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Summary: In this novel a story of an agricultural countryside family is portrayed by Jane Smiley as he describes what happens when an old farmer, Larry decides to grant his land to his two eldest daughters Ginny and Rose. Initially, the story begins with a pig roast on a huge farm in Iowa, during which the head of the farm, Larry Cook retires and decides to donate the land to Ginny and Rose, the oldest two of his three daughters. The youngest daughter though, Caroline, refuses to accept the generous gift being a lawyer, thus infuriating Larry, and causing him to deny her right to receiving part of the farm.
Coincidentally the two other girls willingly accept the gift because they have settled in on the farm for many years with their husbands and have ran the farm since they were young children. However, soon the girls realize that all Larry is trying to do is compete with the glory of his neighbor farmer, Jess, who competes with him over a better farm. Ego and pride drives Larry insane as his life falls apart, he begins buying random furniture, making adjustments and enhancements to the farm, buying new materials and going against his daughters Ginny and Rose, who turn against him eventually. What will happen in such a tangled dilemma and camaraderie, read this book to find out how an ordinary farmer turns into a classic fairy tale of ego and tyranny.
I picked this book up because of the multiple great testimonies and comments written about the book. The book also seemed allegoric and meaningful so I thought I would give it a try and see how the book would turn out.
I kept reading this book because I wanted to know what the three girls would end up doing to their insane father, and how the battle of ego would turn out by the end of the book. The novel kept on bringing up new and exciting tricks and pranks that the family played together.
I would give this book to anyone who enjoys family and analytic stories of the true nature of human beings. I would give this book to anyone who enjoys exciting stories that keep people thrilled and eager to find out what happens next.
Summary: Asa is a young boy growing up on the Minnesota prairie shortly after the Civil War ends, “in the shadow of the Great Sioux War.” His family isn’t warm or loving and has suffered many hardships. The most recent hardship has been the locusts that have come every year and devour everything in sight including every living crop that they must grow to live. When Asa’s Aunt Hazel comes to live with the family, Asa instantly develops a relationship with her and begins to learn the terrible history that is lurking always in the background of their family life.
Caleb, Asa’s father, and Hazel came to Minnesota with their family, leaving the South and slavery behind. They move to a farm situated across the river from a band of Dakota Sioux. The family befriends the Indians and the children play with one another. Hazel teaches some of the Indians English and they share folklore, both Dakota and German. When a young Dakota girl commits suicide after mysterious circumstances and a government payment to the Indians is delayed, the Indian prepare to take revenge. When the Indians finally attack the town and outlying farms, the results are horrendous. Hazel is captured but survives by trying to become Dakota. Caleb fights with the small army of soldiers from the fort and when reinforcements arrive, they are able to capture the warring Indians. The 37 warriors held responsible for the uprising are hung for their parts, including the young warrior who had become Hazel’s husband.
Asa loves hearing Hazel’s stories of the past but when she begins to suffer again from the epilepsy that had kept her institutionalized for so many years, Asa’s mother threatens to send her back to the hospital. Asa takes off alone to find medicine for Hazel and almost dies. When Caleb finds him and brings him home, Hazel is already gone and it is only then when Caleb tells him the rest of the story.
Why I picked it up: This was a 2013 ALEX Award Winner, the award given to adult books with young adult appeal. I wanted to read it because it is historical fiction and it might be a good book to suggest to students.
Why I kept reading it: I have always been interested in this time period and Asa’s family are German immigrants, much like my family. The Sioux Uprising was much overshadowed by the Civil War and it is somewhat ironic that the federal government was fighting to free slaves and make them equal but at the same time putting Indians on reservations and treating them as less than human.
Who would I give it to next: I would give this to anyone who like historical fiction, especially those that are interested in Native Americans. Well-written, researched historical fiction is a great way to learn history.
Summary: The storyline is an intertwining of Tom Sherbourne and his wife Isabel’s life after they decide to raise a ship-wrecked baby as their own and the life of the baby’s mother and how each react when they find out about each other.
Why I picked it up: It was my choice for the Book Club assignment for AP Lit over December break!
Why I kept reading it: I needed to find out what would happen to each of the characters (whether they would accept or deny the truth and new revelations) and think more about how to judge the actions of two opposing sides when each side is so morally gray.
Who would I give it to next: Anyone! But particularly freshmen; they’re more likely than other high school students to be at the point where it’s hard to take into consideration the consequences of one’s actions and acknowledge that there are more perspectives than one’s own.
Summary: Sequel to Cassandra Clare’s previous work, Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince is the second book in the enthralling The Infernal Instrument series. This book takes place in Victorian London, starting off some times later after the incidents of the first book. Tessa, the main protagonist, has finally found safety within the Institute, but troubles with the Clave, might force her back unprotected into the streets. Also an enemy known as the Magister, whom claims he knows Tessa’s heritage, desires to use Tessa’s power for his own deeds. With the help of Jem and Will, two handsome boys whom each claims a part of Tessa’s heart, Tessa discovers the truth of her parentage and the Magister’s motive.
Why I picked it up: It is the sequel to Clockwork Angel.
Why I kept reading it: The humor is very witty and enjoyable. I enjoy most of the character’s personality and the banters between them are hilarious.
Who I would give it to next: Anyone who has read the author’s previous books or something for leisure.
Summary: Every teenager is weird. Blue Sargent is just a bit weirder. First off, her name is Blue. She lives in a house full of psychics or feminists or both, most likely both. And she’s been told as long as she can recall that she has a curse on her: if she kisses her true love, he’ll die. Of course, by the time the story rolls around, Blue’s decided she’d never going to fall in love. But then she sees a spirit. And even though she lives in a houseful of psychics, she’s never had any sort of supernatural visions of her own. The spirit is the ghost of a boy who goes to the local private school, Aglionby Academy—a raven boy. She gets his name: Gansey. And then Blue goes on the hunt to warn him, because before the year ends, Gansey is going to die. Gansey, the son of old Virginia money, is much more than he seems. Sure, he has pocket change the size of Blue’s college fund, but he’s on a quest to find the Welsh king Glendower, who sleeps in the Virginia hills, waiting to be woken. There is a reward for the one who wakes him: one wish. The story tracks Blue as she meets Gansey and his circle of raven boys: Adam, a private school boy who isn’t made of money, Ronan, who has a secret that’s eating him up from the inside, and Noah, who is much more than he seems. Altogether, the story involves magic, curses, helicopters, guns, ghosts, visions, and murders. Not in that order. Blue learns about her past, Gansey about his king, and at the end, they all learn the meaning of sacrifice. Because to wake the sleeping king, someone has to die.
Why I picked it up: The name on the cover was the first factor. Maggie Stiefvater. She wrote one of my favorite books, The Scorpio Races. There was some pretty cover art: painting of a raven, an interesting symbol. It didn’t seem like the shelves of books with covers of girls in prom dresses, so I could walk around with this book and not be ashamed of the cover. The plotline seemed odd from the summary. The premise was intriguing enough. But when it came down to it, the author’s name was the biggest factor. Because in Maggie we trust. And she came through with a good book.
Why I kept reading it: The name on the cover was the first factor. Maggie Stiefvater. She wrote one of my favorite books, The Scorpio Races. There was some pretty cover art: painting of a raven, an interesting symbol. It didn’t seem like the shelves of books with covers of girls in prom dresses, so I could walk around with this book and not be ashamed of the cover. The plotline seemed odd from the summary. The premise was intriguing enough. But when it came down to it, the author’s name was the biggest factor. Because in Maggie we trust. And she came through with a good book.
Who I would give it to next: The best thing about this book is that it’s not exclusively a girl book or a boy book. Boys or girls can pick it up and like it perfectly fine. There are guns and violence and quite a few punches, but there’s also magic, seeing into the future, and unraveling mysteries. It feels like Indiana Jones met Lord of the Rings and they weren’t quite sure how to get along. It’s a refresher from shelves full of exclusively girl-oriented or boy-oriented novels. I’ll give it to my brother and see if he likes it.
Summary: A while after Clay’s classmate, Hannah committed suicide, a box of cassette tapes were sent to his house. On those tapes, Hannah speaks of the reasons why she killed herself. Each side of the tape is a story about a person who caused her to do this to herself.
Why I picked it up: The name caught my attention. I first thought “Thirteen reasons of what?” and then when I read the summary I became curious what the reasons were so I wanted to read it.
Why I kept reading it: I wanted to know all the reasons. I also wanted to know when the other main character, Clay would come up. He seems like he really liked her so I was curious why he would be a reason for Hannah killing herself. Also with each tape, it is clear that she is losing hope more and more and towards the end she just does not care about herself anymore because every time she thinks someone cares about her, she gets betrayed in some sort of way.
Who would I give it to next: Any teenager. I would not say every teenager can relate to the problems Hanna Baker had before she committed suicide, but I am sure there are many teenager who go through or went through similar experiences.
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I contributed a chapter to Not Alone: A Literary & Spiritual Companion for Those Confronted with Infertility & Miscarriage edited by Jessica Snell. My chapter is called The Waiting. It is available in both paperback and as an e-book.
I am in the process of editing Marriage Before and After the Curse & the Cross. This is adapted from a series of sermons on marriage. I trace its purpose/goals, obstacles and restoration in Christ through Scripture.
I’ve also got a few books that are available to be published. Make me an offer I can’t refuse.
Prophet to the Nations: the Prophetic Ministry of Jesus (Volume 1 of Prophet, Priest & King) This is a biblical theological look at how Jesus fulfills the office of Prophet on our behalf, and how the church has a prophetic calling as His people. I do this within the context of Reformed Theology.
How Shall We Then Give? This is a booklet I hope to pitch to P&R soon for this Basics of Reformed Theology series. It is a short biblical theology on the subject of giving with some questions at the end of each chapter.
have you have looked at prices for publishing of the books?
Those look interesting to read. Sorry, can’t help with publishing.
Have you submitted your books electronically to Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh? The editor is JonathanWatson: jw@banneroftruth.co.uk.
The with which I write is probably not what Banner of Truth Trust is looking for. While very theological, my style is also very “popular” so it is accessible & interesting to average people.
I enjoy much of what BoT puts out, but I’m not sure they are a good fit for me. Obviously, I could be wrong….
Dear Brother: I came across your blog today and noticed that you occasionally mention New Covenant Theology. I would gladly send you my latest book, The Christian and the Sabbath if you would like it, but I don’t know either your name or address. Why not Email it to me?
I see also that someone suggested that you go to Banner of Truth to publish. I don’t know, of course, if they would be interested or not. But I can saythat my five books with them were ALL graded at 5th grade level on Rudolph Flesch’s readabili9ty scale, so that need not be a fear.
Finally, let me say there is widespread confusion over NCT with reference to antinomianism. Personally, I don’t mind being called an antinomian since by useage that has been a use of the word for 300 or more years. And usage generally determines meaning. Etymologically, howevr, I am not antinomian. Most –almost all- Christians reject most of the OT laws. Along with the majority of christians I reject the Sabbath law,l not as not being useful in many ways, but as a command to Christians.
What people often do not understand about us is this. If any nation, state or organization adopts a new consti-tution, the older one’s power is immediately removed But the new one will contain most of the old one’s laws !
You might consider POD (print-on-demand) publishing to get started. I have re-published a few books through this way (works of George Gillespie, John Brown, Augustine, etc). They have an ISDN and are available for sale on Amazon.
Popular POD-published books have been known to be picked up by traditional publishing houses should that be the route you wished to go.
Finally, there are POD publishers who have no up-front fees (ie, you pay nothing ever). I would recommend LuLu.com.
You can email or call me if this has any interest to you.
I would love to hear more about your marriage book, though I am not the one to make an offer! My husband and I are in the process of starting a marriage ministry within our church, and we’re constantly reading books, so we can learn (we’ve been married 30 years and are learning daily!), and so we can be aware of what is out there and what we should recommend to others.
My marriage book is currently in the editing stage with a publisher. I am currently teaching thru the material in adult SS.
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It’s raining! It’s raining! Isn’t it is thrilling to see clouds in the sky and wet stuff on the ground? Hopefully all this lovely rain will make its way to our farmers and give their fields a much-needed soak.
Speaking of thrills, how about the prickly pears and sweet potato greens in our Local Box this week? I’ve never cooked either of those items before, so I am very excited to give them a try. I hear that prickly pears are similar in flavor and texture to watermelon, except less sweet, so I bet they’ll pair really well with the limes coming in the box. Sweet potato greens are similar to spinach, chard and collard greens, so I imagine they will taste great sauteed, steamed or boiled. I haven’t found many recipes where they are used raw, but those that do call for them describe them as similar to purslane in flavor.
Meal one: Pan-seared tilapia with fruit salsa. I love this recipe, since it is an easy way to prepare environmentally friendly fish. I’m going to use our prickly pears and a mango, diced, in place of the tomato in the salsa recipe.
Meal three: Pear stuffed pork loin, with sautéed summer squash and red pepper on the side. This pork loin recipe is definitely a weekend endeavor, since it takes half an hour of hands-on time to prepare and a few hours to bake. However, it looks delicious and it uses a jalapeño to boot. It’s also a nice change from eating pears raw, which we’ve done for a few weeks now.
Meal four: Pear bread. Sautéed sweet potato leaves, cucumber and black eyed-pea salad. Try a nibble of the sweet potato leaves before making dinner; if your family will eat them raw, skip sautéing them and toss them in with the cucumber salad.
Our family, my son especially, adores watermelon. The trouble is, when you get melons as giant as we’ve been getting in our Local Box, it becomes a challenge to eat it all before the sweet fruit turns bad. Watermelon jelly is a simple way to use up a bit of your stash and keep the ultimate reminder of summer available all winter long. Plus, homemade jellies make great holiday gifts.
Canning often sounds intimidating but it’s quite easy, especially if you follow the directions provided in your package of pectin. The task is made easier if you have specialized canning tools on hand, but you can easily improvise with a large stock pot, a funnel, and a pair of sturdy rubber-coated tongs.
You don’t need much whole watermelon to get the juice needed for this, so start out in small batches. If you make too much juice, use it to make agua frescas or margaritas!
The sugar used in the recipe might look like a lot, but until you get the basics of canning under your belt, it’s not recommended to make changes to ingredients – you want to make sure you have a safe product!
*To get the watermelon juice, cut watermelon flesh into chunks and puree in a blender. Strain into a cheesecloth set up over a bowl, or use a jelly bag and stand. Let sit for about 2 hours to let the juice drip down. Don’t squeeze the cheesecloth or bag, or you might end up with some solids that will look ugly in your finished jelly.
Pour juice into a large nonreactive stockpot or dutch oven and stir in full amount of sugar. Heat to a rolling boil, stirring constantly.
Stir in pectin and return mixture to a rolling boil and cook for 1 minute. If you have a candy thermometer, cook until jelly reaches 220 degrees.
Ladle into jars, place lids, and screw on bands finger-tight. If processing, place in a water bath canner heated to boiling and process for 15 minutes. Remove jars and let cool on counter for 24 hours. If not all the jars have “pinged” (when sealed properly the lids will have suctioned down) re-process or store in refrigerator.
Note that jelly often can take two weeks to completely set. If your jelly still isn’t set after that, follow the directions included in your pectin box for re-cooking and processing.
Sometimes when I get my Local Box I have to scratch my head and really think about what to cook with the contents, but this week posed no challenge. As soon as I saw those long beans I knew they would be perfect for a stir fry. I had never had long beans before, but they are just a mutant cousin of the green beans most of us are used to, and can be prepared the same way.
Not into stir fry? Try steaming these beans whole, arranging them like nests, and placing a piece of marinated chicken or fish in the middle. Simple and delicious!
This stir fry is a little bit sweet with a heat that follows. Because it isn’t a sticky, heavy sauce that douses many takeout boxes, the flavor of the vegetables still comes through.
Meanwhile, dice eggplant into small chunks and slice long beans into approximately 1-inch lengths. Finely mince the shallots, garlic, and ginger, and put into a small bowl.
Add the soy sauce, honey, sriracha, stock, lime juice, and remaining sesame oil to the bowl, and whisk to combine.
Heat a wok or large frying pan over medium-high heat. Once heated, reduce to medium and add 1 tablespoon of sesame oil. Add eggplant and beans and cook, stirring often, until vegetables start to soften.
Add sauce and stir to coat. Let cook another 3-5 minutes or so, until the eggplant looks a bit glazed and the sauce has reduced.
I took my dog for a walk this morning and it felt like autumn for the first time all year. There was a breeze, the temperature was below 70 degrees, and we saw pumpkins on display at the supermarket near our house. Never mind that it was 5:15 in the morning– I’ll take all the cool weather I can get!
Meal one: I’ve been waiting to get lettuce and pears together for weeks now, because of I have been craving this wonderful Roquefort Pear Salad. Don’t skip the caramelized pecans in the recipe; they’ll be perfect with Engel Farms’ crisp Asian pears.
Meal two: Slow cooker field pea stew. Three or four of the multiplying onions in the Local Box will substitute for the large yellow onion that this recipe calls for.
Meal three: Corn, Radish and Avocado Tostadas. Instead of the shallots that this recipe calls for, I’ll use the multiplying onions from Lund Produce. We’ll have pinto beans on the side, seasoned with garlic, chili powder and cumin.
Meal four: Grilled chicken breasts, sauteed green beans with mushrooms, sliced pears for dessert.
Meal five: Penne with summer squash and corn OR Penne with butternut squash and goat cheese. That summer squash recipe looks like it would be fine without the corn, so I’ll probably skip that unless we get several ears in the Local Box and I have extra to use up.
One of our favorite dinners to start off the week is pasta, because it often yields leftovers to take for lunch the rest of the week. Using fresh pesto for the sauce makes it deliciously simple too! Pine nuts can be expensive, so you can try substituting toasted walnuts or almonds and it will still be tasty.
This recipe from Real Simple can be prepared and on the table in under 30 minutes, plus we can utilize the hearty local summer squash from the Local Box. Enjoy and let us know what you think if you try it!
Meanwhile, place the garlic, pine nuts, basil, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in the bowl of a food processor and pulse to combine. While the machine is running, drizzle in 2/3 cup of the oil through the feed tube, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides. Transfer to a bowl and stir in the Parmesan.
Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add the zucchini, 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, and 1/8 teaspoon black pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in the mint.
Here’s another great customer submitted recipe for a refreshing late summer soup. We love to share culinary inspiration, keep them coming!
Had to pass on this recipe that I tried out last week when my girlfriends came over. We wanted to do a light dinner of cool salads and a summer soup .. so I decided to try my hand at a cool cucumber dill soup. It was super EASY and very cool and refreshing.
At the – W Ranch (pronounced Bar W) in Mullin, Texas, Jeff Wylie is putting in his fourth summer of growing fruits and vegetables. He’s tending several acres of summer squash, black-eyed peas, and cucumbers, and is preparing ground for winter squash, pumpkins, and more. Rows of fruit trees run along the perimeter, and a line of trees marks the creek — the force responsible for creating the deep, rich soil he’s farming.
“It’s like chocolate cake for like six feet down,” Wylie said as he drove along the creek. His dogs came running up after the truck, Bell, the beagle, a little late and a little wet, having stopped for a dip in the lake his grandfather built years ago.
Jeff’s grandfather, Ed Wylie, bought the ranch in the 1960’s and had the foresight to build in a gravity-fed irrigation system that guides the nutrient-rich bottom waters of the lake through to the lowlands by the creek, and Jeff operates a strict, drip-system irrigation to his thirsty plants.
Jeff’s father, Don Wylie, insisted that he fence off the area if he was serious about a vegetable farm, since anybody familiar with west Texas knows that the deer are the real proprietors (and since the rest of the 600-acre ranch is dedicated to cattle). Jeff spent a lot of time building tall fences, but it worked, and he says now he hopes his days as a fencer are over.
Clearly the effort paid off. Over six acres are fenced in and half of those are planted with vegetables in that chocolate-cake-soil. Jeff and a few employees have created a sustainable vegetable farm in the midst of cattle country.
“None of this was down here four years ago when I started,” he says.
Peach, pluot, apricot, and other fruit trees are reaching maturity in the field alongside row upon row of precious vegetables. In the fall, Jeff expects to harvest carrots, beets, radishes, and turnips, among other crops. We can’t wait to try them!
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XXI. Why Does One Suffer?
In their myths and legends, most cultures have celebrated the idea that chaos and order are a primal duality. The old testament of the Bible describes God as having moved on the face of the deep, chaos, to bring light, order. Similarly, the Comanche people explained how one day the Great Spirit collected swirls of dust from the four directions in order to create their people. The ancient Egyptians believed that their creator God Atum, referred to by some as 'The great he she' caused the order of Egypt to rise from the watery chaos of Nu. The ancient Babylonians describe how Marduk slew the random Mother of All, Talmat and transformed her into the order of Heaven and Earth. The ancient Greeks pitted rational Apollo against lewd and chaotic Dionysus. It is said in India that the father of order in Heaven is named Shiva and lurks ironically in terrible, chaotic places like battlefields and burning grounds of the dead. In the ancient Chinese tradition, daily reality is constantly fashioned and re-fashioned by an oscillation between light-bringing, ordering principle, yang and the dark, receptive fullness that contains all matter, yin.
Some Hindus tell us of how this universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived, destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep. Then the Divine Self-existent appeared with irresistible power, dispelling the darkness. He can be perceived by the internal organ alone. He is subtle, indiscernible, and eternal. He contains all created beings. He is inconceivable. He shone forth of his own will. He desired to produce beings of many kinds from his own body. To do so, he first created the waters with a thought, and then placed his seed in them.
Sikhs tell us that for countless years darkness was spread. Neither Earth nor Heaven existed, but only the limitless Divine Ordinance. As it pleased Him, he created the world. Without a supporting power, he sustained the expanse. Creating continents, spheres and nether worlds, he made manifest the hidden. Creating the universe, he has remained unattached. He has made the human being the holy center. Combining air, water, earth and fire, he created the citadel of the body.
The Tahitian myth makers taught that Taaroa was his name. He stood in the void: no earth, no sky, no men. Taaroa calls the four corners of the universe; nothing replies. Existing alone, he changes himself into the universe. Taaroa is the light, he is the seed, he is the base, he is the incorruptible. The universe is only the shell of Taaroa. It is he who puts it in motion and brings forth its' harmony.
Chaos is the disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed by some religious cosmological views to have existed prior to the ordered universe. Modern day scientists have borrowed the word chaos from the ancient mythmakers to describe their inability to precisely predict the future conditions of a complex chaotic dynamic system. Seed bodies are complex chaotic dynamic systems. Scientists can use their tools to predict that the future condition of any given seed body will fall within a set of possibilities. Scientists can use their tools to predict the relative probabilities of the possibilities. However, scientists cannot use their tools to predict the one possibility out of all possibilities that will become the future condition of a seed body. The reason for this inability to precisely predict the future condition of a seed body is that our fractal infernal temporal seed bodies are part of a complex universal dynamic system made up of a number, diversity and variety of parts. Each part interacts with all other parts within the whole. Within the whole of our universe, there are chaotic dynamic systems nesting within chaotic dynamic systems. Our universe is a dynamic system that contains galactic dynamic systems that contains solar dynamic systems that contains planetary dynamic systems that in some cases contain living dynamic systems that contain cellular dynamic systems that contain atomic dynamic systems and on and on. To precisely predict the future condition of such a complex chaotic dynamic system would require infinitely complex models of all parts interacting with one another. No finite tool available to scientists would be capable of providing this.
While scientists are incapable, I think, believe and expect that the spirit is capable. I think, believe and expect that the spirit is infinite, divine, eternal, and one. The divinity of the spirit makes the infinite complexity of a chaotic dynamic system predictable. As such, I believe that foreknowledge of future events is possible.
Naturally, making assertions such as these may raise questions in the minds of some people that are similar to the following. If our spirit and souls are so divine and eternal, why do these aspects of our beings not intervene in the suffering and sorrow caused by the disease and death of our fractal infernal temporal seed bodies and magically restore immunity, reverse aging and sustain everlasting life? Why does god not stop war, poverty, disaster and death from occurring on planet Earth? What did we do wrong?
To the question 'why does suffering and sorrow, disease and death, conflict and avarice, persist in the presence of a divine eternal soul spirit’, I answer life does not exist by soul spirit alone. Seed body and fractal infernal temporal universe are equally important components of the synthesis that is life. The fractal infernal qualities and temporal longevity of our seed bodies are the perfect compliment to the divine quality and eternal longevity of our soul spirit.
My body is a chaotic dynamic system that changes my model of the existence of one totality continuously. As my seed body grows and I learn, my model of the existence of one totality grows more complex and more ornate. As my seed body decays and I forget, my model of the existence of one totality decays becoming less complex and less ornate. I discover new truths about the existence of one totality. I add new truths to my model of the existence of one totality and thereby my model of the existence of one totality changes. I discover old lies about the existence of one totality. I eliminate old lies from my model of the existence of one totality and thereby my model of the existence of one totality changes. I imagine new myths about the existence of one totality. I add new myths to my model of the existence of one totality and thereby my model of the existence of one totality changes.
Some have suggested that if my soul wills my body to take certain actions then my spirit will enable my soul to create a better life for me. Scientifically reproducible discovery of truth and knowledge of theory about the laws of cause and effect that predict the behavior, fate, and destiny of the matter and energy in the known universe suggests to me a standard of conduct that I think, believe, and expect will best produce happiness and health. If I conform to this standard of conduct then I might act to cause the effect of creating a better life for myself.
There are also actions I may take based on imagination of myth. It is possible for me to imagine that if I use my body to perform certain rituals then a spirit will empower me to create a better life for myself. Only my creative abilities and powers of imagination limit the kinds of mythical rituals I might imagine a spirit to require of me. Some of the more common actions that some might imagine that their spirit requires in order for their souls to be granted power to create a better life for self include prayer, praise, confession, sacrifice, pleading, bargaining, groveling, servitude, stewardship, pilgrimage, asking, incanting, chanting, meditating, and or dancing.
What are the potential benefits and risks of liability that I might incur in accepting such suggestions from others? As a form of communication between members of communities of faithful believers, the ritual of public prayer offers the potential benefit of focusing the minds of others on needs and aspirations of self and others. As a form of meditation, the ritual of private prayer offers the potential benefits of focusing mind of self on needs, and aspirations of self and others. It is important to note, however, that performing the ritual of prayer suggests a belief in a supreme being that exists external to self rather than a belief in a supreme state of being where in communion between soul and spirit is continuous. Since I believe in a supreme state of being where in our divine eternal souls are in continuous communion with our spirit, it follows that prayer as a form of communication with the spirit is unnecessary; and as a form of communication with others has the potential to lead others to conclude falsely that I believe in a supreme being that exists external to self. To avoid such confusion, I prefer meditation over prayer and refrain from participating in any form of public prayers. Certain rituals might offer us the potential benefit as fun activities. To participate in rituals is for me a matter of choice. When others attempt to use spiritual blackmail to coerce me into performing rituals, it is a matter of choice as to whether or not I comply or resist. Others may teach, think, believe, and expect that a spirit will deprive me of love if I am not inclined to or cannot physically perform a ritual. I think, believe, and expect that my spirit confers unconditional love and freedom on all of our souls, even those souls who do not accept the education, entertainment, and leadership provided by the House of Ideology.
In as much as consciousness is a process, where in the divine eternal soul’s capacity to select thought, feeling, and action possibilities is limited by the fractal infernal temporal seed body's capacity to produce thought, feeling, and action possibilities, I may never be able to completely comprehend life. In my present form, I am limited to selecting from thought, feeling, and action possibilities made available to my conscious mind by my unconscious mind. My unconscious mind is generated by my fractal infernal temporal seed body. Limitations of my fractal, infernal, temporal seed body, and limitations in my senses and tools limit my divine eternal souls ability to demonstrate scientifically reproducible discovery that proves I am divinely inspired. Proof that our divine eternal soul spirits exist is lost to discovery by science in the chaos of complex dynamic systems. As such I do not claim to know that I am divinely inspired. About the most I can say is that I think, believe, and expect that I am divinely inspired. If in fact I am divinely inspired then to think, believe, and expect that I am divinely inspired may strengthen my divine inspirations; and allow me to make the best possible use of my divine inspirations. If and when believed to be true the myth that I am divinely inspired produces in my mind powerful emotional responses of joy, faith, and love. The truth is my will guides my mind by choosing from amongst a limited number of thought, feeling, and action possibilities made available to my mind by my body. The myth is my will is guided by the divine eternal essence of finite self that I call soul in continuous communion with the divine eternal essence of infinite world that I call spirit. However, for all I know, it may be true that my divine eternal soul is revealing this very myth to me. Obviously, if my concern is with devoting energy, space, and time to ideas that produce the most optimistic thoughts, beliefs and expectations about the existence of one totality, then I should think, believe, and expect this myth is true.
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If all you wanted for Christmas (or something other than Christmas) was the final installment of The Warrior’s Apprentice on the Vorkosigan Saga Reread, then you’re in luck this year, because here it is. This week we shall cover the final chapter plus the epilogue, as some plot threads and character arcs get tied off, some of them predating this book entirely. Also, Ms. Bujold (that’s Lois McMaster Bujold, the author of the series, in case I haven’t mentioned) makes me well up not once but twice.
Miles and Ivan fly over Vorbarr Sultana in a lightflyer, approaching Vorhartung Castle. Ivan notes that all the Counts seem to be present, judging by the banners he can see, including the Emperor’s. Miles notes the security men with their guns trained on the flyer, and carefully sets it down outside the castle walls.
Miles begins to feel a paralyzing funk, and has a glimmer of what Baz Jesek felt before he deserted. Ivan chivvies him until he gets out of the lightflyer, and they head up to the castle. Miles introduces himself to some guards and says the Emperor has summoned him; they are skeptical until one of them recognizes him. As they are escorted in, Miles can hear Count Vordrozda speaking inside the chamber; one of the guards tells him this has been going on for a week, and they are into the final summing-up. Miles hears Admiral Hessman’s voice too, which is odd in a hearing sealed to the Counts alone.
“. . . If our illustrious Prime Minister knew nothing of this plot, then let him produce this ‘missing’ nephew,” Vordrozda’s voice was heavy with sarcasm. “He says he cannot. And why not? I submit it is because Lord Vorpatril was dispatched with a secret message. What message? Obviously, some variation of ‘Fly for your life—all is revealed!’ I ask you—is it reasonable that a plot of this magnitude could have been advanced so far by a son with no knowledge by his father? Where did those missing 275,000 marks, whose fate he so adamantly refuses to disclose, go but to secretly finance the operation? These repeated requests for delays are simply smokescreen. If Lord Vorkosigan is so innocent, why is he not here?” Vordrozda paused dramatically.
Miles enters the room, seeing Vordrozda in the speaker’s circle, Hessman on the witness bench, and the Emperor and many others in their service uniforms. Miles is conscious of the drabness of his own outfit in comparison. Miles asks Vordrozda and Hessman to answer their own question. He watches for his father’s reaction, conscious of how old his father looks; Aral sees Ivan and is startled into asking where he’s been. Ivan says Hessman had sent him to look for Miles, but that wasn’t what he’d really wanted. Miles tells the assembled Counts that his invitation to attend got lost, as Ivan can attest; Gregor looks askance at Vordrozda, and Aral smiles in sudden enlightenment.
Vordrozda seems to be annoyed with Hessman, and Miles realizes he must capitalize quickly on the rift before it closes up. He accuses Hessman of sabotaging Dimir’s ship and attempting to murder Ivan along with the others. Vordrozda says the charges belong in military court, and Miles points out that then Hessman would have to face them alone, without his co-conspirator Vordrozda. He asks Hessman whether he thinks Vordrozda would really substantiate any claims that Hessman’s actions were at Vordrozda’s order. As Miles badgers Vordrozda about his connection with Hessman, Hessman stands up and admits that Vordrozda had first talked to him about Miles back at Winterfair.
Vordrozda yells at Hessman to shut up, pulling out a needler pistol from his robes and aiming it at Hessman before realizing what he’d done by pulling a weapon in the presence of the Emperor. Dozens of military men from among the Counts instantly move to take down Vordrozda and protect the Emperor, Ivan first among them.
After Vordrozda and Hessman are arrested and led out of the chamber, Miles faces the Emperor. The Emperor declares an hour recess to examine new testimony, summoning Aral and Miles as well as Lord Vorhalas and Lord Vorvolk for witnesses. Henri Vorvolk is a personal friend of Gregor’s, but Lord Vorhalas is a longtime enemy of Aral’s, ever since Aral had to execute his sons, one of them for the soltoxin attack that crippled Miles in the womb. Miles wonders if Vorhalas was connected to the conspiracy to destroy him, in revenge, but decides that Vorhalas has more honour than that in his antagonism.
Aral asks Miles what happened, telling him that Illyan is in prison as part of the conspiracy, so his reports haven’t been getting through. Gregor points out that the question is whether Illyan served Aral or the Emperor. Aral asserts that all who serve him serve the Emperor through him, and Illyan has served faithfully all this time.
Miles tells the story in full, starting with his meeting with Arde Mayhew, deciding after a brief hesitation to include Baz Jesek’s name as well. The only thing he does omit is Elena Visconti’s story of Prince Serg’s depravities. As he is winding down, he remembers the antacid he needs to drink, and has some, offering his father a swig when he asks (which he accepts). Ivan supports the parts of Miles’s story that he witnessed himself, and Miles explains his plan to surprise his accusers by arriving in secret. Gregor seems unhappy at the revelations about Vordrozda, his new advisor. He asks Miles why he raised the Dendarii, if not for treasonous purposes.
“Clay, boy.” Count Vorkosigan’s voice was hoarse but clear. “Only clay. Not fit to receive so golden a sacrifice.” His voice cracked.
Gregor says he is unhappy to have come so close to dispensing injustice, and asks the witnesses if they are satisfied that the charges of treason are unproven. Vorvolk agrees, and so does Vorhalas, but he also asks about the original charge of violating Vorloupulous’s Law. Vorvolk asks who would dare bring such a charge, and Aral says that a man devoted to justice, with nothing to lose, might do so. Vorhalas asks Aral to beg for his son’s life, and Aral does so on his knees with no compunctions; Vorhalas throws his begging back in his face.
Miles points out to Vorhalas that he would have to face Cordelia with the same accusation. Vorhalas asks if she can’t understand the desire for vengeance, looking at what happened to her son.
Vorhalas, somewhat deflated, grumbles that he’s not a saint, and Gregor points out that it does him no good if his loyal servants are at odds. Vorhalas subsides, waving Aral away, and asks what they are to do about the Dendarii Mercenaries. Gregor asks Miles if they’re likely to go away on their own, but Miles says that they seemed rather to be thriving. Gregor ponders, noting that he doesn’t dare change Vorloupulous’s Law, wondering if he can change the context like Miles did to break his blockade.
Miles suggests that the Emperor take the Dendarii for his own, declare them a Crown Troop, if only as a legal fiction, and privately, so that the Dendarii don’t know who they are currently working for. He adds that they could be added to Illyan’s Imperial Security, since a mercenary fleet would probably prove quite useful to them somehow. They agree that this is an eminently suitable solution, Vorhalas grudgingly, though he asks what they should do with Miles. Aral agrees that Miles should be kept in line, perhaps in some sort of discipline, perhaps in the Imperial Service Academy, much to Miles’s shock and delight. Aral asks Miles if he can go back to being a student, and a subordinate, after promoting himself to Admiral.
Two days later, Miles is acquitted of all charges, not least because Gregor, who as Count Vorbarra had a vote but usually abstained, voted for the acquittal. Only Vorhalas abstained.
Later, at Vorkosigan Surleau, Miles digs Bothari’s grave himself, with a shovel, his hands soon bleeding. His mother points out that it would be quicker with a plasma arc, but Miles quotes Bothari that “Blood washes away sin”. She says no more, watching as he finishes digging, lowers the float pallet with the coffin, and fills the grave in. He prepares the bowl for the burnt sacrifices, including Elena Visconti’s hair and his own; Cordelia supplies some of hers and Aral’s.
Miles’s entrance into the Counts’ Chamber is almost Matlockian, the sudden arrival of the witnesses with new evidence, stampeding one of the bad guys into a confession… But it does ring true. If Hessman hadn’t turned on Vordrozda, then Vordrozda would have had nothing to gain (except keeping his honour) by substantiating anything Hessman accused him of. So if you buy that Vordrozda is willing to compromise his honour to save his own skin, and Hessman buys it, and Hessman is sure that Ivan’s testimony will convict him, then he has nothing to gain by keeping his mouth shut. Of course, Vordrozda condemned himself by pulling out his gun, which was an appalling loss of control on his part, so I guess you’d have to buy that Miles had rattled him enough to forget where he was, and to be desperate enough to want to kill his co-conspirator. On the other hand, if Hessman had been provoked into drawing a weapon, then maybe Vordrozda could have taken him out without as much suspicion. Except for the whole “carrying weapons into the presence of the Emperor” thing. Why had Vordrozda taken that risk? Was he allowed, as a Count, as long as he didn’t draw it? Not sure if that’s quite clear. If he wasn’t allowed, then why did he do it?
The scene with Vorhalas was a fair resolution of the plot thread left over from Barrayar. Obviously Vorhalas would have been an implacable foe of Aral’s after the executions of his sons, but if he was honourable, he’d have to wait for an opportunity to take advantage of, rather than making his own. I suppose that Vordrozda did the same, but less scrupulously, presumably once he’d heard about Miles’s adventures, but he had been actively pumping Hessman for intelligence on Miles’s activities. Vorhalas wouldn’t push on the false treason charge, but was happy enough to want to use Vorloupulous’s Law (boy, am I tired of typing that–I think I’ve been misspelling it, too) to engineer Miles’s death and bring the same kind of pain to Aral. He could withstand Aral’s pleading, as Aral had done his own, but Miles and Gregor wore him down.
The emergency docking drill was called in the middle of the night cycle, naturally. He’d probably have timed it that way himself, Miles thought, as he scrambled through the corridors of the orbital weapons platform with his fellow cadets. This four-week stint of orbital and free-fall training was due to end tomorrow for his group, and the instructors hadn’t pulled anything nasty for at least four days. Not for him the galloping anticipation of upcoming leave planetside that had formed the bulk of the conversation in the officer’s mess last night. He had sat quietly, meditating on all the marvelous possibilities for a grand finale.
His partner for the drill is Kostolitz, who comments disdainfully on Miles’s knife. Miles contemplates how to deal with Kostolitz and his class-consciousness, something he’ll have to deal with throughout his career. Kostolitz wears a green armband, which the instructors use to designate someone who they judge would have been injured in a real-life situation; yellow armbands indicate death in the same way. Ivan has two greens and a yellow, and another cadet has give yellows, but Miles himself has no armbands at all. Some cadets want to team with him as a good luck charm, but others avoid him as they realize the instructors are beginning to target him. Miles happily anticipates something sneaky on the part of the instructors in this drill.
Miles and Kostolitz begin inspecting the shuttle, each taking a side. Kostolitz hastily counts the breath-masks, while Miles carefully examines a first-aid kit, finishing more slowly. Miles pretends to have lost his light-pen, and when the instructor takes out his, Miles spots three breath masks in his pocket. The two cadets take their seats and Kostolitz begins piloting the shuttle to its designated position.
A sudden loud noise announces the challenge of a coolant leak spilling gas into the cabin. Kostolitz dives for the breath masks, but Miles takes the controls instead and sets the shuttle to spinning, leaving the heavier coolant gas to pool against the aft bulkhead. Kostolitz rejects one breath mask, clearly out of oxygen, then another, as Miles heads for the first-aid kit instead. As Kostolitz realizes that the masks are all exhausted, Miles takes some IV tubing from the kit, splices them together with his knife and surgical tape, then attaches it to the emergency oxygen canister. The instructor takes one breathing tube, and Kostolitz returns to take another. Miles left himself the only long section of the tube, so the other two are forced to sit at the control panel while he goes to turn the emergency shutoff valve.
The panel door on which he rested his weight gave way with a sudden crack, and he swung out over the evilly heaving green gas. The oxygen tube ripped from his mouth and flapped around wildly. He was saved from yelping only by the fact that he was holding his breath. The instructor, forward, lurched futilely, tied to his air supply. But by the time he’d fumbled his pocket open, Miles had swallowed, achieved a more secure grip on the wall, and recovered his tube in a heart-stopping grab. Try again. He turned the valve, hard, and the hissing from the hole in the wall a meter astern of him faded to an elfin moan, then stopped.
Miles returns to his seat as the fans clear the last of the coolant gas and Kostolitz pilots the shuttle back to dock. The chief instructor is waiting with two yellow armbands, and is disappointed and intrigued when the instructor from the shuttle indicates they won’t be needed. Kostolitz comments the knife was handy, and Miles says they can be more useful than a plasma arc when you’re surrounded by inflammable gas. Seeing an opportunity, Miles tells Kostolitz about a place where he can buy a good quality blade, and offers to take him there when they’re back planetside.
Miles is already becoming a target for his superiors, as they try to catch him up. As they will realize, you can’t catch him out, apparently, on anything requiring any sort of problem-solving skill–only his body, or his sense of honour, will betray him. Is it implausible for him to be so incredibly capable? Well, of course he has his physical limitations–being barely able to reach the shuttle foot-controls, for instance–but apparently his mind is so highly developed that he more than compensates for it. Of course, having established this fact, Bujold has to keep him from just brute-thinking his way out of every situation…that may have been one of the problems with Cryoburn, actually.
Having closed off so many other character arcs in the book, Bujold also decided to return to Kostolitz in the epilogue. It could have been any other cadet, of course, even Ivan, perhaps, but adding Kostolitz gives him a chance to deal with someone less sympathetic to him. Of course, Miles himself doesn’t have much of a problem with class consciousness, but of course he has to get along with others who may.
All in all, a pretty good book, much different in mood, overall, from the two Cordelia books. That’s only to be expected, because Cordelia and Miles are very different characters. While Miles does have his dark moments, he tends to solve his problems by thinking and talking at them, so he’s very bipolar that way. His adventure is more outlandish and fun, overall, with plenty of humour and wit.
The biggest problem with the story is that its two pieces don’t fit as well together as they could. The return to Barrayar at the end feels a little bit forced and rushed. The foreshadowing of Vorloupulous’s Law sticks out a bit, and the fact that Miles doesn’t think of it until near the end is fairly implausible. I can see that Bujold didn’t want to sever Miles’s ties to Barrayar just yet, but somehow she snaps him back a bit fast. If she’d had the leeway for extra word count that today’s thicker books allow, would the transitions have been less abrupt? Perhaps, but it’s hard to second-guess these things, no matter how we try.
From the afterword in the Young Miles omnibus, I discovered that the title was supposed to be a reference to “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, except…as a mercenary instead of a wizard? So it’s about how Miles’s attempts to fix matters leads them to ballooning further and further out of control. I guess that makes sense, but I’m still not comfortable with it, because I still want to know, who’s he apprenticed to? I’ve never been that keen on The Vor Game as a title either…Shards of Honour is good, the planet titles are okay…I suppose Mirror Dance would be my favourite title that way, because it matches the book on so many levels.
After the Christmas break, I’ll return with “The Mountains of Mourning”. Since it doesn’t have chapter breaks, I still haven’t decided if I’ll do it all at once, or if I’ll have to subdivide it some other way. (Makes me glad I’m not doing a reread of Mr. Terry “I don’t believe in chapter breaks” Pratchett…) So I’ll see you all back here on January 3rd, 2012, for the next bit of Miles Vorkosigan’s career.
I agree with the tearing up bits. I love the epilogue with Miles as a cadet. It works well as both a short story and a nice echo of chapter one when he fails to be accepted into the Academy.
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Many meat eaters feel like they can’t go vegetarian or have a low-meat diet because they don’t feel they could get enough protein to take it’s place. This is so silly! There are so many great plant based protein sources like legumes and pulses. Legumes include soy, alfalfa, peanuts etc and pulses include dried seeds, lentils, split peas and dried beans. Both are great sources of fiber, pholate, potassium, iron and vitamins. They are low in fat and glycemic carbohydrates so keep you full for longer.
They are also great for the soil and essentially, the environment as a whole. Lentils etc have been labeled “Green Manure” by some as they literally add nitrogen to the soil. They are a great crop to grow sustainably as they replenish soil and can create crops which will go on to feed the bellies of many.
As a vegetarian, it is important to get used to legumes and pulses as they are amazing sources of protein and are super cheap.
Here is a recipe I use to make a delicious Lentil and Mushroom ragu.
Serve with crusty bread, an egg cooked on top or just by itself.
Composting is a great way to reduce waste and it’s a pretty easy habit to incorporate into your lifestyle, if you have the room. Composting basically takes any organic matter and over a period of weeks uses a chemical process to break down the material. Fungi and worms help too. This process provides nutrient dense humus to soil; which can often be depleted of phosphorous and, especially when over farming occurs. The compost acting as a natural fertiliser AND pesticide for soil and can be used as soil conditioner, to construct wetlands and as erosion control.
Committing to composting isn’t as hard as you may think. It involves an initial cost the of bucket purchase and a compost bin for your garden, but after that it’s smooth sailing. We just keep a bucket under the sink and chuck teabags, egg shells and essentially everything we don’t eat into it. You wouldn’t even know it was there. It feels pretty good to not throw green waste into the bin and if you have a green-thumb, you will reap double the benefits!
Although these green wee fellows are pretty hard to come by in the winter months, they are pure green gold. So many good fats! Loaded with more potassium than a banana and plenty of fibre to boot, these creamy little suckers are a must if you’re looking for a good dosage of omega-3’s.
They are so versatile. Add them to your morning banana smoothie to add velvety creaminess or use them to make a delicious chocolate mousse or frosting. Savoury or sweet, what a delight to eat!
Whizz all ingredients together and serve!
These teeny weeny little superfood powerhouses can be used in so many ways and I must confess I am infatuated by the wee buggers. Reason being, they are absolutely loaded with protein; a macronutrient pretty hard to load up on when you cut meat out of your diet. They are packed with omega-3 fatty acids, antioxidants, fiber, magnesium, zinc, iron and calcium. If you buy them somewhat locally grown then they are pretty sustainable too.
To get the full specs of what I consider to be a vegetarian lifesaver then head here.
Chop dates up a little, chuck them in and leave sealed in a jar or bowl overnight (or 4 or more hours). Breakfast is served or a takeaway snack.
If, like me, you are financially challenged yet determined to eat well, I’m sure you have a repertoire of reliable recipes under your wing which work to keep your tank full in between trips to Mum’s. Not going to lie, it has taken me a couple of years to find my groove and probably a collective couple of months worth of blankly staring into the depths of my cupboard but this is what I eat to keep myself chugging along between my weekend work at the coffee shop, my week of full time study and the intermittent bouts of exercise I force on myself.
This spinach stuff is some gooooooood sh*t. The best thing about it is it’s availability. You can pretty much find it all year round, which is great news because it is amazingly good for you. It is great for veggo’s as it is extremely rich in iron, which a lot of vegetarians (especially women) can easily become deficient in when switching from a meaty diet to a no meat diet. According to The World’s Healthiest Food’s Organisation spinach is at the top of the list for health benefits and nutrient density.
No wonder Popeye carried a couple of cans on him at all times in case of emergency. Over the years, Popeye has become a bit of a hero of mine. I wish I had the genius forethought to carry spinach on my person as I go about my day. This may be going a little far though, seeing as I probably eat it in around 3/4 of my meals as is. It’s gotten to the point where my boyfriend (who once upon a time had little to no care for nutrition) automatically puts it in everything we cook. Along with its health benefits it is super versatile. You can put it in sauces, salads, smoothies, sandwiches and just about anything you intend on putting in your mouth.
This list is an honest, prioritised representation of my shopping needs and weirdly enough, lemons are right up there. I drink them in my water, tea and add the juice to most dishes. It adds a nice citrus kick to balance out those stodgy mid-week , one pan wonders. Lemon is mostly used by myself as a bit of a cleanse for my innards. It is mainly used for its citric acid content which is good for cleaning in the home and cleaning you from the inside out. There are many unofficial benefits of drinking lemon water so trying to make room for this little yellow friend in your diet will pay off. It is used as a treatment for digestive issues, the common cold (when mixed with honey to make a bit of a ‘health tonic’) and a plethora of illnesses. Lemon contains Vitamin C, B6, A and E. Lemons are also home to the infamous flavonoid family of plant metabolites, known for it’s wondrous antioxidant properties.
There are also rumours that the zest has anti-cancer properties, this legend has yet to be proven but obviously you would need to invest in some organic lemons to potentially receive the full benefits. Not using organic, could actually do more harm than good. Citrus is often sprayed with a range of nasty fungicides, parasiticides and disinfectants. Good news is you can get rid of this icky stuff by soaking your fruit collection in some vinegar and water. Here is how.
Get a sturdy pan and melt 1Tbs of coconut oil and add your garlic and broccoli. Keep enough oil in the pan to stop the garlic from burning and fry the broccoli to how you like it.
Add spinach, kale, the juice and a bit of zest of lemon and the courgette strands.
Cook it all down for a few minutes until greens have wilted, add chilli flakes.
You can add pasta at the end if you want to bulk it up a bit but the zoodles (julienned courgette) can replace spaghetti in this case.
We buy meat because it’s easy, it’s readily available and for the most part, it tastes good. Is it really easy? My favourite, psychologically scarring advertisement (I cannot find online after an hour of searching) used to be on television but no longer airs….probably because it was f*%@ing up too many Mummy’s and Daddy’s days as their kids cling to the bottom of their trousers pleading, “That’s not where our meat comes from, is it?” Because honestly, this ad was confronting.
It showed a middle aged, very together looking woman strolling down a grocery aisle with a flickering smile and an innocent looking shopping list. She is looking for bacon and then all of a sudden the big double doors in front of her loudly judder open leading her and her trolley into a dark, dinghy warehouse full to the brim of factory farmed pigs and piglets writhing around on the floor of tiny dirty stalls screaming, the way pigs scream, when they are distressed. This is real footage of factory farming.
Now, 13 year old Me, is very fragile (not unlike 24 year old me today) and bursts into tears with a gripping jolt of panic and urgency. Does everyone know about this? Why are we still eating meat? Quick! Let’s scream it from the rooftops, pick up the phone, write a letter…something! I don’t know how, but as far as I can remember this was my first exposure to industrialised meat products…..apart from actually eating the stuff. Up until this point, I really had believed that those twee little farms I had visited throughout my childhood, not unlike Old Macdonald’s, was as bad as it got.
Not shockingly, this ad only lasted a couple of months. Perhaps it was too real, too traumatising. People all over NZ shielding their eyes in front of their TV dinners, “Please. We are trying to eat!”. It has popped up every now and again over the years, but I can’t imagine advertisements like this doing anything good for the ‘clean, green’ image of the NZ farming industry or associated meat sales.It seems like the driving factor behind creating a poster image for the meat industry has nothing to do with good ethics, conservation or climate awareness. It is directly to do with sales and that illusive beast….the economy.
All power to you if you strictly buy fresh, locally sourced, organic, free-range/grass fed meat. Even more power to you if you traipse into the wilderness camouflaged in khaki with a hefty survival bag full of wilderness essentials, not forgetting a gun or two, and shoot yourself a wild piece of venison or pork. Some of my closest friends will often disappear for days into the bush and return back with a freezer load of freshly butchered pig. After all, up until quite recently, we as a culture depended on this instinctive, primal activity of hunting and gathering. Now, we find ourselves confronted with meat products everywhere we go. Getting our hands dirty (in the physical sense) for a meal is no longer a necessity. The sad, tormented fact is, most people just don’t consume meat the old fashioned KIY (Kill-It-Yourself) way anymore.
Despite wholeheartedly loving the Ron Swanson mentality, I don’t eat meat because I feel that the current industrialised era of food production and the idea of sustainability, just cannot go hand in hand.
I eat eggs sometimes (the real free range kind), I take cream in my coffee, I eat yogurt and I honestly don’t think my life would be worth living without cheese. Everyone is different and a lot of people are limited by their financial situation or by their dietary restrictions. I believe it is all about what works for you, while acknowledging the wider problems and doing your best to not directly contribute to them on a day to day basis. My food ethos is built around trying to reduce my consumption of meat and animal products. If I were financially stable this commitment would be much easier. At the moment I struggle with keeping my meals varied and nutritious. How many cheese and spinach toasties does it take before one turns into a giant, stringy toasted sandwich oneself? I will keep you updated.
Now back to that sticky topic nobody likes hearing about, or talking about for that matter.
One of the biggest causes of carbon dioxide emissions, it is responsible for the decrease in bee population through the use of pesticides and chemical fertilisers, it is a major polluter of our water sources, a cause of soil erosion and it is a completely unsustainable practice which does not make the most of our resources. When I talk about industrial agriculture and meat production practices, I am more specifically referring to intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production or as most of us call it, factory farming.
10 years ago, the United Nations released a report called Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options, which discussed the environmental problems associated with meat production and how we, as a global collective can work to mitigate the surrounding issues of pollution. The report states; “the livestock sector is a major stressor on many ecosystems and on the planet as a whole. Globally it is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases and one of the leading causal factors in the loss of biodiversity, while in developed and emerging countries it is perhaps the leading source of water pollution.” Dr. Henning Steinfeld, LEAD (Livestock, Environment and Devolpment Sector of the UN) Coordinator states that industrial-scale meat production is “one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems” and that “urgent action is required to remedy the situation.” If you want a bit of light reading, here is a copy of the report. If you ain’t got time for that, then here is a neat wee summary.
The ‘livestock sector’ and how we interact with it is politically and socially important, so why have we as a species not radically changed our practices in the 10 years since this significantly informative report was released? The majority of scientific research supports this report. Yet somehow the literature outlining agricultural problems is all too depressing and most of it can be overshadowed by the distraction of mainstream media and propaganda pushing.
Does meat somehow link to this archaic idea of manhood?
Old Macdonald had a farm, ee eye ee eye oh…and on that farm he had a pig.
This Old Macdonald guy was a modest fella who knew what he was up to. One of each farm animal. You can milk the cow, make some cheese and cream and whey and then just sit around chilling with your other farm dwellers, making friends with the duck and eating the eggs that the chicken so kindly produced. Man, back in the day Old Macdonald had it goin’ on. I remember flicking through this narrative rhyme and thinking “When I grow up, I want to be just like Old Mac, so I can have the biggest family of furry friends”.
So whatever happened to this idyllic image of farming?
Now the typical farm uses intensive practices which require a much different attitude; worlds apart from this neat, bucolic method outlined in the oversimplified childhood story. It seems while we were all looking the other way the agricultural industry has spiralled out of control.
Monoculture can be seen in the majority of American farms. This is a well practiced concept which involves concentrating all of your energy, as a farmer, on growing one specific kind of crop only, on a huge scale. Kind of putting all of your eggs, or grains rather, in one basket. The scary part is, to do this usually requires some kind of chemical intervention, which ultimately puts the consumer at risk, as well as the natural environment. An in depth breakdown of this practice is provided here.
