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Yates: [...]There was also a moment where Tom... we had this scene. In this scene where Tom throws Harry a wand, which is a big deal - a hugely different ending. It's not a different ending, it's a different moment. And we thought, "Oh my god, is that too much of a turnaround for Malfoy?" So Malfoy suddenly becomes a good guy - so that's what Steve [Kloves, screenwriter] wrote.
OMG seriously that is the moment I wanted in that movie, man!
I'm not saying this because I'm a H/D shipper(okay, maybe a bit); it's just, in the 6th film they made Draco into a very unique, sympathetic character with the complexity which even JKR had never seen in him(in order to make other characters stand out, so I hope) and I don't think *this Draco*'s story would ever come to completion until he admits his own weakness and longing for Harry and finally takes his action-- no matter how small it is-- against his father and Voldemort.
And so, despite David Heyman and David Barron(accouding to Yetes)'s decision, I don't think the outcomes of Draco depicted in DH2 film was most effective for the character. In my impression, they choose that ending because they felt Klove's version being too diverted from the book, or too overshadowing the stories about Harry and Snape.
I understand those psyches of filmmakers but honestly I was sad to see Draco walking away Hogwarts with accomplishing nothing. I hope they will at least give us the full footages of "alternative endings of Malfoys" which Jason Isaacs and Tom Felton kept mentioning in the upcoming DVD.
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The information below will help guide you through the process of restoring an antique (or modern) piece of cast-iron cookware. I have spent many years collecting and restoring dozens of antiques. My goal through this article is to save you time and frustration — however, once you learn the basics, the process is fairly straightforward and extremely rewarding.
1. Remove all traces of rust on your antique pan. You can use a wire brush, coarse steel wool, or wire bonnet attached to a power drill. A final wipedown with CLR cleaner will remove residual rust deposits. You can also use a 50/50 diluted solution of water and white vinegar.
Depending on the amount of rust, this may be a small amount of work or an all-day job. DO NOT USE MACHINE OIL OR ANY OTHER harsh cleaner, as this will taint the metal and is toxic for food preparation.
2. Remove carbon build-up. If you have large areas with carbon build-up you can remove this by throwing the pan in your fireplace over a lit mound of newspaper or dry leaves. Fire for 1/2 hour over LOW heat. Old-timers used to clean their pans every few years by putting them on a dry leaf pile and burning it until the metal was shiny. This method doesn’t produce intense heat, which will risk warping or cracking your pan.
Another method that is purported to produce great results: Your oven set to the auto-clean cycle. Leave the pan in until it completely cools and make sure your oven vents to the outside of the house. This puts off a LOT of smoke. When done, simply wipe down with clean hot water and a sponge. Re-season as instructed. You need to be careful with this method, as some ovens get very hot – too much heat can affect the structure of the iron, causing damage. Test with a clunker skillet before using this method on heirloom antiques.
You can also use a portable propane torch on problem areas – provided you take care not to get the metal too hot, thereby risking warping or cracking the pan. Keep the torch moving to disperse the heat.
My tried-and-true method includes a trash bag, a can of Easy-Off oven cleaner and a lot of patience. Spray down the entire surface of the pan or skillet with the cleaner and seal it in a trash bag for at least 24 hours. Using rubber kitchen gloves, wipe off the sludge with paper towels, repeat if necessary and then scrub and rinse as instructed. You may need to use a razor blade to scrape off any remaining stuck-on bits of carbon. This method is so effective because Easy-Off contains lye, a powerful chemical that will efficiently dissolve built-up carbon, without damaging the iron. Easy-Off does not remove rust. If you see existing rust on your pan after using the Easy-Off cleaner, scrub the iron with a 50/50 vinegar and water solution, or CLR cleaner. Then scrub with fresh hot water and dry immediately.
My dad told me stories of my grandfather who used beach sand to strip any built-up carbon gunk or rust from his pans.
Regardless of the method for removing rust or buildup – properly taken care of pans should never rust again.
3. Rinse pan with very hot water and scrub with a plastic bristle-brush with a small amount of dish soap. Dry immediately with paper towel and inspect all areas for rust. This includes tight corners around handle, bail and the hanger eyelet.
If there are still traces of rust, repeat step 1.
4. Cleaning and seasoning. Once you have ensured that all traces of carbon and rust are removed from the surface, it is time to clean, season and seal the surface of the cast iron. After scrubbing, IMMEDIATELY make sure the pan is completely dry and free of rust, uneven buildup or other residue (rust will set in again on bare metal within 5 minutes.) Use wads of paper towel to remove any residue until they wipe clean. Heat your oven to 375 degrees. Place the pan in the preheated oven for 15 minutes – this will expand the pores of the iron and allow the coating to penetrate and protect the metal.
Remove the pan with hot pads, and evenly coat the surface (USE CAUTION, IT’S HOT!) with a small amount of plain vegetable oil, Crisco shortening or rendered bacon fat. Do not use olive oil, as it has a very low smoke point resulting in a poor bond with the iron. Less is more with this process. Wipe away any excess, ensure that all exposed surfaces are evenly coated, and place back in the oven for no less than one hour. TURN ON YOUR EXHAUST FAN and open your windows. The pan will smoke slightly. This is normal.
Turn off the heat and leave the pan in the oven until cool. If you see a sticky oil/fat buildup, you used too much. Heat the pan again as shown above and wipe the excess off with paper towel or soft cloth, ensuring the surface is evenly covered.
5. Care and use. Congratulations! Your pan is now seasoned. The first few times of use, avoid cooking overly-acidic foods like tomatoes or vinegar-based products. Also avoid boiling water until the surface cures. If you should smell rust when inspecting the pan or taste a metallic residue after preparing a meal, repeat the above steps to ensure it is properly seasoned.
There is no need to completely wash the pan after preparing a meal. Again, do NOT use dish soap. Simply rinse it out with hot water and scrub with a plastic or bamboo bristle brush. Then, wipe a small amount of cooking oil or Crisco shortening evenly on the cooking surface and heat over medium heat until it just starts to smoke. Shut off the heat and let it cool on the burner. The heat will kill any bacteria and leave it ready for your next meal.
IMPORTANT: NEVER clean a hot pan with cold water. NEVER quickly immerse a hot pan in dishwater. NEVER quickly heat a pan over intense, high heat — instead, allow it to come up to temperature gradually. Allow the pan to cool before cleaning to avoid thermal shock, which will warp or crack the iron. When cool, carefully run very hot tap water or boiling kettle water in the pan and scour with a bamboo or plastic bristle brush.
Pans that exhibit thermal shock may be warped to the point of not sitting level on a flat glass stove top. I’ve seen this issue with a lot of old Wagner iron, because they are cast thinner and lighter. Once warped or cracked, there is no way to fix the issue. Take care, and ensure that your pans become treasured heirlooms. They, in turn, will give you a lifetime of memories.
A badly-neglected Wagner skillet with extreme corrosion and carbon buildup. Amazingly enough, even this clunker can be restored to a usable piece of cookware.
Scouring out rust and carbon buildup using 220-grit sandpaper. Move on to 600-grit to smooth out the scratches. Then finish off with steel wool.
Corroded Wagner stamp on a cast-iron skillet. Take care not to sand out the maker mark when restoring a finish. (This pan was manufactured in the Depression era so there’s a fair amount of history!) Use a Dremel and a fine wire wheel brush with a light touch for detail work like this.
A properly-scoured cast-iron pan. All pitting, scratches, corrosion and carbon buildup should be removed.
Using a propane torch to remove built-up carbon. Carefully heat until the carbon turns white-hot and converts to ash. Keep the torch moving! Don’t heat up one spot too much or it will warp. When cool, wire brush off the gunk or scrape with a utility razor.
Preheat your newly-scoured cast-iron pan in the oven at 375° for 15 minutes. Then wipe down lightly with vegetable oil, Crisco shortening or bacon fat and bake for 1 hour. Let cool before removing.
New vegetable oil finish on a cast-iron pan. It will take months of regular use to blacken and cure rock hard. Avoid cooking overly-acidic foods or boiling water the first few times of use. After that, they’re pretty much low-maintenance when cleaned properly.
A newly-refinished antique cast-iron dutch oven pot cover. A dremel and wire wheel brush worked well for removing the carbon buildup around the stamping. The speckled caramel color is normal and will darken over time. The dark spots are residual carbon that protect the iron. Note the consistent, even application. Eventually, it will all turn jet black.
A rusted Wagner #8 chicken fryer that my wife found abandoned in a cupboard at work. (The cleaning staff was actually going to throw it out!) After some TLC, it has proven to be one of my favorite pans. Before purchasing an antique, set it on a flat surface and ensure it sits level, without wobbling. Many old pans are warped – it’s best to stay away from them as they will not heat evenly on a modern ceramic cooktop. This beauty is dead-level and dates from the mid-1930s. Sadly, it didn’t come with its matching drip-drop cover. The cover alone runs about $50 on eBay and is a very rare item.
The same Wagner #8 chicken fryer, painstakingly restored. Luckily, the rust was mostly on the surface, with no deep pitting. Look at that slick black finish! I’m using it here on the grill to fire habañero peppers for my home-made hot sauce.
A rare, vintage Martin #8 cast-iron skillet I picked up at an antiques store. It shows only minor surface rust and was easily removed with steel wool. The pan has a very slight wobble and no carbon buildup – so it was either never used, or stripped to bare metal and then not stored properly.
The same Martin #8 cast-iron skillet showing very minor surface rust on the top. This is easily removed with fine steel wool and a little patience.
Thank you for the information. It was helpful as I was really confused on how to clean my old cast iron pan.
Thanks for the nice comment, Carolyn. I made a lot of mistakes starting out when i first used mine, and my mom threw out my grandmother’s pans because they were rusty. I’d give anything to have them back to properly restore them. Nothing else compares to them.
know what you mean, like to have them back. well think of it this way. perhaps someone seen them in there, and did get them out, or something and is using them right now. some comfort in that i would think. dont think youll even see them again though, thank you for the story though, made my heart get warm.
Agreed, Hal. Thanks for the comment.
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When I was in Saigon I made a tutorial video showing how to cross a busy street in Vietnam. I speak Swedish in the video but to sum it up “If you stop walking you will get hit”. The key to crossing a busy street in Vietnam or anywhere in Asia is to just keep walking in a slow but steady pace. Drivers will see you and swerve around you.
This entry was posted in Vietnam on 2011/10/18 by Trailsurfer.
If you want to cycle Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Nepal and need information then this blog has most of the info you will need. Happy cycling!
This entry was posted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam on 2011/10/16 by Trailsurfer.
Snake eating is a new bizarre attraction drawing adventurous backpackers to the village of Le Mat in Vietnam. The village is also known as Snake Village. Restaurants keep live reptiles on site ready to be prepared for hungry patrons. On the menu are potent snake blood cocktails, bile vodka shots and you can even sample a still-beating snake heart (see video below).
This entry was posted in Vietnam on 2011/10/14 by Trailsurfer.
When it comes to travelling long haul, the best value can be found in Sri Lanka, according to the UK Post Office Long haul report. When looking at a typical ‘basket’ of 10 items, including a bottle of water, a beer, suncream, insect repellant postcards and a three-course meal for two with wine, Sri Lanka came out as the best-value destination for the second year in a row. Thailand followed, with a drop in local prices balancing out the weak sterling exchange rate, with Vietnam close behind.
Prices are down by a third on the Indian Ocean island, making it an ideal destination for budget-conscious travellers seeking winter sun. The drop in prices makes Sri Lanka 38 per cent cheaper than Thailand, its nearest rival on the list of affordable long haul holiday spots.
The travel report by the Post Office found prices have fallen in over two-thirds of popular destinations, with a 27 per cent drop in South Africa after the World Cup-related boom.
This entry was posted in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam on 2011/10/01 by Trailsurfer.
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This entry was posted in Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, Video, Vietnam on 2011/05/07 by Trailsurfer.
On Thursday night a cruise ship (QN 5198 Truong Hai) overturned near Ti Top Island in Halong Bay, Vietnam due to engine problems that caused the boat to gain water. According to witnesses the boat was submerged after only one minute. Most Tourists were already in their beds sleeping when the accident occurred. Among the victims were two Swedish women in their 20s. Other victims include tourists from UK, France, Russia and Denmark.
A local government official says initial information suggests part of the boat broke without warning.
“So far the rescue team has rescued 15 people, including nine foreign tourists and six crew, and pulled out 12 bodies,” Ngo Van Hung, director of the Halong Bay Management Department, told Reuters by telephone.
The owners of the cruise ship Truong Hai is set to face legal charges according to Police authorities.
Halong Bay is a very popular tourist destination luring over 2 million each year. The boats sail off into the sunset and Tourists think the standard of safety at home applies also in Vietnam. This accident proves once again that this is not the case.
In September 2009 three foreign tourists – two from Britain and one from France – died along with their local guide when their vessel overturned during heavy rain on the bay. In 2006, a powerful wind storm on the bay capsized several boats, killing 13 people. No tourists were among the dead. In 2002, strong winds capsized two tourist boats, killing several foreigners. There has also been a numerous incidents resulting in Tourists being injured and taken to hospital.
Trailsurfers visited Halong Bay in 2010 and you can read our review here.
See video from Reuters about the incident here.
This entry was posted in Vietnam on 2011/02/17 by Trailsurfer.
Vietnam is trying very hard to establish themselves as the number one competitor to Thailand. One of the latest moves to ensure this development is the opening of a new airport in the Mekong delta. Can Tho International is sited on more than 20,000 square metres of land, it cost a wopping $150m to build and will handle as many as five million passengers every 12 months. Six routes are presently being flown (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Phu Quoc) and, while a couple of these will end over the next few weeks, four more are scheduled to be added.
This entry was posted in Vietnam on 2011/02/14 by Trailsurfer.
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So I took a day off Tuesday. Like, a full day off. Even used some vacation time. Can’t tell you the last time I did that.
And why did I (sort of) not work? No real reason other than to ensure I don’t waste a full 10 days of vacation this year. That’s right, my work has a use-it-or-lose it policy on vacation, and I chose to lose on an annual basis even though I have a wife and kids and friends and hobbies.
OK, I don’t really have that many friends and I don’t have any hobbies – but that’s related to my compulsive work habits. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself.
This begs a question: What the hell is wrong with me? Wait. Don’t answer that. Let’s narrow it down, make it multiple choice.
On Saturday, Wisconsin and Michigan State will face off for the Stagg Trophy and the Big Ten Championship.
The Stagg trophy is named after Amos Alonzo Stagg, who won seven conference titles and two national championships at the only school that has ever left the Big Ten: The University of Chicago.
In 1939 University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins disbanded the football team after a disastrous season. In 1946, Hutchins ended the university’s sponsorship of athletics.
We're pretty sure Amos Alonzo Stagg is not the forefather of the stag party.
An unconventional man in other areas as well (he radically altered the undergraduate curriculum, transforming it into a two-year Socratic exploration of “Great Books” which he described as “Teacher-proof”), Hutchins had a particular disdain for football. He once observed that “in many colleges, it is possible for a boy to win 12 letters without learning how to write one.” This some years before Dexter Manley asserted that he was functionally illiterate while attending Oklahoma State.
As far back as 1939, it was evident to Hutchins that success at the highest levels was incompatible with the often stated rationalizations in support of college athletics. Unquestionably, there are many students that benefit from participating in team and individual sports at the varsity level. However, you’ve probably never heard of most of them.
John Dalberg-Acton famously observed that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” The machine that produces star players and coaches, that fills gigantic stadiums and generates billions of dollars in revenue is one that corrupts. It rewards cheating more often than not (the two teams most likely to play for the BCS championship as well as the 2011 Final Four winner are all under NCAA probation), it fosters greed (Ron Zook made over $450k per win as head coach of Illinois from 2009 to 2001, and finished over .500 once), it cultivates arrogance (see Jim Tressel and Joe Paterno’s dismissal of attempts by university authorities to discipline their players), and it attracts all manner of unsavory characters (insert photo of Donna Shalala hungrily eyeing a check from Nevin Shapiro).
Lord Acton also observed that “there is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.” It’s worth keeping in mind as college football prepares to crown any number of conference and bowl champions. These coaches may excel at winning, these players may be good at their chosen field, but that is all that can be said of them. It is a mistake to characterize a good coach as a ‘molder of men’ based on his winning percentage. It is a mistake to assert that a successful coach is good at anything other than winning and retaining his job.
Barely a week after Joe Paterno’s reputation dissolved amid reports that he covered up an allegation of sexual assault, and even as Jim Boeheim was stoutly defending Bernie Fine against similar allegations, the sporting world stopped and paid homage to a successful basketball coach in terms that stretched far beyond his ability to win a record number of basketball games. Here was yet another example of a coach being heralded as a great man based solely on his ability to win games on an apparently honest basis.
The University of Chicago eventually reinstated football along with 16 other sports that compete in NCAA’s Division III; administrators after Hutchins recognized the value of a modest athletic program. Those interested in supporting universities that ‘do it right’ would do well to look outside the BCS schools, the big name/big budget schools, and ‘shop local’ as it were. And if you must support a BCS program, take an interest in the ‘non-revenue’ sports. Odds are those participants fall closer to the ideal of a ‘student athlete’ than the one-and-dones on your basketball team, or the kids who got arrested on your football team.
About the author: Jensen is a Sioux Falls-based computer guru, who spends an admirable amount of time thinking about the true issues in sports. Find out more about him at Altus Internet.
A few years ago – long before I joined with Terry to form TVFury – during a live blog conducted during a horrifically lopsided women’s basketball game we attended in Newark, N.J., Terry quipped that I was the last NBA fan in the country. That comment came after I remarked on an NBA game from the night before and Terry looked at me with a mixture of horror, disdain and pity.
Terry’s come around a bit. He enjoyed last year’s playoffs, which were filled with buzzer-beaters and saw young teams like Oklahoma City, Memphis and Chicago make runs while the Heat made enemies of everyone.
But plenty of people actually are anti-NBA and not simply NBA apathetic, as Terry was when he blogged about my love for the league from a tiny, empty gym in New Jersey.
What am I thankful for? That Thanksgiving is over. Not to sound like a Scrooge or anything, but it’s sort of an overrated holiday – especially the food. If I could choose any food on which to center a feast, turkey – even the fried kind – would be no higher than eighth.
Plus, I’m bitter that my attempts to start a new holiday joke – pretending to confuse tryptophan (the stuff in turkey that makes you sleepy) with propofol (the sleeping drug linked to Michael Jackson’s death) – were rebuffed. Come on, man!
* No, I did not partake in any early morning shopping on this blackest of Fridays. But I thought about it. Why? Because the madness started at midnight this year, and I’m usually awake then, anyway. In fact, that’s when I do most of my grocery shopping. It’s not as terrible as you might think, although there are usually a few assorted characters either shopping or working at those times.
In case you do plan to partake, here’s Yahoo’s list of the best deals of the day.
Nothing says Merry Christmas like running over chumps at 5 a.m. to buy a new gun.
* The story of former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky continues to grow more sordid as new allegations have come out. There’s so much coverage that it’s hard to sift through. So let me help: This timeline – yes, timeline – offers new insight and helps organize some of what has gone on in chronological order. It’s an effective use of non-linear journalism.
Plus, it proves that I do occasionally read stories that are more than 15 inches long and devoid of drawings.
* And now let’s restore some normalcy by linking to a bit about Kelly Osbourne throwing a raging birthday party – replete with unicorn – for her new BFF and fellow second-generation star Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus. I hope – nay, demand – my daughters grow up to be just like them.
* Fury here. If you missed Patrick Reusse’s annual, beloved Turkey of the Year column, here you go. I’ll admit, the inclusion of a certain football coach at St. John’s stung. The winner’s a bit of an upset.
* New York Magazine put together a couple of insane packages on Saturday Night Live. They watched every episode since 1975 – 7,798 sketches – for a research project that took more than a year. They figured out the 25 most repeated characters on the show and present it in slideshow form. The magazine also tried figuring out the most original season. In other words, when did they rely the least on recurring characters. Here’s the PDF with the results.
* I’m going to share perhaps my favorite YouTube video of all time, which just happens to also be a piece of Lakers propaganda. This is a mix put together by a guy who goes by the moniker nonplayerzealot. He’s a Lakers fan I’ve emailed with occasionally and he has an amazing collection of old Lakers games. He took those, sifted through them, and edited the following video, which is the definitive Magic Johnson mix on the Internet (that praise can be on the poster). And it all has the original broadcasts from Chick Hearn. For too long, fans of 1980s basketball have only been able to see the same Magic highlights we’ve seen so often through the years. Some of those are here – like the famous winning shots against the Celtics. But many of these have never been online before.
It’s a long video. But it’s 15 minutes of basketball perfection, especially the first eight or nine minutes, which include his best passes.
As a kid, we always had Thanksgiving out at my grandpa’s farm. We made the two-hour drive on Wednesday night so my mom could rise early the next day to start the cooking.
Thanksgiving was about family, eating and three football games. I was a diehard Cowboys fan growing up and I counted down the minutes until Dallas kicked off in the second game of the day. We usually ate around halftime of the first game – no one was ever upset that the feast pulled us away from the Lions and whichever team was in the process of pounding them in the Silverdome.
The third game of the day? The two-on-two football game out in the yard in the late afternoon. I teamed up with my uncle Jerry against his two older brothers – my dad and uncle Mike. We had youth and fresher legs, they had experience and no desire to lose to a little brother or a son, not even if it would boost our self-confidence. I think they had the benefit of the calls, too. We won some, they won some, I remember us winning more, but that might not be right.
Those games remain etched in my memory, played in front of grandpa, cousins and moms. But so do the ones played by the pros earlier in the day, whether it’s Chicago’s famous kickoff return for a touchdown in overtime against the Lions in 1980 or the various times the Vikings dismantled the Cowboys.
Here, then, a look back at some of the more famous moments from those Thanksgiving games – the ones played by the pros.
According to a recent tweet by CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell, one of the best follows on Twitter, Americans will spend more money on energy drinks than bottled water for the first time in 2012. You could practically hear the eyes rolling over this development, doctors, health nuts and general haters scoffing at the notion that our nation has gone so far astray in terms of its beverage preferences.
If this shift indeed is a problem, then I’m a part of it. I’ve had roughly two energy drinks today and there’s another dozen – an assortment of Red Bull, Monster, Rockstar, NOS, Venom and the locally grown Shogun – in my fridge just waiting to be hammered.
But before you judge me, take note of what I am not: a meth addict, morbidly obese, an action-sports star, a Jersey Shore cast member or Paris Hilton. Did I miss any other stereotypes of energy drinkers?
There are college towns and then there are college towns.
Athens, Ga., is the latter. What I mean is that the college – the University of Georgia – was founded before the town in 1785, making it the oldest public university in the U.S. and A. (Pipe down, North Carolina – facts are facts.) Plus, it’s outstanding by college-town standards – even Southern college-town standards.
I went there recently on business and fell in love. Actually, it might have been lust. No matter, it proved to an excellent place to spend 48 hours.
* The campus has character. There are all sorts of trees turning all sorts of colors this time of year, and they dot hills and winding roads. Even the football stadium has foliage in the form of hedges around the field. Frat row is a site to see, made up of massive, pillared plantation-style houses, including one boasting a spray-painted sign reading, “Dawgs, yall.” Disclaimer: I’m hoping those weren’t actual plantations. Regardless, they convey the area’s deep history – both good and bad. That’s real if less than ideal.
The ever-erratic Tapes are back. Lately, they’ve been taking one, two weeks off at a time – that’s hard to do when you only have to show to work once a week. We’re not sure if they’ve slipped into diva mode or are developing a drinking problem.
Either way, we’re concerned. Might be time for a come-to-Jesus meeting.
* Is it weird to think that George Clooney seems like a pretty cool, smart and funny guy in a completely unironic way? Because I do. And this week, he gained more cred by going public with his latest younger lady de jour, Stacy Keibler. Little-known fact: I once worked out next to Ms. Keibler. She was in Fargo for a stop with the WWE, and wound up at my gym along with some male wrestlers. Don’t ask me their names.
Needless to say, they stood out from the crowd and made me – and probably others – start acting weird. I was suddenly more aware of the weight (or lack thereof) and reps I was doing. I found myself paying attention to where I went in the room, trying not to be too close or too far away from the Keibler and Co.
Why so self-conscious? I have no idea; it was totally nonsensical and indefensible. But it was interesting.
* Remember a while back when we featured Soulcrate Music on our podcast? Well, the Sioux Falls-based rap crew is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary with pair of shows at the Orpheum. Tickets go on sale today. At the very least, you should download a newly released remix, a collaboration with Seattle producer Budo. It’s free.
At this point, I’m planning on being there, although not without trepidation. I haven’t been to a rap show since seeing Snoop Dogg at the Fargo Civic Center circa 2001. Had a blast. And I genuinely dig Soulcrate. But I’m not sure if I’ll end up being the weird old guy at the show – and should I take my wife or go with some Guy Dudebro.
Looks like there is a theme developing today – I’m thinking way too much about outside perceptions. Good grief, man.
Related note, it’s weird and cool that rappers are in position to be around and relevant for a decades. Makes me think that those of us who enjoy the genre are likely to continue listening to it beyond our prime years. I wasn’t always sure about that, sort of wondering if I’d end up listening to Bobby Vee or something like my parents do, if everyone’s “oldies” would for some reason be the music from the 1950s.
* So the Green Bay Packers are 9-0 and have won 15 games in a row going back to last season after a 45-7 win over the rival Vikings on Monday. And what was the water cooler talk coming out of that lopsided contest? The man crush that the ESPN announcers have on Packers QB Aaron Rodgers. There’s no question it gets old, and I sort of expected more from Jon Gruden given the acerbic style he displayed as NFL coach. When did Chucky get so soft? I’m not saying be mean or negative just for the sake of it, but how about at least being a little more critical or analytical instead of just lathering on the praise.
Also, it’s unfortunate that Rodgers has and will continue to face backlash from this. He has no control over what people say about him and, aside from that whole championship-belt celebration that inevitably rubs some folks the wrong way, seems to have handled the Brett Favre debacle and winning a Super Bowl about as well as possible.
In February, hopefully about two days before a major storm dumps 16 inches of snow on New York City and sends temperatures plummeting to -5, I’ll fly to sunny Cape Town, South Africa for a two-week stay with my wife’s family.
Louise will fly there three weeks ahead of me, giving her five weeks with the family she left 12 years ago, on a trip to the United States she figured would last maybe a year.
Matt's stands on its side - amazing.
This week, I wound up embroiled in a stuffed-burger controversy. Embroiled. As in broiled, a method of cooking. See what I did there?
Anyway, two establishments in the same southern section of Minneapolis – Matt’s Bar and 5-8 Club – both claim to have invented the Juicy Lucy or the Jucy Lucy, a hamburger with cheese on the inside. Notice the difference in spelling? That’s right – they can’t even agree on that. (Apparently, they’ve made up trash-talking shirts, too, their passive-aggressive, fashion-forward way of extending the battle.) They’re like the Hatfields and McCoys of ground beef.
Oddly, I’d never tried either version in any of my maybe 100 trips to the Twin Cities. That drought ended Monday with a trip to Matt’s. Why Matt’s? Because my buddy used to live in that neighborhood and he suggested it. Simple as that. The rub is that some other friends went the opposite direction the day before, hitting up 5-8.
So let’s get down to it: The Jucy Lucy was … good. Maybe even very good. But not life-changing or transcendent. Plan white bun. Pickles. Ketchup. And hamburger filled with scorching hot cheese. To me, that was more amazing than the flavor.
What kind of cheese turns so liquid when melted? There wasn’t a hint of clumping or burning. And how does it stay contained in the meat without dripping out prematurely? Yes, in my weird opinion, the Jucy Lucy is a miracle of physics more than a culinary wonder.
Maybe I chose the wrong restaurant – perhaps 5-8 Club really is superior in the way it wraps meat around (assorted) cheese(s). But people swear by them both, meaning it’s just as likely that the rival joints are essentially the same, the burger battle a draw.
Two days later I was in Athens, Ga., a spectacular college town (more on that next week) that also boasts a locally acclaimed stuffer-burger joint.
The point: The more cheese-injected, grilled meat the better. Let’s raise our burgers in a toast to Matt’s AND 5-8 Club. You came up with a delicious idea at roughly the same time (it’s not like you cured cancer) and we’re all better (if closer to dying) for it. Well done, er, medium well.
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For the locality in Australia, see Invergordon, Victoria.
Invergordon (/ˌɪnvərˈɡɔːrdən/; Scottish Gaelic: Inbhir Ghòrdain or An Rubha) is a town and port in Easter Ross, in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, Scotland.
The town is well known for the Invergordon Mutiny of 1931. More recently it has also become known for the repair of oil rigs which line up in the Cromarty Firth on which the town is situated. In the 1970s and 1980s nearby Nigg was known for the construction of these rigs. The yard used for this is now attempting to re-establish itself as a fabricator of large offshore wind turbines and oil rig refurbishment since being purchased by Global Energy Group.
For a number of years Invergordon was the site of an aluminium smelter until 1981 when British Aluminium closed it down. The pipeline that covered the conveyor belt from the smelter to the BA pier was not dismantled until the early 2000s and the two large tanks still stand today as well as a water tower.
It still has a grain whisky distillery, operated by Philippines-owned whisky giant Whyte and Mackay, the output of which contributes to many blended whiskies. Connected to the distillery was the Invergordon Distillery Pipe Band.
At present the port is visited by many large cruise liners each year, as the deep water port allows disembarkation for coach tours in the northern Highlands.
Since the 1970s some would perceive the town as a 'Glasgow colony', since many workers were recruited from southern Scotland to work in the oil rig fabrication and aluminium smelting industries. As a result, the residents' accents often show more influence from Glasgow, than the surrounding Easter Ross dialect of Highland English although this has changed in recent years.
In recent years Global Energy Group have been expanding, with the purchase of the Nigg fabrication yard it has also brought much appreciated work to Invergordon's Docks with the town again full of oil company workers through the day.
A naval base in the early 20th century, evidence of which remains in the tank farm lying behind the town centre, which used to contain fuel oil and water for admiralty ships, and the Admiralty Pier, where once warships docked and which is now used for cruise ships in the summer and oil-field support vessels through the year (see Inchindown oil tanks). One German bomb hit one of the tanks during World War II when a large flying boat base occupied much of the northerly coast of the Cromarty Firth, the result of this being that the fuel oil flowed onto the railway tracks. According to town history the bomb did not explode.
On 27–28 May 1957 the Royal Navy held a fleet review in the waters off the town.
The port renewed its military connections in the summer of 2017, when it was visited by the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth during her sea trials.
Invergordon is now the premiere mural town of the Highlands and hopes to emulate the success of her mentor in Chemainus, British Columbia. Currently the town is adorned with a series of 17 murals. The paintwork created by a selection of artists tells the stories of the local community and the area. This trail is a result of a community project which was initially designed to integrate local community groups (17 in total took part). The trail, which was opened by the Princess Royal, now acts as a major tourist draw.
The town is served by Invergordon railway station which lies on the far north line, connecting Wick with Inverness and is in close proximity to the A9 trunk road.
As of 2012, there is a controversial scheme for a waste incinerator at the Cromarty Firth Industrial Park in Invergordon, which the Scottish government are now reviewing following protests by the local community. The £43 million plant would be built by Combined Power and Heat (Highlands) Ltd.
Invergordon has one secondary school, Invergordon Academy, which is fed by four primary schools, Newmore Primary School, Park Primary School, South Lodge Primary School and Milton Primary School.
In 2013 the Highland Council announced plans for a new super school to serve Ross shire with the preferred option being that it be built in Invergordon. This has seen much protest by locals and is currently under review. If it went ahead Alness and Tain academies would close and there would also be a change to the local primary schools.
^ Gittings, Bruce; Munro, David. "Invergordon". The Gazetteer for Scotland. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh and The Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Retrieved 30 July 2018.
^ Allison, George (15 January 2017). "MoD deny rumours that a new aircraft carrier will be mothballed". UK Defence Journal.
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Timeshare management companies foreclose on homeowners who do not pay the bill.
1 Can I Be Sued for Not Paying for My Timeshare?
2 What Happens if I Don't Pay Maintenance Fees for a Timeshare?
3 How Do I End My Contract With a Timeshare?
4 What Happens if I Turn My Timeshare Over to the Resort?
Timeshares are luxury alternatives for your annual vacation. Instead of staying at a hotel, you purchase your own vacation home valid for a specific time frame each year. When you purchase a deeded timeshare, you get property rights to the unit. You pay homeowners insurance, property taxes and maintenance fees on the property. If you finance the unit, you also pay your mortgage note plus interest. Failure to pay your bill results in the timeshare management company taking the unit back.
After sending numerous payment demands and receiving nothing in return, the management company of your timeshare can file for foreclosure with the county in which the property is located. In California, the management company files for a Notice of Default, which gives you 90 days to pay your past-due bill. Failure to do so results in a Notice of Sale. You get three weeks to pay the balance due on the property before the trustee sells the property at auction.
The timeshare foreclosure process will affect your credit score. A foreclosure entry appears on your credit report for seven years in the Public Records section. You also might have past-due entries and collection agency entries on your report from previous collection efforts. The foreclosure entry alone drops your credit score up to 160 points. With a foreclosure on your report, you may find it difficult to obtain future credit, including another mortgage loan. You may face increased insurance premiums and a slash in credit lines.
The IRS requires forgiven debt to be included in your taxable income. The increase in your income level could result in additional taxes owed when you file. Because it was a secondary property, you do not qualify for the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007, which only applies to principal residences. You may be able to exclude the forgiven debt if you can prove you are insolvent, which means your debts exceed your assets.
Before going through the foreclosure process, talk to the timeshare management company. You may be able to perform a short sale or a deed-in-lieu of foreclosure. Both of these alternatives negatively impact your credit, but the impact is less than a foreclosure. The management company may set up a payment plan or modify the terms of your contract during your financial hardship. You also may sell your timeshare on your own or rent your week out to another person to try and recoup some money.
Thompson, Leigh. "What Happens When You Foreclose on a Timeshare?" Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/happens-foreclose-timeshare-51230.html. 19 June 2017.
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儒勒·阿爾塞納·阿爾諾·加候及（英语：Jules Arsène Arnaud Claretie）. Camille Desmoulins and His Wife: Passages from the History of the Dantonists. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1876.
弗朗索瓦·福雷. Revolutionary France, 1770-1880. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1992.
西蒙·沙瑪. 公民：法蘭西革命編年史（英语：Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution） . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
露絲·斯科爾（英语：Ruth Scurr）. Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. New York: Owl Books, 2006.
西蒙·沙瑪. 公民：法蘭西革命編年史（英语：Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution） (1989).
莫里斯斯萊文（英语：Morris Slavin）: The Hébertists to the guillotine - anatomy of a 'conspiracy' in revolutionary France. (Louisiana State University Press, 1994), ISBN 0-8071-1838-9.
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I arrived at work at about 8:45AM.
