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My interest in being a mentor is to share my knowledge and experience on one hand, and on the other to rekindle the enthusiasm I have always felt for my career which from time to time does take a hit.
Vicken Koundakjian was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His father, Harry, was an internationally renowned photojournalist based in that city, because the Middle East, already in the 60s and beyond, was a regional hot bed of news activity, with the spate of wars, coups and other disasters, natural or otherwise, that seemed to happen regularly. To watch and cover all that was going on, Beirut was an ideal hub in that region.
Vicken is a career Canadian diplomat with nearly 30 years service to the Crown, with postings to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (1992 to 1995), Tehran, Iran (1998 to 2000), Caracas, Venezuela (2006 to 2008), and his most recent posting to Abuja, Nigeria (2008 to 2010). These are considered among the toughest missions in the Canadian diplomatic service. During his home assignments, Vicken has been assigned to manage more and more progressively complex files, as a reflection of his skills, ability and diplomatic acumen, covering the spectrum of bilateral, multilateral, commercial, consular and emergency management issues, including kidnap negotiations.
Already at a young age, Vicken was an active volunteer. After a long stint in scouts, where he got his first aid badge, he volunteered for the Lebanese Red Cross, which was the closest thing to St John Ambulance that could be found at that time. When his classmate and fellow volunteer was shot and killed, Vicken and his parents agreed that it was time to leave Beirut.
At that time, Vicken wanted to be a vet, so went to Belgium to study. However, physics proved to be his undoing, so he switched to languages. He currently has nine, most at high proficiency levels, which has been very helpful for his subsequent career as a diplomat. Vicken speaks Canada’s both official languages, English and French, as well as Armenian, Arabic and Persian, German, Spanish, Dutch (very rusty) and Russian (even more rusty).
His qualifications from l’Institut Supérieur de l’État des Traducteurs et Interprètes (ISTI in short) in Brussels, Belgium, were recognized as equivalent to a BA (Hons) in translation from Queens University, in Kingston, Ontario, one of Canada’s top universities. Queen’s has an equivalent translation program to the one in Belgium. He also has a BA (Hons.) in history, which he started at the University of Toronto, then finished at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he moved in 1990 when he joined the Canadian Foreign Service. Vicken is working on an MA in War Studies at Canada’s Royal Military College, based in Kingston, but that institution has not been offering any distance courses in Ottawa for some time, so that plan will likely change.
Vicken has always been interested in honours and awards, so has pursued that interest quite seriously. He was a prolific author and reviewer. For his contributions to the literature on honours and awards, as well as for establishing local branches, the OMRS awarded him its highest honour, the Gold Merit Award. Vicken is also a long standing member of the US-based Orders and Medals Society of America (OMSA), and while attending the conventions across the US, initiated a series of seminars on international orders and medals (to supplement the seminars on US and Commonwealth awards). Vicken has been recognized by OMSA with the award of a Life membership, a Commendation Medal and several Literary Medals.
Since his initial move to Ottawa, Vicken has been involved more and more in national and local charities. Vicken and his wife recently set up a bursary at Carleton University in Ottawa to support those refugees in their late teens and early twenties, who had to stop their studies when forced to flee their home countries. The “Home at Last: Welcome to Canada” bursary is intended to give student refugees the opportunity to concentrate on their university studies without worrying about financial pressures, and thereby help them contribute to a better Canada.
In December 2016, Vicken was informed that the Court of Common Council of the Corporation of the City of London has granted him the Freedom of the City of London, a high and ancient honour, which he is expecting to receive at some point in 2017.
Vicken is the recipient of the following Canadian and international orders and medals: Serving Brother of the Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal; Queen Elisabeth 2nd Golden Jubilee Medal; Queen Elisabeth 2nd Diamond Jubilee Medal; St. John Service Medal; Sultan of Quai’ti Meritorious Service Medal; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Medal of Merit.
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We started planning a Circle camping trip after Tempus and my anniversary trip last October (our 25th in 2013), but work schedules and real life got badly in the way and it finally turned into a “rock” trip, just an overnight-and-a-lot-of-driving couple of days. We had so much fun, though!
We started packing on Sunday and Monday, and so didn’t have whacking lot to do on Tuesday morning (9/16). Tempus and I got going pretty early and were at Marius’ place by 7:30. We re-packed his car and headed for Freddie’s. By 8:30 I was done shopping and waiting for the guys to get checked through the line. We got some treats, doughnuts, lunch stuff and drinkables and then headed out Rt, 20, talking all the way.
had dozed off , so Marius and I left him the car and took off down the trail to visit the trees. We took lots of pix. When we came back up , we made the acquaintance of the *stinkiest* woods john, and tried to get some pictures of a hornet and a butterfly chasing each other. We weren’t sure whether the pictures turned out or that we caught anything on the pictures…and we didn’t.
I didn’t know that insects play tag? At one point a bird was making a whistling sound and I tried to hit the pitch and imitate the call. I managed it on the 3rd try and the bird answered back with what sounded like a “WTF!” sound. Marius and I cracked up. Tempus was awake by then and met us and we talked and commented a bit.
We took off again around noon and drove through a lot of burnt trees, none of it really new. Some of them, with their burned trunks and branches where the burnt bark had all flaked away, turning them white, looked like it had snowed. Marius commented that even there you could see how nature was renewing herself in the undergrowth, new trees, even grass growing where last year’s damage had been.
We headed north when we hit Bend, catching one “wrong” turn, that nevertheless got us back onto the highway, rolled up to Madras, then turned onto the Deschutes highway and drove the dozen or so miles to Richardson’s, nearly missing the turn….which we do about 2 times out of 3….as many times as we’ve been there.
They’ve graded the road since we were last there, so it wasn’t as corduroy as usual. There weren’t as many birds around the ranch as we’re used to seeing for some reason. Timing, maybe? The watch emus were out of the pen close to the road, and I never saw then, although Marius did, but a few peacocks stalked past, being their exhibitionistic selves, and twice a little black hen… no idea whether it was two birds, or one twice…. ran across the parking area screeching, for some reason. There were also a ton of little birds all clustered around a bucket of grain that was set out for them.
It was 2pm when we pulled into the lot and it was *hot*! ….hot for us coasties…. about 90. I nearly passed out after choosing rocks out in the sun…. Stupid me forgot a hat! Those piles of rocks of all fascinating varieties kept calling to me, though! We’ve got some lavendar quartz, rose quartz (that I’m going to tumble, plus a couple) sodalite and geode bits, a couple of odds and ends and slabs.
The slab table in front of tons of jasper and geode.
Look at the size of that tiger eye slab!!!!! It was too big to go into the pickup bed, so they used the trailer.
After that we were inside. Stuff that’s for sale….
Selenite and Calcite candleholders…and me.
I was choosing worry stones and pendulums and mortar and pestle sets and keychains and eggs….lots of eggs… and then we had some orders to find things to fill.
$363 dollars later we finally sat down to having lunch, which was hoagie sandwiches. We also looked at some of the museum specimens they have, from the “dry aquarium” to centuries old jade, huge amethyst cathedrals (one is ceiling high, but the pic didn’t turn out) and the most incredible vase of carnelian so red and clear that it’s more like glass than stone.
Amethyst Cathedral – This is the *small* one!
After we were done gawking we drove back to Bend, found the Shilo (where we stayed) and drove on to the military surplus store, which had all kinds of fascinating stuff of a very different type….and hats. 🙂 We had hit there around 5pm and around 6:30 or so were checking in at the hotel and offloading stuff.
We had a leisurely and marvelous supper at the restaurant associated with the hotel, starting with a gorgonzola and cream on potatoes appetizer that was to die for! …and a tasty main course (I had marinated chicken, Marius a steak and Tempus an Angus Burger) …and we had leftovers, yet. We didn’t have room for dessert. We chose to eat outside on the deck where there is a fountain with its own little stream and an outdoor swimming pool. The temp was in the low 70’s, only little zephyrs blowing by once in awhile, not a ton of people and no mosquitoes.
We got back from supper at about 8pm, and after digesting for awhile, tried the little patio to listen to the river, then headed for the pool and spa. We spent a couple of hours there, swimming and soaking alternately… and talking, of course. It was going on 10:30 at that point and one by one we headed for bed. I was last, typing until I was getting sleepy.
I got up at dawn, overheated, since the AC never did turn on. We figured that out in the morning, not being tired and sleepy at that point… We needed to turn on a main thermostat….
I went and sat on the little personal patio, watching the growing light, but with a small table stuck between the door and the jamb, having locked myself out the night before. 🙂 There were a lot of mallards and jumping fish rings on the river and I saw something….too dark to be sure what… too small for an otter, but with the same swim profile….heading determinedly upstream.I went back in and slept for a little, but got up around 6:45 again and got the newsletter out. This is the view from the patio at around 7:30am.
The guys were still asleep while I was doing that, although at one point Marius just turned off the alarm and said he was going to sleep for a bit, yet. 🙂 It was completely overcast and 56F at that point, although by the time we were up and packing it had cleared up and it was lovely weather. We alternated snoring and opening our eyes until I was finally wide awake and Tempus made coffee, which was decaf and horrid! Urgh…..We started rustling around getting the morning moving and I discovered that I had no comb and no toothbrush. oog….
Tempus went outside and picked up a lot of juniper berries for drying from the tree behind the room and then unpacked the fridge into the icebag. having filled a lot of pop bottles for drinking during the day. we packed up, checked out and went across the street to have breakfast at Shari’s.
They guys were deep in plans for finding all kinds of marvelous pieces at Glass Buttes, also of building a ballista…. totally different topic, and then I went off on myths and mythologizing. We have some of the weirdest conversations…..
By 11am we were rolling out of Bend, having also gotten some water and gas and such. The countryside goes rural pretty fast and desert *really* fast after that. There are two places whose names I remember in between. Brothers has the rest area (the next one is 72 miles farther!) and the other is Hampton, which I remember from growing up in a neighborhood of that name, named after the Hampton Mansions that was built by the Ridgely family in the colonial era.
I took a bunch of flora pix at the rest area.
We got to Glass Buttes around 1pm. The first pic to the left is the digging areas. It’s hard to find the turn-off, but it’s by the 77 mile marker. There weren’t any porta-biffies left after the summer, although there had been on the google map, just last week, so I had them drop me off by a lovely juniper tree right in the middle of the triangle in this 2nd map, right in the middle of the picture. They went off to the right hand corner of the lower map…. following the royal blue line that goes to the aurora borealis pits.
I lay back on the trunk of the tree and watched the clouds and listened to the silence of the material world and the lack of a sense of people. Oh, the area is not uninhabited, but no machine sounds, except when folks were heading past up to the pits, was heavenly. I tossed out the leftovers from lunch and had a number of sparrows, a couple of bluebirds, a chipmunk and something that looked far too like a rat for my comfort, but had a short tail and a wide hind end. I spent awhile picking up juniper resin tears and contemplated picking up some of the fallen fronds for drying and then decided not.
Someone had been knapping by the tree and I looked at the debitage for awhile, picking over some of the bits.
anything, but the bright, clear air of Eastern Oregon wasn’t!
Getting ready to go do something else.
When they came back for me, we did some “road-picking”, getting mostly black and mahogany obsidian, but I found a nice piece of green banded, then another, and then a piece that I’m pretty sure is gold sheen…. 3 coffee cans worth of stuff…..
My back started screaming, so I got back into the car and we headed over to the purple sheen pit (that’s where the deer pic is from). There were other people up there, but tooling around looking for things. We slowed down quickly at one point as 1/2 a dozen deer jumped across the road, but the time I got the camera out they were already a distance away, but left one lookout.
More pix from the area and the drive home.
We gave up when the road got too bad and headed out at around 5pm, stopping to use the rest area and then for gas in Bend. We stopped and got McD’s for supper and rolled home. That was a *long* haul! Offloading happened at Marius’, and then Tempus and I got home, unloaded stuff like the fridgables, came in and crashed.
I spent Thursday catching up and doing pictures and writing, but on Friday we started the unpacking and then on Saturday/Sunday I was busy with something else, so the real picture taking and inventorying and pricing and such started to happen on Monday.
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“Musical Arc” led their penultimate workshop of the autumn season at Leeds City Museum with pupils from Broomfield School. This workshop was a lovely combination of all Musical Arc’s strengths: art, music, dance and story-telling. We worked with 30 students with learning disabilities and had a really energetic and interactive session. This was kindly hosted free of charge by `The Leeds museum and we hope to hold workshops there again in the future.
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So I missed posting yesterday, by the time I got home for the night and worked out it was 10 and I was wiped.
Anyway, today I had a long day at school, but I take solace in the fact I only have two weeks left!
I’m looking forward to getting done sooooo much.
I did do a workout yesterday even though it should be a rest day.
I know I will be resting monday so I figured I would switch the day’s up.
The workout would of been Asylum’s back to core, but I wasn’t feeling that, so I made my own and it was a blast.Descending pyramid 5-1 pull-up, chin-ups, cardio dumbbell lvl1 20lbs, and 10-5 diamond jumps followed by 15,10,5 kettle bell swing and 5-3-2 push-up jack burpee’s.
Try it, it’s tougher then it sounds.
Today would of been asylums speed and agility, but again I wasn’t feeling it.
I did P90x Ab ripperX followed by Insanity’s fast and furious, now that felt good.
Something I have learned over the last few months if listen to your body, do what you are feeling, and don’t feel guilty about it.
If you are following a program and you don’t feel the workout that day but you are digging a run, or maybe a swim, go for what you are feeling, your body will thank you.
Also, if you are feeling totally run down and drug out, REST. You body needs it, and it will thank you for it the next day when you can go all out again.
Anyway, dinner tonight was INCREDIBLE!
I made a arugula salad with a homemade spicy ranch, beet casserole, and an organic, grass fed, dry aged rib eye steak (Local from holder brother beef) drizzled with a garlic white wine sauce. I’m so full now, but it was worth it. Oh so worth it.
Feel free to leave any comments guys, I would love to hear what you have to say.
That’s the motto of the workout I did last night.
Rocked some Asylum vertical plyo, and let me just say, it was a BEAST!
Also, if you ever thought that jump roping was “easy”, please for the love of all that is holy, do this video and come talk to me afterwards. Just be warned you might have welts on your legs after.
Or maybe it’s the lateral jumps… Hmmmm, I can’t decide! A lot of the moves feel like playing when I was a kid, haha.
Of course Matt came over and Rocked it out with me, always enjoy having his company.
I also got the after workout, soaked in sweat picture of us to share with you guys!
So I know it doesn’t totally follow what this blog is about, but I just want to say I love the clients I have at work.
Last night was such a good night at work, and it reminded me why I love my job, very good to have after a long day at school yesterday.
Well, that’s all for know guys, I will try to post up some stuff later today.
If I get a chance I might make a salad and give you guys a quick recipe too!
Take care and Dig Deep!
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Coulter, who some have speculated influenced Trump’s decision to stand firm in his demands for border wall funding last December as the federal government spiraled into a shutdown, has been visibly furious with the president ever since he backed down.
Asked Friday about the power of conservative media over his decision-making, Trump claimed not to know Coulter, much to the surprise of many Twitter users who reacted in astonishment and amusement on the social media platform.
Aside from Coulter, a handful of Trump’s Fox News allies initially expressed frustration with the congressional deal on border security, which the president intends to sign.
The proposal would give the president $1.375 billion for his border wall while slashing the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention beds by roughly 17 percent. Trump plans to get hold of billions more in border funding with his national emergency.
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Most musicians brag about who they've played with; pianist Bill Bell prides himself on his students. He's taught thousands in a career spanning twenty-five years as chairman of the music department at the College of Alameda. His method is to inspire students with a love for the music that will keep them going through all the years it takes to learn their trade. "With talented people," he says, "if you can get them inspired enough to love something, they will take it the rest of the way.
"The discipline that one needs to acquire for Jazz is the same discipline that one should try to acquire as a classically oriented musician. I say that because you really need to know the instrument, whatever it is that you play. You need to be able to play the classical repertoire as well as the Jazz...The performance level has been pushed to such a peak that you really have to have technical control of your instrument. That's why I tell my students that as a pianist you've got to play the Bach and the Chopin and the Beethoven and do it well so that you can transfer all the technical aspects of that kind of playing into Jazz. Because who are the players? Herbie Hancock, who played with the Chicago Symphony. Bill Evans, who was a great concert pianist. Oscar Peterson, You name 'em... You have to be able to play the piano at that level. You can't just know a bunch of chords and fake it."
If this sounds like hard advise, consider some of Bill's students who have gone on to success in music. Michael Wolff until recently was the music director of the Arsenio Hall Show. Rodney Franklin is a well-known recording artist who recently completed a tour with Stevie Wonder. William Kennedy handles the drumming for the Yellowjackets. The list goes on.
These and more of Bill's students appear on his new CD, The Jazz Professor, schedules for release on June 18 (1995). A record release party at Kimball's Carnival in Emeryville will mark the occasion. While the list of special guests hasn't been nailed down as of this writing, you can bet that many of Bill's students will be there to pay tribute to their mentor.
It's rare to find an academic who is also an accomplished practicing Jazz musician. Bill has impeccable credentials in both departments, which makes him a unique personage on the Bay Area music scene. He has toured with Benny Carter and Carmen McRae, appeared on recordings with Nancy Wilson, Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, and many other Jazz greats. He composes and arranges for big bands and choirs as well as smaller groups and was the choir director for one of Duke Ellington's sacred concerts at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in 1967. Duke of course heard Bill accompanying the choir on piano during rehearsals, and before the performance he told him, "Go ahead and play, man." So Bill played with Johnny Hodges, Sam Woodyard, Cootie Williams, and the whole immortal Duke Ellington Orchestra.
As a Jazz educator, Bill has been head of the music department at the College of Alameda since it opened in 1970. In fact, he says, "I am the music department here. There used to be three of us, but two of the guys died, and they never did replace them." He also teaches a course in Jazz improvisation at the University of California at Berkeley and from 1987 to 1991 led the Jazz band and small Jazz ensembles at Stanford University.
Many of his students come from the University of California's Young Musicians Program. "We go to several junior high and high schools in the East Bay and ask the music teachers to identify the most talented youngsters who may have some problems getting private lessons or whatever. And we audition those youngsters and come up with at least forty-five to them. We have slots for forty-five youngsters, all of which fall into several categories. There's string players. There's singers. There's instrumentalists, and we form different ensembles out of those groups. Vocal ensembles, brass trios, and brass quartets. String quartets, string ensembles, et cetera. And, of course, there's a Jazz ensemble that I'm responsible for. The biggest part of our program is in the summertime. It's a seven-week program, but it extends throughout the year because the kids get private lessons. It's a very, very fine program, really a model, where everybody in the program, whether they're pianists or not, has to take piano and play in an ensemble or participate in an ensemble."
In addition to his teaching, Bill also directs a choir at the Downs Memorial Methodist Church in north Oakland. Each year the choir performs a Christmas concert at the Calvin Simmons Theater. Bill frets that the choir recently lost all its male voices. "I'm really upset about that. You can't do choral singing without male voices. I don't know quite what to do about that, other than turn it into a women's chorus."
Bill describes his new album as a tribute to a number of people who have inspired him. There are selections dedicated to Duke Ellington, Count Basie, his father, and his son, who died tragically in 1991. The tunes are widely different in style, with influences ranging all the way from African to twelve-tone. "There's a little bit of everything there 'cause I wrote the pieces to reflect impressions of people that I chose to represent in a musical form. And, of course, you can't really put everyone in one format."
Duke Ellington used to say that people he especially admired were "beyond category." Bill Bell understands that respect for people means treating them as individuals beyond category. As a vital part of the musical life of the Bay Area, Bill is himself, in the best Ellington sense, beyond category.
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July performance of cattle finished satisfactory but the high temperature did slow performance. According to USDA figures steers were placed on feed at 747 pounds and finished at 318 pounds, gained $3.55 lbs daily for the 161 day feeding period. Cost of gain was $110.02 per hundred weight which was $3.01 higher than June.
Heifers were placed on feed weighing 697 pounds and marketed at 1204 pounds, gaining 3.21 lbs daily for the 158 day feeding period, cost of gain was $113.51 per hundred weight which was $3.40 above June.
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Based in Cape Town, PRAESA (Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa) is an organisation that has worked to promote reading and literature for children and young people in South Africa since 1992.
With the joy of reading as its compass point, PRAESA opens new routes into the world of books and literature for young readers in South Africa. Through innovative reading and storytelling projects, PRAESA brings people together and brings literature in multiple languages alive. PRAESA’s outstanding work shows the world the crucial role of books and stories in creating rich, full lives for our children and young people.
For more than twenty years, PRAESA has made powerful, innovative moves to highlight literature as a key component of both personal and societal development, always grounded in the specific conditions of South African society and culture. Its work focuses on encouraging children to read for enjoyment, building their self-esteem, and helping them connect to their native language through reading and story.
PRAESA has three core goals: to provide children with high-quality literature in the various South African languages; to collaborate with and foster new networks among publishers and organisations that promote reading; and to initiate and carry out activities that can help sustain a living culture of reading and storytelling in socially vulnerable communities. PRAESA works in constant dialogue with the latest research and in collaboration with volunteers at the grass roots level.
To encourage children to read in their native languages, PRAESA produced the Little Hands books, a series of short books in different African languages. Another project, the Vulindlela Reading Club, combined oral storytelling with reading, singing games, and dramatizations, and led to the formation of many more reading clubs in Cape Town and other provinces. The national reading promotion initiative Nal’ibali is a network of reading clubs that uses media campaigns to encourage children to read and inspire parents, grandparents, and teachers to read with them.
In 2014, PRAESA received the Asahi Reading Promotion Award, a prize instituted by the International Board on Books for Young People, IBBY.
PRAESA will accept the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award at the Stockholm Concert Hall on June 1, 2015.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world’s largest award for children’s and young adult literature. The award, which amounts to SEK 5 million, is given annually to a single laureate or to several. Authors, illustrators, oral storytellers and reading promoters are eligible. The award is designed to promote interest in children’s and young adult literature. The UN convention of rights of the child is the foundation of our work. An expert jury selects the laureate(s) from candidates nominated by institutions and organisations all over the world. The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was founded by the Swedish government in 2002 and is administrated by the Swedish Arts Council.
Soundcheck and rehearsals at the National Library of Sweden before the big day tomorrow!
Lisa Haglund, the Award office.
Sound technician Calle Nordstrand and producer Niklas Lind.
Nicola Clase, Fen Coles and Michael Rosen.
Earlier today the Embassy in London hosted a breakfast to discuss trends in children’s literature and how to promote reading among children and youth. The breakfast was organized ahead of the announcement of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award next week, and one of the topics for discussion was the role of prizes and awards in raising the profile of children’s literature and reading.
Among the 40 guests were two of the British nominated candidates – Professor Michael Rosen and Fen Coles of Letterbox Library – along with several nominating bodies as well as authors, reading promotion organizations and publishers.
Ambassador Nicola Clase kicked off the morning by stressing the importance of reading – how it develops cognitive skills and emotional intelligence; encourages creativity and expands the imagination. She then handed over to Charlotte Eyre of The Bookseller, to start the discussion. Charlotte described the process of developing the YA Book Prize, a new prize for UK and Irish books for young adults, of which she is jury chair. The prize has been developed in close dialogue, through social media, with youths, which has created a unique involvement and ownership of the prize from its intended audience. But beyond prizes, what else can be done to increase reading among young people?
What followed was a spirited debate, covering topics such as gender differences when it comes to reading ability and attitudes towards reading, the role of education as well as libraries, and the pivotal role of role models.
Pam Dix, chair of IBBY UK, seconded the importance of literary prizes, not least because children love to talk to each other about things they do, read or hear about. An award can start that conversation, and thus be an inspiration. In the same vein it was also said that there only needs to be one reader in a class – this one person can inspire everyone else.
One of the final remarks came from Steve Gardam, the recently appointed director of The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre. He underlined the importance of accentuating the positives of reading – that any reading, be it comics or the sports pages, can be a gateway to more reading.
The various perspectives that came to light contributed to a multifaceted and thoughtful discussion. A belief that most guests seemed to have in common was how important the feeling of pure enjoyment is as a driving force when it comes to children and young adults reading more.
Ruth Oakley from Southbank Centre.
Emma Lowe from the Bookseller.
The Embassy of Sweden in Seoul holds the exhibition of <Astrid Lindgren and Pippi> at the National Library of Children and Young Adults on 26 Mar (Thu)- 31 May (Sun). Co-organized by the National Library of Children and Young Adults, the exhibition is to give insights about the Swedish children’s literature to the Korean children and young adults. The exhibition comprises introduction of the life of Astrid Lindgren, Lindgren’s famous stories, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and previous laureates of Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and Children’s corner to play and read.
Today, the Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden paid a visit to the library to inaugurate the exhibition during her official visit to the Republic of Korea at the invitation by the Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo. Accompanying the Crown Princess Couple is the Swedish Minister for Social Security, Ms Annika Strandhäll and a small delegation of senior officials.
The opening ceremony took place with the existence of Mr PARK Min-kwon (Vice Minister for Culture, Sports and Tourism), Mr LIM Won-sun (Chief Executive of the National Library of Korea), Ms YEO Wee-sook (Director General of the National Library for Children and Young Adults), Ms KIM Su-jung, President of Korean Board on Books for Young People (KBBY), Ms BAEK Heena (Children’s book writer and ALMA nominee 2015) and many more VIP guests. The participating guests celebrate the opening and the 70th birthday of Pippi who is well known character among Koreans through TV series.
The City Library in Lund will broadcast the Announcement of this year’s Laureate at the library on March 31 along with a mingle for the public and discussion on the new Laureate. Why not arrange something similar at your library? The announcement will be broadcast LIVE on www.alma.se/en on March 31 starting 12:50 pm CET!
Today the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award publish a teacher’s guide to Barbro Lindgren’s books Jättehemligt (Super Secret, 1971), Världshemligt (Top Secret, 1972) and Bladen brinner (Pages on Fire, 1973). The teacher’s guide is written by researcher and jury member Maria Lassén-Seger.
– The guide is for anyone who wants to know more about the books and would like tips on how to introduce them to young readers, says Maria Lassén-Seger. I hope it will encourage people to read, reflect on, and discuss the books.
The Secret books are fictional diaries inspired by Barbro Lindgren’s memories of her own childhood and teenage years, even though she notes that not quite everything in the books is true. The trilogy includes the young Barbro’s diary entries from ages 10 to 15, in which she records her innermost thoughts about things that are nice, awful, or just plain weird. The teacher’s guide poses questions to the reader about the books, questions that allow the reader to get under the surface of the story to deepen the reading: What things do people expect of Barbro as a girl? Are they the same things people expect of girls today? It is hard for Barbro to fit in and be a part of larger groups. What groups does she try to fit into? Why do you think this is hard for her?
– The Secret books were among my most important reading experiences when I was young, says Maria Lassén-Seger. I have reread them often over the years and I am amazed at how powerful they still are. They are so heartfelt, so honest, and so devastatingly well-written.
– But especially young people who think life can be both nice and awful, and who wonder if anyone else in the world feels the same way.
The Award office has previously published 14 reading guides by 11 laureates. All of them can be downloaded for free here.
Link to the new Reading guide here.
I joined IBBY the moment I began my career as an author. IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) has taught me that the horizon lies beyond the borders of my own country. As the newly‐elected president of IBBY International, it is a privilege for me to work with people worldwide to realize the mission of IBBY.
This mission is to promote a reading culture and give every child the opportunity to become a life‐long reader and this is only possible if the child enjoys reading. One of our objectives is battling illiteracy. A recent UN‐report states that globally, there are still 781 million adults who lack basic literacy skills, and that 58 million children are out‐of-school at primary level and a staggering 63 million children do not attend at secondary level education. Furthermore, an estimated 250 million children of primary‐school age are reported to be failing to acquire basic literacy skills. Added to that, half a billion women today are still completely illiterate. These figures really are cause for concern. The closing of libraries in Europe, often because of financial cutbacks, is also a cause of deep worry.
In many parts of Bolivia, families have no books and there is no culture of reading. IBBY Bolivia, together with Taller De Experiencias Pedagogicas and the Thuruchapitas Library, began a project in the San Miguel neighbourhood of Cochabamba to encourage reading and storytelling within families.
IBBY Afghanistan set up a library project to give young children a chance to read and increase their interest in reading books. The project is currently running in different provinces of Afghanistan with the support of Aschiana. The children living in refugee camps, orphanages, juvenile rehabilitation centres and different disability centres will benefit from this far‐reaching Project.
In response to the waves of refugees from Africa and the Middle East arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa, IBBY and IBBY Italy launched the project “Silent Books, from the world to Lampedusa and back”. The project involved creating the first library on Lampedusa to be used by local and immigrant children.
The aim of this Flemish IBBY project is to select excellent books from all over the world that allows migrant children to share something about themselves, their culture and their background with their school colleagues. Thus opening the eyes of all the children in the school class to the value of a multicultural society.
As a world organization, we have to keep arguing that reading is a basic right for everyone. Recently, a librarian told me that we are creating a new elite, by which he meant that children who enjoy reading and devouring books could only do so because their parents have the means to buy books. IBBY must continue to advocate for all children to have access to great literature; this includes children from underprivileged families, immigrant children, refugees, children with disabilities and sick children. Those who cannot (or may not) read are excluded. This is something that IBBY cannot accept.
At the 2012 Membership Assembly, IBBY members approved of a formal commitment to the principles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child as ratified by the United Nations in 1990, to be included in the current IBBY Statutes. Because of that action it is our responsibility uphold these rights. It is unacceptable that there are countries in this day and age where girls are banned from reading or even learning to read. It is also inacceptable that many children are unable to read at an adequate level after finishing primary school.
I would like to forge new ties with institutions and other international organizations such as the ALMA. After all, Astrid Lindgren was one of the founding members of IBBY and supported IBBY’s mission always. On a personal level, I learned to love Sweden and the Swedish language because of her books and the television series based on her stories.
ALMA and IBBY are fighting for the same values and we are exploring ways in which we can collaborate to bring children and books together.
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Working Away from Home | Sketching … Always!
This entry was posted in Art & Life, ink and watercolor, ink and watercolor sketches, landscape sketches, Urban Sketching and tagged aqueous media, art, Drawing, Drawings, en-plein-air, John A. Hancock, John Hancock, painting, Plein-Air, quick sketches, sketches, Sketching, urban sketchers, USk, Watercolor, watercolor sketches, Watercolour by johnahancock. Bookmark the permalink.
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Yesterday I decided to eat my lunch in the Village of Yorkville park, and I saw a colourful piano that said “Play Me, I’m Yours.” Within minutes someone sat down and played a few great tunes, another person followed up with more music, and another! It wasn’t planned, it was literally just a piano sitting there for randoms to play. I thought ‘what an amazing idea, the city should have more of these.’ Turns out we do. I did a little Google search and there are 41 pianos spread across the city as part of an art installation to celebrate the three-year count down to 2015 Pan American Games. You can read the full article here that was published in the Star. After I ate my burger and quinoa salad (leftovers from the weekend), I got the courage to play a tune of my own. Fact: I used to play the organ and was quite good back in the day, but I can’t read music anymore. SAD. I still remember some stuff by ear, but taking lessons again is on my bucket list.
There’s a video too – just trying to figure out my iMovie. Also on my bucket list!
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Saxifraga cotyledon, the pyramidal saxifrage, occurs in the mountains of Europe and has rosettes about 20 centimetres (8 in) across of tongue-shaped leaves, beaded but not toothed. In May or June the tall panicles of white flowers, branched and pyramidal in outline, may reach 60 cm (24 in). It is one of Norway's two national flowers (chosen in 1935). Its relationship to the "silver saxifrages" (Saxifraga sect. Ligulatae) remains to be resolved to full satisfaction.
Saxifraga cotyledon has an Arctic–alpine distribution, occurring in Scandinavia, Iceland, the Western Alps and the Pyrenees.
To produce flowers it sometimes is necessary to remove and save for propagation all side rosettes. The flowering rosette dies after blooming.
^ a b "Fjällbrud, Saxifraga cotyledon L." Den virtuella floran (in Swedish). Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. August 14, 2006. Retrieved March 25, 2012.
