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Church property, you are not welcome.
During my run this morning I passed a church somewhere in the Cultural District in Portland. There was a sign on the church reading: “No loitering. Church business only. Police enforced.” I’d be curious to find out what exactly it is that they deem as “church business.” The sign is likely meant to keep the homeless people from sleeping on the steps of the church, but aren’t these the people the church is supposed to be reaching out to? Perhaps I’m drawing too much into this simple sign but my experience with religion has left me quite jaded and it’s this sort of rubbish that rubs me the wrong way. I find an extreme amount of hypocrisy happening among churches; it seems many of them only want to help the people they feel are worthy to be helped, which excludes the possibly smelly, hungry, ragged clothed people that call the streets of Portland home. Churches are supposed to lead by example, feed the hungry, shelter the needy, be a light in the dreary night for all who may need it. The sign I saw, however, translates to me as this: “We don’t want you clogging up are precious pews, and heaven is too full already for the likes of you. Please stay away unless you’re clean and ready to tithe.” Call me crazy but this is not the type of message a church should be broadcasting. If there is an actual problem with loitering and juveniles defiling the church property, I would think better words could be found to illustrate this.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic halted former champion Stan Wawrinka’s charge at the U.S. Open on Friday, beating the Swiss wildcard 7-6(6) 6-4 6-3 to book his berth in the last 16.
Wawrinka, who had won four of his five previous matches against Raonic, could not match his opponent’s intensity in the final two sets and paid the price for some poor shot selection.
The Canadian serve-and-volley specialist made sure he stayed on the front foot throughout, firing down 14 aces to Wawrinka’s four and coming to the net behind his booming serve 37 times with a success rate of 73 percent.
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A gong is is an East and Southeast Asian musical percussion instrument with a bowl-shaped, circular metal disc which is hit with a mallet ot thick padded stick.
Gongs produce two distinct types of sound. A gong with a flat surface gives a "crash" rather than a tuned note. In Indonesian gamelan ensembles, some gongs are made to give a beat note in the range from about 1 to 5 Hz. The use of the term "gong" for both these types of instrument is common.
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A special thanks to Bruce Bley for featuring this image in his group, All Things Atlantic Coast.
This little fellow had quite the attitude when I was trying to get a shot of him. I finally got the message and left him the hell alone. This was shot in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. If you like this image, please help me by clicking the like button at the top right and consider adding it to your favorites, Thank You!
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This famous Dutch proverb (literally translated here), basically expresses our Dutch egalitarian society. With our curtains open we look at our neighbours’ car to see if they are not showing off. It is deeply ingrained in our calvinistic society to not ever talk about the money we make, or to brag about the great job we have.
We Dutchies, however, have found a much subtler way to show how succesfull we have been in our lives. Ever since 1952 KLM has been giving out little porcelain houses filled with Bols genever to its business class customers. And it’s business class travellers only.
When visiting Dutch friends, it will serve you well to comment on the beauty of these little houses, as you notice them subtly arranged on your hosts mantle piece, or on top of a book case.
Don’t be fooled by their flippant reaction: ‘Oh yes, KLM has been giving them out for years’. Know that you have made your host very, very happy by noticing.
Last weekend the Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions hosted a trip for 70 international meeting planners to show them the qualities of The Netherlands as a business/conference destination.
A boat trip on the Amsterdam canals, a bike ride through stunning The Hague, and power kiting on the Noordwijk beach were part of the programme. We visited the beautiful Hotel Okura for a workshop with Dutch suppliers and we drank a tasty genever cocktail at House of Bols.
Last but certainly not least, we had a very unique sneak preview of the newly renovated Scheepvaartmuseum which not even our queen has seen yet. The farewell jazz dinner in the luxury Hotel Sofitel Legend The Grand topped the night off, and left everyone exhausted but happy.
Mr. Holland was there, and after two days of sightseeing asked his guests the following question: Could you describe the Netherlands in just one word? Here´s what they said, and don’t forget to take a look at the pictures we took.
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Learn the disadvantages of incorporation to avoid business pitfalls.
1 What Are the Advantages of Incorporation?
4 What are the Benefits of Incorporating a Business?
Incorporating a business involves legally separating it from you as its owner, as well as giving the business a separate legal entity that is officially recognized. Typically, when a business is established by an individual as sole proprietor, its owner owns all of its assets, but in turn the owner will also be responsible for liabilities and debts that could be incurred while the business is operating. With a corporation, that ownership is separate. There are several disadvantages of incorporating a business that owners should be aware of before making the choice to incorporate.
Incorporating a business will take longer to set up compared to other types of business structures. Incorporating also includes higher start-up expenses. Compared to a partnership or sole proprietorship, a corporation is a far more complex legal structure--therefore it is more costly and complicated to set up. The fees charged for incorporating a business, either federally or locally, can be as high as several hundred dollars. When setting up a corporation, you will need to file paperwork with your state’s office that charters corporations, which is time-consuming as well. You also must pay annual fees.
Incorporating a business will also mean annually having two tax returns on file. This is commonly referred to as double taxation. Double taxing involves corporation tax and income tax. This means not only extra legal formalities and paperwork on your part, but also, as opposed to a sole proprietorship business structure, an incorporated business will not have the capacity to deduct its losses from the personal profit of its owner. In addition, there are extra costs in the form of account fees, legal fees and other charges. The income of a non-incorporated business, on the other hand, is only taxed once.
The extra paperwork does not stop with the filing of two tax returns. An incorporated business will also need to take care of detailed books, take notes at meetings, as well as create reports, a share register, tax return files, a transfer register, bank account records, and audit books.
When you establish a separate corporate entity, you will have to establish separate credit and bank accounts for your business, which means you must have the appropriate business identification. Your personal identification won't be enough, and you also can't mix your business and personal funds under the law once you have incorporated. Additionally, since establishing a corporation may involve selling stocks, shareholders can become the owners of your business. This means that you will not have full say when it comes to running the corporation. All shareholders will have a vote when electing the board of directors who will run the corporation.
Writing, Alexis. "The Disadvantages of Incorporating a Business." Small Business - Chron.com, http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disadvantages-incorporating-business-363.html. Accessed 18 April 2019.
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← RSU 18: A Standard for Excellence in Maine Public Education.
I couldn’t have said it better… A wonderful class of seniors who have helped make MHS the amazing place that it is. They will be missed!
The senior prank has long been an MHS tradition. They are not always well thought out, and have often been somewhat ill advised and a real pain for the staff to clean up.
Enter the seniors of 2016. On Wednesday, June 2nd, seniors started arriving at MHS as early as 4:45 am to reinvent a designated area of the student parking lot. With the help of a few truck loads of sand, a volleyball net, lounge chairs and kiddie pools, they created their own beach day without leaving campus.
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By giving to the University of Toronto, you can support groundbreaking research and teaching, help shape our next generation of leaders and address the social issues you care about most.
Stay connected, learn more and get involved.
For emergencies dial 911 then call Campus Police at 416-978-2222.
Find resources related to mental health, personal safety, sexual violence and harassment on the U of T Safety & Support website.
U of T Campus Updates including closures due to emergencies and weather conditions, and emergency contact information.
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Difficulty with short-term memory or concentration.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports over 1 million adults with ME/CFS in the United States, and recent evidence has shown a higher prevalence in females compared to males. Certain racial/ethnic groups have also been found to be at an increased risk for ME/CFS; most notably Native American and African American populations. The economic burden of ME/CFS, including annual health care costs, is estimated to be between $1.9 billion and $7.2 billion.
Disagreement among medical professionals on many aspects of ME/CFS, including whether the illness is real; and no definitive answer about the effectiveness of current therapies.
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This week, we’re looking at a pair of useful words that Fowler’s Modern English Usage describes as "close in meaning but not identical": adverse and averse. It’s very easy to confuse these two words, and that confusion is further abetted by the fact that there is but one letter difference between them, and that they even sound somewhat similar.
Because Nick is allergic to shellfish, he would have an adverse reaction if he were to eat lobster.
Because Nick is allergic to shellfish, he is averse to eating lobster.
What are some ways to avoid this mistake? The Oxford Dictionary of Current English tells us, unsurprisingly, that the adjective averse is related to the noun aversion, which means "a strong dislike."
I have an aversion to any food that contains ginger.
Averse and aversion are also related to the verb avert, which means "to turn away"—usually with reference to one’s eyes. The verb avert can also mean "prevent", particularly with reference to an unfortunate event.
The Oxford Dictionary of Current English explains that the adjective averse, noun aversion and verb avert all have a common Latin root: avertere, which means "turn away from."
I am averse to smoking cigarettes.
Adverse, as simplified by the AP Stylebook, means harmful.
Smoking cigarettes causes adverse health effects.
When you are averse to something, you are avoiding it. a-verse, a-void.
These little tricks are a beginning. You may want to formulate some memory devices that work best for you.
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I hope you are having a nice weekend. Here is your weekly Gazette with a roundup of interesting events and opportunities around the University. We have one message from the College library this week regarding arrangements for the end of Full Term.
I hope to see you at the final CHUtalk of term this Wednesday.
Students who are returning to College next year can borrow Library books and DVDs over the summer. ‘Vacation loans’ will begin on Monday 11th June (last Monday of Easter Full Term). Any items borrowed or renewed on or after the 11th will be due back on Friday 5th October (the first Friday of Michaelmas Full Term).
Students who are graduating this year must return all library books before leaving Cambridge. Students with overdue books remaining on their library account after the end of Full Term will be contacted individually.
Please make sure you have collected anything you may have left in the library, particularly if you are leaving Cambridge this summer. There is a lost property box outside each reading room and we would like to reunite all items with their owners if possible.
Diana Popescu speaks on her research. Look out for an email from your academic officer for more details.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, we’re sure that you know next week is the start of the 21st FIFA World Cup in Russia. To celebrate this event the only way we know how, the MCR and Penguin will be hosting our very own Table-football World Cup to decide once and for all which team will reign supreme! So whether you’re an avid fan or casual supporter, come along to the TV room next weekend (16th-17th) for what is going to be a fun filled afternoon, or two.
Depending on the interest for this event, the ‘group stages’ will take place on Saturday, followed by the knockouts and finals on Sunday, where the ultimate MCR Table-football champion (and country) will be announced. If you want to take part in this event fill out the sign-up form below by Monday (10th) to register your interest and be entered into the team draw.
The bar will be open throughout the tournament to serve refreshments for all those taking part/ spectating and we’ll hopefully have some matches on throughout the day!
The MCR has organised a picnic at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden on the 17th of June (Sunday afternoon). Last year it was a big success, and everyone who attended really enjoyed this event. We also had a guided tour last year, so we are planning to do it again this year. If you want to join please email your Green Officer, Kaspars (kk588), for details.
We are pleased to announce our second event as “Cambridge VR / AR Society” on 14TH OF JUNE at the INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING starting at 17.30.
Our aim is to build a community around VR and AR technologies in Cambridge. We have identified interesting initiatives from within the university and in industry and will aim to connect them.
Demo sessions, try out Virtual/ Augmented / Mixed Reality demos on different devices (HTC, Oculus, Cardboard, Hololens). Demos will be on a first come, first served basis.
* Network with people interested in the field of VR / AR. Attendees will be from local industries and university.
conventional/renewable energy to related tech industry and recent trends.
Please find the link for the event on this page and sign up to join us on Friday the 22nd of June. We look forward to seeing you there!
The Hughes Hall Enterprise Society is hosting a talk by Mel Ragnauth, Glint Chief Business Development Officer, on the ‘Future of Money in a Crypto World’. A networking session will follow the event with refreshments included. Mel is the former Managing Director of Spiralite, a 2016 Sunday Times Tech Track 100 company. Prior to that, he spent 15 years in prinicipal investor and corporate finance roles with 3i, Deloitte, PwC and Orbis Investments.
We are establishing Cambridge’s Surgical Medtech Foundation, a NHS affiliated body dedicated to fostering innovation and interdisciplinary co-operation within the healthcare technology space.
We are currently seeking enthusiastic students (undergraduate or postgraduate), researchers and trainees from engineering, computer science, and many other backgrounds to join our Steering Committee. Together, the Steering Committee will shape the direction of the Foundation. Working closely with key players of diverse backgrounds, from academics to clinicians and entrepreneurs, you will play a crucial role in driving events on a regional and/or a national level.
Applications to the Steering Committee can be made at https://goo.gl/forms/Vv864KlzfVBqi5yE3.
For any questions, please feel free to contact Max (mes65@cam.ac.uk) or Dr Nancy Zheng (x.zheng@nhs.net).
McKinsey & Company is a leading management consultancy with 107 offices in 62 countries. All of these offices actively recruit top PhD talent and value the education received from the degrees you are studying at your university very highly. If you would like to apply, or have further questions, please feel free to write to me with questions at: UKAPD_Recruiting@mckinsey.com or visit our website. Our upcoming application deadlines are listed below. These are only relevant to PhD students as well as Gates, Rhodes and Marshall Scholars currently studying in UK.
WAVE 1: JUNE 28 DEADLINE. Interviews: 2 & 3 August For applicants to the North American offices. The recruiting season in the US kicks off in July therefore apply by this deadline to enter their recruiting process as early as possible. All other offices except for London will be screening applications at this time.
Wave 2: October 21 Deadline. Interviews: mid/ end November (exact dates TBC) For applicants to London and rest of the world excluding the US. London will screen all applicants to their office after this date.
We will run a webex session on “Demystifying Mckinsey interviews” on thursday, 21 June at 15:00 gmt/ London time. See the website for more info.
Cambridge Spark (skills training for data science) is offering a free Introduction to Python workshop in partnership with Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC).
Python is a widely used multi-purpose language that can be used to build web applications, automate routines, analyse data and much more. This free workshop will focus on the basics of Python applied to several cases such as analysing text data, computing statistics and automating tasks. Although not mandatory, participants are expected to have some exposure to basics of programming in any language such as R or Matlab.
Places are limited, so tickets will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
To register to go: https://forms.cambridgespark.com/python-workshop-cambridge.
Full event logistics and software setup instructions will be sent to you via email.
Are you a current Oxford or Cambridge student or graduate?
Are you keen to help enthusiastic 16-18-year-olds with their UCAS application or preparation for interviews?
If so, you could be earning OVER £100 per day!
WHEN? Exact dates vary for each programme, we aim to be as flexible as possible to cater to the needs of our volunteers. We can offer various programme durations, anything from 2 weeks to 3 months. Start dates are flexible, but typically programmes begin at the end of June, mid-July or the beginning of August.
COST? Taking part in this programme is completely FREE OF CHARGE, we also cover the costs of TEFL certification, Chinese lessons, trips, accommodation and meals, with NO ADDITIONAL FEES! Just buy your flights and get a visa and come join us in China. We also are able to cover the flight costs of those that join us as campus reps.
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ASCII.DISKO has been wowing folk like John Peel and Erol Alkan with the energising electro dance and driving beats of his eponymous album and especially the new 12″ of ‘Ne Travaillez Jamais’. The original version of the track has an unstoppable rhythm that grabs you by the balls. Mark Verbos has taken the track up a notch or ten in bpm’s, concentrating the force of the original into a more furious arrangement. The other side of the disk has the no less powerful updated old school sounds of ‘Jack Your Body To The Beat’ with a ferociously funked up remix by DJ Rok.
See the ASCII.DISKO video here.
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(1) Whether a man is bound to accuse?
(2) Whether the accusation should be made in writing?
(3) How is an accusation vitiated?
(4) How should those be punished who have accused a man wrongfully?
Whether a man is bound to accuse?
[*1 Tim. 1:5]. Therefore a man is not bound by a Divine precept to accuse.
it is written (Rm. 13:8): "Owe no man anything, but to love one another."
those of a higher degree, as shown in several chapters (Decret. II, qu.
vii), it seems that it is no man's duty to accuse.
denunciation, as stated, whereas the second regards properly accusation.
one is bound to do, since virtuous acts are perfections of man.
to defame and disparage the conduct of their superiors" [*Append. Grat.
Whether it is necessary for the accusation to be made in writing?
needs not to be made in writing.
declares that "no accusation in writing should be accepted."
On the contrary, It is laid down (Decret. II, qu. viii, can.
the accusation be in writing."
parts of the judicial procedure, should be put into writing.
the accusation be drawn up in writing.
1). Hence when the canon says, "Let no accusation be accepted in writing"
does not exclude the necessity of writing when the accuser is present.
of her office, to the correction of the brother.
Whether an accusation is rendered unjust by calumny, collusion or evasion?
accuses another of a crime through ignorance of fact which excuses him.
not render an accusation unjust.
calumny, or of collusion, or of evasion."
for which he is not to be blamed has uttered a false accusation.
proofs, and admitting false excuses.
which it is intended to procure by the accusation.
indictment is not bound to the punishment of retaliation.
is not due to one who has failed to prove his accusation.
impose the punishment of retaliation.
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Glow on (and on and on).
Restocking used-up beauty products is no one’s favorite activity—well, no one I’ve met at least. After all, your mascara or foundation is just as expensive the second time around, but this time you don't get the added thrill of trying something new. In an ideal world, no tube, stick, or palette would run out before its expiration date—but alas, that's not the world we live in. Still, if you seek out products with a little longevity, you should be able to cut down on emergency trips to Sephora.
This was the main issue I had with my last go-to highlighter, Glossier’s Haloscope. After maybe two months, I was down to the end of the stick, effectively dragging plastic across my cheek to use up the last of the product. Because I couldn’t bring myself to buy another so soon, I grabbed a highlighter at random from the office beauty closet, and, as it turns out, it was a very good choice. Cover FX's Custom Enhancer Drops don't look or act like your typical highlighter.
For one thing, they're liquid, and you can mix a drop or two in with your foundation or moisturizer to add a little shimmer, or dab them across your cheekbones, temples, and Cupid's bow for a more potent effect. I usually do the latter, and even the tiniest bit makes a big difference—I've lost count of how many girls in bar bathrooms have complimented me on it (and believe me, that's a group that knows their highlighter).
There are nine shades in total, ranging from holographic opal to deep, shimmery bronze. I use Moonlight, which is a versatile pale pinkish gold that swatches and YouTube tell me looks good on an improbably large range of skin tones.
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At 1:35 p.m. May 1, a 22-year-old Arleta man was robbed while out walking. Two men approached him, asked for the time and stole his phone when he opened it. Less than an hour later, Burbank police detained three suspects in North Hollywood who matched the description. Rogelio Perez, 19, of North Hollywood, was arrested on suspicion of robbery, and two others were released. Perez’s vehicle, a green Dodge Caravan, was impounded as evidence.
A residential burglary was reported overnight April 28. The burglar entered through the home’s unlocked sliding glass door. An Xbox console and games and four computers were taken.
Third-row seats were stolen from a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe parked in a home’s driveway overnight on April 28. The burglars entered the vehicle by possibly prying open the driver’s-side door handle.
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Cornelius Revisited, or, Must We Be Baptized to be Saved?
A few weeks ago, I did a post on Cornelius, the Roman centurion in Acts 10. I told of the lady I’d worked with who believed that baptism was necessary for salvation, and who had no answer for Acts 10. I mentioned that in all the time since then, no one who believes as she did has ever had an answer to that chapter of the Bible.
That is no longer true. Now someone has, or so they believe.
For a while, I belonged to a Bible study group on facebook. The subject of baptismal salvation came up and someone attempted to answer the idea that Acts 10 forever rejects the idea that baptism is necessary for salvation. This person had several remarks. I’ve seen him in other groups, as well, saying the same things.
First, he seems to think that Cornelius and his people speaking in tongues was no different than Balaam’s donkey talking to Balaam. He believes that the speaking in tongues was simply God’s way of showing Peter that it was ok to preach the Gospel to Cornelius. As for the first thing, I really don’t know how to answer such a preposterous idea, except to say that it is preposterous. To compare Balaam’s donkey’s temporary ability to speak with the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in a fair-sized group of people is beyond preposterous. It seems to me perilously close to blaspheming the Spirit. As for the second idea, the vision given to Peter in the earlier part of the chapter was God’s telling him it was ok to go to Cornelius’ house. Otherwise, Peter would never have gone to the house of a Gentile. As it was, he had some difficulty interacting with Gentile believers even after this, Galatians 2:11, 12.
Peter certainly thought that Cornelius and his associates were saved. In Acts 10:47, he asked, “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” He didn’t ask that these be baptized in order to be saved. They were already saved, as proved by the presence of the Holy Spirit – unless we are to conclude that the Holy Spirit can be received by lost people, or if we are to demean and dismiss their experience as nothing more than what happened to Balaam and his donkey.
There are two or three other verses that this gentlemen and those who believe like him use.
The main difficulty with that is that you cannot take a specific command to a specific group of people and turn it into a general command for everyone. Peter was speaking to a specific group of people, many of whom had seen the crucifixion of Jesus with its attendant unusual occurrences. He charged them with being guilty of the murder of Jesus.
They became convicted of their guilt and asked, “What shall WE do?” (emphasis added.) Since they had rejected and crucified their Messiah, they were concerned with what could be done for them to obtain forgiveness. Could they even obtain forgiveness?? They weren’t asking a general question about salvation, but a specific question about theirs.
“Repent, and let EVERY ONE OF YOU be baptized….” (emphasis added). In spite of what some claim, this is not a general command. He never said it again, and certainly not to Cornelius, whose salvation, and that of his household and friends, forever denies the idea that baptism is necessary for salvation.
In the case of Peter’s audience in Acts 2, they were to be baptized in order to identify with Jesus as Israel’s Messiah. He had been officially rejected by the leaders of the nation, who had demanded His crucifixion. These to whom Peter was speaking were, in effect, to reject the leaders of their nation and receive this One whom the leaders had rejected. Baptism was the sign that they had done so.
The verse itself tells us that baptism isn’t necessary for salvation. The word translated “for” – “eis” – is a very common preposition, occurring more than 1700 times in the New Testament. It has a variety of meanings, only one of which is “for the purpose of.” This is the meaning that would be required if Peter were telling his audience to be baptized “for the purpose of” receiving, or “in order to” receive, remission or forgiveness of sins.
However, the word also means, “because of.” For example, it is used like this in Romans 4:20 (NKJV) in speaking of Abraham, he did not waver at the promise of God through [“eis” – “because of”] unbelief….
This is the meaning of “eis” in Acts 2:38. Peter was requiring his audience to be baptized in order to show that they had repented of their rejection of Christ, had turned to Him and had therefore received the forgiveness of sins.
This is verified in an earlier occurrence of baptism, in fact, the first in the New Testament record. Matthew 3 is Matthew’s account of the ministry of John the Baptist. Multitudes came to John, and were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins, v. 6.
Included in the crowds coming to John were many of the Pharisees and Sadducces, v. 7. Seeing them, he said to them, “Brood of vipers!” Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance…,” v. 8.
John required repentance before baptism. So did Peter.
To say that it is baptism that brings forgiveness of sins and not repentance and faith is to deny the entire teaching of the New Testament that we are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. To require baptism for salvation is really to say that we are saved by faith in baptism, not in the Lord Jesus.
To require baptism for salvation is to be lost.
There are other verses that are used in this erroneous teaching.
I attended some Bible studies by an elder of the Boston Church of Christ. One evening, he baptized a young lady in the swimming pool of the house where we met. There’s nothing wrong with using a swimming pool for baptism. But after the young lady came up out of the water, the elder said something to the effect that her sins were now at the bottom of that pool. I’ve referred to this elsewhere, also my reaction that I certainly didn’t want to go into THAT water!
We can say the same thing about Acts 22 that we did about Acts 2. It’s a specific situation, not a general teaching. Paul’s own teaching on this is instructive. Writing to the Corinthian church and discussing reasons for the divisions in it, one of which seems to have been about who was baptized by whom, Paul wrote, I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, 1 Corinthians 1:14, though he did add the household of Stephanas in v. 16. He concluded in v. 17, for Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel,…lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect.
For those who believe in baptismal salvation, to preach the gospel is to baptize!
The Gospel isn’t about baptism; it’s about blood. It’s about the Cross of Christ, on which He paid the penalty for sin and secured the salvation of all for whom He died, of all who believe on Him for salvation.
Another verse these folks really like is 1 Peter 3:20, where Noah and his family were saved by water (KJV). The above-mentioned gentleman has used this in a couple of places I’ve seen.
Both times I’ve pointed out, apparently to no avail, that one should really read the whole verse, not just three words taken out of context. The verse actually says, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water. The NKJV translates it, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, IN WHICH a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water (emphasis added). Peter is clear that THE ARK was the means of deliverance, not the Flood. In fact, those in the water perished. Those in the Ark – before the Flood came – were spared. Those in the Ark didn’t get there by swimming to it and somehow getting into its closed interior after the Flood came.
In his second epistle, Peter wrote that the flood was to destroy the world of the ungodly, 2 Peter 2:5. It had nothing to do with the salvation of Noah and his family mentioned in that same verse, except perhaps that they were saved from it by the Ark. The Flood itself, the water, was not how they were saved.
Baptism isn’t how folks are saved, either.
In fact, requiring baptism for forgiveness of sins is to add sin, not get rid of it. It’s sin because it denies the sufficiency of the life and death of the Lord Jesus to save sinners. Saying that baptism is necessary for salvation is to add something to repentance and faith in the Lord. It’s saying that we have to do something to be saved besides believe, that faith in what the Lord did isn’t enough.
Friends, you can be baptized in a creek, in a baptistry, in a swimming pool, or in the Jordan River itself every day for a hundred years and never wash away a single sin. In fact, you’re just adding to your sins.
Though baptism does have a place in the Christian life, it isn’t the obtaining of that life.
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2019-04-24T07:05:36Z
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https://nightlightblogdotcom.wordpress.com/tag/baptism-and-salvation/
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“Real-time” Supercomputing: Disruptive Transformation of Design and Decision-Based Pocesses.
It is well known that the computer is replacing the camera as the film-maker's tool of choice because generating images by simulating reality using mathematical software has proved to be a more flexible and expressive medium than configuring the real world to capture images. Yet designing digital media at scale is a task every bit as challenging as the more traditional design and manufacturing of physical products. A single movie image can take up to forty CPU hours to compute making the design process slow and cumbersome. An entire movie consists of approximately half a billion individual (digital) pieces, consumes over one hundred million CPU hours in its manufacture, representing the labor of hundreds of designers over multiple years.
By (1) developing simulation techniques that emphasize scalability over performance, (2) designing data structures that support fast iteration, and (3) adopting web-scale data management architecture, the creative experience and the economics of image production can be transformed out of all recognition.
I will illustrate this paradigm shift to "real-time" design using examples from visual effects, the design of animation tools, and the process of lighting final images. I will also show how this architecture has been used to begin the digital transformation of the Consumer Products market, by replacing physical samples of apparel and footwear with digital samples, drastically shortening the time to market.
This approach represents a fusion of the videogame design paradigm with scientific supercomputing and may have relevance for other areas where large-scale compute and visualization are coupled to decision-making. I will make some final remarks on the prospects for extending the approach to the simulation of the most difficult aspect of the real world to design and animate – the human characters.
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http://www.eas.caltech.edu/events/81872
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This entry was posted on 27 agosto 2009 at 10:10 AM and is filed under video with tags video. 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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2019-04-19T07:50:56Z
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https://3kntan2skupen.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/youtube/
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The Secret of NIMH & Other Lot (MGM/UA, 1982). One Sheets (2) (27" X 41", 25.5" X 39.5"). Animation.
Starring the voices of Hermione Baddeley, John Carradine, Dom DeLuise, Elizabeth Hartman, Derek Jacobi, Arthur Malet, Paul Shenar, and Peter Strauss. Directed by Don Bluth. Included in this lot is a folded one sheet poster from All Dogs Go to Heaven (United Artists, 1989). Unrestored posters with a clean overall appearance. They may have general signs of use, such as minor edge and fold wear, creases, tears, minor surface scuffs, and writing in the image area. All Dogs Go to Heaven has vertical creases in the image area from being folded. Artwork for The Secret of NIHM by Tim Hildebrandt, with All Dogs Go to Heaven by B.A. Please see full-color, enlargeable image below for more details. Folded, Very Fine-.
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https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/animation/the-secret-of-nimh-and-other-lot-mgm-ua-1982-one-sheets-2-27-x-41-255-x-395-animation-total-2-items-/a/161426-53374.s
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Mashable's Pete Cashmore says Facebook's new "Like" button lets the site deliver a more personal experience to users.
London, England (CNN) -- Facebook this week announced a new way to express your interests -- a "Like" button that's set to appear all around the web. Click the button, and the Web page is shared with your friends.
What's more, every "Like" you submit ensures Facebook (and its partner sites) can deliver a more personalized experience to you.
It's a simple yet powerful feature -- one that delivers a significant blow to rival Twitter. Once the network effects take hold, it's frankly hard to imagine how any company could unseat Facebook's social networking dominance in the months to come. Without a counterattack, even Google may one day be dethroned.
