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1 “aThen we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the 1Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and circled bMount Seir for many days.
4 aand command the people, saying, “You will pass through the bterritory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and cthey will be afraid of you. So be very careful;
5 do not 1provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a 2footstep abecause I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
6 “You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.
7 “For the Lord your God has blessed you in all 1that you have done; He has known your 2wanderings through this agreat wilderness. These bforty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.” ’
8 “So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the aArabah road, away from Elath and bfrom Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of 1their land as a possession, because I have given aAr to bthe sons of Lot as a possession.
12 aThe Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, bjust as Israel did to the land of 1their possession which the Lord gave to them.)
14 “Now the 1time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the 2brook Zered was athirty-eight years, until ball the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as cthe Lord had sworn to them.
15 “aMoreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.
19 ‘When you come opposite the asons of Ammon, do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to bthe sons of Lot as a possession.’
20 (It is also regarded as the land of the aRephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,
21 a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but the Lord destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,
22 just as He did for the sons of Esau, who alive in Seir, when He destroyed bthe Horites from before them; they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.
23 And the aAvvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the 1bCaphtorim who came from 2cCaphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
24 ‘Arise, set out, and pass through the 1avalley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession and contend with him in battle.
25 ‘This day I will begin to put athe dread and fear of you 1upon the peoples 2everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, bwill tremble and be in anguish because of you.’
26 “aSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 ‘Let me pass through your land, I will 1travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.
28 ‘You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, aonly let me pass through on 1foot,
29 just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in aAr did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving to us.’
30 “But aSihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass 1through his land; for the bLord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.
31 “The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land 1over to you. Begin to 2occupy, that you may possess his land.’
33 “aThe Lord our God delivered him 1over to us, and we 2bdefeated him with his sons and all his people.
34 “So we captured all his cities at that time and 1autterly destroyed 2the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor.
36 “From aAroer which is on the edge of the 1valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the 1valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God delivered all 2over to us.
37 “aOnly you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the 1river bJabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us.
1 “aThen we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og, king of Bashan, 1with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
2 “But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have delivered him and all his people and his land into your hand; and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’
3 “So the Lord our God delivered Og also, king of Bashan, with all his people into our hand, and we smote 1them until no survivor was 2left.
4 “We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of aArgob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
5 “All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates and bars, besides a great many 1unwalled towns.
6 “We 1utterly destroyed them, as we did to aSihon king of Heshbon, 2butterly destroying 3the men, women and children of every city.
8 “aThus we took the land at that time from the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the 1valley of Arnon to Mount Hermon
10 all the cities of the plateau and all Gilead and aall Bashan, as far as Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
11 (For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the aRephaim. Behold, his 1bedstead was an iron 1bedstead; it is in bRabbah of the sons of Ammon. Its length was nine cubits and its width four cubits 2by ordinary cubit.)
12 “So we took possession of this land at that time. From aAroer, which is by the 1valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of bGilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
13 “The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob (concerning all Bashan, it is called the land of Rephaim.
14 aJair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called 1it, that is, Bashan, after his own name, 2Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
16 “To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even as far as the 1valley of Arnon, the middle of the 1valley 2as a border and as far as the 1river aJabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;
17 the Arabah also, with the Jordan 1as a border, from 2aChinnereth beven as far as the sea of the Arabah, cthe Salt Sea, 3at the foot of the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
18 “Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘aThe Lord your God has given you this land to possess it; ball you valiant men shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel.
19 ‘aBut your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have bmuch livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you,
20 auntil the Lord gives rest to your fellow countrymen as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them beyond the Jordan. bThen you may return every man to his possession which I have given you.’
21 “I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross. |
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Once an oak savanna has been restored, long-term management becomes the focus of the project. Management requires a major commitment of resources and personnel and should be built into the original restoration plan.
Any site larger than 20 acres should probably be divided into smaller units for management. Originally, fairly large management units can be used, which can be subdivided when needed as restoration progresses. Restoration activities can be categorized in two separate ways. The first is by type of activity (such as weeding, controlled burns, brush control, etc) with indications of which units should be dealt with. The second is by individual unit, with a summary for each unit of what kinds of activities need to be carried out in that unit. See this Table for an example.
Research has shown that the health of an oak savanna is best maintained if the site is burned every year. If resources do not permit annual burns, then the site should be burned as often as possible, but under no conditions should the burn frequency be less than three years. In fact, if frequent burns cannot be guaranteed, it might be preferable not to initiate restoration until they can be assured.
What do annual burns do? Most importantly, they top kill brush and small saplings and keep them from becoming a problem. If an area is not burned, within three years brush will start to become a problem and within five years brush will be so dense that fire will no longer carry well. Tree saplings become established at slower rates, but can also become a problem. Without burns, within ten years, the site will have returned to its pre-restoration character, and most or all of the restoration work will have been wasted.
Are there any disadvantages of annual burning? The principal concern that some ecologists raise is that fire-sensitive animals, mainly insects, will be eliminated. This concern is due to a misunderstanding of the nature of savanna burns. Even with annual burns, no savanna is burned completely. There are always unburned areas such as fire shadows that will provide refuges for insects and other small animals. Large animals, of course, are mobile enough so that they can escape fires. Reptiles will not be killed if the burn is scheduled for early enough so that they have not come out of hibernation. The timing here will vary with the location of the site.
One of the most difficult problems in long-term maintenance of an oak savanna is control of brush. Brush in this context means shrubs, both native and nonnative, as well as brambles (members of the genus Rubus). Even with annual burns (see above), brush problems will persist. This is partly because no savanna burn has 100% coverage, but mainly because burns only top kill brush, so that viable rootstock remains and quickly becomes reestablished. Although small, this brush persists, and as soon as an area escapes fire, larger-sized plants can appear.
Note that even if all the undesirable brush was removed during the restoration process, there will still be a large “seed bank” in the soil, which will be responsible for resurgence of problem brush. This seed bank is the major concern in the early years after restoration. Under no conditions should invasive brush be allowed to reach the flowering stage, where new seeds are produced.
Some suppression of brush can be done by competition from native plants, especially tall grasses. In more open savannas, where tall grass can become well established, small brush may eventually disappear with annual burning, although shade-tolerant brush may persist in a minor way indefinitely among the tall grass.
In most cases, competition by native plants will be spotty, and direct brush control will be necessary. Again, it should be emphasized that fire does not eradicate brush. All it does is top-kill it, and dormant buds will soon begin to grow. In most savannas, after several years of fire, each individual plant will have several to many dead stems that were top-killed by fire, among which there will be many new green shoots.
Monitoring the site for problems is essential. The best time to spot problems is in the late fall, when native plants are senescing and exotic weeds and brush still retain their green leaves. The first several years after the initial restoration work will be most critical, since many new plants will arise from the seed bank. These should be sprayed then, while they are still small and easy to kill. Monitor to make certain they have been killed, and continue monitoring at least once or twice more during the year, and through the following several years. It may take a year or two for these to be large enough to spot.
The more control of invasive plants that can be done in the early stages of the restoration project, the better!
When controlling the exotic shrubs, a systematic approach is needed. The savanna should be divided into relatively small units, between 2 and 5 acres. Survey the unit using a backpack sprayer loaded with the appropriate herbicide. A systematic survey is best carried out by using marking tape to establish swaths about 10 feet wide, using a compass to run the swaths along a North/South line.
The person (or group of people) with the sprayers moves back and forth through each swath, spraying all target plants. A North-running swath is followed by a South-running swath, and this procedure is continued back and forth until the whole unit has been sprayed.
Although time consuming and perhaps expensive, this systematic approach in the long run will be the cheapest, since after a few years, the main invaders will have been eliminated and only a much less expensive maintenance-level monitoring will be needed.
Systematic spraying of small buckthorn plants that had arisen from the seed bank in a bur oak savanna. Swaths were marked with flagging and the spraying crew moves systematically along the swath path.
Black walnut in particular is difficult to get rid of and there will be an extensive seed bank. Small walnut trees are easier to find when they are a few years old. At this time they are still small enough to cut easily with a brush cutter, and the cut stems (there will probably be many) should be treated with Garlon 4 as a basal bark.
Any savanna will be subject to wind onslaught and it is inevitable that some trees will come down. Depending on the circumstances, downed timber can be left to lie, or it can be cut up for firewood or lumber. If a tree has been felled across a fire break, then it must be cut up and removed.
The increased light brought about by opening up the savanna will inevitably lead to growth of invasive weeds such as thistle, wild parsnip, sweet clover, Japanese hedge parsley, and others. Their control was discussed in and the techniques used there will apply to continued management.
It is essential to control the new growth of these invasive weeds as soon as they are detectable. The ideal time to control weeds is early, before they have had time to become a major problem.
As pointed out earlier, it is essential to seek and destroy invasive weeds early, before they have obtained a foothold. Systematic surveys of the savanna are strongly recommended, preferable three or four times during the growing season. Careful notes and GPS coordinates or marking with flagging tape is essential.
Any systematic survey should involve walking the savanna in widely spaced swaths. It is not sufficient to walk an adjacent road or fire break. One must walk through the middle of the savanna.
After the first year or two, the areas that are likely to be infested will be known, and these areas can be specifically visited in subsequent years. See below for details on mapping.
Restoration and long-term management are greatly facilitated by preparation of a detailed map of the area being worked on. Such a map does not need to be prepared by a surveyor, although an enlargement from a U.S.G.S. topographic map is very useful.
A recent air photo can easily be used to create a map of the property. Air photos are available from both government and private sources. A search string with the following should bring up both government and private sources: [STATE_NAME] orthorectified air photos
We have been working hard making WW2 oat cakes and other goodies ready for our VE celebration that we held this afternoon. We have also been writing Remembrance poems which some of us read this morning at Hollybrook cemetery, as we gathered to remember all the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives in War.
A big thank you to all the parents who walked up to the cemetery with us and for all the generous donations for the celebration. There was not only enough for all the parents and children twice over, but the many cakes and biscuits that were left over were gratefully taken by Mrs Mattack to donate to a local homeless shelter.
As well as visiting the Cinema this morning for the 'Into Film' festival, Y6 visited the Southampton Cenotaph to reflect and pay their respects to those who have lost their lives in conflicts around the world. |
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The Glenaras Gas Project is contained within ATP 2019 (formerly ATP 529) in the western portion of the Galilee Basin and is highly prospective for coal seam gas (CSG) with an independently certified 3C Contingent Resource of more than 5,300 PJ.
The Glenaras Gas Project was designed to to evaluate the quantity and quality of coal seam gas in the Galilee Basin Betts Creek and Aramac Coal Beds.
Since Galilee Energy resumed full ownership and control of the Glenaras Gas Project in late 2015, it has become our number one focus as we foresaw the opportunity arising from a looming gas supply problem that is now a daily news item.
The Company’s flagship Glenaras Gas Project (“Project”) (Figure 1), has one of the largest remaining uncontracted gas resources on the east coast of Australia with an independently derived and certified Contingent Resource+ within the Betts Creek coals with a 1C of 308 PJ, a 2C of 2508 PJ and a 3C of 5314 PJ. The Company’s primary focus is on converting these Contingent Resources to Reserves.
Since late 2015 we have moved the project forward whilst preserving both the company funds and its 100% equity position in a low oil price environment where the industry has been generally unwilling to fund exploration.
In the past 12 months, the Company has taken significant steps forward both technically and commercially.
During the latter half of 2016, the Company held detailed discussions with the Queensland Government regarding the ATP529 permit renewal, which was due in December 2016. ATP529 had been administered under the QLD Government Petroleum Act 1923, which is now outdated legislation. Most oil and gas permits are now administered under the 2004 Petroleum and Gas Act. During the quarter, the Company applied for conversion to the 2004 Act. On the 28th November 2016, ATP 529 was converted to the new Act and is now called ATP2019. The permit area remains the same.
This conversion allows much greater flexibility in moving the permit to higher forms of tenure such as retention leases (or Potential Commercial Areas) or to Petroleum Leases for production. The tenure is now fully secure for its final four-year exploration term.
Following completion of the R1 seam vertical pilot, the R1 lateral well was drilled during the 3rd quarter of 2016 through the centre of the existing Glenaras Gas Project – R1 vertical pilot (Figure 2). The aim of the lateral was to improve production offtake from the coal, accelerate drawdown and the onset of gas production.
The horizontal well was drilled with excellent geological control and was able to stay in the bottom section of the R1 coal as planned. A total of 400 m of lower R1 coal was opened. This pilot was able to confirm several key properties important for the future development of the resource, despite the poorer coal characteristics of the R1 coal in the immediate vicinity of the current Glenaras pilot. The results provided a clear path forward for the commercialisation of the asset. Modelling of the pilot data has greatly strengthened our understanding of the reservoir and our confidence in the forward commercialisation of the resource. In particular:
The artificial lift pumping system selected for the pilot has performed flawlessly. Artificial lift systems have been a continuous source of downtime and problems with previous pilots in the permit. The system developed for use in the current pilot will be used in any forward development.
The lateral pilot indicated that the Betts Creek coals in this area have a strong directional permeability, consistent with the dominant master cleat direction within the coal. This geological feature will result in increased reservoir drainage and recovery per well resulting in a reduction in development well numbers. This will have a strong bearing on future pilot design and ultimate development planning.
The pilot production and near well pressure data from surrounding wells confirms production from coal only. This is a major step forward in confidence that the Betts Creek coals can be successfully developed without any significant interference by the interbedded sands within the Betts Creek sequence.
Recent advances in lateral drilling technology allow excellent well control to stay within coal seams while drilling.
Although the water rates from the lateral well were significantly higher than the vertical well pilot a commercial gas rate was not achieved as the permeability in the R1 coal in this location has proven to be too low.
Comparisons with analogous pilots in similar coals confirm that a multi-lateral well pilot should achieve commercial pilot results and booking of first Reserves for the Basin.
Analysis of the R1 lateral well results identified the best way forward to commercialising the Glenaras project. This analysis showed that a new pilot located a short distance from the current pilot, in known better permeability coals, is likely to achieve a commercial flow result in a short time frame, enabling the timely booking of a significant Reserves.
This new multi-lateral pilot programme is currently well underway with drilling and completion activities now completed. The pilot will be commencing production start-up shortly.
The pilot is a multi-lateral pilot, with two evenly spaced parallel laterals shielding the central coal area between the two wells (Figures 3 and 4). This configuration allows the central reservoir area to be drawn down below critical desorption pressure and achieve commercial gas rates more rapidly. Importantly, the proposed new pilot location is utilising existing production facilities such as camp, evaporation pond and surface pumping equipment.
Easternwell Rig 101 commenced drilling operations with the Glenaras 10 well on 23 March. On 9 April, the Company reported that the lateral section of Glenaras 10L, the central well in the pilot, had been successfully drilled as planned with approximately 520m of net coal intersected in the well through the R3 coal seam primary target. On 6 May, Galilee announced that Glenaras 12L was successfully drilled with approximately 480m of net coal intersected through the R3 coal seam. Due to drilling issues, the third lateral well, Glenaras 11, will be initially utilised as an observation well to determine reservoir pressure drawdown.
Galilee has determined that, given the high quality of the coal and the challenges encountered with lateral drilling in this coal, the pilot will be a two well lateral with production from the Glenaras 10L and 12L laterals. The Company is confident that these two wells will be sufficient to achieve the pilot’s objectives.
One of the significant developments throughout the last two years has been the increasing gas supply shortfall in the East Coast Australia gas market. The Federal Government’s AEMO has flagged a growing shortfall in domestic gas supply as shown in the Figure below (see Figure 5). This has resulted in much media and Government attention and reflected a significant increase in wholesale gas prices on the east coast. This has resulted in increased attention on new supply options such as the Glenaras Gas Project and there is now strong support from all levels of Government to assist with unlocking this valuable asset and connect to market.
In October 2017, the Company announced the signing of a binding MOU with Jemena to work together to deliver the Galilee Energy’s Glenaras Gas Project in the Galilee Basin in central Queensland to the east coast domestic market.
The agreement fast-tracks Jemena’s plans to build a new pipeline delivering gas produced by Galilee Energy to the east coast and means Jemena will begin engaging with local communities, conducting field surveys and completing pipeline design concept works (Figure 6).
These early planning works will be undertaken concurrently with the new multi-lateral pilot with the objective that both Jemena and Galilee Energy will be ready to proceed to front end engineering and design (FEED) on both pipeline and field development in 2019.
* The estimates of contingent resource estimates were determined by Mr Tim Hower, a full time employee of MHA Petroleum Consultants LLC., Denver, Colorado, USA, on 1 September 2015, in accordance with Petroleum Resources Management System guidelines. Mr Tim Hower is a Licensed Petroleum Engineer in the State of Colorado, a qualified person as defined under the ASX Listing Rule 5.41 and has consented to the use of the contingent resource figures in this announcement. |
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Clinton released a statement about Weinstein on Tuesday, but it doesn't address what her campaign will do will with the producer's donations.
After remaining silent for five days, Hillary Clinton has finally issued a statement regarding disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. However, Clinton’s statement does not say what her campaign will do with the donations that it received from Weinstein.
“I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior.”
Weinstein, who has been described as a Democratic ‘mega-donor,’ donated $17,300 to Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2106. Along with those personal donations, Weinstein was also a top bundler for the Clinton campaign, even hosting a fundraiser for Clinton at his Manhattan home last year.
CNN reported that over the years Weinstein had raised about $1.5 million for the various Clinton campaigns.
Democrats have called on Clinton to donate the funds her campaign received from Weinstein to women’s charities. Clinton’s statement makes no mention of what she will be doing with those funds, however.
Hi all, do you know if BladeRF works with the latest SDR#? I've been trying but no luck - I must be missing something. 1- Downloaded: https://github.com/jmichelp/sdrsharp-bladerf/releases/tag/v0.3 2- Downloaded latest x86 SDR# from AirSpy and extracted all contents to program files x86. Tested with ...
Thanks bglod for your advice that definitely clears out very important aspects. As for the average power - you are right - I'm scaling to 0 dB (relative power) 69.23dB being 10log10(2048*2048*2) Unfortunately I don't have a signal generator to run some basic calibration. Do you think that RF Loop ba...
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Thanks Jadona - kindly appreciate your response. To move forward, I decided to keep the DFFT to an external processor in an attempt to come up with a spectrum DVR :) - BladeRF streams the I/Q- thanks to the BladeRF-CLI API with Synchronous metadata support - User specifies span, centre-freq, RBW, VB...
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In our two previous posts, we discussed what to do before starting to sight-read a piece. Now we’re ready to talk about what happens while we sight-read. There are three things teachers commonly tell their students to do when they play a piece at sight: keep going without stopping, try not to look down at your hands, and try to read ahead. These are all correct and excellent, but often quite difficult to do. So in the next several posts, we will address each of these individually, starting with the exhortation to keep going and not stop.
The ability to keep going while sight-reading is dependent on three factors: a strong sense of pulse, an acceptance that wrong notes and other mistakes will occur, and a willingness to simplify when necessary. Difficulty with any one of these can hold us back; ease with all of them allows us to move forward.
Paradoxically, a rhythmic sense of pulse does not seem to be innate in everyone, even though we all carry a constant pulse within us. Like so many musical attributes (harmonic sensitivity, aural acuity, musicality in general), this is not an inborn talent, but a faculty that must be cultivated from the earliest lessons. We hear again and again that students should count out loud while sight-reading, but this is futile if they are in the habit of practicing out of time. We are the way we practice. I believe that many pianists have poor rhythm because they play alone most of the time, and study pieces that are too hard for them, forcing them to play out of time. Students who have grown up practicing their music in time, playing piano duets, and doing rhythmic work away from the piano, will not need to use a metronome or count out loud in order to maintain a constant pulse when sight-reading. The idea of a regular beat will already be an imperative in their musical consciousness.
In modern performance, note accuracy is highly prized. It’s an admirable ideal, even if it is fueled by a standard set by highly edited recordings. But it also creates a fear of wrong notes that can undermine confidence and inhibit spontaneity. It’s always rather heart breaking to me that so many students feel they must say “sorry” after playing a wrong note. This guilt feeling makes them want to go back and immediately correct the wrong note, but that of course breaks the rhythmic flow, a habit which, with repetition, destabilizes their sense of pulse and, in some cases, creates a stutter that can be extremely difficult to correct. In repertoire practice, we can help students to avoid this tendency by having them practice always to the end of the phrase, only going back to fix any mistakes afterwards.
Perhaps the best way to overcome the fear of wrong notes is with improvisation. Good jazz musicians, piano bar players, harpsichord continuo players, and improvising church organists rarely seem to play wrong notes. No doubt this is mainly because they know their craft, but it must also come from the freedom of not being bound to a score for every note they play. Below are two improvisation activities you can use with your students. Many more can be found in books and online.
In sight-reading, we can minimize the temptation to go back and correct wrong notes by making sure that students play frequently in ensembles, and by giving them music to read that is within their means (the goal is 80% accuracy within 80% of full tempo, as I mentioned in a previous post). Most importantly, we must teach them methods for simplifying the music so that they can keep going even when they are not able to negotiate all the notes. This ability to simplify, reduce, or outline music is not only essential in sight-reading, but vitally important in learning repertoire. We will therefore devote a separate post to this issue.
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About book: I like books about the past 100 years of American History so this was a good way to start my year of reading. The main theme of this book appears to be the US's military industrial complex and the way it jumps into wars either needlessly or with an ulterior motive of maintaining control over important resources like oil. The book starts off before World War 1 in which they tried to pass legislation that would greatly reduce the obscene profits that companies make from wars. Didn't pan out that way. One of the most interesting chapters was on the two atomic bombs on Japan, and the book poses that our demand for an unconditional surrender made the subsequent bombing avoidable. It also appears the Soviet Union did most of the heavy lifting in WW2. This book was left-leaning but it criticized presidents Republican and Democrat alike. It didn't make any one president out to be a saint. One thing can be said right away:If you are an "America is the best ever" person, this book will be your nightmare.However I do not quite understand why, since the authors don't really say so much new stuff actually, they simple put what was previously told in several books into one and especially Stone's name gave it wide attention. They have a lot in it that is technically known simply overshadowed by a lot of myths, which makes books like this one important. However I think covering such a long time period comes at the cost of never going into detail (e.g. if a fellow German is reading this and happens to be Sinti… yeah forget it, the book ignores you like most do), but I don't think you can blame the authors for it since the book covers more than 100 years of USA history and it already has more than 650 pages of text, not counting notes and bibliography. Going into more detail would probably turn this into a book 3-times the size of the Bible.So like I said, they do not go into too much detail except for big turning points but rather are concerned with the patterns that emerge and continue. And I think in that way they are doing a pretty good job, you can question their conclusions and since this was coauthored by Oliver Stone I am sure many will mistrust his methods, but not the facts; and in my eyes that is no different to any other author of history books.What this book tackles in its basis is the myth of American exceptionalism and I guess that might piss a lot of people off since it really doesn't shy away from doing it, ever. Reading this there is a good chance that you will find a lot of your views are challenged, which I liked about the book but others will probably hate.However I am sure most will agree where the book is undoubtedly good: The writing and reading flow. Despite all the information it never felt boring to me and the reading experience was without a doubt good and made this very enjoyable, a lot of history books should do it like this.There are some problems with it though, for instance they say in World War II 27 Million Russians died, which wass actually Soviets (which they did right in the documentary series, where they had the forced mass migration that was missing here), which I think was due to the common trap of equating Soviets with Russians, others would be the Tiananmen square massacres whose numbers are contested and also it treats it like just a student's massacre, which is not true since most died all around Beijing, however the info on that is usually scarce so maybe that is the reason. It also looked as if they regarded Japanese people as dark-skinned and if that is what they did then I wonder what they consider light then. But these were minor things.Also, despite what many say, this book was in some way actually even nicer to American foreign policy than it probably should be, e.g. it never mentioned the thousands of instances of rape in Okinawa by American soldiers or the collecting of body parts as trophies (which might be linked to the practice of scalping during the Wild West) and glossed over a few things about Vietnam. So like I said it's actually nicer than many think.Also not all chapters do equally well, the passages on Bush & Clinton may have been the worst with 9/11 getting stronger again, but the prologue was also very good and made me interested in history more.But despite its flaws, again nothing new for me regarding history books, I think is definitely a recommendable book. At the very least it would get readers to rethink much of what they thought they knew about USA policy, and possibly their own country's policy, over the last century.
The Singapore Army is the service of the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) tasked with land operations. It is the largest of the three Services. The Singaporean army is primarily a conscript army that, in the event of war, mobilises most of its combat power by calling up military reservists.
Two infantry regiments formed the nucleus of the Singapore Army. These were established pre-independence, in anticipation of self-rule following British decolonisation. The First Singapore Infantry Regiment (1 SIR) was formed in 1957, under British auspices. The Second Singapore Infantry Regiment (2 SIR) followed in 1963. After a fraught merger with the Federation of Malaya and subsequent separation in 1965, newly-independent Singapore formally established its army by passing the Singapore Army Bill in December 1965.[5]
In 1972, Parliament passed further legislation (the Singapore Armed Forces Act) to reorganise and consolidate the armed forces' disparate commands and administrative functions.[6][7]
May 2007 – June 2013, International Security Assistance Force. Deployment of close to 500 personnel including Singapore Army soldiers as part of Singapore's contributions to multinational stabilisation and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.[8]
2014–present, Military intervention against ISIL. Logistical support of coalition forces in the ongoing War on Terror.[9]
The stated mission of the Singapore Armed Forces is to deter armed aggression, and to secure a swift and decisive victory should deterrence fail. The Army is also tasked with conducting peace-time operations to further Singapore's national interests and foreign policy. These range from disaster relief to peacekeeping, hostage-rescue and other contingencies.[10]
The Army views technology as a force-multiplier and a means to sustain combat power given Singapore's population constraints. Jointness across three branches of the SAF is integral to the Army's warfighting doctrine. Joint operations undertaken with the Navy and Air Force include amphibious landings and critical disaster relief operations in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
The Army has a technically proficient, relatively well-educated draftee pool and officer corps (non-commissioned and commissioned) reflective of the population at large, and has sought to leverage this to ease its transition into a more sophisticated, networked fighting force.[11]
Combat readiness is a linchpin of Army policy, and military exercises up to divisional level are conducted many times yearly, simulating full-spectrum operations, up to and including full-scale war. Divisional war games are a combined arms, tri-service affair involving the Republic of Singapore Navy and Air Force. Because training space is limited in Singapore—artillery fire would quickly traverse the island—some military exercises are conducted overseas. Reservists periodically [12] train abroad, their units regularly evaluated for combat readiness.[11] The Army also trains bilaterally with some host nations, and military exchanges are frequent. Training is billed as "tough, realistic and safe," with a premium on safety, given the sensitivity of military deaths in a largely conscript army.[10]
Following the Revolution in Military Affairs, and in tandem with modernizing its weapons systems, the Army is forging a transition to a more network-centric fighting doctrine that better integrates the Air Force and Navy.[13]
The Army is headed by the Chief of Army (COA). Assisting him are the Chief of Staff, General Staff[14] and Commander, TRADOC (Army Training and Doctrine Command).[15] There are six branches of the General Staff (G1-G6), a National Service Affairs Department (G8) dealing with National Service issues, and an Inspectorate. The six branches handle manpower (G1), intelligence (G2), operations (G3), logistics (G4), planning (G5) and training (G6) respectively. Each department is headed by an Assistant Chief of the General Staff (ACGS). Also advising the Chief of Army are the Senior Specialist Staff Officers (SSSOs) of the various formations (Infantry, Guards, Armour, Commandos, Artillery, Engineers and Signals).[16][17]
The Army's main organizational components are its Combined-Arms Divisions, of which there are three:[20] the 3rd, 6th and 9th Divisions.[21] They include both active and reserve units that are operationally ready, all subject to mobilization orders in the event of war.[12]
Under the Division-National Cadet Corps (NCC) affiliation scheme, NCC West District is affiliated to the 3rd Division.
2 People's Defence Force (PDF) is responsible for homeland security, including that of key civilian installations and infrastructure. 2 PDF is also responsible for the coordination and secondment of military resources to civilian agencies in the event of a civil emergency.[22]
Designated as Army Operational Reserve (AOR), the 21st Division is a rapid deployment force of highly mobile infantry (Singapore Guards) specializing in amphibious, heliborne, and maneuver warfare. The armoured and artillery components of the division are lightweight, amphibious or airborne, and rapidly deployable.
Of the three infantry brigades, one is active and staffed mainly by career servicemen. Two are held in reserve, one tasked with heliborne operations, the other tasked with amphibious landings.[23]
Tim Huxley speculates in Defending the Lion City that "the reorganisation of 1991 and 1995 left one armoured brigade, 4 SAB, outside the divisional structure, prompting speculation that it has been earmarked to form the core of a conceptualised new mechanised division." Huxley asserts that it was "initially codenamed as 32nd Division at the planning stage."[24] Given the large quantity of armoured vehicles that the Singapore Army has in its inventory, it is highly likely that such a Division exists, however the division's make up and real numbering is presently unknown.
Special Operations Task Force – Joint task force consisting of members from the Naval Diving Unit, Commandos and the Special Operations Force
Aggressor Company – subordinate to TRADOC/ATEC, this company-sized detachment organizes itself according to the hypothesized enemy's order of battle and acts as the OPFOR in training evaluations. They are the 'red' opposing force in ATEC evaluations.
Medical Response Force (MRF) – Battalion-sized counter-chemical and counter-biological warfare unit, staffed by combat medics.
^ "The Singapore Army Is Established". HistorySG. National Library Board Singapore. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
^ "Joint Statement Issued by Partners at the Counter-ISIL Coalition Ministerial Meeting". Office of Website Management, Bureau of Public Affairs. Office of the Spokesperson, Washington, DC. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
^ Tim Huxley, Defending the Lion City, Allen & Unwin, 2000, p. 127. Huxley's source note on 32nd Division appears to refer to an article by defence journalist Prasun Sengupta (1992, p. 76), but Huxley's bibliography is incomplete.
I know this is coming late, but I just ran into this article towards the end of the week myself. Anyway, my school has a weekly newspaper that it puts out called the Maroon Weekly and this week, they had a little article done by two separate writers over the pros and cons of a public education. One points out the benefits of the government having control of the education system, while the other article argues against the government’s involvement in education. You can view the Pros article here and the Cons of a public education here.
While I agree with the pro article that the government should take responsibility for the education system, I also agree with Tony Listi’s con argument that parents should have the right to choose what school their children go to. Simply because many children don’t have access to schools that offer a more substantial education mostly because of location. However, what if a parent cannot make the trip out to the school, especially in this economy where money is tight and gas prices are starting to rise again. Or what if there isn’t a bus that goes to the other school? Some bus stops only extend to certain areas and past that the student has to find their own transportation to and from school. In the case of this, I’d say the government needs to step in and improve schools in all areas and not just certain ones.
The one argument that Listi makes is that children are taught to embrace lies, atheism, socialism, and sexual perversity. Now I don’t know about all schools in the U.S. but I don’t look at it as schools teaching children all of these negative things. I see it as teachers giving their students an objective overview of events so that they can choose whether they think something is right or wrong. I never felt pushed to embrace atheism or socialism, my own views were my own, and the same could be said with my other classmates and friends. Some of us had our own opinions that differed from our parents/guardians, and some of us didn’t drift far from what our parents taught us. It all depends on the individual and I think that’s how it should be.
At least toward the end of Listi’s argument, he does say that parents can have the right to take their children to a private institution, whether it’s affiliated with a church denomination or not, and that’s fine. Parents have the right to do whatever they think would benefit the child or make them happy. But when it comes down to public education, you can’t always have your cake and eat it too. You can’t include everything in education because somewhere along the way someone will get offended by something. The system would have to constantly change their curriculum just to make it politically correct, and yet have it be balanced, which is where the system currently is now. Until there is a new solution for public schools and the curriculum being taught, it will more than likely stay the way that it is.
Lost Song is a well-constructed and surprisingly enjoyable anime series that’ll likely divide audiences by turning things on their head around the mid-point.
Released globally on Netflix today, Lost Song is a 12-part musical fantasy anime series that begins unassumingly and predictably. Produced by Liden Films in collaboration with Dwango and Mages, it’s full of the usual clichés and expected beats. Then, about halfway through, it deploys a welcome switcheroo that recontextualises the steady opening as necessary groundwork for a series that is smarter and more ambitious than you realised.
Not everyone will appreciate the execution, but you have to respect the guts. The first half wouldn’t have set the world alight, but it’s well-constructed despite its familiarity; a typical fantastical kingdom on the brink of war, with the slightly novel idea of the songs being intimately tied to the world’s mythology. Of the characters, the interlinked songstress heroines Rin (Konomi Suzuki) and Finis (Yukari Tamura) were likeable enough (especially the latter), and decent supporting turns from the likes of Chiaki Takahashi, Asami Seto, Misaki Kuno, Seiichirō Yamashita and Ai Kayano helped to flesh out an occasionally-imaginative cast of morally black-and-white heroes and villains.
While I won’t spoil how, the second half of Lost Song turns most of this on its head – and for me, it was a change for the better. The run-of-the-mill plot became much more complex without tying itself in knots, the characters began to develop in sensible and sometimes surprising ways, the stakes were upped, the villain improved, and the finale did an admirable job at tying off loose ends and bringing the whole thing to a satisfying close. It might have used a little more time to develop some minor characters more or to expand on a few intriguing aspects of the worldbuilding, but it had the good sense to get out of its own way, which is always a quality I respect.
And it looks good – sometimes very good, and never worse than decent. It’s all part of a high-quality package that even incorporates the music in a way that won’t rile anyone. There are one or two songs per episode, by necessity, but it’s generally top-notch stuff that never overwhelms the other aspects of the show, and if the Lost Song OST is made available, I’m sure a fair helping of people will pony up for it.
Lost Song won’t be for everyone (what is?) but it’s a ballsy bit of work that deserves some admiration for its willingness to take a clichéd premise in weird and surprising directions.
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He was a strange mix of husband, father, soldier, statesman, and berserker. He annihilated 50,000 people–one-tenth of his own population. Cursed by his native Orthodox Christian Church, he indeed evolved into a legend. But even today he is Romania’s Robin Hood.
Children are gifts from God, but parenting those children can often be a difficult task. In It’s Your Decision, author Ed Grizzle shows how parenting can be successful when it’s carried out according to God’s plan.
Using his life’s experiences as a guide, Grizzle explores the importance of making the right decisions in life—from choosing the right lifestyle and the right mate and to raising children according to what God has planned for you. It’s Your Decision discusses
Grizzle presents a guide to strengthening lives and making your family life more enjoyable. He shows how this is possible when you accept Jesus Christ into your life; he will show you the way in the difficult times.
Ed Grizzle started a ministry called It’s Your Decision that helps addicts, prostitutes, and others who face difficult circumstances. He and his late wife, Mary, raised two children. Grizzle currently lives in Illinois
In The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams author, speaker and licensed psychotherapist Daphne Michaels celebrates the nine gifts that are our birthright, guiding readers in how to recognize and use them to transform their lives. In her author’s preface, Michaels reveals how her own journey of life transformation began when she was young and realized that human existence wore two conflicting faces–one of love and joy, and one of fear and despair. She decided then to commit her life to reconciling these two visions because she knew that, irreconcilable though they seemed, together these two faces held the secret to living a life of endless possibility and authentic happiness. Her personal journey and formal education in social science, human services and integral psychology led to the founding of the Daphne Michaels Institute, which has helped hundreds of men and women design the lives of their dreams.
In The Gifted Michaels shows us that the first three “gifts” we must recognize and embrace within us if we are to re-design our lives are Awareness, Potential and Stillness. These three allow us to identify and use the remaining six with a life-changing power: Disharmony, Harmony, Ease, Clarity, Freedom and Engagement. Each of these six relies on the “essential three” for its own power to change our lives, and each has its own gifts–its “children.” By approaching the nine gifts with real-world metaphors, Michaels answers in easily understood ways what for many readers have been lingering questions about personal transformation—such as how it works, what kind of commitment it takes, and why, if we’re committed, real transformation becomes inevitable—and addresses obstacles that readers may have encountered in the past in trying to reach in life a happiness every human deserves.
At a time when the entire world seems to be spinning out of control, understanding that awareness is our most valuable and practical personal resource is crucial. Rather than having us search high and low for answers to life’s problems in the same old places, awareness takes us beyond what we already know into realms of endless discovery: Realms where rebirth always follows destruction. Realms where new horizons continually appear in sight. Realms where new solutions inevitably come from our sheer willingness to delve deeper into an invisible resource that is always there and can never be depleted.
When we realize that awareness is our most valuable and practical personal resource, we become confident that we can overcome any challenges keeping us from living the life we’ve always wanted. Through awareness, hope is guaranteed us. The secret to living the life of our dreams begins with understanding that awareness plays a central, crucial role in both the life we’re living now and the one we wish to live.
Increasing our awareness is not about discovering answers by asking questions in the usual way. Awareness is more organic than thinking. We can only access it through a deeper connection with the self. And we can only achieve that connection through a special kind of relaxation: not the kind of relaxation that puts us to sleep, but the kind that wakes us up.
Like gymnasts on balance beams, we increase our awareness through a relaxation that calls forth alertness and focus. Relaxed, alert and focused, gymnasts connect to deeper parts of themselves where awareness exists. If they think, they will fall. And when they come off the balance beam, they bring back a special quality to their daily lives.
Like gymnasts, we need to come off the balance beam to discover that the gifts we receive from awareness extend farther than we can imagine – into every aspect of our lives. When gymnasts carry their physical strength and mental precision into daily life, their confidence and achievements multiply, bringing even greater success.
Like gymnasts dedicated to developing strength and skill for their sport, we must be dedicated to developing strength and skill in self-guiding our awareness. If we are, we will experience deep awareness even when only a moment’s opportunity is available, and then come off the balance beam of that moment with gifts that multiply through the ways we live and love.
Self-guiding our awareness means tuning it – from a lower awareness felt as cloudy or negative to a higher awareness where we live with a constant sense of possibility. We tune our awareness through the state of our very being – in other words, through the state of our spirit, mind, heart, physical body and dreaming capacity. Being relaxed, alert and focused on all levels tunes our being to the most profound awareness possible, one where pure potential exists. In turn, self-guiding our awareness through tuning our being allows us to bring that potential into every aspect of our lives.
Think of the flight control panel in the cockpit of a high performance aircraft like a Learjet. The panel has all sorts of dials and switches that must be perfectly adjusted for flight. The instrument panel has been carefully designed to keep the sophisticated and complex aircraft functioning.
Humans are even more sophisticated and complex. We, too, however, have instrument panels that have been carefully designed, and we must learn to adjust the state of our being through those panels. Our own dials and switches allow us to tune the Learjet of our life to realms of potential impossible to reach through the physical world. Through our instrument panel we can tune ourselves to an awareness that will show us with astonishing clarity how to face the challenges and opportunities of our lives.
Through awareness we discover an amazing truth: that our inner and outer lives are a continuous stream, and so much so that we cannot separate the two. We discover that our life begins in a place deeper than our cells, a place where pure awareness exists. From this place of pure awareness our life streams through countless layers of our inner being, just as an old-fashioned movie projector’s light shines through film. Our story plays out on the screen of our life, but it has already been written and etched into the film’s frames. Some of the frames we inherited. Some we invented. Some we should have discarded, but didn’t. Some we hold for the future. Some we hold for others. Some we enjoy seeing played on the screen of our lives, while others we wish we could have cut out of the production altogether. But by the time we realize that our inner and outer life is one continuous stream, our movie is already playing in theaters. We directed it, and we were, we realize, asleep.
We may try hopelessly to change the movie of our life as it plays on the screen. We may stand up in the theater and stick our hands in the flow of light. We may jump up and down screaming that we hate the movie. We may cause such commotion that the movie no longer makes sense to us or anyone else watching it. We may deny that the movie is our life and swear that someone who didn’t really know us wrote the script. We may storm out of the theater; but as we stomp up the aisle trying to contain our dismay, we see our wiser self in the projector room waving, trying to get our attention. Our wiser self is shouting: “The movie playing is interactive! While you can’t stop it from rolling, you can dramatically change it through awareness!”
When we learn to tune the state of our being so that we are both deeply connected to our inner self and fully engaged in life, we live as though we are the gymnast on the balance beam, but are not limited by its narrow margin of space. We are completely free to move about in our life however we choose as long as we remain aware. We are flexible, relaxed, strong, clear, focused; and we are able to think, feel and engage life at its highest potential. We live and love creatively, and the gifts we receive multiply exponentially. Our awareness makes everything we touch a gift to ourselves and others. Every thought we have is a gift; every word we speak is a gift; every idea we consider is a gift. Through awareness we realize that life itself is a gift and that the movie of our life is indeed interactive. We realize that everything is connected to everything else, and that interacting with life’s movie can bring enormous changes in amazingly brief periods of time.
Through awareness an entire landscape of potential will appear before us. Life will never be the same again. We will realize we have been blessed with an incredible opportunity to live the life of our dreams – and the only question is “Will I answer – with sincerity and commitment – opportunity’s knock?”
In the mysterious dark South, strange old ladies, killers, hucksters, deceivers, and the unhinged lurk in the shadows where they are forced to confront inexplicable forces they do not understand. After a couple books a room in the famous Hotel Le Grande in New Orleans, one of them disappears, leaving the other to follow a bizarre trail to a sealed room where a gruesome murder took place some fifty years earlier. Uncle Poot, who has always been strange and eccentric, transforms after a board hits him on the head. Now he is a harbinger of death who sees entirely too much. A great swamp in Louisiana holds secrets-some beautiful, some sinister. But when two boys enter a forbidden, treacherous portion of the swamp, they face a crisis of conscience when they discover a serial killer’s treasure. Aunt Lootie, already known for her oddities, believes fireflies signify a bad omen. No one believes her-until her predictions begin to come true. Dark South shares a collection of mysterious tales that offers an unforgettable look into the minds of the odd people who inhabit a world that appears to be what it is not.
William Stewart is an educator who works for National University and Brandman University. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of Texas and a master of arts degree in speech/drama from Sacramento State University. He is the author of two reference books. William and his wife, Vita, have two daughters and live in Fair Oaks, California.
Psyche-Soul-ology: An Inspirational Approach to Appreciating and Understanding Troubled Kids is a companion text to At the Mercy of Externals: Righting Wrongs and Protecting Kids, 2nd Edition. Dr. Roberts presents a spiritually based application of his theories and the Roberts FLAGS Model detailed in his first book. His use of the term Psyche-Soul-ology focuses on the importance of addressing both the minds and souls of troubled kids. Of utmost importance is the need to look beyond the obvious external behaviors and problems of every kid, making an effort to see who they truly are relative to their unique potential for redirecting their lives. By looking into each kid it is possible to discover their uniqueness and encourage them to understand who they are intended to be, rather than who they are becoming. Dr. Roberts stresses the importance of complicating factors serving as obstacles to the progress of low income, disadvantaged kids. He focuses heavily on professional ethics and the need for both extreme compassion and full competence when working with troubled kids and their families. Both of these books are vital for parents and professionals if we are to fight against social injustices associated with poverty and other complicating factors.
Dr. Roberts, a proud father and grandfather, is also a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and college instructor, trained in California and living now in his home state of Alabama. His education, training experiences and worldview make him unique, and he is recognized as an expert with troubled kids and families.
Reporter Ray Gorman met baseball player Dixon White in 1971, before he was a star, but that didn’t stop Gorman from seeing star potential. Dixon was the best high school pitcher in the state—until a fateful car crash changed his life forever.
A few years later, Dixon decides to take a chance and try out for the big leagues. He misses baseball, but more than that, he also wants to help his parents financially. His little brother, Todd, suffers from polio and will need an expensive surgery to live a normal life. Dixon is shocked when he is hired to join the team’s Triple-A affiliate, and Gorman dubs him “The Can’t Miss Kid.”
Now Dixon is the hottest prospect in the minors, and with Gorman’s help, he’s front-page news on the Pittsburgh Gazette. Soon, however, Dixon’s best intentions get lost in the fray. Unready for the kind of attention and expectations the story brings, he will need to look to his roots and his inner faith to find success while staying true to his family, friends and to himself.
Allen Goodrich grew up playing baseball. He has a degree in management from St. Joseph’s University, Pennsylvania; this is his first novel. He is a father and grandfather and lives in suburban Philadelphia.
Permit Prophet Owusu Afriyie to help making your calling successful and fulfilled through Go In Faith, and You Will Prosper. The journey to fulfill your ministry and profession demands faith only. Because of that you must use your faith wisely depending on the Lord. Faith is the main thing that you possess to control and overcome the affairs of the world. You will communicate with heaven as a faith practitioner and direct the affairs of life supernaturally:
See your dream comes to pass as you feed on the Word of God believing what God has said will happen as you stay on board.
Reverend Afriyie is a Fasting and Prayer minister who was asked by the Lord to fast 2 forty days in a year. He was instructed to do this for a special ministry. Owusu Afriyie tested the waters of mandate and the Holy Spirit performed awesomely. This book will teach you faith that achieves.
The Lord advised Owusu Afriyie in May 3, 2010, to write books. He had a dream in late 90s of huge volumes of books, which indicates the writing assignments ahead of him. Afriyie always says to the Lord, “I am yours to command.” As the Prophet Samuel to the Lord, in the presence of the Priest Eli, so is Owusu.Prophet Owusu Afriyie is a Fasting and Prayer organizer by divine calling. God led him to fast two, 40 days for 10 years, and one, 40 days for 3 years for His power and work (1999-2012). God told him to go in faith and prosper in the work after the fast was over. The Lord has directed him to go back to Ghana to start the work from there and enter other worlds. God has given him a mandate to do Crusades and Plant Churches. Owusu Afriyie says this looks impossible, but with God, it is a done deal. He sees it as God asked Abraham to go a place without a map. Finally, Abraham made it as God directing him from the inside out. Prophet Owusu Afriyie says he will make it, with the Mighty Holy Spirit (the Champion) inside him; the mandate will prosper and succeed with great optimism.
Owusu Afriyie is a theologian, graduated from Concordia University, and the founder of the Apostolic Creative Faith Ministries in Montreal, Canada. He is the senior minister of the Ministry. Prophet Afriyie is married to Boatemaa, and is the father of seven children: Millicent, Rose, Daniel, Joseph, Victoria, Theresa, and Samuel.
Karen Wilson watched as a little tyke came running from the group of golden retriever puppies as fast as his little legs would carry him. Wearing a red ribbon, he was the most adorable bundle of golden softness she had ever seen. As soon as he reached her and she picked him up, he settled in her arms and immediately captured her heart. There was no question that she was his mama and he was her baby dolly. In a poignant retelling of the unconditional love between a dog and his owner, Wilson details how Rusty, at five weeks old, warmed her heart and eased doubts and pain as he quickly acclimated to his new life in her home. He turned out to be a gentle-natured puppy known to elevate the spirits of all who met him. Wilson recalls Rusty’s comical adventures as he grew by leaps and bounds; made friends with her collie, Chester; had fun with a rope swing, a bucket, and leaf piles; caught snowballs in his mouth; and discovered that a cow can be a guardian angel. Dakota Gold shares the true story of a tail-wagging, mischievous dog as he is adopted by his new family, embraces the fun in life, and learns from his best friend that love is the key to happiness.
Karen Wilson is a retired nurse and published poet. She is a member of the American Legion Post, its color guard unit, and its management team, as well as the Patriot Guard Riders of New York. When she is not spending time with her sons and grandchildren, Karen enjoys painting, writing poetry, and reading in her home in New York.
Diane Doniol-Valcroze was born in Paris, France. As a young girl, she developed a passion for writing from her father, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, co-founder of the New Wave magazine CAHIERS DU CINEMA, and from her grandfather, French filmmaker André Cayatte (original THE MIRROR HAS TWO FACES). She earned a B.A. in English literature from the SorbonneUniversity, and an M.F.A. in film from New YorkUniversitywhile apprenticing on the Lauren Hutton show. She has co-written screenplays for such films as Lionsgate’s PENNY DREADFUL, starring Mimi Rogers, and MGM’s HIT AND RUN, helmed by Enda McCallion and starring Kevin Corrigan. 41 STRANGE is her debut book. She lives in Los Angeles.
Arthur K. Flam was born in New York City and graduated from JohnsHopkinsUniversity with a B.A. in writing, and from New YorkUniversity with an M.F.A. in film. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Johns Hopkins’s oldest literary magazine, ZENAIDA, and worked as a journalist for the BALTIMORE CHRONICLE. He started in the film industry as an assistant on Abel Ferrara’s vampire film, THE ADDICTION. He has co-written screenplays for the films PENNY DREADFUL and HIT AND RUN. 41 STRANGE is his first book. He lives in Los Angeles.
DDV: I’m a screenwriter and the chance to do something very personal was very appealing and liberating.
AKF: After doing research, we realized there wasn’t an e-book yet that was devoted exclusively to short-short stories of the strange and horrifying. It was exciting.
AKF: I don’t think a writer should compromise on the prime content of a book; for instance, the end of a story, which carries the point.
DDV & AKF: The “41” comes from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. Cary Grant is attacked by the airplane at Prairie Stop on Highway 41.
With an AB degree in history from Dartmouth College, J. Boyce Gleason brings a strong understanding of what events shaped the past and when, but writes historical-fiction to discover why. Gleason lives in Virginia with his wife Mary Margaret. They have three sons.
It is 741. After subduing the pagan religions in the east, halting the march of Islam in the west, and conquering the continent for the Merovingian kings, mayor of the palace Charles the Hammer has one final ambition—the throne. Only one thing stands in his way—he is dying.
It is based on a true story. In 741, after conquering most of Europe for the Merovingian Kings, Charles the Hammer had one final ambition. He wanted to seize the throne for his children. Only one thing stood in his way. He was dying. He tried to establish a plan to hand over power to his three sons, but the only thing to rule after Charles’s death was chaos.
The two main characters are women. They drive the two primary plot lines that frame the novel. Charles widow Sunni rushes to protect her 14-year old son from his two older half-brothers. And Charles’s daughter Trudi flees his court in the dead of night to escape and arranged marriage for love amongst his enemies.
Sunni rallies her allies in Laon, a walled city on a hill that still thrives today in Northeast France. You can stand on the wall of the city and picture the arrival of the siege armies on the plains below.
Religion provides a constant undercurrent for the novel. Although most of Europe is officially Christian by the eighth century, much of the history revolves around quelling pagan practices. Anvil explores the use of religion as an avenue to power and the costs it incurs.
To bring the pagan faith to life, a number of religious practices were created based on myths and practices banned by the Church through penitentials (books proscribing penance for sinners) written in the Dark Ages.
One of the book’s main characters is now a Saint. St. Boniface was a missionary sent to the eastern Germanic nations to convert the pagans and ultimately served as the family priest to Charles the Hammer and his children.
Many of the nation states of Europe that we recognize today can be deciphered from the names used in the eighth century. Francia (France), Allemannia (Germany), Austraisia (Austria), Bavaria (Bavaria), Burgundia (Burgundy).
The rise of the Carolingian Kings and the influence they held over Europe set a standard for despots throughout modern history. Napoleon specifically imitated Charlemagne – who was crowned by the Pope on Christmas day in the year 800. Nearly a thousand years later, Napoleon repeated the ceremony, but took the crown from the Pope to place it on his own head (signifying that his power was greater than the Pope’s or that of Charlemagne’s). Hitler’s “Third Reich” was also in part patterned after the Carolingian empire.
The story of Charles the Hammer’s grandson and his great grandson are the subject of a current hit musical on Broadway called, “Pippin.”
Angus has grown up learning that his life is better off with only him and a family. But is that really in the Grand Plan.
It is a few days before my fifteenth birthday, and I have been scrubbing the castle floors all morning. I stand and the wind blows hard in my face, moving my reddish-orange hair from in front of my hazel eyes as I stretch my 5-foot 7-inch frame and look out the window.
The sky is dark and gloomy, but I can’t smell the rain yet, so I know a long time will pass before it pours down on our shire in North Scotland. In the far distance, I observe something moving toward our castle. It’s not long before I recognize my da’s charger. I can see others giving chase, although they’re quite a ways back. I run to open the gate and lower the drawbridge. I yell for my sister Janet to help me, because cranking it upright in a hurry is no small chore for one person.
The drawbridge has just been lowered when the hooves of Da’s horse, Spirit, come galloping across it. My sis does her part, and we quickly raise the bridge and race to the stallion and its rider. We arrive to hear the sound of arrows hitting the drawbridge and men yelling imprecations.
The heavily lathered stallion stands impatiently. On the horse’s back is its owner, Sir Donald Mackenzie, my da’. He is doubled forward, holding on to the mane, with an arrow in his upper left shoulder and another sticking out from his right calf. He wears a blue bonnet, along with a plaid kilt depicting our family’s lineage. A true archer, Da’s bow dangles on his back, diagonally between his shoulders.
The men on horseback, of which there are four, think better of trying to ford our moat, and they ride off. Lucky for us they don’t know that at that moment we are alone in the castle. Sis and I remove Da’ from the horse, and supporting our father between us we hurry him to his bed, where she begins ministering to his wounds.
I wonder what has caused this terrible event? My father had left several days ago with my much younger sister, Alice, to take her to a neighboring laird who had offered to have her schooled. I had watched my da’ the night before give Alice a family heirloom. It wasn’t much, but it was a locket that his great-grandmother had passed down to my grandmother who had passed it down to my mother, who was no longer with us. I remember Da’s telling us once that the tiny case had been given to our family on the occasion of an aunt’s marriage into the Clan MacDonald. I’d seen the engraving it held: two shields together, with their crests, one on the front, one on the back. And I recall Alice’s telling him, as he fastened it to her neck, that she’d forever wear it proudly.
I’d learned, however, not to believe much of what Alice said of late, as she was always coming up with whatever she thought would gain her purchase. But Alice was the oldest daughter—now eleven while Janet, who is every bit as tall as her and twice as strong, is but nine—so the keepsake rightfully should go to her.
Da’ was onto her though, and I think he’d worked out something with Laird MacLaren to see that she learned manners and honor as much as anything. Aye, but I also thought it might do her good to get set down a peg, as the MacLarens were wealthy landowners and not to be trifled with. It crossed my mind as well that Da’ hoped she might find a man of some stature someday who’d marry her, which would solve all the problems with Alice’s odd ways, as she never seemed happy with what Da’ provided for her. No matter, she would be schooled, and if nothing else she’d see other girls her age and how they acted. She would come back a better person—if she chose to return at all, which I highly doubted.
Da’s ride should have been a day out and a day back, with a day in-between to enjoy the hospitality of the laird. You see, this is the North of Scotland, and all of our families know each other, and no one just comes and goes, even if they are not related.
My da’ is hurt bad, and even with Janet and me by his side, the conditions are grim, as there is only so much we can do. I bring him food when sis has it ready, but I take it away when it isn’t touched four hours later. All he can do is let out an occasional groan
A Marvel fan recently got his ultimate wish in the form of a truly customised home theatre solution. The home in question overlooks Wimbledon’s centre court, and the owner had a very specific requirement for experienced installation company, Imagine This: a Marvel themed home cinema for himself and his family to use as a dedicated movie and gaming room.
In addition to the theatre’s distinctive theme, the client was insistent that the cinema was capable of producing Dolby Atmos, Auro-3D and DTS:X immersive audio. Imagine This used home cinema design software, TCD to design the £177,000 immersive home theatre, including products from B&W, Barco, Classé, Crestron, Kaleidescape, Screen Research and Fortress Seating.
Nine B&W CT8.4 LCRS surround sound speakers driven by Classé Sigma AMP5 amplifiers were installed into the room, bolstered by four CTSW12 passive closed-box subwoofers and two SA1000 subwoofer amplifiers, with four CCM8.5 two-way in-ceiling loudspeakers completing the immersive audio setup.
“B&W was chosen for this impressive cinema room because the manufacturer’s high performance in-wall speakers deliver the performance objectives required for this room,” said Imagine This MD, Guy Singleton. “Paired with the loudspeakers’ dynamic range and clarity, they were the perfect match for the room – the client was completely bowled over by the audio.”
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On October 8th, the Circle welcomed Dr. Elizabeth C. Economy, Ph.D. as the first Circle Talk speaker of the school year. Dr. Economy is the director for Asian studies at the Council of Foreign Relations and a trustee on the National Committee on the U.S-China Relations. She is also a well-established...
Today, Groton School, with its princely $380 million endowment, pays zero property taxes to the town. This state of affairs exists because the School, as a nonprofit, is exempted by the federal government from paying tax. Therefore, as many other educational facilities, Groton gives a relatively small...
Few topics at Groton are mired in more controversy than the Dress Code. At a recent Groton Feminists meeting, students discussed the implications of the Dress Code in our everyday lives and reviewed the official rules. Though members had varying experiences and thoughts about Dress Code, the overall c...
It has only just now hit me how little time I have left on the Circle. Now that the end is finally here, it is hard not to reflect on my four years here and think about what I could have done differently for a better-lived Groton life. After much thought, I am going to give all of you some advice abo...
Shock. Excitement. Shock again. Nervousness. Shock once more. These were the emotions that ran through my head on the morning of April 17th—my first actually surprising Surprise Holiday. Once the shock had subsided, several friends and I decided to take the early bus into Boston, and, afterwards, hea...
On April 23, 2018, Groton students in the second through sixth forms took an online survey about topics ranging from mental health, to drugs and alcohol, to academic pressures. The biannual Independent School Health Check survey was first administered at Groton in 2016. While the Groton community gene...
Starting April 12, 2018, daily emails full of environmental-minded memes and tips to go green began to come to the inboxes of Groton students and faculty. These emails were sent by the Sustainability Committee, a new group of environmentally-minded students and faculty established by Sandra Redjali, Lucy Gund, Ishana ...
On Prize Day, in addition to the 84 graduating seniors, Groton School will bid farewell to English teacher and Director of Community Engagement Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge. Mr. Freeman-Coppadge, his husband Darren, and their son Langston will return to their family community in Maryland, where Mr. Freeman-...
Middlebury professor Jonathan Isham will deliver the spring Circle Talk scheduled for April 24, 2018. He will speak on how young people and their allies can help accelerate the goal of clean energy for all. Passionate about both climate change and youth advocacy, Mr. Isham teaches in the Envir...
One of the hallmarks of boarding school life is residence halls, with boys’ residence halls separated from girls’ . Some students, though, believe that these gender-divided dormitories are in sore need of an update. Many individuals on campus are pushing for the implementation of a gender-inclusive...
On two important days in the Christian Advent season, students who attended chapel services were preached to not by a minister but rather by their peers. Chaplain Christopher Whiteman decided to create a new opportunity for Groton students to expand their religious experience by asking students to deliver s...
On Sunday, April 8, seven Groton students attended the annual Asian-American Footsteps Conference, or AAFC, at Deerfield Academy. The conference invites Asian, Asian-American, and mixed-heritage Asian students attending independent secondary schools in New England for a day filled with workshops, ac...
Whether it’s third formers excitedly checking their mailboxes to see if they’ve been assigned a revisiting student, the huge crowd gathering on the Forum steps at conference, or people waiting in a lunch line reaching the Webb-Marshall Room, Revisit Day sweeps the community into a whirlwind of a...
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William Howard Taft, the only person to have served as both President of the United States and as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, once declared, “Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.” Taft’s quote is reflected in the enduring popularity of the two Court and...
From February 22, 2018 to February 25, 2018, Groton students attended the Harvard Model Congress conference in Boston. The group, which consisted of eight boys and four girls, attended the conference held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel, along with about 1500 students from other schools. Model Congress i...
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On Tuesday, January 23, Mitzi Brockman ‘83 and Kristy Hommel came to Groton to speak about their experiences with mental health. The two are part of the In Your Own Voice initiative started by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). They, along with others involved in the organization, travel to ...
In the third issue of this year, The Circle Voice ran an article on Groton’s sustainability, pointing to many of the strides the School has taken in pursuit of an eco-friendlier campus. While that article’s information was factual, the Circle still has a considerable way to go in reducing its enviro...
On Friday, January 26, master storyteller Odds Bodkin presented his adapted rendition of Book I of the Iliad in the Campbell Performing Arts Center (CPAC), accompanied by his harp and his 12-string guitar. Based in New England, Mr. Bodkin performs his versions of a variety of folktales...
Headmaster Temba Maqubela’s tenure at Groton has made diversity and inclusion a priority. One particular step that Groton has taken to further these ideals is instituting the Groton Affordability and Inclusion (GRAIN) initiative, which aims to make Groton affordable for all. With the help of a lar...
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Over Villanova University’s spring break in March, freshman Nicolette Weinbaum ’16 LAS (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences) began thinking about how she wanted to spend her summer. “I knew I could go back to lifeguarding at home,” Nicolette said. “But, I know how competitive the job market will be when I graduate in three years, so I decided to focus on obtaining an internship that would combine my interests in finance and marketing.”
The challenge for first-year students like Nicolette is that most companies often prefer to allocate prized internship opportunities to upperclassmen.
Determined to overcome this hurdle, Nicolette decided that the best course of action was to tap into the ‘Nova Nation – the fiercely-loyal and wide-ranging Villanova alumni network. She had met Villanova alumni at various events, and always came away impressed with how passionate they were about the University and helping fellow Villanovans. But how could she connect with this network in the most effective way possible?
Then it came to her. As a savvy user of social media, Nicolette thought: “Why not create a LinkedIn ad campaign about my search for an internship?”
Nicolette budgeted a modest $200 saved from her previous summer’s lifeguarding job to create a LinkedIn ad campaign that she titled, “Advertisements for Myself.”
“The first order of business was to immerse myself in all the jargon of advertising on social media platforms,” she recalled. “Things like ‘click-through rates,’ CPCs, conversion tracking … It was actually a terrific adventure, learning about digital marketing in the new millennium.”
According to Nicolette, the most impressive feature of marketing through social media is the ability to narrow your audience and tailor your ad campaign to those who are likely to be more receptive to the pitch. “Traditional forms of media such as television and radio are all about broadcasting a message to as many people as possible. New media platforms like LinkedIn permit the user to narrowcast and really zero in on your true target audience on a very cost-effective basis.”
Using specific filters on her ad campaign, the freshman narrowed LinkedIn’s 225 million users down to an audience of just 14,781 individuals – all of whom were Villanova alumni from New York and Pennsylvania working in her specific fields of interest. The ad that popped up for those specific alumni using LinkedIn during the month of March informed them that a 'driven, accomplished, dynamic and creative undergrad' at Villanova was seeking an internship. When a user clicked on the ad, Nicolette’s blog (NicolettePost.com) popped up containing her internship pitch.
From the first day it ran, Nicolette began getting encouraging emails from Villanova alumni commending her creativity and determination, and asking for a copy of her resume. She raced over to the Villanova Career Center, which assisted not only in helping the freshman develop a formal resume, but also improve her LinkedIn profile to beef up the areas potential employers value most.
Over the next several weeks, her ad campaign was so effective that its click-through rate was more than 20 times higher than the average ad campaign on LinkedIn (0.525% versus 0.025%). This statistic got her noticed by executives at LinkedIn’s San Francisco headquarters, who sent a tweet out publicizing her clever ad campaign. They invited her to submit a blog about her experience and gave her an additional $200 credit to double the budget for her campaign.
By the time the campaign came to an end, Nicolette’s ad had been viewed more than 120,000 times. An estimated 48.4 percent of those who clicked on her ad were senior executives. Nicolette was contacted by dozens of Villanova alumni from firms such as Citigroup, ThomsonReuters, New York Stock Exchange, and MasterCard.
After several interviews and offers, the freshman accepted an internship with Edulence, a digital media technology and custom creative services in Manhattan whose president, Jon Tota was a member of the Class of 1994. Several weeks into the job, Nicolette is thrilled to have such a dynamic opportunity for the summer before her sophomore year.
Naturally, she wholeheartedly endorses the power of social media. “Using social media with an innovative and targeted approach can be a truly powerful way to stand out in a highly-competitive crowd.”
Combining a little ingenuity, a modest LinkedIn campaign budget, and “some wonderfully loyal alumni out there in the ‘Nova Nation,” Nicolette Weinbaum wound up with a high-level internship that will bring her invaluable real world experience.
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She most recently served as the provost and vice president for academic affairs at CSU Dominguez Hills. Prior to her position at CSUDH, Junn was the chief academic officer at San José State, served as associate provost at Fresno State and held various leadership positions at CSU Fullerton.
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In Part 3 of What’s over the horizon? Recognising opportunity in uncertainty, we set out some practical steps for leaders to follow to ensure their business can navigate uncertainty. Rising uncertainty means that change can arrive faster, and its consequences can be more unexpected: that means the value of thinking about plausible futures has risen by a lot. But we’re in the same old rut - most organisations haven’t really changed the depth, frequency or methods of how they think about what may come next. The future may be uncertain, but it isn’t entirely unknown. The better the information you can bring to bear, the smarter your strategy can be. Scenario planning is one way to get better information.
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Scholarships will be awarded to seniors majoring in Education who plan to teach in Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry or Lee County. Since the final internship is a full-time, full-semester teaching assignment in a public school, this scholarship is intended to benefit students who must resign from their jobs and make other major adjustments in their lives to complete the internship.
It is the donor's desire to award scholarships in sufficient amounts that will allow scholarship recipients to resign from their jobs during their internship semester or make other major adjustments in their lives to complete the internship.
The University will submit a list of qualified applicants to faculty representatives from the College of Education for final selection.
The recipients must wish to take a course or courses to enhance classroom skills. This scholarship is not intended to assist teachers wishing to advance their administrative skills;
Recipients must have graduated from a high school (public or private) located in Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry or Lee county;
Recipients will have a high potential for entering and remaining in the elementary education teaching profession;
Recipients will lack both a college degree and a fully-authorized (non-emergency, non-temporary) teaching license (credential, certificate) or hold a college degree but lacks a fully-authorized (non-emergency, non-temporary) teaching license (credential, certificate);
Recipients will make a commitment to teach at the elementary school grade level, one year for each year of scholarship support;
The scholarship award will vary depending on the needs of the individual students, with a maximum award of $7,500 per year, $2,500 per semester;
Recipients agree to keep FGCU Foundation informed about his/her teaching career. In this way, THA Foundation can accurately evaluate scholarship criteria for future recipients. (It is the desire of THA Foundation to produce long-term teachers.
The University will present qualified candidates to the Dean of the College of Education for the faculty's recommendations.
By April 30th of each year, the FGCU scholarship committee will provide a list of qualified candidates to the THA board member liaison for recommendation.
The awards may be used for, but are not limited to, payment of tuition, room and board, books, supplies and other fees associated with this academic pursuit.
Schulze Future Teacher Scholarships (Undergraduate) – $7,500 scholarship award that covers tuition ($6,000) and supplies ($1,500) over the academic year. Interested students should contact the Whitaker Center.
Requirements: Students must be pursuing a STEM major, an Education minor, and have a minimum 3.25 GPA. Students should be working toward teacher certification and must agree to teach at the 6-12 level post-graduation for each year they receive the scholarship.
Schulze Future Teacher Scholarships (Post-baccalaureate) – $11,400 scholarship award that covers tuition into the Teacher Immersion Program (TIP), a graduate-level teacher education program in the College of Education. Interested students should contact Dr. Cynthia Martelli (cmartelli@fgcu.edu), TIP coordinator in the College of Education.
Preferred Requirements: STEM baccalaureate or master degree, career in the discipline, now wishing to pursue teaching.
Noyce@FGCU STEM Teacher Scholarships – $14,000 scholarship award over the academic year. Interested students should contact the Whitaker Center.
Requirements: Students must be pursuing a STEM major, an Education minor, and have a minimum 3.00 GPA. Students should be working toward teacher certification and must agree to teach in a public school setting at the 6-12 level post-graduation two years for each year they receive the scholarship. Student must be a U.S. citizens or permanent resident.
Preferred Qualifications: participation in service-learning activities in a public school setting or other experiences working with K-12 students.
The Cape Coral Community Foundation has several Scholarship Funds available. In our 2006/2007 Scholarship cycle we awarded 33 recipients over $60,000 dollars to assist them in continuing their education. Scholarship eligibility varies according to the specific criteria of the Scholarship Fund that was established by the fund’s donor. Please review the information regarding eligibility and criteria as each Scholarship Fund is unique.
The Beier Scholarship Fund was created to assist high school students on a needs basis to further their education by attending a two or four year college full time.
The Brighten the Corner Scholarship Fundwas created to assist young people who may have thought education opportunities beyond high school would not be available to them. An 85% attendance in a Christian Service of their choice is required. At this time all openings for this scholarship have been filled.
The JSC Priority Scholarship Fundwas created to assist one female and one male athlete from North Fort Myers High School in continuing their education beyond high school. Applications and eligibility requirements can be found at www.jscpriority.com.
The Rotary Club of Cape Coral Goldcoast Scholarship Fundwas created by the Goldcoast Rotarians to assist eligible high school seniors, with a minimum un-weighted GPA of 3.2, to further their education by attending college.
In order for the Cape Coral Community Foundation to fund your scholarship please fill out this funding request and mail this form to the Cape Coral Community Foundation office at 4729 Vincennes Blvd., Cape Coral, Florida 33904. You may also fax it to 542-8307 or email it to michelle@capecoralcf.org.
Please note: No funds will be forwarded to your school of choice until this form has been completed and returned. Funds are only payable to your school of choice; they will not be made payable to a company or individual. Funding Requests must be returned a minimum of 10 days prior to your school’s final payment due date.
This Department of Defense pilot program currently helps military spouses living in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah become public school teachers. The program provides information and tuition assistance, and may expand to include other states in the future.
Students must apply to be nominated by the College of Education for the opportunity to receive a $400 scholarship for books.
The Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education (TEACH) Grant Program, provides up to $4,000 a year in grant assistance to students who are completing or who plan to complete course work needed to begin a career in teaching.
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Russia has succeeded in combating their enemy unmanned aerial vehicles, which could be a serious problem for US.
Although the Russian Army has been using electronic means of suppression for a long time, it was only in October 2017 that the first terrestrial system was introduced, whose main objective is to disable and neutralize enemy drones.
The growing number of electronic warfare systems and the professionalism of the Russian military are a threat to the US fleet of unmanned vehicles, the magazine points out.
But they can not remain without radio communication required for data transmission. And this is the weakest point that Russia can use in its favor, concluded the magazine.
Earlier this year it was reported that Russia received the first advanced electronic warfare systems Silok, designed for detection of unmanned aerial vehicles in automatic mode and determination of their coordinates.
The system suppresses the channels of control, telemetry and communication of opposing drones. The Sozvezdie consortium is the leading developer and Russian manufacturer of electronic warfare systems.
This is now more important then ever as the United States under the leadership of President Donald Trump has significantly increased its aggression towards Russia.
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Organisers of the Holmfirth Film Festival want people in the Holme Valley and Kirklees to look in their attics and cupboards for long-forgotten home movies and local films of the area.
The event has included highly popular local film nights featuring historic film of the Holme Valley made by amateur film-makers. Now the festival is on the search for more hidden gems.
The festival this year features a documentary on local film-maker, Miss Lockwood, and newly-discovered short films by local barber and playwright, Wylbert Kemp.
It looking for any companies which have made promotional films connected to the area – the kind of material that opens a window on our community's past.
Festival chairman Stephen Dorril said: “Local writer and historian, Dr Heather Norris-Nicholson, will be presenting a Home Movie Night during the festival.
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Holmfirth, of course, has a proud film history with Bamforths becoming one of the early pioneers of film-making.
As part of the build up to the festival – to run from May 19 to 26 – two special Christmas shows are planned for Holmfirth’s Picturedrome, on Sunday, December 11.
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Lee Holmes, whose summer signing for Exeter City was confirmed on Thursday morning, is confident of enjoying a fruitful 2015/16 season with the Grecians.
The winger made an instant impression at St James Park during his eight appearances on loan from Preston North End, and he will now become a permanent member of Paul Tisdale’s squad.
He becomes the second signing of the summer, following the arrival of Manny Oyeleke earlier this month.
And he revealed that he has enjoyed his time in Devon so far and that his short spell on loan at the club was instrumental in his decision-making.
“It has all taken a little bit of time, but I am something I am really happy about and pleased to have been able to have got something sorted,” said Lee.
“There were a lot of plusses for me and there were a lot of boxes that it ticked. There were obviously other clubs that came in to speak to me, but they just didn’t fulfil everything that Exeter has done for me in these last months of the season.
“The manager had been so welcoming and I really liked what he was doing and where he wants to take the club. I had an enjoyable time on the pitch, and the relationship I had with the fans was nice.
“Something special is happening at Exeter and I want to be part of it. I have been lucky in some respects that I have been able to get a little sampler of the club before I signed.
“There are a lot of cases where you can sign for a club and you don’t really know what you’re getting yourself into, and whether you are going to enjoy it. But from my personal experience I got to have a little snapshot of what Exeter is about as a place and a club, and the type of football this team plays.
“For me to be able to have that little insight was also vital for me signing. I think if I hadn’t come down on loan, we would probably have been having a different conversation now, because I wouldn’t have got to see what a great club and how great a place it actually is.” |
Police are appealing for witnesses after items worth more than £27,000 were taken from a house in Dumfries.
The incident happened at a property in the town's Stewart Hall Gardens some time between 16:00 and 18:50 on Friday.
Police Scotland said a substantial amount of cash and jewellery including "expensive rings, bracelets and watches" were taken in the break-in.
Anyone who saw any suspicious activity in the area has been asked to contact police with information.
The head of Barclays' investment banking business, Rich Ricci, has resigned, the bank has announced.
Both men played key roles under Bob Diamond, the former Barclays chief executive who left after last year's Libor rate-rigging scandal.
Despite waiving his bonus last year, he landed £18m from selling 5.7 million shares he gained as part of annual bonuses and incentives schemes in previous years.
Barclays' Mr Jenkins said: "Today's changes will ensure we have the right senior team in place to deliver strategy and commitments we made on 12 February and build the 'go-to' bank."
Former England captain Mike Tindall says it is "strange" Wales winger George North was not taken off for concussion during their 21-16 Six Nations defeat on Friday.
It comes as the number of reported concussions in English rugby rose by 59% in 2013-14 compared with the previous season - according to the latest annual injury audit.
Wales head coach Warren Gatland last week defended his medical staff after the sport's governing body World Rugby asked the Welsh Rugby Union to explain why North was allowed to continue.
Conor Sammon put the hosts ahead when he shot past United goalkeeper Paddy Kenny following an excellent run from 17-year-old midfielder Will Hughes.
Leeds' Paul Green equalised against his old club, flicking into the net after Luciano Becchio's knock-down.
But Jake Buxton diverted Richard Keogh's effort into the net and Ben Davies curled home a late third goal.
Hughes became the second youngest player to represent England Under-21s when he played against Northern Ireland last month and was at the heart of Derby's best moves.
The Rams went ahead when Theo Robinson gave the ball to Hughes with a quickly-taken free-kick and Hughes ran at the Leeds defence before finding Sammon.
Leeds last took a point off the Rams in the Championship in February 2006, when they achieved a goalless draw.
Sammon turned left-back Lee Peltier to create some space for the shot and his poorly-struck effort still found its way into the net as the goalkeeper was wrong-footed.
Derby had chances to double their lead but Kenny denied Robinson before a heavy first touch from Sammon enabled Tom Lees to make a last-ditch challenge after another direct run from Hughes.
But Leeds, aiming to collect four successive league wins for the first time since November 2009, equalised when Sam Byram hit a deep cross into the box and Becchio's superb knock-down found Green unmarked.
Green, who played for Derby for four seasons before leaving Pride Park at the end of 2011-12, guided the ball with the outside of his foot past the advancing Adam Legzdins.
The hosts started the second half brightly as Sammon dragged a shot wide, Keogh headed over and Hughes was denied by Kenny after dribbling past three opponents.
But Derby scored their second when Becchio's weak header fell to Keogh and his shot was steered in by team-mate Buxton.
Leeds nearly grabbed a second equaliser but Lees hit the inside of the post from a cross from substitute El-Hadji Diouf, before the Senegal international also fired wide late on.
Substitute Davies sealed the victory for the Rams, curling home an effort in injury-time from the edge of the penalty area.
"I think a few of the big boys are watching Will [Hughes] which is a great compliment to him and the academy lads, but if they are we will do everything we can to hang on to him.
"Early on, I thought Leeds stopped him playing just through good closing down so we couldn't quite get him on the ball. But once the game opened up he was outstanding again.
"We were on the front foot early on and it was a very, very solid home performance. Apart from a small period in the game we played some excellent stuff today and the character and honesty of the players again shone through."
"I thought we were poor for the first half hour but we withstood that and I didn't think they could improve, but I thought we could be 100 per cent better in the second half and I thought we were.
Surrey Storm secured a 55-42 victory over Hertfordshire Mavericks in front of a record Superleague crowd of 6,000 at the Copperbox Arena in London.
Storm edged to a 52-50 win in last year's inaugural Netball London Live - held in round seven of the competition.
But the attendance was doubled in size this season, making it the biggest ever domestic netball crowd in the UK.
Last year's losing grand finalists Storm went into Saturday's contest two spots above the fourth-placed Mavericks, with Yorkshire Jets squeezing in between them after their 60-48 win over Celtic Dragons.
Hertfordshire hoped to bounce back from last weekend's defeat by the improving Jets, but endured a difficult start against Surrey, going in five points behind at the end of the first quarter after a shooting masterclass from Storm's Rachel Dunn.
However, the Mavericks fought back before half-time and, after running in five unanswered points, they went in level at 28-28.
But just as the two-time title winners began to take a hold of the game, shooter Kadeen Corbin was forced off with a knee injury and they fell 41-36 behind in the third quarter.
And while the Mavericks struggled to make it count in the semi-circle, Surrey got stronger and Dunn looked unstoppable under the posts, helping her side to a comfortable 13-goal victory at full-time.
Elsewhere in round eight, Thunder kept up their unbeaten record this season with a 64-31 win over Team Northumbria, while Bath narrowly beat Loughborough Lightning 45-43 on Friday. |
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Santos, who died this week at 84, had roles in “The Sopranos” and movies but is best known for his role as Dennis Becker, James Garner’s LAPD buddy on the classic tv series “The Rockford Files.”
This entry was posted in classic TV and tagged James Garner, Joe. Santos, The Rockford Files on March 19, 2016 by keithroysdon.
A few weeks back in this spot, I talked about visiting 3490 Bluff Road this fall. The address, on Indianapolis’ south side, was for decades the studio of WTTV 4, the independent TV station that was the home of Dick the Bruiser and other wrestlers, kids’ show hosts Cowboy Bob and Janie and late-night horror host Sammy Terry.
I just got around to going to see the station building, which hadn’t been used in a decade and had been for sale for several years … and now it’s gone.
This entry was posted in childhood myths and obsessions, classic TV, Indiana, late night TV, monster movies, Sammy Terry, TV on November 22, 2015 by keithroysdon.
For days leading up to Halloween and definitely on the day itself, TV channels and networks would run Halloween-themed specials. Not just Charlie Brown but old movies on the local channels.
When cable exploded in the 1980s, the selection was even greater. I loved the movies and specials that aired on AMC and TCM.
Tonight I’m confronted with more movies than I’ll have time to watch, from “The Lost Boys” on VH1 to “Dead of Night” on TCM to the “Blacula” movies – both of em – on Bounce, the local “urban” station.
This entry was posted in classic TV, Halloween, horror films, late night TV and tagged Halloween, halloween on tv on October 31, 2015 by keithroysdon.
Bluff Road didn’t mean anything to them, of course. My wife didn’t grow up in Indiana and my son is too young to remember the address.
For a couple of generations of Central Indiana residents who paid attention to the “fine print” of television broadcasting, 3490 Bluff Road was, for decades, the Indianapolis home of WTTV Channel 4.
Nowadays, WTTV is CBS 4. For a year or so, it’s had a network affiliation and big-league status after decades as Indy’s premier independent station.
For decades beginning in 1957, WTTV broadcast from 3490 Bluff Road. The address was uttered on the air countless times and included in title cards that were broadcast.
I thought about it a lot, though. During the station’s heyday, in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s, it was easy for my imagination to populate the station with its biggest on-air personalities.
Kids show hosts Janie and Cowboy Bob. Sports broadcaster Chuck Marlowe. Station owner Sarkes Tarzian, whose name my young mind turned into Circus Tarzan.
Sammy Terry – embodied by Bob Carter from around 1962 until his death in 2013, now played in personal appearances by his son, Mark – was perhaps the best known of WTTV’s on-air personalities.
It’s not easy to find, the little building that is the focus of so many memories. Sure, there’s still a TV tower, but no sign, no historical marker, to designate the station that WTTV used until the 2000s.
Overall, there’s not much left there, not much to see considering all those years the station babysat, entertained and terrified us.
According to real estate websites, the main station building is only about 19,000 square feet and made of concrete block. One website lists the total value of the building and surrounding acres of land as $276,000.
This entry was posted in classic TV, Sammy Terry, TV and tagged 3490 Bluff Road, Channel 4, Indianapolis TV stations, Sammy Terry, TV on October 25, 2015 by keithroysdon.
For a few years in the 1980s, I stayed up every night and watched “Late Night with David Letterman” on NBC. But I didn’t just watch it. I also videotaped it.
I watched the show from its start just after 12:30 – following the Johnny Carson “Tonight Show” – until it went off an hour later. And, obviously, I loved the show enough to want to preserve it in that manner.
The Alka-Seltzer suit. Dropping things off the tops of buildings. Interrupting other shows, like the bullhorn assault on the “Today” show.
Letterman, a fellow Hoosier who I remembered from his time on Indianapolis TV and – kinda – his time on my local radio station, had a masterful grasp of ironic comedy long before others followed. He was funny and absurd and disrespectful and everything anyone would want in a late-night talk show host.
I haven’t watched Dave in a while. The draw of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” was too great. Well, that and having to get up at 6 a.m. to deal with the demands of real life.
I’ve seen a little more of his show lately, since Dave’s departure was imminent. I wouldn’t have missed Bill Murray last night. And I’ll probably be watching tonight, for the final show.
Dave was ahead of his time and of his time. He was the late-night talk show host we deserved and needed. He ranked right up there with Carson in my book and always will.
This entry was posted in classic TV, David Letterman, late night TV, TV and tagged David Letterman, Late Show, Letterman retiring, TV on May 20, 2015 by keithroysdon.
There have been so many great TV dramas in the past decade. Too many, if you have a life like mine and have limited hours to watch TV live or even catch up later on demand or online.
With “Mad Men” winding down in curious fashion, “The Americans” getting out in front of me, leaving me unable to keep up, and “Walking Dead” uneven but still rewarding, I’m mostly keeping pace only with the superhero shows like “Arrow,” “The Flash” and “Agents of SHIELD.”
One show that I did keep up with, pretty much every week, was “Justified,” Graham Yost’s show, based on characters created by wonderful writer Elmore Leonard, about U.S. marshals, lowlife criminals and everybody in between in modern-day Kentucky, was too good to miss.
I watched the show live pretty much every week during the course of its six seasons. And I mourned a little bit when “Justified” ended its run six days ago.
The lead characters, marshal Raylan Givens and criminal Boyd Crowder, are charismatic and fascinating and they’re portrayed by terrific actors in Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins.
Other lawmen (and law-women) came and went and a couple dozen wonderful bad guys (and women) have passed through these parts but Raylan and Boyd were, ultimately, the reason we watched every week.
The two – who grew up together, dug coal together, dreamed of getting out of Harlan, Kentucky, and had less than straightforward solutions to problems – did the most fascinating dance for six seasons.
As much as we rooted for Raylan, we agreed with his boss and co-workers that he could be an angry, danger-seeking jerk.
And as much as we wouldn’t want to be on the bad end of a deal with Boyd, we’d also like to have sat down the bar from him, having a beer and listening to him formulate schemes and recounting fascinating characters he met .. and, most likely, swindled or killed.
“Justified” never let us forget that, as shaded and shady as these two could be, they were our protagonists. We were as caught up in their stories – more so, really – as any tried-and-true, straight-arrow characters.
I’ve been to and through Kentucky many times. I’m not sure I pined for the characters of “Justified” – Mags Bennett, Dewey Crow, Wynn Duffy or any of them – to sidle up next to me at a diner.
This entry was posted in classic TV, Justified, TV and tagged Boyd Crowder, Justified, Raylan Givens on April 20, 2015 by keithroysdon. |
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INR7"YEARLY" VP - M&AFull Time (1-10 Yrs )IRM Solutions Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Applicants must have at least 6-7 years Investment Banking experience from a Bulge Bracket or a specialist Boutique Investment Bank.Ideally completed a training program at a bulge bracket/boutique/reputable Investment bank.You must have a good degree gained from a leading University.The package on offer is Tax Free/negotiable and details will be provided to suitable candidates + Exceptional Performance Related Bonus.2018-10-15 21:54:09
INR7"YEARLY" Senior Associate - M&AFull Time (1-10 Yrs )IRM Solutions Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Applicants must have at least 5 years Investment Banking experience from a Bulge Bracket or Reputable European Investment Banking organisation.Ideally completed a training program at a bulge bracket/reputable Investment bank.You must have a good degree gained from a leading University.The package on offer is negotiable and will be equivalent of 90-105k/US$115-130k Per year Tax Free + Exceptional Performance Related Bonus.2018-10-15 21:54:06
INR7"YEARLY" Corporate Finance M&A Advisory ConsultantFull Time (1-10 Yrs )NSI & Bluefin Talent Saudi Arabia Not Mentioned saudi arabia 0saudi arabia 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Job Purpose: To provide the Client with a all aspects of financial management and corporate finance in support of the client's strategies and business objectives Principal Accountabilities: 1.Research market conditions and manage corporate finance projects including financial advisory on M&A and capital raising exercises. 2.Conduct investigations into the financial and commercial start of companies, giving consideration to particular transactions 3.Lead the financial modelling, developing and presenting appropriate financial solutions. 4.Perform investment due diligence and provide advice on capital structure. Liaise with relevant regulatory authorities. 5.Project managing transactions, negotiate terms and conditions and develop proposals to raise funds 6.Ensure all regulatory aspects of a transaction have been considered. 7.Manage the financial assessment of any potential participation in any new business ventures or acquisitions by the client, providing management with robust and insightful information and recommendations upon which to base decisions. 8.Work with external company and government agencies to ensure that all reasonable requests for information, explanations and justifications relevant to financial planning are met in-line with relevant statutory and other requirements... 9.Prepare regular and ad hoc financial reports and detailed analyses for presentation at Board meetings and to meet the requirements of the CFO, the business units, etc., for reliable and timely financial information and insight. 10.Develop the budgeting, forecasting, planning processes, supporting the commercial decision making process and evaluating new products and M&A opportunities.Requirements- CFO - Understanding what and when to escalate issues upwards and/or where the CFO needs to be aware of a potential issue. - Other Finance Managersto exchange/receive financial data and information in a timely and reliable manner. - Managers across the business in order to obtain the necessary information/data and insight to meet the financial planning/reporting timetables and to provide timely/helpful support and advice to them - Auditors/Government agenciesimportant to maintain a good working relationship - Strong analytical skills - Strong Numerical skills - Well-rounded commercial and economic awareness and understanding of financial markets - Strong sense of business integrity and business ethics - Business communication and interpersonal skills - Excellent project management skills - Ability to work in a regulated environment with set policies and procedures Experience - 5 years in areas of Corporate finance activity ideally involving JVs, divestments, business repositioning, M&A activity - Regional knowledge and experience - Formulating business strategies - Sector experience on a global scale - Sound knowledge of risk analysis - International business environment - Understanding of corporate finance2018-10-15 21:29:39
INR7"YEARLY" Financial M&A AnalystFull Time (10-12 Yrs )Saudi Aramco Saudi Arabia Not Mentioned saudi arabia 0saudi arabia 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Position Description Saudi Aramco Finance is seeking a Financial MA Analyst to join the Corporate & Project Finance team (C&PF). C&PF is a part of the Finance Business Line in Saudi Aramco and reports to the Treasurers organization. Its objectives are to provide expert financial advice to organizations developing new businesses or joint ventures coordinate the Finance Organizations overall involvement in such development activities and; obtain debt and equity capital for such new business ventures when appropriate. Successful candidates will be responsible for providing M&A expert analysis of potential joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions in the petrochemical industry. This position handles complex, non-routine financial or banking projects, which have little precedent, develops and interprets data used in highly technical and confidential analysis, assists in the development of positions relative to new problem areas of situations and develops polices, programs and procedures. Minimum Requirements A minimum of 10 years of related financial banking work experience required, preferably in a banking environment or a major petrochemical or energy industry corporation. Strong preference will be given to candidates with significant experience with Banking Industry, Capital Markets, Strategic Planning, Economic Evaluations, Cash Flow & Variance analysis, Commercial Negotiations, multilateral agreements, export credit agencies, Islamic finance, structured finance, project finance and/or financial modeling. Completion of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional credential is preferred. Ability to quickly establish credibility in the position and to effectively interact with all levels of management, including senior leadership. Strong ability to establish and maintain networks, both within and across company organizations. Capable of working within a matrix organization. Duties & Responsibilities A minimum of 10 years of related financial M&A work experience required, preferably in a banking environment or a major petrochemical or energy industry corporation. Strong preference will be given to candidates with significant experience with Capital Markets, Commercial Negotiations, Transaction Structuring Strategic Planning, Economic Evaluations, Cash Flow & Variance analysis, and exposure to multilateral agreements, export credit agencies, Islamic finance, structured finance, project finance and/or financial modeling. Completion of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional credential is preferred. Ability to quickly establish credibility in the position and to effectively interact with all levels of management, including senior leadership. Strong ability to establish and maintain networks, both within and across company organizations. Capable of working within a matrix organization.2018-10-15 19:26:25
INR7"YEARLY" Investment Banking Associate 2 (M&A / Restructuring)Full Time (1-10 Yrs )Swisslinx Middle East Dubai United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai 15-10-2018 2019-01-13On behalf of our client, a well-established international Financial Institution, we are looking for an Investment Banking Associate 2 with solid experience in restructuring / leveraged finance to join their team in Dubai. The company is providing Investment Banking advisory services on different types of transactions and is looking to expand their team. As Associate 2, you will be involved in a full cycle of transaction execution process and get to work with the top industry professionals. You will be mainly working on restructuring transactions, but also involved in M&A.RequirementsThe successful candidate will hold the following qualities: Western Degree in Finance & Banking from a well-reputed university 4+ years of experience in a reputed Financial Institution (bulge bracket investment bank, well-established boutique, private equity firm) Previous working experience and / or education in Europe / US is a must Solid transaction experience in corporate / debt / financial restructuring is a must OR experience in leveraged finance Strong financial modelling skills Fluency in Arabic is a big advantage, but not a must Candidates from overseas with matching qualifications are being considered for this role. Please note only successful candidates will be contacted. If you wish to be considered for this role, and keen to develop your career in the field of investment banking, please apply now.2018-10-15 17:08:38
INR7"YEARLY" M&A & ECM AssociateFull Time (1-10 Yrs )IRM Solutions Doha Qatar Qatar 0doha 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Requirements: 1.Currently in an Equity Capital Markets role with a history of closed M&A ECM focused transactions 2.3-5 years Equity Capital Markets experience gained from a top tier bank or boutique, either in an Equity Capital Markets team or a coverage team with IPO exposure 3.Strong valuations skills ideally gained from a big consultancy firm within Corporate Finance Advisory 4.You must have a good degree gained at a reputable University 5.Ideally you should have strong presentation skills gained from a top Investment Bank The package on offer is negotiable and will include a Tax Free Basic Salary, Housing Allowance, Transport Allowance, All Insurances, Flights plus additional Benefits and Performance related Bonus. Further Details will be provided to suitable applicants.2018-10-15 15:47:59
INR7"YEARLY" M&A & ECM Analyst (3rd Year) 50k to 65kFull Time (1-10 Yrs )IRM Solutions Doha Qatar Qatar 0doha 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Requirements: Ideally you should have a minimum of 2 years (ECM) Equity Capital Markets experience gained from a top tier bank or boutique, either in an ECM (Equity Capital Markets) team or a Coverage team with IPO exposure Strong valuation experience candidates coming from a big consultancy background would be advantageous. You must have a good degree gained at a reputable University Ideally you should have strong presentation skills gained from a top Investment Bank The package on offer is negotiable and will include a Tax Free Basic Salary, Housing Allowance, Transport Allowance, All Insurances, Flights plus additional Benefits and Performance related Bonus. Further Details will be provided to suitable applicants.2018-10-15 15:47:59
INR7"YEARLY" M&A & Equity Capital Market AnalystFull Time (1-10 Yrs )IRM Solutions Doha Qatar Qatar 0doha 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Leading International Banking Organisation is looking to hire experienced M&A Analysts with recent Equity Capital Markets experience. With great international exposure and a strong brand. This is a role where you can gain great deal exposure much earlier than you would at a bulge bracket bank, and also be given more responsibility. You will be working alongside highly experienced individuals, who have worked in the major European financial centres coming from Bulge Bracket banks and the big consultancy firms. They have in-depth knowledge of M&A and can provide great mentorship to young bankers looking to build their careers. This is an entrepreneurial role where you will gain excellent exposure to deals in a structure that promotes growth, coaching and mentoring of junior staff. Great opportunity to work on large scale and mid-market transactions. Duties: - You will be required to prepare pitch-books, information memorandum and management presentations - This role will be heavily involved on the origination, valuation and execution of (ECM) Equity Capital Markets transactions - To carry out due diligence & financial analysis - All aspects of financial Modelling & Valuations - Various ad hoc projects as and when requiredRequirementsIdeally you should have a minimum of 2 years (ECM) Equity Capital Markets experience gained from a top tier bank or boutique, either in an ECM (Equity Capital Markets) team or a Coverage team with IPO exposure. Strong valuation experiencecandidates coming from a big consultancy background would be advantageous. You must have a good degree gained at a reputable University. Ideally you should have strong presentation skills gained from a top Investment Bank. The package on offer is negotiable and will include a Basic Salary, Housing Allowance, Transport Allowance, All Insurances, Flights plus additional Benefits and Performance related Bonus. Further Details will be provided to suitable applicants.2018-10-15 15:20:00
INR7"YEARLY" M&A/Transaction Tax - Manager - Big 4Full Time (1-10 Yrs )Morgan McKinley Doha Qatar Qatar 0doha 15-10-2018 2019-01-13Key responsibilities include: Advising clients on their transaction tax exposure M&A, tax due diligence, tax structuring, SPA, etc Participate in case work and draft required reports Identifying and documenting all transaction tax related issues Participate in business development Build strong internal relationships and help developing the teamRequirementsKey requirements include: Western experience is essential Bachelor's degree in tax, accounting finance or a related field essential. Master degree would be advantageous. 5 - 7 years of experience in the relevant position Professional qualification e.g. CTA is desirable Big 4 experience is preferred2018-10-15 15:14:57
INR7"YEARLY" Beauty and Laser TherapistFull Time (1-10 Yrs )Cassia Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 06-11-2018 2019-02-04A leading medical center in Dubai is looking for a beauty Therapist with extensive experience to join their team on a full-time basis.Responsibilities- Engage clients in conversation to determine their beauty goals- Carry out skin and hair analysis to figure out what clients need in terms of treatment- Provide clients with information on feasible skin and hair treatment- Explain treatment procedures and provide information of products that will be used- Conduct a short interview to take clients medical histories to determine if they are allergic to any product- Perform a range of massages and aromatherapies- Remove facial and body hair using electrolysis, waxing and laser treatments- Provide advice to clients who have just had cosmetic surgery- Advise clients regarding post-treatment care REQUIREMENTS: REQUIREMENTS- Must have at least 3 years of experience as a beauty Therapist- Must be licensed by DHA as a beauty Therapist- License and experience with lasers is a great plus- Minimum 3 years of experience as a beauty therapist- Fluent in written and spoken EnglishThe ideal candidate must be a people person, a team player, who is outgoing, energetic and positive with a willingness to learn and expand ones horizons.2018-11-06 21:48:09
INR7"YEARLY" Associate - Corporate M&A - International Law FirmFull Time (1-10 Yrs )Barratt Galvin Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 06-11-2018 2019-02-04Our client, a multinational law firm is seeking a highly skilled Corporate lawyer to join their team in Dubai. Working closely with a Senior Partner who is widely recognized as a leading corporate Lawyer in Dubai, this role would suit someone who brings with them a good breadth of M&A, investment fund, commercial, and regulatory experience gained within a top tier or international law firm. This role will see you working across jurisdictions within the Middle East. REQUIREMENTS: Listed below are the minimum expectations for technical skills, experience and qualifications which individuals need to meet in order to perform their role:Post qualification experience in corporate projects and M&A with a reputable international law firm, with an ideal PQE of 1-3 years for UK qualified, or 2-4 years for AU qualified Lawyers;Good organizational skills and experience in transaction management;Excellent academic track record;Enthusiasm for intellectually challenging work;Excellent client relationship skills and experience of business development.2018-11-06 21:25:04
INR7"YEARLY" Manager - M&A TaxFull Time (5-7 Yrs )Mackenzie Jones Saudi Arabia Not Mentioned saudi arabia 0saudi arabia 06-11-2018 2019-02-04The Company Our client is a Big 4 Advisory firm who has strong presence, and a large team in the region. They are currently seeking a Manager/Director to join their Tax Advisory team in Saudi Arabia, where they are seeing increased demand for Transaction Tax services from local/MNC companies and private equity investors who conduct their business internationally. The Role The M&A Tax Manager will be at the forefront of the M&A Tax divisions operations - he will not only lead his team in Transaction Tax projects, but also be responsible for building new client relationships for the firm. Other responsibilities will include: Providing a first-class consultancy service to clients with regards to the tax implications of M&A and restructuring activity. Handling all aspects of engagement with the organizations clients - in addition to tax advisory services, this would also include team structuring, revenue management, etc. Salary:SAR 40,0002018-11-06 16:54:57
17-10-2018 2019-01-15Perform a variety of different tasks in the course of a working day, including: Conducting skin analysis and advising clients on skin and body care. Performing facial or body massage and treatments, including spa therapy, reflexology and aromatherapy. REQUIREMENTS: Open to ARABIC and EUROPEAN candidateFemale, below 35 years old onlyMedical Diploma or any relevant training courses are requiredMinimum 2 years of experience as a beauty TherapistExperts in Therapeutic facial and body careConducting skin analysis and advising clients on skin and bodyMOH/DHA/HAAD licenses are requiredArabic Speaker is an advantageWork Location: Dubai, Abu Dhabi or SharjahSalary up to 15,000 AED depending on experience and qualifications
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Requirements: 1.Currently in an Equity Capital Markets role with a history of closed M&A ECM focused transactions 2.3-5 years Equity Capital Markets experience gained from a top tier bank or boutique, either in an Equity Capital Markets team or a coverage team with IPO exposure 3.Strong valuations skills ideally gained from a big consultancy firm within Corporate Finance Advisory 4.You must have a good degree gained at a reputable University 5.Ideally you should have strong presentation skills gained from a top Investment Bank The package on offer is negotiable and will include a Tax Free Basic Salary, Housing Allowance, Transport Allowance, All Insurances, Flights plus additional Benefits and Performance related Bonus. Further Details will be provided to suitable applicants.