^ a b Manfred A. Fischer, Wolfgang Adler & Karl Oswald (2005). "Steinbrechblütige / Saxifraganae". Exkursionsflora für Österreich, Liechtenstein und Südtirol (in German). Linz: Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen. p. 392. ISBN 978-3-85474-140-4.
"Saxifraga cotyledon L. (1753)". SaxBase. The Saxifrage Society.
"Saxifraga cotyledon (Pyramidal Saxifrage)". Heritage Perennials. Valleybrook International Ventures Inc.
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In every second of a day there are many personal injuries occurring around the world and it could always be quite difficult to pin down the person who would accept to be his or her fault for the injury to occur. These injuries usually occurs due to the negligence of the parties involved and in such a case all the parties would claim that the other party had ignorance hence bringing the disagreement and at this point it would be important to bring in a third party. When the personal injury is involved in the personal injury cases, the lawyer would always ensure that there is compensation to the victim. To get more info, click number one landlord tenant law expert in Providence. Many personal injuries are usually accidents and therefore the personal injury lawyer must provide evidence in the court that the accident was caused by absolute carelessness so that you can be compensated.
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On my seemingly mountainous, yet steadily disintegrating, pile of Really Important Physics Things That I Never Learned in Undergrad (TM) was the importance of choosing a system when analyzing multiple objects in an interaction. Physics is, among other things, a study of how things interact, but when your analysis is only focused on one object, then deliberately choosing a system seems unnecessary. A rope pulling a crate is certainly “multiple objects interacting”, however in problems such as this, nobody actually cares about the rope. For much of the traditional kinematics/dynamics sequence, the choice of a system is largely invisible and often a single object. The car. The crate. The ball.
But this becomes a problem when anything involving a conservation law comes into play. Whether or not some quantity is conserved is completely dependent upon the chosen system. Upon reflection, I imagine the unspoken, implicit choice of “system” becomes something murky like “all the objects mentioned in the problem” or even “the entire universe.” I also suspect that not explicitly defining a system causes issues with students applying conservation laws [citation to be added later, possibly?]. If students internalize “energy conservation” as “energy doesn’t change”, then I can see that causing issues with incorporating work/change in energy into their problem solving process. Same goes with the impulse-momentum theorem and momentum.
This new appreciation for the explicit choice of a system started with a twitter conversation earlier this year in which I expressed my dislike of the phrase “closed system.” Yet until recently, I wasn’t sure how to help my students develop the same appreciation and understanding of what it means to define a system in relation to conservation laws. Until now. I think.
Afterwards, they worked on using momentum bar charts to represent the experiment. I doctored the numbers a little to keep the focus on the concept of thinking proportionally while not being overshadowed by seemingly random decimals and fractions. I asked them to determine the initial (as defined before the carts exploded) total momentum and the final total momentum (as defined as after the carts stopped touching), to which their surprise was zero. Peculiar!
To be perfectly honest, I wasn’t planning what came next until the night before I did it, which is when I remembered the twitter conversation from earlier this year. As it turns out, asking students to sum up the momenta of the carts came in handy later on.
My general strategy for students discovering foundational laws and principles is to provide them both with an experiment and a way to view the results in such a way that whatever it is I’m wanting them to discover screams at them with a megaphone “HEY! LISTEN! HEY!” until they can’t stand it anymore. In this case, I’m wanting them to discover the Law of Conservation of Momentum while simultaneously approaching the Impulse-Momentum Theorem. Students were prompted at the beginning of the class to organize their notebooks into two columns with three rows each.
I started with analyzing the carts separately because that’s what they’re used to. We’d not formally discussed how to analyze a collection of objects, much less that such a thing was “allowed.” I allowed students to work primarily in their groups without assistance from me, and they required little help as all of the diagrams and analysis was nothing new to them. Once I was certain that all the groups had gotten everything, I put my analysis on the whiteboard.
The diagrams with all the circles on the left are system schemas, which were introduced months before when students were first learning how to draw free-body diagrams. Emphasis was placed on determining whether the momentum of each “system” (i.e., cart) was equal or not equal to zero, along with the final change in momentum from before, to during, to after.
Next up was for students to re-do the analysis, but treating both carts as a single system.
What I was most worried about was the level of abstraction required for students to truly understand what it meant to analyze both carts as a single system. We hadn’t discussed center-of-mass, nor had we discussed what it would mean for the center of mass of an object or collection of objects to be located outside of those objects. While center-of-mass would be the most accurate way to articulate the effects due to conservation of momentum, it would require more new concepts and abstraction, which I was sure to be too much for my students to assimilate at once. Instead, I placed a box over both carts.
I emphasized that this sort of analysis is something that we’d done many times before. The carts themselves are made of individual atoms all interacting with each other, yet we never worried about it because it was unnecessary. Treating the carts as a “single” object was really no different, and the visual of the box really seemed to drive the point home.
During the times in which students were moving through each of the before, during, and after steps, I would raise the box, set the carts accordingly, and put it back down. I emphasized that we were only concerned with what happened to the box from the outside. Just like we didn’t care what individual atoms were doing before, we don’t really care about what happens inside the box. Without much help from me, students produced the following analysis in their notebooks. Again, emphasis is placed on determining the total change in momentum from before, during, to after the interaction.
If the forces on a system are balanced, then it’s momentum doesn’t change. If the forces are unbalanced, then it’s momentum does change.
In a closed system, the momentum of that system doesn’t change.
I’m with Frank; ditch the phrasing of “open” and “closed” system all together.
@DeltaGPhys @TRegPhysics @LCTTA So then why bother calling systems open, closed, etc? Just say no net F, no net W, and/or no net T?
There’s no reason to wait until momentum to introduce the idea of analyzing systems of single and multiple objects. Next year, I certainly won’t wait so long. I imagine the same type of demonstration can be performed and analyzed to get the point across. This will be particularly useful once we get into energy, where the entire concepts of work and power are defined by what’s happening by or on the system and, of course, the link between the system definition and the law of conservation of energy.
This has also helped me realize something about the kind of physics teacher that I am. I am continually fascinated by all the connections I’m discovering that I never found on the first, second, or third time around with all of this content. Now, more than ever, I see physics as an intricately constructed puzzle-that’s-also-a-tower, built from the ground up from a few simple principles and definitions. I want to help my students construct this tower for themselves and see all the beauty in the details that I do. More practically, I think that students being aware of these details helps them achieve a more deep understanding of physics.
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Lovely, lovely, lovely–so many precious children! Great Christmas card in the making!
Thank you, Debbie. It was a lot of fun for all of us!!
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So Naruto just ran out of sage energy, and he’s thinking in his head “I could only do 2 swirling vortexes of death in sage mode. That means I only have four left…”. What? He’s out of sage energy! Where does he think he’s going to find the strength to do 4 more? That’s ridiculous. Or it would be if we weren’t dealing with the new…. SMART NARUTO. Fans everywhere should be baffled. But that’s enough of my sarcasm. Let’s continue with the story.
The head Pain (the guy that repels and draws things) decides to physically attack Naruto. This is called a distraction play. But Naruto missed that. Anywho, Naruto pulls that giant scroll off his back and throws it to an Elder Toad so he can fight Pain. Elder Toad opens it up and summons… another Naruto! Turns out that before they left the training place, Naruto made 2 clones that have been sitting there absorbing natural energy. So they summoned one of them, clone disappears, and Naruto finds himself chock-full of sage energy again. Yay! So the 4 more is because each of the two clones gives him the ability to do the death vortex twice more. And for you uber-nerds out there, the official name of the swirling vortex is Rasen-shuriken.
Anywho, he kicks the crap out of head Pain and creates a Rasen-shuriken to throw at them. And just before it connects with head Pain, the fat Pain he killed earlier jumps in front and blocks it! For review, the fat Pain can absorb any attack. He went down earlier when Naruto punched him so hard he couldn’t absorb it all and died. But he was dead.
Well the distraction part of the earlier move was because the Pain that was still alive and hanging out in the back is the resurrection Pain. So R-Pain brought fat Pain back. Naruto figures all this out (there’s that thinking again!) and realizes he needs to kill R-Pain next.
Cue quick thinking attack combination! Naruto creates smoke-bombs so the Pains can’t see him. Then he throws what appears to be a Rasen-shuriken which the fat Pain is set to block. Then the rasen-shuriken turns into Naruto who just tackles the fat Pain. Then another rasen-shuriken comes up behind him ready to cut down head Pain and R-Pain… but wait! Head Pain’s powers finally start working again. Apparently they needed a lot of recouperating time after BLOWING UP THE ENTIRE VILLAGE. So he repels the attack easily.
And JUST as the volume comes to an end, we see yet another Naruto falling from the sky with a double Rasengan dropping directly toward R-Pain. So he may have done it! We certainly hope it did. It was tough enough naming all the Pains as they were dying. I don’t want this fight to slowly show them all coming back around. That would just get annoying!
And oddly enough, no background chatter from the peanut gallery in this one. All fighting, the whole time.
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What a great time.Sophie was going to stop at nothing to make me happy and provided all I asked for with a smile. Photos are the most accurate I've experianced for a good while so don't be worried about photoshop, she truly looks that great. Been a long time since I had such a big smile on my face. Will visit again.
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Each end of the calendar year, I like to take stock of my professional activities. I like to start planning for the next year as well.
Looking at this blog, I note how little I have published this past year.
I have always loved blogging.
To share with an audience of faithful readers about issues that matter most to me.
I may have the hope it would rally to my views of the world.
To invite someone with a different point of view to consider mine and discover a new place.
But I have never tried to convince or create any mass movement for my personal ideas.
My activism has always remained very confidential.
I discovered that communication is not – what a paradox! – my strongest suit.
It led me to feelings of being misunderstood often. To feelings of loneliness and solitude.
I like to tell stories. I don’t actually like to explain things. Yet I always force myself to explain things out of fear of creating confusion. Confusion would upset my sense of order and strive for perfection.
Such effort costs me time and energy, and both deserve rewards.
Could it be the reason why I stopped blogging in 2018? I barely shared anything on social media as well. I concentrated all my time elsewhere that was not public writing.
When I was a student, I dreamed of being an interpreter and I studied foreign languages.
When I was a child, I dreamed of being an actress. Instead, I played the games my gender, origins, culture, family, or country expected me to play. I have been pretty good at it.
I dreamed of a career in which I would have created a safe haven for people to come to resource and learn how to grow their talents.
Instead, I had two children.
Each became in their own way my teachers of new very foreign languages.
This year, Christmas week offers me a haven of tranquility that I would like to taste.
I do not celebrate the holiday so I enjoy the peaceful break for myself.
Looking back at the year.
I am trying to remember all those who left this world this past year. It is leaving holes in my heart and nostalgia for the memories we had together.
I am trying to give the benefit of the doubt to failures and difficulties that I encountered. To let them be springboards to create better results next time I try. The lessons they teach bring wisdom once we repeat and practice the exercises and persist.
This blog is still here!
Even though it lacked consistency I hope it can still play its role, for me, as well as for its visitors.
To all, I wish a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year. May we all have many opportunities to spend some time together. I look forward to this miracle of interconnectivity.
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Cool animals to see at the Zoo, Greenville fun cheap things to do!
The Greenville Zoo is not big by any means. It doesn’t boast 21st century facilities like other zoos (see North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro).
Yet every time we come to Greenville we end up at the zoo where we have a great time!
It helps that we get in for free with our Riverbanks Zoo membership. General admission is quite cheap $6 adults, $3 children 3-15 and free for kids 3 and under.
The Greenville Zoo participates in the Orangutan Species Survival Program aimed at increasing and diversifying the population of Bornean and Sumatran orangutans.
Did you know orangutans only have 2-3 offspring in their 40 – 60 years lifetime?
• The zoo is quite small, about one hour should be enough to go through it all. Be prepared for a hearty walk up and down winding pathways.
• Most interesting exhibits: orangutans, giraffes, Siamang monkeys, Aldabra tortoises and reptile house to some extent. Lions, elephants, alligator are a little overrated…not much action going on.
• You can purchase drinks, hot dogs, chips, popcorn and candy at the food stand pass the Reptile House. Beware is cash only and there’s no ATM inside the zoo.
• There’s a nice play station area where you can relax in shaded Adirondack chairs gazing at the giraffes while easily keeping an eye on the kids.
• As expected toddlers love the petting zoo farm the most, especially the goats. Make sure to get food from the zoo entrance.
• You may want to start your trip at the huge playgrounds outside the zoo. They’re recently upgraded with top-notch playing equipment.
On a downside there isn’t much shade besides the shelters (always occupied) and the smell emanating from the rubber carpet can be nauseating after a while.
Meet Bubba the Aldabra tortoise.
At 65 he is still a teenager, as these giant reptiles can live up to 200 years old.
The Aldabra is bigger than the more famous Galapagos turtles and can reach over 4 feet in length and up to 700 pounds in weight!
Did you know that Aldabra can hunt too?
She collapses on birds feeding on dead fish under her.
Don’t worry Bubba is happy to just munch on grass along with his girlfriends the Bubbletes!
My favorite resident inside the Reptile House is the little known, weird looking Axolotl.
This translucent salamander lives only in the water and feeds on insects, fish and crustaceans.
Did you know at if one of its limbs is removed, the Axolotl salamander can grow it back?
How’s that for health insurance!
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Tamanu oil is a fantastic oil for skincare. It can help stretch marks, psoriasis, eczema, acne, post acne pigmentation, dermatitis, rashes and age spots! It is high in oleic and linoleic faty acids. Oleic fatty acids have been shown to prevent dandruff, sooth skin conditions like psoriasis and eczema, moisturize the skin, and have anti-aging benefits. Linoleic fatty acids may help prevent acne – acne prone skin has lower levels of linoleic acid and higher levels of oleic acid in the sebum, so adding linoleic acid to your skincare might help balance the two fatty acids. Tamanu oil promotes the regeneration of skin making it effective in anti-aging and healing post acne pigmentation. It is also an antioxidant, anti-bacterial, and anti-inflammatory – all wonderful things for creating clear, healthy skin!
I have been using tamanu oil every morning for the past six months. I bought mine on Amazon and it was about $15.00 for 1 oz of oil in a glass bottle with a pump, but there are plenty of different brands that make tamanu oil. I would recommend that you look for a cold-pressed, organic oil (I always buy organic, cold-pressed oils for my skincare). I can honestly say that I feel like tamanu oil really speeds up the healing of my post acne pigmentation. Normally the red spots left after a breakout would take close to 3-4 weeks to completely heal, but since using tamanu oil, that healing time is almost cut in half. Tamanu oil is not greasy, absorbs quickly into my skin, and feels very moisturizing. If I am feeling particularly lazy, I will even use tamanu oil in the ends of my hair! It’s light enough to tame and smooth the ends without weighing them down or making my hair look greasy and dirty.
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Hi Bonnie: These mini bookboxes are terrific. I make at least two dozen for every book signing I do and fill them with small candies. I attach a tassel to some and a keyring to others. Everyone thinks they're great!
Hello Bonnie: Just letting you know that I am very happy with the mini bookbox kit. They're very easy and economical to make. I have my wife and children make them and I take them with me to conventions and book signings. If you come up with any more ideas for promotional items, please let me know.
Dear Bonnie: I'm sorry you didn't have this mini bookbox kit for sale years ago. I write mystery stories that usually involve crimes in, around, or involving hardware stores.
filled the boxes with thumb tacks. Whenever I travel to booksignings, conventions, or even just on holidays, I visit local hardware stores and give them some of the bookboxes to hand out to customers. Some of the store owners have ordered my books and so have many of their customers.
Are you looking for inexpensive, easy to make promotional items for book signings and conventions?
The Writers' Guide and the miniature bookbox promo kit will soon be available at my online store at Cafe Press as a two for one special. They will both be on one CD and will be in RTF format to make it easier for everyone to use them.. You will have a variety of payment options to choose from, including PayPal.
This is a view of an open bookbox with the label attached. You can see all areas of the book cover.
Do you enjoy making your own promo items to give away at book signings and conventions? Miniature book boxes are a fun and inexpensive item to make.
Mini-book boxes are miniature boxes shaped like books. You can add your books cover art and any additional info you want. There is room inside for candies or any other small items you might want to include. You can decorate it with a tassel or even turn it into a keychain. They are very easy to make and you can turn it into a family project to get them done faster.
The boxes can be made from heavy weight paper or card stock. You will be able to make four boxes from one sheet of paper or card stock, and twelve labels from one sheet of label paper.
When you order the mini-book package you will receive full color patterns, cutting layout diagrams, and complete instructions for making the box and adding the text and artwork.
Please check out my online store regularly, so you will know when they are available.
Please make it payable to B.M.Schram. Also, please don't forget to include your email address so I can send it to you, and let me know which format you would prefer.
If you have a problem with receiving the files, please let me know and I'll resend them, or if you have a problem opening a particular format, let me know and I'll send it to you in a different format.
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The council offices are located at the Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury town centre, which opened in 1989.
Sandwell is divided into 24 Wards and is represented by 72 ward councillors. Elections to the council take place in three out of every four years, with one-third of the seats being contested at each election.
Since the Local Government Act 1985, Sandwell Council has effectively been a unitary authority, serving as the sole executive, deliberative, and legislative body responsible for local policy, setting council tax, and allocating budget in the district; although public transport, fire and police services, and the local government pension fund (West Midlands Pension Fund) are jointly run by the seven metropolitan boroughs of the West Midlands county.
Most of Sandwell's councillors are members of the Labour Party, with the Labour party having run the council since the first election in 1973, apart from one year between 1978 and 1979 when the Conservatives had a majority. By 2014, all but two of Sandwell's 72 councillors were Labour members.
In May 2013, it was announced that following a re-shuffle, there was a freeze on allowances for Sandwell Council Cabinet Members and that the membership of the cabinet was reduced from 10 to 8.
Despite being the 14th most deprived borough in the UK, the council has invested and worked with many partners to ensure the regeneration of the borough attracting many new SME businesses. The Leader of the Council said that "successful small businesses are essential for the economy and for thriving local communities"
Since its formation in 1974, the borough council has demolished a considerable percentage of the area's privately owned 19th and early 20th century housing stock. In the early years of this process, many of these properties lacked a bathroom or indoor toilet, as well as being generally unfit for human habitation, with refurbishment not deemed to be a viable option. The process of demolishing similar properties had in fact started before 1974 during the existence of the former West Bromwich and Warley boroughs, as well as before 1966 under the original local authorities. The borough council has also made money available for refurbishment of older private sector housing which is still deemed viable for retention.
Since the late 1980s, however, it has also demolished a considerable amount of post-1919 council housing.
The first large redevelopment of this time came in 1992/93, when the West Smethwick Estate (known locally as the "Concrete Jungle" due to its network of interlinked concrete-constructed maisonette blocks) was demolished, despite only being around 25 years old, and replaced by a new low-rise housing estate known as Galton Village.
Between 1992 and 2000, six of the nine tower blocks on the Lion Farm Estate in Oldbury (built in the early 1960s) were demolished and most of the land redeveloped with new housing.
Since 1989, parts of the Hateley Heath Estate in West Bromwich (mostly built in the late 1940s and early 1950s) have been demolished, including a section of maisonettes which were demolished in 1992 due to their unpopularity with potential tenants, as well as extensive vandalism of some of the properties while they were empty.
Between 2000 and 2005, Carisbrooke House multi-storey flats and several blocks of low-rise flats (all built in the 1960s) were demolished on the Friar Park Estate in Wednesbury, while the council has retained and updated the much older houses which make up the bulk of the estate.
Two of the four tower blocks on the 1960s Riddins Mound Estate in Cradley Heath were demolished in 1996. The remaining properties in the area, including the two surviving tower blocks, have been refurbished.
Part of the 1930s Tibbington Estate in Tipton was demolished in the 1980s due to mining subsidence, and the land redeveloped with a sheltered housing scheme which opened in 1991. Another section of the estate was demolished in 2007 and redeveloped with a new public park as well as a small development of bungalows. Elsewhere in Tipton, several maisonette blocks on the 1960s Glebefields Estate were demolished between 1989 and 1992, and the estate's two tower blocks were demolished in 2004.
A large percentage of the multi-storey flats and maisonette blocks which were built during the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s in the areas which now make up Sandwell have been demolished.
Children's Services – In April 2013, an OFSTED report criticised Sandwell's children's services highlighting failings around domestic violence and rating the service inadequate. The following month, the council gave its backing to ambitious plans to make its children's service amongst the best in the country by teaming up with private sector firm iPOWER.
Regeneration of West Bromwich: a significant piece of investment including provisions for new retail, entertainment, arts, education and transit links. Despite the delays, it is anticipated that the majority of the regeneration will be completed by early 2014. One of the most controversial projects has been that of The Public, a community arts venue. In November 2013 venue was closed after the council decided that it would no longer subsidise it as an Arts Centre. The Council announced in October 2013 that it had entered into an agreement with Sandwell College to take over the building, converting it into a Sixth Form college. It is proposed that the council would need to borrow the money to refit the £70 million arts centre to make it suitable for the college whilst investors in the original project may sue the council if this proposal were to go ahead.
The leader of Sandwell Council, Darren Cooper, died suddenly on 26 March 2016, while in office. He was succeeded by deputy leader Steve Elling.
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Motorhomes, 5 metres long or less.
Although we love our NV200 dearly and adore our little customised Freedom caravan, we do enjoy checking out other options which become available. At last, two manufacturers. at least, have come up with sub – 5 metre long motorhomes.
It was so busy at the NEC that we did not completely get the full picture of what the Wildax Pulsar and the Devon Firefly can offer. Tomorrow we are visiting Wildax at Halifax for a better look but later we shall have another very close look at the Devon alternative.
Wildax Pulsar vs Devon Firefly Hi-top.
Putting overall price to one side for the moment. The Citroen Relay based Wildax Pulsar has a lower profile than the Ford Transit Hi-top from Devon. This is due to the pop top roof on the Pulsar.
The advantage of the smaller cross sectional area , which the engine has to push through the air and is one of , if not THE, most significant of factors in fuel consumption. This may be offset, however by the added weight of the large, comfy looking roof bed in the pulsar. I will compare vehicle weights to see if this can be confirmed or not. Stop Press! You do not have to have the roof bed if 2 berths are sufficient.
The big advantage of a fixed Hi-top roof is reduced noise from the weather in wintery, wet and windy weather. Also, a Pop-Top canvas CAN leak if faulty or poorly stitched. The Pulsar can offer 4 berths against the 2 berths on the Firefly though and in Summer, what’s nicer than sleeping in a well ventilated “tent” on the roof? In the lanes, with a Hi-top, care is needed not to drag the roof through low tree branches. You get used to watching for this but it is a factor in stress free usability.. We would never buy a large overcab motorhome again particularly.
Both these short wheelbase motorhomes offer round the clock access to the kitchen facilities and the toilet washroom. The Pulsar has a particularly stylish shower room but I believe that I could fit a shower tray in the Firefly between the toilet unit and the washbasin on the opposite side of the van. A cushioned filler floor board would cater for day to day stomping about. Not sure, at this stage if just a shower curtain would waterproof the surrounding cupboards etc but I will be looking closer. It took 5 leisurely DIY days to make a wetroom in our Microlite caravan , but it functions.
A couple of asides. I do consider these RV’s to be motorhomes rather than campervans due to the 24 hour accessibility of all facilities within the van. These sub 5 metre vans offer almost as much as 6 metre plus motorhomes which , from past experience ,can be difficult to park. There are campervans available which have full, 24 hour access to a toilet and some have half height privacy panels but none that I have seen have full shower or washrooms. Unless you know differently? Again, thanks Martin (see next post).
At this point, Wildax;s Duncan Wildman, appears to have tapped a significant niche market again !
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Marshmallow fluff is like a big jar of the insides of marshmallows. It is excellent on a peanut butter sandwich.
lol, then you are not missing much. It does add a nice fluffy sweetness when mixed into recipes. Do you like Rice Krispy treats?
I'm not a huge fan of white bread either. But peanut butter on rye toast is the best!
Yuck at Marshmallows. I will eat very little of them on a s'more; and I will eat rice crispy treats but I cannot eat a marshmallow by itself!
Have you tried the marshmallow fondant yet?? MMMMM.
I am going to be making a 3-tiered cake for my friend's black-tie birthday party in a couple weeks.
I got all the stuff yesterday to try my hand at gumpaste butterflies.
It's going to be 3 topsy turvey round layers, white, with a curly black design on it. And white glitter butterflies. It's not very birthday-ish, but it goes with the party theme, and she loves butterflies.
My biggest challenge is that she can't eat gluten. Rather than making the whole cake gluten free, I am just going to make the top layer gluten free.
I think I am going to do chocolate cake. I want to use a peanut butter mousse filling (mmm chocolate, marshmallow AND PB in a cake!), but I will somehow have to keep it refridgerated for most of the evening. I wonder how long I can leave it out. Maybe I'll do a test cake. I'm not worried about it going bad, just melting. The PB mousse I make is PB, coolwhip, and milk.
Unless anyone has any other non-refridgerated filling ideas besides buttercream... let me know!!
I still haven't tried doing fondant - I'm a slacker. But I have a good excuse - I still don't have any cake pans! Oops.
This cake is sounding seriously awesome. Is the party outside? If not, I wouldn't really worry about melting... but with the fondant, it sounds like it would be really slippery! Maybe just chocolate frosting for the filling?
Glad the missing marshmallows were found!
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Sir William Arrol died at his home in Seafield, Ayr on 20th February 1913 at the age of 74 years. He had been suffering for about 5 weeks from flu which had developed into pneumonia and from which he was making a slow recovery. During this time, he developed an abscess in his lower bowel which required surgery, but in his weakened condition the operation was too much for his body to cope with and he died the following day.
Sir William was buried at Woodside Cemetery in Paisley on the afternoon of 24th February 1913. The day of the funeral began with a small private service at Seafield House for relatives, workers on the Seafield Estate and a few close friends. The coffin was carried to Ayr Station with a cortege of 3 carriages, laiden with floral wreaths, passing through streets of Ayr which were lined with onlookers. At the station it was transferred onto a train for it’s journey to Paisley and from Gilmour Street Station the coffin and chief mourners were carried to the cemetery at Woodside by another cortege of carriages. Behind these walked other mourners and hundreds of employees of the Dalmarnock Iron Works who had been brought by a special train from Glasgow. The funeral procession would have made an impressive sight as it passed through the town centre and up the High Street, past thousands of people who had gathered to pay their last respects. Flags had been set at half mast at Ferguslie Thread Mills, of which Sir William had been a Director, and at the Royal Alexandra Infirmary. Pall-bearers included Lady Elsie Arrol (Sir William’s wife), John Hunter (nephew and a Director of Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd), Thomas Arrol (nephew), Thomas Arrol jnr. (nephew), Sir Thomas Mason (of building firm Morrison & Mason, and Liberal supporter), David Harris (Sir William’s first apprentice), Mr Patrick Robertson (brother-in-law), James McLardie (nephew), and Andrew Biggart (a Director of Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd).
Sir William was buried with his first two wives, Elizabeth Pattison and Jessie Hodgart and their grave is marked by an impressive celtic cross carved in granite with knotwork panels.
When he died Sir William’s estate was worth £317,749 which in today’s money would be the equivalent of over £20million.
Although he had no children of his own, Sir William was very much a family man and left bequests in his will not only to his immediate family but also to his extended family. He also left many public bequests including: Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow Western Infirmary, Ayr Infirmary, Glasgow Eye Infirmary, The Higginbotham Sick Poor Nursing Association incorporated Glasgow Old Man’s Friendly Society and Old Woman’s Home, and The University of Glasgow.
In addition to his monetary legacy, Sir William Arrol left behind an impressive catalogue of iron structures which he had built and many of which still stand today for the nation to enjoy. Also, many of the inventions and techniques introduced by Sir William continue to be used in engineering today. He left his firm, Sir William Arrol & Company Limited, in good hands and it continued to add to this legacy of iron structures until the Dalmarnock Works closed in 1987.
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How to deal with a MASSIVE break out!!
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A user interface method includes defining an interaction surface containing an interaction region in space. A sequence of depth maps is captured over time of at least a part of a body of a human subject. The depth maps are processed in order to detect a direction and speed of movement of the part of the body as the part of the body passes through the interaction surface. A computer application is controlled responsively to the detected direction and speed.
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Applications 61/020,754 and 61/020,756, filed Jan. 14, 2008, and of U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/032,158, filed Feb. 28, 2008, all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates generally to user interfaces for computerized systems, and specifically to user interfaces that are based on three-dimensional sensing.
Computer interfaces based on three-dimensional (3D) sensing of parts of the user's body have also been proposed. For example, PCT International Publication WO 03/071410, whose disclosure is incorporated herein by reference, describes a gesture recognition system using depth-perceptive sensors. A 3D sensor provides position information, which is used to identify gestures created by a body part of interest. The gestures are recognized based on the shape of the body part and its position and orientation over an interval. The gesture is classified for determining an input into a related electronic device.
As another example, U.S. Pat. No. 7,348,963, whose disclosure is incorporated herein by reference, describes an interactive video display system, in which a display screen displays a visual image, and a camera captures 3D information regarding an object in an interactive area located in front of the display screen. A computer system directs the display screen to change the visual image in response to the object.
Embodiments of the present invention that are described hereinbelow provide improved methods and systems for user interaction with a computer system based on 3D sensing of parts of the user's body. In some of these embodiments, the combination of 3D sensing with a visual display creates a sort of “touchless touch screen,” enabling the user to select and control objects appearing on the display without actually touching the display.
There is therefore provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a user interface method that includes defining an interaction surface containing an interaction region in space. A sequence of depth maps is captured over time of at least a part of a body of a human subject. The depth maps are processed in order to detect a direction and speed of movement of the part of the body as the part of the body passes through the interaction surface. A computer application is controlled responsively to the detected direction and speed.
In some embodiments, controlling the computer application includes displaying an object on a display screen, and changing the displayed object responsively to the movement of the part of the body. Displaying the object may include displaying a touch point on the screen representing a location of the part of the body in the interaction region. Additionally or alternatively, the method includes defining a visualization surface containing a visualization region in the space, such that the interaction surface is within the visualization region, and processing the depth maps in order to identify the part of the body that is located within the visualization region, wherein displaying the object includes presenting on the display screen a representation of the part of the body that is located within the visualization region. Further additionally or alternatively, defining the interaction surface includes specifying dimensions of the interaction surface, and mapping the interaction surface to the display screen responsively to the specified dimensions.
In a disclosed embodiment, processing the depth maps includes applying a three-dimensional connected component analysis to the depth maps in order to identify the part of the body. Additionally or alternatively, processing the depth maps includes predicting a location of the part of the body responsively to the movement, and controlling the computer application includes generating a control input to the computer application responsively to the predicted location.
Optionally, processing the depth maps includes identifying, responsively to the detected movement, a gesture made by the human subject. Identifying the gesture may include learning the gesture during a training phase, and thereafter detecting the learned gesture in order to control the computer application.
In one embodiment, processing the depth maps includes identifying, responsively to the detected movement, a collision induced by the movement with a predefined three-dimensional shape in space. In another embodiment, processing the depth maps includes identifying a posture of at least the part of the body, and controlling the computer application responsively to the posture.
There is also provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, user interface apparatus, including a sensing device, which is configured to capture a sequence of depth maps over time of at least a part of a body of a human subject. A processor is configured to process the depth maps in order to detect a direction and speed of movement of the part of the body as the part of the body passes through a predefined interaction surface, which contains an interaction region in space, and to control a computer application responsively to the detected direction and speed.
There is additionally provided, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a computer software product, including a computer-readable medium in which program instructions are stored, which instructions, when read by a computer, cause the computer to process a sequence of depth maps created over time of at least a part of a body of a human subject in order to detect a direction and speed of movement of the part of the body as the part of the body passes through a predefined interaction surface, which contains an interaction region in space, and to control a computer application responsively to the detected direction and speed.
FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of a computer display screen, showing images created on the screen in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic, pictorial illustration of a 3D user interface 20 for operation by a user 22 of a computer 26, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The user interface is based on a 3D sensing device 24, which captures 3D scene information that includes the body (or at least parts of the body) of the user. Device 24 or a separate camera (not shown in the figures) may also capture video images of the scene. The information captured by device 24 is processed by computer 26, which drives a display screen 28 accordingly.