Twitter, Facebook's direct competitor, has so far been unable to match the social network's growth rate. Twitter has 100 million users; Facebook has 400 million. The size of the network is important, since Web publishers and Web developers want their products and services to gain the greatest exposure possible -- given the choice, they'll choose the social platform with the most users.
Publishers, for instance, may choose to put a Twitter "Retweet" button or a Facebook "Like" button on their pages. Given that the majority of Web site visitors have Facebook accounts, the choice becomes an easy one.
Not to mention that Facebook's button's are far more powerful: They tell a visitor how many friends have liked a story, while an additional widget suggests other stories you might like. The "Like" button will accelerate Facebook's growth by spreading its tendrils to every corner of the web.
Likewise, Web sites can offer the ability to "Log in with Facebook" or "Sign in with Twitter". Conversion rates will likely be higher for those sites that choose Facebook. In every case, the biggest site wins.
Meanwhile, Twitter's relationship with its developer community -- the coders who fueled its growth by creating Twitter applications for phones and the desktop -- has hit a rough patch.
Twitter's acquisition of a popular iPhone app and the release of an official application for BlackBerry users has led some developers to wonder whether they should build Twitter applications at all -- won't Twitter just release an official application for every device and kill off all the upstarts? Facebook's Like buttons and new tools, by contrast, offer endless possibilities for developers.
Unless Twitter can reboot its growth and convince developers that building Twitter applications is worthwhile, Facebook will surely extend its lead.
Facebook looks set to challenge the web's biggest players, too: Google is under siege by Facebook's new-found ability to target search results and ads.
Google dominated the web in the era of interlinked Web pages. Every link from one Web site to another counted as a vote, determining the most relevant pages for any search term. The result: An unbeatable search engine.
Except that links between Web pages are no longer the most abundant source of relevant recommendations -- instead, people are sharing links with friends on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Now Google is paying those sites for access to public updates, but it lacks key data that would allow true personalization of search results. Google doesn't have a complete list of your friends, combined with a list of their interests. Facebook does.
Facebook is in a position to build the world's best search engine: One that delivers results based on your friendships and interests. The launch of the "Like" button, meanwhile, means that Facebook will know more about your individual preferences than ever before.
Facebook: The World's Best Ad Network?
Google makes the vast majority of its money from ads -- these ads typically match your search terms, or the content of the Web page you're viewing. Google has certainly worked to personalize these ads, but its knowledge of your friends and interests is more limited than Facebook's. The data gleaned from thousands of Facebook Like buttons around the web could make for an ad network that rivals Google's AdSense.
If Google is to maintain its once insurmountable lead in search and advertising, the company surely needs to perfect social networking.
Google Buzz, the search giant's most recent foray into the social space, received criticism from privacy advocates who noted that a user's email contacts were made public upon signup. The early hiccups may have been fixed, but Buzz has so far failed to catch on. Other social projects from Google -- OpenSocial, Google Friend Connect -- are so latent at this point that few are even aware of their existence.
If Google is to fend off the Facebook threat, it needs new ways to mine a user's interests and social connections. The hard way would be to develop a new competency in building social applications -- something Google has struggled to do. The easy way? Buy Twitter.
While Facebook is perfectly positioned to lead the next charge, success is by no means guaranteed. Twitter is set to release "annotations", a way to append extra information to Tweets. Google has enough money on hand to buy, well, whatever it wants.
And Facebook's user base is volatile: They may one day decide to embark on a mass exodus, causing Facebook to fall like MySpace and Friendster before it.
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2019-04-20T02:37:04Z
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/22/facebook.won.the.web.cashmore/index.html
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either side of the Mexican borderline.
So y’see I ain’t generally too fussed when folks are laughin’.
I confess, I do hate it when folks start shootin’.
pursuin’ posses and ambushin’ enemies.
By my rump, I sure could do without this rumpus nowadays.
a little paddock on the prairie.
[wpcf-summary-description] => Charlotte said: Very funny, and Jenny really captured the voice of the character. I liked that she rose to the challenge of writing the story from an unusual perspective, and loved how deliberate and clever the ending is. The delivery was lovely, very confident, and I particularly liked the ‘bandits, outlaws, inlaws, / mulateers, racketeers, pistoleers’ lines.
Charlotte said: Very funny, and Jenny really captured the voice of the character. I liked that she rose to the challenge of writing the story from an unusual perspective, and loved how deliberate and clever the ending is. The delivery was lovely, very confident, and I particularly liked the ‘bandits, outlaws, inlaws, / mulateers, racketeers, pistoleers’ lines.
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2019-04-26T08:32:28Z
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http://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/uncategorized/mule-musings
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Child Passenger Safety - Proper use of child restraints (i.e., car seats, booster seats, seat belts) is the most effective methods available to prevent fatalities in a motor vehicle crash.
Distracted Driving - Activity that could divert a person's attention away from the primary task of driving. All distractions endanger driver, passenger, and bystander safety.
Impaired Driving - Often a symptom of a larger problem: alcohol and drug use, misuse and abuse.
Mature Drivers - Age 65 and older.
Motorcycle Safety - Keeping motorcyclists as safe and protected as possible when riding.
Occupant Protection - Maine Highway Safety is committed to keeping drivers and passengers safe through appropriate occupant protection use.
Pedestrian & Bicycle Safety - Many people engage in walking, running and bicycling to maintain physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle. For many pedestrians and bicyclists, safety is a major concern.
Speeding - Traveling too fast for conditions or in excess of the posted speed limits is a factor in almost one-third of all fatal crashes.
Young Drivers - Young drivers account for more auto accidents than any other age group. Practicing safe driving techniques increase the odds keeping safe on the road.
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2019-04-23T14:02:48Z
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https://www.maine.gov/dps/bhs/programs/index.html
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The aim of this thesis is to understand and critically evaluate deductivism as a theory of inferential sufficiency in informal logic. I distinguish three different types of deductivism: strong normative deductivism, weak normative deductivism, and reconstructive deductivism. I also discuss some potential justificatory strategies that might be invoked in an attempt to justify strong normative deductivism and reconstructive deductivism. I apply this categorization scheme to develop an interpretation of Leo Groarke's version of reconstructive deductivism. I then evaluate some of the criticisms of deductivism raised in the informal logic literature. I focus in particular on the criticisms of Ralph Johnson and Trudy Govier. I follow up this evaluation by raising some problems for the justificatory strategies used to support deductivism. I also show how these problems apply to Groarke's reconstructive deductivism.
Simard Smith, Paul L, "On deductivism : a critical survey of deductivism in informal logic" (2007). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2915.
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2019-04-23T06:02:25Z
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https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/2915/
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This is a list of college baseball players named first team All-Americans for the 2016 NCAA Division I baseball season. The NCAA recognizes four different All-America selectors for baseball: the American Baseball Coaches Association (since 1947), Baseball America (since 1981), Collegiate Baseball (since 1991), and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (since 2001).
^ "NCAA Baseball Award Winners" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
^ "2016 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I All-America Teams - American Baseball Coaches Association". Retrieved November 29, 2016.
^ a b c "ACC, SEC Powers Headline 2016 All-America Teams - BaseballAmerica.com". June 7, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
^ "2016 NCAA Div. I All-Americans - Collegiate Baseball Newspaper". Retrieved November 29, 2016.
^ "NCBWA > News > 2016 NCBWA All-America Team". Retrieved November 29, 2016.
^ "College Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees". College Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 12, 2013.
^ "Lauer Honored as Pitcher of the Year at HOF's Annual Night of Champions". kentstatesports.com. Kent State Golden Flashes. July 5, 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_College_Baseball_All-America_Team
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High-dose vitamin B6 decreases homocysteine serum levels in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders: a preliminary study.
Miodownik C1, Lerner V, Vishne T, Sela BA, Levine J.
Division of Psychiatry, Ministry of Health, Mental Health Center, Faculty of Health Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er-Sheva, Israel.
Vitamin B6 plays an essential role in the normal functioning of the central nervous system. Normal homocysteine (Hcy) serum level is maintained by remethylation of Hcy to methionine by enzymes that require folic acid and vitamin B12 and by catabolism to cysteine by a vitamin B6-dependent enzyme. These findings may be consistent with the hypothesis that the vitamin B6 status may influence plasma Hcy levels. The aims of this preliminary study were (1) to determine whether a correlation exists between Hcy and vitamin B6 levels in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders and (2) to investigate whether treatment with high-dose vitamin B6 may reduce Hcy levels in these patients.
In this preliminary study, we enrolled 11 patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders (7 men and 4 women; mean age +/- SD, 50 +/- 12 years) receiving high doses of vitamin B6 treatment (1200 mg/d) for 12 weeks. Blood samples for the assessment of pyridoxal-5-phosphate and Hcy serum levels were obtained at baseline and after 12 weeks of treatment.
Age was significantly positively correlated with Hcy levels at baseline (r = 0.392, P = 0.004). All other parameters, including diagnosis, disease duration, and pyridoxal-5-phosphate serum level, were not correlated with Hcy serum levels at baseline. After vitamin B6 treatment, Hcy serum levels significantly decreased (14.2 +/- 3.4 vs. 11.8 +/- 2.0 micromol/L, respectively, t = 2.679, P = 0.023); this decrease being statistically significant in men but not in women.
High doses of vitamin B6 lead to a decrease in Hcy serum level in male patients with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.
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2019-04-22T13:18:08Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17272965
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When you include the University of St. Thomas in your estate plans, you're making a lasting investment in the future.
We believe that the best gifts are those that you can reflect upon years later and feel confident and proud that you’ve made the right decision. Our Office of Planned Giving strives to find wise and creative options that go beyond traditionally giving cash. We will partner with you and your trusted advisors to find solutions that both meet your financial goals and maximize the impact you wish to have at St. Thomas.
The University of St. Thomas tax ID is 41-0693970. For your convenience, we have suggested wording for remembering St. Thomas in your will or on a beneficiary designation form.
In the 1880s, William Finn and his wife, Elizabeth, gave 160 acres of land to Archbishop John Ireland for a college. Since then, St. Thomas has been blessed with bequests and other planned gifts from more than 600 benefactors following in the Finns' footsteps.
Naming St. Thomas in your will or as a beneficiary of an account are popular ways to make a planned gift. Donors also choose options that can provide tax benefits, as well as income for life.
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2019-04-24T06:34:31Z
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https://give.stthomas.edu/about/planned-giving/index.html
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animecrave
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Watch Noragami Episode 10 in web Standard video quality. This is recommended for slower connections.
Watch Noragami Episode 10 in DVD video quality. This is recommended for broadband users.
Select your choice of Quality for watching Noragami Episode 10. We have created a system to best suit your connection. That way you can watch anime from anywhere no matter what your connection speed is!
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2019-04-25T00:05:15Z
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https://www.animecrave.com/?page=multimedia/anime_fansubs/noragami/episode_10
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Search review & compare local Burke bass teachers. Start lessons today!
If you have been aching to learn the bass guitar and live in and around Burke, look no further than the Lessonrating.com network of highly-rated bass instructors teaching in the greater Burke area. No matter what part of Burke you're in, there's likely to be several bass teachers available nearby.
Choosing the right bass guitar instructor in Burke is an easy process when browsing the instructor profiles available through Lessonrating.com. There you will find the details concerning a bass teacher's approach, playing experience, studio hours, and most important of all, ratings submitted by other students. This grants you quick comparisons between two or more possible bass instructors, adding confidence to your final decision.
Don't wait any longer to sign-up with Lessonrating.com and begin looking through the list of highly-rated Burke-based bass instructors who suit your criteria. It's the best, simple, and hassle-free path to becoming an ace bass player.
Calling all Burke Bass Teachers!
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2019-04-22T04:03:57Z
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http://www.lessonrating.com/find/bass-lessons/in/burke/va/
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With Fredrikson & Byron's partnership, The Advocates for Human Rights' Fall Speaker Series launches October 10, on World Day Against the Death Penalty, and features Jennifer Prestholdt and Amy Bergquist. This year, World Day is raising awareness around the application of the death penalty for terrorism related offenses in order to reduce its use.
"The Death Penalty and Terrorism"
1 CLE credit applied for.
Running against the abolitionist worldwide movement, some governments have in recent years resorted to use of the death penalty following terrorist attacks on their countries, in the name of protecting their countries and peoples. In the last 10 years, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Tunisia, and others have adopted laws that expanded the scope of the death penalty, adding certain terrorist acts to the list of crimes punishable by death. More recently, Pakistan and Chad resumed executions in the name of the fight against terrorism, putting an end to moratoriums that had lasted for years.
Other speaker series events, running into December, will be announced. Each session will be worth one CLE credit (to be applied for) and will be held noon-1 p.m. at Fredrikson & Byron.
countries and territories retain the death penalty for terrorism.
and 1 country is abolitionist in law for ordinary crimes.
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2019-04-20T16:14:31Z
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https://globalnotes.hhh.umn.edu/2016/09/oct-10-world-day-against-death-penalty.html
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"Within You Without You" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Written by lead guitarist George Harrison, it was Harrison's second composition in the Indian classical style, after "Love You To", and was inspired by his stay in India in late 1966 with his mentor and sitar teacher, Ravi Shankar. Recorded in London without the other Beatles, the song features Indian instrumentation such as sitar, dilruba and tabla, and was performed by Harrison and members of the Asian Music Circle. The recording marked a significant departure from the Beatles' previous work; musically, it evokes the Indian devotional tradition, while the overtly spiritual quality of the lyrics reflects Harrison's absorption in Hindu philosophy and the teachings of the Vedas.
The song was Harrison's only composition on Sgt. Pepper, although his endorsement of Indian culture was further reflected in the inclusion of yogis such as Paramahansa Yogananda among the crowd depicted on the album cover. With the worldwide success of the album, "Within You Without You" presented Indian classical music to a new audience in the West and contributed to the genre's peak in international popularity. It also influenced the philosophical direction of many of Harrison's peers during an era of utopian idealism marked by the Summer of Love. The song has traditionally received a varied response from music critics, some of whom find it lacklustre and pretentious, while others admire its musical authenticity and consider the message to be the most meaningful on Sgt. Pepper. Writing for Rolling Stone, David Fricke described the track as being "at once beautiful and severe, a magnetic sermon about materialism and communal responsibility in the middle of a record devoted to gentle Technicolor anarchy".
For the Beatles' 2006 remix album Love, the song was mixed with the John Lennon-written "Tomorrow Never Knows", creating what some reviewers consider to be that project's most successful mashup. Sonic Youth, Rainer Ptacek, Oasis, Patti Smith, Cheap Trick and the Flaming Lips are among the artists who have covered "Within You Without You".
George Harrison began writing "Within You Without You" in early 1967 while at the house of musician and artist Klaus Voormann, in the north London suburb of Hampstead. Harrison's immediate inspiration for the song came from a conversation they had shared over dinner, regarding the metaphysical space that prevents individuals from recognising the natural forces uniting the world. Following this discussion, Harrison worked out the song's melody on a harmonium and came up with the opening line: "We were talking about the space between us all".
Dal Lake in Kashmir – part of the "pure essence of India" that Harrison said he experienced in 1966 and inspired the song.
The song was Harrison's second composition to be explicitly influenced by Indian classical music, after "Love You To", which featured Indian instruments such as sitar, tabla and tambura. Since recording the latter track for the Beatles' Revolver album in April 1966, Harrison had continued to look outside of his role as the band's lead guitarist, further immersing himself in studying the sitar, partly under the tutelage of master sitarist Ravi Shankar. Harrison said that the tune for "Within You Without You" came about through his regularly performing musical exercises known as sargam, which use the same scales as those found in Indian ragas.
"Within You Without You" is the first of many songs in which Harrison espouses Hindu spiritual concepts in his lyrics. Having incorporated elements of Eastern philosophy in "Love You To", Harrison became fascinated by ancient Hindu teachings after he and his wife, Pattie Boyd, visited Shankar in India over September–October 1966. Intent on mastering the sitar, Harrison first joined other students of Shankar's in Bombay, until local fans and the press learned of his arrival.[nb 1] Harrison, Boyd, Shankar and the latter's partner, Kamala Chakravarty, then relocated to a houseboat on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Kashmir. There, Harrison received personal tuition from Shankar while absorbing religious texts such as Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi and Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga.[nb 2] This period coincided with his introduction to meditation and, during their visit to Vrindavan, he witnessed communal chanting for the first time.
Harrison and Boyd returned to England on 22 October, and continued to adhere to a Hindu-aligned lifestyle of yoga, meditation and vegetarianism at their home in Esher.[nb 3] The education Harrison received in India, particularly regarding the illusory nature of the material world, resonated following his experiences with the hallucinogenic drug LSD (commonly known as "acid") and informed his lyrics to "Within You Without You". Having considered leaving the Beatles after the completion of their third US tour, on 29 August 1966, he instead gained a philosophical perspective on the effects of the band's international fame.[nb 4] He later attributed "Within You Without You" to his having "fallen under the spell of the country" after experiencing the "pure essence of India" through Shankar's guidance.
"Within You Without You" was a song that I wrote based upon a piece of music of Ravi [Shankar]'s that he'd recorded for All-India Radio. It was a very long piece – maybe thirty or forty minutes ... I wrote a mini version of it, using sounds similar to those I'd discovered on his piece.
The song follows the pitches of Khamaj thaat, the Indian equivalent of Mixolydian mode. Written and performed in the tonic key of C (but subsequently sped up to C♯ on the official recording), it features what musicologist Dominic Pedler terms an "exotic" melody over a constant C-G "root-fifth" drone, which is neither obviously major nor minor in scale. Based on a musical piece that Shankar had written for All India Radio, the structure of the composition adheres to the Hindustani musical tradition and demonstrates Harrison's advances in the Indian classical genre since "Love You To".
Following a brief alap, which serves to introduce the song's main musical themes, "Within You Without You" comprises three distinct sections: two verses and a chorus; an extended instrumental passage; and a final verse and chorus. The alap consists of tambura drone, over which the main melody is outlined on dilruba, a bow-played string instrument that Boyd began learning in India. Throughout the vocal section of the song – the gat, in traditional Indian composition – the rhythm is a 16-beat tintal in madhya laya (medium tempo). The vocal line is supported throughout by dilruba, in the manner of a sarangi echoing the melody in a khyal piece. The first three words of each verse ("We were talking") have a tritone interval (E to B♭), which, in Pedler's view, enhances the spiritual dissonance that Harrison expresses in his lyrics.
4 time, first between the dilruba and sitar, then between a Western string section and sitar. The interplay between these lead instruments adheres to the call-and-response tradition of Indian classical music, known as jawab-sawal. The passage resolves in melodic unison as the instruments together state a rhythmic cadence, or tihai, to close the middle segment. After this, the drone is again prominent as the rhythm returns to 16-beat tintal for the final verse and chorus. On the finished recording, the tonal and spiritual tension is relieved by the inclusion of muted canned laughter.
In his book Indian Music and the West, Gerry Farrell writes of "Within You Without You": "The overall effect is of several disparate strands of Indian music being woven together to create a new form. It is a quintessential fusion of pop and Indian music." Peter Lavezzoli, author of The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, describes the song as "a survey of Indian classical and semiclassical styles" in which "the diverse elements ... are skillfully woven together into an interesting hybrid. If anything, the closest comparison that might be made is to the Hindu devotional song form known as bhajan."
Harrison (pictured in the Hindu holy city of Vrindavan in 1996) drew from Vedanta philosophy for the first time in his lyrics to "Within You Without You".
According to Religion News Service writer Steve Rabey, "Within You Without You" "contrast[s] Western individualism with Eastern monism". The lyrics convey basic tenets of Vedanta philosophy, particularly in Harrison's reference to the concept of maya (the illusory nature of existence), in the lines "And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion / Never glimpse the truth". Author Joshua Greene paraphrases the song-wide message as: "A wall of illusion separates us from each other ... which only turns our love for one another cold. Peace will come when we learn to see past the illusion of differences and come to know that we are one ..." The solution espoused by Harrison is for individuals to see beyond the self and each seek change within, further to Vivekananda's contention in Raja Yoga that "Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest that divinity ..." According to ethnomusicologist David Reck, aside from the reference to maya, the lyrics convey Indian philosophical concepts such as advait (the one essential reality), satya (perception of truth) and, in the line "With our love we could save the world", universal love.
At times in the song, Harrison distances himself from those who live in ignorance of these apparent truths – saying, "If they only knew" and asking the listener, "Are you one of them?" In the final verse, he quotes from the gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, lamenting those who "gain the world and lose their soul". Author Ian MacDonald defends the "accusatory finger" behind such statements, saying that, within the ideology of the emerging 1960s counterculture, "this is a token of what was then felt to be a revolution in progress: an inner revolution against materialism".
The transcendental theme of Harrison's lyrics aligned with the philosophy behind the 1967 Summer of Love – namely, the search for universality and an ego-less existence. Author Ian Inglis considers the line "With our love we could save the world" to be a "cogent reflection" of the Summer of Love ethos, anticipating the utopian message of Harrison's composition "It's All Too Much" and the John Lennon-written "All You Need Is Love". He adds, with reference to the chorus: "The lyrics are given greater depth by the double meaning of without – 'in the absence of' and 'outside' – each of which is perfectly applicable to the song's sentiments."
Harrison recorded "Within You Without You" for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album based around Paul McCartney's vision of a fictitious band that would serve as the Beatles' alter egos, after their decision to quit touring. Harrison had little interest in McCartney's concept; he later admitted that, following his return from India, "my heart was still out there", and working with the Beatles again "felt like going backwards". Harrison presented the song after it was decided to exclude his composition "Only a Northern Song", which the Beatles recorded in February 1967. In contrast to his prominence as a songwriter on Revolver, "Within You Without You" was Harrison's sole composition on Sgt. Pepper.
George has done a great Indian one. We came along one night and he had about 400 Indian fellas playing there ... it was a great swinging evening, as they say.
The recording features musical contributions from only Harrison, Beatles aide Neil Aspinall, and a group of London-based Indian musicians. As with his Indian accompanists on "Love You To", Harrison sourced these contributors through the Asian Music Circle in north London. Harrison missed a Beatles recording session to attend one of Shankar's London concerts, an absence that served as part of his preparation for recording "Within You Without You".
The session was also attended by Lennon, artist Peter Blake, and John Barham, an English classical pianist and student of Shankar who shared Harrison's desire to promote Indian music to Western audiences. In Barham's recollection, Harrison "had the entire structure of the song mapped out in his head" and sang the melody that he wanted the dilruba player to follow. The twin hand-drums of the tabla were close-miked by recording engineer Geoff Emerick, in order to capture what he later described as "the texture and the lovely low resonances" of the instrument.
The bow-played dilruba features prominently throughout the song.
The first of two overdubbing sessions for "Within You Without You" took place at Abbey Road on 22 March. Two more dilruba parts were added that day, after which a reduction mix was carried out, to allow for further overdubs onto the four-track recording.
Producer George Martin then arranged the string orchestration, for eight violins and three cellos, based on Harrison's instructions. The pair worked hard together on the arrangement, ensuring that Martin's score imitated the slides and bends of the dilrubas.[nb 8] The orchestral parts, performed by members of the London Symphony Orchestra, were added on 3 April. During the same session, Harrison recorded his vocal and a sitar part, the solo of which, in the description of music critic David Fricke, "sings and swings with the clarity and phrasing of his best rockabilly-fired guitar work".[nb 9] Harrison also overdubbed occasional interjections on acoustic guitar.
On 4 April, while preparing the final mixes of the song, in stereo and mono, Harrison added crowd laughter taken from a sound effects tape in the Abbey Road library. Martin and Emerick were both opposed to this addition but deferred to Harrison, who later said that the laughter provided "some light relief", adding: "You were supposed to hear the audience anyway, as they listen to Sergeant Pepper's Show." The completed recording was enhanced in the mixes through the liberal application of automatic double tracking. Before Harrison recorded his vocals the previous day, the track had been edited and then sped up so that its length was reduced from 6:25 to 5:05. In the process, the song's key was raised a semitone, to C♯.
Harrison's Māyan discourse [in "Within You Without You"] establishes the firmament for the Beatles' utopian sentiments that ultimately propel the Summer of Love into being: "With our love we could save the world," Harrison sings.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released on 26 May 1967, with "Within You Without You" sequenced as the opening track on side two of the LP. Greene notes that for many listeners at the time, the song provided their "first meaningful contact with meditative sound". In his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner likened "Within You Without You" to Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha – an influential novel among the counterculture during the Summer of Love – in terms of the song's evocation of Hesse's "idealization of individuality" and "vision of a mysterious East". Eager to separate the song's message from the LSD experience at a time when the drug had grown in popularity and influence, Harrison told an interviewer: "It's nothing to do with pills ... It's just in your own head, the realisation."
Although Harrison later spoke dismissively of the Sgt. Pepper project and its legacy,[nb 10] he conceded that he had enjoyed working on the record's iconic cover. For this, he asked Blake to include pictures of four Indian yogis – Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya and Sri Yukteswar – among the crowd surrounding the Beatles; as a further Indian detail, a four-armed idol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi was placed in the garlands of flowers at the bottom of the image. Among the song's lyrics, printed on the back cover, the positioning of the words "Without You" beside McCartney's head served as a clue in the Paul Is Dead rumour, which grew in the United States partly as a result of the Beatles' failure to perform live after 1966.
In 1971 the song was issued as the title track of an EP release in Mexico. Part of a series of Beatles releases sequenced by Lennon, the EP also included the Harrison-written tracks "Love You To", "The Inner Light" and "I Want to Tell You". In 1978 "Within You Without You" appeared as the B-side to the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"/"With a Little Help from My Friends" medley, on singles released in West Germany and some other European countries. An instrumental version of the track, at the original speed and in the key of C, appeared on the Beatles' 1996 outtakes compilation Anthology 2.
Recalling the song's release in his book The Beatles Diary, Barry Miles writes: "Some thought it a masterpiece, some a prime example of mock-philosophical babble. Either way, it was pure Harrison." David Griffiths of Record Mirror praised the album's musical and lyrical scope, which included "life-enhancing philosophy", and added: "George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is a beautifully successful and adventurous statement in song of a Yoga truth." The Times of India's music critic similarly admired the Beatles for "explor[ing] farther reaches in the musical firmament" and described Harrison's composition as a "memorable" track. In one of the few unfavourable reviews for Sgt. Pepper, Richard Goldstein, writing in The New York Times, said the song was "remarkable" musically and a highlight of the album, yet he considered the lyrics "dismal" and full of "the very clichés the Beatles helped bury".[nb 11] Allen Evans of the NME found the "deep, rich rhythm" of the tabla "most appealing", although he bemoaned that it was difficult to decipher the lyrics "because they merge with the sitar music so closely".
According to the Beatles' official biographer, Hunter Davies, writing in 1968, some contemporary reviewers speculated that the burst of laughter at the end of "Within You Without You" was inserted by Harrison's bandmates to mock the song. Davies corrected this misconception, saying: "It was completely George's idea."[nb 12] In a review published five months after the release of Sgt. Pepper, Hit Parader considered that the album had not endured as well as the Beatles' previous works, and opined: "Harrison has produced a soothing, sinuous, exotic sound for 'Within You Without You'. But even though his repetitious recitation of elementary Far Eastern philosophy is probably intended to reflect the infinity of the universe, it soon becomes a bit monotonous. The laughter at the end seems to be deflating the pretentiousness of the lyrics."
The song has continued to invite widely diverse opinions. Among the most unfavourable assessments, author and critic Tim Riley, writing in 1988, dismissed "Within You Without You" as "directionless", adding that it was difficult to conceive how "lines such as 'Life flows on within you and without you' were taken seriously". He also said that the song was "the most dated piece on the record ... [and] could easily have been left off with little to no effect" on the album. In a 2009 review, Alex Young of Consequence of Sound grouped it with the "major clunkers" on Sgt. Pepper. Conversely, Ian Inglis considers the song to be "absolutely central to the form and content" of its parent album, and Ian MacDonald views it as the "conscience" of Sgt. Pepper and "the necessary sermon that comes with the community singing".[nb 13] Musicologist Russell Reising writes that Harrison's song provides the exception on Sgt. Pepper, where the Beatles otherwise "retreated lyrically into predominantly banal, occasionally schmaltzy, and often trivial vignettes". Author and critic Kenneth Womack terms it "quite arguably, the album's ethical soul".
Writing for Rough Guides, Chris Ingham admires the track as "beautifully put together"; he describes it as both "some of the most exotic music released under The Beatles' name" and a "philosophical meditation on life and love beyond self ... [that], once surrendered to, is a central part of the Pepper experience". In his book on the history of ambient music, Mark Prendergast includes "Within You Without You" among the album's "three outstanding cuts" and deems it to be "the most timeless piece of dronal psychedelia ever recorded". AllMusic critic Richie Unterberger admires the melody, but he considers the track overlong and notes the potential for offence in this, "the first Beatles song where [Harrison's] Indian religious beliefs affected the lyrics with full force".