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Applicants must have at least 6-7 years Investment Banking experience from a Bulge Bracket or a specialist Boutique Investment Bank.Ideally completed a training program at a bulge bracket/boutique/reputable Investment bank.You must have a good degree gained from a leading University.The package on offer is Tax Free/negotiable and details will be provided to suitable candidates + Exceptional Performance Related Bonus.
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Applicants must have at least 5 years Investment Banking experience from a Bulge Bracket or Reputable European Investment Banking organisation.Ideally completed a training program at a bulge bracket/reputable Investment bank.You must have a good degree gained from a leading University.The package on offer is negotiable and will be equivalent of 90-105k/US$115-130k Per year Tax Free + Exceptional Performance Related Bonus.
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Position Description Saudi Aramco Finance is seeking a Financial MA Analyst to join the Corporate & Project Finance team (C&PF). C&PF is a part of the Finance Business Line in Saudi Aramco and reports to the Treasurers organization. Its objectives are to provide expert financial advice to organizations developing new businesses or joint ventures coordinate the Finance Organizations overall involvement in such development activities and; obtain debt and equity capital for such new business ventures when appropriate. Successful candidates will be responsible for providing M&A expert analysis of potential joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions in the petrochemical industry. This position handles complex, non-routine financial or banking projects, which have little precedent, develops and interprets data used in highly technical and confidential analysis, assists in the development of positions relative to new problem areas of situations and develops polices, programs and procedures. Minimum Requirements A minimum of 10 years of related financial banking work experience required, preferably in a banking environment or a major petrochemical or energy industry corporation. Strong preference will be given to candidates with significant experience with Banking Industry, Capital Markets, Strategic Planning, Economic Evaluations, Cash Flow & Variance analysis, Commercial Negotiations, multilateral agreements, export credit agencies, Islamic finance, structured finance, project finance and/or financial modeling. Completion of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional credential is preferred. Ability to quickly establish credibility in the position and to effectively interact with all levels of management, including senior leadership. Strong ability to establish and maintain networks, both within and across company organizations. Capable of working within a matrix organization. Duties & Responsibilities A minimum of 10 years of related financial M&A work experience required, preferably in a banking environment or a major petrochemical or energy industry corporation. Strong preference will be given to candidates with significant experience with Capital Markets, Commercial Negotiations, Transaction Structuring Strategic Planning, Economic Evaluations, Cash Flow & Variance analysis, and exposure to multilateral agreements, export credit agencies, Islamic finance, structured finance, project finance and/or financial modeling. Completion of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) professional credential is preferred. Ability to quickly establish credibility in the position and to effectively interact with all levels of management, including senior leadership. Strong ability to establish and maintain networks, both within and across company organizations. Capable of working within a matrix organization.
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Requirements: - Minimum Qualifications: 1 Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics or any related field. - Minimum Experience: 1 5+ years finance experience gained by working in Investment Banking, Investment Houses and similar investment institutions. - Job-Specific Skills: 1 Strong commercial acumen 2 Business and financial analysis, modelling, valuation skills 3 High level of accuracy and precision in working 4 Excellent oral and written communication skills 5 Good understanding and working knowledge of M&A processes, typical contracts / agreements / due diligence 6 Ability to work well under pressure 7 Strong planning and organizing skills 8 Good multi-tasking and time management skills 9 Good problem solving skills and out of the box thinking 10 Entrepreneurial and industrious nature 11 Good team work and strong interpersonal skills - Competencies 1 Information Seeking 2 Integrity 3 Organizational Awareness 4 RelationshipBuilding 5 Achievement Orientation 6 Conceptual and Analytical Thinking 7 Attention to detail If you meet the above criteria, then please reply with your latest CV. If you know friends or colleagues that are suitable, feel free to refer them or share their contact details with me. Sthree UAE is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
30-10-2018 2019-01-28Open for FILIPINA candidatesFemale, 35 y/o and belowTraining Certification is an advantageExcellent communication and customer service skillsCan join immediately (max 1 month)Work location: Doha, QatarSalary is up to 3,000 QAR depending on experience and qualifications plus accommodation, transportation, duty meals, airline ticket every 2 years, medical insurance and incentivesPlease submit updated CV in MS Word Format with most recent photo and sample works to:GLOBALLY2020 AT GMAIL DOT COMNote: Use QATAR beauty THERAPIST as Email Subject
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Key responsibilities include: Advising clients on their transaction tax exposure M&A, tax due diligence, tax structuring, SPA, etc Participate in case work and draft required reports Identifying and documenting all transaction tax related issues Participate in business development Build strong internal relationships and help developing the teamRequirementsKey requirements include: Western experience is essential Bachelor's degree in tax, accounting finance or a related field essential. Master degree would be advantageous. 5 - 7 years of experience in the relevant position Professional qualification e.g. CTA is desirable Big 4 experience is preferred
15-10-2018 2019-01-13Leading International Banking Organisation is looking to hire experienced M&A Analysts with recent Equity Capital Markets experience. With great international exposure and a strong brand. This is a role where you can gain great deal exposure much earlier than you would at a bulge bracket bank, and also be given more responsibility. You will be working alongside highly experienced individuals, who have worked in the major European financial centres coming from Bulge Bracket banks and the big consultancy firms. They have in-depth knowledge of M&A and can provide great mentorship to young bankers looking to build their careers. This is an entrepreneurial role where you will gain excellent exposure to deals in a structure that promotes growth, coaching and mentoring of junior staff. Great opportunity to work on large scale and mid-market transactions. Duties: - You will be required to prepare pitch-books, information memorandum and management presentations - This role will be heavily involved on the origination, valuation and execution of (ECM) Equity Capital Markets transactions - To carry out due diligence & financial analysis - All aspects of financial Modelling & Valuations - Various ad hoc projects as and when requiredRequirementsIdeally you should have a minimum of 2 years (ECM) Equity Capital Markets experience gained from a top tier bank or boutique, either in an ECM (Equity Capital Markets) team or a Coverage team with IPO exposure. Strong valuation experiencecandidates coming from a big consultancy background would be advantageous. You must have a good degree gained at a reputable University. Ideally you should have strong presentation skills gained from a top Investment Bank. The package on offer is negotiable and will include a Basic Salary, Housing Allowance, Transport Allowance, All Insurances, Flights plus additional Benefits and Performance related Bonus. Further Details will be provided to suitable applicants.
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Ambu means something in Buddhism, Pali, Jainism, Prakrit, Marathi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
Ambu (अम्बु) means “dense” or “a mix of water and air” and refers to a type of strata or cushion supporting the lands (bhumī) of the underworld, according to the 2nd-century Tattvārthasūtra 3.1. There are seven lands existing in the downward order (one below the other) with Ratnaprabhā being the topmost supported by the cushions of humid atmosphere (ghana), dense air /water (ambu), which rests in a ring of thin /rarified air (vāta) resting in space (ākāśa).
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As I write this part of this past at least, I am watching a bit about kids who are different in Australia — the kind of kids who look different, and aren’t like the others — I don’t want to use the word normal, because in every sense of the word, aside from their looks, these kids are normal. The segment on the The Project also highlighted The Wonder, which yes, every time the trailer comes on I sob. I can’t help it. Has anyone read this?
In other news, Australian didn’t legalise gay marriage, but the results of a postal survey to take the temperature of the country, so to speak, about legalising same-sex marriage came in this week and YES won emphatically. The NO vote was emphatically CRUSHED — not even a majority in any state, but the conservative fear-mongers are already at it, working out how to change anti-discrimination law, and using everything they can to make this vote about every one of their misguided, bigoted fears instead of actually same-sex marriage, which you know unless you’re in a same-sex relationship really does not have anything to do with you. AT ALL.
WHEW. This book. The Goodreads blurb really only tells you so much, but this review does much more to put things in perspective: The book is told in alternating timelines surrounding Hadley. She tries to commit suicide after her parents are killed in a plane crash, even though her little sister is still alive by virtue of missing the flight. The crash investigator begins to dig into the crash, and Hadley and instead of a picture perfect family, what evolves is a family held in the grip of her father’s violence and a mother who won’t do anything. Hadley lives to protect Lila, but when she falls in love, her father realises that to control her, he has to turn his attention to Lila. So where does that leave Hadley? … and to me, after reading the second blurb, I have to wonder — was the accident really an accident? This whole blurb gave me chills and made my heart sore at the same time.
That time you go to a Blogger night at Hachette Australia, get a gorgeous arc of this book — which is a retelling of Beauty and The Beast from the Beast’s perspective, and the next thing you know you’re doing a readalong with the author and your book club on Whatsapp. Yup.
I’m putting this here, because reading this blurb just 100% made my shoulders and neck soften and I smiled — while keeping an eye on my new iPhone, which at 6 days old has to go back to the store bc the receiver is effed, and I don’t even know why. So as you can imagine, I was not in a good mood while waiting for the thing to back-up, which also: iCloud effing sucks. I’m still not over it, as you can see, so that’s why this deserves a spot on this rec list: because it’s about a lady with a mobile library, a shitty husband and her realisation that she may not belong in London any more, but where she is right now, with her mobile library is just where she’s supposed to be. Ahem. I have emotions about this one for many reasons.
David Duchovny wrote another book. Goodreads bills this as a supernatural NY love story, which yes, it got me. And also DD is writing it. Emer lives in New York and seems to be trying to figure out what life has in store for her. Is it just that she’s supposed to be in NY with her boyfriend Con, with dreams of writing? It’s loosely based on a play called The Only Jealousy of Emer, which yes, I had to look up, and has a cast of mythical figures from all around the world, which is what got me the most. Also David Duchovny. Who else is hanging out for the next Xfiles??
Alright, this touches on not-nice subjects that mums you may not like, so I thought I’d lead with that: it’s based on a true story in part (a US murder case), and is translated from French, and by a Moroccan author. Louise is the perfect nanny for Myriam and her husband. She’s everything they’d want, and their children love her, but the parents and the nanny is such a complicated relationship, and with these three, it brings jealousy, resentment until everything implodes. … and like all implosions, there’s nothing good about it. There’s something about the cover, about the perfection in it that could be a child’s torso or a nanny that grabbed me. It reminded me of a horror movie costume I’d once seen, but this is a different kind of horror. I wish I could truly explain why I like crime novels — I usually go with the idea that it’s the bad guys (almost) always get their just desserts, but sometimes it’s about the questions they force us to ask about humanity and all sorts of things we don’t want to think about. And that’s where this blurb led me.
Yup, I feature recent and future recs …. or really whatever strikes my fancy for the year at least lol
Ah, the curse of technology woes! I got an ipod a couple of years ago and after weeks of issues I sent it back and returned to my trusty mp3 player! I tend to avoid technology as much as I can! My ereader is as complex as I like it!
The trailer for Wonder makes me cry too. I haven’t read the book yet though. I really need to pick up a copy.
Your recs this week sound amazing too, especially Now is Everything and The Library at the Edge of the World.
And I have no idea what rock I’ve been living under, but I had no idea David Duchovny wrote books. I’m definitely going to have to check those out!
Right? How wonderful is the little guy in it? He just breaks my heart and makes me hopeful all at once. … Suzanne! He’s written three books! How’d you miss that?? Wait, do you watch the X-Files??
It’s too bad about them not passing the law for same sex marriage. In the U.S there are still states that refuse to issue marriage licenses to couples even though it it legal in some states. Our best friends have been together for over 15 years, but the are still not allowed to be married. I feel for them.
These are some really good rec’s. I keep looking at The Perfect Nanny, it sounds like something I would like. 🙂
It’s insane that such a wonderful relationship like that (and others) just aren’t legal. The Perfect Nanny is creeping me out big time, and saddening me entirely at the same time.
I love good book recs. I just ordered a new book based on another bloggers rec and that’s usually what I do when it comes time to select a new book just for me instead of an ARC or a book club pick. I’ll be taking a look at these, thanks!
It’s wonderful that so many voted yes, and I too will never understand people who are so determined to control the lives of others in ways that don’t even affect them at all. *sigh*
Oooh what?! I’m definitely going to go check out The Beast’s Heart! I hadn’t even heard about that one.
Right? And now the thing has to get passed through parliament to become properly legal. The Beast’s Heart was a good read, a little too angsty and left me wanting to know more about Beast and Isabeau in this retelling in some ways. When it’s a retelling form someone else’s POV, it’s always hard to find a balance between what to say and what not to say.
It’s awesome that so many voted YES and I agree with you. Why do people need to poke their nose into the lives of others and make the world a difficult place :/
Glad so many people voted yes! Too bad the people in charge won’t listen. I am definitely going to have to check out The Beast’s Heart because that is my favorite fairy tale. Also, I’m super curious about the David Duchovny book. Hope you have a great week.
I thought Australia had voted yes? Aw, I’m kind of bummed now – but that’s great that so many did say yes! I just don’t get how this isn’t legal everywhere. You shouldn’t be able to tell people they cannot get married. Makes no sense to me.
Gosh- you know… At the risk of sounding awful, sometimes I just think that Australian’s are ridiculous. Everyone is up in arms about all sorts of things that SERIOUSLY? Is it THAT important? Do you have to make a big deal out of ALL THE THINGS? Do you not realise how good your life is? /end rant
No, but seriously – I’ve been in and out of Zimbabwe for years now, and I’m here currently and really? These people have far more to complain about! Although last night was a massive celebration!!!!
The Beast’s Heart looks amazing. I’ve just read a Beauty and the Beast retelling and although it’s not my favourite fairytale I do love retellings! I can’t wait to see your thoughts.
ahaha I’m glad I’m not the only one that finds the “last week/ this week” confusing when I write these posts 🙂 Wonder is one of my top books ever and yes it does make me cry both the book and movie! I love the way you say it V! “it really does not have anything to do with you. AT ALL.” I have strong feelings about this too! so sending you hugs and love xoxo |
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This beautiful RV Park is a block from the beach. It has beautiful vegetation and it is meticulously maintained. The park manager speaks English and is so helpful. There is a great clubhouse with a view of the ocean. Everything is very clean:laundry, restrooms, grounds....More
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All of this can be found from walking distance to an hours drive away, travel further and there is much more, so come and visit.
The property across the yard from owners house. keys can be collected on arrival, there is information in property about where to go and things to do. Should you have any questions or problems we are on site to help you. in the property there is a information booklet with where to shop, post codes of nearest supermarket, and outer information you may require.
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I’m often aske d questions about crowdsourcing. Usually, they’re revolving around this central theme: what can crowdsourcing do? Can crowdsourcing solve this problem? Can crowdsourcing solve that problem? On occasion, a more perceptive question is posed: can crowdsourcing define a problem?
My answer to all these questions is standard: yes, it can. What I want my interlocutors to understand is that crowdsourcing is first and foremost a question, a question that you ask a carefully selected crowd of people. And it doesn’t really matter what this question is about, for as long as it well-thought-out, properly defined and clearly articulated. Yes, it can be a question about a solution to a problem. Yes, it can be a question about a problem itself.
Two examples of using crowdsourcing in both incarnations came from the same organization, Harvard Medical School. The first example shows how HMS scientists used crowdsourcing to solve a problem. This particular problem was how to improve the capacity of a DNA sequencing algorithm employed in one of the HMS projects. (Let me skip technical details here because I wrote about this case only a few weeks ago.) HMS first decided to solve the problem in-house and indeed made a significant (5.5-fold) improvement in the algorithm capacity. But this wasn’t enough, and they launched a two-week-long crowdsourcing campaign. 122 algorithms from the outside of HMS have been submitted, and the winning solution provided a 1,000-fold improvement over the initial algorithm, a 180-fold improvement over the internal solution.
But a few years before, HMS put the crowdsourcing approach in reverse: they use it to define a problem. Specifically, they asked a question: what do we not know to cure Type 1 diabetes? The idea behind the question was that as every prominent scientific topic, the Type 1 diabetes research was following a limited number of popular directions, chasing essentially the same set of problems. HMS decided to ask members of the Harvard community, as well as general public, to identify “neglected” problems, the problems that for whatever reasons were off the radars of existing labs involved in Type 1 diabetes research. Essentially HMS wanted the crowd to come up with different, better problems, regardless of whether the crowd had the expertise or resources to solve these problems.
The results were quite impressive. Of total of about 190 entries to the contest, 12 were chosen as the most “out-of-the-box.” (Interestingly enough, among people submitting winning proposals was a diabetes patient, an undergraduate student, an HR representative and a researcher with no immediate expertise in the diabetes field.) Some of the most promising problems were later converted into bona fide research projects.
So when asked what one needs to run a successful crowdsourcing campaign, my answer is, only two things: a question and a crowd.
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Loneliness in old age has a negative influence on quality of life, health, and survival. To understand the phenomenon of loneliness in old age, the voices of lonely older adults should be heard. Therefore, the purpose of this meta-synthesis was to synthesize scientific studies of older adults’ experiences of loneliness. Eleven qualitative articles that met the inclusion criteria were analyzed and synthesized according to Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnographic approach. The analysis revealed the overriding meaning of the existential human core of loneliness in old age expressed through the metaphor “trapped in an empty waiting room.” Four interwoven themes were found: (a) the negative emotions of loneliness, (b) the loss of meaningful interpersonal relationships, (c) the influence of loneliness on self-perception, and (d) the older adults’ endeavors to deal with loneliness. The joint contribution of family members, health care providers, and volunteers is necessary to break the vicious circle of loneliness. |
If you care at all about food culture in America, you have probably read a story by John Birdsall. A former cook for 17 years, the James Beard Award–winning writer and Bay Area native is now the co-author of Hawker Fare, a cookbook that he co-wrote with chef James Syhabout. This week, Birdsall found time for a burrito run, ate what is frankly a remarkable amount of bread, and fried some chicken in an effort to, uh, aromatize his house. (You’ll see.) Read it all in this week’s Grub Street Diet.
Any diary has to reckon with time. This one begins in the dark, my eyes scanning the cracked, old clock radio on the sill above the bed: 5:58 a.m. My husband’s sleeping; the dog yawns; she’s sensed me stirring. I feel her stretch on the bed, hear the KA-thump of paws hitting the floor, front pair, back pair: We’re up. My feet guess where the cat is, so I don’t stomp her as we, all three walk to the kitchen without the lights on.
Since the late 1980s, the Acme Bread Company’s pain au levain has been among my life’s constants. The white bag, soft like cheap notepad paper, is one of the first things I feel most mornings. The drag of the round loaf leaving the bag and thunk of it landing on the cutting board; the grind of the knife as I saw two thick slices; the squeak of the toaster-oven door as I open it to slide them onto the wire shelf — I’ve heard them so many times, they register as ambient, barely heard under NPR’s burble and jingles from the radio on the counter, and the echoing scrabble of scarfed kibble, as the dog noses her metal bowl across the floor.
Acme is not stylish bread; it’s not even semi-cool bread, but it’s good bread, and easy to buy here. It satisfies what is, for me, a loaf’s prime directive, which is that it should be available: affordable daily food, not a precious treat.
I grew up just south of San Francisco, at a time when the big bakeries still delivered warm sourdough loaves twice a day, even to supermarkets in the burbs. I can buy a loaf of Acme from one of three markets within a half-mile of our house. If I think about it, which I never do, Acme’s heirloom levain is an amazing legacy, still living, but as with a lot of food in the Bay Area, things begin to look ridiculous when you step back far enough to see your diet — see yourself — in the wide-view reflection of a nation that mostly shrugs about the idea of food as an access tunnel to meaning.
This morning, I paste my hot toast with butter from a jar next to the range, and sprinkle it with crunchy flakes of Maldon salt (bought two years ago for a recipe-testing). My AeroPress coffee’s done — today, it’s a mix of beans from Blue Bottle and Ritual, an uneasy blend for sure. I drink it black and munch the toast, and scan the paper version of the San Francisco Chronicle, spread out on our countertop of shiny indigo tiles.
I spend the morning at a table facing the back of my husband’s computer monitor (he’s a graphic designer and works from home, too). I study rail service to the Oregon coast, circa 1910 — I’m writing a new biography of James Beard, who grew up in Portland and the family cottage in Gearhart, on the beach south of Astoria, near the mouth of the Columbia River.
I say I’ll go get us burritos for lunch, and make the quick drive to Berkeley. I park as the rain starts to make shop awnings drip. Thank God the line at Gordo isn’t out the door. The burritos here do not showboat. They’re smaller than most across the bay in the Mission, and less bombastic. Gordo excels at tiny things. The pollo asado is chicken thighs, marinated and cooked on a gas grill cranked high enough to lay a carbon shadow on the meat. The pico de gallo has acidity and freshness from properly firm tomatoes. We eat standing in the kitchen.
In the afternoon, I take a break from work to wrestle a turkey breast. At Christmas, we bought ourselves an immersion circulator from Nomiku. It’s green and has a handsome readout and a frictionless dial for adjusting numerals on a screen, all of which only heighten my sense of desperation. I have no idea what the hell I am doing in this new field of sous-vide abstraction. It reminds me of high-school math, except that adjusting variables in two fields — time and temperature — has real consequences in dinner. Sous-vide seems a denial of sensory wisdom, gathered over years of kitchen fuck-ups and triumphs: the smells and sizzling, the degree of sear in a pan and the firmness of a hunk of muscle. I am determined to try. I am determined not to be my dad, circa 1983, exasperated over trying to record The A-Team on his RCA VCR.
I strip the skin off and bone the thing. I wonder why the hell I even bought turkey breast from the Berkeley Bowl butcher counter: What is it I crave from bland proteins? I crunch up the breast carcass, cover it with water, and set it on a flame for stock. I salt the two breast halves, sandwich and tie them into a reasonably tidy roll, and leave it for my husband to seal in plastic, and drop in a water-filled Cambro. Online, we’ve each separately found the same instructions by J. Kenji López-Alt. I adjust the readout to say two-and-a-half hours, set the temp to 150 degrees, and go back to work. We’re in Kenji’s hands now. What could go wrong?
Hours later, it sits there, freed from its bag: a thing like a scalded white forearm, unlovely, frightening. I make a buttery sauce with the strained stock, steam Brussels sprouts (it’s slightly too late in the season — the leaves have relaxed from the cores; they’re tough, not crisp). My husband’s made brown rice in the cooker. We examine the turkey slices: pale-pink fibers that have stiffened without totally losing their terrifying slackness. We look at each other.
That night, I see a retweet by Lisa Q. Fetterman, a founder of Nomiku and a woman I adore. “It’s easy to scapegoat technology. It’s much harder to deal with the things technology is revealing inside of you — that you would rather not admit.” I feel the rebuke.
We’re up; the pets are eating;, I make oatmeal: Bob’s Red Mill organic steel-cut. They take 20 minutes. I think, as they cook, about the oats my husband bought for me, a year or two ago — delicious, sweet-tasting oats, but I can’t remember the name on the box. I think, were they really that good? Weren’t they German? Maybe Swiss? Will he ever remember where he bought them? Is this a metaphor? I feel stupid. (It’s early.)
I lean on the AeroPress — God, I hope we use up these beans soon, I’m sick of the odds and ends from random bags. I pour milk over my oatmeal; slice a banana on top. I leave the rest of the pot for my husband, on the griddle plate on our beast of a range, made in Oakland in 1947, impossible to keep clean.
Lunchtime and we’re bored with the options. We scroll Yelp on separate phones. There’s a place — new to us — in Berkeley, in the Highwire café: Mister Bolenca. The menu labels it “a FUNKY EATERY.” We sit at the bar, where the chef and owner moves around the line, plating orders. His name is Sincere Justice, and he’s originally from Baldwin Park in the San Gabriel Valley, east of L.A. I think Bolen is the locals’ argot for “Baldwin,” with -ca, for California, tacked on.
We split the Korean chicken salad, which has watermelon radish, sesame, big hunks of charred meat and a dressing that immolates, in a good way. And we share a Bolenca, Justice’s name for an open-faced sandwich built on a raft of toasted focaccia, the Chino-Latino Pollo Chifa (turns out it’s chicken day), with charred scallions and jalapeños and nearly as much burn as the salad. The food’s good: vivid and frank and rooted in Justice’s experience, or anyway his personality. He puts it over.
And we end up being good. My husband pulls the rest of the turkey into hunks and heats it with the salsa, which is fierce and bracing. There’s a lesson here, which I think is that the Mexican market can save a fearsome load of aspirational tech protein from blandness and, ultimately, despair. We heat tortillas in a skillet, warm the beans, slice the avocados, and make tacos at the table. We drink shitty North Coast Pinot (I know) because I was too lazy to get to the good wine shop. But sometimes, if not all the time, you have to forgive yourself.
I wanted to leave the house before 8 (my husband’s not exactly awake yet), but it’s 8:15, which means trouble. I drive to Fournée in Berkeley, at the fancy-house fringe of town, under the hill on which the Claremont Hotel rises in West Coast Edwardian splendor. The bakery opens at 8. Now, there’s a line that stretches down the sidewalk. I take my place behind a woman and her boyfriend (he keeps saying how many pastries he plans to eat) because Fournée bakes my favorite bread on this side of the bay: the farmer’s loaf.
You can buy a half-farmer’s, which I have done, but the full loaf — 15 inches long and six across at the widest point — keeps for days. It has a blackened crust. It has an elastic crumb shot through with extravagant looping holes, complex sweetness, bitterness from the crust, and refreshing sourness.
Back home, my husband boils eggs in the shell. I eat thick, buttered slices of bread with halves of soft-yolked egg and salt flakes smashed on top. I sip my usual: black coffee.
We head to Alameda. We check out a bookshop, spend time in vintage stores and thrifts (I buy a Saveur from 2000 with “San Francisco’s Chinese Spirit” on the cover, and inside, an interview with Cecilia Chiang).
For lunch, I get us takeout at Hawking Bird, James Syhabout’s new place in Temescal, just a few blocks from our house. At home, I devour a chicken sandwich (dark meat, coated with rice-flour batter and fried super crisp, with slaw and fish-sauce-spiked chile jam on the bun). My husband eats khao man gai, the Thai version of Hainanese chicken rice, poached chicken with the skin on, served over chicken-fat rice. We eat tater tots dusted with James’s approximation of the powdered seasoning that comes with Mee Mama instant noodles: salt, a little sugar, maybe garlic powder.
We fry grass-fed beef patties, sauté mushrooms, and caramelize an onion. We steam broccoli. My husband makes Calrose rice in the cooker. It’s kind of an austere dinner, but before I ran out to the neighborhood wine shop I love, Oakland Yard. I open a Clos la Coutale Cahors: It’s elegant like couture, fun like a velvety pink tracksuit from Juicy Couture.
After dinner: disaster. I walk to the backyard, the dog is running in front of me, and slips through the pet door. As I open the back door, I see her surrounded by two skunks, tails up. I scream. She runs back in the house, whimpering. Fuck! She got skunked! We get her in the tub and rinse her. The house smells intensely of skunk, a mix of hot boot sole, turpentine, and shit. We strip everything out of the bathroom — rug, towels, shower curtain — and throw them in the wash. Strip our clothes off. Open the windows and light candles, though it’s freezing. Thank God the wine was good.
My husband’s still sleeping. I steel myself for the line at Beauty’s Bagel Shop, at the other end of my neighborhood. Blake Joffe and Amy Remsen opened this place in 2012. They make Montreal-style bagels, baked in a wood-fueled oven, but there’s nothing precious about them. I get an egg and cheddar on a sesame bagel: thick, sturdy egg and a shiny molten plug of tangy cheese. For me, Beauty’s is an example of a place that can move into a neighborhood and feel that it fits, immediately, like it’s always been here. I grab half a dozen bagels to go.
For lunch, we have sandwiches of farmer’s bread with black-forest ham from the fridge, slices of white American cheese, and avocado. They’re chunky sandwiches: not totally mined for excellence, but fast and easy. We crunch more La Finca chips. Over our sandwiches (we’re standing in the kitchen), I ask what we should have for dinner.
“I don’t know,” my husband says. “Something really stinky, to cover up the skunk smell in here?” Sort of as a joke, I suggest we fry chicken. And he (this is one of about a hundred reasons why I love him) says, “Let’s do it.”
I climb on a stool to get the spices on the top shelf of the cupboard, things to add to the fried-chicken flour: dry mustard, garlic powder, sweet Calabrian chile, black pepper. I cut up the chicken we ran out to buy at Piedmont Grocery. My husband does the rest, except when it comes time to flour, and egg, and flour the pieces. He shallow-fries them in peanut oil in the skillet; I open the window and the back door (our ventilation system). We have more Calrose rice and heat frozen corn in the microwave. Fried chicken, rice, and frozen corn is a thing my husband grew up with.
Less skunky now, the dog curls up under the table as we eat. The house smells less terrible, we think, more like browned flour, and cooked oil teetering on the brink of acridness. We drink a $15 Chianti from Fattoria di Petrognano in Lucca. It has brightness, sweet potting-soil smells, and a tonic sort of woodiness. It’s just the solvent we need for the vileness of skunk, which still lurks.
We start to deal with the fried-chicken leftovers. I dice carrots and cebollitas that we’d picked up at Mi Tierra. I skive the meat off the drumsticks and dice it, along with the breading, which is now limp. My husband beats up eggs with a drop of sesame oil, adds the green onions, and makes a quick flat omelette in the wok. He puts it aside, adds peanut oil, and fries leftover rice with the carrots and chopped-up omelette. It’s delicious. He takes seconds; I take the rest, a portion as big as my first.
It’s the eve of publication day for my book with James Syhabout, and I say we should go out to celebrate. My husband asks, “How many times can we celebrate?” He’s kind of teasing; we celebrated when I signed the contract, and when James and I finished the manuscript.
We scroll our phones again. We end up at A16 in Oakland — it’s quiet, only two other couples at the bar. We eat squid with deep-fried cranberry beans and lemon slices; strands of bucatini-like maccaronara pasta with Naples-style ragù, and shaved dry ricotta; and sautéed Brussels sprouts. I take a stab at ordering wine: a red from Campania that I can’t exactly make out the name of in the dim of the place. It’s delicious, supple and acidic enough to keep us from getting sleepy. We don’t usually come here. My husband says, “Why don’t we come here more often?” The check’s right around a hundred bucks, which is fine for what we ate and drank, but it sort of answers his question. Anyway, we’ve got more leftover fried chicken at home.
One Western Avenue is a significant project because it represents Harvard’s first step as it expands its campus in Allston. The building occupies a prominent site at the southeast corner of the Harvard Business School campus, adjacent to the Charles River, where Western Avenue crosses Soldiers Field Road. As such, the site marks the arrival to Harvard’s campus from downtown Boston and areas south.
The building’s configuration and image are based on our interpretations of its physical context: the nineteenth-century, five-story, brick-clad, U-shaped neo-Georgian courtyard houses and the mid-twentieth-century, twenty-story, concrete paneled modern towers. Both types are characteristic of the university’s riverfront and both have been excellently designed by the best architects of their times, most notably in the twentieth century, José Luis Sert.
Urbanistically, the five-story low-rise we placed along Western Avenue establishes a scale for future buildings to be built further inland, while the fifteen-story mid-rise on the riverfront forms—in a pairing with the taller buildings across the river—a virtual “gate” to Harvard when arriving from the river. In addition, to use in Allston the same building types that have been used in Cambridge speaks of the desire to make both sides of the river—and all thereby implied—equal.
While One Western Avenue combines the two emblematic types of courtyard and mid-rise, it adds something else to them: a three-story, bridge-like building raised four levels above the ground and spanning 180 feet.
First, it clearly divides the building’s main central void into two very different spaces, a courtyard and a front lawn; from the courtyard looking out, the river view appears framed, as if it were seen through a gigantic window, a condition that improves the experience of seeing the water.
Second, it makes a covered terrace between courtyard and lawn, a wonderfully tall campus “room” (to which the main entrance from Western Avenue directly leads), suitably “furnished” with a wooden platform intended for everyday as well as special occasions, and for individual as well group activities; a space like no other on campus indeed.
Third, from a pragmatic point of view, it allows us to produce two desirable conditions that normally exclude one another: a courtyard open to the river, as it should be, AND on top of its edge, three stories of apartments occupying the same “front-row” situation.
Fourth, from a formal point of view, the newness of the bridge squarely places the building in the domain of the twenty-first century, thus doing what Harvard has always done when it has built good buildings—as in the buildings of Bulfinch, Richardson, Gropius or Sert, all of which represent the best ideas of their times.
Consistent with our choice of building types is the choice of skin materials we have made: brick for the courtyard and cast stone for the mid-rise. But in order to produce visual variety, scale down the building masses and, indirectly, relate to the material articulation shown by both neo-Georgian and modern buildings present in the context, we have established a series of regulations that allows us to produce experiential richness without resorting to easy “Picturesquism” or casual decoration.
The courtyard building is wrapped in two brick patterns, one for the exterior walls and the other for the interior walls. These overlap in the entry passageway, thus producing a third pattern. The mid-rise and the bridge are clad in the same material, but used differently from one another, as are the types of windows they display (the novelty of the bridge finds its equivalent in the monolithic treatment of its volume.
More importantly, we have dealt with the notion of virtual “transparency” (one which is of great importance to both classical and modern architecture) as a way of producing a lucid, architectonic surface treatment. This has been accomplished by letting the ideal prismatic geometry of the various building masses register in the façade planes: when two prisms intersect, their patterns overlap, thus producing a new condition that recovers the prism's ideal edge. Designing along these lines has allowed us to produce a building that is, we believe, very much a Harvard building, and one of its time and place.
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INR7"YEARLY" Dental AssistantFull Time (2-7 Yrs )AL-HIND FOREIGN SERVICE AGENCY Saudi Arabia (saudi Arabia) Not Mentioned saudi arabia (saudi arabia) 0saudi arabia (saudi arabia) 17-11-2018 2019-02-15Greetings from Al-Hind Foreign Service Agency New DelhiWe are working for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1978 and oldest agency in the Capital of India. We have urgent requirment of dental Assistant female for Sharurah Najran Hospital. Candidates should hold diploma in the above mentioned field, and willing to work under dental doctor as assistant.?Hospital?is??providing family visa and also family accomodation also in KSA.Please send me your response on haseeb@al-hind.complease send following documents:-1. Updated CV2. All educational certificates3. All experiences certificates4. Diploma in dental technician5. Passport CopyMake one PDF file not more than 4 or 5 MB and send me on the above email?For more details please contact on:- +91-84928285612018-11-17 11:13:31
INR7"YEARLY" Laboratory EngineerFull Time (1-10 Yrs )Schlumberger Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 15-11-2018 2019-02-13We are looking to hire a laboratory Engineer based in Jebel Ali, UAE.-Minimum of 2 years experience, GCC national and Arabic speaking required.Job Summary:-Develops skills and knowledge to support sales and operations by performing quality and verifiable tests on Company products, and preparing laboratory presentations and reports for Company sales personnel.Relationships-laboratory SupervisorEssential Responsibilities and Duties-Learning Product Lines services-Assists in preparing presentations for internal and external laboratory clients-Studies elements of treatment Design, Execution, and Evaluation (DEE) to the extent of being able to provide sound recommendations for well construction and well stimulation treatments-Performs tests to verify product/service design-Assists the maintenance and calibration of laboratory equipment-Performs non-routine testing for critical wells-Performs product quality assurance/quality control for critical jobs-Reviews test procedures, results, and reports on unknown scales and produced solids and fluids from oil and gas wells, to determine their chemical composition and remedial treatments-Reviews work booklets, analysis sheets, and computer generated reports prepared by laboratory Technicians-Prepares periodic summary reports as required-Monitors laboratory working areas to insure clean, orderly, and safe working conditions-Assists laboratory Manager, or assigned supervisor, with disposal of laboratory waste according to properly conducted methods-Maintains laboratory results database-Participates in monthly safety and operations improvement meetings-Completes training modules for promotion to next career level-Assists laboratory Manager, or assigned supervisor, in providing test information to clients and other Company personnel-Assists laboratory Manager, or assigned supervisor, with ordering supplies, chemicals, and parts for department operations-Complies with applicable company policies, including Personnel, Quality System and Health, Safety and Environment standards and procedures-Successfully complete required safety training (including but not limited to drugs and alcohol, electrical, emergency response, fire, first aid, health and hygiene, PPE, SIPP, risk reporting, IT security, hazardous materials, driving)Employees may be assigned other duties, in addition to or in lieu of those described above, and any duties are subject to change at any time, according to the needs of the location or Company. REQUIREMENTS: Previous Experience and Competencies:-Bachelor of Science as Chemical Engineering or Chemistry graduation.Competencies to be kept current:Problem Solving-Basic skill in project estimation-Can handle projects of standard complexity-Creative and innovative in providing quality solutions, analytical and solution oriented-Standard skill in techniques, tools, processes and practices within area of expertise-Basic Decision Making: Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies Decisions will impact upon schedules and on individual operations-Identifies problems and/ or obstacles-Shows ability to utilize other resources when necessaryLeadership-Can function independently and in a team-Basic Project Management skills-Basic Outsourcing Management skills-Aware of the value of and shares knowledge with individuals within own team-If position has subordinates, manages performance of self and team within agreed limits, including setting performance standards and efficient use of resourcesCommunication-Standard oral and written communication skills: Frequently interacts with peer groups, subordinates and senior management advising on area of responsibility. May give presentations of standard information concerning specific projects/schedules etc-Open and responsive when receiving information-Listens attentively to what others are saying.-Conveys factual information via clear oral and written communications, clarifying basic details-Able to present basic factual data to a limited and familiar audience-Customer oriented, actively communicates with internal and/or external customers to ensure service level meets with expectationsCross Discipline-Basic understanding of how other disciplines interact with own-Basic understanding of and practice of the principles of quality management-Basic awareness of the companys operations and strategy and has awareness of how own role fits in-Understands the needs for budgetary constraints and is aware of impact of own actions on costs-Adheres to local standards and procedures in all aspects of working environment-Managing the Assigned Task-Has the basic functional and technical skills required to do the job-Capable of actively participating in the setting of own objectives and identifies key requirements-Balances priorities & interfaces with internal/external customers & stakeholders to ensure expectations are metSchlumberger is the worlds leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. We have more than 20 years of experience in delivering world-class service to our customers through integrated projects. These projects range from basic service coordination through to complete development and abandonment of fields. To meet the growing needs of our business we are encouraging applications from experienced professionals who share our passion for delivering excellence in all aspects of project delivery.Schlumberger is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.2018-11-15 15:30:35
INR7"YEARLY" Dental Clinic ManagerFull Time (1-10 Yrs )Cassia Abudhabi Not Mentioned abudhabi 0abudhabi 13-11-2018 2019-02-11This opportunity is in Abu Dhabi and requires someone who is passionate about delivering outstanding patient care and who will motivate and engage the team to deliver the same. The successful candidate is preferably an Arabic speaker must have at least 4-5 years of experience as a Clinic Manager in the UAE, in a dental setting.- Handle clinics routine operations.- Create and execute clinic related human resource and finance objectives and customer service- Guide and support participation in patient care delivery regularly.- Manage facilities, equipment, supplies, personnel and resources in relation to cost containment.- Execute clinical administrative policies and initiate action to enhance patient care programs.- Examine and resolve complaints received from staff, visitors, patients, and physicians.- Support policy formulation and execute budget by providing financial projections during budget development.- Execute productivity increase strategies and optimize clinical staff and procedural value.- Explain good workplace behavior and identify issues and use resources to resolve.- Understand future staffing requirements and create, execute and support clinical staff recruitment and retention strategies.- Identify position specific job responsibilities and core competencies to create clear job descriptions.- Improve staff-patient interactions through patient satisfaction tools. REQUIREMENTS: REQUIREMENTS- At least a Bachelor degree in Business or Economics- Arabic speaker- At least 4-5 years of experience in the dental industry in UAE- Clinic Management experienceBenefits- Excellent employer- Competitive salary depending on experience and profile- Free visa and health insurance2018-11-13 14:51:38
INR7"YEARLY" DENTAL HYGIENISTFull Time (0-2 Yrs )VIRGINIA DENTAL CLINIC Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07Prepares treatment room for patient by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols. Prepares patient for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patient. Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests. Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments. Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patients oral health. Completes dental prophylaxis by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth and from beneath gum margins. Arrests dental decay by applying fluorides and other cavity- preventing agents. Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations; cleaning and polishing removable appliances; placing, carving, and finishing amalgam restorations; removing cement from crowns and bridges. Educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions; providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit. Documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories; charting in patient records. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations. Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturers instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques. Maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies. Conserves dental resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.2018-11-09 17:43:21
INR7"YEARLY" Dental AssistantFull Time (2-4 Yrs )Gulf Medical University Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07Demonstrates competence in the provision of basic patient care as specified by the countrys licensing authority to practice Specific responsibilities: Assist the Physicians for the procedures in the OPD as appropriate. Assist the patients in case of admission by accompanying them to complete the admission procedures (PAD /Insurance etc. ) . Check the working condition of the equipments and report to the dental Nurse In charge. Provide health education and daily needs of individuals or groups. Provide nursing care to the patients whose health condition is stable and uncomplicated within own scope of practice. Provide nursing care as delegated by a registered nurse. Accountability and responsibility for own nursing actions and omissions within the relevant legal and ethical parameters of practice. Practice in accordance with the standards and ethical code set by the nursing profession and organization. Participate in self professional development2018-11-09 17:20:58
INR7"YEARLY" Laboratory TechnicianFull Time (1-10 Yrs )Taaleem Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 09-11-2018 2019-02-07Person Specification:Education: Bachelors degree and relevant experience in a class room settingExperience: Similar experienced in a similar role is desiredCompetencies:Good levels of written and spoken EnglishEnthusiasm and aptitude for working with studentsGood team player, able to work well as part of a team2018-11-09 16:31:43
INR7"YEARLY" Dental AssistantFull Time (1-10 Yrs )Sultan Al Olama Medical Center (SAMC) Dubai United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai 09-11-2018 2019-02-07The dental Assistant is a person who will fulfill the following responsibilities in accordance with the DHA guidelines, and align with SAMC core values: Chair Side Assistance: - Provide comprehensive care and assistance for the dental patients of SAMC, with maintaining their safety and privacy. - Work in collaboration with the dentists and other health care professionals to achieve the best outcomes. Infection Control: - Maintain all infection control means to protect self and patients from complications. Insurance: - Maintain and complete all elements of insurance claims to ensure on time insurance payments. Client Relationship/Others: - Building rapportwith clients and staff. - Enhance clients' awareness about services to maximize sales opportunities. - Fulfill tasks given by dental Director / Manager.Requirements- Bachelor of Nursing/ dental Assistant - dental Assistant/ Nursing license from DHA - Minimum of 3 years experience as dental Assistant. - Demonstrated expertise in in improving client experience.2018-11-09 15:05:18
INR7"YEARLY" Dental TechnicianFull Time (2-5 Yrs )German Dental Oasis Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07A dental laboratory located in Dubai Healthcare City is in need of: dental Technician (Ceramist) Can work on Crown, Inlay, Onlay. Bridges Willing to work in Dubai Healthcare City Can join immediately.2018-11-09 14:27:07
INR7"YEARLY" Dental Technician - European NationalityFull Time (4-6 Yrs )Cassia DWC-LLC Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07A well-established, leading dental Facility in Dubai is looking for a dental Technician to join their highly professional and Western team on a full-time basis. Requirements Possess BSc in dental laboratory Technology OR a diploma in accredited program in dental laboratory Technology (minimum two-year course duration) Minimum four years of relevant work experience post certification The candidate must be Western educated and Western Nationality from the following countries: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Canada2018-11-09 14:23:24
INR7"YEARLY" Dental AssistantFull Time (2-4 Yrs )City Star Management Consultant JLT Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07dental Assistant Job Purpose: Supports dental care delivery by preparing treatment room, patient, instruments, and materials; passing instruments and materials; performing procedures in compliance with the dental practice act. dental Assistant Job Duties: Prepares treatment room for patient by following prescribed procedures and protocols. Prepares patient for dental treatment by welcoming, comforting, seating, and draping patient. Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests. Provides instrumentation by sterilizing and delivering instruments to treatment area; positioning instruments for dentist's access; suctioning; passing instruments. Provides materials by selecting, mixing, and placing materials on instruments and in the patient's mouth. Provides diagnostic information by exposing and developing radiographic studies; pouring, trimming, and polishing study casts. Maintains patient appearance and ability to masticate by fabricating temporary restorations; cleaning and polishing removable appliances. Helps dentist manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining cpr certification, emergency drug and oxygen supply, and emergency telephone directory. Educates patients by giving oral hygiene, plaque control, and postoperative instructions. Documents dental care services by charting in patient records. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations. Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols. Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques. Maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies. Conserves dental resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results. Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. Skills/Qualifications: dental Health Maintenance, Use of dental Technology, Infection Control, Patient Services, Creating a Safe, Effective Environment, Listening, Teamwork, Bedside Manner, Health Promotion and Maintenance, Use of Medical Technologies, Performing Diagnostic Procedures2018-11-09 14:01:30
INR7"YEARLY" Laboratory SupervisorFull Time (Fresher )Newly Established Healthcare Provider Dubai United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai 09-11-2018 2019-02-07Performs chemical, microscopic and bacteriologic test to provide data for use in treatment and diagnosis of disease Receives specimens from lab or obtains specimens directly from patient and makes quantitative and qualitative chemical analyses Prepares stains, reagents, media and solutions necessary for athe performance of all lab tests Performs approved serological tests Tests new and improved laboratory methods and procedures Prepares laboratory notes, charts, graphs and writes up results of examinations Keeps accurate daily records Trains or supervises training of other lab staff Evaluates quality control and quality assurance statistics and modifies manuals as needs Develops a budget for the laboratory and maintains control of laboratory costs Supervises purchase of supplies and maintains equiptment inventory Other duties as needed and directed Requirements University Qualifications: MSc Nature and length of previous experience: 5 years Soft Skills and Personality traits: Knowledge of the basic principles and laboratory applications of biology, microbiology and chemistry Knowledge of current laboratory facilities, methods, equipment, materials and ability to perform standardized biological, chemical and microbiological examinations independently Knowledge of use of computers for laboratories Ability to deal with staff and patients in a positive and courteous manner Current Location: UAE2018-11-09 12:56:11
INR7"YEARLY" Dental HygienistFull Time (3-8 Yrs )Astute Technical Recruitment Ltd Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07dental HygienistUAEPrivate Sector Our client based in the UAE is currently looking to employ a dental Hygienist. A highly established private healthcare chain having been established in the region for over 20 years, A dental Hygienist is needed to enhance their dental team. Based within the heart of the healthcare sector, our client offers the following benefits to the successful candidate: Attractive and Industry Leading Tax Free Salary One Month Holiday AllowanceExclusive of Public Holidays Medical and dental Cover Accommodation Allowance Schooling Allowance Travel Allowance Return flight to any destination per year The ideal candidate for this role will hold experience in: - A minimum of 3 years post specialisation experience - Exposure to Teeth Whitening Systems - Implants and Perio experience - Qualifications gained through respected, industry leading Healthcare provider - Must hold either: American board Certification - No pending or current medical endorsements on their license Due to license being transferred by our client, at the moment in time, only American or Canadian board applicants will be contacted. For more information, please contact the Health team on: +44 (0) 2392 221 600 or email your CV to mtyusef@astutehealth.co.uk2018-11-09 12:26:15
INR7"YEARLY" Dental ReceptionistFull Time (5-10 Yrs )Astute Technical Recruitment Ltd Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07dental ReceptionistUAEPrivate Sector Our client based in the UAE is currently looking to employ a dental Receptionist. A highly established private healthcare chain having been established in the region for over 20 years, A dental Receptionist is needed to enhance and ease the work load on the dental team. Based within the heart of the healthcare sector, our client offers the following benefits to the successful candidate: Attractive and Industry Leading Tax Free Salary One Month Holiday AllowanceExclusive of Public Holidays Medical and dental Cover Accommodation Allowance Schooling Allowance Travel Allowance Return flight to any destination per year The ideal candidate for this role will hold experience in: - A minimum of 5 years experience in relevant post - Holds a dental Education - Qualifications gained through respected, industry leading Healthcare provider For more information, please contact the Health team on: +44 (0) 2392 221 600 or email your CV to mtyusef@astutehealth.co.uk2018-11-09 12:26:15
INR7"YEARLY" Sales Specialist- Dental SalesFull Time (2-8 Yrs )Talent Management Consultancy Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai United Arab Emirates Not Mentioned united arab emirates 0united arab emirates 09-11-2018 2019-02-07To sell our Specialist range of dental materials, chairs , Equipment etc.Responsible for revenue generation and manage the assigned accounts with dental Health care providers. Greetings,Talent Management Consultancy,Our prestigious client one of the UAE’s leading Healthcare Industry on look for Sales Specialist- dental Care to be based in Dubai.Education: Minimum- Any Science Graduate.Preferable – Degree in BDS or Diploma in dental Medicine or GraduatesExperience :Must have a minimum of 2 yrs sales experience in the market (preferably UAE or GCC).Should have strong communication skills.holding Valid UAE Driving LicenseJob Description. To sell our Specialist range of dental materials, chairs , Equipment etc.. Responsible for revenue generation and manage the assigned accounts with dental Health care providers.. Do product presentations to ensure the sales turnover of the assigned products through demonstrations for existing and new users.. Identify new business opportunities, generate leads, close deals & efficiently score over competition.. Achieve the set sales goals and exceed management expectations.. Develop & build good relations with the dental Key opinion leaders in the assigned regionsThanksZabin Search ConsultantTalent Management Consultancy.2018-11-09 12:07:03
INR7"YEARLY" Laboratory TechnicianFull Time (1-10 Yrs )BAC Middle East Dubai , United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates 0dubai Uae Not Mentioned uae 0uae 09-11-2018 2019-02-07The successful candidate must be a resident of the UAE, be degree educated in laboratory Technology from a recognized medical or laboratory school, DHA licenced or the necessary experience and qualifications to obtain this, 5 years experience in a laboratory with experience in phlebotomy, hematology, serology and biochemistry. Candidates who currently work in a ISO 15189 accredited laboratory are prefered2018-11-09 11:13:56
INR7"YEARLY" Dental AssistantFull Time (2-8 Yrs )Magrabi Hospitals & Centers Saudi Arabia Not Mentioned saudi arabia 0saudi arabia 06-11-2018 2019-02-04We are looking for dental Assistant for KSA. Responsibilities:- Assisting the dentist during a variety of treatment procedures.- Taking and developing dental radiographs (x-rays).- Taking impressions of patients' teeth for study casts (models of teeth).- Helping patients feel comfortable before, during and after dental treatment2018-11-06 18:53:07
17-11-2018 2019-02-15Greetings from Al-Hind Foreign Service Agency New DelhiWe are working for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1978 and oldest agency in the Capital of India. We have urgent requirment of dental Assistant female for Sharurah Najran Hospital. Candidates should hold diploma in the above mentioned field, and willing to work under dental doctor as assistant.?Hospital?is??providing family visa and also family accomodation also in KSA.Please send me your response on haseeb@al-hind.complease send following documents:-1. Updated CV2. All educational certificates3. All experiences certificates4. Diploma in dental technician5. Passport CopyMake one PDF file not more than 4 or 5 MB and send me on the above email?For more details please contact on:- +91-8492828561
15-11-2018 2019-02-13We are looking to hire a laboratory Engineer based in Jebel Ali, UAE.-Minimum of 2 years experience, GCC national and Arabic speaking required.Job Summary:-Develops skills and knowledge to support sales and operations by performing quality and verifiable tests on Company products, and preparing laboratory presentations and reports for Company sales personnel.Relationships-laboratory SupervisorEssential Responsibilities and Duties-Learning Product Lines services-Assists in preparing presentations for internal and external laboratory clients-Studies elements of treatment Design, Execution, and Evaluation (DEE) to the extent of being able to provide sound recommendations for well construction and well stimulation treatments-Performs tests to verify product/service design-Assists the maintenance and calibration of laboratory equipment-Performs non-routine testing for critical wells-Performs product quality assurance/quality control for critical jobs-Reviews test procedures, results, and reports on unknown scales and produced solids and fluids from oil and gas wells, to determine their chemical composition and remedial treatments-Reviews work booklets, analysis sheets, and computer generated reports prepared by laboratory Technicians-Prepares periodic summary reports as required-Monitors laboratory working areas to insure clean, orderly, and safe working conditions-Assists laboratory Manager, or assigned supervisor, with disposal of laboratory waste according to properly conducted methods-Maintains laboratory results database-Participates in monthly safety and operations improvement meetings-Completes training modules for promotion to next career level-Assists laboratory Manager, or assigned supervisor, in providing test information to clients and other Company personnel-Assists laboratory Manager, or assigned supervisor, with ordering supplies, chemicals, and parts for department operations-Complies with applicable company policies, including Personnel, Quality System and Health, Safety and Environment standards and procedures-Successfully complete required safety training (including but not limited to drugs and alcohol, electrical, emergency response, fire, first aid, health and hygiene, PPE, SIPP, risk reporting, IT security, hazardous materials, driving)Employees may be assigned other duties, in addition to or in lieu of those described above, and any duties are subject to change at any time, according to the needs of the location or Company. REQUIREMENTS: Previous Experience and Competencies:-Bachelor of Science as Chemical Engineering or Chemistry graduation.Competencies to be kept current:Problem Solving-Basic skill in project estimation-Can handle projects of standard complexity-Creative and innovative in providing quality solutions, analytical and solution oriented-Standard skill in techniques, tools, processes and practices within area of expertise-Basic Decision Making: Involved in developing, modifying and executing company policies Decisions will impact upon schedules and on individual operations-Identifies problems and/ or obstacles-Shows ability to utilize other resources when necessaryLeadership-Can function independently and in a team-Basic Project Management skills-Basic Outsourcing Management skills-Aware of the value of and shares knowledge with individuals within own team-If position has subordinates, manages performance of self and team within agreed limits, including setting performance standards and efficient use of resourcesCommunication-Standard oral and written communication skills: Frequently interacts with peer groups, subordinates and senior management advising on area of responsibility. May give presentations of standard information concerning specific projects/schedules etc-Open and responsive when receiving information-Listens attentively to what others are saying.-Conveys factual information via clear oral and written communications, clarifying basic details-Able to present basic factual data to a limited and familiar audience-Customer oriented, actively communicates with internal and/or external customers to ensure service level meets with expectationsCross Discipline-Basic understanding of how other disciplines interact with own-Basic understanding of and practice of the principles of quality management-Basic awareness of the companys operations and strategy and has awareness of how own role fits in-Understands the needs for budgetary constraints and is aware of impact of own actions on costs-Adheres to local standards and procedures in all aspects of working environment-Managing the Assigned Task-Has the basic functional and technical skills required to do the job-Capable of actively participating in the setting of own objectives and identifies key requirements-Balances priorities & interfaces with internal/external customers & stakeholders to ensure expectations are metSchlumberger is the worlds leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry. We have more than 20 years of experience in delivering world-class service to our customers through integrated projects. These projects range from basic service coordination through to complete development and abandonment of fields. To meet the growing needs of our business we are encouraging applications from experienced professionals who share our passion for delivering excellence in all aspects of project delivery.Schlumberger is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or other characteristics protected by law.
09-11-2018 2019-02-07A well-established, leading dental Facility in Dubai is looking for a dental Technician to join their highly professional and Western team on a full-time basis. Requirements Possess BSc in dental laboratory Technology OR a diploma in accredited program in dental laboratory Technology (minimum two-year course duration) Minimum four years of relevant work experience post certification The candidate must be Western educated and Western Nationality from the following countries: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Canada
30-10-2018 2019-01-28Primary purpose of job • To supervise the operation and service delivery of the dental laboratory Services • To construct and repair full or partial dentures and/or dental appliances within the prosthetic field.
Some companies specialize in collecting and destroying sharp waste such as needles and disposable scalpels.
Waste management is an industry which revolves around the collection, storage, and disposal of waste, ranging from ordinary household waste to the waste generated at nuclear power plants. Developing effective waste management strategies is critical for nations all over the world, as many forms of waste can develop into a major problem when they are not handled properly. Numerous firms provide waste management services of a variety of types, and several governments also regulate the waste management industry for safety and efficacy.
Humans generate a great deal of waste as a byproduct of their existence, and they always have, as evidence at dumping pits located in or around archaeological sites can attest. Every task, from preparing a meal to manufacturing a car, is accompanied with the production of waste material, which cannot be used for other things and needs to be disposed of effectively. If not contained and handled appropriately, waste can balloon into a huge problem, as for example when garbage ends up in the open ocean where it can make animals and birds sick.
On the generation end, waste management agencies have placed an increasing focus on reducing waste so that there is less waste to cope with. This can be done on an industrial level by developing more efficient processes, reducing packaging, and so forth, and individual consumers can also make a commitment to try and generate less waste. A big part of this movement has focused around recycling, in which goods which are still usable are reclaimed so that they can be reused or repurposed.
Transportation of waste is a major issue, as appropriate disposal sites may be remote. Frequently, subscription pickup services are available, with people paying a flat fee to have their waste picked up and disposed of, and people can also subscribe to specialty services, like medical waste pickup services, or confidential paper shredding and disposal services.
Once collected, waste has to be dealt with. Historically, the approach to a great deal of waste has been burial in landfills. This option has become increasingly problematic due to issues like limited space, pollution, and concerns that usable materials may be buried in landfills. Waste has also been incinerated, in some cases being used to generate electric power, and some other creative approaches to waste management have included simply dumping it without any attempt at containment or disposal, as seen in some developing nations, along with sinking it in the ocean or shooting it out into space. These approaches are especially troubling because they set up waste management problems for future generations, rather than effectively dealing with waste immediately so that it cannot become a bigger problem.
@ Fiorite- Radioactive waste is classified into three different categories. Hospitals, industry, laboratories, and the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle create low-level radioactive waste. This waste is only mildly radioactive and is handled through industrial waste management practices. Waste management companies usually bury low-level waste in landfills, or dilute and disperse it into the environment.
Mid-level radioactive waste is all of the waste besides spent fuel rods. This includes equipment, chemical slurries, and radioactive resins. These wastes are more radioactive than low-level waste, but utilities can manage them on site. Nuclear energy companies usually shield this waste with concrete, lead, or steel, and bury or store it until it has decayed enough to be nearly harmless.
type of waste is high-level waste, which includes spent fuel and waste from reprocessing. The industry must store this waste for at least a thousand years before it is safe enough to disperse into the environment. High-level waste causes problems, but luckily, it only accounts for about 1% of all radioactive waste.
@ Highlighter- Is all radioactive waste the same? I heard that companies like Waste Management Inc process some radioactive waste. I am not sure if this is true because, as you said, storing radioactive waste is a big problem.
Hazardous waste management plays a large role in the solution for the nation's energy problem. Nuclear power is a fairly sustainable and safe way to generate electricity. The only emissions are steam, and spent fuel cells. The steam poses no problems...it is what to do with the radioactive waste that gives people fits. Nobody wants the waste in "their back yard", and transporting the waste is hazardous.
Improvements have been made in the transportation of nuclear waste. New containers are nearly indestructible, but where to put it is the big question. We cannot shoot the waste into space because of risk of a rocket exploding after takeoff, nobody can agree on where to bury it in the earth, and burying the waste deep at sea is not cost effective. Finding a solution to our waste problems should provide work for waste management professionals for the foreseeable future. |
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Marigold Lankester has set up Close the Door for Solihull. She has gained the invaluable support of her MP who says:
"I fully support the Close the Door campaign to get shops to close their doors when using heating or air-conditioning. There are other ways of indicating you’re open for business than leaving doors wide open, particularly in freezing cold weather. Shops lose millions of pounds every year by this practice. It’s bad for the economy and bad for the planet." Lorely Burt Lib Dem MP
Marigold has also already gained local press coverage. See Marigold Lankester centre, Maureen Weatherhead and Lorely Burt MP.
'Usdaw is pleased to support the work of the Close the Door campaign to improve conditions for shop workers. As well as wasting money and energy, open shop doors in winter can cause great discomfort to staff who may spend all day in cold or fluctuating temperatures. Closing the door when it's cold outside makes both staff and customers more comfortable and is something all shops should be doing.'
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A new design contract, to be awarded today by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., is expected to lead to development by 2006 of a ground test version of an air-breathing rocket engine for a next-generation hypersonic flight vehicle.
The industry team that will design the engine -- known collectively as the Rocket Based Combined Cycle Consortium, or RBC3 -- includes the Rocketdyne Propulsion and Power business of the Boeing Co., of Canoga Park, Calif.; Aerojet of Sacramento, Calif.; and Pratt & Whitney of West Palm Beach, Fla.
The radical new engine project is called the Integrated System Test of an Air-breathing Rocket, or ISTAR. The flight-like engine system will be designed to accelerate a self-powered vehicle to more than six times the speed of sound, demonstrating all modes of engine operation.
The $16.6 million contract award covers Phase One of the project, which requires completion of conceptual system design and subsystem testing by November 2002. Phase Two, ground testing of the flight-weight engine system, is scheduled to begin in 2006. The engine would be demonstrated in flight by the end of the decade.
NASA is pursuing air-breathing propulsion in an effort to make future space transportation safer, more reliable and significantly less expensive than today's missions. Spacecraft powered by air-breathing rocket engines would be completely reusable, able to take off and land at airport runways and ready to fly again within days.
The engine would get its initial power boost from specially designed rockets in a duct that captures air, an arrangement that improves performance about 15 percent above conventional rockets. Once the vehicle has accelerated to more than twice the speed of sound, the rockets are turned off and the engine relies solely on oxygen in the atmosphere to burn its hydrogen fuel. When the vehicle has accelerated to more than 10 times the speed of sound, the engine converts to a conventional rocket-powered system to propel the craft into orbit.
Air-breathing -- or rocket-based, combined cycle -- propulsion is a concept dating to the 1960s. The Marshall Center began pursuing the technology for space-based applications in 1996, and started testing air-breathing rocket engine components in 1997. During that time, NASA's industry partners built and tested several alternative engine configurations.
Now, at NASA's request, the Rocket Based Combined Cycle Consortium -- which signed an official teaming agreement in March 2001 -- is working to preserve the U.S. high-speed space propulsion industrial base. Over the last four years, alternative engine configurations have undergone more than 360 tests to help define requirements for an integrated engine system. Two of these engines have accumulated more than one hour of test time each -- the most accrued on any rocket-based, combined-cycle system. Through this testing, engineers have demonstrated the performance of the engine in all its operating modes and transitions between various modes.
"Testing conducted over the last four years proves that air-breathing propulsion is a viable concept for reaching NASA's goals of making space transportation radically safer, more reliable and more affordable," said Steve Cook, deputy manager of the Marshall Center's Advanced Space Transportation Program, which leads U.S. space transportation technology development activities.
"This is an exciting opportunity to leverage the technical expertise our industry partners have amassed in decades of jet engine and rocket propulsion testing and airframe integration, and I believe it will significantly improve space transportation," Cook said.
The engine will be designed to power a vehicle measuring about 14 feet (4.2 meters) wide and more than 30 feet (9 meters) long. NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., leads the vehicle definition effort.
NASA is the nation's premier agency for development of reusable launch vehicle technologies. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is leading this effort, which is aimed at enabling dramatic improvements in the safety, cost and reliability of future space transportation systems.
To accomplish its goals, the Marshall Center partners with other NASA centers, the U.S. Department of Defense, cutting-edge industry leaders and the nation's finest academic institutions to realize its ambitious Space Transportation goals.
An artist's rendering of NASA's X-43C hypersonic flight vehicle that will be powered by an air-breathing rocket engine. Credit: NASA |
We have here a short account of the short reign of Abijam the son of Rehoboam king of Judah. He makes a better figure, 2 Chron. xiii., where we have an account of his war with Jeroboam, the speech which he made before the armies engaged, and the wonderful victory he obtained by the help of God. There he is called Abijah--My father is the Lord, because no wickedness is there laid to his charge. But here, where we are told of his faults, Jah, the name of God, is, in disgrace to him, taken away from his name, and he is called Abijam. See Jer. xxii. 24.
II. But, in general, we are told, 1. That he was not like David, had no hearty affection for the ordinances of God, though, to serve his purpose against Jeroboam, he pleaded his possession of the temple and priesthood, as that upon which he valued himself, 2 Chron. xiii. 10-12. Many boast of their profession of godliness who are strangers to the power of it, and plead the truth of their religion who yet are not true to it. His heart was not perfect with the Lord his God. He seemed to have zeal, but he wanted sincerity; he began pretty well, but he fell off, and walked in all the sins of his father, followed his bad example, though he had seen the bad consequences of it. He that was all his days in war ought to have been so wise as to make and keep his peace with God, and not to make him his enemy, especially having found him so good a friend in his war with Jeroboam, 2 Chron. xiii. 18. Let favour be shown to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness, Isa. xxvi. 10. 2. That yet it was for David's sake that he was advanced, and continued upon the throne; it was for his sake (v. 4, 5) that God thus set up his son after him; not for his own sake, nor for the sake of his father, in whose steps he trod, but for the sake of David, whose example he would not follow. Note, It aggravates the sin of a degenerate seed that they fare the better for the piety of their ancestors and owe their blessings to it, and yet will not imitate it. They stand upon that ground, and yet despise it, and trample upon it, and unreasonably ridicule and oppose that which they enjoy the benefit of. The kingdom of Judah was supported, (1.) That David might have a lamp, pursuant to the divine ordination of a lamp for his anointed, Ps. cxxxii. 17. (2.) That Jerusalem might be established, not only that the honours put upon it in David's and Solomon's time might be preserved to it, but that it might be reserved to the honours designed for it in after-times. The character here given of David is very great--that he did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord; but the exception is very remarkable--save only in the matter of Uriah, including both his murder and the debauching of his wife. That was a bad matter; it was a remaining blot upon his name, a bar in his escutcheon, and the reproach of it was not wiped away, though the guilt was. David was guilty of other faults, but they were nothing in comparison of that; yet even that being repented of, though it be mentioned for warning to others, did not prevail to throw him out of the covenant, nor to cut off the entail of the promise upon his seed.
1. He removed that which was evil. There reformation begins; and a great deal of work of that kind his hand found to do. For, though it was but twenty years after the death of Solomon that he began to reign, yet very gross corruption had spread far and taken deep root. Immorality he first struck at: He took away the sodomites out of the land, suppressed the brothels; for how can either prince or people prosper while those cages of unclean and filthy birds, more dangerous than pest-houses, are suffered to remain? Then he proceeded against idolatry: He removed all the idols, even those that his father had made, v. 12. His father having made them, he was the more concerned to remove them, that he might cut off the entail of the curse, and prevent the visiting of that iniquity upon him and his. Nay (which redounds much to his honour, and shows his heart was perfect with God), when he found idolatry in the court, he rooted it out thence, v. 13. When it appeared that Maachah his mother, or rather his grandmother (but called his mother because she had the educating of him in his childhood), had an idol in a grove, though she was his mother, his grandmother,--though, it is likely, she had a particular fondness for it,--though, being old, she could not live long to patronise it,--though she kept it for her own use only, yet he would by no means connive at her idolatry. Reformation must begin at home. Bad practices will never be suppressed in the country while they are supported in the court. Asa, in every thing else, will honour and respect his mother; he loves her well, but he loves God better, and (like the Levite, Deut. xxxiii. 9) readily forgets the relation when it comes in competition with his duty. If she be an idolater, (1.) Her idol shall be destroyed, publicly exposed to contempt, defaced, and burnt to ashes by the brook Kidron, on which, it is probable, he strewed the ashes, in imitation of Moses (Exod. xxxii. 20) and in token of his detestation of idolatry and his indignation at it wherever he found it. Let no remains of a court-idol appear. (2.) She shall be deposed, He removed her from being queen, or from the queen, that is, from conversing with his wife; he banished her from the court, and confined her to an obscure and private life. Those that have power are happy when thus they have hearts to use it well.
2. He re-established that which was good (v. 15): He brought into the house of God the dedicated things which he himself had vowed out of the spoils of the Ethiopians he had conquered, and which his father had vowed, but lived not to bring in pursuant to his vow. We must not only cease to do evil, but learn to do well, not only cast away the idols of our iniquity, but dedicate ourselves and our all to God's honour and glory. When those who, in their infancy, were by baptism devoted to God, make it their own act and deed to join themselves to him and vigorously employ themselves in his service, this is bringing in the dedicated things which they and their fathers have dedicated: it is necessary justice--rendering to God the things that are his. |
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Changes in your speech or loss of speech may occur with ALS. While there is no easy way to prepare for this prospect, Message Banking and Voice Banking are excellent options for preserving your unique sound and the identity it represents. Voice or Message Banking will enable you to later customize a Speech Generating Device (SGD) with your voice which can create a more personal communication experience for you and those you love.
Message and Voice Banking are free and can be done at home using your computer, tablet, smart phone or a voice recorder. Banking earlier in your diagnosis is preferable so if you run into any challenges or just find that you are putting it off, be certain to make an appointment with a speech therapist to assist you.
The simpler and quicker method is called Message Banking and involves recording common expression in your own voice. This method, unlike Voice Banking, captures your special cadence and delivery. You can record greetings, laughter, your quintessential sayings, words of affection, a blessing, an expletive, pet praise, etc. Everyone diagnosed with ALS should Message Bank as the time commitment is small and the result can be invaluable.
These recordings can be made easily using Message Banking, a free app available at the Windows Store. This app provides suggested messages, push button recording, and a single press to download all of your labeled, MP3 recordings into a folder on your computer. The MP3 format works on all speech generating devices or Text-To-Speech (TTS) apps that play audio files.
AlphaCore is a Text-To-Speech app specifically designed to quickly import Message Banking recordings and automatically set message buttons to play these recordings. This eliminates the need to create labeled buttons on phrase pages for all of your recordings and then upload each audio file to a message button. The AlphaCore app is currently available for any tablet, computer or SGD running Windows 8/10.
In a quiet environment some built-in mics (like those in the Surface and the HP Pavilion Tablet) may be adequate for making good recordings without using an external mic. You can always try this option first to decide if you need an external mic. A quality, hands-free, USB mic like the Sennheiser PC36 can be used if required.
An alternative to using the Message Banking app, is to record using an iPhone or iPad with a high quality voice recorder app (e.g. “Voice Recorder HD” app for $1.99) or a handheld digital recorder (e.g. Zoom H1). Messages should be recorded in either .Wav or .MP3 formats. Also if not using the Message Banking app which provides suggested messages, be sure to record short, single message recordings.
Of course, you will not be able to record every possible thing you might want to say, but you can use this method to record many meaningful phrases. Anything not recorded can still be expressed using one of many synthesized voices provided by your SGD or text-to-speech app on a tablet.
The second method, Voice Banking, requires the download of a program called ModelTalker. This program extracts the sounds of your voice from an extensive speech sample that you are prompted to provide. A hands-free USB mic is required (see above recommendation). The program uses your speech samples to create a customized synthesized voice. The company will send you a sample of the voice you created and, if satisfied, you can choose to purchase it for $100 . This voice can then be imported into an SGD and some text-to speech apps on a tablet. With your personal voice installed, a speech generating device will speak any message you enter using a voice that resembles your own.
Voice Banking requires a significant time commitment as you will be prompted to repeat 1600 sentences in order to provide ModelTalker with a large enough sample of your speech to accurately duplicate your voice. This can take up to 16 hours and is best done over many 7 to 30-minute sessions when your voice is fresh and your energy level is high. Go to ModelTalker.com for downloads, tutorials and more information.
I just can across an article on your work & app. My dad was recently diagnosed with an aggressive strain of ALS & I’ve been exploring Voice Banking. Your methods seem very viable do you have an IOS app? He had an iPhone & tablet an app on the go or while waiting would be perfect for him
The “Message Banking” App can be used on any desktop, laptop or tablet that runs Windows 8 or above. This app is designed to help people with message banking by suggesting messages, making it easy to add your own unique messages (by using the “+” symbol at the bottom of the page) and making certain you are recording in the right format. If your father does not have any Windows based systems, he can use a recording app on his iphone or iPad that records .wav files. For further suggestions, refer to the Message and Voice Banking handout under the “SLP Resources” tab on AmyandpALS.com. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
My Dad recorded several messages with Message Banking app. I purchased Alphacore. It says his messages will auto populate. However, it looks like I have to type in the exact sentence and then save it. Is this correct? If so, that will be a lot of work.
You are right. All the messages that are suggested in Message Banking do auto-populate in AlphaCore. The messages people add to Message Banking (by hitting the “+” button) need to be added to AlphaCore.
If your dad recorded many novel messages, there is a new option available from a company called Tobii/DynaVox that could save you time.
Tobii/DynaVox has a new program feature that will auto-populate all messages to pages in their text-to-speech (TTS) program called Communicator. Here is a link. https://www.tobiidynavox.com/en-us/software/web-applications/message-banking-2/
Their program requires you provide a “tag” on each recording to tell Communicator which page to put the message on. Then Communicator will add a labeled message button, programmed to play the recording, to the page you tagged.
The Message Banking app recorded all your dad’s messages in the .wav format which is compatible with Communicator and other communication programs. Communicator is $699.00 but your dad’s insurance likely covers a speech generating device (SGD) with Communicator installed. An evaluation by a speech therapist is required in order to have insurance fund an SGD. More TTS programs are coming out with auto-population features so always consult with your speech therapist to learn about current options.
I have used Model Talker on an older MacBook. I had some problems because of the browser they required. Also they claim to have it developed for use on an iPad. I went to the Apple Store yesterday and they could not get it to work with an external Mic which Model Talker requires. I bought a MacBook yesterday to replace the one I gave my Granddaughter. I was diagnosed eight years ago and am starting to lose my voice. Did your Dad serve in the Military?
ModelTalker voice banking can be done on a Windows or Mac computer but still not on iOS systems (as of 3/3/2018). It requires the Chrome browser if you are voice banking on your Mac. Perhaps you were trying to download ModelTalker into your Mac. That won’t work. The banking happens using the “online recorder” with Chrome if you are using a Mac. A representative from the company told me this is the preferred way to do voice banking with now with the Windows platform too.
The synthesized speech you create by by doing voice banking with ModelTalker can be used on the Predictable text to speech app on an iOS system like an iPad. It is also compatible with insurance funded speech generating devices that used synthesized speech.
So, in summary you cannot voice bank on an iOS device yet but you can use the personalized synthesized voice you created using ModelTalker on an iOS device.
I was diagnosed with als in December and took the time to message and voice bank since my voice is what is affected first. My question is how do I get this into an iPad friendly app? I have the message banking on my Windows computer. My voice is failing so I need to figure out what I’m going to do
Predictable is (as of July 2017) the only iPad app, that I know of, that will let you import both your banked messages and your banked voice.
The UK-based company Therapy Box is working with us to bring this new technology to the forefront! Implementing ModelTalker voices into usable solutions is a brand new and unexplored field that has wider implications than someone just being able to use an app to communicate. Predictable 4 and ChatAble 2 will be the first iOS apps to utilize ModelTalker voices for AAC, greatly influencing the lives of those with communication difficulties. For more information about Therapy Box and these apps, click on the icons below.
There are links. I was diagnosed over eight years ago and it can be really scary. I am lucky that my faith has taken over. Do what you can for as long as you can and pray for grace. John
My wife used ModelTalker from Sept-Nov 2016 to Voice-Bank her speech. It proved to be a God-send as she lost her ability to effectively speak within 6 months after her “voice” was delivered. We run it on Windows systems, but the installation documentation explains how to install it on Macs, Androids and other iOS devices.
I installed the Message Banking app on my new Surface Book 2 running Windows 10 Pro. When I launched it, the splash screen came up for about ten seconds, then the app died. Tried several times with same results. I see that a couple other people had the same problem – see reviews on the MS Store page for the app.
Thanks for contacting me about this. I am sorry for the inconvenience. Microsoft released an update that caused problems with apps and prevented Message Banking from initiating. Our developers have identified the problem and are going to release the new code which fixes the problem next week. Message Banking should be opening again, as normal, by the end of the week. |
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The apartment location was fantastic, very quiet despite road front location, lots of hot water - even with 4 adults and a bath for the kids. Excellently furnished, particularly in the kitchen where we found everything we needed which is so often not the case in rented apartments and to be able to supply 2 travel cots was a great help. 2 complete sets of keys made planning much simpler. All communication from yourselves has been prompt and informative.
A great apartment - brilliantly equipped, we've had a lovely stay. Staying here has made a difficult time a lot easier as unfortunately the purpose of our visit was to be close to the hospice and so we were unable to explore the surrounding area. The property though had everything I needed to cater for my 18 year old daughter and my 14 month old grandson and the housekeeper was GREAT, very accommodating and thank you for providing the cot and high chair. Thank you for the outstanding service we received in regards of all organisational aspects of our stay. I will certainly recommend your company in the future. - Dara, Abbie-Leigh and Archie, Nov 2013
We found Waterfront Quay very well laid out, as per the website and actually better than we expected. There is nothing we needed for our stay and we were all very impressed. The apartment was lovely and clean with views over the harbour, with the feel of home from home and the picnic basket, binoculars and games were a lovely touch.The staff at Complete were very friendly and Ken was good on arrival and Sophie was great with the emails. Thank you for making my 50th birthday extra special - Linda October 2013
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Coordinated police raids in Germany and Sweden have resulted in the arrest of two individuals suspected of running a cyber fraud gang that used stolen payment card data to book hundreds of airline and train tickets to help smuggle people from the Middle East into Europe.
The EU's law enforcement intelligence agency Europol, which helped coordinate the raids, says they were launched after a private sector tip-off. Europol's European Cybercrime Center subsequently helped police identify suspects, leading to the arrest of two individuals in Malmö and Nörrköping on Monday by Swedish Police.
Europol says the investigation was conducted with support from the EU's Border and Coast Guard Agency, known as Frontex. The crime group had been tracked by the Federal Police of Germany, known as the Bundespolizei. Last October, German police launched Operation Goldring, which led investigators to the crime group "composed of Syrian nationals, which was involved in fraudulently purchasing airline and train tickets," Europol says.
German police conducted house searches in Aachen, Dortmund and Essen, while Swedish police conducted house searches in Nörrköping, Malmö and Helsingborg. Authorities say they collectively recovered $118,000 worth of cash, in euros and U.S. dollars, during the raids.
"In most cases, the tickets were one-way tickets from Beirut to European member states," Europol says. "The tech-savvy smugglers avoided detection by making the bookings using compromised corporate credit cards and credentials purchased online from other criminals offering them for sale."
Stolen payment cards remain easy to procure and relatively inexpensive, security experts say (see Why Cybercrime Remains Impossible to Eradicate).
A review of cybercrime-as-a-service offerings published earlier this year by security firm Flashpoint said that payment card data, fake identity documents and access to bank accounts remain easily available and apparently popular products.
Many underground shops, for example, sell stolen payment card data - aka "dumps" - that are "often sourced directly from malware-infected or skimmed point-of-sale terminals," according to Flashpoint. This information can be illicitly converted into cash using money mules and money-transfer services, or used to help mask fraudulent activity online.
Flashpoint said some underground forums also sell illicit passports - and other types of identity documents - in three forms: digital scans, templates and physical versions. Such documents can be useful for money-laundering schemes, she said. But it's unclear if the fake, physical documents would stand up to border agents' scrutiny.
Meanwhile, police continue attempts to crack down on criminals who buy and provide cybercrime-as-a-service offerings. Some of these law enforcement efforts are also sector-specific.
In the case of the Operation Goldring investigation, for example, last week's arrests represent a continuation of Europol's Global Airport Action Day, a public-private partnership that brings together the airline industry, payment card companies and law enforcement agencies to target airline fraud (see Airport Raids Target Fraudsters).
"As part of this operation, Europol and Frontex have jointly identified significant crossovers between payment card fraud and irregular migration and trafficking in human beings, leading to a number of arrests in recent years," Europol says. "The fraudulent bookings were brought to the attention of law enforcement by the private sector, highlighting once again how instrumental public-private partnerships are in fighting this type of fraud."
This week in Las Vegas more than 4,500 attendees gathered for the second annual Money2020 conference. Companies across the payments value chain took the opportunity to showcase their latest partnerships, technology or programs with a deluge of announcements charting the future of money. We’ve compiled the top 30 to help you keep track of the week’s news.
“This is a perfect year for a Valentine’s Day cruise,” said Steve Faber, a CruiseOne franchise owner in San Rafael, California. “This year Valentine’s Day falls on a Sunday, making a weekend Valentine’s Day cruise a possibility, a getaway that requires missing only hours, not days of work.”
Many cruise lines offer short cruises — 3- or 4-day voyages — as compared to a more traditional 7-day itinerary.
No need to wonder whether something is going to be the right size or color, cruises will be a choice of convenience compared with other gifts, says Elfie Couey, certified travel counselor with Global Connections Travel in Overland Park, Kansas.
There are plenty of opportunities onboard to share experiences and time with a partner or companion.
“You’re saying to your loved one that you want to spend time to reconnect,” Couey says. “With a cruise, you’re really together, sailing out in the open seas, sharing experiences that will help you get to know each other all over again.”
Even better, a Valentine’s Day cruise is an easy vacation to organize. “Since the vacation is all inclusive, everything is taken care of onboard. You’ll find romantic things to do at every turn, such as elegant dining, Broadway shows, and lavish pools and spas to enjoy together,” Couey says.
Special moments onboard will foster a romantic connection for couples. There are sweet opportunities for love and romance, Faber says. “A daily chocolate fix: Princess Cruises offers a different chocolate indulgence from chocolatier Norman Love, and many Norwegian Cruise Line ships feature treats from Carlo’s Bake Shop, made famous in the reality show, ‘Cake Boss.'”
Faber suggests a date of dinner and dancing, a day of lounging on a tropical beach or enjoying a veranda as experiences that will enhance a couple’s time together.
“Try dinner and dancing in a nostalgic supper club — a throwback to the ’40s and ’50s. Throw a day away lounging on a tropical beach or toast the sunset on your own private balcony,” Faber says.
Take a midnight stroll on deck, relax in an adults-only area of the ship, enjoy a couple’s massage or have breakfast in bed, says Vance Gulliksen, spokesman for Carnival Cruise Line in Miami.
Also, a romantic dinner onboard is ideal for Valentine’s Day. For example, you can reserve a table for 2 at a steakhouse on Carnival Cruise Line ships.
“It’s a great opportunity for couples to relax and reconnect as they enjoy a vast array of on-board facilities and features,” Gulliksen says.
During the holiday break, having kids in tow doesn’t have to spoil adult time. With safe children’s programming on board cruise lines, parents can plan for a romantic Valentine’s date without worry.
“Parents are often surprised by how much quality time they’re able to spend together onboard a Disney cruise,” says Jennifer Haile Tinn, manager of marketing strategy at Disney Cruise Line in Orlando, Florida.
“While kids are having the time of their lives in the youth areas, parents can steal away for a romantic date night at our upscale restaurants, relax at the spa, soak up the sun at the adults-only pool and escape to the exclusive adult beach on our private island,” Haile Tinn says. “Knowing their kids are happy and cared for makes a Disney cruise an equally fun and romantic getaway for parents.” |
The Royal Television Society (RTS) has launched its 2018 programme awards for the local creative industries.
Applications for entries are available from now until Friday, September 10. To qualify, submissions must have been aired between August 7, 2017 and August 3, 2018 by individuals, broadcasters or companies based in or working in Northern Ireland. RTS NI chair Kieran Doherty said: "As an educational charity, these awards help the RTS to raise awareness of the growing success and innovation of the creative industries here. This will be our fourth awards giving us the opportunity to highlight once again the exceptional people working in Northern Ireland." The winners will be announced at a ceremony in The Mac as part of Belfast Media Festival in November.
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Here we go again, another skincare product, Derma Correct, has hit the market. And here is the brief Derma Correct review.
They are popping up every week now which makes selecting one even harder. It has gotten to the point where you really have no idea where to look and what to trust.
It is unfortunate because I am certain there are plenty that are great quality but the sheer number of them makes it impossible to pinpoint which ones are.
Beauty standards change but definitely, no woman wants to feel as if she has aged. No woman enjoys looking at herself in the mirror seeing wrinkles, spots, dark circles, and in general, aged skin. This is why companies offering these types of products will never be out of business.
This is another beauty product that is claimed to have anti-aging properties and the ability to reverse aged skin.
It provides your skin with the necessities to have brighter skin as it restores it and makes it firmer all the while smoothing out the fine lines. All great benefits but the question really is, does it work and how?
As your skin consists 75% of water and collagen the daily exposure to UVB and UVA radiation causes fine lines, wrinkles, and pots. With collagen production dropping as we age as production is reduced more and more fine lines and wrinkles form.
There are numerous anti-aging products on the market, but unfortunately many of them use fragments of hydrolyzed collagen with molecules that are simply too large for the skin to absorb properly.
This results in less than impressive outcomes. What the developers of Derma Correct claim is that their product not only provides whole collagen molecules for the skin but the serum is rich in peptides and it not only rejuvenates but rebuilds.
As with all of these types of products, there are very high expectations that they prepare you for. Certainly, far more than they actually deliver if you ask me.
Even the best products exaggerate on the possible results mainly because they take their absolute best possible results and list those, unfortunately, not all skin is the same, and thus, not everyone will experience the same amazing results as listed.
Elimination of Dar Circles – your dark circles and under-eye puffiness will be reduced in visibility by means of the restored nourishment through hydration.
Reduction of Wrinkle Appearance – collagen and elastin boost aids in the proper maintenance of the dermal structure which ensures that fine lines are reduced.
Boost Hydration of Skin – ingredients in the product facilitate in keeping moisture within the skin longer thus preventing cracking and ensuring proper hydration
Counters the Effects of Stress – prevents free radical damage and boosts immunity of skin to free radical damage by eliminating debris which makes skin discolored, dull, and dry.
Of course, all of this is possible without expensive laser treatments, painful injections, and unpleasant surgery.
They go into further detail about how the skin gets to the state that in the end requires treatment with such a product. Mainly your age is what leads to this but there are definitely other factors as well.
Over the years it loses elasticity and dries. With the reduction of collage production, the breakdown of collagen, and factors such as sun damage, free radicals, and even wind and general dryness, the skin simply requires more nourishment than before. The skin sags, wrinkles form, and spots become visible.
They provide absolutely no information at first glance about the ingredients in this product. They spend so much time actually marketing it that they overlooked the most important part for actually selling the product.
With numerous claims, at least some links to trials or anything in general actually backing them they would have far more success, at least by my standards.
What I did find was some information on ingredients by means of links, somewhat difficult to see, at the very bottom of the page. These links lead to two possible signs of ingredients (somewhat indirectly mentioned).
Gatuline In-Tense – this ingredient aids in the natural filling properties of the skin. It stimulates fibroblast biomechanical functions and aids in the reorganization of the dermis architecture. You will see an enhancement of the firmness and density of the skin all the while a reduction of its roughness. The ingredient is derived from a plant called Spilanthes acmella (aka Paracress) and is an oily extract from its upper part.
Argireline – this is a synthetic peptide. It has shown great promise in reducing facial wrinkles by means of a study conducted with 60 subjects over the span of 4 weeks. The study showed efficiency by 48.9% improvement in the roughness of the skin.
Generally, this is actually very little to go by, but both have been proven to be effective and are actively used in some of the leading products on the market. Though the rest of the ingredients are not listed, they are more than enough to provide you with resul
This product can be purchased only through their Free Trial Offer. Mind you, this means you pay only $4.95 for shipping and then receive a full month supply.
The catch is that the trial is only for 14 days. If you do not call and cancel, and return your product within the given time, you will be charged the full price of $89.41.
If you still do not cancel, you will continue receiving the product every single month and charged the full price plus shipping. If you ask me. Even if this product is effective, I think it is a bit overpriced.
Personally, I would not order this mainly because the price is just so high. I do not see myself spending that kind of money a month for a cream that I am 100% sure will not make me look that much younger.
I am certain it works, but it’s just too much for me, not to mention that I am no fan of trial offers and auto shopping programs.
With that said, if you feel the price is within your budget I don’t see a reason why not to try out Derma Correct, just make sure you know exactly the date that you must contact them to prevent unnecessary charges if you do not want to keep it. |
In an email sent out to Barnard students, DSpar announced that this year’s commencement, on May 19, will be held at Radio City Music Hall as opposed Columbia’s campus, where it typically happens. The short email explained that there will be a Baccalaureate Service at St. Paul’s Chapel and academic receptions at Barnard. There will be bus service for grads and faculty to Radio City later in the day. Graduates will be able to have up to six guests in this bigger venue.
We are delighted to announce that Barnard’s 2013 Commencement will be held on Sunday, May 19th at 4pm at Radio City Music Hall. Since its opening in 1932, Radio City has been both a national landmark and a New York City treasure and, after a comprehensive search, proved to be the optimal venue for this milestone celebration. It will comfortably accommodate our seniors, six guests per graduate, faculty, staff, and distinguished guests.
Our day of celebration on May 19th will begin with the Baccalaureate Service at 9:30am in St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University, and our academic departmental receptions will follow at 1pm on Barnard’s campus. Bus transportation to Radio City Music Hall will be provided for all graduates and faculty, departing from Barnard at 3pm.
Many more details are forthcoming and will be available at http://www.barnard.edu/commencement in the new year. In consideration of the many families that need to arrange work schedules, airline tickets, hotels and the like, we wanted to share this information with you as soon as possible. Please mark your calendars now. It is certain to be an extraordinary day.
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maybe they need to use it because of increased security for whoever is speaking. who knows, it might be someone really important... like the President or something!
I think it is the result of Obamanard. At some point Barnard has to stop using Columbia's facilities for all of their events. Barnard should hold their graduation and festivities on their campus.
maybe if y'all weren't plus sized, you could fit in the quad. Or you could have it on a random corner under a street light as that seems to be where many of you are employed these days.
It might be because of Obamanard, but I'm guessing it's mostly because they didn't have enough space to meet the excessive demand for guests. Somehow I doubt they shelled out tons of money to have graduation somewhere else because they were butthurt after some people were mean on the Internet.
Hey, buddy--that track button is not your friend. And your trolling is really lame and really not cute.
Newsflash. Columbia doesn't want Barnard to stop using its facilities because Barnard shells out a ton of cash every year for exactly this purpose. Columbia benefits from Barnard's use of its facilities.
Newsflash... we are Columbia as we are the ones who pay tuition (A higher amount than you Barnard cows, yet you somehow get to take our classes) at Columbia. We don't want you.
Hey I'd be bitter too if I had low enough self esteem to take more dicks than a 1937 resident of Nanking.
A little disappointed that this isn't on or closer to campus :( I wanted a ceremony in a place I felt a connection to, and I have no connection to this venue. Many mixed feelings...
Columbia did at some point own the land Rockefeller Center/Radio City Music Hall was built on. But that's a stupid connection.
Yeah, why not Lincoln Center? At least it is on the west side, much closer, has parking, bigger venue.
It costs $75,000 to rent out Radio City for a day (compared to very little at Grant's Tomb, and presumably nothing at Columbia). barnard is sending a mixed message about its finances that is tasteless, and offensive to all the kids who have suffered—forced to pay for a meal plan, forced to more expensive off-campus housing despite contracts, entrapped into going full-time as a last-semester senior—because of Barnard's belt-tightening.
Not true. Barnard pays Columbia a significant amount to use South Lawn. In fact CU wants BC to use their facilities so they can charge BC for all the equipment that was already set up for all the other class days.
Well then perhaps a good investment (and less superfluous one than rebuilding the library) would be to find a way to start holding graduations on our campus.
there is no space to hold commencement on campus now that the diana is there and it takes up more space. it used to be held on campus. if it were held on barnard's lawn, there would be an even bigger uproar because students would only get like 2 or 3 tickets, rather than 6.
