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MINNEAPOLIS — After so many October misses, Alex Rodriguez delivered the playoff performance his talent demanded.
Rodriguez and Jorge Posada hit seventh-inning home runs to spoil Carl Pavano’s opportunity to frustrate New Yorkers one more time, and the Yankees advanced to their first AL Championship Series in five years with a 4-1 victory and sweep of Minnesota on Sunday night.
Mariano Rivera closed out Game 3 — the last baseball game at the Metrodome — to preserve Andy Pettitte’s record-tying 15th career postseason win.
Game 1 of the ALCS against the Los Angeles Angels will be at Yankee Stadium on Friday night. The teams were 5-5 against each this season.
This pitching duel between former teammates Pettitte and Pavano ended with another first-round playoff victory in Minnesota for the Yankees, who also eliminated the Twins here in 2003 and 2004.
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez reacts after tagging out Twins' Nick Punto during the eighth inning.
“I was trying to match zeros with him,” Pettitte said.
For all their success this decade by being so good at the basics, the Twins made glaring gaffes at the worst times. Against the team that led the majors with 103 wins, they were doomed.
The Yankees aren’t about to let an opponent get away with overrunning the bases, as Carlos Gomez did in Game 2 to cost the Twins a run. Nick Punto then wasted his leadoff double in the eighth by failing to see that Denard Span’s single didn’t get past shortstop Derek Jeter. Punto was thrown out trying to retreat to third base.
Pavano’s renaissance was upstaged by Rodriguez, who’s starting to make up for all those past postseason failures, and Posada, who proved he wasn’t too proud to publicly wish he started Game 2.
Rodriguez went 5-for-11 with two homers and six RBIs in these three games. Posada complained about being benched for Jose Molina with A.J. Burnett on the mound Friday.
Posada gave Rivera more room with an RBI single in a two-run ninth against the Minnesota bullpen.
Rivera, a 10-time All-Star, came in to get Joe Mauer on a bat-shattering groundout to end the eighth.
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2019-04-23T03:53:14Z
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https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Pettitte-ties-record-as-Yankees-finish-sweep-of-1736575.php
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November 16, 2008 | Utah State opened its regular season with a 71-50 victory over the Montana State Northern Lights at the Spectrum. Montana State came into the game 6-0 on the season and defending co-champions in the Frontier Conference of the NAIA.
Gary Wilkinson led the team with a double-double (24 points and 12 rebounds) while Tai Wesley added 13 points and seven boards. Wilkinson scored the first play of the game on a baseline screen with an assist from Pooh Williams. The Lights had no answer for the post play of Utah State all night.
Montana State-Northern kept it interesting for a good portion of the game with scrappy play. Travis Noble led the team in scoring with 18 points on 4 of 7 from the three-point line.
It seemed as if the Aggies would start to pull away when the roof nearly came off after a monster dunk from Modou Niang, but the Lights responded with a few free throws and a three-pointer to trim the lead to 21-17. Both teams fought hard but Wilkinson added a slam dunk of his own on an assist from Wesley that gave Utah State the momentum heading into halftime with a 35-25 lead.
The Lights pulled to within eight points in the second half, but Williams picked off a pass and took it coast to coast for the layup, and the Ags never looked back.
"We can't look past any team," said Wilkinson. And they didn't. The Aggies played with intensity and hustled the whole game.
USU Coach Stew Morrill said, "That's exactly what I expected from Montana State-Northern. I thought they did a really good job of coming in and competing."
The Aggies shot 54 percent from the field but managed to shoot only 61 percent from the charity stripe. Utah State played smothering defense and forced the opponent to take a lot of bad shots, which led to deafening chants of "Air ball! Air ball!" from the crowd. The Lights shot just 38 percent from the field in the game.
"We obviously have to make some improvements in a lot of areas to be a decent Division I team," added Morrill. "If you look at the stats, we didn't necessarily play horribly, but I think we better improve in a hurry to compete with Santa Barbara."
Utah State travels to play an old rival, UC Santa Barbara, Monday. The Gauchos are 1-0 on the season and also won their only exhibition game. These two teams battled it out for years in the Big West before Utah State joined the WAC.
The Aggies will be at home again Nov. 25 when they will host in-state rival Weber State.
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2019-04-19T10:25:23Z
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http://hardnews1.ansci.usu.edu/archive/nov2008/111608_montananorth.html
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While concerns and debates about an increased presence of non-citizen guest workers in agriculture in Canada have only more recently begun to enter the public arena, this dissertation probes how migrant agricultural workers have occupied a longer and more complex place in Canadian history than most Canadians may approximate. It explores the historical precedents of seasonal farm labour in Canada through the lens of the interior or the personal on the one hand, through an oral history approach, and the external or the structural on the other, in dialogue with existing scholarship and through a critical assessment of the archive. Specifically, it considers the evolution of seasonal farm work in Manitoba and British Columbia, and traces the eventual rise of an “offshore” labour scheme as a dominant model for agriculture at a national scale. Taking 1974 as a point of departure for the study of circular farm labour migration between Mexico and Canada, the study revisits questions surrounding Canadian views of what constitutes the ideal or injurious migrant worker, to ask critical questions about how managed farm labour migration schemes evolved in Canadian history. In addition, the dissertation explores how Mexican farm workers’ migration to Canada since 1974 formed a part of a wider and extended world of Mexican migration, and seeks to record and celebrate Mexican contributions to modern Canadian agriculture in historical contexts involving diverse actors. In exploring the contexts that have driven Mexican out-migration and transnational integration, it bridges oral accounts with a broader history that sets Mexican northward migration in hemispheric context. It reads agricultural migration upon various planes, including corporeality, experience, identity, masculinity, legality, “contra-modernity,” and the management of mobilities.
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2019-04-22T13:14:33Z
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https://curve.carleton.ca/b8fb3582-42b3-47c6-9412-bcbaf4657335
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The Mosquito Bay of Isla de Vieques is one of three bioluminescent bays in Puerto Rico, but the others -- Fajardo and La Parguera -- glow less brightly. Further, swimming is only permitted in Mosquito Bay. Vieques is approximately eight miles to the east of mainland Puerto Rico.
What Makes Mosquito Bay Glow in the Dark?
Dinoflagellates are freshwater and marine unicellular plankton. Referred to by guides as “dinos” but properly called pyrodinium bahamense -- which translates as “swirling fire” -- they produce a burst of light when disturbed by currents, or even when simply bumping into each other. Each measures approximately 1/500th of an inch but gives off a burst of light that spreads to more than 100 times its size.
There is no public after-dark transportation to or from Vieques Island. One tour is offered that does not involve an overnight stay on Vieques as of 2011. The tour is operated by East Wind Excursions (eastwindcats.com), which runs a catamaran voyage from the mainland to Vieques, and Island Adventures (biobay.com), which deals with the experiences on the island and the biobay tour itself. The week before the full moon the experience is slightly diminished, and the tour is not run on nights of the full moon or the nights that bracket it.
Departure times vary according to the season; booking staff inform patrons of when to arrive at the marina when taking telephone reservations. Leave San Juan on Route 3 east and travel to Fajardo; at the merge with Route 53 -- immediately before the toll plaza -- follow exit signage to Puerto del Rey marina. The journey typically takes approximately one hour, but San Juan rush hour traffic can affect travel times. Puerto del Rey marina has gated parking for guests; guards refer to the tour operator as “East Wind” and direct drivers to the appropriate dock. Take a towel and a change of clothing when leaving your vehicle.
East Wind Excursions has two catamarans; the larger or smaller is used depending upon how many tickets have been sold. A menu is available at check-in, and clients make their choices of what they want for dinner. To enjoy traditional Puerto Rican food, the yucca mofongo or chuleta con tostones is recommended, followed by sweet fried plantains. The voyage takes approximately 45 minutes, passing some small islands. Unlimited rum drinks along with soft drinks and juices are included in the ticket price; pina coladas and rum punch are featured.
A 10-minute van or taxi ride -- depending on the size of the tour group -- takes patrons from the dock to the pre-booked restaurant; a guide travels with each party to talk about the island. Watch for wild horses on the beaches. The restaurant is owned and operated by Island Adventures, who also operate the biobay tour. Drinks at the restaurant are not included in the excursion price. The restaurant restrooms are the last private place to change into swimming gear. After a brief lecture on the bay, a 15-minute bus ride is taken to the pontoon boat that will make the last part of the outward journey. The pontoon is powered by electric motors.
What Makes Mosquito Bay So Special?
Seasonal bioluminescence is not unusual; in Mosquito Bay the phenomenon is year-round. Precipitous land above the bay is subject to special zoning regulations that mandate the forest cover not be disrupted, so sediment cannot be flushed into the water by heavy rains. The bay itself has a small mouth at its windward end, so there is a relatively small tidal exchange -- just large enough to prevent stagnancy -- and the ocean is prohibited from washing away the bioluminescent organisms. The water is the perfect depth to remain cool during the day, yet warmer than the ocean. The decomposing leaves and roots of the red mangroves on the bay shores release tannins that are rich in many nutrients, particularly vitamin B12, that provide the perfect diet for the dinos. Because of this confluence of circumstances the concentration of dinos is high, approximately 160,000 dinos per liter, making Mosquito Bay the brightest bioluminescent cove on the planet.
Bioluminescent glow is immediately evident: The wake of the boat becomes a glittering aquatic trail even before leaving the dockside. Fish can be seen darting away from the keel leaving incandescent blue-green-white trails in the water. Eventually, the boat moors in a dark section of the bay; the crew explain the nature and mechanics of the dinoflagellates, then help guests don flotation belts and climb in. The water glows when you move through it, and sparkles on your body if you stay still. For those choosing not to swim, guides are happy to dip a bucket over the side; the dinoflagellates in the bucket glow from simply being stirred. To take effective photographs with a digital camera it must be set to ISO 1200 or higher, flash off. The swim lasts approximately 30 minutes in water that is typically between 75 and 85 degrees F.
National Geographic: What Makes a Biobay?
Cagney, John. "Tours of Mosquito Bay, Puerto Rico." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/tours-mosquito-bay-puerto-rico-58755.html. 15 March 2018.
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2019-04-24T06:40:59Z
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https://traveltips.usatoday.com/tours-mosquito-bay-puerto-rico-58755.html
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OK, well early morning Buffy from a certain perspective but I've just watched The Wish again and it really brought home to me again just how good BtVS was, especially of course Series 3.
While I'm here I'll ad a big hi to those who are still here from time to time from way back and Anom, if you're reading this which I guess you will at some point, I think you should know that they've demolished Slough Bus Station. Evidently it was not a sufficient monument to your visit; the new one they're building on the same site will look like this.
More info here if you feel the need to know!
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2019-04-22T00:45:39Z
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http://www.voy.com/14567/25196.html
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Chicago West is looking more and more like her mother Kim Kardashian with each passing day. Her birthday present is no exception.
The youngest Kardashian-West kid turned 1 on Tuesday, and some family members gathered at Kim and Kanye West's home for a low-key dinner. While the dinner might have been relaxing at home, Chicago's presents took center stage. Kim documented some aspects of their family night together, which involved a special gift from auntie Kourtney Kardashian. Kim's big sister got Chicago a neon yellow Mercedes G-Wagon (not the real one of course! She would be about 15 years too early for that), so now she can ride around her Hidden Hills, Calif. home in style.
But why a highlighter yellow Mercedes? In August, Kim and Kanye went down to Miami (where they now own a very nice $14 million condo) for their pal 2 Chainz and Kesha Ward's wedding. That entire weekend, Kim rocked neon colors around the city, including a bright green dress that also happened to match their Mercedes G550 they rode around in. Also present that weekend: a neon green wig and Lamborghini.
Upon returning from Miami, the "Stronger" rapper surprised his wife with none other than a custom Platinum Group painted neon green G550 4×4 SUV from Mercedes Beverly Hills.
She called the car her "baby" in an Instagram video that showcased her new ride. "Look who surprised me with this baby, you guys," she said while walking towards the car as her son Saint West ran by. "I got the truck of my dreams 'cause I was so excited in Miami. I'm so excited."
Well, now Kim's "baby" has a baby! The KKW Beauty owner showed off the toy car in her Instagram Story.
"It's Chicago's birthday and look what Kourt pulled up with," Kim said in one video. "This is what Chi gets to match mommy. Oh my gosh, thank you Kourt!"
In another video, Chicago played with the steering wheel while Saint sat right behind her. Kim and Kanye's daughter North West sat on the front of the car. "We're driving!" Saint exclaimed at one point. Chicago flashed a huge smile and looked happy as can be while at the helm.
The bright green/yellow Mercedes strayed from the usual car of choice for the Kardashian kids (hello sparkly pink and blue Bentleys), but then again, Chicago is only 1 and about to become a big sister.
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2019-04-24T20:27:38Z
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https://www.eonline.com/news/1005594/kim-kardashian-and-chicago-west-now-have-matching-cars?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_topstories
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He wanted it to be known that writing isn’t an easy business: It can be frustrating, mystifying, isolating. And that’s just the beginning, if our full archive of writers’ musings on writing is to be believed. Technical writing is a battle between clarity and respectability, according to the economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Resonance and beauty were always chancy in the eyes of the short-story writer and novelist Eudora Welty. Critics pushed the Native Son author Richard Wright to sublimate the racism he portrayed. The Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Edith Wharton could never quite discover where inspiration stemmed from.
Writing the same year as Holmes, Thomas Wentworth Higginson had no lack of warnings for aspiring authors. But he urged them to write and keep writing in spite of it all. Luckily, at least one of his readers, 32-year-old Emily Dickinson, listened.
What challenging book do you love? Tweet at us with the hashtag #TheAtlanticBooksBriefing, or fill out the form here.
This week’s newsletter is written by Annika Neklason. The book she’s reading on the train is My Year of Rest and Relaxation, by Ottessa Moshfegh.
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2019-04-24T08:00:23Z
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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2019/02/richard-wright-and-edith-wharton-books-briefing/581533/
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I had the opportunity recently to visit Arizona and take in some incredible natural beauty. The desert in the south of the state is different from the desert in the north. This render takes a bit from all of the different regions I visited, and adds a healthy dose of my own fancy.
The landforms were modeled using World Machine and are the first such efforts to appear in my gallery. Likewise, the cacti are my first original efforts modeled using "The Plant Factory". They appear at different levels-of-detail throughout the scene.
There are quite a few things I would like to change about this scene but I thought it looked nice enough to share as is and it has been too long since I've been able to update my gallery. Just rendering at 4K took nearly 72 hours!
As soon as this image is posted I will be shutting down Bucephalus, installing my new GTX 980 and swapping out my old Dell 3007 for as many of my new BenQ 4K panels as I can get to run. I hope to have the rest of Shadowfax assembled and in action within a week or so.
Wow! So much of what Sonora reminds me of on just one picture. Please!!! When will the multi-screen version be available???
I keep checking for this in multi-screen, hoping that now that the powerhouse rendering machine exists, this will get done... Any timetable?
Also hoping this one moves up the queue for multi-screen version. This is such a unique piece of your landscape wallpapers that it deserves an equal place with the other 2015 renders.
Very nice. Reminds me of west Texas and Arizona; both of which are favorites of mine. I recommend losing the scattered saguaros on the cliff wall. Just let the cliff be.
I think I've figured out a way to finally render this without it taking weeks. Stay tuned!
This is one of my favorites of yours. Would love a dual screen version.
"Really like it, but need 5K!"
@Ryan: I like this one a lot, but I'm really missing the 5K render that you lost. There's so much detail in this image that it'd really benefit from the 5K version. Would you please set it going again so that we can actually have the image at that size...?
I really like the desert details. I like the desert anyway, but this is just pleasant, and the colors are calming to me.
Where is the iPhone 6 render?
Thank you very much for continuing to offer 16:10 aspect ratios. It makes sense that you're not going to offer 4K or 5K versions, but I'm really happy to hear that 1920x1200 will still be on your list.
I will still offer 16:10 renders, but it doesn't really make sense to offer 4K/5K versions (or render them) when no screen will ever use them. I will still provide the lower resolutions though.
I love this piece - on large screens (I'm running it at 2560 x 1600, so I also hope you don't stop 16:10 renders) it just 'feels' like a deep image - my eyes immediately relax when I flip to that desktop and I feel like i'm looking out a window - at a slightly wonderland version of the Colorado Foothills where I live - Kudos to you indeed Ryan - a great image!
As a user of many, many 16:10 monitors, I hope that you keep making renders in that aspect ratio. Ultimately, though, your decision.
As usual a fine render. My only quibble is w/ the bird. The bird itself is fine, but the placement in/on the image is frankly just wrong. Based on what I see the bird is a full image (wings, body, head, feet, etc.). It looks to be "placed" on the almost tip / side of the cactus, much like the flowers are. Thus making the bird look like it's resting it's behind on the cactus or it's impaled by a thorn (in that same area). IMHO, the tip of the cactus should be in front of the bird, and the bird should be slightly higher with its feet just coming to rest on the back side of that cactus arm.
Conclusion, it's just not natural looking. Most birds "rest" on their feet, as well as land on and take off from.
Otherwise, another fine image, especially in the smaller renders.
Another Tucsonan here - I have to laugh because my base reaction was "the colors are right and I can see that as a fanciful take on the native cacti, but we never have that kind of complete cloud cover with those colors at sunset - if you are getting the golden hues there have to be spots of clear sky for it to shine through".
The overall color and representation of the life in the desert is caught quite well. The cacti, however, look to be from a strange world. I am not sure if that is what you're going for or the impression you had of them during your visit. I know that in many of your landscapes, it is a view of a different world so wasn't sure what you went for here: accuracy with some poetic license or another planet's desert.
Overall, I do like the image, but not crazy about the oddity and top-heaviness of the mature cactus in the foreground. With the torrential rains and often-times crazy winds we get here, that one wouldn't last long in life.
I will be watching for the multi-monitor renders, and hoping for less predominance of the "odd" ones.
Don't worry that I'm going to stop posting 16:10. I will continue to provide those resolutions! However, when I create the images I will be framing them first for 16:9 and then adapting those renders for 16:10 somehow.
Wow. I really love this image! I'm from southern AZ myself. It's funny, when other people hear "desert" they tend to think "dead" and it's not. This is so representative of the desert teeming with new life. Amazingly well done!
I've been a fan of yours since 1999. I just took up vector drawing, and it's a little complicated, but I'm muddling through. Then there you are, no warning, just BOOM, there's another glorious piece you just sort of offhandedly banged out. Good job again. You nailed it.
I'm another old desert rat who loves this piece. It captures the magnificent expanse and solitude of the Sonoran.
Nice, I like this, but I hope this doesn't mean that your dropping 16:10 entirely, as I still run duel 1920x1200 monitors, and soon to get a 3rd for some surround gaming.
This is almost exactly what the desert looks like right after it rains. I live in Tucson and was thrilled to find this. I LOVE this! Thank you!
I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes one of your top 10 rated pieces when finished. Improvements? The sky is not on the same level as the rest.
What happened to the Eclipse WIP wallpaper? This one came out of nowhere. It is nice though.
I live in Phoenix, so that's a familiar scene. A few more flowers than what I'm used to but the rest is spot on. Beautiful work!
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2019-04-23T02:15:27Z
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http://digitalblasphemy.com/preview.shtml?i=sonoranspring1
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Arts
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Computers
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Kotakuite brainFUBAR sends his entry, writing, "I may not be able to compete with a suicide girl, but I still wanted to give it a go." Bravo!
Not only does brainFUBAR have a Virtual Boy, but he also has red hair. Reader Zorantor is also a dude — a dude with a Virtual Boy — and sends his entry below. "Please notice how all the stuff is laid out on a poster of the red planet." Oh yes, we did.
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2019-04-20T19:54:41Z
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https://kotaku.com/dudes-enter-our-contests-too-5233799
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Games
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unl
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Morota G. and Gianola D. (2014) Kernel-based whole-genome prediction of complex traits: a review. Front. Genet. 5:363. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00363.
Copyright 2014 Morota and Gianola. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCBY). Used by permission.
Prediction of genetic values has been a focus of applied quantitative genetics since the beginning of the 20th century, with renewed interest following the advent of the era of whole genome-enabled prediction. Opportunities offered by the emergence of high-dimensional genomic data fueled by post-Sanger sequencing technologies, especially molecular markers, have driven researchers to extend Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright’s models to confront new challenges. Inparticular, kernel methods are gaining consideration as a regression method of choice for genome-enabled prediction. Complex traits are presumably influenced by many genomic regions working in concert with others (clearly so when considering pathways), thus generating interactions. Motivated by this view, a growing number of statistical approaches based on kernels attempt to capture non-additive effects, either parametrically or non-parametrically. This review centers on whole-genome regression using kernel methods applied to a wide range of quantitative traits of agricultural importance in animals and plants. We discuss various kernel-based approaches tailored to capturing total genetic variation, with the aim of arriving at an enhanced predictive performance in the light of available genome annotation information. Connections between prediction machines born in animal breeding, statistics, and machine learning are revisited, and their empirical prediction performance is discussed. Overall, while some encouraging results have been obtained with non-parametric kernels,recovering non-additive genetic variation in a validation data set remains a challenge in quantitative genetics.
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2019-04-23T20:36:08Z
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https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/animalscifacpub/957/
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Science
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wordpress
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Are You Challenged to Find a Struggle?
I have always lived a -noble- existence, following the golden rule, working hard to earn/succeed/promote, helping old ladies cross the street and donating to charity. Yep, I was noble. I was also incredibly angry and frustrated that I hadn’t arrived where I wanted to be in my life. I couldn’t understand – why did everything have to be such an uphill battle? Why couldn’t things ever just work out my way without me having to FIGHT for it?
Why? Because I was self sabotaging my success by creating struggle to make my journey more -noble-. In effect, this gave my path purpose. I hated every minute of the struggle but at least, I had purpose. I was noble in attacking my adversaries head on. It didn’t matter I was unhappy now, when I arrived at the end of my struggle I would be happy then. Won’t that be noble that I made such a sacrifice?
We’re conditioned to this mindset from birth. It’s the hard work ethic twisted for the 21st century. It’s when you choose the road less traveled and ignore the big flashing danger lights because this is far more noble than the easy route. People who start as an intern and work their way up to CEO must be far more noble then that schmuck who -just- hired a good resume writer or knew someone. It’s the people who struggle with heavy loads of groceries, trying to carry it all in one trip or the women who -snag- that great catch of a man they chased for years. Think about it – what do we talk about at the water cooler? That brick that accidentally fell through the windshield and the seventy six hours we had to spend righting the wrong with the insurance company. Society tells us these strugglers are -noble- and by struggling we differentiate ourselves or achieve some form of better existence.
This is where capitalism, democracy and the entrepreneurial mindset have deluded us. Choosing to struggle does not serve us or advance our goals, it simply fills the void of an unmet need like attention, comforting or purpose. Rarely does struggle result in self-accomplishment because when we get to the goal, it’s anticlimactic. This is IT? This is what I worked so hard for? Retrospect shows us the difficulty in arriving far outweighs the benefit of the result. This builds more anger and frustration – I’m working so hard and it’s STILL not working out for me!
The solution to this hamster wheel is embracing the concept of challenge instead of struggle. Challenge is defined as difficulty in a job or undertaking that is stimulating to one engaged in it. This brings positive resistance to life – the kind through which you learn, build character and grow. It’s a stark contrast to struggle which is advancing with violent effort. Ack! Doing anything violently can’t possibly bring happy things.
Most people fear challenge because it requires them to innovate, to change, to feel uncomfortable. It is far simpler to wage forward with brute, animalistic force. A challenge is finding a way to network yourself into a company, research to obtain a grant to fund the education you want or introduce yourself to someone you’ve never met. A challenge is walking away from something with too high of a risk, too little of a return or too difficult of a path in relation to the result. A challenge is saying no to that -great catch- because your pursuit of him makes you unhappy. A challenge is finding a bigger, better, faster more efficient way of doing things to catapolt you to the finish line faster. (Think of the inventor of LinkedIn who tired of keeping track of his contacts’ contacts in a little black book).
Challenges improve our lives not only in the end result but in this moment because they deliver a sense of self accomplishment. Happiness comes from being proud of who you are and what you do. Conversely, struggle steals your joy and makes the path long, lonely and frustrating.
So I challenge you – evaluate the parts of your life that aren’t flowing – which path are you on?
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2019-04-21T11:06:30Z
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https://thislifeonearth.wordpress.com/tag/struggle/
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usm
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C-SPAN3’s American History TV will broadcast a class lecture by University of Southern Mississippi history professor Dr. Susannah Ural Saturday, March 3 at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. and Sunday, March 4 at noon Central Standard Time as part of the network’s “Lectures in History” program. Ural’s lecture focuses on the election of 1860 and secession, which was taped during the fall 2011 semester.
“Lectures in History” debuted in the fall of 2010, with the network visiting a different college classroom each week and taping the class session in its entirety. The program will give C-SPAN’s audience, which numbers 42 million homes, the opportunity to experience Ural’s class from beginning to end without interruption.
Federal vs. state power and slavery were the central issues in the election of 1860. Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the expansion of slavery, won the presidency which inspired the secession of the Deep South. The Civil War followed.
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2019-04-18T18:49:29Z
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http://news.usm.edu/article/c-span-broadcast-southern-miss-history-class-lecture-set-march-3-4
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wosu
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No, I don’t mean Mr. Bailey was traipsing down the yellow brick road with Judy Garland and the Cowardly Lion.
Zuill Bailey is an American cellist. He’s been to Columbus before to appear with ProMusica. He’s back this weekend to play the Dvorak Cello Concerto with the Columbus Symphony. Jacques Lacombe conducts.
Oz is a TV series from the early 1990s. It was the first series produced by HBO. The setting is a maximum security prison. There’s a kindly nun, Rita Moreno, and authoritative warden, Ernie Hudson, and an assortment of inmates. Some become evil, some are redeemed, and some are evil all the way.
Oz is great TV but it is not for the squeamish. All the horrors inside a men’s prison are depicted. I’ll leave it there. But the first season was leavened by a young cellist in on a drug bust. He takes his cello and plays in the middle of the day room floor, surrounded by murderers, drug tsars and cutthroats. There’s Zuill Bailey TV star, affecting and beautiful in the midst of 24 hours of horror, all day every day.
Mr. Bailey’s character doesn’t survive. Mr. Bailey did and does, and he’ll be back in Columbus this weekend. He tamed savage beasts, and his playing will enthrall our audiences downtown. Go buy a ticket.