Sgt. Pepper is about Britain, and the Summer of Love was always about America. The only song on the album that approaches the ideology and rhetoric of the hippie counterculture was George Harrison's sole contribution, the lush sitar-washed "Within You Without You", and it follows that Harrison was the only Beatle to have visited Haight-Ashbury at the peak of the scene. Even then, Eastern philosophy informed the lyric more deeply than did acid culture, and it's still a dense and stunning composition no matter its ideology.
Writing for Rolling Stone in 2002, David Fricke included "Within You Without You" on his list of the "25 Essential Harrison Performances". He described it as, variously, the Beatles' "purest excursion ... into raga", and "at once beautiful and severe, a magnetic sermon about materialism and communal responsibility in the middle of a record devoted to gentle Technicolor anarchy". In his review of the 50th anniversary edition of Sgt. Pepper for the same publication, Mikal Gilmore said that only "Within You Without You" and Lennon's "A Day in the Life" transcend the album's legacy as "a gestalt: a whole that was greater than the sum of its parts". In 2018, "Within You Without You" was ranked at number 50 on a list of the best Beatles songs, as compiled by the music staff of Time Out London.
Sgt. Pepper's "Within You, Without You" exemplified the transformation – a transfusion of Indian melody and instrumentation that captured the zeitgeist of millions of freaky young 'uns sitting around discussing consciousness. Needless to say, sitar sales skyrocketed, as did the demand for gurus.
According to New Yorker journalist Mark Hertsgaard, the lyrics to "Within You Without You" "contained the album's most overt expression of the Beatles' shared belief in spiritual awareness and social change". Harrison's espousal of Eastern philosophy dominated the group's extracurricular activities by mid 1967, and his influence within the band continued to increase. This led to the Beatles' endorsement of Transcendental Meditation and their highly publicised attendance at Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's spiritual retreat in Rishikesh, India, early the following year.
Aided by the Beatles' song, the sitar, and Indian classical music generally, reached its peak in popularity in the West in 1967.
Music critic Ken Hunt describes the song as an "early landmark" in Harrison's championing of Shankar, and Indian classical music generally, which gained "real global attention" for the first time through the Beatle's commitment.[nb 17] Peter Lavezzoli also highlights the effect of Sgt. Pepper and its "spiritual centerpiece ['Within You Without You']" on Shankar's popularity, during a year that served as "the annus mirabilis" for Indian music and "a watershed moment in the West when the search for higher consciousness and an alternative world view had reached critical mass". In his Harrison obituary for Salon.com, in December 2001, Ira Robbins considered "Within You Without You" to be "the song that most clearly articulated his devotion, both artistic and philosophical, to India", with a lyric that "pairs worldview and personality in lines that now seem prophetic".
Writing in 2013, ethnomusicologist Jeffrey Cupchik said that Harrison's Indian-influenced songs, particularly "Within You Without You", "marked the inception of a new 'hybridic' East–West style of music composition – a style that is immensely widespread today". Musicologist Walter Everett lists Spirit's "Mechanical World" and the Incredible String Band's "Maya", both released in 1968, and much of the Moody Blues' 1969 album To Our Children's Children's Children as works that were directly influenced by the song. Dead Can Dance's 1996 album Spiritchaser includes the track "Indus", the melody of which was found to be very similar to that of "Within You Without You". The duo's singer, Lisa Gerrard, told The Boston Globe that they had obtained Harrison's blessing but "the [record company] pushed it", with the result that they were forced to give the former Beatle a partial songwriting credit. In their 1978 television film satirising the Beatles' history, All You Need Is Cash, the Rutles parodied "Within You Without You" on the track "Nevertheless", performed by Rikki Fataar in the role of Stig O' Hara.[nb 18] Harrison himself included musical quotations from "Within You Without You" in his 1987 song "When We Was Fab" and in the instrumental "Marwa Blues", released in 2002 on his final studio album, Brainwashed.
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) staged an event titled "George Harrison 'Within You Without You': The Story of The Beatles and Indian Music" at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. While carrying out research for this project, academics from the University of Liverpool and the University of Sheffield discovered the identity of the Indian musicians on the 1967 recording. The two surviving players, Buddhadev Kansara and Natwar Soni, were among the performers at the RLPO event.
"Within You Without You" was included on the 2006 remix album Love, which was created for the Cirque du Soleil stage show of the same name. Harrison's vocal appears over the rhythm section from "Tomorrow Never Knows", after the track opens with Lennon's lyric from the latter song. Reviewing the album for PopMatters, Zeth Lundy writes: "The 'Within You Without You'/'Tomorrow Never Knows' mash-up, perhaps the most thrilling and effective track on the entire disc, fuses two especially transcendental songs into one: ... a union of two ambiguous, open-ended declarations of spiritual pursuit."[nb 19] Paul Moody of Uncut similarly considers it to be the "best of all" the mashups on Love, with the two tracks' "cosmic drones ... fitted together like a glove". In their chapter on the Beatles' psychedelic period in The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, authors Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc describe "Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows" as "the most musically and visually stunning segment" of the Cirque du Soleil show.
Remixed and remastered by George Martin and his son Giles, "Within You Without You"/"Tomorrow Never Knows" was the first track prepared for Love. Speaking to Mojo magazine in December 2006, Giles Martin said that he had first created a demo combining the two songs, which he then nervously presented to McCartney and Ringo Starr for their approval. In Martin's recollection, "they loved it", which allowed the project to proceed. A video clip of the completed track was made to promote the album and was included on the 2015 DVD 1+. The Love remix is one of the songs in The Beatles: Rock Band.
Big Jim Sullivan, a British session guitarist who became proficient on the sitar, included "Within You Without You" on his album of Indian music-style recordings, titled Sitar Beat and first released in 1967. In the same year, the Soulful Strings recorded the song for their album Groovin' with the Soulful Strings, a version that also appeared on the B-side of their most successful single, "Burning Spear".
A 1988 cover version by Sonic Youth (pictured performing in 2005) transformed "Within You Without You" into a rock song, complete with guitar feedback.
In 1988, Sonic Youth recorded "Within You Without You" for the NME's multi-artist tribute Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father. Fricke highlights this recording as an example of how, regardless of its Indian origins, the composition can be interpreted on electric guitar effectively and "with transportive force". In 2007, the staff of the New York pop culture website Vulture placed Sonic Youth's version at number 2 in their list titled "Our Ten Favorite Beatles Covers of All Time".
Big Daddy covered the song on their 1992 Sgt. Pepper tribute album, a release that Moore recognises as "the most audacious" of the many interpretations of the Beatles' 1967 LP. Moore says that "Within You Without You" serves as the album's "cleverest pastiche", performed in a free jazz style reminiscent of Ornette Coleman or Don Cherry. Other acts who have covered the song for Sgt. Pepper tributes include Oasis, on a BBC Radio 2 project celebrating the album's 40th anniversary (2007); Easy Star All-Stars (featuring Matisyahu), on Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band (2009); Cheap Trick, on their Sgt. Pepper Live DVD (2009); and the Flaming Lips, with featured guests Birdflower and Morgan Delt, on With a Little Help from My Fwends (2014). A recording by Big Head Todd and the Monsters appeared on the 2003 Harrison tribute Songs from the Material World.
Guitarist Rainer Ptacek opened his 1994 album Nocturnes with what AllMusic critic Bob Gottlieb describes as a "stunning instrumental" reading of the song, recorded live in a chapel in Tucson, Arizona. Writing for the same website, Brian Downing considers a 1997 version by Ptacek, released on his posthumous album Live at the Performance Center, to be "perhaps one of the best unheralded Beatles covers of all time". Patti Smith included it on her 2007 covers album Twelve, a version that, according to BBC music critic Chris Jones, "sounds like [the song] could have been written for her". Other artists who have recorded "Within You Without You" include Peter Knight and his Orchestra, Firefall, Glenn Mercer of the Feelies, Angels of Venice and Thievery Corporation.
^ In an attempt to disguise his identity, at Shankar's suggestion, Harrison had grown a moustache – a change of image that the other Beatles would follow by the end of 1966.
^ Shankar entrusted much of Harrison's tuition in Bombay to his protégé Shambhu Das, who also accompanied the party to Dal Lake.
^ On 26 October that year, at Heathrow Airport, the British press reported on the incongruous sight of Harrison, in traditional Indian clothes, greeting the newly arrived Shankar, who was dressed in a Western suit.
^ Referring to Harrison's maturation, music journalist Neil Spencer wrote in 2002: "It wasn't just India, its music, and his new-found enthusiasm for religion and philosophy. Now he knew how it felt not to be a Beatle. None of the others had that."
^ Lavezzoli similarly considers the 5/4-time instrumental segment to be "by far the most radical departure from the normal stylistic parameters of a Beatles recording".
^ The identity of the Indian players remained unknown for several decades. Research undertaken by the University of Liverpool's Department of Music has since identified four of the musicians as Anna Joshi, Amrit Gajjar (both dilruba), Buddhadev Kansara (tambura) and Natwar Soni (tabla).
^ While his contribution as a songwriter was minimal, Harrison added Indian musical styling to several other songs during the sessions for Sgt. Pepper. These include playing swarmandal on "Strawberry Fields Forever" and sitar and tambura on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which also features a lead guitar part where he imitates a sarangi behind Lennon's vocal line.
^ In the opinion of music journalist Mark Prendergast, the Western strings suggest a Carnatic (or South Indian) quality, contrasting with the song's adherence to the Hindustani (North Indian) musical tradition.
^ While discussing "Within You Without You" in a 1979 interview, Harrison reflected that the song "sounds a bit dopey now in retrospect" but expressed satisfaction with his sitar solo.
^ Speaking in the 1980s about the album's impact, Harrison described it as "a milestone and a millstone in music history".
^ According to Robert Christgau, in his December 1967 column for Esquire magazine, Goldstein was vilified for his views on Sgt. Pepper. Among the many letters sent to The New York Times, one of the most frequent complaints concerned Goldstein's dismissal of the lyrics to "Within You Without You".
^ MacDonald cites Harrison's use of laughter as a key example of the Beatles' propensity for an "undertone of irony ... even in their moments of ostensible decorum". He suggests that this especially Liverpudlian trait was often misunderstood by the band's listeners outside England, particularly those in America.
^ While comparing the song with "All You Need Is Love" – a "transcendental statement" from the Summer of Love that would similarly be misinterpreted in "the materialistic Eighties" – MacDonald opines: "Described by those with no grasp of the ethos of 1967 as a blot on a classic LP, 'Within You Without You' is central to the outlook that shaped Sgt. Pepper – a view justifiable then, as it is justifiable now."
^ In the same letter, Mascaró enclosed a copy of his book Lamps of Fire and suggested that a passage he had translated from the Tao Te Ching might make a suitable subject for a song. Harrison duly used this passage in the lyrics to "The Inner Light", his third fully Indian-styled Beatles track.
^ In a 1973 interview, Lennon said it was his favourite song of Harrison's. Similarly impressed, Ringo Starr said in 2000: "'Within You Without You' is brilliant. I love it."
^ American musician Gary Wright recalls listening to "Within You Without You" repeatedly in the summer of 1967 while touring Europe for the first time, and he says: "I was transported to another place of consciousness. I'd never heard such sound textures before."
^ In his autobiography, Raga Mala, Shankar cites the media's discovery that he was teaching Harrison sitar in Bombay as the cause for his elevated status to that of a "superstar", leading to his high-profile appearances at US rock music festivals such as Monterey (in June 1967) and Woodstock (August 1969).
^ Made with input from Harrison, the film also satirised his spiritual preoccupations as, following the Rutles' break-up, Stig withdraws from the limelight to become a female flight attendant with Air India.
^ The tabla part from "Within You Without You" was used again on Love, mixed into the start of "Here Comes the Sun". The track then segues into a transition piece featuring Indian instrumentation from "The Inner Light".
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^ Robbins, Ira (3 December 2001). "George Harrison: And Life Flows On". Salon. Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).
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Brend, Mark (2005). Strange Sounds: Offbeat Instruments and Sonic Experiments in Pop. San Francisco, CA: Backbeat Books. ISBN 9-780879-308551.
Davies, Hunter (2009) . The Beatles (rev. edn). New York, NY: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-33874-4.
Emerick, Geoff; Massey, Howard (2006). Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. New York, NY: Gotham Books. ISBN 978-1-59240-269-4.
Farrell, Gerry (1997). Indian Music and the West. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-816717-4.
Greene, Joshua M. (2006). Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3.
Kruth, John (2015). This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul Fifty Years On. Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books. ISBN 978-1-61713-573-6.
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I recently had the pleasure to meet Vito Stagliano, currently Director of Research at the National Commission on Energy Policy, but previously Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Analysis at the Department of Energy. This meeting spurred me to buy and read his book, A Policy of Discontent: The Making of a National Energy Strategy.
Energy policy is not a subject that one might expect to be captivating, but I found the book fascinating. Partly this comes from working at a Department of Energy lab, and partly from my growing interest in how socio-economic modeling can yield insights into climate change responses. However, above all, as Vito comments, "energy policy is Shakespearean, with heros and villians, although often not clear which is which." An unlikely statement, perhaps, but true.
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The offshore company has zero visibility on 2016.
The deepening oil market downturn is having a significant impact on Oceaneering International's (NYSE:OII) financial results. The company experienced a big year-over-year decline in revenue and earnings after its deepwater customers cut back on activity. The company expects further deterioration in 2016, so much so that it's unable to give any forward guidance for 2016, other than it intends to maintain its quarterly dividend.
Oceaneering felt the sting from the slowdown in the offshore drilling market.
Revenue in all but one of the company's five segments declined. The biggest decline was in the Remotely Operated Vehicles segment, which experienced a 33% year-over-year revenue decline driven by lower demand for drill support services and a reduction in average revenue per day on hire.
The Advanced Technologies segment was the only one to turn in higher year-over-year revenue, which rose 6%. However, its operating income was negative for the quarter. Profitability in Oceaneering's Asset Integrity segment was also weak, with it basically running break-even after revenue slumped 25% year over year.
Despite this weakness, earnings were right in the middle of the company's guidance range of $0.54 to $0.58 per share. However, that's on an adjusted basis and removes the impact from inventory writedowns, restructuring expenses, allowance for bad debts, fixed asset write-offs, and other items. Without these adjustments, earnings would have only been $0.28 per share.
The severe deterioration in oil prices and the resulting slowdown in deepwater activity since last year affected our fourth quarter and full year results. We have undertaken a series of initiatives to align our operations with current and anticipated declining activity and pricing levels. Unfortunately, these restructuring steps required us to reduce our workforce, incur unusual expenses, and make certain accounting adjustments.
Operating conditions in the oil industry are pretty brutal. National Oilwell Varco (NYSE:NOV) CEO Clay Williams summed up the current malaise in his company's earnings release, noting that "tumbling oil prices brought capital austerity and sharply lower oilfield activity, which is intensifying as we enter 2016." That capital austerity is evident from the deep reductions in capital expenditures the oil companies are making, which is leading to weaker sales at service and equipment providers such as National Oilwell Varco and Oceaneering. That's forcing those industry suppliers and service companies to adapt by cutting costs to right-size their businesses to match weaker industry activity levels.
For 2016, we are expecting lower demand for our services and products, and continued pricing pressure and spending cuts from our customers. Consequently, we are projecting that all of our oilfield business segments will have lower operating income in 2016 than in 2015. With our limited market visibility on how weak 2016 may actually be, we are not prepared to quantify the magnitude or duration of the decline or give annual and quarterly EPS guidance ranges.
In other words, he's pretty sure that business conditions will be rough and that Oceaneering's profits will be down. He just doesn't have any idea how far those profits will fall.
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A fresh review is announced as a report blames the government and rail companies for this summer's timetable chaos.
The transport secretary has admitted that Britain's railways are "bursting at the seams" but said renationalisation is not the answer.
Chris Grayling has announced a "sweeping" review designed to transform the industry which he says is still operating on a structure created 25 years ago.
His announcement comes as an official report blames a lack of leadership in the rail industry for this year's timetable changes, which created disruption for tens of thousands of passengers.
"The whole situation was entirely unacceptable," Mr Grayling told Sky News. "We were clearly wrong to take on trust what the industry said to us, that it was going to be ready for the changes due in May.
"My conclusion is that we've got an industry today where decision-making is too fragmented, we need a more joined up industry, we need an industry that moves on from the model set up at the time of privatisation.
"I believe that the divide between running the track and running the trains no longer works on our railway."
He said that while some commuters may think renationalisation could deliver the answers, it is not a "simple panacea".
Mr Grayling's review was condemned by former chancellor George Osborne, now chairman of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, who told the minister to "stop trying to run everything from Whitehall".
He said: "The north of England doesn't need yet more government reviews about the railways.
"We know they're in a mess - this summer confirmed that - and we know what needs to be done to fix them."
Mr Grayling's review - to be led by former British Airways chief executive Keith Williams - was greeted by intense scepticism by commuters travelling during Manchester's rush hour.
One told Sky News: "We've had promise after promise for years and things have got worse and worse. The time for talking and reviews has long gone."
He said: "The success of the app shows just how many people like me have had enough. It provides a platform for people to complain because when I tried to raise my frustration with Northern Rail via Twitter they blocked me."
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2019-04-23T02:19:18Z
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https://news.sky.com/story/transport-secretary-chris-grayling-admits-railways-are-bursting-at-the-seams-11502803
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The 2016 EU Global Strategy notes that 'an appropriate level of ambition and strategic autonomy is important for Europe's ability to promote peace and security within and beyond its borders.' This begs the question, what does strategic autonomy imply?
The 2018 EUISS annual conference provided a space to consider multiple views on the concept, bringing together over 130 policymakers, think tankers and academics to debate and discuss the issue.
The opening remarks by HR/VP Mogherini can be viewed here, and the keynote speech by Helga Schmid, Secretary General, European External Action Service (EEAS), can be downloaded below.
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A new report from Dutch bank ING predicts tough times for the U.S. economy after the 2020 election but just how tough depends on who wins.
Equity markets in Asia faltered on Wednesday amid losses in South Korea and uncertainty over China's plans for further stimulus as the economy shows signs of regaining its footing. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.3 percent lower, erasing early gains in the wake of record closing highs on Wall Street overnight. In Asia, the biggest regional loser was South Korea's KOSPI, which fell 1 percent.
The weaker tone in Asian equities contrasts with the overnight move in the U.S., which was bolstered by the fact that almost 80 percent of S&P 500 companies have reported results that exceeded estimates.
Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Wednesday as the rally on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 logged an all-time record high close, ran out of steam. Japan's Nikkei 225 index lost 0.6% to 22,136.56 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong fell 0.9% to 29,707.64. The Shanghai Composite index declined 0.9% to 3,169.20 and the Kospi in South Korea gave up 1.3% to 2,191.89.
Shares in Asia slipped in afternoon trade, and Australia's ASX 200 touched more than 10-year highs on Wednesday. Meanwhile, oil prices touched nearly six month highs on Tuesday as they continued their ascent after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration announced on Monday that it will not extend sanctions waivers to countries that import Iranian oil. Stocks in Asia pared earlier gains as they declined in Wednesday afternoon trade despite the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite closing at record-high territory overnight on Wall Street.
The S&P 500 finished more than three points above its closing high at 2,394, and the Nasdaq composite closed almost 10 points above its previous high at 8,120. The closing represents a bounce back after heavy losses on Dec. 24.
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While many lost pups may end up at a rehabilitation center, rescuers in this case decided that the baby was healthy enough to try a reunion and began searching for its mother. To try to find her, they had to ask around by going around the bay and testing reactions to the pup’s cries from other adults in the hope they would get a response.
Finally, after searching roughly a mile of the bay, they did and the two were reunited.
He knew the pup would be just fine with a gentle toss. Sea otter pups physically can’t sink… even if you held one underwater it would just going BOING back to the surface… so he knew it would be ok in the water.
He needed to put distance between the boat and the mother-pup pair so the mom would come get the pup. She wasn’t going to get the pup if it was too close to, or on, the boat.
For southern sea otters, another happy and healthy baby doing well in the wild is especially good news. They were once abundant along the west coast, but were nearly eradicated for the fur trade by the early 1900s, and were also once believed to be extinct in California.
Today, they’re listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and California’s population of southern sea otters are protected as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Although it’s been a slow recovery for them, their numbers have been growing over the years and will hopefully continue to grow, not just because they’re adorable, but because they’re also a keystone species who are vital to keeping marine ecosystems healthy.
For more info on the work being done to help marine mammals, check out The Marine Mammal Center.
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A student may withdraw from the university during the first half of the semester. The Registrar's Office will determine comparable deadlines for courses less than a semester in length. After the deadline, a student may request permission to withdraw only for extraordinary non-academic reasons. Any such request must be completed by the last day of instruction in that semester. The request must include a written explanation and documentation if appropriate. Any such requests are to be submitted to the Advising Center for appropriate action. Students may not request a withdrawal from a completed semester. Please see Advising Center for current policy.
Dropping a class or withdrawal from the university may result in a financial obligation for tuition and fees and may necessitate repayment of financial aid.
In addition, Federal and State regulations for financial aid require a refund calculation to occur for financial aid recipients through the 60% point of the semester. Contact the Cashier's and Financial Aid Offices for information.
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https://www.uwp.edu/live/offices/cashiersoffice/withdrawalfees.cfm
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We did not find results for: Stallings Construction, LLC. Try the suggestions below or type a new query above.
Pay State Fees Only. In Business Since 1989. Over 117k Corporations Formed.
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https://finance.search.yahoo.com/search?p=Stallings%20Construction%2C%20LLC
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Overlooking the Helford Passage is a beautiful woodland project with established deciduous woodland and new plantings of over 5,000 trees. Amazing! The managers of the site invited me down to do a charcoal burn with lots of overgrown hazel they had cut the previous Winter. With a fantastic view over the river we loaded the portable kilns and began the burn.
Each burn is different with its own problems and challenges (I think thats why I love charcoal burning so much :-)) and this was no exception with a lid collapse near the end and the ignition of gasses. However, all was under control quickly and the kilns were damped down and starved of oxygen. Thank God for experience!
In the end we got a good 70kg of charcoal from the kilns which I’ll be selling in the Summer season.
Thanks to Hilary and all the crew at Malpas nr Truro.
Apart from charcoal burning and educational activities much of this Winter has been reclaiming neglected and overgrown coppice at Plan-It Earth Environmental Project.
Due to a land ownership dispute the ash coppice was allowed to be completely over-run with brambles and as you can see they had ‘scaffolded’ on the lower branches of the ash to grow over 12′ high!! Nightmare. The only way to deal with them without damaging the trees was to get in there with a billhook and clear it all tree by tree.
After a lot of hard work, a couple of pairs of gauntlets and a few scratches a lovely clean ash coppice is revealed.
THe spacings are slightly wider than I would have liked, but after some pruning the trees look remarkably healthy 8 years old and ready for their first cut.
However (and here is the dilemma), with Chalara Fraxinea (Ash Dieback) doing so much damage, particularly in newly coppiced stools, do I cut them? Or should I leave it a few years and see what happens?
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Following years of separation from her elderly mother, a mentally unstable woman confronts deep-seeded family hostilities after a radio psychic relays a message from her deceased father.
My love of writing began with Shakespeare. Growing up, I often attended the theater with my mother, watching her perform or lending a hand backstage. I saw many plays, but Shakespeare’s stood out above all others. I was in awe at how flawed, yet loveable, his characters were – even a character as cruel as Richard III has redeeming qualities – there’s something beautiful and true in that. I strive to write all my characters with a certain level of compassion, remembering that the complexities of human nature exist in even the most vile of personae.
Junk Dreams is a portrayal of complex family dynamics, including sibling rivalry and parent/child relationships, while exploring one’s ability to make decisions in the face of both increasing age and mental illness. The story unfolds through the main protagonist – Eva Bowen, a woman living on the edge of society, afraid to throw anything away, and caught in an endless loop of her yesterday’s hopes and dreams, and her present day mental deterioration. The character is inspired by the novels of Jean Rhys, whose female protagonists, despite being ostracized by society and family, fight to fit into a world that seeks to discard them. Similarly, Eva refuses to give up. She reaches out to her estranged daughter, and battles with her uncompromising brother for permission to see her elderly mother. In a larger sense, Eva represents the marginalized of society – the lost individuals by whom we pass by everyday yet dare not pay attention to.
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https://www.bluecatscreenplay.com/interviews/2017-pilot-finalist-maria-soscia/
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Watch YouTube Red's sci-fi thriller Impulse early by talking to Google Assistant.
Google Assistant wants to be your cool insider buddy when it comes to the new YouTube Originals show Impulse. Impulse will arrive on YouTube Red on June 6, but anybody with a Google Assistant device can get early access to the pilot episode if they know what to look for.
I tested the sequence by chatting with my Google Home Mini: "Google, talk to Impulse." It responded with a quick ad for the show's debut and then asked me for the password.
The Mini asked for permission to contact me through email and I quickly received a link to the unlisted first episode.
The series trailer appeared in March, set to an atmospheric version of Blondie's song Heart of Glass. It hints at Henry's challenges with school, small-town life and the discovery of unthinkable powers that may be out of her control.
Impulse comes from Executive Producer Doug Liman (Suits, The Bourne Identity). Liman directed the 2008 movie adaptation of Gould's Jumper.
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https://www.cnet.com/news/google-assistant-password-impulse-youtube-series/
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The Fifth Estate is an extremely strange movie. That’s fitting, perhaps, given the central focus of the film: Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Star Benedict Cumberbatch is his normal awesome presence, but the story itself should have been redacted.
Finding the right balance between fact and fiction is a tough trick for any “based on a true story” movie to pull off, but at least the subjects of, say, Lincoln (or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, if you prefer) aren’t actually around to comment on their portrayal. For movies about public figures who are still alive and well, criticism from their real-life subjects often comes with the territory.
Two upcoming biopics about controversial figures have recently come into view, and it appears that the people depicted in them aren’t so thrilled with Hollywood’s versions of events. In a series of emails, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called Joshua Michael Stern‘s jOBS “totally wrong,” though he expressed his hopes that the film would at least be “fun and entertaining.” Meanwhile, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had much harsher words for Bill Condon‘s The Fifth Estate, which he blasted as a “massive propaganda attack.” Read their comments after the jump.
Julian Assange has been hailed as a hero by some and decried as a villain by others, so it seems just about perfect that Bill Condon‘s WikiLeaks movie stars an actor who can play both. As principal photography on the film, now titled The Fifth Estate, gets underway, the first photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as the WikiLeaks founder and Daniel Brühl as his former right-hand man Daniel Domscheit-Berg has been revealed.
Meanwhile, the film has also rounded out its casting with Laura Linney, Anthony Mackie, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi (In the Loop), and Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones). Dan Stevens and Alicia Vikander have been attached since earlier this winter. In addition, DreamWorks has finally confirmed a fall 2013 release date, putting the film squarely in the middle of prestige-pic season. Check out the photo and get all the new details after the jump.
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https://www.slashfilm.com/tag/the-fifth-estate/
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The Kansas University School of Music is raising the curtain on another summer of dazzling piano playing as it hosts the International Institute for Young Musicians.
IIYM’s Summer Music Academy will open July 9 with the semifinals of its prestigious international piano competition, the first of many performances that will be free and open to the public.
The program features 75 students ranging in age from 9 to 19. Many will come from abroad and especially from China, where interest in classical music is booming, said IIYM’s founder, KU professor of piano pedagogy Scott McBride Smith.
“I hope everyone in Lawrence comes to hear them,” he said. KU has hosted the summer academy since 2004.
It will be the fourth and final year at IIYM for Rhodes, who will attend KU this fall to study music.
One of 15 semifinalists vying for $18,000 in prizes, Rhodes has been working on Lizst’s “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6,” “a very challenging piece,” he said, and “a lot of fun to play.” He puts in anywhere from 2 to 10 hours of practice each day.
“It isn’t so much the hours you do as the intensity of the practice,” he said.
The IIYM program received a big boost this year from Jack Gaumnitz, a retired KU finance professor, and his wife, Jan, a visual artist. After enjoying IIYM performances for years, they donated $50,000 to augment prizes over the next five years, bringing the top award to $8,000.
Smith said the increased prizes attract more talent, which in turn burnishes IIYM’s credentials as one of the most prestigious piano programs.
“It made a big difference, making it doable for the top level of international students to come,” he said.
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http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/jun/27/summer-academy-feature-student-musicians-abroad-ar/
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CHARLOTTE - Maurice Cheeks wasn't sure he could do the story justice. But he did. In the wake of Thursday's death of former NBA star guard Dennis Johnson, the 76ers coach was able to reach back for a treasured memory.
"He would tell this story a lot better than I could," the 76ers coach was saying before last night's 102-87 loss to the Charlotte Bobcats. "He was guarding Michael Jordan the night Jordan got 63 [for the Chicago Bulls].
"Jordan was on his way to getting 60, and Dennis had, like, four fouls. He wanted to foul him real quick; he just reached out and grabbed him. When you foul out, you [usually] look at the ref and say 'Oh, shoot.' Dennis just ran right to the bench. He knew Jordan was on his way to 60. He didn't want to be the one out there [when he did it]."