I got right to work on building a new computer. Late on Friday afternoon, one of our reference librarians called to report that her computer kept shutting down. It had been doing this for a while, but was really getting bad. She said it had shut down several times on Friday. She was on the list for a new computer – and I actually had new computers in my office. I told her that I thought it would be best to simply get her a new computer on Monday. She had to work on Saturday, but would be out of the library until Tuesday at 2PM. This would give me plenty of time to get her computer ready for her without too much interruption.
So, I began to configure a new computer for her first thing this morning. It took about 45 minutes to image the computer and about another hour to install all of the library specific software that she uses (our ILS client, cataloging software, ILL software, etc). Once the software was installed, I began copying all of her files to the new computer. This process took a massively long time because the computer kept losing its network connectivity (this machine was seriously messed up). Lastly, I configured her profile specific settings. The computer is all set and ready to be deployed tomorrow morning.
Throughout the day, I had other projects, meetings, etc. that needed my attention at various points during the day.
I spent quite a bit of time documenting the process of setting up the new computer and configuring its settings. I have a new employee starting on February 1st, and I need to get training documents ready for this person.
At 1PM, I had an hour and a half meeting across campus with the vendor from whom we buy our servers. While I am primarily part of the library organization (in the academic division), I am also part of the IT department (in the finance division) – part of the IT’s systems department. This meeting was one for this IT group. The vendor was laying out their server roadmap and discussing their new line of servers. It was extremely informative. I generally consult with this group before buying hardware, but feel like I learned quite a bit about server architecture.
When I returned from the meeting, there were several voice mails waiting for me. The first one was from my boss. He was missing his archived folders in his email client. I had not transferred these files when I built his new computer for him last week. I had to get his old tower, hook it up and find the files. I copied the files to his new computer and then connected to his computer to add the archive data files to Outlook. One problem solved!
Next, one of the reference librarians had reported that a computer in the reference area was not functioning properly. I connected to the computer and poked around. Everything seemed to work fine. I rebooted the computer. We have software on the computer that resets the computer image upon reboot. I emailed the reference librarian to get additional information. He hadn’t specified what exactly was wrong with the computer. He got back to me quickly to report that the screen would go dark and then it would not wake up. This is a reoccurring issue. The flat panel monitors on these computers are over 8 years old, and they are starting to die. I requested a new one from IT. Normally, I would have walked over to the IT offices to pick up the new monitor, but the weather was nasty. It was pouring out and the wind was vicious. I will try and get the monitor tomorrow.
The last voice mail was from someone in the Admissions office who was trying to access pictures on the web site associated with our digital asset management system. The web site seemed to be working fine, but the images would not display (there was instead a red x). This is another reoccuring issue – although it hadn’t happened since mid-November. I was somewhat disheartened that this happened again. I may have to reopen the original call to the vendor. I used remote desktop connection to connect to the server. I copied the log files and then tried to restart the services that control the web publishing service. They, however, were frozen. I had to reboot the server. Once the server came back up, the images displayed correctly. I then did a write up on the problem to add to IT’s call tracking system. All of the licenses for it were in use, so I will remember to add it to the system tomorrow.
I left work at about 4:10PM.
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A Haiku a week. Mined from my dreams.
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2019-04-23T10:48:17Z
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https://bashoandjung.wordpress.com/tag/music/
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Every morning but our last in New Orleans, Tim went out for breakfast and brought breakfast back to me in the hotel room. I felt SO spoiled. It was wonderful to have yummy food delivered to me as if I were some Very Important Person.
Our last morning in the Crescent City, we'd planned to meet Lisa, 'Nathan, and Dan at the Clover Grill, but Tim was feeling a little under the weather, so I walked there alone. I was reminded when seeing Lisa's photos that I, too, upon watching her whip out her camera, took the obligatory Clover Grill breakfast plate shot. Mmmmmm, grits: one of those things that say "back home" to me, even though my real "back home" is one state east and a few hours north of New Orleans. Roll Tide.
As we were eating, I watched the intersection of Bourbon Street and Dumaine come to life, including a house across Dumaine. Men emerged to sit on the stoop, squint against the sun, and wake up to the day. I noticed a "Happy Birthday" sign spraypainted on one of the windows and was idly writing a little story in my head in between the conversations at our table.
Later, when we stepped outside after our meal, I got one of my favorite shots of the trip, capturing an unexpected, happy moment, when Lisa strode across the street and asked the men, "How was the party?" Why hadn't I realized that OF COURSE she'd probably been talking to the guys for days as she went back and forth to our favorite little café, and undoubtedly she knew all kinds of details about them. I just adore her. And if I'm wrong, Lisa, don't tell me, 'cause I love the way you never meet a stranger.
Lisa, chattin' it up with the dudes.
Monday morning I was reminded of how spoiled I got in New Orleans when Tim came home from the gym with a breakfast sandwich from Jack in the Box for me. It was a nice beginning to what could have been a yucky day. June 1 is the first anniversary of my mother's death, and Sunday night, I finished reading Scott Heim's We Disappear while sobbing. What an achingly moving book by such a good writer. In earlier times, I'd have grabbed my quill pen and written him a tear-stained letter of admiration and gratitude. Instead, I sent him an e-mail and received one back from him. There's a lot to be said for today's more immediate gratification, and those two e-mails will remain intensely special to me always.
In addition, my brother, sister, and I exchanged some funny e-mails. I'm so glad I was born into a family where we were taught the value of humor for release and coping.
I had an eye appointment on Monday afternoon, and since I knew my eyes would be dilated, Tim graciously agreed to be my driver. (Another thing I could get used to. What am I talking about? I already have.) Off we went to the Galleria. While I was waiting for my glasses (a new prescription because my distance vision has improved, while my close-up vision worsened--I blame all that sewing), Tim further indulged me.
As many of you know, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels became some of my favorite escapist reading after my friend Tandy recommended them when I was just starting to write A Coventry Christmas. (She did so after she found out that I, like Evanovich, was giving my main character a hamster.) The characters in these books just slay me with their quirks and exploits. I was able to hook my mother on them, and we used to crack up as we recounted the shenanigans of characters like Grandma Mazur, Sally Sweet, Albert Kloughn, and Lula. I think Evanovich has done a masterful job of introducing three hot men--Joe, Ranger, and Diesel--into Stephanie's life and balancing them over fourteen "numbers" books (Finger Lickin' Fifteen releases the end of this month!) and four "between-the-numbers" books. When Tim was in the hospital in 2007 and needed something light to read, those were the books I took to him.
So Monday, being the friend he is, Tim agreed to go on a hunt with me for the Bvlgari shower gel that Ranger uses because I wanted to know how Ranger smells. But as we scanned the men's fragrance shelves in Nordstrom and Macys, none of the names were jumping out at me. Then we went to Etoile Perfumery, where the sales associate pointed out that there were some unisex Bvlgari products, too. I still wasn't sure about the name, so we went to Borders to look through the books. Tim finally spotted the exact name in one of the later books: Green Tea. Back to Etoile to check out the scent. They didn't have the shower gel, but since Tim's out of Marc Jacobs, he said he'd be willing to wear this because it smells as delicious as Stephanie Plum says. I happen to have a checking account that I shared with my mother that still has money in it, so we paid for it using that account. She'd have gotten a kick out of the Ranger connection. Plus it was ON SALE, as it originally had been part of a set, and the other item was missing. What budget-conscious mother doesn't teach us the value of buying stuff that's ON SALE, right?!?
Then I almost got us eighty-sixed from the Galleria. Apparently, there are NO PHOTOS signs at every entrance to this shopping mecca. Which is weird, because I've ALWAYS taken photos there, especially at the ice rink. I guess it's because only a terrorist would take a photo of a ginormous American flag. Ha, I got my shot before the security guard yelled at me. For scale, that's Tim standing on the walkway directly beneath the flag.
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2019-04-22T00:08:35Z
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“He was their master, and all the people were white with fear of him. They joined together to fight him. He was one and they were many, and they got him down at last . . . He was one man, and they were many, and they were terrified at him. It was glorious” (14)!
The image of whiteness is important here, given the novel’s implicit racism (the many, in the novel, are the African people that appear in the background). But also, I think this musing reflects on how the relationship between the one and the many shifts between realism and naturalism. Perhaps, to be one, in naturalism, is to be beaten down while, to be one, in realism, is to be glorious.
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^ Boutell, Charles (1914). Fox-Davies, A.C.. ed (英語). Handbook to English Heraldry (The 11th Edition ed.). London: Reeves & Turner. pp. p.33. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23186 2008年2月3日閲覧。.
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Now what? How do I get involved?
Starting Jan 26, we are organizing weekly work meet-ups at “The Node” on Nobelberget, just next to the main hall where the event will be. Anyone is free to come join there.
You can find info about the next upcoming meetups here: https://www.facebook.com/urbanburnsthlm/events/.
Meetings will be every other Friday at the Node.
Do you have a vision of a project to create or want to help someone else? Create a dream on the dream platform to be able to apply for art grants, and tell people if you need help with anything. The deadline for dream application is 18th of March.
The master spreadsheet is a common document that anyone can edit. The point is to collect general information in the same place that is easy to edit and access. In the magic Master you can find information like budget, couch surfing, LNT and info, contact people of key roles and theme camps.
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2019-04-22T18:56:09Z
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https://urbanburn2018.wordpress.com/contact/
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On Sept. 5 California high school students launched a rubber chicken dubbed Camilla into space. It was a trial run in honour of the 35th anniversary of Voyager 1. Camilla wore headphones to draw attention to the Golden iPod app they plan to attach to a satellite they are building. The app will be on board this satellite, with plans for a 2013 launch. Voyager 1 was equipped with a ‘Golden Record’, designed to send information into the universe. The Golden iPod will do the same thing.
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This week’s book and movie recommendation is the young adult bestseller, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. If you’re thinking, “I don’t read young adult fiction,” you may want to make an exception. If you are a romance reader, then love stories are simply wonderful, well, in young adult fiction you are often reading a “first love” story which has a poignancy and sweetness that is unmatched. There is also a film version of this heart-breaking (and heart-building) book. Check out either or both, and be sure to bring your tissues.
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I had done it about three or four years ago with Tim Jenkins, but when I tried to explore the route last year with a couple of friends we ended up at the Hole in the Wall and came back through the hidden forest. That was quite an adventure in itself. It was therefore good to do it with Karen, who knows the route well and also showed us how it links with the Hole in the Wall Route.
The path is clear in most places, but not always. It is essential to do the route with someone who knows the way. We had tea at the end of the ‘Overhang’ trail, enjoying looking down into Orangekloof and over Hout Bay. The path to the top of the ridge and then down into the valley below is not clear and you really have to look for the cairns. Once in the valley, the path links back to the concrete road and Overseers Cottage around the corner.
By no means the longest or the toughest section of the trail, nevertheless it is a good five to six hour walk with an uphill pull at the beginning and a steep downhill at the end. A word of warning, although the path is good on the descent to Smitswinkel, there is some easy down hill scrambling (hands need to be used) and there is some mild exposure on a narrow ridge, that may be challenging for those who suffer from severe vertigo. There are no ledges or cliff faces however.
It was a cool day with a slight breeze, ideal for hiking. Looking up from the start, the ascent to the top of Swartkop looks steep, but the zig zag path up from the mule track to the Blockhouse, makes the going reasonably easy. The path is good, although overgrown by stands of magnificent proteas in places. It is a bit steeper from the Blockhouse Gap (437m) to the highest point of the peak (678m). This was a good place to stop for tea, in a sheltered spot slightly down from the ridge.
The views from the top are quite stunning, overlooking Simon’s Town and False Bay on the one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. From the top there is a fairly sudden descent into the valley below and you can see the path stretch up on the other side. The path is clear and although it is steep, it is a reasonably easy walk, follow by a long slow trek up the other side. The views are changing constantly and the flora is wonderful, with some outstanding examples of both pink and white King Protea and plenty of sunbirds and sugarbirds around on the day.
The path undulates up and down until the final short plateau provides a vista over the Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve and beautiful view all the way to Cape Point. Just after this you start the very steep descent down to Smitswinkel Bay. The wind had come up a bit at this stage but we were able to find a sheltered spot to sit and admire the view and enjoy our lunch.
The path is good all the way down, although overgrown with proteas in places. You need to be careful as there are some places where you need to use both hands and feet. We took it fairly slowly and I was lucky to spot a Table Mountain Beauty butterfly that sat still just long enough for me to photograph. At the bottom there is a stand of huge protea bushes and the presence of the long tailed sugarbirds was particularly noticeable. The path ends at the superb Smitswinkel Bay tented camp. Although we were not staying overnight on this occasion it is certainly the most luxuriously appointed of the camps and well worth a visit.
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2019-04-21T03:09:32Z
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https://slackpacker.wordpress.com/2011/04/
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This year’s NBA draft is unique in that two of the presumed top three players available to be picked didn’t play a full season, or at all, this past basketball season. So why do NBA scouts like Kyrie Irving and Enes Kanter so much? That’s a great debate.
For me, Derrick Williams, the No. 1 prospect on my Blue Chips big board, is far and away the top talent in this draft. Williams played a full season at Arizona, and showed off all that he offers in the NCAA tournament. I don’t have questions about him. But, let’s get back to the great debate: Why Irving and Kanter?
You can presume that these two players at at the top of most big boards because they are true to their position. This draft is slim in a couple of areas: there aren’t many true-to-one-position players, for example Derrick Williams is in between a small forward and and power forward position. Also, this draft is slim with talent, to be quite honest.
The fact that this draft is short in talent is beneficial for Irving and Kanter because they are presumed to be great talents, but haven’t shown it this season.
That’s what swayed me from rating them so highly in my Blue Chips big board.
But both guys are indeed true to one position. First, Kanter is the center that everyone wants because he is a true inside player. Kanter has shown the ability to bang with other centers in the league. The great thing about him is that he has good feet, good hands, and a good feel for the paint. He’s like DeMarcus Cousins last season because both guys were true centers because they played inside.
Second, Irving is true to the point guard position. He’s not a flashy point guard, but he is an intangible point guard. People think he’s a safe pick. People think he’ll be the one player to be an All-Star in this draft, although I adamantly disagree.
Being such a slim draft has been beneficial for both players, but I still have Derrick Williams as my number one player.
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Once upon a time, I was a windows mobile user. I loved my Samsung Black Jack, among other windows mobile phones.
Fast forward to today, past Nokia (S60) use, Blackberry use, iPhone use, Android use…. Finally Windows Phone 7 has arrived.
I picked up Windows Phone 7 today in the form of the HTC HD7 from T-Mobile. I still have my Sprint EVO – I need to be sure T-Mobile’s network works well for me where I live & work before considering porting my number.
I’ve only just picked up the HD7 today, so these are very early impressions.
Hardware: The HD7 hardware is attractive and easy to handle. It has an EVO-esque look but seems even thinner. It has a kickstand, which comes in handy when viewing Netflix.
Navigation: Coming from Android, the Home, Back and Search capacitive buttons were intuitive and I found it easy to move between apps and screens.
Most interesting app: Netflix, which enables subscriber to not only view their queue but also watch movies. Interestingly, it doesn’t seem to require WIFI (appears to be available via 3G).
Camera: I’m finding it difficult to get well-focused photos. I realize I need to press down the shutter button half-way, but find I’m struggling to apply enough pressure to trigger the shutter to go off.
Maps and TeleNav GPS Nav. Not sure if it’s something about my specific phone but GPS wasn’t always accurate and the maps sometimes indicated one street name while the TeleNav voice prompt stated a different street name. (In all fairness, I’ve noticed some disparities in my street name on different maps. However, I’ve found Google Maps to be consistently accurate.) EDITED TO ADD: I just read that Phonescoop.com also experienced GPS accuracy problems with the HD7. Interesting.
Call quality: Okay, but not stellar; I noticed some audio breakup during calls. This may be due in large part to my location (weak TMobile network coverage area) rather than the phone itself.
Messaging (SMS): App UI is attractive. The layout makes it easy to follow conversations and fun to use.
Calendar, Contacts, Mail: While I have a Windows Live account, I turned off sync and will sync Mail Calendar & Contacts with my Google account instead. I appreciate that Microsoft provided robust support for Google accounts since most of my personal data (calendar, mail, etc) leverages my Gmail account.
Mail: Loads quickly & is easy to use. I like how the sender name & received time are displayed along with a brief preview provided in smaller font.
Marketplace: There seem to be quite a few apps available already, although I wouldn’t expect to see more specialized apps to become available until Windows Phone 7 has been out a while. There is a “free” section, although it did take me a few minutes to find it.
Hubs: I like how recent activity in a similar app is displayed in the related Hub. Example: I streamed music via the iheartradio app for a few minutes. Later, when I opened the Music & Video tile, I found a reference to the radio station I’d played in the iheartradio app.
Will I keep the HD7 and kick the EVO to the curb? Not at this point. While I like Windows Phone 7 and the promise it shows, I am reliant upon my mobile for accurate gps/navigation and point & shoot camera capabilities. Could I work around these shortcomings? Sure, but why when my EVO already supports these needs?
However, I’ll be keeping an eye on Windows Phone 7. I like what I see – Windows Phones will only become more refined / improved in coming months. Kudos to Microsoft for breaking the old mold and offering an OS/UI that’s fresh and innovative.
I confess, I was late to the party on Netflix — I only became a subscriber a few months ago. No matter, Netflix has changed my movie rental and purchase patterns irreparably.
I love movies. Aside from photography, catching a movie is my favorite way to relax. Up until now, time-shifting movies via my TiVo, Amazon video on demand rental, and the occasional blu-ray purchase has worked pretty well for me.
Watch Instantly enables Netflix users subscribed to any unlimited plan (i.e., any Netflix plan except the $4.99/monthly) to stream any Watch Instantly movie on demand (via streaming video) with no limits and no additional charges. Free is a very good price!
Good-bye, Amazon video on demand. It’s been good while it’s lasted but I’ve found a less expensive way to satisfy my urge for instant gratification when I want to see a specific movie.
Good-bye, Comcast premium movie channels and your corresponding monthly charges. With Watch Instantly, I no longer have to plan in advance and ensure the TiVo is set to record a desired movie. Since IFC and Sundance channels are included in your digital package, I can still watch Indie films to my heart’s content.
So long, monthly blu-ray purchases. While I’ll still pick up a blu-ray disc here and there, it’s far more convenient to stream films I want to see. And I can always use my 1-disc a month unlimited Netflix plan to satisfy my desire for blu-ray goodness.
Of course, Netflix Watch Instantly isn’t for everyone.
The movies tend to be at least a year old — if you prefer the most recent movies, you’ll likely be disappointed.
Also, you’ll most likely want to stream to your TV rather than only watching on your PC/Mac – my TiVo Series 3 supports Netflix Watch Instantly. I have also heard good things about the Roku box.
For movie fans like me who love movies of nearly any genre and release date, Netflix’s Watch Instantly is too good of a deal to pass up. If you haven’t tried it, I recommend subscribing to Netflix for a trial period to check it out. If you’re a movie lover, I’m betting you’ll like it!
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2019-04-25T06:52:35Z
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https://karenclassic.wordpress.com/category/netflix/
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Ooo, ooo, I’m liking this one. I just hope I’ll be able to pierce it!! And fill it in w/o over doing it.
*EDIT: I just printed my in-progress designs and they’re friggin tiny. They’re -supposed- to be 1:1 ratio, but I’m not sure. Time to investigate before I create designs for baby toe rings.
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2019-04-20T06:22:17Z
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Mr. Allan was born Oct. 29, 1928, in Normal, the only child of E. Bruce "Shorty" Allan and Elizabeth (Watters) Allan. Like his parents, he attended Illinois State Normal University, graduating in 1951 with a bachelor's in music education.
On June 11, 1951, he married Sarah Jane Sweeney of Spring Valley. She survives, along with their five daughters: Mary Catherine (Randy) Schwichtenberg, Minnetonka, Minn.; Susan Allan (Perry Cartwright), Porter, Ind.; Nancy Koets, Minneapolis, Minn.; Patricia (Dave) Irion, Naperville; and Virginia Allan (Federico Goded), Madrid, Spain. He is also survived by five grandchildren, Sarah Newby, Christine and Emily Schwichtenberg, and Rachel and Mark Irion.
He conducted high school bands in Cerro Gordo and Hoopeston, Chillicothe, Blue Island, Danville and Eureka, before returning to Normal in 1972 as supervisor of music in Unit 5. In 1965, he earned a Master's in Music Education from ISU. His performing groups were consistently excellent, and his devotion to music and to his students was recognized in numerous awards. He was a past president of the Illinois Music Educators Association (1967-1971) and winner of the IMEA Distinguished Service Award in 1988. He was a charter member of the Illinois Bandmasters' Hall of Fame and the Illinois MAC Award winner in 1980. He was a frequent guest conductor and clinician and taught at numerous summer band camps, including the University of Illinois Summer Youth Music camp and Interlochen, in Traverse City, Mich.
Mr. Allan was a veteran, serving as an Army bandmaster in California and Washington state during the Korea conflict. As a young man growing up in Normal, he was a much sought-after vocal soloist (tenor) and euphonium player. An avid fisherman, he spent many hours on local waterways and was especially fond of watching the eagles on the Illinois River. Until his health failed, he was a lector at Epiphany Parish.
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CAN THE MEDIA SAVE ARTIE WAYNE?
WHEN I READ THAT MICHAEL JACKSON’S ESTATE EARNED $315 MILLION DOLLARS SINCE MICHAEL PASSED AWAY TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, I KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. I HAVE TWO SONGS, “TOUCH THE ONE YOU LOVE” AND “LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE”, BOTH CO-WRITTEN WITH GEORGE CLINTON, JR., THAT WERE IN FOUR POSTHUMOUS RELEASES…THAT EARNED ME LESS THAN $3OOO.OO IN THE SAME PERIOD OF TIME.
IN FACT, THE LAST QUARTER I DIDN’T EARN A PENNY! WHEN I WROTE ABOUT IT, I WAS CONTACTED BY DAWN LEE WAKEFIELD FROM THE NATIONAL EXAMINER WHO IS HELPING ME NOW TO FIND JUSTICE!
DAWN WROTE, “Reading the Artie Wayne biography, ‘I Did it for a Song,’ readers are moved, nay compelled, to ask themselves two basic questions.
Question 1: Can nice guys finish first in business? Answer: Which business? Response: The Music business.
Question 2: Which nice guy? Answer: Artie Wayne. Response: The answer is up to you, the reader to decide.
Do you know Artie Wayne? If you love rock and roll music, chances are good you’ve heard his name at some point in the last 50 years. And it could be for a number of reasons. Among other things, Wayne is a singer, songwriter, demo guy, promoter, producer, record label executive, nurturer of creativity, messenger of great ideas, and more. He’s more than a Renaissance guy. He’s a futurist, in the best sense of the word.
Poignantly, that is the exact title of his recently released autobiography, unquestionably one of the best and fastest fun reads of 2011. Have you read ‘I Did it for a Song’ yet? Perhaps you have, if you belong to an elite group of music lovers, who lives and breathes music so much that you haunt vintage record stores and multiple garage sales for that one missing 45 or 33 to define your collection.
Or, you have read it if you’re one of those types to check in often on blogs such as ‘The Pop Culture Addict,’ ‘Forgotten Hits,’ or even ‘Artie Wayne on the Web.’ If so, then you probably scout out treasures on eBay, you have alerts set to find a copy of a song or album that means the world to you. We know you.
In a perfect world, the music industry is an assortment of vibrant personalities, creative talents, unique business and music skills and opportunities to bring all these factors together. When combined, bright people of like minds and commensurate talents find each other, join forces and create great musical works.
Creating a music product that is known and appreciated from Middletown, CT to San Jacinto, CA is usually done for the sheer joy of creation. That’s in a perfect world. But inevitably external variables creep into the equation, introducing imperfections and exceptions, advance sales, chart positions, units moved, power rotations, remainders, returns, pre-orders, gold and platinum certification, the Grammy Awards and who will be nominated for the controversial, dubious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
So, who is Artie Wayne? He’s a man who lives in that perfect world, believes in the basic goodness of others, and has trusted more than a few people to do the right thing by him, particularly when they said that they would in the first place. During his career, within the upper echelon of the music business, he’s found some of the faith and trust he’s placed in others to be well worth his time.
Others have disappointed him in large measure, but he doesn’t absorb the negative energy of their misdeeds. Instead, he figures it’s just a matter of time before they do right by him. A do-right man, as the song goes.
Artie actually entered this world as Wayne Kent, a great name on two levels. One, it’s strong, to the point, and sounds like a guy who’d grow up to be an executive, doesn’t it? Two, it’s gently amusing that both names comprise portions of the alter egos of two cartoon heroes whom people are always counting on to rescue them and in fact, save the world.
Batman, as you know, was Gotham City millionaire Bruce Wayne by day; and Superman, of course, was mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, he of the Daily Planet. Put them together and you have Wayne Kent. I doubt he ever once thought about that, yet the longer you visit with Artie Wayne, and the more you learn of his amazing abilities to make others’ dreams come true, as he introduces the world to yet undiscovered talents, the more likely you are to search him for a cape and a mask.
The name switch came from his being bright enough to use his real name, Wayne Kent, for songs he’d written for ASCAP publishing. His pseudonym for BMI songs was Art Wayne. It was not all that unusual back in the day to have a show biz stage name if you didn’t like the name your parents gave you. But he was savvy enough, early on, to know that he could be in both publishing organizations with a little panache and an extra non de plume. His friend and colleague, Ed Silvers, began calling him ‘Artie,’ and hence, ‘Artie Wayne’ became the bon vivant of the music business. He has not let go of the spotlight yet. He owns it. It belongs to him. That, and a few other things are due him.
How and where he’d get into the music business was never a worry. Artie seemed to have a sixth sense and proclivity for being in the right place at the right time. As a young songwriter working on future hits with a great friend, Ben Raleigh, Artie’s natural confidence and magnetic personality took them far up the ranks in short measure, all because of a positive attitude he still has to this very day. It started with Bo Diddley and Bobby Darin.
Wayne and Darin became good friends, with much in common as two Bronx boys who loved music. Darin encouraged Artie in his songwriting and is responsible for not only starting Artie’s career as a songwriter, he kept it from ending. Artie shared with Darin his excitement, as he was about to sign a management contract with Alan Freed. Darin knew something that Artie (and most of the rest of America) didn’t, that Freed’s house of cards was soon about to come down with the revelation of the payola scam. Darin suggested to Artie that he go see a publishing friend of his who was officing at 1650 Broadway.
What an incredible break that was. Turned out the company was Aldon Music, and the friend was Don Kirschner. And thus began Wayne’s career. His book of 70 chapters is chock full of star-studded stories like this but the funny thing is, Artie doesn’t think of himself as a star and perhaps he’s not. He’s actually a starmaker. He perceives himself to be a regular guy, born under a lucky star, and never does seem to be affected by all the glitz and glamour that were once a part of his daily life.
Without giving the whole story away, Artie’s career went from songwriter/singer, to demo man, to producer, to (with partner Kelli Ross) running Quincy Jones’ New York publishing companies. And he didn’t stop there. At the pinnacle of his career with Warner Brothers Music, his title was General Professional Manager, and Director of Creative Services.
Tags: "LITTLE CHRISTMAS TREE" ROYALTIES, "TOUCH THE ONE YOU LOVE" ROYALTIES, Artie Wayne, DAWN LEE WAKEFIELD, HOW SONGWRITERS ARE SCREWED!
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Bandita's Beauty is a dedicated mother, and has not dropped weight as she constantly lies on on side or the other, purring. At least one kitten also purrs loudly.
Using my newly devised naming nomenclature, Bandita's Beauty's litter have acquired some names.
The calico one who died Easter morning had the most interesting pattern, of course. She had an inverted black pyramid over her nose, and was a lovely distribution of orange and black spots on a white background. Her name, BB's Inverted Pyramid, was, therefore, a no-brainer.
Not to be far outdone, the other calico, whose white background covers a bit wider area, has a black spot the size of a No. 2 pencil's circumference on the side of one eye. At present, it is approximately the same size as the eye. Needless to say, she is now BB's Black Eye.
One of the tortoise shell females is the squealer of the bunch. She is marked quite a bit like her mother, and is as yet unnamed. Squealer may be what she earns, should she not outgrow it.
The last tortoise is very dark. She has tiny white dots around her eyes, creating a reverse raccoon style black mask in white. Hers is not as well-defined. She is a pretty close match to BS Freckles, with larger orange patches on her front half. She is therefore called BB White Mask.
The yellow and white male is also still nameless.
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2019-04-26T02:23:37Z
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All comments will be permanently screened because it's a secret. Then repost this in your LJ. You might be surprised with the responses you get.
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For this week’s features I tried to deviate from the norm. I wanted to explore a darker world…a world plagued by disaster and uncertainty.
on paper instead of skin.
coming back like a popped cork.
Perched on his chair, doused in redolence, the man wept a tear.
Tied down by the strains of the outer world, rejected by society. Stuck in an enclosed hole, a ladder out of reach. Walking around the dirt, a microcosm of mind. Stared up at the light, wishing for a rope to be thrown.
A glimmer of hope, when an object dropped down. A recognisable woman falling from above. Her feet stopped before the floor, the wished for rope stopping in flight.
A box of faith, Attempting to be opened. The padlock could not be picked, his key would not fit. He slapped on his scent on once more.
The incarceration of the man, wishing to insinuate incineration,was characterised by a guilty life. Punishing himself for pain he inflicted.
He found a new box, one to end the misery. The key was a perfect match, which was able to light the way.
He struck the box with a stick, enlightening an early discovery of man. Spilling liquid some more, he held the naked flame close.
Thoughts shot around his head, anticipating the end of existence. He wept a tear once more.
In a wall of hell, a deathly fire, the man went up in flames.
He melted away, like polar ice caps, pollution in his lungs.
To escape the cold depths of life, he ended his life whilst warm. Existence chose to leave him, to get over a pessimal torn.
When Harm Is Thrown Your Way?
May It Not Support Mine.
Of The World At Large ..
My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
It’s great that there’s so much excellent work in the Touched By Fire group that I was able to go through just a portion of the gallery looking for art that could specifically be interpreted as meaning “touched by fire”, AND I was spoilt for choice!
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2019-04-24T06:59:06Z
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It is , guys, it is the end. I am sad but happy at the same time. What a fantastic Canadian experience: full of all the feelings and laughs and friends and culture… Oh My God the list is so exhaustive. Just an experience TO DO!
« FRIDAY’S ROMANCE ON SUMMER.
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2019-04-20T09:15:28Z
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In knowledge era enterprise needs an effective approach to create more knowledge caused of dynamic external business needs, wants and expectation. Knowledge strategy as value relationship between employee, system and customer should be evaluated periodically to keep enterprise’s capacity to deliver product and service dealing with cost, competitive value advantage and time as triple crown objectives. To grab the market, exploit it and win the business speed of knowledge (who know how) creation is one of early initiative to solve the problem, improve and remove internal process effectively based on customer expectation and strategy focus organization. However this organization’s level of strategy can not be copied from best practice implementation from benchmark competitor as differentiation that difficult to imitated to lower level as team learning and personal mastery of individual level. Dynamic situation produce a lot of silo information and challenges as barrier to create shared context (ba) as essential place for knowledge creation such of externalization (metaphor and analogy) and combination for internalized innovation and continuous improvement. Competitive advantage should be built from individual, group, organization and external entities ontologically. How can we use simple way and daily practice to overcome this complex relationship problem? Is there any practical wisdom to create effective solution for here now need rather than then there normative management approach to align with organizational strategy objectives?
We do from what we think and we get from what we do. The first step toward this solution’s journey is using same structured approach logic of thinking, writing, problem solving and presenting as effective shared context and communication as knowledge socialization in individual level based on organizational problem issue. This personal mastery based on knowledgeable enterprise mission will build wining and learning team that can externalize their expertise to create new knowledge to fulfill organizational nutrition to survive, growth and sustain.
One of practical methodology known as “Minto Pyramid Principle” that use simple classic pattern of story-telling-Situation-Complication-Question and Answer (SCQA) that using pyramid as natural sorting information in human brain memorizing work. The mind cannot hold more than about seven items in the short term memory at any on time, so it start to group them into logical categories to be retained. The mind naturally sorts information into pyramidal groupings to comprehend it. Ideas that arrive pre-sorted into pyramids are more easily understood. A pyramid structure should therefore be the natural form for communicating. In telecom enterprise’s context, this structural logic can be aligned with structural pyramid process dealing with eTOM as organizational network analysis. Vertical and horizontal relationship can be used as effective shared context that enriched with effective logical of thinking and problem solving. This value relationship will force enterprise to create more solution and improving internal process and capacities to response dynamic market to win the business.
We work in agile organization that response Third Generation Knowledge Management (TGKM) dealing with value relationship management in social networking era that move towards Forth Generation KM (FGKM) that more aesthetic, relationship, subjective practical wisdom knowledge creation here now rather than there. It is not only focus on financial profit but keeping in balance more social profit as an peace and harmony networks. There is another domain that react as compensation of this rapid change of social capital value from Web 1.0 towards Web 2.0 even Web 3.0. From Information resource, high role of collaboration and affect decision towards more generate new information based on semantik web and personalization. Scientific Management that focus to control all process for valuable service to customer will move forward to Customer Expectation Management. Find the best trade off between inside out and outside in approach to win the successful outcomes. Web 2.0 represent the power of hidden social network that should be align with enterprise strategy dealing with how service can be deliver based on triple crown principle: quality of services, cost and delivery time.
One of important issue in Knowledge Enterprise is service standardization to make integration easier based on valuable partnership interdependently and using the same shared context to create knowledge and enrich service differentiation to win the business. eTOM as global generic process shared context take a benefit role for improving process out come especially in first level of organizational value. Most of standardization is product of not profit organization based on community of practice that tend to decide critical issue with best consensus as market driven as Web 2.0 evidence. This value driven force to network provider more flexible to manage internal resources and fit service delivery requirements with global service standardization as value relationship that change in dynamic customer need, wants and expectation. Service standardization itself force to more flexible, manageable and customize package that shift their role from inside out domain toward outside in valuable shared context should be achieve in continuous improvement effectively. eTOM has a wide range of process library vertically and horizontally that used as best process shared context with knowledge creation dealing with value relationship among information, materials, human resource, ITs and outcome control feedback both positive double loop learning or negative feedback single loop learning. eTOM will be shifted towards Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 environment that tend not to thinks complexity with control all internal value network in fact not usually match with customer need and expectation. With Web 2.0 standardization firm can focus to improve or remove internal process and achieve global service standardization as value shared context among providers and customers.
One of global standardization of telecom service is ethernet called Carrier Ethernet standardized by Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) supported by Iometrix as global non profit ethernet community based on Web 2.0 movement social network business era. There are new layer of foundation in MEF/CE 2.0 that match with market driven community: Class of Services, Managed and Interconnected. All of requirements of this valuable shared context should be tested successfully by all providers to prove their have capability enough and assure Standardized Quality Of Service in value relationship global network with flexibility creating internal differentiation to win the business and grab the market. MEF move towards from rigid network element standardization and configuration to global interconnect program that more focus to service domain where all nodes of value network relationship share their know how to provide better service and customer outcomes in clear shared context as innovation process, product and services.