Where does it say anything about having up to six guests, Bwog? The six-guest limit was a rule for Obamanard, but in past years students could request however many tickets they wanted. Now I'm confused. Also, LTP Barnard friends, please just request the max amount and give them to me, because 6 tickets doesn't even cover my IMMEDIATE family. damn.
"It will comfortably accommodate our seniors, six guests per graduate, faculty, staff, and distinguished guests."
Last year, with Barnard's commencement taking place on South lawn and when Jill Abramson was the expected speaker, Barnard students were told that there would be no guest limit. Unless Barnard is planning to have a high profile speaker on par with the POTUS every year, or unless they received some massive discout, this is a supreme waste of money.
They could have a lead on who will speak this year, and it could be someone that would warrant the venue change.
I also wonder if there has been some sort of administrative battle between the college for use and payment for South Lawn.
In any case, it seems silly to state that the change of venue is to accommodate the size of the event, when before the Obama announcement there wasn't even a guest limit.
@anonymous: lol you all hate when columbia students are condescending towards barnard, but then you are condescending towards community colleges etc. WAHHHH |
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FR2657858B1 - Device perfected for folding in zigzag of a flexible band or strip of material material fed continuously. - Google Patents
Device perfected for folding in zigzag of a flexible band or strip of material material fed continuously.
B65H45/103—Folding webs transversely in combination with laying, i.e. forming a zig-zag pile by a carriage which reciprocates above the laying station
FR1427712A (en) 1966-02-11 Method and winding device for a material web fed in continuous alternately on two winding shafts
KR900013914A (en) 1990-10-22 A storage roll or folded into a z-type is sent to the pleat folded strip wiping material distribution device
PURPOSE: To detect the acoustic vibrations of an audible frequency region generated from the injured section of the cerebral blood vessel on the surface of the eyelid with a good sensitivity and to improve the stability at the time of measurement.
CONSTITUTION: A diaphragm 3 consisting of an elastic material is mounted to the aperture 9 of a housing 2 which is closed in an upper part by a cap 1 and is opened in a bottom 8. A coupler 4 is fixed to the central part of the diaphragm 3 and a band-shaped high-polymer piezoelectric film 7 which is formed with the top end of the coupler 4 as a curved part and has the stretching direction in its longitudinal direction, is extended. Both ends of the high-polymer piezoelectric film 7 are fixed to the circumference in the bottom 8 of the housing 1 by a press plate 5 and set screws 6. The high-polymer piezoelectric film 7 is connected to a connector by lead wires. A circular spot facing 12 is formed on the outer side of the hem part 10 of the aperture 9 of the bioacoustic converter constituted in such a manner and the diaphragm 3 is mounted to the peripheral edge 11.
G01M3/24—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by detecting the presence of fluid at the leakage point using infrasonic, sonic, or ultrasonic vibrations
G01M3/243—Investigating fluid-tightness of structures by using fluid or vacuum by detecting the presence of fluid at the leakage point using infrasonic, sonic, or ultrasonic vibrations for pipes
PURPOSE: To detect the position and amount of leaking liquid on the basis of a stationary tone, by obtaining amplitude information on every frequency component of leakage tones received by acoustic sensors fitted to piping.
CONSTITUTION: At one terminal side of the piping C, acoustic sensors A and B are fitted at distance to detect the leakage tone of a leakage accident occurring in a piping part D. The distance from a reference position, and sensors A and B are denoted as X and X1 and X2, the amplitude values (logarithmic value) of components of frequency f1 received by the sensors A and B are S11 and S12, and amplitude values (logarithmic value) of components of frequency f2 are S21 and S22. Further, the amplitude value at the leakage position are denoted by S1x and S2x. Then, we have (S1x-S12)/(S11-S12)=(X2-X)/(X2- X1), (S2x-S22/ (S21-S22)=(X2-X)/(X2-X1), Six/S2x=k (constant). From those equation, X, S1x, and S2x are found. The amount Q of the leakage is found from the amplitude.
US4201092A (en) * 1977-09-06 1980-05-06 Electric Power Research Institute, Inc. Method of detecting and monitoring a leak caused by a through wall crack in a high pressure fluid system
US4289019A (en) * 1979-10-30 1981-09-15 The United States Of America As Represented By The United States Department Of Energy Method and means of passive detection of leaks in buried pipes
PURPOSE: A winter sports simulator using vibration is provided to maximize sensory effect of an actual exercise giving vibration to a trainee. CONSTITUTION: A winter sport simulator using vibration provides a virtual experience about a skeleton course to a trainee. The winter sports simulator using vibration comprises a track (10); a skeleton (20) which generates a motion relative to the track arranged on the track and which detects direction control of the trainee and weight gravity change; a simulator module (50) which is arranged in a lower part of the track and which actualizes surroundings according to geographic information of the course; a display (40) which supplies scenery information to trainee being separated in certain distance with the track; and a control device (60) which controls at least one among the simulator module or the display. |
An age-friendly city like Chicago aspires to be an ‘inclusive and accessible urban environment that promotes active aging’. The World Health Organization (WHO) model is built on the premise that an age-friendly city sustains ‘opportunities for health, participation and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age’. Cities who join the network commit to a five-year cycle of planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Upon Chicago’s acceptance into this global network, Mayor Emanuel directed the Department of Family and Support Services (DFSS) to lead a process to craft an Age-Friendly Chicago Plan.
DFSS worked with its outstanding research partner, the Buehler Center on Aging, Health & Society (BCAHS) at Northwestern University to develop the Age-Friendly Chicago Assessment and Benchmarking Report. The full report and executive summary are attached below. Mayor Emanuel convened his department and agency heads to work on implementation of the initiatives set forth in the Report. The Mayor also convened a meeting of community leaders and formed an Age-Friendly Commission.
The Caregiver Support Program recognizes that thousands of City employees are caring for aging parents as well as grandparents who are their grandchildren's sole support. The City created this program for our employees but you can find out more information by downloading the presentation at the link below or you can call the Aging and Disability Resource Center at 1.312.744.4016. There are multiple support groups being held throughout the city for family caregivers and older relatives raising children; please see our Life Enrichment Brochure below for more details.
The Department of Human Resources is currently conducting information sessions for City of Chicago employees who are local or long distance caregivers of their loved ones. If you are a City of Chicago employee, please go to traininganddevelopment@cityofchicago.org to register.
The Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection helped launch Age-Friendly Businesses, educating business owners on ways to be more welcoming to the Seniors of Chicago. Please see our presentation below!
Since the overwhelming conclusion of the Age-Friendly needs assessment is that Seniors want to age in place, in their own homes and communities, we have successfully launched an initiative which turns our 21 Senior Centers into non-fee “Villages”. The Village Interdependent Collaborative (VIC) project is patterned after the model successful in affluent neighborhoods such as Beacon Hill in Boston and Lincloln Park, Hyde Park and Streeterville in Chicago. However it differs in that there is no fee for Chicago Seniors to join. It creates an infrastructure of volunteers and community partners to build a safety net around older residents who are aging in place and reintegrates them back into the community once they are stabilized with city services. To date 6 of the 21 VICs are operational. They are: Englewood, Austin, Pilsen, Edgewater, Northeast, and Portage Park. The remaining VICs will be open by the end of 2018.
An initiative we have launched for Seniors aging in high rises uses the same concept. The Vertical Interdependent Village (VIV) model creates the same safety net within the 3,000+ high rise buildings in Chicago. Currently we are running pilots in high rises in the Loop and the Southeast side of the City. We also have created a pilot in several Chicago Housing Authority Senior Buildings using our Senior Companion Program participants as support for the Seniors aging in place.
WHO Global Network of Age-Friendly Cities (PDF): A two-page, tri-fold brochure that covers the main points and process of the global network
Low Impact Development (LID) uses a more natural approach to land development and stormwater management. LID design uses a site's natural features and specially designed best management practices to infiltrate stormwater. The intent of LID practices is to get water to soak into the ground and mimic the natural cycle instead of running off into a typical drainage system. However, the success of LID is primarily dependent on the type of soil underlying a site.
The home, business or development that includes LID facilities will have less impact to area streams, wetlands and wildlife habitat. Rainwater can better infiltrate into the ground to recharge drinking water supplies, streams and wetlands. The site is greener and more attractive, with open spaces that appeal to potential buyers. If LID is feasible, the developer or owner will usually save money because the overall infrastructure costs are often less.
Common implementation of LID practices include full or partial infiltration systems and rain gardens, which can be done on either large scale development projects or retrofit into existing residential homes. However, LID can also take the form of more sustainable landscaping designs. Mill Creek has constructed two demonstration gardens near City Hall to serve as examples of what can be done with more natural, sustainable gardening practices.
In conjunction with the State Department of Ecology, the Puget Sound Partnership has prepared a LID Technical Manual that can assist with the design, construction and maintenance of LID systems. Other useful technical resources can be found at the Washington State University Extension office in Puyallup.
Ordinance 2017-814 - Mill Creek Municipal Code Amendments that made Low Impact Development (LID) the required approach to managing stormwater runoff where feasible. The revisions are designed to minimize impervious surfaces, native vegetation loss, and stormwater runoff in all types of development situations. The proposed regulations apply citywide.
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The December issue of Ichijinsha's Monthly Comic Zero-Sum magazine is announcing on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Verno Mikawa's Strange+ manga has been green-lit. This will be the first of Mikawa's works to be animated.
The slapstick gag manga centers around a detective agency. The story begins with a teenaged boy named Kō who came to the slums to search for Takumi, his missing big brother who ran away years ago. The brothers reunite, and it turns out that Takumi now heads the Mikuni Detective Agency. Kō wants to bring Takumi back, but he doesn't want go back home himself. So, he starts working at the agency, doing odds and ends.
Mikawa launched the manga in the inaugural issue of Zero-Sum in 2002, and has been drawing it ever since. Ichijinsha published the 13th compiled book volume of the manga in June. Spinoff chapters will run in the 36th issue of Zero-Sum Ward magazine on November 16 and on the Zero-Sum Online website on November 10 and December 10. Mikawa ran her Maka Maka manga in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace and 4-Koma Nano Ace magazines from 2009 to 2011.
New York [USA], Oct. 11 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that India is capable of becoming a much cleaner and bigger economy amongst the other emerging economies, as it is capable of taking and implementing bold decisions.
"Amongst the emerging economies, India today has the potential for not only being a large market but being a much cleaner economy," said Arun Jaitley at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and US India Business Council (USIBC) at an event in New York.
Jaitley, who is on a week-long visit to the US along with delegation from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICII) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) will attend annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. He is likely to hold discussions on national development programs initiated over the last three years, state of Indian economy, and recent structural changes relating to GST and demonetisation.
"No government in the past actually had the courage to make it a part of its political and economic agenda," said Jaitley on the recent cash reforms which have integrated an informal Indian economy into a formal one.
Hailing the recent structural reforms by the Centre, Jaitley said that "All the steps including financial inclusion, demonetisation, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to the direct tax incentive, each one of this falls into place where brick by brick you lay down the structure in order to integrate an informal economy into a much larger formal economy."
He also added that India's transition to GST has been fairly smooth despite attempts by the opposition to derail it.
"People can expect a lot of compression and changes of the rates in the times to come," Jaitley added
New Delhi [India], Sept. 3 (ANI): The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at 24 places, including Rohtak, Gurgaon, Delhi, Chandigarh and Panchkula, on the residential and office premises of various persons in an ongoing investigation into alleged irregularities in the purchase of land from farmers and land owners in Haryana's Gurgaon district and seized "incriminating" documents and materials, which they are scrutinising, said CBI sources today. Following the directions of the Central Government, on the request of the Haryana Government, the investigating agency had on September 15 last registered a case against unidentified public servants of the Haryana Government and unidentified private persons, and took over the investigation of an FIR, No.510 dated August 12, 2015, registered at the Manesar Police Station in Gurgaon district under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. It was alleged that the private builders in connivance with certain public servants of the Haryana Government, including important functionaries and others had purchased around 400 acres from farmers and land owners in Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula village in Gurgaon district at throwaway prices allegedly under the threat and false apprehension of acquisition by the government between August 2004-07, said CBI sources. In this process, initially, the Government of Haryana had issued notifications under various sections of the Land Acquisition Act for acquisition of land measuring about 912 acres for setting up an Industrial Model Township, said sources, adding that as a result, a large number of land owners, in haste, had allegedly sold their land at throwaway prices. It was further alleged that about 400 acres had been grabbed from land owners by private builders under the threat of acquisition at meagre rates. An order was also allegedly passed by the Competent Authority in Government on August 24, 2007 for releasing the 400 acres from the acquisition process in violation of the government policy and the licences/CLU were issued to the private builders. An alleged loss of approximately Rs.1,500 crores was caused to land owners of Manesar, Naurangpur and Lakhnoula, said sources. Further investigation is continuing. As per reports the CBI conducted raids at the residences and offices of former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and his close aides in Rohtak, Gurugram, Panchkula, Chandigarh and Delhi in connection with the Manesar land deal case. The close aides of Hooda include two former IPS officers and one serving IPS officer besides others. The former Haryana chief minister is facing a court case over land deals in Manesar. (ANI) |
Like most people, I followed along with Apple's iPad unveiling the other day remotely, via various live blogs. And once again, I'm struck by how poorly these live blogs conveyed the events of the day. I've complained about this in the past, but now that I've had a chance to watch and rewatch Apple's official video version of the iPad presentation, I can see that all of the live blogs I followed--and I followed quite a few of them--completely missed the point.
The iPad isn't about creating a new product category, despite Apple's claims, claims that were immediately parroted by Apple promoters like The New York Times' David Pogue. In fact that there's nothing new to the iPad at all--everything it does, everything, is available in many other device types, right now--is in many ways the point. The iPad brings with it a declaration by Apple that it is a different kind of company than many had imagined. And this information was presented right up front in Apple's iPad event the other day. It's amazing that no one caught this at the time.
First, for the Captain Obvious gadget bloggers out there, yes, Apple did explicitly position itself as a mobile devices company. As CEO Steve Jobs pointed out, the company's three main products--iPods, iPhones, and Macs (well, at least the portable ones, which apparently are the majority now sold)--are all mobile devices. "That's what we do," he declared. But Apple isn't just any mobile devices company, Jobs said, comparing his company to others in the industry. "It turns out that, by revenue, Apple is the largest mobile devices company in the world."
That's debatable, but whatever. Apple has finally found a way to describe its entire product portfolio as being the dominant player in some non-existent market, something it's been eager to do since the failure of the Mac to crack 4 percent market share during Jobs' most recent tenure at the company. And no one likes to talk up its own success more than Apple. But what this boasting really did wasn't to establish Apple's credibility in a sort of vague everything-mobile market, thus explaining why releasing yet another mobile device was, in fact, not just logical but inevitable. Remember? Apple's a mobile devices company. This is what they do. Nod your heads, folks, like it makes sense.
Anyway, back to the real message, the one that everyone missed. After declaring Apple king of the all-things-mobile market, Jobs then slyly explained what Apple really is. He said that the Apple of the early 1990's (a company he was not part of; his NeXT Computer was busy building non-mobile, super expensive and hugely unpopular workstations at the time) built the "first modern laptop computer." The PowerBook, as it was called, was not the first laptop, not even close. But Jobs can claim that Apple took a good idea and made it better. And he's probably right about that.
Apple did something similar in 2001 with MP3 players, though this wasn't mentioned in the presentation for some reason. While others had already made and sold MP3 players, Apple's iPod, eventually, defined the product category and ultimately drove virtually all other competition away. Not invented by Apple, but improved and made into something more popular.
Then in 2007, Jobs explained, Apple "reinvented" the phone with the iPhone. Again, smart phones already existed, but Apple took an idea that was already out there and just improved on it. "It's the best phone in the world," he said. And it is. (At least for now.)
From here, the presentation veers off into a discussion about why the iPad may make sense as a "new" product category. But it's not a new category. Instead, the iPad sits firmly between the smart phone and the laptop, a fact Jobs did explain. But there are already many products in this space, some of which Jobs never mentioned. After poo-pooing the netbook, which is, by the way, the most successful new mobile device product in the world, he completely ignored the other products that sit between the smart phone and the laptop. Slate and convertible laptop computers, with us since 2002. Smart books--PC form factors with smart phone innards--that first started appearing last year. Internet mobile devices. Large-screen media devices, like those sold by Archos. This is a category that both exists already and, in the case of the netbook, has even been popularized already.
(I think this last bit explains why Apple really isn't making a netbook, by the way. This isn't a market that Apple can come along and just dominate. It's already full of PC maker players, and Apple's entry, even if popular, would never rule the market. Apple has been much more successful, from a market share perspective, with its non-computer mobile devices like the iPod touch and iPhone.)
And this all brings up to the definition what Apple is and how it is that the company innovates. This definition will fly in the face of everything you think you know about the company.
Most people regard Apple as an innovation factory, as if everything they produce is magic and has never been done before. But Apple, put simply, is a finisher. They take products that already existed, improve on them, and, in most cases, popularize them. They are, in fact, much like Microsoft: A company that rides on the backs of those who previously pioneered the markets in which they operate.
Now, there are major differences between Apple and Microsoft. Apple very carefully chooses which markets in which it will play, and when it does make a choice, it focuses on that market with a laser-like intensity. And Apple, unlike Microsoft, isn't interested in pleasing everyone. Apple makes products that Steve Jobs likes, and nothing more. If you're looking for a logical feature that would benefit millions, tough, because Steve Jobs isn't interested. Therefore, neither is Apple.
This definition of Apple will upset some people. But you need to understand that it is Apple, and not I, that first broadcast this definition. And if you watch the iPad presentation, the bit leading up to the actual product introduction, you'll see that that is exactly what Apple says it does. Today's Apple is a mobile devices company, sure. But it has yet to invent a single product category. It just sees what's out there and then does its own take on that, improving and popularizing as it goes. And it releases early and fixes late. This is decisive, yes. It's also somewhat hurtful to early adopters.
But is it innovative? I argue that it is. But then, I make that argument about Microsoft and its popularization of not-invented-here technologies too, and I'm pretty sure that any Apple fanatics out there will immediately recoil at such a thought. On the flipside, I suspect they'll have no problem applying the tag innovative to Apple, however. That's how these people operate. But it's important to understand that stealing great ideas and improving on them is in fact a form of innovation. And a great idea isn't so great if no one knows about it or uses it. The very best ideas, productized, are those that people lust after. And when it comes to this kind of product, Apple is of course Exhibit A.
So while Apple is keen to focus on those things that it can popularize, Apple also makes very high quality products, and that's true even of those products that don't become popular. The iPad, despite being nothing new, is still interesting, if only because Apple is making it. Apple may miss some fairly obvious features, but Apple never--absolutely never--half-asses anything. And some of those features will appear over time, as always. Not all of them: Steve Jobs will always get in the way of that one very logical thing that you want.
This is important, and it's a key driver to the company's success. And it's a point that should frame any discussion about the iPad, whether you or I think this product is necessary or just a fanciful, lust-worthy bauble. Right now, I'm trending more towards the latter, but then I haven't laid hands on the thing. The truth, as always, is likely somewhere in the middle.
We'll get to that truth once reviewers and users are able to purchase and use the iPad. And, of course, over time we can expect the iPad to improve to include some of those features that the "blogger haters" (as Mr. Pogue spitefully calls anyone independent enough to actually question Apple product design) have accurately pointed out are currently lacking in the first generation devices. Until that time, however, what we have to go on is Apple's initial, detailed presentation of the iPad. And my first impression of this device is decidedly mixed. As is so often the case with first-gen Apple products.
On behalf of the U.S. Department of Transportation, ITS America frequently delivers webinars to the ITS stakeholder community in order to inform interested parties of some of the current work that is being done in the industry. In particular these webinars focus on the work being done by the ITS Research program which is led by the ITS Joint Program Office (JPO). Most presentations relate directly to the Connected Vehicle Program, though other areas of interest are also addressed. If you would like more information about the U.S. DOT’s ITS Research Program, please vist: http://www.its.dot.gov/index.htm
Through the USDOT's Smart City Challenge, in 2016, the Department selected Columbus, OH, to define what it means to be a "smart city" and serve as a model for other cities wishing to fully integrate innovative technologies--such as automated vehicles, connected vehicles, and applications--into the transportation network. The goal of the Smart Columbus program is to connect people by creating opportunity for city residents to better access jobs and services while improving the overall safety and efficiency of the city's transportation network. The Smart Columbus program is comprised of nine individual projects covering three themes--enabling technologies, emerging technologies, and enhanced human services.
The CPS is one of nine Smart Columbus projects. Together with the Multimodal Trip Planning application and the Event Parking Management application, the CPS will be used throughout Columbus and outlying communities that are serviced by shared-use transportation. The CPS will be fully integrated with the Central Ohio Transit Agency through a shared account providing access to existing fare products and fare payment equipment.
Travelers will use the CPS to pay for multimodal trips and parking options from a single account, which will link to various payment media and user preferences. The CPS will provide a single, common platform that integrates end-to-end trip-planning, booking, electronic ticketing, and payment services across all modes of transportation, both public and private.
The benefits of providing travelers with a centralized, account-based payment system are increased convenience and customer satisfaction, as well as improved access to mobility options through integration with transportation providers. Travelers will be able to fund accounts using a variety of payment methods such as credit and debit cards and cash.
This webinar will focus on the System Requirements Specification (SyRS) developed by the City of Columbus for the CPS project. The SyRS is intended to communicate the requirements of the CPS to the technical community interested in building and deploying a common payment platform. The SyRS is a "black-box" description of what the CPS must do, but not how it will do it. It also contains descriptions of inputs, outputs, and the required relationships between the two. The City of Columbus will accept comments on the SyRS for the CPS project from November 21 to December 5, 2018. The SyRS will be available on the Smart Columbus website one week in advance of the webinar.
This webinar is the fourth in a series of webinars on SyRS presented in a walkthrough format. To be notified about upcoming webinars, sign up for the Smart Columbus newsletter at: https://smart.columbus.gov/connect/. |
The Sydney Wars, as its title suggests, brings under a single conceptual umbrella the conflicts between Aboriginal peoples of the Cumberland Plain and the British colonists. It spans thirty years from the arrival of the First Fleet. Both the lens of war, and the geographical unit of the Cumberland Plain, yield a distinctive new view of this history as Eora, Dharug, Gandangarra, Dharawal and Darkinjung groups made complex patterns of movement both into and away from settlements the British pushed out across the region. Gapps writes as a historian with a particular interest in, and understanding of, military history. He pays attention to the integral role of military thinking in the British approach to the NSW colony, the evolving strategies of the Aboriginal groups he terms collectively ‘the Sydney people’, and a close attention to the detail of war-on-foot.
In his epilogue, Gapps wonders why it has taken so long for someone to write this history. He places part of the blame on other historians, who have become embroiled in histories of cross-cultural encounters, and entangled with the concept of inevitability. He implies that had more historians been attuned to military history, a more direct connection could have been made between the resistance histories of the 1970s and 1980s and a thoroughgoing history of the Sydney wars. As a somewhat entangled ‘cultural historian’ myself, my understanding is that historians of the past 30 or 40 years have at least partly wanted to question the powerful narrative that the setting of Phillip’s foot on shore here would lead to the British domination of the entire continent. In order to do so, historians have undertaken to re-assess Sydney entirely as an experiment that might have had different results, and thereby to reinstate a sense of historical contingency in the story of the founding of Australia’s first colony. Inga Clendinnen’s Dancing with Strangers (2003) was perhaps the high point in asking the question: ‘If we assume nothing and start again, could we imagine that a different history might have stemmed from Sydney Cove?’ One of the costs of this approach has been an inclination to imagine the period as a kind of neutral zone, in which British domination had not yet gained a foothold, and each ‘encounter’ between Aboriginal people and the colonists could be reappraised, in an extended first encounter.
Gapps’ undertaking shows that this is to miss a quadrant of the landscape – though I do believe that his kind of military history would not have been possible without re-establishing a sense of contingency; indeed it illustrates another face of that very contingency. The Sydney Wars is no resistance history. Rather, it is a squarely empirical, closely descriptive chronological account of the period, drawn predominantly from first-hand accounts. One of its achievements is to reassert the ‘Sydney wars’ as a conflict over presence, land, resources (involving and exacerbated by sexual violence towards women), rather than a ‘cultural collision’.
As Gapps shows, the British presence was a military presence from the outset. The units and their officers had experience in a range of wars from India, Africa and the Americas, and he emphasises that they were not unfamiliar with guerrilla warfare or unwilling to adopt guerrilla tactics at times. The colony at Sydney Cove was set up with defence in mind (from the French, from insurrection and from the native population). Gapps’ close narrative of the period shows that if we presume a militarised setting, many aspects of the colony carry a different inflection. Historians have had their ears trained to the varied ‘encounters’ between colonists and Sydney’s Aboriginal people, especially over the first twelve-to-eighteen months after the First Fleet’s arrival, often trying to gauge how friendly or hostile they might have been. In Gapps’ history all these encounters become edgy, cordial, unexpected episodes within a militarised context. Gapps draws the reader into an understanding of the importance of these meetings, movements and displays as military performance – formations, handling of weaponry and demonstrations of power on both sides. The British arrived with their red coats and muskets. The Sydney people too were experienced in war and were ready to show their power to the colonists. At the same time, the Sydney people began to pick off unarmed individuals venturing out from the colony, instilling fear, making the hinterland dangerous and displaying mastery of their Country.
The Sydney Wars very effectively illustrates how understandings of military conduct penetrated, and bound together, colonial society. The Marines, then the NSW Corps shared aspects of military knowledge with decommissioned privates who were settling in the colonyand with the many convicts and settlers who had some military experience. Gapps also demonstrates how their efforts were bound together by the instructions of the Governors, who used both military and paramilitary resources to keep watch, carry arms and at times undertake aggressive manoeuvres. As other reviewers have observed, one of the most interesting lights this history casts is on the distinctions usually drawn between the military proper in the colony, and everyone else – in Gapps’ history even ‘misconduct’ by settlers or convicts bearing arms is integrated into the military framework, understood by colonial government to be a necessary part of the wars.
Gapps is keen to pursue a military history throughout, though at times he acknowledges there was tension between military imperatives and economic logic, for example in the establishment of colonists along the Hawkesbury. Although the narrative strains under this pursuit at times, his determined focus highlights the ways in which the placement of colonists in outlying areas and their land clearing activities, were closely linked with the military effort as well as food growing. Much more importantly, it foregrounds the actions of the Sydney people in raiding or destroying crops and dispersing stock around the main settlements as well as isolated outposts, across the period. ‘Economic sabotage’, Gapp’s argues, was a central and highly successful part of the Sydney people’s war, as it has been in guerrilla warfare before and since.
The Sydney Wars throws a different light on the on-again off-again nature of the conflicts, conceiving them as episodes in a regional war. Darkinjung and Dharug people moving in and out of the Hawkesbury settlements, for example, while Hunter issued oscillating instructions to colonists about whether it would be ‘misconduct’ to engage in hostile action, or not to engage, become in this history not questions about the nature of British intentions, or consistency in Aboriginal policy, but a flip-flopping of strategies based on circumstances. The question of whether to exercise hostility or civility in this framework was perhaps not unlike the awkward question of whether Britain was at war or under truce with France if one happened on a ship when no instructions had been received recently. One of The Sydney Wars’ most powerful observations is that the Sydney people were in a situation of both surviving and supporting guerrilla warfare for three decades. Living ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ the settlements, notwithstanding mutually beneficial relations with some of the colonists, men, women and children lived with the strain of war. Gapps’ history, in having brought together these Sydney wars, which have until now been understood as a series of isolated or recurring ‘conflicts’, may provide a key to more fully understanding what this was like.
As Penny Russell (Sydney Morning Herald, 22 June 2018) and Ben Silverstein (Dictionary of Sydney, 25 July 2018) note the impact of Gapps’ history on historians’ and the public and popular view of early years of the NSW colony will take time to unfold. Gapps does not take us down this road himself. He concentrates on re-appraising the sources and providing an – often distinctive – account of the action. This approach prevents overdetermination of the meaning of events that have been so intensively examined over the past few decades for their moral tone – good/bad, strong/weak, noble/corrupt – but also leaves us to work out what happens next, because, like it or not, there are moral implications to how we understand this history.
Gapps’ himself closes in a commemorative mode, offering a roll of honour for casualties on both sides of the Sydney wars so that they can be contemplated, and remembered.
Stephen Gapps will be speaking at the PHA’s Marking Time conference on Friday 31 August. He is on a panel called,Entangled histories: indigenous wars, military and shared spaces.
Image: Looking for a station site: a picture of an Aboriginal person pointing the way to a mounted man, Samuel Thomas Gill, Courtesy: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
I’ve nearly finished reading the work myself, and certainly endorse your assessment, Emma! Having read a lot of colonial military history myself – especially on the NZ Wars – it’s been refreshing to see early NSW history cast in this way, and with such clarity and fair-mindedness. |
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As the first anniversary of the opening of the Starbucks Reserve® Roastery and Tasting Room approaches, the historic building has been awarded a new honor – LEED® Platinum certification. The designation from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is its highest level of certification for environmental design and construction in the areas of energy, water, waste, materials, indoor environmental quality and innovation.
When the Roastery opened its doors for the first time on December 5, 2014, it was heralded as an immersive coffee experience unlike any other. The 15,000 square-foot space featured both coffee roasting facilities and a café, bringing customers on the coffee journey. Just nine blocks from the first Starbucks® store, the opening of the Roastery also brought a historic building back to life and was recognized for its achievement in its restoration.
“The Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Tasting Room is a beautiful marriage of design and efficiency that takes into consideration both a retail and manufacturing environment,” said Liz Muller, vice president of Starbucks Creative & Design, who led the design of the Roastery.
Restoring a landmark building like the Roastery to such a high environmental standard would have seemed nearly impossible a decade ago, when Starbucks opened its first LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified store in 2005 in a modest shopping complex in Hillsboro, Oregon. Then, the environmental building movement was still in its infancy with only two percent of non-residential construction projects built to LEED standards.
But Starbucks green building journey actually began years earlier in 2001, when they joined the USGBC and later helped develop the LEED® for Retail program, an effort to adapt the standards to new construction and commercial interior strategies for retail businesses. Starbucks later became one of the first retailers to join USGBC’s LEED volume certification pilot program, providing a practical certification option for retailers of all sizes to implement LEED at scale.
“Starbucks has been one of our very earliest retail partners,” said Scot Horst, Chief Product Officer for the USGBC. “Starbucks really helped form the entire platform for LEED for Retail, and has been important to the evolution of green building around the world.”
With a store footprint spanning the globe, Starbucks success also became an opportunity to influence the retail sector. In 2007, Starbucks committed to designing and building its new company-operated stores to the LEED® standard, integrating green-building into its design process from the very beginning.
Building on early lessons from Hillsboro, Starbucks successfully achieved certification for its headquarters in Seattle and its roasting facilities in Carson Valley, Nevada; Sandy Run, South Carolina; and Augusta, Georgia. In addition to addressing a large portfolio of new stores, the company’s design team also challenged themselves to think differently about green building, with innovative stores made from repurposed shipping containers and indoor-outdoor spaces.
Today, utilizing the talents of 300 LEED-accredited designers in its 18 in-house design studios around the world, Starbucks has more than 700 LEED certified stores in 19 countries. That’s more than any other company in the world and Starbucks has committed to nearly double the number in 2016 with a total of 1,200 LEED certified stores.
“Our job as designers is to create spaces that reflect the communities we serve while anticipating its future needs so that we are designing for the longevity of the neighborhood as well as our business,” said Bill Sleeth, vice president, Store Design. “Our responsibility is to do this in a way that integrates environmental sensitivity and local resources, so that we are also using our scale for good.”
Denis Hayes, founder of Earth Day and president of the Bullitt Foundation, underscored the importance of Starbucks green-building efforts.
“The built environment has a profound influence on most of the environmental issues facing the world – climate change, energy waste, water shortages, indoor air pollution, solid waste, ecosystem protection,” said Hayes. “Starbucks is within sight of reaching 1,000 LEED-certified buildings, and that’s 1,000 buildings that are far better than required by law, regulation, or building code. Starbucks has set a high bar that I hope the rest of the commercial sector will follow.”
"Starbucks isn’t done," added John Kelly, senior vice president of Global Responsibility and Public Policy. "In addition to considering how to better globalize green building standards, the company hopes to influence the green retail sector in a way that takes greater advantage of emerging technologies to move toward a more performance-driven focus."
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Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.’s emerging markets phone arm has delayed its Indian IPO as it awaits clarity over changes to foreign shareholding rules, but it remains determined to grow in what is its most promising market.
HONG KONG: Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.’s emerging markets phone arm has delayed its Indian IPO as it awaits clarity over changes to foreign shareholding rules, but it remains determined to grow in what is its most promising market.
Hutchison Telecommunications International Ltd. (HTIL), controlled by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, has pushed the much-anticipated Bombay IPO of its Indian cellular arm into the second half of this year due to regulatory uncertainty, the firm said in an interview.
That delay also follows the recent collapse of its US$350 million deal to take over carrier Aircel Ltd., which would have given HTIL a presence in Tamil Nadu.
But Hong Kong-based HTIL, which completed its own US$890 million listing in October, is undeterred as it looks for growth opportunities in India — including acquisitions.
“There are other targets that we might be interested in talking to,” Chief Executive Dennis Lui said at the firm’s headquarters in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district. “We want to move into other areas because there’s profits to be made. But you do it in stages — you don’t do it all in one splash.”
Since its IPO, which saw weak interest from retail investors, HTIL has expanded with deals to launch startups in Indonesia and Vietnam, densely populated countries with low mobile penetration rates of roughly 14 and 4 percent, respectively.
Its stock, which has risen by up to 46 percent since listing, ended at HK$7.20 on Monday, 20 percent above the IPO price.
HTIL, which positions itself as an emerging markets Vodafone, is looking for opportunities in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Besides India, it operates in Hong Kong, Thailand, Israel, Ghana, Paraguay, Sri Lanka and Macau.
But it is HTIL’s business in India, where it holds roughly 15 percent of the 52 million-user market, that offers the greatest promise. Only five in 100 people in India have a cellphone, compared with over a quarter in China, the biggest mobile market.
“There is certainly capacity in the market up to 250 million, and we see ourselves getting certainly a fair share of that,” said Chief Financial Officer Tim Pennington.
HTIL’s Indian arm operates in 13 of India’s 23 cellular regions, or circles, and is looking to broaden its footprint in the world’s most rapidly expanding major mobile market.
“We believe there are licence areas that we’re not currently in that we should be in, that offer the returns that we would expect for allocated capital,” Pennington said.
Though India has the world’s lowest tariffs, it is profitable given high volumes, low costs and few handset subsidies.
HTIL’s 2004 EBITDA margin (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) in India was 31 percent, compared with 33.3 percent for rival Bharti Tele-Ventures, which is 28 percent owned by Singapore Telecommunications.
Because it has a higher percentage of big-spending contract customers — about 30 percent of its total — Hutchison’s monthly ARPU (average revenue per user) is the highest in the market, at about 589 rupees (US$13.45), versus 519 rupees for Bharti.
The fragmented Indian market is led by Reliance Infocomm, Bharti, Hutchison, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Consolidation is expected to accelerate after India raised the foreign investment limit in carriers to 74 percent from 49 percent in February.
“You’ve got emerging six larger players in India,” Pennington said. “I can see those players getting stronger as time goes by.”
HTIL holds 56 percent of its India business — including 14 percent indirectly. It said it won’t necessarily lift its stake in its India business now that it can do so, but it didn’t rule out such a move, either.
HTIL is awaiting further details on India’s decision to increase the cap on foreign holdings. That uncertainty also weighs on the timing of the planned IPO.
“Things have not been clarified by the end of March,” said Lui. “Because of that, we definitely feel that a June IPO date is not viable. But we will do what we can do, and see if we could actually try and do a listing, say, by the third or fourth quarter.”
HTIL plans to sell 10 percent of the enlarged capital in its India business through a domestic listing. Proceeds will be used to fund the company’s growth.
Pennington said HTIL believes the opportunity for it to expand in Latin America has passed. In Africa, he said, the Ghana operation gives HTIL a beachhead for future growth, although the continent is not currently ripe for the company to expand there.
“Asia’s our home market and that’s where we still see opportunities,” he said, adding: “We will continue to look at opportunities in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.” |
What are we missing that may be right in front of us, right in front of our eyes, present front and center to our ears?
Dear young President Obama has fallen onto a list so low in my esteem that near only George Stephanopoulus so resides.
There are some words I try to avoid, especially when earned. I had to turn off President Obama’s press conference today just half way through.
Did he just arrive on our planet? Such would explain his limited conceptual around political "inheritance".
Should we talk about "inheritances" outside his blame Bush… - take from the uber-rich… - that tends to belong more to states and local government taxation arms?
How did he come today to talk about American - Islam relations so as if Kuwait invasion and Desert Storm never happened and like with him the first president to ever administer to help Muslims? What ever happened to the positive images of Bush "friendship" with Saudi royal family members and with air of friendship, much Muslim?
Well, this is a blog after all and I am still of wondering on my 60 mile bike ride yesterday and if it actually is now the bicyle ride of - most hills climbed in a day - since back in 1984 ride from New Haven to Berkshires with full panniers, then the second year so touring such route. I didn’t look before I took off to ride into Stratford and then up through Trumbull and Stepney and Monroe to Newtown and then south along the Housitonic through Oxford and Derby back then to Milford. I didn’t think I had picked a route to heights of 700+ feet above my residence near sea level but then I did set out to look at a hill someone said was at least two miles long and so from routing to finding its peak from the other side. Such riding doesn’t "stimulate" the economy much for I stayed off my touring bike enough years since 1982 purchase for it still to be paying for itself and now with parts from atleast twelve different part stores. I would need a new bike and its current "marketing" support to be out stimulating the economy. I do hope your bikes are still holding up. I do my own maintenance, you?
Well, that said: Now back to Obama and "inheritances" on this the eve of his day declaring "a wonderful opportunity for…" him to talk about Islam - American relations as if he just landed on our planet and is the first president to ever brave such he seems to be quite dramatic about: So tomorrow is the day better than any that reminds us what the "inheritance" the Clintons left President Bush was/is.
Buttercup’s Ark??? Surely "don’t ask, don’t tell" controversy rests necessarily upon its own keel? What is the name, best, for an ark where room for only one of each sex in each species isn’t the issue?
Yes this is a blog and with a sole blogger who turns any channel near immediately upon noticing a broadcast including George Stephanopoulus - for I still think that no one is getting enough of any story from him and maybe less useful "historical relevance."
So Noah didn’t have room or luxury to address other than survival of species. So the story goes, right? Surely others built their own maybe "Buttercup’s Ark" just to see to living another day, and being a proud generation, right? Was there really only one ark during the flood?
Maybe it was President Obama’s avoiding that whole "9/11 is the inheritance the Clintons left President Bush" more than that claiming around the whole "Spain’s green stats" that his economics were about like doing all he can to grow the economy and create jobs. But? But? But, Mr. President you do remember that when you started towards "green economy" it was clear that such approach, even less ambitious by Spain, did lead to at least two jobs lost for every "green job" created?
How do "front-line" deciders get past the "don’t ask - don’t tell" issues around survival of the species and next gens that force tasking around who takes point may effect?
Hello again! Before the copper wedding anniversary of my friends, we also had something to celebrate :) A few days before our trip to NL, the bf and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary!! OMG I can't believe it, definitely a very long time :)
With all the planning for both the NL trips and our medieval summer, I didn't have a lot of time (or energy) to arrange much for this, but the bf came through with flying colours :)
As we're getting more and more disappointed with the service in restaurants, we decided to stay in and celebrate at home. I stayed up late the previous night to cook goulash for dinner (no pics as it's really not a very photogenic dish), and we organised some nice starters. Yes, the usual cheapo caviar was also included :)
The bf had organised dessert in the shape of this wonderful mushroom cake. Not entirely sure if this is related to the Smurf movie we watc…
Hi again everyone! At the moment 'my busy craft life' is more like 'my busy organising life' so I'm not having too much time to craft. I'm trying my hardest to change that and now that two weeks of major events have successfully passed, I actually have time for that again! And time to blog also :) Of course there will be a few posts showing you what I've been up to, I'm sure you're going to enjoy them as it may not be crafty but it's still inspirational and so much fun :)
First of all, my lovely hat has been worn only once in public for the football EU Cup. Unfortunately, the Dutch is no more in this cup and the hat has been put safely away for future games or Dutch days. Shame really as I love how it came out, but it wasn't meant to be.
One of the major events happening was my friends' Victorian copper wedding celebration. In Holland, 12.5 years of marriage is copper and quite a milestone, so they decided to celebrate this in style wi…
Hi everyone! I just seems to be getting busier and busier... and strangely enough not with crafting! This whole loving London is backfiring a little bit hihi! Nah just kidding, am exhausted yes but also enjoying myself and that's always good :)
It's that time again, the orange feeling has bubbled up and the football is on. Not that am a great fan, but as you may know I do follow the Dutch matches for the cups. For Queen's Day I asked my best friend to send me over this cute little Dutch hat that I saw in the shop over there online and she was a total sweetheart and actually got it for me and sent it over :) Sadly when it arrived it turned out to be a bit big and in need of some serious restyling and I just didn't have a chance (or a clue on how) to proceed. But then Euro 2012 started and I insisted on wearing the hat for that so on Saturday I got up really early, defrosted my freezer which was also in serious need of doing, and finally worked on the hat. Check it out…
Hello again everyone! My my what a busy couple of days! Well, ok I did spend ALL of yesterday on the sofa watching telly and in the evening the Jubilee concert. Who knew that you could just show up and enjoy the concert from very far away and have a great time? Or that you could register to have a chance of free tickets to attend? Sadly enough, not me. So the sofa was my last chance to see it and I got all teared up when Prince Charles made his speech about the Queen making everyone proud to be British (in my case to live in GB), though I did had to giggle when he called her Mummy on national tv :)
So this morning I really wanted to be part of the final day of the celebrations. My plans for a British baking day went out the door and as my friend sadly cancelled any street party plans, off I went into town to join the masses to see the Queen in her procession. Right on schedule, I arrived at Charing Cross at 1pm (yes I realise not exactly early). As was to be expected, millions of peo…
Good morning everyone! First good news of the day: I fixed the blog and it should load normally now :) It was the counter that seemed to mess everything up and cause the blog to take forever to load... But all should be fixed now.
I was going to blog about our lovely pirate adventure yesterday but I was just too tired to be honest as it was an extremely busy day. Yes, we went to the Diamond Jubilee Flotilla! And it was so much fun :)
As you may know, every year we have a PirateCon where we all dress as pirates and just have a good time. This year is just happened to coincide with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. On Sunday (that's yesterday) there was a huge flotilla in honour of her Majesty where they had arranged for 1000 boats to sail down the river Thames after being inspired by a painting of lots of boats on the Thames during Henry VIII's reign. I found the picture! I couldn't find it this afternoon, but if you click here then you'll what inspired the…
Reader’s Digest conducted a study to determine the most and least honest cities in the world. The test was simple: researchers dropped a dozen wallets in 16 different cities and watched to see if the people who picked them up kept them or turned them in to an official. Each wallet contained the equivalent of $50, along with pictures and contact information.
Helsinki, Finland can now add most honest city to its tourism brochures because that city led the way, with 11 of the 12 wallets returned. Lisbon, Portugal, meanwhile, brought up the rear – only one wallet was returned.
Out of 192 total wallets dropped, slightly under half were turned in, while men and women were equally likely to keep or hand back the wallets. |
Check out this exclusive stream of “Living Without Love” from Saves The Day's new album, Daybreak, out Sept. 13 on Razor & Tie. Scroll to the bottom, hit “play” and then read STD frontman Chris Conley's explaination of the inspiration behind the new album. You can also buy the track on iTunes here.
At this point in the history of mankind, we find ourselves in a world which values the external achievements and appearances of Life as opposed to the internal nature of the Heart. No matter your kindness, no matter your caring, if you don't look the way you're supposed to look, act the way you're supposed to act, and compete the way you're asked to compete, you are shunned, ostracized, left out in the cold. It is rare for us to talk to one another about the difficulty of this existence, so for those who do not fit into the established trends of behavior and appearance, there is sometimes great confusion, sadness, anger, and fear.
Growing up overweight, I was perpetually teased about being different, and found it difficult to make friends, leaving me isolated socially, and wildly awkward. I had no internal sense of being good enough the way I was, no confidence. It felt as if the person I was in my heart was invisible to all, and I was judged on my appearance alone. “Smile for the camera. Suck in that gut.” Under the barrage of insults, I grew to be dejected beneath the surface of my skin, turning away from the world, without comfort, without companionship.
Being an only child in the midst of this confusion was hard, because I had no one to tell me it was ok, that the world itself was confused, with its value system in need of repair. For my caring parents, my pain was overwhelming, and they simply told me the kids at school were being mean, that they didn't know to be nice because their parents never taught them. They were trying to make me feel better, but really, without a peer to share the process with, it was a nightmare to persevere.
In no time, the hurtful words of others became the harmful words in my head. “What is wrong with me?” “Why am I like this?” “Why don't people like me?” My heart built walls around itself trying to hold on, turning away from the storm, trying desperately to ignore the whispered jokes and pointing fingers. Trying to navigate the debilitating experience of rejection, my mind came up with its own conclusions. “I'm worthless.” “I'm disgusting.” “I'm a disgrace.”
Of course, my heart couldn't handle the ache of my own self-hatred, and as Life went on, I grew to be angry at the people who tormented me. Before long, I was full of hate for others. Hate for the world. Hate for my classmates. Hate for any authority who witnessed such insensitivity yet did nothing to help. There was no one there to hold. No one to talk to.
Without a way to bear the pain and sadness from the world's rejection, I focused my pain on the external world, judging society for its heartless condemnation of me and the many others who also did not fit into the accepted molds of behavior and personae. I hated the world and I hated myself. For years I believed there was something horribly wrong with me. Something unforgivable. Something unlovable.
What was unlovable about me? I was fat. I was awkward. I had acne. I was short. I was insecure. I was the punchline to every joke. Worst of all, I believed it. I became afraid of being myself, of letting people see the real me. In fact, in my mind, the world would be better without me. My heart couldn't contain the immensity of the pain. So I fought from within to force myself to be more like them. Do this, don't do that. Say this, don't say that. Whatever you do, don't show your true nature to anyone. I was on high alert at all times to make sure I didn't do anything which would prove me guilty of being different.
After years of fighting to hold myself together, to be what they wanted me to be as best I could, I became exhausted. I caved in to depression. I put dark curtains over the windows of my room to block out the Sun. I wished to speak with no one. I longed for an end to it all. No matter what I did, something about me was always different. Something was always wrong.
Somehow, in the middle of the turmoil and anguish, I discovered music. I got an acoustic guitar. Quite suddenly, I had a companion for the first time. I could disappear into a world of music for hours, without feeling the weight of the outside world. A peaceful place. Harmonious. I was in love. It was as if for the first time, none of their words mattered, nothing could touch me in that place. I began to thaw.
Slowly, I became more comfortable being myself, and people began to gravitate to me because of my music. A few kids from school wanted to start a band with me, where I would write all the songs and play guitar and sing. Wow. Fun. What a new feeling! I belonged. We quickly found that punk music, with its angst and energy, suited us quite well and we could vent our strange feelings through peppy powerful songs. The community of musicians which nurtured us in the underground world of punk was the first community where I felt at home. I could be myself, and it was ok. Years went by. I met a wonderful girl named Rosalee and she accepted me as I am. She loved me for who I was inside, no matter what the world had to say about me. We got married. We had a beautiful daughter, Luella. Life was beautiful. It was a Gift.
As it turns out, even though I was feeling better and Life was getting more enjoyable, the echo from the endless years of harassment and torture at the hands of my peers, still rattled in my heart and mind. While I was beginning to come out of my shell and grow into myself as a Husband and Father, I still felt this sickness of self-hatred, the leftover whispers which I never turned towards, only able to turn away as a young child. Now, becoming a man, observing society not only as something I individually must confront, but as my daughter's inevitable Life Ground, I started to wonder why there were certain acceptable modes of behavior in society, why I had been judged at all, why I was left with this feeling of malevolence. What would the world be like for Luella? How can I protect her from it all? I felt like Life should be better, that people should treat one another more kindly, and I felt like things were careening out of control, as if people were more and more hurtful to each other as the years went by. Reflecting on the nature of society, I was unable to accept it as it is. How could this process which creates so much pain and confusion and misery be worthwhile? How can my little girl be expected to participate in the trials of this weary world? An angel in our midst.
The rules of society often dictate how parents, not just peers, criticize their children and attempt to correct apparent abnormal behavior should it show up in the early years of development. Even our parents are caught in the confusion of this strange value system which holds the external achievements and appearances of things as the most important aspects of Life. In turn, the criticism from those we love, as well as from our community, typically creates thought patterns that turn against us in our minds, harming us by trying to force us to be the way we are expected to be. We have to be like them or else. Or else what? What is truly at stake here? Or else be stranded out in the cold? Homeless? Unwanted? My little angel must face this test?
Yet, this is the world we live in. My Life is here, not in some Shangri-La. It is here in the world of hurt. Luella's Life is here. Rosalee and I cannot change the tides of time, not with our Love for our child, not with our Love for each other. I could no longer ignore it. I could no longer ignore the effects of living through this Life. Music and Marriage had given me the stability to examine Life from different angles, instead of being lost in fear and confusion. Now I was looking at things more closely.
What was it all about? Following the rules of this strange game until we die? Casting each other aside for personal gain? For years I was so angry. Fire. Burning seething raging fire. Later on, with the nihilism I had adopted from the world of punk music, and the sheer desperation of a concerned, caring parent, I began to get cynical. “This awful world. This terrible cold mean world.”
The heat of the rage within threatened to set me on fire, if not the whole world in the process. I could not accept the misery of the millions of others. I could not accept the inevitable challenges and difficulties Luella would surely have to face living within this sphere of competition and antagonism. I was angry that we don't support one another, love one another, care for one another. I was angry about how much I hurt… Then came an important realization. I realized the full weight of my Hurting. My longing to feel alright. To belong. To be accepted. My desire for a better world in which my family can live. My fear of it all. In fact, my anger was only an inability to feel the full brunt of my pain. Without a way to hold myself in the hurting, over years of confusion, it turned outward, blaming the world for my condition. A victim.
When I finally reached out for help and learned to face the pain for the first tentative time, oceans of tears were cried for my heart. Oceans of tears for the hearts of others. My fellow partners in Life. My peoples. My Love. I love you all. But wait… not all of us are hurting, some of us are perpetuating the machines of society. Some of us are creating the rules, shackling our neighbors. After initially feeling the overwhelming intensity of my raw emotions, I retreated momentarily into my original cocoon of anger and cynicism, only this time it was aimed directly at the system of the world, the rules of society, the accepted “norms.”
The realization that Money is the ultimate controlling mechanism behind the system of acceptance and rejection slowly dawned on me. Whether people can get by paying their bills is based on what kind of job they have which is based on how smart or how skilled they are, what they look like, what their core system of values is including religion, sexual orientation, and political affiliation, therefore creating the absolute necessity of being more or less what society wants you to be. What society needs you to be. What industry needs you to be. To be a worker. To be a slave.
Now hold on here just one moment. You can see how quickly this all turns to righteous anger and rage. Which eventually breeds violence. Violence…… I could not live this way. I could not take it any longer. My heart crushed by the weight of the world. Not only the hurt of longing for your loved ones who will surely suffer, but the hurt of having to alter your true Heart's nature in order to fit into the system. In order to make money. In order to survive. How could I be a good Husband and Father when I was filled with anger and hostility towards the structure of the establishment? How was I to live without hatred? How was I to come back to Life? How was I to be the example I need to be?
I needed to bring my heart back to Life. I needed to find a reason to love the world. I needed a reason to Live again. I found that reason in my Family. I found that reason in my Heart. In my Hurting. My Caring. My Loved Ones. My Neighbors. You and Me. Me and You. To turn away from it all would be to turn away from You. You Whom I Love. All of You. You are my reason. I am my reason. We are the reason. Our shared experience in all of this, our ability to care for one another, our longing to belong. We are good people trapped in a broken world. We turn nasty and fight one another, but we don't mean to, it's just the pressure, the weight of it all. We lose the goodness in our hearts in the callous cold of the world outside. It's our exhaustion trying to be other than we naturally are. Trying to survive. Trying to get by.
And how then to save a broken heart? How to come back to the world? To belong. To bring my Heart back to Life, I first needed to learn to hold myself in the pain. In the Center of the Heart of Hurting. To be there with myself and others. To feel the pain. To give in to the weight without turning away to lay blame. To breathe. And to let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Truth is we are all in pain. We all have different ways of expressing it. Some of us make millions in an attempt to ensure as much security and stability for ourselves and others before the ultimate end. Some of us learn to be the strongest in the room, the one who can fight the rest into submission physically or mentally, to create the most comfort before the ultimate end. Some of us learn to run. To turn away from it all. To hide from the pain. Some of us get angry. Some of us get even.
Why do we protect ourselves in these ways? What are we afraid of? What is the ultimate end? Death? Are we hoping to feel the illusion of safety before the inevitable end? Before the beginning of the end? Isn't this something we all must face? Must we cling so tightly to Life, desperately trying to make things the way we want them to be, fighting each other in the process? Can we breathe and listen and feel and learn?
Not wanting to fall into any of these traps again, yet understanding and sympathizing with them all, I knew I needed to find another way. I knew I needed to find my way back to the Heart. The Heart that can hold both the pain and the joy of the world and breathe and know that all things pass and it is not ourselves or each other that we need to blame, it is merely that there is nothing to blame, there is only the one true fact that Life itself is Hurting, and without knowing this deeply and sharing in the experience of surviving one another's passing, we turn to fight off the feeling of Life's pain and change it, to make it go away no matter the cost, no matter how many lives are sacrificed and lost in war, and no matter how many broken homes and starving families, no matter how many tomorrows we have sacrificed to our time, we only wind up fighting ourselves and killing each other and it is time to stop the bleeding. To hold each other in the hurt. To turn this all around. And this is the message of my heart.
I began to write. I started at the beginning. The pain. The anger. The confusion. This became Sound The Alarm, the first installment in the Trilogy, an album so raw and wretched, the fire almost burns through the speakers, with lyrics about death, doubt, denial, and a dream to see the world burn down to dust. In the title track I sing, “In the darkness of my mind I hear a voice that seems to sigh I'm gonna die before I save myself.” This was the conclusion of a heart swallowed by fear, without hope. Without future.
Next, in the second chapter of the trilogy, Under The Boards, I detailed the turning point when the pain and anger and confusion begin to erode the fabric of your life, when loved ones turn away out of their own hurt watching you self-destruct, when you are left alone to decide to face the fear or die by its derangement. The album is mercurial, twisting this way and that before finally giving in to the pain for the final three songs, which are akin to the descent into the depths of hell in the dark night of the soul. In the last song, “Turning Over In My Tomb,” I finally reach up for the root to pull myself out of the darkness of pain, and into the light of acceptance. It will be ok.
Finally, to complete the trilogy, Daybreak is the album about putting all the pieces back together. It's about bringing my Heart back to Life. Turning it all around. It's about understanding why and how my heart was swallowed by fear, and learning to breathe and to let it go. After getting lost in the expectations of a world focused on external achievements, Daybreak celebrates the inner values of believing in ourselves, coming home to ourselves, staying true to our original nature. To survive this world, we only have to look within, become quiet, and listen to the message of our heart. When we ask “Is this all a waste of time,” we receive the comforting answer from within ourselves, “You are not the one to blame. The past, the pain, all of it at once became too much to hold, too dark, too cold. You lost your way, that's all.” And we know that we can abide here for the remainder of our Lives, held in the spacious caring of our Heart. Alive in the midst of the Hurting of the world. And we turn around. And we face one another. And we begin to Live again. |
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On April 29, 2011, United Community Bancorp (the Company) announced its unaudited financial results for the three and nine months ended March 31, 2011. For more information, reference is made to the Companys press release dated April 29, 2011, a copy of which is attached to this Report as Exhibit 99.1 and is furnished herewith.
State the aggregate market value of the voting and non-voting common equity held by non-affiliates computed by reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold, or the average bid and asked price of such common equity, as of the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. On June 30th, 2017 the aggregate market value of the voting stock of Transact Energy Corp. held by non-affiliates of the registrant was $2,079,380
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the registrant’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date: As of December 31, 2017, we had issued and outstanding 55,774,971 shares common stock, $.001 par value
The statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K may not be historical facts and may be “forward-looking statements.” Such forward-looking statements can be identified by, among other things, the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “intends,” “plan” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” or “anticipates” or the negative thereof or other variations thereon or comparable terminology, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We remind readers that forward-looking statements are merely predictions and therefore inherently subject to uncertainties and other factors and involve known and unknown risks that could cause the actual results, performance, levels of activity, or our achievements, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, levels of activity, or our achievements, or industry results, expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements appear in Item 1 - “Business” and Item 7 - “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” as well as elsewhere in this Annual Report and include statements regarding the following: the expected development and potential benefits from our products to consumers, progress in our efforts to develop our facilities and our products and to achieve and maintain regulatory approvals, the potential market demand for our products, our expectations regarding our short- and long-term capital requirements, our outlook for the coming months and information with respect to any other plans and strategies for our business.
Unless otherwise specified or required by context, as used in this annual report, the terms “we,” “our,” “us” and the “Company” refer collectively to (i) TransAct Energy Corp., a Nevada corporation (“TransAct”).
The Company’s current corporate structure results from the issuance of founding shares equal to nine million four hundred thousand (9,400,000), an initial public offering (IPO) of one million one hundred and two thousand shares (1,102,000) at twenty-five cents ($0.25), the acquisition of a technology asset of two million six hundred thousand shares (2,600,000) and thirty-nine million five hundred and fifty-six thousand, three hundred and forty-five (42,672,971) shares for operations (including consulting, management and debt settlement).
The Company was originally formed to manage energy related assets and has changed its scope to sustainable technology development. The Company incorporates new technologies to provide sustainable energy sources and products. It has now focused completely on “waste optimization” converting municipal waste streams 100% into useable products without emissions utilizing sustainable energy sources.
2014 saw the Company form subsidiary corporations in Ireland and Mexico. In Ireland we established the wholly owned subsidiary “TransAct Energy Global Ltd”, this company will in turn wholly own each national subsidiary. The first national subsidiary of TransAct Global is “TransAct Energy Mexico S. DE R.L. DE C.V.” which will own a majority shareholding of each holding company that owns a Z.E.W.O.P. TM like the Mexican corporation “Puebla ZEWOP 1, S. DE R.L. DE C.V.”.
To pay for the Z.E.W.O.P. TM we engaged the Latin desk of the USA based international financial group (name under non-disclosure) for the raise of the debt portion of our first Z.E.W.O.P. TM’s development cost and obtained a commitment for the equity portion from another financial group. Both parties are prepared to participate in multiple plants as TransAct grows.
To manage the public relations and marketing of our company and brand we contracted Ericho (https://erichopr.com/) an international public relations and media company. They will help us craft our story in each market we enter and tell it on the international stage.
Our focus throughout 2018 is to build the Z.E.W.O.P.TM in El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico. We need to first sign off on 75-80% of our product sales under off-take agreements and finish the engineering review of the El Salto site. Then we will reengage Fichtner Consulting Engineers to prepare working drawings, that while being approved under permits and permissions will go to tender for a guaranteed procurement and construction contract. When these steps are completed we intend on finalizing the financing commitment for the debt and equity based on the Z.E.W.O.P.TM construction agreement.
1.)Secure working capital for the Company significant enough to maintain accounts payable as current and fund day to day corporate costs through to cash-flow from first operations, including expansion of corporate management team in order facilitate global dissemination of Z.E.W.O.P. TM;
The markets for “waste optimization”, the complete processing of waste into useable products/commodities without emissions or land-filling are global. Countries around the world are adopting standards that will reduce green house gas emissions and are promoting better use of resources, ultimately seeking freedom from foreign petroleum. The TransAct Z.E.W.O.P. TM provides these markets with an emissions free solution utilizing their waste and turning it into products, including fuels that can be used in these domestic markets.
Our target Z.E.W.O.P. TM product customers include airlines, shipping companies, bus companies, trucking companies or fuel retailers requiring direct blend green fuels to meet legislated targets. The EU 20/20 legislation started on January 1st of 2025, requires a 20% green fuel blend by 2020. It creates customers needing a green fuel that can blend with existing refined fuels. Any airplane or ship landing in the EU will need 15% of its fuel to be green starting 2015 we anticipate being able to use our fuels going forward in this capacity upon EU certification. Our customers also include friction product manufacturers (brake pads, clutch plates, sanding disks) and wood product manufacturers (plywood, particle board, OSB etc.) that utilize phenol resins in their manufacturing process. We target manufacturers of biodegradable plastics and pharmaceuticals for our Levoglucosan. Tire and rubber manufacturers, lithographers and printers requiring high quality carbon black are customers. Waxes for the cosmetic industry, paraffin waxes for a variety of other uses including candles, along with high grade lubricating oils are Z.E.W.O.P. TM products. We produce fertilizers for the agricultural industry, a brick mix for the construction industry, a variety of reclaimed metals, and purified (distilled) water. Acetic acid and furfural are manufactured for industrial chemical manufacturers. We have a diverse mix of products and potential customers.
At December 31, 2017, the Company has a combined CEO/CFO under contract with everyone else required by the company being fulfilled by consultants on a demand basis. Going forward we have pending agreements for a COO, SVP Business Development, SVP Operations South America, SVP Operations Mexico & Central America, SVP Operations Europe and a SVP Operations Canada/US.
As the company ramps up the Z.E.W.O.P. TM in Mexico it anticipates bringing on 50 to 75 employees in this subsidiary.
The Company’s principal products are carbon black, phenol resins and Levoglucosan making up approximately 70% of our proposed revenue. Waxes account for another 15% while fuels represent 6%.
Waste from human activities is generated 365 days a year with slight seasonal variations occurring in MSW. Our facilities are designed to run every day of the year. The products we produce are in demand globally and used year round.
The waste being supplied to each Z.E.W.O.P. TM comes from millions of residence of a city; however the contract is awarded by one customer typically. Heavy dependency on one customer for the feedstock is mitigated by the form of agreement, long-term and guaranteed provided we stay operational. In the future we may be able to set up direct agreements with homeowners and businesses to purchase there waste materials.
Ultimately, the market for our products is vast; however, the numbers of entities that can physically, logistically and economically purchase the commodity in large quantities in our area of operations are limited. The Company’s primary revenues should originate from carbon black (30 %+) and phenol resin (27 %+) sales. Currently, the Company has interest in these products and others from three multi-national corporations. Again, the only mitigation from the risk of only a few customers is their credit-worthiness, a guaranteed long term contract, with no out, unless we do not perform.
Each product we produce is made by reprocessing waste making the resulting product “green” and cheaper. Our production process has no emissions or environmental impact compared to competitive products that come from crude oil and natural gas. Because our raw material is garbage we are not subjected to market fluctuations and can consistently maintain our cost of goods compared to our competitors. The finished products are produced at much lower costs than our competitors giving us a natural advantage going forward.
Any technology that can produce clean energy from waste in a cost effective manner has a competitive advantage in the complex matrix of sustainable energy production. There have been no emissions free and cost effective energy from waste technologies to handle the ever growing waste. So governments have settled for incineration with scrubbers that remove the pollutants to established levels. The new emission targets being established for waste going forward, limits the competition. TransAct’s Energy from Waste technology at present will be the only technology capable of meeting the future conditions of competition in this arena.
The Company believes that the combination of the technologies emissions free status, low operating costs, ability to process all waste streams into useable products with full carbon capture and a low “full life” cost will allow it to successfully compete for long-term waste processing and green product supply agreements globally.
As a future “green” product producer, environmental-related credits, such as renewable energy credits or carbon credits, may become available for sale to power companies (to allow them to meet their “green” power requirements) or to businesses which produce carbon based pollution. If available, these credits will belong exclusively to us or our joint venture, and may provide an additional source of revenue.
We are a new business with limited operating history and making an investment in TransAct is risky. If we are unable to successfully identify and secure energy projects or energy conservation projects, then we will not be successful as a business. It will be difficult for you to evaluate an investment in our stock since our operating history is limited to developing our business plan, obtaining 100% interest in a petroleum and natural gas lease in Alberta, Canada referred to as the MedHat Project and bidding on multiple energy projects globally. As a young Company, we are especially vulnerable to any problems, delays, expenses and difficulties we may encounter while implementing our business plan. We have not proven the essential elements of profitable operations, and you will bear the risk of complete loss of your investment if we are not successful.
We have a need for substantial additional financing and will have to significantly delay, curtail or cease operations if we are unable to secure such financing. The Company requires substantial additional financing to fund the cost of acquiring and developing energy projects. The Company also requires funds for other operating activities, and to finance the growth of our business, including the construction and commissioning of sustainable energy facilities. We may not be able to obtain the needed funds on terms acceptable to us or at all. Further, if additional funds are raised by issuing equity securities, significant dilution to our current shareholders may occur and new investors may get rights that are preferential to current shareholders. Alternatively, we may have to bring in joint venture partners to fund further development work, which would result in reducing our interests in the projects.
Market conditions and other factors may not permit future project and acquisition financings on terms favorable to us. Our ability to arrange for financing on favorable terms, and the costs of such financing, are dependent on numerous factors, including general economic and capital market conditions, investor confidence, the continued success of current projects, the credit quality of the projects being financed, the political situation in the jurisdiction in which the project is located and the continued existence of tax laws which are conducive to raising capital. If we are unable to secure capital through partnership or other arrangements, we may have to finance the projects using equity financing which will have a dilutive effect on our common stock. Also, in the absence of favorable financing or other capital options, we may decide not to build new plants or acquire facilities from third parties. Any of these alternatives could have a material adverse effect on our growth prospects and financial condition.
It is very costly to place plants into commercial production. Before the sale of any energy can occur, it will be necessary to construct a gathering and separating system, a plant, a delivery system, and considerable administrative costs would be incurred. To fund expenditures of this magnitude, we may have to find a joint venture participant with substantial financial resources. There can be no assurance that a participant can be found and, if found, it would result in us having to substantially reduce our interest in the project.
a portion of our cash flow from operations would be used for the payment of principal and interest on such indebtedness and would not be available for financing capital expenditures or other purposes;
a significant level of indebtedness and the covenants governing such indebtedness could limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business because certain activities or financing options may be limited or prohibited under the terms of agreements relating to such indebtedness;
a significant level of indebtedness may make us more vulnerable to defaults by the purchasers of electricity or in the event of a downturn in our business because of fixed debt service obligations; and
the terms of agreements may require us to make interest and principal payments and to remain in compliance with stated financial covenants and ratios. If the requirements of such agreements were not satisfied, the lenders could be entitled to accelerate the payment of all outstanding indebtedness and foreclose on the collateral securing payment of that indebtedness, which would likely include our interest in the project.
the difficulty of establishing and maintaining uniform standards, controls, procedures and policies, including accounting controls and procedures.
leakage of fluids or airborne pollutants from gathering systems, pipelines, plant and storage tanks;
Actual costs of construction or operation of a plant may exceed estimates used in negotiation of purchase and financing agreements. If the actual costs of construction or operations exceed the model costs, the Company may not be able to build the contemplated plants, or if constructed, may not be able to operate profitably. The Company’s financing agreements will typically provide for a priority payback to our partner. If the actual costs of construction or operations exceed the model costs, we may not be able to operate profitably or receive the planned share of cash flow and proceeds from the project.
Terra Energy Corp. who’s President Chris van Vliet was a shareholder of TransAct through his legal council Palkowski & Company threatened in October 2010 to take legal action against TransAct Energy Corp. in regards to a $10,000 convertible promissory note. Terra Energy demanded conversion of the note to which TransAct Energy decided under the terms of the note they were not entitled to and instead issued them a cheque for payment in full which was promptly refused by Terra Energy. Since this time their legal council Mr. Robert J. Palkowski is no longer practising law and no further action has been taken. Terra Energy has verbally represented that they will only be satisfied with an issuance of common stock as demanded. We have had a legal review of the note in question and will defend the Company vigorously from any further claim.
Aqua Terra Power Corp. who’s president Chris van Vliet was a shareholder of TransAct Energy Corp. borrowed money from TransAct Energy in regards to geothermal projects in British Columbia, Canada. At the time TransAct was contemplating acquiring Aqua Terra Power if they were successful in their geothermal exploration. Aqua Terra was not successful and any contemplated relationship was terminated. Since that time the Aqua Terra notes payable to TransAct Energy, now totalling $306,766.86 (no further interest is accrued on this loan because of its status) matured and were demanded. No payment has been made and to the best of our understanding they have no ability to repay this debt. We will take legal action if the cost of said action can be justified.
The Company first traded on February 24, 2010 on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board (the “OTCBB”) under the trading symbol “TEGY”. Future trading prices of our common shares will depend on many factors, including, among others, our operating results and the market for similar securities.
As of December 31st, 2017, there are 83 active shareholders of record holding 44,381,484 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock and 13,174,375 unrestricted shares eligible for trading of which 11,393,487 are considered active shares. The total issued and outstanding is 55,544,490 shares of common stock. The holders of common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. Holders of the common stock have no pre-emptive rights and no right to convert their common stock into any other securities. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the common stock.
To leverage the waste optimization technology, the Company acquired in 2013 it needed to build the first municipal scale zero emissions waste optimization plant (Z.E.W.O.P. TM). The company spent the past four years working on the components required to develop the first municipal scale, Z.E.W.O.P. TM in, Mexico. These components included an irrevocable long term waste supply of 1320 tonnes per day of municipal solid waste, 30% of the equity required to build the plant approximately $100 Million USD, a financing for the balance of the plant-cost approximately $225 Million, an acceptable place to build the plant, a recognized engineering firm that could verify the plant could process the municipal waste 100% into useable products without emissions and presales of the products to credit worthy buyers.
The company formed a wholly owned subsidiary “TransAct Global Limited” in Ireland and had it form a wholly owned subsidiary TransAct Mexico which in turn formed a subsidiary Puebla ZEWOP 1, which will hold the first Z.E.W.O.P.TM in Mexico.
Financing efforts for the Z.E.W.O.P.TM in, Mexico although progressing, did not result in material contracts and as such did not impact on our financial results. Market development efforts will not be material and reflected in our financial statements until bona fide’ agreements are monetized.
1.)Secure working capital for the Company significant enough to maintain accounts payable at a current status and fund day to day corporate costs through to cash-flow from first operations, including expansion of corporate management team in order facilitate global dissemination of Z.E.W.O.P. TM;
We generated no revenue from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2017. For the year ended December 31, 2017 our general administrative expenses were $404,477. Currently our general administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation (75%) and travel (8%). During 2017 we recorded interest expense of $311,998 because of notes payable. Thus, we have reported a net loss of $716,475 for the period ended December 31, 2017. Our total net loss from inception on March 15, 2006 through December 31, 2016 was $(7,026,695).
Stock-based compensation represents 7.49% of the Company’s operating expenses for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017. The stocks are a part of our annual executive compensation plan, and are issued to obtain, retain and motivate our directors, executives and employees.
At December 31, 2017, we had total assets of $374,332. Our Current assets are $232,021. We have completely written down our software and computers. Current liabilities at December 31, 2017 totaled $ 4,356,872 they consisted of accounts payable in the amount of $ 284,733, accrued interest of $ 2,098,544, compensation payable in the amount of $ 1,730,350, notes payable net in the amount of $243,245.
The Company has limited capability without significant assets or earnings to raise debt. The development of Z.E.W.O.P. TM the core business of the Company will rely on debt markets. To attract this capital, the Company will have to secure long term waste supply contracts and long term product sales contracts both from high credit worthy entities. The Company must agree to encumber the assets associated with each Z.E.W.O.P. TM and all net revenue until the debt is retired. This arrangement will restrict the Company’s ability to pay dividends to its shareholders.
(a) Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company’s management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended). We are committed to maintaining disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our periodic reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating our disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and management necessarily is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures and implementing controls and procedures.
Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as such term is defined under Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act and based on the criteria established in Internal Control – Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Based on this evaluation, our principal executive officer and our principal financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level as of December 31, 2017, the end of the period covered by this Report. However anticipating greater levels of business activity in the near term we expect that we will require a financial controller in order to maintain our disclosure controls and procedures. Steps have been taken to bring on this person in a timely manner.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act). Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes of accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Our management, with the participation of the President, evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2017. In making this assessment, our management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control — Integrated Framework. Based on this evaluation, our management, with the participation of the President, concluded that, as of December 31, 2017, our internal control over financial reporting was effective.
This annual report does not include an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm regarding internal control over financial reporting. Management’s report was not subject to attestation by the Company’s registered public accounting firm pursuant to temporary rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission that permit the Company to provide only management’s report in this annual report.
(b) Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting. There were no changes in the Company’s internal controls or procedures over financial reporting, known to the chief executive officer or the chief financial officer that occurred during the period covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
There are no further disclosures. All information that was required to be disclosed in 2017 has been disclosed.
had any bankruptcy petition filed by or against any business of which such individual was a general partner or executive officer, either at the time of the bankruptcy or within two years prior to that time,
been subject to any order, judgment or decree, not subsequently reversed, suspended or vacated, of any court of competent jurisdiction, permanently or temporarily enjoining, barring, suspending or otherwise limiting his involvement in any type of business, securities, futures, commodities or banking activities; or been found by a court of competent jurisdiction (in a civil action), the Securities Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have violated a federal or state securities or commodities law, and the judgment has not been reversed, suspended or vacated.
Joseph F. Dickson. COO, Director: Joseph Dickson was the Chief Operating Officer of Innovation Fuels, Inc. out of Syracuse, NY leading the company’s bio-diesel plant operation and project development efforts from Sept. 2007 until Dec. 2009. Mr. Dickson was the Director of Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY from Feb. 2006 to Sept. 2007, the COO, Integrated Defense Systems, Inc., Glen Rock, PA from June 2005 to Jan. 2006 and the COO, Drug Risk Solutions, LLC a drug discovery company from June 2000 to June 2005. Mr. Dickson has 40 years of business experience in new ventures, business plan execution, organizational management, and operations. He has a background in high tech product design and development, manufacturing, and sales and marketing to commercial and military markets gained while working at GE and other high tech companies. He started and successfully financed two companies in the microelectronics and information technology industries. He has an undergraduate degree in chemistry and an MBA.
Tina VanderHeyden. Director: Tina VanderHeyden is a senior level executive with 32 years diverse funding and business development experience in both the public and private sectors. For the green technology sector, she recently completed funding and co-managed the installation of a major geothermal system and HVAC overhaul for a “Heritage” estate. In addition to her long term fundraising work in the education and cultural sectors, she spent several years leading research and funding for bio-tech and new technology start-ups including new business development for the Bedminster BioEnergy Technology; which uses recovered high quality Biomass to provide renewable energy.
To date, board of directors (“BOD”) has not formed a formal audit committee, nor has it secured an audit committee financial expert. The BOD intends to form said committee and secure said expert when it becomes operational.
Our board of directors currently acts as our audit committee. Because we have not commenced significant operations to date, our Board of Directors is still in the process of finding an “audit committee financial expert” (as defined in Regulation S-K) and directors that are “independent” (as that term is used in Section 10A of the Securities Exchange Act).
Our audit committee will oversee a broad range of issues surrounding our accounting and financial reporting processes and audits of our financial statements, including by (1) assisting our board in monitoring the integrity of our financial statements, our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, our independent auditor’s qualifications and independence and the performance of our internal audit function and independent auditors, (2) appointing, compensating, retaining and overseeing the work of any independent registered public accounting firm engaged for the purpose of performing any audits, reviews or attest services, and (3) preparing the audit committee report that may be included in our annual proxy statement or annual report on Form 10-K. We will have at least three directors on our audit committee, each of whom will be independent under the requirements of the NASDAQ Capital Market, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the rules and regulations of the SEC.
We have a formal compensation agreements with our Chief Executive Officer. We do not currently have a compensation agreement with our BOD and our Advisory Board members, although we intend to do so in the future. All Officers, Directors and Advisory Board members are reimbursed for their expenses related to Company service. Our active officers did receive compensation for the year ended December 31, 2017. The Directors were paid $7,234 in restricted stock awards for the 2017 year on Dec 31, 2017. The directors of our subsidiaries were paid $6,180 in restricted stock awards for the 2017 year on Dec 31, 2017.
The following table sets forth as of December 31, 2017, the name and shareholdings of each person known to us that either directly or beneficially holds more than 5% of our 55,774,971 issued and outstanding shares of common stock, $.001 par value. The table also lists the name and shareholdings of each director and of all officers and directors as a group. Except as otherwise indicated, the persons named in the table have sole voting and dispositive power with respect to all shares beneficially owned, subject to community property laws where applicable.
We have received funds from our officers and directors to fund the Company’s activities. Currently we owe Mr. Rod Bartlett $1,304.58 but does not include compensation. The Company lent Aqua Terra Power a company wholly owned by one of our previous shareholders, $263,520. Terra Energy, a company owned by one of our previous shareholders lent us $27,500.
Except for the foregoing, we have not been a party to any transaction, proposed transaction or series of transactions in which the amount involved exceeded the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of the Company’s total assets at year end for the last two completed fiscal years, and in which, to our knowledge, any of our directors, officers, five percent beneficial security holders or any member of the immediate family of the foregoing persons has had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.
any person who beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, shares carrying more than 10% of the voting rights attached to our outstanding shares of common stock; or
Audit Fees. There were no fees charged in 2017 as no audit of our financial statements for our annual report on Form 10-K and the review of our quarterly financial statements for our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q that are customary under auditing standards generally accepted in the United States took place. There were no fees charged in 2016 as no professional services were rendered in connection with the audit of our financial statements for our annual report on Form 10-K nor did they do a review of our quarterly financial statements for our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q that are customary under auditing standards generally accepted in the United States.
**The Exhibit attached to this Form 10-K shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or otherwise subject to liability under that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
Organization - TransAct Energy Corp. (“the Company”) was organized under the laws of the State of Nevada on March 15, 2006. The Company is in the business of developing and managing zero emission waste optimization plants globally. The Company has generated nominal revenues and is considered a development stage company as defined in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic No. 915. The Company has, at the present time, not paid any dividends and any dividends that may be paid in the future will depend upon the financial requirements of the Company and other relevant factors.
The Company has no tax positions at December 31, 2017 and 2016 for which the ultimate deductibility is highly certain but for which there is uncertainty about the timing of such deductibility.
The Company recognizes interest accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and penalties in operating expenses. During the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company recognized no interest and penalties. The Company had no accruals for interest and penalties at December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016. All tax years starting with 2008 are open for examination.
The $10,000 convertible promissory note payable to a company whose shareholders hold less than 10% in TransAct is unsecured, bears interest at 10% per annum and was due and payable on March 31, 2010. The payee had the option to convert the entire principal amount on or before April 29, 2009 into common shares of the Company based on a conversion rate of $.00345 per share. No interest was payable if the principal was converted to shares of the Company. The payee did not exercise its conversion option. The note is currently outstanding and in October 2010 the Company issued a check in the amount of $11,876 as payment in full of principal and interest which was returned un-cashed by the payee. The Company is currently in dispute regarding the expiration date of the conversion option in the agreement and the note remains in default. At December 31, 2017, accrued interest was $ 9,187
The $17,500 promissory note payable to a company whose shareholders hold less than 10% in TransAct is unsecured, bears interest at 10% per annum and is due on demand. This note is currently in default. At December 31, 2017, accrued interest was $15,322.
The $25,000 and $15,243.90 ($20,000 CAD) promissory notes payable dated April 22, 2011 and March 31, 2011 respectively are unsecured and bear interest at 60% per annum or $2,500 and $1,445 ($2,000 CAD) respectively whichever is greater. The notes are due on demand and may be prepaid in whole or part without penalty. Accrued interest was $ 161,848 at December 31, 2017.
The $ 3,811 ($5,000 CAD) promissory note payable dated September 12, 2011 is unsecured and bears interest at $ 361 up to September 16, 2011 and $ 36 per diem until all principal and interest is repaid. The note is due on demand and may be prepaid in whole or part without penalty. Accrued interest was $ 86,191 at December 31, 2017.
A $22,030 promissory note payable dated February 24, 2011 to a former officer (more than 1 year ago,) bears interest of $6,000 and was due on March 4, 2011. This note is accruing interest at $360 per day for every day after March 4, 2011 until the note is repaid in full. At December 31, 2017, accrued interest was $904,433.
A $46,660 promissory note payable dated April 22, 2011 to a former officer (more than 1 year ago) bears interest at 1% per diem. A beneficial conversion feature of $2,750 was recorded as a discount to the notes with the offset to Additional Paid in Capital. In May 2011 the holder of the note converted $10,000 of principal into 750,000 shares of common stock and the discount was expensed to interest. The remaining balance of $36,660 is due on demand. At December 31, 2017, accrued interest was $902,369.
A $3,000 convertible promissory note payable to a former officer (more than 1 year ago) is secured by certain assets and equipment of the Company and bore interest at 8% per annum through the due date in November 2010 and is currently in default and bearing interest at 60% the highest lawful rate. A beneficial conversion feature of $3,000 has been recorded as a discount to the note with an offset to additional paid in capital. The discount was fully amortized in 2010. At December 31, 2017, accrued interest was $13,998.
A $10,000 convertible note dated June 22, 2015 is unsecured and bears interest at 8% per annum. The note is due on May 11, 2016 unless converted to common stock in advance of that date. This note is currently in default. At December 31, 2017, accrued interest was $2,026.
Accrued interest and late fees for the notes at December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016 was $2,098,544 and $1,791,739 respectively.
Preferred Stock - The Company has authorized 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $.001 par value, with such rights, preferences and designations and to be issued in such series as determined by the Board of Directors. No shares are issued and outstanding at December 31, 2017.
In December 2017, the Company authorized the issuance of 27,297 common shares pursuant to convertible option of a note payable of $6,006 at $0.22 per share. In the same period the Company authorized the issuance of 230,481 common shares for compensation services totaling $53,656 at a value of $0.2328 per share.
The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC Topic No. 740, “Income Taxes.” This standard requires the Company to provide a net deferred tax asset or liability equal to the expected future tax benefit or expense of temporary reporting differences between book and tax accounting and any available operating loss or tax credit carry forwards.
The Company adopted the provisions of ASC Topic 740, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes”, on January 1, 2007. As result of the implementation of ASC Topic 740, the Company recognized approximately no increase in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits.
The Company has no tax provisions at December 31, 2017 and 2016, for which the ultimate deductibility is highly certain but for which there is uncertainty about the timing of such deductibility.
The Company recognizes interest accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense and penalties in operating expenses. During the periods ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company recognized no interest and penalties. The Company had no accruals for interest and penalties at December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016.
Net deferred tax assets (liabilities) consist of the following components as of December 31, 2017, and 2016:
The income tax provision differs from the amount of estimated income tax determined by applying the U.S. federal income tax rate to pretax income from continuing operations for the periods ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 due to the following:
At December 31, 2017, the Company had net operating loss carry forwards of approximately $ 7,026,695 that may be offset against future taxable income from the year 2017 through 2037. No tax benefit has been reported in the December 31, 2017 or 2016 financial statements since the potential tax benefit is offset by a valuation allowance of the same amount.
Management Compensation – The Company has accrued executive compensation of $1,614,749 to the President of the Company from inception to the period ended December 31, 2017 (See Note 11).
Compensation agreement – The President and Chief Executive Officer agreement pays an annual base salary of $250,000, with a cash bonus annually based on 5% of EBITDA and a stock bonus formulated around the return on invested capital where the issued and outstanding stock of the Company times the rate of return divided by ten will equate to the stock issued.
Land Purchase Agreement – On October 25th, 2017 the Company through its subsidiary Puebla Z.E.W.O.P. 1, S.de R.L. de C.V. entered into a land purchase agreement for 18.42 hectares of industrial use land in El Salto, Jalisco, Mexico. The offer is conditional until approximately February 5th, 2018 at which point if conditions are removed $20,265,209 Mexican Pesos ($1,087,431 USD) are due as a deposit. On or before February 15th, 2018 the purchase price balance of 182,386,878 Mexican Pesos ($9,786,880 USD) is due unless the closing date is further amended.
On January 3rd, 2017, the Company entered an Agreement with The Istana Group LLC to participate in a Lease/Purchase & Non-recourse Monetization Financing. Where Istana agrees to put up One Million Euros (€1,000,000), our subsidiary TransAct Energy Global Limited acts as the applicant with its Directors to secure a Financial Instrument with a face value of Five Hundred Million Euros (€500,000,000) which will net the Company and Istana after its sale approximately (€162,500,000) to split equally less any commissions payable. We are currently working through the application process and our European bank account set up.
And Sen. Patrick Leahy said that he is glad Pence and his wife are able to visit "the most lovely state in the country, & I hope they enjoy their time in VT". "To pay a debt of honor and respect to a man who served our country throughout his life in uniform and in public office, and it is my great honor to be here".
Divers have been sent out into the river's waters, which can range from shallow to 30 feet (9 meters) deep. Sonar images of the sunken boat indicated that neither of the missing people were on board, he said.
It's no secret there might per chance be small love misplaced between the McCains and President Trump.
Later, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined McConnell, Ryan and Pence in laying wreathes next to McCain's casket. "It's one more thing when Jesus seek the advice of with you", Joy Behar, an actress and comic, talked about on the order. Even as McCain battled brain cancer, Trump continued to criticize him for voting against a Republican health-care bill. "Generations of Americans will continue to marvel at the man who lies before us".
Moments before the ceremony began, rain poured down as USA service members escorted McCain's flag-draped casket up the Capitol steps, as senators and members of Congress - in addition to McCain's widow, Cindy, his children, and his 106-year-old mother Roberta - awaited his arrival.
Ryan added that, "We have this attractive thing, the chance to do for this man what he did for us, to stand up, to stand up and embrace the cause of his life". He will be buried at the U.S. Naval Academy Sunday.
Hanging a lettuce in your shop doorway and ordering a lion dance is just one way Chinese business owners will welcome the Chinese New Year, to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck.
Kippo hair salon owner Philip Li says haircuts are traditionally seen as lucky, but if you have your hair chopped too close to Chinese New Year you are said to be stripping away your fortune.
Mr Li invites lion dancers to perform outside his shop in Haymarket every Lunar New Year to ward off any bad luck and bring his shop and his customers good fortune for the coming year.
“We have 40 to 50 per cent more business in the weeks before Chinese New Year – about 350 customers per week!”
“But many customers choose not to cut their hair until the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese New Year because it is said to bring bad luck to uncles.”
Before a lion dance takes place, he hangs a lettuce at the entrance to his shop with a red packet containing money. In the traditional custom of ‘plucking of the greens’ or ‘cai qing’, the lion dancers chew up the lettuce and then take the money as a reward for warding off evil spirits.
Some lion dancers receive $500 to $600 for one dance, but the amount depends on how successful the business is and the proprietor’s desire to keep that good fortune.
Lord Mayor Clover Moore said community traditions such as lion dancing were at the heart of the festival’s beginnings in Sydney 22 years ago, and continue to be an important part of the celebrations.
“The lion dancing, dragon boat racing and fireworks create an electric atmosphere in and around Chinatown,” the Lord Mayor said.
“Well over a million people will take this opportunity to invite good fortune, try out the incredible array of food and shopping, and welcome in the Year of the Dog.”
In Chinatown, the Dixon Street Chinese Committee also organises lion dances for its 13 streets, shopping centres and pedestrian areas, including around 200 shops.
Dixon Street Chinese Committee organiser, King Fong, said: “We hire lion dancers so that good luck will continue without interruptions of bad luck.
“Lion dancing is an important and longstanding tradition – it has been going on in Hong Kong for more than 1,000 years. Chinese gold exploring in Australia started in 1850 and lion dances began about 1870 in Sydney and Melbourne,” Mr Fong said.
Sydney’s shopping centres are celebrating Chinese New Year to full effect, including the QVB, Westfield and World Square.
World Square, near Chinatown, is presenting an Australian-first with an augmented reality app featuring an intricate virtual dragon that twists and twirls its way around the square. Collecting 15 virtual red packets through the app wins you a gold packet that enters you into a prize draw – and you can take a selfie with the dragon.
John Fairbairn, general manager at World Square, said: “The City of Sydney’s Chinese New Year Festival attracts tens of thousands of international and interstate visitors each year.
“As a venue that skews towards a young Asian demographic, being a part of the city-wide program presents us with one of the biggest opportunities in retail outside of western calendar events such as Christmas.
“Mainland China was the second biggest source of tourists to Australia in 2016 and has grown 26 per cent year on year to more than 1 million.
“Chinese tourists spend 25 per cent more than any other tourist customer, according to research conducted by Tourism Australia,” Mr Fairbairn said.
At Westfield Sydney cultural celebrations include free tai chi classes in Pitt Street mall, complimentary tea tasting at Ladurée and trees decorated in red and gold on every floor.
The QVB will welcome Chinese New Year with an interactive installation, free dog portraits from renowned illustrator Belinda Xia, Lunar New Year exclusives from leading retailers and a WeChat campaign with gifts and offers.
QVB marketing manager Clare-Marie Martinez said: “This year we wanted to capture the joy dogs bring in an innovative way, highlighting the key traits of the Year of the Dog – generosity, loyalty and kindness.”
Sydney Chinese New Year 2018 celebrations run from 16 February to 4 March. For more information see sydneychinesenewyear.com
From the second I jumped out of my seat when the lights went down in the theatre I was hooked! Unfortunately I had entered the theatre with a pre conceived idea – that I wasn’t going to enjoy this production. … because of the very thing that was creating all the hype, the all female cast. I though the gender / feminist card would be thrust down the audiences throat as hard as that of the casting of a female Dr Who! I was wrong. For the first few minutes I fought hard with myself, looking for flaws – but honestly the play just won me over.
James Perkins design was simple but effective, multi layered and stylized – it didn’t need anything dramatic the play was so well crafted it could have been performed on a empty stage. Tim Mascoll’s clever use of light, shade and silhouettes, added to the sinister savagery consuming the Island and gave depth to the set.
The all female cast were young, playing young children / teenagers – not an easy task – it can be very easy to over act and it looks ridiculous, underact and the importance of the childhood is lost. This cast was spot on – Each one showing the transition from girl to woman to savage as well as portraying Golding’s symbolism . Piggy rationality, Rhalp civilisation, Simon innocence, Jack, savagery, Roger evil. Each one gave a well rounded performance each one being allowed to deliver moments of humour amid the unfolding horror.
Piggy was sublime and was a treat from beginning to tragic end – the likability of Gina Fillingham’s performance only heightened the pathos felt for the unheard, unlikely heroine. This was a stark contrast to the hatefully personality beautifully portrayed by Kate Lamb as Jack. The timing and interaction of all the girls was strong, credit to movement director Liz Ranken who utilised the bond of the cast none more so than with – Lowri and Mari Izzard as sisters Eric and Sam who were faultless. It was the timing and rhythm of the play that enabled the girls to work themselves into the halftime frenzy – creating highs and lows in pace and emotion allowing the audience to catch up with the events unfolding on the stage.
It was disturbing, as a female to watch the sisterhood destroy itself – the book depicts the symbol the boys waiting to be destroyed by the Beast aka man- this takes on a whole different meaning when you think of teenage girls on the brink of womanhood being petrified by the beast of man!
Most of us are familiar with the story of The Lord of The Flies and the demise of the boys left to their own devices in a world with no order – but to see females descend into the chaos of evil starting at innocent name calling and teasing, ending in death was bitter. I watched the play with my teenage son – who thought “the play was brilliant – but would have been more believable with boys as girls wouldn’t behave that way”
I disagree, as I have been a teenage girl and could fully buy into the ugliness that transpired. With this I learned two things – casting isn’t important the quality of the acting is and boy, girl, man or woman we are all victims of humanity, with a frailty of sanity on a knife edge between good and evil.
Once again a 5 Star production in this coproduction from Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre and Mold’s Theatr Clwyd who are back where they belong – leading the way in North Wales Theatre.
Lord of the Flies can bee seen at Theatr Clwyd until the 13 October. The production then play at Cardiff’s Sherman Theatre from Wed 17 Oct 2018 – Sat 03 Nov 2018
As a critic I am not technically minded, I view a play and my mind will automatically focus on the acting ability of the cast , as my background is in performing. However it would be impossible not to be blown away by the genius set design and the technicality of this production.
Using a revolving room on a split level, and a dividing floor the design by Amy Jane Cook easily managed to give the illusion of an open dolls house. (If the dolls house was a northern council house with poor electrics and bad house keeping!) This enabled the lounge, kitchen diner and bedroom all to be in full view of the audience. With swift transitions the bedroom revolved, the living room divided and the set transformed to Mr Boo’s night club. The first transition took place just after the beginning of the second half and was met with suitable gasps of awe from the impressed full house.
It would be rude not to give credit to the lighting design, by Nicholas Holdridge although naturalistic in nature a majority of the play took place in dimly lit rooms and at one point darkness. However the clever use of street, moon, dawn and torch light ensured the actors were always well lit and the tone and atmosphere were heightened. This combination of stage and technical magic combine in the final stages of the production, not wanting to spoil the effect -Theatre Clwyd’s production does stay true to the film and they do so very effectively. A combination of smoke, lights movement and LV’s impressions as she reaches breaking point culminates to an intense stage experience.
The cast were as impressive as the set, comic timing, physicality and delivery were strong. Each member of the small ensemble allowed each other to have stand out moments as well as ensuring they all worked well together to perform some very funny dialogue, comedic banter and duets. (watch out for Nicola Reynolds, Mari Hoff, LV’s mum and the brilliant Victoria John, Sadie, the down beaten neighbour performing “It’s Raining Men”)
This play can only work if LV can actually deliver the impressions stated – ergo this play works. It has been stated on social media that when Catrin Aaron sings its like Judy Garland is in the room. I fully agree – except Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and a host of others are there with her.
I was slightly disappointed with some of the direction of the play, continuity of stage exits occasionally seemed haphazard – this could be due to them being sacrificed for the technicality of the production – in which case I can forgive the occasions when walls are walked through – however towards the end of the play it felt like the cast had forgotten where doors were and they were just walking wherever!
Jim Cartwright’s script is undoubtedly witty and gritty and is supposed to be full of hilarity and vulgarity, however, I was waiting for the all important point when I would feel empathy with the characters, for me, it didn’t happen. I put this down to the direction of Wasserberg rather than the acting ability of the cast. It was played for laughs and in doing so the characters became more caricatures – that although I laughed with, I never fully connected with.
Other than this, it was a pleasure to watch, strong female leads and the standing ovation was justly deserved. Little Voice hits the right notes.
The energy in the theatre as the full house audience waits for the curtain to rise can only be described as hyper.
This is pretty standard for a Jaxx Martine Popstarz Academy show – because no matter what – you know for the next hour and a half your heart is going to burst with pride, and be blown away by the amount of hard work, dedication and talent that has gone into this show. This is not down to luck, this is clever planning and hours of dedication given by the two principle teachers Paula and Steve Duncan .