If we were to think of the agricultural industry and the practices of large scale companies or independent farms as being situated on a sliding scale of sustainability; farms which prioritise sustainability and safe practice would be on the far left side of this spectrum. Mega agrochemical users who prioritise profit over all else (including our lived environment and the creatures homed by it) are way over to the right. Head down to your local farmers market to see how the far left operate in real life. Stalls of locally grown fruit, veg, artisan cheese, wine, cakes and breads. Here in Dunedin, the farmers market is a weekend event. It unites a large chunk of our city who enjoy strolling the stalls coffee in hand, with bags full of fresh produce.
No doubt, you’ve heard of the powerful agricultural, ‘biotech bully’; Monsanto. This company is at the forefront of agrochemical use and they are one of the most powerful corporations in the world, sitting at the untouchable far right of this sliding sustainability scale. Their latest invention; spraying corn, alfalfa, sorghum and many more crops with RoundUp and then distributing them, business as usual. They have created RoundUp resistant crops which allow farmers to spray with highly toxic weed killer while their crops continue flourishing. Extensive research studies have proven this practice to be highly dangerous to humans, our water supplies and our environment.
There is a hoard of information available online regarding Monsanto and their use of glyphosate (one of the active ingredients in RoundUp) and the hundreds of other chemicals used by Monsanto on an immense scale. Labelling themselves as ‘Sustainable Agriculture Leaders’ highlights how full of sh*t they are and what little care they take for those who consume their products.
There are countless stories of Monsanto’s immoral practices and their attempts to become the oligarchy of agriculture. Vanity Fair published an expose of Monsanto which exposes Monsanto as the embodiment of the classic schoolyard bully. Neil Young recently made a short film about the intimidation tactics Monsanto use against independent farmers who continue their traditional, chemical free, sustainable farming practices.
“Monsanto is one of the largest pharmaceutical and agricultural companies who produce a wide range of genetically modified foods and seeds, drugs and pesticides and herbicides. This multibillion dollar company has branches in 100 different countries and is the main producer of genetically modified crops and seeds in the world.” See more at:SOR.com. Monsanto hide behind lawyers, corrupt politicians, CEO’s and unlimited financial funds. There is a global grass-roots movement to strip them of power and boycott their products, but Monsanto continue to produce GMO filled crops which are poisoning habitats and people worldwide.
The sheer size of Monsanto is overwhelming. How do we, the ‘little people’ avoid toxic corn, soy, cotton and grains? Well, here is a list of known brands who readily associate with and rely on Monsanto crops. If Monsanto are as powerful and corrupt as evidence has shown, we must assume that the true scale of their infiltration of consumables is much wider than this relatively small list of associated brands.
José Graziano da Silva the director general of the Food andAgriculture Organisation says “Nothing comes closer to sustainable food production than family farming. The preservation of natural resources is rooted in their productive logic; and the highly diversified nature of their agricultural activities gives them a central role in promoting the sustainability of our food systems and ensuring food security.” Basically, if we want to be on the safe side (while encouraging local businesses) we should be supporting and buying from small, local agricultural independents. It costs a little more financially, but hey, I would rather spend an extra $3 a pop for organic, locally grown produce than spend my hard earned pennies lining the pockets of unethical, corrupt agrochemical giants.
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Finish that overpacking! And then tuck me in!
It’s been so busy this past week, getting things packed, having the show, and trying to do SOMETHNG done for Christmas. I made myself nuts and had a good, old fashioned freak out — modernly referred to as an anxiety attack — when things were falling apart. But after I got a hold of feeling out of control, I also realized I had done the usual imagining things a certain way, and freaked when the picture didn’t match anymore.
Basically, it means we NEED a break! What a crappy year this is and we have to get away. More than anything, I’m looking forward to being with John, relaxing in Fort Wilderness with the dogs, and having laughs with our friends. I want all the perks that we hope to have, but let us get there and back safely, and I will be happy.
Oh, and eating a lot. And our golf cart. And an internet connection… And if win the free vacations for life….
I’ll see you back here on the 21st or so!
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Polarized Thinking is a cognitive error that is a close cousin to over-generalization and filtering. This error is very common in our political culture. “Polarized thinking” involves forcing complex issues into “either/or” pairings. This forced pairing then encourages debate between which of the paired options is better and discourages exploration of the information, experiences, or values behind those options. The forced pairing also constrains both the generation of new options and the discussion of the options in between the the forced pair.
Polarized thinking sounds like this: “We must declare that there are no shades of gray in American freedom. It’s black and white, all or nothing. You’re either with us or against us.” (2002 quote attributed to Wayne LaPierre of the NRA in Washington Post article “True Believers” by Achenbach, Higham and Horowtiz, reprinted in the Columbia Daily Tribune 1/27/2013), or this: “What”s more important – our children or an ‘A’ grade from the gun lobby?” (quote attributed to President Obama, in MSNBC blog post “How to Get an F from the NRA”, 4/16/2013).
So what can you do when you hear polarized thinking? Sometimes a speaker will moderate a polarizing statement if the statement is gently reflected back, emphasizing the polarizing elements (“so as you see it right now it’s all or nothing, us v. them, and nothing in between?”). If the speaker does offer a modification (e.g., “well yes, at least on this issue”, “it is as long as they insist on . . .”) the opening suggested by the modification can be noted, and returned to later in the discussion.
A facilitator can also note and explore the fact that “us v. them” phrasing indicates a lack of trust or identity with others in the conversation. For example, the facilitator might say “so you see this as us v. them, right v. wrong, with no possibility of working together?” After a response the facilitator might then ask something like, “and what are some of the differences that reflect where we might place ourselves on the “us or them” continuum?” or “what are some of the things that separate “us” and “them”?” The list of responses can then be discussed and refined by the group.
We have facilitated some difficult dialogues where this approach led to very productive discussion about the “labels” each group was using, why they were used, and why various labels were offensive to those to whom they were applied. The group closed out the session listing words to use and words to avoid, and identifying a set of questions they might explore when they met again. The group referred to the list at future sessions to minimize attempts at further polarization. Ultimately the group was able to resolve the issues that had brought them together in a way that all could live with.
When speakers are polarized, it can also be helpful to use invitational questions. Invitational questions invite the group to explore and choose options for continuing the conversation. Examples of invitational questions include, “what might we discuss next?” or “if it’s us v. them, where do you see the discussion going next?”, or “are there experiences or other information you might share that would help others to understand about why you feel so strongly about this issue?” Again, you would want to get input from several speakers, and summarize the range of thoughts provided. After reviewing you would again ask the group to help define the next step.
If you have planned for multiple sessions, you might at this point consider assigning the group “homework” that will help them think about what they have heard and how the issue might be approached in future sessions. It will be easier to think of a productive “homework” assignment if you have evaluated potential areas of impasse and how those might be approached, before you meet with a group. In any assignment though it is important to reflect the actual discussions that have incurred within the group and use open questions. When the group reconvenes, a review of the homework can be used to re-engage the group in discussion.
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Nothing like having a front row seat on the Google Phishing scam that hit Texas school districts (not to mention lots of other folks) today!
Here’s the latest roundup of blog entries I’ve written for TCEA TechNotes’ blog…happy reading!
Prevent Summer Slide with Technology: This blog entry allowed me to explore a conversation I had with a colleague several years ago. What fun it was to dig up that conversation and explore it in light of new technologies. One of the challenging aspects of preventing summer slide is the fact that school districts want to use tutorial, or drill-n-practice, solutions to address it. Research shows, though, that such approaches have limited impact on math and reading.
Choosing an Online Payment System: One of the initiatives that I took on as a technology director was implementing an online payment system. This blog entry captures part of the success story.
Slack for Better Communication: My first introduction to Slack was last year. I was amazed that I had completely missed this wonderful service. Of course, for previous years, I’d been focused on building school district communication networks using Telegram and Voxer.
Get Organized: Productivity Tips for OneNote: It’s amazing how fast OneNote is evolving and becoming the tool of choice for many.
Down Memory Lane: Memoir Maps with iPads: This blog entry allowed me to explore memoirs and iPads, but more importantly, to exorcise an old unpleasant memory.
Showcase Your School’s Success: Like most district administrators, I wanted to share the great things that were ongoing in schools. As a blogger, I’m always amazed at much great material we let just fade into memory. In this blog entry, I share my insights into how you can do this for your school.
Transform Learning with Text to Speech: A few weeks ago, a colleague received a phone call asking about solutions for text to speech, and speech to text. I was pleased I had the opportunity to share this blog entry.
When People Fail – Digital Evidence Search: As a tech director, one of the challenges we encounter is when people fail, when they use technology in inappropriate ways…and how we are forced to deal with it.
Protect Your Virtual Home – Google Chrome Browser: A few of my favorite Chrome add-ons that help you manage work, beautify it with pretty pictures, and protect your privacy.
Most of these blog entries address the TCEA Productivity Tools for Administrators Academy coming up later this summer, 2017.
“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing,” said Aristotle. Or, more simply, the doer who learns. As a writer in the education field, and I trace my lineage back to those first book reports in third grade, I have been learning by writing for many years. So I must admit to some concern when I saw arts (did I mention I flunked art in kinder?) and crafts see a resurgence in schools, a contra-decima to the establishment of the Common Core as Chris Aviles suggests in his article which I explored earlier.
As I have written more about makerspaces, experienced it firsthand, I realize that we are moving quickly to the digitization of arts and craft experiences. Making things from junk, then digitizing the creation, resulting in a 3D printing that is functional, well, that moves the experience of creating down the road. Makers appear an innovation on what humans have been doing for years–hunting, gathering, and making stuff.
This hands-on sourcebook…includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today. [It]…delves into 11 of the most essential technologies and tools…found in makerspaces, ranging from 3D printers, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and wearable electronics to CNC, Legos, drones and circuitry kits and includes an assortment of project ideas that are ready to implement.
For the sake of variety, I decided to do a quick skim of the book to see what useful nuggets might reveal themselves, half submerged in the rapid flow of text and quotes, 400 pages long. Here are some of my take-aways of this must-have textbook for schools, teachers, librarians and administrators eager to fundamentally understanding the maker movement and implement it in their schools.
A typical academic makerspace would include 3D printers, programmable electronics, digital microscopes, video equipment, large format printers, and other items that add to the institution’s curriculum.
A space like this gives students endless possibilities to put their education into practice.
The makerspace movement need not rely on high-priced tech.
Making can be as simple as featuring a building contest with Legos or hosting something more technical like a hackathon.
Students can make and display dioramas, science projects, crafts, and jewelry along the line of friendship bracelets.
Active learning is the process in which students participate in activities to facilitate understanding and retention.
Any exploration of an idea with two or more minds involved. Individuals working in groups generally retain more information and understand a concept more fully than those working alone.
Inquiry-based learning is the proces of learning by posing questions, problems, or scenarios. It provides a scaffold for student learning but allows students to explore and develop a better understanding of concepts instead of simply presenting the facts or providing a linear path to established ideas.
Projects are complex, multilayered learning experiences that require students to develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Present a compelling, challenging real world problem for students.
Encourage students to explore topic through extensive inquiry, research, information application and reflection.
Organize time for critiques, revisions that scaffolds peer collaboration.
Empower students to share their results with each other and others.
People learn better when they are actively making things.
Students are encouraged to build or create tangible objects to understand the world around them.
Instead of teaching at a person, constructionism supports the idea of assisting learning through trial and error.
Students test their ideas without fear of failure.
Makerspaces are safe spaces where learners are encouraged to fail to test boundaries and explore creative limits in pursuit of intellectual growth and understanding.
The ability to tinker, build, break, and create something you envisioned is an incredibly powerful lesson. To work alongside makers of all levels reinforces the idea that we are all learners and need help to succeed.
Wow, Chapter 2 does not disappoint in terms of awesome ideas and rounding up instructional approaches! I have to admit that it’s my favorite chapter so far.
If you are unfamiliar with the Makerspace in schools, the most common type of Makerspace aims to both better expose students to STEM related fields and revive the lost art of making with one’s hands. Basically, it is Shop class 2.0. And like Shop class, the Makerspace is doomed. The Makerspace has five years left, ten if it’s lucky.
Chris Aviles, the author, points out that the Makerspace is doomed because it is a fad (well, heck, what isn’t in education except the love of a teacher for her students?) and money. Yes, makerspaces can be expensive, if not in actual budget (robots aren’t cheap), in time to gather all the inexpensive alternatives to robots. Really, what else can be dumped on librarians to do?
For the author, his embrace of fads like interdisciplinary studies, blended learning, flipped learning, constructivist approach suggests that being “a maker” is already present in schools. This is just another label to describe digitizing arts and crafts, shops 2.0 as he called it.
What’s the connection to our work as educators, if any? I see synchronous instruction (F2F/Online) as lectures he describes. Recording oneself, providing choice and voice in what is learned with the opportunity to make it personal (learning content is a makerspace where learners connect experiences they value to active learning), relevant and authentic is the new trend.
Implications for edtech folks? We can accomplish this with a learning and development schedule that lessens our involvement with synchronous learning, the right technology that enables us to market asynchronous learning opportunities 24/7. This grants our students, adult learners in a global marketplace of learning, the ability to control their own destiny, to find what they want and learn however they want. We have to become extremely mobile and fluid in creating content on the go.
Makerspaces ARE a fad. But then, so is everything in education today. The question is, how do we surf the fads while providing a valuable service to those who choose (e.g. Innovators, Ealry Adopters, Early Majority or 50%) to embrace the next thing? And, how do we continue to nurture the inservice teachers (Late Majority, Laggards or 50%)?
Read this blog entry…one of my favorites!
“Do you by chance know of a good basic list of tech skills that every teacher should know? If so, do you have a formal assessment for this?” asked a TCEA member recently of a colleague. “We’re a Microsoft district,” the member added. In this blog post, we’ll explore a list of expectations for teachers. We’ll also discuss some suggestions for formal assessments.
How do these changing expectations impact basic technology skills that all teachers need?
Create folders to organize content.
Organize files into folders, copying files from one folder to another.
Work with filenames and extensions.
Record screencasts with Powerpoint and Office Mix.
Record a podcast with MS Sway online.
Capture and share a whiteboard recording (audio+annotation) with Microsoft Snip.
Record and edit audio clips using programs like Audacity (free).
Record and edit video using programs like Shotcut (free).
Model and support the use of digital ink for learning enhancement.
Create models for 3D printing using tools like SketchUp Pro/My.SketchUp (free for Texas schools via TCEA), Tinkercad, and Microsoft Paint 3D.
Make and take in classroom-based maker spaces that incorporate coding (e.g. Creative Coding through Games and Apps (CCGA), TickleApp (view compatible drones) and DroneBlocks (view compatible drones), each of which works with different drones. This type of programming can be introduced to students using MIT’s Scratch and Scratch, Jr.
Rely on GPS-enabled devices for geo-caching activities as a team or create activities for others.
Have students form teams and then make a social justice video using their devices. Then publish the videos online using YouTube.
Engage students in problem-based learning scenarios that require them to collaborate and communicate to solve a problem. Deepen the difficulty by separating them into different rooms (or work with another classroom) and work at a distance using an instant messaging/video technology of choice (e.g. Skype).
Students can also construct virtual representations of learning tasks in virtual spaces (e.g. Minecraft: Education Edition).
Adopt BreakOut EDU methods for use in the classroom.
Encourage students to use Office 365 (e.g. Microsoft Office Suite) to engage in real-world data analysis to solve problems.
Create problem-based scenarios using Powerpoint and Office Mix with built-in assessment.
Enter students in the 3D Design Contest offered each spring by TCEA where they must solve an authentic problem using the design engineering process.
Engage with Problems: Engage learners in the authentic purpose of solving a problem (problem-based learning/inquiry-based learning).
Encourage Collaboration and Implementation: Encourage and support adult learners as they collaborate on projects–sharing their own life experiences–focused on the creation of tangible product(s) with modeling and safe implementation opportunities.
Amplify Learners’ Voices with Tech: Amplify human voices with technology as they gather stories and share them (blogging, podcasts, video, media collections).
With these, any professional learning you invite educators to can be enhanced to achieve much of what they need to better meet learners’ needs. Be sure to visit the Microsoft Education Community for access to free professional learning that includes micro credentials (e.g. badges) that teachers can earn and share. And, of course, remember that TCEA Microsoft Innovative Education (TCEAMIE) Master Trainer Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin; mguhlin@tcea.org; 800-282-8232) is available to work with your campus or district to help develop skills with your staff.
Read this blog entry offering Powerpoint tips!
“No worries,” I said to my captive cafeteria audience of teachers back in the 1990s. The extra long telephone cable ran from the cafeteria manager’s office, plugged into the modem on my laptop. “I saved my PowerPoint on the Internet and we can watch it that way.” For some of us, PowerPoint offered a way to ditch lovingly crafted, black-and-white overhead transparencies. PowerPoint had color and embedded videos and images incredibly easily. And, lest we forget, it was simple to share those files on the burgeoning web.
Now, we hate PowerPoint, a symbol of a bloated, grumpy person who has so much to offer that we no longer want or need it. But is that really the story? Perhaps we put too much of the blame on the software and too little on ourselves. It’s not the program’s fault if those who use it #fail. It’s time to revisit our friend from yesteryear and explore the anatomy of PowerPoint productivity.
“No worries,” I said to my captive cafeteria audience of teachers back in the 1990s. The extra long telephone cable ran from the cafeteria manager’s office, plugged into the modem on my laptop. “I saved my PowerPoint on the Internet and we can watch it that way.” For some of us, PowerPoint offered a way to ditch lovingly crafted, black-and-white overhead transparencies. PowerPoint had color and embedded videos and images incredibly easily. And, lest we forget, it was simple to share those files on the burgeoning web. Now, we hate PowerPoint, a symbol of a bloated, grumpy person who has so much to offer that we no longer want or need it. But is that really the story? Perhaps we put too much of the blame on the software and too little on ourselves. It’s not the program’s fault if those who use it #fail. It’s time to revisit our friend from yesteryear and explore the anatomy of PowerPoint productivity.
Note: Welcome to this ongoing series on productivity tools for leaders and do-ers. Check back often to see more!
Tears running down her face, the Dances with the Stars judge looked at the winded dancer and celebrity Rashad Jennings. “I felt your dance, you emoted…emotion=emotion.” As Rashad pointed out, “I honestly felt like I was translating a message…It takes you back to what actually transpired in your life.” That’s what a powerful presentation can do, and to accomplish that, it takes YOU.
Use a powerful story to connect with the audience.
Find the underdog in the story and tell it from that perspective.
Use images that create insight into the feelings and learnings of the story.
Use a word or phrase to capture a thought, to let those gathered around your fire listening to the tale.
Dramatize your tale; don’t be afraid to get excited, to lower your voice as you reach a sad point in the story, or to smile as there is a happy ending.
Invite participants to share what they’re thinking and feeling as it happens, using backchannel tools like TodaysMeet or Padlet.
Ever watch a doctor on Grey’s Anatomy hesitate before asking for the right surgical instrument? Of course not! Before a doctor goes into a surgery, he reviews the case file and studies alternative procedures. Doctors know exactly what they are going to need and what they might need if all goes down the sink. They embody “Prior preparation prevents a poor PowerPoint!” Here is a curated list of tools to enhance your presentation, from audio insertion to templates and tips for Windows users.
Right Click button: Get the same effect as clicking the right click button on your mouse by pressing the key between the CTRL and ALT on the right side of keyboard. This will give you the same menu you get with a right click on your mouse.
Here are a few more keyboard shortcuts you may learn to treasure.
When using custom templates for PowerPoint, you may need to add fonts to your Windows installation.
Follow these instructions to add fonts.
“Learners process video 60,000 times faster than text!” Make sure you embed short video clips when you want to get a point across quickly. Link to the video at the time you want (right-click to get “copy video URL at current time,” shown below). Snap a picture of the video and insert that into your slide, then link the picture using the video URL at current time.
Create engaging pictures and images featuring information. Find copyright-friendly images online.
Add music clips and sounds to enhance the mood. Find some online.
Finally, don’t be afraid to assess the audience using one of the tools in this blog entry: High Five: Free Web-based Assessment Tools.
Want to learn other ways to save time and be more productive at work? Attend the Productivity Tools for Administrators on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in Austin. The one-day learning experience is guaranteed to provide you a wealth of hands-on activities to ensure you walk away with the tips and techniques you need to do more in less time. Register here.
“What’s the biggest problem we face in achieving success on the 8th grade technology applications TEKS?” asked a district instructional technology specialist. That is a question that many of my education colleagues have been hoping to see answered in their lifetime. And the answer is: free technology curriculum!
Read the rest of this blog entry online at TCEA TechNotes blog.
“What’s the biggest problem we face in achieving success on the 8th grade technology applications TEKS?” asked a district instructional technology specialist. That is a question that many of my education colleagues have been hoping to see answered in their lifetime. And the answer is: free technology curriculum! While several curriculum providers have an online curriculum (Learning.com provides one excellent example), few are available at no charge to school districts. That is, until recently. Google has announced a free technology curriculum for grades 7-12. Let’s review some of its benefits.
The new G Suite curriculum comes complete with instructional videos and creative projects. This will be a boon to educators who seek to prepare students for the world of work. Of course, there is a focus on Google Suites for Education tools. Some of the creative projects include If/Then Adventures, which are reminiscent of the Choose Your Own Adventure print stories many of us grew up seeing on bookshelves. The If/Then Adventures video provides great examples that highlight coding connections. They also emphasize real-life connections to apps many of us may be familiar with, such as the Waze directions app. While watching the video, students can receive prompts known as “CS Alerts” that offer status updates and advise them what to do next or what is upcoming.
Relying on activities that feature communication, collaboration, and research, students are able to work on projects and create together. This collaboration provides rich opportunities for joint and independent communication and research. What’s more, students are able to earn badges for activities they engage in.
Take a look at the free Google Suites for Education curriculum for secondary students. How would you incorporate this to enhance teaching and learning in your classroom? Even if you aren’t a technology applications teacher, you can take advantage of these resources.
Note: This blog post is part of a continuing series, Strategizing Your BYOT Implementation. Be sure to read other blog entries relevant to BYOD.
“We have spent three years in professionally developing teachers,” shares Dr. Joy Rosseau from Arp ISD, “on how to manage, deliver, create, implement, and appropriately select digital content, resources, and third party services to build on their TEKS and student needs.” Given BYOT in many school districts, helping teachers learn to deepen their blended learning expertise has become a priority for schools. A casual search reveals several Texas districts are already engaged in BYOT/BYOD implementations, such as Lewisville, Northwest, Abilene, Richardson, Fredericksburg, Judson, Lumberton, Allen, Elkhart, Nederland, and Harlingen ISD.
Vocabulary Term: “Blended learning” is an instructional approach that includes a combination of online and face-to-face learning activities.
Teachers should first have access to or have created digital content before students need to bring their own device.
Teachers should work together, building expertise that caters to their students’ needs.
Teacher lesson plans should reflect that they are at least working at LoTI Level 3 (and preferably Level 4b – comfortable with digital online resources).
Screencasting tools (e.g. Screencast-o-Matic , Screencastify , Nimbus Screencapture/Screenrecording, Office Mix) make it easy to capture videos of your screen. Screencasting is also a great way to to provide feedback for digital authors, whether from teacher to student or student to student.
Video reflection tools, great for assessment as well as content creation, include: Flipgrid.com , Recap, Vialogues, and VideoNot.es. Find out more about these.
Interactive assessments with EdPuzzle and Educannon. These last two allow you to use only what you need from any video, insert audio notes, or record over a video with your voice. You can add questions at any point in the video and track your students’ understanding.
These make it imperative that teachers be supported in their implementation of BYOT instructional methods. “One and done” workshops or webinars are insufficient.
At a Level 4, students are fully engaged in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. The teacher is within his/her comfort level with promoting an inquiry-based model of teaching that involves students applying their learning to the real world. Student use of digital tools and resources enables them to answer student-generated questions that dictate the content, process, and products embedded in the learning experience.
At Levels 5-6, collaborations extending beyond the classroom are employed for authentic student problem solving and issues resolution. The emphasis is placed on learner-centered strategies that promote personal goal setting and self-monitoring, student action, and collaborations with other diverse groups (e.g., another school, different cultures, business establishments, governmental agencies, etc.).
Some might suggest that while BYOT environments enjoy Level 6 technology access, they are actually at a much lower level of teacher and student use of technology in support of academic learning. It’s not the technology that lags behind, but rather the professional learning that focuses on inquiry-based models and how digital tools and resources can enhance learning. Focus on inquiry-based learning and leverage technology for cooperative learning and problem solving at a distance.
Note: This is the second in a continuing series, Strategizing Your BYOT Implementation. Be sure to read other blog entries relevant to BYOD. “Mobile learning is all about changing instruction. Because if the instruction doesn’t change, allowing the kids to bring their own device will do nothing,” shared Lenny Schad, Katy ISD Chief Technology Officer. Another approach, once you’ve explored BYOT from various stakeholder roles, is to review the checklist below and ask, How am I going to get there from here? Make this as specific as you can for YOUR role on campus.
Read this blog entry in its entirety online at TCEA TechNotes’ Blog.
Have you stopped, taken a breath, and thought about what BYOT means for YOU and your teachers, students, and parents? That’s a question that is screaming its way into the rarified atmosphere of public schools, like a cataclysmic meteor smashing tidy learning and technology plans. Still, many schools are now coming to terms, one way or another, with bring your own technology (BYOT). Bring your own technology intrigues many and frightens others. As a result of that fear and concern, campus leadership teams are compelled to craft a strategy to implement BYOT successfully.
In a few weeks, students like John and Maria at a 5A high school will be bringing their own technology to school. While some teachers like Jennifer are excited about the possibilities—mainly, those that have taken the time to learn how to use the Read/Write Web to collaborate, create, and connect in alignment with academic goals—others like Rick are afraid things will not work as well. Rick is comfortable with students working with pencils and paper, not using their own devices. He is concerned about what they might do on them when he isn’t looking. James, the campus principal, recognizes the need for a campus strategy towards BYOT. He’s worried that teachers will fail to take advantage of BYOT in their lessons and its use will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Failure,” he points out with a smile, “isn’t an option in our small community.” This is a fact the district technology department and district leadership are well aware of as well. The Classroom Learning Activity Rubric is one instrument that’s been offered to help teachers employ strategies that take advantage of technology in the classroom. Parents like Ms. Jones (involved in the PTA) are wondering, “How will the school communicate with me about this and will there be a consistent message from campus leaders? Will that message match what teachers are saying and doing in the classroom when students misbehave?” So much is at stake, jobs are on the line, high stakes accountability is in play. At a time when technology is everywhere, teaching, learning, and leading with technology has real consequences.
What is expected of me as a campus leader? How can I better support classroom teachers and encourage them to use BYOT? How can BYOT enhance instruction rather than become a self-fulfilling prophecy? How do I hold teachers accountable for what they are doing or not doing? The District should have a BYOT Support site with online resources focusing on facilitating online learning. The site should also include a webinar schedule, along with micro-credentialing or badges teachers can earn.
Isn’t that a great poem? It’s not the complete piece, but I cobbled together my two favorite parts. Rather than see it as depressing, which may be one’s first impression, it is really quite uplifting. I’m reminded of Dr. M. Scott Peck’s line, “Life is difficult.” Once you accept that it is difficult, it loses it’s power over you.
As a person whose brain is always “on,” a lifelong learner, I’m thrilled at the opportunities presented. There’s a bit of freedom in being a soldier, sent from place to place to facilitate learning, overcoming difficulties that are part and parcel of the work. And, fortunately, it’s soldiering but it doesn’t involve blood and dying.
Creating something in the face of adversity, in spite of the troubles…I often think that’s what we were created for. To bloom in spite of what may come.
As any teacher knows, truly engaging learning is social. Whether we share what we have learned with others or we undertake the learning journey together, little true learning occurs in isolation. Online learning environments that fail to create a social learning space will therefore fail. As educators, we have to be careful to avoid trying to engage students in online learning environments with face-to-face approaches as.the effects of F2F engagement methods may be different than what we expect. Here are some tips that may be helpful to you in facilitating online social learning.
Tip #1 – Address the logistics of the course.
Streamline organization of the course by chunking or “modularizing” content. This makes it easy for learners to break off and then dive back into the learning that comes in bite-sized pieces (e.g. 5 minutes).
Blend text, audio, and video into the content. For example, instead of just typing intro text for a welcome, use Voxer (audio example) , FlipGrid.com/Recap.com (video), or MS Sway with audio to create interactive content.
These best practices enable your virtual students to work their way through the content for a specific topic within the overall course of study. Tools like Google Sites, Microsoft OneNote, and Slack (to mention a few) are great ways to create an online course. Whatever you use, you are creating a virtual space where course materials can be housed and, more importantly, interacted with.
And, of course, Slack comes with a handy mobile app for quick anytime, anywhere access.
Tip #2 – Blend multimedia into your online learning environment.
“These videos and articles put so much more into place and answered many of the questions that I had,” shared one online course participant. You can accomplish this by including audio+picture or video testimonials from former students and course introductions by district facilitators. Drop audio/video recordings into the conversation. Participants love it when you mix it up! This kind of personalization helps build a real connection with course participants. Take advantage of screencasting and video recording tools.
Tip #3 – Stay in touch.
While you will be staying in touch with participants in discussion/chat forums, you can also send them updates via email. Two tools that can facilitate connections include the following Google Sheets add-ons: Yet Another Mail Merge and formMule . Both work as bulk email tools that make it easy to send information out.
Tip #4 – Set up a technical support forum.
If someone hasn’t logged in, don’t hesitate to pick up the phone and call them or send an email a day until they respond. The power of support forums is that when your online learners start to come together as a community of learners, they start to help each other out and respond to each other’s problems.
Tip #5 – Scaffold learning conversations.
Part of your scaffolding and support involves providing regular feedback and interacting with participants online. This is especially important up front since your level of activity serves as a model for the level of interaction students will exhibit when you are present, but not as active. This initial high interactivity sloping down to omni-presence enables participants to learn to rely on each other for answers, rather than you.
Another tip includes summarizing, or landscaping, the ongoing chat. And don’t be afraid to remind everyone what expectations are at regular intervals (such as at the start point, midpoint, and end-point). This helps everyone stay focused.
Tip #6 – Avoid question lists.
Focus discussions around ONE central question that resembles an ill-structured problem, very much like the PBL method. For example, consider how many questions are introduced in this discussion prompt. Each question achieves equal status for the participant; how could one question or scenario help participants focus?
Tip #7 – Encourage self-reliance.
Encourage people to discover each other’s strengths and what they each have to bring to the table. One of the most rewarding aspects of online learning conversations is that people discover each other, and themselves, online.
As online learners discover the benefits of learning online for themselves–especially when they work with other people–that positive reaction will engulf your online professional learning program.
What’s a tweetmeet? An opportunity to have a panel of folks share their insights into a series of topics. I’m looking forward to the opportunity to participate in a tweetmeet organized by Marjolein Hoekstra (@onenoteC). Wow, what an awesome opportunity to connect with other educators serving as hosts, as well as the international community!
Topic: Embedding Content in #OneNote!
I love the work Marjolein has done in organizing the TweetMeet, putting everything in a OneNote Notebook so everyone can collaborate on it. And, we also put together a Microsoft Sway featuring audio to capture the excitement! I had a bit of fun recording my audio…no doubt, the link to the Sway will appear in the days to come!
For now, here’s a teaser….
Ever created a podcast before? Now you can do so easily with Microsoft Sway.
You may not be aware of it, but Microsoft added some new features to the web version of MS Sway that make it ideal for audio-narrated images, also known as enhanced podcasts. Of course, Sway enables you to add tons of great content (e.g. Twitter streams, video, embedded content) aside from images and audio. This blog entry focuses on audio and images.
Read the Rest Online at TCEA TechNotes blog.
Earlier this year, I explored Professional Learning and Development research, suggesting a Professional Development Planner that could help others plan adult learning opportunities. When colleague John Bimmerle sent me this article, Why Good Professional Development Still Fails, I read it with avid interest.
The conclusion? Research showed that professional development, even when it followed the 7 principles of effective PD, did NOT impact student achievement.
Provide support for teachers during the implementation stage of using a new instructional method in the classroom. (Gulamhussein).
Be engaging and use varied approaches to support learning for both groups and individuals.(Gulamhussein).
Engage in inquiry-based investigations integrated into a competency-based online course.
Create a learning product, such as lesson plans or student activities.
Implement and test their learning product directly in the classroom with students.
Upload the evidence of classroom practice, student work and learning.
Simply, you’ll learn more if you leverage technology to engage with other learners collaborating on inquiry-based problem with a tangible result. And, whatever teachers learn should be used in the classroom with actual students. Finally, we learn not by experience but by reflecting on our experience as John Dewey pointed out.
A series of recent, rigorous, randomised-controlled studies of professional development programmes–that incorporated all the ingredients suggested by reviews of the evidence and were thoughtfully designed, carefully implemented and significant investment, these programmes led to no discernible improvements in student learning.
Summer training, coaching and follow-up seminars over two years changed neither teacher knowledge nor student achievement.
What it boils down to, as the article suggests, is that professional development did not result in a change in teaching practices, and therefore, no impact on student achievement.
Reflective blogging that takes a hard look at what you’re doing day in and out for the sake of getting better. I’m NOT talking about the blogging prevalent today, focused on sharing the latest “Wow, isn’t this cool!” app to build one’s brand so you can become a consultant or get business. Yes, I’m guilty, too, so I know how easy it is to write those blog entries. Achieving transformation via reflection is hard work.
Provide in-classroom coaching support (the stats on coaching cannot be ignored!) during implementation of a new instructional method or strategy. This includes modeling by the coach. Reflection afterwards is a must.
Provide specific instructional support during professional learning and a wealth of resources.
Build a support network and nurture relationships among all learners.
This isn’t a tough formula to figure out, just a hard one to implement consistently. We often learn in spite of our teachers…our goal in professional development isn’t to make that process harder, but to minimize the obstacles human beings face when learning.
Six sources of influence anyone?
“Miguel,” a dear friend and colleague asked me, “Have you read the new superintendent’s book?” At my blank stare and smile, she pointed to the Simon Sinek book in her hand entitled, Leaders Eat Last. I felt my hackles rise as my instinctive dislike of mis-applied lessons from other fields made my gorge rise.
This post featured by folks at TexasISD.com! Thanks!
Aside: Another perspective for your consideration. Some times, no amount of advice is good enough to get you through an unwholesome situation. “Do you really want to work with a crazy “leader?” The answer is, “Heck, NO!” Leave, go be happy somewhere else and let the sycophants hang around and wonder, “Why did we persist in this folly?” What’s even worse is school boards that endorse a superintendent who looks good while destroying the people. For me, that’s the measure of success…an organization that nurtures its people (faculty, students) succeeds, while an organization that beats people up because they’re not dancing to a new tune played to six-shooters popping off at their feet, will not. Over time, I’ve learned it’s better to shake the dust off your feet and keep moving! It’s biblical advice!
Having worked in multiple school districts, I’ve seen the reins of power change hands multiple times. Given the fact that superintendents change quite frequently these days–every 3.6 years as of 2010 according to one report, which cites that as an improvement from 2.5 years in 1999. One of the key elements in running a successful district is stability. So if you have a revolving door, it’s counterproductive, and there’s never a chance to establish reforms or create programs that make a difference. Even a three-year period of time is inadequate.” (Source). In my time, I’ve seen several types of leaders and witnessed the transition.
Build infrastructure that will support instructional efforts. Is your district 100% wireless? If 100% wireless, does each campus enjoy wireless LAN controllers that support increased bandwidth? Have you placed sufficient wireless access points in classrooms, libraries, cafeterias, and other key meeting locations? These are only some of the questions you need to take into account.
Be transparent and visible about what you’re doing to address the district’s needs. As much as possible, share what is happening, especially when you or your team is goofing up or moving slowly. A key performance indicator (KPI) dashboard should be something you have, even if it’s just a web page reflecting Helpdesk stats in a Google Sheet.
Try to get teachers and students to present to the school board. Whenever you can, get other people in front of the school board and leadership to share what a great job you are doing supporting their success.
“Those who hope to open a store must also be prepared to smile,” goes the old saying. This paraphrase of an old saying reminds you that if you’re going to work at Central Office, you must be prepared to smile and build relationships, even with those you do not like. Building relationships with district stakeholders, and, in particular, the superintendent and cabinet, remains paramount. Forget it at your peril.
Calling All San Antonio, Austin Area @Adobe Learners!
Looking for hands-on learning on important Adobe products? Maybe you need some tips and tricks to streamline your workflow? Developing new workflows by learning through trial and error can take time you may not be able to spend. Instead, accelerate your Adobe learning and join TCEA members at the 2017 Adobe Academy! You will learn how to learn more, tweak your workflows for Adobe products, and get fresh ideas for teaching Adobe products to your students. Finally, you will build relationships with other educators who use Adobe.
TCEA’s 2017 Adobe Academy will help you resolve a variety of issues. This two-day academy is designed specifically for those in the K-16 education arena who seek a better grasp of how Adobe tools can enhance their work. The Adobe Academy will take place June 20-21, 2017 at the TCEA headquarters in Austin. This day will be packed full of helpful information that you can implement the next day at work.
Doing More with Adobe – These sessions focus on helping you prepare for deeper use of critical tools like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Adobe in the Classroom – These sessions will help you share strategies with students on how to get certified via Adobe Certification Associate Exams, as well as emphasize the use of Adobe in the classroom.
Adobe Engagement – Learn how tools like Adobe Spark can be used to create engaging web stories, creating enthralling animated videos and more.
You can register online at a cost of only $239. TCEA will provide lunch for both days. What’s more, each paid registration will receive a one-year TCEA membership, access to all session materials, and membership in the TCEA Adobe Academy community!
Note: The Call for Proposals is still open, so if you would like to share your Adobe insights, then please submit your proposal(s) before May 12, 2017. We hope you will be among the many who present, and/or learn, at the academy! Don’t wait until the last minute to register as space is limited.
Wow, how tremendous to see so many Texans featured in The 2017 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K–12 IT Blogs article by Meghan Bogardus Cortez (@megbcortez)!
Now, there are a lot of awesome folks on the list of 50, but I have to stop a moment and celebrate the fact that there are two Texas organization blogs (e.g. TCEA, Keller ISD) as well as 4 Texans! Woohoo!
TCEA’s TechNotes Blog (@tcea): This features the creative efforts of my work colleagues, Lori Gracey, Dr. Bruce Ellis, Peggy Reimers, Diana Benner, and other TCEA team members! Way to go!
Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog (@kellerisdpd): I regret that I don’t read this blog myself, but will be adding them to my list of must-reads in my RSS aggregator!
Finally, what a delight to see old friends like Dr. Scott Mcleod (@mcleod | Dangerously Irrelevant), Tim Stahmer (@timstahmer | Assorted Stuff) and Eric Curts, (@ericcurts) and his blog, Ctrl-Alt-Achieve, featured! I’ve been reading Assorted Stuff for AGES. Tim must be really old now.
And, of course, I’m looking forward to reading some new folks, picking up on fresh perspectives!
To express yourself with clarity, write first.
When you write first, you are able to order the chaos from which creativity emerges, often shy and silent, or bold and beautifully obnoxious. . .and every sparkle or shade in between. As a writer, I’ve seen others explore their ideas aloud, not unlike a writer struggling for the right words. Unfortunately, words spoken aloud are often lost. A speaker, shaping ideas aloud in thin air, must keep his ideas simple, to the point or lose the listener.
A writer disgorges a detritus of ideas, form the flow, filtering and clearing away the non-essential. Then, seeking fresh ideas, pick through the pile again, seeing which ideas may give a reader pause, which may be repurposed to feed a wolfling thought.
“If I had more time, I would have written less.” This popular quote, paraphrased from the original, highlights brevity in communication. Say only what is necessary to make the point, nothing more.
While politicians seek to obfuscate, writers seek clarity. Often, that can be best achieved through brevity, the removal of the non-essential. Writing may be likened to minimalism, which is sparseness and simplicity by design.
Writing in search of clarity means that we need not be like Zeus with fully-formed ideas springing from our minds to do war upon on the befuddled masses. Rather, we are in the Creator’s image, stirring the murky depths, crafting beautiful horrors that exist in balance with the heart of the whole.
If you are interested in applying for the grant, be sure to complete the required task and budget templates. When complete, return to kerry.ballast@tea.texas.gov by 5:00 p.m. CST, April 24, 2017. You will be asked to provide primary contact information, a proposed timeline, and a budget. The latter two most follow the supplied templates for each item.
How are you managing smart technologies? Are you prepared for the Internet of Things (IoT) onslaught of fifty billion devices by 2020? That’s less than three years away! Forty-six percent of K–12 and higher ed Chief Technology Officers believe that smart technologies, including the IoT devices, will have a major impact on education.
Join us at TCEA for a facilitated conversation with experts, vendors, and your peers regarding the Internet of Things, the management of smart technologies in schools, and planning tips to ensure successful implementation.
Mark Your Calendars! The 2017 TCEA Technology Leadership Summit is scheduled for Friday, May 12, 2017. Register now for this one-time learning opportunity.
Some of the smart technologies include interactive whiteboards, copiers, video cameras, tablets, smart HVAC systems, electric lighting/maintenance, temperature sensors, attendance tracking, and wireless door locks. These are just a few of the many IoT devices that will soon be appearing in your district.
How you being implementing and managing this technology is the key to how successful you will be with this initiative. Taking no action is not an option. So be sure to join us on May 12, 2017 and learn what you can do to prepare for this next challenge.
TCEA is committed to creating professional learning and networking opportunities that address the specific needs of Chief Technology Officers and Directors/Coordinators of Technology in K-16 education institutions. Regardless of your district’s size, you will gain all of the information you will need to ensure that IoT devices work for your staff and students and not against you. Be sure to join your colleagues at the Friday, May 12, 2017 event.
Not able to attend the incredible Microsoft Education Exchange (E2) event in Toronto, Canada? No problem! Tune in on Day 2 of the event (March 22nd) to view/listen to the live-stream of the keynote!
Microsoft’s E2 – Education Exchange is opening its doors and inviting all educators to join us on March 22, 2017, at 9:00a.m. EDT!
Are you an Adobe expert? Consider sharing some of your expertise with others at the TCEA 2017 Adobe Academy (June 20-21, 2017). The call for proposals is open now for innovators like you!
I invite you to present at the TCEA 2017 Adobe Academy where you can help other educators benefit from your experiences, whether your session ranges from beginner to intermediate and/or advanced.
The TCEA 2017 Adobe Academy Call for Proposals is open now through May 12, 2017. We hope you will be among the many who present, and/or learn, at the Academy! Don’t wait until the last minute….
Helping children learn to cite photos and resources from the web is but one aspect of digital citizenship. A less easy topic, but perhaps more important because of that, is actively modeling digital safety and privacy. Recent attack vectors have left educators reeling from massive data breaches due to ignorance and a lack of consistent procedures for safeguarding sensitive data.
Data availability (including students who may not yet enter the workforce, so their identities can be stolen).
School districts often lack the funding to pay for sophisticated systems to defend against attacks, as well as the people to pay for them. In fact, regional service centers may lack adequate funding and staffing as well.
End users are untrained as to how to best protect against social engineering, phishing, and other types of attacks since it’s not their job to learn data encryption.
To address the final bullet, some actions educators can take to minimize risks are given below.
Phishing, which has grown by 33 percent over the last year, involves fooling someone into providing their login credentials and/or confidential data.
Recommendation: Do not provide your login credentials to anyone and NEVER send unencrypted confidential data via the Internet. Encrypt data first and then pick up the phone to speak to the other person FIRST. This is true even if you know the other person well (Source: New Gmail Phishing Attack). It cannot hurt to ask the other person first why they need access to this sensitive data. At the very least, you must exchange the encryption password.
Just as hackers employ encryption to deny access to data on an ransomware-infected machine, so can educators and students learn to use encryption to prevent unauthorized access to data. Popular data encryption tools are available that enable educators, regardless of device, to secure their data from prying eyes. And in the likely event that data is stolen or accessed, the thieves will be unable to do anything with the encrypted data.
Recommendation: Establish procedures for handling sensitive data in your classroom and/or office. Ensure that data containing personally identifiable information (PII), as well as usernames/passwords to popular services, is encrypted. You can use a text file to put all your usernames and passwords into; just make sure it is encrypted. Use Secure Space Encryptor (SSE) on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android devices. Chromebook users should rely on Minilock, a Chrome add-on.
As schools become data-driven, putting security processes in place becomes an imperative. In fact, if you can walk into an office or classroom and get a username and password for any district information system, that’s a problem. Schools must also keep in mind that students may be one of the people who can leak logins and passwords. It’s all too easy for a student to walk into a classroom, look under their teacher’s keyboard, and get access to the Google Suites for Education or Microsoft O365 username and password.
Recommendation: Secure your passwords using a “password database” (e.g. Keepass, LastPass, 1Password). These are encrypted locations or files that are encrypted. They are also convenient; you need only remember one password to access the encrypted database containing your usernames and passwords. Make sure to log out of open systems on your device, whether it’s a computer or smartphone.
“She just went ahead and clicked the malware email,” said the network engineer. “‘Why did you click it?’ I asked her and she said “It look relevant, even if it was in my spam folder.” Most email programs and/or services will provide you with a warning. For example, Google features “Safe Browsing” which throws up a red sign when you encounter phishing attacks. Keep in mind that there’s generally a good reason for something to be in your spam.
While many are waking up to the importance of digital citizenship, data privacy and security remain nebulous, techie subjects. Explode the myth with access to online curriculum that can coach you and improve your skills. You can read this privacy ebook for educators (free), facilitate professional learning opportunities using Me and My Shadow’s curriculum, as well as conduct a thorough review of how data is managed in your environment.
Finally, make every effort to model for staff and students simple ways that data can be protected. Safeguarding our children’s education remains paramount, but you can’t teach in an unsafe environment. Protect, educate, and model digital safety.
This past week, I’ve been focused on enhancing my own learning and sharing some ideas that I’ve been picking up for years! It’s always fun to revisit and repackage great ideas. It’s sort of like playing with that slime goo you give kids…stick your hands in and mold away! (then watch it collapse and lose form, which is what’s nice about blogging ideas since they remain in semi-permanent state).
In this blog entry, I introduce a new Flipboard magazine (which astonishingly acquired quite a few readers in one day) that seeks to capture these ideas, as well as share my professional development/learning series.
centered on andragogy (adult learning strategies)?
Read this Flipboard-based Magazine, PD/PL: Andragogy, on your mobile device!
When I scanned my Twitter feed this morning, as I pondered whether I really wanted to get up at 3:00AM, I realized that I had missed one of the most important twitterchats ever! Yikes!
In truth, I missed two chats last night–Michelle Moore’s (@Michelle4EDU) #HCPSTEACH and #EvenTalk–that I had been invited to participate in. (And, we won’t even mention OneNote twitterchat and MinecraftEDU chats!).
Still, continuing this week’s focus on professional development, professional learning, I couldn’t help but be drawn to the excellent conversation around the #HCPSTEACH questions. Since I couldn’t participate (catching up on sleep after an arduous week driving to Austin and presenting at TASBO17 conference, the latter was a lot of fun!), I thought I might take a quick >140 character stab at responding to these questions.
Q1: What can we personally do with our own learning to be sure learning sticks and impacts students?
Ensure engagement and movement right out of the starting gate. Learning can be a race as the learner begins his/her lap around the track. On one side, learners are running out of energy, time, and the sheer willpower to continue. My thinking on making learning stick for me is simple–I have to be emotionally engaged, able to write/talk and then reflect, then apply new learning in a situation I devise. But learning has to be more than just about student’ personal motivation.
As you can see, learners need a little more than just their own personal motivation (help them love what they hate) and coaching on ability (help them do what they can’t). With Pr/PBL approaches, you can get learners personally motivated and provide mini-lessons to help them learn to do what they can’t. Teachers can also work with students one on one, although it becomes harder in departmentalized settings, to provide necessary encouragement and assistance (social). But it’s more effective if a peer member acts in this dimension. How can educators make it easier for students take on the role of learning advocates?
Q2: When have you successfully struggled with implementing a new topic/strategy? How did the process help you grow?
It’s amazing, I find that I have struggled quite a bit with a variety of topics or strategies. One challenge I faced recently included adapting a workshop designed in one way to include activities and engagement strategies that better met the needs of participants. That is, I taught it the way I was supposed to teach it, then realized it wasn’t working. So, I asked myself, discussed with colleagues, and realized that my first duty was to my learners, not the curriculum. At that moment, I redesigned the day of activities to better meet the needs of learners…and the results were tremendous!
“Go through your learning activities from the learners’ perspective,” shared a colleague, “then make changes accordingly.” Going through that process helped me become more centered on the learners rather than what I wanted them to do. I realized there needed to be more choice and movement so that learners could make meaningful learning of what was made available to them.
Love this “traditional” way of encouraging learners to pick up something new from each other.
Of course, you could do it with a Padlet, right? Or Google Draw?
Some non-traditional things that I have done to provide implementation support involve technology. In fact, creating blended learning experiences that mix face to face and online ongoing, intensive professional learning make a big difference. That’s because it’s about building community among learners, relationships with individuals and making activities like coaching and peer observation possible.
Love this document from Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida!
Q4: Share examples of great trainings that you have provided/attended. What made them a strong experience?
The key is to structure professional learning so that it empowers individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices within the context of a learning opportunity. At the end of a series of professional learning, participants leave empowered and enthusiastic, wanting to do more to expand on what they have done in the professional learning. Invariably, problem-based learning and project-based learning have yielded these results. That says a lot about PBL for use with adult learners.
Q5: If you could structure a professional learning opportunity, what would it include or look like?
I absolutely LOVE this question. Now, structuring a session like this may often be a function of time and energy…as the facilitator, do you have enough of each to spend it as you see fit? But given time and energy, which you can marshal effectively over a long preparation time rather than “I have this session I need you to do in 10 minutes!” (as fun as those are, they don’t often yield the best results unless you can quickly adapt activities).
A space like Google Classroom, Microsoft Classroom, MS Yammer, Slack, Voxer makes it easy to facilitate ongoing conversations and reflections, easy to capture and share success.
Whether a wiki, a OneNote Notebook (I don’t recommend Google Drive since that can be quite confusing to organize and locate content, although I know schools that do use it in spite of that with some frustration up front), find a way to make curriculum and lesson sharing possible.
Encourage observation, modeling, implementation with support in a culture of trust and safety is key.
Tools like Flipgrid.com and getRecap.com can make video recording and sharing easy for teachers.
Encourage reflections that are shared in a OneNote or blog, although writing may be too much given teacher literacy levels and/or time to compose and reflect, which is why I recommend Voxer or Flipgrid.
We know that teachers are more likely to adopt instructional methods after they see that strategy being successful in a classroom with students they know.
Record short lessons and watch students work through successful activities.
Whew, that was a tough question! So glad I was able to share my thoughts in a blog entry rather than a Twitterchat!!
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One object of the present invention is to provide a pencil with an improved eraser element of which the ferrule is preferably composed of a phenolic compound and the eraser is rectangular in front elevation and relatively thin in side elevation, a form of eraser which has proved satisfactory in use, as giving relatively long and convenient service. A further object of the invention is to improve upon the form of the pencil eraser and the eraser holding tip so that they can be produced more cheaply than articles of similar manufacture have heretofore been produced. To the accomplishment of these ends the invention consists in the improved eraser and holding tip therefor fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed out in theappended claims.
is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of the upper end of the pencil shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a top plan View of the pencil shown in Fig. 2 Fig. 5 is a transverse sectiontaken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5 of a modified form of the invention.
The improved eraser and holding tip therefor is adapted to be mounted on one end of any usual or preferred form of pencil having an elongated core of marking material 8 enclosed in a sheath-9 composed of wood or similar casing material. The sheath 9 may be cylindrical, hexagonal as shown, or of other contour in cross section.
The improved eraser holding tip is indicated generally at I!) in Fig. 1 and is composed of a synthetic resin or molded phenolic or other plastic material, although it may conveniently be composed of metal, such as brass. The eraser .tion ll of the eraser holding holding tip comprises a tubular inner end or.
The outer end of the tip constitutes the eraser holding portion of the tip and is' a bifurcated formationv consisting of the jaws or walls [4 and I5 formed integrally at the middle portion I9 of their inner ends with the neck portion ll of the tip. Axially the inner surfaces l6 of the walls l4 and [5 are straight, whereas in cross section they are preferably concave, as clearly indicated in Figs. 4 and 5, although they may be parallelly arranged transversely. I prefer to make the inner surfaces iii of the .eraser holding portion of the .tip somewhat concave as shown so that the lateral end portions ll of the walls l4 and I5 will be closer part thereof, by which I8 is prevented from moving laterally. The Walls l4 and 15 of the eraser holding portion of the tip are at the inner-ends [9 thereof, as stated, integrally connected with the outer end of the tubular portion ll of the tip, but since the neck portion H ofthe tip is cylindrical whereas the eraser holding portion is shaped as two jaws or walls the wing portions ll of the walls l4 and I5 are separated from the neck portion II by the line of demarcation indicated at 29.
The eraser I8 is an elongated rectangle in front elevation, as shown in Fig. l, and in plan or transverse section is preferably an elongated oval, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, although, it may be flat;v The convex sides 22 of the eraser are ficient, even with excessive use, to last throughout the life of the pencil to which the improved eraser and holding tip may be applied.
axially extending inwardly projecting ribs 28 which are received in longitudinally extending grooves 29 formed in the outer surfaces of the eraser. In Figs. 4 and the eraser and the holding tip are shown as being provided with one cooperating rib and groove on each cooperating the cooperating sides of the eraser and holding tip are provided such ribs and grooves, indicated at 30. It is obvious that the cooperating sides of the holding tip and eraser may have any preferred number of ribs and grooves.
The ribs 28 formed on the inner surfaces of the walls l4 and I5 of the eraser holding tip are.
only as long as the walls l4 and I5, whereas the grooves 29 in the outer faces of the eraser extend throughout the length of the eraser, as indicated in Fig. 3. This is because it is convenient to produce the erasers by an extrusion process. The ribs 28 and 3!! together with the concaving of the walls l4 and I5 of the eraser holding tip serve the doublepurpose of preventing the eraser from axial and lateral movement in the tip and of strengtheningthe walls [4 and I5. In order to give the holding tip still greater strength, especially at of the walls l4 and i5 meet with the; outer end of the tubular portion II of the tip,the outer faces of the tip are provided with longitudinally extending ridges 32, which as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, are thicker at their middle portions, that is to say, at the point l9 wherethey cover the junction of the walls I l-and with the tubular portion I l of the tip. Fromthis point the ridges slope curvingly to the outer end of the walls 14 and I5, and to the inner end of the tubular portion II ofthe tip. Theeraser is-firmly anchored in the jaws or walls l4 and I5 by reason of the peculiar formation'of the cooperating grooved and ribbed concavo-convex surfaces of the eraser holding walls and the eraser. To decrease the possibility of accidental dislodgement, however, adhesive may be applied to these contacting surfaces.