MEF Global Interconnect Defined: “The interconnection of autonomous Carrier Ethernet networks to enable standardized and streamlined delivery of MEF-certified Carrier Ethernet services with end-to-end Class of Service, management and protection. Since 2001 when the MEF was formed, Carrier Ethernet services and networks have grown from almost zero to a US$22 billion in 2008 to US$34 billion in 2013 having a $142 billion 5-year total 2009—2013. Acheiving significant milestones along the way, the MEF’s strategy between 2008 and 2010 incorporates all elements for global Ethernet Interconnect including service levels, ENNI, management and processes such as provisioning, into place to enable Ethernet services throughout the world.
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2019-04-19T10:54:04Z
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So my wife has been volunteering at a nearby elementary school while looking for a job. At the beginning of a math lesson the teacher told all the students to “get out your rubbers”….apparently rubbers are erasers here in the UK.
While my wife was working with one of the children on a math problem, after the student made a mistake she asked the student to “erase” the wrong answer. The student looked at her, baffled, and said “what does that mean”? So another student turned and said “she means, rub it out”.
Have you found out what fanny means in the UK yet? I’ve been in Canada 9 years and I *still* laugh every time someone says fanny or fanny pack! Vive la difference!
Hi Cath…no I haven’t come across fanny just yet. Frankly, I’m glad I haven’t said fanny! It could have been quite the embarrassing experience for us! I can see why you would still laugh, I know the first time I hear someone refer to a fanny-pack as a bum-bag I’ll get a kick out of it.
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2019-04-23T20:42:34Z
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So here’s my outfit for this week’s SIA, inspired by one of the famous paintings of the Hanoi Old Quarter by the Vietnamese artist Bui Xuan Phai. I was not exactly happy with it, but then I reminded myself that it’s not about replicating the painting exactly, it’s about drawing inspiration from it.
I want to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about Hanoi itself too. The thing is, I never really identify myself as a Hanoian, although I was born here. I always think of the city as separated from the suburb where I live, and it’s too crowded, too loud, too polluted for me. I’d say this about Hanoi though: it has character, unlike some city I’ve lived in (*coughLosAngelescough*), even if that character doesn’t exactly appeal to me. I think I would like it much more if the Old Quarter still looked like it does in Bui Xuan Phai’s paintings (it doesn’t), but then again I always think the past is better.
Check back tomorrow for the full round-up post and see how everybody interpreted this painting!
Like I said in last Friday post, I’ve been wearing a lot of neutrals lately, and while that’s not a bad thing, I do want some more colors to make my outfit look more cheerful during these grey months. I think another reason why I tend to wear so much neutral stuff these days is because I want to dress more professionally, so I don’t get mistaken for a student anymore 😛 So it’s probably a bit counterproductive that my first venture back into the land of colors is a short, plaid shirt dress that instantly screams “schoolgirl” on me. Oh well. I’ve got to learn to wear colors all over again, so baby steps, right?
The jacket doesn’t really go with anything, I know, but I want to keep the Take One, Pass It On challenge alive.
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2019-04-21T13:05:09Z
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Why do I heart WordPress? It’s because it is so user-friendly! I am not the most tech-savvy person yet with some patience I was able to figure out how to combine other blogs into this current blog. So today was another day filled with some rest and relaxation.
In the recent past, Sundays for me have meant full study days with attempts to catch up on the house chores (primarily the growing mountain of laundry) and running errands and stocking up on necessary edibles. Medical textbooks and class notes were the number two thing to do after morning devotion and getting myself ready to tackle the ever-growing to-do list of the day.
Today was different. It was a Sunday but it’s a new year (2013) and I am currently recovering from many things. I honestly can say that medical school and all the surrounding life stressors were getting the best of me and I became overwhelmed that I actually got physically sick. I forgot how to live a temperate life that my body said “Stop everything now” <insert seizures and 9 day hospitalization here>. There was a point in my life during medical school that I was exercising, trying to eat healthily, sleeping and studying. It is when I lost this balance that I ended up in the hospital. This article describes a little of what that balance with sleep looks like.
In reviewing our past history, having traveled over every step of advance to our present standing, I can say, Praise God! As I see that God has wrought, I am filled with astonishment, and with confidence in Christ as leader. We have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His Teaching in our past history.
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This entry was written by pbrtampa and posted on October 8, 2010 at 11:05 am and filed under Uncategorized with tags 2010, Blood, Broken Mold, Czar, Filthy Fun House, Filthy Richard, Florida, Gore, Guts, Halloween, Killer Karnival, October 22nd, Pabst Blue Ribbon, PBR, Tampa. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.
You guys are awesome! It was great to see our local creative minds participating. Thanks.
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At the outset, the report sounds like a call for a political scientist full employment act: Citizenship, governance, national security, elected officials… these all sound like buzz words incident to the study of political science. What’s not to like about a report that talks about the importance of these topics for college education? But, the details of the report don’t deal with those issues or problems in any direct sense.
As important as the case for liberal arts is, and as important as making that case to the public is, the concerns about informed citizenry guiding the political life of the nation are hijacked. The report talks about the importance of liberal arts education to employers (p. 33). In later sections, the report calls for development of a culture corps (pp. 51-52) and greater accessibility to on-line resources (p. 52). It joins calls for greater intercultural competency, promotion of language learning and so on – laudable things all – but quite a different place than its starting place: talk of civic participation and governance.
I do think learning about civic life and governance has a rightful and proper place in education. (A political scientist could hardly think otherwise!) But, I think – as a whole – even on its own terms for promotion of the humanities and social sciences — the report sells the importance of humanities and social sciences short. I am truly sorry report depicts so limited and small a role for them in human thought and life. Only citizenship and governance — what a disappointment! The study of politics is great, but other things matter too. I am truly sorry that the report does not make a better case. My heart will heal, but the report has broken it a little.
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Stuart Clark is Coming to Toronto!!
Astronomy Writer Stuart Clark Visits Toronto Public Library!
The Sensorium of God–the second title in Stuart Clark trilogy, The Sky’s Dark Labyrinth–dramatizes the stories of the astronomers behind the greatest discoveries in the universe. Clark follows Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley as they seek to understand why the planets move as they do against the backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment.
A science journalist, award-winning author and Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, Stuart Clark has devoted much of this career to presenting the complex world of astronomy and astrophysics to the general public.
Check Out Our Newest Titles in the Quill & Quire Previews!!
Emily St. John Mandel’s The Lola Quartet was featured in Quill & Quire’s Spring 2012 Canadian fiction preview!!
Now our very own Stuart Clark, has his soon-to-be-released second novel The Sensorium of God in the Fall 2012 International fiction preview!!
Find Out Where You Can See Paul Almond in Gaspe from July 23rd-28th!
Can’t Get Enough of Emily St. John Mandel? Neither Can We!
There is so much going on with Emily St. John Mandel we had to do another round-up!! We just can’t keep up with all her interviews and reviews, there are just too many! And we love each and every one!!
First off we have The National Post who did such an amazing review of The Lola Quartet!
“So far, in her young career, Mandel has been pegged as a writer of what jacket copy calls literary noir, blending page-turning sensibilities with prize-worthy prose.” Click here to keep reading!!
Secondly, Emily did an interview for the Vancouver International Writers Festival Newsletter, discussing everything from what is she’s reading now, to books that have moved and inspired her and even her guilty reading pleasures. This you have to see!!
Lastly, Emily did an interview with Fictionaut who examined Emily’s tactics for getting through writers block, advise for other writers and even what she is working on next!
That is all for now, but I can guarantee this will not be the last time you hear about Emily St. John Mandel or The Lola Quartet!!
There is so much commotion going on about Emily St. John Mandel’s third book The Lola Quartet we thought we would do an entire round up of what we’ve found!
We’re loving all the love!!
Two of the leading characters in scientific history are Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke. They were contemporaries, although certainly their relationship was always difficult. It must also be said that both men had difficult characters.
The story of the differences of opinion between them has been told many times, but in The Sensorium of God – the second book in the Sky’s Dark Labyrinth Trilogy author Stuart Clark puts a rather different complexion on it. It is a method that works very well and enables us to look more closely at the thinking of scientists of the Restoration period. Clark is a well-known astrophysicist and a former vice-chairman of the Association of British Science Writers. This book will certainly enhance his reputation.
The novel is set in the mid-17th century, when it had only just been universally agreed that Earth moves around the Sun and was not the most important body in the Universe. Neither Newton or Hooke doubted this, but in many other ways they did not agree at all. You can read this book even if you have not come across the first of the trilogy, and although it is not always pleasant reading, you have to remember these were not always pleasant times!
It has been said that Clark “effortlessly blends science into an enthralling story of triumph over adversity”. Certainly, The Sensorium of God is a blend of historical fiction and astronomy that most people with an interest in science will wish to obtain.
We are excited for the release of Paul Almond’s fourth installment in The Alford Saga – The Pilgrim! Check out the trailer below!
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I’ll say it again, the casualties of terrorism in Pakistan have been many. The sense of loss is perennial. I see cricket and I relate that too, to a loss. The loss of a nation’s love to foreign lands, the exile of a nation’s love.
I look at my city, and I am often unable to recognize it.
The Lahore I knew was a Lahore of basant, concerts, cricket matches, festivals; a city constantly throbbing with life. Lahore today is the beating heart whose loud, wild and festive rhythms are muffled and arrested by high security alerts, barbed wires, check-posts, fences, and high walls. Arrested by an architecture and landscape of fear and insecurity, mirroring the one we have come to construct, and navigate through everyday, in our collective mind.
So many of us have spent the past few days and weeks pondering over and expressing how unwise and misguided holding the PSL final in Lahore is, and yet this return of cricket, this event, even if temporary, even if carefully orchestrated, even if precarious in the possibilities it offers, swept away all the supposed rationality, skepticism, cynicism and sense with which we argued. It was impossible to escape the significance of the event and the overwhelming emotions it brought it: the jazba, the junoon, the frenzy, fervor, joy, excitement – of a beloved’s return, of the recovery of something lost to where and to whom it rightfully belongs, of that persistent pester that refuses to die and continually tugs at the heart for embrace: hope.
And what happened in Lahore embodied it all today.
The crowds, the dhamaal and Dama Dam Mast in the stadium, the electrifying spirit, the joy, the celebration, so beautiful, powerful and symbolic. That we remember Sehwan. That we celebrate Sehwan. That we are all that Sehwan represents. That we will not bow.
That this, this audacious defiance, is Pakistan.
That all is not lost, that we refuse to surrender.
That one day, we will prevail.
Call it what you will, a distraction, a silly show, but God knows we needed this. This was not a triumph against terrorism, it may change nothing, it may have been the extremely short-lived return of international cricket to Pakistan, but for a few hours, it was the return of millions of Pakistanis to the Pakistan they knew, the Pakistan they remembered, the Pakistan they miss.
May we come to see a time where the normal is no longer nostalgia, where this yearning for the normal is no longer normal. May Lahore and all of Pakistan once again pulsate with the celebration, joy and peace witnessed today.
Thank you, PSL. Thank you, all policemen, officers and officials who helped make this happen.
This entry was posted in Pakistan-Centered, Uncategorized and tagged 2017, cricket, International, Lahore, pakistan, Pakistan Super League, terrorism.
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Impressive Hafsa. Keep the spirit up.
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The summer has been kind of a dry spell for theatrical anime screenings in Canada, but we’re entering the fall with two highly anticipated multi-part film series.
I could rant about availability issues that arise when a distributor buys global rights to a library of content despite only operating in five countries. I’ll instead talk about some movies you can (and can’t) check out at your local theatres.
First up is an update on Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy & The Beast.
“Beast” is a coming-of-age tale about Kyuta, a lonely Japanese boy living in Shibuya and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast inhabiting Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he’s looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his guide and friend. That chance encounter leads them to many adventures filled with fantasy and action.
Zap2it and other on-screen TV guides have listed a new addition to Teletoon’s Saturday afternoon lineup, and it’s the Japanese sensation Yo-Kai Watch! Finding itself on the back third of an unbranded Saturday action block, Level-5’s story about a world of mischievous monsters is set for an October 3rd premiere at 2PM EDT.
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Too funny. Thank you for making me laugh so early in the morning.
Yes, megacorps and megabanks running down everyone. Often feel right to vote mere illusion of democracy.
THAT would be MY kind of luck!!
Yeah, it’s supposed to be “my cup runneth over” not “get runneth over”.
Ain’t dat da troot !
…while the truck made tracks.
…and track him down for hospital bills.
Michelin Man? Canadian Tire? Walmart? Even Mr Lube offers tire replacement/ rotation without appointment. Me gone soon for a couple of weeks … Happy Holidays, friend Carlos. Love, cat.
Where to ? Safe trip and holidays .
I think they’re both on the right track.
It’s where the rubber “meats” the road so to speak.
Not a cell phone around when ya need one.
Time to call time out or call it a day.
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Doesn’t he look so sweet? He was karate chopping the Hubs’ head off a few minutes before crashing and burning.
Dude is our spunky, shoot from the hip, unable to tell a lie fireball. He loves hot dogs, oranges and grapes. He hates anything remotely girly.
He is a super snuggler and has the best laugh in the world. Dude is our entertainer and we love everything about him.
Today marked the last day of MAP testing for my 8th graders. Instead of moving onto the next chapter in our text-book, I decided to give my students a “brain break” and show a movie.
Of course, my time at Ritenour Middle ingrained into me that any movie must be tied to the curriculum and be justified in a lesson plan. I definitely don’t miss that but it does make me think about what I show. No Cars or Despicable Me in my classroom. I am usually disturbed when I see a movie being played in a classroom that is not directly related to the course content.
Anyway, I headed to our awesome library yesterday afternoon to pick out a video worthy of showing in my math classroom. I walked away with 3 VHS tapes!!! Apparently the math movie genre isn’t booming and there are not any current up-to-date options. I settled on “Math …Who Needs It?” It was produced in the 90s- when I was in middle school. It is older than my students. The glory days of the 1990s hair and fashion was shining in this video. The “modern technology” is not so modern anymore but the kids got the picture in the sense that, regardless of their future goals, math is going to be relevant.
What made me feel old is the fact that in one clip about how rock stars use math, the video features Billy Joel. Most of my students have never heard of him. One student asked if he is blind. Another student asked if he is a real singer. A third told me that she thinks her grandma went to one of his concert a really long time ago.
On a positive note, my classes with total stinker kids (you know the ones that bug you all year) were totally into the video. They were awake and leaning in to watch. And I didn’t even assign a worksheet to go with it. Woohoo!
How do you feel about movies in the classroom? Do you show things that are older than your students?
This post is directed to anyone who cares, anyone that loves me, and anyone willing to nudge my husband.
*A new pair of running shoes. I work in a shoe store so u have several picked out and can let you use my employee discount.
*A st Louis cardinals T-shirt. I have one but it is getting pretty ratty.
*A new case for my Droid Incredible… Mine is in really bad shape.
*New clothes… After all what girl doesn’t want to go shopping?
When is your birthday? What do you want for your birthday?
Life is great right now. I have no reason to complain about anything so please take this in the way that it is intended.
There are a lot of little things that just get on my nerves. I have no control over these things and I can not do anything to fix them. I need to get over them but I am not there yet. Here are a few.
We have successfully avoided the birthday party circuit for over 6 years.
That is until this week. Bubba came home this week with a party invitation. It is an afternoon party and all the kids in his class are invited. The invitation also said that the boys could stay the night.
The hubs and I talked and we agreed that Bubba could go to the party but Bubba would not be staying the night. We talked to him about this and he is not happy but is going to have to live with it.
I called the mom of the birthday boy tonight to RSVP. I don’t know her (not even her name- it wasn’t on the invite) We chatted a bit a bit about how excited the boys are to have a birthday party. I told her that Bubba would be there but would not be staying the night.
She asked me why he wouldn’t stay the night. I started with he is only 6 and has never had a sleepover and that the hubs and I are worried that it will be midnight and he will be crying to come home. The mom said that it wasn’t a big deal and if that happened she would bring him home. I kind of played it off with the nervous overprotective worried mother deal and she kept trying to reassure me. She invited me to come to the party early, described her house, etc. She was very nice and encouraging. But she really wanted to have Bubba sleep over with the rest of the boys (because all of the other boys will be staying).
I don’t want to question or offend you in any way but I don’t know you. I am uncomfortable letting my son stay the night at a house where I don’t know the parents.
She was very accepting of my statement and said that she completely understood but continued to try to convince me to let him sleep over. I said we would play it by ear on Saturday.
Is kindergarten too young for a slumber party?
How well do you know parents (or their kids for that matter-because i have never even met the child) before you let your child sleep over at their house?
Was I wrong to tell her that I don’t want my son spending the night with people I don’t know?
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Between what is right and what is wrong.
Significance: Original recording was made to experiment with speed and background harmony. Song is in a country 2:4 beat with Synth used as piano fill-in. This is a very raw version but has the song’s theme captured.
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It’s been a while but I’ve seen a campaign I actually like – thanks to Confused.com.
The insurance comparison site has kept its latest PR and marketing push simple, by setting out to answer the crazy questions that consumers have on their mind but have never been able to ask.
At the top of the list, according to new research, is ‘what’s the fuss with the Kardashian’s?’ Fair enough – I’m not sure either but it doesn’t stop me going crazy trying to keep up with them.
So, to help the nation out Confused.com is answering a series of random questions through short YouTube videos, featuring a mad scientist character, and inviting people to tweet questions next Wednesday using a special hashtag.
It’s an interesting campaign and works well because consumers get something useful out of it – knowledge. The fact that confused consumers will be looking to Confused.com for clarity is brilliant, making it a thought leader in its sector and everything else as well! To me, it’s very clever and well executed. My only issue is with the scientist who through looks suggests that the brand had no budget for Stephen Fry, so got a poor look-a-like instead.
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Hi Suzanne yes I still blog but not here on my ‘pro’ page http://www.paulacarnell.com – I didn’t realise this page still existed when I upgraded!
Great Dr Griese-Brisson is inspirational and did help me although I couldn’t see her more than the first visit as Last noon was just too difficult to travel to. I did have blood tests taken and several phone consultations and followed through with much of her recommendations but using local practitioners. Do you have a diagnosis?
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I liked this very much and love the photo. Thanks for sharing with us!
This may be misguided, but my thoughts were of Jung as I read.
Haha I Love you Leelah!
Everyday I look forward to the next “chapter” of the workshop! It’s creative; it’s fun; and it’s really illuminating!! I look forward to sharing it with others.
Yes, let’s enter the castle. Very inspiring and true. Most of our stress and anxiety comes from within. We need to understand that, face it, and make a conscious change.
When you open yourself up, your opening yourself up to everything that comes with it. Including the very possible to hurt and disappointment etc..It comes down to acknowledging this fact, and reaching a point where love and trust become stronger than fear and ultimately, that is what leads your heart to love, that is the shied against all fears.
Once we build that wall against love you will know every fear, it will over power who you are, and every thing you will ever be.We rob ourselves of being the shining bright stars that we are called to be, because of fear.
Love the photo and post by the way..
Brilliant, love it. The direction of our lives is steered from within.
Could not agree more. What a difference there would be in the world if we all took responsibility for our place in it. We are all the sum total of all the decisions we have made so far in our lives.
when is Loved, our greatest Teacher of Life.
I went to a place called lonely, and met myself there, and I found out, that I am a beautiful woman. We Shall Go!!
I am honored to nominate you for The Super Sweet Award! Please pick-up your award at http://www.grandmothermusings.com . Copy and Paste the Award to your blog and follow the rules of acceptance. I wish you many blessings. Congratulations!!
I agree to a point. I believe that ALOT of what happens in life comes directly from within. But not ALL. There are people who suffer abuse, depression, anxiety etc. Certainly how one deals with such things and moves on from them is down to a persons character. But in life we can not help but be affected by the things around us.
Nice. Everything a person wants is on the other side of fear.
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Game Recap: Mets 1, Nationals 0 | We Gotta Believe!
The Mets (90-72) defeated the Washington Nationals (83-79) by a score of 1-0. Mets pitchers had a no-hitter through 6 2/3 IP, but Clint Robinson lined a ball up the middle that caromed off of Ruben Tejada‘s knee, giving the Nationals their first hit of the afternoon. Mets pitchers combined for a 2-hit shutout, with contributions from starter Jacob deGrom, Bartolo Colon, Logan Verrett, Jon Niese, Addison Reed, Tyler Clippard, and Jeurys Familia. Familia garnered his 43rd save of the season, tying Armando Benitez‘s single season record.
Once again, the Mets bats were quiet against Nationals pitching. Starter Tanner Roark allowed only 3 hits and 1 walk in 6 shutout innings while striking out 6. Sammy Solis added a scoreless inning before Curtis Granderson homered to center with 1 out in the 8th inning off of Blake Treinen.
It was the Mets pitching that was on display today though. Jacob deGrom took 72 pitches to pitch through 4 innings, allowing only 2 walks and striking out 7 with no hits. Bartolo Colon and Logan Verrett each tacked on a hitless inning, and Jon Niese got two outs in the 7th inning before Clint Robinson lined a single up the middle, under Niese, that caromed off of Ruben Tejada’s knee for a base hit. Addison Reed got the 3rd out, Tyler Clippard pitched a clean 8th, and Jeurys Familia pitched the 9th and worked around a 2-out double by Bryce Harper.
The Mets finish the season with a 90-72 record, their best since 2006 when they finished 97-65. It marks the first time since 2000 that the Mets will enter the postseason with a better record than the Yankees, who finished their season at 87-75.
With all the playoff spots wrapping up today (Houston got the 2nd AL Wild Card spot, Texas got the AL West title), there will be no tiebreaker games tomorrow. Baseball resumes at 8:00 ET on Tuesday, with Dallas Keuchel and the Houston Astros taking on Masahiro Tanaka and the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium. Jake Arrieta and the Cubs take on Gerrit Cole and the Pirates in Pittsburgh on Thursday, and the ALDS starts Thursday with the NLDS starting Friday.
POSITIVES: Curtis Granderson provided all the offense the Mets needed today with his 26th home run of the season, wrapping up a great comeback season. He was 3/4 on the afternoon. DeGrom, Colon, Verrett, Niese, Reed, Clippard, and Familia were all solid in their pitching work today.
NEGATIVES: The offense in general, once again. It’s certainly concerning that the offense has mustered so little over the last 5 games of the season, but things can certainly change very quickly.
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'S e eun-mara a tha ann am peata-ruadh, fachach neo buthaid (Laideann: Fratercula arctica). Tha gob mòr air le srianan ioma-dathach air. Tha ainmean eile air - Seumas ruadh, coltrachan, pealag agus buthaigre.
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Chaidh an duilleag seo a dheasachadh 21 dhen Lùnastal 2016 aig 19:17 turas mu dheireadh.
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It’s the perfect formula for a great evening on any given day, but at the Fratelli Vineyards’ dinner at the chic Stax Lounge at Hyatt Regency, it became a night to remember!
The simple yet simply outstanding 30-yolk Pasta with Black Truffles and 2-year aged Parmesan shavings, paired with the bold and beautiful blended MS Red, that would count amongst my top 5 dishes in the city.
Everyone joining in on The Beatles ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ with the talented crooner on stage, and then G-Man joining him, booming out his own solo version of ‘Annie’s Song’.
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So I've Decided to Open an Instagram Account..
Whether you are a Type I (juvenile diabetes) or Type II (adult-onset diabetes) diabetic or at risk of developing diabetes, you want to eat right to better control your blood sugar to remain healthy. Diabetes is a life-long disease that poses a challenge to both patients and doctors.
The primary goal of managing diabetes is to prevent complications such as heart disease and stroke, diabetic neuropathies (nerve damage), diabetic retinopathy (eye disease), erectile dysfunction (ED), kidney and urologic problems.
The diabetic living diet is designed to help those with diabetes to eat well, manage their blood sugar and stay healthy.
Our society tends to encourage a sedentary lifestyle, which puts more people at risk for diabetes. One of the major contributing factors is obesity. Being obese puts you at a much higher risk of developing diabetes.
Diabeticliving.com by Better Homes & Gardens promotes the diabetic living diet. It is a very comprehensive site for all things diabetic. There are plenty of resources to help diabetics better cope and help others avoid developing this disease.
Research has shown that people at risk for type 2 diabetes can prevent or delay developing the disease by losing a little weight. The results of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) showed that weight loss through moderate diet changes and physical activity can delay and prevent type 2 diabetes.
You’ll start by providing information about your current situation for their online medical professionals to assess your risk of diabetes and the weight you need to lose to either remain or get back to a healthy range. From there, diabetic living diet will customize an eating plan just for you. Also, you have access to a message board for support whenever you have questions.
The online tools that are part of the diabetic living diet are very useful because they teach you how to eat right, whether that’s at home or when you go out. You will also learn how to shop for foods and when to eat. There’s nothing left to chance here.
Like any other diet plan, the diabetic living diet does recommend maintaining a level of physical activity but not specific activities to perform. That will be up to you and your doctor to decide. Of course, do consult your medical doctor before starting this or any other diet plan.
Diabetes is a disease that needs to be taken seriously. Make sure the weight you lose is safe and healthy while meeting the proper nutritional requirements for a healthy lifestyle and better managing diabetes. All these conditions are very well met by the diabetic living diet.
If you want to lower the risk of your heartache for about 80% then it will be you who will be living healthy at the end of the day. Here all you need is to go for healthy lifestyle choices which will ensure you with a best health and livelihood. Thus no matter what are you having and whatever you are doing make sure that it does not affect your heat and cause you an unnecessary fatal condition. But some of us even go for some drugs which are generally saving you for the time being and maintaining your cholesterol levels.
Statin drugs though can give you a relief for certain time period but it is not ensuring a complete recovery. Another major discrepancy is its price which is unknowingly high in every possible sense. Thus many of us will fail to afford this kind of drugs. But do you know that these drugs are booming the American market to a great extent. In fact it is true that there are hundreds of us are unknowingly going for these drugs. Thus maintaining healthy lifestyle choices is a proper choice to combat the cholesterol levels.
In fact you need to check up the triglycerides before you go for any sort of medicines. For that you should go for a checkup which will help you to understand your recent position. After the diagnosis it will be better for you to switch to the Statin drugs. But one of the raising fact that it is not at all safe for your heart. It is true that there are some statins side effects which will make you suffer from the muscle pain, vomiting, headache and many more.
Other than these people also get attracted with the simvastatin which is also causing a similar level of obstruction in your life. The only rationale behind this will be the harmful simvastatin side effects. You may get the relief from the higher cholesterol level. But all these drugs will lessen the ability of your natural life. Thus it will be wise to switch over to healthy and green diets. You can also help yourself with some of the natural herbs which even help you to lower the cholesterol level and accelerate the normal heart rate. That means you are having higher rate of fresh oxygen which is on the other hand restore a healthy and growing body.
Nevertheless, please research a bit for gaining more optimistic knowledge for maintaining healthy lifestyle choices. After all the choice is yours!
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I’m a geek about this whole inbound and content marketing movement, driven by HubSpot out of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1. 78% of Internet users conduct product research online.
Which means your website’s often the first and only impression a prospect will have of your brand/company.
2. In the past year, Web-based email usage dropped a staggering 59% among 12-17 year olds, who prefer to communicate via text, instant messaging, and social networks.
May not have an immediate impact for your business, but implications for the future and your target audience? Pretty crazy. Essentially they won’t be reading your emails.
To add to that, Millenials and Gen XY spend 60% less time watching television than their adult counterparts — and 600% more time online, according to Joe Pulizzi (Get Content, Get Customers).
The days of email blasts absent direction and interruption marketing continue to spiral into obscurity — people simply aren’t tuning in anymore.
The question is how are you reaching your audience, and — when you have their attention –how are you providing value and content that establishes loyalty and trust?
What is it that makes your network spend time on your site, blog, read new posts, subscribe or watch your videos? Content is your key differentiator.
3. 78% of business people use their mobile device to check email.
4. 40% of US smartphone owners compare prices on their mobile device while in-store, shopping for an item.
5. 200 Million Americans have registered on the FTC’s “Do Not Call” list.
That’s 2/3 of the country’s citizens. The other 1/3 likely don’t have a landline anymore.
6. 91% of email users have unsubscribed from a company email they previously opted-in to.
We’re more tech-savvy and less patient with unwanted solicitations. And it’s just so easy to hit ‘delete’ (or unfriend, unfollow).
7. 84% of 25-34 year-olds have left a favorite website because of intrusive or irrelevant advertising.
8. 57% of businesses have acquired a customer through their company blog.
Once again, blogging’s great. Intrusive ads, nay.
9. 41% of B2B companies and 67% of B2C companies have acquired a customer through Facebook.
If this stat doesn’t poke a hole in the “Facebook is not useful for B2B companies” myth, Kagan says she’s not sure what will.
10. The number of marketers who say Facebook is “critical” or “important” to their business has increased 83% in just 2 years.
That’s right—critical or important. When a channel generates not only leads, but real revenue, you can’t call it “experimental” any longer.
11. Companies that blog get 55% more web traffic.
The more you blog, the more pages Google has to index, and the more inbound links you’re likely to have. The more pages and inbound links you have, the higher you rank on search engines like Google—thus the greater amount of traffic to your website. Again: Blogging is good.
PR 20/20’s Tracy DiMarino recently mentioned more than 90 percent of purchasing decisions begin online (Forrester Research), and there are 34,000 searches conducted on Google every second.
12. Inbound marketing costs 62% less per lead than traditional, outbound marketing.
That’s right—62% less. The average outbound lead costs $373. The average inbound lead costs $143.
A HubSpot mantra: “if it don’t make dollars, it don’t make sense.” Outbound marketing just don’t make sense anymore.
The startup’s bread and butter is equally transparent: Get Found, Convert and Analyze. These three actions are the fundamental tenants of any good internet marketing campaign.
The challenge – and opportunity, is getting started. In life and online, you truly get out of it what you put into it.
As Joe Pulizzi challenged us in the recent workshop at Hyland Software: What does success look like to you?
Thanks to all of you, TopRankMarketing.com Daily listed my article under Education on its page today: Getting Lost to Find Answers.
Here’s the archive link: http://paper.li/toprank/2011/02/01 and original Twitter post. Thanks again for reading and sharing!
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For the iOS feature, see Multitasking (iOS).
Multitasking means that a computer can run more than one item of software at the same time. It can also refer to a person who is working on more than one task at the same time (for instance, talking on the telephone while filing papers).
Computers which can appear to run more than one program even with only one CPU. Computer scientists solve the problem that a CPU can only do one thing at a time by programming it so that it switches rapidly between tasks. This happens so rapidly that it appears that the computer is running more than one program at once. This is called thrashing. This action is often controlled by the operating system (OS) controlling the hardware of the system.
The more things the computer has to do at once, the more time it has to spend deciding which to give more time to, and the less time each one receives. This tends to make the computer perform its tasks more slowly, unless it uses a multi-core processor.
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Ramadhan is a very important part of every Muslim’s life. Ramadhan is the month of giving and mercy, and during this month Allah blesses the believers with forgiveness and great reward.
This is a time to stop and contemplate, to look inwards and out, it is a time to set our goals. We should ask ourselves what we want to achieve this month, - something we will carry into our futures.
Achievement is accomplished by change. ‘How’ and ‘what’ we change are as important to consider as ‘when’ we change. Ramadhan gives us a huge opportunity to improve ourselves and gain rewards for our actions.
Just consider how precious time is. Our time when used well can gain us much reward, but when wasted we lose something of unimaginable value.
Therefore, whoever is merciful and giving in Ramadhan, Allah will be even more Merciful and Giving towards them and will bestow upon them countless bounties and blessings.
All praises to Allah (SWT), Lord of the worlds. As revealed in the Glorious Qur’an, "Oh you who believe, fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those who came before you that you may keep your duty to your Lord" 2:185.
There are many actions we can take during the month of Ramadhan which will benefit us immensely. One of these would be to take Sahoor (the pre-dawn meal) as there is great benefit in it. The greatest blessing of Sahoor may be that Allah engulfs those who partake in it with His Forgiveness, showers His Mercy on them, while His angels ask of Him to forgive and pardon them.
Reciting the Quran has much benefit as it was in this blessed month that the Qur’an was revealed to prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him).
"Verily! We have sent you (O Muhammad) with the Truth, a bearer of glad tidings and a warner; and there is not a nation but a warner has passed among them," The Holy Quran (35:24).
"Surely this Qur’an' guides to the way that is straightest and gives good tidings to the believers who do deeds of righteousness, that theirs shall be a great reward.” The Holy Quran (17 : 11).
The importance of the Qur’an cannot be presented in a few words. It is not just another book on the shelf, but it is the words of Allah, speaking to every one of us. It is direct contact with Allah Himself. This is what we should keep in mind when we read the Qur'an or think about it.
The Giving of charity also carries much blessing and the rewards, giving during the holy month will increase your reward immensely. Zakah does not only purify the property of the contributor but also purifies his heart from selfishness and greed.
The Prophet said:'Charity is a necessity for every Muslim'. He was asked: 'What if a person has nothing?' The Prophet replied: 'He should work with his own hands for his benefit and then give something out of such earnings in charity'. The Companions asked: 'What if he is not able to work?' The Prophet said: 'He should help the poor and needy persons.' The Companions further asked 'What if he cannot do even that?' The Prophet said 'He should urge others to do good'. The Companions said 'What if he lacks that also?' The Prophet said 'They should stop themselves from doing evil. That is also charity.
Charity is not only giving money but following the above example will ensure you are giving charity as well as receiving Allah’s blessing.
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9 Claims. (Cl. 23-145) This invention relates to a method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing material such as ores, concentrates, metallurgical residues, intermediates, byproducts and the like.
Uranium usually is found in nature as an oxide such as pitchblende, U303, or 'as a phosphate such as torbernite, metatorbernite and autunite or associated with values of other metals such as with vanadium as carnotite, a uranium vanadate. Uranium may be and frequently is associated in ore deposits and in uranium hearing byproducts, metallurgical intermediates and residues with values of other minerals from which the uranium must be separated to produce a uranium product suitable for laboratory and commercial use.
Hydrometallurgical methods involving the employment of alkaline or acid leach solutions for extracting uranium values from uranium bearing ores and concentrates are known and are in commercial use. Known hydrometallurgical methods have the disadvantage that they cannot be employed economically for the extraction of uranium values from uranium bearing starting material which contains sulphur or sulphides in that the consumption of leaching reagents through reaction with the sulphides is excessive. Also, the presence of metal sulphides, such as iron sulphide, may present an important economic problem in that dissolution in the leach solution of metal values other than uranium values results in excessive consumption of precipitation reagents and makes it difficult to recover a high grade uranium product from the leach solution. Also, it has been found that with some uranium bearing material which contains mineral sulphides, the recovery of uranium values by known hydrometallurgical methods is too low for economic recovery.
We have found that the presence of mineral sulphides in uranium bearing material can be employed'with advantage to provide a novel method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing material at an extraction efiiciency and at an operating cost heretofore considered to be impossible to realize.
We have found further that surphur when associated with the uranium bearing starting material as a mineral sulphide or as elemental sulphur reacts with water in the presence of an oxygen bearing, oxidizing gas such as oxygen, oxygen enriched air 'or air alone without oxygen enrichment, to generate sulphuric acid. Under the conditions of treatment described in detail hereinafter, uranium values are rapidly dissolved in the leach solu tion with a high degree of extractive efiiciency.
