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Tai Sui God | Sana Ako si Ricky Lee!
Tonight is the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year that will usher in the Year of the Sheep. And so, I think it is only fitting to introduce to you tonight the Tai Suey God of the year, I have briefly mentioned in my post 2015 YEAR OF THE WOOD SHEEP FENG SHUI FORECASR BASE ON BAZI, FLYING STARS, AND 24 MOUNTAIN STARS FORMULA: A BALANCE YEAR FILLED WITH WEALTH AND RESOURCS BUT MAY BE RULED BY ARGUMENTS AND FIGHTING (2).
This year’s Tai Sui God or Grand Duke Jupiter is called Great General Yang Xian, although he never became a General and is only called as such as an honor given to him for being part of the 60 Tai Suey Gods, he is one of two Tai Sui Gods that never became a General in their human life.
The truth is General Yang Xian is more of a yogi master, and while he was a scholar he dedicated his life meditating and going on retreat interspersed with giving out lectures on peace and how to attain spiritual knowledge. If you have been a long time reader and understand the basics of Feng Shui you would have decipher that the character of the Tai Suey God will have an effect on the year, and it is in this sense that we are lucky, because as mentioned in my annual forecast that the year is ruled by a very strong #3 Flying Star which makes this year quite ‘heated’ both on a personal and macro level. If Great General Yang Xian has become a War of God, this year would see much more fighting, but since he is a peaceful god, the strong effects of the ‘Argumentative Star’ or the #3 Flying Star will no longer be heightened.
People born on the sign that ‘offends’ either directly or indirectly Great General Yang Xian, need not worry so much because he kind hearted and peace loving and is not quick to anger, but that doesn’t mean that one should not wear a Piyao.
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To give you some information about myself, who addresses you, believe that I am descended from some wealthy prince of the old days. For you have never met a man with a desire to be a king or to be rich than I have, so that I may entertain liberally, do no work, have no worries, and plentifully reward my friends, as well as all worthy and learned men. But I comfort myself with one thought, that in the other world I shall be all this, and greater still than at present I dare even wish. So console yourself in your misfortunes too, with as good as thoughts or better, and drink lustly if you can get the liquor.
Dare to be wise! Begin!
The idolatrous transformation – of the relative into the absolute, and the all-too-human into the divine – makes it possible for man to indulge his ugliest passion, in the firm belief that he is working for the highest good.
Oh my! I took a quick look through your poetry this morning and am struck by the freshness of your language and the great delight you obviously take with words. I’ll be back for a deeper look shortly. Thanks for your original voice!! And thank you for your interest in my blog.
Ah, a true Absurdist! You make for good company. Love your work.
Anyone who quotes Rabelais in “About” is worth following!
This is a really good blog. I don’t usually like wealthy, scholar wise people, cause generally their arrogance gets in the way. Not accusing you of that. I appreciate the likes you’ve given to some of my posts. I’ve enjoyed reading some of your poetry. Keep the good work!
Hi – thanks for visiting my blog. I’ve explored your and find your poetry intriguing. I’ll be visiting to read some more.
Thank you for dropping by my blog and helping me discover your wonderful and original poetry.
Your absurdist poetry is really interesting and different!
In my more cynical days, I prefaced one of my books with quotes from Rabelais & Byron. Whitman & Horace too? Interesting, Keep us posted.
God bless (whether you believe in Him or not)!
Your highness, I appreciate very much that you took such time out of your busy schedule to like my poetry on my blog: WordMusic. I am honored.
I think you already know I like your work, but I thought it was time to read your About, and now I have, so back to the meat and potatoes I go. Lol.
Thanks for finding me and I will certainly savor your posts.
Thanks for liking my poem, “Flies vs. Bees”. Looking forward to reading more of your poetry.
Thank-you for liking a recent post of mine. I love your style!!
Thanks for reading my poem! I like your site.
I do thank you for finding my latest poem. After visiting you here, I’m a bit embarrassed by it. Mine is written simply, because it’s a rather simple (though in my mind, truthful) sentiment. Your poetry is quite deep, intelligent, thoughtful, and (is it okay if I say this?) on the ‘dark’ side. Yet, I believe we can value and appreciate both.
Thanks for reminding me to drink lustily. That’s what the guy said at the AA meeting last night, too! And thank you very much for reading my post. I look forward to getting familiar with your work.
Hi, I have nominated you for versatile bloggers award.. Can you view my post on delightedsouls and follow further rules.
Congrats and keep the good work up !
I find your writing well crafted and poignant, glad I found it.
Thanks for the Like! I’m a poet too, and will be poking around your blog from time to time. Thank you!!
Just wanted to thank you for being my number one fan.
You have a way with words. That’s a gift. All the best.
Thank you for the nomination but I must respectfully decline. I see no point in these imaginary awards that seem to serve no purpose except that of keeping up appearances and indicating what a bright fellow the author is. And it just so happens that I am neither a bright fellow nor very good at keeping up appearances. Writing poetry is insane, meaningless and silly enough.
I hope my reply was not too harsh. I really appreciate your presence on this blog, Thanks once more for the nomination and all your kind words.
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A single dad looks to give up drinking and his bartender job in order to impress his son and find work as a magician.
Theresa Poh Lin Chan: That my smile may not fade.
I watched this movie today on DVD. There are several touching stories, I felt I could relate to all the characters quite easily. I was happy to see that it was a "different kind" of teenage love story, the old man's face I could look at forever, so sympathetic it was, and the story of Theresa Chan was uplifting, how could it not be.
I admit there were a few moments where the movie seemed not so strong but by the end of it I found that I really did appreciate the unconventional way of telling a story that this movie provides. That most of the story is told through images or subtitles and without dialogue is refreshing and reminds us that there are several ways to make a good movie. The ending alone is beautiful and sums up the entire film for me. I specifically went into Videodrom not wanting to rent a Hollywood film and I happily did not get one. This is a special movie, forget being critical about the techniques, be carried away by the story.
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In My Honest Opinion This publication is simply my opinion on current events and the state of happiness.
Someone please find the name of that officer!
This has Prison Race War written all over it!
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Egoisme has adopted Maxwell Odhiambo Nyamuti.
If you want help too, visit the websit – Live and Learn in Kenya.
” Live and Learn in Kenya NGO is based in Selb, Germany. Live and Learn in Kenya International NGO is its “daughter” organization in Kenya and is a registered non-profit, charity organization.
Desolation, hunger and thirst, poverty beyond comprehension, illiteracy, AIDS, child prostitution, child brides – this is what rules the lives of the people – especially the children – living within the Rhonda Slums of Nakuru, Kenya. Live and Learn in Kenya is changing this – day for day – child for child.
We have a German-based medical/dental partner organization “Arzt- und Zahnarzthilfe Kenya” , that provides for medical and dental care — including quarterly check-ups and vaccinations.
Our feeding program is also a huge success. With our “Shared Joy” project we are able to assure nutritious warm lunches for nearly 500 children every day. All funds are donations.
100% of the donations are transferred directly to Kenya to care for the children, provide education, medicine, food, shelter and foster care. Nobody is earning a cent at Live and Learn in Kenya NGO. Our professional staff in Kenya are paid through donations in order to insure a smooth running of the project – so that the children receive all that the should.
This entry was posted on January 16, 2012 by Alon Alphaville. It was filed under Uncategorized and was tagged with adoption, donation, Egoisme, help, hunger, joy, Kenya, NGO.
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I just started the book, so I haven’t worked out all of the details yet. However, I’ve decided that it’s a dystopian story of a girl named Rani. In Rani’s world, when someone turns 18, they take a test that measures where they would best fit into society. The top score is a 10 and when someone earns a 10 (which is very rare), they are sent to the royal city to be trained as the new leader. This snippet is from the very beginning of the novel when Rani wakes up after taking the test.
“I’m sure you are. After all, you’ve just had a seven hour test.” The woman chuckles, pulling the sticky electrode off my neck.
Test? That’s right. Today’s my eighteenth birthday. Today I find out my score.
“You might feel a bit groggy and confused from the numbing agent they gave you.” She flashes me a sympathetic smile.
I nod a bit, my eyes feeling so heavy I can barely keep them open.
I make several attempts and finally swing my legs off the table, and the nurse smiles at me again, encouraging me to continue. Sliding off the bed, I wince as my bare feet hit the cold floor. I have to hold onto the bed as my legs are unsteady.
I’m so tired it takes a few moments for her words to register. “Okay,” I finally say before stumbling out of the room to change.
So awesome! 😀 It’s very intriguing, and a really great beginning.
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Check out Propaganda as he discusses his hopes for the future of the Church. What are your thoughts?
The Church of England has decided to not ordain female bishops based on the vote of the laity in the synod. The vote is sure to be discussed for a while, but this does seem to create a step back from biblical equality.
Women, Ministry, and Inerrancy of Scripture.
What do you think? Should women in England be Bishops? Or do we need to keep repeating history?
One of the major issues of Christianity is the authority of Scripture. Within the Church universal, the views range from fundamentalist to liberal. Though there are issues I would take with liberal and fundamental extremes, there are some basics that should help us come together in conversation and find a more Christian view of Scripture’s role in the Christian’s life.
This is a loaded question that takes hours of study and analysis and is debated today, but I will sum up the key things to remember about the nature of Scripture and it’s development.
One has to take into account that the Scriptures started as an Oral Tradition passed down by speaking it and not necessarily in writing. This may sound strange, but that culture passed it down and it led to writing it down. Eventually, we decided to write it down to standardize the story and had many books written. This is true even up to the New Testament era. The Jewish people decided the Old Testament canon in the 90’s AD and Christians decided on their general canon of the New Testament in the mid-300’s AD. That is the main story of the development of the Bible.
As far as the Bible’s view if itself, it helps to understand that the writers are either orally recounting and event or referencing an account of the event in history. In the Torah, for example, many of the accounts were later reflections of a long past, especially Genesis and Deuteronomy. Other times, there Re situations where someone references the earlier writings, such as Acts 2 looking back to Joel. This does not make the Scriptures less true and powerful, but it does show us that the Word of God when talking about Scriptures is based on something more powerful.
This is a more involving exploration of theology itself. According to John 1, Jesus is the Word. Why? Because he is the revelation of God. The Bible is also revelation from God, though not near the status of Jesus. This puts our focus on the same one who the authors of the Bible focused on, God (as understood in Christ). Still, it means that there is authority in Scripture when read under the direction of God’s Spirit. What this does is create a difference between this who look to critique the Scriptures and those who have Scripture critique them. This can be a scary proposition to all. It challenges both the deconstructionist liberal reading and the shallow fundamentalist reading. The important thing to remember about the authority of Scripture is that it is not about learning we can show about Scripture, though can happen at moments and can be shared, but instead is about what the Bible can show to you about the King that leads to transformation (Romans 12:1-2; please note that is God doing the transforming and not Bible itself).
One story that shows how someone can shy away from transformation is the story of the rich man in Luke 18 walking away saddened when Christ asked him to sell his possessions. The came to him to follow. When Christ presented him with things to do, he was completely on board until it touched his riches. No matter our position with Scripture, transformation is always a must when being led by the Spirit into Scripture. When you read pray for guidance and abandon your wants from the text.
Why do you read the text? Is it your authority? Or do you seek to be the text’s authority? Do you think you are rich in your spirit and not in need of the Spirit’s work or do you recognize your spiritual bankruptcy and your desperate need for the Spirit of God in you?
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Standard-Model Extension (SME) is an effective field theory that contains the Standard Model, general relativity, and all possible operators that break Lorentz symmetry. Violations of this fundamental symmetry can be studied within this general framework. CPT violation implies the breaking of Lorentz symmetry, and the SME includes operators that both break and preserve CPT symmetry.
In 1989, Alan Kostelecký and Stuart Samuel proved that interactions in string theories could lead to the spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry.
Later studies have indicated that loop-quantum gravity, non-commutative field theories, brane-world scenarios, and random dynamics models also involve the breakdown of Lorentz invariance.
Interest in Lorentz violation has grown rapidly in the last decades because it can arise in these and other candidate theories for quantum gravity. In the early 1990s, it was shown in the context of bosonic superstrings that string interactions can also spontaneously break CPT symmetry. This work suggested that experiments with kaon interferometry would be promising for seeking possible signals of CPT violation due to their high sensitivity.
The SME was conceived to facilitate experimental investigations of Lorentz and CPT symmetry, given the theoretical motivation for violation of these symmetries. An initial step, in 1995, was the introduction of effective interactions. Although Lorentz-breaking interactions are motivated by constructs such as string theory, the low-energy effective action appearing in the SME is independent of the underlying theory. Each term in the effective theory involves the expectation of a tensor field in the underlying theory. These coefficients are small due to Planck-scale suppression, and in principle are measurable in experiments. The first case considered the mixing of neutral mesons, because their interferometric nature makes them highly sensitive to suppressed effects.
In 1997 and 1998, two papers by Don Colladay and Alan Kostelecký gave birth to the minimal SME in flat spacetime. This provided a framework for Lorentz violation across the spectrum of standard-model particles, and provided information about types of signals for potential new experimental searches.
In 2004, the leading Lorentz-breaking terms in curved spacetimes were published, thereby completing the picture for the minimal SME. In 1999, Sidney Coleman and Sheldon Glashow presented a special isotropic limit of the SME. Higher-order Lorentz violating terms have been studied in various contexts, including electrodynamics.
The distinction between particle and observer transformations is essential to understanding Lorentz violation in physics because Lorentz violation implies a measurable difference between two systems differing only by a particle Lorentz transformation.
In special relativity, observer Lorentz transformations relate measurements made in reference frames with differing velocities and orientations. The coordinates in the one system are related to those in the other by an observer Lorentz transformation—a rotation, a boost, or a combination of both. Each observer will agree on the laws of physics, since this transformation is simply a change of coordinates. On the other hand, identical experiments can be rotated or boosted relative to each other, while being studied by the same inertial observer. These transformations are called particle transformations, because the matter and fields of the experiment are physically transformed into the new configuration.
In a conventional vacuum, observer and particle transformations can be related to each other in a simple way—basically one is the inverse of the other. This apparent equivalence is often expressed using the terminology of active and passive transformations. The equivalence fails in Lorentz-violating theories, however, because fixed background fields are the source of the symmetry breaking. These background fields are tensor-like quantities, creating preferred directions and boost-dependent effects. The fields extend over all space and time, and are essentially frozen. When an experiment sensitive to one of the background fields is rotated or boosted, i.e. particle transformed, the background fields remain unchanged, and measurable effects are possible. Observer Lorentz symmetry is expected for all theories, including Lorentz violating ones, since a change in the coordinates cannot affect the physics[clarification needed]. This invariance is implemented in field theories by writing a scalar lagrangian, with properly contracted spacetime indices. Particle Lorentz breaking enters if the theory includes fixed SME background fields filling the universe.
The SME can be expressed as a Lagrangian with various terms. Each Lorentz-violating term is an observer scalar constructed by contracting standard field operators with controlling coefficients called coefficients for Lorentz violation. These are not parameters, but rather predictions of the theory, since they can in principle be measured by appropriate experiments. The coefficients are expected to be small because of the Planck-scale suppression, so perturbative methods are appropriate. In some cases[which?], other suppression mechanisms could mask large Lorentz violations. For instance, large violations that may exist in gravity could have gone undetected so far because of couplings with weak gravitational fields. Stability and causality of the theory have been studied in detail.
In field theory, there are two possible ways to implement the breaking of a symmetry: explicit and spontaneous. A key result in the formal theory of Lorentz violation, published by Kostelecký in 2004, is that explicit Lorentz violation leads to incompatibility of the Bianchi identities with the covariant conservation laws for the energy-momentum and spin-density tensors, whereas spontaneous Lorentz breaking evades this difficulty. This theorem requires[clarification needed] that any breaking of Lorentz symmetry must be dynamical. Formal studies of the possible causes of the breakdown of Lorentz symmetry include investigations of the fate of the expected Nambu-Goldstone modes. Goldstone's theorem implies that the spontaneous breaking must be accompanied by massless bosons. These modes might be identified with the photon, the graviton, spin-dependent interactions, and spin-independent interactions.
The possible signals of Lorentz violation in any experiment can be calculated from the SME. It has therefore proven to be a remarkable tool in the search for Lorentz violation across the landscape of experimental physics. Up until the present, experimental results have taken the form of upper bounds on the SME coefficients. Since the results will be numerically different for different inertial reference frames, the standard frame adopted for reporting results is the Sun-centered frame. This frame is a practical and appropriate choice, since it is accessible and inertial on the time scale of hundreds of years.
Typical experiments seek couplings between the background fields and various particle properties such as spin, or propagation direction. One of the key signals of Lorentz violation arises because experiments on Earth are unavoidably rotating and revolving relative to the Sun-centered frame. These motions lead to both annual and sidereal variations of the measured coefficients for Lorentz violation. Since the translational motion of the Earth around the Sun is nonrelativistic, annual variations are typically suppressed by a factor 10−4. This makes sidereal variations the leading time-dependent effect to look for in experimental data.
All experimental results for SME coefficients are tabulated in the Data Tables for Lorentz and CPT Violation.
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Police yesterday raided the Dhaka central office and Sylhet divisional office of recently banned Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, and seized its publications, and various other documents and properties.
The same day Bangladesh Bank (BB) issued an order to all banks across the country to freeze all accounts of the banned outfit.
The central bank gave the instruction according to the Anti-terrorism Act 2009 which empowers the authorities to freeze bank accounts of any banned outfit.
The Dhaka University syndicate decided to send Mohiuddin Ahmed, associate professor of Institute of Business Administration and chief coordinator of Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, on forced leave indefinitely for his involvement with the banned outfit.
Meanwhile, police kept Mohiuddin confined to his residence on Green Road in the capital throughout the day.
“We’ll arrest him if the authorities instruct us to do so,” said a Detective Branch official, wishing anonymity.
A large contingent of Motijheel police raided the head office of the banned outfit on the forth floor of Siddique Mansion at Purana Paltan around 12 noon and seized several computers, several hundred CDs, a large number of books, leaflets, posters, and various other materials.
The raid came after a Dhaka court permitted it along with seizure of publications and properties of Hizb ut-Tahrir which the government had banned on October 22 saying the group is a threat to public security. After the four-hour drive police shut down the office.
Motijheel Zone Deputy Commissioner Khandaker Mahid Uddin who led the drive said the seized materials will help law enforcers in their investigation.
“We have seized these properties and documents on information that the banned outfit was planning to carry out subversive acts, and its leaders are some of the masterminds of anti-state activities,” DC Mahid Uddin said.
Police said the organisation has at least 24 publications and innumerable leaflets and posters, and that they collected books and documents about jihad.
Since the banning, police had kept the central office cordoned off disallowing anyone to enter.
Earlier in the morning, Sub-inspector Shahjahan of Paltan Police filed a petition with a Dhaka court seeking permission to raid the office and to seize materials from it.
DU Vice Chancellor Prof Arefin Siddique said Mohiuddin will be on forced leave until the university syndicate makes any further decision.
However, the syndicate at the emergency meeting did not decide the fate of Prof Golam Mowla, a teacher of management department and also member of Hizb ut-Tahrir central committee.
“We have discussed the overall situation regarding Mohiuddin’s involvement with Hizb ut-Tahrir. We have sent Mohiuddin on forced leave to prevent him from causing any harm to the congenial atmosphere at the university,” Arefin Siddique said.
Our staff correspondent reported from Sylhet that Kotwali police there seized over 500 books and leaflets of the organisation, raiding its Sylhet divisional office in Ambarkhana area.
Police broke the lock there as well to enter the office, and seized books and other materials, and then shut the office down.
The office was located on the ground floor of a multi-storied building, which also houses a private hospital.
Regional chapter operatives of the outfit removed its signboard and went into hiding following the banning of the organisation, local residents said.
Police said a board containing a list of the outfit’s organisational activities, about 500 jihadi books, a carpet, and leaflets including some on the recent BDR mutiny were seized from the office.
The office used to remain locked almost always, except during meetings or other events in there, said some of the local residents.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist organisation founded in Jerusalem in 1953. It started its activities in Bangladesh in 2000. It is a pan-Islamist group, the goal of which is to establish a global Islamic caliphate. It has been banned in a number of other countries as well, mainly in Central Asia and the Middle East.
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Editor's Note: The cultural advisor's name has been omitted as an operational security measure as he works in the detention facilities.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Preparations are under way at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay that will accommodate the upcoming religious holiday, Ramadan, for the community of Muslims who reside on base and for the detainees at Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
Aug. 22, 2009 marks the beginning of Ramadan. Ramadan is a month-long observance for Muslims around the world to focus on their faith and reflect. It is a period of fasting, reflection, devotion, generosity and sacrifice observed during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, which is the month that Muslims believe the Qu'ran was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
"Ramadan is a holy month," said Zak, the JTF cultural advisor. "It is a month to prepare yourself for the rest of the year."
Service members at JTF Guantanamo are making special preparations to ensure that the detainees have the opportunity to observe this important part of the Islamic faith. All of the detainees at JTF Guantanamo are Muslims, according to Zak. However, not all of them will observe the fast. Those detainees who do not wish to fast or those who cannot for medical reasons will continue to receive three daily meals on a normal schedule.
"We have prepared our guard force about the month of Ramadan," said Zak.
The guard force and medical force at the JTF received a briefing and specialized training about the month of Ramadan, including information on what happens during Ramadan and why Muslims fast in order to understand how the detainees will behave throughout the month.
Service members received Ramadan information cards with information for adjusted prayer times and meal times to accommodate the detainees during Ramadan.
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. There are five duties incumbent on every Muslim. These duties are Shahada (Profession of Faith), Salah (prayers), Zakah (Giving of Alms), Saum (Fasting during Ramadan) and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).
During the month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain from food, drink and other physical needs during the daylight hours. Fasting is practiced during Ramadan from dawn until sunset.
The JTF invests significant time and effort to provide the detainees with special meals and adjusted schedules during Ramadan. Detainees who fast receive a meal before dawn, which is called the suhoor, and a meal to break the fast, the iftar, before the sunset prayer, according to Zak. The evening meal is a double portion and the detainees are also served a snack at 10:00 p.m. Medication schedules are also adjusted, if possible, for the month of Ramadan. Those detainees whose medications are medically necessary may break the fast for medical reasons.
Officials at JTF Guantanamo strive to accommodate the religious and social preferences of the detainees throughout the year by serving only Halal meats, from animals that were ritually slaughtered according to Islamic practice and catering menus to the religious and cultural preferences of the detainees.
Muslims are called upon to use this month to re-evaluate their lives in light of Islamic guidance. Many Muslims spend all day reading the Qu'ran or in prayer. The goal throughout the month is to recite and read the entire Qu'ran. This is usually done through an extra daily prayer during the evening called the Taraweeh.
Detainees at JTF Guantanamo are given the opportunity for quiet and uninterrupted prayer five times a day, as is observed in the Islamic faith. During Ramadan, the guard force will also accommodate the extra prayer time. The guard force is advised to also be respectful of those detainees who are absorbed in reading the Qu'ran or praying throughout the day.
The most important advice Zak gives to the guard force about dealing with detainees during Ramadan is to continue to be professional and follow procedures with common sense.
The detainees are not the only Muslims at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Zak explained. A small Muslim community of service members and contractors exists at the base who will also be observing the month of Ramadan.
For more information about Joint Task Force Guantanamo, visit the Web site at www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil.
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San Bernardino County museum, Redlands.
For the past year or so my family have been members of the museum. It is the boys and my “home away from home.” Weather you have children or not; it is a great place to spend some quality time. Just what any kid needs to spark curiosity and inspiration. Here are a couple of photos from just another beautiful Southern California day in the inland empire, at the museum.
In the words of my eldest son, age 3. “Here is one of our best buddys,” Tonka. 4 yellow dandelions deep. The next photos are some other, good buddies, enjoying the sunshine. We encountered them while on our search for dandelions.
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Well, for those who’ve been to Bali, I’m sure your travel agents or tour won’t include this in your schedule, even in my own travel plan too, I didn’t aspect that I’m able to watch this such an interesting event which just happened in front of my eyes.
It was on my 3rd day in Bali, during our way to Tanah Lot to watch the sunset, while approaching to a junction to Tanah Lot, I saw a crowd of gentlemen shouting and cheering each other, the driver told me that they are having Tajen.
For your information, Tajen, is Balinese Traditional Cockfighting which is still legal to practice among them. These are practiced in an ancient religious purification ritual to expel evil spirits. This is a form of animal sacrifices where the losing chicken then offered to the evil spirit.
We used to have cockfighting in Malaysia, but it is illegal and no longer practice in local community.
Gallery | This entry was posted in Photography, Travel and tagged Balinese Cockfighting, Tajen. Bookmark the permalink.
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Is a painting of a tree “eco-friendly”?
A few weeks ago I attended the Broward County Red Cross Designer Showcase. When I got to the beautiful houses on Las Olas, I was told that the art was all “eco-friendly”. What I discovered was the paint used through out all the homes was a new low-odor, evironmentally friendly housepaint. But I was also told that all the art/painting on the walls are “green”. I think the host was confused as to paint on the walls being this new enviromentally safe product, to what he thought was paintings of seashells and palm trees. But it did get me thinking. All the art in the houses had a nature them, beaches, sand, seashells, ocean views, florals etc. But all the art was made from oil or acrylic paint. All of which use chemicals, mineral spirits, turpentine, mediums, and what is not used is tossed in the garbage or washed down the sink. This is probably why I work in encaustics. The stuff is beeswax and it never goes to waste. Almost everything that I use is recycled. I paint on wood, there is no washing of brushes, the beeswax has no chemicals in it, the damar is from trees, I don’t waste any paint. Once I mix a color, I can just remelt it and it never goes to waste. Wax, to me is the true “eco-friendly” product. The only thing that I really use is electricity, which is generated by some plant that adds to the carbon output. But I can’t eliminate everything. To me the real “green” art is not the subject matter, it is the media.
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Peter Banks, 1947-2013, was a musical everyman who missed the brass ring early in his career.
During the mid 1960’s, Banks was a part of a number of mostly forgotten bands; The Nighthawks, Devil’s Disciples, and Syn. By the time he migrated to Mabel Greer’s Toyshop, his bandmates were vocalist Jon Anderson, drummer Bill Buford, and keyboardist Tony Kaye. It was an easy jump to the formation of Yes. Banks left during the recording of their second album die to creative differences and the rest, as they say, is history, at least for Yes.
Banks would eventually settle into a solo career that produced cutting edge and creative progressive rock, that was just outside the mainstream. While he remained widely respected, large commercial success would elude him.
Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky is a two disc, 30 track release to mark the fifth annivsary of his death. While it is a compilation drawn from his solo career, the song selection is eclectic, bordering on odd at times. The release lacks cohesiveness, which helps regulate it to a niche release, primarily pf interest for fans of Banks.
There are a number of tracks that just feature Banks on guitar. “All Points South,” “Fogbound,” and “No Place Like Home” have a raw feel but demonstrate his style. When he is backed by a band, the music has a more finished feel, “Knights (Reprise)” with Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, and John Wetten and “Knights (Revisited)” with Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, and Jay Schellen present his musical visions.
Much of the second disc find him playing all the instruments with varying degrees of success.
During his career Banks released a lot of interesting music but continually seemed to be searching. Be Well, Be Safe, Be Lucky is an album of bits and pieces that that has individual high points but is never consistently satisfying.
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https://cashboxmusicreviews.wordpress.com/tag/be-well-be-safe-be-lucky/
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I’ve found myself in your office like many I’ve been in before. You sit before me asking questions I don’t know the answers to.
The same questions I’ve been asked before, and despite my impatience and lack of answers, please know I’m grateful. Grateful that you want to know my issues from my point of view, to get a full picture, rather than assuming you know best from the opinions of others in notes you’ve read about me. Nevertheless, thank you for taking the time to read them.
But before you, I was told to google it to learn about this ‘illness’ I’m living with, not that I like accepting I’m ‘ill’. Before you there were many doctors who never really listened or understood. So, please be patient as I learn to open up to yet another doctor in the hope that this time, it won’t fall on deaf ears.
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https://strifetostrive.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/a-letter-to-my-psychiatrist/
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Quite recently, I started to use jspm for one of my Rails projects. Since I am also using Capistrano, I have needed to run a few tasks during each deployment. Because of that, I wrote two simple tasks and bundled them up in a gem that can be used with Capistrano 3.x.
capistrano-jspm is published on my Github account, so feel free to use it and contribute to it.
And if you are thinking about using jspm for your Rails project, Michal Cichra wrote a nice article about it.
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Caorsin, Guilelmus. Rhodiorum historia (1480-89). Ulm: Johann Reger, 24 October 1496.
Provenance: Horace Walpole. — William H. Crawford. — Crawford sale, Sotheby, 14 March 1891, lot 593 (sold to Leighton). — Gennadius. — Gennadius sale (sold for £30). — Morris. — Richard Bennett. — Sotheby 1898, lot 340 (sold to Hazlitt for £31 10s.). — George Dunn. — Unlocated.
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Dry January, a 31 day period of abstaining from drinking alcoholic beverages and a hell of a test of will power on my part. I started Dry January early this year, December 26th to be specific. I knew this meant a dry New Year’s Eve, and I didn’t think that would be too much of an issue. In reality it wasn’t an issue for me as the new year came and went, with only a small longing for a cocktail. It did impact my plans as I avoided parties and places where I might be tempted.
The reality of it is, I’ve wanted a drink just about every night. Some nights have been harder than others. Last Saturday was the most interesting. More than anything I craved the hit at the back of the tongue that comes when the carbonation of a beer hits the top of your throat. It wasn’t the booze, or the drunk that I desired it was the mouth feel.
In reality Dry January could not have come at a better time for me. There is a lot going on in my life and the haziness that alcohol can bring to the decision making process is not needed around my life. We are 11 days into it, a full 1/3 of the way through. I’ve got great support this year in a couple of partners who are doing this with me and I’ve needed it, and they’ve needed me. The next big hurdle is the National Western Stock Show in Denver next week and two great concerts at night. I’ll get through it and I’ll get through January.
Thanks everyone for helping to grow the blog in 2015. 2016 holds a lot of new adventure, some changes in the blog as I backpack more, and before too long a 100th brewery!
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,200 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people.
As evidenced by past experiments with clean eating, I have an interest in putting more whole foods on my plate. I try to stick to the outside aisles of the grocery store as much as possible, and recently I picked up a Ninja blender so I could have better luck making smoothies. So when I stumbled upon Sue Quinn’s new cookbook, Super Foods Every Day, I was excited to delve into it.
The first thing that Sue does is define what a super food is for her purposes. She has developed a listing of powerhouse foods which are high in vitamins, phytochemicals and other nutrients.Its from that extensive list that she builds out 65 recipes that are easy to make and good for you too.
The recipes range from breakfast to baked goods and include a lot of blueberries, kale, and even dark chocolate. We will be trying out a few of these recipes over the next couple of weeks, and I’ll be honest, some of them will require a leap of faith on my part, but as we’ve seen from past experiments, I often use this as an opportunity to expand my palate a little bit more, plus I’m finding more and more that being pushed out of my comfort zone is a great thing.
The book is clean, easy to follow and has excellent photography in it. My only criticism would be the total and complete lack of any nutritional information on any of the recipes. Sure, I can put all the ingredients into My Fitness Pal and go from there, but having them listed would have been a big benefit to the cookbook. For someone looking to incorporate more healthy choices into their diet, this book, which lists for $14.99 is a great option. The book is available next week and can be pre-ordered now.
It’s no secret that I feel the number of beer dinners planned in and around Cheyenne is woefully low. This town has a growing craft beer palate and I think restaurants and or pop up concepts are selling themselves short by not offering more of these events. Leave it to a national chain to step up their game and put together a paired beer dinner. Old Chicago is teaming up with New Belgium to kick off the new year right. The four course dinner on January 4th at 6pm, will go for $35 with portion of the proceeds given to Habitat for Humanity.
What is most interesting to me about this dinner is that it beers WAY off the traditional Old Chicago Menu choices.
Milk Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding paired with 1554 Black Lager.
Hopefully Old Chicago gets a good turnout for this menu. I give them a lot of credit for trying it and I’d like nothing more to see them have success with it, spurring more opportunities for these kind of dinners.
For the fourth year in a row, the Wyoming Brewers Festival will be giving a home brewer the chance to have their creation on tap at the festival. The competition takes place March 23-25 and the winner will once again have the opportunity to brew at Altitude Chophouse and Brewery in Laramie.
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A little brown bat hunting a moth.
Where the four main subspecies live.
The little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus) is by far the most common kind of bat found in the north-eastern US. They are found in North America from Georgia to Alaska and from northern California to Newfoundland. But since 2007 they have been dying by the millions from white-nose syndrome. Little brown bats are now an endangered species.
Myotis means mouse-eared, lucifugus means fleeing the light.
Like vampires, they sleep during the day and come out at night. Humans mainly see them on summer evenings flying near caves or over a body of water.
Size: About 8 to 9 cm or 3.5 inches – small enough to hold in your hand. Their wings spread to 23 cm (9 inches).
bats. You see them flying in a swarm.
Food: They feed on mainly on insects, especially flies and moths. They like to fly through a swarm of midges with their mouth open.
Echolocation: Their eyes work, but like all bats they mainly use echolocation to fly through the dark. By making high-pitched clicking sounds they can tell what is in front of them (a tree, another bat, even a fly) from how the sound waves bounce back (the echo). The clicks are too high-pitched for humans to hear.
Hibernation: Some bats fly south for the winter, but little brown bats do not. In late October and early November they find a cave or mine shaft and sleep upside down, close together, through the winter, maybe waking up once every two weeks. Their bodies get close to freezing and live off their 2 grams of body fat. They come out of hibernation in March or April.
Mating: They generally mate in the autumn. The female keeps the sperm inside her body, not becoming pregnant till the spring. Each female generally has one pup a year, born in late May or early June. In the spring and summer they roost in buildings.
Guano: In the early 1900s their bat droppings were used as fertilizer by humans.
White-nose syndrome: In 2007 in upstate New York bats started dying in huge numbers. The dead bats had white noses. It turned out to be a cold-weather fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (fka Geomyces destructans). By 2013 it had spread to 22 US states and 5 Canadian provinces. It has since spread to six more states. It wipes out 90% of the little brown bats in the caves to which it spreads.
The same fungus is found on bats in Europe to little ill effect. Most of the little brown bats who have it die in their sleep during hibernation. Before they die they are seen flying during the day (!!!) in the middle of winter, dangerously running down the fat reserves needed to make it through the winter.
Columbian Exchange: The fungus was first seen in North America in 2006 in upstate New York at Howe Caverns, which get 200,000 visitors a year. Presumably a European tourist brought the fungus there by accident.
Sources: mainly “The Sixth Extinction” (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert; “National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals” (1996) by John O. Whitaker, Jr.
I never found anything cute about these critters. Interesting you should write about them.
It was not based on cuteness points, but because they are an example of an animal going extinct in my time and place, an animal I have seen.
Bats may not be cute but they are fascinating, a mammal with wings!
Unlike the flying squirrel, bats are capable of true flight for prolonged distances. From an evolutionary standpoint, they are remarkable.
I was wondering, where is Texas on the map, esp. those bats that ravage Austin.
Then I looked up that that is Mexican free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), the state bat of Texas and Oklahoma. Texas has the most bat species in the US although the Little Brown bat is not common.
I wonder how many states have adopted the Little Brown bat as their State bat.
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Upon receiving the Sunshine award you must…thank the beautiful person that nominated you…. http://iamnotshe.wordpress.com …THANK YOU Melissa!!! It really is very sweet of you to think of me in this way…and greatly appreciated. I do hope that you all get to check out Melissa’s blog…if you haven’t already…it’s GREAT!!
Sunshine is God’s way of allowing us to grow…and the kind and loving support of my Word Press family makes that so much easier…thanks…to all of you. Your loving comments and feedback are what every writer and person wants in life…someone to not only hear…but listen. You all deserve a great award for that!!
I was nominated for the Leibster Blog Award. This award is set aside for bloggers with less than 200 followers. I want to thank Auroramorealist.wordpress.com for the nomination. Janice, you are always so kind and loving in your remarks and comments…you certainly make Word Press a safe haven.
The whole purpose behind the award is to bring attention to blogs that sometimes fly under the radar…but are no less significant. The blogs that I have chosen speak to me on a personal level, and I feel certain that you will enjoy them also.
Show your love to the blogger that gave you the award by linking back to them….thanks again Janice!!!!
Reveal your top 5 picks for the award and then let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
Bask in the love from your fellow bloggers…some of the most talented people in the universe!!
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Food: To start off the meal, I ordered the calamari salad which had a great grilled, simple flavor. So fresh and so good. For my main course, I ordered the seared Steel Head Trout. The flavor of the fish was simple and was a bit like salmon (but less oily!). My dining companions ordered the Artic Char which had a great grilled taste and the Sablefish (my least favorite of the table). For dessert, we ordered the Apple Tart (with almond frangipane, caramel sauce, and bourbon ice cream), donuts and coffee, and Bittersweet Chocolate Torte (with caramel ice cream, salted cashews). My favorite dessert was the donuts and coffee — although they were much smaller than Buddakan, they were equally delicious.
Service: Their servers are put through an intense one week course on fish so they are able to talk to diners about what the fish tastes like (and what it’s similar to). They’re also always polite and really good. They know when to stop by to see how the food is and also when to leave the table alone. I get a sense that most are professional servers.
Atmosphere: At the end of the meal with the bill, they give everyone a fish handout to take with you on what fish is OK to eat and what isn’t (as far as being sustainable.
Overall: This is one of my favorite restaurants in DC because the food is cooked simply but amazing. The sides that accompany the main entree compliment perfectly. The appetizers are amazing. Desserts are ridiculously good. The servers are fantastic. There’s nothing else you can say — all good. If you haven’t been, you must!
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A lovely 1936 building on Morogoro road – currently even lovelier while the road is a pedestrianised area!
Another 1930’s Dar gem still standing on Jamhuri Street.
Delighted to be part of the fabulous metrokit site.
A Mosque Street art deco gem – from a new series of Dar prints available soon.
Ambles around stone town always reveal gems such as this stunning corner building near Emerson Spice.
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One of the paradoxes of human existence is that, while there is nothing new under the sun, nothing stays the same. And so it is in the world of ideas. It is no less so in the realm of religious belief, even when the object of belief is eternal and changeless.
As long as Christian belief has been proclaimed it has had to adjust to the challenges unique to each period of proclamation. And wherever it has been propagated, it has needed to respond to the immediate conditions of its propagation. Changes in circumstance call for new methods of commending Christian belief.
Ladd was trained at Western Reserve College and Andover Theological Seminary. He was pastor in Congregational churches in Ohio and Wisconsin. He later taught philosophy at Bowdoin College for a few years and philosophy and psychology at Yale University for several more years. He served as a kind of ambassador for the United States in Japan in the last decade of the 19th century. He wrote extensively in psychology, philosophy, and religion.
The complete text of Ladd’s essay may be found at this link. Today, July 1, is the anniversary of this publication.
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You already know your kid is a work of art; let’s make it official !
“Classical” sessions are a great option for families who want their wall art to compliment their style & decor. Lets collaborate on a modern day masterpiece !
to book your own classical photo shoot !
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I have this whole “I want to become a goddess” thing going on, but underneath it all I don’t know that that’s enough. I’ve been in two official relationships in my life, and one… I don’t know, I guess it was also a relationship. None of those relationships were good for me, though. For the quasi-one, I was the other woman. For the first real one, I cheated on the guy. And the last one was emotionally abusive. My track record isn’t so great.
It’s been over two years since my last relationship, and for a while I was living the stereotypical happily single life. I got tired of that eventually, and decided to just chill. Now, I’m sort of seeing somebody… well, I was but he’s been so busy I haven’t actually seen him in what feels like forever. For that reason (and I’m thinking some other reason, too, though I can’t quite put my finger on it) I’m feeling extra lonely.
Loneliness makes me upset, annoyed, and slightly hopeless. It scares me because it’s the only “normal” emotion I have that makes me feel like I’m on the edge of the chasm of depression. One of the greatest things I crave in life is acceptance. Not from regular people, because quite frankly I don’t care what people think, but from someone I love, or care strongly about. Aside from my mom and some other relatives, I have never felt truly accepted by someone I deeply care for. Well, by a guy that I love.
The guy I’m dating now is about the only one to literally tell me that despite all the things I think are wrong with me, he still thinks I’m lovely. It was the sweetest thing. The problem with us is that he’s a sophomore and I’m graduating soon. I also don’t actually know him as well as he knows me. It’s selfish, but I like to think of him as providing me with relationship training wheels. With him, I have learned (and am still learning) to open up and let myself be vulnerable with someone, to be comfortable and not lose myself while with someone else, and to be vocal about what I expect. I’m not afraid to do that last thing with him because he’s not my boyfriend… I’m probably going to need some more work on that when I’m in a real relationship again.
Don’t get me wrong, I love being alone. The quality of loneliness is so much different from physically being by yourself. Typically, I like to be by myself. I go to the movies alone, and to restaurants solo. Last spring break I went to California by myself, and it was wonderful! But feeling lonely is never any fun. It annoys me that I need the intimate company of another person sometimes, but I also know that it’s very natural. I shouldn’t despise it.
I still want to become a goddess–that’s still my main goal. But if I’m being honest, I want to be in love. I want someone to be there with me and support me while I grow. To help lift me up when I can’t handle my own weight anymore. And I want to be that person for someone else. I don’t want to feel lonely.
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-Hyperlinks, works cited, in text citations, etc. exist to keep it legitimate and regulated.
Obvious statement turned into a research question: Why do students prefer Wikipedia? (I realize that perhaps this is speaking broadly, but all through high school I saw students getting information from Wikipedia and masking it in legitimate citations.
Not a great start.. The first two might be useful but the rest are actually just Wikipedia articles that picked up words in my search. HOWEVER. I actually find this very amusing and useful to my point. If I were a student searching the internet for inspiration on a topic to interest me, look how broad my search was that lead me to such specific topics on Wikipedia. Right this moment I would much rather read what Wikipedia has to say on “physical attractiveness” or “auditory learning” than continue this. But I digress..
> Should University Students Use Wikipedia?
-I wholeheartedly agree that Wikipedia citations do NOT belong in a research paper. However this brings up a problem with plagiarism in students. In an ideal world, a student would use the information from Wikipedia to focus his/her research from other sources and verify the wikifacts. Basically, whatever is read and used from Wikipedia should be cited from elsewhere.
-Perhaps professors need to change their approach to Wikipedia and their students. If they use it as a learning tool instead to demonstrate critical analysis of a text and fact checking, the students could become better researchers. For instance, the professor could falsely alter a page and have the students critically analyze the text and find the errors. This would demonstrate how easy it is to be misinformed and how easy it is to fact check. I actually kind of love this idea I just came up with.