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2019-04-21T12:22:03Z
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http://delta.wosu.org/site/classical101/zuill-bailey-goes-to-oz-and-comes-to-columbus-this-weekend/
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Lord Foster received the Freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall today, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to contemporary architecture. The Freedom is believed to have begun in 1237 and enabled recipients to carry out their trade. Today, people are nominated for the Freedom, because it offers them a link with the historic City of London and one of its ancient traditions.
Lord Foster received a Freedom by Special Nomination from the City of London Corporation pay tribute to his outstanding contribution to London life and public life.
I am humbled by this very special honour, which is a unique facet of London’s age-old conventions. The City of London is steeped in several centuries of history, a fact that is reflected in the buildings that surround us, and its rich traditions that are alive and well today.
During a career that has spanned five decades, Norman Foster has left an indelible mark on major cities across the globe by designing visually stunning buildings that stand as monuments to his remarkable talent. His passion for his work is abundantly clear, and we are delighted to admit him into the Freedom of the City of London to recognise his legacy.
Norman Foster’s technically superb and visionary designs, not to mention the astonishing breadth of his work, have ensured his position as one of the world’s most respected architects. With a zest for life and no signs of slowing down as he approaches his 82nd birthday, it is our privilege to pay tribute to his outstanding work, some of which adds distinction to the Square Mile’s skyline. My colleagues and I look forward to welcoming him to the Guildhall for his Freedom ceremony.
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2019-04-25T11:55:59Z
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https://www.fosterandpartners.com/es/news/archive/2017/04/lord-foster-receives-the-freedom-of-the-city-of-london/
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ABUJA, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Nigeria’s Access Bank expects the country’s banking industry to hold its regular committee meeting soon to discuss South African telecoms firm MTN’s repayment of $8.1 billion, on the orders of the central bank.
Access Bank Chief Executive Herbert Wigwe said the bank has a minor holding at MTN group level but was not exposed to the telecoms firm in Nigeria.
Nigeria’s central bank also fined four banks, for their role in helping MTN move the money out of Africa’s biggest economy.
Wigwe said he expected a resolution on the matter as the regulator would want to avoid a systemic banking crisis.
A repayment of $8.1 billion, is half of MTN’s market capitalisation, and could threaten its Nigerian lenders.
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2019-04-21T03:15:05Z
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https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-access-bank/nigerian-bankers-to-meet-after-mtn-ordered-to-transfer-81-bln-access-bank-ceo-idUSL8N1VL4WE
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We welcome you to leave us feedback or suggestion to help us better developing apps in the future. Please feel free to send us email to address below. Thank you!
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2019-04-24T03:08:58Z
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https://foreverdoapps.wordpress.com/contact/
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He looks amazing. Aren´t you all swooning? Thanks for posting this fantastic pic.
You're welcome! He's incredibly swoon-worthy!
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2019-04-21T12:29:35Z
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https://tasabian.livejournal.com/40911.html?thread=905935
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Cut chicken into 1-inch-square pieces. In a mixing bowl, combine cornstarch, soy sauce, hoisin sauce, sugar, cilantro, ginger and garlic. Add chicken and toss to coat. Refrigerate, covered, at least 30 minutes.
Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Fold each piece of foil in half twice to make a 6-inch square. Place a spoonful of chicken in the center of each piece of foil, dividing it equally. Fold foil squares on the diagonal; fold edges to seal. Place on a nonstick baking sheet and bake 20 minutes, or until chicken is no longer pink in the center.
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2019-04-19T11:51:29Z
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https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/foil-baked-chicken-recipe-2010418
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The knowledge that this book contains comes from Thurmond Knight, a professional luthier. He got into this work because in the middle of a long cello rehearsal, Lucille, his cello, in mid note, collapsed into splinters. The anguish on his face was palpable as he carried the broken old girl into the local lutherie and placed her on the gurney. After careful examination the cello doctor announced, with a somewhat dramatic flourish, that Lucille would live to sing again. Major surgery to one of her cracked lower ribs would be required posthaste, at an estimated $1,000.00. Feeling the flatness of his wallet at the time, Thurmond inquired whether he might learn to do violin and cello repairs. The repair doctor pulled out a brochure he had just received from the Summer Violin Craftsmanship Institute at the University of New Hampshire and handed it over, recommending Thurmond sign up at once as class size was limited.
And so began Thurmond's long career of violin making and repair and restoration of fine stringed instruments. The university offered courses in making, repairing and re-hairing of bows, instrument repair and violin making, all taught by masters. After making a violin bow and cello bow, and doing hundreds of repairs, Thurmond met Karl Roy, Master Violin Maker from the Bavarian State School of Violinmaking in Mittenwald, Bavaria. Thurmond studied with Mr. Roy for 6 summers, and then became his UNH shop assistant, a position he held for nine years.
The rest is history. Violinmaking became Thurmond's passion. After opening and operating Vermont Violins, a retail store and lutherie in Montpelier, Vermont for 5 years, he sold the business and moved to the hinterlands of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom where he opened a new shop and founded The Vermont School of Violinmaking.
What Burt Porter, a fiddler, contributed to this book is the necessary ignorance for the project. Someone like Thurmond who really knows about his subject needs an affable ignoramus to ask questions he wouldn't think needed answers, and also to look bewildered and say "huh?" when the luthier gets technical too quickly.
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2019-04-24T18:35:32Z
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http://violinviolacello.com/FiddleFixPreface.htm
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There's a reason six-pack drinkers dont have six-pack abs—but its not just because of the high-calorie booze. Research shows there are plenty of ways that alcohol can hurt your diet.
Sure, if you're getting plastered every night, you're probably not extremely concerned about your health. But even the average drinker has made poor food choices because of alcohol. Case in point: Fourthmeal.
Alcohol could even make you eat more. In a U.K. study, men drank either 12 ounces of a non-alcoholic lager, or the same lager spiked with about 2 drinks worth of alcohol. Even though the alcoholic lager contained more calories itself, men ate 30 percent more calories after drinking it—despite the fact that they didn't report higher appetites than the other group.
What's the deal with drunk munchies? Here are a few theories for your intoxicated delivery orders and second round of wings at the pub.
Ever notice that dinner lasts longer with alcohol? Its not because you enjoy the company more. A Dutch study found that it took people longer to feel full when they drank alcohol before a meal, when compared to those who had a non-alcoholic carbohydrate, fat, or protein drink before. As a result, the meal lasted longer and people didnt compensate for the alcohol calories.
Alcohol calories arent recognized by the body, write the researchers. One theory: Since alcohol is a toxin, your body wants to metabolize it as quickly as possible, which is why you don't feel full from alcohol calories, according to other research.
A Northwestern University study found that alcohol only increased food consumption when people knew they were drinking an alcoholic beverage, suggesting that the cravings arent only physicalthe social context could play a role, explain the researchers. Meaning, you might associate friends and alcohol with greasy food, making you want it more.
No one has ever drunkenly craved a saladand theres a reason. A study conducted by Purdue University found that moderate consumption of alcohol enhances the taste of salt and fat, which is why that cheese pizza tastes so friggin good.
Thats a lot of temptation. If you slip up, choose the lesser of evilslike the chicken and green pepper pizza from Dominos, which only has 300 calories for 2 slices.
Better yet, limit yourself to two drinks—moderate drinking has been associated with reduced risk of heart disease, a longer life, and a lower risk of diabetes, as we reported in To Live Longer, Have a Beer!
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2019-04-24T12:18:34Z
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https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19532390/drunk-eating/
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Jim Hill on the official closing of Walt Disney Animation in Florida, Roy Disney's efforts & Legacy Animation Studios!
This is the day that Disney does it, Harry. Finally & officially pulls the plug on Feature Animation Florida. Shutting down a studio that has produced out not one, not two, but three hit films for the Disney Company – “Mulan,” “Lilo & Stitch” and “Brother Bear” – all in a row. At 2/3rds of what it costs Mickey to make similar animated movies back in Burbank.
So today’s the day that the Mouse kicks 250 talented artists & technicians to the curb. Walk away from that virtually brand-new $70 million dollar state-of-the-art studio complex. All because Disney Feature Animation is supposedly regrouping in the not-so-distant future. Making one last desperate stand in Burbank. Replicating what WDFA had in the mid-to-late 1980s: Which was all of the company’s very best animators under one roof again, working together on a single film (Putting all of Mickey’s eggs in one basket, if you will). With the hope that – if this talented group can just pull together – Disney Feature Animation will once again be able to find its way back to greatness.
At least that’s what Disney’s PR staff is telling the entertainment & financial press. The sad fact of the matter is, Harry, that – due to all the WDFA staff cuts over the past five years as well as all the key people that Disney let slip away – there isn’t all that much of Disney Feature Animation left to save.
Anyway, this Tomorrowland-based show – which will be replacing “The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter” – needed a few minutes of new traditionally animated footage featuring characters from “Lilo & Stitch.” You know, for the attraction’s pre-show as well as to supplement the action in the show’s main theater. So – a week or so ago -- WDI approached WDFA and asked them if they’d be interested in producing the animation portion of this project.
And the folks at Disney Feature Animation were reportedly forced to say: “Gee, I’m sorry. We’re going to have to take a pass on doing the animation for ‘Stitch’s Great Escape.’ “Not because they were too busy with some other project, Harry. But because the knuckleheads who are now in charge of Disney Feature Animation had fired all the people who actually knew how to do traditional animation. So apparently there was no one left in the building (at least out in Burbank) who could now replicate “Lilo & Stitch” ‘s distinctive hand-drawn style.
Which was why Walt Disney Imagineering was forced to look elsewhere to find people who could provide the necessary traditional-looking, hand-drawn animation footage for WDW’s “Stitch’s Great Escape” show. Luckily, a company called Renegade Animation (You can sample some of that studio’s handiwork by following this link, Knowles: RenegadeAnimation ) was up to the task. Even if WDFA wasn’t.
It’s really a shame that WDI didn’t talk with me when they were looking for people to work on the animated sequences for “Stitch’s Great Escape,” Harry. For I could have pointed them toward this great new animation studio. One that’s staffed by guys who actually worked on the original “Lilo & Stitch” movie: Legacy Animation Studio.
Yes, I know, Knowles. You already told AICN readers about Legacy back on Saturday, (Insert link to here). About how this studio was actually started up by a bunch of Feature Animation Florida staffers. Who are determined to keep the art of traditional animation alive (hence the name “Legacy”), while Disney seems determined to turn itself into some sort of Pixar clone.
But what you may not have heard, Harry, is that the team behind Legacy Animation are a pretty web-savvy bunch of guys. The studio’s website – Legacy Animation – just went live last week. And – in the weeks ahead – Eddie Pittman, directing manager of the studio & his team at Legacy are going to try & do something real extraordinary, Knowles. Which is give Internet-based animation fans a front row seat for the creation of the studio’s first project: a new traditionally animated short subject.
Here’s how the deal’s supposed to go down, Harry: Over the next week or so, Pittman & his team will be reviewing pitches for this proposed short. Once they’ve selected the characters & the core concept for the film, Legacy will then begin keeping a blog that covers the short’s entire production. So – for the first time (on the internet, anyway) – animation fans will be able to follow all of the phases of this labor-intensive process. See a short go from storyboards to rough animation to … Well, when Eddie takes the short out on the festival circuit and shows the world what Legacy Animation is really capable of doing.
You see, Eddie & his team of 15 artists (I know, I know. That sounds sort of small. But there are a dozen or more former WDFAF employees who are quite anxious to get on board at Legacy. They’re just waiting ‘til the Winter Garden-based studio officially begins to ramp up production before they pick up their pencils) eventually hope to make a full length traditionally animated feature. This short (which will be hammered together in an extremely intense 20-week-long production schedule) is supposed to serve as their calling card. A film done in the old Warner Brothers / Early Disney cartoon shorts tradition. To show potential investors the sorts of film Legacy Animation is capable of making.
Well, to my knowledge, Roy Disney has no plans (at present) to get in bed with the folks over at Legacy Animation Studio. Not that Roy Disney & Stanley Gold would be interested in what Eddie Pittman & Co. are trying to do, mind you. But – as of this moment – Roy & Stanley have bigger fish. They’re still hot on Michael’s heels, still determined to do everything that they have to in order for their “Oust Eisner” campaign to succeed.
Speaking of which: A bold new version of Stanley & Roy’s website – SaveDisney.Com – is scheduled to debut late today or early tomorrow. So keep an eye open for that.
“So what’s Mr. Eisner got to say about all this?,” you ask, Harry. “The closure of Feature Animation Florida? The opening of Legacy Animation Studio? Roy & Stanley’s on-going efforts to oust him?” To be honest, Knowles, Eisner hasn’t said a word about any of these subject. In public, anyway.
Last week, at his appearance at the Smith Barney media conference in Phoenix, Michael painted a particularly rosy picture of Disney’s financial future for all the investment analysts in attendance. He stressed how things were going just great at the Walt Disney Company. How there had been record crowds at all of Disney’s Florida theme parks over the holidays.
Of course, the crowds who walked through the “Magic of Disney Animation” exhibit at Disney-MGM must have wondered what was up. Looking out on row after row of empty animation desks, wondering where all the artists were.
Of course, given that the last project that Disney Feature Animation Florida was supposed have worked on was to be called “A Few Good Ghosts,” it’s rather ironic that this studio is now a ghost town. (HARRY NOTE: I'll have you know that the Disney Feature Animation's Magic of Disney Animation exhibit looks nothing like GHOST TOWN) With so many of its talented staffers leaving Orlando to work for other animation studios: CORE Digital in Canada, Blue Sky in New York, Pixar & Dreamworks in California. And – of course – the crew over at Legacy Animation in Winter Garden, FL.
Yeah, Disney doesn’t need a bunch of no-talents like this, Knowles. Why hang on to people who produced all of the animated films that I just mentioned? It’s not like the Walt Disney Company has this long tradition of turning out well-crafted traditionally animated films … Oh, wait a minute. It does, doesn’t it, Harry?
I now ask that the entire AICN family join me in a brief moment of silence for the passing of a proud 67-year-old tradition. The death of the traditionally animated feature film. At least at the Walt Disney Company.
Ah, this is just too depressing for me to even think about, Knowles. I promise that I’ll be back in a week or so with more news about Roy & Stanley’s efforts to oust Eisner. But – for now – I gotta go make some phone calls. I gotta go commiserate with some friends in Orlando about how the Walt Disney Company just made another totally bone-headed decision.
Talk with you soon, Harry. Please give my best to your Dad.
ORLANDO, FLORIDA (January 8, 2004) - Legacy Animation Studios, a new animation production studio in Orlando Florida, opens its doors in Winter Garden, Florida close to Orlando later this month. The studio will offer a full-range of traditional hand drawn (or 2D) animation services for film, television and commercials. Legacy was established by a group of animators and artists formerly employed by Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida. Legacy will also be dedicated to developing original properties for television and film. In time the studio hopes to produce its first feature film project.
"We believe that traditionally animated films are still a viable form of entertainment," says Legacy Animation Studios Directing Manager, Eddie Pittman. "Our goal is to create quality animated films with compelling stories and strong characters and to continue Walt Disney's legacy of hand drawn animation."
The Legacy team has the talent to back up their claim, with the combined experience of over 25 animated films including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Mulan and Lilo and Stitch. Directing Manager, Eddie Pittman is a cartoonist and illustrator with over fifteen years of professional experience. He has worked on such animated features as Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000, The Emperor's New Groove and Lilo and Stitch. Eddie has taught for the renowned Computer Animation program at Ringling School of Art and Design and his popular drawing classes taught around Central Florida have been recommended to aspiring animators by Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, Artist Development. Recently, Eddie produced and directed Legends of the Night Sky: Orion, the world's first full dome (360°) traditionally animated movie.
Also joining the management team as Creative Director is veteran assistant animator David Nethery. David has nearly 20 years of experience as an animation artist, most of those years at Walt Disney Feature Animation. He has been the Lead Key Assistant on such characters as "Meeko" the raccoon from Pocahontas, "Mushu" from Mulan, "Cobra Bubbles" from Lilo & Stitch, and most recently "Tug" and "Koda's Mom" from Brother Bear. Other credits at Disney include The Lion King, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Legacy currently has three projects in development including a short film that will begin production in late January 2004 .
Meanwhile, to off-set the big gobs of bad news, Disney is announcing a computer animated feature film version of A DAY WITH WILBUR ROBINSON based upon William Joyce's book of the same name. According to HollywoodReporter, Disney is planning to start animation in June for release in 2006. I've seen the book described as a bit of a cross between The Jetsons and the Addams Family. Although the book doesn't seem to have much of a plot. Hmmm, sounds just right for Disney.
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2019-04-26T07:40:04Z
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Single and pregnant, diner waitress Mindy Harmon might have been a little down on her luck, yet she'd still managed to keep her holiday spirit. But she was more than a little surprised when she opened her door on Christmas Eve to find Reed Atchinson, M.D. her gorgeous–but–grumpy customer declaring himself her own personal Christmas present!
Reed had never been big on Christmas, but when he met Mindy the beautiful mother–to–be who had so little yet gave so much he became a believer. In roles he never thought he'd take on like Dr. Husband. And Dr. Daddy?
FROM HERE TO MATERNITY: Look what the stork brought a bundle of joy and the promise of love!
The figure at the center of the controversy is Zwarte Piet – Black Pete – often portrayed by people who don Afro wigs and paint their faces black.
Is your tummy grumbling while home for the holidays? Feast your eyes on the diverse, colorful, and delicious dishes of Latin American tradition in late December.
Q: Is the newly elected mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey, a Muslim and did he cancel “government involvement” in Christmas? A: No. Ravinder Bhalla is a Sikh, not a Muslim, […] The post Hoboken Christmas Hoax appeared first on FactCheck.
The annual gift not only brightens Boston Common, this year it also highlights the city's 100-year friendship with Halifax, Nova Scotia – which sprang from a call for help and soothed World War I-era tensions between the US and Canada.
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2019-04-23T00:19:35Z
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https://ar.scribd.com/book/266066633/A-Doctor-In-Her-Stocking
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VOCAB. TEST # 13 tomorrow.
The Outsiders- chapters 3 & 4 are due on Monday. You may begin that work after the vocab. test tomorrow.
Remember- I postponed your book review until next Tuesday. Make sure you use ONLY facts when researching for paragraph 3. Include your sources. I have some info. if you are having difficulty.
Read chapter 2- The Outsiders. Fill in study guide.
Book review postponed until next Tuesday. NO late work accepted.
tonight- read The Outsiders, pp.1-18 and finish chap. 1 of study guide.
To those of you who procrastinated, please finish your CT author novels.
Read your novel. Should be completed by next Tues.
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2019-04-26T01:50:48Z
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https://lmicowski.weebly.com/homework/archives/05-2012
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Scientists at Cambridge University have grown “mini-placentas” that could prevent miscarriages.
The laboratory grown "organoids" used cells taken from placental tissue to examine the early stages of pregnancy.
An analysis of the study showed that the new placenta model was capable of secreting the proteins and hormones that affect a mother's metabolism during pregnancy.
It was even able to record a positive response when tested with a pregnancy test.
Dr Margherita Turco said: "Our knowledge of this important organ is very limited because of a lack of good experimental models.
"The organoids may answer unresolved questions about relationships between the placenta, the womb and the foetus."
The Cambridge team hope the findings will help scientists tackle problems such as miscarriage, stillbirth and premature delivery.
"These ‘mini-placentas' build on decades of research and we believe they will transform work in this field.
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2019-04-26T10:31:22Z
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https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-11-29/cambridge-university-develops-mini-placentas-to-help-prevent-miscarriages/
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Composer Danny Elfman broke his cardinal rule for Disney’s remake of “Dumbo”: He wrote music ahead of time, long before shooting began and without even seeing a script.
A year later, as he began working closely with director Tim Burton, he found the file (curiously labeled “Elephant”) and, to his amazement, discovered that the music matched the film perfectly. “Dumbo’s Theme” is unchanged from his original concept.
“That theme had to play bittersweet, which I knew it could, but it also had to be frivolous and light, and more important, it had to be triumphant in a really grand way,” Elfman says. Indeed, the composition could be varied to fit all of those contexts — and it’s heard throughout the live-action reimagining of the animated original.
The setting of the story — in which a small traveling circus finds unexpected success with a young pachyderm whose oversize ears allow him to fly — led the composer to depart from tradition on another front: “This was also the first time I ever asked to do all the source music,” he says, referring to the background music for the circus and its clowns.
Usually Elfman skips that part, preferring to concentrate on the dramatic score, which is the most important musical job anyway. “I love weird circuses and the idea of carnivals,” he explains. “Those funky clowns stumbling around really appealed to me. It’s fun, and it adds so much color and flavor to the score.” So calliopes, fanfares, tuba-and-trombone circus marches and aerial-act waltzes abound.
Disney buffs will spot references to the Oscar-winning score by Frank Churchill and Oliver Wallace from the 1941 film. “This is a cultural icon,” the composer says, “and I was happy to pay homage.” So “Pink Elephants on Parade,” “When I See an Elephant Fly” and the train motif “Casey Junior” all make appearances, and the Oscar-nominated song “Baby Mine” is sung twice: once in the film by Sharon Rooney (who plays Miss Atlantis) and again by Arcade Fire beneath the end titles.
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2019-04-24T22:53:46Z
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https://variety.com/2019/artisans/production/danny-elfman-disney-dumbo-1203173252/
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We meet each month at SisterSpirit Office to have ritual and perform magick. This year we will follow the wheel of the year sabbats, the phase of the moon and our personal lives by working with our chakras is association with our life paths. Join us on the first Thursday of the month from 7:30pm to 9pm at SisterSpirit office, 3430 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97214.
We meet each month at SisterSpirit Office to have ritual and perform magick. This year we will follow the wheel of the year sabbats, the phase of the moon and our personal lives by working with our chakras is association with our life paths. Join us on the first Monday of the month from 7:30pm to 9pm at SisterSpirit office, 3430 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR 97214. All women welcome.
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2019-04-24T14:24:34Z
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https://www.meetup.com/Natures-Magick/
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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein navigates a difficult terrain as the White House and Congress criticize him over the special counsel's investigation. CNN's Gloria Borger reports.
Rod Rosenstein goes to work every day knowing that it could be his last as the deputy attorney general.
Congressional Republicans are threatening to impeach him for failing to turn over an unredacted version of his 2017 memo laying out the scope of the special counsel's investigation. President Donald Trump has called the Department of Justice's handling of the Russia probe -- which Rosenstein supervises -- a "witch hunt" while threatening via tweet that "at some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved."
Trump went on to call the FBI raid last month on the offices of his personal attorney Michael Cohen -- which Rosenstein could have stopped but didn't -- a "disgraceful situation." Finally, the President's response to the direct question of whether he was planning to fire Rosenstein didn't provide a lot of job security: "You figure that one out."
Yet people close to Rosenstein say he is staying cool in the midst of the storm.
"He's like shockingly fatalistic," said friend Jim Trusty, an attorney at Ifrah Law in Washington who's a former Justice Department colleague of Rosenstein's. "There's a strange calm to Rod in terms of this fire. I think everyone around him is freaking out, but he just kind of rides through it and says, 'I'm going to keep doing my job as best I can.' "
Rosenstein's own take on his predicament came at a congressional hearing in December, when he was asked by Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, if he was afraid of Trump firing him. "No, I'm not, congressman," Rosenstein replied after a chuckle.
But there was nothing humorous about his response to his House Republican critics earlier this month: "There have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time, and I think they should understand by now that the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted."
On the Russia investigation itself, though, Rosenstein has remained silent, and he declined to be interviewed for this article.
"With Rod, if you scratch the surface, then you get more surface. But that's him. He is inscrutable publicly. Professionally, he is devastatingly effective. He is methodical. He is thorough," said Andy White, a close Rosenstein friend and former colleague.
Since graduating from Harvard Law School in 1989, Rosenstein has spent his entire career at the Justice Department: first at department headquarters as a prosecutor in the Public Integrity section and then in various other departments. In 2005 he was appointed US attorney for Maryland by George W. Bush, where he supervised cases ranging from MS-13 gang crimes to terrorism to public corruption.
"He's been aggressive, and he has not shied away from the political spotlight when it comes to prosecutorial decisions and building cases and convicting people that might be very popular and very unpopular," Trusty said.
Rosenstein was known in the US attorney's office for his skills arguing before a jury and for something more unusual: sending informational memos to his staff before federal holidays.
"We used to always get these emails in the US attorney's office like 'Here's what happened in 1812 and this is why we're taking the day off,' " Trusty said. "He's very academic and very philosophical. He's a historian."
Trump appointed Rosenstein as deputy attorney general in April 2017 and he was confirmed 94-6 by the Senate. Back then, he was a White House favorite.
"He's highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The Democrats like him, the Republicans like him," Trump told NBC last May. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called him "essentially the gold standard at the Department of Justice."
His reputation with Republicans was buoyed by his now well-known memo -- written after just two weeks on the job -- criticizing then-FBI Director James Comey for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The memo called Comey's actions "a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do," and Trump fired Comey the same day he received it.
It's unclear just how Rosenstein anticipated his memo being used in the President's justification to remove Comey, especially after Trump decided to publicly release it.
"I think he had to know it was going to be used in some degree. I don't think that he realized that the President was going to put Greyhound bus tracks on his back with that memo," White said. "I don't think that he realized it was going to be used in that way."
For his part, Rosenstein testified before Congress last May that his memo was the result of "long-standing concerns" about Comey's actions, adding, "My memorandum is not a press release. It is a candid internal memorandum about the FBI director's public statements concerning a high-profile criminal investigation. ... I wrote it. I believe it. I stand by it."
But those close to Comey, like former aide Josh Campbell, don't see Rosenstein's intentions as quite so pure, noting that Rosenstein knew of Trump's desire to fire Comey when he wrote the memo. "I think the motive [was] to keep his job," Campbell said.
Rosenstein's controversial part in the Comey firing would pale in comparison to the role he could be forced to play in another possible firing at the Department of Justice: that of special counsel Robert Mueller. After Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, Rosenstein appointed Mueller -- and is now the man standing between Trump and any move to fire the special counsel.
"If [Trump] asks Rod to fire Mr. Mueller, Rod would resign. That's my guess," White said. "Because at that point, it is untenable. You have a President who is not respecting the process and not respecting the Constitution."
