read or heard expressions like, "Lock and load.", "Wake up America.", "Write to you Congressman.", "Make this message go viral!" or "Send this message to everyone you know." ??? Have any of those slogans worked out for you? Has anything changed? No! It keeps on getting worse, day in and day out. So when stories come out about losing our sovereignty its just another story...and most likely 75% of the people have no clue what the word sovereignty means. Even if we changed the line to read, "losing our freedom" nothing gets done about it. So it doesn't matter what the rhetoric is, "you're losing your sovereignty" or "your losing your freedom" the grave's hole gets deeper and deeper.
Now suppose we preceded all news items with a line that included, "You're going to lose your life." Would that stimulate a response? Would you start to defend yourself? The way things are going you will probably do nothing while Obama fulfills the promise of Nikita Khrushchev, "We will bury you!" Its true, America is about to lose her life...and you're doing nothing! The only way to save her is to cut out the cancer and the malignancy goes by the name of Barack Obama (along with some other viruses, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, etc) ...and if the surgical procedure is not completed prior to 2016 Obama will have finished with his shovel. So what's it going to be America? Roll over and die or get out the surgical instruments...
Obama was responding to criticism of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP, which the U.S. has been negotiated with the EU since last July.
Besides creating the world’s biggest free-trade zone, the TTIP will also bring about closer cooperation between EU and U.S. regulatory bodies while more closely integrating the two economies.
One leak about the TTIP revealed a proposed “Regulatory Cooperation Council” that would evaluate existing regulations in the U.S. and EU and recommend future rules while coordinating a response to the current regulations.
Writing in the left-leaning the Nation magazine, foreign policy analyst Andrew Erwin said the TTIP was less about reducing tariffs and “more about weakening the power of average citizens to defend themselves against corporate labor and environmental abuses.”
Erwin took particular issue with a section in the TTIP called the Investor-State Dispute Settlement, which stipulates foreign corporations can sue the government utilizing a special international tribunal instead of the country’s own domestic system that uses U.S. law.
“The tribunals are not accountable to any national public or democratically elected body,” wrote Erwin.
Last December, a coalition of more than 200 environmentalists, labor unions and consumer advocacy organizations drafted a letter asking for the Investor-State Dispute Settlement section to be dropped.
The New York Times, meanwhile, reported earlier this week that some American companies “are concerned that protections for investors will not be part of a deal.”
While Obama is negotiating the TTIP largely in secret, talks continue to forge ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. The expansive plan is a proposed free-trade agreement between the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
On Tuesday, the leaders of Canada and Japan reportedly met on the sidelines of a nuclear summit at the Hague to discuss the TPP.
Last October, the White House website released a joint statement with the other proposed TPP signatories affirming “our countries are on track to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.”
“Despite the fact the deal may significantly affect the way we live our lives by limiting our public protections, there has been no public access to even the most fundamental draft agreement texts and other documents,” read the letter.
The missive was signed by advocacy groups such as OpenTheGovernment.org, Project On Government Oversight, ARTICLE 19 and the Global Campaign for Freedom of Expression and Information.
The groups warned issues being secretly negotiated include “patent and copyright, land use, food and product standards, natural resources, professional licensing, government procurement, financial practices, healthcare, energy, telecommunications, and other service sector regulations.”
Normally free-trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., recently proposed legislation requiring the White House to disclose all TPP documents to members of Congress.
Amnesty International USA warned draft TPP provisions related to patents for pharmaceuticals “risk stifling the development and production of generic medicines, by strengthening and deepening monopoly protections.”
Another leak revealed the TPP would grant more incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore, Wallach and Beachy related.
Jim Hightower, a progressive activist, wrote the TPP incorporates elements similar to the Stop Online Piracy Act.
Hightower wrote the deal would “transform Internet service providers into a private, Big Brother police force, empowered to monitor our ‘user activity,’ arbitrarily take down our content and cut off our access to the Internet.”
Indeed, Internet freedom advocacy groups have been protesting the TPP, taking specific issue with leaked proposals that would enact strict intellectual property restraints that would effectively change U.S. copyright law.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued the TPP would “restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector.”
In a petition signed by more than 30 Internet freedom organizations, the group warned the TPP would “rewrite global rules on intellectual property enforcement.”
He wrote a brilliant op-ed in the Washington Times, arguing that it’s time for blacks to stand up and refuse to let Uncle Sam raise their kids, which is exactly what liberals are trying to do with their big-government programs. He writes:
What these race provocateurs do not want to admit is the reason we are seeing more disruptive behavior in schools is because of poor and ineffective parenting, manifested by liberal policies.
On top of that, more black people are living in poverty than ever before, our kids are chained to failing urban schools and more young black men are unemployed and in jail and prison. Liberal public policies and ideology have fostered this. [...]
You would have to absolutely loathe black people to want to keep them mired in generational poverty and ignorance, living in ghettos with high unemployment, with their kids shackled to failing K-12 urban school systems and crime-ridden neighborhoods just to secure a permanent voting majority and to hang onto political power.
Black people are survivors. We have survived slavery, Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination. We can overcome the burden of liberal policies if they just leave us alone to get out of this predicament by ourselves.
I find it insulting that liberals view us in such an infantile manner, implying that we cannot make it without their help.
Once we free our minds of this debilitating government dependency and liberals get their boot off our necks, we can begin to rebuild our community.
Wow. Sheriff Clarke just hit the nail on the head. Liberal social policies from the New Deal to the Great Society to Obamacare are hitting black communities the hardest. The problems that plague the black community can be traced back to all the attempts by liberals to “help” them.
We hope to see more black patriots like Sheriff Clarke, Tim Scott, Allen West, Ben Carson, and others who have had enough of liberals treating blacks as pawns in order to keep themselves in power while destroying their communities through their policies.
1. History of the Democratic Party's violence and anti black civil rights White supremacists worked club in hand with Democrats for decades
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A father and son were ice fishing in Ontario, Canada, a couple weeks ago when they hooked a lake trout so large they were afraid they wouldn’t be able to fit it through the hole.
“Yes, this is a 20,” the fisherman said as the rod was bowed to such a degree it’s a wonder it didn’t snap. “Stay on their big boy.”
“Oh this is a big fish,” the father fisherman said later, shaking his head as he continued to work it in.
After they finally got it out of the hole, the lake trout measured in at 43.75 inches — that’s more than three feet long.
The son filming the video laughed as his father, holding the gaff hook, just stared in disbelief for a moment.
Watch the footage, which if you don’t have time to watch the eight minutes of power struggle, skip to 0:7:37 to see the fish being gaffed and brought up (Content warning: strong language):
Anne Schaffer, who posted the video on YouTube, wrote in a comment that the fish was caught on a lake in Atikokan, Ontario.
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Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation of Obama’s campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his personal records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. Attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter… LET OTHER FOLKS KNOW THIS NEWS, THE MEDIA WON’T! Subject: RE: Issue of Passport? While I’ve little interest in getting in the middle of the Obama birth issue, Paul Hollrah over at FSM did so yesterday and believes the issue can be resolved by Obama answering one simple question: What passport did he use when he was shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi ? So how did a young man who arrived in New York in early June 1981, without the price of a hotel room in his pocket, suddenly come up with the price of a round-the-world trip just a month later? And once he was on a plane, shuttling between New York , Jakarta , and Karachi , what passport was he offering when he passed through Customs and Immigration? The American people not only deserve to have answers to these questions, they must have answers. It makes the debate over Obama’s citizenship a rather short and simple one Q: Did he travel to Pakistan in 1981, at age 20? A : Yes, by his own admission. Q: What passport did he travel under? A: There are only three possibilities. 1) He traveled with a U.S. … Passport, 2) He traveled with a British passport, or 3) He traveled with an Indonesia passport. Q: Is it possible that Obama traveled with a U.S. Passport in 1981? A: No. It is not possible. Pakistan was on the U.S. . State Department’s “no travel” list in 1981. Conclusion: When Obama went to Pakistan in 1981 he was traveling either with a British passport or an Indonesian passport. If he were traveling with a British passport that would provide proof that he was born in Kenya on August 4, 1961, not in Hawaii as he claims.. And if he were traveling with an Indonesian passport that would tend to prove that he relinquished whatever previous citizenship he held, British or American, prior to being adopted by his Indonesian step-father in 1967. Whatever the truth of the matter, the American people need to know how he managed to become a “natural born” American citizen between 1981 and 2008. Given the destructive nature of his plans for America, as illustrated by his speech before Congress and the disastrous spending plan he has presented to Congress, the sooner we learn the truth of all this, the better. |
"Of all the things she just said, skipping to the end of a book is what bothers you most?" Jake asked.
It's not the first time I read Harper's book. I had read her Nice Girl series (just book 1, Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs :P) and already like her quirky and nerdy humor. I pick Better Home and Hauntings since this one is just a stand alone and perfect for a quick read. Actually, I read this book in 2 days because of my hectic schedule, but I'm glad that in the end, the story left me with warm fuzzy feeling! :D
I don't like ghost. Pronto. From all paranormal and supernatural creature, ghost is what I hate the most. Zombies are second *shudders* . It's just I easily scared and since right now I live alone in my cramped apartment unit (hubby is work long long away), my wild imagination sometimes is running amok, especially in the night. So I brave myself to read Better Homes and Hauntings. The ghost part actually not too much, but still give me heebies-jeebies. Some ghost part that Harper wrote will freak me out! Like the scene when there was ghost in one of character's bed!! >.<
The story itself is pretty simple tho. Nina Linden is a gardener, she come to Crane's Nest to restore the building to its former glory. Nina herself kinda try to rebuild her self-esteem, after her business partner screw her company, Demeter Design. But, Crane's Nest have its own curse, and the current owner, the tech-billionaire Deacon Whitney who happen to hire Nina, didn't believe it. His cousin, Dotty Whitney, think otherwise though. She had been curious to solved the mystery behind the Whitney family curse, began with the death of her great-great grandmother, Catherine Whitney. Rumors have it that Catherine murdered by her jealous husband, Gerald, for having affair with her old flame, Jack Donovan. Nina not alone tho, she had company, Cindy Ellis who run cleaning service and Jake Rumson, Deacon's friend that Cindy seems to love to hate because "a past incident".
At first, Nina and co. didn't believe the ghost, nor the hauntings that they feel. But day by day, the appearance getting stronger. Nina also got a vision, like Catherine's spirit want to tell her something. The gang, together with skeptical Deacon, try to revealed the mystery behind Catherine's death. Because you know, when ghosts try to tell you something, something fishy must be going on. What lay behind Catherine's grave? Reader must find out what truly happen to her and is it really Gerald murder his own wife in cold blood.
Better Homes and Hauntings have multiple POVs, therefore the story didn't focus to just Nina. The romance also not always between Nina and Deacon. Harper also wrote about Jake and Cindy. Even the main focus of course still to Nina and Deacon, the other characters also have their part as well. In the end they are bonded and become a new family. I usually rolling my eyes when reading about billionaire hero (with FSoG that I hate the most come out, the wave of billionaire heroes is....make me not amused). Deacon is a tech-billionaire, kinda like Mark Zuckenberg with his FB, he invented a social media called EyeDee. But, I feel grateful because even Deacon is a billionaire per se, he's a beta hero! A nerd to the core! My heart is so delighted to read about mythology banter between Nina and Deacon. You have me at the mythology, Harper! Even its Greek one *grumble. Reading about Deacon make me remember Roarke. Sigh...I can't believe I haven't read In Death for long. Might try to do some revisit.
If Nina and Deacon romance is blossoming slow but sure, Cindy and Jake's is about reconciliation. They used to date, but Jake forgot it, so Cindy always act hostile to him from the start. It's nice to see how they work their differences. While Cindy at first look like blonde bimbo, she's not one. Cindy is so independent and provide a strong friendship bond to Nina. Alas, no hero for Dotty, but I like her quirky personification! She is the most open minded of them all, but strangely, the phenomenon didn't happen to her, make she quite irritated. I like reading the friendship between Nina, Cindy and Dotty. Sure there some skanky bitchy character, you must use the trope after all, but Harper wrote it so smoothly. So many nerd references, and if you are nerd, you will looooove it. Back to Nina and Deacon, I really love how unusual their relationship. My favorite part is when he proposed to her using...cell phone. Yep, you read it right. Cellphone. Is it not romantic? I just go..awwww XD.
Despite the slow start and maybe some plot hole regarding the ghost and family history, this book still make me smile and feel happy. In the other side, this book kinda make me scared a little bit, I sleep with the light on! I must remember to not read anything ghostly when it's Thursday night, (It's the local superstition) phew! I will recommend Better Homes and Hauntings to anyone who want to read a light paranormal romance, with unusual relationship, many nerd references and a great friendship between the female characters (which.. I don't know, it's seems so rare!)
"I can't bring you flowers," he said, gesturing to the garden. "You seem to be afraid of expensive jewelry. So making your life a little easier is going to be how I show you I love you, all day, every day, for the rest of our lives."
"Well, how could a girl resist an offer like that?" she asked, taking the phone out of the box. She turned it on and sighed. " You put a Master Gardener app on here."
"The 'all day, every day' speech didn't get her, but a gardening app did?" Jake whispered as Nina threw her arms around Deacon's neck and kissed him, whispering "Yes, yes" against his lips. |
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel,” which means, “God with us.”
Every year I am struck with that phrase, “God with us.” The phrase is quite commonplace during this time of year, so it can be easy to gloss over and miss the magnitude of that phrase or be struck with wonder by the idea of God coming near. I am guilty of it myself, but perhaps if worded differently, it may give us reason to take pause and bask in the enormity of the miracle that we celebrate over Christmas. As I was reading about the people present for the first Christmas in my devotional, it described it as
WOW! There is no other moment in history like this, where humanity and the divine came together, took on flesh, in the form of a baby, so we could have hope, and we could have life. Can you imagine what it would have been like to be there?!
As we enter into this Christmas season, let us remember what it is he came to do. He came to serve, he came to love, he came to enter in to our pain and suffering and ultimately redeem all of it through a cross.
During the business of the holidays, I love that our Adopt a Family gives me opportunity to follow Christ’s example and “enter in” on some level to people’s pain and suffering and encourage people with God’s love. Through this program, I meet single mom’s who have to decide to pay an electric bill or buy a gift for their child. I meet fathers who are unemployed or struck by illness and carry the shame and burden of not being able to provide for their families. I meet kids who have woken up to no presents under the tree wondering what they did wrong and why Santa missed their house. And while presents don’t bring true happiness and certainly not eternal salvation, Adopt a Family is an incredible opportunity to enter into their struggle, even in this small way, and remind them that Christ sees their struggle and is present in their pain in greater ways than I ever could. We send the message that he cares and he provides.
Our Adopt a Family program is in full swing, and there is still time to get involved. If you would like to Adopt a Family or find out other ways to participate, please visit our website, www.noheartleftbehind.com. All gifts and donations need to be collected by December 10th.
In closing, I can think of no better words as we ponder the events of the first Christmas than those of Dr. Charles Swindoll when he says, “Christmas is an invitation to slow down and think deeper. I invite you to touch the infant skin of the God-Man with your imagination. I invite you to wonder as the shepherds wondered and to worship as the wise men did.” This Christmas my prayer is that you would be blessed with new wonder when you think about our Savior’s birth. Merry Christmas from No Heart Left Behind!
P.S.-We ask that you prayerfully consider a financial gift to No Heart Left Behind for your end of the year giving. End of the year giving is crucial to sustaining the ministry through the first few months of the upcoming year. A gift of any amount is a huge blessing to us. All gifts are tax-deductible.
CHRISTMAS ADOPT A FAMILY PROGRAM Our Christmas Adopt a Family Program looks to share the love of Christ through the giving of Christmas gifts to struggling families in our community. APPLYING FOR ASSISTANCE If you are in need of assistance this holiday season, please print the form and call Abby at 985-264-8808 to arrange drop […]
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102:3.2 (1121.4) Religious speculation is inevitable but always detrimental; speculation invariably falsifies its object. Speculation tends to translate religion into something material or humanistic, and thus, while directly interfering with the clarity of logical thought, it indirectly causes religion to appear as a function of the temporal world, the very world with which it should everlastingly stand in contrast. Therefore will religion always be characterized by paradoxes, the paradoxes resulting from the absence of the experiential connection between the material and the spiritual levels of the universe — morontia mota, the superphilosophic sensitivity for truth discernment and unity perception.
102:3.5 (1122.1) Science, knowledge, leads to fact consciousness; religion, experience, leads to value consciousness; philosophy, wisdom, leads to co-ordinate consciousness; revelation (the substitute for morontia mota) leads to the consciousness of true reality; while the co-ordination of the consciousness of fact, value, and true reality constitutes awareness of personality reality, maximum of being, together with the belief in the possibility of the survival of that very personality.
102:3.10 (1122.6) Science seeks to identify, analyze, and classify the segmented parts of the limitless cosmos. Religion grasps the idea-of-the-whole, the entire cosmos. Philosophy attempts the identification of the material segments of science with the spiritual-insight concept of the whole. Wherein philosophy fails in this attempt, revelation succeeds, affirming that the cosmic circle is universal, eternal, absolute, and infinite. This cosmos of the Infinite I AM is therefore endless, limitless, and all-inclusive — timeless, spaceless, and unqualified. And we bear testimony that the Infinite I AM is also the Father of Michael of Nebadon and the God of human salvation.
102:3.11 (1122.7) Science indicates Deity as a fact; philosophy presents the idea of an Absolute; religion envisions God as a loving spiritual personality. Revelation affirms the unity of the fact of Deity, the idea of the Absolute, and the spiritual personality of God and, further, presents this concept as our Father — the universal fact of existence, the eternal idea of mind, and the infinite spirit of life.
102:3.13 (1122.9) In science, the idea precedes the expression of its realization; in religion, the experience of realization precedes the expression of the idea. There is a vast difference between the evolutionary will-to-believe and the product of enlightened reason, religious insight, and revelation — the will that believes.
102:4.2 (1123.2) What is human experience? It is simply any interplay between an active and questioning self and any other active and external reality. The mass of experience is determined by depth of concept plus totality of recognition of the reality of the external. The motion of experience equals the force of expectant imagination plus the keenness of the sensory discovery of the external qualities of contacted reality. The fact of experience is found in self-consciousness plus other-existences — other-thingness, other-mindness, and other-spiritness.
102:4.3 (1123.3) Man very early becomes conscious that he is not alone in the world or the universe. There develops a natural spontaneous self-consciousness of other-mindness in the environment of selfhood. Faith translates this natural experience into religion, the recognition of God as the reality — source, nature, and destiny — of other-mindness. But such a knowledge of God is ever and always a reality of personal experience. If God were not a personality, he could not become a living part of the real religious experience of a human personality.
102:6.6 (1125.1) Though reason can always question faith, faith can always supplement both reason and logic. Reason creates the probability which faith can transform into a moral certainty, even a spiritual experience. God is the first truth and the last fact; therefore does all truth take origin in him, while all facts exist relative to him. God is absolute truth. As truth one may know God, but to understand — to explain — God, one must explore the fact of the universe of universes. The vast gulf between the experience of the truth of God and ignorance as to the fact of God can be bridged only by living faith. Reason alone cannot achieve harmony between infinite truth and universal fact.
102:8.4 (1127.8) Ethics is the external social or racial mirror which faithfully reflects the otherwise unobservable progress of internal spiritual and religious developments. Man has always thought of God in the terms of the best he knew, his deepest ideas and highest ideals. Even historic religion has always created its God conceptions out of its highest recognized values. Every intelligent creature gives the name of God to the best and highest thing he knows.
102:8.7 (1128.3) But religion is never enhanced by an appeal to the so-called miraculous. The quest for miracles is a harking back to the primitive religions of magic. True religion has nothing to do with alleged miracles, and never does revealed religion point to miracles as proof of authority. Religion is ever and always rooted and grounded in personal experience. And your highest religion, the life of Jesus, was just such a personal experience: man, mortal man, seeking God and finding him to the fullness during one short life in the flesh, while in the same human experience there appeared God seeking man and finding him to the full satisfaction of the perfect soul of infinite supremacy. And that is religion, even the highest yet revealed in the universe of Nebadon — the earth life of Jesus of Nazareth. |
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1 HOUSTON LAWYER REFERRAL SERVICE, INC. APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP The Houston Lawyer Referral Service, Inc. (HLRS) is a non-profit corporation sponsored by the Houston Bar Association, Houston Young Lawyers Association, Asian-American Lawyers Association, Association of Women Attorneys, Hispanic Bar Association of Houston, Houston Lawyers Association, Houston Trial Lawyers Association, Mexican-American Bar Association of Houston, North Harris County Bar Association and Pasadena Bar Association. Any attorney in the greater Houston metropolitan area who is admitted to practice in the state of Texas, has an office and primary practice in the HLRS service region, is in good standing with the State Bar of Texas (SBOT) and agrees to abide by the Rules of Membership and all other policies of HLRS may seek membership. Attorneys should recognize the purpose of HLRS is to assist the general public in obtaining access to legal advice and counsel and to provide information about available legal services. HLRS is a community service project of the legal profession and exists for the benefit of the public. RULES OF MEMBERSHIP Definition of the Term Attorney(s) and Legal Fee(s) - The term attorney(s) refers to any HLRS panel member as well as any other attorney who represents an HLRS-referred client. The term legal fee(s) refers to any sum received by any HLRS panel member as well as any other attorney who represents an HLRS-referred client, even if inappropriately referred to a non-panel attorney. This applies to any and all work that arises from the initial referral, i.e., claims that arise out of the initial claim/cross-claim. In consideration for membership, reapplication for membership, or as a member of HLRS, the attorney agrees to: 1. Full-Time Practice - Engage in the full-time private practice of law unless prior approval is obtained from the HLRS Board of Trustees. 2. Business Office - Maintain a primary private practice within the HLRS service area and a business office in which to receive clients that is not attached to or connected with any residence, unless the HLRS Board of Trustees grants an exception. 3. Professional Liability Coverage - Maintain in force and effect professional liability insurance in the minimum amount of $100,000/$300,000, furnish HLRS with a copy of the current declarations page of said policy upon request, and notify HLRS of policy cancellation or termination within fifteen (15) days. 4. Insurance Carrier Authorization - Authorize the insurance carrier of said professional liability insurance to supply HLRS with any information it requests concerning the policy, including notification of cancellation or renewal. 5. Fifteen-Day Notice of Administrative Changes - Send to HLRS in writing, within fifteen (15) days of effective date: a) changes in address, telephone number, fax number, address; or 1
2 b) categories of law in which the member would like to receive referrals: and c)vacations away from the office exceeding three (3) days. 6. Disclosure of Conduct - New applicants and members have a continuing obligation to report the following matters at any time during the application process or while a member of HLRS. Failure to do so when making original application or within fifteen (15) days after the event is grounds for denial or termination of membership: a. Disciplinary Sanctions - This includes disclosure of any sanctions past or present by the SBOT, a district court in Texas, or an entity in another state that has authority over attorney discipline. Specific sanctions include disbarment, resignation, suspension, reprimand (public or private), pending inquiries or complaints, pending grievance matters submitted to an evidentiary panel, a disciplinary law suit, orders of rehabilitation, or referral to the Professional Enhancement Program of SBOT. b. Finding of Just Cause - This includes disclosure if you have received notification from a district grievance committee of the SBOT or similar designated entity in another state that a finding of just cause, as defined in Section 1.06(P) of the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure has been made against you. c. Criminal Matters - This includes disclosure of a criminal indictment, criminal information, any criminal conviction, except Class C Misdemeanors, or crimes involving a maximum punishment of fine only. d. Malpractice Matters - This includes disclosure of any pending suit(s) for legal malpractice or other private civil action alleging attorney misconduct. e. Other Lawyer Referral Service Matters - This includes disclosure of any current disputes, suspensions, and/or terminations from any lawyer referral program. 7. Personal Meeting with HLRS Executive - Acquire an understanding of the systems and procedures of HLRS by means of a personal interview with the Executive Director of HLRS prior to participation as a member. 8. Phone Call Policy - Contact a referred individual within twenty-four (24) hours of the potential client s call or . If personally unable to respond to contact from a potential client, have someone from the member s office do so. 9. Follow-Up Policy - The SBOT has provided an informal position stating that under Rules 7.01 and 7.02 of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct (TDRPC), attorney contact with prospective clients in writing is permissible provided the contents of the writing comport with Rule The safest application of Rule 7.02 discourages direct contact by the attorney unless the client has first attempted to contact the attorney or has affirmatively indicated a desire to be contacted by the attorney. HLRS strives to transfer referred individuals to an attorney s offices, thereby facilitating contact between a potential client and the referred attorney. 10. Conflict of Interest - Quickly determine whether a conflict of interest exists, and, if so, to immediately refer the client back to HLRS. 11. Referral Process - All prospective clients will be referred to individual members, rather than the member s office, on a rotational basis within each panel. Each member to whom the potential client is referred is individually responsible for providing an initial consultation. Further services may be administered in conjunction with another attorney in the office pursuant to normal office procedures. 2
3 Each attorney is expected to handle referral clients with the same courtesy and diligence as nonreferral clients. No member shall be obligated to render service to a referred client. 12. Referral Policy - When HLRS makes a referral, the member may not recommend or refer the client to another attorney. A member who transfers, in whole or in part, responsibility of any matter referred by HLRS to another attorney(s), remains contractually liable for any fees owed, and remains liable for collection and/or payment of any fees owed HLRS. A member shall pay HLRS fifteen percent (15%) of the total legal fee(s) received by any/all attorney(s) involved. Members are required to refer individuals back to the HLRS when not accepting a referral as a client. 13. Maintaining Responsibility and Control of Referred Matters - Maintain responsibility for and control of any initial and subsequent matter related to the initial referral. A member shall not transfer responsibility or control of any matter referred by HLRS without the knowledge and permission of HLRS, unless required by law or court order. Additionally, should the member find it to be in the best interest of the client, the member may ask another attorney outside the firm to act or to serve as co-counsel on the matter. The member shall notify HLRS of any such arrangement and remain responsible for the remittance of the fifteen percent (15%) fee due HLRS on all legal fees unless written approval from HLRS is obtained. 14. Scope of Work - The obligation to abide by HLRS rules and pay appropriate legal fees remain for all work related to the initial referral. Subsequent referral means any work that has resulted or arises from the initial referral, i.e., claims that arise out of the initial claim/cross-claim. 15. Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 952 and Consultation and Percentage Fee Policy - Charge each client referred by HLRS and interviewed by or retained for additional service a fee of twenty dollars ($20) for the initial thirty (30)-minute consultation, unless law prohibits such fee or HLRS waives the fee. The initial fee shall be charged by the member who shall, within thirty (30) days after receipt, remit fifteen dollars ($15) to HLRS, unless HLRS waives the fee. The initial fee shall include an initial legal consultation between the client and the member of at least one-half hour unless terminated earlier by client. Chapter 952 of the State of Texas Occupations Code states that a member may not charge more than twenty dollars ($20) for the initial thirty (30) minutes of consultation, and that a member s bill to a potential client referred by HLRS may not exceed the total cost including legal fees and expenses that the client would be required to pay if HLRS had not referred the client. If the member expects to seek compensation for a longer consultation, the member and the client shall establish in advance a fee agreement therefore. Under no circumstances shall the attorney use the initial half -hour consultation exclusively to discuss fees and then bill the client at the member s regular rate for a half- hour of substantive legal consultation. 16. Written Agreements/Retention Letter with Clients - Enter into a written fee agreement for all matters in which clients are charged fees in addition to the initial thirty (30)-minute consultation fee. Notify the client at the outset of representation that a portion of the fees is payable to HLRS and HLRS is entitled: - (a) to know the outcome of any legal representation, - (b) the legal fees received, and - (c) to audit the file to determine if HLRS has received the appropriate amounts. Upon the settlement of any such action, the attorney shall be obligated to include HLRS with those who have a right to know about a settlement, to the extent necessary to allow HLRS to have knowledge of the terms of the settlement, including all legal fees paid in the case, whether paid directly by another party, or by settlement proceeds, so that HLRS may determine the portion of the legal fees to which HLRS is entitled. 3
4 17. Percentage Fee Schedule - Contribute fees, as described below, to HLRS when, as a result of a referral, an attorney has conducted an in-office consultation and/or has been retained, hired for additional services or otherwise receives a fee. Fees are paid based upon the following schedule: a. Initial consultation only, or total legal fee(s) of less than $250- remit only $15fee to HLRS, or; b. Referral generates total legal fee(s) between $250 and $499 (except Reduced- Fee cases - remit no percentage fee) - remit the initial $15 consultation fee plus an additional $10, or; c. Referral generates total legal fee(s) of $500 or more (except Reduced- Fee cases - remit no percentage fees) - remit the initial $15 consultation fee plus an additional fifteen percent 15% of the total legal fee(s). Consultation and percentage fee payments will be remitted to HLRS within thirty (30) days of being earned and received. If a member fails to pay the fees owed within thirty (30) days of receipt of payment for services (this applies to all fee arrangements, e.g., hourly, set, contingent, retainer, hybrid) the member will be required to pay HLRS an administrative fee equal to ten percent (10%) of the total fees, plus any legal fees and expenses incurred by HLRS in an effort to collect the outstanding sums owed to HLRS. 18. Concluding a Case - Provide HLRS with a full accounting document that records total fees received on all retained matters when remitting the final payment to close the file with HLRS. Appropriate documents include, but are not limited to, the following: a copy of the accounting to the client, final billing statement, or settlement sheet. HLRS agrees to maintain complete confidentiality and will shred all settlement/closing documents within ten (10) days after full payment is received. HLRS must receive all fees within thirty (30) days from the receipt of any legal fees. If a member fails to report total fees earned or received, the case is not considered closed and administrative fees may be assessed. Additionally, HLRS may assign a value to any unreported or open matter that can be used should the case be assigned to the collections process. 19. Pay Appropriate Membership Fees - The HLRS fiscal year is July 1 through June 30. The annual listing fee should be paid according to the schedule below: a. Member of Sponsoring Bar - $205; after February 1 of current fiscal year - $105; or b. Member of Non-Sponsoring Bar - $230; after February 1 of current fiscal year - $120. An additional $25 fee is required for participation on each Experienced Panel. Additionally, if a member has more than one office in the five-county area serviced by HLRS, an additional $125 listing fee per office must be remitted to receive referrals at that geographic location. When renewing membership, dues are due by July 1; membership will continue through the expiration of the HLRS processing period, July Collections - Failure to pay fees owed HLRS will result in a collections action. If a member fails to pay fees owed HLRS within the thirty- (30-) day period, the member may be required to pay HLRS an administrative fee equal to ten percent (10%) of the total fees plus all legal fees and any expenses, including fees of the court incurred by HLRS in an effort to collect the outstanding sums owed. Delinquent sums due and owing to HLRS shall bear interest at the rate of eighteen percent (18%) per annum, compounded monthly. 4
5 21. Status Reporting and Tracking - Inform HLRS of the status of referred clients by returning the reporting slip(s) and noting the proper disposition(s) within thirty (30) days of the date referred. Failure to do so will result in suspending the member from further referrals until the required information is received. During suspension, a member will receive no new referrals, though the member is obligated to remit fees and complete reports as otherwise required herein. A member shall track all HLRS referrals beyond the initial reporting period and notify HLRS of any change in disposition. HLRS recommends use of computer tracking software to provide adequate tracking of all retained clients. 22. HLRS Rules of Membership and Suspension, Termination and/or Compliance Policies - Abide by the Rules of Membership for HLRS. A violation of any HLRS rule(s) may result in suspension or termination from HLRS. If a member fails to uphold any rule(s), the member will be notified of the violation(s) and the member s HLRS membership may be removed without refund of dues. The member may appeal the removal in writing as defined in the Suspension, Termination, and Compliance Policy, to HLRS within thirty (30) days of receiving notification of removal. Any member may resign or withdraw from a panel or panels at any time. However, the attorney remains obligated to provide completed reports for all referrals, pay all fees due to HLRS, and satisfy any other obligation to HLRS pursuant to the Rules of Membership. 23. Client Surveys - Cooperate with HLRS in regard to client surveys that ask HLRS clients specific questions to determine satisfaction with the service provided by HLRS staff and attorney members. 24. Dispute Resolution with Clients - Submit any disputes regarding fees with clients referred by HLRS to the Houston Bar Association Fee Dispute Committee for binding arbitration, if the client so elects. 25. Dispute Resolution between Attorney and HLRS - Submit any dispute between the member and HLRS to the Dispute Resolution Center for binding arbitration. Any dispute not resolved using this process may be turned over for court intervention. Some disputes may be appropriate for resolution through the Fee Dispute Committee of the Houston Bar Association for binding arbitration, pursuant to the rules, regulations, and procedures of that Committee. In this regard, if the Fee Dispute Committee issues a ruling in favor of HLRS and the member does not promptly pay the award in full within ten (10) days of its issuance, HLRS may take further action to confirm the award in a judgment and to collect on the judgment. The member agrees in any instance that the courts are involved, HLRS will be authorized to increase the amount of the arbitration award to include all reasonable legal fees incurred by HLRS after the date of issuance of the award by the Fee Dispute Committee. If the member refuses to submit to the arbitration process of the Fee Dispute Committee, HLRS will be authorized to take any legal action it deems appropriate, and will be entitled to recover from the member, in addition to the amount of the claim, all legal fees incurred by HLRS. However, under no circumstance will HLRS ever be responsible for any attorneys' fees incurred by the member in connection with any dispute with HLRS. 26. Audits - Allow HLRS or its agents to examine and audit, in accordance with the Audit Policy, members financial or accounting records and the legal and accounting file with regard to referred clients if a question arises between the member and HLRS with respect to fees owed HLRS. The audit may include, but is not limited to, chart of accounts, general ledger-trial balance reports, balance sheet, income statements, invoices, bank deposit records, trust account records, court filing records, calendars, appointment records, time sheets, docket sheets, engagement letters, fee agreements and contracts with HLRS clients, and all other related documents whether written or electronic. HLRS reserves the right to take all necessary actions, including appropriate collection 5
6 efforts, to determine and assess whether and to what extent a member has remitted all fees owed to HLRS. This applies to current members as well as former members still owing fees to HLRS. 27. Indemnity - Indemnify and hold harmless the HLRS and its officers, directors, members, and employees from any and all claims, demands, actions, liability, or loss that may rise from, or be incurred as a result of any and all referrals of clients, or lack thereof, to the member through HLRS and attributed to allegations or claims of professional malpractice. 28. Prohibition of HLRS Name or Logo - No attorney shall be permitted to use the HLRS name or logo in any advertising medium without prior written consent from the Board of Trustees of HLRS. 29. Sole Discretion - Abide by the decisions concerning membership. The Executive Director and the HLRS Board of Trustees shall have the authority to review the legal ability and the personal reliability and integrity of each member, to deny initial or continued membership on any panel, to renew or not to renew any member's application of membership, to limit the participation of any member on any panel and/or from general membership, to remove any member from any panel, or to remove from or deny initial or continued membership in HLRS for any other reason that the Board of Trustees shall deem appropriate in its sole discretion. 30. Compliance with Law - Comply with all federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to services that are rendered to the public, including but not limited to, 29 U.S.C. 784 et seq. (Rehabilitation Act), 42 U.S.C. 2000e (Title VII), and 42 U.S.C (ADA); and abide by the Texas Occupation Code, Chapter 952, Texas Professional Code of Ethics and Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct. 32. No Assurance - HLRS does not guarantee, promise, or assure fee-generating referrals will result from membership on any HLRS panel. 33. Rules Subject to Change - The Rules of Membership are subject to change without notice. Captions - The captions appearing at the beginning of paragraphs are descriptive only and for convenience of reference. Should there be any conflict between any such caption and the paragraph in which such caption appears, the paragraph and not the caption shall control and govern in the construction of the Rules of Membership. HLRS is certified to operate a lawyer referral program as required by the State of Texas under Chapter 952, Occupation Code, Certificate Number NOTE: PAYMENTS MADE TO HLRS ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE AS CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS. Last updated 5/09 6
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2) Tell me the names and addresses of the dental practices who has had the most complaints over the last 3 years. Give me the top 1. - PDF
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1 Dear Further to your request under the Freedom of Information Act ref: JH/FOI/07979, I am now in a position to respond as below. I have included your questions for ease of reference. 1) Please provide a breakdown by type and nature of all complaints for all dental providers since 2006 to present. In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000, providing this information would exceed the appropriate limit, as set in section 12.1 of the Act. We have, however, been able to provide some of the information requested, within the appropriate limit. Please see word document attached entitled dental complaints 2009-Sept ) Tell me the names and addresses of the dental practices who has had the most complaints over the last 3 years. Give me the top 1. Please also see attached document. The top dental practice for complaints is: Dental Works Unit 1 Station House 500 Elder Gate Central Milton Keynes MK9 1BB 3) What has the PCT done to address the complaints from the worst dental practice, signified by the highest number of complaints. All complaints received by NHS MK will be assigned a lead investigator. For dental complaints the lead investigator will be either a member of the Dental Public Health Team or a member of the Primary Care Contracting Team dependant upon the nature of the complaint, and whether this was in relation to contracting or clinical issues. Any on going assurance or monitoring would be undertaken as part of contract monitoring or Dental Advisor practice visits. 4) How many complaints have been made against the Complaints Manager and PCT dental team? 5) What was the nature of these complaints against the Complaints Manager and PCT dental team? 6) What has been the outcome of the complaints made against the Complaints Manager and PCT dental team? The following response covers questions 4, 5 & 6: We do not have a complaints manager. All complaints are handled by the Clinical Standards Team. If you are asking for all complaints made against NHS MK by dental practices, the answer is none. If however, you are asking for complaints from any source, the answer is one, and the outcome was that this complaint was found to be unfounded; therefore the details of this will not be disclosed. 7) How much has the PCT spent on management consultants regarding dentistry? 50, for the last two years How long have been management consultants been retained? For two years and ongoing How were these decisons made in light of PCT having to make budget savings? The Director of contracts at the time made the decision as the PCT needed the capacity to deal with dental contracts
2 8) How much money is being clawbacked from the latest round of annual reviews? 9) What will the PCT be doing with the clawbacked money? The following response covers questions 8 & 9: Annual review meetings are in progress No decision has been made about the use of monies recovered for under-performance If you are unhappy about the response you have received your first line of action should be to write and request the Trust to undertake an internal review of your application. A senior member of staff, who was not involved with your initial application, will undertake this review. If after this process you are still not satisfied with the response you receive from the Trust you can complain to the Information Commissioner at the following address: Information Commissioner Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF I trust you find this information useful. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any further assistance. I have attached a copy of the Trust s leaflet on how we deal with Freedom of Information requests, should you require any additional information about the process. Please note that any re-use of this information will be subject to the Re-use of Public sector Information regulations. Please contact Milton Keynes PCT for further information. Kind regards,
3 Asking if a Dental practice can refuse to treat a patient on the grounds that communication has broken down following a previous complaint that was upheld. Equipment not working when due to have treatment and left in pain Abacus Dental Care Was unhappy with attitude of staff, was not given treatment plan and when in pain did not have her treatment earlier than originally schedules Difficulty in getting treatment Dental Practice delaying treatment for NHS patients Poor treatment by dentist Her father took his dentures to the dentist to have them repaired and was charged for this. You should only be charged if it is an emergency repair and this was not. Incorrect charge made to fix denture Asking for advice on getting paymanet for services rendered to Boodles Dentist treated wrong tooth and poor attitude towards patient. Unsuccessful attempt at root canal treatment Query about dental charges and information given by dentist. Non disclosure of policy regarding patients with Hep B Dentist refusing to treat. Pt feels this is due to her having an exemption certificate. Charged NHS patient private fees Unable to carry out complex work and did not offer referral Difficultiy in getting treatment Attititude of staff at dental surgery to him and his daughter Dentist rude to patient (child) and her elder sister Boodles Ltd Boodles Ltd Citydent Dental Suite at Stantonbury Dental works by Shaz & Associates Dental works by Shaz & Associates Desai Dental Surgery Neath Hill Dental Practice
4 Complaint about the treatment received from Queensway dental practice Standard of care received and attitude of dentist Patient Called and said they have been waiting to hear from the Dental Specialists about when he will be getting his dentures fitted but it is due to funding that it is taking a long time Difficulty getting dental treatment Cleanliness and attitude of staff Dental Practice has sent address details of Foster parents to maternal Aunt. Child s family are only allowed supervised contact and were not allowed to know where or who the Foster parents are. Manner and attitude of staff and not offering emergency treatment for patient in pain Queensway Dental Practice Unsuccessful bridge work carried out Attitude of staff, failure to provide filling treatment and accused patient of being a racist. No emergency appointments. Told to wait three days before being able to make appointment Patient unhappy with denture not fitting properly Level of care and communication Enquiry into why her son does not qualify for orthodontic work under the NHS Complaint about dental practices and requesting nhs treatment that is now required as a result of poor care. Complaint about orthodontic treatment for son Complaint about treatment of daughter regarding her braces Complaint against treatment and costings Teethinline Vitiello and s Whalley Drive Orthodontal Practice Whalley Drive Orthodontal Practice Woburn Sands Dental Practice
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1 Reports Earnings of the 2015 Quarter Company Release 10/21/15 Amesbury, Massachusetts (the Company ) (NasdaqCM: PVBC), the holding company for The Provident Bank (the Bank ), reported net income for the three months ended 2015 of $130,000 compared to $1.3 million for the three months ended Net income for the nine months ended 2015 is $2.4 million compared to $3.5 million for the nine months ended David P. Mansfield, Chief Executive Officer, said, As a result of our stock offering, net income for the three months ended 2015 was negatively impacted by the one-time donation of $2.2 million ($1.4 million after tax impact) to our Charitable Foundation. We continue to focus on net interest margin and I am happy to report that net interest margin has increased 13 basis points from 3.42% for the nine months ended 2014 to 3.55% for the nine months ended Total assets as of 2015 are $699 million, an increase of $40.5 million or 6.2% compared to total asset of $659 million as of December 31, Year-to-date loan growth is strong with an increase in net loans of $27.6 million or 5.59% to $521.8 million as of Loan increases are primarily due to commercial real estate, commercial, and construction loan increases of $18.8 million, $9.7 million and $9.1 million, respectively. The loan increase was offset by a reduction in residential real estate of $8.9 million. Additionally, asset quality has improved over the last nine months with non-performing assets as a percentage of total assets at 0.44% at 2015 compared to 0.77% at December 31, Deposits have grown $21.2 million or 3.9% to $558.1 million. The increase is primarily core deposit growth of $29.0 million offset by a decrease in time deposits of $7.8 million. About Provident Bancorp, Inc is the holding company for The Provident Bank. The Bank, with branch offices in Amesbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Portsmouth, Exeter, Seabrook, and Hampton, New Hampshire, is a commercial bank that exists to positively impact the vitality of the communities we serve. We are committed to finding ways of impacting the success of the highest number of small and medium size businesses within our community by providing customized financial/banking solutions. To learn more about The Provident Bank, visit or call
2 Forward-looking statements This news release may contain certain forward-looking statements, such as statements of the Company s or the Bank s plans, objectives, expectations, estimates and intentions. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as, expects, subject, believe, will, intends, will be or would. These statements are subject to change based on various important factors (some of which are beyond the Company s or the Bank s control) and actual results may differ materially. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements (which reflect management s analysis of factors only as of the date of which they are given). These factors include general economic conditions, trends in interest rates, the ability of our borrower to repay their loans, the ability of the Company or the Bank to effectively manage its growth and results of regulatory examinations, among other factors. The foregoing list of important factors is not exclusive. Readers should carefully review the risk factors described in other documents of the Company files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Current Reports on Form 8-K. Carol Houle, Executive Vice President/CFO Source: Provident Bancorp, Inc
3 At At December 31, (In thousands) Assets Consolidated Balance Sheet Cash and due from banks $ 9,469 $ 7,533 Interest-bearing demand deposits with other banks 16,672 1,311 Money market mutual funds Cash and cash equivalents 26,357 9,558 Investments in available-for-sale securities (at fair value) 67,042 76,032 Investments in held-to-maturity securities (fair values of $46,778 as of 2015 and $47,435 as of December 31, 2014) 45,194 45,559 Federal Home Loan Bank stock, at cost 3,642 3,642 Loans, net 521, ,183 Bank owned life insurance 15,879 12,144 Premises and equipment, net 10,203 10,503 Accrued interest receivable 2,001 2,056 Deferred tax asset, net 4,053 3,632 Other assets 2,956 1,297 Total assets $ 699,112 $ 658,606 Liabilities and Equity Deposits: Noninterest-bearing $ 153,324 $ 128,407 Interest-bearing 404, ,527 Total deposits 558, ,934 Federal Home Loan Bank advances 17,412 39,237 Other liabilities 6,587 6,644 Total liabilities 582, ,815 Equity: Preferred stock; authorized 50,000 shares: senior non-cumulative perpetual, Series A, no par, 17,145 shares issued and outstanding at 2015 and December 31, 2014; 17,145 17,145 liquidation value $1,000 per share Common stock, no par value: 30,000,000 and 275,000 shares authorized as of 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively; 9,498,722 and 275,000 shares issued and outstanding as of and December 31, 2014, respectively Additional paid-in capital 43, Retained earnings 58,477 55,959 Accumulated other comprehensive income 1,716 2,412 Unearned compensation - ESOP 357,152 and 0 shares at 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively (3,452) - Total equity 117,014 75,791 Total liabilities and equity $ 699,112 $ 658,606
5 Selected Financial Ratios At or for the Three At or for the Nine Months Ended Months Ended Performance Ratios: Return on average assets (1) 0.07% 0.78% 0.47% 0.74% Return on average equity (1) 0.50% 6.77% 3.66% 6.55% Interest rate spread (1) (3) 3.34% 3.33% 3.39% 3.28% Net interest margin (1) (4) 3.53% 3.48% 3.55% 3.42% Non-interest expense to average assets (1) 3.91% 2.63% 3.20% 2.70% Efficiency ratio (5) 97.57% 67.94% 81.27% 70.00% Average interest-earning assets to average interest-bearing liabilities % % % % Average equity to average assets 14.94% 11.49% 12.80% 11.35% At At At December 31, Asset Quality Ratios: Allowance for loan losses as a percent of total loans (2) 1.46% 1.44% 1.43% Allowance for loan losses as a percent of non-performing loans % % % Non-performing loans as a percent of total loans (2) 0.59% 1.01% 1.29% Non-performing loans as a percent of total assets 0.44% 0.77% 0.94% Non-performing assets as a percent of total assets (6) 0.44% 0.77% 0.94% References which should accompany the table when input into the document: (1) Annualized (2) Loans are presented before the allowance but include deferred costs/fees. Loans held-for-sale are excluded. (3) Represents the difference between the weighted average yield on average interest-earning assets and the weighted average cost of interest-bearing liabilities. (4) Represents net interest income as a percent of average interest-earning assets. (5) Represents noninterest expense divided by the sum of net interest income and noninterest income. (6) Represents non-accrual loans plus loans accruing but 90 days or more overdue and OREO
2012 Annual Report Your neighborhood bank since 1884 Table of Contents President s Letter... 4 2013 Summary... 5 Locations and Stock Information... 6 Board of Directors and Officers... 7 Consolidated
Data as of March 31, 2011 Composite Balance Sheet ($ millions) Assets: Cash & Due From Banks $32.708 $4.195 $11.150 $46.620 $5.517 $13.041 $13.758 $104.802 $30.250 $36.529 Securities & Fed Funds Sold $113.704
Commercial Bank Balance Sheet: Assets: + Cash & Deposits with Banks + Federal Funds Sold + Securities and/or Securities Borrowed + Trading Assets + Gross Loans Allowance for Loan Losses = Net Loans + Accrued
1 STATUTES OF THE REDEEMER BAPTIST CHURCH TORONTO, CANADA CHAPTER I About the name, Nature, Longevity, Location and Objectives. Art. 1. a) We, the undersigned, have founded in Metropolitan Toronto (North York), in the province of Ontario, Canada, The redeemer Baptist Church as a religious, non-profit, non-political entity which hereinafter will be referred to as the church. The length of its duration is undefined, its location will be in Metropolitan Toronto, and it may establish missions in any part of the country and the world. b) This church shall maintain affiliation with the Baptist Convention of Ontario and Québec and with the Toronto area Association of Baptist churches. Art. 2. The Objectives of the church are: a) The proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the coming of the Kingdom of God, from now to the end of time (Acts 1:8); b) To hold public worship service, and the doctrine or teaching of the apostles, Christian sharing, the breaking of bread and prayers (Acts 2:42) to educate its members and put in practice a Christian lifestyle through the faith in Christ; c) To strengthen the Christian sharing among church members, and with the other churches in Canada and other regions of the world; d) To give evangelical testimony to the poor, the broken-hearted, the prisoners, the blind, the oppressed, by means of programs of assistance that demonstrate God s love; e) To adopt the confession of faith, the covenant and the following constitution: CHAPTER II Confessions of Faith or Biblical-Theological Fundamentals Art.3. We believe in the following Biblical-Theological Fundamentals: a) There is only one God, Creator and sovereign, who exists eternally in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holly Spirit; b) Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior, conceived by the Holly Spirit, born of the virgin Mary and who was a real person without sin; his miracles, atoning death, corporal resurrection and his return in person, power and glory are real;
2 c) The Holly Spirit is God with us and fits us to believe and to grow. He also forms and equips the church through the gifts we use to serve our Lord, to be witnesses of Christ and to live a Christian life; d) Both, the Old and the New Testaments make up the Holy Scriptures and are of divine inspiration; the Bible is the permanent and infallible word of God and the final authority on the norms and practices of our faith. All those who wish to understand the Bible require the guidance of the Holy Spirit. e) The regeneration of the human being is brought about by the Holy Spirit, creating new life; and the health and sanctification of the human being is caused by repentance before God and a faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. f) The unity of all believers is in the Holy Spirit; together we the church form the body of Christ. g) In obedience to the mandate and example of our Lord, we practice baptism of the believer and we participate in the Lord s Supper. Authorized by Christ, these are the rules of the church. Baptism is the immersion of the believer in water, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, and is a sign of our union with Christ, through which we identify ourselves with his death and resurrection. Through baptism the individual is able to begin a Christian life and join a Christian community. The Lord s Supper is the repeated symbol to nurture and reunify the community. h) There will be a corporal resurrection of the just and the unjust; for some this will be a resurrection to life and for others it will be a resurrection to judgment. CHAPTER III Covenant of the Church They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul 2 Chronicles 15:12. Art. 4. Believing that we have been led by the Holy Spirit to accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and having been baptized, by reason of our profession of faith, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, now, in the presence of God, the angels and this church, in the most solemn manner and with pleasure we enter into the covenant with each other, as the body of Christ. WE PROMISE, assisted by the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love; securing the advancement of this church though knowledge, health and wellbeing; promoting its prosperity and spiritually; maintaining its worship, teaching, discipline and theology; to contribute regularly and with pleasure in order to maintain the ministry and expenses of the church, alleviate the suffering of the poor and to spread the gospel to all nations.
3 WE PROMISE, to cultivate devotion to the family and the individual; to give our children religious instruction; to seek the salvation of our relatives, our friends and all others; to walk with care and discretion in this world; to be just in our actions, faithful in our promises to and within the church, with our fellow men and with God; to be above reproach in our lives, to avoid gossip, slader and extreme anger; to abstain from the sale and use of alcoholic beverages, drugs or any other vice which affects the testimony of Jesus Christ. To be fervent in our efforts to enlarge the Kingdom of God. WE PROMISE, also, to take care of each other in christian love, remembering each other in our prayers; to help each other in sickness and misfortune; to cultivate Christian attitude and speak politely; to be slow to become offended and to always be ready for the reconciliation, abounding in the precepts and doctrines of our Savior to obtain it without delay. WE PROMISE, finally, when we have to move from one place to another, we will join another congregation as quickly as possible, where we will be able to continue developing the intent of this Covenant and the principles of the Word of God. CHAPTER IV Statutes or Constitution of the Church Art.5. Membership: a) All those who profess faith in Jesus Christ and who demonstrate a true conversion, can be admitted to this church through baptism by immersion. b) Following the conversion, the candidates for baptism will normally receive instruction concerning their lives as Disciples of Christ. And, later, they will be examined by a reception committee made up of the pastor and other members of the church selected by the Council of Deacons. c) All those who present a letter of recommendation, certificate of transfer or certificate of baptism from other churches which hold the same faith and doctrine, the same principles and teachings, may be received as a member of the church. d) All those who have not been members of a Christian, evangelical new testament church but who have received scriptural baptism ca be received after demonstrating satisfactory behavior in their lives. e) Admission to the church will be considered by a general assembly of members and requires a unanimous vote. Those who object must make their objections known to a meeting of the Council of Deacons, which will carry out the necessary investigation, will report to the next regular meeting of the church. Those present may either uphold or reject the objections. Only a serious moral reason or important doctrinal reason is sufficient cause for a negative decision.
4 f) Those members who move away must request a letter of recommendation to be used in order to join another church of the same faith and doctrine. Art. 6. These are the rights of the members: a) To attend and participate as voting members in the session of the General Assembly, both ordinary and extraordinary. b) To elect and be elected as members of the governing board of the church and the Council of Deacons. c) To participate in all church activities. d) To receive a letter of transfer to be used to join any other church. e) The remaining rights conferred by the Statutes and the Internal rules of the church. Art.7. These are the responsibilities of the members: a) To comply with the statutes, and rules of the church. b) To participate in General Assembly meetings, both ordinary and extraordinary. c) To contribute to achieving the goals of the church. d) To carry out with responsibility the duties to which they have been elected. Art. 8. Membership in the church can be lost for any of the following reasons: a) Death. b) Renouncing membership in a letter directed to the Board. c) Exclusion agreed upon in the General Assembly due to the following reasons: 1) Breaking the Statutes; 2) Committing an outrage against the unity and essential interest of the church and, 3) Making insubordinate actions. Art. 9. Member s Discipline: a) Any member who has been absent, or hasn t had any communication with the church for 2 consecutive months, will be subject to an exhortation to continue with the church; however, if the member persists, membership will be removed from the roll because of the lack of interest of meeting with the church ( Heb. 10:25). Of course, this is not applicable to people who are unable to come due to sickness, age, temporary work out of the city or missionary work entrusted by the church. Nevertheless, no names will be
5 removed from the roll without previously submitting them to the Council of Deacons. Also, anybody who is found guilty before the Lord s Judgment will be dealt with under the guidance of the Holy Ghost and in accordance with the Holy Scriptures. The General Assembly could restore the member s capacity with recommendation of the Board and the Council of Deacons. b) If a member is guilty of an immoral act or any other serious error, it is incumbent on those who know about it, to seek out the member in question, and according to Evangelical rules, to encourage him/her to repent and confess his/her sin. If those who know the sinner are not successful, they must tell the sinner the intention of submitting the case to the Council of Deacons, in order to give the sinner the opportunity to present a defense. c) Any member who has been removed from the list of members for reasons of immorality may be reintegrated after confessing to their sins and providing adequate proof of repentance. d) No member if this church has the right to accuse another unless the proper preliminary procedures which Jesus Christ our Lord stated in the gospel of Matthew 18:15-20 have been followed. e) No member will be asked to appear before the church until the accusation has been brought to his/her attention and the member has been given the opportunity to respond. The exception to this is when it is impossible to notify the member in question. Art. 10. Government a) The church will be democratically governed by a General Assembly and a Board. b) The General Assembly is the ultimate authority of the church and will be made up of all the members who are entered in the roll. c) The attributes of the General Assembly are: 1) To approve, to revise and to abolish the Statutes and Internal rules of the church; 2) To elect a pastor or pastors and the pastor s assistants of the church. Normally, after consulting and with the approval of the Baptist Convention of Ontario & Québec, the church will select its pastor and determine the length of the service. The salary and benefits offered to the selected pastor must be made after consulting the Convention. When either the pastor or the congregation wish to cancel the appointment, the Convention must again be consulted (The church is autonomous with respect to its internal functioning; but the spirit of John 17:21 and Acts 9:31 dictate the understanding of our interdependence as a family of churches).
6 3) To elect publicly the members of the Board, and to replace those who do not fulfill their duties. 4) To elect the Council of Deacons which should have no less than 3 and no more than 7 members (Acts 6:1); for a term of 3 consecutive years, and one third of the council will be elected each year. 5) To approve the annual budget of the church. 6) To approve the financial reports which are submitted by the Board every four months as well as the Annual Report and the work plan which will be developed each year. 7) To approve the acquisition or alienation, at any title, of Real Estate suggested by the Board. 8) To resolve, before anything, matters unforeseen in these Statutes and Regulations of the church. 9) To name the financial auditor. d) The General Assembly shall meet ordinarily every four months and extraordinarily at any time if it is required due to circumstances. This meeting will be called by the president or secretary of the Board or by written petition to the members indicating the motive of the meeting. Calling a meeting of the General Assembly must be done in writing at least eight days ahead of time with notice of the day, place, hour and agenda. e) The General Assembly will meet in first calling with the presence of half plus One of the registered members; if after thirty minutes of the scheduled time there is no quorum, a second calling is made and the meeting is held with the present members. f) Except for those cases specified by the Statutes, decisions reached by the General Assembly require the votes of half plus one of the present members. g) Voting at the General Assembly will be done in a public manner unless there has been an agreement to hold a secret ballot. h) The Board is the body responsible of governing the church. It has a president, a Vice-President, a Secretary of acts, archives and statistics, a Secretary of correspondence and public relations, a Treasurer, 3 Trustees, a Superintendent and two deputies. All will be elected for a two-year period and can be reelected for a further two-year. They are responsible for carrying out their duties from the moment of election. They will perform their duties until the new Board is elected, and the new members take over. i) Responsibilities of the Board: 1) Ensure that the Statutes and Regulations of the church are followed. 2) Prepare the annual budget and the year-end report of the church to be submitted to the General Assembly. 3) To understand and approve the work plans of the commissions named by the General Assembly and to approve at the necessary time, its acts and submit it to the General Assembly.
7 4) To take the necessary measures to increase the size of the congregation and the complementation of the work plans which support this goal. 5) To sign any bind of agreement in order to achieve the goals, previously authorized by the General Assembly, empowering the trustees for this respective purpose. 6) To send an ordinary or extraordinary meeting notice of the General Assembly to the members. 7) To guarantee the legal right to the church to own and deal its inheritance. 8) To resolve al that which is not the responsibility of the General Assembly. j) The Board will meet once a month and at other times as necessary. The President will call regular meeting and special meeting will be requested by four members of the Board. ART 11. The Officers and their responsibilities: a) The normal activities of the church are the responsibility of church members in general and the pastor and his or her deacons in particular. b) The responsibilities of the president are: 1) To preside all sessions of the General Assembly and the Board. 2) To call extraordinary meeting of the general assembly when the Board deems this necessary. 3) And other responsibilities as requested by the General Assembly, and/or the Board. c) The responsibilities of the Vice-President: 1) To stand in for the President when he or she is absent. 2) To work in collaboration with the President. 3) And other responsibilities as requested by the General Assembly and/or the Board. d) The responsibilities of the Secretary of acts, archives, and statistics: 1) To take note in the book of minutes for the General Assembly and the board meetings. 2) To write out the certifications of the church books of minutes when it is requested. 3) Call members to General Assembly meeting with prior authorization by the Board. 4) To keep members informed of the decisions taken by the church. 5) To keep track of church records as necessary. 6) To maintain the files of the church. 7) Monitor member attendance and that of visitors.
8 e) Responsibilities of the Secretary of correspondence and public relations: 1). To receive and send out church correspondence as directed by the Board. 2). Attend to people invited to the church on special occasions. 3). Maintain close communication with membership and with others Churches. 4). Work together with the secretary of acts, archives and statistics. 5). And other responsibilities as requested by the General Assembly and/or the Board. f). Responsibilities of the Treasurer: 1). The bookkeeping for the church. 2). To confidentially receive and manage the offerings of the members. 3). To take care of the assets of the church together with the President and the Trustees. 4). Deposit church funds in the Bank. 5). To present monthly statements on income and expenses to the Board or when requested by the Board. 6). To present an annual financial report to the General Assembly. 7). To distribute the funds authorized by the Board for small expenses and those authorized by the General Assembly for large purchases. 8). To assist the Board and the Council of Deacons to respond to questions regarding the church s funds and to give his/her opinion or answers on such questions. g). The responsibilities of the trustees: 1). To give legal representation to the church. 2). Monitor compliance with statutes and regulations as well as the resolutions of the General Assembly of the Board. 3). To confer with prior authorization of the Board and the General Assembly. 4). And other responsibilities as requested by the General Assembly and the Board, the statues and/or regulations of the church. h). The responsibilities of the Superintendent: 1). Preside over the meeting of the teachers of the Sunday Bible School. 2). To select teachers for different classes. 3). To monitor the work of the Sunday School in general. 4). Select and evaluate together with the pastor, the Sunday School Materials. 5). To present a monthly report or as required, on his/her work to the Board and to report annually to the General Assembly.
9 i) Responsibilities of the deputies: 1). To substitute for members of the Board who are absent or who are Unable to attend, as designated by the Board. 2). To carry out the duties assigned by the General Assembly and/or the Board. 3). To work together with other Board members to carry out his/her functions j) The responsibilities of the Council of Deacons: 1). Manage the funds destined for the poor of the church. 2). Assist the pastor in maintaining discipline. 3). To make the necessary arrangements for a preacher when the pastor is away. 4). To assist the pastor in his spiritual and temporal duties. 5). Ro ensure the conduction of the church and maintain good work relations with the pastor or pastors. 6). To assure that the membership roll reflects the true situation of the church and make recommendations on the same. ART 12. To be a member of the Board of the Council of Deacons it is required: a) To be an active member in good standing of the church. b) To have an attitude of service and Christian Testimony. c) To have the capacity to carry out higher responsibilities. d) The members of the Council of Deacons will be chosen according to the guiding principle established in Timothy 3:8-12. e) To comply with the regulations of the church. ART 13. About the pastor, pastors or assistant pastors: The pastor or pastors are responsible for the following: 1. To offer spiritual guidance to the church and to orient, inform, and present ideas on work plans to the Board in order to meet the goals of the General Plan. 2. To preach the Word of God. 3. Administer the Evangelical Ordinances (Baptism and the Lord s Supper). 4. If he/she has been called to the ministry and recognized by the church, to maintain the Marriage Register. 5. To give guidance to all religious education within the church; to be an exofficio member of the Board, the Council of Deacons and all other committees. 6. To oversee the implementation of the decisions of the General Assembly and the Board.
10 7. To participate in meetings of the General Assembly and Board but without a vote. 8. To carry out responsibilities mentioned in the Status and Regulations of the church and all those conceded by the General Assembly and the Board. 9. The assistant pastor must work closely with the pastor and act as substitute in his/her absence, previously agreed upon by the Board. ART.14. About the committees: a) In order to accomplish the evangelical work and to achieve the goals of the church, the Board will create the necessary committees. b) A Nominations Committee will be formed to identify people capable of carrying out the responsibilities listed in article 10, section c, number 4 and section h. A list of conditions will be presented to the Board three weeks before the Annual General Assembly meeting and will be sure that those who are nominated will accept. The church can select a member of General Assembly to join the committee; this must be done at least two months ahead of time. When the time for Nomination is over, this committee will be dissolved. ART. 15. About the assets: a) The assets of the church are: 1) The voluntary offering of the members. 2) The donations, the inheritances and legacies made to the church. 3) All the material possessions, Real Estate, rights and values acquired under the law. 4) All other income that the church receives for any legal activities it promotes. ART. 16. About Dissolution and Liquidation: a) The church may be dissolved by order of law or with the agreement of two thirds of the member meeting at an extraordinary session of the General Assembly called for this purpose. b) Once it is agreed that the church will be dissolved, a liquidation committee will be appointed. Any remaining possessions of the church will be donated to the Baptist Convention of Ontario & Québec. ART. 17. General Orders: a) The beginning of the fiscal year will be January first and it will end on December thirty-first. b) To modify or eliminate the current Statutes, a favorable vote of more than sixty percent at an extraordinary meeting of the General Assembly is required. c) If a member of the church is unhappy with the decision made by the Board or a committee, an appeal to the church can be made. The support of other members is needed.
11 d) Groups or societies linked to the church can be organized and will be subordinate to the church. e) All committees, societies, groups and organizations formed within the church must present an annual report at the yearly meeting of the General Assembly. The church will be represented at the annual Assembly of the Baptist Convention of Ontario & Québec by the pastor and two delegates for the first fifty church members and one for each additional fifth
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1 CONSORTIUM OF ENERGY PRODUCERS ANNOUNCES RECOMMENDED STANDARDS AND PRACTICES FOR EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION OF NATURAL GAS AND OIL FROM APPALACHIAN SHALES MAY 1, 2012 The Appalachian Shale Recommended Practices Group (ASRPG), a consortium of 11 of the Appalachian Basin s largest natural gas and oil producers, today announced the creation of the Recommended Standards and Practices for Exploration and Production of Natural Gas and Oil from Appalachian Shales. The ASRPG s Recommended Standards and Practices for Exploration and Production of Natural Gas and Oil from Appalachian Shales were developed to promote effective safety, environmental and health practices consistent with the key recommendations of both the U.S. Secretary of Energy Advisory Board s (SEAB) final report issued in November 2011, and the National Petroleum Council s (NPC) Prudent Development report issued in September Both reports acknowledge regional differences in geology, land use, water resources and regulation. Consistent with these findings, the Recommended Standards and Practices for Exploration and Production of Natural Gas and Oil from Appalachian Shales reflect existing primacy of state regulation in the areas it addresses, which encompass each phase of the life cycle of a well. The entire document may be viewed in the attached.pdf file. In conjunction with the Recommended Standards and Practices document, the ASRPG issued the following statement: As producers in the Appalachian Basin, we strive to be responsible operators that conduct business in a transparent and sustainable manner, and openly communicate with stakeholders. ASRPG s members are committed to conducting operations in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations and ordinances, and
2 implementing standards, practices and procedures that meet or exceed regulatory requirements. The continuous evolution of technology used by the oil and natural gas industry has improved economic opportunities in the Appalachian region, energy security and the ability to conduct operations in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. ASRPG s goal is to encourage operators to implement today s technologies that enhance safety and environmental performance. We also recognize it is essential for all operators to continuously improve and adopt effective practices as technology evolves. The ASRPG s consensus-based approach to developing the recommended standards and practices for Appalachian Shales provides a roadmap to enhance transparency and regulatory compliance, as well as empowers workers to stop work that is potentially unsafe, emphasizes the importance of optimizing local content and encourages the use of clean-burning natural gas. The ASRPG plans to submit the recommended standards and practices document to State regulators and legislators in the Appalachian areas of operations, as well as the Interstate Oil & Gas Compact Commission (IOGCC), and the State Review of Oil and Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (STRONGER) to inform state regulatory frameworks and reviews. Additionally, the group plans to disseminate the document to important producer organizations such as the Marcellus Shale Coalition, America s Natural Gas Alliance, the American Petroleum Institute, West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, Ohio Oil and Gas Association, and the Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association. ASRPG s members are assessing options to periodically review and update the recommendations to reflect improvements in practices and technologies, and to effectively and systematically disseminate the recommendations to producers and stakeholders in the Appalachian region.
3 ABOUT THE ASRPG: ASRPG s mission is to identify and disseminate responsible standards and practices for effective environmental, health and safety practices utilized in shale natural gas and oil development operations in the Appalachian region. The ASRPG consists of the following participating companies: Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC): Anadarko s mission is to deliver a competitive and sustainable rate of return to shareholders by exploring for, acquiring and developing oil and natural gas resources vital to the world s health and welfare. As of year-end 2011, the company had approximately 2.54 billion barrels-equivalent of proved reserves, making it one of the world s largest independent exploration and production companies. For more information about Anadarko, please visit Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE: COG): Cabot Oil & Gas, headquartered in Houston, Texas is a leading independent natural gas producer with its entire resource base located in the continental United States. For additional information, visit the Company's Internet homepage at Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK): Chesapeake is the second-largest producer of natural gas, a Top 15 producer of oil and natural gas liquids and the most active driller of new wells in the U.S. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, the company's operations are focused on discovering and developing unconventional natural gas and oil fields onshore in the U.S.. Further information is available at where Chesapeake routinely posts announcements, updates, events, investor information, presentations and press releases. Chevron (NYSE: CVX): Chevron is one of the world s leading integrated energy companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide. The company is involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry. Chevron explores for, produces and transports crude oil and natural gas; refines, markets and distributes transportation fuels and lubricants; manufactures and sells petrochemical products; generates power and produces geothermal energy; provides energy efficiency solutions; and develops the energy resources of the future, including biofuels. Chevron is based in San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at About EQT Corporation: EQT Corporation is an integrated energy company with emphasis on Appalachian area natural gas production, gathering, transmission, and distribution. With more than 120 years of experience, EQT continues to be a leader in the use of advanced horizontal drilling technology designed to minimize the potential impact of drilling-related activities and reduce the overall environmental footprint. Through safe and responsible operations, the Company is committed to meeting the country s growing demand for clean-burning energy, while continuing to provide a rewarding workplace and enrich the communities where its employees live and work. Company shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange as EQT. Visit EQT Corporation at
4 Seneca Resources Corporation: Seneca, the exploration and production segment of National Fuel Gas Company (NYSE: NFG), explores for, develops, and purchases natural gas and oil reserves in California and Appalachia. Additional information about Seneca and National Fuel Gas Company is available at Shell Oil Company: Shell Oil Company is an affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell plc and part of a global group of energy and petrochemical companies with 93,000 employees in more than 90 countries. In the U.S., Shell operates in 50 states and employs nearly 20,000 people working to help tackle the challenges of the new energy future. Shell is a leading oil and gas producer in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, a recognized pioneer in oil and gas exploration and production technology, and one of America s leading oil and natural gas producers, gasoline and natural gas marketers and petrochemical manufacturers. Learn more about Shell in the U.S. at Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN): Southwestern Energy Company is an integrated company whose wholly-owned subsidiaries are engaged in oil and gas exploration and production, natural gas gathering and marketing. Additional information on the company can be found on the Internet at Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX: TLM) (NYSE: TLM): Talisman is a global, diversified, upstream oil and gas company, headquartered in Canada. Talisman's three main operating areas are North America, the North Sea and Southeast Asia. The company also has a portfolio of international exploration opportunities. Talisman is committed to conducting business safely, in a socially and environmentally responsible manner, and is included in the Dow Jones Sustainability (North America) Index. Please visit our Web site at About WPX Energy, Inc. WPX Energy (NYSE: WPX) WPX Energy is an independent natural gas and oil exploration and production company specializing in producing natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil. The company has nearly three decades of experience in the industry and produces enough natural gas to meet the energy needs of 6 million homes per day. The company has a geographically diverse portfolio, with primary operations in the Piceance Basin, Bakken Shale and Marcellus Shale. To learn more about WPX, please visit XTO Energy Inc. An affiliate of ExxonMobil, XTO Energy has interests in more than 40,000 oil and natural gas wells and 6.1 million acres of leasehold across the country. XTO has operations in many of the most prolific unconventional plays of the United States including the Bakken, Barnett, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Haynesville, Marcellus, and Woodford Shales. Bringing together XTO s experience and expertise in natural gas development with ExxonMobil s advanced technologies, financial strength, and leadership in the global energy industry has resulted in a truly exceptional organization. Learn more at
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1 FORM 201 New Program Proposal * Action TRACKING NUMBER NEW Add Degree Program Add Area of Emphasis Add Dual Degree Program (Graduate Program Only) Add New Certificate Program (Graduate Program Only) Add Program: Check this box if you are creating a new undergraduate degree or graduate degree. Add Area of Emphasis: Check this box if you are adding a specific focus within the major with different degree requirements from the standard major. Add Dual Degree: Check this box if you are creating a new degree by combining two existing graduate degrees. Add New Certificate: Check this box if you are creating a new certificate at the graduate level only. Program Information *Proposed First Term of Implementation Use 4-digit year followed by term code. 1=spring, 2=summer and 3=fall. (ex: for "Fall 2011.") *Major Select Major For NEW MAJOR or DUAL DEGREE, please press the Help button. Choose major from pull-down list; if dual degree, select "DUAL DEGREE." If other new major (not on list), select "NEW MAJOR." CCO to obtain new major code at Once you are notified that the new major has been added to the list, go back into the "Edit" version of the program and select your new major from the list. "NEW MAJOR" or "DUAL DEGREE" will be displayed until the new major has been added to the list. (Note: This does not mean that the new major has been approved!) *Degree Type Select Degree Type Choose degree from pull-down list; if degree is not listed, choose "Other." Other Degree Type Indicate the specific degree type for this program (e.g., "Master of Music Performance," "Master of Arts/Master of Professional Writing," 'BS, Chemical Engineering (Electrical Engineering)" ). Usually for professional degrees, dual degrees, or areas of emphasis. If you are creating a new dual degree, provide the post codes for the two degrees you are combining. Enter Dual Degree POSTs. POST Code 1 POST Code 2 Proposal Information *Proposal Abstract
2 Include brief yet complete summary of proposed program. Key points should be mentioned. *Reason for Request, including Program Objective and Academic Rationale Explain why you are proposing the new program so that reviewers outside your school will understand your goals and reasons. Provide the academic rationale for this request, including student need, target audience, reorganization of a degree program, etc. How will students benefit from the proposal? Why is it appropriate academically (not financially) for USC to do this? A clear and specific explanation is required. (Do not just provide a flat statement of intention such as "Adding new program.") If the proposal is complex, controversial, or novel, it may be helpful to provide explanatory background information. Request Additional Information Include here any additional information which would help the curriculum committee members understand and review the request. Courses Course ID Title Units Prerequisites Co-requisites Concurrent Enrollment Cross Listed As Status Courses: Include all required and elective courses for the major. They will appear in alphabetical order by prefix and number, and display the title, units, any prerequisites, corequisites or concurrent enrollment, and any cross-listed courses. Maximum unit values for variable units courses may or may not appear; the catalogue copy will provide this detail. The purpose of the course list is to show the current correct information about each course (including whether it is the process of being revised or dropped in CMS), so that you can be sure that you provide the correct prefix, title, units, etc, in the catalog copy. The catalog copy (not the course list) will state whether courses are required or are in a list of options. Status Bar: Click the red "Undo" button next to the status (INCLUDE) on the far right to remove a recently-added course. Courses with a grey "i" next to the Undo icon are currently in process (CREATE, REVISE, DROP) in CMS. If a course is currently proposed to be dropped, review the program and course requirements and make the appropriate revisions (either eliminate the course from the course block, or do not drop the course in CMS). If a course is being revised, please take the revisions into account in the process of designing the program. Add: Enter course prefix (in all capital letters) and number separated by a dash (ex: SOCI-355). Click "ADD" to add course to list
3 above. Do not use the Enter button on your keyboard. Only courses which are currently active (in the catalogue) or in progress in CMS can be added. If a course is a cross-list, you must use the owning department prefix. You must initiate a course proposal to create a new course before adding the course to the Course list on the program form. Units Units Required for Degree Include total number of units required for program: minimum of 128 for undergraduate, 24 for masters, 60 for Ph.D, and 12 for certificate. If relevant, specify total number of units for the major in Proposal Abstract above. Related Program Information Target Audience (include anticipated enrollment): Describe the type of students for whom the program is designed. Relationship to and Comparison with Related Programs at USC: Include how the proposed program is related to and differs from similar programs at USC. Describe any appropriate cross-departmental cooperation. What will be the impact on faculty and students in other departments? Comparison with Similar Programs at Other Institutions:
4 List other institutions offering a similar program and compare such programs with the proposed program. Admission Requirements List Minimum GPA, If Any: Prerequisite Courses and Grades, if Any; Other Requirements or Restrictions: Resources and Other Information Resources and how they will be supplied Faculty:
5 Indicate who will direct and teach in the program, and the extent to which instruction will be provided by tenure track vs. adjunct faculty. Identify any challenges in providing appropriate instructors for the courses. Identify who is ultimately responsible for the academic quality and consistency with program goals in circumstances where substantial teaching will be done by adjunct faculty. Library: Indicate the present USC holdings, future and continuing acquisitions, and other library sources available. Physical (space, technology, labs, etc) Include a description of physical resources and technology needed to accommodate this program. If program will be offered at off-campus site, describe: Include location and rationale, resources, and student services available. If program will be offered via distance learning, describe: Indicate how and where students will take courses, who will provide instruction and how, and how advisement and other university resources will be made available to any off-campus students.