2. The combination of an eraser which is of general rectangular outline in front elevation and of elongated oval form in transverse section each of the convex-outer surfaces of the eraser having with two the point H! where the inner ends at least one longitudinally extending groove therein, and an eraser holding tip adapted for attachment to one end of a pencil, said eraser holding tip being composed of a synthetic resinous material comprising a tubular inner end adapted for mounting over one end of a pencil and an outer eraser holding end consisting of two walls integrally connected at at least a portion of their inner ends with the outer end of the tubular portion of the tip, said walls being spaced apart and their inner surfaces being concave-transversely and straight axially to receive between them the convex outer faces of the eraser, said inner surfaces of the concave walls of the tip having at least one inwardly projecting longitudinally extending rib adapted to be received within the corresponding longitudinally extending groove in the eraser.
5'. The combination of an eraser relatively long and wide and relatively thin, and an eraser holding tip adapted for attachment to one end of a pencil, said eraser holding tip being a unitary structure comprising a tubular inner end adapted for mounting on one end of the pencil and an outer eraser holding end consisting of two walls connected at their inner ends with the outer end of the'tubular portion of the tip, said walls being spaced apart to receive the eraser snugly between them and being of less length and width than the eraser, the inner surface of at least one of said walls having an inwardly projecting longitudinally extending rib throughout its length, and said eraser having on the outer surface of one of its sides a longitudinally extending groove adapted to receive the inwardly extending rib on one of the walls of the eraser holding tip.
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Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Yes, I cheated by listing two series instead of single titles, but in my head they are all one big long story, so there.
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Sometimes I’m asked by bands and record companies to write their promotional material. Biographies, press releases and the like.
Here is a selection of clips by some the bands I’ve been working with in 2015. All have new albums out now – or very soon. Click to enlarge.
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They announced the end of their Vegas residency.
They announced a world tour.
And most importantly, they announced A NEW ALBUM!
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i put my babies on a plane with their father to florida this morning. i have never had them leave me here at home before. i’ve gone away for weekends three times, but they were always relatively close to home if not in my home, not gallavanting all over the east coast, flying on airplanes, walking near swimming pools, and going to the beach. without me. to protect them.
i’ve been crying since 4:45 am when my alarm went off. sage just called from the plane to tell me that zander cried a lot when they had to put his blankie through the security machine, but it was ok, because she put jerome in there with it, and it wasn’t dirty. god, i love these kids. i know he’ll do fine, and they’ll come back alive. i just want to save them from feeling scared and uncomfortable, which i know i can’t do, whether i was on this trip with them or not. it just seems to young to have to be thrust into that at 2 and 4.
just look at this face, i mean, really.
ok, on to other, non-heartbreaking things. i made a mobile recently for the top of my stairs, with mirrors and flat sided glass beads.
sorry for the cruddy photo, this was nearly impossible to get, what with all the moving and reflecting. i used an old purse handle for the hoop at the top, and beading thread (although fishing line would have been far better, but i didn’t have any and this was the kind of project i had to do right then) for hanging. i like it- it catches the light nicely, and carries the eye up to the window, which is one of my favorite things about the house.
and finally, to end on a super positive note, the sun is coming back! hooray!
i’m hoping to put that re-vamp plan into action this weekend, updates as they become available… have a great weekend!
This entry was posted on March 9, 2007 at 9:01 am and is filed under musings. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
Oh, kiddo! It will be ok! How could it not? They brought Jerome to protect them!
Okay. Caution. Do not play with HUMONGOUS sharp knives while crying!! hee hee hee….. Now, let me say, if I had babies, especially ones with faces like that….I would be balling now. And later and tomorrow. So, I am sure you are feeling normal feelings……? Hugs hugs hugs.. why are they away? and when will they return???
How cute the face is, and how lovely the mobile is!! I want to make it. We should have a craft get together where we make beautiful things and the kids make fun things they can feel proud about. I really miss you guys and I’m so sorry I havent talked to you in a while. Seeing their faces on your blog made me have great feelings!! I think Sage and Zander are home today? Give them 10 kisses and hugs each for me ok?
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MELANIE returns to the UK this month to play her first concert in London for two years at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on Sunday June 23. The date coincides with the release of her new album "Madrugada". Melanie will play just one show at 8.00pm and tickets, which range from £1.00 to £2.50, will go on sale this week.
The concert is to be broadcast by Capital Radio and will be recorded for possible release as an album. A full European tour is currently being scheduled by Promoter Danny O'Donovan for late September/October.
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The majority of adjusters on our rosters handle property versus auto claims or a combination of both thus I believe many of you would be interested in knowing about the Class Action lawsuit going on in OK against Farmers Insurance styled Burgess et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc. et al.
This is the website for the Burgess et al. v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc. et al. class action lawsuit. Homeowners have sued Farmers saying that they improperly withheld payments for general contractor’s overhead and profit (“O&P”) from amounts paid on claims under homeowner’s insurance policies to citizens of Oklahoma. The Court has not decided if the Defendants did anything wrong. You need to decide whether to stay in the Class or exclude yourself, and you need to decide this by May 16, 2008.
This is an important case and you may wish to share a link to this blog with your claim managers at the adjusting firm level or if your an independent claim manager, you might wish to share this with your insurance carrier management as they may wish to discuss this with their corporate legal departments to review their current position on the overhead and profit issues discussed in this case.
These articles and developments are just one topic example of why it is utmost important that you obtain your training on estimatics and claims handling by reputable firms that are up to date with current events with issues which could effect our claims industry. Too often I hear about new adjuster turned estimating school with no understanding of claim management issues or current issues going on that students need to know about. Always check out the experience and qualifications before you sign up for the multitude of estimating classes out there these days on the market!
This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 7:42 AM and is filed under Adjuster blogs, Adjuster Training, Adjusters, Adjusting firms, Carrier Certifications, Catastrophe Adjuster, Claim Blogs of Interest, Claim Consultant, Claim Consulting, Claim Customer Service, Claim Job Opportunities, Claim mentor, Claim Representatives, Claim Staffing, Claim Training, Claims, Daily Adjusters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Adjusters, Independent adjusters, Independent Adjusting Firms, Insurance, Insurance Adjuster, Insurance Blogs, Insurance Carrier, Insurance Complaints, Insurance Forums, Insurance News, Property Claims, Property Insurance. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Hi everyone, we are looking for a projector we could borrow to use next Fri eve 25th March for our second Fireside Session at The Glendalough Green(top shop Laragh). If anyone can help we would really appreciate it. Maybe someone has a secondhand projector for sale that the group could buy?
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Disclaimer: I received an SPI belt Beam Hat to review as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews!
So I won’t lie, I am not much of a hat person, I have a large dome and I usually find hats uncomfortable. They pinch my head or fall off, so I generally avoid them and just use a head band. But a hat with lights, I had to give this a try, and I am really glad I did.
I do run early in the morning, usually around 5 am, and this time of year, that means it is dark out and dark for my entire run. I do wear knucklelights and they are great, but they move with my hands, so having a light that would just say forward and steady would be nice. This hat does that and doesn’t bother my dome.
The directions to get it working were a bit hard to follow, but I figured it out and got it all set up. I did notice the battery for the front lights, was inside that hat and I was worried that it would dig into my head, it didn’t. Overall the hat is super comfy, nice wicking material and also has reflective stuff on the top of it. The lights on the front are nice and bright, and send a nice beam of light out ahead. It also has lights on the back that flash, which is great too.
The hat didn’t move during any runs, stayed in place but didn’t squeeze my head, it is adjustable so should be able to fit just about everyone.
If you are a person who runs in the dark like me, you should really look into getting this hat, it would be great for you see and be seen, I do highly recommend it.
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Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE (born 16 Mey 1953) is an Erse actor, film producer an environmentalist.
↑ Debbie McGoldrick (March 31, 2011). "Pierce Brosnan talks about his deep Catholic faith". IrishCentral.com.
↑ MI6-HQ Copyright 2014. "James Bond News :: MI6 :: Exclusive - Pierce Brosnan receives his US Citizenship - will he become the first American 007 in James Bond 21?". Mi6-hq.com. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
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In precedenza, l'edizione americana di The National Interest confrontava la NATO con uno zombi, morto dopo il crollo dell'Unione Sovietica, ma che continua a camminare.
A number of National Promotional Banks already signalled their potential interest to join the scheme. The CEF Transport Blending Facility serves as a pilot for the next financial period.
Salvini has always said he was acting in the national interest in protecting Italy's borders in the case.
QUALI I CRITERI DI UN'AGENZIA DI RATING? di Nino Galloni.
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Mailbag: Are there any useful NHLers still out there?
Seems like the big theme this week is mostly about how players will be acquired and used ahead of the season. Understandable, I guess, since there’s not much else out there these days, at the end of August.
While training camps open in just a couple weeks here, most of the hockey world seems to be pretty settled for next season at this point; soon, it’ll just be “this season,” which is nice but also strange to think about.
A quick look at CapFriendly’s Free Agents page is all you’re gonna need to determine that, ah, not really. Rick Nash could probably help someone for short money if he were going to play, but he isn’t. Lee Stempniak seems to have finally hit that wall where he’s not going to move the needle anymore. The ship seems to have finally sailed on guys like Jussi Jokinen, Ales Hemsky, and Mike Cammalleri doing anything for you, too.
I dunno, could Dom Moore be some team’s fourth or fifth center this season? Sure. Could Brandon Davidson prop up someone’s third pair if injuries cropped up? Yeah I bet he could.
There are a few guys — Tomas Jurco, Dan Winnik, Drew Stafford, Scott Hartnell — where I’d throw them a PTO and maybe a sub-$1 million deal if they’ll take a lesser role, just because they’re probably decent fourth-line guys in a pinch. But if it’s a choice between one of those guys and a 23-year-old from my AHL team, gimme the kid.
Overall, yeah, I mean the carcass is pretty well picked over at this point. Seems like there aren’t too many market inefficiencies in the UFA market at this point. At least not right before Labor Day weekend.
Jim Montgomery in Dallas might find himself in a similar boat later in the season but one assumes the Stars are a little more geared up to be competitive (at least until they aren’t, which could be as soon as Christmas).
I’m also eager to see how much slack Rod Brind’Amour has to pull that kind of approach given what Carolina’s problems were under Bill Peters. I can see him being “creative” and I can see him being “conservative.” Just another reason to keep close tabs on the ‘Canes this year, I guess.
The good news is that the number of times he can give Andrew MacDonald ice time over Shayne Gostisbehere or whatever is dwindling. Even the biggest holdouts on the “MacDonald can play” have to be converted, and the forward group is (mostly) loaded with enough actually talented players that, even if you wanted to, you kinda couldn’t weigh down anyone’s line too badly.
Of course, the real issue is that Hextall’s offseason work is probably going to be undone by last summer’s offseason work. Michal Neuvirth is, even at 30, still something of a mystery in terms of quality but Brian Elliott absolutely is not. He’s bad now and that’s it. The Flyers could be good at a lot of positions this season but I can’t see goaltending being one of them, and that’s outside Hakstol’s purview.
You gotta play one of these guys every night. Sorry!
Well here’s a glib one and then a real one: Every signing the Canucks made this summer indicates that they think they’re gonna do something of note besides “crater” this coming season. Jay Beagle and Antoine Roussel for four years each is insane, even leaving aside the money, which is also insane. But I think everyone not in the Canucks front office sees that going poorly.
Here’s a real one, though: I don’t get why LA is giving Ilya Kovalchuk, who’s my age, three years and $6.25 million. Do they think this is what they need to not get swept by Vegas in the first round? Because they weren’t even that good; they needed an uncharacteristically great season from Jon Quick (unlikely to be replicated), and an MVP-type campaign from Anze Kopitar that turned Dustin freakin’ Brown into a 60-point player again to even get to the point where they were fourth in a crap division and got slaughtered by Vegas in the first round.
Kovalchuk does little to change that. He’s real good and everything but he’s also (probably) a power play specialist. Yeah, scoring on the power play counts the same as it does at 5-on-5, but the real issue is that this is basically a one-year deal — insofar as LA probably thinks about blowing it up to some extent if they can’t get anything going this season — spread over three years at a big price point.
I also don’t think this is gonna go how Kovalchuk wanted, because he said specifically he was looking to join a Cup contender and I’m not sure this is even the fourth-best team in its division this year.
Well Tyler, first of all this is not a question and that’s very rude to do when I ask specifically for mailbag questions.
Second of all, because I am so nice, here is me providing a response anyway: I think people legitimately believe Buffalo and Colorado are playoff teams this season and I truly do not see it.
The Avs needed St. Louis to be surprisingly bad and get an elite performance from Nathan MacKinnon to barely make it, and the Blues really beefed up this summer.
And as I’ve said before, I love most of the additions Buffalo made this summer, but they missed the playoffs by 35 points and play in maybe the toughest division (at least 1-4) in the league. I can’t see anything getting them into the playoffs short of a 102 PDO.
Absurd assertion. Neither of them are Hall of Famers for me but Zetterberg is certainly closer; he’ll probably get in but I would just barely not vote for him.
I’ve banged this drum a lot in my career but you could have put half the goalies in the AHL behind those 1996-2009 Red Wings teams and gotten about as many Cup runs out of it as Osgood did.
Otherwise, Osgood was never considered even a top-five goalie in the league, and he shouldn’t have been because he kinda sucked.
Going just by the numbers in his career, Zetterberg was a little overrated but he was still very good, which you could almost never say of Osgood. He won a Conn Smythe, finished top-five in Selke voting a couple times, had four seasons of point-a-game hockey, etc.
Plus Zetterberg had an international career Osgood never could have imagined: Gold at the Olympics and Worlds (making him a member of the Triple Gold Club) plus silvers at both those events as well.
That someone would even ask the question shows how silly Red Wings fans are in their reverence for a guy who, over the course of his career, was a below-average 1b goaltender.
I would swap Tom Wilson for Gordie Howe from his heyday, so I didn’t have to hear how Gordie Howe was the third-best player ever anymore. Tom Wilson would dominate the NHL of the 1950s because he could lift the puck off the ice. He’d go two points a game with ease.
Howe might be okay in this era, of course, maybe a lower-end middle-six guy. But he would also be aghast to see that goalies don’t fall over backwards if you skate near them too fast, so who’s to say.
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This little film is lovely, touching and profound…. about non-conforming (in its joys and its pains), following an inward vision, and creativity. In its closing, it touches with gentle irony on something close to the mysterious heart of things….about the location of what we yearn for….
The film is made of different types of tea leaves!
Thank you to Lisa Anderson on Facebook for showing us this. Thank you too Peterburg Animation Studio, and Natalia Mirzoyan.
This entry was posted in beauty, creativity, internal locus of evaluation, meaning, metaphor & dream, non-conforming, reality, sadness & pain and tagged affordable counselling exeter, artistic vision, beauty, Chinti, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, existential meaning, longing, low cost counselling exeter, Natalia Mirzoyan, non-conforming, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, personal meaning, Peterburg Animation Studio, visioning, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yearning. Bookmark the permalink.
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Well, Asheville, aren’t you pretty!
This past month flew by so fast I’m spinning. Still living half out of boxes, but let’s be honest, I have been living out of boxes for like five years. It is so good to be back down south! Asheville is home to lots of outdoor activities like hiking, kayaking and mountain biking… in fact, I can actually hear the mountains calling my name. I have gone on some pretty impressive hikes already and seen some breath taking views.
This past week some of my best friends from Georgia came to Asheville for their annual spring break (mini) road trip. I haven’t seen these girls in about three years but it felt like five minutes. Best friends are timeless.
Another wonderful thing about this city is all the AMAZING food! Seriously, this place is a local foodie’s dream come true! Organic, vegan, local, delicious, you name it, Asheville’s got it! My first restaurant stop was Tupelo Honey Cafe right in the heart of downtown… and they stole my heart when they brought me this yummy biscuit ❤ Oh yeah, and the mimosa was excellent!
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Last week I wrote about expanding what we imagine is possible, so that kids might realize potential that transcends what history and habit have told us we can hope for. If we were to find it in ourselves to make that shift, what might it lead us to? What would we do differently?
Filed under: On Kids and Learning | Tagged: competition, contribution, future, health, pathfinding, resistance, success | Comments Off on What then?
The phone rings at 7:30 in the evening and it’s the local newspaper calling to sell a subscription. But the representative doesn’t say hello, or issue a greeting of any kind. She launches right in with “All it will take to have the paper delivered right to the door is a name and address…” She continues for a full 30 seconds and then stops only so I can give my name and address. Apparently there’s no cause for asking whether or not I’d be interested in reading their paper.
This happens all the time, and I don’t know anyone who isn’t annoyed by it, at the very least. We respond with varying degrees of fury and disgust and commensurate impoliteness. We don’t like to be bombarded with sales pitches we didn’t ask for. Here’s the interesting thing, though. Not only does it make us less likely to buy or buy into anything, it actually makes us less likely to buy or buy into things we might otherwise really want. I probably wouldn’t have bought the paper last night no matter what, because I just don’t have much use for it, but that fact is far less interesting and noteworthy than the fact that I didn’t even have a chance to think about whether or not I wanted it because I was too busy fending off the sales attack. All I could think about was getting off the phone without violating too many of my own values of how to treat other people when I feel they’re being rude. I was busy defending myself against what felt like a violation of the little quiet there was in the day. The paper, and its potential usefulness to me, didn’t have a prayer of getting any consideration in the face of that.
This is why we get so much auto-resistance from kids – that habitual resistance that flares up in the face of many adult mandates. (This kind of resistance is distinct from the kind where a child is resisting something due to an actual objection to a task or expectation.) Kids auto-resist not because they don’t know what’s good for them (as reading the paper might have been for me) but because our delivery is so atrociously disrespectful and assumptive that they don’t even have the chance to consider what we’re offering – learning, preparation for the future, anything. Kids are bombarded all day every day with adult imposition, and they can barely breathe in the face of it, so they often fight it off like it’s all the same – one big mass of adult nonsense – and they end up missing out on things they may well have opted into if given the chance.
We’re like the woman on the phone trying to shove the paper down my throat – we don’t realize that all that’s getting through is the shoving. The paper was too far in the background to be noticed. That’s what happens with math, and with reading, with music lessons, and with history, with being polite, with doing chores, with myriad things we try to get kids to do that really might benefit them in some way but they seem to reject. It’s not that all kids want all of what we’ve got to offer, but they want lots more of it than they take. We set up a dynamic that makes it difficult for them to actually consider and receive what we’re offering, and our relationships with them become largely characterized by power struggle as a result. Kids want to be knowledgeable, prepared, included, safe just as much as you want it for them. They just need to be included in the process of getting themselves there.
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Mrs. Adrian: Call her Rhoda. That is the name we decided to use when she refused to tell us her baptismal name. We still don’t know her real name.
What is the fastest way to annoy you?
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2019-04-26T10:33:46Z
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https://njenvasramblings.wordpress.com/2014/07/
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I know the journey of life is not an easy one and sometimes we need some help to get through unexpected struggles and get in the way of living a happy and healthy life. I am dedicated to the holistic healing of the mind, body, and soul. I am an artist, dancer, avid traveler, and find creative expression and voice as a platform for deep healing. Many people describe me as warm, understanding, and down to earth. I pride myself on integrity, commitment, and passion for the work I do as a therapist.
I have approximately 15 years of experience working with individuals, teens, family, and groups. I integrate creativity and the arts as a means for self expression and reflection in the therapeutic process.
I specialize in addressing intergenerational familial trauma/wounding and historical trauma. In addition to my individual practice, I also run wellness and therapy retreats throughout the year. I also provide informative podcasts on healthy living, emotional health and wellness. Please contact me to learn more about upcoming retreats.
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2019-04-18T19:19:36Z
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https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/kini-chang-oakland-ca/189793
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What is the nature of this organization?
Who is/are the Patron/s of the Choir?
KDPP stands for Koro De Padre Pio, an organized choral group of the Our lady of the Immaculate Conception Parish, Baclayon, Bohol.
Composed of youth in the parish, serving God through skills and talents (e.g. singing, musical instruments playing, etc.) for the greater glory of God.
The choir follows the charisms of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina with the guidance of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Lady of the Immaculate Conception.
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2019-04-19T00:53:41Z
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https://korodepadrepio.webs.com/apps/faq/
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More space aliens and linguists!
If you liked the movie Arrival, here’s another story about talking to aliens, Monteverde: Memoirs of an Interstellar Linguist, by Lola Robles, a Spanish author, translated by Lawrence Schimel.
Lola writes outstanding, thoughtful works, and Lawrence is a talented and sensitive translator. Full disclosure: they're also friends.
· More space aliens and linguists!
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2019-04-24T09:06:10Z
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https://mount-oregano.livejournal.com/196284.html
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Weekly Wrap Up #54: What Have I Been Up To?
The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. It’s a chance to share News. A post to recap the past week, showcase books and things we have received and share news about what is coming up for the week on our blog.
Eeeek so I’m actually just in the midst of copying across some posts and reviews. Yes that’s right, I finally wrote some book reviews which have been waiting for serveral months haha. Anyway we’re basically half way through blogoween now, and you guys are absolutely killing this!
Please also go follow the official twitter account for all things blogoween and blogmas, where Sam and I will keep you updated with what’s happening during the events. As well as giving you teasers for what we’ve been plotting.
I’ve really gotten into the swing of my new routine, in that I now format blog posts and do college work downstairs whilst watching Supernatural. And OMG you guys, I’ve fallen for Dean and Cas. I’ll keep you all updated on what happens, I’m on season 5 now hehe.
Possibly two reviews, we’ll see.
Ah sorry for the short wrap up this week, I’m currently watching Supernatural at the moment haha and I’m trying to plan ahead. How’s your week been?
And good luck with all the blog work. I have been meaning to format some old posts too, but not getting enough time.
You’ve been so productive the past several days and I am so proud of you!!!
Yay for finally writing thoses reviews, and of course the new routine !!
As for #blogoween, Alex kind of joined me too ! Though only one of his post a week as his saturdays are for anime reviews. but still cool, mh ? More posts to browse looking for it on our blog !
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2019-04-25T22:00:37Z
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https://bookdragons247.wordpress.com/2018/10/14/weekly-wrap-up-54/
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The 1996–97 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was won by Barcelona after beating holders Paris Saint-Germain in the final. It was the last of four occasions that the Spanish club won the tournament.
Ronaldo's converted penalty in Rotterdam saw Barcelona beat PSG 1–0 and rack up a record fourth Cup Winners' Cup title.
Location of teams competing in the 1996-97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup first round.
KR Reykjavík won 3–2 on aggregate.
Budapest Honvéd won 2–0 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Nyva Vinnytsia won on away goals.
AEK Larnaca won 5–1 on aggregate.
Gloria Bistrița won 4–2 on aggregate.
Ruch Chorzów won 6–1 on aggregate.
Chemlon Hummené won 3–0 on aggregate.
Dinamo Batumi won 9–0 on aggregate.
Sion won 4–2 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Vaduz won 4–2 on penalties.
3–3 on aggregate. Constructorul Chişinău won on away goals.
Brann won 5–2 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Olimpija Ljubljana won 4–2 on penalties.
MyPa won 2–1 on aggregate.
Varteks won 5–1 on aggregate.
Sparta Prague won 10–1 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Red Star Belgrade won on away goals.
Sion won 6–0 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 3–1 on aggregate.
2–2 on aggregate. Lokomotiv Moscow won on away goals.
Galatasaray won 5–0 on aggregate.
1–1 on aggregate. Olimpija Ljubljana won on away goals.
Brann won 6–3 on aggregate.
Benfica won 5–1 on aggregate.
3–3 on aggregate. Sparta Prague won on away goals.
Nîmes won 5–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 4–1 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 7–0 on aggregate.
AIK won 3–2 on aggregate.
Benfica won 4–2 on aggregate.
AEK Athens won 6–0 on aggregate.
Brann won 4–3 on aggregate.
Barcelona won 4–2 on aggregate.
Liverpool won 8–4 on aggregate.
Fiorentina won 3–2 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 6–4 on aggregate.
Paris Saint-Germain won 3–0 on aggregate.
Paris SG halted Liverpool's progress at the semi-final stage.
After Barcelona's second goal, de la Peña of Barcelona was hit by an object thrown from the stands and required medical assistance.
Barcelona won 3–1 on aggregate.
^ CET (UTC+1) for matches on 31 October 1996, 6 and 20 March 1997, and CEST (UTC+2) for all other matches.
Archive of old pages site UEFA Season 1996–97, written protocol games.
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2019-04-21T12:19:32Z
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_UEFA_Cup_Winners%27_Cup
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A Winning Irreverent Bread Stuffing (serves 12) | Crappy Kitchen - Good Dinners!
Here we go again! This Christmas was no different from any other in that the house was crowded with family and friends, there was mountains of delicious food and there was yet again another stab at reinventing my mother Maureen’s stuffing!
The bread stuffing was just one of the many dishes piled down the center of my Christmas table!
When my mother was alive and well, I would call her to guide me through the steps, but even then, with her voice in my ear, I couldn’t get it right. It probably had something to do with the fact that when she made it, she didn’t think at all. She just threw it together as if guided by the cooking god inside her, and stopping to think about it and tell me what to do felt unnatural. My sister June makes a “Chicken Dinner” that my kids beg me to cook, but I cannot seem to manage that one either. I have watched her make it several times, but like all wonderful recipes, this one also comes from the heart and will only reach sublimity if she is the one at the helm, not me.
On important annual occasions like Christmas there is a yearning inside of all of us to get a taste or whiff of the past. We want to experience the joy of being a child again, and eating a dish our mother’s made for us is a huge part of that feeling of comfort. (Remember Ratatouille!). My Christmas dinners are different from the ones of my childhood in that I like all sorts of people around the table, not just blood relatives. I like a big loud-gathered mishmosh of people. The food is always festive but varies from year to year depending my whims and whose around the table. However there is ALWAYS a version of Maureen’s stuffing gracing the table. The meal would not feel like Christmas without it!
This year I did something completely unorthodox and instead of using my mother’s mashed creamed potatoes as a binder I used white sweet potatoes; positively sinful! In every other way I did my best to conjure up her flavor but I decided on the sweet potato substitute out of curiosity, and also because I knew I was going to mess up the recipe anyway. It turned out pretty fantastic and was a big hit with everyone. I figure my new mission is to make a “version’ of my mother’s stuffing every year, that way, in years to come, my children will feel that got it right every time!
1 – Put large saute pan on low/medium and add two tablespoons of the oil. Add the onions, garlic and celery. Cook for about 5 minutes before adding the thyme springs and rosemary. Add the diced mushrooms and turn up heat to full medium and cook for another 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
2 – Add the cup of broth and turn heat down to low. Cover and cook for another 5-8 or so minutes, until everything is nice and soft. turn off when done and set aside.
3 – In the meantime put the sweet potatoes into a pot and cover with cold water. Cover and boil until they are very soft (but not falling apart). Drain the water and add the butter, salt, several grinds of pepper and milk. Mash until very smooth and lump-free. Taste and adjust seasoning according to your taste if necessary.
6 – Turn the mixture into two buttered loaf pan (or 1 larger loaf pan) and a couple of knobs of butter to the top. Cook in preheated oven for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes before turning out onto a board or work surface.
7 – At this point you can slice and serve or slice and place in foil and reheat before you are ready to serve.
It keeps very well in the fridge for a week. It is great fried in the morning with an egg if you are lucky to have any leftovers, or as part of a sandwich.
Barely remembered to take this picture before it disappeared!
This entry was posted in dinners and tagged bread stuffing, christmas, Christmas dinner, christmas pudding, christmas stuffing, dinner with family, family & friends, holiday dinner, italian trifle, maureen's stuffing, stuffing. Bookmark the permalink.
That Dinner looks soooo good! June made a totally different stuffing this year…I’m still not over it!
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2019-04-24T21:59:23Z
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https://crappykitchen.wordpress.com/2013/12/31/a-winning-irreverent-bread-stuffing-serves-12/
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If you don’t count the spritz cookies Zeb and I made just before Thanksgiving, these Scandinavian Rosettes are the first Christmas cookies of the season for me.
Growing up my mother called these kruschiki’s, but when I did some research to find a recipe for them, the recipes for kruschiki’s looked nothing like these deep-fried rosettes.
The recipe is simple and takes only minutes to make.
Whisk eggs, sugar extract and milk together. Add flour and salt and beat till mixture is smooth.
Heat 2 – 3″ of oil in deep fryer to 360. Submerge rosette iron into the oil to heat.
Pour batter into shallow bowl that is wide enough to submerge entire iron.
Dip the heated iron into the batter, careful not to cover the top. Dip batter-covered iron into oil, submerging.
Allow rosette to fry until golden brown, using a knife-edge to scrape off any excess batter from top if necessary.
These cookies are light and go down easily. The only change I might try when I make these again is to add some vodka to the batter. This is an old Polish trick to stop the batter from soaking up oil when they are deep-fried. I’m not sure how much I would add, but it burns off while frying anyhow, so I’m not sure it matters.
I wish I had time to bake a different cookie every day of December, but time just doesn’t allow. Today was the first of my more realistic goal of a dozen different types of Christmas cookies, and for this I am — Simply Grateful.
the ingredients sounds simple but they look so ornate! I really wish I could taste these.
They are so light, it’s hard to keep them around for very long, that’s for sure.
They really are! Not heavy like traditional Christmas cookies, so it’s a nice way to kick off the season.
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2019-04-21T07:02:05Z
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https://simplygratefulhousewife.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/first-christmas-cookies/
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An electronic card and a method for manufacturing the same wherein the electronic card is composed of a printed circuit board, having a top surface and a bottom surface, a plurality of circuit components attached to the top surface of the printed circuit board, wherein the circuit components positioned in a first portion of the electronic card are greater in height than the circuit components positioned in a second portion of the electronic card, a bottom overlay attached to the bottom surface of the printed circuit board, a top overlay positioned above the top surface of the printed circuit board and a core layer positioned between the top surface of the printed circuit board and the top overlay, wherein the first portion of the electronic card has a greater thickness than the second portion of the electronic card.
This regular U.S. utility application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application Ser. No. 60/896,658, which was filed on Mar. 23, 2007, and which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present invention relates generally to the field of electronic devices and, more particularly, to the field of electronic cards with embedded powered circuits and the method of making such electronic cards.
The following description of the background of the invention is provided simply as an aid in understanding the invention and is not admitted to describe or constitute prior art to the invention.
Generally, electronic devices can be encapsulated in various materials and used for applications such as smart cards or tags. Smart cards/tags may be used as credit cards, bankcards, ID cards, telephone cards, security cards or similar devices. Smart cards/tags are generally constructed by assembling several layers of plastic sheets in a sandwich array. Further, smart cards/tags contain embedded electronic components that enable the smart card to perform a number of functions.
European Patent 0 350 179 discloses a smart card wherein electronic circuitry is encapsulated in a layer of plastic material that is introduced between the card's two surface layers. The method further comprises abutting a high tensile strength holding member against a side of a mould, locating the smart card's electronic components with respect to that side and then injecting a reaction moldable polymeric material into the mould such that it encapsulates the electronic components.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,399,847 teaches a credit card that is comprised of three layers, namely, a first outer layer, a second outer layer and an intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is formed by injection of a thermoplastic binding material that encases the smart card's electronic elements (e.g., an IC chip and an antenna) in the intermediate layer material. The binding material is preferably made up of a blend of copolyamides or a glue having two or more chemically reactive components that harden upon contact with air. The outer layers of this smart card can be made up of various polymeric materials such as polyvinyl chloride or polyurethane.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,417,905 teaches a method for manufacturing plastic credit cards wherein a mold tool comprised of two shells is closed to define a cavity for producing such cards. A label or image support is placed in each mold shell. The mold shells are then brought together and a thermoplastic material injected into the mold to form the card. The inflowing plastic forces the labels or image supports against the respective mold faces.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,350,553 teaches a method of producing a decorative pattern on, and placing an electronic circuit in, a plastic card in an injection molding machine. The method comprises the steps of: (a) introducing and positioning a film (e.g., a film bearing a decorative pattern), over an open mold cavity in the injection molding machine; (b) closing the mold cavity so that the film is fixed and clamped in position therein; (c) inserting an electronic circuit chip through an aperture in the mold into the mold cavity in order to position the chip in the cavity; (d) injecting a thermoplastic support composition into the mold cavity to form a unified card; and (e) thereafter, removing any excess material, opening the mold cavity and removing the card.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,498,388 teaches a smart card device that includes a card board having a through opening. A semiconductor module is mounted onto this opening. A resin is injected into the opening so that a resin molding is formed under such condition that only an electrode terminal face for external connection of said semiconductor module is exposed. The card is completed by mounting a card board having a through opening onto a lower mold of two opposing molding dies, mounting a semiconductor module onto the opening of said card board, tightening an upper die that has a gate leading onto a lower die and injecting a resin into the opening via the gate.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,025,054 discloses a method for constructing a smart card using low shrinkage glue to hold the electronic devices in place during the devices immersion in thermosetting material that becomes the core layer of the smart card. The method disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,025,054 has considerable drawbacks. Primarily, the disclosed method produces warping and other undesirable physical defects caused by the curing of thermosetting material. Further, this method is suitable only for cards having one or two components, thus limiting its functionality. In addition, the method disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,025,054 creates defects such as voids and air bubbles within a smart card because the geometric shapes of the electronic components within the card obstruct the flow of the thermosetting material such that the thermosetting material flows around the components faster than the air can be pushed out of the core of the smart card. Moreover, U.S. Patent '054 requires the use of custom equipment, significantly limiting the scope and scalability of its application.
Generally, electronic devices such as electronic cards are designed to conform with known industry standards as well aesthetic appearance standards. For example, most if not all electronic cards are designed to be thin and uniformly flat in shape. The shape of these cards requires that any power source embedded in the card also have a small footprint. These smaller power sources have a limited power capacity which in turn limits the life span of the electronic card. Moreover, the types of slimmer power sources available is small in number, which considerably reduces design choices for manufacturers. Accordingly, the above mentioned limitations restrict more power intensive applications from being introduced in the electronic card market place. In view of the following, there is a need for a device and a method of constructing an electronic card that is capable of housing a number of powered electrical components without significantly increasing the size of the electronic card and its aesthetic design.
According to one embodiment, an electronic card includes a printed circuit board, having a top surface and a bottom surface; a plurality of circuit components attached to the top surface of the printed circuit board, wherein the circuit components positioned in a first portion of the electronic card are greater in height than the circuit components positioned in a second portion of the electronic card; a bottom overlay attached to the bottom surface of the printed circuit board; a top overlay positioned above the top surface of the printed circuit board; and a core layer positioned between the top surface of the printed circuit board and the top overlay, wherein the first portion of the electronic card has a greater thickness than the second portion of the electronic card.
According to another embodiment, a method for manufacturing an electronic card includes the steps of providing a printed circuit board having a top surface and a bottom surface; affixing a plurality of circuit components onto the top surface of the printed circuit board, wherein the circuit components positioned in a first portion of the electronic card are greater in height than the circuit components positioned in a second portion of the electronic card; affixing the bottom surface of the printed circuit board to a bottom overlay using a pressure sensitive adhesive tape or a spray-on adhesive; loading the printed circuit board and bottom overlay into an injection molding apparatus; loading a top overlay positioned above a top surface of the printed circuit board into the injection molding apparatus; injecting thermosetting polymeric material between the top surface of the printed circuit board, the plurality of circuit components and the top overlay such that the first portion of the electronic card has a greater thickness than the second portion of the electronic card.
FIG. 1 is a sectional view of an electronic card according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a top sectional view of an electronic card according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view of an electronic card and an injection nozzle according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a top sectional view of a series of electronic cards formed on one molded sheet according to one embodiment of the present invention.
According to one embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 1, an electronic card 1 comprises a printed circuit board 10, a plurality of circuit components 20, a power source such as a battery 21, a bottom overlay 30, a top overlay 40 and a core layer 50. The electronic card 1 has at least two portions of different thicknesses. The battery 21 is positioned in a first portion of the electronic card 1 having a thickness B. A second portion of the electronic card 1 has a thickness A. As shown in FIG. 1, the first portion (encapsulating the battery) has a greater thickness (B>A) than the second portion. The electronic card 1 may be used in such applications as smart cards, tags and/or wristbands.
The printed circuit board 10 has a top surface 11 and a bottom surface 12. According to one embodiment of the invention, the printed circuit board 10 is double-sided. Accordingly, the printed circuit board 10 is configured to accommodate a plurality of circuit traces 14 (shown in FIG. 2) on the top surface 11 and on the bottom surface 12. The circuit traces 14 are configured to operably connect the plurality of circuit components 20 affixed to the printed circuit board 10. The circuit traces 14 electrically connect to the plurality of circuit components 20 such that the circuit components are capable of performing electrical functions within the electronic card 1.
The circuit traces 14 may be provided upon the surfaces 11, 12 of the printed circuit board in numerous ways. For example, the circuit traces 14 may be formed on the printed circuit board 10 with conductive ink. In the alternative, circuit traces 14 may be etched onto the printed circuit board.
The printed circuit board 10 is comprised of any known conventional material suitable for receiving an electronic circuit. For example, the printed circuit board 10 may be comprised of a flame retardant laminate with a woven glass reinforced epoxy resin. This material is also known as FR-4 board. Alternatively, the printed circuit board 10 may be comprised of a plastic compound that is suitable for receiving conductive ink.
As shown in FIG. 1, and described below, the printed circuit board 10 is configured to receive and vertically stabilize a plurality of circuit components 20. The plurality of circuit components 20 may be attached to the printed circuit board 10 and specifically to the circuit traces 14 by any one of a number of methods. For example, in one embodiment of the invention, the circuit components 20 are connected to the printed circuit board 10 with a conductive adhesive. Preferably, the plurality of circuit components are soldered onto the printed circuit board 10. The plurality of circuit components 20 can be positioned anywhere on the printed circuit board 10 as desired. The purpose of the electronic card 1 and design parameters will dictate the position of the circuit traces 14 and the position of the circuit components 20. Functionality will also dictate what types of circuit components 20 populate the printed circuit board 10.
For example purposes only, the plurality of circuit components 20 could be one of a battery, a button, a microprocessor chip or a speaker. Any one or all of these circuit components could populate the printed circuit board 10 along any portion of the electronic card. Further, additional circuit components 20 may include but are not limited to LEDs, flexible displays, RFID antennas and emulators. Referring to FIG. 2, a circuit layout for an electronic card 1 is shown. The printed circuit board 10 shown in FIG. 2 is populated by a battery 21, a microprocessor 22 and a button 23. In another embodiment of the present invention as shown in FIG. 2, the electronic card 1 includes a liquid crystal display 24 as the circuit component 20 connected to the button 23. The liquid crystal display 24 may be used to display information to a user, such as an account balance. In the alternative or in addition to, the embedded electronic card 1 shown in FIG. 2 may include a speaker (not shown).
Generally, the components shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 may vary in thickness and length. For example, the electronic card 1 can have an overall thickness of less than 0.09 inches. A first portion of the electronic card can have a thickness in the range of 0.030 to 0.090 inches. The thickness of the first portion of the electronic card allows for larger, taller and more powerful power sources such as batteries 21 and to be used in the electronic card 1. A second portion of the card can have a thickness of 0.030 inches or less. The variation in thickness of the first portion and second portion allows a more powerful card to be used with conventional applications that were originally design for cards of a smaller thickness. Accordingly, these dimensions allow the electronic card 1 to be compatible with the conventional equipment. For example purposes only, the battery 21 can have a thickness of 0.016 inches, the push button 23 can have a thickness of 0.020 inches and the microprocessor 22 can have a thickness of 0.015 inches. In addition, the electronic card 1 shown in FIG. 2 can have a speaker (not shown) having a thickness of 0.010 inches.
As shown in FIG. 1, a bottom overlay 30 is attached to the bottom surface 12 of the printed circuit board 10. The bottom overlay 30 can be, for example, 0.001 to 0.002 inches thick. The bottom overlay 30 can be attached to the printed circuit board 10 by any number of known methods. Preferably, the bottom surface 12 is attached to the bottom overlay 30 using a pressure sensitive adhesive tape or a spray-on adhesive. The bottom overlay 30 may be comprised of any suitable material but preferably, the bottom overlay 30 is comprised of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyester, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), PETG, or any other suitable material.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the surface of the bottom overlay 30 in contact with the printed circuit board 10 has printed information. Alternatively, printed information may be placed on the outside surface of the bottom overlay 30. For example, the bottom overlay 30 may include printed information consistent with a standard credit card or identification tag, including a name, expiration date and account number. According to another embodiment of the invention, the bottom overlay 30 may be clear or 2/5 clear/white printed. Specifically, a 0.002 inch thick piece of clear PVC material is laminated on to a layer of white PVC that is 0.005 inches in thickness.
A top overlay 40 positioned above the top surface of the printed circuit board 10 is shown in FIG. 1. The top overlay 40 may be comprised of any suitable material, for example, the top overlay 40 may be comprised of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyester, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), PETG, or any other suitable material. Like the bottom overlay 30, the top overlay 40 can be, for example, 0.001 to 0.002 inches thick.
As previously mentioned, the overall thickness of the electronic card can vary as well as the thickness of the top 102 and bottom 104 cover sheets. In addition to the examples above, other examples can include electronic cards 1 having thicknesses as low as 0.010 inches or lower and as high as 0.200 inches or higher. In addition, the top and bottom cover sheets can have thickness in the range of 0.010 inches to 0.200 inches. Thus, the overall thickness of the electronic card and the thicknesses of the individual parts, such as the top 102 and bottom 104 cover sheets, will depend on the particular application and desired dimensions of the electronic card 1.
As shown in FIG. 1, a core layer 50 is positioned between the top surface of the printed circuit board 10 and the top overlay 40. In addition, as shown in FIG. 1, the core layer 50 is present in an area below the bottom surface 11 of the printed circuit board 10 and above the bottom overlay 30. Preferably, the core layer 50 is composed of a thermosetting polymeric material. For example, the core layer 50 can be composed of polyurea.
Polyurea is a known elastomer that is derived from the reaction product of an isocyanate component and a resin blend component. See What is polyurea? THE POLYUREA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, at http://www.pda-online.org/pda_resources/whatispoly.asp (last visited Mar. 21, 2007). The isocyanate can be aromatic or aliphatic in nature. Id. It can be monomer, polymer, or any variant reaction of isocyanates, quasi-prepolymer or a prepolymer. Id. The prepolymer, or quasi-prepolymer, can be made of an amine-terminated polymer resin, or a hydroxyl-terminated polymer resin. Id. The resin blend must be made up of amine-terminated polymer resins, and/or amine-terminated chain extenders. Id. The amine-terminated polymer resins will not have any intentional hydroxyl moieties. Id. Any hydroxyls are the result of incomplete conversion to the amine-terminated polymer resins. Id. The resin blend may also contain additives, or non-primary components. Id. These additives may contain hydroxyls, such as pre-dispersed pigments in a polyol carrier. Id. Normally, the resin blend will not contain a catalyst(s). Id.
Polyurea has numerous advantages over other conventional materials currently being used in similar applications. Polyurea has a high resistance to UV light. In addition, polyurea has low elasticity and elongation characteristics. This enables the electronic card 1 to remain rigid. Further, polyurea has high bonding properties, allowing it to effectively bond the top and bottom overlays 40, 30 to the circuit components 20. The circuit components 20 are also held rigidly in place due to the fact that polyurea has a low shrink factor. The electronic card 1 of the present invention also possess desirable environmental characteristics due to polyurea's low moisture absorption and stability at high temperatures.
First, a printed circuit board 10 is provided. The printed circuit board 10 has a top surface 11 and a bottom surface 12. Circuit traces 14 are present on the top surface 11 of the printed circuit board 10. Alternatively, the printed circuit board 10 may be double-sided having circuit traces 14 on the top surface 11 and the bottom surface 12.
Next, a plurality of circuit components 20 are then positioned onto the printed circuit board 10 and electrically connected to the circuit traces 14 on the top and or bottom surface of the printed circuit board 10. Preferably, as shown in FIG. 2, larger and/or taller circuit components 20 such as the battery 21 are placed in same region along the length of the circuit board 10. This portion of the electronic card 1 will have a larger thickness than other portions of the electronic card 1 with smaller circuit components 20. The circuit components 20 may be connected by any one of several methods including the use of double-sided electrically conducting tape. Preferably, the plurality of circuit components 20 are connected via a conventional soldering process.
Next, the bottom surface 12 of the printed circuit board 10 is affixed to the bottom overlay 30. Preferably, the bottom surface 12 is attached to the bottom overlay 30 using a pressure sensitive adhesive tape or a spray-on adhesive.
The printed circuit board 10, attached to the bottom overlay 30 is then loaded as one complete sheet into an injection molding apparatus. A top overlay 40 is placed into the injection molding apparatus and positioned such that the top overlay 40 is above the top surface 11 of the printed circuit board 10. The injection mold apparatus is preconfigured based on design specifications of the electronic card 1 to manipulate the top overlay 40 so that it conforms to the various thickness of the electronic card 1.
The injection molding apparatus may be a reaction injection molding machine (“which is often individually referred to as “RIM”). These machines are associated with a top mold shell and a bottom mold shell that are capable of performing cold, low pressure, forming operations on at least one of the sheets of polymeric material (e.g., PVC) that make up the top 40 and bottom 30 overlay. Such top and bottom mold shells cooperate in ways that are well known to those skilled in the polymeric material molding arts.
The injection molding apparatus then injects thermosetting polymeric material via a nozzle 60 (shown in FIG. 3) between the top overlay 40 and the bottom overlay 30 forming the core layer 50 from thermosetting polymeric material. Based on the mold, the core layer 50 will be formed at different thicknesses throughout the electronic card 1. For example, as shown in FIG. 1, the thickness of the core layer 50 in the area surrounding the battery 21 is greater than the thickness of the core layer 50 in the area surrounding smaller circuit components. Preferably, as mentioned above, the thermosetting polymeric material is polyurea.
Cold, low pressure forming conditions generally mean forming conditions wherein the temperature of the core layer 50 consisting of thermosetting polymeric material, is less than the heat distortion temperature of the top 40 and bottom 30 overlays, and the pressure is less than about 500 psi. Preferably, the cold forming temperatures will be at least 100° F. less than the heat distortion temperature of the top 40 and bottom 30 overlays. The heat distortion temperature of many polyvinyl chloride (PVC) materials is about 230 degrees F. Thus, the temperatures used to cold form such PVC sheets in the present invention will be no more than about (230° F.−100° F.) 130° F.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the more preferred cold, low pressure forming procedures will involve injection of thermosetting polymeric materials with temperatures ranging from about 56° F. to about 160° F., under pressures that preferably range from about atmospheric pressure to about 500 psi. In another embodiment of the invention, the temperatures of the thermosetting polymeric material being injected into the electronic card 1 will be between about 100° F. and about 120° F. under injection pressures that preferably range from about 80 to 120 psi. In one embodiment of the invention, the liquid or semi-liquid thermosetting polymeric material will be injected under these preferred temperature and pressure conditions at flow rates ranging from about 0.1 to about 70 grams/second. Flow rates of 30 to 50 grams/second are even more preferred.
It should be noted that the use of such relatively cold, low pressure, forming conditions may require that any given gate (i.e., the passageway that connects a runner with each individual device-forming cavity) be larger than those gates used in prior art, hot, high pressure operations. Preferably, the gates are relatively larger than prior art gates so that they are able to quickly pass the thermosetting polymeric material being injected under the cold, low pressure forming conditions. Similarly, the runner (i.e., the main thermosetting polymeric material supply passageway in the mold system that feeds from the source of the thermosetting material to each individual gate), will normally be in a multi-gate or manifold array, and, hence, should be capable of simultaneously supplying the number of gates/device-forming cavities (e.g., 4 to 8 cavities) in the manifold system at the relatively cold temperature (e.g., 56° F. to 160° F.) and relatively low pressure (e.g., atmospheric pressure to 500 psi) conditions used in the process. The flow rates for the polymeric thermosetting material under the low temperature and pressure conditions are able to completely fill a given device-forming cavity in less than or about 10 seconds per device-forming cavity (and more preferably in less than about 3 seconds). Preferably, device-forming cavity fill times of less than 1 second are even more preferred. In view of these conditions, the processes may employ gates having a width that is a major fraction of the length of a leading edge of the device to be formed (that is, a device edge that is connected to a gate). Preferably, the width of a given gate is about 20 percent to about 200 percent of the width of the leading edge (or edges—multiple gates can be used to fill the same device-forming cavity), i.e., the “gated” edge(s), of the embedded electronic being formed.
Preferably, gates are employed that are tapered down from a relatively wide inflow area to a relatively narrow core region that ends at or near the leading edge(s) of the device being formed. Most preferably, these gates will narrow down from a relatively wide diameter (e.g., from about 5 to about 10 mm) injection port that is in fluid connection with the thermosetting material-supplying runner, to a relatively thin diameter (e.g., 0.10 mm) gate/device edge where the gate feeds the thermosetting material into the void space which ultimately becomes the center or core of the finished electronic card 1. Gates that taper from an initial diameter of about 7.0 millimeters down to a minimum diameter of about 0.13 mm will produce especially good results under the preferred cold, low-pressure injection conditions.
Another optional feature that can be used is the use of mold shells that have one or more receptacles for receiving “excess” polymeric material that may be purposely injected into the void space between the top 40 and bottom 30 layers in order to expunge any air and/or other gases (e.g., those gases formed by the exothermic chemical reactions that occur when the ingredients used to formulate most polymeric thermoset materials are mixed together) from said void space. These thermoset ingredients are preferably mixed just prior to (e.g., fractions of a second before) their injection into the void space.
After the injection of the thermosetting polymeric material, the molded structure is then removed from the injection molded apparatus. According to one embodiment of the invention, several electronic cards 1 are cut out of one molded sheet. FIG. 4 depicts several electronic cards 1 formed on one sheet. According to another embodiment of the invention, the injected sheet corresponds to a electronic card 1. The stiffness of the electronic card 1 will depend upon the materials used in the composition of each of the electronic cards 1 individual components.
The finished electronic cards 1 are then removed from the excess polymeric materials (e.g., by trimming them off of the precursor device body) and cut to certain prescribed sizes (e.g., 85.6 mm by 53.98 mm as per ISO Standard 7810) dependent upon the functionality and design parameters of the electronic card 1. The trimming process may also remove the excess material in one cutting/trimming operation. It also will be well appreciated by those skilled in this art that the molding devices used to make such devices in commercial production operations will most preferably have mold shells having multiple cavities (e.g., 2, 4, 6, 8, etc.) for making several such devices simultaneously.
The present invention has several advantages including a cost effective manner to produce one or more electronic cards. The electronic cards are designed to use a greater variety of larger and taller circuit components such as large power sources without significantly increasing the entire size of the electronic card. A portion of the electronic card has physical dimensions that allow the electronic card to remain compatible with most standard applications. In addition, the varying thickness of the electronic card can be used to highlight and display logos, trademarks, or other desirable marketing features.
Further, most of the modules in the electronic card can be constructed in a traditional manner that reduces manufacturing costs. In addition, through the use of polyurea, the method produces a more rigid card or tag that is less likely to have internal stress points that can cause deformation or warping. Moreover, the method of the present invention can be easily adapted to produce multiple electronic cards at once.
The foregoing description of a preferred embodiment of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description. It is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed, and modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching or may be acquired from practice of the invention. The embodiment was chosen and described in order to explain the principles of the invention and as a practical application to enable one skilled in the art to utilize the invention in various embodiments and with various modification are suited to the particular use contemplated. It is intended that the scope of the invention be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
a core layer positioned between the top surface of the printed circuit board and the top overlay, wherein a first portion of the electronic card has a greater thickness than a second portion of the electronic card.
2. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the printed circuit board has a plurality of circuit traces on the top surface configured to operably connect to the plurality of circuit components and may have a plurality of circuit traces on the bottom surface configured to operably connect to a plurality of circuit components on the bottom surface of the printed circuit board.
3. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the electronic card is at least twice as thick as the second portion of the electronic card.
4. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the circuit components positioned in the first portion of the electronic card are greater in height than the circuit components positioned in the second portion of the electronic card.
5. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein a battery is positioned in the first portion of the electronic card.
6. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the first portion of the electronic card has a thickness in the range of 0.030 to 0.090 inches.
7. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the second portion of the electronic card has a thickness of 0.030 inches or less.
8. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the printed circuit board is composed of a flame retardant laminate with woven glass reinforced epoxy resin (FR-4).
9. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the top and bottom overlay are both comprised of polyvinyl chloride.
10. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein the core layer is comprised of thermosetting polyurea.
11. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of circuit components includes at least one push button.
12. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of circuit components includes at least one liquid crystal display.
13. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of circuit components includes at least one microprocessor chip.
14. The electronic card of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of circuit components includes at least one speaker.
injecting thermosetting polymeric material between the top surface of the printed circuit board, the plurality of circuit components and the top overlay such that the first portion of the electronic card has a greater thickness than the second portion of the electronic card.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the circuit components positioned in the first portion of the electronic card are greater in height than the circuit components positioned in the second portion of the electronic card.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein a battery is arranged in the first portion of the electronic card.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein a plurality of electronic cards are formed on one printed circuit board.
cutting out the plurality electronic cards.
20. The method of claim 15, wherein the circuit traces are formed by etching traces into the printed circuit board.
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The first known interstellar object to travel through our solar system could be a gigantic alien solar sail sent to look for signs of life, according to a new study.
The mysterious asteroid Oumuamua has been analysed by astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) after it was found to be unexpectedly speeding up.
Scientists have now concluded that the asteroid “might be a lightsail of artificial origin” using solar radiation to propel itself forward.
The study said: “Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment.
Professor Abraham Loeb, who carried out the study with Shmuel Bialy, told Universe Today: “Oumuamua could be an active piece of alien technology that came to explore our Solar System, the same way we hope to explore Alpha Centauri using Starshot and similar technologies.
Before he died, Professor Stephen Hawking said the most likely shape for an interstellar spacecraft would be a "cigar or needle" as this would “minimise friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust”.
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You could make the case that the Spurs and Popovich really benefited from some “good fortune.” They beat LeBron’s Baby Back Baby Back Cavs in ’07, and won it before that only after Shaq fled the West and the behest of the best terrified little suspect ever to get interrogated in the great state of Colorado.
Lake Show down 25 come back and can’t close the deal.
I guess you never know when YOU’RE GAME FIVE is going to come.