WHY ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS!?
I got here from a link in the previous site. It is a very well documented and explained research paper outlining the methods and results of their survey of Wikipedia users. Many students reported that they use Wikipedia as a preliminary research guide to gain background information. Other explanations for its use include the useful hyperlinks, the easy to comprehend text and layout, and the up-to-date information. This site was a great find but I’m tired of looking at statistics and you all don’t need to hear them. Mooooving on.
> Benefits of Wikipedia in Education Nothing here. More wikipedia articles, the first article I wrote about, and miscellaneous Yahoo Answers posts I don’t want to deal with. Moving on!
> Teacher Attitudes towards Wikipedia Now that’s better! The first results were even from Google Scholar! We are going to keep using simple articles though because I am still in the preliminary “wikipedia” phase of my research.
> Are We Ready to Use Wikipedia to Teach Writing? The professor speaking in this article responds to an enraged teacher who disavows any student who uses Wikipedia. The professor (the enraged one) claims that the website is so ridden with inaccuracy that you’d ‘do better to ask a stranger on the street about your topic.’ The author (the not-enraged professor) argues that, yes, it may not be entirely factual, but by that logic neither is the information received through the telephone. You can not guarantee that what you are hearing is true. I think he would do better to relate this to the childhood game Telephone, but I’ll let that slide. The non-enraged professor urges us to consider Wikipedia a tool of the future, not the scourge of the internet.
You really fleshed out the topic well and started researching with the right questions; I wouldn’t have come up with half of those (please don’t hate me if I use some of them in my own research!).
I think you’re hitting a few dead ends because you’re using Google, but once you get onto the VCU Library database, you’ll probably find a lot more. Great topic!
I think this research is off to a good start! I especially like your idea of professors altering Wikipedia articles and having students attempt to identify the flaws (seriously, why isn’t that being funded?!). I like the way in which you really illustrated where each stop led you. It also has made me realize that I did mine grossly, deplorably wrong (I still thought we were talking about the article for this week…I am seriously no good at decoding our assignments).
I think you’re the only person to stay completely on your inquiry topic, so it is safe to say that you found a lot of information that will probably be useful in your project. I like how you came up with a lot of great questions in the beginning, but it seems like you didn’t really formulate any new inquiries along the way.
Funny side story about having students fact-check Wikipedia – one of my high school science teachers literally taught from Wikipedia, so one day we changed the Wiki page he would be teaching from to see if he would realize. He didn’t, and he continued to teach the false information from the site. Obviously he was an awful teacher and didn’t know anything on the subject, but your idea is great.
I also need to put you in touch with Tom Woodward, who has a long-term project of creating a textbook for a class that functions as if it’s an unreliable narrator; very similarly to what you describe with wikipedia.
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One of the first concerns the people of La Piedra expressed to the MSU Design team was the lack of visual signage within the community. Most of the existing road signs and street names were painted on wood that had dilapidated due to constant torrential rain. Road signs and way-finding systems that point to La Piedra could serve multiple functions. First off, road signs would provide a visual landmark for other organizations interested in service learning work with Guanin and La Piedra. The second function of the signage was a way for the Dominican-Hatian town of La Piedra to legitimize and qualify the 2,000 person community to the Dominican government and neighboring towns.
Members of the MSU design team spent the first week walking the streets of the village, meeting the community members, and talking with locals to determine where two large signs would be most effective and beneficial. Once the designs were complete, the two signs were quickly erected with help from many of the people living in La Piedra.
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Instagram Stories shows no sign of slowing down.
The company, owned by Facebook, announced on Thursday that more than 400 million people use the popular feature each day, up from 250 million one year ago.
That makes Stories more than twice as popular as Snapchat, which saw 191 million active users in the last quarter, according to the most recent earnings report from parent company Snap (SNAP).
When Instagram launched Stories in 2016, many saw it as a clone of Snapchat. In addition to sharing photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours, Stories lets users add Snapchat-like filters that add things like flower crowns and bunny ears to posts. It didn't take long for Snapchat's lead over Facebook (FB) to disappear. Within eight months, Instagram Stories surpassed Snapchat's daily active user count.
Instagram continues adding features, such the ability to add GIFs and mention friends in posts. Not to be outdone, Snapchat added those features, too.
Overall, Instagram has 1 billion monthly active users.
The platform has provided a bright spot for Facebook (FB) amid the controversy of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which raised questions over how it handles user privacy. The political data firm, based in the U.K, havested the personal data of tens of millions of people, prompting widespread condemnation and calls for greater oversight of Facebook.
If Instagram were its own company, it would be worth over $100 billion, according to data estimates released by Bloomberg Intelligence this week. Facebook bought the app for $1 billion in 2012.
Instagram announced another feature on Thursday: the ability to add music to photos or videos on Instagram Stories. Simply tap the sticker button, choose the music option, and search for a song. Voila! A soundtrack.
That addition comes 10 days after Instagram unveiled IGTV, a hub for long-form, vertical video. Anyone can post to IGTV, but they're limited to 10-minute videos. Users with 10,000 followers or more can share videos as long as an hour. Analysts have compared it to YouTube, Google's video platform.
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Publications: You can find them all in this ADS list.
Curriculum Vitae: You can find it here.
Education/Research: I did my PhD at Cornell University (Dissertation: "The K-Band Metallicity and Spectral Type of M Dwarfs in the Solar Neighbourhood", under the supervision of James P. Lloyd. It got two prizes : AAS Doxsey and ASNY Grad paper). After gradschool, I was a postdoc at the AMNH, working with Sébastien Lépine and a FCT fellow at the IA-CAUP, in the EXOEarths group.
Outreach/Teaching: I've been involved in outreach and teaching since undergrad school. At Universidad de Chile, I was the teaching assistant of the astro intro course. At Cornell, I participated in several outreach activities and enjoyed being the leader of the “Rockets!” workshop in conferences encouraging teens to follow careers in science and technology (EYH and Focus For Teens). I also was one of the teaching assistants in the astro intro courses during my first two grad school years. At the AMNH, I was involved in the After-School Program and Nasa Science Research Mentoring Program (SRMP), being the instructor of the “Stars” course, and the mentor of 3 high-school students every year. Currently, I'm a mentor of graduate, master and undergraduate students at my institution and institutions in Europe and the United States. I also participated on the amazing GalileoMobile project.
Leadership: I was the president of the student body of the departments of Physics and Astronomy at Universidad de Chile. At Cornell, I held several officer roles in the CHilean ASsociation at Cornell (CHAS) and Graduate Women in Physics (GWP) student organisations. At the AMNH, I was one of the founders of the AMNH Postdoc group.
Other: I love ice-cream, super8s and Mr. Darcy. I like to dance, knit, read mystery novels, watch the extended versions of TLOTR movies, play Super Mario games, travel, watch and play football and ride my bike. Most of my friends call me Babs.
GalileoMobile is a purely non-profit initiative run by astronomers, educators, and science communicators. It is a traveling science education programme that brings astronomy closer to young people around the world, and mainly across regions that have little or no access to outreach actions // GalileoMobile es una iniciativa voluntaria sin fines de lucro llevada a cabo por astrónomos, educadores y comunicadores de ciencia. Es un programa educativo itinerante que lleva la astronomía a niños y jóvenes alrededor del mundo, mayoritáriamente a regiones con poco o ningún acceso a programas de divulgación.
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MIT's not like other schools. If he's that smart and has done some stuff that interests them, they'll overlook his official schooling.
Besides, just cos you're homeschooling them now, doesn't mean you'll necessarily continue to do so all the way through high school.
Actually, I'm not HS'ing them yet. We're thinking about it, though, for many, MANY reasons.....Herself being one of them.
They care a lot about talent. Because that's what continues to give them their edge: the stuff their graduates produce.
If he does make it, and I'm still in the area, he's welcome to visit and use me as a backup uncle if he needs assistance with the confusion that is life in MetroBoston.
Also consider that you are dealing with a doc that was most likely not homeschooled, it is tough for people who are traditionally schooled (gosh I hate saying that, but what else could I call it?) Besides that, I personally think that by the time your son is ready for college the views toward homeschooling will be even more favorable.
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I read Slade House, a relatively short horror story that's like a companion to The Bone Clocks. All my favorite things about David Mitchell's books are more effective at a regular length, I think, but it is still nicely creepy.
I read The Sleeper and the Spindle, Neil Gaiman's Snow White/Sleeping Beauty Mashup. I'd read it before, actually, but it is better with the illustrations, which are gorgeous with the gold ink. An ebook is not an adequate substitute.
I read Honor Girl, a graphic memoir about the summer that the author fell in love with one of her camp counselors and the two of them mostly danced awkwardly around their attraction to each other and camp gossip. I didn't love the art as such but I do love the visual storytelling, and it's really great at evoking this very specific time and place.
I read Watching Baseball Smarter: A Professional Fan's Guide for Beginners, Semi-experts, and Deeply Serious Geeks. In spite of the subtitle, I would say it was more suited for mildly serious geeks at best, but then my baseline may be skewed by my own intense geekdom. It is entertainingly written, though, so I'd give it a solid recommendation on that basis.
I read Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game by the president of my alma mater, John Sexton (or, as we used to call him back in the day, JSex). I remember when he started teaching it as a class, especially since he did it through my own particular school, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where you didn't even have to be president of the university to offer a class with an unusual subject like that, and I totally would have tried to register for it sometime just for the novelty of hobnobbing with the university president if the subject had been anything other than baseball. If you had tried to tell me while I was in college that one day I would be deeply interested in baseball I would have laughed in your face.
It probably would have been a fun class, though. It's a pretty good book, even though it was written by a Yankees fan. At least he feels the need to justify his Yankees fandom: he was originally a Dodgers fan, like a good Brooklyn boy, but then after his son was born, he felt that he needed to adopt a team that was actually still located somewhere in the five boroughs. I mean, he clearly made the wrong choice, but as a Catholic he felt drawn to the team with the most history, in spite of the fact that it was the history of being the Yankees. Also the Mets were actually being quite successful at the time while the Yankees were sucking. Still, I don't think these are actually adequate excuses.
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This week, I don’t have much to report…which is a good and bad thing I suppose. One fun thing that did occur this week, however, is my cat Olivander turning one year old. I didn’t throw him a party or make him a kitty cake but I did have a mini photo shoot with him. We both had fun and the photos look great. Of course, they are nowhere near professional, but it was worth every second. As you can see in the photo, we used some wand props because he is named after the great Ollivander himself…just a little spelling difference.
Another thing that happened this week was that I finally met with a counselor in college who knows her stuff. It’s a miracle, I know. I am on track on she will hep me fill out all of my paperwork for every degree when it is time. She also will help me see what universities will be accepting spring 2020 admissions so that’s awesome. I was only in her office for about ten minutes and it helped me so much more than any 30-60 minute meeting I’ve had with counselors before. She was on top of everything and had my file all ready for me before I even went into her office. She answered all of my questions and was very straight with me and for that, I am grateful.
Lastly, I just want to say how powerful music can be. I just put all of the music from my external hard drive onto my new laptop and started listening to music I haven’t heard in so long. One of my personal favorites my freshman year of high school is below and I felt all of those feelings and memories come flooding back. Have you every had a moment like that with music? You haven’t heard a song in 10+ years and when you heard it again for the first time, everything comes flooding back. It’s crazy how music can have such and impact on us, for good or bad.
Anyway, I know this was kind of a random catch up with Carra post. I hope you enjoyed it and enjoy the song below. I hope you come back next week for more content. Have a great week and weekend!
Unfortunately this is a little later than I like to post but with the start of fall semester, things have been a bit busy. However, I promised you (and myself) content so here it is.
Have you ever read Beowulf? For enjoyment? For an assignment? Well, I’m on my second time reading it for school and I wanted to share a little bit of my thoughts on it. It’s a great epic poem, no doubt about that. And I love that Beowulf wants to defeat Grendel for Hygelac’s fame rather than his own. I think that’s wonderful!
It actually made me think about people in our society today. How many people would say they want to fight an undefeated monster for the fame of someone else? Go ahead, I’m waiting. Yeah, I can’t think of anyone either. They may be out there, who knows. But that’s the thing. In olden times, you didn’t do things for self fame, you did them for the fame of your ruler. And you still did them the best you could. I’m not saying times were better back then, heck, women weren’t treated to great so I’d never want to live in that time period.
To have people do things for other people, though. How amazing that would be. All too often, people do things and expect recognition, rewards, something. Our society hardly even does service anymore. And that’s nowhere near fighting a scary monster.
I know I’m rambling but reading this made me really look at the state of our society and boy has it gotten me down. So, to cheer me up, you know what I did? I listened to a song from the soundtrack to Beowulf. So, here ya go!
And I’m sorry you had to endure my nonsense, it’s 2:00am and I’m running on no sleep. I just really wanted to share this song and my thoughts. Enjoy! And next week won’t be a bunch of nonsense.
This past week has been a test of my patients. The college I was planning to go back to keeps blocking all ways of progress for my degree and I was at the end of my rope. I didn’t know what else to do, I was ready to just give up. Instead, I prayed. When we take that leap of faith and pray, it will surprise you what answers will come to you. What came to me? Well, I was prompted to no longer pursue that school. If the institution is no longer willing to work with me, there is no reason to give them any more of my money or time.
Let me tell you all, this school is (in my experience) the worst one in California. Ever since I started there in 2011, I have run into issue after issue. Just last year they wanted to charge me for a book they misplaced. To make it worse, they were charging me more than a brand new book would cost. The book you can see here and in the image is the one they lost. The price is about $15 new and they wanted to charge me over $20. They were withholding my transcripts from being sent to Los Angeles Valley College (where I was transferring). Of course, I took matters into my own hands. I went above the whole staff at the college and I contacted the president of the school system. Yes, the president. Some may think, “why would you bother the president with a silly little book. Just pay the fee.” No, it wasn’t my book to pay for. It was not my fault they misplaced it. Once it is back at the library, it is no longer my responsibility. Well, a couple of days later, I received an email directly from him (crazy, right?) saying that he will be contacting the school to fix this problem. The best part? A couple of hours after receiving said email, I got a call from the school saying all holds and charges for the book had been dropped. What a shocker! It couldn’t have had anything to do with the president, could it?
You could imagine how tired I was of fighting this school by now, right? This is just one example of many and I thought that, when I moved to L.A., I would be done with them but I was so very wrong. Life put me in a place where I was going to go back to this awful place that I despised so very much. It’s not the teachers or the curriculum I dislike, though one teacher I had almost caused a fight between groups of students in the class twice due to her curriculum. No, it’s the staff in the admissions and records department. They are supposed to know more than they do but they don’t and they refuse to work with you to find out. I have had to turn to the counseling department for things admissions and records should have helped me with. The last 3 months have been a nightmare working with them because they are so incompetent.
This is why I prayed. I was ready to just give up all that I had worked for. I was done, I couldn’t take it anymore. But when I prayed, I felt so much peace. I am about an hour away from the college I was going to go back to and there is another college in the town I’m in. I didn’t want to go to this other college because when I transfer to a university, I didn’t want to have to send transcripts from 3 different colleges. I wanted to just send 2 transcripts and be done with it. But sometimes the plan we have is not what is best. I am now preparing to go to this other college and I have discovered I will be able to receive 5 degrees and 3 certificates (Child and Adolescent Development AA-T, Early Childhood Education AS-T, English AA-T, University Studies in Elementary Teaching Preparation AA-T, Child Development AS, Child Development Teacher Certificate of Achievement, Child Development Assistant Skill Certificate, and Child Development Associate Teacher Skill Certificate). You may be thinking that it’s excessive and unnecessary but I honestly don’t have to do anything extra for these degrees. For example, the Early Childhood Education AS-T and the Child Development AS need the exact same courses.
Anyway, I wanted to let you all know that things really are looking up. I may not currently have a job but I am applying like crazy. I have school to keep me busy and friends on my side.
As always, thank you for visiting my blog. Keep visiting weekly to learn more about my life and the world around me. If you have every felt frustrated about your school, comment below with how you handled it. I love hearing from you! Until next time, have a great week!
Sometimes things happen when you least expect them to. Like winning a drawing, finding a lucky penny on the ground, or your friend getting a divorce. Life is crazy sometimes. And I’m sure that you all know that. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading my blog.
Why do I bring this up? Because I am finally bringing everyone up to date on my life. This post will probably leave you with many questions but it will also answer many of the questions you are currently too afraid to ask.
I’ve decided that I am done hiding from people’s’ judgement. I’m done pretending to be someone I’m not. I’m done lying to everyone I know just so I can make them happy. So, here it all goes. And please, hold your judgement until the end. I know I’m not the best person in the world and I don’t need to blast my entire life on the internet but I feel like my family and friends deserve to know. This will be a very long post so sit tight, maybe make some popcorn or whatever your go-to snack is.
In 2010 (yes, a back story is vital) I came home from summer camp and had a message from my dad. He asked if I had ever talked to my brothers and sister (Mark, Shawn, Kevin, Janelle, and Ryan). After living in Fresno for the better part of 10 years, he asks if I had ever hung out with them. He had never once in my 18 years told me that they were only a few short miles away from where I had grown up. So I did what any sane person in the 21st century would do and I looked them up on Facebook. I only found one of them, my brother Kevin. He’s a really awesome guy. We began talking and set a date to meet. He convinced our sister, Janelle, to also meet me.
So, one sunday after church, Kevin picked me up and took me to his house. His wife and son were there and eager to meet me. We hung out for a bit until my sister and her boyfriend finally showed up and we began playing a board game until it was time for me to go home. For a few years, I had only met the two of them. My other 3 brothers were not as ready to meet in person, I guess. To this day, I still haven’t met Ryan or Mark.
Anyway, in the spring of 2012 I was taking a particularly difficult class. I needed help with it and My sister’s boyfriend offered to tutor me. We met up like once but I felt uncomfortable so I didn’t let him tutor me anymore.
Fall semester of 2012 comes around, I had just gotten out of a 6 month relationship. It was October and my favorite holiday was right around the corner. I posted on Facebook that I had nothing to do on Halloween and how I was really bummed because it was my favorite. Well, my sister’s boyfriend sent me a message offering to take me to a haunted house. If you know me, I love haunted houses. So I excitedly agreed. I then found out that he was no longer my sister’s boyfriend….and we hung out that night and he kissed me. I let him because I missed being close with a male. My previous relationship was great and I was the one who screwed things up. And Kissing this guy, my sister’s ex boyfriend, ruined things even farther. My ex was willing to forgive me but then when I told him I went out with someone else, it was all over. Two days later, I was in a hotel room with this man.
This man’s name is Hector. Shocker, I know. We didn’t actually decide to be a couple until after Thanksgiving. And then at the beginning of December, I stayed with him because I was sexually assaulted in my apartment complex and no longer felt safe there. Then at the beginning of January I went back to stay with my family. I didn’t want anyone to meet Hector. I was ashamed because he was so much older and he was awkward. I didn’t want people to know we were dating. Then at the beginning of March, I went on a mission for my church.
Halfway through my mission, I sent him a letter saying I didn’t want to be with him. It wasn’t right and I felt strongly that it needed to end. I then started talked to an elder who was serving his mission on the opposite side of the country. He was my dream guy. Until things started to turn sexual.
I got home in September of 2014. I saw Hector two weeks later. I stayed the night at his house and I knew I shouldn’t have. And I panicked and demanded that we get married. Two months later I was living with him.
I married him for selfish reasons. Of course I loved him. But I loved him for selfish reasons. And it took me a long time to realize that. I hurt him too many times since we;ve been married and I know that he blames himself but it really is more on me.
Almost 3 years after being married, we’re getting a divorce. I know that it seems sudden and like it was totally out of the blue. But it wasn’t. We started having issues that we couldn’t work through long ago. And it really is better for the both of us if we aren’t together anymore. We will be much happier and at peace this way.
I know that you have a million questions. Like what did I do to hurt him? Why was I so selfish? Where are we going in life now? What is next in my life? There are many things that I cannot put into words here. But I want you all to know the truth because I think you deserve to know that we are no longer together as well as a little bit behind it.
I know that I was selfish. And I’m working on that. I’m working on myself. I’m sorry to Hector’s friends and family who may read this. I’m sorry to those who I let down. I’m sorry, but I’m also not sorry. We all do things we aren’t proud of. I just keep doing it. You may not be happy about it but I am who I am and I can’t change the past. I can only decide not to continue on the same path I was on. Like it or not, this is who I am. I’m a college student who failed out of school and decided to try again. I smoked cigarettes when I was 5 years old but vowed I would never touch anything like that again. I hurt people I loved very dearly and I never want to hurt anyone that way again. I am an almost 26-year-old soon-to-be divorcee but I won’t let that stop me from finding true love. I am homeless and broke but I have friends who hold me up when I am broken so I know things will be ok. I’m ok. Even if I’m not ok now, I will be. Because I know that my life is what I make of it. And if you are religious, you need to watch the following videos.
As always, thank you for coming to my blog. I hope this answered your questions. I still love my readers and I hope you come back to read about the goings on in my life. Until then, have a wonderful week. And if you have anything you’d like to say, comment below.
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I have previously submitted on this issue twice. To do so a third time is to condone the ongoing attempts by the Government to disregard the previous results and go against the will of the people and with no mandate from Maori it is acknowledged this is a wearing down process used by Governments throughout and must cease. No means No.
I therefore submit the same submission this time more directly. There is no end date on this it seems by the government and until the Government comprehends No means No there will be none by The People or Maori.
I will start by invoking International law, human rights , The UN declaration of rights of the indigenous people, Māori customary rights and The Bill of rights.
In my introduction I said Waikato is the river and Taupiri is the Mountain, this is important to understand because all Māori whakapapa to these two things the Mountains and the waters be they inland or costal. These determine not only the tribal area but the hapu’s within the tribal area and the guardianship and responsibilities of each tribe and its hapu’s for the well-being of the whole.
Taranaki being the area determined by the mountain Mount Taranaki and the coast being determined by the Patea River in the south. Through very specific inter tribal marriage all Māori can whakapapa back to all mountains and waters, in this way the interweaving sovereignty of all the lands, territories and waters was established and to this day is maintained.
The site were mining is intended to take place is of significance to Māori. The reefs traditionally fished and culturally harvested for over 1500 years. The North and South Traps, the Graham bank has been traditionally respected and is held sacred.
NZ is green by reputation mining the seabed is moving away from that reputation and will hurt NZ reputation as green rather than move NZ forward in it.
The bight once used to be a calving ground for large numbers of Whale in winter and spring, their number extensively reduced by whaling with only a handful of cows visiting this area regularly today. This water is also confirmed to be the only known feeding ground for Blue Whales so the 50 spotted Monday 03 Feb 2014 foraging in the South Taranaki Bight are a great sign to leave this area alone. The wealth of their return far out weighs that of profit. Monetary wealth is not the foundations upon which leadership must reside thus must never be given such right to decide what is best for life.
The latest UN report on global warming while disputed in its entirety does justice to the harm being done to our oceans adding to the reasoning for denial of the applicants desire to mine our seabed.
While environments are being broken down by those who would have money over life Our Māori customary title is not broken down by a hapu or tribe residing at an area – All area is of Aotearoa and her territories and waters belong under customary title to that sovereignty yet we are repeatedly asked to attend costly hearings over small areas to prove who we are and our sovereignty in attempt to break us down.. It is the crown thus NZ Government/Parliament that slice and dice the arguments separating therefore in the minds of people not only the issue but the lands territories and waters them selves.
Each segregated part dealt with as though it has no connection to the other when in truth all parts make up the whole. This application is an issue for the whole.
Every mountain is the status of Māori sovereignty. This is as relevant to the seabed as it is to the land. The mountains beneath the seas Māori long ago gave names too thus the landscape there is well-known to us.
The mountains are the area and all mountains are so settled. All area never has been abandoned thus sovereignty cannot be extinguished. Māori never ceded sovereignty of the lands territories and waters of Aotearoa. To do so Māori would have to abandon all these things it is a gift from God and our covenant with God.
A breach of legal continuity cannot imply legal independence, “or legal anything; all following after illegitimate. True evolution is simply nonsense.
This clear breach in legal continuity along with various evidence cleared the way for the Māori Sovereign people to accord moral authority and binding force to the new order which has also occurred, we are the sovereign state of Aotearoa.
The NZ Government thus Parliament are instructed to cease any further attempts at usurping sovereignty established and with Māori including attempts to place a written constitution and replace the crown flag – Maori sovereignty already has both written constitution and our flag established.. The will of the sovereign Peoples of Aotearoa is established.
Due to globalisation our Pakeha brothers and sisters are aware they are under common threat as broad and deep as that which has happened to Māori indeed all aboriginal Peoples and in this can now shelter under the umbrella of our sovereignty in true unity and shared partnership beside us which the NZ Government thus parliament and Crown has never offered to either.
It is my duty to notify you that the current NZ Government thus Parliament and Crown has been notified and requested to transition peacefully I now reaffirm this in full The Attorney General has been notified as has the UN. So the hearing for the mining of the sea bed needs to be delayed until the applicant can talk to the correct people legitimately.
TeManawa will not be doing interviews but has issued the following statement.
In effect what I have said and done today is declare the New Zealand Government parliament and crown is not constitutional and to instruct these entities to cease all attempts to invoke constitutional and flag discussions as Māori are the sovereign state of Aotearoa and these things are already existing and therefore not up for debate.
Our lands, territories, waters and people have suffered enough.
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– After the committee has presented its report, the item will progress to the next stage and will be considered by Parliament.
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Our team of volunteers are the backbone of the Norwich Fringe Project and the force that helps us achieve our aims and goals. We have regular volunteers who turn out in all weathers to help maintain our sites. The number vary on each occasion since there is no requirement for anyone to turn up for every activity, so volunteers can give as much or as little of their time as they wish.
New volunteers are always welcome and the more experienced volunteers will share their knowledge and expertise with you. The Project provides all tools and equipment required for a task along with the appropriate safety requirements (e.g. gloves, hard hats and safety glasses) and, most importantly, tea, coffee and biscuits! Training in the use of the tools and techniques is provided by the Project with opportunities to receive more formal task related qualifications (e.g. brushcutters, pedestrian mowers, first aid etc).
The activities change throughout the seasons from woodland management like coppicing, pollarding and thinning-out to improve the wildlife biodiversity of a site through to grass and vegetation cutting, fencing installation and repairs with the occasional riverbank maintenance. Please read our blog which describes a typical volunteer work day with the Project.
If you are interested in learning more about volunteering for the Project then our contact details can be found here. So, why not try a taster day and come along and see what we do and enjoy working outside in a healthy environment knowing that you are making a difference.
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Tropical Death was introduced by Air Asia In Flight Magazine Travel 360. You can download the whole magazine from here or pick it up in flight! The interview is about Tokyo Underground and TENSION! in December that Tropical Death performed in.
You can also check out the video summary of TENSION! here. We are honored to be in the movie with MELT-BANANA & P-IPLE!
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Recently I heard a critical response to a fellow artist’s use of some vintage wood in a design. They used 100 year-old wood in their art which was deemed a “waste” by the responder.
I wish only to explore what “stops the creative process” at this point.
Why was it a waste to use that rare wood?
“If the wood could be used in a more ‘worthy’ application, then it would be a proper use of the material.” If the wood were made into a fine altar piece or carved doors to a crypt, then it would be something more notable.
I wonder in this manner sometimes when I make something new, even one-of-a-kind piece from found objects. Certainly few recycled things I have come a provenance or even an estimation of age. None are any sort of rare things other than they had been “lost”, they piqued my interest, and I re-defined them.
Paint remaining in tubes for fear of waste might deter me if I allowed. The costs of paper, canvas, and brushes do frighten me when I order materials.
But, what if I do not get “it” right?
Do I feel guilty when I fail the materials and decide to start over? Does starting over prove I am un-wise?
If every time I failed I stopped the process and cleaned up the materials and placed everything back where it belongs and quit I have only accomplished only an exercise in studio cleaning, and turning off the lights.
Why is “waste” such a driving concept?
I think it is rooted in fear of failing. If I mess up this cut, then I’ve ‘ruined’ a piece of 100 year-old wood and the wasting wood cops are sitting in a van outside.
Yep, it is the same with anyone who might mess up vintage lumber or a box of nails.
If the piece of 100 year-old wood rests on the shelf for another hundred years perhaps it will be a buffet for termites.
If and if and if must end. It stops the creative process.
Art is verb, it is about doing.
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Taking its inspiration from critical studies in the history, culture and politics of technology, this blog will follow developments at the interface of humans and computationally-based machines. My main focus is on remotely-controlled weapon systems, with forays as well into other domains in which robots are imagined as central to the lives (and deaths) of humans (most prominently, in elder care). For the most part I’ll be responding to media reports of these developments, but I’ll point along the way to sources that can help us to think critically about the unquestionned assumptions that these stories repeat, at the same time that they purport to be telling us about things that are unprecedented and, most disturbingly, inevitable. A central goal of the writing that follows is to identify the contingencies that make the futures reported highly uncertain ones, and to contribute to ways of imagining and making our futures differently.
For readers with a more academic bent, related publications are Lucy Suchman Human-Machine Reconfigurations (2007) Cambridge University Press; Subject Objects (2011) Feminist Theory 12: 119-145; Animation and Automation: The liveliness and labours of bodies and machines (with Jackie Stacey, in press) Body & Society; and (with Claudia Castañeda) Robot Visions (in progress).
There was a recent article in The Nation about drones and their ethical and other implications….
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Which is the Top Credit Card Processing Service Provider?
Credit card payments have become largely popular in the era of ecommerce as people want to do everything seamlessly from the comfort of their homes. And, there are definitely a large number of payment methods that people use to make these services come true. However, the credit card method sill beats them all in terms of flexibility, convenience and ease of use. It’s probably because credit cards allow you to buy anything you want or pay for services and then pay later. This makes many people to prefer the card payment methods to any other. Get more info on payfinder. And, linking the card to the seller or client needs a trustworthy service agent, and this is where the best credit card processing service comes in. Here are ways to choose the best provider!
The most important thing you need to understand before you contract a company to handle your credit card processing is professionalism. This means that the company should uphold high standards in their work and ensure that everything goes smoothly. And, making this successful means that the processors need to be accredited, licensed and registered by the relevant authorities. When the government has already licensed a company, it is easy to trust its services as you know they are professional.
But registration alone does not guarantee that a company is professional, so you need to go a little deeper. You need to look for the company that has a real office to guide you through any time you are stuck at the same time. An executive website, educated staff and elaborate management structure of the card processors would also mean they are professional.
Dealing with credit cards means that the company will be handling some of the most sensitive information of your company as well as that of your clients. Thus, you should ensure they have the highest level of trust. In the first place, a client will only agree to use their credit card on services that they trust. For example, the gateway payment provider should not save personal information on their service. This is a great step in preventing credit card loss or unauthorized use of a client’s personal details.
Get more info on credit cards payments.
The security organs in our country as well as other major foreign law enforcers have made it clear that card-theft is the most common kind of cybercrime. You therefore have to protect your business by choosing the best credit card processing, which will put to consideration issues such as safety, transparency and accuracy. The payment gateway needs to adhere to these stringent measures to satisfy the security and trust of their clients. We hope this information helps you find the top payment gateway.
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Friday October 12, 2001: Into the Mayo Clinic (St. Luke's Hospital) Jacksonville Florida at 6:00 AM EST for open-heart surgery to be performed by a Dr. Sanford Finck at 8:00 AM that day.
Sunday October 14, 2001: About Noon a Dr. McBride telephoned my wife saying "things hadn't gone right" and they were sending me for a CAT scan of my stomach.
Dr. McBride called my wife again soon thereafter and asked her for permission to operate on my abdomen to repair a puncture in my stomach that had been caused by an improperly inserted drainage tube. Accompanied by my daughter my wife went to the Mayo Clinic/St. Luke's where they were informed by a Dr. Stephen L. Smith that he had "closed the hole in the stomach due to a puncture caused by a drainage tube from the heart surgery, cleaned and drained it and that everything was fine."
Monday October 15, 2001: Dr. Finck called my wife in the morning to explain the problems caused by the mistake. He then called again at 3:00 PM and said "things were going the right way."
Tuesday October 16, 2001: My wife came to see me in the evening, saw that I was unconscious and still on a mechanical respirator so she asked to speak to the doctor on duty, a Dr. Coleman, who told her that I "had undergone two major surgeries within a few days and needed rest."
Wednesday October 17, 2001: My wife called the intensive care unit (ICU) duty nurse and was told that I "was doing O.K."
Thursday October 18, 2001: My wife called the ICU nurse and was told that because I wasn't responding to questions correctly, a neurologist had ordered a CAT scan of my brain. My wife then went to the Mayo/St. Luke's ICU where she found two critical care doctors coming out of my room. She asked them how I was doing and was told "he needs time to get well." She then spotted Dr. Trejo, my Mayo cardiologist, passing the door. She called him in and asked why I was unconscious and still on a mechanical respirator, Dr. Trejo told her that "on Monday October 15, 2001 your husband almost died and is sick, very, very sick and has peritonitis and pneumonia."
Friday October 19, 2001: In the early evening a Dr. Yeo (an infectious diseases specialist) called my wife for permission to do a bronchoscopy with brush on my lower left lung to collect fluid. She gave her permission and one of my sons obtained leave of absence from his employer and came to stay at the Mayo with me.
Sunday October 21, 2001: A Dr. Wentling called my wife and said that my abdominal wound had burst open and asked her permission, which she gave, to perform surgery to close it again. My wife and daughter then went to the Mayo/St. Luke's where they saw Dr. Ronald A. Hinder, Chairman of the Mayo Dept. of Surgery who said he had "completed the surgery and put in retaining stitches." The duty nurse in the ICU told my wife that I had "contracted an MRSA infection."
Thursday October 25, 2001: My wife visited and noted that my NG (nasogastric) tube had been removed and that I had been allowed one teaspoon of iced juice by mouth. Since it looked as though I was going to make it after all my son returned to work.
Monday October 29, 2001: I was moved from the ICU to a room in the patient care unit at which time they removed my urinary catheter tube (definitely NOT recommended guys).
Tuesday October 30, 2001: Some drainage tubes removed. Because of bedsores and the retaining stitches I was suffering from the most agonizing pain one may imagine.
Wednesday October 31, 2001: Dr. Finck called my wife and said they were going to try and send me home Friday November 2, 2001. Later a Ms. L. Brown called my wife and said she would arrange home care for me when I was sent home.
Thursday November 1, 2001: A nurse called my wife and told her that therapy at home wasn't enough and that I was going into Heartlands Rehabilitation Center for one to two weeks.
Friday November 2, 2001: Dr Finck called my wife and told her that because of my infections, Heartlands Rehabilitation Center wouldn't accept me. Dr. Fink also told her that my gall bladder had stopped working and that he was calling in a GI (gastrointestinal) doctor. Dr. Finck called again and said that he was going to have to re-insert drain tubes (THIS TIME GUIDED BY X-RAY!!!) in two areas around my heart and possibly my gall bladder. Later that day another doctor called my wife and said that it had been decided to treat the gall bladder with antibiotics and that if the antibiotics didn't work I would have to undergo yet more surgery.
Sunday November 4, 2001: Pain, pain, pain from the bedsores and retaining stitches. My leg and feet becoming swollen.
Friday November 9, 2001: Moved to another room because my picc (intravenous) line had become infected (because they left it in one place too long) and so they had to disinfect the room.
Wednesday November 14, 2001: Sent home with various medications including darvocet for the pain.
The foregoing doesn't tell the "nitty-gritty" of my experiences at the Mayo/St. Luke's. I don't want to bore readers with too much detail but I should have been smart enough when I first went into the Mayo/St. Luke's to have been forewarned when, upon telling the staff nurse that the hot water of my pre-surgery shower was scarcely luke-warm, was told" "Oh, that's so patients don't scald themselves." Also, although I'm hardly a "clean freak" my room wasn’t, in my opinion, very clean.
I don't recall too much detail of my time in the ICU but I do remember the ever present hallucinations. They were really terrifying. Whether caused by the drugs or possibly an elevated temperature I don't know. Among other things I dreamt that a preacher buried a dog up to its neck alive outside my room to demonstrate "man's dominion over animals." That although my doctors had human bodies their heads were those of monkeys. That a friend's house had burnt down. That my wife had started a coin operated cafeteria in the hospital. It all seemed so real that when I came to my senses I had a hard time believing it all hadn't actually happened. I now understand some of the turmoil, agonies and terrors of the mind that people who hear voices in their heads; schizophrenics or the otherwise mentally disturbed endure and have much sympathy for them.
An irritant were the trainee nurse assistants from the local community college. Too idle to open the door to my room they left it open all the time and would gather just outside the room where they would discuss, at the tops of their voices, their latest boy friends, the last TV show they had watched, the latest recording of some rap or hip-hop artist and suchlike. They'd shut the door when asked but prop it open and leave it open the next time they used it. Not a major problem but when one is ill and very tired from being woken at regular intervals throughout the day and night so they can take one's vital signs, it made it very difficult to get any rest.
Another distressing aspect that still lingers in my mind is the raging thirst, cracked lips and dry mouth that I endured. Being fed intravenously and not being allowed anything by mouth, my thirst was both constant and intense. Sometimes a kindly nurse would wet a flannel under the faucet, wring it out until just damp and let me put it in my mouth - but that was all I was allowed. Makes one feel for people who are shipwrecked or stuck in a desert without water.
Wide subject matter readers among you may have heard of instances known as an "out of body experience." This is said to be, by those who have experienced it, a situation where, when near death, one feels a state of calm and peace and is in an intense white light suspended over and looking down at one's own body. I have twice experienced this in my life. Once in my late teens and once in my late thirties, both times while recovering from anesthesia after surgery. But, in both of the previous instances, I wasn't anywhere close to dying. However, while in the Mayo, where I really was facing death, I did NOT experience it.
One experience I had, during the period my son was there, was that I came to the conclusion that the pain was too much to bear. I decided to let go and die. I said goodbye to my son, maybe just in my mind, and turned my face to the wall to die. Then my mother (deceased) appeared, stood by my bed and said that it wasn't my time to go, that I still had things to do and to hang on. Then my first wife (deceased) appeared and said much the same thing. Although, like many people, I'd like to believe there is something there, I neither have any strong convictions about life after death nor any opinions about spiritualism. One's mother plays such a crucial part in one's life and I had known my first wife since I was nine years old so, since their psyche is embedded deeply in my own sub-conscious, it is entirely possible I was dredging up inner thoughts and desires.
Next page: Home from the Mayo.
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Psychic Jessica Wilder was a consultant for the FBI until she suffered burnout. The visions leave her alone for several months and she starts to make a peaceful life for herself. Then suddenly, they come back with a vengeance—visions of children being kidnapped. How could she not try to save the children?
Detective Jonathan Lansing doesn’t believe in psychics, but the young woman in front of him is very convincing. Can she truly help him track down a kidnapper? Or is she involved in the crime?
Another child is taken right from under their noses. As they follow her turbulent visions through several states and into Canada, Jessie and Johnny begin to discover they want more than a working relationship. But will it distract them from finding the children in time?
Available in various ebook formats and print.
Sparks start flying when Stacey Parker meets ex-military hostage rescuer, Cord McConnell, and she begins to wonder if they will survive this assignment in the wilderness without killing each other.
“I won’t wait on you if you fall behind either, and whining is for dogs. You’re welcome to be in charge and I’ll follow orders when I agree with them,” She walked from the clearing without waiting to see what this macho jerk would do next.
Please visit Romance With A Twist (Titles Page) to find out more about the books I am currently working on.
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As a libertarian I am automatically suspicious that government agencies may be spying on us all the time, though the story about PRISM in this week has aroused my technical curiousity.
The article in the Guardian appears to rely on a single Powerpoint file of dubious provenance. It was provided by a chap who hides his head and keyboard under a blanket when logging in so his password cannot be seen, despite him alleging that he’s aware of a program that can read most emails and messages on the planet. He is now ‘in hiding’ in a Hong Kong hotel room.
Whilst the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, has admitted that there is collection of data on non-US citizens under Section 702 of FISA, he said that the reports in the Guardian and Washington Post “contain numerous inaccuracies“. Also, several of the companies whose data is allegedly being accessed have already denied this.
I am not disputing that a collection programme exists, only that the scope of it portrayed in those newspapers is highly unlikely. I am still uncertain whether Clapper or Obama were referring to the Verizon court order, uncovered the previous day, in their limited admissions.
One slide lists the following providers: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, Facebook, PalTalk, YouTube, Skype, AOL and Apple.
The same slide then asserts “What Will You Receive in Collection (Surveillance and Stored Comms)?” and then lists the following: E-mail, Chat (video, voice), Videos, Photos, Stored Data, VoIP, File transfers, Video Conferencing, Notifications of target activity – logins, etc., Online Social Networking details and Special Requests (sic).
Now firstly, let’s analyse what is meant by both Surveillance and Stored Comms. Surveillance means to watch someone, taking note of their activities, such as when they send a message and to whom. Many online are correctly referring to this as metadata, that is data that refers to other data. Interestingly my reading of the situation is that collection and analysis of this metadata many not need a warrant under US (and other countries’ legislation), whereas looking at what’s in the message definitely does. If the PRISM system was just collecting metadata then the collection requirements would be considerably less, though still enormous based on the providers and services listed above.
Secondly, let’s consider Stored Comms. This means storing the actual communication. With an email this can be as small as a few thousand bytes, instant messaging would be even less. Picture data would be huge, and videos would be even larger. Videoconferencing would be enormous – around 1MB of data per minute at least, increasing up to 11MB per minute for HD quality videoconferencing.
Let’s take a couple of examples. Firstly Facebook.
Facebook users are adding 350 million new picture files a day and Facebook already holds over 240 billion pictures (2012 figures). To support this growth Facebook engineers have to deploy (install) 7 Petabytes of new storage per month. That’s 7,000 Terabytes; or 7,000,000 Gigabytes; or 7,000,000,000 Megabytes. A conservative estimate of cost is around $3m per month for purchasing additional storage alone. If hosted on Amazon’s Glacier storage (the lowest price, slowest recovery storage) it would cost $20m a year just for Facebook photos alone!
A second example is Skype.
Skype: Skype does not record calls so for VoIP calls to be recorded the NSA would need to record every single conversation in real-time. Architecturally this is impossible as many calls do not route through Skype equipment, but are still connected peer-to-peer, despite changes to the Skype architecture listed in the blog above. A quick conservative estimate of Skype voice data is at least 147 Terabytes a month alone (based on June 2012 data from the Skype blog above), without any other transferred files or chat.
Apple: iCloud storage of all iPhones, iPods and iPads with automatic backups enabled.
Microsoft: Hotmail (360 million users in July 2011) plus, one assumes, all cloud hosted email via Office 365 (over a million users).