It was a pleasant memory amid major sadness. Johnson won two championships with the Boston Celtics and one with the Seattle SuperSonics. When Cheeks was coaching the Portland Trail Blazers, he hired Johnson as a scout.
Johnson, 52, collapsed and died after directing the Austin Toros, of the NBA Development League, in a practice.
The Sixers and their constituency always remembered Johnson as the big guard the Celtics acquired to try and deal with Andrew Toney, Cheeks' backcourt partner.
"He did the best he could, as well as anybody," Cheeks said, laughing.
More seriously, Cheeks said, "There was no better guy around [than Johnson]. He was one of the best guys; he did his work.
"A lot of the things the Celtics did stemmed around him. He was one of the better players on their team. "You're never going to get away with saying he was their best player, because of [Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish]."
Sometimes the best way to remember old friends and colleagues is with anecdotes. Sixers assistant coach Moses Malone, the center on the Sixers team that won the 1982-83 championship, recalled once going to Hawaii with Johnson and Parish.
"We went surfing," Malone said. "We went about a mile from the point where we started. I thought I'd never get back in."
Asked whether he had a video of the moment, Malone smiled and said: "I need a video."
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2019-04-21T03:03:04Z
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https://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/20070224_Cheeks_has_fond_memories_of_DJ.html
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This doesn’t necessarily mean you’re more likely to get shot walking down Andrews Avenue than, say, anywhere in Detroit. WalletHub’s 35 categories cover a definition for “safety” broader than the beach — freedom from the perils of crimes big (terrorist attack) and personal (thefts), crashabout drivers, natural disasters (such as hurricanes) and personal financial calamities (getting fired or defrauded).
For example, the bottom of Percentage of Households with Emergency Savings shamed South Florida as the worst region in the nation (Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Pembroke Pines and Hialeah tied for last) and the Tampa Bay area as the almost-worst (Tampa and St. Petersburg tied for next-to-last). Also pushing Fort Lauderdale toward the bottom was having the fifth most traffic deaths per capita.
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article187940169.html
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Harrison Ludington (July 30, 1812 – June 17, 1891) was an American Republican politician who served as the 12th Governor of Wisconsin and a mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Harrison Ludington descended from William Ludington, an early American colonist, who settled at Charlestown, Mass. in 1632, and died at the East Haven Iron Works, Connecticut, in 1662 or 1663. His grandfather was Colonel Henry Ludington (May 25, 1739 Branford, New Haven, CT – January 24, 1817 Patterson, Putnam. NY), a commanding officer of the volunteer 7th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia, during the American Revolutionary War. Henry Ludington later became an aide to General George Washington. Henry's daughter, Sybil Ludington (1761–1839), was famous for risking her life when she was 16 years old to warn the American militia that British troops were burning Danbury, Connecticut.
Ludington was born in Kent, Dutchess County, New York. Son of Frederick and Susannah (Griffeth) Ludington. Harrison received common (district) school education. He moved to Milwaukee in 1838. At the age of 24 he became a joint owner of a merchandising business with his uncle, Lewis Ludington. This general merchandising business was conducted out of Solomon Juneau's warehouse between years 1839–1851. In 1851 he became involved in lumber business, operating in the northeastern part of the state. He was a member of the firm of Ludington, Wells (Daniel Wells, Jr.) and Van Schaick (Anthony G. Van Schaick). Ludington became an active developer in Milwaukee, where he began his political career. He served two terms as a Milwaukee alderman, three terms as Milwaukee's mayor, a position that he resigned from to serve as Wisconsin's governor. He defeated his predecessor William R. Taylor, Democrat, in November, 1875. Ludington served as a governor of Wisconsin from 1876 to 1878.
He married twice, his first wife was Frances White, married on March 25, 1838 in Louisville, Kentucky. His second wife was a widow named Eve Mary Tobey; they married on June 7, 1875. He had six children.
In his capacity as governor, Harrison Ludington facilitated promotion of commercial activity. He also undid changes in the financial sector made by his predecessor. He stood against state regulation of railroads. Under his administration the infamous Potter law was repealed, which was supposed to drastically increase government intervention in the railroad business. He also replaced the railroad commission, made up of three members with powers of establishing rates for the railroads, by a single commissioner who lacked such authority. Ludington declined renomination for the position of governor in 1879 due to pressure from younger members of the Republican party.
Following his decision not to pursue renomination for governorship, Ludington resigned from public affairs and devoted himself to conducting business. German-American artist Conrad W. Heyd painted his portrait in this period of his life.
Ludington died on June 17, 1891 in Milwaukee and is interred in Forest Home Cemetery there.
^ White 1904, p. 78.
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^ "Historical People". Forest Home Cemetery. Retrieved May 16, 2014.
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Florida homeowners need to start taking action regarding an escalating problem that will lead to increases in their insurance premiums.
Florida homeowners need to start taking action regarding an escalating problem that will lead to increases in their insurance premiums in the near future. Abuses of the Assignments of Benefits (AOB) process have already led to substantial insurance rate increases in South and Central Florida and it is only a matter of time before those premium hikes spread statewide.
The most common AOB arrangement involves transferring your home insurance policy benefits to a home repair vendor after an emergency, such as a plumbing leak or roof problem. With the contractor and their attorney now in control, claims can be inflated with unnecessary or phantom costs and attorney fees. And make no mistake, these inflated costs are passed on to policyholders when insurance companies calculate their rates.
Large areas of the state, particularly the tri-county area of Southeast Florida, have already been hit with double-digit property insurance rate hikes with more increases on the horizon if something isn’t done. State-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has calculated what will happen if lawmakers do not fix the problem.
In Palm Beach, for example, coverage for a residential structure with a value of $155,000 would rise from $2,210 this year to $3,559 in 2022. In Broward, that premium would jump from $2,390 to $3,850, and in Miami-Dade the premium would increase from $2,926 to $4,712. Premiums for more expensive homes would go up even more.
For most Floridians, their home is their largest investment. Home ownership is still the key to the American dream and is vital to building strong communities. Floridians on fixed incomes are particularly vulnerable to increases in the ancillary costs of owning a home, such as property taxes, insurance and maintenance.
It is heartbreaking to see hard working families scrimp and save to be able to qualify for a mortgage only to learn that these overhead costs end up busting-the-budget.
These premium increases, mostly due to AOB scams, are already putting home ownership further out of reach for many families in South Florida and will start to impact families in other areas of the state without prompt legislative action.
The Assignment of Benefits process was envisioned as a tool to aid homeowners with disputed insurance claims. Unfortunately, it has been hijacked by unscrupulous contractors and attorneys who are enriching themselves at the expense of Florida families. That is why Florida Realtors® have joined the Consumer Protection Coalition to help put a stop to AOB abuse. Go to www.fightfraud.today to learn more and consider joining our effort.
Also, make sure to tell your state senator and representative to support meaningful AOB reforms that allow consumers to quickly and effectively repair damage to their home but also stop scammers from attempting to transform legitimate insurance claims into personal gain.
We all put in an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; they should do the same.
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2019-04-19T18:35:01Z
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https://www.news-press.com/story/opinion/2017/03/23/homeowners-face-insurance-hikes-because-benefits/99504172/
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2019-04-18T10:35:31Z
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https://librarycal.mtroyal.ca/reserve/audio
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For many football players, having the chance to play professionally is a dream come true. However, having the opportunity to play for your hometown team is something that many players don’t get the chance to experience.
For W.J. Mouat graduate Boseko Lokombo, that dream has become a reality.
Boseko, who played at the University of Oregon, a Division I NCAA school, was drafted in 2013 by the BC Lions in the 3rd round at 21st overall. Although he was drafted by the Lions, he wanted to wait another year to take a shot at the NFL and decided to finish up his degree.
One year after being drafted by the Lions, he entered the NFL combine and posted good numbers. However, he faced a major setback – he suffered a labral tear in his shoulder which required surgery and rehabilitation throughout the summer. Soon, his dream of playing in the NFL became more uncertain than ever before.
Boseko, who signed with the Lions last September, is now finding himself at his very first BC Lions Training Camp and finding confidence within himself, his teammates, and the Lions’ new head coach, Jeff Tedford.
As for his thoughts on joining his hometown team, Boseko is definitely excited to be a part of the Lions.
For those who want to see him in action, you can catch him at the BC Lions pre-season game on Friday, June 19 at 7:00pm at Thunderbird Stadium at UBC.
It’s never easy when you’re competing at the professional level for a spot on a CFL team, especially at a BC Lions training camp.
However, for Casey Chin, a second year BC Lions linebacker and a previous 2010 Team BC member that won bronze at the Football Canada Cup, the learning curve isn’t as steep as it used to be.
“Just coming into this season, I’m a lot more confident,” says Casey.
Casey, a product of New Westminster Secondary School and Simon Fraser University, was drafted last year to the Lions as the 3rd round pick at 27th overall. Last year, Casey saw action on two to three different special teams plays and is looking forward to seeing more action on the field.
This past year, Casey has also been active on the Football BC circuit as a guest coach at several camps, where he has worked with athletes who have dreams of playing at the college and professional level.
Casey’s first game of the 2015 season will happen tonight at 6:30pm PT as the BC Lions take on the Calgary Stampeders. Best of luck this season, Casey!
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2019-04-22T07:57:20Z
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https://hellochiko.wordpress.com/2015/06/
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When Dan Lyons joined the Boston Internet startup HubSpot, he was about as much an outsider as one could be.
Work culture is easily lampooned. Dilbert, The Office, and Office Space all make us laugh because those of us who work in an office recognize the absurdity. We see ourselves (or at least our co-workers) in the characters. But these kinds of portrayals require more than just an idiosyncratic culture—they also need a narrator with a keen eye and a sharp wit. Lyons has both. And when he joined Hubspot, an Internet startup in Boston, he had the added benefit of being a complete outsider. A former editor for Forbes and journalist at Newsweek, he was old-school media, now asked to create content for social media. He was in his fifties, joining a startup tech culture where most of the employees seemed barely old enough to drive.
In short, Lyons was the perfect person to drop into the insular tech culture and capture how weird it can be. Disrupted is that account. And there was apparently no shortage of material—after Disrupted, Lyons would go on to write for Silicon Valley.
This book is funny—laugh-out-loud funny at times. But there is a darker edge to it. Lyons is unabashedly resentful of how he was treated by the young fools around him. He’s cynical and skeptical of the whole enterprise—the smoke and mirrors at the foundation of the Hubspot edifice, designed to convince young, idealistic workers that they are working on something meaningful, world-changing, when in fact they’re burning their candles at both ends to make a handful of people billions in an eventual IPO.
More insidious is the creepy culture that pervaded Hubspot (and other startups and now household name tech companies). To call it “cult-like” is more accurate than it is hyperbole, with the blind belief in the hype, the deification of the company leaders, the strange rituals and the exclusive language. The main asset of the company, for both investors and employees, seems to be how much everyone believes in the company.
Although the more serious criticisms are tinged with Lyons’s personal bitterness, they’re valid. That said, this book is more successful as a comedic send-up of startup culture. Readers who have worked in startups will find themselves nodding along, laughing often.
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2019-04-24T08:46:08Z
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https://bosilawhat.wordpress.com/2016/11/26/disrupted-my-misadventures-in-the-start-up-bubble-by-dan-lyons/
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↑ अ आ इ ई उ Taagepera, Rein (1979). "Size and Duration of Empires: Growth–Decline Curves, 600 BC to 600 AD". Social Science History. Social Science History, Vol. 3, No. 3/4. 3 (3/4): 115–138 . JSTOR 1170959. डीओआइ:10.2307/1170959.
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2019-04-26T08:23:53Z
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https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE_%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%A3%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0
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In the venerable days of white tablecloths, smoky dining rooms and tuxedoed waiters, Chicago's captains of industry wined and dined clients and never worried about the awkward moment of paying the bill.
A "house charge" account allowed those select, regular customers at some of the city's most well-known establishments to pay their accumulated bill once a month. Dozens of Chicago-area restaurants had hundreds of clients who used the house charge system to pay their tabs each month.
But with the advent of the credit card and the sometimes difficult process of collecting overdue bills, restaurants began phasing out the system.
That may be changing, as a new generation of fine-dining restaurants has brought back the house charge system for its most valued customers.
"It offers the same benefits as if you were a member of a private club," says Michael Kornick, chef and owner of MK, a River North restaurant that offers a house account. "It's one way you can easily get to know good customers, their tastes and their preferences."
Ryan Preuett, director of marketing for Reserve, a specialty drink and cigar lounge, says the house charge account is attractive to business customers who want a seamless end to their evening without the hassle of figuring out the bill in front of clients.
"We started the program because our customers were asking for a special service that frees them from the logistics of business entertaining," Preuett said.
Restaurant analysts say the house charge system is re-emerging in cities nationwide.
"I've noticed it being resurrected but can't say how prolific it is because it's not publicly tendered or promoted by operators," says Jim Sullivan, CEO of Sullivision.com, a food service consultant. "It obviously rewards patronage while encouraging higher spending. It's a win-win, the way I see it."
Carolyn Walkup, Midwest bureau chief for Nation's Restaurant News, agrees, describing the house charge system as "a way to have a private club without being a private club."
She says that with the increased competition of the restaurant industry the "exclusivity" of a house charge account offers a way to build customer loyalty.
"Loyalty" is the word La Strada Ristorante's owner uses when discussing the restaurant's 25-year-old house charge system.
"The house charge helps La Strada maintain our local luncheon and business clientele," says Michael Mormando, owner of the authentic, classic Italian restaurant. "It makes it easy for people to do business and it gives them a cachet. It's about making people look and feel important."
Unlike some house charges, an account at La Strada runs on a point system, allowing a frequent diner or big spender to get a complimentary meal or invitation to a wine-tasting.
Chicago Chop House and Italian Village, among Chicago's oldest restaurants in town, have decided not to pen any new house charge accounts, saying there is no purpose when a credit card is so simple.
"It's extra work to bill people and attempt to collect," says Susan Gayford, a Chop House partner.
"Sometimes restaurants are the last people to get paid," Gayford said.
Gina Capitanini, partner at Italian Village, says her grandfather used to keep track of house accounts in a cigar box when he offered them after opening the restaurant in 1927. She said the restaurant stopped opening new accounts a few years ago because it didn't want to act as customers' private banking account.
"What sometimes happens is that at the end of the month they pay with a credit card anyway. So they've floated their account for the month. And we didn't get paid."
Kornick acknowledges there can be a downside to a house charge system. He says new accounts are opened with great care.
"There's a level of trust. You have to know people. I don't want to put my general manager or manager in the position of chasing down money," he said, recalling a time when he worked for a restaurateur who had to confront a client with a delinquent account. "It was awkward. The guy owed on his bill, but he would still come in because he had a house account."
Most of MK's house charge clients opened their accounts on behalf of a business and they use it for clients, co-workers and associates.
A house charge account isn't for clients who dine at a restaurant four times a year or who go only for romantic meals. The house accounts are used more than a dozen times a year and for people who want private rooms and are spending a significant amount of money.
Janna Childs, a Michigan Avenue massage therapist, opened her house account at MK because she wanted to reward her own frequent and longtime customers.
"It's a nice way to say thank you. And I like to go there too," said Childs, who takes advantage of her house charge account at least three times a month.
"I like to call and they know who I am and I can ask to sit at a certain table. And I like that I can ask for something special," she said.
Kornick says all guests get special attention at MK, but he does acknowledge that house account guests have a more familiar relationship with him and his staff.
"The benefit for customers is its convenience and that the restaurant knows your preferences, what drink you like and what table you want," he said. "It's about making it personal."
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2019-04-18T13:48:19Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2006-03-06-0603060038-story.html
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I have been meaning to make popcakes for months but never got around to it and with Christmas just around the corner, what a perfect time I thought! So off I went to find the cutest reindeer popcake to make. I also went off in search of the ingredients and decorations for my reindeers. It wasn’t as easy as I thought and it did take abit of thinking.
2. Antlers – I had read that people used alphabet Pretzels. Alphabet pretzels?? Definitely sounded like something only the USA would have! In the end, I resorted to the ‘normal’ shaped pretzels you get in the supermarket here in Australia.
3. Eyes – round confetti sprinkles??? couldn’t find them so I ended up using the many many kilos of fondant I had purchased for my cupcakes.
4. Expressions – black edible food pen. Easy!
Now for the baking part. This was the easiest with the mould I had bought. I decided to use this method instead of the traditional ‘bake, crumble and form’ method (which would have added a few more hours to the whole process). Despite a difference in consistency of the popcakes, it wasn’t bad at all. I think I like the cake mould method as it’s a little bit healthier. Yes, I know. It’s cake, chocolate and sugar we are talking about here but at least it’s minus the frosting which I really don’t need!
Finally, the dipping and decorating of my popcakes. That took ages! It was not easy trying to get them to come out smooth. I ended up having to heat the chocolate several times to make the consistency more runny.
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2019-04-23T02:37:26Z
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https://ballpengirl.wordpress.com/2012/12/18/popcakes-or-cakepops/
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Or nearly does, at least. It seems that the Wilkins ice shelf is hanging by a thread and bits are falling off. You’ll have to forgive me for being late with this news, as I’ve been off in the Real World for a week or so, with only intermittent internet connections. The paper world seems to have ignored the story, which will have annoyed BAS’s PR department. But there isn’t all that much to it.
The Antarctic peninsula is warming, and we know that because we have thermometers that tell us so. Having ice shelves break off every now and again provides good visual appeal.
As BAS says in 1993 [DV] predicted that the northern part of Wilkins Ice Shelf was likely to be lost within 30 years if climate warming on the Peninsula were to continue at the same rate and, yes, the prediction has come true. There seems to be some attempt to spin this as happening much faster than expected… over at CSM the same DV is saying we got the time scales completely wrong. We were saying 30 years at that time, and now it’s happened within 15. To my mind, if you way “within 30” and it happens in 15, you got it right.
So I guess the problem is that there isn’t too much new here. Its another ice shelf (and who can tell them apart) falling apart, pretty well as expected, and it isn’t going to raise sea level. Errrm, yes. It is of course entirely consistent with global warming, but not a very good measure of it. A better measure, Antarctic wide, would probably be the sea ice extent, and that isn’t being very obliging at the moment.
I used Google earth ( the free version) and you can see where previous collapses have occured.You can also see where the collapsed ice has frozen in place. It is interesting that what is called a thread is actually 6 kilometers wide. All that ice is being frozen in place and might even help in increasing the sea ice extent.
Kent, aren’t the blocks from the collapse “being frozen in place” only for the winter? Why would this change the sea ice extent, since this ice was already floating?
Hank, I think Kent means that the collapsed/cleaved ice will separate a bit from the remaining shelf, and the water in between will freeze. If this happens, then there’s a (very small) increase in extent. But as you say, it may just delay further melting/drifting until the next summer.
Over at the SCotsman, I have a denialist claiming this collapse is due to volcanoes, despite the map of Antarctic volcanoes they supplied showing none anywhere near it….
Meanwhile, ‘oop North the ice has begun to melt and the anomaly is increasing rapidly – almost back to the levels seen this time last year. The bet’s still 50/50, I reckon, but the next few months will be interesting.
William, is it clear how good of a temp proxy the Antarctic sea ice is (not that the ice shelves are for anything but the AP)?
Gareth – don’t start counting your eggs before they’ve melted.
Perhaps if the BBC reporter were to have flown out from Terminal 5 it would have made front page??
It’s interesting to note that the tropics are getting wetter too…. Interconnected? Maybe. A lot more attention should be paid to the effects of polar temperature on the tropical moisture budget which is going to have tremendous teleconnective implications for climate elsewhere. Thus far it’s been greatly under-rated.
Re the Arctic sea ice, we can’t just talk temp overall, but rather air temp, ocean temp, and temp change from cloud cover or the lack thereof, all of which seem to have been pulling in the same direction lately. I suppose the same distinctions (plus other non-temp factors of course) apply to the Antarctic ice, but have they been pulling together in the same way?
Up for grabs indeed. Have you got a cut-off date for bet increases?
Well, minimum should be in September, but last year looked remarkable from June onwards. What would you be comfortable with?
Is there any data collected that might clarify whether there’s increased meltwater coming from under the glaciers? Salinity levels at the outlets? Salinity at the surface where sea ice is forming?
Not many ARGO devices at the ice edge!
Curious, isn’t this what ice shelves do?….calve into the ocean. What are the actual dynamics of this ice shelf?–How long has it been in its current state, how much of it calves off in any given year, what extent of this particular shelf is over sea floor, how fast does it move towards the sea?(and on and on)–I don’t see much talk towards these natural phenomenon.
What of the inland ice extent in Antarctica? By all accounts growing and growing. And, how many thermometers are in Anarctica? And where are they located? Because, and again curiously, the satellites show overall cooling. Do they not?
William, that Antarctic Temperature Trend image you link to has a level of uncertainty of 2-3 degrees celsius. Given that would equal the greatest increases, are the satellites much use for this sort of thing?
Well, the longer you leave the cut-off date, the more the current season melt affects the final bet. If I (think) I see excessive melt in (say) June, I might up my bet. You might want to say that betting stops when the ice is under starter’s orders, which is probably about now.
William, Thank you for your time, most importantly–thank you for your contributions to climate science.
I want to understand your point better–that being that Antarctic temperatures have not been cooling within the last decade.
–a 12 Feb 2008 Real Climate post–“Antarctica is Cold? Yeah, We Knew That”–The group admits to Antarctic coldness relative to recent trends.
–http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/gistemp_station.py?id=700890220000&data_set=0&num_neighbors=1 –This link is a Surface Temperature Analysis, interesting trend from ~1990 to present–temperatures are getting colder.
–And, ( http://data.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/gistemp/do_nmap.py?year_last=2007&month_last=12&sat=4&sst=1&type=anoms&mean_gen=0112&year1=1988&year2=2007&base1=1968&base2=1987&radius=1200&pol=reg )–take out the years 1979-1987, and what do we see??
Is this a trend, or an anomaly?
–If you have a link to the satellite data, please provide, I would really like to see the last decade of temps that you say have been showing warming.
NO NEED TO POST THIS COMMENT–Just a note to the owner of this blog–whom, I have much respect for.
Honestly, I have no idea where to find all of the information. In my quest for information I stumble over bits and bits and try to extrapolate, for myself, the bigger picture. I intend not to cherry pick because I don’t know where the cherry tree is, if that makes sense.
I am concerned about the “one-sided”-ness of the AGW/Climate Change debate/issue. Even in the IPCC literature there is stated that theirs is not the motive to push one agenda, and that they will provide all infomration relevant to the issues being discussed, yet…it is one-sided–towards man-made causes only.
I have come to respect what climate scientist do, I am a historian–not by trade but by choice in school–so I am aware of the peculiarities of trying to attribute timeframes and events of the distant past to specific times of actual occurence.
I am compelled to find out more for myself because it seems that there is so much “miss-information” being propogated by for instance–Al Gore, whom many people hold to a very high regard and will listen and follow verbatim. The movie, An Inconvienent Truth, is rife with inacurracy and out-right lies, yet it is given an Oscar for Documentary and Al Gore is given a Nobel Peace Prize.—For what???
It is from this platform that a very real scare is launched, unfairly so and without merit.
When people say “the science is settled”, how does that make you feel about what you, and others, are doing?
If I were a climate scientist, I would be very, very alarmed at the likes of Al Gore, and the flock who cannot/will not accept that there is/could be natural variations that explain everything that is happening with the climate.
As for the ice shelf that this post is about, I may have missed your point as being sarcastic about using it as an example of Antarctic and Global Warming, or you may be trying to bring attention to the Antarctic and Global Warming–I just can’t follow. But, I will tell you this much, it was news all over the pages that I scan–MSNBC, CNN, and other news portals.
I will not waste your time any more. Thank you again, for taking the time to reply to my previous posts, and I hope that you understand there are civil people who will disagree with AGW (not Climate Change), unfortunately the AGW camp seems to be full of vitriol and hatred at anyone claiming the science not being settled.
I did not group the IPCC and Al Gore together, in fact they were seperated by an independent thought that I shared with you.
I will start with one reference to Al Gore’s outright lies—Lonnie Thompson’s Thermometer…….
Can you tell me about Lonnie Thompson’s Thermometer?
LTT is a precipitation proxy(as stated in IPCC literature), not temp. If Lonnie Thompson was such a good friend of Al Gore, wouldn’t/shouldn’t they have talked about this?
William, I really do appreciate your time, and this will be my last post on this subject as I do not want to antagonize you, nor any other of your guests on this site. It is just a shame how much the information gets distorted, whether an outright lie, or just ignorant baffoonery of the information.—As was the case of attributing the entire Hockey Stick graph on AIT to LT–when the last part of it was an instrumental record from MBH(??)–this is an attempt to deceive AND to creat a false or misleading impression that would only inure to the benefit of AIT and the position of AGW that is its very premise.
It is silly to look only at Gore. Why nibble away at acknowledged errors, when you can strike the edifice down in one blow by proving that CO2 is not a greenhouse gas, that the IPCC are a communist plot to take over the world?
But, more seriously, people get far too hung up on the media message, which is usually outrageously sensational, and ignore the science. Gaelen- do you want to start addressing the science?
Big day for the “thermometer.” Hockey Stick on top, Thompson Thermometer on bottom.
This is from a paper by Thompson. Gore (or more accurately whoever did the graphics for AIT) used the Hockey Stick instead of the Thermometer. The point was that the “thermometer” supports the Hockey Stick, which it obviously does.
And if it is was a measure of precipitation only, and not temperature, all those glaciers should be bursting with new ice. Instead, they’re dwindling to nothing.
William, Sorry for hijacking this thread with Al Gore–I have more to say towards your post, but respectfully will not–and I know that I am limited in my understanding of ALL issues.
–I keep an open mind towards any developments in climate science and try not to get in the way of the people who do the actual work. Like I mentioned before, I am an Historian by schooling, so I have a good understanding of how to look things up and cross reference–all I am trying to do is develop a better understanding of a very serious issue.
Sorry Guthrie, I can only parrot information, I cannot discuss the intricacies of climate science from first hand, so no, I cannot with any “degree” discuss the science. But am willing to listen(read).
—And, William, science is about skepticism, is it not?
It was written by an historian.
I second reading “The discovery of global warming”. I should have suggested it myself. It is a very good place to start.
Jeff Masters has an interesting post on this year’s prospects.
Gaelan, science is about informed skepticism not bullheaded denial.
A lot more attention should be paid to the effects of polar temperature on the tropical moisture budget which is going to have tremendous teleconnective implications for climate elsewhere.
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2019-04-21T10:44:59Z
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https://wmconnolley.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/another-one-bites-the-dust/
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This airticle is aboot the televeesion series. For the novelle in the series A Song of Ice and Fire, see A Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones is an American fantasie drama televeesion series creautit bi David Benioff an D. B. Weiss. It is an adaptation o A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. R. Martin's series o fantasie novelles, the first o which is A Game of Thrones.
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If you use two-factor authentication and can’t sign in or reset your password, you can regain access after an account recovery waiting period.
Account recovery is a process designed to get you back into your Apple ID account when you don’t have enough information to reset your password. For security reasons, it might take several days or longer before you can use your account again.
The fastest and easiest way to reset your password is from an Apple device. Before you start the account recovery waiting period, try to reset your forgotten password on a trusted device. Or borrow a friend or family member’s iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and use the Find My iPhone app to reset your password. You can even visit an Apple Store and ask to use a device on site.
If you're unsuccessful using any of these methods, go to appleid.apple.com and choose Forgot Apple ID or password. Provide as much information as you can, then start the account recovery waiting period. We know this delay is inconvenient, but it's important so that we can keep your account and information safe.
After you request account recovery, you'll get an email with a confirmation of your request and the date and time of when you can expect to regain access.
When the wait period is over, Apple sends you a text or automated phone call with instructions to regain access to your account. Follow the instructions to immediately regain access to your Apple ID.
At any time, you can see how long it will be until your account is ready for recovery, or when more information will be available. Just go to iforgot.apple.com and enter your Apple ID.
In some cases, you might be able to provide credit-card details and shorten the wait time. If you’re given the option to confirm your credit-card details, an authorization request goes to the card issuer.
If you enter the correct details but you're asked to reenter your security information, contact your card issuer. The issuer might be declining your authorization attempts.
If you remember your information and can sign in successfully, your wait period cancels automatically and you can use your Apple ID immediately.
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Did you forget your Apple ID password, but you don't use two-factor authentication? Learn what to do.
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2019-04-18T13:35:03Z
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https://support.apple.com/en-md/HT204921
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I can't imagine not living close to the vast expanse of Port Phillip Bay. It's Australia's largest tidal lagoon and covers around two thousand square kilometres with a maximum depth of over 30 metres.
It's surprisingly shallow, almost an inland sea, and it has only a narrow 3 and 1/2 kilometre-wide entrance.