Popovich is legit in my book — I’m just sayin’. I’m most inclined to respect them for that knock down, drag out battle with the Detroit Pistons in ’04-’05. No one watched it except for the teams and their immediate families, but I heard it was good. Pop’s last minute switch of Bruce Bowen on to Chauncey Billups was as fine a coaching move as has ever been executed in the NBA Finals. It was swift, brilliant, and decisive.
It just makes me wonder how badly all these franchises actually want to win. I mean — is he competing against 32 teams or is really more like 5 teams? And if so, shouldn’t the Spurs win in a 5 team competition, given that they have Parker, Ginobili and Duncan? Pop’s had 14 50-win seasons, and he’s always had either Robinson or Duncan or both. Should they have beaten anyone besides the Pistons at the height of their powers? Should they have lost in the first round in two of the last 4 years? Should they have more than 2 Finals appearances over the past 9 seasons if their only real competition in the West has been Dallas and Los Angeles?
The only teams on this list without a premier scoring big man are the Cleveland Cavs and last year’s Miami Heat.
LA and SA have won 9 of the last 13 titles with either Shaq, Duncan, Gasol or Bynum patrolling the middle. The other winners were fueled by Rasheed Wallace, Dirk No-no-no-notorious Nowitzki, and KG.
Maybe all we know for sure is that Popovich is a much better coach than whomever runs the carousel not named Carlisle in Dallas, and that he’s a better coach than Bill Fitch was in Houston. What if only 3 teams in the entire Western Conference (before this season) were committed to long-term runs at championships — or what if only 3 teams had big men who could score almost at will? What if the short list of Shaq, Duncan, C. Webb (as a King), Garnett (as a T’Wolf), Dirk, and now Garnett was really all the competition that needed to be measured?
And, to be fair, the same measure can be applied to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Mavericks, the Celtics, and the Heat. Apparently, it can no longer be applied to the Pistons. Is it more impressive to win against 5 or 6 legitimate contenders or is it more compelling to win in a league where more teams have a true chance to compete for all the marbles?
I am from Detroit we gave the series away yet in game 7 the ref’s made a homer call and did not call a foul on Parker when he fouled Rip..
Pop is overrated big time people always makes excuses for his shortcomings!!
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2019-04-21T04:18:51Z
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The onward march of Core 2 Duo has left its rival looking tired, but AMD's price cuts are finally starting to bite. The $190 Athlon 64 X2 5600+ offers almost as much power as the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ ($240) and Core 2 Duo E6600 ($310), at a much better price.
"... based on today’s $188 price, the X2 5600+ is now paired against Intel’s Core 2 Duo E6300. The E6300 ships with half the cache as its X2 counterpart, and runs over 500MHz slower than the E6600. ... compared to the E6300, the pendulum swings wildly in favor of AMD when it comes to performance... "
Just don't try and overclock it.
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2019-04-25T18:41:49Z
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Hailed as a “supreme storyteller” (Philadelphia Inquirer) for his “cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived” fiction (New York Times), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice “as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky” (The Nation). In his highly anticipated second novel, Family Life, he delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision.
We meet the Mishra family in Delhi in 1978, where eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju play cricket in the streets, waiting for the day when their plane tickets will arrive and they and their mother can fly across the world and join their father in America. America to the Mishras is, indeed, everything they could have imagined and more: when automatic glass doors open before them, they feel that surely they must have been mistaken for somebody important. Pressing an elevator button and the elevator closing its doors and rising, they have a feeling of power at the fact that the elevator is obeying them. Life is extraordinary until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother severely brain-damaged and the other lost and virtually orphaned in a strange land. Ajay, the family’s younger son, prays to a God he envisions as Superman, longing to find his place amid the ruins of his family’s new life.
An Absent Mind, a riveting new novel from Eric Rill, author of Pinnacle of Deceit and The Innocent Traitor, is about a race against time. The ticking time bomb is Saul Reimer’s sanity. His Alzheimer’s is going to be the catalyst that will either bring his family together or tear it apart. Although An Absent Mind depicts Saul’s arduous struggle with Alzheimer’s, it is equally a story about his relationship with his loved ones and their shared journey.
Seventy-one, and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul finds himself helplessly slipping into the abyss in what he describes as his slow dance with death. As we listen in on his ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion, we are also privy to the thoughts and feelings his family share with us – his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed; caring, yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate, worried about her father’s health, yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly distant from his family’s challenges. And Dr. Tremblay, Saul’s Alzheimer’s specialist, who provides the reader with facts and observations about this dreaded disease that imprisons more than 35 million people worldwide.
We know from the beginning how it has to end for Saul, because no one has ever outsmarted Alzheimer’s. But how will he navigate the meandering road that will eventually destroy his health and result in his death? And how will it affect those around him as they live with strain and guilt, while at the same time being forced to face their own demons? These questions are answered expertly by the author as he explores the conflicts that rise to the surface as the family deals with Saul’s dementia. Eric Rill’s novel is reminiscent of Lisa Genova’s Still Alice, Nicholas Sparks” The Notebook, and Alice Munro’s Away From Her. Although a beautiful work of literary fiction, An Absent Mind will expose the reader to the reality of Alzheimer’s.
The #1 New York Times bestseller from the new guru of relationship advice, Steve Harvey’sAct Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is an invaluable self-help book that can empower women everywhere to take control of their relationships. The host of a top-rated radio show listened to by millions daily—and of cable TV’s The Steve Harvey Project—Harvey knows what men really think about love, intimacy, and commitment. In Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, the author, media personality, and stand-up comedian gets serious, sharing his wealth of knowledge, insight, and no-nonsense advice for every good woman who wants to find a good man or make her current love last.
Just out of college and completely alone in the world, Maggie Montgomery has one shot left to save her life from an abyss of poverty and hopelessness. Clinging to the last shred of fuel and hope, she arrives at the mansion of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayer. Although Maggie is clearly not what Mr. Ayer and his wife have in mind for a nanny, they agree to hire her temporarily until they can find someone more appropriate to fill the position. However, Maggie’s whole world is about to be up-ended by two way-over-scheduled children and one incredibly handsome hired hand. As she struggles to fit into a world she was never made to fit in, Maggie wonders if she can ever learn to become a perfect version of herself so she can keep the job, or is she doomed to always be searching for a life she can never quite grasp?
Keith Ayer despises his life. As the son of Texas billionaire Conrad Ayer and the fiance to a Senator from Texas’ daughter, it looks great on the outside, but inside, he is dying. He would vastly prefer to manage and train his father’s racehorses. However, everyone else thinks that is beneath him. He needs to get into industry and build on his father’s success. Suffocating under the constrictions of his life, he meets Maggie who begins to teach him that wealth and power is not everything in this life. But can Keith defy the most powerful men in Texas to follow his heart?
One of the most inspiring Contemporary Christian Romance novels available, “Deep in the Heart” is an Amazon #1 Best Seller. It is truly Christian romance at its very best. Filled with faith, hope, and love, Christian romance kindle books aim to inspire women and men alike while giving them an exceptional romantic love story they will not soon forget.
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2019-04-25T10:01:41Z
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On the 29th of January 2018, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research (BISR) hosted a one-day conference on “Necropolitics, Biopower and the Crisis of Globalisation”. The event, organised by Prof Giuseppe Cocco (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and Birkbeck, University of London), and by Dr Raluca Soreanu (Birkbeck, University of London), focused on the ways through which power and death are being incorporated within strategies of governance.
Biopolitics and Necropolitics, understood as two different variants of power that respectively aim at the flourishing of life (its opposite, thanatopolitics, is the ‘letting die’ of the Foucauldian’s formulae) and at its subjugation to the point of death, have been considered within a broader crisis of governance that we seem to be experiencing in our present times. Caught up between more complex issues, political power is increasingly being re-oriented towards its deadly ends. As Dr Soreanu eloquently explained, such derives of power reconfigure politics in terms of ‘hyperpolitics’ where the difference between life and death is blurred within a framework that drives on their very indistinguishability. This catastrophic incorporation of violence for the life and death of the subject results in a politics of excesses that creates an ‘everywhere’ space of possibility for violence. This has been complemented by Prof Cocco’s argument on the need to go to the roots of the problem and understand how the tension between life and death is produced and systemically maintained through the figure of the poor.
The idea that power politics is also a ‘function of death’ has been furtherly examined during the day through a series of panels on Necropolitics and the State of Exception, Monsters: Between Biopolitics and Necropolitics and Mobilisation and Necropolitics. In particular, Prof Miguel Mellino (Universita’ l’Orientale di Napoli) stressed the importance of looking at racism to better understand the ways through which social relations are first segmented, hierarchized and then filtered within a framework of uneven legitimacy. By interrogating the effects of the European Union management of migration, Prof Mellino called for the need to look more in depth at the emergence of a new moral economy of the refugee crisis. As he suggested, in fact, if we want to grasp today’s deadly dynamics of power the ‘negative’ governance of migratory fluxes has to be taken into account. Such dynamics have been also explored by Dr Silvia Posocco (Birkbeck, University of London) who looked at the case of Guatemala by paying attention to the queer population subjected to death.
The last panel of the conference was particularly interesting as it focused on the different crises of legitimacy that are dismantling our understanding of politics and the world more in general. Specifically, Dr Paolo Gerbaudo (King’s College London) talked of the consequences of living in a populist era that is changing the space and contents of politics. Trump, Brexit, and the rise of nationalist parties in Europe, are all manifestations of a political and civic loss of shared directions: taking back control from who and for what reason? This seems to be the volatile politics of our post-truth societies where ‘enemies’ appear and disappear to temporarily validate policies, narratives and discourses.
At the end of the conference I kept asking myself this question: Once death has become part of a way of governing life, both through the spectacular and the everyday political realm of it, how can we reorganise our existence beyond it? This seems a very difficult question to answer for the simple fact that changing our reality is today less ideologically sustainable than in the past. While during the conference the ghost of Karl Marx materialised through discussions on revolution and re-appropriation, what is certain is that rationalities of governance that deploy death as a means of life rely on a different kind of activism than the one that informed the necessary ‘emancipation’ of a working-class society. While mobilisations against necropower are now more visible than before, its effects are normalised as a necessary outcome for the safety of qualified lives. Such normalisation reduces our engagement in a life in death politics of change, making us feel that there is not a ‘beyond’ but only a ‘within’ death. Arguably, it is the political necessity of confronting the injustice of uneven death, where worthy and unworthy lives coexist within political morals, that will qualify the politics to come for the lives that it will not take.
This blog post is contributed by Antonella Patteri, an MPhil student in Birkbeck’s Department of Politics and Research Student Representative for the School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy.
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2019-04-21T20:38:25Z
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https://bisrblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/21/between-life-and-death-on-biopolitics-necropolitics-and-other-contemporary-crises/
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What are the best beans and grains to use to make a good protein mix?
What ratios do I need?
Update: Beardog, now you know I'm asking this mostly about my birds, right? Peanut butter is terrible for parrots, so that's a no-go.
I, on the other hand, love PB and honey on toast.... it's like a Mary Jane.
Best Answer: A cup of peanut butter and a teaspoon of honey goes great together, AND makes pretty good sauce if you heat it. Soy has all kinds of protein too, but it makes everything taste like bluh.
Sunflower seeds, sesame seeds...aaannnd that's all I've got. I wish I knew.
Rice and beans form a complete protein, what kind of bean?
What foods are high in protein besides beans?
What forms a complete protein: corn, beans, and?
Are nuts, legumes, and beans actually good sources of protein?
Protein for a child who choses to be vegitarian?
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2019-04-25T03:48:22Z
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https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120823123303AAA4keq
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A catheter adapted for performing a task at a location inside a lumen, the catheter comprising: a) an outer sheath; b) a balloon capable of inflating inside the lumen when the catheter reaches the location; and c) a balloon inflation tube, which is attached to the balloon and carries a fluid which causes the inflating of the balloon, said balloon inflation tube running through the outer sheath, movable relative to the outer sheath, and stiff enough so that it can be used to push and pull the balloon relative to the outer sheath.
This application claims priority from and is a continuation-in-part of PCT application PCT/IL03/00995 filed on Nov. 25, 2003, which designates the United States, and is also a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/303,064, filed on Nov. 25, 2002, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. This application also incorporates by reference a patent application titled “Catheter Drive,” agent's file reference 378/04070, filed on May 27, 2004, the same day as the current application, at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The field of the invention is catheters, particularly for positioning and advancing stents and other medical devices in blood vessels and other lumens of the body.
Blood vessels can suffer from various diseases, in particular arteriosclerosis, in which obstructions form in a lumen of a blood vessel, narrowing or clogging it. Emboli can also cause clogging of blood vessels. A common treatment method for narrowing is inserting a catheter with a balloon at its end to a clogged portion of the blood vessel, inflating the balloon and possibly leaving a stent at the clogged location, to keep the blood vessel open.
Precise positioning of the stent in the blood vessel is important. For example, stents are often placed over plaque in arteries. Placing the stent at a wrong position, for example not directly over the plaque, can increase the chance of complications such as stent thrombosis and restenosis. Precise positioning also allows a stent with the right length to just cover the plaque. It is also important, in the case of plaque located near a bifurcation in an artery, not to position the stent so that it will block the ostium of the artery in the bifurcation. However, it is often difficult for physicians to precisely control the position of a catheter, even when imaging techniques make it possible to tell exactly where the stent is, relative to the plaque. This difficulty is due to the friction between the catheter and the blood vessel. A certain force is needed to get the catheter to start moving, but once it starts moving, the catheter might jump a finite distance. Typically, the friction is dominated by the body of the catheter, which can be a meter or more in length, and not by the balloon and the stent, which tend to have relatively little friction with the blood vessel wall when the balloon is not inflated.
In some implementations, a guide wire is brought to the narrowed location, and then the catheter is pushed over the guide wire. If the catheter is soft, helping it to negotiate curves, it may be difficult to convey the pushing force along the catheter from outside the body to the tip. If the catheter is stiffer, it may be less able to negotiate sharp curves. In either case, excessive pushing may damage the blood vessels.
One solution suggested in the art is providing a catheter with varying levels of stiffness along its length—stiff at its proximal end and soft at its distal end.
Catheters with a balloon at the distal end typically have a separate lumen for an inflation tube, made of flexible plastic or metal for example, to inflate the balloon. The inflation tube is typically part of and inside a sheath which is stiff enough to push through the blood vessel.
An aspect of some embodiments of the invention concerns a catheter with a balloon, for example for expanding a stent. In an embodiment, the catheter comprises a relatively stiff inflation tube inside an outer sheath, and the inflation tube can move relative to the outer sheath. The catheter as a whole is used for coarse positioning of the balloon in a blood vessel or other lumen, as in conventional catheters. For example, the catheter is pushed and sometimes twisted by hand, while its progress is followed by using medical imaging device such as a fluoroscope. For fine adjustment in the position of the balloon, the inflation tube is used to push or pull the balloon, while keeping the outer sheath in place relative to the blood vessel wall. Because there is less friction between the inflation tube and the outer sheath than there is between the outer sheath and the blood vessel, there is better control on the positioning of the balloon and the stent and there is little or no jumping when using the inflation tube to move the balloon, and the balloon may be positioned accurately. The inflation tube is stiff enough to push or pull the balloon by itself. In addition, the stiffness of the inflation tube helps make the catheter as a whole stiff enough for the initial coarse positioning of the balloon. Once the balloon is accurately positioned, it is used to expand a stent, or to perform another task.
An aspect of some embodiments of the invention concerns a catheter with a balloon and an inflation tube, in which the inflation tube comprises two tubes: a relatively stiff inner inflation tube surrounded by a relatively flexible outer inflation tube. The inner inflation tube can be manipulated relative to the outer inflation tube from outside the body. Normally, both the inner and outer inflation tubes extend to the distal end of the catheter. When it is desired for the catheter to have a more flexible end, for example in order to negotiate sharp turns without damaging the blood vessel, the inner inflation tube is drawn back from the distal end of the catheter. This leaves an end portion of the outer inflation tube empty, and makes the end portion of the catheter more flexible than it would be with the inner inflation tube inside. When it is desired for the catheter to have a stiffer end, for example in order to push past a narrow region in a blood vessel, then the inner inflation tube is pushed to the distal end of the catheter. The relatively stiff inner inflation tube then stiffens the end portion of the catheter.
Optionally, both of these aspects may be present in an embodiment of the invention, in which there are three concentric tubes, an outer sheath, a relatively flexible outer inflation tube and a relatively stiff inner inflation tube, which may be moved relative to each other. Optionally, either or both of these features may be combined with the hydraulic mechanism for advancing the catheter described in PCT/IL03/00995. In that case, there are as many as four concentric tubes: an outer sheath, an inner sheath which comprises the hydraulic mechanism, an outer inflation tube inside the inner sheath, and an inner inflation tube. The outer inflation tube, or the inflation tube if there is only one tube, need not move relative to the inner sheath. The physician then has at his disposal three different means to position the balloon: 1) moving the outer sheath, i.e. the whole catheter, as in conventional catheters; 2) using the hydraulic mechanism to move the inner sheath, together with the inflation tube and the balloon; and 3) using the inflation tube to move the inner sheath and the balloon. Once the balloon is in the desired position, it is inflated, for example in order to expand a stent which surrounds the balloon, and once the stent is in place, or another therapeutic or diagnostic task has been accomplished, the balloon is deflated and the catheter is withdrawn.
c) a balloon inflation tube, which is attached to the balloon and carries a fluid which causes the inflating of the balloon, said balloon inflation tube running through the outer sheath, movable relative to the outer sheath, and stiff enough so that it can be used to push and pull the balloon relative to the outer sheath.
whereby moving the inner inflation tube element back from the tip of the catheter makes a distal portion of the catheter substantially more flexible than when the inner inflation tube extends to the tip of the catheter.
Optionally, the inner inflation tube element has a lumen which carries the fluid which causes the inflating of the balloon.
In an embodiment of the invention, the catheter includes a propulsion compartment located proximal to the balloon, the propulsion compartment comprising an outer tube and an inner tube, said tubes being concentric, wherein one of said outer tube and inner tube can slidingly move in relation to the other of said outer tube and inner tube in response to a pressure exerted thereon by a fluid introduced into one or both of said outer tube and inner tube.
Optionally, one of said outer tube and inner tube is the outer sheath, and the balloon inflation tube runs through and is attached to the other of said outer tube and inner tube.
Optionally, the outer tube is the outer sheath.
Alternatively, the inner tube is the outer sheath.
Optionally, the task comprises dilating the lumen.
Optionally, the lumen is inside the body.
Optionally, the lumen is a blood vessel.
Optionally, the task comprises placing a stent.
Optionally, the balloon inflation tube comprises stainless steel.
Alternatively, the balloon inflation tube comprises NiTi.
Optionally, the balloon comprises plastic.
Alternatively or additionally, the balloon comprises a polymer.
In an embodiment of the invention, the catheter is adapted for using a guide wire.
Optionally, the catheter is adapted for using an “over the wire” guide wire.
Alternatively or additionally, the catheter is adapted for using a “rapid exchange” guide wire.
b) fine adjusting the position of the balloon, said fine adjusting comprising moving an inflation tube of the balloon catheter relative to an outer sheath of said catheter, by manually manipulating said inflation tube.
Optionally, moving the inflation tube relative to the outer sheath comprises moving the inflation tube while keeping the outer sheath stationary with respect to the lumen.
Optionally, positioning the balloon approximately comprises moving the entire catheter through the lumen.
Alternatively or additionally, positioning the balloon approximately comprises using hydraulic force.
Optionally, fine adjusting also comprises using hydraulic force to move the balloon, while keeping the outer sheath of the catheter stationary with respect to the lumen.
b) arranging the moveable stiffening element to be withdrawn some distance back from the tip of the catheter, when manipulating the tip of the catheter past the sharply curved portions.
Optionally, the stiffening element is located inside a balloon inflation tube of said catheter.
Alternatively, the stiffening element comprises a balloon and a balloon inflation tube of said catheter, and arranging the stiffening element to be withdrawn some distance back comprises withdrawing the balloon into an outer sheath of said catheter.
Exemplary, non-limiting embodiments of the invention will be described below, with reference to the following drawings, which are not generally drawn to scale. The same elements are marked with the same or similar reference numbers in different drawings.
FIG. 6 is a schematic side cross-sectional view of a catheter according to another exemplary embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1 shows an intravascular balloon catheter 100, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, comprising an inflation tube 102 surrounded by an outer sheath 104. There is a balloon 106 at the end of inflation tube 102, which is stiff enough so that the inflation tube can be used to push the balloon relative to the rest of the catheter, for fine adjustment in positioning the balloon.
FIG. 1 is not necessarily drawn to scale, and in particular, the outer sheath and inflation tube of catheter 100 are typically very much longer, relative to their diameter, than shown in FIG. 1. This is also true of the catheters in all the other drawings. Also, in FIG. 1 and in the other drawings, balloon 106 is shown in a somewhat inflated state, for clarity. In practice the balloon will be in a collapsed state, fitting fairly closely around the inflation tube, until it is in position and ready for inflating.
An inflation tube manipulator 108, outside the body, allows the inflation tube, together with the balloon, to be moved back and forth axially with respect to the outer sheath. Optionally, inflation tube manipulator 108 also includes, or is connected to, an indeflator, i.e. an element for pumping a fluid such as saline solution into the balloon, to inflate it. If manipulator 108 includes a reservoir and plunger for pumping fluid into balloon 106, it would preferably be bigger, relative to balloon 106, than shown in FIG. 1, and this is true of inflation tube manipulators appearing in the other drawings as well. One or more optional seals 110 may be located at the distal end of the outer sheath, as shown in the drawing, or outside the body at the proximal end of the outer sheath, or anywhere in between. Seal 110 prevents blood from leaking out of the body, and prevents air and other material from getting into the blood vessel, through the catheter. Alternatively, inflation tube 102 fits closely enough to the inner surface of outer sheath 104 that there is no need for a special seal. Optionally, there is also a guide wire, not shown in the drawing, which may use either a “rapid exchange” (monorail) system, as described, for example, in U.S. Pat. No 4,748,982 to Horzewski and Yock, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, or an “over the wire” system.
The balloon catheter may be used, for example, to place a stent in an artery, as shown in FIGS. 2A-2E, or to enlarge the lumen of a partially obstructed artery by angioplasty or arthrectomy, or for any other therapeutic or diagnostic purpose for which conventional balloon catheters are used. Such applications include thermal ablation of tissue (using RF, laser, or ohmic heating for example), cryotherapy, photodynamic therapy, drug delivery, dilation of various lumens in the body (including, for example, esophagus, bile duct, urethra, Fallopian tube, heart valve, tear duct, and carpal tunnel), positioning devices for radiation therapy or for imaging (for example using ultrasound), occluding or sealing openings, and delivering endovascular grafts. Balloon catheter 100 is particularly useful for applications in which precise positioning of the balloon is important.
In FIG. 2A, outer sheath 104 of catheter 100, together with inflation tube 102, and balloon 106 with a stent 206 fitted around it, is initially manipulated through a blood vessel 202, similarly to a conventional intravascular catheter, until the balloon and stent are approximately in the desired position in the blood vessel. If the catheter includes a guide wire, not shown in FIG. 2A, then the guide wire is optionally pushed first into position through the blood vessel, followed by the catheter. In FIG. 2B, balloon 106 has reached a location close to plaque 204 in the wall of blood vessel 202. It is desired to place stent 206 precisely over plaque 204, but not to have the stent block the opening of a blood vessel 208 which branches off blood vessel 202 near plaque 204. In FIG. 2C, outer sheath 104 remains in place relative to blood vessel 202, and manipulator 108 is used to move inflation tube 102 and balloon 106 toward lesion 204. Because outer sheath 104 and inflation tube 102 are optionally designed to have much less friction and stiction moving against each other than the outer sheath has when moving against the blood vessel wall, it is potentially easier to precisely position the balloon in this way, than it would be by moving the whole catheter in the blood vessel. Finally, in FIG. 2D, balloon 106 is in the precise position desired, centered at lesion 204, and past the opening of blood vessel 208. Balloon 106 is expanded, by pumping fluid into it, under pressure, through inflation tube 102. The expanding balloon causes stent 206 to expand, and anchors it in place. In FIG. 2E, balloon 106 has been deflated, by releasing the pressure through inflation tube 102, and catheter 100 is being withdrawn, leaving stent 206 in place, precisely covering lesion 204, but not blocking the opening of blood vessel 208.
Optionally, balloon catheter 100 performs any other therapeutic or diagnostic task, including any of those listed above, once balloon 106 is in position, instead of or in addition to placing the stent. Similar balloon catheters, of appropriate dimensions, are optionally used in lumens other than blood vessels.
Inflation tube 102 is optionally made of stainless steel, nickel-titanium (Nitinol), or other biocompatible materials with the right mechanical properties, including plastics or polymers. The inflation tube is preferably stiff enough so that it can be used to push the balloon for fine positioning, but flexible enough so that it can bend with the catheter in going around sharp curves in blood vessels. Also, outer sheath 104, in combination with inflation tube 102, is stiff enough to enable the catheter to be manipulated through the blood vessel for coarse positioning, but flexible enough to allow the catheter to follow turns in the blood vessel.
FIG. 3A shows a catheter 300, similar to catheter 100 in FIG. 1, but with the additional capability of using hydraulic force to move the balloon, as described in PCT/IL03/00995. Like catheter 100, catheter 300 has a balloon 106 attached to an inflation tube 102, a manipulator 108 at the proximal end of inflation tube 102, and an outer sheath 104. Catheter 300 also has an inner sheath 302, attached to the balloon. Inner sheath 302, which is moveable relative to outer sheath 104, surrounds inflation tube 102 and fits inside outer sheath 104. Inner sheath 302 does not extend over the whole length of the catheter, but ends at a seal 304, before the proximal end of outer sheath 104. Seal 304 can move smoothly along the inside surface of outer sheath 104, but seal 304 does not allow fluid to pass through it. At its distal end, inner sheath 302 optionally ends at a surface 308, which extends radially from the inner surface of inner sheath 302 to the outer surface of inflation tube 102.
The portion of outer sheath 104 proximal to seal 304 is filled with saline solution or another relatively incompressible fluid, and there is an indeflator 306, or a similar hydraulic displacement element such as a plunger or a flexible bulb, located outside the body at the proximal end of outer sheath 104. When indeflator 306 is compressed, pressure builds up in the fluid, which exerts an unbalanced longitudinal force on surface 308. This force causes inner sheath 302 to move, together with balloon 106 which is attached to inner sheath 302. This forward motion of inner sheath 302 increases the volume of fluid again, relieving the build up in pressure. Realistically, indeflator 306 would preferably be larger in volume, relative to the volume of inner sheath 302, than shown in FIG. 3A, and this is true of the indeflators in other drawings as well.
Indeflator 306, like manipulator 108, is optionally used only for fine positioning of balloon 106, after coarse positioning the balloon by manipulating the entire catheter through the blood vessel. In this case, inner sheath 302 is optionally rather short, only as long as the greatest distance needed for fine positioning. Also in this case, there is optionally no inner sheath 302 at all, and seal 304 is attached directly to inflation tube 102. But using an inner sheath, with surface 308 greater in area than seal 304, has the potential advantage that most of the force is applied to surface 308, which is close to the location of the balloon, rather than to seal 304, which is removed some distance from the balloon.
Alternatively, indeflator 306 is used not just for fine positioning, but for the initial coarse positioning of the balloon as well, instead of or in addition to manipulating outer sheath 104, as in a conventional catheter, for initial positioning. In this case, inner sheath 302 is optionally almost as long as outer sheath 104, and seal 304 is optionally located near the proximal end of outer sheath 104 initially. Particularly in this case, surface 308 is preferably much greater in area than seal 304, so that the hydraulic force is exerted mostly on surface 308, near the balloon, and not on seal 304, which may be very far from the balloon.
Optionally, whether or not indeflator 306 is used for initial coarse positioning of the balloon, inner sheath 302 makes a sufficiently close fit to the inside of outer sheath 104 that there is no need for seal 304 at all, and almost all of the hydraulic force is applied to surface 308, near the balloon. Alternatively, there is a seal attached to the distal end of outer sheath 104 which prevents fluid from leaking out, instead of or in addition to seal 304.
Depending on the shape and texture of the inner wall of the blood vessel adjacent to the balloon, either indeflator 306 or manipulator 108 may be more effective for fine positioning of the balloon, or manipulating the catheter as a whole may even be more effective. Alternatively, a combination of two of these methods of moving the balloon, or all three, may be more effective than any one of them. A potential advantage of catheter 300 is that the physician has a choice of these three options when positioning the balloon.
Optionally, indeflator 306 can only exert a force which moves balloon 106 in a distal direction. Alternatively, indeflator 306 is reversible, and can be used both to pull and to push on surface 308 and seal 304, moving balloon 106 in either a distal or a proximal direction. In the latter case, indeflator 306 can be used to adjust the position of the balloon by pulling it back if it is inadvertently pushed too far. In the former case, only manipulator 108, or the catheter as a whole, can be used to pull the balloon back.
FIG. 3B shows a catheter 310 which is similar to catheter 300, but with what used to be the “inner” sheath now located outside the outer sheath. To avoid misleading terminology, the former “inner” sheath will be referred to as the “outermost sheath” in FIG. 3B, since it is outside the outer sheath. The outer sheath will still be called the “outer sheath” because it is outside the inflation tube, even though it is now inside the outermost sheath. Thus, in catheter 310, there is an outermost sheath 312 which is attached to inflation tube 102 and balloon 106, and there is a surface 308 at the distal end of outermost sheath 312. There is an outer sheath 314, between outermost sheath 312 and inflation tube 102, which does not extend to the distal end of outermost sheath 312. Outermost sheath 312 does not extend to the proximal end of outer sheath 314. Seals 316 and 318, respectively attached to the proximal end of outermost sheath 312 and the distal end of outer sheath 314, allow the outer and outermost sheaths to slide along each other, but do not allow fluid to leak out between them. Optionally, only one of these seals is present, or the outer and outermost sheaths fit closely enough together so that there is no need for either seal. A manipulator 108, at the proximal end of inflation tube 102, allows inflation tube 102, together with outermost sheath 312 and balloon 106, to be pushed or pulled relative to outer sheath 314, for fine positioning of the balloon. Outer sheath 314, and a distal portion of outermost sheath 312 up to seal 318, are filled with a relatively incompressible fluid, such as a saline solution, which is connected to an indeflator 306 or similar hydraulic displacement element located outside the body. The indeflator exerts a hydraulic force on surface 308, causing outermost sheath 312, together with inflation tube 102 and balloon 106, to move relative to outer sheath 314. Depending on how long outermost sheath 312 is, indeflator 306 is used either only for fine positioning of the balloon, or for both coarse and fine positioning of the balloon.
FIG. 4A shows a catheter 400, the distal portion of which can be adjusted in stiffness. Catheter 400 has a balloon 106 attached to a relatively flexible outer balloon inflation tube 402. An inner inflation tube 404 is relatively stiffer than outer inflation tube 402, or at least the two tubes together are significantly stiffer than the outer inflation tube by itself. The inner inflation tube can move relative to the outer inflation tube. A manipulator 406 is attached to the proximal end of inner inflation tube 404, outside the body, and can be used to move inner inflation tube 404 relative to outer inflation tube 402. Optionally, manipulator 406 also includes, or is connected to, an indeflator or similar element for pumping a fluid such as saline solution into the balloon, to inflate it.
In FIG. 4A, inner inflation tube 404 is pushed as far as it will go toward the distal end of outer inflation tube 402, at or past the end of balloon 106. In this state, the distal portion of catheter 400, out to the tip, is relatively stiff. In FIG. 4B, inner inflation tube 404 is shown withdrawn some distance back from the distal end of outer inflation tube 402. In this state, the distal portion of catheter 400, back to the end of inner inflation tube 404, is substantially more flexible than it was in FIG. 4A.
Controlling the flexibility of the tip of a catheter is potentially useful for manipulating the catheter through a blood vessel, as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B. For example, when trying to push the tip of catheter 400 past an obstruction 502 in a relatively straight portion 504 of a blood vessel, as shown in FIG. 5A, a stiff catheter tip may be desirable. A more flexible catheter tip may be desirable when trying to push catheter 400 past a sharp curve 506 in a blood vessel, as shown in FIG. 5B. By moving inner inflation tube 402 relative to outer inflation tube 404, a flexible portion at the end of the catheter may be made any desired length, depending on what is needed at that time.
Optionally, inner inflation tube 404 is not a complete tube, but has, for example, a C-shaped cross-section, at least in the part of its length that is inside outer inflation tube 402. Optionally, no part of inner inflation tube 404 is a complete tube, and the fluid for inflating balloon 106 is pumped not into inner inflation tube 404, but directly into outer inflation tube 402. In this case, “inner inflation tube” would be a misnomer, and it would be more accurate to call inner inflation tube 404 a “stiffening element” for outer inflation tube 402. However, it is potentially advantageous to make inner inflation tube 404 a complete tube, since that will increase its stiffness and its resistance to buckling, for a given material and inner and outer diameter. For similar reasons, it is potentially advantageous to have inner inflation tube 404 fill up almost all of the cross-sectional area of the lumen of outer inflation tube 402. In that case, there will not be much room for fluid to flow through outer inflation tube 402, so it may be advantageous to inflate balloon 106 through inner inflation tube 404, as described.
It should be appreciated that catheter 100 or catheter 300 is also optionally used in a manner similar to catheter 400, to adjust the stiffness of the catheter tip. In the case of catheter 100 or catheter 300, the tip is optionally made more flexible by using inflation tube 102 to pull balloon 106 back some distance inside outer sheath 104, leaving the distal end of outer sheath 104 empty and relatively flexible. When inflation tube 102 is used to push balloon 106 back up to the distal end of outer sheath 104, then the tip of the catheter (i.e. the distal end of outer sheath 104) becomes stiffer. Depending on the relative stiffness of outer sheath 104, balloon 106 and inflation tube 102, pushing balloon 106 some distance beyond the distal end of outer sheath 104, as shown in FIG. 1, results in a catheter tip (now the balloon and the inflation tube without the outer sheath) of intermediate stiffness.
FIG. 6 shows a catheter 600, which combines the features of catheters 300 and 400 of FIGS. 3A and 4A. Catheter 600, like catheter 300, can be fine positioned using any of three different methods, alone or in combination: 1) manipulating the whole catheter; 2) using manipulator 108 to move outer inflation tube 402 (together with balloon 106) relative to outer sheath 104; and 3) using indeflator 306 to move inner sheath 302, together with balloon 106, relative to outer sheath 104. As with catheter 300, any of the hydraulic elements described in PCT/IL03/00995 may be used, instead of or in addition to indeflator 306. Optionally, the hydraulic elements can be configured to look like those in catheter 310 of FIG. 3B, instead of like those in catheter 300 of FIG. 3A.
Like catheter 400, catheter 600 has an inner inflation tube 404, which can be withdrawn back any distance from the tip of the catheter, in order to reduce the stiffness of some portion of the catheter near the tip. The adjustability of the flexibility of catheter 600 is potentially useful both when manipulating the catheter as a whole, and when moving the balloon separately, using either manipulator 108 or indeflator 306, as well as when using any combination of these methods. Thus, catheter 600 potentially provides more options for precise positioning of balloons in difficult situations than catheters 100, 300,310 or 400.
3. A catheter according to claim 2, wherein the inner inflation tube element has a lumen which carries the fluid which causes the inflating of the balloon.
4. A catheter according to claim 1, and including a propulsion compartment located proximal to the balloon, the propulsion compartment comprising an outer tube and an inner tube, said tubes being concentric, wherein one of said outer tube and inner tube can slidingly move in relation to the other of said outer tube and inner tube in response to a pressure exerted thereon by a fluid introduced into one or both of said outer tube and inner tube.
5. A catheter according to claim 4, wherein one of said outer tube and inner tube is the outer sheath, and the balloon inflation tube runs through and is attached to the other of said outer tube and inner tube.
6. A catheter according to claim 5, wherein the outer tube is the outer sheath.
7. A catheter according to claim 5, wherein the inner tube is the outer sheath.
9. A catheter according to claim 8, wherein the inner inflation tube element has a lumen which carries the fluid which causes the inflating of the balloon.
10. A catheter according to claim 1, wherein the task comprises dilating the lumen.
11. A catheter according to claim 1, wherein the lumen is inside the body.
12. A catheter according to claim 11, wherein the lumen is a blood vessel.
13. A catheter according to claim 12, wherein the catheter comprises a stent.
14. A catheter according to claim 1, wherein the balloon inflation tube comprises stainless steel.
15. A catheter according to claim 1, wherein the balloon inflation tube comprises NiTi.
16. A catheter according to claim 1, wherein the balloon comprises plastic.
17. A catheter according to claim 1, wherein the balloon comprises a polymer.
18. A catheter according to claim 1, adapted for using a guide wire.
19. A catheter according to claim 18, adapted for using an “over the wire” guide wire.
20. A catheter according to claim 18, adapted for using a “rapid exchange” guide wire.
22. A method according to claim 21, wherein moving the inflation tube relative to the outer sheath comprises moving the inflation tube while keeping the outer sheath stationary with respect to the lumen.
23. A method according to claim 21, wherein positioning the balloon approximately comprises moving the entire catheter through the lumen.
24. A method according to claim 23, wherein positioning the balloon approximately also comprises using hydraulic force.
25. A method according to claim 21, wherein positioning the balloon approximately comprises using hydraulic force.
26. A method according to claim 21, wherein fine adjusting also comprises using hydraulic force to move the balloon, while keeping the outer sheath of the catheter stationary with respect to the lumen.
28. A method according to claim 27, wherein the stiffening element is located inside a balloon inflation tube of said catheter.
29. A method according to claim 27, wherein the stiffening element comprises a balloon and a balloon inflation tube of said catheter, and arranging the stiffening element to be withdrawn some distance back comprises withdrawing the balloon into an outer sheath of said catheter.
30. A catheter according to claim 13, wherein the stent is located at substantially the same axial extent of the catheter as the balloon in a configuration suitable for inserting of the catheter into the lumen.
31. A catheter according to claim 13, wherein the stent is adapted to move with the balloon inflation tube when moved relative to the outer sheath.
32. A catheter according to claim 13, wherein moving the balloon inflation tube distally telescopically extends the length of the catheter.
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A hack attack that targeted Google in December also hit 33 other companies, including financial institutions and defense contractors, and was aimed at stealing source code from the companies, say security researchers at iDefense.
The hackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader to deliver malware to many of the companies and were in some cases successful at siphoning the source code they sought, according to a statement distributed Tuesday by iDefense, a division of VeriSign. The attack was similar to one that targeted other companies last July, the company said.
A spokeswoman for iDefense wouldn't name any of the other companies that were targeted in the recent attack, except Adobe.
Adobe acknowledged Tuesday in a blog post that it discovered Jan. 2 that it had been the target of a "sophisticated, coordinated attack against corporate network systems managed by Adobe and other companies."
The company didn't say whether it was a victim of the same attack that struck Google. But Adobe's announcement came just minutes after Google revealed that it had been the target of a "highly sophisticated" hack attack originating in China in December.
Neither Google nor Adobe provided details about how the hacks occurred. Google said only that the hackers were able to steal unspecified intellectual property from it, and that they had focused their attack on obtaining access to the Gmail accounts of human rights activists who were involved in China rights issues.
But according to iDefense, whose customers include some of the 33 companies that were hacked, the attacks were well targeted and "unusually sophisticated" and aimed at grabbing source code from several hi-tech companies based in Silicon Valley as well as financial institutions and defense contractors.
The hackers gained access to the company networks by sending targeted e-mails to employees, some of which contained a malicious PDF attachment. The malicious code exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe's Reader application.
Zero day vulnerabilities are security flaws in software for which there is currently no patch. Adobe announced in mid-December that a new zero-day vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat programs was being actively targeted by attackers. The company made the announcement after security researchers not affiliated with Adobe discovered attacks being conducted against the vulnerability. Adobe patched the critical vulnerability only on Tuesday this week.
In the recent attack on some of the companies, once a recipient clicked on the malicious PDF attachment, a backdoor Trojan program called Trojan.Hydraq was installed on their machine in the form of a Windows DLL, according to iDefense.
IDefense says that when Google discovered malware on its systems in December, it found that the code was communicating with a server set up to receive information stolen from the targeted companies.
"It was configured in such a way that it was able to receive a massive amount of data being exfiltrated to it," says an iDefense spokeswoman who asked not to be named.
Google was able to determine, by examining the server, that the hackers had struck numerous other companies, she said. Google said in its Tuesday announcement that 20 other companies had been hacked. But iDefense found evidence that at least 33 were targeted.
The recent attacks bear a strong resemblance to another attack that occurred in July 2009, which targeted about 100 IT companies, iDefense says. In that earlier attack, the hackers also sent targeted e-mail to companies with a malicious PDF attachment, but it's unclear how successful that attack was.
According to Ryan Olson, an analyst for iDefense, the attacks in July and December targeted different vulnerabilities. The one in July affected Adobe's Reader, Acrobat and Flash applications, which it patched Jul. 30. The vulnerability the hackers are believed to have used in December also affected Reader and Acrobat.
iDefense obtained samples of the malicious codes used in the July attack and the more recent one and found that although the malware was different in the two attacks, the programs both communicated with similar command-and-control servers. The servers each used the HomeLinux DynamicDNS to change their IP address, and both currently point to IP addresses belonging to a subset of addresses owned by Linode, a U.S.-based company that offers Virtual Private Server hosting.
"The IP addresses in question are ... six IP addresses apart from each other," iDefense said in its statement. "Considering this proximity, it is possible that the two attacks are one and the same, and that the organizations targeted in the [recent] Silicon Valley attacks have been compromised since July."
Linode spokesman Philip Paradis says the VPS iDefense is referring to was never compromised and that the command-and-control servers were pointing to Linode IP addresses because Google itself took control of the VPS on Jan. 1 and was using it to conduct tests as part of its investigation.
Olson told Threat Level that the attackers are "incredibly good" at finding new exploits and infecting the right people but that nothing he'd seen in the malware indicated they were above average in writing malicious code.
"The sophistication here is all about the fact they were able to target the right people using a previously unknown vulnerability," he says.
The iDefense spokeswoman told Threat Level that her company waited a week to disclose details about the attack until after Google went public with the news that it had been hacked. She said it's her understanding that Google's source code was targeted in the hack attack.
Google declined to publicly discuss the details of iDefense's report.
Adobe's announcement didn't discuss specifically whether hackers had stolen its source code but said that it had "no evidence to indicate that any sensitive information – including customer, financial, employee or any other sensitive data – has been compromised" in the attack.
This post was updated with information from Olson about the malware used in the attack and to add comment from Linode. It also was updated to clarify that the Hydraq trojan and PDF exploit were used to breach some of the companies, but not all of them.
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Every now and then I write magazine articles. This one was published in Fair Lady magazine in June 1998. It’s about an international, fun-loving, self-consciously odd running club.
Have you seen a motley crew of runners bounding through the leafy suburbs, scrutinising the pavement and uttering the odd squawk of triumph? Or have you yourself been out jogging, only to be jerked from your endorphin-induced trance by the summons, “ON-ON”? Was it a wild-eyed fellow in disreputable running-shoes, urging you towards an uninviting, steep and scraggy path?
Then you have encountered the Hash House Harriers.
“New feet!” someone crowed. It was Sunday afternoon. Peter and I were about to join our first hash. The hashers clustered round to greet us. Were their smiles just a little too keen?
“Are you runners?” one asked.
“No,” I replied with sinking heart.
“Good. That helps,” was the dry retort.
He stood apart, yet somehow the focus of attention. He welcomed us with a roguish grin. Was I imagining the gleam of anticipation in his eye? As we chatted desultorily, hashers sidled up with snippets of seemingly trivial information.
A toot from the hash horn, and the pack set off. For all points of the compass at once. Peter and I stood bemused. Then came the triumphant yelp: “On-on!” We joined the rush towards a faint arrow chalked on the pavement.
A few days later the Hash Trash dropped into our letterbox. Their weekly newsletter. Our names were in print. The scribe accused Peter of using a “lame excuse” to get out of “the ceremony”. And me of aiding and abetting. Hand-written at the bottom of the page was an ominous warning: they were waiting for us. What had we got ourselves into?
A hash is a bit like a paper-chase. A hare lays a trail of flour, chalk or paper. The hounds follow the trail, which can be quite complicated. There are usually about ten “checks”, where the trail diverges into one or more false trails. It is up to the front runners to find the true trail, and to summon the pack with calls of “on-on”. Hashing is a social pastime. Not much respect is given to the “R” word (running). And the “M” word is positively despised. Taking part in the Two Oceans, for example, is a serious violation of hash etiquette.
But, in the true spirit of hashing, little respect is paid to this rule. The Cape Town HHH regularly man a water table for the Two Oceans marathon. Last year, they afforded the runners a welcome break from the serious business of the “R” word, by dressing up as priests and prostitutes.
In “dead hare” hashing, the hares lay the trail beforehand, and accompany the pack later in the day. The trail is five to eight kilometres long, depending on the terrain. “Holding” checks keep the pack together. The slower hounds have time to catch up, and the others have time to sing a song and generally make themselves look silly, as befits a hasher. The last hound is home in about ninety minutes.
“Live hare” enthusiasts tend to look down on their less bloodthirsty counterparts. A live hare has ten to fifteen minutes’ head start on the hounds. Soon the front runners are baying at his heels. There are penalties for being caught. And for evading capture.
Where the hash differs from a paper-chase is in its scope. It is an international pursuit. Hash kennels the world over have the same characteristics: an irreverence towards authority; an elaborate ritual designed to bind the pack together by making a fool of each and every member; and beer.
The first HHH club was founded in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1938. Now there are over a thousand clubs, on all the continents of the globe – including Antarctica. So if airport strikes leave a hasher stranded in Timbuktu, he whips out his Hash Directory. There is sure to be a local kennel where he can get his weekly fix.
That’s the another thing that distinguishes hashing from a paper-chase. Hash is habit-forming. Before long, a hasher’s life revolves around the weekly trail. Whole families are roped in.
Five years ago, Irish Missed (Anne Thacker, of the Cape Town HHH) was one of six unattached women who were persuaded to attend a hash. They were unimpressed at first, and sat in the car eating chocolates while those rather weird people went off for their run. On the hashers’ return, the six emerged to share their chocolates. One of the hashers caught Anne’s eye. It was instant antagonism. He poured Coke all over her car. She tried to run him down.
The next day, he phoned to ask her out for a date. Now Anne and Chris are happily married, and avid hashers. And three more of the original six women have married hashers.
So we went back for more. Peter was still on crutches, so he sat it out in a park. Camps Bay was cool and grey. And chock-a-block with steps! We went up the steps, down the steps, and up… There was no real “shiggy” – that’s hash-talk for mud, sludge, dung, rubbish dumps… anything designed to reduce your running-shoes to the desired state of disrepute. But we did have a scramble down a gully, near Kloof Neck, and up the other side. And, just when we thought we were on the home run, there was a killing stretch of soft sand on the beach.
The last hound staggered in. A circle formed round the Religious Advisor. His aura of authority swelled. Someone laughed, a little too loudly. Glances flickered around the ring. Silence fell. The RA stepped forward.
His tone was quiet, reasonable even. But my heart dropped to my, by this time suitably shabby, shoes. Peter swung forward, a pitiable figure on his crutches. I followed. The eyes of the pack glowed in the dusk. A collective sigh breathed on the back of our necks.
The RA dumped a foaming glass of beer at Peter’s feet. Mine was a Coke. The hashers broke into raucous song. I could not make out the words. Probably a good thing.
“Ten. Nine. Eight…” As they counted, we poured the drinks down our throats.
“Two… One!” What remained had to be deposited on our heads. I missed, accidentally of course, and narrowly avoided drenching those behind me. But beware: this action may be self-defeating. It constitutes the heinous crime of “alcohol abuse” – wasting beer – and may lead to another down-down.
The RA cleared his throat. “Peter’s hash name is ….” The pack waited with baited breath.
“Cro… uh, Crutch!” The hesitation and reluctant correction are obligatory, and typical of hash humour.
Other sinners shuffled forward. The hares always have a down-down. And there was some poor soul punished for finishing second. The RA himself had arrived back first, so he concocted that new violation on the spot.
This running-club is not only for the well-heeled. In fact, take a bit of advice: whatever you do, don’t wear new shoes. It is a severe violation, and the punishment fits the crime. The beer for your down-down is poured into one of the offending shoes. Once you have drunk it, the dregs from the “tea bag” are squeezed into your mouth – that is, from your sock, or the sole insert of the shoe.
The hash overturns normal adult values – rather self-consciously at times. It rides rough-shod over the sensitive issues of the day. Hash names are often blatantly sexist. Indecorous language is flaunted. Religion suffers a gentle ragging too. And so these matters are overturned, and cast aside. You could say that hashers follow a philosophy of inversion – although they would emphatically deny following anything but the trail which leads to the beer. Unless by “inversion” you mean turning a beer mug upside-down over your head.
Hashing is essentially a social pastime. Clubs get together regularly in an Interhash, which may be regional, national, or global. The biennial world-wide Interhash is held on even years. Hashers swap T-shirts and tall tales of impassable shiggy, doing a run or two to justify their presence.
The hash is alive and thriving in South Africa. The Cape Town HHH was founded in November 1980 by Bob Browning. Others are the Jacaranda HHH in Pretoria; the Howteng Horrors Full Moon HHH serving Johannesburg and Pretoria; and four in Durban: North Durban HHH, Durban HHH, Highway HHH, Hotties Hash House Harriettes.
Should you hash? You need two senses over and above the proverbial five: common sense – a complete lack of it; and a sense of humour – a surfeit of this one, preferably of the British variety. If you’re into the Monty Python genre, consider yourself well in.
Running and beer are integral parts of hashing. But you’re welcome even if you’re a slow coach, who is on the wagon to boot. On-on!
Loved your article and had a great laugh – as this is very true.
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Col. Régis Chamagne: The objective of the financial oligarchy is to seize the riches of the world, and to achieve this, humanity must be enslaved. Thirty years ago, some 60 people owned 50 percent of the world’s wealth. At the time, the image used was that of a bus: we could fill a bus with those who owned 50 percent of the world’s wealth. Today, they are only eight people who own half the wealth of the world.
So the project of the oligarchy advances. Free trade, that is, the free flow of money and goods throughout the world, is the tool that serves this purpose, because it allows putting competing social systems of different countries of the world and thus to destroy the social protections which certain peoples had succeeded in gaining in high struggle. These social protections are based on solidarity within a people; solidarity between rich and poor through redistributive taxation and public services on the one hand and solidarity between the generations thanks to pensions on the other hand.
These social protection systems had been built within the framework of nation-States. In France, the Republic, One and Indivisible, must normally be the guarantor of solidarity between citizens. It is therefore naturally the nation-States that must be destroyed because it is the entities that are the most likely to oppose the project of the financial oligarchy. Everything else flows from it. How to destroy nation-States? By erasing the sense of belonging: destruction of the teaching of History, dilution of the national armies which constitute their immune defenses, etc.
You are a colonel in the French army. Do you think there is a slump in the army? What do you think of the words of General Pierre de Villiers, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces (CEMA) regarding the lack of means and the response of president Hollande who affirms the contrary?
The latest White Paper on Defense, dated April 29, 2013, is very clearly directed towards the drastic reduction of the immune defenses of our country. There was no reason to write a new book on Defense in 2013. No event had disrupted the geostrategic situation to the point of reconsidering our military strategy. The only objective was to dramatically reduce our military spending.
If the CEMA spoke as he did, he had good reason to do so. He knows his defense tool, he knows the constraints to which he is subjected; he must assume the missions that the political power imposes on him with the means that the same power entrusts to him. Between the CEMA and this president, I have more confidence in the CEMA on these issues.
You are a Gaullist, a convinced anti-Atlanticist and anti-European. Can you tell us what the usefulness of NATO is?
Since the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR, NATO has no longer any reason to be, in view of its initial strategic objectives. However, once the raison d’être of NATO disappeared, an existential crisis seized its executives. They have reformed its structure to adapt it to new missions, themselves arising from the emergence, real or fantasize, of a new threat: Islamism. In fact, NATO has become a tool at the service of US imperialism, itself at the service of the financial oligarchy’s project.
And we note that since the end of the USSR, NATO intervenes in several theaters of operation throughout the world, mostly to attack rather secular nation-States in the Arab-Muslim countries (Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.).
Like some of my participants, you draw attention or even ring the alarm against the privatization of the Defense in favor of a financial oligarchy. Can you explain that? Is the privatization of Defense an ultimate step in the process of destroying nation-States and their armies in favor of this oligarchy?
I develop this theme in my entitled conference: where goes the Defense of France? Indeed our defense tool, that is to say the immune defenses of France as a biological entity, is being privatized. Part of our Defense industry has come under foreign control, particularly Germany, including industries that fall within our exclusive sovereignty: M-51 nuclear missile, MUSIS satellite. Our military equipment will be « managed » by public-private « leasing » companies that will lease them to our armies. If we continue in this direction, in fifteen years, France will be defended by mercenaries. Then, we will be far from the Republican ideal and the icon of the Soldier of the Year II.
You call the intervention in Libya a crime against humanity. Do not Sarkozy, Cameron, Hillary Clinton and Obama deserve to be judged for crimes against humanity?
Of course, and the list does not end there. But History is always written by the victors. In order to these people, and others, to be summoned by a new Nuremberg court to answer for a crime against humanity, it would take a drastic turnaround.
You are one of the few senior officers who speak freely and courageously. Is not what you say aloud what other officers think in a low voice?
I do not have much contact with active soldiers. Sometimes I meet at a conference. The echoes that I perceive let me think that the military ask themselves a lot of questions, especially at the bottom of the hierarchy: non-commissioned officers, mostly subordinate officers. In fact, these are those who are confronted with reality on the ground, who have participated in OPEXs (external operations) and who question themselves about the real objectives of the operations in which they risked their lives.
I saw one of your speeches in which you say that the French president is appointed by « the Bureau of French Affairs » in Washington. Is France a vassal of the United States? Can we talk about democracy and sovereignty in France?
I said that in the form of a joke and somewhat provocative. It was a shortcut to say that the President of the French Republic was chosen from a pool of collaborators of the oligarchy. These collaborators have positions in all the so-called « government » parties. Thus, the media and polling institutes, which form the center of gravity of the political system under the orders of the oligarchy, impose the candidates among whom we must designate the chosen one. The emergence of « out-of-system » candidates is therefore extremely difficult, given the obstacle of the five hundred signatures and the regrouping of municipalities which place independent mayors under the control of political parties.
The French political system is thus locked. I think we are no longer in a democracy. Moreover, the last decision of Valls dated 5 December 2016, before leaving Matignon, to place the Court of Cassation, the highest judicial authority, under the control of the Government, leaves no ambiguity. At the end of its rope, this system does not even bother to save appearances.