Google: All Google search data (100 Billion per month), plus Gmail (425 million active users a month).
YouTube: Videos – one estimate here is 22.7 Terabytes per day.
The cumulative data requirements could easily be estimated from their press releases and blogs, sadly I don’t have time to do this.
Put The Captured Data In The Cloud?
Using commercial cloud providers has been suggested as to how the NSA can store all this data – because “it’s cheap”. No it isn’t. The storage costs would be phenomenal, plus the processing costs. Any data I/O to remote datacentres is even more costly. If the NSA were to do this they would have to host it in the data source companies’ datacentres or its own military-grade secure facility, connected by dark fibre to each datacentre of each data source.
One of the slide graphics released suggests that there is a system called ‘Upstream’ that allows access to telecoms data “from fiber cables and infrastructure as the data flows past“.
Whilst gathering data from optical fibre cables is technically possibly, it would be very difficult physically and would be noticeable to the telecoms provider due to drops in signal strength. A fibre contains many channels (or wavelengths) of light, each of which will also have many channels of data multiplexed into it. Therefore this single statement alone damages the technical credibility of the presentation. Also there are too many cables coming in and out of the US for them to tap into all the actual fibres. (I was involved in the project to build just one of the existing transatlantic cables a decade ago, so have experience in this area).
If they were just connecting to telecoms ‘infrastructure’ (switches, multiplexers, etc.) then it would be more believable, although this is still pretty much impossible as the data volumes are enormous and much data is encrypted.
To tap into an interactive conversation, as per the Bourne films, whether over chat, voice or video would not be possible in real-time without knowing a considerable number of parameters, many unknown even to the network provider. Recording the data for later reference (with or without court order) would still require phenomenal amounts of storage. Cisco’s latest Visual Networking Index estimates global IP Internet traffic last year was 43,570 Petabytes per month (43,570,000 Terabytes, 43,500,000,000 Gigabytes): this equates to 16,700 Gigabytes of IP traffic a second. This would require 20 x 900 Terabyte hard drives a second to store this, costing approximately $6,000 a second!
While I don’t think the scope of data collection from servers as envisaged by the Guardian is impossible, I do think it’s highly improbable and would cost many $Billions per annum (just look up the IT storage costs of the companies above for an indication). If PRISM does exist it is likely to only capture metadata, that is data about conversations. This would still be a considerable amount of data and would require costs orders of magnitude above the $20m cited in the other slide below.
My personal instinct is that this Powerpoint is a fraud, for whatever reason. Whether the PRISM data collection programme exists is another question. If it does I don’t think the above released information would accurately reflect its capabilities nor its effectiveness. At best, it enables the NSA to search many metadata databases, though the legality of this, as either participant could be a US Citizen, is also dubious.
I still don’t trust any government with access to my data, but I’m not convinced any government, especially the US Government, has this capability. Yet.
The copyright of this article remains with the author. It can be used only if attributed to The New Liberty blog.
P.S. To the NSA, if you ever want to build something like PRISM properly then give me a call, I’m sure you know my number and my billing rates!
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My mother offered to pack a few essential items I might need from my room in Perth. I'm tempted to ask for my bear -- the big white Christmas Jelly Bear I've had since I was seven.
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awww, but it'd be sad to leave the bear in Perth!
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Stored somewhere behind the imposing glass edifice of The Age Spencer Street headquarters – keeping up appearances even as the newsroom it trumpets is progressively hacked away – is a cardboard box containing hundreds of envelopes addressed by hand to The Age Independence Committee. Tucked in with them are piles of yellowing forms clipped out of newspapers, with signatures, names and addresses – Doveton and South Yarra, Edithvale and Wheelers Hill, Castlemaine and Korumburra.
Cracking open this modest reliquary might provide some insight into the grief – albeit largely from a certain demographic – flowing from yesterday’s announcement of the passing of the House of Fairfax.
As a young reporter, I handled a good swag of the letters in this box back in 1991 at my desk in the tiny, smoky office of The Age’s storied Insight investigations unit, which in this period moonlighted as the headquarters of The Age Independence Committee. Then The Age was situated a couple of blocks north of its present building. It occupied a brutalist chocolate-brick box in what the columnist John Lahey described as the Siberian quarter of the city, a neighbourhood of “unloved warehouses and 7am sandwich shops”, whipped by a wicked wind off what would become Docklands.
Under the editorship of the venerated Graham Perkin (1966-75), The Age had been famously recognised as one of the world’s dozen great newspapers, acquiring a circulation of over 220,000. The legacy of that had endured the fraught transition of control from Melbourne’s Syme family to the Sydney-based Fairfax stable, and shaped my understanding of journalism. But by the time I gained a long-coveted desk in the ugly building in 1989 I’d missed the best of it, I was assured by old hands and readers.
It’s difficult to recall, from this distance, what a potent force the paper was in Melbourne and Victoria. When I try to explain this landscape to my journalism students, they retreat behind that blank, politely suffering look you give nostalgic old people.
In 1988, The Age published a special report titled “Who Shapes Melbourne?” It was the product of weeks of reporting by a team of ten journalists who interviewed dozens of the city’s movers and shakers – an enterprise also beyond the comprehension of my students, raised on a diet of impoverished newsroom budgets. As part of the project, 130 of these doyens were asked to rank Melbourne’s most influential individuals and institutions.
Out of a field of 162 men (overwhelmingly) and women, then Premier John Cain emerged as the individual with the most clout. And of 153 nominated institutions, The Age itself romped into first place ahead of the Arts Centre, the National Gallery and the University of Melbourne (tied in second place); the ACTU (third); the ABC and the Victorian Football League (this was pre-AFL) (fourth) and BHP neck-and-neck with the state cabinet/government (fifth). The tabloid Sun came in sixth, The Herald eighth, alongside the Catholic Church and the police. “Whether The Age really is the most influential institution in Melbourne matters less than the perception, among many of its powerful readers, that it is,” observed Lipski.
Commentators may have struggled to explain the enduring gravitas of the paper, but enjoyed pricking its pomposity along the way. A special report in The Australian – “Flaws in the Fairfax formula” (April 23 1991) – listed its sins as “self-indulgence, independence, tradition, superiority”.
When this article ran, John Fairfax Holdings Ltd was in receivership and the odds were high that The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian Financial Review and other mastheads would soon be sold. Circulation and revenue from the classified “rivers of gold” were still bountiful, the technology that would steal them still evolving out of sight. But the fortunes and vulnerabilities of the paper were being pored over thanks to “Young” Warwick Fairfax’s disastrous play to privatise the publicly listed media empire on the eve of the 1987 stockmarket crash.
The Age’s Charter of Editorial Independence – the first document of its type in Australia – emerged when British press tycoon Robert Maxwell took a run at the paper in 1988. Age employees banded together to defend the ethos of the masthead, and generous column space was given to reports and opinion pieces explaining to readers the implications of such a sale for editorial integrity and independence. As journalists organised and fortified, mercifully they could not have known this was merely the first skirmish in a 30-year siege to which the Fairfax name suddenly succumbed with a note to the markets just two mornings ago.
And here’s where the letters in the cardboard box come in, a small surviving sample of pre-internet clicktivism, requiring scissors, a stamp and a trip to the mailbox. Thousands of coupons poured in over a couple of campaigns, many with encouraging notes and $5 and $10 notes and cheques attached. The operation to save The Age and its editorial culture was coordinated by Insight chief and associate editor David Wilson, the committee’s chargé de mission and hustler, lobbying powerbrokers, opinion-shapers and glitterati for their support. Like so many others in this story, Wilson is deceased, but my recollection from hours listening to him work the phones was that he rarely encountered anything but enthusiasm for the cause, even as he copped no-holds-barred commentary on all that was wrong with the paper.
His greatest coup – assisted by the spirited cadre he led – was getting Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser to clench hands under the “Maintain Your Age” banner at a rally in the Treasury Gardens in October 1991.
Malcolm Fraser joined forces with Gough Whitlam to support Fairfax newspapers’ editorial independence in 1991. The Age associate editor David Wilson is on the left.
But his fondest recruit was surgeon and POW Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop, who apparently on initial approach assumed the campaign was concerned with elderly rights, but who nonetheless threw himself wholeheartedly behind The Age because that was a good cause too.
The paper was then facing a takeover by a consortium led by Canadian mogul Conrad Black (later jailed) and Australia’s Kerry Packer. Thousands of readers marched up Collins Street. Whitlam moved a motion calling on the Hawke Labor government to do everything possible to prevent further media concentration and foreign ownership. Fraser seconded it.
As the columnist Bob Millington had reflected in a piece rifling through the “Maintain Your Age” mailbag, “if politics makes strange bedfellows, defending a newspaper brings an even stranger, yet wonderful, collection of people together”. Over these early years the campaign enlisted support from individuals you could not imagine having any more in common than a football team (it is, after all, Melbourne). BHP chairman Sir James Balderstone, historian Professor Manning Clark, ACTU secretary Bill Kelty, Victorian Farmers Federation chief Heather Mitchell, former Victorian premiers John Cain and Sir Rupert Hamer, philanthropist and prisons campaigner Dame Phyllis Frost, Greens leader Bob Brown and RSL president Bruce Ruxton.
And then there were the coupon signers. Millington unearthed coupons and cheques from descendants of the Syme family and a 12-year-old boy from Brighton. Readers in Albury, Rosanna and Bentleigh declared their decades of subscription, the prize for longevity going to Mrs Florence Williams of St Kilda who “says she reads The Age from cover to cover each day. Mrs Williams will be 99 next Wednesday”. Bless her, and Millo, (both departed), but Mrs Williams represents the extreme end of a once rusted-on and apparently worthless demographic, which the enterprise has long since jettisoned.
The box of letters sat under my desk when we revived the independence committee a decade ago as we tried to defend the spirit of the charter from the storm of the great disruption. We wearily dusted off and enlisted the old tactics, reaching out to influencers and readers, this time using the infinitely more powerful tools of the same cybersphere that was eating us alive. The response was gratifying, but had a certain hollowness. Was it real, or just an echo?
As efforts crank up to defend Fairfax’s editorial tradition, if not its name, when it is consumed by Nine, I’m all too aware that the institutional journalism that defines my generation and my imagination has all but vanished. When I summon up Fairfax in talking journalism with my students, for me it’s this great warts-and-all beast with a proud history, noble ambition and organic connection to its community; for them it’s a limp tagline in their feed.
Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood yesterday tried to assure journalists that “there will be plenty of Fairfax Media DNA in the merged company and the board”. I hope so, because the remaining journalists and editors continue to produce stories of extraordinary calibre with little time and ever diminishing resources. But I wondered, given the vanishing of the masthead’s resonance in their lives, whether the community Fairfax served has already been lost, and might only be retrieved by extracting DNA from the coupons in the box, like extinct creatures out of amber.
“Where do you get your news?” I asked my students on Monday, as I do at the beginning of every semester. “Twitter” one of them replied. No, actually, you don’t.
Jo Chandler was a journalist at The Age from 1989-2012, and a former chair of the Age Independence Committee.
The links below are to articles reporting on the latest on Victoria’s 5.3 magnitude earthquake.
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I think I finally realized why autumn is my favorite season.
which is a term I’ve grown accustomed to throughout my life.
I was born with a patch of it on my head.
with people always calling me a carrot top.
with my bright strawberry blond hair.
forest green of those pine trees around them.
and my birthday is in the fall.
and they remind me of myself.
because I finally feel like I fit in.
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The Chartres labyrinth occurs in many variations. Here I speak of the 11 circuit Chartres labyrinth as a type. Some elements of the original labyrinth in the Cathedral at Chartres, such as the six petals in the middle and the lunations around the outermost perimeter, belong to the style Chartres.
For me the type Chartres exists above all in the layout of the paths. One goes in quickly (on the 5th circuit) and one quickly approaches the middle (6th and 11th circuit). Then follows the wandering through all quadrants. The access of the centre happens from completely outside (1st circuit) quickly about the 6th and 7th circuit into the centre.
Theoretically there are lot of possibilities to build similar types to the Chartres labyrinth. They can be found worldwide. However, the original Chartres labyrinth owns many special qualities which make it an extraordinary example among the Medieval labyrinths. Among others, it is self-dual and symmetrical.
Hence, the original can be divided in labyrinthine mathematics (11:2=5) in two equal labyrinths. I cut it into two parts, by omitting the 6th circuit. Thereby I get two new, yet identical 5 circuit labyrinths in a Chartres-like layout: I quickly reach the middle and finally enter the centre directly from the outermost circuit. The way in between shows the labyrinthine pendular movement, that Hermann Kern describes as characteristic for a labyrinth.
How should we now name this type of labyrinth? To me the name 5 circuit Chartres labyrinth seems properly to differentiate it from other 5 circuit Medieval labyrinths with another layout for the paths.
I would like to call it Demi-Chartres.
The Babylonian visceral labyrinths have found entrance in the modern medicine. In quite an unusual way. A labyrinth-like chip serves for the diagnosis of cancer cells in the blood. The labyrinthine arrangement of the fluid channels shows up to be an effective tool to isolate circulating cancer cells in the blood. That means that the curvature and the tortuous route in the labyrinth is especially useful.
What kind of labyrinth is this now?
At first sight it reminds of a medieval labyrinth, as it is the famous Chartres labyrinth. It has ten circuits in three sectors, in one these are eight. They will not be traversed one after the other, but reciprocally. And then it has two accesses: An entrance and an exit. It is a walk-through labyrinth as we know that of the Babylonian labyrinths. Hence, we have an own, new type. And we see the pathway in the labyrinth, Ariadne’s thread. This reminds us of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, which is to be combated like cancer here.
If the Babylonian visceral labyrinths served for the divination, here the labyrinth serves the medicine.
This reminds me of “Ancient Myths & Modern Uses“, the book about labyrinths of Sig Lonegren.
The paths and the limitation lines are each 40 cm wide. The paths are formed by 6 rows of bright granite stones, the limitation lines by 7 rows of dark stones. The middle has a diameter of 1.80 m, built of 8 rows of bright stones and the center piece measures 80 cm in diameter. The center piece is formed by one single plate of reddish granite with a width of 80 cm and has a slightly convex shape.
The paths and lines are framed by 7 rows of dark stones in a width of about 77 cm. The paved surface has therefore a diameter of 21 m. A 2.50-m-wide way from grit joins this, surrounded by bigger fieldstones.
The path length from the outside up to the central midpoint amounts to a total of 371 m.
The labyrinth ist to be recognized on Google Earth. The geographic coordinates are N 56° 58′ 55″, E 23° 18′ 9″.
What’s the Use of the Pattern?
Many of those who are involved with labyrinths use the rectangular form, e.g. Jo Edkins, Niels Mejlhede Jensen, some authors in Caerdroia and many others. Erwin and myself have used it in many posts on this blog. Not all use the same rectangular form and not all use it the same way. However they all intend to achieve a better understanding of the labyrinth. In the following I show some examples with the rectangular form of the Chartres labyrinth.
Thorn Steafel (fig. 1) uses the rectangular form for the walls obtained with method 1 in order to compare the patterns of the Chartres and the Bayeux labyrinths (Steafel T. Reappraising the Bayeux Labyrinth. Caerdroia 2014; 43: 40-45).
Jo Edkins shows on his website the rectangular form for the Ariadne’s Thread using method 1 and analyzes the course of the pathway (fig. 2).
The same rectangular form (for the Ariadne’s Thread, applying method 1) is used by Erwin in this post (fig. 3). He analyzes the course of the pathway and the duality. This latter can be seen in the different numberings of the circuits on the left and right outer sides. In all three rectangular forms obtained with method 1, the entrance is at bottom right and the center on top left.
Since it can be read from top left to bottom right, I always use the rectangular form for the Ariadne’s Thread obtained with method 2 (fig. 4). This is the form I refer to as the pattern.
The pattern provides an unambigous criterion for grouping similar and distinguishing between different labyrinths.
Recently you could read something about the long and winding path in a classical labyrinth.
Today we want to look more exactly at the path in the Chartres labyrinth. This is quite an other type of labyrinth. It has more circuits than the Cretan labyrinth, eleven instead of seven.
We orientate by the original, that is since about 800 years on the floor inside the cathedral of Chartres. The ways are much smaller than they should be for a “open land labyrinth”.
It depends not only on the type labyrinth, how long the ways are, but also from the constructive form. So: How wide the ways are, how wide the boundary lines are in between, how big the middle is etc.
In the Chartres labyrinth we have a distance of 42.6 cm from axis to axis.
The direct way from “A” to “Z” straight across all boundary lines to the center of the Chartres labyrinth amounts to 6.45 m. This corresponds to half a diameter of 12.90 m.
The whole, long way from the entrance into the center amounts to 263.05 m by following all the turns. This proves a relation between the long and the short distance of 263.05: 6.45 = 40.78. So a much higher “detour factor” than in the Cretan labyrinth.
If I handle the thread at the beginning and at the end and stretch it apart, I will get a straight line which reaches from “A” to “Z” and which corresponds to the way into the middle, that is 263.05 m.
If I join together the beginning and the end, I will get a circle. The circumference corresponds to the straight line of 263.05 m. The diameter would be 83.73 m.
I can also make a square with the same size from it. Then this would have four side lengths of 65.76 m.
Don’t be surprised that the original labyrinth looks so tiny. This is due to the “detour factor” of 40.78. (To keep in memory: For the Cretan labyrinth this value amounts to 24.4).
The unrolled thread of Ariadne is much longer relative to the original labyrinth. The proportions in the drawing however are right.
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Ball Tampering – The accusers are the accused!
For decades, British cricketers and their press has been trying to implicate (quite unsuccessfully) Pakistani great fast bowlers like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis into ball tampering. These and other such great fast bowlers were able to mesmerize their batsmen for decades. Match after match, the English batsmen would fail miserably against their style of attacking fast bowling.
However, a revelation by Marcus Trescothic (a former English batsmen) in his recently published autobiography reveals that he used mint induced sliva to shine the cricket ball so that it would swing ominously. This “tampered” ball was able to let England win back the Ashes after over 21 years from Australia in a tightly fought battle in 2005. Now, however, we know, it was not all fair play.
“To me it is a total hypocrisy on what is deemed to be ball tampering. When Pakistan were accused of ball tampering it was built into something that was abhorrent. Ball tampering is ball tampering whether you scratch the ball or whether you deliberately put in sugary saliva on it to aid its shine so I don’t see any difference between one and the either.
Somehow, it does not feel right. When Pakistan is blamed for ball tampering, a whole match gets awarded to England and players get banned. The press cries foul and blames everyone in Pakistan. And when Englishmen do the same and admit to the guilt, nothing happens.
The Australians were asked of their opinion of Englismen using illegal methods to defeat them during the Ashes battle, they simply brushed it away. Which is quite odd, as they were up in arms against Pakistan when the same thing was accused on them.
If English Cricket Board choses not to take action against its players who were involved in ball tampering then it would be a clear message to the cricketing world.
It is ok for us, the Englishmen to cheat, as long as we can win.
So as it boils down to whether the “white” nations (Australia, England and New Zealand) will make a trip down to Pakistan to play in the forthcoming Champions Trophy is now up in the air. From the messages being received here, it is evident that they will probably not come, which is really a pity. However, teams from all other nations including India, West Indies and Sri Lanka among others see no issue with traveling to Pakistan and pleasing the crowds with a fiercely fought Champions Trophy competition.
Here in Pakistan, 160 Million people are anxiously awaiting to see some action on the cricket field. The nation has been deprived of it for the most part of this year due to various tour cancellations and reschedulings.
If you do not want to come, then don’t, but don’t make a big fuss about it either. Let us enjoy the cricket tournament here in peace while you stay in doors at home and watch it from your TV screens.
>I have been asked many times what do I expect from my team. Here is a quick snapshot.
Act like a leader not follower.
Don’t be reactive, be proactive.
Don’t let yourself be ruled by excuses. It’ll get you no where.
Suggest solutions rather than just point out problems.
Make it a point to contribute positively. Too much negativity will cause productivity losses.
Stand up and be counted, especially in times of crisis.
No one will mouth feed you, so get up and and get it done.
If you wake up in the morning and dont feel like coming to work, then it is time to quit. No need to drag yourself around.
Blaming others will get you nowhere. If you see a problem, fix it.
Set goals that you want to achieve and then work like a maniac to achieve them.
Don’t expect others to tell you what to do. Figure it out and do it.
Don’t wait till someone asks you if you have done the task assigned. Just do it and let your superiors know.
Leave your personal issues at home. You are not the only one with personal crisis.
Yes, that’s true. It always surprises me when someone quotes one of my blogs in their blog. And then a stream of hits starts pouring into my blogworld. It’s always fun to read what others think about what I write. And also how wide the audience is becoming with each blog that I write. So keep reading and linking back to me, and I will continue to add new and interesting blogs out here.
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Haven't posted in months - almost a year, really - but now that summer is upon us and I once more breathe free air, I figured I should update.
Have managed to get myself through the first year of med school (hopefully; the results from the latest exam comes on Thursday or Friday) and haven't had much time to think of anything fandom-y at all. Haven't written a word in almost as many months as I've been inactive here, because when I'm sitting there, nose-deep in medical text books, writing and reading other stuff isn't at the top of my list of priorities. However, I watched "Charlie's Angels" (the movies) and wrote a 3 800 word fanfic about that a few days ago, so I've obviously missed it. Might post it here, though I doubt anyone's interested in reading it. It's just one of those things I've been wanting to write (about the "The thin man"-character) since I first saw the second movie.
Things are really good. Moving four hours away from home was the best decision I ever took and it's brought me friends, fun and love. So though I don't have much time to write, I really can't say that I mind.
I hope everyone else is doing as well as me and that your summers are treating you nicely with sun and fun.
Thank you :) Resting and catching up is definitely at the top of my list of things to do this summer!
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American Taxpayers are exposed to $291 trillion in derivatives. Click here.
Grab your popcorn, the Senate Banking Committee will hold hearings on MF Global. Click here.
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Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, and dreamt she heard them bleating; but when she awoke, she found it a joke, for they were still a-fleeting.
A constant theme among leftists who regret the success of right wing populists is that the traditional left parties are responsible for their own decline in that they allowed themselves to become out of touch with … well, with whom? That’s never made entirely clear. Vague labels, however, are liberally sprinkled: working people, traditional supporters, working class, middle class, ordinary people, ordinary working people etc. The thrust of this approach is that the people they have in mind were there for the taking and the likes of Trump and the Brexiteers in the cases of USA and UK took them. Essentially it is an argument for some kind of left wing populism, i.e. tell these people something they want to hear so that they won’t be seduced by right wing populists.
The problem for a left approach like this becomes apparent when some of its advocates talk simultaneously of left parties returning to or sticking with their principles. Again, there’s no clarity, no attempt to discuss principles or indeed values. Without such discussion – without critical examination – a very important doubt is suppressed. The question that seldom, if ever, arises is this: What if traditional left values or principles are incompatible with telling those “ordinary people” what they want to hear? That is to say, there is a fundamental problem when “ordinary people” want, say, tax reductions, privatisations, more competition etc. etc. or even the impossible, say, the clock turned back and jobs, long-automated, restored.
However, there are just two groups being in touch with whom is fundamental to socialism.
Almost everyone who makes policy tends to be out of touch with the poor. There are two aspects to the failure. Firstly, economics based on rational choice either discounts or utterly fails to grasp the short time-scale necessarily of interest to those with immediate money problems. That is to say, those with insufficient money this week cannot seriously be asked to evaluate medium or long term possibilities. Secondly, well off activists and policy makers tend to sacrifice the poor to grand policy. That they could lose their income or that they are dependent on the state should be uppermost in debate but it seldom – if ever – is. Bluntly, the precarious position of the poor demands that they be the priority. Paradoxically, when it comes to this kind of neglect, socialists combine little excuse and a poor record. Their universalist and egalitarian thinking, together with the likelihood that they will know poor, working class people, should ensure that they be constantly aware of the poor and certainly of the different outlook of those with immediate money problems. The failure for socialists is most likely rooted in the revolutionary tradition and the commitment to grand schemes which subordinate the needs of a group – even the poor – to the greater project. However, in truth this is as right wing as it is left. When in the UK the privileged Jacob Rees Mogg spoke of short term deprivation over Brexit which would take perhaps 50 yrs to work out, he was not very different to the Irish anti-austerity leftists of some few years ago. They, when the Irish state had a mere three months’ money left to pay state workers and welfare recipients, wanted to reject conditions demanded by the state’s only lender. In that scenario they hoped something would turn up so that the poorest in the country could be paid; they wanted at best to gamble and at worst to sacrifice the welfare of the poor on a long term objective.
Having excluded the working class and the poor, there would seem now to be even less clarity on “being in touch”. Not so. In fact it’s pretty clear. What Irish socialists and in particular the majority in the Labour Party want is to be popular with those they see frequently either in media or in person. These could be the attendees at a large protest, a popular campaign waged by a civil society group to obtain a concession from the “political class”, attendees at a political clinic or those whose doors were selected for a canvass.
The common feature is that there is no intention to argue or convince anyone of anything. Indeed the only out-group seems to be the top 1% and they are usually to be sacrificed not for egalitarianism but to maintain the structure of inequality across the 99%.
There are two possible routes to survival. Because they are incompatible a decision is required. Neither offers certainty of success.
The second is to look to the working class and universal values, and to argue for change in the conditions of the 21st century. This would put the Party out on a limb, i.e. unlike all the competitors in the fairness free-for-all. The doubt that absolutely has to be faced is whether or not there are sufficient voters open to that approach as would ensure the Party’s survival. The audience is comprised of the working class (In the meaningful as opposed to the polling sense) and others who might – sharing the participatory/republican outlook – be open to an argument for change.
In crude marketing terms it’s like this: When you’re on 3%, the choice of competing in the consumer market or of being more specialised and quality oriented is a difficult one.
The temptation is to do the familiar regardless of changed circumstances.
That old saying is the point of agreement between no-deal Brexiteers like Jacob Rees Mogg and Ireland’s old “anti-austerity” campaigners. It’s basic to political fantasists and many revolutionaries that the welfare of today’s living, breathing citizens can be sacrificed for some gain in the remote future. It’s a view pushed by the well-off and secure who will not be greatly troubled by whatever happens in the intervening years, and are prepared to tell ordinary citizens the soothing authoritarian lie: don’t concern yourselves, it’ll be alright; we know what we’re doing.
JRM is telling the UK that Brexit will take 50 years to work out. When the Irish state had just three months’ money left to pay welfare recipients and state workers, Ireland’s anti-austerity “leaders” tried to convince citizens that they should tell our only lenders to keep their money and we’d manage somehow.
This is literally “sinn féin”: “ourselves alone”, insular, proud, self satisfied. Poor or prosperous? That doesn’t matter; it’s a question for the future.
An aspect of the rise and break-up of the Syriza administration remains largely unexamined: Syriza was an experiment in left unity. The proposition was that if all leftists united behind an agreed programme, a left government could be elected. Leaving aside the need to enter into coalition with a right wing, anti-austerity party, the unity approach seemed to deliver. However, Greece is now in worse shape than when Syriza and its right wing partners came to power and Syriza has split. This outcome was predictable, if not downright inevitable. There were two related flaws from the outset. Firstly, there was the untruth (a clumsy term but it covers belief, lie and fantasy) that a government could end austerity without negative consequences and secondly, there was the belief among leftists that unity could encompass those who were essentially uncompromising. It was clear from the outset that an end to “austerity” could not be achieved and because compromise would be out of the question for components of the alliance, it was to be expected that Syriza would split.
Syriza sought election by offering to confront Greece’s lenders and secure deliverance from onerous bail-out conditions. So far, so populist and citizens voted for it in numbers sufficient to make Syriza the largest party in parliament. The rest of the Syriza election programme seems to have been virtually ignored.
Shortly after the government was formed a different tune was heard and there were reasons to be optimistic. Confrontation was out; deals and compromise were in. The time seemed to be right for Greece to assume leadership of the growing support for a more Keynesian Europe.
It has never been fully explained how the optimism too quickly drained away in acrimony. Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, was insistent that Greece wanted to pay her debts and yet the descent into nationalism and simple anti-austerity “principle” happened.* These months reversed a modest economic recovery and pushed reform of European fiscal policy off the agenda. Then after the farcical referendum and the subsequent bailout deal the chasm between left reform and left revolt became impossible to ignore.
That chasm is a problem on the left and it cannot be papered over; it makes left unity impossible. In recent decades most leftists have abandoned revolution in any meaningful sense of the word but they’ve also worked to keep their distance from what they deride as mere social democracy. In refusing to join with the century-old tradition of those socialists who work on reforms through the parliamentary structures of the liberal state, they create the paradox of wanting revolutionary change without a revolution.
The tendency to underestimate that refusal to cross to the other side of the Marxist tradition is at the root of left unity wishful thinking.
In Greece the ironically named Popular Unity has walked off to oppose Syriza. Their aim remains to end austerity by taking Greece out of the deal with creditors. They exhibit, however, what might be termed revolutionary honesty because they now talk of leaving the Euro if necessary and of rebuilding the country.
The Greek experiment with Left Unity may have done lasting damage to the very idea of Left government in that the economy was damaged without producing any real change and without pushing through left reforms.
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As I reflected on what the past 12 months has been like for me, I decided to go back and read the blog entry I wrote one year ago re-capping 2009 and anticipating 2010. What a difference a year makes! This New Year’s Eve there was not a trace of the reluctance to let go of one year and move forward that I experienced last year. Not because 2010 wasn’t as good as 2009 – quite the contrary, actually. 2010 was incredible – and the experiences it brought have prepared me for what is ahead. Here is a taste of the things, people, experiences and lessons I learned, loved and lived for in 2010.
I learned how little STUFF is actually worth.
Operation “No More Stuff” was a huge personal success in many ways. I committed to not purchasing any material items for 6 months, and with a few (fairly) necessary exceptions, I followed through on that commitment. Through this experience I learned about surrender, giving, denying myself, and how much more important people, relationships, and above all, Christ are than the material items in my life. I also learned so much about what the word need means, the Lord’s provision, and how to be creative with what I already have.
I loved loving this little guy.
Being an aunt to Bentley is so fun!
And my parents be grandparents.
I learned how to make udon noodles.
It was way more intense than I predicted. And not gonna lie, I didn’t find them to be all that delicious. But it was still fun!
I learned how delicious crepes are. I now have a love for them that borders on irrational and obsessive.
And learned that while real kimonos LOOK super cool and make you feel pretty special, there is NOTHING comfortable about wearing them.
I lived for being in Indy.
This is a pretty big turn in my life. For the past 3 years, I have LIVED to be on the road. And while my love for travel didn’t diminish this year, my love of Indy, and especially the people there, absolutely flourished. This year Indianapolis became home.
I learned to play Dutch Blitz, which dramatically impacted how I spent my time and the shape of my finger nails. It also brings out the unhealthy side of my competition strength.
I loved getting to pour into the lives of these people. My work is a huge blessing.
We were lucky to have Easter guests (below) this year, so I made Easter baskets for the first time. I learned that I will NEVER again use that blasted Easter grass to line the baskets. Whitney and I are still finding it all over our house.
I loved and lived for going to my small group bible study every Wednesday, where I learned more about the Lord, the Bible and deep community than ever before. One of my goals this year was to build deep and purposeful community and spiritual fellowship. God really showed up and answered this prayer in ways I would have never expected.
I learned that the world doesn’t feel so big when you’re on the other side of it.
Cheers to 2011 & lots of love!
You are an amazing writer! I hope to read more of your posts in the future!! I love and miss you!
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So, I managed to slam 3 000 words today. Still under my quota, but better productivity than yesterday. It appears that I will have to write even more now because I haven’t really resolved some issues and I need to keep going until I find a good segway into tieing up the loose ends.
In the honor of that productivity, I recorded two audio stories and I am into editing them to final shape. So far, I have around 5 stories that are waiting for me to get on it. I might take a 3 day to work on them so I have a back up when I am not able to record anything else. I try to keep more of a diverse type of content there because let’s face it, there are not many people interested in reading. This way, I just might get a few of them interested in stories and keep growing from there. Not much of a plan, however, it beats the old one. And it’s really demanding to record and write every week. I am not a pro and it takes a lot of time from me come up with a story, record, edit and then publish it. I keep it simple and easy to maintain.
Rain keeps me inside the house and I am able to write for real. No more goofing around. I plan to finish this novel within a month. I am going to break my record, just to prove that it’s possible.
Agreed – 3000 words is fantastic!
15,000??? That is an insane amount!
That’s a lot of copy pasting! 😂 I hope you make your goal or find great ways to achieve it!
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2019-04-22T02:02:25Z
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https://dronstadblog.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/night-time-blabbering-292/
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Cover photo from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, [apf4-01982], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
This workshop will bring together social scientists to consider different aspects of education, with a focus on melding individual and social explanations of individual and group outcomes. Social influences on education include mechanisms ranging from role model effects to peer pressure. The workshop will bring together different methodological perspectives.
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2019-04-21T06:52:56Z
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https://hceconomics.uchicago.edu/events/social-interactions-and-education
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A sour-tasting drink make from cow’s milk fermented with certain bacteria.
2. Kefir, kefīrs, keefir, or kephir, alternatively kewra, talai, mudu kekiya, milk kefir, or búlgaros, is a fermented milk drink made with kefir grains and has its origins in the north Caucasus Mountains around 3,000 BC.
3. Kefir is a fermented milk product similar to yogurt, which originated in Russia. This tangy, creamy milk product is sometimes referred to as the “champaign of milk” because of its fizzy effervescence. The natural carbonation gives kefir a light, foam, creamy texture, even when made with low fat milk.
Kefir is made from milk that has been gently heated to eliminate possibly pathogenic bacteria. Next, a specific mixture of bacteria and yeast cultures are added to the milk to begin fermentation. The unique mixture of bacteria and yeast give kefir its distinct flavor and texture. The starter cultures for kefir are often referred to as “kefir grains” as they look like small, lumpy, granules, similar in appearance to cauliflower.
The bacteria Lactobacilus caucasius ferments lactose in the milk into lactic acid, which provides a tangy flavor and also makes it a nice alternative for those with lactose intolerance. Saccharomyces kefir and Torula kefir, two yeasts used to make kefir, ferment lactose into a small amount of alcohol and carbon dioxide, which is responsible for the carbonation.
There are many recipes for kefir, which differ based on the specific bacteria and yeast used to ferment the milk and the type of milk used. In European countries, kefir is often made from goat, cow, or even camel’s milk. Most kefir sold in the United States is made from cow’s milk.
Kefir is available plain, which has a bright, tart flavor. To make it more palatable, many companies sweeten the kefir and add flavors like fruit or vanilla. Flavored kefir is closer in flavor to yogurt and may be more easily accepted by those who are new to kefir.
Kefir can also be made with non-dairy milks, such as almond or soy. Kefir is most often consumed as a cold beverage. Most people consume kefir because of its enjoyable flavor and texture, but some feel it aids in digestion and calming an upset stomach. Kefir can also be mixed into smoothies, poured over cereal or granola, or used in baked goods.. These non-dairy kefirs are made using the same bacterial and yeast cultures, and offer the same pro-biotic benefits, making them an excellent alternative for vegan consumers.
WHERE CAN I PURCHASE KEFIR OR KEFIR KITS?
Kefir can be found in most health or natural food stores in the refrigerated dairy section. European markets may also carry kefir. Kefir making kits can also be found in specialty stores or online. These kits provide the kefir culture “grains” and instructions on how to safely ferment your milk.
Because kefir is a fresh product with live cultures, it should be kept refrigerated. After opening kefir, it should be consumed within five to seven days.
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2019-04-26T03:49:27Z
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https://fabulousfitfood.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/what-the-heck-is-kefir/
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I heard Born To Run and my imagination went wild. Here was this artist painting a New Jersey landscape so vivid and real that a small town girl in Mississippi who had never been to the East Coast could appreciate it. When Bruce wrote, “It’s a town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of here to win,” I revved up my car and drove across the state line. I had to come back though. I was only sixteen. I was just warming up for when I was all grown. After college, I revved up the car again, and left for real, listening to “Thunder Road” as I pulled out of town.
Through the years, he has written songs that have been food for my soul and fuel for my imagination. He has also provided many hours of pure joy, as that is what seeing his concerts provides: pure joy. No wine is needed, certainly nothing stronger. I literally feel euphoric after a Springsteen show—for days.
A lot of people have bashed Bruce the last few years, saying he is old and should just retire. I wish those people would retire their mouths. Seriously. I would feel sorry for them if they just didn’t make me so darn angry. Not liking Springsteen is the same as rooting against your hometown team, or hoping your puppy gets fleas. To all his naysayers, I just have one question: when you turn sixty, will you be creating anything new, or still exciting people when you perform your job? Though we don’t see eye-to-eye, I do hope you will find yourself at sixty full of creativity and energy, and performing your own work better than ever, which is what he is guilty of: getting even better, and beating his own benchmark.
Bruce Springsteen’s music has always been the story of a journey, but now that the man is turning sixty, I think what’s noteworthy is not just the music, but that he still does what he does with such enthusiasm and passion, and he’s still looking, as Wallace Stevens would say “for that act that will suffice.” We all grow old: some of us just do it better, with more vigor—and with a good song.
All these decades after Bruce released “The Promised Land” he’s still driving down that road, at least metaphorically. It’s not so dusty anymore. In fact, at age sixty, it’s looking pretty darn new.
Thanks for the ride, Boss. Let’s keep going.
This entry was posted in Content Creation, Muses and tagged Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Jon Landau, The Promised Land. Bookmark the permalink.
Great homage to the birthday Boss.
Hi, Donna! Enjoyed this ode to The Boss. Wanted to let you know that I’m quoting you & linking to this post in a post I’m writing next week. Springsteen is good inspiration to those of us nearing 60.
Glad you liked it, Bonnie. I saw him Oct. 8th at Giants Stadium and this 60-year old inspiration crowd-surfaced. I hope that when I turn 60 I’m that agile (and brave). Please send me your link, I’d love to read the piece!
Bruce turns sixty, Darkness on The Edge of Town turns 31 and is celebrated in a new book, The Light in Darkness.
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2019-04-18T17:05:18Z
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https://audaciousink.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/the-future-of-rock-and-roll-turns-sixty/
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↑ "Why did Pepys bury his Parmesan cheese?". historyhouse.co.uk. 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
Some of the older editions of the diary are available online.
Samuel Pepys' diary which provides a daily entry from the diary, as well as detailed background articles, plus annotations from readers.
As well as other sites about Pepys.
Pepys library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, including an essay by Robert Latham.
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2019-04-20T17:06:44Z
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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pepys
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This is my father. He is a government employee. A responsible, kind and loving father.
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2019-04-24T08:15:26Z
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http://bubskie0.tripod.com/my_father.htm
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The study of ancient texts presents scholars with a number of difficult problems. For one, the writing on many portions of ancient texts has faded to the point of illegibility, and in many instances invisibility. Another problem is that document caches, such as the Dead Sea Scrolls consist of numerous fragments, some with large blocks of text, many with only partial letters, and still others with no visible text. How do we know which fragments belong to which documents?
One method traditionally used by scholars is to painstakingly examine each fragment as if it were part of a jig-saw puzzle, comparing the partial or complete letters to the writing style on other fragments, looking for similarities in the shape of the letters, scribal peculiarities, or similarities in idiomatic usage. This presents numerous problems, however. To begin with, it is exceedingly slow, limited to only a handful of people working on a particular fragment at any one time, a particularly troubling problem if you have hundreds or thousands of fragments. Also, different portions of the cache may have been distributed to scholars around the world, making it almost impossible to check all fragments against other fragments. And, of course, there is the difficulty of human vision, often unable to accurately see faded writings on the fragments.
Fortunately, scholars experimenting with a number of new technologies have introduced methodologies that give the scholar a variety of new tools. Consider DNA, for example, containing biochemical codes that distinguish each living creature from every other living creature. Numerous texts were written on animal skins. Where a cache contains several fragments from the same animal skin, each fragment of the same skin would have the same DNA code, and the identical codes can be used to sort one set of fragments from the others. The technology has advanced to the point where very tiny amounts of material can be used to generate a sufficient DNA sample for testing and such small test pieces can be taken without destroying the textual evidence. Unfortunately, DNA testing is still too expensive for mass usage on thousands of fragments in a cache.
An even more productive technology combines computer imaging with infrared photography. The infrared photography can reveal many written images no longer visible to the naked eye or enhance those images that have faded beyond recognition. These images can then be stored on a computer and moved around. Using the computer, one can enlarge the fragment and compare it alongside numerous other fragments. A computer file containing the images of the fragments can be easily distributed to scholars all over the world, who can then do their own analyses, greatly expanding the number of people who can work on any particular problem. Another important advantage to this technique is that no damage occurs to the document under examination, and it can be used on a variety of surfaces, including stone monuments, clay tablets, animal skins, and papyrus.
An article in the New York Times science section for April 2nd, 1996, by John Noble Wilford, describes an early application of this technique. According to the story, Dr. Bruce Zuckerman, a scholar in Semitic languages at the University of Southern California School of Religion in Los Angeles, and Dr. Marilyn Lundberg, a Hebrew Bible specialist associated with the West Semitic Research Project at Southern California, selected three fragments, each about the size of a postage stamp, and known to be parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls containing the story of Daniel. They just didnt know to what part of the scroll the fragments belonged.
The fragments had turned black with age but the infrared photography showed that two of the fragments had writing on them. The words king, Shadrach, and Meshach showed through. Next they scanned the numerous fragments into the computer. Once electronically preserved, the fragments could be manipulated and letters enlarged. A small piece could be electronically cut out and placed alongside other fragments, allowing the researchers to see if there was any place the two fragments might be logically joined. Often, they could align a piece of a broken letter on one fragment with the corresponding portion of the letter on another fragment.
The ability to finally reunite numerous unconnected fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls can help shed more light on a very important period in the history of Judaism and Christianity. While most of the larger fragments have already been translated, there are still a great many fragments that remain to be examined, fitted, and placed in context. Many unreadable pieces can now also be analyzed.
Wilfords article also reports on another important project using this technique. Dr. Wayne Pitard, an historian of ancient Syria and Palestine at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, together with with Zuckerman, is editing the digital edition of the Ugaritic texts, a massive cache of cuneiform tablets dating to the 13th century BCE and found in the city of Ugarit in northern Syria. These texts, says Zuckerman, are arguably the most important source we have for the literature of the Canaanites immediately before the biblical period. He believes that new readings of the texts, when enhanced by computer imaging, will provide more insights into the Canaanite god Baal, and the early cultural influences of Canaan on ancient Israel.
On the negative side, computer imaging opens up numerous opportunities for fraud and hoax. A comprehensive set of procedural guidelines is necessary to ensure the integrity of scholarly work. Each step of the process needs to be documented, including pictures of each stage and an outline of the procedures followed.