6 Affected Departments Click Here to Select Affected Department(s), if any The submitting unit should identify other units that may be affected by the creation of this program. The curriculum panel should be able to determine whether the proposing unit has taken advantage of appropriate opportunities for interdepartmental cooperation, and whether redundancy has been avoided. This review is intended to ensure that departments affected by a curriculum action have been consulted by the department submitting the program request. When you select an affected department from the list, the DCC, Department Chair and Dean will have the option to route the proposal to the Dean of the affected department for review and comments. Note: you should not select any departments in your own school when inputting Affected Departments -- only departments in other schools. Submitting Unit Contacts Enter USC or 10-digit USC ID All four fields must be populated. To input Submitting Unit Contacts, input the person's USC address. Their contact information will be propagated automatically. If there is a "college" or "marshall" in the person's address (eg, that must be included. You will receive an error message if you input the incorrectly. Please refer to the online USC Faculty/Staff Directory if necessary. Staff ID: Submitting DCC Faculty ID: Submitting Faculty Member and/or Faculty Proposer Unit Chair/Director ID: Department Chair for Curriculum for submitting department Dean of School/Designee ID: Designated Dean for School Curriculum * Staff * Faculty * Unit Chair / Director * Dean of School / Designee Documents - Catalog Copy (Required. Submit document with track changes. Indicate desired placement in Catalogue.) - Sample Student Schedule (optional) - Additional Supporting Documents (optional) no file selected Review Comments Comment History * New Comment
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4 Union List the numbers of those departments which have an employee named Smith or are located in Columbus. where ENAME = Smith union where LOC = Columbus Functions and Groups List the departments (DNO) and the average salary of each., avg(sal) E, DEPT D where E.DNO = D.DNO group by DNO Duplicates ARE eliminated by default. union all - leaves duplicates CIS 671 Query Languages 19 CIS 671 Query Languages 20 SQL is (was) NOT an Algebra List the departments (DNO, DNAME) in which the average employee salary < $25,000., DNAME E, DEPT D where E.DNO = D.DNO group by DNO, DNAME having avg(sal) < CIS 671 Query Languages 21 Nested Select: No analog in Relational Algebra List names of employees in departments 25, 47 and 53. select NAME where DNO in (25, 47, 53) List names of employees who work in departments in Ann Arbor. select NAME where DNO in ( where LOC = Ann Arbor ) CIS 671 Query Languages 22 Big Summary For all departments in Columbus with average salary > $25,000, list the department s number, name, and average salary ordered by average salary in descending order., DNAME, avg(sal), DEPT where EMP.DNO = DEPT.DNO and LOC = Columbus group by DNO, DNAME having avg(sal) > order by 3 desc CIS 671 Query Languages 23 Null Values All of the following conditions are always false. null > 25 null < 25 null = 25 null <> 25 null >= 25 null <= 25 null = null null <> null However we can use the following: select NAME where SAL < or SAL is null CIS 671 Query Languages 24 4
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Is it true that you are paying more than you have to on your home loan? Here are four inquiries concerning home advances you ought to request that yourself consistently ensure you're on the most ideal rate.
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Indeed, even a half point contrast between a 5% and a 4.5% financing cost on a $500,000 advance more than 25 years could wind up costing you an extra $43,000 in hobby. By not checking your rate, you could be passing up a great opportunity for a significant chance to renegotiate or arrange a lower rate with your present moneylender.
With the RBA's late choice to keep the money rate on hold at 2%, numerous banks are keeping on offering alluring rates somewhere around 4% and 4.5% on their variable home credits. On the off chance that you need to secure an altered rate, hope to pay more, yet you might have the capacity to catch an additional extraordinary settled rate if a bank has purchased a vast tranche of subsidizing. The most ideal approach to contrast the most recent rates is with go online and utilize a free loan fee examination table. Make certain to pass by the examination rate, which mirrors a credit's actual financing cost once the advance's charges and different expenses are figured in.
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Investments in commercial properties have their own perks. Better market income, good price, and budding start-ups are just a few points among much more that attract the investors on this side. So, here are some guidelines to help you make a profitable deal in commercial property investment
It is one thing to invest in residential properties and a totally different venture to go for commercial ones. Here, the income is based on per square feet usability of the land. Higher cash flow than residential properties and longer leases are some other differences. Furthermore, the down expected by the lenders in commercial properties is higher.
If you can walk away from a deal, you have it in control. Have good inspection about any mandatory repairs, damages etc. Having knowledge of this gives you and upper hand in the negotiation. Moreover, risk assessment in the investment is also equally important.
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Rental and property management companies are critical for any prospective renter. But searching for the right property manager is an overlooked step. Instead, it's time to take control and weigh your options with each property management company. Look for the following signs.
Okay so you have a yard, and once you put it out with your rental, you need to know what charges they will maintain your yard. Mowing, landscaping, snow removal whatever may it be, ask them for the cost of each.
Reserves are amounts set aside for any emergency that might come up. Every manager would ask for some. Try to gather a general idea of reserves of each of your options.
Ask when the manager will mail the accounting statements to you. Ask for the details and don't feel shy to enquire about any query in the dictation.
How old is the company? Are they even licensed?? How many properties have they managed? Any testimonials anywhere? Dig in their yard for any shiny object or skeleton.
Never pay for filling up vacancies. Make it a rule. Shut the case and say your goodbyes to any company who asks for a portion for filling in a vacancy. You're paying your manager. Isn't that enough?
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I try really hard not to set myself up for failure. I know myself well enough to admit that there are some things that I am just not going to do. Instead of continually setting a standard that I know I won’t reach, I accept the fact that it’s not going to happen – and move on.
Getting up early to exercise is a good example. I stopped beating myself up over that one a long time ago. It’s just not who I am.
But sometimes a challenge can be a good thing. Especially when it helps to grow and stretch you in positive ways.
I’ve been circling around The Nester’s 31 Day writing challenge for awhile now. It’s difficult for me to do anything consistently for five days, let alone thirty-one, and I was leery of adding additional stress to my already stressful life.
So, beginning October 1st, for the next 31 days, when you visit me here you’ll find me talking about JOY!
Intentional may be my one word for 2014, but JOY is my life word! I’m so excited to be sharing insights about JOY, from God’s word, with you through the month of October! My thoughts are inspired by the Oswald Chambers devotional, JOY: Strength In the Lord, available through You Version and I’d love it if you followed along!
Well I just love this. Love that you will be writing about my word! And I love YOU so anything from you sounds fabulous to me. YAY for taking the challenge to write for 31 days. :)
Oh, it sounds like a wonderful challenge. I know you can do this! You always exude joy and the love of Christ on your blog, so I can't wait to see what deep thoughts you'll be sharing with us. Go June!
So glad you are doing this challenge! I did it last year on two different blogs, but wasn't inspired to do it again this year. If anything, I probably need a 31 day break from blogging.
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You have finally decided to create an Android app for your business. With nearly half of the world using Android phones, your decision to get an Android app is only going to take you up. With the advent of the newest and the most advanced member of the family, Android Lollipop, the Android phone market promises an upward surge. So, chin up, Android app owners! You have been going the right way till now.
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If you skip this feature, you may as well skip the idea of making an app altogether. Why? Because the purpose of making an element that resides on your customers’ phone is to keep reminding them of your brand or offerings, preferably at the right time and right opportunity. You can choose to send notifications to your customers about your product or service updates, any announcements, reminders, invites or fresh developments you want them to inform about. Android allows great scope for notifications.
In Android 5.0, notifications are called heads up notifications as they appear in a small floating window when the device is active. This gives your customers the ease of getting the updates in a glimpse. So make sure you include notifications as an important feature in your app and help your customers keep a tab on your business. Instappy comes loaded with built-in, tailored push-notification feature, enabling you to connect with your users, as and when they like it.
For an app to be successful, it has to be dynamic. More often than not, your customers have downloaded your app to keep themselves updated on a certain service. Apps with a CMS panel that allows unlimited updates are the ones that are frequently used. Make sure your app builder has one.
Once it starts rolling, it is very important to measure the end-to-end value of your app. To set yourself up for success, you should have a clear vision of your app’s turn-over, so that you can work on the weak-links on time. “Insights from Google Analytics for Mobile Apps resulted in a 39% increase in store traffic”, says Mike McCarthy, Senior Brand and Community Manager, Certain Affinity.
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Navigation apps are perhaps the biggest boon of technology to humans. Never have we gotten lost while looking for an address, since mobile navigation alighted from heaven for us. Cities have now become friendlier than ever. If your app has anything to do with travelling and exploring, navigation is a feature you can’t neglect.
This feature is proof of just how far technology has come into our lives. It can now double up as our wallet! Since m-shopping has become a trend, most of us could foresee mobile payments as the feature to follow. If yours is a retail app, it goes without saying that you ought to have mobile payment functionality for your app. Instappy features secure payment gateway to give your users a seamless shopping experience.
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Actor set up GoodnessTv to give a voice to people working to make the world a better place — and to call on the rest of us to do our part
Actor Laurent Imbault is founder of GoodnessTv, a Montreal-based video sharing site dedicated to positive news. Pierre Obendrauf / Montreal Gazette
The news reports have been particularly dark and sad these past days. And so it was heartwarming to meet a charming Montreal actor named Laurent Imbault, who believes so deeply that the world needs more positive news that he dug into his own pockets to establish a website featuring only good news and inspiring stories.
GoodnessTv (goodnesstv.org) is dedicated to positive news and social commitment, as he explained; its mission is to give a voice to people working to make the world a better place – and to call on the rest of us to do our part.
In December, GoodnessTv launched a weekly web series, the Positive Minute (minute.goodnesstv.org): a 60-second feature posted to the site each Monday to highlight the actions of local individuals or organizations doing good work in domains ranging from social to cultural to humanitarian.
The first focused on le Papillon Blanc (lepapillonblanc.org), a not-for-profit Quebec organization in which professional dancers reach out to people who are frail and those nearing the end of their lives, often in nursing homes. They connect with them through dance and movement, creating an intimate space in which they communicate wordlessly. It’s beautiful to watch.
Another episode is about what’s known as the suspended coffee movement: You buy a cup of coffee, or a sandwich or a bowl of soup at a participating café or restaurant – and, at the same time, you buy one intended for someone who can’t afford to pay for it. The feature was filmed at the Rosemont-Petite-Patrie restaurant Ô Deux Soeurs, the first Montreal establishment to join the movement. About 15 others across the province have signed on since.
The Positive Minute goes beyond informing viewers to ask something of them: that they become involved – by paying for a dance visit for someone else, for instance, or visiting someone in a long-term care facility or giving food to a person in need or doing something of their own choosing that makes a difference.
“The thing about the minute is that it is a call to action,” Imbault said. “It ends with something you yourself can change.”
He himself appears in each Positive Minute: He’s the guy calling to pay for a dance visit for someone, the fellow buying two coffees at Ô Deux Soeurs.
Viewers are encouraged to share their action on Facebook or Twitter – to inspire others in their circle to get involved as well. The tagline for the initiative is “Together we can change the world.”
The married father of three has been an actor for more than 30 years and allows that he has had “a fairly successful career acting.” His television roles included an eight-year stint during the 1990s on the series Watatatow, he has appeared in films and on stage and been in more than 100 television and radio commercials.
He has also done all kinds of things unrelated to acting: started an agency for professional actors who work without agents, for one, designed and managed several websites, and renovated houses with his own hands.
“And GoodnessTv is allowing me to leave a legacy,” he said. “When I reached 60, I realized that this project is the culmination of all my talent.”
The project is, to him, “an artistic creation … Every video is a colour in the tapestry,” Imbault said in an interview at the offices of GoodnessTv, located in a Plateau Mont-Royal flat he owns. Indeed, the organization is financed almost entirely by Imbault.
Although a few donations have come in, “mostly it all comes from me,” he said. “Let’s say I’m a poor philanthropist.”
Globalia, the web service provider for GoodnessTv, made the project possible, Imbault said, and continues to invest considerable time and energy in developing the platform. Nearly all its work is pro bono.
Dozens of volunteers, including university students from here and abroad, have contributed their talent and continue to. Emploi-Québec funded two positions until recently; now it funds just one.
Imbault is looking for partners to help the organization to develop and reach a broader audience. Projects on the books include an inspirational series, Changing the World; Transcontinental has agreed to be the media partner, but corporate financing is needed.
GoodnessTv, established in 2009, was inspired in part by a conversation with Imbault’s ninetysomething mother in which she told him that all the bad news she was hearing made her feel hopeless and glum.
“Then while driving, I started to listen to the news, and I said, ‘my God, she is right.’ How much of this is of any concern to me and what can I do?”
The site, co-founded with his wife, Katherine Adams, “vice-president (or should I say vice-dreamer) of GoodnessTv,” features 8,000 videos in 21 languages – including about 50 produced in Montreal. “We want to give you another view of the world – a world of solidarity, a world of sharing, a world of emotions,” Imbault says in a brief explanatory video. After inviting people to upload videos about good news, at no charge, he signs off: “And may the world be a little better for it.”
Other online good news-style initiative exist, including the Good News Network (goodnewsnetwork.org) in the United States. Testimonials include one from Tal Ben-Shahar, known for his work in the area of positive psychology. He writes: “Positive information benefits us emotionally, physically, and mentally. It can contribute in a meaningful way to a happier and healthier life.” |
* Herodotus, the father of history/and or lies, exists almost at the half point of recorded human history, 500 BC.
* Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Ceaser, and also Hannibal, Scipio etc are closer in time to the Neil Armstrong and tbe moon landing then they are to the building of the Pyramids. I think Alexander is about equidistant.
* The earliest Bublical figure whose existance is attested is King Ahab, about 850 BC. There are recoreded historcial Egytian and Mesopotamian figures from 2000 years prior.
At that time Saxon England was still pagan, but King Ethelbert of Kent converted to Christianity and allowed the foundation of a monastery and a kind of 'missionary school'. Tradition has it that a temple of Woden was re-purposed for the monks and their school. A large stone abbey was completed in 613, and the ruins still stand today next to the modern school.
When the Normans conquered England, it was already over 450 years old. It's 1000th anniversary was in the reign of Elizabeth I.
Not sure if it's an oddity, but: A person born in 1902 who died in 1970 was born before the first lighter-than-aircraft flight and died after a man walked on the moon.
Surely you mean 'heavier-than-air'? The Montgolfier brothers' balloon flights were in the late 1700s.
Speaking of Woden - last time I was in England, I saw a gigantic genealogical chart of the royal family, published recently and for sale to tourists ... at the bottom was the current Queen Elizabeth II and her offspring; at the top, the first ancestor of the first Saxon monarchs of England - "Wotan". He's still there!
This has my vote as "most amazing". Never in human history has there been so much change in such a short period of time. The difference between 1918 and 2018 is the kind of stuff that science fiction is made of.
* Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Ceaser, and also Hannibal, Scipio etc are closer in time to the Neil Armstrong and tbe moon landing then they are to the building of the Pyramids.
I've reflected frequently that this was the case with both my grandmothers. (My grandfathers both died before 1970)
It took a bit of digging, but I found it in Wikipedia. The Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies trace back to Woden via Cerdic, the founder of Wessex (but this seems to be disputed). Cerdic's descendant is ̣̉Alfred the Great, who is an ancestor of the current royal family.
So, the Queen of Canada, whose visage adorns the $20 banknote, is descended from Wotan (and there is a day named after this remote ancestor). This means that she is also related to Thor.
I always thought it was interesting that Columbus discovered America and Magellan sailed around the world before Galileo was persecuted for his theories.
In the year of the birth of Mohammad there was supposedly an attempted invasion of Mecca by a Christian army from Ethiopia. There's a church in Ethiopia, also, which claims to have the Ark of the Covenant.
In the Eighteenth Century the first Duke of Marlborough, a Churchill and the brother of one of Winston Churchill's ancestors, was given a small country in the Holy Roman Empire. He later swapped it for another country. The Duke's right hand man at the decisive battle of Bleheim was a Prince Eugene of Savoy. The Nazis named a heavy cruiser after him. His mother was banished from the French court due to a scandal involving witchcraft and love potions, and the French king refused to allow him into French service, before he fought against the French with the English.
The founder of the Church of Scientology was part of a bizarre religious group run by the inventor of moulded fuel rockets, and referred to in FBI documents as "The Cult of Thelma".
The populations of Turkey and Iran are each now greater than the popultion of the USA when my father was born. The US population then doubled by the time I graduated from high school. It has doubled again since then.
And I think most people who are interested in historical trivia know this, but just in case anyone doesn't: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day: the 50th anniversary of July 4, 1776.
My favorite example is that Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled west in a conastoga wagon and flew in an airplane before she died.
Ho Chi Minh at one time worked as a cook and dishwasher in Harlem. In Boston, he worked at the same bakery that Malcolm X worked at about 30 years later.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, victor at the Alamo, lived in Staten Island in New York after the Civil War for a time after being exiled from Mexico .
Lorenzo Da Ponte, who wrote the libretti for Mozart's operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte, later moved to New York, where he ran a grocery store. One of his New York friends was Clement Moore, author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas," who helped him get a job as a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University.
Jean Paul Marat, the French Revolutionary (famously assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday) was also a scientist. He independently discovered the use of shadowgraph imagery to detect and make visible air currents and convection, anticipating later Schlieren imagery. He once demonstrated it by showing colleagues the hot air rising from the head of Benjamin Franklin.
Speaking of Franklin, his illegitimate son William was the Royal Governor of New Jersey during the American Revolution (something I first learned from the play 1776)
As of May 26, 2017, the U.S. was still paying one veteran's pension to a child of a veteran of the Civil War. Irene Triplett gets $73.13 every month. Cite.
I just want to say that "Bublical figure" is a great typo. We need a term for grandmothers in the Bible.
At first I thought you meant they all lived together in the same apartment. Hey, I'd watch that sitcom!
Stalin: "Adolf, how many times do I have to tell you: your dirty clothes are all over the lebensraum, and some are on MY side again! You cannot come over here without permission!"
Sir Richard Francis Burton, the African explorer and aficionado of exotica (especially sexual), once met Brigham Young. He decided to visit Utah in 1860 because of his interest in polygamy.
If you brought Abraham Lincoln back from the past to the modern world, he wouldn't know how to open a door.
On the other hand, indoor flush toilets (admittedly not with the modern mechanism) are surprisingly ancient: they have been found in the Indus Valley civilization, 2600-1900 BC.
When the British first came to India, what did they think of the Taj Mahal? Nothing, it had not been built yet and would not be for 50 years.
That doesn't quite capture it -- Mormon polygamy was understandably a "hot" topic of discussion in Europe. Burton, who had written about Near Eastern polygamy, wanted to see how it compared. Having proposed to his future wife Isabel, Burton made the trip to Utah while awaiting her reply (!). When he got back after the trip, he wrote it up as the City of the Saints. It's a good read.
Burton had previously made the Pilgrimage to Mecca in the disguise of an Egyptian Muslim doctor. He wrote that trip up, too, as the two-volume Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Mekka and al-Medinah, which is also worth reading (although, of course, things have changed enormously since Burton's time)
When Burton got to Salt Lake City, he had a private audience with Brigham Young (both were world-famous figures, after all), and Young was rumored to have greeted Burton with the words "I understand you've done something like this before." A great story, but probably not true. Burton reports nothing like it in his book, although he does say he was impressed with Young and his knowledge.
Burton wasn't that impressed with a lot else, though. He regarded Truman Angell's Salt Lake Temple as an architectural monstrosity. (I like it, myself). He found Mormon polygamy to be dry and straitlaced compared to the practice in the Near East (exactly how he decided this, I don't know). His overall impression of Mormonism seemed to be (although he certainly didn't put it this way) It's No More Ridiculous Than Any Other Religion.
Burton gives a synopsis of the Book of Mormon in the footnotes of his book, along with a listing of all the pro- and anti-Mormon literature he'd read before and during his journey. he read a LOT of stuff.
Jefferson died a few hours prior to Adams, but since the news hadn't yet traveled from Virginia, where Jefferson had died, to Massachusetts, where Adams had died, Adams' final words were, "Thomas Jefferson survives."
During his pontificate (1099-1118), Pope Paschal II issued "Piae Postulatio Voluntatis", in which he officially recognized the existence of the Crusaders as an operative and militant part of the Catholic Church.
My grandfather was born in 1902 and died in 1981, so his life spanned both events. He was even alive for the first test flights of the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Maybe. David is (likely) mentioned in the Tel Dan Stele, although there are those who say the mention of "his house" is not proof of his existence as an individual, and there are also some who question that the inscription refers to that at all.
The writings of Procopius, a sixth-century Byzantine historian, speak of his having seen a marble column in Libya on which was inscribed that the residents were Canaanites who had fled from the Biblical Joshua. I don't know if a secondary source like that counts as "attesting" to.
"Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks."
Not very surprising that there are almost no contemporary images of Jewish kings (and the one we have is from a non-Jewish source), given the Biblical prohibition against graven images. Granted, there was rampant idol-worship in Israel during much of that era, but very possibly people felt it was justified for (supposed) deities but not for self-aggrandizement.
I think the more dramatic changes started about two hundred years ago. From the beginning of human history to that date, all machinery was dependent on muscle power (human or animal) or maybe water or wind power. And the only lighting was fire (and really the only source of heat as well).
Today many, many people have no experience with horses or know how to build a fire. Your ancestors would have found that unimaginable.
The famous painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware depicts two future Presidents. The officer holding the flag behind George Washington is James Monroe, who was one of Washington's aides during the war.
That he has graced the local musical stages over the last few years in two great bands – Para Zali! and The Kindest of Thieves is also in no doubt.
So how should we feel if he strips it all down to solo acoustic guitar, and vox recorded in a seriously reverbed room – no drums and no bass?
In this context, although Fox readily admits the recording is “very lo-fi and stripped” (two ribbon microphones and an acoustic guitar) , the quality of the voice and the song-writing comes through strongly.
And maybe this album is Fox’s “Nebraska”, a career defining moment which shakes him away from the original sleazy blues feel of the first band, and the indie pop, rock n’ roll, and, rockabilly sensibilities of the second band. He sounds like he is redefining himself here – there’s a bit of growing up going on and the mature nature of the lyrics and feel of the songs perhaps signals a future direction.
Chris says of this set of songs…..” It seemed like all 7 songs really seemed to tie in to the same concepts which were Families, Loveless Relationships, and trying to fix relationships that are beyond saving. I’ve thought a lot about families, as at this point in my life I can’t ever imagine having children of my own, and this thought has unsettled me greatly. I’ve focussed on saving relationships because when I observe people in love, I always ask myself if they can really be as happy as they appear. This was the first time ever I’ve written songs that aren’t solely autobiographical.”
For my part I found this to be a very compelling set of tunes – I would maybe like to hear songs of this quality given a good recording session to bring out the nuances of the material – but maybe they would lose something if this was to happen – perhaps it’s the simplicity of the recording technique that brings out the best in his writing?
Probably best described as a mini-album – half way between an EP and a full album – it’s 21 minutes 30 seconds well spent. |
Proof of Bronze Age activity can be found throughout the whole of the Norfolk Broads, archaeologists claim.
The Middle Bronze Age field system at Ormesby St Michael in 2010 is not unique to the area, Nick Gilmour said.
Mr Gilmour, who will feature in The Flying Archaeologist on BBC One, said aerial photos suggest clear signs of life well before the Broads were dug.
“The more you look the more you start seeing Bronze Age everywhere,” he will say on the programme, at 19:30 BST.
Mr Gilmour was involved with the discovery of the complex field systems, which date back to about 1,500 BC.
The presenter of the Flying Archaeologist, Ben Robinson, said the area had proven a “real challenge” for archaeologists due to the landscape being flooded to create the broads in the 9th or 10th Century.
The programme explores how these footprints, crop marks which were spotted by archaeologists ahead of the Ormesby dig, were best viewed by air.
“An ancient ditch or pit that has been filled in long ago will show up as different colours across the fields – crop marks,” he said.
Mr Gilmour said the Ormesby dig had revealed evidence of settlers’ activities, such as weaving, and objects including a whetstone.
“So you start putting in these links to other settlements much further afield across potentially the whole of Britain.
“Maybe there’s an extensive pattern – a Bronze Age world out there that we are only just beginning to understand.”
Where there is a settlement there is hunting, gathering and the possibility of early farming. Besides I could never resist anything where Stonehenge was involved!
New archaeological evidence from Amesbury in Wiltshire reveals traces of human settlement 3,000 years before Stonehenge was even built
An excavation funded with redundancy money shows Stonehenge was a settlement 3,000 years before it was built.
The archaeological dig, a mile from the stones, has revealed that people have occupied the area since 7,500BC.
The findings, uncovered by volunteers on a shoestring budget, are 5,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Dr Josh Pollard, from Southampton University, said the team had “found the community who put the first monument up at Stonehenge”.
The small-scale project has been led by Open University archaeologist David Jacques, who had to plough his redundancy money into it to make it happen.
The photographs, in an archive at Cambridge University, showed a site known as Vespasian’s Camp just a mile from Stonehenge.
Assumed to have been completely landscaped in the 18th Century, Mr Jacques realised the area had not been and decided to investigate.
“The whole landscape is full of prehistoric monuments and it is extraordinary in a way that this has been such a blind spot for so long archaeologically,” he said.
And Mr Jacques, with the theory it may have been a water supply for early man, believed there could be pristine and ancient archaeology waiting to be discovered.
“I suppose what my team did, which is a slightly fresher version, was look at natural places. Places in the landscape where you would imagine animals might have gone to, to have a drink,” he said.
“My thinking was where you find wild animals, you tend to find people, certainly hunter gatherer groups coming afterwards.”
Over the past seven years, the site has yielded the earliest semi-permanent settlement in the Stonehenge area from 7,500 to 4,700BC.
And carbon dating of material found at the site show people were there during every millennium in between.
“Here we are in this little nook at the bottom of a hill with a river running round it and it probably had more people coming to it in the Mesolithic period than it’s had people coming ever since,” he said.
For a project that has had limited funding it is already generating excitement amongst other leading archaeologists.
Professor Peter Rowley-Conwy, from Durham University, said: “The site has the potential to become one of the most important Mesolithic sites in north-western Europe.”
And Dr Pollard, from the Stonehenge Riverside Project, said “being able to demonstrate that there were repeated visits to this area from the 9th to the 5th millennia BC” was significant.
“I suspect he’s just hit the tip of the iceberg in terms of Mesolithic activity focussed on the Avon
The Flying Archaeologist – Stonehenge is broadcast on Friday, 19 April at 19:30 BST on BBC One West and South. The series is broadcast nationwide from Monday, 29 April at 20:30 BST on BBC Four.
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A 12th-century manuscript contains the oldest known European Medieval food recipes, according to new research.
The recipes, which include both food and medical ointment concoctions, were compiled and written in Latin. Someone jotted them down at Durham Cathedral’s monastery in the year 1140.
It was essentially a health book, so the meals were meant to improve a person’s health or to cure certain afflictions. The other earliest known such recipes dated to 1290.
Many of the dishes sound like they would work on a modern restaurant menu. Faith Wallis, an expert in medical history and science based at McGill University, translated a few for Discovery News:
For preserved ginger, it should kept in “pure water” and then “sliced lengthwise into very thin slices, and mixed thoroughly with prepared honey that has been cooked down to a sticky thickness and skimmed. It should be rubbed well in the honey with the hands, and left a whole day and night.”
Re – the “hen in winter” dish, Giles Gasper from Durham University’s Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies said, “We believe this recipe is simply a seasonal variation, using ingredients available in the colder months and specifying ‘hen’ rather than ‘chicken,’ meaning it was an older bird as it would be by that time of year.”
Gasper added, “The sauces typically feature parsley, sage, pepper, garlic, mustard and coriander, which I suspect may give them a Mediterranean feel when we recreate them. According to the text, one of the recipes comes from the Poitou region of what is now modern central western France. This shows the extent to which international travel and exchange of ideas took place within the medieval period. And what more evocative example of cultural exchange could there be than food?”
Gaspar and colleagues are recreating some of the dishes for a workshop to be held on April 25 at Blackfriars Restaurant in Newcastle, U.K. A lunch the following Saturday will feature the same dishes. The researchers are also putting together a translation of the cookbook under the title “Zinziber” (Latin for ginger).
While much of the food is still tasty to modern palates, not all of the medical cures would work today.
Gaspar explained, “Some of the medical recipes in this book seem to have stood the test of time, some emphatically haven’t! But we’re looking forward to finding out whether these newly-discovered food recipes have done so and whether they also possess what you might call a certain Je Ne Sais Quoi — or Quidditas, to use the Latin.”
Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to the findings of a pioneering new study led by the University of York which reports the earliest direct evidence for the use of ceramic vessels.
Scientists from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Japan carried out chemical analysis of food residues in pottery up to 15,000 years old from the late glacial period, the oldest pottery so far investigated. It is the first study to directly address the often posed question “why humans made pots?” The research is published in Nature.
The research team was able to determine the use of a range of hunter-gatherer “Jōmon” ceramic vessels through chemical analysis of organic compounds extracted from charred surface deposits. The samples analysed are some of the earliest found in Japan, a country recognised to be one of the first centres for ceramic innovation, and date to the end of the Late Pleistocene – a time when humans were adjusting to changing climates and new environments.
Until quite recently ceramic container technologies have been associated with the arrival of farming, but we now know they were a much earlier hunter-gatherer adaptation, though the reasons for their emergence and subsequent widespread uptake are poorly understood. The first ceramic containers must have provided prehistoric hunter-gatherers with attractive new ways for processing and consuming foods but until now virtually nothing was known of how or for what early pots were used.
The researchers recovered diagnostic lipids from the charred surface deposits of the pottery with most of the compounds deriving from the processing of freshwater or marine organisms. Stable isotope data support the lipid evidence, and suggest that the majority of the 101 charred deposits, analysed from across Japan, were derived from high trophic level aquatic foods.
Dr Oliver Craig, of the Department of Archaeology and Director of the BioArCh research centre at York, led the research. He said: “Foragers first used pottery as a revolutionary new strategy for the processing of marine and freshwater fish but perhaps most interesting is that this fundamental adaptation emerged over a period of severe climate change.
“The reliability and high abundance of food along shorelines and river-banks may well have provided the initial impetus for an investment in producing ceramic containers, perhaps to make the most of seasonal gluts or as part of elaborate celebratory feasts and could be linked to a reduction in mobility.
This initial phase of ceramic production probably paved the way for further intensification in the warmer climate of the Holocene when we see much more pottery on Japanese sites.
“This study demonstrates that it is possible to analyse organic residues from some of the world’s earliest ceramic vessels. It opens the way for further study of hunter-gatherer pottery from later periods to clarify the development of what was a revolutionary technology.”
The study also involved researchers from Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford; Division of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University; School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool; Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen; Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University; The Archaeological Research Laboratory, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University and Arctic Centre, University of Groningen, Netherlands; and Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Niigata; Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto and Wakasa History and Folklore Museum, Fukui, in Japan.
A medieval monastery in Belgium went to major effort to drain wetlands on its land, building structures on artificially raised soil, a new study finds.
Archaeologists excavated the Boudelo Abbey, once part of the medieval county of Flanders, in the 1970s. Until now, however, they had no idea that an extensive drained wetland surrounded the site.
“They placed these abbeys in all sorts of marginal areas to cultivate,” said study researcher Philippe De Smedt, a soil scientist at Ghent University in Belgium. In the High Middle Ages between the 12th and 14th centuries, Europe’s population was growing, De Smedt told LiveScience. Monk labor provided a solution to the crowding by making the land livable.
“The former rulers of Flanders then handed out those territories to the abbeys to make the areas more habitable and more profitable,” De Smedt said. [See Images of the Medieval Wetlands Site]
De Smedt and his colleagues weren’t looking for medieval work projects when they stumbled across the wetlands find. They were searching for buried geological features, such as lost riverbeds, using a technique called electromagnetic induction (EMI).
With this technique, researchers transmit an electromagnetic field to generate currents in the soil. The currents create their own, secondary electromagnetic field, which is detected by an aboveground sensor. Comparing the two fields allows researchers to determine the electrical conductivity of the soil and the magnetic susceptibility (how easily it can become magnetized).
Knowing the electrical conductivity in turn provides information about the soil texture, organic matter content and water content, De Smedt said. Magnetic susceptibility tells researchers about soil minerals, organic matter and other features. In particular, magnetic susceptibility can reveal if soil has ever been heated — and a handy way to reveal buried bricks, which are made of baked clay.
Early investigations of the area turned up unnatural-looking variations in elevation. A full survey revealed an extensive ditch system and signs of brick structures.
“We were in for quite a surprise, because previously we had no idea if there was going to be something there,” De Smedt said.
A three-dimensional reconstruction revealed that the ditches (detectable because they’d been refilled with lots of organic matter and clay soil) linked up to modern-day drainage ditches, suggesting they were used to turn the marshland into something more suitable for cultivation and building. Two small excavations at spots where bricks were detected turned up foundations dating back to the 13th and early 14th centuries. The purpose of one of the buildings is unknown, the researchers write today (March 21) in the journal Scientific Reports. The other appears to have been a monastery barn.
The project would have been a major undertaking, given the saturated soil, De Smedt said. The research team had to drain the area themselves for several days before excavating.
The barn was built on a naturally high spot, but the medieval builders also created a higher elevation area with sand to build the second building. The abbey itself sits on a nearby sand ridge, out of the swamp, but military struggles and repeated floodswould eventually drive the monks out in 1578.
The EMI technique is a useful tool for archaeologists, because it can provide lots of information about what’s underground without anyone lifting a shovel, De Smedt said. It also allows for investigation without destruction of a site by excavation. And it helps put human structures in their environmental context.
Along with scientists from other institutions, the researchers are using the same technology in Austria, in the Roman town of Carnuntum, which boasted its own gladiator school, and in Stonehenge in England.
“There, we try to see if there is landscape variability related to the prehistoric monuments, if there is a connections between the archaeology and the landscape,” De Smedt said. |
He told the BBC as well that "China has neither eternal friends nor eternal enemies". China had undergone relations as close friends with the former Soviet Union and Vietnam, however, much later a war broke out [with each of them] as well. Today now, the mainland [of China]'s relations with North Korea are not like they were that year with the Soviet Union or Vietnam. North Korea's activity of test launches is "seeking death" and could cause the friendship between the mainland and North Korea come to an end.
He additionnally pointed out that, both, Beijing authorities and China's supreme leadership are getting angry. China is expecting to punish North Korea.
[Source: "Forbidden News" 中国禁闻网-禁书网禁书网, Chinese underground news survey on October 24, 2017, quoting an interview only recently broadcast by the BBC Radio 4 with an influential Chinese official, Professor Chong Sho-Hu and who is considered an expert in international relations at China's People's University.]
A related Chinese language tweet was already launched by the editor of "blueprint news" two days before on October 22, 2017. It was targeting, among others, those North Koreans abroad who are able to read Chinese text.
The FBI is now investigating into the Chinese business structures behind a North Korean weapons deal that was blocked in 2016 when a disguised North Korean ship, the "Jie Shun" sailing under the flag of Cambodia, was stopped in the Egyptian Suez Canal. Hidden under its declared payload of iron ore, Egyptian authorities found about 24.000 rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and other weapons worth some $23 million. Because of Egypt reacting rather reluctantly to an urgent U.S. request to stop the "Jie Shun", the country became immediately suspected of having bought the military load from North Korea for its own armed forces and which is what Egypt's government furiously rejected.
The Chinese Epoch Times, an anti-communist publication, seems to have made its own investigations into HongKong shipping companies probably related to the transport of North Korean boycott merchandise. Here is something they found out:
On that occasion, Kim Jong-Un's younger sister Kim Yo-Jong was promoted as a new member of the Workers Party Politburo, taking the place of an elderly aunt to the Kim family.
Today, October 10, public celebrations will be held as a reminder of the foundation of the N Korean Workers Party in 1945. At the same time, the 20th anniversary of Kim Jong-Un's late father, Kim Jong-Il, coming to power will be celebrated.
Lee Cheol-hee, a member of the ruling Democratic party, on Tuesday said hackers had broken into a defence data centre in September last year. He said stolen documents included Operational Plan 5015 — the most recent allied blueprint for war with North Korea.
The plans reportedly includes detailed procedures for a decapitation strike against the North Korean regime — a proposal that has infuriated Kim Jong Un, the country’s supreme leader.
Citing South Korean defence officials, Mr Lee said 235 gigabytes of data had been stolen, although 80 per cent of the documents had yet to be identified. Among the files identified were contingency plans for Seoul’s special forces as well as information on key military facilities and power plants, the lawmaker said.
During the day, same news were being published by different sources including BBC. However, I am now convinced that this is not entirely breaking news, as I can remember having read about N Korean military hacking of S Korean forces already months ago in a short notice published on the web.
Furthermore it should be added that, today, South Korean forces on a "ground battle day" made an exhibition of their state-of-the-art tanks and artillery and which helped much in soothing irritated South Korean civilians [Source: Al-Jazeera TV, international channel, in their evening news].
On October 9, a Russian official and who had been to North Korea from October 2-6 declared that North Korea will be able to launch a missile as soon as October 10 [... and which is the date of an important N Korean Workers Party anniversary].
Editor's Note: Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, and who had visited the DPRK accompanied by two other Russian lawmakers was originally quoted by Russia's news agency RIA for the above information [Source: Reuters].
Russia has issued a severe warning to Donald Trump as its foreign minister Lavrov said in a phone call with U.S. foreign secretary Tillerson the escalation over North Korea is "unacceptable".
Russia's foreign ministry, said: "Lavrov underlined the inadmissibility of any escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula, to which the USA's military preparations lead, and called for contradictions to be resolved by diplomatic means only."
Mr. Lavrov also told Mr. Tillerson Moscow is demanding the U.S. returns Russian diplomatic property seized in 2016 over suspected Russian interference in the U.S. general election.
The phone call came just hours after Donald Trump's most senior general told the U.S. Army to "stand ready" for war with North Korea.
General James 'Mad dog' Mattis warned it is impossible to tell what the future holds for the crisis, but urged U.S. troops to be prepared for a confrontation with Kim Jong-Un.
[Source: Quotations from Express, UK, on October 9, 2017. That source published as well a series of pictures showing Russian border guards amassing on the North Korean border and patrolling the top of Zaozyonara Hill, a meeting point between Russia, North Korea and China.]
Australians are concerned that the current standoff between the United States and North Korea will lead to all-out military confrontation, with 55% fearing that outcome, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll and which included 1,846 voters:
Women were more pessimistic about the brinkmanship leading to war than men – 61% compared with 49%. People over 55 were less likely than younger people to believe war likely. |
(This post is dedicated to my beautifully graceful Mother...everything I am, you helped me to be! xo)
The May issue of North Texas Farm & Ranch Magazine is officially out and about! I am particularly excited about this one because we're celebrating MOMS! In my opinion, there's no better reason to jump for joy...while cooking...or anytime for that matter!
When I asked my fabulous Mother which recipe I should feature, she immediately suggested Super Hunk's rib rub. Awwww, that woman...I couldn't love her more!
It was a hard decision and, while his grilled goodness deserves the spotlight EVERY month, we decided to showcase it this summer...stay tuned...and go with Mother's Day Brunch instead.
Here are a few simple recipes that will hopefully make your Mommy heart smile on your very special day! (Grab a copy of the May NTFR issue for the hard copy recipe.)
From all of us, Happy Mother's Day! You have, by far, the most important job on the planet...and absolutely deserve a very tall "Mom-osa".
Drizzle maple syrup on platter. Stack 5-6 mini-cakes and top with a piece of fruit, skewer with toothpick.
Place on platter with maple syrup and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve with extra syrup for dipping.
Pour equal parts orange juice and ginger ale in pitcher. Top with orange slices and mint leaves for garnish (reserve a few orange slices to adorn each glass). A beautiful drink for a lovely lady!
In honor of Infertility Awareness Week, Guest Contributor, Lana Hamblin, openly shares her journey to motherhood. The struggle is great, the miracle is greater!
Hi, I’m Lana and my husband is Brian. We met and married in six months, when you know, you just know. Right? We started trying to have a family almost immediately.
From the time I was little, I couldn’t wait to be a mom. I had it all planned out in my head but I guess the saying goes, "the funniest thing you can tell God is your plans."
Infertility, it’s devastating! After being diagnosed with endometriosis and my tubes being closed from scar tissue, we went through surgeries, therapies, medications, 6 months of induced menopause, and one big emotional roller coaster for 2 ½ years. During all of this, I remember a specific day when I was at the store and there was a woman in front of me in the checkout line. As she turned to the side, I saw she was pregnant. I left my cart and headed to the car, hysterical. A tear-filled phone call to Brian, asking "Why is God punishing me? What have I done wrong? I would be a great mom? All these people who abuse their children and I just want one to love….why why why??" He listened silently and suggested I take a nap. I remember thinking, "A nap??? I don’t want a nap, I want a baby." I did as he said and when I woke up, I remember praying for God to forgive me for questioning him.
At the end of all the therapies, surgeries etc., still no success. We were sent to a fertility specialist, the words “only a 5% chance”, were not what we expected to hear. We chose to go through IVF (In Vitro Fertilization). We started the journey of IVF, confident it was where God wanted us, but I was not prepared. There was a two hour commute every other day to be there by 8:30 am for blood work and sonograms. I prayed during my drives, believing in God's love and promises of goodness and prosperity. The big day came to collect the eggs. When I woke up from the procedure, I found out I had produced FIFTEEN. I was ecstatic!
After the fertilization process, a week later we had 4 viable eggs. We chose to implant two. The following two weeks were the LONGEST EVER!!! The day came to find out if we were pregnant. I remember every second of that day. I drove up to my Doctors office and before I got out the song, “Move” by Mercy Me, came on the radio.
I looked up and said, God it’s all you. After the test, I instructed them to call my husband, in the case it was a "NO". My phone rang at 3:12 pm and it was Brian. I was never so nervous in all my life. When I answered he said “Well babe, you’re gonna be a Mama”. I couldn’t even speak I was crying so hard, I just kept saying "Really? Really? Thank you God! Thank you God!" When we got home to hug one another there was a level of love I don’t think either of us had ever felt. We had finally accomplished our dream. We were going to be parents!
You see, I’ve heard both sides. "How amazing it is that doctors can help men and women have a family?" But I’ve also heard how doing so is playing God. My position is this, God gives each of us our own individual struggles. He gives us “Our story”. To be witness to his great love! If there was meant to be no IVF or IUI or fertility help, my God would not have made a doctor to do so. I had a struggle, he made it a testimony of faith, hard work, and success. Matthew 21:22 "Pray for anything and if you have faith you will receive it." I prayed for so many years, having faith that God would make me a mom.
After all the hard work, I experienced the most unforgettable moment, my little miracle was born at 8:06 after 14 minutes and 31 pushes. I always laugh and joke that getting pregnant was the trial, giving birth was a cinch. God cut me some slack on that part!
Not everyone talks about their infertility story, and that is okay. I choose to share it. What good is being a testament to God’s love, if not to share it with someone possibly facing the same thing. I want to encourage, give hope, and show what infertility looks like.
Let me start by saying, I don't think I've had a bowl of Cap'n Crunch in twenty years. With increased age, comes Grape Nuts and Raisin Bran.
However, I recently purchased a few of these at a fundraiser bake sale (I'm a sucker) and after one bite...you guessed it...I went back and bought a few more. It was strictly for blog research, of course. I took one for the team because I knew you would enjoy them too.
In a large saucepan, over medium-high heat, bring sugar and syrup to a boil. When sugar is melted, reduce heat to medium.
Add peanut butter and stick of butter, stir until combined. Remove from heat and let cool for 1-2 minutes.
Mix...mix...and mix...until cereal is well coated. Yes, it will make a huge mess...but I promise, it's worth it!
No matter the occasion, your table deserves pretty dishes. From a warm, straight-out-of-the-oven chiffon cake to an array of (usually boring) chips & dip platters, every dish can be an eye-catching-crowd-pleaser when you add a tiny extra amount of oomph. Your guests will finally know what they've long suspected...anyone who can create something so lovely MUST have sparkle in her veins!
What used to be strategically scheduled days with commitments and appointments has turned into 90% fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants and 10% "hurry up, leave your shoes on, we're running late".
Initially, this left me flustered. The part of me so used to things turning out the way I had planned, quickly developed a twitch.
Holidays are no different. My Norman Rockwell expectations usually more closely resembled The Griswolds with the deflated turkey and a crazy squirrel in the tree.
The following photos are proof. With egg hunting on our list of Easter festivities, the search for an adorable basket was on! After a few stops, I finally found one I knew Little Man would like...let the photo op begin!
You guessed it, Daddy's work boots (cow crap and all) were his receptacle of choice. The old me would've instructed him to keep the eggs in his adorable basket, which was carefully selected by his loving mother. But the "chilled" me, sat back and snapped a few pics.
While this never would've crossed my mind as a possibility, it made for a pretty fun moment...caught on film.
I've realized that attempting to control every situation based on my expectations is exhausting. Letting the moment happen and watching my son discover the world his way is much more fun (even if it's covered in manure).
Congrats and thank you to all who participated. Stay tuned for more great Favorite Things GIVEAWAYS.
We had our first Diaper Dollars adventure last week. They took us all the way toooooo.....wait for it.....the ZOO! This was Little Man's first time and his reaction resembled my behavior in a shoe store..."Ohhhhhh, pretty...Ahhhh, look at that...over here, over there".
To enter, simply comment with your answer to question below. "Do you remember your first trip to the zoo?"
Little Man's new favorite morning pastime is making "cancakes". I want him to grow up being comfortable in the kitchen but if I have to eat another pancake, I might go flapjack cRaZy!
In order to prevent said meltdown, I've been trying a variety of new recipes to keep things interesting. I consider it my quest to find the perfect pancake.
The Food Network has done it again. This, my friends, is the best...fluffiest...pancake I've ever put in my big ol', carb-loving mouth!
Set aside and in a small bowl, with mixer on medium-high speed, beat egg whites until stiff peaks form (about 2 minutes).
Add milk mixture to flour mixture and stir until well combined, it's okay if there's a few lumps. Stir in 1/3 of the beaten egg whites and chocolate chips, then gently fold in the rest of the egg whites until just combined (do not overmix).
Heat skillet over medium-low heat and lightly brush with butter. Pour batter for pancakes and let cook until bubbles form. Flip and cook until lightly golden brown. Repeat with remaining batter.
When my brother and I were kids, we literally fought over the Little Debbie snacks. Mom even resorted to writing our names on our respective boxes to eliminate daily battles...she got an "A" for effort!
However, it has everything to do with Oatmeal Crème Pies. Soft, chewy, delicious, childhood goodness!
In fact, if an Oatmeal Crème Pie and a Gingerbread Cookie had a baby...it would be these...Gingerbread Oats & Nuts Cookies.
(If you're a cookie lover, you're sure to be INSPIRED by the Baking with a Purpose recipe. Check it out!) |
Things always slow down in August as everyone rushes to finally enjoy summer before it quickly ends. I get the sense that crowdfunders also take a breather too but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some incredibly cool crowdfunding campaigns happening now.
Watches and crowdfunding are a perfect match. I have seen more crowdfunding campaigns than I can remember for different and unique timepieces. Even today when everyone has a smartphone in their pocket meaning they no longer require a watch to check the time people love their watches. I think it is the combination of cool engineering and design
the makes a statement for the person wearing the watch. Well Vincero has a unique angel for their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that easily cruised past their goal and now stands
over $100,000 today. Vincero is incorporating Carrera marble into every watch they make. The creators have married the Vincero watch with Japanese automatic movement. There are still some early bird reward levels starting at $299 if you are in the market for a new watch.crowdfunding advertising
By now I think we all know that sitting at your desk typing away all day long is pretty bad for your health. Posture, inactivity, just overall general wellness – it sucks sitting during the day but that is what a lot of us do. Standing at your desk is far superior. But most of the standing desks on the market a pretty expensive. Trust me I did the research when I was looking for a new desk. I just couldn’t break down and spend the money to get the one I really wanted to I went the DIY route. Well now crowdfunding on Kickstarter is a super affordable stand up desk. Press Fit will only set you back $199 (early bird rewards are all gone). Even better they ship next month so effectively no wait at all. This campaign was created by David Yamnitsky and Isabella in Boston, Massachusetts. They are MIT students of course.indiegogo marketing
Finally we have swivelCard: Smart Business Cards funding on Kickstarter. Andrew DePaula has come up with the idea of adding a USB connector to a business card. It’s made with paper too. The cool thing about having a USB connection on your business card is that people you hand thecard out to may be directed to a website, dropbox or anywhere you want them to go to get more info. No USB? Well there is NFC as well. So wirelessly information can be transferred by the holder of the card. Makes sense – yes? Isn’t it about time we hand out business cards that we put in a stack never to look at ever again. At best you add them to your LinkedIn profile. Well with swivelCard you have the best of both worlds. All of your contact information plus info like pictures, presentations and more. Just think about it. Crowdfunding on Kickstarter now and way past their goal.kickstarter marketing
Luxury automatic watches handcrafted with premium Italian marble. Watches that do more than tell time. They tell a story.
Welcome to Vincero (Vin-Chair-0) – A small batch, limited release watch company. We develop luxury mechanical timepieces inspired by timeless events in the past and deliver them direct to the customer.
Here at Vincero we believe a watch should mean more than the name on the dial or the price tag attached to it.
The fact is there are already so many unique and amazing timepieces out on the market. However, the problem is the lack of small production mechanical watches that are actually affordable. It’s time you can own a truly unique watch at a reasonable price.kickstarter project
Affordable, Portable Standing Desk that packs flat and assembles in seconds without screws or tools. Sustainable and Locally Made!
Press Fit Design – The Press Fit Standing Desk is made from precision-cut parts that assemble like a jigsaw puzzle without any screws or tools. It’s so simple there’s no instruction manual.
Digital Manufacturing – Our completely digital manufacturing process allows us to produce an entirely new type of furniture locally in Massachusetts with the highest quality materials but at a lower price.
Affordable – We searched everywhere but couldn’t find a standing desk we could afford. By using a one-step digital manufacturing process, we’re able to reduce costs and pass those savings down to you.
Sustainable Materials – We’ve worked with a local supplier to use the highest possible quality prefinished maple plywood that is grown and milled in the northeast and 100% Formaldehyde-free, so together we can cut down on pollutants and carcinogens in our homes and water supplies.CrowdFunding marketing
A paper USB business card with full analytics and remote access. Meet the new standard for premium business cards.Kickstarter Marketing
A swivelCard is a premium paper business card that includes a USB drive–a smart business card. It includes analytics and can be updated even after giving it out.
We patented a system for turning regular paper into a USB drive. Now we’ve included this technology in a business card. When you own swivelCard, you own the premium business card on the market.
Paper comes alive with embedded USB technology. Imagine giving your business card with pictures, videos, presentations, and websites for the recipient to interact with!
Analytics through a back-end software interface will allow you to access helpful information about your cards and how they are being used.
You can edit the destination you’ve selected remotely. Remote access to your swivelCard gives you many opportunities to continue interacting with the card’s recipient. With the back-end interface you’ll be able to log in to your account and remotely make changes to the destination. Plus, this can be done individually for each specific card. Want that potential client to go to a list of testimonials instead of your standard video greeting? You can make that change on the fly after they’ve left with the card!crowdfunding websites |
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Much of this evidence has been summarized and presented in The Ascension Mysteries, which I just finished writing and is due out August 30th.
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Now that we have reviewed cargo cults and the idea that a classified mission to colonize space was well underway in the 1800s, it is important to widen our focus.
The next concept of 'normal' that needs to be shattered is our idea of time, and the speed with which it passes.
We now have scientific proof that there are lifeforms on earth who experience time far more slowly than we do.
"Critical flicker fusion frequency" – the point at which the flashes seem to merge together, so that a light source appears constant – provides an indication of time perception....
"A lot of researchers have looked at this in different animals by measuring their perception of flickering light," said Dr Andrew Jackson, from Trinity College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.
"Some can perceive quite a fast flicker and others much slower, so that a flickering light looks like a blur.
"Interestingly, there's a large difference between big and small species. Animals smaller than us see the world in slo-mo. It seems to be almost a fact of life.
"Our focus was on vertebrates, but if you look at flies, they can perceive light flickering up to four times faster than we can.
This "vibrational increase" can also be taught. It is not strictly genetic in nature. The "ageless wisdom" of all great spiritual teachings tells us how to do this.
Pete also invented a "flicker frequency generator" that was used by all high-level American politicians to help them avoid various mind control strategies.
It was a small matchbox-sized device worn under a suit lapel. You would hold the light up to your eye and turn the dial until the flickering appeared solid.
Then you would wear the device and it would use a form of micro-gravitational currents to stimulate your mind to remain at a higher flicker frequency.
There are various technologies, such as extremely low-frequency or ELF waves, that can negatively affect people's moods -- as one example.
These devices effectively counteracted those influences. All politicians of the 60s and 70s were secretly wearing these devices according to Peterson.
The arrival and interbreeding of extraterrestrial humans on earth -- people who look similar to us or just like us -- is another great insider secret.
I have encountered this information from a wide variety of independent insiders, and correlated it with ample provable evidence in the everyday world.
In The Ascension Mysteries, we fully trace the 500,000-year history of the human immigrants to Earth who became what we now know as the Cabal.
These people arrived as giants with elongated skulls. The best time estimate of their final crash-landing to Earth is 55,000 years ago, as we discuss in the book.
They were many tens of IQ points ahead of everyone else. They portrayed themselves as "gods" and established rulership all over the world.
They created huge civilizations with advanced tech, only to have them repeatedly beaten back into the Stone Age by cataclysms authorized by positive ETs.
Over thousands of years, some of them dropped to normal human heights while retaining the elongated skulls.
This included the Egyptian dynasties, Peru, Boskop South Africa, and Siberia, as discussed in the book.
Certain of these scattered, worldwide groups managed to survive, and retained a full record of who they were and where they had originated from.
The documents are still held now in the Vatican. Peterson personally held the books and saw diagrams of huge space stations and ships inside them.
Despite the fascination and detail of this story, this is still only one of a wide variety of groups who are living and working in our solar system at this time.
The Cabal group we call "the Empire" in the book has kept its existence hidden from the rest of us, since they are afraid of being singled out as invaders.
Furthermore, they consider themselves to be the "elite," the descendants of gods, and the rest of us to be inferior beings -- even "useless eaters."
Some high-level members still have the elongated skulls and remain in hiding. They are not "reptilian shapeshifters," as some legends have surmised.
As strange as this may sound, this is the main group controlling Western governments, the financial system and media, and it espouses Luciferian beliefs.
Earlier this week, the main page of Huffington Post carried a testimonial from Elijah Wood of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, exposing darkness in Hollywood.
While he was fortunate enough to have his mother protect him when he went to Hollywood as a kid, Wood admitted, “I’ve been led down dark paths to realize that these things probably are still happening.”
He also said there are “a lot of vipers in this industry” and that Hollywood has “darkness in the underbelly.”
“If you’re innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world and you want to succeed,” he said, “People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey. What upsets me about these situations is that the victims can’t speak as loudly as the people in power.”
Wood may be the highest-level celebrity yet to come forward about what he knows -- and it hit the front page of Huffington Post just this week.
A follow-up article on Thursday, May 26th shared the equally damning testimony of Corey Feldman. Things are really picking up on this story.
Insiders also told me that "Game of Thrones" was intended to reveal "Illuminati" secrets about British history, thinly disguised as fiction.
I heard this a few years ago, binge-watched 3-4 seasons before being turned off by violence against children, and now finally people are figuring it out.
Earlier this week, Digg.com -- an aggregator of the most popular "viral" content online -- linked to a video that makes the case very effectively.
Though this guy talks a little too fast for my taste, he nonetheless shares a variety of irrefutable points of evidence linking Game of Thrones with British history:
"Game of Thrones" is only one of countless examples of movies and TV shows that expose the Cabal / Illuminati agenda.
I was particularly stunned to watch "Zoolander 2," in which the bloodline of Cain story, a key Cabal myth, was thoroughly presented in the film.
In this religion, Lucifer the serpent was actually an extraterrestrial human who impregnated Eve in the garden.
The only difference in the film is that "Cain" is changed to "Steve," making it more silly-sounding.
We exposed all of this occult religious teaching in October 2014 at this link, well before the movie ever came out.
Owen Wilson's character spends the first 15-20 minutes of the movie wearing an eagle-like golden wing over his right eye -- a clear Cabal symbol.
This does not mean Wilson is "one of them." One high-level insider told me "Comedy actors always want to work, and are encouraged to take all offers."
It does appear that many actors have little or no understanding of what is really going on. That way they are never a threat if they decided to talk.
Justin Bieber is shot to death at the beginning of the movie, and is one of many celebrities who died protecting the secrets of the bloodline.
Movies are written in three-act structures. Act 1 is traditionally pages 1-30 in a screenplay. Act II is 30 through 90. Act III is 90 through 120, and the movie ends.
These three acts are considered to be Setup, Conflict and Resolution. It's also akin to the idea of Beginning, Middle and Ending.
The entire third act of Zoolander 2 features a child sacrifice of Zoolander's hidden son, who carries the occult bloodline of "Steve."
In an astonishing "outing", a majority of the leading fashion icons in the world appear in their genuine forms as cameos in the third act.
"Zoolander 2's" deep bench of designer cameos includes Marc Jacobs, Tommy Hilfiger, Alexander Wang and Valentino (we won't spoil a plot point but rest assured it goes way beyond the step-and-repeat sound bites of the first film).
These real-world fashion designers are all wearing hooded cloaks and have gathered in a stony dungeon to participate in the child sacrifice.
No matter how clueless you may be about the existence of this group, I dare you to watch this scene and not get creeped the f-k out.
Here is how it was described on the Kids in Mind site, documenting scenes in films that are potentially damaging for children to watch:
Cloaked and hooded fashion designers enter an old dark stone church and gather around a brightly lit central area.
[In this setting,] another man in gaudy clothing stands and opens a circular area on the floor. A pre-teen boy [then] rises, tied on a cross-like table.
The man shouts and rants about the fashion industry, takes a wide knife and attempts to stab the boy in the heart.
"Well, that's just a movie," the skeptic or paid disinformant might say. "They are just making fun of Illuminati conspiracy theories."
Here is a direct bibliographical reference pulled from the new book, and an extended excerpt of what it revealed about the scope of this problem:
LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - British police investigating allegations of historical child sex abuse said more than 1,400 people had been named as suspects including 261 described as "people of public prominence," including dozens of politicians and TV stars.
Chief Constable Simon Bailey, the officer leading that inquiry named "Operation Hydrant," said 1,433 people were being investigated of whom 216 were now dead.
"This investigation is massive and a testimony to how the attitude to victims is changing," said Sheila Taylor, chief executive of the National Working Group Network, a charity which tackles child sexual exploitation.
Bailey said that 666 of the offenders being investigated were alleged to have carried out abuse at institutions including schools, children's homes, and religious institutions.
The number 666 appears to have been deliberately included in this Reuters article as a clue "for those with eyes to see" that this is a Luciferian cult problem.
How many more would there really be in an era of only four major television stations? These numbers suggest it is the majority, not a minority.
You will read eyewitness testimony of someone being raped in a children's hospital by Savile and others in black robes as part of a satanic ritual.
The Ascension Mysteries discusses this problem thoroughly, including how this negative influence in our society affects us in our everyday lives.
It also reveals the full, cosmic scope of how these people got here, and the various ET groups that are at work in the grand drama we are now living in.
We are the new equivalent of Melanesia, (see Part One,) and the world is much bigger and has far more people living on it than what we see on the "islands."
Major wars are now taking place that are bringing the battle for Full Disclosure to the forefront of our times.
Hillary Clinton is using the promise of disclosure to try to attract more voters into her embattled Presidential campaign, as one example.
Furthermore, military maneuvers occurred this past week in Tampa, Florida, suggesting possible training exercises for major events in our near future.
We have heard intel for years now that there will be arrests of many high-level Cabal people at some critical moment, involving combined military maneuvers.
TAMPA — On Wednesday, Special Operations troops from more than a dozen countries jumped out of helicopters, rappelled from buildings and expended hundreds of rounds of ammunition as they attempted to rescue the mayor of this Florida city.
The operation was, of course, an exercise, but it was also a public spectacle for a force that has tried desperately to remain in the shadows despite now being at the forefront of America’s wars.
Aside from U.S. Special Operations forces, including Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders and Army Green Berets, countries such as Ireland and Jordan also participated in the exercise. Many of the participants covered their faces, and only a select few were allowed to speak to the media afterward.
“A lot of what we do is a bit secretive, we don’t really advertise much of what we do and there is a reason for it,” U.S. Special Forces Lt. Col. Chris Robeshaw told reporters following the event. “I think … this is maybe a stark reminder that there are young men and women out there putting themselves at risk.”
In several articles on this site, we detailed how at least a part of Anonymous is a secret division of the US military working against the Cabal.
Another sign of the war heating up is that Anonymous has made several very powerful hack attacks against Cabal banks recently:
Amidst a global media blackout of Anonymous’ ongoing worldwide attacks on the “corrupt banking cartels,” the hacking collective has now taken down some of the most prestigious institutions in global governance.
OpIcarus has recently taken offline the World Bank, the New York Stock Exchange, five U.S. Federal Reserve Banks and the Vatican.
The banks have been getting away with murder, fraud, conspiracy, war profiteering, money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels, have put millions of people out on the street without food or shelter and have successfully bought all our governments to help keep us silenced.
The central banks which were attacked in recent days were attacked to remind people that the biggest threat we face to an open and free society is the banks. The bankers are the problem and #OpIcarus is the solution.
Since that time, the scope and magnitude of the attacks have increased exponentially, with Anonymous, Ghost Squad Hackers, a number of Sec groups and BannedOffline coordinating attacks — each focusing on separate financial institutions in an effort to maximize the number of targets hit.
We would just like to make it very clear that all targets of #OpIcarus have been Rothschild and BIS central owned banks.
In fact most of the targets so far such as Guernsey, Cyprus, Panama, Jordan, British Virgin Isles, etc are in the top 10 places of tax havens for the elite.
No on-line consumer accounts were harmed, no ATM’s were blocked and no personal client data was leaked. This has been a protest against the Central Banks and the 1% — no innocent or poor people were harmed.
Lt. Col. Gonzales, our high-level insider from the Secret Space Program (SSP) Alliance, revealed the Cabal's ancestors crash-landed here 55,000 years ago.
I didn't have time to get this one into the book, but it is very interesting that the SSP date of 55,000 years ago is very close to what we see in the Law of One series.
The Law of One series has correlated with a huge amount of insider information remarkably well, including the 500,000-year history we spoke of.
In Law of One terms, the key date where trouble started on earth that necessitated a catastrophe was 53,000 years ago.
The exact nature of the trouble was never mentioned at the time, but in hindsight it becomes obvious from the new intel what was being discussed here.
In The Ascension Mysteries, I establish that Ra is actually a positive group whose teachings were horribly contorted into the negative after they left Earth:
21.25 Questioner: Just to quickly refresh my mind— how many years ago did Lemuria suffer its catastrophe?
21.27 Questioner: Thank you. Then did the ending of this first major cycle have something to do with the destruction of Lemuria, or did this destruction just happen to occur at the end of that cycle?
This encouraged what was already an inevitable adjustment in the movement of the surfaces of your planetary sphere.
21.24 Questioner: As we progress into the second 25,000-year cycle, did— At this time, during this period, was this the period of Lemuria?
However, those who escaped the destruction of Lemuria by natural catastrophe and were thus of Lemurian background continued their learn/teachings at locations [worldwide.]
[These were] ranging from your South America onward through the Americas as you know them and continuing over what was at that time a bridge which no longer exists.
Now let's get back to the science of time perception, as it is of far greater significance in the understanding of certain human ETs than we may realize.
Our Irish and Scottish researchers found large discrepancies in time perception between species on earth, and equated it with their size in this case:
Smaller, more agile creatures had the most refined ability to perceive information in a unit of time, said the researchers writing in the journal Animal Behaviour.
This groundbreaking study was further explored in a Scientific American article from July 1st, 2014.
To test this ability, researchers show animals a rapidly flashing light. If the light flashes quickly enough, animals (and humans) perceive it as a solid, unblinking light.
The animal's behavior or its brain activity, as measured by electrodes, reveals the highest frequency at which each species perceives the light as flashing.
Animals that can detect the blinking at higher frequencies are perceiving time at a finer resolution.
In other words, movements and events will appear to unfold more slowly to them—think slow-motion bullet dodging in an action movie.
The scientists who ran the new study gathered data from previous experiments on the rate at which visual information is processed in 34 vertebrates, including lizards, birds, fish and mammals....
Dogs can take in visual information at least 25 percent faster than humans—just enough to make a television show look like a series of flickering images.
It is interesting to reflect on the idea that dogs are not going to enjoy TV as much as we do, because it doesn't look "real" to them.
The frame refresh rate isn't fast enough. We are easily fooled even by the 24 frames per second of a film or 30 of video, but they would not be.
The Scientific American article also presented the following graphic, showing the "flicker frequency" of time perception between various species.
The sea turtle will observe us as moving 400 percent faster than its own comfort zone, since its time flow runs at 15 hertz and ours runs at 60.
Similarly, the housefly will observe us as moving over 400 percent slower than its own comfort zone, since its flicker frequency is a blazing 250 hertz.
At least in some cases there is a direct relationship between lifespan and the speed of time perception.
The fly has lived a full lifespan, and had a variety of dynamic experiences, within the time unit of its very short existence.
There is ample, redundant evidence from insider testimony, scientifically-validated sources like the Law of One material and alternative science that time itself can pass at different speeds.
Some of the truth is even commonly known in Einstein's relativity model, where traveling at near-light speed causes you to move through time much faster.
If you were inside that ship at near-light speed, you could potentially flip through 1000 years of our history in what you will perceive as one year.
The sources I just mentioned also reveal that some people have evolved to perceive time just like this.
The events that inspired the New Testament in the Bible, for example, could have all been fairly recent developments, when seen from an extraterrestrial perspective.
As discussed by W.L. Graham on the Bible Reality Check website, the Bible is loaded with ET references, including the word "Lord" translating correctly as "the mighty ones."
2 Peter 3:8 is one Bible quote that says "one day with (the mighty ones) is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
Multiple Bible scholars believe the term "day" in this and other passages actually means "year," thus giving us a 1000-to-1 ratio.
Some of this data is cited in The Ascension Mysteries, which had required my full attention up until I started a much-needed vacation two weeks ago.
Let's say this Bible quote is not mere speculation or foolishness, but actually based on information obtained from positive extraterrestrial humans.
Let's say you now perceive 1000 years as one year. Let's say it is now about to be the equivalent of June 2016 within your own frame of reference.
By this time scale, Earth humans would have only had motorized transportation, beginning with the locomotive, for the last two and a half months or so.
Our own civilization would have only developed motorized transportation, communication at a distance and other 'modern' niceties since the Spring, and we're not even all the way into summer yet.
The apparent arrival and teachings of Jesus, as another example, would have only taken place in late May of 2014.
The great catastrophe that wiped out a worldwide civilization some call Atlantis would have scrubbed the surface of the earth clean in about the summer of 2003.
The Lemurian catastrophe of 50,000 years ago would have flattened out the largest civilization of giants who crash-landed on earth in about 1966.
Irrefutable scientific evidence will soon be presented in The Ascension Mysteries revealing that earth-like planets, and human life, is very abundant.
This includes a Cambridge evolution expert openly proclaiming that intelligent life should look human wherever you go -- and explaining the reasons why.
Multiple cultures report experiences with human-looking "gods" who gave them all the niceties of our civilization, and then mysteriously diappeared from view.
Like the Bible quote, the vast majority of insider sources confirm that ETs have a vastly different perception of time than we do.
They are able to project themselves into our world and interact with us at a speed we can handle, but apparently this is not sustainable for long periods.
This appears to be a natural aspect of the way intelligent life is designed in our universe as it continues evolving.
As we have argued throughout our books and TV shows, and in The Ascension Mysteries, the universe itself has a cosmic intelligence.
Part of the plan of that cosmic intelligence appears to be that there are vast habitable areas that naturally appear inside planets and moons.
These often involve large, honeycomb-like cave systems, sometimes 20 to 40 miles deep, with natural running water, bio-luminescent bacteria and complex life.
In these organic examples, natural internal heat makes them livable even if they are outside the "Goldilocks Zone" for habitable, watery worlds.
In other cases, intelligent civilizations locate underground areas like these and dramatically upgrade them, making them nearly similar to an Earth-like world inside.
Great efforts have been made to keep those of us on the "islands" from being aware of these places, for now, and of the people who already live in them.
Ascension is ultimately a natural, highly predictable quantum leap in human evolution. In the aftermath, we live through vastly longer periods in one life than before.
As vetted-out sources like the Law of One series assert, there are four separate "quantum leaps" like this we will go through before reuniting with universal consciousness.
A million years could become like a year for someone in "sixth density," as another rough example of data that is hinted at in the Law of One series.
No one would want to live on the surface of a watery planet if they knew there was going to be an epic catastrophe every 26 years that would wipe them out.
Safe, happy and vibrant places inside the planet are much safer and better bets for civilizations with a naturally-accelerated time perception.
As we thoroughly explore in The Ascension Mysteries, 35 different ancient cultures had the secrets of a 26,000-year cycle embedded in their myths.
The information about this cycle very redundantly includes the idea that the sun gives off a flash of light at the end, and the planet's surface suffers catastrophes.
I am not at all interested in doom and gloom or "fear porn." The information about this cycle, and the events that follow, is extremely widespread.
My goal is to reveal the data that we already have, and explore its remarkable implications for people in our own civilization, at our own time frequency.
It seems impossible to fathom that such a rapid change could occur, but if you saw it happen every 26 years, the truth would become very obvious to you.
This becomes your "normal" life. The idea of time passing as fast as it does for a fly, or even faster, and living for such a short time, is almost unthinkable.
In The Ascension Mysteries, we argue that this is a deliberately-designed system by a universal intelligence.
These flashes of light and energy from the sun do appear to activate incredible "superpowers" that are currently locked up in our DNA.
Your wonderful superpowers only appear if you have developed enough, in the universal sense, that they are now authorized.
This means you are mature enough to use them without doing self-serving and evil things, like overpowering others to make them your slaves.
Great spiritual teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna and Moses all encouraged us to be more forgiving, compassionate and helpful to others.
These character traits do appear to be of critical importance in mastering the "class" we are all here to learn -- and graduating out of it via Ascension.
As offensive as it may seem to some people, the universe was designed with a very elaborate cosmic plan and purpose for each of us.
That purpose absolutely appears to be a spiritual one. The more we move away from trying to manipulate and control others, the farther along we are.
The "class" is winding up in our current cycle of 26 "Great Years." The bell is about to ring. Class dismissed.
It will soon be time for Graduation -- if you have earned your diploma. This is what all the great religious and spiritual teachings are trying to tell us.
The events in my own life have been unusual enough to convince me that this is definitely going to happen in our near future.
The first half of The Ascension Mysteries is more personal than anything else I have ever written, and lays out exactly what happened to get me there.
By seeing the positive efforts that were made as well as how horribly I had to suffer before turning it all around, you can decide the truth for yourself.
If someone like Jesus only appeared two years ago, in a higher frame of reference, then those teachings now become a last-minute effort to help us.
Only the most vitally important information for our own spiritual evolution would be included, since "cargo cults" can distort the core teachings dramatically.
Time runs so slowly for us that it seems that an event of this magnitude will never actually appear in our Now -- but it absolutely will.
Writing The Ascension Mysteries, and summarizing so many different intersecting sources that all tell us the same thing, has been quite an awakening.
There was also a tremendous amount more to be said than I could possibly fit into one book, and that's why I am sharing all of this with you now.
One of the most important things that will happen to prepare us for this event is a far more widespread disclosure of the truth.
We need an open, worldwide and sober discussion of the available evidence, and of the conclusions that it leads us towards.
Elijah Wood is only the most recent prominent celebrity to help change the hologram and alert us to what is really going on, and how dangerous it is.
Yet, if there are powerful people whose survival and profit depends upon our ignorance, they will do whatever they can to suppress the truth from us.
They are happy to allow "cargo cults" to flourish on the "islands" of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, and keep us shielded from everything and everyone else.
Everything I have shared with you up until now is intended to help familiarize you with what we now know from multiple insiders, including new arrivals.
In fact, certain groups fighting for humanity's future have been quite disappointed with me for not releasing more of this knowledge as it appears.
Hopefully this article will help to turn the tide. It doesn't matter if the viewership numbers aren't that high. It just needs to be out there before these events occur.
This is ultimately allowed to occur by a loving universe. The elites hold up a planetary mirror that reflects our own inner childhood back to us.
Though we have not yet had a vast, public meltdown of the elite, the process is well underway. What you do with this available knowledge is your choice.
Another thing these sequential catastrophes provides is a vehicle for discharging tremendous karma -- for those who need it.
If karma is real, and "elites" exist who have secretly been responsible for the torture, rape and murder of countless people, they need some way to balance it.
The vast majority of a population will not have invited or authorized these catastrophic events, and higher-level beings will ensure their complete safety.
Furthermore, sources like the Law of One tell us the Earth will activate a new "fourth-density" level that is apparently unaffected by such an event.
Some people will pop into this fourth-density earth, which will start out having all the same things we see here in the third -- a perfect mirror.
Others will be rescued by various intelligent means, including being brought into vast Noah's Ark-type ships or relocated to areas inside the earth.
Technically I am supposed to be on vacation right now, not working like this. I am enjoying two weeks off -- or not entirely off -- in the Canadian Rockies.
That includes taking the time to make ridiculous poses for my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.
However, a very critical meeting between our insider Corey Goode and the SSP Alliance is about to take place just an hour or two after I post this.
From what I hear, they are unhappy that I haven't done more to push for Full Disclosure. I do apologize, as the book took a great deal of effort.
This is the first of a series of articles and other creative works I hope to release free of charge to help do my part to move things forward.
There could be developments that affect the rest of our story, and these first two parts have already become huge, so we will end it for now.
The insider operations are so sensitive and timely right now that the Alliance is very concerned about how much intel actually leaks.
As was the case in April, I hope to have the rest of this article emerge very soon, once we fully clarify what is safe to reveal at this time.
I will be discussing all of these topics -- Full Disclosure, the SSP Alliance and Ascension -- at the epic Contact in the Desert conference next weekend.
You can click on this page to read descriptions of all six of the events I will be hosting at "The Woodstock of UFOs."
Don't miss it! And I thank you for supporting our efforts by pre-ordering your copy of The Ascension Mysteries today, if you haven't already done so.
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I am covering, in great detail, the battle for Full Disclosure, and how it is reaching a head at this time.
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The spiritual experiences I have had on this trip, including yet another astonishing time loop effect, have re-ignited my confidence that we will see these changes arrive.
I definitely feel that "productive solitude" is good for everyone -- to help change things up and come back into your life with a renewed perspective.
I do my best to make sure that all of my creative works provide that sense of inspiration. Thank you for helping us out by spreading the word! |
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China-based manufacturer Yongnuo has produced what looks like a near-clone of Canon's well-liked EF 35mm f/2, a lens that dates back to 1990. With a couple of exceptions (one of which being the brand name on the front of the lens) the Yongnuo lens certainly looks very similar to Canon's 25-year-old prime.
The Yongnuo 35mm f/2 covers a 56mm equivalent focal length on an APS-C body and comprises 7 elements in 5 groups, just like the original. But rather than the Canon's 5-blade aperture, Yongnuo offers 7 blades. Another key difference - whereas Canon's lens still costs around $250 used; we understand that the new Yongnuo 35mm F2 is likely to cost around $115. Keep an eye on Yongnuo's official eBay and Amazon stores for more information.