General Wesley Clark said Daesh is a creation of the CIA and Mossad, General Flynn, current National Security Advisor to the White House, said that Daesh was created by the US and Hillary Clinton acknowledged that the US had created Al-Qaeda. Aren’t the terrorists of Daesh and Al Qaeda NATO’s objective allies? Aren’t these terrorist groups an alibi for the preservation of NATO?
These criminal organizations are, of course, a pretext for maintaining the existence of NATO, but they are also a tool to destroy the rather secular, autonomous Arab-Muslim countries, that is to say, capable of deciding for themselves, and possessing hydrocarbon resources and/or an interesting geostrategic position.
Can we say that NATO, armed wing of US imperialism, Daesh and Al Qaeda belong to the same matrix?
In a way, yes. They constitute the two sides of the same medal serving the same project. But it is not certain that the men who serve these organizations are aware of it, far from it. General Wesley Clark was the Commander-in-Chief of NATO (SACEUR) at the time of the war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999. And yet he is one of those who denounce today the drifts of this system.
By using terrorism against nation-states, aren’t US imperialism and its vassals dancing on a volcano, especially when the targets of these terrorists are not only Libya, Syria, Tunisia or Algeria but are today Europe and the world?
It is obvious. When the monster escapes the control of its creator, there is concern to be made. However, terrorists are known to us at the moment because we have recruited, trained, armed and financed them. In this case, we trained them well, since at every attack in our country, they carefully leave their identity papers at the crime scene, which facilitates the work of the investigators.
Are not Algeria and its army a potential target of this financial oligarchy?
Algeria was a target for the United States, which had deployed bases in Niger and Mali to survey its southern border. At the same time, there is a rapprochement between Algeria and Russia which should make it possible to strengthen the security of Algeria on the one hand and perhaps to offer points of anchorage to the Russian navy in the Mediterranean Sea on the other hand.
On the other hand, we must ask ourselves the question of who is behind the independence movement in Kabylia. Indeed, to fuel and even create regionalist independence movements is a mode of action of the oligarchy. It has been used in Kosovo and is an integral part of the strategy for the dismantling of European nations through the Europe of the Regions project.
Anyway, since the election of Donald Trump to the US presidency, things should change. Trump announced the end of US interference in the world. Let us wait to see what he will decide concretely and we will judge the actions.
Is there a real political will on the part of Western leaders to fight terrorism or will they continue to protect their terrorist friends? Aren’t the European populations victims of their own leaders?
I’m not in their heads. On the US side, things should change; Trump made it clear that he intended to fight Daesh and move closer to Russia in this fight. This will have consequences for Europe since we are undergoing this massive immigration caused by our own actions of destabilization of Libya, Syria and Iraq. If the United States and Russia join forces to eradicate Daesh, there will be positive consequences for Europe. However, false flag operations are still possible in Europe, especially in the run-up to elections. Things will really change when the European peoples will dismiss the current political classes.
Do you think possible a rapprochement between Russia and the United States? Are we not moving towards a new geopolitical order?
The rapprochement between the United States and Russia is very probable since it was part of Trump’s candidate program. It will be necessary to observe in what areas and to what extent it will materialize. We are witnessing a change in the geopolitical paradigm whose we are seeing contours drawing: a post-imperial world, which some call multipolar. This is, moreover, the subject of one of my lectures. Some « delighted of the crèche » (credulous) think that in this multipolar world Europe will form a geopolitical entity. I believe, on the contrary, that the European Union will disintegrate as the USSR did before it and that the nation-States of Europe will recover their popular and national sovereignty.
Is not the green Belt of Brzezinski a wall that cracks everywhere? How do you comprehend the Trump era?
Zbigniew Brzezinski noted that the strategy that he develops in his famous book « The grand chessboard » for a 21st American century will not happen. He wrote it in an article in The American Interest. I relate it in an article. The Trump era marks the beginning of the new geopolitical paradigm. Now, events should accelerate this paradigm shift: end of NATO, disintegration of the European Union, break-up of the euro zone.
You wrote a manifest book « France, get up! » Your book is a project for a sovereign and independent France of NATO and USA. Do you think that France will one day recover its sovereignty?
The exact title is « Get up« . France will regain its popular sovereignty. History is on march and we are witnessing the last bursts of the system to survive itself. It may take a couple of years, but I think in two or three years the transition will take place.
In this regard, the tactics of the system for the France is clear. Emmanuel Macron is a pure product of this consanguineous system, sponsored by Rothschild and Jacques Attali. It is in some way an « end of race » of the system. And it is presented as an antisystem candidate in a chemically pure semantic inversion that makes the amalgam between political party and system. So we’re seeing a system that goes to the end of itself. The project of the oligarchy is a second round Macron – Le Pen then a massive campaign of dam to the FN (National Front).
Are you optimistic about the future? Will the peoples thwart the intentions and plans of the world oligarchy?
In the long and medium term, I am quite optimistic. But do not take it into account, I am optimistic by nature. For it must be said that the oligarchy is very powerful. It is very rich and can therefore pay the best brains who agree to work for its profit. Against this, there is only a massive popular awareness that can make a blocking to it, frontally in the urns or simply by circumventing it by an alternative way of life that impoverishes it. If we boycott television, dominant radios, supermarkets, highways, stadiums and everything that helps to orient our desires, urges and ultimately our lives, then we will have a chance to be truly free, individually and collectively in restoring our popular sovereignty.
But we know that this system is violent and that it can rage if it feels on the decline. Then, one of the important questions is what attitude will have the praetorian guard of the system: police, gendarmerie, armies. It is, moreover, on this question that I conclude my book.
General Glavany told me one day, among other things, that in France, many politicians claim to be Gaullists whereas in reality they are atlantists. How do you explain this hypocrisy of politicians?
This is elementary political tactics. We refer to a great figure in the history of France to give oneself a little consistency, in thinking that this is legitimate since one is placed in a « political family » historically linked to the historical figure in question. But in reality, you serve the hand that feeds you, that of the bankers and the oligarchy.
When one uses a historical figure as a symbol, one must be careful because the symbols must be handled with precaution. In short, this tactic can work to some extent. But when the big gap is no longer bearable then the curtain tears. Sarkozy-the-traitor who goes to Glières, symbol of the Resistance; Hollande, the servant of the powerful, who poses, in black and white, in the restaurant at the exit of which Jean Jaurès was assassinated. All these manipulations have had the opposite effect of the one desired; the large gap was too large.
Today, true Gaullists are in the shadows, as they were under occupation. They are sans-culottes (French revolutionaries). They are ordinary people. The politicians who dare to refer on General de Gaulle are ridiculous. They inspire only disgust and contempt.
First, pilot in air defense squadron and flight commander on Mirage F1C in Cambrai, then commander of a reconnaissance squadron on Mirage F1CR in Strasbourg, he has carried out operational detachments in Chad, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. After a year at the General Inspectorate of the Air Force, he was posted to the Nancy-Ochey Air Base where he commanded the 3rd Fighter Squadron on Mirage IIIE and Mirage 2000D. This command put an end to the operational part of his career in the summer of 1995. From 1995 to 1996, he attended the Joint-services Superior War School. After graduating from the War School, he became head of the Operational Analysis Office at the Air Defense and Air Operations Command (CDAOA) and head of the Intelligence Department. After being appointed Head of Mission to the Major General of the Armed Forces General Staff, then Head of the Army General Staff’s Targeting Section, he was entrusted with the command of the air base BA 106 of Bordeaux-Mérignac. He left the Air Force in 2004 with the rank of colonel.
He is the author of « The Art of Air Warfare« , which received the 2005 Estrade-Delcros Award from the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and « Get-up« , an invitation to the French people to wake up, to stand up and not to be subjected to the yoke of a stateless class who planned its destruction.
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That blue. So vivid. The sky is just as vivid as the water 🙂 A well-composed centred shot.
It was so beautiful there, and the color very intense.
Actually chilly, no. Actually windy, yes, very much so.
Just right for what is here a grey, gloomy Saturday morning. Thanks for the sunshine and blue, very blue, skies.
It was a lovely spot, and a nice little boat ride as well.
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I Frederick William I of Prussia no rainy. Ny vadiny dia Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern. Ny rahalahiny sy/na ny rahavaviny dia Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Louisa Ulrika of Prussia, Princess Sophia Dorothea of Prussia, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Princess Friederike Luise of Prussia, Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Prince Henry of Prussia, Prince Augustus William of Prussia.
Voaova farany tamin'ny 30 Mey 2016 amin'ny 22:13 ity pejy ity.
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12/8/61 – I did not go to school. I was sick.
12/9/61 – I played. N (aunt) came over. At night her and B (uncle) came over. At Evenin (evening) Grandma came over.
12 10/61 – I played.
12/11/61 – I went to school I played. J (cousin) came over.
12/12/61 – I went to school. I played. J (cousin) came over.
12/13/61 – I went to school. I played.
12/14/61 – I went to school. I played.
12/15/61 – I went to school. I played.
12/16/61 – We went to twon (town). I bought Christmas presents. I played. We got our tree up.
12/17/61 – P (sister) went to the Doctor. I played.
12/18/61 – I went to school. P (sister) did not go. I played.
12/19/61 – I went to school. I played.
12/21/61 – I went to school. I played. It was open house. We visited school.
12/22/61 – I went to school. We looked at all the rooms. We had our party. I got a bank. a comb. a purce (purse). a kye (key) chain. I had fun.
12/23/61 – I went over grandmas. I played.
12/25/61 – It was Christmas. I got two balls, weveing (weaving) loom, purfume (perfume), How to draw a dog (a book), a babbette (a doll like Barbie, but not a Barbie…my cousin got a ‘real’ Barbie!), a suit case, concentrain (a concentration game), slippers, mossiken (moccasin shoes), pen, neclace (necklace) and bracelet.
12/26/61 – I went to twon (town). We played.
12/27/61 – I played. We went to the store.
12/28/61 – I went to twon town. I played.
The paper was flying, the place was a mess.
And outside the window, it’s beginning to snow.
I have to mail packages, to those far away. How long will it take – a week or three days?
There’s munchies to buy, and a dinner to plan…and what, oh what, can I get for the “man”?
The pets all need feeding, and what could be more? The neighbors are here, with a knock at the door.
They come bringing cheese balls, and cookies galore.
For today’s dVerse poetry prompt, we were asked to free-write for 9 minutes, about a time in your life. From these key words, jottings, and thoughts, we were to write our poem. I did add a few more words to the free-write, to finish. This poem takes place during the 60s and early 70s, a time I remember well.
This was written for dVerse poets. The suggestion was to write about stars.
We’ve always opened one present on Christmas Eve evening, the rest Christmas morning.
4. What is you favorite festive food?
Festive food? Probably home-made Christmas cookies, that we cut out and decorate.
5. Over the years, what has been your favorite Christmas Present?
6. What is your favorite Christmas scent?
Oh, I love them all. The scent of a fresh pine tree, when you run your fingers through the branches would be a favorite. We don’t get to have that scent here very often, so it’s special.
Other than opening one gift…not really. We used to have a couple of Bassett hounds, though. On Christmas Eve night, we’d take them for a walk around the neighborhood. We would also take a large door-hanger of huge jingle-bells to shake as we walked around. That was fun!
8. What is at the top of your Christmas tree?
We usually have had a star of some sort, or a tall, pretty ornament. We’ve used a Santa Hat, ribbons and bows, angels, and other whimsical things. Haven’t had a big tree in many years, though (the cats destroy them), so just have a tiny one on top of the TV shelf, now.
9. Do you like to stay in your PJs or dress up on Christmas Day?
I get dressed, because we usually have to go somewhere to meet relatives. If I get some new clothing or jewelry, I’ll wear that, too.
10. Do you prefer candy canes, or gingerbread men?
Candy Canes…peppermint has always been a favorite sweet for me.
Hope you enjoyed reading these! Thanks Tabby, for the suggestion!
The image in the photo just appeared on my computer monitor awhile back. It looks like a dog to me, so that’s what I call it…my Ghost Dog. … I don’t know, exactly when it came, but it is always there. It doesn’t matter how many times I clean the screen, it is still there. Anyway, I thought I’d ask it some questions today, just to see what comes into my mind.
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What happens to files after a redirect?
I just created a new portfolio site and am planning on having Dreamhost redirect my old site to my new site. What will happen to the files on the old site when I tell Dreamhost to redirect the old site to the new site? Will the files disappear?
No. You’ll have to remove them from the server yourself.
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have made California's hourly agricultural employees the only farmworkers in the nation to receive overtime pay after 40 hours a week or eight hours a day.
The bill's author, Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter (Kern County), blasted the veto. In a statement released by his office, Florez said the Republican governor sided "with a labor practice derived from the segregationist South," and that the veto means it is "acceptable to treat one class of people differently from all others."
"The governor had a chance to make history," said Florez, the son of farmworkers. "He had a chance to wipe a 70-year-old shame off the books of California. Instead, he has decided to side with the shameful."
Schwarzenegger, however, wrote in his veto message that agricultural work is different from other industries and noted that federal law exempts farmworkers from overtime altogether. The governor also wrote that he has signed other legislation that helped farmworkers, including a bill that increased the minimum wage, and noted that he worked with Florez to enact groundbreaking heat stress regulations.
"Unfortunately, this measure, while well-intended, will not improve the lives of California's agricultural workers and instead will result in additional burdens on California businesses, increased unemployment and lower wages," Schwarzenegger wrote.
The bill, approved by lawmakers on largely party-line votes, would have represented a fundamental shift in the way the state's estimated 700,000 agricultural workers are treated under the law. In addition to the overtime protections, SB1121 would have given the men and women who work in California's roughly 25 million acres of farmland the right to take one day off every seven.
Currently, farmworkers are only eligible for overtime pay after 60 hours a week or 10 hours a day; they have been exempt from labor protections enjoyed by millions of other California workers since 1941.
Farmers opposed the bill, saying it isn't fair to compare field workers to workers in other industries. They noted that farm laborers often put in long hours in the summer but are hard-pressed to get work during the winter months.
Farmworkers in California average $10.25 an hour, according to the nonprofit advocacy group Farmworker Justice.
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Anti-tank warfare refers to any method of combating military armored fighting vehicles, notably tanks. The most common anti-tank systems include artillery with a high muzzle velocity, missiles (such as wire-guided HEAT), various autocannons firing penetrating ammunition, and anti-tank mines.
Paks is a town in Tolna county, central Hungary, on the banks of the Danube River. Paks is the home of the only Hungarian nuclear power plant, which provides about 40% the country's electricity.
The .PAK extension is frequently used as an abbreviation of "package" and there are many different formats.
Pak Doko Walugo playing the Indonesian Rebab w/ Charlie Burgin (not in photo) processing his sound live.
Lemongrass & kaffir lime leaves are 2 essential ingredients in Thai cooking.
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Three bands displayed their talents in downtown Rock Island on Sept. 17 amidst storms and sirens.
Rozz Tox, a small cafe/ bar, is located next to Rooster’s on 3rd Avenue. The Last Glimpse, Model Stranger, and The Candymakers wowed the crowd with their music.
They got their start when vocalist/guitarist Steve Krug had been recording a solo project when Loder was a producer. After deciding to try to work together, they recruited drummer Dave Hughes and bassist Dayne Burton. More recently, they played a benefit at Rascals on Oct. 3 for their friend Chicken Boy.
You can catch The Last Glimpse at RIBCO (Rock Island County Brewing Company) on Oct. 28 when they play a Smashing Pumpkins tribute. That show will start around 9 PM.
The next act to hit the stage was Chicago-native Model Stranger, who was last in the Quad Cities on Feb. 19 at RME. This time, however, the band had a full cast as compared to the February show, which was part of the Imitation Act Tour. The Imitation Act Tour was in conjunction with the release of their EP Imitation Act.
Model Stranger is self-described as “psychedelic grunge”. They draw inspiration from Tom Petty to Pearl Jam. During the show, the drums lit up during some songs.
Model Stranger will be onstage at WIU-Macomb campus at 9:30 on Oct. 30 for the college’s Halloween party. Vocalist Stephen Francis attended WIU. The following night, the band will be in their home of Chicago at The Elbo Room at 8 PM for the 6th annual Elbo Room Halloween Party.
The final act of the night was The Candymakers, who are, as their facebook says, “funk/soul/blues, Rock n’ Soul music”. The band won the Iowa Blues Challenge in 2011. They’ve released two CDS’, the first in February 2012 and the second – titled Ridiculicious – in September 2014.
The band’s next show is Oct. 9 at Lefty’s in Des Moines at 9PM. There is a $5 cover charge to see them and Cedar County Cobras.
You can check out all three bands on their websites at thelastglimpse.com, modelstranger.com, and thecandymakers.com. You can buy merchandise as well as music on their sites.
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2019-04-21T02:43:59Z
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2019-04-25T14:46:20Z
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https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/joker-wallpapers-theme-ne/ghfbfanbomajoedfiobjgaggbobhepkp?hl=cs
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so, what is your relationship to the scale?
we are the heartbeat of the home.
we are the heartbeat of the world.
i see a woman’s Facebook status rejoicing that she’s lost 45 pounds, and multitudes are clicking “like” and it’s triggering me to check what i’m eating, to hop back on that anorexic train to skinny-ville.
and i think we can be more. more than our weight, more than our looks, more than our jean size, because i have two chubby-faced boys staring up at me as i write and they see me as so much more.
they see me as Mama. as nurturer, as creator of love and life and they see me as HOME. they see me as soother of fears, as prayer warrior, as getter-of-, as lover-of, as hugs.
they call me always, they never stop calling me, and they smile every time i enter a room. cry, when i leave, and one day, i will stop being their world, but they will never stop being mine.
i have a 52-year-old friend who is single, and stunning, and she wants to get married but God hasn’t opened that door and so she waits. pure, and holy, she waits. and she is one of the most radiant women i know because she is more. MORE than what the world says she is. MORE than single, she is steadfast and faithful and prayerful and devoted. she reads the Bible more than anyone i know, and God is currently using her to mentor fathers of daughters. every week, her living room is full of married men, and she helps them get back on track with their families. this single lady is not letting a stereotype define her.
we aren’t just the reflection in the mirror, friends. we are the reflection in our family’s faces. we are the reflection in our friends, in the people we disciple or mentor, in the face of the fast-food server, because how we treat others and ourselves is what we look like.
so i implore you, as bearers of life, as vessels of God’s creative spirit, be careful what you say on Facebook, be careful what you write on your blogs, be careful how you talk to your neighbors and your husbands and your friends and your children.
you are the heartbeat of the world.
It was that one remark from an unaware observer which regurgitated four more years of the same battle. Only this time, I was married, and my husband wasn’t able (or willing) to sit back and watch as I destroyed our lives in an attempt to fit the ‘perfect’ mold. And this time, I knew what I was doing.
I’d been through the routine before, and realized what I was risking: A wonderful, godly husband who loved me more than life itself; the hope of having children; a ministry to teenage girls who looked up to me, and most importantly, a maturing and fruitful relationship with my heavenly father….
This is a very hard post to write. Because I have to be real down to my toes, and then some. But here is goes.
I lost 20 pounds and kept most of them off. I dared to face the lady in the mirror. I even smiled at her without cringing. I took hundreds of women with me on this journey, and we worked with each other, speaking truth to our spirits, minds and bodies, attending to this shell we live in, and now we all stand up a bit taller, more accepting of who we are, less degraded by the media. I ought to be pleased with myself. I know my stuff. I’m successful at it.
I said it at least a thousand times: “Don’t let the scale talk to you; it plays mind games with you, it seeks to poison the very core of you. It tells you lies about who you are, what matters, what your future is, where your beauty stands.” And we all agree.
And then, I step on the scale.
And it feels like my world is coming to an end. I forget who I am. I forget what truly matters. I forget that I am uncommonly beautiful. Wonderfully becoming.
How can these three little numbers on the scale have such power on me? My feelings take a ride on a wicked roller coaster and I wind up sick to my stomach, and I throw up from the ride. I lose all common sense, and the numbers convince me that I have no hope and I might as well dive into those cookies I have not touched in two months and I don’t really like anyway. And while I eat those cookies that I don’t like and I am not even hungry, I decide that I am going to lose these last few pounds once and for all, even if it kills me.
And no matter how hard I try doing all the things that always worked before, the scale won’t budge for me. And I drive myself insane; I am the lady who teaches by example, you know. I not only talk the talk but I walk the walk. How am I supposed to continue if I myself can’t lose the weight?
I teach by example; I walk the walk. That’s what works.
Real when things go well, real when things don’t go as I want. Real life with its pretenses peeled away.
Humbling, nitty-gritty life. The kind of life where it might be necessary to put the scale in solitary confinement for a while so that I can work against the power of its numbers. The kind of life where I own to and accept gracefully the lady in the mirror, even when she doesn’t match up with the one in my head. The kind of life where I don’t give myself excuses, but I don’t lie to myself either, pretending that size is where my worth comes. The kind of life that fights against the incessant need to be admired. The kind of life that is fulfilled because of the here and now, and the God who sustains.
Wonderfully becoming. That’s what I am. May I continue to teach by example, aging gracefully without hiding. Ever.
mothers unite, and embrace yourselves!
i was eating key-lime pie and commenting on how good she looked, on her new shade of hair, and i mentioned that she’d lost weight, that she looked slimmer, and she glowed. the way mothers do when they’re told they’re beautiful, even as her teenage daughter walked by, her other three children milling the Christmas buffet at our family reunion.
we forget about the beauty of the sacrifice. sometimes i think it’s like the stomach we have left over, after giving birth. the stomach that sticks around, and it’s empty and lose and floppy, and we feel that way too. we forget about the beautiful, miraculous role which this stomach played. about the way it stretched taut around human life for nine months. about the home it made for heaven to come down and touch earth in the form of lips and eyes and limbs and heart.
and sure, we’re messy. we’re mothers. but there is a beauty in that mess. and i set down my key-lime pie (just for a second) and i took this woman by her shoulders, and i looked into her eyes, and i said, honey, you don’t need to lose anymore. this is the NEW YOU. claim your NEW BODY. we have been REBORN through the fetus that slid red and screaming from our womb, and we need to take pride in the us of TODAY.
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Have the faith to love simply in your heart; do what needs doing in a loving way; notice one’s own folly; smile at the human situation. We are all weak. we are all human. If we were not, love would be unnecessary. In effect, we change when we realize our weakness without losing sight of the love that enfolds us.
Here’s to walking the rest of today in my own shoes !
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I am told that we all have our own definitions of beauty. As individuals, we all see things differently and judge beauty in our own way. If that’s the case, why do so many of us feel that we aren’t beautiful? Why are we still given a standard to measure ourselves in order to feel beautiful which translates into feeling valuable? Why do so many put value on looks to the point that we now have several generations of women who feel less than valuable? Even those who match society’s standard of beauty continue to hunt down perfection in the form of weight loss, plastic surgery and beauty treatments. I have decided, I’m not interested. That is not the kind of beauty I want to pursue.
When I was five years old I had “plastic surgery” (I still think that is a better name then its sanitized replacement “cosmetic”). My parents had been told that the birthmark on my face needed to be removed before I went to school. Their reasoning had to do with the emotional harm it would do to have this brown mark on my lip. So sometime mid-kindergarten, I had a skin graft from behind my ear and the birthmark was removed. They “fixed” my imperfection…or so they thought. The graft didn’t heal properly and I was left with a raised scar. Sometime when I was six they tried to fix it but the result was a larger, red and noticeable mark on my upper lip made even more obvious by the missing cupids bow. So, instead of a natural mark on my face, I had an unnatural looking scar. This man-made attempt to make me more acceptable only served to make things worse. This caused countless questions along with ugly name calling from peers and adults (who often scrunched up their face as they questioned “What happened to your lip?!”). The scars left on the inside went unnoticed for years and my attempts to prove my worth only brought more distance between myself and those around me.
As I grew older, my weight became a constant struggle. I could have become thankful that now my face was acceptable when I would hear, “You have such a pretty face, you would be beautiful if you lost weight!”. The media, daily life and unfortunately church held no safe haven for a girl who wasn’t the “right” size. What I find “beautiful” is that although I weigh substantially more than I did then, I now know where my true worth and beauty come from. The magic number of pounds shed that I believed were going to add to my worth was a tiny percentage of what it would take now to reach that goal weight (or pinnacle of perfection) that alluded me for so long.
There are a thousand stories within this story but lets flip the pages ahead to the present. Where I am now, what I am learning and the joy that is filling my soul. I am much more settled in who I am because I know much better now, whose I am.
God is my only judge. He created me, He loves me and He gets to tell me if I am beautiful or not. If we judge beauty by societal standards, nobody will ever match up and we miss the Creator’s intent. We miss seeing His heart and we miss seeing His true beauty in ourselves and in others. We end up pursuing the unattainable and in that pursuit we are never satisfied, never filled up and for many, never able to grasp the intimacy that the One who created us intended to have with Him.
As I learn to abide in Him, in my Savior, my eyes will be on Him. His love for me will become more evident and His grace will not only flow to me, it will flow through me. When I am walking in His Spirit and grace, my responses to pressure, to life, to things that truly may be ugly will create beauty in the hearts of those around me.
Dear Friends, pursue Him. Pursue the One who makes all things beautiful! Follow hard after the Creator of all beautiful things! Not only will you see beauty, you will experience peace.
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News of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation rocked the Twitterverse this morning. Saying, "I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise," Pope Benedict will be the first pontiff to resign in six centuries.
Here's a round up of the shock, the speculation and the obligatory jokes.
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https://www.salon.com/2013/02/11/the_pope_resigns_twitter_reacts/
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A system and method is provided for acquiring, collecting, comparing and evaluating the condition of rental property at several time periods during a lease or rental agreement. A deposit amount that is returned to a rentee or owed by the rentee is determined by a computer or individual based on a comparison of the documentation provided by the rentee and/or renter at the start of the rental period to the documentation that is provided the end of the rental period. The documentation provided by the rentee and renter is time-stamped and imprinted with geo-location information if it is available.
This application is a continuation-in-part of and claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No. 12/541,390, filed Aug. 14, 2009, all of which is herein incorporated by reference.
The present invention relates to the field of renting property, including real and personal property. More specifically, the invention relates to the technical field of acquiring, comparing and evaluating property conditions at the start of the rental and at the conclusion of the rental period.
Renting is a part of life. It's something that many people experience at some point in their lives. The concept of renting may involve real property or personal property. With personal property, the cost of renting is usually less than the actual value of the property being rented.
A “renter” or “leasor” refers to a person, group of people or an entity that is renting or leasing real or personal property to another party, namely a rentee or leasee. A rentee or leasee refers to a person, group of people or an entity that is renting or leasing property from a renter or leasor. The renter must have a certain degree of trust in order to rent to a rentee. This is overcome for the most part through a security deposit. For example, when renting a power tool at a rental center, the renter may ask the rentee to leave an open credit card slip or may ask for cash or may simply ask for a driver's license. With real property rentals, there is also usually a security deposit in place in case of a skipped payment or excessive cleaning fees. Many people have their first experience with security deposits when they move away to college and need to rent a dorm room or apartment. As is often the case, the security deposit is paid but either a portion or all of the security deposit is not returned at the conclusion of the rental period.
Some common reasons that renters justify keeping this money is because of cleaning fees, missing items or simply items not being returned in the same condition that they were lent. For example if a renter claims that the rentee damaged the property, one way that a rentee can respond is to show evidence in the form of lists, marked diagrams, notes, pictures etc., all determined at in the beginning of the rental period. Often times, the rentee is not legally savvy enough or simply not conscientious enough to collect this evidence at the appropriate times. The end result being that the rentee loses part or all of the deposit.
Thus, there exists a need for a system and method of collecting this evidence at the appropriate times and securely storing the evidence. Furthermore, there exists a need to be able to determine an amount of the deposit based on a comparison between a condition of the rental property at the start of the rental period to a condition of the rental property at the conclusion of the rental period. As presently disclosed, this system will preferably be able to create a differential image(s) or a differential list, which cites or makes evident the differences in the two conditions. Even more, this system could also possess the ability to identify the items and evaluate the differences in conditions and the differences in price. This could also correlate to a percentage of any deposit amount that had been paid.
The present invention relates to methods for determining an amount of a deposit that will be returned to or owed by the rentee by evaluating conditions of the rental property at the commencement of a rental agreement to conditions of the rental property at the conclusion of the rental period. In some embodiments, determining the condition of the property may be implemented on a general purpose computer, system and/or server. In other embodiments, a rentee utilizes a camera or video recorder, a general purpose computer with internet connection and a website that contains secure personalized pages for different users. Additionally, a server computer (which may host the website) executes software for processing the information for determining the condition of the property at specific time periods.
One aspect of the invention provides a method for determining an amount of a deposit associated with rental property that will be returned to a rentee, the method comprising receiving and storing first documentation about condition of the rental property before a rental period, receiving and storing second documentation about condition of the rental property at termination of the rental period, comparing the first documentation to the second documentation to determine if there is any damage to the condition of the rental property, determining one or more deductions based on the resulting damage, and determining an amount of the deposit that will be returned to the rentee based on the one or more deductions.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one aspect of the present invention depicting an exemplary system for implementing the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a logic flow diagram of a method showing one aspect of the present invention, for determining the remaining deposit using document information.
Referring to FIG. 1, system 10 depicts a system that is used in determining property condition and for determining the remaining deposit that is refunded or owed. 20 is an image capture device or image capture system such as a digital camera, camera phone, VCR, digital video camera, analog video camera with an analog-to-digital converter, analog camera with an analog-to-digital converter, scanner, 3D scanner, or any device or system that is capable of capturing an image thru an optical lens and provides a digital representation of the image. A GPS receiver may also be optionally included in the image capture device 20.
Image capture system 20 may comprise one or more digital or analog cameras or video cameras arranged or configured to capture different views of rental property. In one embodiment, a photography station or booth may be set up to capture different views and angles of the outside of a rental vehicle. The rental vehicle could be driven into the photography station, and separate cameras would capture images of the front, back, two sides, top and bottom of the rental vehicle. Alternatively, a camera could be mounted to a robot where the camera would move around the rental vehicle and take separate shots or a continuous video of the condition of the rental vehicle. When the driver of the rental vehicle is checking out at the rental gate, the images could be printed out and provided to the driver. Alternatively, the images could be uploaded to the website of the company renting the vehicle which could be accessed by the driver via the internet. Another alternative is to have the images printed and put inside the rental vehicle so that driver could inspect the vehicle and make any special notations on the images. The images could then be scanned by the person at the rental gate so that the company would be aware of any condition issues before the driver exits the rental lot.
22 is a computer device, system and/or server that includes but is not limited to one or more processors or CPUs, hard disks, memory systems and devices, system buses, keyboards, display devices, and optional I/O ports such as Bluetooth, Wireless such as IEEE 802.11, VGA, SVGA, HDI, USB, Ethernet, Serial, Parallel and optional proprietary ports (all not shown). 22 can have any computer configuration, and can be an fixed location computer, or a moveable computer such as a laptop or an iPad. The CPU or processor is operatively connected to memory. The memory system or device(s) would contain one or more programs that are adapted to be executed by the CPU or processor. 22 includes a connection to the internet 24 such as a modem or local area network connection through which the internet 24 may be reached. 22 may optionally also be configured to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. As used herein, a server computer is a computer, or series of computers, that link other computers or electronic devices together. They often provide essential services across a network, either to private users inside a large organization or to public users via the internet.
Computer 22 and image capture device 20 may be separate devices and systems. However, in alternative embodiments, computer 22 and image capture device 20 may be integrated into one system or one device, such as a phone or a digital camera, for example.
24 depicts the internet. The internet 24 includes any and all switches, routers, hubs, modems, cable modems, wireless access points, computers, servers, and all wired or wireless connections and any other devices, physical connections (wires) or wireless connections that enable a connection to and throughout the internet. The internet also includes a global system of interconnected computer networks that use protocols to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.
26 is a computer device, system and/or server that comprises similar components as computer 22. 26 connects to the internet 24 and one or more databases 28. 26 may optionally also be configured to operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Optionally, in such cases, multiple hard drives may be implemented in a RAID configuration and other configurations for heat dissipation and power may be used as is known in the art of server computers. 26 may be configured and/or optimized to execute a web server such as a Microsoft IIS Server, or Apache Server.
28 is a computer device, system and/or server such as in 22 and 26. 28 may be configured and/or optimized to also execute, for example, a database program such as MySQL, Oracle, SQL, or any other database software program on the market. 28 is an optional computer because 26 may be configured to also execute a database software program. Although server 26 and database 28 are shown separately in FIG. 1, server 26 and database 28 may be combined into a single unit, device and/or system.
22, 26 and 28 may be a single or multiple computer devices, systems and/or servers. For example, 22 may comprise a single computer device, system or server, while 26 may comprises multiple servers 26. In another example, 22 may comprises multiples servers and 26 may also comprise multiple servers. If multiple computer devices, systems and/or servers are used, such devices, systems and/or servers can be local and/or remote to each other.
12, 14, 16, and 18 are communications links. Data messages from or to any of the elements 20, 22, 26, and 28 may travel on a wire (landline) or wirelessly. Communications links 12, 14, 16 and 18 in some embodiments are wired communications links and can include analog, digital and optical links. In some embodiments, communications links 12, 14, 16, and 18 may be standard wireless cellular phone connections as is known to those skilled in the art. In other embodiments, communications links 12, 14, 16 and 18 may be EV-DO, GPRS or other data links across a cellular communications network.
In another alternative embodiment, communications links 12, 14, 16, and 18 may be standard Ethernet communications links. In each of the communication links 12, 14, 16, and 18 embodiments, described herein there may be switches, routers, hubs and servers, not shown in FIG. 1. Depending on the type of communications links 12, 14, 16, and 18 selected, the elements 22, 26, and 28 will have the necessary hardware and software to communicate across the selected type of communications links 12, 14, 16, and 18. Communications links 12, 14, 16, and 18 may all or partly be secure links and may use encryption. Communications links 12, 14, 16, and 18 may be any combination of link type described above.
FIG. 2. depicts a process or method 200 for determining a deposit that will be returned or refunded to the rentee, or that will be owed by the rentee at the conclusion of a rental period using information provided by the rentee and/or renter. The process may be performed, for example, by the system shown in FIG. 1. For example, the process elements in FIG. 2 may be executed individually or in combination with an image capture device 20, general purpose computer 20, server computer 26, or database computer 28. In other words, any of the process elements in FIG. 2 may be executed on any of the elements in FIG. 1, individually or in combination.
The method or process 200 shown in FIG. 2 is applicable to all types of personal or real property rentals. This includes, but is not limited to, vehicles, cars, airplanes, trucks, sport utility vehicles, vans, buses, train cars, boats, motel rooms, hotel rooms, rooms in cruise ships, apartments, condos, cabins, houses, stores, offices, any other place that may be for rent/lease, and all types of personal property such as household or business devices or items, gardening tools, building tools, moving tools and every other tool, furniture, device and/or item that a party may offer for rental or lease, The method or process 200 of FIG. 2 is also applicable to long (e.g., monthly, yearly) or short term rental periods (e.g., daily, weekly).
The method or process 200 of FIG. 2 and of method 300 of FIG. 3 are also applicable when the deposit consists of an amount of money (that is either paid upfront or over a period of time), or when there is no deposit (e.g., no deposit is typically required for renting a rental car) or the deposit is zero. When the deposit is equal to zero or when the deposit is insufficient to cover the damages made by the rentee to the rental property, then any damage that is found at the conclusion of the rental period will be owed by the rentee.
In block 210, a rental of personal or real property commences. This usually occurs after the terms of the rental agreement have been agreed to (and signed if a written agreement) between the renter and the rentee, including upfront deposit, rental period and what is being rented, and after the appropriate deposit or payment has been made. For example, a rentee rents an apartment and moves in or executes a lease or rental agreement on a certain date. In alternate embodiments, this could also indicate a move-in date for a mortgaged property (ie. house, store, etc.), a rental date for personal property, such as the date a rentee rents a power tool, or the commencement of a lease.
In some embodiments, in the commencement of the rental may also indicate that an account is created for the rentee and initial information about the rentee is entered, uploaded and/or stored into a computer server by the process. The server receiving this information may be associated with the entity providing the rental or may be associated with an independent company, such as www.Renti.com for example. Information that is uploaded and stored in server 26 includes, but is not limited to, items such as the original security deposit amount (a fixed, varying or zero amount), the rentee's name, address and other contact information, deposit amount, start and termination dates of rental period, whether rental payment is one time, weekly, monthly, yearly, when the rental agreement was signed, and any other information that may be helpful in identifying the rentee or renter. The actual signed rental agreement may be uploaded and stored on the server 26. Block 210 is an optional block and may not be included in all embodiments where the presently described system and method are used.
In another example, suppose rentee is renting a condo from a multinational company with condos all over the world. Before the rental period begins, the company creates an account in its servers for the rentee or as provided by an independent website/company. The account may include an account name and an initial password. The company stores basic information about the company and the condo being rented, including for example, the company's name, address, contact information, a layout of the condo, the general condition of the condo, and images of the condo as taken by the company prior to the rental period to rentee. When the rentee logs on, the rentee can access the information previously stored by the renter prior to the rental period and store additional information including images as provided in method 200.
In block 220, a rental inspection of the rental property is performed by the rentee. Block 220 is performed at the beginning and end of the rental period. Block 220 also may be performed at any time during the rental period. Block 220 may include determining which conditions will need to be documented. The type of documentation may include fixed images, video and/or written documentation. The inspection may be random or ordered according to some type of a checklist, a step by step inspection list, or any other way that a rentee would inspect the rental property. The inspection may also be computerized and may prompt the rentee to do specific tasks, or alternatively, may prompt the rentee via rentee's phone to execute a series of tasks, having prompts for answering any questions that may be posed.
At the beginning of the rental period, the renter may provide the rentee with a list of problems that would result in some type of deduction from the deposit. The list may show a percentage deduction or a flat rate deduction from the deposit. For example, the list may show that a carpet stain having a diameter of under a foot would have a deduction of $50, a carpet stain having a diameter of over a foot would have a range of deduction from $100-$500, while multiple stains of over a foot would mean 50% deduction from the deposit. This list will help the rentee to understand what type of damage to the rental property corresponds to a larger deduction. The rentee then can try to avoid damage to the rental property where there is a larger deduction.
In the preferred embodiment, the rentee randomly shoots images of the rental property using a camera or video camera 20. There are no specific guidelines provided by the renter. The images shot by the rentee can be of any angle of the rental property and are then uploaded to the server and time-stamped in block 230.
In another embodiment, the rentee may be provided general or specific instructions or suggestions by the renter on what to take and how to document the initial condition of the rental property at the beginning of the rental period. The instructions may include a written or electronic checklist, step by step instructions or any other types of guidance. These instructions may also include instructions about what images to take, where to stand, and which direction to point the camera. For example, the instructions may show a layout of the rental property, what location to stand as designated by a series of numbers (the first number representing the first location that the rentee should stand), and an arrow pointing in the direction that the image should be taken. Multiple images may be taken by the renter and all or some of these images will be uploaded to the server.
In another embodiment, the rentee may fill out a check list indicating the condition of rental property or each of the items being rented. For example, in the real property rental example, the rentee may indicate stove [not working], refrigerator [OK], carpet stains master bedroom [yes]. These responses may be checked off on a sheet of paper, and then they are scanned and uploaded to server 26 in block 230.
In another embodiment, such as involving the rental of real property (e.g., apartment, condo or house), the renter would provide the rentee with a handheld computer and camera unit (CCU) that has GPS capabilities and is capable of being wirelessly coupled or connected to the server 26. The CCU may be a single device that combines the capabilities and functions of the image capture device 20 with a computer 22, or may be similar to an iPad which is coupled to a camera. The server 26 would then prompt the rentee via the CCU to physically move to specific locations throughout the rental property using commercially available GPS location techniques and applications, and to take pictures in a certain direction or orientation. The resulting images or some set thereof taken by the rentee would then be uploaded to the server.
In a similar example of a rental of real property, instead of providing the rentee with a CCU, the renter would obtain the phone number of the renter's smart (cell) telephone or hand-held computer such as an iPad. The smart phone and/or hand-held computer would also need GPS and camera functionality. Either the server would initiate the call to the rentee or the rentee would call a phone number associated with the server. Whereupon a connection between the server and the smart phone, an application would be initiated and executed on the smart phone, Similar to the above example, the server would prompt the rentee's smart phone to move to specific locations throughout the rental property to take photos, upon which the photos would be uploaded to the server.
In another embodiment, a checklist could be provided by the computer device or server where the rentee provides answers to questions. The computer device would ask for example whether the refrigerator was working, and would provide a yes/no prompt to the rentee to answer. The computer device would then prompt whether there was any damage to the refrigerator, providing a yes/no prompt to the rentee to answer. These prompts would cycle through every room of the rental property, providing an easy way for the rentee to record if there were any issues with the rental property. If a major problem was noticed, the computer device may prompt for an image to be taken with an image capture device and may even provide notice to the renter about the need for scheduling a repair. The answers to the questions and any images taken would be uploaded to the server in block 230.
In yet another embodiment, an outline of the rental property would be provided to the rentee, either in written form or some type of computerized document. The rentee would place/select a number where there were problems and then write/enter a brief description of the problem which would be associated with the number. If a computerized outline was used, a bubble may pop-up, where such pop-up could then be filled-in with a description of the problem. The computerized outline may also provided a list of common problems which could be selected.
In the example of the rental of a car, the rentee may drive in to the photography station or booth where cameras will take images of the car. The images would be uploaded to the server and possibly to the rentee's cell phone or computer. When the rentee stops at the rental gate for verification, the images taken by the photography station could optionally be provided to the rentee as verification of the condition of the rental vehicle at the start of the rental period.
As can be seen from these examples, there are may different ways to perform an inspection of the rental property. It ranges from simple notations on a piece of paper, taking images of the rental property to computerized interactions. The information that is gathered and used by the rentee to document the condition of the rental property is referred to as “documentation”. Documentation may include all forms and all types of electronic or written documentation as well as any images (still/video) that may be taken of the rental property.
A rental inspection will most likely be performed at least twice, once upon the start of a rental agreement and once upon terminating or ending a rental agreement. However, a rental inspection can occur at any time during the term of the rental period. For example, another inspection can occur after a flood or hurricane or other significant event. The renter may also perform an inspection of the rental property before it is rented and at the conclusion of the rental period. There may be two sets of documentation, one set from the renter and one set from the rentee.
In block 230, the documentation from block 220 are received by the server and/or database. In some embodiments this is performed image capture device 20 uploading the documentation via computer 22 to the server and/or database. In alternate embodiments, electronically formatted documents such as word documents, adobe PDF documents, CSV documents, text documents, or responses to an electronic questionnaire delivered by computer 22 via a website hosted on server 26 or database 28.
Once the documentation is received in block 230, it is time stamped with the date and time that it is received by the server and/or database. If geolocation information is available on the device that shot the images and/or video, then this information is also provided and stored in the server and/or database. Having the images and documents time-stamped helps to prevent fraud. The renter cannot claim that the damage to the rental property did not exist if the images shot by the rentee at the beginning of the rental period shows such damage. Geolocation information in relation to real property for rent, will help to verify that the images/video taken pertain to the rental property and not to property that is not subject to the rental agreement (i.e., property that is identical to the rentee's rental property but is not the rental property that actually is the subject of the rental agreement).
The documentation may be permanently stored in the server until after the conclusion of the rental period and the calculation of the deposit. By preventing the time-stamped documentation from being erased or deleted, it will help protect the renter and rentee in a fair and equitable resolution to any disputes about condition of the rental property and determination of the deposit.
In block 240, method 200 waits until there is another inspection or the rental period has been terminated. If the rentee wants to perform another rental inspection, which may include documentation and/or images, then method 200 returns to block 220 where the rental inspection 220 is performed as described above. The rentee/renter can perform as many rental inspections during the term of the rental period, if there are conditions that have changed to the rental property and are conditions that the rentee would like to document. At the conclusion of the rental period, it is preferred that the final rental inspection would be performed by the rentee. However, the renter may perform the final rental inspection if the rentee was unable or unwilling to do so.
After the final rental inspection has been performed and the rental period has ended, block 250 compares the documentation at the start of the rental to documentation at the end of the rental. The comparison can be manually performed by the renter, a third party who may or may not be independent, or it may be computerized. Any documentation that was previously received can be compared by the process 200 and the results returned to the server/computer, the rentee and/or renter. For example, documentation at the start of the rental will be compared to documentation at the end of the rental period. Additionally, the results of the comparison could be sent to a landlord, rentee, title company, attorney or interested third party or any combination of the above via an email, electronic alert or snail mail.
When the renter and rentee both provide documentation at the start and end of the rental period, the comparison also involves making an accurate determination of the rental property at different time periods by resolving discrepancies between the documentation provided by the renter and rentee. For example, when determining the condition of the rental property at the start of the rental period, the computer system may look for documentation that is as close as to the date of the start of the rental. If the renter provided documentation that dates to two months before the start of the rental; while the rentee provided documentation that dates to one day before the start of the rental. The system, computer or server would determine that more credence should be given the rentee's documentation since the date of the documentation is closer than the date of the renter's documentation. Similarly, at the end of the rental period, if there are discrepancies between the documentation provided by the renter and rentee, the system would have to resolve what damage was actually caused by the rentee or the renter. Resolving these discrepancies is key to finding a fair and equitable solution to the amount of the deposit to return to the rentee and having enough money to repair or replace the damage to the rental property.
The results of the comparison would provide information and details about what damage has occurred to the rental property. The results may be in the form of a list or table, detailing the amount of damage, the location of the damage, whether such damage is minor or major, and indicating or highlighting portions of an image to support the damage claim.
In some embodiments, document comparison comprises comparing responses to a check list. For example, if the process receives a rental property checklist the day a tenant/rentee moves into a property and then receives the same rental property checklist from the property manager upon the end of the rental period then the process will compare the responses for each item. Specifically, if the tenant/rentee indicates in the rental property check list, on the move in date, that the refrigerator is OK on the check list then the process will compare the status of the refrigerator for the document that was received by the process at the end of the rental period from the rental property manager. If the property manager indicates the refrigerator as broken then the compare process will flag this difference and store this difference in a memory. In alternative embodiments, many documents may be stored in server 26 or database 28 and used as a baseline in comparing documents.
In another embodiment, the comparison may be performed by the server/computer. In the case of a checklist, the server/computer would be able to compare the answers by the rentee and renter to determine what had changed. The differences would be noted for the next step 260. In the case of images and video, the server/computer would first align images that are alike, and then determine if noticeable damage can be found. If so, the differences would be noted and sent to the rentee and the renter. There is commercially available software for comparing images, including for example, Merge by Araxis, Image Comparer by Bolide Software and Abonsoft Image Compare.
In block 260, when damage is found to the rental property, a deduction or value is assigned for each occurrence of damage to the rental property. Block 260 also calculates the total deductions and the resulting deposit to be refunded or amount owed. In some embodiments, each item in a rental property checklist may be stored in a database such as database 28. Additionally, standard amounts for damage to each item may also be stored in database 28. For example, one item may be a refrigerator. If a difference is flagged for the refrigerator, in block 250 then a standard sum of money such as $100.00 may be automatically deducted from the security deposit. For example the deposit refund is determined by subtracting $100.00 from the original security deposit that was paid by the tenant/rentee. In this example block 260 may also automatically pay the remaining deposit refund via an electronic payment service such as PayPal or check may be made out to the tenant/rentee for the remaining deposit amount and sent via snail mail.
The deduction or value assigned to each occurrence of damage to the rental property may be a flat rate or a percentage of the total deposit. These value are then summed and subtracted from the deposit. The remaining amount after the subtraction is the deposit that will be returned to the rentee. In some case, the damages may exceed the deposit, where the rentee will receive no deposit and may be forced to pay an additional amount to reimburse for the excessive damages.
FIG. 3. depicts a process 300 for determining the remaining deposit using image information. The process may be performed, for example, by the system of FIG. 1. For example, the process elements in FIG. 3 may be executed individually or in combination with an image capture device 20, general purpose computer 20, server computer 26, or database computer 28. In other words, any of the process elements in FIG. 3. may be executed on any of the elements in FIG. 1. individually or in combination. Block 310 is similar to block 210 and will not be discussed again.
In block 320 a rental inspection is performed. This is similar to what was described in relation to block 220 of FIG. 2. In some embodiments, a rentee may perform a rental inspection by using an image capture device 20 to capture images of the rental property. A rental inspection may be performed at least twice, once at the beginning of the rental period called a first image or first set of images and then later upon termination or end of a rental agreement called a second image or second set of images.
In block 330, the images captured from block 320 are received by the server and/or database. In some embodiments this is performed by taking digital pictures and uploading them via a computer to a website. In some embodiments geotagging, time and date information may be included with the images stored in server and/or database. Block 330 is similar to what was described in block 230 of FIG. 2.
In block 340, the images are geotagged, time and date stamped if this information is not already included with the stored images. In some embodiments the geotagging process comprises using software such as the OziPhotoTool which can be found at http://www.oziphototool.com. In other embodiments the geotagging process may be embedded into an image capture device 20. The time and date stamping process usually occurs within an image capture device 20 but may also be performed by software executable separate from the image capture device 20.
In block 350, the images are compared by server/computer/database. In some embodiments, this is performed digitally using a pixel scanner. It can also be performed using an optical sensor or any other techniques known in the art. In other embodiments, the image comparison may be performed by software known as Compare Suite by AKS-LABS (http://www.comparesuite.com). Once the images are compared, they are sorted so that a person may compare the sorted images. Each of the sorted images is compared to each other to determine the before and after images. For example, in a real property rental the rentee will capture one or more first images upon move-in, then these first images will be compared to second images of the same items upon termination of the lease. If there are differences between the images, then these differences are flagged. This may be a manual process (as performed by a person who looks and examines the photographs) or may be computerized. In alternative embodiments, the previous captured images may be stored in server 26 or database 28 and used to form a baseline to be used in the comparison.
In block 360, the appropriate deposit can be calculated and returned to the rentee. In some embodiments, each item in a rental property image list may be stored in database 28. Additionally, standard amounts for damage to each item may also be stored in database 28. For example, one item may be a refrigerator. If a difference is flagged for the refrigerator, in block 350 then a standard sum of money such as $100.00 may be automatically deducted from the security deposit. For example the deposit refund is determined by subtracting $100.00 from the original security deposit that was paid by the tenant/rentee. In this example block 360 may also automatically pay the remaining deposit refund via an electronic payment service such as PayPal or check may be addressed to the tenant/rentee for the remaining deposit amount and sent via snail mail.
A college student rents an off campus apartment for the semester. Before moving in all her belongings, she uses her smart phone to take pictures of the inside of the apartment, including the walls, flooring, cabinetry, appliances, and any furnishings. She then logs on to a secure website and uploads her images to her account. The system stamps or records the time and date that the images were shot and incorporates the location coordinates based on the address provided by the student or via an integrated GPS unit. At any point, the student can view her profile and input the amount of her security deposit that was paid to her landlord. At the end of the semester, she again takes pictures of the same places and objects to record any changes in condition. The system can suggest an amount of security deposit that could be retained by her landlord. She may also choose to allow access to the images to her landlord, family or a legal advisor.
A family purchases their first house that has just been built. They call a professional who works for the business using the disclosed system to come out periodically and record the progress of the construction. The professional brings a camera that can geo-tag and time-date stamp the images at the moment they are taken. Later, the images are uploaded to the families account. Five years later, the family has flooring that buckles up from the ground. The builder alleges that the family caused the damage by excessively watering their yard. The family can then use images from the construction to show that an adequate water barrier was never laid under the foundation.
determining an amount of the deposit that will be returned to the rentee based on the one or more deductions.
the at least one image of the first documentation and the second documentation corresponding to a similar view of the rental property.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising comparing the at least one image of the first documentation to a corresponding one of the at least one image of the second documentation to determine if there is any damage to the condition of the rental property.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first documentation includes a first video of the rental property and the second documentation includes a second video of the rental property.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising comparing the first video to the second video to determine if there is any damage to the condition of the rental property.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first documentation includes a first checklist, and the second documentation includes a checklist about the condition of the rental property.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising comparing the first checklist to the second checklist to determine if there is any damage to the condition of the rental property.
comparing the first documentation from the renter and from the rentee to the second documentation from the renter and the rentee to determine if there is any damage to the condition of the rental property at the termination of the rental period.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the deductions are flat rate deductions or based on a percentage deduction of a total amount of the deposit.
10. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining the amount of the deposit that will be returned to the rentee by subtracting one of more of the deductions from the deposit.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving third documentation from the rentee about the condition of the rental property at some time after the start of the rental period and before the termination of the rental period.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising comparing the first documentation, the second documentation and the third documentation to determine if there is any damage to the condition of the rental property.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the first documentation and the second documentation are time-stamped with a date and a time of when the first documentation and the second documentation are received.
14. The method of claim 1, wherein the method is performed by a computer, a system or a server.
15. The method of claim 1, wherein the comparing step is performed by a person.
16. The method of claim 1, wherein the first documentation and the second documentation include one or more images that are time-stamped when received by a server.
17. The method of claim 1, wherein the first documentation includes at least one electronic document and at least one image, and the second documentation includes at least one electronic document and at least one image.
determining the remaining deposit amount by subtracting the values from the deposit.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the method is performed by a computer, a system or a server.
20. The method of claim 18, wherein the step of determining whether the differences between the first images and the second imaged correspond to damage of the rental property is performed by a person.
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I have some things i want to work on again, so trying to setup a server again.
setlang.bml works fine if you hit submit, but before that, and on ever other page, i get ?lang?
Also, on an unreleated note, which debian module has MIME::Words?
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https://lj-dev.livejournal.com/392434.html
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A selection of papers will form a special edited collection, following the conference. A noted publisher has expressed interest in publishing an academic edited collection which will feature papers from practitioners and scholars and seek to blend theory and practice on the subject of Trailblazing Women On and Off Screen. It will be edited Lucy Brown and Dr Lee-Jane Bennion–Nixon.
Please submit abstracts of 300 words maximum together with a short author biography (100 words) to http://bit.ly/2EcO9e9 by 5th March 2018. We will notify applicants by 23 March 2018.
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Once upon a time I had a site called Banishedman, but alas i let the domain fall under a wicked spell of expiry back in 2014.
Because I’m on bard pay, I cannot pay the ransom to take back my domain,also the costs of the domain came with little benefits for one as idle as I.
Now here I the Banishedman stands or rather blogs quite contentedly , resurrected as the TrashcanBard.
Oh well, I guess I will leave the haiku to you.
Thanks again for the like!
Oh, a fellow trashcan poet…loved it!
Thank you for your interest on my blog and I look forward to following yours! I love the Haiku I’ve read so far.
I’ll be back. And feel free to swing by my place if you get a chance.