Computer 26 processes data generated by device 24 in order to reconstruct a 3D map of user 22. The term “3D map” refers to a set of 3D coordinates representing the surface of a given object, in this case the user's body. In one embodiment, device 24 projects a pattern of spots onto the object and captures an image of the projected pattern. Computer 26 then computes the 3D coordinates of points on the surface of the user's body by triangulation, based on transverse shifts of the spots in the pattern. Methods and devices for this sort of triangulation-based 3D mapping using a projected pattern are described, for example, in PCT International Publications WO 2007/043036, WO 2007/105205 and WO 2008/120217, whose disclosures are incorporated herein by reference. Alternatively, system 20 may use other methods of 3D mapping, using single or multiple cameras or other types of sensors, as are known in the art.
As another alternative, these processing functions may be carried out by a suitable processor that is integrated with display screen 28 (in a television set, for example) or with any other suitable sort of computerized device, such as a game console or media player. The sensing functions of device 24 may likewise be integrated into the computer or other computerized apparatus that is to be controlled by the sensor output.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram that schematically illustrates a functional structure 30 of system 20, including functional components of a 3D user interface 34, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. The operation of these components is described in greater detail with reference to the figures that follow.
User interface 34 receives depth maps based on the data generated by device 24, as explained above. A motion detection and classification function 36 identifies parts of the user's body. It detects and tracks the motion of these body parts in order to decode and classify user gestures as the user interacts with display 28. A motion learning function 40 may be used to train the system to recognize particular gestures for subsequent classification. The detection and classification function outputs information regarding the location and/or velocity (speed and direction of motion) of detected body parts, and possibly decoded gestures, as well, to an application control function 38, which controls a user application 32 accordingly.
FIG. 3 is a schematic, pictorial illustration showing how user 22 may operate a “touchless touch screen” function of the 3D user interface in system 20, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. For the purpose of this illustration, the X-Y plane is taken to be parallel to the plane of display screen 28, with distance (depth) perpendicular to this plane corresponding to the Z-axis, and the origin located at device 24. The system creates a depth map of objects within a field of view 50 of device 24, including the parts of the user's body that are in the field of view.
A visualization surface 52 defines the outer limit of a visualization region. Objects beyond this limit (such as the user's head in FIG. 3) are ignored by user interface 34. When a body part of the user is located within the visualization surface, the user interface detects it and provides visual feedback to the user regarding the location of that body part, typically in the form of an image or icon on display screen 28. In FIG. 3, both of the user's hands are in the visualization region.
An interaction surface 54, which is typically located within the visualization region, defines the outer limit of the interaction region. When a part of the user's body crosses the interaction surface, it can trigger control instructions to application 32 via application control function 38, as would occur, for instance, if the user made physical contact with an actual touch screen. In this case, however, no physical contact is required to trigger the action. In the example shown in FIG. 3, the user's left hand has crossed the interaction surface and may thus interact with application objects.
The interaction and visualization surfaces may have any suitable shapes. For some applications, the inventors have found spherical surfaces to be convenient, as shown in FIG. 3. Alternatively, one or both of the surfaces may be planar.
Various methods may be used to determine when a body part has crossed interaction surface 54 and where it is located. For simple tasks, static analysis of the 3D locations of points in the depth map of the body part may be sufficient. Alternatively, dynamic, velocity-based detection may provide more timely, reliable results, including prediction of and adaptation to user gestures as they occur. Thus, when a part of the user's body moves toward the interaction surface for a sufficiently long time, it is assumed to be located within the interaction region and may, in turn, result in objects being moved, resized or rotated, or otherwise controlled depending on the motion of the body part.
Additionally or alternatively, the user may control application objects by performing distinctive gestures, such as a “grabbing” or “pushing” motion over an object. The 3D user interface may be programmed to recognize these gestures only when they occur within the visualization or interaction region. Alternatively, the gesture-based interface may be independent of these predefined regions. In either case, the user trains the user interface by performing the required gestures. Motion learning function 40 tracks these training gestures, and is subsequently able to recognize and translate them into appropriate system interaction requests. Any suitable motion learning and classification method that is known in the art, such as Hidden Markov Models or Support Vector Machines, may be used for this purpose.
The use of interaction and visualization surfaces 54 and 52 enhances the reliability of the 3D user interface and reduces the likelihood of misinterpreting user motions that are not intended to invoke application commands. For instance, a circular palm motion may be recognized as an audio volume control action, but only when the gesture is made inside the interaction region. Thus, circular palm movements outside the interaction region will not inadvertently cause volume changes. Alternatively, the 3D user interface may recognize and respond to gestures outside the interaction region.
Analysis and recognition of user motions may be used for other purposes, such as interactive games. Techniques of this sort are described in the above-mentioned U.S. Provisional Patent Application 61/020,754. In one embodiment, user motion analysis is used to determine the speed, acceleration and direction of collision between a part of the user's body, or an object held by the user, and a predefined 3D shape in space. For example, in an interactive tennis game, the computer may translate motion parameters, extracted over time, into certain racket motions, and may identify collisions between the “racket” and the location of a “ball.” The computer then changes and displays the direction and speed of motion of the ball accordingly.
Further additionally or alternatively, 3D user interface 34 may be configured to detect static postures, rather than only dynamic motion. For instance, the user interface may be trained to recognize the positions of the user's hands and the forms they create (such as “three fingers up” or “two fingers to the right” or “index finger forward”), and to generate application control outputs accordingly.
Similarly, the 3D user interface may use the posture of certain body parts (such as the upper body, arms, and/or head), or even of the entire body, as a sort of “human joystick” for interacting with games and other applications. For example, the computer may extract the pitch, yaw and roll of the user's upper body and may use these parameters in controlling a flight simulator. Other applications will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart that schematically illustrates a method for operation of 3D user interface 34, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In this example, the operation is assumed to include a training phase 60, prior to an operational phase 62. During the training phase, the user positions himself (or herself) within field of view 50. Device 24 captures 3D data so as to generate 3D maps of the user's body. Computer 26 analyzes the 3D data in order to identify parts of the user's body that will be used in application control, in an identification step 64. Methods for performing this sort of analysis are described, for example, in PCT International Publication WO 2007/132451, whose disclosure is incorporated herein by reference. The 3D data may be used at this stage in learning user gestures and static postures, as described above, in a gesture learning step 66.
The user may also be prompted to define the limits of the visualization and interaction regions, at a range definition step 68. The user may specify not only the depth (Z) dimension of the visualization and interaction surfaces, but also the transverse (X-Y) dimensions of these regions, thus defining an area in space that corresponds to the area of display screen 28. In other words, when the user's hand is subsequently located inside the interaction surface at the upper-left corner of this region, it will interact with objects at the upper-left corner of the display screen, as though the user were touching that location on a touch screen.
Based on the results of steps 66 and 68, learning function 40 defines the regions and parameters to be used in subsequent application interaction, at a parameter definition step 70. The parameters typically include, inter alia, the locations of the visualization and interaction surfaces and, optionally, a zoom factor that maps the transverse dimensions of the visualization and interaction regions to the corresponding dimensions of the display screen.
During operational phase 62, computer 26 receives a stream of depth data from device 24 at a regular frame rate, such as thirty frames/sec. For each frame, the computer finds the geometrical intersection of the 3D depth data with the visualization surface, and thus extracts the set of points that are inside the visualization region, at an image identification step 72. This set of points is provided as input to a 3D connected component analysis algorithm (CCAA), at an analysis step 74. The algorithm detects sets of pixels that are within a predefined distance of their neighboring pixels in terms of X, Y and Z distance. The output of the CCAA is a set of such connected component shapes, wherein each pixel within the visualization plane is labeled with a number denoting the connected component to which it belongs. Connected components that are smaller than some predefined threshold, in terms of the number of pixels within the component, are discarded.
CCAA techniques are commonly used in 2D image analysis, but changes in the algorithm are required in order to handle 3D map data. A detailed method for 3D CCAA is presented in the Appendix below. This kind of analysis reduces the depth information obtained from device 24 into a much simpler set of objects, which can then be used to identify the parts of the body of a human user in the scene, as well as performing other analyses of the scene content.
Computer 26 tracks the connected components over time. For each pair of consecutive frames, the computer matches the components identified in the first frame with the components identified in the second frame, and thus provides time-persistent identification of the connected components. Labeled and tracked connected components, referred to herein as “interaction stains,” are displayed on screen 28, at a display step 76. This display provides user 22 with visual feedback regarding the locations of the interaction stains even before there is actual interaction with application objects. Typically, the computer also measures and tracks the velocities of the moving interaction stains in the Z-direction, and possibly in the X-Y plane, as well.
As a color video representation of the user's body part.
Furthermore, the visual representation of the interaction stains may be augmented by audible feedback (such as a “click” each time an interaction stain penetrates the visualization or the interaction surface). Additionally or alternatively, computer 26 may generate a visual indication of the distance of the interaction stain from the visualization surface, thus enabling the user to predict the timing of the actual touch.
Further additionally or alternatively, the computer may use the above-mentioned velocity measurement to predict the appearance and motion of these touch points. Penetration of the interaction plane is thus detected when any interaction stain is in motion in the appropriate direction for a long enough period of time, depending on the time and distance parameters defined at step 70.
Optionally, computer 26 applies a smoothing filter to stabilize the location of the touch point on display screen 28. This filter reduces or eliminates random small-amplitude motion around the location of the touch point that may result from noise or other interference. The smoothing filter may use a simple average applied over time, such as the last N frames (wherein N is selected empirically and is typically in range of 10-20 frames). Alternatively, a prediction-based filter can be used to extrapolate the motion of the interaction stain. The measured speed of motion of the interaction stain may be combined with a prediction filter to give different weights to the predicted location of the interaction stain and the actual measured location in the current frame.
Computer 26 checks the touch points identified at step 78 against the locations of application objects, at an intersection checking step 80. Typically, when a touch point intersects with a given object, it selects or activates the object, in a manner analogous to touching an object on a touch screen.
FIG. 5 is a schematic representation of display screen 28, showing images created on the screen by the method described above, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In this example, application 32 is a picture album application, in which the object to be manipulated by the user is a photo image 90. An interaction stain 92 represents the user's hand. A touch point 94 represents the user's index finger, which has penetrated the interaction surface. (Although only a single touch point is shown in this figure for the sake of simplicity, in practice there may be multiple touch points, as well as multiple interaction stains.) When an active touch point is located within the boundary of photo image 90, as shown in the figure, the photo image may “stick” itself to the touch point and will then move as the user moves the touch point. When two touch points (corresponding to two of the user's fingers, for example) intersect with a photo image, their motion may be translated into a resize and/or rotate operation to be applied to the photo image.
Additionally or alternatively, a user gesture, such as “grab,” “push,” or “pull” may be required to verify the user's intention to activate an object. Computer 26 may recognize simple hand gestures by applying a motion detection algorithm to one or more interaction stains located within the interaction region or the visualization region. For example, the computer may keep a record of the position of each stain record over the past N frames, wherein N is defined empirically and depends on the actual length of the required gesture. (With a 3D sensor providing depth information at 30 frames per second, N=10 gives good results for short, simple gestures.) Based on the location history of each interaction stain, the computer finds the direction and speed of motion using any suitable fitting method, such as least-squares linear regression. The speed of motion may be calculated using timing information from any source, such as the computer's internal clock or a time stamp attached to each frame of depth data, together with measurement of the distance of motion of the interaction stain.
More complex gestures may be detected using shape matching. Thus “clockwise circle” and “counterclockwise circle” may be used for volume control, for example. (Circular motion may be detected by applying a minimum-least-square-error or other fitting method to each point on the motion trajectory of the touch point with respect to the center of the circle that is defined by the center of the minimal bounding box containing all the trajectory points.) Other types of shape learning and classification may use shape segment curvature measurement as a set of features for a Support Vector Machine computation or for other methods of classification that are known in the art.
Although certain embodiments of the present invention are described above in the context of a particular hardware configuration and interaction environment, as shown in FIG. 1, the principles of the present invention may similarly be applied in other types of 3D sensing and control systems, for a wide range of different applications. The terms “computer” and “computer application,” as used in the present patent application and in the claims, should therefore be understood broadly to refer to any sort of computerized device and functionality of the device that may be controlled by a user.
Two 3D points are said to be D-connected to each other if their projections on the XY plane are located next to each other, and their depth values differ by no more than a given threshold D_TH.
Given two 3D points P and Q, there is said to be a D-connected path between them if there exists a set of 3D points (P, p1, p2, . . . pN, Q) such that each two consecutive points in the list are D-connected to each other.
A set of 3D points is said to be D-connected if any two points within it have a D-connected path between them.
A D-connected set of 3D points is said to be maximally D-connected if for each point p within the set, no neighbor of p in the XY plane can be added to the set without breaking the connectivity condition.
1. Allocate a label value for each pixel, denoted by LABEL(x,y) for the pixel located at (x,y).
2. Define a depth threshold D_TH.
3. Define a queue (first in—first out) data structure, denoted by QUEUE.
4. Set LABEL(x,y) to be −1 for all x,y.
5. Set cur_label to be 1.
6. START: Find the next pixel p-start whose LABEL is −1. If there are no more such pixels, stop.
7. Set LABEL(p_start) to be cur_label and increment cur_label by one.
8. Insert the pixel p_start into QUEUE.
a. Remove the head item (p_head=x,y) from the queue.
i. if LABEL(N) is >0 skip to the next neighbor.
ii. if the depth value of N differs from the depth value of p_head by no more than D_TH, add p_head to the queue and set LABEL(p_head) to be cur_label.
In the above algorithm, the neighbors of a pixel (x,y) are taken to be the pixels with the following coordinates: (x−1, y−1), (x−1, y), (x−1, y+1), (x, y−1), (x, y+1), (x+1, y−1), (x+1, y), (x+1, y+1). Neighbors with coordinates outside the bitmap (negative or larger than the bitmap resolution) are not taken into consideration.
Another data structure BLOBS is maintained, as a one-dimensional array of labels. This data structure represents the lower parts of all connected components discovered in the previous iteration. BLOBS is initialized to an empty set.
In step 9b above, instead of checking all neighbors of each pixel, only the left and right neighbors are checked.
In an additional step 9c, the depth differences between neighboring values in the BLOBS structure are checked, in place of checking the original upper and lower neighbors of each pixel in the depth map.
controlling a computer application responsively to the detected direction and speed.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein controlling the computer application comprises displaying an object on a display screen, and changing the displayed object responsively to the movement of the part of the body.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein displaying the object comprises displaying a touch point on the screen representing a location of the part of the body in the interaction region.
wherein displaying the object comprises presenting on the display screen a representation of the part of the body that is located within the visualization region.
5. The method according to claim 2, wherein defining the interaction surface comprises specifying dimensions of the interaction surface, and mapping the interaction surface to the display screen responsively to the specified dimensions.
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein processing the depth maps comprises applying a three-dimensional connected component analysis to the depth maps in order to identify the part of the body.
7. The method according to claim 1, wherein processing the depth maps comprises predicting a location of the part of the body responsively to the movement, and wherein controlling the computer application comprises generating a control input to the computer application responsively to the predicted location.
8. The method according to claim 1, wherein processing the depth maps comprises identifying, responsively to the detected movement, a gesture made by the human subject.
9. The method according to claim 8, wherein identifying the gesture comprises learning the gesture during a training phase, and thereafter detecting the learned gesture in order to control the computer application.
10. The method according to claim 1, wherein processing the depth maps comprises identifying, responsively to the detected movement, a collision induced by the movement with a predefined three-dimensional shape in space.
11. The method according to claim 1, wherein processing the depth maps comprises identifying a posture of at least the part of the body, and controlling the computer application responsively to the posture.
a processor, which is configured to process the depth maps in order to detect a direction and speed of movement of the part of the body as the part of the body passes through a predefined interaction surface, which contains an interaction region in space, and to control a computer application responsively to the detected direction and speed.
13. The apparatus according to claim 12, and comprising a display screen, wherein the processor is configured to drive the display screen to display an object and to change the displayed object responsively to the movement of the part of the body.
14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to drive the display screen to display a touch point representing a location of the part of the body in the interaction region.
15. The apparatus according claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to process the depth maps in order to identify the part of the body that is located within a visualization region contained within a predefined visualization surface, such that the interaction surface is within the visualization region, and to present on the display screen a representation of the part of the body that is located within the visualization region.
16. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processor is configured to accept a specification of dimensions of the interaction surface, and to map the interaction surface to the display screen responsively to the dimensions.
17. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to apply a three-dimensional connected component analysis to the depth maps in order to identify the part of the body.
18. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to predict a location of the part of the body responsively to the movement, and to generate a control input to the computer application responsively to the predicted location.
19. The apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the processor is configured to identify, responsively to the detected movement, a gesture made by the human subject.
20. The apparatus according to claim 19, wherein the processor is configured to learn the gesture during a training phase, and thereafter to detect the learned gesture in order to control the computer application.
21. A computer software product, comprising a computer-readable medium in which program instructions are stored, which instructions, when read by a computer, cause the computer to process a sequence of depth maps created over time of at least a part of a body of a human subject in order to detect a direction and speed of movement of the part of the body as the part of the body passes through a predefined interaction surface, which contains an interaction region in space, and to control a computer application responsively to the detected direction and speed.
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2019-04-25T16:34:57Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US20090183125A1/en
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wtf, i forgot this existed.
come into the kitchen boy.
Added to skins for Skincraft Apr 16, 2014.
A silly cartoon about a man and his new car.
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2019-04-21T18:51:18Z
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https://chakatan.newgrounds.com/
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Porn
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On the road to Jacksonville!
I’m on the road with my band, headed to Jacksonville for the Springing the Blues Festival. Hope to see you there!!
Oh, sure. Now you to go FL. Now that I’ve left. And with your band, too. Dang it! Enjoy yourself. I know they’ll love the whole bunch of you.
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2019-04-25T10:43:29Z
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https://egkight.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/on-the-road-to-jacksonville/
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Porn
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Recreation
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tripod
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Get Credit Report - companies that suggest that you try to invent a new credit identity and then, a new credit report by applying for an Employer Identification Number to use instead of your Social Security number.
Get Credit Report, Credit bureaus will usually respond to any disputes you have within 30 days and resolve the matter so it is reflected on your credit report. Wait a few months and then check your credit report again (this time youll have to pay) and make sure the correct info is now listed. Doing this and setting a budget for yourself that you stick to each month will get your credit on the road to recovery in no time at all!
Credit History - This is a record of how a consumer has repaid credit obligations in the past. Creditors can affect your credit score in a negative fashion by reporting late payments, bankruptcies due to default payment and other negative items on credit. But on the other hand if your credit history is clean and they have had a good experience with you - then they will send to good reports on the nine point scale. This will lead to an increase in your credit score when the information will be collected by credit bureaus.
Get Credit Report - credit report score is easier than ever before. Simply fill out our form and apply for your credit report score from the credit bureaus. It is free of charge and a great way to make sure all your information on your credit history is precise. Credit scores range from 300 to 850; 850 being the highest and best credit you can have.
Credit reports were issued as per the norms of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Under the supervision of FCRA there were three companies that were engaged in providing consumers reports or credit reports. They know them in a better way as Equifax, Experian or Transition. These companies were totally responsible to issuing free credit reports but of course once in a year to each individual or an organization.
Credit scores came into wide use in the 1980s. Long before credit scores, human judgment was the sole factor in deciding who received credit. Lenders used their past experience at observing consumer credit behavior as the basis for judging new consumers. Not only was this a slow process, but it was also unreliable because of human error.
Get Credit Report, Creditors are not allowed to look at age when determining credit-worthiness, however if you credit history is too short - they won't be able to give you a good score as you don't have a track record for them to rate.
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2019-04-20T04:25:50Z
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http://credithistory0.tripod.com/getcreditreport.html
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What is the purpose of group skills training? “To learn, practice, and master–then transfer skills we are learning to places in our everyday life” (DIRT GROUP participant).
This past weekend and today my co-workers and I instructed, discussed, and reviewed DIRT GROUP participant’s target skill areas. These included: Doing good quality work, staying on task, completing tasks, cooperating with others, participating in activities, dealing with frustration, displaying appropriate control, resisting peer pressure, hygiene, using an appropriate voice tone, choosing appropriate words to say, accepting “no” for an answer, following instructions (the first time asked), listening to other with “eyes and ears”, starting conversations/talking with others, delaying gratification, among others.
DIRT GROUP is an experiential (hands on) social skills training group which positively influences social skills development in at-risk youth. DIRT GROUP practitioners instruct and review target skill areas with participants and create a “marinade” or a “therapeutic milieu” which fosters success in DIRT GROUP participants ability to learn, practice, and master skills they are lacking which help to return them to a normal developmental trajectory.
This past weekend DIRT GROUP experiential exercises included making chicken fajitas (chicken, peppers, and red, yellow, orange, green peppers, garlic, and even some sausage! The many ingredients helped youth understand that just like there are many ingredients for successful social skill development the same is true for making great fajitas!
Goliath & King Sampson, my two Jersey Giant mature roosters.
Use the Google and search Jersey Giant Chickens…I have nearly 50 Jersey Giant hens, 25 Production Red hens. I have 3 adolescent Jersey Giants roosters (hatched this past summer) among the hens, the hens were hatched in May of 2013, June 2014, and July 2014.
DIRT GROUP is an experiential social skills training group based in the context of a gardening / farming project for at-risk youth. DIRT GROUP was created by Kenny Turck whose family has been on the same farm since 1875 when his great grandfather Jacob threw an axe into the woods to decide where to homestead. Kenny is a Social Worker and in 2010 received the NASW (MN) Paul & Sheila Wellstone Social Justice Award for his work on food security issues wirh at-risk youth through DIRT GROUP. Kenny has been working in the human services field for 30 years and is the founder, CEO, and Co-Owner of Crow River Family Services, LLC (CRFS) based in Litchfield, Minnesota. CRFS provides outpatient and community-based mental health services.
DIRT GROUP is informed by and grounded in 4 major theories: Symbolic Interactionism, Experiential Learning, Social Learning, and Strength – based theories. DIRT GROUP provides tangible results, skills that prepare participants for life, pride and ownership, community contributions/investment & participation (“Big Ripple Effect”), and social inclusion–fostering resiliency, competence/mastery, achievement, mindfulness, and emotional and behavioral self-regulation.
What a GREAT turnout! ! !
WOW!!! I am humbled and nearly speechless (ok, I know that’s hard to believe : ) but what an ABSOLUTE AMAZING group of folks attending my workshop at the Minnesota Association for School Age Children Conference–and filled to the gills! ! Thank you for your wonderful reception, attention, energy, and response! ! Your students are lucky to have you! ! ! I am humbled.
Heading into presentation on DIRT GROUP, social inclusion, and implications for practice in educational settings including academic credits for Alternative Learning Programs! ! !
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2019-04-21T20:09:00Z
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https://dirtgroupusa.wordpress.com/page/8/
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Porn
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Kids
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wordpress
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I am a complicated person, an artist, a singer, caregiver and now a storyteller. Most of my life I have quietly sat back listening and watching people. I have listened to many stories and I have seen many things, some not so nice. I am a very spiritual person and turn to God in all things prayer is the answer to every problem.
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2019-04-19T01:08:46Z
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https://giftsofdawn.wordpress.com/author/giftsofdawn/
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Porn
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Arts
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wordpress
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Reason number 1,385 that I want to get skinny (and healthy, of course).
For years, my standard wardrobe choices have included things that are frumpy, oversized, and boring. Things that say “No! Don’t look at me! Pretend as if I’m not here!” Huge sweatshirts, blue jeans, boots and sneakers.
It’s a shame because I like to think I have great taste in clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. But when I weigh more, I don’t feel like I deserve to buy, let alone wear, nice or cute things.
In the last year or so, I’ve become a huge fan of Etsy.com. It’s awesome, and I am a huge fan of supporting the immensely talented people there. As I browse the site from time to time, I come across some amazingly beautiful clothes that I wish desperately I could wear.
So, these are a few of the things that keep me motivated as I continue along with my weight loss journey.
What are some things that motivate you?
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2019-04-21T12:18:26Z
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https://kristeneliza.wordpress.com/tag/shopping/
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Porn
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Shopping
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free
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This entry was posted on Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at 8:03 pm and is filed under nuitdencre galerie. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-20T00:29:51Z
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http://inknight.free.fr/?p=214
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Porn
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We’ve talked about the v-word before.
And it is weird that I publicly admitted that I like this “burger”. If you don’t remember, check it out here.
Yep, while in Columbus, I will seek this “burger” out. Kudos to the staff at Northstar Cafe.
Also much thanks to @live2cookathome @PoiseInParma @heidi_robb @Jonathon_sawyer @ruhlman @Twixlen for their initial recs.
I guess this means I’m going to have to find some really good CLE veggie burgers with @KrisTriRun – sheeesh.
So what’s the difference between these two salads at Serendipitty 3 (Las Vegas)?
Dunno? Can’t figure it out? Give up?
Answer: nothing – they are the same frickin salad.
This should be a clear answer on why you should NOT visit Serendipitty 3 in Las Vegas.
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2019-04-26T14:49:58Z
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https://quarrylanefarms.wordpress.com/tag/salad/
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1) How did you choose your surname, and where does it come from?
We decided not to have kids after all, but we kept the name for social purposes. Legally we haven't changed our names. I haven't wanted to bother (since I recently went through all the fuss to change my first name and didn't want to do another change so soon) and the OH likes making things difficult for bureaucrats by having only one name.
2) Where did you come across the poems of Rumi?
I first saw Rumi quotes I liked in people's .sig files on Usenet; nex0s in particular. I swiped them for my quote file. (The link gives you a random quote from the file, not necessarily a Rumi quote.) Then, during a time when I was madly in love with someone who didn't know I existed, I found in a bookstore The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks, ISBN 078580871X. It really spoke to me - Barks's modern translations of Rumi are really good for that state of mind. I was able to come to a better acceptance of my obsession by associating it with love of deity channeled through a particular source.
3) Out of the places you have never been, where would you most like to visit?
Go to Alaska and volunteer for the Iditarod.
Go to Japan and attend a sumo tournament.
4) If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?
I find myself thinking less of what kind of tree I would be than of the environment I would like to be a tree in (since trees don't get to move if they aren't happy with where they are). I'd like to be near running water and somewhere I could feel the sun and rain on my branches and not have to worry about other trees crowding out my access. I'd like to have animals around and would be happy to nourish them and provide nesting sites if they didn't hurt me. I would hope not to be near a lot of pollution or industrial noises. I would want to be someplace that had weather and seasons.
5) If you could have one thing achieved, however impossible, but done by you, what would it be?
If "done by me" also allows for the participation of other people, I'll go with "convincing everyone in the world to implement peace; justice; and universal availability of food, shelter, clothing, health care, and education."
If anyone else wants to exchange questions/answers, let me know. Note that I have a rush work project so if I get a lot of requests, it might be a while before I get to them all.
1. In your interests list is "cheapass games," which I know is a company that sells inexpensive games. What is it you like about playing games? I'm asking because I dislike playing most games and don't know what the attraction is.
2. What is it about tow trucks?
3. What does your dancing tongue hanging out big headed creature icon come from?
4. If you not only could, but had to change something about your past, what would be something you would change?
5. Describe something you hope to be doing on or about your eightieth birthday.
Me, please! I love your answers. I'm eager to see your questions.
1. Why do you feel like you have to justify your existence?
2. I understand you've done editing for university presses. Tell me about an author whose book(s) you edited whom you had an interesting relationship with (I don't specifically mean a romantic or sexual relationship).
3. Why did you decide to start the LJ communities you started?
4. What is one of your favorite poems?
5. What convinced you that creativity/art was worth doing?
BTW, I can see the "snippy interview" entry on friends view, but it says "protected entry" when I try to click through the cut.
Some kind of weird LJ bug, I guess. I tried to fix it, let me know if it works now.
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2019-04-23T09:51:59Z
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https://firecat.livejournal.com/221045.html
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Porn
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Arts
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wordpress
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Yesterday I attended the eCoast Mobile Summit. It was a good day of panels on various topics in the mobile realm. Chuck Martin (@chuckmartin1) kicked off the day with a great overview of many issues to consider when thinking about mobile (the Third Screen – as his book is entitled). He touched on topics from understanding where your users actually are to what devices they have and what they like. Designing mobile apps for what you like (a trap I have fallen into many times) is a common mistake. It was interesting to see the volume of people in the audience who have Android devices and the lack of people who have BlackBerries. In Canada, BlackBerry has such a higher penetration level, and Android is so low, that it makes it hard to remember that in the USA, the numbers are different. That constant reminder (when I’m at a USA event) makes it easier to understand when USA companies give us odd looks when we try to convince them to do BlackBerry development.
The first actual session for the day that I attended was purportedly on web vs native development. How ever there wasn’t really a balanced discussion. The Adobe rep (Brian Rinaldi @remotesynth) is appropriately focused on tooling support for either, the Microsoft rep (Chris Bowen) was really a web advocate in MS by day but mainly presenting on Windows Phone 7 tooling — which is mostly native development. The third panelist (Michael Davies) seemed evangical on using HTML5 but I, and most people I spoke with after, found his talk sounded more like a person who doesn’t believe in the widely accepted “use the best tech for the task” opinion that most experienced developers have and was saying HTML5 can solve all your problems. Not an opinion I share (as you well know).
At shortly after 11am, the session I was most interested in (the one I was a panelist on!) begun. Chris (@savetherobot) talked about applying gaming concepts to business and mobile apps. He did a great job outlining the different types/profiles of gamers and how those profiles can/should impact how your apply gamification strategies. I gave my talk on engaging customers by using mobile, social and LBS (which you can read more about on my previous blog posts: here, here, here and here) and Stephen Krueger followed with some practical experience on his use of LBS and social on mobile. I thought there was a lot of good questions by the audience and really enjoyed my experience as a panelist.
I only managed to catch one afternoon session where Margot Bloomstein (@mbloomstein), Shawn Grant and Paul Laroche talked about user experience concerns in mobile. This is an important topic and through various examples the panel provided good insight into what to consider when deciding on a mobile user experience strategy.
The day ended with a beautiful boat cruise which was a great capper to my quick trip to Portsmouth. I was excited to have the opportunity to be a panelist at the show and look forward to a future trip to the next eCoast Summit.
Apparently this is a well-known flash game but I had never heard of it until I found it on iTunes. Basically, it’s Boggle with Chickens. You have 7 letters (printed on chickens) to arrange into any words you can (minimum 3 letters). There’s timed and relaxed modes. I’m not sure why I like this game any better than Boggle (which I also enjoy) but maybe it has to do with dragging around chickens with my fingers =). It’s well done and just really fun if you like word games. There’s a couple of variations on iTunes but I’ve only played the primary one so far (there is a lite version as well).
I am crazy addicted to this game. It’s like Puzzle Quest, but less complicated. You can pay close attention to all the details on upgrades to maximize your scores… or just play and pick what seems good and have fun. The latest update really added a lot of depth and choice for character classes without ruining the simplicity that makes the game really fun. I know it’s $2.99 but I have no regrets about my purchase.
Unfortunately it is currently only available on iTunes but hopefully it will move on to other platforms.
Why is Google delaying the availability of the Honeycomb source code? How will in-app billing on Android impact the market? We have a heated discussion on the PlayBook, its competitiveness, its support for Android, and more — one of our better discussions I think. And finally, how can a $41 million investment in a company that hadn’t launched a product be justified? Is this truly the sign of VCs going crazy?
PLUS: We are now on iTunes!
Pro podcast tip: listen at 2x speed if you find the hour too long! It’s still easy to follow along at that speed.
Subscribe to the feed (audio | iTunes) or download the latest episode here: audio | video.
PlayBook: competitiveness, Android support, and more!
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2019-04-19T14:21:43Z
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https://casualbits.wordpress.com/
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Porn
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Business
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We write to be heard. To express our ideas, our dreams. To touch lives that we may never meet tangibly but through words we are pilgrims along the same path.