I am no stranger to this community group, I worked along with the Duncan’s four years ago in a local school on a performance workshop – the children involved were keen to have an outlet to express themselves and there was nowhere locally for them to do it. Around the same time the Duncan’s were looking for somewhere for their daughter to attend a drama class and found the nearest one to be a 30 minute drive away – So The Duncan’s thought;
“Why not try this ourselves, give our local children somewhere they can go….. if it works, it works out, if not it’s a bit of fun”
Professional performers themselves, working the circuit as singers and presenters, they have the skills and experience needed to deliver quality workshops and an ability to bond with the children. Four years later the small group of 17 has now expanded with a growing waiting list. They have moved from performing sharing sessions with parents to producing two shows a year in Rhyl’s Little Theatre, which despite it’s name seats a 190 plus audience. They also perform in one off shows including “Got to Sing Got to Dance” which showcases the community youth groups from the local areas in and around North Wales joining together and performing in Rhyl Pavilion Theatre for the charity Happy Faces. Paula has stated this was one of her proudest moments along side the children’s big production last year of a fantastic version of Willy Wonka.
The group sees children from ages 4 to 17 perform and the principles cater for all age ranges ensuring all children appear on stage more than once – this is no mean feat…. and the show itself was well crafted, this was not just a handful of 80’s pop songs performed by some school children, this was a delightful trip down 80’s lane. Full of comedy, including sketches from TV shows, adverts and dance. Naturally there were different levels of abilities, but, this became part of the charm. For example the cuteness and humour factor was used with the younger children. Understandably four to seven year olds are not going to give flawless Broadway performances ….. but who could not enjoy watching 4 mini Ghostbusters in full kit being chased around stage by bum shaking, tongue pulling ghosts?
The costumes were very realistic – I wanted to rush home read Smash Hits and pop on some lace gloves and plastic beads (Madonna). Other 80’s favourites included. White T shirts, red neckerchiefs (Bros)… Red cheerleaders (Hey Mickey) Green flared shirt high blonde pony (The shake and Vac Ad) Heely rolling, cartwheeling, old ladies (Super Gran)…. to name but a few…
The confidence of the children was one of the things I took away from the night, there were several solos and duets, to stand on an empty stage and sing solo to a full house takes some doing – this doesn’t just happen over night, this comes from having your talent nurtured , you don’t get that from reading a book or sitting on a computer. Each of the children performed to the best of their abilities all giving 100%.
However, It would be wrong not to comment on some stand out performances as there were some truly beautiful pieces, Stevie Duncan, daughter of Paula and Steve singing Fame was effortless and faultless, Lucas King (an up and coming Peter Kay) singing Bad with a bevy of beauties, A mini Hi Di Hi skit and Flashdance as a duet featuring a set of dancers. Demonstrating without doubt that this little community group delivers and is not your average Saturday club but is a little Performing Arts Academy. .
I caught up with two of the cast back stage Lucas King and Ruby Howarth I asked Ruby why she enjoyed Popstarz, (pictured below)
“I love the group, and Paula and Steve and all the friends I have made. I love everything we do but most of all I love the confidence it has given me”
“I really enjoy all the auditions we get to do, singing and acting is great fun, I love being on stage. I have been on stage lots of times In the last show we did I played Grand Pa Joe in Willy Wonka which was really good because it was a funny part and I love doing comedy”
For this particular production the hair on the back of your neck moment came when the 95 strong group performed together in their finale “Man in the Mirror” full of harmonies and emotion. You could see every child had had a blast on stage, topped off by an tearful Paula thanking everyone and making a very valid point . Paula was 20 when she first sang on stage – some of the children performing were babies.
That filled me with a sense of hope especially as earlier in the week I had read a disappointing article on Theatre In Education.
The article states how some community theatre groups and theatre in educational establishments would rather replace the children with professional actors or the children with more ability than the children with less – how is that producing COMMUNITY THEATRE ??? I feel the whole point is it that it isn’t professional. However it is the foundation for professional theatre, a place where talent can be found and grown.
Thankfully Popstarz is not that type of group and it allows all the children to shine – this group isn’t rare, but they are not common enough. Many areas have tailor-made theatre groups for children some even follow set programmes, which could encourage the type of performance snobbery suggested in the above article . They are often situated in towns or cities usually after school so access to these would typically need to be by car. Schools and local authorities do encourage instructors to come into to give taster sessions but unless what is on offer to these children can be accessed on their doorstep – what point is there?
This is not unique, a recent study in Kings College highlights my views and suggests this type of regeneration is the way forward for art in the future, and this type of community group is, in my opinion, is where arts funding should be focused.
“Only 8% of the population makes regular use of publicly funded cultural organisations, and this small minority is wealthy and white”.
So are arts grants working for the minority or the majority ? Are they opening doors to the arts? If they are they are still ensuring a guest list is being held – and if “your name isn’t down your not getting in.”
Instead of being helped by traditional arts grants the likes of small groups like Popstarz have to look else where for support. Another example, The Little Theatre in Rhyl, where Popstarz perform , a delightful theatre that hires out to community groups for a minimal fee, yet the building its self is in need of dire repair – and where is it turning for help – begging for votes for the Jewsons Grant scheme! Popstarz were recently awarded a grant by a local Housing Association for the good work they have done in the community .They have to fight for everything…. it doesn’t stop them succeeding …. but imagine what they could do with funding!!
Nick Wilson and Jonathan Gross report on a group of street dancers, their story is similar to that of Popstarz.
“Several of this group first encountered break dancing at school through an instructor brought in to run lunchtime sessions. This instructor connected the students to dance sessions provided free of charge by the local authority …… They had access to space, a friendly and supportive environment and informal mentoring from more experienced dancers.
Some now earn income through teaching break dancing in schools, prisons and at children’s birthday parties; and one member of the group spent several years dancing full-time…..”
Success brings success from performing in their little youth club space to performing on a professional stage. These children have been introduced to the theatre. Showing them that the theatre is a place where magic happens, it shows them the stage from the wings No one can tell you how that will make you feel, you need to experience it , how can you experience it if you are never given the chance ?
Our future audiences, actors, directors, playwrights etc, where are we going to find them and what voice will they have if they only come from one background ? Perhaps more importantly the reason funding should be made easily accessible to community groups is because of what they are doing . Ensuring theatre survives, showing that the theatre is a place to love, out of these children realistically maybe a quarter will continue with the arts in some form and hopefully some will continue to have successful careers as performers or may go on to teach the next generation of Popstarz. Whatever their story one thing is certain, almost all of them will hold a love for the theatre in some form and undoubtedly be an audience for the future – something that this generations theatre is sadly lacking.
If you would like to know more about Rhyl’s Little Theatre or Jaxx Martine Popstarz you can visit their Facebook pages
I am a forty something year old who has a childhood fondest for the Doctor, and as such I like to guess.
Ever since the realisation of Bad Wolf, I have been fascinated by the story arc. Waiting for the episodes written by Russell T – and in later years Stephen Moffat trying to see if a glimpse of the story arc could be fathomed.
Saturday night seemed to be the night for season ten. Written by Moffat and finally laying to rest the mystery of the vault, we had a brief reminder of how wonderful Michelle Gomez is as Missy, and whole universe of possibilities opened.
The plot was complex and played second fiddle, as my mind wondered. It took the blind Doctor, Bill and Nadul (who every week is evolving into a deeper layered character, under played skilfully by Matt Lucas) into what transpired to be a video game for some withered monks who were basically playing a bizarre version of SIMS, except the final end game was how to destroy the earth. Luckily the Dr had managed to send himself a message via his sexy ray bands and by what looks like will be the hand of Missy – the day may be saved in next week’s episode. In the back of my mind I had seen this playout before, and unfortunately ever since Bill has arrived I have had that feeling.
A new writer has emerged and with him cultural diversity is being rammed a little bit down our throats, but despite the colour of her skin and her fondness for the same sex, Bill is Rose, and the episodes we are watching are little more than enjoyable rewrites. Almost a by line, to pan out the season for the main event. ……..
I have no idea, but I have a whim. The trailer has been seen with The Master not Missy Master but John Sim. This could be a flash back or it could suggest degeneration and if the Master can degenerate then so can the Doctor. This had just been a thought until Saturday – On Saturday we saw the Doctor sacrifice something in his future regeneration to gain sight. Then there is Riversong’s book which was last seen with one of her deaths in the library – David Tennant’s Library.
I don’t know how, I don’t know when or where but I think this story will revisit the tenth Doctor, Rose the library and a story arc which will blow all other story arcs out of the stratosphere. Don’t forget who the new writer is, there is a lot to be said for 60 degrees of separation and a whole wonderful world upon worlds that these writers can play with.
I must confess my knowledge of “The Importance of Being Ernest” is limited to a handful of overused quotes about ladies’ diaries and a handbag. So on one hand I had the anticipation of the unexpected but on the other the uncertainty of the unknown.
From the second I took my seat I was no longer in The Antony Hopkins Theatre but transported back to Victorian times, the back drop giving the illusion of a period house, the set pieces minimal yet effective. Not a piece of furniture or prop wasted from the red leather sofa to the finely sliced cucumber sandwiches. As an additional trick to just drop you from your 21st century woes into the height of 19th century society no house lights dimmed and the entry of Nick Harris as the excellent if not scene stealing Merriman the Butler (and in later scenes Lane) was an unexpected start to the play. This instantly added to the feeling that I was just sat on the opposite sofa in the world of the play. This concept ran throughout, the cast all gave the impression they were at one point or another addressing the audience directly and letting us into their bizarre three act melodrama for the day.
The story as a whole was, on the surface a mild farce with a poor plot centred around identity, a name and relationships…. on the surface. The real brilliance of the play lies within it’s ironic undertones and satirical speeches poking fun at society, marriage, relationships the upper class – and much more. The actors were craftsmen in as such as they delivered outstanding performances of beautifully timed comedy, especially Matt Jessop as John, and James Backway as Algernon yet they never failed to let the undertones of what needed to be delivered get across. The relationship between the two actors on stage was a delight and one of the main reasons I found the play enjoyable. Their movements on stage were perfect, timed to dance like perfection. The end of Act II in the garden saw James Backway land a shot at Matt Jessop with a muffin that I doubt he can replicate again!!! But it wasn’t just the men who stole the show, not to be out done the ladies held their own and the bitchy banter between Gwen Fairfax (Emma Denly) and Cecily (Robyn Cara) was a master-class in delivery.
Of course the real star of the show is the writer Oscar Wilde this is without doubt his most famous play and understandably so. He writes of a world he was obviously part of and a world he was very sceptical of – we see in polite society, as it was called, that the higher up the social chain you were, the less polite one needed to be. Overall Victorian morals and views were different to todays, as a society we do not play by some of the rules in place some 100 years ago – however the majority of the play could be as relevant now as it was then and with a few tweaks this play would be a voice for today’s women, today’s illegitimate children, a voice against high society, it was in this area where I was at odds with the direction of the play as a whole. Although I found the set stunning, the garden with its 20ft plus high hedges even smelling of roses, personally I would have liked to see a modern take on the play. Yes, it’s important to keep tradition alive, yes the actors and the set and the director all did a fantastic job but Oscar Wilde was such a revolutionary writer, he was writing about topics in a way that were so ironic and so iconic that 100 years later we are still talking and quoting him and laughing at his plays…. Would he really want them played out in the same staid way? I can’t see that he would – I think he would be wanting directors to be using his words to incite the same outrage he did.
Despite my enjoyment of the production it was disappointing to watch the play in a half full theatre, in the main it was a sea of older audience members and I had to ask …. Is that because this is a traditional performance of what is viewed as an old play for an older audience who love Oscar Wilde? I hope not. This production has received excellent responses and I know the theatre is undergoing physical changes at the minute. I am excited to see the direction this takes but if it continues to stick to the same programme I feel it will continue to have the same type of audience I was part of on Saturday afternoon. I am not going grey (yet), not necessarily an Oscar Wilde fan but I found this production a total blast from start to finish. It felt slightly on the longer side as it had 3 acts as opposed to the usual 2, however when you consider the extravagant set and the time it would take to get in and out of a bustle I am not surprised but it was worth the wait.
Overall I would definitely recommend this for all audiences no matter what colour your hair! 4 stars out of 5 |
According to Gartner, Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the security discipline that enables the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons.
IAM solutions provide a methodic framework for granting and requesting access to applications along with enforcing access controls and ensuring visibility into access events.
The focus of this blog is the integration ecosystem of Cloud Access Management and PKI credential management solutions.
There are clear benefits to managing IAM centrally for all applications, be they web portal, cloud-based services, VPNs or virtual environments. According to a recent Gemalto survey, organizations on average protect 3 to 4 applications of each type with two-factor authentication (2FA). Given the numerous management complexities that arise from a fragmented IT environment, it comes as no surprise then that 94% of IT decision makers would like to be able to manage two-factor authentication centrally for all the applications in their organization.
By ensuring your Identity and Access Management solutions’ integration ecosystem is as broad as possible, you are paving the path for a smooth, quick and cost-effective implementation of whatever IAM functionality you’re looking to gain, be it PKI credential management, cloud identity management or cloud SSO. A pre-integrated and validated solution spares your IT department the need for additional development and subsequent performance issues.
When checking the breadth of a prospective IAM solution’s integration ecosystem, it helps to evaluate it against specific use cases and resources you are looking to support, as exemplified below.
• Digital signature – Based on PKI credentials, these enable proving that a document, transaction or email were signed.
• FDE – Full-disk encryption (FDE) encrypts data on a hard drive so that it cannot be understood by anyone who doesn’t have the key to decrypt the data.
Solutions that support industry-wide standards enable you to meet current, upcoming and evolving business needs.
• OATH – An open reference architecture for implementing strong authentication, produced by an industry-wide collaboration of security vendors for the universal adoption of strong authentication. The standards includes widely used algorithms for generating one-time passcodes.
• SAML – An open source protocol, produced by the OASIS standards consortium, for integrating cloud apps using a central, trusted identity provider
• RADIUS – Commonly used by VPNs and security gateways, RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) is a client/server protocol and software that enables remote access servers to communicate with a central server to authenticate users and authorize their access.
Major sporting events have become significant cyber crime targets, including cyber attacks on individual attendees. Organizers and attendees must remain cautious and aware of cyber threats. If you are organizing…
Fancy Bear has leaked what it asserts are documents stolen from the International Luge Federation (ILF) two weeks ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics.
On 24 January, the digital espionage group posted a statement explaining its motivation for conducting what it calls “OpOlympics”:
Fancy Bears’ Hack Team has repeatedly reported anti-doping rules violations in summer sports. Today, prior to the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang we decided to call your attention to winter sports that have the same doping-related problems as track and field or football. The obtained documents of the International Luge Federation (FIL) show the violations of the principles of fair play: widespread TUE approvals, missed anti-doping tests and the double standards approach towards guilty athletes.
The threat actor goes on to note how the leaked documents allegedly demonstrate an “institutional conspiracy by… national sports federations” as well as “repeated problems with doping sample bottles.”
This isn’t the first time that Fancy Bear, to which security firm CrowdStrike has attributed the 2016 hack of the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC), has targeted athletic organizations in the name of revealing “anti-doping rules violations.” In September 2016, the group infiltrated the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and published private documents concerning athletes whom the Agency has previously evaluated. The data dump followed on the heels of WADA’s recommendation that Russian athletes be banned from the 2016 Rio Olympics over state-sponsored doping practices.
Jason Hart, CTO of Data Protection at Gemalto, is familiar with the 2016 incident along with the fact that WADA found inconsistencies between the data illicitly published by Fancy Bear and the information stored in its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS). For that reason, he is skeptical about the veracity of the documents that Fancy Bear claims to have stolen from the ILF:
Much like Fancy Bears’ hack of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) website last year, these documents need to be taken with a pinch of salt, as the hacking group has a history of changing the data they steal to suit their own purposes. This data manipulation poses an arguably greater threat to organizations than simple data theft, as it can allow hackers to alter anything from stock or sales numbers and in this case, potentially the reputations of innocent athletes.
It’s important to note that organizations also make business decisions based on data. As a result, if someone compromises or changes this information, a company could potentially act in a manner that contradicts its interests and/or threatens its continuing viability.
Acknowledging the risks posed by data manipulation, organizations need to conduct a data risk assessment to identify their key data by department and division and determine the risks of what would happen if someone compromised or altered that information. They should then use that assessment to take extra care in protecting the integrity of their most valued data. This process necessitates a two-pronged approach: the application of security controls such as encryption, key management and two-factor authentication (2FA), as well as training of their workforce.
At one time maybe these were just fancy buzzwords, but now they describe workplace reality in the 21st century. Sure, some organizations still operate with that top-down, Flintstonian mentality. You don’t question executive decisions and whether you’re content or find your job rewarding is irrelevant. You’re receiving a paycheck and are expected to do your job. Keep your trap shut and be miserable on your own time.
Only now there is irrefutable evidence of the relationship between happy employees and profitability. In his book, Culture Hacker, Shane Green references a study from the University of Warwick in England indicating that happy employees increase productivity by 12% while unhappy employees decrease productivity by 10%. Disgruntled employees mean dissatisfied customers, Green says, and eventually you’ll lose both. Bet on it.
Gallup’s 2017 “State of the American Workplace” reveals that engaged employees boost profits by 20%. Several years ago, Forbes reported that revenues increased by around 22% for the magazine’s annual “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
Among the Gallup study’s eye-opening conclusions that should petrify business owners and executives:
“If you want better profits and productivity,” Green writes, “then make the delivery of a great employee experience and better culture your main thing.”
Making a weak culture strong requires a significant overhaul. Green cites the case of CHG Healthcare Services, which places medical professionals in hospitals across the U.S. Fifteen years ago CHG experienced a 50% to 60% annual turnover rate – around the industry norm these days. Now the company regularly appears in the Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For.” The turnaround started after executives interviewed every employee and manager about its corporate environment.
Your organization may have to use an outside consultant to evaluate your situation before you even begin taking remedial steps. The transformation process requires months. You have to willing to endure. But there’s a fundamental lesson that great leaders already know and aspiring leaders must embrace. You set the climate for your organization’s culture. Your employees take their cues from you. You are a mirror — your employees reflect your attitude, outlook and behavior. If you project pessimism, don’t expect those under you to be optimistic. If you are cranky and dull, then you’d be foolish to expect your people to run around blowing whistles and ringing bells.
It isn’t enough to have a great sales strategy or terrific products. Your bottom line ultimately hinges on how you treat your employees.
“Culture is no longer just a human resources priority or thing,” Green writes. “It is a fundamental business thing.” |
DESIGN REQUIREMENTS: Visit the link below for all design specifications: http://www.ticketprinting.com/Template-Design-Specifications/Poster-and-Event-Tickets.html THEME:AFRICAN THEME POSTER & EVENT TICKET. We really like the general approach that was used here with African patterns and textures: http://wellington.govt.nz/events/events-calendar/2013/05/africa-day Another great example: east african baking - see attached The sample copy provided below is for a fake event and is not to be used to influence the design elements. We provide this as an example of how much content our customers usually use. Please allow space for all of the copy. *************************************** POSTER SAMPLE COPY: ASA presents Africa Day Celebrating African Unity 50 years The sounds, song and food of Africa comes to you in a one-day festival. Saturday 25 May 2013 Town Hall 1234 Springfield Street 11:30am – 11:00pm Join the African Students' Association for the 3rd Annual African Culture and Art Explosion! This is a great opportunity for members of the campus and your local community to be immersed in a night of rich African culture. Arts and Crafts - featuring work from world renown African Artist Live Music - DJ Dakar know worldwide Local Food Trucks - Food from Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Kenya Poetry - Liberian Women's poetry group Fashion - Showcasing several African designers Ticket Price: $10 at the door Visit our website: www.ASA.org Thank you to our sponsors (room for sponsor logos) EVENT TICKET INFORMATION ASA presents Africa Day Celebrating African Unity 50 years The sounds, song and food of Africa comes to you in a one-day festival. Saturday 25 May 2013 Town Hall 1234 Springfield Street 11:30am – 11:00pm Ticket Price: $10 No.001 **************************************** Please be original (do not copy a poster from Google image search) Creative and cutting edge copy layout Provide room for the final customer to upload their own sponsor logos. ***You are welcome to use stock imagery from fotolia.com. Our total budget for imagery is $100, but the image MUST be Extended X. If an image does not offer Extended X we are unable to use it. You can download a comp for placement and then if you are chosen as the winner I will post the high quality print file(s) so you can make the final files high resolution. The use of fotolia imagery needs to leverage your design, not just an image you purchase and slap some text on top. We need the the fotolia images to be a great addition to YOUR design. Please review the follow use of the fotolia image and how it was incorporated into our current Designer's creation: Yoga Poster Fotolia image: http://us.fotolia.com/id/41421806 Final Design: http://www.ticketprinting.com/Posters-and-Flyers/Details/Lotus-Flower-Flyer-PHI/ Roller Derby Fotolia image:http://us.fotolia.com/id/16906252 Final Design: http://www.ticketprinting.com/Posters-and-Flyers/Details/Roller-Derby-Passing-Star-Poster/ Bass Fishing Poster: Fotolia image: http://us.fotolia.com/id/15505276 Final Poster Design: http://www.ticketriver.com.au/Posters-and-Flyers/Details/Bass-Fishing-Tournament-P-PHI/ The fotolia images need to enhance YOUR design not rely completely on it. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!
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PLEASE READ THE ENTIRE BRIEF! A lot of the vehicles this logo will be displayed on are black! So the logo needs good coloring so that it "Pops" and stands out on a black background. So be creative, use some shading, color graduation, and think outside of the box. Good color choices are a metallic like Teal for the words "Rescue Air" and a bright red to bright blue color fade for "Heating & Cooling"... The logo should have some way of incorporating a red cross in a cool modern way. The company's emphasis is on a quick/emergency response so the font should portray that. My original thought was to have the logo to the left of the company name and "heating & cooling" under "Rescue Air". There should be a red line that comes from the red cross and goes underneath the words " Rescue Air". That red line should have a sharp heartbeat squiggle that comes up between the words "Rescue" and "Air" The logo will be used for general print and for vehicle wraps so some of the formats needed would be .EPS , PDF , and JPG. THE ATTACHED PHOTOS ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE STYLES, FONTS, CONCEPTS. Camdrone file is a perfect metallic Teal color.
Hello,feedback/suggestion would be much appreciated.Any color variations can changed as per requirement.
I like the idea of the airflow mixed in with the red cross, however i'm looking for a more fine tuned graphic like the "Rescue Force" picture example I added to the Brief. I also like the font used in the "Rescue Security" picture example. As for coloring I like the graduating teal/blue colors used in the "CamDrone" picture example. I'm looking for a real modern logo like the "CamDrone" logo.
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The airflow arrows are a cool concept, but the main visual idea of this company name is that when you see it, you need a double take to see if it is a heating and cooling company or Fire / EMS (paramedics). So some sort of red cross needs to be a main focus point. Possibly use a heartbeat line below "rescue air" and have the heart beat squiggle come up between rescue and air. Also the words "Rescue Air" should be bold, sharp and shadowed or outline or something of the sorts. thanks
Ok Thanks! I'll get on that! I appreciate the feedback! (and roger that on the teal color change -from the last reply!)
Cool concept, it just needs a little more flare to standout , and a emergency red cross needs to be incorporated
Awesome concept. Can you intesify the colors some more,,, make the yellow/orange more of a bright red. Can the twists come off of the red cross, and is there a way to help make the red cross stand out some more. Can you non italicize the font and fade the "heating & cooling" text from bright red to bright blue throughout the text and make the font thicker. Thanks
The colors look great. Can we try a whole new approach and get rid of the wings all together. Use the red cross from your #4, put it to the left of the words "rescue air" and have a red line exetend from the cross under the words "Rescue Air" with a heartbeat squiggle come up between Rescue and Air. Can you make the "hearing & cooling" text color change from red to blue. Thanks
I really like the red cross design. The graphics coming off each side kinda look like wings. Can those be sharpened up or tweaked or find some other way to incorporate a heating & cooling sense. I like the "rescue air" font however a lot of the backgrounds for this logo will be black so could you use the same coloring on "rescue air" that you used on "heating & cooling" including the same color fading. |
"Amid the barren deserts of Arabia, a few cultivated spots rise like islands out of the sandy ocean...several illustrious women have sustained with glory the weight of empire. Zenobia was esteemed the most lovely, as well as the most heroic of her sex. Her large black eyes sparkled with uncommon fire."
Zenobia watched the covers rise and fall several times—labored breaths that tore her heart and taxed her patience. Her mother had dozed off once again. She allowed her gaze to wander as she waited, knowing it would not be long. Thick red curtains added to the pervasive presence of death, but Zenobia’s eyes were accustomed to the gloom. To think that only one year before her mother had looked young, strong, and as beautiful as any woman in the entire Eastern Roman Empire! Now here she lay, decimated from the wasting sickness like one three times her age, the smell of decay overpowering the perfumes intended to mask the odors. The tic of Zenobia’s right hand, spilling a few drops of cool water from the silver ladle in her hand, was the only sign of the shudder that threatened to flash through her body like a flame racing up a bolt of silk.
Zenobia’s eyes flared at the mention of the gods of the underworld, but she held them steady on the drawn face of her mother. She forced the distress at her mother’s words into anger, cursing her lack of control. The oppressive air of the darkened room helped fuel that anger.
“Of course not, Mother. As you often say, this trouble is only a stray camel passing across the face of the great desert.”
Zenobia knew her mother’s thoughts: such pretense was another mark of weakness. The fetid body, wasting away to a shriveled hulk, made the inevitability of death clear. The only question was how long her mother had left.
Her mother sighed, but the sound rattled as it came up her throat and passed her cracked lips. In spite of constant drips of water from the ladle, Zenobia could not keep them moist. When her breathing steadied once more, her mother continued.
“The blood of Cleopatra, the greatest queen the world has ever known, flows through your veins. You must not let this chance go to waste.”
Her mother boasted Queen Cleopatra VII as an ancestor through Drusilla, granddaughter of King Juba II of Mauretania and Cleopatra Selene, the daughter of Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony. How much of this was true, if any? It didn’t matter … especially now. Zenobia opened her mind and her heart wide as she prepared to obey. “What must I do?”
Moments passed before the older woman spoke again. Zenobia was not certain if she were gathering her thoughts or her energy.
“You must know that, even now, Shapur I leads a mighty army against our wealthy neighbor of Antakya to the north.”
With her free hand, Zenobia rubbed her fingers lightly over her lips. “No doubt Shapur wishes to make an impact after his father, Ardašir, proclaimed him co-ruler of the Persian Empire above his older brothers.”
Her mother gave a tight smile, clearly pleased that her daughter understood the political implications. “Emperor Valerian will ride with Lord Odaenathus in two days to witness his destruction of the southern bandits.”
Zenobia nodded. The Tanukh, one of the larger nomad Arab clans, had seized this opportunity to send a strong raiding party along Palmyra’s southern border. But she did not see the connection.
Another pause as her mother once more gathered her strength. “It is said Valerian will grant him command of the combined armies to face the Sassanids if he is pleased with the result.”
Now she understood. Since the rule of Tiberius, Odaenathus’ family, the Septimii, had controlled the city of Palmyra in an uneasy truce with Rome. It seemed that Valerian now wanted to formalize the relationship, and viewed the current Septimii prince as the man to take charge of this desert city that acted as a buffer against the mighty Persian Empire. Quietly, it was rumored Valerian was getting old and wanted to spend some time in his villa in southern Italia. Before he handed over his legions, however, Valerian wanted to witness the vaunted leadership of Odaenathus using only his own Beduin cavalry.
Zenobia’s eyes flared once again, but she stifled an exclamation. She fussed with the ladle while she regained her composure.
The woman inclined her head slightly on the beautifully made pillow, a sign she was pleased with her daughter’s reaction. Before her illness she would have been more subtle, but now she came right to the point.
“The passing of Princess Lejka has left a gap that Lord Odaenathus must fill. When Emperor Valerian makes him governor—which he will—he must have both a wife and a mother for his young son. You must become that wife.”
The exclamation slipped from her before she could catch it. Zenobia had forbidden the servants from speaking to her mother of the latest developments, not wanting her to exert herself over politics, but she should have known better. Dying or not, the woman’s mind remained sharp and her strength of character like steel. Her mother’s hand rose only slightly, but it was enough to dismiss the outburst.
“Lord Odaenathus must have a woman stronger than the one who died of the birthing sickness. You are strong, and have been trained since childhood for just such a position. You must not let this opportunity pass.” Her voice cut through the silence of the household as she repeated the command.
Three years before, Prince Odaenathus had proudly held his heir aloft for the citizens to see: Hairan, named after his father. But Princess Lejka had died three days afterward. It had taken more than a year for the citizens to recover from the loss of the beautiful young princess, whose charity and kindness were renowned throughout Assyria. Only the presence of enemies to the north and south of his city had pulled Palmyra’s prince out of his sorrow.
As Zenobia gazed around the large, richly-appointed bedroom, she reflected that she had indeed been trained for this moment. Her father, Zabbai bin Selim, had been a very wealthy minor nobleman of Palmyra. In keeping with the warrior queen tradition of Assyria, Zenobia had been trained from an early age in riding, hunting, and the use of weapons. When a trading caravan led by her father had been wiped out by bandits, her mother had focused all of her attention on preparing Zenobia for some great destiny, no doubt envisioning a rejuvenation of her glorious family heritage.
Her mother gave a slight smile, reminding Zenobia of the woman of only a year before. “It is already arranged. Lord Odaenathus will allow you to join the other young nobles who will get their first taste of battle. You must make certain to capture his eye, not just as the great beauty you are, but as a brave, strong warrior. When he is ready, he will think of you first.”
Zenobia dipped the ladle once more into the cool water, giving her mother time to regain her breath. Lord Odaenathus was a great warrior, a splendid man, and no doubt soon to be second in Assyria only to the emperor himself. But he was old, at least twice her own age of seventeen, and now had a son and heir. How could she ever find happiness as the wife of such a man?
“There is only one thing important in life.” Once more, her mother’s eyes gazed at her like those of a hawk about to stoop on its prey. “The only thing that gives one control of life.”
“Yes, Mother.” Zenobia had been told that often enough by both of her parents. The only important thing in life was power, because only that could make you safe. As she dipped the ladle toward her mother’s eager tongue, a sigh crossed her mind, but not her lips.
The early morning air was crisp, invigorating. The sky was cloudless, and not even the cry of a desert hawk broke the stillness. The morning was glorious, with shades of crimson complementing the yellows and browns.
Zenobia sat calmly on her horse, a bow in her left hand and the reins held loose in her right. A Roman gladius hung from a sheath at her side. She stared down a slight rise at the Tanukh camp. If she joined in the conflict, she would guide her swift Arabian with her knees to leave both hands free to use her weapons. The other young nobles, poised atop their mounts on either side of her, wore heavier armor, and each carried a spear and the longer Assyrian sword. To their left sat Emperor Valerian surrounded by his turma, a detached cavalry unit of thirty men from his Praetorian Guard.
Below, a few horses nickered and a handful of camels chewed their cuds. Some of the Tanukh stirred. Otherwise, the camp was quiet.
The bandits had found a large oasis only a few leagues from the village they had raided the day before. They slept on the ground with their horses tethered beside them. The camels, still weighted down with the booty from the Assyrian nomad camps they had attacked, stood at the center of the circle of Tanukh warriors. The guards posted along the rise and on the far side of the camp had been dispatched by stealthy Beduin, who had slithered across the sand under the cover of darkness, their long knives clenched in their teeth. When the first light of the sun broke the horizon, they had pounced as one to slit the throats of their assigned sentry.
A sudden war cry pierced the silence, and the main Palmyrene cavalry flew over the ridge toward the invaders. Odaenathus led the charge, the point of his sword circling above his head. The air suddenly roiled with the thunder of horses, the battle cries of men, and the dust that rose like steam in a cauldron.
With amazing speed, the Tanukh sprang from their bedrolls and grabbed their weapons. Some loosed arrows, while others leaped on the backs of their horses before the first wave of Palmyrenes swept into their ranks. Throwing their spears or shooting arrows, the Beduin horsemen wreaked carnage among their startled foe. Just as the Tanukh organized some resistance, a smaller band of cavalry swept from their rear, completing the trap.
From her vantage point, it looked to Zenobia that the battle would be over before she and her companions could enter the fray. Her brows furrowed and the corner of her mouth twisted, yet a sigh of relief fought to escape her lungs. Her mount pranced at the violent noise and motion of men in conflict, but she steadied him with a firm hand. At that moment something caught her eye: a group of Tanukh must have recognized Odaenathus as the opposition’s leader and determined to exact some measure of revenge. Forming into a tight mounted group, they charged the spot where the prince was already occupied by two of the bandits, his back to the half dozen warriors bearing down on him. Without thought, Zenobia kicked her horse into motion and raced toward the same spot.
At a full gallop, she managed to get off one arrow before she entered the melee. She felt a strange thrill to see the man fall, although there was no time to evaluate her feelings. As the distance closed rapidly, she drew her short sword and shouted a warning to the prince, who had killed one of his foes but remained oblivious to the greater danger.
Startled by her shout, the prince glanced up. In the time it took him to see both Zenobia and the enemy bearing down on him, the man below him gave a fierce grin and stabbed upward. His blow caught Odaenathus’ horse squarely in the chest. With a scream, the horse reared violently, throwing his rider to the ground, the sword embedded in its muscular torso.
As though the flow of time had stilled to a mere trickle, Zenobia saw the attacker on the ground draw his long knife. At the same time, the rider now leading the pack raised his sword to cleave the prince with a mighty blow. Her warrior instinct still ruled her, an unconscious reaction to the unfolding scene. She pulled hard on the reins with her free hand, guiding her horse to a point in front of Odaenathus, who was just rising to his feet, one hand automatically reaching for the sword that lay on the ground beside him. The stench of blood, leather and sweat filled Zenobia’s nostrils.
Just as the bandit began his downward stroke, Zenobia’s horse rammed his mount from the side. Both animals went flying from the violent contact; the other rider slammed headfirst into the ground. The man’s horse came down squarely on the assailant on the ground, crushing him beneath its weight. Zenobia had already launched herself into a dive, breaking her fall with both hands and rolling with the impact. Her shoulder smashed down even so, and the breath whooshed from her body. She just had a moment to see the other horses veer from the carnage in front of them before she tumbled over once more, slamming her heels hard into the yielding sand.
Dazed, Zenobia lay flat on her back for several seconds, amazed the sand had softened her fall enough so that she was not seriously hurt. Struggling to sit up, she saw Odaenathus already standing, swinging his sword ferociously at the riders who had regained control of their mounts to renew the attack.
But it was too late for them: more than a dozen Palmyrene cavalry had closed in, frantic to defend their prince. Within seconds, the Tanukh warriors were all dead or dying, while Odaenathus remained standing. He stared down at Zenobia with wide eyes, panting heavily.
Zenobia drew in great gulps of air, and suddenly realized that both of her arms trembled violently. Her heart beat as though to burst its way through the light armor she wore. Her head and shoulder throbbed, yet strangely she thought only of the concern and wonder that lay deep in the dark, soft eyes of Odaenathus.
Then the prince bent down and took her hand. Gently, he pulled her to her feet to stand beside him. His voice was deep, but flowed like a refreshing desert stream.
Zenobia giddily had but one thought: her mother’s command had been realized. The prince of Palmyra had definitely noticed her. |
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For the first time in 12 years, the Baltimore Ravens and Pittsburgh Steelers will face each other without Ben Roethlisberger or Terrell Suggs on the field. Mike Vick is the new face in the next chapter of the intense Ravens/Steelers rivalry.
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Trial dates were set Tuesday for the six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
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A new satirical news era dawned on Monday night as Trevor Noah took over "The Daily Show." But before getting started, Noah made sure to acknowledge the man he's replacing: Jon Stewart.
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My old school, Southern-bred mother was appalled to learn that my then 2-year-old used words like vagina and penis.
Governor Larry Hogan attended the Baltimore Ravens home opener against the Cincinnati Bengals, along with four children who are also battling cancer.
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USA triathlete and registered dietitian, Michelle Tuttle, placed sixth in the Sprint World Championship (50-54 age group), third for the U.S. team, at the 2015 International Triathlon Union (ITU) triathlon in Chicago recently.
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Governor Larry Hogan met His Holiness Pope Francis in Washington and received blessings on behalf of all cancer patients on Thursday, September 24, 2015.
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On August 13, 2015, five-year-old Gabrielle Giles, won the prestigious title of Miss Maryland Princess 2015 for the National American Miss Pageant.
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Every time I think the media has sunk below the point of no return on the scale of embarrassment; they prove to the world that there is truly no floor for how low they can go.
The Green Street Academy building is as important to West Baltimore today, as the ground it stands on was decades ago.
The Baltimore Ravens returned home after spending an extended amount of time away from Baltimore thanks to opening the season at Denver and in Oakland.
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A seasonal home makeover doesn’t need to cost a fortune or be difficult to execute. Quick, easy and innovative ideas can give your home the fall flair needed to celebrate the season.
It is no secret that the Baltimore Ravens need to have someone other than wide receiver Steve Smith Sr. become a threat in the passing game.
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The discovery of what looked like nooses hanging from a tree at the University of Delaware in Newark stirred outrage and anxiety this week, even after police ruled out a hate crime.
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As Pope Francis prepares to visit the United States for the first time, the world is waiting to hear what he will say about key issues facing the church.
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The Baltimore Ravens gave up 351 passing yards to Derek Carr and the Oakland Raiders in a losing effort. There were quite a few coverages blown and the results were clearly unacceptable. Ozzie Newsome and the Ravens brass wasted no time trying to find a possible solution
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I am the oldest of my mother’s children and have taken care of our family for most of my life. My mother started having children early, was married and divorced several times and has really made a mess of our family.
It was a good night for vice presidents, transgendered women, cranky New Englanders and the inhabitants of a mythical world called Westeros.
Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) announced that it will have a recycling drop-off location in Baltimore for working room air conditioners and dehumidifiers.
During National Recovery Month, runners and walkers of all ages will lace up their sneakers for the 7th Annual Marian House Race to Embrace Independence 5K Run/Walk and One-Mile Family Fun Run on Saturday, September 26, 2015.
Maryland WholeHome is a statewide initiative that brings together the resources available to help homeowners learn how they can make their homes healthier, safer and more energy efficient through the Department of Housing and Community Development’s (DHCD) low interest loans and grants.
Maryland Live! Casino, an affiliate of The Cordish Companies, has launched a new hiring initiative aimed at recruiting young adults aged 18 and up for all available positions at the Hanover, Maryland, casino.
For the second year in a row, the Promise Heights initiative led by the University of Maryland School of Social Work (SSW) helped families cope with one of the challenges of getting their children back to school— immunizations.
For seven years, Gordon Johnson served as head of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
When John Jacobs and his brother Bert started selling T-shirts out of a van 20 years ago, neither could envision that their message of “Life is Good” would lead to a $100 million enterprise and act as a catalyst to help encourage and support those who maybe facing the difficulties that every day life poses.
Being overweight is a common problem that increases the risk and decreases survival of certain cancers.
Peacewalker Audri Scott Williams has walked all around the world for peace. She is the Global Trustee of the United Religions Initiative (URI), was the vision keeper who led the “Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk”, and the “13 Moon Walk 4 Peace” across America. She has received numerous awards for her service to humanity, and emulates the efforts of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The College of Southern Maryland has received the 2015 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine, the oldest and largest diversity-focused publication in higher education.
Damage Controlman 1st Class Iwaniki Selere, from Baltimore, responds to an alarm from an eyewash station switchboard in the central control station of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20).
I want to direct this column quite explicitly to African Americans. When you hear Donald Trump wail against immigrants, I hope that you understand that he is also talking about you.
Taylor Alexander, 23, reopened her Baltimore-based business— Flawless Damsels Boutique— for a second time on August 29, 2015.
The Academy Art Museum will celebrate its 18th Annual Craft Show, “Blown Away,” October 16-18, 2015 in Easton, Maryland.
The Baltimore Seafood festival will feature signature seafood dishes ranging from raw oysters, lobster lasagna, shrimp ceviche, grilled oysters, and fish tacos to steamed crabs!
Baltimore County Police and Fire celebrate the 11th Annual Public Safety Day Saturday, September 19.
Join the Baltimore County Police and Fire departments for a day of family fun at Public Safety Day on Saturday, September 19.
The Banneker-Douglass Museum, Maryland’s official repository of African American heritage launches the BDM Selfie Studio on Saturday, September 26, 2015 from 1:00pm-3:00pm.
How do you go from being an internationally respected surgeon, to a conservative folk hero, to nearly edging out Donald Trump in polls for the GOP presidential nomination?
On Friday, September 18, 2015, participating McDonald’s restaurants in the Greater Baltimore area will offer free breakfast to kindergarten through eighth grade students from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Nowadays, school supplies differ greatly from the markers, protractors and pencil cases required just a few decades ago.
Though summer is the season for grilling, the arrival of autumn does not mean it's time to banish the grill to the back of your garage. Dedicated grillmasters have no problem firing up the grill in the dead of winter, but even those who are not so bold can still man the flames of an open grill long after Labor Day has come and gone.
A new report is sounding the alarm about the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry supply chains of the 25 largest U.S. fast food and "fast casual" restaurants.
East coast teams that have to travel to the Midwest and West Coast in back to back games can rack up a lot of mileage.
When nude photos of a celebrity surface nowadays, it's often rumored that the star may have "leaked" them.
Consumers aren’t looking for health problems when they shop at dollar stores or keep older furniture, but a cocktail of chemicals seeping from these items offer exactly that.
As the 2016 election cycle ramps up, Essence magazine and the Black Women’s Roundtable have teamed up to mobilize and re-energize Black women voters.
There is something almost Biblical about the mass exodus of desperate people fleeing Syria and other war-torn and impoverished countries. For European governments, struggling to manage the crisis engulfing their borders, the Bible has a succinct lesson they might do well to ponder: "For whatever one sows, that will he also reap."
Governor Larry Hogan issued a statewide proclamation announcing September as National Blood Cancer Awareness Month in Maryland.
Stir-fry is a dish many people, adults and kids alike, seem to love. That popularity is perhaps because no two stir-fry dishes ever seem to be the same or because stir-fry dishes encourage cooks to take chances with ingredients.
Martha Walton of Gibson Island was named the first recipient of the Clark Raines Rising Star Award at the Mason-Dixon Master Chef Tournament on Sunday, August 16, 2015.
A new class of heroes is taking a stand against HIV and AIDS by educating others on how to stop the spread of the epidemic.
The Baltimore Ravens opened the 2015 regular season with a 19 – 13 loss on the road against the Denver Broncos
Embattled Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday that she will not seek re-election, saying a political campaign would take time away from the city's ability to cope with a police brutality scandal.
With as much meaningless and non-redeeming information being discussed on radio and TV among black folks, I often wonder if we even want to hear solutions to our problems, much less do anything to help solve them.
Don’t pack away that shovel and trowel yet. Fall is a great time to plant a few new additions in the landscape. Here are just a few ideas for adding immediate and long-term beauty to your garden.
As many people contemplate retirement there are many things to consider before making the move. After financial assessment and planning, the next question is "What will I do?"
Alyce Dixon has been called one of the spunkiest centenarians in the District of Columbia. She has also been called feisty, funny and simply amazing.
Fighting for freedom and equality comes in numerous different forms, vessels and vocations, particularly in a society with a history of stereotypical distortions about human capacity and ability based on race and ethnicity.
Light of Truth Center, Inc. (LTC) is celebrating its “Sweet 16” birthday. In celebration of its birthday, the life-changing, non-profit organization will host “Women of Jazz Supporting Women in Recovery” on Friday, September 25, 2015 from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m.
On July 31, 2015, 9-year-old Kennedy Stokes won a medal for the 100 Breast at the annual AAU Junior Olympic Games that was held in Newport News, Virginia.
Hello my dear friends, I hope everyone had a happy, safe and memorable Labor Day Weekend. The weather was perfect here in Baltimore. It was like it was God’s gift to us.
It’s a bit of a struggle for Renita R. Clarke to come up with a short list of her favorite artists. Herb Ritts; Jonathan Mannion; Chan Andre’; Jemal Countess; and even her dear friends and mentors Leslie Alessandro and Mike Quain can’t be forgotten, she said.
Native Baltimorean Sabernia D. Fresnel is a graduate of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and Towson State University.
Getting children to try new foods is not always easy. Kids have a tendency to be picky when it comes to the foods they eat, and many youngsters are reluctant to try all but the most familiar foods.
The Baltimore Ravens used a first round pick on wide receiver Breshad Perriman in the 2015 NFL Draft.
A judge will hear arguments Thursday on whether six police officers in the Freddie Gray trial can receive fair trials in Baltimore.
John Harbaugh says Ravens rookie receiver Breshad Perriman has a chance to play this week but it’s not likely
Baltimore officials approved a $6.4 million deal Wednesday to settle all civil claims tied to the death of Freddie Gray.
Vanessa Fleeton recalled when a Black police officer became rude to her a few years ago while she parked near an illegal area in Bowie, Maryland.
While no single food or ingredient can prevent people from getting cancer, research has shown a link between excess body fat and various cancers.
Although we have to make several physical changes to be successful at weight loss, the most important change is how you think.
Parents faced with the nightly task of preparing meals for their families often feel as if there's just not enough time to cook a hearty, homecooked meal the whole family can enjoy.
My boyfriend left me to be with another woman. It wasn’t the first time he’s cheated, but it is the first time he moved out. He came by last weekend and asked if he could come back.
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot reminds delinquent taxpayers that they have until October 30, 2015 to take advantage of Maryland's “Act Now, Pay Now” amnesty period.
BCCC will use the NASA Minority University Research and Education Project grant to increase student success and workforce development.
Lt. Governor Boyd K. Rutherford was joined by Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake at the launch of the “Maryland Grand Slam in Baltimore City,” a $3 million program to build stronger communities in Baltimore through homeownership at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Wednesday, September 2, 2015.
Baltimore-based production company Battle Stage Plays officially launched its Kickstarter Campaign on September 1, 2015.
Whether they're Team Cookie or Team Boo-Boo Kitty, it's no secret that fans love "Empire," the hit Fox TV show breaking records and winning over critics with its blend of love, hip-hop and unvarnished family drama.
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males with one in seven men diagnosed in their lifetime, and an even higher incident rate among certain populations including African American men.
The 2015 NFL preseason officially came to a close for the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons on Thursday.
This is the time of year that many parents send their children off to college with the hope that they will learn, mature, become independent, have a great collegiate experience, but most of all, with the hope that their children will be safe.
Starting Tuesday, September 8, 2015, McDonald’s® Family Restaurants of Greater Baltimore will again be saying “Thank You” to local educators with “Teacher Tuesdays” by offering complimentary any size McCafé Drip Coffee or Tea (hot or iced) every Tuesday throughout the 2015-2016 school year.
It takes a village to raise a child, according to an ancient proverb and for two local, civic-minded individuals, it takes a good garden to help feed a family and to keep a neighborhood growing.
NFL teams are facing the difficult task of cutting their rosters down from 90 players to 53 in the coming days. Every team has players on the roster bubble.
The M.F.A. in Curatorial Practice program at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) presents “Intersection,” an exhibition showcasing the layered stories of people, places and moments in history that have shaped the identity of one of Baltimore City’s popular intersections, North Avenue and Charles Street in the Station North neighborhood.
Lenett Nef'fahtiti Partlow-Myrick read an article that was written by the Rev. Bernette Jones, Senior Minister of One God One Thought Center for Better Living (OGOT) located on Coronado Road in Randallstown. The article was entitled “Nothing Is ‘Wrong’ In Baltimore: A New Thought Consciousness Perspective. “
Hundreds of businesses and organizations— including many in Baltimore— are signing the online petition, “Business for a Fair Minimum Wage statement” and actively pushing for increases locally and nationally.
A 1,574-square-foot wellness center equipped with treadmills, exercise machines, bikes, a rowing machine and more opened at the Francis Scott Key Elementary/Middle School in Locust Point on Thursday, August 27, 2015.
According to IHS, an international industry data company, Black Americans spent an estimated $8.4 billion on cars in just the first four months of 2015. In the coming year, the U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. (USBC) is determined to direct that cash toward Black-owned dealerships.
A Baltimore judge ruled Wednesday there will be separate trials for each of the six police officers charged in connection with the death of Freddie Gray.
The new iPhone is just around the corner, and it's time to get serious about trading in your old smartphone.
School day mornings can be hectic, as getting kids ready for school and out the door on time is not always easy.
The writer of the new James Bond novel "Trigger Mortis" has set off a firestorm with a remark about Idris Elba.
Ten years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, it’s time for midcourse corrections in the restoration efforts.
Indian cuisine is known for its creative use of spices, which often attracts foodies who simply can’t get enough flavor or kick in their meals. For those who want to try their hands at creating their own fiery Indian meal, consider the following recipe for “Chicken in a Spicy Red Sauce” from Madhur Jaffrey’s “Quick & Easy Indian Cooking” (Chronicle Books).
The familiar saying that exercise is good for the body and mind may be especially true for children. |
Reasons to Rent: Waking up to the sunrise from your comfy bed on the Airstream. Enjoying the large fire pit under the star-filled sky and absolute peace and quiet in a remote setting.
You've always admired the retro styling of Airstream trailers and have dreamed of setting off to some peaceful, remote spot to completely disconnect from your chaotic life. Well here is your chance! Tucked onto a hilltop surrounded by 1,000 acres, The Perch is off-the-grid, primarily using solar, and could be categorized as glamping (glamorous camping), combining the restorative, communing-with-nature, outdoor experience and cool sleeping environment, with hot water, full kitchen, digital TV and cell service.
Laid-out like a meticulously-designed small boat, the bedroom in the Airstream features a comfortable queen size bed with windows (and shades) all around. There is even a small TV. The compact bathroom includes a shower (there is an outdoor shower off the back, too) with plenty of hot water, while the kitchen and accoutrements have been organized in such a clever fashion that you will marvel. Even the dining table and surrounding leather banquette (where there is also a second TV) convert handily to another bed (king). Though this property closes in winter (at over 1 mile, the driveway is too long to plow), there is heat in the Airstream for comfort during chilly evenings, and air conditioning in summer. Wake to the sunrise and the most pristine peace and quiet, and watch the fog in the valley slowly burn off.
But wait, there's more! The original plan was to add a small screened platform, but now witness the really quite fabulous Pavilion! This fully-enclosed outbuilding has a wall of casement windows, echoing the feeling of a screened porch or sunroom, which includes a comfy lounge, dining table, breakfast bar, terrific kitchen, and delightful full bathroom with shower. And if your disconnecting from civilization does not mean missing the big game, grab the remote, there's a TV. The building also includes heat and air conditioning.
The property is about ten miles from the highway, and after passing through the farm gate, your cares will fall away during the 1.5 mile journey to the site. You'll be aware of the absence of all sounds but perhaps the wind, and certainly the chirping birds. The clearing affords a view across to a completely forested ridgeline which meets a huge expanse of open sky. The sun rises over that ridge, and bathes the property in a warm, pinkish light. Even if you're not an early riser, you may be tempted to head out and grab a seat and be present for the start of the day.
It's pretty much a given that you and your peep(s) will want to hang at the mega fire pit under the stars. This is where people converse, where they connect. It's where your daily routine has not just been broken, it's been obliterated. It's what you'll remember when you think back on this vacation.
This outstanding property is adjacent to the Neversink Unique Area (aka Neversink Gorge) an exceptional 6,500 acre preserve owned by New York State that features the Neversink River and surrounding lands. What makes this so cool, is that access to the river generally requires a 1.5 mile hike in, to reach this utterly unspoiled waterway, with its notable trout fishing pools, hiking trails and its memorable beauty. A trail on the property connects with the trail system in The Gorge.
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A marriage falls apart when communication gets garbled and partners don’t talk it out. For example, one partner says something, but what the spouse hears is something completely different than what’s intended – that’s garbled. Because of our childhood backgrounds or current emotional self-esteem, we can misinterpret what is said by a well-meaning spouse. Once that seed of misunderstanding is planted, it can grow at an alarming rate and fester to poison all communication. To untangle that web of misunderstandings can be difficult once it’s well established because by then, everything said in the future, points to that seed (even if it was a core misunderstanding). Unless there’s some open and seriously truthful discussion of what each person thinks, to clear away the debris of what they really meant, then the trouble increases. Ultimately, a complete breakdown in communication occurs from which, unless there’s marriage counseling, there’s no point of return.
And if you’re not a mind-reader, you may never know what’s ultimately going on in your spouse’s head when they are distant and hurting unless they share with you. But to share with you, to be vulnerable and to say what’s on their minds, is hard when they are hurting or mad.
On the other side, if you are the one hurting and not sharing, then you are making it impossible for your partner and for you to communicate. Sure, it’s hard to say you’re hurting or mad or be vulnerable in any situation. But to remain silent and angry or distant isn’t helping the situation either. It’s simply adding fuel to the fire of disengagement between you and your spouse. It’s breaking down that tender thread that holds you together as a couple.
It happens over time, this stress on the tender threads of love that bind you as a couple. Years of past hurts can build up if not cleared out of your psyche and old wounds fester when we repeatedly allow the same baloney to occur. Forgiveness is key. Appreciation is key. Gratitude is key and open lines of communication are key. In addition, kind, physical contact – a spontaneous hug or kiss which doesn’t necessarily lead to the bedroom (or does if both are in the mood!) – can soothe a stressful spouse and speak volumes more than hashing out the latest litany of complaints. Not that I’m saying that the affectionate fanny pat that you may give her while she’s doing the dishes and you’re walking to the fridge to grab a beer makes everything ok. Nope, no way. But if you were to wrap your arms around her and do the dishes with her or hand her the beer and you take over the dishes because you can see she’s stressed out, now that’s a different story. On the other hand, if your hubby’s stressed out, try to be extra kind and gentle. Let him relax with the remote in hand while you do the dishes alone without pouting.
It’s a give and take dear friends. It’s when we keep score, that it all goes sour. Sometimes we give more and take less, sometimes we take more and give less and sometimes, we sit on the seesaw in perfect balance. But we have to be there together in order to make it work. Opting out is the option that leads to divorce and separation.
Remember to treat your partner with respect as you would your friend. Friendship is a give and take as is marriage.
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You are wise, and I so agree with you!! My husband and I met 50 years ago in 1967. Two years later when we were married, my divorced father simply wrote on our wedding card, “Keep the lines of communication open. Love, Dad.” That stuck in my head for all my married years and made all the difference. It certainly does take respect and effort! Thank you for sharing this with us all!
Your Dad was right! Keeping the lines of communication are what tethers us to our spouses/relationships otherwise, there’s nothing to bridge the gap. Thanks for sharing his wise words! Congrats on 50 years! That’s awesome! You should pat yourselves on the back! I admire you!
I think sometimes it also has to do with moving down different paths to the point where no matter how hard you might try, you no longer speak each other’s languages.
Thank you Mojo! I think you are right as well. We stray from the shared path which is fine unless we are so far apart on our own individual paths that we cannot meet in the middle. I think you are amazing too 🙂 |
Michael John Bergin (born March 19, 1969 in Waterbury, Connecticut of Irish Catholic extraction). He is considered to have been one of the first males to have acheived the supermodel status, previously reserved for women such as Cindy Crawford and Iman. Bergin attended the University of Connecticut and is perhaps best known as Mark Wahlberg's successor in Calvin Klein's racy series of black and white underwear ads. His 6" 1' frame and washboard abs (widely cited as his professional signature) gained international exposure in print ads and, notably, on a 96' X 70' billboard in New York City's Times Square. [edit] Professional Background In addition to his high-profile role as the �spokesbody� for Calvin Klein, Bergin has walked the runways of New York City, Paris and Milan for Sonia Rykiel, Valentino, Calvin Klein, Gianfranco Ferre, Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint-Laurent and Donna Karan and was the exclusive model for Claiborne for Men, a division of Liz Claiborne, Inc., for over three years. He has also appeared in commercials and print advertisements for Kellogg's, Bacardi Rum, L'Oreal, Maybelline, Coty, Valentino, Perry Ellis, and Liz Claiborne. Branching out into acting and television presenting, Michael�s career has been more it and miss. Bergin was a correspondent for the E! Entertainment channel, VH1 Latin America's House of Style, the co-host of MTV exercise show The Daily Burn, and as a recurring character on the prime-time soap opera Central Park West. As a contracted 'star', Michael spent nearly 4 years on the syndicated Baywatch and Baywatch Hawaii and starred as villain "Nick Bozman", on the NBC supernatural soap opera Passions. In unusual variety for a model-turned-actor, Bergin worked for art-house legends Merchant Ivory in the 1998 film The Proprietor, played a closeted gay action film star opposite Dean Cain in 2000�s The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy, and guest-starred as a rapist on CBS's popular crime procedural CSI: Miami. [edit] Personal Life While contracted to Calvin Klein, Michael met the late Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, a Calvin Klein publicist, whom he dated seriously. After that relationship fell apart due to career pressures, she went on to marry popular "first son," John F. Kennedy, Jr., with whom she later perished in a fatal plane crash. He claims to have had an affair with Bessette-Kennedy during her troubled marriage to the late Kennedy, Jr.. Later, Bergin was linked romantically to fashion designer Valentino in untrue industry scuttlebutt inflamed by a reportedly besotted former manager. (A related rumor, this time true, is that the character of "The Bone" in both the book and television incarnations of Sex and the City was a thinly veiled jab at Michael and his close relationship with the famous designer. Ironically, Bergin was passed-over to play the character on the HBO show because he was, by then, considered too old for the part.) He married Joy Tilk on September 24, 2004, and is the father of a son, Jesse, and a daughter, Alannah Jade. [edit] Other Bergin has worked closely with the anti-drug children's program D.A.R.E. as a national spokesperson, and lending his name, time, and image to numerous AIDS charities. (Though it is not yet known whether his arrest for drunk driving on the anniversary of Bessette-Kennedy�s death will impact his long-term work with D.A.R.E. Bergin, who is straight, is popular in the gay community due to his willingness to take on gay roles, interact with the gay press, and work with AIDS charities. His willingness to not shy away from the gay community has led a loyal fan base in the gay community and to recent, favorable ,comparisons to the similar career fearlessness (if not talent) of actors Christopher Meloni, Jude Law, and Antonio Banderas. His work with the D.A.R.E. program has brought him equal acclaim from law enforcement, anti-drug, and child advocacy groups, as well.
Europe is undergoing profound changes that have had an impact on diverse arena, from the economy to education, from migration policies to agricultural practices. In this, Language Mediation (LM) is no exception. While it is true that the core of LM is always the same, it is also true that conditions, users, tools, and needs have changed to such an extent that LM practices are unrecognisable from what they were a few years ago.
That is why the CEL/ELC set up a Special Interest Group on Language Mediation (eventually renamed the Special Interest Group on Translation and Interpreting for Public Services, or SIGTIPS) entrusted with the task of reflecting on the current situation and on ways for the various components of the LM scene to be prepared to meet present and foreseeable needs.
The group was launched on 19-20 March 2010 and ran until 2012, chaired by Maurizio Viezzi. A final report was issued in cooperation with the European Commission. The final report can be found in six languages in the archive.
The Dubliner’s putting the finishing touches to his first release of 2016 – a debut outing on the Maeve label, with his debut LP and further 12”s on the way. It follows a series of well-received releases and remixes for labels and acts including Hivern, Perm Vac, Apartment, Major Problems, the xx and Mano Le Tough.
Live, New Jackson cranks up the machines: vintage drum modules, trusted synths, a dusty Russian vocoder and an MPC heart. Highlights from 2015 include shows in a Boiler Room turn, Panorama Bar, Berlin; Milan; Barcelona; Lithuania and a flurry of shows in his native Ireland: a Body and Soul headliner; a Maeve party and a RBMA slot at Electric Picnic.
For New Jackson’s Celtronic Rave Tape, New Jackson has put together a great mix featuring artists including |
Author’s Note: This is a book of Verse that was written during my personal spiritual awakening process, during the time I was encountering my ‘Shadow’, the dark parts of our self that we mostly avoid. The writing would come complete-whole. I would feel it inside me and write it as I heard-felt it. No editing has been done except for clarity. In my interaction with God-Source-Love my experience is, It doesn’t struggle to create. While receiving these verses I was deliberately encountering the forgotten-rejected- abandoned- parts of my Self as happens in Amazonian Ayahuasca shamanic journeys which are becoming popular now. I asked God for real healing and I spent many soul journeys traveling into my inner self. It is important in order to heal(which means to become 'whole' again),that we accept, allow, bring back inside us those lost pieces of our own selves. Often those pieces are 'dark', or we've labeled them so. Which is why we rejected them, sent them out... More > and away from us to begin with.< Less
A few weekends ago, a crew of friends and I celebrated James' birthday by going apple picking at Carter Mountain Orchard. We have recently decided that we are too cool for birthday dinners, therefore we wanted to do something fun and different that everyone could enjoy. Carter Mountain Orchard is about 70 miles west of Richmond and it's no problem to get in the car for a day trip. We almost didn't go! It was misting and chilly that morning, two of my friends were hungover and another lost his phone the day before. Plus, we had just cycled and I just wanted to stay home and eat donuts. So many elements! Needless to say, we all powered through and decided we were going! I am so glad that we did, we got a little workout and a lot of apples. Oh, and apple cider donuts!!
Ok, to be honest, I don't love apples. I typically only buy them to be juiced, but within that past couple of months they have been on my radar. I think because we got an apple corer as a wedding present and that truly made a difference. Now I snack on apple slices with nutritional yeast sprinkles. I hate biting into an apple, I always feel like I'm gonna break a tooth and I just can't take those kinds of risks with my mouth. I do love me some Granny Smiths and I was pleased that they were very ready to be picked. James is an apple lover. He is the first person to order stewed apples or drink apple juice. I didn't have a plan for what I was going to do with these apples but I just knew that I wanted as many as I could pick!
My apple haul was pretty major. I still had about 16 or so apples two weeks after we had gone picking. The Granny Smiths were in pretty good shape and I decided it was time to make applesauce! Also, I have been really interested in making Apple Cider Vinegar by using apple scraps and was excited to finally have enough. You should know that I am obsessed with drinking ACV, in my water or shots! I used the first recipe that came up on Google and it was from The Pioneer Woman. A wise chef once told me that you make any recipe your own if you just change one ingredient. (I pretty much changed nothing.) I liked this recipe a lot because it was vegan and did not use butter. This recipe yields about 5 pints of applesauce. Què delicioso!
Add all of these ingredients in a large pot. Medium heat on the stove until the apples are soft. Throw you that shit in your Vitamix. I didn't even get a picture of my apples getting blended, it's just that quick.
1. First you will need to get your fretboard ready by first thicknessing it to standard dimensions of around 1/4". Go ahead and cut the fret slots. You should radius your fretboard at the nut and last fret using the same radius number that is noted on the gauge.
2. Before you cut the fretboard taper use a digital caliper with the Neck Contour Gauge to measure the width at the nut and at the last fret. Make sure you take the measurement directly over the fret slot. Mark these numbers on your fret board and use a ruler to connect the marks.
3. Cut out the taper of the fretboard and check that your fingerboard width matches the appropriate measurements (the cut-outs are deliberately made slightly large so as to more easily check the fingerboard radius).
4. At this point the neck will have already had the peghead glued and thicknessed, peghead veneer glued, the heel glued, the truss rod installed, the neck attached to the body by bolts or dove tail joint, then the fretboard glued to the neck blank. There are many steps in this process that are not covered by this tutorial.
5. Go ahead and install the frets while the back of the neck is still flat. This eases the pressing of the frets, or hammering of the frets because you do not have to worry about the neck rolling on you, or damaging the back of the neck.
6. With the neck ready to start carving, create a quick jig to keep the neck stable while carving. It is made up of a 3/4" thick piece of plywood that is 24" long x 3". Clamp or bolt to your bench top, and a place a rubber router pad between the frets and the board to protect the frets. (Click HERE to view the Video)
7. Next you want to remove the extra wood on either side of the fretboard. You can use a chisel or rasp to get it down flush with the fretboard. As you get closer to the fretboard you can use a cabinet scraper or sanding blocks.
8. Create a template for the heel shape and make a cut out for the truss rod. This small jig is made out of 1/4" hardboard, and cut to any shape you want. Trace this on to your heel, then cut a little outside of the line.
9. Next you want to cut off the excess outside of the line that you drew in the previous step. You can use a saw or chisels to get it down, then use a rasp as shown below. Draw a shape on the end cap to whatever you choose, but be sure to leave it long enough for the bolt inserts. Bolt inserts are usually 1/2" to make it slightly longer than that. Trace it on the cap, then cut and rasp around it.
11. In the next step you will start to carve the thickness and curvature just in front of the heel, around the 10th fret. Refer to the template for the exact location to start carving. Most steel string guitars are marked on the template at the 10th fret. So directly under the 10th fret, use a rough rasp or a microplane to get the right thickness and curvature. Continue checking the curvature against the template as shown in the videos and pictures below. But be sure to leave about 1mm or 1/32" oversized. Final sanding will take care of this later.
12. Next you will do the same step at the 1st fret that you just did at the 10th fret. You should also start to transition the neck into the peghead as you do this.
13. At this point you should have the area in front of the heel and the area under the 1st fret thicknessed and contoured to within 40 thousandths of an inch. You will have a large lumpy area in between these 2 points. The next step is to remove the material between the 2 points using a spokeshave(or any other tool to quickly remove material). As you get closer to the final dimension, switch to a rasp or scraper.
14. Next you will use a small straight edge or ruler to find lumps in the neck that need to be evened out throughout the curve and up and down the neck.
15. The final step is to use sandpaper to smooth and blend any marks left by the rasp or microplane. Use 80 or 100 grit for this step to get even closer to the final thickness at the 1st and 10th fret, then finish with 220 grit. At this point you should have a carved neck. Congratulations!
As opposed to illicit drugs — which are sometimes in a raw state like cannabis or cocaine and must be self-dosed — prescribed drugs are as convenient as they could be. They come in a pill, chewable tab or liquid form and are packaged, like foods, in slick boxes and durable, portable little bottles.
Pharmaceuticals and all manner of remedies and medications (both secured and available over-the-counter) have been designed to be taken readily, easily, which is precisely why they are so popular.
This is also the reason that they are popular to take for non-prescribed benefits, simply in order to feel a particular compound's effects in a normal state of bodily health (this is 'recreational' or 'non-medical' use). People also may self-medicate during an illness or while experiencing certain symptoms, but without correct attention from a physician or pharmacist.
In any case, prescription drug abuse is comparable (and only slightly less prevalent) with marijuana abuse, which is one of the most popular illicit drug lifestyles.
Again, the general convenience and high usability of prescribed drugs (which are so common that adults or children without prescriptions find it easy to pilfer, borrow or buy spare pills from others — who themselves may or may not have been prescribed) turn out to be a significant part of the reason that pills are dangerously easy for abusers or addicts.
Also, there is the fact that the pharmaceutical industry arguably has become too powerful, too influential in the country's overall health care system. The drugs they produce exist within a general atmosphere of safety and officialdom — reinforced by their ubiquitous presence in the media, news headlines, celebrity lives and so forth.
On the other hand, if one examines statistics that show the rise in demand for prescription drug rehab treatment or the rising trend of overdoses, the social illness is also clear. But the risk factors for abusing these prescription drugs or receiving negative effects from them are numerous, and they include:
The pharmaceuticals marketplace has provided the eager public with a smorgasbord of slickly advertized formulas (despite common jokes about their excessive, awkward disclaimers following the branded drug ads). Any sharp observer notices that most of the ailments these medications target or treat are not necessarily life-threatening, but lifestyle oriented (like Viagra, acne remedies, or pills for 'social anxiety' or hair-loss).
Such social messages and their ramifications lead to a permissive culture toward the quick fix of taking chemical compounds — instead of dealing with certain problems, like sleeping disorders, using holistic approaches that correct and improve one's lifestyle. This state of affairs (the totality of our society's misunderstandings and underestimations of the harm of taking so many medications) are particularly harmful for younger users Many children are simply brought up quaffing pills, accustomed to the simplistic and convenience-obsessed logic of over-medication.
Unfortunately, spotting somebody's signs of abuse or dependence upon legitimate medications can be more difficult than in the case of illicit drugs. The effects, potency, reliability, usability and even low price of many prescription drugs make it easier for an addict, for example, to keep their experiences and sensations unknown to others. Somebody can be a 'functional addict' of pharmaceuticals much easier than with illicit drugs, which generally take more time to procure, prepare and take into the body.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, non-official use of prescribed drugs falls into three main classes (opioids for pain, depressants for the central nervous system, to treat psychological conditions, and stimulants). These classes can be used when seeking to identify abuse or addiction. For example, one who may be addicted to pain killers will show associated relaxed effects, while the effects of stimulants have noticeably different somatic signs.
A successful treatment for anybody addicted to prescribed drugs must respond to their particular needs, obviously. There are a variety of modalities for rehabilitation available — each person must pick the most effective, with help from doctors. In some cases, a 'dual diagnosis' is appropriate, which means that the patient has a serious psychological problem to sort out as well.
Research has shown that unless the treatment is comprehensive (going to the personal roots of an attachment) it is usually ineffective over the long run, even if physiological attraction to the substance(s) has been resolved. That's why we offer a long term, in-depth and holistic program at our drug rehab center in Florida. |
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Have you already thought about the right time to purchase of products in the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the Medication & Remedies product group? We tell you the days of the week and specific times when the prices are particularly attractive.
On mondays, products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are slightly more expensive than the weekly average. The prices are around 1.1% higher than the average weekly price.
On tuesdays, products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are slightly more expensive than the weekly average. The prices are around 6% higher than the average weekly price.
On wednesdays, products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are slightly more expensive than the weekly average. The prices are around 2% higher than the average weekly price.
On thursdays, products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group tend to be cheaper than the weekly average. The prices are around 1.1% lower than the average weekly price.
On fridays, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are largely the same as the weekly average. friday is typically neither a particularly expensive nor a particularly cheap day on which to buy these products.
On saturdays, products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group tend to be cheaper than the weekly average. The prices are around 2.1% lower than the average weekly price.
On sundays, products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group tend to be cheaper than the weekly average. The prices are around 1.1% lower than the average weekly price.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 0:00 and 1:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 1:00 and 2:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 2:00 and 3:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 3:00 and 4:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 4:00 and 5:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 5:00 and 6:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 6:00 and 7:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 7:00 and 8:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 8:00 and 9:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 9:00 and 10:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 10:00 and 11:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 11:00 and 12:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 12:00 and 13:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 13:00 and 14:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 14:00 and 15:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 15:00 and 16:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 16:00 and 17:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 17:00 and 18:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 18:00 and 19:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 19:00 and 20:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 20:00 and 21:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 21:00 and 22:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 22:00 and 23:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
The prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group fluctuate during the course of the day. Between 23:00 and 24:00, they are, however, largely in line with the daily average.
It is probably not a bad idea to shop online for Hot & Cold Therapies on saturday between 6:00 and 12:00.
On mondays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On mondays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On mondays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On mondays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.1% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On tuesdays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.9% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On tuesdays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 3.7% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On tuesdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 7.3% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On tuesdays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On wednesdays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On wednesdays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.3% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On wednesdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.3% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On wednesdays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.3% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.1% higher than their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On thursdays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.6% lower than their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On fridays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On saturdays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.1% lower than their respective average weekly price.
On saturdays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.7% lower than their respective average weekly price.
On saturdays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.3% lower than their respective average weekly price.
On saturdays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.4% lower than their respective average weekly price.
On sundays between 0:00 and 6:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On sundays between 6:00 and 12:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On sundays between 12:00 and 18:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average the same as their respective average weekly price.
On sundays between 18:00 and 24:00, the prices of products from the Hot & Cold Therapies product range in the „Medication & Remedies“ product group are on average around 1.7% lower than their respective average weekly price. |
Learn about local heritage at popular landmarks in the area like Castle. Local sights like Roman Bridge and Ciudad de Vascos Ruins are worth a visit. Alcaudete de la Jara is an inviting destination that has something for everyone.
Whether you're planning a longer vacation or a weekend getaway, Alcaudete de la Jara has the right hotel for you. There are Alcaudete de la Jara accommodations with discounts of up to 10%. We have room prices starting at 37 USD per night and below you'll find the number of hotels by star rating in Alcaudete de la Jara as well as in the surrounding area:
A crowning achievement of the Heritage of Malaysia Trust, Rumah Penghulu, or Malay House, is a traditional stilt house from Kampung Sungai Kechil, a small town in Kedah in the very north of the country.
It was the house of a local headman and is suitably impressive in design. There are three main areas; the living area, the bedroom and the kitchen and dining area. The house is solid wood and was built through the 1920s and 30s.
It was bought by the trust and painstakingly moved to Kuala Lumpur where it was restored to its former glory and is a celebrated part of preserving the nation’s heritage.
Rumah Penghulu is a 10-minute walk from Raja Chulan monorail station, otherwise it is a 20-minute walk or a quick taxi ride from KLCC railway station or Ampang Park railway station.
The Appian Way (Via Appia Antica) was the first and most important Imperial Roman road, stretching from Rome to Brindisi. The cobblestone road—built in the fourth century BC to transport supplies and soldiers to strategic points throughout the Roman Empire—still exists today, lined with archaeological sites and impressive ruins.
Named for architect Appius Claudius Caecus, the Via Appia Antica was one of Rome’s main highways for centuries. As the empire began its decline in the third century and Rome experienced barbarian attacks, the Aurelian Wall was erected around the city’s seven hills for protection. This defensive wall had a number of gates, including Porta Appia (Porta San Sebastiano), which today contains a museum about the Aurelian Wall.
A guided walking or bike tour down the Appian Way from the Aurelian Wall through the Ancient Appian Way Regional Park and Caffarella Park is the perfect way to explore this historic road and the ancient sites along its route through the Roman countryside. Appian Way tours include stops at sites like the thermal baths of Caracalla, the early Christian San Callisto Catacombs, the Circus of Maxentius, the tomb of Caecilia Metella, and the ancient Roman aqueducts. You can also join a guided small-group bus tour to explore the ancient road from central Rome.
Via Appia Antica and sites along its route are all open-air, so bring a hat, sunscreen, and plenty of water.
The Appian Way and its sights are almost entirely outside, so it’s best to visit in the spring and fall when the weather is mild. It takes anywhere from a few hours to an entire day to explore the route on foot or bike, so plan on setting off in the morning.
The initial stretch of the Appian Way, just outside Rome’s city center, is part of a regional park, and many of the archaeological sites along the route are located within the park’s confines.
To see more of Rome’s ancient sights than what you find in the historical center, get out of the city on this electric-assist bicycle tour to the Ancient Appian Way. You’ll check out the ruins of the Aurelian Walls, the thermal Baths of Caracalla and the ancient Roman aqueducts, all the while enjoying the countryside scenery without putting in too much effort. This small-group tour (limited to 10 people) comes in two variants: a shorter 4.5-hour version and a longer six-hour one. The two variants are identical in itinerary, but differ in their inclusions. For more info please check the Important info section.
Escape the urban bustle for a day on this 6-hour culinary tour of the Roman countryside. Travel along the ancient Appian Way through historic villages like Castel Gandolfo, Nemi and Frascati, stopping at vineyards and other gourmet destinations to indulge in local flavors. Taste excellent regional wines, specialty products like ‘porchetta,’ fresh-baked biscuits and creamy gelato while your guide shares insight into the history and culture of the beautiful landscape.
Explore the highlights of early Christian Rome with this exciting 3-hour afternoon walking tour via foot and coach. Led by a knowledgeable driver-guide, get an insider's view of the Eternal City and its Christian history. Stops include the Basilica of Sant Maria Maggiore, the Basilica of St. John Lateran. And then go underground by checking out the intriguing catacombs, an early Christian burial spot just outside of the city at the Appian Way.
Cruise through Rome on two wheels with this cycle through the Appia Antica Regional Park. Customize the itinerary according to your interests and cover ground quickly as you explore the bicycle trails of this ancient highway, home to several historic landmarks including the Villa of Massenzio. Helmets and locks are included.
Venture outside the city center to explore some of Rome’s lesser-known but most impressive imperial attractions on this 3-hour bike tour. Cycle along the legendary Appian Way, an ancient military road that winds through the countryside and connects Rome with the coastal city of Brindisi.
Enjoy a scenic and relaxing trip to Roman countryside in this comfortable and customizable private tour, with private roundtrip transportation from your centrally located hotel in Rome, and a knowledgeable & enthusiastic driver to lead the way. Plenty of photo opportunities along the route as we visit Nemi, Ariccia, Castelgandolfo and Frascati.
Take a break from city crowds on a private half-day cycling tour that follows in the footsteps of the ancient Romans. Your guide eliminates the hassle of navigating unfamiliar territory on your own, and brings you to landmarks and historic sites outside the city that visitors often miss. After a working up an appetite, cap the tour with a sit-down meal at an authentic Italian restaurant.
See Rome on two wheels on this 4-hour private bike tour. You'll explore outside the historical center to discover a new piece of the city. Following a private guide, visit hidden gems that most visitors never see and get to know the real Rome through a local's eyes. A glass of wine is included.
Go underground to see Rome’s ancient catacombs and crypts on a 3.5-hour walking tour. Visit the Domitilla Catacomb and Basilica of San Clemente with skip-the-line access, plus visit the Capuchin Crypt, where you’ll see a Caravaggio painting and marvel at a chapel made entirely out of human bones. Learn about past burial customs and secret Christian worship spots during this fascinating exploration into the history of Rome.
Attend a Papal Audience with Pope Francis I at the Vatican! Tickets may be free but they are extremely hard to come by, so booking in advance is essential. By booking ahead, you're ensuring you won't waste any time trying to get tickets while you're on vacation in the Eternal City.
Uncover the secret side of Rome as you venture off the tourist trail on this 3.5-hour tour. Stroll the streets of the historic Jewish Ghetto, peek inside the gigantic Circus Maximus and follow part of the Ancient Roman Appian Way. Then, explore little-known historic sites like the Park of the Aqueducts and the Baths of Caracalla; look out over the city from Janiculum Hill and enjoy a unique view of St. Peter’s dome. This small-group tour is limited to 15, ensuring a personalized experience.
Experience the Roman countryside on this 3-hour tour that combines travel by vehicle and walking. With a knowledgeable guide, you’ll explore the Appian Way (Via Appia Antica), an ancient road that leads out of the city. Visit the fascinating Catacombs of San Sebastiano or San Callisto, where you’ll walk through underground tunnels, and be wowed by the sophisticated engineering of the Roman aqueducts.
It’s party time! Ride a vintage tram through Rome and watch a live band belt out songs by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, the Beatles and more. With free-flowing wine included, the tram tour follows a route around several of the city’s must-see sights and includes a stop to dance outside the ancient Colosseum. Dig out your favorite 1970s outfit to wear on board, or just come dressed to dance.
Escape the heat and hustle of Rome with a half-day trip around the hill towns of Castelli Romani. Visit Lake Albano, Rocca di Papa, Castel Gandolfo, Grottaferrata and Frascati, and sample locally-made wine while learning about wine production in the area. This half-day tour is an excellent opportunity to see an untrammeled swath of the Roman countryside while learning about the history of the area from your local guide.
Discover Rome’s history on a full-day tour to Vatican City and the catacombs. Begin at the Vatican with a skip-the-line ticket to visit the museums, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica where you can find works of art by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and more. Then head underground to explore the ancient Roman catacombs and other Christian landmarks such as the Cathedral of Rome and the Holy Staircase.
See the darker side of Rome on this 3.5-hour private tour to the Appian Way, the Catacomb of San Callisto, and the Basilica of San Clemente. You'll also see the 'Bone Church,' where the skulls of Capuchin friars cover the walls. The tour ends at Piazza Barberini; hotel pickup is included but not drop-off.
Venture off-the-beaten-track in Rome on this 6-hour bike tour, led by a Dutch-speaking guide. Journey back to Ancient Rome as you explore little-visited ruins, cycle along part of the ancient Appian Way and marvel at ancient wonders like the Circus of Maxentius, Aqueduct Park and Trajan's Thermal baths. Then, pedal along the country trails of Caffarella Park and stop to refuel with a traditional aperitif.
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Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is bringing her special bill forward for markup. Which special bill, you ask? It’s the United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act of 2011 (H.R. 2829); you know, the one seeking to cut funding to UN agencies that commit the crime of not being hostile to Palestinian rights. Recognizing how U.S. interests can be harmed by this bill, efforts are underway to poke holes and create exceptions to allow some funding to continue. Among these efforts is a potential amendment by Rep. Berman that will allow for UNRWA funding to continue under certain conditions. However incomprehensive the final restrictions turn out, this is simply a bad bill and a wrong-headed proposal by Ros-Lehtinen.
People like Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann seem to have no problem making Islamophobic statements, but Mitt Romney’s Mormonism apparently has them conflicted: they wouldn’t want to seem like all around bigots by attacking his faith, but they probably don’t mind that some are trying to make it a problem for him. After Texas evangelical leader and Rick Perry supporter Robert Jeffress declared that Mitt Romney was a non-Christian cult follower whom Christians should not support for President, Bachmann and Cain were asked to comment on whether they agreed. Both stood short of defending Romney, and just dismissed this as a non-issue, while reasserting their own Christian faith. Ok, maybe it’s not as horrendous as Cain’s lack of comfort with the idea of Muslims serving in government or Bachmann’s mad ravings about Muslim culture, but that’s still pretty weak. Politicians should set political opportunism aside and reject Jeffress’s divisive comments more bluntly.
You’re only as good as the people around you. The same applies (even more so) to individuals holding or seeking public office. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took a big step backward when he appointed Walid Phares as one of his foreign policy advisors last week. Phares, likened to Zuhdi Jasser and Walid Shoebat in the Center for American Progress’ recent report on Islamophobia Fear Inc. (see page 57), is one of those so called “experts” from within the Arab American community who attempt to validate claims that mainstream Muslim groups harbor sinister intentions and pose a threat to our society. Was this really a good choice for Romney, who himself is the target of religious bigotry and should know better? And we’ve said nothing about Phares’ history as a spokesperson of a group responsible for atrocities against civilians during Lebanon’s civil war (and his trivialization of those atrocities, as highlighted by the aforementioned report). You might want to rethink this one, Mitt.
Ralph Nader, Arab American consumer advocate and the best known 3rd party presidential candidate since Ross Perot, has weighed in on the 2012 election. He spoke to Politico in defense of the two-party system. Ok, we’re totally kidding! Can you imagine? Nope, he took another stab at the two-party system as being too closed, catering to identical commercial interests, and so on. He suggested President Obama should be primaried by liberal progressives this election season, an effort “not designed to defeat him, [but] to hold his feet to the fire” regarding his 2008 campaign promises. Nader also hoped New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (currently centrist independent, formerly Republican, formerly-formerly Democrat) would run for president and make it a 3-way race, surprising many and disappointing some of his hard-line left-wing supporters. Whether or not the third party option is a good idea is certainly open to debate, but what is beyond dispute is that Nader always has an interesting take on seasonable politics.
When Herman Cain is not busy blaming the unemployed for their being out of work, or undermining the rights of American Muslims, he’s usually coming up with ways to simplify government functions. A few months ago, he suggested bills should be no longer than 3 pages (not a huge fan of reading, we take it). More recently, he’s been touting his “999” plan to simplify the tax code. Where did he get that idea from? The Huffington Post suggests there is a good chance he got it from a video game. Let’s hope none of the candidates are playing Mortal Kombat when they’re trying to decide which interrogation techniques are appropriate for detainees.
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That was the question I had after watching Lou Montanez blast a 10th-inning game winner in the Phillies 5-4 win over the Pirates in Grapefruit League play Thursday afternoon.
The reasons are that even the Phillies celebration of the blast seemed muted. Normally players would dart of the dugout to greet and celebrate a walk-off homer. But when Montanez -- the likely Triple-A-bound outfielder is off to a hot .500/.429/1.333 start to Spring Training -- hit a long drive to left field off Pirates reliever Michael “son of Rich” Dubee there was a trickle of Phillies out of the dugout but not the home plate celebration so often shown in SportsCenter highlights. Plus considering the spring training tradition of not going deep into extra innings, the Phils and Bucs had already decided to call the game in the 10th inning even it remained tied.
And, as Montanez slapped high-fives with his teammates and coaches, something else became apparent: most of the Phillies regulars had already called it a day.
Leaving spring training games early are commonplace for starters as they sometimes go to work on other parts of their game or just go to get some rest but that doesn’t make Thursday’s celebration any less awkward.
Of course there was one guy of note who greeted a victorious Montanez -- Hall of Famer Michael Jack Schmidt. The Phillies legend has been teaching the current Phils a thing or two this spring training as a special instructor.
Cole Hamels pitched 3-2/3 scoreless innings allowing four hits and a walk while striking out two. The lefty left with the bases loaded in the fourth but Dave Bush was able to get the Phils out of the jam.
Shane Victorino supplied the big offensive moment of the game when he hit a two-run homer in the fifth.
The win improved the Phillies to 3-3 in Grapefruit League play. They return to action Friday when they meet the Tigers in Lakeland, Fla.
In partnership with the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the U.S Embassy of South Korea, NBR organized a presentation on the future of the U.S.-South Korea Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the implications of the agreement for bilateral relations, and its impact on nonproliferation in Northeast Asia.
This timely event, held on April 4, 2017, featured a keynote address by Thomas M. Countryman, former United States Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation. An open Q&A session, moderated by John Park of Harvard University’s Belfer Center, followed the keynote presentation.
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Two days later they mobilized again and marched on the Immigration Customs and Enforcement Processing Center [2] demonstrating their outrage at the separation of families.
Later that week, mayors from across the country [3] came to Tornillo to demand immediate reunification of separated families. By the end of the week, healthcare professionals [4] had joined El Pasoans as had people of good will from places in Alaska, California, Rhode Island and even Canada. The world was taking notice of the cruel, manufactured humanitarian crisis at the border.
President Trump bowed to pressure and rescinded his policy of separating families. But he substituted one cruelty for another: Now the U.S. government will keep families together by incarcerating entire families. On June 30, El Pasoans marched [5] once again, this time in solidarity with people in cities nationwide at Families Belong Together [6] rallies. They marched to denounce the "zero tolerance" policy, to protest the cruelty of family detention and the announcement that thousands of immigrants would be detained within the confines of the local military base. They marched to the international bridges to reclaim them as common patrimony, as a symbol of the American Dream, as the modern day Ellis Island that they are.
[1] https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.ncronline.org/print/news/opinion/theology-en-la-plaza/dispatch-parish-el-paso-ju-rez-border&via=ncronline&text=To be in solidarity with immigrant communities is to be in solidarity with Jesus who is present in the immigrant among us.
This is to inform all candidates that participated in the just concluded 2018 Post-UTME Screening Exercise of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State, that the result of the test is now out.
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Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti leader Akhil Gogoi, while speaking to ANI, said that if the proposed bill is passed, then the Assamese people will become a minority in their own state.
Former finance minister P Chidambaram today warned the NDA government against laying its hands on RBI reserves, saying it will have "catastrophic" economic consequences for the country. He also said the minutes of a Reserve Bank of India meeting on November 7, 2016 is a "comprehensive repudiation" of the government's "justification" for demonetisat...
In a bid to improve air connectivity and promote tourism in the North East, Guwahati has been connected to three destinations with direct flights.
BJP's ally in Assam, the Asom Gana Parishad, on Tuesday took out a rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Guwahati, giving a clear ultimatum that it would break the alliance if the draft legislation is passed.
Rishabh Pant is in line to make his ODI debut with India announce the XII for the first match against the Windies on Sunday.
India take on the Windies in the first of the five-match ODI series at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati on Sunday.
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Maintaining its uptrend for the second straight day, the rupee strengthened by 17 paise to a fresh one-month high of 68.26 against the US dollar today after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) maintained its growth outlook for the economy. The RBI projected a gross domestic product (GDP) expansion rate of 7.4 per cent in 2018-19 on the back of robust macroeconomic environment. Increased selling of the greenback by exporters and banks even as the RBI hiked repo rate by 25 basis points on Wednesday too boosted the rupee, forex dealers said. |
Since we came back from our summer holidays in late August, I encountered a strange fault within our magnificent As 60 (M1K) transmitter, I could no longer switch it on. This exceptional apparatus operates since about late 1981 in my home without any problem.
After some considerations, I viewed first the status of the 'three phase mains lines' designated: R, S and T.
It was apparent, that line-phase R is not available. Indeed, in the 'mains centre' of our house, I found that a fuse was defect (blown). Replacing it caused instantly a new fuse failure. Thus somewhere there must exist a short circuit. Blowing up a fuse of 16 Amp. tells us that the load must be quite heavy.
My first thought was, maybe one of the three smoothing input capacitors before the main (internal) switching relay is faulty (a mains-filter). It proved, however, that there are no such devices incorporated.
My second thought was looking whether these capacitors were mounted somewhere near to the place where the power cable enters the AS 60 housing
Then I considered seriously the schematic diagram of the entire AS 60 transmitter. It is quite clear, that there is no other way then trying to access the AS 60 via the front cover plate. This also confirmed, that there does not exist a means of pre-filtering in the mains lines.
Wouter is always just giving me the right drive (push) to start something which is actually long over-due. Like clearing and cleaning the basement in the Klooster premises, or reshuffling the MLK premises. Without him being there - quite much would not have been accomplished so successfully!
My main assessment was that the heavier pin might represent N, this stands for 'neutral', which also is the centre of the three phase line supply (the centre of star-transformer-circuit); and which contact should be about ground potential. Please notice the drawing lower on this webpage.
My next action was to measure the voltages supplied at the various connector pins. Still regarding the heavier pin being N, I found rather confusing results. Something must be wrong, but what?
Now approaching it the other way around. Looking for capacitors around the section where the power lines enter the main chassis.
The schematic of the AS60 power supply, being part of the big total AS 60 schematic diagram (total size probably A-0)
For better reproduction, you can click at the schematic as to open it (and/or print it), in PDF format.
To get it for the web reasonably right, I had to fit the three schematic drawings into a single one (our scanner allows only just over size A 4), but for practical reason this drawing altogether makes it having a DIN A-2 size.
Please consider 'Bu 1' at the top right-hand side. Pin '4' clearly is heavier than the other three. Apparently, this plug does not imply a ground connection (contact). I created therefore additionally (in the past) one by grounding (earthing) the metal connector cap (List-Stecker) and 'ground' being established by its fixing lock. However, for safety we rely fully on an additional earth connection onto the nearby Cu cold-water-tube (visible on the first photo down right of the power supply cable). In Holland, and I guess in most countries in Europe, these water supplying tubes (pipes) are generally interconnect onto an earth electrode. Actually, according the schematic '0 or N' is provided at connector pin-1. 0 might originate from the fact that the AS60 was often fed by means of a generator. However, technically it is know a 'N', because somewhere in the "transformer cabin" 'N' is connected onto a common ground- or earth-electrode. At the consumer site its potential is not regarded completely neutral against ground. Please bear also in mind, that the current through the 'N' conductor is also determined by the regular current (flow) related to the 230 V ac 'consumer' supply (often in practice about 240 V). Between the three outer star transformer windings we find between all three 400 V ac (formerly it was 380 V). 230 V is derived from a single transformer section and the common 'N' connection in its centre.
A quick and brief explanation of such a 'star type' transformer, which at least in Europe, is common standard for public electricity supply (maybe, puritans may object that the R-S-T symbols should be given rotated) N being also interconnected by means of an earth-electrode onto earth potential.
230 V ac being delivered between 'N' and R, S or T. Whilst, 400 volt ac being provided between: R-S and S-T and T-R. (230 ● √ 3 = 398 V) In which sequence determines the so-called direction of rotation. (three phase motors will then rotate: clockwise or anti-clockwise, by only interchanging two of the three wires; it does not matter which wires you inter-change.
When we follow the line of the number '4' power contacts, we finally will reach the main relay section above
The cables are all bound neatly together and should be left this way. My next approach was to access the relay section, as potential number 4 was also interconnected onto relay contact number 4.
Carefully following the lines of the schematic drawing. By the way, for me a rather exhausting job, as following a bundle of lines particularly very near to one another is only possible by cm for cm following it with the tip of a screw-driver or other means.
To be sure that all four wires of potential '4' are refit again correctly, I choose to bound them afterwards by means of a 'kroonsteen' (sorry, my dictionary provides: connector black/strip?). Destroying nothing and always allowing to restore the previous state of affairs.
Please notice, that all photos were taken afterwards, thus after the AS60 did function again, but before the cover-plates being replaced.
My next move was pulling all four cables out of the contact-strip number 4. One by one measuring their resistance against ground. My following query was, whether the short circuit at pin 4 of Bu 1 was still apparent. It was not, anymore. Only a single wire still having short circuit against ground. It proved, however, that with some imagination the wire virtually interconnected onto ground, runs to the left-hand side, in contrast to the three others.
Then I instantly suspected - might it perhaps be that the faulty cable (found) was connected onto the electrolytic capacitor C21?
The red line is all the time directly connected onto phase 'R' of our three phase power supply (R-S-T and N). Please consider my explanation above.
Viewing the schematic from the electrical point of consideration, a short-circuit of the electrolytic capacitor C21 might never causing about 0 ohms versus ground.
However, I approached it and de-soldered the (top) wire (negative capacitor connection) directly connected onto line number 4. Oh wonder, all lines where now having considerable high resistance versus ground.
Almost likely, the electrolytic block capacitor suffered an internal leakage against ground (of about a few ohms only), its metal housing is fixed (mounted) at the metal chassis. I disconnected both capacitor contacts and interconnected the two wires onto a modern type electrolytic capacitor (22 µF instead of genuinely 25 µF, which might not causing a big difference). After having de-soldered the first (negative) contact, I discovered that its leakage versus ground was vanished. From experience, never trust such a coincidence, and disconnect it entirely from the mains line circuitry!
It is no real wonder that this fault happened, as all the time (for several decades), even when the transmitter being switched-off, mains stood at the negative electrode of C21, thus a 'potential force' existing all the time. This capacitor may be 60 to 67 years old or even beyond. The function of it is to supply (smoothing) the starting up voltage for the main on-off relay (according to the text at the Brown-Boveri relay - it should be fed with 220 V = (dc). Maybe, for what ever reason, a pulse on the mains line R caused a break-down of the internal capacitor insulation against ground (metal box housing). Phase S and T are straight away interconnected from the main connector onto the according relay contacts and nothing else; as long as the transmitter being kept in the 'off mode'.
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This includes a fever that requires control with medication such as Tylenol (paracetomol or acetaminophen), Advil (ibuprofen). The presence of fever often marks the onset of an infectious illness. Many illnesses are at their most infectious before other symptoms appear, thus children should not be sent to school if their temperature falls outside of the normal range, until the nature of the illness has been determined.
* Aspirin should not be given to control fever in children under the age of 12, unless directed by a physician, because of the associated risk of Reye’s syndrome.
Although very common in childhood and as a result of many different causes, please keep your child home until symptom free for 24 hours. Gastrointestinal infections are very easily spread amongst children and can cause significant dehydration in some individual cases.
Symptoms of dehydration are decreased and dark colored urine output, sunken eyes, dried lips and tongue, no tears, listlessness and lethargy.
*Medical treatment should be sought if the vomiting /diarrhea is accompanied with fever, bloody stools or vomit, severe abdominal pain, projectile vomiting, or signs of dehydration present.
Conjunctivitis (pink eye)– until treatment has been underway for 24 hours (if indicated) or a note to say it is not considered contagious.
Impetigo- a skin infection characterized by honey colored crusts, especially common around mouth, nose arms and legs. Treatment required for 24 hours before return to school.