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2019-04-26T01:57:35Z
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http://ggreenberg.tripod.com/ancientne/newtech.html
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公开了一种开关电源，在发送停止操作的指令时该开关电源能够防止输出电压(Vout)波动或下冲。 Discloses a switching power supply, when sending an instruction of stopping the operation of the switching power supply capable of preventing undershoot output voltage (Vout) or fluctuations. 根据本发明的开关电源应用具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器、连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的开关电路、连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器、位于整流器的随后级上并包括输出电容器的滤波电路、控制开关电路的控制电路和响应停止开关操作的指令至少使用存储在输出电容器中的能量给控制电路提供操作电压的操作电压产生电路。 The switching power supply applications of the present invention has primary and secondary coils of the transformer is connected between the input terminal of the transformer primary coil and a switching circuit, a rectifier connected to the secondary winding of the transformer, the rectifier is then positioned on the stage and comprising an output capacitor filter circuit, control circuit and the switching circuit in response to an instruction to stop the switching operation at least in the energy storage capacitor to the output control circuit provides the operation voltage of the operating voltage generation circuit. 因此，本发明的开关电源基本线性地降低了输出电压(Vout)。 Thus, the switching power supply according to the present invention substantially reduce the linear output voltage (Vout).
本发明涉及一种开关电源，更具体地说，涉及一种在开关电源的操作停止时能够防止输出电压Vout下冲和波动的开关电源。 The present invention relates to a switching power supply, more specifically, red can be prevented and fluctuation of the output voltage Vout of the switching power supply stops the operation relates to a switching power supply.
开关电源广泛地用作电子和电器设备比如计算机的电源。 Switching power supply, such as widely used as electrical and electronic equipment of the computer.
附图7所示为常规的开关电源的电路图。 7 shown in the drawings is a circuit diagram of a conventional switching power supply.
如在附图7中所示，常规的开关电源由变压器T1、位于变压器T1的初级侧的开关电路和位于变压器T1的次级侧上的自驱动型整流器和滤波电路。 Self-driven rectifier and smoothing circuit on the secondary side 7, as shown in the drawings, the conventional switching power supply transformer T1, the switching circuit is located in the primary side of the transformer T1 and the transformer T1. 开关电源降低在提供到位于初级侧上的开关电路上的电压Vin中的DC(直流)输入电压以产生DC输出电压Vout并将它提供给负载。 In the switching power supply provided to the reduced voltage Vin is located on the switching circuit on the primary side of the DC (direct current) input voltage to generate a DC output voltage Vout and supplies it to the load. 在附图7中，负载表示为电阻部件RLoad、电容部件CLoad和电阻部件LLoad。 In Figure 7, the load RLoad represents a resistance component, the capacitance component and a resistance member CLoad LLoad.
控制电路10基于输出电压Vout控制包括在初级侧的开关电路中的主开关Q1和Q2。 The control circuit 10 based on the output voltage Vout control switch circuit comprises a main switch Q1 on the primary side and Q2. 具体地说，在输出电压Vout相对于所需的电压增加时控制电路10降低主开关Q1和Q2的占空系数以降低提供到负载的电功率，而在输出电压Vout相对于所需的电压降低时控制电路10升高主开关Q1和Q2的占空系数以增加提供到负载的电功率。 More specifically, the output voltage Vout relative to the voltage increasing control circuit 10 is required to reduce the main switches Q1 and Q2 to reduce the duty factor of electric power supplied to the load, and the output voltage Vout relative to the voltage required to reduce the control circuit 10 increases the main switches Q1 and Q2 to increase the duty factor of electric power supplied to the load. 因此，提供到负载的输出电压Vout可以总是稳定在所需的电压上。 Thus, the output voltage Vout supplied to the load can always be stabilized at a desired voltage. 因为控制电路10属于初级侧，所以控制电路10不能直接接受输出电压Vout。 Since part of the primary side control circuit 10, the control circuit 10 can not directly accept the output voltage Vout. 因此，通过隔离电路20给控制电路10提供与输出电压Vout相关的电压Vout'。 Thus, the isolation circuit 20 by the control circuit 10 to provide the output voltage Vout is a voltage Vout '.
通过运行由晶体管Tr1、电阻R1和齐纳二极管Z1组成的操作电压产生电路产生控制电路10的操作电压Vcc。 Generating circuit generates operating voltage Vcc by the control circuit 10 by the operation of the operating voltage transistor Tr1, a resistor R1 and zener diode Z1 thereof. 电容器C3连接在控制电路10的电源端子之间以稳定操作电压Vcc。 The capacitor C3 is connected between the power supply terminal of the control circuit 10 to stabilize the operating voltage Vcc. 在操作开关S1处于接通状态时启动操作电压产生电路，而在操作开关S1处于切断状态时停止操作电压产生电路。 When switch S1 is operated in the ON state voltage generating circuit starting the operation, the operating voltage generation circuit is stopped when the operation switch S1 is in off state. 从外部可以控制操作开关S1。 Operation of switch S1 may be controlled from the outside. 在要开始在附图7中所示的开关电源的操作时，接通操作开关S1；在要开始终止在附图7中所示的开关电源的操作时，切断操作开关S1。 To start the operation in the switching power supply 7 is shown in the figures, the ON operation of the switch Sl; at the termination operation to start the switching power supply 7 is shown in the figures, the cutting operation of switch S1.
包括在次级整流器中的整流开关Q3和Q4通过变压器T1的次级电压自驱动。 In the secondary rectifier comprising rectifying switches Q3 and Q4 driven by the secondary voltage from the transformer T1. 此外，电阻R2和R3分别插入在整流开关Q3和Q4的栅电极和源电极之间，以防止整流开关Q3和Q4的栅电极处于浮动状态。 In addition, the resistors R2 and R3 are inserted between the rectifying switches Q3 and Q4 the gate and source electrodes to prevent the rectifier switches Q3 and Q4 and the gate electrode in a floating state.
接着，解释在附图7中所示的常规的开关电源的操作。 Next, explaining the operation of the conventional switching power supply 7 is shown in the figures.
附图8所示为在附图7中的常规的开关电源的操作的时序图。 BRIEF timing diagram of a conventional switching power supply 7 of the drawings in the operation shown in FIG.
如附图8所示，在操作开关S1处于接通状态时，在控制电路10的控制下以预定的开关频率将主开关Q1和Q2的栅源电压VGS(Q1)和VGS(Q2)交替地激励到较高的电平。 When as shown in the drawings, the operation of the switch S1 is in the ON state 8, under the control of the control circuit 10 at a predetermined switching frequency of the main switches Q1 and Q2 of the gate-source voltage VGS (Q1) and VGS (Q2) alternately incentive to a higher level. 结果，变压器T1的初级电压VLP的极性交替地反向，因此初级侧电容器C1和C2交替地充电和放电。 As a result, the primary voltage of the transformer T1 VLP alternately reversed polarity, and therefore primary-side capacitors C1 and C2 are alternately charged and discharged.
与初级侧的操作同步地，在变压器T1的次级线圈Ls1和Ls2上出现的次级电压的极性也交替地反向，因此以预定的开关频率交替地使整流开关Q3和Q4处于接通状态。 , The polarity of the secondary voltage appearing on the secondary winding Ls1 and Ls2 of the transformer T1 is also reversed alternately in synchronism with the operation of the primary side, and therefore a predetermined switching frequency alternately switches Q3 and the rectifier Q4 is turned on status. 更具体地说，在由于栅源电压VGS(Q1)处于高电平使主开关Q1处于接通状态的同时，整流开关Q3的栅源电压VGS(Q3)上升到比它的阈值电压高在初级线圈Ls2上出现的电压(次级电压)的电压，由此整流开关Q3接通。 More specifically, since the gate-source voltage VGS (Q1) at a high level while the main switch Q1 is in the on state, the rectifier switch gate-source voltage of VGS Q3 (Q3) than its rise to the high threshold voltage in the primary voltage (secondary voltage) occurring on the coil Ls2, thereby rectifying switch Q3 is turned on. 在另一方面，在由于栅源电压VGS(Q2)处于高电平使主开关Q2处于接通状态的同时，整流开关Q4的栅源电压VGS(Q4)上升到比它的阈值电压高在初级线圈Ls1上出现的电压(次级电压)的电压，由此整流开关Q4接通。 On the other hand, since the gate-source voltage VGS (Q2) at a high level that the main switch Q2 in the ON state at the same time, the rectifier switch of the gate-source voltage VGS Q4 (Q4) than its rise to the high threshold voltage in the primary voltage (secondary voltage) occurring on the coil Ls1, thereby rectifying switch Q4 is turned on.
结果，对交替反向的极性的次级电压进行了整流。 As a result, the secondary voltage polarity is alternately reversed rectifying. 通过滤波电路对经整流的电压进行滤波，该滤波电路由输出电抗器Lout和输出电容器Cout组成，因此产生了稳定的输出电压Vout。 Filtering the rectified voltage by the filter circuit, the filter circuit from the output of the reactor Lout and the output capacitor Cout composition, thus producing a stable output voltage Vout.
在另一方面，在某一时间切断操作开关S1时，控制电路10的操作停止，因为晶体管Tr1切断，因此整流开关Q1和Q2处于切断状态。 In the other hand, at a time off the operation switch S1, the control circuit 10 stops the operation, since the transistors Tr1 off, thus rectifying switches Q1 and Q2 in the off state. 即停止了开关操作。 The switching operation is stopped.
然而，因为在操作开关S1切断时停止了开关电路的操作，因此整流开关Q3和Q4中的一个或另一个开关处于接通状态，并且反向电流开始从输出电容器Cout和负载的电容部件CLoad流到输出电抗器Lout。 However, since the stop operation of the switching circuit when the switch S1 is operated shut off, the rectifier switches Q3 and Q4 in one or the other switch is in ON state, and a reverse current starts to flow from the capacitive component of the output capacitor Cout and the load CLoad the output reactor Lout.
附图8所示为在整流开关Q3响应操作开关S1的切断首先保持在接通状态的情况。 Figure 8 shows the operation of the switch S1 off in response to first rectifier switch Q3 remains in the ON state. 在这种情况下，因为停止了初级侧的开关电路，所以整流开关Q3的栅电极的电荷的放电通路实质仅仅为电阻R2。 In this case, since the switching circuit on the primary side is stopped, so that the substance of the charge discharge path switching gate electrode rectifier Q3 is merely resistor R2. 因此，由于流经电阻器R2的电流的作用，整流开关Q3的栅源电压VGS(Q3)渐渐下落。 Thus, due to the current flowing through the resistor R2, the rectifier switch of the gate-source voltage VGS Q3 (Q3) gradually falling. 在这个期间，流到输出电抗器Lout的反向电流继续。 During this period, the output reactor Lout flowing reverse current continues.
在另一方面，由于通过输出电容器Cout和负载的电容部件CLoad的放电和来自整流开关Q3的栅电极的电荷通过电阻R2的放电造成输出电压Vout和次级电压降低，在因为整流开关Q3的栅源电压VGS(Q3)下落到它的阈值电压以下造成整流开关Q3切断时，在变压器T1上的逆程电压上升。 On the other hand, since the discharge resistor R2 causing the secondary voltage and the output voltage Vout decrease by charge capacitive components of the output capacitor Cout and the load CLoad discharge from the rectifier and the gate electrode of the switch Q3, as the gate of the rectifier switch Q3 source voltage VGS (Q3) when it drops below the threshold voltage caused by the rectifier switch Q3 off, the flyback voltage in the transformer T1 increases. 逆程电压通过变压器T1升高了在开关电路中的内部电压Vp，并升高了整流开关Q4的栅源电压VGS(Q4)。 Voltage flyback transformer T1 by raising the internal voltage Vp in the switching circuit and the rectifier switch raises the gate-source voltage VGS (Q4) Q4 of. 因此，整流开关Q4保持接通。 Thus, the rectifier switch Q4 remains on.
如附图8所示，因为通过整流开关Q4流到输出电抗器Lout中电流的方向临时变成正向，因此在这个期间对输出电容器Cout和负载的电容部件CLoad进行充电，因此输出电压Vout增加。 As shown in Fig. 8, since the output of the reactor flows through a rectifying switch Q4 becomes a temporary current in the forward direction Lout, thus charging the output capacitor Cout and the load capacitor CLoad member during this period, the output voltage Vout increases .
然后，在流到输出电抗器Lout的电流的方向反向时，由于通过输出电容器Cout和负载的电容部件CLoad的放电和来自整流开关Q4的栅电极的电荷通过电阻R3的放电造成输出电压Vout和次级电压降低，整流开关Q4的栅源电压VGS(Q4)逐渐下落。 Then, when the flow direction of the reactor Lout output current is reversed, since the output voltage Vout caused by the discharge resistor R3 through the charge discharge capacitor CLoad member and the output capacitor Cout and the gate electrode of the load from the rectifying switch Q4 and secondary voltage decreases, the rectifier switch of the gate-source voltage VGS Q4 (Q4) is gradually falling. 然后，由于整流开关Q4的栅源电压VGS(Q4)下落到它的阈值电压之下，在整流开关Q4切断时，在变压器T1上的逆程电压再次上升，该逆程电压通过变压器T1升高了在开关电路中的内部电压Vp，并升高了整流开关Q3的栅源电压VGS(Q3)。 Then, since the rectifier switch Q4 of the gate-source voltage VGS (Q4) drops below its threshold voltage, when the rectifying switch Q4 off, the flyback voltage in the transformer T1 increases again, the voltage across the flyback transformer T1 increases the internal voltage Vp in the switching circuit and the rectifier switch raises the gate-source voltage of VGS Q3 (Q3). 因此，整流开关Q3保持接通。 Thus, the rectifier switch Q3 remains turned on.
这种操作周期性地进行直到输出电容器Cout和负载的电容部件CLoad被次级侧电路和负载的电阻部件RLoad所消耗。 This operation is periodically performed until the output capacitor Cout and the load capacitor CLoad member of the secondary side circuit is consumed by the resistance member and the load RLoad. 因此，输出电压Vout逐渐降低同时在比开关周期长得多的周期上产生波动，此外，在开关电路中的内部电压Vp逐渐增加。 Thus, the output voltage Vout is gradually reduced while fluctuations in the period much longer than the switching period, in addition, the internal voltage Vp in the switching circuit is gradually increased.
如上文所描述，在常规的开关电源中，因为输出电压Vout并不是线性下降，而是逐渐下落，同时在比开关周期长得多的周期上产生波动，即使发出了停止操作开关电源的指令(开关S1切断)，在负载中仍然可能产生某些故障。 As described above, in the conventional switching power supply, since the output voltage Vout is not linear decrease, but gradually drops, while fluctuations in the period much longer than the switching cycle, even if the operation stop instruction is issued to the switching power supply ( switch S1 off), it may still have some fault in the load. 例如，可以将负载设计成识别开关电源的操作何时已经停止并在输出电压Vout已经下落到预定电压之下时执行一定的操作。 For example, the load may be designed to recognize when the operation of the switching power supply has been stopped and the output voltage Vout has fallen to perform certain operations below a predetermined voltage. 但是如果输出电压Vout逐渐降低同时波动，则识别开关电源是否已经停止变得较困难。 However, if the output voltage Vout is gradually decreased while fluctuating, it is recognized that the power switch has become more difficult to stop.
此外，在常规的开关电源中，因为在操作终止的过程中在开关电路中的内部电压Vp逐渐增加，所以可能损失了在初级侧使用的电部件。 Further, in the conventional switching power supply, since the internal voltage Vp gradually increases in the switching circuit during the operation is terminated, it may damage the electrical components used in the primary side. 这增加了开关电源的成本。 This increases the cost of the switching power supply.
此外，在常规的开关电源中，因为在操作终止的过程中较大的电流流经输出电抗器Lout、变压器T1的次级线圈Ls1和Ls2和整流开关Q3和Q4，并且因为输出电抗器Lout、变压器T1的次级线圈Ls1和Ls2和整流开关Q3和Q4释放了释放大量的热，所以可能降低开关电源的可靠性。 Further, in the conventional switching power supply, since a larger current flows through the output reactor Lout during the operation is terminated, the transformer T1 secondary coil Ls1 and Ls2 and the rectifying switches Q3 and Q4, and a reactor Lout as the output, transformer T1 secondary winding Ls1 and Ls2 and the rectifying switches Q3 and Q4 release a large amount of heat release, it may reduce the reliability of the switching power supply.
在负载的电阻部件RLoad变大时这些问题更加突出。 When the resistance of the load RLoad member increases these problems become more prominent. 因此，在轻负载的情况下在发出了终止操作的指令时，问题非常严重。 Accordingly, in the case of a light load in issuing an instruction to terminate the operation, the problem is very serious. 此外，因为在负载的电容部件CLoad变大时这些问题更加突出，因此电功率提供给具有较大的电容部件CLoad的负载时这些问题也非常严重。 Further, since the capacitive load CLoad member increases these problems become more prominent, thus the electrical power to the member has a large capacitance load CLoad also serious problems.
在另一方面，虽然在负载的电阻部件RLoad相当小(即负载较重)时这些问题并不严重，但是在这种情况下，在由于输出电压Vout的下冲(undershoot)的缘故在操作终止的过程中在负载中可能出现某些故障。 On the other hand, although the resistance of the load RLoad member relatively small (i.e., heavy load) These problems are not serious, but in this case, since the undershoot of the output voltage Vout (undershoot of) operation terminates sake some of the process may malfunction in the load. 例如，在输出电压Vout变为负时，在负载中使用的集成电路(IC)中的寄生二极管等可能接通。 For example, when the output voltage Vout becomes negative, an integrated circuit (IC) for use in the load parasitic diode may be turned on. 由于这造成了较大的电流流经IC，因此IC可能产生故障或被损坏。 Since this causes a larger current flows through the IC, IC thus may malfunction or be damaged.
附图9所示为在操作终止的过程中输出电压Vout的下冲的时序图。 BRIEF is a timing chart of the output voltage Vout during the punch operation is terminated in the FIG. 9.
如在附图9中所示，在通过切断操作开关S1来停止初级侧的开关电路的操作时，流经电阻部件RLoad的电流IRLoad从输出电压Vout的输出电流ILout改变到输出电容器Cout的放电电流ICout，并且在负载的电抗部件LLoad上的电压VLLoad上升，因此电流继续流动。 As shown in the drawings 9, when the operation is stopped by switching off the primary side switching circuit switch S1 is operated, a current flowing through the resistor IRLoad member RLoad is changed from the output current to output voltage Vout ILout discharge current of the output capacitor Cout ICOUT, VLLoad rises and the voltage on the reactance component of the load LLoad, current continues to flow. 结果，输出电压Vout变为负，即出现了下冲。 As a result, the output voltage Vout becomes negative, i.e., undershoot occurred. 然后，如果下冲电压达到整流开关Q3和Q4的体二极管的正向电压Vf，则这些体二极管接通。 Then, if the undershoot voltage rectifier switch reaches the forward voltage Vf of the body diode of Q3 and Q4, the body diode which is turned on. 结果，电流开始流经由整流开关Q3(体二极管)、变压器T1的次级线圈Ls1、输出电抗器Lout和输出电容器Cout组成的LCR串联电路和由整流开关Q4(体二极管)、变压器T1的次级线圈Ls2、输出电抗器Lout和输出电容器Cout组成的另一LCR串联电路。 As a result, a current starts flowing through the LCR series circuit comprising a rectifier switch Q3 (body diode), a secondary coil LsI, output reactor Lout and the output capacitor Cout is composed of transformer T1 and a rectifying switch Q4 (body diode), a transformer T1 secondary another series LCR circuit coils Ls2, the output of the reactor Lout and the output capacitor Cout thereof. 因此，下冲电压的峰值钳位在-Vf的周围。 Thus, the clamp around the peak overshoot voltage at the -Vf.
在此，在电阻部件RLoad、电抗部件LLoad和输出电容器Cout之间的关系满足公式(1)时，这些LCR串联电路振荡。 Here, the resistance RLoad member, the relationship between the member and an output capacitor Cout LLoad reactor satisfy the formula (1), LCR series circuit of these oscillations. 结果出现下冲。 The results undershoot occurs. RLoad2<4·LLoadCout...(1)]]>从公式(1)中可以看出，在电阻部件RLoad较小时(在负载较重时)易于产生下冲。 RLoad2 & lt; 4 & CenterDot; LLoadCout ... (1)]]> from equation (1) can be seen, is small (when the load is heavy) undershoot easily generated in the resistive member RLoad. 为了防止开关电源产生下冲，因为电阻部件RLoad和电抗部件LLoad都属于该负载，所以需要足够电容的附加的电容器Cex与输出电容器Cout并联。 In order to prevent undershoot switching power supply, since the resistance component and reactance component LLoad RLoad fall of the load, it is necessary to enough additional capacitance capacitor Cex parallel with the output capacitor Cout. 这就导致了不希望地增加部件的数量。 This leads to undesirably increases the number of components. 通过公式(2)可以表示防止下冲附加的电容器Cex所需的电容。 By the equation (2) may be required to prevent undershoot represent additional capacitance capacitor Cex. Cex>4·LLoadRLoad2-Cout...(2)]]>因为在电阻部件Road较小时这种问题较突出，因此在使用开关电源驱动要求较低的电压和较大的电流的负载比如服务器计算机时它变得较严重。 Cex> 4 & CenterDot; LLoadRLoad2-Cout ... (2)]]> This problem is more prominent because of the resistance member is small Road, so the use of a switching power supply requires a lower drive voltage and a large current load such as a server computer when it becomes more serious.
如上文所解释，常规的开关电源具有两个主要的问题：一个问题是在发出了停止开关电源的操作的指令时输出电压Vout逐渐降低同时在非常长的周期时间上波动；另一个问题是在发出了停止开关电源的操作的指令时在输出电压Vout中出现下冲。 As explained above, the conventional switching power supply has two main problems: a problem is issued an instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply when the output voltage Vout is gradually decreased while fluctuating in a very long period of time; Another problem is red in the output voltage Vout when the instruction is issued to stop the operation of the switching power supply. 在电阻部件Rload较大时前一问题变得突出，而在电阻部件Rload较小时后一问题较突出。 Before a problem becomes a large resistor Rload projecting member, while the resistor Rload member is smaller than the latter problem projections. 后一问题是否出现取决于整流器是否是自驱动型。 The latter depends on whether the problem occurs if the rectifier is self-driven.
因此本发明的一个发明目的是提供一种开关电源，在发出停止开关电源的操作的指令时该开关电源能够防止输出电压Vout下冲。 It is therefore an object of the present invention is to provide a switching power supply, when the power supply stop switch instructs an operation of the switching power supply capable of preventing undershoot output voltage Vout.
因此本发明的另一个发明目的是提供一种开关电源，在发出停止开关电源的操作的指令时该开关电源能够防止输出电压Vout波动。 Thus a further object of the present invention is to provide a switching power supply, when the stop switch instructs the switching operation of the power supply output voltage Vout can be prevented from fluctuating.
因此本发明的另一个发明目的是提供一种开关电源，在发出停止开关电源的操作的指令时该开关电源能够防止开关电源的内部电压Vp逐渐增加。 Thus a further object of the present invention is to provide a switching power supply, when the stop switch instructs the switching operation of the power supply switch capable of preventing an internal power supply voltage Vp gradually increases.
因此本发明的另一个发明目的是提供一种开关电源，在发出停止开关电源的操作的指令时该开关电源能够防止大量的电流流经输出电抗器Lout、变压器T1的次级线圈Ls1和Ls2和整流开关Q3和Q4。 Thus a further object of the present invention is to provide a switching power supply, when the power supply stop switch instructs the operation of the switching power supply capable of preventing a large amount of current flows through the reactor Lout of output, and a transformer T1 secondary coil Ls1 and Ls2 rectifying switches Q3 and Q4.
通过包括如下结构的开关电源可以实现本发明的上述目的和其它的目的：具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器；连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的开关电路；连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器；控制开关电路的控制电路；以及第一和第二操作电压产生电路，每个操作电压产生电路产生控制电路的操作电压；由第一操作电压产生电路所产生的第一操作电压和由第二操作电压产生电路所产生的第二操作电压彼此具有不同的值。 It can be achieved by a configuration of the switching power supply comprising the above objects and other objects of the present invention: a primary and secondary coils of a transformer; a switching circuit connected between the input terminals of the transformer and a primary coil; connected to the transformer secondary rectifier coil; control circuit for controlling the switching circuit; and a first and second operating voltage generating circuit, each of the operating voltage generation circuit generates operating voltage of the control circuit; a first operating voltage generated by the circuit generated by the first operating voltage and a second voltage generating circuit by the operation of the second operating voltage generated having values different from each other.
在本发明的优选方面，第一操作电压产生电路包括确定第一操作电压的值的第一齐纳二极管，第二操作电压产生电路包括确定第二操作电压的值的第二齐纳二极管，第一齐纳二极管的齐纳电压和第二齐纳二极管的齐纳电压彼此具有不同的值。 In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the first operating voltage generation circuit includes a first operation of determining a value of the voltage of the first Zener diode, the second operating voltage generating circuit comprises a second Zener diode determining a second value of the operating voltage, the first Zener diode and a second Zener voltage of the Zener voltage of the Zener diodes having mutually different values.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，第一操作电压产生电路进一步包括与第一齐纳二极管并联的操作开关。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, the first operating voltage generating circuit further includes an operation switch of the first zener diode connected in parallel.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，开关电路包括在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间串联的第一和第二变换器。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, it comprises a switching circuit between the transformer input and in series with the primary winding of the first and second inverters.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，控制电路包括控制第一变换器的第一变换器控制电路和控制第二变换器的第二变换器控制电路，第一操作电压产生电路给为第一和第二变换器控制电路所公用的电源线提供第一操作电压，而第二操作电压产生电路给该电源线提供第二操作电压。 In a further preferred aspect of the invention, the control circuit includes a second inverter controlling the first converter and a first inverter control circuit controlling the second inverter control circuit, a first voltage generation circuit for operating the first and second inverter control circuit to provide a first power supply line common to the operating voltage, and the second operating voltage generating circuit providing a second power supply line to the operating voltage.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，在第一操作电压产生电路处于有效状态时启动第一和第二第二变换器控制电路，在第二操作电压产生电路处于有效状态时停止第一和第二第二变换器控制电路。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, generation start circuit in the active state the first and second inverter control circuit in a second operation a first voltage, the second voltage generating operation of the first and second stops when the circuit is in the active state two inverter control circuit.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，第一变换器控制电路的最小操作电压和第二变换器控制电路的最小操作电压彼此具有不同的值。 In a further preferred aspect of the invention, the minimum operating voltage of the first inverter circuit and a second control inverter control circuit having a minimum operating voltage of mutually different values.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，该开关电源进一步包括使用在变压器的初级侧上的辅助线圈上出现的电压，将第三操作电压提供给电源线的辅助电源电路。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, the switching power supply further includes a voltage appearing on the primary side of the transformer on the use of the auxiliary coil, the third operating voltage supplied to the auxiliary power supply circuit of the power supply line.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，第三操作电压高于第一和第二操作电压。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, the third operating voltage higher than the first and second operating voltages.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，第一变换器是从反向变换器和升压变换器中选择的，并且第一变换器是从半桥变换器、正向变换器、全桥变换器和推挽变换器中选择的。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, a first transducer is selected from the boost converters and the inverters, and the first converter from the half-bridge converter, a forward converter, a full bridge converter and the push selected pull converter.
在本发明的进一步优选方面，整流器是自驱动型的。 In a further preferred aspect of the present invention, the rectifier is self-driven.
根据本发明的这些方面，因为由第一操作电压产生电路所产生的第一操作电压和由第二操作电压产生电路所产生的第二操作电压不同，因此控制电路可以在正常操作的过程中使用从一个操作电压产生电路提供的操作电压进行操作，并且在发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令之后使用从另一个操作电压产生电路提供的操作电压进行操作。 According to these aspects of the present invention, the second operation of the first operating voltage and the voltage generated by the second circuit as the operating voltage generation circuit generated by the first operating voltage difference generated, the control circuit may be used during normal operation of using the generated operating voltage provided by the circuit operation after the operating voltage from another voltage generating circuit operation of the operating voltage supplied from an operation, and transmits an instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply. 即，在发送了该指令之后可以继续开关操作。 That is, after transmitting the command to continue a switching operation. 因此，因为输出电压基本线性地降低并且没有波动或下冲，因此可以有效地避免负载的故障。 Thus, since the output voltage decreases linearly and substantially without overshoot or fluctuation, it is possible to effectively prevent failures of the load.
具体地说，在整流器是自驱动型的情况下，在发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令时防止在初级侧上的开关电路中的内部电压逐渐增加。 Specifically, in a case where the rectifier is self-driven, to prevent internal voltage switching circuit on the primary side is gradually increased when transmitting the instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply. 因此可以有效地保护在初级侧上使用的电部件不受损坏。 It can be effectively used to protect the electrical components from damage on the primary side. 此外，因为不需要使用耐高压的部件，因此降低了开关电源的成本。 Further, it is not necessary to use high voltage components, thus reducing the cost of the switching power supply. 此外，因为在发送指令时较大的电流不流经输出电抗器、变压器的次级线圈和整流器，因此可以提高开关电源的可靠性。 Further, since the transmission instruction when a large output current does not flow through the reactor, the secondary winding of the transformer and the rectifier, thus improving the reliability of the switching power supply.
因此，本发明的开关电源适合于作为给具有较大电容部件CLoad的负载提供电功率的开关电源。 Thus, the switching power supply of the present invention is adapted to provide electrical power to a load having a large capacitance of the switching power supply member CLoad. 此外，本发明的特别适合于作为给易于经常呈轻负载状态的负载提供电功率的开关电源。 Further, the present invention is particularly suitable for use as a load having often easy to light load state of the switching power supply to provide electrical power. 此外，本发明的开关电源还适合于给要求较低的电压和较大的电流的负载(比如服务器计算机)提供电功率的开关电源。 Further, the switching power supply of the present invention is also suitable for less demanding voltage and large current load (such as a server computer) to provide electrical power to the switching power supply. 即，根据本发明，即使在较重的负载状态或较轻的负载状态下发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令，该开关电源也能够基本线性地降低它的输出电压。 That is, according to the present invention, the transmission power switching instruction operation is stopped even under heavy load state or a lighter load state, the switching power supply can be substantially linearly reduces its output voltage.
本发明的上述目的和其它目的还可以通过如下的开关电源实现，该开关电源包括：具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器；连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的开关电路；连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器；位于整流器的随后级上并包括输出电容器的滤波电路；控制开关电路的控制电路；以及响应指令以停止开关操作，至少使用存储在输出电容器中的能量给控制电路提供操作电压的装置。 The above object and other objects of the present invention may also be implemented by switching power supply, the switching power supply comprising: a transformer primary and secondary coils; a switching circuit connected between the input terminals of the transformer and a primary coil; connected to the transformer rectifier secondary coil; and a filter circuit comprising an output capacitor of the rectifier is then positioned on the stage; a control circuit for controlling the switching circuit; and in response to an instruction to stop the switching operation, the energy stored in the output capacitor at least in the operation of the control circuit provided voltage apparatus.
在本发明的优选方面，在正常操作的过程中从该装置中提供的操作电压低于提供给控制电路的操作电压。 In a preferred aspect of the present invention, the operating voltage supplied from the device during normal operation lower than the operating voltage supplied to the control circuit.
根据本发明这些方面，该开关电源能够基本线性地降低它的输出电压而不波动或下冲。 According to these aspects of the present invention, the switching power supply can be reduced substantially linearly without its output voltage fluctuations or undershoot. 因此能够有效地避免负载的故障。 Therefore possible to effectively avoid failure load. 具体地说，在整流器是自驱动型的情况下，在发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令时能够防止在初级侧的开关电路中的内部电压逐渐增加。 Specifically, in a case where the rectifier is self-driven, while sending an instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply of the internal voltage can be prevented in the switching circuit on the primary side is gradually increased. 因此可以有效地保护在初级侧上使用的电部件不受损坏。 It can be effectively used to protect the electrical components from damage on the primary side. 此外，因为不需要使用耐高压的部件，因此降低了开关电源的成本。 Further, it is not necessary to use high voltage components, thus reducing the cost of the switching power supply. 此外，因为在发送指令时较大的电流不流经输出电抗器、变压器的次级线圈和整流器，因此可以提高开关电源的可靠性。 Further, since the transmission instruction when a large output current does not flow through the reactor, the secondary winding of the transformer and the rectifier, thus improving the reliability of the switching power supply.
本发明的上述目的和其它目的还可以通过如下的开关电源实现，该开关电源包括：具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器；串联连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的第一和第二变换器；连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器；控制第一和第二变换器的控制电路；以及响应指令以停止开关操作，从而第一和第二变换器的顺序停止第一和第二变换器的操作的装置。 The above object and other objects of the present invention may also be implemented by switching power supply, the switching power supply comprising: a transformer primary and secondary coils; connected in series between the input terminals of the transformer primary winding and first and second converter; rectifier connected to the transformer secondary winding; and a second control circuit for controlling the first transducer; and in response to an instruction to stop the switching operation, thereby sequentially stopping the first and second converter converting the first and second device's operation.
在本发明的优选方面，在发送指令时的时刻到停止第二变换器的操作的时刻的期间中，该停止装置应用从变压器的次级侧提供的能量使第二变换器的操作继续。 During the time in a preferred aspect of the invention, the time when sending the instruction to stop the operation of the second inverter, the stop means provided by the application of energy from the secondary side of the transformer so that continued operation of the second converter.
根据本发明这些方面，该开关电源能够基本线性地降低它的输出电压而不波动或下冲。 According to these aspects of the present invention, the switching power supply can be reduced substantially linearly without its output voltage fluctuations or undershoot. 因此能够有效地避免负载的故障。 Therefore possible to effectively avoid failure load. 具体地说，在整流器是自驱动型的情况下，在发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令时能够防止在第二变换器中的内部电压逐渐增加。 Specifically, in a case where the rectifier is self-driven, when sending the instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply can be prevented in the second internal voltage converter increases gradually. 因此能够有效地保护在初级侧上使用的电部件不受损坏。 It can be effectively used to protect the electrical components from damage on the primary side. 此外，因为不需要使用耐高压的部件，因此降低了开关电源的成本。 Further, it is not necessary to use high voltage components, thus reducing the cost of the switching power supply. 此外，因为在发送指令时较大的电流不流经输出电抗器、变压器的次级线圈和整流器，因此可以提高开关电源的可靠性。 Further, since the transmission instruction when a large output current does not flow through the reactor, the secondary winding of the transformer and the rectifier, thus improving the reliability of the switching power supply.
通过阅读下文参考附图的描述本发明的上述目的和其它目的和特征将会更加清楚。 By reading the description above and other objects and features of the invention will become more apparent with reference to the accompanying drawings.
附图1所示为说明本发明的优选实施例的开关电源的电路图。 BRIEF DESCRIPTION switching power supply of the preferred embodiment of the present invention is a circuit diagram shown in FIG.
附图2所示为在负载的电阻部件RLoad相当大时在附图1中所示的开关电源的操作的时序图。 BRIEF is a timing chart when the resistance of the load RLoad considerable part in the switching power supply 1 shown in the drawings in the operation shown in FIG.
附图3所示为在附图2中所示的时序图的原理部分的放大时序图。 The drawings is a schematic timing chart shown in FIG. 2 is an enlarged portion of a timing chart shown in FIG.
附图4所示为在负载的电阻部件RLoad相当小时在附图1中所示的开关电源的操作的时序图。 In the drawings is a timing diagram of the load resistance RLoad rather small operating member in the switching power supply shown in FIG. 1 in FIG. 4.
附图5所示为在附图1中所示的开关电源的变型实例的电路图。 In the drawings figures 1 a circuit diagram of the switching power supply shown in the modified example 5 as shown in FIG.
附图6所示为作为本发明的另一优选实施例的开关电源的电路图。 The switching power supply further preferred embodiment of the present invention is a circuit diagram of FIG. 6 figures.
附图7所示为说明常规的开关电源的电路图。 BRIEF DESCRIPTION is a circuit diagram of a conventional switching power supply shown in FIG.
附图8所示为在附图7中所示的常规的开关电源的操作的时序图。 BRIEF timing diagram of a conventional switching power supply shown in figures 7 of operation shown in FIG.
附图9所示为在发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令时输出电压Vout的下冲的时序图。 Undershoot a timing chart when the output voltage Vout as shown in FIG. 9 transmits an instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply.
参考附图详细地解释本发明的优选实施例。 Illustrate preferred embodiments of the present invention in detail with reference to the drawings.
附图1所示为作为本发明的优选实施例的开关电源的电路图。 BRIEF switching power source as a preferred embodiment of the present invention is a circuit diagram of the embodiment shown in FIG.
如附图1所示，本实施例的开关电源可以降低提供到一对输入功率端子41和42中的DC(直流)输入电压Vin以在一对输出功率端子43和44之间产生直流输出电压Vout并将该DC输出电压Vout提供给负载。 As shown in Figure 1, the switching power supply according to the present embodiment can reduce the power supplied to a pair of input terminals and the 42 DC 41 (DC) input voltage Vin a DC output voltage generated between the pair of output terminals 43 and 44 the DC output voltage Vout and Vout supplied to the load. 本实施例的开关电源由连接到输入功率端子41和42的反向变换器电路50、连接到反向变换器电路50以激励变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的半桥变换器电路60、控制反向变换器电路50的反向变换器控制电路71、控制半桥变换器电路60的半桥变换器控制电路72、在正常操作的过程中为反向变换器控制电路71和半桥变换器控制电路72产生工作电压Vcc的辅助电源电路80、在操作的开始的过程中产生工作电压Vcc的第一操作电压产生电路90、在操作的终止的过程中产生工作电压Vcc的第二操作电压产生电路100、位于变压器T2的次级侧上的自驱动型整流器110和连接在整流器110和输出功率端子43和44之间的滤波电路120。 Switching power supply according to the present embodiment comprises a power terminal 41 is connected to the input circuit 42 and inverters 50, 50 connected to the inverting converter circuit to energize the primary winding of the transformer T2 Lp11 half-bridge inverter circuit 60, the reverse control inverters inverter circuit 50 of control circuit 71, a control half bridge converter circuit 60 half-bridge inverter control circuit 72, during normal operation of the control circuit 71 and the half bridge buck converter inverter control circuit 72 auxiliary power supply circuit 80 generates the operating voltage Vcc, the operating voltage to produce a first operating voltage Vcc during the beginning of the operation generating circuit 90 generates the operating voltage Vcc during operation of terminating operation of the second voltage generating circuit 100 , self-driven rectifier on the secondary side of the transformer T2 is connected between the rectifier 110 and the output power terminal 110 and a filter circuit 43 and 44 120.
此外，在输入DC电源和输入功率端子41之间提供操作开关S11。 Further, there is provided an operation switch S11 between the input DC power supply and the input terminal 41. 为了启动开关电源，必需从外部将操作开关S11改变到接通状态。 In order to start the switching power supply, it is necessary from the external operation switch S11 is changed to the ON state. 虽然操作开关S11并不是包括在开关电源中的部件，但是它可以是包括在开关电源中的部件。 While the switch S11 is not the operation member comprises a switching power supply, but it may be a member in the switching power supply.
反向变换器电路50包括主开关Q11和Q12和虑波电抗器Lb。 The buck converter circuit 50 includes a main switch Q11 and Q12 and consider Reactor Lb. 如在附图1中所示，主开关Q11和虑波电抗器Lb串联连接在高压侧输入功率端子41和半桥变换器电路60之间。 As shown in the drawings, the main switch Q11 and consider Reactor 1 Lb connected in series between the power input terminals 41 and a half-bridge inverter circuit 60 on the high side. 主开关Q12连接在低压侧输入功率端子42和主开关Q11和虑波电抗器Lb的节点之间。 Main switch Q12 is connected between the low voltage side of power input terminals 42 and Lb main switch Q11 and node considered Reactor. 反向变换器电路50可以降低在输入功率端子41和42之间提供的输入电压Vin以在一对内部线45和46之间产生直流内部电压Vp。 The buck converter circuit 50 may reduce the input voltage Vin between the input terminals 41 and 42 to provide power to generate a DC voltage Vp between the inner pair of inner lines 45 and 46.
半桥变换器电路60包括串联连接在该对内部线45和46之间的主开关Q13和主开关Q14和串联连接在该对内部线45和46之间的初级侧电容器C11和C12。 60 includes a series half-bridge converter circuit connected between the main switch and the main switch Q14 and Q13 connected in series between the 45 and 46 on the inner wire is connected between the lines 45 and 46 of the internal primary side capacitor C11 and C12. 如附图1所示，变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11连接在主开关Q13和主开关Q14的节点和初级侧电容器C11和C12的节点之间。 As shown in Figure 1, transformer T2 primary coil Lp11 connected between the node and the primary-side capacitor C11 and C12 of the node main switch and the main switch Q13 and Q14.
反向变换器控制电路71是这样的电路：它控制包括在反向变换器电路50中的主开关Q11和Q12的开关操作以便在反向变换器控制电路71的控制下以预定的停滞时间依次使主开关Q11和Q12进入接通状态。 Buck converter control circuit 71 is a circuit: which comprises the control circuit 71 controls the inverter circuit 50 in a reverse switching operation of the main switch Q11 and Q12 in order to control the buck converter in a sequence of a predetermined dead time the main switches Q11 and Q12 into the on state. 反向变换器控制电路71基于输出电压Vout的电平控制主开关Q12的占空系数。 Duty ratio control circuit 71 controls the buck converter main switch Q12 based on the level of the output voltage Vout. 具体地说，在输出电压Vout相对于所需的电压增加时反向变换器控制电路71降低主开关Q12的占空系数以降低通过内部线45和46提供到半桥变换器电路60的电功率，而在输出电压Vout相对于所需的电压降低时升高主开关Q11的占空系数以增加通过内部线45和46提供到半桥变换器电路60的电功率。 Specifically, the buck converter control circuit when the output voltage Vout is increased with respect to the desired voltage reduction of the main switch 71 Q12 to reduce the duty factor of electric power supplied to the half bridge converter circuit 60 through internal lines 45 and 46, in the output voltage Vout is increased with respect to the space factor when the main switch Q11 is reduced to increase the voltage necessary for the electric power supplied to the half-bridge converter circuit 60 through internal lines 45 and 46. 因此，给半桥变换器电路60提供了具有稳定的电平的内部电压Vp，该稳定的电平取决于直流输入电压Vin和主开关Q12的占空系数。 Thus, a half-bridge converter circuit 60 provides a stable level of the internal voltage Vp of, the stable level depends on the duty cycle DC input voltage Vin and the main switch Q12.