The Ward House started out as a way to chronicle our family’s journey into becoming more sustainable. Our small step to make a different through not only our lives but those of our children; teaching them the skills that they will need in the future. It was also an easy way to keep my family, who live in different parts of the state and the world, up to date on our goings-on. An unforeseen outcome was finding old and making new friends via not only posting/commenting but also on cross publishing to my FB account.
In addition to friends, I have been exposed to alternate viewpoints, learned a gazillion new skills, and increased my vocabulary (notice the gazillion word?). It has also opened the way to a few writing opportunities. For me, writing and drawing have always been a treat – creativity that is released when another project/problem/chore is not clamoring for my attention. These creative times, until recently (like in the last year or two) were few and far between; creativity is a muscle that atrophies without use. *sighs* I am going to preach to the choir (and myself)- always make time to be creative. That muscle is exercised more often now, often here, writing for other blogs/sites, and via photography (though not enough pictures seem to make it here).
All that brings me here: a writing opportunity has presented from dig the dirt. Disclaimer alert: this is not a review nor am I being reimbursed for the mentioning (sad that this must be included). Since you are so in-the-loop, I’ll let you know when that article posts. I am psyched!
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to People from Hammersmith.
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Over the last few weeks, several people have reached out to me with questions about the information behind and the importance of the visual perceptual testing most Developmental Optometry offices offer. Although the level of questions received vary from beginner to fairly in depth, the need for understanding is evident. I am in no way an expert in the area, but I have been around a while so, as always, I’ll share my perspective.
As an isolated process, I’ve grown less and less fond of perceptual testing because, in all fairness, it’s just a snapshot of a patient’s life and performance abilities. When pressed, sometimes I’ll quip that testing is two hours spent in a doctor’s office for people who generally dislike going to the doctor, with a stranger who you know is watching you, usually in the most visually non-stimulating environment we could create, performing a bunch of tasks which feel like school, and at the end of it all we get to discover what the patient has been saying all along in their own way. Learning is tough!
Now, go do your best!
Personal feelings aside, it’s quite true that visual perceptual testing is a crucial step in the diagnostic process, like it or not. It’s designed, in most cases, to measure the level of impact to the visual collection and processing mechanism and does offer a starting point for Vision Therapy. Along with performance challenges, it also demonstrates what a person can do, which should not be overlooked. When a patient or a parent asks me about their testing results, I will discuss their areas of strength as much, if not more than, their areas of weakness. In my mind, this is necessary because so much in their life is built upon the negative and what they cannot do. They can’t spell, they can’t add, they can’t remember what they read, or they can’t catch a ball.
OK, fine. But what can they do? What do they enjoy? What skill, visual or otherwise, can we build upon? Where do they feel success? Does the testing demonstrate those areas? Sometimes it means we talk about how the patient completed the testing without becoming frustrated or throwing their pencil across the room.
Don’t laugh. It’s happened to me a few times!
Over the next few weeks, the idea here will be to look at and share some ideas for the more common tests used in Developmental Optometry, and in particular, offices I’ve been a part of. My goal is not to decode every step of the administration nor to create a step-by-step instruction manual re-write. Rather, to offer some insight on the intangibles which can be gleaned from each examination exercise, the observations which have proven valuable in my world, and the areas each test seems to truly be analyzing.
Posted on November 14, 2018, in From My Perspective.... Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
I am glad to see you tackle this. I agree with your perspective. It is important to know what children can do. I don’t know how to form a prognosis for a child who has perceptual problems without ocular motor problems that I can detect who is being raised in a reasonable environment. Why is their processing so poor? How effective will we be in improving how their processing affects their lives, not just how they do on subsequent testing?
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I watched "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" last night. I liked it.
The thing is, he made working on a sketch comedy show seem as important as working in The White House. You're watching it and you're feeling the characters are doing important work, and then you stop and say, "It's a show about making SNL, and that isn't even any good anymore!" But when I let myself get carried away with the gravitas that Sorkin inevitably bludgeons you with, it was really good.
I watched "Studio 60" as well, and liked it, and had the same exact thought as you did. It was surprisingly good and I don't think I wanted to like it as much as I did.
Even as a straight female, I had a lovely time watching Amanda Peet.
True. I also fear I must admit that I think that, for some inexplicable reason, I have a man crush on Bradley Whitford.
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I have not used my film scanner for some time and when I have tried been very aware that the quality was poor. This morning I had another go and it was terrible. The scanned image looked like it was flared and I suspected the lens or glass inside the scanner was filthy. A quick Google to see where I could get it serviced produced two web sites on “do it yourself” scanner servicing. 12 screws later and I had it in bits on my desk and a very tiny mirror the size of my thumbnail in my hand. There was so much dust on the mirror that I could have written my name in it. A bit of soft lens cloth and alcohol solution and it was spotless.
Proud of myself I reassembled it and all is perfect now. No lens flare and back to as good as new.
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The Arthurian legends have had a profound effect on British fantasy, and some of that has carried over to the United States as well. Merlin, especially, seems to make a lot of appearances in recent fantasy fiction, having been everything from the first King of Xanth to the namesake of an order in the Harry Potter universe. Really, though, Arthur and Merlin don’t have a whole lot to do with Oz. There is a bit in John Dough and the Cherub in which Nebbie, right-hand man to the Kinglet of Phreex, tells his ruler that the word “devoirs” was used by King Arthur and Richard Coeur de Leon. This might well have been true in the latter case, since I’m pretty sure Richard spoke only French. Ruth Plumly Thompson shows Arthurian influence in her introduction of Sir Hokus of Pokes, who is initially presented as having come from Arthur’s England, although Thompson later changed her mind and made him a native Ozite.
Really, Merlin is such a mysterious character that you could fit him in to just about any fictional universe.
Speaking of Oz and Arthuriana, I recently thought of another interesting correlation between the two universes, which is the similarity between Ozma and Morgan le Fay.
Not in terms of personality, that is, but as far as the origin stories go. Morgan was apparently originally a fairy, but was eventually changed into Arthur’s half-sister, who still had magical powers but was entirely human. And with Ozma, it was sort of the reverse of that. When she’s first introduced in Land, L. Frank Baum just tells us that she’s the daughter of Pastoria, the former King of Oz. Later, however, she’s presented as a full-fledged fairy, and Magic even suggests that she has existed since the beginning of time. I’ve addressed this conundrum before, but it just strikes me as interesting that both figures are said to be both human and fairy. Maybe Morgan was brought to England to be its greatest ruler in the same way Ozma was for Oz, but Merlin threw a monkey wrench into the works. I guess that kind of makes him the equivalent of the Wizard of Oz, although he never ruled. Do I have something here? I mean, if Marcus Mebes could make Lurline an Olympian goddess, why not?
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I have Ozma as the product of Pastoria and Lurline coming together. Not too Oz-shattering as that is what is listed in the wiki’s and such.
Book III of my series will open with Lurline and the Council of the Olympians.
Jack Snow had it that Lurline delivered the baby Ozma to Pastoria, which doesn’t necessarily indicate that he isn’t the biological father, but that didn’t appear to be the intention. Merry Go Round has Ozma remembering her time in Burzee before the Unicorn came to Halidom, which would presumably have been centuries earlier.
Yep-love all the contradictions. As if each book was a parallel world…..
But then the plots wouldn’t affect each other, would they?
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What a wonderful way to start the day! An indecipherable message, from what I can only assume is some form of spy organization. Obviously, they work in some way akin to ISIS from FX’s Archer (as opposed to the unaffiliated, yet similarly initialized ISIS/ISIL of the Middle-East).
This came in at about 8AM this morning in the form of a text message. It’s not the first message of it’s kind, nor do I assume it’s the last. I mean spies always have to communicate right?
In actuality, the message was written in Korean, and it was the infamous Google Translate that resulted in this garbled smattering of warnings followed by negations of said warnings… I surmise the intended purpose was to warn me that it was going to bucket with rain this morning, and thus save me from the thorough soaking I was to receive.
Sodden as I was, I decided to cab it to work, where everyone else was also feeling the effects of the depleting vitamin D levels as a result of the rain. It was thus I found myself standing in class trying to convince the children that the “long O” sound does not make an “ow” sound, I very nearly resorted to the Henry Higgins method of pronunciation coaching just to ease my way into the day.
Overall, today has been somewhat of a damp one, but at least the weather is reinforcing what the kids so often tell me: “Korea has four seasons teacher”.
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Hello! I’m back! It’s been a bit quiet around here recently, hasn’t it? That’s because I’ve moved! Not house, but websites. If you are reading this via my old wordpress address, STOP!!! Come and visit my new site! I won’t be updating this site anymore, as I’ve permanently moved to a new domain, where my … More Baby Got Back…and Moved!
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Blu Street Art – This Is Art Attack!
I remember viewing this up close, and LOVING it! Berlin is an amazing sea of street art!
I know, I was shocked when I saw it! Wish London had more of this type of work. Thank you for your comment!
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This entry was posted in abstract, Art, Circle, Digital drawing, doodle, Drawing/Sketch, Line art, noodling, Shapes. Bookmark the permalink.
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Does anyone live in a television free home?
This is something I’m really considering and really trying to convince my husband to get on board with or at least think about the possibility of maybe doing without it for the entire summer. Stowing it away in the garage and reevaluating at summers end.
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been MIA for the last month or so. Not even really sure why but in that time I suddenly want to buy land and add a little more simple to our lives. Less distractions, more time for family, for discovering, for learning together and making lasting memories. Now the land might not be a possibility right away but I know that adding a bit of simpleness to our lives is something we can achieve right now.
Anyways let me know if you’ve tried a T.V. free life? We will have to keep our computer to continue living in the world today (and I would never be able to convince my husband otherwise) and I would love for my kids to still be able to watch the educational shows that they love such as The Magic School Bus (love it)!!
What do you guys think? Have you done this or thought about it? Would live to hear some input.
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Im pretty sure that spring or so of last year I promised more dIY projects by me. You can read about that here. Then nothing happened until a couple months ago I started watching Fixer Upper on Netflix. Not only do I just love Chip and JoJo but I love pretty much everything they do. So my virgin DIY self started getting antsy! I’ve never actually tackled most of the DIY projects that I yearn to do on pinterest so this is my year to turn my house and everything in it around. Major house makeover. As a family we are practically spilling out of it with the 5 of us so our plan is to put it up for sale in 2017 which means we need to update it on a budget to get it ready. I’m hoping that mostly paint will do the trick but I know that in the long run new flooring is needed and a cabinet makeover for sure. But that’s months away.
Here’s what I started with. This old oak table.
My parents gave it to me after my dad made them a new one. I grew up with this table. My sisters and I all had our designated seats for dinner. Many a memories at this table and I’m thrilled that I will get to use it for my family. But that honey oak color isn’t my favorite by any means which really stinks for me because everything in my house is that color; trim, doors, cabinets, floor. So an update is definitely due. Now this being my first actual do it yourself project I had to call my mom. She came out and showed me how to do a couple things and ta-dah, a wee bit later we had this.
I sanded the top and sides but left the bottom glossy. My first time using a power sander, lets just say I felt the power! It made me very giddy like a school girl. The primer we used for the base is supposed to go over any surface so we went for it. My mom started staining the top, one section at a time and waited 3 minutes before wiping stain off.
I started painting the bottom of the table with the primer. This is the only picture I got after stain and primer was applied.
This is what we used for the top of the table and the bottom of the table.
Sorry my can of white paint has seen better days.
I’m a bit in love with this table and can’t believe how amazing it looks.
The plan is to get long benches for both sides and I updated a couple of the matching chairs to the table to go at the end.
One question I still have. Should I rough up the white bottom of the table and make it a little more rustic and farm house like? I think I know what JoJo would do but what do you guys think?
My first Makeover Monday under my belt and hopefully there will be many more to come!
About two months into this new homeschooling adventure and I finally got a pretty reliable sign that both of my children are getting something out of it.
My 4 year old has been working through the book, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons and we are about a third of the way through. Today we were finishing up an entirely different lesson about our left and right sides. He was looking at the work sheet and I could tell he was contemplating something. Before I could inquire he asks the following.
“Why in the word are g and h in the word right?” He pointed to the word “right” and those two silent letters inside that word.
I tried to explain that they were silent. We’ve only just touched on that in his reading lessons so to him seeing a gh in a word that does not sound like it has those letters in it was flabbergasting. I eventually googled his exact question. You can find the only answer I could find right here but to be honest I didn’t do a thorough search at all!
Anyways I am thrilled. I am thrilled that my son is recognizing letter sounds within words when we aren’t even doing a reading lesson. I’m thrilled that he’s interested enough to ask questions. My heart does a double pump when I think about it. One of the most beautiful things is to see my children learn something new, learn and be excited about it. It’s encouraging for someone who is planning on homeschooling full time.
I’ve seen improvement in my two year olds letter recognition as well. Before we started the school year she could only identify a couple of letters, 2 months in she already knows so many more and gets excited when she sees them. It really makes me so giddy! Giddy I tell you!
As for my Littlest, it wouldn’t be right if our 4 month old didn’t get a proud update from momma, he’s rolling over like crazy and grabbing stuff! I got a little emotional when this started happening, our last little one learning to roll. Oh my!
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Flappy Bird for free (Yes I’m serious!) & the lack of human morals on Craigslist. | live. laugh. love.
Flappy Bird for free (Yes I’m serious!) & the lack of human morals on Craigslist.
So apparently I missed all of the hubub surrounding the newest time waster (as I usually do), Flappy Bird. I caught a sound-bite on the news that (for whatever reason…to feel special, I guess?) the Creator had decided to cause everyone problems discontinue the availability of this game that everyone has fallen head over heels for. I thought about downloading it just to try it then decided “Nah, I’ll never play it anyway”.
Then I got on Craigslist & almost threw up in my own mouth over the ridiculous, slimy, pure greed I saw there.
People are attempting to sell their phones for thousands of dollars.
Yes, I’m serious. I saw an iPhone 4 for $8,000! All because these “precious” phones have the Flappy Bird game. I was truly appalled at the lack of human decency you must have to have in order to openly try to do people so dirty. I mean…come on people…eight thousand dollars??! It seems not to matter what make & model the phone is either….if you’re fortunate enough to have that game then you have apparently unearthed a gold nugget.
Well, have I got news for them. Thanks to a couple of decent people (who also posted ads in an attempt to counteract what is basically backyard terrorism), I have found & verified a way for Flappy Bird to live on without you paying an arm & a leg for it. Hopefully many will find my passed along information useful; it is not being given out so people can download it then turn around like a jerk-off & try to sell their own phone for some ignorant, inflated price! It is being shared to take the wind out of these idiots sails…to help nip this disturbing trend in the bud. So please, share this post to help word get out.
I followed the directions of a helpful anonymous Craigslist-er & went HERE to download Flappy Bird. Simply click the green download button, an apk is installed (don’t worry…I don’t know what the hell that is either) & then it leads you step by step through the installation. I did this on my phone & my daughter’s; it worked perfectly each time; I can’t say how an iPhone would handle this process as we are not part of the Apple movement…but Android is easy-peasy.
Actual screenshot from my phone.
In your face, (money grubbin’) Suckas.
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That dialogue could be up for a raspberry. By all accounts, it’s spectacularly bad. It’s sad to see this an Australian film crash and burn so badly with the critics, but you reap what you sow I guess.
Thanks very much for your comments. Yes, a raspberry indeed. The dialogue really is terrible in this film, to the point of distraction.
The 3D wasn’t too bad but to be honest it was difficult to tell as I saw it on a multiplex screen and in the initial scenes it uses full scope 3D, utilizing also the space between the screen and the audience for immersion which, aside from being a slightly odd choice for the content of the film, really only works on a slightly curved screen such as IMAX have (IMHO) – the peripheral focus therefore a little out. After the first ten or fifteen minutes the 3D settles down and is used in very much the same way as in Avatar. Better than 2D conversion but still not the most exemplary use of the medium.
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The Italian band PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) was formed in 2005 and has now released their second album ‘A Sense of Decay’. The first thing to catch my attention was the attractive cover art with a picture of a colorful butterfly; half of it is alive and the other half is turning into dust. It’s beautiful. PTSD plays a style of alternative rock/metal that often strays into a progressive metal sound that reminds me of a melodic Dream Theater. There is also a slight feeling of bands like Stone Temple Pilots, Alice in Chains and 30 Seconds To Mars.
It has just come to my attention that Rolling Stone is hosting a stream of the upcoming Deftones record Koi No Yokan. I for one am highly looking forward to its release and am pleased I get to hear it just to further solidify my reasoning for purchase when it hits store shelves next week. Their previous record, Diamond Eyes, was a return to greatness for the art metallers after putting out a pair of substandard releases. So far Koi No Yokan sounds like it is following down that reaffirmed path of quality. Give it a listen by clicking here or on the album cover above. Tell us what you thought, are you going to buy it when it lands? Enjoy! Peace Love and Metal!!!
Four years ago Deftones bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a car accident that left him highly injured and in a coma. Now he has started showing the first signs of recovery by lifting his legs on command. He has yet shown more signs of recovery, but with this great news there is great hope that he will one day emerge completely from his coma.
Here’s “One Weak” off of the Deftones debut album, Adrenaline, which shows off Chi Cheng’s unique bass playing style. Send all your positive energy his way for a full recovery and enjoy the song. Peace Love and Metal!!!
I can just picture the record company heads sitting in a room discussing what to do with their up and coming stars, Deftones, new video. “Sharks, the kids love the sharks, we need sharks.” “The girls like the guys with eyeliner, lets smear some of it on that singer they all think is hot.” “Oh, and don’t forget skateboards are back to being the “in” thing again, we need some of those”. This video is completely random and has mid-90’s written all over it as well as random stuff that the execs thought would attract their target audience. When I was a teenager I thought this video was pretty random, but cool. Today, same thing. If they got one thing right, it’s Sharks are Awesome. Enjoy!!! Peace Love and Metal!!!
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The construction of your home plays a vital part in how good your life is. A good home brings not just positivity, but also the enthusiasm that is needed to complete our daily set of activities. This positivity can be further enhanced if you build your home by following the principles stated in Vastu Shastra, an ancient science which has its roots in Hinduism. Vastu Shastra, also referred to as the “science of construction”, takes into account certain cosmic principles and advises the construction of temples and homes based on those cosmic foundations. This article talks about a few Vastu Shastra Tips that can go a long way in helping you build a positive home, for a positive life.
Vastu Shastra was formulated many years ago, sometime between 6000-3000 BC and states that earth, water, air, wind and fire, i.e. the five fundamental elements, are responsible for our creation, and affect everything that happens. This concept forms the foundation of the cosmic principles stated in Vastu Shastra. These principles can help you drift away from negative energy and enter a life which brims with positivity. However, applying these Vastu principles is not limited just to the construction of the house. Several other factors like surrounding places and plot direction play their parts in determining the Vastu of your home.
The kitchen is the area where all the food for your meals is prepared. This makes the kitchen one of the most important spaces in the house. It is important to pay attention to the best possible construction and design of the kitchen. The following Vastu tips for kitchen should be kept in mind while designing the kitchen.
The most preferred direction in terms of placing the kitchen is the South East. According to Hindu mythology, the South East, home to Lord Agni,is the best direction for placing the kitchen. Lord Agni is known to prevent fire.
The northeast should never be used for setting up a kitchen. This direction provides a lot of sunlight, which is required more by meditation rooms and/or living rooms.
The kitchen doors should be aligned towards the northeast corner of the room where the kitchen is being made, and the windows should be towards the east.
Thanks to a whole lot of high rise complex coming up, there is a huge demand for apartments in these days. Apartments are actually not the best option if you are a believer in Vastu, for apartments are pre-designed and very few modifications can be actually carried out in terms of structure and layout. But there are still certain Vastu tips for apartments you can follow, if you’re looking for positive vibrations in your apartment. It is wise to look for an apartment which has its entrance towards the east, north or north-west.
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https://vastushastraexpertinbangalore.wordpress.com/2017/04/10/vastu-tips-for-good-life/
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Randy Neff, SRA, past-president of the Illinois Coalition of Appraisal Professionals is featured in the Spring 2011 issue of Working RE Magazine.
Randy is quoted in several points in the article titled Power of Many: State Appraiser Coalitions By Mike Antoniak which begins on page 12 of the issue.
profiles on LinkedIn and Twitter. This is in addition to its already existing Facebook page.
members to keep up to date on industry news, organizational updates, membership benefits, and information regarding ICAP’s annual summer seminars.
ICAP, one of the nation’s oldest and largest coalitions of professional appraisers, established in 1994 to be a unified voice for Real Estate Appraisers in the State of Illinois. ICAP’s recognition with legislators has been growing consistently over the years.
ICAP’s Lisle summer seminar will take place at Windham Hotel, Lisle IL, and for the first time will provide a vendor showcase which will bring appraisers and appraisal service providers together.
ICAP’s Lisle Seminar qualifies any Illinois licensed or certified attendee seven hours of continuing education and includes a continental breakfast during the morning exhibitor hour (7:30 AM to (8:30 AM) and lunch during the afternoon exhibitor hour (12:00 to 1:00 PM). In addition, there will be crowd raffles and giveaways.
Who are you most looking forward to hear speak at this year’s summer seminars?
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2019-04-18T10:29:51Z
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https://icapweb.wordpress.com/2011/06/
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Anyway, if you’re here, you’ve probably seen my column on Emma Watson, #HeForShe, and my proposed alternative — #SheAndHeForUs (or #HeAndSheForUs).
Is it very uncharitable for me to doubt this story? It just seems too conveniently tied to Sheryl Sandberg’s recent “Ban Bossy” campaign. And honestly, given how commonly girls are found in leadership roles at school in recent years, I find it hard to believe that a girl would get negative pushback just for wanting to direct school plays. One possibility is that it was something about Watson’s personality. Another is that whatever happened back then is now perceived by her through the prism of the recent campaign to reframe “bossy” as an antifemale slur.
Somehow I think that if Watson had actually found it hurtful to be called “bossy” at eight, she wouldn’t be using the word to describe her film character a few years later. Again, I don’t think she’s making it up — I just think she’s processing it through her perspective as a 24-year-old feminist.
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2019-04-24T14:02:58Z
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https://cathyyoung.wordpress.com/2014/09/
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Is it possible that a recently and apparently successfully uploaded favicon can appear on someone’s website (hosted by DreamHost; using a WordPress.org theme template, et al) while they are logged in, then logged out, and then the computer is restarted and logged in again - BUT NOT appear in one’s basic (Safari or Internet Explorer) browser’s menu?
Is there a lag time involved? Might I NOT have uploaded it everywhere I should have? Did I forget to click, submit, something?!
Some browsers can be really weird about holding on to favicons they’ve already downloaded. As long as the icon is showing up in some places, I wouldn’t worry too much — it’ll probably work fine for new visitors.
I appreciate the reply, Mr Monkey (LOL). Thing is, it still only shows, after 24 hours, when I am logged in to the site from WordPress.org. Not even when I am administering to same from DreamHost. And Ive had a few people check from third party locations. Nada.
Mind you, this is a very rudimentary site that I am using as a testing ground for bigger things to come. So Im not expecting a lot. But to get hung-up so quickly out of the gate!
So how long should I wait before trying to figure out if Ive done something stoopid?!
And it should show up in your browser window as an image. If not, then something’s wrong with the file. Either you really didn’t replace the default blank one that DreamHost put there, or your .ico file is corrupted.
Well, Scott…I’m not even able to check via that link. Clicked on it and this appeared: “The requested URL /favicon.ico was not found on this server.” Then typed it in by hand (in Safari); still the same negative reply.
I guess I can/should go back and upload a newly generated favicon, and try this all again?
You need to change “example.com” to whatever your real domain is.
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2019-04-24T18:26:07Z
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https://discussion.dreamhost.com/t/basic-favicon-trouble/53508
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Melanesie's a name uised in geography for the region made up o Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia an Fiji.
Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Melanesia.
This page wis last eeditit on 8 Mairch 2013, at 17:28.
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https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanesie
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A medical device for placing an embolic device at a predetermined site within a vessel of the body including a delivery catheter and a flexible pusher member having a lumen therethrough and being slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter. A stretch resistant embolic device is retained within the delivery catheter by a mechanical interlocking mechanism which includes an engagement member which is attached to the distal end of the pusher member and extends through a retaining ring at the proximal end of the embolic device. A detachment member extends through an aperture at the distal end of the engagement member thereby locking the embolic device onto the pusher member. The engagement member engages a retaining ring on the embolic device. When the embolic device is advanced to the predetermined site within the vessel, the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture to thereby release the embolic device at the treatment site.
The present invention relates to a medical device for placing a stretch resistant embolic device at a predetermined site within a vessel of the human body, and more particularly, relates to a catheter-based deployment system for delivering an embolic device. This device is particularly suited to transport an embolic device, such as a stretch resistant embolic coil, through the tortious vasculature of the human brain to a selected site within the vessel or within an aneurysm.
A still further embolic device deployment system for placement of an embolic device, or coil, includes a delivery catheter and a flexible pusher member. The embolic device is retained by an interlocking mechanism which includes a detachment member which extends through an aperture in an engagement member. The engagement member engages a ring on the embolic device. When the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture, the embolic device is released. One such deployment system is disclosed in a concurrently filed patent application U.S. Ser. No. 11/143,051, entitled, “Embolic Coil Delivery System With Mechanical Release Mechanism,” (Attorney Docket No. CRD5194USNP0), and assigned to the same assignee as the present application.
The present invention is directed toward a vascular occlusive embolic device deployment system for use in placing a stretch-resistant embolic device at a predetermined site within a vessel which includes an elongated flexible catheter, an elongated pusher member having a lumen extending therethrough and being slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter. The embolic device takes the form of an embolic coil defining a central lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends of the coil. A stretch resistant member, such as a platinum wire, having first and second ends in which the first end of the stretch resistant member is attached to the distal section of the coil and the second end of the stretch resistant member is attached to a retaining ring. An engagement member, preferably having an L-shaped configuration, is fixedly attached to the distal end of the pusher member and includes an aperture extending through the distal end thereof. The engagement member extends through the retaining ring of the stretch-resistant embolic device. In addition, the deployment system includes an elongated detachment member which extends from the proximal end of the pusher member, through the lumen of the pusher member and through the aperture of the engagement member such that when the detachment member is pulled proximally the distal end of the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture of the engagement member to thereby release the embolic device.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a deployment system for use in placing an embolic device at a predetermined site within a vessel which includes an elongated flexible catheter, an elongated pusher member being slidably disposed within the lumen of the catheter. The embolic device takes the form of an embolic coil defining a central lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends of the coil. A stretch resistant member having first and second ends in which the first end of the stretch resistant member is attached to the distal section of the coil and the second end of the stretch resistant member is attached to a retaining ring. An engagement member, preferably having an L-shaped configuration, is fixedly attached to the distal end of the pusher member and includes an aperture extending through the distal end thereof. The engagement member extends through the retaining ring of the stretch-resistant embolic device. In addition, the deployment system includes an elongated detachment member which extends from the proximal end of the catheter through the lumen of the catheter and through the aperture of the engagement member such that when the detachment member is pulled proximally the distal end of the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture of the engagement member to thereby release the embolic device.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, the second end of the stretch-resistant member is attached to the proximal section of the coil, as opposed to the retaining ring, to prevent the coil from stretching, and the proximal end of the coil is attached to the retaining ring.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, the engagement member is of an L-shaped configuration and one of the legs is attached to the pusher member and the other leg extends through the retaining ring. The aperture extends through the leg which extends through the retaining ring such that when the detachment member extends through the aperture the retaining ring of the embolic device is interlocked onto the engagement member until the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture. In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, the aperture has a central axis which extends substantially at a right angle to the central axis of the retaining ring. In addition, the embolic device takes the form of a helically wound embolic coil having a central axis which extends at a right angle to the central axis of the retaining ring. The stretch resistant member is attached to and extends from a distal section to a proximal section of the helically wound coil.
In accordance with still anther aspect of the present invention, the embolic device takes the form of a helically wound coil formed of a plurality of turns of which one turn has a central axis which extends at a right angle to the central axis of the other turns to thereby form the retaining ring.
FIGS. 3, 3A, 3B, and 3C are enlarged, sectional views of the coil deployment system shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrating the sequential steps in the advancement of the embolic device, removal of a detachment member, and release of the embolic device.
FIG. 1 generally illustrates one embodiment of a vascular occlusive embolic device deployment system 10 which includes a sheath introducer 12 having a lumen 14 extending therethrough and having an elongated pusher member 16 slidably disposed within the lumen 14 of the sheath introducer 12. An elongated engagement member 18 is slidably disposed within a lumen of the pusher member 16 and has an aperture 22 extending through the distal end thereof. The central axis of the aperture 22 extends generally parallel to the axis of the pusher member 16. The engagement member 18 is preferably formed of a small diameter resilient wire, such as Nitinol, and includes a flattened distal end having a passageway extending therethrough to form the aperture 22.
The deployment system 10 also includes an embolic device 23, which as illustrated, preferably takes the form of a helically wound embolic coil, which is disposed in the distal section of the sheath introducer 12. While the embolic device as illustrated is shown as a helically wound coil various other types of embolic devices, such as filaments, braids, foams, expandable meshes and stents, could be delivered using the present deployment system and various other coil configurations could be delivered using this system. A weld, or solder, bead 24 is formed at the distal end of the embolic device 23 to provide an atraumatic tip for the embolic device. In addition, the distal end of a stretch-resistant member 25, which preferably takes the form of a platinum wire, is attached to the distal bead 24 and extends proximally through the central lumen of the coil. While the stretch-resistant member preferably takes the form of a platinum wire, other materials or composites such as polymers, metals and ceramics, having a low elongation relative to the coil elongation may also be suitable. Alternatively, the distal end of the stretch-resistant member could be attached to the coil at a more proximal location in the distal section of the coil. The proximal end of the stretch resistant member is then attached to the edge of the retaining ring 28. Preferably, the retaining ring 28 has a central axis which extends at right angles to the central axis of the sheath introducer 12 and also extends at right angles to the central axis of the helically wound embolic coil.
FIG. 1A illustrates another variation of the stretch-resistant embolic device 23 in which the distal end of a stretch-resistant member 27 is attached to the bead 24 at the distal end of the coil and the proximal end of the stretch-resistant coil is attached to the turns in the proximal section of the coil by use of a weld, or solder, bead 29. With this embodiment, the most proximal end of the coil is attached to the retaining ring 28.
As illustrated in FIGS. 1, 1A, 2A and 2B, the engagement member 18 extends in a direction parallel to the central axis of the pusher member 16 and extends through the retaining ring 28 and is constrained in a generally L-shaped configuration by a detachment member 30. The elongated detachment member 30 extends from the proximal end of the deployment system 10 and through a lumen in the pusher member and then through the aperture 22 of the engagement member 18 and serves the function of interlocking the embolic device 23 to the pusher member 16 until such time as the detachment member 30 is withdrawn proximally. When the detachment member 30 is withdrawn from the aperture 22, the engagement member 18 returns to its normal straight configuration thereby releasing the retaining ring 28. The detachment member 30 preferably takes the form of a small diameter elongate filament, however, other forms such as wires or tubular structures are also suitable. While the detachment member 30 is preferably formed of nitinol, other metals and materials such as, stainless steel, PTFE, nylon, ceramic or glass fiber and composites may also be suitable.
A Tuohy-Borst type of clamp 32 is mounted on the proximal end of the pusher member 16 and when tightened onto the detachment member 30 and onto the engagement member 18 and serves to prevent movement of the detachment member and the engagement member 18 until such time as the clamping cap 34 is loosened to release the grip onto these members. FIGS. 2A and 2B illustrate the interlocking arrangement between the embolic device 23 and the pusher member 16 as shown in FIG. 1, however, these latter figures illustrate the operation of the deployment system once the pusher member 16 has been moved distally to a position so that the distal end of the pusher member 16 extends slightly out of the distal end of the sheath introducer 12 or a delivery catheter thereby exposing the embolic device 23. As illustrated in FIG. 2C, once the embolic device 23 has been moved out of the end of the sheath introducer 12 the detachment member 30 may be pulled proximally to withdraw the detachment member from the aperture 22 of the engagement member 18 to thereby cause the engagement member to disengage from the retaining ring 28 of the embolic device thereby releasing the embolic device 23 at a preselected position. Alternatively, if desired, the detachment sequence described above and illustrated in FIGS. 2A, 2B and 2C may be executed while the embolic device 23 is still within the lumen of sheath introducer 12 or a delivery catheter.