I always like Oscar, the muppet who lives in the trash can on Sesame Street. I guess I like trash talk. Keep it up!
Sorry to hear that mate. Starting from scratch but dont waste your talent.
they shall never silence thee.
I like your written works and the resurrection is totally amazing!
Ressurection is God’s love. It’s free. Grab it!
A sad tale, but not a terminal tale. Forgive me.
Ha ha! I like that.
Best of luck in this new locale. I hope you will find that it suits you well.
Nice site! The hermit brought me in with the sound of his lonely echo. What’s not to like in a trashcanbard?!
Love your ‘can’did humour trashcanbard. 🙂 It is a happy ending for a sad story.
That is sad… Trashcanbard is a great name though.
Trashcan Bard sounds so much more romantic. Thanks for the visit and liking Marguerite (a movie review). Do come again and I will be coming back too. You’re truly a bard indeed.
P.S. Thanks for your visit to wordverseuniverse, and your Like 🙂 The pace is seriously slow there.
I look forward to following your tidings.
I’m glad you found another way to keep it up. Thank you for stopping by!
And very welcome your return.
Neat blog you have here my friend. Just wanted to say thank you very much for kindly visiting my own, much appreciated. I shall be returning.
Many thanks. I will be happy to take you up on your offer.
Thanks for visiting kingspeech bg….
You’ve fand a new home @ WordPress. So, welcome ! and Stay Tuned !
Your blog looks good as it is!
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https://trashcanbard.wordpress.com/about/
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Here is the latest (I believe) update from the JKF-Wadokai hombu for the upcoming UK JKF-Wadokai Master’s course with Takagi Sensei et al. (We haven’t modified any of the files from the original email sent to us).
Not everyone can open the MS Excel folder with the Dan Grade syllabus info so I’ve included it (Here – JKF-Wadokai Dan Grade September 2013) in an MS word file.
Please contact us if you can’t open any of the above files and we’ll do our best to help. Good Luck to all those who will be grading at the end of the month.
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2019-04-21T01:26:11Z
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https://hartlepoolwadokai.wordpress.com/tag/masters-course/
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Being in Sierra Leone is like a never-ending SAT study session: dogged exercises that strain the mind and knowing that there’s really no point in resisting cause what has to be done will – and whether you like it or not, problems will jump out, for which no amount of preparation you’ll be properly equipped .
Last week on our way back from the shelter at Kissi Town we got into a small accident. Small for us, but a bit more severe for the people behind us. Ashley, Jon, and I were sitting in the back seat of a poda-poda, the 18th, 19th, and 20th person to be jammed into the vehicle. We were temporarily stopped to let out a passenger when we heard a loud crash. We turned to see another poda-poda barreling towards us. Oh great. In milliseconds, reflecting on family, God, how-in-the-world-am-I-going-out-before-Castro?, and a few books I’d always wanted to read. Fortunately, the poda-poda had lost much of its speed, so we only sustained a moderate jolt. Wails of hysteria went up from our vehicle and we piled out of the van like clowns on a circus floor.
We quickly learned a car had tried to overtake a huge truck, which slammed on its breaks in seeing a slowed poda-poda in back of ours. Everyone involved was okay, except one man who stumbled out of the truck with the bridge of his nose split open. His eyes were shocked saucers and blood dripped down his shirt and pants. Ashley yelled, “Pressure, pressure!” and a man put a rag to his head. He was put into a poda-poda and taken to the hospital; I was surprised with the speed it all happened. We all piled back into our vehicle and couldn’t help but turn our heads at every screech and horn honk for the duration of the trip. Thankfully, that has been our first accident in Sierra Leone. Breakdowns, however, are par for the course.
Meanwhile, progress at the shelter is going well! The last week and a half have been especially busy with finalizing fund allocations, drafting of necessary documents, and co-coordinating project completion, both at the shelter and at the farm.
At the school/shelter, bunk beds are almost complete. They will provide proper bedding for all 32 students and the shelter, many for whom this is the first bed in their life. Toilet construction is also underway: the 16-foot pit has been dug and we are finalizing estimates for construction of the toilet structure. Our primary goal for this trip was to make improvements for the student living conditions and it is a blessing to see our donated funds take shape in tangible ways.
Ashley did much research prior to our trip about solar lights and we were able to bring two such lights for the shelter. A small crowd of children, teachers, Reverend Spencer, and distant onlookers with baskets on their heads watched as we instructed use of the solar plate and the charging process. This will lessen the need for kerosene lamps, which cause respiratory problems in children and adults. We hope to supply more of such lights in the future as they are unavailable here.
The agriculture project continues to do well. 4 acres of land have been cleared using a method called intercropping. As you can see from the pictures, trees are not completely cut down, allowing for regrowth and prevention of erosion. Crops planted are the following: peppers, eggplants, potatoes, corn, groundnuts (like peanuts), cassava, rice, pumpkin, okra, and pineapple. Abdul Smith, the head farm laborer, consulted farmers in the area and decided that diversifying the crop types will result in greater selling profits. Moreover, as we are now using donated land near the school for agriculture classes and food for the students, we can focus the profits at the farm for school/shelter improvements and food for the children. The Ministry of Land recently visited the farm to commend the work being done with the agriculture project.
At the end of this month, under the supervision of Compassion First volunteer, Jon Fjeld, Makripodis Secondary School/Fountain of Mercy Shelter will embark on an Okada Service (Okada = Nigerian word for motorcycle taxi). This Okada will operate in the Freetown Peninsula and is hoped to bring in significant profits for the school and shelter.
With the agriculture project and now the Okada service, we hope to help the school/shelter move further towards self-sufficiency and sustainability.
a real generator of income!!! So happy about each of the bunk beds, do they have mattresses? What a blessing for all of the kids!!!! PTL!
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0%79°51°Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds from SW to WSW at 9 to 13 mph (14.5 to 20.9 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C).Partly cloudy with a high of 76 °F (24.4 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 12 mph (11.3 to 19.3 kph).
60%71°59°Scattered thunderstorms today with a high of 71 °F (21.7 °C) and a low of 59 °F (15.0 °C). There is a 60% chance of precipitation.
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Tonight - Mostly cloudy. Winds from SW to WSW at 9 to 13 mph (14.5 to 20.9 kph). The overnight low will be 65 °F (18.3 °C).
Today - Partly cloudy with a high of 76 °F (24.4 °C). Winds variable at 7 to 12 mph (11.3 to 19.3 kph).
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Everything you need to know before studying in the Sweden – education system, visa requirement and process, Indians living in Sweden, post-study options and more.
In Sweden a degree and a course mean two different things. A degree program at a Swedish university will be made up of many courses leading to a specific degree. Courses are the smaller building blocks upon which each program is based. During each semester students follow one large course or several smaller courses.
The autumn session in Netherlands runs from late August until June the following year. Spring session begins from mid-January to early June. Some universities may have enrollments throughout the year as well.
Popular student destinations: The top universities in Sweden are Lund University, Stockholm University, Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University, in no particular order. Most of the best colleges in the country are situated in cities like Stockholm and Gothenburg.
The estimated number of Indian students in Sweden right now is more than 2000 for the academic year 2015-2016. Engineering, Technical courses, Business Studies, Social sciences and Design are the popular courses Indian students pursue in Sweden.
Safety in Sweden: Crime rates in Sweden are a lot lower than in most European countries. If you follow basic safety tips and common sense, you will not face any problem while staying in Sweden. If you ever lose your way, you can ask for help from people nearby as almost all Swedes have the knowledge of English.
Weather: Sweden enjoys a generally temperate climate with the northern parts of the country experiencing crisp winters and cool summers. In the south, the winters are short and summers see lot of hours of sunshine and daylight.Average temperature in winters is -2°C to -22°C. In summers it is 13°C to 17°C.
You will notice that the lifestyle of swedes is usually dictated by the seasons. During the winters, it is time of smaller daylight hours, cultural outings, entertaining at home and winter sports. While during summers, it is time to head outdoor, holidaying at summerhouses/cottages, boating, fishing, berry picking and celebrating time under the sun.
Stockholm, Lund, Malmö, Göteborg, Karlskrona, Västerås are the regions where most Indians reside.
In Sweden, there is an abundance of degrees taught in English language as English is kind of a second language of the country. This means that course options are almost unlimited for Indian students.
For each course, a minimum academic record of 60% and above in Standard XII will be required. Foundations and Diploma programs are available for students who have secured around 50%. The student should have completed 18 years of age before joining a degree program. It is important to remember that even though entry requirements are lower at Swedish universities, the standards are not. So you need to think carefully beforehand whether you will be able to cope with the high standard of education through the course of next few years or not.
Results of Swedish language test TISUS only for enrolment for programs in Swedish.
Admission process: Swedish universities accept applications through Universityadmissions.se, an online enrolment system.
You will have to make an account on Universityadmissions.se to provide your basic information, submit the scanned version of your documents, score of TOEFL/IELTS and pay application fees. You will be informed about the application process and its stages through this account.
Motivation Letter: A Motivation Letter is your introduction to the college and admission officers. It is always written in first person and describes the reason for applying to a particular college. It needs to highlight why you are a perfect fit for the college and why the college should accept you. The style of writing could differ from formal to casual, but it is important to remember that it should reflect your personality as well.
Swedish universities have enrolments twice a year: in late August starts the autumn semester and in mid-January the spring semester.
The admissions season usually begins in October for the following year. So, admissions start in October 2016 for entry in August 2017. The deadline of an application is usually in mid-January.
Fee: The fee for these exams is Rs. 10,600 for IELTS and Rs. 11,000 for TOEFL.
Time to apply: Ideally, if you are aiming at the August intake you should appear for these exams by December, so that you can apply before the first deadline. The universities will mention which exam results they will accept. But if they give a choice to go for either of these, then the choice depends on you. The time required to prepare for IELTS/TOEFL would depend on the existing English language proficiency. You may require 2 to 4 months of preparation before the exam date.
Required scores: on paper based TOEFL, at least 550 or on internet-based TOEFL at least 173. For IELTS a score of at least 6 bands is required.
The average tuition costs for attending a college in Sweden will vary according to the school, the course and the city your school is located in. The average rates for tuition vary from about SEK 80,000 and SEK 140,000 per year. This amount varies and is based on a number of factors. The fees is usually lower for EU residents and higher for international students.
Even though the amount of financial assistance and scholarships are limited for international students, the cost of attending university in Sweden is considerably lower compared to other countries. This helps make up for the lack of financial aid assistance available.
On an average, an international student needs approximately SEK 8,000 or $1,000 per month in Sweden. Prices differ a lot in the big cities and small towns all across Sweden.
If the duration of your degree course is longer than one year, then you are entitled to the same health benefits as Swedish nationals once you register with the ‘Swedish Tax Agency’ and receive a personal identity number. After receiving your number, you will be eligible for all healthcare. You should check with your university as well if they provide any additional insurance coverage to international students.
You will need an entry visa called Residence Permit for students to be able to study in Sweden. The Residence Permit application will take some time to process as the final decision is taken by the Swedish Migration Authority in Sweden, and not the Embassy. So it is recommended that you apply at least three months before the intended arrival date in Sweden.
Two Copies of all academic degrees – university, college, high school etc.
Two copies of the Bank statements. The applicant should be able to show an amount of 7300 Swedish Kronor a month for at least 10 months per year.
The Swedish law allows all students, regardless of their nationality, to work for unlimited number of hours along studies. So in essence, there is no limit on the number of hours you can work. Make sure you are working part-time only and don’t take up full-time jobs. Students are hired to provide assistance to incoming students, helping disabled students, tutoring, IT support and assistance, working in the career center etc.
Student employees are supposed to follow a work schedule that will not interfere with their studies. So most probably, the terms and conditions of employment will be adapted to the requirements of each student’s program so as to ensure academic success while offering work experience.
Spouses and children may be permitted to reside in Sweden while you study, but this is conditional. These conditions include having enough and appropriate financing and a living space. Cases are decided on an individual basis at the Swedish embassy, and special consideration may be given to your case if you are able to explain your situation to the consulate effectively.
When you submit an online application for the spouse, make sure that the student with the Residence Permit for studies is registered with the Swedish Tax Office and have a Swedish personal identity number.
Learning basic cooking: Cooking for yourself will save you money. Indian food is expensive in Sweden. It will also satisfy your urge to eat “your food” during moments of cultural shock. Indian spices are not commonly available in smaller cities, but there are often shops on campus where you can get ingredients used in most Indian food.
It is advised that as an international student you learn Swedish during your course period as it will certainly increase your chances of getting job quickly. Most universities have career advisors and workshops meant to improve your soft skills and assist in your job search. Swedish universities don’t follow that concept of ‘campus placements’ as it is understood in India. Students find jobs on their own; the college only helps you prepare for the job. Most Swedish study programs include a trainee-ship or an internship.
International students graduating from Sweden can apply to extend their residence permit for up to six months to look for a job. The only condition is that you must be able to support yourself financially during the extension period.
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https://beststudyoverseasconsultants.wordpress.com/2017/05/14/student-guide-to-the-sweden/
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After 9 weeks with the same number 1 hit, the nation was finally ready for a change and we saw this as Racey’s ‘Some Girls’ took over the top spot from Richard Jon Smith’s ‘Michael Row The Boat Ashore’. ‘Some Girls’ leapfrogged Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive’ which extended its lead for most consecutive weeks at 2, this being its 8th straight week as the second favourite song in the land.
The Dooleys’ ‘Honey I’m Lost’ was the climber of the week for a second week running. It moved up a further 6 places climbing from 14 to 8. There was one other star rater this week and it was Anton Goosen’s ‘Kruidjie-Roer-My-Nie’ which was experiencing renewed support. It had climbed as high as 10 in the charts but had then slowly dropped down to 18. This week is suddenly jumped back up the charts, climbing 4 places from 18 to 14.
Neil Diamond picked up his 11th biggest faller award as ‘Forever In Blue Jeans’ fell 6 from 10 to 16 this week. He was the 6th act so far to have seen 11 biggest fallers.
Frankie Miller’s ‘Darlin’ enjoyed a 7th week as the oldest on the chart. It had been with us for 18 weeks so far and was the 27th song to manage at least 7 weeks as the oldest in the top 20.
For a second week in a row we saw only 1 song leave the chart and this week it was Billy Joel’s ‘Honesty’. It had enjoyed a run of 10 weeks and peaked at 8, the lowest weeks and peak of his 3 hits to date. There would be further hits to come from him.
Joe Dolan extended his run for having a song in the charts every year since 1975 as his ‘My Love’ was the new entry, giving him 5 consecutive years of featuring in our charts. ‘My Love’ was Dolan’s 7th hit to make our charts. It was written by Michael Tinsley, Peter Yellowstone and Steve Voice. Yellowstone had been responsible for 4 of Dolan’s 7 hits now while Tinsley and Voice had brought us 2 of Kelly Marie’s hits and Tinsley had co-written Dolan’s ‘I Need You’ with Yellowstone. While the song proved popular in South Africa, it did not seem to have made much impact on the charts in the rest of the world other than getting to number 27 in Dolan’s native Ireland. There had now been 17 songs by Irish acts make our charts and this put Ireland tied 9th with France on the list of hits by acts from a nation.
Richard Jon Smith moved into tied 13th place on the local weeks count list with 55 to his name. he shared the spot with Maria.
The average number of weeks the top 20 songs had been with us moved onto exactly 9. This was the first time it had been 9 or higher for 37 weeks.
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of what I finally know of love.
Why, thank you. High praise indeed.
Human being. Mountain Girl. Bookworm.
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Never let all the things you want make you forget about all the things you have. Put a little gratitude on your to-do list today.
Choose positivity today. If you’re struggling to be thankful for what you have, think for a moment and be thankful for what you’ve escaped.
Sometimes, the best things in life are not things at all… but the people who make you feel loved and cared for.
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2019-04-18T17:15:27Z
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https://silverliningofyourcloud.wordpress.com/category/quotes/gratitude/
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The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is an international observance celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world. The first commemoration of the event took place in Paris, France, in 1987 when 100,000 people gathered on the Human Rights and Liberties Plaza at the Trocadéro to honour victims of poverty, hunger, violence and fear at the unveiling of a commemorative stone by Father Joseph Wresinski, founder of the International Movement ATD Fourth World. In 1992, four years after Wresinski's death, the United Nations officially designated October 17 as The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
^ a b Guisti, Ada (2003-12-01). "Peace Profile: Father Joseph Wresinski". Peace Review. 15 (4): 499–505. doi:10.1080/1040265032000156690. ISSN 1040-2659.
^ "International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 17 October". www.un.org. Retrieved 2016-10-22.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_for_the_Eradication_of_Poverty
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Sorrentino is considered among the most audacious contemporary filmmakers today. His work has been critically acclaimed across international film festivals and the global film community. The themes he depicts in his cinema have led him to be compared to Frederico Fellini, Ettore Scola and Michaelangelo Antonioni.
His film The Great Beauty scored a hat-trick, when in 2014 it won the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film, BAFTA award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, after being nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
This a marvellous piece of movie making, no matter it is only 60 seconds long. And this will resonate with all those people whose younger siblings have made their lives miserable. Linus is busy on a project, one you can make out is scientific, brilliant and an intelligent experiment born out of the very geeky corners of his mind. His younger brother is proving to be quite bothersome at this precise moment when he is hoping for his experiment to succeed.
This funny one-minute film by Norway’s Alexander Vestnesstraumen and Ola Martin Fjeld is smartly made — has great shots that describe things perfectly within their one frames, the editing is hurried, but only because of the sense of urgency this story demands, and the bombastic score that stands out — driving the drama of this silly, aggravating situation all the way to the punch line.
One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Chan-wook’s films are noted for their immaculate framing, black humour and often brutal subject matter. Park said his films are about the utter futility of vengeance and how it wreaks havoc on the lives of everyone involved. His films have a massive audience worldwide, having done spectacular business and won close to 25 awards across several international film festivals. Hollywood filmmaker Quentin Tarantino considers Chan-wook’s films to be one of his biggest sources of inspiration.
“After Brexit, the UK will be forced to re-negotiate quotas and taxes for exports to the EU. In 2015, the UK exported 41% of its movies to the EU, surpassing its American exports. Imminent financial pressures will likely diminish UK film exports, thereby disincentivizing production.
The UK has for long been the power centre of Cinema with its legacy of theatre and the manner in which its churns out such brilliant film directors, actors, cinematographers and other film technicians. We have often joked that while the rest of the world gets basic vaccines against germs and diseases, the British are inoculated with bugs that enhance their stage and screen skills manifold. The same holds true for most European countries, which have government-sponsored, but healthy cinema cultures and thrive on a film market that is known for its co-productions. European film production, distribution and talent management companies have frequently collaborated to create and bring to the world some excellent examples of cinema.
The Brexit referendum, which has separated UK from the rest of EU could change a lot of the international film production and distribution treaties. Here is an article from nofilmschool.com which enumerates and discusses three ways in which things could go south for the film market in UK and EU.
Two main characters, a fantasy world staging, a focus on humor and an external conflict compose this fun short created by students at Danish school The Animation Workshop.
Grandma’s Hero features ambitious environments and aesthetic work, presenting a great variety and number of characters and creatures. The Animation Workshop’s production system, which usually functions with groups of 7+ students (in this case they’re 11+), helps produce films of remarkable scope. Plenty of very wide shots are used to describe the environment, along with pans and tilts. Camera moves are also used during action sequences. Visual rhythm is high, with great attention dedicated to sound and music to accentuate it and mark contrasts and changes of pace.
Among other narrative devices the short makes good use of psychological/subjective narration (the hero’s imagined events represented in his eyes at 1m57) and a nice frontal shot of the hero walking towards the camera (3m07) with ellipses to transmit passage of time and the character’s increasing frustration.
Featuring great stylized character designs, quality animation and plenty of gags, the film’s playfulness is also worth noting – it likely mirrors the production process the authors went through.
Room is a 2015 Canadian-Irish drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her novel of the same name. The film stars Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, and William H. Macy. Held captive for seven years in an enclosed space, a woman (Larson) and her 5-year-old son (Tremblay) finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Brie Larson isolated herself for a month and followed a strict diet in order to get a sense of what Ma and Jack were going through, and she claimed she avoided washing her face during filming, to really make clear on-camera that she was not wearing makeup. In preparation for her profoundly complicated character portrayal, she spent hours with a trauma specialist researching the psyche of one incarcerated to the extreme degree of her character “Ma.” This was not the kind of information that could be readily found in a Google search. Ma’s real name is Joy. Room is one of three movies released in 2015 and nominated for Oscars in which the lead is named Joy. The others are Inside Out (2015) and Joy(2015).
The film was largely shot in sequence to make it easier for Jacob to perform as his character evolves. Jacob Tremblay did his own stunt work, and wore a wig in the scenes where Jack has long hair. Although an experienced actor, Jacob could not bring himself to yell at Brie Larson in the scene where he is angry about his birthday cake having no candles. Finally the director had the entire cast and crew start jumping up and down yelling and screaming until he was able to do it himself.
There are several subtle references to the fact that while they are still imprisoned, Joy continues to breastfeed Jack even past his fifth birthday–many years after the age when most breastfed children get weaned. Although this is not explained outright in the movie, it is implied that there are several reasons that she does this. First, it provides some extra nutrition and physical immunity for Jack. It is also a way of comforting him–taking care of him emotionally and adding to their bond–and encouraging him to go to sleep before their kidnapper arrives each night. Furthermore, it provides a small amount of natural birth control for Joy, who likely would have been loathe to endure another solitary and unsanitary labor in captivity or to place another child in the traumatic position that Jack is in.
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How do we fight this ?
Read this link http://vishshanker.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/02/this-happened-in-bangalore-bengaluru-shocking.htm for an example of how the tide is turning. The silent sufferers, who are aware/afraid of “taking the law into their hands” seem to be developing some bonemass, allowing them to stand up to the gooda elements.
Its amazing how we suffer them on a dialy basis. Its all the way from small barbs when we get fingered by rude traffic violators to incidents like the one above. Little by little, they strip away our confidence and respect for fellow beings and reduce us to gutless wimps, or worse, one of them.
Yeah, Yeah, I know, we will have to pay a price for trying to stand up to these insults. Its easy for the goondas to do what they do, they dont care that they are breaking the law or threading on our freedoms. We are saddled with all that weight and will have to pay for it in cash, kind, time and pain, if we want to fight it.
While looking up stuff on banglore’s history, I bumped into a nice tidbit on Mr. Lavelle who got the rights to mine gold in Kolar. This link is a book written in 1898 by ROBERT H. ELLIOT. Makes for an amazing reading. This is a blog from the past !
1. Lavelle Road was named after Michael Lavelle, an Irish soldier who made his money in the Kolar Gold Fields.
2. Langford Town/Road was named after Col.Pierce Leslie Langford whose residence was located on that road once.
3. Mayo Hall is supposed to remind you of Richard South Bourke, the then Viceroy, who was the Earl of Mayo.
5. The house of the British resident of Mysore was located on Residency Road – it is currently the residence of the Chief General manager of The S.B.I.
6. The names given to the roads in the Cantonment were according to the military arrangement and campus. Thus, there was Artillery Rd., Brigade Rd., Infantry Rd., Cavalry Rd., etc. The South Parade (presently Mahatma Gandhi Road) was to the south of the Parade Ground. St.Mark’s Road gets its name from the St.Mark’s Cathedral.
7. Kumara Park takes its name after the residence of Dewan Seshadri Iyer which he called Kumara Krupa after his family deity.
8. Austin Town is now Kittel nagar after Ferdinand Kittel who compiled the first Kannada dictionary and Thomas Town is B.I.Rice nagar after the archaeologist.
9. Ali Asker was the grand father of Dewan Mirza Ismail who imported horses from iran – remember Ali Asker Road?
10.Jayanagar came into existence in 1948 and has been named after Maharajah Jayachamrajendra Wodeyar.
11.Tata Silk farm gets its name from the silk business that flourished in that area from 1896.
With ill-designed road humps on any Bangalore road every 100 meters, only an idiot can think that they prevent accidents. I would bet they actually cause more than they prevent. Add that to over genius road works guys way of putting up cement block road partitions, what we have is a human killer trap for roads.
Toady, I actually counted the road humps I negotiate on my short 8KM trip to the office, they number 14, with one prize winning stretch with 3 in a span of about 200 meters! I bet every time there is a road accident on a stretch of road, instead of looking at providing a better access mechanism for the pedestrians, we myopically put in a “speed-breaker”. I think we take the slogan “ribbed for extra pleasure” to a whole new meaning.
The rioting and looting last week was a another black mark on the cosmopolitan face of the city. It is a sad and shameful display of lawlessness by elements who I knew existed, but didn’t expect to be so blatant.
This is the second time in a year or so that Bangalore has witnessed wanton harm to citizens. The destruction of public, private property will in all probability go unpunished. I am agonizing over how we the common people will secure ourselves from such mobs and hooligans. What fortifications can one put up to avoid injury or worse from such situations ? The law keepers and makers seem to be busy elsewhere and it is hopelessly outnumbered, demoralized and inept to handle such situations.
My frustration is too deep to go into how we could fend from, insure against or avoid such happenings. It seems a futile to ask that we stick together and make this city work. Bangalore has such tantalizing potential to be the city that India can be proud of , but alas, it is being dragged back every time a few steps to progress are made. Perhaps a few more days and the optimist in me will come back to think lofty thoughts.
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Edwards skillfully reaches out to the common woman -- a "mother ... at the kitchen table" -- but avoids assigning blame for her anxiety.
The Democrats are walking a tightrope of anger management. Even the slightest murmur against Bush is depicted by the Republicans as blind rage, irrational raving and left wing. The Kerry campaign has correspondingly tamped down such displays. Bush's name goes unmentioned in major speeches from the podium. The rhetoric operates by inference and indirection; the audience is assumed to carry the story in its head. A few gestures and words are cues to a shared but unstated understanding. Bush is the invisible man at the convention.
John Edwards' acceptance speech for his vice presidential nomination on Wednesday night revealed the difficulties and perils of the balancing act. The surface seemed smooth, glistening and crystalline. Edwards' talent is that of the consummate lawyer making a summation to a jury of ordinary citizens. He rehearses until his long speech flows from him like a natural river. His particular skill in the primary campaign was to fashion a message of traditional Democratic economic and social grievance that manifested as a paean to optimism. Before the convention delegates, Edwards enveloped his tried-and-true "two Americas" speech with a tribute to Kerry's leadership qualities, incorporating them as new elements of brightness.
Edwards' manner is more that of the motivational speaker than the minister. He establishes through his personal autobiography that he is the common person he is addressing, creating a unity between himself and the crowd. His language is anecdotal but utterly unadorned. He makes no literary allusions. Unlike Bill Clinton, another Southerner, he borrows no references from biblical scripture. His talk is without political liturgy of any kind. It is stripped to plainness, a Protestant cross without any figure on it.
But there is a tension behind his accessibility. Edwards tells of the trials and tribulations of those falling behind no matter how hard they work, who need better education, health insurance and job security. "You don't need me to explain this to you, do you? You know exactly what I'm talking about. Can't save any money, can you? Takes every dime you make just to pay your bills. And you know what happens if something goes wrong, if you have a child that gets sick, a financial problem, a layoff in the family -- you go right off the cliff. And when that happens, what's the first thing that goes? Your dreams. It doesn't have to be that way."
But Edwards doesn't explain why it is that way. He offers a tale without a plot, describes effects without causes. It is a mystery play about George W. Bush.
Republicans, of course, charge him and other Democrats universally as possessed by little but visceral anger. They dread his negative numbers being run up, so they try to deflect the Democrats from doing so by projecting onto them the negative campaign the Republican themselves are mercilessly running.
Edwards' response is to cast the contest as a cosmic battle of the forces of darkness and light, poles of positive and negative, optimism and gloom. "John's been traveling around the country," he said of his running mate, "talking about his positive, optimistic vision for America ... But what have we seen? Relentless negative attacks against John. So in the weeks ahead, we know what's coming, don't we? Yes, more negative attacks. Aren't you sick of it? They are doing all they can to take the campaign for the highest office in the land down the lowest possible road."
Edwards vouched for John Kerry the war hero and presented his own senatorial credentials on national security, but his subliminal appeal is to a crucial swing constituency: the kind of women he went to high school with in North Carolina, working and lower middle class, too busy to pay close attention to the news, but anxious about almost everything.
He breathed life into this ideal woman, who wants someone to express her desire for empathy and rescue. "Tonight, as we celebrate in this hall, somewhere in America a mother sits at the kitchen table. She can't sleep because she's worried she can't pay her bills. She's working hard trying to pay her rent, trying to feed her kids, but she just can't catch up. It didn't used to be that way in her house." Now, Edwards created a man for the woman. "Her husband was called up in the Guard. Now he's been in Iraq for over a year. They thought he was going to come home last month, but now he's got to stay longer." With that stroke, Edwards turned the turmoil and trepidation of Iraq into a quiet crisis of the middle class. "She thinks she's alone," Edwards continued. "But tonight in this hall and in your homes, you know what? She's got a lot of friends ... Hope is on the way."
Edwards has sidestepped being the vice presidential candidate as relentless attacker. With his friendliness he has homed in on the swing female voter. But the heart of the election remains Bush's trust and credibility.
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2019-04-26T07:11:59Z
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https://www.salon.com/2004/07/29/invisible_bush/
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On Saturday, Barack Obama and Melania Trump were among the attendees at former first lady Barbara Bush's funeral in Houston. Although Donald Trump opted to skip event, citing concern about the disruption his security would make and respect for the family as reasons, the first lady represented the current administration and settled in next to Obama for the service, People reports.
One picture in particular of the former POTUS and current FLOTUS has the internet very pleased. In the photo, taken before the service began, Obama and Melania are seen talking and she is positively beaming at whatever Obama said to her.
“Melania looks happier at a funeral than she has in ages. Wouldn’t you too if you went from being with Donald every day to sitting next to Barack?” wrote one person on Twitter.
The general consensus on Twitter is that Melania looks happy for the first time in a while and it's quite the coincidence that it happens to be at an event (even a devastatingly sad one like a funeral) that she's attending without her husband.
After over a year in office, Melania has not smiled once in the presence of Donald Trump.
10 minutes with Obama’s, and look what happened!
The absence of @realDonaldTrump speaks volumes.
Melania, usually stone-faced, is seen smiling for the first time in a while next to Barack Obama.
Barack: Good to see you smile for a change.
Melania: Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the beauty.
Melania: Not really. I tried to once.
Melania: It doesn't look like anything to me.
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These little Micro Drive thingies. I just got a 128 Mb Sony Microvault. No more taking home my USB zip drive on the weekends. My Dad introduced me to them last week when he was showing off his little Fuji Pen Drive. Of course he paid over $100 for his. I got mine on Ebay for just under $30 and it is SWEET. I've got mine on a lanyard around my neck, making me look like a real geek but I just don't care. Everyone should have one of these.
Yes, I rather like those, they're really handy. S gave me one for my birthday last year. When he worked at Best Buy he wore one around his neck all the time.
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Here are the FINAL official results from this year’s election (also attached in a Word document in case you want a nice copy to print or send out).
In total, we had 6,498 ballots counted. (Please note, these will NOT match the numbers reported to the Democrat at 10:03, as we still had 26 hand count sheets to be added to our precinct tallies).
Thanks to all of you who helped out with this year’s election!
Should students be required to pass the FCAT to graduate?
engaging in on-line bullying of other students?
Business Threats through Social Engineering.
The presenter started off by prefacing his reasons for the current state of internet social engineering. To start changing the current status of the internet environment the presenter suggested a change in the way society cyber crime. He stated two main reasons Phishing scams are so prevalent on the internet. The First reason is the lack of sufficient laws to prosecute criminals. The Second is the insufficient sentencing of social engineering crimes. For example, if someone robs a bank they could get a twenty year prison sentence, but if they steal your credit card information over the internet they normally get a slap on the wrist. This inconsistent administration of laws makes it an easy choice for criminals to committing cyber crime with little chance of severe consequences.
Information Technology Departments or tech savvy users should make people aware of dangers that social engineering.
“Old school social engineering” the presenter showed a picture and asked the audience what they saw.
A lot of the audience said a doctor. The presenter then told how our preconceived notions can mislead us. The picture above, for his example, is a criminal who dressed up as a doctor and then talked his way in to the hospitals network closet. Once inside the closet he installed a key logger to collect user’s passwords.
Social Engineering is not about having brilliant technology skills to crack high levels of encryption. Social Engineering is about using a moderate level of technology skill and charismatic personalities to crack the weakest link in security, the human element. The doctor example above is just one way show how social engineers can gain access to important information. Another way is for someone to call the companies helpdesk and talk them in to resetting a user password to allow the criminal to login to the system.
He also brought up a good point that the one of the most dangerous individuals’ in an organization maybe the lowest level employee. Often in large organizations there are employees that only last 3-5 months. These entry level positions often have access to more sensitive information than CEOs. Social Engineers will try to offer these employees vast amounts of money to copy sensitive information for them.
Since the internet has become such an engrained part of society, this has made an easy target for cyber criminals. People have started to use the internet for banking, talking to friends, storing health records, talking about personal information, using public email for business purposes, ect… With email becoming the standard for communication within businesses, it has also become ground zero for the social engineering technique known as Phishing.
Phishing: A type of scam with the intent of capturing personal information such as Social Security numbers, online banking user identification numbers, debit and credit card account numbers, and passwords.
Greed Phishing: this phishing style is used by offering people incentives for filling out information. A common greed phishing scam is to send an email that looks like your bank sent it asking people to fill out a questionnaire to receive money. People receive and email that looks like a customer review form from a bank. At the end of the customer survey you are asked to give you account number and password so the bank can deposit money.
Fear Phishing: this is the most common style of phishing. Fear phishing uses emails to scare people to quickly access their account.
The email above is an example of how scammers get unassuming people to rush to what they believe to be their banks website (through the link inside the email). When a customer attempt to login to the fake site the cyber criminals get all applicable information to steal the customer’s money and identity.
There are a couple ways to prevent this type of phishing scam.
Do not use links within emails to access websites. Open a web browser and navigate to the website directly.
Check the URL of the website you are logging onto. If the URL address is not familiar do not give any of your information.
Post Phishing is very similar to the fear phishing scams listed above, except it is software driven. It uses key loggers to wait until people login to an actual account and then send the login information to the social engineers. Key loggers are normally distributed through websites by using links within phishing emails. If the user clicks on the links within a post phishing email it could send you to a website that would infect you machine with malware.
Spear Phishing: combines using emails and key loggers to get information for a specific target. Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization or a person. As with the e-mail messages used in regular phishing expeditions, spear phishing messages appear to come from a trusted source. Phishing messages usually appear to come from a large and well-known company or Web site with a broad membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear phishing, however, the apparent source of the e-mail is likely to be an individual within the recipient’s own company (spoofed email address) and generally someone in a position of authority.
Here’s one example of a spear phishing attack: The perpetrator finds a Web site for a targeted organization that supplies contact information for employees and other relevant data about the company. Using available details to make the message seem authentic, the perpetrator drafts an e-mail appearing to come from an individual who might reasonably request confidential information, such as a network administrator. Typically, a spear phisher requests user names and passwords or asks recipients to click on a link that will result in the user downloading spyware or other malicious programming. The message employs social engineering tactics to convince the recipient. If a single employee falls for the spear phisher’s ploy, the attacker can masquerade as that individual and gain access to sensitive data.
The presenter gave a similar scenario where a personalized email is drafted to the CIO of a technology company. The email uses information found in public website to depict a plausible reason for the sender to have an attached picture. The CIO reads the email and thinks the picture attached is of his daughter making a great play at her soccer game (found by reading the daughters blog). Once the attachment is opened a key logger is installed on the CIO’s computer.
The presentation was very informative. Although I have heard of phishing the examples given helped greatly to understand how phishing scams really work and some of the motivation that drive people to fall for these scams. I would suggest that if given the chance everyone should be take a class on the dangers of phishing schemes. Also, look to implement a reward type system, even if it is just public kudos, within the department for people who help deter Social Engineering schemes.
Mashups take numerous data sources combined and layer them together to form an informative presentation that can deliver services tailored to individuals. The presenter used the book “The Long Tail” as an explanation to the shift from mass production of generic stuff to niche markets.
The graph above is divided in half, the first half (red) is made up of the most popular products, while the second half (yellow) is more niche products. To make this graph more understandable, The Presenter altered the words within the graph to give an example that everybody could understand.
Scientist ran a study on thousands of books that have been scanned in to computers and to find out what were the most common words used in the English Language. Through their study they learned that 50 % of the printed English language consisted of only 137 words. After the 137 most common words, there was a leveling off in to regional or Niche word within the rest of their scanned information. When put in to a graph it looks like the above. The presenter explained that this example demonstrated that the need for a more diverse section of content (yellow) that can be “Mashup” with the vastly more popular, but smaller, main content (red).
Zillow.com was used as a real world example show how combining niche information with globally accepted formats.
Zillow.com: is an online real estate service dedicated to helping you get an edge in real estate by providing you with valuable tools and information. Zillow can overlay recent home sales information (cost of home, mortgage rates, and monthly mortgage payments) which is niche information for only those interested in buying homes, with map technology that most people use.
Another example of using Mashups was submitting a leave request for work. Normally, when an employee submits a leave request an email would be sent to their boss, she/he would approval or deny without any knowledge of how much leave the employee had left. The employees request then would be sent to the HR department for recording the hours of leave taken. If there is not enough leave time on the books it presents a problem for the employee and the boss.
With a Mashup from the HR database when the employee submits a leave request it would have showed that there was only 7 hrs leave. The application would not have allowed the employee to send the request for time off.
Joe talked about a lot of major Web 2.0 companies like YouTube.com and Facebook. His main emphasis was on taking user generated content of websites that can be used as a model for building unique and inventive ways to get content to users. He showed examples of how Web 2.0 are good at getting the information out to a broad audience, but also how to use the feedback from comments because it can be vital source of information too. The sites below have multitudes of user generated information using simple tagging to very specific Meta-Data to categorize content.
RSS Feeds– RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. RSS solves a problem for people who regularly use the web. It allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving the latest content from the sites you are interested in. You save time by not needing to visit each site individually. All your information aggregated into on manageable location using an RSS Reader.
Del.icio.us – How Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save, manage and share web pages from a centralized source. With emphasis on the power of the community, Delicious greatly improves how people discover, remember and share on the Internet.
SlideShare.net– SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience it is to Power Point’s what YouTube is to video. Help with user feedback, save exchange space having it stored in one accessible location.
Twitter– Users blast small 140 character messages good for quick broadband communication to interested parties. It can also send SMS message every time someone sends a Twitt.
YouTube.com – Hosts user-generated videos. Includes network and professional content. YouTube’s Tag line is “Share your videos with friends, family and the world”.
The concept of Web 2.0 is that friends, colleges, even strangers list and share information in a real time environment can lead to a greater understanding of a topic being discussed or just entertain.
In the presentation Joe showed how Ning.com which allows the user of popular Web 2.0 sites (Twitter, Flicker, blogs, ect.) to contribute specialized information that is aggregated through rss feeds onto one specially designed website. The example Joe share with us was the http://www.hurricanes08.org/ which is a user website that is built on the ning.com platform and ported huricanes08 web address. This site shows how using multiple data streams can be pulled in to make a very informative website. This particular site listed: Important Links and Contacts Latest Hurricane (static links that were places at the top of the page), Latest Hurricane News (rss news feed), Hurricane Maps (based off Google Maps and live NOAA weather info), Twitter (locals on the ground in the storm), Blog post (rss feed based on key words), Videos( YouTube), Pictures (Ficker), and other information sources.
Currently I am schedule to see five “breakout sessions” and hopefully one Keynote tomorrow.
Hopefully I will be able to blog a little about them all. Also, I hope gets some pictures from the vendor exhibit hall floor. Today I am going to sit in on two of my favorite topics, Web 2.0 and Mashups. I am really hoping that there will be some interesting material covered that I can take back and introduce to my management. I suspect that since this a government conference there will not be any Bleeding Edge Technology shown, but maybe I can see some established Web 2.0 tech being used in a way that is conducive my government agency’s directive.
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It’s been a long time since I drew any dogs. I did a few drawings and paintings of one of my roommate’s wonderful dogs, Bacchus, 40+ years ago, and I think I may have a painting of one of Nina’s dogs from back in the day somewhere. Since my animal hair allergies appeared, I haven’t been able to live with either dogs or cats, and I do feel the loss. Pets are good companions.
And once again Celebrating the Days this month with Charlie at Doodlewash.
A beautiful doggy tribute–the quote (so true), as well as your beautiful drawing and poem.
Well you know cats…they expect you to know what they are thinking and act accordingly!
Lovely drawing – you really captured Bliss there!
Thanks Michael. I hope Tim thinks so!
Thanks Jodi. You know all about those doggy looks!
Hi Kerfe, the neo’s are the perfect tool for your gorgeous doggy portrait. I’m like you, I must enjoy pets from arms length.
I keep being surprised by the neocolors. At least my neighbor’s cats are around a lot outside to enjoy!
Thanks, animals are always fun to draw.
Thanks Charlie. This one fit perfectly.
Those words are so true. Love the expression, caught so well.
Yes, I thought the quote was perfect. Who could resist such a face?
Dogs do seem to provoke smiles!
What a face, right? Dogs are so soulful.
Great quote. Your lovely poem, such an tender description and perfectly mirrors your beautiful portrait. Wonderful how you have captured the energy and nobility of your subject.
Such a pretty painting, fun and warm!
The quote is perfect based on my experience of dogs! and you are right about Bliss…hard to resist that face.
Kerfe, thank you so much for sharing this beautiful picture of my Bliss. I love it. Your poetry is so perfect for her. I am very touched. She would give you a snuggle if she was there.
Thanks Tim. It’s clear from the comments that she’s won everyone’s heart!
Thanks for the reblog, I’m delighted that it pleases you!
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Because I am terribly tired and can't face work just yet. Gacked from sally_maria.
Bold the titles that you've seen and add another five to the list! If I counted correctly, I have seen 118 plus my 5 of those on the list.
90. Predator Another 'I think'.
240. O Brother Where Art Thou?
272. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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Adventure in Absurdity #3 – At the Bundy Ranch….
But besides all that, it raises a few questions that are slightly on/off topic.
Well, yeah, except that the green areas are the only areas allocated for normal use. Maybe I’m just another nutty conspiracy theorist, but this is all so very real – part of a U.N. sustainable development project known to us as Agenda 21.
Now, it’s clear why I hold the UN in contempt! And, it becomes clear why the Federal Government owns so much land. Eventually the goal is to clear as much of it as possible, no matter if there are people living there.
Besides the fact that Harry Reid was set to profit because of the very Bundy land in question, had a group of Asian investors decided on investing in a solar farm in that very place. And he may profit yet, if they are able to clear those cows out of the way.
Author alexallenblogPosted on April 24, 2014 Leave a comment on Adventure in Absurdity #3 – At the Bundy Ranch….
On Joe Dorman, as promised….!
Joe Dorman has attracted quite a following -mostly by people who dislike Mary Fallin. I am in that boat, somewhat, I don’t think Mary Fallin is a real conservative or has Oklahoma’s best interests in mind.
But Joe Dorman says he does! That’s the solution! Not really.
I am very suspicious of Joe Dorman. I have been ever since I heard him speak at a Youth in Government convention, and it’s not just the fishy look to his face. It intensified when I visited his website, looking for his platform to get some orientation on where he stands on major issues – and I came out of it more in the dark than I was before.
It is a regular habit of politicians to be somewhat specific when they are talking about something to grab the attention of the constituency (“is you, or is you ain’t, my constituency”) but not actually specific enough to actually make promises.
Well, as it turns out, Joe Dorman isn’t even specific enough to grab one’s attention.
Naturally, because the economy is really the only thing that actually matters, I went to that heading first. I couldn’t even debate this because there is nothing to debate about! There is only a bunch of generalized statements that I can only comment sarcastically on. I will spare you from that here.
What is the thing that the Joe Dorman campaign is missing? Facts! Oh, such a troublesome thing – the bane of any politician’s existence.
All we can do is say: maybe. Maybe he will improve the state’s economy. Maybe he will reform the bloated school system. Maybe he will foster job growth in Oklahoma but you know what? Probably not. He doesn’t seem to have a plan, and is badly disguising that fact.
I mean, if you don’t even have politicians who can successfully bullcrap his way through something, you’ve got a failure as a politician.
I encourage you to go to the Joe Dorman website to see what I am talking about.
Author alexallenblogPosted on April 16, 2014 Leave a comment on On Joe Dorman, as promised….!
Say what you will about the “tea-baggers” – they were, I believe, wholly responsible for the shift in power brought by the 2010 midterms, and the momentum created by the grassroots movement is something worth serious political study. Now the question – will this momentum be again repeated in our midterms this year?
My guess: unfortunately, no. It is with regret that I say this.
But I just, at this point, do not see that same momentum that the tea party had established there before the midterms. Partly, I think by this time the media has figured out every way to de-legitimatize the tea party (as they do with every other conservative movement) and due to the sudden manner in which the tea party rose up, it took the media a little while to do so.
However, there is one point of hope which just may prevent a socialist takeover of our congress.
The first is Common Core, something I mentioned here earlier, but some time ago.
Like any sort of government project it is very complicated and difficult to explain; but to sum up as well as possible, it’s a new set of educational guidelines (to apply in every state) which are based on the hope that all students will follow the path to college. But this is unrealistic; we know that it is absurd to suggest that 100% of high school graduates will follow the college path.
This is quickly becoming a hot button issue and may influence the election. Pay attention to this; I certainly am. But be aware, as a side note: if we defeat this common core, it will promptly be implemented again, under a different name. We must stay very vigilant, friends.
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I have to admit that when I first laid eyes on Ireland Baldwin and her massive cleavage, I thought it's not real. It can't be real. This is some kind of lifelike doll of Ireland Baldwin or some crazy altered image of her and her incredible cleavage, but no. I am wrong. I will admit my mistake. This is all Ireland Baldwin and all Ireland Baldwin cleavage.
I don't know what to do, I really don't want to do other than to express my amazement at Ireland Baldwin's cleavage. Look at it. Seriously, look at it. Not look at it for a second and then go back to whatever you were doing before, but really look at it. I mean, take the time to soak it all the details of Ireland Baldwin's cleavage. It's incredible. It's mind-blowing. It's almost too good to be true. And it's just there, right there for all of us to see. One would think we'd have to close our eyes and imagine the perfect cleavage in order to see this. But no, Ireland Baldwin has the perfect cleavage and she's letting the world see it.
I really don't know what's in store for us in 2019, but man I hope there is more Ireland Baldwin. I think we could all use a break from the world's problems and there is nothing that will take your mind off everything like Ireland Baldwin's cleavage.
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Hello. My name is Angela and I'm an online editor with the Orange County Register. We're always looking for local bloggers, and I stumbled across your blog. Where in Orange County are you? I'd love to link to your blog from our Web site.
I love its simplicity! It's perfect from the roof down! And I also love the yellow color as it resonates very much on the sunny outdoors. It is just so cozy that I would want to spend my weekend there to recompose myself from the tiring busy week!
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Deferred maintenance is what neglect is called in real estate circles. It happens when we neglect a property by simply putting off taking care of it. Deferred maintenance is the passive choice that was made when we ignored taking any action. Failure to complete minor repairs as needed results in a more rapid deterioration of the property. Before long, the minor repairs have become costly renovations that can quickly overwhelm our personal savings account.
From the time we’re born until the day we die, our physical body is the housing we spend our entire life within. With a house, as with our bodies, it is easy (especially when we are young) to ignore those minor repairs of daily wear & tear. It is also easy to unconsciously fill up the empty spaces with poor decorating choices or hoard useless items that become clutter rather than useable life-enhancing decor.
We often make the same 3 comparable mistakes with our bodies as we do our houses.
2. We make poor choices in our lifestyle and foods as we seek quick satisfaction.
3. We become hoarders of our over-cluttered emotional life in the form of too many cheeseburgers & fries.
I totally get it. We do not want to face the fact that we have made a choice, by our own deferred maintenance and inaction, which has caused us pain. The following quote is one of those truths though that should help us push the pause button and just consider how we may have contributed at least a little to our current state of health. Best of all though, it reminds us how we can now take control. It has to do with the choices we make.
A house that has suffered from deferred maintenance sells for much less, because the cost to repair is so great. Making proactive choices regarding your physical health right now can save you a lot of future expense – financially & emotionally. Seize the day today, because it can change the world for you in the future. Chiropractic care is not just about your back! Be preemptive! We are here to help you where you are at now, so you can be the best you can be at where you want to be!
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The Webster Library of Concordia University carries an official biography of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, circa 1976, published by the Liberal Party of Canada. A scan of same, an ebook in PDF format, and a searchable transcript are free for download (157 MB zipped), together with additional documents.
Therefore, the foregoing, and other statements in Trudeau’s “official” Liberal biography, were clearly intended to lull the public into believing that Pierre Trudeau was, and had long been, a “Liberal”.
However, election year 1960 disproves the claim. In fact, it links Pierre Trudeau personally and directly to the Communist penetration of Quebec, which he facilitated with his “vote Lesage” article in Cité Libre.
The idea of a Communist plan was not abandoned; but merely the attempt to do it while a Province of Canada. The Quebec referendums of 1980 and 1995 to “secede” were efforts to acquire all the powers necessary to pull one off.
It would seem that the “fundamental characteristic” of the “Quiet Revolution” was an attempt by the Jean Lesage “Liberals” to construct a Communist Plan.
Moreover, Jean Lesage had been a federal minister under Soviet agent Lester Bowles Pearson as prime minister of Canada, before Lesage swapped the federal “Liberals” for the provincial.
À toutes fins pratiques, on va donner ici à l’Etat le rôle qu’il joue dans les pays socialistes de l’Est de l’Europe. On va centraliser la production, on va construire des plans — euh — coercitifs — et à toutes fins pratiques, comme je le disais, — euh — donner à l’Etat la gouverne totale. Et on doit s’attende à ce que le, le, l’économie progresse à peu près comme celle des Polonais ou des Czecks ou des Allemands de l’Est.
For all practical purposes here, they are going to give to the Government pretty much the role it plays in socialist countries in Eastern Europe. They are going to centralize production, they are going to construct coercive plans — uh — and for all practical purposes, as I said uh give to the Government total control. And one must expect that the, the, the economy will progress pretty much like that of the Poles or the Czechs or the East Germans.
This is not an indicative plan that we have here. This is clearly a coercive — uh — which ref — represents the kind of, of — of, uh — of system known in socialist countries.
But surely not, surely not (the kind found in) Sweden, and surely not in France, either.
In 1972, Yugoslavia still is Communist, under Tito.
The CCF, in case you didn’t know, is the original name of the party that became Canada’s NDP, our New Democratic Party, a full member, like the CCF before it, of the Socialist International, working toward socialist (Communist) world government. The NDP is Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s real political home in Canada, not the Liberals, whom he merely infiltrated like so many other Fabian Socialists.
Included in the Black Rose conference proceedings of the Praxis Institute for Social Change is an advocacy paper entitled “Industrial Democracy: Where do we go from here?” by none other than our respectable NDP’er, Edward Broadbent, M.P., and future NDP leader, influential in the administration of the Socialist International.
Industrial democracy is precisely the form of Communism framed in the pages of the 1972 PQ manifesto.
The Rockefellers’ Chase Manhattan Bank was a co-financier of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, along with Bankers Schiff, Warburg, Rothschild, and others.
Which raises the question: who, in fact, owns and operates Canada’s federal and provincial governments? For decades now, our federal and Quebec levels have colluded in illegal referendums to convert Quebec to Communism on the model advanced by the former Praxis, an alleged Rockefeller policy outlet.
Furthermore, the real goal of the Quebec “secession” front has been to restructure all of Canada through federal-Quebec “negotiation” following a referendum Yes.
The “Quiet Revolution” of the Lesage Red “Liberals” isn’t over. In his 2014 Liberty-Nation Project, Quebec city lawyer, “separatist” tactician and Communist co-founder of the Parti Québécois, Guy Bertrand, points out Quebec’s continued need for “sovereignty”. (It’s actually the Communists who need it.) However, the picture is shaping up.
The empty shells of the “radically revalorized municipal institutions” called for in the PQ’s 1972 manifesto (see “Democratic Communities, page 31) were created by the PQ in November-December 2000, without waiting to “secede”.
The PQ, as a rogue government legislating not for the governance of Quebec, but for the future dismantling of Quebec, created: “an array of regrouped and amalgamated municipalities” as called for (also on page 31) by its own manifesto of 1972. Obviously, that manifesto is current; it’s not passé or lapsed. In French, the PQ created “un ensemble de municipalités regroupées et fusionnées“. These are the “regions” that Bertrand is referring to in calling for a transfer of powers to them, aka “decentralization”.
This will indicate the determination of the Communists to in fact cause Quebec to “secede” to complete and implement these new Communist metropolitan regions. Which is what we really were forced to “vote” for in the 1980 and 1995 referendums. Not Quebec “sovereignty”. Not the independence of the ethnic French Canadians, but the dismantling of Quebec into a string of socialist banana republics, planned city-states on the model of Moscow.
La réforme des institutions politiques au Québec doit nécessairement passer par le transfert de pouvoirs gouvernementaux vers les régions, une fois modifié le statut politique du Québec. La décentralisation s’impose.
« La décentralisation, c’est le transfert de pouvoirs gouvernementaux vers les régions, avec, bien sûr, les ressources nécessaires pour les exercer, sans quoi il s’agit d’un transfert bidon. La décentralisation, précisons-le d’emblée, n’est pas un transfert ou une déconcentration de services, mais un transfert de pouvoirs. L’opération n’est pas de nature administrative, mais de nature politique. Il ne s’agit pas de réaménager l’Administration. Il s’agit de réaménager l’Etat.
The reform of political institutions in Quebec must necessarily proceed by way of the transfer of governmental powers to the regions once the political status of Quebec is modified. Decentralization is the way to go.
Those “missing instruments” are the legislative powers of the Province of Quebec, and of the Parliament in Ottawa, to be taken by UDI — a unilateral declaration of independence of the Communist state of Quebec, and handed over to the city-states, and to a new regional government, and undoubtedly, a world government.
Download a package of my exclusive English translation of parts of Guy Bertrand’s 2014 Liberty-Nation Project.
Il suffit de rappeler ici que la Fédération libérale accepta la formule d’union des forces démocratiques, alors qu’à toutes fins pratiques cette formule fut rejetée par l’Action civique et par le P.S.D.
Je veux bien croire que les Libéraux bluffaient peut-être au moment où ils acceptaient de négocier, même en dehors du parti libéral, une formule d’union des forces démocratiques. Je pense aussi que depuis la mort de MM. Duplessis et Sauvé et le retrait de l’Action civique, les Libéraux sont vraisemblablement ravis que cette union ne se soit pas réalisée.