因为反向变换器控制电路71属于初级侧，所以反向变换器控制电路71不能直接接收输出电压Vout。 Since the buck converter control circuit 71 belongs to the primary side, the buck converter control circuit 71 can not directly receive the output voltage Vout. 因此通过隔离电路130给反向变换器控制电路71提供与输出电压Vout相关的电压Vout'。 Accordingly to the reverse converter control circuit 71 through an isolation circuit 130 provide the output voltage Vout is a voltage Vout '. 下文将解释反向变换器控制电路71的最小操作电压。 Buck converter will be explained below minimum operating voltage control circuit 71.
半桥变换器控制电路72是这样的一种电路：它控制包括在半桥变换器电路60中的主开关Q13和主开关Q14的开关操作以便主开关Q13和主开关Q14依次以固定的占空系数进入接通状态。 Half-bridge inverter control circuit 72 is a circuit: which includes a main control switch and the main switch Q13 at half-bridge converter circuit 60 operates to switch the main switch and the main switch Q14 Q14 Q13 turn fixed duty factor enters the on state. 因此，在该对输出功率端子43和44之间出现了具有稳定的电平的输出电压Vout，该稳定的电平取决于内部电压Vp和变压器T2的匝数比。 Accordingly, between the pair of power output terminals 43 and 44 there has been a stable output voltage Vout of the level, the level of stable internal voltage Vp depends on the turns ratio of the transformer T2. 下文将解释半桥变换器控制电路72的最小操作电压。 Hereinafter will be explained the control half bridge converter circuit 72 a minimum operating voltage.
辅助电源电路80是这样的一种电路：用于在正常操作的过程中产生用于反向变换器控制电路71和半桥变换器控制电路72的工作电压。 Auxiliary power supply circuit 80 is a circuit: means for generating a buck converter control circuit 71 and a half-bridge inverter control circuit voltage 72 during normal operation. 辅助电源电路80由二极管桥路B、滤波电容器C13和C14、晶体管Tr11和电阻R11和R12构成。 Auxiliary power supply circuit 80, a smoothing capacitor C13 and C14, transistor Tr11 and the resistors R11 and R12 includes a diode bridge B. 二极管桥路B是对在变压器T2的初级侧上的辅助线圈Lp12上出现的电压进行整流的电路。 B is a diode bridge circuit voltage appearing on the secondary winding Lp12 on the primary side rectifying transformer T2. 在二极管桥路B的输出节点之间出现的电压通过滤波电容器C13进行滤波以产生辅助功率电压Vsub。 Voltage appearing between the output node of the diode bridge B is filtered by filter capacitor C13 to produce auxiliary power voltage Vsub. 晶体管Tr11连接在二极管桥路B的高压侧输出节点和Vcc线之间。 Transistor Tr11 connected between the high-voltage side line Vcc and an output node B of the diode bridge. 电阻R11连接在晶体管Tr11的基极和发射电极之间。 Resistor R11 is connected between the transistor Tr11 the base and emitter electrodes. 二极管桥路B的低压侧输出节点直接连接到内部线46。 A low pressure side of the diode bridge output node B is directly connected to the inner wire 46. 在半桥变换器电路60开始开关操作时具有上述结构的辅助电源电路80使用在辅助线圈Lp12上出现的电压将具有预定的电平的操作电压提供给Vcc线。 Auxiliary power supply circuit having the above structure when the half-bridge inverter circuit 60 starts to switch 80 using the voltage appearing on the secondary winding Lp12 having a predetermined level of operating voltage supplied to the Vcc line. 通过辅助电源电路80提供到Vcc线的操作电压称为“Vcc1”。 It is supplied to the Vcc line 80 through an auxiliary power supply circuit operating voltage referred to as "Vcc1".
第一操作电压产生电路90是这样的一种电路：用于在操作开始的过程中产生用于反向变换器控制电路71和半桥变换器控制电路72的操作电压。 A first operating voltage generating circuit 90 is a circuit: means for generating a buck converter control circuit 71 and a half-bridge converter control circuit 72 of operating voltage during the start of operation. 第一操作电压产生电路90由晶体管Tr12、电阻R13、齐纳二极管Z11、二极管D11和操作开关S12构成。 A first operating voltage generating circuit 90 includes a transistor Tr12, a resistor R13, the zener diode Z11, the diode D11 and the operation switch S12. 如附图1所示，晶体管Tr12和二极管D11串联连接在高压侧输入功率端子41和Vcc线之间。 As shown in the drawings, the transistor Tr12 and a diode D11 connected in series between the high side input terminal 41 and the power line Vcc. 电阻R13和齐纳二极管Z11串联连接在高压侧输入功率端子41和低压侧输入功率端子42之间。 Resistor R13 and the zener diode Z11 connected in series between the input side of the high voltage power input terminal 41 and a low side power terminal 42. 电阻R13和齐纳二极管Z11的节点连接到晶体管Tr12的基电极以使齐纳二极管Z11的齐纳电压Vz11应用到晶体管Tr12的基电极。 Resistor R13 and the zener diode Z11 is connected to the node of the transistor Tr12 to make the base electrode of the zener diode Z11 Vz11 Zener voltage applied to the base electrode of the transistor Tr12. 因此，在晶体管Tr12进入接通状态时提供到Vcc线的电压可以表示为：VZ11-2Vth(这里Vth表示在晶体管Tr12的基极和发射极电极之间的电压和二极管D11的正向电压两者)。 Thus, the voltage Vcc is supplied to the line may be expressed as when the transistor Tr12 enters the on state: VZ11-2Vth (where Vth represents both the forward voltage between the base electrode of the transistor Tr12 and the emitter electrode of the diode D11 and the voltage ). 通过第一操作电压产生电路90提供到Vcc线的操作电压称为“Vcc2”。 A first operating voltage generated by circuit 90 is supplied to the operating voltage Vcc line referred "Vcc2".
在本实施例中，选择齐纳二极管Z11，其齐纳电压VZ11表示如下：Vcc1＞Vcc2因此，仅在开关电源操作开始时启动第一操作电压产生电路90。 In the present embodiment, the Zener diode Z11, the zener voltage VZ11 which is expressed as follows: Vcc1> Vcc2 Thus, the first operation starting voltage generating circuit 90 only when the switching power supply operation starts. 在半桥变换器电路60开始开关操作之后，晶体管Tr12进入切断状态以使第一操作电压产生电路90不包括在开关电源的操作中。 After the half-bridge inverter circuit 60 starts the switching operation, transistor Tr12 enters the off state to the first operating voltage generating circuit 90 does not include an operation in the switching power supply.
包括在第一操作电压产生电路90中的操作开关S12连接在齐纳二极管Z11的相对端之间。 Generating circuit comprises operation switches S12 90 is connected between the opposite ends of Zener diode Z11 in the first operation voltage. 为了启动开关电源，必需从外部切断操作开关S12。 In order to start the switching power supply, the switch S12 off operation is necessary from the outside. 即，为了启动开关电源，操作开关S11必需接通而操作开关S12必需切断。 That is, in order to start the switching power supply, necessary for the operation switch S11 is turned off while the operation switch S12 necessary. 可以通过切断操作开关S11或通过接通操作开关S12来终止开关电源的操作。 It may terminate operation of the switching power supply by turning off the operation switch by operation of the switch S12 or S11.
第二操作电压产生电路100是这样的电路：用于在操作终止的过程中产生用于反向变换器控制电路71和半桥变换器控制电路72的操作电压。 Second operating voltage generation circuit 100 is a circuit: means for generating during operation of the termination for the reverse converter control circuit 71 controls the operation of the voltage converter and a half-bridge circuit 72. 第二操作电压产生电路100由晶体管Tr13和Tr14、齐纳二极管Z12和二极管D12构成。 Second operating voltage generating circuit 100 is constituted by the transistors Tr13 and Tr14, a Zener diode Z12 and a diode D12. 晶体管Tr13和二极管D12串联在连接内部线45和Vcc线之间。 Diode D12 and the transistor Tr13 are connected in series between the Vcc line 45 and the inner wire. 晶体管Tr14连接在内部线45和晶体管Tr13的基电极之间。 Transistor Tr14 connected between the base electrode 45 and the inner line of the transistor Tr13. 齐纳二极管Z12连接在晶体管Tr13的基电极和内部线46之间。 Zener diode Z12 is connected between the base electrode of the transistor Tr13 and the inner wire 46. 晶体管Tr14的栅电极和源电极短接以使晶体管Tr14作为恒流元件使用。 The gate electrode of the transistor Tr14 and the source electrode of the transistor Tr14 to shorting used as a constant current element. 可以使用电阻器替代晶体管Tr14。 A resistor may be used alternatively transistor Tr14.
将齐纳二极管Z12的齐纳电压VZ12设置成低于齐纳二极管Z11的齐纳电压VZ11。 Zener diode Z12 VZ12 Zener voltage of the Zener diode is set lower than the Zener voltage Z11 VZ11. 因此，在操作开关S11处于接通状态并且操作开关S12处于切断状态时，因为晶体管Tr12的基极电压低于晶体管Tr13的基极电压，所以在晶体管Tr13的基极电极和发射极电极之间施加一个比晶体管Tr13的阈值电压更低的电压，然后将晶体管Tr13保持在切断状态。 Thus, the operation switch S11 is in the ON state and the operating state of the switch S12 is off, because the base voltage of the transistor Tr12 is lower than the base voltage of transistor Tr13, it is applied between the base electrode of the transistor Tr13 and the emitter electrode a voltage lower than the threshold voltage of the transistor Tr13, the transistor Tr13 and then held in the off state. 在晶体管Tr11处于切断状态时，第二操作电压产生电路100并不包括在开关电源的操作中。 When the transistor Tr11 is in the off state, the second operation comprises a voltage generating circuit 100 is not operating in the switching power supply.
在晶体管Tr13进入接通状态时，施加到Vcc线的电压表示为：VZ12-2Vth(这里Vth表示在晶体管Tr13的基极和发射极电极之间的电压和二极管D12的正向电压两者)。 When the transistor Tr13 enters the on state, the voltage Vcc is applied to the line is expressed as: VZ12-2Vth (where Vth represents both the forward voltage between the base electrode of the transistor Tr13 and the emitter electrode and the voltage of diode D12). 通过第二操作电压产生电路100提供到Vcc线的操作电压称为“Vcc3”。 Generating circuit 100 is supplied to the operating voltage Vcc line called "Vcc3" by a second operating voltage.
因为齐纳二极管Z12的齐纳电压VZ12低于如前文所指出的齐纳二极管Z11的齐纳电压VZ11，因此在Vcc2和Vcc3之间的关系可以表示为：Vcc2＞Vcc3因此，由于操作开关S11切断或者操作开关S12接通的缘故，仅在晶体管Tr12处于切断时启动第二操作电压产生电路100。 Because the zener diode Z12 is lower than the Zener voltage VZ12 As previously noted the Zener diode Z11 Zener voltage VZ11, and therefore the relationship between Vcc2 and Vcc3 can be expressed as: Vcc2> Vcc3 Thus, since the operation switch S11 off or because of the operation of the switch S12 is turned on, the second operation starting voltage generating circuit 100 only when the transistor Tr12 is turned off.
在本实施例的开关电源中，反向变换器控制电路71的最小的操作电压设置成低于Vcc2并且等于或大于Vcc3，而半桥变换器控制电路72的最小的操作电压设置成低于Vcc3。 The minimum operating voltage of the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, the buck converter control circuit 71 is set lower than Vcc2 and Vcc3 greater than or equal to, half-bridge converter control circuit and the minimum operating voltage is set lower than 72 Vcc3 . 因此，在辅助电源电路80或第一操作电压产生电路90处于有效状态时反向变换器控制电路71可以驱动主开关Q11和Q12，而在第二操作电压产生电路100处于有效状态并且辅助电源电路80和第一操作电压产生电路90都不处于有效状态时反向变换器控制电路71不能驱动主开关Q11和Q12。 Accordingly, a control circuit 71 when the buck converter circuit 90 can be driven in the active state of the main switch Q11 and Q12 operating at a first voltage or the auxiliary power supply circuit 80, while in a second operating voltage generating circuit 100 is active and the auxiliary power supply circuit the buck converter 80 and control circuit 71 when a first voltage generation circuit 90 is not operating in an active state can not drive the main switches Q11 and Q12. 在辅助电源电路80、第一操作电压产生电路90和第二操作电压产生电路100中任一个处于有效状态时半桥变换器控制电路72就能够驱动主开关Q13和Q14。 In the auxiliary power supply circuit 80, a first operating voltage and second operating voltage generating circuit 90 generating circuit 100 when any of a half-bridge converter in the active state control circuit 72 can be driven main switches Q13 and Q14.
整流器110由整流开关Q15和Q16和电阻R14和R15构成。 Rectifier 110 is constituted by rectifier switch Q15 and Q16 and resistors R14 and R15. 整流开关Q15连接在变压器T2的次级线圈Ls11和低压侧输出功率端子44之间。 Rectifier switch Q15 is connected to the secondary winding of the transformer T2 and the low-side output power Ls11 between the terminal 44. 整流开关Q16连接在变压器T2的次级线圈Ls12和低压侧输出功率端子44之间。 Rectifier switch Q16 is connected to the secondary winding of the transformer T2 and the low-side output power Ls12 between the terminal 44. 整流开关Q15的栅电极连接到次级线圈Ls12，而整流开关Q16的栅电极连接到次级线圈Ls11。 The gate electrode of the rectifier switch Q15 is connected to the secondary coil Ls12, the gate electrode and the rectifier switch Q16 is connected to the secondary coil Ls11. 即，整流器110是自驱动型的。 That is, the rectifier 110 is a self-driven. 此外，电阻R14和R15分别插入在整流开关Q15和Q16的栅电极和源电极之间，以防止它的栅电极处于浮动状态。 Further, resistors R14 and R15 are inserted between the rectifier switch Q15 and Q16 the gate electrode and the source electrode to prevent its gate electrode is in a floating state.
滤波电路120由连接在整流器110的整流端和高压侧输出功率端子43之间的输出电抗器Lout和连接在该对输出功率端子43和44之间的输出电容器Cout构成。 A filter circuit connected to the rectifier 120 and the high-side output end of the rectifier 110 output terminal Lout between the reactor 43 and connected to the power output terminal of the output capacitor between 43 and 44 Cout configuration.
通过电阻部件RLoad、电容部件CLoad和电抗部件LLoad可以表示负载，该负载不是包括在开关电源中的元件，并且它连接在该对输出功率端子43和44之间。 RLoad member by resistance, capacitance and reactance components CLoad member LLoad may represent load, which are not included in a switching power supply element, and it is connected between the pair of power output terminals 43 and 44.
接着，解释本实施例的开关电源的操作。 Next, to explain the operation of the switching power supply according to the embodiment.
附图2所示为本实施例的开关电源的操作的时序图。 BRIEF timing diagram illustrating operation of the switching power supply of the present embodiment shown in FIG.
为了启动本实施例的开关电源，操作开关S11必需改变到接通状态，并且必需从外部将操作开关S12改变到切断状态。 To start the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, the operation is necessary to change the switch S11 to the ON state, and it is necessary from the external operation switch S12 is changed to the OFF state. 在操作开关S11改变到接通状态并且操作开关S12改变切断状态时，Vcc线的电平变为Vcc2，因为在第一操作电压产生电路90中的晶体管Tr12接通。 In operation switch S11 is changed to the ON state and the switch S12 is changed when the operation off state, the level of the Vcc line Vcc2 is changed, since the voltage generating circuit 90 in the first operation of the transistor Tr12 is turned on.
由于这个缘故，反向变换器控制电路71和半桥变换器控制电路72都启动。 For this reason, the inverter control circuit 71 and the reverse half-bridge inverter control circuit 72 are activated. 具体地说，反向变换器控制电路71基于电压Vout'以一定占空系数依次使主开关Q11和Q12进入接通状态，而半桥变换器控制电路72以固定的占空系数依次使主开关Q13和Q14进入接通状态。 Specifically, the buck converter control circuit 71 based on the voltage Vout 'at a certain duty ratio turn the main switch Q11 and Q12 into the on state, while the half-bridge inverter control circuit 72 at a fixed duty cycle of the main switch sequentially Q13 and Q14 into the on state.
由于这个缘故，因为变压器T2的初级电压VLP11的极性交替地反向，并且与初级侧的操作同步，因此在变压器T2的次级线圈Ls11和Ls12上出现的次级电压也交替地反向，因此整流开关Q15和Q16交替地依次进入接通状态。 For this reason, since the polarity of the transformer T2 primary voltage VLP11 alternately reversed and synchronized with the operation of the primary side, the secondary voltage thus appearing on the secondary winding of the transformer T2 Ls11 and Ls12 is also reversed alternately, Thus the rectifier switch Q15 and Q16 alternately turn into on state. 结果，对交替反向的极性的次级电压进行了整流，并且通过滤波电路120对所整流的电压进行滤波以产生稳定的输出电压Vout。 As a result, the secondary voltage polarity alternately reversed were rectified, and the rectified voltage is filtered by the filtering circuit 120 to produce a stable output voltage Vout.
如附图3所示，在半桥变换器控制电路72的控制下在主开关Q13和Q14相互切换时，流经输出电抗器Lout的电流ILOUT的频率变成开关频率的两倍，而流经变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的电流ILP11的频率变成与开关频率相同。 As shown in Figure 3, the half-bridge inverter control circuit when the main switch Q13 and Q14 switched to each other, the frequency of the reactor Lout through the output current becomes twice ILOUT the switching frequency under control of the 72, flows through ILP11 frequency of the current in the primary coil of the transformer T2 Lp11 becomes the same as the switching frequency. 在流经输出电抗器Lout的电流ILOUT的方向为正向的情况下，对输出电容器Cout进行充电；在流经输出电抗器Lout的电流ILOUT的方向为负向的情况下，输出电容器Cout放电。 In the direction of the reactor Lout through the output current of the forward ILOUT case, the output capacitor Cout is charged; in the direction of the reactor Lout through the output current ILOUT is negative direction, the output capacitor Cout is discharged.
在主开关Q13处于接通状态的周期中，在流经变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的电流ILP11的方向为正向的同时初级侧电容器C11放电，而在流经变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的电流ILP11的方向为负向的同时对初级侧电容器C11进行充电。 In the period of the main switch Q13 in the ON state, the positive side of capacitor C11 is discharged while the primary direction of the current ILP11 LPl 1 flowing through the primary coil of the transformer T2, and through the transformer primary coil in the current T2 LPl 1 ILP11 while the negative direction of the primary-side capacitor C11 is charged. 虽然在附图3中没有示出，在主开关Q14处于接通状态的周期中，在流经变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的电流ILP11的方向为正向的同时对初级侧电容器C12进行充电，而在流经变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的电流ILP11的方向为负向的同时初级侧电容器C12放电。 Although not shown in Figure 3, in the on-state period of the main switch Q14, the primary coil ILP11 direction of the current flowing through the transformer T2 Lp11 forward while primary side capacitor C12 is charged, but discharging the negative direction while the primary side capacitor C12 ILP11 direction of the current flowing through the primary winding of the transformer T2 Lp11.
在通过半桥变换器电路60的开关操作所产生的电压出现在变压器T2上的辅助线圈Lp12上时，辅助电源电路80将操作电压Vcc1提供给Vcc线的电平。 When the voltage generated by the switching operation of half-bridge converter circuit 60 appears in the transformer T2 secondary coil Lp12, the auxiliary power supply circuit 80 is supplied to the operating voltage Vcc1 level Vcc line. 然后，停止第一操作电压产生电路90。 Then, the operation stops a first voltage generating circuit 90.
在另一方面，在操作开关S12在所需的时间上充电到接通状态时，晶体管Tr12切断，因为它的基极电压降低了。 In the other hand, the charging operation switch S12 to the time required in the ON state, the transistor Tr12 off because its base voltage is reduced. 在晶体管Tr12切断时，晶体管Tr11也切断，因为它的基极电压也降低了。 When off the transistor Tr12, the transistor Tr11 is also off because its base voltage is also reduced.
由于这个原因，Vcc的电平降低，然后晶体管Tr13接通，因为在它的基极和发射极电极之间的电压超过它的阈值电压。 For this reason, the Vcc level decreases, and the transistor Tr13 is turned on, since the voltage between its base and emitter electrodes exceeds its threshold voltage. 然后，Vcc线的电平变成Vcc3，因此反向变换器控制电路71的操作终止。 Then, the level of the Vcc line becomes Vcc3 is, thus terminating the reverse operation of the converter control circuit 71. 即，主开关Q11和Q12都呈切断状态。 That is, the main switch Q11 and Q12 off state were tested. 在另一方面，因为将半桥变换器控制电路72的最小操作电压设定成低于Vcc3，因此主开关Q13和Q14继续开关操作。 On the other hand, since the half-bridge converter control circuit 72 is the minimum operating voltage Vcc3 is set lower than, the main switch Q13 and Q14 thus continue switching operation.
因此，整流开关Q15和Q16也以正常的开关频率继续开关操作，并且整流开关Q15和Q16都不会象常规的开关电源那样保持在接通状态。 Thus, the rectifier switch Q15 and Q16 are also normal switching frequency of the switching operation to continue, and the rectifier switch Q15 and Q16 are not held in the ON state as that of the conventional switching power supply.
如前文所述，根据本实施例的开关电源，在通过接通操作开关S12发送停止开关电源的操作的指令之后，主开关Q13和Q14仍然继续开关操作，因此存储在负载的电容部件CLoad和输出电容器Cout中的能量逐渐被负载的电阻部件RLoad、主开关Q13和Q14、整流开关Q15和Q16等消耗掉，因此降低了输出电压Vout。 As previously described, the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, after the operation switch S12 is turned on by the operation instruction to stop the transmission of the switching power supply, a main switch Q13 and Q14 continue a switching operation, and therefore the capacitance storage means and the output load CLoad energy in the capacitor Cout is gradually RLoad resistance of the load member, the main switch Q13 and Q14, Q15 and Q16 rectifier switch and the like is consumed, thereby reducing the output voltage Vout. 在这个期间，由于主开关Q13和Q14继续以正常的开关频率进行开关操作，因此输出电压Vout并不会象常规开关电源那样降低而且波动，但输出电压Vout基本线性地降低。 During this period, since the main switch Q13 and Q14 continue a switching operation to normal switching frequency, so that the output voltage Vout does not decrease but unlike the conventional switching power supply fluctuations, the output voltage Vout is reduced substantially linearly.
此外，在本实施例的开关电源中，即使在操作开关S12改变到接通状态时主开关Q13和Q14仍然继续开关操作。 Further, in the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, the main switch Q13 and Q14 continue a switching operation even when the operation switch S12 is changed to the ON state. 因此，与常规的开关电源不同的是，不会产生逆程电压，因此在开关电路中的内部电压Vp不会增加。 Thus, the conventional switching power supply is different, the flyback voltage is not generated, so the internal voltage Vp in the switching circuit does not increase. 在开关电路中的内部电压Vp如附图2所示那样线性地降低。 Internal voltage Vp in the switching circuit as shown in Figure 2 decreases linearly as. 在另一方面，在Vcc线电平降低了半桥变换器控制电路72的最小操作电压时，所有的开关操作都终止。 On the other hand, the line Vcc level is lowered when the minimum operating voltage of the half-bridge inverter control circuit 72, all the switching operation terminates. 在这时，因为已经消耗了存储在输出电容器Cout和负载的电容部件CLoad中的大部分能量，因此输出电压Vout不会象常规的开关电源那样在非常长的时间周期上波动。 At this time, since most of the energy has been consumed in the capacitive storage means output capacitor Cout and the load CLoad in, the output voltage Vout is not unlike conventional switching power supply fluctuation as a very long period of time.
此外，因为在操作开关S12改变接通状态之后主开关Q13和Q14的开关操作与在正常的操作过程中的开关操作相同，因此流经输出电抗器Lout的电流与正常操作的电流相同，并且没有异常电流流动。 Further, since after the operation state of the main switch S12 is turned on to change over switch Q13 and Q14, and the switching operation during normal operation of the same, so the reactor Lout through the output current of the same current normal operation, and no abnormal current flow.
这里N1表示变压器T2的初级线圈Lp11的匝数，N2表示变压器T2的次级线圈Ls11和Ls12的匝数。 Where N1 denotes the number of turns of the primary winding of transformer T2 Lp11, N2 represents the secondary winding of the transformer T2 and Ls12 Ls11 turns.
从公式(3)中可以看出，根据本实施例，因为将初级侧电容器C11和C12的电容加入到公式(1)中，所以LCR串联电路阻止了振荡。 From equation (3) it can be seen, according to the present embodiment, since the primary-side capacitor C12 and the capacitor C11 added to the formula (1), the series circuit of LCR oscillation is prevented. 因此，通过应用初级侧电容器C11和C12的电容但不使用任何附加的电容器Cex可以防止输出电压Vout的下冲。 Thus, by using the primary-side capacitor C11 and the capacitor C12 without using any additional capacitor Cex it is possible to prevent the overshoot of the output voltage Vout.
附图4所示为在附图1中的开关电源的操作的时序图，在该图中负载的电阻部件RLoad相当小。 Figure 4 shows a timing diagram illustrating operation of the switching power supply 1 in the accompanying drawings, in which FIG load RLoad relatively small resistive component.
如附图4所示，在初级侧电容器C11和C12的电容即使不满足公式(3)的情况下，即使在负载的电抗部件LLoad上的电压VLLoad上升，因为LCR串联电路不满足振荡条件，因此输出电压Vout也不会变为负。 As shown in the drawings, the primary-side capacitor C12 and the capacitor C11 is not satisfied even when the equation (3), the voltage on the even VLLoad reactance means LLoad load 4 is increased, since a series circuit of LCR oscillation condition is not satisfied, and therefore The output voltage Vout does not become negative. 即，可以防止输出电压Vout的下冲。 That is, it is possible to prevent undershoot of the output voltage Vout.
如上文所解释，根据本实施例的开关电源，因为通过接通操作开关S12终止开关电源的操作而不产生在常规的开关电源中出现的各种问题，因此可以通过在接通状态下的操作开关S11启动和终止本实施例的开关电源的操作。 As explained above, the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, since without causing various problems in the conventional switching power supply by turning on the operation switch S12 terminates the operation of the power switch, can be operated in the on state by and termination of this embodiment of the switching power supply to start operating switch S11. 因此，本实施例的开关电源特别适合于操作开关S11设置在开关电源之外的情况。 Thus, the switching power supply according to the present embodiment is particularly suitable where the operation switch S11 is provided outside the switching power supply.
此外，在本实施例的开关电源中，因为在正常操作的过程中停止了第一操作电压产生电路90，同时通过辅助电源电路80给Vcc线提供操作电压，因此在正常操作的过程中在第一操作电压产生电路90中不会产生电损失。 Further, in the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, since the operation is stopped during normal operation of the first voltage generating circuit 90, while 80 provides the operating voltage Vcc through the auxiliary power supply circuit to the line, and therefore during normal operation of the an operating voltage generating circuit 90 does not generate electrical losses.
此外，因为本实施例的开关电源通过两个串连变换器电路、反向变换器电路50和半桥变换器电路60执行输入电压Vin的压降，因此可以降低在每个变换器电路中产生的电损失，因此可以总体地提高转换效率。 Further, since the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, by two series-connected inverter circuit, the inverter circuit 50 and the reverse drop of half-bridge inverter circuit 60 performs the input voltage Vin, it can be reduced in each converter circuit generated loss of electricity, thus improving the overall conversion efficiency.
虽然附图2和4所示为通过接通操作开关S12终止本实施例的开关电源的操作的情况，但是通过切断操作开关S11也可以终止它。 Although the drawings of the present case is terminated by turning the operation switch S12 embodiment of the switching power supply shown in Figure 2 and 4 operation, but by the cutting operation of the switch S11 may be terminated. 还是在这种情况下，与接通操作开关S12的情况类似，可以终止开关电源的操作而不产生在常规的开关电源中出现的各种问题。 Also in this case, in the case of turning on the operation switch S12 is similar to operation of the switching power supply may be terminated without generating problems occurring in the conventional switching power supply.
在本实施例的开关电源中，虽然包括在第二操作电压产生电路100中的晶体管Tr13的集电极电极和晶体管Tr14的漏极电极都连接到内部线45，但是它们也可以连接到包括在辅助电源电路80中的二极管桥路B的高压侧输出节点，如附图5所示。 In the switching power supply according to the present embodiment, the drain electrode and the collector electrode of the transistor while the transistor Tr13 100 includes a generating circuit in the second operation voltage Tr14 are connected to inner wire 45, but they may also be connected to the auxiliary comprises voltage output node of the power supply circuit 80 B of the diode bridge, as illustrated in FIG. 在附图5中所示的开关电源可以执行与在附图1中的开关电源的操作几乎相同的操作。 In the switching power supply shown in FIG. 5 may be performed with the operation of the switching power supply 1 in the drawings is substantially the same operation.
接着，解释本发明的另一优选的实施例。 Next, to explain another preferred embodiment of the present invention.
附图6所示为本发明的另一优选实施例的开关电源的电路图。 A circuit diagram of a switching power supply according to another preferred embodiment of the present invention are shown in FIG. 6.
如在附图6中所示，除了增加附加的电路140以外，本实施例的开关电源具有与在附图1中所示的开关电源相同的结构。 As shown in Figure 6, except the added additional circuitry 140, the switching power supply according to the present embodiment has the switching power supply 1 shown in the figures in the same structure.
附加电路140由串联连接在内部线45和46之间的附加电容器Ca和附加电阻器Ra构成，它用于防止LCR串联电路振荡。 Additional additional capacitor 140 is connected between the internal circuit lines 45 and 46 by an additional series resistor Ra and Ca configuration, a series circuit of LCR for preventing the oscillation. 在本实施例中，在满足公式(4)时，LCR串联电路振荡，由此产生下冲。 In the present embodiment, at the time of satisfying the formula (4), LCR series circuit of the oscillation, thereby generating undershoot. RLoad2<4·LLoadCout+(N1N2)2·(cl1+cl2)+(2·N1N2)2·Ca...(4)]]>从公式(4)中可以看出，根据本实施例，LCR串联电路仍然非常强地抑制了振荡，因为附加电容器Ca的电容加入到公式(3)中。 RLoad2 & lt; 4 & CenterDot; LLoadCout + (N1N2) 2 & CenterDot; (cl1 + cl2) + (2 & CenterDot; N1N2) 2 & CenterDot; Ca ... (4)]]> As it can be seen from equation (4), according to the present embodiment, LCR series circuit is still very strongly suppressed oscillation, because the additional capacitance of the capacitor Ca is added to the formula (3). 因此，本实施例的开关电源适合于在仅仅通过利用初级侧电容器C11和C12的电容不能防止输出电压Vout的下冲的地方，即在满足公式(3)时。 Thus, the switching power supply according to the present embodiment is adapted to place the output voltage Vout can not be prevented simply by using the primary-side capacitor C12 and the capacitor C11 of the punch, i.e. when satisfying the formula (3). 因为附加电容器Ca和附加电阻器Ra构成了时间恒定电路，在正常操作的过程中附加电路140并不影响开关电源的操作。 Because the additional capacitor Ca and resistor Ra constitute additional time constant circuit, during normal operation of the addition circuit 140 does not affect the operation of the switching power supply.
附加电路140可以加入到在附图5中所示的开关电源中。 Additional circuitry may be added to the switching power supply 140 in FIG. 5 of the drawings.
因此参考具体的实施例已经示出并描述了本发明。 Thus with reference to specific embodiments have been illustrated and described in the present invention. 然而，应该注意的是本发明并不限于所描述的详细结构，在不脱离所附加的权利要求的范围的前提下可以作出变型。 However, it should be noted that the present invention is not limited to the structure described in detail, modifications may be made without departing from the appended claims range.
例如，在上述的实施例中，通过给齐纳二极管Z12设置低于齐纳二极管Z11的齐纳电压VZ11的齐纳电压VZ12可以实现所需的操作。 For example, in the above embodiment, the desired operation can be achieved by a zener diode Z12 is set lower than the zener diode Z11 Zener voltage of the Zener voltage VZ11 VZ12. 然而，可以允许齐纳二极管Z11的齐纳电压VZ11和齐纳二极管Z12的齐纳电压VZ12具有相同的值或者齐纳二极管Z11的齐纳电压VZ11低于齐纳二极管Z12的齐纳电压VZ12，只要在操作开关S11处于接通状态同时操作开关S12处于切断状态时，晶体管Tr12的基极电压高于晶体管Tr13的基极电压。 However, a zener diode may be allowed Z11 VZ11 and the Zener voltage of the Zener voltage of the Zener diode Z12 has a zener voltage of VZ12 VZ11 same value or the zener diode is lower than the zener diode Z11 Z12 Zener voltage VZ12, as long as in operation switch S11 is in the oN state while the operation switch S12 is in the off state, the base voltage of transistor Tr12 is higher than the base voltage of transistor Tr13.
此外，在上述的实施例中，通过将反向变换器控制电路71的最小操作电压设置成高于半桥变换器控制电路72的最小操作电压可以实现所需的操作。 Further, in the above embodiment, the minimum operating voltage by the buck converter control circuit 71 is set higher than the half-bridge converter control circuit 72 a minimum operating voltage required for the operation can be realized. 然而，可以允许这些最小操作电压具有相同的值或者反向变换器控制电路71的最小操作电压低于半桥变换器控制电路72的最小操作电压，只要在例如通过在反向变换器控制电路71的Vcc输入端和Vcc线之间增加一个或串联的多个二极管启动第二操作电压产生电路100时，在半桥变换器控制电路72保持在有效状态的同时，停止反向变换器控制电路71。 However, these minimum operating voltage may be allowed to have a minimum operating voltage of the same value or buck converter control circuit 71 is below the minimum operating voltage of the half-bridge inverter control circuit 72, as long as for example by a reverse converter control circuit 71 or an increase in series between the Vcc input terminal and the Vcc line a second plurality of diodes operation starting voltage generating circuit 100, the half bridge converter control circuit 72 while remaining in an active state, the control circuit 71 stops inverters .
此外，在上述的实施例中，变压器T2的初级侧电路由串联连接的反向变换器电路50和半桥变换器电路60构成；然而，变压器T2的初级侧电路并不限于这种结构，也可以串联使用其它的变换器电路作为变压器T2的初级侧电路。 Further, in the above embodiment, the buck converter circuit at the primary side circuit of the transformer T2 is connected in series by a half-bridge inverter circuit 50 and 60 constitute; however, the primary side circuit of the transformer T2 is not limited to such a configuration, It may be used in series as other inverter circuit of the primary side circuit of the transformer T2. 例如，可以使用升压变换器电路等类似的电路替代反向变换器电路50，以及使用正向变换器电路、全桥变换器电路、推挽变换器电路等替代半桥变换器电路60。 For example, a boost converter circuit similar circuits and other alternative buck converter circuit 50, and the use of a forward converter circuit, instead of the half-bridge inverter circuit 60 full-bridge inverter circuit, a push-pull converter circuit.
此外，在上述的实施例中，整流器110是自驱动型的。 Further, in the above embodiment, the rectifier 110 is a self-driven. 然而，因为不管整流器是否是自驱动型的，在操作终止的过程中输出电压Vout下冲的问题都会出现，因此也可以使用通过驱动电路控制的同步型整流器或使用二极管的普通型整流器替代自驱动型的整流器110。 However, since regardless of whether the rectifier is self-driven, the output during operation of terminating the backlash problem appears voltage Vout of, and therefore may be used by an ordinary rectifier synchronous rectifier or diode driving circuit for controlling an alternative self-driven type rectifier 110.
此外，在上述的实施例中，虽然反向变换器控制电路71和半桥变换器控制电路72都属于变压器T2的初级侧，但是它们也可以属于变压器T2的次级侧。 Further, in the above embodiment, although the inverter control circuit 71, and a reverse half-bridge inverter control circuit 72 belong to the primary side of the transformer T2, but they may also belong to the secondary side of the transformer T2.
如上文所述，根据本发明的开关电源，可以以如下的方式终止开关电源的操作：输出电压Vout基本线性地降低而不会有波动或下冲。 Operation As described above, the switching power supply according to the present invention, the switching power supply may be terminated in the following manner: the output voltage Vout decreases linearly substantially without undershoot or fluctuate. 因此可以有效地避免负载的故障。 It is possible to effectively prevent failures of the load. 此外，根据本发明的开关电源，在发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令时防止在初级侧上的开关电路中的内部电压Vp逐渐增加。 Further, the switching power supply in accordance with the present invention, a switching circuit to prevent internal voltage Vp on the primary side is gradually increased when transmitting the instruction to stop the operation of the switching power supply. 因此可以有效地保护在初级侧上使用的电部件不受损坏。 It can be effectively used to protect the electrical components from damage on the primary side. 此外，因为不需要使用耐高压的部件，因此降低了开关电源的成本。 Further, it is not necessary to use high voltage components, thus reducing the cost of the switching power supply. 此外，因为在发送指令时较大的电流不流经输出电抗器Lout，因此可以提高开关电源的可靠性。 Further, since the transmission instruction when a large current does not flow through the reactor Lout of the output, thus improving the reliability of the switching power supply.
因此，本发明的开关电源适合于作为给具有较大电容部件CLoad的负载提供电功率的开关电源。 Thus, the switching power supply of the present invention is adapted to provide electrical power to a load having a large capacitance of the switching power supply member CLoad. 此外，本发明的开关电源特别适合于作为给易于经常呈轻负载状态的负载提供电功率的开关电源。 Further, the switching power supply of the present invention is particularly suitable as a load having often easy to light load state of the switching power supply to provide electrical power. 此外，本发明的开关电源还适合于给要求较低的电压和较大的电流的负载(比如服务器计算机)提供电功率的开关电源。 Further, the switching power supply of the present invention is also suitable for less demanding voltage and large current load (such as a server computer) to provide electrical power to the switching power supply. 即，根据本发明，即使在较重的负载状态或较轻的负载状态下发送了停止开关电源的操作的指令，该开关电源也能够基本线性地降低它的输出电压。 That is, according to the present invention, the transmission power switching instruction operation is stopped even under heavy load state or a lighter load state, the switching power supply can be substantially linearly reduces its output voltage.
1.一种开关电源，包括：具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器；连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的开关电路；连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器；控制开关电路的控制电路；以及第一和第二操作电压产生电路，每个操作电压产生电路产生控制电路的操作电压；由第一操作电压产生电路所产生的第一操作电压和由第二操作电压产生电路所产生的第二操作电压彼此具有不同的值。 1. A switching power supply comprising: a transformer primary and secondary coils; a switching circuit connected between the input terminals of the transformer and a primary coil; rectifier connected to the secondary winding of the transformer; a control circuit for controlling the switch circuit ; and first and second operating voltage generating circuit, each of the operating voltage generation circuit generates operating voltage of the control circuit; a first operating voltage generating circuit by the first operating voltage and the generated voltage generated by the second operation circuit generated second operating voltages having different values from each other.
2.如权利要求1所述的开关电源，其中第一操作电压产生电路包括确定第一操作电压的值的第一齐纳二极管，第二操作电压产生电路包括确定第二操作电压的值的第二齐纳二极管，第一齐纳二极管的齐纳电压和第二齐纳二极管的齐纳电压彼此具有不同的值。 2. The switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein the first operating voltage generation circuit includes a first operation of determining a value of the voltage of the first Zener diode, a second operation of the voltage generating circuit comprises determining a second value of the operating voltage two Zener diodes, the Zener voltage of the zener voltage of first zener diode and a second Zener diode having mutually different values.
3.如权利要求2所述的开关电源，其中第一操作电压产生电路进一步包括与第一齐纳二极管并联的操作开关。 The switching power supply according to claim 2, wherein the first operating voltage generating circuit further includes an operation switch of the first zener diode connected in parallel.
4.如权利要求1所述的开关电源，其中开关电路包括在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间串联的第一和第二变换器。 4. The switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein the switching circuit includes a first inverter and a second input terminal of the transformer between the primary winding and in series.
5.如权利要求2所述的开关电源，其中开关电路包括在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间串联的第一和第二变换器。 The switching power supply according to claim 2, wherein the switching circuit includes a first inverter and a second input terminal of the transformer between the primary winding and in series.
6.如权利要求5所述的开关电源，其中控制电路包括控制第一变换器的第一变换器控制电路和控制第二变换器的第二变换器控制电路，第一操作电压产生电路给第一和第二变换器控制电路所公用的电源线提供第一操作电压，而第二操作电压产生电路给该电源线提供第二操作电压。 6. The switching power supply according to claim 5, wherein the control circuit comprises a second inverter controlling the first converter and a first inverter control circuit controlling the second inverter control circuit, the first operation to the first voltage generating circuit a converter control circuit and a second power supply line common to provide a first operating voltage, and the second operating voltage generating circuit providing a second power supply line to the operating voltage.
7.如权利要求6所述的开关电源，其中在第一操作电压产生电路处于有效状态时启动第一和第二第二变换器控制电路，在第二操作电压产生电路处于有效状态时停止第一和第二第二变换器控制电路。 7. The switching power supply according to claim 6, wherein the operating voltage is generated in the first and second start of the first second inverter control circuit for generating a voltage in the second operation is stopped in the active state of the circuit when the circuit is in the active state a second inverter and a second control circuit.
8.如权利要求6所述的开关电源，其中第一变换器控制电路的最小操作电压和第二变换器控制电路的最小操作电压彼此具有不同的值。 8. The switching power supply according to claim 6, wherein different values of the minimum operating voltage of the first inverter and a second inverter circuit controlling the minimum operating voltage of the control circuit to each other.
9.如权利要求6所述的开关电源，其中进一步包括使用在变压器的初级侧上的辅助线圈上出现的电压，将第三操作电压提供给电源线的辅助电源电路。 The switching power supply as claimed in claim 6, further comprising the use of a voltage appearing on the primary side of the transformer secondary winding, the third operating voltage supplied to the auxiliary power supply circuit of the power supply line.
10.如权利要求9所述的开关电源，其中第三操作电压高于第一和第二操作电压。 10. The switching power supply according to claim 9, wherein the third voltage is higher than the operating voltage of the first and second operations.
11.如权利要求4所述的开关电源，其中第一变换器是从反向变换器和升压变换器中选择的，并且第一变换器是从半桥变换器、正向变换器、全桥变换器和推挽变换器中选择的。 11. The switching power supply according to claim 4, wherein the first converter is selected from the boost converter and buck converter, and the converter from the first half-bridge converter, a forward converter, a full converter and the selected bridge push-pull converter.
12.如权利要求1所述的开关电源，其中整流器是自驱动型的。 12. The switching power supply according to claim 1, wherein the rectifier is self-driven.