One of the important advantages of the present invention is that the embolic device may be placed at a desired location within a vessel, or within an aneurysm, with the configuration of the device deployment system as shown in FIGS. 2A and 2B. If it is determined that the embolic device is improperly positioned, the embolic device 23 may then be withdrawn from that location and placed at another location, or even removed from the body by first withdrawing the pusher member 16 and the embolic device totally back into the delivery catheter. Once the embolic device has been entirely withdrawn back into the delivery catheter, the catheter may then be moved to a more desirable location and the embolic device may then be released at the new location. With the addition of the stretch resistant member 25, the embolic device may be withdrawn without concern that the coil will stretch and become very difficult to remove.
FIGS. 3, 3A and 3B generally illustrate the sequence of placing an embolic device, such as a helical wound coil into an aneurysm 36 which extends from a vessel wall 38. More particularly, FIG. 3 illustrates the vascular occlusive embolic device deployment system 10 in the same configuration as shown in FIG. 1 after the pusher member and associated embolic device have been inserted into a delivery catheter 35 and advanced into a position for deployment of the embolic device 23, shown as a helical embolic coil, into the aneurysm 36. FIG. 3A illustrates the deployment device having a configuration similar to FIG. 2A with the embolic device 23 being placed within the aneurysm 36 but prior to withdrawal of the detachment member 30. At this point, prior to the withdrawal of the detachment member 30, as previously mentioned, if it is determined that the embolic device has been improperly placed, the pusher member may be withdrawn thereby withdrawing the embolic device back into the delivery catheter 35 for repositioning to a different location, or alternatively, to remove the embolic coil entirely from the body.
2. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 1, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a wire.
3. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 1, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a fiber.
4. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 1, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a polymer.
5. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 1, wherein said engagement member is of an L-shaped configuration so as to form first and second legs, said first leg being attached to said pusher member and said second leg extending through said retaining ring.
6. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 5, wherein said aperture extends through a distal end of said second leg such that when said detachment member extends through said aperture said retaining ring of said embolic device is interlocked onto said engagement member until the detachment member is withdrawn from said aperture.
7. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 6, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a wire.
8. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 6, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a fiber.
9. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 1, wherein the first end of said stretch-resistant member is attached to the distal end of the embolic coil.
an elongated detachment member extending from a position proximal of the deployment catheter, through the lumen of the catheter and through the aperture of the engagement member such that when the detachment member is pulled proximally the distal end of the detachment member is withdrawn from the aperture of the engagement member to thereby release the embolic device.
11. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 10, wherein said engagement member is of an L-shaped configuration so as to form first and second legs, said first leg being attached to said pusher member and said second leg extending through said retaining ring.
12. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 11, wherein said aperture extends through the distal end of said second leg such that when said detachment member extends through said aperture said retaining ring of said embolic device is interlocked onto said engagement member until the detachment member is withdrawn from said aperture.
13. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 12, wherein a central axis of said aperture extends substantially at a right angle to a central axis of said retaining ring.
14. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 13, wherein said embolic device takes the form of an embolic coil comprised of multiple turns.
15. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 14, wherein said embolic device takes the form of a helically wound embolic coil.
16. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 15, wherein said central axis of said retaining ring extends substantially at a right angle to a central axis of said helically wound embolic coil.
17. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 16, wherein said helically wound embolic coil is comprised of a plurality of turns of which one of said plurality of turns has a central axis which extends substantially at a right angle to a central axis of the other turns and forms the retaining ring.
18. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 10, including a retaining clamp having a lumen extending therethrough and being mounted on the proximal end of the pusher member, and wherein said detachment member extends from a position proximal of said clamp and through the lumen of the clamp so that said detachment member may be clamped into a fixed position prior to the release of the clamp and withdrawal of the detachment member from the aperture of the engagement member.
20. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 19, wherein said embolic device takes the form of an embolic coil.
21. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 20, wherein said embolic device takes the form of a helically wound embolic coil.
22. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 19, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a wire.
23. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 19, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a fiber.
24. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 19, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a polymer.
25. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 19, wherein said engagement member is of an L-shaped configuration so as to form first and second legs, said first leg being attached to said pusher member and said second leg extending through said retaining ring.
26. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 25, wherein said aperture extends through the distal end of said second leg such that when said detachment member extends through said aperture said retaining ring of said embolic device is interlocked onto said engagement member until the detachment member is withdrawn from said aperture.
27. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 26, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a wire.
28. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 26, wherein said stretch resistant member is formed of a fiber.
29. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 19, wherein the first end of said stretch-resistant member is attached to the distal end of the embolic coil.
31. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 30, wherein said engagement member is of an L-shaped configuration so as to form first and second legs, said first leg being attached to said pusher member and said second leg extending through said retaining ring.
32. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 31, wherein said aperture extends through the distal end of said second leg such that when said detachment member extends through said aperture said retaining ring of said embolic device is interlocked onto said engagement member until the detachment member is withdrawn from said aperture.
33. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 32, wherein a central axis of said aperture extends substantially at a right angle to a central axis of said retaining ring.
34. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 33, wherein said embolic device takes the form of an embolic coil.
35. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 34, wherein said embolic device takes the form of a helically wound embolic coil.
36. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 35, wherein said central axis of said retaining ring extends substantially at a right angle to a central axis of said helically wound embolic coil.
37. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 36, wherein said helically wound embolic coil is comprised of a plurality of turns of which one of said plurality of turns has a central axis which extends substantially at a right angle to a central axis of the other turns and forms the retaining ring.
38. A vasooclusive embolic device deployment system as defined in claim 30, including a retaining clamp having a lumen extending therethrough and being mounted on the proximal end of the pusher member, and wherein said detachment member extends from a position proximal of said clamp and through the lumen of the clamp so that said detachment member may be clamped into a fixed position prior to the release of the clamp and withdrawal of the detachment member from the aperture of the engagement member.
European Search Report EP 06 25 2706 dated Sep. 11, 2006 with Annex to the European Search Report.
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Is it just me, or has June been a completely insane month? Between last-minute events and activities for Avery’s school, a book fair I was asked to run at another school, my brother and his family coming to visit from India, making up hours at home for work missed due to all the above stuff…I’m exhausted! But of course that’s not all. There have been challenges to compete in for Usborne Books & More, and a summer sale I’m running for Usborne, as well. I have (unsuccessfully) been trying to keep up with cleaning tasks at home. I’ve had meetings and plans and goals to reach. Oh, and let’s not forget the water pipe that decided to wreak havoc in my house last night (and get water all over both my bathrooms and into the basement).
Sometimes it’s amazing I’m still standing. But I’m doing my best to take it in stride and just keep pushing forward. Needless to say I haven’t accomplished the goals I set for myself earlier this year. I hadn’t expected the end of the school year to be quite so frantic. Silly me! So I guess I’m going to have to do some adjusting.
Amidst all the craziness has been a big dose of mom guilt. I feel like I haven’t been spending much quality time with my kids. There’s been too much yelling and not enough playing. I also need to work with both of them on their attitudes and behavior. With school out for the summer, I’m planning on putting into place new routines to get us back on track. I’m building in time for a little yoga in the morning (to work on mindfulness with the kids and maybe curb some of Avery’s impulses), play time in the morning, too, maybe a walk after dinner. I also need to get them working on their self-sufficiency. Avery in particular has gotten too lazy, expecting me to do everything for him. And he should definitely be able to get his own breakfast, at least!
Of course built into this routine will be time for me to take care of my own tasks. But I need to work on my willpower. I’ve been feeling lazy in the evenings too often and not getting anything done. Instead I’ll stay up way too late, which means I’m not getting anything done in the mornings, either, because I sleep in. I need to reset my system a bit so I can go back to being productive. While a little down time here and there isn’t a bad thing, this cycle hasn’t been good for me.
OK, so new routines. Tonight I will be tweaking the schedule I’ve made. Tomorrow I hope to put it into action. It will take a while to really get into the swing of things, but hopefully by this time next week I’ll start feeling more in control. No more insanity! (At least, no more than I was already used to!) I have a lot to get done this summer before school starts, and I can’t afford to give up now!
Is it possible to have it all? Well, not “all,” but everything that’s important to you?
I find myself struggling lately (well, for a while now, but more so lately) with wanting too much. And I go back and forth with being convinced I can manage it all if I schedule my time properly and being convinced that something is going to slip — and being afraid that that something will be my kids.
The problem is that everything I’m trying to fit in is important to me. My kids, of course. My future aspirations with grad school and beyond. My Usborne Books & More business and building relationships with schools and libraries. My involvement with Avery’s school and the local library. My websites. The only things that I want to cut out are the things that I can’t: working my regular job, and household chores and responsibilities.
Sometimes I wish I had only one or two things I was passionate about, that my life had had a clear path and the winding path I discussed last week was a little shorter. Then perhaps I would be established in some of these areas already and adding more wouldn’t be a problem. But everything I just mentioned, everything that I want to fit in, is coming together at the same time. And trying to fit it all in is proving to be a difficult puzzle. Are there too many pieces? Or will it just take persistence to get it all to fit?
I have a little bit of time to figure things out — mainly, this summer. Involvement with Avery’s school will mostly be put on hold during the summer. Grad school doesn’t start until the fall. That means I have just under three months to determine what has to give or discover a way to make the pieces fit.
My first step is to determine if there’s a way to build my Usborne Books & More business. If I can bring in more income with that, then perhaps I can find a way to at least cut back at my job. I also, as previously discussed, will continue to work on my big cleaning projects so my house is in better shape.
Next comes laying the groundwork for the rest – building a foundation so as much as possible runs smoothly with minimal input from me. I’m talking about getting my websites settled and establishing a regular routine that allows for brief updates. I’m also talking about establishing a routine (not just a schedule, but getting myself into a real routine) of light household maintenance so projects don’t build up. And helping create courses of action for the school PTO and Friends of the Library so I can be involved without it seeming like an urgent, huge endeavor every time.
And, most importantly, I need to get as much of this out of my head as possible, so it doesn’t invade the time I have with my kids. Too often I find myself distracted when I should be engaging my kids. I’m too preoccupied with other tasks to be fully present. I need to “set it and forget it” so I can focus on these other tasks at times when the kids are not around and really enjoy the time I have with my kids.
I have a lot on my plate. That’s nothing new! But it’s time to determine what’s getting eaten and what’s getting dumped.
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https://alifeiwant.wordpress.com/2018/06/
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Terrorists struck at the heart of Spain's economy on Thursday.
Barcelona is the country's second largest city after Madrid, and capital of Catalonia, Spain's biggest region in terms of economic output.
Tourism is a big part of the story, but tech, shipping and manufacturing are also important.
Barcelona also punches above its weight internationally. A survey by EY found that the city is the fifth most attractive in Europe for international investors, behind London, Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, but beating Frankfurt, Madrid and Dublin.
It alone attracted around 36% of all foreign investment in Spain in 2015, according to KPMG.
Tourism plays a key role.
Barcelona is Spain's most popular destination, welcoming about 8 million international visitors a year who stay at least one night in the city. Many of them come to marvel at Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church.
Barcelona is also Europe's most popular cruise port, according to Euromonitor.
The city has been an important shipping center for centuries. Thanks to its strategic location on the Mediterranean coast near France, it acts as a natural gateway for traffic coming to Europe from North Africa and the Americas.
Shipping hit a record high in 2016 in terms of vessels, volume of cargo and number of passengers. It was up 18% year on year in the first half of this year, according to the port authorities.
It's not just the sea: Barcelona's airport was Europe's seventh busiest in terms of passenger traffic in 2016, according to Airports Council International.
Barcelona boasts a thriving tech sector. It is home to a number of successful startups as well as research centers.
The sector makes up more than 7% of Barcelona's economy, according to the city council. That's roughly the same proportion as hotels and catering.
Cisco (CSCO) based its "Internet of Everything" innovation center in Barcelona. Candy Crush developer King, now owned by Activision Blizzard (ATVI), opened a large office in the city in 2012.
It's also home to the ALBA synchrotron, a particle accelerator facility, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
Barcelona hosts the annual Mobile World Congress.
Barcelona and its wider metropolitan area is an important hub for manufacturing and industry.
Around 34% of all Spanish exports come from Catalonia. And official data show that a third of all Spanish exporters are based in Barcelona.
A third of all foreign companies that operate in Spain have chosen Barcelona as their base, according to the Catalan government. Volkswagen (VLKAY) and Nissan (NSANF) both have plants in the wider Barcelona region.
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Last night, while leading eight current MAPH creative writers on an uphill March from the Seattle’s Washington State Convention Center to Von Trapp’s in Capitol Hill, I was marveling (aloud, perhaps unfortunately for my companions) about what going to the AWP conference can do for an aspiring writer. We were on our way to the second-ever MAPH/UChicago Alumni offsite reading at AWP. Earlier that morning, my colleague A-J Aronstein and I had stopped by a panel featuring the poet and teacher—and reader at last year’s offsite event—Shaindel Beers (MAPH ‘00) entitled the “Art of Difficulty.” Using beautiful language, Shaindel described teaching poetry students in prisons, schools, etc. as finding a way of “giving permission.” To write, one has to believe that they have something worth saying, a voice worth hearing. To Shaindel, it is a writing teacher’s job to nurture that belief, to create a space for it to thrive.
This entry was posted in Academics, Adventures, Alumni, Events, News, Publications, Teaching and tagged AWP on February 28, 2014 by Jessica Haley.
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Today eldest son was ill again. I know, he is often ill. He is a special needs child, and gets more exhausted due to muscular developmental delay. He also has allergies. Hopefully that has something to do with his frequent illnesses, because otherwise there is no explanation at all, and that makes me look clueless. Looking clueless undermines my authority and self esteem. I avoid it at all costs. Today he was feverish again, complaining of a pain in his tummy. Flu season is starting.
If he has been a good boy at school, he gets Wii time after. Today when we got home, I put him to bed. I told him if he did as he was told and got some rest, he could play Wii when I saw he was doing better. He swallowed that, some toast, and a bowl of applesauce. Then, of course, he fell asleep.
I knew he would fall asleep. I deceived him. I was prepared to follow through. I would have allowed him to play, had he looked healthy. But I knew he wouldn’t make it to the Wii time. I, in effect, lied to him to keep him laying down, so he could rest enough to get over this sickness.
This has to be wrong. Am I setting my children up for trust issues? The guilt eats at me. I see him asleep, and I fret. Will he remember? Will he cry? Will he still be sick? Will he be well, and justify me and my deceit? I pace. I put the other children to bath and bed. I gnaw at my nails, my lip.
He wakes up for his Wii, an hour after his normal bedtime. I honor the agreement and let him have his fifteen minute turn, he knows he must sleep immediately upon completion. Spoiled? Or deceived? He looks ill, but he is smiling. Now I can sleep, too.
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I’ve been proposed to. I should be happy and excited because I’ve always wanted a romantic proposal. It just happened that marriage fell on me both times without me waiting patiently for the man to do some work.
But yes, I’ve been proposed to. He’s from India and found me on Facebook via a mutual friend. Seems like a nice guy – friendly smile and kind eyes from beneath the thick-rimmed black glasses. His profile picture looks decent enough. He stands leaning against a tuk-tuk wearing a shiny, grey, double-breasted pinstripe suit (circa 1970s era), white towelling socks clearly visible (given that the hem of the pants fall short of his ankle) and brown moccasins.
I really want you to marry me and come live India.
I ran farm and got chickens and we can have boy baby.
Thank you for your sweet message, and the kind offer of marriage. I have to say that it took me by surprise considering we’ve never met neither have we been ‘arranged’ to meet but stranger things have happened! I am really glad that you are a self-sufficient businessman especially in tough economic times but I have to say that the thought of living on a farm in rural India, doesn’t appeal to me. Further, I already have children, one being a boy, so won’t be looking to have any more.
Thank you very much, but I am going to have to decline the offer of marriage and wish you well. Perhaps look for someone in your village? It makes sense after all.
Hokay Hokay. Will make proposal. I come.
Best find my one and only Sari then.
This entry was posted on September 1, 2014 at 2:58 pm and is filed under Uncategorized with tags Humour, love, Proposals. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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I’ve Been Waiting A Loooong Time!
Do you know my Mom hasn’t allowed me to blog since JULY 4th??!!
The battery became so hot her laptop nearly burned up.
Mom was super angry because her laptop was just purchased last October. In “computer time” it’s already obsolete.
She took it to Best Buy and had to have it shipped back to HP.
Best Buy made her purchase a temporary laptop until hers came back from being repaired.
Mom was lost on the new laptop.
Not lost enough that she and Cody couldn’t work on THEIR blog! No Sirree!! Nothing stops her from working on THEIR blog.
I’m the one that gets the short end of the bone.
I’m the sable furred step child.
The good news is that Mom got her laptop back today.
Too bad if she had read her HP manual she would have had it fixed the same week that it broke. Reading the manual is too easy. Mom likes to do things the hard way.
She would rather pay Best Buy $100 to have her data moved from her computer to the temporary one and wait over two weeks for her laptop to return.
Mom likes the Geek Squad because she can relate, she’s a Geek.
What? Does she think that money grows on trees? Doesn’t she know that trees are for PEEING ON???
What was the first thing she did when she got her laptop back?
She worked on hers and Cody’s blog.
Mom, it’s time to let me BLOG or get off the pot!
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I guess it’s the cabin fever, but I’m already looking ahead, past the 8″ of snow, and into the sunny future. Here’s one item that sparked a warm weather print obsession for me, I literally can’t stop thinking of new ways to wear this.
…Because I never thought I’d ever really fall for camoflauge print, or “cami” as it’s called in our house. My hubby, former Marine, wears it regularly. My sons both love cami. It’s one pattern I see plenty of, and yet? This XCVI brand, full-length skirt stole my heart, why? I don’t know.
The fabric is silky smooth, and the ruched panels add a delicacy to the masculinity of the print — I do like to play with blending masculine and feminine in my wardrobe. And I can’t seem to get away for long from my love of a long hem, be that a maxi dress, or a skirt like this.
First, I imagined myself in my black camisole, black & chunky Candies sandals, and my bright yellow Choo purse. Or my black ankle booties, a white wife beater, and a black purse. Then, I imagined my thin yellow tshirt over a white camisole, and yellow wedges with a white purse.
And that’s about the point that the beauty of cami finally hit me. It can be worn with nearly any color, not just a “jungle palette,” and you can make it work. I guess I’m channeling my inner Gwen Stefani (circa 1994).
It’s the only camoflauge I’ve got in the closet for me (so far) but I have to admit to loving it, for some odd reason, right now. Urban chic? Military street wear? Not usually my cuppa. Curious, I looked up more info on the designer.
When I can’t stop thinking about it, that tells me something.
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Malik Muhammad Rafique Rajwana (Urdu: ملک محمد رفیق رجوانہ; born 20 February 1949) was the 36th Governor of Punjab, in office since 10 May 2015. He is affiliated with PML-N.
He conducted landmark cases, including Mian Nawaz Sharif, Memogate Scandal, Election expenses, Alstom Energy Ltd, Rally Energy Ltd and Liverpool Cotton Association. He was the chairman of the parliamentary committee for appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan in 2014.
He is a native of Multan in southern Punjab. Rajwana graduated from Government Emerson College Multan and earned a master's degree in Economics from Forman Christian College University, Lahore.
Rajwana joined the judiciary in 1987, resigning, later to start law firm Rajwana & Rajwana. In 1996, he was elected as President of High Court Bar Association Multan. His core areas of practice are Civil, Company, Alternate Dispute Resolution and Arbitration.
He served as senator from southern Punjab in 1997 and in 2012. Rajwana is the senior Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan.
In February 2014, he was appointed chair of the parliamentary committee for appointment of Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan.
On May 10, 2015 he became Governor of Punjab.
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What Is My Ministry Preference?
I can hear you now, “Do you mean I get to choose a ministry that I really want to do?” In this day when the only way to fill a need in the church is to spend hours on the phone trying to recruit someone, it seems rare that we are given a choice of where we really want to minister. Usually we have to fill a need that no one else will. Even if we go to a church that promotes volunteerism, often the choices are outside our interests or we don’t know how to choose what is right for us. The purpose of this book is to help the church, by equipping you to volunteer, to take the initiative and find or create a ministry that will best use who you are to the glory of God. The church is ripe with opportunity just waiting for the congregations across this country to take ownership of ministry.
What Ministry Is Best For You?
Vocational testing is a huge business today. Companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year trying to save on the billions of dollars lost in mis-hires. Some of the best tests are based on extensive research. Researchers find people in certain vocational fields and ask them for information on themselves. Interests, college majors, personality traits and other critical data is all gathered. The information is then studied looking for variables and commonalities. The goal is to extrapolate from the studies what are major predictors for someone going into the same field. From this tests are created. These tests are then given to people in the field and these test scores are studied. The goal is to come up with a high percentage of correlation between the test scores and certain vocations.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could give you a test to help you decide on a ministry? It certainly would be much easier for us to take the results of your tests and say, “Based on other people with your same profile you would be best at…” That would be it. You could close this book and we could sleep at night thinking that we have done our job. The problem is none of the vocational tests are anywhere near 100% predictive of your final result. The best they can do is to show you what you could be good at. You may score high in science and math; therefore, they can predict that you would be good as a chemist, but they cannot tell you that you will be a chemist. Final results are much more complicated than that.
To make it even more difficult, for most of us, our ministry is voluntary. This opens up so many more variables. For example, a good vocational test may say that you would be good in a medical profession. Let’s say that the vocational test was right. You indeed have chosen a medical field. You work long hours as a nurse. But that doesn’t mean that you want to have a medical ministry, too. By the time your shift is over, the last thing you want to do is volunteer at a clinic. Besides, your vocation may only tap into one of your passions. It may be that you would much prefer a music ministry. This is why we have created a preference test. Because of the complexities in helping people discover a ministry, we find it most beneficial if we help you with different processes of selection and elimination. Our goal is to help you figure out what ministries, at this point in time, you would prefer to be involved in.
What makes you prefer one ministry over another? Many times it’s things that are totally unpredictable. Given a chance to choose, there are a myriad of reasons why we may prefer one ministry over another. It could be the level of perceived need, the leadership, circumstances, the team participating, your schedule or any one of hundreds of other variables. We have taken some of the more common variables and have broken them into three levels of consideration.
One of the biggest considerations in choosing to get involved in a ministry is seeing the need. Notice that it is “seeing” the need. Need alone isn’t enough. Somehow the need has to make it into our consciousness and create a response. What was the story of the Good Samaritan if not to illustrate that even “religious and seemingly moral leaders” can ignore an obvious need.
In 1964 in Queens, New York there was a crime that caught the attention of the whole country. It was the stabbing death of Kitty Genovese. She was chased by her assailant for over half an hour and attacked viciously three times. But what made this so horrific, was the fact that there were 38 bystanders that saw the whole thing and not one of them called the police or helped rescue Kitty. I remember the news story. America was in shock. Articles were printed in papers all across our country about the apathy that our overcrowded urban lifestyle had created.
I can’t help but make the comparison to the church today. All around us are urban areas with great needs. Right in our own community are people that are lonely, hurting and not knowing Christ and yet as a church we are almost non-existent. We have absolved ourselves from social responsibility. Are there so many needs, so many activities, so many other things clamoring for our attention that we have become apathetic toward those that need our help? Malcolm Gladwell, the author of The Tipping Point, suggests that there may be another reason for not reacting to the hurting needs of people around us.
Gladwell writes about the research of two New York psychologists who tried to better understand what they called the “bystander problem.” They staged “accidents” and observed how groups of people would react. They watched the different variables and gathered information about each incident. When they were through, one critical factor stood out. The one factor that seemed to make the biggest difference to whether a person would act or not, was the amount of people witnessing the event. They found that when people felt that others were watching, that someone else would take responsibility for what was happening. The more people witnessing the event the less a person felt that they needed to act. According to their research, responsibility for action gets diffused in large groups. The psychologist’s conclusion was that if Kitty Genovese’s attack was seen by only one or two people, it is probable that she may still be alive today!
When I first read this account, I realized that this may help explain why we can have so many churches in America and yet still are not making a social or moral impact. Could it be that many of us don’t react to the needs around us because we feel someone else is doing something about it? Or do we really believe that solving our spiritual, moral and social problems in this country is going to be done by someone else? Do we think that we are absolved from our responsibility to respond to the cries of those around us because there are so many listening? May God wake us up from this false thinking!
I’m sure that some of those that heard the screams of Kitty Genovese were apathetic. No doubt, some were cynical, others too busy to stop, but chances are that most of those thirty-eight bystanders would have helped had they really known no one else was going to. They did not see the need, they did not perceive the criticalness of the situation.
Now you and I cannot respond to every need around us, but we can allow the Lord to guide us and make us aware of those needs that we can help. There are two things that you and I can do that will allow us and our church to make a bigger difference in the community around us.
First, we must commit ourself, as an individual and as a church, to be a “need finder”. We need to go out into the community and see it as Jesus sees it. We claim to know Christ yet we know nothing of His compassion and love for those around us. We need to do prayer walks, surveys, talk to people, read the paper, talk to the police and town officials. What are the needs? What are the needs today and what do we anticipate the needs will be in the future?
What are the needs of the people in community, our neighborhoods or the needs of the people that we work with? Make finding needs in the surrounding communities a church project. Create a bulletin board with lists, put suggestion boxes out for people to put needs in, hand out cards to be filled out and put in the offertory. Get every small group and every Sunday school class involved. From the elementary student to the oldest member of the church, everyone must become a “need finder”. Make finding needs the top priority of the church for a month or maybe two. The results will astound you. You will be amazed at the stories, the energy, the excitement as people uncover more and more needs. It will also break your heart. When is the last time we were broken hearted over the needs of our community? As we all start to see needs as Jesus does and we enlarge our list, we can move to the second phase, that is finding out what needs we should work with.
The second step to meeting needs is to decide what needs we should work with, both as a church and as individuals. As we look over the list, we can begin to find out if others in the community are meeting the needs or not. This will allow us to become more aware of the circumstances around us and hopefully keep us from “assuming” that someone else is going to take care of the problem.
We can let God speak to our hearts and begin to get a feel for what is “moving” us. Then we can do what good managers do. We can do something about those needs that we feel we must, we can delay action on those that can wait, we can defer or delegate some of the needs to other people, groups, churches or agencies that are already involved or more capable than us, or if the need is already being met (or was not a real need in the first place) we can decide to drop the item.
The beauty of this system is that it takes responsibility to see that the real needs are attended to, by us or someone else. Can you imagine if every church, in every community worked together like this? What a witness we would have.
Second Consideration – What Can I Do To Make A Difference?
It stands to reason that you will be happiest, and the most fulfilled, if your ministry preferences complement the way you are wired for ministry. Not only you, but the ministry will benefit too! If given a choice, it makes sense to minister in a way that best suits who you are.
What ministries would use my Spirituals gift(s)?
What ministries work with the causes that I am passionate about?
What ministries seem to fit my skills and background?
What could I picture myself doing that would get me out of bed on a Saturday morning?
God has created us for ministry that takes full advantage of who we are, a ministry that uses our skills, our likes, our Spiritual gifts and our desires. Let’s spend some time considering what those ministries would be.
So how does this work? How do we choose a ministry? We do it by considering the needs around us and matching them with our skills, abilities, spiritual gifts, experiences and preferences. We do this in an attitude of prayer, asking God to guide us and give us wisdom. We have two tests for you to participate in. The first is a Ministry Preference Self-Assessment. We have listed ministries in broad categories for you to consider. It will be the broad category that will first attract your attention. Within the category are many suggestions of types of roles that you could participate in. This is where your interests can be determined.
The first category is Youth Ministry. Youth work may appeal to you so you pause to look at some of the suggestions of types of ministry within Youth Ministry. For the sake of an example, let’s say that you are already happy in a vocation so that rules out being a youth pastor. However, there are many other choices left. You see “retreat volunteer” and “church youth task committee member” and think, “Yes, these ministries really appeal to me.” You would then circle both ministries and where it says “Your Score”, you would write an 8, 9 or 10 depending on how strong you felt about those ministries.
If the different ministries listed on the test are close but made you think of something else you would prefer, that is not written down, by all means write down your suggestion and then score the larger category of Youth Ministry appropriately. Scoring Youth Ministry high does not mean you want to do everything associated with the category. It means that the category is important to you and that there are specific ministries, as indicated, that you are very interested in.
Below is the list of church and local para-church ministries. Does the paragraph pretty well describe your feelings? Do any of the areas of service interest you? Please rate yourself on a scale 1 –5 (1 = Not at all, 5 = Very much so) and circle the ministries that you are interested in or add ministries of your own.
You like to work with young people. You believe in the great need for leaders and role models. You want to see the best programs for the young people and are willing to help any way you can. You relate well with teenagers and have their respect. You know about adolescence; the fears, temptations, the struggles. You are willing to be patient, loving and pray for them.
Jr. high, high school or college age Sunday school teacher; youth director; youth counselor; Christian school teacher; camp counselor; youth night chaperone; host for youth activity; prayer supporter; church youth task committee member; retreat volunteer; games coordinator; volunteer on youth nights; driver to events; life skills mentor; tutor; support to parent/teen conflicts; drug counselor; big brother/sister; adolescent/family counselor; college/ career guidance counselor.
Children are our future. You love to be with children and help them experience the love of Jesus. You have patience and a good sense of humor. Children like to be around you. You know about the different developmental stages and are able to help the child grow. You know how hard the parenting process is and feel great empathy for the parent(s).
Sunday school teacher; Christian Education Supervisor; nursery attendant; Christian pre-school or elementary school teacher; song leader; games director; VBS volunteer; Bible Club worker; MOPS volunteer; day care specialist; teacher; special education worker; pediatric medicine, child psychologist; family counselor; respite care.
You are burdened for the lost and believe in being proactive with the sharing of the Gospel. You are willing to share your testimony, share the plan of salvation, distribute literature, whatever it takes. Your house is a place where you participate in friendship evangelism. You believe in reaching the community by helping them through need-based evangelism. At work you share the love of Christ through your life and in appropriate ways. You try to be a witness in the way you live so not to bring reproach against Christ. You feel the church should reach out to the neighborhood and are willing to help anyway that you can. You are burdened for the lost throughout the world.
Be on a church evangelism team; mission committee; set up literature distribution; teach evangelism; be a greeter at church, do visitation with new visitors; participate in door to door distribution of literature on the church and/or gospel literature; do evangelistic preaching; work in community projects, meeting needs and sharing testimony; lead prayer meetings for evangelistic revival; work with other churches about area wide evangelistic campaign; support ministries that evangelize; assist the church with different evangelistic tools such as radio, literature and video.
Your heart goes out to those who are shut in; you enjoy listening to people’s personal stories; you enjoy keeping people “caught up” with current events of the church; you have studied the development stages of aging and empathize with their situation; you find great joy in taking meals, helping house clean or doing yard work for those that can’t; you don’t mind taking someone to the store, to the hairdressers or out to eat somewhere; even though it breaks your heart you count it a privilege to pray for those that are dying and bring comfort anyway you can; you have a respect for those that have lived a full life and try to maintain dignity in their life, anyway you can.
Taking meals; driving people to appointments or take them shopping; setting up events; reading to an individual or a group; visit regularly at a nursing home; prayer regularly for shut-ins; advocate for the needs of the elderly in your church; set up a visitation team; organize work crews to help the elderly with home repairs; visit those that are sick from your congregation and pray for them; work at a retirement or nursing home; set up an emergency fund for those elderly on fixed income; bring the elderly to children’s events; set up luncheons and events for elderly; take appropriate church work to those that are shut-in so they can be a useful member.
You are moved when you hear of the needs of others; you pray on behalf of the needy; you are action oriented and want to help anyway you can; you advocate with the church on behalf of those in need; you know about and volunteer to assist in community development programs; you are willing to mentor someone with needs; you give of your resources to those in need; you volunteer to be on committees to help in community projects; you believe that the church should witness to the community through getting involved and meeting needs, you get employers and other community leaders involved with the needs of the community.