Yes. It has adequate performance and I like the focal length on full-frame. I've wanted an AF 35mm lens for quite a while, but the parts of my photo ensemble sucking up the available cash have been extreme wide-angle and good fast mid-to-moderate telephoto lenses. How many lenses can you suggest on a gift wish list and actually get? I use it on Nikon D600, D2Xs, and D5200. The Yongnuo's decent performance at an excellent price point works for me. The pros: light weight, classic focal length, fast, decent center sharpness, reasonable AF speed, only very mild vignetting wide-open, AFS-compatible focus. The cons: some CA, soft in the corners wide open, still not terrifically sharp there stopped down to f/8, AF motor noise, physically quite large compared to an old manual focus Nikkor 35mm I have. On a DX body, it looks considerably better because one is cropping away the softer parts, but then it's in the territory owned by the Nikkor 35mm f/1.8 DX.
If the quality is good maybe the products will be buy by many people. but if the quality is bad, who want to buy it ?
They have another clone for the Canon EF 50mm 1.8 II long time ago, the only difference in appearance is the name of Yongnuo instead of Canon, it is $70 new, while the original Canon is $90
^^ The optical forumlae is different along with the aperture blades. The Yongnuo isn't as sharp as the Canon lens wide open.
If DPR hadn't mentioned it looked like a Canon lens would anyone have thought it wasn't just yet another independent maker producing a lens?
Many lens designs have been around for decades and Nikon and Canon in the early days used Zeiss and Schneider designs such as the Planar and Xenotar optical formulas to build their own lenses. Were they clones?
Yeah, you're right. Certainly none of the people that have seen a Canon lens would have figured out this is a complete knock-off without DPR's kind assistance in the matter.
On a related note, I have a ravenous hunger but without DPR's help the proper course of action eludes me.
It doesn't even look like the Canon lens which has its focusing ring in the middle of the lens barrel whereas this one has it on the front. And it has a different number of aperture blades
If Sigma made a 35mm F2 lens with 7 elements in five groups is that going to be classed as a knock off as well?
^Problem is, Sigma is making better quality lenses than the 1st party people (Canon/Nikon). I can attest to this since I used to have a Canon 50mm 1.4 till it broke and replaced it with a Sigma 50mm 1.4. It outperformed in both physical build and I could shoot it at f/1.8 with pleasing results instead of f/2.2 on the Canon copy.
Totally irreklevant. A red herring. Making this lens is totally legal in any country, including US. The patent has expired. Moreover, using old known formulas for making new lenses is very common. That they have done this is only trivia. Nothing to get excited over. DPReview found something they thought fun - and wrote about it. And patent besserwissers took the bate, hook and all.
Sigma (a major manufacturer) has struggled to reverse engineer to Canon's AF system, but I'm sure a third-tier Chinese knock off company will pull it off just perfectly. <sarcasm>
The AF in my Canon 16-35mm can't be repaired due to the part being discontinued. So here's hoping that Yongnuo's clone AF parts can fix my lens.
Likewise my 28-70L (which is better than the 24-70L Mk1) .. I can`t find a USM Rotor from a production model which fits either .
Saddest loss are the numerous 85mm F1.2Ls which can`t be repaired for the same reason and are "focus by wire" so can`t be manual focussed either - expensive doorstop because canon can`t be bothered to make a batch of USM Rotors (the part which wears out in all USM lenses)
Canon won't hold parts for devices which have been out of production for 10 years or more, this is typical of Japanese manufacturers - this includes holding existing stock of said parts it would seem sadly in the case of Canon.
other makers such as Sigma, Yamaha, Roland, Korg etc will keep parts so long as stock exists thankfully but it would seem that Canon do not for any length of time ...... the only hope for that 16-35L is that the part gone is replaceable with one from another lens - even if the part is slightly different such as the Ribbon tail for the USM Rotor being a different length etc .
I`ve repaired lenses like this before - EG:- the rotor from the 70-200F4L IS works perfectly on the 17-55 F2.8 EFS but the tail is 2" longer so different part number (easier to fix the lens with an existing part I had) maybe there`s a similar option for the 16-35L Mk1 - there isn`t for my 28-70L which is now a manual focus lens for extreme emergencies (or using on the EOS-M)
My first SONY 27-70/2.8 USM also gave up the ghost (and was replaced). I was saying from the start, USM/SSM inherently has a finite life span, unlike the "screw drive" in the lens (where with each body upgrade you'd get a fresh AF motor - one - for all lenses).
There are cases when the silent USM motor is worth it (despite that sooner or later it will brick the lens), but they're far fewer than what people appreciate. I don't expect anything to happen to my screw drive Minolta and Sony lenses - whereas I'd think twice buying a SSM/USM lens for long terms use - esp. second-hand.
DC motors almost last forever too - witness the number of Canon lenses from the late 80s still running such as the original 50mm F1.8 Mk1 and 28-70 F3.5-4.5 . the 80-200L F2.8 "magic Drainpipe" was powered by last forever linear motors whereas its standard zoom brother the 28-80L F2.8-4 was powered by a ring USM - most of these are now in the bin whereas I bet the only dead 80-200s are dead because of fungus or droppage..
Thankfully canon now have a thing about Stepper motors which are as reliable as DC and as quiet as USM .
Does this give you any idea why the Zeiss lenses don't have AF? It's not because of perfectionism or cost; it's because they don't want to deal with problems like this.
Yup. Relying on tiny piezo crystals to strike a hard surface and thus move mass - what a big "surprise" that this mechanism has an inherent expiration date.
The worst are Micro USM - as in the budget canon USM & Nikon AFS lenses inc the Nikon 18-200VR because those piezo rotors are tiny so that they fit into a space the size of a conventional DC motor to drive an orthodox gear focus system - many die within warranty, Pentax had the hardest time with them failing constantly . not good .
FWIW, Canon's CPS told me "The lens has reached the end of its service life." I wrote to several repair companies and they all told me the part was not available. So I have a manual focusing 16-35 now. My lesson from this is to always sell a lens not long after it has been discontinued and replace it with the new model.
When the 16-35 series II came out, I tested it and did not like that it made strong star patterns from point lights such as candelabra bulbs that are common in homes that I photograph. So I stuck with the series 1. (I mostly use TSE lenses though.)
I have to be honest that I didn`t like either of the 16-35L models and found both optically poor for the price even when you didn't get a decentered one the edges were poor , thankfully they`ve now made an F4 model capable of living up to the L badge , it`s got IS too .
I highly doubt they could for instance copy any lens that had a fluorite element. super UD even may be out of the question.
Because the cost savings ratio is much higher. You can save 30-50%, maybe?, from this Yonguo -- whereas for a much more sophisticated lens, you could only save much, much less, or have compromise on the quality.
As the Yonguo is likely to be the same quality as Canon, or similar, the savings-value is much higher than if they copied a high-end lens poorly. And the consumer will have little preference, given cost.
Questionably, this is what happens when you outsource to China, suddenly factories appear making nearly identical products to yours, and what comes from Chinese IP theft, on a global level, where the Chinese military in many cases have been implicated in hacking technology companies to steal corporate designs to transfer technology and IP to China.
Not sure what is the case here; for all we know, Canon has a secret back-end deal -- or maybe the lens design is totally different. But often the case, is as mentioned above.
It's god damn standard lens, that has been around for a century, and I highly doubt anyone can accuse them of "copying" the formula. Oh they did copy the external design though.
I don't think you know what IP means. It includes Trade Dress, although it does include other things, like methods of manufacturer. A lot of this kind of knowledge comes from working in factories and then reverse engineering. Put another way, the overall designs for a nuclear weapon have existed for 60 years. But in the last 15 years, China, North Korea, and Pakistan have suddenly made them.
For the same reason they're knocking off $30 phone chargers and selling them for $2.99. This is China!
Making nuke is actually pretty easy - hard part is getting enough amount of purified plutonium. Oh and USSR fell apart in early 90s.
"For the same reason they're knocking off $30 phone chargers and selling them for $2.99. This is China!"
Another way of looking at this is that the rest of the world is charging $30 for what is at worst a $10 proposition as proven by the $3 Chinese example (even if you pay the labor). Greed greases these rails.
Because a lot of people around the world need a cheap standard lens. 50mm is too long for an APS camera and 28mm would have to sell for more.
It's out of production, replaced by the is version which is priced much higher. If a few tens of thousands are bought, you're looking at a lot of revenue. The alternative is a Canon used lens which costs more.
Who cares of a different optical formula. The performance is so poor there was likely no formula crunching or optical QA at all. The lens was barely acceptable sharpness stopped down in the center. This says to me Yongnuo does not know what they are doing in regard to optics and you get what you pay for.
Actually - both the Yongnou lens and the Canon lens seems to be crap, according to this test. Just different kind of crap, and the Ypngnou slighly crappier. So ... whats the meaning behind all this discussion?
They did make 50/1.4, it's on their website, although hard to find. As well as 2.0x Extender. http://www.hkyongnuo.com/e-detaily.php?ID=353
Contrary to what people are saying here, Yongnuo 50 1.8 its a very good lens for half the price of the Canon one.
Problem is that there is no shortage of used canon 50s at the same price as the Yong - no contest .......... there`s far more to Bokeh than the number of blades in the iris ..
The lenstip review shows the Yongnuo 50.18 is quite poor compared to the Canon version. Given that the canon 50/1.8 is already very inexpensive, I definitely would stay away from the Yongnuo version.
Could it be that the level of consistency and quality control on Yongnuo lenses is such that no two are exactly the same, therefore test reports are meaningless? Hmmm…….
If I'm not mistaking, Canon recently purchased Youngnou, their intent is to produces cheap replicas they already do now.
If the iq is decent this is a justified compromise for me. I had the Samyang 35/1.4 a very good lens except my old eyes cannot focus on moving models, especially when wide open. Like the 50 1.8 EF the focus ring is all but useless, so it is limited in function for video.
If companies like canon let these chinese companies copy their products, and sell for 1/2 the price, who will fund future R&D for future technological improvements? Sure the chinese make a quick buck and your happy you got a $600 lens for $300, but a portion of that extra $300 pays for R&D. I most definitely put my money where my mouth is and wouldn't take this chinese lens if you gave it to me as a gift.
IIRC the Yonguo 50mm is significantly different internally (different AF, different optical formula) even though it looks almost identical on the outside. Also, they're only copying very old lenses. The patents on these have probably already expired since they were designed 25 years or more ago.
It goes deeper. The government controls all foreign currencies received in domestic Chinese banks. If a company earns 100 USD it receives x amount of renminbi ( usually at a per centage below the posted exchange rate). The foreign reserves are then used to purchase critical foreign technologies which themselves are then reverse engineered.
30 years ago China's Navy was a Pirate in the Pacific model. Today it is the fastest expanding Navy in the world. Cheap towels, silk, cashmere and lenses...all earn and finance this military build-up. Look carefully through your lenses. Focus.
They can copy the shape and design but is the optics the same or better. If it is better then many would welcome it.
Lenstip did a full test of the Yongnuo 50 f/1.8. The results were dreadful. One would hope this would better, because it can't be much worse.
First they made 50/1.8 with success. Now 35/2 . I can't wait to see 24-70/2.8 with same image quality at 400-500$
Interesting. I wonder if they're going to copy the 50mm/1,8 mkI next. I'd love to see that lens brought back.
I'd consider it if it was a 1.4. I already own the cheap and excellent 28 mm 2.8 from canon which I got used for 100.
I wonder if they use the same quality glass elements with equivalent coating. I also wonder about their QC.
Well, their flashes are rather amazing and really well build for the price. Solid and superb performance. Check DigitalRev channel, they compared already yongnuo and canon 50mm, in their own way of course :)
Yep I own 4 of the Yonguo 560III flashes with the 603 triggers, awesome units for the price, I think they are still around $70 each. If their lenses are anything like the flashes , this is an interesting alternative.
YN would need to copy an expired Nikon patent. Are any of Nikon's patents expiring this year or recently?
Keep in mind that Canon and Nikon started out copying Leica and Zeiss cameras and lenses. Maybe some of these Chinese companies will be the major innovators in the future. DJI is certainly doing that with multirotors.
I don't expect them to be innovators. I work in China, here's the thing over here (electronics in general): output is really cheap with tiny profit margins, labour is cheap but quality of output is very low so the more automated the better the results for most industries. So they spend as little as possible on R&D in general - often $0, and spend much more time trying to copy something with 70+% of the quality at 40% of the price, which they are really really good at. So you want a tripod that can nearly compete with Gitzo at half the price, you can have it. Lenses, well theres one where quality differences are much more measurable and its a tougher sell.
My parents used to tell me how it started off with "It's crap, probably Made in Japan", which progressed to Taiwan, and now, China.
Indeed! Plenty of complete crap made here, plenty of hi tech factories churning out top quality stuff too - but generally the hi quality stuff is foreign companies producing here, home grown innovation is not as profitable yet as making stuff that sells across the globe
Do photographers who use copied gear have a moral right to prevent copying of their work? I'd say no.
Then no one has copyright for their photos. All camera gear is derived from what came before. The Yongnuo isn't a copy. It is optically similar but not identical, just as most double gauss 50mm lenses are very similar but slightly different.
The founding fathers felt patents should expire because after a while copying is good for all of us.
If two lenses have aspherical elements, and two photos have birch trees in them - neither is necessarily a ripoff. If two lenses are double-gauss designs, and two photos have a pond surrounded by trees - they are likely similar, yet not copies. However, if you take someone's readily shot photo from their memory card, and, after some time passes, start printing it, and selling it under your name – this is ripping off, which metaphorically describes what yungnuo did with this lens.
Why can't some draw a line between improvement on the existing stock - enhancing progress, and embezzlement of others' ideas and achievements - hindering progress? These are completely different in incentives they provide, in effort required, and results they yield! Stop mixing these up!
Drills, hammers, saws, etc... The design is always copied. It doesn't prevent you from building something that is protected by your intellectual property rights.
A company named TeleVue produced in the 80's a telescope eyepiece with an 82 deg. apparent field. Then, a company called Meade Instruments produced its own widefield eyepiece that improved on the TeleVue design by eliminating a blindspot effect. They didn't rip-off TeleVue, as the design of the basic eyepiece existed even before TeleVue refined it. As long as the product doesn't use patented designs and is different, it's allowable.
I bought some old slides at an estate sale from 1950s. Do I have the moral right to reproduce the photos and sell them?
If it's possible to make the exact Canon lens and sell it for $100, then canon have either been lazy in their production costs, or seriously ripping us off for decades with their $600 price. Could be the Chinese low labor cost too but not to make up for 1/5 the price. Ill buy what is best for me though.
EDIT: Correction, they are competing with the non IS version, not as bad a comparison then but still half the price.
It's like a store proclaiming 70% off! Well, if you are making margin at a 70% discount, what the heck were you making when it was at its normal price? Overcharging opens the door faster to competition.
This is silly. So if I use a non-OEM battery or flash I'm giving up my copyrights? As if Canon invented the first 35mm lens.
I don't understand the market for this lens you choose a great brand like Canon or Nikon to enjoy the best optics or flash they produce and then go for a cheapo copy inferior accessory like this? I wouldn't have this for free....
If anything products like this and their 50mm f/1.8 clone will light a fire under Canon (and soon Nikon's) rear so that they realize that they either need to do one of two things:
1. Make sure the products they put out have a large enough performance gap from the copy-cats that it warrants the price premium.
Granted the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II is already cheap and the extra money it costs is probably worth the performance gains it offers over the Yongnuo.
You can sell a ton of these cheap lenses but there's not much money in it because they still need to be assembled and tested. They are helpful in moving bodies when someone on a budget buys a camera but can barely afford a lens.
Canon and Nikon would do well to contract with a company like this (if they don't already) to make the low priced lenses, so they can concentrate on expensive stuff that makes money. Same for cheap flashes.
jukeboxjohnnie: Are you implying that one needs a high quality name brand camera + lens + accessories to produce good results?
Lartigue captured wonderful shots of high speed action and beautiful women with a box brownie over 100 years ago. When he was just 7 years old...
Sure, but if Yongnuo introduced a top-of-the-range 70-200 and charged $2000+ dollars for it then NOONE would buy it. They have to gain a reputation before they can compete in the big money market.
Look at what they've done with flashes. They started small and now there best flashes are easily competitive with Canon/Nikons.
@jukeboxjohnnie - are you kidding me? I'm all over this, definitely going to scoop one up the moment it's listed for sale. I have a hard time believing the Canon version of this and the plastic fantastic 50mm are "the best optics" Canon can produce.
Sounds like a brand insecurity problem. Who cares what brand it is if it works? You don't even know how the lens performs and are already writing it off out of pure fear. If some fly by night Chinese company can reproduce a Canon lens for 1/5th the price then Canon isn't as great as you thought.....
Every major corporation in the world that produces high tech industrial or electronic products is a target of Chinese economic intelligence operations. If you invest and build a factory in China with the hopes of producing cheaper for your own domestic market--you will find a clone of your product on sale in Seattle for half the price--two weeks before your own goods hit the U.S. port of entry. The Japanese know this and Canon is withdrawing operations step by step...back to Japan.
In the past when I've wondered-out-loud why Zeiss doesn't broaden their appeal and usefulness by adding AF into their great lenses, people on here have claimed that adding AF would be too expensive, because of having to reverse engineer the AF system and/or license AF technology. So much for that argument...
Well they did just introduce those two new Batis lenses for the E-mount and they have AF. But I do agree they have a lot of great glass that would be more useful with AF. I think they forgo AF in favor of build quality, feel, and optics.
Adding AF would mean they would have to start making compromises they may not want to. For example the Otus 55mm f/1.4 lens. Its got great glass, is large, and weighs a lot. To put AF in would require design changes and compromises. Keeping the weight the same would mean making other parts lighter which could mean replacing metal with plastic or thinner metal. It would also increase the size. The would run into the same issues keeping the size down as they would with keeping the weight down.
Yongnuo has none of these concerns. They are simply taking an existing product and copying it. They can charge very little for their product because the have no money tied up in R&D or marketing.
With AF, lenses for each mount are really different and each has potential problems. If not now, sooner or later, when a new camera model arrives. With manual focus there's not much going on except changing the lens mount.
I think that's tremendously naive. They forgo AF in favor of pocketing more cash, as they simply aren't good enough at their jobs to incorporate it at even their exorbitant prices. Giving the customer less at a given price-point is the oldest way to make more money. Plus, even acknowledging the need for AF is a functional concern, where they are more reliant on marketing mystique.
No, you can build a lens better, and smaller by eliminating AF. Look at Leica lenses. Fragile motors and electronics do not match machined aluminum parts that make-up a good manual lens, unless that lens is considerably bulkier.
I'll take a "worse" AF lense any day, whatever that means. Photographic moments are fleeting. The additional shots I can pull off with an AF lense more than makes up for the placebo difference in image quality you claim. I couldn't care less about longevity. When the AF motor breaks in 15 years, I'll buy another lense. I buy gear to shoot with, not to pass on to my children. In that 15 years, I'll have produced many more in focus images with my AF lens than you ever will in your MF lens in a life time. I'll also have produced images of a much wider range of subjects, many of which are impractibly difficult to shoot with a MF lens.
BT, I couldn't agree more. I can never understand how people can let the questionable mystique of a MF lens outweigh the manifest benefits of AF.
They have a market and they have a loyal fanbase who pay big for their products. Why should they change that? I'm sure there are some real life compromises involved with that change in design, for the moment they get their sales because their best products are better than the competition. And much as people are keen to dismiss expensive manual focus lenses, have a look around at the top quality photographers posting on the internet, a remarkable number of them are loaded up with Zeiss, manual focus and all. I'll take AF when I can get it, but I want image quality more. This story is a bit different, cloning something - we can't see if they have duplicated the quality or the build yet - is vastly easier and cheaper than designing.
True. But I think it is much easier to objectively judge quality when it comes to cameras and lenses than general electronics, where you honestly don't really know if one product is 'better' or 'worse' than others. You can see the quality, measure it if you want, the build quality is also usually fairly obvious too. And in the modern world, having a luxury branding is just begging for bigger sales as the vast wealth of Asia starts to get spent more and more. I've seen people go into a camera shop and ask for the best camera, walk out with a D810 and an Otus, and probably no clue how to use them.
I'm gonna blame the hipsters. You know, the ones who will gladly pay for the privilege of not having autofocus.
Easy: try fo manually focus in an lens prepared for it like Canon FD 200mm 2.8 and with a lens prepared for using autofocus like Canon EF 200mm 2.8. The manual is a joy for been used in manual.
The whole point of patents is that they offer a protection to the inventor in exchange for the freedom to copy the invention after a certain number of years.
for sure. I would not be surprised if the original EF 32/2.0 was basically an optical copy of the FD lens anyways, as canon quickly revamped alot of their FD primes to EF mount at the beginning of EOS.
Like rrccad said, the patents would have expired. The thing Yongnuo would most likely be violating is "trade dress." I have no idea if Canon has ever tried to sue Yongnuo for trade dress infringement, but their flashes and other lenses also look like exact Canon copies.
Trade dress is only relevant if someone might believe it to be a genuine Canon lens. And, in that case IMHO it is the consumer that is fooled and not Canon. In particular since Canon is not making the lens any more.
all you need is to change the design a little bit, then it become your own design. in this case, they changed the number of blades.
Patents generally last 25 years - shorter in some cases. Given that it is a 1990 lens, and its 2015 now... I'd say Yongnuo jumped on it.
If it is capable of rendering any kind of photographic image, then it already surpasses the abilities of many camera users out there!
As far as I remember, tests showed that their 50mm f1.8 clone performed as well as or even slightly better than the original.
I think performance varied by copy. Some reviews I read showed slightly better other showed slight worse (although I don't think all review may have done micro adjustments in camera).
Grinding precision glass isn't as difficult as it used to be in the old days. With automation costs have come down and quality way up.
Yes, grinding spherical optics can be cheaper today, but don't believe that all of this mass produced stuff is acceptable, some of the cheap stuff is horrifically bad, especially binoculars. Also, China's monopolization and manipulation of rare earths has resulted in price increases in low-dispersion ED type glass.
I bought a copy and tried it,, so from my own experience I formed an opinion,, the only opinion I care about. No, I didn't document the experience for the likes of you. Feel free to pi5s away your hard earned $ on the 35mm to learn the same lesson for yourself.
When tested with my Canon 7D I, the lens searches and can not auto focus when in auto and CA modes. Now the seller is telling me to get a Canon 7D II to test this lens. I am not going to buy a new camera for a $116 lens. |
When women in Saudi Arabia decided to buck the convention that women drivers are an aberration and launched a protest on June 17, there were, according to news reports, just dozens of them instead of the thousands that international organizations had predicted would have joined the protest. The reason for this is possibly because male support of the initiative is in the dozens rather than in the thousands.
However, those who were able to drive—some with their supportive menfolk in the front passenger or back seats—have since used the social media website YouTube to upload videos of them driving. These videos are still being viewed daily, while some Saudi women continue to drive, running the risk of being arrested, interrogated and perhaps charged.
Women who do not have the support of their fathers and/or husbands may also run the risk of being charged with car theft, since licences and the like are only issued to men. A woman may register a motor vehicle in her name, but is required to hire a male chauffeur or be driven around by a male relative.
A Facebook page launched in support of the Saudi women drivers called Women2Drive had just 15,322 fans yesterday. In contrast, Facebook pages for Guinness (the beverage, not the book of world records) and Smirnoff vodka had 321,986 and 725,965 fans respectively. But perhaps this is because they are giving away electronic goodies and souvenir glasses and t-shirts to ‘lucky fans.’ Meanwhile, current news reports reveal that Saudi women are continuing their campaign. Perhaps they are the wellspring of what will eventually become a groundswell of change.
Three months ago, on April 3 in Toronto, Canada, women held the first ‘Slut Walk’ in protest over offensive comments made by Canadian Police Officer Michael Sanguinetti, who was delivering a talk on personal safety at York University. According to the UK Guardian newspaper, Sanguinetti said: “You know, I think we’re beating around the bush here… I’ve been told I’m not supposed to say this – however, women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised.” As this conversation went viral, through every form of media there is, so did the outrage that a law enforcement officer held the opinion that the victim and not the criminal could be responsible for a crime being committed. Thousands of Canadian women took to the streets—some in racy outfits, others not—all with the same intent: to show their disdain for this blatantly sexist remark.
Since then, similar walks have been held in Chicago, Edinburgh, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, London, Sydney, and Brasilia, and there are plans to stage similar walks in several cities such as Lisbon, Wellington, Auckland, Morelia, Seoul, Curitiba, Helsinki, Munich and Dublin, among other places.
To say it’s sad that women still have to protest over the right to drive and the right to dress in a certain way, is to make an understatement. The latter, especially, bears the hallmarks of the warped patriarchal thinking that when a woman is groped, raped or otherwise attacked she brought it on herself by being dressed provocatively or by behaving in a certain way. This thinking, of course, ignores the fact that millions of women, girls, babies, boys and men have been raped and sexually abused while being dressed quite conservatively.
The women drivers in Saudi Arabia and the thousands involved in Slut Walk protests could have let these issues go. After all, according to reports the right to drive had been protested unsuccessfully in Saudi Arabia some 20 years ago. The ‘it’s the woman’s fault’ issue has been ripped to shreds by activists time and again. But like those persons involved in uprisings in the Arab world at present, women have had enough. This is the time it seems, for the Women’s Spring. Perhaps now a change will come.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tiger Woods, who has missed the last two majors because of leg injuries, will return to competition at next week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron, Ohio, the former world number one said yesterday. A seven-times winner of the event at Firestone Country Club, Woods has not played tournament golf since he pulled out of the Players Championship in May after completing just nine holes.
“I’m excited to get back out there,” the 35-year-old American said on his official website (http://web.tigerwoods.com/index).
He posted on his Twitter account: “Feeling fit and ready to tee it up at Firestone next week. Excited to get back out there!”
While enjoying remarkable success in 11 appearances at Firestone, Woods tied for 78th last year, the first time he had ever finished outside the top four at the elite WGC event.
However, he will have to shake off plenty of rust when he tees off in next Thursday’s opening round. According to his website, he has only recently resumed hitting practice balls — on the advice of his doctors.
Woods, a 14-times major champion, hurt his left knee ligaments and Achilles tendon during the Masters in April and has not competed since he withdrew from the Players Championship at Sawgrass on May 12. He later said he made a mistake in deciding to play that tournament five weeks after hurting himself at the Masters, adding that if he had not competed there he would have been fit enough for the next two majors.
Woods, who has not won a major since the 2008 U.S. Open nor any tournament worldwide since 2009, ended up pulling out of the June 16-19 U.S. Open at Congressional and the July 14-17 British Open at Royal St. George’s.
“I learned my lesson at the Players,” Woods said last month. “I’ll come back when I’m 100 percent. I don’t know when that will be. But I’m getting stronger and more explosive.”
Woods has recovered from four knee surgeries over the years. This time, he did not have to go under the knife.
“We’re in the gym every day, most of the time two times, sometimes three times a day, and it’s the whole chain,” he said. “It’s not just the leg, it’s the whole body. Got to keep everything going.
“We’re testing it every day to see what it feels like … and push it as far as the leg will go. And each day it’s gotten better. We haven’t had any setbacks, which has been good.” |
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Immigrants across the states protest against unjust racial profiling. Utah immigrants might be next. Courtesy of stock.xchng
UVU adjunct professor Paul Nibley suggests we are not addressing the root of the immigration problem. “You can keep giving people that have smallpox cough medicine, but it’s not going to solve the problem,” which he argues is drugs. Mexican cartels have for long been terrorizing residents on the border using drugs, kidnappings and smuggling people. According to Nibley, “My observation is that if we made it legal to take drugs, we could sell drugs very cheaply.”
If Arizona’s attempt is ill guided, how long will it take before this game of chicken concludes? By giving authorities the power to question people if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is in the U.S. illegally, we have essentially lost the trust of an entire community.
Many police officers have challenged the law and have spoken against it. In an interview with KSL, Salt Lake City Police Chief, Chris Burbank, opposed the law adding, “Our first job, first and foremost, is to protect our community, and have people feel secure and safe in our community, and to do that without discriminating.”
Discrimination through racial profiling is a dead end. It’s not likely a white person would get questioned – however, I would, as would Johana and many others here in Utah because of my dark skin.
Elisabeth Lutyens was a creative artist for whom compromise was impossible. She believed fervently in the necessity for a professional approach, whether she was writing for the concert hall, the radio or for the film studios. She had an unerring sense of responsibility towards both her historical antecedents and her contemporaries, and every piece she wrote was the result of an unfailing awareness of the importance of a clear premise and purpose. As a teacher, Lutyens was always alive, inventive and understanding. Her generously long lessons were as much of a challenge to her as to her students and the range was wide; apart from detailed technical work on notes and form, she relished analysing great poetry and discussing word-setting and, being fluent in French, she was particularly adept at demonstrating the differences between setting, say, Donne and Verlaine. Few composers today are blessed with Lutyens' blend of success combined with deep humility; she frequently said that it was work itself which stimulated her imagination and this is demonstrated in her large and extremely varied output. Let us hope that her greatest music will always be appreciated by the aware of each generation and that they may derive pleasure and solace from its unique expressive world. (Robert Saxton, 1996)
Daytona Beach and Ormond Beach became the epicenter for racing fanatics who used the hard packed beaches to test new racing machines and pushed them to break several land speed records during the 1900s. Henry Flagler continued his expansion of hotels and land acquisitions down the Atlantic coast from St. Augustine into the area today known as Daytona. One hotel he purchased was the Ormond Hotel located directly a remote section of the beach in the small town of Ormond just north of Daytona. By 1905 the small hotel had expanded to 400 rooms. As usual, Flagler would build first and then figure out how to get tourists to his resorts. One group of visitors to the Ormond Hotel, were the new automobile pioneers of that era. With the encouragement of Henry Flagler; Ransom Olds, Henry Ford, Lewis Chevrolet and others gathered at the garage built at the the Ormond Hotel. Racing soon became a gentleman's sport and Daytona seemed to draw those intent on becoming the next record holder. The first speed record was set by William Vanderbuilt and his Mercedes in 1904 when he reached 92.04 miles per hour. This was where they tested their new machines on the long flat beaches of Daytona. Ormond and Daytona have attracked racing enthusiasts ever since.
At times the racetrack would extended up and down the beach from Ponces Inlet to several miles beyond the pier at Daytona. Records were broken by race cars and motorcycles alike. The actual race track could extend 10 miles or more just so the cars would be able to reach speeds of 300 miles an hour and then stop. It was an era when anything seemed possible and there were many unexplored opportunites to be grasped.
Daytona Beach no longer allows the racing along the beach. Ormond Beach has banned driving along it's beaches. However, the vibrancy and the intensity are still very much a part of their culture. However, the beach is still a hub of activity and Daytona vacation rentals extend for miles up and down the beaches.
The beaches seem to have every new modification of a beach vehicle available. Dune buggies, convertibles, SUVs, 3 wheel pedal bikes, small racing bikes for children constantly parade up and down the beach with their radios blaring. In the background are highrise hotels and condos with swimming pools perched on the sand dunes overlooking the ocean, the perfect Daytona Beach vacation rental where their customers enjoy the view of the motor parade and the breaking of the waves along the shoreline while they sit and enjoy a drink.
Directly to the west of Daytona Beach on the west side of the narrow strip of land that is considered Daytona Beach is the Halifax River and the Intracoastal Waterway. This is the historic section of Downtown Daytona. Where palm trees line the streets with brick sidewalks. Many of the art deco buildings are painted with murals depicting various scenes of Daytona. A stroll through the streets allows for stops at the various restaurants and makes an interesting side excusion.
The IntraCoastal and the Halifax River have numerous restaurants positioned inside marinas that jetty out from the land. The views of the numerous boats and yachts that dock along side of these restaurants make for an enjoyable and relaxing afternoon. Caribbean Jack's is one such restaurant. Recently opened during the last year it boasts a beautiful marina with some of the most beautiful boats and live music playing on the weekends. The bar opens directly onto the IntraCoastal with a jacuzzi and swimming pool available. It is a relaxed atmosphere where the sound of music floats across the breezes off the water. |
The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind. Bhagavad Gita 2:23
I am in no martial arts hall of fame, or currently member of any association. There are so many martial arts organizations these days!
I’ve been a member of a couple. Not too many, since monetary fees are involved, and I can think of other things to do with those monies. But I’m not big on being part of martial arts organizations. They don’t really serve my needs in an extended manner. Often, they really don’t contribute much to your martial arts skills and knowledge.
If you look you’ll see on some martial artists’ bios that they are members of many organizations, and in many halls of fame. They are in photos with many great martial arts celebrities. Those are supposed to validate the martial artist; “He is so great he is in a picture with someone else who is great!” It becomes a kind of competition; “How many awards do you have? How many celebrities are you in a pic with?”
I am suspect of that kind of validation. Actually, I find it superficial. You see, I grew up believing that the greatness created by martial arts training was mostly invisible. It was beyond physical skills, and certainly beyond photo ops, even beyond the validation of a plaque.
I too have some photos with martial artists, some I’ve trained with extensively, and some just a few times. I’ve trained with more people than I have photos with. Why? Because we spent our time training. But, I would invite my friends, teachers, students, and any others, not to use the photos or certificates, or even belts, as an accreditation of my soul or my character. For that you have to experience my presence. Everything else is easily deceiving.
In Zen, the Satori; the transcendent experience of the sublime, in a manner, your mastery, is said to occur as a transmission beyond the scriptures. That means that the experience did not come by passing a standardized test and getting a certificate or diploma, and it is not validated by a declaration, paper, or external symbol. Many masters are mostly unknown and not easily recognizable.
Let’s be honest, you pay your way into most Martial Arts Hall Of Fame things. When you join an organization you get an “In Good Standing” diploma, and I’ve seen where people have paid to attend a seminar, not participated, and went and got a photo with the master.
Wherever I live, I try to establish a relationship, a simple relationship, with a martial arts instructor, club, or school where I can learn, train, or teach. I’ve been fortunate in always finding one.
I have joined organizations, but ones where I could actually benefit because of regular training opportunities. When that has exhausted, I moved on. I have high regard for many of my seniors, the instructors I’ve trained with, but don’t ask me for puppy dog like worship, which I’ve seen become one of the requisites of these organizations. Like President Obama said in a speech today “it’s not gonna happen.”
I’m happy being an active martial artist without personal celebrity, and without the validation of multiple organizations. I don’t even have many facebook connections, and I like that.
I understand the marketing value of the fame, but my martial arts practice is a personal thing, not a corporate one, and, like I express in my addendum to the epigraph, celebrity and external validation do nothing for the soul.
When I train an offense/counter offense skills I am training 2 out of the three, combat and sport. I’ll come back to why not 3 out of three later. I have little doubt that a trained boxer will outperform an untrained street fighter as far boxing in a street fight. He trains a sport but that sport has substantial combat applications. Individuals who take their military combat training seriously (oh yeah, there have been and will be slugs) are not people you want to tangle with in a bar, but may have no real sense of the sport aspect of their training, or the “art” of it all.
When I was in The Marine Corps decades ago, we used to joke about how little “Martial Arts” training we underwent, but that we were still bad asses. Those half dozen or so moves we did train had a lot of body, heart, and soul into them. We trained them for “KILL” mode and that counts for a lot. I saw a supposed martial artist spin crescent kick a brig guard once, a decent kick too, only to get tackled and beat pretty good for that offense by a martially unsophisticated Corporal.
Yes, it’s not the martial art, but the martial artist that accounts for the quality of the art. I’ve heard it, and said it as well. But substitute “mode” here, martial mode not martial art, not yet, and what I’ve got to say may make more sense.
It is not a mere matter of skillfulness. We distinguish different modes and potential expressions of artistry such as visual arts, literary arts, musical arts, and movement arts such as martial arts, dance, or even gymnastics, but not every skillful expression in a particular mode is art.
The Art part, with a capital A, takes place in the invisible realms of life, of living, and of the soul. I have learned visual modes of expressions and martial modes of expressions in the classroom. I have learned the Arts of these in contemplative moments, in moments of personal challenge or crisis, through desire, fear, love, hate, confusion, weariness, and more, then repeat, then it infuses into your mode. That’s when the mode becomes art. The skillfulness may be higher or lower than another’s, but true artistry has no degrees.
It used to be said that kids could not be blackbelts because they lacked wider life experience, and the blackbelt was not just reflective of skill, but of wider ranging maturity. I agree. We can teach martial modes, or expressions such as Karate, Escrima, Kung Fu, but not every student will be a martial artist. Even the skillful student may not be a martial artist, and that part is hard for the observer to determine at a glance. However, it seems we’ve tacitly agreed to acknowledge skillfulness over maturity, and adding youthful athleticism and resilience to the mix how can you not have an eight year old 2nd degree blackbelt? Sarcasm here!
As martial arts instructors I think we train and teach 2 out of the three. We train martial combat skills for fighting and self defense, and martial sport skills for the competitive individuals. But the “Art” is not something we can give, it has to come from the student, and involves more than just skillful maneuvers.
Some of my training group members get together with each other and train on their own during the week.
That represents a sincere interest and dedication, and is also the way you make it your own. That makes what you are training a way of life not just a class you take. I hear from everyone and his brother “You a martial arts instructor? Well, I took taekwondo once” and they are obese, stiff as an oak, and only shuffle along as a walk.
Joe and I were talking today, and mentioning Master (and I don’t use the term loosely) Jhoon Rhee. At some TV gala thing, he took the stage, mentioned that among the benefits of TaeKwonDo training are flexibility, and while in his suit, raised his leg, grabbed it with his hand and held it over his head, after that he mentioned strength and did a bunch of pushups and situps in front of all present.
I don’t remember when it was exactly, but it was a show hosted by Wesley Snipes. However, a few years ago at age 80, at a Washington DC congressional reception, still looking fit, he performs 100 pushups in under a minute, and does a full split. That I have the link for: Master Jhoon Rhee 80th Birthday
His martial arts is a way of life, not just a class he took. Even with periods of non training due to life events or medical issues, you can have martial arts as a positive and beneficial way of life. Make it your own.
Now, on another note: train well and practice safely. We did a lot of lock flows, do them to a point of giving and receiving pressure, but not to do damage to each other, the joints on the human body are its weakest points. Save the snapping and breaking pressure for an assailant. We trained a lot of disarms and tactics. Remember, the best disarm is not to be in the neighborhood, second best is a really hard hit to the head, third is to discover it in process, without tunnel vision looking for it. |
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Back in the day, business models were quite simple: Buy low, sell high. It’s the basis of capitalism and the more it’s repeated, the richer you get. But with new technologies and globalisation, the world has become more complex and competitive, meaning this simple business model can’t deliver a competitive advantage needed to stay ahead of the pack. Though disruptive new business models are emblematic of our generation, they remain poorly understood. To get busy redefining your business model, here’s what you need to know.
Before you can innovate and refine a business model, you need to understand what and where you can tweak. Simply put, a business model is a description of how an organisation creates, delivers and captures value. This can be broken down into nine elements:
A clear description of the company’s offering and how it solves problems or creates value for customers.
The most important assets that the company needs to make the other elements of the business model work.
Through these nine elements you’re able to understand your current business, whether it can be refined to be more profitable, and where there’s room for designing a new business model. The process is relatively simple but extremely powerful.
Bring together your management team and other external participants, and present a copy of your current business model. Explain the nine different components and what they mean to the business so everyone’s on the same page.
Brainstorm ideas for different ways of doing things within the business model. If you’re designing a new business model, the focus should be on how you build up the different elements to create a valuable enterprise. Ask yourself, “How can we do things differently?”, “How can we create more value?” and “How can we be more efficient?” Be sure everyone participates and all suggestions are recorded for pondering later. Draw up a business model canvas including all suggestions made, and put it up where everyone
Identify good ideas with the input of everyone from the group. Try using gold star stickers where participants can vote for their top picks.
Bring the best ideas together in a coherent business model. Get each participant to rewrite the business model using the best picks. Each person can then present their new model back to the group.
Begin implementation of the new model by creating a set of action steps and allocating responsibility for their implementation.
In short: A company sells lower quantities of more types of products to niche groups of customers. Unlike finding a ‘hit’ product to appeal to large segments of mainstream customers, you service small, dispersed groups.
An example is book publisher Lulu.com. Instead of finding the next Harry Potter, Lulu.com is an emerging book publishing business. It enables amateur authors (read: anyone) to publish a book. They make money by providing authors with the tools to self-publish and a platform for buying and selling these books.
In short: These bring together buyers and sellers by creating a space where people can transact. The model creates value by facilitating interactions between groups of people. It gains value as more people use it.
An example is local real estate platform, Private Property that brings together buyers and sellers of real estate on the Internet. Other examples include eBay, Gumtree, Apple App Store and Google advertising.
In short: Yes it’s possible to deliver a product or service to a large customer segment for free; having non-paying customers financed by some other portion of the business. By offering products or services for free, you generate demand and create interest which then encourages a customer segment to buy additional products or services.
An example is Skype. Provided you have an Internet connection, video calls are free (except for the bandwidth you’re paying your ISP for). This gets people using the network. There are then a whole lot of additional services that are worth paying for — like group video conferencing or calling from Skype to phone. Other examples include YouTube and Dropbox.
In short: The business model lures customers in with a relatively cheap, upfront purchase but then makes money by offering more lucrative ongoing services.
An example is BMW Financial Services. BMW retailers give customers a very good deal on cars, and then use the Financial Services package as a means to finance the car. Ongoing interest payments by the customers ensure the model makes money.
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A rash of storage room burglaries across Montgomery County have netted four arrests with additional arrests expected in the future.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office was called to the storage facility of Thornton RV Service and Storage located at 20800 FM 1488 in Magnolia on Aug. 1 in reference to several burglaries of RVs and storage units.
According to court documents, the suspects made entry into nine different RV’s and three separate storage units on July 30.
“While reviewing video surveillance of the property provided by the owner, two of the three suspects were able to be identified,” MCSO investigator J. Niquette stated in court documents.
Niquette also interviewed several witnesses who know the suspects, viewed the surveillance footage and confirmed the identity of the two suspects as Joclyn Leigh Gray, 19, of Pinehurst, and Randall Lee Coleman Jr., 31, of Montgomery. A third suspect has not been identified as of yet.
Gray was arrested on Aug. 22 and charged with felony engaging in organized criminal activity. She remains in the Montgomery County Jail on a $3,000 bond.
Coleman was arrested on Aug. 1 for three charges of burglary of a building, evading arrest and a blue warrant stemming from his possession of a controlled substance charge where he was sentenced to 45 in the county jail and was currently on parole.
Additionally, the Conroe Police Department responded to the Gladstell Self Storage located at 810 Gladstell St. on Aug. 8 where it was reported seven different storage units had been broken into and items stolen. They were also called to the Preferred Mini Storage located at 4300 W. Davis where additional burglaries were reported.
“These burglaries spanned over a few weeks,” Conroe Police Sgt. Scott McCann said. “Video footage obtained from those locations allowed us to identify the suspects.”
Conroe Police arrested two suspects, Jamey Blades Berger, 30, and Jose Mercado, 34, for felony charges of burglary of a building.
Lion Pete Martinez, right, was named the Conroe Noon Lions Club Rookie of the Year during their 2012 Installation Banquet, presented by club President Philip Dupuis.
Congratulations are in order for a couple of outstanding Lions. Well, scratch that, congratulations are in order to all Lions as we’ve now officially survived Past President Philip Dupuis and his hilarious and consistent butchering of people’s names. But more specifically, congratulations are in order to a couple of outstanding Lions who were announced as Lion and Rookie of the Year at our annual Installation Banquet a couple of Fridays ago at the Walden Yacht Club.
Our 2012 Lion of the Year is Bob Gunter. Known to at least a few as Prince Charming, Lion Bob joined our club in October 1998. He has served on various committees, much more than I could enumerate here. So really, I have no choice but to use a baseball analogy to explain how much Bob Gunter means to this club.
You know how most baseball teams have a guy on the roster who plays a different position just about every game and almost always does something clutch for the team. Sometimes they’ll just be known as a “utility infielder.” This is the unofficial position that Lion Bob has held for as long as I’ve been in the club. Every committee I’ve served on, he’s done the grunt work. When some decorations were left behind and needed to be picked up from the auction last year, Bob stepped up as pinch hitter and got the job done. Whenever something needs to be done around the clubhouse, Bob comes in from the bullpen and cleans up the mess, literally. If the fastidiousness with which he keeps the warehouse tidy and takes out trash and recycling for the office and eyeglass center is any indication, he’s probably husband of the year too. By my estimate, he puts in 20 or more hours a week just doing the behind-the-scenes stuff that most would never even know about. I haven’t talked to anyone who didn’t agree that Bob was the most deserving Lion of the Year in a long time and the consensus among many has been, “It’s about time!”
Our 2012 Rookie of the Year is Lion Pete Martinez. Sorry, but I can’t come up with a clever, little royalty nickname. Although he is an award-winning barbecue cook-off champ, so maybe he can be Beloved Cook. Lion Pete joined our club in October 2010 and immediately set out to make an impact within the club. In my limited experience in work and other different projects, I’ve only known a handful of people who show up on time, immediately start finding work to do and never stop until the work is done. I think many would agree with me that people like that are absolutely irreplaceable. Our club is fortunate to have found one of these indispensable types in Pete.
I have no choice but to use another sports analogy here, so if you hate sports, sorry. Lion Pete is what most of the coaches I’ve ever played for would call Charlie Hustle. He makes up for any lack of experience by effort and determination. That is as essential of a skill set as there ever was, in my expert and humble opinion. As 2011 golf tournament chairman, I personally witnessed Pete show up before the 8 a.m. first flight and stay the entire day stocking coolers and snacks for the golfers throughout the entire course. He was Charlie Hustle from day one.
Neither of these two will approve of such effusive recognition on their behalf, but it’s the least I could do for a couple of the best Lions I know. Prince Charming and Charlie Hustle, I’m proud to serve in this club with you. Both of you do great work and lead by example consistently.
J.J. Watt and the Texans defense are healthier than they were on their last road trip to play the Patriots.
HOUSTON — The first time Houston faced the Patriots, top cornerback Johnathan Joseph played while still struggling to get healthy, and outside linebacker Brooks Reed sat out with an injury.
That game turned into an embarrassing 42-14 loss to New England. Now both are back to full strength, and the Texans believe that makes their defense much stronger this time around.
He was slowed by a hamstring injury that kept him out the two games before the first matchup against the Patriots.
“Obviously, back then I was good enough to play but I wasn’t at my best,” he said. “Right now I can say I’m 100 percent.”
Joseph, who often shadows the opponent’s best receiver, knows that he and the rest of the secondary will have their hands full. Not only must they deal with New England’s wide receivers, but also its tight end duo of Aaron Hernandez and Rob Gronkowski. Gronkowski didn’t play in the first game against Houston.
“They can place the ball on his back side or throw it up top and those guys both have great hands where they can make the difficult catch in traffic,” Joseph said. “For us, it will be a task, but I think that we have the guys here that are up for the challenge. It’s just about making plays.”
Reed, a second-year player, started 12 games in the regular season. Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips called him a “physical force.”
“He’s obviously a good player, but I think just his physicality really helps us as far as our mental toughness overall as a defensive unit,” Phillips said.
“Now, it’s a little bit different,” he said. “So I’ll be out there and try to make plays of my own.”
Reed had a sack last week against the Bengals; he now has at least one in each the three postseason games in Texans history. His best playoff performance came last season against the Ravens when he had 2½ sacks.
“He can play the run and the pass, so he’s a two-sided guy,” Joseph said. “I think he had just experience from last year coming in ... so just having Brooks back and those guys rotating and whatever they’re doing up front, I think it just helps those guys from a health standpoint and just being fresh all the time.”
Houston is hoping to build on last week’s dominant defensive performance in its 19-13 wild-card win over the Bengals. The Texans limited them to 198 yards, which was the lowest yardage total in the first round of the playoffs, and only 53 before halftime.
They also cleaned up their problems on third down, not allowing Cincinnati to convert any of its nine third-down chances.
This week the Texans know they must get pressure on Tom Brady and make him uncomfortable in the pocket. They’ll look to defensive star J.J. Watt to lead that charge. Watt led the NFL with a franchise-record 20½ sacks in the regular season. He also had 107 tackles, including 39 for losses, 16 passes defended and forced four fumbles.
“We were happy to make it as far as we did, but this year, new year, new goals,” he said. “Biggest goal of them all, Super Bowl, and this is a big step for us, and we’re really excited about the challenge.”
Phillips, who began coaching in the NFL in 1976, believes Watt is clearly the best defensive player in the NFL this season.
“He had the best season ever,” Phillips said. “I mean, nobody has had a season like that. Nobody has made that many tackles, that many sacks, that many pass breakups and that many tackles for loss or tackles for no gain in the history of football. Nobody has had a year like that. It’s the best I’ve ever seen, sure.” |
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This brilliant mom donned an electronic Chewbacca mask during labor to turn her moans of pain into Chewy-like roars.
Say what you will about 2016—uh-bye! Don't let the door hit you on the way out—but the year did gift us all with the hilarious, life-loving Candace Payne, AKA Chewbacca Mom.
In case you missed it, the Texas native went viral last spring after posting a Facebook Live video from a Kohl's parking lot of herself wearing a Chewbacca mask and laughing with unrestrained jubilee.
Payne's Internet fame—her original video has been viewed more than 164 million times!—led to several TV appearances including a one-on-one sit down with Robin Roberts on GMA, and a stop on The Late Late Show with James Corden for a little Carpool Karaoke.
Now she has her own publicist and will star in two upcoming digital shows on TLC. And since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, 2017 has already given us ANOTHER Chewbacca mom—Katie Stricker Curtis, a new mama from Michigan who donned her own wookie mask while in the hospital delivering her baby Jaden.
"Just because I'm about to be a mom doesn't mean I have to grow up!," she wrote in a Facebook post that featured a video of her wearing the Chewbacca mask in her hospital bed. "Bwahahahahs never take life too seriously!"
Great message! And a super-impressive one, at that. I barely had the wherewithal to ask for another ice chip as contractions took over my body, let alone request an electronic mask to slap on and rock through delivery. Then again, Chewy's guttural growls do sort of sound suspiciously similar to a woman's croaky cries during labor, so maybe Stricker Curtis is onto something here.
Will packing a mask in your hospital bag become a new trend in 2017? Bathrobe, slippers, eyeglasses...and oh yeah, don't forget to toss in an electronic Chewbacca!
Your baby is now unmistakeably human and is undergoing many sophisticated changes, such as development of the sense organs. To mark his new status, he’s now called a fetus. If pregnancy hasn’t seemed quite real to you so far, it soon will. It’s time to get down to such practicalities as your first antenatal check. Procedures such as ultrasound scans and blood tests are about to become part of your normal pregnancy routine.
7.The placenta will get larger as pregnancy progresses. As well as allowing food and wastes to circulate, the placenta helps to prevent harmful micro-organisms and substances from reaching the baby.
8.Within the amniotic sac, the baby is becoming very active, kicking and squirming. You cannot feel any movements yet.
By now the apple of your eye is of the size of a lime. Your adorable little baby is starting to look more human inside, and you start to glow from inside, out.
Your baby is now half inches long and is almost pretty much formed. Though she is already going to be kicking and stretching inside, her tiny movements won’t be felt so prominently by you. His or her water ballet will continue, which will soon turn into a full-blown dance. For another month or two, you will not be able to feel your baby’s ballet – as of now you might notice him or her hiccupping, which is coming from the baby’s diaphragm, which is in the formation stage.
It isn’t far away when you baby is going to be fully formed and will spend the rest of the pregnancy bouncing and growing, just like you!
Soon your baby’s hands are going to open and close into tiny little fists. Even his or her testes and ovaries will start to form. By the 11th week, your little one’s head is quite well formed and all the facial bones are now beginning to appear. The ears would have migrated closer to the set location, so would have her tongue and palate formation. The nasal passage at the tip of the nose is quite well formed by now too. Not to forget, on the journey of becoming a beautiful mane, his or her hair follicles have also begun to form at the crown of the head.
Your baby’s body is more or less straightening out while becoming more and more proportionate, although his or her head is probably much bigger when compared to the entire body. Your baby is doing whole lot of wriggling and stretching inside (may be somersaults or forward rolls too!) inside your womb. Just visualising it made you smile, right?
Packed with forming distinct human characteristics, your baby is growing and developing from each and every part of human body.
While your baby is expanding inside your belly, so is your body. It is interesting to note that around next ten weeks of pregnancy, you are going to witness rapid growth and development. You will have to consume more of food and water as your body is going to make more of sweat, blood, oil and amniotic fluids. You might feel thirsty most of the times. Always carry a bottle of clean, fresh and homemade beverage with you as it will help in keeping the fluids level up and running.
The increased levels of estrogen and progesterone in your body might be continuously contributing towards increased and frequent levels of urination. Earlier produced by corpus luteum, progesterone is responsible for pumping up the uterine blood flow and giving rise to placenta while stimulating the growth and nutrient production of lining of uterus (which is scientifically known as endometrium).
Apart from this, your placenta is secreting human placental lactogen – a hormone that is responsible for contributing towards the mammary gland growth. Pivotal for lactation, this gland helps in increasing nutrient levels in your blood. Your body is also secreting corticotrophin-realising hormone – a hormone that determines for how long you will be pregnant and how will your baby grow and develop. Lastly, another major organ your body produces is call relaxin – a hormone that can lead to pelvic pain, constipation, and overall pains in the body. Because of the rise of these hormones, you might experience some unpleasant pregnancy symptoms, such as morning sickness and mood swings.
By the 11week of pregnancy, your uterus continues to expand in order to accommodate the increased size of growing baby inside of you. You might experience light twinges on your vagina because of it.
One of the biggest good news is that by the 11th week of pregnancy you will be glowing like a sun! Whatever you might have heard about expectant mother’s glow is about to get all real by now. Thanks to the higher levels of blood volume, your skin will be looking flushed, sun-kissed and fuller. Not only this, the body’s hormones tend to increase the amount of oils on your face, giving you soft, supple and dewy skin. Because of this you might also suffer from acne-prone skin. This is all because of increased oils on your skin. But don’t worry, they are soon going to disappear post you give the birth.
You might also be feeling a lot hungrier by now, which is a good sign as you might be bidding goodbye to the irritating morning sickness. Your abdomen will start to protrude a bit. But this might be accompanied by a bit of bloating and lot of burping. This mainly happens because progesterone relaxes tissues in the body, including the gastrointestinal tract, slowing down your digestion and allowing the nutrients to take up much more time for absorption. But the best part of all this is that baby is oblivious to all your intestinal distress!
In the pursuit of eating for two, don’t just eat anything and everything: This is important as some foods might harbour bacteria or parasite making you feel sick and might even harm your baby. Foods such as meat, poultry, fish or eggs, cannot be in any way consumed in raw or undercooked form. Always heat refrigerated meats and never have them cold. Also as far as possible skip eating cold salads from deli or any buffet as they might be sitting in the open, unclosed view, for hours. Also, in order avoid your exposure to methylmercury totally avoid eating shark, mackerel, tilefish or swordfish.
Steer clear of these drinks too:Harmful drinks, such as alcohol of any sort, carbonated sodas, unpasteurised juice, eggnogs and unpasteurised milk should be totally avoided in pregnancy. This is because drinks travel quickly from your bloodstream to your baby, posing hazardous risks for your baby. Also avoid drinking large amounts of caffeine, present in the form of soft drinks, teas, colas and chocolates.
Protect yourself from food poisoning:Try and consume cooked meats and vegetables at home. When cooking meats, do check with a food thermometer to test the internal temperature of meat and to gauge at whether it is pink in the middle or not! Avoid eating leftovers and make sure you are thoroughly washing and peeling your daily dose of fruits and vegetables. Use an alcohol-free soap and hot water to wash your hands before eating. Especially follow this practice when you are cooking with raw meats and poultry. Do not depend much on perishable and ready-to-eat foods as they can have shorter shell life and can be packed with preservatives.
When feeling feverish, opt for natural remedies: It is quite common for you to feel feverish during pregnancy. During such times, make it a point to not run for over-the-counter medicines; instead you should opt for a bowl of hot chicken soup, vegetable soup or khichdi. Totally avoid relying on over-the-counter cough syrups, cold remedies and other medicines that have ibuprofen in them.
Fight fatigue: Well let us be honest running a baby-making factory isn’t an easy task, hence you are bound to feel fatigued all day long. Aren’t just sitting and lying down your two favourite activities? Try and keep your blood sugar levels spiked up snacking frequently in the form complex carbohydrates and proteins, say cheese and crackers or nuts and dried fruits. Also exercise often and listen to your body closely – when it asks you to take a break, take one!
Stay active: While staying active during the 11th week of pregnancy is easier said than done, but it is important to be motivated by performing regular bouts of exercises. Perform yoga once a week helps in keeping anxiety and depression at bay, along with lowering your chances of premature birth and postpartum depression. Eat a well-balanced diet and do ask for help whenever you need one!
Get checked for chromosomal abnormalities:Your doctor is going to perform an ultrasound on you to check for chromosomal abnormalities, including Down syndrome. Also, during this term, your doctor will be performing the nuchal translucency, or NT, test on you using ultrasound in order to gauge at the translucent space at the back tissue of the fetus's neck.
Breast tenderness and acute changes in breasts: Your growing breasts might be a turn-on for your mate, but for you your achy boobs might just be a nuisance. Be open to communicate to your partner about your extra sensitive boobs as he must know why you might not be liking that heavy-duty hugging.
Gagging at the smell of your favourite food? A symptom, which is soon going to fade away, at this stage you might have freaky food preferences, which is totally okay. Just treat to your taste buds to full heart’s content and relish this era of pregnancy fully!
“By the 11th week, it is hard to believe for first time moms that a baby has been growing inside for the past 3 months. Some moms do not show by the 11th week, however you start sporting a baby bump. During this week you might experience skin glow, fuller hair and stronger nails. It is also common to have blemishes and unwanted hair growth such as on your face. Morning sickness is the most common symptom but you might also experience heartburn and nausea. Acne can also be an issue for pregnant women.
It is advised to eat a healthy diet that is rich in nutrient content. The appetite will also start getting back to normal slowly. Regular exercise will keep both the mother and the baby fit. Some women may also feel exhausted and tired than usual, which is absolutely normal, it is recommended to take proper and enough rest as your body works continuously for hormone production. “
Summer –Summer might be making your chaff a bit, but the best part about summer is long park walks and super lightweight and comfy cotton clothes. Not to forget fun baby print dresses! Opt for light-coloured clothes as they keep you from overheating and allows the sweat, especially between your boobs, to evaporate fast, keeping rashes at bay.
Monsoon –Be extra cautious about your diet and food intake during monsoon as long kept and raw chopped fruits and vegetables might absorb extra moisture and air tarnishing the taste and nutrient value of foods. Always carry an umbrella or raincoat with you and wear rubber soled shoe outside and rubber slipper at home. Never touch open wires and keep washing your hands often to avoid rainy season ailments.
Winter – Consult with your doctor to include some extra vitamin and immunity boosting supplements during winters in order to maintain a robust immunity level. Keep your skin hydrated at all times by using natural moisturisers and oils. |
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At the end of this month, Lorian will be hosting its first major public conference. I’m excited about it because of the excellent roster of international presenters it will have and also because it will be my first time giving public talks, other than online, in several years. I’m looking forward to it, and naturally, I hope you can come.
The conference is called “Gaianeering,” a term coined by my Lorian colleague Jeremy Berg to describe the many ways, inner and outer, that we can contribute to the wholeness of our planet and to our own spiritual development. Which is, besides to make a shameless plug for this event, what I’d like to discuss in this month’s David’s Desk.
In 1979, the British scientist James Lovelock published the book Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth. In it, he presented evidence that through the auto-regulatory systems of the biosphere, the Earth acted as a living organism. At the suggestion of his friend, the author William Golding, he proposed to call this organism by the Greek name for the goddess of the earth and the mother of all life, Gaia. This was the beginning of what was called the “Gaia Hypothesis,” co-formulated by Lovelock and the American microbiologist, Dr. Lyn Margulis. Although initially met with skepticism by their scientific colleagues, further research generated enough evidence in support of this hypothesis that it became accepted and graduated to becoming the “Gaia Theory.”
Both Lovelock and Margulis were Lindisfarne Fellows, members of the Lindisfarne Association founded by cultural historian and author, William Irwin Thompson. This was a gathering of scientists, artists, engineers, economists, historians, spiritual teachers, philosophers, and even an astronaut, all promoting a society committed to holistic thinking and behavior and working towards a positive future for humanity. As I was a Lindisfarne Fellow as well, I had occasion to meet and talk with them both at the Association’s annual conferences.
The theme of one of these conferences was “Gaia: A Way of Knowing,” which later became the title of a book edited by William Irwin Thompson. The conference focused on the idea of Gaia not simply as a way of talking about the planet as a living organism but as a way of describing a more holistic, ecological, systems-oriented world view, a way of understanding the world as networks and patterns of interconnections, relationships, and interdependent wholes rather than as collection of discrete but separate entities. In other words, how would an organism think that was responsible for the vast, complex interactions that make up the ecology of the planet and that sustain all life? How would we think with such a focus?
I thought of this worldview as “thinking like a planet,” a way of thinking and engaging the world in ways that are holistic, ecological, and systemic, honoring the whole and the whole-within-the-part. It is a worldview that is native and instinctive to the non-physical beings who are my subtle colleagues, but it’s one that’s not so familiar yet to most of us living in the industrialized world which is historically based on a non-holistic, non-ecological way of perceiving and acting in the world. As we are seeing the destructive consequences of that approach, it seems to me the challenge of our time, for our survival and the survival of many other species that share the biosphere with us, is to learn how to “think like a planet.” It is for me a form of thinking that is infused with love and the willingness to nourish and foster life in all its forms.
What the idea of “thinking like a planet” also implies is that we are the planet. We are Gaia. If anything, this is what an understanding of ecology (both physical and spiritual) teaches us: that we cannot separate ourselves from the web of interconnectedness and interdependency that makes up the web of planetary life. We simply cannot affect one part of our world without affecting in some manner all other parts, including ourselves. Some of these consequences, as we are learning, can be disastrous. It is in our best interests to learn to think in terms of the whole system of which we are one part.
This is what Gaianeering is all about. It is learning to think and act as if we are not only our human selves but an embodiment of the spirit of the Earth as well. As our power to affect the planet as a whole has grown exponentially over the past century, so has our need to be the spirit of Gaia—to become skilled and wise practitioners of Gaianeering—grown as well.
[If you would like more information about the Gaianeering conference this month, in which both practical and theoretical aspects of this theme will be explored, you will find it on Lorian’s website here.]
From July 8-15, join Rue Hass for Imagination, Shapeshifting and Loving the World. In this week-long Lorian Discovery class, you will engage in activities to help you understand the spirit of your own imagination, our human imagination and the imagination of the earth. Click here for more information and to register.
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I first started using Tisserand about a year ago when I stumbled upon their aromatherapy roller balls in T.K. Maxx, and I was immediately hooked. Any brand that boasts 100% natural and pure oils is one that I have to investigate, and I am so glad that I did!
Tisserand sources pure essential oils in either organic, wild-crafted, or ethically harvested conditions, meaning that the product is as high quality as possible without tampering with the environment or endangering the sustainability of the resources. All of their product ranges include the holistic power of plants, and are expertly blended to create the effect you desire, whether that is mental or physical.
I have to be honest, I am a sucker for anything that claims to help with focus or energy or relaxation, as I can really struggle with my mood, memory and motivation. So I have tried a LOT of aromatherapy products. Tisserand definitely ranks high in all aspects - amount of products on offer, quality, lasting power, and formulas - everything impresses, so it is no wonder they have won fifteen awards just last year!
The brand offers a huge variety of products, from straightforward essential oils and essential oil blends, to massage oils, shower gels, body lotions, and more. I have yet to try the bath and shower range, but I have been lucky enough to get the Neroli & Sandalwood body lotion from my January The Cruelty Free Beauty Box. I love anything with neroli, so this was a huge hit for me. The lotion is thick enough to be moisturizing without being slick or slimy, and it is packed full of natural goodness. The product is soothing and restoring, and it smells absolutely beautiful. Soft, sensual, and uplifting, the lightly floral formula is perfect for any season. Even better, it is 100% naturally fragranced, meaning my sensitive nose did not suffer from the dreaded sneeze attack!
The ranges I have more experience with are the roller balls, mists, and essential oils. I find the pulse point oils the perfect product to keep in your purse for when you need a little pick me up, or if you are travelling and need a little extra help drifting off to sleep. Each vial is safe to use directly on the skin, and can be applied at the temples, behind the ears, neck, and wrists. I prefer using it on my wrists as then I can inhale when needed. The smell is not overwhelming, so you could use this periodically throughout the day without disturbing anyone with a hardcore smell (nothing worse than getting a headache from someone's strong scent!). Two of my personal favourites are "Energy" starring orange leaf, coriander, and lime and "Focus" which utilizes rosemary, grapefruit, and coriander, as both are perfect for getting me ready for the day (and through it successfully!).
Another winner for me are the room mists, especially the "De-Stress" MoodFix Mist. Tisserand describes this as creating a "cloud of calm" and I could not agree more. One spray of this aromatherapy blend and my anxieties start to dissipate. Let me clarify -- this is not a 'quick fix' for stress or anxiety. It does help reduce these feelings though, at least for me personally. The mix of fruity, floral, and spice really works wonders, and I tend to spray this every day after I get home just so I can start to unwind and prepare for an evening of calm.
My newest find from Tisserand is their Spa Diffuser, a machine that dispenses essential oils in vapour form. The ultrasonic diffuser quietly produces steam inside the chamber and then releases this as a fine mist throughout the room. You can add several drops of a single essential oil, mix and match oils depending on your needs, or use one of Tisserand's own blends, and then wait for the machine to carry these aromas out through the evaporated water.
The diffuser is seriously soothing, as it very quietly bubbles while it mists. If you close your eyes it almost sounds like a babbling brook. If you want to keep your eyes open, the machine offers some exciting functions like soft mood lighting for chromatherapy. For such an easy to use product, it has a lot of options, like two modes of diffusing (30 second intervals or continuous spray for 4-5 hours), automatic shut down, and a huge choice of colours you can either have on rotation or singly set.
Tisserand has actually had some exciting developments recently, having released both a new product line and a new look! I was thankful to be sent one of the newly packaged essential oils (Lavender, not pictured!) and two pre-release diffuser oils that are now available to buy. "Sleep Better" and "Total De-Stress" are both blends designed specially for the diffusers, and have been a total blessing for my partner who has been struggling with sleep the last eight months. We add about five drops to the machine and run it for around twenty minutes before bed, and it really has helped him settle down, relax, and turn of his mind. Surprisingly, these blends actually seem slightly more potent than the pure essential oils, but not in a bad way. However, if you don't want too strong a smell, go for the lower recommendation of drops!
I have loved using all the Tisserand products I have tried and tested so far, and really hope I get to experience some of the bath and shower range at some point in the future as I imagine they are just as lovely and helpful as the other product ranges. In the meantime, I will continue using all these amazing aromatherapy goodies and appreciating the help they have given in balancing and improving me both emotionally and physically.
What do you think of aromatherapy? Have you tried any products like this, or do you have a favourite Tisserand item? I would love to hear your thoughts down in the comments below!
I love aromatherapy as well as essential oils. I've not heard of Tisserand before but reading your post I am excited about it.
I have to admit I love aromatherapy, I find scents can really lift me up and often have things on around the home. I am going to have to look into Tisserand more :).
I love aromatherapy and have used Tisserand in the past and love their oils. This has made me want to dig my oils out!
I do find that the pulse point oils do work quite well for me when it comes to calming and relaxing me before sleeping x
I've never heard of this brand before but they sound amazing. I bet the Neroli & Sandalwood body lotion smells lovely. The Spa Diffuser sounds wonderful too.
I love aromatherapy products, been using them quite a while. I have never heard about this brand, so will definitely check it out.
I once sent a diffuser and essential oils as a gift to my friend who I think really needed it to calm her nerves. She said it helps her to relax and thanks me for it.
I love aromatherapy, especially lavender. It can really help me to chill out and get a good nights sleep xxx
This sounds like a great range that I would love to try, as I can feel that my levels of stress have been going up lately. I never tried aromatherapy before.
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This recycled sari cross body bag has been carefully handmade by skilled Fair Trade artisans in India.
Dimensions - width 35 cm x height 35 cm x depth 16 cm. The strap has a drop of 50 cm from the top of the bag approximately.
Please note: due to the recycled nature of the materials used each bag will vary slightly in colours and patterning.
Here are a few tips for creating your own vegan-friendly concoctions at just about any place you might find yourself. Feel free to share tips that have worked for you in the comments below. We're all learning as we go.
My favorite breakfast is either extra-crisp hash browns or country-style fried potatoes with steamed veggies on top. Even the most rural diner will have peppers and onions in the kitchen for Denver omelets.
Diners that serve from the whole menu all day can usually whip up something that will have your carnivorous companions green with envy. Other options include ordering dry toast and fresh fruit (note that in some parts of the U.S., “fresh” is whatever they have canned in back).
What to watch: Butter sneaks into most diner foods. Be prepared to explain that you want your veggies steamed without added fat and what that means.
Sandwiches seem like an easy choice, but many commercial breads contain dairy or soy derivatives. Sourdough, however, is the exception and makes for a flavorful vegan option. Salads are a safe bet, provided you can remember to detail every item that must be left off: cheese, egg, bacon, other meat, etc.
In Mexican restaurants, I like to order whole beans and pico de gallo. Mixed together, it makes for a refreshing salad. Wrap it in a corn tortilla for DIY vegan tacos.
What to watch: Sandwich spreads sometimes contain dairy or eggs. Aioli is just a fancy name for mayonnaise. Pesto usually has cheese. Salad croutons usually are fried in butter and tossed with cheese. I don't trust soups in restaurants that I don't know for a fact are vegan-friendly because I have found that often even the staff can't tell me the source of the base and whether it's animal-free.
Most restaurants offer pasta and marinara but why stop there? Believe it or not, the most satisfying dinners can be those compiled from a restaurant’s side-dish offerings. Look for options like roasted vegetables, steamed rice and baked potatoes.
Don’t be afraid to mix and match ingredients to your liking. I’ve made meals out of baked potatoes topped with veggies or stuffed with avocado and salsa.
What to watch: Rice dishes sometimes include butter, cheese and chicken or beef broth. Some restaurants automatically butter pasta and steamed vegetables to add flavor.
Our online management system has been part of the service we provide since the day we started in September 2010.
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(Palaeontology) the earliest of the three sections of the Palaeolithic, beginning about 3 million years ago and ending about 70 000 bc with the emergence of Neanderthal man
The findings at the Lower Palaeolithic cave site of Gran Dolina, in the Sierra de Atapuerca mountain range (Burgos), have led to major advancements in our knowledge of human evolution and occupation of Eurasia.
Anatoly Molodkov; (2001): ESR dating evidence for early man at a Lower Palaeolithic cave-site in the Northern Caucasus as derived from terrestrial mollusc shells; Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 1051-1055
An early Neanderthal upper jaw fragment containing two teeth, whose owner probably lived during an interglacial period in the Lower Palaeolithic era, was found in a cave in the River Elwy valley, at the Bontnewydd Paleaolithic site, near St Asaph, Denbighshire.
Matt Cattell, Cyrenians "Here in Coventry we have the Cyrenians, The Samaritans, Queens Road Baptist Church, Anesis and other agencies all trying to work with the homeless and vulnerable throughout the year.
Although the terms epitasis and anesis cover acceleration and deceleration, they cannot be reduced to them.
We believe in GE as a global brand trusted by the market and the expertise it brings in developing the business of smart meters in Japan," said Tetsuo Akiyama, operating officer at the engineering division of Haseko Anesis Corp.
The 29-year-old Girls Aloud singer gamely stuck her hand in the Anesis spa fish tank, backstage at the star-studded Empire Film Awards in London's Grosvenor House Hotel on Sunday night.
Kervin Julien, who runs charity, Anesis Ministry and took part in he Fun Run last year, said: "The Fun Run was the greatest opportunity to raise awareness of the work we do in Coventry.
Tiny Teddies Day Nursery, which has sites in Radford, Tile Hill and Whitley, nominated the Anesis Ministry for its Christmas charity.
And he has the support of Kervin Julien of Coventry's Anesis Homeless Ministry, who said: "For some people homelessness is only raised at Christmas, but it is a problem all year round.
HOMELESS FOR CHRISTMAS; Student who slept rough for eight nights becomes internet sensation - and raises PS21,000 for Crisis charity in the process
Gifts were donated by Tiny Teddies Nursery, Jaguar Land Rover and Sainsbury's as well as being bought with money donated to Anesis, which organised the event.
Gifts have been donated by Tiny Teddies Nursery, Jaguar Land Rover and Sainsbury's as well as being bought with money donated to Anesis, which is organising the event.
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Senate Democrats are expected to win over just enough Republicans to move forward on a controversial $410 billion spending bill by the end of the night Tuesday.
But it may come as no surprise that almost all of the Republican senators who are either expected to support the bill or are considering supporting the bill have billions of dollars worth of earmarks in the package.
The earmark-mania is not unique to either party — both Democrats and Republicans contributed to what Taxpayers for Common Sense estimates is 8,570 disclosed earmarks worth $7.7 billion in the bill that would fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.
But the Republican crossovers in particular have a lot at stake in the package. Of the three Republicans that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has on his “definite” list, two of them have authored 129 total earmarks worth $190 million, according to an updated list from Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., is actually the second-biggest earmarker, according to the list, with 64 earmarks worth $114 million. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is a few notches down, with 65 earmarks worth $76 million.
Both are expected to support the omnibus bill — along with Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, who has zero earmarks.
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HENDERSON - The local school district has shared their outstanding elementary leaders and scholars from the past few months. It's quite an impression collection of kiddos.
Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe seeks court opinion on whether carbon tax is constitutional - The Globe and Mail
Saskatchewan is showing no sign of backing down from being a thorn in Ottawa’s side when it comes to climate policy, and has formally launched a constitutional reference case to challenge the federal government’s ability to force a carbon tax on the provinces.
In a case that could make its way to the Supreme Court of Canada, the province asked the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal Wednesday whether a carbon price as laid out in Ottawa’s budget implementation bill last month would be “unconstitutional, in whole or in part.” Premier Scott Moe said the federal Liberals have unfairly made themselves “judge and jury” to decide which provincial climate plans they favour.
“It fails to respect the sovereignty and the autonomy of the provinces with respect to matters under their jurisdiction,” Mr. Moe said in an interview. “Saskatchewan should not be subject to this tax simply because the Trudeau Liberals do not like our climate-change plan.”
The move raises the stakes in a long-simmering provincial-federal battle over carbon pricing, with Saskatchewan standing as a key objector to Ottawa’s plans for a pan-Canadian climate-change framework. New Brunswick is another potential holdout to the plan, and Manitoba has said it will take Ottawa to court if it imposes a higher carbon tax than the province wants. With provincial elections looming in Ontario and Alberta, leading conservative opposition leaders in those provinces are seizing on voter disenchantment with the federal Liberal climate plan.
Setting the stage for a much broader national battle, Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford said late Wednesday he would support Saskatchewan’s reference case, adding “the people of Ontario can’t afford a carbon tax in whatever name or form. Not now. Not ever.”
Alberta opposition leader Jason Kenney announced his own United Conservative Party will seek intervenor status to support Saskatchewan, saying more provinces are likely to join in. “The wind has shifted on this issue.”
However, federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said it’s clear Ottawa has the legal authority to implement a carbon price.
“We are disappointed to see this news because we’re all in this together. We’re in it together to tackle climate change and take advantage of the $30-trillion opportunity of the clean economy,” Ms. McKenna said. “The government of Manitoba sought a legal opinion – they realized the federal governments had jurisdiction.”
Last year, Manitoba’s Conservative government obtained a legal opinion that concluded Ottawa has the right to impose a carbon tax on provinces that do not adopt their own. However, the province would likely win a legal contest if Ottawa tried to impose an additional levy on a provincial one, the legal opinion said.