In its simplest form, the only reagents required in the operation of the present invention are the uranium bearing starting material, mineral sulphides or elemental sulphur, water and air.
A primary reaction in the method of the present invention is that elemental sulphur and mineral sulphides in suspension in water or in aqueous acid sulphate solution are oxidized to sulphates when heated to moderately elevated temperature and maintained under a positive partial pressure of gaseous molecularoxygen, such as atent results from feeding air or oxygen enriched air,.or oxygen into the reaction vessel. This oxidation process generates sulphuric acid and the solution thus can be rendered sufficiently acidic to react with the uranium mineral and dissolve the uranium values. .The combination of elevated temperature and partial pressure of oxygen further ensures that this reaction is rapid and that substantially all the uranium values are dissolved in the solution in a relatively short period of time.
In operating the method, a pulp or slurry comprised of finely divided uranium bearing starting material, elemental sulphuror a mineral sulphide which may be associated with or added to the uranium bearing starting material, and water 'or recycled sulphate-sulphuric acid solution in desired proportions is heatedin a closed reaction vessel under a partial pressure ofgaseous molecular oxygen, ora gas containing molecularoxygen such as air, to a temperature above about C. The pulp mixture is agitated sufliciently to maintain a substantially uniform dispersion of solids in the solution and is maintained under these temperature and pressure conditions until the uranium values are dissolved by the solution, after'which the solution containing dissolved uranium values is separated from the undissolved residue suchas by filtration. Uraniumvalues can be precipitated from the solution by any new combination of known methods, such as by neutralization with ammoniaor caustic soda or caustic potash and separated from the solution by filtration.
UaOs-I-Vz O2+3H2SO4 3UO2SO4+ 3H2O 2 Other uranium minerals such as 'torbernite, metatorbernite, carnotite, autunite, and the. like, have been found to react and dissolve in thelsolution.
Factors which influence the rate at which uranium values are extracted from..the uranium bearing starting material and dissolved'in theleachsolution, and the extractive efliciency of the method are temperature, partial pressure of oxygen, agitation, pulp density, the presence and amount of sulphur present in the reaction Vessel, and the hydrogen'ion concentration'orpH value of the solution.
The reaction canbe conducted :at a relatively low temperatureof the order of about 80 ;C. or lower. At temperatures below about 80C., however, the reaction proceeds slowly and the rate of oxidation of sulphides and dissolution of uranium values increases as the temperature --is increased. As the-temperature of'the reaction is increased, progressively increasing amounts of impurities such as iron, aluminum, and magnesium, if present in the starting material, tend to oxidize to and dissolve in the leach solution. as sulphate. salts. We have found that if the reaction is conducted at a temperature within .the range of from aboutl00 C. to about C. it proceeds rapidly and dissolution of values of metals other than uranium is maintained at a minimum. Also, the acid concentration of the solution remains fairly low within that temperature range and iron dissolved in the solution tends to hydrolyze and re-precipitate as ferric temperatures below about 100 C. the oxidation of sulphides and the formation of acids and extraction of uranium values are slow.
Thus, it is preferred to conduct the leaching reaction at a temperature Within the range of from about 100 C. to about 150 C. although temperatures as low as about 80 C. and as high as 200 C.
can be employed if desired.
The oxidation reaction will proceed as long as oxygen The ratio of solids to solution in the reaction zone, or the pulp density, influences the rate of oxidation of sulphides and dissolution of uranium values in the solution. The velocity of the reaction is not appreciably atfec-ted by a change in pulp density, the maximum density being that at which the solids can be maintained as a relatively uniform dispersion in the aqueous solution. The minimum density is governed by operating economics to obtain the maximum dissolution of uranium values Within a reasonable time. Pulp mixtures of the order of from about 25% to about 60% solids are very satisfactory having regard to the overall economics of the method.
The sulphur required for the generation of sulphuric acid can be in the form of mineral sulphides associated naturally with the uranium values in the starting material or natural or artificial mineral sulphides added to the starting material, or it can be in the form of finely divided particles of elemental sulphur. Sulphidic minis present in the solution. As the reaction preferably efflls Such py F6758, Py 2, and other is conducted at temperatures at or above the boiling point naturally occurring or artificially produced sulphidic minof the solution where the vapour pressure of the solution erals can be employed With advantage. In general, sulis high and the solubility of oxygen in the solution is phidic or elemental sulphur should be present in the startlow,it is necessary to operate at superatmosphen'c presing material in amount sufiicient to produce during the 1 sure in a closed reaction vessel so that a partial pressure reaction an aqueous acid sulphate solution having a pH of molecular oxygen can be maintained above the soluvalue of the order of from about pH 1 to about pH 3. tion. A partial pressure of oxygen as low as from 2 to Progressively increasing amounts of values of iron and 3 pounds per square inch can be employed but the reother metals, if associated with the starting material, are action rate is low and it is preferable to maintain the dissolved in the solution as the acid concentration is inoxygen partial pressure at from about 5 to 10 pounds creased. Thus, it is preferred to provide sufficient minper square inch or higher in order to complete the reeral sulphides or elemental sulphur in the slurry to proaction within a reasonable time. A gas such as air, duce a pH value of the order of from about pH 1 to oxygen enriched air, or oxygen alone which contains about pH 3. molecular oxygen, can be used, gaseous diluents such as Typical results obtained in the operation of the presnitrogen having no efiect on the reaction providing that cut invention are set out in Tables I, II, III which folthe total pressure is increased to allow for their partial low. Uranium ores employed contained mineral sulpressure. phides in the form of pyrite, FeSz, and it was not neces- The slurry should be agitated sufiiciently to maintain sary to supply additional sulphur.
0.38 0.83 0.41 0.85 2.1 2.1 1.3 1.3 1.0 1.6 trace S04gm./l. 35.6 61.1 24.0 34.2 6.8 12.0 73.0 14.4 20.3 19.5 trace Fegm.ll 6.2 7.6 2.4 1.3 0.8 2.0 12.8 2.4 5.6 3.6 trace Al303gIIl./1 n. d. n. d. 1.9 3.6 n. d. n. d. n. d. n. d. n. d. 5. 7 n. d. Mg-gm./l n. d. n. d. n. d. 5.1 n. d. 11. d. nil nil nil nil nil Percent UaOsGXlilaCted 88.0 95.5 90.7 91.7 85.2 99.2 97.5 93.2 90.7 94.4 trace A and B illustrate the improved results obtained when using re-cycled leach liquor from a previous operation under the same conditions. The starting solution used in the other examples was water. The right column, Table III illustrates the absence of oxidation of sulphur and dissolution of uranium values when no partial pressure of oxygen was employed.
a relatively uniform dispersion of solids in the leach solution. The slurry can be agitated .by any conventional method, such as by a mechanical agitator.
The major portion of the iron and sulphur were present in the ore as pyrite, FeSz. The uranium was present main- 1y as finely disseminated uraninite or pitchblende. The charge to the reaction vessel was a slurry comprised of about 50% by weight, solids of less than 100 mesh and about 50%, by weight, water.
TABLE VI Approximate composition of the leach solutions at different uranium extractions Solution Composition U308 Extraction, Percent Fe/ UaOa s r-H99 ccocooa The following example illustrates the operation of the method. 2000 grams of more containing 0.16% U308, "4.5% S, 3.8% Fe, 89.6% 8102 was ground to-about 75% minus 200 mesh and mixed with 2000 grams of water. The pulp mixture was charged into an autoclave wherein it was agitated, heated to about 125 C. and maintained under a partial pressure of gaseous molecular oxygen-of about 30 pounds per square inch. The total pressure in the autoclave, including the vapour pressure of the solution, was 45 pounds gauge pressure per square inch. At the end of 10 hours, it was found by analysis that of the original uranium values had been extracted from the ore and the pulp mixture was removed from the autoclave and filtered. The undissolved residue was washed and discarded. The solution containing the dissolved uranium values contained 1.5 grams per litre U308, 2.7 grams per litre Fe, 16.2 grams per litre S04, 3.8 grams per litre A1203, a trace of magnesium and a trace of silica. The final pH value of the solution was 1.4. 10 grams of NH3, equivalent to about 10 poundsper ton of ore, was added to the solution to raise the pH to 8.0. All the uranium precipitated as ammonium diurantewith some iron and aluminum hydroxides. The precipitate was separated from the solution by filtration and ignited after which it contained 14% U308, the remainder being largely FezOa and A1203. The residual solution contained only traces of uranium and was discarded.
The method as described hereinabove can be employed to extract uranium from oxidized uranium minerals. It is particularly applicable to ores which already contain in their natural state sulphide minerals such as pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and like mineral sulphides. When theme to be leached does not contain suflicient sulphidic compounds, a small amount of such a compound, either naturally occurring or artificially produced, such as sodium sulphide, hydrogen sulphide, iron sulphide, can be added and the mixture leached as described hereinabove. Alternatively, if it is found to be more convenient, finely divided elemental sulphur particles can be added as it .also is oxidized and generates sulphuric acid under the prescribed reaction conditions. vIf the sulphur compound tends to oxidize slowly, or if the ore contains alkaline constituents such as CaCos, CaO, MgO, A1203 and the like which are acid consuming and tend to neutralize the acid, larger amounts of sulphide sulphur or elemental sulphur can be added to ensure that acid is generated in amountsufficient to maintain the pH value of the solution within the desired range. There is no upper limit to the amount of sulphidic material which maybe present, since the amount which is oxidized and dissolved can be controlled and maintained at a relatively low value by adjusting the temperature, oxygen partial pressure and leaching time.
Only water is required to effect extraction of uranium values by this method. However, the solution employed may contain initially some acid or other salts. While these are not required, they are in no Way detrimental to the conduct of the reaction. If desired, leach solution from a previous leaching operation can be recycled to leach another batch of ore and in this way the concentration of uranium can be increased to any desired value before it is precipitated. It is found in recycling the leach solution that less iron and other contaminating mineral sulphates are dissolved in the second cycle and a higher ratio of uranium to impurities is obtained in the solution. This modification is adapted for operation of the leaching stage on a continuous scale with the addition of uranium bearing material, water and recycled solution to and withdrawal of pulp mixture from the leaching stage, return of a portion of the leach solution to the leaching stage, and treatment of a portion of the pregnant leach solution for separation and recovery of uranium values.
In addition to uranium, some iron, aluminum, and magnesium, if present in the starting material, may dissolve in the solution as sulphate salts. The amount of these salts which dissolve can be kept to a minimum if the leach is conducted at a temperature within the range of from about Cato about C.
' about pH 6 or higher.
' 7 Uranium values can be precipitated from the solution by any one of several known methods. A particularly convenient method of separating dissolved uranium values from the pregnant leach solution consists in raising the pH value of the solution by addition of ammonia to This causes precipitation of substantially all the dissolved uranium values as an ammonium uranate salt along with hydroxides of iron, aluminum and magnesium present in the solution.
As the leaching method permits the concentrations of free acid and of iron salt in the solution to be maintained at a low level, only a small amount of ammonia is required for the precipitation and a uranium product of satisfactory grade is obtained. If desired, the uranium content of the precipitate can be increased by igniting it or by leaching it with a carbonate solution which dissolves the uranium and separates it from the iron, aluminum and magnesium hydroxides. A pure uranium product can be recovered readily from the carbonate solution. The barren liquor from the ammonia precipitation step contains ammonium sulphate and can be discarded, recycled or evaporated to recover the ammonium sulphate.
The method of the present invention possesses a number of important advantages. The acid concentration of the solution is low and the method can be operated at reasonably low temperatures and pressures, thus permitting the use of relatively inexpensive, available equipment. The only reagents necessary for the extraction of uranium values are mineral sulphides which usually are associated with the ore, water which is usually readily available and air. The reactions in which the sulphur is oxidized to sulphuric acid and the uranium values are extracted from the ore and dissolved in the leach solution proceed rapidly.
It will be understood, of course, that modifications can be made in the preferred embodiments of the invention described herein without departing from the scope of the invention defined by the appended claims.
1. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material which comprises the steps of forming a slurry of finely divided uranium bearing material, at least one of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and elemental sulphur, and an aqueous solution, heating the pulp mixture to a temperature above about 80 C. in a reaction vessel, feeding an oxygen bearing, oxidizing gas into the reaction vessel in amount sufficient to maintain a positive partial pressure of oxygen above the pressure autogenously generated by the temperature at which the reaction is conducted, continuing the oxidation reaction to dissolve uranium values in the leach solution, and separating leach solution containing dissolved uranium values from the undissolved residue.
2. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material according to claim 1 in which the aqueous solution is of the group consisting of water and an aqueous acid sulphate solution.
3. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material according to claim 1 in which the mineral sulphides are associated in nature with the uranium bearing starting material.
4. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material according to claim 1 in which at least one of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and elemental sulphur is added to the uranium bearing material charged to the reaction vessel in amount sufiicient to produce a solution having a pH value lower than about pH 3.
5. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material according to claim 1 in which the temperature of the reaction is maintained between 80C. and 200 C.
6. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material which comprises the steps of forming a slurry of finely divided uranium hearing material, at least one of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and elemental sulphur, and an aqueous solution, heating the pulpmixture to a temperature above about C. in a reaction vessel, feeding an oxygen hearing, oxidizing gas into the reaction vessel in amount sufiicient to maintain a positive partial pressure of oxygen above the pressure autogenously generated by the temperature at which the reaction is conducted, continuing the oxidation reaction to dissolve uranium values in the leach solution, separating leach solution containing dissolved uranium values from undissolved residue, adding ammonia to the solution to convert dissolved uranium values to and precipitate them as an ammonium uranate, and recovering precipitated ammonium uranate from the solution.
7. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material which comprises the steps of forming a slurry of finely divided uranium bearing material, at least one of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and elemental sulphur, and an aqueous solution of the group consisting of water and an aqueous acid sulphate solution, heating the slurry to a temperature above about 80 C. in a reaction vessel, feeding an oxygen bearing, oxidizing gas into the reaction vessel in amount sufficient to maintain a positive partial pressure of oxygen above the pressure autogenously generated by the temperature at which the reaction is conducted, the member of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and sulphur being present in the reaction mixture in amount sufficient to produce during the oxidation reaction a solution having a pH value Within the range of from about pH 1 to about pH 3, continuing the oxidation reaction to dissolve uranium values in the leach solution, and separating leach solution containing dissolved uranium values from the undissolved residue.
8. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material which comprises the steps of forming a slurry of finely divided uranium bearing material, at least one of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and elemental sulphur and an aqueous acid sulphate solution containing dissolved uranium values, heating the slurry to a temperature above about 80 C. in a closed reaction vessel, feeding an oxygen bearing, oxidizing gas into the reaction vessel in amount sufficient to maintain a positive partial pressure of oxygen above the pressure autogenously generated by the temperature at which the reaction is conducted, continuing the oxidation reaction to dissolve uranium values in the leach solution, separating leach solution containing dissolved uranium values from the undissolved residue, and returning solution containing dissolved uranium values to the leaching step of the method.
9. The method of extracting uranium values from uranium bearing starting material which comprises the steps of forming a slurry of finely divided uranium hearing material, at least one of the group consisting of mineral sulphides and elemental sulphur, and an aqueous solution of the group consisting of water and an aqueous acid sulphate solution, heating the slurry to and maintaining it at a temperature within the range of from about 80 C. to about 200 C. in a closed reaction vessel, feeding an oxygen bearing, oxidizing gas into the reaction vessel in amount suflicient to maintain a positive partial pressure of oxygen above the pressure autogenously generated by the temperature at which the reaction is conducted, continuing the oxidation reaction to dissolve uranium values in the leach solution, and separating leach solution containing dissolved uranium values from the undissolved residue.
References Cited in the file of this patent Lennemann: Engineering and Mining Journal, vol. 155, No. 9, page 104 (Sept. 1954).
1. THE METHOD OF EXTRACTING URANIUM VALUES FROM URAMIUM BEARING STARTING MATERIAL WHICH COMPRISES THE STEPS OF FORMING A SLURRY OF FINELY DIVIDED ISTING OF MINING MATERIAL, AT LEAST ONE OF THE GROUP CONSISTING OF MINERAL SULPHIDES AND ELEMENTAL SULPHUR, AND AN AQUEOUS SOLUTION, HEATING THE PULP MIXTURE TO A TEMPERATURE ABOVE ABOUT 80*C. IN A REACTION VESSEL, FEEDING AN OXYGEN BEARING, OXIDIZING GAS INTO THE REACTION VESSEL IN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO MAINTAIN A POSITIVE PARTIAL PRESSURE OF OXYGEN ABOVE THE PRESSURE AUTOGENOUSLY GENERATED BY THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH THE REACTION IS CONDUCTED, CONTINUING THE OXIDATION REACTION TO DISSOLVE URANIUM VALUES IN THE LEACH SOLUTION, AND SEPARATING LEACH SOLUTION CONTAINING DISSLOVED URANIUM VALUES FROM THE UNDISSOLVED RESIDUE.
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Well from these results it looks like Google Chrome is almost twice as fast as Mozilla Firefox 3.1a1 in its present form. Firefox trumps Chrome in the date tests and the regexp tests. In all the others Chrome outdoes Firefox by a huge margin.
Hopefully the final version that would be coming out of Mozilla will have better results.
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https://prosenjit23.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/google-chrome-performs-better-than-firefox-31-alpha-1-at-least-for-now/
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You are currently browsing the category archive for the ‘Scott Roley’ category.
Shared by esteban and the owner is his father. Thanks dad!!
His father purchased it in those days.
There is disc damage by hard use deterioration.
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Contemplating a new novel, I came across this essay I wrote a few years ago. There is mystery in life and writing and just everyday events. Perhaps this mystery is what makes us put each foot in front of the other. Perhaps this mystery is the seed of our gratitude.
Many are familiar with John O’Donohue, the Irish Poet/Priest/Philosopher. I wasn’t and didn’t hear of him until well after his death in January, 2008 at the age of 52. Coming upon him so late I realize what a marvelous voice has been stilled, but he did write a lot and spoke around the world. These writings and interviews are what we have left of this remarkable man, but they speak of deep and important issues of the heart. What I have cobbled together is partly from an NPR interview of a while ago and other readings of his works. His words speak deeply to my own lack of faith, lack of any religious belief except certain Shinto elements and a yearning for answers about the visible life around us and the possible connections to the invisible world we contemplate. I am also rethinking O’Donohue’s words in light of the issue of familial narcissism and what it wrought for a family. It is a daily exercise that makes visible that is, at one point, carefully covered over. Then no appeal to religion or civility can abate the wounding. The fruit of a very poisonous tree.
As a poet, what O’Donohue says about poetry went deep and broad for me.
O’Donohue’s words are in bold type, mine are in italics.
The more I’ve been thinking about this, the more it seems to me actually is that the visible world is the first shoreline of the invisible world. And the same way I believe with the body and the soul. That actually the soul — the body is in the soul, not the soul just in the body. And that in some way the poignancy of being a human being is that you are the place where the invisible becomes visible and expressive in some way.
This is a radical concept to my thinking…that the visible world is the first shoreline of the invisible world. But reading Celtic novels, especially something extended like “Mists of Avalon” certainly has this factor in the mix. Further, this statement: That the soul- the body is in the soul, not just in the body, makes sense if you follow Celtic Christianity.
Ireland was an important crucible of Celtic Christianity, merging a strong sense of mystery and transcendence with a passionate embrace of nature, the body, and the senses. The divine is understood as manifest as everywhere in everything. Perhaps this is best described as ‘animism’, or the belief of the soul or spirit in natural things, like rocks, trees, mountains, thunder, etc…not just residing in the human. For me, beyond this Celtic Christianity concept, I find it also resides in the Japanese Shinto religion and general mythology in the form of “kami’ or spirits residing in the same natural elements.
“Landscape” is a pivotal word, a defining feature of inner life as well as the outer physical world. For a while now, I have used this word, “landscape” in my own definition of thoughts of characters: however, his usage is much broader and more encompassing.
I think it makes a huge difference when you wake in the morning and come out of your house. Whether you believe you are walking into dead geographical location, which is used to get to a destination, or whether you are emerging out into a landscape that is just as much, if not more, alive as you but in a totally different form. And if you go towards it with an open heart and a real watchful reverence, that you will be absolutely amazed at what it will reveal to you. And I think that was one of the recognitions of the Celtic imagination: that landscape wasn’t just matter, but that it was actually alive. What amazes me about landscape, landscape recalls you into a mindful mode of stillness, solitude, and silence where you can truly receive time.
But I do think though that it’s not just a matter of the outer presence of the landscape. I mean, the dawn goes up and the twilight comes even in the most roughest inner-city place. And I think that connecting to the elemental can be a way of coming into rhythm with the universe that’s there. And I do think that there is a way in which the outer presence — even through memory or imagination — can be brought inward as a sustaining thing. I mean, I think that — and it’s the question of beauty you’re asking essentially. I mean, I think that as we are speaking, that there are individuals holding out on frontlines, holding the humane tissue alive in areas of ultimate barbarity, where things are visible that the human eye should never see. And they are able to sustain it, because there is in them some kind of sense of beauty that knows the horizon that we are really called to in some way. I love Pascal’s phrase, you know, that you should always “keep something beautiful in your mind.” And I have often — like in times when it’s been really difficult for me, if you can keep some kind of little contour that you can glimpse sideways at now and again, you can endure great bleakness.
Enduring great bleakness. I think he is talking about an existence we all face in different and daily ways. I see this as the physical environment surrounding us, those places where we fear the most, see with great trepidation, but also those deep emotional places where we have been wounded. These “keep something beautiful in your mind” allows us to survive those onslaughts. I believe this is part and parcel of being a writer: we have a world of words to fashion for a particular ‘comfort’ and defense.
O’Donohue said these words that seem to be the meat of the argument…at least to me.
“It’s strange to be here: the mystery never leaves you”. M. Scott Peck also said something that resonates this concept: “Life is strange”.
When you think about language and you think about consciousness, it’s just incredible to think that we can make any sounds that can reach over across to each other at all. Because I mean, I think we’re — I think the beauty of being human is that we’re incredibly, intimately near each other. We know about each other, but yet we do not know or never can know what it’s like inside another person. And it’s amazing, you know, here am I sitting in front of you now, looking at your face, you’re looking at mine and yet neither of us have ever seen our own faces. And that in some way, thought is the face that we put on the meaning that we feel and that we struggle with and that the world is always larger and more intense and stranger than our best thought will ever reach. And that’s the mystery of poetry, you know, is poetry tries to draw alongside the mystery as it’s emerging and somehow bring it into presence and into birth.
“Thought is the face that we put on the meaning that we feel”. Rather complex but astoundingly simple, too. I especially like these words about poetry, because I struggle to be a poet…or actually, the poet in me…that invisible thing makes struggle to manifest into the visible, i.e.: words, poetry. But more, poetry IS the mystery, or a part of the mystery, and makes it manifest.
And the mystery is also the Divine. Perhaps this is why the Divine is and remains a mystery because of so many aspects, faces. It remains a mystery because we can never know it all.
An ancient archetypal poem, the “Song of Amergin” illustrates the Celtic sense of a symbiotic and seamless relationship between the natural and the divine.
O’Donohue also writes that ‘everyone is an artist’.
I mean that everyone is involved whether they like it or not in the construction of their world. So, it’s never as given as it actually looks; you are always shaping it and building it. And I feel that from that perspective, that each of us is an artist. Secondly, I believe that everyone has imagination. That no matter how mature and adult and sophisticated a person might seem, that person is still essentially an ex-baby. And as children we all lived in an imaginal world. You know, when you’ve been told don’t cross that wall, ’cause there’s monsters over there, my god, the world you’d create on the other side of the wall.
When you’d ask questions like why is the sky blue or where does God live or you know all this kind of stuff. Like, one of the first times I was coming to America, I said to my little niece, who was seven, I said, ‘What will I bring you from America?’ She said, ‘Uhhhhh.’ And her father said, ‘No, ask him or you won’t get anything.’ And Katy turned to me and said, ‘What’s in it?’ Which I thought was a great question about America. So that childlike thing. And secondly, like that, every night when we sleep we dream, and a dream is a sophisticated, imaginative text full of figures and drama that we send to ourselves. So I believe that deep in the heart of each of us, there is this imagining, imaginal capacity that we have. So that we are all doing it.
I have to stop this entry because it could go on too long, and it’s a lot to take in, John O’Donohue’s words. Another time I will continue this, extend this, his fascinating words because there is much in them, and for me, it makes some very definite links: it explains some mystery that pulls on the heart and mind, regardless our religious or spiritual or philosophical beliefs.
There is a poem, the famous Cad Coddeu, (The Battle of the Trees) I believe Welsh, that I came across years ago when I first started to write a novel called “Devil’s Revenge” It is about the calling into battle of the trees, and it remains one of my favorites. The Battle of the Trees is a poem from the Book of Taliesin in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army. In a loose fashion, it illustrates some of this concept that O’Donohue is talking about: the soul residing in all natural phenomena , the animating force of life. What is especially delightful about this poem is the calling out of the individual qualities of each of the species. Anyone a bit familiar with trees will recognize these qualities of the different ‘woods’.
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2019-04-21T16:57:44Z
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Featuring the Zuckerman Institute's Rui Costa, DVM, PhD, and Nathaniel Sawtell, PhD.
Olympic figure skaters make it look easy. But their grace and power comes from years of training away from the cameras and crowds — practice that strengthens not only their bodies, but their minds. Controlling our bodies is one of most amazing and complicated things our brains do, and scientists have just begun to understand how they do it.
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Now listen, you lot. Don’t start ladling out blame, and labeling me a lax lout, or a lazy lump, who should have got the lead out, and composed a better post for the letter L.
I have my linguistic limits. I’ve been lying around on the porch lanai of a little cabin by the lake, and it got too late. I’ll tell you no lies; I bet you hoped there’d be none of these loopy posts this year.
Fountain, where are all the people?
I don’t know, Barbecue. We used to be the center of entertainment. They cooked meat and roasted corn on you, and splashed fingers and sailed little boats on me. They had picnics. They enjoyed the sunshine and fresh air. They laughed, and talked, and joked, and played out here.
I fear we’ve been abandoned. Now they’re trapped inside, not merely the house but their heads also. It’s not healthy!
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https://archonsden.wordpress.com/tag/laughter/
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Chimeli,A.B and Souza-Filho,F.A. (2004) “Climate and rain-fed agriculture in Cear´a: Econometric analysis of the effect of climate on the production and price of corn and beans”, In: Integrated management of water resources and climate forecasting: from information and climatic prediction to the reduction of vulnerability to droughts in Cear´a’s semi-arid region. Report IV: Application of Socio-Economic Models., International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. (In Portuguese).
Pfaff, A. and Chimeli,A.B (2004) “Elaboration and Analysis of Water Management Policies”, In: Integrated management of water resources and climate forecasting: from information and climatic prediction to the reduction of vulnerability to droughts in Cear´a’s semi-arid region. Report VI: Elaboration and analysis of public policies. International Research Institute for Climate Prediction.
Chimeli, A.B. (1999) “Construction of an Index of Impact of Industry on Water Pollution for the Piracicaba River Basin, MG, Brazil”. Bureau of Economic and Business Research. Working Paper 99-0129 # 21. (Best graduate paper, UIUC, department of economics).
Chimeli, A.B., J.B. Braden and K.J. Han (1999) “An Economic Measure of National Environmental Stringency”. Program in Environmental and Resource Economics (pERE), UIUC, Working Paper # 21.
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It’s all about fall and winter, I just love those seasons and can’t wait for them to finally arrive. It’s the time, where I feel settled down, relaxed … indulge my pensive mind, my melancholia has free space. It’s the time, where I more than ever enjoy wearing my perfumes, the musky ones, the vanilla takes over, jasmine is my friend. I am not good at describing scents at all, so I won’t even try. Every single perfume I own, reminds me of something, be it a place, person or a happy moment. I like to wallow in memories, the good ones. Scents make me forget the sadness, the negativity, the pain. I like the romantic and quite naive idea of positive sadness, that one, the fall and winter seasons reveal with the days becoming darker, the lights, the stars (yes, I am like that).
Guerlain Shalimar is my first choice every year to kinda celebrate the end of summer (omg). It makes me feel … just good, comfortable in my own skin, makes me dream (so, basically, every perfume makes me dream about something tbh). It reminds me of a left alone place, where I can just be myself, enjoy the silence, take a long walk. Have worn it a lot last year, so it also makes me feel strong now, like nothing can take over me and bring me down (ha, so I wish). I am enjoying my life again, this scent got a lot of new, positive memories I can go back to whenever I want. Beside my signature scent, Brecourt Haram (renamed in Farah now), which has a special meaning to me, Guerlain Shalimar is my, maybe second most worn scent.
I like to collect scents, for me it’s more like collecting positive memories. When a scent does not remind me of anything, I can’t wear it, on the other side, when a scent reminds me of something bad, I toss it, because it will bring back my memories to those feelings, everytime. As it happens, I also have the lipstick.
I don’t like pink on myself that much, don’t know why to be honest. Guerlain Rouge Automatique 166 Shalimar, is one of the very few I actually like wearing. I love how forgiving the jelly texture is on my dry flakes. Yes, I have weird shadows on my face (two of them are scars actually, the rest just some shadows, took picture at night), my front teeth aren’t straight nor super white, I am not perfect … I don’t have to be. I dyed my hair something dark (washed out red with some death bleached something in between), it was a reddish-purple before and the picture is not showing it but it still is something red and purple. Going to my hairdresser next month though and I will see what work appropriate hair colour I get. Also sans makeup, only Shu Uemura Stage Performer and Shalimar. Are you ready for fall?
I really love the drydown on Shalimar! Apparently Guerlain makes a flavored tea based on it, which I’m convinced must be the best thing ever.
Shalimar is awesome, and a tea? how amazing is that?!
I like the story behind Shalimar but I can’t do the fragrance. Or I couldn’t. I had an EDT bottle but ended up swapping it away. I couldn’t agree more that all the worthy scents are intertwined with some memories. It is fascinating yet sad that we cannot control this.
I really love the lipstick color on you. Just so pretty.
thank you lena. I love the stories behind a perfume, I think it is my romantic soul that demands all the things. It is sad indeed, that we cannot control it, I have thrown away a lot of stuff, but now have an excuse to go and shop all the new things, haha.
hi lily, it can be the humidity indeed. I like perfumes with a strong base, also, I have been discovering the florals and sweet scent for me lately. rouge automatiques are my fav lippies, I like to collect them for some reason, love the packaging as well.
thank you sunny. it’s always nice to have those things that have a special place in our heart. and if dr. d loves it on you, what would you want you more eh? love shalimar.
Wonderful post, Claire. I love when a fragrance becomes totally yours and evokes special memories from deep within. And that RA! You wear it beautifully, too.
thank you. shalimar is one of the very few pinks I like on myself.
haha, thank you. the jelly texture of those rouge automatiques is the best ever and those shades are just right up my alley, especially the reds.
Beautiful post, Claire. Shalimar is on my list of beautiful fragrances to try some day, although I suspect I will not be able to carry it off. I agree that scents that are tied to memories are an elevated experience.
hi larie, I am so much into scents right now. hope you get a chance to try it out soon. I like those heavy fragrances all year round actually.
I really like the photo you posted. It is amazing that you don’t have makeup on other than the lipstick, your face looks perfect. Why do you apologize for it? Lovely lips too, and I love your hair. I always wanted Shalimar lipstick, but I was carried away by the limited editions, so never came to pick that one up. That should change soon, especially after this lovely post.
hi sara, the shu uemura stage performer blurrs the pores and photographs beautifully, adds a nice glow as well. after reading this post I asked myself the same, question, why apologizing, lol. guerlain makes amazing limited editions, you should try shalimar some day, it is a great lipstick.
You’ve got enviable lips, claire!! Gosh darn it. Show your whole face pls! (girl crushin’ much, Shari?) Love Shalimar on you! I think you rock pinks well 🙂 You have no makeup on ‘cept the lipstick and Shu Stage Performer? Girl, share your skincare secrets!
thank you shari. I keep it simple with skincare, works the best for me. will do a post soon. I don’t know what that is about pinks, but I just don’t think they suit me. I love fuchsia though.
You look lovely in that pic, fellow partial-face blogger. 😉 I really like some of the Shalimar incarnations but can’t keep up with all the changes. The last one I liked was the extra vanilla one but it was gone before I could decide whether I wanted a bottle or not. A friend sent me a decant of a vintage EDP but I can’t make myself use even a tiny bit of it, it feels so precious.
The lipstick definitely suits you quite well. I am sorry that you have to get a “work appropriate hair colour”, I feel your pain on that sort of thing!
I just found out about Shalimar while researching for classic scents. I love it!
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https://aucupariabrumalis.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/guerlain-shalimar/
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These guys are not easy to get photos of they move so fast, but here are a few that I did manage to get!
Photos from a few days ago.
Im going to try to get more pics in a few days. They are so cute but soooo fast!
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Just curious. Of course I have my opinion, you could expect no less from me, but I’ve never really talked with anyone about it to get other opinions. So, I thought a brief poll was in order.
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The above picture of the moon was taken by The Farmhouse on a mobile phone through our Astronomer Richard Darn’s telescope.
The Farmhouse is blessed with beautiful night skies and we are delighted to offer our ‘Gaze & Graze’ evening combining a sumptuous dinner from our barn with an evening with your very own expert astronomer, Richard Darn.
The North York Moors National Park is one of England’s darkest areas and spectacular on clear nights! On a clear night you will see up to 2,000 stars and the majestic Milky Way arching over-head together with star clusters, galaxies and spectacular shooting stars. It’s perfect for just sitting back and enjoying one of Mother Nature’s finest shows.
During this event you will get to study our nearest celestial neighbour in all its glory. The moon will be in the ideal position and phase to view incredible mountains ranges and deep craters. Learn about this alien world which welcomed the first humans aboard Apollo 11 a half century ago. We’ll have telescopes at the ready and encourage you to take a picture using your smartphone (see image above for example) and go on a tour of the spring sky. Plus there’ll be a colourful interactive talk and a chance to handle space rocks over four billion years old!
The above picture of the moon was taken by The Farmhouse on a mobile phone through Richard Darn’s telescope.
Wrap up warm and enjoy stunning views.
8.15 – 9.30pm The Moon Gazing Begins……Richard Darn will talk you through the nights sky, including the stars and the moon before heading outside to navigate the nights skies with the help of his telescope.
9.30-9.45pm Hot Drinks & Toddies and toasted marshmallows.
Children over 14 years are welcome.
We hope you can join us for our Gaze and Graze evening on Friday 12th April!
Astronomer-led Stargazing and good food!
The Farmhouse is blessed with beautiful dark night skies and we are delighted to offer our guests ‘gaze & stay’ packages combining a sumptuous dinner with a private two-hour star gazing session with your very own expert astronomer.
The North York Moors National Park is one of England’s darkest areas and spectacular on clear nights! You will see up to 2,000 stars and the majestic Milky Way arching over-head together with star clusters, galaxies and spectacular shooting stars. It’s perfect for just sitting back and enjoying one of Mother Nature’s finest shows.