Every year millions of people enjoy its vast coastline, world-class swimming beaches and coastal parks. They sail, swim, surf, dive and photograph the wild life for recreation.
Just a submerged flood plain.
Port Phillip is a young bay by geological standards. It was formed only about 10,000 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, when the sea-level rose to drown what was then the Valley of the Yarra.
So essentially, the whole Bay is a flood plain, now submerged, with the river channel running through to the ocean in Bass Strait.
Photos of the Bay almost always show it to be blue, but that's a trick of the light on a summer's afternoon, for the Bay is really a deep grey.
There are 254 shades of grey and the slow moving waters shift from a pale ash colour into a saturated cyan swirl then a warm yellowish tinge with flashes of silver. Each one moves, swirls and rolls over to the next. Just beautiful!
I challenge you not to be calmed by sitting and watching the play of light over the slow moving waters.
In Melbourne, the capital city of Victoria and my hometown, Port Phillip is familiarly known as 'the Bay'. Its piers, jetties, islands and marine reserves are used all year round, the city is built along its gentle curves for best advantage.
The bay is huge, roughly the shape of a distorted diamond, seven kilometres from the Rip to the city of Melbourne, and eighty kilometres across from east to west.
I love the bay. It's certainly no Sydney Harbour, but there's a serene beauty in its grey vastness.
My childhood memories are full of going out on the bay with my father.
He taught me to row the dinghy, and my job was to secure it when we reached the boat offshore. I learned to fish here, with a line made from a Coca-Cola bottle. October was the busiest month when the schnapper ran in immense shoals though the bay.
In Springtime the schnapper still run in the bay. As do flathead, whiting, bream, gummy sharks, squid and garfish -- but the mussels I used to scrape from the jetties have all gone.
When Lt. John Murray first sailed through the notorious Rip into Port Phillip in February 1802, he noted the turbulent seas and treacherous rocks and declared it to be a a formidable obstacle.
The bay itself is relatively safe, with few navigational obstacles -- it's the entrance that causes trouble.
The Rip is flanked by reefs to the west and to the east, with less than one kilometre of water between them. There's also a deep trough, one hundred metres deep, across the entrance, which creates turmoil as the tide surges into the bay, and more turmoil as the tide retreats. The end result is a short stretch of sea that is one of the most dangerous in the world.
We know of almost 200 sunken ships in the waters of Port Phillip Bay but more have been lost without trace around the Rip. The sea still holds many secrets.
Because of the narrow entrance of the Rip, all vessels need to be navigated with extreme caution. Large ships require expert local guidance to enter and exit.
This is where the Port Phillip Sea Pilots are indispensable.
The pilots are experienced and qualified seamen possessing extensive local knowledge of the channels, the different depths of water, the shifting currents and all the dangers within and around the port. All of our pilots are expert sailors and experienced ship handlers.
St Kilda is home to a colony of Little Penguins, about 1200 of the birds taking up residence on the Breakwater. A remarkable feat, given the close proximity (5 kilometres) to the urban centre of Melbourne.
Little penguins spend most of their time in the waters of the bay feeding on pilchards, anchovies and other small fish. At night they return quickly to the safety and protection of their burrows within the breakwater.
Neil Blake, with a group of volunteers, has been researching and protecting this colony since 1986.
I hope you can visit Melbourne one day and see this lovely bay.
Visitors are beguiled by Sydney with its deep water harbour and iconic landmarks but I prefer the quietness of Port Phillip, the boundless horizon it offers me, the deep rolling waves and the daily sight of great ships being guided safely to port by colourful bustling little tugs.
It's a vista for reflection. And for counting your blessings.
Lovely page on Port Phillip Bay.
Tidal lagoon was not a term I was familiar with until I read this lens and wow did I learn a lot. A pristine place to visit and enjoy, Port Phillip Bay is definitely one of Australia's great places and reading about it just made me want to get into the water!
Excellent lens and loved reading it.
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If there's any guy out there who can't get away with what he does onscreen in real life, it's the twinkly eyed, darling, just-gets-betta-with-age Paul Rudd.
By that I mean: if any guy steadily dated his way through such an elite group of brilliant, gorgeous women, he'd be manwhore-blacklisted by the social circle.
But in the world of the movies, we can't get enough of his love life--he's dated virtually every actress we've ever adored. (Next up: Tina Fey in Admission, out March 22. We can barely contain our excitement.) Behold, a track record proving that while Paul is perfectly adorable on his own, the ladies on his arm only make him more attractive.
The deal: They're always slightly annoyed with each other, but if that's the cost of doing business--business being their hilarious verbal sparring--so be it.
The movie: Wanderlust + The Object of My AffectionThe deal: In Wanderlust, they're a city-rushed couple who rediscover themselves--and each other, and, um, others--at a hippie retreat. Though their relationship is in tatters, they have that believable but-we're-each-other's person thing going down pat, probably thanks to The Object of My Affection--a rom-com classic if there ever was one. Nineties Jen pines for gay Paul--but their love proves to be deeper than romance.
The deal: I know, not a lot of us saw the first one. Suffice to say, it takes Paul the whole darn movie to convince Reese to be with him. Reese, whatsa matta with you? Oh, you were dating Owen Wilson? All right. We'll let it slip this one time. Only because in Overnight Delivery, you showed a wounded Paul the light, after that jezebel Christine Taylor broke his heart.
The deal: He's Rashida's cocktail-brewing, bro-less fiance--who forgets his doting self and threatens his relationship when he finally gets a pal, only to obviously recover in the end by reminding Rashida that, oh right, he's Paul Rudd, and he's adorable.
The deal: Paul and his collar-curling 'do turned out to be the ditzy, mouse-sheltering Phoebe's one true love (sorry, Hank Azaria). Just one of our favorite jobs of Paul's ever.
The deal: Everybody makes mistakes. Luckily, Paul's presence elevated this beyond-the-grave concept from pure hell to sick-day heaven.
The deal: They're the two hottest counselors at camp. Why wouldn't they make out on the dock all summer?
The deal: The deal is that this changed our lives forever.
What's your favorite of Paul's on-screen romances?
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2019-04-23T17:06:08Z
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https://www.glamour.com/story/paul-rudd-movies
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Data is eating the world, one buzzword at a time.
In 2017, The Economist declared in “Data is Giving Rise to a New Economy”: “Data are to this century what oil was to the last one—a driver of growth and change.” And IDC estimated that by 2025 we will create 163 trillion gigabytes of data, ten times more than in 2016.
Also in 2017, the Harvard Business Review Press published an updated and expanded 10th anniversary edition of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning by Tom Davenport and Jeanne Harris. More than 150,000 copies of the book have been sold and it has been translated into over 12 languages. Launching a data appreciation movement, the book has served as a catalyst for the establishment of numerous analytics departments in large enterprises and many new “business analytics” undergraduate and graduate training programs.
It is not often that the originators of a new business and/or technology buzzword get to review the evolution of their creation ten years later. Typically, the latest new new thing is promoted by technology vendors, industry analysts, and consultants, all eager to differentiate themselves from the competition and to establish (thought) leadership in a new market segment, product category or world-changing technology. The most important function buzzwords serve is to provide a new rationale and a new incentive for potential customers to buy new products and services. Failing to do so, technology vendors predict, will ensure that they will be “disrupted” by their competitors.
Buzzwords, however, have been only a superficial veneer of seemingly “revolutionary” (did I mention “disruptive”?) change on top of a steady evolution of computer technology since the late 1940s, driven by the increasingly sophisticated and varied use of the key product of computers, i.e., digital data. It is easier for sellers and buyers of technology-based products and services to promulgate and consume “the new new thing,” especially when it’s encapsulated in a nifty buzzword, rather than engage in a long-drawn discussion of what the new stage in the evolution of data and its uses really represents.
The new edition of Competing on Analytics provides a useful overview of the latest stages of the evolution of data or what the authors call the “3 massive changes in how analytics is practiced since 2007.” When the first edition of the book was published ten years ago, it highlighted the successful companies of the “Analytics 1.0” era, the ones using mostly descriptive analytics to help them understand better and derive lessons from their past performance. Data was mostly used to support (or not) business decisions.
But in 2007, a number of new companies, all Internet-related businesses, were already defining the “Analytics 2.0” era, analyzing data created online, unstructured as opposed to structured data, external as opposed to internal data, helping them understand better where in the future their business will be. “These companies competed on analytics perhaps more than any of the others we wrote about in the first version of this book,” write Davenport and Harris. (By using the term “analytics,” they were smartly applying to what was before called “business intelligence” or “data mining,” a term popularized at the time—in a different context—by Google Analytics).
The business of these new companies reflected a new appreciation for data not as a by-product of computer technology, but as the product itself, as what their business was all about, including expecting their customers to pay for their services with data rather than dollars. What they did with the data—developing new tools and techniques for storing, processing and analyzing huge volumes of data—represented a new stage in the evolution of applying computers to statistical analysis, a process that started with the very first digital computers (e.g., simulation).
The new appreciation for data-as-the-business led to the creation of a new breed of data analysis experts—"data scientists”—with both software engineering and statistical analysis skills. As data was the product they became the new product managers and as the data was at their fingertips, they excelled at experimentation, simulating the potential risks and rewards of multiple business scenarios. The role became the “sexiest job of the 21st century” (as Davenport and D.J. Patil wrote in the Harvard Business Review), driving the rapid proliferation of “data science” training programs and research centers.
“Big Data” was quickly eclipsed by this and other buzzwords—"Internet of Things,” for example—all marking new aspects, new uses, new applications, of the 70-year-old digital enterprise of generating and accumulating new streams of data and, most important, trying to “monetize” it (yes, another buzzword), i.e., to profit from it.
We have now entered the “Analytics 4.0” era, the “rise of autonomous analytics,” write Davenport and Harris. To my mind, it’s the best example so far in the evolution of data appreciation. While “what has been will be again,” it sometimes arrives with a slight (never “revolutionary”) improvement. The buzzword today is “Artificial Intelligence” (or “cognitive computing,” as IBM, the inventor of “data processing” in the 1950s, calls it).
The new new thing (such as getting computers to excel in object identification) has very little to do with what the pioneers of AI meant when they started using the term in the mid-1950s and everything to do with data science (combining statistical analysis and computer engineering) and big data (specifically with using “crowdsourcing”—yet another buzzword—to label millions of online photos which then are used to “train” computers in object identification). A more accurate label would be “advanced machine learning” but this does not meet the required “sexiness” quotient of a successful buzzword.
It doesn’t matter what label or buzzword we use, as long as we understand what’s really behind it, understanding that helps reduce hype and obfuscation and improves the chances of success when deploying the new new thing in a business context.
What has not changed in the last 10 years, according to Davenport and Harris, are the challenges of developing the right organizational culture, the role of leadership, and focusing on pressing business problems. All these are “still the hardest today,” they write.
My conclusion? Competing on AI is no different from Competing on Analytics. Technology steadily evolves and advances in computer technology have driven a steady evolution in data appreciation. Human nature does not evolve and people must always be taken into account when embracing the latest stage in the evolution of technology.
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2019-04-22T06:21:46Z
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2017/12/30/competing-on-ai-the-new-new-science-of-winning/
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Passing by, originally uploaded by e-jump.
This is the Hikari N700 Shinkansen i believe, passing thru at 200KMh+ at Kodama Station HigashiHiroshima. Theres a few station in Kansai/Chubu where the Nozomi and Hikari passing through at top speed.
Lantern path, originally uploaded by e-jump.
Those are actually lantern, or light poles that stiill use candles and paper cover. During my Bishamondai Mt hike.
Memorial, originally uploaded by e-jump.
Its the A-Bomb dome in Hiroshima, that still stands till today.
Theyre doing some maintenance for preservation.
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2019-04-21T18:49:14Z
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https://ejump.wordpress.com/tag/hiroshima/
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C.C. Stewart, 98, of Canyon died Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church of Canyon with the Rev. Steve Olsen, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brooks Funeral Directors of Canyon.
C.C. Stewart was born Sept. 2, 1914, in Spanish Fort to Walter and Etta Boutwell Stewart. He moved to Dawn from the Nocona area at the age of 10. He married his high school sweetheart, Willie Lois Harris, on Aug. 22, 1935, in Hereford. They were married 61 years before she preceded him in death on June 4, 1996.
C.C. spent his early years as a farmer and rancher in Dawn and moved to Perryton in the early 1960s, where they owned Great Plains Motel. He returned to Canyon in 1967 and worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Buffalo Lake Wildlife Refuge in Umbarger until retirement in 1986.
He will be remembered for his devout faith and Christian values. He was a loving husband, dad and grandfather who enjoyed fishing, camping, and many special family times. He became a member of First Baptist Church of Canyon in 1967 and was a member of Golden Spread Coin Club.
He also was preceded in death by his wife's six sisters and a brother and their spouses, and a brother, Raymond T. Stewart.
Survivors include a daughter, Dorotha "Scotty" Woodman and husband Jake of Canyon; a son, Buddie D. Stewart and wife Janie of Seoul, South Korea; three granddaughters, Krista Thomson and husband David of Tulia, Lt. Kristina Stewart, USAF, deployed to the Middle East, and Katie Stewart of Seoul; a great-granddaughter, River Thomson; a brother, H.R. Stewart and wife Hazel, formerly of Dawn; and numerous nieces, nephews and many friends.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to C.C. Stewart Memorial Fund, First Baptist Church, 1717 Fourth Ave., Canyon, TX 79015.
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2019-04-22T14:02:17Z
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https://www.amarillo.com/obituaries/2012-10-28/cc-stewart
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If you're stuck in Deception IV: Blood Ties, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.
Indulge your dark side and step into the role of the Devil's Daughter as you mercilessly trap human victims on a quest for retribution. Choose from over 120 traps - including themed traps for each stage and enchanted moving trapmobiles - and hone your skills to connect your traps into ever more elaborate, sadistic, and humiliating combos.
Are there any Dark Illusion traps?
How do you use the Stuffed Unicorn trap?
Is there any complete list of traps avaliable?
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2019-04-24T17:52:35Z
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps3/731291-deception-iv-blood-ties
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This will be one of the most incredible years your child will have in their school career! During this school year, your child will learn how to read, write stories, add, subtract, and so much more! It's my goal to make their year a fun and exciting one, and I hope to instill a love of learning that will last a lifetime!
Because so many new changes occur, especially during the first few months of school, children, as well as parents many have some apprehension about what will happen. It is extremely important to keep in mind that we all build on small successes. Each child will progress at his/her own rate, acquiring skills as he/she is developmentally ready. Maintaining each child's self esteem and building a secure foundation for future growth will always be a priority.
I have been a member of the Lincoln team for 30 years. My experience includes 8 years teaching Junior Primary (a developmental program for kids who needed more time before entering the rigors of First Grade), and for the past 22 years teaching First Grade here at Lincoln. I earned my Bachelor's Degree from Central Michigan University, a Master's Degree, and am certified in both regular ed and special education. I am a Petoskey native, and love Northern Michigan! I am married and have two grown children. I enjoy the great outdoors, the arts, and enjoy trying to improve my golf game (not such an easy task!) I look forward to getting to know all of you and am excited to be working with your children this year! I want to keep all lines of communication open as we work together to give your child the best of everything. Please feel free to contact me any time with questions and/or concerns. Thank you.
The best way to help your child have a productive, and positive First Grade experience is to work together. I ask that kids arrive at school on time, have eaten a good breakfast, and are well rested. The first few weeks and months can be a "tough" transition time for kids and this will help them with routines and classroom expectations. It is normal for them to be tired, cry, and have separation anxiety at the beginning of the school year. Please trust me when I say this will pass and not to worry! Your children are in good hands and these feelings are a normal part of development. Thank you for working with me to help them have the best possible first grade experience!
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2019-04-22T01:08:08Z
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http://pjakewayfirsties.weebly.com/index.html
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Published: May 9, 2013 at 11:42 a.m.
Updated: May 13, 2013 at 01:45 p.m.
Every year in the NFL, certain folks step out of the shadows. Promising youngsters blossom into stars. Guys finally grow up and live up to the hype. Players join new teams and thrive. Backups become starters and seize the opportunity.
Let's get ahead of the curve.
1) Trent Richardson, RB, Cleveland Browns: Cleveland's offense was a mess last year, and Richardson's rookie season didn't go as planned. Nicked and bruised with multiple ailments (ribs, knee), Richardson rumbled for a pedestrian 950 yards. He didn't show the power or burst that made him a top-three pick coming out of Alabama.
A healthy Richardson, a prideful Richardson with a chip on his shoulder, is destined for a gigantic sophomore season. New head coach Rob Chudzinski told the Cleveland media last month that Richardson is "quicker than what you see on tape."
Norv Turner isn't a skilled head coach, but he's a great play caller, and Chudzinski is lucky to have him. Turner's offenses have featured dominant backs through the years, from Emmitt Smith to Stephen Davis to Ricky Williams.
With Brandon Weeden at quarterback and questionable receivers out wide for the Browns, you know Richardson is going to get a lot of touches. I think Richardson will live up to his draft status and put up Pro Bowl-caliber numbers in a monster season. Grab him in your fantasy league!
2) Janoris Jenkins, CB, St. Louis Rams: His skills have never been questioned. His attitude and his maturity deservedly have been under the microscope forever. Jeff Fisher has a great knack for getting knuckleheads to focus and achieve. Jenkins enjoyed a very productive rookie season under Fisher, with 14 pass deflections and four picks. He's also a strong tackler.
With the Rams' underrated front seven and accompanying pass rush, Jenkins is going to become one of the best corners in the NFC this season.
3) Bruce Irvin, DE/OLB, Seattle Seahawks: This cat is a freak athlete. Irvin had eight sacks in his rookie year -- and he was still raw. With a full NFL season under his belt, this Seattle pass rusher will become one of the elite sack artists and disruptive forces in the game.
4) Delanie Walker, TE, Tennessee Titans: Walker is one of my favorite players in the NFL. He's a total team guy who will do anything to win, whether that means playing tight end, running back, receiver, special teams, catching passes or blocking. Last season, he snagged 21 passes and averaged 16.4 yards per catch. Walker is a matchup problem for linebackers and safeties.
Moving from the 49ers to the Titans via free agency, he should be even more involved in the passing attack. Vernon Davis was always the No. 1 tight end in San Francisco; now Walker sits atop the depth chart in Tennessee. And the Titans boast Chris Johnson and three talented receivers. Thus, Walker will be licking his chops when he sees who is covering him.
5) David Wilson, RB, New York Giants: I loved this pick when the Giants made it at the end of the first round in the 2012 NFL Draft. But Wilson's rookie season was doomed almost immediately when he lost a first-quarter fumble in the NFL Kickoff Game defeat to the Dallas Cowboys (and memorably got pretty emotional on the sideline). Tom Coughlin stuck the rook in the doghouse and didn't really let him out until the season's final month.
Ahmad Bradshaw's health issues, which routinely compromised his availability, made him an ex-Giant early this offseason. GM Jerry Reese drafted Wilson for his sizzle and power, his unique ability to both juke defenders and get yards after contact. After being a non-factor in the backfield for much last season, Wilson will come to play in 2013.
6) Kelechi Osemele, OL, Baltimore Ravens: If I had a dollar for every Ravens player, coach or executive who credited "KO" for Baltimore's offensive turnaround in the playoffs, I'd be as rich as Joe Flacco. He's smart. He's physical. He's versatile. I think we are looking at many trips to Hawaii in Osemele's future.
7) Marcell Dareus, DT, Buffalo Bills: I thought the Bills would field the best defensive line in football last season. I was wrong on so many levels. But there were extenuating circumstances, from injury to tragedy.
Dareus' brother was killed in a triple-homicide in September. Understandably, he never seemed the same.
New Bills coach Doug Marrone made an astute hire by appointing Mike Pettine to be his defensive coordinator. Pettine worked wonders last season with New York Jets DL Muhammad Wilkerson. I think Dareus will dominate and anchor a turnaround for the Bills up front.
8) Vincent Brown, WR, San Diego Chargers: Brown missed all of last year with a broken ankle. When healthy, he has the hands, speed and skills to dominate. New Chargers head coach Mike McCoy told the media he has "high hopes" for Brown. And he should. McCoy understands offensive football and is probably drooling over the possibilities.
I think Brown needed a fresh start with a clean bill of health and a new head coach. He is going to rock this year.
9) Nick Fairley, DT, Detroit Lions: There's a nice buzz brewing around Fairley this offseason. If you have noticed -- and as a noted critic of the Lions' off-field issues and lack of discipline in the past, I have -- Fairley has put his issues behind him. Teammates are gushing about his work ethic and physique. Talent has never been the question with Fairley; he just needs to stay focused and healthy.
Despite the fact that Fairley's absurdly talking Super Bowl for the team, I think he has been humbled by his personal experiences over two seasons in the league. I'm betting on a big turnaround in Year 3.
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2019-04-22T09:09:01Z
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000168285/article/trent-richardson-delanie-walker-among-breakout-candidates
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Sports
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Amarillo National Bank Sox Stadium, the second-oldest park in the American Association, is showing its age.
Paint on the railings, general admission seating and concrete concourse areas chips and fades through the Amarillo weather each summer. Locker rooms are cramped. Pipes and lights frequently need repair - during a recent home game, several lights were out.
"It needs a lot of work on the field, the fence, scoreboard, the list goes on," said Mark Lee, the Sox's general manager. "Our expenses out there are tremendous and we spend a lot of money just to keep that thing afloat."
Adding modern seating and concession amenities to the ballpark built in 1957 could cost $20 million to $25 million, according to Sox President Scott Berry. A modest renovation that would include removing lead-based paint and compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act regulations would cost about $5 million.
Amarillo officials are planning a major revitalization of downtown and have considered including a stadium - referred to as multipurpose venue - in the effort.
Wallace Bajjali Development Partners, the firm selected by the city to organize downtown redevelopment plans, has proposed building a new stadium south of City Hall. It's unclear how that project would be funded.
Berry, whose organization brought the Sox to Amarillo last fall, said the renovation costs would be high because the Potter County-owned ballpark would require a great deal of structural changes, including lead paint abatement, new lights and concrete, improvements to the field and locker rooms and more space for concession stands.
"Because concession stands are so limited, we get long lines and frustrated fans once we get to a certain crowd," he said. "You're losing your ability to serve those people and you're possibly running those people off from future events. If it's going to take them two innings to get their food, they're not really happy."
The stadium has gotten low ratings from the other teams in the American Association, the league the Sox play in, Berry said. While he won't get a more exact ranking of the Sox's venue until the end of the year, he said visiting teams in surveys have given the ballpark low marks for the press box and locker rooms.
"We know from talking to the league office that we're not getting ranked very high at this point," he said. "They want our locker rooms to have more space and be newer so the players can comfortably sit in there. Ours is sufficient, but it just isn't at the level."
Renovation would require the ballpark to comply with ADA regulations, Berry said.
"That would significantly increase the cost of renovation because it's an almost 60-year-old stadium," he said. "Certain aspects are grandfathered, but when you make significant renovations, you have to comply."
The Sox ballpark would have to comply with ADA regulations as soon as a renovation starts, said Mike Head, Potter's facilities director.
"Once we start touching that concrete and start resurfacing, you need to start complying," he said. "If you do one thing, it may trigger something else."
The team could reduce annual expenses of $700,000 to $800,000 if it didn't have to perform constant repairs on the ballpark, said Mark Lee, the Sox's general manager. Revenue last year did not break even with the expenses, said Lee, who was general manager of the Amarillo Dillas.
Potter figures show the county spent more than $400,000 on the ballpark during the past few years.
Potter commissioners who were reached Monday either oppose a new ballpark or support whichever direction Amarillo would choose in downtown redevelopment.
"I'm not sure on how to fix our place. It's quite a bit of money," Commissioner H.R. Kelly said. "But I would support whatever the citizens support. If they want a new baseball park, fine. I'd have no issues with that."
Commissioner Manny Perez, who voiced opposition to current redevelopment plans on many occasions, said it would cost much less to renovate the Sox's home. He said the owners of the ballpark's previous tenant, the Amarillo Dillas, told the county it would cost between $2 million and $5 million to renovate.
A year before the Dillas were evicted from the ballpark for unpaid rent, its owners, Reunion Sports Group, told commissioners of a plan to renovate the venue for $2 million. The renovation would have added a walkway above the 13th row of seats, concessions and more seating rows.
"(The Sox) are misleading the people of Amarillo," Perez said. "The league that was here before said it would cost between $2 million and $5 million. No more, no less."
Commissioner Alphonso Vaughn voiced no support for either a renovation or new facility.
"As far as the future is concerned, I can't speak on that," he said. "Right now, we need to do what we need to do to make sure (the ballpark) is ready for baseball."
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13 Feb – Veteran singer-actress Armida Siguion-Reyna has recently passed away.
As reported on PEP, the news was confirmed by her sister, Irma Potenciano, who revealed that Siguion-Reyna died of cancer at the Makati Medical Centre on 11 February.
Her brother and former Senate president Juan Ponce Enrile also expressed sadness over her passing, urging the public not to forget her contribution to the Filipino music industry.
"Despite all this, I am happy that she is now able to rest," he added.
Known for her illustrious career in music, film, television, and theatre, Siguion-Reyna also produced and starred in her own film musicals like "Dung-aw", "Lakambini", and "Supremo". She was also the chairperson of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board during the Estrada administration.
However, she is most known for her show, "Aawitan Kita".
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ENGLAND'S three leading farming organisations had a top-level meeting with Government yesterday over the long-running row about delayed farm payments - and were able top report considerable progress.
But they added that there were still grave worries about the number of wrongly allocated payments - some of which have been delayed since 2005 - and also the legal standing of farmers who work common land, many of whom are based in the northern uplands of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales.
Representatives of the National Farmers' Union, the Country Land and Business Association and the Tenant Farmers' Association met Lord Rooker, the Defra minister who has been charged with sorting out the chaos in the Single Farm Payment scheme left by former Secretary of State Margaret Beckett.
They were told that 96% of the outstanding 2006 payments should be made by the end of this month, a matter of huge relief for hundreds of farmers who have been driven to the edge of bankruptcy because of delays by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
However, the three organisations issued a joint statement deploring the "large backlog" of disputed payments going back two years - and demanded that the 2007 payments, officially due now, should at least be paid by the end of this year.
Support payments to farmers who work common land are lost in a red-tape maze because their rights to do so can go back centuries and are sometimes a matter of legal dispute.
After the meeting, Douglas Chalmers, Director of CLA North, commented: "In the North, we are particularly disappointed over the lack of progress on the commons problem.
"Because the RPA are using an old Commons Register, farmers who have grazed commons for many years are facing hardship and future uncertainty. Resolving who is eligible to receive Single Farm Payment and Hill Farm Allowance on commons has now become an urgent task."
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In a study that helps to deconstruct how olfaction is encoded in the brain, neuroscientists at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a type of neuron that appears to help tune, amplify and dampen neuronal responses to chemosensory inputs from the nasal cavity.
The study, published March 9 in Nature Neuroscience, has applications to understanding the root cause of epileptic seizures, which are frequently centered in the olfactory cortex, the part of the brain that processes the sense of smell.
The cells that appear to perform this task are among the 10 percent of neurons in the brain that secrete inhibitory neurotransmitters, chemicals released in the synapse that raise the threshold for neuronal firing. The function of these inhibitory neurons is increasingly recognized as critical to the sensory perceptions of sound and sight. The study is among the first to demonstrate that inhibitory neurons also play a critical role in processing smells.
For the study, neuroscientists employed a technology called optogenetics to de-activate inhibitory neurons in the olfactory cortex of mice. The mice were then presented with different odors and intensities of odors, including lemon, pine and banana, while electrical activity in the olfactory cortex was recorded.
In the absence of the inhibitory neurons, researchers observed an increase in brain activity unrelated to direct processing of the odors. The amount of this background brain activity was unrelated to odor intensity.
When these same neurons were allowed to function normally, the background “noisy” brain activity decreased without distorting the fidelity of the neuronal representation of the odor itself.
Described in signal processing terms, the inhibitory neurons appear to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of brain activity. They may also improve the ability to discern different odors.
“If you wonder how it is possible to smell a banana peel in a garbage can, it is because of this type of subtle neuronal control, achieved through inhibition,” said senior author Jeffry Isaacson, PhD, professor of neuroscience.
Funding for the research was provided, in part, by U.S. National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (grants R01DC04682 and 5F32DC013511).
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Q. I have some tubes of dried up watercolor. Any tips on how to rejuvenate them?
A. Good question. I have a few of those around the studio myself. You can’t really use them for large areas or for loading up your brush. You can salvage a little color, however, by cutting the tubes in half, moistening your brush with a lot of water, and swishing it around in the dry watercolor in the tube. You can also try to dissolve the hard paint in water by scraping out the tube and letting the paint soak in one of the wells on your palette.
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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, right, is sacked by Oakland Raiders defensive end Khalil Mack during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, in Oakland, Calif.