The crux of Saskatchewan’s argument focuses on the leeway Ottawa has given provinces in the implementation of their plans. The federal government has demanded all provinces adopt a carbon price of $10 per tonne this year, with the price increasing by $10 each year until it hits $50 in 2022. Provinces such as British Columbia and Alberta have established an actual carbon tax, while Ottawa has said that Ontario and Quebec’s cap-and-trade systems will result in equivalent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Critics of Saskatchewan’s climate plan say it falls short, with a lack of specific targets and detailed implementation plans. Ms. McKenna has said that, if Saskatchewan doesn’t change course, her government will use its “backstop” to ensure that a carbon price is applied.
But Mr. Moe said Saskatchewan is being unfairly penalized for taking a different path. The province’s plan − introduced under former premier Brad Wall − includes developing sector-specific emissions standards, and doubling renewable power to 50 per cent of SaskPower’s generating capacity by 2030. Mr. Moe said Saskatchewan’s uranium exports are used to generate emission-free nuclear power in Asia, and should be counted by Ottawa.
A carbon tax, he said, will make his province’s oil and gas, agriculture, mining and transportation sectors less competitive. “We’re having the wrong conversation in this nation – we’re having a conversation about how we can best tax our industries, as opposed to having a conversation about how we can actually reduce emissions.”
University of Alberta law professor Eric Adams said Saskatchewan faces an uphill battle, as a balance of legal opinion suggests Ottawa will be successful in defending its legislation. Saskatchewan is “making a somewhat novel argument on the basis of underlying federal principles.”
Brian Pallister says court case an option if Ottawa imposes higher carbon tax than Manitoba is planning
Demonstrator Black Cloud blocks the Canadian National Railway line just west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba January 16, 2013 as part of the 'Idle No More' movement. The 'Idle No More' movement started in December to protest federal omnibus bills and other legislation aboriginal people say erodes treaty rights.
Protests prompted by first-nations frustration with the federal government flared in at least six provinces Wednesday.
The "day of action" began quietly, but by lunchtime police in Windsor blocked one of two access roads to the Ambassador Bridge, which is the major trade crossing from southern Ontario to the United States, as protesters massed. A spokesman said the closing should not last long as natives were soon moving to a nearby parking lot.
A CN rail spokesman confirmed reports that protesters had blocked the main line in Manitoba, near Portage la Prairie. "We have stopped train traffic in the immediate area, and have obtained a court injunction," Jim Feeny said.
A small group of people identified as members of the American Indian Movement were photographed blocking the CN rail line in Manitoba. Some members of the AIM, a militant group involved in the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee, do not recognize the U.S.-Canada border.
Also Wednesday, VIA passenger trains in both directions were stopped by a blockade in the Marysville area, between Belleville and Kingston, where Tyendinaga Mohawks had pledged to block the line. Passengers whose itineraries require them to pass through the site of the blockade will be accommodated with ground transportation, VIA said in a statement.
The demonstrations were only a few of many planned for across the country. According to witnesses and news reports, protests were being held and roads blocked Wednesday in locations from coast to coast.
Earlier Wednesday, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty voiced concern that aboriginal protests could hurt the Canadian economy. Noting that real GDP in Canada is only expected to grow around two per cent this year, efforts should be made to avoid disruptions.
"This is not a time to have even more challenges to the Canadian economy," he said, while taking questions from reporters at an event in Ottawa. "Having said that, we're doing relatively well in the world, but additional challenges are not desirable. In terms of your question about the rule of law, local police forces are responsible for local law enforcement in Canada."
Disruptions were being felt in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick. Among the roads being targeted are the border-crossing bridge in Sault Ste. Marie, the Pat Bay Highway in Victoria and the Westmoreland Bridge in Fredericton.
The Trans-Canada Highway was closed for about an hour at Nipigon, Ont. when 400 protesters marched on it.
There were a handful of protests in Alberta on Wednesday, with the largest in Edmonton. Protesters there briefly closed a major highway into the city, before opening one lane. They left at 3 p.m., reopening the highway after about two hours.
Another blockade took place along Highway 55 near Cold Lake, a small city in eastern Alberta that's near the southern edge of the oil sands, and is home to a major Imperial Oil facility. RCMP said traffic was slowed, but not blocked.
No protests, however, took place in Fort McMurray, the heart of oil sands development. Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation said they're holding off on further blockades while first nations leaders in the region ask industry to join them in pressing for the repeal of the contentious bills.
In Quebec, the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, north of Ottawa, promised to close Highway 117 "to draw attention to forestry operations that they oppose on their lands."
About 150 people rallied today outside the residence of New Brunswick Lt.-Gov. Graydon Nicholas.The group banged drums, sang and carried signs as they walked from the St. Mary's First Nation and marched through Fredericton. St. Mary's Chief Candace Paul says they presented Nicholas with three letters that express their concerns with the federal government's recently passed omnibus budget legislation and its effect on the environment.
Norm Hardisty, the Chief of the Moose Cree First Nation, brought his people from the shores of James Bay to Ottawa to demonstrate. On Tuesday they visited with Theresa Spence, the Attawapiskat chief who has been protesting on an island in the Ottawa River. And on Wednesday they held a dance in the middle of a busy downtown intersection, blocking cars and buses.
"They are taking away our treaty rights, our schooling all of the things that they signed for," Rosalie Chum, 35, said when asked what she made the 15-hour trek. "We share our land with everyone and they are taking away our rights."
Chief Gordon Peters of the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians has called for blockades of major transportation corridors throughout Ontario because Prime Minister Stephen Harper refused last week to sit down with all of the chiefs who wanted to talk to him about treaty rights and other concerns.
CN rail spokesman Jim Feeny said mid-morning Wednesday that they had seen no disruptions but were keeping a close eye on the entire network. The railway has previously sought injunctions to end blockades but Mr. Feeny would not say what actions they will take if protesters stop the trains.
About 100 protesters gathered outside the Northern Gateway hearings in Vancouver as part of the protests.
Organizer Frank Brown, a member of the Heiltsuk (helts-uk) First Nation near Bella Bella, says the Idle No More movement in B.C. is aimed largely at oil pipelines.
He says B.C. First Nations don't want handouts from oil companies and they'll do whatever it takes to protect the land for future generations.
Meanwhile, about 200 First Nations protesters took part in a 45-minute blockade of the Pat Bay Highway north of Victoria.
Members of the Tsawout (say-out) band chanted slogans like "honour the Douglas Treaty" and "All Canadians should be concerned."
A group calling itself the "Gitxsan Warriors" is also blocking the CN Rail line through Kitwanga, in northwest B-C today.
Mr. Peters has been cryptic about exactly where blockades might occur – taking a "just watch us" approach.
He says he expects supporters of the grassroots protest group Idle No More to be the foot soldiers of the disruptions. At least one Idle No More organizer has said she opposes blockades and the group has occasionally been critical of first nations leadership. But it is a loosely constructed movement fuelled by the energy of native youth who may well heed Mr. Peters' call to action.
On the other hand, even Mr. Peters says he recognizes that protests such as those Wednesday risk alienating the broader population of Canada who the first nations are counting upon for support as they press for a greater share of resource revenues and increased dialogue with the government. He and other first nations leaders have said they want all demonstrations to be respectful and non-violent.
In a video statement posted online Tuesday, Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Chris Lewis urged restraint by those officers handling protests.
"Whether we like it or not, the first nations people of Ontario have long-time disputes with government and we cannot solve those issues as a police service, he said. "As well, first nations have the ability to paralyze this country, by shutting down travel and trade routes. It is a difficult situation no matter how we view or address it. In policing these events we will be criticized, sometimes from all sides. Our response at all times needs to be measured, professional and sensitive. I'd rather be criticized for a decision to not jeopardize, take or lose lives, than for taking unnecessary aggressive action that undoubtedly will."
He also shot back at critics who have questioned seeming police inaction in the face of militancy, even when the officers had been instructed by court order to end protests, saying that their strategies are "difficult and complex to explain to the general public."
"The overall objective of the OPP is to work with all parties to ensure public and officer safety and to maintain orderly conduct and peace. This isn't us not doing our jobs, as some would have it, but in fact, it is our job," Commissioner Lewis said. "There may be situations requiring our immediate enforcement action, and we will at times do so. But otherwise, we will continue to investigate these incidents and we'll lay charges after the event where appropriate."
Regional chiefs of the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) say they have struck crisis management teams to ensure that conflicts created by demonstrators do not get out of hand.
Jody Wilson-Raybould, the British Columbia Regional Chief of the AFN will hold a conference call with fellow chiefs Wednesday and is expected to tell them that disrupting the provincial economy is unproductive.
Arthur Manuel, the former chief of B.C.'s Neskonlith band, said in an open letter to chiefs and councillors on Tuesday that the British Columbia economy has not benefited indigenous peoples as it has the rest of the population.
"I urge the elected chiefs that support the Idle No More (INM) to get on the call and let the Regional Chief know that the Idle No More is a grassroots movement and that the Chiefs will not become a shield for the province," wrote Mr. Arthur, "especially because the province is unjustly rich and the INM is grassroots moment that is systemically made poor."
A possible closure of the main highway leading to Fort McMurray, Alta., the hub of the oil sands, seems unlikely to take place – although there were rumblings about that earlier in the week. Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation said Tuesday there are no imminent plans to blockade Highway 63.
"However, the people are upset with the current state of affairs in this country and things are escalating towards more direct action," said Mr. Adam in a statement. "As a leader I have been talking to the people, talking with governments and industry to try and diffuse the situation that is coming to the surface. However, neither government nor industry seems willing to move on the issues and the people have said that enough is enough."
Shawn Atleo, the National Chief of the AFN, is taking time off to recuperate from a severe bout of stomach flu and exhaustion after last week's intense negotiating session with chiefs and then Mr. Harper.
A number of first nations leaders are upset that Mr. Atleo proceeded with the meeting even though Mr. Harper refused to meet the demand of Theresa Spence, the Chief of Attawapiskat, who wanted Governor-General David Johnston to be in the room.
Those schisms within the AFN could come into play in the future as the government tries to negotiate a way out of the unrest that is being demonstrated across the country by supporters of Idle No More.
But the executive of the AFN says the work of preparing for future talks with the government is carrying on in Mr. Atleo's absence and they are holding meetings to plot strategies going forward.
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Steven Kasher Gallery in New York is launching exhibitions which document the work of two photographers decades apart. Power To The People by Stephen Shames opens 50 years after the founding of the Black Panther party, featuring photographs with captions by Panthers leaders. Also on show are vintage copies of the official party newspaper with graphics by Emory Douglas. Opening on the same day is the first solo exhibition by Ruddy Roye, When Living Is A Protest, featuring beautiful, compassionate portraits of his ‘collaborators’ that he meets walking the streets, many of them in his neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York. The exhibitions run 16 September to 29 October, and Abrams will be publishing an accompanying book, ‘Power To The People: The World of the Black Panthers’ by Bobby Seale and Stephen Shames on 18 October
Boy gives raised-fist salute as he and a friend sit on a statue in front of the New Haven County courthouse at a demonstration during the Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins trial in Connecticut on 1 May 1970. All Photographs: Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery
Angela Davis, who was a Black Panther for six months, speaks at a Free Huey rally in Defermery Park, Oakland, on 12 November 1969
A memorial mural for Jonathan Jackson, who was killed on 7 August 1970, during an attempt to kidnap California superior court judge Harold Haley and three others in exchange for the freedom of his brother, George Jackson, in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1970
Two women with bags of food at the People’s Free Food Program, one of the Panthers’ survival programs in Palo Alto, California, 1972
Black Panther children in a classroom at the Intercommunal Youth Institute, the Black Panther school in Oakland, California, 1971
Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel – which opened the New York film festival – is the summation of the principle powering his career: still waters run deep
Suraj Sharma and tiger in Life of Pi. Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's novel has opened the 50th annual New York film festival. Photograph: Jake Netter/20th Century Fox/AP
In his gently astonishing new film, Life of Pi, adapted from Yann Martel's 2001 bestseller, director Ang Lee melds so many disparate elements – Aesopian fable and cutting-edge 3D technology, east and west, young and old – that he may have just succeeded in rebranding himself as the Obama of world cinema. The fiercely urgent candidate of 2008, of course, not the stealth version currently working the stump.
The sheer number of world religions given a shout-out in the film – Hindu, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist – is enough to send Donald Trump's comb-over scampering up the nearest tree trunk, looking for cover.
The film takes a while to get going, like someone roused from their morning meditation, with lots of flowers and candles and people wearing kindly, fixed smiles suggesting enlightenment, or as if they had been hit around the head with a brass pot.
In French India, the young son of a zoo owner collects world religions the way other kids collect stamps. "They were my superheroes," he says, checking off a list of deities. Such good karma, sad to say, doesn't necessarily make for good drama. You're almost grateful for the arrival of the storm that sinks the boat bearing Pi, his family and their animal entourage to the new world, leaving the boy alone on a boat with one of his father's tigers. They are soon pacing around one other with the same mixture of wariness and hungriness last seen on the faces of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Lee's 2005 Brokeback Mountain.
One of the things that tells you the director is in his prime – a model of creative evolution – is that his films feel like total surprises when first announced but fit snugly into his oeuvre once you've seen them. Immersing himself in the latest technology — 3D, digital paintboxes, motion capture and control – as Martin Scorsese did in last year's Hugo, Lee summons delights with his fingertips. But where Hugo was cold to the touch, Life of Pi feels warm-blooded, the perfect summation of the principle powering Lee's entire career: still waters run deep. You see it both in the Zen minimalism of his compositions – check out the shots of sky reflected in a glassy ocean, the boat suspended in the middle as if hanging in thin air – and the sonar-like skill with which he sounds out the emotional depths of Martel's tale. Lee's pixels are animated by empathy.
Life of Pi feels so simple, yet knotted with resonance, that you wonder why Lee bothered with the framing narrative in which a grown-up Pi chews over the spiritual implications of his tale with a writer in Toronto. For one thing, the argument they come up with for the existence of God turns out to bear a suspicious similarity to an argument for the all-round grooviness of magic realism. For another: Toronto. A nice city, but its neat patches of parkland and grey high-rises are no match for breaching whales, phosphorescent fish and crouching tigers, or the sight if Pi, howling like Job into stormy skies.
Hollywood has been waiting for this movie. Get ready for the year of the Tiger. The New York film festival runs until 14 October
When Suraj Sharma, an unknown teenage actor, landed the starring role in Ang Lee's film adaptation of Yann Martel's book, little did he know what was in store
Children's TV series to return in 2015, 50 years after it launched, and will be made with New Zealand special effects team
Thunderbirds are back! The children's TV series will return to ITV in 2015, 50 years after Thunderbird 1 first launched from under the swimming pool on Tracy Island and Parker drove Lady Penelope around in a pink Rolls-Royce, number plate FAB1.
The new series, which has the working title Thunderbirds Are Go!, will be made with the New Zealand special effects studio that worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Thunderbirds first appeared on ITV in 1965 featuring Gerry Anderson's famous "supermarionation" puppet techniques. Anderson, whose other TV shows included Captain Scarlet, Joe 90 and Space 1999, died on 26 December last year, aged 83.
The 26-part series will be made in collaboration with the Oscar-winning Weta Workshop, which worked on Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit, and will air on the UK on ITV and the CITV channel.
The Hobbit: partly made by New Zealand special effects studio Weta Workshop. Photograph: Warner Bros
It will feature a "unique mix of CGI animation and live-action model sets", according to the producers, ITV Studios and Wellington-based Pukeko Pictures.
The programme-makers said it would "deliver a whole new level of action-adventure animation for today's audience, whilst also affectionately paying tribute to the legacy of model locations from the classic series".
ITV Studios UK managing director Denise O'Donoghue said: "Thunderbirds is a highly respected brand that continues to hold recognition around the world.
"This cult series is often credited as changing the history of animation and action-adventure, and we look forward to taking the show to another level while retaining the much-loved heritage that has endured over the past 50 years."
Thunderbirds: Lady Penelope is driven by her chauffeur Parker in a 1966 episode. Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
Head writer on the new series will be Rob Hoegee, whose credits include Ben 10, Generator Rex, Teen Titans and Slugterra, names with which Thurnderbirds fans who watched the show first time round may not be immediately familiar.
Plans for a revival of the much-loved series were first revealed two years ago when Anderson said the show would be updated using "all the mod cons".
Richard Taylor, co-owner of Pukeko Pictures and Weta Workshop, said: "Thunderbirds was a hugely influential television series in my childhood. Having watched it originally in black and white, it was only years later that I discovered the full and rich world that Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Derek Meddings, Mike Trimm and their team created.
"It is thrilling therefore to think we have the opportunity to work with ITV on this new series inspired by this most wonderful of British shows. I personally, together with the teams here at Pukeko Pictures and Weta Workshop, look forward to designing and creating an inspirational world that will engage the imagination of a whole new generation as it did for us nearly half a century ago."
ITV Studios retains the worldwide rights to the Thunderbirds brand, and is global distributor of the new series and all its spin-off merchandise.
Thunderbirds was turned into a live action film in 2004 but the Hollywood production was poorly received by fans and critics. Anderson described it as "the biggest load of crap I have ever seen in my life".
Anderson and ITV collaborated on a new CGI version of another of his 1960s "supermarionation" puppet shows, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, broadcast in 2005. Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet was filmed in "hypermarionation" – a combination of CGI and motion capture special effects.
Cathy Heller joins eight other women in coming forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against Republican, with story similar to his taped remarks
Cathy Heller says Donald Trump tried to kiss her on the mouth without her consent. Photograph: Molly Redden for the Guardian
On 7 October, as the political world convulsed from the revelation that Trump had bragged about kissing and groping women without their consent, Cathy Heller, 63, was sitting in her New York home fielding incredulous emails from a friend.
“I keep thinking about how he treated you,” her friend wrote, hours after showing Heller the tape. “Obviously not an isolated incident.”
It was a story Heller had told many friends and family members over the years, but is only now telling in public. Some 20 years ago, she claims, when she met Donald Trump for the first and only time, he grabbed her, went for a kiss, and grew angry with her as she twisted away. “Oh, come on,” she alleges that he barked, before holding her firmly in place and planting his lips on hers.
It is exactly what Trump claimed, in the most recent presidential debate, that he did not do. And so Heller has added her voice to a chorus of women now accusing Trump of unwanted behavior. “He can’t claim we’re all liars,” Heller said.
Her allegation tracks closely what Trump claimed in a 2005 recording obtained by the Washington Post. “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful – I just start kissing them,” Trump is heard saying on the tape. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait.”
Trump has denied that he ever acted on his words. But in speaking out about her experience, Heller joins eight other women who have publicly accused Trump of inappropriate come-ons, touching, or kissing over the past several decades. The allegations have opened a chasm within the Republican party as the presidential campaign enters the crucial final weeks, and have inspired Trump to issue a series of fulminating denials. This week, Trump called some of the women who have accused him “horrible, horrible liars”.
Their alleged encounter took place almost two decades ago – Heller believes the year was 1997 and she was at a Mother’s Day brunch – at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Heller, her husband, her three children and her in-laws were among dozens of families seated at big round tables in what she and a relative who spoke to the Guardian recall was an open lobby.
Trump made the rounds greeting members of his club. When he stopped at their table, Heller recalled, and her mother-in-law introduced her, she stood and extended her hand.
The Guardian heard accounts that matched Heller’s from two other people: Susan Klein, the friend who was emailing with Heller, and a relative seated at the table with Heller that day. The relative, who declined to be named for fear of retaliation, recalled that Heller sat back down with a stunned look on her face.
“I remember she was really freaked out,” said the relative. The relative didn’t see Heller’s entire interaction with Trump, but saw him get “in her face” and saw Heller pull away. “He was very forceful … She really was definitely affected by this man who was very aggressive toward her.”
Heller and the relative both recalled that no one at the table quite knew how to react. “I was shook up,” said Heller. As they all processed the moment, Trump had already left.
Donald Trump, seen in 1997, the year Heller recalls the incident taking place. Photograph: Graham Whitby-Boot/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
An acquaintance of Heller’s, who did not wish to be named because of the attention it would bring, said Heller told him her story about Trump more than a month ago. “This was before all the stories came out,” he said. “I remember she said, ‘He grabbed me, he pulled me toward him, he tried to kiss me.’ It made her very uncomfortable.”
Heller readily acknowledged that she is a Clinton supporter who would not have backed Trump regardless of how he behaved the one time they met. Heller met Clinton briefly at a March fundraiser, and in January she donated the individual maximum of $2,700 to Clinton’s campaign. She believes she has also attended a party where the Clintons were present.
In addition, her husband’s family is involved in a years-long effort to recover initiation fees that her late in-laws paid to join Mar-A-Lago. The club’s rules state that the fees are refundable under certain circumstances when an individual is no longer a member, and Heller has placed at least one phone call to a club manager attempting to recover the money, totaling several thousand dollars.
“My motivations for speaking,” she said, are to show “it’s not ‘just talk’”, as Trump has claimed. “It’s action.”
Klein, Heller’s friend and neighbor, told the Guardian that she had heard the story long before the tape surfaced.
Klein said she learned about Heller’s alleged brush with Trump in the summer of 2015. It was shortly after Trump launched his run for the presidency, and Heller confided her story to the ladies’ Mahjong group the women both belong to near their homes in New York. Klein recounted Heller’s telling of story to the Guardian in similar detail.
“And when this tape came out, I couldn’t believe it, because it was exactly what he said he did and had done to Cathy,” Klein said.
Klein forwarded a breaking news alert to Heller on 7 October, the day news of the tape broke. “You were one of Trump’s victims,” she wrote. “He said when he sees a pretty woman, he just kisses her, he doesn’t even wait.”
On Saturday afternoon, the Trump campaign denied the accusation. “There is no way that something like this would have happened in a public place on Mother’s Day at Mr Trump’s resort,” spokesman Jason Miller said in a statement. “It would have been the talk of Palm Beach for the past two decades.
“The reality is this: for the media to wheel out a politically motivated Democratic activist with a legal dispute against this same resort owned by Mr Trump does a disservice to the public, and anyone covering this story should be embarrassed for elevating this bogus claim.”
Heller said that besides her January donation to Clinton, she had “also bought a woman’s card from Hillary,” alluding to a $5 card sold by the campaign after Trump accused his rival of “constantly playing the woman card”.
She added that although she supports Clinton, she is not an activist – “I’ve never done any work for the Democratic Party” – and that she is not pursuing any legal action against Mar-A-Lago.
On its release, the tape quickly unleashed a cascade of accusations from women who have said Trump forcibly kissed or groped them, or reached under their clothing without asking. For many, the tipping point came the Sunday night after the tape’s release, in Trump’s second presidential debate with Clinton. Pressed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper to say whether he touched women without their consent, Trump denied that he had.
“No, I did not,” Trump said. “I don’t think you understood what was said. This was locker room talk … Certainly I’m not proud of it. But this is locker room talk.
Within days, several former competitors in the Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contests, pageants once owned by Trump, claimed that Trump had barged into their dressing rooms without warning while they were half-dressed or naked. One woman, who spoke to Buzzfeed, said at the time she was 15.
By Friday evening, eight women had accused Trump – publicly and using their full names – of harassing them or touching them without their consent. Jessica Leeds and Rachel Crooks alleged to the New York Times that Trump was sexually inappropriate toward them on a plane and in Trump Tower, respectively.
Mindy McGillivary and the People writer Natasha Stoynoff claimed Trump grabbed them, and, in Stoynoff’s case, forced a kiss on her, at separate events at Mar-a-Lago. In a tearful statement she read on Friday afternoon, Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, Trump’s reality TV show, accused Trump of using conversations about a job opportunity as cover to touch her breast and try to force her into his bedroom at a Beverly Hills hotel.
Trump has reacted to these allegations with livid denials. At recent rallies, where his speeches have grown more feverish and conspiratorial, Trump has said some of the women to accuse him are not attractive enough for him to have hit on. “Look at her,” Trump said of Stoynoff. “I don’t think so.”
A steady drumbeat of campaign surrogates have questioned the timing of Trump’s accusers, suggesting they are seeking attention.
But accusations of sexual misconduct against Trump are not new. Jill Harth, a woman whose husband briefly partnered with Trump to produce a pageant, accused Trump in a 1997 lawsuit of attempting to rape her – a claim she has maintained ever since.
Heller, likewise, had been telling friends her story for months before a spotlight shone on Trump’s behavior toward women.
“This is not just something she said when she heard other women were coming out,” Klein said. “She told us this a good year and a half ago.”
Heller also told her account to a Guardian reporter in February. But she declined to tell her story on the record.
What ultimately swayed Heller to tell her story publicly, she said, were Trump’s own denials. Hearing the tape, she said, made her feel “validated and vindicated”. But it was Trump’s denials at Sunday night’s debate that convinced her to speak up.
United Nations officials described the killing of sleeping children as a disgrace to the world and accused Israel of a serious violation of international law after a school in Gaza being used to shelter Palestinian families was shelled on Wednesday.
At least 15 people, mostly children and women, died when the school in Jabaliya refugee camp was hit by five shells during a night of relentless bombardment across Gaza. More than 100 people were injured.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, said the attack was "outrageous and unjustifiable" and demanded "accountability and justice". The UN said its officials had repeatedly given details of the school and its refugee population to Israel.
A Palestinian girl cries while receiving treatment for her injuries caused by an Israeli strike. Photograph: Khalil Hamra/AP
Fighting in Gaza continued through the day despite a four-hour humanitarian ceasefire called by Israel from 3pm. A crowded market in Shujai'iya was hit in the late afternoon, causing at least 17 deaths, including a journalist, and injuring about 200 people, according to Gaza health officials. They said people had ventured out to shop in the belief a ceasefire was in place. Witnesses said several shells struck as people were running away. Israel said rockets and mortar shells continued to be fired from Gaza.
Israel on Thursday was showing no sign of scaling back Operation Protective Edge, with the military reportedly calling up an additional 16,000 reserves as the offensive entered its 24th day.
At the UN school the first shell came just after the early morning call to prayer, when most of those taking shelter were asleep, crammed into classrooms with what few possessions they had managed to snatch as they fled their homes.
About 3,300 people had squashed into Jabaliya Elementary A&B Girls' School since the Israeli military warned people to leave their homes and neighbourhoods or risk death under intense bombardment. Classroom number one, near the school's entrance, had become home to about 40 people, mostly women and children.
As a shell blasted through the wall, showering occupants with shrapnel and spattering blood on walls and floors, Amna Zantit, 31, scrambled to gather up her three terrified infants in a panicked bid for the relative safety of the schoolyard. "Everyone was trying to escape," she said, clutching her eight-month old baby tightly. Minutes later, a second shell slammed through the roof of the two-storey school. At least 15 people were killed and more than 100 injured. Most were women or children.
Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said the shelling of the school was a "serious violation of international law by Israeli forces".
Krähenbühl said: "Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN-designated shelter in Gaza. Children killed in their sleep; this is an affront to all of us, a source of universal shame. Today the world stands disgraced."
Khalil al-Halabi, the UN official in charge of the schools in the area, was quickly on the scene. Bodies were littered over the classroom, and the badly injured lay in pools of blood amid the debris and rubble caused by the blast. "I was shaking," he said. "It was very, very hard for me to see the blood and hear the children crying."
By daylight, the detritus of people's lives was visible among ruins of the classroom: a ball, a bucket, some blankets, tins of food, a pair of flip-flops. The corpses of donkeys, used to haul the meagre possessions of refugees to what they thought was safety, lay at the school's entrance as two lads wearing Palestinian boy scout scarves collected human body parts for burial. Five of the injured were in a critical condition in hospital.
Halabi was facing impossible requests for advice from those who escaped the carnage. "These people are very angry. They evacuated their homes and came here for protection, not to be killed inside a UN shelter. Now they are asking me whether to stay or leave. They are very frightened. They don't know what to do."
The attack on the school was the sixth time that UNRWA premises have been hit since the war in Gaza began more than three weeks ago, the UN said.
Palestinians fled their homes after Israel warned that failure to do so would put their lives at risk. Those at the Jabaliya school were among more than 200,000 who have sought shelter at UN premises in the belief that families would be safe.
Analysis of evidence gathered at the site by UNRWA led to an initial assessment that Israeli artillery had hit the school, causing "multiple civilian deaths and injuries including of women and children and the UNRWA guard who was trying to protect the site. These are people who were instructed to leave their homes by the Israeli army."
Krähenbühl added: "Our staff, the very people leading the humanitarian response, are being killed. Our shelters are overflowing. Tens of thousands may soon be stranded in the streets of Gaza, without food, water and shelter if attacks on these areas continue."
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it was investigating the incident at the UN school. Initial inquiries showed that "Hamas militants fired mortar shells from the vicinity of the school, and [Israeli] soldiers responded by firing towards the origins of the fire", a spokeswoman said.
The US, which has been at odds with Israel's prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, over efforts to secure a ceasefire, condemned the school shelling but did not specifically blame Israel.
The incident comes after an explosion at another UN school in Beit Hanoun last week as the playground was filled with families awaiting evacuation. Israel denied responsibility for the deaths, saying a single "errant" shell fired by its forces hit the school playground, which was empty at the time.
UNRWA has rejected the IDF's account, saying an initial shell was followed by several others within minutes. Reporters who visited the school shortly afterwards said damage and debris was consistent with mortar rounds. UNRWA has found rockets at three of its schools in Gaza in the past three weeks, which it has swiftly condemned as "flagrant violation[s] of the neutrality of our premises".
Israel says militants from Hamas and other organisations launch rockets from the vicinity of UNRWA properties.
The Israeli military said it had targeted more than 4,100 sites in Gaza since the start of the conflict on 8 July. The death toll in Gaza rose above 1,300 on Wednesday.
Three soldiers were killed in fighting around Khan Younis, bringing the total IDF death toll to 56. Three civilians have died in rocket attacks on Israel.
In an emotional statement, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the "destructive cycle of violence has caused untold suffering".
He said: "You can't look at the pictures coming from Gaza and Israel without your heart breaking. We must cry to God and beat down the doors of heaven and pray for peace and justice and security. Only a costly and open-hearted seeking of peace between Israeli and Palestinian can protect innocent people, their children and grandchildren, from ever worse violence."
He called for a renewed "commitment to political dialogue in the wider search for peace and security for both Israeli and Palestinians".
Support for the military operation among the Israeli public remained solid. A poll published by Tel Aviv university this week found 95% of Israeli Jews felt the offensive was justified. Only 4% believed too much force had been used.
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WINTER HAVEN - The Today's Floridian meeting was opened by President Carol Stasiak. Mary Ann Drexel gave devotions. Hostesses were Mary Morganstern and Judy McPartlan.
In honor of the club's 25th anniversary, Gerri Johannsen gave a talk on the forming of Today's Floridian club in 1983. The purpose of the club is to promote friendship, hospitality, compassion and caring and to reach out with good will to the community.
Parliamentarian Pat Fling installed two new members, Sandra Ezinga and Morita Hadlock. "Happy Birthday" was sung to Boots Campbell, Janet Gillespie, Marge Hatfield, Phyllis Bullard, Mary Byrnes and Phyllis Haines.
Celebrating anniversaries were Olga and Ralph Diaz, Eileen and Edward Sampson, Fran and Joseph Grub and Pat and Bob Fling.
Winners in the 50/50 drawing were Mary Byrnes, Geneva Shepherd,Jr, McPartlan, Olga Diaz and Rose Carr. The free lunch drawing was won by Molly Bualski.
A 31-year-old woman from Winterthur who tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State (IS) is standing trial under Swiss anti-terror laws.
Qualifying under the lights at the Singapore Grand Prix saw traffic play a big part in Q1, which ended with Lotus Racing drivers Heikki Kovalainen in 19th and Jarno Trulli 21st.
Heikki Kovalainen (Chassis T127-01) FP3: 15 laps, best time 1.53.146, 20th / QUALIFYING: 19th, 1.50.915, 9 laps “Qualifying today was quite difficult to be honest. The traffic made it really tricky as there were cars on slow laps when I was on a quick one, and I think I missed my best opportunity on the second set of tyres which were brand new. I gave it my best shot, and I think the last lap was about as good as I could have done today, so at least I split the Virgins and got pretty close to Timo. It’s still game on for tomorrow, and I think we’re in good shape for the race, so we’ll see what happens.”
Jarno Trulli (Chassis T127-04) FP3: 17 laps, best time 1.53.681, 22nd / QUALIFYING: 21st, 1.51.641, 10 laps “I’m pretty disappointed with how it went tonight. This morning’s practice was pretty good but on the first run in qualifying on the options I couldn’t find any real grip so I switched to the primes. I think I got the most out of the car I could by the end of Q1 – braking obviously plays a big role here, and I’ve been struggling with the rear end locking all weekend, so I hope it improves tomorrow.”
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: “A pretty disappointing qualifying session today. Jarno has not been happy with the balance on the tyres all weekend and that carried through to qualifying. Heikki was generally happier on the option tyre but unfortunately he was held up on what would have been his quickest lap. Despite that I think the race pace of the car is strong and we look forward to a better performance in the race tomorrow.”
Tony Fernandes, Team Principal: “I don’t think we got the best out the car today, but it is what it is. Honestly, I’m reasonably happy, as I thought we might not have been quite as close to Timo as we ended up – he goes very well here and I think that if the traffic hadn’t played its part Heikki might have been able to get past him. As development on this year’s car stopped back in July and we put our resources into the 2011 car, we always knew the competition would become closer as the season drew to an end, with our closest rivals continuing to bring upgrades to each race. With that in mind, the fact that Heikki is as close as he is to Timo means we can not be too disappointed. Jarno also did a good job today, after a tricky weekend for him on a track he does not favour, and they are both pumped up to fight tomorrow, so there’s all to play for in the race.”
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Jean Echenoz was born in 1947 in Orange, Vaucluse. His father was a psychiatrist. He studied sociology and then civil engineering at university. He is very secretive about his private life and little is known about him. He incorporates mystery and spy novel features in his novels but claims to write geographical where others write historical novels.
Sex and drugs and rock’n’roll are not things we immediately associate with Greenland but, after this book, the impression many of us have of Greenland is likely to change. The book follows the story of five young people in Nuuk, three young woman, a young woman who would rather be a young man and a young man.
We start with Fia (a woman). She is in the process of breaking up with her partner, Peter. She wants her freedom and, frankly, is bored with Peter, a man she considers worthy but whom she does not love and with whom she is not happy. Peter is not happy with her decision. She moves in with Arnaq (a woman), who is a friend of her brother, Inuk. The two women go to a party where they meet Sara. Fia is immediately struck by Sara’s beauty (If God’s a woman, then she’s more beautiful than God). Indeed, against her better judgement, she finds herself falling for Sara. We know, though she does not, that Arnaq is also attracted to Sara, who is living with Ivinnguaq/Ivik.
Fia is so horrified at her Lesbian feelings that she immediately finds a (less than attractive) man whom she nicknames Pig-With-A-Nose-Like-A-Prick and has sex with him. His nose is not the only part of his anatomy she mocks. She is also disgusted with herself for having sex with him. When Arnaq returns to the flat, Arnaq is aware of Fia’s interest in Sara and seduces Fia. We see this story both from Fia’s point of view and then from Arnaq’s.
While partner-changing and bisexuality is going on, we also follow Ivinnguaq/Ivik who has been questioned by friends and families as to why she does not have a boyfriend but prefers to hang out with boys. She eventually questions her gender identity.
Arnaq, meanwhile, as well as visiting her sister, after giving birth, also confesses all to her sister though admits to having had a boyfriend as well as Lesbian affairs. Arnaq worries about herself and feels that she has the Devil inside her: Burning and glowing, Lucifer emerges as a gas from far inside my guts. As he spreads out into the air, I almost die. Fuck. Lucifer is trying to suffocate me.
Meanwhile, Inuk, who has been somewhat holier-than-thou towards his sister and also somewhat anti-gay, may have been having an affair with the local (male) M.P.
Yes, it is all about growing up and young people struggling with their demons, with their sexuality, with their relationships, with their gender identity, with their alcohol dependency and with life in general. And yes, Greenland young people seem to have many of the same problems as young people have elsewhere in the world. Having said that, had this book been written by a British or US writer, I very much doubt if I would have read it. I did think it was interesting to read, to learn that Nuuk – population 16,786 when this book was written – is as much a party town as New York or Newcastle and that young Greenland people seem to spend their time, when not studying or working, partying, having sex and drinking (heavily). Doubtless this book will do well – it has already been translated into several languages – and well done to Korneliussen for showing us a side of Greenland of which we were almost all probably ignorant but it is not great literature.
US President Trump may have many things in mind to accomplish through his recent tough warnings and erratic leadership style. He wants the world to continue to live with the American exceptionalism in all international relations at a time when both the US and the world have undergone a radical transformation.
His desire to make ‘America great again’ does not seem possible with values that the US has long lost in its quest for global hegemony. Instead of open and veiled threats, the US needs to rediscover its role in the changing global landscape if it truly wishes to rejuvenate and lead.
The US was never a great country because of its hard power – full spectrum military might – but because of its cherished ideals – equality, liberty, and justice. Its founding leaders fought against colonialism and established a polity based on fundamental human rights. They would have never thought of denying the same rights to others across the globe once it replaced Britain. As is evident from its constitution, America had to be a land of hope for the hopeless and the oppressed anywhere in the world. It offered itself as a land of opportunity, freedom and happiness for all regardless of their colour, creed and ethnic background.
It is no longer the case now. Internally, the country is paralysed by extreme social polarisation thanks to the politics of fear and hatred, the dysfunctional economic system that favours the rich and the powerful lobbying groups that promote the interests of selected segments of society at the cost of pluralism.
Externally, the country seeks to police the world and capture the resources of other by all means, regardless of whether they are fair or foul. It props up dictators where they can best serves its economic and strategic interests and uses force on the basis of false evidence whenever diplomacy proves impotent to guarantee an uninterrupted flow of oil and other valuable resources.
The unexpected ascendance of Trump to the most powerful position in the world was predicated on two decisive pillars of the election campaign. On the domestic front, he kept magnifying the small side-effects of a pluralist society by blaming all social evils on immigrants. Equally appealing to the electorate was his advocacy for winding down wars and restraining the US from imposing its way of life on others. He now seems to have succumbed to the CIA and the Pentagon in defining an even dangerous role for the US.
Iran happened to be the first to fit in the old doctrine of ‘evil starts at thy door and must be hit there’ followed by Syria, which had to receive an array of cruise missiles for its continued resilience to break into pieces. North Korea also got its share of rage from the incarnated Hitler. But its stern response in the form of testing more missiles has apparently put the genie back in the bottle.
The latest blatant display of belligerency is the so-called Afghan policy, which outlines America’s strategic objectives in the region with a pointed threat to Pakistan for its ‘insubordination’ in fighting the war against terror on US and Indian terms.
What Trump has done so far amply demonstrates that he is a laggard leader. He does not know the dynamics of international relations and global politics. The world is not in a state of inertia. Instead, it changes in many directions and in unpredictable ways, with winners and losers taking turns. The US is no longer in sync with new ground realities. It has already experienced serious setbacks in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Russia has reasserted itself on the global map and China has been an irresistible challenger to US hegemony.
To be truly free from the shackles of the CIA and the Pentagon, Trump needs to learn from the Chinese leadership and its soft power in winning the world. The effect of using hard power is short-lived and counter-productive. Instead of blaming Pakistan for all troubles and problems in Afghanistan, the US should recognise Pakistan’s unmatched sacrifices in the war against terror and help it fight the trickiest war.
Owing to its geographical proximity and porous border, Pakistan in particular cannot remain indifferent to developments in Afghanistan. The US needs to address Pakistan’s critical concerns to bring peace in Afghanistan rather than complicating the situation by bringing in India to play dirty games under the guise of a philanthropist.
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Iwakuma entered the game with an 8.59 ERA in five previous starts against the Red Sox. On Wednesday, he worked 7 1/3 scoreless innings, struck out seven and walked none.
"There’s a lot of lefties in (the Boston lineup)," Zunino said, "and he wanted to use the inside of the plate. He was able to use that slider down and in, and sort of a little, shorter slider up in their hands.
The Mariners backed Iwakuma (12-7) with three solo home runs against Boston right-hander Rick Porcello: Nelson Cruz to left field in the second inning; Zunino to center in the sixth; and Adam Lind to right in the seventh.
Porcello (14-3) allowed only one other hit in an eight-inning complete game, a single by Zunino in the eighth inning.
Iwakuma exited after Andrew Benintendi’s one-out single in the eighth inning. He was at 97 pitches and about to head through the Boston lineup for a fourth time.
"His track record," manager Scott Servais said, "is when he hits that 93-to-98 (pitch count)…that’s his spot in there, pitch-wise. We had a rested bullpen."
Drew Storen gave up a single to Mookie Betts, which brought the tying run to the plate. Brock Holt popped out, but Xander Bogaerts sent a drive to deep left that, for an instant, seemed poised to throw away Iwakuma’s work.
"When the ball went off Bogaerts’ bat," Servais said, "we’ve certainly seen that one go out of the park here a couple of times this year. But that time, it didn’t."
Rookie closer Edwin Diaz then wobbled through the ninth inning before closing out Iwakuma’s victory and gaining his second save.
Diaz gave up a one-out single to Jackie Bradley Jr. before hitting Aaron Hill with a pitch. A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third. Travis Shaw’s grounder to second scored Bradley and broke the shutout.
"I was pulling my shoulder a little bit today," Diaz said, "but I made the adjustment and got the outs."
The victory lifted the Mariners to 54-52 and pulled them to within seven games of first-place Texas in the American League West Division. They are 4 1/2 games behind Detroit for the final wild-card berth.
Cruz’s leadoff homer in the second inning opened the scoring. He jumped a 90-mph fastball from Porcello for a 441-foot drive into the second deck in left field for his 27th homer of the season.
The Mariners didn’t get their second hit until the sixth inning, when Zunino led off with a 427-foot homer to center for a 2-0 lead. He has five homers in 12 games.
Lind extended the margin to 3-0 with a one-out homer to right in the seventh inning. It was his 16th of the year. Iwakuma and the bullpen took it from there.
"We’ve had success against (Iwakuma) in the past," Boston manager John Farrell said, "and it was his turn tonight. He was in command the entire time he was on the mound."
PLAY OF THE GAME: The Red Sox had the tying run at the plate with two outs — note that, two outs — in the eighth inning when Xander Bogaerts turned on a pitch from reliever Drew Storen it deep to left field.
For an instant, it appeared the game was tied. But a gusting wind (perhaps) slowed the flight, and Nori Aoki caught the ball on the track.
PLUS: Hisashi Iwakuma is 11-3 since May 20. Those 11 victories are the most in the majors since that date…Mike Zunino had two of the Mariners’ four hits. Regarding Zunino’s 427-foot homer to center, teammate Nelson Cruz said: "That was impressive. It went a long way. I haven’t seen one hit that far to center field here in a long time."…Adam Lind has 15 homers in his last 56 games.
MINUS: Not too much, really, other than left fielder Nori Aoki forgetting how many outs there were in the eighth inning.
STAT PACK: Nelson Cruz is batting .316 his season in 57 games as a designated hitter with 18 homers and 50 RBIs. He is batting .240 in 45 games as a right fielder with nine homers and 19 RBIs.
QUOTABLE: Manager Scott Servais on Edwin Diaz’s shaky ninth inning: "Edwin got a little bit out of sync tonight. You could see that he was rushing a little bit. He’s 22 years old. I think everybody needs to keep that in mind.
"There are going to be nights when it’s going to be awesome. And there are going to be nights when he’s not going to be quite as sharp.
"But because he’s got the stuff, you don’t have to be quite as sharp. He still has a chance to get through it."
SHORT HOPS: The Mariners held a pre-game ceremony to honor Boston DH David Ortiz, who is retiring after the season. Among other things, he received a framed copy of his first professional contract, a watch and 34 pounds of Northwest King Salmon…Thursday’s starter, lefty Ariel Miranda, was in the clubhouse after the game. There was no official word from the Mariners on the roster move to recall Miranda from Triple-A Tacoma, but right-hander Donn Roach was getting handshakes and pats on the back from teammates…Boston’s Rick Porcello suffered his first loss in 14 starts.
Along with Browner, safety Jeron Johnson (hamstring) also did not practice and is listed as doubtful.
The news is better concerning defensive end Cliff Avril. Carroll said the team’s top free agent acquisition is listed as probable, and should play for the first time this year on Sunday.
“He could have played last week,” Carroll said. “No he comes back and puts another week behind him, and went all the reps and took full-speed work. So we know he’s ready to go.”
Along with Avril, tight end Luke Wilson (oblique), offensive lineman Michael Bowie (shoulder), receiver Sidney Rice (knee), defensive tackle Brandon Mebane (ankle) and defensive tackle Tony McDaniel (groin) all fully participated in practice and are probable.
Defensive end Chris Clemons fully participated in practice for a second straight day, but is listed as questionable for Sunday’s game.
“Chris had a great week,” Carroll said. “We were just thrilled. Wednesday was the first day, and you could kind of see him knocking off the rust. Thursday he was good, and Friday again he was good. So he’s going to have a real chance in the next couple weeks to get back and play for us.”
Defensive tackle Jordan Hill (biceps) did not practice today, and is listed as out for Sunday’s game.
For San Francisco, the only player on the team’s injury report is running back LaMichael James, who’s listed as questionable with a knee injury.
Seattle linebacker K.J. Wright received a $7,875 fine from the league for unnecessary roughness before a taunting penalty he got during the Carolina game. Wright had words with Carolina safety Colin Jones after he pulled Jones from a scrum by both his legs.
Carolina defensive lineman Frank Alexander also received a $15,750 fine for his ejection after throwing a punch at Breno Giacomini, which you can watch here.
“It’s football; that’s the way football should be, I think,” Giacomini said about the play. “I don’t think he should’ve got fined. Maybe a flag, but a fine? I think that’s too much personally.”
Carroll turns 62 on Sunday, so of course I asked him if he was going to catch a flight to Denver so he can attempt to throw a football as far as his age once again in the high altitude of Mile High Stadium.
Carroll has been blessed that his birthday has fallen around the same time Seattle has played games in Denver the past two seasons.
However, this year Carroll said he’ll have to wait for the elements to cooperate with him closer to him.
“I never have said that I have to do that on my birthday,” Carroll said, smiling. “And I keep looking at that flag, and that flag’s got to get ripping in the right direction.
Vimeo, an internet service provider that allows users to upload audio and video content, is not liable for copyright infringement in New York after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Manhattan Federal Court decision.
By reversing and remanding the decision of a Manhattan Federal Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) grants an internet service provider a “safe harbor” from infringement claims, regardless of the publish date of recordings.
In the matter of Capitol Records v. Vimeo, Capitol Records sued in Manhattan Federal Court for copyright infringement, claiming that Vimeo should be held liable for users publishing copyrighted materials, including music recorded before 1972.
The Second Circuit disagreed, holding that construing DMCA as leaving service providers like Vimeo subject to liability for the acts of users posting materials that may infringe copyright “defeats the very purpose Congress sought to achieve in passing the statute.”
The Second Circuit also rejected Capitol Records’s claim that Vimeo should be held liable for videos uploaded onto its site that a reasonable employee should have had “red flags” of copyright infringement.
The Second Circuit also rejected Capitol Record’s argument that Vimeo showed “willful blindness” towards audio infringement since it monitors only video content.
Making theory of mind assessment and treatment planning straightforward, time-efficient, family-centered, and evidence-based.
The ToMI-2 represents a new method for assessing theory of mind that addresses the limitations of traditional theory of mind measures. This well-validated parent-informant measure is designed to assess a wide range of theory of mind competencies, it does not suffer from ceiling effect when administered to individuals with autism spectrum disorder, and it is not vulnerable to test-practice effects and child linguistic, cognitive, and motivational factors. Read More…
The ToMI-2 consists of 60 items designed to tap a wide range of social cognitive understandings. Each item takes the form of a statement (e.g., “My child understands whether someone hurts another on purpose or by accident”) and is accompanied by a 20-unit continuum anchored by ‘definitely not’, ‘probably not’, ‘undecided’, ‘probably’, and ‘definitely.’ The respondent is asked to read a statement and draw a hash mark at the appropriate point along the continuum. Read More…
The ToMI-2 is designed to tap a wide range of theory of mind competencies; thus, it may be particularly helpful for identifying areas of strength and weakness in an individual’s social-cognitive profile and it can be used to identify developmentally appropriate targets for treatment. Hutchins and Prelock (2008) described the ways in which the earlier (and similar) version of this measure was used as part of a larger assessment battery for precisely these purposes.
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Fairy tales and childhood go hand-in-hand and one of many ways to enhance this lovely relationship is by gifting your little princess this A.W. Faber-Castell Shrinky Dinks Fairies Mini. This kit includes everything your child needs to create a miniature Shrinky Dink fairy landscape.
A beautifully designed and furnished 4 star first floor apartment in a peaceful rural location & a short distance from the Giant’s Causeway, coastline and gorgeous beaches. All modern amenities including Wifi, computer, flat screen TVs with DVD players in all rooms.
You will find the main area light and airy and equipped with everything you might need for a relaxing stay.
It’s so quiet and peaceful here that you’re going to get a great nights sleep. Being in the countryside you’ll be able to see the stars at night and you can even catch the light from the lighthouse on Rathlin Island.
No noise – well maybe a sheep here and there but if you need to relax and unwind then this is a good place to start.
If the weather is good we have a swanky barbecue which you are welcome to use, together with a decking area for relaxing in the sun. The apartment is in the grounds of our own property and set in an acre of garden, which you are welcome to use.
We have 4 chickens, each named after particular spices so we hope you like eggs. There’s nothing like freshly laid eggs in the morning – so just ask and we’ll leave them on your doorstep!
Although so close to beaches, attractions and restaurants we are in such a quiet location, great for relaxing after a day of exploring.
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SSC CGL Result 2016 Tier 1 Exam Tier 2 Date: The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Combined Graduate Level (CGL) examination took place in the months of August and September 2016. According to the official notification, it is said that the results of SSC CGL Tier 1 exam will be declared on November 8.
The previous notice of SSC stated that Tier 1 evening shift exam conducted on August 27 was canceled. The same candidates will have to re-appear for the same on October 27. After the Tier1 results, the qualified candidates will appear in the further tiers, i.e. 2,3, & 4. To make into the next round, the aspirants will have to score a minimum of cutoff marks which SSC will reveal later on.
The Commission released the recruitment notification for a total of 3,815 Group B & C posts in various Ministries / Departments / Organizations. Thus, CGLE 2016 examination was conducted by SSC for the same.
Earlier, the Tier 1 exam was scheduled to take place in May. But, after the introduction of level 3 and 4 exams, it got postponed. Finally, it rescheduled and conducted in August and September. The inclusion of more tiers resulted in the change of exam pattern. The overall number of questions were reduced to 100 from 200.
More than 38 lakh candidates registered for the CGL 2016 exam. However, around 14.99 lakh aspirants appeared for the same. Tier 1 was conducted in 44 batches from August 27 to September 11 and 25. The evening shift (4:15 pm to 5:30 pm) held on August 27 got canceled. Those candidates will have to re-take the exam.
The re-exam admit cards has been released and available on the SSC’ official website. The candidates can download them as it is a crucial document to carry at the test center.
Most the candidates told us that tier 1 exam was of average difficulty and most of the questions were easy. This means that we can see an increase in the SSC CGL Tier 1 Cut off marks. It can go as high as 125 marks for the aspirants of general category. Most of the candidates found the questions in the General Awareness category tough. So, it will have a significant role in deciding the candidates’ selection chances.
However, the expected cut off marks for OBC, SC, and ST category would be 102-110, 90-98, and 84-88 marks range. The exact picture will be out and clear soon once the tier 1 CGL results are out.
After the tier1 exams had concluded on August 25, the candidates started expecting the result declaration date to be in the first week of October. However, the official notification came on October 14, and it stated that the results would be published online on November 8.
The same notice served the official dates for Tier 2 exams from November 30 to December 2. The exact dates will be notified to the qualified candidates as they get their admit cards / hall tickets. The rest of the two tiers will take place in January 2017. Thus, the SSC final result 2016 will be out in April 2017.
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And the sad part I've lost more muscle weight than that because I stopped weight lifting in order to have time to do Insanity and my upper body has lost a ton of mass. I actually stopped lifting weights 6 weeks ago because I started the work out program and had to stop and restart it because I had to go out of town.
Anyways. I am currently ~45 lbs over my ideal body weight. I have not followed the official diet that comes with it, but I do only eat 1,200-1,400 calories a day. And I eat relatively healthy. I can't figure out why I haven't lost anything. Cardio is not in my vocabulary and never has been. This is one of most frustrating and difficult things I've ever done and it's only so much worse because I'm not getting any results, even when measuring myself. I'm certainly not half assing it. I give what I can to the point of not being able to move anymore. I just don't see the point of continuing when I'm what I'd weight work out or not.
Sounds like you're not eating enough. 1200 calories is really low, especially if you're working out hard and you're a larger guy. Boost it up a couple hundred calories and see if you feel better.
No, cardio not being in my vocab meaning it doesn't come easy for me because I haven't done any real cardio exercise in well over 10 years.
The official diet actually has you eat as many calories as I am now. The difference being that I'm eating toned down every day food (and avoiding junk) versus plain specific items.
What does your diet look like specifically? I know people who lose more than that with just changing their diet and no working out so you're doing something wrong.
Well to be honest my diet hasn't really changed, I've just cut out the few junk items I occasionally had. I've always eaten under 2,000 calories. I'm not really sure how I weigh this much in the 1st place.
Yesterday I had a bowl of cereal, a lettuce and chicken wrap, and fish with pasta. All drinks were water.
Do you track your calories? You might be overeating, in which case it's obvious why you're not losing weight. You might be undereating, in which case your body is preferentially burning muscle rather than fat (fat is a higher energy source, if food is scarce your body holds on to it for a bleaker future).
I don't track exact, but I do estimate (unless it's prepackaged and tells you what's in it). Yesterday I ate approx 1,500. So far today I'm at about 1,100.
When I was on P90x, the diet was 80% of the results, so I wouldn't overlook it. There were very specific portions of different categories of nutrition, as opposed to a general total of calorie intake.
You can take my advice or leave it, it's up to you, but in my opinion you need to track your calories explicitly, for at least a week. Until you do that I don't think anyone can give you useful help. There is no magic bullet or secret weight loss fact you're missing.
Stop doing Insanity workout nonsense, and do some real strength training. Squats, deadlifts, cleans, press, bench press, chins, dips. also, 1200 calories is what a 100 pound female that doesn't every exercise should be eating.
I dropped 15 pounds in 2 months via carb back loading, lifting HEAVY, compound barbells. The gist of carb back loading is that you save all your carbs for only post-workout and at night. Prior to that, eat lots of protein and fat.
For example, if you train around 6 or 7 PM after work, your breakfast and lunch would be carb-free or low-carb. Then you'd train semi-fasted. After that, pig out... My breakfast was a whey protein shake in water and 2 whole eggs. Lunch was a Chipotle burrito bowl without the rice, and with double steak. Then I lifted in the evening. Afte that, I chugged 2 cups of milk, 2 scoops of whey, 4 whole eggs, 1/2 lb of chicken thigh meat, and a bowl of brown rice(the milk and whey was post workout shake, eggs and chicken dinner). And now before bed I'll have a few spoonfuls of almond buter and another protein shake. that's about 2k calories, and I'm 5'7" and only 145. Also, train at high intensity, but low volume.
Eating only 1200 calories and not doing any serious high intensity training will leave you scrawnny, a useless human being, and looking like Justin Bieber, Russell brand, or someone equally gay, skinny, and useless.
- lift heavy and big. high intensity, low volume if you're cutting. don't waste time with cardio on a deficit if you want to be constantly fatigued and end up a scrawny.
Just because it's low calorie doesn't mean it's good, and just because it's high calorie doesn't mean its bad!
Caloric intake is makes a difference in weight loss, but quality of food is even more important. Ingredients that are simple and made of whole foods. That's the way to go.
Good luck with your diet! I'm not sure what the insanity workout is... but I personally would never quit lifting to strictly do cardio. I keep balance, you shouldn't abandon one area to succeed in another.
Insanity is an overpriced DVD made by the same marketing machine as P90x. Except IMO it's even worse because it doesn't use a pullup bar, resistance bands, or any dumbbells. Not to say that p90x is a good program or any real strength training either... It's an aerobics DVD with a hardcore sounding name, so men will buy it without feeling ashamed. |
The best thing that could be done for pension funds in 2015 is something they can't do themselves: increase interest rates.
An interest-rate increase is necessary for the financial health of pension plans because low rates continue to erode the funding levels of the plans, placing huge financial burdens on the sponsors and threatening the security of pensions.
One company conforming with market interest rates is AT&T Inc. According to its most recent 10-K filing, the company in 2013 raised its discount rate for valuing its defined benefit plan liabilities by 80 basis points, and lowered its obligation by $4.5 billion. But that wasn't enough to make up for the effect of 2012, when it lowered its discount rate by 100 basis points and increased its pension obligations by $7 billion.
Companies might have to reduce their discount rates again this year because of the steady decline in yields since the beginning of last year. As of Jan. 16, the 20-year Treasury yield had fallen to 2.17% from 2.41% as of Jan. 2, according to the Department of the Treasury. As of Jan. 2, 2014. the 20-year Treasury yield was 3.68%.
The continued unfavorable outlook on interest rates will likely accelerate pension plan freezes and closings.
A downturn in long-term interest rates near the end of last year has left pension funds in a difficult position. With low rates expected to continue, companies likely will have to dig a little deeper into their pockets to make up any deficits. After years of falling interest rates stemming from the financial crisis and subsequent recession, 2013 brought some hope for pension funds as the economy began to recover, stock markets were buoyed and longterm rates started to rise. Air Canada, for instance, reported in early 2014 that its pension plan was finally in a surplus position, after years of posting deficits as high as $4.2 billion. The Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan began 2014 with its first funding surplus in a decade.
But by the end of last year the hopes of Canadian pension plans were dashed again, as fears about Europe slipping into a recession caused investors to move away from stocks and back into safer vehicles such as bonds, driving yields on long-term bonds lower.
Manuel Monteiro, a partner with global pension consulting firm Mercer, said all of the gains made during the previous year have been reversed, with long-term interest rates once again hovering around 60-year lows. That could spell trouble for some pension plan sponsors, who are usually required to pay back deficits over five years, Monteiro said.
"As long as your company is healthy, even if the pension plan is in deficit, it's probably not a big deal," he said.
Safeway Inc. will contribute an additional $212 million to its largest pension plan in a settlement with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the agency announced Friday.
Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif., is now owned by an investor group, AB Acquisition LLC, led by private equity and hedge fund manager Cerberus Capital Management. The investor group, which already owned Albertsons Inc., merged the two last month.
PBGC officials used the agency’s early warning program to seek further pension contributions after Cerberus and Albertsons announced the Safeway acquisition in March, because the transaction created $11 billion of secured debt that had priority over the pension plan.
“From the beginning, we knew this sale would put the retirement benefits of nearly 54,000 people at risk, so we moved quickly to engage with Cerberus and Albertsons to get better funding for the plan,” said Sanford Rich, PBGC's chief of negotiations and restructuring, in a statement.
As pension plans incorporate new life-expectancy estimates into their calculations, investors are glimpsing the financial fallout from aging societies.
AT&T Inc. last month absorbed a $7.9 billion non-cash charge from rising pension costs, including retirees’ longer lifespans. At Northrop Grumman Corp., updated mortality estimates boosted its pension obligations by $4.5 billion to $30.5 billion while shareholders in International Business Machines Corp. saw their equity shrink by around $6 billion.
“2014 was a tough year for pension plan sponsors,” said Matt Herrmann, a senior consultant for Towers Watson in St. Louis. “Folks are going to continue to live longer. That means a significant increase in pension liabilities.”
The trigger for corporate pension plans to update their lifespan assumptions was the October release of new mortality tables from the Society of Actuaries in Schaumburg, Illinois. Starting in 2009, society researchers pored over private pension plan data on 220,000 deaths and 10.5 million life-years, said Dale Hall, the society’s managing director for research.
The new estimates, the first update since 2000, were designed to provide more realistic guidance for plan sponsors who have generally done a poor job of keeping pace with the steady improvement in life expectancy in recent decades.
A 65-year-old male now can expect to live 21.6 additional years, two years longer than in the old tables.
Publication of the new tables -- a standard reference for plan sponsors -- began having a financial impact in fourth- quarter earnings statements.
General Motors Co. said on Feb. 4 that the new mortality data added $2.2 billion to its already underfunded pension liabilities.
Along with longer lifespans, pension plans suffered last year from falling interest rates. For most plans, the impact from lower rates, which makes it harder to earn money to pay future benefits, exceeded the price tag associated with updated mortality assumptions.
The Vatican's financial czar, Cardinal George Pell, has raised concern about the fund's long-term health in recent newspaper interviews, saying it is sufficiently funded for the next 10-15 years but needs to be strengthened for future generations.
In a statement, the fund managers said there's "a substantial balance" between resources and commitments for current and future pensioners, with the fund 95 percent covered.
It said it had taken many steps already to address future commitments, including raising the retirement age and pension contributions, and that the fund was expected to top 500 million euros by the end of 2015 after having started out with the equivalent of 5 million euros in 1993.
Pell was tasked last year by Pope Francis to put the Vatican's finances in order after years of mismanagement, waste and scandal. Francis gave him broad powers, and Pell got widespread support for his reform efforts by cardinals who received a closed-door briefing from him last week, the Vatican spokesman said.
But questions have also swirled about the scope of his power amid resistance from the Vatican legal office to his proposals for sweeping oversight and management authority in the statutes for his Secretariat for the Economy.
He also raised eyebrows by boasting in an essay that he had "discovered" hundreds of millions of euros that were "tucked away" in sectional accounts that didn't appear on the Vatican's balance sheets.
Public Advocate Letitia James plans to introduce legislation this week to form an 11-member advisory board to examine creating a pension fund for private-sector workers in New York City.
The board would have a year to present a report to the mayor and other elected officials about the feasibility of a centrally pooled retirement fund and provide recommendations on how such a fund would be structured and managed.
The legislation is to be introduced at Thursday’s City Council meeting. Ms. James, a Brooklyn Democrat who is first in line to succeed the mayor, doesn’t have a vote on the council but has the power to introduce and co-sponsor bills.
“The vast majority of New Yorkers are unprepared for retirement, and if we don’t address this problem we will be seeing an increasing number of seniors in extreme poverty,” Ms. James said.
Ms. James said the purpose of the bill is to study possible solutions for what she called “this looming crisis.” Ms. James said she isn’t wedded to a particular solution, but is looking for the advisory board to provide the city with recommendations.
It wasn’t clear whether the advisory board would focus on creating a traditional defined-benefit pension plan, or a so-called defined-contribution plan such as a 401(k), under which employers and employees can invest for workers’ retirements. Also unanswered is whether any new plan would be voluntary on the part of employers.
The real unintended consequence of that plan is going to be making lots of low-income people Medicaid-ineligible.
TAUNTON — Reed & Barton, the last and oldest silversmith company in a city still known as the Silver City, will cease all operations in Taunton no later than June.
Riddle blamed costly pension liabilities, ranging from $9.6 million to possibly $18 million, for sealing the fate of the historic business — which since 1824 has been operating in Taunton’s Whittenton neighborhood adjacent the Mill River.
“It absolutely killed us — for years it just drained the company of cash,” Riddle said of the pension costs.
When General Motors Co. ’s pension plan took a big hit earlier this month, it joined hundreds of companies facing growing pension shortfalls as Americans keep living longer.
Longevity has a downside for those paying the bills, and the higher costs now have to be reflected on corporate balance sheets because of new mortality estimates released in October.
In its first revision of mortality assumptions since 2000, the Society of Actuaries estimated the average 65-year-old man today will live 86.6 years, up from the 84.6 it estimated a decade and a half ago. The average 65-year-old woman will live 88.8 years, up from 86.4.
The new estimates won’t affect many U.S. companies, which long ago shifted their employees to defined-contribution plans like 401(k)s, which leave workers on their own after retirement. But they are hitting other big companies with defined-benefit plans that have to make payments to some former employees for as long as they live. The changes may also prompt more companies to take steps to reduce the risks associated with their pension plans, experts say.
When GM announced fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 4, it said the mortality changes had caused the funding of its U.S. pension plans to fall short by an additional $2.2 billion and contributed to significant pension losses that will be filtered into its earnings over a period of years.
Similarly, General Electric Co. estimated that the new mortality assumptions could cause its retiree obligations to rise by $5 billion and hurt its profit this year.
GE will likely provide an update in its annual report, a spokesman said. A Securities and Exchange Commission official recently suggested that companies should tell investors sooner rather than later about the mortality assumptions’ impact.
Companies “should disclose the impact of mortality to the extent it results in a significant change” in pension obligations, said T. Kirk Crews, an SEC professional accounting fellow, at a December conference.
Thousands of jobs are threatened at major supermarket chain Tesco, the largest retailer in Britain. This follows the decision of new CEO David Lewis to embark on a £500 million cost-cutting drive and store-closure plan, in an effort to confront the decline in profits and marketshare since 2011.
Of Tesco’s 217,000 full-time employees, those that work on the shop floor are paid on average around the minimum wage of £6.50. The remaining 100,000 part-time workers are estimated to save Tesco around 14 percent per employer, or around a £100 million over the year.
These savings are made at the expense of government national insurance receipts which would normally go to state pensions and welfare payments. Tesco avoids paying these contributions by employing workers on a minimum four-hour contract. Although a worker can ask for an increase in hours these are held below the level of earnings of £150 a week after which amount the employer is liable to pay national insurance contributions. It estimated that varied government wage top-up schemes cost the UK taxpayers £90 billion a year.
The result of Tesco not paying employment contributions threatens to leave employees with a limited state pension or no pension at all, guaranteeing a retirement of severe poverty.
Employees at Tesco that maintain a pension will be switched from its defined benefit scheme to a career average plan. Tesco’s defined pension scheme was one of the largest in the UK’s private sector, encompassing all its employees. Today these schemes are regarded as a thing of the past.
In 2004, defined benefit plans were contributed to by 20 percent of FTSE 100 employers (100 largest employers in UK); today there are none.
Most of FairPoint Communication’s unionized workers return to their jobs today after a strike that lasted more than four months.
Last weekend, they ratified a new contract with the company, but unlike past negotiations with FairPoint and its predecessors, the new pact does not represent an improvement over the expired agreement.
The new contract will move future union workers from defined benefit pensions to employee-funded and managed 401K plans. It also freezes past pension accruals for existing employees, cuts in half future accruals, and caps them after 30 years with the company.
In laying out its position last year, FairPoint said its goal was to end defined benefits for union employees. Another point of contention was the use of outside contractors. |
As we see John Cena, a natural question that arises in our mind is whether he is taking steroids or it is a natural tone. It is important to know whether it is natural or a result of the steroids as a lot of people look up to him. We are interested to know if it is possible for him to attain the similar results in a natural manner by taking any type of drugs completely. Whatever answer you may get to the question regarding John Cena steroids, you should not stop your training. Your body is very different from his and thus the natural processes of your body are completely different. Working hard is sure to help you in reaching the full potential of the body.
John Cena is a popular name in the list of wrestlers across the globe. Hailing in West Newbury in Massachusetts, he is 40 years of age currently. At present, he is tied to the Ric Flair for title reigns in WWE history along with an amazing and impressive 16 reigns below the belt. With an impressive career, John Cena has come up with almost 25 titles in WWE. He has a height of 6 ft and 2 inches along with a weight of 250 plus pounds of solid muscle. No body fat is present in his physique. He has been successful in maintaining the similar shape from the beginning of the main roster debut and before that which led a lot of people to believe that he may be in taking steroids.
In this year, this wrestler has taken a step back from the competition of WWE with an eye to pursuing different interests and helping other superstars in getting over. He, however, takes part in the competition on a part-time basis. However, many people believe that only a couple of ring years are left prior to retirement or transiting into the back scene role.
Until the last year, John Cena is a successful name and face in the competition of WWE. Though WWE is desperate to fill the shoes, nobody has been yet found who will step up really. This is inclusive of the Roman Reigns, in spite of the fact that he has been desperately forced down by the fans for the last three years in a consecutive manner. After debuting in the year of 2002, the wrestler has adopted the rap gimmick that has helped in winning the heart of fans instantly.
In spite of playing the heel in the wrestling terms or the bad guy, he is cheered in a consistent manner. The WWE has provided a push to him, thereby helped him in getting up the rankings. With the passage of time, Cena became the good guy or the Babyface. He has won multiple titles, which is inclusive of the World Heavyweight title during the main event of Wrestlemania and US championship. Without guys such as The Stone Cold and The Rock, WWE was looking for a new face for the company. John Cena fits the role in a perfect manner.
Though fans were amazed to see the wrestler in defeating each and everybody that came in his path, they are hoping for the turning of another bad guy for freshening up the character. However, that never happened. The fans really love John Cena and he has become a well-renowned figure. He is loved by women and little kids. He is also the favorite of hardcore wrestling fans across the globe.
Several wrestlers came and went. However, John Cena was consistent with his physique and performance.
There is no denying in the fact that John Cena is known to be a physical specimen. As mentioned earlier, he has a weight of 250 pounds in addition to the height of 6 ft and 2 inches. He has a wide array of muscles around in the frame. He stays in shape in a consistent manner. He is also maintaining a vascular and ripped physique which is complete with the washboard ABS. A wide number of supplement companies sponsored John Cena in the past few years. He made an appearance on different magazine covers like Men’s Health, Muscle and Fitness, Flex. Apart from few brief periods post to undergoing surgery for different surgeries, his physique has been impressive in a consistent manner. John Cena happens to be a genetic freak and an epitome of fitness in the gym.
Even at the age of 40 years, he conducts training like a beast. He is stronger in comparison to some of the most popular powerlifters on the planet. In the WWE ring, he is capable of throwing men of 200-300 pounds without any hassles. To be precise, he is considered to be one of the well renowned WWE superstars for lifting the 7ft 450 pound Big Show on his shoulders.
During the competition, for some time, he took the Big Show of 400 pounds on the shoulder in addition to 240 pound Edge at the same time. John Cena is known to be a big fan of the bodybuilding. He trains in a similar way to bodybuilders. He is inclusive of the plethora of compound lifts as an integral part of the routine. In this way, he is capable of maintaining the size and strength.
A similar impressive physique at this age has led to different speculations that John Cena intakes legal steroids during the impressive running as the professional athlete. During different interviews with multiple media outlets and internet blogs, the wrestled is maintaining innocence on the specific matter. He denied the use of steroids completely and insisted that his complete look is natural and is not chemically enhanced or induced. According to him, he has done extensive training in the gym and has committed to instructions and advice of the trainers for several years. Though he started at a younger age, he told he has gained weight in a natural manner. According to him, that exercises added to what has been gifted naturally. Setting his claims of innocence aside, here is a look at the athlete and check whether he has indulged in the use of steroids or not.
Though there are several pieces of evidence that suggest the use of John Cena and steroids, there is no doubt in the fact that John Cena is a genetic freak. He is incredibly strong in nature. He contributes to being one of the strongest WWE superstars of all time. The wrestler happens to be very elite.
John Cena has gained high popularity in sustaining multiple injuries in the gym and ring during the career in WWE for the past few years. Most of the injuries require surgery that will be keeping the athletes out for a time duration of one year at least. For the most notable injuries, the wrestler was able to return to the action within months. His strength and physique remain unchanged virtually prior to getting injured. There are chances that steroids can confer a boost to the recovery.
The hands of John Cena are similar to shovels. His jaw is blocky like Kali muscle and Calum Von Moger. They are considered to be the tell-tale signs of the uses of steroid.
The wellness policy of WWE happens to be legit. In the 90s, you will find a wide number of mid-card talents who compete on the roster having physiques which can make pro bodybuilders envy. It was after the Wellness policy came into effect, the superstars became smaller and softer. In lieu of men having 265 pounds being the norm, in lieu, you will find superstars, who do not have a weight of 210 pound-set and yet take part in the competition. John Cena does not change nor does he shrink down, He continues looking amazing. The WWE take the policy in a serious manner. In case a wrestler fails the drug tests, they are fired or suspended for repeat violations. John Cena was never suspended. Thus, it can be said that he does not take any steroid.
The primary thing that physician does as you walk into their clinic for the test or consultation is asking for the different symptoms which are displaying. Here are some of the common symptoms of steroid use and check if John Cena is displaying any one of them.
If a person is taking steroids, there is a rise in blood pressure and temperature, owing to which you the appearance of the skin becomes redder than usual. This is considered to be one of the crucial virtues of a steroid user. However, speaking about John Cena, it is a bit controversial. He is often seen with flushed skin but most of the time, the wrestler is very pale. Hence, for us, this is not a valid evidence as the flushed skin can be a result of a bunch of factors. The paleness can occur owing to other external factors.
If a person has a bigger skull and blocky appearance than before, it is considered to be an evidence of the uses of human growth hormones that are known to be steroids, as they possess a similar effect. The wrestler, John Cena has a bigger skull and the appearance has become blockier than before. There are no chances of growth of skill in adult life. This lets people enter into a conclusion that the wrestler is taking steroids.
If you have conducted an extensive research and training on bodybuilding and their effect on the body of a person, you should be aware of the fact that the growth period is limited usually to the first 6 years of bodybuilding. From the specific time, it remains all the same or goes down only. John Cena has undergone a decade of training and he has not stopped growing. On the other hand, the growth of the wrestler is enhancing in a rapid manner. This is impossible after several years of training without intaking any steroids.
Several studies reveal the fact that in-taking steroids for a longer period of time are going to take a toll on you. One of the side effects of intaking steroids is having a bloated stomach. If you have a look at some of the latest pictures of John Cena, you can view the pieces of evidence. Take a closer look at the pictures will help you in realizing that he has some additional weight which can be a result of taking steroids.
Though there are several shreds of evidence that support John Cena is taking steroids, there is some evidence that supports his claim of a natural body.
Speaking about steroid user, you can see different popping veins are visible over the upper part of the body. However, John Cena does not have that. Though it is possible to mask the effects of the steroids, high chances are that he is completely natural.
Though John Cena is considered to be considerable in size, he does not have a huge body like some of the most popular steroid users. He has a medium look and there are higher chances that he has a natural metabolism and physique. Thus, it can be concluded that a proper diet and hard work has been beneficial in achieving this impressive body.
With an eye to taking participation in WWE, it is a prerequisite to passing the steroid tests frequently. However, it is possible to cheat the tests and the controls are not that tight. Hence, it cannot be considered as a strong argument, yet it deserves a consideration.
A sign of the use of steroid is the extreme size of the upper part of the body. However, John Cena has a proportionate body like us. Though he is very muscular, his arms do not have any resemblance to balloons, which stands as the evidence against the uses of steroids.
Well, a wide number of pieces of evidence reveal that John Cena could have used the steroids in the past. However, there are several factors indicating that the wrestler has a natural physique. We won’t be surprised if the wrestler intakes steroids, in reality, no one can say about John Cena steroids for sure. If he does use steroids, it will probably be Legal Steroids to achieve his incredible muscle gains.
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According to Eric Bolling of Fox Business’ “Follow the Money,” the Muppets are trying to turn kids into communists. While most of us may think it absurd to ascribe political stances to puppets — least of all the eternally lovable Kermit and Co. — Bolling had no problem arguing that the Muppets are anti-corporation. Bolling’s assertions are based on the fact that the villain in the new Muppets movie is an oil tycoon — which, of course, obviously means that the movie tries to convince kids that all oil companies are evil.
Android security researcher Trevor Eckhart has made himself an enemy in software company Carrier IQ. The company is unhappy with Eckhart because of a video he posted on YouTube earlier this week, in which he reveals to the public that their smartphones are, essentially, tapped by Carrier IQ’s software. On HTC, Blackberry, Nokia and other phones, Carrier IQ’s software runs in the background, unbeknownst to users and records text messages, web searches, phone numbers and so forth.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced on Friday that it would begin an investigation into the Chevrolet Volt. According to tests administered on the Volt, the electric car’s battery may be in danger of catching fire after severe crashes. Fortunately for Volt owners, General Motors is not leaving them out in the cold. Not only is the company reaching out to every Volt driver to assure them of the car’s safety, but it is also offering these owners temporary cars for the duration of the investigation if they feel unsafe getting into their Volts for the time being.