Wrap up warm and enjoy stunning views!
Weather permitting, we will endeavour to provide a wonderfully warming meal, alfresco, with the comfort of fire pits, sheepskins and blankets. However, the star gazing is done over 2 hours and you will need plenty of layers.
cancelled – we would of course offer a full refund of the ‘Star Gazing’ package including the astronomer-led dark sky event and food as provided by The Farmhouse. Please note that the separate cost of accommodation should be honoured.
The night skies are only at their best between Autumn and Spring and so there is no star gazing available from the start of May to the end of September.
Star gazing is subject to the availability of the astronomers with whom we work.
Unfortunately, we are only able to offer private star gazing packages for parties of 2 people or more.
All our star gazing evenings include Canapes, a hearty meal with wine and one of our delicious Farmhouse Pudds, finished with homemade marshmallows, hot chocolate and your favourite tipple.
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Oh the pressure! The opening and closing shows for Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week are usually the most anticipated and highest profile. This year, the grand finale honour was granted to designer Namrata Joshipura whose signature silhouettes include red carpet gowns as well as barely there bodysuits.
Two designers were inspired by Kashmir for AW 2014/15: Zubair Kirmani and Mrilnalini. It was great to see how the same inspiration can produce such different results. Zubair’s collection was feminine indulgence and prettiness whereas Mrilnalini had a utilitarian approach.
A few designers at Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week were inspired by the concept of a free spirited bohemian, vintage loving traveller.
Anita Dongre’s Jaipur bride muse made Europe her playground for AW 2014. Gorgeous tousled hair, peacock eyes and tassels were the continuing thread in an altogether beautiful collection. The European reference didn’t come across as strong as the designer may have wanted as the prints and overall styling as very Indian ethnic. Perhaps the Jaipur bride decided to park herself in Andalucia?
‘Dark Gives Balance’ was the title of Soltee by Sulakshana Monga’s show for AW 2014. A collection that was dominated by nudes, browns and golden tones, the looks that were presented were glamorous and bold. Including floor sweeping gowns, menswear and flatteringly draped separates, the collection had only good times in mind.
Designer Charu Prashar’s collection was full of dramatic geometric patterns and body contouring silhouettes for confident women. Cobalt blue was the predominant shade paired with black for maximum drama.
Ashima-Leena’s collection inspiration is the tried and tested journey down the old silk route. I say this not to criticise but to emphasise that it remains fertile ground and has provided centuries of ideas to creatives.
Shantanu & Nikhil are incredibly talented designers with impeccable attention to detail. Their latest collection was inspired by timeless vintage travel. The powder, blush and antique rose and apricot hues reminisced British colonial times. Lace was the dominant detail and it was especially striking on the fingerless gloves worn by all the models.
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Camouflage Quite unique: the tail looks like a three-color camouflage in a disruptive pattern (no mottle). The wing appears to be polished or gloss-painted. The fuselage appears to be painted in the middle color used on the tail.
Remarks Unclear whether the picture is taken in the UK, or in Germany. The man studying the nose looks very civilian, suggesting the former.
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How can i detox from marijuana fast without spending any money or for a cheap cost?
Can i give my five month porridge and then go back to nun my milk is out?
What could be the reason for my constant dizziness/vertigo?
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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on Venugopal’s activity in 2014. You may start scrolling!
There were 2 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 27 KB.
The busiest day of the year was February 12th with 119 views. The most popular post that day was How To Limit Words and Characters in content Wordpress.
In 2014, there were 10 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 29 posts.
These are the posts that got the most views on Venugopal in 2014.
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It’s been one week since I turned in the revisions on the Cleveland’s Burning script along with the updates to its show bible, and I am finally feeling like I’ve recouped some of the energy that it had taken out of me for the last 8 weeks.
For me, it’s easier to write a script from scratch, than to tailor revisions of it to someone else’s suggestions. I don’t mind doing re-writes at all; it’s just that you have to remain creative, remain true to your initial vision, and above all, be an all-out mind reader: What do they really want?
All right! So it’s turned in, and we’ll see what the follow-up notes reveal. In the meantime, I have revisions to make on the next TV Pilot script, which is “movie-of-the-week” length (MOW). It’s also connected to a series of mystery books I’ll be writing, all of it falling under the general banner of The Tea Cozy Murder Club. So I took a week off to just let my brain think about all of it and let all the ideas have free rein.
And while I did that, I spent some time getting off the grid. I’m lucky in that I am in that age range that falls at the very tail-end of “Baby Boomer but Not Yet Elderly”! And because of that, I am not someone who is addicted to being online. I don’t give much of a hoot about social media, I don’t like games or apps, and I don’t have a preference between watching something on TV or streaming it on my iPad. Etc., etc. I turn off my gadgets at night, including the power strip. I turn off the WiFi, data, and the ringer on my iPhone. Stuff like that. I like peace. When it comes to technology, I can pretty much take everything as well as leave everything.
However, one thing that does bother me, a lot, is how online tech stuff is leading increasingly to erosion of privacy and to control of information.
My colleagues in England frequently tell me about serious news developments in the UK that are not carried here. And I am beyond indescribably sick of most of the news in the US being about Trump, pro or con. It’s not actually “news.” Anyone who remembers Cronkite or Huntley/Brinkley, etc., knows that none of this stuff is “news;” it’s subterfuge, sleight-of-hand, gathering of eyes for advertisers, etc. So I spent my leisure time browsing around france24, RT, Al Jazeera, ZeroHedge, AEI, places like that, then comparing what I found covered on those sites with what makes it onto the BBC, and then trying to find any (if not all) of that stuff on the main online news carriers here in the US.
Staggering — what most Americans are not reading about.
Oh, and before I forget! Another interesting “news” source in this country is the National Enquirer!! I’m so serious.
My ex-husband used to be good friends with a woman whose mother was the Editor-in-Chief of the National Enquirer. And because that magazine has been sued in the past for libel and lost millions and millions of dollars, it has to be exceedingly careful about the stories it prints (aka: “the people it pays to give them gossip”). Granted, sometimes it runs stories that use language like “it could have looked like this,” or “it might have been something like that.” Language that is, at best, asking for a conclusion on the part of the reader! But if you read the NE, or at least the weekly headlines in the grocery store checkout line — consistently — over time , after a week, or a month, or a year, or maybe several years — whoop, there it is! All out in the open. Almost verbatim to some past NE headline.
Anyway. It really is interesting what you can find out about your life, your community, your country, your world, by taking a look behind whatever it is they want you to look at!
Okay! A word to the wise is sufficient. Thanks for visiting, gang!! Have a terrific Monday, wherever it leads you. See ya!
They said it couldn’t be done!! But, YES, I have finally completed the revisions on Cleveland’s Burning.
That awesome editor in NYC, Iris N. Schwartz, will edit it a final time tomorrow so that I can finally send it back to L.A.
So I think I will!!
I know, I know! You keep coming to visit the blog and I keep not being here!
That’s only because I am ALMOST, ALMOST, ALMOST done with the re-writes on the Cleveland’s Burning TV pilot script! Hallelujah!!
I did want to quickly mention here, though, that this coming Friday is not only St. Paddy’s Day, but also the birthdays of all 8 (!!) of my little critters!
Cat in the Hat birthday cake!
Weenie, getting ready to be 4 !!
As always, if you click on the photo, it gets larger.
Okay, gang. More on the birthday stuff later this week. I seriously gotta scoot! Thanks for visiting! See ya’ real soon!
I know, I know — it practically looks the same around here, but for now, I’m keeping my “free” WordPress blog and this was the best I could do, for free.
Unfortunately, this above-mentioned drop-down menu doesn’t seem to work for tablets or smart phones, even though I’ve been assured that the blog has been optimized for mobile viewing…Sorry.
I was going to include a MailChimp sign-up for my monthly newsletter (I don’t have a monthly newsletter, but eventually will, I suppose), but the free blog only allows me to make it a “pop-up” sign-up, which I find indescribably annoying– and I know you would, too! So the MailChimp sign-up for my non-existent monthly newsletter has been disabled, indefinitely.
All right, gang! I gotta get back to the Cleveland’s Burning script while the coffee is still piping hot. Have a terrific Saturday, whatever you’re doing and wherever you are! Thanks for visiting. See ya!
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In the subterranean garage at work sits a lonely bike. A poor Reid hybrid. Nice Aussie bike, well set up with flat bars – perfect for commuting. It’s actually a bit of a pain, as it’s front-wheel into the rack, which means it tends to fall over when knocked.
It’s been there for over six months now. Never moved. Has it been abandoned? I wonder who the owner is, and why they gave up on it. How are they getting to work? Since we moved house in December, my commute now takes me across Iron Cove Bridge. Depending on how I’m feeling, I can either take the back streets, ride around the Bay Run, or scoot straight down Victoria Road from Drummoyne. The latter is the fastest, so it’s what I do in the morning if I’m running a bit late. It’s super easy; there’s a bus lane all the way, so I just fly along.
Of course, there are a few buses, but usually I can squeeze past them at the bus stops, so they don’t hold me up much. But what is truly extraordinary are the lanes devoted to cars. Three or four pretty much stationary lines of vehicles all the way from Drummoyne to Anzac Bridge (and frequently across the bridge too). One day I am going to count the number of cars I go past on the way to work. It must be hundreds. I’m tempted to say thousands, but one other astonishing thing about these jams is just how few cars there actually are.
It’s a distance of about three kilometres, so if each car takes up ten metres of road, that’s about 300 cars per lane – say 900 in total. Each car only has one person in it, so that’s less than one thousand people sitting there, clogging up a huge amount of road. I’m in awe of these people. They sit there patiently for hours in the morning, day after day. Jeez, I would go crazy if I had to do that. As it is, I’m past them all in less then ten minutes, whereas it must take them the best part of an hour to cover the same distance.
Maybe I should tell one of them about the orphaned bike in our work garage. Perhaps they could make the owner an offer, and get the poor thing out in the sunshine again – and save themselves a couple of hours a day in commuting time.
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When we first started the site, many moons ago, and were looking for things to add, I made a couple photo pages of Amy & Alec with the intent to add more like them. Well I haven't yet, but may start up again on that. For now its just Amy & Alec in their younger years.
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It was today in 1990 that Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal to build the Worldwide Web. It is such a recent part of history and yet so ubiquitous today that there is already a generation of young ones not too clear on whether there was a world without wifi and the Internet.
In 2014 today is when the Philae lander reached comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko after a 10 year journey to reach its destination.
It’s also the birthday today of Les McKeown (1955) of the Bay City Rollers, so here the group is singing Remember. Does anyone remember them?
In Poland today our four-footed friends are discussing conditions for discussions, which is very meta of them.
Hili: A discussion about serious matters requires conditions which allow one to concentrate.
Cyrus: I agree with you absolutely.
Hili: Dyskusja o poważnych sprawach wymaga warunków pozwalających na skupienie się.
Cyrus: Całkowicie się z tobą zgadzam.
Carol has also sent us a couple of gorgeous photos to start the morning.
Two pics: Gus sleeping blissfully but with a couple slightly muddy toes and a bonus Fred checking out some peanuts I left for him.
This entry was written by whyevolutionistrue and posted on November 12, 2016 at 6:30 am and filed under Hili Dialogue. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
I remember the Bay City Rollers and ‘Remember’ is representative of their talent. The girls went crazy for them!
I remember the Bay City Rollers too. A lot of my friends were crazy for them, but I was more a BeeGees kind of girl.
Hili and Cyrus have clearly achieved the most comfortable physical positions ready for discussion!
…but I was more a BeeGees kind of girl.
A young lady of good taste! The Bay City Rollers were an embarrassment to us Scots.
The World Wide Web? How can something with an abbreviation that is three times longer than the words ever succeed?
I remember when millions of men and women were represented by strong unions.
I remember back in the ’80s one of our newly hired engineers demonstrated digital connectivity by dialing up the computer at his alma mater and allowing us to listen to the bleeps coming back over the line. He announced that soon we’d all be connected in a network where information would flow like current through a circuit board. DOS was pretty new at that point so it taxed your imagination.
Of course, too today, it is the 201st birthday of just a common worker … … who happened to have been, as well, a custodial mama of seven and … … of untold billions, Ms Elizabeth Cady (Stanton): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton.
I believe Bay City was what we referred to as Bubble Gum.
Happened to be going thru Lapham’s Quarterly as this one is all about Alexander Hamilton. I would offer on page 35, the opening of Hamilton’s reply which detailed his affair with Maria Reynolds and subsequent blackmail scheme.
1797 – Philadelphia. Comparison of quality of writing and intellect with today’s politician is impossible to find.
Cool site. Of course I remember the Rollers! Very bubble gummy, though.
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Welcome to Jessica Uhl and Kelli’s Uhl website.
Jessica and Kelli were killed on November 23, 2007 when an Illinois State Trooper, travelling 126 MPH, crossed the median and slammed into their car, killing them instantly.
Jessica was a freshman at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. She was pursuing a career in marketing and public relations.
Kelli was in 8th grade at Collinsville Middle School. She was a cheerleader and a member of the National Junior Honor Society.
They left behind their mother and father, step-mother and step-father, a sister and a brother, and many uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins and friends.
To celebrate their lives, a fundraiser will be held on July 13, 2008 at the KC Hall in Caseyville, Illinois. Tickets are $20 per person, which include dinner, dancing, a DJ, silent auction, raffles, door prizes, and much more.
You can request tickets through here by leaving a comment, or by email at jesskelli1123@yahoo.com.
All proceeds benefit the Jessica Uhl Scholarship Fund at SIUE, the CMS/CHS Cheerleaders, and other organizations.
This website was created, not only as a source of information for their fundraiser, but also a place where friends, family, or perfect strangers can post stories, comments, thoughts, pictures, or memories about Jessica and Kelli.
Although they were taken from us suddenly, we can remember them here.
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Working with the theme of ‘If Not Here Where’ in the context of ‘Why would you rather be anywhere else?’ the work emerged from reflection on a turbulent few years, the emotional ties of loss, birth, displacement and regeneration. Based upon my own emotional state the work reflects the ongoing dialogue between heart and mind. My practice is spent developing a personal iconography that I envisage building into cumalitive pieces. For now these emerging icons stand alone.
The emotional feeling radiating from ones vital organ is hidden by a facade of flesh and sinews, therefore masking the truth of our desires and losses. Place the emotional rangal aside for one moment and bring forth the question. What is your flight of fancy?
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Hearing aids are used for a variety of pathologies including sensorineural hearing loss, conductive hearing loss, and single-sided deafness. Hearing aid candidacy is typically determined by a Doctor of Audiology, who will also fit the device based on the nature and degree of the hearing loss being treated. The amount of benefit experienced by the user of the hearing aid is multi-factorial, depending on the type, severity, and etiology of the hearing loss, the technology and fitting of the device, and on the motivation, personality, lifestyle, and overall health of the user.
Hearing aids are incapable of truly correcting a hearing loss; they are an aid to make sounds more audible. The most common form of hearing loss for which hearing aids are sought is sensorineural, resulting from damage to the hair cells and synapses of the cochlea and auditory nerve. Sensorineural hearing loss reduces the sensitivity to sound, which a hearing aid can partially accommodate by making sound louder. Other decrements in auditory perception caused by sensorineural hearing loss, such as abnormal spectral and temporal processing, and which may negatively affect speech perception, are more difficult to compensate for using digital signal processing and in some cases may be exacerbated by the use of amplification.[page needed] Conductive hearing losses, which do not involve damage to the cochlea, tend to be better treated by hearing aids; the hearing aid is able to sufficiently amplify sound to account for the attenuation caused by the conductive component. Once the sound is able to reach the cochlea at normal or near-normal levels, the cochlea and auditory nerve are able to transmit signals to the brain normally.
There are several ways of evaluating how well a hearing aid compensates for hearing loss. One approach is audiometry which measures a subject's hearing levels in laboratory conditions. The threshold of audibility for various sounds and intensities is measured in a variety of conditions. Although audiometric tests may attempt to mimic real-world conditions, the patient's own every day experiences may differ. An alternative approach is self-report assessment, where the patient reports their experience with the hearing aid.
The most reliable method for assessing the correct adjustment of a hearing aid is through real ear measurement. Real ear measurements (or probe microphone measurements) are an assessment of the characteristics of hearing aid amplification near the ear drum using a silicone probe tube microphone.
Body worn aids were the first portable electronic hearing aids, and were invented by Harvey Fletcher while working at Bell Laboratories. Body aids consist of a case and an earmold, attached by a wire. The case contains the electronic amplifier components, controls and battery, while the earmold typically contains a miniature loudspeaker. The case is typically about the size of a pack of playing cards and is carried in a pocket or on a belt. Without the size constraints of smaller hearing devices, body worn aid designs can provide large amplification and long battery life at a lower cost. Body aids are still used in emerging markets because of their relatively low cost.
Behind the ear hearing aids are one of two major classes of hearing aids - Behind the ear (BTE) and In the ear (ITE). These two classes are distinguished by where the hearing aid is worn. BTE hearing aids consist of a case which hangs behind the pinna. The case is attached to an earmold or dome tip by a traditional tube, slim tube, or wire. The tube or wire courses from the superior-ventral portion of the pinna to the concha, where the ear mold or dome tip inserts into the external auditory canal. The case contains the electronics, controls, battery, and microphone(s).The loudspeaker, or receiver, may be housed in the case (traditional BTE) or in the earmold or dome tip (receiver-in-the-canal, or RIC). The RIC style of BTE hearing aid is often smaller than a traditional BTE and more commonly used in more active populations.
BTEs are generally capable of providing more output and may therefore be indicated for more severe degrees of hearing loss. However, BTEs are very versatile and can be used for nearly any kind of hearing loss. BTEs come in a variety of sizes, ranging from a small, "mini BTE," to larger, ultra-power devices. Size typically depends on the output level needed, the location of the receiver, and the presence or absence of a telecoil. BTEs are durable, easy to repair, and often have controls and battery doors that are easier to manipulate. BTEs are also easily connected to assistive listening devices, such as FM systems and induction loops. BTEs are commonly worn by children who need a durable type of hearing aid.
In the ear aids (ITE) devices fit in the outer ear bowl (called the concha). Being larger, these are easier to insert and can hold extra features. They are sometimes visible when standing face to face with someone. ITE hearing aids are custom made to fit each individual's ear. They can be used in mild to some severe hearing losses. Feedback, a squealing/whistling caused by sound (particularly high frequency sound) leaking and being amplified again, may be a problem for severe hearing losses. Some modern circuits are able to provide feedback regulation or cancellation to assist with this. Venting may also cause feedback. A vent is a tube primarily placed to offer pressure equalization. However, different vent styles and sizes can be used to influence and prevent feedback. Traditionally, ITEs have not been recommended for young children because their fit could not be as easily modified as the earmold for a BTE, and thus the aid had to be replaced frequently as the child grew. However, there are new ITEs made from a silicone type material that mitigates the need for costly replacements. ITE hearing aids can be connected wirelessly to FM systems, for instance with a body-worn FM receiver with induction neck-loop which transmits the audio signal from the FM transmitter inductively to the telecoil inside the hearing instrument.
Mini in canal (MIC) or completely in canal (CIC) aids are generally not visible unless the viewer looks directly into the wearer's ear. These aids are intended for mild to moderately severe losses. CICs are usually not recommended for people with good low-frequency hearing, as the occlusion effect is much more noticeable. Completely-in-the-canal hearing aids fit tightly deep in the ear. It barely visible. Being small, it will not have a directional microphone, and its small batteries will have a short life, and the batteries and controls may be difficult to manage. Its position in the ear prevents wind noise and makes it easier to use phones without feedback. In-the-canal hearing aids are placed deep in the ear canal. They are barely visible. Larger versions of these can have directional microphones. Being in the canal, they are less likely to cause a plugged feeling. These models are easier to manipulate than the smaller completely in-the-canal models but still have the drawbacks of being rather small.
In-the-ear hearing aids are typically more expensive than behind-the-ear counterparts of equal functionality, because they are custom fitted to the patient's ear. In fitting, the audiologist takes a physical impression (mold) of the ear. The mold is scanned by a specialized CAD system, resulting in a 3D model of the outer ear. During modeling, the venting tube is inserted. The digitally modeled shell is printed using a rapid prototyping technique such as stereolithography. Finally, the aid is assembled and shipped to the audiologist after a quality check.
Invisible in canal hearing aids (IIC) style of hearing aids fits inside the ear canal completely, leaving little to no trace of an installed hearing aid visible. This is because it fits deeper in the canal than other types, so that it is out of view even when looking directly into the ear bowl (concha). A comfortable fit is achieved because the shell of the aid is custom-made to the individual ear canal after taking a mould. Invisible hearing aid types use venting and their deep placement in the ear canal to give a more natural experience of hearing. Unlike other hearing aid types, with the IIC aid the majority of the ear is not blocked (occluded) by a large plastic shell. This means that sound can be collected more naturally by the shape of the ear, and can travel down into the ear canal as it would with unassisted hearing. Depending on their size, some models allow the wearer to use a mobile phone as a remote control to alter memory and volume settings, instead of taking the IIC out to do this. IIC types are most suitable for users up to middle age, but are not suitable for more elderly people.
A CROS hearing aid is a hearing aid that transmits auditory information from one side of the head to the other side of the head. Candidates include people who have poor word understanding on one side, no hearing on one side, or who are not benefiting from a hearing aid on one side. CROS hearing aids can appear very similar to behind the ear hearing aids. The CROS system can assist the patient in sound localization and understanding auditory information on their poor side.
A bone anchored hearing aid (BAHA) is an auditory prosthetic based on bone conduction which can be surgically implanted. It is an option for patients without external ear canals, when conventional hearing aids with a mold in the ear cannot be used. The BAHA uses the skull as a pathway for sound to travel to the inner ear. For people with conductive hearing loss, the BAHA bypasses the external auditory canal and middle ear, stimulating the functioning cochlea. For people with unilateral hearing loss, the BAHA uses the skull to conduct the sound from the deaf side to the side with the functioning cochlea.
These 'hearing glasses' incorporate a directional microphone capability: four microphones on each side of the frame effectively work as two directional microphones, which are able to discern between sound coming from the front and sound coming from the sides or back of the user. This improves the signal-to-noise ratio by allowing for amplification of the sound coming from the front, the direction in which the user is looking, and active noise control for sounds coming from the sides or behind. Only very recently has the technology required become small enough to be fitted in the frame of the glasses. As a recent addition to the market, this new hearing aid is currently available only in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The principle of HAA operation corresponds to the basic principles of operation of traditional hearing aids: the microphone receives an acoustic signal and converts it into a digital form. Sound amplification is achieved by the means of a mobile computational platform, in accordance with the degree and type of users hearing loss. The processed audio signal is transformed into audio signal and output to the user into the headphones/headset. Signal processing is implemented in real time.
Constructional features of mobile computational platforms imply preferred use of stereo headsets with two speakers, which allows carrying out binaural hearing correction for the left and right ear separately. HAA can work with both wired and wireless headsets and headphones.
As a rule, HAA have several operation modes: setup mode and hearing aid mode. Setup mode involves the user passing an in situ-audiometry procedure, which determines the user's hearing characteristics. Hearing aid mode is a hearing correction system that corrects the user's hearing in accordance with user's hearing thresholds. HAA also incorporates background noise suppression and acoustic feedback suppression.
There are quite a large number of mobile applications that implements a hearing aid. An example of such application is the Petralex hearing aid application. Petralex application is a popular hearing aid application (Microsoft Inspire 2017 P2P contest winner) that takes into account the surrounding acoustic environment and independently adjusts itself to the user's hearing characteristics, allowing the user to hear better. This application allows the user to create individual profiles for various acoustic environments (street, house, etc.). Application also works with both wired and wireless headphones and headsets.
Functionality of hearing aid applications may involve a hearing test (in situ audiometry) too. However, the results of the test are used only to adjust the device for comfortable working with the application. The procedure of hearing testing in any way cannot claim to replace an audiometry test carried out by a medical specialist, so cannot be a basis for diagnosis.
Oticon hearing aids for use with Bluetooth wireless devices.
A T-coil consists of a metal core (or rod) around which ultra-fine wire is coiled. T-coils are also called induction coils because when the coil is placed in a magnetic field, an alternating electric current is induced in the wire (Ross, 2002b; Ross, 2004). The T-coil detects magnetic energy and transduces (converts) it to electrical energy. In the United States, the Telecommunications Industry Association's TIA-1083 standard, specifies how analog handsets can interact with telecoil devices, to ensure the optimal performance.
In 2003, the FCC adopted rules to make digital wireless telephones compatible with hearing aids and cochlear implants. Although analog wireless phones do not usually cause interference with hearing aids or cochlear implants, digital wireless phones often do because of electromagnetic energy emitted by the phone's antenna, backlight, or other components. The FCC has set a timetable for the development and sale of digital wireless telephones that are compatible with hearing aids. This effort promises to increase the number of digital wireless telephones that are hearing aid-compatible. Older generations of both cordless and mobile phones used analog technology.
A hearing aid with an audio boot.
Every electronic hearing aid has at minimum a microphone, a loudspeaker (commonly called a receiver), a battery, and electronic circuitry. The electronic circuitry varies among devices, even if they are the same style. The circuitry falls into three categories based on the type of audio processing (analog or digital) and the type of control circuitry (adjustable or programmable). Hearing aid devices generally do not contain processors strong enough to process complex signal algorithms for sound source localization.
Personal Sound Amplification Products (abbreviated PSAP) are classified by the FDA as "personal sound amplification devices." These compact electronic devices are designed for people without hearing loss. Unlike hearing aids (which FDA classifies as devices to compensate for hearing impairment) use of PSAP does not require medical prescription. Such devices are used by hunters, naturalists (for audio observation of animals or birds), ordinary people (for example, to increase the volume of the TV in a quiet room), etc. PSAP models differ significantly in price and functionality. Some devices simply amplify sound. Others contain directional microphones, equalizers to adjust the audio signal gain and filter noise.
The first hearing aids were ear trumpets, and were created in the 17th century. Some of the first hearing aids were external hearing aids. External hearing aids directed sounds in front of the ear and blocked all other noises. The apparatus would fit behind or in the ear.
The movement toward modern hearing aids began with the creation of the telephone, and the first electric hearing aid, the "akouphone," was created about 1895 by Miller Reese Hutchison. By the late 20th century, digital hearing aids were commercially available.
The history of DHA can be divided into three stages. The first stage – the widespread usage of computer simulation for the analysis of systems and algorithms for audio processing. The work was conducted with the help of the "big" computer of that time. Although they could not claim to be a real hearing aids (their performance was not enough for audio processing in real time – not to mention the size), they carried out successful studies of the various hardware circuits and algorithms for processing audio signals. The software package BLODI (stands for Block of Compiled Diagrams) developed by Kelly, Lockbaum and Vysotskiy in 1961 allowed to simulate any sound system provided in the form of a block diagram. With its help a special phone for users with hearing impairments was created. In 1967, Harry Levitt used BLODI to simulate a hearing aid on a digital computer.
Hearing aids are also available privately, and there is grant assistance available for insured workers. Currently for the fiscal year ending 2016, the grant stands at a maximum of €500 per ear.
Ordinary hearing aids are Class I regulated medical devices under Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules. A 1976 statute explicitly prohibits any state requirement that is "different from, or in addition to, any requirement applicable" to regulated medical devices (which includes hearing aids) which relates "to the safety and effectiveness of the device." Inconsistent state regulation is preempted under the federal law. In the late 1970s, the FDA established federal rules governing hearing aid sales, and addressed various requests by state authorities for exemptions from federal preemption, granting some and denying others.
Hearing aid shop, Dublin, Ireland.
Several industrialized countries supply free or heavily discounted hearing aids through their publicly funded health care system.
In Canada, health care is a responsibility of the provinces. In the province of Ontario, the price of hearing aids is partially reimbursed through the Assistive Devices Program of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, up to $500 for each hearing aid. Like eye appointments, audiological appointments are no longer covered through the provincial public health plan. Audiometric testing can still easily be obtained, often free of charge, in private sector hearing aid clinics and some ear, nose and throat doctors offices. Hearing aids may be covered to some extent by private insurance or in some cases through government programs such as Veterans Affairs Canada or Workplace Safety & Insurance Board.
Social Insurance pays a one time fee of ISK 30,000 for any kind of hearing aid. However, the rules are complicated and require that both ears have a significant hearing loss in order to qualify for reimbursement. BTE hearing aids range from ISK 60,000 to ISK 300,000.
Within the UK, the NHS provides digital BTE hearing aids to NHS patients, on long-term loan, free of charge. Other than BAHAs (Bone anchored hearing aid), where specifically required, BTEs are usually the only style available. Private purchases may be necessary if a user desires a different style. Batteries are free.
In 2014 the Clinical Commissioning Group in North Staffordshire considered proposals to end provision of free hearing aids for adults with mild to moderate age related hearing loss, which currently cost them £1.2m a year. Action on Hearing Loss mobilised a campaign against the proposal.
In June 2018 the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence produced new guidance saying that hearing aids should be offered at the first opportunity after hearing loss is detected rather than waiting for arbitrary thresholds of hearing loss to be reached.
Most private healthcare providers in the United States do not provide coverage for hearing aids, so all costs are usually borne by the recipient. The cost for a single hearing aid can vary between $500 and $6,000 or more, depending on the level of technology and whether the clinician bundles fitting fees into the cost of the hearing aid. Though if an adult has a hearing loss which substantially limits major life activities, some state-run vocational rehabilitation programs can provide upwards of full financial assistance. Severe and profound hearing loss often falls within the "substantially limiting" category. Less expensive hearing aids can be found on the internet or mail order catalogs, but most in the under-$200 range tend to amplify the low frequencies of background noise, making it harder to hear the human voice.
Military Veterans receiving VA medical care are eligible for hearing aids based on medical need. The Veterans Administration pays the full cost of testing and hearing aids to qualified military Veterans. Major VA medical facilities provide complete diagnostic and audiology services.
The cost of hearing aids is a tax-deductible medical expense for those who itemize medical deductions.
While there are some instances that a hearing aid uses a rechargeable battery or a long-life disposable battery, the majority of modern hearing aids use one of five standard button cell zinc–air batteries. (Older hearing aids often used mercury battery cells, but these cells have become banned in most countries today.) Modern hearing aid button cell types are typically referred to by their common number name or the color of their packaging.
The type of battery a specific hearing aid utilizes depends on the physical size allowable and the desired lifetime of the battery, which is in turn determined by the power draw of the hearing aid device. Typical battery lifetimes run between 1 and 14 days (assuming 16-hour days).
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As Christians we sometimes become discouraged and do not have the kind of appreciation and expectancy that ought to characterize our prayer life. Surely we recognize such a state as this to be a problem. Recognizing a problem is one of the first steps toward solving a problem. For the faithful Christian, the source for answers to our problems is God’s word, the Bible.
I am convinced that Satan is very aware of the power of prayer and that there is nothing that he fears more than a Christian who finds much time for prayer. He will lay before us many roadblocks to hinder our approach to God in prayer. He will use his devices to create doubt in our hearts regarding the power of prayer. We must be like Paul and be aware of Satan’s devices (2 Cor 2:11).
Consider the roadblock of PRIDE. Pride is manifested in self-trusting; self-sufficiency; self-glorying; self-service; self-will; and self-righteousness. One of the best examples of this hindrance in action is the Pharisee of Luke 18:9-14. He spent his entire prayer talking about how good he was and how much better he was than anyone else. These kinds of attitudes and these kinds of prayers are not received well by our Lord. Jesus noted the contrast between the Pharisee and the publican and gave commendation to the publican, who recognized himself to be a sinner (Lk 18:14). We need to spend a little time looking into the history of God’s dealing with His people in the Old Testament. Here we will find that those times when the people became lifted up with pride and thought they could do it all on their own were the times when the judgment of God came upon them. They had the same need as we have today and that is to see that our sufficiency is OF GOD (2 Cor 3:5). Pride will keep us trying to solve our problems on our own and hinder us from turning to God in prayer.
Another huge roadblock in the way of having our prayers answered is simple DISOBEDIENCE. What was it Solomon wrote in Proverbs 28:9? “He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.” If we are not obedient to our God how can we expect Him to hear our prayers? Without obedience there can be no communion with God. Sins of dis-obedience place distance between us and our God (Isa 59:1-2). It will be necessary to do those things which are pleasing in His sight (1 Jn 3:22) to be blessed with the privilege of praying to our God in heaven. Seriously, can we think of any activity that is considered such a great privilege and pleasure here that we deem it worthy to deprive ourselves of this privilege of prayer to God?
In addition, the Bible teaches us that our prayers are hindered by IDOLATRY. In Ezekiel 14:1-11, there is a fine discussion of the folly and fruitlessness of having idols in the heart and seeking to petition God. The fact is that our God is a JEALOUS God (Ex 20:5) and He demands our complete loyalty (Mt 6:24). We are to keep ourselves from idols (1 Jn 5:21). When we allow our loyalty to become divided and we begin to love the world or the things it contains we are loving things that are not of God (1 Jn 2:15-17). When we love things that are not of God, most likely we won’t even try to communicate with Him, but even if we do, He won’t be listening.
2. NO (Mt 26:39; Heb 5:7).
3. WAIT A WHILE (Jer 42:4, 7).
4. SOMETHING DIFFERENT (2 Cor 12:7-9).
5. BY GIVING MORE (1 Kgs 3:11, 13; Eph 3:20).
A seldom considered hindrance to prayer is mentioned in 1 Peter 3:7. “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.” It is important to the Lord how we treat our companions in marriage. If it is the case that my prayer life seems to be suffering, perhaps I need to look into how I am treating my wife/husband. If we do not consider the will of the Lord in our homes, our homes are not going to be the kinds of places we will want them to be.
We are also warned that a spirit of UNFORGIVENESS will hurt our efforts in prayer. If we pray to God for forgiveness and we have demonstrated an unforgiving spirit, we are assured that we will not be forgiven (Mt 6:12-14).
SOURCE: Wayne Jackson, Gospel Advocate, August 1991.
Some are openly alleging that the lexicons, encyclopedias, and various language tools of the past several centuries are simply all wrong in their definitions of adultery and that, if we would but re-plow the linguistic field, we would discover that adultery is simply “covenant breaking.” Accordingly, whenever one decides to terminate his marriage vows and walks out on his mate, he has (by the breach of his vows) committed adultery. And he may decide to enter “marriage” with a new companion.
Well, what should this “adulterer” (covenant breaker) do if he desires to be right with God? According to the new view, he simply tells the Lord that he is sorry for having broken the covenant with his former companion, and he promises not to be a covenant breaker in the future, but he may continue to maintain the “marital” relationship that he has formed with the new spouse. This novel notion has but one design–the accommodation of unscriptural divorce and remarriage, and it is without any shred of evidence, both linguistically and in the overall context of the Bible. Please consider the following.
The evidence from the Old Testament is equally explicit. Committing adultery (moicheusetai, Septuagint) is an act that man does “with another man’s wife” (Leviticus 20:10), and note the passage that follows, “And (kai, conjunction) the man that lieth with his father’s wife.” Of ancient Jerusalem, God said, “I have seen thine abominations, even thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy fornication, on the hills in the fields” (Jeremiah 13:27). Note: though “adultery” is here used figuratively of Judah’s apostasy; nevertheless, the sexual associations of the basic term are quite clear.