Volunteer to help various community programs; organize the church to assist in a food pantry, clothes drive, urban mission trips; volunteer to help those in church with needs; represent various Christian community development programs to the church; start a mentoring program at the church; advocate for the needs of children such as child care, foster care and adoption; link your church with an international Christian Relief agency; give where you can to organizations that are working with the needy; start an after school safe place for children; get involved with families in need; organize church for blood drives; mentor teenage mothers; work for a local ministry that participates in mercy ministry; help with job readiness, retention and advancement training; provide summer jobs or internships; get involved in community politics to bring about changes; be a big brother or sister; open your home for temporary shelter; advocate for healthcare for the needy; work on affordable housing; adopt a family in need; teach parenting skills; be a home visitor; volunteer medical expertise; be an advocate for health issues; offer respite for those who do foster care; care for sick and elderly.
You know that it takes administration work to help a church or ministry function so you help where you can; you assist with office duties; you volunteer your accounting, marketing, office management, executive or clerical skills when needed; you help with acquisition of state-of-the-art office equipment.
Volunteer to help with mailings, answer phones or help with bulletins; help with accounting; assist with computers purchase, set-up or maintenance; assist in printing needs; set-up bulletin boards; volunteer assistance with web site; volunteer training in your field of expertise; assist in the marketing and advertising needs of the church; help assist a committee by setting up meetings; sending out timely announcements.
You want to use your experience in management in the church or ministry; you want to see things done decently and in order; you do nor hoard over people but are a servant leader; you are willing to sit on committees and help anywhere you can; you pray for the pastor and church committees and for the director and staff of local ministries that you feel called to support; you stand ready to assist with leadership issues if needed; you consider it a sacred duty to be a Deacon or Deaconess and live according to I Timothy 3; you strive not to be overtaken with spiritual pride but serve as a leader remembering God’s grace and mercy; you keep up with the latest in church leadership materials, attend training when possible and disseminate what you learn to the rest of the leadership.
Being a Elder/Deacon or Deaconess; serve on various committees; attend prayer meetings; meet regularly with the Pastor to pray; assist in leadership using your expertise; serve on Board of local ministry; participate in strategic planning and vision casting; help communicate vision for the church; assist in fund raising for the major projects in church or para-church ministry you are involved with.
You are concerned about supporting ministry through the use of equipment, buildings and vehicles; you believe in the importance of the church’s or local ministry’s appearance and the testimony it gives the neighborhood; you believe in excellence, within the fiscal limitation of the church or ministry.
Help keep vehicles running; set up maintenance schedule; volunteer to drive bus or van; help set up and/or tear down chairs, tables, equipment; be on a committee to assure safety of building, grounds, vehicles and their appropriate use; oversee janitorial crew; volunteer for painting, carpentry, repairing and landscaping duties; donate any specialized expertise that you have; use your network to try and help the church get quality service at a reasonable or discounted price; donate toward needed equipment.
You believe that the church body should know the Word and how to apply it to their lives; you like to teach; you have a passion for a specific Christian topic and like to share it; you like to find the best teachers for each class, one that knows how to best communicate to the audience; you have a good working knowledge of web-based teaching; you like to help in a Christian resource center and library; you believe that the church should be a resource to its people and strive to have the best educational resources possible.
Set up a church library/resource center; teach Sunday school, adult home Bible studies, youth group or senior citizen groups; be a Sunday School superintendent; provide training seminar opportunities; provide teacher training; provide the best classroom equipment possible; strive to get others in the community to attend teaching sessions in the church; bring in specialized speakers to teach on relevant topics, represent learning opportunities to the church.
You have empathy for those that are hurting emotionally and socially; you believe that many people can change if they are shown how; you know that situations are complex at best and try not to be overly simplistic in seeking solutions; you believe that God has sent the comforter so you seek to work through the Holy Spirit and the Bible in dealing with people; you believe in the power of mentoring and try to get involved in areas that you can make a contribution; you try to get others involved in mentoring and helping those that need technical, emotion or spiritual help; you believe in support groups where people can comfort and assist others from their own experiences.
Set up a counseling center and referral network; volunteer as a mentor in your area of expertise; organize self help groups; use your psychological and/or medical expertise to help in the church or para-church organization; help start appropriate support groups, meeting the needs of church and community; be a friend to those who are hurting and help them follow up on their therapy or mentoring; help educate the church on Biblical responses to the many emotional and social issues facing Christians today; coordinate prayer, small groups and accountability partners for those needing assistance.
You believe that music is important to the church so you are willing to help anyway that you can; you know that not everyone has the same tastes so you maintain to be true to your calling while trying not to offend others; you believe that music has a wide range of uses and try to glorify God with all that you do.
Participate in choir, band or orchestra; teach music; help in marketing music programs; assist as stagehand, lights, or sound; write music and/or lyrics; create or find good arrangements for performances at church; assist in a musical ministry, perform in musical group or as a solo.
You want to help communicate Biblical principles through the medium of drama and or speech; you realize that serving God is the highest calling so you strive to do your best for Him; you make your skills available for groups in the church; you are willing to coach others; you know that writing is a scared trust so you dedicate your craft to Him and pray for His guidance.
Perform in skits to illustrate sermons; perform in plays for special service; work with choir in performing musical; write dramas, skits and speeches to be used in church; direct dramas; tutor young people in acting; entertain children, elderly and other special groups; speak to different groups in church on various topics; assist in designing and building sets; work as a stage hand; assist in lighting and sound; sell tickets and help with marketing.
You use your creative force to serve God; artistic expression is something you really enjoy and you want to share it; you enjoy helping others learn more about their artistic self; you know that art is a way to make friends and reach out to non-church members.
Express yourself through the fine arts, crafts, poetry, graphics or other form of art; help decorate church; use graphics to help communicate; work on web site or presentations; create mural; teach/tutor art; create items to raise money; use your art as a way to befriend someone; communicate and minister through your art.
You have a burden for the adults and want to help them get assimilated into the church; you understand adult development and the differences in each generation; you desire to see adults involved in small groups; you seek to help in areas that you have experience and knowledge; you are a team player and want to work with the other adult ministries in the church; you have a passion for adults to be active in ministry; you believe that the church should be reaching out to adults in the community through various creative ministries.
Sunday school teacher; host home group meetings; one on one discipleship; lead support group for one of many topics relevant to needs in church and community; mentor adults; teach marriage seminars; assist in parenting skill training; help those that are suffering; be a lay-pastor over small group of adults; help with career set backs; coordinate your services with others in the church; set up career planning and job center in the church; be an adult counselor; host-small home Bible-fellowship group; participate in home visitation; plan social activities for various adult groups; set-up adult resource center.
We are in the electronic age. You like to work with computers and software and believe that the church should take advantage of technology; you want to be able to help the church or para-church ministry using your skills; you believe in working with a team and understand that in a church there may be different opinions and want to work together for the glory of God; you realize that the church is depending on you so you finish your tasks in a reasonable turnaround time; you are professional in all your endeavors as a volunteer.
Setting up networks; work on web site; installing software; teaching software to staff; maintain the system; tutoring/mentoring people in computer skills; help computerize all areas of church ministry; help with web site; set up a computer learning center.
You know the importance of food and the role it plays in fellowship and ministry. You believe in the importance of a good kitchen and fellowship hall and having adequate food service. You believe in service and the testimony that it gives to the community and those visiting the church. You want to make sure that weddings, celebrations, funerals, conferences, daycare and other crucial ministries get the food service they need.
Participate on food service committee, volunteer to cook; help schedule events; volunteer to clean–up; help update and install new food service equipment; participate on regular basis in area of food service; plan meals and organize cooks.
You know that communications is a key to effective ministry. You believe in using electronics, sound and video to produce the best communications possible.
Installation of new sound system; running sound for services; doing the camera work for a video; creating the story boards for an effective video; editing video; creating a complete electronic suite for the auditorium; managing the sound, light, video team for church services.
You believe that God has called us to go into the whole world to preach the gospel and as a church we should be involved in missions; you do what you can to keep the cause of missions in the forefront of church business; you take prayer and the raising of support for the missionaries as a scared trust; while the missionaries are on the field, you are an advocate for them.
Being on the Mission Board; praying faithfully for the missionaries; collecting gifts, supplies and support for those in the field; help missionary with furlough plans; work on annual Missions conference; coordinate short term mission trips for members of the church, circulate missions articles and stories to the church.
You have a “call” in your life to oversee a congregation (or a specialized group like seniors, youth, prisoners, homeless, sport teams, mission groups etc.); you see preaching and teaching as a sacred call and therefore prepare diligently both in prayer and study before you preach or teach the Word of God; you take time to be with God so you can be the person that He wants you to be; you resist being proud and strive to be a servant leader; you trust God for your ministry and go where He is working; you like to assist in pastoral duties of visitation, comforting the hurting, welcoming new people and helping them assimilate into the church; assist in leadership and vision of the church.
Preaching; teaching; administration; overseeing the spiritual welfare of those entrusted to you; visit members of the church; perform various ceremonies, i.e. weddings, funerals, dedications, baptisms, communion; responsible for church services; contribute to the vision of the church; assist in the leadership.
You believe that church buildings should serve the church and community through leisure and recreational activities. You like to assist with sports programs like softball, basketball and soccer that help give the congregation an outlet and an opportunity to invite the community. You would like to assist in having cultural events on campus. You believe that the church can be a witness by providing wholesome, well organized and supervised sports programs for the community.
Using a gym and fields for special events, sports and cultural activities; camping programs; senior day care program; Awana, Brigade, Pioneer programs; Upward Basketball; art training; exercise facilities, walking trails, boys and girl scouts, after school programs; and community center.
Now that you know your preferences for ministry what next?
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To What Great Cause Should I Give My Life?
Another part of our mission in life is to understand what great causes appeal to us. To what cause will I give my life? This is the main question! A “cause” is a principle or a movement that someone supports or follows. In our use of the word it is a movement that supports a philanthropic issue that meets a need in the world. There are thousands of causes in this world all crying out for help and support.
Should Christians be involved in the needs of the world?
It seems ludicrous that we should even have to ask this question. Yet as I travel in conservative Christian circles there is such an aversion to the “world” that I often wonder if there is a genuine love for people outside the faith? While it is true that the Bible says not to love the world or things of the world, that passage is specifically talking about the world’s belief system referred to as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. It is not talking about a lack of love for people God made in His own image. It is true that we are not to buy into the world’s values of selfishness, greed and pride but at the same time we are to obey the Scriptures that instruct us to do good in the world. God commands us in the Bible to love, do justice and to do good.
Throughout the Scriptures we are commanded to love. This is a fallen world and love is needed in every corner. There are numerous ways to express love and many causes that have great need for loving people to respond.
The entire law is summed up in a single command: Love your neighbor as yourself.
If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; if he is thirsty, give him water to drink.
We are constantly given opportunities to love others. Part of this love is to have concern, kindness, empathy, and respect for the many causes in this world.
As with love, there are many causes for justice with which to be involved. However, it is often easier to be involved in an act of love, than it is with justice. Our acts of love are often in response to unmet needs. There is usually no resistance to a loving act. In fact, love is usually followed by a great deal of appreciation. Unlike love, a response of justice is often met with resistance. The word “just” is the root of the word “justice”. But, it is also the root of the word “justification.” Justification is the rational for why we feel “just” in our actions. Our opinion of justice often flies in the face of someone who feels justified in his or her injustice! Perhaps this is caused by the differences in the way that we were raised and he or she does not see their actions as unjust. Do you believe that a person raised in a prejudice environment is interested in what we see as justice toward the people he or she was taught to hate? When we administer justice, it is usually in a difficult situation. Nevertheless, God is serious about justice.
Jesus was righteous and good. If we are to be like Him, then we must desire to do good. There are so many causes that are the “good” thing to do.
The Scriptures teaches us to do good.
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God.
And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.
We are Christ’s Kingdom on earth. When people see us, shouldn’t they see a resemblance to the Kingdom of Heaven? Have you ever been to an ethnic market place? The sounds, foods, dress, customs, language are all indicative of their motherland. We see the people in the market, we see a little about their culture, where they or their ancestors were from. Likewise when we are led by God to get involved in causes, when we act out of love, justice or doing good, we are exhibiting the essence of God, we are showing what life in Heaven, His kingdom, is like.
The truth is that many of the causes that you will consider could be acted upon through a church based ministry reaching out to the community. What a testimony we could have in our community and nation if all the churches started to encourage their members to get involved in causes as God leads them. The church should be leading the forefront in helping with the needs of this nation.
The question is, what would God have you do? He is the one who will guide and direct you. It may be that you will volunteer or work for an agency that is associated with the cause that you are interested in and have a completely different ministry through your church. Many Christians operate this way. It may be that God would guide you to start a ministry in your church to help with this cause or if there is already a ministry involved with the cause that you feel drawn to help them. Your mission is to live for God and follow His guidance in the use of your gifts and talents.
What Moves Us To Take Action?
We are constantly bombarded by needs. If it isn’t at work, home, community or church then our television serves up a world full of needs from extinct animals, suffering children, crime in the streets to political corruptness. Why do some needs move us and others don’t?
While I was in graduate school in Clinical Psychology I owned a marketing company. In school I was taking classes on motivation, cognitive reasoning and social psychology. I found that marketing was a perfect environment to use much of what I learned in classes. Marketing, whether it was a direct mail appeal, radio advertisement or magazine advertisement was created to persuade someone to take action. As I learned more about people’s reasons for choosing behavior I applied it to marketing. Because of my interest in ministry I began to use my marketing in non-profit organizations. Over the years I have studied why people gravitate to some charities and not others.
Why does one cause appeal to us and others don’t? There are many aspects involved in how one chooses a cause. One of the most common reasons we first get involved in a cause is because of an emotional link. The presenting need of the charity creates a visceral response in us. We are emotionally connected. It could be fear, anger, horror or sadness. Whatever the emotion we respond in order to alleviate our negative emotion. Very seldom will reason alone persuade someone to take action. It is the story or photo that elicits a response and draws you to a cause.
Being an emotional issue and having a personal connection however isn’t always enough to move us to action. Instead we find that timing, justice, relevance, urgency, impact and personal appeal all have an important influence our choices.
Often we get involved in a cause because there is a personal link. Subconsciously we consider whether or not the issue effects us or someone we love. What are the ramifications if we choose not to act? Will the problem be solved without us? Would refusing to do something create hardships for us or someone we hold dear? Personal relevance determines whether we will make it a primary concern or not.
For example, a person may never have thought about breast cancer until someone they loved died as a victim of this dreadful disease. As a result of this personal involvement there was anger, frustration and a desire to do something. This scenario is common with many causes. Something happens that makes a person acutely aware of a need and they get involved. There are many causes that you do not know about now, but when the time comes, you will respond. Personal relevance is a major indicator to what causes we support.
Personal tragedy is terrible and motivates people to action, but tragedy that comes at the hand of injustice is an even stronger motivator. Many laws have been changed because the victims of injustice crusaded and rallied enough attention and support to have the injustice overcome. Of course, one does not have to experience the injustice to support the cause. Most of us feel empathy for someone who has been treated unfairly. Assisting retired people who have been cheated out of their life savings or helping a woman and her children who have been victims of abuse are such causes.
Perhaps the best known non-profit that is a result of personal tragedy is MADD. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers started out of one mother’s coping with the pain and injustice of losing a loved one to a drunk driver. Often people will support causes because it appeals to their sense of fairness and what they heard enraged them. Justice is a major motivator in our deciding to support a cause.
Many times we are moved, because not to move is unconscionable. These situations create a feeling of “now or never.” We see this when a natural disaster hits a town. People, who have never supported emergency relief efforts, get heavily involved in order to help their surrounding community during a crisis. Many of the causes in this world have a clock that is ticking, counting down until it is too late. Life threatening issues like war, famine and disease; where whole towns, nations and people can be lost forever have both a sense of urgency and finality about them. Saving historical sites, preserving parks and keeping animals from extinction are causes if ignored, have irreversible consequences. Many ecological issues have this sense of urgency at their core. Urgency is often a contributing factor to the reason people get involved in a cause.
Besides relevance, justice and urgency, many people choose one charity over another because of its impact. People react to causes because they believe that they can make a difference. When one charity allows him or her to leverage their impact more effectively than another, it make sense to that person to support the charity that will allow them to make a larger or more effective impact.
We can use hunger as an example. Some people want to help feed people immediately, while others look at micro enterprising as a better solution with a stronger impact. The quick fix temporarily fills a stomach, while giving a person a loan so they can develop their own small business makes a way to continually fill his or her stomach. The impact of helping a person get a job not only takes care of food, but housing and clothing for that person’s children. This results in a much larger impact than giving a handout.
Causes that educate, encourage, entertain and bring art, science and education to the world can often inspire and motivate people to act. Although there is no immediate effect, the end result will be significant. Supporting a scholarship fund may not have an impact today, but the end result is someone who is educated and has a much better chance at life. The long term effect is very satisfying to the person supporting the cause. Impact is often a deciding factor that influences what causes we support.
It is well known that most of us do things in life either to gain pleasure or to avoid pain. Not many things are neutral. Where our choices are on a pleasure/pain continuum is what makes up our personal preferences. Food tastes are like that. What tastes bring some people pleasure can often bring someone else pain. Just ask people that have differing opinions on liver and onions or beets! Our personal preferences have a lot to do whether or not a cause appeals to us. What cause appeals to one person may not appeal to another.
Another important appealing element in our support of causes is the personal satisfaction that comes from making a difference. Working with a charity makes people feel good. Someone’s gratitude; the knowledge that you were part of a good thing; making a visible difference; and many other factors make supporting a cause worthwhile.
For many people, their cause appeals to them because it is an important part of their social life. A sense of purpose, making a difference and satisfaction from what one is doing can create a strong bond between people. Is it a surprise that many organizations have learned to turn fund raising into a social event? When people are working together towards a common goal of helping a cause, friendships often result.
It is our hope that understanding different reasons for supporting a charity or cause may open your eyes to new opportunities of service. There is a world in great need; to what great causes will you give your life?
There is no limit to what God could do as you and the others in your church are Spirit led in the use of these gifts. What are some ways that you can use your gifts? You can find out more about that in our workbook How Am I Wired For Ministry? CLICK HERE for your FREE download of How Am I Wired for Ministry.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by partnering with their sister churches in impoverished neighborhoods. This can be accomplished through assisting in neighborhood evangelism, building adequate facilities, aid in mercy ministries and support in any teaching or pastoral capacity if needed.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by the eradication of poverty. This can be accomplished through assisting local churches in job training, placement, retention and advancement. We can also assist these sister churches by mentoring, teaching job skills and helping create entrepreneurial opportunities. We can advocate for fair living wages and affordable daycare.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by partnering with communities to help provide quality education. Whether it is assisting local churches to provide alternative education or working with existing schools through facility repairs, tutoring, after school homework centers, summer learning academies, churches can aid in quality education to the children of the community.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by assisting in the clean up of neighborhoods, remodeling distressed properties, building of affordable homes and mentoring potential new home owners.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by partnering with their sister churches and assisting where needed in the provision of day care, youth programs, educational enhancement and parenting training.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by partnering with their sister churches in providing elder care, senior housing, and adequate health provisions.
We call upon the Church to get involved in helping rebuild communities by partnering with sister churches and making sure that quality affordable health care is available to all members of the community.
What Then Is Our Response?
They devoted themselves to the apostle’s teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all. There were no needy among them. For from time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.
You Are The Church. What Are You Going To Do?
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I couldn’t believe it. I was in shock. Now, having been in ministry and social services, I have known that the church has lost some of the influence and impact that it once had. I had always hoped that we would get it back. But yesterday, I was really shocked.
I have another blog, Sozo – healing, wholeness and salvation. While I was putting books into the Sozo bookstore, I thought that I would do a search on Amazon for books on Healing. It took me pages and pages before I found a Christian book on healing. I was stunned and thought, “I have known for some time that the world doesn’t call the church anymore when catastrophe strikes. When people are in need the last any more to be called is a church. When communities consider those that can make a difference, most Pastors aren’t called. But healing? Surely we still have a corner on that market?” But sad to say, no – it is another birthright that we have traded for a cup of porridge.
The church is at a crisis. It is time we WALK THE TALK. It is time that we live like Jesus did and get into the streets and do something. Thankfully, some churches are and now with you and I and thousands others maybe many more churches will too.
If your church is making a difference, go to the Share How You Have Made A Difference page and share your testimony. You can write it, voice record it or attach photos. Hopefully you will do all three. I in turn will archive your story and share it with as many as will listen.
I pray that 2007 will be a year that we make a HUGE difference.
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Derby City Council is the local government unitary authority for Derby, a city in the East Midlands region of England. It is composed of 51 councillors, three for each of the 17 electoral wards of Derby. Currently there is no overall control of the council, with the Labour Party being the biggest party. The acting council chief executive is Christine Durrant. Carole Mills will take over as Chief Executive from August 2018.
As a unitary authority, Derby City Council is responsible for all services within its boundary and is therefore distinct from the two-tier system of local government that exists in the surrounding county of Derbyshire. Outside the city, responsibility is shared between Derbyshire County Council and various district or borough councils, such as Derbyshire Dales, High Peak, Erewash and Chesterfield.
Derby City Council has 51 councillors, with three councillors representing each of the 17 separate wards within the city. It operates a 'by thirds' operation of elections, meaning that one third of the councillors (one per ward) are elected at each local election for a four-year period. This results in there being local elections three years out of every four, with a fourth fallow year.
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Carbohydrates spare protein so that protein can concentrate on building, repairing, and maintaining body tissues instead of being used up as an energy source.
Carbohydrates must be present for fat to be metabolized properly. If there aren’t enough carbohydrates, large amounts of fat are used for energy. (Why do people love to go on Carb-Free diets? It is a terrible idea.) The body is not able to handle this large amount so quickly, so it accumulates ketone bodies, which make the body acidic. This causes a condition called ketosis.
The basic message is simple when it comes to selecting the amount and type of carbohydrate foods.
Carbohydrate is the ONLY source of energy for the brain so it cannot be skipped. Carbohydrates should make up 45% – 65% of the total daily calories in a healthy diet. At least 130 grams of carbohydrates should be included in a diet to prevent ketosis. Whenever possible, replace highly processed/refined grains, cereals, and sugars with minimally processed whole-grain products.
squash, regular and sweet potatoes, brown rice, oats, bulgur, all root and regular vegetables, fruits, and legumes.
breads, cereals, crackers, pancakes, muffins, bagels, pasta, white rice, fruit juice.
Anaerobic Respiration relies solely on carbohydrates to make energy and does not utilize oxygen in its processes. It cannot use fat or protein cells for energy as aerobic or cellular respiration does.
The production time of anaerobic methods meet the energetic needs of the body very quickly making it great for short term energy needs but not long distance or endurance style activities.
Football players for example would spend a lot of time training anaerobically as most of their sport is quick explosive bursts of activity. Anaerobic respiration only produces 2 molecules of ATP, as compared to the 30-38 molecules from its aerobic counterpart.
What is anaerobic training? There are no set of exercises that exist in a column for aerobic or anaerobic as again your body is smart enough to utilize both methods to create ATP, but it is surely safe to say that all high intensity exercises make us winded. Think about the last time you did burpees, or wall balls, or suicide drills.
You cannot breathe in the amount of oxygen that your body needs, which is why you feel like you can’t breathe. So because of this, the body learned a way to create energy while you catch your breath.
Explosive calisthenics like jumping, burpees, etc.
If most of your training consists of highly intense exercises, you must consume enough carbohydrates in your regular diet to fuel anaerobic respiration.
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So then I knew that it was time for me to join the jihad against the infidels.
They ordered me to burn my books and my past before I joined them forever.
My heart cannot bear this pain to turn you all to ashes!
‘Burn your books’ they keep screaming but I don’t hear a thing.
I’d rather burn myself dear jihadi brothers and sisters but not my books.
My luggage only contains my books that are afraid that I will leave them.
All my family by the blood of ink dear jihadi brothers so how can I burn them?
But let my books alone for I need them more than they need me.
So I weep as I light the pyre and one by one I burn every part of my being.
It is tearing my conscience into two and I sin to wonder whether I am wrong?
But I can’t take it no more as the separation is hard to bear.
Like a son whose old mother has passed away without letting him say goodbye.
When they will burn the next stock of books in that will I go too?
And then I was no more and my jihadi friends were stunned but not amused.
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Jay Gatsby's flower symbol is shown throughout the credits with different letters in place of the 'JG'. The 3rd to last flower, preceding the music section, has 'JZ' in it (an homage to the film's soundtrack producer Jay Z. The last flower has the movie's traditional 'JG' in it.
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Discipline is required to do anything properly. To be good at something means investing time and effort to practice, learn and be able to apply the desired skills. This is especially true of martial arts. The beauty of firearms, which is a martial art, is that you don’t have to spend a lifetime of training/practice to use them skillfully. But, since firearms are tools, it does take discipline to learn how to use them effectively.
It takes discipline to attend training. The majority of skills required to fight with firearms go against our natural instincts, so training to learn the required skills is a must. Most of us have to budget both time and finances to attend training. I planned and saved for a year to attend my first “official” training course. It was worth every minute and dollar.
One must be disciplined to practice. A structured program is necessary to achieve the repetitions necessary to truly learn a skill to the point it can be performed at a subconscious level. Dry practice your skills multiple times a week, even if it’s only for ten or fifteen minutes at a time with a “blue” gun. Resolve is mandatory to insure your live-fire range sessions don’t end up with lots of shootin’ but very little learning occurring.
You have to commit to carrying your weapon at all times – when and where it’s legal – even if it’s only to the mailbox and back. You decide to modify how your dress for concealment purposes, or accept the fact that the type pistol you carry is dictated by the clothing you wear. Either way it takes discipline to figure out what and how you are going to carry and then earnestly practice it.
When carrying you practice self-control. You realize that getting involved in a “simple” verbal confrontation could turn into a lethal situation. You’re determined to use your weapon only if absolutely necessary. Self-discipline is mandatory for anyone carrying a lethal weapon.
In a lethal confrontation discipline is required to properly respond to the threat. If you don’t maintain control all you’re doing is reacting to what’s happening to you as opposed to controlling your actions and forcing the threat to react to you. When something goes wrong or doesn’t work out quite how you thought it would, a common occurrence during violent encounters, you must respond to the unexpected with a controlled response.
In a violent situation when you are forced to shoot, there can be no hesitation. There are no other options available, the choice is either use your weapon or be seriously injured or worse. “This is not a drill.” Your sole purpose at that point in time is to stop the threat as efficiently as possible. The discipline to do what needs done must be absolute.
Discipline is something that is lacking in our society in general, and in most shooters specifically. Today, change your attitude, ’cause when it comes time these skills will be the difference between life and death.
Concerning the recent shootings in Colorado, Peter Ahearn, a former FBI agent, stated, “There’s no way you can prevent it. There’s absolutely no way,” he said. “It was random. It happened. There was nothing that could have prevented that unless someone saw him loading his car with guns.” (AP article by Eileen Sullivan) Apparently the shooter had been planning this attack for months, buying and collecting equipment. He chose the time and location with the intent of injuring as many as possible.
There will be endless debate and coverage of this tragedy. There will be calls for stricter gun control, banning “assault” weapons and high capacity “clips,” and speculation on what was going on in the shooter’s mind.
The lessons for us are different. The bad guy knows when, where and how the attack is going to occur. We prepare, or you should with training and practice. Just remember that you need to work on more than just shooting. A background on unarmed techniques is good. With a little knowledge it isn’t that difficult to take down an armed opponent, especially one who doesn’t know anything about fighting.
The most difficult thing is the mental aspect of responding to a threat. Normally when the time comes you only have a matter of a few seconds to go from having an enjoyable evening with the family into response mode. This part of the process, mentally shifting gears, is one of the most difficult things to achieve.
The main key to being prepared is to stay aware of what’s going on around you. There are almost always warning signs. Sometimes they are almost insignificant, and if you’re not paying attention you will miss them. When anything out of the norm occurs it should pick up on your radar. Many times it won’t be anything, but you can’t afford to miss the small thing because small things can lead to big trouble.
Staying aware of your environment provides you with time to respond. The response may be to avoid or escape, or to react with force.
Regardless of what you’ll need to do the key is to prepare in advance. Are you ready and willing? Now is the time to make those decisions.
One of the major requirements for a pistol is that it fit your hands properly, which means the pistol is easy to operate – shooting accurately and performing manipulations efficiently. Since fighting is an art, there is science involved but the application is definitely an art, you may need to modify your weapons, especially pistols, to fit you. Some sandpaper, files, and a trusty high-speed rotary tool with plenty of attachments can take you a long way to making a pistol truly yours.
A lot of people are timid when it comes to working on their pistol, and there are some who definitely should not be allowed near any type tools. If every time you attempt to work with tools it goes badly, then just acknowledge this and find a buddy who can help you out. But with a little bit of skill and the proper tools, which are mandatory, it’s a simple job to reshape a contour or smooth off a sharp edge. We’re not talking about a precise task like a trigger job; all we want is to work on the externals of the weapon. Also I wouldn’t be too worried about what it looks like. My main focus is on function.
My “twins,” stainless S&W Model 65’s, have seen a lot of work on their outsides. The front of the trigger guards have been narrowed slightly using a sanding drum and polishing wheels in my rotary tool. This allows me to get my finger on the trigger efficiently. I polished the edges of the triggers so they have a radius and feel smooth on the finger. A cutting wheel removed the hammer spurs, and with lots of sanding and polishing they ended up looking nice. I spent a lot of time with a belt sander and hand sanding getting the Ahrends’ stocks to feel just right in my hands.
The 1911 I carry most often, which was built by Ted Yost in the mid 90’s, saw a lot of sanding and filing on sharp edges. Every time I would finish a class I hit the bench to remove the areas that wore on my hands after sending a few thousand rounds downrange. Now I can run it for days and never get a worn or raw spot on my hands.
On the internet there are literally thousands of videos on “how-to” almost anything. Just remember it’s the ‘net, so research and confirm anything before trying it for real. A test pistol is good to have. Prior to working on the “twins” I bought an old blued Model 10 to practice on.
Don’t be afraid of performing modifications to your handgun to make it fit you. For your weapon to feel like an extension of you body, and since each individual is unique, you’ll need to make your pistol fit. The same goes for all your gear. Everything you use should support your mission, not hinder it.
Take a minute, close your eyes, and vividly imagine you’re being attacked. It’s a familiar location – the office parking lot, outside a friend’s house or in your car. Suddenly you’re attacked. In as much detail as possible see what the threat looks like in your mind’s eye. Do this now, and then read on.
What did the threat look like? As they create this scene in their mind most people will have a preconceived notion of what type person they’ll be attacked by. The truth is almost anyone out there, like an eight-year old child or an elderly adult, could be a threat. This is important, because when someone attacks you and the threat’s appearance is unexpected, it could cause you to hesitate.
When you imagined your threat was it someone you know? Imagining being attacked by a friend or family member isn’t pleasant to think about, but the data indicates that in a majority of violent confrontations the adversaries know each other. A 2001 study by the Justice Department and Centers for Disease control and Prevention discovered that in eighty percent of violent confrontations the victims knew their attackers. The threat may be a close friend or family member. De Becker, in The Gift Of Fear, states, “Many young murderers kill within the family…” Being attacked by a person you know is a strong possibility.
Once someone decides to attack you his or her personal identity is no longer a factor to consider. A person with the ability to cause you or another person serious bodily injury or death and who is displaying intent to act has crossed the Rubicon. That person is now a threat. Your job is to stop the threat. Verbal commands, creating distance, and using cover – whether they have a weapon or not – may change their mind and solve your problem. Or not.
A real danger to be aware of is not objectively acknowledging a known threat’s intent and capabilities. Knowing them and thinking they would never do such a thing, or that you have the ability to influence their actions, could cause you to underestimate their potential for violence. If the threat is normally extremely stable and suddenly begins acting dangerous then the worm has definitely turned for them. They may no longer care one bit for what you think or say.
A known threat may also attempt to use their relationship with you as a manipulation tool. When someone is acting dangerous they should be treated as dangerous. You’re not a mind reader, so it’s always better to play it safe.