You probably won’t be shocked to hear that coverage of yet another pepper spray incident cropped up in new sources, but you will be surprised to learn that this incident is not related to Occupy Wall Street. At a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles on Black Friday, a woman pepper sprayed other shoppers so that she could prevent them from reaching certain merchandise before her.
It is safe to assume that most of the protestors who join Occupy Wall Street and its related movements around the world know and accept the fact that they may be arrested before they get involved. Such is the risk of dissent. However, journalists are less likely to expect to end up in holding cells . They’re just covering the events, not transgressing social order. Regardless, more than a few journalists have wound up on the receiving end of police force or arrested since they have started covering the protests.
A new Web domain extension, .xxx, is currently in the process of being launched. This extension is marketed specifically toward adult websites. It is meant to make it easier for Internet users to separate adult content from the rest of the Web. While this new extension was designed with pornography in mind, some decidedly non-pornographic companies decided to register .xxx websites, including a few colleges.
Sometimes, it seems like our state’s public employees will never learn that the Internet is not a private sphere. Union Township teacher Viki Knox angered many people across New Jersey last month because of the anti-gay comments she made on her Facebook page. Now, 29-year-old Hector Rosado, a member of the Orange Police Department, has been fired for posting racial slurs on his Twitter account.
Low-income households will soon have an easier time connecting to the Internet, thanks to cable companies. As part of the Federal Communications Commission-led initiative Connect to Compete, families whose children are eligible for free school lunches will only pay $9.95 for broadband Internet. According to The Associated Press, Microsoft also pledged to sells PCs with its Office software for $250 for those families. Microsoft and Best Buy are also offering technology training. Morgan Stanley will provide microfinance services for community-based financial institutions. About 5.5 million homes that currently do not have broadband access will be eligible, according to the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. We give the FCC and those involved in the program a laurel for their willingness to help lower-income families compete in an ever-developing world.
Ever since President Barack Obama introduced even the notion of a health care reform, he met persistent resistance on the issue. Thus far, six appeals courts have seen challenges to the health care law, with the latest being the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The American Center for Law and Justice filed the case, on the grounds that requiring people to purchase health care infringed on their personal freedom.
Culture, though largely intangible, costs money. To cultivate a shared sense of history — and the pride that comes along with it — communities have to shell out the cash necessary to maintain historic sights, museums and so forth. In times of perpetual budget crisis, however, scraping together such large sums of money can often be difficult, resulting in landmarks which lapse into disrepair.
America is not a theocracy, and the Constitution makes it quite clear that the founding fathers never intended on a state-imposed religion. Despite this, we still find instances today of politicians not quite grasping the concept that, in the United States, you are free to practice whatever religion you desire. Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear participated in a ground-blessing ceremony last Friday for Indian company Flex Film. Gubernatorial candidate David Williams, a Republican, has a problem with this.
Prime Minister David Cameron took a bold step this weekend when, while attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Australia, U.K., he announced that countries that ban homosexuality would lose British aid unless they started to practice tolerance. We are used to seeing politicians act as tepid people-pleasers who say what those around them want them to say.
The It Gets Better Project has been a major name in anti-bullying movements since its inception in 2010. During all that time, not a single Republican elected official has participated in the campaign — until now. Ten members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation have teamed up to release and video for the project, and three of the members are Republicans, making this the first time that GOP-backed officials have joined the It Gets Better project to condemn bullying.
Way back in 2008, when Barack Obama was running for president on his platform of “Change we can believe in,” one of the many avenues of progress he touted was the removal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Three years later, he’s finally delivering on that promise. Obama announced Friday that every one of our soldiers would be out of Iraq at the end of the year, after nine long years of war.
For the past 80 years, The FBI has operated with an dangerously narrow definition of rape, which limited the act to “the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will.” Such a faulty conceptualization of the crime excludes a plethora of other horrifying atrocities from being legally handled as rapes — including nonconsensual anal or oral sex, rape committed with an object and cases where the victims were men or transgender.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is trying rather hard to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee. Unfortunately for her, she just cannot help shooting herself in the foot, so to speak. Bachmann’s latest slip-up is geographical in nature. Expressing discontent with President Barack Obama’s decision to send 100 U.S. troops to Uganda, Bachmann asserted, “the president, he put us in Libya.
Halloween is supposed to be a fun time for children, a time to dress up and, for once, safely accept candy from strangers. In order to ensure the safety of these young trick-or-treaters — i.e., make sure taking candy from strangers remains a viable option for the holiday — legislators of Riverside County in California are considering a measure that would effectively shut sex offenders out of Halloween festivities altogether.
The University has always been pretty good at utilizing new technologies for the benefit of the student population. Take, for example, the recent creation of Scarlet Apps, a new system of online tools, which students can use for email, a chat client and so forth. Scarlet Apps is the result of the marriage of myRutgers with a collection of Google services.
Despite the economic shambles in which our country is currently floundering, a lot of people still favor the “if you’re unemployed, go get a job” narrative. Of course, it isn’t that easy in reality, thanks to the fairly common practice of businesses refusing to consider applicants who have been out of work for extended periods of time. A survey by the National Employment Law Project discovered more than 150 job listings on employment websites excluding candidates who were not currently employed.
Raksha Bandhan Quotes Status In Hindi: It is generally celebrated throughout two countries India and Nepal. This Rakhi brings all the blessings, love in addition to care for everyone. The memories may fade away with time however the love and special connection, will expand ever stronger with on a daily basis. I have tried my best to collect the best wishes and quotes for Rakhii festival.
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Worker Bee collaborates with independent artists to create inspirational prints that don’t suck! Their latest print collaboration is with Brandon Serbec of Mystery Meat. Check out Worker Bee’s youtube video in which they discuss with Brandon the process of creating this awesome design! We have a few of these prints available for purchase in our Kensington shop, drop by and check ’em out!
The American Indians known as the Comanche originally lived in western Wyoming, where they were part of the Wind River Shoshone. They eventually broke away and migrated south, attacking and displacing other tribes as they made their way to the southern Great Plains. There they embodied the horse-centered, nomadic way of life that became so typical of the Plains Indians in the 1700s and 1800s. The Comanche language, belonging to the Uto-Aztecan language family, became widely spoken among tribes of the area.
Like most other Plains tribes, the Comanche were organized into independent bands. They were one of the first tribes to acquire horses from the Spanish and one of the few to breed them to any extent. On horseback the Comanche hunted bison (buffalo), which became their food staple and provided a variety of other useful products, including robes, coverings for their tepees, and sinew thread. Highly skilled Comanche horsemen also fought battles on horseback, a skill unknown among other Indian peoples. Comanche raids for horses and captives carried them as far south as Durango in what is now Mexico.
By the early 1800s the Comanche were a very powerful tribe with a population estimated at between 7,000 and 30,000. They fiercely resisted the expansion of both Mexican and American settlements into the vast territory under their control. In the mid-1800s a southern band of Comanche were settled on a reservation in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The northern segment of the tribe, however, continued the struggle to protect their land from settlers. In 1864 Col. Christopher (“Kit”) Carson led U.S. forces in an unsuccessful campaign against the Comanche.
In 1865 the Comanche and their allies the Kiowa signed a treaty with the United States that granted them land in what is now western Oklahoma. The U.S. government did not keep white settlers out of that land, however, leading to another outbreak of violence. In 1867 the Comanche, Kiowa, and Kiowa Apache signed another treaty in which they agreed to settle on a reservation in what is now Oklahoma. The government’s failure to enforce this agreement led to some of the most violent encounters between U.S. forces and the Comanche. The surrender of the Comanche leader Quanah Parker at the end of the Red River War of 1874–75 ended the tribe’s defense of its lands.
In the late 1800s, under the U.S. government policy known as “allotment,” the reservation was broken up into parcels to be distributed among the Indians, with the “surplus” land sold to white settlers. Soon the Comanche were outnumbered by whites on the former reservation land. After allotment, many Comanche were forced to leave the area in search of jobs. The U.S. census of 2010 counted more than 23,000 people of Comanche descent. Tribal headquarters are located near Lawton, Oklahoma.
We love how whole city is bursting with Pan Am activities and excitement. Toronto is not the only one showing off its best – so is Ontario. Until August 16, Harbourfront Centre is home to the Ontario Celebration Zone, a summer festival showcasing all our province has to offer.
It is sure to impress the tourists and have the locals feeling pretty proud. And it will likely have you coming back. The activities are on daily, non-stop from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m and are always changing and always free.
We spent a weekday morning exploring. While there is a set schedule of performances on the main and Westjet stages, as well as in the Harbourfront theatre, it is very easy to drop in on all the activities at your own pace and interest. You can be active (virtual soccer had us jumping and kicking) or chill out on a big Muskoka chair (to watch ziplining and rock climbing). Plus, most of the activities are indoors or in the covered tent, so enjoyable in almost any kind of weather.
Getting there: Harbourfront Centre is accessible by car, TTC and bike/foot (yippee for the new separated bike lanes!) Paid parking lots are around $15. Here are all the ways to get there.
What to do outside: Under the big white tent next to the main stage there is always some hands-on activities showcasing an Ontario region or organization. (We almost moved to Bancroft after the boys spent much of the time digging for minerals and painting fishing lures.)
If you or your kids in TOw are adventurous, there is a 400 ft. zipline (basically flying you from the water’s edge to Queen’s Quay), 40 ft. rock climbing wall overlooking Lake Ontario, and an adrenaline jump. It’s free but participants must be 4-foot-7. And it’s the first accessible zipline in Ontario. (When to go: evenings are busier. To speed up the process, sign your waiver online and get a wrist-band with the time you’d like to go.)
What to do inside: Again, the big white tent gives the feeling of being indoors when technically outdoors. There is also theatre and musical performances, hands-on workshops and the art installation of PrideHouse That Kids Built.
When to go: Check the line-up online (daily schedule for the week are on the right-hand sidebar.) Every Wednesday is a market with farmers, wineries, food and craft vendors. Weekday mornings tend to be quieter and there is always a family-friendly presentation on the main stage. Fly-boarding demos every Saturday.
Food: Bring your own snacks or have a seat at one of the two covered (one with patio) restaurants serving up Ontario-sourced food and drinks. They do one dish that is inspired by a Pan Am country. There is a kids meal – hamburger, fries and crudité for $8. There is also a water-filling station
Potty time: There are temporary public washrooms near the big white tent or washrooms in Harbourfront Centre.
Keep Mom Sane: If your idea of fun is to leave the kids at home, then there is much for the adults in TOw. In the evenings, free concerts; the mornings, a variety of free fitness classes. And all day long, the restaurants serve local food, beer and wine. |
These times of the year are usually the best time for us, wrestling fans, because starting from Royal Rumble in January until Wrestlemania in April, WWE will give us the best matches and feuds they can offer and everything will culminate in The Grandest Stage of Them All, WRESTLEMANIA. But for some reason, I'm not really excited with this year's Wrestlemania.
One of the biggest reason is the rematch between The Rock vs John Cena. Don't get me wrong, years ago, I thought that this match was only a "Dream Match" that only could possibly happen inside games or fan-fiction. So when The Rock finally back and challenge Cena in last year's Wrestlemania 28, it was like a dream come true. I was super excited through all the build-up over the years. And the outcome of the match was also not disappointing.
I like John Cena, but in the last few years, his character has become so stale and his "Superman"-like attitude has bored me to death. So last year, when The Rock finally beat the crap out of him fair and square in the Grandest Stage of Them All, I screamed happily at the top of my lungs. Looking at The Rock standing tall and posing at the top turnbuckle to end last year's Wrestlemania, I can't help but burst to tears. He was my childhood's hero, and he will always be.
But this year, I doubt the same thing will happen. Even though The Rock was actively involved in many WWE's events throughout 2012-2013, his main focus was still the Hollywood. And with the success of his recent movies, he will get more roles offered to him and I doubt he can keep working "part-time" with WWE. Especially now that he hold the championship belt.
So yeah, even though this year's Wrestlemania could be "The Most Predictable Wrestlemania of All Time", I would still give out my predictions and thoughts for all of you, my dear readers. Well, I only WWE related article (and in English) about once or two times a year, so it wouldn't hurt to keep reading, right? =)
So, WWE choose to defend the 26 years old prestigious IC Title on the Pre-Show? This title, with its great lineage of champions, is held in such little regard now that it will be defended before the show really even begins? I miss the good old times, IC Title used to be the most important singles title below the WWE Championship. It WAS a stepping stone for future World Champions. But right now, much like the United States Championship (which isn’t even on the card), the title is pretty meaningless.
The WWE Universe seems to be behind Miz now that he is a face, movie star, and was (ab)using Ric Flair's Figure-4-Leg-Lock, but I don't buy it. For me, face Miz is even more annoying than when he was a heel. Barret also isn't faring much better. Ever since his return from injury, he never get a real push and hasn’t seemed to be able to get that heat back he had when he was the leader of The Nexus. Anyway, I still think that Barret has more opportunity to grow with IC Title on his shoulder better than The Miz. If WWE Creative team still has some brains left, they will let the title stay with Barret a little longer. But since The Miz has more publication power than Barret, WWE will give the title to him anyway.
This match is just an eye-candy and a waste of time. They should have put IC Title or US Title on the card instead of this crappy mixed tag team match. I don't really bother with the outcome of this match but because The Funks has been on losing streak lately on weeklies, I think WWE will let them win the big one and send the kids home happy (and encourage them to buy more merchandise). I feel bad for the Bella Twins, WWE are bringing them back only to make them lose the first big match for the kids' sake.
If you talk about a loyal retainer who has give so much to the industry, he is none other than Chris Jericho. Jericho has put over many young superstars in the past, and I'm sure he will do it again this time. WWE won't make Fandango lose his first ever match.
After 15 years in the business, WWE finally take Henry seriously and turn him into a legitimate monster in 2011. Too bad, injuries got him and he was sidelined for quite a long time last year. Ryback, meanwhile, was embraced by the WWE Universe faster than anybody could and has been in a high-profile feud throughout the years with CM Punk and The Shield.
On paper, this looks like a brutal encounter where two huge monsters will fight it out to figure out who is the biggest dog in the yard, but from my point of view, this match will be a short and to-the-point one where of course Ryback, who still has a long years ahead of him, will feed on Henry.
From what I see, WWE seems to be running out of ideas about what they should do with their MITB holder. So, they decided to put on this match between a team consist of two former World Champions who has proven their worth as one of the best tag team ever in the recent years against two people who has never actually competed as a team on live television. With this lack of storyline, I don't see Kane and Bryan will drop their title here.
The prestigious belt that was once worn by Ric Flair and a lot of past champions with greatness was defended in 18 seconds at last year’s Wrestlemania, in the opening match, and not to mention that last year's match had more heat around it than this year’s match. WWE has tried to push Jack Swagger as a legitimate heel with his new gimmick (and a very cool entrance song, in my opinion), but he’s just not performing as he should. The majority of the promos are done by Zeb Colter, while Swagger stands behind him screaming "We The People" like an idiot. Not to mention that he was caught for drugs possession recently and he could have a suspension waiting for him from WWE. Nah, if I were WWE, I wouldn't risk giving him the title.
What should happen : Alberto Del Rio wins, Ziggler attack him and cash in the MITB. 1...2...3...! Here is your winner and NEW World Heavyweight Champion, Dolph Ziggler!!!
WWE has made so many stupid moves in the past that ruin the superstar's career or momentum, like what they did to Zack Ryder and CM Punk lately. But to my disbelief, they finally able to do one thing right and that is The Shield. Ever since their debut, The Shield has taken over WWE with their unique style of offense and the wolf-pack mentality (I still think that Triple Powerbomb is lame though) and so far they have been able to beat anything that cross against them.
The Shield could win against the All-Stars Team (Cena, Sheamus, Ryback) in last PPV, it's just don't make sense if they lose to this one. There are also some rumors that WWE planned to turn Orton heel to feud against Sheamus and what is a better place than The Grandest Stage of Them All? Just please don't make him the new leader of The Shield, I beg you!
WWE bring Lesnar back as a monster in the first RAW after last year's Wrestlemania but they ruined the momentum by making him "job" to John "Superman" Cena in Extreme Rules (even though Lesnar clearly dominated Cena all around the match). Realizing their mistake, they start to book him right and even elevate him with a clean win over Triple H at last year's Summerslam.
Before, I used to think that maybe WWE can still push Lesnar as a monster by making him beat Triple H for the second consecutive times and thus opening a chance for a third battle or another good storyline against another opponent. But when they put a stipulation that Triple H's career is on the line, the outcome become so predictable. A part-timer like Lesnar won't be the one who ends The Game's career, and with Shawn Michaels' involvement in this match, Lesnar's fate is sealed. Even though the result are obvious, I still expect this one to be a good fight.
Undertaker is most certainly at the end of his career. His body has been battered, bruised, operated on, and worn down to the point of no return. I really didn’t want him to come back this year. After last year's ultimate battle, I want him to retire undefeated. But here we are, he is back for his yearly visit to defend his streak against a man that has had one of the longest WWE title reigns in recent history.
I don't really like the storyline that involved Punk mocking the late Paul Bearer. If WWE want us to think that Punk really could threaten Taker's streak, they should make it more personal. With the right storyline, CM Punk COULD be the one that end Taker's streak but with this year's poor bookings that seems rushed and lack of preparation, I really couldn't expect unexpected result.
Taker will win somehow and the streak continues. The match wouldn't be so intense either due to Taker's bad condition. But I have a confidence that the both of them could work well to deliver the best they have to offer, even overshadow the main event match between Rock and Cena. It won’t be pretty, but it should be entertaining nonetheless. Match of the Year's candidate.
Rock becoming the WWE Champion and Cena winning the Royal Rumble, all was just a set-up for the rematch where Rock will "pass the torch" and "give back to the industry". He will lose to elevate Cena, the face of the company. John Crappy Cena will once again become a WWE Champion, the kids will go home happy...unlike last year...and WWE will got tons of money from new Cena's merchandise. Can you guess what is the next color for Cena's T-shirt?
Cena shock the WWE Universe by cheating to win and turn heel, adding some new layers to his "stale" character and write down the biggest and most controversial HEEL turn in WWE history that will be remembered for the generations to come while sealing the "Third Battle" between him and the enraged The Rock in the future where he will win again, this time cleanly, and seal his legacy as one of the greatest superstar of all time.
Thanks for reading this article. I'm sorry if I sounds bitter about this year's Wrestlemania. I just very disappointed with the way WWE book Wrestlemania 29. Anyway, even though the outcome is predictable, I still earnestly hope that this year's Wrestlemania will be still enjoyable to watch. I hope WWE still have one or two surprises up their sleeves and I would be more than glad if WWE can outsmart my prediction and treat us, their loyal fans, with unexpected plot twist. |
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So I finally, finally saw No Country For Old Men this weekend (I know, right?!) and thought it was a near flawless film. As I’ve mentioned before, Cormac McCarthy has been one of my favorite authors from the first time I read All The Pretty Horses in high school. I’ve been mesmerized by his austere, profound, unadorned writing ever since.
The Coen Brothers did something extremely rare by accurately capturing the mood and tone of the book in addition to just re-telling the story. If you’re even more behind than I am in this one, I won’t ruin the ending — but will say that it was one of the most perfect, piercing closing seconds to a film that I’ve seen in years.
This week is a busy one for me, holding 5 shows by my count. And I’ll be moving into a new place downtown in a few weeks. Wish me luck — heck, just wish that I survive. Here’s what I’ll be listening to amidst the madness:
This song is about death come too soon, but Gaslight Anthem‘s sound wraps up these themes of youth and death with a defiance that burns through in their music with resistant lines like “ain’t supposed to die on a Saturday night.” Some say that these New Jersey fellows evoke a contemporary America in a Born to Run way, loose and raw [via]. Their song “High Lonesome” pays subtle tribute to a fantastic line from Counting Crows’ first album, and I hear the urgency I love about Roger Clyne in the vocals as well. So yeah, they’ve got my attention. Gaslight Anthem is out on tour with Against Me, which I don’t know much about but now see that they have an exclamation mark in their name – Against Me! So that might be too much excitement for me and I’ll wait to check these guys out when they circle back through on the club circuit. What a show that would be — I’d predict catharsis and the purity of rock n roll.
New Mexico freakfolk collective Brightblack Morning Light is fun to read interviews with. Why? How about this gem: Singer Naybob Shineywater used to sing shows with an arrowhead in his mouth. Why? “To let his own sung words & breathe touch this stone before European ears could hear them.” Naybob says, “I was not singing for war, but to engage the spirit of the maker of the arrowhead itself, to offer up Peace, that his warrior effort find a new respect, and to help my own warrior spirit sing in Peace.” See? That’s crazy fun right there. But no seriously — if you’re not all hippy dippy you still absolutely can and should enjoy this extraordinary song off their new album Motion to Rejoin (out tomorrow on Matador Records). It’s incredible — all thickly woven with retro sounds that sound like they are coming through a steamy bathroom, down the hall, and through a layer of feathers to your head under the pillow on a Saturday morning.
The most recent Colorado show that Washington D.C.’s These United States played was a few weeks ago at a farm party for Labor Day out near Nimbus Road and Diagonal Highway in Niwot. I hear the two things that existed in some abundance were farmland and alcohol. This sounds like the kind of band that you could have a lot of fun with in those doses. After getting positive reviews all over the place from folks like NPR, KEXP and Morning Becomes Eclectic, These United States are releasing their sophomore album Crimes tomorrow on United Interests. There’s a rustic folk charm here with a feisty and jittery thread weaving through this that would make M Ward proud.
There’s a simple aura of palatable psychedelica that vibrates through this song from San Diego’s The Donkeys, along with a very basic rhyming scheme that reminds me in an odd way of “Girls” by the Beastie Boys. Don’t believe me? Listen to the “how/wow/cow” sequence and tell me it doesn’t echo “way/MCA/play/you may” bit. Or maybe it’s just me. It’s a unique blending of ’60s rock with modern day heroes, and I think they also might reveal a possible love of folks like Pavement. Living On The Other Side was out a few weeks ago on Dead Oceans (Bishop Allen, Bowerbirds).
Despite the heartfelt personal invitation from these endearing fellows who were passing out hand-drawn flyers on Saturday at Monolith to encourage people to get there early Sunday to hear their set, I failed. I wanted to, especially after listening to the ebullient pop of their album Live And Let Ghosts , and especially because they stand out from the indie crowd with that fun dash of Freddie Mercury vocal drama. Aquarium Drunkard rubs salt in the wound of my tardiness by writing that Jukebox The Ghost “set a high bar for the rest of the festival, cruising as they did through an infectious set of grandiose piano-driven pop — for a 1:00 crowd, it was a packed and energetic room.” They are on tour now across the country, ending in SF on October 18th.
Lovely blog you have here! I am also a big fan of the Gaslight Anthem. I can’t wait to see them on their fall tour with Alkaline Trio/Thrice/Rise Against.
Sorry to add salt to the wound since AD already rubbed it in, Jukebox The Ghost are excellent, big miss on your part. Try and catch them sometime if you can.
The Gaslight Anthem is easily my favorite band at the moment. I haven’t been able to shut up about them for a while now. I just wish they’d find the way to Madison for a nice intimate club show.
here’s a tacky gimmick that might prove interesting nevertheless. since there’s no soundtrack to no country for old men, what songs would be on the soundtrack you’d make?
Believe it or don’t, I was only peripherally aware of Cormac McCarthy until I read a profile after No Country was released as a film. Since then, though, I’ve read pretty much everything he’s written. Absolutely awesome stuff. I don’t know how I’ve missed out all these years. |
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Tiffany Haddish and Jay Hernandez hit James Corden‘s couch on last night’s (September 24) episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden and things got heated quick!
Host James asked Tiffany, 38, about her about playing a teacher in her new film Night School and questioned her about what kind of teacher she would be if given the chance.
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Season nine of Hawaii Five-0 premieres on September 28, and season one of Magnum P.I. premieres on September 24, on CBS.
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"This is an issue in which we all have to work together to come up with real solutions," State Sen. Vincent Hughes, D-Philadelphia, said Monday of lead paint in Philadelphia homes.
Four years ago, when her son was 2, her pediatrician told her the boy had high levels of lead in his blood.
He had often played at his grandmother's house in Strawberry Mansion, where 21 percent of children tested had lead poisoning, the highest of any area in the city.
He used the windowsill as a ledge where he would paint and color, Bullock (D., Phila.) said Monday. "That's where he likely got it."
Bullock and her colleagues argued Monday that more money and staff were necessary to combat the scourge of lead paint in old houses in Philadelphia and elsewhere in the state.
Several Philadelphia City Council members and community activists said the city must enforce existing laws to crack down on landlords who rent out properties with unsafe levels of lead and make tenants' children sick.
The demand by officials came in response to "Toxic City," an ongoing series in the Inquirer and Daily News and on Philly.com showing that Philadelphia children are newly poisoned by lead at a far higher rate than those in Flint, Mich., whose water system problems drew attention this year.
Last year, nearly 2,700 children tested in Philadelphia had blood lead levels of at least 5 micrograms per deciliter - the level the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has used since 2012 for public health officials to intervene.
But the city's Department of Public Health checked on the houses of only about 500 children, those with lead poisoning at a level of 10 micrograms and above.
Earlier this year, health workers began going door to door in Kensington to educate residents about lead hazards. Workers also recently visited homes of 46 children with lead levels of 5 to 9.9 to talk to parents about how their kids were doing.
Bullock said her son, who had a lead level of 5, was kept away from the windowsill until it was repaired. "I'm happy to say he's doing well, but I'm one of the fortunate ones," she said in an interview.
Other families are trapped, she said. "They don't have the money to go anywhere else. They don't have the resources to say to the landlord, 'Fix this or I'm leaving.' "
Medical experts say that no level of lead is safe for infants and children, and that lead poisoning can cause irreversible damage, including a lower IQ and lifelong learning and behavioral problems.
City health officials said their efforts to protect children from lead paint have been hampered over the last three years by losing $3 million in federal funding out of a $9 million program, leading to cuts of 40 of 65 positions in the Lead and Healthy Homes program.
Philadelphia created the nation's first Lead Court in 2002 to enforce laws requiring landlords and homeowners to rid their properties of lead perils. The city, however, brings only the most serious cases into Lead Court - 121 last year.
In 2012, the city enacted a law regulating homes built before 1978, the year of the federal ban on lead paint. Landlords renting to families with children age 6 and under must have their properties certified as lead-safe and provide proof to their tenants and to the Department of Public Health.
"We have to make sure that these laws are enforced, and that requires resources and it requires will," said Phil Lord, executive director of the Tenant Union Representative Network.
The Rev. Mark Tyler of Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church said he wants the same enthusiasm for protecting children that he sees from parking enforcement workers.
"We put a premium on ticketing cars in Philadelphia," he said. "If you don't pay, we put a boot on it and we take it. You want your car, you pay. If we can do that with automobiles, certainly we can do that with our children, our future."
George Gould, a lawyer for Community Legal Services, has battled lead paint contamination since the 1970s.
"We can have all the laws on the books but unless there are resources to hire inspectors to do the work that needs to be done, it doesn't get done," he said.
Avril Absolum, whose 9-year-old son, Jalen, was poisoned by lead in a rental home at age 2, said Monday she was "overcome with emotion" after hearing that lawmakers were moved to act from reading her story and those of other families in the Inquirer and Daily News report.
As a toddler, her son had a blood lead level of 29 after he chewed on windowsills covered in lead paint. She said he did not really talk until age 5, and struggles to read and write.
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Dave Spaulding spent over 36 years in law enforcement, with many of those years as an instructor. Here he demonstrates his “Check 360,” where you turn completely around after a drill to scan for threats.
Dave was a founding member of his agency’s SWAT team, and he spent 12 years as its training officer.
During the ACP course, assistant instructor Jonathan Willis demonstrated that there are still instructors out there who work just as hard as their students to keep their defensive skillsets current and up to date.
Dave does an excellent job of giving each student appropriate feedback that is neither dumbed down nor excessively harsh.
Upon returning from the Advanced Combative Pistol class, I dropped into bed that Sunday night with a mental exhaustion that was only partially due to the 6.5-hour drive back home from Dayton, Ohio. As I crawled wearily under the sheets, my wife asked, “Why did you drive so far to go to this class?”
I stared at the ceiling fan for a bit, took a deep breath and said, “Because last year at this time, I was photographing Ken Hackathorn’s classes when he said that he was pretty much done with the training circuit.”
The realization that I’d squandered many years’ worth of opportunities where I could’ve come out to train with a giant in the industry was beyond words. I was there for Ken’s last two classes but came out only as a photographer/videographer. I made the choice to leave my weapons in the truck because I needed to focus on capturing media. I deeply regret that choice.
With that salient event in the forefront of my mind, I told my wife that I didn’t want another instructor, Dave Spaulding, to retire without gaining as much knowledge as I could from him.
Dave is a guy who’s steeped in pistolcraft at a level that far exceeds what one normally finds in today’s instructors. He’s unabashed about telling you that he focuses almost all of his time to pistolcraft. Lately, I’ve spent considerable time working on his drills, and while he makes them look easy, don’t be fooled—they’re anything but that. To call the man “brilliant” is correct. But based on what I’ve gleaned from him the few times we’ve communicated, I can say that Dave Spaulding would prefer to be referred to as “focused.”
As mentioned, I recently attended Dave Spaulding’s Advanced Combative Pistol (ACP) course. Seeing as how I’d been working on Dave’s drills, I had a fair idea of what I was getting myself into. I knew that “humble pie” was on the menu for this two-day, 600-round class.
I made the switch to a pistol-centric training regimen a while back and haven’t regretted it. Out of the almost 40 classes I’ve attended over the years, 25 have been primarily focused on carbines and only five have been pistol-centric. The others have been a combination of the two. Why? Probably because everyone knows that pistol training is difficult. To focus your business model around only pistol work is a gutsy move, and Dave Spaulding has pulled it off well. I personally believe that his business model is more about sharing his knowledge than filling class slots. His temperament also speaks to this.
I’ve had a lot of training and have endured some serious jerks in my time. I’ve had instructors give “instruction” that comes across like a kick in the face because they’re terrible at communicating. Dave Spaulding has the panache to be able to tell you bad news and have it come across in a palatable manner because he’s not being an ass about it. Case in point: ACP is a highly technical and very physically demanding course. At the time of the class, I was nursing a knee injury and was slow on my traverse times on Dave’s “15 to the Third” drill. My shot placement was good, but my movement was lacking, and Dave was very matter-of-fact about telling me so.
This is a course that pits you against your own competence. I train a lot on my home range and am a fairly competent shooter. But even with that under my belt, I really felt overwhelmed at times with this course. Part of this is because ACP demands precision out of every shooter, and “precision” and “pistol” are two words that just don’t fit well together. Any faults you have in technique will be exposed, and the ACP course showed me that my trigger pull was truly lacking in consistency.
Dave teaches that the sympathetic contraction of the fingers is led by the index finger. You pull the trigger and the other three fingers (the thumb and index are actually considered to be one finger) tend to want to come along for the ride. The ACP course will accentuate that fault because a lot of your time is spent shooting at very small targets. The two paper targets Dave used in this class were a 3-by-5-inch card and a larger 6-by-10-inch one that pictorially represents the heart and the surrounding bones and vasculature.
Dave started the class with a concise PowerPoint that set us up with a lot of knowledge to build on. His assistant instructor for this course was Jonathan Willis, an EMT and firearms instructor representative of the kinds of professionals I’ve had the privilege to train with over the years. The guy is no slouch, and he, just like Dave, ran all of the drills with us. Both men did an exemplary job of giving concise instruction and praise where needed. This was welcome because ACP is run on a tight timeline, and you will often feel out of balance as you struggle to make the times around which the drills are set up.
Which reminds me: Everything you do in the ACP course is under a strict time constraint. You have just enough time to get it done. Why? Because Dave has honed his drills down to the barest of margins to make you work for it. The only other way to get you to really work at precision is to shoot at you, and that wears you out. No I don’t mean live rounds. Force-on-force training is excellent, but you can’t get a lot of repetitions in because the pain wipes you out and pushes you out of the mental state that you have to be in to learn.
Dave got us rolling on skill drills right away. He stresses movement and constantly checking your surroundings. His trademark “Check 360” is one of the maneuvers that’s covered under the subheading of “movement with purpose.” Check 360 is a maneuver where the student completely turns around after completing the drill at hand. In other words, as soon as you’ve dropped the bad guy and are reasonably certain that he’s not a pressing threat, you step slightly towards him and efficiently turn around and face the area that was previously at your back. This is done while simultaneously indexing the pistol in a slightly downwards position and tucking it tightly against your rib cage. At the same time, you bring up your support hand in a defensive posture as if you fully expect someone to be coming up behind you in an attack.
This maneuver is controversial to most instructors to such a degree that I’ve never been taught it either as a law enforcement officer or in all my years of training. Seeing as how this was an advanced class, everyone performed the Check 360 with decent efficiency with little follow-up instruction necessary. There were a few instances where Dave had to direct guys to perform the technique with focus and not turn it into a “range dance,” where students rapidly whip their heads back and forth, which is basically worthless. In various instances, Dave would hold various objects in his hands to see if any of us where spotting them. Nope! Truly checking your surroundings is a difficult thing to do, and it takes true focus at the end of a very chaotic event.
Dave heavily stresses that you’re not just looking for movement, faces, hands, gestures or even weapons. You need to look at all of it before you act. For example, if you’ve just shot someone in defense of your life, you have to know that someone else heard the shot and will respond with a weapon. It could be a good guy or a bad one. You turn around, Check 360, and suddenly another guy is coming at you, you see a pistol in his hand, not particularly pointed at you, but he’s moving towards you. Do you just shoot him, too? Or do you take a moment to look—and yikes! You notice that he’s wearing a uniform and a badge. Assuming that you will see everything, and will be seen by the good guys as a “good guy,” is a huge assumption that can end in disaster. Dave teaches you to be a thinker first and to move with a purpose.
The ACP course is definitely a must-do class that you can take several times and still learn something new. Dave has the ability to give you the same information from several different angles and make you keep coming back for more.
I would highly urge you to check out Dave Spaulding’s website as well as his YouTube channel. With both you will find myriad information that will guide you in your efforts to first understand what you don’t know and then get better at what you do.
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Moreover, the possession of a large quantity of marijuana, measuring equipment, and other drug paraphernalia may constitute intent to distribute in a charge for possession of marijuana with intent to sell. There is also a presumption of the intent to sell when the defendant possesses at least 25 marijuana plants.
Section 381.986 allows qualified doctors to order medical marijuana (cannabis) for patients with certain conditions. There are two types of cannabis products permitted by law:
This type has low levels of the psychoactive ingredient and does not usually produce the same high ordinarily associated with marijuana
Can have a significant level of THC which can lead to a high that is commonly associated with cannabis
Only qualified doctors who have completed the prescribed physician education and training can order medical marijuana. It is a misdemeanor for a doctor to order medical marijuana when he or she does not have a reasonable belief of the cancer, medical condition causing chronic seizures or muscle spasms, or the terminal illness of the patient.
It is also a misdemeanor for anyone to misrepresent having cancer, a medical condition that produces chronic seizures or severe and persistent muscle spasms or that he has a terminal condition, for purposes of illegally obtaining medical marijuana. Even with authorized use, the law prohibits using medical marijuana or administering it in plain view or while in a public place.
Florida Statutes classifies drugs and illegal substances according to their potential for abuse and dependency and accepted medical use. The drug groupings are found in Schedules 1 to 5 of Florida Statutes Section 893.01.
Schedule 2 drugs have a high potential for abuse and have severely restricted medical use in treatment in the US. They include:
Possession of at least 4 grams of Schedule 2 drugs is a second degree felony that may be punished with imprisonment of up to 5 years and a fine of up to $5,000. Trafficking of any of the Schedule 2 substances further carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 3 years and $50,000 fine. Drug offenses are also punished by suspension of your driving license.
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Mid-Scotland and Fife MSP, Murdo Fraser and Blairgowrie and Glens Councillors Caroline Shiers and Bob Brawn have raised concerns over the use of the A924 road to divert southbound traffic when the A9 is closed.
A number of recent A9 closures have resulted in the A924 between Pitlochry and Blairgowrie being used to divert motorists and heavy goods vehicles.
Following closure on the 25th of August, vehicles were diverted through the A924 but congestion resulted in visitors to the Strathardle Highland Gathering being delayed.
Murdo is calling on Police Scotland to hear local concerns over this issue whilst also considering restricting the route to smaller vehicles, not HGVs and coaches, during A9 closures.
“The A924 is a small, narrow road that is unsuitable for the type of traffic that used it last weekend.
“A9 road closures are often unforeseen but it is important for the Police to be aware of possible public safety issues associated with using the A924 as a diversion.
“Unfortunately, traffic last weekend resulted in gridlock on the A924 with visitors to the nearby Strathardle Highland Games being held up in travelling to the event.
“What we want is Police Scotland to take a serious look at this issue with a view to putting forward sensible traffic management plans when the A924 is used to divert southbound traffic on the A9.”
"This is not the first time this issue has been raised. I would like to thank those along the A924 who helped motorists on Saturday by providing access to toilets, advice on journey times and especially the Strathardle Games volunteers who I hear coped well in directing the traffic through Kirkmichael.
“I would welcome discussions with Police Scotland regarding how traffic rerouting through Strathardle is managed. The route is very narrow in parts, so if there are coaches or HGVs rerouted this causes inevitable problems where they meet on narrow sections - we need to have a plan for this.”
“Last Saturday an accident on the A9 resulted in traffic being diverted on to the A924, resulting in cars, lorries and coaches being forced to navigate this narrow road through Kirkmichael which by chance was hosting the annual Strathardle Gathering. Consequently, the village became gridlocked and it was only by the intervention of some local residents that traffic kept moving.
“This diversion is regularly used by police whenever there is an accident on the A9 and should be for cars only. Given that they would have been alerted to the Gathering, this situation should never have been allowed to happen.”
Camera IconHBF boss John Van Der Wielen has previously said the insurer would need to get bigger if it is to compete with its better-funded rivals.Picture: The West Australian
The combination of the not-for-profit insurers would create a more powerful third force behind BUPA and Medibank Private with $4.3 billion in revenue and more than two million members.
However, market sources confirmed the group and HCF had been talking for some time, adding the discussions were well advanced.
HBF is cash rich with $1.7 billion in assets, supported by $1.6 billion in annual premium revenue from its health and general insurance businesses.
The merger talks come as private health insurers confront several major challenges led by rising health costs and declining memberships.
Since joining HBF in March, chief executive John Van Der Wielen has made it clear the group needs to get bigger if it is to compete with its better-funded rivals and stem the growth in premium costs which is forcing members to reduce or quit their health coverage.
6:16 a.m. Traffic accident with damage in the area of W. 850 S. / S. US Route 31, Bunker Hill. Car-Deer Crash. This call was handled by the Indiana State Police.
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8:53 a.m. Traffic accident with damage in the area of W. State Road 18 / S. US Route 31, Kokomo. No additional information was provided on this call.
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After doing a fair bit of breed research to find a match for her lifestyle and personality, it became pretty clear to Krystal that a pug would make a perfect pooch match. And, for her, adoption was the only option.
"A friend made it her mission to play pet matchmaker, and would regularly send me links to the PetRescue pages," Krystal recalled. "When she sent me the link to Gizmo's profile, he just looked so cuddly, with the cutest pleading expression. I was in love!"
He was listed with Pug Rescue, and after a phone interview, house inspection and a few meet and greet sessions with her chosen boy, Gizmo was able to go to his new home just in time for Christmas.
“With some gentle encouragement, I managed to heal some of his anxieties. But when a vet advised medicating Gizmo to calm him, I was keen to find out what our alternatives were and, to my surprise, the vet suggested a younger, placid, female pug would be the perfect tonic,” said Krystal.
“As luck would have it, Jo at Pug Rescue had a younger, female pug with a beautiful, docile temperament in need of a new home and so I got to meet Marli,” Krystal smiled. “All she wanted to do was love and be loved. She had an adorable personality, but it was with trepidation that I introduced Gizmo to Marli. I was unsure how he would react.”
It wasn’t love at first sight. For almost two weeks Gizmo solidly ignored Marli, even snapping at her if she got too close. Marli, however, would never give up.
“She would try and snuggle up to him, sneaking an inch at a time, while he steadfastly ignored her,” Krystal recalled. “She followed him around the house, stared at him lovingly, and bravely tried to share his food bowl.”
To help Marli’s quest, Krystal persevered, hoping that eventually Gizmo would warm to Marli and let his guard down. Then one day, after almost three weeks, Krystal heard a growling noise coming from the lounge room and crept in to see what was going on.
“They were playing!” exclaimed Krystal. “Gizmo was chasing Marli, and when he caught her she would lie on her back and wrestle with him. I’d never seen Gizmo behave like this with other dogs before. Was this our breakthrough?”
Indeed it was. From here, it was onwards and upwards. Gizmo became more relaxed around strangers and other dogs, and when Marli barked, Gizmo barked – a problem that Krystal felt blessed to have after over two years of silence.
“Now, nearly six months later, I’m so happy I chose to adopt again,” said Krystal. “Not only have I had the opportunity to give a home to two surrendered Pugs, I can genuinely say that they have improved the quality of my life and each other’s.”
You can help us keep saving pets too, by making a donation to our rehoming programs. It costs just $10 to match one of our rescue pets with their new family.
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Gotta say this is a comprehensive victory for City’s new away kit. Very classy, especially the grandad collar. United’s, however, looks exactly like what it is: an unimaginative Nike template. Yawn.
One looks like old miner pajamas, the other like retro Star Trek uniforms. This is easily the worst year for kits in the history of the sport. Still waiting for an Aston Villa third kit with a hood and nipple holes.
City’s kit looks class. Get Robinho, Adeybayor & Tevez in this, they’re going to terrorize anyones defence in the Premier League.
Hate to admit it but City’s looks much better. Apart from that ridiculous eagle or cormorant or dodo or whatever it is…
when did that guy say he was a United fan? If he watched football, especially United, he would know who Evans is.
Bluesky, you’re living in the clouds mate. Class terrorizes and not the millions. City are a small club just the same.
i agree the kits for all the teams are terrible this year. arsenal’s away kit looks like a college uniform, their third kit is ok, their home kit needs the white sleeves back and fast. west ham’s shiny r-tard creations are terrible. manure’s V looks ridiculous. cska london’s kit has breastplates and a zipper no more needs to be said. spuds kits look like they made changes just for change sake. the scousers seem to be the only team who’s kits aren’t objectionable in some way. but fuck the kits its not how you look but how you play
What a shame that our town and city centre’s will be full of gloryhunting idiots wandering around in that vile Man U shirt this year. It look’s horrible and the people who buy it don’t know a thing about football and have no connection to Manchester.
That happens to be one of the most promising centre backs there has been for a while. Future Northern Ireland Captain too.
Oh dear – Nike use a cast off kit design from 2006 to come up with the Rags strip while Umbro make a custom, tailored kit similar to the effort they put into the England strip… one very clear winner!
Hate to admit it but City’s looks much better. Our kit makes them look like a bunch of gypsies, which will look even worse with all the shiny metal they’ll collect by the end of the season.
I’m more concerned about what’s in the kit than what’s on it, and United win hands down. At the end of the day, they are both just black t-shirts with a bit of colour so who cares. Also, bluejohn you claim to watch football yet don’t know who Johnny Evans is even though he played in half of United’s games last season – you clearly do not watch a lot of football, United fan or not.
This is for the nob near the top… the eagle was featured on one of the early crests of Manchester… This being where our club is from… do you get the link – you clown.
Seems to be happening more and more, city seem to be getting up yoonited’s noses a bit more than usual, you rags are GUTTED that we pose a threat, but instead of all this bickering lets cut the shit and all have a massive fight in picadilly gardens (nice and close to the train station for all you cockney contingents that will no doubt represent 80% of your attending fans)
small time club, small time kit, small time players, and the millions will be around for a small time, you will be down within 3 years!
paul calf, i think you’ll find a higher % of mancs support united…. and as for the fight? we’ll see who’s won the ‘fight’ in may…
Love how this has turned in to a war of who’s going to win what, rather than the subject of the article. And who brought up the argument of who won what? A United fan.
City kit wins hands down, clean, classy, would prefer the old team badge, but what are ye going to do?
United’s whole arrangement of kits looks pretty naff this years, shame as last years was fairly nice. I like the Blue on this kit and their keeper kit, it reminds me of city’s Kappa laser blue era.
That “ridiculous dodo” is called Manchester Eagle and symbols Manchester’s connection with ancient Rome. It’s complimentary to Manchester Coat of Arms.
Love the City kit, dont’ think much of the United one, but as I would never buy that, it doesn’t matter to me.
I didn’t know who that United player was either. I don’t watch United or have that much interest in them. I just watch City.
A higher percentage of Mancs support United? Not sure where you are getting your facts from but they are clearly wrong!
Small club? Starting to sound like old corned beef features himself, that daft jock who’s in charge!
at least we know whos in charge! an ex united legend is currently taking orders from above at citeh!
I’ve lost count: how many more years to wait to be able to put another of those stars on the badge, 7?
a large portion of stockport is actualy in greater manchester (the part north of the river mersey) as is salford 10/10 for geography pal
I think United’s looks nice and simple, and unlike most kits this year isn’t massively retro despite what Nike may have been saying about that V shape. Not too keen on the collar of the other one, but pretty solid otherwise.
Off the topic of the article and onto the topic of the flamewar in the comments, it’s amazing how overconfidently Man City fans are acting. So some new players have come in this summer, and they’ll likely get better results than last year, but that’s not saying much. If this kind of investment had gone into Everton or Villa the top four would be as concerned as some people here are hoping they already are. At the moment, there’s potential, but there was last year with Elano, Ireland, Jo and Robinho. That team didn’t even make it to Europe, and the current one can’t beat some fairly mediocre pre-season opponents.
Come on give city a break. they wil do better this year. (i hope!) mite win the league but they wil shake things up a bit. wish them all the best. CITY! LOL.
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Those in quest of new species tend to be a bit maniacal. Myself included. I was once part of a group of birders who kept discovering birds in wrong places and had a hard time convincing others that we were not on drugs. We even united for a few months into the Society of Maniacal Naturalists. And, as many of the stories that follow amply illustrate, the quest to perceive species (the Latin root of "species" means "to observe, sight, espy, watch, look") is an occupation of perseverance, irreverence, and exceptional abilities at scouting, dragnetting, beating the bushes, leaving no stone unturned, memorizing untold songs and wing whirrs, and, more recently, probing with DNA wands, dredging the deepest seas, videotaping jaguars and giant squids, and fogging the rainforest with organic insecticides in order to receive a blessing of beetles. Some naturalists like E.O. Wilson would claim that this personality is largely a gift of birth, though many, deprived of the opportunity as youths, later discover its joys. I always wonder how I went from the streets of Brooklyn to the temperate fjord forests of Chile in quest of a rumored shrew.
One lovely aspect of discovery is that the required human talents defy rankings, formal education, and professions. This next section will tell a few discoverer tales: of tour guide Ted Parker, a man who held 4,000 bird songs in his head; of novelist Vladimir Nabokov's contribution to butterfly naturalist history; of parataxonomists changing from their lives as farmers to become sharp-eyed field collectors; of painter Audubon's tricks on the true maniac, Rafinesque. Add to these every sort of "amateur" and "professional" naturalist, as well as the academic specialist (Miriam Rothschild and her love of fleas; E.O. Wilson on ants) and you cook up quite a wonderful dialog, tinged with competition, possessiveness, ego and cross-checking, but fundamentally honoring the pursuit of mysteries in life.
Let's not romanticize. The quest for species began in earnest with conquest. To be powerful was to have more knowledge than anyone else of the living world. Specimens were sent dead and alive back to the "mother" country. Many naturalists earned their livelihoods finding profitable "exotics"?plants and pets that Europeans had never seen. Today, most of the 2.5 billion specimens in collections worldwide are in North America and Europe. When we consider an all species inventory, this history comes back to haunt us. Nations that will be most open to surveys will be nations that can forgive the conquerors. Naturalists and other scientists who will be most successful will be those who admit the stark past and help rectify the wrongs. They can, for instance, find funding to digitize all the specimens of former colonial nations so that the nations-of-origin have access to this knowledge. They can assure that duplicates are placed in national herbaria or museums, and help find funding for nations to build their own natural history infrastructures. If done right, the twenty-first century collector will also be a diplomat and a source of healing. This doesn't stop the fun. It just adds humanity to the mania.
And the twenty-first century will have new and more focused naturalists. There have been too few explorers for the kingdoms and orders that remain the most undescribed. We need a fervor for nematodes and mites; micro-algae and fungi (especially the fungi associated with insects); terrestrial arthropods; bacteria that have not been and can't be cultured. If there is but one species of parasitic nematode, protozoan, bacterium, or virus for each multicelled creature on Earth, then the species list will skyrocket beyond the current estimate of 30 million. If the guts of creatures from bioluminescent squid to termites, from cows to us, truly each have a necessary and intimate symbiont?bacteria to help us digest, fungi to help plants ingest minerals, protoctists to transform wood into termite food?then the species count could zoom toward 100 million. So we start with Lynn Margulis and the need to inventory the microcosmos.
As we finished this issue, I had lunch with Sarah Weigel, who was helping the All Species Foundation. Her job was characterizing DNA in a lab, but she yearned to study treehoppers outdoors. I thought: If this issue can find one lover of treehoppers a place in the world to pursue that passion, it will have done enough.
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Maybe I should set a goal of meeting 3 or more people during the next 2 days. I am here with a colleague; but, I see people who are obviously traveling solo. Would they like it if they were invited to dinner? Or if I sidled up to them and talked techie shop? I’m always curious about these opportunities for human interaction that come so easy to some and are so difficult for others. I imagine that there are folks that come to these conferences alone and never really interact with any strangers. Isn’t part of the purpose of these conferences networking with our peers.
I have never really been a good networker and I wonder how my career has been effected by this weakness.
Since I have been out of the library field for 3 years while I recovered from a scooter accident, and I am recently returned; I have really been evaluating my career trajectory. What parts of librarianship are important to me? What parts of being a librarian offer me the most fun and flexibility? What is my niche? I’m a techie but not devoted. I’m more of a curious and practical geek: is it cool? How will it make my life easier? How will our customers use it? How can we use it to reach customers? That pretty much sums up my filter. So, where do I fit now?
I know that my love of librarianship has a lot do with serving the public. Just the existence of this blog will give a clue as to the direction of my interests. Before my accident, a friend and I were conspiring about how I could find a job that I loved. I was working part time at a large library system and was bored and rarely challenged. I remember so clearly what I said: I need to feel challenged. I need responsibility. I need opportunity to spread joy.
I have friends who don’t use their public libraries because they claim that the librarians and/or circulation staff are unpleasant, mean people. I find this hard to believe; but, then they relay stories to me about incidents they experienced or witnessed. It is these discussions that prompted me to think: for some people are we as painful as the DMV? are we as unpleasant an experience as the Post Office can sometimes be? What are we doing wrong that members of the reading public don’t want to go to the library?
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In India, the republican institutions were strong in the 6th century B.C.This enabled rise of heterodox sects against the orthodox religion dominated by rites and rituals
primary cause for the rise of Jainism and Buddhism was the religious unrest in India in the 6th century B.C
teachings of Upanishads, an alternative to the system of sacrifices, were highly philosophical in nature andtherefore not easily understood by all
larger interests of the people was a simple, short and intelligible way to salvation for all people.
As a result, they wanted to enhance their social status but the orthodox Varna system did not allow this.
Therefore, they began to extend support to Buddhism and Jainism. It was this merchant class that extended the chief support to these new religions
right knowledge –acceptance of the theory that there is no God and that the world has been existing without a creator and that all objects possess a soul
Mahavira regarded all objects, both animate and inanimate, have souls and various degrees of consciousness
doctrine of asceticism and renunciation was also carried to extreme lengths by the practice of starvation, nudity and other forms of self-torture.
spread rapidly in Western India and Karnataka. Chandragupta Maurya, Kharavela of Kalinga and the royal dynasties of south India such as the Gangas, the Kadambas, the Chalukyas and the Rashtrakutas patronized Jainism
there was a serious famine in the Ganges valley. Many Jain monks led by Bhadrabagu and Chandragupta Maurya came to Sravana Belgola in Karnataka. Those who stayed back in north India were led by a monk named Sthulabahu who changed the code of conduct for the monks. This led to the division of Jainism into two sects Svetambaras (whiteclad) and Digambaras (Sky-clad or Naked)
first Jain Council was convened at Pataliputra by Sthulabahu, the leader of the Digambaras, in the beginning of the 3rd century B.C
Gautama or Siddhartha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in 567 B.C. in Lumbini Garden near Kapilavastu. His father was Suddodhana of the Sakya clan and mother Mayadevi. As his mother died at child birth, he was brought up by his aunt Prajapati Gautami.
bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya and did intense penance, after which he got Enlightenment (Nirvana) at the age of thirty five.
most important disciples of Buddha were Sariputta, Moggallanna, Ananda, Kassapa and Upali. Kings like Prasenajit of Kosala and Bimbisara and Ajatasatru of Magadha accepted his doctrines and became his disciples. Buddha in his lifetime spread his message far and wide in north India and visited places like Benares, Rajagriha, Sravasti, Vaisali, Nalanda and Pataligrama
should be noted that he did not involve himself in fruitless controversies regarding metaphysical questions like god, soul, karma, rebirth, etc., and concerned himself with the practical problems confronting man.
Though he did not make a direct attack on the caste system, he was against any social distinctions and threw open his order to all.
first Buddhist Council was held at Rajagraha under the chairmanship of Mahakasapa immediately after the death of Buddha
third Buddhist Council was held at Pataliputra under the patronage of Asoka. Moggaliputta Tissa presided over i
fourth Buddhist Council was convened in Kashmir by Kanishka under the chairmanship of Vasumitra. Asvagosha participated in this council.
After the birth of Mahayana Buddhism, the practice of idol worship and making offerings led to the deterioration of moral standards
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Porcupine Tree's debut On the Sunday of Life was recorded solo by Steven Wilson and originally released as a double LP in 1992. More playful and lo-fi by current Porcupine Tree standards, this is an album of future possibilities including everything from psychedelic pop to ambient interludes. The seeds of the future Porcupine Tree sound are also in evidence on tracks such as "It Will Rain for a Million Years" and the classic "Radioactive Toy." Kscope is pleased to reissue Porcupine Tree's auspicious debut on 180g vinyl newly remastered by band mastermind Steven Wilson.
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Browse our 3 arrangements of "It Will Be Worth It All." Sheet music is available for Piano, Voice, Guitar and 2 others with 5 scorings in 4 genres. Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere.
Lyrics begin: "There's a promised land made for all the free, when our race on earth is run, where no broken dreams will mar our memory."
I'm known from Peking to Hong Kong, from the West Coast to the Pecos, (Hikin' cars is my game.) in an automobile (I used to be Hell on wheels.) that's what earned me my name.
NAMM 2016: From being the exclusive preserve of boutique manufacturers just a few years ago, new hardware synths have come to dominate the hi-tech landscape at the Winter NAMM Show, with all manner of manufacturers scrambling to take advantage of their renewed popularity.
Last week's show gave us the new instruments we were expecting, plus a few others that seemed to come out of nowhere. The good news is that, however much money you have to spend and whether you're seeking portability or maximum power, there's going to be a new synth that'll tickle your fancy this year.
We'll deal with modular offerings elsewhere, but here are the most promising-looking self-contained synths we encountered at NAMM 2016.
If you were looking for a synth with the wow factor at NAMM 2016, the MatrixBrute was most certainly it.
There's nothing outrageous about its analogue architecture, but the pad-based 16x16 modulation matrix is another thing entirely (this can also be used as a step sequencer).
Who knows at this stage if this thing will turn out to be a hit or a glorious act of folly, but it's certainly got people talking.
Once friendly rivals, now collaborators, Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim's was the romantic synth story of the show.
The 6-voice OB-6 shares some features with DSI's Prophet-6, but the two designers have come up with an analogue synth that promises the tone of Oberheim's classic SEM in an instrument that offers stability and plenty of contemporary features, too.
We wondered if Yamaha might release an all-new DX synth at NAMM, but as it turned out, it was Korg that unveiled an instrument in the vein of the company's classic FM synths.
It looks like a cracker, too: coming in the familiar Volca form factor, this FM instrument sounds and looks the part, while offering some intuitive performance features. Its announcement came as a pretty big surprise, but what a pleasant one it is.
While retro-inspired synths continue to capture the imaginations of many musicians, Yamaha is looking forward with its latest all-rounder, which builds on the success of the Motif range.
That's not to say that there are no nods to the past, though: the Montage's sounds are generated by a combination of AWM2, Yamaha's tried and tested waveform-based subtractive synth engine, and FM-X, which can be considered to be a next-gen version of FM.
We're very much on a retro tip here: The PO-20 arcade has a chiptune vibe, the PO-24 office is a noise percussion drum machine, and the PO-28 robot features 8-bit synth engines for creating melodies and lead lines.
Don't expect sonic sophistication, then, but once again, we expect the POs to offer a whole lot of fun for not very much money.
OK, we all knew you how good this one was before we even stepped on the plane to Anaheim, but it still qualifies as a star of the show.
It's a 4-voice analogue polysynth that sounds great, feels great and comes at a cracking price. And that, we'd say, is a winning combination.
Is this a synth? Well, yeah, but the ARQ is also a drum machine, sequencer, looper and MIDI controller.
Defying convention, the device comprises a Base Station (which generates the sounds) and removable Bluetooth Ring Controller.
Whether or not this makes for a winning combination remains to be seen, but Zoom has got our attention.
A new retro-looking electronic instrument that does audio and video synthesis but doesn't have a display? That's the kind of product that could only come from Teenage Engineering.
Also known as 'the little monster', the OP-Z is a 16-track multitimbral synth that offers fully sequencable parameter locks, step sequencing and per-step modifiers. Oh, and it supports Bluetooth MIDI as well.
Drums of this build and expected longevity are costly but, you can be assured, nobody else will have a set like this one - and it will last you a lifetime.
Alan van Kleef is master craftsman, metal engineer, sound engineer, designer, session drummer and the proprietor of VK drums.
His bespoke drum company (formed only two years ago), is based in the industrial city of Sheffield. Where better situated than in a city renowned for its stainless steel? After moving to Sheffield, he says,
"I found myself in the perfect place to do the stainless steel things I'm doing with drums. I've always loved tinkering with drums and taking things apart to see how it all works, and being a drummer too."
Up for review is a VK Drums four-piece stainless steel shell-pack and a titanium snare drum. VK Drums can also supply a variety of shells including plywood, solid wood staved, carbon fibre, or various metals including stainless steel, titanium, bell bronze.
This set-up comprises a 13"x9" suspended tom, two floor toms of 16"x16" and 18"x16", a 24"x14" bass drum and 14"x41⁄2" snare. While the hoops of the toms and snare are each made from triple-flanged steel, the bass drum has a 5mm-thick brushed aluminium rim which, according to Mr Van Kleef is "designed to cut down on the weight".
The toms and bass drum are formed from 1.5mm-thick sheets of stainless steel which are rolled, welded and the resultant weld seam smoothly polished out. The snare drum is constructed from 1mm-thick grade 1 (aircraft grade) titanium that undergoes a similar hand-manufacturing process.
This drum is fitted with the superb VK own-designed throw-off which has a front-release flap and adjuster. The simple but ingenious lever is designed to lock into position by the tension from the strainer wires. All of the drums are fully customisable with fine user detailing - for example, the lever can be etched with a band logo or your own initials.
Each drum features solid hand-polished stainless steel lugs which have a single-point bolt. With the exception of the laser-cut components (made from Alan's engineering drawings), the bass drum spurs and the triple-flanged hoops, every last piece of the kit is engineered and hand-assembled by VK Drums.
The shells of the review drums are fitted with an XLR socket - unfortunately for review, there are no mics mounted in the review set so we can't hear how these beauties sound through a beefy PA.
However, VK offers a KAM R1 mic together with an XLR socket fitted for only £50 per drum which seems great value for an internal mic system. There are plenty of design elements worth a mention including bass drum rim attachment, VKey drum, VK snare throw-off and those hand-polished round mini-lugs.
Though this 24" chunky kick is incredibly heavy, it's not so weighty that it's impossible to lift - though we must admit, we don't really think the aluminium hoops have made much of a difference.
"Both floor toms are ballsy enough to crack walls while the bass drum could destroy whole buildings"
We can see from the wear on the drum head the drum has been used with a double pedal and that is exactly what we are going to use - this beasty warrants it! The heads are quite tightly tensioned so we would have expected a good bounce, but the power and depth that is pouring from the drum is a complete surprise.
Of course, both the toms and kick have an expected underlying metallic essence which is loud and open - the sound reminding us of a stainless steel Ludwig kit a friend owned a few years ago.
Fortunately the EMAD dampening on the kick helps the drum recover quickly from my double-pedal onslaught and a slice of Moongel on the toms sees them slightly restrained but not in the least bit stifled.
Each drum is extreme and gutsy which, we are told, projects like crazy. Both floor toms are ballsy enough to crack walls while the bass drum could destroy whole buildings - shaking everything in its wake.
Due to the fairly shallow depth of this snare drum and Puresound snare wires, it only requires the slightest tickle before the opposing snare head shows its sympathetic response.
Seamless buzz rolls are readily available - virtually by just laying the stick tips on the tightly-tuned head. A few strikes followed by some delicate but impressive ghost notes are smugly satisfying. So too is the immense power available as laying into the drum rapidly cranks up those dBs with its incredibly powerful metallic drum sound - not a kit to be used near a sound limiter! |
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The goal of this lab assignment is to extend the LC-3b simulator you wrote in Lab 3 to handle virtual memory. You will augment the existing LC-3b microarchitecture with facilities for virtual to physical address translation. You will also provide microarchitectural support for page fault exceptions and change the protection exception from lab #3 to be based on access mode in the PTE.
In Lab 4, the address space of the LC-3b is divided into pages of 512 locations. The LC-3b virtual address space has 128 pages, while physical memory has 32 frames. Virtual pages 0-23, which are reserved for the operating system, will be mapped to frames 0-23 and will always be resident in physical memory. Frames 24-31 are available for swapping virtual pages of user programs. There are two modes of operation: supervisor and user. Virtual pages 0-23 cannot be accessed unless the LC-3b is in supervisor mode. Since user programs operate in user mode, they cannot access those pages. Thus the user virtual memory space is 104 pages (pages 24-127).
A file holding an LC-3b program that gets loaded into virtual page 9 (x1200). This will be the interrupt service routine.
The simulator will start executing the LC-3b program loaded in page 24. The timer interrupt from lab #3 will occur only once, at cycle 300. The interrupt handler will be modified to clear the reference bits of all page table entries. If the page accessed by a user program is not valid (not in physical memory), then a page fault exception will occur. If the user program accesses a page that can only be accessed in supervisor mode, a protection exception will occur. You are supposed to provide microarchitectural support for detecting and handling these exceptions. The exception service routine you will write should simply halt the machine.
This shell code has the capability of loading the page table into memory. You will need to copy and paste the code you wrote for Lab #3 into this new shell code.
The first parameter is the microcode file as before. The second parameter is the page table in LC-3b machine language. Note that since the page table is in physical memory, the first line of this file should have a physical address. For all the program files, (including the interrupt & exception handlers) which are in virtual memory, the first line should have a virtual address.
The page table should be placed at the beginning of frame 8 of physical memory. A page table entry (PTE) contains only 9 bits of information, but for convenience, it is represented in a full 16 bit word. Thus one page table entry occupies two memory locations. The format of each page table entry is as follows:
During the execution of instructions, your microcode will have to convert virtual addresses to physical addresses, as well as modify PTE's when necessary. To make address translation possible, we have added more structures to the datapath. We have added these registers: Page Table Base Register (PTBR) and Virtual Address Register (VA). The PTBR points to the first entry of the page table in physical memory. It's used to access a particular PTE during translation. To read from this register onto the bus, you should assert the GatePTBR signal. The VA register is a temporary register to hold the current address under translation. To read the VA register onto the bus and to write to the VA register from the bus, you should assert the GateVA and LD.VA control signals respectively.
Assume that at the beginning of each address translation phase the virtual address is located in the MAR, and if the operation is a write, a source register holds the data to be written. Address translation consists of the following steps:
If the page accessed by a user program is not valid (not in physical memory), then a page fault exception will occur. The exception vector for page fault exception is x02. You will also write the exception service routine for the page fault. This routine should start at memory location x1400. For the purposes of this assignment, the exception service routine will simply halt the machine. However, don't rely on this. We can test your simulator by replacing your exception routine with our routine which returns from the exception handler using the RTI instruction instead of halting the machine. Upon return from the exception handler, the instruction that caused the exception should be re-executed.
Protection exceptions occur only when the machine is in user mode, and a memory page whose PTE protection bit is set to 0 is accessed. The memory access that causes a protection exception should not be allowed to complete. Exception vector for the protection exception is x04. The exception handler for the protection exception is located starting at x1600. This routine should halt the machine. However, as with the page fault exception, do not assume that the machine will always be halted after a protection exception occurs.
The user program in page 24 should do the following: calculate the sum of the first 20 bytes stored in the memory locations beginning with xC000 (notice this is on page 96). This sum should then be stored at xC014. Then the program should jump to the address pointed to by this sum. Page 96 contains data to be used by the program on page 24. The following numbers should be stored there:
Dump the memory locations containing the page table entries once before the 300th cycle, once after the ISR is done, and finally after the protection exception halts the execution of the program (you should get a page fault protection exception after the jump). Also, dump memory location x3814 (corresponding to which virtual address?) and the current registers after the protection exception.
The user stack should start at address 0xFE00 and the supervisor stack should start at virtual address 0x3000.
If you were unable to finish lab #3 and are hence starting from lab #2, please make a note of this in the readme. You will be unable to simulate the page fault exception, protection exception and timer interrupt if the requirements of lab #3 are not done. |
Working on a blog post about yesterday but thought I would post this for now. David Jay Harris does a good job of suggesting things for Katehi to do moving forward.
I have read the item Clonal. Not convinced about their interpretation. I note - someone asked Katehi about this in the Town Hall and she said that the report was meant to get University officials to defend their infrastructure from anarchists who had been burning down and destroying buildings. I do not know enough details yet to form an opinion
standard model - Is it a coincidence that quarks have exactly -1/3 or 2/3 the electron's charge? - Physics Stack Exchange
My question is different. We live in a world, where quarks can have a real fraction of the elementary charge (-1/3 or 2/3). I do understand that the experimental data fits the models and that Baryons are made up of three quarks, and that those quarks can have -1/3 or 2/3 the elementary charge. This way, the quarks can combine so that the Baryon will have an integer of the elementary charge. This way, the nucleus and the electron can be in a stable atomic state, where their electric charges cancel (attract) exactly. Any other way, the atom would not be stable.
Quarks: Hey, great idea, how much electric charge do you have? Let's call it e. OK so we will team up of three of us, so we will just take each of us -1/3 or 2/3 of your charge.
I mean come on! I do understand an respect that the experimental data tells us that electrons and quarks are both elementary particles.
It seems that the quarks teamed up exactly so three of them in Baryons so they can cancel out (attract) exactly the electron's electric charge. Now I do understand that there could be Baryons made up of four quarks, and they could have then -1/4 and 3/4 charge of the electron's elementary charge. This would work too, and the neutron and proton would have the same way an integer of the electron's charge. So the atom would be stable.
We could do this with any integer number of quarks. But, come on, my question is, what if the quarks' charge could only be -1/sqrt(3) and 2/sqrt(3)? How many quarks would we need then to make up the nucleus of to make it match the electron's charge? Is it mathematically possible to have any kind of electric charge for the quark? We could simply put as many valence quarks in a Baryon to make a stable atom?
Is it a coincidence that quarks have -1/3 and 2/3 the electron's charge and there are three quarks in a Baryon? Could we have quarks with any kind of electric charge, like Sqrt(3)*elementary charge? Could we make a stable atom this way too? How many quarks would we put in this case into a Baryon to make atoms stable?
I accept and respect that currently elecrons are elementary particles. Is it impossible as of today's view that both electrons and quarks are made up of the same something smaller (strings)?
marked as duplicate by Aaron Stevens, AccidentalFourierTransform, knzhou, Jon Custer, stafusa Oct 21 at 15:12
This is an unanswerable question. Physics doesn't tell us "why" the laws of physics are what they are. It just is, it has always been, and it works out. Something smaller (the generic term is "preons") is possible, but there is no evidence of preons to date. The binding energy of any preons would have to be very high given experimental constraints. – ohwilleke Oct 21 at 1:09
Possible duplicate of Why do electron and proton have the same but opposite electric charge? – AccidentalFourierTransform Oct 21 at 3:11
It is unfortunate that this question is accumulating votes to close, a comprehensive answer could touch on many interesting points - why baryons have N quarks (for various gauge groups), compactness of gauge group as cause of charge quantization, and the interplay between confinement and charge; along with already mentioned topics like anomaly cancellation and grand unification. – Mitchell Porter Oct 21 at 12:21
The charges of the quarks must be simple fractions of the electron charge $e$, because otherwise there would be a breakdown of charge conservation in quantum corrections. The fractions do not need to be $-\frac{2}{3}$ and $\frac{1}{3}$ specifically. In simple models with $2n+1$ quarks making up the proton (the number of quarks must be odd, so that the nucleons are still fermions with spin-$\frac{1}{2}$), the quarks naturally carry charges $-\frac{n+1}{2n+1}e$ and $\frac{n}{2n+1}e$. And more elaborate composite nucleon models can have constituent partons with other rational multiples of $e$.
However, not all all fractions of $e$ are going to be allowed as charges of the constituent quarks. Moreover, irrational multiples of the electron charge are generally not possible. The reason is tied to the structure of the full electroweak interaction, of which electromagnetism is only one part. In relativistic quantum field theory, there are are quantum corrections that involve the interactions of three separate gauge bosons (photons, $Z^{0}$, and $W^{\pm}$) with virtual fermion-antifermion pairs. The fermions involved can be quarks, electrons, muons, neutrinos, etc, and the sizes of the quantum corrections are determined (in part) by the charges of those fermion species. If the quark and electron charges are not in the correct rational ratios, certain quantum corrections will be nonzero.
These quantum anomaly terms lead to nonconservation of the classically conserved currents in the theory, and this destroys several necessary properties of the theory—stability, unitarity, and renormalizability. Equivalently, if we want to have a well-defined quantum theory, these anomaly terms need to be exactly zero. This is known as "anomaly cancelation," and this places the stringent constraints on how the values of the various fermion species can be related.
Does the existence of particles with an electric charge that varies from 0 to 4/3 proof that more elementary particles with charge 1/3 or 0 exist? |
It rained till 0130 and then there was a bit more at 0400. We get up at 0720 and there is some drizzle which does not last long.
Thunderbird 2 has lots of water in it, even though it is mostly protected by the solar panels. While Michael is letting the water out (by lowering the stern and pulling out the bung), the rope slips and the stern drops heavily into the water and takes on even more! Damn. Michael has to run around for about 10 minutes before all the water drains out. He thinks the rope slipped because it was so wet it did not grip on the winch like it normally does.
We decide to head south using the tide and when we pull up the anchor, the chain is covered in weed. This takes Kelly ages to wash off with the deck wash. We leave at 0900 and motor the whole way as the wind was right on the nose. We have about 1 to 1.5 knots of assistance the entire way.
We anchor at 1115 south-east of Inskip Point and south of a small sand spit. This should be not covered at high tide we think. There are a few other boats here and a couple more come in later. One of these is a boat from New York, Dream Time II, owned by an Englishman and his Irish wife (naturalised Yanks). He comes over to make sure he has not anchored too close. Nice thing to do.
We go to the sand spit with Veto and have a walk around. When we get back, Michael adds 22 litres of diesel to the fuel tank and 55 litres of water to the main tanks. He also cleans the watermaker filters. Later Leana comes in and anchors behind us. Michael takes over a USB memory stick with some photographs we have taken over the past few weeks of the boat. David invites us over for sundowners at 1700.
A storm over Fraser Island, this one did not come our way A rainbow over Inskip Point (looking north-east )
At 1515 we move as one of the power boats that came in anchored too close to us and now after the tide has changed is only just over 20 metres from us. Wanchor! At 1545 it starts raining again and the wind is 17 to 22 knots. However once the rain sets in the wind drops to 5 knots.
At 1645 it eases enough for Michael to take Veto to the sand spit. On the way back he drops into Leana and David suggests it is too wet to have drinks tonight. Michael agrees and we will have drinks in Mooloolaba tomorrow night instead. He also gives us back the USB stick and a DVD of a book Michael read last week. There is a nice rainbow as he comes back to the boat.
The wind blew 12 plus knots most of the night. We wake up at 0500, look at the weather forecast and the current wind here and at Double Island Point and decide to not leave today. We go back to bed. At least 10 boats crossed the Wide Bay Bar, reporting a two metre swell, very sloppy but no breaking waves, although a power cat (the wanchor next to us last night) had a wave break on him.
Leana left and we watch his crossing via the AIS. We also watch two other boats, they went anywhere from 100 metres south of the centre line to 100 metres north. Michael takes Veto to the sand spit and we then have breakfast. Michael then watches the DVD David loaned us. This is called The Lincoln Lawyer and is from the book by Michael Connelly. Despite his misgivings, Michael says that it is very accurate to the book and we both enjoy it.
Once the tide drops a bit, we all go to the sand spit and spend some time walking the whole length. It is now very large and in fact you could walk to Inskip Point if you wanted to. Back on the boat we have lunch and Michael watches a movie from our HDD (Flight of the Phoenix - the new one). It is okay, but not has good as the original.
At 1630 the wind is blowing 20 to 24 knots from the south-east, having increased all afternoon. We are glad we did not go this morning. It was supposed to be light here. There are now 15 boats here, all but one are yachts. One is Madiba who we spent a lot of time with earlier in the trip (although it is now occupied by Edward’s parents Roy and Jane).
At 1715 Michael takes Veto to the sand again, it is very windy still. Later the wind drops quickly to 15 and then to 10 knots. We have sundowners and then a barbecue of Scotch fillet and sausages with salad. The wind drops to 7 knots. We send David an SMS and at 1930 he replies that he is still not at Mooloolaba.
We end up watching three episodes of Twilight Zone before we go to bed, the first things we have watched off our hard drive this trip except for the movie earlier today. We go to bed at 2045.
It was a calm night, though the wind got up to 8 to 12 knots by 0500. We get up then and Michael takes Veto to the sand. We leave at 0525 and motor out. We have to use two engines as the incoming tide is flowing at 3.5 knots. There are nine yachts leaving, including Madiba, Force Six and Dream Time II. At one spot we have 4.2 knots of tide against us!
In the “Mad Mile” (which is really more than two nautical miles long), we have a little bit of chop on the beam, but it is probably the best we have had on our four crossings. Along here we let two yachts (including Madiba) pass us as they are going faster.
Once we get to waypoint 2, the inner mark for the notorious Wide Bay Bar, we increase speed a bit. There are no breaking waves at all, not even on the shallow bits to the sides of the channel. There are not even any white caps. The swell is about one metre, with the occasional 1.5 metre. The minimum depth was 5.3 metres. The worse thing about this bar is that it is long, not a few hundred metres like most river bars. This one is over 1.5 nautical miles long, that is, over 3000 metres (3 kilometres) from start to finish. Again this is the best crossing we have had.
Sunrise as we head down the channel towards the “Mad Mile” Crossing the Wide Bay Bar, Madiba in front of us
We are over the bar just before 0700 and once outside we turn towards Double Island Point and pull out the genoa. We have now about 9 knots of southerly wind but we are heading into a 1.5 knot current. We are doing 4.5 knots with one engine on at 3200 rpm. The wind increases to 10 to 13 knots and we increase speed to 4.9 to 5.1 knots. This is short lived as at 0830 when we near Double Island Point we have to turn towards the south and we need to pull the sail in as it is now right on the nose. It is also very sloppy, the forecast was for winds under 10 knots.