In Ezekiel 16, Jehovah describes Jerusalem as “a wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!” (v. 32). She has “Opened (her) feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied (her) fornications from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts” (Hosea 2:2). The allusion to an immoral embrace is just too plain to miss. At this point, let me also cite a passage from Josephus. He tells of one Sylleus who “debauched (moicheuonta, ‘seduced to sexual activity’) the wives of the Arabians” (Antiquities, XVI, IX, 4).
In the New Testament, Jesus speaks of those who “look upon a woman to lust after her.” he says they have committed adultery with her in the heart (Matthew 5:28). Do men lustfully fantasize about breaking covenants? Absolutely ridiculous! On one occasion the Pharisees brought a woman to Christ (attempting to ensnare Him) whom they said had been “taken in adultery, in the very act” (John 8:4). In what act had she been apprehended? Covenant breaking? Perhaps slamming the door as she abandoned her marriage in a rage? Maybe tearing up the marriage certificate? Is this the kind of reasoning that brethren expect us to accept as truth?
The writer of the book of Hebrews admonishes us to “let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (13:4). Exactly how does an adulterer “defile the bed?” Let the Bible answer that question. Reuben, the son of Jacob, “went up to (his) father’s bed; then defiled it,” according to Genesis 49:4. But what, specifically, was his sin, which is called defiling the bed? he “lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine” (Genesis 35:22). And remember, the writer of Hebrews calls such an act “adultery.” See also the connection between “bed” and “adultery” in Revelation 2:22.
Moreover, certain contexts that deal with divorce and remarriage demonstrate that “adultery” cannot be defined as mere covenant breaking. For example, according to the Lord, the man who “divorces his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress” (Matthew 5:32). Here is a woman who has not broken the covenant with her husband; she is an innocent partner who has been “put away” by her husband. If she contracts a subsequent marriage (cf., Arndt & Gingrich, Greek-English Lexicon, p. 528), she commits adultery. She has broken no covenant, but she does commit adultery. How so if adultery is just covenant breaking? The truth is, she is committing adultery by having sexual relations with another man while her original marriage was not dissolved by a scripturally authorized divorce.
Again, in Matthew 19:9, Christ taught that anyone who divorces a companion, except for fornication, and remarries, is committing adultery. The force of the term “committeth adultery” (in the Greek present tense) is “keeps on committing adultery.” If “adultery” is to be defined as simply the breaking of the original marriage, and one may repent and be forgiven of that without terminating a newly-formed relationship, why did the Lord affirm that the parties of the second union “keep committing adultery?” If adultery was just the initial act of covenant breaking, and it was committed once, it makes no sense for the Lord to charge them with continually committing adultery.
The truth of the matter is, adultery is sexually activity. And when one unscripturally divorces a mate and “marries” another, each time they engage in sexual union, they are committing adultery. And only a cessation of that activity (which is a part of repentance) can put them in harmony with God’s law again. When men take it upon themselves to redefine basic Bible terms in order to accommodate the sins of society, they are deeply in error and must be censured.
SOURCE: Wayne Jackson, Christian Courier, October 2007, Volume XLIII, Number 6, “Notes from the Margin of My Bible.” Visit the Christian Courier Website by clicking H-E-R-E.
In his letter to the Christians in Thessalonica, Paul contends that even those who “know not God” will suffer the Lord’s vengeance and be eternally banished from his presence (2 Thessalonians 1:7-9). This is a passage hard to cope with for many. How does one put it into balance with the love of God?
(1) The text itself does not provide the full compliment of information regarding the nature of those who “know not God.” Many take it to apply to those who have had opportunity to know the Lord but who have simply refused that option (cf., Romans 1:28). One may wish to underline “know not God” (v. 8), and add this reference from Romans 1:28 in your margin.
(2) One must remember that those who are lost are lost because they are sinners (Romans 3:23; 6:23), and that all people everywhere are amenable to Gospel obedience (Acts 17:30). Note these passages in connection with 2 Thessalonians 1:8 as well.
In addition to these points, one should reflect upon the logical conclusion to which one is led if he attempts to argue the case that the ignorant are to be excused. If ignorance exonerates, would it not be better to leave the lost in their ignorance rather than expose them to the message and risk their rejection? Also there are solid principles that must be borne in mind in wrestling with the problem.
(1) God is totally just. he will not destroy the good with the wicked (Genesis 18:25). No one will be lost who does not deserve to be. Not even the lost will argue with the Lord on the day of Judgment. Rather, every knee will bow and every tongue confess [give praise – ASVfn] (Romans 14:11; cf., 2:5). There will be a day when even “praise” is too late!
(2) Punishment will be proportional; some will deserve, and receive, a greater penalty than others (Matthew 11:22, 24; Luke 12:47-48; Hebrews 10:29; James 3:1). The mystery of how this is achieved is beyond our present ability to perceive.
(3) Peter raised the rhetorical question: “What shall be the end of them who obey not the gospel of God?” (1 Peter 4:17). One looks in vain for any “crack” or “loophole” that accommodates the salvation of those who do not “obey” the Gospel. Idle speculation to the contrary is not wise. Reference this passage to “obey not the gospel” in 2 Thessalonians 1:8b.
(4) We must remember that God has not asked us, nor permitted us, to make his judgments for him (cf., Matthew 13:28-29). Our responsibility is to teach the gospel with its facts and obligations–and that without compromise–and leave all final judgments to him.
Diane, Rachel, and I visited with a church in eastern Tennessee yesterday and were welcomed in a fine way. I am not mentioning the name because I don’t know for sure that they would want it mentioned here. We are thankful for the hospitality shown us. We met some fine brothers and sisters. Our search has only just begun and we continue to search for a good congregation with which to work for the next ten or fifteen years. No decision has yet been made and, of course, such decisions as this are difficult to make on both sides. I would request your prayers on our behalf as we deal with the exciting and yet stressing emotions of the task.
All things are not of equal value. In the mineral kingdom, gold is more precious than brass; in the plant kingdom, a fruit tree is more important than a thistle; in the animal kingdom, man is of greater value than a sheep (Matthew 12:12); and in the spiritual kingdom, some things are superior to other things.
Because this is true, we should learn to evaluate, to place the emphasis where it belongs, especially in matters pertaining to the spiritual kingdom. Some have not learned to evaluate; hence, the confusion and strife and shameful loss of time and energy.
Our theme is one of practical value. In our study of it, let us go back to the Old Testament and move forward.
ONE… “To obey is better than sacrifice” (1 Samuel 15:22). The words of the prophet Samuel here were reproduced or referred to by other Old Testament writers (Psalm 51:16-17; Isaiah 1:11; Jeremiah 6:20; Hosea 6:6). Jesus gave utterance to the same great truth (Matthew 9:13). For obedience to the Divine will, there is no substitute (Matthew 7:21).
TWO… Moral uprightness before prayer. The prayer of the impenitent is not heard, his worship is unacceptable (Isa 1:15-17). But how powerful is the prayer of the righteous! (James 1:15-17).
THREE… It is more needful that we do justly, love kindness, and walk with God than to present any sacrificial offering (Micah 6:6-8; Matthew 5:23-24; 23:23-24).
FOUR… The kingdom is superior in value to material things (Matthew 6:31-33). Our interest in it (the church) should be paramount. For it Jesus died; it is His body; His bride; for it He will come.
FIVE… It is better to obey than to hear. We are commanded to hear (Matthew 17:5b); unless we hear we cannot obey; but, without obedience hearing comes to naught (Matthew 7:24-27).
SIX… The law of love is superior to any other law (Matthew 22:24-40). Love is greater than eloquence, or the gift of prophecy, or knowledge, or faith, or benevolence, or sacrifice (1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 13).
SEVEN… Inward cleanliness is more needful than outward cleanliness (Matthew 23:25-28). The motive is more important than the deed. What we think is more important than what we do. This is true because what we think determines what we do (Proverbs 4:23). God looks into the heart (1 Samuel 16:7).
EIGHT… The teaching program of the church is first and foremost (Matthew 28:18-20). When properly taught, people fulfill the divine plan for their lives.
(1) When sinners are taught, they come to Christ (John 6:44-45).
(2) When taught, Christians live as they should; attend the meetings of the church; worship as they should; and do every worthy work.
(3) If the teaching program should fail, all spiritual progress would cease. There would be no more conversions, no more spiritual growth, the church would soon become extinct. But if the program continues, as it should, the church will move forward.
Beloved, learn to evaluate. When you learn to evaluate, pass the important lesson on to others. By this means, the church will learn to evaluate. Then our purpose will be single. Then, the church will be united. Then, no energy, no time will be wasted. Then, the church will move forward. Then, things of minor importance will receive minor consideration. Then, things of major importance will receive major consideration.
First, one is to be “ready always,” i.e., prepared “invariably, at any and every time” (Vine, 43).
Second, one must be ready always “to give an answer.” Answer is from apologia, the same word from which we get our English word apologetics, meaning a defense. It is defined as “ready to make a defense to anyone” (Arndt-Gingrich, 96). The same word is used in Acts 22:1, “hear ye my defense,” and Philippians 1:17, “I am set for the defense of the gospel.
Third, the manner in which we make a defense of the hope that is within us is by providing a “reason” to those who ask. We do not merely make wild, belligerent claims, unsupported by evidence. Neither do we rely on emotion, feeling, or passion. The term, reason, in this text is from the Greek logos, indicating a word. A word is a means of communication. Jesus was “the Word” in the sense that He communicated Deity to the world (John 1:1-3). Inspired men communicated “by the word of the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:15). We are to give a “reason” for the hope within us, suggesting that we should be able to communicate to others why we believe what we believe. “This obligation implies sufficient acquaintance with the word of God to substantiate one’s hope therewith, and godliness of life consistent with its teaching” (Woods, 98).
1. That a Christian’s hope is defensible. The very admonition to be ready always to give a defense manifests that the faith can be defended. We live in what is sometimes called a post-modern society. Post-modernism disdains the idea that one can be “right” about anything and others be “wrong.” The influence of this philosophy can be seen everywhere around us. Unless the Christian is careful in this age of false toleration, we will begin to absorb the prevailing consensus of the world which says “everyone is right,” “whatever one believes is the truth for him,” “it does not make any difference what one believes.” Jesus said, “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). He declared, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6).
2. That there is such a thing as absolute truth. We have a “reason” for what we believe. We are able to appeal to the word of God as a ground for our hope. “Hold fast the form of sound words” (2 Timothy 1:13), “holding fast the faithful word” (Titus 1:9). God did not leave us without a standard, adrift on a sea of uncertainty. “We have also a more sure word of prophecy … but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost” (2 Peter 1:19021).
3. That we can understand the revelation God has given to us. In order to “give an answer to every man that asketh,” we must be able to comprehend the message God has given to us. “Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is” (Ephesians 5:17). God’s will is understandable. Paul spoke of the revelation which was given unto him and said, “Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ” (Ephesians 3:4). It is necessary for us to study that we may grow “in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). We begin with the milk of the word (1 Peter 2:2), and we advance in knowledge so that we can digest the meat of the word (Hebrews 5:14). The apostle Peter spoke of some things “hard to be understood,” but he did not say “impossible to be understood” (2 Peter 3:16). With study, diligence, and a pure heart, we can grow in understanding and knowledge of the will of the Lord, so that we may give an “answer” to those who ask a “reason” for the hope that is in us.
4. That a Christian should be able to defend what he believes. To be able to “give an answer” is to be able to defend our convictions. Paul said, “We also believe, and therefore speak” (2 Corinthians 4:13). Faith is not blind; it is based upon evidence. “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17). Every child of God should endeavor to know the basis of what he believes and to be able to communicate that to others. This does not mean that one must be a public speaker or a professional scholar, but each one of us should feel comfortable to open the word of God and to point to the “book, chapter, and verse” that sustains our faith. Elders in the church should “be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers” (Titus 1:9). Even a Christian couple such as Aquila and Priscilla could instruct Apollos, teaching him “the way of God more perfectly” (Acts 18:26). Jude exhorted us to “contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints” (Jude 3).
5. That there is a duty to teach others. People will constantly ask a reason for the hope within us. We should be ready always to give an answer. Peter says we are to do this “with meekness and fear,” i.e., not in arrogance or pride, but out of genuine respect toward God and His word. The apostle Paul stated that he taught publicly and from house to house (Acts 20:20). In writing to Christians at Rome, where there was much persecution, he nevertheless stated: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek” (Romans 1:16). In Acts 20:26-27, the apostle proclaimed: “Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” May every member of the body of Christ be pure from the blood of all men in that we deliver the counsel of God to all who come within our sphere of influence.
Arndt, William F. and Gringrich, F. Wilbur (2nd Ed., 1979), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Vine, W.E., An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (Iowa City: Riverside Book and Bible House).
Woods, Guy N. (1956), A Commentary on the New Testament Epistles of Peter, John, and Jude (Nashville: Gospel Advocate).
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The potential with this Full Moon is for the exploration of the darker or hidden corners of our soul, mining for what could be transformed into precious jewels. What secrets are you hiding? What motivate you? Is it power, money, lust, passion, the desire for control? How do you use your personal power? Is your sexual magnetism use for good or for ill? What ways of being are you ready to let go? What is aching to come into your awareness? What lurks behind closed-door? How do you manage the deeper issues in your life?
Now is a good time to reach down to the buried parts of yourself, digging them out and getting rid of the rotten parts and perhaps embracing the vulnerabilities and wounds that makes you, YOU! The wounds can also be where the light enters.
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https://9thhouseastrology.wordpress.com/tag/darkness/
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Got the May issue of Yoboseyo, the magazine of the (South)Korean society in Sweden, in my mail box the other day!
We had an article about the modern K-drama, it’s structure, different genres and influence on society published in that issue. Dancing On Our Own published one at the same time, about K-pop as a music genre. It was kind of strange to see our own words printed like that, our thoughts and knowledge somewhere else then at the blog, but a lot of fun!
The articles are in Swedish and not available online at the moment but we might upload another version, and in english, of ours at some point soon.
Soon Mis will be over here at my apartment and we will get together for the first time in over a month. I’m making kimchi fried rice and serving Taittinger.
It was sent from LA to Washington DC, which kind of took for ever. Then reposted by my cousin there since I couldn’t find any company that would deliver this poster outside of the US, but then sent back to her because it was to big. She reposted it again with a heigher fee, and I have now been waiting for more then two months for this poster to arrive here in Stockholm. Finally it came.
This is the poster from the 4th album by Lee Hyori and it has been one of my favourite pics since it was released. Iv’e been wanting it for a very long time now. I have some problems with my fandom when it comes to stuff like posters. There is no way in hell that I ever will put up an ordinary idol group poster, even if I love the group. Maybe it’s my age, maybe me being a male fan or me just not being a fan of the poster idea. But from time to time you can find posters that look more like a fashion editorial and suddenly it is possible to put your idols on the wall. This is that kind of poster. I just have to frame it first.
Big thanks to my cousin Karin for helping me out in America.
You are currently browsing the Korean Stuff in Stockholm category at The Future is Idol.
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Indiana State University. The Psychology Department offers degrees in two distinct graduate programs, each of which is summarized below. You can find additional information regarding our Psy.D. and Master’s programs on our web page at: . http://www.indstate.edu/psychology/ .
Additional information regarding these two programs can be found in the Graduate School Catalog which is available at: www.indstate.edu/academics/catalogs.htm.
Association (APA)*, and is designed to provide training in the professional applications of clinical psychology. The primary objective of the program is to equip graduates for the skilled delivery of clinical services. The emphasis in the program is on individualized clinical supervision, combined with broad practical experience and research training oriented toward clinical applications. The program is intended to train professional psychologists who will have a firm grounding in the foundations of psychology, including knowledge of normal and abnormal processes of thought, emotion, and behavior; the ability to evaluate critically their own and others’ clinical and programmatic interventions; and the ability to implement assessment and treatment techniques to meet a wide variety of mental health service needs. The deadline for receipt of completed applications to the Psy.D. program is January 4 for Fall admission. If you wish to receive full consideration of your application, all materials (including GRE scores) must be received by the January 4 deadline. (see link to ‘Application Procedures’ on our web site).
The Master’s Program in Experimental Psychology (M.A./M.S.) is a research-oriented general program and is especially suitable for students planning to pursue a Ph.D. in psychology or those seeking an advanced degree in a related discipline. It may be useful for students seeking employment in a variety of settings. Application to the Experimental Psychology program must be received by February 15 for Fall admission. For full consideration of your application, submit all materials (including GRE scores) by the February 15 deadline.
individual faculty members by e-mail from our web page if you have specific questions or would like further information regarding our graduate programs.
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http://arts-cms.indstate.edu/cas/psychology/psyd-clinical-psychology/graduate-information-letter
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The aim of many wearables is noble. They're designed to help you get up, get moving, and get healthier. But there's often a disconnect between users and their goal: While they want to get healthier, they actually don't know the basic facts about health and fitness that will help them improve their lifestyle.
That's where iOS quiz app Hi.Q (short for Health IQ) comes in. Hi.Q is comprises over 10,000 questions spanning 300 topics. When you start using the app, you take a 30 question preliminary test covering some broad nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle basics. From there, you can take quizzes on the topic of the day, or dive into more niche subjects like the Paleo diet, heart disease, or running.
With the country's astronomical obesity epidemic, a growing number of Americans really do want to improve their habits, or are at least aware that they should. (Some evidence: The popularity of health and fitness apps is up 87 percent compared to other app categories.) But it can be hard if they don't know, or have misconceptions about, how to go about such changes. Hi.Q attempts to give users this in a package that's less dry than your typical Google Search.
And more accurate. Both the questions and their answers are backed up by health and fitness professionals like Harvard Med School physician Dr. James Colbert and U.S. Olympic Team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Scott Hacker. The answers often link back to specific scientific studies or the articles they are based on so you can easily learn more.
But a quiz app isn't much fun unless you can show off what you know. When you complete a quiz, you're given a score on each quiz based on how many questions were answered correctly. High scores earn you status and titles. After achieving "Elite status" on the preliminary quiz, I decided to test my cycling knowledge with a quiz titled "Bicycling: Maximizing Performance," which earned me another Elite ranking, and an upgrade to "Level 4." More prolific beta users of the app, listed in the high score tables for each quiz, earn titles like "Health Guru" or "Health Pioneer." My Level 4 ranking looked pretty measly next to their Level 41's and 126's, and I scoped out other quizzes to test my knowledge.
You can also start discussions with other users around these various quiz topics. Combined with the scoring system, Hi.Q CEO and co-founder Munjal Shah has created a rudimentary way of validating user credentials: Yeah, this guy claims he's an expert on this topic, but is he really? Well, based on his quiz scores, yeah, actually he is. Once you know that, you can engage in discussions with other users and (hopefully) know that the advice they're sharing isn't bogus.
While all this can be fun and helpful, the real gain is what you get out of your increased knowledge. By running these questions through a panel of 250,000 people, Shah found that those with a high health IQ score were hospitalized 50 percent less than lose with a low score. So potentially, the more you know (particularly in areas relating to healthy eating habits), the more likely you are to implement those ideas and lead a healthier lifestyle.
Hi.Q is free and currently available from the iOS App Store.
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https://www.wired.com/2014/12/health-iq-quiz-app/
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PHOENIX , AZ- Camilla Washington, 18, just started College, and it was a nasty surprise when Parental Controls took over her new Mac laptop. A few minutes into her homework, a warning popped up telling her to, “Finish up, because your time is running out. Save your work in all open programs.” She thought nothing of it, and continued with her work. As she was finishing the opening of a paper for physics, another window popped up. She started to worry, but dismissed it too. As the last window popped up, counting down from 5, she realized the situation. She quickly tried to add more time, but she wasn’t fast enough. She watched in horror as the screen turned light blue, and spun in a cube to the start screen. She attempted to login into the admin account to add more time, but the password was unknown to her. She took out her phone (which was thankfully uncontrolled) and called her parents. They told her the password, and she was able to continue writing. She had to change the password, because it brought up a childhood memory about a certain sister and bowl of punch.
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https://fauxreport.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/camillas-screen-time-runs-out/
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Vineyards and grape varieties: 6.9 hectares (17.1 acres), of which 96% Pinot Meunier, 2% Pinot Noir, and 2% Chardonnay.
Google Maps view with the villages in the Vallée de la Marne Rive Droite highlighted.
The southern entrance to the village. Picture linked from Wikimedia Commons (photo G.Garitan, 2013).
La Neuville-aux-Larris is located on the right bank of the Marne river, which means north of the river. The village is located far up in a curved side valley formed by the stream Ru de Belval.
In La Neuville-aux-Larris, there is a British military cemetery with soldiers fallen in World War I.
The La Neuville-aux-Larris commune covers 164 hectares and has a oblong shape in the east-west direction. The commune has 160 inhabitants (as of 2014) referred to as Neuvillats and Neuvillates.
The town hall (mairie) of La Neuville-aux-Larris. Picture linked from Wikimedia Commons (photo G.Garitan, 2013).
The vineyards in La Neuville-aux-Larris are located to the south of the village, and are situated in a block in a slope where the main part is in the Cuchery commune. A small part of the upper slope that is located in La Neuville-aux-Larris, and these vineyards consist of south- to southwest-facing dominated by Pinot Meunier.
The current vineyard surface in the La Neuville-aux-Larris commune is 6.9 hectares (17.1 acres). There are 6.6 ha Pinot Meunier (95.7%), 0.1 ha Pinot Noir (1.4%), and 0.2 ha Chardonnay (2.9%). Numbers from CIVC, as of 2013. In 1997, the vineyard surface was also 7 ha. There are 43 vineyard owners (exploitants) in the commune.
Dominique Boulard & Filles (NM, Facebook page), has vineyards in Cuchery, Belval-sous-Châtillon, and Mailly-Champagne. Has a background in the split of Raymond Boulard, see below. The range includes the vintage Champagne Singularis which is composed of 50% Chardonnay, 30% Pinot Noir, and 20% Pinot Meunier.
Charbonnier-Audebert (RM, Facebook page), has vineyards in Cuisles, Belval-sous-Chatillon, Cuchery, and Baslieux-sous-Chatillon and an annual production of 3500 flaskor.
Jacques Devillers & Fils (RM, Facebook page), whose Cuvée Elégance is an oak barrel-vinified Champagne.
Lasseaux & Fils (Facebook page), whose range includes two vintage Champagnes, Millésime composed of 50% Chardonnay, 25% Pinot Meunier, and 25% Pinot Noir (refers to the 2008 vintage) and a Blanc de Blancs.
Patis-Paille (RM), whose vintage Champagne is composed of 2/3 Pinot Meunier and 1/3 Chardonnay (refers to the 2011 vintage). The top cuvée Origo is oak barrel-vinified and composed of three varieties.
Roussery-Claisse (RC), whose range includes two vintage Champagne composed of 50% Chardonnay, 25% Pinot Meunier, and 25% Pinot Noir (refers to the 2008 vintage).
Christophe Savoye (RM, there are also bottles saying RC that likely are older), has 5.5 ha of vineyards and an annual production of 30 000 bottles. The range includes a vintage Champagne composed of 50% Chardonnay and 50% Pinot Noir (refers to the 2010 vintage).
Raymond Boulard (NM) was a well regarded producer that in 2010 was split into three following a change of generation: Hélène Bertaux-Boulard and Dominique Boulard & Filles, both in La Neuville-aux-Larris and mentioned above, and Francis Boulard & Fille in Cauroy-lès-Hermonville (in the Massif de Saint-Thierry area). Raymond Boulard had 10.25 ha of vineyards in 8 villages, of which 4.45 ha in the Vallée de la Marne Rive Droite (75% Pinot Meunier, 20% Pinot Noir, and 5% Chardonnay), 1 ha in the Aisne department, further to the west in the Vallée de la Marne (75% PM and 25% PN), 1.65 ha in the grand cru village Mailly-Champagne in the Grande Montagne de Reims (85% PN and 15% Ch), and 3 ha in the Vallée de la Vesle and Massif de Saint-Thierry (60% Ch, 20% PN, and 20% PM). From 2004 some of the vineyards had organic certification, and of the three new producers it is Francis Boulard who have continued in that style.
Coopérative Vinicole l’Entraide is a cooperative La Neuville-aux-Larris. No information about number of members and so on.
The British military cemetery in La Neuville-aux-Larris. Picture linked from Wikimedia Commons (photo Wernervc, 2015).
UMC’s village profile of La Neuville-aux-Larris.
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https://winetomas.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/champagne-village-profile-la-neuville-aux-larris-on-the-right-bank-of-the-marne-valley/
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Mice are happy and playful, active creatures. They are great fun to watch. Some fancy mice are extremely pretty. They get to know their owners and, when well socialised, will come to take treats off you, climb onto your hand and run all over you.
Individual mice have different personalities. Some will be keep-fit fanatics, running on wheels and chasing around. Others will be home-makers, building comfortable nests. Some are playful, some are shy. Some are easily socialised, others need more work. The quiet mouse is just as 'normal' as her hyperactive sister. Watching mice play and socialise amongst themselves, you will see a range of behaviour types and temperaments. This is one of many reasons for keeping several mice, rather than just one.
Mice are very easy to keep, undemanding pets. However, they are by nature timid and so you need to spend time getting to know them. They will not play with you in the way that dogs or rats will, but they are rewarding pets nonetheless.
Above you see a picture of Ming (white) and her daughter Cinnamon (brown). The black mouse is Blackie, she is like a sister to Ming. The other two are babies.
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2019-04-25T04:29:37Z
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http://mousefamily235.tripod.com/yournewmouse/id1.html
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There are three ways of prayer according to Catechism of the Catholic Church.
What is the difference between meditation and contemplation? The following part is a summary from here.
Contemplative prayer is more passive or sublime experience of God. Meditative prayer is more from our work of seeking God (though with the aid from God). Contemplative prayer can be distinguished as the pure work from God.
However, meditation can be again differentiate with discursive meditation and affective meditation. Discursive meditation is more to logical analysis to discover the insight or deeper understanding about the God. And this discovery will lead to the conversation with God such as thanksgiving, praise, contrition, and petition.
Affective meditation is more to conversation (not necessarily emotional) from the soul.
After a period of spiritual maturity, a person without much discursive effort, can enter into “prayer of simplicity” (or prayer of quiet). This is the contemplative prayer.
A deeper contemplative prayer is “infused contemplation” which God submerges us in himself and we feel a union with him. This is actually another level of prayer.
Therefore the, most active mental prayer is discursive meditation, which leads to affective meditation, then followed by the contemplation.
However, sometimes we feel that our prayer life is not growing, or worse. So, to understand this, I summarized another post.
The faculties of the soul are intellect and will. Where the intellect allows us to know something abstract (not exactly knowing what or how); will allows us to freely choose good things. Contrary to our sense faculties, they are sight, sound, touch, taste, smell. Emotional and imagination “consolation” is more to the sense faculties. “Consolation” can also be experienced by intellect and will. Without these consolation, we are in the dryness of prayer. The dryness may come from ourselves, or from God, so that we are not looking for the “consolation”, but God himself, to grow our faith.
Consolation is a sense of presence of God in our souls and hearts, new insight about God, about the world, about ourselves, during meditation or prayer (refers from here).
The dryness from God, can also be assumed as “passive purification“, that is to burn our impurities that are beyond our reach. While “active purification” is our own acts such as mortification.
The long period of dryness on the level of emotions and imagination is also known as “dark night of the senses” (stated by St John of the Cross). If it is on the level of intellect and will, it is “dark night of the soul“. That is how the holy souls suffer in the purgatory (refers from here).
Finally I release the Prayer Clock with version 1.0.0. For the internal engine, there is not much change. For the deployment, I tried to make several changes.
Firstly, I am using autotools (autoconf and automake) for the project, so that it is easier for me to maintain the project. Because this project targets for cross platform. Yes, I learnt quite a lot of things about autotools, really nice to use.
Secondly, I continue maintaining the Debian package. Actually, I target on Arch Linux, but I found that Debian and Arch Linux is binary compatible (for my project, I am not sure for others). So, I use Arch Linux to package it in Debian using dpkg. And I also make the PKGBUILD for Arch Linux package build. I choose Debian (not RPM), because previously I used Ubuntu. Besides that, I also follow the freedesktop.org specification for the icon and desktop entry. As a result, after installation, we can run the application from the menu item (just like Windows start menu). Because of this deployment, I change the file hierarchy based on Linux/Unix, which I am not familiar about this before.
Thirdly, since I am developing this project primarily in Linux, but yet Windows is also widely used, so I use MinGW32 cross compiling environment. Yeah, this is really a great project, because I can cross compile my project targeted on Windows using Linux. Moreover, the result is a standalone executable application without DLLs dependencies. I still using NSIS to deploy the program.
So, whoever likes the source code (I don’t think so), now can download the source code tarball which is generated by autotools.
Portable version? Yeah. the program is still portable. For Linux, download the Debian package, and extract it, it is portable. But make sure to run the application from bin/ as the working directory, else cannot read the data files. For Windows, it is also same method, running the file from bin/ directory, but I don’t provide portable installation in NSIS, (I may consider this for next release). That is why I do not provide portable version in SourceForge.net any more.
For the JPrayer Clock 1.0.0, I will not come out with it so soon since Prayer Clock (C++ version) fulfils my need. However, it is open source, anyone who likes it (but I don’t think so), just contribute.
The next plan for this project is to restructure the coding, because current one is quite messy.
Finally, I am proud of my new icon (I think so). Edited with GIMP. Great open source tool.
Previously I asked, “Are you in the bible?” Right, most holy men and women suffered a lot as written in the bible. Since I mentioned those names, let me finish what were happened to those holy men and women.
Patriarch Joseph finally became an important man in Egypt, trusted by Pharaoh. During the great famine, he saved his own family and kinsmen.
David who wholeheartedly worked for Saul, but Saul wanted to murder him, at the later days, David became the king of Israel. Though he was persecuted by own son. But later years he died peacefully and his kingdom was succeeded by King Solomon.
Job, though all his children died suddenly, all his properties were taken in one night, at the end, he was blessed with more children and properties.
Samson was blinded and put imprisoned. But at the end, his power was recovered and killed his enemies and saved the Israelites.
Mordecai, though he and his kinsmen were threatened, at the end, all of them were saved by the help of Queen Esther, his adopted daughter.
Susanna though was accused, the Prophet Daniel was inspired and saved her from the hands of the elders. And justice was shown to them.
Tobit finally gained his sight by the help of the angel Raphael.
Here I don’t mention about the prophets, because most of them died like the Martyrs.
We can see that, though sufferings and sorrows were happened, there was something behind, which will bear the fruits when the time is coming.
Are you in the bible?
Whoever read the bible will find that there are a lot of sorrowfulness within the bible stories. Yes, bible is for those who are poor, oppressed, sicks, and sinners. Because the world is full of injustice, through the Gospel (I mean good news), we found our faith and hope. The worldly people judge with outlook, pursue authorities and richness. That is why, the poor become poorer, the oppressed become more oppressed, the sicks are abandoned.
Are you in the bible? Patriarch Joseph was betrayed and sold by his own brothers, he was also thrown into jail though he was innocent. David, even he served King Saul wholeheartedly, yet Saul still wanted to murder him. At the later year, King David was even persecuted by his own son, Absalom. The prophets like Jeremiah were not accepted by their own people. Samson was betrayed by the woman he loved. Job was not understood by his own friends, his friends kept asking him to confess his sin, even his wife asked him to curse God in order to die. Mordecai was hated by Haman without any good reason, and Haman planned to kill Mordecai and all his kinsmen. Susanna was accused by the elders. A justice man like Tobit was blinded at his old age. Even Jesus was betrayed by His own disciple, Judas. These are justice men and women, but all of them faced a lot of oppressions and persecutions in their life. We can see that, these sorrowfulness are come from kinsmen, superiors, children, loved one, colleagues, and the life itself.
This is why, when we listen to the Gospel (good news), we found our consolation. Blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are the meek, blessed are those who are hunger and thirst for righteousness, blessed are those who are persecuted. God’s mercy is shown to those who fear Him; God disperses the arrogant men, throws down the rulers from their thrown and lifts the lowly; the hungry will be filled with good thing, the rich will be sent away empty. The good news are brought to the poor, the captives will get their liberty, the blind will see again, the oppressed will also be freed. The sins will be forgiven. These are what we thirst for.
As a Christian, I always think about the meaning of life. The meaning of life means the reason of living and the purpose to live. Even some Christians, they will relate everything with a meaning. That means, whatever incident is happened, there is a reason behind, the incident is happened with a purpose. If a person broke a vase, there is also a meaning, may be the vase must be broken. If a person woke up late, may be this is the reason that he could avoid from an accident.
Then, when do we lose faith? For a person believes that every incident happened with a purpose, if a great tragedy happened unexpectedly, without any reason, not understandable, without purpose, the outcome is only difficulty, despair, and sorrowfulness, then this is the time when he might lose his faith. Joseph the Patriarch might lose faith when he was betrayed by his own brothers and sold to Egypt. Job might lose faith when all his children die.
But those who endure and wait until the end of these trials, surely will gain their faith.
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https://allencch.wordpress.com/category/spiritual/
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Before you move, it is a good idea to make a floor plan of your new space. This way, you will know how much space you will have for all of your belongings. Tip: Use Better Homes and Garden’s Arrange-A-Room online software to simplify the process. You will need to register, but it is free.
New Seniors’ Residence Coming to Vancouver!
Today, we had the great opportunity to meet with a member of the Lumina Group to discuss the upcoming building of Legacy Senior Living, which has broken ground and is scheduled to be ready in March 2014. In the heart of the city, at Oak & 41st, this high end residence built for seniors, will be an amazing addition to the community! For more information, check out their website at http://www.legacyseniorliving.com. We can’t wait to see the building’s progress!
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2019-04-24T19:49:50Z
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https://nextstepsos.wordpress.com/
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Welcome to JWA Systems. We specialize in tailor-made designs for a wide range of applications. The folowing pages will give you a brief introduction to our activities.
Our building blocks, procedures and techniques.
A list of technical topics that JWA Systems has dealt with.
Celebrating his 100th birthday, the 'Kunsthal' in Rotterdam had a special exibition built. It is a "Virual Reality Ride" with a moving platform to enhance the illusion of motion. The control system for this platform was developed by JWA Systems.
This page is discribes a lightshow controller intended for fountain lighting. Featuring 16 light channels, 2 pump drivers and an advanced programming interface, Win95 based.
Some older equipment requires a Diablo 630 printer. This little box allows any ascii matrix printer to be used instead.
Arian van Dorsten has been working with software and electronics for some 10 years now, here is a abstract of his activities.
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Dalek | Bored with a record shop.
…glad we cleared that up.
…record shop time wasting “device” No.875/42b….
…(note to self…opening the scanner during scanning makes cards look more collectable….I think….).
… and the machine gun etiquette.
…caution, may contain no traces of chicken.
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https://boredinarecordshop.wordpress.com/tag/dalek/
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Hello MLS fans! It's day 3 and we are so excited that there is so much buzz about the past two days of reveals around the net! Thank you so much for your support and amazing comments. We really appreciate each and every one of you helping us get the word out.