Obviously there are people you know well and recognize that they will never put you in a bad situation. Then there are those you know and realize they could potentially present a problem, especially if alcohol, drugs, or mental instability are plugged into the equation. The key is to stay aware of those around you, just like we always do, and constantly be ready for the unexpected.
According to documentation in over fifty percent of violent confrontations that occur there is more than one threat involved. By grouping together, threats gain an advantage both physically and mentally. To be prepared for the realities of fighting training and practice in dealing with multiples is required.
Upon sensing a potential problem you should immediately check for additional opponents. Move to an advantageous position, not allowing you to be pinned down or cornered, using your environment and cover to create a good defensive location. The situation may call for you to keep moving. Our natural instinct when we decide to fight is to root to the ground, so mentally get into the habit of moving. Moving may be more important at that point than shooting.
Evaluate the threats to determine what their priority level is; each threat will represent a different value, and this may change as the situation unfolds. Determining the threat’s value is a lot more involved than just figuring out who is armed with what. The guy with the knife may be more aggressive than the one with the pistol. Size may or may not be a factor. Some of the best, meanest fighters I’ve known would be completely overlooked unless you knew their history. They put a lot of hurt on many a big man. Also, remember bad guys are very well versed at hiding their intentions. There may be one decoy, attempting to draw your attention while the true threat is coming up from behind.
There are a variety of theories when it comes to shooting multiple threats. Bill Jordan advocated that once you had “correctly identified your target, then lock on and keep with it.” In No Second Place Winner Jordan states “don’t switch as long as your original target is available without a very good reason.” This is good advice from a man who studied gunfighting seriously. The key point is “without very good reason.” Which means as soon as one threat is out you may have to immediately move against another.
What we don’t know is when, where or who we may have to deal with, or if necessary how many shots will need to be fired to stop the threats. We do know that practice is essential to success. Space targets at various distances and angles. Work on targets of different size. Don’t get into a routine or range habit; mix up drills to make it difficult. Real threats are rarely lined up in a row in front of you and exposing the same amount of their body. Run drills which require you to identify the threat. Not everyone will need to be shot. Every shot should be a good one. Practice in low-light conditions, which we know is where most fights occur.
As with all matters of personal combat practice is essential to perform properly. Remember, there’s a difference between having “it” and knowing where “it” is.
Training for personal combat, especially fighting with firearms is a costly, time-consuming process. Every avenue for improving your skills should be used, and one of the best methods for increasing your potential is mental imagery practice. Taking a few minutes to vividly imagine facing and defeating a threat allows you to practice almost anywhere and can dramatically increase your chances of victory.
Find a nice quiet place, sit back, relax, and close your eyes. As vividly as possible, including input from all your senses, imagine you’re walking across a parking lot. It’s dark. You see cars pulling in and out of slots and people entering and exiting the store. The smell of exhaust fumes is in your nose. You hear a radio thumping out a tune as a truck passes. Suddenly you hear rapid footsteps coming from behind. Turning your head, you discover a man coming on you fast. He’s armed. There’s no doubt you are his target, and there’s no time to wonder why. You react, moving to create distance, drawing your weapon, and yelling at the threat to stop. He keeps coming, raising the knife he’s holding. Your pistol comes up, you focus on the front sight and press off a shot. In your mind imagine the feel of the recoil, reacquiring the sight picture, resetting the trigger of the pistol and pressing off another round. The threat stumbles and drops. You continue to create distance and start scanning for any other possible threats.
What is realistically imagined gets filed away into your memory bank. The mind can’t distinguish between what has actually happened as opposed to what’s been vividly created in your imagination. This bank provides us with a framework or source of reference to base our actions off when faced with a real threat. The situation you face may not be exactly what you’ve imagined, but it will be close enough for our mind to say, “O.K., we’ve been in this type situation before, and here’s what we need to do.” Retrieving this memory is the same as recalling something that has actually happened.
This approach to training and practice can be used to improve any skills, from tactics to techniques. You can imagine reloading from on the ground on your side in the mud and dark. You can modify existing skills by imagining over and over a correction you want to make. You can even prepare yourself for something you have never before experienced.
This isn’t a new technique; it’s been used for centuries. Any action that requires the mind and body to work together can be improved using mental imagery practice. This is a proven technique that works. Fighting is ninety percent mental, and your performance is based on your mind-set. Victory can be predicted.
Being prepared is up to you. Nobody can do it for you. But it’s also something that can easily be accomplished. Take the time, use your imagination, and make sure when faced with an actual threat that you are ready.
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"Chromatic" redirects here. For other uses, see Chromatic (disambiguation).
Melodies can be based on a diatonic scale and maintain its tonal characteristics but contain many accidentals, up to all twelve tones of the chromatic scale, such as the opening of Henry Purcell's Thy Hand, Belinda, Dido and Aeneas (1689) ( Play (help·info), Play (help·info) with figured bass), which features eleven of twelve pitches while chromatically descending by half steps, the missing pitch being sung later.
Béla Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, mov. I, fugue subject: chromatic Play (help·info).
Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, mov. I, fugue subject: diatonic variant Play (help·info).
Diatonic (Greek: διατονική) and chromatic (Greek: χρωματική) are terms in music theory that are most often used to characterize scales, and are also applied to musical instruments, intervals, chords, notes, musical styles, and kinds of harmony. They are very often used as a pair, especially when applied to contrasting features of the common practice music of the period 1600–1900.
These terms may mean different things in different contexts. Very often, diatonic refers to musical elements derived from the modes and transpositions of the "white note scale" C–D–E–F–G–A–B. In some usages it includes all forms of heptatonic scale that are in common use in Western music (the major, and all forms of the minor).
Chromatic most often refers to structures derived from the twelve-note chromatic scale, which consists of all semitones. Historically, however, it had other senses, referring in Ancient Greek music theory to a particular tuning of the tetrachord, and to a rhythmic notational convention in mensural music of the 14th through 16th centuries.
Tetrachord genera of the four-string lyre, from The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Antients, Charles Rollin (1768). The text gives a typically fanciful account of the term chromatic.
is F♮ lowered by a quarter tone). For all three tetrachords, only the middle two strings varied in their pitch.
, commonly used for the notation of sacred music. These uses for the word have no relationship to the modern meaning of chromatic, but the sense survives in the current term coloratura.
The term chromatic began to approach its modern usage in the 16th century. For instance Orlando Lasso's Prophetiae Sibyllarum opens with a prologue proclaiming, "these chromatic songs, heard in modulation, are those in which the mysteries of the Sibyls are sung, intrepidly," which here takes its modern meaning referring to the frequent change of key and use of chromatic intervals in the work. (The Prophetiae belonged to an experimental musical movement of the time, called musica reservata). This usage comes from a renewed interest in the Greek genera, especially its chromatic tetrachord, notably by the influential theorist Nicola Vicentino in his treatise on ancient and modern practice, 1555.
Diatonic scale on C equal tempered and just.
Gamut as defined by George William Lemon, English Etymology, 1783.
Medieval theorists defined scales in terms of the Greek tetrachords. The gamut was the series of pitches from which all the Medieval "scales" (or modes, strictly) notionally derive, and it may be thought of as constructed in a certain way from diatonic tetrachords. The origin of the word gamut is explained at the article Guidonian hand; here the word is used in one of the available senses: the all-encompassing gamut as described by Guido d'Arezzo (which includes all of the modes).
In its most strict definition, therefore, a diatonic scale is one that may be derived from the pitches represented in successive white keys of the piano (or a transposition thereof): the modern equivalent of the gamut.[vague] (For simplicity, throughout this article equal temperament tuning is assumed unless otherwise noted.) This would include the major scale, and the natural minor scale (same as the descending form of the melodic minor), but not the old ecclesiastical church modes, most of which included both versions of the "variable" note B♮/B♭.
There are specific applications in the music of the Common Practice Period, and later music that shares its core features.
Some writers consistently classify the other variants of the minor scale – the melodic minor (ascending form) and the harmonic minor – as non-diatonic, since they are not transpositions of the white-note pitches of the piano. Among such theorists there is no agreed general term that encompasses the major and all forms of the minor scale.
Some writers consistently include the melodic and harmonic minor scales as diatonic also. For this group, every scale standardly used in common practice music and much similar later music is either diatonic (the major, and all forms of the minor) or chromatic.
Still other writers mix these two meanings of diatonic (and conversely for chromatic), and this can lead to confusions and misconceptions. Sometimes context makes the intended meaning clear.
Some other meanings of the term diatonic scale take the extension to harmonic and melodic minor even further, to be even more inclusive.
In general, diatonic is most often used inclusively with respect to music that restricts itself to standard uses of traditional major and minor scales. When discussing music that uses a larger variety of scales and modes (including much jazz, rock, and some tonal 20th-century concert music), writers often adopt the exclusive use to prevent confusion.
A chromatic scale consists of an ascending or descending sequence of pitches, always proceeding by semitones. Such a sequence of pitches is produced, for example, by playing all the black and white keys of a piano in order. The structure of a chromatic scale is therefore uniform throughout—unlike major and minor scales, which have tones and semitones in particular arrangements (and an augmented second, in the harmonic minor).
Some instruments, such as the violin, can be played in any scale; others, such as the glockenspiel, are restricted to the scale to which they are tuned. Among this latter class, some instruments, such as the piano, are always tuned to a chromatic scale, and can be played in any key, while others are restricted to a diatonic scale, and therefore to a particular key. Some instruments, such as the harmonica, harp, and glockenspiel, are available in both diatonic and chromatic versions (although it is possible to play chromatic notes on a diatonic harmonica, they require extended embouchure techniques, and some chromatic notes are only usable by advanced players).
Because diatonic scale is itself ambiguous, distinguishing intervals is also ambiguous. For example, the interval B♮–E♭ (a diminished fourth, occurring in C harmonic minor) is considered diatonic if the harmonic minor scale is considered diatonic; but it is considered chromatic if the harmonic minor scale is not considered diatonic.
Additionally, the label chromatic or diatonic for an interval may be sensitive to context. For instance, in a passage in C major, the interval C–E♭ could be considered a chromatic interval because it does not appear in the prevailing diatonic key; conversely in C minor it would be diatonic. This usage is still subject to the categorization of scales as above, e.g. in the B♮–E♭ example above, classification would still depend on whether the harmonic minor scale is considered diatonic.
In equal temperament, there is no difference in tuning (and therefore in sound) between intervals that are enharmonically equivalent. For example, the notes F and E♯ represent exactly the same pitch, so the diatonic interval C–F (a perfect fourth) sounds exactly the same as its enharmonic equivalent—the chromatic interval C–E♯ (an augmented third).
In systems other than equal temperament, however, there is often a difference in tuning between intervals that are enharmonically equivalent. In tuning systems that are based on a cycle of fifths, such as Pythagorean tuning and meantone temperament, these alternatives are labelled as diatonic or chromatic intervals. Under these systems the cycle of fifths is not circular in the sense that a pitch at one end of the cycle (e.g., G♯) is not tuned the same as the enharmonic equivalent at its other end (A♭); they are different by an amount known as a comma.
This broken cycle causes intervals that cross the break to be written as augmented or diminished chromatic intervals. In meantone temperament, for instance, chromatic semitones (E–E♯) are smaller than diatonic semitones (E–F), and with consonant intervals such as the major third the enharmonic equivalent is generally less consonant.
If the tritone is assumed diatonic, the classification of written intervals by this definition is not significantly different from the "drawn from the same diatonic scale" definition given above as long as the harmonic minor and ascending melodic minor scale variants are not included.
Diatonic chords are generally understood as those that are built using only notes from the same diatonic scale; all other chords are considered chromatic. However, given the ambiguity of diatonic scale, this definition, too, is ambiguous. And for some theorists, chords are only ever diatonic in a relative sense: the augmented triad E♭–G–B♮ is diatonic "to" or "in" C minor.
On this understanding, the diminished seventh chord built on the leading note is accepted as diatonic in minor keys.
Often musicians call diatonic harmony any kind of harmony inside the major–minor system of common practice. When diatonic harmony is understood in this sense, the supposed term chromatic harmony means little, because chromatic chords are also used in that same system.
At other times, especially in textbooks and syllabuses for musical composition or music theory, diatonic harmony means harmony that uses only "diatonic chords". According to this usage, chromatic harmony is then harmony that extends the available resources to include chromatic chords: the augmented sixth chords, the Neapolitan sixth, chromatic seventh chords, etc.
Since the word harmony can be used of single classes of chords (dominant harmony, E minor harmony, for example), diatonic harmony and chromatic harmony can be used in this distinct way also.
Chromatic harmony may be defined as the use of successive chords that are from two different keys and therefore contain tones represented by the same note symbols but with different accidentals. Four basic techniques produce chromatic harmony under this definition: modal interchange, secondary dominants, melodic tension, and chromatic mediants.
A clear illustration of the contrast between chromatic and diatonic harmony may be found in the slow movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 58. The long, flowing melody of the first five bars is almost entirely diatonic, consisting of notes within the scale of E minor, the movement’s home key. The only exception is the G sharp in the left hand in the third bar. By contrast, the remaining bars are highly chromatic, using all the notes available to convey a sense of growing intensity as the music builds towards its expressive climax.
A further example may be found in this extract from Act III of Richard Wagner’s opera Die Walkure . The first four bars harmonize a descending chromatic scale with a rich, intoxicating chord progression. In contrast, the remaining three bars are entirely diatonic, using notes only within the scale of E major. The passage is intended to convey the god Wotan putting his daughter Brunnhilde into a deep sleep.
In modern usage, the meanings of the terms diatonic note and chromatic note vary according to the meaning of the term diatonic scale. Generally – not universally – a note is understood as diatonic in a context if it belongs to the diatonic scale that is used in that context; otherwise it is chromatic.
Alteration of a note that makes it (or the harmony that includes it) chromatic rather than diatonic.
Melodic movement between a diatonic note and a chromatically altered variant (from C to C♯ in G major, or vice versa, for example).
Movement between harmonies that are not elements of any common diatonic system (that is, not of the same diatonic scale: movement from D–F–A to D♯–F♯–A, for example).
The same as the second sense of chromatic inflection, above.
In musica ficta and similar contexts, a melodic fragment that includes a chromatic semitone, and therefore includes a chromatic inflection in the second sense, above.
Movement between harmonies that both belong to at least one shared diatonic system (from F–A–C to G–B–E, for example, since both occur in C major).
Diatonic modulation is modulation via a diatonic progression.
Chromatic modulation is modulation via a chromatic progression, in the first sense given above.
One very common kind of pentatonic scale that draws its notes from the diatonic scale (in the exclusive sense, above) is sometimes called the diatonic pentatonic scale: C–D–E–G–A[–C], or some other modal arrangement of those notes.
Other pentatonic scales (such as the pelog scales) may also be construed as reduced forms of a diatonic scale, but are not labelled diatonic.
Traditionally, and in all uses discussed above, the term diatonic has been confined to the domain of pitch, and in a fairly restricted way. Exactly which scales (and even which modes of those scales) should count as diatonic is unsettled, as shown above. But the broad selection principle itself is not disputed, at least as a theoretical convenience.
The selection of pitch classes can be generalised to encompass formation of non-traditional scales from the underlying twelve chromatic pitch classes. Or a larger set of underlying pitch classes may be used instead. For example, the octave may be divided into varying numbers of equally spaced pitch classes. The usual number is twelve, giving the conventional set used in Western music. But Paul Zweifel uses a group-theoretic approach to analyse different sets, concluding especially that a set of twenty divisions of the octave is another viable option for retaining certain properties associated with the conventional "diatonic" selections from twelve pitch classes.
It is possible to generalise this selection principle even beyond the domain of pitch. The diatonic idea has been applied in analysis of some traditional African rhythms, for example. Some selection or other is made from an underlying superset of metrical beats, to produce a "diatonic" rhythmic "scale" embedded in an underlying metrical "matrix". Some of these selections are diatonic in a way similar to the traditional diatonic selections of pitch classes (that is, a selection of seven beats from a matrix of twelve beats – perhaps even in groupings that match the tone-and-semitone groupings of diatonic scales). But the principle may also be applied with even more generality (including even any selection from a matrix of beats of any size).
^ Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I, p.38. Seventh Edition. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0.
^ a b Leeuw, Ton de (2005). Music of the Twentieth Century, p.93. ISBN 90-5356-765-8.
^ Often diatonic and chromatic are treated as mutually exclusive opposites, concerning common practice music. This article deals mainly with common practice music, and later music that shares the same core features (including the same particular use of tonality, harmonic and melodic idioms, and types of scales, chords, and intervals). Where other music is dealt with, this is specially noted.
^ This definition encompasses the natural minor scale (and equivalently the descending melodic minor), the major scale, and the ecclesiastical modes.
^ For inclusion of the harmonic minor and the ascending melodic minor see the section Modern meanings of "diatonic scale" in this article.
^ Translating the term used by Greek theorists: γένος, génos; plural γένη, génē.
^ It is unclear whether the lyre in question was itself a presumed four-stringed instrument ("τετράχορδον ὄργανον"), as some have suggested (see Peter Gorman, Pythagoras, a Life (London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1979), p. 162: "The fundamental instrument of early Greek music was the tetrachord or four-stringed lyre, which was tuned in accordance with the main concordances; the tetrachord was also the foundation of Greek harmonic theory"). The number of strings on early lyres and similar instruments is a matter of much speculation (see Martin Litchfield West, Ancient Greek music (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), especially pp. 62–64). Many later instruments had seven or perhaps more strings, and in that case the tetrachord must be thought of as based on a selection of four adjacent strings.
^ The English word diatonic is ultimately from the Greek διατονικός (diatonikós), itself from διάτονος (diátonos), which may mean (as OED claims) "through the tones" (taking τόνος, tónos, to mean interval of a tone), or perhaps stretched out (as recorded in Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon). See also Barsky (Chromaticism, Barsky, Vladimir, Routledge, 1996, p. 2): "There are two possible ways of translating the Greek term 'diatonic': (1) 'running through tones', i.e. through the whole tones; or (2) a 'tensed' tetrachord filled up with the widest intervals". The second interpretation would be justified by consideration of the pitches in the diatonic tetrachord, which are more equally distributed ("stretched out") than in the chromatic and enharmonic tetrachords, and are also the result of tighter stretching of the two variable strings. It is perhaps also sounder on linguistic morphological grounds. (See also Merriam-Webster Online.) A completely separate explanation of the origins of the term diatonic appeals to the generation of the diatonic scale from "two tones": "Because the musical scale is based entirely on octaves and fifths, that is, two notes, it is called the 'diatonic scale' " (Phillips, Stephen, "Pythagorean aspects of music", in Music and Psyche, Vol. 3, available also online). But this ignores the fact that it is the element di- that means "two", not the element dia-, which has "through" among its meanings (see Liddell and Scott). There is a Greek term δίτονος (dítonos), which is applied to an interval equivalent to two tones. It yields the English words ditone and ditonic (see Pythagorean comma), but it is quite distinct from διάτονος. Yet another derivation assumes the sense "through the tones" for διάτονος, but interprets tone as meaning individual note of the scale: "The word diatonic means 'through the tones' (i.e., through the tones of the key)" (Gehrkens, 1914, see below; see also the Prout citation, at the same location). This is not in accord with any accepted Greek meaning, and in Greek theory it would fail to exclude the other tetrachords. The fact that τόνος itself has at least four distinct meanings in Greek theory of music contributes to the uncertainty of the exact meaning and derivation of διατονικός, even among ancient writers. (See Solon Michaelides, The Music of Ancient Greece: An Encyclopaedia (London; Faber and Faber, 1978), pp. 335–40: "Tonos". Τόνος may refer to a pitch, an interval, a "key" or register of the voice, or a mode.) For more information, especially concerning the various exact tunings of the diatonic tetrachord, see Diatonic genus.
^ Chromatic is from Greek χρωματικός (khrōmatikós), itself from χρῶμα (khrṓma), which means complexion, hence colour – or, specifically as a musical term, "a modification of the simplest music" (Liddell and Scott's Greek lexicon). For more information, especially concerning the various exact tunings of the chromatic tetrachord, see Chromatic genus.
^ Occasionally, as in the Rollin excerpt shown in this section, spelt inharmonic; but in OED this is only given as a distinct word with a distinct etymology ("Not harmonic; not in harmony; dissonant,..."). The motivation and sources of the Greek term ἐναρμονικός (enarmonikós) are little understood. But the two roots are ἐν (en: "in") and ἁρμονία (harmonía: "good placement of parts", "harmony", "a scale, mode, or τόνος [in one sense; see notes above]"). So in some way the term suggests harmoniousness or good disposition of parts, but not in the modern sense of harmony, which has to do with simultaneous sounds. (See Solon Michaelides, The Music of Ancient Greece: An Encyclopaedia (London: Faber and Faber, 1978); Liddell and Scott; etc.) For more information, especially concerning the various exact tunings of the enharmonic tetrachord, see Enharmonic genus.
^ In practice tetrachord (τετράχορδον; tetrákhordon) also meant the instrument itself. And it could also mean the interval of a perfect fourth between the pitches of the fixed top and bottom strings; therefore the various tunings were called divisions of the tetrachord (see OED, "Tetrachord").
^ For general and introductory coverage of Greek theory see Tuning and Temperament, A Historical Survey, Barbour, J. Murray, 2004 (reprint of 1972 edition), ISBN 0-486-43406-0. These meanings in Greek theory are the ultimate source of the meanings of the words today, but through a great deal of modification and confusion in Medieval times. It would therefore be a mistake to consider the Greek system and the subsequent Western systems (Medieval, Renaissance, or contemporary) as closely similar simply because of the use of similar terms: "... the categories of the diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic genera developed within the framework of monodic musical culture and have little in common with the corresponding categories of modern music theory" (Chromaticism, Barsky, Vladimir, Routledge, 1996, p. 2). There were several Greek systems, in any case. What is presented here is merely a simplification of theory that spans several centuries, from the time of Pythagoras (c. 580 BCE – c. 500 BCE), through Aristoxenus (c. 362 BCE – after 320 BCE), to such late theorists as Alypius of Alexandria (fl. 360 CE). Specifically, there are more versions of each of the three tetrachords than are described here.
^ Details of the practice for certain periods: "The device that was both the simplest and the most stable and durable was that known as coloratio. In principle, any note or group of notes subjected to coloration or blackening was reduced to two-thirds of the value that it would have enjoyed in its pristine state. In respect of any note in mensural notation that was equal in duration to two of that next smaller in value, the coloration of three in succession caused each to undergo reduction to two-thirds of its erstwhile value, so creating a triplet [... .] In the case of any note that was equal in duration to three of that next smaller, the coloration of three together likewise effected a proportional reduction in the value of each to two-thirds, so reducing perfect value to imperfect and commonly creating the effect called hemiola [... .] On occasions coloured notes could appear singly to denote imperfect value, especially to inhibit unwanted perfection and alteration," Roger Bowers, "Proportional notation", 2. Coloration, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Parrish, Carl, The Notation of Medieval Music, Pendragon, New York, 1978, pp. 147ff.
^ Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed., "Chromatic".
^ Grout, Donald J, and Palisca, Claude, A History of Western Music, 6th ed., Norton, New York, 2001, pp. 188–190.
^ "The root of the Italian term is that of 'colour', and it is probably related through its use of diminution (the little notes that 'rush' to the next long note, as Bernhard writes) to the mensural practice of coloration" (New Grove, "Coloratura").
^ Grout et al., 2001, p. 188.
^ Some theorists[weasel words] derive such a scale from a certain series of pitches rising by six perfect fifths: F–C–G–D–A–E–B. These pitches are then rearranged by transposition to a single-octave scale: C–D–E–F–G–A–B[–C] (the standard C major scale, with the interval structure T–T–S–T–T–T[–S]). A few theorists[weasel words] call the original untransposed series itself a "scale". Percy Goetschius calls that series the "natural scale" (The Theory and Practice of Tone-Relations, Schirmer, 1931 edition, p. 3; see further citation below).
^ Goetschius, as cited below, accepts only the major as diatonic.
^ The first "exclusive" usage seems to be gaining greater currency. Certainly it is becoming close to standard in academic writing, as can be seen by querying online archives (such as JSTOR) for recent uses of the term diatonic. Equally certainly, the second "inclusive" meaning is still strongly represented in non-academic writing (as can be seen by online searches of practically oriented music texts at, for example, Amazon.com). Overall, considerable confusion remains; on the evidence presented in the list of sources, there are very many sources in the third category: Diatonic used vaguely, inconsistently, or anomalously.
^ A very clear statement of the "exclusive" stance is given in the excerpt from "The leading tone in direct chromaticism: from Renaissance to Baroque", Clough, John, 1957, below. The excerpt acknowledges and analyses the difficulties with logic, naming, and taxonomy in that stance.
^ A few exclude only the harmonic minor as diatonic, and accept the ascending melodic, because it comprises only tones and semitones, or because it has all of its parts analysable as tetrachords in some way or other.
^ However, beyond analysis of common practice music, even these writers do not typically consider non-standard uses of some familiar scales to be diatonic. For example, unusual modes of the melodic or harmonic minor scale, such as used in early works by Stravinsky, are almost never described as "diatonic".
A "diatonic" scale is a scale formed from two intervals of different sizes, such that groups of several adjacent instances of the larger interval are separated by single instances of the smaller interval.
A "pentatonic" scale is a scale formed from two intervals of different sizes, such that groups of several adjacent instances of the smaller interval are separated by single instances of the larger interval. Therefore a generic "pentatonic" can contain more than five tones.
"Chromatic" refers to the interval formed between adjacent pitch-classes of any equal-tempered scale.
See also #Extended pitch selections, in this article. See also an exceptional usage by Persichetti, in a note to #Diatonic_pentatonic_scale, below.
^ It is not usual to use chromatic scale in any other sense. A rare exception is found in Elements of Musical Composition, Crotch, William, 1830. (See the quotation from this text, below. See also extensive analysis in the excerpt from "The leading tone in direct chromaticism: from Renaissance to Baroque", Clough, John, 1957, in the same subsection below.) Outside of music altogether, chromatic scale may refer to Von Luschan's chromatic scale.
^ There are several other understandings of the terms diatonic interval and chromatic interval. There are theorists[weasel words] who define all augmented and diminished intervals as chromatic, even though some of these occur in scales that everyone accepts as diatonic. (For example, the diminished fifth formed by B and F, which occurs in C major.) There are even some writers who define all minor intervals as chromatic (Goetschius, Percy, The Theory and Practice of Tone-Relations, 1931, p. 6; Goetschius assesses all intervals as if the lower note were the tonic, and since for him only the major scale is diatonic, only the intervals formed above the tonic in the major are diatonic; see also, for example, Harrison, Mark, Contemporary Music Theory – Level Two, 1999, p. 5). Some theorists take the diatonic interval to be simply a measure of the number of "scale degrees" spanned by two notes (so that F♯–E♭ and F♮–E♮ represent the same "diatonic interval": a seventh); and they use the term chromatic interval to mean the number of semitones spanned by any two pitches (F♯ and E♭ are "at a chromatic interval of nine semitones"). Some theorists use the term diatonic interval to mean "an interval named on the assumption of the diatonic system of Western music" (so that all perfect, major, minor, augmented, diminished intervals are "diatonic intervals"). It is not clear what chromatic interval would mean, if anything, in parallel with this usage for diatonic. Some theorists use chromatic interval to mean simply semitone, as for example in the article Chromatic fourth. See also Williams, Peter F., The Chromatic Fourth during Four Centuries of Music, OUP, 1997. Something close to this usage may be found in print. For example, the term chromatically, as used in: "The trill rises chromatically by step above this harmonic uncertainty, forming a chromatic fourth, ..." (Robin Stowel, Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Cambridge Music Handbooks), Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 66). The term as used in the phrase chromatic fourth itself perhaps means just what it means in chromatic scale, but here applied to a melodic interval rather than a scale.
^ See for example the citation from Grove Music Online ("Diatonic"), below.
^ Helmholtz, Hermann, trans. Alexander Ellis, On the Sensations of Tone, Dover, New York, 1954, pp. 433–435 and 546–548. The two notes of a diatonic semitone have different letter-names; those of a chromatic semitone have the same letter-name.
^ Kostka, Stefan, and Payne, Dorothy, Tonal Harmony, McGraw-Hill, 5th edition, 2003, pp. 60–61.
^ "Because of the variability of [scale degrees] 6 and 7, there are sixteen possible diatonic seventh chords in minor ... [One line in a table headed Common diatonic seventh chords in minor:] __º7_____viiº7__" (Tonal harmony, Kostka, Stefan and Payne, Dorothy, McGraw-Hill, 3rd edition 1995, pp. 64–65).
^ This is because the third of the triad does not belong to the natural minor scale or Aeolian mode of C minor (C, D, E♭, F, G, A♭, B♭). This highly restrictive interpretation is effectively equivalent to the idea that diatonic triads are those drawn from the notes of the major scale alone, as this source rather roughly puts it: "Diatonic chords are wholly contained within a major scale" (Harrison, Mark, Contemporary Music Theory – Level Two, 1999, p. 7).
^ Often the content of "diatonic harmony" in this sense includes such harmonic resources as diminished sevenths on the leading note – possibly even in major keys – even if the text uses a classification for chords that should exclude those resources.
^ Some of these are chords "borrowed" from a key other than the prevailing key of a piece; but some are not: they are derivable only by chromatic alteration.
^ a b Tischler, H. (1958). "Re: Chromatic Mediants: A Facet of Musical Romanticism". Journal of Music Theory. 2 (1): 94–97. doi:10.2307/842933. JSTOR 842933.
^ "... most chromatic harmony can be read as diatonic harmony with chromatic inflection", a view attributed to Simon Sechter in New Grove, "Analysis", §II: History 3.
^ "A chromatic progression is one between harmonies with no diatonic relationship, harmonies that do not coexist in any single diatonic system of key and mode. For this purpose, the harmonic form of the minor scale is considered the tonal-harmonic basis of its diatonic system. A usual characteristic of the chromatic progression is chromatic inflection – the change of one or more notes from one form (sharp, natural, or flat) to another" Wallace Berry, Form in Music (Prentice-Hall, 1966), pp. 109–110, note 5.
^ Wallace Berry, Form in Music (Prentice-Hall, 1966), pp. 109–110, note 5.
^ "In [an example] the change from major to minor is supported by the chromatic progression ... in the bass" Structural Functions of Harmony, Schoenberg, Arnold, Faber & Faber, 1983, p. 54.
^ a b See New Grove Online, "Musica Ficta", I, ii, cited earlier.
^ See Form in Music, Berry, Wallace, Prentice-Hall, 1966, pp. 109–110, note 5. The author even includes movement between tonic and Neapolitan sixth harmonies (in both major and minor), because there exists some diatonic system in which both harmonies occur. With C major, for example, both occur in the subdominant minor, F minor.
^ a b Berry, Form in Music, p. 125, note 2.
^ Twentieth-Century Harmony, Persichetti, Vincent, Norton, 1961, pp. 50–51. Persichetti also makes an exceptional use of the term diatonic scale in this context: "Diatonic scales of five tones are harmonically limited ...".
^ Zweifel, P. F. (1996). "Generalized Diatonic and Pentatonic Scales: A Group-Theoretic Approach". Perspectives of New Music. 34 (1): 140–161. doi:10.2307/833490. JSTOR 833490.
^ Rahn, J. (1996). "Turning the Analysis around: Africa-Derived Rhythms and Europe-Derived Music Theory". Black Music Research Journal. 16 (1): 71–89. doi:10.2307/779378. JSTOR 779378.
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Water bears, also known as tardigrades, can survive boiling, freezing, the vacuum of space and years of dessication. Biologist Bob Goldstein, of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, describes water bears and explains why he studies them.
There is a jar of jellybeans on Mr. Wallace’s Desk. He asked some students to guess the number of jellybeans in the jar.
Annie guessed 206, Bert guessed 197, Estella guessed 212 and Feliciano guessed 221.
What is the correct number of jellybeans?
Many units of measurement are named after scientists to recognize their work in their chosen fields.
Research each of these scientists and complete the table.
Materials needed: Paper and pencil.
Next, draw “fences” between your fence posts to make several “pastures.” Make sure you use every fence post and that have lots of open space for your livestock. Also, make sure your fences don’t cross.
Count the number of fences and pastures.