13.一种开关电源，包括：具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器；连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的开关电路；连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器；位于整流器的随后级上并包括输出电容器的滤波电路；控制开关电路的控制电路；以及响应指令以停止开关操作，至少使用存储在输出电容器中的能量给控制电路提供操作电压的装置。 13. A switching power supply comprising: a transformer having a primary coil and a secondary coil; a switching circuit connected between the input terminals of the transformer and a primary coil; rectifier connected to the secondary winding of the transformer; rectifier located on the subsequent stage and an output filter circuit comprises a capacitor; a control circuit for controlling the switching circuit; and in response to an instruction to stop the switching operation, at least the energy stored in the output capacitor means to the operating voltage control circuit provides.
14.如权利要求13所述的开关电源，其中在正常操作的过程中从该装置中提供的操作电压低于提供给控制电路的操作电压。 14. The switching power supply according to claim 13, wherein the operating voltage supplied from the device during normal operation lower than the operating voltage supplied to the control circuit.
15.如权利要求13所述的开关电源，其中整流器是自驱动型的。 15. The switching power supply according to claim 13, wherein the rectifier is self-driven.
16.如权利要求14所述的开关电源，其中整流器是自驱动型的。 16. The switching power supply according to claim 14, wherein the rectifier is self-driven.
17.一种开关电源，包括：具有初级线圈和次级线圈的变压器；串联连接在变压器的输入端和初级线圈之间的第一和第二变换器；连接到变压器的次级线圈的整流器；控制第一和第二变换器的控制电路；以及响应指令以停止开关操作，从而以第一和第二变换器的顺序停止第一和第二变换器的操作的装置。 17. A switching power supply comprising: a transformer primary and secondary coils; connected in series between the first and second inverter input terminals of the transformer and a primary coil; rectifier connected to the secondary winding of the transformer; a first control circuit and a second inverter; and in response to an instruction to stop the switching operation, so that the order of the first and second transducer means stopping the operation of the first and second transducer.
18.如权利要求14所述的开关电源，其中，在发送指令时的时刻到停止第二变换器的操作的时刻的期间中，该停止装置应用从变压器的次级侧提供的能量使第二变换器的操作继续。 18. The energy during the time of the switching power supply of claim 14, wherein, at the time when the transmission instruction to stop the operation of the second converter in the application to provide stop means from the secondary side of the transformer of the second continued operation of the converter.
19.如权利要求17所述的开关电源，其中整流器是自驱动型的。 19. The switching power supply according to claim 17, wherein the rectifier is self-driven.
20.如权利要求18所述的开关电源，其中整流器是自驱动型的。 20. The switching power supply according to claim 18, wherein the rectifier is self-driven.
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In fact, nearly all schools look much the same today as they did fifty years ago. Even after waves of reform, including class-size reductions, new curricula, the introduction of forms of school choice, and the implementation of standards and accountability mechanisms through No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the basic structure of education is unchanged. Despite huge advances in computing and communications in other sectors, the core technology of education has remained virtually intact: schools are dominated by a cadre of teachers who guide a group of same-aged children through curricula delivered in nine-month segments. Schools are highly labor intensive and getting more so, due to pressures for class size reduction and increasing use of specialist teachers. Yet on average schools are producing at best only slightly better results than at earlier times; thus, given increased costs, they are literally becoming less productive.
Is this inevitable? Some claim so, due to Baumol’s disease: the tendency of labor-intensive organizations to become more expensive over time but not any more productive. In the 1960s, economist William Baumol observed that productivity (defined as the quantity of product per dollar expended) in the labor-intensive services sector lags behind manufacturing. Because labor-intensive services must compete with other parts of the economy for workers, yet cannot cut staffing without reducing output, costs rise constantly. This phenomenon, of rising costs without commensurate increases in output, has been labeled Baumol’s cost disease.
Baumol’s prime exemplar was the string quartet, which produces the same music from the time it is first assembled until the players all retire, yet experiences higher costs as the players receive salary increases to keep up with the wages earned by others. There are compelling indicators that K–12 education suffers from the same disease. The combination of rising costs and stagnant productivity are major problems in an environment where many children are not learning the skills they need and education is now not likely to receive sustained increases in public funding.
During this period, we saw only very small academic gains for students. The above chart is the NAEP long term mathematics trend data. Notice especially that 17 year olds show a two point gain on a 500 scale point test since 1973 despite the vast increase in spending and staffing.
Hill and Rosa have ideas about how to combat Baumol’s disease in public education, and it is well worth your time to read. I have some ideas of my own, but I’ve likely already exceeded your wonk-tolerance threshold for a single blog post, so tune in next episode for a discussion of solutions.
Dr. Matthew Ladner is the Senior Advisor of Policy and Research for the Foundation for Excellence in Education. He previously served as Vice President of Research at Goldwater Institute. Prior to joining Goldwater, Ladner was director of state projects at the Alliance for School Choice. Ladner has written numerous studies on school choice, charter schools and special education reform and coauthored Report Card on American Education: Ranking State K-12 Performance, Progress and Reform for the American Legislative Exchange Council.
I had never heard of Baumol’s disease – it’s very helpful. Thanks for writing this post and for the link to the Hill and Rosa study.
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Continuing in the series on “what I’m doing on sabbatical other than work” (parts 1 and 2 here), in today’s post I’ll talk about the athletic stuff I’ve been up to this year.
Physical activity has always been vitally important to my well being. As I’ve discussed on the blog before, it’s a really important strategy for helping me manage my depression and anxiety. It also helps me focus and, many days, is the only time all day I can count on having all to myself. What’s different about physical activity during sabbatical is that I have more flexible time to devote to the activities I love, which allows me to explore them in ways I can’t often do.
I’ll focus on three activities here — two which I do already, and one which I started this year.
Flat Amy the night before the 2016 Twin Cities Marathon.
Long time readers of this blog know that I love to run, especially long distances. I ran my first marathon in 2014 and immediately upon finishing said “I can’t wait to do this again!” I ran marathon #2 last October, which meant that I trained through the summer and the first few weeks of fall, when my schedule was light. While I found the training in 2014 to be manageable enough even with my summer schedule and fall teaching, it was really nice to have a pretty free schedule for this round of training, so that I could, say, do my long runs on weekday mornings and not have to spend a few hours away from my family on a Saturday or Sunday.
I’m currently training for marathon #3, which I’ll run in June. Again, it’s nice to have the freedom to do my long runs during the week, so that I can spend time with the family on the weekends. Training through the winter has been challenging — black ice! strong winds! cold temps! — but thanks to the relative lack of snow, I’ve managed to do most of my training outside and avoided the dreaded treadmill.
One of my favorite nearby trails.
One aspect of running that I’ve really indulged in, taking advantage of my flexible time, is trail running. I am lucky in that I have a number of great trails minutes from my house. Trail running in the fall is one of my absolute favorite things, and I made sure to do quite a bit of it this past fall (after the marathon, of course!).
My occasional running buddy. I introduced her to trail running this year.
My kiddos are starting to catch the running bug, too. My daughter and I have run two 5Ks together, and she’s on my case to run another one together this spring. (She’s between sports right now — basketball just ended and swimming doesn’t start up until April — and wants to run more with me in the interim.) My son asked us to sign him up for track this year, which shocked us since he usually fights us on any attempt at organized sports. It will be fun to see how this goes.
My philosophy about winter is, if you’re going to live in a cold climate, get out there and enjoy it! (And bundle up!) So after living here for about 6 years, I learned to cross-country ski. I started off with classic but eventually switched to skate. Which is hard and frustrating but fun and beautiful all at the same time.
Sometimes I convince my better half to play hooky with me.
Unfortunately, we’ve had a string of mild winters so there hasn’t been much snow worth skiing lately. Luckily one of the parks nearby makes their own snow, so this year my better half and I sprung for the “all parks” pass so that we could ski whenever we wanted. (I still didn’t get out as much as I’d hoped, but at least I got out there a few times.) One of these days I’ll get the hang of it enough so that I won’t feel like Drunk Frankenstein while skiing. Maybe.
We signed our son up for taekwondo this fall. He’s not into playing team sports, but we wanted something that would give him some exercise and also help with his focus and self-control. I ended up taking him to class most of the time, and sitting there watching him. It looked like fun. In December, his studio let parents practice for free. (Genius, right?) So I thought, why not? I could sit here and watch, or participate. So I participated.
Taking part in these activities — particularly the outdoor ones — reminds me of the importance of “getting outside to play”, as I call it. While I’ve always found ways to fit physical activity into my busy schedule (pre-dawn runs, anyone?), it’s been a real treat having the choice to, say, run at mid-morning when the sun is up and it’s a bit warmer, or ski in the afternoon before picking up the kids, or explore new-to-me trails. I’m encouraged to find ways to continue to incorporate these activities into my life after I return from sabbatical next year.
*For most of the time I’ve been practicing, I’ve been the only mom in my class. But recently, two other moms have started coming to classes. I don’t know if seeing me practice influenced their decisions at all, but it’s nice to have more adult women in the class.
I have always loved to read, and when I have the opportunity, I’m a voracious reader. I read every night before bed, although many nights in the past few years I’ve only been able to read for 5-10 minutes before nodding off. One of my non-work sabbatical goals was to read more, particularly to whittle down the piles (virtual and physical) of books I’ve accumulated. Of course complicating matters is that I continue to acquire books, which means the pile never really shrinks. But this is a good problem to have.
Part of the ever-growing pile of books.
Over the past few years I’ve mostly read on my Kindle, but this year I find myself reading more physical books. My daughter’s swim practices are just down the street from the local public library, so sometimes my son and I head there while my daughter swims. I can never, ever leave empty-handed, even if I already have a too-large pile of books at home. Again, this is a good problem to have.
I don’t want to include an exhaustive list of what I’ve read, mainly because I can’t remember a lot of what I’ve read for fun off-hand, but I’ll highlight some of the more interesting things I’ve read this year, so far, and some of the things that are still in my pile.
My reading in this category has been dominated by catching up on my backlog of technical papers and skimming back issues of CACM and IX. I’m 2 issues away from being caught up with IX, considerably further behind with CACM.
I’ve also done a bunch of reading about conducting interview- and survey-based research. I’m currently working my way through Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences, by Kristin Luker, which was recommended to me by a fellow POSSE participant. I’ve read through Learning from Strangers, by Robert S. Weiss, and A Practical Introduction to In-Depth Interviewing, by Alan Morris, twice now and have found them tremendously useful.
Next on my list: The Internet of Women: Accelerating Culture Change by Nada Anid, Laruie Cantileno, Monique J. Morrow, and Rahilia Zafar; and Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet, by Andrew Blum.
I’m fascinated by the science of learning and using science to hone what I do in the classroom to help my students learn more effectively. I really enjoyed Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown. I do daily quizzes/reading questions in my courses, but this book has given me a lot to think about in terms of perfecting what questions I ask students and how I ask these questions. It’s also helped me think about how I can help my students study more effectively. I’m currently reading Small Teaching, by James M. Lang, which along with science/theory of learning provides practical strategies for professors to implement in their classrooms. Lots of great ideas so far, and I’m only a few chapters in!
I also read and enjoyed The Discussion Book: 50 Great Ways to Get People Talking, by Stephen D. Brookfield and Stephen Preskill. Each chapter describes a different technique for fostering engagement. Not all of them are applicable to my situation, of course, but again, I gleaned lots of great ideas from this book.
I was eager to read Slow Professor: Challenging the Culture of Speed in the Academy, by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber, because of all the buzz. But frankly, I found this book disappointing and depressing. And a bit obvious. Yeah, it would be really nice to have more time to think! My sabbatical proves that slowing down and reflecting leads to more creative, fulfilling work. But I didn’t think the “advice” was very practical. You know what would help? More recognition by our institutions that the level of work we are doing, particularly the hidden, unrecognized work like mentoring and service, is staggering and unsustainable. And then actually having our institutions put in the work of lightening our loads. I’m not going to hold my breath on this one, though.
More generally, I’ve been working my way through Gretchen Rubin’s books. I read The Happiness Project last year, just finished Happier at Home, and am now reading Better Than Before. I appreciate Rubin’s books because she is honest about what works and doesn’t work for her (and about the ways she may annoy those around her while on her happiness crusades).
I read Chris Bailey’s blog A Life of Productivity fairly regularly, so this year I read The Productivity Project, the book about his year researching and implementing different productivity techniques. Like Rubin, I appreciate Bailey’s honesty about what worked for him and what didn’t, and his critical look at conventional productivity wisdom (not to mention his willingness to try some really bizarro things for the project, like living in isolation for something like a week).
I like reading historical/adventure books, and I just finished reading The Tunnels: Escape Under the Berlin Wall and the Historic Films the JFK White House Tried to Kill, by Greg Mitchell. It was interesting to read this book at this time in our own history, with attempted muzzling of the press and talk of building a wall; as well as to hear the stories of those who risked their lives to help their fellow citizens to freedom.
What have you been reading lately that you’d recommend? Have you read any of the books here?
Wearing heels. I don’t care if it’s the most comfortable pair of heels I own, or if I can normally spend hours and hours on my feet in them. After a summer of wearing nothing but sandals and flip-flops, any “real” shoes mean P A I N . And with opening convocation later and the reception afterwards…well, there’s a lot of standing around. Ouchie.
Packing too little food. I don’t know what it is about getting back into teaching, but those first couple of weeks I am constantly ravenous. Today I ate my lunch at 10:30am and was starving by noon. I am on my second post-lunch snack now.
Planning 70 minutes of material for a 50 minute class. 50 minutes goes by so fast. I always overplan.
Planning on doing substantive work on my own the first day. Teaching is exhausting. The first day back, I am brain dead when I’m not in front of the class. I actually have “do paper revisions” on my to-do list today. Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Forgetting how much I’ve missed teaching over the summer. I enjoy the time away from the classroom during the summer, the less-structured time to think and plan. But…when I get back in front of the students the first day, the adrenaline and excitement kick in and I remember all the reasons I love this job so much.
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The thesis defense is the review where we either get a green-light to go into production mode or you are asked to present your work again in one week to the thesis instructors. Obviously, for that reason, it is the most stressful review. I found out the other day that I passed!! 🙂 Now, I am going into production mode for the next 4 weeks until our public review. Here are the boards that I presented last Wednesday.
The project started off by defining these nebulous geographies, looking specifically at oceanic current movements, wind patterns, international shipping routes, changing political borders, and the existing monitoring systems in the Pacific Ocean. Sited in the Pacific Ocean, the system of scientific buoy’s are at the heart of the monitoring that is taking place. This project hijacks this system, which provides us information about this nebulous data set regarding this constantly moving and evolving environment. This sets up the buoy system as the only way we have to monitor and the reason for the hijacking of the buoy.
The thesis proposes a new Pacific archipelago, a re-rigging of the Pacific Ocean through a urban network of transient data buoy stations that evolves through a series of phasing, that talks about the structural phasing and growth of these buoys as they evolve and are embedded with new and changing narratives. The proposal becomes more a system of phasing; each of these phases has certain conditions it is responding to programmatically, represented through a notation system. All the phases are coded to traits inherent in each phase. Starting at phase 1, the existing NOAA buoy (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), currently conducting oceanic, and geophysical observation, it is testing the water temp, wave height, global positioning, wind speed and direction, air temp + humidity. Through this 11 step phasing, each of the buoy are growing and adopting these other narratives and programmatic pieces. For example phase 2 becomes a nature conservatory, still embedded with the science monitoring component but now the structure provides shelter and substrate for various marine life, fostering new ecologies for migrate seabird colonies or sea-lion populations. Phase 11, becomes the most extreme phase, which would be a sovereign nation embedded with an offshore tax haven, its own bank and currency system, apartments, hotels, this very obscene stage. There are some things that remain in each of the phases- the tidal harvesting and more infrastructural aspect would remain as it develops more in these further phases.
It is an aesthetic question that tells me who is in control, if it is the casino owner, it is going to be super slick, if it is mad max (dystopian action film) style or an appropriation by pirates then it would have a different feel or appropriation. Right now I have just tested out one of these phases, the nature conservatory, might be very different in terms of surface, surface for birds to occupy, some of the seabird need a cliff environment, some need sand bars to generate food, their natural habitat then informs the form.
Currently I am taking phase 10 the casino, night club, and offshore banking phase and testing it out architecturally. It is hijacking the buoy but also looking at other ways of occupying the ocean, the are various forms of islands, artificial islands, represented as tax heaven, islands that are sovereign nation, that they are somewhere and nowhere at the same time. The edge becomes all about hosting this of the water productive port- active- much more machine-like aspect, not just about casino but other infrastructure is overlaid within the system.
At the large scale these phases would start to cluster – although my site is the Pacific, there are certain areas where different phases would exist and build up an intensity. For example the currents are invisible to use, but has a physically manifestation of where these phases start to be located – they may be located in proximity to tidal flow, or urban areas for instance. These stations take on a life of there own; following currents, interaction with other stations of various phases, and sharing each other ecosystems. Each of the phases begin to take on certain characteristics, such as certain seabird migrate in the northern pacific, and along the coast, while the cruise line have distinct paths cutting through the pacific that the cruise terminals would be located along. You then begin to have a nature conservatory and a casino overlapping- similar to sustainable tourism today, that they become overlapping ecosystems – some human habitats, others more infrastructural – and productive systems such as energy harvesting, while others are marine life habitats.
The overhead view (upper left) is what one may see from an airplane from Hong Kong to SF, like one see the lights from a city these are the new lights of the Pacific, unlike the ordered grid one may be used to viewing, this represents the new constellations that are formed in the Pacific. This corresponds to the nowhere territory, allusive and transparent but of a specific location, that belongs to this other territory.
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Life is what you make it of it and what you say of it.
I could put cheese on rice and enjoy it with immense pleasure or have a chilled Coke with breakfast and dwell on luxuries of life.
Iv already made it very evident how fond I am of the extreme colours. Ask anyone who knows me (which aren’t very many people) what the colour black means to.
It’s not about how many clothes I own with this or if I paint my nails this colour. I do experiment with colours quite often.
But it’s about what this colour makes me feel – excited and calm, happy and neutral, bold and invisible, beautiful and like I want to run away from the world – it compliments my every mood – it makes me feel perfect!
The first fruit that came into my mind was orange – very citrus indeed. Lemons and lime were my second choice. I dint even think to go more creative on this one.
Anyways – although I’m not such a fruit-y person, I’m all for their juices and lemonade being one my top contenders!
I felt for someone like me it was more apt to capture that than anything else.
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I mean, the Chief of Staff is a known super criminal who’s been arrested for murder, kidnapping, and probably terrorism at least three times in the last year alone. They usually only have one competent doctor at a time in any specialty. And apparently, nurses can just decide to spend days camping out in the room of a single patient if they feel like it.
But then I remember that they also have doctors capable of performing brain surgery through a person’s neck. And their success rate at healing mysterious contagions, amnesia, and tumors that make you see dead people is pretty impressive.
All boring characters go to heaven.
Finally, an entire episode without Sonny, Carly, or Franco! I’m celebrating with a recap.
We open on Nikolas dropping Spencer off at camp. Spencer’s bummed about Alice, who was teaching him a sleeper hold, so Nik promises he’ll take him to see her if he’s good for the substitute counselor. Does this camp seriously only have one employee? Way to cheap out, Quartermaines. The rest of Lila’s understaffed kids are currently mobbing said new counselor, who is… Britt! Looking fabulous with a haircut and a purple t-shirt, I might add.
Morgan — filling this episode’s shirtless man quota — sits at the Brownstone, paging sadly through pictures of him and the Dominator arm wrestling. Okay, I’ll admit: that’s funny. Kiki comes down in her tiny sleep shorts and tries to comfort him.
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As many of you may know, I'm leaving to go to Spain for a week, started on the 4th of July till the 11th.
During this time, The Digiex Servers will be unmaintained. Although I have full faith in Windows Server System which powers the servers, I dont have faith in all the other things that help keep the servers going: Internet Connection, Router, Power, Cabling etc. If one of them was to fail, I wouldnt be able to do much from all the way in Spain.
It's for this reason, the address jazz.nimrod-online.com will be pointing to jazz.madskills.org for the week in question. This means if an error happened on the Digiex Servers, people could still play Jazz 2 Online without any patching.
If for some reason you need to access the Digiex List Server, you can do so at the address jazz.digiex.net. Although no assistance will be available during this time. The Digiex Server will be linked to the madskills.org server so games will appear on both lists.
See you all in a week. Oh, and if you need to contact me, my email is: snookie*SPAM*boy@g*SPAM*mail.com (yes, remove both *SPAM* ) I will be checking my mail every couple of days when abroad.
I have returned and all is back to normal, the domain jazz.nimrod-online.com is now pointing to me.
It was also good to know that jazz.digiex.net didnt go down once while I was away.
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“Y’know, it’s not too late to back out now.” Malefica offers me again for the nth time, even as we are already standing face-to-face.
“If this is the only way to save the Doc, I have to do it.” I tell her as I watch her henchmen surround us, prepared to watch. Little Miggy was also brought outside by one of the henchmen to watch the duel. The large ghoul comes out as well as Kumar, who seems eager to see me lose. He heckles me, but I ignore him.
“Oh well, don’t say I didn’t warn you, kid. You won’t like what you see.” Malefica chuckles and orders one of her henchmen to play her battle theme.
“Just no high-tiered vampiric powers or magic.” I remind her. The only exception is switching to our dark form.
“Right, right. Whenever you’re ready, just switch to your dark form. That will signal the beginning of our bout.” Malefica grins, indicating that she thinks that this will be an easy win for her.
But there’s no way I’ll let her beat me.
I concentrate and tap the inner vampiric energy inside me to gain dark energy. As soon as I feel the dark mist appear, my form alters a bit, gaining more visible veins on my cheeks and slightly pointier ears. The Doc told me that a vampire’s dark form is what they truly are, and it changes depending on their level of power. He’s also one of the few vampires to have seen the Grand Master’s true dark form in person.
Wait a tick, if the Doc’s a really powerful vampire, how come his dark form is not that different from his usual self?
Perhaps he’s hiding his real power.
After shifting to my dark form, I switch to a battle stance, bracing for whatever Malefica will become.
Dark mist envelops Malefica for a moment and out comes a more refined-looking version of her, like the classic vampire countess that you’d see in movies.
As she finishes her transformation, I could already tell that she’s quite powerful. Probably as powerful as the Doc or even more.
“Prepare yourself, fledgling. You now face the 4th Archon of House Malefica, Margaret Theodora Malefica!” Malefica speaks as her necklace gives off an eerie glow.
There’s something in her voice that changed, as if she now sounds like a real countess, not like her childish and energetic tone earlier. But before I could even admire her dark form, she lunges at me at full speed with sharp fingernails out.
I attempt to parry her attack by pushing her extended lunging arm out of the way, but it is actually a feint as her other hand slashes at my mid-section, and I back away from her with one of my hands on my abdomen. The attack scratches me but my natural vampiric regeneration helps treat the scratch.
Then I try to flank her from the side and throw a punch, but she parries it without any trouble. I take a step back and perform a feint punch, but she reads that and performs a roundhouse kick which hits my right shoulder, throwing me off balance. I hit the ground hard, almost slamming into a tombstone.
I manage to get back up on my feet, but she grabs the collar of my shirt and throws me into the opposite direction. My back slams hard against a tree and my vision almost blacks out for a moment.
“Uncle Tony!” I hear Miggy call out as I lie face down on the ground, watching for Malefica’s next move.
“Go, Madame! SMASH HIS FRIGGING GLASSES!” Kumar cheers with passion as the other henchmen do the same.
Malefica then throws a straight punch aimed at me and I roll to the side in the nick of time. It creates a large thump as it destroys the base of the tree, felling it to one side and crushing a few tombstones. Her henchmen rush away from the impact as I keep myself focused on Malefica.
She then moves towards me as I prepare another battle stance, one that I learned from the Doc. It involves storing power and enduring incoming attacks to throw back at the enemy, but I haven’t quite mastered it yet. I perform the stance with legs apart, both fists at waist level, and concentrate.
Malefica throws another punch and I get ready to endure it, but it just knocks me back a few feet away and I lose my balance by tumbling over a park bench. Malefica then starts to laugh.
At that moment, I recover and make a run for it to tackle her headfirst, which catches her off-guard. While holding Malefica in my arms, I set a course towards the nearest tombstone and crash her into it.
I back away, and Malefica now looks mad, hissing at me. She then performs a leap in the air to make a downward slash, but I hide behind another ornate tombstone. The tombstone breaks into pieces, but Malefica now appears to be fixated at her hand.
Seeing an opening, I grab her by the waist to prevent her from using her next attack, but she overpowers me and pushes me away.
“Away, knave! A mere fledgling such as yourself has no right to touch me!” Malefica taunts in that almost-royal tone again. She then picks up a tombstone fragment next to her with one hand and throws it at me as if it were a baseball. That was half a tombstone, and I get nicked even if I dodge to the side.
However, Malefica doesn’t relent and performs a slash with her fingernails which creates cuts in my suit. At first, I thought that it was just a feint, but then I notice the little scratches that it created underneath my clothes. That was literally a wind slash.
She performs another wind slash as I take cover behind a tree, letting it absorb the slashing damage for me while I take a look on the other side. But Malefica was already there.
Malefica goes for a slash to the throat as I duck by bending backwards, feeling a slight touch of her fingernails against my neck. I see just how razor-sharp her fingernails are and try to think of what to do next. I raise one of my legs to perform a kick, like what I saw in a movie before. In order to gain some distance, I back away from Malefica and notice that she looks pissed. That kick didn’t sit too well with her.
Malefica screeches as she goes into a frenzy, slashing with her fingernails to perform more aerial slashes. Seeing no cover, I perform the endurance stance and brace all of her attacks. I now have multiple scratches all over my body while Malefica doesn’t seem to have taken any damage yet.
“Victory is mine.” Malefica declares as she punches me to the gut.
The punch forces me down to the ground and I look at Malefica’s cold eyes. So this is the power of an Archon.
Maybe I bit off more than I could chew. It was a gamble, and I tried. Preston and Park should be able to finish the job.
But before I could resign myself to my fate as a child, I notice a gem around her necklace giving off a faint glow.
Could that be the source of her power?
I could yank it off her and see where this fight goes.
If that gem is making her stronger, then she’s cheating.
I need to get that necklace or gem off her somehow. So I stay down on the ground pretending that I have been defeated. Malefica then leans close to taunt me.
Using this opportunity, I get up and grab Malefica by the waist, using my feet to launch us into the air.
Malefica attempts to break free from the hold by performing another aerial slash, but I use my other hand to grab the gem off her necklace. I then use my vampiric strength to slam Malefica down to the ground, making her hit a tombstone.
She recovers from the impact and attempts to slash me, but it doesn’t slash the air this time. She misses and I counter by giving her a backhand slap to the face.
Malefica attempts to punch me straight in the face, but I catch it with my fist. A strong hit, but not as strong as her other attacks earlier. I repel her arm and deliver a straight kick to her gut, forcing her down to the ground.
“MADAME!” Malefica’s henchmen shout. I sense genuine concern in their voices as I watch the lady Archon struggle to get up. She must be a very good leader to her henchmen.
Malefica raises a hand, signaling that the duel is over. Two of her henchmen including Kumar run up to her to form a barricade and draw their weapons, but she waives them off.
“No need for that, my dears. I admit defeat.” Malefica says as she gets up. Kumar and his two fellow henchmen back away with their silver crossbows still aimed at me. She then orders them to stand down.
“Vampires like us will do anything to win, remember that. I’m not very good at physical duels, you see. But I was pulling off the ol’ countess act so well, don’t you think? Do you know how long I’ve always wanted to talk like that?” Malefica returns to her old self as she chuckles.
“You still lost. Now you have to fulfill your part of the agreement.” I cross my arms looking smug.
Kumar then objects by aiming his crossbow at me again, with one of his fellow henchmen failing to stop him.
“Then you’ll have to find other means. Maybe the Doc will help you if you turn him back to normal.” I suggest.
“Hm. I never thought about it that way.” Malefica seems to have come to a realization as I watch her henchmen start tidying up the graveyard, including the fallen tombstones.
Little Miggy then runs up to congratulate me, and I give him pat on the head.
“You did it, Uncle Tony! You won!” Miggy says with excitement as he gives me a hug.
I just look at the defeated Malefica and point at Miggy with my eyes. Malefica seems to get my message.
“Right, no more tricks. I’ll help you restore Domingo back to normal.” she says with a more sincere tone this time and extends a handshake.
Sensing no more hostility from her, I reciprocate the gesture and shake her hand.
Now I wonder how Preston and Park fared? I’d better tell them to come here soon. The sooner we get the Doc back to normal, the better.
But this duel just proved that I need to be stronger. I may have won, but it was a fluke that I noticed her source of power. I might not be so lucky next time.
And then my phone rings with a message from Preston. A very important one.
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Surprised? If so, you shouldn’t be. High school is everything that I claim it to be. It tests every part of a teenager’s mental, physical, and spiritual being. Tis the very place where lovers find each other and enemies clash against one another. Everyone is attempting to discover who they are, what they want, and where they want to be. To some, high school is their favorite place in the world; to the majority… it is nothing but a living nightmare of torture and suffering.
Sorry, that probably made me sound like an airhead. But like I said before, it’s not easy getting through high school, so when you finally become popular or at least recognized within a group of friends and acquaintances, it feels really good.
Speaking of social groups… ahem! Within the vast boundaries of Wheeler Academy, there exists eight realms, plus a separate ninth realm (I’ll get to that one later). First, my very own, the Student Body Government as well as the Speech & Debate (Forensics) Club. We like to think of ourselves as the leaders of the school, the ones who try to make things better and help in any way we can. One may compare us to the Asgardians of Norse mythology and Marvel comic book lore.
Second, there are the athletes. You know… the jocks, the most cliché social clique of them all. Wheeler Academy’s sports teams are just as jock-y as they come; they’re annoying, arrogant, bigmouthed, no-nothing jerks… for the most part at least. I mean, I might be a bit biased seeing as jocks and student government have been butting heads for a long time. Jocks, typical of the “macho men” stereotype, often try to make decisions around the school, and they threaten/bully anyone who gets in their way. In keeping with the Norse/Marvel comparison, they are the Frost Giants of this land – members of the second realm, Jotunheim. My friends, as members of the student government, make it our primary goal to protect the Wheeler students, especially from jocks.
Third is the Cheerleader Squad, AKA the “mean girls.” They’re pretty much the feminine version of the jocks. In fact, you will often see those two social groups mingling and flirting with each other. It’s so gross. They are the most exclusive clique (and personally my least favorite.) Best three words to describe them would be the following: gossipy, judgmental, and snooty. They are of the Niflheim/Helheim realm, because when you’re associated with that social group, you’re either the fawning “dead” followers or the tyrant leaders.
The fourth of the “realms” is the Theater Club. Most of these teens are pretty nice, minus the occasional diva. In fact, the Speech & Debate Team generally gets along well with the Theater Club because of one thing they both share: love for speaking. Thus, it would be reasonable to have the Drama kids be represented by the Vanir, the race of the world Vanaheim, a close ally to Asgard.
Fifthly, the kids from Woodshop Class are alike to the dwarves of Nidavellir – hardworking, ruff around the edges, but still genuine and kind. They make some amazing things with wood, and some are even into origami-folding… like, incredible origami. Japanese master-level stuff. Anyways, these are the teens who are looking for average, blue-collar jobs, but they are some of the most loyal and trustworthy people I know.
The sixth clique would be the Nerd Squad… sorry, I mean the Chess Club. However, for the most part, they are nerds. They’re intelligent and generally good-natured, but kind of annoying and haughty, too. However, if there are any jocks in the area, the nerds disappear fast. They are likened to the Light Elves of Alfheim.
Seventhly, there is the Yearbook Club. While most of the kids from this club are okay, some of them are kind of strange. They have access to a lot of information, since they are the keepers of the “Dark Shelves” of Wheeler’s past yearbooks and all the embarrassing pictures inside them. Also, because they are usually free to sneak around the halls to take photographs, I am often suspicious about them, especially since… never mind. Let’s just say they’re similar to the Dark Elves of Svartalfheim.
The eighth and final realm within Wheeler Academy is the outcasts. Every school has these people… the ones who just don’t fit in anywhere. It’s kind of sad that so many people who go to high school are friendless. They are compared to the Fire Demons of Muspelheim. These kids are always living lives of burning emotional and mental torment. However, the student government takes great lengths to include loners and wanderers in school activities.
Obviously, there are other, smaller sects of people who share common interests, but these eight are the major ones. Oh, and of course, there’s the ninth realm – Midgard, the land of the humans, which in this case is the symbol for Kirby High School, the rival school to Wheeler Academy. Just as Midgard is separated from the rest of the nine realms in the Marvel universe, so Kirby is from all the social groups of Wheeler. To many of us Wheeler kids, we view Kirby with a grudge. I guess that’s just how school rivalries go. But it’s unfortunate; personally, I have seen firsthand how amazing and unique these Kirbians can be. I honestly wish this whole competition would just cease to exist. It’s not healthy… in fact, it often tends to be the opposite.
Now, most people from Wheeler think this kind of comparison between Marvel and Norse lore and the cliques of Wheeler Academy itself is stupid. But honestly, they make a lot of sense. And in today’s world, where things are constantly changing and shifting, many things don’t make sense. Sometimes it takes some silly superhero comics and papery puppets to give some sense and meaning to a teenager’s life… to help them cope. It sure gave meaning to mine.
I know, I know. It’s pretty punny, but it’s the best I got. Maybe Odingami would be better? Anyway, as a leader of Wheeler Academy, I feel like I can relate to Odin, who is often seen as this far-off, all-powerful character that is feared and barely known. Yet, Odin does have emotions as well as the stress of having the weight of nine literal worlds put upon his shoulders. By keeping Foldin as a bookmark in my backpack, I feel like I can get a little of Odin’s strength, so I can carry out my duties as Student Body President. There’s just something about having an image – a piece of a personal role model – that makes all the difference in how someone acts. I bet you ten dollars that it can even make an underconfident newbie into a hero… maybe the hero both Kirby and Wheeler needs.
Oh! Speaking of newbies, I get to give a tour around campus to the new exchange student tomorrow! Woohoo!
Hello, my name is Dover MacLeash, but all my friends call me Dove. I am writing this essay to talk about my heritage and new life in Wheeler Academy. My father is a Scotsman who visited Iceland many years ago. I do not know why he decided to make a trip to the little rock I now call home, but he did. And, lo and behold, he fell in love with my mother. Because my mother was so attached to her family, my father immigrated to Iceland, and… well, I am sure you can figure out the rest. However, my father always dreamt of seeing the world, especially America; sadly, as a full-time worker and a much older man, he is no longer capable of doing so. Yet, he wished that a child of his would be able to fulfill his wish for him; as providence would have it, I have gained myself in an educational transfer program to United States so that I may attend school at Wheeler Academy.
When I started school, I was barely fluent in English. I knew just enough to pass by. Thankfully, my teachers were patient enough to help me. Despite being new to Wheeler Academy, I have found people who are very supportive and helpful, people I am happy to call friends. One person, in specific, I have become quite fond of. Her name is Miss Shelby Solstice.
After my American guardian had dropped me off at Wheeler on my first day of education, I met Shelby waiting for me at the entrance door to the school. She was very eager to meet me, which, for me, is very uncommon, as I have never been a very noticeable person. Perhaps this is why I became so fascinated by her. However, I do not believe that this is what you would call “love at first sight.” I merely believe that this was the moment when I first formed a bond with a person who was just as interested in me as I was in them. Believe me, there is a difference! Unless… I am misunderstanding this concept. American romance movies are confusing.
Anyway, it is because of my attachment to Shelby Solstice that I became involved in the odd happenings that occurred in Wheeler. If I had not found favor with her, I probably would have stayed out of everything that would happen next. But I did not, and I have no regrets. Well, maybe a few regrets. But I hope I can fix them… the regrets, I mean. Oh, for the love of Òlafur, how do I explain this?
To put it simply, a boy will do many things to impress a girl, and sometimes that involves folding white paper into the likeness of a comic book person.
Uh… that was not simple, was it?
Miss Solstice was giving me a tour of Wheeler. I was very impressed by the school. Of course, my school back in Iceland was not that great anyway, so any American school would probably look good to me. For the most part, our conversation consisted of Shelby talking a great deal about Wheeler, while I nodded and sometimes spoke a word of agreement in reply.
Maybe it was “love at first sight” after all… oh, goodness gracious! I feel so embarrassed and stupid now. No matter. It is not like anyone is ever actually going to read this. This is just a journal passage that I am writing down because my literature teacher thought it might help me understand my thoughts and emotions. Perhaps, I have lied to myself this whole time. Maybe I really do like Shelby… uh, moving along!
As we walked to my first class of the day, she told me about some of the traditions of Wheeler Academy. Apparently, both Wheeler and the nearby Kirby High School have had a strong connection to comic books from the company Marvel as well as origami paper folding from Japanese culture. I do not have the slightest idea why those two things would be so important to both schools, but I suppose destiny works in strange and wonderous ways sometimes. At one point, Shelby and I walked passed a glass case full of Wheeler awards and memorabilia. In one section of the case was, as Shelby explained, a minted edition of the first comic book in which Thor appeared. I was immediately fascinated by this because I had grown up listening to the myths of the Norse gods of old. Thor was always my favorite… but then again, Thor was everyone’s favorite. He was so mighty, daring, and inspiring!
When she said this, my heart… how do Americans say it? “My heart skipped a beat?” Yes, I think that is it. Shelby wanted to watch movies with me! I had just met her, and she already wanted to… uh… “hang out with me.” My goodness, Americans talk so strangely!
For a moment, Shelby turned away, as if pondering about something. I am not sure why. I hoped I had not said something inappropriate in English by mistake and embarrassed her. She beckoned me to continue walking, and I obeyed.
Eventually, we reached the classroom I was supposed to go to first. I smiled, thanked her for helping me, and turned to go into the class. However, before I entered, she tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around. She had a piece of paper in her hand.
My heart was on fire now. But I was still confused as to whether or not this was a sign Shelby really liked me or was just trying to be friendly. Because of this, I hesitated, and tried to make excuses.
At this point, I could not really say no… so I agreed. Shelby thrusted two papers she had been holding into my hands. They were schedules for the meetings for student body government as well as Speech and Debate club. With that, Shelby nodded with approval. She walked away, then turned to wave again.
OH. MY. GOSH. I have a crush on the Icelandic sophomore who I just met today!!! He is SO cute-looking, with his blonde hair and dimpled cheeks. I can’t believe it. I thought I was better than this. But… I can’t help myself. He’s too perfect. When he called me kind, I blushed so hard I had to hide my face! He’s just as good-looking and tall as any other jock at Wheeler, but he’s so much nicer and totally not a jerk. In fact, he seems really shy and doesn’t talk too much. Maybe that was because he doesn’t speak English well, or something. I don’t know. But he’s a great listener, and seemed interested in me, too!
Wow. Wow. Just wow. I honestly thought I was mature enough that I would stop having these silly little high school crush things. I mean, I’m a senior! I thought, if anything, I would be going on dates with other senior guys. But those of them are just jocks or nerds. And they’re not my kind. A few of senior guys are in Speech and Debate Club and Student Body Government. I like them as friends, but they really just feel like coworkers.
But Dover… I mean Dove… he is something else. He is not of any of the nine realms. He’s so unique and different. I’m sure he could easily become a loner if he wasn’t given any help. But I’m going to make sure he does well. I can’t wait to hang out with him more! Whoohoo!
I’m just going to come out now and say that I hate high school. There’s no other way to put it. Whether it’s back in Israel, or in the U.S., I just hate it. In high school, everyone hates everyone else. It’s a dog-eat-dog world where social status is the only currency and education, which is ostensibly why we are there in the first place, is worth nothing to other people.
Yeah, I’m a Jew from Israel. My family moved to the States recently, and I got enrolled in Kirby High School. I was kind of hoping it would be better than the school back home.
But that’s beside the point. I’m used to no one hanging out with me. I don’t know why. Maybe I’m annoying to them or something; but I learned to stop caring and just move on with life.
Oh, and bullies and jocks are the worst. They seem to be the only ones who notice me. I’ve been running from them my whole life. Not to brag, but I’ve become pretty good at it. Practically no one can catch me. But all of this changed one day when I decided to pay a visit to Wheeler Academy.
Once the day was over, I decided to bicycle my way over to Wheeler. My parents both work and, since I’m an only child, there’s no one else at home for a while. So, I’ve got a lot of freedom, and decided to check the place out. Besides being fast, my other talent is sneaking around. I eavesdropped on a lot of people, and one of the major topics is the feud between Kirby and Wheeler. Apparently, things have gotten pretty tense ever since some kid named Clark duked it out with a fellow Kirbian. It involved a paint cannon or something. Hah. What a bunch of losers.
Curious to see Kirby’s competition and how I might profit from this school rivalry ordeal, I snooped around until I found the Wheeler sports field. A bunch of jocks were exercising in front of some cheerleaders who were eyeing them. Eventually, I got close enough so I could clearly hear their conversation.
The conversation would have continued, if it hadn’t been for the fact that I had been spotted by one of the bigger guys there.
“Hey! We’ve got a snoop in our mist!” he yelled.
“Probably one of those darn Kirbians!” hollered another.
“Someone grab the punk!” cried a third jock.
Remember what I said about how I had a knack for outrunning bullies? Well, that skill was put to the test as I sprinted away from the most athletic bunch of Wheeler. I ran nearly half a lap, and no one could touch me. I thought I was home free… until I ran into the alpha dog of the lot himself – Grover.
He started laughing. Laughing, I tell you! All the other jocks looked at Grover in disbelief. He dropped me to the ground and slapped me hard on my back. It stung a little, but it definitely wasn’t a painful punch to the stomach.
He acted as if he were the coach of the whole team. Although grudgingly, the whole team obeyed him, and started jogging around the field. I was about to sneak off, but Grover wasn’t done with me yet.
The monster of a boy lifted his meaty hand out to me. I looked him over, trying to find any sign that he was just lying. I didn’t trust him… but the idea of being recognized within a top-level group of peers was too delicious for me to resist. I didn’t care if they weren’t really my friends. I didn’t want friends. I wanted power. I wanted respect.
I shook his hand. The bargain was struck.
I was having the best days of my life ever since I met Shelby Solstice. She was the best thing that had happened in my life. We started doing everything together. First, it was just Student Body Government and Speech and Debate meets. Then, we started sitting together at lunch together, and even going to each other’s houses to study and do homework. Oh, and I also made friends with all of her friends. I had real friends!
It was all going great. And then, things started changing once Shelby let me in on a secret about Wheeler. I think I started to change… probably for the better.
I found her inside, waiting for me. She patted on the seat next to her, beckoning me to sit with her. As I sat down, I was presented with a drink she had bought for me.
“Here’s a present for winning third place in Oratory at the Speech and Debate competition last week!” she said happily.
Somewhat reluctantly, I sipped the straw. To my surprise, the drink was quite tasty.