We are excited to share our next new release with you today!
And our popular Die cut cardstock.
Tell us what you think of Up in the Trees and share this post by clicking the Facebook and Twitter links below this post and we'll select one lucky My Little Shoebox fan to win our Up in the Trees collection before you can buy it in stores!
If you're just joining us today make sure you leave a comment on each of our reveal posts to have at least 5 chances of winning this week.
**Comments will close Sunday January 22nd at midnight Pacific time and winners will be announced Monday January 23rd on our Facebook page wall! Good luck fans!
Awesome new line...love the colors!
The trees just remind me of spring...can't wait for that and I can't wait to see the papers in person!
I really like the designs with this collection. The two papers with the heart designs that connect with a thin line is beautiful.
Oh so sweet! Birds hearts and trees are always a favorite of mine.
I love the colors and the woodgrain paper! This is darling!
Can't wait to scrap with this line!!
Wow! another great fave of mine, you had me at woodgrain heartshape paper <3 love it!
I love the trees. So fantastic and I cant wait to show my friends!
Me- me- me!! Please? I want it so badly - it's so sos sos cute!
The knots in the woodgrain paper are hearts !! I love this !! You Rock !!
Another collection to fall in love with!
I love trees so this is lovely!!!
I just loved! Shared on Facebook and Twitter! I wanna it so so much!
SUPER LOVE IT ALL!!! Love that you are doing collection packs too- Collection packs are fantastic to teach with at my LSS! Thanks!!!
This is so so cute! I can't wait to play with it.
Love these non traditional love colors. This will be one of my faves for sure!
WOW! I love all the leaves and hearts! So cute!!!
You've certainly come up with some really nice papers for the beginning of this year. They are very very nice.
LOVE THE PAPER! but I really like the whole set.
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https://mylittleshoebox.typepad.com/my-little-shoebox/2012/01/2012-winter-reveal-week-up-in-the-trees.html
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Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine. In it God shows Himself to us.
Posted in books, Inspirational, Reading and tagged adoration, C. S. Lewis, God, prayer, The World's Last Night. Bookmark the permalink.
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It took a long time ten years for that matter however Edgar Martinez finally made it to baseball’s Hall of Fame. I know there is a lot of stories coming up on Edgar so I am keeping this short however I have to be like everyone else who are fans of Edgar congratulations you made it.
Here in Seattle and the state of Washington, we all know his accomplishments even if you aren’t a big baseball fan. Everyone here knows his name even if they didn’t watch a game. Speaking of watching a game the double Edgar hit to score Joey Cora then Ken Griffey Jr. for the Mariners go to the American League Championship series in 1995 by beating the New York Yankees is still the greatest moment in Mariner history even though they won 116 games in 2001. Every time I see the replay of that hit my eyes come to tears and I am excited. We know Edgar accomplished so much more for the Mariners however that play shows why he is in the Hall of Fame now.
Again thank you, Edgar, for your accomplishments for all 18 years as a player then you became the hitting coach as well We will miss seeing you in the dugout for every game however we forward to seeing your induction into the Hall of Fame.
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So the reality is I’ve become a ‘not very good blogger’ but that’s just how it is at the moment and I’ve got to stop letting it worry me.
The Ryde Arts Festival is now well under way and got off to a spectacular start on Friday evening with the opening of the Landmark Trees project and a concert of a piece of music composed (by two young composers) especially for the event. It was fantastic!
What was particularly good about it was that the hangings for the Landmark Trees were made by a local artist working with four different youth groups. It took them about 3 months to paint them.
The concert ‘Seasons for a Soldier’ was played by the local Symphony Orchestra but also included an adult choir, a youth choir and the marching band of the local Sea Cadets.
The whole piece is about the seasons of 1914 – from optimistic Spring through to desolate Winter, reflecting on what it must have been like for all the young men who, in the autumn and winter of 1914 volunteered to fight for their country. There are ribbons on all the trees outside with the names of the men from the town who lost their lives in WW1.
I’ve been volunteering over the weekend: on Friday and Saturday evening at events in the old church and this morning just sitting and welcoming the visitors who came in to see the installation and listen to a recording of the music. (Actually I did a bit of art too while I was there) 🙂 Also yesterday afternoon I spent several hours updating the Ryde Arts Festival website.
You can’t see it in the picture (because people are sitting over it) but on the floor in big white lettering are the famous words from a Rupert Brooke poem “…That there’s some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England”. The chairs are just put out if there is a concert, but during the daytime people walk into a vast empty space with these wonderful tree hangings, the line of poetry on the floor and the music playing. I think it’s really impressive and I’m proud to play a small part in the annual Arts Festival.
The spread above is in my Altered Book Journal. I was a bit surprised in how it turned out, but that’s the way the pages wanted to be so who am I to argue?
I don’t know anything about Anwar Sadat other than he was the President of Egypt from 1970. I’m guessing like most politicians he had good points and bad. He took his country to war with Israel but he also entered into Peace Talks with Israel which culminated in a Peace Treaty being signed. He and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On 6 October 1981 President Sadat was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo.
Anyway I really like the quote and I needed something with an Egyptian flavour to compliment the images (which came from a picture I bought in a charity shop yesterday).
Thank you for your kind comments after my last post. To be honest I am still feeling conflicted about the whole blog thing and I need to give it some thought.
In the meantime I have finished the front cover of my board book. Just got the back cover to do now, but that could take a few weeks at current rate of progress. I sealed the collage with clear packing tape, so it has a gloss finish. You can see the lines where the tape overlaps, but I don’t mind that.
I hope you are keeping well and happy. I’m really enjoying the sunshine and long hours of daylight at the moment.
It’s been a while so I hope all is good with you.
According to WordPress it’s 3 years ago today that I started this blog, so Happy Birthday Blog! Unfortunately recently I’ve been neglecting things and here we are in the middle of June and this is my first post of the month. What happened? I used to post regularly, often 2 posts a week, but now there are long gaps.
Anyway, I’ve still found time to be creative – I’ve been working on a couple of paintings, on several journals and I managed to finish my second Mandala book, the images above and below are the front and back cover of the book.
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jellybellies roxor... The coconut ones are way good. y'all should check out the free tour if your ever in Fairfield, California. It almost makes Fairfield a worthwhile place to be. That and the In-N-Out.
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← Traditional Homes Loves Ceilings Too!
We’ve already toured the basement and the main floor now it’s time to travel to the third and final floor in our virtual home tour. The upper floor features two guest suites, a tv/game room, and a home office. Here’s the first guest suite as you come of the stairs. Originally the entry to the room was on the other side of the room and the closet was on the same wall as the wet bar. Pam switched it up because the side of a bed isn’t the most welcoming view as you enter a room (and she’s not a big fan of doors as the focal point of a long hallway). The new arrangement created a dramatic focal point and provided even more storage than the original layout. The bed is flanked with closets with frosted glass doors and framed with columns that conceal shelving. In the adjoining bath, we decided to use a standard tub with tall dramatic shower curtains on a curved rod (for more space in the shower) which was concealed behind a soffit to help soften the room (and to save money by not using glass. A TV/billiard room is nestled between the guest suites. He wanted it to be a fun place to watch TV and play games. It was also important to him to have a billiard table near his office so we made room for it here rather than in the game room in the basement. Because this is a vacation home Pam felt a room with bunk beds was necessary to maximize space. Two custom built-in beds takes bunk beds to the next level. The adjoining bath is a bit more playful without being childish since several families would be using the space it was important to appeal to widest range of people. And finally we come to the office. Cherry cabinets and finish work paired with leather ceiling panels create a masculine atmosphere. A Murphy beds turns this space into a fourth guest suite if needed. The masculine feel was carried through the ensuite bath.
We have now come to the end of the tour. I hope you enjoyed it!
I love the big upholstered headboard in the first guest bedroom. And I love how the bed is flanked by the built-ins — I think it makes the bed cozier.
Thanks for telling me your rendering process. It sounds pretty involved, but the results are absolutely fantastic!!
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^ a b c Dong, Subo; et al (2009-04). “OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb, the Most Massive M Dwarf Planetary Companion?”. Astrophysical Journal 695 (2): 970-987. Bibcode: 2009ApJ...695..970D. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/970.
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Some of the imagery I like to use can involve something along the lines of battles or wars. It’s important to look at our lives in these new ways, because it gives us perspective in who we are and what we’re doing. Among all the things we are, those of us not occupied in the military don’t generally consider ourselves soldiers, but–you guessed it–we are the empowered defenders of Christ’s name.
Most people will be familiar with the characteristic Roman armor poster they probably had in their Sunday school class, displaying the Armor of God. Google image search for ‘armor of God’ and you’ll see what I mean. But believe it or not, there’s a little more behind the whole illustration than we think.
First of all, if not for Sunday school classes and VBSs worldwide, why was this famous passage in Ephesians even written? Well, the answer to that one is pretty easy if you read the passage.
The author, or rather, writer, of the book Ephesians, the apostle Paul, wanted us to know something. He wanted us to understand the power of Christ when applied to our lives. We are shown how, when virtues of our faith are used, God will bring us the strength we need.
It’s a bit of a reverse proof here, but this imagery of armor tells us exactly what we need to understand the empowered nature of serving Christ. Paul understood that ordinary people can understand concepts like a shield or a sword and their purposes, so why not use that prior knowledge to explain how we are empowered by our faith? The concept is simply that we must, by our righteousness, faithfulness, understanding, and readiness, be prepared to fight for God’s kingdom.
It’s a more fun way of saying the exact same thing. Follow God; fight for God. We have to be soldiers in defense of the kingdom, protecting the weak, the hungry, and the helpless, and preventing the world from blotting out the truth.
So don’t be afraid, oh fearless soldier. You’ve been given the armor, and that’s all you need to start fighting back. Get started by reading more about the armor of God.
We all love epic stories. The epic characters, sagas, and conflicts of movies, shows, and games fascinate us. All of these things are cool and compelling, but when it comes to wars of gigantic proportions, no historic or fictional conflict can compare to the one we are a part of every day.
Many people have a very wrong understanding of angels. These heavenly creatures were created to glorify God, but also to be his warriors. These folks are for real. No wimpy Cupid nonsense. And every minute that goes by, people around the world are making the choice between good and evil–something which spiritual forces on both sides attempt to sway. God’s faithful warriors protect his followers as they go about. We can’t even see all that goes on because it is so beyond our understanding. But at the same time, all of this takes place right here on Earth. This is because these angels are in a different part of our world: the spirit world. This other part of our world, that we can’t see, contains the very literal part of the war.
But just because we can’t tell, doesn’t mean we aren’t in the middle of a battleground.
It’s not as if good and evil just fight for the heck of it. The war that goes on has a huge purpose–or why would it occur? It’s not just about power, it’s about power over the souls of humanity. As much as that sounds like something out of some old horror movie, this is real. The great part is the power over our heart is ours to give. We still have the choice. The war is deciding in our lives and in everyone’s, the victories mean lives saved by Christ, and losses are those without.
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Recently I was asked to serve on a panel after a screening of the documentary Poverty Inc. In the course of the discussion I brought on the story about the Haitian woman who was employed by a nonprofit run by Americans and was able to save $2,000 over the course of 6 months to buy a house. It’s a great story.
Being able to earn (let alone save) $2,000 in half a year is a very good income in Haiti. GDP per capita, price adjusted) in Haiti was $1,760 in 2015 when the scene was filmed. The woman was able save in 6 months more than the average yearly income of Haitians. That is like being able to save $45,000 in 6 months in the US. Something that is far out of reach for most.
The obvious question that was posed by the audience in response was “then what should we pay the workers?” That’s an honest question and an important one. I, like you, want the workers to be paid as much as possible but not in a vacuum. When we pay far above what the work is worth then we cause all the same problems that other forms of charity create.
In the United States an employer will pay you what the work is worth but if you suggest that employer in Haiti should pay workers what the work is worth, people freak out. And by people I mean Americans thousands of miles away freak out, not Haitians. It’s an honest reaction and one that is largely fair. They react because they care. But do you see how dangerous it is when we act differently towards those in poverty than we would for those like us?
Would you like it if people treated you differently out of pity and guilt? That sounds terrible because your self worth is undermined. That is far worse than being in poverty.
So what should we pay the workers? For starters, treat them like people with dignity and expectation. Pay them what the work is worth but let’s expand on this.
Why do Apple and Google pay so well? They need skilled workers who are the best at what they do and the products they create and help build are very valuable and warrant higher wages.
The nonprofit in Haiti is selling products to the US which means that they need a standard of quality that is high. They need good workers but also the products being sold in the US sell for much higher prices than if they sold domestically and therefore there is enough margin for the business to pay more in wages. They should pay more than the market wage but they shouldn’t pay excessively more than the market wage because that is charity. When it crosses the line into charity is subjective and depends on the specific case but paying workers what the work is worth allows employers to pay workers more. Just within a framework.
I work in Kenya with a leather goods manufacturer (See our YouTube Page). I care about the workers and want them to be able to provide for their families to the fullest extent. Leather itself is a valuable material and the quality needed to sell in the US market is very high. I need the best workers I can find and the products we make have a great margin so I have room to pay workers well. That is part of the reason why I pursued leather because I can do right by the workers.
When this business takes off I want the workers to benefit like I do but one thing I cannot do is compromise the business by incorporating charity. I would much rather create a profit sharing scheme down the road and let them benefit enormously than pay excessive wages now and put the whole operation in jeopardy. Not because the business can or can’t sustain it but because the workers are not stupid. They know charity when they see it and they will act accordingly.
Ask people who have worked abroad and employed locals. One thing that is very common is the lack of gratitude by local employees and the dumbfounded attitude founders have towards them. Just because someone is doing work doesn’t mean you are avoiding the pitfalls of handouts.One organization in Uganda had to call in local police to quell a riot, tear gas and all, because their workers were revolting. This organization was paying very well on top of many other benefits they were giving workers but the workers wanted more. Why? Americans are rich and they are poor. They knew they were receiving charity so why not try to receive more?
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Nothing profound there, just a wet happening on a wet day.
Today we shall take a look at Thomas Hardy’s poem During Wind and Rain.
It might be puzzling at first glance, but one quickly notices that the first five lines of each stanza depict a pleasant scene of middle-class family life in rural England roughly at the beginning of the Edwardian period, while the last two lines of each stanza consist of a ballad-like lament (repeated in two different forms) followed by an image of transience. These latter images, when combined, show us the coming and arrival of a storm, quite in contrast to the bright and happy scenes, but nonetheless, we shall see, related.
This odd combination of pleasant family vignettes combined with images of storm have, as their point, very much the same as that of the poem Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas. In the latter we are shown the happy childhood of a boy quite unaware that even as he is enjoying his simple pleasures, time is already gradually killing him. In Hardy’s poem the family similarly are engaged in their domestic pleasures, quite unaware that a storm is arriving. The storm is time and death.
You will find it helpful, I think, to read my posting on Fern Hill in the archives of this site.
This notion of humans heedlessly going about their little pleasures, unaware that time is engaged in killing them, is found also in the very old Buddhist parable of the children playing in a house. They are so absorbed in their play that they fail to notice that the house is aflame. In Fern Hill these children are the boy Dylan Thomas; in During Wind and Rain they are the happy middle-class family.
The first stanza shows us a group, likely a family, father, mother, children and perhaps some friends, gathered together and happily singing familiar songs, something that was very common in the days before radio and television and the Internet. They sing in harmonious parts, high voices, medium voices, and low voices, and the candlelight shines on their faces, making them glow like moons in the shadowy pre-electrified room. One person plays accompaniment on a musical instrument, perhaps an upright cottage piano with its two candleholders placed above the music rack, to left and right, and the candles lit.
— like the repeated refrain of a song.
First we see a multitude of leaves falling from the trees, and next “storm-birds” — birds flying across the sky ahead of the coming storm; a wind rips an aged but decayed rose stalk from the wall against which it had been growing for years; and finally we see tombstones in the beating rain, the drops streaming down and through the grooves of the carved names of the same family we have seen in the preceding happy times.
And that, of course, gives us the beginning autumn image Hardy uses in the last line of the first stanza — leaves blown from the trees.
The meaning of Hardy’s poem is, in one word, impermanence — the same theme that underlies all good hokku.
You will recall, if you are a regular reader here, that ya is an untranslatable particle indicating a meditative pause, indicated in English here by a semicolon.
The word shigure means the cold rain of late autumn to early winter. Traditionally this is considered a winter hokku, but remember that according to the Hokku Calendar, winter begins about the time of Halloween.
Some see the “pleasant parts” of the four stanzas as representing the four seasons, beginning with winter, progressing to a spring garden cleaning, then to a summer breakfast, and finally autumn, but I do not think there is enough evidence for that. Instead it would appear that aside from the last line of each stanza, all can be placed in a spring through summer setting, thus contrasting with the “forever autumn” theme of the poem as a whole.
That theme also explains the title of the poem, During Wind and Rain. The family going about their domestic pleasures are quite unaware that their actions are all happening as an “autumn” storm (time) is rising that will sweep all away.
As autumn deepens, the days grow ever shorter, the nights longer.
Our bodies, if not constrained by trying to follow “clock time,” gradually adjust to this, but nonetheless sometimes we find ourselves waking in the night, unable to go back to sleep.
In that time of dark stillness, any sensory event makes a much stronger impression than usual, like a pebble falling into a well.
Gochiku does not mean that the sound of water dripping, flowing, or falling (he does not specify which) in the night is in keeping with thoughts, with images running through his mind. He means instead that the sound of water expresses the silence of his mind, an empty darkness in which that sound becomes magnified by the absence of both active thinking and other sensory input — again, like a pebble falling into a deep dark well, creating only a resonant splash and waves moving outward in a circle and being reflected inward again.
Everyone experiences a hokku differently, depending on our individual stores of memories and impressions. While this hokku retains its essential meaning no matter whether one hears a slow dripping of water, like that of rain dripping from a roof, or the gurgling of a nearby stream, or that of a very small waterfall, I like to hear the slow dripping of water. It is a sound that comes into consciousness, disappears, then appears again, a kind of ticking of the world clock in which we feel what is always happening, things arising and passing away, the constant movement from this moment to the next, a repeating birth and death.
We should not, however, think of this sound of water in the night as a symbol or metaphor of anything. It expresses itself, but in it we feel the nature of all existence.
One can write countless hokku using this setting/subject/action model. Just remember that the setting is the place, condition or circumstance in which something happens. The subject is the main “actor” in the verse (a noun), and the action is precisely that, something moving or changing, generally characterized by a verb.
The action is what the actor does, what happens on stage.
That is, of course, a simplified way of approaching the subject, but it may be helpful to those who wish to learn to write real hokku.
William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) wrote a poem about a very difficult time in his life, a work that has been both praised and (unjustly) derided over the years. Its subject is the human spirit and its response to difficult circumstances.
We all have seen how differently people react to the same trying event, such as the death of a dear family member or a terrible accident: some just regard it quietly, with grim, dry-eyed stoicism, while others fall apart completely and can barely function. How one responds gives a very good picture of one’s psychological makeup.
In such times of trial — we commonly speak of them as “dark” times — we are forced to see the negative side of life, the side we try to ignore or forget about for our own mental health. But Henley could not forget about it or overlook it. As a boy he suffered so severely from tubercular arthritis that doctors eventually removed one of his legs. Medicine in those days was still primitive and germ-ridden, and the result of surgery was often infection and death. When, in 1873, doctors wanted to remove his other leg, Henley managed to get another opinion, which fortunately was that of Joseph Lister, the man who pioneered the new technique of antiseptic surgery. By that decision Henley saved his remaining leg.
Because of all his difficulties, Henley was “in hospital” as the British say, for a very long time, almost two years, and one can imagine how this must have affected the young man. He began to write poetry about those troubling months, a series of verses called In Hospital.
We have seen that “night” is a metaphor for dark and difficult times. So dark were those times for Henley that he described them as night so black that it “extended from pole to pole,” that is, it darkened his whole world.
But again for those in Britain, it was a common term among coal miners, for whom “to go down the pit” meant to descend into a coal mine, and there was nothing blacker than the depths of a coal mine when a lamp went out, no darkness, at least no physical darkness, greater. So this usage by Henley was, in its time, very strong and expressive.
But in that darkness, he did not just give in to utter despair. He did not let his emotions rule him; instead, he took charge of his thoughts, guiding himself through those black times like a captain in control of his ship. For this ability he is so grateful that he thanks whatever in the universe gave him the ability to manifest this inner strength; he thanks whatever gods there might be, whatever the reasons were, for his unconquerable spirit.
Henley used the old word “fell,” as did J.R.R. Tolkien, to mean “deadly, terrible.” In the terrible and deadly grasp of the circumstances that beset him, Henley did not wince, did not shrink back, nor did he cry out in anguish. He kept his composure. And under the beatings that fortune had dealt him, he took those blows but did not give in or submit. Metaphorically speaking, his head was wounded, but he kept it erect and did not bow to the forces besetting him, he did not give in to despair. These words “My head is bloody, but unbowed” have become famous and are often quoted. One thinks of the old Christian hymn by Bach, O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden” “O Head full of blood and wounds,” referring to the passion of Jesus, and Henley may have had that image of the Passion in mind.
Henley’s attitude is much like that of the pre-Christian Romans. They did not know what came after death, but often pictured the afterworld as a dark place. He sees this world as a “place of wrath and tears,” a place of suffering and sorrow, and beyond that comes death, “the Horror of the shade.” “Shade” here means darkness, shadows, but it also has undertones of the old use of the word, meaning a departed spirit. So he cannot see what lies before him; all is shadowed. Yet he has survived so far, and “the menace of the years,” the threat both of life and of what lies beyond, “finds and shall find me unafraid.” Henley has survived the trials of life, and he will go through the trials of death, whatever they may be, with the same strength of spirit. His attitude here is both courageous and agnostic (literally “not-knowing”) — he is confident that he will deal with whatever comes.
“Strait” is an old word meaning narrow and constricted. The biblical reference means that the way to eternal life is so narrow and difficult that very few will find it and be able to make it though.
So Henley is using old allusions to signify that it does not matter how difficult the passage into the afterlife may be, nor does it matter what awaits him there, even if it be punishment. Through it all he will maintain his inner strength, and nothing will cow (intimidate) him.
Because of his previous suffering, he now has the courage to face whatever may come. As Buddhism teaches, that which we no longer fear has no real power over us.
Not only were his verses hokku in form, they also continued the seasonal connection (which most writers of modern haiku have abandoned entirely) and, whether Shiki himself realized it or not, they often continued the aesthetic approach of hokku, so were hokku for all practical purposes, whatever he wished to call them.
If you read my previous postings on the Hokku Wheel of the Year and the importance of Yin and Yang in hokku, you will easily grasp the significance of this verse.
It is set in autumn, the time when Yang energy (light, warmth, movement) is fading and Yin energy (dark, cold, stillness) is increasing. It is late night. the writer extinguishes his own lamp, and then, after some time in silence, he sees the faint glow from the light in the next room go out too.
This verse expresses very well the fading of Yang energy, as first one light goes out — adding to the darkness — and then the light in the other room also goes out, making the darkness complete. And in that darkness one suddenly perceives deeply the chill of the autumn night, not yet as piercing as that of winter, but affecting in its expression that light and warmth are fading from the world. This increasing of darkness and cold parallels the waning of Yang and the increasing dominance of Yin in the season of autumn. So we could say quite honestly that this little verse manifests the character of deepening autumn very well.
It is all such deeper connections that have been forgotten and lost in the modern haiku movement, which on the whole has a completely different spirit and aesthetic than the practice of hokku. It already began to be lost in the time of Shiki, but we still find it in this verse.
As I have mentioned before, I have one reader who chides me if I do not add the originals for Japanese hokku I translate here, so for him and any others who may wish it, here is Shiki’s verse in a literal translation (in Western lineation) and in transliteration.
We are getting closer to the next major calendar point in the hokku year, which is Halloween/Samhain; it marks the end of autumn by the old calendar, and the beginning of winter, the season when Yang forces are weakest and Yin forces dominant. Shiki’s verse of increasing darkess and cold makes a good lead-in to that.
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Coordinator of Advocacy and Veterans Behavioral Health at Mental Health America of Greater Houston.
Postpartum Depression Screening and Referral Services.
Mental Health America of Greater Houston thanks you for the opportunity to submit comments on the draft policy for House Bill 2466 regarding the ability of an infant’s provider to conduct and bill for postpartum depression (PPD) screening for the infant’s mother in Medicaid and CHIP. We believe the following recommendations will assist in the successful implementation of this Medicaid benefit.
In early 2017, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended PPD screening at one, two, four and six months postpartum.[i] Line 1 of the draft policy states the Academy’s recommendation of screenings at the infant’s pediatric well-child visits but does not include the suggested intervals. We recommend adding language to line 1 about the appropriate integration of screenings at the 1-, 2-, 4- and 6-month visits.
HHSC’s draft policy (line 22) limits screening to once per provider in the year postpartum. We understand the need to implement this benefit within existing funds. That said, we recommend the agency consider the feasibility of screening according to national recommendations, as indicated by the American Academy of Pediatrics. This will result in multiple screens reimbursed per provider, and the language should be changed appropriately.
Mental Health America of Greater Houston participates in the Regional Maternal Mortality Task Force, where we examine the leading causes of maternal deaths in Houston. This task force is acutely aware of “white coat” syndrome, in which individuals are likely to lessen the severity of a condition when speaking to a doctor to disclose physical and behavioral health issues. Significantly more positive screens result in studies in which the screen was performed by a licensed clinical social worker, rather than a medical doctor. Line 7 states that screening tools may include the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (7.2), Postpartum Depression Screening Scale (7.3) and the Patient Health Questionnaire 9 (7.4). To ensure the successful roll-out of this new benefit and accurate screenings, it is important all THStep providers – including physician assistants, nurses and licensed social workers – are trained on the screening tools and the risk factors for postpartum depression.
The three tools listed above are all validated and routinely used for postpartum depression and identify a range of severity or level of need, which help guide clinician-patient decision making regarding necessary supports. The Edinburgh is most routinely used and available in more than 20 languages. While these screening tools are effective, they may not capture positive screens for women facing other maternal mental health disorders, including anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder present during the postpartum period. We recommend adding to the list of validated tools (line 7) so THSteps providers may screen moms using validated tools identifying a range of postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) tool, among others. No-cost screening tools should be prioritized to increase access to THSteps providers.
We appreciate HHSC recognizing that screening alone does not improve clinical outcomes for moms and infants, but more guidance is needed to ensure successful referrals and improved outcomes. Specifically, pediatric providers need to know the appropriate and available supports for mothers. While some pediatric providers may already screen mothers, most are not familiar with the mental health providers serving parents. We recommend HHSC should provide a menu of resources with which provider can refer when a mother screens positive for postpartum depression or other perinatal mood disorder. At a minimum, HHSC should provide THStep providers a menu of referral options in each region that serve women enrolled in or eligible for Medicaid, Healthy Texas Women or the Family Planning Program, as well as city or county indigent care programs. Also, at a minimum, this should include clear guidance to THSteps providers on how to refer women, in consultation with any existing primary care physician to the Local Mental Health Authority (LMHA). The Office of Mental Health Coordination offers a list of mental health and substance use professionals, including LMHAs and other mental health clinicians across the state. Including a list of postpartum depression treatment providers on this list would be a good resource for pediatric providers screening for perinatal mood disorders. Some moms may need more intensive therapy or medication; others may need a lower level of supports or services. It’s important that a menu of referral options is available so THStep providers, in consultation with existing primary care providers, can help refer women to services that meet her needs.
Mental Health America of Greater Houston also asks you to consider the efficacy of the existing referral process for postpartum mental health treatment. New mothers who are not eligible for Medicaid are automatically enrolled in Healthy Texas Women sixty days following delivery when their CHIP perinatal benefits expire. Healthy Texas Women’s coverage of postpartum depression treatment is minimal at best. Many women with the most complicated postpartum mood disorders cannot receive adequate treatment within the confines of the Healthy Texas Women reimbursement model. Should mothers require more intensive medication or hospitalization, they are typically referred out to another facility, frequently an emergency room, where they do not have coverage for services. We need to ensure that doctors have a safe place with the appropriate supports to send mothers who screen positively for postpartum mood disorders; otherwise, doctors will not feel comfortable making referrals and women won’t get the treatment they need. We recommend HHSC shall communicate clearly to state health programs and community mental health providers, including LMHAs, that women with postpartum depression fall under priority diagnosis of major depressive disorder and assist them to prepare for increased referrals of women with postpartum depression.
Lastly, the results of the screenings used are not digital – leaving a paper form to record the results of a postpartum screen. Mothers are sent from the pediatrician’s office with the paper medical record and information can be lost in the process. With digital records, a “warm handoff” can be more secure knowing that all information is transmitted to the next provider. We recommend the agency consider the feasibility of digital records to ensure successful referrals and improved clinical outcomes.
Again, we sincerely thank you for the opportunity to provide input on the draft policy for HB 2466. We look forward to continued partnership with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to ensure families have access to needed mental health supports. For any questions or concerns, please contact Annalee Gulley at agulley@mhahouston.org or (210) 823-5818.
On June 15, 2017, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Texas’ first post-partum depression screening legislation. HB 2466, authored by Representative Sarah Davis (R-Houston), allows for Texas Health Steps provider reimbursement for post-partum depression during the twelve-month period following delivery. Reimbursement will be funded through an infant’s Medicaid or perinatal CHIP.
Parents with postpartum depression experience a range of physical, emotional, and behavioral changes including sadness, anxiety and exhaustion that interfere with day-to-day life and routines. Postpartum depression is the most common complication of childbirth, with approximately one-in-nine women experiencing depression or anxiety during pregnancy and/or the first year after childbirth. Postpartum depression, and other perinatal mood disorders, can result in adverse maternal, infant and child outcomes, including lower rates of breastfeeding initiation and shorter duration, poor maternal and infant bonding and infant developmental disorders.
Thinking of harming herself or her baby.
Under current state law, women who receive prenatal care through Medicaid for Pregnant Women remain eligible for Medicaid benefits for 60 days following delivery. During this time, Medicaid will cover the postpartum visits as well as medication and follow-up necessary for women who are diagnosed with postpartum depression. However, postpartum depression and other perinatal mood disorders can present anytime within the first four-to-six weeks up to 12 months following childbirth. When coverage under Medicaid for Pregnant Women ends, a woman will transition to the Healthy Texas Women Program, if she meets eligibility requirements.
For more information on postpartum depression, click here.
To review HB 2466’s draft policy language or provide public comment, click here before Tuesday, December 19.
On Tuesday, November 14, 2017, Annalee Gulley, Director of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Mental Health America of Greater Houston, was invited to provide testimony before the House Committee on Public Education.
– Recommend any measures needed at the state level to prevent unintended punitive consequences to both students and districts in the state accountability system as a result of Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath.
– Examine the educational opportunities offered to students displaced by Hurricane Harvey throughout the state and the process by which districts enroll and serve those students. Recommend any changes that could improve the process for students or help districts serving a disproportionate number of displaced students.
Ms. Gulley was on one of five panels of invited testimony and shared the importance of trauma training for classroom teachers and the impact transition plans could have on displaced students. Other panelists included Superintendents from Aldine, Alief, Aransas County, Flour Bluff, Katy, Orange Field, Port Arthur, and Sheldon Independent School Districts. Josette Saxton, Director of Public Policy for Texans Care For Children, also provided testimony. This was the last House Public Education Committee meeting of 2017.
Annalee Gulley testifying in front of the House Public Education Committee (Left to Right: Rep. Linda Koop, Rep. VanDeaver, Rep. Ken King, Rep. Bernal (Vice Chair), Rep. Huberty (Chair), Rep. Allen). Ms. Gulley was on a panel with Mr. Loius Malfar, President of Texas AFT, Dr. Bruce Marchand, Director of Charter School Growth and Development with Texas Charter School Association, and Ms. Josette Saxton, Director of Mental Health Policy at Texans Care for Children.
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today, Chairman Huberty.
Since Harvey hit Houston, Mental Health America of Greater Houston has prioritized the mental health needs of Houston’s approximately 800,000 youths aged 6-17 with supports and interventions that are more important now than ever. Our primary focus has been to provide trauma-informed training to teachers within 27 schools across 10 independent school districts in the Greater Houston Area. We are also advocating for the implementation of transition plans within school districts with a disproportionate number of displaced students to aid in the successful reintegration into the public-school system.
Before the storm, national prevalence data estimated that 10 percent of Texas’ youth will experience an average of three adverse child experiences – or traumas – before the age of 17. With 2 in 5 youths affected by mental health or substance use issues, we know that approximately 250,000 Houston-area students went into the storm with a predisposition to trauma, as trauma affects individuals with mental health issues more severely. Even if you excluded youth predisposed to adverse childhood experiences from the conversation, we are no longer just talking about kids with mental health issues, or “bad kids” or “problem kids.” We are talking about every kid throughout the region.
The psychological reaction to disaster lasts approximately one to three years, with signs and symptoms presenting most frequently three months after the traumatic event. Unlike some affected groups, we know how to access this population and the necessary supports for trauma-affected youth. Teachers are our entry point. They work in classrooms eight hours a day, five days a week. With trauma-informed training, they can properly identify and respond to signs and symptoms of trauma such as inattentiveness, poor academic achievement and difficulty following rules of the classroom. Trauma-trained teachers also will better know how to prepare for triggering events such as heavy storms, the holidays and the first anniversary of a disaster.
State funding will be required for comprehensive, trauma-informed training within public schools. Mental Health America of Greater Houston has been fortunate to partner with private sponsors to provide trauma-informed training, but the funds allocated were not enough to meet the existing need in Harris County – and Harris County is not the only affected county by Hurricane Harvey.
Again, we appreciate the Committee’s time today and the opportunity to bring trauma-informed training and transition service plans into the conversation surrounding Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts. The Governor was right when he said that our hardest to heal wounds would be invisible. That does not mean they should be forgotten. With trauma-informed training and transition service plans, we can provide impacted youth with the necessary supports begin anew.
On Monday, October 23, Speaker of the House Joe Straus and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick released a full list of interim charges for Texas’ State House and State Senate committees to study before the 86th Legislative Session begins in January 2019. Many of the interim charges examine Hurricane Harvey and the state’s response, including the storm’s impact on public health, the juvenile justice system, agriculture and the state’s tax structure. In addition to these charges, Speaker Straus called for the creation of a Select Committee on Opioid and Substance Abuse which will study the prevalence and impact of substance abuse and substance use disorders in the state. This committee, chaired by Representative Four Price, is an extension of the work of the Select Committee on Mental Health, convened following the 84th Legislative Session.
Examine the Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECI) in Texas, including a review of historical funding levels, programmatic changes, challenges providers face within the program and utilization trends. Evaluate ECI’s impact on reducing the long-term costs of public education and health care. Identify solutions to strengthen the program.
Monitor Congressional action on federal healthcare reform and CHIP reauthorization. Identify potential impacts of any proposed federal changes. Identify short- and long-term benefits and challenges related to converting Texas Medicaid funding to a block grant or per capita cap methodology. Determine how Texas should best prepare for federal changes, including statutory and regulatory revisions, as well as any new administrative functions that may be needed. Explore opportunities to increase the state’s flexibility in administering its Medicaid program, including but not limited to the use of 1115 and 1332 waivers.