Add the number of fence posts to the number of pastures and subtract the number of fences. Your answer should be the same as your classmates, even if they used a different number of fenceposts, drew a different number of fences and had a different number of pastures.
Using this fact (related to something called the Euler Characteristic), how many fences will a farmer need if he wants 5 pastures and uses 51 fence posts?
Today is the 14th day of the 3rd month or in shorthand 3/14.
π is defined by the ratio of the circumference of any circle to its diameter.
Aluminum is the 13th element on the periodic table.
Aluminum is abundant in the earth’s crust (8% by weight), but mainly occurs in the form of aluminum oxide.
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Gay Guide to Narcissist Abuse, Mythomanics, and Other Bullies from the Dark: Living in the bully and narcissist apocalypse (Volume 1) by Charles K. Bunch Ph.D.
Through Neon Eyes 8: Power 3 by Michael Barnette from Shadowfire Press LLC. The conclusion of the Power arc with apologies for the delay in its release.
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That night we gazed up at the blood moon hanging above the trees. The soft illumination clearly showed it for the ball it is, not a disc, more like an orange malteser. It just goes to show how shedding too much light on something can obscure the truth.
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JABALPUR: When Rajkumar Ahirwar accepted an offer on March 13 to go to the neighborhood adda (local pub) from Deepak Rajak, a casual acquaintance, he had little idea what awaited him. The 22-year-old from Ashok Nagar woke up from his drunken stupor in a government district hospital the next day with a certificate in his pocket that said he had been vasectomised.
In a bid to achieve sterilisation targets, touts are running riot in parts of Madhya Pradesh even as government functionaries are being induced to get more people for these operations. The promises range from a Nanocar for arranging 500 such patients, a fridge for 50 and a 10 gm goldcoin for 25.
Alarmingly, many of those being given the “treatment” include the unmarried and the mentally challenged. Sources said some of them were even in their 70s. There have also been complaints of lower level officers intimidating the poor to sign up for the procedure by threatening to cancel their BPL cards and other facilities.
The prime victims, quite predictably, are the hapless tribals ignorant of their rights and poor dalits too feeble to fend off the pressure. A senior government doctor in Mandla alleged that Baiga tribals were sterilized in Dindori and Shahdol district hospitals recently but the issue was hushed up. In January, three women died in a sterilization camp held in Vidisha. Here, too, no responsibility was fixed. A substantial chunk of people queuing up at sterilization camps are from the tribal belts of Barwani, Khargone, Alirajpur and Jhabua. “It is shocking that in many cases the patients aren’t given discharge cards after the operation,” says Madhuri, a member of Jagrit Adivasi Dalit Sangathan (JADS), an NGO. This means that in case of any medical complications the health department cannot be held accountable.
Indore and Malwa regions doctors are openly boasting of 500 daily surgeries. However, Dr Ranjana Gupta, joint director, MP Health Services, dismissed reports of underhand dealings or forced sterilisations and insisted that the instances were vastly exaggerated.
But hospitals are clearly on an overdrive to beat the March 31 deadline to reach their targets. “That’s why the bizarre incentives like car and gold coin,” said a doctor who refused to come on record. JADS has already filed a PIL on maternal health with the Indore bench of the high court where the issue of sterilisations and the callous approach of health functionaries have been highlighted.
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Consider taking Genetics of Behavior BIOL-L410 (counts as an upper level Biology lecture for Biology majors, as a Mechanisms of Perspectives course for Animal Behavior majors/minors) in Spring 2018!
It is easy to accept the fact that certain individual human properties are in large part genetically determined. We have no difficulty in believing that our eye color, our hair, our height, or our blood pressure are features that vary due to the exact complement of inherited genetic variants. Yet, when it comes to our brains and our behavior, genetic determinism becomes more difficult to accept and is highly controversial. Do “behavior genes” exist? How would one define a gene as a behavior gene? These are some of the questions that we will attempt to answer in this class. First, we will review the literature that demonstrates concrete examples of how single genes can affect behaviors. Then, we will examine the evidence from simple animals like insects as well as rodent models. Finally, we will examine the evidence that specific gene variants can affect human behavior in very specific and interesting ways.
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Nike dropped the trailer for an upcoming documentary on Kevin Durant. Check out the preview of his journey to becoming an NBA Champion.
Here's Russell Westbrook getting emotional during his speech after winning the NBA MVP Award on Monday.
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We are excited to share some of our favorite photos from the 2016 Asheville Orchid Festival at the North Carolina Arboretum.
April 15-17th, Hundreds of orchids will be on display at the Education Center along with onsite vendors for those seeking to purchase orchids.
For more information about the Asheville Orchid Festival, click here…or visit the North Carolina Arboretum website.
Photos by Camilla Calnan and Chris Bolm of Camilla Calnan Photography.
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The Grumman G21 Goose was produced from 1937 to 1946.
How many of you knew about this airfield at Diamond, St.Vincent? Photo probably taken late forties by "CVD".
My first visual experience of the Grumman Goose was at the little airport at Villa. After one boarded the plane, it went down a ramp into the water, made a right turn (west) and taxied down the channel between Young Island and the Aquatic club.
It turned around and then thundered east towards the reefs before taking off. Would not that kind of thing have a great tourist appeal today - landing in the water and taxiing up some beach? My first flying experience was in a Goose in St.Georges Grenada: a rowing boat took us out to the plane and the rest is history.
If You Ask Me: What does SVD mean?
This is the question that I asked of my late father. If anyone would know, surely he would. This trivia question has also run through the minds of millions of people over the past decades as they head to or ship items to St. Vincent & the Grenadines.
"St. Vincent, Diamond" was my father's reply. Of course! Duh! Everybody knows that Diamond, on the Southeast Coast, was the location of SVG's first airport, hence SVD. Er, well, actually, no, not everybody. In fact, very, very few people know or remember this pertinent fact.
man-made wooden bridge that spanned the river running down to the sea, and came to a stop in front of the terminal building dispersing its extremely gracious and lucky passengers.
rumble down the grassy runway to the east, heading literally down the slope of the valley to the sea, and then lift into the trade winds and fly away, usually to Barbados.
This went on from the first flights to St. Vincent of the new-fangled invention called the airplane, sometime around World War I through World War II, for about 20 to 25 years.
"Mr. Cato's home" in the corner all the way past what is now the Iguana into and around the Calliaqua bay; now the water slams into the properties, the entire beach having been washed away.
One day my Grandmother was standing at the very end of the Aquatic Club jetty, presumably either waving someone off or just looking at a departing seaplane one day, when something went very wrong, and the plane careened out of control, heading straight for her and a certain crash. Fortunately, the pilot gained control and headed the plane towards a clear area but had to effectively crash land the plane anyway. I gather everyone was okay and the plane was pulled up onto the beach where Fantasea Tours is now, just to the west of the Aquatic Club.
horse racing track/garrison. The what?! Yes, horse racing track!
There is no horse racing in SVG today, presumably a casualty of the airport being built there, although I can only assume that if there was a big demand for such, a new track would have been built by now. I do not know who said what, who influenced whom and what engineering went into it, but the decision was made to build an airport in Arnos Vale. Imagine the confusion and opposition to such a move. I am sure that there was a lot of debate and opposition to such development. "Where will we grow our sugar?"
"What about the horses; the noise will scare them" are, I am sure, just the tip of that iceberg.
Meanwhile, over in SVG, the new SVD airport took shape and was opened as the Vigie Airport in Arnos Vale in the early 1960's; and yes, the "highway" ran right across the runway.
lights which would indicate the all-clear to the barrier-men, who then walked the bamboo poles back across the road, allowing cars to proceed across the runway, and on their way.
that has Vincentians around the planet discussing the pros and cons of whether or not to build a "cross country highway".
Some say 'no way'; it will affect the environment, use up scarce financial resources, open up the forests to man's building and other exploits and intrusion onto the watershed areas; plus no one ever wants to or needs to drive directly from the Upper Windward side to the Upper Leeward side. Others say that we should 'use the money' to build the international airport first, then consider The Road. The Road will cost fifteen to twenty million dollars; The Airport hundreds of millions, no comparison.
problem, notwithstanding the absolute cost and financing issues of the airport, which would have to be built by moving an enormous amount of land and earth, mountains and valleys Question: Which first? Chicken or egg? Airport or Hotels? Answer: Airport first! - Hotels, chickens and eggs will follow! So, will SVD ever become an International Airport? Are recent announcements by the Government that Diamond/Argyle International Airport is perhaps in our collective, near future mean that the airport is moving back to the South East Coast, from whence it came?
Is Arnos Vale the future capital of St. Vincent & the Grenadines? Will we ever drive directly across the north of the island, without barriers, bamboo or otherwise?
Whew! Decisions! Decisions! Never say "Never"! Attitude is everything!
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It’s been six weeks since I started at Slimming World and so far I have lost eight and a half pounds. Not brilliant, but OK considering I had a holiday in Yorkshire where wine and cake was consumed!
No food between 6 p.m. and 9 a.m.
I cut out the bread I am having for lunch as laziness has overtaken me when it comes to preparing soups, plus nothing feels like lunch except bread.
Stopped eating lunch out and made more of an effort to prepare food to take with me on the go.
I’m still learning what works, but have to say I’m finding it much easier to order a black coffee when I’m out and not look at cakes. I do feel my social life is slightly impeded but I guess it’s all in a good cause and I want to be healthier and happier after all!
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This book covers linear and nonlinear optics as well as optical spectroscopy at solid surfaces and at interfaces between a sold and a liquid or gas. In the first part, the author gives a concise introduction to the physics of surfaces and interfaces. They discuss in detail physical properties of solid surfaces and of their interfaces to liquid and gases. The necessary theoretical background for understanding various optical techniques is provided thereafter.
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The book is suited as a text of graduate students but also for scientists working in physics, chemistry, materials or life sciences who look for an expert introduction to surface optical aspects of their studies.
Vladimir G. Bordo received a Ph.D. degree in theoretical and mathematical physics from Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR, and the Doctor of Sciences degree in laser physics from the General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia, in 1984 and 2002, respectively. Since 1985, he spent two years as a Research Associate at Vavilov State Optical Institute, Leningrad. In 1987, he joined the General Physics Institute, Moscow, where he has been a Leading Research Associate at the Natural Sciences Center since 2002. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, in 2000 and 2004.
Horst-Günter Rubahn received his Ph.D. and habilitation degrees from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, in 1988 and 1998, respectively. He was a postdoctoral student at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, and at the Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was also with the Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany. He was a visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse 1999 and an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, from 1999 until 2004. Since 2004 he has been a full professor at SDU.
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So it’s the end of the month and boy I failed miserably to learn SEO.
Not that much but I need to spend more time on it but didn’t find that much and now after a month 3 post, I didn’t learn something new which I don’t know before.
I need to read and watch more video on SEO but instead of that I was watching movies and sleeping. Bad for completing my goal. But I still have 11 months.
I still didn’t realize what I want to learn for the next month so here is a post kind of celebrating of what I learned. I get one certificate from Udemy in a free SEO course. I learn a great deal from it but not something which I can apply here as on the WordPress blog I don’t have permission to change anything.
So will be back if I learn something new and to share new learning goal.
you need to search for the topic you want to learn and then in filter put low to high in price and you will get the free course.
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The ADC Theatre is a theatre in Cambridge, England, and also a department of the University of Cambridge. It is located in Park Street, north off Jesus Lane. The theatre is owned by the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club (CUADC), but is currently run as the smallest department of the university, with four full-time and two part-time staff. It is a producing theatre with the CUADC as its resident company.
The auditorium seats 228 audience members. The auditorium seating was replaced in summer 2008, and the rows are fairly evenly stepped from row A up to row P (with entrances at row A — step-free from the street, via a passenger lift — and row J). The theatre has a bar, which opens 45 minutes before shows, and often stays open until approximately 2 am. The bar is famous for its cocktails themed around the current week's show.
When the CUADC was formed in 1855, its performances took place in rented rooms in the Hoop Hotel on Jesus Lane. By 1882, the club members had raised sufficient funds to buy the freehold. This building was subsequently developed into the ADC Theatre over an extended period of time. In 1933, there was a disastrous fire, which gutted the building. The theatre was quickly rebuilt to a design by Harold Tomlinson and W. P. Dyson, reopening in 1935. The building was not changed again substantially until the redevelopment programme that started in 2002.
The theatre was run by the CUADC until the club ran into financial difficulties in 1974 when the University of Cambridge began to lease the premises from the CUADC and run the theatre, an arrangement that continues to this day.
Many famous actors and comedians acted in the theatre at the start of their careers, including Sir Ian McKellen, Tony Church, Emma Thompson, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dan Stevens, Rebecca Hall, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Hattie Morahan, Tom Hollander, Tilda Swinton, Jan Ravens, Julie Covington, Tom Hiddleston, Eddie Redmayne, Richard Ayoade, Ellie Nunn, Simon Bird and Joe Thomas. Among famous directors to have gained early experience there are Sir Peter Hall, Sir Trevor Nunn and Sam Mendes. Viral comedian Ken Cheng performed multiple times at the ADC Theatre in his early career.
In 2011 the ADC Theatre took over the management of the Corpus Playroom, the theatre space of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
In 2002, a redevelopment appeal was launched to improve the building. The bar had been refurbished in summer 2000, prior to the appeal being launched.
In summer 2003, the first phase of the redevelopment was undertaken. This phase resulted in no visible change to the theatre's facilities, as it consisted of necessary work to underpin the building and move services such as water and gas in preparation for the next phase.
In 2004, major modifications to the public areas of the theatre were undertaken. A new toilet block was constructed on an area that was part of the theatre's yard. A large amount of the ground floor was remodelled, resulting in an enlarged foyer and new box office for the public, and new management offices, clubroom, production office and backstage kitchen. The theatre's facade was also completely changed.
In summer 2005, a lift was installed to give disabled access to the bar and auditorium. In addition, a corridor was constructed to give audience access to both sides of the auditorium. A bar extension and bar roof terrace were constructed on top of the toilet block built in the previous phase. The installation of the lift meant that the previous ladder access to the lighting and sound boxes could no longer be used. The lighting and sound boxes were rebuilt to allow access to them from the lift.
A later phase, during the summer of 2008, concentrated on the backstage areas: new dressing rooms, a new set workshop, a soundproof rehearsal room, and a green room. Offices for the Theatre's full-time staff and resources for those producing shows were rearranged and expanded. Additionally, the auditorium floor was rebuilt and new seating installed, increasing audience comfort and providing a better view of the stage from all seats.
The Theatre reopened after the final phase in October 2008 with a Gala Celebration event, at which a number of theatre alumni were present including Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn.
In the summer of 2018, the theatre again closed for renovations. Air conditioning and new seating were installed to the auditorium, a small extension was made to office space, and additional points for rigging lights were installed.
During the term-time of Cambridge University, there are normally two shows per night: a Mainshow starting at 7:45 pm and a Lateshow starting at 11 pm. On Tuesdays, the late slot is normally filled by a one-night show that can range from comedy (such as Smokers produced by the Cambridge Footlights) to "fringe" drama such as original writing. This format is subject to change, and notably performances often take place in the theatre bar on Sunday evenings.
Outside term-time, the theatre often holds one show per week, and closes for periods during the summer and to a lesser extent the Christmas and Easter holidays. These closures allow essential maintenance work to be undertaken in the theatre.
During term-time, Cambridge University drama societies such as CUADC, Footlights and CUMTS use the theatre, as well as college drama societies.
Outside term-time, the theatre is typically used by drama societies based in the city of Cambridge such as BAWDS, the Combined Actors of Cambridge and WriteOn.
^ "University: Park Street: ADC Theatre". Cambridge 2000. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
^ The New A.D.C. Theatre, Cambridge. Harold Tomlinson and W. P. Dyson, architects. The Architect and Building News, vol. 141, pages 134–136, 25 January 1935.
^ Frank Stubbings (1995). Bedders, bulldogs and bedells. ISBN 0-521-47978-9.
^ "Person: Ken Cheng". Camdram. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
^ "Corpus Playroom to be revamped in association with the university" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-08. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
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Who doesn't like trains? Well, the truth is there are a whole lot of reasons to come to Brunswick, Maryland the first weekend in October for the annual Brunswick Railroad Days festival. There's lots of great home cooked food. Great fun for the kids and did I mention trains?
In addition to the coolest train set I've ever seen in the Brunswick Railroad Museum there are actual running trains that can take you back and forth to the City of Frederick during the two day event.
Be sure to check out all the video clips below as well as the links to many photos so you don't have to take my word for all this you can see for yourself!
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Click Here for photos from the 2009 event!
Click Here for photos from the 2007 event!
Click Here for photos from the 2003 event!
Click Here to learn more about Brunswick!
Click Here for the Railroad Museum website!
Also see Frederick.com keyword "Brunswick"
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After my article on school shootings, I immediately wanted to do more, although it was relatively hard work, just because it’s not so easy to find helpful information. But I really want to dig deeper into this and find out more, find similar threads and patterns and ways the media deals with this. So, today, three more examples, all from 2006.
When I wrote about the Marysville School Shooting two weeks ago, I discovered this list on school shootings on Wikipedia and it fascinated me endlessly. I wasn’t sure why until I started doing research because I wanted to write more about this topic. It’s fascinating to see that while almost all of those incidents are reported in the news, it often isn’t more than the initial “someone has been shooting at a school” report, but rarely any follow-ups. So it’s very hard to learn what was behind those shootings, to read about motives or reactions. I guess that’s not surprising for our media that it is only interested in the shock value of such news and doesn’t dare to dig deeper. Still, there are some follow-up articles and as I realized I might get obsessed with this topic because I endlessly wanted to look up everything, I decided to turn this into a series, focus on a couple of incidents and come back to that long, long list again (and again).
I’m always fascinated (not in a positive way) by school shootings, not so much because of gun control issues (that’s a given, I guess), but because I can’t help but wonder how terrible living in our culture one must feel to decide to kill others. Especially young people. You can’t explain it away with psychological disorders or video games because it happens too often and the perpetrators are too different to allow simple categorization. All of them have one thing in common (and this includes people who have been doing this decades ago), they live in this society, in this culture. The 14-year-old boy who started shooting in the school cafeteria in Washington on Friday is no different. He is different from other shooters and I wonder if that’s a reason that this shooting is not as publicized in the media as others.
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55%55°35°Night - Mostly clear. Winds WNW. The overnight low will be 34 °F (1.1 °C).Partly cloudy with a high of 55 °F (12.8 °C) and a 55% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 4 to 11 mph (6.4 to 17.7 kph).
Tonight - Mostly clear. Winds WNW. The overnight low will be 34 °F (1.1 °C).
Today - Partly cloudy with a high of 55 °F (12.8 °C) and a 55% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 4 to 11 mph (6.4 to 17.7 kph).
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Almost a month after I foolishly enabled Gutenberg, I was finally able to disable it.
The “Classic Editor” appeared inside a setting box I’m pretty sure I searched a few times, but since I have my Classic Editor back, I’m not going to complain.
So, as I was denied a couple times to share the good news in style, I’m going to do it today, as a kind of welcome back celebration to the Classic Editor.
She is hunted by scientists, keen to exploit her extraordinary abilities, as well as other beings far more dangerous whose plans for her she cannot fathom.
The name of the series also underwent some adjustment. Where it used to be Roxanne Fosch, it’s now the Roxanne Fosch Files – sounds kind of mysterious, doesn’t it?
And oh yeah, paperback will be coming on soon.
And thank you to everyone who has supported my journey – You guys are so many, I won’t be mentioning any names. But, you all know who you are.
Thank you. Let’s hope i was right and Gutenberg doesn’t push Classic off the cliff at the end of the month.
As for interested, how can i reach you? i don’t think i ever saw a contact page on your blog.
Yep. I’ll send u email to ur mail box in the post.
Did the move go smoothly?
Oh not at all.. we are still underway, getting the house furnished. In the meanwhile, my daughter is down with tonsils and to add the usual work expectations. Lol.. life!
Oh poor baby. It’s the environment change. That always happens to mine when i travel somewhere with a different environment than the one they’re accostumed with.
Congrats, Jina! Your new cover is absolutely beautiful and intriguing, too.
The cover’s gorgeous. I also love the addition of “files”.
Congratulations, Jina! Love the cover!
The cover looks great, and the new series name sounds just the part. Congratulations.
Sorry i missed your comment. Thank you!
Congrats again, Jina – love the new cover!
Jina, I love the new cover! Awesome! Can’t wait to read the rest of the series!
Thanks Denise. You’ll be one of the first to get a copy of the second one.
Wahoo!! Thanks Jina. I’m looking forward to a great read!!
Love the cover, will read once time permits.
Thank you! How can i send you a copy?
You’re so sweet ESP. Thanks.
Got the kindle version, will read(hopefully soon) and post a review.
Oh I’m curious to see what you think. Thanks again, ESP.
I’m glad you got the old WP editor back, Jina! I haven’t switched and I’m not going to. And, of course, congrats on the contract and the new cover. 🙂 Wishing you all the luck in the world.
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I’ve never seen a Kabuki show in person but I’d like to at least once in my lifetime. I don’t understand Japanese well enough to say I’d follow the story completely but my Japanese friends have told me that the language used in Kabuki is so old not even they completely understand what’s being said.
“Kabuki means when broken down “Sing” “Dance” and “Skill” and it started around the year 1600.
Kabuki (歌舞伎?) is a classical Japanese dance–drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.
Much like old Shakespearean plays, traditional Kabuki performances consist of all males casts. What’s interesting, however, is that Kabuki was believed to have been started by a woman.
“The history of kabuki began in 1603 when Izumo no Okuni, possibly a miko of Izumo Taisha, began performing a new style of dance drama in the dry riverbeds of Kyoto. It originated in the 17th century. Japan was under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate, enforced by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The name of the Edo period derives from the relocation of the Tokugawa regime from its former home in Kyoto to the city of Edo, present-day Tokyo. Female performers played both men and women in comic playlets about ordinary life. The style was immediately popular, and Okuni was asked to perform before the Imperial Court. In the wake of such success, rival troupes quickly formed, and kabuki was born as ensemble dance and drama performed by women—a form very different from its modern incarnation. Much of its appeal in this era was due to the ribald, suggestive themes featured by many troupes; this appeal was further augmented by the fact that the performers were often also available for prostitution. For this reason, kabuki was also called “遊女歌舞妓” (prostitute-singing and dancing performer) during this period.
Kabuki became a common form of entertainment in the ukiyo, or Yoshiwara, the registered red-light district in Edo. A diverse crowd gathered under one roof, something that happened nowhere else in the city. Kabuki theaters were a place to see and be seen as they featured the latest fashion trends and current events. The stage provided good entertainment with exciting new music, patterns, clothing, and famous actors. Performances went from morning until sunset. The teahouses surrounding or connected to the theater provided meals, refreshments, and good company. The area around the theatres was lush with shops selling kabuki souvenirs. Kabuki, in a sense, initiated pop culture in Japan.
Author hikikomori78Posted on October 27, 2013 October 13, 2013 Categories Film, Japan, UncategorizedTags Culture of Japan, Edo, Izumo no Okuni, Japan, Kabuki, Kyoto, Tokugawa shogunate, Tokyo4 Comments on Not Halloween… Kabuki.
Not perfect, but a nice balance of city and country.
View from our bedroom in Japan 2008. Some times I feel like Godzilla is coming over that ridge at any moment… If he did, I think I’d try to hug him.
Back in my art history days, in high school, I remember Daibutsu (The Great Buddha). And to be perfectly honest I never thought I’d see him in person. Now that I have, photos don’t do him any justice.
“The Great Buddha of Kamakura is a monumental outdoor bronze statue of Amitābha Buddha located at the Kōtoku-in Temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The bronze statue probably dates from 1252, in the Kamakura period, according to temple records. It was preceded by a giant wooden Buddha, which was completed in 1243 after ten years of continuous labor, the funds having been raised by Lady Inada (Inada-no-Tsubone) and the Buddhist priest Jōkō of Tōtōmi. That wooden statue was damaged by a storm in 1248, and the hall containing it was destroyed, so Jōkō suggested making another statue of bronze, and the huge amount of money necessary for this and for a new hall was raised for the project. The bronze image was probably cast by Ōno Gorōemon or Tanji Hisatomo, both leading casters of the time. At one time, the statue was gilded. There are still traces of gold leaf near the statue’s ears. It is unclear, however, whether the statue constructed in 1252 is the same statue as the present statue.
The hall was destroyed by a storm in 1334, was rebuilt, and was damaged by yet another storm in 1369, and was rebuilt yet again. The last building housing the statue was washed away in the tsunami of September 20, 1498, during the Muromachi period. Since then, the Great Buddha has stood in the open air.
Still working it out… but I have more pictures from my first trip to Japan!
Haven’t been here since 2008. Anyone know the name of this temple/shrine?
I’ll never forget my first trip to Japan. No matter how much you try to prepare yourself for the culture shock and the endless awkward silences your poor Japanese creates, you’re just not ready for its rich history.
Every time I’ve gone back I’ve taken over a thousand photos. The visual stimulation is just incredible.
Maybe I should put that photo book together… No matter how many photos are taken everyday, no two people will see everything the same way, right?
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This Privacy Notice explains how we, at Woven Red Productions, process information about the visitors to our websites in connection with the services provided through Automattic. Read on!
This website is powered by WordPress.com , a service of Automattic that offers the design, features, and support to bring a website to life.
Information about visitors to the Sites is collected in a few different ways–provided by the visitors to the Site, automatically collected, and provided by the Owner to Automattic.
Information that visitors provide directly to the Sites primarily happens when visitors type into a text field on a Site, like a comment field or a sign-up form. The Owner may also implement other ways to allow Site visitors to provide information directly through their Sites.
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19 val diderotSrc = "@DIDEROT_ROOT@" // "src" * that the bin, lib, and include directories are siblings in the directory tree.
36 fun diderotLib () = installLocation() // "lib"
37 fun diderotInclude () = installLocation() // "include"
41 * additional search directories.
52 String.concatWith ":" dirs, "\""
79 fun teemBin () = resolveTeemDir "bin"
80 fun teemInclude () = resolveTeemDir "include"
81 fun teemLib () = resolveTeemDir "lib"
88 val installBin = "@prefix@" // "bin" val installBin = "@prefix@" // "bin"
90 val installLib = "@prefix@" // "lib" val installLib = "@prefix@" // "lib"
* executed at build time.
94 val (cmd::args) = String.tokens Char.isSpace "@CC@" val (cmd::args) = String.tokens Char.isSpace "@CC@"
109 val (cmd::args) = String.tokens Char.isSpace "@LD@" val (cmd::args) = String.tokens Char.isSpace "@LD@"
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The Stated Annual Meeting of the congregation is on Wednesday 15th July at 7.30pm in the Parish Church. As well as the opportunity to look back at the congregation’s life over the past year, we hope to have a presentation showing the progress of our “Year in the Life” photo journal of our 350th Anniversary Year.
And the Prayer & Launch Event for Connect 2009 will be on Friday 7th August at 7.00pm in Seafar House. This will consist of presentations from the various Steering Groups to pass on information about the events planned for this year and how we can all be involved. There will also be time for prayer for the Connect events taking place in September. We will feature Connect more fully in a future ‘update’.
A selection of photographs from this year’s Garden Fete and June’s 350th Anniversary celebrations have now been posted onto the kirk’s website. To see pictures from the Birthday Party that followed the worship service on 7th June click on the “next page” link at the foot of the Anniversary Service page.
The July edition of the Church of Scotland’s Good News magazine includes a special report from Edinburgh Presbytery that argues the Church of Scotland can seize on the challenges of a secular society, and also the convener of the Panel on Review and Reform, Reverend David S. Cameron, explains how congregations can help cultivate change in the Kirk. You can download Good News from here.
The Ekklesia news service reports that The Church of Scotland has welcomed the Scottish Government’s new climate change targets but warned they were doomed to fail unless the people of Scotland were involved at a grassroots level. Speaking a day after the Scottish Parliament approved the trail-blazing Scottish Climate Change Bill, The Rev Ian Galloway, Convener of the Kirk’s Church and Society Council, said: “We warmly welcome the amendment to the Bill requiring the Scottish Government to publish a strategy for public engagement. Without an effective strategy the new law stands little chance of success. Congregations across Scotland, particularly Eco-Congregations, will have [a] vital role to play in coming months to help the Government get this right.” Read the full article here.
Ecumenical News International (ENI) reports that the Methodist Church, the third largest in Britain, has become the first church in the country to ban its members from belonging to the British National Party, which Methodism deems to be a group advocating racism. The church said on 9 July that its annual conference in Wolverhampton had passed a resolution that none of the church’s 265,000 members could be a member of a political party whose constitution, aims or objectives promote racism. This specifically includes, but is not solely limited to, the BNP. More on this here.
ENI also reports that Protestant Christians are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin, the French-born church reformer who inspired a movement that now has tens of millions of adherents worldwide. Calvin was born on 10 July 1509 at Noyon in northern France, and is known throughout the world for his role in the Reformation while he lived in Geneva, a once independent city state that is now part of Switzerland. Religious and political leaders gathered on 10 July at Geneva’s Cathedral of St Pierre, the church where Calvin preached during the Reformation, where they heard a call for the theologian to be commemorated as a source for a contemporary response to social issues. Read the full article here.
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https://cumbernauldold.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/kirk-news-update-july-2009/
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"Just like a man trying to knit."
Unofficial 'Birmingham at War' blog by University of Birmingham War Studies undergraduates.
"What is human life but a game of cricket?"
Independent, opinionated sports fanzine run by Chris King and Robert Schatten.
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2019-04-20T06:30:23Z
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https://linesongrass.wordpress.com/
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ON24 announced a new online offering today. They call it Insight24. The easiest way to summarize the functionality is to refer to it as a searchable database of archived recordings. Any company can submit a link to an archived video, webcast, or podcast recording along with a description and some category information. The link and the description are listed in category-specific groupings and interested audience members can click through to the content.
The functionality is somewhat similar to my own WebEventSearch.com, so I was very interested to take a look at their implementation. One of the great things that ON24 has done is to use a "single signon" concept for collecting information from users searching the database. You only have to enter your identifying information once instead of entering it on each company's separate registration page for their content. Of course the information you enter is tracked and passed on to each content provider you visit.
ON24 only accepts recorded content for their listings database. There are no links to upcoming live events. I spoke to Cece Salomon-Lee, the Marketing Communications Manager at ON24, who told me that they only carry links to content produced within the last year. So you shouldn't find yourself trawling through long outdated webinars.
Search functionality lets you use keywords, category labels, and dates to narrow your results. There is no way to search within a returned list to further narrow it down. Topic categories are pre-established by ON24 and cover 31 topics heavily oriented towards high-tech B2B concerns. Cece said that they are not targeting any Business-to-Consumer broadcasts. Listings use a symbol to indicate whether they are webcasts with visual content or audio-only podcasts.
Audience members can send information on a link to another email address, they can assign a 1-5 star rating (much like Netflix) and can add tag words or comments. Interestingly, ON24 allows users to add anonymous comments, which has the potential for abuse over the long haul.
As a provider, when you submit a media link to the database you can tag it with up to three categories. Cece indicated that ON24 will verify each link to make sure it is appropriate and in the proper categories. That seems like a lot of manual labor if they want this to scale!
Adding webcasts recorded from ON24 live events is very easy, as you only need the ON24 event ID. However the database accepts links to recordings made with any technology, including ON24's direct competitors in the web conferencing industry.
Currently all listings are free, as ON24 tries to build up the library of available content. Eventually they plan to make this a revenue generating service, where they will charge for special placement (for instance, a banner sponsorship in a category) or for delivering a certain number of leads to the provider. Details have not been announced on when they might start charging or what the pricing model will look like.
There is a natural barrier to get past when starting up a service such as this. Providers don't want to spend time manually adding entries to the database until they see a lot of search traffic to make it worthwhile. And searchers don't want to bother using the service if there isn't a lot of content available. ON24 has the advantage of being able to seed the database with recordings from their large list of client events. But the first recording I tried linking to turned out to have been made withWebEx, so it shows that there is already a base of information from various sources.
Recorded content is starting to get a lot more attention in the web conferencing and rich media world. Insight24 should add some nice conveniences for users attempting to find and access information of interest to them.
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