Cuomo: What does firing Rosenstein get Trump?
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2019-04-20T06:30:09Z
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https://www.kimt.com/content/national/482369842.html
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Arts
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ning
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FIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR ALL THE PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS LOVE AND SUPPORT THAT YOU ALL HAVE GIVEN ME THROUGH THIS. I COULDL NOT HAVE MADE IT WITHOUT ALL OF YOU AND MOST OF ALL THE CREATOR.
Did you Know?...Each year on Memorial Day a national moment of remembrance takes place at 3:00 p.m. local time.
A short essay on the golden rule.
I ASK THAT YOU KEEP ME IN YOUR PRAYERS.
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2019-04-19T12:59:28Z
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https://warriornation.ning.com/profiles/blog/list?month=05&year=2011
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Arts
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Reference
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northern
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Description A copy of a black and white photograph titled "Frederick, S.D. " shows people congregating in town. In the background a sign says "Feed at____". On the top right of the photo 1914 is written and at the bottom right of the photo "N.A.B." is written.
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2019-04-19T04:16:28Z
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http://digitalcollections.northern.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p16707coll1/id/687/
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Society
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nme
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Foals’ guitarist Jimmy Smith smashed a tooth during a frenetic house party gig in Cambridge on Saturday night (September 30), following their gig at the Soul Tree venue.
The band had arrived at the small terraced house of a fan after their conventional show with around 80 other fans in tow.
The fans managed to cram into the living room and kitchen, with many hanging off the fridge and sofas to get a glimpse of the band.
Foals performed six songs, including ‘Mathletics’ and ‘Hummer’.
Half-way through the set, due to the sheer mass of bodies, Smith smashed his mouth against a hard surface, breaking a tooth.
Afterwards singer Yannis Philippakis realised the extent of the injury, saying, “This is serious, we’ve got to get this sorted – Jimmy’s lost half a tooth”, before taking his bandmate off for emergency dental treatment.
The band continue their UK tour tonight (October 1) in Brighton’s Komedia venue.
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2019-04-20T16:16:26Z
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https://www.nme.com/news/music/foals-230-1339564
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Arts
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News
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utexas
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The depth map is derived from a structure map of the top of the Paluxy sand (Core Laboratories, 1972). This map also shows the effect of salt structures on the Paluxy Formation. We then used a DEM generated from Digital Terrain Elevation Data (National Imagery and Mapping Agency, 2000) to calculate and grid the depth to top formation (c1paluxyg).
Core Laboratories, Inc., 1972, A survey of the subsurface saline water of Texas: Texas Water Development Board, Report 157 (1), 12 p.
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2019-04-19T07:25:46Z
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http://www.beg.utexas.edu/gccc/co2-data/paluxy-01
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Science
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accesscomm
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I was born in Edmonton Alberta, when I was 8 years old I moved to northern Alberta to Fort Kent where I built my first treehouse in the bush and first discovered my love of nature.
I was married to the love of my life (Charlene) in the year 1988. We moved to Northern Saskatchewan (to a small town called Big River) in the year 1990. Saskatchewan is where I fell in love with the boreal forest.
I took up the art of painting in 2013 due to a medical crisis which confined me to a chair for quite some time. I use acrylic paints for the majority of my work. I became a member of the Regina Federation of Artists Guild in the year 2017.
I have spent thousands of hours in the bush studying wildlife and fauna. When I paint, it feels as though I am in the bush. I hear the sounds, I smell the fragrances, and I feel the breeze; it is like I am sitting right there. Studying nature brings me closer to my creator.
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2019-04-23T08:13:33Z
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http://nonprofits.accesscomm.ca/reginafederationofartists/dan-campeau.html
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Arts
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Arts
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aol
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Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the iconic Coca-Cola bottle, packaging that is just as recognizable as the logo or product itself.
In the book "Design to Grow," released earlier this year, Coca-Cola VP of innovation and entrepreneurship David Butler and co-author Linda Tischler designate the uniquely contoured bottle as one of seven marketing strategies that allowed The Coca-Cola Company to scale into a global behemoth.
When the Georgia businessman Asa Griggs Candler became the majority shareholder of Coca-Cola in 1888, two years after its invention, he set his sights on making Coke the nation's most popular cola through marketing and partnerships with regional bottlers.
But by 1915, Candler was losing market share to hundreds of competitors. He launched a national contest for a new bottle design that would signal to consumers that Coke was a premium product that couldn't be confused with some other brown cola in an identical glass bottle.
The new bottle had to be able to be mass produced using existing equipment yet also be distinct.
The Root Glass Company in Terre Haute, Indiana, decided to enter the contest and base its design off the product's name. Shop foreman Alexander Samuelsson sent two members of his team to the local public library for ideas.
While combing through the dictionary for the word "coca" and words like it, Butler writes, mold shop supervisor Earl R. Dean came across an illustration for the cocoa plant that caught his attention.
Coca-Cola had nothing to do with cocoa, but the cocoa pod had a strange but appealing shape. He and his team got to work crafting a design akin to the pod. Root Glass filed a patent for the design on Nov. 16, 1915, under Samuelsson's name, and Coca-Cola executives loved it. The design won the competition.
The Coca-Cola Company"By 1920, the contour bottle, as it's been called, had become the company's most celebrated artifact," Butler and Tischler write.
Over the past century, Coca-Cola has played with the shape and size of the bottle, and focused production on more easily manufactured and recycled versions.
"That bottle has become one of the most recognized objects of the 20th century, in more than 200 countries," Butler and Tischler write.
You can see a slideshow of the various forms the bottle has taken over the past century at Coca-Cola's website.
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2019-04-24T12:26:04Z
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https://www.aol.com/article/2015/11/16/the-original-coke-bottle-turns-100-today-heres-how-it-got-its/21266915/
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Business
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typepad
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INDEEP PRO SHOP - STOCK SALE NOW ON!
Located on site and stocks Wilson racquets, tennis balls and accessories. Please note we have a price match guarantee with any presented online quote which makes us the cheapest place to buy. We also offer the Hydration Station filled with drinks and a few snacks.
We also offer a 24hr restringing service with all the world's best string like LUXILON available.
All racquets are strung on the WILSON BAIARDO, official machine of the Australian Open.
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2019-04-22T12:02:53Z
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https://indeepinternational.typepad.com/indeep_international/pro-shop.html
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zdnet
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Intel vs. AMD: Is the market share war worth it?
Perusing analyst research notes and Intel's financial results a few key facts stick out: --Revenue was above expectations by a good bit yet earnings were just above consensus. Translation: The price war with AMD is hurting Intel too.
--Revenue was above expectations by a good bit yet earnings were just above consensus. Translation: The price war with AMD is hurting Intel too.
--Intel may have benefited from a buildup among OEMs preparing for the Vista launch instead of actual demand.
--Analysts expect Intel to gain market share on AMD--at the expense of profit margins--and that's allegedly a good thing.
It's that last item that I just don't get. After a year where AMD's technology was better, Intel still has a market share topping 75 percent. Of course, it had been at about 80 percent, but it's not like Intel isn't still dominant. Meanwhile, gaining back that market share is going to cost Intel's profitability. Gross margins appear to be down for the long haul at about 50 percent at best.
"We do not expect the price competition between Intel and AMD to end anytime soon. We expect a painful, prolonged, aggressive pricing environment throughout at least the first half of 2007," wrote Eric Ross, an analyst at ThinkEquity, in a research note.
In other words, Intel and AMD will duke it out over market share and kill each other on pricing. Intel, which has more manufacturing prowess and scale, will win a long price war barring an AMD leapfrog move, but what's the point? It's like these two chip makers haven't gotten the memo indicating that they have a duopoly.
"I continue to believe that our shareholders are best served by Intel using its capacity to retake market share that we lost this year," said Intel CEO Paul Otellini on the company's conference call last night. "Nothing has changed there, except that we perhaps now have a much better product portfolio to do that with. The flexibility and the breadth of that product portfolio gives us a number of pricing options."
OK, fine, but the chip industry isn't like the auto sector where there are many players scrapping for market share--and trying to topple General Motors, which in turn got consumers hooked on incentives to keep its market share lead vs. Toyota. In the semiconductor industry, Intel could ease up on the pricing pressure, AMD could get some wiggle room and both companies could book more profits.
That aforementioned duopoly truce wouldn't be good for technology buyers, but you've got to wonder if this price war in a duopoly makes a lot of sense.
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2019-04-20T07:05:02Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-vs-amd-is-the-market-share-war-worth-it/
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Arts
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wordpress
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Probable events make more sense when you think of them as latent future ones.
The fact remains that are probable past events that can still happen within your personal previous experiences.
A new event can literally be born in the past now.
A new belief in the present can cause changes in the past on a neuronal level. Present beliefs can indeed alter the past. In some cases of healing, the spontaneous disappearance of cancer for instance or any other disease, certain alteration are made that affect cellular memory, genetic codes, or neuronal patterns in the past.
In such instances there is a reaching into deep biological structures as they existed at one time at that point the probabilities are altered and their conditions are erased in your present but also in your past.
A sudden or intense belief in health can reverse the disease., but a very practical way it is a reversal in terms of time. New memories are inserted in place of the old ones as far as cells are concerned..
Learning is not simply paved on from living tissue to living tissue but it is also passed through the body ‘s present corporeal reality , sometimes changing messages to past cells that in your terms no longer exist.
In the same way a strong belief in a particular ability in the present will reach into the past and effect whatever changes would have had to occur there in order to make the ability apparent .
This is the reason for the results of some experiments with accelerated learning when under hypnosis the present belief activate latent abilities within each person.
The biological structure as it existed in the past is affected . Experience is built into organism that it did not have before. It is a sort of reprogramming.
When you alter your beliefs today you also reprogram your past.
Your present is your point of action, focus and power and from that point of volition you form both your future and your past.
Realizing this you will understand that you are not at the mercy of the past over which you have no control.
The ever changing elements of your body and your consciences are relatively free in time. They exist in a multi dimensional with which rational consciousness is not yet equipped to deal.
Cellular memory can be changed any moment present beliefs can insert into the past new memory both psychologically and physically.
The future is no predefined on basic levels. This does not means that the future cannot be predicted sometimes for in certain terms you will often continue with certain lines of probability which can be seen ahead of time.
The physical constitution of your body follows beliefs, and so all of its sense data will faithfully mirror the beliefs that directs it’s activity.
Hypnosis is simply an exercise in the alteration of beliefs and only to clearly shows that these experiences follow the expectations.
The you at the present is only one probable state of being who then directs corporeal life and frames and defines all sense of data.
When your idea about yourself change so do your experience.
In more personal terms each individual creates his own world.
The nerve pattern causes the illusion of a present in which your consciences appears focused and alert.
Impulses possess a far different reality that physicists or biologists suppose .
As you think now past is still occurring. The drag still leaps the synapses but is not physically recorded.
Consciously you only experience portions of events with your corporeal structure, yet the structure itself records them.
The cells retain their memory, though you do not perceive it, and the body is aware of the so called future occurrence though as a rule you do not consciously sense this.
At other levels of psychic activity however such knowledge is also available to you but only when you disconnect your experience from the time activated neuronal structure and this you can do through various alteration of consciousness.
You can discover for yourself the other probable you’d that are a portion of your being .
The brain is the physical counterpart of the mind. By means of the brain the functions of the soul and intellect are connected with the body.
Your beliefs are used as screening and directing agents separating certain non physical probable events from to others and bringing them into three dimensional actuality. You will choose form those nonphysical probable events only those you feel you are in accord with.
Because of your psychological and psychic structure there is within the rich makeup of your being endless variety of what you may call probable selves. In one reality or another all will be experienced.
In your present existence you will utilize only those psychological characteristics that you believe you possess. The physical constitution of you body follows your beliefs and data will faithfully mirror the beliefs that direct its activity. When your ideas about yourself changes so does your experiences.
You go through alteration of your beliefs all the time so the perception of the world is different. Probable events are brought into actuality by utilizing the body’s nerve structure through certain intensities of will or conscious belief.
These beliefs attract and bring into being certain events instead of others. Therefore they determine the entry of experienced events from an endless variety of probable ones. Your world begins with that point of intersection where the soul and physical consciousness meet.
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2019-04-26T00:06:08Z
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https://lessonslilianausvat.wordpress.com/category/probabale-selves-probable-events/probable-events/
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Health
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toronto
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When building datasets and analyzers for NLP, the path from linguistic description to computational implementation need not be disjointed: the goals and methodologies of each can inform one another. This talk presents forays into NLP for new text genres, following a trajectory that tightly integrates linguistic data preparation and computational modeling methodologies. I will discuss analyzers for syntax and semantics built with a process encompassing 1) representation, 2) annotation, and 3) automation. First, I will describe a new framework for broad-coverage lexical semantic analysis, with special attention to multiword expressions (such as "high school" and "go over") in the web reviews domain (Schneider et al., 2014 in LREC and TACL). To facilitate robust and efficient modeling at the token level, the lexical semantic representation has been designed to be compatible with shallow discriminative sequence models, with algorithmic enhancements to accommodate multiword expressions containing gaps. Second, I will touch on efforts to build syntactic datasets, taggers, and dependency parsers for Twitter message(Gimpel et al., ACL 2011; Owoputi et al., NAACL 2013; Schneider et al., LAW 2013; Kong et al., EMNLP 2014). Finally, if time permits, I will mention parallel efforts to model relational and functionalist semantics.
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2019-04-18T14:38:22Z
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http://web.cs.toronto.edu/news/events/CL_Aug8.htm
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Arts
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Arts
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factmonster
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Pollonarrua or Polonnaruwa both: pŏl˝ənəro͞o´ə [key], ruined ancient city, NE Sri Lanka. Pollonarrua, beautifully situated on a lake, was once the most splendid city of Sri Lanka. It became a royal residence in the mid-4th cent. and the capital after the fall (late 8th cent.) of Anuradhapura . The city reached its height under the rule of king Parakrama Bahu I (1164–97), the last notable monarch of the Sinhalese dynasty. He embellished the capital with temples, stupas, and huge stone images of Buddha; among these is a famous colossal statue of the recumbent Buddha. Pollonarrua fell to the Hindu Tamils in the 13th cent. The name is also spelled Pollanarrua.
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2019-04-21T00:43:57Z
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https://www.factmonster.com/encyclopedia/history/asia-africa/se-asia/pollonarrua
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Arts
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Arts
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mtv
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Goodbye to the Big Apple!
The duo tell MTV News why they chose the lyrics to this song.
The guys have a fun take on the 1953 classic.
'I feel like everyone accepts you, if you accept yourself,' he tells MTV News before tonight's 'Trailblazers' at 9 p.m. ET on LOGO.
MTV News uncovers some serious secrets from some of Firefly's 2014 performers.
Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino take MTV News behind their latest clip.
AGBW tells MTV News about recording with Xtina.
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2019-04-26T10:31:36Z
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http://www.mtv.com/artists/a-great-big-world
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Arts
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News
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wordpress
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Since vehicles first took to the road, the most publicised causes of accidents have been speeding and drink driving.
Whilst being caught for a speeding offence has become more likely with the commissioning of new technology, drink drivers often escape the law unless they are involved in an accident or stopped by the police whilst on the road. Often it is too late to prevent a fatality.
For company owners, having a driver who secretely drinks at the wheel can be hard to detect but more importantly lead to a costly legal nightmare – and possible closure of the business – if that driver causes a loss of life through driving whilst over-the-limit.
However, it seems that technology has finally caught up and now there is a device that can be fitted to a vehicle, that immobilises it completely, should the driver fail a breath test before starting the engine.
At around £600 per unit the finance department might not immediately agree but, if it gains popularity, the prices should start falling.
For decades, it has been a sign of camaraderie amongst motorists – even the AA’s patrolmen used to do it back in the days they rode motorcycles. But, apparently, it’s now becoming an offence.
What dastardly crime am I talking about? – the serious offence of warning other road users of a nearby police speedtrap.
Who can honestly say they have never been guilty of giving a quick flash of the headlights to warn oncoming drivers of a police presence by the side of the road? Yes, it’s sneaky, but then so is trying to disguise a laser gun as a daffodil in a lay-by. It’s been just part of the cat-and-mouse game most of us play with an imaginary policeman every time we take to the road.
Now, for the record, I am not endorsing those who regularly flaunt the law by speeding, nor am I endorsing those who are deluded enough to think they can drive like F1 stars.
All of us have exceeded the limit at some time; after all, it’s almost impossible to keep a modern car within the legal limits, at all times, in today’s changing flows of traffic.
Many motorists regard speed traps as being nothing more than money raisers for local authorities, the police or central government; they are seen as another form of road tax.
Lancashire Police appear to have decided to prove such suspicions right by imposing penalties on any driver caught committing the ‘new’ offence of “misuse of headlights” If you are caught, you face a fine of £30.
Maybe the road signs will be targeted with fines next!
Meanwhile, we recommend you watch your speed – especially in Lancashire!
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2019-04-18T20:37:49Z
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https://candycarriers.wordpress.com/category/speeding/
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dailymail
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She couldn’t look more excited as she prepared to take in the sights of Sydney with her friends and family yesterday - and Taylor Swift even went all out when it came to her fashion choice.
Arriving at Sydney Harbour, the 22-year-old made a conscious effort to be styled especially for the occasion as she rolled up to Port Jackson with a huge anchor motif across her chest.
She teamed her cream sweater with cropped blue trousers for the laid-back look as she enjoyed and evening off.
Slapping on a touch of red lipstick for her pout and matching her makeup to her open toe flat shoes, Swift looked like the ultimate doll with her hair pulled away from her face.
The country singer and company were climbing aboard a glamorous motor yacht for a night the waters.
The starlet who is in the city as part of the Australian leg of her Speak Now tour appeared giggly as she was escorted onto the vehicle to glimpse famous locations including the Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Taylor has been spending plenty of time with her father in between working, the pair enjoyed some father/daughter bonding time earlier this week as they celebrated his 60th birthday with a special meal.
She has also been using the micro-blogging site to rave about how good the crowds are at her concerts Down Under.
Friday and Saturday with see the blonde play Sydney before continuing on to several gigs in Melbourne and Auckland.
There isn’t much time off for the star who is rumoured to have a new love in her life after denying there's anything going on with her and The Lorax co-star Zac Efron.
Taylor recently denied having a boyfriend during an appearance on the Ellen show.
But according to reports she may be dating quarterback Tim Tebow.
According to Radar Online, Taylor and Tim were spotted getting 'cosy' at a pre-Oscar party.
Another outlet reports that Tim, 24, and Taylor, 22, had dinner together on Monday in Century City.
'After dinner, he walked her out, and then he walked back in to join two other people,' an eyewitness said.
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2019-04-23T20:40:19Z
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2112126/Taylor-Swift-dons-sailor-chic-goes-glamorous-yacht-tour-Sydney.html
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Arts
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Sports
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apple
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Listening to Titus Was Born on a super revealing high-end stereo and it's undeniably one of the best recordings I have ever heard. A beautiful song recorded at the highest levels of music engineering. Warm crisp vocals fill the center of the room and the sounds of rain appear to float about the room in such high fidelity it is beyond words. I've listened to just about every song considered best produced, most dynamic range, literally the best all-around recordings of all-time and this is song is up there. Maybe one of the best recordings ever.
They’ve been outstanding since they were The Jakes and have continued to find their sound. Progressively they are becoming one of the better alternative bands out there and have been nothing but consistent from the very beginning. Love this band and will continue to love them until they give me a reason not to, which at this point seems unlikely.
I'm probably the only Young the Giant fan who didn't really like Mind Over Matter all that much, but the first two singles off this album have me very optimistic and excited!
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2019-04-22T18:18:50Z
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/home-of-the-strange/1107244888?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
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Arts
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Arts
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google
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a color filter for liquid crystal display which enables a liquid crystal display to have a color reproduction region equal to or more than a color reproduction region of standard values of the NTSC (national TV system commities) system of a color CRT on a CIE chromaticity diagram, and the liquid crystal display.
SOLUTION: The color liquid crystal display which uses light emitting diodes of blue, green, and red as color light sources of a back light and also uses color filters of blue, green, and red. Disclosed are the color filter, characterized in that peak wavelengths of the light emitting diodes are 430 to 480 nm for blue, 520 to 570 nm for green, and 620 to 660 nm for red and the spectral transmissivity of the color filter at the peak wavelengths of blue, green, and red of the light emitting diodes is ≥80% for blue, red, and green, and the liquid crystal display which uses such color filters.
刺激値である。 Is a stimulus value. 【０００６】カラーＣＲＴにあっては、電子銃により加速された電子が蛍光体に衝突して蛍光を発する方式であり、蛍光体を適宜選択することで、彩度の高い色あざやかなカラー表示が実現される。 In the color CRT is a method in which electrons accelerated by an electron gun emits fluorescence collides with the phosphor, by appropriately selecting the phosphor, high color vivid color display of saturation It is realized. 【０００７】ところが、現状のカラー液晶表示装置とりわけカラーフィルタを用いる透過型液晶表示装置にあっては、まず、カラーフィルタの分光透過率特性の制約を受ける。 However, in the transmission type liquid crystal display device using a current color liquid crystal display device particularly a color filter, first, constrained spectral transmittance characteristics of the color filter. しかしながら、現用のカラーフィルタの分光透過率特性は、理想的なものに達しているわけではない。 However, the spectral transmittance characteristics of color filters of the primary is not has reached ideal.
また、バックライトを用いる透過型液晶表示装置にあっては、バックライトとして三波長蛍光管を用いている。 Further, in the transmission type liquid crystal display device using a backlight is used a three-wavelength fluorescent tube as a backlight.
青発光ダイオードとしては、窒化ガリウム（GaN）を主材料し、具体的には、サファイア基板／n-GaN／n-Al 0. The blue light emitting diode, a gallium nitride (GaN) and main material, specifically, a sapphire substrate / n-GaN / n-Al 0.
結晶構造がα、β、ε型がよい。 The crystal structure is α, β, it is ε type. 紫としては、Ｃ． The purple, C. Ｉ． I.
ｇ、溶剤としてシクロヘキサノン３９．５ｇを添加して３本ロールで十分混練して青の着色樹脂（ペースト）を作製した。 g, to prepare a blue colored resin (paste) was sufficiently kneaded with three rolls was added cyclohexanone 39.5g as a solvent. 【００３７】以下に顔料を示す。 shows the pigment in below. ・［赤用］ 顔料Ｂ−ＣＦ（チバガイギ製ＤＰＰ顔料Ｃ．Ｉ．ピグメントレッド２５４）１２ｇとＡ２Ｂ（チバガイギ製Ｃ． - [red] pigment B-CF (Ciba-Geigy made DPP pigment C.I. Pigment Red 254) 12g and A2B (Ciba-Geigy made C.
４．６ｇの混合物。 Mixture of 4.6g. 分散剤としての銅フタロシアニン誘導体ＣｕＰＣ［ＳＯ２ Ｎ（Ｃ１８Ｈ３７）２］２ 【００３９】・［青用］ 顔料リオノールブルーＥＳ（東洋インキ製造(株)製Ｃ． Copper phthalocyanine derivative as a dispersing agent CuPC [SO2 N (C18H37) 2] 2 , [blue] pigment Rio Nord Blue ES (Toyo Ink Mfg. Co., Ltd. C.
１ｇを加えて良く攪拌し各色の感光性着色組成物とした。 Adding 1g well stirred and the photosensitive coloring composition in each color. 【００４１】（カラーフィルタの作製）まず、ブラックマトリクスが形成された基板上に赤色の感光性着色組成物をスピンコートし乾燥させた。 A (color Production of Filter) First, on a substrate where black matrix is formed a red photosensitive coloring composition is spin-coated dried. ７０℃２０分プレベーク後、液晶表示素子の１画素と同じ画素サイズのマスクを用いて４００ｍＪ／ｃｍ２露光した。 After 70 ° C. 20 minutes prebaking was 400 mJ / cm @ 2 exposure using a mask having the same pixel size as one pixel of the liquid crystal display device. ２．５％炭酸ナトリウムの水溶液で現像し水洗し、さらに水洗、乾燥後２３０℃３０分で乾燥してパターンを固めた。 And developed with a 2.5% aqueous solution of sodium carbonate was washed with water, further washed with water, solidified pattern was dried at 230 ° C. 30 minutes after drying. ベーク後の膜厚は１．２μｍであった。 The film thickness after baking was 1.2μm. 次に、緑色の感光性着色組成物をスピンコートし乾燥させた。 Next, a green photosensitive coloring composition is spin-coated dried. 以下赤色と同様のプロセスにて膜厚１．２μｍの緑色のパターンを得た。 The following give a green pattern having a film thickness of 1.2μm by red and similar processes.
電極、を、この順に繰り返し多数配列し、導光板にて液晶表示素子の表示面に発光光を誘導させた。 Electrode, the repeatedly arrayed in this order, was induced emitted light on the display surface of the liquid crystal display element in the light guide plate. 得られた液晶表示装置は、ＮＴＳＣ色特性の１０１％を達成するものであった。 Liquid crystal display devices obtained were those to achieve 101% of the NTSC color characteristic. 【００４４】＜実施例２＞実施例１と同じ感光性着色樹脂を用いて以下の条件にてカラーフィルタを作製した。 Using the <Example 2> The same photosensitive colored resin as in Example 1 to prepare a color filter under the following conditions.
（メチルチオ）フエニル）−２−モルホリノープロパンー１−オン０．８ｇ、メトキシスチリルトリアジン０． (Methylthio) phenyl) -2-morpholinocarbonyl no propan-1-on 0.8 g, methoxystyryl triazine 0.
電極、を、この順に繰り返し多数配列し、導光板にて液晶表示素子の表示面に発光光を誘導させた。 Electrode, the repeatedly arrayed in this order, was induced emitted light on the display surface of the liquid crystal display element in the light guide plate. 得られた液晶表示装置は、ＮＴＳＣ色特性の１０４％を達成するものであった。 Liquid crystal display devices obtained were those to achieve 104% of the NTSC color characteristic. 【００５４】＜実施例４＞実施例１と同じ感光性着色樹脂を用いて以下の条件にてカラーフィルタを作製した。 Using the <Example 4> The same photosensitive colored resin as in Example 1 to prepare a color filter under the following conditions.
（メチルチオ）フェニル）−２−モルホリノープロパンー１−オン０．８ｇ、メトキシスチリルトリアジン０． (Methylthio) phenyl) -2-morpholinophenyl no propan-1-on 0.8 g, methoxystyryl triazine 0.