Examine the use of social workers and peer support specialists in the Texas criminal justice system to assist individuals on probation, on parole or who have been discharged, in order to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes. Identify best practices and make recommendations for legislative action.
Study how counties identify defendants’ and inmates’ behavioral health needs and deferral opportunities to appropriate rehabilitative and transition services. Consider models for ensuring defendants and inmates with mental illness receive appropriate services upon release from the criminal justice system.
Assess developments in medical science and legal standards related to the imposition of the death penalty on defendants with serious mental illness or intellectual and developmental disabilities. Review statutorily prescribed jury instructions used during capital sentencing.
Examine the needs of homeless veterans in Texas. Examine obstacles veterans may face finding housing across the state. Recommend measures to bolster the state’s efforts to address veteran homelessness in Texas.
Monitor the agencies and programs under the Committee’s jurisdiction and oversee the implementation of relevant legislation passed by the 85th Legislature. In conducting this oversight, review the implementation of S.B. 27 (85R) and the related Veterans Mental Health Program, as well as S.B. 578 (85R) and the development of the Veterans Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
Review the history and any future roll-out of Medicaid Managed Care in Texas. Determine the impact managed care has had on the quality and cost of care. In the review, determine: initiatives that managed care organizations (MCOs) have implemented to improve quality of care; whether access to care and network adequacy contractual requirements are sufficient; and whether MCOs have improved the coordination of care. Also determine provider and Medicaid participants’ satisfaction within STAR, STAR Health, Star Kids, and STAR+Plus managed care programs. In addition, review the Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) oversight of managed care organizations, and make recommendations for any needed improvement.
Review the availability of prevention and early intervention programs and determine their effectiveness in reducing maltreatment of children. In addition, review services available to children emancipating out of foster care, as well as services available to families post-adoption. Determine if current services are adequately providing for children’s needs and meeting the objectives of the programs. While reviewing possible system improvements for children, follow the work of the Supreme Court of Texas Children’s Commissions’ Statewide Collaborative of Trauma-Informed Care to determine how trauma-informed care impacts outcomes for children.
Study the increased use of specialty courts across the state. Examine the role these courts play in the judicial system and recommend improvements to ensure they continue to be appropriately and successfully utilized.
Evaluate the use of telemedicine to improve behavioral health services in the juvenile justice system.
Review state programs that provide women’s health services and recommend solutions to increase access to effective and timely care. During the review, identify services provided in each program, the number of providers and clients participating in the programs, and the enrollment and transition process between programs. Monitor the work of the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force and recommend solutions to reduce maternal deaths and morbidity. In addition, review the correlation between pre-term and low birth weight births and the use of alcohol and tobacco. Consider options to increase treatment options and deter usage of these substances.
Study and make recommendations to improve services available for identifying and treating children with mental illness, including the application of trauma- and grief-informed practices. Identify strategies to assist in understanding the impact and recognizing the signs of trauma in children and providing school-based or community-based mental health services to children who need them. Analyze the role of the Texas Education Agency and of the regional Education Service Centers regarding mental health. In addition, review programs that treat early psychosis among youth and young adults.
Review opportunities to improve population health and health care delivery in rural and urban medically underserved areas. Identify potential opportunities to improve access to care, including the role of telemedicine. In the review, identify the challenges facing rural hospitals and the impact of rural hospital closures.
Study the prevalence and impact of substance use and substance use disorders in Texas, including co-occurring mental illness. Study the prevalence and impact of opioids and synthetic drugs in Texas. Review the history of overdoses and deaths due to overdoses. Also review other health-related impacts due to substance abuse. Identify substances that are contributing to overdoses, related deaths and health impacts, and compare the data to other states. During the review, identify effective and efficient prevention and treatment responses by health care systems, including hospital districts and coordination across state and local governments. Recommend solutions to prevent overdoses and related health impacts and deaths in Texas.
Review the prevalence of substance abuse and substance use disorders in pregnant women, veterans, homeless individuals and people with co-occurring mental illness. In the review, study the impact of opioids and identify available programs specifically targeted to these populations and the number of people served. Consider whether the programs have the capacity to meet the needs of Texans. In addition, research innovative programs from other states that have reduced substance abuse and substance use disorders, and determine if these programs would meet the needs of Texans. Recommend strategies to increase the capacity to provide effective services.
Examine the impact of substance abuse and substance use disorders on Texans who are involved in the adult or juvenile criminal justice system and/or the Child Protective Services system. Identify barriers to treatment and the availability of treatment in various areas of the state. Recommend solutions to improve state and local policy, including alternatives to justice system involvement, and ways to increase access to effective treatment and recovery options.
Identify the specialty courts in Texas that specialize in substance use disorders. Determine the effectiveness of these courts and consider solutions to increase the number of courts in Texas.
For a full list of the Texas State House of Representatives’ Interim Charges, click here.
Adult and Juvenile Corrections Funding: Examine the funding patterns used to fund the juvenile justice system and adult probation departments. Develop recommendations to ensure the Texas Juvenile Justice Department budget does not dis-incentivize the use of cost-effective best practices such as diverting youth from the juvenile justice system, providing services to youth in their community and keeping youth closer to home. In addition, review funding to adult probation departments and ensure it provides for an equitable distribution to all Texas Probation Departments.
Monitor the state’s progress in coordinating behavioral health services and expenditures across state government, pursuant to Article IX section 10.04, including the impact of new local grant funding provided by the 85th Legislature.
Substance Abuse/Opioids: Review substance use prevention, intervention and recovery programs operated or funded by the state and make recommendations to enhance services, outreach and agency coordination. Examine the adequacy of substance use, services for pregnant and postpartum women enrolled in Medicaid or the Healthy Texas Women Program and recommend ways to improve substance use related health outcomes for these women and their newborns. Examine the impact of recent legislative efforts to curb overprescribing and doctor shopping via the prescription monitoring program and recommend ways to expand on current efforts.
Medicaid Managed Care Quality and Compliance: Review the Health and Human Services Commission’s efforts to improve quality and efficiency in the Medicaid program, including pay-for-quality initiatives in Medicaid managed care. Compare alternative payment models and value-based payment arrangements with providers in Medicaid managed care, the Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System, and identify areas for cross-collaboration and coordination among these entities.
Initiatives intended to improve child safety, Child Protective Services workforce retention, and development of additional capacity in the foster care system. Make additional recommendations to ensure children with elevated levels of medical or mental health needs receive timely access to services in the least restrictive setting.
Veterans’ Health: Study the effectiveness of veterans’ health and mental health initiatives in Texas and recommend ways to improve access and delivery. Explore the state of the federal VA Choice Program, including potential expiration, continuation or expansion of the program. Consider the impact of the VA Choice Program on improving the delivery of health care, and determine ways to raise awareness and increase participation among Texas veterans. Consider the potential connection between chronic pain and mental health and identify strategies to improve the prevention of veteran suicide.
Monitor the implementation and impact of legislation passed by the Texas Legislature, including SB 27 by Campbell 85(R), relating to the mental health program for veterans.
For a full list of the Texas State Senate’s Interim Charges, click here.
While Texas’ 85th Legislative Session has been touted as one of the most contentious sessions in recent memory, mental and behavioral health funding and programming received important time and attention – largely due to the formation of the Interim Select Committee on Mental Health. Below is a brief summary of both the regular session and the special session and the status of MHA of Greater Houston’s legislative agenda.
As always, The Texas Tribune is an incredible resource in Austin. Please listen to recordings of their recent TribFest, which covered important topics including mental health, maternal mortality and the future of Medicaid.
At 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, House Bill 2623 (Allen, Alma | Thompson, Senfronia) and House Bill 3887 (Coleman) will be heard before the Senate Education Committee – because of you.
Your calls, your emails to friends, your commitment to advancing legislation for youth mental health. You made this happen. And you can’t stop now. We’ve come too far. Together.
Each member of the Senate Education Committee needs to know how important these bills are to Texas students and that, when I stand before them to testify tomorrow, I have all of you standing beside me.
We have eight days left to pass these bills.
Please take five minutes to call your State Senator and the Senate Education Committee to let them know you support our Senate sponsor, Senator Zaffirini, and House Bill 2623 (Transition Services) and House Bill 3887 (Trauma Training). Ask them to vote yes on both bills and send them to the Senate floor for a vote.
Please call your Houston Senator – and members of the Senate Education Committee – and ask that they support HB 2623 (Allen | Thompson, Senfronia) and HB 3887 (Coleman). The more support they hear, the better our chance of getting the bills voted out of the Education Committee as soon as possible.
Hello, my name is ________. I am calling Senator _______ because I want to make sure they support HB 2623 (Allen | Thompson, Senfronia) and HB 3887 (Coleman). Both bills are scheduled for a hearing in the EDUCATION COMMITTEE this Thursday, May 18. I support these bills and the positive impact they will have on mental health in education in the state of Texas and encourage Senator ______ to do so as well. Thank you very much!
Hello, my name is ________. I am calling Senate Education Committee to show my support of HB 2623 (Allen | Thompson, Senfronia) and HB 3887 (Coleman). Both bills are scheduled for a hearing in the EDUCATION COMMITTEE this Thursday, May 18. I support these bills and the positive impact they will have on mental health in education in the state of Texas. Thank you very much!
Friday, March 10 marked the deadline to file legislation for Texas’ 85th legislative session. Mental Health America of Greater Houston is excited to report on the progress of our priorities.
MHA of Greater Houston successfully filed four bills, supporting both our Center for School Behavioral Health and Women’s Mental Health programs. We have also worked closely with Chairman Four Price and Representative Sarah Davis to ensure specific language reflecting our priorities was inserted into their existing bills concerning these legislative issues. We are proud both of the final bills resulting from these ongoing conversations and of the influence MHA of Greater Houston demonstrated during a critical moment when competing political priorities can too often sink impactful legislation.
After meeting with many members of the Houston delegation, we believe that our legislative agenda is strong; however, the current fiscal outlook and political climate in Austin make the passage of any bill a very difficult task. We have our work cut out for us during the next 67 days.
Now that our bills have been filed, the next step is getting them through their respective committees. HB 2135, our Post-Partum Depression bill, and HB 11, Chairman Four Price’s children’s mental health bill, were referred to the House Public Health Committee in the beginning of March. Earlier this week, HB 2135, Representative Davis’s Post-Partum Depression bill, was referred to the House Committee on Public Health and HB 2623, our transition services bill, was referred to the House Committee on Public Education.
In a session in which 6,657 bills were filed and money is tight, now is the time to connect with your legislators and bring our bills to the front of their priority list.
We are thrilled House Bill 2623 (Allen), relating to requiring school districts to assist students in making the transition back to school after certain prolonged placements outside of school, has been referred to the House Public Education Committee! For a refresher on the importance of this bill, check out our recent Center for School Behavioral Health post in which local expert Latashia Crenshaw, Director of Educational Support and Advocacy Services at the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, talks to MHA of Greater Houston about transition services.
What does House Bill 2623 (Allen) do?
This bill requires that school districts provide assistance to students transitioning back to school after 30 or more days in a disciplinary alternative education program, a juvenile justice alternative education program, a residential program or facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, a juvenile board, or any other governmental entity, a residential treatment center, or a public or private hospital.
Under this legislation, schools will be required to create individualized transition service plans for returning students. The plan, to the extent possible, must be developed in conjunction with the student’s parent/guardian. As appropriate, the plan must include: consideration of the best educational placement for the student; provision of counseling, behavioral management assistance, or academic assistance; and access to community mental health or substance abuse services.
What problem does the bill solve?
Education is the key to a successful life, reducing juvenile recidivism, and ending the school-to-prison-pipeline. For a child returning to school following a prolonged absence, particularly for a disciplinary placement in the judicial system, succeeding once there is not easy. There are a variety of individual, school, and systemic factors that must be addressed if young people are to successfully return to schools. Individual factors include poor academic and social–emotional skills, credit deficits, special education needs, and the failure to develop an identity as a learner. Systemic factors include the failure of agencies and institutions to share records quickly, the absence of alignment and articulation between sending and receiving schools at both ends of the transition process, the dearth of accountability for mobile student outcomes, and inadequate systemic capacity to collaborate with families.
Through collaboration and planning, administrators that serve transitioning youth can prepare youth, from entry through discharge, for their return to their home-based school, enabling them to resume educational services successfully.
While HB 2623 was referred to the House Public Education Committee, there is no guarantee it will be heard before the committee. The House Public Education Committee is chaired by Houston State Representative Dan Huberty and includes Houston-area Representatives Alma Allen, Harold Dutton, Jr., and Representative Dwyane Bohac.
Please call your Houston Representatives on the Public Education Committee – and the Public Education Committee itself – and ask that they set a hearing date for this bill. The more support they hear, the better our chance of getting a hearing scheduled as soon as possible.
Hello, my name is ________. I am calling Representative _______ because I want to make sure that House Bill 2623 (Allen) gets a hearing scheduled in the PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE. I support this bill and the positive impact it will have on mental health in education in the state of Texas and encourage Representative ______ to do so as well. Thank you very much!
While we still need support for HB 3853 and HB 3887, we will focus our attention on scheduling a hearing for HB 2623 until they are referred to a committee.
We urge you to connect with members of the House Public Health Committee to let them know that you support MHA of Greater Houston and hope the Representatives will fight to make sure our bills are heard before their committee as quickly as possible!
Luckily, the House Public Health Committee includes Houston-area Representative Garnet Coleman and Representative Tom Oliverson.
Please call these State Representatives and ask for these bills to be heard in front of the Public Health committee. The more support they hear, the better our chance of getting a hearing on this important women’s health issue.
Hello, my name is ________. I am calling Representative _______ because I want to make sure that House Bill [ ] gets a hearing scheduled in the PUBLIC HEALTH COMMITTEE. I support this bill and the positive impact it will have on women’s mental health in Texas and encourage Representative ______ to do so as well. Thank you very much!
While you’re making calls, call your local State Representative to express support for House Bill 2623 (Allen), as well! While your local Representative may not be a member of House Public Education, his or her support for House Bill 2623 is important! As a constituent, your opinion matters! Ask them to use their influence with their colleagues on the Public Education Committee to make sure House Bill 2623 (Allen) gets a hearing! Better yet, ask them to “Joint Author” the bill!
Hello, my name is ________, I’m a constituent from Houston, zip code ___. I am calling Representative _______ to urge [him/her] to consider becoming a joint author of House Bill [2623| 3853| 3887]. This bill is incredibly important for the future of the kids in our local schools and a great step toward ending the school-to-prison-pipeline. If you won’t consider joint authoring the bill, please reach out to your colleagues on the PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE and tell them your constituents want this bill to be heard in front of this committee. Thank you very much!
In addition to our priority partner bills, we are also following these bills for their impact on mental and behavioral health in Texas.
In the meantime, take heart in knowing we still have time to get some great work done.
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This section includes relevant background text, definitions and examples, policy statements, video, and expert commentary. It should be read by those looking for a thorough understanding of research misconduct.
What is the history of scientific misconduct regulation?
How common is scientific misconduct?
What policies and procedures are in place to deal with misconduct?
What are the issues surrounding the reporting of a misconduct case?
What are some guidelines for those who report misconduct?
What are the inquiry, investigation, and adjudication processes?
I. What is scientific misconduct?
"Advances in science, engineering and all fields of research depend on the reliability of the research record, as do benefits associated with them in areas such as health and national security," begins the December 6, 2000, Notice of Final Policy in the Federal Record from the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. It continues, "Sustained public trust in the research enterprise requires confidence in the research record and in the processes involved in its ongoing development."
To ensure research dependability, to maintain public support, and to unify policies across the federal government, the OSTP on that day issued, after an almost 10-year process, what it calls a unified definition of misconduct. The policy applies to all agencies and all recipients of funds from federal agencies. The OSTP's goal was to have all agencies adopt this policy. The two federal agencies that support most research in academia - the National Science Foundation and the Public Health Service, which includes the National Institutes of Health - have implemented the OSTP policy, for the most part.
What is the OSTP's definition of misconduct? According to the OSTP, "research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them. Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record. Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person's ideas, processes, results, or words without giving appropriate credit. Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion."
"Research," according to the OSTP, "includes all basic, applied, and demonstration research in all fields of science, engineering, and mathematics. This includes, but is not limited to, research in economics, education, linguistics, medicine, psychology, social sciences, statistics, and research involving human subjects or animals. The research record is the record of data or results that embody the facts resulting from scientific inquiry, and includes, but is not limited to, research proposals, laboratory records, both physical and electronic, progress reports, abstracts, theses, oral presentations, internal reports, and journal articles."
The policy also addresses how research institutions should manage allegations of misconduct, which this module will address later. At the NSF, the Office of Inspector General has oversight of institutions regarding misconduct.
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) oversees and directs PHS research integrity activities on behalf of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the exception of the regulatory research integrity activities of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Centers for Disease Control, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry all fall under the PHS aegis.
Historical examples of fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism will be discussed next to illustrate examples of misconduct. Today, plagiarism is deemed to be a serious problem facing academia. Some examples of plagiarism include: investigators during the peer- review process taking ideas from others' grant proposals or articles and including them in their own publications; students taking material from the Internet verbatim, without attribution, during write-ups of research; and faculty taking dissertation material from students and including it in publications without giving due credit.
B. What is the history of scientific misconduct regulation?
Throughout the history of science, there have been many claims that scientists have fudged data, which today might be deemed misconduct. Michael Kalichman, of the University of California, San Diego, points to a few examples: Isaac Newton may have adjusted calculations to fit observations; Gregor Mendel's results with pea plants were cleaner than what is observed experimentally, indicating that he might have changed the data; and Robert Millikan, in a research paper describing the charge of an electron, failed to mention that he eliminated some data points although he probably should have reported why he removed some data in the publication. Others have noted that Louis Pasteur failed, in his studies, to cite that he used the vaccine against anthrax made by a competitor, saying instead that he used his own vaccine to inactivate the bacilli by oxygen.
More recently, certain scientific misconduct cases have caught the public's attention after being reported in the news media. In 1974, William Summerlin, working with immunologist Robert Good at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, reported that he could transplant tissue from genetically unrelated animals without rejection by the recipient animal if he kept the tissue from the donor in organ culture for four to six weeks. Such a finding would have been invaluable for transplant medicine. Summerlin demonstrated his claims by showing white mice that had black patches on their backs because their skin had been transplanted from unrelated donor mice. However, after Summerlin made a presentation in Good's office, a technician noticed that these "transplanted patches" were actually drawn on the skin of the mice with a felt-tipped marker. The patches could be removed with alcohol. When confronted, Summerlin admitted the fraud.
Two other cases in the 1980s brought awareness of misconduct to the scientific community and to the public. One case involved Dr. John R. Darsee, a young clinical investigator in cardiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (a teaching affiliate of Harvard University), who published many research studies and included faculty members as authors on the work although they had minimal or no direct involvement in the papers that bore their names.
In May of 1981, Darsee's associates and supervisors at Harvard caught him fabricating data. Other investigations led to the conclusion that Darsee fabricated research publications beginning when he was a biology student at Notre Dame, continuing through his medical residency and cardiology fellowship at Emory University, and ending at Harvard. More than 10 primary journal articles and more than 45 abstracts were retracted as a result of the investigations. The Darsee case highlighted the problem of using so-called "gift authors" on papers. Gift authors have little or no contact with the person giving them the authorship, but the presence of the prestigious names may influence an editor to consider a paper for publication.
The co-authors in the Darsee case either did not know they were on the papers or had no direct involvement in the papers. Eventually, they were found not to have participated in the fraud, having been unaware of the fabrications. But the case pointed to the need for co-authors to have responsibility for information in papers on which their names appear. The case also revealed that the peer-review process could not be relied upon to find the fabrication.
Soon after Darsee, the case of Robert A. Slutsky, working in radiology at the University of California, San Diego, also brought to light the problem with co- authors. Slutsky apparently was publishing one paper every 10 days for years and including names of many co-authors to mislead editors and cover up for what later was learned to be a false output. His behavior continued until 1985. At the time, he was up for promotion, and a reviewer noted duplicated data in two of Slutsky's articles. Slutsky resigned, but an investigation later found that, of his 137 publications, 77 were valid, 48 were questionable, and 12 were fraudulent.
This infamous case pitted a postdoctoral researcher against a Nobel Prize winner. It became a cause célèbre in the mid-1980s, and was the subject of federal investigations and congressional hearings, which ultimately led to the establishment of regulations against research misconduct.
The case took more than 10 years to resolve. It began in 1985, when Margot O'Toole, a postdoctoral research at Tufts University, could not validate the findings of some work soon to be published in Cell by her employer, Thereza Imanishi-Kari. , A co-author on the paper was a Nobel Prize winner, David Baltimore, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. O'Toole came to believe that Imanishi-Kari manipulated research data and presented her evidence to committees at Tufts and MIT. The committees ruled that misconduct had not occurred but that Imanishi-Kari had been sloppy in her research. An NIH committee at the time also cleared Imanishi-Kari.
Walter Stewart and Ned Feder, two scientists from the NIH who were involved in exposing misconduct, then became involved in the case, believing that the committees and the NIH did not do an adequate job of revealing problems with the paper. In 1988, congressional hearings were held, headed by Representative John Dingell, who chaired the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees the budget for the NIH. All three took up the cause because they believed that problems existed in the way that universities handled allegations of misconduct.
Dingell's committee even brought in the Secret Service, which determined that Imanishi-Kari had tampered with evidence that she had provided to the committee. The hearings were contentious in nature, and many believed that Dingell was particularly hostile to Baltimore, who continued to defend Imanishi- Kari.
In 1991, the NIH's fraud division, at that time called the Office of Scientific Integrity, found that significant portions of the data were fabricated. Thereza Imanishi-Kiri was banned from receiving federal grant money for 10 years. David Baltimore resigned from his presidency of Rockefeller University on December 31, 1991, saying that he could no longer be an effective leader because of the controversy over his role in the case. He began in July 1990. Margot O'Toole was ostracized by the science field, and at one point, for employment, she answered telephones for a moving company.
The OSI became reconstituted in HHS as the Office of Research Integrity, which upheld the OSI decision. The ORI, however, had an appeals mechanism, called the Appeals Board, which, on June 21, 1996, overturned the ORI decision. The board said that it had not been proved that Imanishi-Kari falsified the scientific record but instead that she was guilty of sloppy scientific practices.
No one emerged untarnished from the case. Soon afterward, regulations concerning the management of misconduct allegations were announced by the NIH and the NSF; they included provisions for protecting the rights of those who report misconduct and those who are accused of misconduct, and also a provision for an appeals process.
In October 2002, the physics community was shaken when it became known that some groundbreaking electronics research from Bell Labs was based on fraudulent data. An independent committee found that Jan Hendrik Schön, a Bell Labs researcher, had made up or altered data at least 16 times between 1998 and 2001, and the company terminated his employment.
Thirteen of Schön's disputed findings had been published in Science and Nature, the New Scientist reported. According to physicsweb.org, he produced one paper every eight days, with a total of 20 collaborators, who were cleared of any misconduct by a Bell Labs committee. Bell Labs had formed the committee in May 2002 after some concern was raised about the validity of the research performed by Schön and his collaborators. The experiments in question were in the areas of superconductivity, molecular crystals, and molecular electronics.
"The evidence that manipulation and misrepresentation of data occurred is compelling," the committee wrote, linking all misconduct to one researcher, who committed falsification or fabrication of data on at least 16 occasions, some interrelated. According to the committee's report, the researcher "did this intentionally or recklessly and without the knowledge of any of his co-authors." But an editorial in the New Scientist asked if the collaborators should have been held accountable for Schön's fabrications, since only one of them actually witnessed him doing the research for his so-called groundbreaking experiments.
Also called into question by the editorial was the peer-review system, which failed to note some overt errors in at least one of the manuscripts, such as the use of the same curve to represent the behavior of different materials. But even though the committee said that the collaborators did not commit misconduct, the report discussed the issue of the potential problem of a lack of oversight for co-authors. The committee acknowledged that each co-author may have a different responsibility in a paper, but it raised questions about Bertram Battlogg, who led the research team. The committee said that he met his responsibilities as a co-author but questioned whether Battlogg asked for sufficient validation of the research results, which he, as a senior investigator, knew would ultimately come under scrutiny.
Based on the committee's report and language, the American Physical Society changed its professional guidelines in response to the Schön case. The guidelines now include the following: "While not all coauthors may be familiar with all aspects of the research presented in their paper, all collaborations should have in place an appropriate process for reviewing and ensuring the accuracy and validity of the reported results, and all coauthors should be aware of this process."
C. How common is scientific misconduct?
Given these high-profile cases, one question that is often asked is whether they were anomalies or representative of a real problem. It is difficult to assess whether there has been an increase in misconduct cases during, say, the past 50 years, because data on misconduct was not collected until the 1990s. The rate of overall research misconduct in the United States has been estimated to be one case per 100,000 researchers, given two million active investigators in the United States.
Between 1990 and 2002, the Office of Inspector General at the NSF investigated 800 allegations of misconduct in 600 cases, according to Peggy Fischer, the Associate Inspector General for Scientific Integrity, and others writing in the Fall/Winter 2002 Journal of Public Inquiry. The investigations resulted in 60, or 10%, of these cases being deemed misconduct. Actions ranged from debarment to reprimand, with some recovery of funds. Fischer wrote that she and her colleagues believed that the number of misconduct cases reported to the NSF was lower than the actual number of misconduct cases occurring each year at institutions funded by the NSF. The 50 misconduct cases reported represented .14% of all grant recipients, an estimate that was 100 times lower than the number arrived at from other data. The authors attribute the low number to the institutional practice of resolving allegations without reporting the result of the resolution to the NSF's OIG, even though the institution is required to do so.
In 2002, the ORI reported that 99 institutions had 83 cases of misconduct, with 71 institutions reporting a new allegation. In 1998, the ORI reported that 67 institutions had 54 cases of misconduct, with 41 institutions reporting a new allegation. As at the NSF, concerns also have been raised at the ORI about settlements of cases by institutions without them being reported to the federal government, which thus creates a low estimate of the total number of misconduct cases.
II. What policies and procedures are in place to deal with misconduct?
A. What are the issues surrounding the reporting of a misconduct case?
In 1995, the National Academy of Sciences said that scientists are advised that "someone who has witnessed misconduct has an unmistaken obligation to act" (Columbia University has the same policy). Government regulations require institutions to have systems in place so that individuals are able to report misconduct confidentially and without retaliation. But even though people who report misrepresentation about research may be turned into heroes by Hollywood - as in "The Insider," in which Jeffrey Wigand disclosed nicotine's addictive properties - in reality, whistle-blowers may suffer.
According to a 1995 ORI study on the consequences of whistle-blowing in the scientific community, "the willingness of individuals to allege misconduct is likely to depend on how the system deals with and protects them when they come forth with their allegations. Potential whistleblowers must consider whether the allegation will be taken seriously and the report treated confidentially and whether reporting will provoke retaliation not only from those accused but also from the larger academic and scientific community."
The ORI study found that more than two-thirds of all whistle-blowers reported experiencing at least one negative outcome as a direct result of their whistle-blowing. Those negative experiences included pressure to drop allegations, facing counter- allegations, being ostracized by colleagues, reductions in research support levels, threats of being sued, and actually being sued. Some said that they were fired or were denied promotions. For the whistle-blowers who did not experience a negative consequence as a result of coming forward, more than 90% said that they would do it again. Surprisingly, though, 75% of those who suffered a negative outcome from reporting an allegation of misconduct also said that they would do it again.
Since that time, better systems have been put in place at institutions to protect the rights of those who report misconduct.
B. What are some guidelines for those who report misconduct?
People who report allegations of misconduct are protected by rulings from state governments and the federal government. The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech of someone who reports an allegation of misconduct. Also, the False Claims Act of 1986 protects whistle-blowers. The act, which was originally developed during the Civil War to protect the government from fraudulent contractors, awards a whistle- blower 15% to 30% of the resulting settlement in a case of misconduct. The act also provides for remedies if it can be shown that a whistle-blower suffered a discriminatory action in retaliation for the allegation brought under the legislation. There are also new federal guidelines proposed by HHS to protect whistle-blowers; to date, these have not been finalized.
Documentation: When making an allegation of misconduct, clear documentation of who did what, and when they did it, will provide the best chance for a fair and timely resolution of the allegation.
Rules and procedures: Even though the federal government has minimal requirements about how institutions should handle misconduct, institutions have some leeway in applying the regulations. As soon as someone is involved in an allegation, he or she should review institutional procedures on the issue. A whistle-blower needs to know who should be apprised of the allegation, what constitutes evidence for or against an allegation, how the evidence should be obtained, who will review the allegation, what the whistle-blower's role will be, and how much time the process is expected to take.
Perspective: People with little experience in research should seek guidance before making allegations of misconduct. What might appear to be a serious action could be a misunderstanding. It might be appropriate to talk to peers, senior researchers in a team, an ombudsperson, or the individual in question.
Dispute resolution: Some allegations of research misconduct might be resolved through other means, such as conflict resolution. This involves dealing with a problem as soon as possible; striving for an agreement rather than disagreement; emphasizing the problem, not the people involved; and using a third party, such as an ombudsperson, to clarify issues if necessary.
Motivation of a whistle-blower: Whistle-blowers should be aware that they may suffer retribution for their actions and that institutions are responsible for a misconduct inquiry and investigation. They should also distinguish between facts and speculation and not guess at the motives of others. Whistle-blowers should ask questions rather than draw conclusions.
C. What are the inquiry, investigation, and adjudication processes?
According to the OSTP's 2000 regulations, "federal agencies have ultimate oversight authority for federally funded research, but research institutions bear primary responsibility for the prevention and detection of research misconduct and for the inquiry, investigation and adjudication of research misconduct alleged to have occurred in association with their own institution." At Columbia University's Health Sciences campus, individuals bring their concerns to the Committee on the Conduct of Science. At Columbia University's Morningside campus, individuals bring their concerns to their departments.
Inquiry is the assessment of whether the allegation has substance and whether an investigation is warranted. Investigation is the formal development of the factual record and the examination of the record leading to dismissal of a case or to a recommendation for a finding of research misconduct or to other remedies. During the adjudication phase, recommendations are reviewed and corrective actions, such as sanctions, are determined.
To determine whether misconduct has occurred, the action must have been committed intentionally or knowingly or in reckless disregard of known practices. The allegation must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence, which means determining whether the claim or fact is more probably true than not true. The standards of "clear and convincing evidence" and "beyond a reasonable doubt" require a much higher burden of proof.
Agencies rely on institutions to make the initial response to allegations of misconduct. Agencies also generally refer to the institutions any allegations of misconduct that are made to them. Occasionally, agencies will perform their own inquiries into or investigations of allegations. Under certain circumstances, agencies may undertake investigations or act quickly to protect the public interest, such as when public health and safety are at stake.
Research institutions have to notify an agency or agencies if the inquiry into an allegation of misconduct involving federally funded research leads to sufficient evidence to proceed to an investigation. When an investigation is complete, the institution also has to forward a copy of the evidence, the investigative report, recommendations made to the institution's adjudicating official, and the subject's written response to the recommendations, if there is one. Institutions also have to inform the agency about the decision of the adjudicating official and about any corrective action.
If, during an inquiry or investigation, there is any immediate risk to public health or safety, research activities should be suspended. If there may be violations of criminal or civil law, or if allegations are made public prematurely, the institution must notify the federal agency.
Institutions must provide appropriate safeguards to those reporting misconduct and those who are subjects of misconduct allegations. People who report allegations of misconduct in good faith must feel that they can report allegations confidentially and without fear of retribution. Subjects of allegations should feel that the filing of an allegation will not stop their research or bring other undue adverse action against them. Subjects also should have their rights protected, with allegations kept confidential, and have timely written notification of the allegations made against them, a description of the allegations, reasonable access to data and other evidence supporting the allegations, and the opportunity to respond to allegations and findings of research misconduct. Appeals processes should also be part of the system.
Sanctions against those found guilty of misconduct can range from appropriate steps to correct the research record to letters of reprimand; imposition of certification requirements to ensure compliance with the terms of a grant; suspension or termination of a grant; and/or personal suspension or debarment. If criminal or civil fraud violations have occurred, the agency will refer the findings to the appropriate agencies. The ORI releases the names of people guilty of misconduct on its Web site. Agencies may also issue additional sanctions beyond those of the institution.
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Opening Address: MATHEW TRINCA – Director at the National Museum of Australia.
Matt gave the opening address and linked our experience of ourselves with that of the community around us. He gave a very interesting account of his Italian family history and the impact that had on his own life in relation to his experience of the world around him.
Matt’s address really had me thinking of how my family history has impacted my world. I found myself remembering my visit to Wales in 2004. My paternal family history is Welsh and even though I was always proud of it, until my visit, I never really gave my Welsh heritage much thought at all. Other than feeling as though I actually did know my ancestors, after spending many years researching their lives.
Until I arrived in Haverfordwest, Pembokeshire, Wales, and was immediately struck by how at home and comfortable I felt. This was very much an unexpected reaction that I had. Matts address reminded me of this and makes me realise that yes, my past family history has impacted my present experiences of life.
Session 1: What can I find using erecords? CORA NUM, Professional history researcher, lecturer and writer.
This session was prerecorded, as Cora had recently injured herself and was unable to attend. I am feeling disappointed that she isn’t here, however the session was very professionally done and jam packed with information. Cora gave us updates on the latest records available online for searching at home. Many free, some requiring a small subscription. I found this session very informative and much needed as I have taken a step back from research for a couple of years, due to work pressures. There have been many changes in that time, with much more information now openly available online.
This is a subject that I knew very little about before today’s session. We were first given a brief scientific overview. I have to say that much of it went over my head and I was relieved when we were told it wasn’t necessary to remember the technical aspects of DNA. I had been considering sending my DNA away for testing, but wasn’t sure if it would be worth it. I am now convinced that this would be a good thing to do, and will look into it asap.
This session was a technical “how to do” Evernote and Dropbox. I have used Dropbox but never Evernote, so was very keen to learn more. What I learnt from this session is that there will be many sleepless nights coming up as I scan all my documents, certificates etc onto Evernote. It seems to me that this must be done to simplify my life. But one thing I’m not sure of, is what to do with the documents when they have been scanned. Scanning is being done to limit the paper that has to be kept. But, can I shred certificates and important documents? I think not. Need to do some thinking on this.
I was looking forward to this sesssion, for it’s subject matter and also to hear the presenter. I have heard Helen speak on varied subjects and she never fails to deliver. Today was the same. Helen is a wonderful presenter who brings her subject matter to life. This is quite a depressing subject, but I do have ancestors who were in the workhouse so now have more information that will continue my research..
The day ended with me feeling as though my brain might explode with all the new information that it had taken in today. My to do list is now much longer and I am wondering how on earth I will have time to go to work. Must remember to get my priorities right.
I share that exploding feeling.
Re Evernote – I recommend this excellent blog post – http://worldwidegenealogy.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/digital-preservation-or-why-i-worry.html.
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