En conséquence, cet électorat sera justifié, autant en théorie qu’en pratique, d’appuyer carrément le parti libéral aux élections prochaines.
Et le corollaire, c’est qu’un René Lévesque — soudain désireux d’exercer une action électorale — se trouve dans l’impossibilité pratique d’agir ailleurs que dans le parti libéral.
René Lévesque was apparently recruited by the Lesage Liberals; he didn’t find himself unable to run for office with one of the Red groupings on account of their failure, according to Pierre, to put “democracy first”.
It should be evident that Pierre Elliott Trudeau recommended voting for a party which he had to have known was going to attempt a Communist plan.
It must also be clear that if Quebec supposedly required “sovereignty” in order to acquire “[t]he missing instruments” to construct a Communist Plan, it is therefore and always has been in the direct personal interest of Pierre Elliott Trudeau — who urged his pro-Soviet readers of Cité Libre to vote for the Lesage “Liberals” — to find a way to dismantle Canada to construct that Plan.
And therefore, Pierre Elliott Trudeau and the other Reds long at the federal level, would have to be aiming at restructuring all of Canada to facilitate “provincial” Communist planning.
Which is not to say that other motives are not afoot for the redistribution of legislative powers from Ottawa to Quebec. Without all powers in its hands, Quebec would be unable to redistribute them in turn … to a decentralized group of expanded and consolidated Communist metropolitan regions on the model of Moscow in socialist sociologist Maurice Zeitlin’s “Planning is Socialism’s Trademark” in a 1975 issue of the Communist Party of the USA’s Daily World.
It must therefore be clear that it is not “Quebec” that wants “sovereignty,” nor was Pierre Elliott Trudeau “fighting to save Canada”. He was working, in both the Justice department under Soviet agent prime minister Pearson, and then in his own regime as prime minister, to restructure Quebec and all of Canada for Communism, after a “Yes” in a referendum.
Il va sans dire, mais cela ira peut-être mieux en le disant, que je ne suis pas autrement fier d’avoir à faire ces constatations. Mais si je ne les faisais pas [ces remarques], je renierais le long manifeste publié dans le numéro sus-dit de Cité libre, et je reculerais devant la logique à laquelle je risquais d’être pris en jouant à “démocratie d’abord”. Car il est certain que si, par exemple, le P.S.D.
Le résultat net, c’est que le parti libéral a obtenu à peu de frais le monopole des votes oppositionnistes.
Pierre Trudeau’s official “Liberal” biography therefore links him directly to the Communist penetration of Quebec with a view to constructing a Communist Plan. It links him through his own article published in Cité Libre in 1960, “Notes sur l’élection provinciale” (translation: “Notes on the Provincial Election”) (Volume 11, Number 28, June-July 1960, p. 12 et seq.) in which he invites his readers of Cité Libre to vote for the Lesage “Liberals”.
The electorate who unintentionally will vote for the Communists in 1960 were not, however, without counsel. Both Robert Rumilly and Patrick Walsh are present, trying very hard to warn Quebec voters about the leftist inclinations of their “Liberals”.
Quant à l’épouvantail du communisme, il ne semble guère pris au sérieux par l’électorat. Durant toute la campagne, René Lévesque fut plusieurs fois présentée comme un cryptocommuniste. Dans un entrefilet du 1er juin, le Montréal-Matin expliquait que « Pat Walsh, chef anticommuniste bien connu, a annoncé qu’il ferait la campagne contre René Lévesque », comme s’il était normal de surveiller René Lévesque en tant que communiste !
As for the scarecrow of Communism, the electorate hardly seems to have taken it seriously. Over the course of the campaign, René Lévesque was depicted a number of times as a crypto-communist. In a brief report on June 1st, the Montréal-Matin explained why “Pat Walsh, the well-known anticommunist leader, announced that he would campaign against René Lévesque”, as if it were normal to view René Lévesque as a Communist !
Le dernier épouvantail, celui d’un Parti libéral résolument hostile aux valeurs religieuses et à l’Église, est également agité par des partisans de l’Union nationale. À la toute fin de la campagne, l’historien traditionnaliste Robert Rumilly fait circuler un pamphlet dans lequel il s’insurge contre la gratuité scolaire qui violerait les droits de l’Église. Les cibles principales de l’historien sont Jacques Hébert, Jean-Louis Gagnon 1 et René Lévesque. Le 19 juin, il offre une causerie sur ce sujet à la radio (diffusée dans 9 postes, dont CKAC et CHRC), annoncée la veille dans Le Soleil. Le titre de cette causerie commanditée par la Ligue pour l’Autonomie des Provinces est « L’infiltration gauchiste dans les élections provinciales ». La réplique de Jean Lesage fut cinglante. Selon ce que rapporte le journaliste du Devoir, le chef libéral aurait déclaré : « Il a dit qu’il n’a pas de leçon de catholicisme à recevoir de cet “importé”, que le peuple canadien-français a réchauffé sur son sein pendant trop longtemps cette “vipère” qui le darde aujourd’hui dans ses idées » !
Perhaps the intensity of Jean Lesage’s insult to Rumilly reflects the degree of accuracy of Mr. Rumilly’s political forecast with regard to the Liberals.
The 2013 lecture by Éric Bédard, excerpted above, is an excellent off-the-beaten track background to the 1960 Quebec elections. It was first delivered under the auspices of the Quebec library and archives (BAnQ), with a transcript now online by the Fondation Lionel-Groulx.
Using the Liberals’ own statistics from a survey conducted by the Liberals at the time, Bédard explodes the “myth” that the Quebec of 1960 was “backward” and needed to be rescued.
The election of the Jean Lesage “Liberals” on 22nd June 1960 marks the beginning of the alleged “rescue”, i.e.: Quebec’s “Quiet Revolution”. The period prior to the “rescue” is often called “la Grande Noirceur” (the Great Darkness). However, Quebec of 1960, according to Bédard, was neither “backward” nor in “darkness”.
Therefore, what were the Liberals really doing when they merely pretended to rescue Quebec?
Were they simply trying to justify the revolutionary steps they planned to take, not even mentioned in their electoral platform, and thus not sought by the electorate? These included nationalization of hydroelectricity (Power Corporation of Canada came by a tidy sum of cash on that occasion; seven years later, it would found the Parti Québécois on its Montreal downtown business premises), secularization of the public education system, and a secret design (not mentioned by Bédard, which surfaced in my own research) to attempt to construct a Communist plan to run Quebec.
The “myth” of Quebec’s backwardness before the 1960 Liberal win still commands the airwaves at the Communist Broadcasting — I mean Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Bédard’s lecture is well written, amply footnoted, and my additional reason for enjoying it is that two of my anticommunist “old friends” have shown up: Robert Rumilly and Patrick Walsh.
Is Trudeau Really a Democrat?
Trudeau’s pretext for telling his readers to vote “Liberal” on June 22nd, 1960, is “democracy first”.
It was the “Liberals”, Trudeau says, who alone were willing to form a coalition to force Maurice Duplessis and the Union Nationale out of office. Because the watchword is “democracy first”, says Trudeau, the provincial “Liberals” have earned his readers’ vote.
This is a very nice pretext, in particular since Pierre Elliott Trudeau cares little if anything for “democracy” (at least as we envision it in our supreme Westminster Parliament of 1867).
In his 1977 book Viva Chairman Trudeau, commencing at the segment entitled “NDP Rule by Proxy – 25 April 73”, we have a portrait of the extent to which Pierre Elliott Trudeau is attached to “democracy” as a principle to influence the vote.
Since the life of the Trudeau minority government depends on the 31 socialist votes in the Commons, what the New Democrats want they usually get.
The pattern of the informal coalition was set the very first day the 29th Parliament met.
From then on the Trudeau-Lewis organic understanding has been refined into a smooth symbiosis which is in fact giving the country NDP government by proxy. Quite an achievement for a party which polls about 17 per cent of the vote.
One of the paradoxes of the 1972 federal election is that the near defeat of the Liberal party has increased Trudeau’s operational scope.
Since his minority government needs the NDP votes in the Commons to stay in office, Trudeau can now explain his version of any portion of the NDP program as an inescapable tactical necessity to keep the Liberal party in power.
It wasn’t David Lewis or Tommy Douglas but Pierre Trudeau who hit upon the idea of using the Liberal party for pushing the country down the socialist drain. The fact that the scheme now needs open NDP support in the Commons simplifies, not complicates, matters.
Until the 1972 election, opposition of genuine liberals to Trudeau’s pre-conceived policies of armchair socialism managed to blunt or moderate the illiberal impulses of his administration. Since late 1972 this internal check has been rendered ineffective.
Since keeping their party in power comes first with virtually all the ranking Grits, Trudeau is now free to impose on the country the framework of “socialist” policies he had trouble smuggling through in bits and pieces before the excuse of buying NDP support swept aside all objections.
The New Democrats find the arrangement ideal because it gives them more power than they could ever expect to get from their voting support, without at the same time burdening them with any of the responsibilities that go with exercise of power. What it all boils down to is political piracy.
A few observers are now coming close to my long-standing contention of Trudeau’s use of the Liberal party as a camouflage for NDP rule.
The latest discoverer of Trudeau’s capture and manipulation of the Liberal party for the socialists is columnist Charles Lynch.
“What we may be seeing,” writes Lynch, “is the re-emergence of Trudeau the convinced socialist, acting on the beliefs he held until he put them into mothballs when he joined the Liberal party at the age of 45.
This, of course, should have been obvious all along, and certainly since the 1972 election. Why, then, was the perception of virtually all our political commentators clouded for so long?
It’s not the whole explanation. It leaves out the sad fact that writing about Trudeau’s political roots means risking ridicule, condemnation and ostracism.
Trudeau’s claim that the New Democrats are not directing the ship but following it is justified. He does not need them as navigators, because the general direction of their course has always been his own. But he needs them for a semblance of legitimacy of his continued command.
In that sense the ship of state has now been actually steered for over a year by the 31 official socialists in the Commons, for without their support Trudeau and his crew could not hold on to the controls after the 1972 election.
David Lewis’ claim that “we were elected to make parliament work” is cynical hypocrisy. Parliament represents the will of the people, not the will of any one of its members. In the 1972 election the will of the people signified rejection of the Trudeau regime, without conferring the mandate to govern on any other party. The New Democrats, who polled less than 18 per cent of the votes cast, certainly did not receive a mandate to defy the will of the majority of the electorate in nine out of Canada’s ten provinces.
By keeping in office a government rejected by the majority of the electorate in all the provinces but one, the New Democrats are not only in contempt of the democratic process but are now primarily responsible for the continued mismanagement of the country.
In closing, and in terms of a broader conclusion to be drawn from Trudeau’s 1960 support for the “Liberals”, the apparent “struggle” of the federal government of Canada, first under Pearson, then under Trudeau, and afterward under others, with a “separatist” Quebec, is a cleverly staged sham. It is meant to hide a confidence game and close cooperation among Communists top and bottom who have penetrated both the federal and provincial levels. They are manipulating their way toward dismantling Canada precisely to give each of the Provinces all the “instruments” necessary … to construct a Communist Plan.
And they are doing so with the full support of the family which has hijacked the Crown and Throne, and the democratic liberty of Canada.
1 Jean-Louis Gagnon was a Soviet agent, one of many exposed by Igor Gouzenko. Gagnon escaped the Canadian “spy trials” (he fled to Brazil) with the help of Mitchell Sharp, the latter a future member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission and a future adviser to Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
2 As Lesage’s brand new Minister of Education — a post not occupied since 1875 when the decision was made to restore Church control of Education — Paul Gérin-Lajoie, in the photo at right, was instrumental in evicting Quebec’s Catholic faith from the public school system. There had to be at least two purposes for doing this. First, mass immigration could not begin in earnest without faith-neutral public schools. Secondly, socialist planning in the future multicultural (non-national) city-states could not be done without city control of Education in order to train people for the jobs planned to be filled. Thus, the ancient constitutional right of the inhabitants of New France to preserve their faith and culture was eradicated in Quebec to facilitate their ethnic replacement, and fully planned socialism in a Marxist world state.
L’intervention fédérale dans le domaine de l’enseignement pourrait saper à leur base toutes les institutions québécoises. L’octroi de subsides fédéraux pourrait à lui seul produire une petite révolution. Imaginons, par exemple, que le gouvernement fédéral décide de donner un octroi substantiel à certaines facultés universitaires à l’exclusion d’autres facultés auxquelles la province de Québec attache la plus grande importance, contrairement aux autres provinces. Les répercussions ne seraient pas lentes à se faire sentir dans l’orientation de la pensée, le sens des valeurs et, éventuellement, les institutions sociales.
Federal intervention in the field of education might undermine at their base all of Quebec’s institutions. The granting of federal subsidies alone might produce a small revolution. Imagine, for example, that the federal government decides to give a substantial grant to certain university faculties to the exclusion of other faculties to which the Province of Quebec attaches the greatest importance, contrary to the other provinces. The repercussions would not be slow to be felt in the orientation of thinking, the sense of values and, ultimately, the social institutions.
Il ne s’agît pas de représenter le gouvernement fédéral comme ennemi du Québec. Loin de là! Mais le danger existe qu’en étendant les compétences fédérales à des domaines qui ne sont pas purement économiques, la nouvelle législation soit orientée — bien inconsciemment, peut-être — d’une façon défavorable au Québec. Voilà pourquoi la province s’inquiète toujours des agrandissements des compétences fédérales, et pourquoi son gouvernement exige un droit de contrôle sur tout amendement à ce sujet.
This is not to depict the federal government as the enemy of Quebec. Far from it! But the danger exists that in extending the federal powers into fields which are not purely economic, the new legislation might be oriented — quite unconsciously, perhaps — in a way unfavorable to Quebec. That is why the province is always concerned about enlargements of federal competencies, and why its government requires a right to control all such amendments.
What happened in Quebec under Lesage and Lajoie after their 1960 win was far more devastating than federal intervention or a constitutional amendment. With no hint in their platform, Quebec’s Red Liberals implemented their own “revolution” against Quebec’s ancient institutions.
2) intent of the Lesage “Liberals” to construct a Communist Plan to run the economy, an undertaking apparently quietly begun in 1961 according to page 103 of the 1972 manifesto of the Parti Québécois.
I can find no documented source alleging that the voters turfed out Lesage in 1966 over the education reforms. The only reference to the subject at all says the Union Nationale alleged that Lesage would remove the crucifix from the schools if re-elected. I sense that this reference probably hides deeper public discontent which the controllers of the “Memory Hole” have left unrecorded.
Or, les jours de grande fete, ces temples sont remplis à craquer, — mais uniquement de vieillards. La liberté de culte n’est donc pas éteinte; mais faute d’instruction religieuse cette chrétienté est amputée de sa jeunesse. Sauf en Georgie toutefois, où les jeunes paraissent encore assez dévots.
Did Radicals Aim To Overthrow Government? The Winnipeg Free Press, 27 January 1977, Front Page.
This article, “Did Radicals Aim To Overthrow Government?”, in the The Winnipeg Free Press of 27 January 1977, is careful to exclude most names of individuals and of the “radical” organization subject of Solicitor-General Jean-Pierre Goyer’s “letter” “warning” government departments of subversive activities. However, the reference to a $68,000 federal-government grant to the “radical group” by Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, identifies the unnamed radical organization working to overthrow the government of Canada as Praxis Corporation, also then known as the “Research Institute for Social Change”.
One name the WFP does reveal is that of Walter Rudnicki, described by the WFP as “policy planning director of Central Mortgage and Housing Corp”. That raises my question, was Rudnicki responsible for the CMHC award to Praxis of the $68,000, its main operating budget?
The question is important because just prior to Rudnicki’s employment with the CMHC, he was an official in the Privy Council Office of Canada which conducts research to advise the Prime Minister.
Rudnicki will figure in an upcoming post on the Edmund Burke Society, founded in 1967 by three men, including University of Toronto student, F. Paul Fromm as an “anticommunist” group. Information that I currently have indicates that Walter Rudnicki exposed the Edmund Burke Society as a national police operation (a front) of the federal government of Canada. Therefore, this initial post will help to connect Rudnicki himself to the Trudeau federal government.
In this article in the 1977 Winnipeg Free Press, Jean-Pierre Goyer, Solicitor General in 1971, identifies Rudnicki as one of 21 “subversives” linked to the Communist Praxis Corporation, working to overthrow the government of Canada. Somehow, Rudnicki cleared himself, and returned to work for the federal government and its agencies.
Another thing you need if you are imposing a dictatorship is control of the police. In Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are controlled by the Solicitor-General. So Trudeau made Jean-Pierre Goyer the Solicitor-General — when Parliament was not in session and could not question him. Goyer, it goes without saying, was a regular contributor to Cité Libre. Isn’t everybody? He was once arrested for staging a sit-in outside the office of the Premier of Quebec. He has been involved in several pro-Communist fronts. And he has attended Communist meetings behind the Iron Curtain. Like his friend Trudeau, he is a revolutionary.
The Poor People’s Conference run by Praxis had been financed by the federal government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau through funds contributed by Trudeau’s Minister of Health and Welfare John Munro, through such federal agencies as the National Council of Welfare.
Obviously, the de facto federal government of Pierre Elliott Trudeau was not at all hostile to Praxis Corporation.
Which brings us full-circle to our equally Communist Solicitor-General, and back to my question, why would Jean-Pierre Goyer (appointed by Trudeau “when Parliament was not in session and could not question him” said Stang) “blow the whistle” on the radicals at Praxis? Goyer himself, like Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jean-Louis Gagnon are penetrated Communists working “like microbes” to “destroy Canada” … for the Yugoslav system of Communist “worker control” or “industrial democracy”.
According to my original research, the Trudeau objective is excactly the Praxis objective: Yugoslav-style Communist “Worker Control”, aka “industrial democracy” of the kind practiced under Marshall Tito. That information comes from a reading of the 1972 manifesto of the Parti Québécois for a Communist state of Quebec — which I have translated into English — together with a 1972 Radio-Canada transcript and audio tape — which I have also translated into English — in which the manifesto is identified as calling for Yugoslav-style Communism for Quebec.
For a free download of the 1972 manifesto and the radio show in one zip file, see the Download button on the top menu.
“Electoral” meaning “referendum”. And thus we have the true source of our Quebec “independence” or “sovereignty” referendums.
Obviously, the “radicals'” plan to penetrate and destroy Canada “like microbes” had long been well under way at the federal level. Lester Bowles Pearson was in fact a Soviet agent, exposed in the U.S. McCarran hearings and to the FBI by defecting GRU Elizabeth Bentley (formerly with Soviet military intelligence).
Jean-François Lisée — a known Communist — is now the elected leader of the Communist PQ [7 October 2016], succeeding multimillionaire Pauline Marois, Lucien Bouchard, Bernard Landry, Jacques Parizeau and René Lévesque in their goal of making the province of Quebec into a Communist banana republic attached to the “rest of Canada” and to the “USA” by “trade agreements”.
A preliminary investigation of the actual nature of the Praxis Corp. network reveals it to be the centerpiece in a broad-based, largely Rockefeller-inspired, conspiracy directed at all phases of the Canadian policy making process. Information on Praxis and associated networks gathered in Canada and gridded against the extensively documented activities of the terrorist controllers at the U.S.-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) both in North America and in Europe show the Praxis Corp. to be an IPS-Canadian front organization.
This identification, matched in turn against known official Rockefeller policy options for Canada, allows the efficient assemblage of the complete profile of Rockefeller and allied network agencies of subversion directed at Canadian national sovereignty.
READ The Winnipeg Free Press: “Did Radicals Aim To Overthrow Government?” (27 January 1977.
READ “Goyer Cites Destructive ‘New Left'”, also on the front page.
I have obtained an authentic copy of an old draft article by noted journalist Peter Worthington (born February 16, 1927) which contains names of suspected Communists in the federal government of Canada, as revealed in the RCMP’s now-quashed “Featherbed File”.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau squelched the Featherbed file with an Order-in-Council before he left office. Trudeau himself was named in it as a suspected Communist subversive.
Many headlines could be drawn from this article. However, the one that comes to my mind first is that Sol Simon Reisman, who negotiated the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA), was a suspected Communist subversive. RCMP Featherbed investigators objected in vain to the renewal of Reisman’s high-level security clearance with the federal government of Canada.
In 1982, Trudeau ordered a royal commission convened: the Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada, known as the Macdonald Commission, and chaired by Trudeau’s friend and co-Bilderberger, Liberal Minister of Finance, Donald Stovel Macdonald.
The Macdonald Commission reported to Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1985. It recommended free trade with the USA, and the conversion of Canada to a socialist welfare state.
In May of 1986, Canadian and American negotiators began to work out a so-called trade deal, known as the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The Canadian team was led by former deputy Minister of Finance Simon Reisman and the American side by Peter O. Murphy, former deputy United States trade representative in Geneva.
The FTA was deepened by the coming into force on January 1, 1994 of NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement involving Canada, the USA and Mexico, and spanning the continent.
A number of informed and well placed observers have identified the NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) which followed it on the pretext of so-called terrorist attacks of September 2001, as the building blocks of a North American Union modeled on the European Union. Today, The European Union is called both Marxist and “post-democratic” by some members of the press and intellectuals such as Professor John Fonte.
American Charlotte Iserbyt has warned of an impending North American Soviet Union, citing Mikhail Gorbachev who in 2002 called the European Union the “New European Soviet”.
American-Lithuanian Vilius Bražėnas viewed the series of trade deals on this continent in a similar light. Bražėnas, a survivor of Communism, died on October 3, 2010 at the age of 97. In his final passionate articles, he warned against the FTA, NAFTA, the FTAA and related trade-zone accords as tantamount to a multiple coup-d’état which in the end would impose a Communist regional union in North America.
Is anyone listening? I know I am.
In particular because U.S. Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald in 1983 publicly warned America that the Marxist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Marxist Trilateral Commission and other related non-governmental entities were pushing for a Communist regional union through a series of apparently harmless trade deals.
Canada’s FTA under Reisman certainly shifts Canada to the left while initiating the North American merger process.
”Well, I think there are those who realize that moving straight from a prototype of the United Nations into world government perhaps is tactically impossible. But phasing out increasingly national sovereignty into REGIONAL GOVERNMENT and phasing out sovereignties into international treaties ….” is the order of the day.
Today, with these warnings in mind, I invite you to read Peter Worthington’s old draft article exposing the chief negotiator of the FTA — which forms the initial basis of a clearly incoming REGIONAL UNION in North America — as someone the RCMP had warned the federal government not to trust because he likely was a Communist subversive.
However, the warnings fell on deaf ears, no doubt because the very Prime Minister’s Office the RCMP attempted to alert was itself already infested with one-world government types and suspected Communist subversives such as Soviet agent Lester B. Pearson, and Soviet mole Pierre Elliott Trudeau.
As a consequence, the very basis of Communist regional union in North America was negotiated by someone Canada’s national police and security apparatus long believed to be a Communist subversive.
Following is an exclusive typed transcript made by me from Worthington’s own typed, draft article, which he hand-edited.
For ease of reading, i am retyping the draft clean, without indicating Mr. Worthington’s deletions and insertions. Images and captions have been added by me.
Operation Featherbed, a 14-year RCMP investigation into suspected subversives in high places, tried to warn the federal government it was being systematically infiltrated.
But the governments of John Diefenbaker, Lester Pearson, and Pierre Trudeau dismissed the Featherbed warnings as unsubstantiated Communist witch-hunting.
Besides, it would have been too embarrassing to repudiate people their governments had promoted to positions of influence.
Featherbed suspected that Communist infiltration of the federal bureaucracy had been set in train in 1923 with the co-option of O.D. Skelton, renowned as the “father of the civil service”.
The Featherbed analysts concluded that over the years, any promising “agents of influence” were talent-spotted at Communist study clubs in universities and brought into the civil service.
Inside, a shadowy network promoted “birds of a feather,” which gave the operation its code-name.
Bernard Ostry became deputy minister of communications despite RCMP objections. He was recently appoint(ed) at $65,000 a year as government special adviser on culture and communications based in Paris.
Sylvia Ostry, former chief of Statistics Canada, the Economic Council of Canada, and deputy minister of consumer and corporate affairs, was appointed last fall to head the economics and statistics branch of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.
Operation Featherbed also plumbed the pasts of prime ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau — Trudeau for his travels to Warsaw, Moscow, Peking and Havana, Pearson for allegedly having supplied information while a diplomat, that was transmitted to Moscow by a U.S. spy ring.
(Trudeau once called for his Featherbed file, “chuckled” as he read the report about his travels, associations and indiscretions, and sent it back to RCMP files).
Featherbed began as a search for suspected Communist subversives in the hierarchy of the civil service, branched out delving into university professors, lawyers, the media and trade unions.
It involved extensive surveillance, wiretapping and bugging under the code-name Operation Mercury (Featherbed was the analytical side). The winnowed-down conclusions were summarized in a thick, black-edged book that held the names of 245 “professional” people as members of the Communist Party secret underground in Canada.
Not all the subjects of initial investigation found their way into the wrap-up black book.
Featherbed opened files on 87 CBC staffers as suspected subversives but there was no evidence of any operating network and only a handful were named in the final summation.
And Featherbed never learned the identity of “our agent in Canadian Press” that Communist Party of Canada chief Tim Buck frequently boasted about to his mistress, Bess Nascolo. A bug in Nascolo’s house on Jones Ave., Toronto, picked up the drunken boasts after a shipment of Russian embassy vodka.
Featherbed believed that Lewis Rasminsky, former governor of the Bank of Canada, was only flirting with Communism when he attended party cell meetings in the Depression, as many disillusioned people did, and that he had rejected the ideology.
After a Featherbed investigation, the RCMP Security Service blocked the intended 1969 appointment of Grace Hartman to the government’s national commission on the status of women. She became head of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Featherbed also conducted an investigation of Shirley Carr, vice-president of the Canadian Labor Congress.
What prompted Featherbed’s start in 1958 was an accusation by the U.S. Senate Internal Sub-Committee that Robert Bryce had been a member of a Communist closed party cell at Harvard university in 1935-37.
The subcommittee the previous year had cited Herbert Norman, then ambassador to Cairo, as a Communist.
Norman leaped to his death in Cairo a day after he told his doctor that if he were called to testify in a royal commission, he would to identify 60 to 70 Canadians as Communists.
Norman was a good friend of Lester Pearson and Robert Bryce and Pearson’s denunciation of U.S. interference in Canadian affairs caused the jittery RCMP brass to sever relations with the FBI.
When they were resumed, the FBI handed the information about the Silvermaster spy ring to the RCMP. The ring’s courier, Elizabeth Bentley, told the FBI that Norman was a source of information sent to Moscow.
She also said that she had reported to her Soviet at spy handlers that Pearson also had been a source of information, along with John Grierson, head of the National Film Board, and his secretary, Freda Linton.
Featherbed was launched with the concept that the Silvermaster ring — which led to the indictments of Alger Hiss, assistant to the U.S. Secretary of State, and Harry Dexter White, a senior official in the U.S. Treasury Department — had its counterpart in Ottawa.
The initial investigation turned up 12 suspected equivalents in the Ottawa civil service hierarchy. The files on the dozen were taken away by W. H. Kelly, director of RCMP Security and Intelligence, and never returned to Featherbed investigators.
After the U.S. subcommittees naming Bryce, he voluntarily went to RCMP headquarters to explain.
Featherbed with the help of the FBI investigated his claim but concluded that Bryce had played a greater role in the study cells than he owned up to.
The delving also turned up a class parade photo taken at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the early 1930s. [Sitting] in the front row were Bryce, Lester Pearson, Herbert Norman and Kim Philby.
Philby went on to penetrate and sell out British Intelligence as a Soviet KGB master agent and now lives in Moscow. The picture raised questions but answered none.
RCMP of Operation Mercury put Bryce under surveillance for many months but found nothing incriminating.
The RCMP Watching Service glued on to Reisman but never found him meeting with Lobatchev. However, Featherbed found that Reisman’s wife had attended a Communist party training school in Port Hope, Ont., in 1954.
When Reisman’s top security clearance came up for renewal, the RCMP put in a report that it shouldn’t be renewed. But the government’s security screening panel disagreed.
Bernard Ostry was the subject of RCMP surveillance under the code-name “Apache.” That came after British Intelligence reported in 1962 that Ostry had attended a meeting of the Communist Party of Britain.
The Watching Service reported that Ostry had met Russian Intelligence Service agent Rem Krassilnikov at the Green Gables restaurant in Ottawa.
The RCMP took Bernard Ostry’s file to Trudeau but he dismissed their objections to his promotion to deputy minister of communications, the department that includes intercepting Soviet communications and bugging of embassies.
The RCMP had filed objections to Sylvia Ostry’s promotions on the basis of her Communist associations. Trudeau dismissed that, too.
The RCMP could never reveal, even to Trudeau, the source for their objections to the Ostrys.
With Trudeau’s disinterest, Featherbed ground to a listless effort in 1972 and died completely by 1975.
A stroke of luck had uncovered secret Communist party memberships of several higher-ups in the trade union movement and in the civil service.
An RCMP “garbage patrol” picked up the membership list of secret section number seven of the United Jewish People’s Order in Montreal. Section seven was the UJPO’s underground party apparatus for professional people.
Featherbed’s file on Kent outlined his connections with Communist front groups while he was managing editor of the Winnipeg Free Press.
Of the many university professors in Featherbed’s files, the most important was deemed to be Prof. C. B. MacPherson of University of Toronto.
The RCMP bugged MacPherson’s island cottage near Gananoque for the regular visits by two Russian Intelligence Service officers from the Ottawa embassy.
MacPherson’s wife, Kay, was leader of the Voice of Women movement that paraded for rejection of nuclear weapons by Canada.
Twenty years after Igor Gouzenko defected, Featherbed analysts got around to poring through the neglected kit-bags full of papers seized in the spy-ring roundup.
In the yellowing notebooks and memo pads, they found names and phone numbers of calls made in wartime. Tracing the numbers back to wartime government phone books, they traced calls made to civil servants who by then (1965) had risen high in the bureaucracy.
They also found evidence implicating a wartime RCAF wing commander and an army colonel in the Soviet spy rings. But by then, the trail had gotten too cold. Ironically, the colonel was by then dealing with Soviet trade missions for the government.
Another trail too late to pick up was a curious coincidence that went unexplained.
A card was put in the shop window to signal that a letter was waiting to be picked up. The card’s appearance usually coincided with the visit to the manager’s office at the rear by two middle-rank civil servants.
The pair rose high in the bureaucracy and retired with honors and indexed pensions.
Operation Featherbed folded for lack of government interest.
1 Trudeau himself was feared by the RCMP to be a Communist agent. (Trudeau undoubtedly was one. At Moscow in 1952, Trudeau led a Communist delegation organized by the Canadian Communist Party. The Moscow meeting was an “economic summit” organized by Soviet intelligence. See my exclusive English translations of a 7-part series on the summit, “I’m Back From Moscow,” penned by Trudeau for the leftist daily, Le Devoir. Lester Pearson absolutely was a Soviet agent, denounced by defecting Soviet military intelligence, Elizabeth Bentley to the FBI. However, Worthington soft-pedals the grave accusations of Elizabeth Bentley against Pearson in the McCarran hearings. (In 2012, Worthington, still kicking and alive, soft-pedaled his own accusations against Communist Trudeau of the 1970s and 80s, thus bleaching Pierre’s reputation when Red offspring Justin was running for the “Liberal” leadership. Police suspected Bernard and Sylvia Ostry, as well. Now, grasp this, if you can. According to Don Newman, in his autobiography, xxxxxx, Trudeau routinely held his federal Cabinet meetings at the private palatial home of none other than suspected Communists, Bernard and Sylvia Ostry, straddling the border between Hull, Quebec and Ontario. Also at those meetings was private citizen and Canadian RIIA member, Paul Desmarais Senior of Power Corporation. On the downtown Montreal business premises of Power Corporation in the 1960s, 1967 to be precise in this case, a “Secret Committee” of Reds posing as Liberals in the federal cabinet of Soviet Agent Lester Pearson, came up with a plan to create a “separatist” party. Communist René Lévesque was instructed by them to organize and lead it.
We thus find a major multinational corporation embracing, hosting and harboring obvious Communist infiltrators of the Liberal Party of Canada, setting up plans for a Communist party and a Communist State of Quebec on Power Corporation premises. Power Corporation is also a major presence at the Canadian branch of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (the RIIA in London, an international banker front for a secret society whose object still is the infiltration of national governments to subvert national sovereignty on the road to world government).
* I have come up with a good piece of evidence that Tom Kent was/is indeed a Communist subversive. In March 2007, the Caledon Institute published in pdf format a booklet authored by Kent entitled Federalism Renewed. The section of it entitled “City Limits” declares the Provinces of Canada (Provincial Legislatures) as defunct institutions of the previous Century. Kent recommends replacing our Provincial Legislatures with a new form of “federalism” which bears a strong resemblance to the Communist expanded administrative municipal regions documented in Moscow in 1975 by Maurice (Morris) Zeitlin writing in Communist Workers’ World. I can tell from the same article that Kent also knows why Stephen Harper declared Quebec “a nation” in 2006: precisely to disintegrate Canada to use Quebec to “negotiate” Kent’s “new federalism”.
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Sorry for any inconvenience caused, folks.
Please drop by on Sunday instead, we’ll be open from 11am – 3pm!
We finally received the new shoes for Fall/Winter 2014!
The Mizuno Wave Hitogami has a new cool, blue colourway. The Hitogami has been super popular this season. It is a neutral lightweight trainer that offers a touch of support thanks to Mizuno’s proprietary Wave Plate in the outsole. Enough cushioning for runners to easily tackle distances up to 21km (or further), but with the responsiveness that you would want in a race day shoe.
Sorry ladies, the local distributor for Mizuno dropped the women’s Wave Hitogami this season. We’re still trying to get our hands on some, so fingers crossed!
The Wave Hitogami retails for $169.
The much anticipated Saucony Kinvara 5 also finally reaches our shores! Well, the men’s model at least. The ladies’ K5 is slated to be available in early October.
The K5 is latest iteration of Saucony’s beloved 4mm heel drop lightweight trainer. The K5 sees a change in the upper from the K4 (cue the cheers & applause). The K5 has a softer, breathable mesh that translates to a slightly wider fit in the toe box. The outsole has seen the introduction of a few more spots of high durability rubber in those high wear areas for improved durability. What might split the Kinvara lovers is the fact that the K5 seems a bit stiffer than the previous versions. While runner’s that gravitate to the Kinvara for it’s ‘natural’ feel might be slightly disappointed, I think the perceived increase in support will encourage more runners to pick up the K5 for it’s increased versatility.
The K5 retails for $159.
Last but not least, the guys at Vamos have released another 3 models of their very eye-catching socks.
The “Maria”, right most in the picture, is women’s specific.
All products are available in store. See you soon!
Closed this Sunday, 14 Sept!
Please take note that we’ll be closed this Sunday!
Well, it’s been a a little quiet on shoe front these few months. There haven’t been a lot of new releases, but with Fall/Winter, hopefully your feet will be in for a treat.
This afternoon, we received the new Saucony Kinvara 5 (K5)! As you know, we’ve always been rather fond of the Kinvara series so it will be interesting to see how this new model stacks up against its predecessors.
Once you slip your foot into the K5, you can tell straight away that it is a comfortable shoe. Though it is built on the same last as the K4, the K5 uses a more flexible mesh in the upper. As a result, the toe box feels wider and much less restrictive. The K5 sports a re-designed Flexfilm overlay and the new Pro Lock System that is supposed to help lock down your midfoot even more. I don’t lace my shoes up that tight while running so admittedly, I didn’t feel the full benefit of the Pro Lock System. I did experiment with the lacing after and if you did you laces up tight, the Pro Lock definitely holds your midfoot in place. The heel counter has been redesigned and while it is reportedly a tad higher, the softer material around the collar felt super plush and I don’t see it being an issue in the long run.
Slightly re-designed outsole and perhaps more stability on the lateral side?
The K5 has the same profile as the K4 but it does look slightly more built up than before, though the weight remains unchanged. High wear areas have received a bit more attention but the grooves throughout the outsole don’t look as deep as before. After a short gander on the treadmill, my initial feeling is that the K5 feels less flexible than the K4. It’s not uncomfortable, but it does seem like a bit of a departure from the previous iterations. While the runners that took to the Kinvara for it’s more minimalist appeal might be disappointed, I think this opens up the Kinvara to a much larger group of runners. Slightly firmer but still smooth on transition, more runners will be tempted to slowly introduce the K5 as an alternative for their long runs.
A little reminiscent of the Nike’s Dynamic Flywire system?
Overall, the K5 looks to have widened it’s appeal to the masses. The more generous toe box, improved durability, cushier upper and perceived increase in stability make this an easy shoe for runners to transition to from their traditional daily trainers. The blend of a low heel drop (for the midfoot strikers) with ample cushioning in a lightweight package is still very sought after. There might be other competitors in this category nowadays, but with the Kinvara 5, Saucony continues to secure their position at the front of the pack.
The Saucony Kinvara 5 (men’s) is available now and retails for $159. It is available in the above two colours.
Vamos – Embrace the Socks!
We’re very happy that you can now get your Vamos socks here at TRG!
Vamos performance socks are made by athletes for athletes. The perfect combination of Nylon, TECHNICOOL, and Spandex keep your active feet dry, and your friends at bay.
Time to turn on the style and embrace the socks!
Go celebrate National Day and catch the fireworks!
TRG will be closed this Saturday, 9 August 2014!
Our national anthem is not called Mari Kita!
It’s business as usual on Sunday.
Hey Saucony fans, all our remaining Kinvara 4 and Virrata 2 shoes are on offer!
The Kinvara 4 is now $119 (was $159) and the Virrata 2 is now $99 (was $139).
The offer price is available now and will go till we run out of stock!
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The first Snoopy set has released in Thailand in1997.They are Snoopy All Stars set.
4 toys with Snoopy play sport on the top can connect together like jigsaw.
The Snoopy World Tour 1 have launched on 21Aug- 1Sep 1998.Give out 7 Snoopy for week .They featuring 28 designs of Snoopy dressed in different 28 countries costume. This set become one of the most popular Mcdonald’s collectibles with more than 1,000,000 pieces sold in Thailand. They are all sold out in very short time. Mcthai also give special Snoopy house box for collectibles but it is very rare now.
After a year, Mcdonald’s have launched Snoopy World Tour 2 featuring new 28 designs, although they get 12 same countries with the old set but all in new design. They are more colorful than the old one.Also have 4 special handbills in limited edition.
zijn die snoopy dingen er nog?
where i can buy my missing Happy meals of Snoopy?pls. help me to look for it Tnx!
Where can i buy the first set of snoopy world tour?
Recently just collect eleven second hand from the flea market. I am now in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Hope any buyer in Malaysia can let me know to get these sets.
why cant you have them again.
eu would like buy this colection of snoopy , tell me how.
How much can u offer for McDonald Snoopy world Set 2! Highest bigger gets it. I also have extra what country do you want and your offer?
How much Maam?, and isi it still in good condition?
I would like buy hello kitty make up case anyone sell it?
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If you do this right from the start, you won’t spend a lot of time and you will save a lot of time later. Now for that list of sites and remember, you should set up your excel sheet first and then you can copy and paste these links right into this spreadsheet and go from there.
Excellent tip, Deb and Roger, and thanks for the sites!
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A shining example of those who Witness, making sure His name is heard.
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F. No. 1/8/2010-E.I(B) : Preliminary Examination of the Civil Services Examination for recruitment to the Services and Posts mentioned below will be held by the Union Public Service Commission on 12th June, 2011 in accordance with the Rules published by the Department of Personnel & Training in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 19thFebruary, 2011.
The number of vacancies to be filled on the result of the examination is expected to be approximately 880. The number of vacancies may get increased.
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A rerouting element for a semiconductor device includes a dielectric film that carries conductive vias, conductive elements, and contact pads. The conductive vias are positioned at locations that correspond to the locations of bond pads of a semiconductor device with which the rerouting element is to be used. The conductive elements, which communicate with corresponding conductive vias, reroute the bond pad locations to corresponding contact pad locations adjacent to one peripheral edge or two adjacent peripheral edges of the rerouted semiconductor device. The rerouting element is particularly useful for rerouting centrally located bond pads of a semiconductor device, as well as for rerouting the peripheral locations of bond pads of a semiconductor device to one or two adjacent peripheral edges thereof. Methods for designing and using the rerouting element are also disclosed, as are semiconductor device assemblies including one or more rerouting elements.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/207,280, filed Sep. 9, 2008, pending, which application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/118,366, filed Apr. 8, 2002, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,423,336, issued Sep. 9, 2008, the entire contents of each of which are hereby incorporated herein by this reference.
The present invention relates generally to elements that reroute the locations of bond pads on semiconductor devices and, more specifically, to rerouting elements that are configured to be secured to the active surfaces of fabricated semiconductor devices to reroute the bond pad locations thereof. In addition, the present invention relates to methods for designing rerouting elements and to rerouting methods. The present invention also relates to multi-chip modules with semiconductor devices in stacked arrangement and including one or more of the rerouted semiconductor devices, as well as to methods for forming and packaging such assemblies.
In order to conserve the amount of surface area, or “real estate,” consumed on a carrier substrate, such as a circuit board, by semiconductor devices connected thereto, various types of increased density packages have been developed. Among these various types of packages is the so-called “multi-chip module” (MCM). Some types of multi-chip modules include assemblies of semiconductor devices that are stacked one on top of another. The amount of surface area on a carrier substrate that may be saved by stacking semiconductor devices is readily apparent—a stack of semiconductor devices consumes roughly the same amount of real estate on a carrier substrate as a single, horizontally oriented semiconductor device or semiconductor device package.
Due to the disparity in processes that are used to form different types of semiconductor devices (e.g., the number and order of various process steps), the incorporation of different types of functionality into a single semiconductor device has proven very difficult to actually reduce to practice. Even in cases where semiconductor devices that carry out multiple functions can be fabricated, multi-chip modules that include semiconductor devices with differing functions (e.g., memory, processing capabilities, etc.) are often much more desirable since the separate semiconductor devices may be fabricated independently and later assembled with one another much more quickly and cost-effectively (e.g., lower production costs due to higher volumes and lower failure rates).
Multi-chip modules may also contain a number of semiconductor devices that perform the same function, effectively combining the functionality of all of the semiconductor devices thereof into a single package.
An example of a conventional, stacked multi-chip module includes a carrier substrate, a first, larger semiconductor device secured to the carrier substrate, and a second, smaller semiconductor device positioned over and secured to the first semiconductor device. Any suitable adhesive may be used to secure the semiconductor devices to one another. The second semiconductor device does not overlie bond pads of the first semiconductor device and, thus, the second semiconductor device does not cover bond wires that electrically connect bond pads of the first semiconductor device to corresponding contacts or terminal pads of the carrier substrate. Such a multi-chip module is disclosed and illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 6,212,767, issued to Tandy on Apr. 10, 2001 (hereinafter “the '767 Patent”). Due to the use of bond wires to form electrical connections between bond pads and corresponding terminal pads, this type of stacked multi-chip module has been limited to use with semiconductor devices that include peripherally located bond pads.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,323,060, issued to Fogal et al. on Jun. 21, 1994 (hereinafter “the '060 Patent”) shows one example where dice of the same size are stacked on top of one another over a circuit board. Bonding wires are connected from the bond pads of each die to corresponding terminal pads on the circuit board. In order to provide clearance for the bond wires that electrically connect bond pads and corresponding terminal pads, however, adjacent semiconductor devices must be spaced apart from one another a significant distance.
Stacked multi-chip modules of other configurations have also been developed. For example, it is known that stacked multi-chip modules may include large semiconductor devices positioned over smaller semiconductor devices and that adjacent semiconductor devices may be staggered relative to one another or have different orientations.
Different electrical connection technologies, including wire bonding, tape-automated bonding (“TAB”), and controlled-collapse chip connection (“C-4”), which results in a so-called flip-chip arrangement, are but a few of the ways in which discrete conductive elements may be formed in stacked multi-chip modules. Different electrical connection technologies have also been used in single multi-chip modules, with the bond pads of one semiconductor device being electrically connected to corresponding contact areas of a carrier substrate of the multi-chip module with a different type of discrete conductive element than that used to form electrical connections between the bond pads of another semiconductor device and their corresponding contact areas of the carrier substrate.
Many semiconductor devices include bond pads that are arranged at central locations on an active surface thereof. Examples include semiconductor devices that are configured for use with leads-over-chip (LOC) type lead frames, in which the bond pads are arranged substantially linearly along the centers thereof, as well as semiconductor devices with bond pads disposed in an “I” arrangement. While it may be desirable to use such semiconductor devices in stacked multi-chip modules, the central bond pad placements thereof do not readily facilitate the use of bond wires or other laterally extending discrete conductive elements to electrically connect the bond pads with their corresponding terminal pads of a circuit board that underlies the semiconductor device stack.
Accordingly, there are needs for apparatus and methods that facilitate the use of semiconductor devices with centrally located bond pads in stacked multi-chip modules. There are also needs for apparatus and methods for reducing the heights of stacked multi-chip modules that include semiconductor devices with peripherally located bond pads.
A rerouting element incorporating teachings of the present invention includes a substantially planar member, referred to herein as a base substrate, with opposed top and bottom surfaces. The base substrate of the rerouting element carries electrically conductive vias, or contacts, that are exposed to the bottom surface thereof and arranged to mirror a footprint of one or more bond pads on a surface of a semiconductor device, such as an LOC type semiconductor device or a semiconductor device with peripherally arranged bond pads, to which the rerouting element is to be secured.
Each electrically conductive via of the rerouting element communicates with a corresponding conductive trace thereof. The conductive traces of the rerouting element may be carried internally within the substantially planar member, externally on the top or bottom surface thereof, or in some combination thereof. Each conductive trace leads to a corresponding reroute location on the base substrate, at which a contact pad is positioned. Upon assembly of the rerouting element with a semiconductor device complementary thereto, the contact pads of the rerouting element will be located at desired positions relative to an active surface of the semiconductor device.
A rerouted semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a semiconductor device with one or more bond pads on a surface thereof and a rerouting element with electrically conductive vias that are positioned to align with corresponding bond pads of the semiconductor device. The rerouting element is positioned over a bond pad-bearing surface of the semiconductor device with electrically conductive vias of the rerouting element and corresponding bond pads of the semiconductor device in alignment and electrically communicating with one another. The rerouting element is secured to the bond pad-bearing surface of the semiconductor device, with the conductive traces and contact pads of the rerouting element being electrically isolated from underlying structures of the semiconductor device.
When used in an assembly of stacked semiconductor devices, the rerouted semiconductor device may facilitate the positioning of one or more other semiconductor devices over a central region (i.e., the locations of substantially centrally positioned bond pads) thereof. In addition, a rerouted semiconductor device that incorporates teachings of the present invention may facilitate the use of shorter discrete conductive elements to connect rerouted bond pads to corresponding contact areas of a carrier substrate than would otherwise be required to connect more centrally located bond pads to their corresponding contact areas.
Alternatively, the use of a rerouting element that incorporates teachings of the present invention may facilitate the use of semiconductor devices with peripherally located bond pads in assemblies, which include semiconductor devices that are stacked in staggered arrangement relative to one another.
A semiconductor device assembly incorporating teachings of the present invention includes a first, rerouted semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device positioned over the first, rerouted semiconductor device. When the first and second semiconductor devices are assembled with one another, the rerouted bond pads of the first, rerouted semiconductor device may be exposed beyond an outer periphery of the second semiconductor device. Accordingly, the second semiconductor device may have smaller dimensions than those of the first semiconductor device. Alternatively, the lateral position of the second semiconductor device may be staggered relative to the position of the first, rerouted semiconductor device, or only partially superimposed over the first semiconductor device. Such a semiconductor device assembly may also include a carrier substrate, such as a circuit board, an interposer, another semiconductor device, or leads. Contact areas of the carrier substrate correspond to rerouted bond pads of the first, rerouted semiconductor device, as well as to bond pads of the second semiconductor device. Discrete conductive elements, such as wire bonds, conductive tape-automated bond (TAB) elements carried by a dielectric substrate, or leads, may electrically connect bond pads of the first and second semiconductor devices to corresponding contact areas of a carrier substrate.
Methods for designing rerouting elements are also within the scope of the present invention, as are methods for forming rerouted semiconductor devices, methods for assembling semiconductor devices in stacked relation, and methods for packaging semiconductor devices.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art through consideration of the ensuing description, the accompanying drawings, and the appended claims.
FIG. 13 is a cross-sectional representation of a multi-chip module including the assembly of FIG. 12, an encapsulant, and external connective elements.
FIGS. 1 and 2 depict an exemplary embodiment of a rerouting element 40, which is configured to be disposed on an active surface 32 of a semiconductor device 30 (FIGS. 3 and 4) and to reroute bond pad 34 locations of semiconductor device 30. Rerouting element 40 includes a base substrate 41 with a top side 42 and a bottom side 43, electrically conductive vias 44 exposed at bottom side 43 and extending toward top side 42, at least partially through base substrate 41, conductive traces 45 carried by base substrate 41 and extending from a corresponding electrically conductive via 44 toward an outer periphery 46 of base substrate 41 to contact pads 47 located adjacent to outer periphery 46 of base substrate 41 and exposed at top side 42 thereof. While contact pads 47 are depicted as being located adjacent to a single peripheral edge 46 a of base substrate 41, rerouting elements that include contact pads positioned proximate to two adjacent edges of the base substrates thereof are also within the scope of the present invention.
As base substrate 41 of rerouting element 40 is configured to be disposed on active surface 32 of semiconductor device 30, base substrate 41 need only have sufficient dimensions to cover active surface 32 or a portion thereof.
Base substrate 41 may be formed from a dielectric material, such as a nonconductive polymer (e.g., polyimide). In addition, base substrate 41 may comprise a flexible, relatively thin, substantially planar member, enabling base substrate 41 to minimize package height and, as desired, to conform somewhat to surfaces that are located at different elevations (e.g., the different elevations of a multi-chip module). It is currently preferred that base substrate 41 comprise a flex tape, such as that used to fabricate a TAB element. Alternatively, base substrate 41 may comprise a substantially planar member formed from any other dielectric material (e.g., glass, ceramic, etc.) or at least partially dielectric-coated semiconductor material or even a dielectric-coated metal if heat transfer is to be facilitated.
As an example and not to limit the scope of the present invention, electrically conductive vias 44 may comprise conductive bumps, such as bumps of solder, gold, or another suitable metal or metal alloy. Alternatively, conductive vias 44 may comprise columns, pillars, or other structures that are formed from a suitable electrically conductive material, such as a conductive- or conductor-filled epoxy or an anisotropically conductive (z-axis) elastomer.
Conductive traces 45 may, by way of example only, be formed from a low electrical resistance, electrically conductive material, such as aluminum or copper.
Each conductive trace 45 of rerouting element 40 may extend either internally through or externally across base substrate 41. Alternatively, each conductive trace 45 may include one or more internally and externally carried portions. While it is preferred that any external portions of conductive traces 45 be carried on top side 42 of base substrate 41, conductive traces 45 or portions thereof may also be exposed to bottom side 43.
While conductive traces 45 may be nonlinear, some or all of conductive traces 45 may alternatively provide the shortest possible path length between a corresponding electrically conductive via 44 and contact pad 47. Accordingly, substantially straight conductive traces 45 are within the scope of the present invention. As another option, conductive traces 45 may be of substantially the same length to match impedance and signal speed.
Adjacent conductive traces 45 are preferably electrically isolated from one another, either by being spaced apart from one another on base substrate 41 or by the material of base substrate 41 located therebetween. In addition, conductive traces 45 may be positioned, oriented, and spaced on base substrate 41 relative to one another in such a manner as to reduce or eliminate any electrical interference therebetween. Conductive traces 45 of rerouting element 40 may be parallel or nonparallel to one another.
Contact pads 47 are carried upon either top side 42 of base substrate 41 at or adjacent to a peripheral edge 46 a thereof or on peripheral edge 46 a. Such positioning of contact pads 47 facilitates access thereto by equipment that will secure discrete conductive elements 56 (FIG. 8) to contact pads 47 (e.g., a wire bonding capillary, ultrasonic bonding equipment, thermocompression bonding equipment, etc.).
Portions of base substrate 41 that underlie conductive traces 45 may electrically isolate conductive traces 45 from an active surface 32 of an underlying semiconductor device 30 (FIGS. 3 and 4). Alternatively, or in addition, at least portions of bottom side 43 of base substrate 41 may be coated with an adhesive material 48, such as a thermoset resin or a pressure-sensitive adhesive. Such a coating of adhesive material 48 may facilitate securing of rerouting element 40 to an active surface 32 of a semiconductor device 30 (FIGS. 3 and 4). Adhesive material 48 may also electrically insulate conductive traces 45 and contact pads 47 from underlying features of a semiconductor device 30 upon which rerouting element 40 is positioned, or provide an additional insulative layer or standoff distance that decreases or eliminates any electrical interference that may occur between semiconductor device 30 and conductive traces 45 or contact pads 47.
A rerouted semiconductor device 20 that includes a rerouting element 40 and a semiconductor device 30 is illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4. Semiconductor device 30 includes centrally located bond pads 34 on active surface 32 thereof. As depicted, bond pads 34 are arranged in a substantially linear manner, in a so-called leads-over-chip (LOC) configuration.
Rerouting element 40 is positioned on active surface 32, over bond pads 34 and adjacent to at least one peripheral edge 36 of semiconductor device 30. Rerouting element 40 may be secured to active surface 32 by way of adhesive material 48.
Electrically conductive vias 44 of rerouting element 40, which are positioned adjacent a peripheral edge 46 a of base substrate 41, align with corresponding bond pads 34 so that electrical connections may be established therewith. By way of example only, electrical connections and, thus, electrical communication may be established by way of physical contact between electrically conductive vias 44 and their corresponding bond pads 34. Alternatively, discrete connective elements formed from a conductive material, such as solder, conductive- or conductor-filled epoxy, or anisotropically conductive (z-axis) elastomer, may physically and electrically connect each electrically conductive via 44 of rerouting element 40 to its corresponding bond pad 34 of semiconductor device 30.
Upon positioning rerouting element 40 on active surface 32 and aligning electrically conductive vias 44 with their corresponding bond pads 34, contact pads 47 of rerouting element 40 are located adjacent to peripheral edge 36 of semiconductor device 30. Thus, each electrically conductive via 44, along with its corresponding conductive trace 45 and contact pad 47, reroutes a corresponding bond pad 34 on active surface 32 of semiconductor device 30 from a central location to the more peripheral location at which contact pad 47 is positioned.