より色鮮やかで色再現域の広いなカラー表示の液晶表示が楽しめるのであり、放送用カラーテレビ受像機、モニタなど、用途的な拡がりを液晶表示装置に与えることができる。 More are in the liquid crystal display of the color bright color gamut wide Do color display can enjoy, it is possible to provide broadcasting for a color television receiver, such as a monitor, an application specific spread to the liquid crystal display device.
ｎｍの範囲にあり、その半値波長幅がそれぞれ青でピーク波長からプラスマイナス１５ｎｍの幅、緑でプラスマイナス２０ｎｍの幅、赤でプラスマイナス１５ｎｍの幅に納まる発光特性を有するバックライトであり、前記発光ダイオードの青緑赤のピーク波長におけるカラーフィルタの分光透過率が青赤緑で８０％以上であることを特徴とする液晶表示装置。 In the range of nm, the half wavelength width width of ± 15nm from the peak wavelength in blue, respectively, in green plus or minus 20nm width, a backlight having a light emission characteristic that fits the width of ± 15nm in red, the the liquid crystal display device, wherein the spectral transmittance of the color filter in the blue green red peak wavelength of the light emitting diode is 80% or more blue red green.
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Purdue Space Day is working to make its high-quality STEM activities available on the web for educators, parents, and students around the world to download and use. Each activity has a detailed write-up explaining the necessary materials and procedures, along with an explanation of the relevant scientific background, suggested teaching practices, and relevant educational standards drawn from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Please browse the activities below and please don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions, comments, or other feedback.
Straw Rockets - Build and launch a rocket using common classroom materials! This activity is a great demonstration of momentum exchange and aerodynamic forces.
Water Rockets - Build rockets from empty soda botles and send them flying into the sky with some water and a bicycle pump!
Egg Drop - Keep an egg safe by building a landing vehicle to protect it from a long fall - then see how high you dare drop it and find out if your design succeeds!
Life in Space - Use recycled materials to build a mock-up space suit and get a sense of how difficult it is to do work as an astronaut.
Cardboard Shuttles - Build simulated re-entry vehicles using cardboard and poster board and see how they fly at low and high speeds!
Stomp Rockets - coming soon!
Foam Rockets - coming soon!
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30 Rocks, Cheyenne Jackson, sings Scott Alan's song Blessing. All proceeds from the single will go to two incredible youth oriented G.L.B.T. Organizations: The Trevor Project and the Hetrick-Martin Institute.
Broadway star, Cheyenne Jackson, currently starring on NBC's hit half hour comedy, 30 Rock, sings composer Scott Alan's song Blessing, a brave plea for a family's acceptance. All proceeds from the single will go to The Trevor Project and the Hetrick-Martin institute.
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This entry was posted on August 21, 2012 at 7:52 pm and is filed under Film, The Universe and Stuff with tags ding an sich, Hannibal Lecter, Immanuel Kant, Kantian Philosophy, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, noumenon, Stoic Philosophy, The Silence of the Lambs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
I believe that one of the things which triggered the rise of science was the idea of investigating what something was through its interactions with other things. After all, the only way to ponder what something is in itself is to introspect about it. Combining the two ways is combining experiment and theory.
In kicking off science, the mediaevals also set aside the notion of purpose, ie what was a thing FOR? That is one of the reasons why science, though magnificent, is not the only form of truth.
“In itself” appears to be a translation of AUTON.
Or like Batman (Rachel Dawes, to be precise) said: It’s not to who you are underneath; it’s what you do that defines you.
Thank you for this insight. This nature of assessment is often employed by proficient Martial Artists and is consequently of great use to me. Now, I have more accurate information regarding the possible original source of this kind of analysis.
Its like Relativity in physics. Who you are is determined relative to others and that determines or influences what you do. Some mundane acts might be deceptive but the extreme acts portrayed in Silence are not acts of a dishonest person but an honest one revealing his true nature relative to others, not simply a murderer or defined by an action but a deeper nature. In another setting, you might be very different and act differently.
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Morris, William. The story of Sigurd the Volsung and the fall of the Niblungs. 4th ed. London: Reeves and Turner, 1887.
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https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/%C2%B6-morris-sigurd-the-volsung-1887/
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This is not my first taste of Liesel K Hill’s work and it won’t be my last. If you are into dystopian worlds, serial killers and murder, Street Games may be for you.
Gabe is a cop that has become enamored with Kyra.
Missing and dead children, prostitutes, one killer or two, a slow burning relationship, and fantastic world building.
Tense, dangerous, teeth gritting moments.
Nothing is smooth sailing. The characters will put it all on the line for each other. Not all will survive and not all questions will be answered. The pacing keeps the thrills coming, one after another some high, some low, and I want more. I must know the end of Kyra’s story.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Damaged Hope by Liesel K Hill.
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Shine, James E., "The Development of Technical Education in the Chicago High Schools" (1933). Master's Theses. 452.
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emotions – Who is Shenise G?
With each day I know that this is the beginning of a new season. I can’t find peace in anything anymore. There’s only emptiness and brokenness left here. I try so hard to keep myself from sinking down into it every day. I’m fighting so hard to keep my dreams alive and I’m glad that I made it this far, but I don’t feel like I’m living my life yet.
I’m tired of just getting by, accepting whatever life hands me, finding the tiniest glimpses of happiness once in a rare blue moon.
I feel trapped and isolated and I’m tired of feeling like this. I have to be courageous and ambitious enough to build the life I dream of rather than accept the second rate life I’ve been given. The longer I’m here, the more bitter and resentful I become. It’s been 10 years.. I finally realize that staying here is holding me back from the life I could be living.
I just want to be happy, that’s the only thing I’ve ever really wanted.
Stop Believing that you are powerless and forced to accept a second rate life. You have the power to achieve any goal you set your mind to.
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8. Does the Wet Suit You?
It appears that the moon and the stars have finally aligned. I'm thrilled to publish my first full length audio CD. These 14 songs have been swimming around for quite some time now, awaiting the right karmic connections to bring them out into the world.
My name is Casey Garland and I've been a professional whitewater river outfitter and guide since 1974. I'm so grateful to have shared the thrill, power and righteous scenery of wild rivers with thousands of people from around the globe. Throughout this long journey I've played guitar, honing my skills and songwriting craft so that one day I could share my musical soul and perspective from a life well lived on the rivers.
That time has come and in November of 2014, with the help of producer extraordinaire Jeff Tassin and special guest George Merrill, I'll have the pleasure of sharing these river songs with you! This is a 'Songwriters Album' with professionally recorded songs and some great players putting their hearts into it. Browse around and have a listen. If you like what you're hearing, be sure to sign into the mailing list for updates and a free download of one song from the collection.
The next day I was driving back to the Seattle area when I got a call from Jeff Tassin the host of the open mic. He told me that while I didn't win the audience vote the night before, I came in second place. He went on to tell me that the trio who did win had brought in 15 of their own people to vote for them. They got 15 votes and I got 14. Not only had they swayed the vote, Jeff indicated these young people were rude to the waitress, didn't leave a tip, dissed the other performers and the host. Not cool. So Jeff was calling me to tell me that he was rescinding the award from the trio and giving it to me instead. I felt a little bad for the trio, but hey, being rude and swaying the vote wasn't cool and maybe they'd learn a lesson.
Frankly I wasn't expecting much when I arrived at Jeff's studio to record my song. I didn't know who Jeff Tassin was other than a heck of great guitar player. He was very friendly and accommodating. I figured the easiest song of mine was 31-33 because it's your basic 3 chords and the truth type song, easy to play, 60's style basic call back format. He indicated that song would 'Lay down quite nicely'. So Jeff played drums and I played the song and sang. Just one take each. Then he picked up a bass guitar and played song all the way through. Next he picked up an electric guitar and proceeded to tear my head off with screaming great slide guitar riffs. I think he just did two passes and I was shell shocked.
So that's the story of how I met Jeff Tassin and how I've come to appreciate the depth of his musicality and production skills. This album effort would still be swimming in the pond, but thanks to Jeff, we're now floating down the river toward mastering and CD production. I can't wait to share it with ya'll, it's a pretty solid entry into the adult contemporary music genre.
In the end it all comes down to the song. Is it a good song or not? Can people identify with it and enjoy it? Does it grab them and make them feel something? Will they choose to buy that fancy cup of Starbucks coffee for $4.00 which cost pennies to make, little time to create and gone in a few minutes or will they spend $1.00 for a song that took years to create, thousands of dollars to record and lasts forever? Seems like most people choose the coffee. Go figure. In the end, it all comes down to the song. Please help support this album with your purchase so we can do it again!
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This course examines the relationship between organizational structures and the behavior that results from these structures. Effective management systems and methods will be studied, teaching students how an organization’s environment impacts behavior and vice versa. Additional topics include leadership; ethics; resources management; and diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.
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Does Wi-Fi come from satellites?
For those of us in the telecommunications industry this may sound like a startling question. However it is a genuine question from a member of the public that took part in a discussion about broadband and how it was being marketed.
For those of you that might be reading this that also don’t know the answer, no - Wi-Fi doesn’t come from satellites.
Wi-Fi is a wireless technology developed for Local Area Networks, and uses standards defined by the IEEE, in this case a bunch of standards under the exotically titled 802.11 banner. Wi-Fi can travel a few metres, it certainly won’t reach satellites.
And it doesn’t get you to the internet either, which is another common misconception.
To get from a Wi-Fi router or hotspot to the internet, that router or hotspot needs a “backhaul” network to get you to the internet. From home, this would be your broadband connection and everything that goes on beyond there to connect all the way through to the Netflix servers.
Wi-Fi has become a near-ubiquitous and very convenient networking technology, an incredibly successful communications innovation. How many of us get irritated when we can’t get on-line, from a train for example or in some instances even hotels? We even expect it for free and when presented with a payment login wall for a Wi-Fi service, I for one will switch my iPhone’s hotspot feature on and use that for practically free.
The rise of Wi-Fi has led directly to the café culture style of working - park up in your favourite espresso joint, order a donut, and hit those emails on the device of your choice.
And we all have Wi-Fi in our homes too, where there are unintended consequences for the apparent performance of your service. Wi-Fi has many strengths but it also has weaknesses too, and I think you need to be aware of these weaknesses, as you might be blaming your service provider for poor broadband speed (and that’s all to easy to do) when in fact the problem lies closer to home. In your home, in fact.
Ironically, as broadband speeds increase, and super low latency “ultra-fast” 1000Mbps services become more prevalent, the impact of Wi-Fi performance becomes more of an issue. The unpredictable and variable nature of slow-speed highly contended copper broadband, masks Wi-Fi issues. In fact, the two can often combine to create a perfect storm of poor service performance.
The usual practice of internet service providers when they install your router is to use a short, maybe 2m, cable inside your house so your Wi-Fi equipped router is neatly nestled against a wall.
It’s convenient for them for the install, but perhaps less so for you. The reason for this potential inconvenience is that the shape of the Wi-Fi signal is like a donut - think invisible electromagnetic Krispy Kreme Original Glazed - it’s a toroid. Technically speaking it’s omnidirectional - it’s the same in all directions (or almost all directions) which is exactly the characteristics you need for flooding a room or house equally with Wi-Fi from a single point, so everyone gets the same signal.
Sadly it’s not as simple as that.
As your newly installed Wi-Fi router is likely to be next to an external wall, and the shape of the Wi-Fi signal is to all intents and purposes a sphere, this means much of your Wi-Fi signal disappears out of your house.
And that’s not all, but to explain the next bit, I’m going to have to talk technology. A bit.
I mentioned the IEEE earlier - the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (although it’s not the Engineers that are electronic or electrical as far as I know). As I said, this august body sets standards for many things including Wi-Fi so that we can easily connect our laptops and iPads to routers.
But standards don’t stand still - they are constantly evolving. So in the consumer space over the last 15 or so years we’ve had a veritable variety comprising 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n and the very latest and exciting 802.11ac.
Wi-Fi is a radio signal and just like regular entertainment radio stations such as BBC’s Radio 4, it uses specific frequencies or frequency bands as part of the standard. The latest hotshot hotspot standard on the market and being heavily promoted, 802.11ac, was released in Dec 2013 and uses 5Ghz frequency, but to keep it “backward compatible” with non-ac devices, it also supports the older 2.4Ghz frequencies from earlier Wi-Fi standards.
Naturally, to take advantage of this, your end device needs to support the same standard. An 802.11g device might well use an ac Wi-Fi router, but it won’t use the 5Ghz frequency.
2.4Ghz is a busy place - it’s a common frequency frequently used by many other things such as bluetooth devices and baby monitors… so there’s a lot of interference through which your laptop has to punch to get to the router and vice versa. All this interference degrades the signal strength and this will cause a reduction in the streamed data rate of your internet connection.
5Ghz is a less-used frequency and is therefore subject to less interference. It’s also faster, so it supports a faster streamed data rate then 2.4Ghz. Those pesky laws of physics though mean that although 5Ghz frequency is faster, it’s strength deteriorates over a shorter distance, it doesn’t go as far. it also doesn’t have so much “penetration” power as 2.4Ghz, so those handy walls you have in your house might be bad news for 5Ghz Wi-Fi.
On the other hand, 2.4Ghz punches through walls, so for some types of property, your neighbour’s Wi-Fi might be interfering with yours! Whereas the shorter range 5Ghz option may avoid this issue.
Within the frequency bands (5Ghz, 2.4Ghz) are various numbers of discrete channels. If two end devices (PCs for example) are using the same channel, this this can cause interference and spoil your Game of Thrones experience. This is why when you phone up your service provider to complain their broadband isn’t working, they often ask you to change Wi-Fi channels, or they might do it for you remotely.
5Ghz has more non-overlapping channels than the 2.4Ghz band, so again there’s less likelihood of interference which results in a better service experience.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could actually see what your Wi-Fi network looked like, so you could find out how to optimise the location of your router to get the best possible coverage? Well the great news is you can.
There are a number of different tools you can use to do this. I used a combination of an augmented reality iPad app from Stanley tools to draw a plan of my house. I then exported that into a MacOS application called Netspot to measure and plot the Signal to Noise Ratio of my Wi-Fi radio network.
The more Signal to Noise, the better, the more Noise to Signal, the worse.
Test point 7 was right above the Wi-Fi router, which was on a desk in the dining room, tethered to the VirginMedia network access box by a 2m cable. The graph shows a lot of green - the signal - and not much pink - the underlying noise. It's a strong Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR).
An Ookla speedtest at this point showed I had 205.96Mbps download speed and 7.72Mbps upload speed. This kind of asymmetry is a common characteristic of copper-based broadband, albeit in VirginMedia’s case where they have their own network, they use copper coax cable instead of copper wires.
Test point 1 was a few metres away in the kitchen. Here you can see much less green signal, and although the pink noise has remained much the same level as it was in the dining room, the ratio between the two is vastly different. The Ookla speed test in the kitchen shows the impact this reduced Signal to Noise Ratio has on service speed.
You can't change the laws of physics so what can you do about this?
One simple thing you can do is to move your router into the centre of your house. I did this by buying a 10m coax cable extension from Maplins, and used that to reposition my router on top of (but not inside) a cupboard so it was higher up and more central. This had an amazing effect on Wi-Fi coverage in my humble abode.
Make sure your router uses both 5Ghz and 2.4Ghz frequencies - upgrade to 802.11ac! A recent trend has been to present these two frequencies to the end user as one Wi-Fi network option on your Wi-Fi network picker on your laptop, and it automatically serves up the better of the two signals to you. 802.11ac also sports such exotic technologies as “beam forming” and “MIMO” (Multi In Multi Out) aerials. MIMO is usually either 3 x MIMO or 4 x MIMO, and promoted in such a way to give the impression that 4 x is better than 3 x. But it does depend on the capabilities of your device, so upgrade your devices too.
For folk with large houses, or old houses with thick walls, one Wi-Fi source may simply not be enough to provide adequate universal coverage. My parents purchased a pair of “Powerline Adaptors” which simply plug into the mains sockets and uses the electrical wiring to transmit the signal to a corresponding Powerline Adaptor in another room, effectively extending the Wi-Fi range. There are limitations to this though, as Powerline Adaptors need to be on the same ring main.
You can add Wireless Access Points (WAPs), which is relatively simple to do, or even build what’s known as a “full mesh” Wi-Fi network, which is at the bleeding edge of Home Area Networking.
Or you could simply connect your devices using good old fashioned Ethernet cables. But these may not go very well with your soft furnishings.
It’s very easy to pin immediate blame on your ISP for buffering and stuttering issues, especially given the wobbly nature of copper-based broadband. But it might be worthwhile ensuring you have the best Wi-Fi set up possible before once again calling your ISP for support. And should you be fortunate enough to be able to take a real fibre optic broadband service, then take it as this will dramatically improve your whole internet experience.
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This section will be featuring recent photos of many of the historic sites spotlighted in The Last of the Mohicans. In addition, there are biographies of the true life characters, historical retellings of some of the events in the book/film, information on James Fenimore Cooper, and more. It, like some of the other pages in this site, will continue to grow over time. Any requests? Let us know.
For Upcoming Film Releases, Re-Enactments, and Other Colonial Related Events, Check Our DISPATCHES FROM AROUND THE FRONTIER: NEWS & NOTES Page!
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These pages are designed to give a brief introduction to the history behind LOTM and the French & Indian War in a readily available ... and easily digestible ... format ... the Internet. However, they are not meant as a substitute to the value of reading about this historical period personally. There are hundreds of fine books dealing with this subject. We encourage you to seek them out. History through fiction is a great window to a whole other world!
You can find extensive lists of F & I War books on many sites, including some we've linked to. Realizing, however, that many of you are seeking more information and have questions pertaining to this period, we've 'hired' a professional historian!
He will be more than happy to help with research questions or steer you in the right direction. Interested in finding out more about re-enacting? He can help with that as well!
Many thanks to our official LOTM historian!
Note: Any errors, biases, or lies found within these histories are our own! Unless otherwise noted, all text pages on this site are authored by Mohican Press.
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Charlene Tilton took part in a Celebrity meet and greet to raise money for breast cancer awareness on 1/13/07 at the Holiday Inn. Be Sociable, Share!
A cowboy hat-wearing Larry Hagman stopping by Lacoste in Beverly Hills for the Men’s Vogue party for Joel Grey and his new photography book, Looking Hard at Unexamined Things. Be Sociable, Share!
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Claudia Cane releases her brand new CD „Friends“. Earlier this year, the band achieved the crowdfunding target on starnext in less than the needed time. Soon after, the band produced 9 original tracks + 2 covers from The Beatles and AC/DC. A must have !
Claudia Cane releases her brand new CD !
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https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/claudiacane2
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This will create a libmodphp4.a library, a mod_php4.c and some accompanying files and copy this into the src/modules/php4 directory in the Apache source tree. Then you compile Apache using --activate-module=src/modules/php4/libphp4.a and the Apache build system will create libphp4.a and link it statically into the httpd binary. The PostgreSQL support is included directly into this httpd binary, so the final result here is a single httpd binary that includes all of Apache and all of PHP.
Note: Make sure you specify the installed version of apxs when using --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs. You must NOT use the apxs version that is in the apache sources but the one that is actually installed on your system.
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Mammography images that were simulated from our virtual phantoms. Breast density increases from left to right.
Each of the Duke XCAT breast phantoms is a 3D computational model that is based on the dedicated breast CT scans of an actual human subject, which is why they are sometimes referred to as "patient-based phantoms." From those scans, the data undergoes a process of artifact correction, denoising, and segmentation. The phantoms are voxelized with voxel values corresponding to tissue classes. Given the resulting 3D volume, the user may assign voxel values corresponding to different imaging modalities, such as attenuation coefficients for radiography. Upon request, the breast phantoms may also be distributed in a mesh surface format. The phantoms are available in their original prone, uncompressed position as well as the standing, compressed position for FFDM/DBT. Other positions may also be available upon request.
There are two distinct cohorts of these phantoms. Cohort 1.x consists of up to 224 cases provided by John Boone Ph.D. of UC Davis, and those phantoms are now nearly complete and publicly available. Cohort 2.x is currently a work in progress with up to 140 cases provided by Steve Glick Ph.D. of Univ of Massachusetts / FDA, and those phantoms are still under active development but partial beta releases are possible. Unless otherwise noted, the rest of this document pertains only to Cohort 1.x.
This work was supported in part by NIH/NCI R01 CA134658, Principal Investigator Paul Segars. Continued development of these phantoms is co-directed by Paul Segars and Joseph Lo of the Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories (RAI Labs), Department of Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine.
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Kudos to Ran Greenstein for expressing it so incisively. To my mind, there really can be no question that the determining cause for continuing the occupation is Israeli Jews basic fear of losing the access they have to power & to what it affords them (access that they have gained & continue to maintain & reinforce through brutal military force & with the support & complicity of the US, the “international community”, & proponents of Zionism in the Jewish diaspora). All the other “reasons” are stories the occupiers buy into & endeavor to sell to others.
& since the underlying determining cause is a basic fear, then the issue is more than political: it also has an emotional, psychological dimension, of what looks like a collective psychosis. In using this word I’m not suggesting that what is feared is a delusion. If the occupation ends, & a reconciliation brings about a just compromise acceptable to both sides,the Israeli Jews will lose their exclusive & exceptionalist control of access to power etc. The collective psychosis is in the delusion of privileged entitlement, which allows them to feel justified in continuing to be the real “Neigbborhood Bully” (Dylan really got that so wrong!) & treating their fellow countrymen as they do.
We need to talk about both the practical & the psychological dimensions of this fear. The majority of Israeli Jews have no other citizenship, or as they often say (& there’s even a popular song with this title & opening line) “I have no other country” (clip of Gali Atari’s rendition, & lyrics + my translation below; the darker & braver aspects of the late Ehud Manor’s lyrics are generally ignored).
One thing that would help allay this dimension of the fear would be for democratic countries where all citizens have equal rights to offer citizenship to Israeli Jews who choose to emigrate from Palestine. I would even argue that it is the responsibility to do so of all those countries that have given recognition to the unilaterally declared State of Israel since 1948 & that have continued, by their support &/or their default, to be complicit in the occupation . & the sooner they do so the better.
I don’t know how many Israeli Jews would take up the offer, immediately or later. I imagine there are many that won’t, because of the emotional, psychological dimension. Home is home, even if you’ve been a villain in it. & then there’s the collective psychosis, the whole Zionist meta-narrative. But then they will need to accept the alternative, to remain in a Palesrine where non-Jews too have full & equal rights, where they are no longer the masters. To talk about this, perhaps we need more input from psychologists, anthropologists & historians, especially social psychologists, anthropologists & historians, on how to “alleviate” or “cure” it.
I also think this basic fear of the Israeli Jews is not unique: surely it has existed & still exists in all settler-colonialist regimes. The experience of the transition in places like South Africa, if analyzed from this perspective, may be invaluable.
Thoughts on this will be welcomed.
Posting again in Hebrew, to my primary audience, with an English translation below.
Most of you are mute, ignoring all the violence & injustices of the ongoing occupation and the Nakba, the disaster, of the Arab Palestinians, living as-it-were normally in the “Jewish” state. Occasionally there’s an attack, mourning, bereavement for the bereaved, & for all the rest a return to your agendas in the “Jewish” state.
A minority of you are alert, not silent, courageously active against the injustices of the “Jewish” state in Eretz Yisrael, Israeland, which is undoubtedly also Falastin, Palestine. Not silent, active, expressing your frustration about the muteness, the ignoring, the lack of compassion, of understanding, of humaneness of the majority – & return to your agendas in the “Jewish” state. At least you haven’t been silent.
But it seems to me that the majority of this minority that opposes the occupation & its injustices also doesn’t see the root of the problem (or some see but ignore it): the “Jewish” state itself, in which, besides (although also due to?) all its injustices there’s so much that you love (& that I too love like you), where most of you grew up &/or raised families, where you’ve worked & created & are still working & creating – this state is not (& never was) really “the nation state of the Jewish people” & is not (& never was) democratic (& also never will be such or such).
No, the “State of Israel” is the state of Statist Zionism, the dominant stream in Zionism, a state that this stream (which is also the inevitable engenderer of Israeli-Jewish fascism) has maintained by force since it established it unilaterally & through extensive conquest/occupation in ’48, in Palestine (OK, it’s also Eretz Yisrael, Israeland, always was, always will be, but, dammit, it’s also the country of its inhabitants who were born there & who tilled its land & lived there with love & raised families there & worked & created there).
The state of Statist Zionism is a state (in Palestine) that is the homeland of Jews (only of Israeli Jews, who were born there), which maintains Israeli-Jewish sovereignty by force over the remainder of its non-Jewish inhabitants in their homeland and does not permit the return of the refugees & the expelled &/or their descendants to their homeland.
Isn’t it so? Please correct me if I’ve erred again. I hope to add conclusions and details in following chapters.
To see the entire post with the comments, click on the date link that appears immediately beneath my name (Richard Flantz) at the very top of the post, or here.
The UN partition proposal was one no sane self-respecting Arab Palestinian could possibly accept (to reverse what Brando says in The Godfather: “Give them an offer they can’t accept”). Therefore neither the Arab Palestinians nor the Arab League are in any way responsible for the Nakba.
Arab Palestinians didn’t initiate or direct the invasions or the actions of the invading armies, & cannot be held responsible for war crimes & atrocities committed by them, such as those of the Jordanian army [in Jerusalem]. How can you suggest that because the Jordanians did that, there is something wrong or dishonest ot dishonorable in commemorating the Nakba that is contuiningly being suffered by the Arab Palestinians?
Permanent war is what Zionism means & does & has to do. Netanyahu wasn’t lying when he said Israel will always have to live by the sword. & there’s little point thinking about solutions proposed in the past. Today the only decent, humane, just solution is to give up the Jewish state idea & keep on living a Hebrew life in a binational state of Palestine (Eretz-Yisrael) as equal citizens with its other inhabitants. But before that can happen Israelis will have to acknowledge their crimes, acknowledge the Nakba, express their deep regret & shame for what they have done to the non-Jewish people who lived in Palestine before the Zionist incursion, offer acceptable restitution, confirm the Palestinian Right of Return & give up the right of Diaspora Jews to “return” and immediately become citizens of this state.