Coughing and /or very runny nose– if cough is severe, uncontrolled and productive (sputum being produced) medical advice should be sought.
Ringworm – a ring shaped fungal skin lesion, characterized by dry, scaly, red circular lesions often with a clear centre. May be on scalp. Successful treatment should be underway before return to school. Lesions should be covered until healed.
That’s why you’ll want to consider joining the Eagle Valley Snowmobile Club in order to get more involved with all the sledding events.
Sicamous has the kind of snowmobiling that can inspire people to relocate. Having a permanent RV lot at Cedars RV Resort close to the mountains allows you to meet more people in the sport and take more pride in where you ride and become an ambassador for the region and the social aspect of sledding means making great, lifelong friendships.
Sicamous has four great snowmobiling areas, each with its own qualities. Blue Lake is great for beginners because there is a lot to access just outside the cabin location. Nearby meadows are convenient for practicing. Quest is perfect for those who might appreciate a quieter area away from the crowds. Eagle Pass is only recommended for expert sledders on the lookout for challenging riding, while Owlhead offers high terrain and something for everyone.
Situated in the Eagle Valley, Sicamous area hosts some of the best alpine snowmobiling in Western Canada with deep snow, powder filled open bowls, endless meadows, groomed trails, breathtaking alpine scenery and spectacular lake views. All four of our alpine areas are reached by forest service roads that are carefully groomed. With a selection of family friendly groomed trails to challenging and extreme terrain for the experienced sledders, Sicamous offers you an excellent variety of snowmobiling areas to choose from.
The Eagle Valley Snowmobile Club works closely together with the British Columbia Snowmobile Federation ‘BCSF’ and other clubs to promote the safe and responsible use of snowmobiling in our area. The www.sledsicamous.com website has links to the Canadian Avalanche Centre, to Weather and Highway conditions and to other important Safety and Policy points that will enhance your sledding experience in the Sicamous area.
With excellent food establishments, comfortable & friendly accommodations, top notch snowmobile sales & service shops, sledders have everything they need. We are also known as the Houseboat Capital of Canada, so when you are here this winter you can pick up more information on our local Houseboat companies and be here to experience Sicamous and the Shuswap area in the spring, summer and fall. Snowmobiling, snow-shoeing, cross-country skiing, golfing, boating, fishing, kayaking, hiking or biking, Sicamous and our area truly have something for you to enjoy all year long.
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Serial Information: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1961, Vol. 126, Issue 1, Pg. 695-697 |
Leeds BS is introducing two fixed-rate cashback deals while the Principality BS has cut rates for a pair of two-year fixes.
The Leeds products offering £750 cashback both have a £199 fee, free valuation and fees assisted legal services for standard remortgages. They are:
Leeds Building Society’s director of product and distribution Jaedon Green said: “We try to offer a range of fee and incentive combinations across our mortgage range and we know cashback deals can give borrowers a little extra flexibility at a time when this is most useful.
“In addition, the incentives help to minimise costs, for remortgages in particular, so may appeal to existing homeowners who’ve built up more equity and want to switch to a better deal which could bring down their monthly repayments.”
Principality Building Society has cut rates on two two-year fixed rate residential mortgages at 80% and 85% LTV by up to 0.10%.
The products offer no fees and free standard valuations, up to £350,000 loan and include early repayment charges of between 1.5%-2%.
Principality’s head of regulatory sales Shaun Middleton said: “We want to provide our intermediaries with opportunities to engage with their clients to talk about their mortgage requirements. This is why we’ve reduced the rates across these higher loan-to-value fixed rate products.”
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Britain’s split from the European Union doesn’t necessarily mean interest rates will be lower, Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent warned – just a week after the base rate was hiked for the first time in a decade.
In a move that would affect mortgage rates and the finances of millions of Britons, interest rates could be raised even if economic growth disappoints amid Brexit, according to Broadbent, who sits on the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).
The deputy governor today used a speech in London to challenge perceptions that the Bank of England will keep policy loose as the UK leaves the political union – raising the possibility that financial markets are underestimating the likelihood of future rate rises.
In part, the differing attitudes towards Brexit between financial markets and households have contributed to inflation soaring above the Bank’s 2% target, Broadbent said.
Speaking to an audience in London today, the policymaker said: “My main point is that, given all the moving parts, even the marginal impact of EU withdrawal on the appropriate level of UK interest rates is ambiguous.”
He added: “The effects of Brexit on inflation, and ultimately on the appropriate level of interest rates, are altogether more uncertain and more complex.
“They’re certainly too complex to justify the simple assertion that Brexit necessarily implies low interest rates.”
The Bank of England cut interest rates to 0.25% following the Brexit vote – this wasn’t because of the outcome, but because of the sharp fall in business and consumer confidence, according to Broadbent.
But Brexit expectations and inflation – and ultimately interest rates – are not on a path that’s easy to predict, the policymaker said.
He added: “In the meantime, the MPC has little choice, it seems to me, but to take the economic data at face value.
“What’s been in front of us for several months is an economy with above-target inflation and dwindling spare capacity.
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According to Land Registry data, with analysis conducted by London Central Portfolio and Acadata, residential sales volumes and prices both...
The nation should feel proud as around 17 of the 34 fellows of Indian origin have been selected for American India Foundation’s William J. Clinton Fellowship for Service in India for its 2015-16 class.
The students were selected by identifying the candidates who have a keen interest in serving India; the maturity and flexibility to work and live effectively in India; the experience to make meaningful contributions to non-governmental organizations and social enterprises in India and the leadership potential to become a leader on development issues.
The candidates were supposed to be either the Indian Citizen or a citizen of United States between the ages of 21 and 34. They should have also obtained their Undergraduate Degree latest by September 1, 2015. Further they should have thorough knowledge of development field and issues in India. They should have a humble respect for other cultures, must be aware about their role and how it will play in their lives; willingness to find ways to be helpful at their host organization and adaptability to challenging living and working conditions.
The selected Indian American Priyanka Murali has spent her childhood in four countries and presently as per her opinion Fremont, Calif., is her home. Due to the exposure of culture of four different countries she possess a unique perspective that how the daily life is affected by cultures. She has obtained his undergraduate degrees in South Asian studies and genetics.
She has worked with South Asian Heart Center, a wellness clinic. To continue her education further she pursued a graduate degree in genetic counseling, where she conducted independent research and consulted with patients diagnosed with genetic diseases. While on a Internship at a genetics clinic in Bangalore she came across the effects of culture on healthcare and thereby became quite interested interested in different models of healthcare delivery in India.
The selected Indian-origin fellow Aparna Nutakki was born in Hyderabad but presently she lives in Chicago with her family. While in the college days she as a volunteer worked in free health clinics for uninsured patients of Chicago. Not only this but also she also went to Honduras as part of medical brigades. She has also worked with an NGO in India to diagnose diabetes and anemia in the tribal population of Wayanad, Kerala.
The perfect blend of these experiences and after observing differences in healthcare while growing up in India motivated Nutakki to become a physician, especially to serve the underprivileged communities. |
So, you're saying that while you are for increased universal (guaranteed) state/federal benefits in the US -- namely Free Healthcare and Free College Education -- you empathize with the point that too much hand-holding can "spoil your character".
Why? Even if you are taxed at 50-60% -- which, by the way, I NEVER advocated for the US since that would be insanely high and I'd personally move back to Europe if that ever happened -- you still get a higher net income if you work more. The correlation is still there. It's not like you don't get a more money if you work more -- you still do.
... which clearly a lot of people do (like the Survivor winner, who "forgot" to declare his prize, or the several CEOs that are on trial for tax evasion)
Having lived in The Netherlands, and knowing Austria's politics relatively well (one of my best friends is actually originally from Austria) I understand perfectly where you are coming from. But please realize that the US is still VERY far from the level of welfare of most of Europe. VERY far away. And I never, ever said that I'm for European levels of taxation. That would be insane.
There is a middle ground. We don't need to fall on the extremes -- and HH is the one advocating the extreme, not me (I'm a middle-ground kind of guy).
I actually think that we should keep the method of electing officials to office, but place term limits on everyone.
(1) House of Representatives: Instead of 2 year terms and getting elected forever and making a career out of it, we would change the term to a 4 year term and limit them to 2 terms. That way, nobody would serve more than 8 years in the House.
(2) Senate: Keep the 6 year term, but limit it to 2 terms. That way, nobody would serve in the Senate for more than 12 years.
Without having to raise millions of dollars and worry about their "job security," perhaps our elected officials will then do what is best for the people, instead of what is best for themselves.
That is something that you would not accept dealing with other issues. There is a difference between a Democracy and a tyranny of the majority.
Of course the weak, the stupid and the lazy will allways agree that it is "only fair" to tax the "rich", meaning milking the middle class and preventing them from ever becoming rich. The real rich pay a lot less than the middle class does.
In real life it does not work anyway. I do not know about statistics in other countries, but in Austria the shadow economy is not only growing, it is booming .
As a sidenote for those American conservatives that think Europe is doomed because of our economic system, you are only looking at the official numbers and our tax system distorts them.
3 Phds, one in Econ, and you don't understand why someone doesn't want to be a beast of burden? C'mon, Doc, you're just playing us! Fess up.
I wish I could make you understand how sacred your life and your work are. I can only imagine how you must have worked and slaved to get 3 Phds! Now, after all that, someone comes and takes the results of that work. They give your money to someone who didn't want to be bothered. At gunpoint and with the threat of jail, they take your life's work and give it to others. That doesn't strike you as evil?
Some of the others DO need help. Little kids, old people, the sick. I'm happy to help them. But not at gunpoint. How about putting a box on my paycheck where I could donate to the causes that I (and not someone else) choose? Maybe that's not done because they want to use my money for something I DON'T agree with?
I've always been told that plyometrics are an excellent for of not only toning muscle but increasing "burst" speed for any number of sports (soccer, football, tennis, etc.).
But I've found that most people (and I'm also talking about soccer programs and teams and such) don't really put emphasis on it. In fact most of the people I know tend to just do weights and speed training (treadmill or the like) and do very little if any plyometric exercises.
Now I know that many of the exercises are killer on the knees and ligaments around the knee joints, and that might be a reason not to do them all the time.
So I was wondering who out there does plyometrics, for what purpose, and to what extent are the exercises dangerous and/or useful?
While many of you celebrate the season of spring, the season of Passover, and the season of Easter, we celebrate each and every resurrection of love within you! We celebrate each and every bit of light that blossoms in your heart. We celebrate the magnificent acts of love that you think are so tiny and so insignificant each and every day. There is no such thing as a "small" act of love, dear ones. In our eyes each act of love is a glorious ray of sunshine penetrating even the darkest recesses of the human heart! In our eyes, every act of kindness is cause for celebration in the heavens! In our eyes, every time you choose to acknowledge the good within yourselves, we see and celebrate the unfolding expansion of your hearts.
Now is the perfect time to look at your life and say to yourselves,"What must die within me to give birth to the life I want to live?" Do you need to give up thoughts of lack in order to resurrect abundance? Do you want to give up statements of self-deprecation in order to resurrect love? Do you need to release the clutter in your house to bring new order and life to your life? Celebrate!
The snows must recede to give birth to the flowers. The dead branches in your yards must be trimmed to resurrect your plants. Decorations from the holidays have been tidied up and put away to make room for new celebrations. Why not take advantage of the energies that always come to you at this time of year and ride the waves of release, relief, and renewal?
What habits, which thoughts, what stuff, what situations, patterns, policies, etc. must you release in order to bring new life to your life. Ask yourself this, "If I were already living the life I want, what would no longer be a part of that life." Be honest with yourselves. And then prepare to die unto your "small" selves in even the smallest of ways in order to birth new life, new love, new opportunities, and new joys!
Sometimes as I channel the angel message for the week I feel distinct energies. As I channeled this one I felt like flowers wanted to push forth from my depths out into the light! It was indeed an energy of blossoming. It was beautiful.
This morning when I woke up, the angels asked me the same question they asked above. What will you allow to die today, Ann? The first thing that popped into my mind was, "Worrying about how I'm going to pack in everything I want to do today." So I let that minor worry die and proceeded to ignore my schedule, my to-do-list, my emails, etc. and to follow my heart. I cooked dinners for the remainder of the week while still half awake in my pajamas. It went so quickly! I got my doggie ready for the day a bit later
than usual. She loved sleeping in! I forgot that I wanted to participate in a teleconference and went to the gym to work out instead. It felt great!
The plumber came to fix a leaky faucet and told me I needed new parts for the leaky shower. Scratch the plans again! I was soon guided to a hardware store other than my usual one where the part I needed was in stock. Within fifteen minutes I had the wrench out and the plumber's tape and was fixing the remaining problem. Still I didn't feel like doing my newsletter, so instead I ate a great dinner on the patio, inhaling the intoxicating scent of fresh orange blossoms and enjoying the coolness of the night air. My dog was smiling. My belly was full. My senses were thrilled. And suddenly, the angels started talking and the newsletter was written with ease. There were more errands and tasks scattered throughout the day, and as I look back everything and more that I needed got done, all with grace and ease. Its only 8pm as I write this. I may still have time to enjoy a girly pleasure and paint my toes I am glad I let the worry and need for control "die" today. It made welcome room for God's love to flow gracefully through my life.
There are always thoughts, habits, repetitive patterns, etc., that can "die" in our lives to make room for better. There are things we must fix or get rid of. There are situations that once served us which no longer do. There are areas of resistance that we must give up in order to do what we truly love. There are complaints that must be released in order to create what we really want. Death of these no-longer useful patterns can be a good thing. It truly does make room for a new, more loving, and glorious life! Think about it. What will you allow to die today within you, so that you can resurrect more light in yoyour own life?
Have a blessed week & to those of you who celebrate these holidays, Happy Easter and a belated Happy Passover! Can't resist the little Easter joke... Some Bunny Really Loves you!
Is there any way to find out what possible summer fun or issues will occur this year? My name says it all.I was curious on if it was possible to get any ideas of what to look forward to during the three months of summer where I wont be in school. I am up for a job interview and wondering if i will get it and if there is such thing as summer love for me. Can anyone help?
Ok so I did exactly what you told me to this morning and my computer did turn on. I was happy until after the windows loading screen went away because nothing ever loaded. A pattern of lines came across the screen then I heard some noise coming from my video card so I immediately turned it off. Could it possibly be that my 6800gt I jsut bought 2 months fried that quickly?
It would be unlikely that your video card would have stopped working after 2 months, but if there is sufficient dust in the fan (either the fan on the video card or on the CPU), that could be the problem.
EDIT: Try taking the video card out of your computer, and see if the computer will work using just the onboard video.
Alright I will go try that now, but one thing I did notice was the fan on my power supply wasn't moving at all.
EDIT: Ok I was jsut testing to see if my fan on my graphics card was working and I took out my ethernet cable and headphones from the back and my computer booted up normally to windows. But I am still worried that maybe something is wrong.
That is most likely your problem then; you are probably going to need to buy a new power supply unless your computer is still covered by some warranty.
Hmm alright thanks, but as far as you know everything else should be Ok at least from what I have told you? Again thanks for all the help and I will let you know of my successes if I have any.
Your computer will probably be able to start up at times with the old PSU (power supply unit) in it, but it will not be stable.
Again I am sorry for probably annoying you with my problems, but do you know of a decent power supply that isnt too costly? I know enough to be able to buy my own graphics cards, sound cards, motherboards, hard drives, just never had to buy a power supply before so I am not sure of my choices. Sorry for asking but I am just trying to make good choices
I myself have never bought a power supply, but try looking at yours and write down some of the dimensions. I can hopefully help you from there.
Ok well I just checked out my PSU and it was an OKIA-420ATX. it was 14cm by 15cm and 8.5cm tall. Also the voltage was 115/230v, the current was 10A/5A, and frequency was 60/50Hz if the helps?
I've gota go run some errands, but I found one that may work: This PSU has the same voltage as yours (as do many others).
You may want to wait until someone with more experience reads this thread to see what type of PSU you need.
Ok thanks, yeah I was actually just looking at that one about 5 minutes ago, but I don't have the experience to know so yeah I will wait for someone
I'm not that guy with the experience, but I know a great site to check the ammount of wattage you need for a computer. Click on "start psu calculator", then enter all your specs, and click on find my wattage, it is a good place to start.
The one you are looking it seems good though. 430 watts, and $40 is a decent price, I bought one for $55 at best buy and it was only a 350 watt.
Given our forks' track record of using server hosting for password phising, how are we going to handle the issue of which projects get on the server list?
I've been trying to push for some sort of privacy certification, but that has been shot down as nonsense.
Bertram, I get the feeling you don't understand the essence of the change and the most important problems it is trying to solve. The point is really to separate development from any particular player community, which makes it imperative that development happens under a different name and that the base client has its own identity.
The client maintainer would keep dev.manaworld.org and the dev client up to date with manasource. From there we'd cherry-pick what we need for the next CR to testing. When testing is done we release our CR client, our CR server and our actual CR -> server.themanaworld.org.
At least this is how I took that scheme. There is the separation: manasource is developing a platform on which someone can build a game and TMW is building a game.
Crush wrote: The downloadable installers will also have a very small filesize because their only payload is the branding. This will be an additional incentive for the user to try them (when they see that it is downloading 50 additional megs from the net they already overcame the hesitation to download and start the installation and will be unlikely reconsider).
I don't know much about distribution of Linux software, but maybe a similar system could be utilized on most distros by having server-specific installer packages which have the mana client as a required dependency.
Crush, I think that's a very nice idea. And indeed, something similar would work on Linux. Then, all that would be required is for 'manaclient' to be a dependency of 'tmw', and the 'tmw' package would add nothing more than the branding and the shortcut.
Of course, I'd still prefer if it was also made clear that the Mana Client can be used with any server, so when simply launching the mana executable, it should pop up a list of default servers (which can be downloaded), to which you can add your own manually.
Ok, I didn't realize that it was about the organization of TMW after the split of TMW and manasource.org.
1. I guess the generic client server will be in need to share the dev content in order to unit test new features, regressions, etc...
2. If not 100%, 99% of people involved in Mana-Client Server will be included into The Mana World. It's just a matter of fact.
Bjorn, if you planned to move the code elsewhere in order to claim it, it's time to reveal your evil plan And, if yes, (we never know), sorry, I won't follow.
1. No, I think manasource will have their own test content out there just to show the things the platform can pull off.
This is not a takeover, this is to give platform developers more space and especially to give game developers more space. These are two different goals we have here and I really like this separation since it'll give us the freedom to make a game.
This in mind, TMW's interest in mind, I'd like to see the platform technology to be more of a library in style. I do not want any unnecessary features (as in unnecessary and potentially faulty/buggy or exploitable codebase) to bloat the client for our content releases. I'm a minimalist when it comes to engineering solutions.
The library-ish approach would enable us to maintain our own client and take features from the manasource platform as we need them, not as they are pushed onto us. The codebase of our own client would hence be really small and the brunt of the work would be done over on the manasource side of things. When this launches off, I'll be kind of seeing the TMW project as a client of the manasource project, which will obviously be a provider then.
Rotonen wrote: 1. No, I think manasource will have their own test content out there just to show the things the platform can pull off.
That's one idea, but still requires a lot of work for the other projects that don't care that much and just want to make a nice world for players. How about a modular client design where different servers can use different modules? Then you can sill use the same generic client, just only with the modules you want.
Not really. Mana 1.0 will be the new name of what was going to be TMW 0.1. Mana 2.0 will be a rewrite into QT.
Rotonen, Bertram, Jaxad, I'm not trying to fork the project. This is a separation between on one side client/server development and on the other side (production-) server content and player community. The Mana Client is not expected to be much different from the client we have now, apart from not having a built-in connection to one specific server or sharing its name with any specific player community. The suggestions to move to a library or plugin/component based approach are ultimately interesting, but are not at all necessary or relevant to these organizational changes.
Bertram, it's nice that you draw diagrams, but since I'm proposing a split between TMW as a game and player community and the client/server software that this community is based on, they are really only useful in the context of trying to draw the complete picture as far as the TMW project is concerned. I am personally not planning to contribute to TMW directly apart from contributing to the Mana client and server, and at that level TMW would be just one of the users. Hence, while the diagram is interesting, it is not the picture as seen from a manasource.org point of view, and I have no interest in modifying it, like Platyna suggested, since most of the diagram is outside of the scope of manasource.org.
I think you could compare the relationship between TMW and manasource.org to the relation between TMW and Tiled. While TMW has a lot of influence on the way Tiled develops, being one of the primary users, it remains a generic editor that is also used by many other people.
Bertram wrote: IIUW, the rewrite of tmw using QT will be done, like as a generic fork from TMW, or something?
(Btw, I'm not aware of what IIUC or IIUW mean.) About the Qt port, maybe I shouldn't have mentioned it as part of this reorganization, since it really doesn't have anything to do with it. I mentioned it since several people are interested in doing this, so I know we will give it a try. But you should notice that 1.0 is planned to be released first, without Qt dependency. Whether a Qt based 2.0 will be a success will be a different story, and something we probably won't know until in about a year. Of course, we'll start this port in a branch, and the non-Qt version can be continued to be developed in parallel.
I wonder If this will really work since TMW is an open source project which depends on its community. Even if its community is full of ebnrs. Technically I like your movement, but we will see if it was useful in the future.
And Elven, our lovely master, found out about this while reading this thread - not very respectful, but I am german so I guess its okay
edit: after a long discussion on irc with thorbjorn I approve the splitting of the TMW project into an generic engine project and a TMW content project, thus making TMW into a lighweight content datapack for the new "2D MMORPG SoM-Like Roleplaying Engine" project which will be hosted at manasource.org (yes thats the official name, and yes, the roleplaying part is redundant!)
Lets hope the ebnr people won't fork the new shiny "2D MMORPG SoM-Like Roleplaying Engine" into "Aethyras awesome engine"!
But if we will encounter things like these our marketing guys could came over saying "hey noobs, what the hell are you doing, just use the main generic engine thingy, use the datapack for branding and if you need something, just request it over at '2D MMORPG SoM-Like Roleplaying Engine / manasource.org' and don't create your own feces that will definately die!"
ElvenProgrammer wrote: So if I understood it correctly, all the developers are moving to manasource.org and we need to create a solid team to keep server.themanaworld.org up to date with development and correctly managed as a production server.
Can I take this as you stepping up a bit again in the project? This is great news since I was worried I'd have to take charge of the entire TMW project which would take my time away from content development oversight.
I really hope so, and I'm working toward it. At least I would like to take care of client administration.
If you still want to take care of content development, feel free to, since that's the biggest part, now that code development is not one of our projects.
I don't know what's the current status, but I guess, we will need some help in server administration. I've out of the scenes for so long, that I don't know who's responsible for what.
I'm about to own your soul with one statement. I was being coached by Internet Pokers at the time you idiot, so if you thought that play was shoddy you can go take it up with Internet Pokers and HU him 4 rollz. The reason I quit your table is because our session was ending and INTERNET POKERS and I went over some theory. Good job sounding like a jackass though.
Are you calling internet pokers a really crappy player? Is that why you dodge the **** out of him when he comes?
Edit: If you want, I will forward this to INTERNET POKERS and tell him a giant fish who just complains about run bad wants to donate a porsche to him.
so you call me a crappy player based on 50 hands that internet pokers played against you? keep crushing 10/20 then amigo lol.
well actually, it would be based on me playing you previously on ftp and cake. i suck, just fortunately a lot of other people suck too.
1.) I started Poker this year in January and didn't know two ****s about **** when it came to poker.
2.)I barely played at all during the summer (maybe 10k hands) and have 200k hands lifetime, most of which are 6-max and full ring. I didn't know about proper preflop hand ranges until two weeks ago. I just played based on feel.
3.) Anybody who has played me in the past should know I have improved significantly but I still suck and I understand that.
4.) BBV and LC are for brags, and I feel like bragging about my month because it was my best month by far, considering I played more hands in the past month than the past 7 months combined before then despite being at FR and 6-max for a ton of those hands during the 7 months prior.
5.) I have received numerous requests from coaching, ranging from NL50 regs to mods who are already established in the HU world, and I have told them all the same thing:
c.) Give me some time to study the game from very good players and if I feel like I have become a good player myself, I will coach them because I enjoy helping others (I coach NL25 and NL10 for real life friends who need money for tuition or are otherwise strapped for cash--for free obv.)
6.) I told INTERNET POKERS last night I still don't know two ****s about **** when it comes to poker. I told him to just break it down from the beginning because I have no fundamentals, having neither the experience nor the right thought process.
7.) **** off because I am not going to play you HU4rollz or something for some poker ego that I don't have. I don't post my graphs because I think I'm good; I post them because I am proud of how far I've come. Nobody is forcing you to look at them. Sickos like Aejones and FWF are going to have 100x sicker graphs but they don't post because it's standard for them. It is not standard for me to have 100k+ months, so I posted it as it is a novel experience.
if you can't see why id be annoyed with you sitting with me, winning a stack, dropping down to 3500v2500 and then leaving in 32 hands with no chat or warning or anything, then you're a ****ing idiot.
I would have coolered you regardless, and it was a standard sweat session that happens all the time. We played for ****ing 32 hands so quit your bitching. Coolers ****ing happen, and for some reason you can't get it through that walnut head of yours. If you want to play more hands against me while Internet Pokers is playing, we can schedule it and I'll just give him 100% action because I don't give a ****.
Edit: and LOL at bragging about my coach playing you. I didn't know who the **** you were until you posted this; I still don't give a **** though.
Edit2: Ok, Vinetou just made it clear to me why you are upset and said I should clarify. I had no intention of hit and running you. Whether you coolered me for 2k or I coolered you for 2k, I was leaving regardless. I sat down with you because you were the first person I saw and I wanted to get as many hands in with IP sweating, but I had no intention of hit and running. I would have left down 2k and felt the same way.
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Grill shrimp, covered with grill lid, 2 minutes on each side or just until shrimp turn pink. Remove shrimp from skewers, and toss with green beans, crumbled bacon, Parmesan cheese, roasted almonds, and remaining 3/4 cup Basil Vinaigrette. Serve over hot cooked cornbread, if desired.
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All inventions are important but some of them lead to bigger changes in human lives than the other. In this article we are going to see for the 10 most important inventions that give biggest impact to how we living in this world today.
Print was invented earlier with slower and complicated process. Anyway printing press machine invented by Johannes Gutenberg 1440 not just allowed the printing works to be faster but also make books available at cheaper price. This is what contributes to any other knowledge to be spread exponentially.
Before printing machine was invented, the knowledge texts only available to few selected people. These materials prepared by selective people consist of monks and few learned individuals. With this invention however changed the whole Western Europe by 16th century by mass produced texts with diversity of topics.
Human always fascinated with stars in the sky but only with the invention of telescope that allow us to understand more about them. Even though invented earlier by Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani in 1611 the good quality telescope only produced later by Sir Isaac Newton in 1668 with his reflecting telescope.
Besides telescope another same optical apparatus that look at smaller objects also considered one of the most important inventions is microscope. Before microscope was invented no one knows that we living in the world with full of microscopic organisms that also have bigger impact in our lives.
Even though steam engine no longer used today as how it’s been used before, most electricity generated by huge steam turbines to rotating it’s giant magnets. The steam machines evolve from the first machine produced in Egypt by Hero of Alexandria in the first century AD.
Steam engines were incredibly inefficient until few popular figures in steam engines come with better improvements such as Thomas Newcomen, James Watt and Matthew Boulton. Steam engines are the first machines that allow industrial practices to be implemented and created mass production of materials.
Plastic is another invention have bigger impact to the world until today. Even though today we think the usage of plastics give negative impact to the nature, yet the invention of plastics creates many products at cheaper price. On the negative sides today we struggle to clean up all the plastics that float in the ocean and endanger their creatures.
Plastic was first invented by Alexander Parkes in 1862. A few years later American inventor John Wesley Hyatt came out with first synthetic man-made plastic. Today there are many types of plastics with different characteristics to allow many other materials to be produced with most of our household products contained plastics.
Telephone was invented by two men separately and only one of them known as the inventor since he arrived at the patent office earlier. They are Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray in producing device that can transmit voice electronically.
Bell keeps on upgrading his invention that allows his invention to be more successful from any other inventor work on similar device. On March 10, 1876 he uttered the first word to his assistant Thomas A Watson: “Mr Watson, come here, I want you.”
If we look on how our phone works today, it will be far different than the first phone invented by Graham Bell, where today we have computer instead of phone on our hand.
Airplane was another great invention in human history, while human already can fly with glider in short distance but not truly flying - without engine that provide enough force to keep on flying.
Orville and Wilber Wright also known as Wright Brothers were businessman with bicycle shop. It took them few years to develop Wright Flyer the first plane that flies on 17 December 1903 for 36.6 meters with its own engine. One year later Wilber flew and improved Flyer II for five minutes.
With advancement in aviation technology today the air travel not just become easier but also cheaper. Keep on travelling.
Television is more complicated device with more electronics parts in it. Start with visionaries of the invention of such product to the invention of the product itself was not produced by single man. Television requires different discoveries by different inventors to further develop the fully functional television set.
First thought to be nothing good will comes out of it until to be one of the devices we can find in every home. The television becomes the most popular electronics in 21st century that also used to spread ideas, commercials, news and entertainment.
Touch screens was invented earlier by English engineer EA Johnson in 1965 that simplify the input device to computer. Anyway it took very long until touch screens technology to become cheaper to be able to use with smaller device such as smart phone.
There area to types of touch screen: resistive and capacitive. In the early introduction resistive touch screen was more popular, while today capacitive touch screen usage is wider. With touch screen the control of devices become easier, faster and more accessible by everyone.
GPS was technology developed for military usage to allow them to firing missiles accurately. It was developed by American Ivan Getting and Professor Bradford Parkinson on military request. Then the GPS network was proposed with network of radio transmitters with each having an in-built clock. That’s requires an atomic clock for high precision measuring of time.
GPS satellites were launched by the US military in 1978 and were used for military purposes only, public usage of this technology only available in early nineties. Originally there were 18 satellites in 1979 and 24 by 1988, that number is now closer to 30.
The best invention that allows the acceleration of information to be transfer, share and to make it more accessible is the invention of internet. Anyway the invention of internet itself requires the platform of network system.
The invention of the network start as early as 1960’s when Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of US Department of Defence created ARPANET. This network allows the communication between computers across the network.
While the internet as we know it today start with the invention of websites (the World Wide Web) that was invented in late-Eighties. It all start when the researcher at CERN called Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues develop a system that will allow user of the internet to access text-based ‘pages’. This is possible by the usage of HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), allowing communication between network servers and computers. They released the early web browser to the public in 1992 and the advancement of internet begun.
Those are among 10 best inventions that shape out our world today. There are many other best inventions, but these ten are inventions that allow the other inventions possible or inspiring it to happened. Well, we know it can’t be just 10, as we all have our own criteria of what best inventions is. Anyway, it is better to keep on inventing than just rather to talk about which one is the best than the other. |
Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary now hotly tipped for Oscar Following its stunning success at the Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Documentary Prize, ‘Restrepo’ is now making a big impact among the critics and at the box office. There’s even talk of an Oscar nomination… The film, by American journalist Sebastian Junger and British photographer Tim Hetherington, recently opened in the UK following a successful run in the USA. The film follows a platoon of American Airborne soldiers during a year’s deployment in Afghanistan. Described as “An often electrifying verité trip into combat and the hearts of men� by Variety, all of Restrepo’s post-production picture finishing was done at Goldcrest Post Productions, New York. Using two
Pablo systems connected by GenePool, the film was online edited by finishing artist Peter Heady, and then color graded by award-winning colorist John Dowdell. Here’s Dowdell’s report. “I used every facet of Pablo on this movie. The directors Tim and Sebastian were in attendance all the way through post, so I really appreciated the Pablo’s interactivity. Tim and Sebastian shot most of the footage on two Sony HDV cameras running at 29.97 and interviews were recorded on DVCPRO 23.98 material. The first job was to conform the DVCPRO material at 29.97 into a multi-resolution, multi-layer timeline ingested from Final Cut Pro via automatic duck. Although the footage was amazing in content, the HDV lacked saturation and had that typical flat video look. It was also over-exposed, with the brightness going up and down a lot. All in all, it presented something of a challenge to give it a rich theatrical look while maintaining a feeling of live immediacy. “Fortunately just two weeks before I started the project, Quantel had released a new cut of software which included control of the S curve. What makes this filter magical is its characteristic curve - toe, straight line and shoulder. If you try to lift video with traditional tools such as gamma, gain and lift, it’s very linear so no matter what you do, it still looks like video. The S curve puts all the shadows into the nice toe, the straight line smooths out the mids and the top end rolls off just like film. So the S curve gave this low end HD video-shot material this incredible depth – a film-like quality. "Once I’d got the material into the form I wanted, I then went to work on the grade using pretty much all Pablo’s extensive toolset. We did the grade on the big screen in our theatre, so Tim and Sebastian could really get a feel for how the end result would look. “Keyframing enabled me to even out the exposure rides quickly and easily, and I used windows galore in any shape to isolate areas for correction. Tim and Sebastian were thrilled with this, watching me dodging, marking and burning. Then I would be cascading layer after layer, correcting then another layer to brighten up a certain head. What’s particularly great about Pablo’s cascading is that you can then go back and ‘poke’ things under a cascade layer – it’s a fantastic time-saver and no other system can do it.
“I also did some sharpening with a plug-in – it’s great because it improves the image without giving bad edges, so I managed to fix a lot of soft shots that then cut right in. The whole look is slightly desaturated – nice and gutsy, and we achieved great color continuity despite the material being shot over fifteen months. “When we put it back out to film, we did a cine-compress back to 24 fps. The problem of course was the 29.97 stuff, so we utilized the ARRI Relativity grain, noise and motion estimation tools, which did a phenomenal job. We turned all the frames into a 23.98 timeline using vector analysis – creating new frames. Putting it back out to film adds a little extra magic, and most people looking at it in a theatre think they are looking at film not video shot material. When it was shown at Sundance, they ran it from 29.97 video. Nick Quested, the Executive Producer, said “these images are jumping off the screen!� “I took two customers to the screening and they both commented on how beautiful a particular night shot of the front looking across to the mountains was. In fact it was a day shot, and jittery at that. I stabilised it in Pablo with the tracker, then drew a shape of the mountains and used a feathered window on the light coming in through the tops of the mountains – it looked just like moonlight topping them. It took six windows and I drew them all in Pablo! “The film is the closest you could get to experiencing war without actually being there, living with the soldiers as they swing between boredom and fear. I’m proud to have been part of making it, and without the Pablo it would not have been near as powerful.� |
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The University of Calgary says a "professional climate review" of the department of psychology will be launched in the fall, while a separate review is underway after allegations of mistreatment of animals used for research.
Former students in what was known on social media as @LovicLab at the University of Calgary say they witnessed the repeated "mismanagement" of the anesthetic given to rats during surgery.
Sources, who spoke on the condition of confidentiality, say that on many occasions the rats would wake up in the middle of a surgical procedure in excruciating pain, "crying, screaming and fighting."
One of the students says the negligent behaviour was reported to professors and the university's animal care committee starting in mid-2017, but the alleged inhumane treatment continued for several more months.
The university says the animal care committee never received a formal complaint on the matter in 2017.
Assistant professor Vedran Lovic is on leave from the University of Calgary. (University of Calgary )
The lab was under the supervision of assistant professor Vedran Lovic, who received a $100,000 grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation in 2015 to study the mechanism in the brain that makes some people more prone to addiction.
The students say that on one occasion a tank used to administer anesthetic was empty due to negligence and the animal woke up during a jugular catheterization. They say the student performing the surgery continued on with the operation while the animal was in distress, using a surgical pad to restrain it.
They say the animal's back and neck had been cut open when it woke up during the procedure and they say it happened on so many occasions that "everyone at some point saw something."
The University of Calgary's department of psychology faces a 'professional climate review' in the fall. (Bryan Labby/CBC)
Lovic went on leave from the university in December 2017. The school would not comment when asked about Lovic's leave, referring to it as a personnel matter.
Students say the lab was abruptly shut down March 5 after the university's head veterinarian started looking into the complaints.
The university issued a statement to CBC News, attributed to Dru Marshall, provost and vice-president, academic:
"The University of Calgary is aware of concerns raised about operational procedures in a specific lab in the department of psychology. These concerns are being taken very seriously and are being reviewed. During this review process, we have focused on gathering information to ensure completeness and accuracy. To protect the privacy of those involved, we will not be making any other public comment at this time. Once our review is complete, if necessary, the university will make changes to ensure that our procedures continue to be upheld to the highest standards. Until then, the lab remains closed. A lab closure impacts research being conducted, and we are working to minimize any impact experienced by our students as a result of the lab closure."
A student who says she worked in the lab from November 2015 to the time it was shut down says she never saw any rats wake up during surgery.
"[I] never witnessed any animals wake up because they weren't given enough anesthetic," the student said.
"Someone made false accusations of that, but an investigation was done and found that to be incorrect. I am very familiar with animal surgeries and the nature of these completely false accusations."
It's not the only issue facing the department, a separate review was launched following the sudden resignation of department head Chris Sears.
"I know this will come as a shock to many of you. But as a department, we need to move forward in a different way," Sears wrote in an email to students and faculty.
Sears says his decision was prompted by a lack of unity in the department and not related to the lab investigations.
"I was excited to begin the position last July, and keen to launch our strategic planning exercise to map out our plan to become a top 10 department. I am grateful to everyone who worked with me during the past year to move our department toward this goal: faculty, staff, and students.
"Unfortunately, as a department it has become difficult for us to focus on this objective, and we do not have the unity necessary to continue. My plans and aspirations are not realistic at this time. I have therefore decided to resign as department head, effective immediately."
"In the fall term, 2018, a professional climate review will be conducted in the department. The dean's office and human resources staff will work closely with interim department head Dr. Keith Yeates and the department during this process. Subsequently, in the 2019-2020 academic year, there will be a full search for a new head."
A day before Sears' resignation, the faculty of arts dean held "an informal discussion" with the department's graduate students.
In an email to CBC News on Sept. 21, Sears said his resignations "had nothing to do with the lab investigations or the meeting with graduate students," he wrote.
The Psychology Graduate Students Association launched an anonymous survey saying "there have been concerns about how all of these events have been handled and communicated to students."
Screenshot of an eight-question survey launched by the Psychology Graduate Students Association on July 20. The link to the survey has since been closed. (Psychology Grad Students Association website)
The association says it will collect and collate the feedback and put together a "course of action moving forward."
The president of the university's Graduate Students' Association did respond to a request for comment. She says the association's role is advocacy and support for students affected by the closure of the lab.
"We want to ensure that our graduate students have a safe and respectful learning, teaching and working environment in which they can conduct their research," Brit Paris said, but she would not comment on any of the allegations surrounding the department, citing student and faculty confidentiality.
The closure of the lab has left several students scrambling to continue their research and in some cases they are making plans to leave the university.
The university did not initially respond to CBC News on the question of whether there had been a complaint to the animal care committee in 2017. However, three days after the publication of this article, the university said the committee had not received a "formal complaint" in 2017. The story has been updated accordingly.
Natuk Paniyuk, 67, and her 71-year-husband came across a polar bear last week while heading out to get water.
Polar bears attempt to get at meat wrapped in steel mesh at a 'diversionary feeding station' near Arviat, Nunavut. Wildlife officers in the Nunavut community were trying out the technique to help keep polar bears out of the community during freeze-up. (James Tagalik)
Quick thinking and a pair of mittens saved an elderly couple from a polar bear attack near Coral Harbour, Nunavut, last week.
Natuk Paniyuk, 67, says she and her 71-year old husband Mark Paniyuk went to a lake to get water. When she first saw the polar bear she says she couldn't believe her eyes.
"I looked again and there it was standing, growling, with its mouth wide open," she said in Inuktitut.
Paniyuk says the bear came right at her but she managed to run to her husband nearby. He took out a small pocket knife to try to defend them but every time he tried to stab the bear, it moved out of the way.
Finally Paniyuk says she threw her mitts past the bear as a diversion, and the animal chased after them.
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I know that you come here to see what weird, strange, unusual comic books I might have dug up, so that maybe you can move beyond the standard superhero fare. Well, today I have failed you, my friends. It's all DC and Marvel! It's all superheroes! What can I say?  We must all be corporate whores every so often. But this week's take was good, so I don't mind being a whore occasionally!Â
"Face the Face" was a good Batman story. Certainly not a great Batman story, but an example of good, solid storytelling. Yes, the return of Two-Face was unfortunate, because I just wish they would stop "curing" him because we always know it won' take. His return is noteworthy only because the coin comes up unscarred for once - it happens once a decade or so, which is why it's nice to see.  The revelation of the villain behind it all is interesting, too, because it signals that DC is allowing other villains to show up and be a player in Gotham (no, I'm not giving it away, but I will say it's someone who isn't a "classic" Batman villain). And although I get annoyed when heroes solve crimes when we don't see or hear all the clues, we did get the crucial clue in this case, even though it seems like a bit of a stretch for Batman to jump to the conclusion he does. Maybe not. Again, the frame of Harvey Dent isn't the important thing in this story. What is important is the "new" Batman, and if this is how DC wants to portray him, that's fine with me. He's still a tough guy, but he recognizes how important Tim is to him, and the scene where he tells Tim that he'd like to adopt him is very nicely done. It's still funny that he calls him "boy," but the crucial thing that some writers have missed about Batman is that he cares too much, not that he doesn't care enough. He feels every crime in Gotham like a shard in his heart, and that's what drives him. This means that when he has a chance to be compassionate, he should take it, not spurn it. Too often in recent years we have seen the brutal avenger - and that's certainly a large part of his personality - but we haven't seen the yang to that yin - the man who is willing to do anything for those he loves, because he knows how quickly they can be taken from him. That's why it's nice to see him reach out to Tim like he does, and why I hope that, even if the DCU doesn't become a brighter place (I like the gloom and doom, for the most part), Batman should recognize that there is hope, even among the gloom.
All in all, it wasn't the greatest story in the world, but it did lay the foundation for how Batman is going to be portrayed for the immediate future. The strongest aspects of it were the family drama - which is why, I presume, DC got Robinson to write it, because he's good at family drama. And, of course, we get a new villain (sort of, as it's not his first appearance) out of it. Let's see if he becomes a player.
Pfeifer continues to piss me off with Catwoman. If I had to name my top ten favorite books, it would not be on it. I often forget that it even exists. It has not catipulted Pfeifer to my list of best writers in comics. And yet I keep buying it. Why? you ask innocently. Well, that's a good question.
Simply put, Pfeifer is telling a good story. Each month, when Catwoman hits the stands, I read it and appreciate the craft that goes into it. That's not to say it's brilliant comic bookery, because it's not. Catwoman will not change your life, or make you stop and think, or alter your religious beliefs or sexual orientation. It is, however, entertaining. It's almost pure entertainment, and that is what I want, first and foremost, from my comics. The other stuff is just gravy. If you're not entertaining me, I don't really give a rat's ass what your position on the Buddha is. Or why you think the Poles got screwed by the Great Powers in the late 18th century. Or why we should all be watching Deadwood (and you should, you know - what's wrong with you people?). It's just sheer entertainment. Yahoo!
Take, for instance, this issue (and why not, since it just came out). The Film Freak continues to be one of the most interesting villains in a long time, as he watches the footage of the two Catwomans, casually poisons the guy who brought him the footage, and then watches the footage of him casually poisoning the guy who brought him the footage. He's evil, but entertaining (note the water brand that Edison was drinking when he was poisoned - "Rebecca," which in this story has to be a shout-out to the classic Hitchcock movie with Joan Fontaine and Laurence Olivier - also a good novel, by the way). And when Selina and Holly travel by cab, the driver is unimpressed, accepting their explanation that they were at a costume party and even remarking that they look nothing like the real Catwoman. Selina's right - Gothamites are used to this kind of thing, so they think nothing of it. There's a weird scene with Slam Bradley that I'm sure isn't what it seems - he says hello to his son (who does call him "Dad") but we never see Sam's face, so what's that all about? And the Film Freak and Angle Man discover Selina's identity and grab her baby, leading to the cliffhanger of this issue, as Selina confronts them. Although I like how the Film Freak found out where Selina was - she was using the name Irena Dubrovna, who was a character in Cat People - I question why Selina would use an alias that exists in the first place. It's certainly clever, but couldn't she just make up a name? Seems like a lot less trouble. And despite my grumpiness when kids and pets are threatened in entertainment - no way little baby Helena gets hurt - I don't mind here, because Pfeifer isn't really implying that the kid will get hurt. It's obviously just a set-up for the Film Freak to get some good footage. So I don't mind.
See what I mean? Entertaining. Lots of stuff happens (even some stuff I didn't mention), there's a bunch of action, there's some nice character development, and Pfeifer is still managing to keep a lot of balls in the air. Ever since he arrived on this title I've been warming up to it a little more each issue. This is the first time I can confidently say that I will buy the next issue. It's an intriguing story.
Now this is what I'm talking about! Brubaker finally hits all the right notes with Daredevil, and we get a fine issue that makes me look forward to the next one. You may say that we couldn't have had this fine issue if we hadn't had the ones leading up to it, and I say that you're right, but that doesn't mean the preceding issues were a bit unfocused. They could have been tighter, and we possibly could have gotten to this point last issue instead of meandering to it a bit. In this issue, the riot breaks loose (and I'm not sure if you noticed from the first page, but the "shit" was going to "jump off," which is prison lingo for "riot" - Brubaker didn't quite make that clear enough) and, predictably, many people die. Matt makes sure that Milla and his lawyer are off the island before the riot begins, in a nice opening scene when he basically yells at Milla but can't really tell her why. Then the bloodbath begins. With each panel, Brubaker ratchets up the violence, but also the tension - will Matt continue to deal with the devil - in this case, Fisk - and if he doesn't, how will he get out of it? Will there be a big throwdown with Bullseye (thankfully, no). And what's stupid Frank Castle's role in all this? Brubaker does a really nice job with all these elements, making Matt's decisions and thoughts feel real and desperate, and giving the Punisher a reason to exist (in this story, at least - I still hate the character). I've been expecting an issue as good as this one out of Brubaker, and it's nice to see him deliver. Someone somewhere (sorry, I can't remember where) mentioned that he hoped Brubaker wasn't about to become the new Bendis - writing every title and becoming diluted because of it. I hope so too. For now, though, he's doing fine. We'll see if it keeps up.
Of course, there are a few minor things that annoy me, and they both involve Bullseye. Once again, I have no idea what goes on in prison, so do they really put people in those Hannibal Lector-like restraints? Just wondering. And I am so sick of Bullseye using playing cards. He might be able to turn anything into a weapon, but I still don't understand how on earth he can throw playing cards as if they were sticks or shuriken. Does he use special cards that are laced with steel? That I can understand. But if he's just scooping up a regular pack of Bicycle cards, he's going to be a bit embarrassed when he tries to throw them and they all flip every which way. I'm just saying.
Okay, so on the cover of this book, Amos Fortune is wearing a club. Throughout the book he wears a spade. What's going on?
I hope this story wraps up next issue, or at the very latest the issue after that. This kind of superhero romp - and that's all it is, really - shouldn't stretch past four issues, if that. At the end of this issue the Royal Flush Gang - the second one to attack our Detroit JLA heroes - is on the run, but our intrepid stars are surrounded by a raging forest fire, and J'onn is down for the count! So I can see them getting out of the fire and laying a smackdown on the Royal Flush Gang. That can't take more than two issues, can it?
Anyway, Vibe is the "star" in this issue, as we get his narration and a bit of his back story. I suppose it's a credit to Englehart that he doesn't say mijo or pendejo or puto or even chinga tu madre (although that would have been fun to slip past the censors!), and he's not too obnoxiously Hispanic - his dialogue feels pretty right, so I'm not going to comment on it. We do, however, get this excellent panel:
Sue Dibny shows up, briefly, to exposit to Aquaman some crucial information about why he's going to have to go to Ontario alone - and although Aquaman says he's team leader and always on call, it's interesting that the Flash (Barry Allen, mind you) didn't invite him to his birthday party. Little things like this make reading comics with characters we've known for years interesting. Anyway, Aquaman is heading to Canada, but will he get there on time?
This whole issue is of course steeped in nostalgia, and tells us very little that is new about the characters. Vibe is an arrogant punk, Steel is stoic (and we're spared his endless internal monologue about how much pain he's in, which someone objected to in the last issue but I thought was deliberately over the top), Gypsy is somewhat naive, and Vixen is somewhat over-confident. They mix it up with the Royal Flush Gang, another group who simply seems out of place in today's modern world (is that why the Joker slaughtered them in Infinite Crisis?) They could work, I suppose, in a regular comic, but they are much better utilized in a sepia-toned view of the comic book past.
This is a nice little superhero book. Nothing special, but then it doesn't promise anything spectacular - just fisticuffs with a touch of character angst. If you like that sort of thing, and want to see the Detroit JLA again. Oh, and Mark Farmer has to be one of the best inkers around. I don't remember Derenick's art being this good. It must be the inker!
Moon Knight #3 by Charlie Huston, David Finch, and Danny Miki with Victor Olazaba and Allen Martinez. $2.99, Marvel.
You know, I'm pre-disposed to like this book because I like the character so much, but I hope that doesn't mean I can't try to be objective. I started buying this because of the character, but if the high quality keeps up, I won't have to defend it by saying I like the character. I'll defend it by saying it's fucking brilliant.
Yes, I use vulgarity to make a point! This book is only on its third issue, but it keeps getting better and better and is quickly becoming one of the best books out there. Finch may or may not be able to keep up a monthly schedule because of his ultra-detailed style, but he's growing on me - and I liked him to begin with. As flashy and intricate the art is, however, it's Huston's story that elevates this. We started the series out of our comfort zone, and as Huston brings Marc back into society and brings Moon Knight back to the ranks of the superheroes, we are slowly finding our footing, but because we started from such a strange place, the story continues to surprise. This issue is partly a recap of Marc's career, told as a lecture to the Committee, who hired Moon Knight in his first appearance back in Werewolf by Night #32. It's not the same people on the Committee, but they're as unctuous as ever. The man giving the lecture has a weird profiling ability, which is either creepy or stupid - you decide! Meanwhile, Marc visits Frenchie, who has no legs. This is a great little scene, as Marc limps up to him on his crutch, they embrace (and we still haven't seen Jean-Paul's legs yet), and then Jean-Paul says, "We should sit." The next panel shows Jean-Paul from the back, with metal rods below his knees, and Marc, with his crutch. It's a very powerful scene. It's been a long time since I read the third Moon Knight series (ironically, the one that ran the longest), but did Frenchie lose his legs in it? Or is this something new? He mentions that Randall Specter, Marc's older brother, cut his legs off (he says "took," but I presume he didn't unscrew them and run off), but I don't remember that. Oh well - it' still cool. Then he drops the bombshell on Marc - he's gay. Marc reacts predictably, which is unfortunate. He tells Jean-Paul that he's a liar, but we know it's more than that. Of course, if he hadn't reacted that way, then when Jean-Paul gets beaten to a bloody pulp later, in a calculated attack by the Committee, then Marc wouldn't feel all guilty and be inspired to become Moon Knight again. So I get it, it's just a bit disappointing. If your best friend comes out to you, you should support him. That's just logical. The cool thing is that one Committee member did this on his own, and the profiling guy tells him it's a mistake, because that's the one thing that could have inspired Marc. Well, he's right about that. Committee member gets a couple of pens in the eyes as punishment, and at the very end, we see the big bad guy who is going to (presumably) battle Moon Knight: Taskmaster. The appearance of Taskmaster wasn't a surprise, as he is on a cover soon, but it was still very cool to see him. Cronin isn't the only one here who digs Taskmaster!
A couple of things stand out. First, Huston does a good job of jumping back and forth between Marc's history and the meeting between Marc and Jean-Paul. That way neither really becomes stale, and it allows him to play off the man Marc was with what he's become. I'm not entirely sure if the profiling guy is supposed to be Taskmaster, because it appears that's what we're supposed to think, but if it is, he changed into costume pretty damned quickly. From the last page, it appears they are different people, but it's kind of weird to see Taskmaster there when he wasn't there before. Where did he come from?
As for Frenchie - it's certainly interesting to "make him gay" - we need more gay characters in comics, after all, and the neat thing about Jean-Paul, as Marc points out, is that he had his share of women, so it's not like he ever "acted gay." When I go back and read the old issues, especially the third series when Frenchie had a bigger role, I'm sure it's going to seem incongruous, but that's fine. What I really want is for Huston to explore that side of his personality without allowing it to become dominant. Apparently Heinberg is doing a good job of this over in Young Avengers, so maybe Huston will do it here too. And it will be interesting to see how Marc continues to react. Right now he's just pissed off that his friend is in the hospital. How will he feel once Jean-Paul is back on his feet? I don't want him to be too accepting, because it seems like Marc wouldn't be the kind of guy to do that.
Anyway, I'm rambling. This is a very good book, and it's only getting better. Oh, and is there a third Spector brother? The cover seems to imply that there is.
Let's talk about Jonah Hex. Perfect place for it, right? The reason I stopped buying Jonah Hex was because, despite the very good one-issue stories, they were all the same one-issue story. There's a bad situation, Hex doesn't want to have anything to do with it, something happens that makes it personal, Hex kills people. If I want, I can just re-read the ones I already own, right?
Well, so far in Next Wave we have three two-issue stories, and they're dangerously close to being the same one each time. Something weird threatens existence, our heroes make wry and witty and caustically funny remarks, Dirk Anger does something disturbing, and our heroes blow shit up. Yes, it's a zany ride, but can't I just re-read the issues I already have?
This issue gives me a tiny bit of hope, because it feels like Ellis is taking things a teeny-tiny bit more seriously and also moving the series forward just a tad. I don't want it to turn into a long-running soap opera, but at the same time I don't want Dirk Anger or any other crazy things simply showing up every other issue to menace the gang. That gets boring. Yes, Machine Man in a bra is very funny, and who doesn't love homicide crabs? But, as I've said before, this is empty calories. There has to be a reason to buy this every month. Could I take a year off and come back and see the same thing - our heroes beating up ridiculous things? If so, that wouldn't be good. I hope it won't be that way.
I have not been buying Solo regularly, despite my fellow bloggers' contention that it's the best ongoing of last year. It's ending with next issue (right?) so I will continue to not buy it, but I wanted to check out Aragones' issue, because Sergio is fun.
And this is fun. We get some historical stuff about the Irish in the Mexican-American War, the time Sergio killed Marty Feldman, a samurai story, a Batman story written by Mark Evanier, which is goofy but still rather sly, and a few of those short visual jokes that Aragones does well. The biggest problem I always had with this series is the price tag - it just doesn't seem worth it for 5 dollars. This is probably not worth it either, but at least with Aragones you know what you're getting, and it's probably going to make you laugh. All of these stories made me laugh (except the samurai one, which is depressing), but they're still pretty slight. This is not the way to do an anthology, DC. But it was a nice try.
Speaking of excellent comic books, X-Factor continues to shine, mainly because David never insults our intelligence. Because I'm stupid, I didn't realize that the dude in the beginning about to go into X-Factor headquarters was Pietro. So when Layla made the other two dudes chase him off, I thought it was just her being evil. Later, when David explains it to us, he doesn't do it through captions or even through a monologue, but through a dialogue that sounds natural even though it's exposition. It's things like this that make it such a fun read.
As usual, there's a lot going on in this issue. David is now trying to deal with the Decimation as well as Civil War, so we get Siryn lulling Spider-Man into telling her what the heroes know about the Decimation (that Wanda - or Pietro - caused it, which I guess isn't common knowledge) as well as debating him on the Superhero Registration Act. It's a neat trick, but David pulls it off. Speaking of which, doesn't Spidey have those weird arms on his costume now? Where were they? Jamie is still investigating Singularity and finds something strange out about Damian Tryp and his son. And one of Jamie's duplicates, who happens to be an agent of SHIELD, comes by to sign everyone up for registration. Just as Siryn finds out that Pietro knows about the Decimation, Pietro shows up at their door. Oh no, shit may hit the fan next issue.
Layla remains the mystery at the heart of the book. She has a head-scratching debate with Pietro at the end, and we still are in the dark about her true purpose. Some people might be annoyed by this, but I'm not, because I know David has a long-term plot in mind with regard to Layla. How do I know this? Because I've read other Peter David books, and he always has a long-term plot in mind. So I'm not worried.
Calero's art is fine. There's nothing egregious like last month's weird werewolf head on Rahne, but it's not spectacular either.
I mentioned last issue that it was Milligan's last, and someone corrected me. This is his last issue, and it's typical of his entire run. He wrote X-Men for about two years, and it just never seemed to cohere into a dynamite book. There were flashes of Milligan brilliance, and it certainly wasn't as bad as Elektra, his last true mainstream book, but it always felt like he was reining it in, either from editorial mandate or because he himself was scared to cut loose, I don't know. I stuck with it because I didn't think it was all that bad, but it never really came together into a good comic book.
This issue is, as most have been, a good example. After the defeat last issue of Apocalypse, Sunfire and Gambit are struggling with what to do next. Sunfire claims they must "kill" all semblance of their former lives, because they are no longer X-Men or Horsemen. It's an interesting idea that doesn't really go anywhere - they show up at the mansion to take Lorna with them, because she's the same way, but get into an inevitable fight with the others. Nobody bothered to ask Lorna what she wanted to do, and when she wakes up she tells them all to fuck off. They leave, and Lorna says she's going as well, because she doesn't know where she belongs.  At the end, Mr. Sinister shows up to recruit Sunfire and Gambit for something evil, no doubt. Sigh. Mr. Sinister. How idiotic is he?
It's a pretty weak issue for Milligan on this title, actually, because it feels like he just wants to get out of town. This was a weird little era of the X-Men, as I mentioned, because throughout Milligan's run you can point to scenes, or even panels, that had a huge amount of potential, but when you sit down and read an issue or two, it doesn't leave much of an impression. Carey and Bachalo come on board next issue, and I'll have to check it out. Maybe I'll stay, maybe I won't. It's all a mystery!
American Way #5 (of 8) by John Ridley, Georges Jeanty, and Ray Snyder with Karl Story. $2.99, DC/Wildstorm.
As an added bonus, I thought I would review, briefly, Brave New World. In honor of Scipio, who finds more haiku in comics than I ever thought possible, I will do my review in haiku form. Behold! |
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Winston was found on the street in a cold rainy day, together with another dog (Higgins). From what we know, they were there for many days already.
He was a bit scared on that day but still he wanted to trust and he let himself to be caught and put in the car by who rescued him. Since then he has been gaining confidence and he has revealed himself to be a very nice, sweet and gentle dog.
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Everybody knows that a good costume can help to haul in the big candy-loot, but kids aren’t the only ones getting decked out this year. 20 million pet owners are expected to spend about $350 million on their pets this Halloween! If you have a pet that will cooperate with a game of dress-up, here are the top 10 most popular costumes this year based on what’s trending. Come on! Every dog mama and papa will be dressing their pups up for those canine selfies, online photo contests and social media! This is premium time for showing off (wo)man’s best friend dressed up in crazy and often hilarious costumes. Put all the other dog owners to shame with an amazing costume that will make your pup go viral.
Jurassic World was a hit so you know there are going to be lots of dogs running around in prehistoric Halloween costumes! Animal Planet offers us a genuine, learning-experience with the Raptor Dog Costume. This Raptor’s tiny arms wave uselessly in front of him, while sharp teeth frame a precious doggy face, and the raptor’s jaunty tail flips up in the rear. Natural history in motion.
Divas may be a dime a dozen, but the Pup-a-Razzi line of doggy costumes leaves the competition in the dust with this Katy Perry Roar (or Ruff) dog costume. Complete with fake cleavage, revealing jungle mini-dress and over-the-top fashion wig, your good little girl will be a jaw-dropping diva and attract her own dog bone daddy in no time!
The Force is going to awaken in your pup with this Star Wars costume. With a new film coming out, you can wave your nerd-banners high with this great Bantha costume (a kind of wooley mammoth from outer space) complete with a Tusken Raider riding on top and that Raider looks ready for battle… or dog bones.
What fairy-tale-lover could resist this fetching ensemble? Little Red Riding Hood. With just a cloak and bloomers, your little (or big) girl is ready to take on the big, bad wolf and rake in the treats!
This cowboy costume is doggone funny. A weathered cowboy hoists his hat in the air as he rides his noble steed. Your little bronco would be the best-in-show at the Halloween rodeo!
Sometimes less is more. This shark fin fis tearing up Shark Week and beyond, plus and it’s pretty simple, not a lot of complicated gear to annoy your pup or make it hard to walk around. Get them while they last! I did.
Now you Walking Dead fans can shuffle along with your own furry little “walker” right by your side! Creepy, exposed brain cap and a tunic that features ultra-gross, decomposing flesh and exposed ribs!
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He came, He saw, He Canonized. Here’s a delightful homage to the new Pope. This holy ensemble is in high demand limited availability, so if you can snag one of these, you’ll be truly blessed.
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My name is Jordan Pearce. Right off the bat, instead of boring you with fancy details about me or my life or what have you, i’ll offer you this instead. I’m writing because I have something to say. Sometimes it’s goofy, sometimes it’s observations about the world, and sometimes it’s real serious business. All of it is important to me, and like everyone, I constantly flow between all of them.
If you’re expecting me to write about any particular thing, don’t be upset if I don’t, but don’t be afraid to ask me to write about any particular topic. Odds are i’ll do it eventually, if not quite soon too. Anythings possible.
Part of the reason I have this website is sort of a practice ground for the Spirit Science website. I’ve never really done blogs before, and in the future when I have some resources at my disposal, My friends and I are going to completely revamp the SS website and make it REALLY sexy and fantastic.
By the way, for those inquiring about my name. I wrote a blog about why some of the older videos say “Jordan Duchnycz” and now they say “Jordan Pearce”. You can find that explanation here.
Now, I’m not all too interesting, but I have made a category in case you wish to learn more. I tag any posts that are about me or my life in some way under “Blogs about Me”, so that’s available if you’re feeling exceptionally bored 😉
But there’s a lot more interesting things to read about here, so here’s a list of categories that are way more interesting to read and check out. Here’s a short list for you.
In addition to that, i’ve got profiles on different sites all across the internet. You can find me here.
If you’re interested, come back in a little while and i’ll have some more information about what all this stuff is about and where we’re going. There’s a lot to do, and i’m just one guy, so expect this blog to be updated slowly but surely.
Define one. If everything is one then why are there many? Connection is not singular. Take the internet for example, since some computers are connected does that make it one computer? We all have spirits and all of us are connected in one way or another but does that mean we are one? Even if we all shared everything we knew with each other that would still only be a extremely** small fraction of possibility. One being ever string of possibility. When I imagine “one” I think of nothing, actually I think one is the wrong number altogether. I think its 0. God = 0. One makes no sense to me because if you were everything you really couldn’t exist. Anyways I think we have different definitions of one, I would like to know yours…
I think what we/they mean by “one” is the connectivity. I know that is a cliche analogy, but think about the water analogy in a more deeper sense. When we look at water more deeply, really the water, even the smallest drop is made of bonds of water molecules and those molecules contain one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms connected by covalent bonds which all come together, forming one but one on many different levels; individual atoms coming together to form one molecule, one molecule coming together with many other collective molecules to form a drop, so on and so forth. We are the clusters of atoms coming together to forming bonds and connections; forming something greater than what we would normally be able to do on an individual basis.
I concur with the above statement of “oneness” in the biological analogy. I think what happens is that people get scared of Orwellian “groupthink” and either shun or are confused by the idea of “oneness”. I wrote a piece about it in my blog. It may or may not shed some additional light on the subject but I offer it up in the spirit of sharing ideas. In any case, I hope that helps you as well. Please take care.
Words are tricky when trying to communicate about such matters as oneness. They come with definitions, denotative meanings, and also with connotative meanings, any of which can prove to be helpful or they can be baggage in the way. The only way to get beyond this is to look beyond the words, look deep within, to see what they are pointing at. The real meaning can be found in what we share in common, even beyond our direct experiences in this material realm.
Every being (and not only human beings) shares Life in common with each and every other being. What is Life? In a spiritual or religious sense, Life can be viewed as inspiration: the Breath of the One (God, Allah, YHVH, Great Spirit …) We come into this world on the breath and on the last breath, we expire.
The Source and Sustenance of this Breath of Life is a Great Mystery, yet it is something common to All and Everything. Through this, we are intimately and inextricably interconnected and interdependent, even in all of our amazing diversity of manifestation which so greatly enriches our experiences of Life.
William Kidd, Jr. replied with the analogy of water molecules and oxygen and hydrogen atoms. If we travel by imagination into the wavicles of quantum mechanics, what do we see? I see energy patterns, centers and waves, a spectrum of alive energy. There, in my imagination, distinctions between us soften. There are no hard boundaries. Travelling further, into consciousness, I feel the oneness of all that is, as consciousness is the essence of everything that exists.
In the spirit of sharing ideas…sometimes I think about people as if they were computers (and who’s to say we’re not biological computers). Computers connect to one another through the Internet. The Internet to me can be a representation of space and time in a sense. Imagine you’re a couple thousand miles away from earth gazing upon it and you see all the stars and all the blackness around our earth. Well that space that you’re floating in and that the earth is floating in to me is a kind of Internet. Our earth is connected to other planets and stars not only because they all contain various amounts of the same ingredients but also because they share the same space. The same “internet”. In that respect we are all “one”. Other than that idea I agree that we are not all “one” (In this present moment) because our each individual experience is drastically different from one another’s mainly because we don’t all think the same way about the same things. I believe that we are all equally important because we are all “data”. The way we view life is “data”. The way we love or don’t love someone or something is “data”. All this “data” in and around us is gathered in “one” place and that may be “God”. An accumulation of all knowledge. All “data”. To me “God” has yet to “happen”. Or maybe “God” has happened…the Big Bang. Lol Maybe every Big Bang is an accumulation of all data exploding to spread the unified data and to gather more data and each time this happens the big picture becomes clearer and clearer. I dunno. Now I’m just rambling. Lol namaste 😉
I can’t speak for Jordan, but personally, when I think of oneness in a spiritual sense it’s completely different from 1, the number. “Unity” is a better word for it. The scientific reality is that the universe is made of both particles, and it is made up of waves. It is not made of both, but it is both. At any given time, you can look at it as being either but never both simultaneously. It is both, and they are one. To answer your first question, “how can there be many?” what I have to say is nothing anybody hasn’t said before, but “many” is a symbolic representation for a real thing that cannot be represented accurately by any kind of symbol. In fact, no thing in existence can be accurately represented by a symbol, which is what words are. “Many” is human contrived concept represented by a human contrived symbol, and symbols are not to be confused with reality. Now back to subatomic physics, when you view the universe as a series of wave forms, you have no option but to accept that all truly is a unified whole, a oneness. The wave forms in the energy body of the universe are akin to the wave forms in the ocean, with the appearance of being almost separate from each other, but all being only fluctuations on the body of the ocean. Each wave is the ocean, and the ocean is the sum of all the waves that form from it. They are distinguishable and they are unified, apparently contradictory but both views equally accurate. You are a wave form made out of the ocean of energy that creates all things. Only a wave, not a separate entity. But you are in a way separate from the waves around you, like the waves in the ocean. You can count them,l as if they are separate even though they are the same body.
As for God being zero, I actually came to this realization a while back on my own after contemplating the concept of Ain Sof and then watching a video of a mathematician talking about zero. Ain Sof is one of the Hebrew words for God, roughly meaning “God the unmanifest”.
So, when you think of infinity, you most likely think of something incomprehensible vast. The sum of all numbers named and unnamed. Your concept of zero is most likely the opposite of your concept of infinity. Infinity being all inclusive and zero being non-inclusive. But when you add all possible numbers together, you have to include the negatives. It’s not just 1 plus all numbers greater than 1. It’s 1+-1+2+-2+3+-3 and so on forever. This means that infinity as a sum is equal to zero. The sum of all things is zero. God is everywhere, God is all things. The All with a capital A. The sum of all things is The Body of God, the sum of all things is Zero.
Well said. Words can be such a tricky thing, in a society that is as predominantly “left brained” as the one we live in. Everything must be quantified in a presice, finite manner, or its’ entire validity is brought into question. The left, analytical, aspect of consciousness, is only half of the equation because we live in a Universe that is equally finite and Infinite. Without the right sided aspect of the brain, which is the creative, unlimited potential aspect of consciousness, we can’t properly nurture the world we create around ourselves. The outcome is the creation of seperation, solidity, time, and decay. The left sided aspect of our consciousness provides the basic structure of all things and maintains the original pattern, and without it there can be no completeness and everything will fall apart before it can even come into being. To cut off either side is to cut off that connection to that “One Source”. All things are manifested in this way throughout every dimension. Forgetting either part of the equation in any dimension creates their own different problems, in respect to the unique nature of the specific energy frequencies of the vibrational field that makes up each dimension. All dimensional frequencies have there own qualities due to the infinitely growing efficient nature that is a part of the pattern of creation, but they all still operate in the same the same basic contructs because they are still a replication of the same original pattern. The only difference is that each demension is moving closer and closer to the perfection that is the original pattern. This is refered to in mathematics as, “The Golden Ratio,” or Phi. Although they can be distinguished as having different qualities, they are the same in regard to the completely unique nature they share, along with being created from the same pattern, each becoming more efficient (moving closer to Phi) than the previous. Perfection can not be quantified, it must be continuosly maintained and nurtured through constant change.
Actually the example you used was a perfect answer to your own question. Just as the millions of individual connections make up ONE networked internet, so is our consciousness. You have an individual body yes. You are unique, yes. What makes “we” is the singular “I am” of which we collectively are. Get it?
1 meaning whole . And what does a hole look like…O. Your both right. I heard this once and it made sense. A watch has many parts. All individual all doing their own part . But they can only be parts of a whole. Now let’s say I made that watch from a single piece of material. Are the whole the parts or are the parts the whole. Or are they both?
He means we are many inside of one, which ultimately means we are altogether as one. Of course, at the level we view ourselves, we do not seem to be as one, but imagine looking at our existence from a higher level… such as… looking at a body of water. We know that it took a lot of little tiny drops to make that body of water, but the way we see it, it’s all one body of water. We don’t separate the drops of water by discoloration, content and forms. To us, they are all just drops of water… in one. Just as we are all just human bodies… in a giant ocean of human bodies, as one. I do agree with you on your notion that to be one is to be all of everything and everyone at once, which ultimate means you are 0. I explained this to my significant other last night and intriguingly she didn’t seem to understand at first. 1 is the number that comes after 0. God is, in fact, 0. In fact, numbers are an illusion. All there is and always will be is 0. We use numbers to bring the Universe down to a level to where, we as Humans, can understand and measure the Universe.
‘One’ means all and everything, infinite togetherness with every single minute particle ever to renew-ably exist. One is the only, we place further values to evolve our minds.
When he speaks of one. He speaks of unity consciousness. Your analogy to the internet is not far off we are many people but with one consciousness found not just in people but in every. Plants animals. Rocks. Planets, galaxies and the multiverse itself. When at in scientific view we are made of atoms, which are made of ions which made of particles that nothing more than swirling vortices energy. What did you think the bang was nothing more than an exploding infinite sun of energy. When broken down to the simple parts we are nothing more than star stuff. And your ideal of god=0 isn’t far off either. Many bhramans believe once you know bhrama you know nothing. And here’s the real mind buster. You are god and you don’t exist ( not offensive just a technicality) but your ego will not let you believe that because it’s job is to keep you trapped in the illusion of you/I. When you get deep in the rabbit hole there are a lot things that get schrodinger-esque. You’re both are and aren’t. Thing can be and can’t be all depends on perspective.
First off, I would like to say thank you. About a year ago I began watching spirit science in a very trying time in my life. It is without a doubt my spiritual catalyst that put into words what I had been feeling for a long time prior. It literally created an explosion in my life and mind, and changed the way I view life. I have now dived within myself and have been on my own spiritual path ever since. Ever since, I have bought tons of crystals and have given at least half of them away to people who now buy their own crystals. It’s incredible to watch how one persons sparks another, who sparks another… which then sparks another. Teachings and love and ideas of unity should be passed along and shared. We are all one and in these trying times we need to unite more than ever. I have been working to bring people to awareness and I have shown countless people spirit science. I think it is a brilliant place to start. Recently I have been studying thoth’s emerald tablets, the kabbalah, and the gnostic gospels of St. Thomas. Now the reason I am sending this, is because of an idea. An idea my mother had actually. (She knows your name and you are the catalyst for alot of her spirituality as well… my whole family has watched it haha (: ) She had a dream that a deceased relative said I should be contacting you and telling you of an idea/movement I have been working on for over a year now. I think it may be something you may be interested in. If you are interested, send me an e-mail at nickjamestornatore@gmail.com I would be honored. I would like to tell you of the idea and if you like it and you resonate with it we can talk further about it! If not, I completely and totally understand. The idea isn’t fully fleshed out but it’s on the table and in bits and pieces. I honor that this may not resonate with you and that is OK! Just thought all of the seekers of oneness need to come together and pull the christ consciousness to us. It is up to the people to move forward, no one will do this for us. I hope you are having an incredible day and that you are focusing on light instead of dark. If this is the last thing you read from me, and you decide your soul has other plans, I wish you much peace, love, and happiness. You are doing an incredible thing and I believe you are doing more than you realize. Don’t even try going to bed feeling heavy.
Thank you everyone for the kind and helpful responses. I think the best way to put it is being on the same frequency for vibration as others.
Hey Jordan ! I am from India . Since last 6 months I have been watching the spirit science series especially & all the other stuff u n ur frnz provide. I have so deeply fallen in love with this subject that I try n watch all the work u do & also watch the movies u suggest . I am dam passionate about knowing things but din get the right source but, thanks to u for such a wonderful contribution . Hey can i contribute also ? I’m very much willing to b part of this whole thing. As I’m a new lerner getting very enthusiastic to know more and more . Please tel me if i can contribute .
We’re about the same age and have the same interests, I’ve enjoyed your spirit science videos during my time of awakening. I wonder if we could be friends
Hello Jordan, my name is Adrian and I believe to be an Indigo. First of all I would like to thank you for what you do, I and many others have learned so much from Spirit Science and this Blog. The reason that I am writing to you is because I need your help. What I want, is for me to move to a place with people like you and me and start rebuilding,creating,help and save this world and also live the life to its full potential with people like us. For the past years I have attracting amazing people, I had amazing experiences, but it’s time for me to start a new adventure, a new ”chapter” in my life. You see I am very different than most of the people, I have a different perspective of life, I see things differently but in the good way. The thing is that I don’t know any groups or places like that, that is why I need your help. At the moment I live in the UK in London and it’s not the place I am looking to stay for the rest of my life. I would like to keep in touch with you and help me if you can. I am looking for a reply, until then peace and love.
Hi, consequently im not Jordan, however I do want the same things as you. He wants those things to from the best oft knowledge but yet he himself is still learning and looking for a way to make that place real and possible. You, him, me and many others are looking for that same place for best sakes we can only hope to work together. The hardest challenge at the moment is how do we spread the information? That’s just it Jordan being one man can not keep up with all the people wanting to know and tell. We have to devise a way to communicate with on another on a larg bases. Telepathic would be a great way for us. The brain can process so much faster in thought, inside your brain you can put things togeather instantly. We could instantly send ideas, thoughts and images, so much more. There’s alot to be discovered the time I’ve spent writing this. It would take lifetimes to Scatch the surface of what is and has been and is being learned right now about the many mysterys.
My name is Emma Johnson and I am twenty years old. I was only born in 1993!!! I feel such a fragmented existence, I was barely even aware that I was on this Earth when computers started to become more prevalent – starting with silly computer games, and then the internet taking on it’s modern form (with a search engine and everything) when I was just a kid! When I graduated high school, I randomly took off to Spain for 9 months. At the end of these months, I walked the Camino de Santiago which many people call a spiritual pilgrimage, ending at a beautiful cathedral in Spain. On this walk I met the most amazing people, and had an extremely vivid awakening – only the beginning though. I have so much to learn. One of the people I met was very important to me.. and months later would send me a link to your Spirit Science video called “The Human History movie”. When I watched it, I was extremely sceptical.. and extremely open! I remember that feeling so clearly, not thinking you were crazy, but just letting my disbelief wash over me and just feel entertained.. and yet intrigued. At this time I was reading the Buddhist bible, feeling a little lost – but open to new ideas, trying to carve out my meaning. In the next months, I went into chaos.. and found the most amazing person. Following this.. I watched ALL the spirit science videos. It was like some magical journey… I felt like a child again. I felt like I was understanding your words, perspective, research, on a whole different level. I was able to make sense of so many things, so many broken areas of my understand.. what an acceleration of spiritual power!!!! For this reason, I feel very close to your personality, your giving nature, your cosmic understand – I feel very lucky. Many times I have thought about how amazing it would be to meet you and collaborate; I’m an artist, a musician, an academic, an aspiring politician, lawyer, anything really. I’m explosive. Anyway, perhaps our paths will meet (just like in the Celestine Prophecy)
I was looking for any contact details,but I couldn’t find,so I write here. I feel like I have to write to you to let you know,from myself,that I admire the whole work you make on spirit science and website,and blog. I admire the knowledge,talent and gift that you have and its just amazing how such a young person could gather so many information,I love the way you present it, its cute,and the amount of information is just even overwhelming sometimes. I ve been interested in spirituality for few years (Im 27) but your knowledge,your information is just enormous. How did you do that?I guess you must have spent long,long time reading and studying the knowledge that isnt always easy to find. Its impressive and I dont know if I found before such a complex,understandable and funny source of information made by such a young person.Thank you for that. I wanna know everything. You help me with this so much, I feel very thankful for the dedication for making movies and sharing it with others.My soul had been waiting for something like this for a long time,because,as a female left handed energy,I have difficulties on being so organized with the knowledge 🙂 I feel like it would be wonderful to become your friend,but I guess so many people ask you for it and you are very busy so its ok if its not possible 🙂 I dont usually write to people from the websites,but you hit the spot in my heart so much that I had to write to you. Are you coming from the same place as Eckhart Tolle maybe?;) I dont want to finish this message 🙂 Please,continue your work. I love it. Best regards 🙂
Along with a positive force, there always shall a balancing negative force which would approach to try set things back to equilibrium.
Hi Jordan…geographically in Atlanta and love all of your stuff…discovered you through beloved festival. In past few years I’ve been waking up….had a baby (naturally), got seriously depressed, then learned channeling and compassionate communication. I’d like to start a monthly meditation class for newbies interested but not quite awake. I’d love to incorporate your videos and other stuff for teaching purposes. I’ve learned more in watching your videos than in all four years earning a degree from Georgia tech. Let me know your thoughts. I know you’re busy! Blessed solstice and thank you!
Hi Katy Jo l, I am not far from Atlanta (Georgia?) I would be very interested in your idea for a monthly meditation and could possibly bring some friends. I know this was a while back.. What’s going on my dear?
I am having trouble figuring out how to sign up for this blog. I don’t see anything to click on. Am I missing something?
i recently discovered your Youtube channel and became so caught by your videos, that i had to watch them all in the past few days.
Some of those things you talked about i already knew before, but i was searching for more information to get myself further. ‘Cuz the more we learn, the more we get to understand about life, about ourselves and so on.
You and also your friends have shown me a lot of new interesting facts, inspiring things and topics to think and learn more about.
It’s been a great experience ever since I found your videos and I’m just completely captivated by them. I always found myself interested in these topics for several years, and you’d be surprised to know that I’m a teenager. I’m honestly so grateful for the work you put into these videos to help expand our knowledge, so thank you so much.
You and your friends and your creations – you enrichen the world. Not only with all your beautiful gifts, bur inspiring, you make others create and do nice things too and again and again… it multiplies! So thanx 2 U 4 Being such a fantastic SOURCE ENERGY!!!!
YOU are on the right track But all the spirit science is helpful- is not new news and only explains meat body evaluations. You can imagine having to cart around meat body after a while believing meat body laws are the same as you. Yes the planet is in Bad shape and there is much to learn about human behaviour. I am currently reading Science of Survival by L Ron Hubbard and its full of human behaviour problems. There is a map to total freedom and its fraught with traps so we don’t make fully realised spiritual freedom. The universe is set up that way for short term wins. Also just listened to Anatomy of the spirit of man also by L Ron Hubbard. As a Thetan (spirit) the body is You. But we have taken a beating from the Physical universe and…… Next lifetime the person dosnt take their brain with them so that cancels out THE BRAIN THEORY BOYS. The MIND IS NOT THE BRAIN. You can hack and saw and shove electrodes in the brain and shock it but the brain does not think. It is a physical organ that operates the body. The spirit, soul or what ever you want to call it drives the body and when the body dies -spirit goes to next human body at birth and does not take brain with it. is impossible to know this without experience. You can experience through Scientology. The answers are there But the traps set by you to not make it are very powerfull.
Just want to say thank you Jordan. Your somewhat funny approach to make this new age teaching on youtube impressed me a lot. I am an individual who somehow got the talent to read the God’s mathematics playout in the stock market and seeing your teachings and the bigger picture helps me to understand this moment of time, and this world a lot more than I could by myself. Thank you again, and you are doing a great job. Should there be anything that I could help to spread the message you are teaching now, let me know and I am pleased to assist.
and i just wanted to try to get ahold of you, to see what you think and if their is advice you are willing to give.
My question is more of a personal one. You seem very smart, very knowledgeable and I’m very lost…very disconnected from myself and my surroundings. I would very much appreciate the opportunity to email you my story and get your input on it and a way I could start to fix my spirit
Reiki and energy flow/work of all kinds. That’s what i would love to see a post about. I’m 2 years into working with the Reiki practice/method of laying of hands. I love it and plan on doing it forever!!! Love brother!!!!
Could you advise on what to do when having to deal with people (on YouTube for example) who are so incredibly materialistic and narrow-minded? I once encountered someone who simply decided to freely hand out a psychiatric diagnosis to me because it was impossible for us to understand each other. The question then is: why do we continue to do what we are doing even though it obviously doesn’t work?
Why do people still ignore or ridicule that which is so obvious (reincarnation, the Field, etc.)? Why do people give of the impression that they want to openly communicate although the only thing they ever want to do is to compete and to simply stick with their own stories without ever accepting anything that does not conform to their expectations?
Rarely do I encounter people who are willing to integrate so-called conflicting information into their own usual stories. The illusion of conflict occurs because the dominant majority of people is not too intelligent as a matter of fact :-).
All I can say in reference to your comments is that I agree with you though I will add my own point of view in reference to those people that are so intensely close minded. Sadly, those people that are always so strenuous in their rejections of our way of thinking that they know it all while we are just part of the lunatic fringe (totally freaking bonkers) but that is only because they are still asleep & they sleep through their day, preferring to live the acceptable lie along with not knowing how to survive without as I have begun to do. I am slowly beginning to minimize myself down to the basics, (Not going to give up the PC’s, NO WAY! LOL!) but I am willing to cut back while not being as materialistic as I used to be. I am also severely altering my diet to live healthier while exercising, something that the main stream will never understand as to how its all connected. My energy levels are much higher now & I feel much better for having gotten rid of a lot of the materialistic clutter in my life. The bottom line for sad people like those that attack us people that woke up is that they are all part of the system & will remain as such. Mind you, I may sound as if this is the matrix but I don’t see it that way & I DO NOT equate myself to the character “Neo” More specifically, I see it as us being awake & more in tune with “God- I AM” while the rest are all deaf dumb & blind. Basically, because of a second awakening that happened yesterday or rather a sort of breakthrough that led to an astounding revelation for me, I truly believe that I AM coming even closer to more fully understanding my inner self. Mind you, I do not agree with every last thing that Jordan says but I will give the guy A LOT OF CREDIT! If not for him to simplify it all, I never would have woken up in the first place & for a person like me that had a hard time grasping even the most simplistic math such as geometry & algebra, Jordan has brought it all into perspective for me with the method he used to explain Sacred geometry as he really blew the lid off my formerly small minded & very limited world view. The world is all around us but it is all math which makes so much sense now because as the title of the subject says, it is a sacred subject, more specifically, God used it to make the world & not one sleeping close minded person can see it! That is what makes it so ironic & also very sad but I have faith & I will do my part to help the world WAKE UP!!!
Could it be that our existence in this “universe” that seems to be made up of clusters of our known atoms all which are recorded in the periodic table of elements which in turn cluster together due to the laws of attraction end up equating into molecules, proteins, tissue, organs eventually into different species of lifeform…. Could it be possible the same existence can be achieved in much larger plane of existence eg… clusters of galaxies are actually a precursor or part of a system that’s too big for us to comprehend when really its just another system that works along the same principles
In one of the spirit science videos it was mentioned that something recently moved from Tibet to another place within the last 10 years. I believe it was talking about the Toroidal Flow. It mentioned that for the last few thousand years it has gone through Tibet and that is why they have been the guardians of spiritual guidance for a long time. I am sorry I may be miss quoting because I forget which video it was in that talked about this. Hopefully you can understand what I am asking, but I am asking where it has moved since?
Hi! I was wondering, do you think ADD/ADHD is correlating to being right brained dominant? I saw what you were explaining about how being productive in society is no better than just letting it all go…. I always thought this too, that whether you have a successful 12 year education, or live your own way, they both have their own benefits and disadvantages, but i thought again, that society demands us to conform, and for those who don’t authority will find a way to sabotage you! What are your thoughts about this? thanks
Dylan?? If you are interested in my opinion on the matter of the subject of ADD/ADHD. Mind you, I also had it though it is almost gone now because of my persistent practice of meditation & my belief is that as Jordan has said in one of his videos, humans are complex creatures, “like unions” LOL! I know that sounds like Shrek but where do you think the creator of the character got that quote in the first place?
The entire point is that as humans, we truly do have many layers in our mental psyche & there is one layer left that I need to get past before I can finally reach the very core of my innermost self. Mind you, in attempting to get there yesterday morning, I caused my ego/inner animal/child… Well…? Whatever IT is, I AM so happy to have found it because now I understand why every time that I tried to focus my mind or to quit from a bad habit, “my wolf” within, did not like it one bit! Yesterday morning as is my habit if I wake up early enough, I stay in bed for a little while longer while just focusing my mind to meditate & because of one of the many methods that Jordan mentioned… { counting down from 100 to zero )… I discovered my actual inner self { the spoiled rotten self- indulgent animal side of me) AKA> my subconscious willful layer sitting just outside of the dead center of the core of my being & “it” tried to put up a mental block by causing me to have a song stuck in my head that hasn’t quite gone away just yet.
I am getting there though & IT, being the inner animal ended up revealing itself to me. Of course, you are most likely wondering what any of this has to do with the matter of ADD/ADHD, right? Well, I used to wonder if I would ever succeed at breaking free from any of my addictions, even as frivolous & minor as they were, compared to the hard core addiction issues like gambling, drinking or using rec drugs as a form of escape. Mind you as I stress the word “rec” as in the drugs can wreck you life if you ever even dare to try them only once which I NEVER did but I have known many that did & they never recovered in spite of so many interventions as they lives went down hill in a never ending spiral as they destroyed themselves all in an effort to use an external substance as a means of escape. That is why I am a purist when it comes to real meditation which your body can & will achieve as long as you confront your inner animal & get it muzzled, leashed & caged until it gives up. You don’t need “shrooms” or digital drugs to get away from yourself. What EVERYONE NEEDS, that isn’t awake, is a good swift kick in the pants & the drive to find that inner self to get it under control so before they know it, they won’t need a single damned external distraction to help them deal with life’s tedious & often trying moments. The brain is a tool but the heart is where its truly at & you need to use both to succeed at gaining control of your entire mental self but you DON’T need to use any sort of drugs to get there. You just need to want to be a better person so badly that you will stick to the practice EVERY day!
Of course, the point here is all about control & a VERY BIG CASE OF MIND OVER MATTER!!! IF you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter which is actually a VERY BIG problem for me because as Jordan has also said, “spirit does what it wants” & in my case, that is VERY BAD for me because until my inner animal finally tripped itself up, even now at the age of fifty, I still have trying moments when all it takes is one little distraction to pull me away from any task that HAS TO be done & then it is completely forgotten UNLESS someone pushes me back to it to finish what I started.
That is what it is all about with your inner animal or petulant inner child. Now that I know that it is there, granted it is a part of me but becoming so consciously aware to have discovered EXACTLY where in my mind that it resides, I have taken to calling it out as if in a duel at high noon as I have put it on notice that “I AM”… (The conscious self ) not going to allow it to control me any longer. BEFORE I found it, I often had so little energy throughout the day. I would even go to bed early, wake up late & STILL, I felt as if I had no energy at all!!! The ADD/ADHD is also caused by that inner animal which even acts like one sometimes. BEFORE I found “IT” it would cause my mind to wander so much that before I even knew it, my legs were also causing my body to wander around the room & I was only barely aware of it, IF at all.
The point I am making here is that my inner animal was acting out exactly like a caged animal & in a way, “IT IS” just as “I AM” IF you can understand my meaning ? However, when it comes to all of us, we are each human animals on the subconscious level in a sense of the word & depending on how awake “YOU ARE” or just the opposite, your body is still the vessel or in more accurate terms, it is the cage that your inner animal cannot escape. So, since it can’t, IF you don’t find it or you are not even aware of it, “SPIRIT WILL DO AS IT PLEASES” no matter what you try to stop it which is why every person that made a new years resolution to loose weight or quit smoking cigs, ect… Whatever goal is set, chances are, the inner animal (AKA – the subconscious ) won’t like it at all & it will do whatever it takes to stop YOU -(the conscious self) from succeeding at the goal that you set for yourself.
Also, aside from my now gradually shrinking ADD/ADHD which, in the gradual absence of it, my mind is much sharper, more focused & my energy levels are rapidly increasing by the day no less! In the past: jogging + exercise = me thinking “Oh! what a drag of a painful chore!” but I know now that my inner animal was trying everything to stop me from committing to the actual act of finally shedding the unwanted 75 LBS which finally brings me to the purest fact that if we all just repeatedly indulge our inner animal, after a long enough period, us being aware of “IT” OR NOT, it will be so strong that it is going to take a Herculean effort to commit to the task of any self-improvement because we have already let our inner animal have its way too many times so we end up doomed to stick to a self-defeating pattern.
So, there is a moral here to be learned & that is that unless you can see the problem on a ex-ray or MRI machine, chances are very high that since it isn’t a physical problem that can be seen, then logic simply states that it HAS TO BE psychological & the moral? You are the zoo keeper of your own body so nourish your body BUT DON’T FEED your inner animal! If you do, it may chose to devour you, not just the hands you used to indulge it! ALL PROBLEMS that have to do with mental issues that do not have a physical cause that cannot be seen by any imaging means or even any chemical imbalances that ARE NOT found in the average person who is having a problem, all those sorts of invisible issues are caused by the self indulgent inner animal & if you REALLY want to succeed at every task that you set your mind to doing, you better sit down to find your inner animal & get it back in its cage BEFORE it sabotages you right into an early grave! While Jordan is right that “SPIRIT DOES WHAT IT WANTS” ultimately, you are the one that should always be the responsible adult keeper of yourself to police your inner animal so that “spirit will only do as you wish of it” & not what it wants all the time without any sort of mental discipline!
Of course, I could quote the fictional character “Sherlock Holmes” as I quote, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!” Thus, armed with much of the material that Jordan so graciously provided out of the goodness of his heart without ANY expectation of money coming to him, I took whatever of his material that I found to be acceptable to me just the same as everyone does with the many different versions of the bible & I drew my own conclusions. So far, upon doing that while using the same simple logic as Sherlock, I have only one layer as of yet that I need to peel back & then I will go beyond that IF it is possible. I an fairly certain now that it is in light of my more recent revelations so my spiritual journey continues.
Nuff said & hopefully, I get to actually talk to Jordan one day because without him, I never would have made it this far. He has been a very big part of my life now since mid June of 2015 when I began to wake up. Love to all but especially you Jordan! I would call you a brother to me if we ever met in person
I too would first like to thank you for your commitment to truth. What you and your team have already accomplished has given me vast encouragement. Thus, I felt compelled reach out to you. Do you have a direct email address that I can send inquires? I have a proposal for a collaboration that could further extend your efforts. Let me know, thanks
First of all thanx in giving me a reason to believe theres people that are actually giving support to deeper understandings of our nowadays reality.
and I’ve just read a little about yourself but i did saw that u managed and went on traveling the world… if I may ask, how did you managed it??? im so poor i can barely go out of my house, but im definitely interested in traveling the world and expand myself!!!
Wanted to thank u for ur amazing videos & wanted to ask, does tattoo affects the aura or causes any damedge on anyone who’s on the spiritual path??
iv bin on the path for sometime and spirit science has helped me put peace’s together, confirm the fact that I am not crazy and helped me open up the minds of people around me. I recently went to India searching for answers and got slapped in the face with information. Together my soul tie and i have started building a collective consciousness constantly sharing information with everyone open to learning or hearing what we have to say.
i want to publish a book full of esoteric poetry layered with subtext for anyone looking for it. I believe that i can effect positive change, iv already filled a book full of it. Any help or advice you could give me on spreading it would be amazing. It would mean the world to me if you would read some.
I learnt so much from you and specially your youtube’s videos. Tho I’m not fully agree with everything, i feel like it’s the right path and the right way.
I do appreciate everything you do and make. Your contribution to this world is far beyond what i think you could have imagine.
First, the reason i post this here is because i have yet to find any way to contact the board administer on the community forums, given my situation.
Why is it that to contact a board administer about receving no registation email, to log in on the community forums, needs you to be loged in? If i can’t log in because i got no activation email (i am above the age 13) how will i contact any administrator to get this sorted out if i need to be loged in to contact them? I can’t make a new account because my emale is being used by the one that i never got an activation email for. I added the address to safe senders and everything, used the resend activation email about 10 times, and still nothing. I want to post and comment on the forums but i can’t, at least not in the preferred way.
You’re absolutely right, that’s ass backwards. We’re working on getting a board administrator… we don’t really have one just yet 😛 We are building a development environment to be able to make it really easy to make new things without breaking everything, and it’s just taking some time.
hi jordan ,i am really impressed by your work i would really like to talk to you personally asap very imp..thank you for all the love and insight good work pls pls try to contact me i will help you know more about what you are learning as i come from hindu family and with many gurus really you need to know more thank you
Since the first day that a friend of mine turned me onto you I have been a follower and a fan, every human that comes into the house is brought in and turned on to it and everything else that you have available. It is the perfect time for a program like this….it brings hope and smiles to everyones face who has had the privledge of watching. We discovered you after watching a you tube video called sacred vibration and emotion…..it was magic to have you waiting for us at the end and for someit has been the very begining of their journey…..Brandon thank you for the gift of all theis good information and Jordon thank you for understanding the importance of just such a wonderful spiritually charged program what could be better at these times, full of fear and deception…………..a sweet little cartoon to help change and super charge the earth. Karla
Thank you for your work, your efforts to change the world, and the inspiration you are to others. I discovered “spirit science” a few months ago and finally decided to leave a comment .. here are your blog site rather than the other locations you appear to pop up 🙂
While I am often surprised by the conclusions (or suggestions, or ‘ways to consider’) you make, I am always impressed by the diversity and openness you bring to each topic. Many of the subject areas or topics you bring forward have crossed my path – I am very curious about many things.
Since I have noticed you have asked for suggestions, you may wish to check out the work by Louise LeBrun and the WEL-Systems Institute (www.WEL-Systems.com). I believe you may find some interesting insights and some very practical approaches to transformation, changing your life, your world and the reality you experience.