With the Los Angeles Rams slaughtering the NFL as the league’s lone unbeaten team and leader in point differential through seven weeks, bookmakers have wondered what it would take for gamblers to bet against them.
They’re getting their answer in week 8. It’s Aaron Rodgers.
Or, at least, Aaron Rodgers getting career-high amount of points on the betting line. The veteran quarterback leads the Green Bay Packers against the Rams in a 1:25 p.m. game this afternoon at the Los Angeles Coliseum as 9-point underdogs, and most bettors aren’t hesitating to take the big number.
Midweek reports indicated as much as three out of every four tickets were coming in on Green Bay, which sits at 3-2-1 straight-up on the year coming out of a bye week. Green Bay at Los Angeles is the game of the week in the Sun’s handicapping contest, meaning the three competing sports writers are required to use one of six wagers off the South Point betting board on the contest.
Check below to find all of their week 8 picks. Games are listed in order of sports books’ rotation numbers.
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The Honda Civic Concept, shown at the New York International Auto Show, is a sign of very BRIGHT things ahead for Honda's popular economy car.
People love Honda, even at times when the romance is a very one-sided affair.
With all due respect to one of the world’s most popular auto brands, Honda has occasionally struggled to grasp the enthusiast market and nurture the passion that made it the darling of the tuner world.
Not long ago, Honda’s engineering acumen made it something akin to a poor-mans-BMW. Except that with the right specs or state of tune, the Japanese automaker’s performance products often had the muscle to best the boys from Bavaria, not to mention truly direct rivals from Ford, Toyota, Subaru and Chevrolet.
Oh, and let’s not forget that all these high-strung Hondas – cars like the CRX, S2000, and Prelude – combined great performance and awesome handling into a package that was dead-on reliable.
Then, somewhere along the road, Honda veered too far into the middle lane. The brand’s U.S. range lost its sporty edge and, with the move towards more ‘sensible’ models, a lot of the good automotive mojo it had created over the years.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HONDA CIVIC HERE.
The Honda Civic Concept, shown for the first time at the 2015 New York International Auto Show, is vivid evidence that Honda could be about to stage a performance renaissance. Here are five reasons why the Daily News Autos loves this car, and two reasons why we’re staying wary about the production model.
The Honda Civic Concept was a true surprise debut at the 2015 New York Auto Show.
The Civic Concept offers a nice preview of what to expect from Honda's top-selling economy car for years to come.
You can spot the Honda Civic Concept from pretty much anywhere at the New York Auto Show. This paint doesn’t just glow, it nearly grabs you by the collar and shakes you senseless. We were tempted to turn off all the lights at the Javits Center, simply to see if we could still spot this neon green machine. We’re betting we could!
That’s right, Honda is slapping some turbos onto the engines of its long-serving economy car. The engine in the Civic Concept is a punchy 1.5-liter 4-cylinder coupled to a 6-speed manual. That combo could easily result in an output of roughly 200-horsepower, along with some very miserly fuel mileage. Performance and economy, this is what makes Honda, well, HONDA!
The Civic Type-R Concept, seen here at the 2014 Paris Motor Show, is much different from the calmer Civics sold in the U.S. That could soon change, however.
The back of the Type-R Concept sports massive wings and spoilers - we love it!
For too long, we’ve been looking across the Atlantic at some seriously cool-looking Civic models sold in Europe. That’s right, the Civic sold here isn’t quite what you’re going to find anywhere else. Thankfully, Honda is taking a risk with the next stateside-Civic's exterior design. Even in a much more muted color, the Civic Concept’s sharply-creased front fascia, center-exit exhaust, and large LED-rimmed tail-lamps would look fantastic minus the neon green paintjob.
After a strangely long absence, Honda is bringing a hatchback version of the Civic our way. We’re not sure why they ever gave it the chop in the first place, but let’s not quibble. When it arrives next year, Honda will offer a coupe, sedan, and five-door hatchback.
That’s right, the legendary Type-R is on its way to the U.S. For Honda fans, this is better than having McLaren-Honda F1 driver Jenson Button take you for a lap or two of Monaco. The Civic Type-R could be the beginning of an entirely new era of Honda tuning and affordable performance. We can’t wait to get our hands on one!
More expressive design, turbo engines, and a Type-R variant are all coming to the next Honda Civic. Sales begin next year, most likely for the 2017 model year.
There are a couple things you need to keep in mind with the Civic Concept. For starters, details like super-sized alloy wheels and ultra-sleek side mirrors are going to get the heave-ho for the production models (yes, even the Type-R).
Honda also has to maintain – and regain – some ground lost to recent reliability issues. After years of watching the U.S. manufacturers stumble in this regard, Japanese automakers have proven they’re not infallible when it comes to quality problems and recalls. If Honda can rekindle its engineering creativity, while simultaneously rebuilding its record of reliability, the automaker could prove an unstoppable force in the very near future.
It starts at (or near) the bottom of the range, however, and with the eagerly awaited debut of the next-generation Civic in 2016.
LEARN MORE ABOUT HONDA HERE.
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Barnwell State Park is a community favorite among the residents of Blackville, South Carolina. One of 16 state parks built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression, Barnwell is best known for its great fishing spots. Three small lakes host a large population of crappie, bream, bass and catfish.
Overnighters can take advantage of the Barnwell State Park cabins and campground, both of which sit only a short walk from the park lakes. Recreational opportunities include non-motorized fishing boat rentals, picnicking and a nature trail that winds around one of the lakes. A community building is available for meetings, reunions, weddings and other group gatherings.
Pets : Pets are not allowed in or around cabins and other lodging facilities. Pets are allowed in most outdoor areas provided they are kept under physical restraint or on a leash not longer than six feet. Owners will be asked to remove noisy or dangerous pets or pets that threaten or harass wildlife.
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We promote research and knowledge of social, economic and political conditions of each region. The Regional Competitiveness Index of Peru (ICRP) is a key tool to measure development and welfare of the population in all corners of Peru; with this publication, not only we perform basic monitoring conditions, but we encourage actions that contribute to a more effective decentralization.
Knowing the progress of development in each region and the actions that the branches of government and the private sector made to improve welfare conditions are key to encouraging investment and targeting of public spending into effective action.
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This elective unit is only available to elected Guild and Faculty society or club office bearers with approval of the Dean, Coursework Studies on advice from the Guild President. The objective of the unit is to enable students who are incumbent office bearers to enrol in a unit for academic credit in recognition of their service contribution to the Guild and the University. Office bearers play a vital leadership role within the student body through which they learn, develop and apply a complex mix of knowledge and skills including communication, interpersonal, decision making, prioritisation, planning and budgeting knowledge and skills, as well as goal setting and project management. Office bearers generally benefit from community recognition and this has the potential to greatly enhance their employment and leadership opportunities in the future. This unit recognises both the service contribution of Guild and student society/club office bearers to the Guild and University and the learning experience of this role. By enrolling in this unit, students will have time freed up to enable them to make a strong contribution, minimise any possible adverse impact on their regular studies and, for some students, enable them to maintain full time enrolment.
Includes: Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Education Council President, Societies Council President, Public Affairs Council President, Environment Officer, International Students' Service Director, Sports Representative, Welfare Officer, Women's Officer, and Faculty Society and Club Presidents where the aims and objective of the club reflect the ethos of UWA and illustrate a contribution to the Guild, University, and the community; and where the club has over 100 members and runs at least five events of a Medium or Major classification each year, each of which includes a comprehensive event management plan.
Students are able to (1) actively undertake an official Guild office bearer leadership role for the period of one semester; (2) actively participate in a Guild leadership/handover course of 3.5 days contact; (3) demonstrate responsibility and citizenship by using knowledge and skills to contribute positively to the Guild and University environment; and (4) argue from an evidence base about the significance of their service experience with reference to important Guild/University issues.
Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) self reflection report/presentation and (2) UWA Student Guild assessment rubric completed by the Unit Coordinator on advice from the Student Guild. Further information is available in the unit outline.
To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the self reflection report/presentation component.
All students participate in a UWA Student Guild (Guild) leadership/handover program of 3.5 days (26.5 hours) contact. In addition, all students meet with their Guild supervisor and unit supervisor at least 25 hours per semesters. All students are voting Guild office bearers and participate in a minimum of 100 hrs per semester work during University, Guild meetings and official duties. This is a total of 150 hours work equivalent to at six-point unit.
This unit is recognised by the University as a service learning unit. Service learning refers specifically to community engagement activities that are embedded in units of study, being structured and assessed as formal educational experiences.
This unit is only available for enrolment by elected UWA Guild office bearers by approval of the Dean, Coursework Studies in consultation with the UWA Guild President.
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This is a time-lapse of my tram ride on Tram #2 from Amsterdam train station to Prinsengracht. A historic tram line that has been running for the past 116 years!
The Amsterdam tram line #2 was set on 28 December 1903. Back then, it has a much shorter service. Nowadays, Tram #2 travels to all the major part of Amsterdam’s tourist attractions on its route. Always a pleasant ride!
>> Nieuwezijds Kolk – Steps away from retail stores, 10-minute walk to Oude Kerk (Old Church) and the Red Light District.
>> Dam – A stone throw away from the famous Dam Square, Royal Palace, Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and Madame Tussauds. About 10-minute walk to Anne Frank House, Homomonument and Westerkerk (Western Church).
>> Spui – A couple of minutes away from Amsterdam Museum, hidden courtyard of the Begijnhof, Amsterdam’s famous shopping district called the “9 Streets”, Allard Pierson Museum and just across the Singel canal (the first of the four canals of the UNESCO Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring).
>> Koningsplein – steps away from Bloemenmarkt (Amsterdam’s world famous floating flower market), more shopping streets and several museums in the vicinity such as the Grachtenhuis Museum where you can learn about Amsterdam canal houses.
>> Keizersgracht – right on the third canals of the UNESCO Seventeenth-Century Canal Ring.
>> Prinsengracht & >> Leidseplein – both of these tram stops are surrounded by Amsterdam’s leading entertainment hotspots with overwhelming selection of bars, restaurants, clubs and casinos.
>> Rijksmuseum – distance away from the famous Rijksmuseum, Museumplein, Royal Coster Diamonds and where “I amsterdam” sign used to be located. A sprint from Vondelpark.
>> Van Baerlestraat – just a stretch from Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Moco Museum.
>> Museumplein – next to the Het Concertgebouw; considered one of the finest concert halls in the world.
Tram line #2 has been named one of the world’s best tram rides by the National Geographic magazine. It is a great way to witness the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam anytime of the day!
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British politician, served as prime minister from 1937 to 1940.
Born on 18 March 1869, Neville Chamberlain was the second son of the prominent politician Joseph Chamberlain (1836–1914). His elder halfbrother, Austen (1863–1937), was groomed for a political career; Neville was intended to look after the family fortunes in commerce. After seven difficult years managing a plantation in the Bahamas, he had a more successful business career in Birmingham. He entered local government, and was lord mayor of Birmingham in 1915–1916. In December 1916, Chamberlain accepted a national role as director-general of National Service, but after seven months was dropped by the Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George (1863–1945), whom he thereafter detested.
In 1918 Chamberlain was elected to the House of Commons, at the age of forty-nine. He welcomed the downfall of Lloyd George in October 1922, although this also ended Austen Chamberlain's leadership of the Conservative Party. However, Austen did not stand in his brother's way when Chamberlain was offered a post in the new Conservative government. His competence and vigor led to a swift progress: Chamberlain entered the cabinet in March 1923 as minister of health, and was promoted in August 1923 to chancellor of the exchequer. Although the Conservative government was defeated in January 1924, he had arrived in the front rank of British politics.
When the Conservatives returned to power in November 1924, Chamberlain declined the offer of leading the treasury and instead requested the ministry of health. He believed this had greater scope for creative work, and had already prepared an ambitious legislative program that drew on his expertise in local government. By the general election of 1929, Chamberlain had achieved nearly all of his planned reforms, and had emerged as a driving force within the government as a whole. However, his relations with the opposition Labour Party were poor, as in debate he tended to dismiss their arguments contemptuously.
Chamberlain took on key roles while the Conservatives were in opposition in 1929–1931, and emerged as Stanley Baldwin's (1867–1947) undisputed heir as party leader. Chamberlain played an important part in the creation of the National Government in August 1931, and after its landslide election victory became chancellor of the exchequer on 5 November 1931. He held this office until 1937, and was crucial to the government's durability and success. His orthodox economic approach was severely criticized after 1945, but it was the only acceptable method at the time. Stability and confidence were slowly restored, and in the 1935 general election the government's record secured a comfortable victory. Chamberlain's growing authority led to his taking wider roles, including influencing foreign policy, on which he was forming strong views.
He eventually succeeded Baldwin as prime minister on 28 May 1937. Although sixty-eight years old, he was physically robust and had a tremendous appetite for work. Chamberlain dominated his cabinet with an authority based upon his command of detail and certainty in his views. He was reserved in manner and many considered him to be narrow and humorless. Tackling the problems in international affairs was Chamberlain's priority as prime minister. Differences with his foreign secretary, Anthony Eden (1897–1977), led to the latter's resignation in February 1938, after which Chamberlain was firmly in charge. His policy of "appeasement" was a quest for peaceful compromise, intended to open a reasoned dialogue with the dictators Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) and Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) and meet their grievances.
In the 1938 Czech crisis, Chamberlain sought to avoid war over a distant country where no British interests were involved. He conceived a dramatic plan to fly to Germany and negotiate with Hitler directly. This led to the Munich agreement of September 1938, which resolved the crisis on Hitler's terms, but without war and with a promise of future goodwill; Chamberlain returned in triumph to an atmosphere of euphoric relief. However, Hitler's occupation of Prague in March 1939 discredited appeasement and made Chamberlain look weak and foolish. He continued the quest for peace, and when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Chamberlain held back from declaring war until a revolt of senior cabinet ministers forced his hand.
After war broke out, Chamberlain broadened his government to include Winston Churchill (1874–1965) and Eden. Although a capable administrator, Chamberlain was not temperamentally suited to war leadership, appearing to be unimaginative and complacent. Loss of support in the House of Commons after defeat in Norway forced him step down on 10 May 1940. His successor, Churchill, valued him as a colleague, and Chamberlain moved to the post of lord president and was effectively in charge of the Home Front. After the Dunkirk Evacuation in 1940, the popular mood turned against the former appeasers, but Churchill resisted the pressure to dismiss him. However, in the late summer Chamberlain's health swiftly failed and he resigned as Conservative Party leader in September, dying from cancer on 9 November 1940.
See alsoAppeasement; Churchill, Winston; Hitler, Adolf; World War II.
Charmley, John. Chamberlain and the Lost Peace. London, 1989. Revisionist account favorable to Chamberlain's policy.
Dilks, David. Neville Chamberlain. Cambridge, U.K., 1984. Only volume yet published of major official life.
Fuchser, Larry William. Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement: A Study in the Politics of History. London, 1982.
Parker, R. A. C. Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War. New York, 1993.
"Chamberlain, Neville (1869–1940)." Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. . Encyclopedia.com. 21 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
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- Measurements of user experience.
Denisova, A., Guckelsberger, C. and Zendle, D. (2017). Challenge in Digital Games. the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts 6-11 May.
Denisova, A., Nordin, A.I. and Cairns, P. (2016). The Convergence of Player Experience Questionnaires. the 2016 Annual Symposium 16-19 October.
Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2015). The Placebo Effect in Digital Games. the 2015 Annual Symposium 5-7 October.
Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2015). Adaptation in Digital Games. the 2015 Annual Symposium 5-7 October.
Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2015). First Person vs. Third Person Perspective in Digital Games. the 33rd Annual ACM Conference 18-23 April.
Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2019). Player experience and deceptive expectations of difficulty adaptation in digital games. Entertainment Computing, 29, pp. 56–68. doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2018.12.001 .
Power, C., Cairns, P., Denisova, A., Papaioannou, T. and Gultrom, R. (2018). Lost at the Edge of Uncertainty: Measuring Player Uncertainty in Digital Games. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction pp. 1–13. doi:10.1080/10447318.2018.1507161 .
Nordin, A.I., Hudson, M., Denisova, A. and Beeston, J. (2018). Perceptions of Telepresence Robot Form.
Power, C., Denisova, A., Papaioannou, T. and Cairns, P. (2017). Measuring uncertainty in games: Design and preliminary validation.
Denisova, A., Guckelsberger, C. and Zendle, D. (2017). Challenge in digital games: Towards developing a measurement tool.
Abd Rahman, M.H., Nordin, A.I. and Denisova, A. (2017). The effect of time manipulation on immersion in digital games.
Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2015). Adaptation in Digital Games: The Effect of Challenge Adjustment on Player Performance and Experience. the 2015 Annual Symposium 5-7 October.
Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2015). The placebo effect in digital games: Phantom perception of adaptive artificial intelligence.
Nordin, A.I., Denisova, A. and Cairns, P. (2014). Too Many Questionnaires: Measuring Player Experience Whilst Playing Digital Games. The Seventh York Doctoral Symposium on Computer Science and Electronics York, United Kingdom.
Jones, M., Denisova, A., Mitchell, S. and Owen, T. (2019). Acceptability of a Plasticity-Focused Serious Game Intervention for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: User Requirements Analysis. JMIR Serious Games, 7(2). doi:10.2196/11909 .
CHI Play'18, Program Committee Member, 2018.
CHI Play'17, Spotlight Track Programme Committee Member, 2017.
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As you advance in an organization, technical skills become less important, and leadership skills become more important. It’s an inverse relationship because, as a leader progresses and rises to new positions of authority, they need to rely more on leadership ability and getting results through others, than their specific area of expertise.
Now before you get annoyed, I’ll highlight that I am not suggesting technical or functional knowledge and skill is unimportant. They absolutely are. Yet the more I work with organizations large and small, it is clear that as you climb the company ladder, you will rely far less on your proficiency with the business than your ability to work with people. This is about being a leader first, functional expert second. So if you want to be a leader first, here is where to put your focus.
Inspire and motivate those around you. One of my clients builds very sophisticated capital equipment. It is clear that while knowledge of schematics and detailed manufacturing plans is important, leaders of this organization don’t actually do or personally direct any of the building. Other people do that. They certainly need to understand it, but getting people to perform their assigned jobs and be accountable, is the majority of their work. The leaders in the manufacturing division prioritized bringing positive energy into the plant as a means to bolstering productivity. In the book I coauthored, The Inspiring Leader, we highlighted a study indicating that the better a leader was at inspiring and motivating, the greater the workgroup was rated efficiency and productivity. That includes minimizing wasted effort, and continuous improvement too.
Build depth in relationships. Treat people as people. Not as jobs, tasks, or outputs. Doing so requires you to take an interest in them, ask questions, and listen attentively. When leaders demonstrate an interest in people and their work, it helps to develop mutual commitment to the job at hand. Leaders can do this by providing focused attention, taking time away from the office or the plant to discuss ideas and opinions, having conversations about their suggestions, and being available to your team. Most of us know how to do this, but it is a matter of prioritizing these things in the course of every day interactions. This isn’t additive work. It is the work. And the way you accomplish your objectives.
Coach and develop others ability to create value. Another way to deepen relationships also happens to be a critical responsibility of most leaders. Developing talent. In addition to being an effective way to demonstrate care and concern for someone’s success, this is a powerful mechanism to improve performance and ability to create value for an organization. The better people are at applying their talents and knowledge to solve organizational problems or address opportunities, the greater the value they bring to the enterprise. As a coach, you can directly influence how technical specialists or managers use their skills to carry out your strategic objectives. When leaders create a culture of learning and continual improvement, there are fewer errors, greater flow of information, and less dependency on a few experts to do critical tasks.
Foster teamwork and collaboration and bring people together. Few things are more frustrating than the presence of conflicting objectives and teams that aren’t working. One of my clients admonished his senior team, suggesting that all of the profit dollars needed for the organization to meet its financial objectives was “falling through the cracks between your divisions.” His assertion was that the lack of collaboration and competing agendas of the leaders was causing a loss of tens of millions of dollars in productivity and efficiency. By focusing on teamwork and prioritizing the goals of the organization above any one group, or individual, you’ll go a long way to creating an environment where cooperation thrives.
Develop those communication skills. Sure, developing this competency is ubiquitous when working with leaders, but there is no substitute for being skilled in communication. When considering the importance of being a leader first, the ability to powerfully communicate your strategy or the details of your implementation plans to those you work with is critical. When I review organizational survey data, invariably, one of the issues that emerge is a desire for better communication. Finding the right level of detail for your content and your cadence is up to you, but you need to do the work to communicate in a way that ensures your messages are not only understood, but acted upon.
Whether you are a Sales Vice President, the Director of R&D, or a CFO, remember, your divisional responsibility simply represents your area of content expertise. The main job you have is that of a leader. You are a leader first.
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Looking back on 2011, I don’t really feel like I can pat myself on the back about that prediction. I don’t think I can cheer, “woohoo, I got it right.” What I wrote was so very bland and vague. And while I can chronicle all sorts of interesting developments in openly licensed content this year, I’m not sure that verb I chose in December 2010 — “thrive” — is quite the right one for December 2011. Have we really seen intellectual property laws questioned this year (See: Andy Baio’s article “No Copyright Intended“)? Or are we seeing them re-inscribed (See: SOPA)?
JANUARY: The Departments of Labor and Education announced a $2 billion program to help build educational and career-training materials. The stipulation: the materials have to be licensedCreative Commons CC BY, making them available to be openly shared and remixed.
FEBRUARY: LMS upstart Instructure released the source code for Canvas, its learning management system software.
The first strategic meeting was held for Open Educational Resource University (OERu), a system under development by the OER Foundation to make it possible for students to gain academic credit by studying open educational resources.
JUNE: Federal legislation was introduced in Brazil that would require that government funded educational projects be openly licensed. And the Sao Paolo Department of Education also mandated that all its educational content be released under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Share-Alike license.
JULY: Activist and early Reddit-er Aaron Swartz was indicted for downloading some 4 millionJSTOR articles from the MIT library.
OCTOBER: Washington launched the Open Course Library which makes openly-licensed content available as a (potential) textbook replacement for 81 of the state’s most popular college classes.
Pearson announced OpenClass, prompting me to use an Admiral Ackbar image in my storyabout the education company’s “free and open” LMS.
LMS giant Blackboard announced its support for OER, making it possible for faculty to sharetheir course materials. The company also said it was revising its policies so that institutions that do open up their course materials this way don’t incur any additional licensing costs when people access the materials, even via webinars and the like.
NOVEMBER: Khan Academy (undeniably one of the biggest OER stories of the year) raised $15 million to expand its faculty/platform/facility.
Prooposed legislationin California will allocate $25 million to create the California Digital Open Source Library, a library of 50 free and openly-licensed college textbooks.
Reading through this list of events — which I realize is just a very partial picture of everything that falls under the label “open” and which really does contain a good amount of “good news,” I still can’t help but feel that 2011 was sort of a mixed bag. I am sure that OER will be on lots of folks’ lists of most important education trends of the year. And I don’t mean to say that it isn’t.
But I have this suspicion that some of the progress we’ve made towards “open” only exists at the surface or very fringes. I think we’re in store for lots of conflict over what constitutes “open” — how it’s funded, how it’s labeled and licensed, who mandates “what counts.” I don’t mean to complicate a post of 2011 trends with musings about 2012. In fact, I’d see some of these conflicts bubbling beneath the surface all year — it’s in the lawsuits and the funding battles and the business model and marketing plan re-writes.
What does it mean — culturally, pedagogically, politically, financially — that Stanford garners so much buzz for its free online courses while other MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses) go unheralded? Will more universities offer opencourseware and demand open access? Will government funds help promote OER? Will these funding efforts subsidize open content from a closed set of “common” standards? Will “open” become the magical marketing term that giant education companies adopt? What happens to the open Web when companies like Facebook, Apple, and Amazon want to attract consumers to their Internet silos, and similarly what happens to open content when publishers must scramble to adapt their business models to a digital world? What does it mean — culturally, technologically, philosophically — for example, that Google’s Chrome browser has now surpassed the open source browser Firefox for market share? Do folks really care if something is “open”?
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https://moocblogcalendar.wordpress.com/tag/trends/
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Trivium have premiered a new song and music video, titled "Silence in the Snow."
They also have announced a new album, also titled Silence in the Snow. The album is set for an October 2 release via Roadrunner Records.
"For those of you wondering, this song was written for Shogun and is basically almost the same as it was, so Shogun fans rejoice; didn’t like Shogun? You may not dig this," said frontman Matt Heafy.
"But know that since I was 12, I wanted to be a great singer. I screamed because I couldn’t sing. I am proud and excited to finally be able to do what I love, the way I love."
Check out the music video for "Silence in the Snow" below, and be sure to let us know what you think in the comments and on Facebook!
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https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/trivium-premiere-new-song-announce-new-album-details
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Character » Quasar appears in 613 issues.
A former Super-Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., Quasar is a cosmic-powered superhero who was appointed Protector of the Universe by Eon and has been a member of the Avengers, Star Masters, and Annihilators.
Quasar forms shields that protect the team from an explosion meant to kill them. Gladiator, Surfer and Beta Ray Bill were to be killed we can assume it's a serious detonation Quasar stopped. To succeed he drains power from all his team members WITHOUT asking their permission and he does son in less than a nanosecond!!!
Look at this trick he does with Hulk!
Wow. Awesome. These scans are amazing.
Awesome job with the scans.
@jeanroygrant: You know I think that in the earlier comic books, of the 60s and 70s, characters were shown to be significantly more powerful. These days they are more grounded in reality.
@darkazrael999: @darkazrael999: Thank you, fell free to add if you want to.
I have never liked so much Quasar but you have made me to read something about him.
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2019-04-19T08:41:27Z
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Basicozbizinfo has DOUBLED in SIZE!!!
Basicozbizinfo has doubled its size with now 10 more categories, got any suggestions to name more or rename, PLEASE BLOG ME. This month there are 11 brand new links to check out, to begin I have managed to squeeze at least one link in each new category. When using the Basicozbizinfo catalogue, make sure to save a copy first, this will make for easier browsing, also use the zoom tool so you can see the links more clearly. As the catalogue gets bigger the need to have your link bolded or at least to choose your own category will become more apparent, nevertheless the catalogue will always be free & it will be free to list your link. Free = Freedom!
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2019-04-23T20:58:59Z
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https://ljb2.wordpress.com/2008/03/
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On This Day With Trae - A Daily History Podcast!
In truth, Trae's been finding tidbits like this every day to share for years -- he just finally started to record himself doing it.
Here's Your Podcast For April 19!
Want to subscribe to this podcast on your iPhone or Android device? Here's a feed to do so!
Like this podcast? Consider checking out Nerd & Tie, a fortnightly podcast composed of pure geek. Trae cohosts it with fellow geeks Nick and Pher, and they cover all the current goings on in the geek community.
Also, considering liking this podcast on Facebook!
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$ a2enmod proxy_http # for HTTP-aware proxying of requests.
$ a2enmod status # for getting the status of the backend servers.
# This is sets up access for proxy forwading.
# This configuration allows all request to be forwarded.
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Sweetness in the Belly – Seed.
Now, I’m not going to say that my cupcakes were the best ever. In fact, they were far from perfect. Next time I’m going to bake for a couple of minutes less as they were just a touch overdone. And while the icing was delicious as is, I wasn’t a fan of the colour, so I’d add some food colouring just to make the cupcakes a little more festive. Otherwise, my favourite vanilla on top of vanilla taste combination was more than satisfactory. My cravings were sated, and I still have cupcakes left to last me the next few days!
And, because its loosely related, I found this song on iTunes and its currently my favourite.
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Please click on the individual’s name for contact information.
You may change your address on your personnel/payroll records online. If you would like to visit an office to change your address, please visit Howry Hall to update your address and benefit‐related records.
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Liam OConnell sipped a glass of California Cabernet as he sat in a booth at Trattoria on Kalia Road between Lewers Street and Beach Walk in the heart of Waikiki. Even the faux-Tuscan décor was a welcome change from the Hawaiian commercial juggernaut that roared on the streets around him twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year.
Oh well, he rationalized, that was part of the appeal after all. It was still early and, if his luck held, he would have at least an hour or so before the beaches emptied and the restaurant filled with noisy, sunburned tourists. It had been a trying day. Teaching his class on the Irish Literary Renaissance out at the University of Hawaii was becoming increasingly more difficult with each passing year, indeed, with each passing day. Students these days, or so it seemed to Professor OConnell, were simply incapable of appreciating the power of, say, Yeats poetry. "The Wild Swans at Coole," for example, a work that literally sang to his terminally Celtic soul, was virtually incomprehensible to a generation that used glyph-speak and for whom Big Brother and Survivor constituted high drama.