I imagine you’ll say that it’s wrong & dangerous to deprive Diaspora Jews of this privilege they’ve had these last 68 years, because, hey, they might need a haven from antisemitism. To that I’ll say that today there’s no more dangerous place in the world for a Jew than in Israel, the country state that has to live by its sword.
Something personal I wrote on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016.
I wrote it in English, although Hebrew is the language I was born into, and I asked my devoted life-partner Richard to go over it and help me so it will be readable.
It has to be in English as I want my four grandchildren who are brought up in Australia to be able to read it at some time in their life.
We are two sisters, born three years apart during the time of World War 2.
Not in Poland where the horrors happened, and where all my parents’ families were living, but in sunny, white, modern and young Tel Aviv (the first Hebrew city of modern times), a city that was built with tremendous energies, on the uninhabited sands of the shore of the Mediterranean Sea, north of old Jaffa.
My parents took part in living in and building this city and this dream. They came to Palestine in the early 1930s, like and with many others young people, in their early 20s, leaving their families, following their dream of a new world, a new way of life, in an independent Jewish homeland. Choosing to become pioneers, hard workers, in a hot and unknown land, and to build a new home, rebelling against the old oppressed way of living in Europe. I still keep in my archive letters sent to them from their families, and old photos of their life in Europe, that my father kept all his life in little packages tied with rubber bands, but never shared with us. I found out that my father’s mother also knew how to write in modern Hebrew, I guess she was a Zionist herself, as I also know that his parents helped him with the ticket to Palestine.
My sister Tamar was born in 1940, a year or so after Poland was occupied by the Nazis. Although letters stopped arriving in 1939, I believe my parents did not grasp what was going on.
Tamar is an ancient Hebrew name, it is the name of the tree that bears dates, a tall, strong and nourishing tree which can survive on very little water in hot countries. A symbol of life in the Jewish tradition. This is what my parent wished for her and for themselves. To this day my sister Tamar is strong and tall and was able to raise and nourish her own family and have a stable life.
I was born three years later in 1943, and I understand that by then my parents knew much more. This was the year the Soviet Army managed to stop the Nazi invasion, but the slaughter of the Jews in Poland was enormous. I keep feeling that my grandparents, my two aunts and my little three-year-old cousin David were murdered while I was in my mother’s womb.
They named me Nitzhia, a name which is an invention of the new modern Hebrew, a word that contains in it three powerful somewhat mystical words: victory, eternity, and one of the names of God.
I keep thinking today that this name given to me must have come from desperation of not being able to do a thing in the face of the human degeneration… – to seek comfort in some spiritual power.
I don’t have any memory of them using this name when talking to me or talking about me, as I only remember the name Nitza, which means the season of budding, more optimistic and close to nature. But they kept the official name in all the official important documents, as if to tell me again and again not to forget the name I was given.
They did not talk much, I didn’t understand much until I grew up. My mother was saved by her own motherhood experience, she kept some joyful energies with a touch of cynicism, while my father became more and more closed, detached, depressed, with unexpected bursts of anger.
I don’t know exactly how the events of history, biography and the name I was given influenced who I became to be, but I do know that since early childhood I have recorded memories like short movies in my mind, and I have made it a kind of emotional routine to revisit and see them again and again as in my private video library, consciously reliving what I kept.
I feel my own little victory will be to tell about them in writing, and by this bring them closer to eternity, for me, for my parents, for my only sister, for the family Richard and I made, for my grandparents and family I never knew.
The title above came last. Originally it was to be the same as that of the piece I translated, which I found on Facebook today posted by Rachel Elior, sharing a powerful piece by Ilana Hammerman that I felt impelled to translate. Reading it, & then translating it, was for me a way of living — at least vicariously, & for some moments — with some feeling of what the people of East Jerusalem have to live with every day. & appreciating the piece & feelinע the author’s feelings & translating it & publishing it so others who don’t read Hebrew can feel it too, is my response.
& for readers who can & want to read it in Hebrew, here’s the link.
On my desk lies an invitation to the 2015 Jerusalem Prize awards ceremony in the presence of the President of Israel and the Mayor of Jerusalem. The ceremony will inaugurate the 27th International Book Fair on the 8th of February. “The Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society” will be awarded this year to the Albanian author Ismail Kadare. If I go to the ceremony, & if I have the civic courage, I’ll raise a handwritten placard in the hall. It’ll say that the Jerusalem Municipality does not have the right to award a prize for the freedom of the individual in society, because it does not respect the rights of the individual of myriads of its residents.
For example, the right of freedom of movement of my Jerusalemite friend. She’s a teacher. The school where she teaches is about five minutes drive from her home, but it takes her a lot longer to get there because her home is in a neighborhood that is enclosed by a high concrete wall. On one side of the wall is the spacious French Hill neighborhood. Not exactly a neighborhood of the wealthy, but its streets are clean, its sidewalks broad, with decorative trees planted in them, and there’s even a bicycle path. When you cross to the other side of the wall, not far from the fortified & cultivated compound of the Hebrew University, your eyes see & your nose smells only ugliness & filth. The alleys are narrow, they have no sidewalks and no traffic signs & no parking places. Trash rolls about in them & piles up here & there into heaps from which stinking black smoke rises. This is the Shuafat refugee camp, which is within the bounds of the Jerusalem municipality. The neighborhood’s residents are the Municipality’s residents, they have blue ID cards [as do all Israeli citizens] & they are required to pay rates.
When my friend makes her way to school, she crosses the wall that encloses her neigborhood through a checkpoint. At times the crossing is quick & at times it’s very slow: every car is checked, everyone in it & all its contents. Not long ago I crossed the checkpoint in her car, on the way from her home to the university. We were three women in the car, two Arab women & one Jewish. All of us residents of Jerusalem. The soldier at the checkpoint was astonished to see a Jewish passenger. Jews don’t come in here, to this Arab ghetto, & anyone who does come in and also wants to come out is suspicious.
He demanded our ID cards, glanced at them, and bent down to the window again. & interrogated. Only me: Who am I & where from & for what purpose. I told him that I don’t have to give him any details apart from what’s on my ID card. I’m here in the city I live in, not in an army camp or at an interrogation, & I have freedom of movement. But I didn’t have freedom of movement: the barrier was closed before me & the soldier had my ID card. He looked at me with hostility & ordered us to get out of the car & to take out everything inside it. We got out & threw everything on the ground, blankets, sweaters, bags & purses. Hurriedly, quickly. Because dozens of cars were stuck behind us because of us. But the soldier didn’t hurry at all. He handed my ID card to his commander, another soldier checked in a computer, another made a call on a radiophone, another went off to eat something. We gathered up our belongings & waited.
For the residents of this imprisoned neighborhood — like the residents of more Eaast Jerusalem neighborhoods that have been imprisoned behind walls & fences & checkpoints — this limitation of freedom of movement is a routine matter. But this is not the only right of theirs that is infringed every day. They are also denied the right to live in human conditions. The Jerusalem Municipality does not remove the trash from their streets, & does not look after the infrastructures for transport, electricity, water & sewage. Recently four neighborhoods were cut off from the water supply for weeks: Ras Hamis, Ras Shahada, the Shalom neighborhood and the Shuafat refugee camp. All of them, about 80,000 residents, imprisoned behind a wall even though they’re residents of Jerusalem.
But it’s not only the residents of these neighborhoods who are deprived of their rights. Here are some data about the state of human rights in Jerusalem: more than one third of the city’s residents, about 300,000 people, are Arabs. Since 1967 about 14,000 of them have lost the right to live in their city, most of them because they went abroad for several years for various personal reasons. Tens of thousands of others have been denied the right to build a home in their city, for 35% of the areas of East Jerusalem have been appropriated in order to build Jewish neighborhoods. More than 50,000 residential units have been built there for Jews only, while the Arab residents of the city have been given no more than 4,000 building permits.
The rest of the data can be seen with one’s eyes: Jerusalem today is a city with walls & ghettoes & checkpoints at its heart. The Jews mostly keep away from the neglected neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. But there are neighborhoods that they push into, like hoodlums. With the power of finance & arms & with the backing of the police & the municipality they evict Arab families from their homes & erect fortified compounds, They’ve done this in Sheikh Jarrah, in Silwan, in Bab el Amud.
Does the excellent author Ismail Kadare know the state of the freedom of the individual in the city whose municipality is awarding him the “Freedom of the Individual in Society” prize this year? Perhaps not. He comes from a long way away. But we, residents of Jerusalem, need to know that the giving of this prize by a city that for decades has denied basic rights to such a large public of people who live within its bounds is a mockery of the ongoing & continually worsening tragedy of this public. It is an impudent & arrogant challenge to the very concept of the freedom of the individual in society.
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Thrill seekers, Tim Kennedy’s new series on Discovery Channel HARD TO KILL is a must-see and kicks off on Tuesday, JULY 31, at 10 PM. For some, you may have watched Tim trek across continents on History channel’s Hunting Hitler – now you can watch him take on some of the most risky and extreme jobs imaginable on Discovery.
Let me just say, I thought I would have been the perfect host for this show – after all, I served in the world’s greatest Navy as a paper pusher and that makes me qualified for everything, right? Um. No. Especially this job.
I had the opportunity to talk with Tim on the phone regarding his new series and he truly is impressive. For those who aren’t familiar, Tim is an uber-active, Ranger qualified, Green Beret, Special Forces Sniper who has served tours in Iraq, Afghanistan and other locations around the globe. He is also a top 5 professional MMA fighter with grit and dedication to the values of hard work and humility.
And some of these dangerous jobs – that “every day” individuals do – pressed him to the edge.
Tim wanted to bring attention to whom he calls “America’s Unsung Heroes,” those countless men and women across the United States who take on some of the riskiest jobs possible to ensure our safety. Whether he’s triggering avalanches at dizzying altitudes with high explosives, protecting a cowboy from a 2000 pound bull, or traveling to the Mojave Desert to push the boundaries of modern flight, Tim works with experts in each field to learn the grit, dedication, and hard work it takes to do some of the most dangerous jobs in the world, where one mistake can be deadly.
After watching the preview, I asked Tim how he prepares for each of these jobs – because, truly, I would have to prepare for a long time…I think any sane person would. His answer: “no real prep.” Tim wasn’t being cocky – he truly is a humble man – he wanted to find out whether or not he could actually do these jobs without preparation in order to showcase the impressive abilities of those who do these jobs. Tim’s background and experience often sets him apart from most in America – he exercises and trains daily, he jumps from planes to relax, does math to pass the time – and most Americans think there are no tasks too difficult for someone like him. Yet, men and women show up daily who are not considered elite athletes, or Special Forces snipers or Green Berets with perfect PT scores and successfully accomplish these very dangerous jobs – for our protection, without fanfare.
The show had me sweating – and the episode I watched had Tim on the brink of breaking. I won’t give away the episode – or future episodes for that matter – but what I will tell you is that Tim successfully showcases the impressive skills and abilities of “America’s Unsung Heroes” and walks away with a greater respect for those who push the limits and put their lives on the line…for our benefit.
As I wrapped up the interview, I asked Tim if he could opt-out of any of the jobs…and he shared that he could likely opt out – but he wouldn’t be able to live with himself. He also stated that some laws don’t allow him to do some of this stuff. Think about that – there are laws limiting what HE can do. And yet, there are people who still do those jobs.
Bottom line: Don’t miss Discovery Channel’s HARD TO KILL. It truly is a must-see, kicks off on Tuesday, JULY 31, at 10 PM, and you’ll have a new-found appreciation for America’s Unsung Heroes.
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On Saturday July 16, starting at 5pm, join other Phantom Regiment family, friends and alums as they gather for the 2nd annual Show of Shows Kickoff Party!
The party is open to fans of all ages and of all corps!
Pick up your “Will Call” tickets (NOTE: Standing room only tickets will NOT be for sale).
As a special bonus (and if technology allows) – we will be showing the live webcast from DCI Minnesota via the Drum Corps International Fan Network!
What a great way to kick off the biggest drum corps weekend ever in Rockford!
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Beatles Yellow Submarine "Sea of Monsters" Animation Production Cel Original Art Group (United Artists/King Features, 1968).
The deadly Vacuum Cleaner Beast is looking for prey in this marvelous full-figure production cel, which has an image area of approximately 4" x 6". A second cel features the Yellow Submarine in the distance, and has an image area of .5" x .5". Each three-hole cel measures 16" x 12.5". A color photocopied background illustration from the film is included, for a nice, frame-worthy set-up. All pieces are in Excellent condition.
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(CNN) -- On a small, floating piece of ice in the Beaufort Sea, several hundred miles north of Alaska, a group of scientists are documenting what some dub an "Arctic meltdown."
According to climate scientists, the warming of the region is shrinking the polar ice cap at an alarming rate, reducing the permafrost layer and wreaking havoc on polar bears, arctic foxes and other indigenous wildlife in the region.
What is bad for the animals, though, has been good for commerce.
The recession of the sea ice and the reduction in permafrost -- combined with advances in technology -- have allowed access to oil, mineral and natural gas deposits that were previously trapped in the ice.
The abundance of these valuable resources and the opportunity to exploit them has created a gold rush-like scramble in the high north, with fierce competition to determine which countries have the right to access the riches of the Arctic.
This competition has brought in its wake a host of naval and military activities that the Arctic hasn't seen since the end of the Cold War.
Now, one of the coldest places on Earth is heating up as nuclear submarines, Aegis-class frigates, strategic bombers and a new generation of icebreakers are resuming operations there.
Just how much oil and natural gas is under the Arctic ice?
The Arctic is home to approximately 90 billion barrels of undiscovered but recoverable oil, according to a 2008 study by the U.S. Geological Survey. And preliminary estimates are that one-third of the world's natural gas may be harbored in the Arctic ice.
But that's not all that's up for grabs. The Arctic also contains rich mineral deposits. Canada, which was not historically a diamond-producing nation, is now the third-largest diamond producer in the world.
If the global warming trend continues as many scientists project it to, it is likely that more and more resources will be discovered as the ice melts further.
Who are the countries competing for resources?
Lawson Brigham, a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and an Arctic expert, says "cooperation in the Arctic has never been higher."
But like the oil trapped on the Arctic sea floor, much of the activity of the Arctic Council is happening below the surface.
In secret diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stieg Moeller was quoted as saying to the United States, "If you stay out, the rest of us will have more to carve up the Arctic."
At the root of Moeller's statement is a dispute over control of territories that is pitting friend against foe and against friend. Canada and the U.S., strategic allies in NATO and Afghanistan, are in a diplomatic dispute over the Northwest Passage. Canada and Russia have recently signed development agreements together.
In the same way a compass goes awry approaching the North Pole, traditional strategic alliances are impacted at the top of the world.
Who owns the rights to the resources?
Right now, the most far-reaching legal document is the U.N. Convention on Law of the Sea, or UNCLOS. All of the Arctic states are using its language to assert their claims.
The Law of the Sea was initially designed to govern issues like fishing rights, granting nations an exclusive economic zone 200 miles off their coasts. But in the undefined, changing and overlapping territory of the Arctic, the Law of the Sea becomes an imperfect guide, and there are disputes over who owns what.
One example is the Lomonosov Ridge, which Canada, Denmark and Russia all claim is within their territory, based on their cartographic interpretations.
Also complicating matters is the fact that the U.S. has never ratified the Law of the Sea. That has given other Arctic Council nations more muscle to assert territorial rights.
With murky international agreements and an absence of clear legal authority, countries are preaching cooperation but preparing for conflict.
There has been a flurry of new military activity reminiscent of days past.
Two U.S. nuclear-powered attack submarines, the SSN Connecticut and the SSN New Hampshire, recently finished conducting ice exercises in the Arctic. Secretary of the Navy Richard Mabus said the purpose of the recent naval exercises was "to do operational and war-fighting capabilities. Places are becoming open that have been ice-bound for literally millennia. You're going to see more and more of the world's attention pointed towards the Arctic."
Other Arctic nations are ramping up their military capabilities as well. Just this month, Russia announced that it is deploying two brigades to the Arctic, including a special forces unit. The Russian air force has recently resumed strategic bomber flights over the Pole. Canada, Denmark and Norway are also rapidly rebuilding their military presence.
But despite the buildup, almost all of the activity in the Arctic has been within the scope of normal military operations or research.
There is a long precedent for countries using the Arctic to demonstrate military primacy.
On April 25, 1958, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine -- the USS Nautilus (SSN 571) -- began Operation Sunshine, the first undersea transpolar crossing.
Done on the heels of the Sputnik satellite launch, it was a demonstration that the U.S. could go places that its Cold War nemesis could not. For the next three decades, U.S. and Soviet submarines would continue to use the Arctic as a proving ground for military prowess.
With the end of the Cold War, that activity waned. But in 2007, a Russian expedition planted a flag on the bottom of the polar sea floor, almost 14,000 feet below the surface. This "neo-Sputnik" has brought renewed interest to the Arctic and launched a flurry of activity -- scientific, economic and military -- that is eerily parallel to the decades of tension between the superpowers.
The Cold War may be over, but the dethawing of military activity means that the frigid Arctic is once again becoming a hot spot.
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This Bachelor Contestant Is Pretending to Be Australian to "Stand Out"
Meet Brianna, who also goes by Bri. She's one of the contestants on Colton Underwood's season of The Bachelor and she greets the 26-year-old reality star with an Australian accent.
"You've got a nice accent," Colton tells her upon their first meeting. "Where are you from?"
"The accent, it's Australian, I was hoping that you're kind of a sucker for accents," she tells him.
"I didn't know what you'd think about it," she tells him.
"I love it," a smitten Colton says.
Bri is not Australian, she's from Los Angeles. However, that doesn't stop her from making a splash with an Aussie accent.
"I'm not really Australian," she says. "But you have to do what you can to stand out!"
And that's why, ladies and gentlemen, we know we're in for a pretty absurd season of The Bachelor.
Bri's official bio from ABC states she's a 24-year-old model from Southern California and "much more than a pretty face." She played soccer for eight years, enjoys hiking, camping and snowboarding. Her biggest dating fear, according to ABC, is farting too loudly.
Reaction to Bri's use of the Australian accent elicited a wide-range of reactions on Twitter.
If this is just a day 1 thing to stand out, no big deal. It’s hilarious. But if this carries on late through the season, oh boy lol.
The Bachelor returns Monday, Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. on ABC.
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In 2016, elegant pop balladeer Johnny Mathis celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his Columbia Records debut. The golden-toned singer of “Chances Are,” “It’s Not for Me to Say” and “Wonderful! Wonderful!” signed with the label in 1955, a few weeks before his twentieth birthday. With the exception of three years at Mercury Records, he’s been with Columbia ever since, longer than any other artist.
43 Mathis recordings have entered Billboard’s pop singles chart. He’s released 85 albums, excluding compilations. Three of his singles are in the Grammy Hall of Fame and he’s the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. On January 25, Mathis, 82, will sing many his dozens of hits at the Saenger Theatre.
Born in Gilmer, Texas, in 1935, Mathis grew up in San Francisco. His father, Clem Mathis, a former professional singer and pianist, encouraged his son’s interest in music. When Mathis was 13, he began 6 years of singing lessons with Oakland voice teacher Connie Cox. He paid for the instruction via odd jobs performed at Cox’s home.
Mathis was a star athlete at San Francisco State University when a fellow student brought him to a Sunday jam session at the Black Hawk nightclub. Helen Noga, the club’s co-owner, became his manager. The persistent Noga convinced George Avakian at Columbia Records to attend a Mathis performance in San Francisco. Avakian signed him immediately.
In 1956, Columbia released Mathis’ jazz-oriented debut, A New Sound in Popular Song. But jazz wasn’t his forte. Columbia pop producer Mitch Miller paired Mathis with romantic ballads. In 1957, Columbia released the hits “Wonderful! Wonderful!” and “It’s Not for Me to Say.” A career-making appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, movie appearances and the number one hit, “Chances Are,” followed.
Mathis’ Greatest Hits album, released in 1958, is among the best-selling albums in history. In December 2017, Legacy Recordings released the 68-disc Mathis box set, The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection.
I haven’t interviewed you since 2001.
What’s your reaction to your new box set?
I couldn’t believe it. I’ve got one sitting on the table right next to me. My past is flying in front of me. It’s the most wonderful thing that someone like myself can have. My whole recording career in one box.
Do you have a favorite among your own recordings?
When I do listen to my music, I look forward to hearing the album I did with Henry Mancini [The Hollywood Musicals]. I love that album. I play it, not so much because of the music, although I love the music, but because I see Henry and remember the cues he gave me when he was conducting. I traveled all over the world with him. We became pals and I sang some beautiful songs that he wrote.
I’ve been so fortunate over the years to meet these gifted composers who write these songs that I sing. But I get all the attention, because I deliver the package. But the writers, they’re the ones who created the package I’m carrying.
Do you like everything in the box set?
Whoever gets this will hear recordings I hoped nobody would ever hear. But the record company wanted to release everything—the good, the bad and the ugly. But there’s a lot of stuff that I am so proud of. So many of the people [producers, composers, arrangers, musicians] went above and beyond what I even dreamed of. I’m the first one to give credit to all these extraordinary people who I’ve worked with over the years.
In 2017, San Francisco State University presented an honorary doctorate of fine arts to you. The City of Los Angeles gave you a lifetime achievement award. You released two new recording projects. Has it been a wonderful, wonderful year?
Extraordinary. I’ve done what I usually do in the past year and a little bit more. Recording has always been a big project in my life. I’ve been lucky that I’ve had a record company deal all these years. Most of the things, the big highlights of my career, have been involved with recordings.
Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds co-produced Johnny Mathis Sings the Great New American Songbook.
I’m big new friends with Babyface. We worked in the studio together for three or four months. I’ve made so many recordings, some of them better than others, but they’re always an adventure. This recording that I did with Babyface turned out to be one of my favorites.
The album is mostly songs that were hits in recent years. Who picked the track list?
Clive Davis. For the past 10 or 12 years, I’ve sung at Clive’s pre–Grammy Awards soiree. The last time that I sang for Clive, he said, “Where have you been? Let’s do something.” He came up with the songs. I hadn’t done any top-of-the-chart songs in a long time. I’m thrilled about these songs and I owe it all to Clive Davis.
Are you doing some of The Great New American Songbook songs in your show?
In 1955, George Avakian signed you to Columbia as a jazz singer.
Helen Noga, a lady who owned a nightclub where I sang, and George Avakian were friends. They were both Armenian. Helen sent some of my tapes to George at Columbia. I was going to become the next big jazz thing.
But you weren’t a jazz singer.
No. I never was a jazz singer. But I tried it. I recorded with some of the greatest jazz musicians in the world. But then I came to the attention of Mitch Miller, who was in charge of popular music. That became my career.
Helen Noga was important to your career.
Helen was an extraordinary woman. She was adamant that she was going to get out of the night clubbing business and make her boy—me—a success. My mother hated Helen when she said things like that.
Early in your career, many people—your father, Connie Cox, Noga, Avakian, Miller—contributed to your success.
I was in a culturally advanced city to begin with. And I had the blessing of being born to the most wonderful parents in the world. My father sang for the family. No one else heard him, but I heard him and that’s what I wanted to do. I wanted to be like my father. I loved him very much. He was a wonderful man who raised seven children in San Francisco. It’s a very expensive city. But we didn’t seem to be denied anything.
How soon did your father recognize your talent?
I was 12 or 13 when he said, ‘Son, let’s find a voice teacher.’ I said, ‘Pop, I can sing. I don’t need a teacher!’ He said, ‘No, no, no. You have to learn to do it properly.’ And that was the catalyst.
Did your vocal training make your long career possible?
I had early training, free of charge, from this wonderful woman, Connie Cox. She said, ‘You’re going to want to sing all your life, so learn to do it properly.’ I thought she was going to make me do something that I didn’t want to do. Of course, she didn’t. She wanted me to do whatever I wanted to do, but in a way that I could not hurt my voice.
You turned 82 in September. Have you considered retirement?
The only thing I’m concerned about, and it’s always in the back of my mind, is overdoing it. But when the opportunities present themselves, you must take advantage of them. And every 20 years or so there’s a new audience, young people who don’t know who you are. So, it’s a constant battle between not overdoing it and doing just enough to let people know that I’m still alive and I do still sing.
When you toured in the 1950s and early ’60s, did you experience racial discrimination in the South and elsewhere?
I was so naïve when I started to travel. Growing up in San Francisco, of course, I was just the same as anybody else. So, yeah, discrimination happened to me on a few occasions. I used to laugh at it. I said, ‘That’s so stupid. Wait ’til they hear me sing. And then they can make up their minds.’ But after I laughed at it for a while, it became annoying and then downright unacceptable. I got a taste of it and made it a learning process. I said, ‘I will never, ever treat anyone that way.’ So, I learned a lot of lessons through the ignorance of people who treat other people badly. Fortunately, it never soured me, it never warped my opinion of people.
Your mother and father left Gilmer, Texas, during the Jim Crow era. Are you glad they moved to San Francisco?
I used to ask my dad, ‘Pop, why did you move to San Francisco?’ He said, ‘Son, I wanted to get out of there.’ As far as his surroundings were concerned, he was so forward thinking. But I cannot believe the nerve that he had. He had nobody in California waiting to help him. He and my mom just got in the car and took off. God bless them. My mom, my dad were my best pals. I am absolutely a product of all of the good things that they stood for in their lives. They were the nicest people I ever met.
Do you think the love you experienced when you were growing up in San Francisco helped make you the successful person you are?
What an amazing, gentle man.
I consider myself so fortunate to have lived at the same time as Dr. John Royce Mathis. Have enjoyed his music since the 1950’s and have so much respect for the person that he is. There will never be another to match his personality and accomplishments!
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Im Calista. I love music! It is pretty much my life! I someday would like to be a singer. My uncle Casey has hooked me up and got me into a bunch of concerts so ive been to alot of shows. The reason he can get me into these shows is because he is the sound engineer for The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. So they are pretty much my family! Ive grown up around music my entire life so I really had no other choice but to have such a strong passion for music. I am 14 years old and could not live without my amazing family! My two bestfriends in the whole world would have to be Mickey Anne Griffin and Taylor Chaddick!
Calista Why I no One Of Your Bestfriends???
CALISTA IS MY FRIEND!! Yay She is my love!