Whatever i have experienced from your videos is unexplainable , i never in my life could think that there could be stuff’s like u say through ur videos. It really did change my way. i maybe immature , but my mind’s mature enough to know there is something mystical about you. Thank you for your mind opening thoughts. i just wish i could be like you. Truly awesome work. 🙂 . the closest thing i have experienced to being whole is through your videos thank you for that ^_^
Hi…should I start with “u might think I’m crazy but…”……….isn’t there a saying about there being a thin line between crazy people n exceptional ones???
Anyway…..my mom is rh neg…… I’ve always thought we were different……ive had as long as I can remember….dreams…..some clear as day…some “clouded” leading to deja vu moments all about my life….I knew things young….. I knew I would love n have children with a twin…but I could not see his face… Other things I can not even speak of….I want to establish my ancestry… I feel my children
Even with all this beautiful and good intended info, you are still eating a big EGO poo sandwich that’s keeping you separate from your one source. Just how the EGO intended it to do with all it’s trick’s…..
Dear Jordan, I have been trying to get a hold of you for quite a while now. Do you have an email address I can email or something? Mine is rickybrooksri16@gmail.com if you want to reply to this. I really would like to talk with you and get to know you more. I share similar interests and believe in similar things. However, I do need help in many aspects of spiritualism. Also, I have many suggestions for you. Please do reply to me as soon as possible. Yours, Ricky
I am One, of the Many, who would like your email address. Such a thing is dangerous for One so popular to give out, i understand. I assure you two things should you decide to reply; 1) One long email 2) To keep my contacts addresses private.
If your wondering why I ask, I want your opinion on moving forward with a goal that defeats itself, brings about happiness, but at the cost of losing it. Confused? It’s paradoxical in nature, not that I am trying to be confusing, it just is. If you want to see something first, I have left comments on a couple of your videos under the screen name of Cantwealljustgetalongnoimsorry. Its a depressing name, but I am trying to promote harmony in chaos, civil discussion between warring factions, expressing oneself, and standing up for your beliefs while never bringing down the beliefs of someone else.
So I know your a busy guy but send me a quick message if you can, I hope we can open each other’s eyes.
I figured I’d send a message to you as I’ve been paying a lot of attention to Spirit Science for the last couple of years. For one I already know that I’m an Indigo, although I never knew it had a name. I was diagnosed with ADHD when I younger because I couldn’t sit still in class and listen to the monotones and needed to move around and explore objects rather then just reading about them. Although I’m not sure if I fall into the other category, but I may have picked up a few tricks that seem to be learned almost naturally. Just by looking at someone I can determine if that individual is a “bully type” and so far I haven’t been proven wrong on those determinations and I’ve made hundreds. But that is not all, I can also tell if they are willing to learn or if they will simply ignore it. As for the indigo part, every single thing mentioned as an indicator I recognized right away as being part of my self. When I’m alone and uninterrupted, I can disassemble, diagnose and reassemble engines, computers and various other things with a high level of success, put people with me and then things don’t get accomplished. I also apparently see things others don’t and it gets very troubling when I try to point it out. I’m very detail oriented and have a high level of situational awareness, even in a crowded shopping mall when I RARELY visit them. A few close friends mentioned that I could of been a spy…right.
Hi Jordan! I LOVE all your Spirit Science Lessons. Thank-you for bringing this to the world. I just saw the clip on the recent summit of world leaders. So weird… there was a holographic image of a triangle floating in the middle of a circle and all the world leaders except Obama was wearing a triangle on their lapel. It’s so creepy! I just wanted to know what your take on it is. I know I shouldn’t be worried because that doesn’t serve me or anyone else but it’s hard not to be when it appears we are at the mercy of a select group of powerful world leaders.
Thank you for your blogs and videos. I’ve not only learned a lot, but I’ve come to realize that I am not alone in my ideas and thoughts. You’re amazing, keep up the good work.
Some time around December, my friend read an article about the discovery of some kind of red substance which inhabited South America, Africa or Asia; she can’t remember which. The article she read said that this substance was living, would spread unless contained and whatever this life form was, it was not carbon-based like the rest. If you can dig up any information about this, could you please either write a post or make an animation about it?
i watched the videos which u post in youtube (Hidden human history, Spirit Science). I wanna make this a book. Can i do it.
First, I want to thank you so much for your videos! They have been very helpful. I am leaving a comment because I am pregnant and would love to have a ‘metaphysically fit’ pregnancy. Do you know of any metaphysical books on pregnancy. Thank you!
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I’m new here, but have been watching the Spirit Science videos (which I love!), and I had a question. I am a very spiritual person, on disability recovering from an AIDS diagnosis, and while I’m doing great now (looking in to starting a new career in nutrition) I live in a rather bad part of San Francisco (the Tenderloin) where just recently 8 people where shot not far from my apartment. I have noticed lately the energy around where I live get VERY negative. In fact I was assaulted by a neighbor for trying to get him to keep the noise level down at 2 in the morning just a few days after the shooting! I’m wondering if anyone knows of a place where I could get a piece of orgonite (the larger the better) for next to nothing, as I’ve not been very successful in manifesting any extra money lately. If anyone would be so kind as to donate one, I would be forever grateful, as would my neighborhood! Please email me if you can or know someone who would. I really hate asking, but I am not sure where else to turn, so I’m calling on my spiritual brothers and sisters! my email is leobilly69@gmail.com.
Do you attempt to persuade people to believe in God or do you do the opposite? What is your religious view?
My spiritual path has led me to many of the same conclusions you have made here also. All our paths are so separate and diverse and yet lead to the same places! A few years ago I was following the tenth dimension site and have not been engaging for a long time. I found your site while revisiting there. I now know that my opinions are just a part of my heart and I meditate on the fact that we are so insignificant physically to the all of creation but are connected so as to be as one with it all. It creates within me a hemi-sync like physical feeling that I felt the first time I connected with God and knew. I don’t know if I would be at this place if I did not have the knowledge that’s available today that continues to inspire me.
I neglected to tell how much I enjoy your presentations. My carrier was in animation and know how much work you need to do in making these. Good work and God bless.
Jordan, on names and synchronicity: I loved your bit about names, btw. Today I saw your Spirit Science on the history of earth. (13 i think?) Anyway, I paused and gasped at the bit about Kryst hla, took a quick pic and sent it to my daughter, Krystal. Her first and middle names, given her when I was a good little Christian, is Krystal Indigo. And boy is she ever!!!!!!!!! So today I discovered that she and I in our higher consciousness chose an even more sacred and ancient moniker for her. wow. she was blown away too.
and my name means little gift of god innkeeper. I also wanted to tell you that you are, in my very ancient system of the cards, the King of Clubs. I have studied this system for 20 years or so, and would love to talk with you about it sometime. I also have a blog: clu4earth.wordpress.com
Hi Jordan, can I talk with you about the Article V Convention? It is how we’re meant to have that big conversation, where we can redirect our course as a society and civilization. Brief explanation is here (from a previous project): http://www.conventionsacramento.org
I love what you and your family have been working on. Thank you for sharing new and old ideas. I would love to see you guys do something on motivation, perception and action. I am an artist and I see creative struggle to fit in and be understood. Most seem to not be able to find their voice. I share your videos along with motivational speakers work like Zig Ziglar, Les Brown, Anthony Robbins and many TedTalks to help get people to think and find the resources available to them. I am not sure what to say at the moment, but I wanted to share my appreciation for what you are doing.
Traditionally I have been known for my work as a photography and body painter, and in an effort to connect back to spirit and substance and figure out what success is I started to ping and round my studies. Your work has helped me think on things on new perspectives and the lives of myself and many friends and colleagues have changed. Now I am working on a new title of Transformational Specialist. My goal is to get people to see what they may be possible of and how they can find resources. I want to continue sharing your work as I believe you are sharing light. Thank you…
Hi, I’m Completely new to my Spirit, I’m just looking forward to let myself loose in this beautiful world but I have a big barrier…. Every one here in my country is a religious maniac… I was trying to find schools from meditation, Reiki healing but nothing… I’m from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico and sorry for not introducing my self, I’m Salomon Behar and I would love to let my spirit free, I really don’t know anyone that could help me here but, if you have a contact here in Guadalajara or you know a School please let me know. Thank you for your help and enjoy life my brother 😀
“I would love to change that paradigm. I would absolutely love to work together with a group of individuals who were so “On it” that we could make anything happen, and we got enough resources and build a super high-tech lab that was free to use by anyone with good intentions and who knew what they were doing, and we could pour our resources into really exploring and publishing all of our data about what a Soul was, what is Spirit, what is Consciousness?” This is exactly how I always felt would be the best way and time spent in my life. The problem is I just have not figured out how to do so. With all different individuals by themselves thinking and creating ideas but usually do not have anybody around them to bounce and vibe ideas on this subject with. Very likely individuals have similar wonderful ideas on the subject but they are not used to there full potential because unlike other studys on subjects we do not have a place for group research n studys. unfortunitly I am not a rich individual so using money as a source to make this happen isn’t currently possible. I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO GET THIS IDEA IN MOTION SO IF ANYONE HAS ANY INPUT PLEASE FEEL FREE.
I’m wondering how do i get involved in this project of making this chaotic world a better place. We’re in desperate times where all the help is needed where ever it’s needed, i just feel helpless just by myself and need someone to do this with because i can’t do this alone, no one can…..
~I’ve been watching you series and episodes for a bit time now, almost two years but none doesn’t show nor say how anyone can get involved even though the big picture episode says we’re all involved…
This is why i’m searching for help and giving out a helping hand to make this project a reality, as i said i can’t do this alone witch makes me believe neither can you…
If we send you the subbed videos or the subs in .ssa, could you upload them on Spirit Science in a new Playlist: Spirit Science in French? Then we put a link to your channel.
Hello Jordan Pearce! I love your work! Is there a faster way to talk to you or your team? Do you promote meetings? Thank you for everything! Daniela
Hi Jordan I would like to connect u with someone in Poland so I would be very glad if u send me your details I’m very exited what u already done ad your lovely team I would also want some good contact with Drunvalo and Other ‘ Key ‘ players
http://www.violetflame-merkaba.com/en/your-place-force.html I would Love to connect as much people as possible with all environments But soon I would be daddy 😀 I really believe in synergy of all us 😀
Jordan, i am writting from México city. I had the call 6 months ago to contact you but i got today the second call. I hope in my heart this post will be seen.
I am part of a great movement of light in México and It is time for us to connect for our greater good.
I recently saw your “Do something rant” and I’ve got to say, that you make quiet a few mistakes in your video, with many in your spirit “science” channel. First off the video wasn’t even a rant at all as you clearly expressed no anger nor vigor in the case of an argument, which an actual rant does. Second off the entire video was pretty much an over-summarization of “honesty is the best policy” and “the truth will set you free” which a lot of people have heard, rendering the video to be pretty much pointless. Third off and this is my opinion here, it appears that your not taking these videos seriously, or what you say for that matter. I have to a agree with Martymer81 that what your doing is tricking foolish people to believe in your Pseudoscience and BS theories with what you claim is right. Jordan, if you are going to do something and or rant about it “DO IT RIGHT” and be truthfully honest with your viewers and not bias. Spirit does not equal science as it is a complete oxymoron. Leave out the oxy and your left over with the moron, which would be you.
Now is a day four, this is now up to us, to explain to them, that they have to trust us on us having this sensetaion of smelling the pollen.
Hence pollen is a male component of a plant life, you will today realize releasing of the karmic burden of those, tommorrow I would say we will see the male animals releasing their karmic burdens. On a sixth day, You will be releasing that as well.
On a seventh day – I will either release command of the Sun, or become a new ruler of the Universe… 😉
PS: Don’t have a static address, and no regular income, [homeless], so can not join internet discussions over “skype” or phone at this moment.
also send my apology to Mr. David Talbott, as i have unfortunately remembered his name first before yours…
Hey man, could you please spare a few minutes and e-mail me (the same one I used to post this message). I have some questions about an experience I had with someone about a year ago that I still haven’t been able to really figure out yet. However, I feel like I am on the right track now which has brought me to here and now. I am not sure what this person was able to get me to do but it was an entire “environmental” experience. I’d tell you the whole story in an e-mail if you’d like. I’m just wondering what may have happened; was I astral projecting without even knowing it? or through meditation was she able to get us into the 4th dimension (Astral Realm) specifically the middle frequency. From what little knowledge I’ve just recently gathered, both of those things are not considered “easy” to do so you may have your doubts as I have never really attempted either of these things (yet) on my own…BUT they are the only things that could at least somewhat explain the night I had with this woman. Let me tell you what happened and you can give me your best opinion please. Also, sorry for contacting you this way but it seemed like the only way I could find? Thank you.
disappear. The physician could possibly opt to carry out expensive surgery to reduce some of the wart.
Love you! Love your videos! I was asked by Thoth about a year ago to play the next video i pulled up once, it was a spirit science video. That’s how i found you. I have been trying to reach out to you but haven’t had a chance to. Thoth is my spiritual teacher because I am the physical reincarnation of Anubis (you be the judge on that one). We have come to finish what we have started here on earth and you, so far, have the most accurate Historia Crux. Please check your Facebook messages Jordan, I used some negative energy then boosted up through the kabbal chakras et ect to the highest point i could yesterday to bring you the true sincere message i have for you at the end of my IM. Im sure you will understand, i tried to keep the negative energy funny for you, you may get a good laugh out of my final fantasy jokes and intersteller punchlines =p
We are the Dragons, Alpha Draconians, Thubans from Draco, read the astral chart i sent you. You dont have to be afraid, we just need guidance with our “properties” we own. We gathered them up from the end of planck time and omniversal data (edge of universe en total) and i can teach you all about them ^.^ Remember, Anubis was the God of The Other Side. You thought the Jews were impressive, just look what we can show you. Look up Ron Van Dyke’s messages with The Red Dragon or The Dragon News Network (DNN) for more details ( http://darkphipps.tumblr.com/ )
You are an incredible inspiration. You’ve changed my life and way of thinking profoundly. For me, your videos took endless chaotic and conflicting scraps of information, mythology, religious beliefs, and even fantasy worlds of fiction and swirled them together into an elegant, beautifully complex pattern that now serves to color practically every thought I have.
Your words cheer me when I feel troubled, and add to my ecstasy when I am feeling perfectly at one with my path and the whole of everything.
I hope one day, when I have ascended enough, I might meet you and embrace you as a brother, but regardless, I take great pleasure in knowing I have true purpose in helping your mission to enlighten the world, in such ways that I know how (mostly by talking people’s ears off in coffee shops, and whenever it seems like I am dealing with an open mind, by sharing your videos!)
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I have been led to this ‘site trying to contact you. I have seen your Human History video as well as Spirit Science 1 and 4 or 5, (the one with keys to past). But I am amazed as to where and how you got all those info in HH video. I know its based from D Melchizidek (channelings) and Edgar Cayce, but what got me interested is the fact that the video explained about the 4 major religions we have today, and maybe some more. You said its only a theory. If this is not true then what is, knowing that people normally say that their religion is right and that is wrong. This one explains everything… What religion are you most associated with? Obviously you are not alone in making the video. Are you being supported by someone or a group? If so who are they? I have met an Indian Sikh who told me things kind of similar to the video.. and its very interesting to know about ancient times, our history..
i am going to email you a vidio on crop circles that clearly shows the god particle. i was speechless. it will come to this channel directly from youtube.
They have been an inspiration to myself and many of my friends as something positive to hold onto as we have gone through the painful process of “waking up” and coming to terms with the frightening reality we are currently facing in the world today.
I would love to interview you. I’m an investigative journalist and activist based out of Toronto. My sister has recently started an artist’s group for positive change and we use many of your videos as educational tools for our meetings.
Please let me know if you are interested. I’d be happy to work around your schedules and requirements and to compensate you for your time (or knit you a nice scarf or something 🙂 LOL.
Thank you so much, Jordan. I am very curious to learn more about what inspired you to do this, how you went about your research and how you generally survived throughout this process. You are a leader and a hero. Not unlike Edward Snowden. Thank you so much for caring about something and not being afraid to say it.
I was wondering if you can get in touch with me, I have some business ventures to discuss with you! 🙂 Spirit Science is one of the best inspirations we find to finish his set of books. Currently working on the second one.
I would love to hear your thoughts concerning “coral castle “. Ever since first learning of it the “dots ” have been coming into my field of vision and are connecting and speeding up what I believe to be my own personal awakening . Ultimately the reason I stumbled onto/into spirit science. I feel something deep something different when I watch videos and attempted explanations about coral castle and its builder Edward Leedskalnin. please share what your thoughts are about this strange topic . Thank you for being you .
I really appreciate your work. I have had the opportunity to study and watch, and re-watch, and re-watch the spirit science library and wanted to reach out to you.
My goal in life is to create an opportunity for people to be free from energy bills, free from debt, free from poor education, and free from the inside.
They will all begin to work together, but my specialty and best way I have found is to lead with energy efficiency as a way to make a very large impact, build a network of people, and build resources to fuel change.
I am reaching out to you, because with your mind, there has to be a way we can team up together even on a small project to begin making the positive changes we both want to see in the world.
If you would like to have a conversation, please email or call me and we can have an opportunity to see if we can make a difference together in a small or large way.
Hi Jordan! I really appreciate the videos you post on YouTube, they changed my life. After watching them, I feel uninspired to go to school and sit my desk and not even learn, and I’d rather watch your videos and learn even in biology which I used to love. But spirit has taken over. It just seems so profound. I have a question. How can I do what you did, and sell my stuff and move away and leave school. I’m considering it. I feel as though I’ve gotten caught up in not a good flow, filled with consumer culture and having way more stuff than I need. I just want to let it all go. How can I do this? Thank you again, you’ve honestly changed my life. P.S. You’re parables make me cry of realiation of what really matters.
Hey man i agree but this guys so busy… Im of like mind… But maybe you and i could chat… I dont know about you but i want to do something at least spread the word…
Thank you for the information you provide. You have really helped me better understand my purpose in this life. I’d like to share a creative video I recently stumbled upon on Vimeo about Fibonacci.
Hey man i agree but this guys so busy… Im of like mind… But maybe you and i could chat… I dont know about you but i want to do something at least spread the word…kraftdinner-guy@hotmail.com
Hi, I think I met you in my dream last night. We spoke for a while. “Who are you?” I asked. “Call me Jordan,” you said. I woke up shortly afterwards to find a blizzard outside, so I stayed home today. The first thing in my email box was a link from a friend to the “hidden history” Spirit Science video. I watched it and I found a lot that was familiar, since I’ve done Drunvalo’s Merkaba workshop. Your name on the site caught my eye after the dream, so I followed my attention here. Great job! I’ll stay tuned for more of your work. I am a fellow lightworker artist who strives to connect spirit/analysis and soul/creativity, so I trust these kinds of connections. Please drop me a line if you are moved. Om tat sat!
Hey Jordan, don’t know if you would ever have the chance to read this but I would like to let you know I have been listening to your YouTube videos for several years now I’ve never written to you before but I would like to let you know how much you have enlightened me through the years, you broden my prospective, this world could be such a lonely place when you feel like you are the only one listening and understanding why you are here.
It is so good to see a young person such as yourself, leading others, finding your way through this insane world, I always thought if everyone would just come together with the knowledge they had and enjoyed we could most difinitly make a changing world,
I like that video game you created, as I always told my 2 boys I wish you would create games that would enlighten and educate children instead of brain washing them and teaching them home to become killers. The mind is something that needs to be nutured in order to bring peace, a game that is created to teach children how to distroy and kill things are locked in th sub conscious until one day when ready to be used, why not games to teach love truth and understanding. I am so against violence in any which way or form as in games of any kind. Please I encourage you to continue to created your you tube videos into games my kids can play, they are the one who will create change they are the minds we need to work on because they grow up so fast and they are influenced so easily. I love you Jordan you are my hero. Ciara Sapphire.
Hey man hes just a man…ive been watching him tio but we need to spreqd this stuff… email me lets do something too change this world…
Hey Jordan Pearce my name is Blake I was wondering if I could talk to you directly so do you have an email or possibly any other type of social media or something I could talk to u on?
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If you’re interested, please reply to my email, I’m interested in hearing your thoughts about it and would be nice to even post it on Spirit Science page.
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I’d like to quickly chat with you about a book I’ve written “Ayahuasca: An Executive’s Enlightenment”. I’m launching a crowdfunding campaign April 14, and I’d be honoured if you would share it via your channels. I think the book will help and inspire a lot of people, and there are some wonderful perks for everyone who gets involved.
If you’ll please reply via e-mail, I’m happy to share more information and hop on a quick phone call. I won’t take much of your time, and I’m confident you’ll see the value in this project. It’d be an honour to have your support.
You are just the coolest guy out there :D!!! U should have been a billionaire by now with those cute ass insightfull videos, Number 1 FAN.. I admire you for all of your effort and witts and spirit, Looking forward to meeting you one day, if not here, over there 😉 You are the best , and i wish you even more greatness then you practice ,
Im starting to head in your direction and i dont have as much knowledge as u but i have the basics in order and its from personal experience so if u feel like u got to much on your plate and u could use some help contact me and we can figure something out, Im 24 and i wanna spread love <3
Thanks for all of your insights and that of others you have shared, from what I have read about and felt in the world around me I have gained something that I know in my heart to be special for everyone. I really love talking to people about spirituality, what it has done for me and not justifying to skeptics but simply offering up how it makes me feel more special and connected everyday.
Really enjoy all the spirit science stuff and love to converse with someone who has insights to share and might help with some of what i have experienced since my spiritual awakening.
My name is Meghan. I was 8 years old when i started to get my dreams. They were very vivid and real. It felt like I was actually there in my dream. Like it wasn’t a dream at all. They would make me wake up crying at night or make me wake up happy but they were always just a part of me.
When j would try to talk to someone about them they would just shrug it off and sometimes I thought I was crazy because sometimes I would dream of the future and my dreams would come true.
As I have gotten older my dreaming abilities have gotten more advanced. I have been able to astral project, meaning being able to travel outside my body, and I have been able to lucid dream, take control of my dreams and dream in the day. They have gotten more vivid and specific. It has always been hard to deal with them since it has caused me a lot of trouble sleeping. Making friends has also been sort of hard because my dreams make me different. Since I have gotten into college though I have found friends that take me as I am and don’t think I’m crazy.
I have always been spiritual. My mother was Wiccan and we loved to talk to Mother Nature and be down to earth. I was never afraid to talk to her or listen to her speak to me. Now though I feel that Mother Earth is talking to me again. Only I feel she is panicked or upset. The messages she has been sending me in the last few months give me anxiety and are telling me she is not okay. I have been really worried..
That is why I want to share my dreams and visions to other. For the sake of trying to understand them. I want to use my dreams to the best of my ability because I don’t believe in coincidences.
i need to talk to you about what I see. Its a message. I feel it in my bones. I am meant to spread it. I know it sounds crazy but please. Listen to what Ihave to say.
Our world today has evolved into a corner. We have an overwhelmingly large population with an even more overwhelmingly disccorded political systems in place. One which by nature causes fractures and rivalries, even a sense of ego. Sounds ugly, negative, and downright depressing even.
But nothing can ever be entirely negative. What do we do when we’re “backed in a corner”? We strategize, we look for a way out or around, we consider what we might need to sacrifice… Some of this thinking is what got us HERE. But if we really start wisening up we might notice that resources are abundant especially if we stop thinking in terms of: what’s here on earth terms. If we do that we can stop processing raw materials here. In fact metal alloys crystallize in a more pure form in zero gravity. We could stop our carbon footprint on earth almost entirely. If we could just replace our primary forms of personal and good transportation with something like ion propulsion, or maybe even figure out how to manipulate gravity. That would open the door for instantaneous interstellar travel and communication. That last bits a long leap all of the sudden, but the thing is we’ve been waiting so long on a few key pieces to fall in place that all the theory is already there. We just need to get around this idea that people need religion, government, or even currency. These are not needs to life. Discovery, fulfillment, enjoyment these are needs to living.
Jordan! I have some incredible pictures I’d like to share with you. Pictures I took of the sun a few days ago unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!! How can I contact you & send them to you? I would love to hear your thoughts as well.
I am SO excited to see where Spirit Science goes, it has completely changed my outlook on the world and made me feel so much more connected with humanity, realizing that I’m not alone in seeing the connection between everyone and everything. I have always been an empath which has caused a lot of emotional trauma (I’m still learning to only allow in that which contributes to the highest good) and it brings me so much joy and so much peace to know that there are other people out there who have looked around at the state of the world and known that we can do SO MUCH BETTER!
I have a background in finance and have been delving into programming the last 6 months and seeing you ask for help in these areas has been one of those moments in my life when all of a sudden, it feels like there was a reason for this knowledge. It’s difficult to lead a spiritual life while also learning the most logical and structured systems out there. Being able to help you craft the programs, websites, buildings (did I mention I also took interior design classes?), festivals, pay schedules, etc would be a dream come true. I would finally have the chance to use the knowledge I’ve gathered over these last 25 years, in all of the different areas that I’ve studied (however briefly), in a way that is helping to awaken the world.
I would love to help in any way that I can, in any way that you need. All of my love to you and the rest of the Spirit Science team, and if there is anything at all that I may be able to help you with, please let me know. I have the skills, I have the experience, I have the passion and the drive and I am just aching to move this world forward into a new era of discovery.
You are all AMAZING wonderful beautiful people and I can’t wait to see what else spirit science has in store 🙂
I’m interested in advertising my website content on your Facebook Fan Page. If that’s possible, I’ll be more than happy to discuss with you for the terms.
u copy’d ur story from Helena Blavatsky’s 1888’s book ‘The secret Doctrine’ ur not the inventor or writer at all, this is a big scam and this is btw also the bases of German Mystic Anti-semitism and National Socialism, ‘this bullshit killed 6 million jews” u punk
hello Jordan I hope you get to see this. I am very interested in your work with spirit science and your videos have open something inside of me that I have never felt before given me a purpose when at the time I feel I have none. I know feel as though I can help in the change. Given the situation I am in at this time it restricts me from being any big help this is why I send you this message. All I ask is a chat with you personally I have had some great realisations personally which relate directly to your theory of spirit science. Please contact me I have left a post on your fb as well. Happy journeys
Jordan, you’re an inspiration to me. I hope to meet you some day. You have a powerful voice. Thanks for everything that you do. Sometimes I feel like the quotes you put up go directly into my heart, speaking its language. You are onto the pulse, man. You’re a true inspiration and a rad person. Keep up the great work. It’s a special gift that you have. – Ben
Jordon, you’re a creep, and I bet you even know it. Promoting woo and (grossly!) misrepresenting science is wrong and that’s about all you seem to do. Please stop.
I started watching spirit science videos in 2014. I felt an immediate connection with the information that I was being flooded with. It was all stuff I had been questioning and wondering about. Your little blue guy gives quite a presentation, I might add. I even let my 3yr old daughter watch the videos 🙂
From this article about yourself I realized that you and I were both born in the year 1991. Also, the numbers 19 & 24 have always been prominent in my life.. Your Birthday is not only on the 19th but May 19th, which is MY DAD’S BIRTHDAY (crazy lifelong story about my dad I will tell you if and when we ever speak) being the person I have grown to love and kinda know I am sure you will find these “coincidences” as fascinating as I.
I know that you have tons of followers and get comments on your multiple articles, blogs, ect BUT I am willing into existence that you will read this… I don’t know when but I know that you will when the time is right. I love you Jordan Pearce, I appreciate you and all the you do. You and yours that is. I know you are not alone!
Firstly thanks for all of the wonderful work you do – it is always inspirational to follow your work. I have been following Spirit Science videos for the last year and as the person above has commented I instantly felt connected to what you were talking about!
I’m still on a big journey but I know that a lot of the ideas you talk about are in the direction of where i want to be in my life. I’m currently living in a different country with my partner for his work which means I’m lucky enough to basically work part time. I find whenever I work full time I lose that connection that I so badly require for life. I absolutely love my job working with children but I do feel like a robot that doesn’t ‘feel’ things. People tell me not to ‘worry’ about it but to me life is about feeling and being conscious?
So, i’m trying to register with the spirit science forums, because i thought this post probably belonged there. So, this is my last resort if you will, to convey this thought to you.
All the pyramids in bolivia and egypt all line up with Orion’s Belt. That fundamental pattern is obvious. So, if you look at the earth on a 2d map, and you say ok, bolivia, there’s one star. Egypt, there’s the other star, then continue that pattern, proportionately, and you will come to a third point somewhere. I’m still contemplating where, but that’s not the point.
Now you have 2 dimensional representation on a 3 dimensional globe. Oh yeah, it’s spinning to. Really really fast.
They show the line i’m talking about precisely, and show it modeled on a globe. They don’t know what they are looking at!
Hey Jordan, there’s a music video I made that you and your website inspired me to make. It would mean a lot if you can watch it for a moment. If you ever need any help with anything film or music production related, I’m your man.
One problem I have, specifically with Spirit Science ONE was the quote of “Those who speak of illness have it” and “whatever it is (and it’s hard to come to terms with) It’s your fault.”
This made me incredibly angry as a person. I have said harsher things elsewhere but to you specifically I think you need to revisit that and at least word it better. I mean, by that logic everything that I have been through (And if you wanna talk to me personally about all of that stuff then by all means just prepare for a long life story) has been my fault and it’s horrifying to me. Please look into this sometime, I’m just very stressed from a lot of things including most definately what you said.
I think ‘oneness’refers to the space beyond the space you can imagine. It’s much more plausible than trying to attach a biological explanation to the notion. The biological explanation can be broken down…a water droplet falls and ripples (yes, molecules/atoms and all), but the idea of this tying me to a person/place/thing in some far off land is subjective at best.
Objective clarification (something we westerners covet) runs contrary to the notion of faith. As we are told by our indigenous brothers and sisters, just believing, feeling, knowing is plenty. We are connected, we are one. But to sooth the ever active western intellect (which too often gets in the way) try this…close your eyes….you see blackness, so do I. Clear your mind of thoughts (meditate). Now you/we/I are somewhere much deeper…a place of imagination, dreams. Far more is achievable in this realm of infinite possibility. I propose that ALL creations can arrive here…can we agree that an animal, a tree, an insect, can detach from limited sense and arrive in an inner universe? In a place of dreams? can this place then be described as a place where we are all considered as one? …In my opinion the answer is NO – there is far too much recourse here that is tied to our physical being/experiences.
so, what then is beyond the blackness? what is beyond our capacity to imagine? What lies beyond the boundary of our inner universe? this in my opinion is where we are all connected. this is where we can describe the connection of ‘oneness’ inherent. a metaphysical place that cannot be confirmed nor’ denied…a source. a place that is most easily tapped (as animals) when the triumvirate of mind, body, and spirit work in alignment.
Think of times when you are in ‘attuned’ (physically, mentally, spiritually) to an activity you LOVE and have committed to entirely. The mind is active and yet passive to your reactions. The spirit glows with excitement/joy for what you are engaged in. the body reacts with precision to the hundreds of hours you have committed to training it. You are focused…you are in the zone. You are tapping source.
Great (timeless) athletes, artists, musicians have all tapped into this source and that is why the masses respond so favorably to their creations; because some part of us recognizes it’s connection to source…and thusly it’s connection to us. It’s also why a forest is so healing – it’s much more innate connection to source. oceans, the sky, the moon, the sun…all much more innately connected to a place beyond what we can intellectually comprehend. And yet we all know that they exert an influence on us…literally and metaphysically. If one can acknowledge it’s existence than one can more easily express the notion of oneness. here there are no dividing lines, no great distances, and no barriers to the notion that You, We, Us, I, All are connected. in this place (source) we are all very much ONE.
I believe that the collective conscious radiates to source, which in turn spreads knowledge (in oneness) to our inner realms of knowing; this best explains why fire was discovered as a tool the world over (simultaneously) in a time when literal connection was impossible. I also believe it’s why ancient cultures were able to communicate beyond our present capacity – because of the acknowledgement and compliant desire to better understand and work with this source. Something that many of our cultures have lost as we revert to the ‘mind’ as the superior guide to knowing.
Can this guy be any more full of shit? This barrage of pseudo science and wikipedia “research” is entertaining yet nonsensical as can be. Using a bunch of technical words you don’t understand in order to produce an interesting-sounding, pseudoscientific mound of gibberish.
How can you talk “science” without speaking to any real scientist or quoting (accurately) any real scientific papers? Oh I forget, Wikipedia.
Hi! I was just trying to find a place to send a short email with an interesting reframe I think spirit science would totally dig, but this is the best I could find.
I recently found a man called David Wolfe who has amazing information on health, superfoods, raw foods, and he backs it with 100% science that he taken him years to uncover. Amazingly informative and I thought it would be something spirit science would be interested in I know you guys are super savvy and into optimal health!!
Jordan!!! If you read this, please message me or email me. I have something I need to give to you and I need to know it’s you before I send it. Please, this isn’t a joke or to mess with you. If anyone reads this that knows or can contact Jordan, please tell him that I need to speak with him, I believe it’s very urgent!!!
Lets cut to the chase, you are a “player” in the shift. I want to help. I will tell you what I am doing and maybe we can work together. ‘
I feel a lot like you do, I feel like there’s a critical time approaching, and want to do something about it. People like Jordan have been immensely useful in helping me to give order to the ideas I was already developing, and give a new …cipher…?* for understanding the world that’s in front of us. It’s awesome. Even if the specifics are very different, it’s awesome.
But if we really want to work on making the upcoming tipping point of human experience as painless as possible, maybe we should all try to be advocates. Let’s all try to become players, starting from scratch and listening to ourselves first and foremost (while avoiding unintentional insult, which is something I and a whooole lotta people still kinda suck at, heh :p). We’re all blindfolded people trying to describe an elephant through touch. No one person’s perspective is going to carry us through, no matter how insightful; we’re all going to have to help try to work this thing out, even if our observations and insights end up wildly different to each other’s. Only the combined whole of everybody’s experiences, all at once, seems to be really, objectively true. So let’s all keep working on our own ideas and keep listening to everyone else’s!
*best word I can find to describe it succinctly. I could write an essay trying to describe accurately that point alone, heh.
hello. I would like to ask you and the core team of spirit science project, why they decided to threw away all the credibility of the whole project by posting on facebook “tips how to put out pimples” etc. I thought this is a site about spiritual stuffz, not some kind of “press like and win i-phone” .
My anus chakra is stucked, i have heard that big black cocks helps releasing stressful and negative vortex on the anal chakra, is this true?
Jordan. We need to talk. “I’m coming to get you!” Please find me. Soon. We must connect. It’s very important 3082331319. Please find me. I’ve been looking and waiting for you all my life.
Save me. They are trying to destroy me. I’m so scared and alone. No one believes me. Only you can save me. I need a superhero and my spirit said your the only one. I love you.
P.s. I like to be called snowvixen or snowy for short. I recently went through a Jesus Christ reincarnation vision during the Feb full moon. You’ll want to hear this story.
Fact Correction: In the Spirit Science 5 video it is mentioned that the reason why Egyptology Specialists do not accept that the Sphinx is 8,000 years old is because most of them are Muslims, and that the Quran says that creation started 6,000 years ago.
Firstly, that is FALSE. The Quran mentions NOTHING about how old creation is, and Muslims believe that the age of creation is GOD’s business, and could be trillions of years old.
Secondly, most Egyptology Specialists are NOT Muslims… most are Europeans of Christian and Atheist ‘beliefs’.
Did the Facebook Spirit Science get hacked? I’m really bummed about the nonsense posting that are no where near relevant. I hope everything is ok.
Im too excited to be writing here, all the way from the beloved lands of Africa, my fiance and i had decided to started on a spiritual journey about two years ago, we were tired of the tightness in the traditional religions we just couldnt understand the lack of “love”, and so we went off into a completely blank search not knowing where we would end, but not afraid, one random afternoon on youtube, i saw this little cartoon like video among recommended for what i should watch, and well i do love cartoons, it was the video of Our history is not what we think, i was in the salon as i watched the video,and alot of it seemed really to twist my mind like a pretzel as Dolores who i now know would say, but at the back of my mind i felt a stumbling on some sort of truth, i mean if the world we were living in wasn’t providing any real answers, the possibilities could be anywhere, i told my fiance about it, and we watched on, i must say we were entertained and inspired and we laughed and learned A LOOOT about our spiritual nature more in a space of 2 months than we would ever have, the provision of references, allowed us to continue probing other corners, and continuously arriving at the same picture again and again, and its a beautiful picture, WE SALUTE YOU AND YOUR CREW JORDAN. And Ofcourse we have several topics we would request you to speak on whenever you have a minute eg. Extra terrestrials, Angels and Guardians. You will be hearing from us soon.
I love the videos you make with your friends and every time I watch those videos, especially the spirit science series, it somehow gives me a new light into my life and that I learned that we should all live our lives in peace and love. Though some people in this earth may judge you and think you are a phony or whatever,but I think your one of the most awesome people I know and also one of the people I trust that I have never met before. Good day and thanks 🙂
Please for the sake of mankind, read the findings ( http://sanskrit.safire.com/pdf/ORIGINS.PDF ) once. I hold my head in pain when I see how you calculate human history to the Sumerian/Egyptian people. I did not see all your videos. I just could not handle your heavy misrepresentation of the Sanskrit terms. I am begging you to read this. PLEASE.
G’day, I’ll leave a comment here, because obviously, there aren’t many contact details for you. After interacting with even just a couple of your haters, I can understand why completely (man, don’t people have anything better to do than obsess over something that obviously causes them so much distress and hatred?! If you don’t like something, move on I say, don’t just hang about being a childish, insult-spewing drain on people who just want to discuss something…)
It’s been very cool watching your videos lately. I’ve only been interested in spiritual matters for maybe only a year and a bit now, after a bunch of uninvited life changes, but I’m re-structuring my own narrative for the world, using all this new information I’ve stumbled across, both here and in other places. And it’s been incredible watching your videos, seeing that someone else has come to a lot of the same conclusions as I did (even if some of the details are different; we’re all stabbing in the dark and, y’know, each take our own path to get somewhere, that’s just natural. Different approaches don’t worry me, they’re all just means to an end).
We’re approaching the same issue, albeit from slightly different directions; ‘humanity’s waking up’. My view is that maybe it’ll go well, maybe we’ll rip ourselves apart in an orgy of irrational hatred if we’re not careful. It’s really awesome to see someone else wanting to talk about it. I’ve been thinking about making my own content for a long time, but have been reluctant to start, because my ideas aren’t really fully formed yet, and trying to stay civil with internet people just looking for an argument really hits my rage button and generally kills my calm. Perhaps it’s time for me to re-think that, though.
Obviously, I’d love to be able to talk a bit more about it, but I get that you get a lot of attention and requests nowdays, so no biggie.
Also, as some others have said: the cartoon format was a really good idea for spirit science! I freakin’ hate looking at a real person’s face as they lecture at a camera. I work in human services: I have to look at real people’s faces every day and they’re usually assholes, so I hate to do it in my recreation time. I probably would never even have clicked on that youtube video if it wasn’t drawn the way it was. :p
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Do you know of θέλημα, thelema, as described by Aleister Crowley, who some call The Prophet or The Beast, but who I recognize as a fellow-traveler, researcher, colleague and predecessor in the tradition of spiritual science?
I aim to engage in productive, civil, and open discussion of spiritual science with like-minded people as a step towards achieving the great goal of global socioecological restoration. This is a very realistic goal, and we can do it.
Happy, healthy people make a better world. How can we, whoever we are, those of us who have experienced the impossible, embraced the sublime, and have searched for others like us, how can we work-together to realize a great, beautiful world?
That’s the question; it’s been on my mind since I can remember. Would you like to discuss this? That is, would you like to initiate private correspondence on any and all subjects, especially ‘ esoteric ‘ or spiritual science?
1. What are several basic, subtle practices that lead to the ‘ rectification of spirit ‘, also known as the Philosopher’s Stone?
Examples include smiling, breathing fully and naturally, sleeping enough and when needed. Simple changes, leading to a better life, through emergent effects.
I suspect that we can describe consciousness according to its form and vibration, similarly to how we describe light as both a particle and wave. Think of chakras, the kalachakra mandala, the hypercube analogy: we see multidimensional structures as 3D structures here, and 4D processes, with time tracking change. The more change, the greater the rate of time-experience, as suggested by both Einstein’s Relativity and McKenna’s Timewave Zero.
3. We can shape the mind-field, using various and sundry techniques, to influence mind on a transpersonal scale?
Thanks for considering these thoughts! I genuinely would like to discuss these, and many other question, with you. I want the world to live, and I have a few ideas that I think might work. And I get the sense that you must too.
I am just finding new information and I have a long way to go. Thank you for everything. I know this will be an odd question. Have you ever been in Memphis, TN and stayed at the Double Tree hotel? I have gone back to that memory, so many times. I felt as if I met an angel there. I have tried to explain what was drawn for me on a napkin that day, but it was so beyond my understanding I never could. Even if it wasn’t you, I’m quite sure I’m on the right path.
My given name is Nicholas. I have watch most of the spirit science episodes, briefly looked over this blog space of yours. Whilst watching the spirit sciences in particular I feel encouraged to see your open mindedness and passion for evolving human community towards peace and healing and other adventurous explorations of the universe. And I share your… sorrow[?] for this kind of stuff not happening faster in the world in general. I am a family man with wife and four children ages 3-11; so I have my hands full and sometimes wish I had more time and energy to put towards helping to evolve the adult side of human community towards peace and healing. Anyway, I wanted to share with you about a communication method and philosophy that I strongly believe can helping us with getting us [humans] “there” faster. “Nonviolent Communication: a Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. “Waite a minute. I’m not a violent person. How does that apply to me?” you might wonder. “That’s for fixing those violent people; not me.” others might say. Or maybe, “Hey maybe I could use that to learn how to change those violent folks.” After reading it, and more so, continuing to practice it, I have realized that it can only be used to change myself. And actually “Compassionate Communication” would describe it better.
So why am I wanting you – Jordan, to read this book [assuming you haven’t]? Besides it being an awesome book that I think you would enjoy in the same way I have for myself; Quite frankly, I imagine you taking this and creating a video series where the characters and/or stories show this “nonviolent” communication method in action. And as I have notice a practicing evolution in myself; there is great potential for an evolving set of stories, character development, even just individual stories created or re enacted from people with real experiences with it. An animated series would be really cool. Thought you might enjoy to play with that idea as well as the reading material. You are welcome to email me about whatever. Cheers.
I have no idea if you will see this message or if he’s really you or whatever but as I didn’t find another way to express my deep vision and feeling, i will do it here, just the expression will help…
I have a deep feeling that there is a soulmate connected to me. It’s a person so shinning and so pure. I really have the feeling how he is phisicaly and spirituality. Once I had a vision that he was taking care of my lovely passing out dog. And one day, I was sleeping and then was a mix of a dream and vision and feeling, i can’t define it. But in that ‘vision’ I saw that guy smiling with a beautifull green aura all around and in that moment i had such a peacefull feeling and a huge feeling of love. I have no idea if this person is real in this phisical world, or if it is my essence being in a image or if he really exist in another dimension. I really wanted to share this with you because and I have a feeling about you. its a little embaring because maybe this person is you, or maybe you can help me in some way in my search. I don’t really know what i looking for, but I feel that to know this person is for real is really important for me. Do you want share any thought about this? Did you ever had a feeling like this? Now this feeling has a form in this words so it’s up to the universe . Thank you Jordan for reading my thoughts from the heart.
I thought now about “The doom’s day seed vault”, and wondered if there is a similar arrangement for all the spiritual, scientific, technological and anthropological knowledge?
i mean something tangible because government will surely some day find the reason and time to erase all the frickin’ internet..
You are such a beautıful soul. I can feel it behind miles and also in Youtube video share. It is a pleasure to meet with someone like you. This is from Turkey and how it is similar story of mine as now you are in reality and spritual balance. As always, wish you prefer to have strong and healty body, bright and free mind, satisfied and creative soul… remember your way and vision in every breath you take 🙂
Wow… Love your stuff! I was you 30 years ago. Sans youtube. Happy to be watching. Ultimately I realised it’s all about shedding identities to remain present. Understanding that we create an identity for each new situation we encounter in life… New school, new job, new partner, the role of son or daughter, parent or teacher, etc. Then we try to maintain and live through these identities… But if we can’t manage to shed these identities as we no longer need them, we end up overwhelmed, anxious, depressed etc. Always asking, who am I? In reality, we are no one, but we are known. |
We went downtown to Joe Patti’s for some fresh fish today. There are quite a few places around here to get fresh fish, but we prefer Joe Patti’s as they seem to have the largest selection.
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They are everywhere! I don’t really know where they came from, but there all over my yard. Average height is about 3 feet. The bees and butterflies love ’em. I do too. Hubby hates them and pulls them up, but I think that just makes them spread faster, LOL!
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I’ve been wanting to get some insect shots. But it seems that they always came out blurry. I think I got very lucky today. This insect “cooperated” with my camera.
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Taking photos in the dark or in low-light settings can be tricky. Just using your normal flash can make your subject look washed out, but not using it can result in a totally dark photo with no subject at all.
This DIY light by professional photographer Simon Ellingsworth of Lightism creates just enough light using glow sticks and PVC pipe for a cheap alternative to expensive commercial options like the ICE Light.
After cutting his PVC pipe to the right length, Simon cut it down the middle lengthwise to remove one side. He drilled a few holes for zip ties to hold the glow sticks, then popped them in place and put the cap on.
Simon used military-grade white light sticks, and he suggests snapping and shaking the sticks before securing them for best results. You could make this as big or small as you need by simply adjusting the size of the PVC and the number of glow sticks you use.
If you can't find any safety light sticks in stores, you could always make your own, though, you'll probably get different results with homemade glow sticks. Try using different colors to get more interesting results.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Cray XT5 supercomputer, Jaguar, kicked off the era of petascale scientific computing in 2008 with applications that sustained more than a thousand trillion floating point calculations per second - or 1 petaflop. Jaguar continues to grow even more powerful as it helps researchers broaden the boundaries of knowledge in virtually every domain of computational science, including weather and climate, nuclear energy, geosciences, combustion, bioenergy, fusion, and materials science. Their insights promise to broaden our knowledge in areas that are vitally important to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the nation as a whole, particularly energy ... continued below
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL's) Cray XT5 supercomputer, Jaguar, kicked off the era of petascale scientific computing in 2008 with applications that sustained more than a thousand trillion floating point calculations per second - or 1 petaflop. Jaguar continues to grow even more powerful as it helps researchers broaden the boundaries of knowledge in virtually every domain of computational science, including weather and climate, nuclear energy, geosciences, combustion, bioenergy, fusion, and materials science. Their insights promise to broaden our knowledge in areas that are vitally important to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the nation as a whole, particularly energy assurance and climate change. The science of the 21st century, however, will demand further revolutions in computing, supercomputers capable of a million trillion calculations a second - 1 exaflop - and beyond. These systems will allow investigators to continue attacking global challenges through modeling and simulation and to unravel longstanding scientific questions. Creating such systems will also require new approaches to daunting challenges. High-performance systems of the future will need to be codesigned for scientific and engineering applications with best-in-class communications networks and data-management infrastructures and teams of skilled researchers able to take full advantage of these new resources. The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) provides the nation's most powerful open resource for capability computing, with a sustainable path that will maintain and extend national leadership for DOE's Office of Science (SC). The OLCF has engaged a world-class team to support petascale science and to take a dramatic step forward, fielding new capabilities for high-end science. This report highlights the successful delivery and operation of a petascale system and shows how the OLCF fosters application development teams, developing cutting-edge tools and resources for next-generation systems.
A question for policy makers is whether U.S. GHG emissions will remain at current levels, decrease to meet the President's 2020 and 2025 goals, or increase to former (or even higher) levels. Multiple factors, including socioeconomics, technology, and climate policies, may impact GHG emission levels. The first section of this report provides current levels and recent trends in U.S. GHG emissions. The second section takes a closer look at some of the key factors that influence emission levels. The third section discusses the challenges in making GHG emission projections by comparing observed emissions with pre-observed emission estimates.
Howell, A. Brazier. Voles of the Genus Phenacomys, report, October 12, 1926; Washington D.C.. (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc700988/: accessed November 15, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
Tax policy is frequently considered by policymakers as a tool for boosting economic performance in various ways, and the likely economic effects of tax policy are often hotly debated. A brief overview of the current economic context is thus a good starting point for looking at tax issues facing the current Congress. This report provides an overview of major tax issues. The report begins by describing three aspects of the economic context in which the tax policy debate during 2004 is likely to occur: the general state of the U.S. economy; the position of the federal budget; and the level ... continued below
Tax policy is frequently considered by policymakers as a tool for boosting economic performance in various ways, and the likely economic effects of tax policy are often hotly debated. A brief overview of the current economic context is thus a good starting point for looking at tax issues facing the current Congress. This report provides an overview of major tax issues. The report begins by describing three aspects of the economic context in which the tax policy debate during 2004 is likely to occur: the general state of the U.S. economy; the position of the federal budget; and the level of taxes in the United States.
Brumbaugh, David L. Major Tax Issues in the 108th Congress, report, September 9, 2004; Washington D.C.. (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc821416/: accessed November 15, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Hampton Place Church of God in Oak Cliff holding their second annual Western Roundup.
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Church roundup], item, October 11, 1959; (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861610/: accessed November 15, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.
"The North Texan is published quarterly by North Texas State University and distributed to former students and other friends of the university who are interested in its activities. Second class postage paid at Denton, Texas." -- p. 4
North Texas State University. The North Texan, Volume 22, Number 3, June 1971, periodical, June 1971; Denton, Texas. (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc98788/: accessed November 15, 2018), University of North Texas Libraries, Digital Library, digital.library.unt.edu; crediting University Relations, Communications & Marketing department for UNT.
Introduction: Technology is a powerful analytic tool. This abstract outlines the use of a custom macro to analyze rat sciatic nerve histology sections as part of a larger study to evaluate functional and histologic outcomes after segmental nerve injury. The problem facing analysis of nerve sections is that the microscopic features of a nerve, such as the individual axon, cannot be viewed on the same scale as the entire nerve bundle. The goal of this analysis was to extrapolate the average total values of axon count, axon density, fiber diameter, and myelin thickness on a nerve section image taken at 400x magnification to the total area captured at 40x magnification.
Methods: Images of nerve sections stained with toluidine blue were captured using a microscope with a mounted camera and image acquisition software (Nikon Eclipse E800; Nikon DS-Ri1; NIS Elements BR 3.10 SP3 Hotfix5). Multiple images at different light intensities were used to determine a contrast and saturation that would grant the best accuracy. From these images, a custom macro using Image-Pro Premier (Version 9.1.5262.28) was developed to compute the desired measurements (Media Cybernetics, Rockville MD).
Results: At 400x magnification, circular shape recognition was used to determine each axon myelin sheath pair in the selected area. Area analyzed was within the “circle of good definition”. After an axon myelin pair was recognized, multiple diameter measurements were taken, and these values were the key to calculations of axon area, fiber diameter, and myelin thickness. Two images taken at 400x magnification for each sample were used to calculate an average for each measurement. An image of the entire nerve slice at 40x was taken, and this calculated area was used extrapolate measurements to the entire nerve section.
Discussion:The utility of this software and macro is exciting due to its reproducibility, accuracy, and efficiency. Not only does it take human processing and potential error out of the equation, but it solves the scale discrepancy when trying to analyze microscopic parameters on a larger scale. This procedure is versatile and can be implemented in future histologic analysis of nerve sections. |
French President Francois Hollande speaks with journalists as he arrives for an EU summit at the EU Council building in Brussels. (Photo: AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
BRUSSELS (AP) — Prime Minister David Cameron faced off Thursday against the 27 other European Union leaders, telling them to grant his country a new deal to settle the festering issue of their relationship or face a possible divorce as soon as this summer.
Cameron said he was "battling for Britain" at a Brussels summit — and for a less intrusive EU that would benefit other countries, too. But French President Francois Hollande struck a cautionary note, warning that no individual leader should be allowed to stop closer European cooperation.
"It's the EU in question, not just one country in the EU," Hollande said as he arrived. "I want Britain to stay in the EU. But I hope most of all that Europe can advance, can be stronger."
Cameron is seeking changes to the U.K.-EU relationship that will let him urge Britons to vote "yes" to continued membership in a referendum that could come as early as June.
He told his fellow leaders that he needed a substantial deal that would be "credible for the British people." The British referendum on EU membership is bound to be hard-fought, since few issues in Britain have as much resonance as its relationship with the EU.
"The question of Britain's place in Europe has been allowed to fester for too long," Cameron said, arguing that this was a chance to settle the issue for a generation.
"If we can get a good deal, I will take that deal. But I will not take a deal that doesn't meet what we need," Cameron said.
A British official said the 28 leaders' first discussion session Thursday ended without a breakthrough.
"I don't think there was any sense that gaps in key issues had narrowed," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door talks. "There's a lot of hard work to do overnight."
Talks among diplomats and lawyers to nail down the final details of a U.K. deal were expected to go into the early hours Friday before a hoped-for agreement.
Britain, which has one of the strongest economies in Europe, has been a magnet for hundreds of thousands of workers from eastern EU nations who are seeking higher-paying jobs. Britain has no power to stop immigration from other EU nations, leading some in Britain to say that immigrants are taking their jobs. The EU immigrants can also claim unemployment, child care and other benefits in Britain, which Cameron's government says is straining the country's social services budget.
Since none of the 27 other leaders wants to see Britain leave, there is broad consensus, if not agreement, on a deal which Cameron says he needs to win the referendum. It would give Britain more powers to limit benefit payments to workers from other EU countries for several years — something Britain says will slow the pace of immigration. The draft deal also offers guarantees to countries, including Britain, that do not use the shared euro currency, and makes tweaks aimed at boosting competitiveness and giving national parliaments more power.
But differences remain on key details, including Britain's wish to be exempted from the EU's longstanding aim of "ever closer union."
One European official said a main source of tension was the length of time Britain's limit on welfare benefits would last, with the Czech Republic opposing the U.K.'s aim of seven years. The official spoke on condition of anonymity, since the discussions were not public.
The lingering disputes belie the fact that the other member states cherish Britain as an economic and diplomatic giant in a struggling EU.
"I'm going into this debate with the position that we would like to do everything to create the conditions so that Great Britain can remain part of the European Union," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
But continuing differences remain. Cameron argues for a "live and let live" union in which some countries move ever closer together while others remain semi-detached. That grates against the wishes of France, Germany and others who believe strongly in an "ever closer union" among as many members as possible.
Britain has long been a half-hearted member of the EU, staying out of both the euro currency and the passport-free Schengen travel zone. The perception of increasing Brussels meddling in affairs many Britons considered sovereign issues made the time ripe for a U.K. referendum.
Cameron said he would not stop other EU members striving for more unity, but insisted Britain should have ironclad guarantees that it could stay on the sidelines.
Cameron has lobbied relentlessly for months, visiting 20 EU nations and speaking to all the other leaders to bring the EU to the cusp of an agreement many had thought impossible. But even if he gets a deal, he will face loud opposition from anti-EU forces at home, including many members of his own Conservative Party.
U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, who wants Britain to leave the EU, said the changes Cameron was seeking were trivial.
As she arrived for the summit, Lithuanian Prime Minister Dalia Grybauskaite saw a long meeting ahead.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration told a U.S. magistrate judge on Friday it would be willing to allow Apple Inc. to retain possession of and later destroy specialized software it has been ordered to design to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone used by the gunman in December's mass shootings in California.
The government made clear that it was open to less intrusive options in a new legal filing intended to blunt public criticism by Apple's chief executive, Tim Cook, who said the software would be "too dangerous to create" because it would threaten the digital privacy of millions of iPhone customers worldwide.
Trump made the comment during a question-and-answer session in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where he's campaigning ahead of Saturday's first-in-the-South Republican presidential primary. Trump says Cook wants to prove "how liberal he is" and told the crowd to "boycott Apple until such time as they give up that security."
In the latest volley between the federal government and one of the world's most respected companies, the Justice Department argued that Apple has the technical ability to comply with a court order issued this week — but won't do so because of its marketing strategy.
"Apple has attempted to design and market its products to allow technology, rather than the law, to control access to data which has been found by this court to be warranted for an important investigation," the filing states.
The Justice Department's motion, which seeks to force Apple to comply with Pym's order, appears aimed at rebutting some of the key objections of Apple and its supporters. It says that the software the government seeks, contrary to Apple's assertions, is not akin to a "master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks." And it also rejects the idea that the court order placed an unreasonable burden on the company, saying Apple already has the technical wherewithal to satisfy it.
"To the extent that Apple claims that the order is unreasonably burdensome because it undermines Apple's marketing strategies or because it fears criticism for providing lawful access to the government, these concerns do not establish an undue burden," the government wrote.
Apple's written objection, already signaled by Cook in a message to Apple customers, is due next Friday.
Senior Apple executives said during a phone call with reporters Friday that the company had worked for hours, even days, with federal officials and investigators to try to gain access to Farook's iPhone. The executives, who insisted on anonymity to speak freely amid ongoing legal proceedings, said they went to the FBI in early January with four suggestions, including a workaround using iCloud. Prosecutors noted the four methods and their "deficiencies" in a footnote in their Friday court filing.
The magistrate on Tuesday ordered Apple to provide the FBI with highly specialized software that could be loaded onto the work-issued iPhone 5C used by Syed Farook, who died with his wife in a gun battle with police after killing 14 people in December in San Bernardino, California. The U.S. has said the attacks were partly inspired by the Islamic State terror group.
The specialized software would bypass a security time delay and self-destruct feature that erases all data after 10 consecutive, unsuccessful attempts to guess the unlocking passcode. This would allow the FBI to use technology to rapidly and repeatedly test numbers in what's known as a brute force attack. In their filing Friday, prosecutors explained that investigators would be willing to work remotely to test passcodes, while Apple retained both possession of the phone and the technology itself.
That's a good "compromise position" because "they're giving all the power to Apple," said Jason Healey, a former director on cyber policy at the White House.
"They're telling Apple, 'You hold the software, we're not asking you to put a backdoor in the encryption, we just want to be able to brute force this thing,'" Healey said. "If the precedent is this, that they deliver the phone to Apple and Apple does it, I think that's a pretty good precedent that can't be done en masse on the next thousand iPhones."
Two other personal phones were found crushed beyond investigative value in the trash behind the couple's home.
Cool Christmas story to share with y’all... Known my “Uncle Tonga” since I was 5yrs old. My grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia helped train him to become a professional wrestler in the 70’s.
Throughout Tonga’s illustrious wrestling career he changed his name to “King Haku” and became one the WWE’s most sought after “bad guys” and still known to this day for being one of the toughest and legit most vicious man in wrestling history.
Years later and I get a call from WWE saying “Vince McMahon wants to see you wrestle immediately. He’s flying you to RAW tomorrow and you’ll have a tryout match.” I thought holy sh*t that’s awesome, buuuut there’s a few problems: For me, I wasn’t just having “a tryout match”, because I had never actually HAD a real match in my life. Ever.
WWE thought that I already had multiple matches under my belt, but little did they know. What they also didn’t know was that I was broke as hell and didn’t actually own wrestling gear - no boots, knee pads or most importantly… wrestling trunks.
I went to Sports Authority and bought some bright ass white volleyball knee pads, called my Uncle and asked if he had ANY trunks I could use for my tryout. He said all I have is a pair of shiny purple trunks (purple was his signature color), I told him I don’t care if the trunks are all the colors of Skittles, I’ll happily wear them.
When I picked the trunks up from him I’ll never forget the monster hug he gave me, look me in the eyes and said, “I’m so proud of you.
Go get ‘em nephew!” Here’s the picture of me wrestling my FIRST MATCH EVER in Corpus Christi, TX in front of 15,000 people - proudly in my lucky purple trunks. And the rest... was history. My Uncle Tonga is a family man, humble man and champion.
Most importantly one of the greatest human beings I know. So we walk outside and I said “Uncle how do you like my truck?”
He said, “Whoooaaa nephew it’s beautiful... I love it!” I said “Good ‘cause it’s yours.” He was speechless. Thru tears (manly of course;) we monster hugged ‘cause I’ll never forget what he did for me when I had nothing. Merry Christmas Uncle and ofa atu. |
Experts can lay bricks or blocks, quickly and well. Amateurs can usually do one or the other, but not both.
It you are content to work slowly, and if necessary to knock down a piece of wall and start again (if you do it before the mortar is dry you can brush off the bricks and all you have wasted is a few shovelsful of mortar), there’s no reason why a householder shouldn’t be his own bricklayer. Once you’ve begun to master the technique a whole range of jobs becomes possible, from making dwarf walls for the base of a greenhouse or garden shed to building a garage or a house extension. Start with a garden wall – if the results are a little irregular, you can always claim that the rustic look was intended.
Most tools needed can be hired or bought: brick trowel, pointing trowel, bricklayer’s spirit level (a yard long with two bubbles so it can be used horizontally and vertically), club hammer, bolster chisel, bricklayer’s line, a rule.
To cut a brick, chip a groove in it with hammer and bolster and tap unwanted side sharply. When a bricklayer does it the brick falls neatly in half; amateurs can use a lot of bricks before they master the knack (though a brick which hasn’t broken cleanly can still be used provided the face side is the right length). An easy way round this is to use a brick saw, a handsaw with hardened teeth set into the blade, and simply saw the bricks to size.
Wear working or gardening gloves; the mortar is hard on the hands. For a garden wall, mark out and dig a foundation twice the width of the wall; take out topsoil until you reach a firm base, the deeper the footing is, the better. Drive in pegs and level them, using a line or a straight-edged board and spirit level, so peg heads are about 7cm below ground level. Now fill trench with concrete (1 part cement, 6 of all-in ballast) to the top of the pegs and leave it to harden.
There are hundreds of different types of bricks, of different strengths, colours, finishes and prices; and the mortar in which they are set depends on the brick and the job it has to do.
Bonds are the patterns in which bricks are laid – English bond, stretcher , Flemish bond. Their purpose, apart from appearance, is to ensure that, for the sake of strength, no vertical joint comes directly above another. With foundations laid, stretch a line to mark where the face of the wall is to be, put a pile of bricks near each end.
If it is dry weather moisten them, the bricks should feel damp, dust-free mix mortar. Bricklaying is a hard job but also relaxing if you do it as hobby.
Sometimes, building a small extension can be done very cheaply if the new extension can make use of three existing walls. You might not need Planning Permission, but you must apply for Building Control by submitting a Building Notice and pay the required fee. Note: if you submit the Building Notice but you do not pay the fee – the Building Notice is ignored by the Council.
Because there are already three existing walls, the old property and the neighbour’s extension wall, in this case we have an U – shaped site. After getting the neighbour to sign the Party Wall Agreement, the wall can be used as part of the new extension.
Because the foundation was small in size, mixing the concrete needed to fill up the footing was done by hand.
The trench does not have to be filled up to the rim, it can be done bellow the ground level. Just make sure is levelled, it makes the bricklayer’s job easier.
For this particular home extension, the roof is a flat roof ( warm decking – warm roof ). You can also see the brickwork bellow the DPC level ( damp proof course )
The flat roof is covered by fibreglass and for the light we installed a Velux window right in the middle of the roof.
Building an extensions and the neighbour is having an issue about a shared wall ? It happens quite often , especially in London area. Trial holes or trial pits for the foundations and employing a Surveyor is needed sometimes.
When you fix something up, you want to make sure it’s not going to fall down as soon as your back is turned. So it’s important you use the right type of fixing for the material on which you plan to put your fitments. The correct fixing method depends not only on the construction of the wall but also on the weight and nature of the object to be supported.
There are two basic types of wall- solid (brick or block built) or hollow partition. From the point of view of wall fixings cavity construction can be regarded as solid brickwork. If you tap the surface of your wall you will get either a solid or hollow response depending on the construction. Remember where a thick plaster coating is applied to brickwork it is important to get your fixing securely into the brickwork for maximum support. Hollow types consist of sheets of plasterboard or laths and plaster fixed to a timber framework and are mainly used for partitioning. Decide exactly where you want to place the fitment on the wall and then mark the fixing holes accordingly. Drill holes in the fitment first, if not already made. Don’t attempt to fix heavy items on partition walls unless you can drill into the framework of the partition.
For this job you will need a tungsten carbide-tipped masonry drill bit fitted into the chuck of an electric or hand drill. The tough carbide tip ensures a long life for the drill bit even with the rapid wear and tear involved in drilling masonry. If your drill has more than one speed, operate it as slowly as possible. If you find a section is extremely hard, such as a concrete lintel above a door or window, you may need a hammer action electric dri1l or a drill fitted with a hammer attachment. The hammer drill bit is driven into the wall by turning and hammering simultaneously. |
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Bangalore’s architectural landmarks bear witness to the grandeur of the royal dynasties that have ruled the ‘Garden City’. Take our tour of the finest buildings in the city: every stone has a story to tell.
A brainchild of one Kengal Hanumanthaiah, Vidhana Soudha is arguably the epitome of palatial secretariats in India. Built in 1956, Vidhana Soudha boasts a marvelous blend of Neo-Dravidian and Indo-Saracenic architectural styles. After drawing eclectic inspiration from his travels across several continents, Hanumanthaiah gave Bangalore its symbol of identity in the form of this magnificent structure. The largest legislative building in India, Vidhan Soudha houses the state legislature of Karnataka. The landmark building is in the heart of the city, making it all the more impressive; visit in the evening, when it is illuminated.
Attara Kacheri—meaning eighteen offices—is a red brick building that is home to the Karnataka High Court. Facing the Vidhana Soudha and with Cubbon Park as its backdrop, Attara Kacheri reflects the Greco-Roman style of architecture characterized by ornate Corinthian columns that mimic classical European architecture. Attara Kacheri was constructed in 1868, at the zenith of British colonialism in India. Much of its prominence is attributed to Lewin Bentham Bowring, erstwhile Commissioner of Mysore.
Tipu Sultan (1750-1799) went down in history as a hero, and is known as the Tiger of Mysore. He also had a penchant for grand architecture, reflected in his summer palace, ‘Rash-e-Jannat’ or ‘Envy of the Heavens’. Predominantly constructed using teak wood, Tipu Sultan’s Summer Palace is decorated with meticulous motifs, and is a visual treat. Indo-Islamic architecture finds its true archetype here.
Elaborate towers, embellished doorways, floral motifs and lacquer-ware makes Bangalore Palace a sight to behold. When Chamarajendra Wadiyar X’s British guardians bought land from educationist Rev. J. Garrett, they were looking to build an unassuming accommodation for the young Maharaja. Four years later, in 1878, a Tudor style palace emerged, which still has the ability to leave visitors wonderstruck. Bangalore Palace’s Victorian furniture and Gothic-styled stained glass windows are in excellent condition.
Amid the lush greenery of Cubbon Park lies the Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall, built in commemoration of Sir Kumarapuram Seshadri Iyer, the Diwan of Mysore from 1883 to 1901. The European-style building, characterized by its Tuscan columns, was built in 1915. It was commissioned by Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of India. Seshadri Iyer Memorial Hall houses the State Central Library, with a vast collection of books.
Situated 22 miles (35 km) from Bangalore, Devanahalli Fort was built in 1501 by Mallabairegowda, a contemporary of Kempegowda, the founder of Bangalore. The fort was breached several times throughout its tumultuous history. From the Mysore rulers to the East Indian Company, Devanahalli Fort has been a home to many. Spread over a large area, a primary feature of the fort is the semi-circular bastions connecting the sturdy walls. The temples within the premises reflect Dravidian and Vijayanagara architectural styles.
Gavipuram Cave Temple, or Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple, is a mystifying (yet explicable) rock-cut architectural marvel. Built in a natural cave in the 1500s, the Lord Shiva temple houses a monolithic-cut idol of the deity. Every year on the day of Makara Sankranti, the evening sunlight spreads over the intricate monolithic sculptures and illuminates the Shiva linga inside. Devotees flock here to catch a glimpse of the miracle.
Stretching across Europe and Asia, Russia offers a lifetime of travel options. Although more international tourists head to natural wonders, such as Lake Baikal and the Altai Mountains, there are still places even Russians haven’t heard of that are worth visiting. Read on to discover seven lesser-known destinations in Russia to put on your must-see list.
On the east coast of Sakhalin island, Tikhaya Bay lives up to its name, which means “quiet,” and it’s as tranquil as it is strikingly beautiful. Named by the Russian explorer Ivan Fedorovich Kruzenshtern, Tikhaya Bay is not marked on most maps, which helps explain the lack of tourists. Shielded from cold winds by the picturesque Zhdanko Ridge, the bay entices with sandy shores, spectacular rocks and cliffs, and exotic plant life.
Mendeleev is an 886-meter-tall active volcano on Kunashir Island, the southernmost of the Kuril Islands. The locals affectionately call it Sleeping Beauty for its similarity to a sleeping figure and because the last time Mendeleev woke up was in 1880. The slopes of the volcano are covered with lush coniferous-broadleaf forest and are dotted with hot springs, so choose you footwear wisely when ascending—the soil might be scorching.
A mysterious ancient village, Eltyubyu is nestled in the valley of the Chegem river in the Kabardino-Balkaria highlands. Surrounded by pine-beech forests, it has a medieval necropolis, age-old houses, cliff-cut stairs and the Love Tower, where, rumor has it, young men used to hide their snatched brides from angered relatives.
The mysterious Lovozero tundra has one the most significant remnants of Sami culture—a 74-meter-high rock formation named “Kuiva.” While hiking or biking on forest paths, you can go for a swim in the crystal-clear Seydozero Lake, pick berries and mushrooms, and enjoy the views from 250-meter-high mountain cirques.
Stretched along the banks of the Lena River, these natural rock formations are reminiscent of a medieval fortress. The pillars stand approximately 100 meters high, and they’re estimated to be about 500,000 years old. In 2012, the pillars were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Lake Elton is the largest salt lake in Russia. In the summer, it has a higher concentration of salts than the Dead sea. Located in Volgograd Oblast, near the Kazakhstan border, the lake has been home to a spa resort since 1904, and its water is believed to have healing properties.
Considered one of the Seven Wonders of Russia, these seven gigantic and abnormally shaped rock formations are located in the Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the Komi Republic and are considered among the most recognizable landmarks of the Ural Mountains. The pillars were formed by natural forces that gradually destroyed the high mountains that stood there about 200 million years ago. In the past, it was a place of worship for the Mansi people, who believed the pillars were Sami giants turned to stone.
Caño Cristales is a natural phenomenon and wonder located in Colombia’s Meta department, within the Serranía de la Macarena National Park. Caño Cristales is a section of river within the park which stretches over 62 miles (100 kilometers). For six months of the year the tributary looks like any other river, but between the months of June and November the river comes alive with yellow, blue, green, red and black hues.
The Serranía de la Macarena National Park is a protected area covering 2,400 square miles (6,200 square kilometers), located at the point in Colombia where the Amazon rainforest, Andes mountain range and savannah plains of the East Llanos meet. This location is one of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the country, with dry forest, rainforest, shrub land and savannah. This area has a large variety of flora and fauna, with over 2,000 plants, 550 bird species, 1,200 insects, 100 reptiles, 50 orchards, eight monkey species, anteaters, jaguars, cougars and deer.
From June through to November the river contains Podostemaceae, or Macarenia clavigera which is a river weed that sticks to underwater hard surfaces, in tropical and subtropical areas. The Caño Cristales’ clear, transparent and pure water allows visitors to see the Macarenia clavigera, which, aided by the sun and lack of nutrients, matures and appears brightly through the water. In the off months the river appears the same as any other while the plants reproduce, and between June to November comes to vibrant life, thanks to the rainy season creating a rainbow river.
The Caño Cristales was closed to the public and partially destroyed by the Guerrilla, paramilitary and army between 1989 and 2009. It has slowly become safer for visitors and tour companies who have since begun to arrive in the area. The river of five colors, as it’s otherwise known, is heavily protected by the government and surrounding areas. Visitors can only access the location through specialist tour companies, and still then only between 180 and 200 visitors are allowed a day. The local towns and communities run the area, lead trips and have overall control of area. The communities are working hard to protect the area from becoming over populated and destroyed, as a result of this visitors are subject to certain rules and regulations. There is a ban on products such as suncream and insect repellent, which may cause pollution, and there are restricted swimming areas along the river.
The 62-mile (100-kilometer) section of river contains waterfalls, designated swimming areas, rapids, a fast flowing water, small circular pits or holes, which are formed by pebbles or chunks of rock knocking into each other. The magic of the fragile ecosystem is that it changes every year – with each rainy season the river comes back slightly different from the previous year, with different colors and movement of the riverbed.
The Caño Cristales can be reached by aeroplane from Bogotá to La Macarena, or from Bogotá to Villavicencio and then La Macarena. La Macarena is a town located just outside of the National Park and is home to a population of around 32,000, with a number of restaurants and hotels, making it the perfect base for trips to the Caño Cristales.
Caño Cristales is often referred to as the most beautiful river in the world, and its unique colors are making it a big tourist attraction within the country.
No two people are the same. I’ve sat behind the charge desk over a period of seven years and seen people from every walk of life. From those in penury to those who have more than they will ever need. From those who couldn’t give a toss about arrest to those whose life I could see unraveling before me as we spoke. Those who were confident of their innocence when guilty and those who were innocent scared of what guilt may mean. I’ve seen them all.
Some I’ve seen once and never again. The more concerning ones are those who come regularly. Our frequent flyers. Some who landed so often that if we had a custody club card they would have amassed thousands of points!
The relentless vicious circle of crime, drugs, poverty, domestic violence and other factors means many people are trapped in a world they cannot escape from and pretty much becomes normalised. One young woman used to be in custody every week. Sometimes every day. She was involved in drugs, she was stealing, dealing and also getting knocked about by a procession of “boyfriends”. Her life was in a total mess. My dealings with her were regular but I can’t, hand on heart, say that I had any influence over her. She was so regularly with us it was almost like she was one of my team. She was skinny, unhealthy and looked.. for want of a better word, like shit.
Then suddenly she stopped coming in. The assumption was she was finally back inside prison. It really was only a matter of time. She probably was for a short while. However, a few weeks became a month or two. A few months became 6 and life moved on. I hadn’t heard she was dead but it could have been a very real possibility.
Then, 18 months later, local cops arrived with a prisoner. The prisoner had been arrested in another force for a matter she had been identified as being responsible for some time ago in our area. I barely recognised her as she walked in. She had clean hair and clothes. She was clean. She had put on weight and the gaunt face she always wore had been replaced by a rosy cheeked, sparkly eyed one with a somewhat cheeky grin. It was like meeting an old friend. What a transformation. Underneath all the abuse she had put herself through (and been exposed to) was a good looking young woman.
We chatted as I booked her in. She had made a change in her life. She had moved to another area, was off the gear, had a stable home, was trying to learn new skills and find a job. I was, to much consternation from my colleagues, utterly delighted for her.
She was ultimately charged but with a lack of recent offending and a new life at her feet she was granted bail. Something she never got and this also put a smile on her face. She left. I don’t know what happened next but over a period of a few weeks she went to court. She met up with old contacts in her old town and suddenly, defying all logic, she was back in the town and back on the gear. She spiralled rapidly downward into the hole she had so successfully crawled out of. Regular arrests, remands into custody, lost weight, gaunt face, dirty and unkempt and her health crumbled. She was right back where she started from. It was all her doing but it was tragic. My heart cried for her.
I’ve no idea where she is now. I hope and pray she found her way back out of that dark place. I hope she is healthy, happy, clean and living the life she was clearly capable of giving herself.
Having spent 7 years in custody I met many people like this. I often pondered about how this circle of behaviour could be broken. Over the years my only hope was to talk to people in custody. I never knew if I got through to someone but, where I could, it was worth trying. I was then introduced via Twitter to a lady called Clare McGregor whom I then met at the very first BlueLight Camp in Manchester. I have remained in contact with Clare ever since and she has been doing some amazing work with women at Styal Prison. Working with women to help them break this cycle of crime, prison, crime.
I have met many women similar to those Clare speaks of in her book. Women trapped in a revolving door of crime and despair for a whole multitude of reasons that we, the police, rarely get beyond. The cycle of reoffending is notoriously hard to break but Clare took this project on and once she has something in her sights she is like a dog with a bone. Her determination, passion and commitment to succeed and help women at Styal shines through on every page.
This book will open your eyes to a world rarely seen. It will make you think and seriously challenge any stereotypical perceptions you may have of offenders. These are people that are lost who, ironically, have the map to freedom and a new life within their own head. They just need a coach to show them where to find it.
At a recent TEDx event I listened to a presentation by Clare. She said she had realised she couldn’t tell people what to do. She had to ask them what they wanted to do. What they wanted to change and then help them explore how they were going to do it themselves… and it’s working!
It’s a remarkable book detailing some amazing work by a team of dedicated and passionate people who can only inspire you.
In Italian the word “Ciao” means both “Hi” and “Bye”. It is fitting that CIAO is the name of the organisation. The coaches say “Hi” to a new client and later say “Bye” as they wave them off to a more rewarding and satisfying life. Brilliant.
It’s been a challenging week. More than that, with the events in Manchester, it’s been a tragic week. Our thoughts and our prayers have been with those who have lost loved ones, those whose loved ones have been injured, and everyone who has been affected by a senseless act of violence.
On Thursday, people all around the country will stop at 11am for a minute’s silence in response to the Manchester attack. It’s right that we should do this, even as we feel powerless and overwhelmed by the mounting tragedies around us: Manchester, Westminster, Paris, Stockholm, Mosul, Aleppo, Yemen – the list seems endless.
In my work leading a Homelessness charity, I regularly encounter people who have been pulled under by the riptides of tragedy. Indeed the rest of the staff encounter difficult and moving situations that our service users are facing far more than I do, and yet carry on.
And I still have hope. For me, my faith in Jesus reminds me that all things – no matter how dark – can be redeemed.
One of my heroes is Rev Martin Luther King Jr. In 1968, at the height of the struggle for freedom and equality for African-Americans – a struggle for which he had been imprisoned, beaten, humiliated, slandered, and which would ultimately cost him his life – King said the following in a speech in Memphis, Tennessee. He described an imagined conversation that he might have with God in which he could choose any point in history to live;
“…Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty and say, “If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the twentieth century, I will be happy.” Now that’s a strange statement to make because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion all around. That’s a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.”
The world is still messed up. Our circumstances may be difficult. But we can see the stars brighter than ever. And I’m glad I’m living in 2017.
Not all religion is the same: Religion is being increasingly discussed in publishing, the media and politics. There was a time when the mantra ‘We don’t do God’ seemed to fit perfectly with the times. No more. The twentieth century axiom that religion has had its day, and that social progress will see the inevitable triumph of secularism and rationalism over mysticism and faith is looking very tired indeed.
Religions are often competitors but not necessarily antagonists: In spite of these differences, antagonistic relationships between religions are not inevitable. Of course, antagonism can be found easily enough. But conflict between humans of divergent identities can be found everywhere, even where religion is largely absent. 2015 is the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia – need I say more? Indeed, religions abound with resources to support an ideology of social harmony, peace-making and conflict resolution. Disagreement – even fundamentally so – is not inherently unhealthy. It is how we manage and accommodate our differences that matters.
There is a place for religion in public – and not just private – spaces: Part of the dominant narrative of Secularism is that, in order for fairness to be delivered, competing religious worldviews (interestingly, not other worldviews, only religious ones) should be consigned to the private sphere; what you do in your own home is up to you, but don’t bring religious reasoning or practices to the public square. As a result, religious groups who take their faith seriously have often found the public square to be a cold house for them. This is particularly true of counties like France, where the only religion allowed in the public square is the Cult of La Republique. Make of that what you will. But one thing is certain: if we are to address the threat of Religious Extremism, we must be careful not to marginalise religion as a whole. Which is why:
Theology Matters – Much of the lurch to Islamist extremism has been fuelled by bad theology. Of course, it has also been fuelled by an autocratic Saudi state awash with petro-dollars. But an extreme Wahabist interpretation of the Quran and Hadith in Sunni Islam is primarily a theological issue. The solution to this bad theology cannot be no theology: it is not an effective option to simply disengage with or parody the warped theology of ISIS or the Charlie Hebdo murderers. The ultimate solution to the problem of Islamism, Hindu Nationalism – or even the attempted co-option of Christianity by some elements on the extreme right – is good theology.
To review my year in the hobby is to acknowledge that I’ve not posted as much during 2015 as perhaps I anticipated that I might, with only four posts spread throughout the year. That said, this offers the opportunity for a (bumper) reflective on the things that I did do, and didn’t chronicle, as well as the plans for the future too!
The most recent reflection was on my tournament performance in a local 1650pts 3-game event in August, which thoroughly put me through my paces in learning 7th edition. Mustering four games in two days had bested my total for the rest of the year, and it was great to field a fully cohesive army, even if I couldn’t do better than last place!
That said, just a couple of weeks later I was lucky enough to roll out my Heresy army, to make five games in the space of two weeks – which is most likely a personal record – and was delighted to roll some dice against a top notch opponent. We had planned for a 2.5k Heresy game, I’d originally wanted to roll out my Contemptors, and more of my lovely Heresy-era Terminators, but packing in the early hours before you have to leave for a conference, with the limitation of just one box, meant I had to be slightly creative. A couple of minor proxies and working with what models I had readily available to make a force I’d not yet tested, but thought would be fun to play.
In short, lots of troops (represented by retro plastic Plague Marines in the main!), a Primarch and not a lot of anti-tank. To then come up against a list like this:
Meant I was slightly outgunned – and against a lot of armour, including the Falchion that with a strength D tank-busting weapon, would probably make things difficult for me.
I got my friend to deploy first, and tried to counter-deploy with everything possible in cover. With the Warlord Trait allowing us both to move a unit, I moved Mortarion et al to the other side of the board, to hopefully wreak havoc around the super-heavy, and to deal with where (at that time) most of the targets he could actually deal with would be. The range of the Falchion meant cover was essential, but difficult with the fire-arc and kill-zones it would inevitably be holding.
To the left, the other squad with Apothecary, and then further over, in cover near the objective, both Destroyer squads. Mortarion is in pure white, with three Obliterators (as Deathshroud) around him), and my Praetor in that squad.
First turn was somewhat brutal: I’d wanted to use my Sicarans, was very excited having painted them up nicely and hoped they could kick out some damage. To see the Falchion one shot the first, and reduce the other to one hull point, before being summarily executed by a follow-up shot from another unit, I now didn’t have anything holding the right flank, or any real anti-tank. My opponent (kindly) offered to restart with it swapped out for something different: I had basically nothing that could hurt it, and I’d lost about a fifth of my army early on. The perils of Strength D! I was keen to continue – it was my first game of the Heresy proper, and I was keen to try and at least plough through – even if it meant only another twenty minutes before I might be tabled!
Oddly, things got better – for the fact I would struggle to damage those tanks, it focused my attention on anything softer. Mortarion cleaved his way through the Castellax, then their Praevian, before jumping behind cover. His teleport rules are excellent – the Falchion was somewhat limited by the terrain, and therefore spent time chewing through Tactical marines. The Fire Raptor made a huge difference, knocking out an opposing Sicaran and taking the other to a single hull point, before destroying the Rhino to leave those Tacticals available for Mortarion to scythe through. I was delighted with the Destroyers – their damage to the jetbikes and subsequent effects made it easier for the boltguns of the marines to deal with them – as many nobly died so my Praetor could live throughout. The support squads, with limited range and anti-tank, were basically used to sit on objectives, and it was great to finally see one of my Deathshroud (the last remaining) cut down the contesting bikers.
During this time, Polux and Breacher escort (as Tacticals) had (just) successfully used deep strike to attempt to grab an objective and wreck my left flank: the Destroyers were to turn around, and with Mortarion in tow, carved through all and the warlord. This helped move me above on VPs, with a few solid tactical objectives, despite losing my Fire Raptor – and the game ended with my Death Guard sitting on five objectives, against a Sicaran with a hull point, a Falchion and a Contemptor.
It was a fantastic game – coming out with a 22-8 victory was unexpected after that first turn, and was characterised by it simply being great fun. I was lucky to have a superb opponent, and it made for a fantastic game. The massed numbers of troops were clearly a great boon, and I’d probably just want another Apothecary to help the other Tactical Squad achieve. I’d switch out the support squads for something heavier in future, but the Fire Raptor and Mortarion performed superbly – and the Destroyers offered another threat – as well as being very cool.
This was however the most recent game I’ve played, bar a fantastic Apocalypse battle, of roughly 5,000pts a side (five players per team – good vs. evil) – so we could fit in pizza and the game within about three hours.
Aim was to reach that big building where the Titan was residing – if we could capture the grotto, and any objectives on the way… it’d be decent! It was a bit of a slog…
That was probably one of the highlights – managed to topple a member of the Seer Council on Jetbikes, but broadly as we were slightly outnumbered superheavy wise, and it was quite a long way to go – even recycling didn’t truly help us! Fantastic game though – thoroughly enjoyed it, and can’t wait for the next one!
Aside from this, I’ve managed to fit in a few games of Guild Ball, and one of Bolt Action – I’ve thus far lost all my Guild Ball games, and pulled out a draw in my first Bolt Action game – which suggests I should probably stick to non-sporting tabletop games in future…
On the painting and modelling side of things, I’ve been lucky enough to paint approximately 9,000pts of stuff over the course of the year, mostly thanks to the different competitions that have run on the Bolter and Chainsword – it’s a great motivation for me to take part in these, and proud to have actually cleared so much of a backlog – and do those pieces justice. I’m hoping to continue this level of output through the year, with a number of different pieces and projects – no doubt supporting the great core of things I currently have.
Most recently, I’ve diversified to add some Renegades, in the form of Traitor Sentinels, and a number of Khorne Berzerkers and Noise Marines, as pictured below:
I’ve still got a number of things for my Death Guard that need to be improved in future, both repaints and some new ideas – and it’ll be good to explore those in time.
The release of the new Betrayal at Calth sets have allowed me to bolster my Heresy army, in the form of the Tactical Marines I so desperately needed! Having totted up my rough points, I think I’m pushing 10,000pts – but so little of that is painted, coming mostly from Contemptors and Terminators. My aim for this year is to complete as much of that Heresy stuff as possible, and I’m looking forward to the next event at the B&C, which should allow me to complete Mortarion, and hopefully some other nice pieces… Watch this space!
The break over Christmas allowed me to build some Heresy leaders, who will be painted in Death Guard livery:
And, I’ve enjoyed building a number of Breachers (to take me to 20), and the following, which should give me some semblance of air superiority:
Additions of a Deredeo, Storm Eagle, a Glaive and a Spartan should also heavily bolster these forces, the which have been started in true batch fashion:
And then applied my chosen materials, in cork and gravel, before shaking off the excess. About half shown:
It is a start anyway – and looking forward to completing these and getting them on the painting table.
The main goal is to continue to clear the backlog of models and miniatures that need to be painted, so they can hopefully grace the table-top more frequently. I’m hoping to do a bit more with the Dark Mechanicus/Skitarii I had planned, and perhaps see where that takes me in future!
It has been an excellent year for the hobby, and has been one I’ve immensely enjoyed personally too, and I’m looking forward to all that 2016 has to offer – and I hope that it is happy, healthy and prosperous for everyone else too!
China has completed production of one of the world’s largest seaplanes for use in the South China Sea.
After seven years of work, China has finished production of the first Jiaolong (Water Dragon) AG600 seaplane, purportedly the world’s largest amphibious aircraft, Chinese state-owned Xinhua news agency reports. The new aircraft, developed by state aircraft maker Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), rolled off the production line at an AVIC plant in the southern city of Zhuhai in Guangdong province on July 23.
AVIC’s deputy general manager, Geng Ruguang calls the AG600 “the latest breakthrough in China’s aviation industry, which demonstrates an overall improvement of China’s national strength and research capacity.” According to Xinhua, a group of 70 aircraft component manufacturers as well as 150 research institutes participated in the development process of the aircraft. “The AG 600 is like a ship that can fly, with advanced gas water dynamic engineering and underwater corrosion resistance technology,” said Huang Lingcai, the chief designer of the AG600.
A first test flight of the amphibious aircraft has tentatively been scheduled for the last quarter of 2016.
The AG600 is about the size of a Boeing 737. It is 37 meters long and has wingspan of 38.8 meters. Powered by four turboprop WJ-6 engines, the aircraft’s maximum take-off weight is 53.5 tons, its maximum cruising speed is 500 kilometers per hour, and the maximum operational range without refueling 4,500 kilometers.(Previous reports indicated a 5,500-kilometer range.)
China has already placed an order for 17 AG600s and intends to procure up to 60 new aircraft of this type over the next 15 years. However, the Chinese aviation industry also intends to export the new aircraft. Malaysia and New Zealand have purportedly already expressed interest in procuring the seaplane. However, civilian demand for a new aircraft of this size may be limited and despite China highlighting the utility of the plane for civilian purposes, including forest fire fighting and maritime rescue operations, the AG600 will also be a useful asset for the Chinese military.
As I noted elsewhere, next to conducting long-range patrols, anti-submarine warfare tasks, and mine-laying missions, the AG600 can be deployed as a military transport flying supplies and military personnel back and forth between the Chinese mainland and Chinese outposts in the South China Sea (See: “Will this Plane Let China Control the South China Sea?”).
Assuming, as claimed by the plane’s developers, that the AG600 only requires a water depth of 2.5 meters for landing and take-off, it would be an ideal aircraft to supply some of China’s artificial features in the Spratly Islands given that they are surrounded by shallow water. The aircraft can also be used for maritime patrols of contested territories in the South China Sea.
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You’re 14 years old. The world around you doesn’t make sense, and I’m fairly certain it’s not supposed to. There are a lot of people who are going to let you down, and not because they want to, or because they’re mean, but simply because they don’t understand you. They don’t know how to talk to you, and that will frustrate them as much as it frustrates you. You will be yelled at. The people closest to you will question everything about you, calling you any number of things as they try to label you, diagnose you.
They will tell you that you have an addiction to a television show or a movie, never understanding that your undivided focus is because you are studying the character, learning what motivates them, what makes them tick. And it won’t matter what you say to those around you, how you try to explain things, they won’t understand because they can’t. You don’t fit inside any of the molds that they had set aside for you, and the older you get, the more those around you will realize that you’ll never measure up to their expectations, and in many ways, that will disappoint them. And yeah, it’ll even turn you mean.
You were born with a story in your heart and a pen in your hand. You are a writer, and you were always meant to be a writer. Nothing and no one can change that, though I promise you, many will try. Don’t let anyone tell you that it’s wrong, or that you can’t be who you want to be. Do you understand how lucky you are? Most people spend their whole lives searching for their passion and never finding it. But you? You were born with your passion singing in the blood in your veins, speaking to you in whispers from longer than you can remember.
You’ll get a job when you’re 15 because you want the independence that your own paycheck will bring you. Oh, but you will hate that job with a passion and every job that comes after. Even the jobs you get that you’re excited about at first will soon grow tiring, their novelty wearing off in weeks or months. You will spend a lifetime inside the customer service and tech support industries, and through those jobs, the only thing you will learn is that you have lost your faith in humanity. Over and over and over again, you will come to realize that people, by and large, just aren’t worth it.
But then, something rather magical happens, and I promise you it has nothing to do with work. You meet other writers. It takes forever, and at first, you don’t know what to make of it because for once your life, you’ve met someone who understands what it’s like to be you. To be a writer. To be born with a fire in your soul and a story in your heart, and the ability to control neither. Nor should you ever. Writing is as important as breathing to you, it always has been and I promise you, it always will be.
The ideas will begin flooding your mind this year, and it won’t ever stop. Trust me, you don’t ever want it stop. You will learn with every story you write. You develop your voice, and become so much better than you ever thought possible. You will study languages and cultures for the sheer enjoyment of doing so, and while you’re doing it, you will realize that you understand some of your most beloved characters all the better for it.
You will see the world around you the way that it could be, seeing the potential it has and all that it has suffered through to get to where it is. You will fumble through one failed relationship after another just trying to find yourself, only to realize that you have always – and will always – connect better with animals than you ever will with people. And you know what? That’s okay. Embrace that. Celebrate it. And whatever you do, don’t ever apologize for being you.
Life is going to throw you some curve balls. You’ll be filled with self-doubt, grief, more anger than you know how to handle, and you’ll spend a good deal of the time confused, too. Because that world you see inside your mind, that one that’s so real you can touch it, taste it – the one you dream about every night when you close your eyes – no one else can see that world. No one else understands it. And you know what? That’s okay, too.
You’ll meet some people who tell you that they’re a writer, too, and that it’s a nice hobby when they have time for it, and you will know in that instant that they will never understand. Writing isn’t a hobby for you and it never will be. Writing isn’t something you “make time for”. You write every second of every day, regardless of whether you have a pen or a computer handy. The rest of the world, that’s what you “make time for”, because in the end, it’s really not that important, and the true writers you meet. The ones who eat sleep and breathe writing – they get it.
Be weird. Make connections where you least expect to find them. Fall in love with a story and get your heart broken. Learn about two brothers who fight back the darkness together and always keep fighting even when it seems impossible, and take that journey with them. Meet a hanyou and fall into his world, and learn the story of a girl who overcame time itself. Stay up late and write until you can’t even see the computer screen anymore. Go on a road trip and write on napkins and the backs of receipts until your hand hurts from it.
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Some think this sounds too good to be true, others roll their eyes and say that there are other masks out there that are similar. For those, who’ve tried it, they swear by it, even getting their male counterparts or friends to try it, usually with rather amusing results, especially when the user simply tries to rip off the mask like a band aid. (Side note: Don’t ever do that with any kind of face mask.)
Well, I’m here to tell you that I’ve tried it. Before I tell you if it lives up to the hype or not, let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a tom boy – not the rolling in the mud, dirt bike racing, extra in a Gretchen Wilson music video tomboy – just the standard jeans and t-shirt wearing, couldn’t care less about hair and make up kind of tomboy.
My makeup regime consists of a tube of liquid lip gloss from Bath & Body Works, and the occasional application of lotion when my skin gets alligator leather dry. I’ll do a face mask once every 6 months, if I’m lucky, and if I use a facial scrub, I do so in the shower because I’m not going to take the extra time out of my day to stand in front of the mirror and rub something on my face. That’s just not who I am.
After about two months of seeing the same post shared in my newsfeed regarding the black mask, and giggling at the video of the guy making a fuss about it – and silently calling him a wuss – I decided to try. What can it hurt, right? And it’s a free sample, so, it wasn’t like I was out any money for the deal, either. After a few weeks, the little tube arrived in the mail and my other half and I both slapped it on – the sample contains enough for about three applications.
No, I don’t know what my other half thought, because I didn’t ask her, but I will tell you my experience.
The Black Mask glides on smooth – thick – but smooth. It dries in roughly 30 minutes, unless you’re like me and end up with glops in places because you didn’t take the time to smooth it all out and make it a uniform thickness. I did say that I normally don’t care about these things, didn’t I? Any who, when it dries, it freaking dries!
I couldn’t move my face! I actually found that quite hilarious. (I am easily entertained by the oddest things.) Now, when I usually use facial products – soaps, scrubs, masks – peel of or mud – etc, I almost always end up with my skin reddened and irritated over the bridge of my nose, my cheeks, and occasionally my forehead. It happens with everything I’ve used, so I just stopped caring about it and accepted that irritation as a fact of life.