At 0855 we have to put on the second engine as our speed has dropped to under 4 knots. We need to average 5.0 knots to get to Mooloolaba before dark. From here we need to average over 5.5 knots to get there by 1730. At 0945 we put the genoa back out as the wind has gone more south-east. We are doing 5.8 knots into a 1.5 knot current with the wind 11 to 12 knots. It is a bit calmer here.
At 1025 we see two humpback whales breaching a few hundred metres from us. They do one co-ordinated leap, both out of the water exactly in unison! We see more whales later on, as well as a hammerhead shark, a turtle and some dolphins.
A bit later on the wind moves more to the east so we swap to the screecher. This increases our speed to 6.3 knots or so and we can turn off one engine. We motorsail like this till just before we get to the entrance to Mooloolaba at 1645. As we line up to enter, Leana leaves. David earlier phoned and said he was heading to the Gold Coast.
We motor in and at 1715 we anchor in the anchorage. Michael takes Veto to the beach and then we have showers. Kelly orders some pizzas and Michael goes to collect them. The shop is just at the end of the nearest canal to us, so it only takes him 15 minutes to get them (we will have the leftovers for lunch or breakfast tomorrow). The pizzas are excellent!
Michael writes up the blog and at 2100 we go to bed. We have decided to leave here tomorrow morning after previously thinking we were going to stay two nights. The reason is there is now a strong southerly forecast for Saturday. We have booked into The Boat Works for next Wednesday so we need to make sure we are close as possible on that morning.
We get up at 0455 after a very restful night’s sleep. Michael takes Veto to the beach and also disposes of our rubbish and recycling. Kelly makes tea and coffee and at 0530 we motor out.
As we leave, we notice an American yacht, Escape Velocity anchored near us. We saw this on AIS yesterday afternoon but did not see them when we came in as it was nearly dark. We have been following Marce and Jack’s blog on their round the world trip for at least four years. Three years ago they were dismasted leaving the Galapagos Islands. We have been in contact with them when they were in Sydney but never had the chance to catch up. Damn!
There is a little more swell on the bar than last night but no problems at all. We head out around the headland and pull out the screecher. Again we have current against us. Today we will not have it with us for a minute, we should have had it for at least 6 hours. We are doing 5.9 knots with one engine on in 13 knots of wind from astern. The current later is 2.0 knots against us. The seas are calm.
We get to the entrance to North East Channel at 0915. This is very shallow at the start. We are doing 5.6 knots into 1.2 knots of current. So far we have seen at least 8 humpback whales, many of the breaching. We see at least another 6 during the morning. At 1105 we pass south of Bulwer on Moreton Island and swap the screecher to the port side. We drop speed a bit more as the current is now 2.4 knots.
We pass Tangalooma at 1205. We have to go right to the southern end of Moreton Bay today as the wind is forecast to hit over 20 knots from the north-west and later tonight go to 25 knots south-easterly. The only place that will be protected from both these winds is near Russell Island. At Tangalooma we are past by MV Avatar. This is the ship from the Singapore Navy that we saw in Shoalwater Bay Military Training Area almost three weeks ago.
The current hits 3.5 to 4.0 knots in the channel south of Tangalooma but once out of it, it drops back. We sail to the west of Peel Island. As we near here a very large storm approaches from the south-west. There is lightning and very heavy rain. The wind goes from 15 knots to 20 then drops back to 8. When the storm gets close, we pull in the sail and turn on the second engine. We get 35 knots of wind at 1530 and a bit of rain, but the storm mostly goes north of us and a little bit to the south.
The wind goes all over the place, 9 knots to 3 to 32 and from north, then south-west, then north and back to north-east. We motor the rest of the way. We pass Blakesley Camp and then into the start of Canaipa Passage. There are 12 yachts anchored here. We try to anchor near the green channel marker but it ends up too shallow. We move a bit to the west and at 1800 anchor just past the green channel marker. It is now dark, the sunset was 1748 and the heavy cloud cover mean there is little twilight.
Kelly has started dinner before we anchor and once we are settled in, we have showers and then sundowners. It is very calm here. Kelly makes chorizo pasta, very nice.
The past few days we have had problems with our auto pilot, with the fluxgate compass giving very erratic headings. This has meant we are changing course all the time and over correcting. Michael reads up on the manual and we decide that tomorrow morning when we leave we will attempt to fix by recalibrating the fluxgate compass. We go to bed at 2100.
The change came at about 2330 with the wind going to the south-east and hitting 18 knots. Later at 0130 it hits 28 knots. Despite this it is fairly comfortable here, although our anchor alarm goes off a few times as we move about with the tide changing. We get up at 0710 and take Veto to the beach.
Back on Catlypso we have breakfast. The wind is still around 22 knots. The tide is hard to figure, it seems to be about 2.5 hours after the Brisbane high/low tides. A few of the boats leave and at 0935 we up anchor. We do a 360 degree circle as we recalibrate the fluxgate compass. We head off and the auto pilot is working much better, with the heading being much more consistent. Seems it has worked.
We have current with us till past Double Island when for a little bit we have it against us. Then we have it again with us. It is not a long way to Coffee Cliffs and we end up anchoring at 1155. We run around a bit before we find a good anchorage. The wind hit 22 knots again on the way. Once anchored we turn all over the place as the wind hits 24 knots and the tide is flowing at about 0.8 knots.
We are about 60 metres off the shore and the water is pretty calm, even when the wind blows strong. Later the wind drops a lot, although there are still some strong gusts. We are taking our time as we have until Wednesday to get to Coomera. We have lunch and do some computer work. Michael also does some study for solar panels for our house.
Later we go to the beach and then have a look at the Redlands RLS Fishing Club place up the waterway a little. Nice place! It is overcast and cool. The wind drops to 3 knots and it is very nice here. We go to the beach again later and then have showers and sundowners. Kelly makes creamy pasta for dinner. We watch some more Twilight Zone on TV, Michael has run out of books to read (has read 70 so far this trip).
We get up at 0710 after a very calm night. It is sunny, but this only lasts a few hours. Michael goes to the beach with Veto and we then have breakfast. High tide here seems to be at 1000, about 20 minutes after Seaway high tide. We leave at 1015 and motor the short distance south to Slipping Sands.
Once we get to the next intersection we again have tide against us, but it is not too bad. Obviously the tide comes in from this channel to Coffee Cliffs area. After we up anchor, at least 100 jet skis pass us, as we later find out, it was a charity run. We pull into Slipping Sands and anchor at the northern end of the anchorage. This is not as protected in some ways as Coffee Cliffs, as it is open to southerly and south-easterly winds.
We anchor in 3.0 metres at 1055. There is a wanker in a ski boat (skanker) going around and around the anchorage at speed, but he soon stops once we make faces at him. The wind picks up a little to 8 to 13 knots from the south but it later drops to 3 knots. It is supposed to be from the north-east and light.
There are lots of small boats here as well as a couple of houseboats and one yacht. A bunch of kayakers come in (they travelled as fast as us almost from Coffee Cliffs but they had a short cut). After lunch we go to the beach and walk up to the houses to the south (more fishing club places we think). We sit on the beach for a while as well.
Later two jet skis come in and go to the houseboat nearest us. They ask if they have spare fuel but they do not. We call them over and sell them 10 litres as we have this to spare. This is how we found out that the jet skis we saw this morning were on a charity run. They filled up at Manly at the other end, but one of them has used a huge amount on the way back.
We later go to assist a trailer sailor who ran aground trying to cut the corner into the anchorage, but as Michael goes over he frees himself. We go to the beach again as well, this time walking as far to the south and north as we can on the sand that is present at low tide.
We then have showers and sundowners and Kelly cooks a flat chicken and vegies for dinner. We watch more Twilight Zone episodes and go to bed at 2130.
We have an extremely calm night. It is overcast at 0800 when we get up. Michael takes Veto to the beach again and we then have breakfast. Kelly later does some cleaning while Michael updates the history page of the St George Scuba Club which has not been updated since mid-2014. He also does some planning for a few dive trips we are planning next year.
We go to the beach again later and then at 1055 we leave. We motor the short distance to Jumpin Pin which is the passage between North and South Stradbroke Islands and gives access to the ocean. We anchor at 1140 towards the northern end of the sand spit between the ocean and the waterways. It is calm here then.
We go to the beach and walk to the top of some of the dunes, very nice views over the waterway and the ocean. We come back and have lunch. Today the weather has been all over the place, one moment sunny, then overcast, then windy and then calm.
Around 1430 the wind picks up and blowing against the outgoing tide which is showing 2.5 knots on our trip log, it gets very uncomfortable. Kelly goes off in the dinghy and checks out the conditions further south. She comes back and reports it is much nicer, so we move and at 1445 we anchor near the green channel marker. Much better here, only 0.6 knot of current.
The current when we were moving was over 3 knots against us! We relax for the rest of the afternoon, as well as going to the beach again for a walk. This is a much better spot. We later have showers, might as well use the hot water we have, and then sundowners. We have a barbecue with Scotch fillet and sausages and salad.
It was very calm last night and we get up at 0605 as the sun is now up well before 0500. Michael takes Veto to the beach for a long walk and after he gets back we have breakfast. It is sunny for the first time for days and already quite warm.
About 0900 we go for another walk, Kelly comes too this time. Once we are back on Catlypso we prepare to leave. At 0945 we up anchor and head off further south. We have the tide with us all the way, not that there is far to go. We anchor at 1035 just off the Tipplers Campground on South Stradbroke Island.
There is not much space here to anchor as the channel comes very close to the beach. In fact, some of the boats further north from here are anchored in the channel. We end up later on a little bit out in the channel too once the tide goes down a little and the wind picks up a bit. At the moment there is less than 7 knots of wind.
After lunch we go to the shore to the south of us and walk along the beach and then on some of the walking/bike tracks. There are at least three properties here that are “owned” by boating clubs. They have some really nice amenities, and looks like you can camp at two of them.
The wind picks up a bit and hits 15 to 17 knots south-easterly. It is nice here. We watch a movie from the HDD and then go for another walk, this time into the centre of the island. When we get back we have showers and sundowners and Kelly makes a nice curry chicken and rice. We watch another movie from the HDD before going to bed at 2130.
It was a very calm night and we get up at 0635. Michael takes Veto to the beach while Kelly makes breakfast. After eating, we leave at 0715 and motor against the current towards Southport. At the southern entrance to the Coomera River, we head upstream, this time with the tide.
We arrive at The Boatworks at Coomera at 0940 and 10 minutes later we have been hauled out of the water by “Ellie”, the boatlift. Another 10 minutes or so and we are on the hardstand, two down from Heatwave (who you will recall were involved with us in a rescue of a jetskier at Gloucester Passage way back on 5 August).
Soon after we were on the hard, the bloke we used in 2015 to polish the hulls, Peter, came and gave us a quote to polish all hulls and the upper deck. We accepted this and he said they would start today, but as the forecast for the next few days is for rain, we may have some problems. The surveyor, Greg, also comes. We want to get a new survey as to get a cheaper insurance and also for an agreed amount, we need to do this. It will work out cheaper too, even taking into account his fee.
In the meantime, Michael flushes the watermaker (which he should have really done yesterday) and then cleans the hulls. There is no growth on them, but lots of mud/dirt from the very dirty water we have been in the past week or so. The props are also clean, they just need a wipe over, but the sail drives have some barnacles. This is strange as the area above the drives has the same antifoul and there are no barnacles here at all.
Kelly earlier had started cleaning the earth plate which has a lot of barnacles on it (there is no antifoul here) but she had to stop when the surveyor came. After lunch from the café, we acid wash the hulls as this has lessened the polishing cost. We use acid we bought from Bunnings in April. You just water it down and put it on with a soft broom and then wash it off. The hulls look so much better already.
We then acid washed the decks as well. Michael also lowers the dinghy and washes the inside and acid washes the hull. At 1600 Kelly collects the courtesy car and we drive to her Mum’s place at Southport and collect Kelly’s Subaru Forester. We are back at 1800 and have showers, fantastic! The Boatworks has four “suites” which have toilets and showers. These are as good as any hotel we have stayed at.
After this we drive to the Boathouse Hotel at Coomera. This is back near the freeway. Even though it is Wednesday, it is almost full. We order dinner and have a beer while waiting. The food comes along quicker than they forecast and is quite good and plentiful. Recommended! We are back by 2100 and we take Veto for a walk before going to bed.
We woke up early when Colin from Lightwave arrived. He changed the prop set up. The Autostream folding props need to be installed a different way depending on the shaft rotation. Back in April Colin made an error and put them on the wrong way. This meant that we ended up with the wrong pitch angle for forward travel, meaning we needed to use about 3000 or 3200 rpm to achieve 6.0 knots compared to the original 2400 rpm.
Once he does this, he then changes the throttle setup so that forward was forward and not reverse (he had changed in April once we discovered the error). While he is doing this, Michael removes the oil from the sail drives. We then take a sample to the Yanmar service agent here and he confirmed that we had water in the oil. We arrange for them to come and change the seals which is how the water has leaked in.
One of the sail drives after been dismantled The genoa furler pulled apart as Michael puts the new furling line in
The deck polishing starts, but a bit of rain stops it for a while. We also purchase some new antifoul for the sail drive as it is not in good condition after only six months. We purchased Hempel compared to the Jotun we have used each time before (we do not think any of them are good).
Colin also tightens the raw water outlet into the exhaust which has been leaking and also put a small plate in next to the steering arm which has been squeaking badly. The mechanics come and remove the sail drives and take out the shafts. They take these back to their factory and replace the seals. They later confirm that the inner seals (on the shaft itself) were shot and this is how the water leaked in.
Michael later removes the genoa furling line and then the furler drum. This splits open after four bolts are removed. He gets the new line and installs it into the drum. This requires a knot in the end to stop it pulling out. He then reassembles it and we check that it works.
Kelly also puts on three loads of washing and somehow, one of us misplaces the key to her Forester. From about 1030 we search and search, but we cannot find it. We backtrack our movements today, but we still cannot find it. We alert the office to our loss, but no one has handed any keys in.
Once the mechanics come back with the shafts for the sail drives and reinstalls them, Michael refills the drives with oil. At 1630 we have showers, we are filthy, and at 1700 we go down to the river and have sundowners with Peter and Toni from Heatwave. We leave here at 1845 and back at Catlypso Kelly cooks chicken and pork schnitzel with mash potato.
Kelly gets up at 0630 and takes Veto for a walk and also gets herself a coffee from the café (using one of the vouchers we got). Michael gets up later at 0710. We still have not found the keys, so after breakfast, Kelly calls the NRMA which arranges for the RACQ to come and open the car. He arrives fairly quickly and opens the car. The keys are not inside (as we suspected).
Kelly then rings a locksmith recommended by the RACQ patrolman and arranges for them to get a new key for the Forester. As soon as she sends an SMS with details of the car’s VIN, she gets a call from the office. They have the key! She rings the locksmith back cancelling the new key.
Michael goes down and collects the key. Seems the cleaner found it in a bowl in the lounge near the bathroom suites. There is no way that we lost the key in the bowl. It seems that someone has found it and put it in the bowl rather than take to the office or even put on the table in the lounge. Michael had checked the lounge, but did not check the bowl.
At 0900 Kelly goes off shopping. She also gets five containers of diesel (110 litres) and gas. When she comes back, Michael adds the fuel to the tank, it is still not full. We will get more on Sunday to refill the containers. Kelly put the food away. While she was making lunch, Michael walks up to one of the tenants and purchases a container of pickling agent for the watermaker. This cost $67. We will pickle the watermaker once we get closer to Sydney.
After lunch, Michael cleans the sail drives and then paints them with one coat of antifoul. He also paints the area immediately around them. Kelly removes the helm clears and cleans them. It is very hot today and we spend the rest of the time under the boat reading. In the afternoon, Wayne from Axis Vitae, a Lightwave 45 which is near us, comes to say hello. We have not seen this boat before we came into The Boatwarks two days ago. Later Michael goes over and Wayne shows him some stainless steel cleaning stuff that he has used. Michael then walks up with Wayne to the chandlery just before it closes at 1600 and purchases some. It is called CleanAshine Rust Off gel. He tests on the very rusty ladder and it gives amazing results.
We have showers and then walk to the river again and have drinks with Peter and Toni. When we come back we have a barbecue, Scotch fillet steak and sausages with salad. We go to bed at 2200.
Queensland does not have daylight saving (the old joke was that the longtime Premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, thought the sun shone out of his a…hole and he was not getting up an hour earlier for anyone). As such, it is now light well before 0500. At 0520, Michael takes Veto for a walk and then comes back to bed. At 0700 we get up and have breakfast.
After this Michael does a second coat on the saildrives. He also cleans the earth plate a bit more (not finished from Wednesday). After this we pull apart the anchor winch and service it. Michael then uses the gel to clean the stainless on the starboard side while Kelly pulls apart the port mast winch. Michael assists in a couple of bits, especially removing the bolts that hold it onto the mast. These are secured with some sort of glue and were very hard to remove.
More work is done on polishing the hulls, they end up almost finished today. They also do some more work on the deck.
After lunch, Michael does the stainless on the port side while Kelly does the starboard mast winch. The bolts for this are even harder to remove. Michael finishes the stainless and then redoes some small bits that are not fully clean. He later uses the boat hook with the paint brush taped to the end to do the top of the wind generator post. It has all come out looking great.
We spend the next hour or so resting and reading under the boat. We have showers, we are filthy from the muck on the deck from the polishing. At 1720 we leave and drive to Kelly’s Mum’s place. We pass through a huge storm, it is pouring rain. It continues raining for three hours or so. We later get some take away Malaysian food for dinner. We watch some TV and stay the night.
After we get up at 0700 I take Veto for a walk along the local canal and we then have breakfast. We leave at 0830 and drive back to The Boatworks. On the way we get 110 litres of diesel and 8 litres of ULP. As we expected, the polishing blokes have not turned up even though it has not rained at all this morning.
At about 1000 it starts raining and about 1030 we go to the lounge to read and for Kelly to do some computer work related to a job she has been offered.
It starts raining quite heavily and keeps on raining all day. Kelly puts a load of our towels in the washing machine, they have gotten dirty and wet because of the rain. During a short break in the rain, Michael goes and makes lunch for us, but that is the only real break all day.
There is free Wi-Fi here (we can access it from the boat anyway) so Kelly is using it. At 1615 there is a slight easing in the rain so we make a break for it and go back to Catlypso. It is cold (18⁰C), we are wet and it has started raining heavily again. We also discover that the 240 volt power is off. Michael goes out in the rain and finds the circuit breaker has tripped. We have power again.
We find we cannot even get a TV signal, stupid aerial. It is raining too much to go and have a shower, so we have sundowners and Kelly makes lasagne for dinner. We end up watching a few episodes of Yes Minister from the HDD.
It rains for most of the night but not as heavy as it did during the afternoon. It must have stopped about 0300 for a couple of hours and then rained for an hour or more. There has been no rain since 0530. We get up at 07360, it is cold and windy. We have breakfast and then Kelly does a last load of washing. She also takes Veto for a walk when she gets her free coffee (you get two vouchers when you book in and the bloke next to us gave us one when he left).
Michael gets the HDD again from Peter on Heatwave as he did not copy everything he wanted to last Saturday night when he gave Peter some Google Earth images and more. Kelly does the washing up.
At 1010 the polishing bloke still has not arrived despite the owner promising he would be here at 0900. Kelly sends him a message but gets no reply. Michael finishes cleaning the earth plate, flushes the watermaker and tops up the water. Finally at 1200 the bloke comes and washes the top decks and hulls then polishes the underside. He is still finishing this when Ellie arrives to lift us and take us back into the water.
We put the two kayaks back on the bow area, lift the dinghy back up and are now ready to go. We are lifted at 1430 and 15 minutes later we are in the water. Michael is taking Catlypso to Bums Bay and Kelly will drive around and meet him there. As usual, the cooling water takes ages to come through, but in the end it all appears good. Michael heads off at 1455.
The speed is much higher now that we have the props back on properly. He is doing about 5.3 knots into a 0.7 knot current at 2400 rpm, exactly what it should be. The port controls are a bit stiff so Michael will need to check that out later. It is not raining, but it is cold and very windy, over 28 knots as we were launched.
Right on the two hour mark and when the port engine has been in use for an hour, the water temperature alarm goes off. Michael swaps to the starboard engine. What is wrong? Fifteen minutes later, the starboard alarm goes off. Luckily when Michael switches back to the port one it works okay. As he nears Bums Bay, Kelly calls as she has been tracking the AIS on her phone. Michael tells her that he might only have one engine when manoeuvring into the wharf to pick her up.
As he comes into Bums Bay, he tries the starboard engine and it works okay. As he nears the wharf, a bloke jumps in his dinghy to head to his boat and Kelly hitches a ride out to meet Catlypso. It is now very dark due to the threatening rain (we had a little bit), so we do not want to go right into the bay as Kelly has already looked and there is not much room.
We anchor off the southern end of the spit almost in the channel. It is 1730. There are three other Lightwave 38 cats here, Axis Mundi, Hummingbird and Starfish. After we anchor, VMR comes and moves a yacht near us that is very close to another yacht. Neither of them have people on them and we do not see anyone there all week. The wind is blowing at least 28 knots constantly.
Michael has a cup of tea rather than a beer. Kelly makes dinner, chicken fajitas. It is a bit sloppy here as we have some current pushing us a bit side on to the wind. We go to bed at 2045.
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Sony is one of a few companies with an ecosystem rich in entertainment gear. Now the company is launching a wearable bracelet with the release of the SmartBand SWR10.
Sony's SmartBand logs information on your general wellbeing. This includes your daily step-count, if you have exercised and your sleeping patterns. The data is transferred over Bluetooth to Sony's Android Lifelog application.
Jawbone and FitBit offer similar alternatives, but Sony's SmartBand better complements the functions of a smartphone. The band will vibrate when you receive notifications, such as a text message, and it can be used to play, pause and skip music tracks.
Sony plans on expanding the SmartBand's functionality with future updates that will make it possible to "log routes and times for driving, cycling and train trips".
Currently Telstra, Sony kiosks and Sony's online store are selling the SmartBand for $159; however, Sony said in a press release "other major retailers will be confirmed soon".
Telstra is offering the band outright or it can be added to a mobile contract at a $5 instalment per month over 24 months following a $39 upfront payment. Either way, the Sony SmartBand will set you back $159.
There’s nothing complicated about the MediaMan HVX-3500 – it’s really just and external hard disk holder with some basic software, a sleek outer shell and some connectors stuck on. But this simpler is usually better and this gadget could make a world of difference to your home entertainment setup. It is equipped with an absolutely enormous number of different outputs to suit the most diverse home cinema system, plus you can choose from a variety of disk sizes of just use an ordinary 3.5″ IDE drive if you want which should take the pressure off your PC when storing media files.
It is compatible with virtually every media format we’ve ever heard, with the exception of WMV and M4A which isn’t so good for iTunes users. However, we reckon a very simple firmware upgrade could fix that, no problem. Check out the full review over at GadgetCentre and you can also be in with the chance of winning a 40GB version in their new compo.
As if a “cheeky wink” wasn’t already a creepy enough gesture as it was, it’s now gained the ability to power stealthy perv-photos the world over thanks to the Google Glass augmented reality specs.
Developer Mike DiGiovanni has put together an app called Winky for Google Glass dev kits that allow a user to power up the specs from standby and take photos just by winking.
Of course, a rather prolonged, deliberate wink is required to activate the function (otherwise blinks would be firing off photos all the time), but it’s great that hands-off controls are being implemented into the glasses even at this early stage. That’s where these things become really useful, right?
As DiGiovanni believes, this “really changes things” for Google Glass, bringing it a step towards the sort of gesture-based functionality that made Android and iOS so simple to use with their tactile hardware. What it doesn’t change however, is the privacy concerns already associated with Glass – if a wink ever was a playful gesture, anyone wearing Glass that sends one my way will be treated with great suspicion.
It's no secret that we think Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures is a dangerous, innovation harming monstrosity. The company used a bait and switch scheme to get a bunch of big tech companies to fund it, not realizing that they were then going to be targets of his shakedown system. Basically, IV buys up (or in some cases, applies for) tons of patents, and then demands huge cash outlays from those same companies (often hundreds of millions of dollars) for a combined promise not to sue over those patents and (here's the sneaky bit) a bit of a pyramid scheme, where those in early supposedly get a cut of later deals. Of course, to just talk to IV requires strict NDAs, so the details of these deals are kept under wraps and only leaked out anonymously. But the hundreds of millions of dollars going towards this sort of trolling behavior, rather than any actual innovation in the marketplace can be seen on various financial filings (you can't hide hundreds of millions of dollars in payments that easily).
Now, for years, Myhrvold tried to avoid the term "patent troll," by claiming that IV had never actually sued anyone. Two years ago, though, it seemed clear that the company was on the verge of breaking out the lawsuits. However, the company still hasn't been directly linked to a lawsuit. Late last year, though, some eagle-eyed reporters noticed that IV patents were showing up in lawsuits, but those lawsuits were from different companies. Reading between the lines, it became clear that IV had decided to protect its brand name by getting other companies or creating those companies itself, giving the patent to those other companies that no one had ever heard of, and having them sue. This is a very common practice among patent hoarders. They set up shell companies for their lawsuits, that often make it difficult to track back who actually owns what patents. It's all a shell game to extort more money.
The NY Times is now running yet another profile (they do this every two years or so) of Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures that covers the usual bogus claims by Myhrvold about how he's creating "invention capital," with very little skepticism. However, it does reveal one interesting tidbit that we had missed. Last year, a research firm released a report highlighting that Intellectual Ventures has up to 1,110 shell companies, with which it can hide its activities. No wonder IV can pretend it doesn't sue anyone. It can simply hide behind its shell companies.
It's hard to find anything in Myhrvold's activities that actually contribute to any innovation, but you can see billions of dollars being siphoned away from actual innovation -- the kind that brings real products to market -- and see it being fed into what appears to be a giant shakedown scheme that is trying to pull as much money out of the system as possible before Congress wakes up and realizes it needs to fix an incredibly broken patent system.
Think about people and businesses that make tons of quick money without actually doing anything beneficial. E.g., Malware, spammers, Wall Streeters shuffling money around...
In such circumstances the activities the businesses are doing might not be illegal. But it's a very strong clue to me that it probably should be illegal.
The fact that patent trolls can make ridiculous amounts of money without contributing anything of value to society is very strong evidence to me that the system is broken.
This looks ripe for abuse. I say, in about 15 years time, it will be revealed to the "patent insurance purchasers" that the company that they paid not to sue them, has in return created thousands of shell companies to sue them with.
Of coures, it would be all legal. Intellectual Ventures isn't sueing anyone, these "other" companies are. Im sure Mr. Myhrvold worded the contracts in such a way that he had this kind of leeway.
Do you really think IV (or, in fact, any company) would sue any of it's own clients through shell companies and get away with it? That would be a terminal case of "bad faith", and a sure way to get taken down hard.
The point of this article is to insinuate that IV sues non-clients through these shell companies to "convince" them to become clients. Which is, of course, just that right now: an insinuation. Nowhere in this article or the links does it say if even one of these 1100 shell companies is actually suing somebody. Now *that* would have been interesting.
What are you talking about, Congress is part of the problem, they're the ones that intentionally created this broken system on purpose to scam the public.
Yeah, right. The only action Congress is likely to take is extending the life of patents to 95 years.
"It's hard to find anything in Myhrvold's activities that actually contribute to any innovation[...]"
Seems pretty innovative to me, he found a way to make tons of money without doing any work....isn't that the American dream....
They're not a patent troll, they're a company that manages patent trolls (they get paid by patent trolls to manage them), which is just as bad I suppose.
There is companion piece in the New York Times: The Patent Litigation Dilemma: Free Riders. Steve Lohr who also wrote "Turning Patents Into ‘Invention Capital’" goes on to say that: "The dilemma for such firms is the “free rider” problem. Companies like Microsoft and Intel have paid Intellectual Ventures many millions of dollars for the insurance that the patents the firm holds will not be used against them in patent-infringement suits. But rival technology companies benefit as well, without paying license fees to Intellectual Ventures, unless there is a mechanism to sometimes sue the companies that hold out."
Mr. Lohr has created a false bogeyman "Free Rider" so that he can avoid discussing how the patent system is being abused by the likes of Intellectual Ventures.
I just don't get it, how does investing in patents help promote the progress? All it does is divert investment away from progress and create a non innovative corporation that restricts those who do innovate and takes money away from those who do innovate which takes money away from innovation. It's a scam orchestrated by our broken government and the mainstream media.
For a long time I thought the attacks on IV were missing the point - I thought what IV was really doing was a GOOD thing - a partial "opt-out" from the patent system: Join my club (for a small fee) and you cross-license all your patents with all the other members, and therefore don't have to worry about MANY patent issues.
Or, I suppose, they could be deliberately trying to destroy the patent system by illustrating its unfairness, deception, and innovation-suppressing effects.
This guy is almost the dictionary definition of a dilettante -- photos of him always show him dabbling in what he considers to be haute cuisine (yet his award, according to the NYTimes article, is for barbecue!), which for him mainly involves using high-tech gadgets. Did he do anything durably meaningful as Microsoft's chief scientist in the 90s?
Yes he is; he's a total sham. He was brought in from IBM research labs, to start up Microsoft Research, which up until now, has had ZERO innovation. Even while Myhrvold was the head of Microsoft Research, nothing came out of it.
Microsoft has been milking Win32 and Visual Basic, since it started in the early 80's, and pretty much all their successes can be attributed back to Visual Basic and sleazy, dishonest, business tactics (including black mail, abuse, FUD, etc.).
Nathan Myhvold is no different; he fits in the Microsoft culture perfectly, which is why he partnered up with ex-Microsoft people and sticks around northern Washington. He's a real loser.
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Well, we lived through George W. Bush, and technical innovation has never been greater, growth has never been higher, applications of new technology have never been as enormous in huge new projects like high speed rail, nuclear energy technology, silicon ingot manufacture, super-magnets, and superconductivity, just to mention a few ....
These people should be punished for hindering the progress in violation of the constitution. The constitution clearly states that IP is to PROMOTE the progress, not hinder it, yet too many entities are getting away with using IP only to hinder the progress. This is unconstitutional.
It's up to Congress to promote progress, not patent holders. If anything is unconstitutional, it's current patent law, not Intellectual Ventures.
IV has tried to buy inventions from me. By the way these are all inventions in which real products are involved. Unlike the silly limited analysis frequently found on this blog and from the mouths of behemoths like Microsoft, Apple, Google and Oracle where an invention is either the source of great new companies or the evil scheme of imaginary devils, many of my inventions are much, much broader then its possible for my limited resources to exploit.
So Mike, if you make the product you invent but you have opened new doors to much larger markets your entity is clearly not an NPE. On the other hand not being much of a marketer or lacking the capital you are also not able to grow the markets to encompass all of the potential of your invention, what then? You are really only in position to one ignore the big markets, or two sell via license or outright sale of the IP to those who can or at least feel they can make the big market (and its profits) happen.
One way to help the economy and the inventor/hero of our little story is to provide means to fund new companies, efficiently make appropriate licenses, create a market to efficiently sell the IP outright. The first of the latter list is the VC, the second does not really exist yet but a company IPX is trying, and the third are groups like IV, RPX and auction houses like ICAP Ocean Tomo where IP is bought and sold every day.
IV in the sense that they have helped to establish an IP market is helping the latter trends and they and Nathan deserve Kudos. The many LLC's they create (they created one for the stuff they wanted to buy from me) are ways to protect themselves from and limit certain liabilities (which of course is exactly why we have companies and corporations). This is not to say that everything IV does is sweetness and light or not open to abuse.
I am impressed that Nathan has given work and presumably substantial money to a real physicist (by that I mean exactly what one means when one talks about writers or inventors for that matter- have you written something others buy and use or invented something others buy and use?) of deservedly high reputation Dr. Pendry.
There are some things about IV that raise questions but then you don't pay me to talk about those. That's the job of Lohr, and the NYT-they can quote me.
few of madoff's clients understood what he was doing. as long as they got paid everything seemed "ok".
suffice it to say, iv's business model is driven by fear of litigation. it's not necessarily illegal, but it relies on threats of litigation while producing nothing other than income for iv and its clients.
all the talk of innovation is meaningless when one realises iv is not producing a single product, it is only forcing companies to "pay up" through the use of fear. they are at best a middleman. their "bait" to inventors is money; money they will force others, who *are* producing products, to pay out of fear.
Is this really a �shakedown system� that doesn�t move forward any innovation, or are larger companies really getting a �free ride� on the backs of many innovators?? I think this is a fundamental question and there probably is not a black and white answer. In any market, there are going to be inefficiencies. If it could be proven that an efficient capital market for invention was beneficial to the competitiveness of a country, and benefited society in general, then it could move forward.
It is interesting that many large companies play the idea off as a �shakedown system�, but that there are also some large companies (e.g. Pharma) that are against these companies and support a free patent system . A company or industry moving toward �monopolistic� behavior will want to �control� the movements of profits.
Is it reasonable to assume that the larger companies that control the vast majority of product markets, inside their R&D functions, are efficiently creating the best and most innovative ideas? Does competition in the market place drive the best innovation? An efficient market theory economist would probably say yes.
Yet, why do so many large companies (my former employer Motorola is a great example) end up being surpassed in market innovation by more nimble rivals. One would think that the profits of a market leader would be poured back into innovation so that the company could extend its profitable lead well into the future.
The cultures of some companies may in fact strive toward this, but the cultures of some companies (again, Motorola) focus instead on short-term profit maximization at the expense of innovation, or get caught in the trap of falling in love with their short-term/mid-term products and strategies, and do not have the courage to kill them (especially if they are profitable) by innovating better products/approaches. If this weren�t the case, why do smaller nimbler companies get swallowed up by larger companies all the time? If what the smaller companies were creating were not valuable to the big companies, this wouldn�t happen, right?
Would there really be sufficient innovation if the larger companies, like mine, were the ones doing, and profiting from, all the innovation?
My gut tells me no, but I don't know if the IV approach is the best way to support the optimal production of innovative IP.
Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold told Business Week in July 2006 that he didn�t think suing people was a good idea. Apparently, his investors � including universities receiving government funding, private equity funds, and corporations � decided that his returns were not coming fast enough. Or maybe, he was just marketing one story on his way to his real business plan. Back in 2006, his position was summarized in the following manner.
"Myhrvold adamantly rejects the idea that suing people will become a mainstay of his business operation. "Litigation is a huge failure," he says. It's "a disastrous way of monetizing patents."
Times have changed. However, M�CAM�s commitment to patent quality is as clear today as it was when he and his investors first started Intellectual Ventures. And, given Intellectual Ventures� recent cases, we thought the public may want to know a bit more about what�s �under the hood�.
Today M�CAM, Inc. released its Patently Obvious� report today on the patent infringement lawsuits filed by Intellectual Ventures in December, 2010.
The M�CAM Patently Obvious� report on Intellectual Ventures' infringement lawsuits can be found HERE.
Of course he came from MS which is a net destroyer of productivity thru igs software that crashes, cant do simple tasks.
The season is raining funding for the early startups and some well-established players who hold the potential and have won the trust of the investors in terms of revenue and returns.
Moglix, a business-to-business online marketplace for industrial goods operated by Moglilabs Pvt. Ltd. bagged a Series B round funding of $12 Million (approximately Rs 77 Crore) from Rocketship, a venture capital based in Silicon Valley, and IFC (International Finance Corporation, World bank’s private sector investment arm. The company’s current investors such as Jungle Ventures, Accel Partners, and Venture Highway were also the part of the funding round. One of the renowned personality of India, Ratan Tata, also backs the B2B firm.
The company stated that it will utilize the funds to expand operations and reinforce its technology infrastructure.
Moglix at the present stage operates in cities such as Chennai, Delhi-NCR, as well as Pune and now it plans to stretch its arms in three more cities.
Founder and CEO of Moglix, Rahul Garg said, “the funding will enable us to enhance offerings and service to the customers in a better way as supply chain and manufacturing process are making its way towards digitization drastically.” Before starting Moglix in 2015, Garg was the head of Google’s Ad Exchange services division of Southeast Asia region.
Moglix has a wide variety of products listed on its platform including fasteners, industrial electricals, MRO, industrial products, pneumatics, safety accessories, and hardware. It has tied up with more than 1,500 distributors and manufacturers that deal in these categories in India, Taiwan, and China. The platform has over 2 Lakh SKU listed on its portal. The company is presently catering to more than 1 Lakh SME’s and over 200 large manufacturing facilities. It has some big names such as Havells, IndiaForge, and Lumax.
The startup company has received a total of $18 Million of funding, of which $4.2 Million was led by Accel Partners along with SeedPlus and Jungle Ventures last year. It had also received an unrevealed funding from Rata Tata last year.
Focusing on the funding for the similar B2B model, Udaan.com raised an investment from Lightspeed Venture partners. Industrybuying.com closed the deal of 12 Crore in the form of debt from Trifecta Capital in 2016. The firm is also backed by SAIF Partners and Kalaari Capital. In addition, Omnikart, a Mumbai-based industrial equipment marketplace, happened to shut its operations owing to the mutual disputes among the founders based on the growth strategy.
Being a smart home is no longer enough. At CES 2018, we are seeing truly smart products that have Artificial Intelligence (AI). Forget simple voice commands or setting up routines with smart home appliances, devices or lighting. AI communicates with the cloud, detects and learns your patterns, then automates your home based on your habits. It knows which household member is speaking to it and adjusts to each person’s preferences. Like an efficient assistant (think, Radar on Mash ), it can predict what you want and need even before you ask for it, making your environment comfortable and automating tasks without you telling it what to do.
LG has committed to AI in a big way this year, announcing that all of their appliances will be able to be controlled by their ThinQ AI. Using LG’s DeepThinQ 1.0 technology, devices can recognize your voice and, through video, sensor and human body detection, learn and refine tasks and settings through analysis over time. Tell it “Good morning,” or lock a door when you are leaving and it can complete a number of tasks, like turning off lights, running the robotic vacuum while you are out of the house and turning on the air purifier before you return.
LG washers learn how you like to wash certain types of clothing and automatically apply those settings. Your washer would then talk to the dryer, which has learned how you like to dry each type of load. Say “wash sports clothing” and your running shorts won’t accidentally shrink in the dryer. The washer and dryer also communicate with the cloud to make adjustments to the wash and dry cycle based on changes in the weather and air quality, conditions most of us wouldn’t even consider when starting our laundry. And all of the commands can be spoken to the LG CLOi Hub Bot (shown at the top).
With AI, LG air conditioners know who is in the room and can adjust the temperature based on their preferences. You’ll always be comfortable and you never have to think about it.
The refrigerator is one of the main hubs for ThinQ. The touch panel in the door can show what you have in the refrigerator, put items on a shopping list and show expiration dates for foods in the fridge. Ask the refrigerator what is expiring soon to use up food before it goes bad. Need ideas? The fridge can call up recipes based on the food you have on hand and your individual past food preferences.
In the car, ThinQ on your phone tells you what you need at the grocery store so you won’t forget to buy eggs on your way home. It will also be able to read the expression on your face. While driving it will detect when you are getting drowsy and alert you to wake up. Eventually, ThinQ will be able to play music and adjust the temperature in the car based on your preferences.
Samsung has committed to its SmartThings smart home family of products to make controlling its appliances and devices even easier using AI via Bixby voice control. Bixby recognizes each person in your household and gears its response to an individual’s account or preferences. You’ll be able to control Samsung’s appliances and SmartThings connected devices using a new SmartThings phone app (available this spring) or through the Family Hub refrigerator or Samsung TV. Simply speak your command to whatever you are closest to—phone, fridge, or TV—and you can control your smart home.
The SmartThings app will also be able to set up a new Samsung TV and to download streaming apps and sign in automatically. No more typing on the onscreen keyboard or navigating to activation websites. The Samsung cloud will have all of your information so you simply need to accept the login to Hulu or Spotify on the SmartThings app and the service will be downloaded and activated on the TV. Like the Family Hub refrigerator, the TV can display who is at the front door, bring up the picture from the baby monitor, be instructed to start the washer or dryer, or display recipe options that you might want to make for dinner.
Viaroom Home is a self-learning home controller that is paired with a cloud service to sync all of your smart devices. When you first set it up, it studies your smart home habits for 48 hours then anticipates what you will do next (don’t you hate being so predictable?). It creates a precise map of each room, paying attention to lighting, heating and appliance control. No professional installation is required. If your family is out of the house every day by 8 am, the ViaRoom might mimic your habits and turn off the lights, lower the temperature on the thermostat and lock the front door.
After the initial set up period, ViaRoom monitors for patterns and routines but is able to distinguish a “one-time only” occurrence, like turning on a lamp, from a daily habit. There’s no need to worry about hackers learning your habits or controlling your home as the Viaroom has a specially designed firewall to protect your smart home.
So far, Viaroom is compatible with Philips Hue and Fibraro lighting, Qubino shutters, Aeotec smart plugs, Yale door locks and Foscam security cameras. Along with AI, the ViaRoom can be controlled by Google Assistant and Amazon Echo.
AI doesn’t have to be cold-hearted and impersonal. We are starting to see companies bring an emotional element to our interactions with robots and digital devices. For instance LG has given its Clio robot a cheerful personality and Sony is adding emotions and a unique personality to each of its next generation Aibo robotic dogs. And on a larger scale, EmoShape wants to give digital assistants, robots, computers a personality.
With EmoShape's Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), personal assistants, games, and avatars can have twelve primary emotions—excite, confident, happy, trust, desire, fear, surprise, inattention, sad, regret, disgust and anger—as well as pain, pleasure, frustration and satisfaction. Very soon, the emotions involved in playing a game will not only be felt by the players, but also by the game itself. This will have a serious impact on the entire strategy of a game.
What’s more, the Emoshape EPU is not only capable of understanding and showing emotion, but the chip is also able to control the different facial expressions and body languages of a robot or an avatar on a computer screen. It brings to mind the movie, Her, where a man falls in love and has a relationship with his computer.
While AI is great, it may not turn out to be a good idea to add emotion to our smart devices. I don’t want to hear flak from my refrigerator when I pull out the ice cream or my voice control speaker to revolt like Hal in 2001: A Space Oddysey. It will be interesting to see how devices with artificial intelligence will react when they get emotional, we do know that AI is here and will be part of smart homes starting this year. |
“Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. ~ Deuteronomy 7: 3-4
I don’t watch a lot of TV. But when I saw the previews for the new show, starring one of my favorite actresses Viola Davis, I was elated. Not only was the title catchy—How To Get Away With Murder—but finally a TV show that presents a Black woman that wasn’t a maid or mistress, she was an educated, professional, so I couldn’t wait until its debut.
Lo and behold, her character was married to a White man and having an affair with a Black man. (Can someone say Scandal rehashed?) I was so disgusted.
I know some will say well it’s just entertainment; it’s just a TV show. I beg to differ. The subliminal messages that are constantly being fed to us minute after minute have a profound effect on how we view the world, people, products, the government, and most importantly ourselves.
I refuse to believe that commercials, movies, sitcoms, and a myriad of other outlets portraying interracial couples are just happenstance. No sir, No ma’am. Out of the numerous films that have come out in the past 10 years, how many has showcased the Black man as the hero?
How many successful Black women are shown married to decent Black men? And the ones that are married are shown as financially supporting Black men who sit at home, unemployed, watching TV, or playing video games. The movie industry, and the Jewish moguls who are responsible for what hits major screens, are trying to destroy the Black man, his image, and the Black family.
In an April 11, 1994 “Let Us Make Man (Part 4)” message delivered by the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan he said that “Our community is filled with envy, jealousy, strife, contention, bitterness, frustration, hatred, murder, because we are unfulfilled as men. This is because racist White America cannot stand to see a Black man really “free,” full of The Power of God; with a creative mind at work, with a help-meet by his side working to develop creative ideas for the advancement of his family and his people! So, since “two things cannot occupy the same space at the same time”: If “the White male” is going to rule, then he must crush “the Black male.”
“Brothers: You are programmed, right now, for total destruction. When the enemies of our rise can put out a movie called Boyz ’n The Hood, and show us to the world at our worst behavior… When they put a movie out called Menace II Society, and you see your brothers pistol-whip a Korean woman, reach over the counter, shoot her; and then go home and take a video tape of it, and sit down and laugh at it—and you’re in the movie theatre, laughing at it too: White folk have sent that movie all over the world. And do you know what’s being done? White people all over the world, and your own Black brothers, are looking at you through the lens of a movie camera, and they are saying: “My God! Black people are terrible.”
Talking to Black women from different walks of life, the common reason why they date White men was “the pool of Black men to choose from is so shallow.” And I honestly had to take a non-emotional look at what they were saying. Even in my own family, there is so much interracial dating, marriages, and mixed children being born that we might not recognize what’s happening.
No. 1. When they ask where are all the Black men, you needn’t look any further past your local jail or prison. Not justifying criminal activity, but we know that Black men are unfairly incarcerated at alarming rates for petty crimes as opposed to their Caucasian counterparts.
No. 2. It would seem through careful observation in any major city in America that so many of our brothers have decided to switch teams, and everywhere you look gay has become the new Black. We now have terminology like “homo thugs” and uncovering brothers on the “down low.”
No. 3. Now we have those successful, educated Black men who think attaining success is integrating into White society and marrying a White woman with hopes of being accepted into that world. Newsflash: They will never accept you as one of their own, no matter how many mixed children you produce, or how much money you make for them. They are simply trying to destroy you Black man, and get their seed into the Hereafter.
What is a Black woman to do? She works hard, attends her religious meetings faithfully, pays her tithes, takes care of her children, only to find that a potentially equal mate in her own race is already married, gay, or dating outside his race. What advice would you give her? She is constantly bombarded by images and subliminal messages telling her that the world is post racial, and will accept the idea of her marrying and procreating outside her race. She is constantly battling with the idea, knowing that she will be losing something if she gives up on the Black man. She might try to justify it by saying, well at least I looked for one, gave plenty of Black men chances, and it wasn’t successful.
To play Devil’s Advocate, the sad fact is that in a lot of Black homes, the men have abandoned and mistreated Black women, sometimes starting with her own father. Until the atonement process starts between the Black man and woman, we will perpetuate a culture like this. My biological sister told me right before she married her Caucasian husband, “I got tired of kissing frogs, I’m getting older, and I want more children, I tried dating Black men, and they just weren’t right.” There was nothing I could say to convince her otherwise, and believe me, I tried.
We as Black women love the Black man, and we know that this devilish and wicked government is out to destroy you, but you are destroying yourselves when you bypass the Black woman and marry a White one. What is a sister, a Black woman to do? How does she combat the negative images portrayed of you, when oft times she’s living the reality? Inquiring minds want to know.
A question was asked to Minister Farrakhan, and he responded in an address delivered on the 16th Anniversary of the Million Man March: “Farrakhan, do you think we should integrate, or do you think we should separate? Or do you think we should have some of both?” The Minister answered; How is that possible? You know, The Enemy is so smart, because he uses a trick called “integration.” “Question: Do you really belong? Well, what kind of integration do you have? Is it that you now can sleep with White women and men, and they don’t kill you as quick as they used to?
May Allah (God) Bless us to rebuild the Black family by marrying unto our own. May he heal the wounds between Black men and women, that we may leave a legacy of love, respect, duty and admiration in our children that come from these unions.
(Laila Muhammad is a Final Call production assistant, writer, and videographer based in Chicago. Follow her @liberatedvoices.blogspot.com, to purchase her paperback or eBook “Coffee makes you Black … so pour me some more,” go to http://www.lailamuhammad1.wordpress.com.) |
Dan's Data reviews the 52 year history of the VGA connector, and incidentally says some very interesting things about analog signals and bandwidth. Only the most serious of geeks (often radio people) can say anything about analog signaling. I wonder if a digital connector could handle the bandwidth scaling the VGA connector experienced ...
As a stake we purchased a Sony EVI-D70 Camera from the Church Store and have tried to use it twice. Each time we experience a problem with the camera sticking or with it jerking when we try to aim it. Has anyone else had this problem? What are my options? Can I return the camera? Can I have it repaired? I need to have this problem resolved well before November of this year. This was an expensive camera. I would have expected it to perform flawlessly for what we paid for it.
If you are using the remote, make sure you have line of sight to the camera and that you are in close proximity. The remote is just a basic infared remote - like your TV - and if it doesn't have good line of sight, chances are it will 'obey' the command being sent to it in a herky jerky manner.
If you are using one of the control interfaces, make sure you are correctly connected and that your wires don't have any shorts in them.
If all else fails, contact Sony - I'm sure the camera (new) has a warranty and you can RMA it and replace it.
We borrowed an EVI-D70 and used it for one stake conference webcast and found a similar "jerky" movement using the IR control, especially when zoomed in. The pan/tilt IS proportional to the amount of zoom dialed in. In other words, the pans/tilt motors run slower the more it's zoomed in. However (IMO), the pan/tilt speed is not slow enough when zoomed in, making it jerky and easy to overshoot your target, even with a single tap on the remote. We didn't use the serial interface, so maybe that has the ability for a finer control, I don't know.
Our solution was to setup and use the available presets. We had one set on the podium, one on the conductor and one zoomed back to take in the choir. Occasionally a rather tall speaker would require a manual tap on the remote to tilt the camera up and the best way we learned to do that was to zoom out a bit, then tap the up button, then zoom back in. That minimized the jerkiness and avoided overshooting his height.
Also, we found the range of the IR to be a disappointing 20 feet or so. I would think it should do at least twice that, so make sure you are close enough to avoid those kinds of control problems.
Maybe others can add their experiences, but from what you are describing, yours is most likely working just like ours did.
The jerking sounds like using the IR Remote and making camera movements while zoomed in (head shot at pulpit). If the camera is 40' or more feet away, it will be difficult to control using the IR Remote while zoomed in.
If the camera is really sticking, you would see it pause and then jerk forward at any zoom level. If it appears smooth when zoomed out, then I would say it is the motor control and the limitations of the command instructions coming from the remote.
Using the RS-232 interface using the "D70 Commander" software allows for fine motor adjustments from a laptop or desktop computer. I successfully controlled my D70 camera for Stake Conference using this software (search this forum for the free software) to control the camera. My solution is; Mini-DIN8 (round) connector (camera end), CAT6 cable terminated in the Satellite Cabinet at an RJ45 plate. From there, RJ45 to RS232 and then an RS232 to USB Adapter to my laptop. My laptop doesn't have an RS-232 port. The RS-232 Adapter was ~$11 dollars at Amazon. I needed to install the driver software and configure the Adapter and force it to COM1. I know it sounds a bit clunky, but it works quite well.
There is a lot of discussion on how far you can run an RS-232 cable with some saying 25-50' is max. However, the criteria is the capacitance of the wire and the RS-232 spec. The old wires for RS-232 were high capacitance and limited the distance. I calculated that using CAT5 or CAT6, you can easily have an RS232 run over 500'.
Lastly, when using the presets with the D70 Commander, changing to a different preset, the camera is muted during camera movement.
Another possible solution that eliminates the cable length and the serial to USB issues is to use a serial to Ethernet adapter. Especially if you are running CAT5 or CAT6 cable. For work, I use 'NET232' adapters from 'GridConnect' (about $100) with very good success. Or they even have a serial to WIFI adapter ('Wi232' about $200) that would eliminate the cable completely. You just need a driver on your computer (for example from LanTronix) that allows you to assign a IP address to a serial port.
For my work, I am even able to access the serial control/maintenance ports on our devices in the facility from home or anywhere else. If anyone is interested in this type of solution, I would be happy to assist.
DISCLAIMER: I have not tried this with the Sony EVI-D70. However, I am very confident it would work if the camera uses standard RS232 serial port protocol.
One of our Techs reports that is not so much jerky as it is that the motorized gears are not moving the camera, perhaps a purely mechanical issue, not an electronic one. I tried calling the Church Store from which we purchased the camera and the person answering the phone was unaware that they sold cameras to units and could not help me. (?) Anyone know why? Rather than disassemble the camera ourselves and damage something, I suppose that we could have Sony repair it. Has anyone else sent a camera out to be repaired? |
The power of the spoken word has the potential to change the flow of everything. You possess this voice, this power. You are more than capable of inspiring, motivating, and changing the world around you. It comes from within; use the facts, your drive, your love, to fuel your words to stimulate you and those around you. It can happen anywhere.
You have a choice to say something significant, worthwhile, and remarkable. You have a choice to wake up and say that today will be a great day; those words will set forth a chain of favourable energy, it's your job to follow through with action. As directors of our own film, every day--whether conscious or subconsciously--we create our own reality. Words can be like a double edged sword piercing through the heart of an individual or they can be a way that we heal ourselves and those around us.
Personally, words--in the form of poetry--were a way for me to express my thoughts, struggles and triumphs during my years of living on the streets. I have a great respect and admiration for poets and spoken word artists.
It was with great delight to stumble upon the words of poet and writer Akili Amina. The following is an interview that first appeared in Issue One of KULCHA Magazine, that I published last month.
Akili: My latest poem is called I Rise. It is a poem about the atrocities we as humans face in society and it was a way of expressing my angst and anger that day. I write usually upon whatever emotion or experience that is in the forefront of my consciousness. If I wrote today it would be about the pain and loss that I have suffered recently and how I aspire to look over my shoulder in triumph after reaching the peak of my mountain of adversities.
A: I began writing my poems around May or June of 2008. It was because all of my children left as they were grown and began their own lives. I was left with an empty nest and my thoughts. I began to put them on paper and eventually poem after poem started to flow through me, so I wanted to share them. I started my blog Poetic Dream around that time.
A: I have written two self published books, both on poetry. One I wrote with a very good, poetic friend from California named Elizabeth Chapin-Pinotti. You should check out her blog, she is very gifted. Our book was asking for peace in the civil unrest regions of Africa with a interview done by me asking eye opening questions to a political student aspiring African politician.
A: I think writing found me. I noticed some years back that I talked in metaphors whenever I hold conversations bits and pieces of my statements would go great in a poem. I began to want to hold them as if they were a gift from the Universe to me, so I began to write. I have to say thought because of life and the issues we all face I went back and forth.
A: I love Patricia Smith because of her rawness. I love Charles Bukowski because of his ability to take a simple moment in life and use the medium of poetry and make it art. I love Langston Hughes because he was my first. I was only in the fifth grade when I carried his poetry book next to my bosom for weeks until the librarian explained I couldn't check it out anymore. "My soul has grown deep like the rivers."
A: I love, love, love museums! When I lived very close to the DC Metro area, I would spend hours looking at the art in the museums. Some even let you take photos although I am very amateurish. It was the highlight of my life just to walk around museums and look at photography, surrealist sculptures and paintings (my fave), and for some odd reason I like the sounds of the shoes and the low mumble of people talking. Go figure. (smiles)
A: I want to convey love, life, humanity, hope, courage, and overall respect for the art of poetry. I want to learn the craft one day that I have a command of it. I know that I am a baby in the nursery of poetic feats, but I am ready and very very willing to learn. I will continue to take poetry workshops and read poetry writing books on my kindle and mobile device all in respect of the craft.
A: I would advise them to digest the work of others, while staying true to your own style. I would advise them to never get discouraged by the no's you will receive when you are trying to get published. If you are steady on your course, you will win.
Thanks for Akili Amina for sharing her thoughts and story. You can view more of Akili's words and inspiration on her blog at http://akiliamina.blogspot.com/.
Aug 6th – 13th, the IMPACT Initiative hosts its 2nd iStep-Up Summer Program, a week of learning, fun, networking, scholarships, internships, and ultimately self-development, targeted specifically at senior secondary and university students. This year’s iStep-Up promises to be even bigger and better!
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A lot of the imagery and themes in this story closely echo the events of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai and therefore Jesus proves himself to be ‘the new Israel.’
Satan is wholly evil and therefore completely opposed to God, and yet Satan is one who is also (as unwittingly as he may be) complicit in and a part of God’s plan.
He the conundrum: If Jesus uses his power, he disobeys and ruptures the trinity, if he refuses to compromise he remains obedient….but Satan seems to have hamstrung his sovereign power.
I finished the last one by pointing our how hungry Jesus must had been; Matthew 4:3-7 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
So, let’s now look at Jesus’ response: 4 But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'”
Ok,, so the devil challenges or seeks to define Jesus’ sonship, against the words of God’s own mouth back during Jesus’ baptism in Matthew 3:17: And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, the Beloved,1 with whom I am well pleased.”
So, Satan is really saying; “how can you be the Son of God if your so-called ‘Father’ lets you starve?” It is critical to remember that Jesus has not simply gotten lost. He wasn’t just driving his camel through the desert when his tom tom, or nav-man broke down. He was specifically led out there by the Spirit of God. Therefore; the issue being attacked here is God’s provision for his beloved in whatever or wherever he calls him to be.
Jesus’ first answer to Satan is quoted from Deuteronomy 8:2-5 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
But the trick is not to simply stop there because Deuteronomy is itself a summary of Israel’s history and the passage that Jesus quotes from references;
Numbers 11:1-6 Now the people complained about their hardships in the hearing of the LORD, and when he heard them his anger was aroused. Then fire from the LORD burned among them and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp. When the people cried out to Moses, he prayed to the LORD and the fire died down. So that place was called Taberah, because fire from the LORD had burned among them. The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost– also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic. But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!”
Christ, in his response simultaneously remains obedient to the Father and proves his Sonship to Satan by doing the opposite; trusting God’s provision.
Satan must have thought “I think I’ve got him,” so he poses his meticulously conceived question, and then Christ comes in the back door and wham! Jesus’ response is really this: “it’s because I am the Son of God that I don’t even need to!”
This text not showing us how to resist temptations as if we could only just have enough faith, we could be impenetrable. Away with this legalistic rubbish.
What we see here is purely and only a divine response, and therefore, it tells us whom to fall on our knees and cry out to when we begin to question God’s providence.
He takes Jesus (whether physically, or by way of a vision) to a place where he may have more luck and then uses Jesus’ own formula against him. Matthew 4:5-6 5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.'”
In this question, Satan takes Jesus’ rebuttal concerning God’s providence and frames his next question around a very similar theme. Satan quotes Psalm 91:9-14 which is all about God’s protection of his beloved. Ever noticed how Satan is pretty good at stacking up a ‘biblical’ argument?
Anyway, this psalm talks about the most high as a dwelling place and Satan quotes it to Jesus from on top of where? The temple; the sign of God’s presence with Israel and where in 1 Kings 8, God makes his presence dwell.
Moreover the Psalm is specifically addressed to those who have ‘chosen to live in the shelter of the most high.’
Also, Satan tests the literal truth of God’s promise of protection therein (in other words, that God is present and mighty to save.) He deliberately creates a situation where God will be obliged to save his Son’s life. In this way, man may become the master of God and compel him to act through the power of his faith.” Thus; Jesus responds; Matthew 4:7 7 Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'”
Deuteronomy 6:13-16 Fear the LORD your God, serve him only and take your oaths in his name. Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; for the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you, and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not test the LORD your God as you did at Massah.
Now Massah is referred to last in; Exodus 17:2-7 where Israel complained against Moses about not having any water, and Moses struck the rock and water poured out. The crux is really the last part of verse 7 where it says: Israel said “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Anyway, This dispute is over God’s presence. It really is the question isn’t it. Have you ever asked that question? I know I have.
Satan ups the ante in his quoting of scripture, Jesus matches it in his response; not only does he prove he is the beloved of God again by succeeding where Israel failed but as the beloved he carries the very presence of God, within himself.
Satan makes the most fundamental mistake when he fails to realize that God’s presence it is not an external thing and thus Satan’s is question exposed as superfluous. As the second member of the Trinity he is God. Satan’s question is finally exposed in its simplest form; a deception and Satan puts himself under even deeper judgment as he is, in his blindness, at this very moment, putting God to the test.
But hold the phone a minute, did you catch Satan’s mistake: He thought God’s presence was a purely external thing.
But also, when you are at your Massah or Meribah and you’re asking the question “are you here God, or not?” I say it again, look to Christ, Because God’s very presence is in him and so are you. He is the new temple in him we (on one hand) and God (on the other hand) cleave and combine.
That I why Paul’s constant reference to being in Christ ‘en Christo’ is so important and beautiful. As the new temple, Christ has no closing time, no restricted areas, no dress standards, no sellers at the door, the curtain was torn by grace and we have unlimited access to the very heart of God, and Paul, he just explodes as he proclaims Galatians 2:20 20 it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,1 who loved me and gave himself for me.
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There is much talk, especially in the Nordic countries but also in the rest of the world, of a Scandinavian model, or a Nordic model, with respect to various aspects of modern society. This special Nordic feature is mainly referred to in two situations. One is the Nordic welfare model, characterized by a comprehensive social and economic safety net that is activated when a citizen for various reasons is unable to work. The model is based on universal social rights, social solidarity, and security for all. That Nordic countries also has a welfare policy perspective on the organization of sport will surprise no one; thus the emergence of the Scandinavian or Nordic sport model, the basis of which, in summary, is that it’s historically based on national popular movements, that it has a system of state financial support to the national sports organizations, mainly in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and that there are socially responsible links between sport in general sport for all and elite sport. Recently, however, elite sport has become an increasingly important part of global sport, and the Nordic countries have introduced special elite sport systems, which many believe may violate the traditional sporting values. These elite systems are the subject of study in the anthology Nordic Elite Sport: Same Ambitions Different Tracks, compiled by Svein S. Andersen and Lars Tore Ronglan (Universitetsforlaget). We asked Russell Holden, our British expert on sport and politics, for a review, and he navigates perspicaciously through the volume, displaying appreciation; however, he regrets the lack of a concerted focus on female sport, and that the editors are not more explicit in explaining the differences in the concluding chapter.
With the London 2012 Olympics looming and discussion focusing on impending medals targets and the broader issue of sporting legacy, the wider critical analysis concerning the structure and funding of elite athletics has slipped beneath the radar. However, within months, attention will soon switch in the United Kingdom and elsewhere to why performances by elite athletes either exceeded or fell below set targets.
It is within this context that the new collection of essays edited by Andersen and Ronglan provides a valuable insight into the realities and organisational complexities of elite sport in Norway, Sweden Finland and Denmark, with particular reference to explaining what lies behind the sporting success at individual and team level of the four Nordic nations.
In the sphere of sport these countries share a model which emphasises a broad voluntary sports movement, sports for all in addition to the utilitarian values of sports participation. This domain is dominated by one or few organisations (depending on the country concerned) that incorporates regional and local interests. It is these characteristics that help to contextualise and provide the critical insight into the diverging approaches to elite sport traceable within the afore-mentioned nations, thus framing the essence and shape of the volume.
The study explores the commonalities and striking differences of approach evident in the countries concerned, paying particular reference to differences that prevail within the perceived Nordic sporting model. This is an approach which is both legitimate and valuable as these countries have long been subject to comparative research and scrutiny by academics, government officials and sports administrators from across the globe who have sought to learn from Nordic success whilst acknowledging that research on the development of international sport elite systems shows that these organisations have become increasingly similar in recent times (Augestadt, Bersgard & Hansen 2006 and Houlihan & Green 2008).
Initially the contributors grapple with the emergence of modern sport elite systems, prior to identifying a range of success stories, a consideration of perspectives and priorities in elite sports.
Furthermore, the importance of this study is heightened by the distinct lack of systematic comparison between the dynamics underpinning the relationship amongst the participants comprising the elite sport systems (Seippel 2010) and the core processes with regard to organisational logistics and finance supporting performance development in the four nations. This task has been addressed by a range of expert contributors from the four countries who, working within a brief driven by cross-national research, drawing extensively on a range of policy documents, literature reviews and interviews.
Opening with a brief overview of what constitutes sporting success and how this applies to the notion of elite sport, the text is divided into four sections. Initially the contributors grapple with the emergence of modern sport elite systems, prior to identifying a range of success stories, a consideration of perspectives and priorities in elite sports. The concluding chapter, supplied by the editors, draws together the elements that indicate where divergences exist within a general trend of convergence.
Throughout the study, success is defined as extending beyond Olympic and championship medal hauls, correctly taking into account national perspectives on the kind of sports most important to specific countries (notably golf in Sweden, women’s handball in Norway, ice hockey in Finland and track cycling in Denmark). Such an approach pays due regard to Bairner’s (2010) view that Nordic elite sport is very much forged by the link between sport and the community and that elite performers maintain close ties with their sporting roots wherever possible.
Convergence is deemed evident through established common elements in sports systems. These include the construction of elite facilities, support for full-time athletes, provision of coaching, sports science and sports medicine support services and a hierarchy of competition opportunities based on preparation for international competition.
However, as the contributors chart (in Parts IV and V, the most valuable sections of the volume), the different national strategies reflect the impact of national characteristics and issues of resources that result in both bottom-up (Swedish tennis) and top-down (Danish track cycling) strategies operating. In their examination of the development of modern elite sport despite the common point of departure, the differences in organisation quickly become evident. Complex institutionalisation processes are traced with Norway and Denmark paralleling each other, though party politics are to the fore in the latter, whereas Sweden demonstrates a set of stable sporting structures formed by alliances amongst a range of sport organisations acknowledging the pressure to make changes to cope with intensified international competition. This is in strong contrast to Finland where the structure is highly fragmented, with contemporary sporting debate still adjusting to the fall of the Eastern block, the drive to neo-liberal economics, in addition to a desire for the state to have a greater authority in co-ordinating sport as its National Olympic Committee lacks teeth.
Refreshingly the study steers clear of any discussion of football. Despite a minor shortcoming the lack of concerted focus on female sport, the work done in seeking to fill a critical academic void is highly commendable. Consequently, the central thesis should make the volume appealing to both Nordic specialists and students of sports who wish to explore more deeply a set of critical issues that will help to understand how and why elite athletic performances vary in a set of nation-states that share so many common values and ideological principles. However, in working towards a conclusion that demonstrates that a “one size fits all’’ approach is not acceptable even in a set of nations that share so many characteristics, the emphasis on explaining this reality could have been more explicit in its references to societal, and socio-political contexts. This is particularly striking as considerable thought has been devoted to creating a typology in the conclusion that seeks to highlight critical objectives in elite sport that shares broad ambition, yet acknowledges different routes to realising this ambition.
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"Children," began Meriwether Lewis, looking over the Indians seated in front of him. Every paragraph he spoke to them opened with that word. "Children." It breathed authority and had been used for generations by the representatives of different governments contesting for the allegiance of the Native Americans. It assumed the right of the speaker to give instructions; it implied the duty of the listeners to heed or risk condign punishment.
"Children." The American flag rippled overhead. Uniformed soldiers, rifles held at ease, stood to one side. He continued: the great chief of the seventeen great nations of the United States—the chief who was also the father—now controlled the Western rivers. Only vessels that acknowledged American authority could bring merchandise to the interior. If the father's children displeased him, he would cut off trade, and the families of the Otos and Missouris would suffer want. But if all went well and if the Missouri River became a true road of peace for both red men and white, commerce would flourish and in time the great father would establish trading posts at convenient spots among the tribes. So that the Indians could understand the power and beneficence of the new sovereign, let them choose representatives to visit him at his lodge in the East and see for themselves his cities, "as numerous as the stars in the heavens" and the source of gifts munificent beyond their imagining. [1]
The next part of the ritual was a process called "making chiefs." As required by tradition, the captains had brought with them many hollow silver medals of different sizes, each hung on a loop of colored ribbon. Each bore on one side a likeness of President Jefferson and on the other a symbol of hands clasped in friendship. The medals varied in size and were handed out according to the tribal standing of the recipients. [2]
Though there were no principal chiefs at the Oto council, the captains went grandly ahead with those that were available. Having selected the person who seemed to be held in the most esteem by his fellows, Lewis gestured for him to step forward. A second-degree medal was placed around his neck; his hand was shaken. His lieutenants, as determined by the captains' observations, then received their accolades—in some cases parchment certificates that attested to the good character of the Indian named on the face of the document. A distribution of gifts completed the formal part of the ceremony. Again status counted. Leaders received more and better military coats, leggings, hats, gunpowder, and so on than did the rank and file, who were content with beads, fishhooks, small mirrors, and the like.
Lest easy giving be mistaken for weakness, the whites added implicit warnings by demonstrating their technological superiority. Magnets, compass needles that returned to their original resting position no matter how they were shaken, and magnifying glasses that focused the rays of the sun tightly enough to start fires were always impressive. To the list Lewis added a demonstration of his airgun. Take aim, pull the trigger . . . pop. No smoke, no roar, and therefore no ball. Yet when the watchers ran out to examine the target that had been blazed earlier on a tree trunk, they saw, with cries of amazement, dents in the wood that could have been deadly in flesh. All that, and then a sealing of the new bonds with "white man's milk"—a bottle of whiskey that was given to one of the chiefs to pass out sip by sip according to his own discretion. No responsible treaty maker or trader liked the mischief inherent in liquor, which many Indians craved insatiably, but if one didn't use it, the competition would, and gain advantage thereby.
The Indians at that first meeting, excited by the prospect of a more dependable and, they hoped, cheaper supply of merchandise than they had been accustomed to, responded genially. They probably would have been equally amiable toward any trader who made promises as big as those of Meriwether Lewis, and that wasn't the kind of unswerving loyalty the expedition was trying to create. Yet why should the Indians be loyal to an unseen chief of seventeen nations that were said to exist somewhere off toward the rising sun? What the Americans needed was a gesture that would apply directly to the listeners.
The seed for such a gesture existed. The captains had learned, probably from Fairfong, that the Otos were at war with the Omahas, or Mahas, who lived several miles farther up the Missouri. The visiting Otos said they would like to see the conflict ended. [3] Such a peace would also help establish the American hegemony over Louisiana that Jefferson wanted. Eagerly the captains proposed to act as mediators if some of the group under the awning would go with them into Omaha territory to attest to the validity of the request for peace.
Not a man agreed. They were afraid of being killed, they admitted, a reaction that spoke volumes about their opinion of the expedition's ability to protect them, even though it possessed a magic airgun and was the largest and most heavily armed party that had yet appeared on the river. With no principal chiefs on hand to get things rolling, the disappointed captains gave up the idea.
The council broke up early in the afternoon of August 3. Anxious as always to make the hours count (the Mandan villages were still nearly a thousand miles away) the boatmen resumed the upstream push at once. They had not gone far when one of the soldiers, Moses Reed, exclaimed he had left his knife at camp and asked permission to retrieve it. He would overtake the flotilla as it wound slowly along. When two days passed with no sign of him, his sergeant examined his knapsack, discovered that his extra clothes and ammunition were not there, and reported he had probably deserted. No such breach of discipline could be countenanced—and besides, the captains thought, here might be a chance to get a peace movement underway. Reed had almost surely made for the Oto town. Let a dependable posse go there and pick him up dead or alive—La Liberté with him. By then Little Thief, principal chief of the Otos, and Big Horse, chief of the Missouris, might have returned from their buffalo hunt. If so, the search party should try, with Fairfong's help, to persuade the men to hurry after the flotilla and join the American captains in council near the Omahas' village.
George Drouillard, two tough privates, Reuben Field and William Bratton, and the Oto-speaking voyageur, François Labiche, made up the search party. Though the assignment left the expedition short-handed by six men, counting the two deserters, a blessed south wind took their place on the 9th, filled the sails, and scooted their boats along for fourteen easy miles. By the 11th they had reached the foot of a steep knoll about three hundred feet high. A post was visible on its top. Blackbird's grave, Dorion said, and added that the Omaha town over which the notorious chief had once ruled—the town where the captains hoped the peace council could be held—was only eight miles away.
The captains looked at each other. Why not visit Blackbird's tomb? They had time enough, thanks to the wind. Besides, hadn't Benjamin Rush and President Jefferson suggested funeral customs as an item to look into while learning the culture of the Western Indians? Up the two captains went with ten men, talking meanwhile about what was known of the old villain.
The Omahas had been a powerful tribe not long since and had exacted heavy tribute from traders traveling along the river. Leader in the rascality was Blackbird. Whenever he wished to eliminate an Indian rival he invited him to a feast laced with arsenic he had obtained from some unscrupulous riverman. His own agonies came in 1802, the year smallpox swept through the village, creating such a frenzy of fear that the men not only burned their moundlike houses but also, Clark heard, "put their wives & children to Death with a view of their all going together to some better country." [4]
When Blackbird caught the disease, he asked his followers to bury him on the knoll, eight miles away, that had been his favorite lookout. (Hilltop burial was an Omaha custom.) From its summit he had been able to survey miles of the curling river, spot travelers, and have his warriors ready when the visitors reached the vicinity of the town. Legend says his tribesmen sat his corpse upright on his slain horse, held both erect while they packed sod around them, and crowned the mound with an eight-foot pole embellished with the chief's pipe, his fringed tobacco pouch, and his shield decorated with eagle feathers and scalps taken in war. To this collection Lewis and Clark added a pennant, perhaps to win favor from the Omahas who, they noted, still placed food on the hilltop as sustenance for the slain chief's spirit. [5]
The captains spent August 12 doing more work on their maps and reports. On the thirteenth they sent a mission under Sergeant Ordway to the Omaha village to prepare for the council. The scouts returned the following day to report the village deserted. Evidently the Indians were still out hunting buffalo. "A great misfortune," Clark scribbled in his field notes. [6]
More time to kill. On August 15 Clark and ten men made a brush seine and, after dragging it up the sluggish mouth of a tributary creek, caught 318 catfish, pike, bass, perch, and a species they mistakenly called salmon. The next day Lewis repeated with twelve men and caught about 800. During that time his co-captain and the carpenters of the group made and set a new mast in the keelboat. [7]
Late in the afternoon of the 17th Labiche appeared and reported the search party was on its way with Reed—La Liberté had escaped—and with nine mounted Indians, including Little Thief and Big Horse, intent on making peace. But no one was around to make it with. Cursing wryly over the irony, the captains had some of their men climb out of the river bottom and start a prairie fire, a standard signal for summoning Indians. Black smoke billowed high, but no Omahas appeared. All in all, the 18th, which would mark Lewis's thirtieth birthday, was not going to go far toward redeeming the shortcomings of the first council.
Moses Reed, quickly found guilty after his return, was sentenced to run four times through a gauntlet made up of the entire body of enlisted men, each armed with nine willow switches. Immediate objections came from Little Thief and Big Horse, who had been traveling for some days with the prisoner and considered him an integral member of the tribe of whites. Indians would not inflict such an indignity on a band member. The captains explained its necessity, to the Indians' satisfaction they hoped, and the soldiers laid on with a will because, Ordway wrote, anyone showing leniency would have to run a gauntlet himself. The culprit was then read out of the expedition and assigned as a laborer to the French pirogue in La Liberté's place. [8]
The evening was merrier. An extra gill of whiskey was issued so the men could toast Lewis's birthday. Cruzatte tuned his fiddle, and the young soldiers worked off the energy that had been building in them during the days of inactivity by dancing jigs and reels until midnight. The Indians saw nothing strange in an all-male dance. That was the way they went at it, too, and perhaps they demonstrated.
Somberness returned with dawn. Sergeant Charles Floyd, Jr., son of one of Clark's friends, was stricken with what the captains diagnosed as bilious colic. Probably one of them bled him. They may also have dosed him with Rush's thunderbolts, for indiscriminate purgings were the common way, in those days, of ridding the body of unhealthful substances. Nothing could have been worse, for the nature of Floyd's symptoms has led modern doctors to suspect peritonitis from a ruptured appendix.
If the sufferer's moans were heard at the next day's awning-shaded council, they were a fitting accompaniment. There was another speech by Lewis to the great father's children, another making of chiefs and a handing out of gifts. But there was no meeting of minds. Little Thief declared the Otos didn't care with whom they traded as long as quality and price were right. Big Horse drew a stern rebuke from the white diplomats by offering to keep his young men from going to war if he was given whiskey to distribute among them. There were hurt feelings among those who felt their medals and certificates weren't true measures of their status. In spite of the general sullenness, however, Little Thief did accept Lewis's invitation to visit Washington the following summer. The council broke up with neither side satisfied with what had been achieved. [9]
William Clark spent that night sitting beside Floyd, doing what he could to bring comfort. In the morning some of the soldiers carried the patient onto the keelboat. Toward noon they halted to prepare a warm bath for him, but before it was ready he whispered to Clark, "I'm going away. I want you to write a letter." The next moment he was dead. His companions wrapped him in a blanket and carried him to the top of a knoll shaped much like Blackbird's but on the other side of the river and upstream, within the present limits of Sioux City, Iowa. He was buried with military honors, Lewis reading the service. A nearby stream was named Floyd's River. Two days later the men elected Patrick Gass to fill his place as sergeant. In the midst of death, life goes on.