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A discharge tube, or a gas-filled tube is an arrangement of electrodes in an insulated container, containing a gas. Very often, glass or ceramics are used as insulation. When there enough charge on these electrodes, there will be an electric discharge, which will produce light. In the 19th century, Heinrich Geißler developed the Geissler tube,and Philipp Lenard did experiments that led to the development of the vacuum pump. Both technologies were used to develop the discharge tube. The most common kind of discharge tube is the gas discharge lamp.
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Richard J. La received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997 and 2000, respectively. Before joining ISR and ECE he was a member of the systems engineering group at Alcatel U.S.A. and the mathematics of communication networks group at Motorola Inc.
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About 100 groups and individuals – nearly half from the city – have flooded the State University of New York with letters saying they plan to apply to start charter schools in fall 2000, officials said yesterday.
“They’ve been coming in pretty fast and furious,” said Scott Steffey, president of SUNY’s Charter School Institute.
But few seeking to open the experimental schools have applied to the state Board of Regents. Some say that agency – more linked to the education establishment – has not been as welcoming or aggressive in generating interest.
“SUNY has made it clear that they are in this game- people respond to that,” said Gerry Vazquez, president of the New York Charter School Resource Center, a non-profit group aimed at helping those who want to start charter schools.
The historic charter-school law signed by Gov. Pataki last December calls for the creation of 100 charter schools – 50 approved by SUNY, 50 by the Board of Regents. Public schools also can convert to charters.
SUNY -whose trustees are appointed by Gov. Pataki – may be seen as more open to the tax-funded but independently run schools than the Board of Regents because the board’s members are chosen by Democratic legislators aligned with school districts and teacher unions, Vazquez said.
SUNY has given its blessing to eight charter schools – three set to open in September, the others in September 2000.
Charter-school operators said they applied to SUNY because it offered a fast track for schools to open this September. They also praised SUNY staff as helpful and encouraging.
“The Board of Regents was not as warm, but I can’t say it was negative,” said Marshall Mitchell, a trustee of the proposed Sisulu Children’s Academy in Harlem.
While the Board of Regents joined SUNY for seven information sessions, SUNY’s Steffey and his staff have spent nights and weekends meeting with interested groups.
James Kadamus, deputy state education commissioner, denied the Board of Regents has been chilly to charters.
“I don’t believe that’s true. We’re very much in the charter-school business,” Kadamus said, noting that his staff is reviewing SUNY’s applications as well as two applications it has received from upstate, and two from Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew to convert two alternative high schools to charters.
The Board of Regents and SUNY are “not in competition” but have different roles, Kadamus said. Only SUNY, for instance, can grant waivers from collective bargaining with unions, and only the Regents can do conversions.
Kadamus said he was confident the Regents will get a growing number of charter-school applications in coming months.
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2019-04-24T11:09:22Z
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https://nypost.com/1999/07/16/charter-school-pioneers-rush-to-jump-in-on-ground-floor/
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IBM has unveiled a computer so small it can slip through a salt shaker and could help prevent the $600bn a year trade in counterfeit drugs, gadgets, and cash.
The company announced the new microcomputer on Monday at its Think conference and predicts it will play a key role in a blockchain network designed to monitor fraud in global supply chains.
The microscopic computer is one square millimeter in size and will act as a so-called 'crypto-anchor' in anti-fraud systems.
IBM says the devices cost just 10 cents to manufacture and contain "several hundred thousand transistors, storage, power, and communications capabilities all packed into a footprint about the size of a grain of salt".
IBM hasn't revealed specifications for the computer yet, but a spokesperson told ZDNet that each of the devices is as powerful as an x86 chip from the 1990s.
IBM researchers at the Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, will detail the computers in a forthcoming paper. In the meantime, IBM has offered a rough outline of the computer's schematics.
The photo below shows 64 motherboards. Two of the world's smallest computers are the raised cubes in the top-left corner, which are mounted on the motherboard beneath.
IBM reckons the dramatic fall in cost and size of the computers will make it possible to integrate them into products to ensure goods are authentic as they move through the supply chain and on to consumers.
The tiny solar-powered computers IBM designed would be embedded in products and rely on LED lights to communicate with a network. Businesses could ensure and prove the authenticity of each product or component with one of IBM's computers in it.
The first of these tiny computers could be available for customers within 18 months, according to IBM, which sees them playing a role in food safety, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, genetically modified goods, expensive wines, and in the luxury goods market.
It builds on its existing crypto-anchor systems based on an optical structure that can be placed on product labels and used as digital fingerprints.
Two of the world's smallest computers are the raised cubes in the top-left corner.
The four entities aim to create a standard for collecting data on origin, safety and authenticity of food using blockchain technology for traceability.
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2019-04-25T18:08:19Z
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/worlds-smallest-computer-ibms-fraud-fighter-is-so-tiny-its-almost-invisible/
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Enjoying a glass of red wine may help you avoid that dreaded beer gut, suggests a recent lab study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Researchers from Purdue University found that piceatannol—a compound in red wine—has the ability to delay the generation of young fat cells.
Now as the weather continues to grow warmer, your palate may be craving something more chilled and crisp. But since reds are clearly racking up the benefits, we decided to reach out to Paul Grieco, sommelier of New York City's Hearth Restaurant and Terroir Wine Bars, to provide a break down on the top five reds every man must try this season.
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2019-04-18T21:18:39Z
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https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19528695/how-to-drop-weight-with-wine/
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Customers who return the affected 16-ounce bags of frozen broccoli will receive full refunds.
East Coast supermarket chains Stop & Shop, Giant and Martin's are recalling some of frozen broccoli due to listeria concerns.
At issue are the 16-ounce bags of Private Brands Frozen Broccoli Cuts with a March 15, 2020, best-by date and a 068826700926 UPC.
A store sample the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection's Food and Standards Division pulled tested positive for listeria, according to Stop & Shop's website.
Customers may return the frozen broccoli a full refund.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes sickens about 1,600 people every year and kills an estimated 260. Most at risk are pregnant women, newborn babies, older adults and people with weakened immune systems.
Listeriosis symptoms depend on the person and what body part has been affected. Among them are fever, diarrhea, aches. confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, the CDC said.
Stop & Shop, Giant and Martin's are owned by the Dutch company Ahold Delhaize, whose other U.S. holdings include the supermarket chains Food Lion and Hannaford and the online grocery retailer Peapod.
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2019-04-24T21:08:00Z
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/05/24/stop-shop-recall-frozen-broccoli-listeria/640022002/
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ARTPOP. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the lady gaga club tagged: lady gaga artpop album album art cover art art cover.
This lady gaga fan art might contain anime, banda desenhada, manga, desenhos animados, mangá, and quadrinhos.
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2019-04-22T18:47:35Z
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http://pt.fanpop.com/clubs/lady-gaga/images/33556631/title/artpop-fanart
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Arup is the world’s leading airport engineering company. SOM and Arup have collaborated on more than 20 high-profile airport projects in the US and around the world. Arup provides planning, engineering, design, and consulting services for the most prominent projects and sites in the built environment. Since its founding in 1946, the firm has consistently delivered technical excellence, innovation, and value to its clients, while maintaining its core mission of shaping a better world. Arup opened its first US office more than 30 years ago and now employs 1,300 people in the Americas. The firm’s employee-ownership structure promotes ongoing investment in joint research to yield better outcomes that benefit its clients and partners. Visit Arup’s website, arup.com, and the online magazine of Arup in the Americas, doggerel.arup.com, for more information.
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Prasanna is an Associate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences (IOMS) at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. His research focuses on the economics of the high-tech labor force. Some recent research projects focus on understanding how leading firms compensate their high-tech workers, why cities differ in the technical skills available to employers, and how the spread of new technologies impacts careers. Much of this research has uses Internet data sources to measure skills and labor market activity at novel levels of granularity. He is a co-author of “The Talent Equation: Big Data Lessons for Navigating the Skills Gap and Building a Competitive Workforce,” published by McGraw Hill.
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2019-04-22T09:57:12Z
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https://digital.hbs.edu/people/prasanna-tambe/
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The challenge of reaching out to the stranger in our midst is at the heart of the Bishop of Chichester's Christmas message which is released today.
Dr Martin Warner, in a video message posted on the diocesan You Tube channel, urges local communities across Sussex to "be mindful of those who have left their families behind because they were no longer able to live in the place they called home."
The Bishop said that the working out of the reality of God "living amongst us" is a challenge recognised by people of many different faiths.
"We talk about [Jesus] living amongst us and we refer to him finding a shelter. This surely brings to mind the dismantling of the temporary shelters in Calais and the many young people badly affected by having nowhere to be," explains Dr Warner.
He added: "I hope that in the year ahead, we can find it in our hearts to ensure that.....those who are most vulnerable will find a home with us."
Please download the link and share with your church congregations.
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2019-04-26T04:32:23Z
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http://sswshchichester.weebly.com/news/archives/12-2016
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This entry was posted on January 6, 2013 at 10:17 pm and is filed under Henry Denander with tags denander art. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-26T10:59:21Z
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https://rustytruck.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/henry-denander-the-art-of/
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BMI’s May indie spotlight features an eclectic crop of the country’s finest free thinkers. Entrepreneurs Indigenous Promotions step up into the business spotlight, while profiles of Francisco the Man, Millionyoung, Serena Ryder, Dan Black, Gossip Tree, Dude Royal, Leslie and the Badgers, Fast Forward Romance, Halos, Typhoon, The Rocketboys, and It Boys! illustrate the diversity and potential of music’s newest originals.
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2019-04-24T12:06:02Z
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https://www.bmi.com/news/entry/bmi_indie_spotlight_heats_up_for_may
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A study by OC&C paints a compelling portrait of Gen Zers.
Amazon may have a problem attracting youth.
Generation Z — defined as those between the ages of two and 20 — isn’t particularly interested in utilizing Amazon, according to the findings of a survey of 15,500 across four generations of shoppers in nine countries conducted by OC&C Strategy Consultants, and disclosed at the annual Financo Inc. Forum held earlier this week.
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https://wwd.com/business-news/retail/financo-forum-tackles-gen-z-new-brands-and-what-amazon-should-worry-about-1202964000/
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Karate was my base art, and in Matrix Karate I show you how to draw a Matrix, and give you the matrix of blocks. This is VERY intuitive stuff. Do the Matrix of Blocks for as little as a half hour, and you will suddenly find that you can do Karate, and do it well. This is a complete art, all the forms, the two man forms, applications, and methods of freestyle. Go to Matrix Karate.
I had been matrixing for years, but my big break through was when I decided to ‘solve’ the martial arts. I’m the only fellow in history to ever have that precise goal, and my solution was in Matrix Kung Fu. Simply, I went through dozens of martial arts, thousands of techniques, and resolved the whole mess to a specific logic. On this course I show you how to matrix the weapons of the body and standup grappling. Go to Matrix Kung Fu.
Back in the 90s I took four fellows and taught them how to do Aikido in under 90 minutes. This is that seminar. None of them had done Aikido, they only had a couple of months experience each, and in 90 minutes you will see them creating their own Aikido techniques on the fly. Furthermore, this Aikido can actually be used in combat. In addition to Matrixing Aikido, on this course you will see exactly how to grab a concept and use it to teach yourself a whole art. Go to Matrix Aikido.
To be an instructor doesn’t mean you have to be tough and beat people up; it means you have to have knowledge. This is the only course of its kind, as it presents the EXACT data necessary to be a teacher. Do this course and you will instantly have perfect form and peerfect techniques, and this for one simple reason: you understand the EXACT data that makes perfection of form and technique. Go to The Master Instructor Course.
You can purchase the above four courses and save money. Go to The Core Package.
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https://alcase.wordpress.com/matrix-martial-arts/
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“Midnight Clear” is a delightful collection of Christmas music that contains both sacred and secular songs. Joe Curry’s third album to date is made up of piano solos, piano and vocal selections, and piano with light accompaniment (all acoustic). I prefer Christmas albums that have a little different spin on at least some of music, and this album has a mix of traditional approaches and some very original interpretations.
“Angels We Have Heard On High” has an infectiously joyful energy and some jazzy improvisational sections in this opening piano solo. “O Come, All Ye Faithful” has a beautiful, graceful flow, and features Betsy McCann on flute and Sara Bergsven on French horn as well as Curry on piano. The title track is an elegant duet for piano and cello (Noah Turner Rogoff). “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” is a bittersweet duet for piano and sax (Mary McWeeny) that really touches the heart.
The three vocal tracks are “The Christmas Song,” “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow,” and “O Holy Night.” Curry’s very pleasant tenor voice is clear and confident. “Silent Night” is such a gentle arrangement that you can visualize falling snow illuminated by a bright night sky. McCann’s flute adds a beautiful counterpoint to the piano. “Away In a Manger” begins as a lovely, flowing arrangement. The surprise is that one of the verses in played in a minor key. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that before, and I like it! This solo piano track is one of the highlights of the album.
“Frosty The Snowman” is a jazzy confection. “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” is a piece that is open to a wide variety of approaches, and I love this one! An upbeat and dramatic duet for piano and sax, both musicians seem to be improvising sections and having a blast playing together. This is my favorite track on the album. “Once In Royal David’s City” is a soulful and gentle piano solo. Curry and McWeeny present a silky-smooth duet of “The First Noel” that evokes a warm, peaceful mood.
At 24, Joe Curry’s career is off to a very impressive start, and “Midnight Clear” should be a welcome addition to your holiday music collection for many years to come.
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2019-04-24T12:13:13Z
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http://joecurry.com/wp/media/midnight-clear-review-mainlypiano/
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Although the Republican presidential field makes for better theater, results from the Democratic side of last Monday’s Iowa caucus point to the destructive effects of educational institutions that have turned so many young Americans into naïve socialists whose fundamentally harmful policy positions should not be forgiven due to claimed good intentions or youthful exuberance.
The low Democratic turnout — down 27 percent from 2008, while GOP participation was up by 50 percent — should have Hillary Clinton and friends very worried about voter enthusiasm in November. That’s the good news.
But the truly frightening images out of Iowa — and from the many college campuses that 74-year-old socialist Bernie Sanders has staked out as his home turf — is that thousands of young adults are flocking to support a man whose policies, if enacted, would destroy the American economy and the opportunity for those same grinning youthful idealists to enjoy a future of prosperity and freedom.
How can it be that our educational system, from K-12 all the way through college and graduate school, so thoroughly fills the minds of the next generation with undiluted economic nonsense? How can it be that so many people who are technically adults believe that college should or can be “free”?
How can it be that throngs of our youth dislike and distrust our nation’s most successful people, looking at millionaires in the same way that a leech looks at your ankle? How can it be that after years of “higher learning,” millennials have learned nothing from the many lessons of history showing that Sanders’ ideas are not only destined to fail if implemented but would also impoverish and enfeeble a once prosperous, proud and mighty nation?
And, lest all of the fingers point at professors and provosts and principals, how can it be that so many parents have not made a more diligent effort to deprogram their children from the mindless and harmful propaganda being shoved, without challenge, into their still-forming minds in the shockingly non-diverse intellectual environment of the academy?
If you’re the parent or teacher of a misguided millennial who is considering going to her local caucus to offer support for Sanders, I urge you to sit him down for a conversation about how the world really works.
Explain how “free” college means higher taxes for you, and for him, as soon as he starts working for a living. Explain how “free” health care has led to in-hospital starvation and death by malnutrition of more than 1,200 patients in the English National Health System and how even Vermont — Sanders’ state — has abandoned “single payer” health care as unaffordable. Ask him how a 50 percent tax rate is substantially different from indentured servitude or theft.
You will be shocked and dismayed by the incomprehension in his eyes.
Our nation’s future depends on today’s young minds. The Iowa caucus results show how thoroughly warped so many of those minds are.
Ross Kaminsky is host of “The Ross Kaminsky Show” weekday mornings on 630 KHOW.
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2019-04-23T02:14:34Z
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https://www.denverpost.com/2016/02/05/kaminsky-what-iowa-caucus-results-say-about-millennials/
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When you’re a young team, there’s always a learning process. Although head coach Joe Jones has insisted that his team’s youth won’t ever be an excuse, the Boston University Terriers showed their lack of experience on multiple occasions this season.
Unfortunately for BU, the return home after its overtime loss to Loyola proved to be one more of those cases, as the Colgate Raiders defeated the Terriers, 77-56, at Case Gym on Saturday afternoon.
BU’s (9-10, 2-4 Patriot League) lack of energy was apparent from the tipoff, Jones said. The play saw Colgate forward Will Rayman draw a shooting foul, and fellow Raider Rapolas Ivanauskas grab the offensive rebound for a put back after Rayman missed the second free throw.
After Dana Batt swatted freshman forward Fletcher Tynen’s layup on the other end, Colgate (11-8, 3-3) continued to push the pace, launching the game with a 13-2 run.
In their lowest scoring game since their 54-44 lost to Rutgers on Nov. 23, the Terriers shot 37 percent from the field, while recording only 11 assists on 13 turnovers.
Junior forward Tyler Scanlon was the only Terrier to score in double digits with 14 points, while BU’s usual scoring leader, Max Mahoney, struggled with 7 points, tying his lowest scoring output of the season.
Terriers will have just two days to turn the narrative around before they host American University on Monday.
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2019-04-23T08:53:47Z
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https://dfpbasketball.wordpress.com/2019/01/19/terriers-fall-77-56-to-colgate-in-the-worst-game-weve-played-all-year/
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It won't be possible to wipe the smiles off the faces of CSU student engineers as they open their books and start learning in their new building opened today.
It won't be possible to wipe the smiles off the faces of Charles Sturt University (CSU) student engineers as they open their books and start learning in their new building opened today.
CSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Vann was joined by the Member for Calare, Mr Andrew Gee, MP, and Foundation Professor of Engineering Euan Lindsay at the official opening at CSU in Bathurst.
Professor Vann, who trained as a civil engineer and worked in engineering consultancy prior to becoming an academic, remarked at the official opening how the new building hailed another chapter of growth and development at CSU.
"The $14.3 million investment in this purpose-built facility was certainly worth it. It offers highly flexible and engaging spaces that are not only contemporary and cutting edge, but also reflect the long history of Charles Sturt University in Bathurst," Professor Vann said.
"While being a place of learning, the building design has also won four awards, most recently at the 2017 Architecture Awards. A testament to the architects, builders and designers, and we are grateful and proud to be the home for this award winning asset."
An advocate for CSU and its importance to the central west, Member for Calare, Mr Andrew Gee spoke highly of the University's commitment to investment in its engineering course.
"Charles Sturt University has put a lot of skin in the game with the significant time and resources it has invested into its engineering course, and this building certainly highlights that commitment," Mr Gee said.
"As part of the National Innovation Science Agenda (NISA) the federal government has clear objectives in its focus on the importance of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
"It is pleasing that Charles Sturt University has thrown its support behind engineering and aligned its course offerings to ensure its graduates are equipped for the future to take on the many roles within STEM, seeking highly skilled and qualified candidates."
Foundation Professor of Engineering Euan Lindsay said that this building will become a centre of excellence and provide students with the modern, state-of-the-art facilities they need to be able to learn and engage with their course and each other.
"This building and the engineering course at CSU lives up to the motto of the University, 'for the public good', by ensuring the University's engineering graduates are able to address the needs of our future workforce in Bathurst, the central west, regional Australia, and beyond for years to come," Professor Lindsay said.
Member for Bathurst Mr Paul Toole, MP, was also present at the ceremony and said the opening of this building was not only a proud day for CSU but for the City of Bathurst and the region.
The photo shows (L to R): CSU Foundation Professor of Engineering Euan Lindsay, Member for Calare Mr Andrew Gee, MP, and CSU Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Vann.
Also present at the opening were the Mayor of Bathurst Councillor Graeme Hanger, Councillor Monica Morse, Councillor John Fry, members of the University Council, representatives of industry, staff and students of the University.
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2019-04-18T11:41:48Z
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https://news.csu.edu.au/latest-news/business-and-commerce/future-engineers-to-benefit-from-state-of-the-art-building
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New lessons for grades 3–8!
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https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/curriculum?grades=6%2C7%2C8&utm_source=DC2_Grades6-8_Launch_Announcement_EdNewsletterSubscribers&utm_medium=email
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Tsewang Rigzin of Tibetan Youth Congress and hunger strikers, Mar 22, 2012.
Three Tibetan independence activists ended their 30-day hunger strike on Thursday, after the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights promised to look into their concerns about rights and freedoms in their homeland.
There were tears and cheers as two senior United Nations officials came to the park across from the world body to meet with hunger strikers Shingza Rinpoche and Yeshi Tenzing, bringing them a letter from the U.N.’s top human rights official. The letter’s contents satisfied the activists’ demands enough that they were willing to “indefinitely suspend” their hunger strike.
A third hunger striker, Dorjee Gyalpo, who was in deteriorating health, was forcibly removed by New York City police on Monday and continued his fast in a local hospital until he was informed the hunger strike had ended.
Tsewang Rigzin, President of the Tibetan Youth Congress, which organized the month-long peaceful protest, told supporters that this is a small victory that they would build on.
Rigzin said the U.N. has assigned special rapporteurs to look into the situation inside Tibet. He added that the United Nations states in the letter that they have contacted the Chinese government several times about delegations going into Tibet. Rigzin said that High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has an open invitation from Beijing to visit China and that the U.N. is working on finalizing a date for the trip.
The Tibetan activists sent a letter to the United Nations last month asking the world body to send a fact-finding mission to Tibet to assess the human rights situation there, where at least two dozen Tibetans have set themselves on fire this year to demand independence from China and the return of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
The hunger strikers' petition also demanded the release of political prisoners, foreign media access and the end of China’s so-called "patriotic reeducation" program. They also called for international pressure on Beijing to lift what they say is undeclared martial law in Tibetan areas.
The U.N. officials who brought the letter that ended the hunger strike offered the men orange juice to break their month-long fast. In return, the activists draped them with Tibetan ceremonial scarves and shed tears of joy and relief.
Richard Bennett, Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, would not discuss the contents of the letter. But he said he was relieved that the strike was over.
“Certainly, [I am relieved]. I think everyone has the right to peaceful protest. But we are also relieved that this particular protest has concluded," said Bennett.
The Tibetan Youth Congress said it would be taking the two hunger strikers to the hospital to undergo treatment as they break their fast.
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2019-04-23T17:08:17Z
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https://www.voanews.com/a/tibetan-hunger-strike-ends-with-un-letter-143896516/179870.html
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The Ardmore Tigers have already claimed the district title after a win over Noble in week 9, but are still striving for a win.
Ardmore has not had an undefeated season since 2005, but plan on breaking the 13 year drought.
Western Heights enters the game with a 1-5 district record. The game will be played at Noble Stadium.
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2019-04-18T11:01:32Z
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https://www.kxii.com/content/sports/Ardmore-aiming-for-a-perfect-season-499230721.html
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Case Summary: Claimant, a certified nurses aid, fell and injured her back in April 1998 but returned to work and continued working until August 1999, when she quit work. She claims that her doctor told her to quit working on account of her back pain and seeks temporary total disability benefits.
Held: Claimant did not prove entitlement to temporary total disability (TTD) benefits. She was not a credible witness. Her story about quitting work was contradicted in numerous aspects. The Court finds that she did not quit work on account of her back condition and that her wage loss is not the result of her injury. Moreover, the medical evidence failed to establish that she had not reached maximum medical improvement at the time she ceased working.
Benefits: Temporary Total Benefits. Where claimant quit work for reasons unrelated to her industrial injury her wage loss is not the result of her injury and she is not entitled to temporary total disability benefits.
Benefits: Temporary Total Benefits. Where medical opinion that claimant has not reached maximum medical improvement is based on the fact that claimant would benefit from physical therapy, and the claimant has had the opportunity for the therapy but failed to pursue it, the claimant has reached MMI and is not entitled to temporary total disability benefits.
Maximum Medical Improvement. Where medical opinion that claimant has not reached maximum medical improvement is based on the fact that claimant would benefit from physical therapy, and the claimant has had the opportunity for the therapy but failed to pursue it, the claimant has reached MMI and is not entitled to temporary total disability benefits.
¶1 The trial in this matter was held on November 27, 2000, in Kalispell, Montana. Petitioner, Joyce Peone (claimant), was present and represented by Ms. Laurie Wallace. Respondent, Liberty Northwest Insurance (Liberty), was represented by Mr. Larry W. Jones. No trial transcript has been prepared.
¶2 Exhibits: Exhibits 1 through 11 were admitted without objection.
¶3 Witnesses and Depositions: The Court received and has considered the depositions of claimant, Dr. Victor M. Davis, and Gary Schild. Claimant, Connie Fryslie, and Walter Woyden were sworn and testified at trial.
1. Whether the Petitioner is entitled to temporary total disability benefits from the date she was released from work, August 23, 1999, and continuing until alternative positions can be identified or the Petitioner is released to return to her time-of-injury position.
2. Whether Petitioner is entitled to a 20% increase of award for refusal to pay benefits pursuant to section 39-71-2907, MCA.
3. Whether Petitioner is entitled to reasonable attorney fees and costs pursuant to section 39-71-611, MCA.
¶5 At trial, counsel for claimant waived oral argument on the penalty issue, but reserved the right to brief that issue should the Court find claimant is entitled to additional temporary total disability (TTD) benefits.
¶7 Claimant is 40 years old. She has worked as a certified nurses aid since the early 1980s.
¶8 In 1996, claimant began working for Mission Mountain Enterprise (Mission Mountain). Mission Mountain provides in-home assistance to mentally and physically disabled people.
¶9 In 1998, the claimant ordinarily worked with one client, Michelle. Claimant's regular duties with Michelle were to assist her in making her bed, cleaning house, bathing, and other household duties. Michelle was described by claimant and claimant's supervisor as "challenging."
¶11 At the time of the accident, Mission Mountain was insured by Liberty, which accepted liability for the accident and paid medical benefits.
Mild left lateral disc bulge at L4-5 which creates mass effect upon the left subarticular recess and anterior aspect of the left neural foramen. While there is no obvious nerve root impingement, this does appear to encroach upon the left L5 nerve root within the lateral recess.
(Ex. 3 at 4.) Both Dr. Davis and Dr. David T. Schloesser, a neurologist who later examined claimant, noted that if the disk bulge imaged on May 22, 1998, were causing radicular symptoms then those symptoms should have been in her left leg, however, claimant in fact had no left leg symptoms. (Ex. 2 at 1; Ex. 5 at 5.) Thus, it was unlikely that the disk bulge was clinically significant.
¶16 Claimant continued to be symptomatic, however, she also continued to work.