Guess what? I had zero – ZERO – skin irritation with The Black Mask. When I peeled it off – slowly, for those of you who haven’t used peel off masks before – I could feel it cleaning my pores, pulling out the gunk that is invariably in there. Oh – by the way – on the back of the tube, it says that you’re supposed to wash your face before applying it. Yeah, I didn’t see that until after, and as it turns out, you don’t really need to. That stuff cleans hella good! And the best part – no discomfort, no skin irritation, no lasting feeling of something being on your face, and – if you go slow and carefully – you can take it off all in one piece and totally gross people out when send you them a picture of it. I did tell you I was easily amused by odd things, and you’re reading this, so you signed on for this crazy train.
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This article comes in the wake of a conversation with a friend of mine. I should have her guest posting on here as she has a good deal of thought provoking commentary to share as well as personal insight to some of the issues being raised right now in this country politically. I just have to figure out how to turn this thing on for guest posting.
“Emotions Part 2” comes not a redaction or corrective footnote, but rather as a second half to what came first. An epilogue to the prologue, if you will.
As you’ll recall from the original post, Emotions, I spoke about not being as emotionally expressive as most, and more specifically, about not crying at most things, and really only crying for certain movies. And, if you haven’t read the original article, go back and do so. This Pt. 2 will make more sense if you’ve read the first part.
Alas, I digress. The friend I was speaking with is a very talented writer, she’s actually quite well known in some circles, and I highly recommend that you read her works. (They can be found on MediaMiner and Archive of Our Own under the author name “Sueric”.) She had read my post, and remarked that I stated I only cried at movies, and asked if that meant I didn’t cry for books. As a writer and an avid reader, she feels that the written word holds more power, and I do agree with that. I agree with that completely.
Because the difference between an emotional response to movies versus books/written works for me is staggering. With a movie, I might shed a few tears, and then once that scene is over, or the movie has ended, that’s it. The emotion is gone, it’s done, and I’m back to my normal coldhearted self. Books, however, are a different beast entirely.
When I read a book, or series of written works, that provokes an emotional response from me – in this case we’re talking about crying, here – it’s never as simple as a few tears. There’s the buildup of emotion, the way my breath catches in my throat, my heart constricts in my chest, my thoughts still. I feel a tingle run up my spine, I get goosebumps, and the world around me just falls away. I take that emotional ride with the character, falling into their hearts as if I am the character. The tears evoked for me are heavy, they hurt my heart as much as they sting my eyes, they fall down my cheeks, and fall onto the page, or the computer. And where you may only see a few physical tears from me, it is the equivalent of seeing anyone else sitting in the corner bawling as they hold onto the book, or stare at the screen through tear-blurred eyes.
That emotion, those scenes, that feeling I get from the character and the words evoked, stay with me for hours – sometimes, even days. I feel as though I’m seeing the world around me through the eyes of the character I’ve been reading – whether that’s Kagome Higurashi, Gin Zelig, Kurt Drevin, Samantha Izayoi, Saori Senkuro, Hazel Grace Lancaster, Billy Colman, or a whole host of others.
So, after saying all of this, would I say that I cry when I read an emotionally heavy scene in a book? No, because for me crying simply means that I’ve gotten misty eyed and it’s ended as soon as it began. So, no, I don’t cry when I read a story. I become the story, and to me, that’s an incredibly powerful thing – more powerful than “crying” can define. And if you have the power to evoke that kind of a response in your readers – especially me, then my dear, you have a gift unlike any other.
As a footnote: Billy Colman is the protagonist from Where the Red Fern Grows. It’s an old book – 1960’s era publication with a story time set in the 1940s. It’s a good book, and if you haven’t read it, I suggest that you do.
There are many things we take for granted in this world, things we do without even thinking about them. We wake up and take our phone off the charger, check our messages, our emails, open up our social media apps to see what’s happened while we’ve been asleep. It’s a connected world we live in, with so much at our fingertips, that we tend to take forget that the people we talk to on the phone, or in person at the store are actual human beings.
For the past nineteen years, I have worked in customer service and technical support, directly assisting people both in person and over the phone. I have seen people when they are excited about something new – whether that was a new piece of technology, or an adventure they were taking, I have also worked with people who are on the other end of the spectrum and dealing with unfortunate circumstances. But throughout it all, there are a few things that remain the same, things that customer service/tech support agents want you to know and take to heart.
When we tell you that we can’t do what you’re asking us to do – whether that’s giving you something for free, returning something that is well past it’s return by date, or replacing a device when the issue is user error – we really can’t do it, and pushing the issue only makes us want to hang up on you.
There are many stories – hoaxes – that have been circulating the web for the past several years that include such falsehoods as “download an app to your phone and put it in the microwave to charge the battery to full in 2 minutes” and “warm your frozen computer safely in the oven on warm” or even the most widespread one shared by word of mouth: “if you scream for a manager loud enough and keep yelling, they will give you whatever you want”.
None of these things are true at all, and point of fact, for most ovens “warm” is between 150 – 200 degrees and at those temperatures, you will be frying whatever electronic device you’re dumb enough to put in the oven.
In fact, most customer service/tech support companies have rules set in place to protect their employees from customer abuse. If you start cursing at us, and we ask you to stop, but you won’t, more often than not, your call will be disconnected.
A defective product – within its return by date – can be returned for a refund or exchange. A service that went unused, or you forgot to cancel, can usually be returned under specific conditions (for example, returning the previous month’s subscription charges). Something purchased by accident, can usually be returned. But things that your common sense should have told you NOT to do – like purchasing visa gift cards and providing the card numbers to someone over the phone in order to purchase a product you haven’t seen, or sending money by wire transfer in order to get prize money from an international lottery, or paying for a specialty VPN with digital music gift cards – these are things that cannot be refunded.
When it comes to data, there are a multitude of back up options available, from connecting your device to a computer to download the information through a backup system, to saving your information to cloud storage, to using a media card, or external hard drive to backup your information. Digital data, even if backed up, can be corrupted. If there are important photos or contacts you don’t want to lose, make hard copies of that information and keep them somewhere safe. Don’t wait until it’s too late to search for the things you don’t want to lose.
As for a device, most phones, tablets, music players, even some eReaders, have native tracking software and location tracking apps that can be downloaded as well as options for securing the device through passcodes, passwords, or other such digital locks. Be responsible for your own devices and make certain that they are secured and that you have a way of locking your data, and if you don’t know how to do it – look it up, but don’t expect someone else to do it for you.
Everyone has bad days, and we understand that, but that person on the other end of the phone, or standing in the store you’re visiting, is not there for you to take your frustration out on. If you’re in a bad mood, take a deep breath and reset, calm down, and then call in, or go to the store.
On of the most common attitudes that I’ve gotten from people over the years can be described as this: “You have a job because I bought the products your company sells, and since I have a problem, that makes you mine to command.” No. Flat out, hard stop, get off the crazy train, the answer to that is NO. Just because you bought whatever shiny bauble you have, that does not in any manner mean that you somehow own the person you are talking to. And on that note, if you treat your employees the way you treat the people you talk to when calling in for tech support, it’s a miracle you have a business at all.
Despite popular misconception, we know when we’re being lied to. Trust me, we’ve heard it all, from ‘I lost my device because my wife went into labor’ to ‘there is a demonic entity living in my phone’ to ‘I bought the TV/computer/device/etc a year ago, but I just opened it today’ to ‘I never got a receipt because the printer was out of paper’. On that last one, believe me, there is always more register tape, and in more recent years, there’s an email option.
Set aside at least 30 minutes, if not more depending on what the issue you’re having is. Don’t call us up, or come into a place of service, and get mad when something takes more than 10 minutes to work on. There are some issues that have taken upwards of 4 hours to resolve. Wasting our time, only wastes yours in return and leaves both parties frustrated and annoyed.
Despite what you might think, there’s no magic button on our side that allows us to somehow make your device work again. There are steps we will need you to take, sometimes, we’ll even need you to repeat those same steps multiple times throughout the troubleshooting to test for a resolution. Depending on the reason for your call/visit there may even be scripted information that we have to read to you, and scripted questions that we are required to read and get answers to. Rushing us, or telling us to “skip it” gets you nowhere. Believe me, we don’t want to read it anymore than you want to listen to it.
This is the most important one, folks, so listen up! The way you treat us is in direct relation to the way we treat you and the support you get as a result.
You know that old saying “You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar”? It’s true. Remember it. Take it to heart, and practice it in everyday life. If you are nice and respectful to us, we are much more willing to go above and beyond for you. On the contrary, if you start yelling, belittling, or disrespecting us, we’ve already decided to do only the barest minimum required to resolve your issue because the only thing we want is to get you away from us as soon as possible. So, be nice, be patient, be respectful, and you’ll find you’ll have a much better experience.
As long as you keep these 10 things in mind, especially number 1, you will not only improve your day, but help make the day better for someone who usually only gets the crap end of the deal.
Procrastination. Oh, my friend, I know thee well. When it comes to writing, or doing something that I don’t particularly want to do, I will find just about anything to do instead. Now, for most normal things, I will eventually suck it up and do it, but when it comes to writing . . . Oh, when it comes to writing . . .
I love writing. It is as essential to me as breathing, and if I go without writing for too long, I get cranky. Hell, I even get downright mean. But there are times when the words just won’t come, or where I know exactly what the scene is that I want to write, but I can’t get it to come out on paper the way I see it in my head. And, so what do I do? I avoid it. I have been known to clean my entire house from top to bottom, including steam cleaning the carpets, simply because I am fighting with my muse.
But then, the writing I’m doing now, is different. This isn’t the fiction work that I’m used to doing. It isn’t the flights of fancy with the crescendo of action and emotion, drama and suspense, that eventually leads to the harmonic suite of woodwinds and strings, the love song and finale where all is right with the world. Instead, this writing is what amounts to running scales and breath exercises. (Did I mention that used to be involved with music? I was a flautist in primary school.)
I still enjoy it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not quite the same. This is a touch more formal, less freestyle and more . . . structured. Not that there’s anything wrong with structure, per say, but it’s like telling an abstract artist to paint by numbers.
I’m trying to get myself more used to writing in this manner as I’ve been looking into writing opinion articles for journals and newspapers. It feels odd to try to write for a newspaper knowing that I’m not a journalist, and have never been formally trained as one.
There are voice out there, Tom Brokaw and Anderson Cooper, to name a few, that I greatly respect and admire, and to me, that’s what a journalist should be. Someone who researches their stories, fact checks the information, goes straight to the horse’s mouth, as it were, for the inside scoop.
But that’s not me, and maybe that’s why they call those articles ‘opinion pieces’. They know that the author isn’t a professional journalist, and while held to a certain level of responsibility, you’re not held to the same level of accountability. Cognitively, I understand this, but it’s still odd. Maybe it always will be.
In all the information I’ve found about writing these pieces – opinion based missives – everything has said to write about what you know, but I keep finding myself asking: What do I really know? Well, let’s take a look at that together, shall we?
Since I became a member of the workforce back when I was fifteen (and dinosaurs roamed the earth), I’ve worked in customer service and technical support. I work closely with people. People. Well, that’s something to offer, isn’t it? So, what has working in those fields taught me about people?
In short, it’s taught me that the American culture is downright willfully ignorant, happily disrespectful, and so damn self-centered and narcissistic that they have no concept that the person behind the sales counter, at the register, or over the phone is, in fact, another human being. I pray for the days that I get someone on the phone from another country. Do you know how sad it makes me to realize that I am shown more respect over the phone by a person calling in for technical support from Egypt, or India – even Qatar – than I am by someone calling in from Illinois who is a born and raised American?
I see in the news and in the papers about all of these people yelling at immigrants to get out of this country – to make America great again – and all I want to do is yell back at them that they are the problem. Not the immigrants. Not people visiting our country. Not people of color who have been born and raised here.
I will be completely honest, with you. I am a white Anglo-Saxon 6th generation American woman, born in the Midwest, raised in Florida, and now living in the Pacific Northwest, and more often than not lately, I find myself ashamed to admit any of that. I have always loved this country, but not its people, and certainly these days, not its government.
The voices of hate and intolerance that are shouting louder than ever before, seem all too happy to forget the truth. Or maybe, they’re just content to ignore it and pretend that the history they’ve fabricated is what is real.
What is now known as the United States was not a barren unsettled country until white men appeared on her shores. This country was home to the Native Americans for thousands of years before Europeans ever even knew it existed. There were hundreds of Native American nations – some peaceful, some not – but this was their home, and their once great numbers are now only a shadow of what they once were.
Christopher Columbus did not “discover” America. He stumbled upon it, crashed into it, all while looking for India. Basically, he was stumbling around in the dark, blind and drunk, and stuck his flag where it didn’t belong. Sound familiar? Then in the early to mid-1600s, English refugees came to the shores of what is now Massachusetts. They were kicked out of England for being radical religious extremists. So, what did they do? They boarded a boat, set out to sea, and immigrated illegally to what would later become the United States.
Yeah, I said it, and I’ll say it again. The country you know today was founded by illegal immigrants who were religious extremists. But not just that. Did they even attempt to live peacefully with the native peoples they found?
Instead of trying to learn and understand the culture of the natives, instead of trying to learn their language, and make peace with them, the white settlers – those illegal immigrants (Oh, you can bet I’m going to keep saying it.) decided to take what was never theirs to start with. The Puritans raided the villages, gunned down the native peoples, and when that wasn’t enough to satisfy their bloodthirst, they offered tribes “gifts” of dolls and blankets and so many other things that they knew were infected with diseases like small pox, yellow and scarlet fevers, things that the native peoples had no immunity to because those things didn’t exist before the Puritans brought it to them.
Mass shootings. Biological warfare. Willful torture of humans and animals. Rape. The slaughter of women and children. The suppression and destruction of other cultures. The intolerance of other religions. Setting fire to homes and farms. Terrorism at its finest. That, [white] America, is what the truth of your culture is, and if you want to shout at other people to go back to where they come from, why don’t you look in a fucking mirror first.
It took almost 150 years for the Founding Fathers to rise and to say “enough is enough”. They fought for religious and cultural freedom. They made a clear separation of church and state. They created the constitution. And it is the freedoms that they helped fight for that so many are all too willing to ignore now.
So, in short, what have I learned from my experience in customer service and tech support? Americans, by and large, are disgusting human beings. But sometimes, just sometimes, on a rare day, you can meet one person who might bring you the slightest glimmer of hope. And while it may not be enough to offset all the bad, it’s just enough to allow you a little breathing room, to remember why it is you want to fight for something better.
It’s been a few days since I’ve written anything here, hasn’t it? I didn’t really have anything planned for today, but a recent argument with my other half solved that particular issue. In order to protect their privacy, I shall not be naming names, or using pronouns such as he/she, but instead, will simply say them/they/their. I’m sure that some of you will try to sort out which gender my other half is, and for those sleuths reading this, have at it. For those of you who know me in the real world, you already know the answer.
The topic of our argument is one that seems to be repeating itself far more frequently – emotion. Or as my other half would argue – my seeming lack of emotion. Now, that’s to say that I don’t have emotions, or that I’m a robot, neither or which are true. I am a writer, and – while I know it’s different for each person – for me, my writing is where I put my emotions. Through the words I write and the scenes I craft, I can make you feel the true depths of the emotions the characters experience. I can fill you with hope or joy, or make you suffer under the weight of doubt and agony.
I should also say, that my other half knows this about me and enjoys reading my writing, but their issue is that I don’t express emotion in real life. I don’t get upset enough about something to cry. I don’t show fear or uncertainty. I don’t have extended periods of silliness and childlike behavior. I’m steady. Or, as they would say, I’m an emotional flatline.
Now, I don’t really care if someone calls me an emotional flatline, a Vulcan, or even a robot. It doesn’t bother me, because I know who I am and I know what I feel. I don’t really give a crap if anyone else knows what I’m feeling or not. But my other half would argue, that that is the entirety of their issue.
Do I get frustrated? Yes. Do I cry because I’m frustrated? No. Do I yell or pitch a fit because I’m frustrated? No.
So, what happens when I’m frustrated? I look at the issue from all sides until I find a viable solution and then, I enact that solution. Okay, that doesn’t seem so bad.
But, that bothers my other half. Why? Because they can’t tell when or if I’m frustrated. And more to the point, they get annoyed and even, at times, downright offended that I won’t show my frustration. Well, here’s my side of that. If I am frustrated, it usually only lasts until the moment I’ve found a solution, and that might only be a few seconds. So, why on earth would I over exaggerate an emotional response that doesn’t even have a half-life of thirty seconds?
And there’s the crying thing. They always make it a point to tell me that they know other people who are steady and can still cry. Insert heavy sigh here. I’m not a crier. I’m just not. The only times I have cried, and it was a little bit more than being misty-eyed, was during movies.
A Dog’s Purpose. Hachi. Marley and Me. Hacksaw Ridge. I will admit to crying during those at some – or even multiple – points.
My other half’s argument to that? I don’t cry during Steel Magnolias. Nope, don’t really find that movie sad. Their other argument: I don’t cry in response to real-life situations. No, I generally don’t. I don’t cry out of frustration. I don’t cry because I’m not getting my own way. I don’t cry if I’m happy. I don’t cry at funerals because I’ve had time to adjust to the fact that the person is – or will eventually – die.
There are those who would argue that I’ve never lost anyone suddenly, and they would be wrong. I have lost one family member – a first cousin – to suicide. But no, I did not cry for her. That’s not to say that I didn’t love her, because I did, but that is to say that I knew how much pain she was in and that no matter what was tried, that pain never went away.
Did I get to attend her funeral, no. She lived in another state, and I wasn’t able to get there, but that’s okay. A funeral is for the living, not the dead, and I said goodbye to her in my own way.
For the religious ones reading this, you may argue that she’s in Hell right, but I don’t believe that. I believe that she’s finding her peace, and will perhaps even be reincarnated to live another life. I don’t believe that suicide is a sin. I don’t believe in eternal damnation. And no, I’m not indoctrinated into a belief system of absolutes and heaven or hell.
I will admit that I am more likely to cry at the passing of an animal than I am that of a human, but that is simply who I am. An animal has a purity to them, a soul that is not weighed down by ulterior motives or deception. What they desire in life is simple. They want to love and be loved. They want to be petted, to be held, to be cherished, and they want to give that in return. Humans are another story.
Fear, is another big one. My other half made it a point to argue that I don’t show fear. Here’s the thing about fear and me. When I feel afraid, I ask myself this: What is it that I am afraid of, and why do I fear it? Nine times out of ten, the answer is “because I don’t understand it”. My response to that? Let’s do a little research. Let me learn about this thing that makes me uncomfortable and see if I’m still afraid of it, after getting some knowledge under my belt. A little knowledge can go a long way.
Now, what about the argument of someone holding a gun in my face? In that instance, I can tell you that fear would very quickly turn to rage and sarcasm. I don’t handle being threatened well and will respond rather energetically to that threat. Usually in the ball park of punching someone in the face.
Uncertainty? Nervousness? I feel those same emotions just as anyone else does. The only difference, is that I see no purpose in saying so out loud, or displaying that emotion. There is no benefit to doing so, no logical reasoning for it, other than to show someone else that you feel that way, and at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Take a deep breath, face whatever it is that has you all twitchy, and do so with grace.
How about excitement? Surely my other half doesn’t have a problem with that. Oh, but they do. You see, for my other half, when they are excited they show that excitement physically, though what I have dubbed the “I’m a Little Teapot” dance. That’s perfectly fine. That’s how they show excitement. But I don’t, and that’s the problem they have.
I don’t bounce around, or smile like a maniac, or get overly emotive because I’m excited. Personally, I find such emotions exhausting. If I’m excited about something, I show interest in it. Simple as that. I might be a little more energetic than I usually am, or may be more likely to run out ahead of everyone else, but that’s about it.
Lately, within the past year or so, my other half has become increasingly put out that my emotions go into my writing, and that I don’t “share” my emotions with them. This is not something that has changed, I have been this way since before we met, but now it’s become a problem for them. And why, might you ask? Because in some manner, they have said that they feel that I don’t connect with them since I can’t show them my emotions. Not everyone displays emotions, and not everyone feels them to the same degree. This is something my other half seems unwilling to understand, and what drives me batty the most, is that when we do argue about this, they act as though displaying the emotions they have makes them better than those who don’t. And that’s just bullshit.
Yes, the fight I had with my other half is what inspired today’s post, but I’ve said all of that to say this: No two people react to emotion in the same way. There are those who are steady, but still emotionally expressive, while there are others who are steady and emotionally unexpressive. And there are, of course, the drama kings and queens, as well as those who simply don’t know how to not feel, and not show what they’re feeling. I don’t care which one you are, and you shouldn’t care which one someone else is, either. Different people react differently. Accept it and get over it.
It’s almost the end of the year – only three days left of 2017, to be exact. This same time last year, I thought that I would be in a different place than where I am. I had plans to be published, to have my work featured in a literary magazine, and for all of my efforts – which I will admit, have not always been consistent – I haven’t gotten to where I wanted to be. But I have gotten to where I need to be.
Somewhere between March and June this year, don’t ask for specifics because my mind just does not retain that kind of real life detail, I began a collaboration project with an author I truly admire and respect. It is my first collaboration project, and it has been very near and dear to my heart. We’ve had our pitfalls, we’ve had our successes, but more than that, we’ve each pushed the boundaries for the other.
I’ve become a better writer, learned how to show more than I ever did before, and as an angst writer, that means that I get to tear out the hearts of my readers all the more completely and leave them as nothing more than gooey piles of emotional turmoil. When I get a comment from a reader or beta that tells me I made them “ugly cry” I do a little dance. Not gonna lie, it feels pretty damn good to know that I can make someone feel the very depth of the heartache my characters are feeling.
I’ve also learned what it’s like to compromise, and as hard as it is – how to swallow my pride. It isn’t easy, I’ll tell you that right now. I’m a dead-center Capricorn, and pride is something I have in abundance, as is stubbornness. And I know that this means when I am passionate about something, I will lock horns and stay locked until the bitter end. And the person I’m collaborating with? Well, she’s a Capricorn, too, but she’s on the cusp of Aquarius.
Stubborn. Prideful. Arrogant, at times. Unwilling to bend. These are things that can describe both of us, as are: Passion, and fear.
You see, as writers, those worlds we create define us, define who we are, and even how we think of ourselves, and if that’s threatened in any manner, we can turn mean real quick. But on the flip side of that is a passion that drives us to distraction and knows no boundaries, no stopping points. We will write and create until we have absolutely nothing left to give, not even our own breath. But for as much passion as we have, and as much love as we have for what we do, we are also so very afraid that someone is going to look at the work we’ve done and tell us it’s shit. Pardon my French.
I had a point to this, or at least I think I did when I started writing it. It’s 03:37 here in the Pacific Northwest, so forgive me if my thoughts wander away from me. The only thing I can really tell you is this:
No matter what you do in life, always be open to learning more about yourself, and your craft, and don’t ever go into something thinking that you already know everything there is to know, because you don’t. Even Dr. Who is constantly learning new things.
Swallow your pride, even when you really don’t want to and especially when you know that you’re on the right side of the argument, because sometimes, being right isn’t worth losing what you’re fighting for.
And lastly, being able to compromise might feel like you’ve given in or given up, but really it’s about meeting in the middle and having just enough of what you’re willing to accept. Just remember, do you’re best to make sure that the compromise you make isn’t unfairly balanced one way or the other, or you (or someone else) will end up feeling like you’ve been forced into something you never wanted in the first place.
AN: The Child of Earth and Sea is part of the Purity series, and set in the current time line of Charity and Ben’s story. Rumiko Takahashi owns Inuyasha and all recognizable characters from the anime, all characters from the Purity universe belong to Sueric, I have simply been granted the honor of taking them out to play for a little while. This series tells the story of Nessa Beaumonte, from the one-shot Heart of a Warrior, and has been written with the approval of, and in collaboration with the original author of the Purity Universe, Sueric.
I love all of the pretty words that people have been sharing with me. Raise your voices to the world, my friends. I am excited by the flashes that I’ve seen, and must admit that it’s a fun way to showcase another’s talent. I love being able to show off your voices and encourage your writing.
As I had a favorable response with the previous song prompt, I’ve decided to offer another one. Let your muse’s run free. This song is from one of my favorite Broadway musicals “The Secret Garden”. This prompt will be open until Friday night at midnight.
Remember the rules. Word count is a minimum 100 to a max of 500 words. Include your name and Twitter handle with your story in the response.
Patience was not a virtue I possessed. Checking my phone for the third time in the ten minutes I had been standing in this line, I see a text. Sliding the lock screen open, I read it:
From my lawyer. Odd. Moving forward, I place my order. I hated being late and this line to get a coffee had set me back ten minutes. Exiting out of my texts, I switch over to my calendar to check for an opening. He never contacts me personally unless it’s important. I go back to my texts to reply with a date and time, hoping it works for him.
Sliding my phone back into my pocket, I look up at the barista who seems to have asked me something. I start to speak but the words stick in my throat.
Hazel eyes are nothing to be shocked about, but this woman’s eyes were not your average “hazel” color. They had violet flecks in the iris and were surrounded by a black ring. I was stunned into silence as she repeated her question.
“Was this to go?” She raises her brows, obviously confused by my reaction. Pulling myself together, I stutter out a “y-yes”. She turns to complete my to go order and I stand there staring. This girl couldn’t be older than sixteen but I’d seen those eyes before. Long ago, in many forms. Happiness, in the throes of passion, anger and hurt. Flashes of a person whose name I couldn’t bring myself to think begin to run through my head. When the girl comes back, I’m sweating.
She reads me the total and smiles at me, knocking the breath out of me when it reaches her eyes. I squeeze my own eyes shut and think: Lily’s eyes. Thrusting my card into her hand, she swipes it through the machine.
It must be a coincidence. Surely other people have the strange eye color as this girl in front of me. As…Lily. She hands my card back and I all but stumble backwards in a panic to get away from this girl with the strange eyes.
Bursting through the cafe doors, I hail a cab, get in and spout off the company address, sorting through my thoughts. There’s no way that girl could be related to Lily but could she be? I hadn’t had contact with her in sixteen years so I wouldn’t know. Clearing my head of this hazel eyed girl, I pull out my phone and call my lawyer. He answers on the first ring.
“I was hoping you’d call. The date works, but I think this is something you need to clear your schedule for. ” He sounds anxious. |
According to a report by Reuters, which cites company CEO Mickael Ghossein, Telkom Kenya ended December 2009 with 1.2 million mobile subscribers, adding 428,000 net new customers in just three months.
Despite impressive growth in the latter part of the year the operator still fell short of its target of two million registered users by year-end. Meanwhile the company ended 2009 with 250,000 customers on its ‘Orange fixed-plus’ fixed-wireless CDMA-450 network, up from 236,700 a year earlier. Ghossein added that Telkom, which is backed by France Telecom, invested around KES18 billion (USD225.3 million) on network expansions and upgrades in both 2008 and 2009.
The company plans to spend between KES10 billion and KES16 billion in 2010, with the introduction of a mobile banking product and possible entry into the country’s 3G market on the firm’s agenda.
Telkom is currently trialling 3G services across parts of its network, but the country’s USD25 million licensing fee could prove prohibitive to a commercial rollout.
State-owned ISP New Artel Rwanda has said that it will now deliver high speed internet access from SEACOM’s fibre-optic cable through the national backbone, local daily The New Times reports. The company had in November planned to land the submarine cable through Uganda Telecom's (UTL’s) Point of Presence (PoP) Rwandatel that month.
However, officials have since discovered that incumbent telco Rwandatel does not have the capability of delivering the 155Mbps capacity. ‘In order to have a more reliable connectivity, the capacity will be delivered through the national fibre-optic backbone by UTL from Gatuna to Kigali,’ commented Francis Karemera, CEO of New Artel.
The Rwanda Development Board (RDB)-ICT expects to deliver the national backbone to the Gatuna border by the end of February to route the data to Kigali. New Artel plans to provide 155Mbps to the Kigali Metropolitan Network to connect government ministries, universities and districts. The network aims to connect 97 government agencies in Kigali and 226 in the districts, linking 36 main nodes nationwide.
Chinese equipment vendor ZTE has announced that it has entered into a network supply and a managed services contract with Cell C, South Africa’s third largest mobile operator by subscribers.
Under the USD378 million contract ZTE will provide Cell C with GSM-based equipment while supporting the cellco’s ongoing network expansion.
Cell C is planning to invest heavily in its networks over the next twelve months, spending a total of ZAR5 billion (USD659.98 million) on network upgrades, including the deployment of a 3.5G HSPA+ network.
Wireless network solutions provider Harris Stratex Networks has announced that Somali telecoms operator Hormuud Telecom has placed an order for 100 of its high capacity Eclipse radios to extend its microwave backbone.
The new deployment forms part of a long standing relationship between the two companies; Harris has already installed over 200 Eclipse series radios for Hormuud. ‘We are happy to sign this expansion agreement with Harris Stratex Networks, and we are looking forward to building upon our existing relationship,’ noted N. Olo, Hormuud Telecom's chief procurement officer, adding, ‘We work well with the regional team of Harris Stratex Networks in Nairobi, and find their service and support capabilities a crucial aspect of partnership and operational success.’
Hormuud Telecom was founded in 1992 and today provides fixed and mobile telephony, as well as data services in Southern and Central Somalia.
South African second network operator (SNO) Neotel has announced plans to implement individual fixed line number portability in April 2010.
Angus Hay, executive head of technology at Neotel, said: ‘The porting of numbers in blocks of 10,000 or 1,000 has been available for some months now. Unfortunately that excluded many businesses, as it is only relevant to very large corporations. We are already testing 100 block porting, and as of April will be able to do 100 block and individual porting for any customer.’
Neotel believes that the introduction of individual number porting will increase competition in the sector, challenging fixed line incumbent Telkom South Africa’s dominant market position. Hay added: ‘This is what South Africans have been waiting for, the ability to port their individual fixed line telephone numbers. This truly puts consumers in charge of their own destiny when it comes to service providers.’
Millicom Ghana (trading as Tigo) has agreed to sell approximately 750 towers to Helios Towers Ghana, a direct subsidiary of Helios Towers Africa. As a result of the transaction, Tigo Ghana will retain a minority interest in HTG.
Additionally, Tigo Ghana and Helios Towers have entered into a long term leasing agreement where Helios Towers will provide Tigo Ghana with wireless communications towers, including a build-to-suit agreement to support the company's wireless networks. Helios Towers will seek similar agreements with other operators in Ghana. The transaction is expected to create savings in both capital and operating expenditure for Tigo Ghana.
Mikael Grahne, President and CEO of Millicom, said: "This agreement marks our first substantial commitment to outsourcing passive infrastructure, and is entirely consistent with our strategy of improving both our capital and operating efficiency by focusing on our core activities. Operators around the world are increasingly recognising that owning and operating all of their own network infrastructure does not confer a competitive advantage. The new venture will allow Tigo Ghana to focus on areas of genuine differentiation: sales, marketing, distribution, service innovation and customer care."
The specific number of towers and final purchase price will be determined at closing. First closing of the transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to take place in approximately 90 days.
Eygpt may consider offering a fourth mobile operator licence, reports the Reuters news agency, citing the local al-Mal newspaper. The tender for the license is being a Damoclean Sword being held over the incumbent operators if they do not adapt recent rulings on the tariffs they charge to customers.
"There are no obstacles to issuing a fourth mobile licence in Egypt ... but offering the licence will mainly depend on market demand in the coming period," the paper quoted Amr Badawi, head of the National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA), as saying.
The newspaper added that the operators have objected to recent pricing policies issued by the regulator.
"Before setting these rules and regulations, we sent queries and surveys to the mobile operators but we received no replies from the companies ... (They) have the right to approach the administrative court to object about the authority's decisions," Al Mal quoted Badawi as saying.
Egypt currently had three operators, and based on figures from the Mobile World analysts, their market shares are: Mobinil (45.2%), Vodafone (42.6%) and Etisalat Misr (12.2%). The country has a population penetration level of 62%.
The regulator is already planning to issue two fixed line licenses aimed at triple-play operators outside the capital, Cairo.
Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making a difference by improving the medical information available to public health programs in under-served areas of the world. VOA's Natalia Ardanza has a profile for this week's "Making a Difference" series.
Egypt's top cleric wants Muslims to answer the call to prayer, but not when its ringing on their cellphones.
Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa issued a fatwa, or a religious edict, on Wednesday urging Muslims to do away with a popular fad — Quranic verses or the five daily calls to prayer as cellphone ringtones. The government-appointed cleric says such ringtones are inappropriate, misleading and demeaning to God's words.
Muslims are required to pray five times a day, and the time for this is announced solely with calls to prayers from mosques, Gomaa said. "The calls to prayer are to announce it is time ... using it as a ringtone is confusing and misleading."
Edicts, or fatwas, serve as advice for the pious who observe them closely. Gomaa's edict, published on the official web site of Dar al-Iftah, one of Sunni Islam's earliest institution for interpreting religion, is not binding.
Islamic ringtones are ubiquitous in this country of 80 million. They are also making the rounds in Baghdad, Saudi Arabia, the West Bank and to a lesser degree, multi-sectarian Lebanon. A group of Saudi clerics recently made a similar plea to Saudis not to use Quran for ringtones.
In Egypt, verses or calls to prayer from the holy book of Quran are not only popular as ringtones. They have become the rage with screen savers and text messages in holiday greetings. The tones can be downloaded from the Internet, mobile phone company Web sites and are advertised on TV stations.
With a rising tide of Islamic conservatism, Egyptians are increasingly peppering their lives with religious symbols, and turn to fatwas to regulate their day-to-day lives.
Head scarves are predominant among the country's Muslim women and men increasingly sport traditional beards. Quranic verses can be seen plastered as posters or stickers on cars, offices and homes. Even daily greetings have become Islamized, with people starting and ending their conversations by invoking God's name or words.
For those insisting their ringtones have an Islamic character, he suggested they use Islamic hymns or religious prose.
Niger’s communications ministry, Autorite de Regulation Multisectorielle (ARM), has reduced the duration of two mobile operators' licences in a row over quality of service, Reuters reports.
The 15-year concession awarded to Kuwait-based telecoms firm Zain in 2000 was reduced by five years, according to ARM, until a return to the stated levels of service quality is achieved. Meanwhile, a 15-year licence awarded to Moov, the brand name of West African company Atlantique Telecom, also in 2000, has been cut by three years.
The Internet Service Providers Association of South Africa (ISPA) has released a statement backing state-owned cable operator Broadband Infraco to break Telkom’s stranglehold over national infrastructure, mybroadband.co.za reports. According to ISPA, the award of an individual-electronic communications network services (I-ECNS) licence from state regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), along with its extensive fibre network which Broadband Infraco inherited from Transtel and Eskom, will allow the operator to realise its mandate of boosting the country’s broadband connectivity and bandwidth availability while lowering the cost of communications nationwide. The crippling cost of bandwidth has held back the South African data market, leaving Africa’s largest economy with a broadband penetration of just 2% at the end of September 2009.
In a press statement, ISPA said: ‘Broadband Infraco, provided it sticks to its mandate as a supplier of wholesale infrastructure to other operators and service providers, could redress this problem and help to spur greater competition in the market. At the same time, given the history of state-owned enterprises in the telecoms industry, ISPA will keep a vigilant eye on Broadband Infraco's activities to make sure that South Africa derives the maximum benefit from its activities… We believe that it is of great importance to ensure that this promising new venture does not eventually evolve into a partially privatised company with a profit motive and unfair advantages that competes against the private sector. Given the challenges facing the South African telecoms industry, we simply cannot afford to get this wrong.’
The Botswana Telecommunications Authority (BTA) has pushed back the deadline for the nation’s mobile subscribers to register their SIM cards, the Sunday Standard reports.
Pre-paid customers of Botswana’s three wireless operators – Mascom Wireless, Orange Botswana and BTC Mobile (beMOBILE) – were originally given until 31 December 2009 to register their SIMs or face the disconnection of their service, but the deadline has since been extended to 31 January 2010.
According to BTA spokesperson Aaron Nyelesi, 85% of mobile users have registered their details, 45% of which have not yet been processed by the system. ‘We are presently converting information that we captured from paper to electronic database. After the process is complete we will then cut off the customers who have not registered,’ he added.
The BTA hopes that the registration of numbers will help the country better plan and expand the telecoms industry, as well as help curb crime. From 1 January 2010 new pay-as-you-go SIMs will be activated only after electronic registration has taken place.
Sierra Leone’s telecoms regulator, the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM), has fined mobile operators Lintel SL (Africell SL) and Zain Sierra Leone USD50,000 each for violating the Telecommunications Act of 2003, local daily Concord Times reports. The duo were penalised for increasing the price of their recharge cards without first consulting with NATCOM, which is the only body permitted to approve tariff increases, 30 days after an operator has notified it in writing. ‘Section 52 [of the Telecommunications Act] says GSM operators should notify the commission in writing before any increase is made, while 53 says the commission should give approval,’ NATCOM’s public affairs manager, Abdul Kuyateh, explained.
The price hike was reportedly a response to the introduction of a new Goods and Services Tax (GST) tax on 1 January 2010, which led to confusion about pricing and subsequent shortages of calling cards. It is believed that some mobile operators increased the cost from SLL1,700 (USD0.43) for 50 units to SLL2,000 after the introduction of the GST, raising protests by consumers and a rebuke by NATCOM, which ordered cellcos to restore prices to previous rates until legal issues were resolved. Kuyateh stressed that cellco Comium SL does not have to pay the fine because it agreed to reduce its tariffs immediately after a meeting with the minister of information and communication. Lintel SL and Zain have been given until 18 January to pay their respective fines, or face further action from NATCOM.
Togolese mobile network operator, Moov has resumed services after being suspended by the regulator last August for non-payment of license fees. The operator has signed an agreement with the Telecommunications Regulation Authority (ARPT) to pay license renewal fees of CFA 25.75 billion (US$48 million) over a twelve year period.
Some 600,000 people lost their mobile phone service as a result of the network closure. During the shut-down, a large number of subscribers moved over to the state-owned operator, Togocel.
When the network was shut-down, there was widespread protests against the move. The local Daily Guide newspaper reported at the time that protesters chanted slogans and carried placards, some of which read "MOOV Forever And Ever" and "Prez. Faure Get Our Phone Connections Back".
The dominant telco is the state owned Togo Cellular, with around 1.25 million customers. France Telecom's Orange seems to have an operating license but has not started services yet.
Egypt's Mobinil has refuted local media claims that it is late in making payments for its 3G radio spectrum. Although there is a delay in making the payment, the company says that this is due to the late release of radio spectrum by the telecoms regulator, not a failure at its end.
"The payment is ready and we can do it at any time," Mobinil CEO Hassan Kabbani told Reuters, adding that the payment would be made once the firm received the spectrum frequency and other information related to the licence.
The Al Borsa newspaper reported earlier this week that Mobinil had fallen behind on the EGP750 million payment.
The company faced multiple delays in being granted access to its radio spectrum in 2008 when it was originally awarded its 3G license. The company was forced to delay the launch of its network, and at the time, also deferred payments to the regulator until the spectrum was released.
UMTS900 equipment has been deployed by Huawei in the MTN Ghana network. For the first time in Africa, a successful deployment of UMTS is done for voice, video and data in the 900MHz frequency band.
The network is based on Huawei’s 3900-Series Node B. A bandwidth of just 4.2 MHz is supported by the system to provide UMTS service while working seamlessly with the existing GSM network.
It is intended by the MTN to use the technology as a means of extending its 3.5G network to more rural communities.
The 900km fibre-optic cable of Rwandan fixed line operator Rwandatel is expected to land in the capital Kigali by April this year, local daily New Times reports.
According to the operator’s CTO, Basilio Sadindi, the cable had been slated to land in Kigali by January 2010, but sister telco Uganda Telecom (UTL) has encountered delays in laying the cable from Ugandan capital Kampala to Masaka in the south of the country. According to TeleGeography’s GlobalComms Database, UTL and Rwandatel, which are both subsidiaries of Libyan government investment vehicle LAP Green Networks, contracted Green Future in September 2009 to deliver SEACOM's fibre connection to Uganda and Rwanda.
After a full connection to the submarine cable, Rwandatel's internet subscriber base is expected to increase by 10% in the first year. After signing a contract in August last year, UTL and Rwandatel also agreed to purchase an additional 155Mbps of capacity from the SEACOM submarine cable.
Fitch Ratings has commented that Bharti Airtel's acquisition of a 70% stake in Bangladesh's Warid Telecom will not have an impact on the former's ratings. Fitch has a Long-term Issuer Default Rating of 'BBB-' with a Stable Outlook on Bharti, and notes that the incremental capex and Warid's existing debt will not materially impact Bharti's credit profile. However, the agency is currently monitoring the negative impact on Bharti's revenues stemming from irrational pricing activity by the operators in India during October-December 2009, and the pending cost of 3G pan-India license fees and its impact on Bharti's credit profile; details of India's 3G auction is expected to be announced sometime in 4QFY10.
Under the agreement with Warid, the acquisition will be partly funded by the purchase of existing shares held in Warid by the Dhabi group for a nominal consideration and the balance by way of an issuance of fresh shares at par. The acquisition will give Bharti the management and board control of the company. Bharti will make a fresh investment of USD300m to expand the network coverage and capacity of Warid in Bangladesh. Although, Bharti has yet to confirm the period over which such capex would be made, Fitch expects the same to occur over a period of 2-3 years. Fitch does not expect the incremental capex to significantly change Bharti's capex plans. Further, Fitch notes that the maximum existing debt on Warid's balance sheet is USD300m, and accordingly the same is unlikely to materially impact Fitch's forecasted net leverage expectations for Bharti.
According to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BRTC), Warid is the fourth-largest telecom operator in Bangladesh, with 2.92 million subscribers and a 5.8% subscriber market share at end-November 2009. It offers mobile services in all 64 districts of the country. At end-November 2009, the total subscriber base in Bangladesh was 50.55 million, with a penetration of 31.6%.
Bharti is one of India's leading private sector telecommunications providers, with integrated and diversified operations across mobile, fixed-line access, consumer broadband, direct-to-home television, long-distance and enterprise services. At end-November 2009, Bharti had a subscriber market share of 22.9% and a revenue market share of 33%. Bharti's FY09 reported revenues, EBITDAR and net income were INR373.5bn, INR170.6bn and INR78.6bn, respectively.
Four bidders have been shortlisted to take a 75% stake in the state-owned telco, Zamtel. The bidders who shall proceed to the next round are India's BSNL, Libya's LAP Greencom, Unitel /Angola Cables of Angola and Russia's Altimo Holdings/VimpelCom.
The ZDA Board at meeting held on January 11, 2009 approved the recommended shortlist after detailed analysis conducted by an Evaluation Committee.
Commenting on the shortlist at a press briefing to announce the successful bidders, Mr. Muhabi Lungu, Acting Director General of the ZDA said he was happy with all four participants who have gone through to the next stage of the process. "The bids submitted were compelling, and set the stage for an exciting next phase," he added.
The four bidders will now be invited to participate in the next round of bidding, which is expected to begin during the week commencing 18 January, 2010. At the begining of this phase shortlisted bidders will be given details of the requirements and timing for the next phase of the process. Details of the bids will not be disclosed at this stage as doing so would prejudice future phases of the privatisation process.
Tanzania’s communications sector was the top performer in terms of the country’s national economic growth in the financial year 2008/09, with a strong increase in the mobile phone user base being the main driver.
Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs, Mustafa Mkulo, said the overall mobile subscriber base total grew from 9.5 million people in 2008 to 15 million last year, in the process increasing airtime revenues. The communications sector expanded by 19.2% in 2009 he went on to say, eclipsing the next best performance from the mining sector (15.6%), the financial sector (11.9%) and trade and construction, which grew by one percentage point to 10.5%.
ECMS is controlled via Mobinil by France Telecom and Orascom in which France Telecom owns 71.25%, Orascom 28.75% and Mobinil owns 51%.
Kuwait's Zain is reported to be interested in investing in the Syrian mobile market, either through an acquisition of an operator license, or a stake in an existing operator. The country currently has two networks, locally owned Syriatel and South African owned, MTN Syria.
During 2008, the U.S. Department of the Treasury blacklisted Syriatel due to its links with Rami Makhluf, which the US government has blacklisted due to his connections with the government. Any investment by Zain in the company would have to overcome that political hurdle.
Kuwait's Al Anbaa newspaper reported that officials from Zain have met with the Syrian telecoms ministry to work out a suitable manner for the company to enter the market. However, Zain denied being interested in the market when rumours first emerged early last year.
Figures from the Mobile World analysts note that the country ended the first half of this year with an estimated 8.6 million mobile phone users - representing a population penetration level of around 42%.
Kenya's telecoms regulator, the CCK has confirmed that it will hold the fee for 3G licenses at Sh1.9 billion (US$25 million) - despite calls from the mobile networks for the fee to be lowered.
"Please note that the determined 3G license fee is $25 million for any operator who seeks that license," the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) said in an email to Reuters. "It is applicable equally across the board."
Although Safaricom aquired a license in 2007 for the full fee of US$25 million, the other operators have claimed that the fee is too high for the market and been calling for a reduction. Safaricom has said that it would seek a refund on the difference if new operators are offered licenses at a lower rate.
Radius server and billing solutions provider Aradial has announced that Rwandan telecoms operator MTN Rwanda has deployed its Aradial AAA and Policy Control solution to provide Wi-Fi services to the city of Kigali.
The solution integrates with access controllers to manage Wi-Fi base stations and operates with Ericsson's intelligent network over the provisioning infrastructure of MTN to ensure zero charging leakages in the operator's pre-paid billing. ‘As a leading communications provider, we are committed to providing our customers with reliable and affordable services,’ commented Rami Farah, CTO of MTN Rwanda, adding, ‘The new solution will enable us to exercise full control over the usage of our hotspots very cost effectively, while improving our subscribers' service experience.’
The solution will allow the Rwandan operator to offer better internet connectivity to its customers, increasing its profitability while eliminating the overheads associated with customer provisioning, authorisation and accounting.
Ghana’s Minister of Communications, Haruna Iddrisu, is quoted by the GNA as saying the country could make an additional USD50 million per annum from incoming international calls if it set up a telephone clearing house to monitor all inbound international calls.
The news agency goes on to say the government intends to establish the clearing house this year, designed to monitor all inbound calls in order to check fraud in the operations of the international gateway system. ‘The National Communications Authority has been legally empowered to effectively collaborate with telecom operators to work towards the development of a reliable telephone clearing house database,’ Iddrisu is quoted as saying.
Of the eight companies shortlisted in the sale process of a 75% stake in Zambian fixed line incumbent Zambia Telecommunications Company (Zamtel), only three have submitted bids. According to the Times of Zambia the three foreign companies to submit their offers to the Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) for the telco are India’s Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), Unitel of Angola and Libya-based LAP Greencom.
A fourth bid, from a consortium of Russia’s Vimpelcom and the telecoms arm of the Alfa Group, Altimo, was understood to have been sent on time, but reportedly arrived at the ZDA offices five minutes after the submission deadline as a result of ‘logistical reasons’. The bid however was still considered, and the ZDA board confirmed that Altimo’s non-binding offer had been accepted today. The four companies that had been shortlisted but chose not to bid were Telkom South Africa, BSNL’s fellow state-owned Indian telco Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), Portugal Telecom and a consortium of Egypt-based Orascom Telecom and its subsidiary Telecel Globe.
ZDA acting director general, Muhabi Lungu, after opening the bids said the ZDA would now study the offers, while also passing the details on to the board of Zamtel for its evaluation. Mr Lungu has stated that the ZDA will announce which of the companies will move on to the next stage in the sale process on 11 January 2010, where another due diligence would be undertaken before the successful bidder is chosen.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has introduced a new set of interconnection rates for voice and SMS termination with the hope that retail tariffs will be cut by as much as NGN4 (USD4.98) per minute, local newspaper This Day reports.
From 31 December 2009 interconnection rates for mobile voice termination provided by new entrants (defined by the commission as companies which have been operating for less than four years) irrespective of originating network, will be set at NGN10.12. The rates will fall to NGN9.48 on 31 December 2010, NGN8.84 on 31 December 2011 and NGN8.20 on 31 December 2012 (from which date all termination rates will be symmetric).
The NCC hopes the revised interconnection rates will encourage new entrants in the sector to offer services at more affordable rates to subscribers. Operators not defined as new entrants must set a mobile voice termination rate of NGN8.20 from 31 December 2009. Fixed voice termination rates have been set at NGN10.12 from 31 December 2009, NGN9.48 from 31 December 2010, NGN8.84 from 31 December 2011 and NGN8.20 from 31 December 2012.
The SMS termination rate of new entrants will start at NGN1.94 from 31 December 2009 and fall gradually to NGN1.02 from 31 December 2012. Other mobile operators will charge NGN1.02 from the start of 2010.
Interconnect billing solutions provider i-conX Solutions has announced it has successfully deployed its i-conX system to Sudanese fixed line operator Canar Telecommunication Company (Canartel) to rate and bill the operator’s domestic and international interconnect traffic.
Canartel’s CEO, Ali Bin Jarsh, commented: ‘As the Sudanese market becomes more competitive, so the implementation of a modern interconnect billing solution is recognised as a key requirement for Canartel to maintain its leading status. The i-conX solution has been thoroughly tested, and found to provide a capable platform to support the continued growth of our wholesale business.’
Canartel became Sudan's first alternative fixed line operator, after it won the country’s second national operator licence in November 2004 with a bid of EUR45 million (USD64 million). It launched in November 2005 offering voice, data and broadband internet services based on a 3,500km fibre-optic next generation network (NGN), VSAT and wireless in the local loop (WiLL) CDMA technology, with a strong focus on business clients.
Cameroon starts the new year as home to the world's riskiest Internet sites according to cyber-security firm McAfee. The government says it is drafting new laws to punish Internet fraud.
Criminals are taking advantage of Cameroon's Internet suffix ".cm" to trick careless Web surfers who mistype the popular ".com" suffix. By establishing false ".cm" sites that appear similar to the ".com" Web page people thought they were going to, criminals can acquire personal information for identity theft and spread spyware and malicious downloads.
The U.S. cyber security firm McAfee says more than one-third of Web sites hosted in Cameroon are suspicious, putting the West African nation ahead of China, Samoa, the Philippines and the former Soviet Union as the world's riskiest destination for Internet surfers.
But Cameroon's minister of posts and telecommunications, Jean-Pierre Biyiti Bi Essam, says the McAfee study does not reflect everything that is going on in Cameroon.
Biyiti Bi Essam says Cameroon is still at the beginning of its Internet development, and it is at this moment that McAfee is making its judgment. He says President Paul Biya's government has read the report and is responding, first by moving to improve security.
Biyiti Bi Essam says Cameroon is working with South Korea on a project to improve Internet security. He says the study has been completed and action will soon be taken to boost Internet security, electronic commerce, and electronic banking in Cameroon. The minister says the government is also drafting laws against cyber criminality.
Tougher criminal penalties are a big part of solving the problem as McAfee says cyber-criminals target regions that pose the least risk of being caught and where registering sites is cheap and convenient.
Cameroon's government has its own problems with computer hackers as official government sites were crashed several times last year, preventing people from accessing on-line information. Web sites for Cameroonian newspapers have also been hacked, sometimes to place advertisements for the sale of protected species.
McAfee's third annual report on worldwide Internet security says the countries with the safest domains are Japan, Ireland, and Croatia.
The Tunisian telecoms market is to gain additional competition with the entry of France Telecom in early 2010. However, Onda Analytics believes the dynamics of the Tunisian telecoms market could change further, with many parties interested in the 35% stake in Tunisie Télécom held by EIT, a holding company for telecoms investments made by Dubai Holdings. The increasingly competitive environment in Tunisia may prompt EIT to consider listening to offers from operators interested in joining the market. Meanwhile, the other 65% shareholding is owned by the Tunisian government, which this week announced a privatisation drive for 2010.
As a result of the pressure from both France Telecom and existing mobile operator Tunisiana, Tunisie Télécom must pursue measures to defend its current market position. Report lead author, Daniel Jones, says "many MENA operators have experience of defending against strong competition and are looking for attractive acquisition targets. As a result of the benefits this experience could bring to Tunisie Télécom, these parties' valuations may provoke EIT's interest."
Onda Analytic's latest report, assesses this potential investment opportunity, as well as forecasting fixed line, broadband and mobile markets.
The incumbent, Tunisie Télécom, is likely to suffer most from the entry of France Telecom, given that the new entrant will be present in fixed line, broadband and mobile markets. Tunisie Télécom's mobile market share is forecast to decline from 50% in 2009 to 34% by 2018. Its fixed line business is also set to be put under pressure from France Telecom, with Tunisie Télécom's fixed share to fall from a current monopoly position to 77% of fixed lines by 2018.
Tunisian mobile operators generated total mobile revenues of US$1.6 billion in 2009. As a result of relatively high mobile penetration and with tariffs set to fall with the entry of the third mobile operator, total mobile revenue is forecast to grow modestly over the coming years. Fixed line growth is expected to buck the trend of many markets with a forecast increase in lines of 30% to 2018, from 1.4 million in 2009, driven by the adoption of broadband services.
An Egyptian regulator has turned down an appeal by Orascom Telecom against its previous ruling that could allow a France Telecom subsidiary to buy up Egypt's biggest mobile services provider.
The Egyptian Financial Services Authority said in a statement published on Sunday that it has upheld its earlier decision approving an offer by Orange Participations to buy up OT's shares in the Egyptian Company for Mobile Services for 245 Egyptian pounds ($45.40) per share.
The dispute stems from an arbitration court ruling in March in favor of the French company. The Paris-based company holds a 71.25 percent stake in Mobinil. The court authorized it to acquire Orascom's 28.75 percent stake in Mobinil. |
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Alex Hunter is a digital brand and customer loyalty expert who worked as Head of Digital for the Virgin Group. He looks at how companies use digital to project their brand and understand their customers, with the best knowing how to combine delivering in the real world with treating people as individuals online.
One of the founding members of the Virgin America airline team Alex was pivotal in building an online community before such things were commonplace. They were pressed into service urging Congress to give the company the necessary approval in the face of opposition from the established domestic carriers. After the widely praised campaign Alex went on to lead digital strategy for the whole Virgin group, overseeing a rapid expansion of the brand's online strategy, social media and user-driven content, underlining the company’s reputation for customer focus.
Alex now looks at brand and customer loyalty in the digital age and how companies can effectively partner their offers online and offline. He argues that too many organisations view digital as something that will change their business when in fact many of the principles that have made them successful in their field readily apply online. With examples of how companies like BA, Apple and Coca Cola he examines how to build a consistently impressive relationship with customers throughout their contact with a brand, wherever and however that contact takes place.
Alex also looks at how technologies like AI can improve the understanding of customers and help personalise the service businesses offer rather than being a tool of cost cutting. He also delivers examples of exceptional (and exceptionally bad) customer service and how to deal with customers demanding they’re treated as an individual. He also considers the lessons of how brands are perceived very differently in different markets.
An investor in and advisor to start-ups, Alex is also the creator of the online travel show Attaché, delivering an insider’s take on the essential knowledge needed in cities around the world. He’s served as CEO at a digital music company, and is on the Board of Trustees for the non-profit Drinkaware. He has also served as an advisor to the Prince of Wales’ Rainforest Trust, specifically around the use of social media and engagement to propagate the Trusts’ message.
A highly sought-after speaker, Alex has appeared all over the world at industry events such as ad:tech, Future of Web Apps (London, Las Vegas, Dublin, and Miami), Thinking Digital, Marketing 2.0, CIO Connect, iStrategy, Tech4Africa, MARKA, and Internet World. He’s also spoken at events for organisations including Cisco, Deloitte, Infosys, Procter & Gamble, O2, Nationwide, CapitalOne, FedEx and the BBC.
Ziad Hayek is the Secretary General of the Republic of Lebanon’s High Council for Privatization and PPP. He is also Vice Chair of the United Nations Working Party on PPP (Geneva); Executive Director of the U.N.-affiliated International Center of Excellence in PPP for Ports (Beirut); Member of the Board of Trustees of USEK University (Kaslik); Member of the Investment Committee of YMCA World Alliance (Geneva); Member of the Board of Directors of CAT International (Jersey); Chairman of The Alephbet Foundation (Byblos); and Member of the Board of various NGOs on behalf of the Carlos Slim Foundation.
Previously, Mr. Hayek was Member of the Board of Directors of BIT Bank (Beirut), CEO of Lonbridge Associates (London), Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns (New York), Managing Director of Indosuez Capital Latin America / President of Indosuez Mexico (Paris/Mexico), VP of Salomon Brothers (New York), and VP of Citibank (New York), where he headed the bank’s International Securitization Department. He was also Senior Consultant to the Reagan Administration’s Enterprise Program and member of the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Hayek has an MA in International Management from the University of Texas at Dallas and has studied business administration at the University of Houston and at ITESM in Monterrey, Mexico. He is conversant with eleven languages.
CLH Aviación is a company dedicated to providing aviation fuel logistic services to and within airports all over the world. The company is present in the main airports in Spain, Ireland and Panama where it manages more than 6,000 km of jet pipeline, 34 airport storage facilities and additionally carries out hydrant systems operations and into-plane activities within Airports. In 2017, we have managed almost 12.5 million of cubic meters of jet throughput.
As an independent operator, we cover the whole jet fuel logistics asset lifecycle, including: Asset Financing – Engineering – Development – Operation – Maintenance.
CLH Aviación’s solid reputation has been built over the past 90 years based on its continuous effort to improve the quality and cost efficiency of the services we provide. We are an active member of the main international associations of the fuel aviation business.
CLH Aviación is looking to continue accompanying airports in their growth strategy through the development and operation of fuel logistic infrastructure. |
We are the RIAFC Foundation, the charitable arm of the Rhode Island Association of Fire Chiefs. We are raising funds to pay for the construction of the RI Firefighter Memorial, to be located at the RI Fire Academy, Exeter RI.
Rhode Island is one of the only states that does not have a statewide firefighter memorial. It is our goal to have this memorial completed by Summer 2019. Plans are currently being completed and construction is expected to begin during Fall 2018.
We hope for donations from many groups and organizations associated with the fire service in RI. This is a wonderful way for members of the general public, who appreciate the services provided by firefighters, to contribute to a worthwhile cause.
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Ok, I’m upset that today, my son told me he didn’t want to go to the Christmas ceremony, at our City Hall. Well, not that he didn’t want to go, but that he didn’t want to go with, “his mom, and grandma, because it’s dorky!”
“Oh, really? So, you are now at an age, where, it’s dorky, to be seen with your mom and grandma?” “Well yea!” He says, as if I should just know when he’s hit that magic number. He tells me that, “all my friends will be there ,and they won’t be with their parents.” “Why wouldn’t they be?” I ask. “If they’re going by themselves, that’s just to start trouble.”Wow. Now I’m really turning into a stern parent. When I tell him that he can just come with us, and go hang out with his friends, he responds, “My friends wouldn’t just go there to hang out!” Ok, now I’m confused.
I realize that my mom, really can’t get around that well, and thought, she’d just enjoy looking at the lights. But I have to admit, it wasn’t the greatest thing to take her to. I drove up to a good spot in front of the City Hall. But as I went around to retrieve my mom, I saw swarms of teenagers, everywhere. And they were running like they were late for something. You know they sure wouldn’t be doing that for a class! So, I surmised that, they had all their little cliques, and my mom and I had wandered smack, dab into the feeding frenzy. These kids were, standing in mobs..
At one point, as my mom had her ‘death-grip,’ on my arm, a crowd of girls, were standing right in front of us on the sidewalk. We seemed to be invisible, as I said, “Hello!” “Oh,” a girl said, “Sorry.”
I began to think, “where are these kids parents?” When I looked around, I saw some people my age, and they were all kind of hanging together as well.And I could swear, smelled the distinct odor of alcohol, as I walked by many of them. Not the kids, the parent’s.It made me think of the remark one of my friends made, after seeing my son run head-first into a big bunch of sand as soon as we arrived to our hotel. He got up and was covered. “I firmly believe that every mother should have a flask, strapped to her belt.” She said.
I thought, “those are probably the parents, and I can’t say I blame them. I wouldn’t want to hang with my son either. Not when I see these crazy kids, running in packs. I would definitely gravitate to friends my own age. Another sympathetic person, of an aging parent, and a teen. Yes, I can see why the need to bond, with someone in the midst of this madness.
I navigated my mom through the chaotic scene. Each time some kids came running past, I felt her grip my arm, tighter. I just wanted her to see some pretty Christmas decorations. As she’s constantly telling me that, “it doesn’t feel like Christmas, if their isn’t snow.”
Upon returning home, I shared with my son. “Hey, I saw your friends.” “How do you know?” He asked. “Cause, they were all a bunch of punks!” I said. And I started laughing. “You should have seen them. And they weren’t with their parents. They were just hanging out, causing trouble, like I told you. Geesh! They almost knocked your grandma down a few times.”
Now, he said, “Told you!” Ok, I had to concede. He was right. I didn’t want him there. But as he stands over me, it’s hard to let go. Now, he stands on his toes, and he’s towering above me. “Hey, mom. In a few more months, I’m going to be wayyyy, over your head!” As if this is proof of his maturity. Now he picks me up. Oh, doesn’t every boy love to do this to his mom?
I realized, he’s really growing up. I always want to give him kisses, or hugs, and that’s another, no-no, in the general vicinity of his friends. I get it. But I guilt him anyway. Just because that’s a mom’s job. “Hey, we only get just so many kisses and hugs, in our lives, and then it’s done.” But I’m starting to see that this, is losing it’s levity as well. I’ve got to come up with a new game-plan.
Now I’m sitting quietly with my mom. I watch her, and try tothink back to when I stopped, participating in my life with her. When was it, ‘not cool?’ I was pretty young. Actually, about my son’s age. I still remember, her bringing us back from Lake Michigan. We had gone down to the lake-front, on a nice summer day. Now, looking back, it was quite a feat, for my mom, with all of us. And, on a bus.
Yet, when we were at the lake, I heard music playing from down the beach. I wandered off. I came to a place, which would become my favorite hang-out, a few years later. ‘The Site,’ as it was called. Here, a rock band was playing. I still remember,the name; Sigmund Snopek. One of the guys was just flirting with me, and I was so giddy. A teenage girl, with so much attention, from this older guy. And he was a rock star. Well, at least, that’s what it seemed to me.
Well, on the way home, we were standing on a street corner, when we heard loud yelling. We were amazed, to see a guy being tossed out onto the street, from a bar, appropriately named, Hooligan’s.’ Now this is a place, I want to visit. My brother and I both laughed at this, and decided, that it looked like a really fun place to be.
I think of the passage of time, as I watch my mom and the difficulty she has, with just the little things. Then I begin to wonder, if I have any hopes of depending on my son or daughter, when I get like this. I sure hope they store some of this in ‘the archives,’ so when I have just a few marbles, they will remember, “Oh, yea, I remember what mom did, when grandma was losing it.” Then hoping they have the compassion to put some of this into action. But, it’s really a crap shoot.I’ve only got two. And my mom, had a whole bunch, but in the end, just one, to rely on. The odd’s are not in my favor.
Now a commercial comes on. That annoying AFLAC, commercial. It’s a guy, my age,which means, old) trying to rap. With a bunch of stupid, fake,animals. It makes no sense, and my son and I crack up, every time we see it. Who came up with this? Another group of overpaid, ad exec’s with a power-point presentation. And no one had the guts to say, “This sucks.”
The duck used to be bad enough, but now, a rapping menagerie. And the words, are terrible. They don’t have the correct rythym. I said, He says, “There’s just something major medical, doesn’t do.” When it’s perfectly obvious, to anyone writing rap, it should have another word. Like, “There’s something’s, major medical… just doesn’t do.’
It’s irritating enough, just to see a stupid frog on a lilly pad, singing, but this is just beyond, hoaky! But then, maybe that’s the point. I started to think, it’s the last frontier, between my son and I. We both agree it is so ridiculous, so that’s proof, that I’m not that old or dorky.
It is also a moment of bonding between my mother and I, because she’s just as annoyed by this. So, perhaps, this is the really effective part of this commercial. It annoys all kinds of people, of all ages, and it brings us together in agreement.
My son imitates it constantly. Out of the blue, he’ll say, “Hey mom…”there’s just some things, major medical, doesn’t do.” I laugh each time he says, it, because he know’s it is so obnoxious.
So now, I think, there just may be some hope for me. He tell’s me, “Women belong in the kitchen.” He will say things that he knows are ridiculous, just to make me laugh. But knowing that we have a full on agreement on some things, gives me a little glimmer of hope. I entertain it for a minute. “Perhaps, I won’t just be a little old woman with a bunch of cats.” Then I snap back to reality. Better get that AFLAC, in place.
Danger from spent nuclear fuel lingers long after memory of disaster fades • Friends of the Earth - Friends of the Earth
Bob Alvarez serves as a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and as a senior analyst at Friends of the Earth, focusing on nuclear disarmament, the safety risks of nuclear reactors and, in particular, the vulnerability of radioactive spent fuel that is piling up at reactor sites across the U.S.
Last weekend he wrote a piece for Huffington Post about the threats posed by spent reactor fuel pools at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi site in Japan.
Spent nuclear fuel is extraordinarily radioactive and must be handled with great care. In a matter of seconds, an unprotected person one foot away from a single freshly removed spent fuel assembly would receive a lethal dose of radiation within seconds. As one of the most dangerous materials on the planet, spent reactor fuel requires permanent geological isolation to protect humans for thousands of years.
At the Fukushima site, pools of radioactive spent fuel sit, vulnerable to earthquakes, actually posing a greater threat than the molten cores of the reactor ruins that surround them.
The post was based on a presentation he gave at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies earlier in April. |
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Pheasant dishes are appreciated by real gourmets around the world. The meat of this bird was always present on the tables of the royal people of various ruling dynasties. pheasant varied, in this article we picked the best and happily share them with you. It's time to pamper your loved ones with superbly cooked game. What to cook - a gentle roast, roasting pheasant with a crispy crust or something special? How best to cook a pheasant - you decide, we present recipes to choose from. To get started, let's get acquainted with the features of the preparation of the carcass.
Before you get acquainted with the recipes, we will tell you how to properly process the carcass. It is necessary to go through two stages - it is plucking and cutting.
Flap should be made in the direction from the bottom up, and should begin with the abdomen.The easiest way is to remove the down, if you take small areas, pressing the back of your thumb as tightly as possible to the skin of the game. In no case should the bird be scalded. When the flap is complete, you need to process the carcass with the help of fire, and then rinse well under running water so that the smell of burning feathers remains.
When dressing first thing removed the larynx, goiter and esophagus. After that, the carcass is cut to the tail, the remaining entrails are removed. You need to act very carefully, so as not to accidentally damage the intestines and gall bladder.
Many do not like to cook pheasant, because the bird is endowed with a specific smell. Someone, having prepared such meat once, refuses forever the subsequent culinary experiments. The fact is that most novice cooks do not know the subtleties of processing the carcass, in which the unpleasant smell will disappear.
Plucked and cleaned birds should be completely immersed in cold water. Soak the meat should be about twelve hours.Periodically water needs to be changed. You will understand that the meat has survived when the carcass brightens noticeably.
The processing does not end there, after soaking the bird is placed in the refrigerator for three hours, so that the smell will probably dissipate.
Next, we propose to consider the recipes for cooking pheasant. If you did everything right in the first stages, then the cooked game will not leave indifferent any feeder.
The oven is an essential item in the kitchen of any hostess. With this device you can cook a lot of dishes, including delicious bake pheasant. We offer several recipes for cooking in the oven, choose the one that you like best.
Pheasant carcass should be divided into two parts, put them in a deep container and pour kefir. An hour later, the meat goes, rubbed with your favorite spices and salt.
On a sheet for baking, pre-oiled with vegetable oil, you need to put an apple cut into roundels.On top of the apples spread out the bird.
We cut the fat into thin straws, and in the form of a fur coat we coat it on top of the pheasant. Next, you need to cover the baking sheet with a roasting sleeve, make one small hole in it so that the excess steam escapes, but the bird does not dry.
Heat the oven to 180 degrees, send our pheasant to it for two hours. After that, the sleeve must be removed, and the baking is extended for another ten minutes.
How to cook pheasant at home? The recipe that we are about to offer is fairly simple, but cooking takes a lot of time, as the bird will need to be marinated. Having tried the pheasant so cooked once, you simply do not want to deny yourself such pleasure in the future, regardless of the hours of your personal life.
Preparation of pheasant must begin with rubbing the carcass with a mixture of salt and curry. We hold the bird like this for thirty minutes, after which we place it in a deep container and pour it over with wine. Thoroughly dip the carcass from all sides into wine and refrigerate for 24 hours.Turn meat steadily until it marinates evenly.
After the day, the carcass must be removed from the marinade, blotted with a paper napkin. Throughout the bird we evenly distribute thin pieces of bacon, and in order to hold them, we fix them with toothpicks.
Prepared carcass should be placed in a sleeve for baking, put on a baking sheet and sent to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. After 40 minutes, the sleeve will need to be cut, and the meat left to bake for another half an hour.
Today we are learning how to cook pheasant dishes. Cooking pheasant should be varied, do not just bake it. The roast of this bird is just amazing. Let's see what we need:
The bird should be cut into portions, fried in vegetable oil in a roast until a beautiful golden crust appears.
In a roaster, in oil, what's left of pheasant frying, fry coarsely chopped mushrooms and onions, then spread the mixture into pieces of poultry.
How to cook pheasant at home? The recipe, which we will now offer, the restaurant level, but you can handle the cooking. This delicious dish is suitable for a dinner party, will please even the most fastidious guests.
During the entire roasting time, the bird must be poured on top of the resulting juice.Every half an hour we turn over the carcass.
The recipe for stewed pheasant hunting is simple, like all the above, you should start cooking it by rubbing it with salt and pepper. Next, cut the fat in thin pieces, lining the bird from all sides, tied with thread.
Add vegetable oil to the pan, fry the carcass from all sides until golden skin appears. After that, transfer the bird to the extinguishing tank, pour the broth and wine, bring to a boil and reduce the fire.
In butter, in which the pheasant was fried, it is necessary to fry finely chopped mushrooms and onions. When the mixture is almost ready, add the butter and fry until the end.
Put the prepared poultry on the dish, and in the remaining broth, add sour cream, salt and starch. Bring to a boil, mix with fried mushrooms and onions.
When serving the pheasant to the table, you can pour it with sauce at once, or you can pour it into a separate container so that guests independently put it on their taste.
This dish will be appreciated by real gourmets. It is very juicy, aromatic, and the taste of pheasant meat is rather interestingly combined with sweet-sour lingonberry jam.
Fillets must be cleaned of tendons and excess fat, repelled through food wrap. Salt the pieces, dip each in the mixed eggs, then - in the breading, fry well in butter until crisp.
Peel potatoes, grate on a coarse grater or chop into small strips, drain the juice. Fry in vegetable oil, then spread on the finished pheasant slices.
You do not need to water the dish with jam; it is put in a separate cup or on the edge of the plate when serving.
Fat and fillets need to be cut into small pieces, salt and pepper, give a little soak. After that, we take the skewers, string them on the filet fillet, bacon, round onion and pepper.
"Kebabs" need to be well fried on both sides in hot oil. When the crust roasts, lay out on plates. Before serving, the meat is poured with brandy and set on fire.
If there is a skeleton from a bird, then do not rush to throw it away, it will fit perfectly to make a delicious soup.
You are thinking about how to cook a pheasant at home? The recipe, proposed by us, you just love. This original cooking of pilaf has already been loved by many. The unique taste of game in combination with rice will surprise.
Pheasant must be cut into small pieces, fry in vegetable oil in a cauldron. Next, add carrots cut on roundels, onion in half rings, fry for a few minutes, until the vegetables get a golden hue. Add tomato paste, salt and spices, fry a little, add flour, add water so that it covers the meat.
You can boil rice and separately, but not like porridge. After readiness, the rice must be washed to remove extra starch, and it becomes crumbly. Next, you need to mix it with stewed pheasant and sauce.
You can vary the preparation of pheasant. At home, you can cook a real royal schnitzel - juicy inside, ruddy and crispy outside. Poultry schnitzels will suit absolutely any side dish: mashed potatoes, rice, buckwheat, stewed and fresh vegetables, pasta.
Poultry meat, onions and bacon need to twist through a meat grinder, it is advisable to install a large grill. Mince salt and pepper to your taste, add an egg, mix well.
Form schnitzels, roll in breadcrumbs and put in hot oil, pat a little on top to get slightly flattened. It is necessary to fry under the lid, on both sides, until a crispy golden brown crust appears.
Put the finished schnitzels on a paper towel so that it absorbs the excess oil. Then you can submit to the table just like that, or decorated with fresh herbs and sour cream.
Grilled food has a low fat content, unique taste, especially if cooked on fragrant charcoal. But also the pheasant cooked in an oven on a grill will be quite tasty. To meat was not dry, we need a lot of fat. Do not worry, all the excess fat will drain, making the meat tender and tasty. To prepare, take:
In vegetable oil, fry onions. Stuff the pheasant carcass with this onion and put some fat on it, sew up. Put on a skewer, top it with thin pieces of fat, fasten with toothpicks.
Cooking is necessary until a ruddy crust appears.Someone likes pozazharistey, someone needs to blush was only slightly. The bird is served on the table as a whole, and before that it is necessary to open the belly and pull out the onions, the remnants of bacon.
Now you know how to cook a pheasant at home. The recipes offered by us are quite simple, even the beginning cook will cope with the preparation. Experiment with side dishes, because with each taste will play differently. |
Instead of stopping them, the majority of us commit treason against our health by aiding and abetting cancer. While we’re at it, we also subject our children and grandchildren to a similar fate.
In April 2018, Medical News Today reported that cancer cells survive and thrive by drawing energy from your cells and tissues, exploiting your circulatory system networks, and foiling your immune system.1
In other words, they need an intelligent plan to sustain growth and become integrated into the body.
If they have the ability to implement such a plan, it’s in your best interest to understand what their plan is and then outsmart them.
A few researchers are finally focused on something besides just attacking cancer cells. They’re studying the systems that aid cancer proliferation.
Looking into this, they’ve added something new to previous evidence that obesity is a big risk factor for cancer.
A patient’s weight can indicate how aggressive their cancer is likely to be. And it also makes cancer harder to diagnose in ways hardly anyone considers.
Layers of fat make it harder to detect tumors by feel. Also, many obese people need special accommodations, like larger exam tables and imaging machines. So they may avoid screening or shun it because it costs too much.
Scientists aren’t sure precisely how obesity and cancer are linked. They’re trying to unravel the signaling pathways that control communication between tumors and fat cells.
They believe that fat cells provide energy cancer needs to survive and grow. Without that, cancer cells shrivel up and die.
Long-time readers of this newsletter know that cancer cells take up massive amounts of glucose (blood sugar) from the blood, much more than healthy cells. Taking it one step further, sugar may also drive fat creation… then fat drives cancer proliferation.
Still, this p62 problem is rare. It’s not the smoking gun telling us why obesity is linked to cancer. So what is? It’s complicated, but we know for one thing that obesity increases inflammation, and inflammation is a huge factor in cancer.
Obesity rates are rising worldwide, baffling researchers. Risk factors are complex. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Multiple factors can play off each other, too. Obesity is more complex than just eating more calories than you burn. That’s why it’s so frustrating.
Still, for the sake of your independence, your health, and your children’s future, it’s important to get a handle on it and not just resign yourself to the extra pounds.
Your body mass index (BMI), a percentage measurement of your body fat, is a good screening tool to assess your risk of all chronic diseases, not just cancer.
For adults, a BMI of 20 to 24.9 is ideal… over 25 is overweight… over 30 is obese… and over 40 is morbidly obese.
A waist measurement of greater than 40 inches for men and 35 inches for women also predisposes you to disease.
Are genes much of a factor in obesity? People like to invoke genes as the reason for a whole range of health problems, and that includes being overweight. Let’s take a look at the facts. . .
Studies show that a bent towards obesity actually is genetic. Genes affect where and how you store extra flab. But it’s more than just genes behind today’s obesity crisis. After all, parents pass on behaviors, not just genes.
Even if we stick strictly to genetics, it’s not just one gene causing trouble. Many genes carry small risks that contribute to weight. Together they add up – especially if lifestyle factors fail to compensate.
Your weight also directly influences your children’s health — especially for large babies born to obese mothers. The offspring develop longer bones and larger heads in the womb, visible on ultrasound as early as 21 weeks into pregnancy.
This in utero environment causes permanent changes to the child’s genetic code and can show up as impaired insulin sensitivity and other health problems throughout the child’s life. We now know that genes aren’t your fate, because lifestyle factors — and simply stuff in our environment like chemical pollution — can turn genes off and on, in a process called gene expression or epigenetics.
As I said, a lot of factors enter into weight gain. Metabolic and hormone signaling vary among people.
Medications can trigger weight gain, notably corticosteroids, antidepressants, and anti-seizure meds.
So is the bad habit of depriving yourself of the seven to eight hours of sleep you need every night.
Of course, you know a sedentary lifestyle adds more pounds. And it can turn into a downward spiral if your joints cry out in pain as you make them carry more pounds every year, causing you to move around even less.
Thankfully, there are ways to start losing weight today, reduce pain and inflammation, and deprive cancer cells of some of their energy. . .
What’s your reason for living? If it’s too small, you’ll give up when the going gets tough. When I don’t feel like exercising, I remind myself of all the things I want to do before I’m six feet under. It’s a long list. And it won’t happen if I don’t stay in shape. I also remind myself of how terrible I feel when I’m sick (and I was sick for many decades before I fixed my bad habits. I don’t want to go there again.)
Some calories are a recipe for disaster. Corn syrup (which is also likely to be genetically modified) bypasses your normal digestive system and goes straight to your waistline. Even zero-calorie drinks trick your body and pack on the pounds.
Piggybacking on #2, don’t drink your calories. Even “healthy” fruit juices are loaded to the gills with sugar and lack the whole food fiber that aids weight loss.
Ditch apple, orange, and other “healthy” juices, eat the whole fruit instead. Avoid beer, wine, and liquor.
Experts say it takes 21 days to develop a new habit. Carbohydrates add little nutrition and stick to your waistline like glue, so avoid them for a month to reset your taste buds. You might never go back. While whole organic fruit is healthy in moderation, avoid it for this 30-day period to wean yourself off sweetness.
Become a label reader. Many “healthy” foods like yogurt are loaded with sugars. Choose plain Greek yogurt and add a few berries.
Start slow, but start! Take a short walk, make it a little longer each week. Rejoice over small gains in movement and small losses of weight. Keep the faith… it’ll pay off. You didn’t gain it in one day.
If your metabolism runs at a snail’s pace, do a five or ten-minute walk (the brisker the better) early in the morning to jump-start your day’s calorie burn.
While health advisors tends to focus on aerobic exercise, don’t overlook strength training. It’s a proven insulin regulator, which aids weight loss.
Insulin resistance is akin to weight loss resistance. If insulin is out of control your weight will be, too.
Switch to whole unpackaged foods, and add these nutrients to reset your blood sugar so you can finally shed pounds. . .
Probiotics.Overweight people tend to have different gut bacteria than normal weight people. Probiotics help obese women achieve sustainable weight loss… especially Lactobacillus rhamnosus (LPR). Take probiotics that contain at least 50 billion units from at least ten different strains of bacteria.
Olive leaf extract.This substance offers great health benefits. Helps regulate blood glucose levels. Signals your body to burn flab, not store it.
Vitamin D.Regulates fat metabolism. Get a few minutes of sun each day (but not enough to burn) and take a supplement in winter.
In one study of 116 diabetic patients 1 gram of berberine per day lowered fasting blood sugar by 20 percent… and also lowered hemoglobin A1C by 12 percent.2
This herbal supplement works especially well when you combine it with lifestyle modifications such as reduced sugar intake and exercise.
If your fasting blood glucose is above 90, or if you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes or fatty liver disease, berberine might help. According to some sources, you may need up to 2,000 mg per day (split doses) for at least three months to drive weight loss and stabilize insulin resistance. That’s a big dose.
I haven’t tried berberine myself, but I would advise starting with small doses and working up gradually. And it’s always better to select your supplements with a natural doctor’s help. If you’re going to take supplements to reduce blood sugar, you need to monitor it – especially if you ALREADY take blood sugar medications.
Berberine seems to be well tolerated, but stop taking it for a while if you suffer from loose stools, cramping, bloating, or stool changes.
Since insulin resistance drives weight gain and many diseases (including cancer), anything that helps regulate blood sugar has life-changing potential.
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I use gmail contacts and synced them with the Droid (A855). The problem is that some contacts show up with their given and family names reversed on the Droid. For example, in my gmail contacts list I have listed "Doe, Jane." On my Droid, even after a sync, it shows up as "Jane Doe." Most curious is that this only happens for a few names (3)! Everyone else shows up exactly as I listed them on my gmail contacts. I researched this and ruled out a few things.
I added a "Test, First" contact to gmail, synced on droid, it shows up the same way on the Droid. So, the sync is working.
I deleted all my contacts from the Droid and started a fresh sync with gmail. Same names were reversed.
I considered whether the order of someone's name on facebook was affecting the Droid contacts listing, but it does not happen to all the facebook names.
I went to Contacts, Menu, Display Options and checked to make sure that my gmail contacts were checked to display all names and that facebook account ones were not. No change.
Any one else run into this or have any ideas? I know I can search on the names for a short solution and it doesn't really matter what the order is, but (1) I like consistency and want the same list on the Droid as on gmail and (2)I want to know if this is an indicator of a bigger issue.
What you can do is go to google contacts on a desktop. ....export it as a csv. Open in Excel. Make edits the way you want for the whole database. You'll need to make sure that there are no commas and that all names are in the right fields.
I vaguely remember an issue with the google database NOT identifying the comma as a separator between names.....but rather fills 'Doe, Jane' as given name....or something similiar.
I had a rather complicated database coming from a RAZR before....but do this. Then import that csv back into google contacts.
I had this happen to me when my Verizon rep initially got my contacts off of my Palm Treo and put them into my Droid. Turns out I had MULTIPLE instances of the same name for some contacts, which got filed under one or the other. When I went to JANE DOE and scrolled down on her contact info, I also found DOE, JANE on the same "page" with the same phone number, address, etc.
I solved it by using the "SEPARATE" (I think that's what it was called) option from the menu, which then turned them into two separate contacts, and deleting the inconsistent one.
What you can do is go to google contacts on a desktop. ....export it as a csv. Open in Excel. Make edits the way you want for the whole database.
Werd! Excel is such a great tool to manage your Contacts. (For those that can't afford MS Office, download and install Open Office, ... their version of Excel is called "Calc".)
(G), I don't think I have more than one page. I had already gone through and merged the different pages. Also, I can't find the "SEPARATE" or similar function to test it.
Magnus, I exported the gmail contacts to an excel file and the contacts are a mess. Most of the last names were listed under the column "First Name" and some first names under the last column or middle column, etc . . . I am not great at Excel so not sure what I did wrong. I exported as csv.
I think it only shows up if you have two contacts on one "page" because the system has merged them. For example, I had a Pat Smith and a Smith, Patty as two different entries, both with the same phone number. Android was "smart" enough to merge them. At that point, under "SETTINGS" there was an option to "separate contacts," which I did, and it gave me two different file entries, and that's when I deleted one.
I have had my HTC heroe for 24 hours, love it. One question so far. If i am connected to a wi-fi network, for example, my home network. Does this count towards my data use with Orange?
There is a great app on the marketplace called 3G Watchdog, it'll show you how much data you're using when away from your Wifi. You'll be surprised how little you use.
I have only had my Hero on for 1 hr and used 1.25M of GPRS data usage even with Wi fi connected. I have been told by tech services at BT that some apps will only use GPRS even if wi fi is available. Not sure which ones though. Anybody any ideas ?
I think any that use location determination when GPS is switched off, but 1.25 mb in 1 hour seems a lot for that.
No my mobile data was not switched off at the time it never is. I am using network Monitor and at 13:36 I have now used 3.13MB og GPRS usage and 1.90MB of Wi-fi for today .I am also running "JKAppswitch" and am currently running Phone,messages and settings only so where is the usage ? something is very hungry !!!!
I started to download a few items and immediately got warning alert text from 3 about data usage....ooops.
I never had a shortcut to access my3 on N96 but was available on my Hero which I tried the next day.
Your last comment about switching off mobile data.......I had just got the phone and did not occur to me to switch it off.....however I did when I got two warning texts.
This is not physically possible. They cant tell how much wifi youve been using any more than they can tell how much TV youve watched this week. |
New Jerusalem United Church of Christ and the Western North Carolina UCC Association observed the 50th anniversary of the ordination into the Christian ministry of the Rev. Jimmy J. Norred at the 11 a.m. service Sunday.
The Rev. Jerry Rhyne, minister for church affairs, WNC UCC Association, preached and recognized the 50th anniversary with a plaque for Norred. The church provided a meal and fellowship time in the fellowship hall.
Norred has served churches in Alabama, Florida and North Carolina for 51 years. He is married to Nora Hawkins Norred, who is a retired school teacher. They have two children — Joseph Norred and wife Sara and Jen Norred Fountain and husband Rob. They have four grandchildren — Aubrey Norred, Arely Norred, Avery Fountain and Jack Fountain.
A report issued Wednesday (August 3) by the US Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration reveals that women in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) remain vastly underrepresented compared to men even though they make up nearly half of the available college-educated workforce.
The key to improving the country’s technologies, job market, and competitiveness with other nations depends on the ability to tap into the pool of STEM degree-holding women, according to the report. However, despite increasing efforts to recruit women into STEM fields, only 25 percent of STEM jobs are held by women—the same percentage as 10 years ago—and only a third of STEM degree-holders are women, suggesting that women are less attracted to these fields than men.
Furthermore, the study reports that women earn 14 percent less than men in STEM jobs. While this may seem like a big difference, the disparity for non-STEM jobs is even greater, with women making 21 percent less than men. “One might think that the smaller [salary] gap might actually draw women into STEM jobs,” Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank told ScienceInsider. “So it adds to the puzzle of what is it that we are doing inside our schools and our families that makes STEM jobs seemingly less attractive to girls."
One possibility is that many more women than men who hold STEM degrees enter the fields of healthcare and education, which were not counted as STEM jobs in this study. Other possible explanations include “a lack of female role models, gender stereotyping, and less family-friendly flexibility in the STEM fields,” the authors write.
The standard gauge railway has been a lot in the news recently. On the one hand, we have the governing Jubilee Party pointing to it as one of the key proofs that the Uhuru Kenyatta government has delivered on its promises.
And, on the other, we have the opposition NASA, alleging that it is the greatest proof yet of the rampant corruption that has marked the Kenyatta government.
An incident in May this year suggested there may be something to what NASA alleges: A senior official of the National Lands Commission was found to have no less than Sh17 million in cash in his house, when the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission made a raid. This sum is regarded as the mere tip of the iceberg, in an investigation into the “skewed compensation of land for the SGR”.
Now let’s go back to the years when “the original railway” – the Kenya-Uganda Railway built between 1896 and 1903 – and consider this question: Do you think there was much fuss over compensation for the people whose land was taken to make way for that rail?
Far from being compensated, the indigenous communities whose lands lay on the path taken for the railway could look forward to violent evictions, and vicious counter-attacks if they interfered with the building of the railway.
Two such examples are recorded in Wikipedia: “…Building the railway met local resistance on various occasions. A major incident was the Kedong Massacre, when the Maasai attacked a railway workers’ caravan killing around 500 people...At the turn of the 20th Century, the railway construction was disturbed by the resistance by the Nandi people led by Koitalel arap Samoei. He was killed in 1905 by Richard Meinertzhagen, finally ending the Nandi resistance…” Such then were the methods used to clear the way for progress: All the way to Uganda.
It is tempting to put a racial interpretation on the use of force to dispossess the locals of their land. But it was not just the colonial soldiers who used force in the pursuit of their interests. Kenyan indigenous tribal communities were just as vicious in their dealings with each other. And this is something we don’t even have to consult the history books to know.
Ever since the long drought started last year, there have been regular reports of vicious fighting in Northern Kenya, primarily involving the Pokot and the Turkana. And this was in continuation of a long history of cattle-raiding, attacks and counter-attacks over rights to pasture and watering points, which go back to a time well before the lunatic railway was conceived, much less built.
Respect for property rights were not a strong feature of pre-colonial Kenya, and the reason that the colonial soldiers usually won their engagements with indigenous communities was that they had modern guns, while “our ancestors” had mostly spears, bows and arrows.
Even now, in a confrontation between the Turkana and the Pokot, the outcome is likely to hinge on the question of who has the newest rifles. No question at all of respecting property rights.
But although many of the nomadic pastoralist communities of Northern Kenya still choose to live the same way they did 100 years ago, according to an essay posted on the website of Gamewatchers, a Kenyan tour company: “There is now a growing realisation that the traditional nomadic pastoralism of the early 1900s, over a hundred years ago, when small numbers of people moved around the sparsely populated landscape seeking grazing for their livestock alongside the herds of wild herbivores, can no longer continue in the modern day and age, when there are 20 times the number of people living there...”
But even that is not the whole story. For not only is there now a larger population within the regions where the nomadic communities once roamed freely, but there is also the recent development of unpredictable weather patterns and increasing frequency of drought.
Next week, I will consider possible solutions to this crisis, and why it is not receiving the same attention as other regional priorities in this election year.
Hidden down a maze of lanes in peaceful countryside between Basingstoke and Newbury is the stylish ‘Welly’, once used as a hunting lodge by the Duke of Wellington. Inside are wooden tables, tiled floors and attractively patterned curtains and blinds. Since arriving here over a decade ago, Jason King and Simon Page have never looked back. Their ethos is simple: local, well-priced and delicious food. Jason’s award-winning, daily chalkboard menus offer plenty of interest and imagination and much of the produce is organic and local or home grown, since they are dedicated to keeping down the food miles. Salad leaves, herbs and vegetables are grown in the pub’s polytunnel and raised vegetable beds, free-range eggs come from their rare-breed and rescue hens, and there are also pedigree Jacob sheep, Tamworth pigs and five beehives. The dining room is rather small so booking is certainly advisable. The well-tended garden acts as an extension for diners when the sun shines; if the weather is on the chilly side, ask to borrow a warm mohair rug.
From A4, east of Newbury, through Aldermaston. At 2nd roundabout 2nd exit signed Baughurst, left at T-junction, pub 1 mile |
The 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' star and her 27-year-old boyfriend welcomed daughter Stormi into the world in February, but they don't have a conventional family unit as she shares her Hidden Hills home with best friend Jordyn Woods and the rapper has a house nearby.
She said: "I test out most of my stuff on Jordyn because we live together, So I'm like, 'Jordyn, I need you.' Everyone that comes in my house has tinted red arms from swatches and shadows."
Her comments come a few months after it was reported that 20-year-old Kylie didn't "officially" live with Travis.
Meanwhile, Kylie recently admitted preparations are already underway for her daughter's first birthday party.
The 'Life of Kylie' star was planning to do a "super magical unicorn theme" for her little girl, but she's been forced to scrap that idea because her nieces North, five, and Penelope, who turns six in July, used that for their joint party earlier this month.
Plaatjies will be making her debut with Cape Town Opera as the legendary jazz singer, Dolly Rathebe in ‘The Mandela Trilogy’. Supplied picture.
This year Edith Plaatjies won a Fleur du Cap Theatre Award for her stand-out performance as Joyce, the shebeen queen, in the second season of the Fugard Theatre’s re-imagining of the heritage hit musical, ‘King Kong’. Plaatjies will be making her debut with Cape Town Opera as the legendary jazz singer, Dolly Rathebe in ‘The Mandela Trilogy’.
There are two performances only of this production which has been touring South Africa and overseas since its debut at Artscape in 2010 as The African Songbook: A Tribute to the Life of Nelson Mandela.
The stage play was conceived as a tribute on Madiba’s 92nd birthday and to be a showcase event during the World Cup, tracking his life - in three acts - through music and portraying his key relationships.
After the 2010 staging, the show was re-named and developed further as The Mandela Trilogy. The show has captivated audiences locally and on tours in Wales, Germany, Italy, England and Ireland.
Plaatjies, 32, says she is thrilled to be part of the 2018 edition of Mandela Trilogy. This staging is a tribute to the centenary of the birth of this extraordinary man on July 18.
We asked her about taking on the role of Dolly Rathebe - the IT gal of the 1940s and 50s. Rathebewas a singer in Sophiatown and acted in seminal films including Mapantsula, Jim Comes To Joburg and Magic Garden. She had the jazzy voice and the style - fans followed her story in Drum magazine (she was a frequent cover girl). In between it all, she was having an affair with Nelson Mandela - with his first wife Evelyn and wife-to-be maWinnie in the wings.
Can you talk about how you have gone about bringing the sassy, feisty Dolly Rathebe to life? You would think that having played a shebeen queen before, this would come easily, but no. Dolly is a strong woman who wants the heart of a man whose focus is to bring change and equality to all races in South Africa.
How would she get him to give her all of him? I think she would use her looks, her jazzy voice and her dominant personality, which could perhaps be a problem for her. Dolly’s confidence was so strong. I have done some research on her and this woman knew exactly what she wanted in life and was never afraid to speak her mind.
Madiba and Dolly managed to keep their dalliance largely under wraps, since there was no Twitter or Instagram. Tell us more about their relationship? Dolly’s relationship with Mandela was not widely spoken of but in an interview she did mention that they were extremely close I think she knew her place and was aware of Evelyn, the first wife, and maWinnie, the wife to be. Knowing she was the mistress, Dolly still had grace about the situation. I think all she tried to do was let Mandela see that she was there, available to be his one and only.
Did you get involved with the Mandela Trilogy after winning your Fleur du Cap award? I auditioned before I got the Fleur du Cap. This year has been full of surprises. To this day I’m still shaken when I look at my award. Being nominated for the Fleur alone was a big deal for me. Winning was something else -something amazing. To have been in the category with all those beautiful, talented women was absolutely humbling.
While the Drakensberg may be the highest mountain range in Southern Africa, enjoying its many “khulus”, doesn’t mean you have to feel like you’re filming the latest episode of Bear Grylls.
“The Drakensberg is home to some amazingly scenic and challenging hiking routes, but there are many easy hikes for those wanting a taste of the outdoors, without breaking too much of a sweat,” says Glen Hadden, Reservations Manager at Little Switzerland, a resort in the Northern Drakensberg under the Dream Hotels and Resorts’ portfolio.
“Whether you’re an intrepid explorer, an incurable romantic or an exhausted businessman, here in the Drakensberg, you can take your holiday at your own pace, even if it means using your afternoon to lounge out by the pool, enjoying the views of the Amphitheatre.”
If you’re up for stretching your legs on one of the area’s tamer hikes, here are five recommendations from Jonathan Newman, who has logged over 6000km in the Drakensberg and currently heads up the hiking portfolio for the Mountain Club of South Africa’s KZN Section:
Originally referred to as Garden Castle, before its name was changed by map makers just over 100 years ago, Giant’s Castle is a hiker's paradise with trails ranging from 3km to several days. This particular route to the main caves is an easy walk, but you will have to be accompanied by a guide from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife to do it, as it includes a visit to a rock art site. With over 6000 different cave paintings, the Drakensberg is the world's largest outdoor art exhibition.
In the past, this cave was occupied by the San, as well as refugees from the time of Shaka Zulu. You can start this walk from The Cavern on the road leading into the Royal Natal National Park, following a well-marked trail to an impressive cave that overlooks the valley. A 5km Cannibals Cave parkrun also takes place here at 8:00am every Saturday and starts near the craft shop on the way in.