After his class was over, Liam had taken a bus into Waikiki and then walked the two blocks over from Kuhio Avenue to his favorite restaurant. It was a warm and humid evening and he was glad to be sitting quietly in the dimly lit and air-conditioned dining room. Catching the faint scent of lavender, Liam looked up as the establishments owner, Connie Graziana, slid effortlessly into his booth. Connie, too, was in her late sixties although her thick black hair, penetrating brown eyes, and lithe grace belied her age. Liam had been coming into Trattoria once or twice a month for a decade. Since nothing that happened in her restaurant escaped Connies attention, it was natural that, before too long, she had taken notice of Liams repeat appearances. The two quickly became friends and, whenever she was able, Graziana would sit and chat with Liam until the place began to fill and she had to go to work overseeing her business. Over time and given the rather casual nature of their relationship Liam and Connie began to share what might genuinely be called affection or even a certain kind of intimacy.
"Good to see you, Liam. I missed you last week. Is everything alright?"
"Everythings fine, Connie, thanks for asking. Its been so hot and Ive had so much work to do that I just didnt feel like coming out. I was going to call and leave a message for you but, well, you know how it goes."
"Oh, sure, no worries on that account, as long as youre doing well. Whats new up there at UH?"
"Same-old, same-old, Connie, the kids get younger and younger and I just seem to get older. I used to be able to communicate with them quite effectively. These days Im convinced that they conceptualize the world in an entirely different way than people from our generation do."
"Actually I see that here as well. Patrons and staff. Were both getting to the point where we need to retire I think."
Liam sipped his wine and looked around the room at the familiar artwork and fixtures. The wait staff bustled about at least looking busy as they kept wary eyes on the owner. "Youre probably right," he responded as he turned his attention back to Connie. "Speaking of retiring, one of my colleagues is doing just that. Do you remember David Brilliande? Hes come in here with me a few times. If Im not mistaken, I think I introduced him to you."
"Moustache and glasses, right? I seem to recall you telling me that his wife died a year or so ago."
"What a memory! Hes the one. Well, hes going back to the mainland to live with his daughter. It seems that his grandson is allergic to cats. He sent out an email today asking if anyone was willing to adopt his beloved feline, Buttons. Youre not interested are you? In adopting his cat, that is."
Liam was surprised at the pained expression that he saw on Connies face. He was even more surprised when she reached across the table and placed her had lightly on his.
"Liam, Im not much of one when it comes to pets," she began. "Let me tell you a story. Maybe you can someday work this into that novel youd like to write. Its something that Ive learned to live with but, honestly, its also something for which Ill never completely forgive myself. Its funny how its the little things we do or, in this case, dont do that weigh us down. I try not to think about it but even now, years later, when I do it still makes me want to cry."
"No, No," she said as she removed her hand from his and delicately wiped the corner of her eyes with a napkin, "its not your fault. And, really, its nothing of consequence to anyone but me. But let me tell you my story."
"By all means, then," Liam finally said somewhat reluctantly. Given his background in literature, he shouldnt have been so astonished that such a chance remark could be the occasion for what must be some momentous revelation.
anyhow, he was always trying to help out. This time, though, I wanted to kill him. Even before I realized what was happening, the damage was done. What could I do? The dog was a mutt. But she was a cute little thing, all black but with a few patches of white on her breast and paws. We named her Tosca."
"Thats right; youve told me how much you enjoy opera."
"Yes, well, you have to understand. We never had pets or animals around when I was growing up. My parents never would have put up with it. For better or worse I inherited their compulsion for neatness. I wouldnt even let Tosca into the house itself. She stayed in the breezeway between the garage and the entrance to the kitchen. Id come down in the morning, open the door in order to let her out only to find Tony asleep on the floor with the damn dog in his arms. The two were inseparable."
"A boy and his dog," Liam commented. "Thats certainly the subject matter for an archetypal story."
wagging her tail and barking. Id stick out my leg, rub her with my shoe, as if that somehow fulfilled my obligation and satisfied her need for contact, for affection. Dont misunderstand me. I never mistreated her in any way. Its just that I was cold, aloof."
besides, cold and aloof are not adjectives that I would use to describe you."
Liam shifted his weight in the booth and finished his wine. He signaled for another glass. "I have a sense now of where this is going but I need to hear it and, it seems, you need to tell it as well."
"It turns out that Tosca had cancer. Who even knew dogs could get cancer? I surely didnt. The vet said she was so riddled with it that it would be criminal to take her back home, to allow her to continue to suffer. I did the only thing I could do; I had her put to sleep. That afternoon I had to tell Tony when he got home from school. He cried for nearly two days. He didnt eat. He wouldnt go to school. Not once, though, did he ever ask me if we could get another dog. I think he knew enough not to bother. God forgive me, I think he knew. In all the years since, Ive never had the courage to ask him if hes forgiven me for the way I treated that dog."
"For heavens sake, Connie," Liam responded when she had finished. "It was only a dog. And besides, as you say, you didnt mistreat the poor creature in any way. Your son knows what a wonderful mother and, indeed, grandmother, youve been."
"Youre right, of course, but still, if only I had acted differently. It may not have changed the outcome but certainly it would have been easier on Tony. Oh well, time heals all wounds, I guess. The truth is Ive never told anyone else that story. Thanks for listening. You must think Im a maudlin old lady."
"Neither maudlin, nor old, and I appreciate you telling me. Youre a good friend, Connie."
Connie practically blushed. "You are too, Liam. You are too."
Imperceptibly the restaurant had started to fill and Connie was soon called away to deal with the multitudinous details that comprised running a popular eatery. Outside, night fell as it always did in the tropics, like a curtain of soft blue velvet. Liam ordered his meal and ate it in silence. Paying his bill he stood to leave. Once again, he sensed a presence at his elbow.
"Theres one more thing I need to tell you before you leave, Liam," Connie Graziana practically whispered. "I guess this is a night for true confessions. "
Liam replaced his wallet in his back pocket and waited expectantly.
"The deal seems to have gone through. The owner of the building accepted that offer I was telling you about. I have no choice now. I own the business but only rent space here. Well be closing in six to eight months. In fact, the entire block is going to be demolished. Trump is putting up some type of resort complex on the site, as are the Fairfield people."
"Will you relocate? Liam asked.
"No, I havent got the energy to start all over again someplace new. Im going to take what they offer, sit back, and spend more time with Tony and his kids. Im actually looking forward to it. But til then its going to be business as usual, you can bet on that!"
"Of course, I wouldnt expect anything less from you Connie."
"Good night, Liam, and thanks again. Ill see you next week."
Liam turned and made his way to the door. He descended the stairs to street level. Walking over to Lewers Street he then made his way up to Kalakaua Avenue. It was a fifteen or twenty minute walk to his condo down beyond Queen Kapiolani Park where Kalakaua ended at Coconut Avenue. It had cooled considerably and the light trade winds had returned causing a susurration in the palms overhead as he continued east through the crowd. By the time he passed Kuhio Beach Park and crossed the intersection of Kapahulu Avenue, he was gripped by an ineffable sadness. The ironwood trees that grew along the road in front of the Waikiki Aquarium looked almost menacing in the moonlight. Even the white façade of the newly refurbished Natatorium took on a dismal, almost leprous aspect.
Connie was a wonderful woman, Liam thought, as he plodded on toward home, but shes wrong about one thing. Time doesnt heal anything. All it does is anesthetize, deaden the pain like a narcotic. The sins of the past are like slow-acting poison, or like one of those weird viruses you read about these days. They lay dormant in your bloodstream waiting for an opportunity, for a moment of weakness, and then in a fresh burst of malevolence they reassert themselves and assume control once again. Theres nothing whatsoever you can do about it, either. Theres no antidote, no antibiotic that can stop it. Its simply a matter of time, like the tides. Although he lived in paradise, Liam seldom used explicitly religious language or categories. Nevertheless, as he walked along he came to the inescapable conclusion that there was absolutely no such thing as redemption.
Liam passed the Colony Surf on his right. As he did so he lost sight of the ocean but he could still hear the slow roll of the waves as they broke gently on the shore. He thought of his failed marriage and his nearly total estrangement from his two children, both now grown of course and with families of their own. It had been years, literally, since he had seen his grandchildren. He had made so many selfish and arrogant choices in his life. But there was no going back, no way to rewind the tape or undo the past. As he mounted the stairs on the outside of his building, Liam truly saw for perhaps the first time the long, lonely years that stretched ahead of him with little but continual regret for company. Connie had used the word pathetic earlier and it certainly seemed even more appropriate when applied to his situation. The scent of ginger and the soft sound of laughter carried on the breeze from the beach below served only to confirm his worst suspicions.
Entering his apartment he turned on the light and sat down at the computer. An hour later he hit print and, placing the resultant documents neatly on his desk, he stood up. He made a few more surprisingly simple arrangements and then, opening the door to his lanai, Liam OConnell went out into the soft night and hanged himself.
and Ive heard that theyre quite easy to take care of."
News, views and reviews related to hardboiled, classic pulp and genre fiction on THE MEAN STREETS at: http://journals.aol.com/jcc55883/TheMeanStreets/ .
James C. Clar is a teacher and writer who lives in upstate New York. His book reviews, author interviews and articles appear regularly in the pages of MYSTERY NEWS. He has also published material -- including short fiction -- in the CRIME & SUSPENSE EZINE, LONG STORY, SHORT, WORD CATALYST, POWDER BURN FLASH, MYSTERYAUTHORS.COM and CRIMETIME MAGAZINE (UK)."
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https://www.hackwriters.com/redemptionJC.htm
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Dr John Breslin is Director of TechInnovate and a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is also a Research Leader at the Data Science Institute, Co-Principal Investigator at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, and FI at the VistaMilk and Confirm SFI Research Centres. He co-created the SIOC framework (Wikipedia article), implemented in hundreds of applications (by Yahoo, Boeing, Vodafone, etc.) on over 25,000 websites.
He has a h-index of 38 (5,800 citations) for 200 peer-reviewed academic publications (with best paper awards from SEMANTICS, ICEGOV, ESWC, PELS), and co-authored the books "The Social Semantic Web" and "Social Semantic Web Mining".
John is co-founder of boards.ie (Ireland's largest discussion forum website; Wikipedia article), adverts.ie (classified ads website), and StreamGlider (real-time streaming newsreader app). He has won two IIA Net Visionary awards. He is an advisor to AYLIEN, BuilderEngine and Pocket Anatomy. He is co-founder of Startup Galway and the Galway City Innovation District / PorterShed. He also serves on the boards of WestBIC and the American Council of Exercise.
My main research areas include the Social Semantic Web and integrating the Web with electronic devices / sensor systems.
(2015) Social Semantic Web Mining.
(2009) The Social Semantic Web.
(2010) Recent Trends and Developments in Social Software.
(2012) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media.
(2015) The Semantic Web: ESWC 2015 Satellite Events.
(2016) Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces.
(2004) Semantic Web Portal: Community Portal Survey.
(2004) Linking Semantically Enabled Online Community Sites.
(2004) Online Social and Business Networking Communities.
(2007) SIOC Ontology: Related Ontologies and RDF Vocabularies.
(2007) SIOC Ontology: Applications and Implementation Status.
(2007) SIOC Core Ontology Specification.
(2008) SPARQL Update - A Language for Updating RDF Graphs.
(2014) Sizing the EU App Economy: Eurapp Executive Summary.
(2014) Sizing the EU App Economy: Eurapp Final Report.
(2009) Integrating Social Networks and Sensor Networks.
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http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/people/engineering-and-informatics/johnbreslin/
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For so long, due to the sense of separation that all feel and experience, people have often thought to themselves: “What can I do to help change the world and resolve the problems facing humanity and the planet:” and then sink into apathy because they believe that due to their apparent insignificance in the overall scheme of things that there is nothing that they can do of themselves that will be in any way helpful, let alone be seen and acknowledged. This is a false belief! Your continually reset intent to be loving whatever arises is extremely powerful, because you are powerful and your beliefs are powerful. Therefore, believing there is nothing you can do – apathy – is also very powerful, creating blocks, mostly unintentional, that seriously impede progress.
You need to trust and believe in yourselves and in your abilities to be agents for positive change in the world, because you can, and many are establishing that belief within themselves, knowing that it is very effective and powerful. Nearly all of you have ingrained beliefs, often established in childhood, that lie below the surface of your conscious awareness, and through which you engage with life. You all know people who are mostly upbeat and cheerful, and others who are the opposite, and you often wonder why this is. Well, it is due to their beliefs, and the more strongly they follow them or trust in them, the more effective they are, either positively or negatively.
And, as powerful divine beings, children of God, you can change your beliefs! First you need to go within and spend time thinking about how you live your lives and what you believe about yourselves. Then you need to make the intent to encourage what you see to be positive beliefs, and to discard what you see as negative ones. It will not happen instantly, although you may well have numerous “aha” moments as beliefs you were unaware you held slip into your conscious awareness. You then need to choose to set the intent daily to change or discard the ones that obviously do not serve you – I can’t, I don’t want to, I don’t need to, what will people say?, it wouldn’t be me, I’ve always been like this and don’t know how I could change, etc. These new intentions need to be reset daily when you first wake up, whenever you think about them during the day, and before you settle down to sleep at night. It will only take a moment or two, and after a week or so, maybe less, you will begin to notice that you are feeling differently about yourselves – more at peace, more accepting of yourselves and others, and more energized.
Ingrained beliefs will not dissolve instantly, after all they took many years to become established, so do not be discouraged if you do not see positive results as quickly as you had hoped or expected. Intend to be aware of all the judgments you make mentally during the day, most people make a large number, and ask yourself if they really serve you, or if they just depress you as they confirm for you any beliefs you have that people generally, or you yourself are bad, thoughtless, inconsiderate, crazy, mean, unkind, etc. If you can acknowledge the judgments and then forgive those whom you have judged negatively, realizing that, like you, they have problems and issues in their lives that are disturbing their peace and causing them fear or anxiety. Then intend to send them love and compassion.
When you make it your regular practice when negative judgments arise to send love and compassion to the ones you judge, you will find that your own negative self-judgments arise less frequently, and that you are becoming far more self-accepting. Self-acceptance is essential, because you are never going to be anyone other than who you already are, and once you start fully accepting yourselves as spiritual beings having a human experience during which suffering always arises, you will be able to stand back from yourselves (your egos) a little way and ask: “What is the lesson here for me?” Initially nothing may occur to you, but with increasing practice insights will come to you, for example: “When I am angry other people are often angry or get angry too.” You could then try to release the anger instead of expressing it. At first this will be difficult, because anger is a powerful emotion, but if you can stand a little way back from it you will discover that you do have a choice as to whether to express it or not. When you first choose not to express it you may feel de-energized or depressed because of the possible ensuing thought: “I could/should have told him just what I think of him!” But as you practice not expressing your anger you will grow into an awareness that your felt need to do so will weaken until you realize that letting go of your anger will help you feel more peaceful. And if you do express it, and later regret it, then, if possible, apologize to the person concerned, but most of all forgive yourselves instead of berating yourselves for losing your self-control.
As noted above, you are spiritual beings having a human experience, therefore you have to deal with the issues with which being human presents you, so remind yourselves that they are all lessons on your path of spiritual evolution. The more you can come to accept and forgive yourselves the more easily you will find yourselves able to forgive and accept others. Truly, although it often does not appear to be so, everyone, and there are no exceptions, is doing their best. You do not and cannot know what others have been through – well, you may know, but you will not have experienced it precisely as they did – and so you need to cut them some slack. (I am not talking here about people who are so extremely damaged that they hurt and abuse others, and who most definitely need some kind of containment to protect others, while also receiving deeply compassionate help.) After all, most of you have experienced someone cutting you some slack when you have behaved in a way that was less than totally appropriate, and you were probably most appreciative when they did so.
All are one, and therefore it makes complete sense to honor, respect, and assist others, who are merely individual reflections or aspects of yourselves. What you offer to to others you are offering to yourselves. You have all experienced engaging kindly or lovingly with someone, even in almost unnoticeable ways, and then been met with a similar response, and the same with anger. What you offer or present is always returned. Offering love brings or enables peace, whereas offering judgment or anger leads almost invariably to conflict.
The awakening process involves honoring and respecting all others. God honors, respects, and loves you all without exception, and knows that in every moment you are doing your best. Does that mean you should not look within yourselves at your beliefs and motivations to see if they can be improved on? No, of course not, as humans on Earth you are being presented with lessons that you have chosen to learn and, in the process, you are evolving spiritually. But, while this is an ongoing and often demanding task, please do love and accept yourselves, because when you do you feel upbeat and encouraged, and this leads to an ease with life in which dealing with issues and problems becomes less demanding or stressful. And when you live like this it is extremely beneficial to those with whom you interact in any way at all. You all chose to be incarnate at this moment to assist in humanity’s awakening process, and when you live at ease and at peace with yourselves others feel it and are themselves helped along on their path to awakening. Treating yourselves lovingly and compassionately is of great help to all in humanity’s awakening process.
But you are all One, with each other, and of course with God/Source/Wisdom, the Creator of all that exists. What Source creates is everlasting, eternal, without end or termination, it just is, and nothing can change or alter that. Therefore competition with and power over others is pointless and meaningless. How can you possibly beat yourself in competition or have power over yourself? What you can do as a human is to evolve, by allowing the knowing that you are a spiritual being at one with Source and with each other into your conscious awareness. That is what it means to awaken. As modern science has conclusively shown within the last two or three decades, absolutely everything is entangled with and permanently connected to everything else. That there is One vast, immense, infinite energy field of consciousness in which myriad forms, in an infinite variety, form and disperse continuously, and where nothing is lost or destroyed. All that happens is that the forms keep on changing as the One creates in utter joy for Its own endless delight, and that, of course, also means for your endless delight.
What has happened is that you – humanity – have become so enraptured with your own forms that you find it incredibly difficult to open to the awareness that you are, always have been, and always will be infinitely more than the forms in which you clothe yourselves and that enrapture you. You are all inseparably one with the infinite divine field of energy – LOVE. However, you also exist as individual expressions of the Essence that is the One as you each expand and share the Love that you each are.
While in form, using your human brains and intellects, this seems like an incomprehensible paradox, but it is only incomprehensible because of the limitations in which form encloses consciousness, hiding from it its eternal and infinite knowing, and apparently separating it from Itself. To reaffirm, there is only ONE, in which All That Is has Its permanent and eternal existence. Modern science has shown you that nothing material can be destroyed, or entirely removed from existence, it just changes from form back into energy. Matter – rocks, rivers, earth, metals, plants, animals (which includes humans) – is energy that has taken form. Form has a lifespan that varies depending on the fabric from which it is made, whereas energy is eternal, it is never destroyed, spent, or terminated.
You are, therefore, beings of infinite energy temporarily confined in a very limiting form. That form has no power over you. You control and direct it by the power of your beliefs, beliefs of which you are frequently, in fact mostly, almost entirely unconscious. Instead you have accepted the beliefs that were ingrained in you by others as you grew to adulthood, and which are reconfirmed daily by your family, society, culture, religion, politics, and environment. You can change your beliefs, and you need to change your beliefs to bring them into alignment with Love, with Reality. You are Love incarnate, and Love is infinite perfection. It has no issues – emotional, psychological, intellectual, or physical – or problems to solve or heal, but, because of your ingrained and invalid beliefs, encouraged and fiercely defended by your fear-driven egos, you do.
Taking time out daily to go within, to that holy inner sanctuary that lies at peace within each one of you, is the way to shed your invalid beliefs and heal yourselves. No one else can do it for you, although others may be able to offer loving guidance that can help you to access the infinite power you each have within yourselves. You can, and if you set and reset the intent, you will heal yourselves. It may not be possible to heal serious damage or illness to your bodies, but you can and will heal your minds and hearts, relieving yourselves of suffering and coming to a place of deep peace and self-acceptance.
You are all incarnate as humans in the perfect bodies and in the perfect environments for the lessons with which you chose to present yourselves during this lifetime. You are precisely where you are meant to be, where you intended to be, and you have limitless resources in the spiritual realms on which you can call for support and guidance 24/7. Take advantage of this power which is available to you, because, in fact, it is yours, and it will enable you to let go of beliefs that limit and repress you, beliefs that do not serve you. Attempting to use your intellects to analyze, understand, and remove your issues will not work, because all that happens is that they run continuously through your mind on what seems like and endless and circular track, repeating and repeating, and thus draining your energy and leaving you feeling helpless to do anything about them. Then you cruise the fridge, or check your phone, or turn on the TV – if it happens that it is turned off!
To start the healing process, just sit quietly in a meditative, contemplative, or deeply relaxed state and focus on the wall in front of you, or your breath, or a candle, or a plant, or whatever works for you to help you quieten your mind and slow your thoughts. Then accept whatever arises, without judgment or anger, and ask it if it has a message for you. You all have pain from way back that needs to be seen, thanked, and released. Often you will be amazed at what arises from the depths for your attention – maybe a shaming from when you were an infant, or an unfair punishment – and the pain from it has remained. Look at it, accept its message and comfort it lovingly, thus offering it what should have been offered way back when. When it is seen, accepted without judgment of any kind – either of self or of the perpetrator – and lovingly comforted it will start to dissolve. This may happen almost instantaneously, or it may take longer, so again accept, do not insist on instant relief because that is, of course, a negative judgment. That inner child is hurt, and the way forward is via acceptance and comforting. Do not accept your ego’s suggestions that this is unnecessary, that you are an adult now, and that this pandering to your suffering is childish. The ego suggests this because it does not want you to release the pain, because it uses pain and suffering to control and direct you. When that happens you sometimes say or do something that you later very much regret.
By loving and comforting your inner child for the pain and suffering that it has endured you are effectively healing and integrating your ego, making you whole-hearted. Those of you who have worked with small children and infants know that their emotions can take them over very easily, and you know that patient loving of them when they are upset is the best way to calm them and help them to come back to a place of peace, knowing that they are loved and accepted. So, give yourselves the love that you would offer to a small child in need, and do not judge doing this as childish, unnecessary, or stupid! To love yourselves is absolutely essential. It is also absolutely essential to forgive yourselves whole-heartedly for any failings or errors that you believe you have made throughout your lives. Accept that where you are physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually is precisely where you are meant to be, and in doing so, know that you are infinitely and eternally loved by God, and that that state will never change. Doing this is an essential part of your awakening process.
I received this from Barbara Marx Hubbard (I signed up for her messages) and thought some of you might very well enjoy these 2 short but uplifting videos. Try It!
My dear friend Mary will be giving 3 retreats in Maine and New Hampshire in April 2019. If any of you would like further details the link to her website is below.
The physical environment, in which you experience life in form as humans, is also evolving spiritually because it is, needless to say, one with you. As your loving intent strengthens and intensifies, your non- physical interactions with your physical environment also intensify – when you spend time in meditation or contemplation with the intent to allow Love into your hearts – bringing healing, peace, and love to the area or energy field enfolded around your human form which affects all sentient life forms that move through it, as well as the planet herself. Your loving presence on Earth at this moment in her evolution is not an accident or a fortunate coincidence, it was carefully and lovingly planned before you actually severely restricted and moved your eternal being, your consciousness, into the physical organisms that you now recognize as your human bodies.
All humans presently incarnate on Planet Earth, and there are no exceptions, all humans presently incarnate are on Earth by their own choice to assist in the awakening process. As humans, in limited consciousness, who are most of the time operating through their self-centered egos, you are evolving spiritually, even if this does not seem to be the case. And, as you attend to the needs of being human, and observe so many people in pain and suffering inflicting pain and suffering on others, it is very difficult for you to accept that absolutely everyone is truly doing their best! Your egos love to judge, blame, and condemn, and you are all learning to disengage from your ego-driven attitudes and behaviors as you continue to strengthen your daily intent to be only loving whatever arises.
Your egos will be integrated within you, so that inner conflicts dissolve, as you increasingly engage with life from love instead of from fear. All around you you see ego-driven attitudes and behaviors, and because you are aware of them you are able to be aware of them within yourselves and choose not to engage with them. As your intent to be only loving continues to intensify there is less and less energy available for your egos to make use of. Your egos need fear and anxiety to operate, and when you choose not to engage with fear and anxiety their energy is depleted. You then find yourselves more at peace and able to accept whatever arises without judgment or egoic engagement, instead just observing and sending love to deal peacefully and patiently with whatever has arisen. In this way your lives begin to flow far more sweetly and easily, as do the lives of those with whom you interact.
You are on Earth to interact with one another – lovingly – but you have forgotten this, and your egos have done a very good job of convincing you that you have to be cautious and fearful because you never know what disaster might befall you. You have to be prepared for the worst because it normally happens. Of course it does not normally happen, although, because of your human beliefs – instilled into you by your ethnicities, cultures, religions, politics, and general philosophical outlook – that encourage distrust of those who appear to be different from you, when disaster does strike unexpectedly you either judge yourselves negatively for not being prepared, or you play the victim and blame others, or God. Your egos are incredibly competent at justifying themselves and blaming others. And as most of humanity is ego-driven instead of Love-guided, there is an enormous amount of blame and shame to share.
Now, however, that blame game has been generally recognized as severely damaging for relationships, and thus many are attempting to disengage from it, as they realize that doing so is the only way to find peace within themselves and, from there, to start establishing it all across the world. Nearly everyone agrees that there has to be a better way to live harmoniously on Planet Earth, all want peace so that they and their loved ones can enjoy life – life is meant to be enjoyed – without forever being on the alert in case a dangerous situation arises. The main difficulty – which is now being resolved nearly everywhere – is that everyone thinks that their way is the only rational way to move forward. People are now beginning to meet all across the world to discuss meaningful and non threatening ways to deal with the myriad problems and issues that seem to be plaguing humanity.
When people come together intending to have meaningful, thoughtful, and rational discussions, while leaving judgment and personal agendas behind at the door, amazing results occur as opportunities arise that could not have been preconceived. People see one another as people – as people basically like themselves with similar needs and desires – and not as protagonists who cannot be trusted let alone believed. This is happening more and more frequently as the Tsunami of Love continues to create miracles all over the world. Humanity is READY for change, and it is happening right now. So set the intent daily, as you wake up, to be only loving whatever arises, repeat the intent whenever it occurs to you throughout the day, and again as you settle down to sleep at night. You are all beginning to realize that it really is extremely effective, and I would confirm that this is so.
THERE IS ONLY LOVE, THEREFORE IT IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD. Therefore engage with It daily, and allow It to work the miracles you need to resolve your issues and conflicts, and so that It may also heal the Planet and all the life forms that she supports.
Separation is what You chose to experience when You invented the game that allows You to seemingly be separate, alone, abandoned, and utterly disconnected from Source. So much so that You became unaware that there was a Source from which you were separated, and so you believed yourself to be asmall, separate, and insignificant being in an environment full of others, also separate and alone like yourself. And being apparently separate, and therefore unloved, unwanted, and unappreciated caused you, and still causes you, enormous pain and suffering. You seek relief in relationships, but those with whom you seek relationships are also experiencing separation and abandonment, and so they are seeking from you what you are seeking from them. What you seek is Love, and Love is what you are, but you have totally lost awareness of this, forgotten that It is what you are – although It is within you – and that you and Love can never be separated.
Not knowing this, unable to remember this or be aware of it, you seek what is eternally within you elsewhere, where it can never be found. It is like the story of someone searching for something at night on the ground in the vicinity of a streetlamp. A passerby asks the searcher if he lost what he is looking for near where he is seeking it. To which the searcher replies “No.” The passerby then asks him why he is searching there, to which the searcher responds “because the light is better here.” And, within the dream or illusory world, where you are experiencing life as a human, the light does appear to be much brighter and there appear to be many wise or helpful ones who can assist you in your search. Whereas, when you go within, because of the veil or cloak of separation you have drawn between yourself and Yourself, it seems to be a very dark and empty place in which most of what you experience are nightmares of guilt, shame, and worthlessness, as your ego judges the empty space in those terms because there are no “delightful distractions” – other people – telling it how wonderful it is. Those can only be found outside yourself where, if you have achieved or obtained some worldly recognition, you will find appreciation and acceptance . . . temporarily.
Praise and acceptance from without is always temporary, because, as time flows by, others forget or resent your achievements, and withdraw their acceptance and appreciation, and then you have to start your search all over again.
However, if you will go within and sit patiently, in a state in which you have quietened your mind, allowing the “alluring and almost irresistible outside distractions” of the outside world to fall away, you will increasingly find yourselves at peace and in a state of self-acceptance. Realization or awareness will dawn that you are who you are, that you cannot, and in fact do not want to change that, you just want to alleviate or dispel those nightmares of personal unacceptability, which you also see reflected back to you at times from others. By spending time quietly within you will come to a state of self-acceptance and peace which cannot be found in the world outside, where you are almost continuously experiencing and engaging in judgment and blame with and of others who are also fleeing their sense of shame, unworthiness, or unacceptability. And those senses are, of course, invalid because you were created unchangeably perfect by God, and therefore remain so.
As unawakened humans, living in and experiencing the dream/nightmare of life in form, that does not seem to be the case. In this state your egos apparently rule supreme, and the stronger they appear to be the more they seem to achieve materially in worldly success. And yet you are all aware of many who have fallen from grace, and who are no longer celebrated or appreciated but are instead despised. The more you seek outside yourselves for what lies only within, the more extreme will be your eventual disappointment.