Need to write to W.C. to see if they are interested in work evaluation or further rehab. Patient states PT is quite painful for her. Not certain that she's doing any stretching exercises. States she had a mechanical LB injury working at the nursing home in 1991 or 1992, states this is much more severe, much more longer lasting and the 1st was not associated with any leg pain.
I feel most of Ms. Peone's symptoms are due to muscle tightness, lack of mobility at the present time. However she also clearly has an unstable back which is likely to respond only to time. I believe she is somewhat limited in her current work activities with limitations placed on bending, lifting any thing greater than 15 pounds, walking on unstable ground, sitting for more than 45 minutes, stooping or bending. I expect these limitations will continue.
¶21 Claimant testified she took a note from Dr. Davis setting out her lifting restrictions to her employer, and gave it to either Connie Fryslie (Fryslie) or Carol Hoover (Hoover). Fryslie supervised claimant from 1996 through 1999, except for approximately six months when Fryslie was on medical leave. According to Fryslie, claimant did not give her any note regarding restrictions.
¶22 Walter Woyden (Woyden), who supervised the program in which claimant worked, testified that Hoover handled payroll matters, including workers' compensation and time off issues. Woyden could recall nothing about work restrictions for claimant while she was employed. Hoover did not testify.
¶24 Claimant was not a credible witness and I am unpersuaded that she ever notified her employer of the November 1998 work restrictions.
¶27 Claimant testified she then went to Fryslie and told her the doctor had restricted her lifting and asked to be switched to another client who would be easier to handle. According to claimant, Mission Mountain did nothing in response to her request. She recalled being transferred to another client for one weekend after an incident with Michelle but testified that the transfer was due to the incident and not on account of her back problems.
¶28 Claimant testified that she "asked about" three different openings at Mission Mountain and that she made it clear to her supervisors that her requests were on account of her back problems. According to claimant, "Nothing was done." (Trial Test.) Claimant also testified that she applied for an opening at the Work Activity Center operated by Mission Mountain, however, she conceded she did not tell her employer she was seeking the job on account of her back condition.
¶29 Both Fryslie and Woyden testified claimant never asked to be moved to other clients on account of back problems or any other physical restriction. Fryslie did recall that claimant complained about Michelle's aggressive conduct and that she responded by scheduling claimant to work with a different client the next weekend. However, claimant did not show up to work with that client that weekend and was thereafter rescheduled to work with Michelle.
¶30 Fryslie also recalled meeting with claimant after the incident where claimant was hurt helping Michelle bathe. Fryslie reminded claimant of Mission Mountain's policy against its employees placing themselves at risk of injury when attending clients. Fryslie testified that claimant did not request she be assigned a different client.
¶31 Fryslie testified that if she or Mission Mountain had been requested to reassign claimant on account of her back condition, they would have attempted to do so.
¶32 Obviously, the testimony concerning claimant's request to change clients is conflicting. I am unconvinced by claimant's testimony and do not find her credible. I find that she did seek to change clients after one incident involving Michelle, where Michelle attempted to attack her with a knife. I also find that she failed to take the new assignment to another client, voluntarily returned to care for Michelle, and, in any event, never asked to change clients on account of her back condition.
¶35 Meanwhile, claimant stopped attending Mission Mountain meetings and classes put on by her employer. According to Fryslie, claimant called in with excuses a couple of times, but missed other scheduled meetings without any excuse. Woyden testified that some time prior to her last day of work he had a talk with claimant about her failure to attend scheduled meetings and classes. The conversation was between a month to six months before she stopped working.
¶36 Claimant's last day of work was August 16, 1999. On August 17, Fryslie received a voice mail from claimant stating, "On the advice of my doctor, I'm resigning my job." (Trial Test.) Fryslie testified she then tried but was unable to contact claimant. She had previously had difficulty contacting claimant and had sometimes sent messages to claimant through a friend. Fryslie tried that method, and even stopped by claimant's residence, but could not locate her.
(2) c/o leg pain since 6/20/99 - reinjured L5 spine. Then aggravated by severe contusion - jumping into back of pick up 7/20/99. Has not been able to stand or walk well [illegible].
Based on my notes and the fact that we were following her up for this potential infection that I was quite worried might turn into something much more serious than what it did, I was assuming we were referring to the leg pain in the right leg caused by her bruise and possible infection. And that's what I thought she was saying when she said she couldn't stand up and walk on it. Because there's nothing in that note, I don't think, referencing physical exam of her back. Except to say her seated straight leg raises were negative. . . .
The only thing I can say about it was I was not dealing with her back at that visit . . . I was dealing with her leg injury.
Well, I had written the original excuse on account of one injury, which was totally unrelated to her back injury. But she decided on her own that she wasn't going to go back to work there because it was too much of a struggle on her back. Eventually, the leg bruise resolved completely and she would have been able to continue to work from that standpoint. But she was just tired of putting herself at risk, lifting these difficult patients, and wouldn't give her anybody she thought she could work with a little better, so she just decided not to go back to work. I said I did not specifically authorize or recommend that because she didn't come to me and say, Doc, I can't go back to work, my back hurts too much. But had she done so, I would have said that's reasonable.
¶41 Dr. Davis testified that his after-the-fact support for claimant's decision to quit working was based on the understanding he then had of her back condition. (Id. at 61-63.) As noted below, after an MRI conducted in June of 2000, Dr. Davis revised his opinion of what claimant's condition was at the time she quit work.
¶42 According to claimant, she was under the impression Dr. Davis took her off work due to her back condition. Although the August 23 note only took claimant off work through September 12, claimant maintained she believed Dr. Davis took her off work permanently. She testified that she brought the release to Woyden just after receiving it from Dr. Davis. Initially, she testified this was on August 23 and that she had worked the day before, August 22. She testified she made the phone call to Fryslie after this point to make sure she understood what had happened.
¶43 On cross-examination, which commenced after a recess following claimant's direct examination, claimant testified she was no longer sure whether or not she had worked for Mission Mountain after August 17. Later, she testified that after thinking about it, she believed she called in sick around then and may not have worked after August 17.
¶45 Woyden recalled seeing Dr. Davis' August 23rd note, although he was not sure whether claimant gave it to him personally or it came through Fryslie.
¶46 I find claimant's testimony concerning her cessation of work not credible. Her story is not supported by Dr. Davis, who took her off work temporarily on account of her leg. She quit work August 17th, which is prior to his taking her off work. She then disappeared and her supervisors at Mission Mountain were unable to find or contact her.
Mechanical low back pain secondary to degenerative disc disease, mild, L5-S1 and herniated nucleus pulposus L4-5. Right subjective leg sciatica with normal neurologic exam. At this time, I feel that she has reached maximum medical improvement and utilizing AMA Guide to Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, 4th Edition, Table 75, page 3/113 I would estimate her permanent whole person impairment to be 5%.
As far as treatment recommendations are concerned, I would strongly discourage any short term continued narcotic use. The patient has not had a trial of epidural steroid injections and I highly recommend this to hopefully diminish her pain, increase her functional capacity and decrease her use of narcotics. This treatment of itself, however, will not effect her MMI or impairment. She wishes to discuss this further with Dr. Davis, which I feel is indicated.
The patient has had two previous MR scans of the lumbar spine; one done in 1992, and one done in 05/98. On the study in 1998, there was suggestion of mild disc bulge on the left side laterally. While it encroached on the foramen in the lateral recess there was no definite nerve root impingement. At the present time, I do not see this abnormality, and it may well have resolved on its own.
The patient has some minimal facet disease at L5-S1 with slight narrowing of the disc with no herniation or focal nerve root abnormality.
Q. Now, this particular case, her reliability as a historian is going to be very important to the weight to give your opinions as to what she could do and couldn't do physically because of back problems?
A. Correct. Well, that is true except that I interpreted that study as indicative - the MRI of 1998 as being indicative of a problem that was much worse than actually existed.
Q. Could you explain that?
A. I gave more credence to that report of 1998's MRI as indicative of a major problem. And then when it was not redemonstrated in June, it was only then that I realized that things were not quite as serious as they were. But I didn't have the report of the June study to indicate that things had reversed or things had corrected.
Q. Taking a look at the 2000 study, it says at L4-5 there's a left lateral disk bulge which partially defaces the left subarticular recess and the inferior aspect of the left neuroforamen.
A. Back in '98, correct.
Q. That's '98. I'm sorry. And then you have Dr. Layne's interpretation?
A. I have Dr. Layne's interpretation, 2000 study. And he states specifically in his comments, not in the impression but in the narrative, on the study in 1998 there was suggestion of disk bulge on the left side laterally, with encroachment on the foramen in the lateral recess, there was no definite nerve root impingement. At the present time I do not see this abnormality and it may well resolve on its own.
Q. This idea that had she asked you in August or September of '98 to be taken off of work because of her low back, you testified, had she asked you back then, you would have, correct?
A. I would have said that was a prudent course of action.
Q. And that would be based on her complaints, correct?
A. Correct. And based on the fact that I thought there was more pathology in her disk. There was objective evidence for more pathology in her disk than actually existed.
This letter is in response to your letter of August 14, 2000. In answer to your questions, number one, Joyce Peone was given a work excuse on 08/23/99 due to acute knee pain and swelling, which made it impossible for her to walk. She subsequently did not return to work because she did not feel it was safe to continue her employment there due to an aggravation of her injury, which occurred when her main client intentionally went limp while being transferred. The sudden increase in weight further sprained her back. She repeatedly asked her employers to transfer her to a more manageable client who was more cooperative in her daily care, but the employer refused. I did not specifically authorize or recommend this cessation of work, but given the circumstances, I concurred with her decision. It should be noted that Ms. Peone worked for sixteen months after the injury with very limited time off from work as a result of her pain and suffering. I believe she made a good faith effort to work through her illness, pain and injury, but was met with increasing resistance by her employer. I do not feel she was able to return to her previous position and job without facing substantial risk for re-injury and aggravation of her condition.
As regards her return to maximum medical improvement, I am aware that EMG and studies were normal and the most recent MRI in 06/00 did not demonstrate the previous disk herniation at L-5, S-1 on the left side. Therefore, I believe she has probably returned to maximum medical improvement with the following reservations: 1) She is likely to experience some continued chronic pain as a result of this injury; and 2) She was never given an adequate course of physical therapy following the injury and does not currently have a stretching and flexibility exercise program, which would improve her mobility and, probably, pain and future status. I have recommended this to her on several occasions in the last eight months. She is willing to attempt this, but your company has been unwilling to authorize it.
¶57 Claimant testified she found assembly work after leaving Mission Mountain, but left after approximately one month because the work hurt her back. She maintains her back condition still interferes with her ability to work.
¶58 Claimant was not a credible witness. Her testimony regarding her last day of work shifted during the trial. Documentary evidence and testimony demonstrates that she quit her job before she got an excuse to be off from work for three weeks and that she was not told to quit work by her doctor, as she claims. Although she claims that her physical therapist told her in June 1998, not to come in, the therapist's records indicate that she was a "no show" and that he had asked claimant to come in even if she was hurting so her program could be revised. (Ex. 9 at 1.) Although she was not pursuing physical therapy, when claimant visited Dr. Schure on July 14, 1998, she told the doctor she was. (Ex. 5 at 6.) Her testimony that she asked for accommodations from her employer and to change clients was contradicted by her supervisors.
¶59 I find that claimant did not quit because of her back condition or because of her employer's refusal to accommodate her back condition by changing her clients. I also find no credible evidence that claimant was in fact temporarily totally disabled when she left employment with Mission Mountain. While Dr. Davis testified he would have supported a decision by claimant to leave employment, he also testified that this would have been based on his understanding at that time of claimant's condition. After the June 2000 MRI he recognized there was no evidence of the pathology he thought existed. His post-hoc support for claimant's leaving her job was also based on his erroneous belief Mission Mountain had refused to accommodate claimant.
¶60 Claimant was injured on April 6, 1998,(1) therefore the 1997 version of the Workers' Compensation Act applies. See, Buckman v. Montana Deaconess Hospital, 224 Mont. 318, 321, 730 P.2d 380, 382 (1986).
¶62 The claimant bears the burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that she is entitled to compensation. Ricks v. Teslow Consolidated, 162 Mont. 469, 512 P.2d 1304 (1973); Dumont v. Wicken Bros. Construction Co., 183 Mont. 190, 598 P.2d 1099 (1979).
¶63 Claimant has not carried her burden. I am unpersuaded she quit her job on account of her back condition or that she sought transfer to a different, less troublesome client. She has failed to prove that a client and situation she could handle were unavailable to her had she sought accommodation from her employer. Further, Dr. Davis' testimony that he was not sure that claimant had reached MMI by August 1999 was predicated upon her not having had a sufficient opportunity for physical therapy, however, claimant failed to pursue therapy when offered. Since the failure is attributable to her, Dr. Davis' testimony does not establish she had not reached MMI. Because the claimant failed to pursue physical therapy, she is at MMI since she is lacking a commitment to pursue therapy, her condition will not likely improve.
¶64 1. Claimant is not entitled to temporary total disability benefits and her petition is dismissed with prejudice.
¶65 2. This JUDGMENT is certified as final for purposes of appeal pursuant to ARM 24.5.348.
¶66 3. Any party to this dispute may have 20 days in which to request a rehearing from these findings of fact, conclusions of law and judgment.
DATED in Helena, Montana, this 1st day of February, 2001.
1. As set out in paragraph 25, she also suffered a temporary exacerbation on June 20, 1999. However, the medical evidence established that she returned to her pre-June 20th condition within a short time. It does not appear that a claim was made with respect to the July 20th incident and claimant's petition is based entirely on the April 1998 injury.
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Experts explain what are fossils and how we can learn from them. Plus, how dinosaur fossils are preserved.
Adapted from Dinosaurs: The Very Latest Information and Hands-On Activities From the Museum of the Rockies by Liza Charlesworth and Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer. A Scholastic Professional Book.
What Are Fossils? What Can We Learn From Them?
Fossils are the organic remains of prehistoric plants or animals. They are also the records of ancient life on Earth. Whether taking the form of bones, teeth, or eggs, fossils provide scientists with tangible links to the past. Together, these remains show changes in plant and animal life over time and provide information about shifts in climate and even geography. Fossils can also be compared to the living things of today, providing clues to present-day adaptation and behavior. For example, dinosaur bones share many commonalities with contemporary birds, leading paleontologists to believe that these long-extinct creatures were the ancestors of our feathered friends.
1. The dinosaur dies. It sinks to the bottom of an ancient river or lake, or is buried in a sand dune.
2. The dinosaur's body rots or is eaten by scavengers, until only its skeleton, or a few bones, remains.
3. Layers of sediment build up over the bones. Minerals collect in the small spaces of the bones, making them harder and heavier. This process turns them into fossils.
4. The water dries up. Over millions of years, the rock erodes and the fossils are exposed.
This chain of events — occurring over the course of many million years — happens only in lucky cases. Why? So many elements can conspire to destroy dinosaur bones and fossils. For example, if the animal died on land, scavengers might have fed on its dead body, leaving the exposed bones to crack and dry up in the hot sun. And even when the bones were quickly covered by sediments, they could still be destroyed by mountain-building activity, glaciation, or chemicals leaching through the soil.
What Are Trace Fossils? What Can We Learn From Them?
and of course, how big dinosaurs' feet were.
Likewise, there is much to learn from skin impressions. These imprints, which are rare, provided the first strong evidence that dinosaurs' skin was scaly. Coprolites are telling, too. Paleontologist Karen Chin has distinguished herself in this important area of dinosaur science. By studying fossilized droppings, she has learned a great deal about the diets of these enormous creatures.
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In the last few years, mobile has transformed the way people travel. Travelers are using mobile apps to research potential getaways, get inspired about where they want to go, and ultimately to book their travel. But just building an app or mobile site is not enough to close the sale. Design and usability are essential differentiators in creating a brand narrative and engaged customers. In this session, CEO Sam Shank will share why design is crucial in mobile and best practices when designing for mobile commerce. He’ll dig into mobile design complexities, provide insight into some of the challenges that HT has encountered and show how design improvements help conversion rates. He’ll also share details on how design doesn’t stop at the app, but instead should be a key part of a company’s culture.
A travel-obsessed serial entrepreneur, Sam previously founded and was CEO of DealBase.com, a travel deals search engine, and was CEO of TravelPost.com, a hotel reviews site. SideStep acquired TravelPost.com and Sam stayed on as VP of business development until its fortunate acquisition by Kayak. Sam also worked in comparison shopping at Excite, CNET and NexTag. Not at all surprisingly, he was an assistant to Wes Craven on the film Scream. Sam attended the University of Virginia and received an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He HotelTonights at the Ace New York.
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An additional area of focused relating to this initiative, is to discard restrictive States Government policies within this domain, such as License Raj, Land Permissions, Foreign Investment Proposals, and Environmental Clearances. It was organized by The Department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPI&IT).
A startup defined as an entity that is headquartered in India, which was opened less than 10 years ago, and has an annual turnover less than ₹100 crore (US$14 million). Under this initiative, the government has already launched the I-MADE program, to help Indian entrepreneurs build 10 lakh (1 million) mobile app start-ups, and the MUDRA Bank's scheme (Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana), an initiative which aims to provide micro-finance, low-interest rate loans to entrepreneurs from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Initial capital of ₹20,000 crore (equivalent to ₹210 billion or US$2.9 billion in 2018) has been allocated for this scheme.
10,000 crore startup funding pool.
Reduction in patent registration fees.
Improved Bankruptcy Code, to ensure a 90-day exit window.
Freedom from mystifying inspections for first 3 years of operation.
Freedom from Capital Gain Tax for first 3 years of operation.
Freedom from tax for first 3 years of operation.
Created an Innovation hub, under the Atal Innovation Mission.
To target 5 lakh schools, and involve 10 lakh children in innovation related programmes.
New schemes to provide IPR protection to startup firms.
Encourage entrepreneurship within the country.
Promote India across the world as a start-up hub.
The event was inaugurated on 16 January 2016 by The Finance Minister of India Arun Jaitley. Among the attendees were CEOs, startup founders and venture capitalists.
The Ministry of Human Resource Development and the Department of Science and Technology have agreed to partner in an initiative to set up over 75 such startup support hubs in the National Institutes of Technology (NITs), the Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs), the Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) and National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs).
The Reserve Bank of India said it will take steps to help improve the ‘ease of doing business’ in the country and contribute to an ecosystem that is conducive for the growth of start-up businesses.
SoftBank, which is headquartered in Japan, has invested US$2 billion into Indian startups. The Japanese firm has pledged to investment US$10 billion. Google declared to launch a startup, based on the highest votes in which the top three startups will be allowed to join the next Google Launchpad Week, and the final winner could win an amount of US$100,000 in Google cloud credits. Oracle on 12 February 2016 announced that it will establish nine incubation centers in Bengaluru, Chennai, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Trivandrum and Vijayawada.
The result of first ever startup state ranking were announced in December 2018 by the Department of Industry and Internal Trade based on the criteria of policy, incubation hubs, seeding innovation, scaling innovation, regulatory change, procurement, communication, North-Eastern states, and hill states.
Kerala has initiated a government startup policy called "Kerala IT Mission" which focuses on fetching ₹5,000 crore (equivalent to ₹54 billion or US$750 million in 2018) in investments for the state's startup ecosystem. It also founded India's first telecom incubator Startup village in 2012. The state also matches the funding raised by its incubator from Central government with 1:1.
Telangana has launched the largest incubation centre in India as "T-Hub".
Andhra Pradesh has allocated a 17,000-sq.ft. Technological Research and Innovation Park as a Research and Development laboratory. It has also created a fund called "Initial Innovation Fund" of ₹100 crore (US$14 million) for entrepreneurs.
The government of Madhya Pradesh has collaborated with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to create a fund of ₹200 crore (US$28 million). Rajasthan has also launched a "Start-up Oasis" scheme.
In order to promote start-ups in Odisha, the state government organised a two-day Start-up Conclave in Bhubaneswar on November 28, 2016.
As per the "Industry-Academia Partnership and Incubation" focus of the Startup India initiative, the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has announced plans for the development of "Research Parks" to be created in partnership with higher education providers across India. An initial investment of Rs.100 crore, has been set aside for the program, which aims to provide students with access to funds and mentorship for startups.
The Innovation in Mobile App Development Ecosystem (I-MADE) program was also rolled-out in February 2016. An initiative developed in partnership with The Department Of Telecommunications (Govt of India), Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE), EVC Ventures, and Unifyed, it aims to help Indian entrepreneurs create mobile app startups. The program is scheduled to last for 5 years, and has collaborated with 11 Indian universities.
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Tom Wonnacott is 61, he comes from Devon and is married with three children. Tom has a very impressive resume. Tom is a Chartered Surveyor, Chartered Auctioneer and Antique Expert. He is also a director of Sotheby’s, one of the oldest auction houses in the world. But the big question this week is, can he dance? We will soon find out as Tom will be competing on this years Strictly Come Dancing.
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Strictly Come Dancing, Tom Wonnacott on September 6, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
Zoe Hannah in Casualty. Sunetra is 41 and was born in Liverpool. She has a son called Noah. Her father is a doctor. She is also known for her part in Brookside in which she played a character called Nisha Batra. Sunetra will be competing in this years Strictly Come Dancing 2014.
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Brookside, Casulty, Dr Zoe Hannah, Liverpool, Nisha Batra, Strictly Come Dancing 2014, Sunetra, Sunetra Sarker on September 6, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
Jennifer Gibney is an actress, she is 50 years old. Jennifer appears in Mrs Browns Boys’s, as Mrs Brown’s daughter. In real life Jennifer is married to Mrs Brown, actor Brendan O’Carroll. Brendan is creator, writer and lead actor of Mrs Brown’s boys, the bafta award winning show has made him a very rich man. They have been married since 2005. Jennifer is currently appearing in this years Strictly Come Dancing 2014. She says she is very competitive and wants to win!
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Brendan O'Carroll, Jennifer Gibney, Mrs Brown, Mrs Browns Boy's, Strictly Come Dancing, Strictly Come Dancing 2014 on September 6, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
Judy Murray is famous for being the mother of professional tennis players Andy and Jamie Murray. But as Judy would say herself she is not just Andy Murray’s mum. Judy is Scottish, she is 55 years old. She divorced Andy and Jamie’s dad when Andy was nine, she is currently single. Sports runs in the family, Judy’s dad was an optician and former footballer who played for Stirling Albion in the fifties. Judy herself played tennis and won 64 titles in Scotland, she also played internationally but said she was out matched by players from stronger programmes. She returned to Scotland to became a successful tennis coach. Judy coached her son’s until their professional careers took off. She is currently captain of the British Fed Cup Team. Judy will compete on this years Strictly Comes Dancing. She is extremely competitive and will surely give her all.
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Andy Murray, Judy Murray, Strictly Come Dancing 2014 on September 5, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
Pixie Lott is a 23 year old pop star. Pixie comes from Bromley in London. She attended the Italian Conti Theatre School. She appeared on the London stage as a child and became a pop star when she left school. Pixie’s first single went straight to number 1 in the UK charts, her singles and albums continued to chart top ten, and she has had a very successful career. She is currently in a relationship with model Oliver Cheshire. This weekend she will be begin competing on Strictly Come Dancing 2014. Pixie is one to watch, she is beautiful, successful and talented. She would also have had professional dance training at Italia Conti and would be our bet for winner.
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Italia Conti, Oliver Cheshire, Pixie, Pixie Lott, Strictly Come Dancing 2014 on September 5, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
Caroline Flack is a TV presenter. Caroline who is 34 years old is best known for presenting Xtra Factor for three years. She had previously hosted I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! While working on Xtra Factor she famously went out with Harry Styles, who was fourteen years younger than her, this drew a lot of criticism. Caroline presently dates music producer JackStreet, who is also manager of Disclosure and Sam Smith. Jack is nine years younger than Caroline, she does seem to like a younger man! Caroline is going to appear as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing 2014 which interestingly is X Factors biggest competitor.
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Caroline Flack, Caroline Flack and Harry Styles, Jack Street, Strictly Come Dancing 2014, Xtra Factor on September 5, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
Alison Hammond will be a contestant of Strictly Come Dancing 2014. Alison is a veteran of reality TV, having participated in the 3rd series of Big Brother where she was the 2nd housemate to be evicted. In those days stupidly the big characters were voted out first, oh so no change their then! Alison went on to appear in I’m a celebrity…get me out of here!, Masterchef and Celebrity Fit Club. Alison is 39 years old and is a born and bred Brummie, she still lives in Birmingham with her ten year old son. Her bubbly personality has enabled her to work solidly on TV since her appearance in civilian Big Brother, which is unusual for BB contestants who usually slip back into oblivion. Alison has worked on ITVs this morning interviewing famous celebrities since leaving the BB house.
This entry was posted in Who is and tagged Alison Hammond, Strictly Come Dancing 2014 on September 5, 2014 by wealthandglamour.
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Professor Borghesi’s research interests lie in the area of intense laser-plasma interactions, with particular expertise in laser-driven acceleration of ion beams. He is involved in the development of innovative acceleration schemes as well as the application of laser-driven proton beams to plasma radiography (e.g. for laboratory astrophysics studies) and in the biomedical field.
Most of his research is carried out at large national facilities (e.g. Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) and is funded by large projects supported by EPSRC.
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When blocking a user via Special:Block it would be helpful to have a calendar as datetime selector to select a specific day and hour in the future as expiry time. This avoids typing a (english) timestamp in the correct format inside the duration field, when not using the default block duration from the drop down list.
On Special:Block, add a buttonSelectWidget in front of the expiration dropdown.
This element should be skipped in the tab ordering of the block page.
The first button option should be a pencil icon, which should be selected by default.
When it is selected the expiration dropdown and text field should behave as they do today.
The second button option should be a calendar icon.
On submit of the block, the system should calculate when block length between the current datetime and the selected datetime.
Toggling between the two options (pencil + calendar) should not result in any data loss. Whatever is selected when the user submits the block should be submitted.
Note that in these mockups the order of the pencil and calendar icons are incorrect, and the calendar input is just a dateinput, when it will be a datetimeinput.
We'll want to add the DateTimeInputWidget which will be hidden behind a buttonSelectWidget, as seen on UploadWizard.
The block would still be saved the same way, the calculation would happen before 'Block this user' is clicked.
I created T189382: OOUI JS loads too slowly on Special:Block for this since it seems like a bigger issue.