FIG. 4A depicts a variation of rerouted semiconductor device 20′, which includes a semiconductor device 30 and a variation of rerouting element 40′ on active surface 32 thereof. Rerouting element 40′ includes a base substrate 41′ that is sized to be superimposed over a greater area of active surface 32 than base substrate 41 of rerouting element 40. As shown, electrically conductive vias 44′ of rerouting element 40′ are positioned centrally with respect to base substrate 41′, rather than adjacent to a peripheral edge 46′ thereof. As will be seen from the ensuing description, a rerouting element 40′ of this configuration may support another semiconductor device 30 superimposed thereover with greater stability than rerouting element 40, particularly if base substrates 41 and 41′ are fairly thick.
Referring now to FIG. 5, a semiconductor device assembly 10 is shown that includes two rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′, 20 b′ in stacked, or superimposed, relation. As shown, the upper semiconductor device 20 b′ is staggered relative to the next-lower rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′, with contact pads 47 of rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ being exposed laterally beyond a peripheral edge 36 of semiconductor device 30 b and, thus, beyond an outer periphery of rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′.
A back side 33 of the semiconductor device 30 b of the upper rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′ is spaced apart from active surface 32 of the semiconductor device 30 a of the lower rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′, at least in part, by way of rerouting element 40′. Back side 33 of semiconductor device 30 b is secured to a top side 42′ of base substrate 41′ and, thus, of rerouting element 40′ by way of dielectric adhesive material 49 therebetween.
Electrically conductive vias 44 and any externally carried portions of conductive traces 45 that extend between the adjacent semiconductor devices 30 a and 30 b may be electrically isolated from back side 33 of the upper semiconductor device 30 b by way of dielectric adhesive material 49 that secures back side 33 to top side 42′. Alternatively, the material of base substrate 41′ may electrically isolate electrically conductive vias 44 and conductive traces 45 from back side 33 when electrically conductive vias 44 do not extend fully through the thickness of base substrate 41′ and the portions of conductive traces 45 that are located between semiconductor devices 30 a and 30 b are carried internally by base substrate 41′. Of course, electrically conductive vias 44 and conductive traces 45 may also be electrically isolated from back side 33 of the next-higher semiconductor device 30 b by any combination of dielectric adhesive material 49 and base substrate 41′ material.
FIGS. 6 and 7 illustrate stacked semiconductor device assemblies 10′ and 10″, respectively, which include more than two rerouted semiconductor devices 20′. In FIG. 6, contact pads 47 of each rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′, 20 b′, 20 c′ are positioned adjacent the same peripheral edge 16 a′ of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10′. Rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′, 20 b′, 20 c′ are progressively staggered to facilitate the securing of discrete conductive elements 56 (FIG. 8) to each contact pad 47.
Stacked semiconductor device assembly 10″ of FIG. 7 includes rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′, 20 b′, 20 c′ that are arranged with contact pads 47 of the upper and lower rerouted semiconductor devices 20 c′ and 20 a′ being positioned adjacent to the same peripheral edge 16 a″ of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10″ and contact pads 47 of the central rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′ being positioned adjacent to an opposite peripheral edge 16 b″ of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10″. To facilitate electrical connection to contact pads 47 of each rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′, 20 b′, 20 c′, rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′, 20 b′, 20 c′ are arranged in repeating staggered relation. Stated another way, while rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′ is only partially superimposed over rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′, rerouted semiconductor device 20 c′ is completely superimposed over rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′. The distance between contact pads 47 of the lowermost rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ and back side 33 of semiconductor device 30 c of the uppermost rerouted semiconductor device 20 c′ may be sufficient to provide access by discrete conductive element positioning or forming equipment (e.g., a wire bonding capillary, thermocompression bonding equipment, ultrasonic bonding equipment, etc.) to contact pads 47 of rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′. In any event, the spacing between top side 42′ of the base substrate 41′ of rerouting element 40′ of rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ and back side 33 of semiconductor device 30 c of rerouted semiconductor device 20 c′ is sufficient for discrete conductive elements 56 (FIG. 8) to extend therebetween.
As shown in FIG. 8, a semiconductor device package 50 including stacked semiconductor device assembly 10 is depicted. In semiconductor device package 50, rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10 is secured to a carrier substrate 52, such as the depicted circuit board, an interposer, another semiconductor device, or leads of a lead frame. Contact pads 47 of rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′ and 20 b′ are electrically connected to, or communicate with, corresponding contact areas 54 of carrier substrate 52 by way of discrete conductive elements 56, such as the depicted bond wires, conductive traces carried upon a flexible dielectric substrate to form a TAB element, thermocompression or ultrasonically bonded leads, or the like, that extend therebetween. Semiconductor device package 50 may also include a protective encapsulant 58 that may surround rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′ and 20 b′, discrete conductive elements 56, and portions of carrier substrate 52 located adjacent to rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′. By way of example only, protective encapsulant 58 may comprise a molded structure (e.g., a pot molded or transfer molded structure) or a so-called “glob top” type structure of viscous dielectric material.
FIG. 9 depicts another example of a rerouting element 40″ for use with a semiconductor device that includes bond pads positioned adjacent to more than one peripheral edge thereof to reroute the locations of the bond pads of such a semiconductor device to locations adjacent one peripheral edge or two adjacent peripheral edges of the semiconductor device.
Rerouting element 40″ is configured similarly to rerouting elements 40 and 40′, but includes electrically conductive vias 44″ that are positioned adjacent an outer periphery 46″ of base substrate 41″ at locations on top side 42″ thereof that correspond to the locations of bond pads on the active surface of the semiconductor device over which rerouting element 40″ is to be positioned. Of course, conductive traces 45″ of rerouting element 40″ extend from corresponding electrically conductive vias 44″ to contact pads 47″ positioned adjacent either one peripheral edge 46 b″ or two adjacent peripheral edges 46 a″, 46 b″ of base substrate 41″.
A rerouted semiconductor device including rerouting element 40″ may be assembled with one or more other rerouted semiconductor devices 20, 20′, or other semiconductor devices that include bond pads that are each positioned adjacent to either a single peripheral edge thereof or two adjacent peripheral edges thereof in a manner similar to the assemblies depicted in FIGS. 5-7.
As rerouting element 40″ reroutes bond pads from locations that are adjacent to three or four peripheral edges thereof to locations that are adjacent to one or two peripheral edges thereof, stacked assemblies of decreased height may be achieved when rerouting element 40″ is used. This can be seen in FIGS. 11-13, which, although described in terms of rerouting element 40′″ of FIG. 10, depict an exemplary staggered stacking arrangement that can be used when a rerouting element 40″ with contact pads 47″ adjacent to one or two peripheral edges 46 a″, 46 b″ thereof is used with a semiconductor device that includes bond pads arranged around three or four peripheral edges thereof.
Turning now to FIG. 10, another exemplary embodiment of rerouting element 40′″ is depicted. Rerouting element 40′″ includes a base substrate 41′″, electrically conductive vias 44′″, conductive traces 45′″ and contact pads 47′″ that are substantially the same as the corresponding elements of rerouting elements 40 and 40′ (FIGS. 1-8). Again, electrically conductive vias 44′″ are positioned correspondingly to bond pads 34 positioned centrally on an active surface 32 of a semiconductor device 30 over which rerouting element 40′″ is to be positioned. However, contact pads 47′″ of rerouting element 40′″ are positioned adjacent to more than one peripheral edge 46′″ of base substrate 41′″.
Rerouted semiconductor devices 20′″ formed by assembling rerouting elements 40′″ with complementarily configured semiconductor devices 30 may be used in any appropriate, known type of semiconductor device assembly or multi-chip module, such as in the stacked semiconductor device assembly 10′″ depicted in FIG. 11.
FIG. 12 depicts stacked semiconductor device assembly 10′″ secured to a carrier substrate 52′″ in an exemplary fashion. Although carrier substrate 52′″ is shown as comprising an interposer, it may alternatively be in the form of a circuit board, a lead frame, another semiconductor device, or any other suitable substrate known in the art. Contact areas 54′″ of carrier substrate 52′″ may communicate with corresponding contact pads 47′″ of each rerouted semiconductor device 20′″ or other semiconductor device of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10′″ by way of discrete conductive elements 56 (e.g., bond wires, TAB elements, thermocompression or ultrasonically bonded leads, etc.) placed or formed therebetween. Of course, it is preferred that discrete conductive elements 56 be electrically isolated from one another, as well as from any other structures (e.g., semiconductor devices 30) over which they extend.
As shown in FIG. 13, stacked semiconductor device assembly 10′″ and carrier substrate 52′″ may be incorporated into a semiconductor device package 50′″. Semiconductor device package 50′″ may also include a protective encapsulant 58′″ that covers at least portions of each rerouted semiconductor device 20′″ or other semiconductor device of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10″, discrete conductive elements 56, and regions of carrier substrate 52′″ that are located proximate an outer periphery of stacked semiconductor device assembly 10′″. Protective encapsulant 58′″ may comprise a glob top type encapsulant, as depicted, or any other known type of semiconductor device encapsulant, such as a pot molded encapsulant or a transfer molded encapsulant.
Referring again to FIGS. 1-4, a method for designing a rerouting element 40 that incorporates teachings of the present invention includes identifying a semiconductor device 30 with bond pads 34 to be rerouted, as well as determining the locations of rerouting element 40 to which bond pads 34 are to be rerouted. Accordingly, the design method includes configuring electrically conductive vias 44 of rerouting element 40 to be positioned correspondingly to bond pads 34 of the identified semiconductor device 30. Conductive traces 45 of rerouting element 40 are configured to extend from the locations of corresponding electrically conductive vias 44, with which conductive traces 45 communicate, to a desired reroute location on a base substrate 41 of rerouting element 40. In addition, contact pads 47 are configured at the desired reroute locations of base substrate 41.
Returning reference to FIGS. 5 and 8, an assembly method incorporating teachings of the present invention includes providing a carrier substrate 52 and securing a first rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ to carrier substrate 52. Rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ may be secured to carrier substrate 52 by way of an adhesive material 53 (e.g., a pressure-sensitive adhesive, a thermoset resin, a thermoplastic elastomer, etc.) disposed between superimposed regions of rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ and carrier substrate 52.
A second semiconductor device, such as the depicted rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′ or any other semiconductor device including input/output pads that are arranged in a fashion that may be used in stacked multi-chip modules, may be positioned over rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′. Rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′ is depicted as being only partially superimposed over rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′, with contact pads 47 of the lower rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ being exposed beyond an outer periphery 26′ (FIG. 8) of the upper rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′. Alternatively, as depicted in FIG. 13, the upper semiconductor device may be substantially superimposed over the lower semiconductor device.
Contact pads 47 of each semiconductor device 20 a′, 20 b′ may be electrically connected to and, thus, electrically communicate with corresponding contact areas 54 of carrier substrate 52 by forming or positioning discrete conductive elements 56 between corresponding contact pads 47 and contact areas 54. Such positioning may be effected at any time that appropriate discrete conductive element-forming or -positioning equipment may access contact pads 47, including, without limitation, prior to the placement of a second semiconductor device (e.g., rerouted semiconductor device 20 b′) over first rerouted semiconductor device 20 a′ and after the semiconductor devices (e.g., rerouted semiconductor devices 20 a′ and 20 b′) have been assembled with one another in stacked relation.
Although the foregoing description contains many specifics, these should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention, but merely as providing illustrations of some exemplary embodiments. Similarly, other embodiments of the invention may be devised that do not depart from the spirit or scope of the present invention. Features from different embodiments may be employed in combination. The scope of the invention is, therefore, indicated and limited only by the appended claims and their legal equivalents, rather than by the foregoing description. All additions, deletions, and modifications to the invention, as disclosed herein, that fall within the meaning and scope of the claims are to be embraced thereby.
a plurality of rerouted pads exposed at the interconnection surface and located at ends of corresponding conductive traces and adjacent to the second edge.
2. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 1, wherein the second edge is configured for substantial alignment with an edge of the semiconductor device.
a plurality of vias extending at least partially through a thickness of the base substrate.
4. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 3, wherein at least one via of the plurality of vias extends substantially through the thickness of the base substrate.
5. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 4, wherein each via of the plurality of vias extends substantially through the thickness of the base substrate.
6. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 3, wherein each via of the plurality of vias is located adjacent to the first edge.
7. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 6, wherein each contact pad of the plurality of contact pads is superimposed with respect to an end of a corresponding via of the plurality of vias.
8. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 1, wherein at least one conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces is carried adjacent to the interconnection surface of the base substrate.
9. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 1, wherein each conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces is carried adjacent to the interconnection surface of the base substrate.
10. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 1, wherein at least one conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces is carried internally through the base substrate.
11. The self-supported rerouting element of claim 1, wherein each conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces is carried internally through the base substrate.
13. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 12, wherein at least a portion of the base substrate of the self-supported rerouting element electrically insulates the plurality of conductive traces of the self-supported rerouting element from the bond pad-bearing surface of the semiconductor device.
14. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 12, wherein each contact pad of the self-supported rerouting element is aligned in superimposed relation with a corresponding bond pad of the at least one somewhat centrally located row of aligned bond pads.
a plurality of vias extending at least partially through a thickness of the base substrate, each via of the plurality corresponding to a contact pad of the plurality of contact pads, a conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces, and a rerouted bond pad of the plurality of rerouted bond pads.
16. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 15, wherein each via of the plurality of vias is aligned in superimposed relation with a corresponding bond pad of the at least one somewhat centrally located row of aligned bond pads.
another semiconductor device positioned over the interconnection surface of the self-supported rerouting element, each rerouted pad of the plurality of rerouted pads being exposed laterally beyond a peripheral edge of the another semiconductor device.
configuring a plurality of conductive traces extending from a location proximate to the first edge to a location proximate to the second edge, each conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces being configured to electrically couple a contact pad of the plurality of contact pads and a corresponding rerouted pad of the plurality of rerouted pads.
19. The method of claim 18, wherein configuring the plurality of conductive traces comprises configuring the plurality of conductive traces to be carried internally through the base substrate.
configuring a plurality of conductive vias to extend at least partially through the base substrate, each conductive via of the plurality of conductive vias corresponding to a contact pad of the plurality of contact pads, a conductive trace of the plurality of conductive traces, and a rerouted pad of the plurality of rerouted pads.
at least one second intermediate conductive element extending directly between a redistributed bond pad of the second semiconductor device and a corresponding contact of the carrier.
22. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 21, wherein the carrier comprises a circuit board and the plurality of contacts comprises a plurality of terminals.
23. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 21, wherein edges of the first semiconductor device that are located on opposite sides of the single edge of the first semiconductor device are substantially aligned with edges of the second semiconductor device that are located on opposite sides of the single edge of the second semiconductor device.
an intermediate portion electrically isolated from the first semiconductor device.
25. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 21, wherein each semiconductor device of the plurality of semiconductor devices is a memory device.
26. The semiconductor device assembly of claim 21, wherein the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device are memory devices.
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“A tiny hole was drilled into the sarcophagus — which over many centuries had never been opened — in order to insert a special probe, which revealed traces of costly purple colored linen fabric, laminated with pure gold and a blue fabric with linen filaments,” Benedict XVI explained.
The Zenit report has other interesting facts about the tomb which you might like to read.
Well, that’s gone and done it. Apparently the SSPX have gone ahead with their planned ordinations, despite warnings of the consequences for the future communion of the group with Rome.
As I say above, your move, your Holiness.
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Are you “going to heaven” when you die?
As you know, dear Reader, I am experiencing something like a fixation with the wrightings (sorry, that should be “writings” – see the depth of my problem?) of N.T. Wright, the Anglican Bishop of Durham.
His scholarship is first class, and there is much that he has to say that extremely good. His skill is to get us to take a “fresh look” at scriptural passages we thought we knew well, by placing them in the context of the 1st Century Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman worlds.
But there are some things… Well, I am not prepared to go as far as American Baptist Mark Seifred who says that when Wright is “good he is very, very good, but when he is bad, he is horrid”, but it is true that he proffers a good many opinions on the meaning of Scripture that would need to be put through the filter of Catholic tradition before we could truly embrace them.
The first part of the book is a reprise of his argument for the historicity of the resurrection, which will be helpful for those not prepared to take on his more comprehensive Resurrection of the Son of God. Most of the book is devoted to making the case for a greater accent in Christian piety and liturgy on the final resurrection of the dead and the coming of the Kingdom of God. Or, as Wright likes to put it, we need to recover the biblical focus on “life after life after death.” I believe Wright is right about that. As he is also on target when he insists that the resurrection “is not the story of a happy ending but of a new beginning.” But his argument is grievously marred by his heaping of scorn on centuries of Christian piety revolving around the hope of “going to heaven,” and his repeated and unseemly suggestion that he is the first to have understood the New Testament correctly, or at least the first since a few thinkers in the patristic era got part of the gospel right.
Wright’s argument is repeated in miniature in his new book “Simply Christian”. I actually like this book very much – it achieves much more successfully, I believe, what C.S. Lewis set out to do with “Mere Christianity”. An alternative title, however, could have been “Simply Tom Wright”, as it offers a short potted account of Wright’s own view of the Christian meta-narrative.
Paul and John, Jesus himself, and pretty well all the great Christain teachers of the first two centuries, stress their belief in resurrection. ‘Resurrection’ does not mean ‘going to heaven when you die’. It isn’t about ‘life after death’. It’s about ‘life after life after death’. You die; you go to be ‘with Christ’ (‘life after death’), but your body remains dead. Describing where and what you are in that interim period is difficult, and the New Testament writers mostly don’t try. Call it ‘heaven’ if you like, but don’t imagine it’s the end of all things. What is promised after that interim period is a new bodily life within God’s new world (‘life after life after death’).
That’s his position in a nutshell. All that needs to be added is that the “new world” that Christianity (in Wright’s perspective) is looking forward to after resurrection and the general judgement (what we traditionally call ‘heaven’), is in fact the continuous with this world in much the same way that our resurrected bodies are continuous with our current bodies. The old heaven and the old earth will pass away and be replaced with a renewed (note that) creation consisting of a united heaven and earth.
God’s plan is not to abandon this world, the world of which he said that it was ‘very good’. He intends to remake it. And when he does, he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. …In God’s new world, of course, Jesus himself will be the central figure. …He is, at the moment, present with us, but hidden behind that invisible viel that keeps heaven and earth apart, and which we pierce in those moments, such as prayer, the sacraments, the reading of scripture and our work with the poor, where the view seems particularly thin. But one day the veil will be lifted, earth and heaven will be one; Jesus will be personally present, and every knee shall bow at his name; creation will be renewed; the dead will be raised; and God’s new world will at last be in place, full of new prospects and possibilities. This is what the Christian vision of salvation…is all about.
Okay. So much for Wright. But is he, according to the Catholic faith, right?
For the moment, a quick scan of the Catechism of the Catholic Church will have to do. We find a good deal there on “life after death”, and a surprisingly small amount on what Wright calls “life after life after death”. But, and this is a surprising but, I think that if we take away what Neuhaus rightly calls Wright’s “scorn” for “centuries of Christian piety revolving around the hope of ‘going to heaven’”, we find that Wright is, in fact, right.
By virtue of our apostolic authority, we define the following: According to the general disposition of God, the souls of all the saints … and other faithful who died after receiving Christ’s holy Baptism (provided they were not in need of purification when they died, … or, if they then did need or will need some purification, when they have been purified after death, …) already before they take up their bodies again and before the general judgment – and this since the Ascension of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into heaven – have been, are and will be in heaven, in the heavenly Kingdom and celestial paradise with Christ, joined to the company of the holy angels. Since the Passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ, these souls have seen and do see the divine essence with an intuitive vision, and even face to face, without the mediation of any creature. [Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus(1336): DS 1000; cf. LG 49].
In other words, when you die in a state of grace, you DO “go to heaven”. Or at least your soul does, because Papa Benny XII is quite clear about the fact that it is your soul, not your body,that “goes to heaven”. He is also quite clearly talking about what Wright calls the “interim period”, or the “life after death” that comes before “life after life after death”.
“This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed – is called “heaven.” Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.
§1043 Sacred Scripture calls this mysterious renewal, which will transform humanity and the world, “new heavens and a new earth” [I1 Pet 3:13; cf. Rev 21:1]. It will be the definitive realization of God’s plan to bring under a single head “all things in [Christ], things in heaven and things on earth” [Eph 1:10].
§1046 For the cosmos, Revelation affirms the profound common destiny of the material world and man… [Rom 8:19-23].
§1047 The visible universe, then, is itself destined to be transformed, “so that the world itself, restored to its original state, facing no further obstacles, should be at the service of the just,” sharing their glorification in the risen Jesus Christ [St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres. 5:32:1 PG 7/2, 210].
This, then, shows that what Wright calls “life after life after death” has been there in Catholic teaching and tradition all along. Perhaps, he is wright (sorry, “right”) that it has not been sufficiently emphasised as the form of our final hope and salvation. Certainly, I balked to hear prayers offered at the vigil mass last night that the souls of our faithful departed may be “raised up to be in heaven forever”. That is not what “raised up” would mean even in terms of the Catholic Catechism, let alone the writings of Tom Wright.
“Far from diminishing our concern to develop this earth, the expectancy of a new earth should spur us on, for it is here that the body of a new human family grows, foreshadowing in some way the age which is to come. That is why, although we must be careful to distinguish earthly progress clearly from the increase of the kingdom of Christ, such progress is of vital concern to the kingdom of God, insofar as it can contribute to the better ordering of human society” [GS 39# 2].
Encyclical “in the next few days”?
In the next few days Benedict XVI is to sign a new encyclical letter to be called Caritas in Veritate.
The “next few days”? Is it really that imminent?
Many Catholics have been champing at the bit for Rome to bring out some more coherent view of the economic state of the world than that left behind by Benedict’s Polish predecessor… Now is the time for fresh thinking, is the cry heard from many theologians… The details of the pope’s attitude to the capitalism are unknown since he has not written much on economic subjects, but he has long been on record as thinking that an economy without any ethical or religious foundation is destined for collapse.
Personally, I am looking for an approach to social justice and economic ethics that “fits” with an authentic Catholicism. I am eager to hear what Pope Benedict has to say, and I am hoping like blazes for something fresh that I, as a Catholic who wishes to “think with the Church”, might grab hold of with both hands and take forward into the real world in which I live.
So. Is it the “Year of the Priest” OR the “Year for Priests”? From what I gather it is, in Latin, “Annus Sacerdotalis”, in other words, the “Priestly Year”.
Any way, which ever it is, it is now on for young and old, lay and ordained. But what, as Blessed Martin might have said, does this mean for us – ie. the great un-ordained populace of non-priests? What are we supposed to be doing in this year?
Well, get your diaries out, because, there are a couple of dates on which you can do something really good for your soul (or for the souls of the departed faithful, lay or ordained) while at the same time supporting the ministry of our priests in prayer: INDULGENCES!
During the Year for Priests established by the Holy Father on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of St. John Mary Vianney, the gift of special indulgences is granted.
Shortly the day will come on which will be commemorated the 150th anniversary of the pious departure to Heaven of St John Mary Vianney, the Curé d’Ars. This Saint was a wonderful model here on earth of a true Pastor at the service of Christ’s flock.
…May priests commit themselves, with prayer and good works, to obtaining from Christ the Eternal High Priest, the grace to shine with Faith, Hope, Charity and the other virtues, and show by their way of life, but also with their external conduct, that they are dedicated without reserve to the spiritual good of the people, something that the Church has always had at heart.
Lastly [something you can do everyday if you like!], the Partial Indulgence is granted to all the faithful every time they devoutly recite five Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias, or another expressly approved prayer, in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to obtain that priests be preserved in purity and holiness of life.
Well, the other boot has finally fallen. It didn’t take a fortune-teller to predict that our beloved Bishop Chris Prowse was the Bishop-most-likely to be assigned to Sale. I wasn’t the first to hear the news, but I can say that I heard it from the man himself, as I ran into him in the car park before the start of the Solemn Vespers for the Inauguration of the Year of St Paul.
They have certainly been patient out there in Sale, but God has blessed their waiting. Expect great things from the East in the near future.
GREENSLADE: Meanwhile, unknown to Seagoon, a different expedition has already reached the forest of Ying-Tong-Iddle-I-Po, collecting moss for the BBC. At this very moment indeed, its members are bedding down in their tents under the jungle moon.
MINNIE: Oh dear, yim-bom-biddle-oh, melodies divine. Have you tucked the ends of the sheets in, Henry?
HENRY: Yes, yes Min, yes.
MINNIE: Oh dear. Have you put the hot water bottle in?
MINNIE: …It’s very hot tonight, I think I’ll have a cold water bottle.
HENRY: Here, we will have to get these tents redecorated.
HENRY: The wallpaper is peeling.
MINNIE: Oh dear, I’ll get a new roll from London, Henry.
MINNIE: Yes, it is good.
HENRY: Did you put the tiger out, Min?
MINNIE: Yes, I did, I, I put the tiger out, Henry.
HENRY: And don’t forget to tell the camel driver no milk tomorrow.
MINNIE: Ohhhhhhhheeoh. What, what’s that? What’s that? Ohhh.
HENRY: It’s all right Min, it’s just those noisy people in the tent upstairs. (calls) Who’s that walking about upstairs?
ECCLES: (off) I’m the famous Eccles! I got friends in.
HENRY: He’s the famous Eccles and he’s got friends in, Min. (calls) Do you mind taking those noisy boots off?
MINNIE: Ohh, I didn’t know he had three legs, Henry.
HENRY: He hasn’t, Min, he hasn’t, he has a one legged friend. Goodnight Min.
HENRY: He’s got two one legged friends!
MINNIE: That, or one three legged friend, Henry.
HENRY: Yes. Well goodnight Min.
MINNIE: Goodnight, little mmnnnn naughty Henry. Goodnight little Henry! … Goodnight.
Astounding. I have just spent some time trying to work out why today my site had about 200 more visits than SCE has been averaging lately. Turns out that Fr Cutie has gone and married his girlfriend. All the extra visits were due to my post on this saga and took place in the early hours of our morning, ie. about evening news time in the States. Simply astounding.
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LOS ANGELES—VividRadio has announced it will extend its broadcast day by one hour from 11 a.m. PT to 8 p.m. PT from Monday through Friday. The network, which already broadcasts 40 hours of original programming weekly, will also be adding shows hosted by former multi-award winning Wicked Pictures contract star, Kaylani Lei, and former runway model and adult star, Ana Foxxx. Kaylani’s show, "Lei it on the Line," will be heard on Wednesdays at 1 p.m. PT and Ana’s show, "The Fabulous Ms. Foxxx," on Thursdays at 5 p.m. PT. VividRadio has shows hosted by such adult industry luminaries as Christy Canyon, Alexis Texas, Aiden Starr, Annie Cruz, Mary Carey, Joanna Angel, Tanya Tate, Tori Welles and many more. The shows are available 24 hours a day on VividRadio.com and are archived for further convenience. Fans can also tune into the programs via the SiriusXM app channel 791. “Our listeners aren’t shy about telling us what they like and the three things that keep coming up are more girls, more hours and more diversity,” said General Manager Farrell Hirsch. “In 2016 we’ll also see the return of shows hosted by big name adult stars such as Debi Diamond, Dana DeArmond and Mika Tan. These developments bring us to 21 regularly scheduled hosts and 45 new hours each week with more growth to come.” A New Year’s Day special hosted by Sam Phillips, during which she will introduce the new hosts, will kick off 2016.
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The first theatrical trailer for Aardman Animations’ upcoming film, Early Man, has debuted.
Early Man takes place during the “dawn of time” wherein a tribe of cavemen goes up against a Bronze Age City leader to save their home. The film features the voice talents of Eddie Redmayne, Maisie Williams, Tom Hiddleston, Timothy Spall, Richard Ayoade, and Johnny Vegas, amongst others. The film is set to hit American theaters on February 16, 2018.
While the trailer doesn’t have me super excited for the film, I still am interested in seeing it as it is an Aardman Animations film. Are you all interested in it?
Author The Animation CommendationPosted on September 8, 2017 September 8, 2017 Categories Animation NewsTags aardman, aardman animations, animated film, animated movie, animation, early man, eddie redmayne, johnny vegas, maisie williams, nick park, richard ayoade, timothy spall, tom hiddleston2 Comments on ‘Early Man’ Trailer Debuts!
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This entry was posted in Australian history, Military, Sepia Saturday and tagged mateship, Military History, Sepia Saturday by cassmob. Bookmark the permalink.
I guess those photographs express the ultimate in helping someone out of danger. I saw the duplicate of the Fromelles sculpture outside the Melbourne Shrine on Thursday, and took a photo of it.
Exactly Jo…I didn’t know they had a duplicate of the Cobbers statue in Melbourne.
Historic picture from modern conflicts. Brave men – all of them.
Those are some very moving & thought-provoking photographs. On target with the prompt picture, yet so much more.
No comrade left behind. Yes, the ultimate act of humanity.
Exactly Wendy – the selflessness of their care is inspiring.
This was an inspired choice and a perfect match for the theme; very moving.
Very moving photographs. Thanks for sharing them.
I’m ashamed that that you are the only one of we Australians who made that connection as we owe so much to those men. They are such heartwarming images and a reminder that there is such compassion in people in among all that evil.
No need to be ashamed…I had been in that kind of mindset all week so wasn’t a big leap, plus the Sepia Sat photo reminded me so much of the Cobbers Memorial which triggered the further train of thought. Like you I admire their mateship and care.
Excellent photos to pick out a sub-theme that is very suitable for November when Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, and Armistice Day commemorate our servicemen.
Thanks Mike, I guess they were on my mind in the past week.
You’ve curated a very interesting set of photos. Thank you.
Brilliant take on the theme.
Such brave men the photographs are very moving. I often wonder if anyone tried to carry my granddad away from the front lines during WW1, he died so I don’t suppose I will ever know. He joined up with a bunch of pals from the same village, so I’m sure if anyone could have helped him they would have.
Barbara, how sad that your grandad was killed in action. I’m sure someone would have helped if they possibly could but sometimes it was just so crazy they couldn’t stop and didn’t even know someone had fallen. terrible times.
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As a physicist, this may not come as much of a surprise, but I am a bit of a nerd. I tend to take normal things that people enjoy and “nerdify” them. I think the best example of this came last year when Julie was on her company’s softball team. I wasn’t on the team, so I volunteered to be the team statistician. This may seem weird, especially for a slow-pitch softball team, but I rather enjoyed it. Over the course of that season, I calculated the box score for each game and accumulated everybody’s stats. I broke down the outcome of everybody’s plate appearances and even created pie charts like the one below.
So at this point, I already realized that I was taking this way too seriously. But I was having a good time with it, so I decided to take it one step further. I created computer computer code that simulated different batting orders, and output the expected amount of runs that each lineup would score.
This obviously never produced useful information (mostly because it is slow-pitch softball and people were only there to have fun), but this was my contribution to the team. I love math and I love sports. I love combining the two, and I am looking forward to the day when I can teach my kids the real world applications of the math they learn in school.
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Upstairs at The Arts Theatre in Covent Garden is a lively venue with a bar at the back for those of thirsty inclination. Pretty handy during a recent hot May night when upwards of 80 people packed into its bijou space to enjoy new dramas by Claire Booker, Aaron Hubbard, Dean Moynihan and Chris York, plus music by Lescines and Rebecca Vaughan.
My play ‘Blue Line Day’ was directed by Paul Heelis and featured Monty Burgess and Leonora Barton in the roles of Michael and Rachel – a couple who can’t live with (or without) each other. Thank you to all involved for their talent and hard work which really paid off.
We were also treated to a bravura performance by Alexandra Robinson in Chris York’s ‘Build a Rocket’ offering up the joys (and horrors) of childbirth, whilst ‘The Boy Who Built a Clock’ by Aaron Hubbard made us question our prejudices. And Dean Moynihan’s very clever play within a play, ‘This is This’, had us all wrong footed – several times over.
It’s always a thrill when I discover one of my plays has been performed north of the border. ‘Socks Go in the Bottom Drawer’ had another airing in Scotland, this time in the town of Lauder (ashamed to say I had to get the atlas out and find it – just above Galashiels). Thank you to Lauder Amateur Dramatic Association for giving it a four night run in March, and thank you to Comedy Plays for bringing the play to their attention.
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I’ve signed up to take part in the House of Pinheiro’s pincushion swap.
Once I find out the ‘lucky’ recipient of my pincushion I’ll be able to decide what kind of pincushion to make them.
In preparation I’ve been pinning my favourite and most inspirational pincushions on a Pinterest board – please take a look and let me know which one’s your favourite, it might help me narrow down the choice!
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Jury went home in the federal criminal trial of Fresno police Sgt & 3 former officers. Jury deliberations will resume Tuesday.
According to Fresno Bee reporter Pablo Lopez (twitter @beecourts), Fresno Police Sgt. Michael Manfredi took the stand today as the retrial against him and three former Fresno police officers winds down. Closings expected later this week.
In Sacramento, on Monday, 9:00 a.m., a retrial starts before Judge Mueller in United States v. Khan, No. 2:10-CR-175-KJM, a case involving drug and gun charges that ended in a hung jury last year. Legendary San Francisco defense attorney Tony Serra represents Khan; AUSAs Jason Hitt and William Wong for the government.
In Fresno, on Tuesday, 8:30 a.m., a jury trial in Judge Ishii's courtroom begins in the Coleman police excessive force/obstruction case against Fresno Police Sgt. Michael Manfredi and three former officers. The first trial ended in a hung jury. See my prior Coleman case blog posts. The trial is estimated to last five weeks.
Yesterday, Judge Ishii scheduled the retrial in the Coleman civil rights prosecution for January 14, 2014. Fresno Bee, 4/15/13.
Federal prosecutors announced yesterday that they intend to retry the police brutality/obstruction of justice case against Fresno Police Sgt. Michael Manfredi and three former officers after the initial jury could not reach an unanimous verdict. Fresno Bee, 3/18/13. A futher hearing is set for April 15, 2013.
After the hung jury, the Coleman, et. al. excessive force case, see my prior posts here, is now set for a status conference March 18, 2013, before Judge Ishii in Fresno. Presumably, the government will announce whether it will retry the case.
The consolidated appeals over the California gay conversion therapy ban have been set for argument in the Ninth Circuit in courtroom 1 on April 17, 9:30 a.m. in San Francisco. The briefs, including more than 20 Amici briefs, are available here.
The federal criminal trial of a Fresno police sergeant and three former officers ended abruptly Friday after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked 9-3 to find the defendants not guilty of charges of police brutality and obstruction of justice.
For more than three weeks, the prosecution has contended that the suspect at the center of a Fresno police brutality trial in federal court spoke only Spanish.
Tuesday, Rolando Celdon's ex-girlfriend, Veronica Rivera, testified that he speaks English "a little bit" and understand it better than he speaks it, and pretends to speak only Spanish when it suits him.
Rivera's testimony for the defense was a blow to the prosecution's case because since the start of the U.S. District Court trial on Jan. 10 prosecutors have contended that Celdon didn't understand the commands of the English-speaking defendants.
Because Celdon wouldn't comply with the officers' commands to surrender, defense lawyers say police were forced to punch and kick Celdon, and shoot him with stun gun and bean-bag shotgun. Celdon also was bitten by a police dog when he ran from police.
A Fresno police sergeant testified Friday in his federal criminal trial that he "launch kicked" a piece of evidence -- a beer bottle -- from a handcuffed suspect.
"I felt like an idiot" about doing it, Sgt. Michael Manfredi told the jury in the police-brutality trial in U.S. District Court.
Though Manfredi couldn't say how far the bottle traveled, prosecutors say it was discovered more than 100 feet from suspect Rolando Celdon.
Another defendant, former Fresno police officer Sean Plymale, already has testified he later picked up the bottle and placed it next to Celdon.
Manfredi's admission poked a hole in the prosecution's theory that Plymale planted the bottle evidence during the arrest of Celdon, who was punched and kicked, bitten by a police dog, shot with a stun gun, and blasted several times with a bean-bag shotgun in October 2005. But Manfredi wasn't able to refute all the prosecution's case, including his admission that his police report had inaccurate information regarding Celdon holding a stick and bottle to fend off a police dog.
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Finite element, numerical simulation, three dimensional, reinforced concrete, ground motion, do these words excite you. Then look out for CIVIL ENGINEERING. It could be set as hardware and architecture as software of the industry.
While driving did you wonder where the sewage lines of your city led to? Did you feel your roads could be designed in a better way? Did you ever admire an edifice in your neighborhood? Then there is a possibility that you are inclined towards the profession of a civil engineer.
What is civil engineering? A basic idea.
Courtesy: Directorate of Technical Education, Assam.
It involves design, construction, planning and environmental matters. The key subjects exposed to a civil engineer are earth science, atmospheric science, geo physics, city planning, municipal and urban engineering, structural engineering, water resource engineering, etc.
Traces of systematized civil engineering is found in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Eiffle Tower, Leaning tower of Pisa and Pyramids in Egypt are an example of the beginning of this science.
For those aspiring to fly high as a civil engineer, you could browse through the website of the following colleges.
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Moving from the wide-open spaces of A Wizard of Earthsea into the claustrophic confines of The Tombs of Atuan is a bit like being buried alive, metaphorically speaking. Ursula K. Le Guin’s second Earthsea book makes a distinct contrast to her first. If A Wizard of Earthsea is all about dark mirror images, The Tombs of Atuan its its dark mirror image. The former follows a young man who journeys towards self-realisation. The latter follows a young woman who is trapped by others’ definitions of her.
One of the most intriguing aspects of the book is the fact that not very much happens in it. Le Guin slow-plays the plot, giving us several chapters of atmosphere before Ged turns up to set things moving. As I observed in one of my reaction posts, these early chapters would likely not fly with readers today. Here, however, they’re necessary. They reveal the why of Tenar’s behaviour once she has some real choices to make. In the early chapters, her life is defined by its lack of choice. She has been chosen for her role. Even her name has been taken away from her. When she seems to make a choice, which she does when she and a friend disobey the temple rules, only the friend is punished; Tenar’s personal decisions make no difference in her own life. As she grows up, she gains more power, but as Le Guin points out in her afterword, this is power over, not power to. The power over is dictated by rules and rituals, and it doesn’t truly involve choice. Tenar is haunted throughout most of the book by her execution of three prisoners: an execution she is expected to carry out, no matter what her personal feelings on the matter. She has power over the prisoners, but she doesn’t have power to do anything other than execute them.
Le Guin mentions in the afterword that in 1969, while she was writing this novel, the idea of an adventurous female fantasy protagonist was, even for her, beyond imagination. In Tenar, she gives us something more subtle. Tenar isn’t adventurous. At the end of the story, when she is finally freed, her impulse is not to explore the world but to retire to a remote part of it as a punishment for her actions. It may be tempting to see her as annoyingly passive, but in truth, she’s more paralysed than passive, imprisoned by her own belief that she is a position, not a person. Tenar undergoes at least the first half of the classic heroine’s journey. Enclosed in a space that constricts her choices and physical movement, she must find a way to be rescued.
Once Ged turns up, the story’s main conflict becomes clear. Ged, as in A Wizard of Earthsea, is all about action and movement and decision making. Tenar is dissatisfied with his magic because so much of it is illusion, but Ged is enough in tune with himself that he doesn’t try to overplay his power. His strength is less in the magic than it is in his tendency to stand at Point A, eye his goal at Point G, and strategise his way from one point to another. To his credit, when Tenar becomes caught up in his plan, he doesn’t throw her away after he uses her. He even treats her as the keeper of the Ring of Erreth-Akbe. Ged is going through his own heroic journey, which follows the usual trajectory—the hero descends into a sort of underworld, has an encounter with a powerful but restricted female figure, and emerges into the upper world with a boon—but Le Guin has shifted our attention to that female figure and in so doing has set the heroine’s constrained journey up against the hero’s freer one. The fact that neither Tenar nor Ged could win free without the other effectively collapses the binary. Tenar has to learn to act, and Ged has to learn to let someone else control his fate.
I’m not sure this book would be published today. It’s too easy to read Tenar as weak or see the first several chapters of the novel as static and dragging. I don’t think either is true, but the best aspects of The Tombs of Atuan are, like the Tombs themselves, buried deep. While I don’t envy Le Guin her 1969 brain or her (temporary) inability to imagine a woman as a Ged-like figure, I’m glad she wrote this book the way she did. Tenar is a wholly believable character, a teenage girl hedged about with rules and groping her way uncertainly towards the understanding that she is, despite appearances, allowed to make choices.
Next Up: I’ll introduce The Farthest Shore tomorrow and probably start reading it on the same day.
Bookmark Showcase: For this book, I went with a little metal harp bookmark I won from my harp teacher for practising for thirty days in a row (yes, I am motivated by stickers and small prizes).
I loved those books when I read them – feels like decades ago. And your toon is perfect!
Heh…I’ve decided to do a little cartoon for each book. I wasn’t sure what to do for this one until I realised that OF COURSE it would take place entirely in the dark.
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South Africa’s provinces and sharing a border with the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho, the Free State lies in the heart of the country, between the Vaal River in the north and the Orange River in the south.
The Free State is a rural province of wide horizons and blue skies, with farmland, mountains, goldfields and widely dispersed towns. This tranquil land of the windmill is famous for its warm South African hospitality and a mix of culture which is clearly evident in street names, public buildings, monuments and museums. Dressed sandstone buildings abound the highlands, while beautifully decorated Sotho houses dot the grasslands. Some of South Africa's most valued San (Bushman) rock art is found in the Free State.
The Northern Free State is at once rural and far enough from the major tourist routes to offer a hint of true ‘platteland’ living to newcomers and locals alike. It is not only the most accessible part of the Free State to Gauteng , it lies not even an hour from OR Tambo International Airport , but this rustic area is also rich in water, and manages to whirl together a rich collection of activities and weekend getaways that make it attractive to both those travelling through, and others wanting a break from it all. During summer this area, which produces a high share of the country’s maize, bursts into an array of sunflowers, fields of mealies and wheat, interspersed with the vivid pinks of cosmos that transforms the countryside into a tapestry of gold. The Northern Free State includes a collection of typical little towns with names like Kroonstad, Frankfort and Heilbron that silently bear tribute to a rich history in the form of characteristic sandstone buildings, and a collection of historical sites that relate to the Boer Wars, some of which are national monuments.
The Vaal Dam and river provide effortless water play time from riding the white waters in a raft or canoe, to leisurely sailing the waters of the dam on a yacht. In an arc to the north and west of Vredefort and Parys, lies a ring of hills known as the Vredefort Dome, South Africa’s seventh World Heritage Site, recognised as the largest and oldest meteorite impact site in the world. Hike in the rugged mountains surrounding the dome, view untouched San paintings, and abseil or rock climb in the area.
The National Museum in the judicial capital of South Africa, known as the city of roses, has as its motto , Curator Hereditatis which means that it regards itself as the custodian of our heritage, which it is in quite a big way. The National Museum in Bloemfontein has been in existence since 1877, when it began collecting and displaying rarities from around the world. Today the museum focuses on natural history and cultural history sciences, as well as art, and it has established some important collections. The National Museum, on Aliwal Street in the centre of Bloemfontein, has some alluring attractions that include life-size fibreglass elephants, the only complete skeleton of Euskelosaurus, one of the earliest known dinosaurs, a working beehive, live snakes and other reptiles in the their Herpetology Hall, and an extensive history of Bloemfontein / Mangaung. Most of their visitors are children, and it’s not surprising given the attractions.
On the north western fringes of Bloemfontein lie 70 hectares of botanical garden, in a valley peppered with dolerite koppies, tall grassland and woodland; some magnificent examples of wild olive and karee trees, an orange blossom arbour and a petrified tree, thought to be over 150 million years’ old. The Free State National Botanical Garden is home to some 400 species of plants, mainly from the Free State, Northern Cape and Lesotho. A meandering paved path, perfect for the more elderly visitor and the physically disabled, takes one through the gardens, whilst the more agile can venture up the koppies.
Probably the best time of year for visiting is the spring when most of the gorgeous flowers are in bloom. The plants are in full leaf between November and March, and between March and June there is an array of autumn shades to delight the visitor. Some 124 species of birdlife and 54 species of reptiles inhabit the garden; and two demonstration gardens to display medicinal plants and water-wise gardening principles respectively, have been created. As part of the garden’s environmental education programme are school programmes that include: ecotourism, food chains and food webs, plant adaptations, life in leaves, seeds and other interesting topics for school children. The garden’s nursery has a well-stocked supply of surplus indigenous trees, succulents, shrubs and bulbs and the Botanical Society arranges talks, sunset concerts during summer and moonlight walks.
The name Lejweleputswa, meaning ‘gray rock’, replaces the rather mundane former ‘Free State Goldfields’ that lacked the imagination of the African name that now describes the area in the Free State with a history rich in gold prospecting and mining. The district lies in the north western part of the Free State, bordering on North West Province in the north and the Northern Cape to the west - an area that also lies in the heart of the country’s agricultural belt, and includes two of the province’s nature reserves. Despite a long history of prospecting for gold in the Lejweleputswa, gold wasn’t discovered until 1948, when a borehole sunk to find water instead found lava, a deep-flowing source of gold ore that led to the establishment of Welkom. As a result, this part of the world owes its existence to the consequent influx of miners and people who helped build a boom of mining towns, and a farming community that forms part of the maize triangle, the mielie growing region of the Free State.
Lejweleputswa has a beauty all its own, and the landscapes are given over to a rich combination of golden crop plains, rolling hills and distant sandstone mountains, the skies a constant hazy blue, from which even the crisp winters cannot detract. Gold mines in the Free State also supply a large percentage of the silver that the country produces, and Lejweleputswa, whilst definitely the place to experience underground mine tours, offers far more variety than one initially thinks. If the Goldfields Wine Cellar in Theunissen, Winnie Mandela House in Majwemasoeu, Brandfort, and the Aco tractor factory near Hoopstad are anything to go by, then Lejweleputswa is filled with hidden gems.
The typical little Free State town of Ventersburg lies between Bloemfontein and Kroonstad on the main national road in the north western part of the Free State. It is the only town in the Free State through which the N1 passes, and also serves as an agricultural centre for the surrounding farms.This aside, Ventersburg also lies in one of the most beautiful parts of the Free State. Flat, boundless plains with rich soil and a heavenly climate may cater for a thriving farming community - the Free State accounts for over 70% of the country’s grain production and this part of the world is known as the ‘maize route’ - but it also conceals an incredible beauty hidden in shales, mudstones, sandstone, unique vegetation and the brooding omnipresence of the foothills of both the Drakensberg and the Maluti Mountains.
Possibly the biggest draw card to Ventersburg is the proximity of the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve, overlooking the Allemanskraal Dam, which is fed by the Sand River. A small game reserve, the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve nevertheless manages to boast the presence of three of the ‘Big Five’ and the dam attracts huge numbers of aquatic birds totaling some 220 different species. One is almost assured of seeing giraffe, buffalo, white rhino, gemsbok and impala, and the northern section of the reserve is home to the ruins of stone buildings that date back to prehistoric Sotho occupation.
Reputed to have grown at much the same rate as the major metropolis of Johannesburg, Welkom, South Africa’s youngest town , it received city status only in 1955 - is the hub of the Free State gold fields about 160 kilometres northeast of Bloemfontein. Directly translated from the Afrikaans or Dutch, Welkom means “welcome”, and the town emerged after the discovery of gold in the area. Ernest Oppenheimer, at that time the chairman of Anglo American, played a significant role in its development.Welkom has an idiosyncrasy, for want of a better word: it is one of few cities worldwide that was completely pre-planned. As a consequence, it benefits from an ease of flow and a city that functions well - suburbs each have their own shopping and commercial centres and residents seldom have more than a 10 minute walk to reach them.
The traffic flow in the city has attracted much attention and experts from all over the world come to study the clever use of traffic circles and minimal number of stop streets in the absence of traffic lights in the centre of the city that contribute to an effortless flow of traffic - the envy of many cities and the reason Welkom is known as the “circle city”. Welkom has also earned itself the reputation of being a “city within a garden” due to the number of parks and cleverly designed gardens that lend Welkom an extraordinary number of shady trees and pretty surrounds, making it a more than welcome place to visit.
The Willem Pretorius Game Reserve is situated in the heart of the Free State with the Allemanskraal Dam forming the central part. The reserve itself covers some 12 005ha with a great variety of game and bird species. The great variety of wildlife and bird species is not the only draw card for tourists. On the northern side of the dam there is a range of hillocks, surprisingly leafy for the Free State. On the summit of one of these hillocks, Doringberg, one can find a well-preserved ruin of a prehistoric settlement, apparently of the long-vanished Leghoya people. The Leghoya people built extremely small huts, cattle kraals and walls from stone, but without mortar. The size of the huts was probably dictated by the difficulty of roofing with slabs of stone. On Doringberg there are many of these ruined buildings, each pervaded by ghostly reminders of their former owners. One of these settlements has been restored and proclaimed a national monument.
The southern part of the Willem Pretorius Game Reserve consists of undulating plains of grassland, contrasting with the rocky ridges and ravines in the northern section. Among the many game species are the world’s largest herd of black wildebeest, as well as springbok, blesbok, gemsbok, kudu, red hartebeest, eland, zebra, white rhino and giraffe.
The Erfenis Dam Nature Reserve lies in the central Free State between Theunissen ;probably the town most central to the Free State and Winburg, roughly 20 kilometres west of the latter, with the turn off roughly 10 kilometres outside the former. Whilst these directions might sound a little overcomplicated, Erfenis Dam Nature Reserve is anything but. The 400 hectare Erfenis Dam reserve is a quiet and unassuming reserve that has as its fulcrum the Erfenis Dam, used by locals as a boating and fishing venue. The dam is not small - the upstream side of it ends just 10 kilometres from town - and its 3 800 hectares was constructed to provide neighbouring farms with irrigation. There is wildlife to view, but most people head out to Erfenis for the fishing.
The historical town of Winburg is worth a visit if not for anything then for the Voortrekker Monument, which stands on the site originally selected for that monument that today stands in Pretoria (see Voortrekker Monument).
The town is obviously steeped in Voortrekker history the cemeteryy is the oldest Voortrekker cemetery in the country and the Garden of Remembrance in town is a pretty landscaped garden kept in memory of the Voortrekker of the Groot Trek. Even Fords Hotel dates back to the time of the Voortrekkers.
Despite its allusion to royalty (kroon is Afrikaans for ‘crown’) Kroonstad has far more humble beginnings, rumoured to have been named after a horse belonging to one of the Voortrekker leaders , the jury is out as to whether it was Sarel Celliers or Adriaan de la Rey , who may or may not have met with an accident in a stream named Kroonspruit. Notwithstanding this, Kroonstad is said to be one of the Free State’s loveliest towns and lies on the banks of the Vals River, a tributary of the Vaal, roughly two hours’ drive from Johannesburg.
Kroonstad lies in an area characterised by open spaces and an abundant variety of vegetation that makes it particularly beautiful. Kroonstad is a quaint town that serves as a good pit stop en route between Johannesburg and Bloemfontein, lying as it does at virtually the halfway mark. The fine examples of Herbert Baker architecture such as the Post Office, the Standard Bank building and the City Hall, make a visit here almost obligatory.Kroonstad offers an array of activities that include flea markets, a tea garden, fishing on the Vals River or at the Bloemhok Dam, walking trails and game viewing in Boskoppie game reserve.
The Vredefort dome is the oldest and largest meteorite impact site (Asrobleme) in the world. Formed an estimated 2000 million years ago when a gigantic meteorite ,larger than Table Mountain hit the earth close to where Vredefort is today. The force of the impact opened up a crater, which is still visible, and is about 40km in diameter. When visiting the area you will notice small hills in a large dome shape with beautiful valleys between them. Evidence has been found by geologists that the cause of this upliftment was an extreme impact event, caused by an asteroid some 10 kilometres in diameter. The ring of hills we see now are the eroded remains of a dome created by the rebound of the rock below the impact site after the asteroid hit. The original crater, now eroded away, is estimated to have been 250 - 300 kilometres in diameter. Some 70 cubic kilometres of rock would have been vaporised in the impact.
The Vredefort structure is currently regarded the biggest and oldest clearly visible impact structure on Earth. It just beats the Sudbury impact structure in Canada for this ranking. The Sudbury structure is some 200 km in diameter and is estimated to be 1.85 billion years old.Within the ring of hills at Vredefort is found granitic gneiss rock. The force of the impact produced deep fractures in the underlying rock. Rock melted by the impact flowed down into the cracks, producing what are now exposed as ridges of hard dark rock - the granophyre dykes. This contrasts with normal geological dykes, where molten rock from deeper in the earth has flowed upwards through cracks.
There are not many dams that can claim to be as big as Luxembourg, yet the Vaal Dam, which is also the country's largest dam by area ,the Gariep Dam has the largest storage capacity does just that. Suffice to say that Vaal Dam is big.The Vaal Dam has over 800 kilometers worth of coastline and covers over 300 square kilometres. It is also one of Gauteng's major sources of drinking water and lies on the Vaal River close to Vereeniging, midway between the N1 and the N3, and roughly 110 kilometres from Johannesburg. The Vaal Dam is also bounded by three provinces – the Free State, which has the largest coastline, Mpumalanga, and Gauteng, which has the most active coastline. On its banks lie the little towns of Deneysville, Oranjeville, Vaal Marina, Villiers and Frankfort, but possibly the most interesting entity connected with the Vaal Dam is its island, used during Apartheid for secret meetings.
Rugged, steep krantzes silhouetted against the skyline, mountain slopes snugly covered with a grass blanket, deep lushly vegetated kloofs and a crystal-clear lake are facets of the beauty of the Sterkfontein Dam Reserve which covers 18000 Ha. Oribi, Mountain Reedbuck and Grey Rhebuck inhabit the Sterkfontein Reserve. The bald Ibis, the blue and whitebellied Korhaan are conspicuous on the grassy slopes, while buffstreaked Chat, ground Woodpecker and Sentinel and Cape rock Thrushes can be seen on rocky outcrops. Bearded and Cape Vultures, as well as the Black and Martial Eagles and Secretary Birds are found here.
The Yellowwood, Wild Peach, Koko Tree, Silky Bark and Bush Guarri flourish in the sheltered kloofs at Sterkfontein. Wild grape has twined into the tree tops, where they form a dense, leafy canopy that protects ferns and mosses below. Fungi and lichen nestle against living and rotting tree trunks. The mountain slopes are decorated with wild Myrtle, Redwood, Ouhout, Bush Guarri, Highveld Protea, Silver Sugarbush and the scarce Tree Fern. A two-day hiking trail has been established in the Sterkfontein Dam Reserve. Those wanting to relax and savour the great outdoor sensation and the beauty of the mountain will not be disappointed.
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"Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against those hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat."
Quick, everyone! Start looking for pictures of Bush in a hat! Don't you see? IT'S BEEN THE HAT ALL THIS TIME! George Bush has been killing at the whim of an evil hat, and it's up to us to find that hat and destroy it, before Bush gets a chance to wear it again!!!
You know, what I'd like the most about that is the removability of hats.
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