She took a book from of her purse. Opening it up to a certain page, she took out what seemed to be a bookmark. However, on closer inspection, I found that it was really a small piece of paper designed to look like a little man. The paper man was excellently made. He had a long beard, an eyepatch, a golden robe, and a small paper staff. Shelby proceeded to place the paper man on her finger, and wave him around.
That’s when it all started to make sense. It turns out that Shelby was one of those who carried this tradition of roleplaying. I suppose that, since she is a natural-born leader, she obviously had to adopt the persona of Odin.
Shelby made a little squeal when I added that last line about Thorigami in. I had come up with the name right after Shelby had mentioned the name Foldin. I thought she might like that.
“You’re the best, Dove!” With that, she embraced her arms around me. I smiled and took another swig of Dr. Pepper. After that, she showed me how to fold an origami Thor puppet. I was not very good at it. Our hands may have touched while she tried to show me how to do it properly. It was the best date… I mean, hang-out… ever.
I tell ya, being a jock is fun. Grover was totally right. You get everything: glory, popularity, power, and respect. Also, because of the little stunt I pulled, I’m basically Grover’s righthand man. I don’t think anyone else likes me that much, but they can’t say anything bad about me without putting themselves in danger of angering Grover. Plus, those cheerleader babes are always fawning over me. The really hot one, Sophia, even gave me her phone number.
Of course, I’m still a full-time Kirby student, which stinks a lot. At that school, I’m still invisible; but after regular school hours, when I hop over to Wheeler… oh ho, I am a king! I’m still the fastest runner, so Grover can keep busting everyone else’s chops and making fun of them for their inability to keep up with me. They keep getting humiliated, while I sit on top of them all! Welcome to my world, boys!
But still… I wish I had more. I’ve suffered so long in school. In Kindergarten, everyone laughed at me when my mom gave me a bad haircut for Yearbook Picture Day. Ever since then, I was always made the laughingstock of the class, the punchline to every joke. Whether it was my braces, my clothes, my packed lunch… it just all exploded in my face. Sure, my grades have always been nearly perfect; the teachers pat you on the back and say, “Good job!” My parents look at my report card approvingly and that’s that. But nothing more. They didn’t even take me out for a special dinner or anything. So, after all that, don’t I deserve a to have my time in the sun? After nearly a DECADE of being scorned and forgotten, is it wrong for me to want to have a higher social standing?
Why… why does everyone hate me?
Alright, I’m back now. Had to go chill out for a minute. I’m fine. Everything’s fine. Just had to let my feelings out and wash my face off. When you’re a teenager, emotions can be a little overwhelming, and sometimes I can’t control them.
On a separate note, I just got a phone call from Grover. He said he’s got a proposition for me. Since I am his most capable ally and am mostly unknown to the rest of Wheeler Academy, he wants me to infiltrate the other leading force in Wheeler Academy – Student Body Government. Hah! At least Grover seems to recognize that there’s more to me than meets the eye. Anyway, this is how it’s going to go down: because of a special “program” authorized by both Kirby and Wheeler, I will be transferred to Wheeler and go to school there for two weeks, while another student takes my place at Kirby for the same amount of time. During that time, I will choose Student Body Government as my extracurricular activity and work my way into their ranks. Once I do, I will search through the Government Archives for any dirt on President Solstice. Now, I don’t have much time… not counting the weekends, I have only ten days total to complete this gig. But, then again, I became one of the top jocks in one day, so how hard could this be?
I’ve also been digging into the histories of Kirby High School and Wheeler Academy, and boy, oh boy, I’ve found some interesting stuff. Apparently, these two schools first started fighting all because of some dumb mascot. And then there’s this weird tradition where people fold origami Marvel puppets as a roleplaying exercise.
At first, I was thinking, “These two schools are really peculiar.” But then, I realized that such a practice might be enjoyable, and allow me to express myself. So, I selected my favorite character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe to fold… that being the great Loki himself. Tom Hiddleston, the actor of Loki, portrays him so well. He’s likeable, charismatic, and charming. That’s all the things I need in order that I might make the Wheeler athletes supreme to those snobby mock-government officials.
Origami is actually really fun to do. After practicing by making some origami birds, I finally attempted to create what I hoped would be a masterpiece. With paper in one hand, and art supplies in the other, I spent much time working on my beautiful design. Finally, before me laid a matchless figure that looked like a miniature Tom Hiddleston himself.
Thorigami in my pocket? Check. All good to go.
That was how this specific Monday began. I had high hopes for the week, as I was preparing to ask Shelby on an official date. Seeing as our relationship had held strong up until now, I thought it was finally time I make my move. For once in my life, I was actually feeling confident.
Upon entering school, I handed Kevin, one of the Student Body Government staff members, a clipboard with the most recent report I had made on the Government’s Treasury. Thanks to my experience in basic accounting and budgeting, the Treasury was, how you would say, “in good shape.” I continued to stroll down the hall and was congratulated on my most recent victory at last Saturday’s Speech & Debate tournament. I do not know how, but I won first place in my category. Thanks to Shelby’s help, I had learned to be a fairly good speaker, and the judges seemed to like my creative speech on lucid dreaming. The day was off to a good start.
In fact, the whole morning went well. When I came to the cafeteria for lunch, I was greeted by a shining, beautiful smile emanating from Lady Solstice herself. Instead of beckoning me, she came rushing to me. I could see the excitement in her glittering blue eyes. I was very fortunate to have her as a friend… and hopefully even more than a friend.
Suddenly, I spotted, out in the distant part of the cafeteria, a jock prodding two students, one of them being in a wheelchair, out through the hallway doors, while nobody else noticed. I had a pretty good idea of what was bound to happen.
By the time I said the final words of this sentence, I was already moving quickly towards the same way I saw those teens go. I crashed through the double-doors to see that they were already turning the corner at the end of the hallway. I started to pull Thorigami out of my pocket, feeling a rush of adrenaline as I ran down the hallway towards what I knew, in my heart, was to be my destiny.
But then I got stopped by a stupid hall monitor.
“Hálfviti…” I mumbled under my breath in my native Icelandic tongue.
“What you just call me?” he asked.
The hall monitor crossed his arms. “A likely story,” he said with a sarcastic emphasis added to it.
I noticed that this hall monitor, wearing a cap printed with the words “Wheeler Academy Hall Monitor” as well as a blue vest, only seemed to be of the same age as I. I would have assumed a person with such power as guarding the sacred hallways would be of an elder, wiser age. And yet, here he stood. What an interesting fellow.
While wondering if all heroes had to “dish out” their extra lunch money in order to save the day, I followed the sound of yelling and whimpering. The sounds grew louder until I could distinctly understand what was being spoken. Slowly, I peeked around the corner. My suspicions were correct. A dwarfish young man and a disabled teen, both appearing to be freshmen, were being helped up against a wall of lockers by the bully, who was wearing a varsity sports jacket.
“So, you two are the ones who have been causing trouble,” said the bully. “First, you boys try whistle-blowing to the principal when you made Grover angry. Then, after Grover gave you a warning, you pranked his shoes by covering the bottoms with glue. I bet you thought it was real funny at the time. I bet you laughed.” He pushed in against their chests a little harder after saying those words.
The shaved-headed bully, who I realized was one of the jocks, snarled and picked the smaller kid by his shirt. The kid spun around, hanging from his loose button-up shirt, yelling and kicking in rage, while the taller one in the wheelchair watched on in terror.
At that moment, I jumped onto the back of the big guy and pulled my arms around his neck in order to subdue him. The smaller victim fell out of his extra-large shirt and into the ground. I hung onto the bully for dear life as he grabbed for me. The shirtless dwarf of a teenager started punching the jock in his side. Then, the big man ran back and rammed me into the wall of lockers multiple times. My back ached badly, and my arms were tiring out. Then, in a surprise move, the handicapped student came speeding in on his wheelchair and rammed into the bully, causing him to fall down to his knees.
“Who’ya calling ‘small one?'” snapped back the dwarf, who was putting his shirt back on. However, he still obeyed, albeit reluctantly.
Eventually, the jock stopped struggling. It was not long before the short one returned with a school staff member. With three witnesses present, the teacher did not hesitate to deliver the rogue student to the principal’s office.
“Uh, right back at ya… Paperman,” said Peter, scratching his head.
“Oh my, is that an origami Thor Odinson?” quietly asked Paul.
Peter’s rant was interrupted by a sharp jab in his chest from the elbow of Paul, who politely asked for forgiveness for his brother’s crude behavior.
“Goodbye, Dove and Thorigami,” said Paul.
As I walked away, I could hear he brothers talking about this encounter.
I was back in the cafeteria before long. Lunch was almost over, but I still found Shelby right where I left her earlier. To my surprise, she was not angry or disappointed at me for my sudden departure. Instead, she gave a wide smile that made that whole ordeal totally worth it.
“Did you save the day, Dove?” she asked.
“Worth it. But you still have to make it up to me now.” Shelby raised her eyebrow at me. Obviously, she was strongly hinting to me.
Weird stuff happens at Wheeler, like kids roleplaying with paper puppets. I kind of like it, though. Back at Kirby H.S., there’s this Origami Club I’ve gone to, where we make legitimately cool origami. There’s a lot of neato origami designs, patterns, styles, techniques, and structures, like in architecture. I want to be architect someday. There’s just something about the intricacies of designing and building that I really like.
There was an assembly on Thursday. It was arranged and hosted by this Jude guy. Brand new student, a temporary transfer from Kirby. Right now, he and I are probably the only two non-Wheelerians who are at Wheeler a lot. I mean, I just do hall monitoring, but I have to do it for a one period for every school day, so I end up talking with a lot of the students there. They’re not nearly as bad as us Kirby folks say they are. In fact, I’d say that the students from both schools are pretty much the same.
It’s a shame this rivalry war has caused so much pain and division. Maybe a solution shall be made someday… a balance will hopefully be achieved.
So, this assembly wasn’t supposed to be a big deal, but Jude did an awesome job. Since I was patrolling the halls at the time, I was able to look inside the auditorium to see what was going on. There was a band playing old rock songs, and all the students were loving it. There was also popcorn and juice on a nearby snacks table. Apparently, this was supposed to be an “educational” assembly on music history.
While I stood outside, the hero kid I had met earlier in the week came out. I could see he bulge in his pocket where he had put that origami Thor. Oh yeah, I noticed and knew what he had with him the first time I me him. Ever since that Clark boy at Kirby became Iron Fold, it seems origami Marvel characters have been on a rebound.
The dude looked at me, nodded, and offered me some popcorn, of which I happily partook.
“Didn’t catch your name before, hero kid,” I stated.
“You are not from around here, are you?” Dove asked. I detected some kind of European accent in his voice.
Rummaging through my pockets, I pulled out the five dollar bill I had borrowed from Dove. He took it and inspected it. I grinned.
We both had a good laugh over this odd moment, as we both munched on popcorn and discussed origami. Instead of keeping him, he handed back Heimdollar. What a pal, I tell ya. Sounds like the beginning of a beautiful friendship, am I right?
“So, did you just come out here to talk to me, or were you going to the bathroom, or, like, what?” I asked.
It’s nice to have friends like Dove. Most of my friends at Kirby are always working so hard that we barely get to hang out like we used to. But Dove is just laid-back and cool.
I stared at Heimdollar in my hand, thinking. Then, I stuffed him in my pocket, and continued my parole down the hallway.
Grover told me to meet him at the school on Friday night. So far, the week had been an absolute success. After that assembly I cooked up, everyone of every social group practically worships me. Things are going better than I could have possibly imagined.
That’s the thing about high-schoolers: they’re so easily manipulated, not to mention INCREDIBLY predictable.
Well, at least, most of them are. You see, I was starting to pack up for the day, thinking about going to the Track & Field meeting and then sneaking into the school at the night, and what great things me and Grover would be doing. The big man had actually started to grow on me a little. Anyway, at that moment, this blonde kid walked up to me and introduced himself.
“Pardon me, Mr. Judah Decassius…” he started.
Referring to him as Shelby’s boyfriend seemed to startle the hefty, blonde-haired teen. Although he quickly composed himself, I could already tell he was a student who was unconfident in himself due to his inability to completely adapt to the English language. His accent and facial features signaled that he was certainly of some other country, probably Scandinavian. Although he seemed like he had the potential height, build, and structure to be a wrestler, his attitude already suggested he was not totally aware of his strength capacity and was more inclined to use his intellect. If he was a potential threat, which might be indicated by how he was privately confronting me at this moment, then he would be a dangerous one, since a person who is deceivingly smart and, if provoked, powerful has all the makings of the worst kind of enemy.
Strange how I figured all that out in the moment, huh? Besides my speediness, my analytical, deductive brain is my greatest skill. I already had an idea about who this kid was before he could say more than a handful of words. Thus, I had time to design the best replies to whatever he wanted to tell me.
“When it is appropriate, yes,” Dove asserted “Anyway, we are both new to this school, yes? And I think all new kids deserve a chance to find their way in the school. However, I am slightly curious about why you are only coming to this school for two weeks. Also, I am concerned because you have shown lack of caution in your speech and actions. Although your assembly was entertaining, many teachers and school staff thought it was not educational. Also, your other propositions at the Student Body Government meetings have been, well, uh…” His eyes wandered a little. He was trying to decide whether or not to bring forth the real problem he had on his mind. However, I wanted to wrap this conversation up fast and go to the Track & Field meet, so what I did next may have been somewhat rude.
This remark caused a fire to light up in Dove’s eyes. No, not a fire… a flash of lightning. He moved forward and clenched his fists. “Why would you say something like that?” he asked.
I tried to push past him, but this just made him push back harder. Then, he grabbed me by my shoulders and pushed me against a wall. He wasn’t rough, but he definitely was mad at me.
I could tell Dove wanted to kill me right now. His blinking eyes were flashing a white-blue light. His veins were bulging. I had successfully turned the gentle blonde giant into a beast. Despite the fact I was about to get pummelled, this thought made me smile wide.
“D-d-dove?!” uttered a stammering, feminine voice.
Dove and I both froze, only moving our heads to see where the voice came from.
Oh my. It was too good.
After being spotted, Shelby immediately dropped some papers she was holding and ran off. The lightning in Dove’s eyes diminished. He looked back at me, not with anger, but with real dread. Now, he knew that I was in control. The beast had been subdued. With that, Dove bolted after Shelby, trying to pick up the papers she dropped, while I brushed off my shirt and sauntered out through the school hallway.
I couldn’t wait to tell Grover what I had done. Quickly changing into my workout clothes, I jogged over to see the big cheese himself. He looked down at me and patted me on the head, as if I were a dog. This slightly annoyed me, but I shook it off.
“Speaking of, what exactly is the plan?” I inquired.
On the outside, I nodded in affirmation, but inside, I didn’t agree at all. This bothered me. In fact, this angered me. Grover was keeping secrets from me, which means he didn’t trust me. At that moment, some of the jocks were passing by. They talked to Grover, telling him how great he was and everything. Then, one of them, Heath, noticed me and made a cheap shot.
Grover raised his eye at Heath, but didn’t say anything. The other jocks with Heath started laughing and tried to noogie me.
I now realized that I was still a pawn of Grover’s. Plus, after this next week was over, I would be back in Kirby High as a nobody. And even if I could keep being on the Track & Field Team here, I would never gain full respect. I’d always be in Grover’s shadow, being used like a marionette for whatever whims and machinations he felt inclined to put into action.
A smile crept onto my face, as I was hit with an epiphany. This thought lingered and festered in my mind even after I got home. I opened my desk drawer and pulled out a carefully preserved Lokrease out of a plastic bag. This made me laugh a little.
Tonight, we would play a little trick… on everyone.
Today was the worst day… ever.
I broke up with Dove. Even though we had only gone on that one date at the park. It hurts… a lot. It’s like I said before: I thought I was above all this. I thought I had figured out high school and all the stuff that comes with it, like relationships. But I guess I hadn’t.
High school really is educational, isn’t it? I guess I learned a new lesson.
I sound really overdramatic and immature right now, don’t I? It’s because I’m still in shock, I think. I just can’t believe Dove could be like that. I thought he was always kind-hearted, not a bully like so many other high-schoolers. After I saw him holding Jude like that, I was gone. Of course, he chased me down and tried to make excuses and blaming Jude. How pathetic of him.
I… I can’t write anymore tonight. I’m gonna go to bed early.
It was 7:45 P.M. The rest of the Student Body Government had left. Dove and Shelby were absent, which made me feel better about this plan. Now nobody would get in my way.
The Vice President was in charge since Shelby wasn’t there. He was totally fine with letting me be the last one to leave, since that gave him one more reason to leave early and go home, play video games, and eat Swedish Fish.
So, there I was, waiting in the doorway of the Student Body Government HQ, leaning on the wooden door. Then, I heard some heavy steps come through the hallway. Lo and behold, it was the Groovy Giant himself… with two Starbucks coffees.
“Nicely done, my friend,” said Grover happily. He handed me one of the coffees and gave me a fistbump.
This was definitely not what I was expecting.
We both went inside the room. I showed him the file cabinet where the President and Cabinet Scribe kept any and all important documents or meeting transcripts.
Then everything fell into place.
A police car pulled up in front of the school. An officer went in, and a few minutes later, he came out with Grover in handcuffs.
Oh my. I bet you’re wondering what happened. Hmm, perhaps an anonymous tip to the Wheeler principal about someone being in the school after hours and sneaking into the S.B.G. HQ. I don’t know if that’s exactly breaking or entering, but it was enough that the principal might want to call up a friend of his from the police station.
“You threatening me, buddy?” I stated smugly.
With that, Grover was put in the police car and was driven off into the distance, while I sipped my coffee and stared off at the silver moon in the sky. I pulled out Lokrease.
Man, things have been weird this week. I haven’t seen President Solstice, Dove, or even that head jock Grover. Believe me, I tried. Being a hall monitor, it’s my job to traverse the whole school checking for students who aren’t in class, so I checked every class I went by to see if they were there. Either they’re all absent, or are really good at hiding. So strange.
However, there is one person who I have seen. It’s hard to miss him. Jude has been the talk of the school recently. I heard he’s gonna transfer to Wheeler Academy permanently. He’s always surrounded by a crowd. Everyone loves him.
I wonder how his talk with Dove went. Wait a moment, isn’t he the one person that ties all three of the missing teens together? I started thinking these thoughts while I did my daily patrol on Wednesday. He’s Grover’s right-hand man, but since Grover’s gone, he’s basically taken his place. Shelby and Dove had been the leading force of the S.B.G., but if they’re both gone, that means Jude can practically do anything he wants with the Government. All this hit me hard in the face. I felt so stupid.
Jude was basically taking over the school by ruling the leading social groups! How nefarious. I couldn’t let him get away with this. I was thinking of what I could tell the Wheeler principal that would make him believe me… but then again I’m from Kirby. I’m just here because of a duel-school program. I’m probably the last person he’d believe. How frustrating.
At the moment, I was washing my hands in the bathroom, when I heard a whisper come from one of the stalls.
“Adrian!” the voice gently called.
“Dove?” I asked, recognizing the accent.
Dove came out of the stall. He had Thorigami on his finger.
“Yep,” I said with a smile. I already knew what Dove was thinking.
I was watching the assembly from right outside the auditorium door, which I cracked open slightly so I could hear what was going on. A few minutes earlier, I had helped Dove sneak back behind the auditorium stage using a shortcut I knew about. Some teachers asked me why Dove was not in the assembly, but I just made some excuses about him being on the auditorium’s technical crew and that I was helping him out.
What? I’m the hall monitor. I can get away with a lot of stuff. Anyway, the cheerleaders had just performed a cool dance for the school, and now Jude was going up to give a speech.
“WE LOVE YOU, JUDE!!!” screamed one girl.
“YOU’RE THE BEST!!!” hollered a dude.
Then, everyone started chanting Jude’s name. He acted so humble about it, asking them to stop, but I could see the giddy glee on his face. He was loving it.
Everyone went nuts with applause. I facepalmed hard.
Many booes and insults against Kirby High School errupted. I’m glad no one noticed I was there, or else I might have been chased out of the school and called a spy.
I closed the auditorium door. The cheering had gotten so loud that it was hurting my ears.
For a moment, I really wanted to join the cheering. Jude was saying some great stuff up there on that stage. But then his speech shifted into something I really didn’t like.
Jude took something out of his pocket.
Jude demonstrated how to fold an easy origami puppet. Everyone was doing it now. I was flabbergasted.
“And there are some people who just want to rule the world,” stated another voice.
Like magic, Dove appeared from behind the stage curtains. All the cheering died. It was just confused murmuring and whispering now.
I watched from my post with my eyes glued to the stage. Things were about to get good.
“Dove! What are you doing here?” Jude replied through clenched teeth.
I looked out to see Adrian smiling behind the window of one of the auditorium doors. Then I brought my gaze back to Jude. I could see the panic in his face. But he was still going to try to hold on to his power.
I did not even give Jude a chance to reply. I grabbed his backpack, which was nearby, and pulled out a manilla folder that had the words “PRIVATE S.B.G. FILE NO. 237” written on in big, bold letters so all could see. The audience gasped again.
The audience stood silent for a while. Finally, someone yelled, “GO BACK TO KIRBY, DECASSIUS!” Others protested against Jude, while many just sat watching him, shaking their heads.
I was suddenly pushed back by a small yet strong force. Jude was trying to tackle me. I was on the ground for a moment. He was crying, his face scrunched up in rage.
“YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!” he yelled. He had lost all reason and was trying to punch me. I covered my face as he hit as hard as he could. I waited to give a well-timed blow to his chin. It was not a hard punch, but it dazed him. I threw him off me as some teachers came to restrain him. He was still yelling even as they pulled him out. I looked out at the shocked audience.
The silence was broken by some laughter which grew until almost everyone was in a good mood again. I thought this would be a good time to wrap this messy ordeal with a positive message that might still boost the school morale. I walked up to the podium with the microphone.
I left the podium and walked down the stage. The audience was very quiet still. For a moment, I wondered if what I had said had changed anything. Then, I saw Adrian walk out towards me, chanting “worthy” over and over again. Others started doing it, too. Before long, everyone was doing it. Earlier, they had chanted Jude’s name with chaotic yells and fanatic screams; but now, they cheered me on with a united voice that made my heart warm. Suddenly, Shelby appeared from the crowd. She ran up to me and hugged me hard. I hugged her back. There was some snickering from the crowd, but I did not care.
For the first time, I truly felt at home at Wheeler Academy.
After that fiasco of an assembly, things got back to normal… more or less. I mean, a lot of people were roleplaying as their respective origami Marvel characters, so that’s new. It also meant I didn’t have to hide Foldin anymore. Now, Dove and I carry our puppets around with us wherever we go.
Jude’s plans for future programs and all that have been undone completely. He got sent back to Kirby High. Hopefully, we never have to see his face again. However, I kind of feel bad for Kirby for sending back Jude. I mean, who knows what scheme he’ll try to concoct next.
I’m back in place as the head of the Student Body Government. The jocks, having been put to shame by Jude and Grover, have lost any control they have had over the school… for now. But for now, the S.B.G. has been making a lot of progress, reaching out to everyone in school who needs help. With this revival of origami roleplaying, it’s making our work a lot easier, since people are more open-minded and connected to their fellow folders.
Also, I recently met Dove’s new friend, Adrian, who’s from Kirby and works as one of Wheeler’s hall monitors. We all hang out after school a lot now. I hope he doesn’t feel like a third wheel since… well… since Dove and I got back together. He’s so chill about everything, though, so he’s probably fine with it. Oh, and I totally love his Heimdollar puppet, too!
And of course, Dove is great now. When I found out the truth about what happened between him and Jude, I realized that I had jumped to conclusions too quickly. Poor Dovey… he had been heartbroken. But he’s alright now that we’re together again. And we’re happy. The only problem is that I’m graduating at the end of the school year, and in a few more years, Dove will be going back home to Iceland. But… I don’t want to think about that. Hopefully, we’ll find a way.
True love and all that jazz, right?
P.S. There’s this kid who keeps following Dove around everywhere. He keeps twirling around this origami… what was it? Oh, yeah… Beta Ray Bill. But the kid calls it Paper Ray Bill. I wonder what that’s all about… LOL!
@Creaser_James Thank you! I really appreciate it.
Is the “not” supposed to be there?
Is there another misake in chapter 12 when it says Jude did not try to punch Dove?
I had a commenting problem and it didn’t submit my comments, and suddenly submitted all of them for some reason, sorry.
Hi! Can i be a writer for two stories, Hawk-crumple (Hawkeye) and one about Ant-Fold(Scott Lang’s Ant-man). The “Hawk-crumple pun will make sense if i write a story.
also did anyone see the guardians of the galaxy teaser? I also think that from that evidence, every cosmic movie (Thor, Thor2, guardians, Guardians2, doctor strange, Thor3, ect.) appears in wheeler!!!!!!!
And Earth level events (Iron man, Hulk,Cap1,Iron man 2,Avengers,Cap2 Winter solder, Iron man 3 , Avengers2 Ultron, Antman, Civil war,Spiderman homecoming, Doctor strange, infinity war,ect.) happens at kirby!!!!!!!!!!
Good comparison! That was kinda what I was going for.
UUUUGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!! No make that WWWWWWWUUUUUUUGGGGGG!!!!!!! I can’t stand the youtube stuff!!!
Just2good: [Opens MandrProduction’s refrigerator.] What is this?
Just2good: Is this…a secret stash of illegal LEGO figures? You’ve hid ille-LEGO?
MasterSkywalker (me): I know, pal, I know. Those two are annoying and they’re LEGO geeks, but they’re my friends.
you really know how to make me laugh and feel the same thing at the same time.
Cool! BTW, I was just joking obviously since u types MCU instead of MOU by accident. Here’s a small secret: as of now, I’m planning for the villain of the next Thorigami book to be Shelby’s sister.
OH! Now I get it. I think Shelby’s sister is supposed to play a “Malekith” role.
about the youtube lego stash thingie, i have a whole CLOSET OF LEGOS!!!!!
I own some LEGO Star Wars sets and some LEGO Marvel sets, but I don’t have much LEGO other than that. Most of my Star Wars sets are sequel trilogy sets (I really like the sequel trilogy), and most of my LEGO Marvel sets are from Infinity War or Civil War.
easy, you just check in early every morning and stay up later at night.
What happened to SF Firk? He said a few months ago that he had an idea for an OYEU book or something like that, and then—whoosh!—he never commented on anything after that.
Let’s all keep the conversation related to Thorigami, shall we?
yes. I was getting bored if this mish-mash.
Did any of you hear? There’s a new LEGO Harry Potter Collectible Figures Series. Mandrproductions and Just2good and some other LEGO YouTuber (I forgot his name) reviewed it a week ago. Apparently we’re getting new LEGO Voldemort and Dobby figures.
Mike makes a wish, but then gets surgery to take it out. Sara finds it and makes another wish, before throwing it up. Tommy finds it, and then wishes something, but then doesn’t take it seriously. Harvey does the same thing. and finally, Dwight finds it on the bus then wishes for OY. he eats it and a few days, Supreme Leader Coke finds Tommy writing, “Is Origami Yoda real? on a case file. Interesting… and to set up part II, SLC finds the magical Book of Macromentia that magically records everything that happens in McQuarrie….
Alright, Midnight Wars/ Skittles II: The War now in tatters, SLC discovers that Jacob caused the Skittle Accident in 2009, And the Origami Rebellion hates on him. He defects, and then is approached by SLC, who offers him a job to track down the last remaining Wishing Skittle to shut down the reign of Origami. The school at its biggest, it could be anywhere. SLC does a five night long Open house, but at the end of the day, Jacob shuts down the school until the next day, unbeknownst to the teachers A hooded Boba Fold- wielding kid called Matthew offers to spy on SLC and the Knights of Pen along with his friend, Yajath, who wields an origami Dryden Vos who is head of the Crimson Dawn. (Ben, Murky, Remi, Peyton(Who has an Origami Sidon Ithano), Mr. Snider, Mr. Randall, and Ms. Rabbski are in it) Some love drama happens between Matthew and Amy, but right after that, Matt and Yaj leave, and SLC is on the brink of finding it, when the whole Rebellion engages in a war with KoP. The principal is enraged by this and sends 3/4ths of the students on a 3-month long suspension. At the last second, SLC plops the skittle in his mouth, and is about to erase Origami from existence, but then someone punches him. Jacob Minch, it is.
Hey, Crimson. Buddy. Take care. I’m not gonna be here for a while. Remember me. And…take my story ideas, please. All of them.
nooooooooo 😡 How long will u be gone?
This “Detective SLS and Mega3” thing I’m hoping we could do could have real evidence from real life, and some possible proof from across the Internet. Not just a bunch of crappy (excuse my language) evidence like in OY Theory.
Hmmm… I don’t know. What is the lost MOU story anyway?
We can be a trio! I’m changing it to Detective SLS, Mega, and CD: Episode 1–The Lost MOU Stories.
It’a about maybe-cancelled MOU stories that were reportedly happening but never made it. Sounds good?
SF F-I-R-K (every time I say his name regularly my comments await moderation for some reason) is one of the main focuses of the first episode of Detective SLS, Mega, and CD.
Also…wait a sec…me, you, and Mega are together in this, and we’re also the stars of Don’t Hug Me I’m A Superfolder! Heh. Weird how life works like that sometimes.
It’s almost like Harry Ron And Hermione!
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Ensuring that Alaskans have affordable energy for decades to come is one of the most important jobs on my desk right now. To succeed, the state needs to look at every possible option and make sure Alaskans have all the information to make the right decisions.
That’s why I asked the Legislature to fund a thorough review of an in-state pipeline to move natural gas from the North Slope to Fairbanks, through the Railbelt and Southcentral regions, serving as many communities in the state as economically feasible.
We’re not wasting any time in this effort. The Legislature adjourned just three weeks ago and the gas line review is already under way, led by Harry Noah, former commissioner of Natural Resources under Gov. Wally Hickel.
First, I want to reassure Alaskans of our purpose.
Our effort complements the progress TC Alaska is making on a line to the Lower 48, using its state license under the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act. Alaskans can look forward to all the benefits the AGIA project will produce.
We are not walking away from efforts to promote development of a spur line coming off the “big line” to distribute gas to Alaskans.
And we are not walking away from the longstanding hope that someday a gas liquefaction plant may be built in Valdez to ship Alaska gas to ports all along the world’s Pacific Rim.
We are reviewing all options to ensure Alaskans know all the facts about progress to flow gas to our homes and businesses.
An in-state gas line to serve as many communities as possible is one of the options and would not interfere with plans for the larger interstate pipeline. Geologists say there is enough gas on throughout the North Slope for both pipes. There is enough investor interest for both pipes. And there may be enough consumer demand for both pipes.
A smaller in-state line could be put into operation sooner than a spur off the big line, and timing is crucial for Alaskans. Each winter brings more worries about gas shortages, unaffordable energy prices and residents choosing which bills they can afford to pay that month. This is unacceptable. The smart move is to look at the costs, the challenges and the feasibility of an in-state line to meet our needs sooner rather than later.
The Legislature directed this review to include a full analysis of all possible pipeline routes, to look at any economically feasible options for spur lines, and to coordinate with any and all parties interested in building, owning or operating the line.
My team is working with experts and interested parties to prepare cost estimates, and to figure out what is needed — from gas supply contracts at one end of the pipe to gas purchase contracts at the other end. Unless reasonably priced gas goes into the line, no one will be able to afford what comes out.
To help reduce the risk, my team will start the process of applying for right-of-way permits along the preferred pipeline route — after the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority makes that choice later this summer. If the in-state line goes ahead along that route, the state will have saved time by starting the right-of-way process, rather than waiting.
Timing is crucial. We know Cook Inlet natural gas reserves are declining. We know consumers are worried about price and supply. We know we need more storage capacity to hold gas produced during the summer until it’s needed in the cold, peak-demand winter months. Our review is looking at all these issues.
We are blessed to have many possibilities for solving our energy challenges. Possibilities include explorers finding and developing new gas supplies in Cook Inlet. Perhaps a spur line off the big line will be built in short order. Experience shows us that the prudent thing to do is consider all options to maximize benefits for Alaskans, and that is what we’re doing in readying a plan to ensure our residents have the gas we need.
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vice can be spotty so LEAVE A MESSAGE and be patient. When service is available we can call you back.
Also a reminder. Bring ice and water. We have a limited supply of water available at the “spring” tent located at the food court. Ice is available at Dee’s service in town. We have asked that they have an ample stock.
If you have any questions we can be contacted by cell or text. Service can be spotty so leave a message and contact number an we will call back.
This is an outdoor event. Dress accordingly and prepare for inclement weather, uneven ground , loud noises, animal encounters and unpaved roads.
This is a family event. Please act and dress as if your kids and grand kids are watching you.
Please bring ice and water for personal use. Please pickup after yourself. This is a non profit all volunteer event. If you leave it behind leave it in the appropriate location.
We are looking forward to a great event with fun for all.
Remember, we expect to make mistakes. Complaining without a solution is whining! Criticism with ideas for a solution are not only welcome, but solicited.
We had a chance to visit the site this week. We plotted out traders row, primitive camping area, day parking and tin tipi camping area. We have a great area for shooting competitions and demonstrations. Archery and knife & hawk throwing areas. We located the entry/gate area and food court location where the “spring (water) tent” will be located.
We met with landowner Rick Johnson to discuss access points as well as issues from last year.
There is lots of work left to do. Signs to be made and posted. Contact radio and television to promote. Permits to be pulled and notices to be posted.
But that is the fun of it. We have a great site and look forward to all who can attend.
For any information watch the website www.bearlakerendezvous.com for the itinerary and contact information.
Thanks to all who have pledged their support. We are happy to report the 2013 Bear Lake Rendezvous is ON!
Our plans are underway to make the 1st annual Bear Lake Mountain Man Rendezvous the “best / first” rendezvous you have ever attended.
To all the Bear Lake visitors, seasoned buck-skinners and Rich County residents. Please mark your calendars and plan on attending.
We started thinking about Bear Lake as a great place to re-create a mountain man rendezvous. After all, the Bear Lake Valley is the place two of the twenty mountain man rendezvous’s actually occurred (1827-28). In late August, the area is beautiful and full of fun seeking, enthusiastic visitors.
We found a landowner who appreciates the historical and educational elements a rendezvous re-creation would offer as well as celebrating the heritage of the area. He is willing to let us use his land accepting all the wear and tear that comes with holding an event concluding the sacrifice is worth it.
We have Kash Johnson, a dedicated mountain man historian with 14 years experience in managing mountain man rendezvous re-creations. His only interest is to share his passion with those willing and interested to learn about the mountain man era.
We have the support of the local community who are anxious to see a rendezvous event and embracing the idea.
We have local and state media anxious to cover the event because it is in UTAH.
We have a tourist based recreational area with over 15,000 people in the area playing and having fun on the scheduled weekend. It is a very focused local market with lots of people with a lot of money looking for things to do. Translation: Traders have a lot of potential customers ready to spend.
Incorporated as Bear Lake Rendezvous Inc.
Alliances formed with The National Oregon California Trail Center, The American West Heritage Center and Bear River Heritage Area.
Now, full disclosure. We have the money to proceed. So this is not a plea for money.
We have most of the ingredients necessary to cook up a great event. But we have to have the participation of traders and campers to attract a visitor market. As of now we have 11 traders registered. The area will support as many as we want. We need to have 35 traders/campers signed up and committed to attend to provide a marketable product to the visitors.
If we do not have 35 traders/campers signed up/committed by June 20th we will cancel the 2013 BLR and make plans for the 2014 BLR. All paid registrations will be 100 % refunded.
If we do cancel 2013 we would be interested to find out why there was not enough interest with the traders/campers. Bad dates? Too close to Bridger Rendezvous? Too hot? Think people will not attend? Bad Location?Your input will help us move forward and make changes as necessary for 2014.
Understandably, there is apprehension about a new event. Our number one goal was to produce a quality event for the participants as well as the visitors. We will pursue this goal and refuse to offer a “bad” event that will denigrate the future of the Bear Lake Rendezvous.
Also, receiving non-profit status will allow us to attract corporate sponsors who will be willing to contribute to the success of the future rendezvous. We can get into budgets for 2014 and the donation is then tax-deductible.
So anyway, thanks for reading through. It’s up to you. If you have registered, thank you. Please talk to all those that may not have heard. Pass on the info to friends and family. We are excited to proceed, if not this summer, next summer. We can make this a rendezvous to be proud of.
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The foundation of a property is what the home rests on. Built a number of different ways, a foundation keeps a property stable, so it’s a major and important part of any house. When it comes to your home, the type of foundation you have is very likely determined by where you’re located in the US and your area’s climate. There are four main types of home foundations: slab, basement, crawl space, and pier and beam.
A slab foundation sounds just like it is – a big slab of flat concrete on which a property is built. A slab foundation doesn’t require a lot of prep on the part of the builder, and it is favored in warmer climates because it doesn’t do well in areas that freeze in the winter.
A basement is a popular foundation style in many colder climate areas. Not only does a basement add additional square feet to a home, it provides a place to escape from extreme weather. Typically constructed of cinder blocks, basements are built to be waterproof.
A crawl space foundation is a foundation that affords a small amount of space between the home and the ground. Typically built using cinder blocks or bricks, the home is elevated about two feet off the ground. Crawl spaces are favored in areas that get a lot of rain or in areas where water can accumulate.
Pier and beam foundations are favored by many builders — because they are less expensive than other foundations — and they’re especially favored in areas not prone to earthquakes or hurricane-force winds. This foundation uses wood posts or concrete piers that are set deep into the earth and hold the weight of the structure.
It’s normal for a house or property to ‘settle’, which can cause minor small hairline fissures in any foundation, but if you can see major horizontal cracks in things like brick exteriors or concrete blocks, it’s more than just the natural sinking of the home. If you see major cracks in the walls, floors, or stairs of a home, it’s highly likely the foundation could be in trouble.
Again, homes and properties will have a natural settling period, which means the foundation will sink, but if a home is visibly sunk into the ground or one side is lower than the other there’s definitely a foundation issue that could require extensive repair. Another tell of foundation settling or sinking, is sagging or uneven floors. If a house has major issues with uneven floors or floors that sag in certain spots, the foundation may have done more than just simple settling.
Heavy moisture in any area of a home is bad news, but moisture in a crawl space or under a home sometimes goes unnoticed due to the lack of daily use of those areas. If you notice that a crawl space is damp, that there’s a noticeable musty or moldy smell in a home, or you live in a climate that gets a lot of year-round rain, it’s very possible there is an issue under the house. Not only can excessive moisture hurt a foundation, it can also attract termites and cause wood beams to rot, all of which are not good for a property.
A home can settle or sink, and it can also move in an upward direction. Foundation upheaval, which mainly impacts slab foundations, can be caused by expanding and contracting soil, trapped moisture, and frost heaving. If you see a home that looks like it’s higher in certain places, it could have foundation upheaval.
When a property is built, all the doors and windows work with ease, opening and closing with no issues. After a home has settled, they might not open as easily, but it’s usually not noticeable or not a problem. If you happen upon a house where doors or windows drag, doors get stuck in the jamb, both need to be opened with force or require force to be closed, the property could have some major foundation issues.
Another door and window issue that can indicate foundation issues is any visible gaps around window frames or exterior doors. Doors that no longer latch, double doors that no longer align, or any door or window frames that are crooked and impair the proper use of the item all indicate possible issues with the foundation.
Counters and cabinets are generally installed with care, especially when it comes to how level and secure they are to the walls. If you notice a home where the counters or cabinets are separating from the wall, it could be an indicator of foundation damage. It can be hard for homeowners to see walls shift (because it could look like everything is fine from the outside), but a counter or cabinet separating from the wall is a very visible signal of an immediate issue.
If you have any questions about the foundation of your home, or a home you’re looking to buy, find a trusted professional to help you navigate the waters of home foundations.
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This entry was posted on Monday, May 10th, 2010 at 12:29 am and is filed under Uncategorized. 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.
author ougth to include otherwise the conclusions will not hold. The author has to also state the movement in the terms of trade betweeen the two countries as it important in the transmission mechanism…….
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This is Larry Signor's Typepad Profile.
pgl, Your point was well made. Owen is a troll and a jerk with an overly developed sense of self importance, or more probably, smoking something he should have left alone.
"benefit incidence" is the most compelling argument for fiscal stimulus there is. Low initial capital costs make fiscal stimulus much more attractive. Benefits, deficits and any purported healthcare drag would respond positively to a more vibrant economy. Could this be a second order "benefit incidence"?
An extremely tragic situation. I don't understand how we can bail out wall street to the tune of trillions but cannot help 3.4 million people with a miserly 70 billion dollars. A one shot deal, "problem solved", as my grandson says. Many reasons not to act will be trotted out, but the main reason to act will predominate: it's the right thing to do.
"...we have wealthy people believing that whatever made them wealthy must be good, and so they want to force that upon everyone! It is a recipe for disaster." Empirically, I have to agree with this statement, if not the context.
"OBAMACARE CREATES 2.5 MILLION NEW JOBS...ObamaCare is actually a serious stimulus package right at the time we need it..." If only we had "real" journalists, and "...if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their a...s".
You are quite wrong. Jefferson turned down a large bequest that was intended to free his slaves. They were too valuable to him. "After Jefferson’s death in 1826, the families of Jefferson’s most devoted servants were split apart. Onto the auction block went Caroline Hughes, the 9-year-old daughter of Jefferson’s gardener Wormley Hughes. One family was divided up among eight different buyers, another family among seven buyers." http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-dark-side-of-thomas-jefferson-35976004/?page=9 Perhaps you should read the entire article.
“Obamacare costs 2 million jobs” Very sketchy logic. The majority of Americans are cash constrained. The will "choose" to work less? Like I said, sketchy.
"...than the more intellectually formidable Paul Krugman." Jared is more pragmatic. Being a realist does not make one less "...intellectually formidable...". Mr. Bernstein is not as shrill as PK, yet, but he has his moments. There is definitely a need for both styles.
At this point we are still talking about winding down QE. Unwinding QE, if it can be done, will be an economic event with far reaching consequences. The idea of reselling bonds which were only marketable to the Fed is some what dubious.
Someone should have asked the carpenters, plumbers, electricians and other construction workers. We knew it was a bubble. 30 years in the business and a person can recognize a tour bus pulling into McDonalds. Now we need models and conferences to explain how greedy fools stole the money? A little honesty and decency could have averted most of the recent financial suffering in the US. Do we have a model for that?