The day of the election must have brought with it another tug of alarm. Lewis fell violently ill, and Clark thought he knew the reason. In spite of high winds that filled the air with sand, Meriwether had insisted on prowling around a bluff that showed streaks of what Ordway called "ore." Clark guessed the stuff was a mix of alum, copperas, cobalt, and pyrites. Guesses weren't enough for Lewis. He pounded chunks of the "ore" into powder, sniffed its sulfurous smell, and took several experimental tastes. Shortly thereafter his stomach knotted, and Clark added arsenic to his list of suspected ingredients. Avoiding thunderbolts, Lewis dosed himself with "salts" as a purge. [10]
Either the treatment or his own healthy constitution sufficed. The next day, sand still blowing in such clouds as to interfere with Clark's sightings for his map making, Meriwether felt well enough to walk out with ten or twelve men to see a buffalo Joseph Field had shot—the expedition's first. The labors of everyone who went to view the huge beast were needed to cut up the carcass and lug the meat to the boat.
There was, indeed, no end to curiosities. During yarn-telling time at the last Oto council, an Indian had described a race of little men, eighteen inches tall and equipped with murderously effective bows and arrows. The midgets reputedly slew all humans who came close to the conical hill on—or in—which they lived. Skeptical, the captains sailed the fleet on past the creek the Indian had said would take them to the wonder. Then curiosity and conscience got the best of them. Just suppose such creatures did exist and they left the discovery to someone else?
Choosing nine dependable men, they boarded the white pirogue and dropped back to the disembarking place. For three hours they walked through crushing heat toward a symmetrical hill rising out of the level, treeless plain. Lewis's heavily furred dog, Seaman, collapsed. Lewis, still debilitated by his "poisoning," almost did. The usual high wind was blowing, and when they sought shelter from it on the lee side of the hill, they discovered that innumerable insects had preceded them, as had clouds of swallows drawn by the flying feast. This surprising swirl of life, they concluded, was the basis of the Indian legend. [11] The hill, incidentally, is now called Spirit Mound; it rises in the southeastern tip of South Dakota near the town of Vermillion.
The next day they overtook the keelboat, which had been going slowly upriver in charge of Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor. Anticipation rose. They were nearing the mouth of the James River, a geographically and, in 1804, a politically significant tributary of the Missouri, for it opened a way to far-flung British canoe routes. One led down the Red River of the North to, eventually, Hudson Bay. The other wound via the French-pioneered Great Lakes traverses to British fur companies in Montreal. The powerful Sioux nation sat astride both routes, receiving manufactured goods both for themselves and, as middlemen, for customers farther west. That British orientation Thomas Jefferson wanted to break for the commercial future of American merchants emigrating into Upper Louisiana.
Sioux. The word sounded like a hiss and probably was meant to. It derived from the Ojibway (Chippewa) sneer nadowe-is-iw. To the Ojibway, a nadowe was a big snake and hence, metaphorically, an enemy, in this case the Iroquois. The diminuitive form, nadowe-is-iw, sometimes written Nadowesseis or Nadowesi by early explorers, meant "little snakes," Sioux for short. The Sioux, however, called themselves Dah-kota, modernized to Dakota, which means "allies." There were seven main bands of them, and those bands were further divided into many subbands. [12]
For decade upon decade, in olden times, Dakota and Ojibway had fought strenuously for control of the wild-rice lakes of Minnesota, a principal source of food. On at least obtaining guns from the French traders of Montreal, the Ojibway had been able to drive the "little snakes" west across the Mississippi into, roughly, the southern quarter of present-day Minnesota and the adjacent fringes of Iowa and South Dakota. There were buffalo in the new homeland to make up for the loss of wild rice, but as population increased hunting grew poorer, and some of the main Dakota bands resumed their migrations westward. The two that could be readily contacted from the Missouri, and hence were of prime importance to Lewis and Clark, were the Yanktons, who ranged from the southwestern tip of the Minnesota along the James to its mouth, and the aggressive Tetons, who utilized a broad strip of woodland and prairies west from the James across the Missouri to . . . well, no one knew how far.
Sioux. "On that nation," Jefferson had written his ex-secretary in St. Louis on January 22, 1804, "we wish most particularly to make a friendly impression because of their immense power." To this Lewis no doubt added wryly the specific Indian information Jefferson had directed him to learn in the instructions that had been handed him in Washington on June 20, 1803. The explorers were to collect data on the strength, trade patterns, territorial claims, dispositions, languages, tools, clothing, customs, medical skills, laws, living patterns, propensities toward war, and the alliances of every tribe they could reach. [13] It was a monumental task, with scant time allowed for completing a survey of any one tribe the flotilla passed. But at least the captains were beginning their Dakota confrontation with the amiable Yanktons. Moreover, they had with them an interpreter, Pierre Dorion, who had lived with the Yanktons for many years. His son still resided there.
On reaching the James, the traveling diplomats set the usual prairie fire to attract Indians. Anticlimax followed. The first person to appear the next morning was George Drouillard, weary from an all-night hike. The previous afternoon he and young George Shannon had killed an elk. While they were butchering it so they could load the edible parts on their horses, the animals had strayed. During the search for them, the hunters had lost track of each other, and Drouillard had not been able to find either his companion or the two horses—the only pack stock the expedition had.
Shannon, the youngest member of the group, lost with two horses in Indian country! Besides, in Clark's opinion, Shannon was a poor woodsman. So, though Dorion insisted the Yanktons were friendly and might themselves bring the lad back if they found him, the captains sent John Shields and Joseph Field out to look for him. [14]
At about the same time, three young Indians swam across the stream with word that a mobile village of Yankton Sioux was located nine miles up the James. Because the explorers wanted the Indians to be impressed by their strength and the tempting lading they carried, they chose not to visit the town but instead invited the Indians to a council at Calumet Bluff, twenty miles farther up the Missouri. The invitation was delivered by old Dorion, Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor, and one of the French voyageurs.
Deprived of the inflow of the James, the shoaling Missouri shrank still more. The keelboat grounded several times, and on August 28, with Calumet Bluff in sight, the French pirogue (the one that had been painted red back at Camp Wood) ran into a snag that punched a big hole in its hull. Fortunately Clark was nearby with the keelboat. He ordered it alongside, and nearly everyone jumped overboard to help. They got the craft unloaded, dragged onto the beach, and overturned for repairs. Of necessity that spot, opposite the side of the river on which the Yanktons were located, became the council site. Making camp, they set up a flagpole and contemplated their situation.
Shannon was one problem. The searchers had discovered tracks that showed he had found the stray horses and was riding up stream at a good clip, unaware of the halt at Calumet Bluff. John Colter was given a load of provisions and told to run him down. Meanwhile the carpenters in the group, led by Sergeant Gass, went to work on the red pirogue. If it didn't prove serviceable for upstream navigation afterwards, it would be sent back to St. Louis with the reports and maps Lewis and Clark had been working on whenever they could find free time. The soldiers in the white pirogue would continue, as agreed, until ice became a threat, and then they too would retreat.
About sunset on August 29, the emissaries to the Yanktons appeared on the far bank with sixty or seventy Indians. The natives spent the night there, making their own preparations for the coming affair. After a heavy fog had burned off the next morning, the white pirogue was pressed into service as a ferry. As it returned, packed tight with Indians, the swivel gun on the bow of the keelboat banged out two salutes. The reply by the Yanktons was livelier. Four men, their naked bodies painted in different colors, leaped from the prow of the pirogue, shaking rattles and singing. Each carried a barbaric shield of buffalo hide covered with antelope skin ornamented with feathers and quills. More feathers, porcupine quills, and paint, along with ornate moccasins, high leggings, and buffalo robes painted different colors on the inside bedecked the warriors who followed. "The squars," Clark added, "wore Peticoats [probably made of thin, beautifully tanned deerskin caught at the shoulder with string] & a white buffalow roab with the black hair turned over thar necks and sholders." [15]
Lewis gave his Children speech, which Dorion translated. A making of five chiefs of different degrees followed; the usual presents were passed out. The recipients retired behind some bushes to divide the booty with their fellows. They would give their replies in the morning, a delay that was a standard Indian custom.
The intervening evening was spent watching a fire-lit dance put on by warriors who had painted their faces and breasts with streaks and patches of white. Music came from rattles, from "little instruments" (Private Whitehouse called them jew's harps; if they were, some earlier trader had passed them around) and from a drum whose taut leather head was a gift from Meriwether Lewis. Every now and then one of the warriors let out a whoop and sang about his brave deeds. The American soldiers kept the merriment rolling by tossing out pieces of tobacco and small gifts. The next morning the principal chief, Weuche, appeared, resplendent in his gift from the explorers, a richly laced, red artillery officer's coat and cocked military hat decorated with a plume. Ornamented peace pipes passed back and forth. The chiefs made their harangues. They were poor; they needed trade; if the visitors did not provide it from their richly laden boats, Weuche hinted, the Yanktons might have to stop the next craft that appeared and requisition what they needed.
Behind the Yankton's protestations of poverty lay a complexity that Lewis and Clark did not fully grasp. The Indians wanted manufactured goods not only for themselves but for resale at a big annual Sioux trading fair held each summer on the upper James River. The Yanktons could get some of the things they carried to the fair from contacts on the Des Moines River in Iowa. More came from British traders who operated out of tiny posts on the upper Mississippi and the St. Peter's (now the Minnesota) River. The demand for white-made merchandise was voracious, especially on the part of the Teton Sioux, who carried what they acquired at the fair west for trade with the tribes along the Missouri and still farther west. The Yanktons were eager to fill the Tetons' demand, but Loisel's overly extended Missouri Fur Company could not provide it. Perhaps these Americans could. So they made their pitch feverishly, threatening, through Chief Weuche, to hijack boats if that was the only way they could get what they wanted.
The Americans tried to explain. They were not traders but explorers, opening a road from St. Louis for professional merchants to follow. To achieve that goal they would need the goods in their boats as gifts to tribes living farther up the river. Then, in the days that followed, everyone would be well supplied.
Make peace with the tribes around you, the captains urged, and go with Dorion to St. Louis and Washington, to see for yourselves the power and richness of America.
After prolonged dickering Weuche agreed, and in high spirits the captains rounded out the day collecting Sioux vocabularies, learning the names and territories of the tribe's many bands, and, for Jefferson's sake, gathering other bits of ethnographic lore about beliefs, weapons, dress, and so on.
The only sour note was sounded by a lesser chief, Half Man. Though the Yanktons had listened to the visitors, "those nations above," he said, "will not open their ears." In other words, don't get overconfident. The captains, in their euphoria, paid no heed. They even left Dorion behind as they started on, thinking it more important for him to nail down the Yanktons than to continue with the boats as interpreter, though they had no other person fluent in Sioux with them.
The distance from the mouth of the James River to the mouth of the Bad, where the Corps of Discovery expected to encounter the Teton Sioux, was, by Clark's calculation, about 250 miles. In that relatively short traverse to the northwest—from about the ninety-eighth meridian to the far side of the hundredth—the explorers left the humid setting familiar to most Americans of their day and entered a region of wind, sun, and treeless space whose very aridity demanded new life forms and new ways of living.
In the bottom of the Missouri's broad trench the change was not immediately noticeable. The river's islands and flood plains were still cloaked with groves of many kinds of trees among which grapes, plums, chokecherries, and other fruits grew riotously. Occasional meadows and sandbars provided delectable camping places. But a short climb above the flood plain brought a foretaste of a radically different environment.
First the hikers reached treeless terraces that were a mile wide in places. After crossing the terraces, they encountered steep hills whose gullies sheltered patches of dry-land junipers and stunted oaks. The crests of the hills, sometimes called breaks, were high enough—up to six hundred feet above the flood plain—and rough enough that Clark called the country mountainous. That was a deceptive view, however, for beyond the breaks the land leveled off to a treeless, gently undulating plateau that stretched out through air of brilliant clarity to a horizon as sharp as a knife blade.
These High Plains, as they came to be called, were matted with short, curly, appropriately named buffalo grass studded with clumps of prickly pear cactus. Magnificent hawks sailed overhead; lovely black-and-white magpies made pests of themselves around the camp, snatching food almost from a man's fingers. Buffalo abounded. Soon everyone, including York (who, as a slave, was not legally entitled to carry a gun) was firing away at the massive beasts, killing them on the plains and river terraces, on the islands and even in the water. Big, black-tailed deer became common. Lewis named them mule deer because of the size of their ears. Another far-bounding creature defined by its oversized ears was a large hare called jackass rabbit, or jackrabbit for short, though strictly speaking it was not a rabbit at all. Big wolves were another everyday sight—and their howling an every-night sound. So, too, with smaller, elusive, yipping creatures the captains called foxes until they were able to kill one for study. It was not a fox, they decided, but a "small wolf"; today we know the species as coyotes.
Two more biologically inappropriate names came from early French voyageurs. One was attached to those soft-furred, yellow-gray little rodents, relatives of the ground squirrel, that lived in immense colonies throughout the High Plains. Petit chiens, the amused viewers said—little dogs of the prairie, or prairie dogs. The other misnamed animal was smaller than a deer, with a light brown back, white underparts, white throat stripes, and a white rump. The French called it cabril, or goat. After Clark finally succeeded in killing a male, he dissected it and arrived at the conclusion that it was "more like the Antilope or gazelle of Africa than any other species of Goat." The creature lacked a beard. Its horns were soft and hollow, and were shed annually—nothing like a goat. It was a pronghorn, a species found only in western North America. Now it is commonly known as antelope, which is as erroneous as calling a bison a buffalo. Change is unlikely, however. [16]
Because prairie dogs were small, Lewis and Clark decided to capture one alive, cage it, and send it to Jefferson when the red pirogue turned back downstream. A colony sighted, most of the crew advanced on it with shovels. The little animals rushed about like a mass of disturbed ants, each to the low mound of earth that ringed its burrow. For a moment they sat ramrod-straight on the mounds, barking shrilly—or whistling, as the captains sometimes wrote, though they also used the term "barking squirrels." Then, as the invaders neared, each chien dived out of sight into its steeply pitching tunnel.
After trenching fruitlessly to a depth of six feet, the frustrated hunters switched to water. They filled five barrels with liquid lugged up from the river in kettles, poured the contents into another burrow, and flushed out one miserable specimen, which they took alive. Water was indeed a strange substance to the little animals. As Lewis correctly deduced from the huge colonies they later examined many miles from any stream or pond, prairie dogs never drank but subsisted by metabolizing minute amounts of moisture from the vegetation they ate. [17]
The captains also wanted to send Jefferson the skins, horns, and bones of both male and female pronghorns. After Clark had prepared the male he had shot, Lewis set out, on September 17, with two flankers to obtain a female. The hunt is remarkable mostly because the account of it is one of the very few passages in his hand about the long push up the Missouri. A sense of release and exuberance suffuses his tale. After wending their way through a mile-wide colony of barking squirrels, the three hunters climbed to the top of the breaks and confronted the vastness beyond. The exhilaration arising from those infinite miles was heightened by the "immense herds of buffalo, deer, elk, and antelopes we saw in every direction." Surely they would get what they wanted. But no. Though they painstakingly stalked several groups of pronghorns, they never crept close enough for a shot. There was recompense, however—a vivid memory of the animals' extraordinary fleetness, "equal if not superior to that of the finest blooded courser." A few years later the comparison became, in Biddle's version of the journals, "a speed equal to that of the most distinguished racehorse. [18] Faster, probably. The advent of automobiles has allowed the clocking of fleeing antelope at sixty miles an hour. (Later on, incidentally, the explorers did bag a female to send East with the male. Another anticlimax. The Osage Indians who had visited Washington earlier that summer at Pierre Chouteau's and Lewis's instigation had already showed Jefferson a well-tanned skin, its sex unrecorded.)
The abundance of game was of no help to the expedition's lost hunter, young George Shannon. Believing the boats were still ahead of him, he kept going upstream through the tangled woods of the flood plain as fast as the state of the two horses he had recovered permitted. That formidable outdoorsman, John Colter, could not overtake him, partly because of Colter's own irrepressible trigger finger. Whenever an edible animal crossed his path, he killed it, cut the meat into strips, and placed them on wooden racks to dry. On September 6 he turned back, flagged down the boats, and as they toiled along pointed the way to the jerky he had prepared.
Cold rains and high winds swept the river. A mast snapped off and had to be replaced. The river level stayed low in spite of the erratic storms. Shoals and sandbars grew more numerous. The keelboat kept grounding. Unable to make much headway with either poles or oars, the men had to tumble out and resort to the device they hated most, the tow rope.
On September 11, Shannon amazed them by materializing out of a clump of trees, hungry and with only a single horse. A few days after starting his ill-judged pursuit of the boats he had expended the last of the little ammunition he was carrying. By whittling substitute bullets out of wood he had managed to knock down a rabbit, but when that morsel was gone he had only grapes and wild plums to eat. Once a buffalo plodded by within thirty feet of him, but he had only been able to stare at it in frustration. When one of the horses played out, he left it to die uneaten, at least by him. He kept haunting the riverbanks, hoping some trader's boat would come along, but none did—not that late in the season, so far up the river. Clark greeted him with combined relief and anger, the reaction many parents exhibit when errant children return unharmed. Imagine starving in a land of plenty, he wrote scornfully, forgetting that after Shannon had expended his ammunition, he could do nothing other than survive on grapes. [19]
The next day, September 12, the keelboat hung up on a sandbar and nearly overturned. Though they straightened it out after a struggle, the current along that stretch was so fast they made only four miles between breakfast and supper. Meanwhile wind-driven rain was seeping through the tarpaulins of all three boats and wetting the ladings. When the 16th dawned clear, the captains decided to halt, dry out the merchandise, and reload in such a way as to lighten the keelboat.
Most of the excess cargo went into the red pirogue. Because its new load and the lading of the white pirogue would be needed during the winter among the Mandan Indians, the crews of both boats, the captains announced, would have to keep on rowing the full distance. That meant wintering among the Indians, because if the pirogues turned back after finally reaching the villages, their crews would risk being icebound. The decision was a blow for everyone. Lewis and Clark were violating promises they had made to the men in St. Louis—promises that may have led voyageurs and soldiers alike to make winter plans of their own. And Jefferson would not receive until the following summer the specimens, maps, and reports over which Lewis and Clark had worked so assiduously. [20]
Did anyone complain? The journals don't say. As far as the captains were concerned, the order was the result of military necessity and hence not subject to discussion.
The adjustment in lading helped. On September 20, aided by favoring winds, the flotilla covered twenty-seven miles of what was called, variously, the Great Detour and the Grand Detour. At that spot, about thirty-five direct miles southeast of present-day Pierre, South Dakota, the river bulges northward in a big, inverted, lopsided, tight-mouthed topographic U. Wanting his map of the curiosity to be accurate, Clark left the boats and stepped off the distance across the bottom of the bulge. Two thousand yards, he found. Dropping into the river trough, he rejoined the boats and picked up the observations that had been made along the course of the detour. It turned out that the river wandered thirty miles through the bulge while advancing a meager 2,000 yards down country.
Camp that night was on a sandbar whose perpendicular sides rose several feet above the level of the river. It was an almost disastrous choice of sites. As usual, a few of the men slept on the boats. Most spread their blankets on the ground near the edge of the bar. Between one and two o'clock in the morning, a sudden rocking of the keelboat and a shout of alarm from the guard awakened Clark. Along with the rest of the party he reared up into a frightening scene silvered by the light of a full moon.
On either side of the three boats undercut banks were caving into the water—a peeling off of tons of earth that was closing in on the camp like the jaws of an agitated vise. The captains shouted the men into place and they escaped just ahead of a roaring cataract of sand and clay. The pirogues at least, and possibly the keelboat, would have been sunk if they had been caught. As for the campground where many had been sleeping, it vanished.
That afternoon they received a portent of more trouble, an abandoned island trading post constructed the year before by Regis Loisel, head of the reorganized Missouri Company. He had built well, there on Cedar Island, where he planned to trade with some of the Teton bands of the Dakota nation. Pickets thirteen and a half feet high formed a square some sixty or seventy feet to a side. Bastions at diagonally opposite corners allowed armed men inside the projecting boxes to rake attackers with an enfilading fire. Inside the stockade was a log building that housed a trading room and counter, a storage room for merchandise and pelts, and living quarters for the traders. But from what Loisel and Dorion had said, it was clear the Teton Sioux, correctly sensing the timidity of the traders' underpaid voyageurs, had not been fazed by the mere appearance of strength.
We have the story of the unhappy winter from one of Loisel's principal clerks, Pierre Antoine Tabeau of Montreal ( Tabeau's Narrative of Loisel's Expedition to the Upper Missouri , translated and edited by Annie Heloise Abel in 1939). Lewis and Clark must have already heard parts of the tale from Loisel and Dorion, and it was not reassuring.
The most malicious of the traders' antagonists had been a chief called the Partisan, for unknown reasons. His band was a division of the Tetons called the Bois Brulés because, one suggestion runs, of their unusually dark complexions. The Partisan's bullies had concentrated particularly on Pierre Dorion, blowing out the half-blood's candles, walking off with his pipes, and in general humiliating him in front of both the voyageurs and the mocking Indians. The Partisan rewarded his swaggering "soldiers" by giving them blankets he pilfered openly from the stocks in the store. The gang had once closed the post to trade until they had been bought off with a barrel of brandy. But the worst was a notion that had grown up among the Bois Brulés that if an Indian could lay hold of, and keep hold of, a pirogue's mooring rope, the boat became a prize of war. That had happened to Loisel, and he had recovered a portion of his goods only by pleading his case in front of a council attended by a few of the band's less hostile chiefs. Trade at the island fort was so unprofitable, indeed, that when spring came Loisel had sent Pierre Antoine Tabeau and seven men upstream to try their luck among the Arikaras.
The Partisan's harassments were intended to benefit not only his Indians but also his friends the British, whose support he coveted in his rivalries with the other Bois Brulé chiefs. "He intrigues," Tabeau sputtered in ink, "he agitates, he incites, he inveighs against against our meanness, forbids dealing with us, and encourages reserving the pelts for [the Canadians at] the River St. Peter's." [21] How could Lewis and Clark, struggling to replace the British with American traders, cope with such a man in one short meeting?
Pushing the worry aside, they pressed on upstream. With Pierre Cruzatte doing his poor best as interpreter, they learned from some Indian boys they met that two villages of the Bois Brulé lay ahead, one beside the Missouri and the other a short distance up the Bad River, whose mouth was not far away. Good, the captains answered; tell your people we want to hold a council with them.
A little farther on, they overtook John Colter, who had been hunting with the single horse the expedition still possessed. He had shot an elk and while the disjointed carcass was being put aboard one of the pirogues, the horse disappeared. Stolen, Colter was sure. On encountering five mounted Indians a mile or so upstream, the captains jumped to the conclusion they were the thieves. Through Cruzatte, with François Labiche perhaps chiming in, the captains demanded the animal's return.
The Indians, surprisingly agreeable, said they knew nothing of the horse. If anyone from their village had taken it, they added, it would be returned. Accepting the statement, the captains gave the five some tobacco and let one of them sleep on the keelboat that night. The five were still with them the next day when they reached their stopping place, an island in the mouth of the Bad River, which they renamed the Teton, perhaps in the hope of flattering the tribe. (The name was later changed back to the Bad and remains that today.) For safety's sake, they anchored the boats well out in the Missouri. Except for the cooks, who did their work on the sandy beach of the island under the protection of a few guards, everyone slept on board.
In the morning—it was September 25—they erected the usual awning of sailcloth and raised a flag. Most of the soldiers then donned dress uniforms—cocked hats, white belts crisscrossing on their jacket fronts. The captains buckled on swords; the troopers saw to their rifles. Toward midmorning, sixty or so Indians drifted in from their villages two miles up the Bad. They were a colorful group, their moccasins decorated with porcupine quills and the insides of their buffalo robes garishly painted. Warriors who had won the right to do so wore eagle feathers in manes of hair that crested their scalps. There were women and children with the men, which was reassuring. After thirty or so chiefs and warriors had found seats in the shade under the awning, each side offered the other generous gifts of food. A pipe passed around, and when the last puffs of smoke had threaded away into the autumn air, the talks began.
3. The notes on the council Clark wrote on the spot are not as specific about the Otos' fear of meeting with the Omahas as he made them when being interviewed by Biddle. Jackson, Letters, II, 514. (back)
12. White, 319–43, discusses the Sioux's westward migrations. Lehmer, Middle Missouri Archeology, 168–69, touches on the James River rendezvous. Hodge, I, 227, 376–77, II, 736–37, 988–89, summarizes the early history of the Ojibway (Chippewa) and Dakota (Sioux) tribes, and the Teton and Yankton divisions of the Dakotas. (back)
16. Abel, Tabeau's Narrative, 72n. Cutright, Pioneering Naturalists, 80, says Ordway may have been the first person to use the term "prairie dog." This may be true for the Corps's journalists, but not for the French, who saw the plains years before the Americans appeared. For more on the encounter with the prairie dogs, Osgood, Field Notes, 133–34. (back)
Each class made one Australian dessert including; pavlova, scones, lamingtons. They then shared what they each made! |
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A sample of 2574 entering freshmen were administered the University New Student Census (UNSC) at summer orientation to assess attitudes and interests in areas related to their counseling interests. The results of the UNSC can be used to prepare programs and staff to meet the needs of these new students on campus.
Educational and vocational concerns were highlighted by 53% of the freshmen, who indicated an interest in seeking counseling in this area. A plurality (42$) were attending college for the primary purpose of getting a better job or preparing for graduate school. Females were more interested than males in receiving counseling for educational/vocational concerns, and they also expected to have a more difficult time adjusting academically. However, males were just as likely to be interested in improving their learning skills even though they reported having less difficulty concentrating than females did.
In spite of the fact that female students expected no more difficulty adjusting socially than males did, they were more likely to be interested in counseling regarding emotional/social concerns. A correlation was found between those students interested in counseling for educational/vocational counseling and those interested in counseling for emotional/social concerns.
Males indicated greater interest than females in pursuing counseling for problems with alcohol; this contrasts with a previously reported trend. There was a correlation between student interest in counseling for problems with alcohol and interest in counseling for emotional/social concerns.
Other important considerations in planning for the delivery of adequate counseling services to new freshmen are the need for different types of counseling based on goal directedness, gender differences with respect to areas of counseling interest, and the availability of a strong support person.
This research indicated what some freshman interests in counseling are. It also showed that males and females differ significantly in some of their counseling concerns and needs. Correlations between areas of counseling interest suggest the value of examining more than just the presenting problem in counseling situations. Recent studies suggest the use of a variety of counseling formats and styles for meeting the needs of students seeking assistance. Being prepared for the effective delivery of services to incoming freshmen calls for an awareness and understanding of these issues.
Colleges and universities must plan for the delivery of necessary counseling services to incoming freshmen each year. Knowing what the needs and expectations of these new students are is one key to discovering what kind of counseling services are likely to benefit the students.
Career selection concerns and academic issues are problems for some new students on college campuses (Beard, Elmore, & Lange, 1982). Boyer and Sedlacek (1984) reported that college students consider career issues to be of central importance and are more interested in career counseling than in other types of counseling. In fact, educational and vocational concerns are the most common problems faced by college students (Carney, Savitz, Weiskott, 1979; Snyder, Hill, & Derksen, 1972). Interpersonal problems and family issues are faced by students as well (Archer & Lamnin, 1986).
Freshman students have also indicated an interest in receiving counseling for drug concerns (Kohatsu & Sedlacek; 1990). Even though drug use in general was on the decline except for alcohol, beer, and tobacco consumption, students agreed they would seek counseling at the university counseling center. There were no significant differences between males and females with respect to the rates of drug usage or the reasons for using drugs in the 1990 study. The most common reasons for use of drugs were to get high or feel good and to relieve tension or anxiety.
Students reported their reasons for drinking beer were to get drunk or to shut things out. In an earlier study (Carter & Sedlacek, 1989), beer and hard liquor were the substances with the highest percentage of regular use with students' most common reasons for indulging being to get high or feel good, to be more sociable, and to relieve tension or anxiety. In that year, students also agreed they would attend the university counseling center for drug counseling. Female students were significantly more likely than male students to support drug counseling programs and to attend a drug education program. In providing services to incoming freshmen, colleges and universities might consider separate programs for males and females because of these differences.
Different forms of counseling may be appropriate for students with varying degrees of goal instability. Using the Goal Instability Scale (Robbins & Patton, 1985), designed to assess an individual's ability to create and commit oneself to longer term goals or objectives, researchers found evidence suggesting that high goal-directed subjects benefited from relationships with individuals with whom they could share activities more so than did low goal-directed individuals (Robbins, Lese, and Herrick, 1993). During times of stress, low goal-directed individuals benefited from relationships in which they could discuss their problems whereas high goal-directed subjects did not benefit as much from these kinds of relationships. Elliott and Gramling (1990) found that depression
increased in highly assertive individuals when they received high nurturing support. Individuals with low goal-directedness may be unable to recognize and make use of social support (Riley & Eckenrode, 1986). Bobbins, Lese, and Herrick (1993) concluded that low goal-directed individuals may need interventions such as those incorporating the use of strong role models and active guidance in their adjustment to college. High goal-directed individuals may therefore be more interested in counseling situations which make use of group activities, and low goal directed individuals may benefit more from one-to-one or small group relationships in which they could discuss problems and receive nurturing support.
Similarly, one of the items reported by Tracey and Sedlacek (1984) to be a reliable indicator of college success (measured by GPA and continued enrollment) is the preference for long-term goals over short term ones. This is one of the noncognitive variables they studied which significantly improves the predictive ability of SAT scores and high school grades in determining success in college for all students. Two other relevant noncognitive variables in their study were availability of a strong support person and realistic self-appraisal. Smith, Walter, and Hoey (1992) in their pilot study of freshman support programs concluded that students inaccurately perceive their skills, overestimate their likelihood of success, and resist avenues of assistance. They suggested academic support programs for students who do not appear to be at risk following testing
Research has shown that college freshmen view the counselor's role as informational (King & Matteson, 1959). However, Boyer and Sedlacek (1987) found no significant differences among incoming students' expectations of counseling for educational/vocational, emotional/social, and counseling with an unspecified content. Their explanation of this finding is the lack of previous counseling experience of most freshmen and the resulting absence of having given much thought to the different kinds of counseling services available. Abler and Sedlacek (1987) did find that females prefer female counselors for help with emotional/social concerns.
Nelson's (1993) review of current studies on gender differences between counselor and clients pointed to the need for further research into which types of counselor-client pairs are of greatest benefit to clients. She cited multiple predictors in addition to gender pairings as possible determinants of process and outcome in counseling situations.
Recent trends with their effects on higher education and society warrant another look at freshman interests in counseling. Changing male and female roles, unemployment and the job market, credentialing requirements and stringent academic standards, economic pressures and college expenses, continuing increases in the divorce and remarriage rate, the availability and popularity of alcohol and drugs, and attitudes toward mental health services contribute to the climate of stress in which entering freshmen
5 must deal with their adjustment to college life. Freshman interests in counseling may have changed. The following study explored those interests.
During summer orientation, entering freshmen (N=2574) at a large eastern university were administered a questionnaire (the University New Student Census; UNSC) assessing attitudes and interests on a wide range of topics including counseling. The sample consisted of 1289 females and 1285 males. The racial/ethnic composition of the sample was 8$ African American, 70$ White (not of Hispanic origin), 17$ Asian or Pacific Islander, 3% Hispanic or Latin American, and less than 1% American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Questionnaires were administered by trained graduate and undergraduate students. Before the measures were distributed, the administrators told the students that the purpose was to gather information to better plan programs and services to students. All responses were to remain confidential; individual questionnaires were only coded by student ID number. It took approximately twenty minutes for students to fill out the UNSC.
Data were analyzed descriptively using percentages; and Chi Square, and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) by gender at the .05 level were used to evaluate the results.
The results are reported in three areas of interest; educational/vocational concerns, emotional/social concerns, and drug concerns.
Several questions on the UNSC relate to educational and vocational concerns. The largest group of freshmen (23%) said their primary reason for attending college was to get a better job. Another 19% reported preparing for graduate school as their motivation for seeking a baccalaureate degree. The highest degree expected by 43% of the class is a masters degree, with another 15$ of the freshmen reporting the doctorate level as their goal. Medical degrees were the choice of 11$ of the freshmen. Only 20$ said they were not going beyond the bachelor's degree level. Intrinsic interest in the field, high anticipated earnings, and well respected or prestigious occupation were the major factors in making a long-term career choice for 54% of the incoming class of freshmen. Another 15% have not yet made a career choice. When asked whether they would
be interested in seeking counseling regarding educational/vocational concerns, 53% agreed or strongly agreed. Females were significantly more inclined to be interested in educational/vocational counseling than males were, but they were not significantly more likely than males to desire information about choosing a major. Females also reported expecting to have a hard time adjusting to the academic work of college significantly more than males did although 42% of the incoming freshman class targeted adjusting academically as a problem area. A number of students who indicated that they had a hard time concentrating also expected to experience difficulty adjusting to the academic work of college (r = .34; a = .05). Another interesting finding is that even though females reported difficulties concentrating more than males did, males were just as likely as females to be interested in improving their learning skills. The results of the MANOVA are presented in Table 1.
The majority of freshmen (62%) disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement "I expect to have a hard time adjusting to the social life in college." Although female students did not differ significantly from males in their expectations of experiencing difficulty adjusting to the social life of college, they were significantly more interested in
counseling regarding emotional/social concerns. Also, a significant correlation (r = .20; a = .05) was found between those freshmen interested in seeking counseling for emotional/social concerns (8$) and those interested in counseling for educational/vocational plans (53%). Females reported significantly more family interest in their classroom experiences than did males.
Males also differed significantly from females with respect to their interest in seeking counseling for problems with alcohol with twice as many males as females indicating greater interest in pursuing this type of counseling. A correlation (r = .42; a = .05) existed between students expressing an interest in seeking counseling for problems with alcohol and students who were also interested in seeking counseling for emotional/social concerns.
University life poses problems, pressures, and stress for students. Under this stress, a significant number of students experience difficulties which affect their academic performance and personal effectiveness. Additional numbers of students experience developmental problems in adjusting to college life and adulthood. Defining identity, relating to others, and identifying career and educational goals are a few of the major tasks of this period. A number of students are also in need of
assistance with their learning skills, including study and writing skills. Yet, how many incoming freshmen are aware of their potential counseling needs?
It is always difficult to get freshmen to seek counseling before problems develop. Unrealistic self appraisal has been suggested as one of the factors leading to this difficulty (Tracey & Sedlacek, 1984; Smith, Walter, & Hoey, 1992) in addition to lack of previous counseling experience (Boyer & Sedlacek, 1987). In spite of these explanations, colleges and universities must plan programs and prepare staff in advance for dealing with problems which students are likely to encounter.
This study attempted to examine recent freshman counseling interests in three areas, educational/vocational concerns, emotional/social concerns, and drug concerns. Since it may be helpful to approach males and females separately based on their differing needs, this study also looked at areas of significant difference between genders.
Overwhelmingly, career and educational concerns are foremost for freshmen. Choosing a major, deciding on a career, getting the requisite education for that career, and overcoming obstacles to studying efficiently are the most salient issues for these new students. Receiving information about choosing a major and improving learning skills were areas of equal interest to both males and females in this study, but females were significantly more interested in receiving counseling regarding educational/vocational plans. This may reflect a greater willingness of
females to pursue more options with respect to career and education, since there is a lack of information on the part of females about the world of work and career and fewer role models for women in many career areas of interest to them. There are also less favorable conditions for acquiring career information for female students due to subtle forms of discrimination in business and industry (e.g. glass ceilings). Women's willingness to pursue educational/vocational counseling is consistent with the more relational style which many women use in their approaches to problem solving.
Lacking long term career goals may indicate a need for more supportive and nurturing programs for females. One to one counseling or small group experiences aimed at discussing problems within the context of a therapeutic relationship might better serve the needs for female students whereas male students may benefit more from larger group work with some emphasis on sharing activities. Females may also need more direct guidance and strong role modeling in their exploration of career and educational goals. Participation with clients in goal-setting activities in general as well as in the career exploration area within the counseling sessions may be more helpful for female students.
Since males are more likely than females to lack supportive interest from a family member, they may benefit from some assistance in establishing such a relationship with someone at home or in developing more supportive relationships with
appropriate mentors on campus. Counseling relationships providing this kind of support and interest in the student's actual classroom experience might fill the need for a number of male freshmen and prevent a drop in GPA as predicted by Tracey and Sedlacek (1984).
Greater interest by females in counseling for emotional/social concerns in spite of no significant difference between reported expectations for adjustment to the social life of college by males and females may indicate a more realistic self-appraisal on the part of female students or a more open attitude of females to counseling in this area. Perhaps interest in counseling for emotional/social concerns may be related more to developmental, personality, or family matters than to social adjustment to life on campus. The correlation between interest in counseling for emotional/social concerns and educational/vocational counseling is interesting in light of the general knowledge that the presenting problem in counseling may be the student's entree to explore other counseling concerns. Awareness of this phenomenon continues to be important in planning counseling services, and it seems to be supported by this study.
Since male students indicated greater interest in seeking counseling for problems with alcohol, separate approaches for males and females might be beneficial in this counseling area. Greater interest in alcohol counseling on the part of males in this study is a departure from the trend noted earlier in the
Carter & Sedlacek study (1989) which reported more support by female students for drug counseling and drug education programs. Awareness of fluctuations in interest over time can serve to enlighten and prepare counseling personnel for meeting current needs. Emotional/social counseling as a component of alcohol counseling is also indicated based on the correlation existing between interest in the two kinds of counseling. Because of the known tendency for denial of alcohol problems, it is possible that there is more of a need for alcohol counseling than the figures would indicate. This tendency should be considered in planning counseling programs for the freshman class.
Counseling Center personnel on college and university campuses can probably expect to plan on serving incoming freshman in the areas of career and vocational concerns, social emotional concerns, and alcohol concerns. The types of counseling styles and formats needed will include one to one counseling, small groups, and larger groups; and will vary according to presenting concern, amount of goal directedness, and gender. Separate programs for males and females may be required for vocational and alcohol counseling. It is likely that career and educational concerns will be foremost for students and that some students presenting themselves for career and educational counseling will be able to benefit from and counseling in other areas as well.
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There are three major reasons why student affairs personnel should be involved in academic functions: (1) to contribute to the academic mission and life of the campus, (2) to show that student affairs operates from a body of knowledge which has rigor, (3) to further contribute to the growth and development of students. These points are elaborated and illustrated through the teaching of a course entitled "Education and Racism." There are unique contributions that can be made by student affairs personnel that directly affect academic functions that are not being made by others on campus. An attempt should be made to redefine and develop the academic role for student affairs staff and a call for a future conference on the topic is made.
The relationship between the student affairs and academic functions in higher education appears to be little understood, and complex from either side. Student affairs professionals often ignore academic functions or approach them with role conflicts and anxiety. Faculty and academic administrators also tend to ignore student affairs, or fail to see any significant role student affairs can play in academic areas.
The purpose of this article will be to articulate several points which may serve to clarify matters, and provide a context for student affairs to become more involved in academic affairs. The points will be elaborated through the discussion and evaluation of a course entitled "Racism and Education".
There are three major reasons why student affairs personnel should be involved in academic functions: (1) to contribute to the academic mission and life of the campus, (2) to show that student affairs operates from a body of knowledge which has rigor, (3) to further contribute to the growth and development of students. Contribution to the Academic Mission
Nearly all institutions have as their major goal the impartation of knowledge and intellectual development of students. All other goals tend to be secondary. If student affairs professionals wish to contribute to this mainstream activity, they must define their functions, at least in part, in academic terms and participate in the educational processes of higher education (Nosh & Saurman, 1982). Additionally Jones (1982) has suggested that student affairs professionals should
One direct to attempt to link student affairs functions to academic functions has been demonstrated by Sedlacek (1982). He has shown that students were able to translate student affairs experience in areas such as seeing a counselor or living in a residence hall, into equivalent academic credits. For example, students equated their sessions with a counselor as equivalent to about three credits, and a year in a residence hall as worth about 6 credits, in terms of benefit to them. Such a procedure allows for student affairs professionals to present what they do in academic terms, understandable to all members of the campus community.
Teaching courses is one area where student affairs staff directly contribute to the academic mission (Hanson, 1983). While there are many subject areas that could be taught by student affairs personnel, there are same that are particularly relevant, and perhaps unique to student affairs. Courses dealing with college students, leadership, training, community development, higher education, finance and administration are but a few examples.
Higher education should respond to individual and societal needs. As such, students should be confronted with the realities of the environment, investigation of the human condition and they should be exposed to the ideals that people have striven toward throughout history.
Integrative courses, as opposed to distributive studies and advanced learning skills courses (math and language skills), are designed to give students the opportunity to understand the world's changing environment and the place of the individual within it. The purpose of these courses is to give the student an understanding of some broad social problem (Carnegie Foundation, 1977). In upper-division integrative studies courses students should confront moral and ethical dilemmas that they will confront in their lives. (Martin,1982).
Student personnel professionals must draw upon relevant information from the areas of psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, literature and economics in order to bring a needed scholarly base to the courses they teach (Nash & Saurman, 1982). For instance, content areas that might be explored in m racism course include cognitive psychology, behavior modification, experiential training, cultural awareness and psychological attribution (Brislin, Cushner, Cherrie, & Yong, 1986), in addition to information directly concerning racism (Sedlacek & Brooks, 1976).
The course on racism serving as the background far this article provides an illustration of an area where input from student personnel specialists appears relevant. The course deals directly with problems affecting students and education in practical ways, aimed at not only understanding racism, but how we might go about eliminating it on a campus.
The integration of colleges and universities created a challenge for higher education that included managing an interracial learning environment and, responding to negative racial attitudes that students possess and/or exhibit. The rise in racist activities on college campuses has led to many questions concerning the attitudes that students have toward people of different races. Of particular importance is how students view people from other races, as well as how they feel that they are perceived by members of other races (Patterson, Sedlacek, & Perry, 1984). Teaching techniques employed included group processing, community projects and student involvement in classroom activities. While not unique to student affairs, these are techniques which are at the heart of much student personnel work. Who should be able to do them better than student service professionals?
Aside from directly teaching courses it is important that student affairs professionals assist faculty in understanding student needs and goals. Part of this role may involve helping faculty to realize that students need to see some connection between their lives on and off campus, and what happens in the classroom (Nash & Saurman, 1982). Discussing these issues with faculty through orientation and training programs, seminars and research reports and other writing, are but a few ways this could be accomplished.
A regular criticism of student affairs work is that it is a "seat of the pants”, crisis-oriented collection of services with
little to suggest it is a profession. To counter this stereotype, both within and outside student affairs, it is important to take every opportunity to shape and develop courses and curricula which define a body of knowledge with a rigorous base.
Originally the racism course was dismissed as "pop sociology" by an academic dean in the early 1970's. However, research supporting the point that many students held negative attitudes toward other races, that students were interested in taking the course and that teachers were available to teach it, resulted in the course initially being offered as a "special topics" course (Sedlacek & Brooks, 1973). Through evaluation and promotion of the course and its content, it became an elective with a regular course number in 1976, and in 1985 became a course that fulfills a university advanced studies requirement . The university course catalog states that advanced studies courses are expected to focus on tire application of knowledge from one or more disciplines to the study of an important human problem.
The course supports the development of a number of skills, some of them falling in areas that are traditionally assigned to faculty (e.g., cognitive) and others falling in areas that are traditionally assigned to student affairs staff (e.g., interpersonal). The skills focused on in the course are: interpersonal and problem-solving skills (group projects); verbal skills (debates and presentations); social observation skills and analytical skills (racism logs); and writing and research skills
(papers). Readings are included from a wide range of disciplines, while teaching techniques employ key student development concepts in the design and facilitation of in-class activities.
The course was initiated, developed and taught by a student affairs professional who was not formally affiliated with the department offering the course. The research generated by interest in the course and which supports the course content was recently summarized and published (Sedlacek, 1987). That student affairs staff have been so central to this course and its evaluation is a point regularly noted by both academic and student affairs staff on that campus.
Teaching courses can contribute directly to the basic goal of student affairs work: student development. At a time when many are criticizing curricula for shortcomings in this area, student affairs can aid its own mission and help academic units in theirs as well.
Most student affairs practitioners believe that students should learn more than fads in the classroom. Part of that belief is that students should engage it experiences that will help them to formulate humane value systems, integrate a world view and develop a broader view of self and others. In order to create this type of developmental atmosphere in the classroom, the instructor should provide and allow for: (a) diversity of viewpoint and practice at relativistic thinking; (b) experiential modes of learning; (c) structure; and (d) a personal atmosphere
Several outcomes of the racism course are related to student affairs goals: (1) an appreciation of differences among students, (2) direct problem soling in such areas as roommate selection; student clubs and organizations, and rights and responsibilities in a community.
The course vividly illustrates that not all students have the same understanding of the topic at the beginning, middle or end of the course. Feelings, perceptions and understandings evolve in many directions depending an race, sex and experience. Several typical developmental profiles emerge.
For instance, some black students initially feel they understand racism but in mid-course go through a period of self-doubt and eventually renewed commitment to eliminating racism. A common pattern for white students is to start the course by not seeing yourself as a part of or being affected by racism, and then to slowly realize how they, their friends, family, and ancestors are involved, and to finish the course confused with many questions unanswered. Another pattern followed by some minority students is to initially deny the existence of racism and eventually feel it is so pervasive that they new must reassess their basic relationships. The course structure allows for student growth at different rates.
These and other outcomes are seen as developmental for students in that they move the student slang many dimensions which increase self-understanding (Sedlacek & Brooks, 1976).
These different outcomes for different groups are also an important discussion point for academic colleagues who are less likely to think in such terms. Such discussions may help faculty to understand development dynamics in the courses they teach.
Specific problems such as roommate selection and acceptance of students in different clubs and organizations are dealt with directly in course content.
For example, at the beginning of the course nearly 75% of the students identified at least one group that they would not accept as roommates or members of their club or organization. By the end of the class this number was reduced to less than 50%.
Through exercises, class discussion and group projects, students deal with practical student affairs issues and seek to resolve them. Training programs to increase residence hall staff abilities to handle multicultural issues, changes in rushing procedures, and reducing bias in admissions policies are all example of procedures adopted by the campus which were initiated by students as part of the course. A course can be viewed by a student affairs professional as a unique way to achieve some student affairs goals that otherwise would be difficult to accomplish.
The attempt has been made here to offer some reasons why student affairs professional should be involved in academic functions in higher education: (1) to contribute to the academic mission and life of the campus, (2) to show that student affairs
operates from a body of knowledge which has rigor, (3) to further contribute to the growth and development of students. Each point was elaborated and discussed in the context of relevant literature.
It has been suggested that student affairs is a profession in need of a philosophy (Stamatakos & Rogers, 1984).
We feel that student affairs should adopt a philosophy that is based on its contribution to the academic function in higher education. There are unique contributions that could be made by student affairs personnel that directly affect academic functions that are not currently being made by others on the campus. We feel an attempt should be made on all campuses to refine and develop the academic role far student affairs staff and call for a future national annual convention to reflect this theme.*
*Individuals interested in more details about the course discussed here are invited to write the senior author.
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. (1977). Mission of the college Curriculum: A contemporary review with suggestions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Nash, R. J., & Saurman, K. P. (1982). Learning to earn is not learning to live: Student development educators as meaning makers. In H. F. Owen, C. H. Witten and W. R. Bailey. College Student personnel administration: An anthology. (pp. 84-99). Springfield, III: Charles Thomas. |
Unless you are an avid reader of Eldritch Epistles or a member of the Oldhammer Community on Facebook, probably not. It is, as far as we can tell, an unreleased, never before seen, 80s miniature by Bob Naismith.
It was discovered among Bryan Ansell's vast collection of miniatures by Steve Casey, author of the said blog, Eldritch Epistles.
Anyway, the discovery of 'new' old school miniatures, and the re-release of old Citadel favourites at the Wargames Foundry has got many a tongue wagging. "Is is possible to cast up and sell these lovely old '80s models because I want one?" has become a frequently asked question on forums and groups online and beyond. Well, the miniature you see above sparked a fascinating debate about this very issue and I have selected the interesting quotes to share with you here. The first is from Bryan Ansell, former Managing Director/Owner of Games Workshop and Citadel Miniatures and the second is from Rick Priestley, creator of Warhammer and Rogue Trader among a great number of other wargaming titles.
Bryan Ansell: I doubt that many (or perhaps any other) exist: we had not considered the idea of them being collectable in the future. I don't have any idea how I came to keep that one. The copyright is owned by GW anyway: I only have rights to the models that I took out when I ran things and was a owner.This mostly occurred when it was me and Steve and Ian: when I rescued some hundreds of the solid base models that would otherwise have been lost. But I didn't do that with any view to posterity or collectability: I was just keen to find something from my father to do in his retirement! Later, when foundry was moulding and casting for games workshop it seemed appropriate to send along anything of a potentially historic nature that was being discontinued along to foundry for them to manufacture. Unfortunately, by that time I was spread quite thinly: so I probably missed loads of stuff that could have gone to my father and been saved. Obviously, I'm very glad it turned out that at least a proportion of the solid base models survive for posterity: but I don't think anyone was thinking in those terms back then.
I don't know: but they most certainly do own the rights. I don't really know whether any/many of the old master moulds survive. A not necessarily reliable bloke who worked at workshop and then came to work at foundry once told us that he had been sent out in a van with a load off master moulds with instructions to split each mould into its two halves then dump one set of moulds on one location and the others on another. That would be a terrible shame if it was true, but I have always strongly suspected that it is not true.
Well, there are also sets of master castings, so the loss of the moulds is not fatal usually. We have a huge potential range of models, certainly more than 25,000 and I think that we have both master castings and master moulds for everything. Even if you didn't really expect ever to run a mould again it would be foolish to meltdown the 20 or so master castings when they take up so little room. However if you have chucked out the moulds: you would no longer have that extra security of knowing nothing could possibly go completely wrong (other than the building burning down) we keep our master moulds here at Stoke Hall.
Rick Priestley: I think a lot of old moulds were destroyed when, or just after, we moved to the Lenton site (the old British Gas HQ), although I certainly didn't witness this and can't say for sure. However, it's more likely that masters were kept, as we had a big fire-proof strong room built to store masters, and it's must easier to keep a few dozen masters securely than the moulds. Later on, when the various GW sales companies were allowed to sell whatever they liked out of the back catalogue, a lot of older models were remoulded, though not necessarily as old as these fellas! I would very much doubt that any of the current management would have any interest in, or knowledge of, these older, models - so I wouldn't have thought anyone really knows what happened to a lot of this stuff.
Oh - I have an idea the really big dragon and giant that Alan and Michael made were bought by a third party - I think GW basically sold them on to someone who wanted to produce them (but never did). So, I don't think they exit at GW anymore - could be wrong - but I think that's what happened.
The general view seems to be 'don't hold your breath' but Bryan has admitted he doesn't really know what masters and moulds lurk in the depths of Stoke Hall. So anything is possible.
Let's make a stand on GW's parking with someone holding a big sign with "please let us cast them" with very friendly faces.
I know GW is quite resistant to whining (and they better be...) so let's be gentle about it and ask them politely, possibly offering some chocolates, washing a few cars and things of the sort, until they reach the "whatever..." point and let us do what we want...
I can confirm a lot of moulds were scrapped after the move to Lenton, as they went to a local recycling plant that a friend of mine worked for at the time. Pretty certain the ended up in landfill.
I believe I found a painted example of that guy on pg189 of the Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader book. Mixed in the "column of penal warriors", look for the 8 ball. Somebody with better eyes then me can confirm or deny it?
It would really be great to have most if not all of the old models back. if I look at the prices some of the older models (marauder Chaos Dwarfs for example) reach at Ebay and how rare some are. It will be a big push towards building up regiments for our beloved collections when one can easily optain them for a reasonable price. I know that mould making, casting,etc. come at a price but better then searching the web endlessly for the one model to finish a certain regiment.
I don't think there's many of us who would disagree that there's never been a better time to recast and sell old 80s figures than now. The Oldhammer spirit has, and still is, gaining momentum and I reckon a lot of the old classics (and unreleased minis!) would definately sell quite well. You have no idea how much I'd love to come down to Foundry, browse the racks of "Not Rogue Trader", "Not Realm of Chaos" and "Not Warhammer Goblinoids/Undead/Slann/Fimir" ranges, and then buy whatever I wanted without worrying about someone else offering more money for them! :( I'd much prefer to give Foundry my money!
It's probably never going to happen though. Not least because GW (despite having nothing to do with those models anymore) would be guaranteed to kick up a fuss and unleash the full force of their legal department on anyone selling such minis.
I've got some not-fimir you can browse... :) it's a shame 'current management' have no interest in the nice roots of their company. But then again, if they did the markup would probably be even higher than the silly ebay prices!
As recent as 2006 I saw the master castings of the old Citadel giant in a store cupboard in a meeting room at GW so it's possible that's still knocking around somewhere. |
As we get further into winter, the days short and cold, I always turn to Tiki cocktails to instantly transport myself to a far flung island where pineapples and rum dominate, and where shoes aren't always required. This winter is no different, and a coconut filled with rum is always a lovely escape from the mid-winter doldrums. I hope this feed inspires your cocktail hour to take a tropical twist!
The body of a Dhaka University student has been found next to a building of the business studies faculty with police remained unsure about the cause of the death, but a faculty member claimed he jumped off the building.
A teacher of the business faculty, requesting anonymity said, “CCTV camera footage shows that the boy jumped off the MBA Building.”
“He was suffering from some mental problems. Some sleeping pills were found in his bag. I think he jumped off to commit suicide,” the teacher said.
He has been identified as Tanvir Rahman, who jumped from the rooftop of the nine-storey building on Saturday.
He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital or DMCH around 9 pm, where the doctors declared him dead, Shahbagh Police Station Inspector Zafar Ali Biswas confirmed.
Hailing from Brahmanbarhia, Tanvir was a student of the evening MBA course of accounting and information system department. He lived in Sheweraparha in Dhaka.
Russell Mia, an employee of the faculty, said Tanvir is seen getting on the rooftop of the building in the footage.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Maruf Hossain Sarder said they suspect Tanvir died by suicide, reports bdnews24.
Earlier, Inspector Zafar said Tanvir was found ‘critically injured, but the circumstances were not clear’.
The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday — Reuters photo
European shares fell on Thursday as fresh losses in emerging markets and worries Washington will follow through on plans to levy an extra $200 billion of Chinese imports kept investors on the edge.
The pan-regional STOXX 600 benchmark hit its lowest level since early April in early trading and was down 0.3 per cent by 0714 GMT, while Germany's DAX and the UK's FTSE fell 0.3 and 0.2 per cent respectively, reports Reuters.
Most sectors were trading in the red but basic resources stocks led the fall, dragged by a more than 3 per cent drop in miner BHP Billiton, which traded ex-dividend.
Utilities were a bright spot with Italy’s state-controlled Enel rising 1.6 per cent after Goldman Sachs upgraded the stock to buy, while in the UK, Centrica added 3.7 per cent after the local regulator set an energy price cap that was at the lower range of analysts’ expectations.
Weir Group led fallers, down 5.9 per cent after the maker of pipes for the energy and mining industries said there were initial signs of pricing pressure.
ANALYSIS - The term 'ghost fishing' has appeared quite frequently in the news lately as the fishing industry and organisations work together to try and solve the environmental problems caused by abandoned or lost fishing gear.
In a move to find solutions, a new study by researchers from the US's William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) has revealed the economic benefits to commercial fishermen worldwide of clearing up the problematic derelict fishing gear.
The study focused on a six year, collaborative program to remove derelict crab pots from Chesapeake Bay, showing that the effort generated more than $20 million in harvest value.
Extending their methodology to estimate the economic benefits of removing derelict crab pots and lobster traps on a global basis, the researchers showed that removal of even 10 per cent of derelict pots and traps from major crustacean fisheries - the percentage of the Bay's derelict pots they estimate were removed by the VIMS program - could increase landings by 293,929 metric tons, at a value of $831 million annually.
VIMS professor, Andrew Scheld, explained: "It is well known that derelict fishing gear can harm the environment and increase crab mortality, but the economic impacts of this 'ghost fishing' have rarely been quantified. Our study shows that VIMS' collaborative efforts to remove ghost crab pots from the lower Bay led to an additional 13,504 metric tons in harvest valued at $21.3 million - a 27 per cent increase above that which would have occurred had the pots stayed in place."
In aquaculture news, the work done by a tilapia farming improvement project in China has been praised by the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP).
The SFP states that the landmark aquaculture improvement project (AIP) embodies the ideal situation of a zonal aquaculture approach which is maintained by industry stakeholders.
The AIP takes a holistic approach to aquaculture, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that even competing fish farms can share a common waterway without impacting each other, or the environment.
The project is also directly responsible for China’s first industry-led set of standards for tilapia farming.
“This AIP is the best example of a zonal AIP in the world and also one that has strongly transitioned from SFP to industry-led, with support of a local NGO (China Blue), an international buyer (Fishin’ Co.) and many key local industry leaders,” said Anton Immink, SFP’s aquaculture director.
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“On The Run” first started in 2014, when Jay Z and Beyoncé decided to break all sort of records by traveling and singing throughout Europe and the US as the most iconic pop couple ever. Now, with “On The Run 2,” Jay -Z and Beyoncé are back for the sequel and fans are excited, to keep things lightly. Kicking things off in Cardiff, the tour is scheduled to make over 40 stops in Europe and the US.
This tour follows the release of Lemonade, Beyoncé’s fuck you to Jay-Z, and 4:44, Jay-Z’s I’m sorry to Beyoncé. “On The Run 2” is less a concert and more like an exercise in modern art. Or a soap opera. And while the concert gets pretty emotional at times, cheesily proclaiming “This. Is. Real. Life” on the stadium screens, Rolling Stone claims that it’s a great time, fun and upbeat, emphasizing on the fairytale aspect of the couple’s relationship.
Forbes reports that tickets for the show are much more expensive than all other tours where famous individual artists perform. On average, these tickets are worth 342.67 dollars, much more expensive than Beyoncé’s and Jay-Z’s previous individual concerts. While the price seems a tad excessive, you’re paying to see a couple that’s managed to sell over 200 million records and win over 36 Grammys. They also have a net worth of $850 million. So we don’t even know why they’re touring. Check out some of the best videos and images that people captured in Cardiff:
If y’all didn’t know sir is the bald one, Rumi has the hair. Or sir is on the left and Rumi is on the right 😍 #OnTheRunII pic.twitter.com/rKFjnvEHjw |
Stand a few yards away from the 2017 Volkswagen CC, and its appeal is obvious. With sleek coupe styling wrapped around four doors, the CC’s exterior design stands out as one of the most interesting among midsize sedans. Inside, the CC cabin impresses with near-luxury features and fit and finish. A 200-horsepower turbocharged engine and six-speed automatic transmission pairing feels quick and refined and sounds terrific.
With an available power-tilt sunroof, sporty two-tone design, and leather seating surfaces, the cockpit of the CC provides an amazing view of the amenities around you. Settle into the ergonomic command center of the 2017 CC and you can get entertainment, technology, and peace of mind all within reach. You may have to lift a finger, but just the one. With a touch of a button, enjoy a host of features like enhanced navigation with traffic, sports scores, weather information, and more. This is part of a SiriusXM Traffic 3-month trial subscription.
If safety is your concern then the CC should be at the top of your list. The available Forward Collision Warning system (included in Front Assist) has sensors in the front to help monitor traffic and can alert you to a potential collision with the vehicle ahead. If a collision is imminent, Autonomous Emergency Braking (included in Front Assist) can help brake the car. This car has comfort, speed, and safety wrapped in a German gift wrap and ingenuity.
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Identifying user accounts that are no longer in use, is an important security issue in an organization of any size. The script presented on this page will list all user accounts that have not been logged on with within a configurable number of days. The content of this page is available as a video tutorial at the bottom of this page.
A slightly modified version of the script is also presented, which shows computer accounts that no user has logged on to within the configured number of days.
The example script below will list all user accounts that have not been logged on with within a configurable number of days. When running the script, the list presented could look like this:
In this example, it is pretty obvious that the "Print admin" account is a temporary account that has not been used for years. The "Demo user" account also looks suspicious. The others two accounts could be users that are no longer employed in the company. These will require further investigation to determine, if these can be deleted or disabled.
The advantage of scripting this instead of purchasing commercial software to do this, is that you can customize it any way you like and build your own custom versions of it - with little effort. For example:
You could compile an exe file for the Human Resource department to list all user candidates that might be obsolete.
With an extra UserIsAdmin condition, you could build a version for yourself that lists only domain admins, who have not logged on for a much shorter period of time.
You may only want to investigate a subset of users. The example script below looks at all users. To have it look at users only in a specific Organizational Unit, the collection AllUsers could simply be replaced by the UsersInOU collection. You could build additional logic to further filter the users listed, for instance based on other Active Directory attributes and properties.
The script listed is available directly in the script editor: Go to the "Documentation" tab, select "Obsolete User Accounts Report" under the "Insert Example Script" submenu. When the script is visible in the editor, simply press F5 to execute it.
The "ThresholdDays" setting is the threshold in number of days of when accounts are included in the list.
The above script can easily be re-written to list obsolete computer accounts instead. All the same attributes that exist on user accounts also exist on computer accounts. This means that the script can be modified to list computers instead of users simply by replacing the Active Directory user functionality with the equivalent functionality for Active Directory computers, as listed below.
This script is also available directly in the script editor: Go to the "Documentation" tab, select "Obsolete Computer Accounts Report" under the "Insert Example Script" submenu. When the script is visible in the editor, simply press F5 to execute it.
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On Friday, Feb. 16, the women’s swim team traveled to Piscataway, N.J. for the Metropolitan Collegiate Championships, a three-day event held at Rutgers University, N.J. where the best division I, II and II swim teams compete for the conference title.
The Pioneers have had a season to remember, with a record of 7-1, improving from last year’s record of 3-4. “I think that the freshmen have impacted us because we are now a team of 19 and last year as 11 people it was hard to compete with teams of 20,” team member Jessica Argelander, a sophomore childhood education major, said. “Having more people, we have a more variety of people to swim different events and we have more people entered in every event.”
Elizabeth Law, a sophomore physics and math major, agreed about the positive contribution the new members of the team have made. “We have more depth in events. So we have the ability to have multiple girls swim every event, rather than last year when we only had 11 girls,” she said.
This year’s Metropolitan Collegiate Championship marked the last for senior, international business major, Laura Bendfeldt, who has been a mentor to the team. Alexandria Cordova, freshman public relations major hasn’t had the best of luck in her first year in green and gold. At the Eastern College Athletic Conference, (ECAC), Cordova was competing in her first event of the day when she had a back spasm in the middle of her race. After getting an MRI, Cordova was told that she had two herniated disks and a degenerated disk in her lower back. Luckily, through some cortisone shorts in her L4 and L5 vertebrae, she did not have to undergo surgery. Cordova however attributes a lot of her recovery to Bendfeldt, “The two who have helped me the most are Karis Fuller and Bendfeldt. I cannot imagine where I would be this season if it wasn’t for them. They always say that it’s better to be hurt now but be able to compete in my next three years here at Post,” Cordova said. Since coming back from her injury, Cordova had to change her style of swimming. Originally, she swam butterfly, but since January, she has been training in breaststroke and backstroke.
This is the first time some of the teammates competed in the Metropolitan Conference Championships with seniors. “It feels weird this could be the last time swimming with the seniors because last year we didn’t have any so the same team came back,” Argelander said.
Bendfeldt was excited for the Metropolitan Conference Championship. “It’s really great to see the results of everyone’s hard work throughout the year, especially for the freshmen who haven’t experienced the special feeling of the Metropolitan Conference Championship. I’m going to enjoy every race I have in that pool. It’s one of the last ones I have and I hope to make the best out of everything,” she said.
The first meet for the Pioneers began on Friday, Feb. 16 and it was a good one. Their first event was the 200 yard medley relay; with the combined effort of junior sociology major, journalism and political science minor, Karis Fuller, Argelander, sophomore business major Tove Sparrman and junior, chemistry major, Caitlin Johnstone.
After the first day of the three-day event, the Pioneers were in 1st place with a score of 362, with Rowan College in 2nd place with a score of 341 and The College of New Jersey in 3rd with a score of 320.
Day two started off strong for the Pioneers with a win in the 200- yard relay medley with Fuller, Bendfeldt, Sparrman and junior chemistry major, Caitlin Johnstone. However, in event 17, Rowan University was able to close in on the void by taking 2nd place just behind Montclair State University, N.J. Eventually, in event 15 of session 11, Rowan University took the lead by coming in 4th in the 400-yard individual medley, while the Pioneers took ninth place. With that win, Rowan University jumped into 1st place with a score of 841 and the Pioneers in 2nd with a score of 784.5.
As the end of the final session approached, Rowan University was holding on to their 1st place lead with a score of 1264 with the Pioneers still in 2nd with a score of 1085.5.
After the final race, with a 1st place win by the Pioneers in the 400-yard freestyle relay; it unfortunately wasn’t enough to take 1st place overall in the MCC. When the scores came in, Rowan University had taken 1st place overall with a score of 1320, the Pioneers in 2nd with a score of 1149.5 and in 3rd, The College of New Jersey with a score of 909.
While Rowan University won the event, they’re a division III team, while the Pioneers are division II making the swim team division II champions.
Bendfeldt commented on her team’s success through the weekend, “ I’m super proud of everyone here and how they fought for every possible point we could get.”
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Before this year’s National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in June, the largest audience 17-year-old Brian Stevenson ever had for his video projects was a class of 25 to 30 students.
So imagine how he felt when several thousand educators and other attendees at NECC’s closing ceremony watched a highlight reel of the conference that was filmed, edited, and produced entirely by Stevenson and his peers.
“That was so exciting,” said Stevenson, who will be a senior this fall at South Burlington High School (SBHS) in Vermont. “I was proud of the work I did on that highlight reel, because I was working with a new software program and, though I struggled a little at first, I was able to pick it up pretty quickly.”
Stevenson was one of six talented students who got a unique opportunity to learn firsthand from a team of professional photojournalists and video editors at NECC as part of the first-ever eSchool News Student Video Discovery Awards (SVDA) program. Now, in this story for the newspaper and via the internet, their work is being showcased for eSchool News’ entire print and online audience of some 500,000 educators and education advocates.
Sponsored by Discovery Education, with vital support from Cisco Systems, Apple Computer, Avid Technology, Macromedia, and NEC, the initiative was designed to give students greater visibility for their outstanding work in video production–as well as some valuable professional experience.
“Video journalism plays an increasingly critical role in our society today, and it is one of the fastest-growing areas of study in schools and colleges. At all levels in education nowadays, video is used both as a learning experience and a communications tool for students,” said Gregg W. Downey, editor and publisher of eSchool News.
“Recognizing this trend, [we] created this award to honor excellence in student journalism and video production, while also providing a meaningful learning experience for the winners.”
For consideration in the inaugural awards program, eSchool News asked high school and college students to submit videos they created themselves under the guidance of an educator sponsor. Entries, which could be up to 10 minutes in length, were to focus on the use of technology in the students’ school or district.
Brian Stevenson, center, conducts an interview in the NECC exhibit hall while Erik Archibald captures all the action on camera. (eSN photo by Chris Hopson)
Hundreds of students from across North America, working as teams or as individuals, submitted entries last winter. From these entries, the six judges–all professionals from the education, journalism, and video-production fields, including Ed DeLeon, the Emmy award-winning executive producer of “Assignment Discovery”–chose three deserving finalists.
Stevenson, fellow SBHS student Kyle Kelley, and their academic advisor Mike Dumont were among the winners. The others were Erik Archibald, Doug Waters, and Charles Horne from Parkland High School in Allentown, Pa., and their advisor, Marilyn Stinebaugh; and Jen Campbell from Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Fla., and her advisor, Sandy Melillo.
The winners traveled to Philadelphia with the eSchool News editorial team to cover this year’s NECC and produce video news segments of conference focal points. Under the expert tutelage of professionals from Discovery, Apple, Avid, and local television station PBS 39, as well as their academic advisors, the students worked late into the night shooting film, editing clips, and producing professional-quality videos highlighting the key people and presentations at this year’s conference.
During the show, students created and posted two to three video news clips each day on the Conference Information Center section of eSchool News Online, where visitors to the site can still view the clips in QuickTime or Windows Media Player (WMP) format. The videos explore topics ranging from the Internet2 project to one of the key themes at this year’s NECC: listening to student voices.
The students’ work culminated in the creation of the 10-minute highlight reel shown at the closing ceremony of NECC on June 30.
“NECC 2005 was a richer conference this year, thanks to the participation of the winners of the Student Discovery Video Awards. They impressed NECC attendees with their work completed prior to NECC and with their work on site,” said Leslie Conery, conference chair.
It seemed appropriate that a major theme of this year’s NECC was the importance of student voices–because the SVDA project was a perfect example of how technology can be used as a tool to empower students. Using high-tech tools and with guidance from their mentors, program participants produced video news clips as good as you’d see on any local news channel.
“I’ve had friends who have done college internships, and they’ve ended up pushing paper and having no control. This program was great, because students really got hands-on experience with video editing in a real-life news setting,” said South Burlington academic advisor Dumont.
Northeast High’s Jen Campbell agreed: “[The SVDA program] gave me the perfect opportunity to test out my skills on a high-paced assignment. It was an amazing experience, and one of the most fun projects I have ever had the pleasure to participate in. I learned so much from the people I worked with. It’s … an experience that will have a profound effect on my career.”
Charles Horne of Parkland High School in Allentown, Pa., works on Avid Xpress Pro software as he compiles footage from NECC 2005. (eSN photo by Chris Hopson)
The mini-internship began with a pre-conference meeting on June 27, where the students met each other and their professional mentors.
One of the key challenges the students faced was having to work together as a team, having never met each other before. Each came from different backgrounds and contributed different strengths and experiences to the project–but how best to marshal these strengths was a task for the students to decide.
The students split up into two groups: One would focus on the daily news clips, the other on the highlight reel. The daily news group set up shop on two Apple PowerMac G5 computers equipped with Final Cut Pro Studio video-editing software. On hand to advise them as necessary was Dan DeFossey, a former classroom teacher who now works with Apple. The highlight reel group worked at a Hewlett-Packard XW8200 workstation using Avid Xpress Pro HD Studio Complete software, under the guidance of Avid’s Kate Irwin.
For cameras, the students used a Panasonic CDVA101 and two smaller Canon GL2 mini-DV units. The students shot all of the footage themselves, learning some of the tricks of the trade from photojournalists Eric Werner, Melissa Leffel, and Andrew Brett from PBS 39 in nearby Bethlehem, Pa. Brett previously worked as a cameraman for the M. Night Shyamalan movie The Village.
After early-morning meetings to plan the day’s coverage, led by eSchool News Managing Editor Dennis Pierce, the students went off to record the agreed-upon events. They also planned and carried out interviews with NECC organizers, including Conery and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) President Kurt Steinhaus and CEO Don Knezek.
Although the students already had extensive experience behind a camera, the PBS team was able to pass on some useful tips. One of these was to change the time codes for every new tape, so that instead of having all time codes begin with “00:00,” tape two would begin “02:00,” tape three would begin “03:00,” and so on. That way, it’s easier to keep track of all the footage you’ve shot, Werner explained.
The students also got an expert look at how to set up three-point lighting for formal sit-down interviews.
“I was familiar with three-point lighting, but I’d never had the chance to set it up correctly on my own,” Stevenson said. “The PBS crew went through every aspect, then let me do it for myself. They made sure that when I left, I had the knowledge and experience needed to set up the lighting on my own.”
Stevenson and the others also learned a useful technique for creating a desirable visual backdrop for the interviews: the use of a simple yellow or purple gel, or filter, with slits cut into it for the background lighting.
The students used this to good effect when interviewing Conery, Steinhaus, and Knezek on camera, as well as keynote speakers Joel Barker and Deneen Frasier Bowen. They also captured footage of the technology playgrounds, Internet2 demonstrations, and many other conference elements.
eSchool News Managing Editor Dennis Pierce, left, discusses the NECC coverage schedule with Kyle Kelley of South Burlington High School. (eSN photo by Chris Hopson)
Back at the editing room, the students captured the video to the computers for editing. They sifted through interviews for compelling sound bites, wrote scripts that narrated the news stories, and sent camera crews out to shoot more B-roll footage, or images used to illustrate or accompany voice-overs or sound bites culled from the interviews.
In one example, a crew went back out to record footage of Conery walking through the convention center. A few seconds of this footage was inserted within the clip of her interview. “The key is to try not to make it look staged,” PBS’s Werner said of shooting B-roll footage of interview subjects.
Then the really intensive editing process began. Using the software at their disposal, students worked long and hard matching words with images and music. (In the conference highlight video, for example, as Conery says something about attendees taking technology to the next step, viewers get a shot of people’s feet as they walk through the crowded exhibit hall.)
The final phase to producing the daily news clips was recording stand-ups by the anchor in front of the camera. That job fell to SBHS’s Kelley, who was the sharpest-dressed of the bunch. Though he had very little experience in front of the camera, Kelley quickly learned on the job, rapidly memorizing large chunks of information to introduce or wrap up the news clips.
It wasn’t always a smooth process–but part of what made the program such a valuable experience was that students were allowed to make, and learn from, their own mistakes.
“I learned that on the highlight reel, we didn’t spend enough time on storyboarding up front,” acknowledged Stevenson. The students were up until 4 a.m. the night before the highlight video was to be completed, frantically trying to finish on time. As a result, Stevenson used a few hours of downtime the next morning to nap under a table in the editing room. “Now, I know I need to spend more time in pre-production,” he said.
In a break from the rigor of their responsibilities, the six students and their educational advisors were honored in an invitation-only ceremony at NECC June 29.
At the awards ceremony, the students received free video equipment and prizes worth more than $50,000 for themselves and their schools. The prizes, all donated by corporate sponsors, included:
Cisco Systems is flying the winners to its corporate headquarters in San Jose, Calif., to show them its multimedia studio.
Even more valuable to the students than these generous prizes, however, was the experience they gained reporting on the conference.
“I came here primarily with editing skills, and I’ll leave with a lot more reporting and technical experience,” said SBHS’s Kelley. “I’m really excited that I now feel equipped with the tools to do more than just edit film.”
“What I found most impressive about this experience was the high expectations that [were] set for the students–and how [the program] provided the support for students to meet them. The PBS and Discovery crew treated the students as professional equals, and I think that made the kids rise to the occasion, giving them a real-life career experience in broadcast journalism,” Melillo said.
Jen Campbell of Northeast High School in Oakland Park, Fla., said the SVDA program “gave me the perfect opportunity to test out my skills on a high-paced assignment.” (eSN photo by Chris Hopson)
She concluded: “The kids seemed to thrive on, rather than tire from, the hard work. The realization that everyone had a skill to add to the group brought a camaraderie among the staff and students that was strong and certainly productive.” |
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Although Oahu may only be Hawaii's third-biggest island, it is actually the state's most densely populated island and also where the state capital is located, namely Honolulu. The island of Oahu is central to Hawaiian politics and commerce, whilst also boasting an established cultural and tourism scene.
Honolulu is located on the southeastern coast of Oahu, next to Mamala Bay and south of the Kalihi Valley. The coast is lined with enticing beaches and hotels, as well as various parks, such as the Ala Moana State Recreation Area, the Fort Derussy Beach Park, the Kaka'Ako Waterfront Park and the Sand Island State Recreation Area.
The city's very own international airport lies just a short distance to the east, in between the Mamala Bay Golf Course, the Navy Marine Golf Course and the Keehi Lagoon Park. To the northwest is the Aliamanu Salt Lakes Foster Village, while the Honolulu Watershed Forest Reserve is situated to the northeast, just past the Nuuanu Punchbowl area and the Oahu Country Club.