Starting from the Royal Natal National Park's hikers parking near the reception area, follow the Tugela River towards the base of Tugela Falls (the second highest waterfall in the world). Expect breathtaking views, a clearly demarcated trail and a combination of terrain, 7km each way. Be sure to pack a picnic, and to make a few stops along the way, but be careful of baboons who might try their luck for a quick snack.
The Sentinel Peak is one of the icons of the northern section of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park, standing guard at the western end of the Amphitheatre. Starting from the Sentinel Car Park, follow the trail as it zig-zags up the mighty Sentinel and traverses around Beacon Buttress. This 12km hiking route is the easiest to the top of the Drakensberg. The top of Tugela Falls can be reached from here.
The Giants Cup Trail is a great beginner’s route for slackpackers wanting an extended hike and don’t mind extra preparation. Starting on the Sani Pass road, this five-day hutted trail traverses the valleys and ridges of the Southern KZN Drakensberg for a total of 60km. Every day includes at least one nearby rock pool, perfect if you’re hiking on a hot summer's day. |
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Phony intelligence was created and fed into the news chain with a view to justifying the invasion of Iraq.
The balance-sheet of lies and fabricated intelligence presented in this selection of articles provides detailed and overwhelming evidence.
We have included news reports dating back to 2002, background analysis, commentary, leaked intelligence documents and transcripts, secret memos and the reports by weapons inspectors.
The collection which is intended to provide key references, also addresses a number of important issues, which have been shoved under the carpet, including the circumstances of David Kelly's death, plagiarism in the drafting of intelligence documents, the fabricated biochemical terror threats, etc.
The implications are far-reaching: those in high office who ordered "the intelligence and facts [to be] fixed around the policy" are responsible for war crimes under national and international law.
Despite the public outcry, particularly in Britain, there has been no visible shift in the war and national security agendas. Quite the opposite: both President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have been re-elected to high office under the stamp of parliamentary democracy. The war agenda has remained unscathed, with more than 400 billion dollars allocated in the US to defense. Moreover, the United Nations is directly collaborating with the US-led occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, in blatant violation of its own charter.
In fact, most of the major political actors, behind the fake intelligence dossier, including George W. Bush, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Tony Blair, Jack Straw, John Negroponte, Condoleeza Rice, etc. are still in high office.
We are at a critical juncture in our history. Duly elected war criminals legitimately occupy positions of authority which enable them to decide "who are the criminals", when in fact they are the criminals.
It also provides them with a mandate to redefine the contours of the judicial system and the process of law enforcement under the guise of Homeland Security.
In other words, what we are dealing with is the criminalization of the State and its various institutions including the criminalization of Justice.
The truth is twisted and turned upside down. State propaganda builds a consensus within the Executive, the US Congress and the Military. This consensus is then ratified by the Judicial, through a process of outright legal manipulation.
The evidence detailed in this collection of articles and documents would be sufficient to put the war criminals behind bars.
Yet in the eyes of a large section of US public opinion, the issue of fake intelligence is casually dismissed: "it was all for a good cause", which consisted in fighting the "war on terrorism" and ensuring the security of Americans.
Acts of war are heralded as "humanitarian interventions". Military occupation and the killing of civilians are presented as "peace-keeping". In the US, a de facto consensus in favor of war crimes permeates the US Congress and the Judicial. The consensus is also endorsed by the corporate establishment.
In turn, supported by the mainstream media, war crimes are no longer recognized as such. They have been re-categorized as a means to fighting "evil terrorists" in what is described as a "clash of civilizations". Western public opinion has thus become accustomed to dismissing the lies and war crimes as inconsequential.
War criminals occupy positions of authority. The citizenry is galvanized into supporting the rulers, who are "committed to their safety and well-being".
War is given a humanitarian mandate. Media disinformation has instilled within the consciousness of Americans, that somehow the lies are acceptable and that the issue of phony intelligence regarding WMD can be disregarded.
The use of torture, the existence of concentration camps, extra judicial assassinations, all of which are happening, are no longer being concealed. Quite the opposite they are presented as "acceptable" and perfectly "legit" in the context of an effective war on "Islamic terrorists".
Under these circumstances, war criminals in high office within the State and the Military no longer need to camouflage their crimes.
Realities are turned upside down. The derogation of civil liberties in the context of the so-called "anti-terrorist legislation" is portrayed as a means to providing "domestic security" and upholding civil liberties.
And underlying these manipulated realties, "Osama bin Laden" and "Weapons of Mass Destruction" statements, which continue to circulate profusely in the news chain, are upheld as the basis for an understanding of World events.
In other words, the legitimacy of the war criminals is no longer questioned. A sense of righteousness prevails.
America's global war agenda is firmly established, beyond the premises of the pre-emptive war doctrine as a means to spreading democracy and the "free market".
In March 2005, the Pentagon released a major document, entitled "The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America" which broadly sketches Washington's agenda for global military domination. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2005/d20050318nds2.pdf
While the NDS follows in the footsteps of the administration's "preemptive" war doctrine as outlined in the Project of the New American Century (PNAC), it goes much further in setting the contours of Washington's global military agenda.
Whereas the preemptive war doctrine envisages military action as a means of "self defense" against countries categorized as "hostile" to the US, the new Pentagon doctrine has gone one step further. It now envisages the possibility of military intervention against countries, which do not visibly constitute a threat to the security of the American homeland.
It calls for a more "proactive" approach to warfare, beyond the weaker notion of "preemptive" and "defensive" actions, where military operations are launched against a "declared enemy" with a view to "preserving the peace" and "defending America". The document explicitly acknowledges America's global military mandate, beyond regional war theaters. This mandate also includes military operations directed against so-called "failed states" or "unstable nations", which are not hostile to the US. Needless to say, that in the case of an unstable nation, fake intelligence on WMD will no longer be required to demonstrate that a country constitutes a threat. A military operation can be launched if the country is categorized by Washington as an "unstable nation". And already, a list of 25 unstable nations or failed states has been drawn up by the newly created Office of Reconstruction and Stabilisation .
The 2005 National Defense Strategy (NDS) consists in "enhancing U.S. influence around the world", through increased troop deployments and a massive buildup of America's advanced weapons systems. From a broad military and foreign policy perspective, it constitutes an imperial design, which supports US corporate interests worldwide.
The [revelation of the] existence of fake intelligence to justify US-UK war plans has not weakened the war agenda. Nor does it ensure that disinformation will not used by politicians to justify the next phase of the war.
In fact, fake intelligence has already been created and fed into the news chain to justify the bombing of Iran which is slated to be implemented as a joint US-Israeli operation.
Meanwhile, in the US, Britain and Canada, the Homeland Security apparatus is being further developed, leading to the militarisation of civilian institutions and the derogation of Constitutional government.
The Bush Administration has embarked upon a military adventure which threatens the future of humanity.
Iran is the next military target. The planned military operation, which is by no means limited to punitive strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities, is part of a project of World domination, a military roadmap, launched at the end of the Cold War.
Military action against Iran would directly involve Israel's participation, which in turn is likely to trigger a broader war throughout the Middle East, not to mention an implosion in the Palestinian occupied territories. Turkey is closely associated with the proposed aerial attacks.
High ranking officials of the Bush administration, members of the military and the US Congress have been granted the authority to uphold an illegal war agenda.
One can therefore expect that war criminals in high office will repress any form of dissent which questions the legitimacy of the war in Iraq and/or its extension into Iran. In this regard, the anti-terrorist legislation is eventually intended to be used in a cohesive way against the anti-war and civil rights movements.
It is not sufficient to unseat elected politicians and elect a new government. Those in the seat of political authority are instruments, they are power brokers, on behalf of the oil companies, the military industrial complex and the Wall Street financial establishment, which ultimately call the shots on US foreign policy.
Antiwar sentiment does not dismantle a war agenda. What is required is a grass roots network, a mass movement at national and international levels, which challenges not only the legitimacy of the main military and political actors, but the broad structures of the New World Order.
To reverse the tide of war, military bases must be closed down, the war machine (namely the production of advanced weapons systems) must be stopped and the burgeoning police state must be dismantled.
The corporate sponsors of war and war crimes must also be targeted including the oil companies, the defense contractors, the financial institutions and the corporate media, which has become an integral part of the war propaganda machine.
The remainder of the article consists of an annotated list of numerous articles on the Global Research website, under the following headings:
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The world is a big place and there are a lot of places to study away from what you might normally consider. Top of the list of places to go has to be China, however. It is simply one of the most interesting, dynamic and different places you’re going to find in this world as somebody raised in a western culture.
And as different cultures allow us to learn new ways of thinking, doing and being, that’s nothing to be sneezed at. Here are some of the best reasons to choose China from all the choices available.
As the world economy changes and ever more gets produced and consumed in Asia, the world’s economic point of gravity is shifting eastwards. By 2025 it will be somewhere in Russia. And after that the shift eastwards will continue till finally it should come to rest somewhere over India or even further east.
And so, by going to study in China you’re going to put yourself where the economic opportunities are going to come knocking. That means that by signing up to study over there you’re not just getting an education. You’re also making sure you’re in a position to take advantage of the economic opportunities out there.
Not only is living cheaper in China, but so are the fees that you’re going to pay for a university there. All in all, your costs are still a great deal lower than in the western world. And that’s not very surprising. After all, students in China only make a fraction of what people in Europe make. And so the universities can’t ask for as much.
That won’t last forever, but if you go study now you’re going to get a world class education for a fraction of what it would be back home. That means you can finish your education without burying yourself under a mountain of debt.
Immersing yourself in another culture where they speak differently, think differently, eat differently and even use different letters is a lot of things, but what it certainly is an adventure. And what better time in our lives to have one of those than when we’re studying? Then we’re still young, we’re still eager and even if it doesn’t work out quite as we’d hoped, we’ve still got plenty of time to change course, make different decisions and possibly even try again.
Later in our lives, when we get the commitments of a job, a family and a life lived, all of that will be far more difficult. So why not embrace the opportunities while we still can?
Sure, the list of best universities is still dominated by western institutions, but it’s shifting. It would probably shift a lot faster if it wasn’t for the fact that most of those lists are still being put together by the very western institutions and those trained by them that make it into the list each year.
The truth is, there is an educational boom going on in in China, with ever mores schools and universities that can compete on the world stage being opened every year. And as the economy continues to grow at breakneck speed, those universities are going to keep opening their doors and join the list of the best universities in China.
That means that for a fraction of what you’re going to pay in the west you’re going to get an education that will soon be seen as rivaling the ones we’ve all heard of.
Chinese is one of the most spoken languages in the world and being able to speak it will give you access to one of the biggest and fastest growing markets in the world as well. But as it’s a relatively difficult language for those raised in the Indo-European language group, that means it’s going to be hard to learn it from your couch.
Better, instead to go there and hear it straight from the panda’s mouth, wouldn’t you say? Even better, as you’ll be using the language every day, to go about your daily life as well complete your studies, you aren’t just going to learn how to order beers, but you’ll actually come to grasp the true nuances of a language. And only once you’ve got those will you be able to work in the language down the road.
Do you want to study martial arts? Or are you more interested in learning traditional Chinese medicine? Then that’s available in China! In fact, there are tons of degrees over there that you’re not going to find back home.
Even better, while we might consider some of those things a bit odd and off the wall, over there they’re considered completely normal. This means that you’ll finally no longer be on the fringes in your studies but will be part of the mainstream. You’ll be able to get the help you need, find the people who study it you want and discuss it till the small hours in the many places where the students and practitioners of these ‘alternative’ fields gather.
They always show China as a dragon, or a panda or as many other things when they’re discussing the relationship between the west and the east. The truth, however, is that it what they should really be showing when they show these two places is a young person and an old one. A continent looking forwards and a place looking backwards.
The future lies in Asia and more specifically in China. That’s where all the action is going to be. So if you want to be a part of that, the best thing you can do is to go there and see it for yourself. Ultimately, that will give you the best chances and the best opportunities.
Even better, as you’re still young you’ll have the best chance of being able to adapt. So go study there. It’ll be worth it.
Chris Mercer is a pro writer, developer and founder of Citatior, a powerful academic formatting tool for the students. 7 years ago he studied in Beijing as an exchange student and gained valuable knowledge that helped him to become successful in his field. |
Since my eldest was diagnosed with type one diabetes in the Summer I’ve felt like I’ve had a newborn baby all over again, aged 15. When we brought him home 10 days after he was born we felt scared and clueless, every minute something new was realised. It is the same all over again with T1; it’s all new to us all.
Very much like when you have a newborn, they are your sole focus as they rely on you to survive. Same again with T1, I’ve had to back off from life and all the associated noise as I don’t have room in my head for much else, other than this constant T1. Do we have enough needles, insulin, hypo treatments, nighttime insulin, test strips, batteries, plus about another 25 things each day we need? What are his levels right now? And before and after breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack, sport/school/watching TV/wrestling with his brother/walking to the shops/car journey, or during illness/stress/teenage hormones/upset ? He needs to go to bed between blood sugar levels 8 and 10 to ensure good levels in the night, but what if he’s too low or high, will a correction bring him down or a snack bring him up OK? Which snack though? Getting up at 3am each night to ensure it’s gone to plan is now routine.
Every night I go to bed gripped by the fear he will slip into a hypo and become seriously ill. It’s 24 hrs air traffic control scanning, it won’t ever stop. Every other illness or condition he’s had has come and gone, this one is here to stay. It’s a bastard it’s hit during the teen years with hormones and GCSEs, take all the normal stuff Mums worry about with their kids and add on a life-threatening layer. I’ve been distraught and bereft but also laser focused and determined to deal with it all, in fact, I’ve checked his level mid-blog post (11.2 fyi) and I got a huge hug of my 6 foot 2 inches newborn baby! And I have three new divine handbags to use to keep all the shizz in which makes this all a bit better.
After such a crap hard and cold Winter, I recently wrote on my Facebook page I was pissed off at parents sending ill kids to school, not mentioning the school. This was after my 11yo came home saying a boy in his class did nothing but a cough all day in his ear and wipe dark green snot on the table, equipment and his trousers. I asked his teacher why an ill child like this was in school, but I was told it was fine and Y6 was important for attendance SATS blah blah blah. A few days later I was summoned into school by the head as this post from my Facebook page, had been shown to the head and most astonishingly this person wanted to remain anonymous and the head was happy to protect their identity. I refused to attend for a ‘telling off’ as the head made it clear a discussion was not an option. As my Facebook settings are set to ‘friends only’ and I only have IRL friends on my page, it is someone I know face to face. Why they chose to do this I will leave up to you to decide, for me I know all they wanted to do was cause trouble for me in a ‘Mean Girls’ kind of way. If they were so offended why didn’t they come talk to me before they went to school? I’m not interested in why they did this because I pity them and their need to feel big and clever. Now we are on a stage two complaint I’ve made against the school after the Chairman of Governors became involved in a somewhat odd way. If school want to spy on parents social media and take anonymous tips off, fine, just make this clear in the social media policy so parents know this ‘police state’ mentality exists. There is now a total school and parent shit-storm and all because someone was a tattle-tail, aged 40 something. I don’t give a fig about the outcome of the complaint, we leave in 3 months and I can’t wait to drop the mic on this utterly bitchy twisted cowardly spineless nonsense. And as this blog, by my choice, is public I suspect this post will be shown to school as well – waves hello!
I have two sons, the teenager about to be 16 and an 11-year-old. Of all the combinations of children and siblings, this seems to be viewed by society as the least favorable. Brothers are the devils work apparently and their only future is to end up like Liam and Noel, at each other’s throats and hating each other. I had an older brother growing up and I loathed him from the aged of about 12 to 20, he was mean to me and all my mates fancied him with enraged me. He once stuffed all my soft toys into drawers around the house, leaving their heads crushed and feet sticking out. Yes, they were soft toys and no real hard came to them but I was so upset. He also once gave me plaque disclosing tablets telling me they were sweets, oh he told me to tell my Grandma I’d hurt my ‘C U Next Tuesday’ as she would think it was hilarious. Of course, I did things to him, threw all of his drumsticks in a hedge, put face cream in his new trainers and told his girlfriend he was going out with someone else. Yes, all mean-shit we did to one another, so much fun! My poor parents – I’m sorry. I stopped loathing him when I was about 20 and we both moved to London. We have a ‘normal’ relationship now, we are both in our mid to late 40’s and have children and I no longer want to cause him shit. Point is all siblings fight, whatever age and sex, there is no one ideal perfect combo. Today my teen as helped his brother with his maths homework, they’ve played Fortnight together with some yelling and disagreement, the youngest got the eldest a loo roll from the cupboard as he’d been caught short on the loo, all whilst heaving into his hoodie saying it ‘smelt like dead toads’ All pleasant normal stuff, no alleged Gallagher feuding for today at least. Point is we all detest our siblings now and again, so we just all gotta roll with it.
With only 26 letters in the alphabet and being aged 47 I am still amazed there are any new words left that I’ve not heard of, but yes there are and they all relate to Type 1 Diabetes. CGM, MDI, bolus, MDL, units, clicker, test strips, HBaC1 and so the list goes on. It does nothing other than blow your mind. Add with different NHS healthcare providers and locations, who do things differently with different things in different ways and boom, mind blown again. I feel like I’ve been playing a game of The Crystal Maze with the clock counting down until I know EVERYTHING. But I’m still in the room with people yelling at me with half a clue as to what’s what and I’m about to be locked in the room. This Mum of a T1 always feels all the time like the room is going to close, I am stuffed full to the point of painful indigestion with knowledge but only some of it has been digested, while the rest just sits there causing acid reflux and anxiety. At present we are trying to sync the makes of a CG transmitter with a CG monitor with an app provided by another company. Three different companies, with three different products that should all work together, but we haven’t managed to get it all to work together, yet. If we do, it means I will be able to look at my phone in the middle of the night to see my sons blood sugar levels, not get out of bed in the cold and dark to try and find his arm to scan him for his level. Sounds simple enough, but I’m tired, worried and it disturbs us both. So again this afternoon we are trying to get all this tech to line up, these companies who provided all these amazing clever tech ways to manage type one are incredible. Some are big pharma giants whilst others are a bunch of people with the know-how to develop what’s needed to help manage T1. I am thankful and grateful to them all and this helps me manage my anxiety about always thinking about blood sugar levels 24/7.
Having a child diagnosed with type 1 is like being dragged out of bed at 3am and being shoved into a rally car as a navigator with no warning or training. The pedal is to the metal straight away and the first blind bend downhill is hurtling towards you before you’ve even opened the instructions, which are bouncing around in your hands like a scorching hot potato. All you can see is a cliff fast approaching as you desperately use your fear as traction to avoid flying off the edge into the deep unknown. Somehow, and you really don’t know how the car’s rear grips the corner and your driver miraculously guides the car round onto the straight, phew, saved. But there looms another bend, this time into dense trees with rocks either side, do I really have to do this again? Yes, yes we do over and over. Sometimes the route is not so treacherous and others it’s a 40mph motorway restriction for 200 miles. This is what T1 for me feels like, you just don’t know what is around the next bend or if you can see the next page of instructions. But you just inject right? Wrong. After three longs days of sugar highs and lows with no rhyme or reason, I just can’t be arsed to explain it all. I’m learning myself and I don’t have the energy to tell anyone else.
That is what the last few months have felt like. All my wind has been taken from my sails, my guts have been punched several times over and I’ve cried like a snot engorged breathless monster so many times. With the teenage years here never once did I ever imagine Type 1 Diabetes would enter our lives. Type 1 came in the summer, which we were just about getting our heads around then the teenager proper broke his leg playing football. Proper broken, as in a 2-hour operation and five metal pins inserted, like I said, proper. No bad tackle, just a combination of pitch, players and circumstance.
As he was playing in Manchester he was taken to Manchester Children’s Hospital, where him being Type 1 fast-tracked him to the top of the queue; which I am sure is just what it feels like with a Fast Pass at Alton Towers but without the fun or enjoyment, but I imagine much more adrenaline. All the staff there are just perfect in every way, just the best care possible he could have wanted. I even got a huge hug at 3am one morning when I’d left his bedside to get some air from another Mum who was doing the same. We held onto each other in the cold Manchester damp air hardly said a word, whimpered and sobbed and went out separate ways. No idea who she was, but we needed each other right there and then.
Some of my friends have been brilliant through all this, one even bringing me a Swearing coloring book and pencils, whereas others have not said one word to me about it all. That really hurt, especially those I have supported so much in the past with their crap. These people are now on my ‘fuck off and fuck you’ list.
Plaster is now off and rehab, physio, podiatry etc are all being done. He’s missed so much school but is doing his best, now his GCSE’s are a few weeks away. His head of year has been truly incredible with her support and care, not only for him but for me also. I can say the say for all the teachers and staff at his school, bar one, who send me a personalized letter detailing the STATS about poor attendance and results. No shit Sherlock, just let me tell his broken leg and pancreas about the STATS will ya?! What a piss-taking thoughtless doofus.
I’m trying really hard not to smack the face of the myriad of daft comments I get about everything that has happened from people, especially those in the medical profession such as his dentist ‘He shouldn’t be eating any more sugar then should he?’ I don’t expect people to have all the knowledge but I don’t expect them to be ignorant and stupid.
What next, who knows, and I don’t think I can take anything else for a while at least. Shit happens, we all know that, but those who have helped you in whatever way they can are worth their weight in everything under the sun, moon and universe.
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PARENTS OF SIERRA Cerrone and Ashley Morgan from the left, Joe and Joan Cerrone and Linda Kenny speak at a wrenching Fallsburg assembly Tuesday.
FALLSBURG December 26, 2006 Raw emotion, raw photos and raw presentations filled the Fallsburg High School auditorium Tuesday.
Standing in front of lifesize images of their daughters, Lorraine Werner, Linda Kenny, and Joe and Joan Cerrone tearfully spoke of the day each of them was told their children had died in horrific car accidents.
“To tell you the truth, I still can’t believe I will never see her again,” said Werner of her daughter Katheryn.
Just 16 when she rounded a curve too fast and slammed into a tree this past October, Katheryn was trapped in her Volvo 850 as it caught fire, her mother related to a whisper-quiet room.
By the time emergency workers arrived at the River Road curve near Woodridge, Katheryn could not be saved.
“All it takes is a second,” said Lorraine, speaking as much of life as any driving distractions her daughter may have faced.
Yet even in death, Katheryn was making a difference, inspiring her friends Fallsburg High School students Emily Grigsby, Krystal Perrello and Lauren Pratt to create this Safe Driving Assembly last week.
It was a heartwrenching, stomach-turning two hours, but one that kept most of these students’ classmates glued to their seats the whole time.
“We took two hours out of today in hopes to extend your life,” explained Principal Mark Plescia to the more than 200 high-schoolers all of whom voluntarily attended.
Understanding how unforgettable an image can be, organizers presented visceral photographs of wrecked cars and accident sites … but they also backed them up with personal, sometimes eyewitness accounts of the tragedies.
“I’ve had to look a father in the eye and say, ‘What kind of outfit do you want to put your daughter in for her funeral?’” recalled Colonial Memorial Funeral Home owner Anthony Perito with a shudder.
“Life stops on a dime,” stressed MobileMedic owner Albee Bochman of Hurleyville, who’s seen hundreds of accidents “and hundreds of dead bodies.”
He asked the audience to hug their neighbors, which the students initially undertook with titters of laughter.
“The reason that’s important,” said a sober Bochman of his request, “is that there is a high chance some of you will be involved in a serious accident.”
There was a warning within that message, too one that Joan Cerrone drove home in an emotional, angry presentation.
That day was June 15, 2004, when 14-year-old Sierra, her 15-year-old friend Ashley Morgan, 17-year-old Santiago Mendoza and 18-year-old Maximilian Gonzalez got into a brand new Mercury Mountaineer SUV with driver Brett Cabrera, 17.
All Monticello students, they headed toward Sackett Lake, where Cabrera’s reckless driving put them square into a utility pole and apple tree and ejected the two girls and Gonzalez.
All three died at the scene, while Mendoza and Cabrera were taken to the hospital for their injuries.
“That bum was going like 90,” said Joan Cerrone through gritted teeth. “… And yes, I hate him for that.
“He killed my daughter,” she continued bitterly of the man who is serving three years in prison for the accident and a related charge.
“I have a life sentence,” she added to a shocked crowd. “I pray to God every day that you won’t have to go through what I go through.
“Trying to talk to a teenager is like trying to nail Jell-O to a tree,” Cerrone acknowledged, “[but] if I get to one of you, I’ll be really, really happy.”
That was the thinking of Allan Kelso, as well, a middle-aged Crystal Run Village resident who dramatically illustrated the effects of a car accident.
Painfully hobbling up to the podium, Kelso talked of the drunk-driver crash that killed his parents while he, just 4 at the time, was riding with them.
The brain injuries he sustained resulted in cerebral palsy, and his disfigurement at the hands of this tragedy was plainly evident to the audience.
The wrenching presentations were temporarily calmed when District Attorney Steve Lungen gave a few statistics illustrating the reasons why car accidents are the #1 killer of teenagers in America, but even he, too, told of how his family’s lives were shattered when his 19-year-old sister perished five decades ago in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
“What right do any of you have to put someone else’s life at risk?” he asked the crowd. “When you get into a car, you have to have a conscience on your shoulder… ‘I’m sorry’ doesn’t bring kids back.”
A law enforcement officer the students know well, former School Resource Officer and Town of Fallsburg PD Detective Simmie Williams, drove that point home.
“I only met Katheryn Werner one time, and that was in the morgue,” he said, his voice breaking. “I don’t want to see you guys there.”
“I’m not here to scare you, but rather to make you aware,” added Fallsburg graduate Gloria Vazquez, a friend and classmate of Guadalupe “Jasmine” Martinez, who perished in a one-car accident in 2004. “I just don’t want any of you to go through what I went through.”
Vazquez has a few years more driving experience than those she was speaking to, and shortly before watching a tearjerking slide show of Katheryn and Jasmine’s lives, she pleaded with the teens in the audience indeed, with everyone who would listen:
ERIN PECK, RIGHT, loads her family into the car in Lake Huntington. From the left are 4-year-old Martin, 6-year-old Jacob and 9-year-old Bruce.
“I did everything the State Education Department [SED] told me to do,” the Lake Huntington resident recalls.
But the Sullivan West Central School District stood firm: her 4-year-old cannot be bused to St. Peter’s pre-K program in Liberty.
“All schools who have a full-fledged pre-K might have some obligation,” he relates, “but we don’t have a pre-K program here.”
SW has a limited pre-K program where about 16-18 special-needs students are accepted annually based on a pre-screening process, according to Derry.
Jeffersonville resident Kim Breihof tried to get her daughter into SW’s pre-K this year, but the 3-year-old tested at the level of a 4-5-year-old.
Breihof and Peck are two of a handful of parents upset with SW for not providing pre-K or even transportation to local private schools offering such.
“They already go to the [three] private schools in Liberty,” Peck explains, referencing SW’s busing of K-12 students to St. Peter’s Catholic school, Light and Life Christian Academy and Glory to God Christian High School.
“She’s a good hour or hour and a half late to school every day,” says Breihof of her daughter, as the registered nurse has to get her three other children ready for school at SW and then dash off to work after dropping her daughter at St. Peter’s.
Peck, for her part, finds it ironic and frustrating that she has to drive her one son to St. Peter’s while an SW bus takes her two older boys to the same place: St. Peter’s.
According to Derry and SW Board Chair Arthur Norden, state education law indicates that public schools only need to provide transportation to private schools in the same way they do for themselves.
In other words, if SW buses a second-grader to its Jeffersonville campus, by law it must also bus a second-grader to a local private school. There are certain limitations and requirements, but the essence of the law is equal treatment.
That’s why Norden and Derry have sent the matter to the school’s attorney for review and are awaiting a reply. Thereafter, the board will discuss it in executive session, as it applies to particular students and is thus private.
Breihof and Peck aren’t optimistic, however, and an SED spokesman’s recent remarks do nothing to change that feeling.
“The one certainty in the area of transportation of students to non-public pre-K is that if the child receives special education services and has an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) that says the child will attend a particular school, the district must provide transportation,” wrote SED spokesman Tom Dunn to the Democrat’s request for clarifying the law.
“In all other cases, the issue could become the subject of a 310 appeal to the commissioner [of education], wherein a petitioner (parent) appeals to the commissioner to reverse a decision made by a school district,” he continued.
“Recognizing that potential for an appeal, as the commissioner’s spokesman, I am constrained from commenting further.”
“By the time I filed an appeal and got an answer, my daughter would be in kindergarten,” Breihof pointed out.
So for now she’ll keep paying the $555 a month for St. Peter’s pre-K and latchkey programs and deal with the transportation issues even while her husband, a sheriff’s deputy, is intensely training for six months at a K-9 academy.
That’s also why all of Peck’s children continue to go to St. Peter’s, adds Peck, who runs a construction company with her husband, Paul.
Both mothers admit the issue will soon be over for them, but what about other families seeking pre-K?
It is legal, said Derry, and SW’s pre-K offerings might easily stay limited for a long time to come.
“Absolutely we are not considering it,” Derry said of adding universal pre-K. “It is a tremendous expense, even when it is aided.”
This font is called GoodCityModern, designed in 1991 but based on the print in the Gutenberg bible. The designer is Andrew S. Meit, a software tester at Altsys Corporation who found a reproduction of a Gutenberg page in a type book. I obtained a copy of this font from the Santa Barbara Macintosh Users Group, who in turn apparently found it some time ago on-line. Lombardic capitals were included with it.
The name GoodCity is a translation of the name Gutenberg, and Modern refers to the digital version's inclusion of all the characters in the modern alphabet.
Throughout the Renaissance, the appearance of the printed page had much in common with that of the pen-lettered page in fine books. You may be interested more in writing than in printing, however. So where do you find examples of writing besides the ones you've already seen in calligraphy books? In unexpected places, that's where!
Here are some I found: A facsimile of some recipes from a fifteenth-century manuscript of The Forme of Cury, printed on the end papers of a modern cook book1. In a book of Scottish history2, a letter from James IV of Scotland to his "dearest brother" Henry VIII of England, and a letter from Edward VI of England, nine years old, to his uncle and Regent, the Duke of Somerset.
Actually, any book on a period subject, or a subject with historical traditions, is likely to have some interesting tidbits. For example, the font you are reading on this page, called Arrighi, was originally designed in 1925, but based on a font designed at Rome and Venice in the 1520s by the calligrapher Ludovico degli Arrighi. This information I found in a recent book on typography, written by a man who is both poet and book designer3.
How about the public library as a source of interesting used books? I paid $4 for a beautifully illustrated book on the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch. Another time I got a Penguin book on Islamic art for $1, and a how-to book for making period-looking sand castles for forty cents. So, next time you're in the public library, remember to have a look at the used books for sale!
As for the day-to-day stuff of the SCA, in April we had a fun Roman Holiday, thanks to our friends in Darach. Along with the fighting were workshops on belly dancing, bawdy drinking songs, Roman & Celtic mythology, and leather working, and more! I saw a number of folks happily sewing leather pouches. And in May, a visit from Queen Ceinwen at Isles Anniversary, Medieval May Faire, and the coronation of King Edric and Queen Albra.
June 7th to 16th will be the Society's Thirty Year Celebration in Portland, Oregon. There will be classes, dancing, and bardic circles as well as the usual merchants, tournaments, and war scenarios.
It's been suggested (I should've written down who suggested) that we put together an SCA bibliography based on books available in the library where we do our next demo - say, UCSB, or maybe City College. I think it's a great idea, and there's no need to put it off to the last minute. So, if you'd like to contribute to a bibliography project, here's what we need:
Title and author of any book you think is a highly recommendable book on an SCA subject, the publication data (including date, edition number, and ISBN), and a paragraph or two of review telling why the book is recommended - and mentioning any shortcomings the reader should be aware of.
We'll be planning the project in the coming weeks at A & S meetings, which are on Sunday afternoons. Dance practices are again on Thursday nights. Hope to see you there!
[Illuminator's Note: The GoodCityModern and Lombardoc fonts are included in the ATM-GOCM.ZIP file. The Lombardoc font is used as the drop cap at the beginning of a paragraph. The GoodCityModern font is used for the rest of the paragraph text. This file is an Adobe Type1 font package which should be compatible with either a Macintosh or a PC with Adobe Type Manager installed. You can download the font by clicking HERE. I was unable to locate a copy of the Arrighi font, though it is sold by Adobe. But here is some information about Ludovico degli Arrighi da Vicenza and a few other font artists. To see a list of very useful decorative fonts, visit "winsite". - Lord Alfonso]
On Tuesday 31st May, the Italian National Day was celebrated in Esbjerg. The event was hosted by the Ambassador of Italy, in cooperation with the City of Esbjerg and Niels Winther Shipping/Grimaldi Group – parent companies of SAL.
SAL also took part the event. Managing Director Henrik Otto Jensen says: “It is a great honour to be part of this special event that celebrates the strong relationships between companies in Italy and Esbjerg. At SAL, we benefit greatly from our partnership with Grimaldi Lines and our close cooperation with the Italian automotive industry.”
The celebration took place in Esbjerg, where SAL is based, due to Henrik Otto Jensen’s long-term connections with Italian companies and his honorary knighthood of the Italian Republic, which he received in 2015.
The National Day was celebrated with a concert by the Italian/Danish duo Paolo and Kathrine Russo, music entertainment by local music artists and an exhibition of Italian cars. Also at the event, Managing Director of Hotel Arctic A/S, Erik Bjerregaard, was awarded honorary knighthood of the Italian Republic.
Attendees at the event included the Ambassador of Italy, Mr Stefano Queirolo Palmas, and his wife, Mrs Ornella Cuppone; the Mayor of Esbjerg, Johnny Søtrup; Italian citizens living in the region of Esbjerg and companies cooperating with Italy.
The Italian National Day (Festa della Repubblica) is officially celebrated on 2nd June. The Ambassador of Italy has been on tour to celebrate the day in five different parts of Denmark.
“It is a great honour to be part of this special event that celebrates the strong relationships between companies in Italy and Esbjerg. At SAL, we benefit greatly from our partnership with Grimaldi Lines and our close cooperation with the Italian automotive industry.”
There was a time when comic strips and the artists who created them were so popular, they'd appear on the cover of major national magazines -- as is the case here with Li'l Abner and his creator, Al Capp. Time and Life both cover-featured Capp's comic strip.
The Shmoo was a hugely popular Capp character -- shown here on a certificate given out to kids who'd bought government savings bonds.
Abner and his folks in a B&W still from the motion picture version of the wonderful Broadway musical based on the strip.
A pair of Abner frame tray jigsaw puzzles. Y'know if you turn these upside down to place 'em on a scanner bed, comedy and/or tragedy may ensue....
The Harvey Comics Group, which published the Abner comic book, put together this promotional booklet showing media coverage of the strip. Cover and first page shown.
One of many examples of licensed Abner merchandise. This candy box comes from the defunct Dogpatch theme park in Kentucky.
Sometimes I try to explain to people how popular newspaper comics were to the general population. Most people don't believe, and even the ones who do don't care.
There have been times when I've tried to impress upon folk the popularity of strips like L'il Abner, Dick Tracy, Terry and the Pirates, Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, etc.
About Banksy: “It would not be dignified for the Academy to have somebody come up wearing a monkey’s head.”
It set off a really interesting debate about Banksy’s Oscar-nominated documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” It also helped remind me that I caught up with the movie late last year and never wrote a proper full-length review of it. “Exit Through the Gift Shop” was one of 2010’s best, and it ended up at number four on my list of best movies of the year. So here’s my opportunity!
Anyway, what follows is a debate between myself, Scene-Stealers contributor and artist Michael Bird and Commercial Artisan co-chair Jon Sholly. This discussion goes beyond the merits of the film and goes into what it may mean to the art community itself. It starts with a couple comments from some other friends, whose last names have been removed to protect their privacy. Enjoy:
I think Banksy is a franchise, and its run by Mr.Brainwash. Exit is a total fraud, and kinda made me a little angry that I watched the whole thing. It used so much recycled footage from other graffiti docs.
Banksy is one of the few from that generation that actually has the chops to be a fine artist. Most of the rest of them are useless, with dick and fart jokes masquerading as social commentary (Shepard Fairey is graphic designer/illustrator …at best). I absolutely felt bait-and-switched because I knew the work of the various players before I went in thinking I was getting a doc on Banksy. I got his one-note-joke, alter-ego instead. Great. I don’t think its the best doc of the year. I don’t even think it is a good doc. Its a prank. And if those qualify as docs now, I think “Jackass 3D” was better.
it’s not just a prank. he did with film exactly what he does with street art: take the form of something and alter it to make a different point. it IS a great doc because it questions the very nature of its ‘truth,’ and by that nature, any notions of truth in documentary filmmaking. who cares if it recycled footage from other graffiti docs? that’s only part of what it was about. the movie challenges the notion of what it means to be an artist in the first place. those tricky questions that lie in the chasm between art and commerce are raised naturally through the progression of the narrative, whether that narrative is partially fabricated or not. fascinating stuff–the best doc of the year, hands down!
”the movie challenges the notion of what it means to be an artist in the first place.” How does it do this? Or does it challenge whether an audience recognizes what an artist looks like? For my view of it, I get that he thought he was doing something clever there, turning reportage into prank into rhetoric. I just didn’t learn anything new from him doing that. I kept looking for a larger point and I couldn’t find one. That art exists because of witless benefactors is not new. Artists acknowledge that when we make work, it is unlikely that others will understand what we get from making it, and it isn’t necessary (well, some us feel that way — some still write editorials into their work). His master stroke here is that he was able to trick several gullible, but well-meaning benefactors into buying mass produced artwork because of hype? Art has always been sold on hype. My mom knows this. The best that comes out of this is that people think twice before they buy a piece of art, lest it be a prank?
Well I think the movie succeeds because it shows that a prank can be art. That an artist can exist solely as a brand instead of an individual. Value judgments aside, this movie actually illustrates a “challenge to the notion of what it means to be an artist.” Whether or not it’s bullshit is irrelevant.
I saw that Kinkade report..nice one, Michael! But I humbly submit that because this art “comes from a fan,” the film also gives credence that expression, even if its bad art, can come from a real place–and that everybody is going to see something different in art and choose what they like–like Kinkade. I love the ‘prank as art’ thing, even if Duchamp did it first; what’s wrong with being the cinematic equivalent of Duchamp? Bottom line: good movies show and don’t tell and by showing all different sides and intersecting lines of thought about this subject from buyers, press, artists, fans, etc., Banksy has created a stimulating work of art and managed to further Herzog’s idea of an ‘ecstatic truth’ that is arrived at partially by falsehood. It’s fucking brilliant, man. Maybe the masterstroke was calling it a documentary in the first place.
Well, I’ll tell you, I obviously don’t like the film. To that end, there’s no point in arguing taste. I didn’t even think it did what it was trying to do well. Mileage will vary.
That aside, my main reason for disliking it is that it seems to posit that street art is the only valid art because it is free art. Bullshit. Second, it makes people distrust art as commerce. That’s a really bad thing because it takes advantage of the fact that people are really insecure about their understanding of art, and leverages an expensive prank on them. Now what was already seen as an elitist field is now more so, because its fully possible to the uninitiated that the artist is just making fun of them, and struggling to understand or contemplate it could be a folly. Great.
One could make the case that the reasoning for doing this is to sort of idiot-proof the audience for art, or that it’s a teachable moment. Maybe, but then we live in a state that just decided that it doesn’t need art anymore. Why? Why is an institution as foundational as art being shoved to the margins? It’s because conservatives have decided that art and the arts are the playground of gays and intellectual elites and real people who do real work aren’t going to pay money for an industry that mocks them and their values, and especially not in a tight economy. Ask them, that’s exactly what they’ll tell you.
Duchamp put down a urinal and called it a fountain. It was less a prank and more to say that any avenue to artistic expression is a valid one. I point out that it was done in 1917 to make the case that most in the art world already know this. I agree that a prank can be art (and I still sincerely contend most of Jackass’s are better). I agree that wherever there is a medium it can be a means to saying something of value.
What I disagree with is that Banksy was saying anything at all original or important with this piece, and further, the reckless disregard he has for the implications of this film show his perspective to be a nihilistic one. It’s immature and does nothing to enrich. It provokes, but merely for his own self-aggrandizing. I do wonder why he needed to document his own work in this; why he needed to show an obvious difference between himself and his creation. Its almost like he was worried someone might mistake all of his work for a prank. Whatever would be the harm of that, the next time he tries to cash in on “official” Banksy art? Does he have the ability to make a second documentary?
I feel I should boil it down: Banksy’s only prank is the prank he is playing on the film community. But he is doing it at the expense of the art community, and that pisses me off.
Jon- I agree with almost everything in that article. I’m just not clear at what point Guetta started collaborating.
Michael- You wrote: “I do wonder why he needed to document his own work in this; why he needed to show an obvious difference between himself and his creation.” Because the film doesn’t work without it. He’s actually exposing the largely unfamiliar film audience to what it is that makes street art “art,” and then challenging them to recognize it in a setting where they are predisposed to like the Kinkade-like guy. I don’t think it does a disservice to the art community at all, but I can appreciate that you do. I’m not in that community and you are. The fact that it gets people talking about this issue at the same time that the GOP is cutting off arts funding everywhere is a good thing, I think.See More
You remember that scene in “Basquiat” when the guys are trying to steal the metal door that has some SAMO graffiti on it? And how when Basquiat tries to sign it so they can get more money for it they beat the shit out of him? Same point, told in less than a minute, and with an experience that actually enriches the viewer’s appreciation for art. I do love a good debate Eric, and this has been fun.
Wait! Once a point has been made in a movie, something similar can’t be done again? After watching this movie I felt an appreciation of street art that didn’t have before. That experience is invalid?
Responsibility for validating your experiences watching a film is yours alone. If you got a great experience from watching this, I would never seek to take that away from you. What I am saying is that the same point can be made with less collateral damage. I don’t even mind if it is provocative (and I shouldn’t given the work I make). What I mind is someone who poses as an art outsider pissing all over his chosen field because he thinks it will be impressive to the film community. Some street are is very impressive. It’s not my favorite, but it has a place. Banksy’s is among my favorite of that field.
It does bring us back to the question is marketing an artform, if it is then banksy is certainly one of the foremost artists in that field. I definitely have a greater appreciation of street art as a whole than I did before I watched the movie so I don’t feel that he betrayed the street art community for the sake of his movie. The best thing it raised for me is how far does using your influences go before it becomes plagiarism or just uncreative and unoriginal. I agree with a few of the points that Michael made but I’m not sure I get why when Duchamp plays his “prank” it validates all artistic expression but when someone else does it its just a prank.
Xavier: It wasn’t my point that Duchamp was playing a prank. That point belongs to someone else. My point was that Duchamp was utilizing a non-traditional media to make an art-based observation. It was one of the most influential pieces of art of the 20th century in that it opened up all media – especially appropriated media — to artistic expression (even pranking, I suppose, if only performance-based in some way). It was rather controversial in that.
It isn’t my point that anyone else playing a prank is void of artistic expression, either. Instead, it was my point that Banksy’s film is damaging to art because of the implications of his “documentary.”
That’s the part I don’t agree with I’m not sure exactly how Banksy’s film is damaging to art, I just don’t see it. He’s inviting debate about the nature of art and I don’t think he does it in a dismissive or damaging way. I wasn’t saying you thought Duchamp was playing a prank but I was more asking when is something a prank and when is it as you say “utilizing a non-traditional media to make an art based observation”, who gets to decide this and how do we determine it, is it based on the intent of the artist, the impact it has, the reaction of the public and their interpretations?
I am not playing the arbiter or what is prank and what is art observation. I am taking the film at its word that it is a documentary. Others are making the case that it is an art based observation via prank. Fair enough, I say. That’s their case to make.
My point is that which I stated: The film makes the viewer doubt whether commerce should have any place in art, and that’s a fairly glib stance to take for someone who makes money from art (as Banksy clearly does). Further, I am suggesting that stance is damaging to others who are trying to make money from art not spray-painted on walls (like myself).
I think the debate you’d like to have is whether or not I think I am entitled to decide. I’m not. So I guess I’m on your side in the debate. Everyone should decide for themselves. I’m merely stating my opinion, and standing behind it by defending it. The outcome is not finite, nor even likely measurable. But I feel my concerns are valid. You’re entitled to disagree.
Alright then taking the film on the basis that it is a documentary would change the viewing experience I’m sure to the point where I don’t even know what opinion of it I’d have if I had watched it with that presumption. It is an interesting argument and maybe you’re right that the film does take a largely negative view of commerce within the art industry.
Nevertheless I think that as a film it succeeds and is very entertaining. For me the most interesting part was Thierry’s own show and the backlash from others in the street art community who felt he had ripped off the styles of those who he had been filming. This for me raised the most interesting question, when does something stop being influenced and become a rip off, and how far do you have to adapt or reinvent the original works that influenced you before it becomes your own?
I had a discussion with my boss a while back after seeing Exit Through The Gift Shop, which I took as a documentary. He believes Banksy may not be just one person, but a collective. I don’t think it’s damaging to art per se, depending on who you are and how you look at it.
I don’t think that the focus is the ability of art to be overvalued monetarily, but instead a condemnation of the artist persona and the fame that surrounds it. Sure there is the comment about how much a Banksy work made at auction, but that comment was only to reinforce that now all “serious” art collectors now had to have a Banksy. It’s not about money. It’s about the fame and spectacle that builds up around an artist, and which may be in direct opposition to the artwork being created.
Banksy is the perfect person to make this particular statement because of his anonymity. He is able to garner cred and success. We kinda need to take him seriously, but he avoids the fame and constructed social persona that artist are often forced into once they are well known.
The fame of street art is an affront to the statement of most street art. It’s rebellious, DIY, and antiestablishment. Banksy’s documentary mocks the process of fame, including the Johnny-come-latelys.
If it were a doc about money, then money would be front and center. We’d have a steady progression of dollar signs marching across the screens. Instead the comments are simple that brainwash didn’t earn his fame, but stole it from a rising art movement.
Because of this the documentary, regardless of whether it is “real” or “created”, works, and works well.
Trey, I think that’s a good interpretation, and I’d likely agree with you if it weren’t for one thing: We are to assume that the work really did sell and they really did make the money on it that they purport.
If they did — and since they do not contradict the assumption that they did — the end result is that the casual viewer sees these transactions actually happen and happen to suckers. And the people who purchased the work weren’t just collectors. So given the above, how on earth would the casual viewer assume they can tell what an impostor is and what an authentic artist isn’t?
If they weren’t crossing into the domain of setting up their work in installed spaces and it were only in alleyways, I could buy that the film is only going to indict the commercialization of street art. I think it indicts the hyping and selling of all art and if artists were only setting on their hands and not inflicting themselves into the public space, no one would ever see their work and no one would ever buy it. Banksy may not like it, but we can’t all go repurposing billboards.
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ga_irods is a Django+Celery -> iRODS connector. The idea is that you can use this module to write webapps that call a data grid (iRODS) in a web-scale manner. Every iCommand is a Celery task. All iRODS environments are stored as model instances in a database.
This is all very well and good, but how to you use it? Assuming you know a bit about iRODS, have or know someone who has an account, and are familiar with the icommands clients (these are commands analogous to the unix file system commands, but with an i- prepended), then usage of this app is quite simple. First, add ‘ga_irods’ to your list of INSTALLED_APPS in Django’s settings.py. Then run:
That will add the RodsEnvironment model to the admin tool. Now, assuming you’re an admin on your django installation (you should be if you can run manage.py at all), then you can add RodsEnvironments for each User in the system. I capitalize User, because the owner of every RodsEnvironment must be an actual User in the django.contrib.auth application. Finally, make sure that celeryd is running and that django-celery is installed and listed in INSTALLED_APPS.
Once environments are setup, you can write a webapp that manipulates iRODS. One might attach a RodsEnvironment to a session object, then use this to accomplish things in an example view like so in your views.py:
A set of methods to start, close and manage multiple iRODS client sessions at the same time, using icommands.
ifsck - check if local files/directories are consistent with the associated objects/collections in iRODS.
Bundle file operations. This command allows structured files such as tar files to be uploaded and downloaded to/from iRODS.
A tar file containing many small files can be created with normal unix tar command on the client and then uploaded to the iRODS server as a normal iRODS file. The ‘ibun -x’ command can then be used to extract/untar the uploaded tar file. The extracted subfiles and subdirectories will appeared as normal iRODS files and sub-collections. The ‘ibun -c’ command can be used to tar/bundle an iRODS collection into a tar file.
Note the use of -C option with the tar command which will tar the content of mydir but without including the directory mydir in the paths. The ‘ibun -x’ command extracts the tar file into the mydir collection. The target mydir collection does not have to exist nor be empty. If a subfile already exists in the target collection, the ingestion of this subfile will fail (unless the -f flag is set) but the process will continue.
If a copy of a file to be bundled does not exist on the target resource, a replica will automatically be made on the target resource. Again, if the -D flag is not use, the bundling will be done using tar.
The -b option when used with the -x option, specifies bulk registration which does up to 50 rgistrations at a time to reduce overhead.
does not exist. Currently only one dataType - ‘t’ which specifies a tar file type is supported. If -D is not specified, the default is a tar file type
If the destLocalFile is ‘-‘, the files read from the server will be written to the standard output (stdout). Similar to the UNIX ‘cat’ command, multiple source files can be specified.
The -X option specifies that the restart option is on and the restartFile input specifies a local file that contains the restart info. If the restartFile does not exist, it will be created and used for recording subsequent restart info. If it exists and is not empty, the restart info contained in this file will be used for restarting the operation. Note that the restart operation only works for uploading directories and the path input must be identical to the one that generated the restart file
The -Q option specifies the use of the RBUDP transfer mechanism which uses the UDP protocol for data transfer. The UDP protocol is very efficient if the network is very robust with few packet losses. Two environment variables - rbudpSendRate and rbudpPackSize are used to tune the RBUDP data transfer. rbudpSendRate is used to throttle the send rate in kbits/sec. The default rbudpSendRate is 600,000. rbudpPackSize is used to set the packet size. The dafault rbudpPackSize is 8192. The -V option can be used to show the loss rate of the transfer. If the lost rate is more than a few %, the sendrate should be reduced.
The -T option will renew the socket connection between the client and server after 10 minutes of connection. This gets around the problem of sockets getting timed out by the firewall as reported by some users.
Options are: * -f force - write local files even it they exist already (overwrite them) * -I redirect connection - redirect the connection to connect directly
numThreads - the number of thread to use for the transfer. A value of 0 means no threading. By default (-N option not used) the server decides the number of threads to use.
restartFile - specifies that the restart option is on and the restartFile input specifies a local file that contains the restart info.
callback – a registered Celery task that can be called as a subtask with the entire contents of the file that was gotten (file must fit in memory)
post – a URL to which the results of the iget can be POSTed. File can be larger than available memory.
Store a file into iRODS. If the destination data-object or collection are not provided, the current irods directory and the input file name are used. The -X option specifies that the restart option is on and the restartFile input specifies a local file that contains the restart info. If the restartFile does not exist, it will be created and used for recording subsequent restart info. If it exists and is not empty, the restart info contained in this file will be used for restarting the operation. Note that the restart operation only works for uploading directories and the path input must be identical to the one that generated the restart file
The -I option specifies the redirection of the connection so that it can be connected directly to the resource server. This option can improve the performance of uploading a large number of small (<32 Mbytes) files. This option is only effective if the source is a directory and the -f option is not used
The -b option specifies bulk upload operation which can do up to 50 uploads at a time to reduce overhead. If the -b is specified with the -f option to overwrite existing files, the operation will work only if there is no existing copy at all or if there is an existing copy in the target resource. The operation will fail if there are existing copies but not in the target resource because this type of operation requires a replication operation and bulk replication has not been implemented yet. The bulk option does work for mounted collections which may represent the quickest way to upload a large number of small files.
resource - specifies the resource to store to. This can also be specified in your environment or via a rule set up by the administrator. |
8 Now the main point in what we are saying is this: we have such a high priest, one who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary and the true tent[a] that the Lord, and not any mortal, has set up. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, since there are priests who offer gifts according to the law. 5 They offer worship in a sanctuary that is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly one; for Moses, when he was about to erect the tent,[b] was warned, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.” 6 But Jesus[c] has now obtained a more excellent ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted through better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no need to look for a second one.
13 In speaking of “a new covenant,” he has made the first one obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old will soon disappear.
9 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary. 2 For a tent[e] was constructed, the first one, in which were the lampstand, the table, and the bread of the Presence;[f] this is called the Holy Place. 3 Behind the second curtain was a tent[g] called the Holy of Holies. 4 In it stood the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant overlaid on all sides with gold, in which there were a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant; 5 above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat.[h] Of these things we cannot speak now in detail.
6 Such preparations having been made, the priests go continually into the first tent[i] to carry out their ritual duties; 7 but only the high priest goes into the second, and he but once a year, and not without taking the blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed unintentionally by the people. 8 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the sanctuary has not yet been disclosed as long as the first tent[j] is still standing. 9 This is a symbol[k] of the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 10 but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.
11 But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come,[l] then through the greater and perfect[m] tent[n] (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation), 12 he entered once for all into the Holy Place, not with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. 13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit[o] offered himself without blemish to God, purify our[p] conscience from dead works to worship the living God!
15 For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, because a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions under the first covenant.[q] 16 Where a will[r] is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. 17 For a will[s] takes effect only at death, since it is not in force as long as the one who made it is alive. 18 Hence not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment had been told to all the people by Moses in accordance with the law, he took the blood of calves and goats,[t] with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the scroll itself and all the people, 20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God has ordained for you.” 21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent[u] and all the vessels used in worship. 22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
5 And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen [it] have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
6 A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh [is] grass, and all its goodliness [is] As a flower of the field:
7 Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people [is] grass;
10 Lo, the Lord Jehovah with strength cometh, And His arm is ruling for Him, Lo, His hire [is] with Him, and His wage before Him.
11 As a shepherd His flock He feedeth, With His arm He gathereth lambs, And in His bosom He carrieth [them]: Suckling ones He leadeth.
17 All the nations [are] as nothing before Him, Less than nothing and emptiness, They have been reckoned to Him.
20 He who is poor [by] heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artizan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image -- not moved.
21 Do ye not know -- do ye not hear? Hath it not been declared from the first to you? Have ye not understood [From] the foundations of the earth?
22 He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants [are] as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.
26 Lift up on high your eyes, And see -- who hath prepared these? He who is bringing out by number their host, To all of them by name He calleth, By abundance of strength (And [he is] strong in power) not one is lacking.
31 But those expecting Jehovah pass [to] power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint! |
In early November, the Minister for Children, Tracey Martin, confirmed that the basis for an independent inquiry into abuse of children in state care before 1992 would be in place within the new government’s first 100 days — that is, before February 4.
It was a promise Jacinda Ardern had made after the previous National-led government repeatedly thumbed its nose at the possibility — despite the UN calling for an inquiry and a petition with 15,000 signatures being presented at Parliament.
Prominent New Zealanders calling for an inquiry included Judge Carolyn Henwood, who chaired the Confidential Listening and Assistance Service between 2008 and 2015. The panel listened to the stories of 1100 survivors of state care and heard harrowing testimony about sexual abuse, incarceration, beatings and neglect.
In a sense, the timing for an independent inquiry to follow up Judge Henwood’s sterling work could not be better. The recent avalanche of stories sparked by Hollywood actors recounting stories of sexual assault, rape, bullying and intimidation — together with the viral campaign #MeToo — has exposed just how damaging such abuse can be.
The Hollywood storm started in October with allegations in The New York Times and The New Yorker against producer Harvey Weinstein, and exposed his decades-long rampage of destruction against young actresses. A slew of show-business stars, politicians and high-ranking officials have since been added to the list of alleged offenders and, over the past few months, we have been presented nearly every day with evidence from actors and others who were humiliated and terrified by their tormentors. Many have told of being seriously damaged for years by the brief encounters — becoming suicidal, or developing eating disorders, or being psychologically scarred and self-destructive.
Notable among the personal accounts is that of screenwriter and actress Sophie Dix, who recounted how Weinstein tried to take her clothes off and masturbated in front of her before she fled from his hotel room, and that she took to her bed for six months to cope with the emotional and psychological fallout.
Dix, who was 22 at the time of the assault, told the Guardian in October: “What I’m interested in talking about is the aftermath of a trauma like that. I’ve had friends call this week after the New York Times pieces came out, some who are now really famous, who knew about it at the time, and they say: ‘This was the moment it changed for you.’
So if a single encounter with a man like Weinstein — presumably over less than half an hour — can traumatise a young woman (who describes herself as a “big, strong girl”) and can rate as the single most damaging thing in her life, imagine how severe the effects of assault, punishment, rape and solitary confinement are on young, much more vulnerable children in state care who had nowhere to run and no one — friends or family — to turn to for help?
The actors who have come forward were young adults — not children — at the time of their encounters with Weinstein or other similarly aggressive, bullying men. Given the highly competitive nature of their profession, all the actors must have had many of the qualities that psychologists say help guard against developing personality disorders from this kind of trauma. “Protective factors” include intelligence, good looks, natural confidence, and supportive friends and family.
Most of the children in New Zealand’s state care would have lacked many of the protective factors that the adult actors enjoyed, including, most obviously, family support.
Many Hollywood victims cited the fact that Weinstein was a big, intimidating man who physically overpowered them. To a child, of course, any adult in charge of them is a Weinstein in their physical ability to dominate them. And, unlike Weinstein’s accusers, they can’t get away. And instead of their ordeal being over in a short time, children in state care were often at the mercy of their abusive “carers” for months and years.
“For the last seven years I have heard reported accounts of children suffering sexual abuse, punchings, kickings, and beatings with jug cords. I heard from children who were locked up in solitary confinement, unable to learn at school because they were so worried about what would happen to them when they got home.
“More than half of the people we spoke with said they were sexually abused. A number of girls had to accept that sex with the foster father was part of the deal, otherwise they’d be moved on.
“A stable home was extraordinarily difficult if, as in one case, you'd been to 40 different homes, and 14 different schools.
“Serious physical abuse was said to be regularly dished out by foster caregivers, extended families, social workers, and staff of both genders.”
However, while most people have a lot of sympathy for children who have been abused — just as we rightly do for the young actors — most of that sympathy disappears when these children grow into damaged teenagers and adults.
This seems especially to be the case when children survive abuse and become abusers themselves, or end up in prison. (Henwood noted that it is estimated 40 per cent of prisoners grew up in state care.) The dialogue swiftly changes then from sympathy to condemnation.
An independent inquiry will likely achieve many useful things, not least providing a vehicle for victims to express their bewilderment, anger and hurt. But one of its greatest benefits could be to persuade New Zealanders who have never experienced such abuse that some of our most intractable social problems — high rates of violence and imprisonment among them — can be traced back to childhood trauma, often at the hands of the state.
As the CLAS report says: “Many participants moved from Social Welfare care to borstal to prison. For instance, Boys’ Homes set up young people to align with a gang, for friendship and protection. These gang allegiances then continued into adulthood, and kept the individual in a criminal lifestyle…. It was often reported to us by prisoners that they saw crime as retaliation for the way they had been treated in care. The heartless way they had been treated had turned them into perpetrators of violence themselves. This legacy remains to this day, filling New Zealand prisons.”
Stating this link between childhood abuse and crime is not novel but it has become commonplace to shrug it off on the grounds that some survivors live normal lives (at least outwardly), which critics take to mean that everyone has a choice in how they will respond in later life. The clear message is that they should just get over it and pull themselves together and live law-abiding, stable lives.
And it’s true that some people are emotionally and temperamentally built in such a way that they can cope with all the ills and injuries life has to offer, even horrific ones.
But when a woman as talented, confident and successful as Meryl Streep admits that her experience of two acts of violence as an adult affected her for years — including, she said, at a “cellular level” — we have to conclude that those who suffered horrific and sustained abuse in state care without being irrevocably damaged are undoubtedly the exception rather than the rule.
New Zealand-born model and actress Zoe Brock has said that in speaking out about being “Weinsteined” she hoped to give voice to the voiceless.
"I am not going to let bullies hurt people. I can't. There are so many women who are shy, timid or ashamed or scared who don't have a voice, and men too… so many survivors of abuse who don't have a voice.”
An inquiry into abuse in New Zealand will give many people who are not glamorous or influential —some of whom have been damaged much more profoundly than an encounter with the likes of Harvey Weinstein could ever match — their own voice.
As Judge Henwood remarked: “If you are seven years old and being sexually abused, it's not easy to speak out.” |
This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons. Of course, many people have been very concerned with practical matters concerning the care of retarded persons such as what liberties, entitlements or advocacy they should have. Read more...
Person ascriptions, profound disabilities and our self-imposed duties : a reply to Loretta Kopelman --
schema:description "Sect. I. Examining the rights tradition. Rights and borderline cases -- Applying moral theory to the retarded -- Joseph Margolis, John Rawls, and the mentally retarded -- Do the retarded have a right not to be eaten? A rejoinder to Joseph Margolis -- The rights of the retarded -- Rights, justice and the retarded -- Sect. II. Respect and labeling. Respect and the retarded : issues of valuing and labeling -- Person ascriptions, profound disabilities and our self-imposed duties : a reply to Loretta Kopelman -- The world gained and the world lost : labeling the mentally retarded -- Labeling the mentally retarded : a reply to Laurence B. McCullough -- Sect. III Theology and philosophy of religion. Must God create the best? -- Parenting, bonding, and valuing the retarded -- Responsibility for the retarded : two theological views -- Philosophical and theological perspectives on the value of the retarded : responses to William F. Man and John C. Moskop -- Sect. IV. Law and public policy. The legal rights of mentally retarded persons in Twentieth Century America -- Examining legal restrictions on the retarded -- Who speaks for the retarded? -- Commentary on David J. Rothman's 'Who speaks for the retarded?' -- Dilemmas in the neonatal intensive care unit -- Health care, needs and rights of retarded persons."@en ;
The proposed second volume of the Journals, announced in the "Advertisement," was not published. Cf. Sabin.
Covers most of the material and topics that are included in basic, university-level clinical epidemiology courses. Also includes examples of research studies, how authors present the results of their studies, and how indexes from the four databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and EMBASE/EXCERPTA MEDICA) index them. Designed to include some aspects of a workbook. The theoretical principles are supplemented with many and real and hypothetical examples from all disicplines of health care. The searching assignments at the end of each chapter have suggested solutions in the CD-ROM appendix. Read more...
Takes readers through the basic principles of what constitutes evidence for health care practice and how it can be found, using modern information facilities. This book offers suggestions for retrieving clinical studies on the etiology, prognosis, diagnosis, prevention, and management of disorders encountered in adult general medicine. Read more...
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The present state of the new buildings of Queens College in Oxford With an ichnography of the whole, and cuts of the several parts of the said buildings engraved. (eBook, 1730) [WorldCat.org]
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© 2015 The Authors, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of College of Optometrists. Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics 36 (2016) 60–68 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Purpose: A recent randomised controlled trial indicated that providing long-term multifocal wearers with a pair of distance single-vision spectacles for use outside the home reduced falls risk in active older people. However, it also found that participants disliked continually switching between using two pairs of glasses and adherence to the intervention was poor. In this study we determined whether intermediate addition multifocals (which could be worn most of the time inside and outside the home and thus avoid continual switching) could provide similar gait safety on stairs to distance single vision spectacles whilst also providing adequate ‘short-term’ reading and near vision. Methods: Fourteen healthy long-term multifocal wearers completed stair ascent and descent trials over a 3-step staircase wearing intermediate and full addition bifocals and progression-addition lenses (PALs) and single-vision distance spectacles. Gait safety/caution was assessed using foot clearance measurements (toe on ascent, heel on descent) over the step edges and ascent and descent duration. Binocular near visual acuity, critical print size and reading speed were measured using Bailey-Lovie near charts and MNRead charts at 40 cm. Results: Gait safety/caution measures were worse with full addition bifocals and PALs compared to intermediate bifocals and PALs. The intermediate PALs provided similar gait ascent/descent measures to those with distance single- vision spectacles. The intermediate addition PALs also provided good reading ability: Near word acuity and MNRead critical print size were better with the intermediate addition PALs than with the single-vision lenses (p < 0.0001), with a mean near visual acuity of 0.24 0.13 logMAR (~N5.5) which is satisfactory for most near vision tasks when performed for a short period of time. Conclusions: The better ability to ‘spot read’ with the intermediate addition PALs compared to single-vision spectacles suggests that elderly individuals might better comply with the use of intermediate addition PALs outside the home. A lack of difference in gait parameters for the intermediate addition PALs compared to distance single-vision spectacles suggests they could be usefully used to help prevent falls in older well-adapted full addition PAL wearers. A randomised controlled trial to investigate the usefulness of intermediate multifocals in preventing falls seems warranted.
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My name is Matteo Bellisario, and I am completing my final report for my Master Degree in Strategic Market Creation at the Copenhagen Business School, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
My academic supervisor for this research is Dr. Thomas Z. Ramsøy, head of the Decision Neuroscience Research Group at the Copenhagen Business School and Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance at Copenhagen University Hospital.
The results will be part of my Master Thesis, and may, if suitable, be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal.
I just love this title: Independence in ROI analysis: where is the voodoo? by Russel Poldrack and Jeanette Mumford. Lately, there has been much fuzz about so-called voodoo correlations in social neuroscience, and questions have been raised about the legitimacy of the claims put forward by Vul et al. (PDF of in press manuscript) and see criticism from Tania Singer and other colleagues here (PDF). Crucial to the criticism by Vul et al. is that the correlations between behavioural/social data and brain activation data show a correlation level that is highly improbable, or as Vul et al. put it:
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition have drawn much attention in recent years, with high-profile studies frequently reporting extremely high (e.g., >.8) correlations between behavioral and self-report measures of personality or emotion and measures of brain activation. We show that these correlations often exceed what is statistically possible assuming the (evidently rather limited) reliability of both fMRI and personality/emotion measures. The implausibly high correlations are all the more puzzling because method sections rarely contain sufficient detail to ascertain how these correlations were obtained.
We outline the problem of non-independence, and use a previously published dataset to examine the effects of non-independence. These analyses show that very strong correlations (exceeding 0.8) can occur even when the ROI is completely independent of the data being analyzed, suggesting that the claims of Vul et al. regarding the implausibility of these high correlations are incorrect.
I am not going to give you the details of the whole voodoo story here, since it has been covered nicely in the blogosphere. But what is interesting is that this discussion demonstrates just how easy it is to get pre-publication media and blogosphere coverage for researchers criticising brain research, much in the same vein as we saw in the case of criticism of neuroeconomics by Gul and Pesendorfer’s neo-conservative “A case agains mindless economics” (PDF), long before the article actually appeared… I guess in the end that as neuroscience and neuroimaging in particular becomes even more popular, it will always have the extremists of either side, saying either that it shows nothing/too much/fake information, or the wholesale version that lets people get away with anything, as long as they point to a brain…
I just love the way that YouTube is developing these days. If you just spend some time searching this wonderful site, you can get access to so many different teaching resources for psychology, neuroscience and philosophy that you could ever dream of. Seeing an interview with the younger Michael Gazzaniga speaking about the callosotomy procedure, BF Skinner speaking, even an item on Pavlov, just just blows my mind.
Or how about giving a demo of how patients with unilateral neglect actually behave (I’ve seen this many time when I was working clinically, but it’s like “what are you doing?”)
We highly recommend this interesting conference, and please note that the deadline for registration is tomorrow (!!!). So get this out to all and everybody, and see to that you register. Sounds like a good spot, too, for holding a conference 😀
In the past two decades, the field of Neuroscience has made significant progress in understanding the human brain. Many expect that this research will make further strides over the next decade. And many suggest that this knowledge could have a profound impact on the future of our legal system and legal practice. There has been much speculation over whether developments in neuroscience will overturn legal paradigms (e.g., by shattering the concept of free will). This conference will sidestep such speculations to address empirical evidence and current research on the likely impacts of neuroscience on legal practice, with a specific focus on European legal systems.
I just found this through mindhacks, and thought it was nice how well this illustrates the amazement one can get from witnessing neurological injury and disease. Through my early clinical practices, I’ve seen several kinds of unilateral neglect, blindsight, amnesias, aphasias, weird dementias (Wernicke-Korsakoff, fronto-polar, Parkinson Plus), and youtube may be the place to find good illustrations of this to the general public.
Antoine Bechara, the inventer of the Iowa Gambling Task, and together with Antonio Damasio the architect of the “somatic marker hypothesis” is visiting the Decision Neuroscience Research Group at the Copenhagen Business School at the moment. Here he is explaining to Thomas the role of gut feelings in making a decision to drink the bad CBS coffee or not. |
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I mean, we’re in late July, so I can only assume that Sirius, the “dog star”, is now rising before the sun, signaling the beginning of the hottest and – according to the Greeks and Romans and many of us modern day folks too, if for different reasons – potentially catastrophic days.
But I haven’t gotten up early enough to check, so I don’t know. I do know this: it’s been hot. It’s been too hot to go out. It’s been to hot to write. It’s been too hot to do much of anything at all.
And while I’ve been sitting around, doing nothing, I have noticed that no one is having a better summer than…..my dog.
So, I tell myself, I’m not doing nothing. I’m actually furthering my education, full-immersion style. I’m not sitting around; I’m making observations of and taking lessons from an expert on how the dog days should be spent, and on some other truths that she always seems to remember better than I do.
If you are lucky enough to have a neighbor with a pool, and a friend who invites you for a swim, always say yes, even if the friend is younger and in better shape and a much better swimmer. And don’t stand around whining on the side of the pool because you are afraid to jump in.
The article that follows is a series of excerpts from a faculty seminar sponsored by the Program in the Comparative Study of Social Transformations (CSST) on April 15, 1999. Hall‘s article, “When was ‘the post-colonial’? Thinking at the Limit,” served as a stepping off point for discussion[1]. The Journal extends its thanks to Brett Johnson (CSST program coordinator) and Elizabeth Otto (doctoral candidate, history of art) for transcribing the seminar.
The post-colonial is a very contentious field, and rightly so. It is a difficult area to know exactly what one means, so part of what I do at the beginning of my paper is to begin not exactly definitionally, but clarifying, interrogating the term. I use the post-colonial as if the concept is under erasure. We don‘t know exactly what it means. It doesn‘t mean what it obviously means. It‘s often situated in certain paradigms of thought, none of which I want to take up exactly in the way that it‘s traditionally used. I need to question it, to turn it around, to acknowledge where its weaknesses are, its gaps and aporias; and nevertheless I want to keep occupying it because it seems to me to say something absolutely important, and I know of no other way of saying it. So rather than trying to find another terminology, I occupy the deconstructed terrain. I‘m not a Derridian in a long-term sense, but I‘m a Derridian in a short-term sense in that I think more and more that the most interesting concepts in our field have fallen under erasure in exactly this way. One after another they tumble from the paradigms where they seem to be settled and come loose in your hands. And then you say, “Shall I stop talking about identity,” but how can you stop talking about identity?
Actually, what people very often point out is that once you lift a term from its moorings, it proliferates. Rather than looking less useful, it‘s somehow everywhere; everyone uses it, and a sort of confusion surrounds the term. Therefore, there is nothing to do but to go in and tease out how you want to use it and how you don‘t want to use it. Each lecture has to begin with, “I am using it in this way and not in that way.” You hold certain meanings in check in order to release others. This is a tactic, but I feel the post- colonial has come into that arena, too.
I am committed to the view that no subjects are ever monistic. And that is because I have a psychoanalytic conception of the nature of the subject. By that I don‘t mean that the particular forms of splitting, which were identified by Freud, are common to all cultures. I don‘t believe anything like that. But I think that the fundamental insight is that what we constitute as a whole within the subject is fundamentally constituted by that which is not itself, by its constitutive outside. Put in another way, every self or every identity is constituted by that which it lacks, which is the Other. I think that is totally true in humans; so even if in all other dimensions the subject is stitched up, at that dimension it is more than one. It may not be two, but it‘s more than one.
I mean “multiple” in a very particular way. I don‘t hold with what I call the post- modern conception of the nomadic subject. I don‘t think that identity is what you get up in the morning and feel like being. I‘m talking about something that is in between making it up and being just one thing unfolding, like the oak.
Instead of asking what are people‘s roots, we ought to think about what are their routes, the different points by which they have come to be now; they are, in a sense, the sum of those differences. That, I think, is a different way of speaking than talking about multiple personalities or multiple identities as if they don‘t have any relation to one another or that they are purely intentional. These routes hold us in places, but what they don‘t do is hold us in the same place. We need to try to make sense of the connections with where we think we were then as compared to where we are now. That is what biography or the unfolding sense of the self or the stories we tell ourselves or the autobiographies we write are meant to do, to convince ourselves that these are not a series of leaps in the dark that we took, but they did have some logic, though it‘s not the logic of time or cause or sequence. But there is a logic of connected meaning.
I have to confess that in this respect I‘m driven by purely anecdotal and personal experience. I was the son of a lower middle-class colonial family. My family would never have — in a thousand words — ever thought of itself as Black; the word would not have entered its vocabulary. And you have to know the colonial Caribbean to know how utterly unthinkable it would have been for this middle-class family to think about anything like that. What seem to have been the turning points in my own life were all turning points I recognized after the event. They were not intentional but they were all connected with recognitions from outside of myself. The most telling one was when I went back to Jamaica from Britain after a long period of time in the middle of the 60s, after the upheaval in the Caribbean. And my mother, now besieged on all sides by a rising tide of Blacks said, “I hope they don‘t think you‘re one of those Blacks over there.” And she said next, “And I hope they don‘t think you‘re one of those immigrants. I think those immigrants should be pushed off the long end of a short cliff.”
I‘d never ever called myself an immigrant before, but in that moment I symbolically migrated. I had maintained, until then, the fiction that I might just go home, but at the point where somebody else said to me, “But you are something else; you‘ve become something else; you might be mistaken for something else,” I thought that I had, indeed, become something else. That was also the first time that I ever thought of myself as Black. That term was made available to me by Rastafarianism and by the civil rights movement, by all sorts of contingent factors which appeared to be out there. But the transformations of what one can and cannot be are so much not, you know, pushing oneself along from the outside through these barriers, but being called, interpolated in a new position. After the effect of recognition, that‘s where I‘ve come to, that‘s where my route has taken me.
If you talk globalization too much you really believe it is happening. That is why I want to interrogate the discourse of globalization itself. I think that there are discourses of what I would call “hyper-globalization.” Everything is transformed; everything is an outcast in the same way by the global processes. There isn‘t any local that isn‘t written, re-written through and through by the global. That just doesn‘t seem to me to be true. It doesn‘t ring true; I think it‘s a myth.
On the other hand, I think there is something significantly different about the pace and rate at which these uneven interdependencies now constitute our world. And that does have something to do with what I call convening locals under the canopy of the global so that local differentiation not only remains but actually intensifies. Therefore, the reason that I am partially interested in globalization is exactly the reverse process, the intensification of the commitment to the local. Simply because the global is in some ways antithetical to the local, more people have to find something. It may be nothing more substantial than the soccer team Manchester United, but they stake their flag somewhere. There must be some recognizable community of people that you might sometime see again. The whole world comes as a sort of kaleidoscope of ever-migrating folks. So localism is very important and is indeed the only point of intervention against the hegemonic, universalizing thrust of globalization.
So when I talk about globalization I talk about it in this more contradictory way, rather than as a single process…. I think that because the forms of globalization that we know about historically have been largely driven by capitalist modernity, I don‘t propose to use those terms as mutually interdependent. There are modernities that are not capitalist in the same way. Indeed, I think that that is what we are working for; otherwise we are driven back to the defense of closed traditionalism. I think that we can only be working for the possibility that we might be able to constitute what I call “vernacular modernity,” modern kinds of people who are not fully inscribed by capitalist modernity in that way. That again does have certain personal roots; it‘s grounded in the observation of C.L.R. James about the Caribbean from where I come, in which he always insists that people from the Caribbean are a modern people — poor, backward, stupid and underdeveloped, but modern (laughs)[2]. That‘s because, in his view, they are the products of a combination of an archaic and a modern mode. Slavery itself, within capitalism, is not the older form of slavery, but it is an older, archaic, differentiated form, enclosed within and intimately linked to the development of the modern mode. It constitutes the possibility of a kind of modernity from below.
Therefore I am polemically opposed to the notion that capitalism, because it has articulated modernity over the span of history so far, must go on doing so. It must be possible for people to conceive of themselves as of the present and of the future, that is to say modern, in ways that are not inscribed through and through by the imprint of capital. So it‘s really the disarticulation of that long historical harnessing that I am interested in as a political project.
I would issue one warning about historically or geographically specific studies: namely, that the sleight of hand between being captured by the case study, in an empiricist way, and going to the concrete as the specification, the distillation, the concrete instantiation… may look like the same strategy but are not the same strategy at all. You have to think as carefully about what the wider things being tested in this living laboratory are — and it‘s much easier to appropriate them in what I call an empiricist way. The empiricist thesis is a ubiquitous scholarly genre, in which the first chapter surveys the entire conceptual universe, and then the next chapter plunges down into a specificity, which never surfaces in relation with erudite questions again. I‘m afraid I‘ve read thesis after thesis like that.
So I make the distinction between the empirical and the concrete; but you‘re quite right in saying that these problems can‘t be taken beyond a kind of programmatic level without those kinds of studies. And we ought to be — I ought to be — more responsible in specifying why and how one might do that. I think that the situation is not so dire because where the post-colonial and imperial are concerned, there is a good deal of very good, detailed work going on that is not lost in the empirical. I don‘t do it, but I am sustained by the work being done by others who are doing work in ways that I couldn‘t. I don‘t think that it‘s quite the same in all disciplines, but I agree with you that this ought to be done.
Precisely what pedagogic work would prepare people to do that kind of work? Well, there must be as many pedagogies as there are people in this room. I bet everybody in this room thinks that is what they are teaching. They aren‘t teaching just by grubbing along the empirical and they aren‘t teaching just abstract theory; they‘re teaching how to interface between the general, conceptual questions and the historically specific moment, whatever that is. But it‘s perfectly obvious from the results that some of us are doing it better than others; and most of us are not doing it sufficiently, or often enough, or adequately.
We ought to talk about the technologies of inquiry more seriously than we do, because if we are ever satisfied with the ones around us—with what was described as putting a few tables into a text and thinking that this is somehow going to make it more economic—that is a complete barbarism. Students trained by that ought to have us up in the courts, really, because we‘re defrauding them. So I think we ought to talk more about that, and about methodologies which may not be complete and which can‘t be systematized, which aren‘t as random as we sometimes experience them as being. We think, “Well, that‘s just how I go on.” This isn‘t how you go on; this is the distillation of what you think you ought to be doing. And you don‘t set off on the next task as if you‘d never heard of it before, you set off with some knowledge of “last time around I did it that way, and that was a good start, but I could have done that better.” Or, “I have ultimately found myself calling for the economic and leaving it out. Not this time around!” etc.
We ought to be more methodologically self-conscious without falling into a methods course, whatever that might be. We ought to be reflexive about our own means of doing so. The more we are, the better we are able to teach our students about it. We are able to alert them as to what is distinctive about how we are producing the knowledge that we are offering them. That‘s an absolute requirement of good teaching. After you present the wonderful insight, you say, “And this is the funny way in which I get to it. This is precisely how I do it. And if you don‘t like it, tell me some better way of doing it.” That‘s the reflexivity that I think we do need now in these fields.
Interdisciplinarity is the most difficult intellectual practice of all. The slack thinking across disciplinary traditions — as if the traditions don‘t matter, as if they were funny things that were made up in the academy — is not serious thinking. It‘s not serious when we encourage students to do that kind of facile, theoretical, magpie approach. It doesn‘t get anywhere. The serious attempt to bring two constituted disciplinary fields genuinely together so that one is thinking at the point of articulation between them is serious business, hard business.
I‘m going to end by a complete cop out. There are what I call “horses for courses.” When the going is soft you need to know which jockey to put in the saddle. If you want detailed, scholarly, historical work, you don‘t put me in the saddle (laughs). I don‘t do it; I don‘t do it well. I don‘t know how it‘s done, and I don‘t have the patience for it. That is because I came into cultural studies at the moment of its interdisciplinarity. You can only do any work at all by thinking rather programmatically. To get embedded into any one discipline would exactly have been to let loose of the challenge of daring to think across the divide, although it‘s a kind of chasm. So I chose to go with the flow and to think across the divide, although the thinness of what that produces is a drawback.
And that is why I am committed to collective, individual conceptual work. I describe it as a project because one person can‘t do it alone. It requires differences of temperament, skill and so on. Those people who are good at one thing need to feel that they are engaged in an intellectual project that includes the work of different persons who are good at another approach. It‘s when these two begin to come together in a conversation that isn‘t organized by academic institutional lines of contact that something really happens. Those are the affiliations and the networks worth sustaining. And one does have to see that this project requires a programmatic thrust and requires some serious scholarship and it requires some economists of the right kind, and so on.
The fact is that, in a funny way, cultural studies wouldn‘t have happened if we hadn‘t precisely tried to bring together people with very different aptitudes and skills. That‘s what made it such an exciting thing. As you know, we actually tried for a while in Birmingham the absolutely horrendous task of writing collectively. But we did write collectively, and I recommend it to senior academics. It‘s a wonderfully sobering thing as your graduate students take the blue pen and say, “I don‘t think we need this side” (laughs). You sweated your guts out in these wonderful, elegant formulations. I don‘t strongly recommend it, but it‘s a very good discipline. It never enables you to talk about knowledge as if it‘s an appropriation of private property ever again. You just do realize that it is something broader than that. It involves the eternal differentiation of skills. We [academics] were appointed by the fact that there is a division of labor. We need to put together those people who are good at one thing with people who are good at something else. That will be an argument, it will be a ferocious noise and so on; people will storm out of the room, but, you know, that‘s what democracy is about.
An eminent British intellectual, Stuart Hall has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Hall received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oxford University. In the 1980s, Hall became a leading critic of the New Right and Britain‘s post-imperial political discourse, a pioneering commentator on the formation of Caribbean and black British identities and a leading theorist of race in popular culture. Among the many texts Hall has authored is Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order (1978). Hall served as the director of the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University for eight years. He recently retired from the chair of sociology at the Open University.
Stuart Hall, “When was ‘the post-colonial‘? Thinking at the Limit,” The Post-Colonial Question: Common Skies, Divided Horizons, eds. Iain Chambers and Lidia Curti (London: Routledge, 1996). |
In this all-practical era, of course everyone is familiar with credit cards. As already known, credit cards are usually used to make it easier for us to carry out various financial transactions. The reason for using a credit card is to get many benefits such as discounts on certain products, cash back, and other benefits.
Along with the development of the times, credit cards are not only used as a means of payment, but can also be used for cash withdrawals at Cash Self-service Platform machine (ATM) display a Visa or MasterCard. Please note that before planning to do credit card cash withdrawal, it will be good you follow some important information regarding credit card cash withdrawal:
Before you intend to withdraw cash credit cards, you need to know about any provisions in force. Some of the important provisions that you know of, among others, about the costs imposed in one transaction, the interest rate that has been established, and limits cash withdrawals or credit card limit.
Fees will be charged in a single credit card cash withdrawal transaction is quite varied with the policy of adjusting bank respectively, but in general the average local bank have set fees in a single transaction amounted to $3-$4 or 4% of the amount of the transaction, whichever is greater.
Not only is the transaction fee large enough, the interest rate that will be charged to credit card users will be a serious consideration. At present, the Bank has set a maximum interest rate on credit cards of 29.5% per month. If accumulated, the interest rate per year will reach 35.4%.
Usually the bank will provide a limit for cash withdrawals using the credit cards by 40%-60% of credit card limit you.
After understanding what are the provisions applicable and you already feel getting ready to withdraw cash credit card, we've got some tips and tricks that you can do to minimize the incidents that are not desirable in the future.
-You should understand in advance the procedures and provisions of any given party bank, as has been mentioned above.
-You have to know where the location to credit card cash withdrawal. Be sure also to close the number keys on the cash machine when you enter your PIN.
-Make it a habit to pay bills on time to avoid a full-blown credit card interest charges would further surged.
-Use the pull of cash credit card while in urgent circumstances, for example when you forget to bring a wallet. If you always use the pull of cash credit cards in our daily lives, imagine how many bills you have to pay along with transaction costs and interest expenses. This would be very detrimental to you, isn't it?
In fact, the step that you should do when want to withdraw cash with a credit card almost as much as you pull it using a debit card. However, there are some notes that you should pay attention to avoid missteps.
-Select the nominal money will you pull. Usually, on the screen of the ATM machine has already provided several options a nominal withdrawal of money. However, if the nominal amount you want does not exist, you can choose the menu "More" after that select "Withdrawal".
-If you have a nominal vote, the next step is to select the "credit card" of different options available such as Checking, savings and more.
-If you want to print a stroke, select "Yes" on the menu. A stroke this would be proof of the cash withdrawal transaction. If you don't want to print a stroke, select "no".
-Take the money out of the ATM machine, and make sure the credit card along with a stroke of the transaction you already save before exit from ATM location.
Are you interested in doing cash withdrawal with credit cards? Whatever your choice is, always make sure your choice is not going to harm yourself. Use wisely is very necessary if you want to meet up with things that are not desired at a later date.
The hue and cry over which is the official football league in the country is long going. With both the I-League and the Indian Super league packing some of the best talents from within the country and from outside, it has become a raging debate both officially and among fans as to which is the supreme league. The Indian Super League with its glamorous franchise owners and money definitely has the upper edge, but it seems I-league team Bengaluru FC has been proving the point that at the end of the day what matters is the talent and the game itself.
Bengaluru, which played for the I-league side last year, joined the glamorous ISL with the other teams having a big advantage over them. With more money in hand and big international stars like Dimitar Berbatov playing in the league, it was always difficult for Bengaluru to come from behind and win the tournament. But the current standings will show you that not only is the club is doing well, they lead the current rankings. Bengaluru FC has managed to win 10 of their 14 matches so far and has displayed beautiful football.
Now played in 10 cities – Mumbai, Delhi, Margao, Kochi, Chennai, Kolkata, Guwahati, Pune, Bengaluru and Tatanagar, the ISL is still a six months tournament and does not run for the complete year. The league may have bought football into the limelight but it is clear from Bengaluru’s performance that I-league is still a more serious league with more focus on just the game.
Though AIFF insists that the I-league is the official A division league, it sounds like a hollow claim. The Indian Super League is clearly the chosen one, considering the subtle moves that undermine the I-League. A prime example of this would be the fact that 40 of 91 I-league matches, including the first Kolkata derby, have a 2 pm kickoff compared to all ISL games getting prime-time slots. But it does not change the fact that the tournament is still majorly an entertainment-based league. If one considers football a serious game, I-league is still the place to go and one can say Bengaluru has given enough proof in the matter. |
The Great North Wood was a vast wooded landscape, which once covered the low hills that rise between Deptford, Streatham and Croydon.
Much of the old Great North Wood was swallowed up by development from the 1850s, but pockets remain valuable havens for animals, plants and people.
On Sunday, September 9, London Wildlife Trust held a festival in Sydenham Hill Wood to celebrate the Great North Wood and the wildlife which still thrives in the surviving woodlands and wild spaces.
The Trust’s Great North Wood project, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund, is raising awareness of this largely forgotten landscape, encouraging people to explore, enjoy and value the natural wealth on their doorsteps.
The laboratory report will show a result, risk score and recommendation for the three common chromosomal abnormalities:
A high-risk indication will be given where the result of your non-invasive prenatal test has fallen below the 1/100 threshold. If your result is 1/100 or higher risk you will be offered an invasive diagnostic test, such as a CVS or amniocentesis to give you a definite answer.
97+% of the time yes. However, the result from every sample is subjected to a large volume of quality control checks. 3% or less will not pass this stage and in this case no result will be issued. In this event the laboratory will repeat the analysis free of charge but there will be a delay in the result being issued. In the unlikely event of a second failure we offer a repeat blood test at no additional charge.
We will call you no more than 15 days after your appointment to let you know your results and will send a report detailing your estimated risk and fetal sex (if requested).
No, if you have the Harmony test before 12 weeks gestation you will still need to have a scan at 12 weeks to check your baby’s anatomy. A non-reassuring screening result following the Harmony test can only be absolutely verified by having an invasive diagnostic test such as a CVS or amniocentesis.
One of Yarram's most interesting pieces of architecture is this handsome red-brick Edwardian building (c 1907) that was used as the town's courthouse until 1986. Today it's an art gallery featuring quality works by …
In the old Bank of Victoria (1861) is this interesting museum that will give you an insight into the highlights of Port Albert’s maritime history, with stories of shipwrecks, the town’s whaling and sealing days, and…
Ignore the noise and fumes from idling motoconchos and pull up a plastic chair to enjoy delicious plates of barbecue chicken and yucca.
This quality blues bar has been attracting some of Manila's finest musos since 1973. Beloved American founder Jim Turner passed away in 2016, leaving the bar in the hands of his height-challenged staff. Also has an impressive imported and craft-beer selection.
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(Long Island, NY) Suffolk County Community College Head Baseball Coach Eric Brown of Coram who was inducted into the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame last spring, has been named the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Diamond Sports Company National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III Regional Coach of the Year.
Coach Brown is the longest tenured coach of any athletic program at Suffolk County Community College and has led the Sharks for 25 years, amassing an overall record of 587-322-7.
Suffolk County Community College Head Baseball Coach Eric Brown has been named the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Diamond Sports Company National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division III Regional Coach of the Year. Photo Credit: Suffolk Community College.
“Coach Brown has once again demonstrated that he is an exceptional leader. He is a credit to our institution, and I am proud to congratulate him personally and on behalf of the entire College community,” said Suffolk County Community President Dr. Shaun L. McKay.
Coach Brown has led Suffolk to six appearances in the NJCAA Division III World Series (1998, 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2011, 2014) and is a five-time recipient of the Region 15 / District F Coach of the Year Award.
A multi-sport star himself, Brown lettered in three sports – including baseball – as a student-athlete at Suffolk. He was hired to the lead Suffolk’s Baseball program in 1987 and was subsequently inducted into the Suffolk County Community College Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.
Brown is a member of the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame and the Longwood High School Sports Hall of Fame.
In addition to his program’s success on the field, the NJCAA Region 15 Umpires Association has awarded Coach Brown’s program its annual sportsmanship award four times.
A Levittown man was sentenced Monday to two terms of life in prison for conspiring to murder the United States District Judge and federal prosecutor involved in his fraud conviction two years ago.
Joseph Romano was convicted in January for plotting to pay an undercover police officer $40,000 to kill the judge and prosecutor and to cut off each of their heads for a “bonus,” prosecutors said.
Authorities became aware of the 51-year-old’s murder-for-hire plot in August 2012 through an inmate at the Nassau County Correctional Center where Romano was being held. A meeting between the informant and Romano, which had been recorded by the FBI, revealed that the convicted fraudster had specific requests in mind. According to prosecutors, the judge and prosecutor were to be tortured, murdered, mutilated, and beheaded.
During the investigation, two undercover officers posing as hit men met repeatedly with Romano and Dejvid Mirkovic, his co-conspirator, and discussed payments for the murders and a separate assault.
One of the officers was paid a $1,500 down payment for the assault and received a final payment after showing Mirkovic a staged photograph and identification card as proof of the assault. Later that day, Mirkovic relayed instructions to murder the judge and prosecutor.
Mirkovic was sentenced in August to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to murder.
Romano was previously convicted in February 2012 in Central Islip to 15 years in prison for a multi-million dollar fraud involving the telemarking of coins.
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Y2K was a breakout year for both the men’s and women’s XTERRA World Champions - Michael Tobin and Kerstin Weule. They had each finished 2nd in Maui in ’99 and had won just about every major XTERRA but winning Worlds was always the ultimate goal.
“Just thought of a funny story but first here's why 2000 was such a great experience,” shared Tobin. “XTERRA did a camp on Molokai the weekend before. Jenny and I, Pat Brown and friends were asked to participate. It was so relaxing, quiet and fun. Nothing like the pressure I put on myself prior to the year before. Jenny and I stayed in this beautiful hut looking out over the island and ocean. A little more my style than staying at the big hotels to be honest. Two nights before the race at the race hotel I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. As I walked to the bathroom I blacked out. The next thing I noticed was something rough on my cheek. It was the non-slip coating on the tub bottom. With my shorts down I got up and couldn't turn my head. I spent the day before the race at a Physical Therapist in one of those traction machines. Really relaxing :).”
Not exactly the perfect race prep, but it worked! “I passed Mike Vine on the last big climb and held off the Whistler trained bike handler to the transition. I bet he was surprised. Or maybe he had a flat?” wrote Tobin, who added that racing against and with Mike Pigg was always special. “I love his joy in competing,” he said.
After Maui, Tobin, Mike Vine, and Pat Brown teamed up for their very first adventure race in China. “We rented some sit on top kayaks in Maui to practice,” said Tobin, “We still laugh at our "how hard can it be'" comment after we flailed down the Yangste river completely out of contention.”
The XTERRA World Championship race that year was a grueling affair, described colorfully here by Matt Fitzgerald in a post he wrote for active.com 15 years ago…
"Chance plays a big role in deciding outcomes in the XTERRA World Championship. Two years ago, Michael Tobin probably would have won the race, but a flat tire helped Ned Overend claim an upset victory. This year, the roles were reversed: Overend came in as the two-time and defending champion, but suffered a flat tire on Sunday that helped Tobin to victory.
In this years womens race, Wendy Ingraham was considered a shoo-in to win the Hawaiian Airlines Double for the lowest combined Hawaii Ironman and Xterra finishing times, but she was stung by a bee during the bike leg and was unable to finish. Beth Zinkand took advantage of Wingnuts misfortune to make herself $1,000 richer.
Chance also played a role in deciding Sundays womens World Championship and Points Series outcomes. The defending champion, Jody Purcell, fell victim to a flat tire and two broken chains within one measly 30K mountain bike leg, clearing the way for a victory by Kerstin Weule, who holds the record for the most career Xterra victories. The fact that Purcell still managed to climb back into third place before melting down within sight of the finish and ultimately crossing the line in sixth place indicates that she would have stood an excellent chance of winning had she only had an incident-free ride.
This is to take nothing away from Weule, who won the race deservedly with a gutsy come-from-behind performance and had a flat tire of her own to deal with. Indeed, Purcells woes hardly turned the race into a laugher for Weule, as the expected showdown between Weule and Purcell who were tied for this years Points Series lead coming into the World Championship - turned instead into a battle between Weule and unheralded Melanie McQuaid.
McQuaid turned in the fastest bike split of the day to mount a four-minute lead on Weule entering the second transition. Weule pushed hard on the run and chipped away at Purcells advantage throughout the insanely difficult seven-mile run segment. As the two leaders came into view of the finish on Salt n Pepper Beach, Weule passed McQuaid and surged into the lead.
Once passed, McQuaid entered a pretty severe bonk, and it appeared that Tori Valentine might catch her, too. But then Valentine fell apart to the point where she actually fell down and was carried off the course allowing the spent McQuaid to cross the finish line in second place.
Purcell was the next woman to appear on the beach, but as she tired, Uli Blank, Karen Masson, and Jenny Tobin passed her in quick succession to finish third through fifth, respectively. |