The DateInputWidget does not have the time select, but it has the design in the mock, the DateTimeInputWidget does have the time select, but has a different design. Which would you prefer?
The user should be able to select a date and time for the block to end. My doctored screenshots use the incorrect UI. Please use DateTimeInputWidget.
TBolliger changed the status of subtask T188128: Create a functional-looking mockup for Special:Block datetime selector from Resolved to Declined.
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This avoids typing a (english) timestamp in the correct format inside the duration field, when not using the default block duration from the drop down list.
If I understand this correctly, the problem (the bug) is not a UX issue (that the user has to specify a relative time), but instead an I18n bug (in which, the input must be specified in English).
To determine if this is correct... do English speakers want the date picker? Or would they continue to use the drop downs / relative input?
The solution then, should be to fix the relative input to be I18n. I do not think the solution should be to create a new feature which would only exist as a workaround to a bug and would have to be supported. On top of that, if we implement this feature, we'd still have to fix the I18n bug in the relative input!
I propose that the drop down uses translated strings for the labels that are displayed to the user (I noticed that it doesn't right now), and the value (that is sent to the server) is a ISO 8601 time interval. When the user selects "Other", two inputs will be displayed, one that allows the user to specify a number and another select form field that allows the user to specify the unit (i.e. "days", "weeks", "years", etc.) in their language.
This provides a more consistent UI, fixes the I18n bug, reduces the scope of this issue, and does not introduce any new features. The only downside is that I'm almost done with the date picker, but regardless, I don't think it's worth the cost of implementation, especially when we'd have to open up a new ticket to fix the I18n bug.
I think offering both the datetime expiration picker and a length dropdown is valuable to all wikis regardless of language. Some blocks are for common infractions — e.g. someone vandalized, they get blocked for ~30 hours. But some blocks are more nuanced — e.g. two users are in conflict, block them until we can synchronously discuss it on wiki.
I'm very curious why this didn't come up during our blocking consultation. Did we not get enough non-English participants? Granted, the page on Meta was in English but we reached out to 10 Wikipedias of 10 different languages and did see some language-specific feedback. Just not about this.
I'd really like to hear from @kaldari about this, but my current instinct is to implement the datetime picker on top of the existing (arguably flawed) system and open a new task to talk about proper i18n support.
I've given this some thought, and I think @dbarratt's idea makes a lot of sense. 99% of blocks use the pre-set values, so I don't think we need to build a complicated UI for handling the other 1%. As David mentions, the datetime picker idea is basically a workaround that doesn't completely solve the problem. I think what's really needed is an easy way to enter non-pre-set values without having to resort to English. The easiest way to do that is probably the system David describes. While we're in there, I would recommend moving "Other time:" to the bottom of the list (since it's the least used and most difficult of the options), i.e. moving Ipbother after Ipboptions. But that's just a thought.
BTW, you can get the translated time unit names from the cldr extension I believe. Take a look at the TimeUnits.body.php file.
In general, because the AHT team is working on the Blocking tools, I think most people are more focused on items that are more relevant to mitigating harassment. We didn't do a general call for people to tell us everything that they have problems with related to the blocking tools.
If I remember correctly, the idea for a datetime picker came from de:wp. If so, let's check in with the people who wanted the feature to understand which solution(s) are needed to fix the issues that they were having with the current way to set the time.
Sydney remembers correctly, I brought that in from a discussion on de:wp that unfortunately sprang up just a few days after the closing of the blocking consultations. The length dropdown menu with a flexible option would help solve a lot of the problems, but would still require some outside calculations for one common use-case on de:wp - reinstating a block that was lifted to allow the user to take part in public discussions on his/her request for unblocking. Here the datetime expiration picker would be perfect. But the length drowdown might have a wider range of applications across all wikis.
We talked about this at length in today's AHT standup. We agreed to complete this task (T132220) as currently described. Fixing the i18n issues that David discovered and helpfully described in T132220#4066969 is another important problem to address, but will likely require a lot of discussion on wiki as it could be interruptive of existing workflows on the current interface. David will create a new task.
So, we can enable this on a wiki-by-wiki basis?
Ah ok gotcha gotcha. I think it's fine to just release to all wikis, but should probably hear from @SPoore about a release strategy.
I can't QA "Temporary Config flag" but everything else hits the Acceptance Criteria!
For the first release, let's only enable on meta, mediawiki.org, and de.wikipedia.
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@Samwilson — Curious if this happens for this widget on all uses in Timeless, or just on Special:Block.
I guess I could just attempt to parse with Date() and if successful, pass that object to moment? That would bypass the deprecation warning, but it would also not give moment an opportunity to parse it itself. I figure, if the feature is removed in the future, it (shouldn't?) matter because every time I see the deprecation, the Date() parsing failed anyways, so the removal of the feature, shouldn't result in any problems.
A bigger issue is the console.log() that happens, and older versions of IE do not have the console object, so the notice will throw a fatal error, but I assume moment is first checking for console.log before attempting to use it.
It's probably fine to leave the deprecation warning in, but maybe there's a way around.
Am I reading things correctly: the date only needs to be passed to Moment when the relativeField is "Other time", and not for the other ones? But it's hard to check for that in that spot because the relativeField's change event is getting its value from itself *or* the other text input, so the only way to check is to see if it parses as a date? Maybe it'd be possible to decouple those a bit, and see if it's 'other' or not, and then parse the date.
Uhh... so... basically any wiki can specify their own options, and technically anything that strtotime() supports will work. I'd like to change this to use a standard (non-english) format in T190449.
But yeah, even with that, it would be transferring a relative date to a precise one (and that obviously wont work well in reverse), so we could just limit it to only working when the "other" is selected, but if a wiki removes all of the options, then it's only a text field.
There's also nothing that stops someone from specifying a relative date in the other field, so I can write "2 days" and that will work (since strtotime() can parse that without a problem).
So I think we should try to parse it the best we can (with moment? with Date()?) since there isn't an equivalent to strtotime(), and if it fails, no big deal.
I mean the alternative is is that we don't even try, but I think trying makes a better UX.
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This is a defect of the DateTimeInputWidget. It was actually wider by default and I made it shorter. I like it lining up with the other fields... maybe the trash can should be right aligned? Would that fix the problem?
So you can't make the field smaller? Maybe set a max width? or create two columns in that row? If there is nothing you can't do the fine.
Are you saying it should be even shorter?
What are your thoughts @TBolliger?
Don't forget the calendar pop-up is an even different size!
I think leaving it as it is on http://commtech.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Block is fine.
I'm talking about the format you get when you switch to the textfield (pencil) after you pick a date on the time picker.
Right, so the problem is, is that you need to be able to switch back and forth between the two and it needs to be able to parse the format. I don't care what format we use, but it needs to be consistent.
@TBolliger, so @dmaza is saying that we should not change the format because that's not part of this ticket (and could anger some people, especially on English), but on the flip side, maybe it's a good opportunity to use a language neutral format? What do you think?
I don't anticipate too many people will actually toggle back-and-forth repeatedly. Sure, it's possible and yes, we should provide the best experience but I don't think this is the most crucial detail to split hairs over.
But as we know, T190449: Expiration field on Special:Block only accepts English input which makes displaying the month name (rather than number) for non-EN communities less than ideal. But if this is the existing behavior than I will agree with Dayllan and not change the existing behavior. We can fix the i18n issues in T190449.
dbarratt added a parent task: T192620: Remove $wgExpiryWidgetNoDatePicker temporary option.
@TBolliger & @SPoore This will go out on the train and be enabled on all wikis.
In T132220#4086762 (yeah, it was a month ago — sorry!) we agreed to enable on meta, mediawiki.org, and de.wikipedia for the first release.
dbarratt added a parent task: T192962: Disable Datetime Selector on Special:Block on all wikis except Meta, MediaWiki, and German Wikipedia.
Whoops... missed that, let's update the config before this is released then. :) I created T192962 to do that.
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quote: "hi, when I select a calendar on Special:Block and then choose a day other than this day, for example tomorrow, after that I can't select again this day, it's not selectable anymore. I can select this day again if I change the seconds or minutes to future. But I think it's better to make always this day selectable and if the time is in past just give a warning. Stryn (talk) 13:42, 4 May 2018 (UTC)"
Thank you, @TheDJ . These seem to be requests for improvements to the OOUI elements, which is outside the scope of this ticket and the Anti-Harassment team's purview. I'll make sure their feedback is documented on Phabricator tasks and I will respond on meta wiki by end of day today.
@dbarratt, as far as I know it still does not work, despite "MW-1.32-release-notes (WMF-deploy-2018-05-01 (1.32.0-wmf.2))".
This isn't deployed on every wiki (disabled via config) where are you attempting to use it?
On hewiki. Why isn't? It's dangerous?
It should be going out next week. Blocks are a critical piece of functionality and we're extra-careful with anything related to them.
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Newport Aquarium, the No. 1 aquarium in the country according to USA Today’s 10Best.com, is pleased to announce the return of Winter Family Days, when two children are admitted free with each full-priced adult ticket. This family-favorite offer will be available from Jan. 8 through Feb. 28, 2014, during which time the aquarium will open one hour early at 9 a.m. every Saturday and holiday weekend.
Snowball (left) and Snowflake are two of less than 100 known white alligators in the world.
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Preface: Yes, it’s been forever since I’ve written here. Life in London has been crazy and full and wonderful, and there is much to catch up on. I miss writing, so I am trying to make space for it again, as part of my Lenten practice. If I tried to catch up everything, I’d never get anywhere, so I’m just starting fresh.
For the third year in a row, I have stood outside our church building on Tottenham Court Road offering Ashes To Go to the thousands of people who pass by. Roadworks almost forced me to cancel this year, but I managed to find a tucked-away corner for two short hours at lunchtime.
It’s always a little bit awkward standing out there, with signage, stole, and small dish of ashes in my hand. In a multi-faith, international city, many people have never heard of Ash Wednesday, and stop to ask questions. Others stare, look away, smile, nod. Then a few immediately make eye contact and step right up for the gift of ashes.
This year, though, people also stopped to argue with me. Wearing a clergy collar on a female body, even in London, prompts daily stares and whispers. At least once a week, a stranger comments that they have never seen a woman priest before, or tells me I am wrong to do this work, or asks if I am wearing a costume. I’m used to it. Sometimes, there is even a real moment when eyes are genuinely opened.
I am always armed and ready for these encounters. When two different strangers approached during Ashes to Go to question how I can be a woman in ministry, I challenged them with a perspective they have probably never heard about the scriptures. I do this at least once a week. I know my lines, and they are well-rehearsed.
However, as often happens, both turned argumentative, wanting a long debate over weaponized scriptures. When that happens, I know it’s pointless and just time to get them to go away. However, I also still want to be nice, or at least seem to be nice. I’m supposed to be a good representative for Jesus and his church, and I didn’t want to give them any excuse to call me or my church hostile or dismissive or defenceless against their scriptural interpretation. That means I always spend an extra 2-5 minutes (or more) just trying to extricate myself gently from the conversation and get them to move on.
I felt such a surge of power and authority in this new script, redirecting my energy to my call to connect with those who need to know Christ’s love. With this script in hand, I realised the absurdity of standing on the pavement in front of the very church I serve, with my name on the sign with the title “Senior Minister” next to it, still defending my right to be there.
I was so eager to test my new lines, I almost hoped another interlocutor would appear, but none did. Still, I started rehearsing them for the next time.
The next night, Thursday, I left the office and went directly to an event at my son’s school, still wearing my collar. On our way home, I ended up sitting separately from my husband and son on the bus, and a stranger decided to announce to the rest of the bus that he had never seen a woman priest before, but he knew I was “illegal” and so was my church. I was unfazed, but since I was not actually doing ministry, I reverted to my old scripted lines of defence about “not in my tradition, not in my understanding of Jesus’ love.” My family had never experienced this kind of encounter before. These real-life trolls don’t engage when there is another man to confront. My family’s response was to just get off the bus early and walk. I remarked that if I got off the bus or subway every time that happened, I’d never get anywhere.
Unlike all the other encounters, which I forget as soon as they are over, this one stayed with me last night. Perhaps it was watching my adolescent son react as a random stranger felt entitled to belittle and disparage his mother in public. Perhaps it was the new script for ministry moments from the day before. I realised in that moment how dis-empowering it is even to defend myself, as though these strangers’ opinions–which are usually uninformed and prejudiced and often drunken–entitle them to a thoughtful, compassionate response from me. They don’t.
There was also a Twitter meme with the hashtag #takeupspace inviting a feminist Lenten practice of refusing to be small in order to make someone else comfortable. Sit comfortably, use the armrest, cross your legs, throw an elbow on the empty seat next to you. Women have a right to exist in the world and take up space too.
I realised that my very engagement with these folks who simply seek to diminish or dismiss me because I am a woman in ministry actually gives them more time, energy and power than they deserve. I don’t owe them a damn thing, and certainly not a defence or explanation of my existence. I have a right to take up space in public without defending myself or my ministry.
While I don’t think the BBC’s basic “f*ck off” is Jesus-like enough for me, I am drafting a new script.
It’s not perfect, but it’s an improvement. I’m off to memorise and rehearse my new lines for the next encounter.
Additional note: This also has me reflecting on the daily experiences of people of color, who are harassed, belittled and demeaned in public, in front of their children and colleagues, with an additional threat to their safety. My privilege as a white woman with professional status and resources allows me to be “mouthy” without serious risk of someone calling the police and claiming I am a threat. I might be called a b*tch, but I’m not likely to get hauled off to jail for standing up for my right to ride a bus or go to the park or sit in a coffee shop without being subject to interrogation by a stranger. This privilege often does not extend to men and women of color. I wanted to acknowledge the added layer of racism that only amplifies this struggle for so many. Even as I figure out how to take up my own space, I am also trying to figure out how to use my privilege to support others in taking up their own space too.
One year ago today, I carried the last box of my belongings out of St. Luke’s UCC, where I had served as pastor for more than 10 years with a congregation whom I loved and who loved me in return. With tears in my eyes, I returned to take this photo, lock the door one last time, and surrender my keys.
I got into my car, piled high with boxes, and drove to the radiologist for a mammogram on the lump I had found in my breast a few days earlier, on the eve of my farewell service and celebration. The mammogram produced hushed tones, and I knew right away that wasn’t good. The tech escalated me to an ultrasound, and, after a few minutes, quietly left the room to fetch the doctor immediately.
They told me they couldn’t be certain, but the lump I found showed every characteristic of being cancerous. I called a dear friend from the parking lot, sobbing with fear and uncertainty. The next morning, as the crew loaded all our belongings into a container bound for London, the doctor called to schedule a biopsy.
Thus began the most incredible year of my life. Incredible is the only word I can muster, because it literally means unbelievable. I find this year in my life impossible to believe.
Today, one year later, I am sitting in the tiny village of Cadouin in southern France, sipping wine, eating Camembert on a fresh baguette, feeling great, and preparing to officiate a wedding in a chateau later this afternoon. I can’t believe I get this opportunity. Incredible.
My writing spot for this post: Les Anciens Gendarmarie, a police station in Cadouin dating to at least 1606, converted to a B&B. Every now and then, someone passes by my window on horseback.
This year, our whole family moved to London, and we have learned how to navigate a new country, a new city, a new currency, a new house, new groceries, and a new language (it’s more unfamiliar than you think). I have made more cultural faux pas than I care to remember—usually not even realizing it until hours or days later, too late to apologize—and received much forgiveness. Incredible.
View of London’s Canary Wharf from Greenwich, on a Sunday afternoon outing with the family.
My son has made his way in a new school, and we have all made new friends that we expect will last a long time. Incredible.
My new ministry at the American International Church in London has been a gift in every way, and I am honored to serve with such faithful folks. We are energizing one another with the possibilities and the power of the Spirit to work through us in this place. Incredible!
The day I had my PICC line removed, the end of chemo and just before surgery and radiotherapy.
I have had three surgeries, countless tests and procedures, six sessions of chemotherapy, 23 sessions of radiotherapy, yet I now feel stronger, healthier and more fit than I did a year ago. I lived with a PICC line for five months and spent most of the year completely bald. Another surgery and more targeted chemo injections still await, but the worst is over, my hair is growing back, and the cancer seems to be gone for now. Incredible.
Having never been to Europe before the move (except for the interview at the church), I have now explored Vienna, Austria; Bratislava, Slovakia; Rome, Italy; Prague, Czech Republic and the Perigord region, France. Unglaublich! Neuveritelny! Incredibile! Incroyable!
My son’s team in Prague. An hour after this picture, my son would be wrapped in this flag celebrating victory over Lithuania. Amazing!
Last weekend, my son played on Team UK, a 10U baseball team representing the United Kingdom in a tournament in Prague. We made new friends from across England that suddenly feel like our closest kin. They brought home a trophy and he wrapped himself in the Union Jack after hitting a walk-off double to win the game. Incredible!
My father died unexpectedly this year, yet even as I grieve his loss, there remains a sense of peace and relief in his sudden death, knowing he was spared a coming suffering. I want to call him up to tell him things all the time—like my son’s game-winning hit in Prague, or the fact that the rehearsal dinner last night at this wedding in France featured the Good Old Song from his alma mater the University of Virginia—but I feel a sense of peace and trust that he already knows. Incredible.
Standing in front of my dad’s office one last time, having dressed in our finest to go to the courthouse to probate his will. He took us to the courthouse with him often when we were growing up, and always required we look our best. I also always remember him in his gray suit, so I dressed to match.
A cadre of friends—both old and new, here and abroad–have been a posse, a safety net, a support structure, a protective guard, a soft landing place, a strength in times of trouble. I cannot imagine how I would have survived this year without such support, encouragement and permission to be needy for awhile. Incredible.
I learned to drink coffee. For those who know me well, you know that this may just top the list of unbelievable events. Incredible!
I learned to drink coffee in Vienna, accompanied by some new friends that already feel like heart-friends.
At several moments this year, I believed my life to be in jeopardy. There were some scary times, not just at the initial diagnosis, but during treatment here in the UK. (Those are some of the stories yet untold, except to a very small group of friends. They will be written as I am able, as I still need to process all that has happened.) Yet here I am, and the prognosis for my future cancer-free life looks very good indeed. Incredible.
This morning, I sat at a panoramic overlook looking over the village and Abbey of Cadouin (built in 1115), just trying to comprehend all that has happened this year. Incredible. Unbelievable.
This morning, one year later, overlooking Cadouin. The smile is genuine—I started laughing with joy after contemplating this incredible year. Here I am in France, a cancer survivor, pastor in London, beloved of God. Incroyable!
I was overcome with the feeling of privilege. I feel privileged to be alive at all, and only more so to have experienced this incredible year. I think this might have been simultaneously the best and worst year of my life. I have been privileged to experience things this year that most people only dream about—travel, living abroad, engaging in meaningful work, a thriving child, feeling beloved by family and friends. I have also been privileged to experience things this year that most people fear—cancer, chemo, the death of a parent–and to have survived them.
Today, it all feels like privilege. I can’t call the events of this year a blessing, because that opens the door to a theology in which God sends pleasure and pain to edify or punish or reward or inspire, and I don’t believe God works like that. Things happen, from cancer to death to miracles to weddings in France and baseball games in Prague.
I wrote earlier in this journey, quoting Frederick Buechner: “Welcome to the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.” Today, I make an addendum. “Give thanks, for God is abides.” I can only stand on this anniversary day, in this incredible, unbelievable year, and tell you that God has been with me, that I have survived, and that I feel only gratitude for the gift of it all—the hard days and the amazing ones, the grief and the joy, the pain and the pleasure. I am glad to be alive, and I am overwhelmed by love. If it seems incredible, that’s because it is, even to me. But it is my truth, my joy, my testimony. Praise be to God, for the gift of life.
This post is a look backward, as I am today set to receive my final chemo infusion. However, it’s been on my heart for the last six weeks, and I can’t talk about where I am now without talking about where I’ve been. I’m trying to catch up–not just for you, dear friends and family and readers, but for me. This has been a hard season, and writing helps me process all that I have been thinking and feeling. Sharing with you all makes me feel strong in claiming my story. Beware going in, this post is less chipper than my previous ones. This is a space to tell the truth of the good times and the hard ones. Keep reading, though, as I hope to write two more posts in short order that catch up to today.
I thought reaching the halfway point in my chemotherapy would feel better than this. I expected to feel like I hit a milestone. Since I weathered the first half fairly well and with good cheer, I expected to find myself encouraged that, like meeting the winter solstice, I could begin moving toward the light instead of the darkness.
Instead, reaching the halfway point of chemo in good cheer freed my mind and heart to ask the hard questions about all the treatment and uncertainty yet to come. The sense of accomplishment gave me room to deal with some of the spiritual, mental and emotional issues that I have not had time or energy to approach since my diagnosis. The blur of moving to London, first surgery, new job and chemo in the last three months made it so all I could do was keep going and push through. That was a gift, much like the numbness and denial of early grief. When that numbness subsides and the feelings break through, the pain floods in heavy and deep. Healing requires diving into the deep waters and learning to swim, surf, float through it. Halfway through chemo the dam of numbness gave way, and the flood took over with a host of questions and feelings.
This is our cat, Chance, when I was changing the sheets yesterday. This is a good reflection of how I’ve been feeling, except I’d probably get under the big pile of covers rather than on top.
The fear about side effects returned, as the second half of treatment contained a different set of drugs than the first. I entered the clinic as anxious about the fourth treatment as I was about the first one. (Those fears proved not unfounded, but that’s a story for the next post.) Unlike previous cycles, when I enjoyed the “feel-good” days leading up to treatment, I found myself filling with dread and fear about the new and unpredictable set of pains and side effects, likely harder than the first three rounds.
On top of all that, I am just getting tired of it. Halfway meant I had lost nine weeks already, and had another whole nine weeks to go. As a child, that was the length of an entire grading period in school. Half a school year in total, which always felt like an eternity. And that’s just chemo. Halfway through chemo isn’t halfway at all, with two surgeries and radiation ahead. Instead of feeling like I was headed into the light, it felt like a carnival ride that was lasting way too long.
If you know me at all in real life, you know that descriptions like “high-energy, hard-working, creative, cheerful, always upbeat” fit my usual self. Not my usual self during chemo. I wrote in my last post, many weeks ago, about my small world being enough. It stopped being satisfying about the time the halfway treatment arrived. I am tired of sleeping 12 hours a day, when I’m used to sleeping six or eight, and still being tired in the short hours I’m awake. I’m tired of “chemo brain” that makes it hard to concentrate, difficult to write (especially sermons), nearly impossible to read a book or some days even follow a television show. I’m tired of not going anywhere, except when work or family obligations demand it–and then planning days of rest on either side to make sure I can have the energy to go and the time to recover.
I bought this blue wig for Halloween, but I love it so much I keep wearing it–especially on days when I need courage. This is a pic from the Macmillan Cancer Centre, where I come for treatment and doctor visits.
So halfway through chemo, instead of feeling like a triumph, felt like a realization that there is a long way there is yet to go. Chemo is cumulative, so each round leaves me weaker and more fatigued. The halfway point brought that truth home, as I am not bouncing back like I did in the earlier rounds.
Halfway marked the first time sadness and self-pity set in. Suddenly, instead of laying in bed longing to be well and get out, I found myself on good days still longing to crawl back in bed, away from the world and away from people and away from cancer. I felt grumpy, cranky and mopey. I barely shed any tears over cancer from the diagnosis through the beginning of chemo. At halfway, I began crying in the shower every morning. After eating good and healthy foods, and having little appetite for the first three rounds, the new drug has made me ravenous, and I’ve turned to my oldest emotional crutch: way too much junk food. I don’t feel guilty over it, but it’s a sign to me that I need to pay attention to my feelings.
Halfway was now six weeks ago, and today I go for my last infusion. I wish I could write that I was better now, that the cloud had lifted and my cheer restored. That wouldn’t be true, though. I still feel heavy these days, not just in fatigue of the body, but of the mind and spirit as well. The news isn’t chipper, but it is still good: I’ve been here before. I’ve known seasons of grief and hardship, and I know they don’t last forever. I have learned what I need to heal–space, time, a warm bed, comfy clothes, a good sappy movie, a deep escape into a good novel, conversation with friends, conversation with God, space to journal, time to weep and let all the feelings surface, time to remember who I am, time to take stock of what has changed, what is lost, what is gained. And, yes, probably all of these moments involve junk food, too.
Speaking of comfort food, our Thanksgiving feast (and the boy in the picture) offered some great joy–for quite a few days, with leftovers we’re still enjoying.
Chemo is relentless, which means much of that deeper healing work will have to wait. In the meantime, trust that I do not despair. I persevere–surviving more than thriving, but that is all I need to do right now.
Plenty of good moments remain, which give me hope that more will follow. When things get low, I list them to myself. I love my work, and my new church has offered some beautiful, wonderful, glorious days in this time–the gift of many newcomers ready to engage, a Thanksgiving luncheon, the chance to help lead the Thanksgiving service at St. Paul’s Cathedral, deeper relationships with people in the congregation, and a fun day decorating for Christmas, with our children delighted to take the lead. My husband and son are wonderful, and they know how to take care of me–which is not easy for someone who doesn’t like to need care from anybody. My extended family, my parents and I have grown closer and more intimate through this process. A core group of friends receives all my complaints, need for prayer, TMI medical details, related inappropriate humor and curse words. They respond with instant encouragement, laughter and grace, as the situation demands. A wider group of friends send gifts and cards, weekly messages of encouragement, scripture and humor, and reminders of their prayers. My current church lets me work, and they also let me not work, as the day demands. They too offer prayers, soup, patience, flexibility and understanding. My former congregation has sent gifts, prayers and love in the kindest, most meaningful ways. All of you who read and respond here and on Facebook offer me much encouragement as well. I need people to listen–and by reading this, you do.
Under the dome at St. Paul’s Cathedral, preparing for the American Thanksgiving Service on Thanksgiving morning.
This week marked the beginning of Advent in the church. Yesterday, we lit the first candle of the Advent wreath, the candle for hope. This has always been a powerful moment for me, especially this year. Against the darkness and all alone, this first candle shines in the darkness, a tiny, fragile flicker of light. That’s where I am right now. Not shiny and bright, not basking in sunshine or under the bright stage lights, but holding on to hope, fragile and flickering against the darkness.
More to come soon, I hope, about the pathway between halfway and today’s last treatment. Thank you for listening, for praying, for supporting me along this journey.
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