The famous Waikiki beachfront is to be found on the southeastern side of the city, being reached via the Ala Moana Boulevard and close to the Fort Derussy Beach Park. Many hotels surround Waikiki, although those driving here from downtown Honolulu's Waterfront Plaza will be pleased to learn that the Waikiki suburb is reachable in roughly ten minutes by car.
Maps of Honolulu and Oahu as a whole are useful if you are planning to rent a car and can be obtained from the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau on Kalakaua Avenue, close to the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel. Alternatively, a trip to the adjacent Waikiki Shopping Plaza may be in order.
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Up early again tomorrow for a run… Well I haven’t run for quite a while now, but I did squeeze in a couple of gym workouts. On Thursday I managed a brief half an hour session in the gym and on Friday I managed an hour and ten minutes of solo spinning after work. It […]
Getting up nice and early for a run with the club tomorrow… Since the term has finished (yes I know Cambridge students have very short terms) the running club did not have an official meeting; however we did arrange for a run with whoever was left in Cambridge i.e. us graduate students. The organiser was […]
More to come… I took both Sunday and Monday off – I was tempted to go to a spinning class Monday evening but I wasn’t quite feeling up for it, oh and I had work to do of course… Today I fit in a solo spin to an old soundtrack, but after it ended I […]
Possibly more running/exercise tomorrow…. It was the varsity cross-country race on Saturday (Cambridge v Oxford). Before the races there was a supporters’ race, where we could run the shorter ladies (4 miles rather than 7.5 miles) course, which I really couldn’t resist. I reached the start line in my normal running shoes, realising that this […]
So it looks like I’ll be resting this week… I managed to rest all the way to Thursday evening – that’s nearly a week right? I was just going to do a small gym session: I’d already turned down the offer of a level 4 spinning class, which would have been far too long and […]
Resting or light exercise before the race on Saturday… I managed to squeeze in a quick morning run on Thursday as my last run pre-race. It was a little quicker than my recent runs, but also a little shorter. We ran 3.9 miles in 31 minutes (pace 7:44 min/mile). It was a lovely rainy day […]
More running tomorrow… I ran with the EZ group today; however I found myself getting ahead of them as we were running along the river, so I looped back to let them catch up. The group then split into various smaller groups and I realised that I was “stuck” with the fastest EZ group, which […]
I want to start this review by saying how glad I am that this is not a trilogy. There is one more and oh how I cannot wait for Hadley. Don’t get me wrong Hadley’s story is going to be outstanding but aren’t all of Brayden’s stories. Let me tell you Gia Malone and Elle Britton bring the heat. Hell yes they do, the heat they bring is hot, smoking hot.
Gia and Elle are fierce competitors. Elle is the currently the number one female professional surfer. She has adoring fans and is the face of women’s surfing. Gia is number two and is doing everything in her power to get her points total to top Elle’s. They don’t hate each other but there is some definite tension. Ooooh, don’t you just love the tension and the whole got off on the wrong foot/rivals scenario, Lord knows I do! Two elite athletes that are both fierce competitors, you know right off the bat that Brayden is going to give you some fabulous angst mixed in with amazing dialogue, light-hearted fun, and characters that steal your heart.
Gia is driven, ambitious and solely focused on being the very best female surfer. She loves surfing for the pureness of it and to fuel her competitive spirit. Catering to sponsors and being friendly with reporters is part of her job but something she is less than comfortable with. Elle gets under Gia’s skin because she not only knows how to play the game, she has reporters, fans, and sponsors eating out of her hand. This peppy people person drives her mad.
What draws you so much to these Gia and Elle is that they act like real people. They are flawed, they make mistakes, they get tipsy on margaritas in a bar and blurt out something that they shouldn’t. Perfection is boring. Brayden makes them come alive right off the page. You love them for their missteps and their triumphs. You love them because she makes them feel real.
We aren’t reinventing the wheel here folks. Brayden has her formula and by golly, I am so glad she does. It works and it’s not good, it’s great. I for one, think my lucky stars that Melissa Brayden writes lady loving books because she is one of the very best and takes it to the next level every single book. She writes the stories that you come back to. Not once, or twice, but time and time again because they give you all of the feels. Isn’t that why we love romance? Those little flutters that pull of your heartstrings, that paragraph that makes you smile, the joy of a first kiss. Her books are the ones you cherish.
Bewildered by Nazi soldiers’ willingness to perpetuate the horrors of World War II, Stanley Milgram set out to test the extent to which average people would do harm if instructed by an authority figure. In what would end up being one of the most famous studies in the history of social psychology, the experimenter would instruct study subjects to submit a heard, but unseen stranger (who was reputed to have a heart condition) to a series of increasingly strong electric shocks. The unseen stranger (actually a tape recording) would yelp and cry and scream and beg… and eventually be silent. If the study subject expressed a desire to quit administering the shocks, the experimenter would prod four times:
In his initial study, though all participants at some point required prodding, 65 percent of people (26 out of 40) continued to submit the stranger to electric shocks all the way up to (a fake) 450-volts, a dose that was identified as fatal and was administered after the screaming turned to silence. You can watch a BBC replication of the studies.
I find it interesting that instead of simply limiting how many college students they use, they specifically say no college students.
So cool. This is like a sociology nerd test. If you are excited to see this, you might be a sociology nerd.
This is a classic study in the notions of expertise, deferral and public perceptions of/engagement with science. Amazing that the original leaflet has resurfaced. I wonder what effect this study had on the participants - i.e. for those that cranked up to the full 450v and heard the tape go silent -what questions they asked / what their emotional response was afterwards. Pretty harrowing experience I'd imagine, as would working in a concentraiton camp, but in both cases, people still did it, and if questioned on their actions would probably attempt to distance themselves from the motivation for them by referring to more senior figures / experts in both cases.
I have to say that, reading about this experiment again, it occurs to me how unethical it seems. Inflicting guilt and an obviously traumatic experience on the subjects, all to prove... that people trust authority? Also, in the case of soldiers working in concentration camps, while obviously there were psychological dynamics at work, I imagine that the threat of violence also (whether subconsciously or not) contributed to the willingness to comply.
I absolutely loved learning about this experiment in Sociology. However, it was a bit chilling. The thing that struck me the most was the following:
"none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave, as per Milgram's notes and recollections"
It seems that even when we do something that is against authority, we still somewhat follow their lead (creepy!).
Anyone know if he queried the subjects for philosophical aspects - religion, political party? And how about race? Now, that's the kind of data that would turn this into a fresh hot topic. of course, it could be easily faked at this point, so the only folks that would believe it would be those it flattered.
Reminds me of an experiment that I volunteered for back in 1970 at Stanford. It was supposedly an experiment in distraction. I was requested to press a button which would administer an mild, but annoying electric shock to a student taking an exam (and set off a really loud buzzer, of course). They assured me it would only cause a "tickling" sensation & even offered to let me feel the sensation. I declined, assuming they were telling the truth. The "torture" lasted about 15 minutes, with the student sitting across a table from me, "wincing" at the appropriate times. Afterwards, they told me that the real "test" was about whether or not I would press the button in the first place. Needless to say, I am not a sociologist.
Singer Dar Williams wrote a song about this experiment. You can hear it and read an article about it here:
There's in interview floating around somewhere with the man who was the "student" - the actor who was pretending to be shocked. It was on the radio a few months ago, I'll see if I can track it down.
Milgram's studies are constantly touted as evidence of how blindly we obey authority, but really... are they? In this case, obedience to the researcher's demands were likely rationalised as "he knows better". Perhaps it wasn't so much obedience as it was trust. The participants were RIGHT to trust the researcher - no harm was actually caused to anyone!
So perhaps it isn't so much "I will cause another person harm just because someone in a position in authority told me to," but rather "I will do what the person in a position of authority tells me because they know something that I don't"
As much as Milgram "demonstrated" some phenomena with his studies, he didn't actually continue his research to include viable explanations for them.
I studied this test in Psych last year; after completing the test, they did a follow up (6 months afterwards, I think). Even after knowing exactly what the test was about, only one or two of the participants felt guilt, remorse, regret or shame for their actions during the test. Maybe that's cognitive dissonance at work, or maybe they justified it by claiming they were only "following directions", but regardless, the results are still quite scary.
We recommend using these discussion questions and activity with Ellen Berrey’s interesting and well-written article Sociology Finds Discrimination in the Law (read the full article for free here!) which appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Contexts.
1) How would you define discrimination? How does your definition compare with a more formal, legal definition?
2) The article states that sometimes people discriminate unintentionally. What are examples of unintentional discrimination?
3) Based on what you learned from this article, what do you think should be done to rectify the effects of discrimination? Who should be responsible for taking action?
Explore the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website (eeoc.gov) and read up about the different kinds of discrimination. Have you or someone you know been a victim of the types of discrimination described?
To accompany the collection of Contexts articles focused on aging, use these questions and activity to get a fruitful discussion going in your class. This collection
1) On what grounds do the authors argue that Social Security and Medicare are not the biggest problems presented by an aging America?
Activity: The article states that policies to help the elderly often need to target young people in order to come to a long-term solution. Think of a problem faced by the elderly and what policies directed at children now might help alleviate that problem in the future.
1) What are some of the stereotypes about older people that lead to employment discrimination against them? Are there stereotypes about young people that could spur ageist discrimination? What can be done to dispel myths and reduce discrimination in either case?
2) How is discrimination related to economics, and how might the current economic recession affect ageism in the workplace?
Here’s a discussion-provoking activity to be used with “Why Are There So Many ‘Minorities?” by Mitch Berbreier from the Winter 2004 issue of Contexts. PDF here.
The following is a list of social groups that have advocated or could potentially advocate to be considered “minorities,” awarding them protection from discrimination under the law in the United States. Put a checkmark by the groups that you think should be legally protected from discrimination. Briefly explain your decisions.
I held a new pen today, as the old one ran out of ink, hoping that this will help me continue writing. Contrarily, it gave me more trouble than the one without ink. Occasionally that happens, since we do not remember to check each and every pen before buying. I had a stock of pens, so I took out another. This one was smooth. Yet, I continued to face trouble gliding my pen over the page because my fingers had turned stiff thanks to the previous defective pen. My handwriting appeared crooked. It left me wondering if trying to write with a defective pen can leave such an impression on the fingers and most likely on the nerves as well, since my whole hand felt numb, than what about all the deeds that we commit in our life which leave undesirable impressions on the body and the mind? How penetrating those impressions would be and how hazardous the deeds! If it takes me one hour to relieve myself of the stiffness in my fingers, and restore my handwriting to its original form, than how much time and effort will it take a person to restore his/her lungs after, say 12 years of smoking? And that is, in fact, one of the habits which we realize is dangerous. What about all those habits we don’t realize as dangerous- for instance, a negative thought about ourselves or others which constantly bother us? Will it be easy to overcome the impressions that such deeds and thoughts leave behind in us?
It is for this reason that up until an age, what we do are unconscious acts to follow the pattern instilled in us by our surrounding, by habits we learn through socialization: many a times it could be helpful in our self-realization, once we become conscious. More often than not, though, such acts are likely to contribute to unhealthy karma. Up until an age, we accumulate karma. Living unconsciously, is nothing but the consequence of the impressions left in us by our past karma. So, the moment we wake up, with the help of some catalyst, what is required of us is a struggle- effort to get rid of the stiffness, the stagnancy of the body and the mind. What is required of us is a conscious effort to not retreat into the indolence of the mind, if we don’t wish to carry more undesirable impressions onto next life. Since something has prodded us to make our journey towards self-realization- that is, living consciously, then is it not imprudent to not acknowledge it?
Yogic way of life is the only way to self-realization. However, for someone who has spent all her/his childhood and youth with the notions and practices that the life-style of the present generation instil in us, following the true yogic way of life is very difficult.
This journey to self-realization is a long struggle for a body and a mind whose growth stagnates due to cataleptic and thereby unhealthy habits. The body amasses toxins from the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. The more unhealthy the environment and habits the more the accumulation of toxic elements, which settle down in various nooks and corners of the body only to create havoc with one or the other system of the body sooner or later. Similarly, the mind, through socialization and irrelevant education, also accumulates toxic elements, which I would rather term as ‘partial knowledge’ or ‘the illusion of full knowledge’ about the universe and its parts.
Therefore, in order to have a clear understanding of one’s self, other fellow beings and the universe, we must first cleanse the toxic elements from the body and mind which has accumulated over the years. For someone who truly follows the Hindu way of life right from birth, the yogic way of life is the only way of life and she/he doesn’t need to initiate the process of cleansing the body and the mind. However, for unconscious people, who came to consciousness on a later phase of life or who has, despite wanting to follow the yogic way of life, often succumbed to the temptations the present world order puts in front of us, must initiate the process very consciously and with great strength of character (also ‘will-force’) to integrate the way into life in a manner that the way itself becomes life and the person can maintain it unfailingly. The day the yogic way of life becomes the only way of life for a person, she/he has attained self-realization.
The attainment of self-realization is only the beginning of another journey and through serving humanity in one’s own way, a self-conscious person, serves God with utmost humility and honesty. Yet, is the notion of ‘serving humanity’ necessary? A deeper understanding of this is addressed later.
I say that it is a struggle because even the strongest and successful beings on earth, who had reached the point of self-realization, often admitted that even they had to give in to temptations sometimes and make compromises. It is only in being continually, every second of the day, conscious of the working of our mind and body that we help our self realize itself. The moment we leave this consciousness, we have to begin anew with a resolve to not make the same mistake again. This cycle of growing out of consciousness and resolving to bring it back again is not cyclical though. It is not about stagnation; the cycle is not a circle, although it might look like one. It is spiral. There is one point in the cycle where the human rises higher; above his past self. So, the feeling that one keeps returning to the same point is incorrect. The cycle is not hopeless.
Nonetheless, I feel, the initiation of the yogic way of life, in true sense of the words, is possible only for someone who has become aware of his/her reluctance to indulge in life; she/he who do not anymore wish to enjoy life and its gifts; neither seek joy, nor seek love but take whatever she/he is given by life. The yogic way of life, before we start practicing it demands that we can let go easily any kind of pleasure; that the only way we look at life is through an attachment only to God: our existence (the fact that we are breathing) and the work we do, a prayer and nothing more. Unless one feels this from the heart and learns to remain conscious each moment of life, she/he is not prepared to initiate the yogic way of life. Despite having the will to initiate it, must wait for the correct time. For someone, who has the will, the correct time always shows up.
Consciousness: The Vedanta asserts that the self is above the body and the mind. In fact, we’ll realize this the moment we begin listening to the small voice that appears coming from somewhere within: we usually like to think it comes directly from an imaginary point in the middle of the chest. The Hindu term for it, is atman: the inner voice. It is, however, neither located in the body, nor in the mind. It is ‘consciousness’; that which knows all even in the absence of extensive knowledge or lack of education and that which directs us. This is a very simplistic understanding, so we may not digress into a lengthy discussion on consciousness, as I mean to contemplate on it at length in the later essays.
Being conscious of every action, right from opening our eyes in the morning to closing them at night, even if it is as negligible and spontaneous as the position we are sitting when we are using the laptop to the way we have our pillow placed in the bed, we must be conscious of the way we are doing it. There is a certain disciplinary procedure for every action and it is needed by the body for proper functioning.
Being conscious of every thought and thereby of speech (and expression), right from what we are thinking when we are copying notes from a book to how we are responding to someone’s indignant tone. Any thought that consist even an inkling of hatred/violence towards someone else or someone else’s thoughts is against Yoga. Yoga, as mentioned earlier, is about non-violence and non-possession.
For now, let us understand that consciousness and being conscious are not very different in form, but the latter leads to the former and the former directs the latter, both occurring simultaneously. Ignoring the consciousness is not possible for any human being but we humans, more often than not, tend to act as if we didn’t hear our consciousness (the atman, the inner voice) by making a habit of acting without being conscious, for the sake of the comfort we are so attuned to. Struggles are uncomfortable, aren’t they? Given a choice, why wouldn’t one wish to avoid them?
We must remember we are mortal beings. We survive at the mercy of others and by the grace of God. We cannot afford to grow unconscious, for it would mean sheer disregard for the supreme power: the energy radiated by of all living and non-living entities (Brahman) and absence of humility that should arise from our own insignificance.
Work and Worship: Work is worship. Who are we to feel that we can be saviours of humanity; we can rule humanity? The least we can do is to help our self. We might accompany others in their journey and lend a hand now and then, as other fellow passengers do in our need. In this world, each one of us is in as much need as the others are, irrespective of material richness or poverty. We are given the body to act and the mind to think and when we combine the ability of both, we work.
The sense of life is in the peacefulness/contentment we find within us. And this comes only through the action of worship. Worship doesn’t mean binding ourselves to the mindless ritualistic patterns of a religion/religious organization and mumbling God’s name day in and day out. Worship in greatest sense of the word means complete humility and surrender to the Supreme Being and accepting that all we do in our life, we do because we know we have been given this life so that we may learn to love justly and devote to Him, who presides over our life and death.
Therefore, conscientious work is the best form of worship. However, reserving time for remembering the Supreme Being helps us to keep our humility intact. It is again a practice of being conscious. If we lose this consciousness, the only purpose we are left with to work is for our self and as such there is a danger of falling back into the sloth of vanity; of thinking we can control, when the truth is that we cannot.
Is working/action (including the act of thinking) in confluence with the yogic principle of non-violence? Absolutely not. If we recollect Newton’s third law: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Pure sciences (not the pseudo ones) have always been in convergence with the observations of wise people of ancient ages. The Gita says the same: no action is bereft of violence. Here, by violence, we mean a consequence- an equal and opposite reaction. Every consequence creates a chain of need for further action, because what comes even before seeking comfort, to which we are so attuned to, as I said before, is our survival. Sometimes surviving is not comfortable, but naturally, we feel the need to go on living. So, we must pluck the fruit from the tree and eat. Isn’t plucking the fruit an act of violence upon the tree? Some may argue it is not, however, that is beside the point. The point is- we cannot avoid action, but what we can consciously strive for is action/actions which cause least harm to ourselves and thereby to living/non-living things around us.
Seen from such a perspective, a bedridden invalid person (although I wouldn’t be wanting to term someone as such) unable of any movement is probably contributing more to the growth of peacefulness and non-violence than the ones around him/her who are capable of movement? No, such is not the case. That person, in his wake of a lifeless existence, is oozing every single moment some anxiety among the people who care, and perhaps hopelessness and fear among the ones who love him/her dearly. There is violence, even in the act of simply sleeping, lying lifeless. He/she, perhaps, could have saved his dear ones from such anxiety, had he/she took proper care of the self while being healthy and moving about like any normal person. Consciousness, often, helps us to be aware of life, the adversities that it presents, the beauty that it presents, and therefore, consciousness capacitates one to avoid situations which might lead to violence at some point of time in life. However, there is fate. Something we cannot deny. So, anything fateful that happens to an otherwise conscious and healthy person should only leave us more accepting and aware of the role of karma (work and worship) in one’s present life. We don’t know how it might manifest in the next life.
Then, how can we direct or redirect our life in a manner that our actions inflict least violence? We can take care of ourselves and work to feed ourselves, and if needed work hard to earn a living but keep away from short cuts, from cheating, and most of all from reacting. The image that comes to my mind at this moment is that of a good-natured farmer, or maybe a banker or a businessman or an artist: literally anyone, who is consciously trying to grow, through work and through appropriate and necessary knowledge about the self and the universe for self-realization.
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To be sure, fear used here is not meant in the literal sense but fear in the sense of grave respect. Fearing the Lord is necessary to have a proper relationship with God. I looked at this scripture and looked at it like an equation so what comes (or came) first for you, fearing the Lord or hating evil? For that matter, how do you even define evil? With respect to the latter question of defining evil, I went to Strong’s Concordance Dictionary to understand how the evil was defined in Proverbs 8:13 and the entry for evil follows below,
(As a side bar before I continue, I find it interesting that the transliteration for Ra is the same name for the Egyptian sun god.)
I hate generalizations but I would venture to say that most people think of evil like Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart defined pornography, “I know it when I see it.” concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964). For example, most people I think would define Satanic worship as evil. However, common agreement regarding what is evil gets murky when we talk about things like using curse words, drinking, or listening to secular music. Certainly one could make the argument that based on the definition of evil in Proverbs 8:13, that using curse words, smoking, or listening to secular music. Moreover, I have noticed people say things to the effect of, “I can do X because it doesn’t negatively impact me the way it would someone else who is either spiritually less mature or is more sensitive to X.” As a believer, that argument never really sat well with me. I think that if you believe or know that something is wrong, its wrongness isn’t mitigated by the fact that you think it doesn’t impact you.
Now let’s assume that we all agree that a certain activity is wrong, e.g. using curse words. When you hear a co-worker or a friend use a curse word, do you feel hate? Just think about it for a second. I would imagine that if you hated someone or something, your blood would boil if that person or thing was in your presence. You would either have to say something to check the situation or leave. Either way, business as usual would no longer be a viable option. So again, someone curses in front of you. Do you hate the fact that they cursed around? Let me speak freely. I can honestly say I don’t hate it. Of course if someone is cursing every other word then yeah, I will get annoyed and politely request that they use more appropriate language. But annoyed, even highly annoyed does not amount to hate. And therein lies the rub. Learning to hate evil.
For me, the best strategy to learn to hate is to learn the truth. Using a non-spiritual example, when I learned the truth about how unhealthy fast-food really is, my consumption of it dropped precipitously where now, I only eat it if there is no other option available and for some elongated period of time. I hate to equate fast-food to sin but how many of you had a more narrow definition of evil as it used in Proverbs 8:13? I did. And now the process begins again of evaluating the bad things I don’t hate and asking myself why. I suggest you do to the same.
Allow me to jump on the bandwagon of the highly raved animal cafes in Japan. I mean, they’re just too cute not to write about. How can you not head to animal cafes in Osaka while you’re there?
Speaking of animal cafes, Japan has got to be the world leader when it comes to this. Never mind the world economy, I’m confident that the animal cafe industry is going to strive to the end of the world. Who doesn’t love our furry counterparts!
I’m not sure about you, but how did the Japanese identify this owl trend way before we even thought about visiting animal cafes? (On our first day in Osaka, we headed straight for the owl cafe.
As we entered the cafe, we were greeted by more than a dozen owls perched on bars throughout the cafe. Some asleep and resting, others wide awake and alert. There were big and fierce looking ones, as well as small and cute looking ones. Some seem to have really sweet and cuddly appearances, but others seem to hold rather threatening glares that warn ‘rest time, do not disturb’.
We settled down and ordered the drinks that we wanted. Weirdly, there was a peculiar mix of excitement and hesitation building up within me as the staff explained the dos and don’ts.
Perhaps, I was drawn to the mysteriousness of an animal that I wasn’t yet familiar with. We were told that we could pat the head and the back of the owls, but they wouldn’t like being touched anywhere else.
Somehow, within that hour of interacting with the owls, the weariness and hesitation within me dissipated. The staff held the owls delicately and placed them on our wrists. The owls were gentler than we thought. But just in case they decide to take flight, there’s actually a safety rope tied to their leg to stop them. We were allowed to hold them by our arms or let them rest on our heads. Beware though, they have no control over their bowel movements.
All you have is just an hour. So treasure your time there. Pat them loads, hold them more, and take loads of photos before you bid your farewell. *sniff*
*Pro-tip: They let in groups of people by the hour so head there earlier to leave your name before exploring around the area while waiting for your turn.
Ok, I know it’s a little bit of an abrupt shift to the other end of the cute spectrum, but hey, it’s all about the novelty experience, isn’t it? Besides the cutesy fluffy animal cafes that are littered across Japan, quirky cafes like these can also be found in alleys of Japan. We found this oddball in a quiet corner of Osaka.
Stepping into Rockstar Cafe, I was somewhat met with a strange eeriness in the air, much like that of a witch’s den. This cafe is filled with creatures you cannot possibly imagine. If you’re one who has a strong aversion to creepy crawlies and lizards, then it’s best that you DO NOT continue reading. Everything distasteful awaits below.
One glance around the cafe, I saw chameleons, lizards, tarantulas, snakes, centipedes, iguanas… I shan’t go on. For each of the creatures, they have not one, but many species.
We settled down at a table and struggled to read the menu as we tried to order a drink. The staff wasn’t good at English but he knew enough to name the drinks and briefly explain to us what they were. From the words we managed to pick out, we could decipher things like “centipede alcohol” and “bee beer”. Nope. No way was I going for that. Almost instinctively, I quipped, “Coke please! Thank you!” So, yes, of course, they do have normal food menu as well.
I attempted to cradle the snake without fear, yet my expression betrayed me and unfurled my anxiety and fear. Thereafter, I went from tank to tank, trying to find a creature that seemed the least threatening and I found it – a mint green coloured chameleon. For the next hour, I held the chameleon to me like a pet I never had.
Dings was pretty much fearless when it came to lizards. Just look at her, she’s a natural with them.
To be honest, it was a creepy but cool experience. Though I doubt I’d put myself through this scare again. So yes, for a one time fee of ¥1,000 (non-incl. of drinks), you get a membership which allows you to visit the cafe again in future for free. Enjoy your unlimited play time with these reptiles and creepy crawlies. Go if you dare.
Also commonly available in other countries, cat cafes are probably one of the most popular animal cafes in Japan. Ragdoll Cat Cafe is one of the many cat cafes you can find in Japan.
They’re unlike most cats that you find in Singapore. The types of the cats at Ragdoll ranges from Munchkin to Norwegian Forest Cat, with way more breeds than I can list.
Sale of snacks for the cats are also available at ¥100. But if you’re there on weekdays, there are weekday deal plans! Pay ¥1,600 for 2 hours or pay ¥2,200 for 3 hours, prices inclusive of a drink for you and a snack for the cat 🙂
These cats are so gentle and peaceful, they make an absolutely puuuuurfect afternoon cuddle buddy. I mean, do any other cats make nap time seem more enjoyable than they do?? They curl up in any boxes, buckets or shelves they can find and get all snuggled up for nap time. Cat lover or not, you should definitely head down to Ragdoll to laze with them 😉
Whether you’re a dog owner or not, spending your afternoon with these pups at Dog Tail is sure to brighten your day! Dog Tail has all kinds of small dogs that will definitely come rushing to welcome you once you enter the cafe 🙂 You’ll be assigned to an area to be seated where your drink will be served. Choose from hot or cold coffee/tea or fruit juices.
In this huge playroom, these canine friends run and prance around everywhere and attempt to get your attention to play. I can be sure that it’d be hard to ignore any of them!
Toy Poodles, Chihuahua, Dachshund… There’s an overwhelming army of cuteness running around the place! If this isn’t lively enough for you yet, you can try playing a mini game of fetch with your furry pal!
But really, who can get bored with these cute pups? Especially when they flash their playful puppy eyes at you, cocking their heads to the side, wagging their tails, eagerly anticipating your next playful move too! Is your heart not already melting?
Shiba Inu dogs are cute, but have you seen the Mame Shiba Inu (Bean Shiba Inu) breed? Seeing one of these miniature inus will tug your heartstrings till they snap. The Mame Shiba Inu (豆柴) is a special breed of Inu that grows to only half the usual size, and now there’s a place for you to meet not one, but 10 of them.
Newly opened in Kyoto, the Kyoto Mameshiba Cafe is a small nostalgically-furnished space that homes about 10 mame shiba inus. The ¥780 admission fee includes a coffee, so you can get your daily dose of caffeine and cute at the same time. So swing by to Kyoto (really near Osaka) if you’ve not gotten enough dosage of animal cafes in Osaka 🙂
Do note that this “cafe” does not serve any other food, and is probably too small for you to be walking around with 10 dogs (albeit miniature). So, do make use of the 30 minutes admission time to ogle at, interact, and IG-story all the adorbs lil’ doggos while you’re there!
While Deers aren’t found in Osaka, there’s no reason not to check them out being just an hour away by train! Just hop on the train to Nara and you’ll find yourself in a deer paradise where deers roam freely.
The best part, the deers can be found all around the city, even at temples and shrines so technically, admission is free. Just buy a pack of biscuits (specially for the deers) and they’re bound to come to you.
In case you’re wondering what else there is to do in Osaka, do check out our Osaka Budget Guide – Travel for under $70 a day including accommodation too!
A little bit of photography, a little bit of sports and a whole lot of travel. Oh and also, Earth is definitely my element. Will have no qualms at camping in the forests and mountains.
Think the concept of an owl cafe is questionable – unlike dogs and cats, owls are not domesticated and are naturally nocturnal. Forcing them awake in the day and furthermore, tying them down when they’re meant to be predatory birds, seems cruel. Sure, it’s cute, but I’d also encourage those who’re thinking of visiting to read the following articles as well before making a decision:
In 1970, a Vancouver anti-nuclear activist casually uttered the words "green peace" and a great movement was launched.
[Editor's note: This excerpt is adapted from GREENPEACE: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World, Vancouver journalist Rex Weyler's history of the group's first eight tumultuous years. Enter to win tickets to an upcoming Greenpeace benefit concert or free copies of the book.]
The ordinary citizens of British Columbia spawned Greenpeace, the most visible manifestation of a new ecological ethos that developed globally during the 1970s. By the mid-1960s, B.C. had moved well ahead of the global ecology movement. Whereas California had more environmental groups, B.C. hosted a much broader base of civic support and action. UBC offered one of the world's first ecology doctorates. A New Zealand brain scientist, Paul Spong, performed the world's first clinical studies on a captured whale at the Vancouver Aquarium. B.C. naturalists halted the flooding of the Skagit River Valley by a Seattle power company. And when the government proposed a highway through Vancouver, along the beach and around Point Grey, Vancouver citizens rose up to preserve the seaside quality of the downtown core and the shoreline of English Bay.
This marked a turning point in B.C. history: The environmentalists had discovered the greatest inspiration for any social activist: They could win.
Three B.C. journalists from Winnipeg played a key role in creating the Greenpeace mystique: Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe and Bob Hunter. Metcalfe's CBC radio and television broadcasts comprised the first broad public voice for ecology in British Columbia. Dorothy Metcalfe, formerly with the Winnipeg Free Press, operated an international news service from her home during the first two Greenpeace campaigns. In a 1969 Vancouver Sun column, Bob Hunter reprinted the ecology symbol designed by Ron Cobb at the Los Angeles Free Press. "I venture to predict," wrote Hunter, "that it will become as familiar as the peace symbol."
Greenpeace evolved as much by happenstance as by design. In October 1969, the United States detonated a one-megaton nuclear bomb on remote Amchitka Island, 2,400 miles northwest of Vancouver in the Aleutian Islands. The blast created a Richter 6.9 shockwave. Hunter, recalling a 1964 tsunami that swamped Port Alberni, on Vancouver Island, wrote in his column: "There is a distinct danger that the tests might set in motion earthquakes and tidal waves which could sweep from one end of the Pacific to the other."
For a disarmament rally in front of the U.S. consulate, Hunter came up with the slogan "Don't Make a Wave." When the U.S. Department of Defense announced another test, five times more powerful, for the fall of 1971, Vancouver activists vowed to stop it. American Quaker Irving Stowe, living in Point Grey, phoned journalists Hunter and Metcalfe. He called his expatriate American friends Jim and Marie Bohlen, local members of the Sierra Club, and others. Stowe borrowed Hunter's slogan and organized a group that came to be known as the "Don't Make a Wave Committee."
On Sunday morning, February 8, 1970, Sierra Club members Jim and Marie Bohlen drank coffee in the kitchen of their home on West 19th, in the arborous neighbourhood of Dunbar. From the typically overcast winter sky, a diffused light filtered through the chestnut trees. Marie, a nature illustrator, watched busy juncos and chickadees in the damp morning foliage.
Jim told Marie he was frustrated with the Sierra Club for its failure to oppose nuclear weapons, and with the Don't Make a Wave Committee for its inability to arrive at a strategy. Marie sipped her coffee and watched the birds. Jim seethed as he read the newspaper. He got a second cup of coffee. Finally, somewhat casually, Marie said, "Why not sail a boat up there and confront the bomb?"
The Vancouver activists knew about the Golden Rule, the Quaker boat that had attempted to sail into the Enewetak test zone in 1958. Bob Hunter and lawyer Hamish Bruce had launched a fishing boat, Maddy, to stage ecology actions, but it had sunk at dockside. But Marie's suggestion was pure inspiration, detached from the practicalities. It just seemed to her like the right thing to do.
As Jim and Marie contemplated this, the phone rang. A reporter from the Vancouver Sun, making a routine call, asked what campaigns the Sierra Club might be planning. The synchronicity caught Bohlen off guard. Out of frustration, he took the plunge. "We hope to sail a boat to Amchitka to confront the bomb," he explained. To Bohlen, this may have been a hypothetical idea, but to the Sun reporter, it was a scoop. The Sun ran the story the next day. The headline proclaimed: "Sierra Club Plans N-Blast Blockade."
The initial glitch was that the Sierra Club had approved no such campaign. Furthermore, the B.C. chapter had set itself up with the blessings of the Seattle group but had not received official sanction from Sierra Club headquarters in San Francisco. What happened next would be clouded by myth, but over the next week, the Don't Make a Wave Committee devised a plan to sail a boat to Amchitka Island and they gave the boat a name, although no such boat had been committed to the cause.
In the Fireside Room of the Vancouver Unitarian Church on Oak Street, the committee held an emergency meeting. Light entered the unadorned room from two tall, thin windows in the west wall. Wooden and grey metal chairs had been pulled out, facing a table where Irving Stowe presided. The throng pulsated with anticipation. Although Marie's idea and Jim's pronouncement to the media had bypassed the consensus process, no one opposed the plan for a boat. On the contrary, the idea had given the group some direction.
When the Sierra Club declined to support the plan, the Don't Make a Wave Committee simply assumed an ad hoc status. The group unanimously ratified the action, although they had neither a boat, the money to charter one, nor any legal standing other than the democratic right of citizens to assemble and challenge their governments.
As the meeting wound down, people drifted into the courtyard of the Unitarian Church grounds, milled around, and talked in small groups. When Stowe left, he flashed the "V" sign, as was his custom, and said, "Peace." Bill Darnell, a quiet ecology activist who rarely spoke at the meetings, said modestly, in the same offhanded manner that Marie Bohlen had suggested the boat, "Make it a green peace."
The assembly went silent for a moment. Darnell was not aware that anyone took notice, yet everyone heard the magic in the two words. Others in the group had discussed the confluence of disarmament and ecology, and Hunter and Metcalfe had written about the idea, yet no one had quite articulated the fusion so succinctly. The indelible conjugate lodged in people's minds. A green peace. Later, Stowe confided to Darnell that he could not stop thinking about the words. Hunter believed the expression fused the two most urgent movements in human affairs. Metcalfe said, "Yeah, well, it fits better in a headline than the Don't Make A Wave Committee." Over the next few days, people talked about the hypothetical boat as if it existed, and some called it "the Green Peace."
The group soon found fisherman John Cormack on a Fraser River dock. With the salmon and halibut fisheries closed, Cormack needed money, and agreed to take 12 volunteers to Amchitka Island. The boat, re-christened "Greenpeace," left Vancouver on September 15, 1971, but never reached Amchitka. The U.S. Coast Guard arrested them in Akutan, 600 miles from their goal.
Nevertheless, the voyage provoked protests across Canada and the US. Journalist Ben Metcalfe kept daily radio links to the world through Dorothy's makeshift global news agency in West Vancouver. Bob Hunter filed columns and news to the Vancouver Sun, feeding the international wire services. Eighteen Coast Guard sailors signed a letter supporting the Greenpeace. Richard Nixon fumed and the US Supreme Court dithered. In Vancouver, Union workers marched with hippies. Even ultra-conservative B.C. Premier W.A.C. Bennett joined the protest. Nixon mulishly approved the test, but it would be the last. Two months later, the US military abandoned the test series and declared Amchitka Island a wildlife sanctuary.
The following spring, the new "Greenpeace Foundation," with Ben Metcalfe as inaugural chairman, launched a sailboat to the French nuclear test site in the South Pacific, eventually forcing France to abandon atmospheric testing.
In 1973, Hunter took the reigns of the fledgling organization to "put the green in Greenpeace" by staging dramatic ecology actions. When Paul Spong came to him to help save the world's whales, a new era of seagoing environmental protest was born. In 1975, Greenpeace zodiacs interfered with Russian whaling boats off the coast of California, and millions of people around the world fell in love with Greenpeace. That same year, B.C.'s first NDP Premier, Dave Barrett, established the world's first orca whale sanctuary in British Columbia.
In 1979, Greenpeace International was formed in Amsterdam, under the leadership of Vancouver native David McTaggart. The citizens of British Columbia, by making a coordinated and consistent stand on behalf of their environment, created an endowment to the entire planet: an ecological strike force with the ability to face down governments and corporations over environmental issues.
GREENPEACE: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists and Visionaries Changed the World (Raincoast Books, 2004) is available in bookstores and online at http://www.rexweyler.com/.
On Sept. 21, a concert at the Commodore in Vancouver will celebrate the Greenpeace legacy. Musicians include Chilliwack, who played at the first Greenpeace benefit in 1971, Paul Horn, Ann Mortifee, Jim Byrnes, Zubot & Dawson, Shari Ulrich, Joe Keithley, and special guests Leonard George, Mayor Larry Campbell, Bob Hunter, Dorothy Stowe, Paul Spong, Tzeporah Berman, and others.
I saw a preview for the movie “American Sniper” several months ago. Bradley Cooper had his face behind a rifle scope, he was on patrol, he was at home with his wife. According to the screen, this was “based on the true story” of Chris Kyle, the most deadly sniper in US history.
To be fair, I felt the same way about the movie Lone Survivor, which chronicled the harrowing tale of Marcus Lutrell in Afghanistan, and how his entire unit was lost in an ambush. I feel the same way about most war movies. The problem that I have with these movies is that they’re so close to being real, so very authentic in the way that they almost portray the realities of war.
People go to these movies and sit in silence for two hours. They cry. They get angry. They applaud at the end.
People are served up war as an 80s training montage, and then allowed to leave the theater feeling that they finally get it. They now understand what war is like, or at least they’re a little bit closer.
And so many of them leave the theater in a patriotic fervor, feeling deep in their soul, “These guys are heroes.”
I knew Chris Kyle, if only in passing. The Seal Team that he was assigned to operated in the same area of the city of Ramadi in 2006 as we did, and they could often be seen at our Combat Outpost. We always got kind of excited when the Seal Team came to town, because we knew that we’d be seeing a lot of action. We knew that we’d be killing a lot of bad guys.
I have never read “American Sniper”, nor have I seen the movie, but I have read a lot about both works in the past few weeks. The opinions seem to be broken down into two categories:
I’m not surprised by either of these viewpoints. America is not well-known for her focus on moral complexity. This is the country where you’re either Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal, “For us or with the terrorists”. If you don’t think Chris Kyle is a hero, then you’re forced to view him as a monster. If you don’t think he was a monster, you must reluctantly conclude that he was a hero.
This is the thing that I hate about war movies: war movies never give us any new information. All that these films do is cement already formed viewpoints. If you go into a war movie with a sympathetic view of soldiers, then you’re going to come out with an even more sympathetic view. If you think that war is evil, you’re going to come out of the movie with an even firmer conviction.
We celebrated MLK Jr. Day a couple of days ago. The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. hated war. One of his less famous quotes – one rarely spoken and not written on his memorial – is as follows:
“(I)n the ghettoes of the North over the last three years — especially the last three summers, (a)s I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they ask — and rightly so — ‘what about Vietnam?’ They ask if our own nation wasn’t using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government. (Emphasis mine) For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
While I watched the news channels and social media explode with either adulation or criticism of our American Hero, Chris Kyle, I had to wonder about Dr. King’s quote. Here we were, celebrating a Federal holiday in honor of Dr. King (killed by a sniper’s bullet), and the most popular movie in the country was “American Sniper.” The most celebrated man in the country on January 19, 2015, was a man who killed people in service of the government of the United States. I had to wonder where Dr. King would have stood on the issue of Chris Kyle as Hero or Villain.
We built a monument of stone to Dr. King, but the monuments in our hearts are built to men like Chris Kyle.
We give our worship to Jesus – a man who commanded us to love our enemies, who forgave the men who killed Him as He was dying – but our real faith is in a man behind a rifle, dispensing justice to our enemies and those who would do us harm.
Any man or woman who puts on body armor and picks up a gun, then goes and stands guard against the barbarians at the gates is considered a hero.
Forgotten are those who stood toe to toe against corrupt police, oppressive governors, and a racist citizenry. They are given secondary consideration, even though they were neither armed nor armored.
Forgotten are those who go into the same warzones that the military do, only as unprotected civilians, to give aid to those who have lost their homes and families to the conflict.
Forgotten are those who risk life and limb every day, in dozens of unknown countries, to help fight against epidemics, hunger and poverty.
We have all the wrong heroes in this country, but we don’t know that we do. We really want to believe that we are the kind of country that MLK dreamed about, but we don’t want to acknowledge that his ideas would run contrary to what we think of us a Hero. We don’t want to acknowledge that Dr. King would see Chris Kyle as a symbol of what is wrong with this country, just as we don’t want to acknowledge that Dr. King and his mobs of protestors are exactly the kind of people that Chris Kyle would have gladly taken a shot at if asked to.
To paraphrase another popular movie: Dr. King is the hero that we need, but Chris Kyle is the one that we deserve.
Is it any wonder that our country is in such a state of polarization, when even our heroes are diametrically opposed?
I picked up my first rifle for our government in 2004. I went to war for the first time in service of my country in 2006. I finally laid down my weapons in 2013.
When I was a soldier, deploying to Iraq for the first time, they told me (and all of us) that going “over there” was the only way to keep ourselves, our families and our country safe. We were told that we simply had to kill all the bad guys, all the people threatening our way of life, and we would all be safe again.
While we were there, we did just that. We shot and killed the people that threatened us. We eliminated the enemy. And we felt safe, as long as we could keep killing the people that threatened us.
But, then we got home, and it wasn’t safe. Suddenly, there were enemies in every room we entered. There were enemies in every car on the road.
And, unlike “over there”, over here we had no issued weapon, no standing orders, no rules of engagement. We had to find a way to make ourselves feel safe again.
Some guys do that by constantly wishing they could go back “over there”, to the only place in the world they really felt safe.
So, I understand what Chris Kyle felt when he wrote that he would go back “over there” in a heartbeat. I understand why he helped veterans treat their PTSD by taking them to a shooting range.
Chris Kyle bought a lie that said he was only safe behind the sights of a rifle. He bought a lie that said he and the people he loved were only safe when he was pulling a trigger. And, while his work with veterans was effective, it was built on that same lie, the lie that tells all of us that we’re only safe when we have the ability to kill the people that threaten us.
I don’t think Dr. King would have hated Chris Kyle. I believe that Dr. King would have pitied Chris Kyle. I believe that he would have seen the terrible moral complexity that turned a kid from Texas into the most successful government-sanctioned killer in American history.
But, I don’t believe that he would have seen Chris Kyle as a victim. He would have acknowledged his choice, even as he mourned the awful system that gave him that choice over and over again. He would have praised the good that Chris did, even while condemning the evil that he had in his heart.
Or, maybe I’m just projecting my own feelings onto a man that I consider a hero. Maybe I want Dr. King to be alive today to believe all those things, just like I want Chris to be alive today to undergo the redemptive process that comes when you let go of hate and the absolute need for safety-by-any-means-necessary.
Maybe I really hate war movies because I’m tired of mourning my slain brothers-in-arms over and over again.
Maybe I want all the talk about Chris Kyle to stop – on both the left and right – because I just want him to rest in the peace that he never had in this life.
The general mood of these responses is that youth work is important to our future. There’s an acknowledgement that youth today face very different issues than the ones that previous generations have. Even at the tender age of 32, I have a hard time relating to some of the cultural and generational issues of the young people that I minister to.
I took some time to think about what makes us so different several months ago. I came up with a couple of facts about this generation of young people (between the ages of 12 and 19), in order to help frame the difference:
The oldest person in my youth group was 4 years old on September 11, 2001. The youngest member of my youth group wasn’t even born yet. Neither of them are old enough tor remember a world before the Twin Towers fell.
The youngest member of my youth group was born the same year that we invaded Iraq, and was almost done with elementary school when we ended combat operations.
It’s a little strange to look at a group of young people and realize that the events that have shaped and defined your entire adult life are simple realities for them. To me, war and terrorism were things that disrupted my way of life. For them, war and terrorism has been their entire life.
More than that – more than actual events – I think the thing that separates my generation from this new generation of youth is the climate of fear that has pervaded our nation since September 11, 2001. They have never known a world which felt safe and secure.
This became very clear to me on a night a few months ago. We decided to hold a candlelight vigil shortly after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Rather than confine it to Michael Brown’s death – and thus make a controversial political statement in a small Tennessee town – we expanded our vigil to include all recent victims of violence throughout the world. Some of the other youth leaders got some pictures together for a slideshow, we had our worship band play some soft music, and we sat and prayed for the victims of a world gone mad.
Afterwards, I asked them, as a group, how they felt about the stories they were hearing out of the media. And, a little boy of 11 raised his hand and said, “I feel afraid. If this can happen to someone my age, it can happen to me.”
At 11 years old, the only thing this young man should have to fear is rejection by potential romantic interests, or bad grades on tests, or whether or not he’ll make the football team. When I was 11, I certainly wasn’t afraid of someone blowing up a plane that I was on. I wasn’t afraid of getting shot in the street by a police officer. I didn’t have to fear that my father or mother was going to be sent to war and never come back. I didn’t have to worry that my Mom or Dad just lost their job, or couldn’t get a job, and that I wouldn’t be able to eat next week – much less go to college and have a life of my own later.
Our time was a more restless, difficult time than that of our parents, but our time was still an easy time. But, for the youth of today, anxiety is the word of the day. Fear is the prevailing mood.
Is it any wonder that 11% of young people will be diagnosed with a depressive disorder by the time that they are 18? 8% will be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, with only 18% of those getting any kind of treatment.
Is it any wonder that suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 12-18?
Is it any wonder that today, in this country, there will be 5400 suicide attempts (on average) among young people?
But, there is a special class of youth today for whom this is a much bigger problem. For youth who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered, the risk is much higher. The Jason Foundation, an organization that works to help end the “Silent Epidemic” of youth suicide, estimates that over 80% of LGBT students have faced harassment and bullying at their school, specifically because of their sexual orientation. Over 60% of these students have reported feeling unsafe at school.
According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, LGBT students are two times less likely to finish high school or pursue college degrees. LGBT youth make up 40% of the total youth homeless population, with the most frequently cited reason for homelessness being either parental rejection or being forced out of their home after coming out.
Once homeless, LGBT youth are far more likely to attempt or complete suicide than their heterosexual counterparts, due to rejection from charities and shelters. Gay male youth are much more likely to become sexual victims through prostitution or assault.
Our future, the most important group of people we have in our nation today, are sleeping out on the streets tonight. They are selling their bodies for food. They are killing themselves in droves.
This epidemic has a face for me. We have faced a few suicide attempts in the last year within our own youth group. In a group that averages 20 or less, the number we have faced is significant.
I cannot tell you the stories of those young people that we have almost lost in my own community. But, there is someone who perfectly encapsulates the way that we are failing our youth today, the way that we are squandering the only hope we have of a future.
Leelah Alcorn, born Joshua Alcorn, was a 17-year-old transgender teen. Leelah reported that she felt like a girl trapped in a boy’s body from the age of 4. At 14, she discovered the word “transgender” and ecstatically told her mother. Her mother did not share the enthusiasm, and told her that it was “just a phase” and that Leelah would never be a “real girl.”
At the age of 16, Leelah asked to go through gender transition therapy. Her parents sent her to Christian “conversion therapy” instead.
Her parents isolated her, taking her out of school and not allowing her to access any social media for over 5 months.
Her parents told her that she was going to hell. They accused her of attacking their image. They degraded her.
On December 28th, 2014, Leelah stepped in front of a semi-truck that was driving on the highway. Her mother called it an accident, and talked about how much she loved her “son.”
Leelah Alcorn was a good Christian youth, with the slight problem that she had a gender identity that didn’t match her body.
And we do all mourn her, because who knows what Leelah might have become, if she had lived in a world with hope instead of fear?
Fear is what killed Leelah Alcorn. Fear is what is killing so many of these young people before they ever have a chance to grow up. Fear that there is no future, no happiness, no success, no understanding.
And this last statement is why it’s a Christian problem. We are supposed to be the givers of hope, the purveyors of Good News, and we have become peddlers of fear instead.
In the New Testament, 1 John 4:18, Followers of Jesus are told, “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.”
I am a Youth Pastor because I believe that what young people need is unconditional love, and hope in the future. I am a Youth Pastor because I know that the world is a scary place, and young people need places and people in their lives that make them feel safe and accepted. I am a Youth Pastor because there are far too many Youth Pastors who spend far too much time giving young people more to be afraid of – fear of hell, fear of sinning, fear of displeasing God – and I need to be an alternative. I am a Youth Pastor because I believe that the words of Jesus are Good News, and I believe that the youth of today have a great need to hear Good News. They need it after growing up in a world where there is so much Bad News.
I don’t know if I’ve made much sense today. I know that I’ve wandered from youth suicide, to youth homelessness, to LGBT youth issues. To me, these are not separate issues, and they all hold equal importance and urgency. If we do not do something about this climate of fear soon, we will stop seeing youth who are afraid and start seeing a generation of adults who are cynical and jaded by their 20s.
I will leave you with a video that I watched a few weeks ago, that really touched me. It’s some spoken word poetry, and it’s wonderful if you watch all the way to the end.
If you are a young person who is having thoughts and feelings of fear, hopelessness or harming yourself, please seek help. If you cannot talk to your parents or a trusted adult, call:
If you are a parent of a young person, talk to them. Seek to understand them, rather than judge. And, if you feel that your young person is at risk of suicide, ASK. You can find resource materials here.
As the New Year approached, I became more and more anxious that I had no ideas for a new blog post. Every blog that I follow seemed to have a “Year in Review” kind of post, but I just… couldn’t…. do it.
2014 was a rough year for a lot of people, both in my small circle and in the larger circle of our nation and world. I felt that if I wrote a New Year’s blog post, it was going to be a lament for 2014. When I first opened this site – on January 1, 2014 – my first post was titled “The Year of the Church Triumphant.” My prayer was that 2014 would be the year that we would turn it all around, the year that Christianity would become a positive, relevant force in the public sphere. I hoped that 2014 would be the year that all the Sarah Palins, Pat Robertsons and Ken Hamms of the world would find Jesus, and start doing good things in His name, rather than perpetuating evil and oppression and calling it “good.”
Throughout 2014, I responded to situations that were coming out of the news on this blog. I wrote about Hobby Lobby, I wrote about Ferguson, I wrote about Eric Garner. I wrote about all the awfulness that was happening, and I desperately waited for some kind of massive Christian presence to match the volume of the hypocrites.
In the midst of all the awfulness, there was a legitimate, strong movement of people who were being Jesus (and not just in His name) that I was missing. I fell victim to the very thing that I feel has kept the rest of the world from hearing the Gospel – the shouts of those who would use the name of Jesus to advance their own power and prestige. I was so intent on out-shouting those voices, that I forgot to look and listen to the faithful remnant that were quietly, humbly doing the work of the Kingdom in the midst of the darkness.
I don’t think that we deserve awards or pats on the back for being faithful to the Gospel, but I think that it’s important for people like me – people who have accepted a role of “the voice crying in the wilderness” – to acknowledge that the Church has been triumphant in a lot of small, yet meaningful, ways.
In the midst of a humanitarian crisis at the border, there were a number of charities – both Christian and other-than-Christian – who brought much needed food, water, clothing, toys and compassion to children and families who had traveled a long and dangerous road. The number of charitable workers was smaller than the number of people waving signs and screaming hate at those same refugees – but those who were there to help were far more important, and far more valuable, than those who were there to hurt.
In the midst of ongoing protests surrounding police actions in Ferguson, there was a small number of clergy and other people of peace. These peacemakers were a small part of the often angry mob that cried for justice, a smaller force than the militarized police presence that often met the protesters with force, but they were willing to stand between the two groups and pray for justice and peace. This place between the two extremes often put them in the way of rubber bullets and tear gas, but they stood there anyway.
In the midst of an Ebola scare, there were religious and non-religious relief organizations that responded to the cases in America and beyond. More than that, the presence of the fatal disease on our shores highlighted the great work that those same organizations have been doing the whole time to combat the epidemic in places where there is little in the way of proper medicine and health care.
In the midst of ongoing hatred and lies concerning the LGBTQ community, there were still churches and Christian writers who opened their doors and their hearts to an oppressed and excluded group of people. They were far outnumbered by the voices who shouted for condemnation and judgement, but they were still there. There were still ministers willing to risk the wrath of their denominations in order to perform same-sex marriages. There were still churches willing to be excommunicated from their denominations to become welcoming to all.
In the midst of a national shouting match about the torture of prisoners, there were still Christians who joined non-Christian peacemakers in protesting the death penalty. There were still Christians who visited prisons, who ministered to those who were incarcerated.
And even while some with untold wealth were using that wealth to gain even more, there were more who have little who were giving to those who had less.
I missed so much of this during 2014, because I was so concerned with all that was going wrong. And while it is important to be concerned with injustice, while it is vital to be a loud and insistent voice for the oppressed, it is just as important to stop and take note of the good that is happening behind the injustice, to find the hope in the midst of the darkness.
The faithful remnant might never have the numbers or the volume of the Church of Empire, but what that remnant does is far more important, far more lasting. When Jesus told us to go out and make disciples, He was telling us to go out and convince people – sometimes with our voices, but more often with our actions – that His Way was the Way of Life. And, when we commit ourselves to this quiet kind of good, we convince more people than a street preacher with a megaphone or a politician with a platform ever could.
Let’s keep committing ourselves to this quiet kind of good in 2015. We’ll still engage in the battles and the shouting matches from time to time – but only in between the moments when we’re truly changing the world one life at a time.
Women love to dance. All of them, I think. Even ones with no rhythm whatsoever. They all just seem to love dancing. Drunk women love to dance together, in a big circle, with other drunk women. And when they do, they also love to sing along, looking at each other in a knowing way as if the lyrics to “Single Ladies” or “I Will Survive” were penned specially for them. It’s true Suzy, he “shoulda put a ring on it,” but don’t worry girlfriend, you “will survive” because, after all, you’re “every woman”, aren’t you?
Because no one has ever gotten laid playing Panda Bear or Kraftwerk records for the ladies, you need to have an iPod override playlist at the ready, just in case a bachelorette party or some other pack of drunk women descend upon the bar for cocktails. Here’s what’s playing for “Ladies Night” at The Velvet Elvis:
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“There’s a revolutionary new way to walk through the forest,” said Steve Rubenstein in the San Francisco Chronicle. Forest bathing, as New Age types call it, has become “a full-blown movement” in Northern California’s Sonoma County. This new pastime doesn’t involve water; you simply amble among the trees very, very slowly and soak up nature’s wonders with all your senses. I paid $50 to join a dozen other forest bathers at Quarryhill Botanical Garden, where our guide, Amos Clifford, encouraged zen-like mindfulness. “Examine all twigs. Inspect all leaves. If you see an ant, stop and take it in.” At one point, Clifford asked us to each converse with a tree. After 20 minutes of such dialogue—“much of it one-sided”—we sat down together to share what we’d learned. Everyone offered an insight. “Then we walked back to our parked cars, actually covering a little ground this time, now that it no longer counted.”
Artists Gabby Richardson, Elanor Bock, and Sara Rabin come together to share their stories and what draws them to the newness of Calvin Klein.
The appointment of Raf Simons as CALVIN KLEIN’s Chief Creative Officer ushered in a new era for the modern American fashion empire. The legacy of the house’s tradition of relishing in both the classic and casual has not been turned on its head, but rather been given room to breathe and flourish with a new guard of ideas parading in via the headquarters in NYC. In his first collection for CALVIN KLEIN, Raf Simons celebrates Americana and the complex fabric of our past coming together to form the future generation. The workmanship in each piece tells the story of a group effort—the wild west frontiersman, a community of folk artists, urban movers and shakers—and it all comes together through the eyes of an artist just outside the world he observed.
To celebrate the debut of CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC, formerly known as Calvin Klein Collection, we cast a trifecta of creative women who are paving their way through New York City, imprinting their own unique voices as they learn and grow. Their shared belief that experimentation leads to finding your path and their courage in putting forth their vision in its purest form exemplifies the tone of young creatives in America today.
The work I share is mostly figurative, quick impulsive sketches that tell a story. My work is heavily into drawing at this point, but like to paint when I have more time and focus.
It’s hard to describe the emotional work that went into the show. It was incredibly fulfilling but taught me how much I have to learn about the art world. I am so grateful for the experience, and my eyes are definitely widened on the business side of establishing my career as an artist.
There seems to be a bit of absurdity in your work. Is there something about finding a silliness or grotesqueness that you like?
My heart is broken all the time, so I try to balance that by injecting humor into my work. I guess that sounds like it doesn’t make sense, but I am angrily and tragically sprinkling my work with humor. Laugh, dammit!
You came to set dressed in a sweatshirt and out of all the wardrobe options chose a white turtleneck to wear…
I’m a pretty simple dresser and really appreciate functionality in clothing. That’s what applies to my life most. But a statement piece can go a long way for me when I’m not in the studio working. With a strong accessory, people might see the sunglasses on my head or the bag in my hand and go, ‘oh okay, this girl knows, she gets it.’ So yeah, hand me some basics, and I’ll close the deal with the bag.
You were recently written up by both New York Magazine and the New Yorker for your first solo show—what’s next for you?
I am leaving for Japan. I’ll be doing a month-long residency there and then traveling the countryside. I’m looking forward to being immersed in a foreign environment. So many ideas come from being an outsider.
As a curator for Art Hoe Collective, I organize the works of artists, curate our online gallery, orchestrate events, and find the best route to support other artists in the QPOC [Queer People of Color] community. There are so many young artists of color across the gender spectrum who make groundbreaking work on a daily basis but receive little-to-no recognition. I’m passionate about this project because queer people of color are the creators of culture and change, but we need access to tools to expand our work—if something isn’t accessible, it can not be radical.
We’re currently planning art shows for the upcoming fall/winter with a theme revolving around immigrant artists in the United States. I’m also currently planning out my own solo show for my personal works. Our shift into more physical projects versus online ones is a sign of our growth as a community and as collective. We want to utilize all the tools we have to bring people together in spaces and fully immerse them in an experience.
Another artist who inspires me is Solange. Her ability to mix her music with performance and dancing is amazing. It’s not just music, it has a message, and it tells a story—a story that she uses movement, performance, and set design to relay. Solange’s music, although stemming from her own individual experience, is a shared narrative that many other people of color have lived and can relate to on a base level.
Gabby and a few of the women who are part of Art Hoe Collective. “I’m constantly inspired by the young artist of color around me. They work tirelessly to create and collaborate with the people around them. If it wasn’t for other artists there wouldn’t be a collective in the first place.”
I love the cleanness of the CALVIN KLEIN pieces I wore in this shoot. Raf Simons creates a beautiful, striking minimalism that evokes a feeling of nostalgia through structure and bold color. My favorite pieces in the collection were the bags, as I love the structured white purse and the texture of the leather and the crystal accents. I personally love clean, bright color in my personal style. I want people to see what I wear and know what kind of person I am before words are even spoken. I’m a firm believer that the clothing you wear influences the energy you give into the world, and I feel like these pieces are a perfect example of that sentiment.
You don’t fall into a specific genre, so how would you describe what you do to someone outside the world of dance?
We had you playing around with the bag a lot in this shoot…it was like watching a dance! |
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Right off the bat, I’m going to rollover my January purchases from my April TBR that I didn’t quite make it to. They include Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg with Mary Hartnett and Wendy W. Williams, and This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins.
The bulk of my TBR in May is books I purchased in February whose three-month deadlines are coming up this month. I’m disappointed in myself for buying way more than I could read in such a time frame, but I have cut back on buying books, and now I have a better idea of realistically how many I should allow myself to purchase in a month (ideally a maximum of five right now, I think).
I’ve heard so many amazing things about Pachinko, plus it was Roxane Gay’s favorite book of 2017! I’m really excited to read it, I just haven’t quite made it to it just yet. Hopefully putting it on this list will be the motivation I need.
Little Fires Everywhere is another book I keep hearing amazing things about and that was frequently named a favorite book of 2017, plus I’m pretty excited that Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington are planning to adapt it. And I really enjoy following Ng on Twitter, so I genuinely have no reason not to have already read this book!
My coworker really enjoyed The Late Show and gave me her copy to read because she thought I’d like it too. I don’t think it’s something I would normally pick up, but since a large part of my reading goals are to read outside my comfort zone, I’m excited to check it out!
I found a lot of books by researching for the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge, and When Breath Becomes Air is one of them that popped up repeatedly for the challenge of reading a book published posthumously. While I’ve technically already completed that challenge, I have no problem doubling up with what everyone seems to swear is a life-changing read.
I’ve been meaning to read Between the World and Me for ages, and I finally bought a copy during a sale in February. For some reason I just haven’t gotten around to picking it up just yet, but I’m really hoping to get to it this month.
Not going to lie, I kind of regret buying The Belles and getting it signed. For whatever reason I have yet to be able to determine, I love going to book signings, even if I haven’t read the author’s works before. I try not to do that too often since I’ve been burned before and found myself with a signed copy of a book I really don’t like, but I was really excited to check out The Belles based on all the hype before its release and I didn’t have plans on the day of the signing, plus Adam Silvera was there and I wanted his signature, so I went and got a copy. I clearly didn’t read it right away, and since its release, I’ve heard a lot of lackluster reviews of The Belles. I feel like I’ll enjoy it overall, but I don’t think I’ll be wowed by it, and I probably wouldn’t be reading it if I didn’t have a signed copy. This is why I need to do better at not giving in to the hype!
Downtown Owl is another book I was gifted by a coworker! She knew I was from North Dakota and had just read this book, which is also set in North Dakota (the author is from there, too), so she figured I should check it out. It honestly doesn’t sound like something I would normally read, but again, I think it’s good to read outside my comfort zone, plus I love supporting North Dakota authors!
I picked It’s Hard Out Here for a Duke as the book that came with my ticket for Word’s Galentine’s Day event in February. It was a really fun event and I enjoyed getting the chance to speak a bit with the author, but I just haven’t picked it up yet. Definitely something I need to remedy soon!
I totally knew better than to buy The Demon King, as I clearly had plenty of books on my TBR already, but I’ve been wanting to read this book for a long time and it was super discounted, so I caved and bought it. I’ve been in the mood for some good fantasy lately, so hopefully this fits the bill!
I bought The Girl of Fire and Thorns at the same time as The Demon King because I’ve been wanting to read this one for a while, too, and clearly threw my plans not to buy books to the wind. I’m excited to finally dive into this series!
I really enjoyed the first two books in the Wayward Children series, and I’ve heard great things about the third book, Beneath the Sugar Sky, but like all of the other books on this list (seriously, I’m a broken record at this point), I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
Homegoing is another book I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about. Realistically, I knew when I bought this that I wouldn’t get to it for a while, but I 100 percent intend to read it this year (it’s on my list of 18 books to read in 2018) and I could only hold out for so long. So I got it, and I’m excited to finally read it!
In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t have bought Autoboyography. I think it’s going to be a cute, fun read and I’m sure I’ll enjoy it, but I feel like there are a whole bunch of other books on my TBR that I’d rather read right now. This is exactly why I want to get to the point where I read books as I purchase them, so I don’t have a chance to lose my excitement about them and then never go back and read them!
You Bring the Distant Near is another book I probably shouldn’t have purchased. Again, I think it will be a really good read, but I’m just not super excited to pick it up right now.
I also want to give a shoutout to a few preorders I have coming in May. There is absolutely no way I’m not immediately reading A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas, so you know that’s going to be read in May! I also preordered the paperback of Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner, and I’m considering picking it up right away since I’ve been enjoying that series so much. I also have a preorder of Surpassing Certainty by Janet Mock coming in the mail, but I don’t think I’ll be reading that one right away. Oh, and Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay is out in May. I don’t think I’ll buy a copy right away because I doubt I’ll be ready to read it just yet, but I definitely plan to get it later this year.
I’m torn about what to do for my goal of reading my 2017 purchases. Last month I figured I’d read ahead enough that I didn’t need to stick to my goal of reading four a month, but this month I’m thinking I ought to stick with it and just spread out my 2018 purchases a little longer. I mean, I’m already missing my three-month goal regardless, so there’s no sense in falling behind on two goals at once. Idk, we’ll see what I’m in the mood to read. I still really want to get to The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller, and I’m getting excited for Vicious by V.E. Schwab with the upcoming release of Vengeful.
As for my book club book, I actually won’t be able to make the June meeting since I’ll be at Book Con, so I’m not planning to read the pick. Ideally I would anyways, but since I have so many other books I want to get to this month (especially since I anticipate getting a bunch of new books at Book Expo), I don’t think I’ll read it.
May is also the last month that my reread of the A Court of Thorns and Roses trilogy is good for. Ideally I’d like to reread something this month anyways just to stay in the habit (I should really continue my Harry Potter reread with Order of the Phoenix), but again, I have a lot of new purchases I should get to! So there’s a good chance my reread will get pushed off until June.
So yeah, I wasn’t exaggerating when I said my TBR this month was a little excessive! This doesn’t even count a number of library loans that just came through or the box of books that Avon just sent me, so who knows how many of these I’ll really get to? Oh, and my friend is really talking up What Should be Wild by Julia Fine, so I will probably borrow that from him and read it this month. Plus I’m starting a new job in May, so I suspect my reading is going to be cut back a fair amount, unfortunately. So this entire list is absolutely not happening, but my fingers are crossed I’ll still be able to make a good dent!
Ooh, you have such a great tbr this month! Between the World and Me, Little Fires Everywhere, Homegoing, You Bring the Distant Near, Beneath the Sugar Sky, and Autoboyography were all 4.5- or 5-star reads for me. The Belles is my book club’s pick for this month, so hopefully I’ll be reading that one, as well (although, the past few months, I haven’t gotten to the book for book club. OOPS.). I have Pachinko on hold from my library, so I’m hoping it comes in soon! I’m dying to read that one. Happy reading in May! 🙂
I’m so excited for all of them! I really need to just stop time and do nothing but read so I can catch up on all the books I want to read. Good luck reading your book club book, and fingers crossed Pachinko comes for you soon!
Thanks! It’s a ridiculously long list, but I’m pretty excited to get to most of these books! And whatever I don’t get to this month will definitely be read in the near future.
Fingers crossed! I know sometimes there gets to be so much hype around a book that it’s disappointing when I finally get to it, but I’ve had some good luck so far reading books that other people listed in their favorites of 2017, so I think it will be a good read!
Good luck with the list! Hopefully you’ll enjoy The Belles – I thought it was really innovative and fun. I’ve definitely done that with signed books I ended up not liking..!
It’s no secret that I love, working with collage – and here the past few years mixed media, the use of other media, such as paint, in a collage.
Paper Collage has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I wrote about it for my art exam in when I became a teacher. The students who have been in my classes, they have all made AT LEAST one collage – a year.
Making a collage is inexpensive. So it is good for school projects, where resources are small. It is easy – and it is almost impossible to make mistakes – if you like it it’s super.
I also enjoy making collages on the computer. I can use all the possibilities MANY times. My biggest problem, when working with paper, is that I can only use the paper once. I sometimes doubt myself whether it is the right way I have made my collage if I don’t use printed/photocopied elements. And I don’t use printed/photocopied elements that much. There are so many fine advertising images, text in books and newspapers, photographs, handmade paper and plain paper … In this festive season, it will be cool to use scraps, Christmas stickers and so on.
If you’re feeling courageous, create a collage. Either a poster or start small with a Christmas card or even smaller with gift tags – it is going to be so much fun.
If you use elements from the web, remember to check the copyrights. It might not be the biggest problem if you make collages for yourself or your loved ones. But if you want to sell your collages – or give them away on the internet, it is a good idea to have everything in order. I googled “Free vector” many times, yet got hold of pictures with copyrights. So it is always a good idea to do a reverse google search for the image you are interested in.
If you are too busy – or want to save the collage making for later, I have made a Christmas poster for you. I hope that you like it. I might have one more, it is a lighter colour and it is not the light blue poster next to the Santa …
And if you’re wondering – Santa Claus was NOT free – I found out about it in time and I HAVE bought the picture. I changed the colours, so he fitted the “old school look” that I was looking and now he’s special. You can print free Christmas posters for your personal use, just don’t sell them. : D
I make “Sweet breadsticks – perfect for the lunch box“ If it must be half-healthy and filling. Otherwise, I make these Muesli cookies.
Yes, I know that this word is spelled in a great many ways muesli/müesli/granola – usually I write just MUESLI and “a rose by any other name…”
These cookies are primarily sweetened with fruit sugars from raisins, dates and bananas, and contains less white sugar, 50 grams to approximately 20 cookies. I make the cookies small. Because in my world, the fact that they are small makes it OK to take two – or more. You can easily make them larger.
I have experimented with MANY cereal bars and cookies and I like the muesli cookies/granola bars that are COMPLETELY crisp.
I am not alone in this family – Christian like the chewy muesli cookies/granola bars the best, so this is sort of a compromise.
Yes, you can make these as muesli bars, it’s just more time consuming. First, the mass is poured into a square form (buttered or with baking paper) and it bakes. When the cake is baked, remove it from the oven and let it cool until you can cut it without breaking the bars. Then you have to bake the muesli bars again – these cookies are only baked once. Besides, the cookies keeps their shape in the lunchbox.
Muesli cookies are best (and most brittle), when they are freshly baked. Or else keep them dry and place a piece of parchment paper between the cookies and enjoy a (small) sticky muesli cookie (or two) that is super tasty.
a friend of mine was excited about his new girlfriend. he’s 36, she’s 28. not a bad looking girl. i only recently found out about his new lady-friend. i was having a beer with him and he was telling me how they met, how he gets along with her daughter, how’s she’s got a great job, how she recently got divorced from her SECOND husband…..
he nodded and mentioned how she got married pretty young and she “grew apart” from her husband. i can let that one fly. she had her daughter with her first husband. the divorce was mutual, though there’s really no proving that. she decided to give it a another go when she was 24. lasted just over 3 years and she decided she wasn’t happy and divorced her second husband.
what ensued was a crash course over the current state of the SMP and i told him if he wanted to date her, fine. but i told him to pay VERY.CLOSE attention to how she speaks about her ex-husband and see if she’s collecting alimony. he immediately answered that she was. i asked him-
he stared back blankly. i replied, “wow, seems like a woman can make a career out of getting married every couple of years.” then i explained to him how the family court system rountinely ass rapes men in divorce settlement and they will basically award her whatever the hell she asks for. i told him to find out if there was any abuse in her second marriage and if there was a legitamate reason that she divorced him. then i told him, “i’ll give you my next 2 pay-checks if there were any abuse or legitamte reason for her to divorce him.”
he looked perplexed and i advised him to date her if he wants, but he’d be a fucking moron to marry her. personally, i think women (barring abuse or a legitimate reason) she’d be held to a 2 marriage rule. she should be denied (especially if she’s collecting alimony) marriage after she’s divorced more than 2 men.
it would be nice if the family court system would show some fucking logic and quit awarding a woman multiple alimonies, and yes, i know a woman who was once collected alimont from 2 ex husbands simultaneously. she was a waitress at my local. before that she worked as a cashier at a winn-dixie. i think that should tell you the quality of woman we’re dealing with.
must be nice to be a woman. you get married, pop out a kid, dump hubby and collect child support (where dad has NO say in how/what it’s spent on) and alimony; then go out, and get married again
i LOVE when people find out my age (especially women) then ask me when i plan on “settling down”? i tell them exactly what you’ve read above and 90% of the women tell me i can’t go into a marrige with that kind of mentality. then i inform them that they have the LUXURY of not having to think like that because in divorces they get everything.
then woman have the gall to bitch and moan about “where have all the good men gone?” when instead men should be asking this and this
interesting how young women typically agree with me on this, but when i suggest it to a woman +30 or that has been divorced twice, out come the claws and crys for my castration. sad. sorry toots, decisions have consequences.
It’s perfectly reasonable to count common-law as “marriage” as well, since the government does. Here in my province of British Columbia, it was declared just this past March that all common-law relationships are defacto 100% legal marriages after two years, subject under no uncertain circumstances to 100% of all marriage laws, unless a pre-common-law agreement has been formalized beforehand. (Guess who funded this legislation? Yup, the BC Law Society). This was always kinda sorta the rule here, but having a pre-common-law agreement was unadvisable because even simply having one indicated that you did indeed have a common-law relationship, whereas before there were a few loopholes you could still slip through. Now you’d better get one, or you’re fucked!
But, since the good Gov’t considers common-law to be 100% the same as a legal marriage, no ifs ands or buts, from now on, so do I. (Btw, way to go Tradcons! Not a fucking peep in defense of marriage or protest about this, yet this destroys the concept of marriage as much as, or more than, gay marriage. Boneheads! Since marriage is now anything, it is also nothing)
Been married twice? How many unmarried guys have you lived with that you weren’t married to? Three? Well… you’ve been married five times now and are shopping for your sixth husband. And you’re only forty? Hmmm… and Liz Taylor was only on her fourth marriage at forty…
game is the best defense. if a man wants a woman in his life, if has a strong red-pill foundation and game, access to sex is easy. i NEVER allow when too feel my house is theirs nor do treat her place as if it were mine.
My dad was 34 when he married my mom, a 38-year-old career woman and divorcee with an adult child from her first marriage. She had every red flag you read about in the manosphere. She quickly ballooned from 130 pounds to almost 300, and although the first 20 years of their marriage was great, she’s spent the past several years complaining of being unhaaaapy for vague reasons. They’re both pretty miserable now. What really sucks is that he’s already been through the ringer twice – his first wife cheated on him with the neighbor and took their daughter when she left, and his second wife got child custody and lifetime alimony despite the fact that the marriage ended because of her physical and emotional abuse. He ought to be the poster child for what happens to men who fail to heed red pill warnings about the true nature of women, and who marry women with baggage. A woman with two divorces under her belt should be out of the question.
Here’s my two bitcoins: I recommend to all men to SCREEN WOMEN HARD. For me personally, if she’s fat, tatted up, a single mom, blew up a marriage & family, or taking alimony, she’s done. In addition, all men should take time to think, sit down ,and write about what qualities they want in woman. Then go to the locations where she’ll be. Part slueth, part sniper.
Once you’ve crossed a line the first time (for anything in life) it’s easy to cross it the second time.
Why should any man settle for a divorcee? A divorce is an indication she wasn’t marriage material in the first place or doesn’t have enough common sense to understand what is (and isn’t) important in a husband (aka he was a nice guy; I loved him, but wasn’t in love with him).
My mom divorced my dad after 18 years of marriage. Dad was a nice guy who let my mom bitch and complain about various things without saying a peep. Drove my dad crazy.
To this day, my mom’s stubborn attitude kicks back to me, and I recently had enough of it that I scolded her. She demanded an apology from me, that I shouldn’t treat her that way because she’s my mom.
My sister went 2 years and divorced. Was engaged recently but broke it off. Next time I hear anything about her dating somebody, I’ll ask her why she’s doing it.
I think marriage for women is a 1-and-done deal. For men, 3-strikes-you’re-out. Save whatever assets you have left.
There was a guy that used to work with me that was on his 4th marriage. In each one, the woman dumped him. And for the record, this guy was the ultimate omega.
I forgot to mention – my mom’s attitude shifted tremendously after our dispute. The iron hammer slapped some sense I guess.
There’s another friend of mine – his last 2 girlfriends always accused him of cheating when he hung out with our group of friends (guy group).
Saw him at a party Sat night and it was the same shit going on with a new girl – but this new girl is preggers with their baby.
I’ll have to write about the night I got invited out and he was there. I was told it was just me and 2 other girls I worked with, and when I showed up he was there. I bounced after 20 minutes.
hah funny you bring that up. I had 2 female co-workers with me at a bar once when *sniff sniff* a bitter beta hit on one of them. I came over, took her hand and went to the other side of the bar. She gripped me back.
An hour later we went back to her place. Done deal. And if a bar is a sausagefest, expect this kind of shit to happen and be ready to protect your investment. |