"Newt's War on Poor Children"
Today, from Calculated Risk: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2011/08/european-commission-president-crisis-no.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CalculatedRisk+%28Calculated+Risk%29 Letter from the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso: "The 21st of July bold decisions on the Greek package and the increased flexibility of the EFSF (precautionary use, recapitalisation of banks and intervention in secondary bond markets), are not having their intended effect on the markets. ... [I]t is clear that we are no longer managing a crisis just in the euro-area periphery. ... We need also to consider how to further improve the effectiveness of both the EFSF and the ESM in order to address the current contagion. ... I would like to call on you to accelerate the approval procedures for the implementation of these decisions so as to make the EFSF enhancements operational very soon."
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Since 2008, the Buell Center has been engaged in a long-term initiative dedicated to cultivating a new, national conversation about the past, present, and future of public housing in the United States, particularly in the context of the current economic crisis. This conversation has taken shape, in terms of both architecture and urban policy, through the wide distribution of our pamphlet, Public Housing: A New Conversation, and a series of unique public programs. This work envisions that genuinely public housing is needed, and investment in housing and related infrastructures could serve as a catalyst of urban transformation in American cities and suburbs.
The pamphlet synthesizes Buell Center research and ideas generated in the Public Housing/Public Sphere: Policy and Design Workshop held in July 2009 at GSAPP’S Studio-X space in downtown Manhattan. It seeks to restate the problem by reconsidering the facts: that public housing exists in the United States in a variety of forms, that more of it is needed in other forms, and that these needs are connected to those public needs addressed by recent investment in other types of infrastructure. These ideas have been further explored in The Buell Hypothesis, which continues the effort to enlist the design community in rethinking the American dream and contemplating a potentially different future for public housing and the American city.
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← Introducing our local Community Bakery!
Great idea, this. Can’t wait to see the results.
thanks! I’m exicted and daunted.
January has been deemed organization month by retailers. Note all the closet organizers and storage containers on sale in the big box stores. They want us to spend money on this idea. I am going through my basement and found several cookbooks more than we need that came from my mother’s house after she died in 2010. Their worth on Amazon is .01 cents, so they are relegated to a yard sale box.
Close your eyes and pick at random! Go to the back index and leaf to a page and once again close your eyes and stick out your finger! Excited for your project!
thanks for the suggestion, have made my first choice but people will have to wait to see which it is.
I love this idea and might do something similar! Good luck!
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There is a book called “501 Must Read Books”. My friend Sheena acquired it and made the mistake of showing the list to myself and some other close friends. We all read, it’s been a keystone of our friendship for many years. We’re also all pretty competitive. I was horrified to find that despite considering myself well-read I could only notch up a score of 69 on the list. Ok so I was in second place with that score (beaten only by my eclectic reading friend Deirdre with 110), but wasn’t I supposed to be the writer, the big reader, the one who got paid to review books?
I spent a year mulling over the challenge. I already read about 70-100 books per year (not counting magazines, ebooks etc), could I really tackle such a long list? Did I want to?
But then I found myself buying books because I knew they were on the list. I’d begun without ever convincing myself that I should begin. The challenge is on. No deadline. No prize. I’m going to read the remainder of the 501 books and post a brief review here as I do so. Feel free to join in. I know I won’t keep all of the books afterwards (I’ve already wanted to hurl one away from me with some degree of force a la Dorothy Parker) so I intend giving most of them away here to interested blog-readers. Only the very best of the 501 will remain on my limited shelf-space. Of course I’ll be using my local library for some – I won’t be able to give those ones away.
And hey, I can be hired for table-quizzes afterwards as I’ll be ridiculously well-read, hopefully.
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It’s been a long time I know since I’ve had chance to update you on recent commission projects, but I’d like to share with you my most recent and most significant commission piece from the not so distant back end of 2014.
‘That Infidel Piece’ is a centerpiece specially commissioned for the historical Girton College in Cambridge – and what a HUGE project it was! The raised and forged 12 separate components were little complete pieces in themselves – fine winding sections alongside heavy chunky curves – all worked tightly against models and line drawings. Most problematic and testing was the final process of building together these unconventional pieces, which were joined by 42 rivets, through 82 fine drill holes! Many hands were needed at that early stage to be able to build together the ‘base’ pieces, and a heartfelt thanks goes out to my neighbour apprentice for her unwavering assistance at that point!
To find out more about the design of the project and of course about what its title means (!), please click here to view the portfolio piece further.
Interesting things to look at here in the workshop – metals to explore and hammering to view… And the odd little dish to purchase.
The weather’s just about holding up, so it’s a good day!
Late night preparations for this weekend’s Open Studios!
North Yorkshire Open Studios is here again! Open this weekend and next from 10.30am – 5.30pm.
Tea, cake and some of that silversmithing stuff!!!
Follow the signs into Wighill Park to take a look at what I do here.
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An interview with the great cartoonist and writer David Malki ! (No, that’s not a typo, he likes to use an exclamation mark as an honorific). Even in an interview his wit is just as dry and entertaining as his work.
You are currently browsing the archives for the David Malki! category.
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Thoroughbred pedigree analyst Calvin Carter with the book he coauthored with equine sport psychology pioneer Kerry Thomas.
Calvin Carter, coauthor with equine athletic psychology pioneer Kerry Thomas of HORSE PROFILING: THE SECRET TO MOTIVATING EQUINE ATHLETES has long studied pedigree and blood stock. It was 2009 when he attended a Derby Trial race at Churchill Downs and met Kerry—they hit it off from their first meeting. Kerry wanted to write a book about his extensive research and study into the emotional conformation and herd dynamics of racehorses. Calvin, with a degree in English and journalism and a background as a writer, believed strongly in Kerry’s techniques.
Click the image to read the full feature story about Calvin Carter and his method of picking winning equine performers.
HORSE PROFILING is available from the TSB online bookstore.
As a pioneer in the field of Equine Athletic Psychology, Kerry Thomas—aided by Calvin L. Carter, a pedigree analyst and freelance writer— sets forth his theories and training programs in Horse Profiling: The Secret to Motivating Equine Athletes. The work will benefit horse owners, trainers, and equine teams in their goals of bringing out the best in their already talented horses.
The informative book begins with the author’s introduction to his philosophies. He then lays out each section with specific techniques and how to implement them. This includes setting up an Emotional Conformation Profile of the horse. When problematic behavior is found, the author explains how to nurture a frightened or depressed horse, or one with a deep-rooted negative memory association. Thomas relates stories and case book studies that keep the text interesting. Interspersed throughout are Q and A sections called “Kerry’s Corner” which provide solutions for particular cases.
Over 100 candid, color photos of beautiful horseflesh tell their own stories. We learn about a racehorse who was an expert in “managing outside stimuli…to target and release opponents”—Barbaro, 2006 Kentucky Derby winner. It’s inspiring to find out which horses had physical defects but were aided with a champion’s heart and the will to win: Real Quiet, Looking at Lucky, Sunday Silence, Seattle Slew and Northern Dancer. The last story in this well-written, technical and yet entertaining volume is about Seabiscuit, the 1938 Horse of the Year.
Along with vital information for professional horse handlers, this beautiful over-sized teaching guide will equally appeal to all lovers of horses. The book will stimulate interest in young people who will thrill to the adventures and pictures. They just may identify and follow through with a lifetime focus on a fulfilling career.
Mary Popham is a writer and book reviewer who lives in Louisville. She holds an MFA from Spalding University.
Kerry Thomas Hopes to Change Racing with Horse Profiling–So What Can It Do for Other Horse Sports?
Horse Profiling yields fascinating and important information about ALL KINDS of horses! Here Kerry Thomas profiles Cricket.
TSB author Kerry Thomas and his Thomas Herding Technique (THT) system, which he describes in the book HORSE PROFILING, have recently been featured on the BloodHorse.com and HorseRacingNation.com. We are all hoping that Kerry’s ideas for “emotional conformation profiling” can be key in changing the way horse racing in the US is currently handled and viewed. Kerry is a proponent for embracing the horse as a horse first, and an athlete second, and his methods focus on finding ways to match the right horse to the right job, and then training the horse in ways befitting his nature so that he is more likely to succeed and stay healthy in mind and body while doing it.
Kerry’s methods have already found footing in the Thoroughbred racing industry because of his study of herd motion and herd dynamics—it finds very natural application in a “herd sport.” But how can his horse profiling techniques help us motivate equine athletes in other horse sports?
“Having profiled nearly all of the various equine athletic disciplines over the years, I have found that for my clients who own and train eventing horses and hunter/jumpers, an evaluation of their horses pre-purchase or as an ‘in-training athlete’ is an extremely valuable tool,” says Kerry. “The owner/trainer has much to gain and glean from an Emotional Conformation Profile—the tool I use to analyze horse behavior and with it, identify hidden potential.
“One of the core earmarks within a profile of any horse is identifying the way in which the horse interprets both visual and audio stimuli—the efficiency within the translation of environmental stimuli will govern the horse’s efficiency of motion. Among the key discoveries I made in the course of my research, first with wild horse herds in Wyoming, and now in performance horses in various disciplines, is that Patterns-of-Behavior translate to Patterns-of-Motion. Whether in the dressage ring, approaching a complicated question on a cross-country course or combination in the hunter ring, or cutting a cow from a herd, the performance horse’s Patterns-of-Motion dictate the performance outcome. Therefore, understanding his behavioral tendencies in and out of the herd can predict his ability to perform in all manner of situations, and provide the rider/trainer the insight necessary to successfully increase the horse’s ability to perform his very best more consistently.
Find out more about Kerry Thomas’ exciting theories and work with THT in the book HORSE PROFILING, available from the TSB online bookstore.
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On my way to ITALY for some "dolce vita"
48 hours isn’t much. In fact, two weeks in Rome, the Eternal City that was once the center of the universe, is not enough time to discover Rome’s treasures and its romance. But the typical sightseer will want to check off the sights that are often discussed back home. They include the Vatican, the Colosseum, the ancient Roman forums, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and the Spanish Steps. It can be done in two days even with time for a gelato and a wonderful dinner in a family trattoria, and can be done at a relaxed pace if one bundles the sights according to geography and divides the days in half-day units, devoting two of those units to the Vatican.
DAY 1: Spend a full day at the Vatican. Don’t rush here; appreciate the art and history at the center of Christianity. As you approach the Tiber River, take the time to admire the Castel Sant’Angelo on the right and the Ponte Sant’Angelo, the bridge lined with statues of angels that Bernini carved or inspired.
Vatican City (an independent country) lies a short walk beyond the river. You’ll pass through Bernini’s Colonnades and enter the enormous St. Peter’s Square. Then it’s a matter of apportioning your time discovering the treasurers of the square, the Basilica, the Sistine Chapel, and the Vatican Museum.
Again, one might engage in a useful division of time here. Use one of your units (half a day) for the Bernini-designed St. Peter’s Square and the Basilica, capped with Michelangelo’s dome. Directly inside the Basilica and to the right is the incomparable Michelangelo-sculpted Pieta, breathtaking in its majesty, its detail and its “anima” (soul). The list of noteworthy sights in the Basilica is far too extensive to serve our purposes here (get a guide book), but you won’t be able to resist the Baldacchino, the Bernini-designed bronze canopy which dominates the nave.
The other Vatican unit may be devoted to the Museum and the Sistine Chapel, adorned with paintings by Rafael, his master Perugino, Botticelli, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment and, of course, his incomparable ceiling. Far too often, tourists rush through the corridors and salons of the museum on the way to the most famous chapel in the world. Try to be patient and spend a little time amongst the real treasurers of the Christian world. You can’t be disappointed.
DAY 2: In a half day, you can start at the Spanish Steps, visit the Keats-Shelly memorial, and walk to the Trevi Fountain then on to the Pantheon. On this walk, you’ll encounter modern Romans busy at work and play, you’ll smell the espresso and you’ll dodge the countless Vespas buzzing the city. You’ll take time to toss a coin in the famous fountain and you’ll pay your respect to Rafael at his tomb.
You can lunch at the nearby Piazza Navona, centered by Bernini’s Fountain of Four Rivers.
It is possible to spend a half day in ancient Rome and feel that you’ve accomplished your sightseeing mission. Start by climbing the various levels of the Colosseum, taking in its tortured place in history. Then visit the Arch of Constantine before walking the Via Dei Fori Imperali to the ancient Roman Forums. Take the tour; you’ll get more out of your valuable time. You’ll walk the ground where Julius Caesar established his capital, you’ll visit the house of the Vestal Virgins, the Curia, where the Roman Senate ruled the empire and you’ll walk through a forests of fallen pillars, marble arches and the abandoned foundations of what was, 2,000 year ago, the center of the world.
If you have any energy left, it’s a short walk to the Piazza Venezia and the monument to Vittorio Emanuele (the huge white marble alter dedicated to the first king of united Italy). Around the corner, you can climb the steps to Michelangelo’s graceful piazza, the Campidoglio.
Yes, you can explore the Colosseum to the Campidoglio in one afternoon, traversing the art and history of two millennia of Rome, from the birth of the Empire to the unification of modern Italy. You’ll be exhausted but sated. Of course, it would be better if you could afford more time.
That’s the major sights of Rome in 48 hours. You can still find time for dinner at the Piazza Barbarini or the Via Venato, as Fedrico Fellini once did. Better still, you can find a family-run trattoria along the Tiber or hidden among the ancient narrow streets of Trastevere.
There’s lots more to Rome. If you can afford more units, you may want to visit the: Campo dei Fiore, Villa Borghese (gardens) and the Borghese museum, the Appian Way, the Mouth of Truth, the ancient aqueducts, Circus Maximus, Baths of Caracalla, San Giovanni in Laterano (the Mother of all Churches), or Santa Maria della Vittoria. And there’s more. If you had two weeks, you could explore each of the Seven Hills of Rome and all their treasurers. But perhaps this will get you started on two days in Rome and going home with something to talk about and plenty of memories and photos.
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« Vegas for ETA, onward to TRISC!!
I hear this question often, “In PCI Requirement 6.6, what is a Web-Facing Application?” When discussing web applications in the enterprise, which applications are relevant to Requirement 6.6? Obviously we’re counting the e-commerce web application where we sell widgets and accept credit cards for payment, but what about your business partner portal? What about the HR application used only by employees? How about that application hosted on your intranet? This discussion is about how I have approached and classified web applications during my onsite PCI audits.
The notion of what applications may be ‘Web-Facing’ is a function of where application requests originate. Regardless of where a web application server is physically or logically located on a corporate network, the theory of what is internet accessible is very much a function of how or where a request comes from.
This is the broadest and most widely accepted interpretation of a ‘web-facing’ application. This is a web application that is designed and delivered with the intent of access by individuals or organizations over the public internet.
A key thought is that this type of application would exposed to the broadest base of potential users, whether they are ‘friendly’ or ‘malicious’. These applications will know the least about their potential users.
These applications are ABSOLUTELY web-facing, those involving credit cards are IN SCOPE unless proven otherwise.
This would be an application accessible to a restricted set of specific users or users of a controlled network. Requests to an ‘Outward Facing’ application would be limited by source- a partner network (coming from a semi-trusted network), over a VPN (already authenticated), or some other presumably identified non-internal source.
The idea of an ‘Outward Facing’ application is this notion that requests are coming from a semi-known source. An unsafe assumption, but the idea here is to narrow the source of requests- think of these as semi-public applications.
Outward Facing applications involving credit cards will be IN SCOPE unless proven otherwise.
These are classic ‘internal’ applications. Think about a corporate intranet- some internal web applications for travel planning, requisitioning time off or office supplies, benefits, or any other web application intended exclusively for internal corporate use only.
*IF* there are intranet applications involving credit cards, they *MAY* be in scope.
As with any systems or applications handling credit card data, precautions and protective measures must be reflect the vulnerability of the system and the exposure to attack. For the record, internet-based hacking of internal (non-public) applications is happening in the wild (read Jeremiah’s post – Intranet hack targeting AT&T 2Wire DSL modems.) Does this mean your intranet application is at risk? Maybe, maybe not. What *is* noteworthy is that non-public applications are accessible through CSRF- these attacks will continue to evolve.
What is most important is the discussion of due care. All organizations have budgets, and most likely several applications to assess and protect. Taking measures to organize applications based upon data sensitivity, exposure or likelihood of attack, and what is being done.
Bottom line– does PCI require the testing of internal or intranet web applications? I’m not sure this is easily defined. My encouragement to the asking organization is to at least get an idea of how solid or vulnerable an application is- the network perimeter no longer creates the safe harbor we once enjoyed.
Beyond PCI, web applications will soon be completely ubiquitous. We probably won’t be calling them web applications for much longer. Authentication mechanisms are getting stronger, and applications are becoming more accessible (does your bank allow for balance checks from your cell phone?).
My hope is that the bar will be raised, that enterprise risk teams will acknowledge the accessibility of web applications, and focus on identifying vulnerabilities for all applications- and managing risks based not upon vulnerabilities in chosen applications, but as a function of threat, severity, and relative costs.
This entry was posted on April 14, 2008 at 1:21 pm and is filed under PCI. 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.
Hahah, alright I guess this has to be one of the most direct responses to that question, and it certainly has provided me with the factual snippets of what I need to consume, thanks!
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When I asked my students to analyze a product of American culture, they provided me with a series of papers that conflated the product (i.e., jeans, television shows, MacDonalds, iPods) with the culture that created them. They were further surprised when I told them that their choices were largely out of date in America.
I am here to teach American culture via film and media. In my classes, we talk about history, theory, literature, and politics. They not only watch films but read theory and novels. It is a tricky subject, Cultural Studies. It is too easy to get absorbed by the drama of television shows, films and to learn to see the structure underlying these narratives. If you take these cultural products out of the culture, then what meaning do they have? If people watch these cultural products, these narratives that express the very unique American culture values , without the context, then what do they truly understand or learn? What seems to occur is that the cultural product itself replaces meaning. Then, American culture is reduced to a superficial consumption of its products.
It is also disappointing to find none of the doctoral students ( bar one) attending my courses or taking time to discuss ideas with me. Yet, if they are to teach American literature, it would be , i would think, valuable, to see and understand the links between American literature and its cultural byproducts. Perhaps, it is because it in this country film studies are not a part of English literature studies. Perhaps, it is a long lingering feeling that television and film, like other mass media cultural products, are lightweight and don’t add to the serious conversation about culture.
Yet, film is so uniquely American, in its narrative, use of technology, and business development. American film developed two specific narratives, the western and the film noir (and its derivatives) that connect directly to popular literature, and serious literature. Film, too, as a cultural product to be consumed by the lower classes is also important in understanding how people in America learn the lessons that the upper classes receive from literature and theater. While many such stories such as the western embrace American ideology, others such as soap operas, gangster films, and satire question those ideals. America is a nation composed of immigrants, a constant influx of people who arrive not fluent in English or even literate in their own. Yet, the desire to learn via stories is universal. Film, and now television, have become democratic vehicles to educate.
POSTSCRIPT: just read in the American newspaper that the one public university in my city and another in Minnesota are planning to eliminate a large number of humanities subjects, including theater and media and economics.
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Flower Mound, TX (July 21, 2011) – FUNimation® Entertainment is announcing that it is bringing the first installment of the anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z to Blu-ray disc for the first time this fall.
Among the most prized in the FUNimation catalog, the studio has used the newest technology available to remaster in high-definition and digitally restore the 291 episodeseries. FUNimation worked with Dallas-based ANDTRANSFER for the digital film transfer. FUNimation previously worked with the post-production house to remaster the series for the season set releases on DVD. The transfer was performed by nationally-recognized colorist Steve Franko and supervised by FUNimation, which then finished the rest of the restoration process.
Today’s state-of-the-art systems offer tools that allow restoration teams to make a wide range of repairs and focus on more difficult tasks which, in the end, deliver a clean product that faithfully presents the original version and measures up to the high-quality standards of HDTV and Blu-ray.
Once again, the Dragon Ball Z series was digitally transferred from the original Japanese 16mm film frame by frame at 1080p. Developments in restoration softwaregives mastering artists more to work with when they apply tools to even out film grain and remove fading, film cuts and other visual anomalies. As a result, the viewer will see brighter, clearer colors, less variance in quality between scenes, and a sharper image.
“Working with a very old and fragile source film presented a number of challenges for the restoration process,” said Gen Fukunaga, CEO and president at FUNimation Entertainment. “Our purpose was to restore the series as accurately as possible, to what it must have been like to see it when it was originally mastered, and preserve the charm of the animation. After all, it is of a particular time and place.” After debuting in 1989, Dragon Ball Z has become an iconic anime series. The franchise has sold more than 25 million DVD and Blu-ray discs in its lifetime, becoming the best-selling anime series of all time.
Dragon Ball Z is the explosive sequel to Dragon Ball. The series follows the adventures of Goku and his son Gohan as they team up with their friends to battle evil forces throughout the universe to protect their beloved planet Earth. The first season covers the Vegeta Saga and chronicles the introduction of one of Dragon Ball Z’s main characters, Vegeta.
This restored edition also features the original U.S. voice actors as well as the original FUNimation soundtrack – all in lossless Dolby® TrueHD.
Dragon Ball Z Level 1.1 includes the first 17 episodes on two discs with over 400 minutes of action and among the extras included on this release is a feature that looks at the restoration and remastering processes.
Dragon Ball Z Level 1.1 will be available at major retailers nationwide on November 8, 2011.
FUNimation® Entertainment is the leading company for home video sales of Japanese animation in the United States. FUNimation has a proven formula for launching and advancing brands, and manages a full spectrum of rights for most of its brands including broadcasting, licensing, production, internet, and home video sales and distribution. For more information about FUNimation Entertainment and its brands, visit www.funimation.com.
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BRUNCH OF THE LIVING DEAD from Dan Conover on Vimeo.
I held off on releasing this in hopes of getting the audio sweetened by May 27, which happens to be International Zombie Day. When that didn't happen, I decided it was time to make a few little fixes and put this baby out!
Our Xark TV production of "BOTLD" got underway Sunday afternoon. Here's a taste of what you missed if you weren't there. With the cool kids.
BOTLD UPDATE: Crew positions available!
If you'd like one of these jobs, send me an e-mail. In most cases I'll take the first volunteer and post the name in comments. There's no pay, but you'll be listed by title in the video credits. You'll also be eligible to get a T-Shirt with your crew title across the back (how we'll pay for those T-Shirts depends on how much money we can raise).
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Designing Worlds’ Special Story for Halloween – now on the web!
The new episode of Designing Worlds –a very special story for Halloween – is now on the web!
Written by Judith Cullen (in Second Life Caledonia Skytower of the Seanchai Library), it’s read by Caledonia herself and Corwyn Allen, together with Saffia and Elrik. With haunting photographs by Wildstar Beaumont, this is a real Halloween treat from us to all our viewers.
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Epically inspirational, good Sui Tale-Spinner!!
Couldn't, quite, pick what the final shape of *objet* was--problem bilonga me?
the truck drawing and picture, and the word truck in the title didn't even make you _think_ about it being a truck ?
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Two MDivs and two PhDs, all dressed up in their gaudy academic gowns, were puzzled over the Hebrew letters.
(Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin). Instead, we found “MMTWM, NNQPY, ‘ ‘ LRZ.” I asked my colleague, Dr. J, to help me out.
There remains, however, the question of why it is written vertically. Nothing I’ve been able to turn up online gives any indication that Aramaic was written this way. It’s a right-to-left script like the Hebrew whose characters it shares.
The mistranscribed letter is the one at the top left of the inscription, which Rembrandt has taken as a terminal mem, ם, but which should be a samekh, ס. The close similarity of form makes the mistake understandable. I do not think the National Gallery is correct about the vertical arrangement being the result of mere ignorance, however. A more plausible suggestion is that Rembrandt here follows a Rabbinic tradition.
Aramaic was the lingua franca of the Babylonian court, so there should not have been any reason for Belshazzar or his priests not to be able to read the inscription. Says David Kahn, “It seems strange that the Babylonian priests could not read what was essentially a plain-language message.” The Rabbis cited in the Babylonian Talmud give various suggestions to explain this failure: the inscription was an Atbash cipher, or the forms of the characters were unusual in some way. Rembrandt follows another Rabbinic suggestion by writing the words vertically. This has some unflattering implications for the intelligence of the Babylonian priests, but then, the Rabbis are not shy about insulting the intelligence of the pagans: the name of King “Ahasver,” for instance, is still a Jewish way of calling someone a fool.
As an attempt to render the inscription incomprehensible, vertical writing may not seem to be a tough enough “cipher” to be a historically plausible explanation. Yet it seems to have worked on the sopherim of Mars Hill, at least for 5 minutes.
Kids can always surprise you!!! I had one that told me how much he hated Latin and then chooses to “hate” it so much he got a Ph.D. in it!!! Go figure!?
A perfectly delightful anecdote. Brought home how much I truly do miss being there.
Kanji, (as I know it) the Chinese ideagrams also used in Japanese writing (along with the simpler, phonetic hirigana and katakana) may be found written either vertically or horizontally.
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WHO WILL APPLY TO STAND ON THE FOURTH PLINTH?
Antony Gormley has officially opened the application process to members of the public who wish to stand on the fourth plinth of London’s Trafalgar Square, as part of his new artwork One & Other.
Every hour, 24 hours a day, for 100 days without a break, 2,400 different people will be able to occupy the plinth, and do whatever they like on it, as long as it’s legal.
“This is about, in some way, challenging the idea that only some people, people who are heroes or have served for their country, have the right to occupy plinths,” says Gormley.
According to the Guardian, 22,000 people have registered their interest so far. Which begs the question, what will people do with their hour as a living statue?
There will be the piss-takers; the dressing up enthusiasts; those who see it as a platform for showing off singing, acting or clowning talents; the campaigners; and, probably, a great deal of normal people who get up there with a book or an iPod, and simply wait it out, keen to simply become part of London’s artistic landscape for a while. At least, I hope that is the case.
But most, if not all, media coverage of the event will be given over to the outrageous: the nearly naked, the crazy, those with an incredible story to tell, and many other moments that are impossible to predict. It will be interesting to see if it really does represent a cross section of British society.
Antony Gormley’s One & Other will replace Thomas Schütte’s sculpture Model for a Hotel on 6 July 2009, and will be broadcast live on oneandother.co.uk and on the Sky Arts website.
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For those wondering why i haven’t been posting anything lately, i was actually hibernating in my own world during the festive season until this jungle feeling was all over. Spending the festive season inside gave me more time to get more productive and do something else rather than just write. My mood has been pretty on the low side due to the weather here and in a few weeks i’ll finally be leaving to a warmer climate for a couple of months. Things are pretty busy at the moment with all the preparations before my departure. To uplift my mood i got back to drawing and this totally gave me a new way to kill the time during this cold season. Getting back to Mandala drawing after years of absence from it has gave me some ideas for this website which you will be seeing pretty soon, hopefully before i leave this island.
I will leave you with some shots from some of the work below and until next time .. as i say every year for those who are willing to take the step and do what they love .. Happy New Life 2017 !.
Next Next post: What’s up with my life ?
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There are two standard measurements for the color characteristics of light: “color rendering index” (CRI) and “color temperature”, which expresses the color appearance of the light itself.
Color rendering index measures the ability of a light bulb to reproduce colors.
The higher the CRI rating is, the better its color rendering ability.
CRI scoring of 100 is best and a CRI of zero being the worst.
CRI of 0: For a source like a low-pressure sodium vapor lamp, which is monochromatic compare to a source like an incandescent light bulb which has CRI of 100?
CRI of 62: A standard “cool white” fluorescent lamp will have a CRI near 62.
CRI of 70: Lamps with CRIs above 70 are typically used in office and living environments.
CRI of 82 to 86: Compact fluorescent lamps are graded at 82-86 CRI, which is considered high quality color rendering. CRI is a more important consideration for retail lighting design than it is for office lighting.
CRI of 80 and above: It is considered high and indicates that the source has good color properties.
Incandescent lamps and daylight have a CRI of 100, the highest possible CRI.
The higher the CRI of the light source, the “truer” it renders color.
The CRI can only be used to compare two light sources that have the same color temperature. A 5000 K, 80 CRI light source is not necessarily superior to a 4000 K, 70 CRI light source.
How the light spreads out from the bulb (Beam Angle) is very important.
The beam angle determines how light is spread from the bulb into a given space.
The beam angle is the degree of width that light emanates from a light source. Specifically: The angle between those points on opposite sides of the beam axis where the intensity drops to 50% of maximum.
Typically a narrow beam angle is a ‘spot’ of light and called “Spot Light”. While a broader beam angle ‘floods’ with light, called a flood light. There are a number of much more specific designations of beam angle.
Beam angles of LEDs vary greatly and depend on their application. The shape of an LED bulb determines the direction light is emitted.
Narrow angle bulbs less than 30 degrees are usually used when placing multiple down lights close to each other, such as in a hallway or when lighting cabinetry.
Larger beam angles are used with high-power LEDs for floodlighting. If you’re replacing incandescent or halogen lamps with LEDs, make sure the beam angle is similar to the old bulb.
Very large beam angles are sometimes found in pantries or walk-in wardrobes. As beam angle increases, we require more lumens (light output) to maintain the light’s intensity.
It is another important parameter to decide the performance of the LED bulb in terms of lumens.
It indicates effectiveness of the light bulb by converting electrical energy into visible light energy on watts used by Lighting Bulb; hence efficacy is total lumens per watt.
Example: 9W light bulb comes with lumens of 800 has an efficacy of 90 Lumens per Watt.
Incandescent bulbs give us light by passing electricity through a filament which heats up and emits light. In fact, 95% of the energy in these bulbs is lost to heat and only 5% is what produces light Hence, incandescent bulbs produce only 16 lumens / watt.
LED bulbs on the other hand, can output up to 100 lumens / watt – which make them one of the most efficient sources of lighting.
LED Bulbs must be instant start and gives full Lumens from Starting.
When turning on CFLs and Fluorescent light bulbs, there is a slight hesitation before brightness is achieved, and some bulbs may flicker during warm up or even during operation.
Unlike fluorescents, LED bulbs, like incandescent bulbs, reach full illumination as soon as they are turned on.
LED lights produce a steady light which does not flicker.
Earlier versions of LED bulbs had the disadvantage of not being dimmable. Today, many LED bulbs are designed to work in dimmable switches which are provided in many lamps and home lighting fixtures.
The main cause of LED bulb failure is the driver. The driver is a small transformer that steps down the voltage from 230V AC to a much lower DC voltage for the LED.
It’s usually located inside the back of the bulb. A poor quality driver could result in bulb failure within months. The LED chip itself rarely fails until driver fails.
LED chips are manufactured by various big and small enterprises in the world. Some Good Suppliers make LED Chip of highest quality for longer life and more reliability.
Larger chip provide more lights, good stability against current variations, but it costs more.
Cheap and small led chip provides less light and stability. Ceramic COB lights are totally different in terms of size; they use multiple small chips to provide more lights and stability.
LED lights need good heat dispassion, this can achieved by good amount of aluminum. Aluminum is generally used to provide better heat sink and extends the life of LED chip.
Thin heat sink can provide more area in less weight, but transfer enough heat for the removal.
Some lower quality products provide 12 to 20W lights in very low weight in plastic body. These products would not perform well even in small span of time.
Although LEDs don’t produce much heat they can overheat in operation if they’re not cooled correctly. Cheap LED’s are less efficient, produce more heat and are more heat sensitive. Operating above 60°C can damage cheaper LED’s shortening their life, reducing light output and efficiency. Generally the higher the wattage/power of a GU10 LED bulb, the more heat it produces requiring a more thermally efficient bulb body to keep the LEDs cool. Therefore beware of cheap higher wattage bulbs that don’t have a metallic or ceramic finned body. Another issue is that higher wattage thermally efficient LED bulbs may be so large that they are no longer a suitable size.
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Reuse Became the way of life. To read the story from the inception of the Name Hong Kong Willie.
He keeps a blog about his art at hongkongwillie.blogspot.com. .
the worms for $4.50 a cup for fishing.
Bird of Key Largo” looking upon.
canvas. Recovered Brass Hanger: Key West lobster trap rigging.
West waters. Candy-like appearance due to multiple protective layers.
treasure hunter: also in identification of piece and artist.
stretched out over the property.
large sunglasses, she gives a smile, hardly looking up.
the feeling the Browns are trying to make a point rather than a sale.
would have been otherwise thrown away.
Kim looks up from her painting after Joe finishes his long ramble.
conservationists — to find new uses for the trash.
“All of us who believe what we believe is Hong Kong Willie,” Joe says.
words “Florida Beachfront Property” written in paint on it.
Only 300 were made and none look alike.
taxidermist), 30 of these painted planks hang from the walls.
unique sound systems to hang from their ceilings.
This entry was posted in famous Florida artist and tagged Famous Florida Artist, Florida famous Artist. Bookmark the permalink.
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We examine the geography of cotton textiles in Britain in 1838 to test claims about why the industry came to be so heavily concentrated in Lancashire. Our analysis considers both first and second nature aspects of geography including the availability of water power, humidity, coal prices, market access and sunk costs. We show that some of these characteristics have substantial explanatory power. Moreover, we exploit the change from water to steam power to show that the persistent effect of first nature characteristics on industry location can be explained by a combination of sunk costs and agglomeration effects.
This paper was distributed by NEP-HIS on 2013-09-13. Nick Crafts and Nikolaus Wolf, who have both provided significant contributions to the literature on industrial location, engage here in the analysis of the UK cotton textile industry. In particular cotton production during the Industrial Revolution was heavily concentrated in Lancashire, the region just north of Manchester. Moreover, this concentration persisted over the 19th century. The two authors are therefore interested in explaining both the original concentration and its persistence throughout time.
The paper presents a solid statistical work. The dataset comprises 1823 cotton mills and covers 148 locations in all of the UK. To explain the employment in textiles across these locations, the authors use information on coal prices, geography, climate and access to markets. All these measures are specific to each location and region fixed effects are included to avoid the omitted variable bias. Firms are assumed to be profit maximizers in their location decisions. The factors that influence the location decisions are considered into two broad groups: the “first nature” characteristics, which are considered exogenous to earlier location choices (i.e. climate) and the “second nature” characteristics which are endogenous (i.e. access to markets). Crafts and Wolf separate these two elements because they are interested in identifying the case of location choices that eventually modify the characteristic of the location itself (in particular market access).
They reckon that access to market can be so important that the cotton industry remained in a location in spite of higher variable costs because these were outweighed by better access to markets. Another way in which past choices can affect current choices is through sunk costs: once an investment in energy production was made in one location, it could hardly be moved to another location. However, it could often be adapted to new technology. The example provided is the switch from water to steam power, during which waterwheels were adapted to steam. This allowed some location that at that point did not have a fist nature advantage, to maintain their industries through path dependence.
Hibert, Platt & Son’s cotton machines. Illustrated London News, 23 August 1851.
On the empirical side, the paper uses a Poisson model to estimate the expected number of cotton mills and employed persons for each location as a function of the characteristics of the locations. The main findings are that water power production and number of patents registered increase the likelihood of location; coal prices had a surprisingly weak effect; agglomeration forces had a positive effect on the number of persons employed but a negative effect of the average size of the mills, suggesting that cotton industry was organized in a network of small specialized mills. This is confirmed by anecdotal evidence on Lancashire’s cotton industry. The authors also provide several robustness checks on their data to support their claims.
The paper then moves on to discussing why Lancashire achieved such a high concentration of cotton industries. The two authors explain that the high concentration was the result of a combination of first and second nature geography. To prove this statistically, Crafts and Wolf perform a counterfactual analysis in which they replace each characteristic with the average value of the UK and then impose a 10% change in the variables to compare their effect individually. Doing so, they come up with a “conversion table” that tells us what variation of the x variable is needed to offset a 10% variation of the y variable. The main results are that the location choices were driven both by first nature characteristics such as water power and second nature characteristics such as market access. The persistence of the location is liked to sunk costs and agglomeration economies, which allow some regions to maintain their industries in spite of the original advantage being vanished.
An image of the Lewis Textile Museum in Blackburn, Lancashire.
To conclude, the contributions of this paper are several. First, it makes for the first time use of statistical techniques to explain the location of cotton industries, which were crucial during the British Industrial revolution. Doing so, it contributes to the wider debate about the determinants of the location of industries in general, proposing a methodology based on counterfactuals which allows to compare the relative strenghts of the different factors. Finally, the paper adresses the always ‘hot issue’ of path dependency in location choices, which is faced by any researcher in this particular field. The next step in the research, to which we look forward, will be to estimate the model as a panel in order to cast more light on the persistence of location through time.
This entry was posted in Economic Geography and tagged British Industrial revolution, Economic geography, Industrial Location, market access, Textile industry, water power on 2013-10-28 by missiaia.
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Ultimately, Flannery O’Connor Award-winner Lori Ostlund’s debut novel, After the Parade, is about abandonment. It’s about other things, too. Finding a place for yourself in the world. Understanding where you’ve been in order to see where you’re going. Learning to take a chance on other people. One thing it’s not about is being gay, at least not in any extraordinary way. The novel’s protagonist, Aaron, is a gay man, and there are several other gay characters, as well as some overt coming-out-of-the-closet symbolism, but this book, appropriately, takes Aaron’s homosexuality for granted. (At one point, Aaron even uses his homosexuality as a defense against a bully who suspects his girlfriend of cheating on him, turning the gay-bashing cliché on its head.) And it never becomes the sort of coming out, coming-of-age tale that is, at this point, a bit too familiar.
But the flip-side of abandonment is declaring your independence, and the novel is also about that. As Aaron looks at it, “It was all a matter of perspective: whether one was focused on leaving or arriving, on the past or the future.” In the end, it’s all about putting the past behind you and getting on with your life.
On his own for the first time, Aaron moves into a shabby apartment in San Francisco and lands a job teaching English as a Second Language. His students are all struggling in various ways, most with their own traumatic histories, and Aaron’s past still haunts him, preventing him from achieving his goal of breaking free. When he meets a private investigator who offers to find his mother, Aaron is reluctant at first, but eventually realizes that he’ll never be truly free if he doesn’t achieve some closure. And so, with the information the P.I. turns up, off he goes on his quest to discover why she left all those years ago.
Many novels race forward in time with a thrilling plot and little or no exploration of character motivations or psyche. This is not one of those novels. There isn’t a lot of action or forward momentum to speak of in the present time of the book, and after he leaves Walter, other than teaching his students, Aaron doesn’t actually do much, which some readers may find frustrating. Instead, Ostlund is mostly interested in why her characters do what they do. Why did Aaron’s mother leave? Why does Aaron connect with Walter in the first place, and why does he later leave him? Why is Aaron drawn to Walter’s sister, Winnie, as if she were his own sister. To answer these questions, Ostlund makes frequent digressions from the narrative’s present time into flashbacks that peel away the layers of Aaron’s childhood— the period before his father’s sudden death, the years when his mother ran a small-town diner, the time after she disappeared, and the years with Walter.
And the question for the reader is what will Aaron do once he learns the truth? Will he be paralyzed by it? Or will it set him free? It’s an excellent question, and also an excellent reason to read the book.
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Nowadays! There is a buzz in the eCommerce industry. Many online selling companies or selling portals have launched its new and smart way of selling the products. We as a customer always try to buy from those selling sites whose service is reliable and where there is no or less chances of fraudulent.
Becuase, we as a buyer always look out for the latest offers by these selling sites. Because they apply offers on daily or occassionally.
After the emergence of smartphones, it has become easy for the buyers to search and compare the items of their choice.
Since these eCommerce companies have a collaboration and tie up with various online payment companies. Online shopping experience has become so easy and pleasant.
In today’s busy life, very body is busy with their daily routine. Earlier, it was a trend when people used to went market and chosen the items as per their choice. With the passage of time, trend used change and now it came a shopping mall/ supermarket where it was facilitated that people want to buy products under a single roof as well as at a single counter.
It does not meant the old trend of shopping has been discontinued or not in trend. That is still going on but with the changes of time people has changed their shopping styles.
Instant and Immediate Payment facility in E-commerce.
Now, it has come in trend where every person wants to do most of his works with the smartphones. which saves his time and efforts. Now, they are using different types payment gateways, instant payment facilities provided by banks and credit cards which facilitates the payment service fast.
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I am eating Paleo by necessity, but I try to add in some grains, legumes, and dairy for my family (while I omit). Two of my children cannot have glutamate either, so that puts them pretty much on the same eating path as me. One of them cannot eat chocolate, so we sub every chocolate recipe with carob.
Another note is that I do not avoid carbs. I actually actively work to ensure a higher Paleo-carb ratio, because all of my family feels better that way.
Depending on the season I am at in my life, I either cook M-F, or do once-a-week cooking, either way I go about it, I ensure that we have a different type of meal M-F, and leftovers on the weekend.
Monday-Friday, I rotate the breakfasts and lunches each week for one season (spring, summer, fall, winter). This keeps me from tiring with constant choices, while still keeping things different on a daily.
For dinners, Monday is some type of chicken dish, Tuesday is beef, Wednesday is soup and salad (autumn/winter) or sandwiches and veggies (spring/summer), Thursday is seafood/fish, and Friday is Make-In foods (since there are very few things I can eat out) or crockpot (autumn/winter).
Linked below are recipes that I go to frequently. I’m posting them here, to spare myself from having to hunt down the link every time I post a meal plan on my blog.
In my daily life, all meals for a given month are entered into Food Planner (I *love* MealBoard but currently it is only for Apple, and I’m not using my iPhone any more), entered into allotted days, then a grocery list is sync’d. It’s so simple and helpful!
Buttermilk Ranch Dressing – I now make this entirely with coconut kefir, no dairy involved, and all of us prefer it over the dairy version!
Apple Sandwich with Almond Butter, Blueberries & Pistachios – this is probably my family’s combined favorite. It is a little pricier, so it’s not a year-round thing. We serve with turkey breakfast sausage.
Creamy One-Dish Mac’ and Cheese – I have successful made this with rice pasta, almond milk, and Daiya “cheese” products and we like the taste even better than the animal dairy version; it’s definitely a splurge and not done very often!
Sloppy Jessicas (tweaked the way I thought it would be best, from the show Brooklyn Nine-Nine – I’ll eventually make this it’s own blog post with pics. Until then…): 3 cups chili, 3 cups mac n’ cheese, 3 oz pepperoni, 8 oz cooked breakfast sausage, 8 oz shredded mozzarella, 6 big pretzel buns. Cut buns in half lengthwise. Sprinkle mozzarella on both sides of each bun, bake at 350 until cheese is melted. Divide cooked sausage and pepperoni onto the bottom portion of each bun. Cover with divided mac n’ cheese and chili. Serve!
Cultured Broccoli Salad – I love adding cooked bacon and sunflower seeds with fermented mayo!
Paleo Pitas – I use this as naan, pitas, and roti, depending on the need. They work well!
Cassava Pizza Crust – I make this for any pizzas we have, I don’t even bother with a website’s recipe for “paleo pizza crust” any more. Without any spices in the mix, it makes an excellent communion cracker when baked a little bit longer! I make a batch, then break in small squares, and freeze for Sunday mornings.
Paleo Hamburger Buns – oh.my.gosh.
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