Living in the world of form you are constantly presented with its apparent reality, and with all the issues and problems of that state. Life seems to be a constant and ongoing struggle for survival and approval, but even those who have achieved fame and fortune still seek further approval, because egos have insatiable appetites that can never be satisfied.
And of course, you do need to keep reminding yourselves that you are not your egos. You are divine beings, created perfect like unto God, and forever unchanging.
Your ego is like a self apart from yourself, the part that experiences fear and anxiety, and it is always attempting to alleviate it. When the ego is experiencing fear or anxiety it is constantly judging, self or others, to assess if some words or actions need be used to express to others its brilliance or to protect it from attack, and in that state it is always expecting to be attacked. It is therefore very much on the alert, watching out for threats to its safety, and this is a very stressful and energy draining way to live.
However, when you are totally focused on an activity, hobby, or pastime (which could be just thinking creatively, without actual physical action) that you enjoy doing and in which you know you are competent, your ego is relaxed and non-judgmental. This is very similar to being in a meditative or contemplative state. That is why meditation and contemplation are so beneficial. In that relaxed state of self-acceptance the ego is silent, enabling you to hear the Voice for God which is always with you, able and most willing to offer you the help and guidance you need to maintain a sense of self-acceptance at all times.
Self-acceptance is essential for your well-being. It is your natural state, in which you have no need to seek approval from anyone, and in which you are able, and intend, to be only loving whatever arises. In that state you recognize that if someone attacks you it is a very clear indication that that person is suffering and is engaging with you out of a sense of fear or inadequacy. Then, from your place of peace, you are able to silently offer compassion and love – the healing energy that will flow through you abundantly if you just allow it. Whereas your ego will judge and condemn anyone who attacks, thus encouraging conflict instead of peace, because it loves drama and attention of any kind.
Daily periods spent quietly alone, free from the distractions with which your busy human lives are forever presenting you, are absolutely essential for your well-being, especially now, as all the issues that have been ignored or denied by the human collective arise into your awareness – seemingly threatening your sanity and safety – and that need to be released. That is all that is needed – RELEASE. To spend lots of time attempting to uncover the reason for them, their source, is unnecessary and distracting. Just acknowledge whatever arises, thank it for coming into your awareness so that it can be released, and then release it lovingly, knowing that its purpose, which is now completed, has been part of your awakening process.
As you release these issues, some of which may cause painful memories to arise, forgive them and forgive those who apparently caused them, including yourselves. Life as a human brings to you a series of lessons, some of which you see and learn, some of which you ignore or refuse, while others do not enter your awareness at all. They are all steps on your path Home, your awakening to awareness of your oneness with God, and therefore with all sentient life. They are not intended to fill you with guilt or shame as you remember actions taken or words spoken that were not loving, those were all part of the game of separation. Yes, they seemed very real, some of them still do – and they were often very painful. However, you no longer have any need of them because you have all chosen – even though you may presently be unaware of this – to awaken from the game, the dream, into Reality, Oneness, Love. Here there is no judgment, guilt, blame, or requirement for restitution, there is only complete and utterly unconditional acceptance of each one of you, by every other, as you recognize one another as the One beloved Child of God.
Just to remind you: There is only Love. Love is Real, and there is nothing beyond the infinite field of creation that is Love, because It includes and embraces everything, and of course there is no beyond. You are loved way beyond your ability – as humans – to imagine or envision. Therefore relax in the certainty of your absolute and eternal perfection, worthiness, and lovableness and know that you will know that you are one with, and eternally inseparable from Source, therefore rejoice and celebrate.
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The Secretariat’s programmes depend, to varying degrees, on voluntary contributions. Umoja currently covers over 23,000 contribution agreements, with an annual average volume of over 4,000 new agreements both in 2016 and 2017. It manages the processes from the recording of an accounts receivable based on a confirmed contribution pledge or agreement, through its closure after discharging its obligations.
A glance at the 2017 Schedule of Individual Trust Funds (over 400 pages) provides some indication of the volume and complexity of the processes involved in securing such funding by programmes.
The new UE2 fundraising and donor relations management solution will cover several upstream processes before contribution agreements are finalized. The new module will capture information on donors’ areas of interests (both thematic and geographical), historical trend of contribution amounts, as well as types of contributions.
All this will be used to better forecast prospective contributions and help resource mobilization officers to analyze and prioritize resource mobilization efforts. It will also provide the Organization’s senior management with a comprehensive view of funding gaps vis-a-vis planned programme activities and will facilitate strategic decision-making to broaden target donor groups.
The initial deployment includes donor relationship management, leveraging the UN’s enterprise solution for customer relationship management). It enables resource mobilization officers to maintain donor profiles and record their interactions with donors.
The first release has been simplified to reduce the complexity of change management, especially in the absence of a Secretariat-wide resource mobilization or donor relations strategy or common processes and tools.
The subsequent releases will include the functionality for managing appeals and agreements as well as integrating with the existing grants management in Umoja.
The solution was rolled out in September 2018 to DESA, ECA, ECLAC, UNCTAD, UNEP, UNMAS, and UNODC. It will be gradually extended to other entities, with additional functionality scheduled for release during the second quarter of 2019.
More updates and information can be found in the Umoja website.
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The most powerful man in this ancient city rides through the streets on prized thoroughbreds and in vintage Rolls-Royce convertibles. One servant holds a designer umbrella over his head, no matter the weather. Another fans him with exotic-bird feathers. As soon as they see him, a group of uniformed men fire cannons into the air.
Muhammad Sanusi II is the emir of Kano. For 1,000 years, his predecessors ruled one of Africa’s great empires. Now, Sanusi has inherited his family’s palace, its pageantry and its nostalgia for a Nigeria that no longer exists.
He is, by some measures, the most important traditional leader in West Africa. But in a country of pop stars, oil tycoons and cutthroat politicians, his reign has become a litmus test for the relevance of Nigeria’s tribal and religious chiefs. Is the man on Kano’s velvet throne an expensive anachronism?
Versions of that question are being asked across Africa, as mayors and chief executives compete for power with tribal elders and paramount chiefs, as young people engage with their communities on Facebook as frequently as the ones in their native villages, and as booming cities draw more families from their ancestral homes.
Sanusi, 56, has taken on the question of his relevance with fervor, trying to show the ways the traditional and the modern can coexist in Nigeria. He’s the right man for the job: aformer head of Nigeria’s central bank, a staunch opponent of child marriage, a man whose bookshelf is divided between Islamic law and monetary policy and whose iPhone is constantly lighting up.
In 2014, Boko Haram, perhaps the world’s most vehemently anti-modern Islamist extremist group, tried to kill Sanusi in an attack on Kano’s central mosque. He happened to be traveling that day. More than 100 others were killed. The assassination attempt underscored Sanusi’s prominence and the risks he was undertaking as a reformer. Sanusi has not let up.
A few times a week, Sanusi holds court in an annex of his palace, a cathedral-like chamber where he sits atop an ornate throne, resting on cushions embroidered with his name. Visitors bow before him on a red carpet, their foreheads touching the ground.
On one hand, the hearings are a theatrical display. Sanusi’s henchmen surround him whenever he adjusts his robe or hat so the public can’t see his movements. Another group of men sound 10-foot iron horns before he takes the throne. Until someone takes out a smartphone, Sanusi’s palace appears stuck in time, in the 19th century, or the 10th.
But as a line forms of people seeking Sanusi’s counsel, it’s clear that his role is more than ceremonial. There are divorce cases and property disputes and visits from government officials. During one recent session, Nigeria’s police chief arrived with his deputies, lining up in front of the throne. Sanusi lectured them about criminal justice reform, the man with no official power instructing the formal keepers of Africa’s wealthiest nation.
That duality exists across much of the continent. In rural Malawi, the punishment for theft is meted out by the village head, not the judicial system. (The penalty is typically two hens.) During the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, it was paramount chiefs, not formal government representatives, who often persuaded people to change their behavior and ended the epidemic.
But Sanusi’s stage is much bigger than that of most traditional leaders. Kano state now has a population of nearly 10 million. And the emir’s comments and actions have typically resonated across much of West Africa.
Remaining relevant, and proving his modernity, has come at a price. Sanusi is a public critic of men who marry more than one wife when they can’t afford to support multiple families. He is a proponent of contraception and an advocate of women earning university degrees before they are married. In Kano’s conservative Islamic community, those positions haven’t gone over well.
“Many saw him tilting the balance toward a pro-Western agenda here, and that created problems,” said Tijani Nanyia, a history professor at Kano’s Maitama Sule University.
LEFT: A man films Sanusi with his tablet during a graduation ceremony at the Fatahul Mubin Islamic School in Kano. CENTER: Bystanders gather for the event. RIGHT: Sanusi takes a selfie with family members in the inner palace in Kano. The emir wants to demonstrate the ways the traditional and the modern can coexist in Nigeria.
LEFT: Sanusi meets with female family members, including a woman and her baby, in the inner palace in Kano. CENTER: A few times a week, the emir holds court in an annex of his palace, where men come to pay their respects, lodge complaints and seek his counsel. His role is more than just ceremonial. RIGHT: Sanusi greets the new assistant inspector general of police in the outer palace in Kano.
Members of Sanusi's court race horses outside the palace in Kano, including Mustafa Abba, far right, the emir's younger brother and personal secretary.
The Kingdom of Kano was established in the 10th century and grew into one of the continent’s great trading hubs, along the trans-Sahara route connecting northern and southern Africa. Over the centuries, it changed hands between powerful groups, eventually becoming an Islamic emirate in 1805.
The emirate remained important throughout British colonial rule. In 1961, Queen Elizabeth came to visit the emir. The city exported leather and cotton to Europe’s finest designers. The emir received an official salary from the central government. Presidents flocked to Kano to visit, to be seen in the presence of northern Nigeria’s power broker.
Even when he was a child, Sanusi dreamed of becoming emir, a hereditary position that belonged to his great-uncle from 1963 to 2014.
“On the playground, when we were playing games, he would play the part of the emir,” said Ahmed Umar, Nigeria’s former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who attended school with Sanusi.
But first Sanusi went into investment banking, taking a break to study Islamic law in Sudan before being chosen in 2009 as the head of Nigeria’s central bank. He wore a bow tie. He appeared on CNBC to discuss inflation and foreign reserves. In 2011, after implementing reforms known as “the Sanusi tsunami,” he was named Central Bank Governor of the Year by The Banker magazine.
In 2014, when his great-uncle died, Kano’s emirate council, a group of elders, chose Sanusi to be the next emir. It was a startling transition. Sanusi replaced the bow tie with ornate robes and hats and canes. He put himself at the center of Kano’s spectacle — the cannons now firing for him, his longtime friends now bowing at his feet.
But Sanusi knew as well as anyone that Nigeria was changing. He could read about it in the newspapers. He could see it on television.
“They are literally relics of the dead past in the modern world,” a Nigerian comedy writer, David Hundeyin, told the New Yorker earlier this year, lambasting one chief whose entourage blessed an airplane with a traditional dance before takeoff.
Sanusi watches television in his private library in Kano. Before being chosen emir in 2014, Sanusi had been involved in investment banking. He took a break to study Islamic law in Sudan before being selected in 2009 as the head of Nigeria’s central bank.
Sanusi, center, walks through his ornate palace in Kano, which houses his vast collection of shoes and ceremonial hats. The emir has inherited his family’s palace, its pageantry and its nostalgia for a Nigeria that no longer exists.
LEFT: Graduate Halifa Ibrahim prays during the Fatahul Mubin Islamic School graduation in the Old City in Kano. CENTER: Mustafa Abba, Sanusi's younger brother and personal secretary, holds a wooden cane that is carved to resemble a crocodile at the palace in Kano. RIGHT: A trumpeter plays the horn as the emir prepares to leave the outer palace.
Sanusi’s ancestors had overseen public education in northern Nigeria; they had controlled the region’s budget; they had dictated economic policy. Now, Sanusi is technically less powerful than Kano’s elected governor, who has the authority to fire the emir.
But Sanusi’s moral authority is real. He has devoted much of his recent time to reforms that would have been unimaginable under his predecessors. He has been praised for his liberalism — especially overseas. Before an interview with The Washington Post began, Sanusi opened and read a long, handwritten letter from the queen of the Netherlands.
But in Kano, even his means of reaching out to his subjects has been controversial.
Early on in his reign, Sanusi was a frequent contributor to a number of WhatsApp groups, joining friends and residents of the state in sometimes-heated conversations about Islam and modern life. Some traditionalists were shocked. Eventually, Sanusi stopped contributing to the groups.
“People said, ‘No, that’s not the role of the emir. He’s not supposed to be engaging in these debates on WhatsApp. That’s not how he earns respect,’” said Tijani Garba, a professor at Northwest University in Kano.
“It’s been a difficult transition,” Sanusi acknowledged.
He kept trying to redirect his authority — to prove that there was no contradiction between being an emir and embracing the modern world. But sometimes it felt like the modern world was derailing his efforts.
This month, a big story about the emir broke in the Nigerian press. The man at the helm of a fake Instagram account impersonating Sanusi was arrested.
The debate over the legacy of colonialism in Africa rages on.
Cape Town water crisis shows vast gap between rich and poor South Africans.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/nigerian-emir-beholds-the-future/
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The practice or custom observed by a political official of filling government positions with qualified employees of his or her own choosing.
When the candidate of a political party wins an election, the newly elected official has the right to appoint a certain numbers of persons to jobs in the government. This is the essence of the patronage system, also known as the spoils system ("To the victor go the spoils"): appointing persons to government positions on the basis of political support and work rather than on merit, as measured by objective criteria. Though the patronage system exists at all levels of U.S. government, the number of positions that are available through patronage has decreased dramatically since the 1880s.
The patronage system thrived in the U.S. federal government until 1883. In 1820 Congress limited federal administrators to four-year terms, leading to constant turnover. By the 1860s and the Civil War, patronage had led to widespread inefficiency and political corruption. Where patronage had once been confined to the cabinet, department heads, and foreign ambassadorships, by the 1860s low-level government positions were subject to patronage. The loss of a presidential election by a political party signaled wholesale turnover in the federal government. When President BENJAMIN HARRISON took office in 1889, 31,000 federal postmaster positions changed hands.
The assassination of President JAMES GARFIELD in 1881 by a disgruntled office seeker who did not receive a political appointment spurred Congress to pass the Civil Service Act, or Pendleton Act of 1883 (5 U.S.C.A. § 1101 et seq.). The act, which at the time only applied to 10 percent of the federal workforce, created a Civil Service Commission and advocated a merit system for the selection of government employees. By 1980, 90 percent of federal positions had become part of the civil service system. In addition, the passage in 1939 of the HATCH ACT (53 Stat. 1147) curtailed or restricted most partisan political activities of federal employees.
State and local governments have employed large patronage systems. Big-city political machines in places such as New York, Boston, and Chicago thrived in the late nineteenth century. A patronage system not only rewards political supporters for past support, it also encourages future support, because persons who have a patronage job try to retain it by campaigning for the party at the next election.
Large-scale patronage systems declined steadily during the twentieth century. During the Progressive Era (1900–1920), "good government" reformers overthrew political machines and installed civil service systems. Chicago, under Mayor Richard J. Daley, remained the last bastion of patronage, existing in its purest form until the late 1970s.
Patronage has its defenders. It is a way to maintain a strong political organization by offering campaign workers rewards. More importantly, patronage puts people into government who agree with the political agenda of the victor. Cooperation, loyalty, and trust flow from this arrangement. Finally, patronage guarantees some turnover, bringing new people and new ideas into the system.
Opponents have long agreed that patronage is acceptable at the highest levels of government. Presidents, governors, and mayors are entitled to select their cabinet and department heads. However, history indicates that patronage systems extending far down the organizational chain are susceptible to inefficiency and corruption.
Congress took another look at patronage issues in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (92 Stat. 1121–1131, 5 U.S.C.A. 1201–1209). Concerned that federal bureaucrats were too independent and unresponsive to elected officials, the act replaced the Civil Service Commission with the Office of Personnel Management, under closer control of the president. The act also created the Senior Executive Service, which gives the president greater discretion in reassigning top officials to departments and agencies.
Bureaucracy; Civil Service; Tammany Hall.
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https://law.jrank.org/pages/9120/Patronage.html
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Coles supermarket has reversed its ban on plastic bags: University of Melbourne experts explore the impact and what it means for Coles.
Alien: Covenant is scary enough as a film. But University of Melbourne experts find examples of some terrifying Alien-esque animals living among us on Earth.
Half of the world's farmed Atlantic salmon suffer from earbone deformities and associated hearing loss, according to new research.
Take a look at 20 of Australia's newest freshwater fish, discovered in the remote Kimberley region by University of Melbourne researchers.
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2019-04-26T01:50:43Z
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https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/individuals/professor-stephen-swearer
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Incidences of Mould and Bacterial Toxins in Dairy Products. In Tamime, AY (Ed.), Microbial Toxins in Dairy Products, p. 19-70. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017 How to Cite?
This chapter reviews the common bacterial toxins and mycotoxins involved in food poisoning in milk and dairy products. Food-borne bacterial infection occurs when food contaminated with pathogenic bacteria is consumed. The major type of diseases caused by B. cereus varies from countries to countries. Although the incidence of these bacteria has frequently been reported in different food-stuffs including dairy products, there is no information about the occurrence and analysis of their toxins produced in food. Contamination of dried milk products with B. cereus is common, and generally via raw milk that contains the organisms. Milk and dairy products are known to be frequently contaminated with B. cereus (emetic), C. botulinum and Staph. aureus. Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) causes the disease botulism, which can be lethal if untreated. Rapid determination of exposure to BoNT is an important public health goal.
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2019-04-25T01:59:48Z
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http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/226623
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Rens, E.G, Boas, S.E.M, & Merks, R.M.H. (2016). Modelling the Growth of Blood Vessels in Health and Disease. ERCIM News, (104), 36–37.
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2019-04-20T00:41:13Z
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https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/25386
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Like the GTM Piranha, the GTM-11 Infyrno is an anti-fighter weapon carried by bombers to clear a path through defenders as they close with their primary objective. The Infyro is a much different device than the Piranha however. It is, again, a manually detonated dumb-fire missile. But intead of using seeking submunitions, it depends solely on high-energy explosives released within a very tight detonation pattern. It does enormously higher damage, but to a small area.
The missile moves fast and has a fair range, making it safer to deploy. But this is a very difficult weapon to use in its intended role since one must gauge by eye the necessary lead factor on its unguided path. Enemy fighters also have the annoying habit of seeing the massive chunk of ordnance come sailing their way, and break formation evade it. When it works, it works amazingly well, and entire wings go out with a single brilliant detonation; but it doesn't often work.
However the Infyrno is not entirely useless, since it can dish up absolutely catastrophic damage to light warships, freighters, transports, etc. Against these targets, the Infyrno can be considered a sort of quick-loading, dumb-fire antiship torpedo. The standard version has 3/4 the damage of the Cyclops, greater velocity, and actually increased subsystem damage. Be cautious however, not to release too near the target, since you will almost certainly be vaporized by your own weapon if you're caught in the blast radius.
The GTM-11 Infyrno is an area-effect bomber suppression weapon, often employed to knock out incoming waves of slow-moving bombers. Upon detonation, the Infyrno releases multiple submunitions that contain ultra-high-explosive charges. The Infyrno is detonated remotely by pressing the Secondary weapon trigger a second time. A HUD indicator displays the distance from the warhead to the firing ship. If the pilot triggers the detonation too early, he risks being caught in the Infyrno's extensive blast radius.
I've never gotten the hang of the Infyrno, personally, but when you get it right, it's quite effective at shaking up formations and causing people pain. A direct hit will leave a target in very bad shape.
This weapon takes considerable skill and timing to use against fighters, but can be quite effective against them if you do have the listed requisites. However, I found that for those less able like me, it works well against cruisers, as well as transports, although for those, you could use the much better suited Tempest, or simply hammer them with your guns. Personally I feel that this could dispense with the complicated bomblet crap and a bigger boom.
Like old Indiana Jones says, "If you don't know how to use a whip, you'll just end up hurting yourself." If you detonate an Infyrno too close to yourself, you will most likely cause yourself to explode. Though, once you get the hang of using these, the same stands for enemy fighters, which even the burliest of which have problems taking two hits. These also have a very high chance to knock out a specific subsystem you may be aiming for, just by their sheer power.
Speaking with true experience of using the Infyrno, it is useful against SB Seraphim and SB Nephilim bombers, notorious for their heavy shield and hull plating. Against even a glancing hit from one of these, all that will be for naught. Time your detonation of it when the range of the missile is near/at the same range of the target from you. Best to fly straight into the oncoming wave of bombers and fire, it is VERY tricky to use otherwise. If they won't destroy your target, they will certainly shake off some of its shielding for you. Also a viable weapon for harassing cruisers.
If you're attacking a convoy of freighters, gas miners or AWACS, the Infyrno is actually a very good weapon against these targets. Don't leave this behind if you're going on a convoy assault mission. Also be careful of detonating it too early, especially on the higher difficulties since it can do some heavy damage to your fighter if it's too close.
The AI is formidable with this weapon, but be careful with wingmen who have Infyrnos! They'll not care if you're within the blast radius. You'll die of your wingmen's Infyrnos more often than your enemies' Tornado swarms, so overall, it's better to forget about giving this weapon to your AI-controlled wingmen.
For all that the description is worth, the Infyrno is hardly effective against strike craft. With a speed of 120, unless your target is stationary or remaining on a straight course, odds are that you will hardly even do any damage. Moreover, you probably will need to keep an eye on the warhead if you want a manual detonation, which leaves a high chance of getting caught in the blast yourself. What the Infyrno can really be used for is a substitute for torpedoes - being dumbfire you are spared from long lock-ons, and capships can hardly dodge. If you are good with primaries consider flying a fighter that can carry these, not that there are a lot of chances of doing so in the campaign.
If this thing can a heck of a lot faster, it would be able to kill those pesky wings in a short order and less time for them to get away and escape. Otherwise, it can only really hit bombers facing head on into you.
Does not work on bombers flying head on to you either. Even AI knows how to dodge this thing from up front, and if you are close enough detonate before the bombers turn away, you are probably close enough to toast your own fighter.
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2019-04-25T10:38:03Z
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https://wiki.hard-light.net/index.php/GTM_Infyrno
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On November 30, 1989, Richard Mallory, a storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida, is last seen taking a ride with Aileen Wuornos. The following day, his car was found abandoned in a remote area of Ormond Beach. Nearly two weeks later, his body turned up in a Daytona Beach junkyard with three bullets in his chest.
Mallory's murder was the first of seven committed by Aileen Wuornos over the next year. Perhaps because she was one of the few women killers to gain widespread fame and notoriety, she was inaccurately dubbed "America's first female serial killer." Her case was heavily publicized through television talk show appearances and a documentary, The Selling of a Serial Killer.
Wuornos’ parents split before she was born and her father, who had been arrested for child molesting, killed himself while awaiting trial in a mental institution. When her mother abandoned her at a young age, Aileen was sent to live with grandparents. She was kicked out of their home when she got pregnant at age 14. From 1974 to 1976, Wuornos operated under several aliases and amassed an arrest record for offenses including drunken driving, assault, and armed robbery. In 1986, she became romantically and criminally involved with a woman named Tyria Moore. In late 1989, Wuornos began her infamous killing spree. Five months after Richard Mallory was killed, David Spears was found dead, shot six times with a .22 caliber gun in the woods near Tampa. At around the same time, another male body turned up nearby that appeared to have been killed with the same type of gun. Three additional men met the same demise during the summer of 1990. When the seventh victim was found in November, the media was alerted to the possibility of a serial killer. After receiving several tips, detectives caught Wuornos in a seedy biker bar in January 1991. With Moore assisting police, Wuornos confessed to the killings but claimed that they had all been done in self-defense. When a jury found Wuornos guilty on January 27, 1992 and was sentenced to death. She was executed by lethal injection on October 9, 2002.
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2019-04-26T15:02:56Z
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http://www.crimemagazine.com/serial-killer-aileen-wuornos-abducts-her-first-victim
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Diversity in tech hasn't changed much.
There's a mantra that gets tossed around in the tech industry: We want to change the world.
For true believers, it's the notion that companies can create products that improve the way we live, work and play -- blasting us into a better future.
But despite that idealism, Silicon Valley still faces a lack of diversity. And there's a notable disconnect between solution-oriented talking points and the pace at which companies are actually making workforces more inclusive.
When technology firms started publishing diversity reports, in 2014, the numbers revealed what many suspected: There are a lot of white guys in tech (and a dearth of women and minorities).
Major companies including Facebook, Apple, Google and Microsoft haven't cracked the 30 percent mark for women in technical positions, even though a report this year from the International Labour Organization says women account for 46.9 percent of the US workforce.
And we're not even sure how many of the women at these tech companies also fall into an underrepresented category in terms of race or ethnicity.
Since the first reports, the number of women and minorities at technology firms has changed little. Sometimes the numbers stay flat: From 2016 to 2017 Apple stayed at 32 percent women. Sometimes they fall backward: In 2016, Microsoft lost a percentage point.
Most people agree there's more work to be done when it comes to disrupting the demographics of the tech industry. There's also concern that this is a problem where tech just isn't applying itself.
"Companies still aren't really making the big leaps," said Alaina Percival, CEO of the organization Women Who Code.
The work so far has taken on a variety of forms. In 2015, Intel put $300 million into diversity efforts, including tying executive compensation to diversity goals. IBM started its Tech Re-Entry program to bring back women who've left the industry. In November, Apple unveiled an entrepreneur camp for women. On Monday, Microsoft pledged $10 million by 2020 to Code.org, a nonprofit focused on computer science education.
Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi said people are looking to tech in regard to the future of employment, and the diversity issue. Assistance like Microsoft's can, he said, "systematically help change the education system to give every student a pathway to opportunity to get the jobs of the future, and also make sure diversity is baked in."
Scandal can undermine even the best efforts to show that the tech industry is making progress in how it addresses questions of culture and inclusion.
This year we saw some big flaps, from yet another sexual harassment lawsuit against Uber to a New York Times story alleging that Google went ahead and paid $90 million to Android creator Andy Rubin after he left the company, despite sexual harassment allegations.
"We recognize that we have not always gotten everything right in the past and we are sincerely sorry for that," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a November letter to employees, which outlined actions the company will take toward encouraging a "representative, equitable, and respectful workplace."
Women Who Code's Percival said internal problems don't have to end up in scandal.
"It's not possible not to make mistakes," she said, "Mistakes are based on the individual, and actions around the mistake are based on the company."
In other words, how companies deal with problems is key.
In September, Rebooting Representation, a report from McKinsey & Co. and Melinda Gates' Pivotal Ventures, found that only about 5 percent of tech's philanthropic and social responsibility efforts go toward women in tech. Even less, 0.1 percent, goes toward women of color.
"Despite many leaders' stated desire to bring more women into the sector," the report said, "most companies do not invest significantly in improving the gender diversity in tech through their philanthropy."
Brenda Darden Wilkerson, president of AnitaB.org, an organization that works for the advancement of women in computing, said this showed a disconnect.
Making and celebrating incremental progress can be a tricky dance for companies. In October, Intel reached a goal to increase the diversity of its US workforce to match the percentage of women and minorities in the US tech industry. It was a step forward, but Intel is still about on par with other tech companies.
"The fact that we've hit this goal is just the start of another set of goals," Barbara Whye, vice president of human resources and chief diversity and inclusion officer at Intel, told CNET.
Intel aside, Wilkerson said there's a trap built into the idea that making progress is difficult.
"When you talk about how hard something is, you push it off into the future," Wilkerson said. "You give yourself a pass. You say, 'We're doing the best that we can, and you should just pat us on the head for making any progress at all.'"
She wants to see companies setting bigger goals that signal companies are dug in, like shooting for gains of more than a percentage point a year.
These days, diversity advocates turn to more than ethics to make their case about why inclusion is important.
There's a growing body of research that supports the idea that having diverse teams leads to better problem solving, innovation and greater creativity. Some findings even point to higher profits for companies that have women on their boards.
Businesses that aren't diverse could be limiting their success when it comes to making products or services meant to transform the planet.
"You can't change a world that you don't understand," said Sherrell Dorsey, founder of the newsletter ThePLUG, which focuses on investors and founders of color.
And as Wilkerson noted, when tech companies say, "We want to change the world," that "we" is essentially the group of white guys who work there. It's a pretty homogenous we.
Diversity, she says, "isn't just going to show up at your door."
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2019-04-19T12:52:50Z
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https://www.cnet.com/news/when-it-comes-to-diversity-techs-idealism-keeps-falling-short/
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udayton
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Eloe, Paul W. and Henderson, Johnny, "Multipoint boundary value problems for ordinary differential systems" (1994). Mathematics Faculty Publications. 169.
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2019-04-22T03:10:18Z
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https://ecommons.udayton.edu/mth_fac_pub/169/
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